Recognition by 2 or more countries is all it takes to have become a nation.
Texas done the same thing and was recognized by UK, France, and Spain.
That's all international law required before the UN.
Somebody is hiding something!!!
Detained Activist Khalil Sues to Bar Columbia From Sharing Disciplinary Records
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/columbia/2025/03/13/id/1202703/
Thursday, 13 March 2025 03:53 PM EDT
Detained pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil asked a federal court on Thursday to block Columbia University from sharing student disciplinary records from campus protests with a Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives committee.
Separately, Khalil's lawyers have asked a federal judge to release him from immigration detention in Louisiana, arguing that Republican President Donald Trump's administration targeted him for arrest and deportation because of his advocacy in violation of the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment protections for freedom of speech. Khalil, who has lawful permanent resident status in the United States, was arrested last Saturday in New York City.
Khalil's case has become a flashpoint for Trump's pledge to deport some activists who participated in the wave of protests on U.S. college campuses against Israel's military assault on Gaza following the October 2023 attack by the militant group Hamas.
Trump's administration has said pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, including at Columbia, have included support for Hamas and antisemitic harassment of Jewish students. The administration last week said it canceled grants and contracts worth about $400 million to Columbia because of what it describes as antisemitic harassment on and near the school's campus.
Student protest organizers have said criticism of Israel and its actions is being wrongly conflated with antisemitism.
In a lawsuit filed on Thursday in Manhattan federal court, Khalil and seven Columbia students sought to prevent the university from complying with a request from the House education and workforce committee for student disciplinary records stemming from protest-related incidents. The other seven students remained anonymous in the lawsuit.
The plaintiffs said the committee's request violated the First Amendment and their privacy rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, a U.S. law that governs how universities handle student information.
"Entities like the university feel pressure to cooperate with the government in its efforts to chill and punish protected speech," the lawsuit stated.
Columbia declined to comment. A spokesperson for the committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A Syrian native of Palestinian descent, Khalil, 30, entered the United States on a student visa in 2022 to pursue a public administration degree at Columbia.
He became a prominent member of Columbia's protest movement, married his American citizen wife in 2023, and last year secured lawful permanent residency, making him a "green card" holder. Demonstrators on the streets of New York City, rights groups and Democratic lawmakers have called Khalil's arrest political repression by the Trump administration. At least 150 protesters poured into the lobby of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan on Thursday, carrying signs saying: "FREE MAHMOUD FREE PALESTINE."
'FOREIGN POLICY CONSEQUENCES'
Khalil is separately challenging the legality of his arrest by federal immigration agents outside his university residence in Upper Manhattan.
Khalil has not been charged with a crime.
Trump's administration has urged a judge to dismiss Khalil's challenge to his immigration arrest, or alternatively move the case out of New York. In a court filing shortly before midnight on Wednesday, Justice Department lawyers told U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan that the U.S. government is seeking Khalil's removal because Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reasonable grounds to believe his activities or presence in the country could have "serious adverse foreign policy consequences."
Under a provision of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act, a law passed in 1952, any immigrants may be deported if the secretary of state deems their presence in the country potentially adverse to American foreign policy. Legal experts have said that provision is rarely invoked, and Khalil's lawyers have said it was not intended to silence dissent. The Justice Department did not elaborate in its filing on how Khalil could harm U.S. foreign policy objectives. Trump and officials in his administration have accused Khalil of supporting Hamas.
The Justice Department lawyers also said Furman should not have jurisdiction over the case because Khalil was transferred to an immigration detention facility in New Jersey before his lawyers filed their bid for his release, known as a habeas corpus petition, early on Sunday morning. He was later moved to Louisiana.
Khalil's lawyers are due to respond to the Justice Department's motion on Friday, and also are expected to file an updated habeas corpus petition by midnight on Thursday
Yet no link given to us to migrate to.
Just like Greenland is trying to do now.
Trump: Shutdown Would Be 'Because of the Democrats'
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/donald-trump-shutdown-senate/2025/03/13/id/1202704/
Thursday, 13 March 2025 04:18 PM EDT
President Donald Trump said Thursday that if the government shuts down on Friday evening, it will be because of Democrats, and Americans will not reap the benefits of his proposed tax cuts, The Hill reported.
On Tuesday, the GOP majority in the House passed legislation favored by Trump to keep the government funded through September by a vote of 217-213. Although the Republicans hold a 53-47 advantage in the Senate, they will need some Democrats to approve the measure, or it will fail to achieve the 60 votes necessary to pass the upper chamber.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Wednesday that Republicans do not have enough votes to pass their continuing resolution, making the threat of a partial government shutdown that much more likely.
"They do a shutdown, and, ultimately, that might lead to very, very high taxes because we're talking about a shutdown," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "We're talking about getting to work immediately on the greatest tax bill ever passed. That was the one we did. It was a renewal, and it's an addition to it.
"If there's a shutdown, it's only because of the Democrats, and they would really be taking away a lot from our country, and from the people of our country," Trump said.
Fears of a shutdown have been amplified due to the massive cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency, which has dismissed thousands of federal workers.
"We're going to cut people's taxes. And if we don't open, the Democrats are stopping all of these good things that we're providing," he said.
>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Wednesday that Republicans do not have enough votes
So he's paying RINOs off?
How else would a republican controlled senate NOT have the votes?
…and the name of that board was?
No wonder shit never gets done.
Gillibrand Heard 'Screaming' at Dems Over Spending Bill Plans
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/gillibrand-yelling-spending/2025/03/13/id/1202717/
Thursday, 13 March 2025 05:17 PM EDT
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., was reportedly heard “screaming” at her fellow Democrats over their plans to vote against a Republican-led spending bill that would prevent a government shutdown.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on Wednesday that Democrats are prepared to vote against the continuing resolution to fund the government for an additional six months.
“Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input — any input — from congressional Democrats. Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR,” Schumer said.
He added that Democrats are “unified” on a short-term bill that would keep the government funded for a month while negotiations between the two parties continue.
However, Fox News correspondent Aishah Hasnie reports that the party appeared less than unified behind closed doors, tweeting that "Gillibrand is screaming so loud we can all hear it through the thick wood doors” during a lunch for Senate Democrats on Thursday.
Hasnie added, “Keeps yelling at her colleagues about a shutdown.”
Punchbowl News’ Andrew Desiderio also reported hearing Gillibrand “speaking quite loudly inside the Senate Dem lunch. She seems to be making the case against allowing the government to shut down.”
He later added that he “heard Gillibrand say ‘This will not be a normal shutdown.’”
CBTS
The Great Awakening
Q Research General
Those are the boards start up to present.
Why reuse an old board name?
Indeed they do!
>He later added that he “heard Gillibrand say ‘This will not be a normal shutdown.’”
This may be the 'going to jail' part.
Somebody put it out of it's misery, then it has nothing to worry about.
Putin would use that pipeline to send troops through it for a sneak attack!