Aftermath of Trump Victory

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Apple is exploring moving iPhone production to the US: Report

Arjun Kharpal | @ArjunKharpal
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A key iPhone maker is considering moving production of the smartphone to the United States, according to the Nikkei Asian Review.
"Apple asked both Foxconn and Pegatron, the two iPhone assemblers, in June to look into making iPhones in the U.S.," the Nikkei Asian Review reported, citing a source.
"Foxconn complied, while Pegatron declined to formulate such a plan due to cost concerns."
Apple declined to comment when contacted by CNBC. However, Apple has long said the barrier to moving iPhone production to the U.S. is expertise, in addition to cost.
"Foxconn follows a strict company policy of not commenting on any matters related to current or potential customers, or any of their products," a company spokesperson told CNBC via email.
Taiwan-based Foxconn and Pegatron assemble iPhones in China.

Getty Images
An Apple employee hands over Apple iPhone 7 phones on the first day of sales of the new phone at the Berlin Apple store on September 16, 2016 in Berlin, Germany.



The news comes following Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election. The Republican president-elect has been vocal about how U.S. companies should be building their products in America.
"We're going to get Apple to build their damn computers and things in this country instead of in other countries," Trump said in a speech in January.
He also said that he would slap a 45 percent import tariff on Chinese goods. Beijing hit back however. In an opinion piece published in a state-backed newspaper, the Chinese government warned that iPhone sales and other American goods could suffer if such a plan were to go through.
"A batch of Boeing orders will be replaced by Airbus. U.S. auto and iPhone sales in China will suffer a setback, and U.S. soybean and maize imports will be halted. China can also limit the number of Chinese students studying in the U.S.," the Global Times article read.

Manufacturing the iPhones abroad allows Apple to maintain a strong margin on its product.
Apple is Foxconn's biggest customer but Chairman Terry Gou is worried about the rising production costs of such a move, the Nikkei reported, citing a source saying that costs will double. It's important to note that the discussions began in June, five months before Trump won the election.
Analysts said it is still hard to quantify what such a move would mean for Apple's finances, but warned that there will be an impact.
"If the world moves to a more nationalistic approach 'made in America, by Americans, for Americans' or 'made in China, by Chinese, for Chinese'? The unwind of these variable conditions will likely impact margins, growth and suppliers exposed to the globalization trend of the last decade. The same will likely make global tech a tougher place to invest in 2017," Neil Campling, head of global technology, media, and telecoms research at Northern Trust Capital Markets, said in a note on Friday.


http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/18/apple-is-exploring-moving-iphone-production-to-the-us-report.html


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Islam is a “malignant cancer”: Trump’s new national security adviser

Hardliner. (AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)
Written by

Ismat Sarah Mangla
Obsession

2016
6 hours ago
US president-elect Donald Trump famously said in a CNN interview last March that “Islam hates us.” In this light, his pick for national secuirty adviser is pitch perfect.
Retired lieutenant general Michael Flynn served as Trump’s national security adviser during the campaign and agreed Friday (Nov. 18) to continue on. Flynn, a registered Democrat, served as head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency before he was ousted in 2014. Since then, he’s been a brash critic of President Barack Obama and the national security establishment’s approach to defeating terrorism—and he’s made no secret of his disdain for Islam.


“Islam is a political ideology…it definitely hides behind this notion of it being a religion,” Flynn said in a speech at the annual conference of ACT for America, the largest anti-Muslim grassroots organization in the US. “It’s like cancer…a malignant cancer in this case.” Flynn also serves as an adviser for the group, which was founded by Brigitte Gabriel, a leader of the anti-Islam lobby in the US. Flynn has described Gabriel as “incredibly courageous.”
At other times, Flynn has been more careful to specify that “radical Islam” is the source of his ire. He led the charge in excoriating Democrats for not using the words “radical Islamic terrorism,” and published a book this summer called The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam And Its Allies.
In it, Flynn writes that “without a proper sense of urgency, we will eventually be defeated, dominated, and very likely destroyed” by Muslim militants. “They are dead set on taking us over and drinking our blood.”
His rhetoric rarely distinguishes between extremism and ordinary Muslims; instead, Flynn insists that Muslims have “banned the search for truth” because they believe the Quran, Islam’s holy book, is infallible.

Flynn rivals Trump in his penchant for posting frequent and controversial messages on Twitter, a primary vehicle for his anti-Muslim rhetoric. In one of his most notorious tweets, Flynn wrote that the “fear of Muslims is rational.”
The national security adviser appointment does not require Senate confirmation, even though the role offers the potential to significantly shape US foreign and military policy. Critics say that Flynn’s anti-Islam rhetoric spells trouble for the US.
Flynn is “convinced that all Muslims who practice traditional Islam are a security risk. That is not only untrue but extremely dangerous,” says Will McCants, director for the Brookings Project on US relations with the Islamic world and the author of The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State. The effect will be to alienate many of the world’s Muslims, he says, and send them “into the arms of jihadist recruiters” who contend that “America seeks to destroy their religion.”

http://qz.com/841197/islam-is-a-mal...l-flynn-trumps-new-national-security-adviser/

 

[Butter Chicken]

Ford to export India-made EcoSport to US

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-made-EcoSport-to-US/articleshow/55442804.cms

 

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Apple is exploring moving iPhone production to the US: Report

Arjun Kharpal | @ArjunKharpal
17 Hours AgoCNBC.com
Play Video

A key iPhone maker is considering moving production of the smartphone to the United States, according to the Nikkei Asian Review.
"Apple asked both Foxconn and Pegatron, the two iPhone assemblers, in June to look into making iPhones in the U.S.," the Nikkei Asian Review reported, citing a source.
"Foxconn complied, while Pegatron declined to formulate such a plan due to cost concerns."
Apple declined to comment when contacted by CNBC. However, Apple has long said the barrier to moving iPhone production to the U.S. is expertise, in addition to cost.
"Foxconn follows a strict company policy of not commenting on any matters related to current or potential customers, or any of their products," a company spokesperson told CNBC via email.
Taiwan-based Foxconn and Pegatron assemble iPhones in China.

Getty Images
An Apple employee hands over Apple iPhone 7 phones on the first day of sales of the new phone at the Berlin Apple store on September 16, 2016 in Berlin, Germany.



The news comes following Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election. The Republican president-elect has been vocal about how U.S. companies should be building their products in America.
"We're going to get Apple to build their damn computers and things in this country instead of in other countries," Trump said in a speech in January.
He also said that he would slap a 45 percent import tariff on Chinese goods. Beijing hit back however. In an opinion piece published in a state-backed newspaper, the Chinese government warned that iPhone sales and other American goods could suffer if such a plan were to go through.
"A batch of Boeing orders will be replaced by Airbus. U.S. auto and iPhone sales in China will suffer a setback, and U.S. soybean and maize imports will be halted. China can also limit the number of Chinese students studying in the U.S.," the Global Times article read.

