I'm all for calling um all nutters regardless of their religious leanings or country of origin..
Trump up there saying radical Islamic terrorist any chance he gets does no good just invites further hatred.. amongst the poor nothing to live for nutter ranks that cling to a certain religion or way of thinking.. trumps language just incites divide and conquer mentality.. presidents main job is a figurehead to not make us look bad.. congress is the boss.. but trump wants to play blowhard and use as much presidential power he possibly can within the constraints of our system...
why is trump not on twitter talking about Fox News fake news that tweeted out that Quebec shooter was a Moroccan.. turned out to be a white nationalist..
both sides of the right/left divide play the propaganda/fake news game..
Trump up there saying radical Islamic terrorist any chance he gets does no good just invites further hatred.. amongst the poor nothing to live for nutter ranks that cling to a certain religion or way of thinking.. trumps language just incites divide and conquer mentality.. presidents main job is a figurehead to not make us look bad.. congress is the boss.. but trump wants to play blowhard and use as much presidential power he possibly can within the constraints of our system...
why is trump not on twitter talking about Fox News fake news that tweeted out that Quebec shooter was a Moroccan.. turned out to be a white nationalist..
both sides of the right/left divide play the propaganda/fake news game..
[h=1]Trump’s early moves trigger business backlash[/h][h=2]The administration’s executive order hitting immigrants and recent steps toward protectionism are spurring a reversal of sentiment after excitement about cutting taxes and regulations.[/h]By Ben White
01/30/17 02:30 PM EST
Companies dependent on global supply chains worry about new tariffs in response to President Donald Trump's executive orders. | Getty
NEW YORK — Fear is rippling through corporate boardrooms from Silicon Valley to Wall Street over the new White House’s erratic approach to policy, with damage mounting from a travel crackdown, trade protectionism and a persistent habit of singling out individual companies for stinging public criticism.
The latest wave of worry is now focused mainly on President Donald Trump’s executive order hitting immigrants, but the concerns are far broader. Companies dependent on global supply chains worry about new tariffs. Exporters hoping for greater access to Asian markets see those hopes fading. And just about everyone is afraid of saying anything publicly that could provoke presidential ire.
Story Continued Below
The backlash comes after a few months of hope across much of the business world for an economic boom driven by cutting taxes and shredding regulations.
“It’s just a very confusing time for corporate America, which hates to be blindsided by things and then doesn’t want to say anything very critical because they will get hit back twice as hard,” Greg Valliere, chief strategist at Horizon Investments, said Monday. “What’s happened in the last 72 hours has to worry business because the administration looks so incompetent. Big companies notice when administrations seem this amateurish.”
Concern over Friday’s immigration order, which Silicon Valley giant Google said would affect 187 of its workers, helped drive down stocks on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average back below the 20,000 level it finally broke last week.
Big technology companies have the most at stake from the Trump administration’s move to block entry into the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority nations and restrict travel by legal permanent residents and citizens with dual nationalities.
“These tech companies need talent and much of that talent is coming from overseas,” said Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, which advises companies. “This is not about the ban from these seven countries. The numbers there are quite small. This is about creating an environment where America is no longer seen as an attractive place to live for a lot of people these companies really have to have. So these CEOs have to be loud. There is a war brewing here between Silicon Valley and the White House.”
After a weekend of criticism from Silicon Valley, Wall Street chief executives began to join their tech colleagues in criticizing Trump’s move.
“This is not a policy we support,” Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein said in a voicemail Monday to bank employees. “I recognize that there is potential for disruption to the firm, and especially to some of our people and their families.”
JPMorganChase CEO Jamie Dimon, in an email from the bank’s operating committee to all employees on Sunday, reassured workers of the “unwavering commitment to the dedicated people working here,” including those on sponsored visas possibly hit by the executive order.
"We do not support this policy or any other that goes against our values as a company," Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford said in a message to employees. | AP Photo
Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford and President and CEO Mark Fields also took issue with Trump’s order in a message to all employees: “Respect for all people is a core value of Ford Motor Company, and we are proud of the rich diversity of our company here at home and around the world,” they wrote. “That is why we do not support this policy or any other that goes against our values as a company.”
GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz have also been relatively outspoken in their criticism of Trump’s immigration action. Schultz said Starbucks would hire 10,000 political refugees globally.
CEOs’ concerns about the travel ban focused on both its potential impact on highly valued employees and confusion sown by its implementation, including mixed signals over whether it would cover legal permanent residents — those with so-called green cards — from returning to the U.S. from abroad.
“We’re concerned about the impact of this order and any proposals that could impose restrictions on Googlers and their families, or that create barriers to bringing great talent to the U.S,” Google said in a prepared statement. The company’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in a memo to employees that it was “painful to see the personal cost of this executive order on our colleagues.”
Corporate America’s early backlash against Trump is not limited to immigration. The White House last week signaled it could pay for its planned border wall with a 20 percent tariff on goods imported from Mexico. The White House then backtracked and said the 20 percent tariff was just one idea among many for getting Mexico to pay for the wall.
Investors and executives who may support Trump’s plans to lower the corporate tax rate and eliminate regulations are now buffeted by haphazard implementation, the threat of trade wars and limitations on the movements of highly skilled workers.
“Broad-brush policies like this people barrier impede growth and certainly do not accelerate it,” Cumberland Advisors chief investment officer David Kotok wrote in a note to clients Sunday. “Trade barriers and tariffs in the goods market are unhealthy for economic growth. Trump’s order extends that barrier policy to services and to skills that are in the human capital realm. Trump has now set back the positive elements of global exchange in both goods and services.”
The split-screen nature of Trump’s impact on corporate America was on full display Monday. Even as companies reacted to the travel ban, Trump met with nine representatives from small businesses and touted an executive action calling for the elimination of two regulations for every one new regulation put in place.
