"Một tấc đất của tiền nhân để lại, cũng không được để lọt vào tay kẻ khác".
Ta cũng để lời nhắn nhủ đó như một lời di chúc cho muôn đời con cháu.
(Di Chúc của Vua Trần Nhân Tôn).
Japan resumes work at disputed site for US base relocation
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FILE - This Aug. 2018, file aerial photo shows preliminary construction work off Henoko, in Nago city, Okinawa prefecture, Japan, where the Japanese government plans to relocate a U.S. air base from one area of Okinawa's main island to another. Denny Tamaki, the newly elected governor of the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, was chosen in a Sept. 30 election, running on a campaign that rejected the U.S. base being built on coastal Henoko. He defeated, by a comfortable margin, the candidate backed by the ruling party, eager to go ahead with Henoko, whose construction has been on hold. (Koji Harada/Kyodo News via AP, File)
Japan's central government has resumed work at a disputed U.S. military base relocation site on the southern island of Okinawa despite local opposition.
The Defense Ministry's local branch said an early stage of landfill work at Henoko on Okinawa's east coast began Thursday morning.
The Henoko site is the replacement for a U.S. Marine Corps air station in a more populated area.
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Mattis, when asked if troop deployment to border is a stunt: 'We don't do stunts'
BySamuel Chamberlain | Fox News
Mattis on troops sent to border: 'We don't do stunts' Raw video: Defense Secretary Mattis responds to reporter questioning if the deployment of troops to the southern border is a political stunt.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis emphatically denied a reporter's suggestion Wednesday that the deployment of thousands of active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border is part of a political stunt ahead of next week's midterm elections.
"We don't do stunts in this department. Thank you," Mattis told a reporter who posed the question after a Pentagon meeting with Mattis' South Korean counterpart. The defense secretary added the deployment was to provide "practical support" to the Department of Homeland Security and was based on a request from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The deployment is in response to the approach of a caravan containing an estimated 4,000 Central American migrants. The Pentagon said late Wednesday that it had identified 7,000 who will be participating in the mission at the border. Approximately 2,000 National Guard members previously have been dispatched to the frontier over the past six months.
The White House repeatedly has warned members of the caravan that they will not be allowed into the United States. In an interview with Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle" Monday night, President Trump vowed that the migrants "are not coming in" and said the administration would build "tent cities" to house asylum-seekers.
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The frightening exposure of pipe bombs being mailed to prominent Democrats and media outlets, followed by a horrific shooting in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, led to news networks lecturing, hour after hour, on the tone of our civic discourse.
Physicians, heal thyselves.
These are not dispassionate observers of the national scene. These are leftist partisans and they are cynically using national tragedies to equate conservative speech -- conservative thought -- to violence.
Chinese intelligence officers charged in US aviation hacking
By Associated Press October 31, 2018 | 1:11am
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LOS ANGELES — Chinese intelligence officers and hackers working for them have been charged with commercial espionage that included trying to steal information on commercial jet engines, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
The indictments named two officers working for the Nanjing-based foreign intelligence arm of China’s Ministry of State Security and six other defendants who allegedly conspired from 2010 to 2015 to steal sensitive turbofan engine technology used in commercial aviation.
The hackers used spear phishing to deploy malware and other means to intrude into a French aerospace company that was developing the engines with a U.S. company, prosecutors said. The suspects also hacked into aerospace companies in Massachusetts, Oregon and Arizona that manufactured engine parts.
Why Democrats are staying silent about the migrant caravan
By Michael Goodwin October 30, 2018 | 10:28pm
A caravan of thousands of Central Americans wait for the Mexican police to open a road in Tapanatepec, Mexico. Getty Images
Back in June, Washington’s new zero-tolerance policy on the southern border was creating a firestorm. Parents caught crossing illegally were separated from their children, and heartbreaking photos of crying toddlers forced President Trump to call a time-out.
I wrote then that the policy was basically right, but being right wasn’t always enough. This was one of those times because the “image-driven stampede of public opinion” made rational debate impossible and threatened to hand Democrats a huge election victory in November.
