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There are a multitude of digital lead gen channels including more traditional venues like email marketing, SEO and content marketing - incredibly effective channels that deserve articles all their own. Hopefully you are leveraging at least some of these already for your start-up. You are probably also using relevant social marketing channels with ongoing content posts and ads to capture user attention. If so, kudos. Still, there are a few social media channels and ad types within those channels that add big value for our tech and start-up clients and deserve to be singled out.
With over 575 million members world-wide, LinkedIn is the top social media choice for business networking and sales prospecting. LinkedIn's audience targeting located in their ad platform is unparalleled. Aside from the expected demographics like location, education and company industry, you can also target users by job title, job function, company name, member groups, skills and job seniority (ensuring that you are getting in front of decision makers).
LinkedIn also offers an ad type referred to as LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms which allows you to collect lead data directly within LinkedIn rather than taking the user off-site. Like all LinkedIn ad types, your ad can consist of a text/image combination or text/video with a call to action button (i.e. Sign-Up, Learn More). When a user clicks on the CTA a form opens in LinkedIn that is pre-filled with the name, email address and phone number of that user through pre-collected data. A lead can be captured in as little as two clicks. Furthermore, you can track your campaigns' cost per lead, lead form fill rate, and the number of leads you're getting from specific professional audience segments. You can download your leads or automate them using a lead integration tool like Zapier. All is not perfect using LinkedIn's Ad Platform however. The cost per click (CPC) is far more expensive than its competitors.
While just less than a year ago, Mark Zuckerberg hijacked headlines regarding their data mining practices, Facebook's ad targeting remains jaw dropping in it's breadth and scope. For B2B targeting, like LinkedIn you can target by company name and job title, you cannot however target by job seniority. For consumer targeting, the sky's the limit with interest and behavioral targeting galore. As one Facebook insider shared with me just over a month ago "thirty minutes after a woman discovers she's expecting, Facebook knows too".
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Bonus Tips: Keep form fields down to a minimum. The more fields the higher the likelihood of form "drop-off".
While Twitter does not have a lead form ad type like LinkedIn and Facebook they do have some unique targeting options that have brought about excellent ROI for our clients when driven to a well developed and optimized landing page (more on that later). Furthermore, you only pay when you've reached your marketing objective. Unlike Facebook and LinkedIn you don't pay for additional organic impressions or engagement adding value and brand lift.
● Twitter offers keyword targeting. Keyword targeting allows you to target users with the highest level of intent.
● Twitter offers hashtag targeting. This allows you to interact with users who have interacted with tweets containing specific hashtags in the last seven days.
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Because Twitter does not have a lead form ad type you are required to drive users to a custom landing page. And although this requires more effort on your users part, there are many advantages to driving users to optimized lead focused landing pages. We often a/b test lead gen ads vs website conversion ads with all of our social networks to see which funnel will provide the most qualified lead type.
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Bonus Tip: Use "message match", a conversion rate optimization technique that matches the relevant copy in your ads to your landing page.
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Panzer Campaigns: Japan '45 – A Grogheads AAR
The latest, hot off the press game from John Tiller Software is Panzer Campaigns Japan '45. It covers the planned, though never actually launched, invasion of the island of Kyushu code-named Operation Olympic. Kyushu is one of the main islands in Japan and its capture was deemed a priority essential as a jumping off point to the invasion of the rest of the Japanese home islands. It fortunately never came to pass as Japan surrendered in August 1945 following defeats throughout the Pacific, military collapse in China and Manchuria, a declaration of war followed by a blitzkrieg from the Soviet Union, and to cap it off, atomic bombing of their cities by the USA. They were in a really bad place with no way of achieving strategic victory.
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Japan '45 makes the assumption that in spite of inevitable disaster looming, the Japanese government remain bullish and think they will bleed the allies white if they invade Japan, to the point they can undermine the allied will to fight and so agree to a negotiated peace. The allied war policy at the time was for the unconditional surrender of Japan at this stage of the war, but the allies had been fighting for a long time and wanted an end to the war as soon as possible without excessive losses. Can Kyushu be taken without it becoming a truly Phyrric victory? It's a fascinating what if.
The game graphics reflect the recent facelift of John Tiller Games graphics, which some might say are long overdue, and make the game very attractive compared to the old style without losing clarity. One thing that hasn't changed is the high quality historical research and solid gameplay characteristic of games from John Tiller Software. It's an enjoyable game single player, but as with other games in the series the AI is not particularly strong making the optimal opponent another human player. Play by email is fully supported, and from experience of playing many games in the series multiplayer I can say it's an easy system to use.
