15,000 Mexican Troops Deployed To US Border

In an ongoing effort to stem the flow of illegal immigration into the United States and avoid tariffs from the Trump administration, Mexico has deployed approximately 15,000 National Guardsmen and soldiers to the border, according to AFP, citing the country's army chief.

Mexico promised earlier this month to send 6,000 National Guardsmen to its southern border, and has promised to build more migrant detention centers and checkpoints to catch and deter northbound Central Americans.

"We have a total deployment, between the National Guard and army units, of 14,000, almost 15,000 men in the north of the country," announced Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval while standing alongside Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

When asked if troops were detaining migrants to prevent them from entering the US, Sandoval said "yes."

"Given that (undocumented) migration is not a crime but rather an administrative violation, we simply detain them and turn them over to the authorities" at the country's National Migration Institute.

The government has faced criticism over migrant detentions at the northern border since an AFP photographer documented last week how heavily armed National Guardsmen in Ciudad Juarez forcefully stopped two women and a young girl from crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States.

The policy is a shift from previous practice. The Mexican security forces had not typically detained migrants at the US border in the past.

Fleeing chronic poverty and brutal gang violence in their home countries, the Central Americans crossing Mexico mostly lack migration paper -AFP

Mexico signed a deal with the Trump administration on June 7, giving the country 45 days to show meaningful results in their efforts to counter the flood of migrants entering the United States.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-24/15000-mexican-troops-deployed-us-border

Trump Orders Disclosure of Hospital Prices

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 24 that calls for hospitals to publicly disclose the actual cost of services in an effort to improve price and quality transparency in America’s health care system.

According to the White House, at Trump’s direction, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will require hospitals to disclose service costs in an “easy-to-read format” and make such information more accessible to patients before they receive their care.

The president spoke for about 22 minutes in the Grand Foyer in the White House as he described the executive order as a “truly big action” that would “fundamentally” change the health care marketplace and keep costs down.

“This landmark initiative continues our campaign to put American patients first,” he said. “We will empower patients with the information they need to search for the lowest costs and the highest quality care.”

Trump said the “lack of price transparency has enriched industry giants greatly,” asking why the issue was not addressed already. He signed the order at 3:39 p.m.

“This is bigger than anything we’ve done in this particular realm,” he said.

The goal behind the order is to give patients practical information they can use to save money. For example, if a hospital charges an insurer $3,500 for a type of echocardiogram and the same test costs $550 in a doctor’s office, a patient might go for the lower-price procedure to save on copays.

“More price transparency will mean more competition,” the president said.

The executive order calls for a rule-making process by federal agencies, which won’t happen straight away. The details of what information will have to be disclosed and how it will be made available to patients must be worked out as part of writing the regulations. It will involve a complex give-and-take with hospitals, insurers, and other affected parties.

The order is titled “Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-orders-disclosure-of-hospital-prices_2976405.html

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Trump: I would fill Supreme Court vacancy before 2020 election

President Trump on Monday said he would make a nomination to the Supreme Court if there's a vacancy anytime before the 2020 presidential election.

“Would I do that? Of course,” Trump said in an exclusive interview with The Hill when asked if he would try to fill a high court vacancy during election season.

“It depends. I mean, we have the Senate," he added. "We have a great Senate. We have great people. If we could get him approved, I would definitely do it. No, I’d do it a lot sooner than that. I’d do it. If there were three days left, I’d put somebody up hoping that I could get ‘em done in three days, OK?”

The position is an apparent reversal for the president, who as a candidate in 2016 backed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) decision to block former President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.

But the president denied that his position was an about-face, as Republicans control both the Senate and the White House.

“They couldn’t get him approved. That’s the other problem because they didn’t have the Senate. If they had the Senate, they would have done it,” Trump said of the Democrats.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/450115-trump-i-would-fill-supreme-court-vacancy-before-2020-election

CIA Seeking More Impunity

The agency is trying to get a pass on crimes even before they’re committed and it represents a threat to press freedom.

The CIA has quietly asked the Senate Intelligence Committee to include a provision in its next authorization bill that would vastly expand the definition of a “covert agent” whose identity would be protected from unauthorized disclosure.

The current law, called the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1981, defines a covert agent as any intelligence officer who is serving abroad or who has served abroad in a covert capacity in the past five years. The new bill would expand that protection to include all unacknowledged intelligence personnel even if they have never left the United States.

Let me be clear: This measure is not at all about protecting the identities of CIA officers doing their jobs. It is about protecting those CIA employees who have committed crimes against humanity. It’s a cover-up. Take it from me. I have first-hand experience with this law.

The Intelligence Identities Protection Act (IIPA) has been used only twice since its passage. It was used to convict Sharon Scranage, a CIA secretary who had had an affair with an intelligence officer in Ghana and had given him the names of all CIA employees in the country and the identities of Ghanaians who were working for the CIA. She was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in a minimum-security prison. My prosecution was the second and it came in retaliation for my blowing the whistle on the CIA’s torture program. I never made public the name of any covert operative and I ended up with 23 months.

These two minor prosecutions aside, very few revelations of CIA identities have ever led to court cases. Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage famously leaked Valerie Plame’s name to two syndicated columnists. He was never charged with a crime. Former CIA Director David Petraeus leaked the names of 10 covert CIA operatives to his adulterous girlfriend, apparently in an attempt to impress her, and was never charged. Former CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed the name of the covert SEAL Team member who killed Osama bin Laden. He apologized and was not prosecuted.

https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/24/john-kiriakou-cia-seeking-more-impunity/

Matthew 9:38

“Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.”

