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Feb 21 2020

Assassination of John F. Kennedy Assassination of John F. Kennedy, mortal shooting of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, as he rode in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.


Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Assassination of John F. Kennedy, mortal shooting of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, as he rode in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. His accused killer was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine who had embraced Marxism and defected for a time to the Soviet Union. Oswald never stood trial for murder, because, while being transferred after having been taken into custody, he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a distraught Dallas nightclub owner.

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Feb 19 2020

Bloomberg’s Big Swamp Gulp!


BELLY UP TO THE SWAMP 

Multi-billionaire and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg once tried to ban “Big Gulp” sodas in his city. He also wanted saltshakers removed from restaurant tables and stricter rules about smoking and so forth. Most of his bans were unconstitutional, but that didn’t seem to matter much to a statist control freak such as Bloomberg.

Now he wants to buy the presidency and control our nation. Unfortunately for him, he can’t buy charisma.

Bloomberg, like Biden and Bernie, is in his late 70s. Mike is even more mean spirited than either Biden or Bernie. He has insulted minorities, women, and most recently farmers. Sure he’s short in stature, but his vision for America is not only shortsighted, it’s downright repulsive. He’s a ‘government force’ kind of guy. He wants you to turn in your guns and take your mandatory vaccines. He wants open borders. He wants the de-industrialization that his climate change laws will bring. He is in league with globalists and big corporations as well as the entrenched Deep State Swamp. Why else would he suggest Hillary for his running mate?

The only thing Bloomberg has going for him is cornucopia of cash. Even with his profligate spending, I doubt he can influence a great many American voters to swallow the swill he’s offering them because his toxic swamp policies are simply too hard to swallow.

—Ben Garrison

Feb 18 2020

Bloomberg’s Napoleon Complex or Super Sized Ego?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics

Re-Posted Feb 18, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT #1: Hi Marty, love the blog. it’s the first thing I read every morning. on the subject of Mike Bloomberg, you mentioned the stop and frisk controversy but what’s even worse is the way Bloomberg got the city council to circumvent NYC’s term limits law to let him run for a third term.

JS

COMMENT #2: Bloomberg loves power. He eliminated the two-term limit to retain power and he would do the same in the White House.

HF

REPLY: I would have to say that after 40 years of meeting politicians from around the world, there are four major types (with sub-categories no doubt). This is just my opinion based upon years of observation. There are the good-hearted who enter politics to make a difference. They soon become corrupted by the flame of power when there are no term-limits. They then need to blend to the system to constantly run for office in each election.

Then there are those people who are just greedy and are attracted to money and prestige (i.e. Clintons). Then there are the genuine people who cannot be bought are by far the best we can ever hope for. They will usually break down into two primary subgroups. Those who see to impress themselves, such as Margaret Thatcher, or those who do it to be remembered, such a Trump. Then there are those who enter purely for the taste of power, such as Michael Bloomberg.

I understand that the whole Jewish issue is coming up because we have Bloomberg and Sanders running who are both Jewish. I have a Jewish friend who told me never to vote for a Jew in politics. When I asked; Why would he say that against his own people? He said just look at Karl Marx, George Soros, Henry Morgenthau Jr. (Sec Treasury who confiscated gold), Robert Rubin (terminated Glass-Steagal), Lawrence Summers (father of negative interest rates), Alan Greenspan (Fed Chairman), Ben Bernanke (Fed Chairman), Bernie Sanders (communist sympathizer), Bernie Madoff, and then there is Michael Bloomberg (eliminated term-limits to keep running for Mayor of New York City).

It was an interesting list no doubt. But there are non-Jews who also have shared some of those ideas. I do see Bloomberg as more dangerous than Trump. Bloomberg is much more of an authoritarian and would have no problem sends American boys to their death in the Middle East for absolutely nothing. I am a firm believer in the Business Cycle. We did not defeat Communism, for it collapsed itself because of its unsustainable economic profile.

The neo-cons, such as Bill Kristol, thought that eliminating the dictators in the Middle East would release democracy and thus that would secure Israel to me was a fanciful dream. The Middle East has a culture that has been shaken rather than stirred. I do not see them as embracing democracy that would eradicate the culture of dictatorships. Do we not have our own dictatorship when political parties support the same candidate perpetually without change?