I've chosen to play the scenario Tanega Shima : First strike at the Homeland. It was to be the first action of the campaign, to silence the radar station there prior to the main invasion, and two days were rather optimistically allocated to achieving this, given the experience of fighting on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. It is a manageable scenario to report on in one article, and it features both a beach assault and inland fighting. Essentially two US regiments with support must defeat a Japanese brigade. The US get some decent naval and air support, but with a relatively small numerical advantage the US forces have a lot to do, and must watch their casualties if they want a good win.
Panzer Campaigns: Japan '45 has 44 standalone scenarios. 42 are unique and 2 campaigns are variants focused for the single player against the computer. The spread of scenarios covers the hypothetical Operation Olympic Kyushu campaign starting with the initial preparatory invasion on Tanega Shima slated for 1st November 1945 through to Japanese counterattacks starting on 8th December 1945. Of the scenarios six are campaigns, with one being a massive campaign covering the entire taking of Kyushu at 285 turns! It is intended for head to head play, and I doubt completion would happen anytime soon! That said I expect it can be fun taking your time as single player even if not optimized as such.
Here is the starting situation for the US Player (played by me). Here is my thinking as I formulate my strategic plan for the operation. Will it survive contact with the enemy?
Turn 1
To get a major victory I need at least 1,000 victory points. I gain and lose points on casualties, but have a permanent gain from objective victory points.
So what are the issues to consider? I have a modest ground force of two US regiment sized forces with ample support facing what I expect amounts to be a dug in Japanese brigade. If I try to attack them all I will have a problem as I probably don't have enough troops to prevail in the timeframe for the scenario. I must split their force so that I can achieve a concentration of force sufficient for a successful attack. I must also keep the ground captured secure, particularly with regard to my supply lines.
Ground conditions are soft, so movement will be hampered. I have just 24 turns to get ashore against a defended beach and break out to capture sufficient objectives without taking excessive casualties, as this will harm my score significantly.
Looking at the map, the objectives are spread over a wide area; however, below the red line is 1,000 victory points, which will give me a major victory if I can take them all. By taking some above the line the landing zone and as I advance south I create a margin for error.
Taking this into account this is what I intend to do. My plan is to land and expand the beach head using the initial assault troops of the 158th Regimental Combat Team. I will then use the incoming second wave of the 160th Regiment to drive south. The 158th will then be rotated into a security role as 160th regiment pushes south. Depending on how things develop they may also get used as a reserve, although I think they are more likely to remain protecting objectives and the supply line if the northern Japanese forces try to frustrate the drive south by counter attacking.
So here are the operational limits I have set for myself. I have to maximize the force I have at my disposal and by concentrating the battle in a specific area I can focus the bulk of my strength against part of the enemy in the areas where it matters. If the other Japanese forces want to get involved that means they must leave any prepared positions and have the burden of attack, which will be an opportunity for my security and support assets to cause heavy casualties.
Here is the position at the end of turn one. I have bombarded four hexes on the coast prior to landing, and the one on the hill which contained some artillery. Unfortunately, two of the hexes were villages now turned to rubble, which is easier to defend. The two recon missions were undertaken were to scout out the beach exploitation area prior to moving south. After landing I took some casualties but did not initiate firing to avoid opportunity fire whilst I am on the beach. In the Japanese turn I lose a couple of tanks and some more infantry, however there are no serious consequences overall and my engineers do not rout and clear a beach minefield.
End of Turn 1
At the start of turn two all the beach defenders (which are all infantry) are disrupted, so I'm going for immediate infantry assaults with the hope of kicking out the defenders in key positions, which I'll then bombard with support assets once in open ground. The artillery unit on the hill will also remain a priority.
The assaults go well and I push forward into the trench lines. I also manage push a battalion into the gap in between. The tanks move forward into the ruined village and the forest entrenched systems taken by the assaulting infantry, but have no spare action points to support the attack on the dislodged Japanese. The bombardments on the pushed out troops isn't very effective, but neither is the Japanese response in their turn. It's 10:00h on the first day and I'm not expecting the second wave until 14:00h so I think I'll keep the 158th regimental combat team as battalions for the time being whilst they push forward. I'll seriously have to think about breaking down into companies when the 160th infantry regiment arrives simply to cover the ground as security flank guards.
Start of Turn 2
On turn 3 I continue to press forward.
