Is he equating Trump's measures to Australia's? But then he added "our values are very well known", including "our commitment to multiculturalism … So that's where we stand."

As for the urgent matter of how Australian dual citizens might be affected by the executive order, Turnbull was unenlightening.

"If those issues arise in respect of Australian citizens we will, and we are, taking up that issue with the Administration. Can I just say to you, we have a very close relationship with the United States, and when we want to engage in discussions of this kind, we do so privately and frankly."

Yet Britain has already set out the position of its dual citizens.

A statement dated January 29 from the British Foreign Office said: "Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has today held conversations with the US government and as a result we can clarify that:

"The presidential executive order only applies to individuals travelling from one of the seven named countries.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-30/turnbull-news-conference-an-exerci...

Scott Morrison has declined to criticise Donald Trump’s contentious travel ban, saying it is up to the United States to determine its border control arrangements, and noting the rest of the world is now “catching up” with Australia’s harsh deterrence policies.

Morrison, a former immigration minister, suggested to Sydney radio host Ray Hadley he empathised with the US president Donald Trump, who is facing a fierce backlash against his controversial executive order banning travel to the US from seven Muslim-majority countries.

“I remember when we came in in 2013 and I was implementing our border protection policy people threw their hands up – and I said I’m doing what I said I would do in the way I said I’d do it – and guess what, I’m now getting the results I said I’d get,” Morrison told Hadley during their weekly Monday morning chat.

“And we did that as a government, and we’ve continued that as a government, and we are the envy of the world when it comes to strong border protection policies.

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jan/30/scott-morrison-tr...

And these loonies are still representing us? Does this mean that democracy is crap?

On a frigid January evening one year ago, I was standing in a line of around 1,000 people in Burlington, Vermont, to see Donald Trump. I reported my very first story on the United States in 1991 and had been living in the country since 2013. I thought I knew the country well. But on that evening in January, I realized that I had been mistaken.

Burlington lay under a blanket of snow and next to me in line stood Mary and Tim Loyer, both wrapped in dark-blue parkas. Mary was unemployed and her son Tim had a job at a bar. Both told me they were Bernie Sanders supporters. Tim said he was particularly bothered by the power held by large companies, that the division of wealth was unfair and that people like him no longer had opportunities to improve their lives. It was the anthem of the working class.

When asked what he found attractive about Trump, Tim said: "Bernie and Trump are the only politicians who say what they're thinking and do what they say," as his mother Mary nodded along. Hillary Clinton, by contrast, is corrupt, he said. In an election pitting Trump against Clinton, Tim said he would not vote for Clinton. Again, Mary nodded.

At the entrance, security personnel patted us down and asked if we were planning on voting for Trump. Only those who said yes were allowed to proceed.

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/letter-from-washington-how-ame...

How come the US came to this? Simple. For years the US administration has been lying. It told many fibs and furphies, some bigger than the others, some wrapped in fake idealism and patriotic shit, all to feed the beast that is the US war machine. There were nowhere else to go than with a revolution. The revolution is happening with one dude, doing his own revolution by himself, salvaging some bits of Rome burning, but the rest of the world has to react, either in anger at his madness or in anger to the madness of the others... 

When President Trump issued executive orders limiting immigration on Friday, it appears there was at least one important omission. He has failed to instruct the National Park Service to put a hood over the Statue of Liberty, the world’s most renowned symbol of freedom.

It is not the only omission. In identifying Muslim-majority countries from which refugees and visas will be blocked because of concerns about terrorism, Trump left out Saudi Arabia. Yet most of those who hijacked airliners to attack New York and Washington DC on 9/11, the deadliest terrorist episode in history, were Saudis.

Does Trump shy away from offending Saudi Arabia because he has business dealings with wealthy Saudis? Or because he expects them to curry favor by patronizing his new hotel in Washington? We don’t know. By refusing to release his tax returns and by refusing to divest himself of his businesses, he raises such questions.

Another country left off the list is Egypt. Yet the leader of the 9/11 hijackers was Mohammed Atta, an Egyptian. Was Egypt omitted because Trump is developing a warm relationship with the country’s brutal dictator, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi? Again, we don’t know.

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/30/saudi-arabia-egypt...

"Again, we don't know?" I would venture to say that we know why... Read from top.

President Donald Trump has defended his controversial immigration ban, denying it is to blame for the chaos at US airports over the weekend and instead blaming computer glitches, protesters and the "tears" of a senator.

• Donald Trump said only 109 out of 325,000 people "were detained and held for questioning"
• The White House maintains the ban is to keep America safe
• The order has sparked protests and criticism from around the world

Mr Trump signed an executive order which temporarily banned the entry of refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries, sparking protests and drawing criticism from governments in London and Berlin to Jakarta and Tehran.

Protesters have flooded the streets in major cities across the United Kingdom and Canada calling for Mr Trump to be impeached and the restrictions to be repealed.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-31/trump-denies-immigration-ban-to-bl...

Actually according to his alternative facts file in black and white, the protestors are the one creating the chaos...

The acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, has betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States. This order was approved as to form and legality by the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel.

Ms. Yates is an Obama Administration appointee who is weak on borders and very weak on illegal immigration.

It is time to get serious about protecting our country. Calling for tougher vetting for individuals travelling from seven dangerous places is not extreme. It is reasonable and necessary to protect our country.

Tonight, President Trump relieved Ms. Yates of her duties and subsequently named Dana Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to serve as Acting Attorney General until Senator Jeff Sessions is finally confirmed by the Senate, where he is being wrongly held up by Democrat senators for strictly political reasons.

“I am honored to serve President Trump in this role until Senator Sessions is confirmed. I will defend and enforce the laws of our country to ensure that our people and our nation are protected,” said Dana Boente, Acting Attorney General.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2017/jan/30/trump-travel-ban-ex...

Saudi Princess Basmah bint Saud has defended the choice of countries listed in US President Donald Trump's travel restrictions. In an exclusive interview with DW's Brent Goff she said, that the idea of a ban on Muslims was "more media than it is fact."

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http://www.dw.com/en/saudi-princess-says-new-travel-rules-not-ban-on-muslims/av-37464990

Of course.... Saudi Arabia and all the Sunni terrorist protectorats are excluded from the ban... The ban is purposely aimed at the SHITE Muslims in countries aligned with Iran (and Russia),,,