Korea Hysteria

April 27th North Korea had announced that they will be stopping their Nuclear tests and taking down the Northern facility for Nuclear testing. Many are skeptical due to the fact that he has history of using bait and switch techniques like with the Korean Peninsula. It is said that when the facility is to be taken down they will allow for people (journalists etc.) to be there to witness the process. Although Trump is basically ordering there to be access to these facilities anywhere anytime. Trump had been tweeting on Saturday in relations to the Korean war had said he had a “long and very good” talk with South Korean president Moon Jae-In. Also that he is exploring certain dates in order to meet with North Korea. Both North and South Korea agree that if there is a pledge from the U.S not to attack and a deal of the war to be established would be ideal to lead to a pact being created. Trump had also commented on the accomplishment made by the president Moon and Kim saying “ it wasn’t only good news for the koreans but the whole world”. Many kinks to the denuclearization plan have to be smoothed over and many skeptics feel as if he won’t be able to part with all of it.
Kim jong Un has been pretty okay up to this point in terms of negotiating the denuclearization plan but if he doesn’t put it in action it defeats the purpose. I feel as if he will especially after what happened with South and North Korea he may be changing for the better. Trump if hedoesn’t mess this up has the chance to heal and stop the conflict between us and North Korea. I feel as if North Korea will keep their word on the denuclearization plan do you?
Are you skeptical of what they may do instead?
Ho do you feel the resolution of the North and South Korea conflict may affect this?         https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/28/north-korea-close-nuke-test-site-may-unify-time-zone/562468002/

Upstate NY farmer says ICE officers stormed his farm without a warrant, cuffed him, threw his phone

Rome, N.Y. -- John Collins was standing outside the milk house at his dairy farm this morning when he heard yelling coming from inside. He ran in, he says, and saw his worker, Marcial de Leon Aguilar, pinned up against the window by armed men.The men did not identify themselves and were screaming at Aguilar, Collins said."I run and say, 'What the hell is going on in here?'" Collins said.Then the men told Collins they were officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He asked them for a warrant or some paperwork to explain what they were doing. They had none, he said, so he ordered them to get off his property and leave Aguilar alone.As this happened, Collins said, Aguilar's children watched. They were waiting nearby for the school bus to come. Collins said the officers put Aguilar in handcuffs and took him across the rural road to their vehicles. At least seven officers had come onto the small farm, Collins said.

Adrian Smith, a spokesman for ICE, said he was looking into the situation and would comment when he knew more.Collins said he followed the officers cross the street and asked them why they were taking Aguilar, but he didn't get a straight answer. He also continued to ask for paperwork, but was not offered any by the ICE officers.Aguilar and his wife, Virginia, are Guatemalan. Aguilar has worked for Collins for about nine months, Collins said. Aguilar, his wife, and his children live in a home on Collins' property.Collins said Aguilar had proper documentation to work for him. And he's been paying taxes since working for Collins.

Aguilar's wife, Virginia, and the couple's four children were not in the U.S. until recently. She was caught crossing the border, illegally, with the children. Collins said she has been meeting with ICE officers since she arrived, and is seeking asylum for herself and the children because of the violence in Guatemala. Collins said Virginia met with ICE officers as recently as last week, and has another meeting scheduled for this Friday. At times, Aguilar has accompanied his wife, who is pregnant, to some of the meetings, Collins said.

Collins said he isn't sure why ICE officers came for Aguilar and he was upset that they came onto his property without any notification or permission and roughed up Aguilar in front of his four children.Just like police officers, ICE officers are required to provide a warrant before they go onto private property.

"ICE needs a warrant. If they go on someone's property without one, they are violating the law," said immigration law expert and Cornell law professor Stephen Yale-Loehr.

Collins said the officers gave him nothing when he continued to ask.Collins followed the ICE officers across as they took Aguilar, in handcuffs, to their three waiting vehicles."I told them you can't come in here without a warrant," Collins said. "They can't take someone and throw them up against the wall because of the color of their skin."

Collins attempted to take photos and video with his phone. When he did that, he said, one of the ICE officers grabbed his phone and threw it into the road. Then they handcuffed him and threatened to arrest him for hindering a federal investigation, he said.But then the officers uncuffed him and left with Aguilar in the backseat of a dark Dodge Caravan.

"This was something you see on TV," Collins said. "You don't expect it to be here."

Now this just show how negatively ICE acting on the behalf of the Trump administration has no regard for the own law that they are sworn to protect. First thing is that ICE had no warrant to come on the private property. That alone should be cause for concern because if the people that are sworn to protect the law aren't obeying it what are we as citizens left with. Not much. Playing with people lives is not a joke and for them to do it in front of his kids shows no compassion.