He also said the stock market was up “enormously” since his win and that the economy was “coming back fast,” citing announcements by Ford, GM, Fiat/Chrysler, Lockheed and Boeing about plans for U.S-based jobs.
“The American dream is back,” Trump said. “This isn’t a knock on President Obama; this is a knock on many presidents preceding me.” He also ripped the Dodd-Frank financial reform law and promised big changes, something that has helped financial shares drive the increase in stock prices in the weeks since his election. “Dodd-Frank is a disaster. We’re going to be doing a big number on Dodd-Frank.”
Many of the job announcements Trump highlighted were neither new nor a result of any of his policies. And Trump’s own Treasury nominee, Steven Mnuchin, praised elements of Dodd-Frank in written responses to questions from members of the Senate Finance Committee, according to a document obtained by POLITICO.
All this has left much of corporate America caught between hope for Trump’s broader agenda and deeply concerned about many of his initial actions in office.
“The concern is that we get so bogged down on immigration and the Supreme Court and Obamacare repeal that the good stuff on tax cuts and regulatory reform may not move until the fall and could get even more seriously bogged down,” said Valliere of Horizon Investments.
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01/30/17 02:30 PM EST
Companies dependent on global supply chains worry about new tariffs in response to President Donald Trump's executive orders. | Getty
NEW YORK — Fear is rippling through corporate boardrooms from Silicon Valley to Wall Street over the new White House’s erratic approach to policy, with damage mounting from a travel crackdown, trade protectionism and a persistent habit of singling out individual companies for stinging public criticism.
The latest wave of worry is now focused mainly on President Donald Trump’s executive order hitting immigrants, but the concerns are far broader. Companies dependent on global supply chains worry about new tariffs. Exporters hoping for greater access to Asian markets see those hopes fading. And just about everyone is afraid of saying anything publicly that could provoke presidential ire.
Story Continued Below
The backlash comes after a few months of hope across much of the business world for an economic boom driven by cutting taxes and shredding regulations.
“It’s just a very confusing time for corporate America, which hates to be blindsided by things and then doesn’t want to say anything very critical because they will get hit back twice as hard,” Greg Valliere, chief strategist at Horizon Investments, said Monday. “What’s happened in the last 72 hours has to worry business because the administration looks so incompetent. Big companies notice when administrations seem this amateurish.”
Concern over Friday’s immigration order, which Silicon Valley giant Google said would affect 187 of its workers, helped drive down stocks on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average back below the 20,000 level it finally broke last week.
Big technology companies have the most at stake from the Trump administration’s move to block entry into the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority nations and restrict travel by legal permanent residents and citizens with dual nationalities.
“These tech companies need talent and much of that talent is coming from overseas,” said Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, which advises companies. “This is not about the ban from these seven countries. The numbers there are quite small. This is about creating an environment where America is no longer seen as an attractive place to live for a lot of people these companies really have to have. So these CEOs have to be loud. There is a war brewing here between Silicon Valley and the White House.”
After a weekend of criticism from Silicon Valley, Wall Street chief executives began to join their tech colleagues in criticizing Trump’s move.
“This is not a policy we support,” Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein said in a voicemail Monday to bank employees. “I recognize that there is potential for disruption to the firm, and especially to some of our people and their families.”
JPMorganChase CEO Jamie Dimon, in an email from the bank’s operating committee to all employees on Sunday, reassured workers of the “unwavering commitment to the dedicated people working here,” including those on sponsored visas possibly hit by the executive order.
"We do not support this policy or any other that goes against our values as a company," Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford said in a message to employees. | AP Photo
Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford and President and CEO Mark Fields also took issue with Trump’s order in a message to all employees: “Respect for all people is a core value of Ford Motor Company, and we are proud of the rich diversity of our company here at home and around the world,” they wrote. “That is why we do not support this policy or any other that goes against our values as a company.”
GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz have also been relatively outspoken in their criticism of Trump’s immigration action. Schultz said Starbucks would hire 10,000 political refugees globally.
CEOs’ concerns about the travel ban focused on both its potential impact on highly valued employees and confusion sown by its implementation, including mixed signals over whether it would cover legal permanent residents — those with so-called green cards — from returning to the U.S. from abroad.
“We’re concerned about the impact of this order and any proposals that could impose restrictions on Googlers and their families, or that create barriers to bringing great talent to the U.S,” Google said in a prepared statement. The company’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in a memo to employees that it was “painful to see the personal cost of this executive order on our colleagues.”
Corporate America’s early backlash against Trump is not limited to immigration. The White House last week signaled it could pay for its planned border wall with a 20 percent tariff on goods imported from Mexico. The White House then backtracked and said the 20 percent tariff was just one idea among many for getting Mexico to pay for the wall.
Investors and executives who may support Trump’s plans to lower the corporate tax rate and eliminate regulations are now buffeted by haphazard implementation, the threat of trade wars and limitations on the movements of highly skilled workers.
“Broad-brush policies like this people barrier impede growth and certainly do not accelerate it,” Cumberland Advisors chief investment officer David Kotok wrote in a note to clients Sunday. “Trade barriers and tariffs in the goods market are unhealthy for economic growth. Trump’s order extends that barrier policy to services and to skills that are in the human capital realm. Trump has now set back the positive elements of global exchange in both goods and services.”
The split-screen nature of Trump’s impact on corporate America was on full display Monday. Even as companies reacted to the travel ban, Trump met with nine representatives from small businesses and touted an executive action calling for the elimination of two regulations for every one new regulation put in place.
He also said the stock market was up “enormously” since his win and that the economy was “coming back fast,” citing announcements by Ford, GM, Fiat/Chrysler, Lockheed and Boeing about plans for U.S-based jobs.