Manufacturing the iPhones abroad allows Apple to maintain a strong margin on its product.
Apple is Foxconn's biggest customer but Chairman Terry Gou is worried about the rising production costs of such a move, the Nikkei reported, citing a source saying that costs will double. It's important to note that the discussions began in June, five months before Trump won the election.
Analysts said it is still hard to quantify what such a move would mean for Apple's finances, but warned that there will be an impact.
"If the world moves to a more nationalistic approach 'made in America, by Americans, for Americans' or 'made in China, by Chinese, for Chinese'? The unwind of these variable conditions will likely impact margins, growth and suppliers exposed to the globalization trend of the last decade. The same will likely make global tech a tougher place to invest in 2017," Neil Campling, head of global technology, media, and telecoms research at Northern Trust Capital Markets, said in a note on Friday.


http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/18/apple-is-exploring-moving-iphone-production-to-the-us-report.html


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Well, they should think about moving it to India, that way, production cost would still be on the lower side and a huge advantage of respect of "Intellectual Property Rights" :biggrin2: here in India.
Surprisingly, China's Xiaomi now produces its newer phone is India.

 

[Akask kumar]

Islam is a “malignant cancer”: Trump’s new national security adviser

Hardliner. (AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)
Written by

Ismat Sarah Mangla
Obsession

2016
6 hours ago
US president-elect Donald Trump famously said in a CNN interview last March that “Islam hates us.” In this light, his pick for national secuirty adviser is pitch perfect.
Retired lieutenant general Michael Flynn served as Trump’s national security adviser during the campaign and agreed Friday (Nov. 18) to continue on. Flynn, a registered Democrat, served as head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency before he was ousted in 2014. Since then, he’s been a brash critic of President Barack Obama and the national security establishment’s approach to defeating terrorism—and he’s made no secret of his disdain for Islam.


“Islam is a political ideology…it definitely hides behind this notion of it being a religion,” Flynn said in a speech at the annual conference of ACT for America, the largest anti-Muslim grassroots organization in the US. “It’s like cancer…a malignant cancer in this case.” Flynn also serves as an adviser for the group, which was founded by Brigitte Gabriel, a leader of the anti-Islam lobby in the US. Flynn has described Gabriel as “incredibly courageous.”
At other times, Flynn has been more careful to specify that “radical Islam” is the source of his ire. He led the charge in excoriating Democrats for not using the words “radical Islamic terrorism,” and published a book this summer called The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam And Its Allies.
In it, Flynn writes that “without a proper sense of urgency, we will eventually be defeated, dominated, and very likely destroyed” by Muslim militants. “They are dead set on taking us over and drinking our blood.”
His rhetoric rarely distinguishes between extremism and ordinary Muslims; instead, Flynn insists that Muslims have “banned the search for truth” because they believe the Quran, Islam’s holy book, is infallible.

Flynn rivals Trump in his penchant for posting frequent and controversial messages on Twitter, a primary vehicle for his anti-Muslim rhetoric. In one of his most notorious tweets, Flynn wrote that the “fear of Muslims is rational.”
The national security adviser appointment does not require Senate confirmation, even though the role offers the potential to significantly shape US foreign and military policy. Critics say that Flynn’s anti-Islam rhetoric spells trouble for the US.
Flynn is “convinced that all Muslims who practice traditional Islam are a security risk. That is not only untrue but extremely dangerous,” says Will McCants, director for the Brookings Project on US relations with the Islamic world and the author of The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State. The effect will be to alienate many of the world’s Muslims, he says, and send them “into the arms of jihadist recruiters” who contend that “America seeks to destroy their religion.”

http://qz.com/841197/islam-is-a-mal...l-flynn-trumps-new-national-security-adviser/

whatever.. i am not defending ISLAM & supporter of TRUMP. but even xtanity is not far away from Islam .. if you look into past both far and near xtanity has same / more blood in its hand as compared to Islam. Islam does it name of religion ,Xtanity does it through its gvt in name of oil,banks

 

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whatever.. i am not defending ISLAM & supporter of TRUMP. but even xtanity is not far away from Islam .. if you look into past both far and near xtanity has same / more blood in its hand as compared to Islam. Islam does it name of religion ,Xtanity does it through its gvt in name of oil,banks

Well that could be debated :biggrin2: but I guess Xtanity is lesser of the two evils.

 

[airtel]

China is ready to pounce if Trump axes Pacific trade deal

By Jethro Mullen, CNN Money
Updated 03:19 AM PHT Sat, November 19, 2016
(Ian Berry/CNN Money)
Hong Kong (CNN Money) — If Donald Trump turns his back on Asian economies, China is ready and willing to step into the vacuum.
During the election campaign, Trump blasted international trade deals, tapping into a deep well of popular anger over the effects of globalization. Now, President-elect Trump's first victim could be the huge Pacific trade agreement that he slammed as a "disaster done and pushed by special interests who want to rape our country."
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was a key plank of President Obama's push to boost U.S. influence in Asia. But now it looks doomed, with Congress refusing to ratify it and Trump having vowed to kill it.
"You can't overestimate what a change this is," said Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. "The United States has been working since the end of the Second World War to liberalize trade."
'China has freer rein'

China isn't waiting around for the TPP's funeral. It's already pushing its own trade deal with leaders from around the Pacific as they gather for a summit in Peru this weekend.
"The prospect of the U.S. turning inward in its economic strategy means that China has freer rein to become the focal point of regional integration efforts," said Mireya Solis, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "The U.S. appears as largely bereft of a constructive economic strategy towards the most dynamic region in the world."
Linking the U.S. with 11 countries around the Pacific, the TPP would have been the biggest regional trade deal in history, spanning nearly 40% of global GDP and about a third of world trade. China didn't take part in the talks.
The Beijing-backed plan, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), is smaller economically. It covers 16 nations, accounting for almost 30% of global GDP and more than a quarter of world trade. But if that succeeds, China would be in a strong position to lead a bigger, more ambitious Asia-Pacific free trade area in the future.
'We can't let countries like China write the rules'

Beyond the numbers, the TPP was an effort by the Obama administration to spread U.S. standards for labor and the environment.
"We can't let countries like China write the rules of the global economy," Obama said last year. "We should write those rules."
Despite warnings that the TPP would kill jobs and worsen income equality, experts say its slow death is bad news for American interests in the Pacific.
"U.S. failure to follow through on TPP is a huge blow to the credibility of its Asia policy with important economic and geopolitical repercussions," Solis said. "Other countries will move forward with RCEP and American companies will be at a disadvantage."
Since Trump's victory, top officials from countries that signed up to the TPP -- including Japan and Australia -- have been cited as saying attention is likely to shift to China's plans.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has held meetings in recent weeks with the leaders of the Philippines and Malaysia, traditional U.S. allies. And he'll have the chance to meet more this weekend at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Peru.
'Beijing is understandably relieved'

On the face of it, China appears pleased at the opportunity it's been given.
"Beijing is understandably relieved that the exclusive, economically inefficient, politically antagonizing TPP is looking ever less likely to materialize by the day," said an editorial this week in state-run English-language newspaper China Daily.
But Trump's protectionist rhetoric, which has included a threat to slap tariffs of as much as 45% on Chinese products, creates a host of new concerns for China, which has benefited enormously from trade and sells more goods to the U.S. than any other country.
"It's clearly going to be a much more contentious relationship," Alden said. "I'm not sure it's a net positive for China."
This story was first published on CNN.com, "China is ready to pounce if Trump axes Pacific trade deal"

 

[Akask kumar]

Well that could be debated :biggrin2: but I guess Xtanity is lesser of the two evils.

well my friend , then u dnt know history well .. they do it passively..