Yes, both Kristol and Kaplan are Jewish. Does that mean that the idea of changing human behavior stems more from the Jewish community because of their persecution? I have no idea if I would ascribe to such a theory. I am opposed to the neo-con theories as I am against Marxists. To me, both attempt to alter the cycle by changing human behavior. I do not believe that is possible. I do not attribute these ideas to being exclusively Jewish whereas there are plenty of conspiracy theories that paint the Jews at the center of all financial crises based upon the bankers in New York City.

It was explained to me by a Jewish friend that Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews represent two distinct subcultures of Judaism. Ashkenazi Jews are popularly contrasted with Sephardi Jews (also called Sephardim), who descend from Jews who settled in the Iberian Peninsula, and Mizrahi Jews, who descend from Jews who remained in the Middle East. I was told that a Sephardi Jew is looked down upon if they married an Ashkenazi Jew. Indeed, there is documentary evidence from 1735 where a Sephardi Jew petitioned the King of Prussia to dissolve the marriage where his son, without the permission of his father, married an Ashkenazic Jewish woman. By tradition, a Sephardic or Mizrahi Jewish woman who marries into an Orthodox or Haredi Ashkenazi Jewishfamily must raise her children to be Ashkenazi Jews and conversely an Ashkenazi Jewish woman who marries a Sephardi or Mizrahi man is expected to take on Sephardic practice and the children inherit a Sephardic identity. They practice differently just as we see differences in Christianity.

There have always been differences within the Jewish community itself. Even Bernie Sanders stated: “… in Israel it was okay to sterilize Ethiopian Jews until they were caught doing it and why it is still okay to treat Mizrahi like second class citizens.  ” Bloomberg took a stab at Bernie saying: “I know I’m not the only Jewish candidate running for president, but I am the only one who doesn’t want to turn America into a kibbutz.”

Bloomberg’s daughter Georgina told a biographer that the Bloomberg family would celebrate the major Jewish holidays but that her mother, who was born in Yorkshire, England, and “kind of raised us to be Church of England.” Thus, Bloomberg is not a practicing orthodox Jew. That issue aside, my concern is his reasoning behind stop-and-frisk and his desire to eliminate term-limits with no regard for the future.  He had to admit publicly he was wrong on the stop-and-frisk. Then there was Michael Bloomberg’s ban of soda which he was also overruled by the courts after he lost now his stop-and-frisk policy that police can just go search anyone on the street at any time has been struck down as unconstitutional. He was called by the Daily News as having a “Super Size Ego” in the abuse of power he would attempt on March 12, 2013 (Page 5). He has used his power in a dictatorial fashion and that bothers me.

 

Feb 15 2020

Trump’s Clean Sweep!


SWAMP DRAINING IN PROGRESS

Rachel Maddow’s Russia Russia Russia! conspiracy claptrap is now behind her. Instead of owning up to her humiliation, she’s instead moved on to a fresh outrage. That is, Trump’s critical tweet about Roger Stone’s sentencing recommendation.

Maddow dramatically labeled the situation a ‘crisis.’ Eric Swalwell said Trump was injecting a ‘virus of corruption’ into the DOJ and suggested another impeachment process. Various Democrat ‘analysts’ (many are former Obama officials) on MSNBC and other fake news media continue to call Trump a ‘threat to our Democracy.’ Marxists see Democracy as being the road to socialism.

The Democrats are now breathlessly saying Trump is retaliating against witnesses. The Democrats attack Trump for the very things they have done. Obama and his fellow Democrats helped corrupt the DOJ, the IRS, and the security agencies and used them to harass and spy on their enemies. The Democrats made justice a partisan issue.

The problem is there are too many Obama holdovers who continue to pull levers of power. They were installed to help Hillary further Obama’s destruction of America, but now these insiders, leakers, and bureaucrats are determined to use their power to destroy President Trump.

