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US pushing to quash UN 'blacklist'
of firms doing business in Israeli settlements
by Anne Gearan
.THUGS Block Street, Jump on Car –
Who Get’s Arrested – RIGHT To NUDGE?
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ When did it become okay to block traffic if you’re a leftist carrying a bullhorn, signs and chanting? Is there no longer such a thing as jaywalking and if there is why is it no longer enforced?... What about obstructing traffic, is that one of the many laws that are no longer enforced upon whiny or belligerent liberals? Who made that decision and how do you nullify a law without going through the legislature? How stupid do you have to be to stand in traffic and “protest,” also known as making an ass or a public nuisance, and creating a hazard for both yourself and the general public? Particularly after the much publicized death of a woman similarly obstructing traffic for political purposes in Charlottesville – can’t you take a hint? The same thugs, Antifa and other leftists were still doing it last night in Phoenix. Now this collection of freaks, the Weird Lives Matter protesters, are doing it too... http://rickwells.us/thugs-blocking-street-jump-car-gets-arrested-right-nudge/
Video at the site.
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Gohmert Calls for Investigation of VA Gov
McAuliffe for ‘Facilitating’ Charlottesville Violence
by Pam Key
by Pam Key
{breitbart.com} ~ Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends Weekend,” Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) called for a Department of Justice investigation... of Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-VA) and Charlottesville, VA Mayor Michael Signer for possibly facilitating the violence that took place in Charlottesville earlier this month. Gohmert said, “The way forward’s not gonna be easy. And I think the Justice Department needs a full investigation of the governor, of the mayor. They said in court there would be violence at Charlottesville, and then the witnesses and the photographs show they herded these groups to create violence so they could brag. We need a Justice Department investigation into Kessler. You don’t just go all of a sudden from having multiracial roommates and a Jewish girlfriend to all of a sudden being a white supremacist that wants to join the Republican party. There’s something very, very wrong in all of this.” http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/08/21/gohmert-calls-for-investigation-of-va-gov-mcauliffe-for-facilitating-charlottesville-violence/
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RNC Chair: We Don’t Want the
White Supremacist Vote, We Will Speak Out
{patrioticviralnews.com} ~ The events in Charlottesville, Virginia outraged the nation and are still reverberating in many people’s minds. They forced America to realize that extreme racism is still a terrible problem that must be rooted out and eliminated... But as Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel tells Good Morning America’s David Muir, the president’s statements in the aftermath of the incidents aren’t letting anyone off the hook. The president squarely assigned blame to all parties who were responsible for the events, but obviously, it was staunch racists who organized the demonstration that were the original cause. The White House named and shamed the organizations responsible, including the KKK, neo-Nazis and hardcore white supremacists. When President Trump blamed “both sides,” politicians on the Left and the Right as well as media pundits were quick to jump in and say that his words meant that one side was being morally favored over another, which is absolute nonsense... http://patrioticviralnews.com/articles/rnc-chair-we-dont-want-the-white-supremacist-vote-we-will-speak-out/
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{libertyplanet.com} ~ The sweeping November election losses suffered by the left has Democrats throwing support behind violent fascist gangs spilling blood on American streets in what looks like a Third-World coup... Despite the outstanding efforts by Boston law enforcement to disarm and curtail the violence groups such as Antifa are well-known for, dozens were arrested opposing a Free Speech rally by conservative groups. Self-proclaimed Antifa members thanked “liar-Hillary Democrats” as they burned the American flag on the Boston streets. Boston Antifa Twitter posts included “Free Speech is Dead, Piss on its grave” and “Veterans don’t get a free pass. Today’s Nazi for defending freedom of speech yesterday.” ... http://www.libertyplanet.com/articles/the-radical-left-is-more-violent-than-ever/
The Radical Left is More Violent Than Ever
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Trump Hires The Hulk For This Role
by Roger Chang
{trumptrainnews.com} ~ Many like to believe there's already a green-eyed monster residing in the White House. But the original Hulk, Lou Ferrigno, has revealed he could soon be taking up a job in President Trump's administration... In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, actor Ferrigno, who starred as The Incredible Hulk in the late 70s and 80s, says he's in prime position to head up the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition to help get the US fit and healthy... http://trumptrainnews.com/articles/president-trump-hires-the-hulk-for-this-role.