 

[airtel]

Mon Nov 14, 2016 | 12:39 AM EST
Jihadists say Trump victory a rallying call for new recruits

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Members of the Taliban gather at the site of the execution of three men accused of murdering a couple during a robbery in Ghazni province, Afghanistan April 18, 2015.
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Members of the Taliban stand at the site of the execution of three men in Ghazni province, Afghanistan April 18, 2015.
Reuters/Stringer/File Photo +

By Ahmad Sultan and Omar Fahmy | KABUL/CAIRO


From Afghanistan to Algeria, jihadists plan to use Donald Trump's shock U.S. presidential victory as a propaganda tool to bring new fighters to their battlefields.
Taliban commanders and Islamic State supporters say Trump's campaign trail rhetoric against Muslims - at one point calling for a total shutdown of Muslims entering the United States - will play perfectly in their recruitment efforts, especially for disaffected youth in the West.
"This guy is a complete maniac. His utter hate towards Muslims will make our job much easier because we can recruit thousands," Abu Omar Khorasani, a top IS commander in Afghanistan, told Reuters.


Trump has talked tough against militant groups on the campaign trail, promising to defeat "radical Islamic terrorism just as we won the Cold War."
The president-elect later toned down his call for a total ban on Muslim entry to say he would temporarily suspend immigration from countries that have "a history of exporting terrorism."

But he has offered few details on his plans to combat various radical groups, including IS, the Taliban and al Qaeda, which represent a wide spectrum of political views.

"He does not differentiate between extremist and moderate Islamist trends and, at the same time, he overlooks (the fact) that his extremism will generate extremism in return," Iraq's powerful Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said in a statement.
Sadr's political reform movement, which commands thousands of followers, is a staunch opponent of the radical Sunni movements IS and al Qaeda, and unlike them has not waged or promoted attacks in the West.
The United States has seen a handful of attacks inspired by Islamist militant groups, including the June massacre of 49 people at an Orlando nightclub by a gunman who called a TV station swearing allegiance to IS and the killing of 14 people at a San Bernadino, California, social services agency last December.
U.S. officials have warned the country will likely face a higher risk of similar attacks as IS urges supporters to launch attacks at home instead of joining its fight in the Middle East.
"Our leaders were closely following the U.S. election but it was unexpected that the Americans will dig their own graves and they did so," said IS's Khorasani,
who described President Barack Obama as a moderate infidel with at least a little brain in comparison to Trump.
Al Qaeda, which has proven resilient more than 15 years after launching the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, has yet to comment on Trump's victory.

The militant group will likely respond after Trump's first speeches as president, anticipating they will be able to exploit his comments to win support, said Hisham al Hashemi, who advises the Iraqi government on Sunni jihadist movements.
"Al Qaeda is known for its recruitment strategy that heavily quotes speeches of the White House and other Western officials," he told Reuters.
PROPAGANDA MACHINE

Trump's office did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the statements from the militants.
Even if Trump tones down his anti-Muslim comments when he takes office in January, analysts say his statements during the campaign trail were enough to fuel the militants' propaganda machine.
"Militants will still use those quotes," said Matthew Henman, head of IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre.
"The key thing militant groups, particularly Islamic State and al Qaeda, depend on for recruitment purposes is convincing Muslims in the Western world that the West hates them and won't ever accept them as part of their society."
A senior Taliban commander in Afghanistan said the group, whose resurgence is undermining efforts to end America's longest war, had kept track of all of Trump's speeches and anti-Muslim comments.
"If he does what he warned in his election campaign, I am sure it will provoke Muslim Ummah (community) across the world and jihadi organizations can exploit it," said the militant leader, who declined to be identified because of strict Taliban policy that only its official spokesman can make statements.
Shortly after Trump's victory, several jihadist sympathizers took to social media to declare this as an opportunity for their cause.
"The dog Trump's victory in the U.S. elections is a gold mine for Muslims not a setback if they know how to use it," tweeted @alhlm200, who regularly posts statements in support of Islamic State.
And in Algeria, @salil_chohada, an Islamic State supporter whose name on the Twitter account is Mohamed Aljazairie, said: "Congratulations to the Muslim nation over the infidel Trump's victory. His stupid statements alone serve us.":bounce::bounce::bounce:
(Additional reporting by Randy Fabi and Hamid Shalizi in KABUL, Omar Fahmy in CAIRO, Jibran Ahmad in PESHAWAR, Pakistan; Saud Mehsud in DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan and Saif Hameed in BAGHDAD; Writing by Randy Fabi; Editing by Lincoln Feast)


http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1390FO

 

[Akask kumar]

China is ready to pounce if Trump axes Pacific trade deal

By Jethro Mullen, CNN Money
Updated 03:19 AM PHT Sat, November 19, 2016
(Ian Berry/CNN Money)
Hong Kong (CNN Money) — If Donald Trump turns his back on Asian economies, China is ready and willing to step into the vacuum.
During the election campaign, Trump blasted international trade deals, tapping into a deep well of popular anger over the effects of globalization. Now, President-elect Trump's first victim could be the huge Pacific trade agreement that he slammed as a "disaster done and pushed by special interests who want to rape our country."
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was a key plank of President Obama's push to boost U.S. influence in Asia. But now it looks doomed, with Congress refusing to ratify it and Trump having vowed to kill it.
"You can't overestimate what a change this is," said Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. "The United States has been working since the end of the Second World War to liberalize trade."
'China has freer rein'

China isn't waiting around for the TPP's funeral. It's already pushing its own trade deal with leaders from around the Pacific as they gather for a summit in Peru this weekend.
"The prospect of the U.S. turning inward in its economic strategy means that China has freer rein to become the focal point of regional integration efforts," said Mireya Solis, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "The U.S. appears as largely bereft of a constructive economic strategy towards the most dynamic region in the world."
Linking the U.S. with 11 countries around the Pacific, the TPP would have been the biggest regional trade deal in history, spanning nearly 40% of global GDP and about a third of world trade. China didn't take part in the talks.
The Beijing-backed plan, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), is smaller economically. It covers 16 nations, accounting for almost 30% of global GDP and more than a quarter of world trade. But if that succeeds, China would be in a strong position to lead a bigger, more ambitious Asia-Pacific free trade area in the future.
'We can't let countries like China write the rules'