“The American dream is back,” Trump said. “This isn’t a knock on President Obama; this is a knock on many presidents preceding me.” He also ripped the Dodd-Frank financial reform law and promised big changes, something that has helped financial shares drive the increase in stock prices in the weeks since his election. “Dodd-Frank is a disaster. We’re going to be doing a big number on Dodd-Frank.”
Many of the job announcements Trump highlighted were neither new nor a result of any of his policies. And Trump’s own Treasury nominee, Steven Mnuchin, praised elements of Dodd-Frank in written responses to questions from members of the Senate Finance Committee, according to a document obtained by POLITICO.
All this has left much of corporate America caught between hope for Trump’s broader agenda and deeply concerned about many of his initial actions in office.
“The concern is that we get so bogged down on immigration and the Supreme Court and Obamacare repeal that the good stuff on tax cuts and regulatory reform may not move until the fall and could get even more seriously bogged down,” said Valliere of Horizon Investments.
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America stays on top cause it continuously draws in new bright people looking to escape where they currently are.. with trumpy in charge many will say no thanks.. They'll just head to New Zealand or something instead..
the new global economy is tech and ideas.. not manufacturing trumpy.. robots are increasingly doing all the grunt work.. not humans.. Mexicans not "stealing" manufacturing jobs.. robots are.. baby boomers just don't seem to get it.. they stuck in old ways of thinking.,
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Trump targets tech's H-1B visa hiring tool
Marco della Cava, Elizabeth Weise, and Jon Swartz, USA TODAY
10 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO — President Trump's relationship with Silicon Valley has always been volatile at best, but it seems things soon may get even more contentious.
Administration officials have drafted a new executive order aimed at overhauling, among other things, the H-1B work-visa program that technology companies have long relied on to bring top foreign engineering talent to their U.S.-based locations.
President Trump has signed a sweeping executive order to suspend refugee arrivals and impose tough controls on travelers from seven Muslim countries, inspiring protests at New York's JFK International Airport.
Bryan R. Smith, AFP/Getty Images, AFP
In his news briefing Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said the possible executive order on work visas "is part of a larger immigration effort" and stems from "an overall need to look at all of these measures."
The order, which has yet to come into effect, arrives on the heels of Friday's controversial immigration ban targeting seven majority-Muslim countries that sparked protests at airports around the country over the weekend.
That ban, which the White House modified Sunday to not affect green card holders, roiled tech leaders, who almost universally denounced the move.
The CEOs of Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Uber, Airbnb and Tesla Motors noted the policy was affecting their own employees working here legally, and would jeopardize their competitive quest for talent. Google CEO Sundar Pichai was among the first to condemn the order, noting that it impacted nearly 200 employees, risking stranding some abroad.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky offered free housing to anyone displaced by the ban, while Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said in a Facebook post that it was "time to link arms together to protect American values of freedom and opportunity."
This new executive order, which was first reported by Bloomberg, takes aim at both H-1B visas, which are capped at 65,000 a year and are set aside for so-called "specialty positions," as well as visas used for temporary agricultural workers, summer student workers and intracompany transfers.
Tech sector stocks were down 1% on Monday's news.
The order is aimed at ensuring that "officials administer our laws in a manner that prioritizes the interests of American workers and — to the maximum degree possible — the jobs, wages and well-being of those workers," according to a copy of the document provided to USA TODAY.
This executive order would "create a similar chaos to the travel ban," says Sam Adair, an immigration lawyer at Graham Adair.
"It would be incredibly disruptive to what is a natural part of the recruitment process" for the tech industry, universities, hospitals and biotech, he says.
That process begins April 1, when the annual application process for H-1B visas starts.
But Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor of law at Cornell University and expert on immigration law, cautions that the order is only a draft and that it does not set out specific changes to the H-1B visa program, only suggests that it be examined with the thought of what’s best for American workers.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during Google I/O 2016.
Justin Sullivan, Getty Images, Getty Images North America
While there have been calls to set a specific wage for H1-B workers so that they do not undercut U.S. workers, it’s not something the president can do unilaterally, Yale-Loehr says.
Current H-1B regulations require that those granted the visa have at least a bachelor’s degree and must be paid the prevailing wage.
“There have been allegations that foreigner workers are coming in at lower wages, if they’re doing that that is violating the current statue," he says.
H-1B visa are used by tech companies, by hospitals looking to hire doctors, especially in medically underserved areas, and by school districts looking to hire language teachers when U.S. teachers are not available.
Technology companies are in an on-going struggle to hire computer-science professionals to power their companies. Executives often claim that they must look overseas because there is a shortage of home-grown math and science graduates.
Critics charge that tech firms lack diversity because they reflexively look to hire white and Asian males and overlook a growing pipeline of women and people of color who are developing programming skills.
Others cite surveys that question the oft-stated shortage of math and science graduates. In 2013, for example, the Economic Policy Institute released a study concluding that the U.S. has “more than a sufficient supply of workers available to work in STEM occupations.”
The logic went that if there was a domestic labor shortage, wages would rise. But researchers found that salaries remained flat and Americans with science and math degrees found it difficult to get jobs.
The controversial work-visa program has prompted dueling partisan legislation.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) has proposed a bill that would award visas to companies willing to pay the highest salaries. A bill from Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) would raise the salary requirement for the positions to $100,000 a year, up from $60,000, and eliminate a master's degree exemption.
Jobs could flee overseas, some contend
Although the debate over the visa program is only likely to escalate, some tech world experts are convinced a more restricted H-1B program would negatively impact the American economy.
Foreign tech workers could "find employment in other countries with more attractive immigration laws and compete against us," says Mark Koestler, business immigration partner at Kramer Levin. "If we turn away professionals who seek H-1B status, we will lose many future entrepreneurs who will create future jobs for Americans in the United States."
The H-1B program is a "critical source of legal, skilled labor for the U.S. economy," says Venky Ganesan, managing director of Menlo Ventures, a venture-capital firm in Silicon Valley. To curtail it, he says, would wreak havoc on how tech companies recruit workers.