The Russia collusion witch-hunt was a gigantic lie, but the Democrats learned nothing from their failure and humiliation. They continue to create fresh hysterics in order to discredit the president. Roger Stone’s case should be thrown out since he had nothing to do with the Russia conspiracy theory—now thoroughly disproven. Instead, Obama’s functionaries still in government want him to do serious time based on concocted and ridiculous ‘process crimes.’

We are glad Trump is sweeping out the Obama holdovers. They belong in the gutter.

—Ben Garriso

Feb 13 2020

Socrates & the Third Edition


Armstrong Economics Blog/Products and Services

Re-Posted Feb 13, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Martin, Thank you for not only the brilliance you share but as a retired firefighter I have to say that your courage in the face of powerful, life threatening government / criminal agents and agencies impresses me as much or more. I was wondering if we can pre order copies of your latest book (3rd edition) from you directly? Thanks again for sharing your amazing gifts.
Sincerely
W

REPLY: Thank you. They can push you so far that death is not something which you fear. Once they push you that far, they lose all their power. They cannot threaten you anymore. I have no doubt that there are dark forces in New York City who will seek their revenge. I paid my respect to the cell where Socrates died. I have no doubt that they will contrive some way to try to silence me or our computer system, ironically similar to how corrupt forces conspired against Socrates himself. When that day comes, a letter will be released naming the individuals who I still am doing battle with to this very day. They have not relented but conspired in every possible way to try to deter people from even subscribing to our computer system. There have been others who have aided them because they are simply greedy and hope to get something out of it for themselves. Those are people whose ethics are up for sale to the highest bidder.

Unfortunately, we do not handle the sales of the books. That is all done through Amazon. It is a huge job to send out books, collect sales taxes for various regions, and simply deal with the ever changing legal landscape. It is a nightmare on a global level. We will get the third edition up soon.

 

Feb 13 2020

Why Justice Can Never Exist for Long Under Centralized Governments


Armstrong Economics Blog/Rule of Law

Re-Posted Feb 13, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, I really appreciate you are a student of law. I believe you should also write a book on the evolution of law for your understanding from the role of King Solomon on to our modern system deserves recognition. You seem to trace the fall of the rule of law and government is linked to the concentration of power into a centralized state. You have attributed the collapse of communism to that inability of a central power to adapt to the demanding conditions of the economic evolution of society. Would you care to comment on this development of centralized power and its critical role in the collapse of western society by 2032?

Thank you for your very enlightening research.

DH

ANSWER: The evolution of the rule of law is fascinating. The biblical account of King Solomon presiding over two women in dispute over a child goes over the heads of most people. Solomon’s duty as king was the center of that account. The king’s role was to stand as impartial ruler between disputes. If you killed someone in ancient Greece, the family was to be the prosecutor — not the state. The only crimes that warranted a state trial were those against the gods or directly against the state as the victim. Hence, Socrates offended the state by corrupting the youth and stating his position that there was really just one god.

Many have disagreed with Benjamin Jowett (1817 – 1893), who was a professor at the University of Oxford who translated the complete works of Plato into English. They argue that Jowett was a prominent theologian and he translated the Greek words θεός (theós), meaning “a god” or “a deity,” and δαίμων (daímōn), meaning “divine being,” as “God” with a capital G whenever possible. The criticism of Jowett’s translation making Plato and Socrates into Proto-Christians is itself based upon prejudice.

The Greek gods were NEVER represented as pagan gods insofar as they were the creators of humankind or the universe. To the Greeks, in the beginning, there was only chaos. Then out of the void appeared Erebus, the unknowable place where death dwells, and Night. All else was empty, silent, endless, darkness. Then somehow Love was born and brought a start of order. From Love came Light and Day. Once there was Light and Day, Gaea, the earth appeared. Clearly, the criticism that Jowett interpreted the Greek in view of Christianity is not correct.

Socrates did not believe in the Greek gods as creators of anything because he believed in “the Good” nature of humans. Some argue that you can believe in “the Good” while still believing in the gods. This centers on the misinterpretation of the very role of the Greek gods. They were viewed more as super-beings which we could call saints insofar as each had a specific role. Poseidon was god of the sea, earthquakes, storms, and horses and is considered one of the worst tempered, moody, and greedy Olympian gods. He was known to be vengeful when insulted.

