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BeardOfKnowledge

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Simply by traveling from home to work or even being at work, migrants expose themselves to prosecution and deportation, just as the employer exposes themselves to some legal liability by employing workers under illegal working conditions that could include a distortion of wage levels, workplace safety, governmental authorization, or discrimination.
and with this new law, the burden of liability skews heavily one way.

It's the same problem with the Nordic model of sex worker law. That being said, how regularly are people being deported because a malcontent employer or landlord has dropped a dime on some otherwise upstanding migrant?
 

Freeloading Rusty

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Iran open to starting dialogue with Saudi Arabia: Speaker
The speaker of Iran's parliament has said Tehran is open to the idea of starting a dialogue with regional rival Saudi Arabia.

Ali Larijani made the comments in an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera that aired on Tuesday, days after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) told CBS he would prefer a peaceful resolution with Iran in settling regional security disputes, as opposed to military conflict.

"Iran is open to starting a dialogue with Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region," Larijani said in Tehran.

"An Iranian-Saudi dialogue could solve many of the region's security and political problems."

Al Jazeera's Assed Baig, reporting from the Iranian capital, said the talks would be seen as a victory in the country.

"They will see that Iran's military strategy is working, that Iran is seen as a strong military power and countries that may not necessarily be friends with Iran favour dialogue over military conflict," he said.

No pre-conditions
Larijani also said that Saudi Arabia does not need to rely or depend on its main ally, the United States.

"Riyadh can submit its proposals to be discussed at the Iranian-Saudi dialogue table without pre-conditions from our side," Larijani said.

"We also welcome what has been quoted that Prince Mohammed bin Salman wants dialogue, as perhaps it is good to know Saudi Arabia is thinking of the region's interests first," he added, referring to the crown prince's comments made in the interview with the CBS 60 Minutes programme that aired on Sunday.

Prince Mohammed pointed out that crude prices could spike to "unimaginably high numbers" in case of armed conflict.

"The region represents about 30 percent of the world's energy supplies, about 20 percent of global trade passages, about four percent of the world GDP [gross domestic product]," the crown prince said.

Days after visiting Saudi Arabia where he held talks with King Salman, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said it was in everybody's interest to prevent further war in the region.

In an interview with Al Jazeera, which was aired on Monday, Abdul Mahdi said: "Nobody possesses the weapons necessary to deal their adversary a fatal blow. Chaos and destruction will hit the region in its entirety."

Abdul Mahdi emphasised the importance of resolving the long-running conflict in Yemen as a prelude to achieving regional peace.

Truce in Yemen
On his part, Larijani said that Iran has called on Yemen's Houthi rebels to accept any ceasefire agreement with Saudi Arabia, adding that this would also be in the interest of Riyadh.

The Houthis have been locked in a war with a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) since 2015.

The tension between long-time foes Saudi Arabia and Iran flared up recently following a Houthi-claimed attack on two key oil facilities in the kingdom's east.

The US, European powers and Saudi Arabia blamed the attack on Iran, which denied any involvement.
Trump, Rouhani agreed 4-point plan before Iran balked: French officials
Donald Trump and Hassan Rouhani agreed on a four-point document brokered by Emmanuel Macron in New York last week as a basis for a meeting and relaunching negotiations between the U.S. and Iran, according to French officials.

While the U.S. and Iranian presidents agreed on the document, which has been seen by POLITICO, they ended up not meeting after Rouhani insisted that Trump first declare he would lift U.S. sanctions, according to the officials. A phone call that Macron tried to set up between the two leaders as an alternative to the meeting did not take place because Rouhani declined to participate.


The document was the result of days of shuttle diplomacy by Macron on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, with the aim of defusing tension between Tehran and Washington. That tension has been rising since Trump pulled out of the 2015 deal under which Iran accepted controls on its nuclear program in return for the lifting of international sanctions.

According to the document, Tehran would agree that "Iran will never acquire a nuclear weapon" and will “fully comply with its nuclear obligations and commitments and will accept a negotiation on a long-term framework for its nuclear activities.” It would also “refrain from any aggression and will seek genuine peace and respect in the region through negotiations” — language that mirrors remarks made by Trump before the General Assembly last week.

Also as part of the plan, the United States would agree to “lift all the sanctions re-imposed since 2017” and “Iran will have full ability to export its oil and freely use its revenues,” according to the text.

Although Iran’s ballistic missile program is not specifically mentioned in the text, French officials said the language on Tehran's regional role was understood by all sides to mean it would be part of negotiations.

