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Some of Trump’s Biggest Donors Are Profiting Big-Time on Immigration Detention Centers | Alternet
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The giant retail stores being converted into detention centers and these large tent cities cropping up to house immigrants, where did they come from? As always, it is important to follow the money. This plan to lock-up asylum-seeking migrants may seem like it happened overnight, but it has been years in the making. Only weeks after Donald Trump put his filthy hand on Lincoln’s Bible and took the Oath of Office, this was the February 24, 2017, headline at CNN Money:

The actions Donald Trump, his sycophant Stephen Miller and Minister of White Supremacy Jeff Sessions are taking today are a huge payoff to the prison lobbyists and the border security industry that spent millions helping to get Donald Trump elected. Private for-profit prison executives were furious that President Obama decided to end the practice of using private prisons. They poured everything into Donald Trump and his campaign, maxing out $250,000 donations and even helping Trump raise $100 million in sketchy, secret money for his “inauguration committee.” And it paid off, as one of the first decisions from the Trump administration was to rescind Obama’s order to phase out private prisons.

They didn’t stop there. These groups have been spending lavishly at Trump’s private business as well. The Miami New Times noted the private prison company GEO Group was one of the newest big spenders at Trump’s Doral property in Florida.

In March of 2017, then Homeland Security chief John Kelly told Wolf Blitzer on CNN that he was considering a plan to separate families and detain them.

“We have tremendous experience of dealing with unaccompanied minors,” he told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room.” "We turn them over to (Health and Human Services) and they do a very, very good job of putting them in foster care or linking them up with parents or family members in the United States."

It didn’t take long for Kelly to publicly walk back that statement, denying he meant it would be a cruel, intentional warning or deterrent to others who might be thinking of seeking asylum in the U.S. But we can clearly see now, they’ve been plotting this for quite some time.

[UDPATE] Bloomberg reports a Texas non-profit got a nearly $500 million contract to take care of the immigrant kids.

The Trump administration plans to pay a Texas nonprofit nearly half a billion dollars this year to care for immigrant children who were detained crossing the U.S. border illegally, according to government data.

The nonprofit, Southwest Key Programs Inc., is to be paid more than $458 million in fiscal 2018, according to the data — the most among the organizations, government agencies and companies that run a detention and care system for immigrant children on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services. Southwest Key has about a dozen facilities in Texas, including a site at a former WalMart Inc.store in Brownsville that has drawn attention from members of Congress and national news organizations.

#Capitalisme_carcéral #Prédation #Conflits_intérêt

La stratégie du désordre psycho-rigide
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La stratégie du désordre psycho-rigide

Pour commencer, on ne doit pas résister à la tentation de reproduire après les avoir adaptés quelques échanges entre Wolf Blitzer, de CNN-JustNews, et l’un des porte-paroles de la Maison-Blanche interrogé à propos de la “Nouvelle Stratégie” des USA. Blitzer insiste pour connaître la méthodologie employée, et notamment le suivi de cette affaire par le président. On arrangera le dialogue en écartant l’emploi de l’italique pour ne pas enduire d’erreurs diverses les jugements trop vite soupçonneux, et la tambouille ainsi faite nous donnera à peu près ceci :

– Le président a été impliqué dans la rédaction de ce document depuis le début, a été présenté avec des sections de celui-ci au cours des derniers mois et a été informé sur le document final il y a plusieurs semaines, répond (...)

Bret Stephens’s greatest hits
▻http://mondoweiss.net/2017/04/bret-stephenss-greatest

I was shocked last night when I learned that Bret Stephens has been hired as an op-ed columnist by the New York Times. Being an idealist, I’ve always believed that the Times is going to begin to reflect progressive opinion on Israel and Palestine; but this hire told me I’m dreamin. It goes to show, there really is a neoconservative bloc at the Times. That’s why Jodi Rudoren was Jerusalem bureau chief (and told readers about “a sliver of opportunity” in Gaza). It’s why Bill Kristol was a columnist for a while. It’s why editors always let through stupid headlines about Jerusalem. It’s why the op-ed page is all Zionist, from Roger Cohen to David Brooks to waffling Tom Friedman. And why the paper slags the boycott movement against Israel without rejoinder from pro-BDS voices.