"Many who came to the U.S. (via H-1B) end up starting companies in the U.S.," Ganesan says, citing Jyoti Bansal, a native of India who started AppDynamics, a software maker that was sold to Cisco Systems for $3.7 billion last week before AppDynamic planned to go public.
"The best way to create jobs in America is to create companies in America," Ganesan says.
The Partnership for a New American Economy concluded in a 2016 report that 40.2% Fortune 500 firms had at least one founder who either immigrated to the United States or was the child of immigrants. Those firms generated more than $4.8 trillion in revenue in 2014 and employed 18.9 million people globally, the report found.
Well-known tech firms founded by immigrants, including Google, Intel, Yahoo, and Ebay.
Elon Musk has created tens of thousands of U.S. jobs with Tesla and SpaceX, hails from South Africa.
Musk, who is on a new presidential business advisory committee that will meet Friday, was one of a handful of top tech CEOs who met with Trump in New York shortly after the election. At the time, Trump told the assembled leaders of Amazon, Facebook and other household names that "there’s nobody like you in the world … Anything we can do to help this go along, we’re going to be there for you."
During the campaign, however, some tech leaders were openly critical of Trump and a range of employees vowed they would not use their skills to create a Muslim employee registry as had been suggested.
Follow USA TODAY tech reporters: San Francisco bureau chief Jon Swartz, Elizabeth Weise and Marco della Cava.
the new global economy is tech and ideas.. not manufacturing trumpy.. robots are increasingly doing all the grunt work.. not humans.. Mexicans not "stealing" manufacturing jobs.. robots are.. baby boomers just don't seem to get it.. they stuck in old ways of thinking.,
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Trump targets tech's H-1B visa hiring tool
Marco della Cava, Elizabeth Weise, and Jon Swartz, USA TODAY
10 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO — President Trump's relationship with Silicon Valley has always been volatile at best, but it seems things soon may get even more contentious.
Administration officials have drafted a new executive order aimed at overhauling, among other things, the H-1B work-visa program that technology companies have long relied on to bring top foreign engineering talent to their U.S.-based locations.
Bryan R. Smith, AFP/Getty Images, AFP
In his news briefing Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said the possible executive order on work visas "is part of a larger immigration effort" and stems from "an overall need to look at all of these measures."
The order, which has yet to come into effect, arrives on the heels of Friday's controversial immigration ban targeting seven majority-Muslim countries that sparked protests at airports around the country over the weekend.
That ban, which the White House modified Sunday to not affect green card holders, roiled tech leaders, who almost universally denounced the move.
The CEOs of Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Uber, Airbnb and Tesla Motors noted the policy was affecting their own employees working here legally, and would jeopardize their competitive quest for talent. Google CEO Sundar Pichai was among the first to condemn the order, noting that it impacted nearly 200 employees, risking stranding some abroad.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky offered free housing to anyone displaced by the ban, while Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said in a Facebook post that it was "time to link arms together to protect American values of freedom and opportunity."
This new executive order, which was first reported by Bloomberg, takes aim at both H-1B visas, which are capped at 65,000 a year and are set aside for so-called "specialty positions," as well as visas used for temporary agricultural workers, summer student workers and intracompany transfers.
Tech sector stocks were down 1% on Monday's news.
The order is aimed at ensuring that "officials administer our laws in a manner that prioritizes the interests of American workers and — to the maximum degree possible — the jobs, wages and well-being of those workers," according to a copy of the document provided to USA TODAY.
This executive order would "create a similar chaos to the travel ban," says Sam Adair, an immigration lawyer at Graham Adair.
"It would be incredibly disruptive to what is a natural part of the recruitment process" for the tech industry, universities, hospitals and biotech, he says.
That process begins April 1, when the annual application process for H-1B visas starts.
But Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor of law at Cornell University and expert on immigration law, cautions that the order is only a draft and that it does not set out specific changes to the H-1B visa program, only suggests that it be examined with the thought of what’s best for American workers.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during Google I/O 2016.
Justin Sullivan, Getty Images, Getty Images North America
While there have been calls to set a specific wage for H1-B workers so that they do not undercut U.S. workers, it’s not something the president can do unilaterally, Yale-Loehr says.
Current H-1B regulations require that those granted the visa have at least a bachelor’s degree and must be paid the prevailing wage.
“There have been allegations that foreigner workers are coming in at lower wages, if they’re doing that that is violating the current statue," he says.
H-1B visa are used by tech companies, by hospitals looking to hire doctors, especially in medically underserved areas, and by school districts looking to hire language teachers when U.S. teachers are not available.
Technology companies are in an on-going struggle to hire computer-science professionals to power their companies. Executives often claim that they must look overseas because there is a shortage of home-grown math and science graduates.
Critics charge that tech firms lack diversity because they reflexively look to hire white and Asian males and overlook a growing pipeline of women and people of color who are developing programming skills.
Others cite surveys that question the oft-stated shortage of math and science graduates. In 2013, for example, the Economic Policy Institute released a study concluding that the U.S. has “more than a sufficient supply of workers available to work in STEM occupations.”
The logic went that if there was a domestic labor shortage, wages would rise. But researchers found that salaries remained flat and Americans with science and math degrees found it difficult to get jobs.
The controversial work-visa program has prompted dueling partisan legislation.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) has proposed a bill that would award visas to companies willing to pay the highest salaries. A bill from Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) would raise the salary requirement for the positions to $100,000 a year, up from $60,000, and eliminate a master's degree exemption.
Jobs could flee overseas, some contend
Although the debate over the visa program is only likely to escalate, some tech world experts are convinced a more restricted H-1B program would negatively impact the American economy.
Foreign tech workers could "find employment in other countries with more attractive immigration laws and compete against us," says Mark Koestler, business immigration partner at Kramer Levin. "If we turn away professionals who seek H-1B status, we will lose many future entrepreneurs who will create future jobs for Americans in the United States."
