Tuesday, 31 January 2017
Trump - commentary from the Vineyard of the Saker
President Trump legislative briefing for January 2017 by Scott Humor
January
30, 2017
This is what I call instant karma. Do you recall how Obama and the democrats consolidated executive power under the auspice of the president of the United States? How the liberal press loved it, and many republicans warned them against doing such things and the democrats ignored the warnings; they thought that their reign of terror will go on for at thousand years or at the least until WW III.
I even suspect that they were consolidating those powers tailored for Hilary, so they would be able to inflict trauma on humanity. This consolidation, however, didn’t go completely unnoticed by those republicans, independents, and democrats. As a result of this understanding, the consolidators lost their power, and those on whom those powers were inflicted, got it.
On Friday, January 27, President Trump signed three latest executive orders.
First order establishes the Ethics commitments by executive branch appointees, which bans most government workers from acting as as lobbyists for foreign governments:
This piece of legislature is like putting in a toe to test the troubled waters of the deep state, namely the Council for Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council and other privately owned think tanks, NGOs, and private military companies whose work was for foreign governments and nongovernmental entities, allegedly.
Trump and the security forces backing him understand that an entire apparatus of the United States Government’s decision-making structures and processes has to be revised and reformed.
That’s why on Friday another piece of legislature issued and went completely ignored by the liberal press,Presidential Memorandum Organization of the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council
Trump directed that his system for national security policy development and decision-making shall be organized as follows:
- The National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council, and Supporting Staff
- The Principals Committee (PC)
- The Deputies Committee (DC)
- A new agency is being established called the Policy Coordination Committees (PCC)
“Management of the development and implementation of national security policies by multiple executive departments and agencies typically shall be accomplished by the PCCs, with participation primarily occurring at the Assistant Secretary level.”
Looks like Trump is bringing to life the Republican party political commissars that will manage and supervise the development and implementation of national policies. They also will report on the daily activities of the enormous governmental apparatus.
Quoting, “As the main day-to-day fora for interagency coordination of national security policies, the PCCs shall provide policy analysis for consideration by the more senior committees of the national security system and ensure timely responses to the President’s decisions.”
Next paragraph the same statement reinforced:
“The PCCs shall review and coordinate the implementation of Presidential decisions in their respective policy areas. “
“An early meeting of the DC will be devoted to establishing the PCCs, determining their memberships, and providing them with mandates and strict guidance. Until the DC has established otherwise, the existing system of Interagency Policy Committees shall continue.”
I like the word “mandate” here. It has a certain reflection on the leather jacket-clad and revolvers-waving youths from small Polish towns, who came to the Winter Palace, murdered ten million civilians and destroyed the Empire.
They called themselves deputies, also. Only, as the fate has it, Trump’s Policy Coordination Commissars will be wearing something like a republican party uniform: dark navy blazers with gold buttons, khaki slacks red-white-and blue ties, and tailored shirts with cuffed sleeves and initials embroidered on the breast pockets.
With this document, Trump also establishes a new vehicle for his presidential orders named “National Security Presidential Memoranda that shall replace both Presidential Policy Directives and Presidential Study Directives as the instrument for communicating relevant Presidential decisions.”
“This memorandum shall supersede all other existing Presidential guidance on the organization or support of the NSC and the HSC. With regard to its application to economic matters, this document shall be interpreted in concert with any Executive Order governing the National Economic Council and with Presidential Memoranda signed hereafter that implement either this memorandum or that Executive Order.”
Useful links:
- Compilation of Presidential Documents on the Federal Register
- Protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States
Urgent Notice: Executive Order on Protecting the Nation from Terrorist Attacks by Foreign Nationals
January 27, 2017
Urgent Notice
Per the Executive Order on Protecting the Nation from Terrorist Attacks by Foreign Nationals signed on January 27, 2017, visa issuance to nationals of the countries of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen has been suspended effective immediately until further notification. If you are a citizen of one of these countries, please do not schedule a visa appointment or pay any visa fees at this time. If you already have an appointment scheduled, please DO NOT ATTEND. You will not be permitted entry to the Embassy/Consulate. We will announce any other changes affecting travelers to the United States as soon as that information is available.
What does this executive order do?
The Executive Order has four main policies:
1) Places a 90-day moratorium on entry into the U.S. from the seven countries named in a 2015 law aimed at requiring stricter vetting for people entering from Iran or countries overrun by jihadist violence.
2) Suspends admission of refugees from any country for 120 days in order to conduct a review of the program.
As you can see it’s a simple and lawful way to slow down the flow of immigrants for the new president, to sort out the security issues before new people will start working.
It’s a far cry from the new meme “Trump banned all the Muslims,” that the liberals are touting.
Another equally scandal-ridden presidential statement was made for International Holocaust Remembrance Day by not mentioning Jews as a special category of victims.
