CLG: Trump rips up controversial TPP 'trade' deal and says getting out is 'a great thing for the American worker'

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26 January 2017

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Previous editions: Breaking: Donald Trump takes the oath of office as the 45th president of the United States

 

Trump rips up controversial TPP 'trade' deal and says getting out is 'a great thing for the American worker' | 23 Jan 2017 | President Donald Trump yanked the United States out of President Barack Obama's 12-nation trade corporate takeover pact today, making good on a campaign promise to negotiate a better agreement. Trump signed an executive order Monday morning withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP. 'We've been talking about this for a long time,' Trump said in remarks from the Oval Office on Monday as he signed the memorandum. 'Great thing for the American worker.'

 

Trump to begin renegotiating NAFTA pact soon with Mexico, Canada | 22 Jan 2017 | U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he plans talks soon with the leaders of Canada and Mexico to begin renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement. "We will be starting negotiations having to do with NAFTA," Trump said at a swearing-in ceremony for his top White House advisers. "We are going to start renegotiating on NAFTA, on immigration and on security at the border." Trump pledged during his presidential campaign that if elected he would renegotiate the NAFTA trade pact to provide more favorable terms to the United States.

 

President Trump Meets with Union Leaders | 23 Jan 2017 | (Video)

 

Trump Signs 3 Executive Orders, Including Withdrawal From Pacific Trade Deal | 23 Jan 2017 | President Trump acted on Monday to keep a signature campaign promise: withdraw the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Trump's action, an executive order, is mostly symbolic. As he signed the order in the Oval Office, Trump said, "We've been talking about this for a long time," adding it's "a great thing for the American worker." Trump also signed two other executive orders...

 

Dow Jones breaks 20,000 for first time ever and global stocks hit 19-month high as markets reignite 'Trump rally' | 25 Jan 2017 | The Dow Jones smashed the landmark 20,000 barrier for the first time ever this afternoon as optimism about Trump's pro-growth policies boosted financial markets. Resuming a rally that began in the wake of Donald Trump's shock US presidential election win, the index rose by as much as 0.73pc to 20,057.89. The rally was reignited by Trump's signing of numerous executive orders since his inauguration on Friday.

 

Trump to sign executive order banning Syrian refugees from US | 25 Jan 2017 | President Trump plans to announce at least a temporary ban on refugees and immigrants from a handful of Muslim-majority countries plagued by Islamic terrorism. Trump argued on the campaign trail that the US had no way of knowing whether refugees from war-torn countries such as Syria could be disguised terrorists. Trump also wants to suspend issuing visas for people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria or Yemen for at least 30 days, according to the draft. [What about the Saudi sociopaths?]

 

President Trump moves on immigration promises | 25 Jan 2017 | President Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed to take aggressive steps to expel unauthorized immigrants, saying he would expand immigration jails, sanction nations that refuse to take back their citizens, and seek to strip federal funding from sanctuary cities such as Boston and Somerville that do not help deport immigrants. He also vowed to build a wall on the southern border and make Mexico pay for it. Trump's action fulfilled what his spokesman called "one of his most significant campaign promises" and followed increasing agitation among his base after he failed to address immigration enforcement on his first day, as he promised.

 

Trump orders wall to be built on Mexico border | 25 Jan 2017 | President Donald Trump has issued an executive order for a wall to be built along the southern US border with Mexico. He also signed an action to strip funds from US cities that are sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants. Mr Trump said in a TV interview that Mexico would "absolutely, 100 percent" reimburse the US for his wall. Building a 2,000-mile barrier along the Mexican border was one of his key pledges in the election campaign.

 

Protesters Decry Trump Immigration Orders at Washington Square Park Rally | 25 Jan 2017 | Crowds gathered at Washington Square Park Wednesday evening to protest President Donald Trump's recent executive orders. The president moved this week to restrict people from select countries with large Muslim populations from entering the United States, to build a wall along the border of Mexico and to cut federal funds to "sanctuary cities" like New York that don't cooperate with deportations and other federal actions against undocumented immigrants...The protest was organized quickly by the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY).

 

Trump signs order to move controversial oil pipelines forward | 24 Jan 2017 | U.S. President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Tuesday to move forward with construction of the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines, rolling back key Obama administration environmental actions in favor of expanding energy infrastructure. While oil producers in Canada and North Dakota are expected to benefit from a quicker route for crude oil to U.S. Gulf Coast refiners, a revival of the projects would mark a bitter defeat for Native American tribes and climate activists, who vowed to fight the decisions through legal action.