Beyond the numbers, the TPP was an effort by the Obama administration to spread U.S. standards for labor and the environment.
"We can't let countries like China write the rules of the global economy," Obama said last year. "We should write those rules."
Despite warnings that the TPP would kill jobs and worsen income equality, experts say its slow death is bad news for American interests in the Pacific.
"U.S. failure to follow through on TPP is a huge blow to the credibility of its Asia policy with important economic and geopolitical repercussions," Solis said. "Other countries will move forward with RCEP and American companies will be at a disadvantage."
Since Trump's victory, top officials from countries that signed up to the TPP -- including Japan and Australia -- have been cited as saying attention is likely to shift to China's plans.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has held meetings in recent weeks with the leaders of the Philippines and Malaysia, traditional U.S. allies. And he'll have the chance to meet more this weekend at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Peru.
'Beijing is understandably relieved'

On the face of it, China appears pleased at the opportunity it's been given.
"Beijing is understandably relieved that the exclusive, economically inefficient, politically antagonizing TPP is looking ever less likely to materialize by the day," said an editorial this week in state-run English-language newspaper China Daily.
But Trump's protectionist rhetoric, which has included a threat to slap tariffs of as much as 45% on Chinese products, creates a host of new concerns for China, which has benefited enormously from trade and sells more goods to the U.S. than any other country.
"It's clearly going to be a much more contentious relationship," Alden said. "I'm not sure it's a net positive for China."
This story was first published on CNN.com, "China is ready to pounce if Trump axes Pacific trade deal"

well !! i need popcorns now,, it will be thrilling to watch china vs US economy clash..

 

[Akask kumar]

Mon Nov 14, 2016 | 12:39 AM EST
Jihadists say Trump victory a rallying call for new recruits

1/2
Members of the Taliban gather at the site of the execution of three men accused of murdering a couple during a robbery in Ghazni province, Afghanistan April 18, 2015.
Reuters/Stringer/File Photo +

2/2
Members of the Taliban stand at the site of the execution of three men in Ghazni province, Afghanistan April 18, 2015.
Reuters/Stringer/File Photo +

By Ahmad Sultan and Omar Fahmy | KABUL/CAIRO
From Afghanistan to Algeria, jihadists plan to use Donald Trump's shock U.S. presidential victory as a propaganda tool to bring new fighters to their battlefields.
Taliban commanders and Islamic State supporters say Trump's campaign trail rhetoric against Muslims - at one point calling for a total shutdown of Muslims entering the United States - will play perfectly in their recruitment efforts, especially for disaffected youth in the West.
"This guy is a complete maniac. His utter hate towards Muslims will make our job much easier because we can recruit thousands," Abu Omar Khorasani, a top IS commander in Afghanistan, told Reuters.
Trump has talked tough against militant groups on the campaign trail, promising to defeat "radical Islamic terrorism just as we won the Cold War."
The president-elect later toned down his call for a total ban on Muslim entry to say he would temporarily suspend immigration from countries that have "a history of exporting terrorism."
But he has offered few details on his plans to combat various radical groups, including IS, the Taliban and al Qaeda, which represent a wide spectrum of political views.
"He does not differentiate between extremist and moderate Islamist trends and, at the same time, he overlooks (the fact) that his extremism will generate extremism in return," Iraq's powerful Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said in a statement.
Sadr's political reform movement, which commands thousands of followers, is a staunch opponent of the radical Sunni movements IS and al Qaeda, and unlike them has not waged or promoted attacks in the West.
The United States has seen a handful of attacks inspired by Islamist militant groups, including the June massacre of 49 people at an Orlando nightclub by a gunman who called a TV station swearing allegiance to IS and the killing of 14 people at a San Bernadino, California, social services agency last December.
U.S. officials have warned the country will likely face a higher risk of similar attacks as IS urges supporters to launch attacks at home instead of joining its fight in the Middle East.
"Our leaders were closely following the U.S. election but it was unexpected that the Americans will dig their own graves and they did so," said IS's Khorasani, who described President Barack Obama as a moderate infidel with at least a little brain in comparison to Trump.
Al Qaeda, which has proven resilient more than 15 years after launching the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, has yet to comment on Trump's victory.
The militant group will likely respond after Trump's first speeches as president, anticipating they will be able to exploit his comments to win support, said Hisham al Hashemi, who advises the Iraqi government on Sunni jihadist movements.
"Al Qaeda is known for its recruitment strategy that heavily quotes speeches of the White House and other Western officials," he told Reuters.
PROPAGANDA MACHINE
Trump's office did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the statements from the militants.
Even if Trump tones down his anti-Muslim comments when he takes office in January, analysts say his statements during the campaign trail were enough to fuel the militants' propaganda machine.
"Militants will still use those quotes," said Matthew Henman, head of IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre.
"The key thing militant groups, particularly Islamic State and al Qaeda, depend on for recruitment purposes is convincing Muslims in the Western world that the West hates them and won't ever accept them as part of their society."
A senior Taliban commander in Afghanistan said the group, whose resurgence is undermining efforts to end America's longest war, had kept track of all of Trump's speeches and anti-Muslim comments.
"If he does what he warned in his election campaign, I am sure it will provoke Muslim Ummah (community) across the world and jihadi organizations can exploit it," said the militant leader, who declined to be identified because of strict Taliban policy that only its official spokesman can make statements.
Shortly after Trump's victory, several jihadist sympathizers took to social media to declare this as an opportunity for their cause.
"The dog Trump's victory in the U.S. elections is a gold mine for Muslims not a setback if they know how to use it," tweeted @alhlm200, who regularly posts statements in support of Islamic State.
And in Algeria, @salil_chohada, an Islamic State supporter whose name on the Twitter account is Mohamed Aljazairie, said: "Congratulations to the Muslim nation over the infidel Trump's victory. His stupid statements alone serve us."
(Additional reporting by Randy Fabi and Hamid Shalizi in KABUL, Omar Fahmy in CAIRO, Jibran Ahmad in PESHAWAR, Pakistan; Saud Mehsud in DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan and Saif Hameed in BAGHDAD; Writing by Randy Fabi; Editing by Lincoln Feast)

so it looks like Pakistan has finally solved its unemployment issue.. people no more has to die with hunger .Now they can die eating bombs..

 

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well my friend , then u dnt know history well .. they do it passively..

Hmm, I know that brother, its just in present it seems that Islam is bigger of the two evils "actively", in "present".
Above all, how can we consider a belief system that keeps restrictions and bondage on its follower based merely on belief on a single person quoted inside a book. That is what makes them both inflexible and obstinate.

 

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GREECE IN FLAMES: Riots in Athens at Obama's visit as Greeks scream 'Barack go home'

FURIOUS protesters have screamed for Barack Obama to "go home" and launched petrol bombs at police as the US President landed in Europe today.