“It is with a heavy heart and somber mind that we remember and honor the victims, survivors, heroes of the Holocaust. It is impossible to fully fathom the depravity and horror inflicted on innocent people by Nazi terror.
“Yet, we know that in the darkest hours of humanity, light shines the brightest. As we remember those who died, we are deeply grateful to those who risked their lives to save the innocent.
“In the name of the perished, I pledge to do everything in my power throughout my Presidency, and my life, to ensure that the forces of evil never again defeat the powers of good. Together, we will make love and tolerance prevalent throughout the world.”
“We are deeply grateful to those who risked their lives to save the innocent.” This is the closest thing to acknowledging of the heroism and enormous sacrifice of the Russian people in defeating the European fascism and liberating Europe from the rule of the National Socialist party of Germany.
By the way, it took almost seventy years for the state of Israel to erect a memorial to the Soviet soldiers who had died liberating death camps. As the story goes, it was the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, who gave money to Israel to build a Great Patriotic war heroes memorial.
The reaction of the liberals globalists is the same as always.
Howard Dean, former 6 term Governor of Vermont and failed Democratic presidential candidate in 2004, tweeted: “Since the Boston bombers came from Russia, shouldn’t Russia be on the list?” in response to Gabriel Debenedetti, the National political reporter at Politico: “Dem Party officer candidates are joining these protests all over.”
So far, for the American Politicians ignorance remains a bliss. Tsarnaev was born into an ethnically Chechen family in Kyrgyzstan, and emigrated from Kyrgyzstan. But who world ever ask to check facts from a former presidential candidate?
As of the end of January, the corporate press is still firmly anti-president, and has positioned itself to be a 5th column’s tribune. I will explain my thesis later, but I can tell that serious research is underway to prove it.
So far I can only see only the penniless conservative bloggers rebuffing the liberal “virtue signaling.” Take for example Justin Raimondo, an Editorial Director for Antiwar.com
He tweeted in response to Gabriel Debenedetti : “Where were they when Obama stopped all refugee applications from Iraq for 6 months in 2011? What hypocrites.”
The facts that he brought up had been promptly ignored by the National political reporter at Politico.
On Sunday afternoon it became clear that the liberals won’t let America rest. The UK tabloid The Independent announced that the Democratic states Attorneys General from 16 US states have condemned Donald Trump’s travel ban and were going to challenge the presidential order in court. Their joined statement calls the executive order, “unconstitutional, un-American and unlawful.”
Needless to say, that one doesn’t need to pass the American Bar Association exams to know that this statement is not true. However, in the US the law has been suspended by the previous democratic administration, so it’s perfectly fine for the state’s Attorney generals to be ignorant in all things legal.
Let’s as an example, take a look at the new attorney general of Pennsylvania:
The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General issued an official statement as following:
(Source: Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General ) 1/29/2017 Attorney General Josh Shapiro led multi-state effort to oppose federal order. HARRISBURG – Seventeen Attorneys General issued a joint statement today that ‘condemns’ as ‘un-American’ the executive order signed by President Trump. The rapid-response, multi-state effort was lead in part by Pennsylvania Attorney General..
More about Josh Shapiro crusade against federal government read the article by Michael Tanenbaum,Pennsylvania AG Shapiro joins state prosecutors in condemning Trump’s travel bans
The following is in their statement:
“As the chief legal officers for over 130 million Americans and foreign residents of our states, we condemn President Trump’s unconstitutional, un-American and unlawful Executive Order and will work together to ensure the federal government obeys the Constitution, respects our history as a nation of immigrants, and does not unlawfully target anyone because of their national origin or faith.”
As we all know, Pennsylvania, a historically democratic state, voted for Trump, because it suddenly remembered that in 1776 Pennsylvania enacted its first state constitution in direct response to the Declaration of Independence and the instructions of the Second Continental Congress to the colonies to reject British rule. Once again, the people of Pennsylvania voted against Hillary Clinton and the globalists rule that she embodied.
The Pennsylvania new attorney general, who took his office in January 2017, doesn’t have a mandate for his crusade against Donald Trump as a president of the US. During the presidential elections his office was involved in some dubious practices of inciting a riot and hiring people to pose as anti- Trump “protestors” for a pay.
Similar practices are described here: Leftist Paid Protesters Behind Anti-Trump Violence
Let’s take a look at some Josh Shapiro activities around election time.
In 2016 his political campaign office was located here:




Look at the top listing titled “Don’t wait, Defeat Trump…” it was posted on Nov. 5th, 2016, the election took place on Nov. 8th. The Craigslist protesters for hire wanted note was still up after the election.
Shapiro’s political campaign office number is the phone number on the wanted anti-Trump protesters classified listings.
Would be interested to hear a legal opinion on the practices about the protesters for hire.
Getting paid to protest Trump is not a democracy, it’s a job. Do those protesters pay taxes?