In the north I support the 3rd battalion of the 158th with some tanks. The assault is successful but the tanks disrupt. My ultimate end point for them is the objective hex a couple of hexes north, which contains a trench which will be useful for holding the line. I then bring up the rest of my tanks in the hope of exploiting this attack, but they run out of action points due to the soft conditions of the field terrain. No blitzkrieg this time around! In the center and south of the line I move my infantry battalions to contact. Support assets continue to paste the usual suspects with mixed results. Having done the grindy stuff the support elements for 158th RCT turn up on the beaches without any loss, but lack the action points to move inland. I'm beginning to conclude that the soft conditions is going to act as a major drag on my offensive, so I'm rather glad to have limited my operational objectives before ambition gets the better of me.
Turn 4 sees the Japanese northern beach infantry pushed further back and 3rd battalion in contact with the objective at the northern limit of the advance. When this is taken I'll break the battalion down into companies, spread out over that front and dig in. In the center 1st battalion overruns the artillery on the hill and is now in a position to drive either south or west. In the south after a bombardment 2nd battalion boots out the defenders of Atakaiso. I have now almost achieved my initial objectives for 158th RCT and await the arrival of 160th regiment to take things to the next level.
Turn 5 sees the northern group successfully assault their objective. A good result, but I lose a tank from the supporting and now disrupted platoon which is a pain. Even so the linchpin objective for the northern stop line has been achieved and the 3rd battalion will now change its mission to security, extend its frontage and dig in. In the center the 1st battalion splits into three companies and starts moving south towards Miza and east towards Onasu. The 2nd battalion meanwhile occupies Atakaiso and engages with the pushed out Japanese in a firefight (where we come off best). Finally, the lead elements of 160th regiment land, but lack the action points to move off the beach this turn. I'm getting concerned that in tactical mode I am moving very slowly due to the soft conditions. I have a long way to go yet, am likely to be opposed, and have just 18 turns remaining including night turns where I'd rather rest.
Turn 6 is unremarkable. Those units in contact resume their firefights and do best in the exchange. Miza falls and 1st battalion starts advancing south of Miza towards the hills and Sakai. On the beach the elements of 160th regiment move off the beach and go into travel mode to make use of the road in their drive to the south. Night is about to fall and I really need to decide whether at this stage I push my troops and incur the inevitable fatigue. I suspect that I'll let them rest, save for those already in contact.
Turn 7 is mundane. I don't actually do anything save defend in contacts with the Japanese. They come off worse. Some of my units actually recover losses and fatigue, which is great. Unfortunately none of my disrupted tank platoons rally, not that it is critical for the turn. I was hoping some of my low ammo units might have replenished, but no, it is not to be. Maybe it will happen next night turn? Turn 8 is much the same, although some disrupts and low ammo status units recover.
Turn 10 sees existing firefights largely resolve in my favour, but the only "dramatic" result is a tank platoon getting a move on towards Hamada. Unfortunately it needs the infantry to catch up. On the plus side the 160th regiment starts its march towards Hamada and the key objective area to the south of it.
Turns 11 and 12 see things slow down as fighting erupts near Sakai and the hills to the north of it. Elsewhere there is a little skirmishing, but nothing very intense. 160th regiment continues its march south.
Turn 13
Turn 13 sees things go well in the north with a rout of one Japanese company in an assault, and severe damage done to a reinforcing unit in travel mode. The broken unit near the 160th's advance is wiped out. Things remain stalemated for the time being in the south.
Turn 14 is unremarkable. I fall back in the north to my defensive line and extend my frontage using companies. In the south, the firefight in the hills continues. Rather optimistically I advanced lead elements of 60th regiment in travel mode to the forward tank elements, whereupon the Japanese opened up with artillery doing a lot of damage. Turn 15 is similar to 14 in so far that existing firefights continue. 160th regiment starts to prepare to go into action in the Sakai-Hamada area. I am frustrated at the time limits, and the fact that there is still a way to go to the objectives with armed opposition ahead.
As turn 16 starts I have to make a push simply to get back on track with the objectives. I'm wondering whether I should have pushed harder with the objectives to the north and west just to get a better score. I'll probe with the 158th RCT's security elements and see how that goes. What was it about a plan not surviving contact? I push forward in the north and lose another tank, so just one is left in the unit. Not good. In the south I assault the unit above Sakai. It should be weak after the days fighting but I bounce and disrupt. The only consolation is that they lost more in the assault. Oh, and they're low ammo too now. Just great…
Turn 17 shows that miracles do happen. The unit that assaulted the Japanese company has recovered from both low ammo and disruption. God bless the American logistical tail and fine unit leadership. The 1st battalion 158th RCT feels inspired and assaults and takes their objective. Elsewhere we are bogged down in skirmishing.
Turn 18 sees more grinding down of the defenses, but there is little more to report this turn. Up in the north a Japanese unit holding an objective disrupts but that is about it.