By Patrick Christys
01:07, Wed, Nov 16, 2016 | UPDATED: 07:34, Thu, Nov 17, 2016
Mr Obama's visit to Athens, Greece, was supposed to be a grand farewell , but descended into chaos when angry rioters took to the street to demand he leave.
Youths riding motorbikes, carrying wooden clubs and launching petrol bombs tried to break a police cordon and confront Mr Obama directly.
Hooded left wing protestors took to the streets shouting "Yankees go home" and "we don't need protectors" – a reference to Mr Obama's announcement that he thought Greece should be allowed off the hook when it comes to its spiralling national debt.

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Barack Obama faces petrol bombs and tear gas as riots rage across Athens

Riot police firing tear gas were hurriedly drafted in to disperse the crowd, some of whom were waving placards and carrying flares, as they marched towards the US Embassy.
Molotov cocktails were also thrown at officers in the disruption.
In a separate protest in the northern city of Thessaloniki, protesters burned a US flag.

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Armed police are trying to contain the violent riot

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Protesters clash with police, who have been firing tear gas into the crowds
Earlier, Mr Obama, 55, had delighted his Greek hosts by supporting debt relief for the recession-battered country, which has seen its economy shrink by a quarter in just seven years.
Greece hopes Obama will be able to persuade its foreign creditors to restructure some of its debt, which stands at nearly 180 percent of national output.
His visit comes only two days before the anniversary of a bloody 1973 student revolt that helped topple the 1967-1974 military junta which was backed by the U.S. government.

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Barack Obama met with Alexis Tsipras to offer America's support over the Greek economic crisis

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Protesters told Barack Obama and 'Yankees' to 'go home'
Mr Obama is currently attending a state dinner hosted by Greece’s president, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, in the ballroom of the presidential mansion in central Athens.
He said: "We cannot simply look to austerity as a strategy.
"Our argument has always been that when the economy contracted this fast, when unemployment is this high, that there also has to be a growth agenda to go with it and it is very difficult to imagine the kind of growth strategy that's needed without some debt relief mechanism."

 

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whatever.. i am not defending ISLAM & supporter of TRUMP. but even xtanity is not far away from Islam .. if you look into past both far and near xtanity has same / more blood in its hand as compared to Islam. Islam does it name of religion ,Xtanity does it through its gvt in name of oil,banks

no it is not about Christianity ..................it is consumerism and capitalism .............it is about money & power .............they dont care about people of outside USA & western Europe ............Atheism is spreading in western countries & they are passing Many laws & cultures which are against Christianity .

Example = LGBT marriage & feminism .

 

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well !! i need popcorns now,, it will be thrilling to watch china vs US economy clash..

China threatens to cut sales of iPhones and US cars if 'naive' Trump pursues trade war

President-elect ‘will be condemned for his recklessness, ignorance and incompetence’ if he imposes tariffs, says Communist party-controlled paper


Donald Trump ‘will be condemned for his recklessness, ignorance and incompetence’ if he wrecks China trade ties, the Global Times newspaper said. Photograph: Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images
Tom Phillips in Beijing
Monday 14 November 2016 08.06 GMT Last modified on Friday 18 November 2016 14.54 GMT
US president-elect Donald Trump would be a “naive” fool to launch an all-out trade war against China, a Communist party-controlled newspaper has claimed.
During the acrimonious race for the White House Trump repeatedly lashed out at China, vowing to punish Beijing with “defensive” 45% tariffs on Chinese imports and to officially declare it a currency manipulator.
As the election haze clears, Trump’s China conundrum will become clear | Jonathan Fenby
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“When they see that they will stop the cheating,” the billionaire Republican, who has accused Beijing of “the greatest theft in the history of the world”, told a rally in August.
On Monday the state-run Global Times warned that such measures would be a grave mistake.
“If Trump wrecks Sino-US trade, a number of US industries will be impaired. Finally the new president will be condemned for his recklessness, ignorance and incompetence,” the newspaper said in an editorial.
The Global Times claimed any new tariffs would trigger immediate “countermeasures” and “tit-for-tat approach” from Beijing.
“A batch of Boeing orders will be replaced by Airbus. US auto and iPhone sales in China will suffer a setback, and US soybean and maize imports will be halted. China can also limit the number of Chinese students studying in the US.”
“Making things difficult for China politically will do him no good,” the newspaper warned.
Australia, China, and the lunacy of Trump's talk of a trade war | Bob Carr
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China’s foreign ministry has used more diplomatic language to caution Trump not to square up to Beijing.
Foreign ministry spokesperson Lu Kang told reporters last week: “I believe that any US politician, if he takes the interests of his own people first, will adopt a policy that is conducive to the economic and trade cooperation between China and the US.”
The excoriating editorial was printed hours after Trump spoke to China’s president, Xi Jinping. The president-elect’s staff said Trump thanked Xi for his well wishes and congratulations on his election victory.
The statement read: “During the call, the leaders established a clear sense of mutual respect for one another, and President-elect Trump stated that he believes the two leaders will have one of the strongest relationships for both countries moving forward.”
However, experts say officials in Beijing are still battling to untangle what a Trump presidency means for relations between the world’s two largest economies but wager he is unlikely to follow through on his most radical campaign pledges such as imposing 45% tariffs on “cheating China”.
Paul Haenle, a veteran US diplomat who is director of the Carnegie-Tsinghua centre at Beijing’s Tsinghua University, said: “The biggest lesson that they draw from watching our presidential campaigns over the years is that he will become more realistic and more pragmatic once he is in the position where he has to govern. That is what they are hoping for when it comes to Trump.”
Why America elected Trump
Haenle warned the introduction of protectionist measures would immediately “inject friction” into already fraught US-China ties as well as harming America’s own economy.
“If he follows through on a 45% trade tariff then I think it will be damaging to our own interests and we will have fallout that will affect our own companies and our own economy and it won’t be effective. It will not achieve what he is setting out to achieve. So from that standpoint he is going to have to moderate some of that rhetoric as he puts together actual concrete policies.”
Jorge Guajardo, Mexico’s former ambassador to China, said he too expected Trump to moderate many of his audacious campaign pledges when he took office.
“He’s in the hot seat now. He has got to deliver. It’s not the same as campaigning,” he said.
Guajardo said Trump’s bluster would be quickly replaced with more realistic talk as he understood that serious engagement with Beijing was now needed on a range of key issues including the Paris climate deal, North Korea and trade ties.
Attempts to strike a deal would soon be set in motion with Trump and the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, likely to come together early in his presidency, Guajardo predicted. “He’s a deal-maker and nobody is more of a deal-maker than China.”