Socrates was accused at his trial of teaching people not to worship the gods of the state. That was considered a crime against the gods, which made it a state offense. In the Apology of Socrates, Plato relays that Socrates said in the opening remarks of his speech to the jury that his accusers “… have scarcely spoken a word of truth at all.” The rest of the Apology and all Plato’s other dialogues seem to support this statement. They were against Socrates for the Oracle of Delphi had said he was the smartest man in all of Greece and made many appear to be fools. By the end of Socrates’s speech in the Apology, Plato makes it very clear that Socrates is, in fact, a very pious man who honors the gods of the state, holds the god Apollo in high esteem, and who trusts the word of the Delphic Oracle. The charges were clearly made up to be against the gods for there were no other means to go against Socrates.

We only arrive at the corruption of the law with Magna Carts in England. The king was fining people as a revenue source and here we find the demand for a trial by jury rather than by the king. In order to keep the revenue stream flowing, this is where we see the development of the violation of “disturbing the peace” of the king. Suddenly, two people get into an argument and fight. The king interjects himself as a victim for these two people disturbed his peace. From there on, the rule of law becomes perverted as a means of raising revenue for the king. If you kill someone, it is no longer the family who is the victim, it becomes the king. The penalty becomes death and that conveniently means all your assets are forfeited to the king and your family is thrown out onto the streets.

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One of the most notorious English judges of all time was Lord Chief Justice George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem, (1645–1689), who was the man that inspired the English Bill of Rights in 1689 and the insertion of the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause that became the Eighth Amendment in the United States. He is best known for the “Bloody Assizes.” Jeffreys created judicial murder routinely and took pleasure in doing so. He issued harsh sentences to nearly all defendants and in a protest against taxation and abuse of government, he ordered about 300 to be executed, and between 800 and 900 he ordered to be transported to the West Indies as convict laborers. On September 18-19th, 1685, Jeffreys alone sentenced 144 people to death earning him the notorious nickname “the hanging judge.”

Charles Hibbert in his work, the Roots of Evil, quotes from one of the court transcripts, on Christmas Day no less, when Jeffreys ordered:

“Hangman, I charge you to pay particular attention to this lady. Scourge her soundly, man; scourge her till her blood runs down! It is Christmas, a cold time for madam to strip. See that you warm her shoulders thoroughly.”

  Roots of Evil. 1963 Ed p29

The British legal system was so corrupt that the slightest offense, even stealing an apple, resulted in the arrest and being sold into indentured servitude, all to profit the government. As Hibbert reported the sentence imposed read:

“Because you have committed this offence, the sentence of the court is that you shall no longer be burdened with the support of your wife and family. You shall be immediately removed from a very bad climate and a country overburdened with people to one of the finest regions of the earth where demand for human labour is every hour increasing and where it is highly probable you may ultimately regain your character and improve your future.” (Roots of Evil, p145)

Ever since the rule of law has been so perverted that it has devolved into simply legal and political persecution. Whenever you allow the political state to move into a centralized power, that is when justice merely becomes the will of the government, regardless of the form of government. Socrates believed in “the Good” of the people and he paid with his life for that mistake. Plato recorded a debate between Socrates and Thrasymachus. It was Thrasymachus who argued correctly that it did not matter the form of government. Once you allow a government to become centralized and thus powerful, justice ceases to exist.

Edward Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire wrote of the Roman Emperor Commodus and the collapse in the rule of law:

“Each distinction of every kind soon became criminal. The possession of wealth stimulated the diligence of the informers; rigid virtue implied a tacit censure of the irregularities of Commodus; important services implied a dangerous superiority of merit; and the friendship of the father always insured the aversion of the son. Suspicion was equivalent to proof; trial to condemnation. The execution of a considerable senator was attended with the death of all who might lament or revenge his fate; and when Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse”

(Book 1, Chapter 4).

Hence the saying: “Absolute power corrupts absolutely!”

