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riversedge's JournalThousands in Toronto gather to protest against Islamophobia
Source: cbc.ca
Protesters are drumming, chanting, holding signs in front of U.S. consulate
By Muriel Draaisma, CBC News Posted: Feb 04, 2017 12:59 PM ET Last Updated: Feb 04, 2017 2:52 PM ET
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Thousands of people are gathering in downtown Toronto to protest in front of the U.S. consulate against Islamophobia. (Devin Heroux/CBC)
Thousands of people have gathered in downtown Toronto to protest against Islamophobia in front of the U.S. consulate.
Organizers of the protest on Saturday say they want the Canadian government to condemn a controversial executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump that bans citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S.
Toronto police have closed University Avenue from Dundas Street West to Queen Street West due to the protest.
Trump says ruling against travel ban will be overturned
On Friday in Seattle, U.S. District Judge James Robart ordered a halt "on a nationwide basis" to enforcement of the ban, but Trump said the temporary restraining order will be overturned....................
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/protest-us-consulate-islamophobia-white-supremacy-1.3967434
Thank you Canada
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After running against Obama's legacy, Donald Trump is using the former president as a security blan
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Does a good job.
After running against Obama's legacy, Donald Trump is using the former president as a security blanket - My story:
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Donald Trump is using Barack Obama as a security blanket
By Dan Merica, CNN
Updated 1:11 PM ET, Sat February 4, 2017
Source: CNN
WH: President made final call on Yemen raid 02:37
Story highlights
Trump's White House has pointed fingers at the Obama administration planning for the Yemen raid
But takes credit for jobs figures achieved under Obama's watch
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump spent months running against Barack Obama's leadership style, faulting him for being "weak and ineffective" on Iran, lacking of focus the "real" job numbers and inability to combat ISIS because he was the group's "founder."
What a different a few months makes.
Trump and his White House advisers are now using Obama as a security blanket, making almost identical moves he made during his tenure and defending possible mistakes by arguing that they were initially made by Barack Obama.............
But what is remarkable about Trump is how vehemently he ran against Obama. Not only did Trump describe the Obama presidency in near apocalyptic terms during the campaign, he was the leader of the "Birther" movement, an attempt to delegitimize the president he is now using as a shield.
In the aftermath this week of the botched raid in Yemen that left one US Navy SEAL dead and three more injured, the Trump White House pointed the finger to the previous administration................
Next protest tonight, outside @realDonaldTrump's Mar-a-Lago club. The protests follow him home.
Come on Florida--do it good!!
David Fahrenthold ?@Fahrenthold 31m31 minutes ago
David Fahrenthold Retweeted David Nakamura
Next protest tonight, outside @realDonaldTrump's Mar-a-Lago club. The protests follow him home.
https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/827930989737414656
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Protestors and LGBT activists march toward the White House after rallying outside of Trump International Hotel Friday in Washington. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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How protesters plan to get under Trump’s skin wherever he goes
Demonstrators chant in protest against the election of Republican Donald Trump as president at the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Las Vegas in November. (© David Becker / Reuters/REUTERS)
By Perry Stein and David A. Fahrenthold February 4 at 12:10 PM
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Saturday evening march will begin at Trump Plaza, a high-rise apartment building. President Trump actually hasn’t owned the place since 1991. Fine. It still has the name. It’s a good place to start.
From there, the marchers will head south, walking along the Intracoastal Waterway that separates West Palm Beach from ritzy Palm Beach island. They’ll stop, on police orders, when they reach the bridge.
And then, the plan is to wave signs and glowsticks. The hope is that they’ll be visible across the dark water and the great green lawn of the club, from up in the private apartment that is now the “winter White House.”
If Trump sees those green lights, then he’ll know that his critics have followed him home.
“He is a part-time resident here, and we want to make sure people know his values are not our values,“ said Alex Newell Taylor, 34, an organizer of Saturday’s march. She said thousands are expected.
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Already this week, Trump — the most unpopular new president in modern times — cancelled a trip to visit Harley-Davidson in Milwaukee, where local groups had planned to protest his appearance; the White House said the protests were not the reason. .......................
Press pool escorted out of Oval Office for "not behaving" (asking q about Iran)
We do not and the press does not need any more WH photos of trump signing EO's surrounded by his vile people!
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RT @rhysblakely: Press pool escorted out of Oval Office for "not behaving" (asking q about Iran)
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David Axelrod ?@davidaxelrod 7m7 minutes ago
David Axelrod Retweeted David Axelrod
Interesting thing about #ACA testimonials below is that most come from states @POTUS carried. This is why REPEAL w/out REPLACE vexes @GOP.