 

Donald Trump's senior advisers sworn in at White House | 22 Jan 2017 | President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence presided over a formal ceremony Sunday to swear in about two dozen senior White House aides, including Chief of Staff Reince Preibus, national security adviser Michael T. Flynn and senior advisers Stephen K. Bannon, Kellyanne Conway and Jared Kushner. As White House staff, the aides do not need to be confirmed by the Senate.

 

Former congressman Mike Pompeo sworn in as CIA director | 23 Jan 2017 | Mike Pompeo was sworn in Monday night as director of the CIA at a crucial time for U.S. national security as intelligence -- traditionally a nonpartisan issue -- has been thrust [by the globalist-owned media] into the political arena. "You are stepping up to lead the finest intelligence-gathering operation the world has ever seen," Vice President Mike Pence said during the nighttime swearing-in ceremony...The Senate earlier Monday confirmed President Donald Trump's nominee to run the CIA despite some Democratic objections that the Kansas congressman has been less than transparent about his positions on torture, surveillance and Russia's [alleged] meddling in the U.S. election. The vote was 66-32.

 

Rex Tillerson is approved by Senate panel for secretary of State | 23 Jan 2017 | Rex Tillerson, the Exxon Mobil chief executive selected by President Trump to be secretary of State, won approval Monday from a Senate committee, all but guaranteeing his ascension to the job. The vote at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was 11 in favor and 10 against, cast strictly along party lines. The nomination now moves to the full Senate. Several senators, Republican and Democratic, had expressed opposition to Tillerson's nomination ahead of Monday's vote.

 

Senate confirms Trump's first Cabinet member | 20 Jan 2017 | The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's first Cabinet member Friday, formally approving his defense secretary. As the Senate voted on retired Gen. James Mattis for defense secretary, he easily cleared the 50-vote majority threshold. New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was the first and so far only senator to vote against him.

 

Trump signs bill allowing Mattis to lead Pentagon | 20 Jan 2017 | President Trump, in his first significant official act as president, signed legislation Friday allowing retired Gen. James Mattis to run the Pentagon as defense secretary. A Senate vote to confirm Mattis, 66, is scheduled for later in the day. But Trump first needed to sign the bill passed by Congress granting him a waiver to serve, given the law on the books that bars former service members who've been out of uniform for less than seven years from holding the top Pentagon job.

 

Moments after taking the oath, President Trump transforms White House website | 20 Jan 2017 | Just moments after President Donald Trump took the oath of office Friday, the official White House website was transformed into a set of policy pledges that offered the broad contours of the Trump administration's top priorities -- a list that included fierce support for law enforcement bordering on vigilantism, an immediate elimination of the White House's policy page on climate page and a notable absence of any directives involving President Obama's Affordable Care Act. "Our job is not to make life more comfortable for the rioter, the looter, or the violent disrupter," reads the law and order section, which calls for "more law enforcement" and "more effective policing." "Our job is to make life more comfortable for parents who want their kids to be able to walk the streets safely. Or the senior citizen waiting for a bus. Or the young child walking home from school."

 

Trump inauguration draws nearly 31 million U.S. television viewers | 21 Jan 2017 | Nearly 31 million viewers watched live U.S. television coverage of Donald Trump's presidential inauguration, far fewer than tuned in to Barack Obama's first swearing-in, but otherwise the biggest such audience since Ronald Reagan entered office, ratings firm Nielsen reported on Saturday. The tally for Trump - 30.6 million viewers on 12 broadcast and cable networks that aired live coverage from about 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST - surpassed the TV audiences measured for his two most recent Republican predecessors - both inaugurations of George W. Bush and the one of his father, George H.W. Bush.

 

Senior Secret Service agent suggests she wouldn't 'take a bullet' for Trump | 24 Jan 2017 | A senior U.S. Secret Service agent posted social-media condemnations of President Trump during the past seven months, including one in which she said she wouldn't want to "take a bullet" for him. She explained herself saying she viewed his presidential candidacy as a "disaster" for the country, and especially for women and minorities. Kerry O'Grady, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service's Denver district, oversees coordination with Washington-based advance teams for all presidential candidate and presidential trips to the area, including all upcoming or future trips by the president, vice president or Trump administration officials.