Fast-forward to the present, and images again are driving public opinion on immigration. Only this time, photos of the seemingly endless caravans of thousands of Central American migrants vowing to cross our border, one way or another, are evoking different sentiments.
Now the Dems are on the defensive as Trump sends the military and a clear message that he will defend America’s sovereignty in the face of what he calls an “invasion.”
Trump is right – ending birthright citizenship is constitutional
OPINION - ByHans A. von Spakovsky | Fox News
Can Trump end birthright citizenship with executive action? President Trump says he believes he can change the ability to gain U.S. citizenship if you're born on American soil; constitutional law attorney Jonathan Turley examines what the executive branch can and cannot do.
President Trump’s announcement Tuesday that he is preparing an executive order to end birthright citizenship has the left and even some conservatives in an uproar. But the president is correct when he says that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution does not require universal birthright citizenship.
An executive order by President Trump ending birthright citizenship would face a certain court challenge that would wind up in the Supreme Court. But based on my research of this issue over several years, I believe the president’s view is consistent with the view of the framers of the amendment.
Those who claim the 14th Amendment mandates that anyone born in the U.S. is automatically an American citizen are misinterpreting the amendment in a manner inconsistent with the intent of the amendment’s framers.
Universal birthright citizenship attracts illegal immigration. By granting immediate citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil, regardless of the legal status of the parents, we reward and encourage illegal and exploitative immigration.
Most countries around the world do not provides birthright citizenship. We do so based not upon the requirements of federal law or the Constitution, but based upon an erroneous executive interpretation. That should be changed.
Universal birthright citizenship attracts illegal immigration. By granting immediate citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil, regardless of the legal status of the parents, we reward and encourage illegal and exploitative immigration.
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'We Didn't Once Blame Obama': Haley Urges Americans to 'Stop the Blame' in Pittsburgh Massacre
Oct 30, 2018 // 8:12pm - As seen on The Story with Martha MacCallum
U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley urged Americans in a tweet to "stop the blame" following the massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue over the weekend.
Haley, who earlier this month offered her surprising resignation, tweeted that she's "struggled" with what happened at the Tree of Life Synagogue due to its similarities with the 2015 church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina.
I have struggled w/ what happened in Pitts bc it’s so similar to what happened in Chas. The country was very racially divided @ the time. We didn’t once blame Pres. Obama. We focused solely on the lives lost & their families. Have some respect for these families & stop the blame.
— Nikki Haley (@nikkihaley)October 30, 2018
Haley served as the governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017 until accepting her position at the United Nations.
U.S. Charges Chinese Agents in Hacking Scheme, More Cases Expected
Prosecutors targeting hacking group previously linked to Beijing
By Aruna Viswanatha and
Dustin Volz Oct. 30, 2018 7:28 p.m. ET
Federal prosecutors unsealed charges against 10 Chinese intelligence officers and other individuals Tuesday, accusing them of engaging in a persistent campaign to hack into U.S. aviation companies in Arizona, Massachusetts, Oregon and elsewhere.
Officials described the case as part of a push by the Trump administration to highlight what U.S. authorities say are China’s continuing efforts to steal information from American companies through cyberattacks and on-the-ground recruiting.
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Trump visits Pittsburgh synagogue to pay respects to victims of massacre
ByAndrew O'Reilly | Fox News
President Trump arrives at Tree of Life synagogue
President Trump, first lady, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner pay their respects at the Tree of Life synagogue.
President Trump on Tuesday visited the synagogue in Pittsburgh where a gunman over the weekend opened fire and killed 11 people in the bloodiest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.
The president traveled to Squirrel Hill, the historic hub of the city's Jewish community and the location of Tree of Life synagogue. Trump was accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, his daughter, Ivanka, son-in-law Jared Kushner, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.
Accompanied by Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, the president and first lady laid white roses and stones from the White House - a Jewish tradition - at the makeshift memorial outside the synagogue.