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-and-us-cars-if-naive-trump-pursues-trade-war

 

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Obama urges Trump against realpolitik in relations with Russia

Outgoing US president voices hopes during Berlin visit that his successor will defend democratic values and rule of law


Barack Obama met Angela Merkel in Berlin to discuss sanctions on Russia, the fight against Islamic State and EU-US trade. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Philip Oltermann in Berlin

@philipoltermann
Thursday 17 November 2016 18.40 GMT Last modified on Friday 18 November 2016 01.00 GMT
Barack Obama has warned the US president-elect, Donald Trump, against taking a purely “realpolitik approach” to relations with Russia and encouraged his successor to continue standing up for American values.
“I’ve sought a constructive relationship with Russia but what I have also been is realistic in recognising there are some significant differences in how Russia views the world and how we view the world,” Obama said at a press conference with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, in Berlin.
While not expecting Trump to “follow exactly our blueprint or our approach”, Obama said he was hopeful that his successor would pursue constructive policies that defend democratic values and the rule of law.
Obama warns Trump against 'realpolitik approach' on Russia – politics live
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Trump, he said, should not “simply take a realpolitik approach and suggest … we just cut some deals with Russia – even if it hurts people or violates international norms or leaves smaller countries vulnerable or creates long-term problems in regions like Syria”.
Asked about Trump’s behaviour during the week following the election, Obama said the role itself would make him a fit president.
“What makes me cautiously optimistic about my successor and the shift from campaign to governance is there is something about the solemn responsibilities of that office, the extraordinary demands that are placed on the United States not just by its own people but by people around the world, that forces you to focus,” Obama said.
“That demands seriousness. And if you’re not serious about the job, then you probably won’t be there very long.”
Meeting for the final time as peers, Obama and Merkel had a series of bilateral meetings, which involved talks about Russian sanctions, the fight against Islamic State, and the future of the EU-US trade agreement in the aftermath of Trump’s election victory.


German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Barack Obama have dinner at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin. Photograph: Guido Bergmann/AFP/Getty Images
Merkel, who has been one of the drivers behind the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), came closer than ever to admitting that negotiations over the deal had stalled, saying she was “sure that we will one day come back” to talks about the agreement. TTIP was already in doubt following Trump’s election success and protests across Europe.
Echoing a joint op-ed the two leaders had published in the German magazine Wirtschaftswoche on Wednesday, Merkel insisted there was “no going back to a time before globalisation”.
Obama made an appeal for citizens around the world not to take democracy for granted. “One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways, and that includes people protesting … I would not advise people who feel strongly or are concerned about some of the issues … to be silent. What I would advise … is that elections matter, voting matters, organising matters, being informed on the issues matters.”
“Do not take for granted our systems of government and our way of life. I think there’s a tendency, because we live in an era that’s been largely stable and peaceful … to assume that that’s always the case. And it’s not. Democracy is hard work. In the United States, if 43% don’t vote, then democracy is weakened. If we are not concerned about facts, and what’s true and what’s not … if we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.”
Asked whether he expected Merkel to run again at next year’s federal elections, Obama said he made a rule of not meddling with other nations’ affairs, but said: “If I was a German, I would support her”, adding: “But I am not sure whether that helps.”
The US president praised the chancellor as a “veteran”, who was “the only figure left” of those global leaders with whom he had worked most closely during his eight years in office.
While acknowledging that they have not always been on the same page on every issue, he cited Merkel’s “integrity, her truthfulness [and] her thoughtfulness” among the traits he appreciated.
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Responding to the rumours that she has already decided to run for a fourth term in 2017, Merkel said she would comment on the matter “at an appropriate time, and that time is not now”.
The final leg of Obama’s last trip to Europe began on Wednesday night with a three-hour dinner at Hotel Adlon with the German chancellor.
On Friday, they will be joined by the British prime minister, Theresa May, the French president, François Hollande, the Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, and Spain’s Mariano Rajoy.
On Thursday morning, the French prime minister, Manuel Valls, warned that Europe was in danger of breaking apart unless Germany and France developed a new basis on which to show their strength.
At an event in Berlin organised by the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, Valls said France must continue to make reforms, including lowering corporate tax, but the country needed Germany to make efforts regarding investment.

 

[pmaitra]

Ford to export India-made EcoSport to US

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-made-EcoSport-to-US/articleshow/55442804.cms

Is this supposed to be the aftermath of Trump's victory? I say, wait and watch.

Ford CEO warns Trump's 35% car tariff would harm the economy

 

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Saudi Prince: Possible Deal between US & Russia on Syria Leads to ‘Disaster’

According to Prince of Saudi Arabia, Turki bin Faisal al-Saud, a possible deal between the US and Russia on Syria will turn into a real “disaster.”

Saudi Arabia’s Prince Turki bin Faisal al-Saud at the 50th Munich Security Conference in 2014 (Photo: Wikipedia Commons / Marc Muller)
Former head of the intelligence service and Prince of Saudi Arabia, Turki bin Faisal al-Saud, warned US President-elect Donald Trump against a deal on Syria with Moscow and Tehran, the Kuwaiti KUNA news agency reported on Wednesday.
According to al-Saud, if Trump decides to make a deal with Russia and Iran on Syria, it will be “the most disastrous thing that could happen.” He also added that since the making a deal on Iran, Iranian troops have been massively arriving on the Syrian territory and it has already led to deaths of many people.
He urged Trump to meet “with America’s friends in the Middle East” before his inauguration in January and then help them to stop “the biggest terrorist, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.”
Al-Saud also appealed to Trump with a request “not to do away with the Iran nuclear deal” and stressed that he “would rather see that this nuclear deal becomes a first step in ridding the Middle East of nuclear weapons.”



https://southfront.org/saudi-prince-possible-deal-between-us-russia-on-syria-leads-to-disaster/

 

[airtel]

10 things we learned about Trump adviser Steve Bannon from this recently surfaced speech
Updated by Tara Golshan Nov 17, 2016, 4:20pm EST

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  Stephen Bannon, the CEO of far-right media outlet Breitbart News and Donald Trump’s newly named chief strategist, believes we are in the midst of a crisis — of both global economy and moral standing.
  
  Godlessness and libertarianism has “sapped the strength of the Judeo-Christian West to defend its ideals,” and the Muslim world is growing in numbers, Bannon told a conference at the Vatican in 2014. “Every day that we refuse to look at this as what it is, and the scale of it, and really the viciousness of it, will be a day where you will rue that we didn’t act.”
  
  BuzzFeed published the transcript of Bannon’s remarks at a conferencehosted by the Human Dignity Institute and attended by some of Europe’s most conservative religious voices. Two years ago, before Trump’s rise in American politics or the Brexit vote, Bannon made a case for a populist conservative movement and explained the biggest dangers facing the Christian world, while he downplayed the roles racism and bigotry often play in these fringe right movements.
  
  Now, as Bannon’s worldview has direct access to the Oval Office, it’s of the utmost importance to understand the ideology that will have the private ear of the 45th president of the United States.
  
  Here are 10 of the key passages from the transcript of Bannon’s remarks, framing a worldview that could shape the next four years of a Trump administration — and what they tell us about the man who spent years mainstreaming white nationalism.
  
