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Vice President Harris on Monday announced a nearly billion-dollar investment in Central America, as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to address root causes of migration in the region. The investments will be made as part of a public-private partnership by a range of U.S.-based companies, from Columbia Sportswear Company to financial institutions like Microwd, which offers microloans to female entrepreneurs. Harris will detail the funding commitments and next steps for the administration’s efforts during a Monday afternoon meeting with private sector leaders and government aides “to strategize on next steps and announce progress we’ve made in this effort,” according...

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Monday released new guidelines for the treatment of pregnant, postpartum, breastfeeding and infant detainees, following a July report detailing the agency's lack of appropriate care infrastructure and guidelines. In a policy memo reviewed by The Hill, CBP acting Commissioner Troy Miller laid out a series of measures — from improving CBP installations to include changing stations to providing medical support — that field offices and Border Patrol stations will have to implement within 45 days.... ...ICE's new policy prohibits the detention of most pregnant, postpartum and nursing mothers for deportation....

this should be required viewing for every congresscritter before they go spouting off their mouths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgccg9xurE8

What are the "root causes" for immolating, beheading, raping, selling as sex slaves? According to Obama it is unemployment “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”—Martin Luther King, Jr. Two years ago Adelle Biton was hit by a rock when the family car was attacked outside of Ariel in Samaria by Arab terrorists. They had hurled rocks at the vehicle causing it to veer off the road and crash headfirst into a truck. Adelle was left with severe neurological damage. Adelle, at the age of four, has died from...

Has Marie Harf just dug the hole she's in a little deeper? Morning Joe invited the State Department spox on today to give her a chance to clarify what she said to Chris Matthews about the US being unable to "kill our way" out of the ISIS problem and the need to focus on the "root causes" of terrorism. After brushing off the suggestion by General Michael Hayden that she'd like a "mulligan" on those remarks, Harf attempted to distract from the focus on Islamic terrorism. Discussing this week's White House summit on "extremism," Harf cited the Lord's Resistance Army...

Arrest Jihad’s preachers and teachers today or kill four terrorists tomorrow… take your pick but decide quickly In the days after the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris and the thrilling response of the French people to the attempt to intimidate them, any number of media commentators have talked about ‘root causes’ of terrorism. They mention that Westerners have to reach out to tame the ‘angry young men’ who are the agents of the Jihad’s terrorism. No we don’t. Well, yes we should reach out to address the ‘root causes’ of terrorism and the hand we reach out should at least...

The economic situation is proving challenging to “root cause” theorists—those who argue that social pathologies like crime arise from economic inequality and racism, not cultural dysfunction. The regular predictions that crime will go up as self-disciplined burghers lose their jobs continue to be dashed. To be sure, in some cities, youth violence has been bobbing up and down. Chicago, for example, saw a 38 percent spike in homicide victims aged 17 and younger in 2008—to a total of 50 victims—but this year, those youth homicides were down 19 percent by the end of September. Inner-city gangbangers never had jobs to...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=53223 President Says Budget Signifies New Way Forward for Defense By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 24, 2009 – Americans are not quitters, and the country can overcome the difficulties facing it, President Barack Obama said tonight in his first speech before a joint session of Congress. In a speech mainly dedicated to the economic crisis facing the world, the president also honored the nation's men and women in uniform, vowing to increase the size of the Army and Marine Corps, raise military pay and provide the medical care veterans...

SNIPPET: "In an open letter to the president coinciding with his inauguration, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) attributed terrorism to “deprivation, poverty, despair and, most importantly, political injustice.” “The decades-long suffering of the Palestinian people provides only the most recent and potent illustration of the link between oppression, injustice, and violence,” said the OIC, calling for “an urgent and just remedy.” Abdul Aziz al-Tuwaijri, head of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, a Morocco-based body established by the OIC, wants Obama to take a new approach with regard to what he calls Islam’s “just causes.” “Will America...

One of the hallmarks of the Left is its fervent belief that, if poor people behave badly, the fault is not theirs, but instead it lies with "root causes."  For example, a word search in the New York Times for "root causes and crime" returns over 100 articles from that newspaper alone.  A significant number of these Times articles, which were especially prevalent in the 1980s and 1990s, have a politician arguing that, in dealing with crime, it's pointless to punish the criminals themselves.  Instead, it's the government's job to destroy crime at its root, a concept that invariably translates...

ROOT CAUSES OF TERRORISM TIMELINE 450 million years ago: First cartilaginous fishes 240 million years ago: Gore Vidal born 6000 BC Sumerians invent beer in Fertile Crescent; Madonna born 2000 BC Gore Vidal publishes first in long line of books blaming world's problems on America; no one knows wtf he's talking about

This article intends to trace the roots of Islamic terrorism, with special focus on Afghanistan. Notes are added on practical and philosophical problems of world media in finding the right track. From systematic errors in revealing little details, to serious misconceptions about basic facts and principles, we can relatively easily learn how much of "common knowledge" rests actually on superficial research and popular myths. Instead of becoming critical and aware of the traps laid around the issue, both Islamists and Islamophobes fail to recognize how they are manipulated. Terrorism is real Terrorism is not as difficult a concept as some...

Dr. Radu comments on what he sees as the root causes of Islamic extremist terrorism—and what he believes are not basically the motivating factors. An example of the latter is poverty; revolutionary violence in his view has long been the monopoly of the relatively well-to-do. Read on for details.—Ed. “Islamic terrorism, just as its Marxist or secessionist version in the West and Latin America was, is a matter of power—who has it and how to get it—not of poverty.” Socioeconomic grievances, or so some assert, explain (though they do not justify) terrorism in general and Islamic terrorism in particular—the...

by Robert Moynihan, Editor, Inside the VaticanConflicts Over US Sex Scandal and Church Freedom Conflicting currents -- from Rome, from the US media and legal system, from progressive Catholics and from victims of clerical sexual abuse -- will trouble the upcoming US bishops meeting in Dallas June 13-15 VATICAN CITY, June 8, 2002 -- Tensions are mounting, and the battle, far from nearing its end, is just beginning. From Rome to Dallas, the US sexual abuse scandals are crystallizing positions on matters central to the future of the Christian faith. Opinions about the root causes of and the needed remedies...