Rumors have been circulating that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D) would run for president (again) in 2020. Now, her longtime political advisers are doing everything in their power to put that flame out.
“She’s more likely to win Powerball,” Philippe Reines, Clinton’s longtime adviser told The Hill.
Pence's little-noticed speech marked a new US realism toward China
by Michael Stumo
| October 30, 2018 12:00 AM
A seismic shot across the bow, Vice President Mike Pence’s Oct. 4 speech on U.S.-China policy garnered surprisingly little coverage. But historians may well mark it as a significant turning point in great power relations. Pence’s address to the Hudson Institute heralded a dramatic shift in America’s approach to Beijing. He clearly and starkly announced that America is initiating a dramatic decoupling from a growing rival.
There’s a strong economic basis for the shift. China’s rise has been funded in large part by excessive reliance on America’s consumers. The U.S. racks up trade deficits with China that amount to hundreds of billions annually. And this massive trade debt has already cost the U.S. 3.4 million jobs since 2001.
Google employees plan walkout over handling of sexual misconduct claims
ByNicole Darrah, Fox News October 30, 2018 | 10:09am | Updated
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Hundreds of Google employees reportedly plan to walk out of the company this week in protest of the CEO’s response to a report the company allegedly protected executives accused of sexual misconduct.
China eyes Antarctica access with first permanent airfield
ByTravis Fedschun | Fox News Why China's military ascendance matters
China is dramatically expanding their military to counter the U.S.
The icy continent of Antarctica could prove to be the location of the next geopolitical battleground, as China announced Monday it's preparing to build its first permanent airport at the South Pole. The site, located about 17 miles away from the Zhongshan Antarctic Station, was surveyed by the 33rd Antarctic expedition in 2017 and will "greatly facilitate the nation's research and expedition" on the continent, state media reported.
The airfield will initially have one runway that will be roughly 4,900 feet in length.
"More flat runways will be built later to accommodate large fixed-wing planes," state media reported.
China's first fixed-wing aircraft for polar flight Snow Eagle 601 taxies after its landing on Jan. 9, 2017 at the airport of Kunlun Station in Antarctica. (Xinhua via Getty Images)
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Trump plans to sign executive order curbing birthright citizenship: report
ByBenjamin Brown | Fox News
Trump on key midterm races, stopping the migrant caravan
President Trump said in a newly released interview he plans to sign an executive order ending so-called "birthright citizenship" for babies of non-citizens born on U.S. soil -- a move that would mark a major overhaul of immigration policy and trigger an almost-certain legal battle.
Birthright citizenship allows any baby born on U.S. soil to automatically be a U.S. citizen.
The policy, which stems from a disputed but long-recognized interpretation of the 14th Amendment, has given rise to what Trump considers abuse of the immigration system. Trump told "Axios on HBO" that the U.S. is the only country in the world "where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States ... with all of those benefits."
Despite Trump's claim, the U.S. is not the only nation to have birthright citizenship, but the policy is rare outside of the Americas. Trump called birthright citizenship "ridiculous" and said that "it has to end."
Analysts explain why Democrats are no lock to flip the House
By Bob Fredericks October 29, 2018 | 10:53pm | Updated
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Most polling suggests that Democrats should flip the House of Representatives in the midterm elections — but some analysts warned that nothing is certain a week before the pivotal contests.
Supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)
Buried in last week’s news cycle was a revelation that NBC sat on information that would help exonerate Justice Brett Kavanaugh and further discredit one of his accusers Julie Swetnick. The revelation is also proof that the mainstream media and the left willfully engaged in an orchestrated smear campaign to try and derail Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation.
Let’s start at the beginning. Immediately after President Trump announced Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination on July 9, 2018, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he was going to fight it with everything he had. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said women would die if he was confirmed. The marching orders were clear and the mainstream media, particularly female journalists, knew what they had to do.
On July 30, Christine Ford sent a letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein accusing Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a party in the 1980’s. Feinstein waited for six weeks until announcing on Sept. 13 that she had referred information about Kavanaugh to federal investigative authorities. This referral came after his confirmation hearings had ended as had the completion of his sixth background check.