Evidence that the Israelis sold Iran nuclear-capable missiles

How the Israelis sold nuclear-capable missiles to

Iran in the 1970's

https://youtu.be/oC0136Ymn6E

https://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2019/06/evidence-that-israelis-sold-iran.html

DOCUMENTS DETAIL ISRAELI MISSILE DEAL WITH THE SHAH

Before the fall of the Shah in 1979, Israel was involved in a multibillion-dollar project to modify advanced, surface-to-surface missiles for sale to Iran, according to documents said to have been left in Teheran by Israeli diplomats.

The documents reveal that the Israelis told the Iranians that the missiles could be fitted with nuclear warheads, although this possibility was not pursued. The two sides agreed that if Iran wanted a nuclear ability, this would pose a problem with the Americans.

The Israelis left shortly before the 1979 revolution. The Israeli papers, in English, were published in paperback by the Iranians who seized the American Embassy in November 1979 and who have published more than 50 volumes of secret documents found there.

The Israeli-Iranian project, code-named Flower, was one of six oil-for-arms contracts signed in April 1977 in Teheran by Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi and Shimon Peres, then the Israeli Defense Minister. Two Nations Had Trade Missions

At the time, Iran and Israel did not have diplomatic relations, but they had trade missions. In addition, Iran was the only Middle Eastern country that recognized Israel's right to exist.

The two countries, according to transcripts of conversations in the documents, intended to keep the proposed missile improvement secret from the United States.

Although American officials were aware that Israeli and Iranian military leaders had exchanged secret visits, they did not know the nature of the discussion, according to interviews with former officials of the State Department, the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council staff.

The possession of surface-to-surface missiles was part of the Shah's plan to turn Iran into the most formidable military power in the Middle East. For the Israelis, the deal offered a guaranteed oil supply as well as financing for advanced military research. Work Halts After Revolution

According to the documents, a missile was test-fired in Israel in the presence of an Iranian general. The aim of the project was to extend the range of an Israeli missile developed in the early 1970's and replace American-supplied parts so that Israel could legally export it without American approval.

Israel was still perfecting the missile when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini came to power in February 1979 and halted cooperation with Israel.

Two Iranian officials involved, Gen. Hassan Toufanian, the arms procurer, and Adm. Kamal Habibollahi, the navy commander, said in interviews that the conversations recorded in the documents were genuine. The two now live in the United States.

In a third interview, Ezer Weizman, who took over as Israeli Defense Minister in May 1977 and who is now a member of the Cabinet under Prime Minister Peres, did not deny that the documents were authentic. Weizman Confirms Contacts

Obviously we had relations with Iran and I knew General Toufanian personally, he said from Jerusalem in a telephone interview. I had many conversations with him both in Tel Aviv and in Teheran. But I don't think it is appropriate that I, as former Minister of Defense and as a Minister in the Israeli Cabinet, should comment on affairs of state backdated to 1977.

Other Israeli officials called the papers a forgery.

These rumors and falsified documents are usually spread by the present regime in Teheran with the view to discredit the previous regime, Avi Pazner, a spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry, said.

A spokesman for Mr. Peres, Uri Savir, said, I have nothing to add to Mr. Pazner's statement.

The Flower project, according to the documents, involved the production of missiles with warheads weighing 750 kilograms, or 1,650 pounds, and with a range of up to 300 miles. They were to be shipped through a Swiss company to central Iran for assembly and testing. Books Available in Libraries

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https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/01/world/documents-detail-israeli-missile-deal-with-the-shah.html

Israeli Arms Sales to Iran

Jane Hunter is the editor and publisher of Israeli Foreign Affairs, P.O. Box 19580, Sacramento, CA 95819.

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During the Reagan administration US policy has swung through various levels of support for Iraq. Israel's often-stated policy on the Gulf war is to keep it going as long as possible because the dreadful carnage ties up the combatants and prevents either from attacking Israel.

In 1983, then-Defense Minister Ariel Sharon blurted out duringa US speaking engagement that Israel sold arms to Iran because it regarded Iraq as the greater enemy, and that the sales had been thoroughly discussed with US officials. US officials acknowledged such discussions but denied that Israel had US permission."

Last spring what turned out to be an Israeli disinformation campaign propounded the notion that the US had asked Israel to sell arms to Iran. The tapes in the Bar-Am case are said to suggest that the US was considering shifting its support to Iran while the conspiracy-sting was being hatched.

This kind of last-ditch Israeli government defense, probably supported by pro-Israel political obscurantists in Washington, has almost certainly been used before. When it was revealed that Israel was shipping arms to the Soviet-supported government of Ethiopia to fight Western-assisted resistance movements, and arms to the Argentine junta during the Malvinas-Falklands war, Israeli disinformationists in Washington sought to argue that Israeli actions which directly contravened stated US government objectives were really part of a "double game" somehow coordinated with Washington. This time, arrests by the US government of Israeli "players" have left no doubt that the US interest is to halt, not abet, Israeli arms sales to America's enemies.

https://youtu.be/TzIYGwL8T1Y

https://youtu.be/Vxim7cx39bc

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