“It was clear to all that the negotiation over regional issues would necessarily include their ballistic program,” said a French official familiar with the talks.

Some elements of the recent diplomatic efforts have been reported in recent days by the New Yorker and New York Times but the text of the document put forward by Macron has not been previously reported.

The document was designed to allow all sides to claim victory. Trump would be able to say he had reached his long-standing goal of expanding the Iran nuclear deal to cover Tehran's regional and ballistic activities. Iran’s leaders could claim they had resisted the U.S. policy of maximum pressure and achieved full sanctions relief. And Macron would be able to portray himself as a peacemaker who had averted a new war in the Middle East and restored France as an essential global powerbroker.

But the breakthrough was thwarted after Rouhani insisted that Trump give an indication before any meeting that U.S. sanctions would be lifted, the French official said. That stance reflected Rouhani's difficulties at home, where elements of the Iranian regime are strongly opposed to any deal with the U.S., and a wariness about trusting Trump after he pulled out of the nuclear deal.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei declared ahead of the U.N. gathering that Tehran should not talk to the U.S. before Washington returns to the nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Trump agreed to the document in a meeting with Macron on Tuesday afternoon last week at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel, according to French officials. Macron then presented Rouhani with the same document, at the Millennium Hilton New York One UN Plaza Hotel.

“He agreed on the principles of the document and he thanked the president because there is the explicit mention of the sanctions [but] he wanted Trump to say before entering the meeting that he was lifting the sanctions,” said the French official.

In an attempt to capitalize on agreement by both sides on the document, and on Rouhani’s presence in New York, Macron and his team suggested a secure phone call with Trump at 9 p.m. that Tuesday evening. The Iranians agreed to allow technicians to set up the equipment required for such a call, but didn’t agree to the call itself, according to the French official.

Iran Builds $1.8B Oil Pipeline To Bypass Strait Of Hormuz
Iran is building an onshore oil pipeline worth US$1.8 billion to a terminal just outside the Strait of Hormuz, the most critical oil chokepoint in the world, Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh said.

As much as US$700 million of the investment will go to develop the port terminal at Jask, which sits just east of the Strait of Hormuz, the most important oil shipping corridor in the world, which Iran has threatened to close since the U.S. pulled out of the nuclear deal and re-imposed sanctions on Iran’s oil exports.

The project will transform the region, as various oil storage facilities, export jetties, wave breakers, and single buoy mooring systems would be built in Jask, Iran’s oil ministry’s news service Shana reported.

Apart from the port development, the region of Jask will also host two refineries and petrochemical facilities, according to Zangeneh’s plan.

The first commodity to be exported from the Jask terminal would be gas condensate from the South Pars field in the next Iranian calendar year, the oil minister said. The current Iranian calendar year started on March 21, 2019.

Last month, Iran said that it was aiming to complete by March 2021 the long crude oil pipeline from its northwest deep in the Persian Gulf to a southern terminal east of the Strait of Hormuz, in order to export oil by shipping it first onshore to the terminal to bypass the world’s most critical oil chokepoint.

According to Touraj Dehghani, Deputy CEO and Member of the Board at Iranian company Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (PEDEC), Iran will be able to bypass the Strait of Hormuz once the Goureh-Jask Crude Oil Pipeline project becomes operational.

The pipeline, which will cost US$2 billion, will be 1,100 kilometers (684 miles) long and capable of carrying 1 million bpd of crude oil from the Goureh oil terminal in the northwest to the Jask region on the Sea of Oman, without the need to have tankers travel through the Strait of Hormuz.
 

Daglord

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Every president in the last 20 years supported those things while also touting the freedoms they impose on. I'ts ridiculous to pretend that he's the first.
Amash has never supported any of that & is probably the most vocal opponent of all the above.

it might have been "whataboutism" for most, but not Justin Amash.
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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Amash has never supported any of that & is probably the most vocal opponent of all the above.

it might have been "whataboutism" for most, but not Justin Amash.
So he's been a party malcontent for his entire career? Seems unlikely to me.

It's also more than a little noteworthy that this entire fishing expedition is going on while the clean water act is being pissed on and not receiving any media coverage whatsoever.
 

Daglord

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So he's been a party malcontent for his entire career? Seems unlikely to me.

It's also more than a little noteworthy that this entire fishing expedition is going on while the clean water act is being pissed on and not receiving any media coverage whatsoever.
I think his voting record speaks for itself & he is one of few that propose amendments to clear violations of the constitution or simply votes No.

fed up enough to leave the party this year & go independent. wish more would follow his lead.

agree on the CWA.
 