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DHS Sec. Kelly told Bannon that despite WH job, "the former Breitbart chief was not in Kellys chai
Good article about chain of events--and squabbles for POWER
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Jennifer Epstein ?@jeneps 16m16 minutes ago
DHS Sec. Kelly told Bannon that despite WH job, "the former Breitbart chief was not in Kelly’s chain of command"
https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/827878011647172608
Inside the White House-Cabinet battle over Trump’s immigration order
By Josh Rogin February 4 at 7:00 AM
Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly pauses while speaking at a news conference in Washington on Jan. 31. (Andrew Harnik/Associated Press)
On the evening of Saturday, Jan. 28, as airport protests raged over President Trump’s executive order on immigration, the man charged with implementing the order, Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly, had a plan. He would issue a waiver for lawful permanent residents, a.k.a. green-card holders, from the seven majority-Muslim countries whose citizens had been banned from entering the United States.
White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon wanted to stop Kelly in his tracks. Bannon paid a personal and unscheduled visit to Kelly’s Department of Homeland Security office to deliver an order: Don’t issue the waiver. Kelly, according to two administration officials familiar with the confrontation, refused to comply with Bannon’s instruction. That was the beginning of a weekend of negotiations among senior Trump administration staffers that led, on Sunday, to a decision by Trump to temporarily freeze the issuance of executive orders.
The confrontation between Bannon and Kelly pitted a political operator against a military disciplinarian. Respectfully but firmly, the retired general and longtime Marine told Bannon that despite his high position in the White House and close relationship with Trump, the former Breitbart chief was not in Kelly’s chain of command, two administration officials said. If the president wanted Kelly to back off from issuing the waiver, Kelly would have to hear it from the president directly, he told Bannon.
Bannon left Kelly’s office without getting satisfaction. Trump didn’t call Kelly to tell him to hold off. Kelly issued the waiver late Saturday night, although it wasn’t officially announced until the following day.
That did not end the dispute. At approximately 2 a.m. ..................................
Florida heroin bust reveals something bizarre: Drugs covered in Donald Trumps face
All I can think of is $$$$$ involved somehow ---somehow!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/02/04/florida-heroin-bust-reveals-something-bizarre-drugs-covered-in-donald-trumps-face/?postshare=2331486211934116&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.d600b474b161
Florida heroin bust reveals something bizarre: Drugs covered in Donald Trump’s face
By Peter Holley February 4 at 7:17 AM
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Authorities in Florida still don’t know why President Trump’s name and likeness were printed on packets of heroin seized by detectives. (Courtesy of NBC affiliate WFLA)
Heroin, like cocaine and marijuana, seems to inspire an endless supply of monikers once the drug hits the streets.
In case you needed a refresher, there’s “dope,” “smack,” “China white,” “brown sugar,” “Mexican mud,” “black tar,” “horse,” “snowball,” and “Big H,” just to name a few.
Florida law enforcement officials announced this week that there’s a new name for the deadly drug: “Donald Trump.”
After a six-month investigation into local drug dealing, the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office last month confiscated 5,500 heroin packages, some of which included an image of the president’s face and name, according to NBC affiliate WFLA.
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The heroin bust — the largest in county history, according to Sheriff Al Nienhuis — also turned up heroin-filled envelopes named after Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar. Some bore the name of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the notorious Mexican drug kingpin. Most of the drugs were seized Jan. 27, the Times reported, but authorities didn’t know why they were labeled with different faces...................................
Trump wields a bloody knife with which he has beheaded the Statue of Liberty: Der Spiegel cover
I think this Cover is so frightening. so frightening.
This Der Spiegel Trump cover is stunning
https://twitter.com/DerSPIEGEL/status/827562802571251712
By Callum Borchers February 3 at 1:41 PM
Edel Rodriguez came to the United States from Cuba as a political refugee in 1980. Like many immigrants, he was angered by President Trump's executive order temporarily banning entry to the United States for travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries and refugees from around the world.
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Unlike most immigrants, however, Rodriguez channeled his anger into a piece of art that is now on the cover of one of the world's leading magazines.
The German news magazine Der Spiegel on Friday unveiled its latest issue, bearing Rodriguez's striking work. In the illustration, Trump wields a bloody knife with which he has beheaded the Statue of Liberty. His orange face is featureless, except for a hollering mouth. Two words appear beside him: America First.
“It's a beheading of democracy, a beheading of a sacred symbol,” Rodriguez said, noting that the Statue of Liberty represents the United States' history of welcoming immigrants. “And clearly, lately, what's associated with beheadings is ISIS, so there's a comparison” between the Islamic State and Trump. “Both sides are extremists, so I'm just making a comparison between them.”.............................
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/02/03/german-magazine-goes-after-president-donald-trump/21706820/#slide=4426783#fullscreen
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The WH is going to contest the Judges ruling to tempor. negate the travel ban.
John Aravosis ?@aravosis 1h1 hour ago
For a white nationalist White House you'd think they could find people who write proper English. What child wrote this statement?
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