 

Kentucky woman is under investigation by Secret Service for tweeting she hopes someone will 'be kind enough' to assassinate Trump | 23 Jan 2017 | The Secret Service is investigating a Kentucky woman after she tweeted that she hoped someone would be 'kind enough' to assassinate President Donald Trump. Heather Lowrey, of Louisville, tweeted January 17: 'If someone was cruel enough to assassinate MLK, maybe someone will be kind enough to assassinate Trump.' The Secret Service confirmed that it interviewed the 26-year-old, and are still investigating the incident, reported the New York Daily News. The tweet set off a firestorm online, according to Wave 3 News.

 

Secret Service will investigate Madonna after singer says she wants to BLOW UP the White House in expletive-filled rant at women's march | 21 Jan 2017 | The Secret Service has reportedly said they will open an investigation into pop singer Madonna after her intense speech at the Women's March on Washington on Saturday afternoon. Donning a black p***yhat, the music icon caused controversy by dropping the F-bomb four times, sparking a slew of apologies from broadcasters airing the protest live. She went on to speak of her rage at the election result, telling the crowd she had thought a lot about 'blowing up the White House' but knew that it 'wouldn't change anything'. According to the Gateway Pundit, a spokesman for the Secret Service said they were 'aware' of Madonna's comments and will open an investigation, but the ultimate decision whether or not to prosecute is the decision of the U.S. Attorney's Office.

 

White House warns reporters to leave Barron Trump alone after SNL suspends writer for tweeting that the 10-year-old boy would be 'this country's first homeschool shooter' | 24 Jan 2017 | The White House put journalists on notice Tuesday that Barron Trump, the president's 10-year-old son, must be left out of political reporting. The warning followed Saturday Night Live's decision to indefinitely suspend a staff writer who tweeted on Inauguration Day that the boy was destined to become 'this country's first homeschool shooter.' The White House Press Office blasted out a message to reporters Tuesday afternoon, saying that '[i]t is a longstanding tradition that the children of Presidents are afforded the opportunity to grow up outside of the political spotlight.'

 

SNL Writer Tweets That Barron Trump Will Be America's 'First Homeschool Shooter' | 20 Jan 2017 | A writer [sic] for Saturday Night Live broke the usual rule about not targeting the children of politicians with whom we disagree. For approximately three hours today, SNL"Weekend Update" writer Katie Rich had a tweet up saying that President Trump's 10 year old son, Barron, was going to grow up to become America's "first homeschool shooter." Rich eventually deleted her tweet, though not before Twitter users took notice.

 

Video: MSNBC's Matthews Says Trump's Speech "Hitlerian" | 20 Jan 2017 | During inauguration coverage MSNBC's Chris Matthews said that Trump's speech had "a Hitlerian background to it." "When he said today, 'America first,' it was not just the racial...I shouldn't say racial,...the Hitlerian background to it..."

 

BBC used the wrong subtitles for Donald Trump's inauguration speech | 20 Jan 2017 | Donald Trump's inauguration speech with the wrong subtitles. BBC broadcast the inauguration of the 45th president of the United States, but it seems they incorrectly used the subtitles of the BBC kids' show 'The Dumping Ground'.

 

Twitter removes post by NYU professor who blasted PC culture on college campuses | 24 Jan 2017 | A controversial New York University professor [CLG Founder, Michael Rectenwald] returned from paid leave only two days ago and he is already back in the hot seat after Twitter deleted one of his tweets advocating free speech and railing against so-called social justice warriors (SJW)... "It had to be someone within the Twitter administration,” Rectenwald told Fox News. “Instead of calling it social media, they should call it social justice media." [Note: My position has been that SJW ideology does not promote social justice at all but rather abrogates individual rights and adds layers of oppression to existing oppression. See "Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces, Bias Reporting: The New Micro-techniques of Surveillance and Control."- MR]

 

CLG Exclusive: The Inauguration of Trump and the Early Opposition to Trumpism ByMichael Rectenwald | 23 January 2017 | I have been asked what I think about the protests and marches against the inauguration of Donald Trump, as well as what to say in response to liberals, leftists, women, feminists, trans* persons and others participating in them. This essay represents an answer to the question...The fact is – despite the honest motives and real political objectives of participants – the contemporary left-liberal movement, inclusive of the Women's March on Washington, is being promoted and supported, financially and otherwise, by particular sectors of the ruling class – in particular the financial sectors inclusive of Wall Street and the banks, the dominant political sector, and the intelligence sector.