The rule of law has collapsed in Western society. They say God created the 10 Commandments, which we have translated into a billion laws. The greater the regulation, the greater the injustice. The very purpose of civilization ceases to exist because it merely becomes a contest between two philosophies with the left always seeking to suppress the right who simply wants to be free. This is ultimately why all governments are buried in a common grave dug by history.

Categories: Rule of Law
Feb 12 2020

Jussie Smollett Indicted by Chicago Special Prosecutor Over Faked Hate Crime….


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on February 11, 2020 by 

Breaking reporting out of Chicago indicates a special prosecutor in Chicago has indicted hate hoax actor Jussie Smollett.

The construct of the hate crime itself appeared to be connected to a DC scheme to advance the presidential ambitions of Kamala Harris who launched her bid for office simultaneously with the racially driven hoax.

CHICAGO – Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was indicted Tuesday in Chicago by special prosecutor Dan Webb, stemming from the alleged racist and anti-gay attack on him that occurred in January of 2019, a source confirms to FOX 32 News.

He is due in court February 24.

Smollett told Chicago police last year that two men physically attacked him and yelled racial and homophobic slurs. But prosecutors insist Smollett faked the racist, anti-gay attack on himself in the hopes that the attention would advance his acting ca

Jan 30 2020

Ukrainian Piggies


The Democrat’s barnyard stinks. They have been pigs at a trough of corruption for too long.

We’ve learned that even John Bolton stuffed $115,000 into his pockets thanks to a Ukrainian steel oligarch. Is that why he became a turncoat?

We know a thoroughly unqualified cocaine addict, Hunter Biden, was appointed to the board of a leading Ukraine gas company and raked in millions of dollars. His father Joe threatened a prosecutor who wanted to investigate his son. Quid pro Joe! Same with Romney’s son. Is that why the Utah senator has backstabbed the president after pleading for his support?

Pelosi’s son Paul has also benefited from Ukraine in a deal similar to Hunter’s. He has also brokered sports deals in Ukraine while being associated with corrupt con artists.

The Democrats continue to use Saul Alinsky’s tactic of blaming opponents for what they are doing. They are determined to affix the Ukraine corruption label on the president, even if it wastes an enormous amount of time and at a cost of millions of dollars from taxpayers.

This corruption started with Farmer Obama, who ran the most scandalous administrations in history. Unfortunately he has sowed a bitter a bitter crop of corruption–not only with Ukraine, but also in our judicial system, security agencies, and of course, the mass media. Pigs who get too greedy usually get slaughtered. We’ll settle for some justice.

—The GrrrTeam

Jan 30 2020

Ukraine & the Obama/Biden Grip on Corruption that Was a Silent Counter-Revolution


Armstrong Economics Blog/Eastern Europe

Re-Posted Jan 30, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Hi Mr Armstrong,
I so much appreciate your lifetime of work and dedication to the Truth. I really appreciate so much your history lessons and deep connected objective lessons into the cumulative interconnecting web of this world we live in.

I ask a large favor .

Could you explain some Ukrainian History and in particular go into the modern history of the economic war with Russia and the US Deep state and explain how the Biden’s , Obama and the Clinton criminal machine along with the entire corrupt web of scum have and continue to infect Ukraine and how you and socrates see the future for Ukraine and our region, please .

So many of our people have been killed, murdered, mutilated, tutored . Very few Americans have even a faintest idea what life is like to just survive here . Suicides everyday.
I would love to somehow expose the Biden’s , Clinton crime family and all those criminal psychopaths.

Our entire one beautiful culture has been forever destroyed by the American MIC . Out men have been destroyed , our best killed, and all that is left is alcoholism !! and now psychopathic old men from America, from Britain come here to use our women as prostitutes !!!

I cry for my country , BUT there is NO justice as America continues to kill millions of our people with their greed, their assassination teams!!. ALL in the name of GREED.
Even in America we see the destruction of the USA.

But at least our people here in Ukraine have morals and a strong spirit as we fight for our freedom .

You Americans (not you Mr. Armstrong, as you are a true Hero and a man of absolute moral fibre and deep honor !!) , but most Americans we see as naive, nascent but worse they are cowards .