News and Statistics
Tensions are flying high. No wonder that at the end of the day on Sunday, President Donald Trump addressed Republican Senators, John McCain and Lindsey Graham on twitter “The joint statement of former presidential candidates John McCain & Lindsey Graham is wrong – they are sadly weak on immigration. The two…Senators should focus their energies on ISIS, illegal immigration and border security instead of always looking to start World War III.”
A total of 38,901 Muslim refugees entered the U.S. in fiscal year 2016, making up almost half (46%) of the nearly 85,000 refugees who entered the country in that period, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the State Department’s Refugee Processing Center. That means the U.S. has admitted the highest number of Muslim refugees of any year since data on self-reported religious affiliations first became publicly available in 2002.
A slightly lower share of 2016’s refugees were Christian (44%) than Muslim, the first time that has happened since fiscal 2006, when a large number of Somali refugees entered the U.S.
Refugees make up a small percentage (about one-in-ten) of the roughly 1 million immigrants granted lawful permanent residency in the U.S. each year. Because the U.S. government does not keep track of the religion of new legal immigrants, it is not possible to say what share of all recent immigrants are Muslim
Just two countries – Syria (12,486) and Somalia (9,012) – were the source of more than half of fiscal 2016’s Muslim refugees. The rest are from Iraq (7,853), Burma (Myanmar) (3,145), Afghanistan (2,664) and other countries (3,741).
Scott Humor
Trump's 'safe zones' in Syria
Russian FM says Donald Trump’s ‘safe zones’ in Syria are possible
Adam Garrie
30
January, 2017
So
long as done in compliance with international law, setting up
so-called 'safe zones' for the internally displaced in Syria is not
an issue.
Many
people claimed that Donald Trump’s proposals for so-called ‘safe
zones’ in Syria for internally displaced people, would drive an
insurmountable wedge between the US and Russia on Syria.
The
idea of setting up special areas, effective ‘quarantine zones’
for the displaced, needn’t imply a no-fly zone nor the bifurcation
of Syrian territory. If it did – the proposals would not only be an
impossibility, but would be very dangerous if someone tried to
implement them. But as it were, Trump seems not to be clutching at
those dangerous straws.
Today,
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that such zones could
be set up in Syria so long as done with the permission of the Syrian
government and so long as they can be adequately monitored and
policed by the UN. In other words, they would need to conform to the
requirements of international law and that includes respecting Syrian
sovereignty.
Lavrov
seems to understand what many in America and Russia do not. For
Trump, the Syria crisis is all about how to limit the outflow of
individuals from Syria into other countries whether it be Turkey,
European states or the US. Russia has set up many areas in Syria to
provide temporary shelter, food and medical care to internally
displaced Syrians. Trump’s proposals ought to be understood as an
extension of this concept.
Lavrov
went on to say:
“If this is about the people who were forced to leave their homes by the conflict…getting their basic needs covered…then I think that the idea to create areas within Syria for those internally displaced could be discussed with the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees and other organisations.”
When
understood in this context, it would mean the US would simply be
doing what Russia has done almost since the inception of Russian
assistance in the conflict. Lavrov was, however, careful to warn that
such zones must be purely humanitarian zones rather than places used
to set up an ‘alternative’/illegal Syrian government. Addressing
this matter, he said:
“There have been ideas of creating some areas where an alternative Syrian government could sit, and use those areas for regime change”.
Lavrov,
who has always expressed a healthy skepticism about the rapidity with
which the US might begin cooperating with Russia over Syria, has
struck an optimistic tone after the lengthy phone
call between
Presidents Putin and Trump.
It is still very early to say that
anything concrete has been achieved by the phone call, but in the
sense that things have not got worse, it is fair to say the
possibility for things to get better remains open.
Trump, Saudi King Agree On Syrian ‘Safe Zones’ Despite Warning From Russia
by Aaron
Kesel
January
30, 2017
President
Trump reportedly discussed the idea of creating “safe zones” in
Syria with the king of Saudi Arabia on Sunday, just days after
Russia’s President warned Trump to “weigh all possible
consequences.”
Trump
spoke to the King of Saudi Arabia, Salaman bin Abdul Aziz, and
the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al
Nahyan, on the phone with both gulf leaders agreeing to Trump’s
proposal of setting up safe zones in the Middle East for refugees,
Reuters reported.
“The
president requested, and the King agreed, to support safe zones in
Syria and Yemen, as well as supporting other ideas to help the many
refugees who are displaced by the ongoing conflicts,” the
White House said.
During
Trump’s campaign, he advocated heavily for Gulf states to pay
for establishing safe zones to protect Syrian refugees. His
rhetoric regarding safe zones has been ongoing since he started
campaigning for the presidency in June 2015.