The Iran Nuclear Deal

Recently, Trump was faced with deadlines for whether to withdraw from the Iran Nuclear deal. However, Trump was urged by French and German Leaders to save the deal. The Iran Nuclear deal was a deal made in 2015, between Iran, and the six world powers, the US, UK, Russia, France, China, and Germany. This deal was made from the achievement of President Obama’s presidency. This deal  involved lifted crippling economic sanctions on Iran in return for Iran’s limitations with their nuclear weapons. It was imperative to make this deal because other countries feared Iran would create a nuclear weapon. French President Emmanuel Macron feels it would be wise to save the deal, as to they don’t have a Plan B when it comes to nuclear protection from Iran. However, Trump is against being apart of the Iran deal. Back in 2017, Trump was opposed to the deal, feeling that the deal was too lenient with Iran and that they had broken parts of their agreement, due to having numerous nuclear resources and having accessible international inspectors. As of now, Iranian Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is warning Trump that if he quits the deal, Iran will continue in their nuclear programs. Many other countries have tried to convince Trump to keep the deal, but it seems his decision is unwavering.

In my opinion, the right and logical decision to save the deal. With our deal with Iran intact, we would be assured that Iran’s nuclear production would be stopped and the fear of any danger of nuclear weapons would cease. However, without the deal and an alliance with Iran, they would continue to use nuclear weapons. With their advancements in nuclear weapons, who’s to know what type of future we would have with Iran poking their noses in nuclear programs? It would be wise for Trump to save the deal, despite his personal thoughts and feelings. What are your thoughts and feelings on this situation? Do you think Trump should preserve the deal with Iran, or do you think he is wise not to deal with Iran?

Democrats vs Trump and Russia

Friday, April 20th we see that the Democrats has filed a lawsuit against the Trump campaign, Russia, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for interfering with the 2016 campaign saying this was rigged so that Trump would easily beat Hillary. However why now in 2018 this 2016 election impacting so much right now 2 years later it feels too late to bring up now but its here to point fingers. There was a 66 paged lawsuit in the federal court of Manhattan saying that" Trump allegedly curried favor in Russia through their family business, and then Russia allegedly used those connections before the presidential election to disseminate the spoils from a cyber attack on the DNC." The Democrats are going off throwing all these accusations about Trump and Russia working together it seems weird that one party is just attacking another party with no regard their acting like kids. Campaign manager Brad Parscale said, "This is a sham lawsuit about a bogus Russian collusion claim filed by a desperate, dysfunctional, and nearly insolvent Democratic Party."Also, mention that the Democrats are low on money and really can't do much so do you think that the Democrats are creating these theories just to get money? The case showed that there was no new evidence that showed any connection with Trump and Russia working together. Then it shows that all people are saying its all in the Democrats head where they are so broken up with their loss that they'll do anything. In the Summer of 2016, the DNC (Democratic National Committee) said Russia hackers got into their computers they obtained emails and opposition research against trump. "Days before the Democratic National Convention, when Clinton was set to receive the party's presidential nomination, WikiLeaks published tens of thousands of hacked DNC emails." Now that's a weird scenario to have just happened with the DNC to have their emails hack and then WikiLeaks get their hands on it and show it to the world what your thought about this case? However, there is still no answer to this case between Trump and Russia and this is known as a witch hunt
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/20/politics/democrats-lawsuit-russia/index.html

Trump Sends Missiles to Syria as Response....

   The United States alongside with Britain and France sent missiles on April 13(last Friday) to a Syrian Government ran, chemical plant in response of the recent chemical attacks on Syrian rebels by the Syrian regime. These missiles specifically targeted a research facility, a storage facility, and an equipment facility along with a command post(which all happened to be located in Damascus). Although we sent missiles to this chemical weapons program, Syria could actually reconstruct/reassemble their chemical weapons program because of the fact that the missiles targeting such, have only minimized the amount of chemical weapons that were stored in those chemical facilities hit, claims General Kenneth McKenzie Jr(spokesperson for the Pentagon). Now because we the United States along with our allies, Britain and France have bombed Syria, Russia is now in the mix because they happen to be allies with Syria and have Russian troops on duty stationed in Syria. With this happening, Russia actually made threats to America and our allies by warning the Pentagon of the so called "consequences" of bombing Syria. But these claims by Russia don't add up because they also claimed that almost all the missile strikes have been shot down before they hit the targeted chemical plants. But to make things even more confusing, Damascus residents claim to have heard the strikes on the chemical facilities located there.
   I believe that our missiles that were launched to hit those facilities haven't even passed the Russian Defense system other than a few and this act of ignorance/bravery by the United States and our allies may have just sparked the third World War being that Russia and Syria, two strong armies in alliance have made threats to America stating the consequences of our decisions and actions.
  