Turn 19 sees successful assaults in the north and south, and Sakai falls. However, the assault near Hamada is bloody and leaves out battalion disrupted even if we did do slightly better in the assault. Unfortunately, although I have a tank unit nearby, the Japanese are entrenched in a paddy field and we have low ammo. This will lead to just more grind… Then another miracle occurs. During their turn they break leaving the objective empty! Huzzah!
Objectives taken
Turns 21 to 22 see me grab a couple more objectives, and in the north I make good progress plus catch a Japanese company trying to flank me on the beach. They suffer heavy losses. Even so, I'm overextended and my flank security force are actually fully engaged in the push for objectives. I run the risk of isolation, but fortunately a few tanks ride shotgun on my northern flank.
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Turn 23 is one of hurry up and wait as we move up to the next set of objectives. There is some general skirmishing, but no important assaults on objectives. Our guys are tired, low on ammo and we must do one last push for turn 24.
Turn 24 – Hard fought victory
All in all Tanega Shima is a challenging scenario. On reflection, maybe I should have pushed on that first night on turns 7 and 8, although even with resting them then my guys were pretty fragged by turn 24. That said, I wonder how one can have enough time to get that major victory otherwise. This was a very challenging and enjoyable scenario. It is evenly balanced, and I think probably so whether one plays the Japanese, or the Americans, and to win you must take calculated risks as I did on turn 16 and 17.
A good game, though winning can be frustrating at times.
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ADCT Will Retain James J. Butera for CBT LawSuit
The Alliance for the Defeat of Citizenship Taxation will retain James J. Butera in the lawsuit against the United States regarding citizenship-based taxation.
In a related matter, on September 8, 2014, our sister organization, the Alliance for the Defence of Canadian Sovereigntyhired Washington-based attorney James Butera of Jones Alkers LLP to advocate specifically for "Accidental Americans" – "those who are not U.S. citizens in any normal sense of the word" but who meet the technical, administrative definition of "U.S. person" but who have lived all their lives in Canada and feel no real connection to the United States.
"Growing numbers of Canadians dispute the right of the United States to impose U.S. citizenship on them without their express consent," Mr. Butera says.
from The Alliance for the Defence of Canadian Sovereignty website:
WASHINGTON D.C. ATTORNEY Mr. Jim Butera of Jones Walker LLP files a submission on behalf of the Alliance to the United States Department of State pointing out that the renunciation fee increase from US$450 to US$2,350 violates the Expatriate Act of 1868 and the U.S. Administrative Procedure Act and must be immediately suspended. Read Mr. Butera's able submission and our press release in English and in French.
Mr. Butera has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Centre and was admitted to the Bar of the District of Columbia in 1973. His areas of specialty are Banking & Financial Services and Government Relations & Legislative Advocacy. He has argued cases in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims,U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mr. Butera entered law school at Georgetown University Law Center after serving as Captain in the United States Marine Corps. He served two combat tours in Vietnam as a Lieutenant. His decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, the Purple Heart, a Navy Commendation and two Presidential Unit Citations. He has published law review articles on a variety of topics, and was a contributing author to Jaws of Victory, an analysis of presidential politics published by Little, Brown & Co.
After graduating with his juris doctor degree, he began his law and government relations career on the staff of the American Bankers Association. From 1974 to 1989, he handled federal government matters for the National Council of Savings Institutions, a major Washington-based national trade association. During his tenure at that association, Mr. Butera directed its government affairs program and served as the organization's Executive Vice President. Mr. Butera served on a federally-appointed financial institutions Advisory Council in 1987 and 1988. In 1988, he was among the industry experts selected to prepare The American Agenda, under the direction of former Presidents Carter and Ford, to identify the major banking issues facing the incoming Administration.
Mr. Butera has been at the forefront of another FATCA-related case since 2013; the Florida and Texas Bankers Associations filed suit in order to prevent releasing private banking information of their clients. Please see:
An appeal to re-hear the case was denied.
The Cato Institute has some interesting observations about the case; along with the National Federation of Independent Business has filed an amicus brief in support of Supreme Court review.
The Florida and Texas Bankers Associations are trying to challenge this regulation, but are being frustrated by interpretative jiggery-pokery that prevents their serious legal arguments from even being heard. While the federal district court allowed this lawsuit to proceed, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reversed course and held that the associations couldn't challenge the regulation because, under the Anti-Injunction Act (AIA), one can't challenge a tax until the government has attempted to enforce the allegedly improper law and collect the attendant tax.