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US pushing to quash UN 'blacklist'
of firms doing business in Israeli settlements
by Anne Gearan
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ The Trump administration is urging the United Nations not to publish what it calls a "blacklist" of international firms that do business in Israeli settlements on land claimed by the Palestinians for a future state, diplomats and others said.
The U.N. Commission on Human Rights voted to approve the database of companies last year, over objections from the United States and Israel, which describe the list as a prelude to anti-Israel boycotts.
American companies on the list drawn up by the Geneva-based commission include Caterpillar, TripAdvisor, Priceline.com, Airbnb and others, according to people familiar with it. It is not clear whether the list has been finalized.
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, has told U.S. officials he plans to publish the list by the end of the year and has asked for comments by Sept. 1 from countries where affected firms are headquartered, diplomats said.
U.S. officials would not comment on which firms were included on a version of the list recently transmitted to U.S. diplomats. Details of U.S. involvement and the inclusion of specific American firms has not previously been reported.
Zeid, a Jordanian diplomat who was his country's ambassador to the United States, had agreed to one postponement this year, partly in response to a U.S. request. He has indicated he plans to move ahead now, arguing that the list is a resource for consumers and travelers, according to diplomats from several affected countries who requested anonymity to describe behind-the-scenes jockeying over the issue.
"The United States has been adamantly opposed to this resolution from the start" and has fought against it before several U.N. bodies, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said. "These types of resolutions are counterproductive and do nothing to advance Israeli-Palestinian issues."
The United States joined Israel in unsuccessfully opposing U.N. funding for work related to the database, Nauert said.
"We have made clear our opposition regarding the creation of a database of businesses operating in Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, and we have not participated and will not participate in its creation or contribute to its content," she said.
Anne Herzberg, a lawyer and activist against BDS activities with the Jerusalem-based group NGO Monitor, said the list is "punitive."
"It's a process that is really extraordinary," Herzberg said. "There is no due process, they are not contacting companies ahead of time, and they have no basis to evaluate what they are sent about companies."
Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, called the database "shameful" in remarks delivered in Geneva in June. She also said the United States is considering whether to remain a member of the commission, which she said was biased against Israel and too forgiving of autocrats and dictators.
"Blacklisting companies without even looking at their employment practices or their contributions to local empowerment, but rather based entirely on their location in areas of conflict, is contrary to the laws of international trade and to any reasonable definition of human rights," Haley said. "It is an attempt to provide an international stamp of approval to the anti-Semitic BDS movement. It must be rejected."
A senior U.S. official involved in the diplomacy said Washington has argued that the list need not be made public and that the commission's resolution does not compel Zeid to follow up with spot checks or other actions after the list is complete.
The United States has argued that the criteria for including individual companies on the list is vague and arbitrary and that the definition of settlement activity can be unfairly stretched to include broad categories of commercial activity in the occupied territories.
"We are looking for the high commissioner's office to implement this in the most narrow way possible, if he has made a decision to implement it at all," said the senior U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
It is not clear how individual U.S. companies are being placed on the list. Affected firms appeared unaware of the list when contacted, or did not respond to a request for comment.
In the case of travel-related firms such as TripAdvisor, it is also unclear whether their inclusion is the result of corporate activity inside settlements, such as advertising, or from inclusion of travel data about settlements on their websites.
"TripAdvisor can't comment on a report it hasn't seen," said company spokesman Brian Hoyt. "We have not been contacted by the U.N. We continue to believe in the power of travel to bring cultures together around the world and are happy to discuss our position with the U.N. at any time."
In ordering that a list be created, the commission invoked the 50-year Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem and the "implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people."
It tasked Zeid's office with producing "a database of all business enterprises involved" in settlement activity. The list is to be updated annually.
In June, Zeid told the commission that the Israeli occupation that began in 1967 violates international law and "has denied the Palestinians many of their most fundamental freedoms, and has often been brutal."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the list would help the Palestinian "boycott, divestment and sanctions," or BDS, campaign, which he says unfairly singles out Israel for economic punishment.
U.S. diplomats have argued that the Commission on Human Rights went beyond its mandate in ordering the list.
The commission has no power to levy sanctions or otherwise punish companies, but opponents of the list say it could put pressure on the U.N. Security Council to follow up.
The idea behind the list arose from efforts to target international businesses that did business with apartheid-era South Africa, and from Arab-led efforts to boycott Israel decades ago.