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Trump's video taken off Twitter after band Nickelback complains
A video posted by Donald Trump has been removed from Twitter after a copyright claim by the rock band Nickelback.

The video took aim at the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, opening with a clip of him saying he had never discussed business dealings with his son Hunter. Trump’s efforts to encourage the Ukrainian president to investigate Hunter Biden lie at the centre of an impeachment inquiry launched by House Democrats last week.

Following the Biden segment, the clip posted by Trump then cuts to a popular, if niche, meme based on an edit of the music video for the 2005 Nickelback single Photograph. In the original video, the vocalist Chad Kroeger holds a picture to the camera, singing:

Look at this photograph / Every time I do it makes me laugh / How did our eyes get so red? / And what the hell is on Joey’s head?

In Trump’s edit, Kroeger’s photograph is replaced by one taken in 2014 that shows both the Bidens on a golf course with Devon Archer, a colleague of Hunter who is labelled in the edit as a “Ukraine gas exec”.

Within 12 hours of the video being posted to Twitter, however, it had been removed and replaced with the notice: “This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner.” The video is currently available on YouTube.

It is the second time this year that the American president has been censured for infringing copyright on Twitter. In April, a campaign advert, scored with the soundtrack to the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises, was removed following a takedown notice from the copyright holder Warner Bros.

The copyright removals stand in contrast to Twitter’s policy about Trump’s tweets, which specifically place the president above the law when it comes to enforcement of the social network’s own regulations. In June, the company announced a policy to restrict, but not remove, tweets by famous politicians that break its rules about abusive behaviour.
 

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Top Republican urged foreign governments to help discredit Mueller findings
Lindsay Graham wrote to the prime ministers of Australia, Italy and the UK to request their ‘continued cooperation’ with Barr
Graham is said to have written to the prime ministers of Australia, Italy and the UK to request their “continued cooperation with attorney general Barr as the Department of Justice continues to investigate the origins and extent of foreign influence in the 2016 election”.

The investigation is an attempt to discredit Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.

A GOP tactic as 2020 looms is to claim the entire investigation was flawed.

According to numerous reports, in the letter Graham wrote that US intelligence agencies used a “deeply flawed dossier filled with hearsay and written by a biased, former United Kingdom intelligence officer” as part of the Mueller inquiry.
Australian ambassador rejects Graham's description of diplomat's role in Russia probe's origins
Australia’s ambassador to the U.S. confirmed to Sen. Lindsey Graham that the Australian government is assisting Attorney General William Barr’s investigation of foreign interference in the 2016 election — but disputed the lawmaker’s reference to an Australian diplomat involved in the Russia probe’s origins.

Graham on Wednesday had asked the prime ministers of Australia, Italy and Britain to continue to aid Barr in his inquiry, which critics say represents another effort by President Donald Trump to discredit the work of former special counsel Robert Mueller.


“It appears that the United States law enforcement and intelligence communities relied on foreign intelligence as part of their efforts to investigate and monitor the 2016 presidential election,” the South Carolina Republican wrote in his letter to the leaders.


Graham added that those efforts by American officials included “accepting information from an Australian diplomat who was … directed to contact [Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George] Papadopoulos and relay information obtained from Papadopoulos regarding the campaign to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”

It has been reported that Papadopoulos had revealed to an Australian diplomat, believed to be Alexander Downer, details of his April 2016 conversations with Josef Mifsud, a London-based professor with ties to the Kremlin. Mifsud allegedly told Papadopoulos that Moscow had “thousands of emails” damaging to 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

In a letter responding to Graham dated Wednesday, Ambassador Joe Hockey wrote that the Australian government “is cooperating” with Barr’s inquiry and has “been public about our willingness to cooperate.”

Hockey added: “In your letter you made mention of the role of an Australian diplomat. We reject your characterisation of his role.”

According to Mueller’s report, a foreign government official contacted the FBI in July 2016 about an encounter he had with Papadopoulos two months earlier, during which the then-Trump aide suggested the campaign “had received indications from the Russian government that it could assist the Campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to” Clinton.

That warning “prompted the FBI on July 31, 2016, to open an investigation into whether individuals associated with the Trump Campaign were coordinating with the Russian government in its interference activities,” Mueller wrote.
Rudy Giuliani has been consulting prisoner Paul Manafort on Ukraine. // At roughly the same time, Attorney General Barr has been attending secret meetings in Italy to justify conspiracy theory nonsense from George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.




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