The H-1B program is a "critical source of legal, skilled labor for the U.S. economy," says Venky Ganesan, managing director of Menlo Ventures, a venture-capital firm in Silicon Valley. To curtail it, he says, would wreak havoc on how tech companies recruit workers.
"Many who came to the U.S. (via H-1B) end up starting companies in the U.S.," Ganesan says, citing Jyoti Bansal, a native of India who started AppDynamics, a software maker that was sold to Cisco Systems for $3.7 billion last week before AppDynamic planned to go public.
"The best way to create jobs in America is to create companies in America," Ganesan says.
The Partnership for a New American Economy concluded in a 2016 report that 40.2% Fortune 500 firms had at least one founder who either immigrated to the United States or was the child of immigrants. Those firms generated more than $4.8 trillion in revenue in 2014 and employed 18.9 million people globally, the report found.
Well-known tech firms founded by immigrants, including Google, Intel, Yahoo, and Ebay.
Elon Musk has created tens of thousands of U.S. jobs with Tesla and SpaceX, hails from South Africa.
Musk, who is on a new presidential business advisory committee that will meet Friday, was one of a handful of top tech CEOs who met with Trump in New York shortly after the election. At the time, Trump told the assembled leaders of Amazon, Facebook and other household names that "there’s nobody like you in the world … Anything we can do to help this go along, we’re going to be there for you."
During the campaign, however, some tech leaders were openly critical of Trump and a range of employees vowed they would not use their skills to create a Muslim employee registry as had been suggested.
Follow USA TODAY tech reporters: San Francisco bureau chief Jon Swartz, Elizabeth Weise and Marco della Cava.
Looks like OPEC has conceded some market share to the USA but it will be interesting to see how much we drill. Most of this extra production from us is from already completed capped off wells . The rig count not coming up that drastically yet.
Unless I'm totally wrong and trump sends us into economic prosperity land from currently overvalued territory in everything.. oil will languish and go a whole lotta nowhere..
opec will play around to try to keep it from going sub 40 if the global economy does turn south.. as sub 40 oil for them is a nogo with all the socialism they got going to keep the masses enslaved..
likely in a 40-60 range long term till the current bubble and trump madness is done playing itself out..
opec will play around to try to keep it from going sub 40 if the global economy does turn south.. as sub 40 oil for them is a nogo with all the socialism they got going to keep the masses enslaved..
likely in a 40-60 range long term till the current bubble and trump madness is done playing itself out..
ISIS ultimate goal is to split the world into all Muslims countries and countries of non believers.. trumps rhetoric and policies will only help recruitment to their cause..
liberal propaganda not not common sense eekster.. I know.. that's everybody answer for things they don't like these days.. it's propaganda .. "alternative facts" or "fake news" .. world lacking in moderates with common sense...
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US allies warn diplomats Trump travel ban will help ISIS, could lead to retaliation in Muslim world - CBS News
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Allies warn Trump's travel ban will be "lifeline" for ISIS
5:43 AM EST World
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WASHINGTON -- American diplomats in four majority-Muslim nations have sent cables this week to the State Department warning that U.S. allies fear jihadists will use President Trump’s temporary travel ban on people from seven nations, and all refugees, as a propaganda tool, and that Western installations in the Middle East could face retaliation.
Republican Rep. Charlie Dent says he's "very concerned" about immigration orderThe cables, seen Monday by CBS News, came over the course of just 24 hours from diplomats in Qatar, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia. Of those nations, only Sudan is among the seven from which travelers are now barred entry to the United States under President Trump’s executive order. All four are political allies and partners with the U.S. on security matters.
In each cable, the characterizations of the reactions to the ban from the public, press and social media were the same: outrage and condemnation.
The cable from Qatar included warnings that the executive order will fuel ISISpropaganda and undermine the U.S.-led counter-ISIS coalition’s efforts.
“You could not have given our adversaries better propaganda material,” a senior Qatari official told U.S. diplomats, adding that the travel ban would be “front-page material” for ISIS’ online propaganda magazines. He predicted that jihadists would use the ban to try and shore up recruitment, just as ISIS numbers are showing real signs of decline. “The timing of this has given the group a lifeline.”
Former CIA deputy director says travel ban will make America "less safe"Those concerns were echoed Monday by former CIA deputy director Mike Morell, who told CBS News he believed the Executive Order, “is going to make the threat worse. It is going to make us less safe.”
“It’s playing right into the ISIS narrative. ISIS has not said anything about this yet, but people around ISIS, who amplify its message, are talking about it, and they are saying, ‘See? We told you, this is a war against Islam.’ So this is going to be a recruitment boon for ISIS,” Morell said.
A Senior Qatari military official said, according to the cable from that country viewed by CBS News, that ISIS could exploit tensions between Iraqis and U.S. military personnel in the ongoing operation to liberate Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, from the terror group.
Iraqis fighting ISIS respond to ban on entering U.S.“Coalition support, particularly the on-the-ground presence of U.S. forces, could be in jeopardy,” said the Qatari military official.
CBS News has spoken to people with first-hand knowledge of the operation in question -- Iraqi military commanders on the ground -- who have lamented Mr. Trump’s travel ban and expressed concerns that it may complicate the vital cooperation between U.S. and Iraqi forces.
Gen. Talib al Kenani commands the elite, American-trained counter-terrorism forces that have led the fight against ISIS for two years.
“There are many American troops here in Iraq,” he told CBS News at his fortified compound in Baghdad. “After this ban, how are we supposed to deal with each other?”
Top Iraqi general barred from entering U.S. to visit familyAl Kenani believes the “ban needs to be reviewed… We thought we were partners with our American friends, and now we realize that we’re just considered terrorists.”