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ The Trump administration is urging the United Nations not to publish what it calls a "blacklist" of international firms that do business in Israeli settlements on land claimed by the Palestinians for a future state, diplomats and others said.
The U.N. Commission on Human Rights voted to approve the database of companies last year, over objections from the United States and Israel, which describe the list as a prelude to anti-Israel boycotts.
American companies on the list drawn up by the Geneva-based commission include Caterpillar, TripAdvisor, Priceline.com, Airbnb and others, according to people familiar with it. It is not clear whether the list has been finalized.
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, has told U.S. officials he plans to publish the list by the end of the year and has asked for comments by Sept. 1 from countries where affected firms are headquartered, diplomats said.
U.S. officials would not comment on which firms were included on a version of the list recently transmitted to U.S. diplomats. Details of U.S. involvement and the inclusion of specific American firms has not previously been reported.
Zeid, a Jordanian diplomat who was his country's ambassador to the United States, had agreed to one postponement this year, partly in response to a U.S. request. He has indicated he plans to move ahead now, arguing that the list is a resource for consumers and travelers, according to diplomats from several affected countries who requested anonymity to describe behind-the-scenes jockeying over the issue.
"The United States has been adamantly opposed to this resolution from the start" and has fought against it before several U.N. bodies, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said. "These types of resolutions are counterproductive and do nothing to advance Israeli-Palestinian issues."
The United States joined Israel in unsuccessfully opposing U.N. funding for work related to the database, Nauert said.
"We have made clear our opposition regarding the creation of a database of businesses operating in Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, and we have not participated and will not participate in its creation or contribute to its content," she said.
Anne Herzberg, a lawyer and activist against BDS activities with the Jerusalem-based group NGO Monitor, said the list is "punitive."
"It's a process that is really extraordinary," Herzberg said. "There is no due process, they are not contacting companies ahead of time, and they have no basis to evaluate what they are sent about companies."
Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, called the database "shameful" in remarks delivered in Geneva in June. She also said the United States is considering whether to remain a member of the commission, which she said was biased against Israel and too forgiving of autocrats and dictators.
"Blacklisting companies without even looking at their employment practices or their contributions to local empowerment, but rather based entirely on their location in areas of conflict, is contrary to the laws of international trade and to any reasonable definition of human rights," Haley said. "It is an attempt to provide an international stamp of approval to the anti-Semitic BDS movement. It must be rejected."
A senior U.S. official involved in the diplomacy said Washington has argued that the list need not be made public and that the commission's resolution does not compel Zeid to follow up with spot checks or other actions after the list is complete.
The United States has argued that the criteria for including individual companies on the list is vague and arbitrary and that the definition of settlement activity can be unfairly stretched to include broad categories of commercial activity in the occupied territories.
"We are looking for the high commissioner's office to implement this in the most narrow way possible, if he has made a decision to implement it at all," said the senior U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
It is not clear how individual U.S. companies are being placed on the list. Affected firms appeared unaware of the list when contacted, or did not respond to a request for comment.
In the case of travel-related firms such as TripAdvisor, it is also unclear whether their inclusion is the result of corporate activity inside settlements, such as advertising, or from inclusion of travel data about settlements on their websites.
"TripAdvisor can't comment on a report it hasn't seen," said company spokesman Brian Hoyt. "We have not been contacted by the U.N. We continue to believe in the power of travel to bring cultures together around the world and are happy to discuss our position with the U.N. at any time."
In ordering that a list be created, the commission invoked the 50-year Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem and the "implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people."
It tasked Zeid's office with producing "a database of all business enterprises involved" in settlement activity. The list is to be updated annually.
In June, Zeid told the commission that the Israeli occupation that began in 1967 violates international law and "has denied the Palestinians many of their most fundamental freedoms, and has often been brutal."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the list would help the Palestinian "boycott, divestment and sanctions," or BDS, campaign, which he says unfairly singles out Israel for economic punishment.
U.S. diplomats have argued that the Commission on Human Rights went beyond its mandate in ordering the list.
The commission has no power to levy sanctions or otherwise punish companies, but opponents of the list say it could put pressure on the U.N. Security Council to follow up.
The idea behind the list arose from efforts to target international businesses that did business with apartheid-era South Africa, and from Arab-led efforts to boycott Israel decades ago.
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