Then on Sept. 16, the Washington Post’s Emma Brown ran Christine Ford’s story. The article provides no corroborating witnesses. The only “evidence” Brown sites are therapy notes from 2012 and 2013 which might not even exist. In her article, Brown claims Ford provided “portions” to her. However, under oath before Congress, Ford said she didn't know if she gave them to Brown or provided her own summary. Ford never provided the “notes” to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
NBC had no problem trafficking in uncorroborated accusations that put Kavanaugh in a bad light, but failed to report information that could help exonerate him.
U.S. to Restrict Chinese Chip Maker From Doing Business with American Firms
Washington raises the stakes in a battle with Beijing over intellectual property
By Kate O’Keeffe Updated Oct. 29, 2018 7:02 p.m. ET
The U.S. has raised the stakes in a battle with Beijing over intellectual property by restricting American firms from doing business with a state-owned Chinese chip maker that Micron Technology Inc. has accused of stealing its secrets.
Citing national and economic security concerns, the Commerce Department said Monday that it will begin restricting American companies from selling software and technology goods to Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co., a semiconductor startup into which the Chinese government has been pouring...
Steve Hilton: Trump and his supporters are being blamed for a climate of rage and hate – but here’s the truth
OPINION - BySteve Hilton | Fox News
Hilton: My plea to the liberal 'Never Trump' elite
Predictably, the establishment is blaming President Trump and his supporters for a climate of rage and hate.
But let's be honest, a lot of Americans have had a lot to be angry about for an awful long time
I'm thinking in particular of African-Americans whose long struggle for freedom may have been won decades ago but whose struggle for genuine equality and opportunity and dignity and fairness is a long way from over. A very long way.
I'm also thinking of working Americans, especially those outside the booming centers of the modern knowledge economy, whose economic security has collapsed, whose economic opportunities have disappeared and whose social fabric -- especially family and community -- has been ripped apart.
That's been going on since at least the early 1970s. That's nearly half a century.
'They're Democrats': Shots Fired At Volusia GOP HQ
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We’ve had some nutty person mail explosive devices to prominent Democrats and celebrities. They luckily did not go off, and no one was hurt. A raging anti-Semite shot and killed 11 people in a synagogue in Pittsburgh over the weekend. The media is in overdrive trying to pin this all on President Donald Trump and the conservative media. So, is the president to blame for the shots that were fired at the Volusia GOP headquarters in Florida?
Earlier today, four shots were fired at the local GOP headquarters. No other businesses were harmed. It appears to be another act of politically motivated violence (via Daytona Beach News-Journal):
BERLIN — Germany’s Angela Merkel announced Monday that she will step down as head of her conservative party in December after 18 years and won’t seek a fifth term as chancellor in 2021, launching a leadership transition in Europe’s biggest economy.
China’s Military Sends More Scholars Abroad, at Times Without Schools’ Knowledge
The People’s Liberation Army has sent thousands of scientists overseas in recent years, but the scholars sometimes obscure their affiliation
By Kate O’Keeffe and
Melissa Korn Oct. 29, 2018 8:00 a.m. ET
Scientists from China’s military are significantly expanding research collaboration with scholars from the U.S. and other technologically advanced countries, at times obscuring their affiliation from their hosts, according to a new research report and interviews with academics.
The People’s Liberation Army has sponsored more than 2,500 military scientists and engineers to study abroad over the past decade, according to research by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. ASPI is a nonpartisan think tank that was created...
Clinton’s 2020 waffling presents challenge for Democrats
By Brooke Singman | Fox News Clinton fuels speculation for 2020 run
Hillary Clinton says she won't think about a run until after midterms.
Hillary Clinton insists she doesn’t want to run for the White House again -- yet over the weekend, virtually in the same breath, seemed to leave that door open just a crack, saying she'd still “like to be president.”
Lion Air plane crash: Body bags used to recover crash victims
THE aircraft model in the deadly Indonesian plane crash was bound for Australia, it has emerged, as the search effort focuses on finding bodies.