  1) Bannon says: We are in an era of global economic crisis
  Bannon believes in a golden era of economic prosperity; a period in the mid-20th century — the Pax Americana — distinct as a time of peace in the Western Hemisphere. But since the fall of the Soviet Union, he says, the world has come off track, and what has ensued is a crisis in capitalism:
  
  The underlying principle is an enlightened form of capitalism, that capitalism really gave us the wherewithal. It kind of organized and built the materials needed to support, whether it’s the Soviet Union, England, the United States, and eventually to take back continental Europe and to beat back a barbaric empire in the Far East.
  
  That capitalism really generated tremendous wealth. And that wealth was really distributed among a middle class, a rising middle class, people who come from really working-class environments and created what we really call a Pax Americana. It was many, many years and decades of peace. And I believe we’ve come partly offtrack in the years since the fall of the Soviet Union and we’re starting now in the 21st century, which I believe, strongly, is a crisis both of our church, a crisis of our faith, a crisis of the West, a crisis of capitalism.
  
  This “enlightened capitalism” has been replaced with a “disturbing” form of “libertarian conservatism,” Bannon explains:
  
  It is a capitalism that really looks to make people commodities, and to objectify people, and to use them almost — as many of the precepts of Marx — and that is a form of capitalism, particularly to a younger generation [that] they’re really finding quite attractive. And if they don’t see another alternative, it’s going to be an alternative that they gravitate to under this kind of rubric of “personal freedom.”
  
  The idea of a golden era resonates with Trump’s rise: He made the tagline of his campaign “Make America Great Again,” harking back to an undefined period of great wealth. The motto led many on the left — including President Barack Obama — to question which era Trump was referring to with his “again,” pointing out the immense social and cultural strides that have been made since the Pax Americana era began.
  
  2) The best capitalist leaders held Judeo-Christian beliefs
  There is a religious and moral underpinning to Bannon’s understanding of economic prosperity and “enlightened capitalism.” In other words, the golden era of capitalism he speaks of — when the Western world was enjoying an abundance of wealth and peace — was dictated by Judeo-Christian ideals:
  
  One thing I want to make sure of, if you look at the leaders of capitalism at that time, when capitalism was I believe at its highest flower and spreading its benefits to most of mankind, almost all of those capitalists were strong believers in the Judeo-Christian West. They were either active participants in the Jewish faith, they were active participants in the Christians’ faith, and they took their beliefs, and the underpinnings of their beliefs was manifested in the work they did. And I think that’s incredibly important and something that would really become unmoored. I can see this on Wall Street today — I can see this with the securitization of everything is that, everything is looked at as a securitization opportunity. People are looked at as commodities. I don’t believe that our forefathers had that same belief.
  
  Judeo-Christian ideals have a long history in conservative movements, from Barry Goldwater to Ronald Reagan, emphasizing the importance of traditional American religious values in all aspects of life. The notion feeds the image of a simpler and more homogeneous nation, which Trump’s campaign largely signaled throughout the race.
  
  3) The secular and Muslim worlds have put the Judeo-Christian West in crisis
  Therefore, Bannon’s “crisis of capitalism,” as he talks about earlier in his remarks, is paired with a crisis of faith — a weakening of Judeo-Christian ideals, brought on by the recent popularity of secularism and the growth of the Muslim world.
  
  Bannon sees secularism as a crisis among younger generations: With “younger people, especially millennials under 30, the overwhelming drive of popular culture is to absolutely secularize this rising iteration.”
  
  That tendency, as well as the rise of Eastern religion, has weakened the pillars of Western ideals, Bannon believes:
  
  I certainly think secularism has sapped the strength of the Judeo-Christian West to defend its ideals, right?
  
  If you go back to your home countries and your proponent of the defense of the Judeo-Christian West and its tenets, often times, particularly when you deal with the elites, you’re looked at as someone who is quite odd. So it has kind of sapped the strength.
  
  But I strongly believe that whatever the causes of the current drive to the caliphate was — and we can debate them, and people can try to deconstruct them — we have to face a very unpleasant fact: And that unpleasant fact is that there is a major war brewing, a war that’s already global. It’s going global in scale, and today’s technology, today’s media, today’s access to weapons of mass destruction, it’s going to lead to a global conflict that I believe has to be confronted today.
  
  It’s not too far a leap to what we saw in the 2016 election, with the “othering” of Muslim American communities. Trump’s insistence to look at Islam with the utmost skepticism effectively created an us-against-them mentality between Americans and Muslim Americans.
  
  4) These crises have given way to ISIS
  The byproduct of these crises in Judeo-Christian faith and capitalism “converges” on ISIS, Bannon says. “We are in an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism. And this war is, I think, metastasizing far quicker than governments can handle it,” he said:
  
  If you look at what’s happening in ISIS, which is the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant, that is now currently forming the caliphate that is having a military drive on Baghdad, if you look at the sophistication of which they’ve taken the tools of capitalism.
  
  They have a Twitter account up today, ISIS does, about turning the United States into a “river of blood” if it comes in and tries to defend the city of Baghdad. And trust me, that is going to come to Europe. That is going to come to Central Europe, it’s going to come to Western Europe, it’s going to come to the United Kingdom. And so I think we are in a crisis of the underpinnings of capitalism, and on top of that we’re now, I believe, at the beginning stages of a global war against Islamic fascism.
  
  Much of this rhetoric has continued, asserting that the incompetence of the left led to the rise of ISIS. Trump even once wrongly claimed Obama was the “founder” of ISIS.
  
  5) ISIS is the biggest threat, and the Judeo-Christian West needs to stand up against it
  Bannon’s conclusion on much of this is the need to again strengthen the Judeo-Christian stronghold against, most importantly, ISIS, but also what he implies are the creeping ideals of the East, or Islam:
  
  I believe you should take a very, very, very aggressive stance against radical Islam. And I realize there are other aspects that are not as militant and not as aggressive and that’s fine.
  
  If you look back at the long history of the Judeo-Christian West struggle against Islam, I believe that our forefathers kept their stance, and I think they did the right thing. I think they kept it out of the world, whether it was at Vienna, or Tours, or other places … It bequeathed to use the great institution that is the church of the West.
  
  There has been every effort to heighten the fear of ISIS and terrorism throughout the election on Trump’s part — even as Americans’ direct threat of terrorism is vanishingly small. His promise to make American safe again, extreme calls for a ban on Muslim immigration, increased surveillance on Muslim communities, and so forth could very easily be interpreted as the execution of Bannon’s call for a Judeo-Christian pushback.
  
  6) The populist uprising is driven by economic anxiety
  There has been a lot of talk this election about the ideas behind Trump’s rise and whether they stemmed from economic anxiety or racial resentment. The two are clearly not mutually exclusive. Bannon, however, explained it as a byproduct of the 2008 bailouts:
  
  So you can understand why middle class people having a tough go of it making $50 or $60 thousand a year and see their taxes go up, and they see that their taxes are going to pay for government sponsored bailouts, what you’ve created is really a free option. You say to this investment banking, create a free option for bad behavior. In otherwise all the upside goes to the hedge funds and the investment bank, and to the crony capitalist with stock increases and bonus increases. And their downside is limited, because middle class people are going to come and bail them out with tax dollars.
  