An official from Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs told American diplomats the travel ban could embolden jihadists groups to strike at Western targets or key U.S. partners – including his own country.
“This ban is like a target on the backs of all Muslim U.S. allies in the region,” the official said.
There was also concern that the Executive Order could bolster Iran’s role in the Middle East. According to the senior Qatari military official: “Qatar’s military establishment is concerned that the move could embolden Iranian activity in Iraq and further increase sectarian tensions in an unstable region.”
Sudan -- which is included in the temporary ban along with Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen -- “expressed frustration” that the order came despite U.S.-Sudanese cooperation on counterterrorism.
The U.S. Charge d’affaires was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Khartoum for an explanation. U.S. officials were asked, “what Sudan had done to merit such treatment,” as there was confusion as to why the country had been included in the list of seven.
The general population in Sudan, according to the cable sent to Washington, sees the travel ban as “an affront to their national pride.”
A Sudanese opposition leader “warned against taking steps seen by the Muslim population to be extremist as Muslim extremists would use it to their advantage.”
With sanctions on Sudan lifted just before President Obama left office, the government “expressed concern that the timing of the ban coincided with a time when Sudanese businesspeople needed to travel to the U.S. to build new relationships.”
According to the cable from the U.S. Embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the public there has been vocal in its denouncement of the ban, labelling it “Islamophobic,” and voicing concerns they could be added to the list.
In the cable from Indonesia, diplomats said government officials expressed their “deep disappointment” with the ban, while the largest circulation newspaper called it “discriminatory” and “racist,” and warned the move could spark acts of “revenge” by other countries.
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liberal propaganda not not common sense eekster.. I know.. that's everybody answer for things they don't like these days.. it's propaganda .. "alternative facts" or "fake news" .. world lacking in moderates with common sense...
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US allies warn diplomats Trump travel ban will help ISIS, could lead to retaliation in Muslim world - CBS News
5:43 AM EST
Allies warn Trump's travel ban will be "lifeline" for ISIS
5:43 AM EST World
CBS News
WASHINGTON -- American diplomats in four majority-Muslim nations have sent cables this week to the State Department warning that U.S. allies fear jihadists will use President Trump’s temporary travel ban on people from seven nations, and all refugees, as a propaganda tool, and that Western installations in the Middle East could face retaliation.
Republican Rep. Charlie Dent says he's "very concerned" about immigration orderThe cables, seen Monday by CBS News, came over the course of just 24 hours from diplomats in Qatar, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia. Of those nations, only Sudan is among the seven from which travelers are now barred entry to the United States under President Trump’s executive order. All four are political allies and partners with the U.S. on security matters. In each cable, the characterizations of the reactions to the ban from the public, press and social media were the same: outrage and condemnation.
The cable from Qatar included warnings that the executive order will fuel ISISpropaganda and undermine the U.S.-led counter-ISIS coalition’s efforts.
“You could not have given our adversaries better propaganda material,” a senior Qatari official told U.S. diplomats, adding that the travel ban would be “front-page material” for ISIS’ online propaganda magazines. He predicted that jihadists would use the ban to try and shore up recruitment, just as ISIS numbers are showing real signs of decline. “The timing of this has given the group a lifeline.”
Former CIA deputy director says travel ban will make America "less safe"Those concerns were echoed Monday by former CIA deputy director Mike Morell, who told CBS News he believed the Executive Order, “is going to make the threat worse. It is going to make us less safe.”
“It’s playing right into the ISIS narrative. ISIS has not said anything about this yet, but people around ISIS, who amplify its message, are talking about it, and they are saying, ‘See? We told you, this is a war against Islam.’ So this is going to be a recruitment boon for ISIS,” Morell said.
A Senior Qatari military official said, according to the cable from that country viewed by CBS News, that ISIS could exploit tensions between Iraqis and U.S. military personnel in the ongoing operation to liberate Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, from the terror group.
Iraqis fighting ISIS respond to ban on entering U.S.“Coalition support, particularly the on-the-ground presence of U.S. forces, could be in jeopardy,” said the Qatari military official.
CBS News has spoken to people with first-hand knowledge of the operation in question -- Iraqi military commanders on the ground -- who have lamented Mr. Trump’s travel ban and expressed concerns that it may complicate the vital cooperation between U.S. and Iraqi forces.
Gen. Talib al Kenani commands the elite, American-trained counter-terrorism forces that have led the fight against ISIS for two years.
“There are many American troops here in Iraq,” he told CBS News at his fortified compound in Baghdad. “After this ban, how are we supposed to deal with each other?”
Top Iraqi general barred from entering U.S. to visit familyAl Kenani believes the “ban needs to be reviewed… We thought we were partners with our American friends, and now we realize that we’re just considered terrorists.”
An official from Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs told American diplomats the travel ban could embolden jihadists groups to strike at Western targets or key U.S. partners – including his own country.
“This ban is like a target on the backs of all Muslim U.S. allies in the region,” the official said.
There was also concern that the Executive Order could bolster Iran’s role in the Middle East. According to the senior Qatari military official: “Qatar’s military establishment is concerned that the move could embolden Iranian activity in Iraq and further increase sectarian tensions in an unstable region.”
Sudan -- which is included in the temporary ban along with Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen -- “expressed frustration” that the order came despite U.S.-Sudanese cooperation on counterterrorism.
The U.S. Charge d’affaires was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Khartoum for an explanation. U.S. officials were asked, “what Sudan had done to merit such treatment,” as there was confusion as to why the country had been included in the list of seven.
The general population in Sudan, according to the cable sent to Washington, sees the travel ban as “an affront to their national pride.”
A Sudanese opposition leader “warned against taking steps seen by the Muslim population to be extremist as Muslim extremists would use it to their advantage.”
With sanctions on Sudan lifted just before President Obama left office, the government “expressed concern that the timing of the ban coincided with a time when Sudanese businesspeople needed to travel to the U.S. to build new relationships.”