“They’re
gonna put up all the money,” Trump said during an immigration
speech in Phoenix in August. “We’re not gonna put up money. We’re
gonna lead it, and we’ll do a great a job. But we’re gonna get
the Gulf states to put up the money.”
“What I like is build a safe zone, it’s here, build a big beautiful safe zone and you have whatever it is so people can live, and they’ll be happier,” Trump said during a rally at Knoxville, Tennessee.
More
recently Trump reiterated the idea for safe zones, speaking on ABC.
“Europe
made a tremendous mistake by admitting millions of refugees from
Syria and other Middle Eastern trouble spots,” he said.
“I don’t want that to happen here.”
“I’ll
absolutely do safe zones in Syria for the people,” he added,
without giving details on how he would establish the safe zones.
That
question seems to be partially answered according to a document seen
by Reuters. Trump is planning to order the Pentagon and the State
Department in coming days to craft a plan for setting up the “safe
zones.”
Although
these “safe zones” have not been defined, there is no further
information on what these safe zones would constitute, where they
would be setup, or how they would be enforced.
“The
Secretary of State, in conjunction with the Secretary of Defense, is
directed within 90 days of the date of this order to produce a plan
to provide safe areas in Syria and in the surrounding region in which
Syrian nationals displaced from their homeland can await firm
settlement, such as repatriation or potential third-country
resettlement,” the draft order said.
Turkey
also approved of Trump’s proposed safe zones plan.
“We
have seen the U.S. President’s request for conducting a study.
What’s important is the results of this study and what kind of
recommendation will come out,” Turkish foreign ministry spokesman
Huseyin Muftuoglu said.
Trump
and King Salman also discussed the Muslim Brotherhood, a senior Saudi
source said, adding that the two talked about Osama Bin Laden, the
late al-Qaeda leader: “It was mentioned that Osama bin Laden was
recruited at an early stage” the news organization Al
Arabiya reported.
The Muslim Brotherhood is expected to be labeled a terrorist
organization by the Trump administration.
The
Egyptian government once accused Obama of funding the Muslim
Brotherhood. Obama reportedly backed the Muslim Brotherhood and
Mohamed Morsi’s Egyptian coup, against his own National Security
team’s advice.
When
Mohammed Morsi was arrested by the Egyptian military, evidence of the
secret agreement was discovered and seized.
According
to EgyptDailyNews Obama
conducted secret negotiations with Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood,
transferring eight billion dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood to
ensure that the Sinai Peninsula be turned over to the terrorist
organization Hamas.
Then
there is the secret directive PSD-11 or Presidential Study
Directive-11.
The
directive was produced in 2011 which outlined administration support
for political reform in the Middle East and North Africa, by backing
the Muslim Brotherhood. Two years before that Obama invited 10
members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the country’s chief
opposition party, to attend his speech in Cairo.
If Trump labels the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, could Obama and his administration face treason charges? Both Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates have already labeled the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.
Steve Bannon promoted to chief role on NSC
#StopPresidentBannon
trends as Trump strategist gets promotion

The hashtag is being used to allege that Bannon is in control of Trump. © Andrew Harrer / www.globallookpress.com
RT,
30 January, 2017
Following
Steve Bannon’s promotion by President Donald Trump to a role on the
National Security Council (NSC) the hashtag #StopPresidentBannon
trended on Twitter, with many claiming the former Breitbart chief is
the real man in charge of the White House
In
his role on the NSC Bannon will advise President Trump on national
security and foreign policy matters, and this will place him in
meetings at the highest level of government. Trump announced the news
in a memorandumissued
Saturday, in which he said the chief strategist will be an attendee
at NSC meetings.
Trump’s
chief strategist has been accused of having too much influence on the
president with the hashtag #StopPresidentBannon trending following
Friday’s ‘Muslim Ban.’
Some
Twitter users ‘sympathized’ with Trump for putting in a lot of
hard work to become president and – they say – is now seeing
someone else take his job.
Feel bad for @RealDonaldTrump
Worked hard to become president and he's not really in charge. Not tremendous. Very sad #StopPresidentBannon
Others
focused, instead, on attempting to infuriate the president, who they
believe will be upset by losing Twitter followers.
I wonder what upsets Trump more:
That Steven Bannon is calling the shots, or the fact that everyone knows it?
#StopPresidentBannon
Unfollow @realDonaldTrump. Nothing hurts his fragile ego more than losing attention. He's not the real #POTUS anyway.#StopPresidentBannon
- 6969 Retweets
- 128128 likesThe guy pulling Trump's strings once praised Satan, Darth Vadar & Dick Cheney.
Now he's acting like all three.
#StopPresidentBannon
Some
also used the hashtag to express support for Trump, slamming those
who criticized the president for putting Americans first.
It's a sad day when our fellow Americans (Democrats) choose to prioritize the well-being of refugees over our own.#StopPresidentBannon
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