The host of CBC news is talking to a Minneapolis councilor right now, and councilor said that the ICE agents showed up outside of a school, when the teens were heading home, and the agents were terrorising the kids.
Jesus itās getting worse. New footage takes away all the excuses and now weāre hearing news that a Dr on the scene was refused access to the victim, and even an ambulance was blocked from getting to her.
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Dont know who this , but at least there are still some good people actually playing by the rules it seems
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On Greenland, the glaring aspect of this is the absolute lack of any good reason to do it.
The US already has the freedom to patrol its waters, establish bases and obtain mineral rights. Is Denmark blocking any of those things?
The sensible way to take control would be to encourage a separatist movement and gain control of its leadership. That would be straightforward in a country of 50,000 people.
This is clearly not to do with a military or even economic necessity, itās ideological.
Denmark is one of the most successful social democratic countries in the world and its high tax, strong welfare model is anathema to the maga movement. Attacking it, destroying NATO and dividing Europe are the only explanations make sense. No amount of reasoning or logic will prevent it happening.
Europe needs strong and resolute leadership, and that is sorely lacking.
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As has been said on here by me and others earlier, if you reside in the US - get the fuck out. This will only get worse and you donāt want to bring up kids/live in what this country will become.
Sieg Heil !
He is inventing a Blood and Soil claim on Greenland. The US has never spent blood for Greenland, Denmark has spent blood for the US (quite a lot of it per capita). Dominant Predator in the Western hemisphere.
I really do find his nazi statement rather disrespectful, got to admit that indeed.
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It seems like it is poltiically clean now to boast about being the dominant predator (I mean, it is proper imperial fascist talk), in the US.
Just noting it.
That is the mentality of that lot..what are people?ā¦.Answer,nothing at ll
One place no-one would want to be,the World Cup may be illuminating.
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More shitā¦
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Maybe the issue is process. Any granting of rights would tie a company to adhere to relative strict European environmental guidelines - not something they are interested in if they want to make a fast buck. If however Greenland is under a US protectorate status, so not officially in the US but importantly, definitely out of the reach of European Law, then you can do what you want!
edit - the lens to view all things they are doing is maybe simpler than people think - it is all about getting to a fast buck
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"The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense.
Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital."
DT claiming the ICE agent was run over and is now in hospital.
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Apart from the fact that he walked away nonchalantly. Itās a miracle !
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Itās called diplomacy itās not something people understand. I donāt think the European leaders have done much wrong over the weekend.
I think itās been said already that the US taking Greenland would be a green light to Russia allowing them to retake the Baltic states without any American response.
I daresay that has already been discussed by the US and Russia at the highest level.
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I wish I hadnāt seen this. This is utterly horribleā¦ 
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Many of these international groups have been heavily dependent on US financial contributions. Itās the soft-power the latter progressively built up over the decades after WW2, and of course, also a means to control these groups.
Now, Trump is tearing all that apart. Will these organisations cease to exist? No, theyāll have to adapt. Maybe with a smaller budget, but without an at times overly heavy influence exerted by the US. Of course, China will benefit from this, but maybe other countries too.
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Iāve seen a couple more since, complete with some people trying to justify it. It doesnt get any better. Trying to justify the action is just sick.
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US withdrawal from UNFCCC is a formality at this point. They are 2 years in arrears on dues, and would be 3 not too long from now. They had already withdrawn from the operating instrument (the Paris agreement) which was crippled out of the gate to address US concerns. The ongoing function the US was serving in the US was providing critical climate monitoring data, but that capacity was dismantled almost a year ago.
What I find fairly infuriating (though I understand why American figures criticizing the step wish to frame it so) is the repeated invocation of āAmerican leadership on climateā. It reeks of the national narcissism that has brought them to this reduced state. The reality is that āAmerican leadership on climateā has been the rare instances where American obstructionism has briefly shifted from outright blocking to being willing to water down any international agreement to be close to dysfunctional, only to then have their Congress reject it anyway(or never even sending it to Congress for fear that might happen).
A little goddamn candour about just how long the American political system has been throwing their children into the fire as sacrifices to Mammon would not go amiss.
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The reality is that the US is up to two years behind on their payments to virtually every one of those groups, and many more. The UN itself is a full year behind, and expecting to be two in a matter of weeks.
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Yeah, I had heard about that. But at least, the money was still going in, although sporadically. Now, the US have officially ruled themselves out of any control over these groups.
I wonder if we will end up with one half of the world pretending that global warming doesnāt exist, while the other half will watch on with horrorā¦ maybe thatās what we are at alreadyā¦ 
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