According to the cable from the U.S. Embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the public there has been vocal in its denouncement of the ban, labelling it “Islamophobic,” and voicing concerns they could be added to the list.
In the cable from Indonesia, diplomats said government officials expressed their “deep disappointment” with the ban, while the largest circulation newspaper called it “discriminatory” and “racist,” and warned the move could spark acts of “revenge” by other countries.
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You gotta look after all your citizens Tiz, or shit happens
50% of the country is pissed, and wants change, just like in the UK
Domestic issues have been building for decades and democracy allows that safety valve to blow, the Liberals thought they could manage these domestic issues by ignoring them and using blanket MSM propaganda bs
The voters gave him a mandate and now he's going to deliver
50% of the country is pissed, and wants change, just like in the UK
Domestic issues have been building for decades and democracy allows that safety valve to blow, the Liberals thought they could manage these domestic issues by ignoring them and using blanket MSM propaganda bs
The voters gave him a mandate and now he's going to deliver
It's all nonsense distractions from the real issues though eek.. blaming Mexicans (wall) Muslims (Muslim "ban") obama (Obamacare) etc aren't the reasons the average joe is falling behind
the problems are within ..WE are a the problem.. economic policies control by megacorporations/special interests where majority the wealth go to the elite.. mixed with an increasingly obese lazy populace that has gotten very spoiled over the years by handouts/government
Much easier to name call anybody that stands in your way and blame others for your problems like trump does..
the problems are within ..WE are a the problem.. economic policies control by megacorporations/special interests where majority the wealth go to the elite.. mixed with an increasingly obese lazy populace that has gotten very spoiled over the years by handouts/government
Much easier to name call anybody that stands in your way and blame others for your problems like trump does..
Trump making more friends..
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[h=1]Trump told Turnbull refugee agreement was the 'worst deal ever' – report | Australia news | The Guardian[/h]Katharine Murphy and Ben Doherty
Wednesday 1 February 2017 20.25 EST
Malcolm Turnbull questioned on claim Trump hung up on him
Donald Trump told Malcolm Turnbull the US-Australia refugee resettlement agreement was “the worst deal ever” and warned he was going to “get killed” politically during their one-on-one call last weekend, according to a detailed account of the conversation in the Washington Post.
The Post reported on Thursday that Trump had fumed during the phone call, and told the Australian prime minister he’d spoken to other world leaders on the same day, and this was “this was the worst call by far”.
Trump, according to the report, accused Australia of seeking to export the “next Boston bombers”.
How could 'extreme vetting' apply to refugees from Australia's camps?
The report says the friction between the two leaders “reflected Trump’s anger over being bound by an agreement reached by the Obama administration to accept refugees from Australian detention sites even while Trump was issuing an executive order suspending such arrivals from elsewhere in the world”.
The White House declined to comment on the report on Thursday.
The “one-off” deal was announced in November with former president Barack Obama agreeing to take an unspecified number of refugees from Australia’s offshore detention centres.
The report on the phone call says Turnbull insisted the new administration honour the agreement, and allow refugees to enter the country on the normal vetting arrangements, which prompted Trump to declare they would be subjected to “extreme vetting”.
The call, scheduled for an hour, was terminated after 25 minutes, the Post said. The source of the account is attributed as a “senior US official”.
Turnbull declined to comment on the report, saying the resettlement deal remained on track and it was best that conversations between leaders remained private.
“I’m not going to comment on the conversation,” Turnbull told reporters in Melbourne. “During the course of the conversation, as you know and it was confirmed by the president’s official spokesman, the president assured me that he would continue with, honour the agreement we entered into with the Obama administration, with respect to refugee resettlement.”
Turnbull says Trump gave him personal assurance of refugee resettlement deal
Asked whether Trump had hung up on him, Turnbull again declined to comment, but he suggested he had argued Australia’s corner. “Australians know me very well. I always stand up for Australia in every forum.”
The new report significantly intensifies the government’s woes over the refugee deal, which has been the subject of confusing accounts out of Washington over the past few days.
The Turnbull government has been at pains to stress the deal is on track despite the contradictory statements out of Washington, and Turnbull has not referenced any tension between the two leaders, despite the fact the deal clearly contradicts Trump’s anti-immigrant messaging throughout the presidential campaign.
‘I am not about to run a commentary’: Turnbull on Trump’s travel ban – videoOn Wednesday, Turnbull told the National Press Club: “The Trump administration has committed to progress with the arrangements to honour the deal ... that was entered into with the Obama administration, and that was the assurance the president gave me when we spoke on the weekend.”
He repeated the formulation again on Thursday. “I received the assurance that I did [on the resettlement deal] from the president himself.”
Confusion about the deal has rolled on for days. A statement from the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, said the US had agreed to consider resettlement of 1,250 of the refugees held in Australia’s offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru. Most have been on the islands more than three years.
Related: Malcolm Turnbull, stop the mealy-mouthed platitudes and stand up for our values | Kristina Keneally
“The deal specifically deals with 1,250 people, they’re mostly in Papua New Guinea, being held ... there will be extreme vetting applied to all of them as part and parcel of the deal that was made,” Spicer told the White House press corps.
“The president, in accordance with that deal, to honour what had been agreed upon by the United States government … will go forward.”
But Spicer’s comment was almost immediately undermined when the ABC’s Washington bureau was telephoned by a White House source insisting the agreement was still under consideration and the president had not made a final decision.
On Thursday the State Department issued a separate statement saying that the deal was going ahead.
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[h=1]Trump told Turnbull refugee agreement was the 'worst deal ever' – report | Australia news | The Guardian[/h]Katharine Murphy and Ben Doherty
Wednesday 1 February 2017 20.25 EST
Malcolm Turnbull questioned on claim Trump hung up on him
Donald Trump told Malcolm Turnbull the US-Australia refugee resettlement agreement was “the worst deal ever” and warned he was going to “get killed” politically during their one-on-one call last weekend, according to a detailed account of the conversation in the Washington Post.