 

Political Science's "Theory of Everything" on the 2016 US Election | 19 Jan 2017 | [Had enough of the hysterical hue and cry, the hand-wringing, the gnashing of teeth, and the hyperbolic screeching from the ideologically-committed, intellectually bankrupt and empty-headed media pundits, the protesters, and the other lugubrious mourners of Trump's ascension? Then read this.] The invisible rulers of the US establishment were revealed by Professor C. Wright Mill in his article titled, "The Structure of Power in American Society" (The British Journal of Sociology, March 1958), in which he explains how, "the high military, the corporation executives, the political directorate have tended to come together to form the power elite of America"...He describes how the power elite can be best described as a "triangle of power," linking the corporate, executive government, and military factions...The 2016 US election, like all other US elections, featured a gallery of pre-selected candidates that represented the three factions and their interests within the power elite. The 2016 US election, however, was vastly different from previous elections. As the election dragged on the power elite became bitterly divided, with the majority supporting Hilary Clinton, the candidate pre-selected by the political and corporate factions, while the military faction rallied around their choice of Donald Trump. [Thus, what we are experiencing is a division and struggle within the ruling sectors, not fascism versus some innocent liberalism. The "innocent liberalism" is thin scrim for a ruling sector, the corporatocracy. The media mouthpieces of these "innocent liberals" are trying to tarnish another faction by calling them "fascists." And liberals and leftists act as if the corporate sector is not behind it. Perhaps they don't realize that the New York Times, the Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN and other corporate media outlets are speaking for corporations! In fact, they ARE corporations, speaking. --MR]

 

Globalists, Corporations Funding Women's Marches Against Trump | 21 Jan 2017 | Burton Snowboards CEO is funding employee trips to Women's March on Washington | 19 Jan 2017 | Burton Snowboards president and CEO is Donna Carpenter. Jake Burton Carpenter, who founded what has become the largest snowboard brand in the world in his barn in Vermont in 1977...Carpenter, who has served on espnW's advisory board, plans to travel to Washington, D.C., on Saturday, the morning after Donald Trump's inauguration, to join an expected 200,000 people at the Women's March on Washington. On Jan. 5, Carpenter sent an email to all of Burton's female employees, offering to fund and lodge anyone interested in joining her in D.C. [espnW is a branch of ESPN Inc. Eighty percent of ESPN is owned by Walt Disney, the cheap labor, tax-avoiding globalists.]

This CEO Is Paying for Employees to Go to the Women's March | 19 Jan 2017 | Donna Carpenter, the CEO and co-owner of Burton Snowboards, told Cosmopolitan that she plans to be at the Women's March this weekend. And she'll be there with an entourage. The 53-year-old businesswoman offered her Vermont-based employees two nights in a hotel room and airfare (up to $250) if they too wanted to walk in the march with her.

Trip to DC protest funded by college offices | 18 Jan 2017 | Students watching coverage of the Women's March on Washington this Saturday may see some familiar faces. With support from the college, 48 students and two faculty members will attend the protest, not to mention students attending independently. The college offered financial support for a bus rental with m-ney from from college offices and organizations, including the President's Office, the Elma Lewis Center, and Emerson Peace and Social Justice.

Billionaire George Soros has ties to more than 50 'partners' of the Women’s March on Washington | 20 Jan 2017 | To understand the march better, I stayed up through the nights this week, studying the funding, politics and talking points of the some 403 groups that are "partners" of the march. Is this a non-partisan "Women's March"?...I found out: plenty.

[Cui bono? The Women's March is subsidized and attended by corporatists and globalists, whom Trump has vowed to battle. Whether Trump keeps his word or not is moot at this point. The point is, virtue-signaling has become the tool du jour of the ruling class. --LRP]

Universities hire buses to take students to Women's March | 20 Jan 2017 | Several universities are paying for their students to attend the Women's March on Washington, a post-Inauguration protest intended to show solidarity with marginalized communities and speak out against Donald Trump. Emerson College in Massachusetts, Columbia/Barnard University, and DePauw University in Indiana have agreed to charter buses to Washington, D.C. so that students can participate in the March, which recently came under fire for disinviting a pro-life group that was cosponsoring the protest.