Questions for you to answer

1. Did America make a good decision by attempting to bomb Syria since we're the World's so called "Freedom Fighters"?
2. How do think Russia will respond to this act of "bravery" by America?
3. Since we just bombed or attempted to bomb the Syrian Government's property, does that make us as a nation criminals?
4. Is it a safe to assume that this act by America may have contributed to a soon to be third World War?


https://www.vox.com/2018/4/13/17221420/trump-syria-attack-strike-assad-russia-response-chemical-weapon

Congress vs Mark Zuckerberg

Recently congress has brought up Mark Zuckerberg to answers for why important information was leaked to the public. In being brought up congress has 50 people on staff to each have 4 minutes to ask Mark questions and these events. In like of this happening most of the time was spent with the congress staff asking long questions or just giving responses with no time for answers. Congress women Marsha Blackburn asked a very complex and multiple part question for 50 seconds and when Mark started to answer the question she cut him off and said “ I won’t let you filibuster”. With most questions coming like this many problems like the technological aspects of the problem and how will he improve it.
Due to recent events do you believe Mark Zuckerberg was rightfully questioned for his recents acts? I don’t he was rightfully questioned for actions as they didn’t lead to the heart of the problem. They also mainly came at him in ways he couldn’t answer clearly or at all. What does this also say about how our government wants the truth? To me it seems that our government just wants to be right and if so what else have they done this type of trail or questioning with?


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mark-zuckerberg-hearing-facebook-data-scandal-capitol-hill-us-congress-questions-a8300321.html

Russia Vetoes American Solution To Gas Attack

      After the suspected poison gas attack by Syrians on a Damascus suburb, the United States proposed some sort of bill to retaliate against Syria. The matter was brought up at the last U.N meeting and recieved 12 out of 15 votes to pass it. One of the 3 countries that decided to veto it was Russia. This is not the first time that Russia has vetoed a bill regarding Syria. Russia believes that the reason the U.S wants this bill to be passed is to justify attacking another country. The U.S believes that Russia wants to pass a form of their bill that would allow them to gain information and exchange information with Syria without having to disclose said information with anyone who asks. This issue has sparked international chaos and the U.N needs to make a decision in order to maintain peace.

     I agree with the U.S standpoint where we can not allow Russia to pass their bill because them and Syria will be able to conjure up all types of different chemical weapons and those can be used for very devious purposes. I also agree with Russia where it seems that the U.S wants to apply force to Syria for no reason, they just want to flex their guns. I belive that instead of applying force and keeping information a secret, the U.N should reach out to Syria and attempt to sort of recruit them into the U.N. This way you can exchange information and keep an eye on them without any suspicious or malicious intent. What do you think the U.N should do in this situation?

Trump puts Putin on blast for chemical attacks

 There where suspected  chemical attacks in Douma in Eastern Ghouta which is a town that is controlled by rebels, the attack killed dozens of people. The blame was put on  the Assad regime in Syria for the assaults in the area of Damascus. Although Syria has denied these claims the group called the white helmets called in "fabrication" by the islamic group Jaish al-Islam who controlled the town. Not surprisingly the country that supports the Assad regime is Russia, they have supported this regime for seven years during there own civil war.This  was also rejected by the regime, this shows how Russia is trying to clean up after themselves but after these attacks it would be hard for them to get out of this. The United States department where following the reports from  attacks on Saturday and they stated that Russia is responsible for the attack and the aftermath that comes from it. This may seem surprising but Trump has also criticized Russia for this to be more specific he put President Putin on blast on twitter. Trump basically was blunt about the what happen he stated how the area that was attacked was put on lockdown by the Syrian army and how that area cannot be accessed by the outside world  due to the dangerous chemicals. To put the icing on the situation Trump called out Putin,and Iran that they are responsible for backing the animal Assad. Does this show how Trump has grown as a leader of the country? in the terms of putting friendships to the side to address a situation, I feel that Trump has grown as a person and a leader because due to pass actions shown he was failing a leader to address situations. This affects the government in a way because  remember that there is a direct hotline to Russia which is constantly being used this situation can stir up situations in the government causing a push and pull between the two counties  because this is not the first time that Putin hasn't done something like this because in October 2015 he has pushed himself in the Syrian civil war. What should trumps actions be in syria due to the last time he ordered a military strike  he was scared on the aftermath of the situation? keep in mined that chemical weapons are banned under the international treaties pact, which now puts this in a international level.