  And that’s what I think is fueling this populist revolt. Whether that revolt is in the midlands of England, or whether it’s in Middle America. And I think people are fed up with it.
  
  This populist revolt fell behind Trump this year. He was able to energize the white working class, a contingent of voters that largely led Trump’s victories in states like Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa, and Pennsylvania.
  
  7) Bannon has seen incremental Tea Party success throughout the years
  The strength of what were once fringe movements has proved shocking to many. But Bannon has been seeing their growing strength for years, arguing that even while losing in the election, the need to address Tea Party concerns has become increasingly visible in Washington:
  
  And I think that’s why you’re seeing — when you read the media says, “tea party is losing, losing elections,” that is all BS. The elections we don’t win, we’re forcing those crony capitalists to come and admit that they’re not going to do this again. The whole narrative in Washington has been changed by this populist revolt that we call the grassroots of the tea party movement.
  
  And it’s specifically because those bailouts were completely and totally unfair. It didn’t make those financial institutions any stronger, and it bailed out a bunch of people — by the way, and these are people that have all gone to Yale, and Harvard, they went to the finest institutions in the West. They should have known better.
  
  Bannon’s own Breitbart may be the best articulation of the smaller successes. This year, alt-right media outlets entered the mainstream, and as Bannon explained, these ideas, once only shared by the fringe, have been mainstreamed to the White House.
  
  8) In 2014, Bannon said conservative populism would take over the world
  These remarks were given long before Trump’s rise or the passing of Brexit. But in 2014, Bannon saw a shifting tide globally, a brand of conservative populism taking hold:
  
  And that center-right revolt is really a global revolt. I think you’re going to see it in Latin America, I think you’re going to see it in Asia, I think you’ve already seen it in India. Modi’s great victory was very much based on these Reaganesque principles, so I think this is a global revolt, and we are very fortunate and proud to be the news site that is reporting that throughout the world.
  
  Breitbart found its niche with these “working” people, Bannon said, pairing it with social conservatism:
  
  We’re the voice of the anti-abortion movement, the voice of the traditional marriage movement, and I can tell you we’re winning victory after victory after victory. Things are turning around as people have a voice and have a platform of which they can use.
  
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  I will tell you that the working men and women of Europe and Asia and the United States and Latin America don’t believe that. They believe they know what’s best for how they will comport their lives. They think they know best about how to raise their families and how to educate their families. So I think you’re seeing a global reaction to centralized government, whether that government is in Beijing or that government is in Washington, DC, or that government is in Brussels.
  
  Bannon was right to cue a change in tide; conservative populist movements have been gaining steam globally, whether with the Brexit win in the United Kingdom, Trump’s rise in the US, or the Front National in France. But each of these anti-elite movements has also been paired with strong racial resentments and xenophobic tendencies, which Bannon’s understanding of the working and “socially conservative” right seems to miss.
  
  9) He believes racism and nativist beliefs have been “washed out” in the alt-right…
  On multiple occasions, Bannon was asked to comment on the racist undertones — and, at times, explicit overtones — of these alt-conservative populist movements. He answered once, downplaying the role racism plays in the movement.
  
  “I think when you look at any kind of revolution — and this is a revolution — you always have some groups that are disparate. I think that will all burn away over time and you’ll see more of a mainstream center-right populist movement,” he said.
  
  In other words, there will always be the more extreme factions of a movement — but racism and nativism are “washed out” on the whole, he said:
  
  It seems that they have had some aspects that may be anti-Semitic or racial. By the way, even in the tea party, we have a broad movement like this, and we’ve been criticized, and they try to make the tea party as being racist, etc., which it’s not. But there’s always elements who turn up at these things, whether it’s militia guys or whatever. Some that are fringe organizations. My point is that over time it all gets kind of washed out, right? People understand what pulls them together, and the people on the margins I think get marginalized more and more.
  
  Of course, as we have seen throughout both the movements in the United Kingdom with the Brexit referendum and Trump’s rise, racial anxiety and xenophobia have played central roles — and have often translated to objectively discriminatory policy proposals like, most recently, the Muslim registry.
  
  10) …and that Putin is a kleptocrat — but with good leadership ideas
  Two years before Trump’s presidential victory, and a campaign during which Trump openly complimented Putin’s leadership qualities, Bannon summed up Putin similarly, calling him a strong traditionalist leading an important nationalist movement:
  
  I’m not justifying Vladimir Putin and the kleptocracy that he represents, because he eventually is the state capitalist of kleptocracy. However, we the Judeo-Christian West really have to look at what he’s talking about as far as traditionalism goes — particularly the sense of where it supports the underpinnings of nationalism — and I happen to think that the individual sovereignty of a country is a good thing and a strong thing. I think strong countries and strong nationalist movements in countries make strong neighbors, and that is really the building blocks that built Western Europe and the United States, and I think it’s what can see us forward.
  
  You know, Putin’s been quite an interesting character. He’s also very, very, very intelligent. I can see this in the United States where he’s playing very strongly to social conservatives about his message about more traditional values, so I think it’s something that we have to be very much on guard of.
  
  Putin had a central role in the American election — he was an open supporter of Trump and long blamed by Clinton’s campaign for attempting to meddle in the democratic process. Bannon’s understanding of him fits in line with both these realities: that he has leadership qualities Trump seems to admire, and that he is a self-serving dictatorial leader.

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Saudi Prince: Possible Deal between US & Russia on Syria Leads to ‘Disaster’

According to Prince of Saudi Arabia, Turki bin Faisal al-Saud, a possible deal between the US and Russia on Syria will turn into a real “disaster.”

Saudi Arabia’s Prince Turki bin Faisal al-Saud at the 50th Munich Security Conference in 2014 (Photo: Wikipedia Commons / Marc Muller)
Former head of the intelligence service and Prince of Saudi Arabia, Turki bin Faisal al-Saud, warned US President-elect Donald Trump against a deal on Syria with Moscow and Tehran, the Kuwaiti KUNA news agency reported on Wednesday.
According to al-Saud, if Trump decides to make a deal with Russia and Iran on Syria, it will be “the most disastrous thing that could happen.” He also added that since the making a deal on Iran, Iranian troops have been massively arriving on the Syrian territory and it has already led to deaths of many people.
He urged Trump to meet “with America’s friends in the Middle East” before his inauguration in January and then help them to stop “the biggest terrorist, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.”
Al-Saud also appealed to Trump with a request “not to do away with the Iran nuclear deal” and stressed that he “would rather see that this nuclear deal becomes a first step in ridding the Middle East of nuclear weapons.”



https://southfront.org/saudi-prince-possible-deal-between-us-russia-on-syria-leads-to-disaster/

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