Cindy Wockner, Claire Bickers, Sam McBeath, Staff writers, AP News Corp Australia Network October 29, 201811:57pm
Lion Air jet crashes in Indonesia
A SEARCH and rescue agency official says he’s not expecting any survivors from Lion Air flight JT610, which crashed into seas off Jakarta with 189 people aboard.
The operations director at the agency, Bambang Suryo Aji, says the search effort is focusing on finding bodies.
He said six body bags have been used so far for human remains recovered.
Aji said the location of the plane hull hasn’t been identified yet. Waters where it sank are up to 30 metres deep.
The search is currently planned to last seven days and could be extended.
The passenger plane had only been in service two months.
Police officers carry a body bag containing the remains recovered from the area where a Lion Air passenger jet crashed. Picture: AP Source:AP
Lion Air said the plane was delivered on August 15 and had clocked 800 hours of flying time before the disaster.
Brazil elects right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro as president
ByFrank Miles | Fox News
Far-right congressman Jair Bolsonaro won the presidency of Latin America's largest nation Sunday as voters looked past warnings that the brash former army captain would erode democracy and embraced a chance for radical change after years of turmoil. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal declared Sunday that far-right congressman Jair Bolsonaro, a champion of traditional Brazilian values, has won the country's election for the presidency of Latin America’s biggest country and the world’s fourth-largest democracy.
Bolsonaro, who cast himself as a political outsider despite a 27-year career in Congress, is the latest of several leaders around the globe to gain prominence by mixing tough, often violent talk with right-wing positions. But he also is very much a product of a political tempest in Brazil that made his messages less marginalized: widespread anger at the political class amid years of corruption, an economy that has struggled to recover after a punishing recession and a surge in violence. The name of his party, PSL, translates to "Social Liberal Party," although it largely abandoned its socially liberal platforms after he joined.
Bolstering his rebel image is his reputation for offensive statements and sometimes extreme views, including insulting women, black people and the LGBT community.
“I’m afraid to go out at night when it gets dark,” said Raquel Nunes, 27, a secretary from Sao Paulo and an avid Bolsonaro supporter, as The Wall Street Journal reported. “But he’s going to solve this, he’s going to be firm, talking didn’t get us anywhere so we need to respond with force.”
Mattis on Synagogue Shooter: 'I Won't Even Call Him a Man'
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While talking to reporters traveling to the Czech Republic, Secretary of Defense James Mattis had some choice words for the coward who attacked innocents and killed 11 yesterday as they peacefully worshipped in a Pittsburgh Synagogue. Sec. Mattis says the attacker is the "poorest excuse for a man anybody could come up with."
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting shows anti-Semitism in America must not be ignored
OPINION - ByLauren DeBellis Appell | Fox News
Update on victims of the attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue.
Authorities confirm 11 people were killed at the Tree of Life synagogue and six people injured, including four police officers; Jackie Heinrich reports.
Reportedly shouting “all Jews must die,” a gunman killed 11 people and wounded six others, including four police officers, as a tragic and gruesome crime scene unfolded Saturday at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
FBI special agent Bob Jones, who’s been with the FBI for 22 years, called the scene of the anti-Semitic attacks at the Tree of Life Synagogue “the most horrific crime scene I have seen.”
Robert Bowers, 46, was arrested at the shooting scene after he was wounded and was charged Saturday night with 29 criminal counts.
The attack illustrates the prevalence of anti-Semitism in our country.
Peggy Noonan: We need to defuse America’s explosive politics
OPINION - ByPeggy Noonan | The Wall Street Journal
The attempted bombing of political figures is domestic terrorism meant to disrupt and intimidate. That it came to light less than two weeks before an election whose outcomes may constitute a national rebuke to—or soft boost of—President Trump’s controversial leadership means that passions are high and will stay so. Things are feeling primal, tribal.
There’s more than enough time before the voting for the gates of hell to open. Let’s try to keep them shut.