But let’s hear from the temperamental Stephens himself; let’s see why I think this hire is so problematic. What characterizes Stephens’s speech is an irritable callowness that easily flares into prejudice. That prejudice is conventional neoconservative, and Jewish-centric with a boyish gloss. A former editor of the Jerusalem Post— the launching pad for Wolf Blitzer and Jeffrey Goldberg — Stephens is often Islamophobic.

Tulsi Gabbard: CIA Must Stop Illegal, Counterproductive War to Overthrow Assad
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Speaking with Wolf Blitzer on CNN, Tulsi explains why the US allying with Islamist extremists to overthrow Syrian President Assad is an illegal, counterproductive war that will cause even more human misery in the region and help ISIS and other Islamist extremists take over all of Syria. Instead of once again being distracted by trying to get rid of a secular dictator, Tulsi explains, the US must stay out of counter productive wars and focus on defeating the Islamist extremists who have declared war on America.

Riots Work: Wolf Blitzer and the Washington Post Completely Missed the Real Lesson from Baltimore
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The police—not to mention capitalism—have done far more to damage Baltimore than any riot could

When Oscar Grant was shot by transit cop Johannes Mehserle in Oakland in the early hours of...

Wolf Blitzer
►http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2012/11/wolf-blitzer.html

Wolf Blitzer of CNN has been dispatched to Israel to cover the conflict. But why does not CNN tell viewer that this guy started his journalism career by writing for the publication of the Israeli lobby? Can you imagine if a CNN correspondent is covering Gaza but had previously worked for Hamas mouthpiece? Can you imagine the uproar? So Blitzer was on the air and he reported that he saw “trauma” on the face of a child in Israel who heard sirens.

Ze’ev Barak sur Wikipedia :
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In the mid-1970s, Blitzer also contributed to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the editor of their monthly publication, the Near East Report. While at AIPAC, Blitzer’s writing focused on Middle East affairs as they relate to United States foreign policy.

Ehud Barak Admits Iran Has Defensive Posture, No Weapons Program « Antiwar.com Blog
►http://antiwar.com/blog/2012/08/03/ehud-barak-admits-iran-has-defensive-posture-no-weapons-program

L’information ne fera pas la Une de la presse occidentale. Pourtant, alors que les bruits de bottes retentissent à nouveau dans le Golfe, il est important d’écouter ce que dit Ehoud Barak :

Barak admitted that “[Israel and the US] both know that Khamenei did not yet ordered, actually, to give a weapon, but that he is determined to deceit and defy the whole world.” Wolf Blitzer asked, “What does that mean, that the ayatollah has not given the order to build a nuclear bomb?” Barak replied:

It’s something technical. He did not tell his people start and build it — a weapon on — an explodable device. We think that we understand why he does not give this order.

He believes that he is penetrated through our intelligence and he strongly feels that if he tries to order, we will know it, we and you and some other intelligence services will know about it and it might end up with a physical action against it.

So he prefers to, first of all, make sure that through redundancy, through an accumulation of more lowly enriched uranium, more medium level enriched uranium and more centrifuges and more sites, better protection, that he can reach a point, which I call the zone of immunity, beyond which Israel might not be technically capable of launching a surgical operation.

Le vrai problème, reconnaît ainsi Barak, est que les dirigeants iraniens veulent mettre leur pays à l’abri d’une attaque (ce qui prouve, bien sûr, leur caractère diabolique !)

#désinformation #nucléaire #Israël

CNN hands over Republican foreign policy debate to neocon cabal | Al Akhbar English
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When Republican primary candidates debate foreign policy issues tonight, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer (a former researcher for AIPAC) will mouth questions provided to him by the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). While the Heritage Foundation is well known as the outsourced brain of Republicans in Congress and serves as a hothouse for right-wing GOP domestic policies, AEI’s participation in the debate is even more problematic.

The Washington Post pointed out that some of the candidates have close relationships with the think tanks, noting Newt Gingrich’s 12-year-long fellowship at AEI and Mitt Romney’s employment of several former Heritage fellows. “Can the two think tanks divorce themselves from the candidates they are tied to in order to produce an impartial debate?” the Post asked.

But this is the wrong question, or at least not the most salient one. The problem with CNN allowing Heritage and AEI to dictate the questions and content of the GOP debate is that it provides the neocon cabal with a national platform to sell Americans on the need for war with Iran and for continued subsidization of Israel’s colonization of the West Bank. AEI is the nerve center for the neocon cabal; it is where the now-discredited case for invading Iraq was developed.