The Post reported on Thursday that Trump had fumed during the phone call, and told the Australian prime minister he’d spoken to other world leaders on the same day, and this was “this was the worst call by far”.
Trump, according to the report, accused Australia of seeking to export the “next Boston bombers”.
How could 'extreme vetting' apply to refugees from Australia's camps?
The report says the friction between the two leaders “reflected Trump’s anger over being bound by an agreement reached by the Obama administration to accept refugees from Australian detention sites even while Trump was issuing an executive order suspending such arrivals from elsewhere in the world”.
The White House declined to comment on the report on Thursday.
The “one-off” deal was announced in November with former president Barack Obama agreeing to take an unspecified number of refugees from Australia’s offshore detention centres.
The report on the phone call says Turnbull insisted the new administration honour the agreement, and allow refugees to enter the country on the normal vetting arrangements, which prompted Trump to declare they would be subjected to “extreme vetting”.
The call, scheduled for an hour, was terminated after 25 minutes, the Post said. The source of the account is attributed as a “senior US official”.
Turnbull declined to comment on the report, saying the resettlement deal remained on track and it was best that conversations between leaders remained private.
“I’m not going to comment on the conversation,” Turnbull told reporters in Melbourne. “During the course of the conversation, as you know and it was confirmed by the president’s official spokesman, the president assured me that he would continue with, honour the agreement we entered into with the Obama administration, with respect to refugee resettlement.”
Turnbull says Trump gave him personal assurance of refugee resettlement deal
Asked whether Trump had hung up on him, Turnbull again declined to comment, but he suggested he had argued Australia’s corner. “Australians know me very well. I always stand up for Australia in every forum.”
The new report significantly intensifies the government’s woes over the refugee deal, which has been the subject of confusing accounts out of Washington over the past few days.
The Turnbull government has been at pains to stress the deal is on track despite the contradictory statements out of Washington, and Turnbull has not referenced any tension between the two leaders, despite the fact the deal clearly contradicts Trump’s anti-immigrant messaging throughout the presidential campaign.
‘I am not about to run a commentary’: Turnbull on Trump’s travel ban – videoOn Wednesday, Turnbull told the National Press Club: “The Trump administration has committed to progress with the arrangements to honour the deal ... that was entered into with the Obama administration, and that was the assurance the president gave me when we spoke on the weekend.”
He repeated the formulation again on Thursday. “I received the assurance that I did [on the resettlement deal] from the president himself.”
Confusion about the deal has rolled on for days. A statement from the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, said the US had agreed to consider resettlement of 1,250 of the refugees held in Australia’s offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru. Most have been on the islands more than three years.
Related: Malcolm Turnbull, stop the mealy-mouthed platitudes and stand up for our values | Kristina Keneally
“The deal specifically deals with 1,250 people, they’re mostly in Papua New Guinea, being held ... there will be extreme vetting applied to all of them as part and parcel of the deal that was made,” Spicer told the White House press corps.
“The president, in accordance with that deal, to honour what had been agreed upon by the United States government … will go forward.”
But Spicer’s comment was almost immediately undermined when the ABC’s Washington bureau was telephoned by a White House source insisting the agreement was still under consideration and the president had not made a final decision.
On Thursday the State Department issued a separate statement saying that the deal was going ahead.
With trump in charge anything becomes possible lol
35m35 minutes agoDonald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Iran is rapidly taking over more and more of Iraq even after the U.S. has squandered three trillion dollars there. Obvious long ago!
Lol just read the Mexico thing about him telling Nieto that he might have to send troops to clean up the cartels.
[FONT="]"You have a bunch of bad hombres down there," Trump told Pena Nieto, according to the excerpt seen by the AP. "You aren't doing enough to stop them. I think your military is scared. Our military isn't, so I just might send them down to take care of it."
That's some gangster shit.[/FONT]
[FONT="]"You have a bunch of bad hombres down there," Trump told Pena Nieto, according to the excerpt seen by the AP. "You aren't doing enough to stop them. I think your military is scared. Our military isn't, so I just might send them down to take care of it."
That's some gangster shit.[/FONT]
Just "reality" tv shit .. surreal.. mindboggling..
13m13 minutes agoDonald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!
does he not know the difference between refugees and illegal immigrants?
jawdropping
just wait till economy goes south on his watch and the tantrums he throws might start ww3 for fun
13m13 minutes agoDonald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!
does he not know the difference between refugees and illegal immigrants?
jawdropping
just wait till economy goes south on his watch and the tantrums he throws might start ww3 for fun
When Manziel of all people is dropping words of wisdom on our POTUS and being the mature/smart one and deleting his twitter account.. you have to begin to wonder if you live in some alternate universe or begin to wonder if this is all just one bad dream lol
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“Twitter has been nothing but a distraction for me. I’ve said all I can say,” Manziel told TMZ Sports. “Now I need to shut the hell up and work on bettering myself and my situation.”
“Yo @POTUS even I know to stay away from the notifications section on twitter,” Manziel wrote Monday afternoon. “S–t will drive you crazy, lead the country and let them hate.”
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“Twitter has been nothing but a distraction for me. I’ve said all I can say,” Manziel told TMZ Sports. “Now I need to shut the hell up and work on bettering myself and my situation.”
“Yo @POTUS even I know to stay away from the notifications section on twitter,” Manziel wrote Monday afternoon. “S–t will drive you crazy, lead the country and let them hate.”
It's a bit of a gangster universe out there, if Trump has the balls things could get interesting.
Australia has been "keeping swarthy foreigners out" for a while now, and quietly getting away with it
Trump quite rightly has told the Aussie PM to deal with his own in-house bullshit, it's not a US issue