Thank you Mr. Armstrong for being the rarest man of honor

ANSWER: I have personal friends in Ukraine. I heard back in 2013 that Ukraine would be an important country to watch and that has not changed as we can see with Trump’s impeachment. I was providing advice with respect to the revolution and explained that the key to success was to divide the government. Yanukovich was using Russians and East Ukrainian Russian thugs as riot police in Kyiv. I explained that they had to get the local police to turn against the imported police. Once they accomplished that, the revolution would see victory. I had personal friends there on the barricades and I knew others administering medical attention to the injured. Even my mother was concerned because she had come to know some of them as well.

I had personal friends who took pictures with Russian soldiers inside Ukraine before anyone knew they were even there. They asked if they were there to protect them, and they responded yes. They asked if they could take their photo with them and they said of course. I clipped the photo to protect my sources.

I believe the disinformation campaign began with the vast majority of pundits claiming the revolution was all orchestrated by the CIA. That was a cover-up so people would not look at the corruption of Obama/Biden and their effort to seize Ukraine. What was really taking place was the threats that if Obama’s/Biden’s handpicked successors were overthrown by the people again, that they would be on their own and the West would not protect them from the Russians.

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I know it was not a CIA plot. They are not that good. This was a legitimate uprising for I was talking directly with my contacts in Kyiv.

The government that Obama/Biden stuffed into Ukraine was one that was simply willing to switch sides to the highest bidder. Many were simply the very same people who supported Yanukovich. Biden’s level of corruption is off the charts. It has directly infected Ukraine and has done far more damage by preventing the Ukrainian revolution from accomplishing its goal. Unfortunately, the politics in America is so divided that the Democrats will protect the Biden corruption machine, which is just a twin to that of the Clinton’s.

CNN will NEVER publish the truth about Ukraine or the Democrats. It is no longer a news operation, it has become a propaganda machine that AT&T should be embarrassed to support. One has to wonder why AT&T has become so subversive threatening the image of America internationally and fueling the deepening division in America that will undermine the entire country long-term.

Anyone who dares to try to speak out about Biden and Ukraine in America is immediately attacked. If the Justice Department investigated Biden and his family, the Democrats would call it interfering with the 2020 election.

I believe you will see another uprising in 2022 where perhaps, at last, you will be able to overthrow the corruption supported by the Obama/Biden oligarchy machine. I am sorry that the media in America has become part of the corruption that oppresses your country. In Ukraine, the Obama/Biden grip on corruption was a silent counter-revolution that prevented Ukraine from achieving its freedom.

Categories: Eastern Europe
Jan 25 2020

Lopez-Obrador Under Globalist Fire For Blocking Central American Migrants…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree house on January 24, 2020 by 

Reuters is well known for promoting a globalist, open border, multicultural agenda.  So it doesn’t come as a surprise to see Reuters targeting Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador (AMLO) for blocking central-American migrants; and rebuking AMLO for working with President Donald Trump to stop mass illegal migration.

It is too early to tell whether Mexico is genuine in their commitment to stop the highly organized and funded traveling caravans, which often contain thousands of marching border-crossers; however, the economic leverage, tariffs President Trump threatened for non compliance during 2019, was not simply an idle threat.  It appears AMLO has realized that President Trump doesn’t bluff.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador faces growing criticism he is doing U.S. President Donald Trump’s bidding after erecting a “wall” of security forces who clashed with Central American migrants near the Guatemala border this week.

Mexico, under the threat of punitive U.S. tariffs, has bowed to Trump’s demands to contain mass movements of migrants traveling through the country toward the U.S. border.

Such concessions previously stirred little criticism from the Mexican public, due to Lopez Obrador’s reputation as a leftist willing to support the poor, including migrants from other countries.

But scenes of Mexico’s National Guard security force marching behind riot shields straight into a large group of Central Americans and using tear gas has triggered growing dissent, including condemnation from the United Nations.

Lopez Obrador was questioned at his morning news conference for a second straight day about how the National Guard military police and the National Migration Institute (INM) treat migrants.  (read more)

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“Economic Security is National Security”…  ~President Trump