 

Video: White nationalist Richard Spencer punched at protest | 20 Jan 2017 | Richard Spencer, a self-described white nationalist and leader of the "alt-right" movement, walked into the protests in downtown D.C. on Friday and was punched in the face by one of the demonstrators after denying that he was a Nazi.

 

Man shot outside UW event for Milo Yiannopoulos | 20 Jan 2017 | A man was shot at a University of Washington protest in the campus's Red Square outside an event with controversial Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos on Friday night. The University of Washington College Republicans invited Yiannopoulos to speak on Friday, the day of Donald Trump's inauguration...Meanwhile, in downtown Seattle another protest left Westlake Park, with some demonstrators marching to the U-District to join the UW protest. Protesters threw rocks, fireworks, and other items at officers. They blocked the entrance to Kane Hall, but Yiannopoulos's speech still started around 8 p.m. Protesters from the Westlake Rally were only about two blocks away from UW before the shooting happened.

 

MAP: Inauguration protests sweep through campuses | 20 Jan 2017 | Universities across the country are preparing for a Trump presidency with a weekend of protests and walkouts, while others are shipping students all the way to D.C. to participate in the uproar. The following map demonstrates an unsurprising geographical distribution of anti-Trump protests, with the highest concentration of demonstrations on the East and West coasts, as Campus Reform has observed of anti-Trump protests in the past.

 

D.C. police: 217 people arrested during protests | 20 Jan | Protests in Washington during President Trump's inaugural festivities have led to at least 217 arrests, interim D.C. police chief Peter Newsham said at an evening news conference. Newsham said that the vast majority of protests across the city unfolded peacefully. But he said that around 10 a.m., a group of 400 to 500 people — whose activities appeared to be 'organized and intentional' — moved south on 13th Street NW toward the Mall. Some were armed with crowbars and hammers, and they destroyed vehicles and storefronts along the way. Those arrested were charged with rioting, Newsham said. "This was not a spontaneous event," he said. He said that police deployed pepper spray and "other armaments" to deter the protesters.

 

Inauguration protesters vandalize, set fires, try to disrupt Trump's oath, as police arrest more than 200 | 20 Jan 2017 | Protesters made themselves heard in the nation’s capital Friday, leaving a trail of damage along some city blocks, disrupting security checkpoints at President Donald Trump’s inauguration, and clashing with police as Trump supporters tried to celebrate. As people poured into the city to watch Trump sworn in as the 45th president, they encountered protesters across the area throughout the day. Many of the demonstrations were nonviolent, with people holding signs that spoke to their causes and concerns...But other groups tried to disrupt the day's events by burning flags, throwing bricks and rioting en masse, leading to injuries and 217 arrests by Friday evening.

 

Donald Trump inauguration protests: Violence breaks out as protesters smash windows and clash with police | 20 Jan 2017 | Disorder has broken out in Washington DC amid tight security ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration. A group of masked protesters, some carrying flags bearing the anarchist symbol, were filmed smashing windows, running through the streets and clashing with police. One man dressed in black smashed the window of a McDonald's with a hammer, while others tipped over bins around an hour before the start of Mr Trump's ceremony.

 

A trifle upset: Protester screams in agony as Trump sworn in | 20 Jan 2017 | An anti-Trump protester screams in agony as the new US President is sworn in. The woman, sitting cross-legged on the ground close to Capitol Hill, was filmed yelling "no" at the top of her voice as Donald Trump took his oath.

 

Barack and Michelle Obama's farewell message asks: What now? | 20 Jan 2017 | In a video released on social media on Friday, he joined his wife, Michelle, and said they wanted ideas for the new presidential centre they will set up in Chicago. Mr Obama called it a "living, working centre for citizenship". However, Mrs Obama said their first priority would be to get some sleep. The project will be based in the couple's old neighbourhood, South Side, but they said it will have projects all over the city, the country and the world. They called for the public to send in their ideas, hopes, beliefs and inspirations via the website Obama.org.

 

W.H.O. Warns of Worrisome Bird Flu in China | 25 Jan 2017 | After a spate of deaths from bird flu among patients in China, the World Health Organization has warned all countries to watch for outbreaks in poultry flocks and to promptly report any human cases. Several strains of avian flu are spreading in Europe and Asia this winter, but the most worrisome at present is an H7N9 strain that has circulated in China every winter since 2013. China has reported over 225 human cases since September, an unusually high number. 

 

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