And from Bloomberg BNA we have:
To be sure, we haven't heard the end of either of these debates. But the debates should be allowed to play out in the courts.
On June 2, 2016, the SCOTUS wil review the decisions and consider whether they will hear the case.
Mr. Butera is clearly suited to best represent our interests and we look forward to moving ahead on this issue.
Author Patricia MoonPosted on May 26, 2016 Categories Uncategorized
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Progress!
citize55_wp says:
Yes, I am REALLY looking forward to the CBT issue being dealt with. That said, there are so many other things that would make sense to do.
Example, the post regarding the tax treaties. EVERY "US Person" living outside the US should begin to pummel their politicians and tax agencies to stop allowing the savings clause when they re-do their treaties. What to say of that new nonsense in the 2016 US Model Treaty.
US expat tax slave says:
June 2 has come and gone, has the Supreme Court rendered a decision to hear the case?
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Vol. 83/No. 39 ● October 28, 2019 The-Militant-Logo A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE
Ankara hands off Kurds in Syria! US out of Mideast!
Militant photos: above, Catharina Tirsén; right, Arlene Rubinstein Above, Jonathan Silberman, Communist League candidate for U.K. Parliament, left, speaks at Oct. 8 London action to protest Turkish government invasion of Kurdish-held area in northeastern Syria. Right, protester at Oct. 12, Washington D.C., action appeals for solidarity with Kurdish people's fight for national rights.
The capitalist rulers in Turkey and Islamist Syrian forces they arm and control launched airstrikes, artillery bombardments and a ground invasion of northeastern Syria Oct. 9, targeting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces there. Their goal is to weaken the Kurds hold on the autonomous area of Syria carved out over the last few years in the course of their struggle for national rights.
Washington decided to withdraw its 1,000 troops from northern Syria four days later. President Donald Trump said it was time to get out of the "never-endless wars" in the region. Faced with this, SDF leaders decided to make a deal with Moscow and Damascus to move their forces into parts of the Kurdish region.
Washington is evacuating most of these troops to other U.S. bases in the Mideast, as part of expanding its forces and military capacities in the region. The U.S. rulers' central goal is to counter the rising military and political influence of the bourgeois clerical Iranian rulers.
The 30 million oppressed Kurds living in Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran are the world's largest nationality without their own country.
In the first days of the Turkish rulers' onslaught some 200,000 people fled their homes from near Syria's border with Turkey. Scores have been killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Turkish government has also arrested opponents of its offensive inside Turkey, including four mayors from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party in districts near Turkey's border with Syria.
The Turkish government threatens to force hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in Turkey to move into the so-called safe zone it seeks to impose along the border. This, they hope, will kill two birds with one stone — getting rid of Syrian refugees who are a drain on Ankara's resources while also forming a human barrier between the Kurds in Syria and those in Turkey.
Shorn of Washington's backing, the Syrian Democratic Forces leadership turned to the governments of Russia and Iran, no friends of the Kurds' struggle for national rights, who brokered an agreement for the Bashar al-Assad government to send its forces into border areas in the SDF-controlled region.
The capitalist rulers in Tehran and Moscow had provided decisive military force to prop up Assad after his rule was shaken by a popular uprising for political rights and a subsequent civil war, helping him bring large parts of the country back under his control.
But until now Assad's forces have not tried to move inside the 25% of the country controlled by the Kurdish-led forces, where most of Syria's oil is located. The Assad regime responded rapidly to the SDF's invitation, dispatching troops to Manbij and other towns in the border area.
Moscow also began deploying military police there, patrolling areas between the invading Turkish government-backed forces and Assad's troops.
No end to 'endless wars'
Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced the evacuation of most U.S. troops from northeast Syria to Iraq Oct. 13. The remaining 300 U.S. troops in the country will reinforce Washington's al-Tanf base in the south of Syria. That base lies close to the strategic Baghdad to Damascus highway, a route Tehran wants to use to transfer arms to the militias that it organizes across the region.
Washington's pullback was condemned by both Democratic and Republican politicians. The Democrats are the most bellicose of the bipartisan "war party" today, pushing continued war moves in the Middle East and Afghanistan. The Trump administration imposed tariffs on steel produced in Turkey and halted talks on a trade deal with Ankara Oct. 14.
But the pullback of U.S. forces in Syria has nothing to do with ending the rulers' military intervention in the Mideast.
Both Democratic and Republican-led governments in Washington have carried out wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere after the implosion of the Soviet Union, believing this meant they could impose subservient governments wherever they choose. But these wars furthered the fracturing of the U.S.- dominated imperialist world order in the Mideast and landed Washington in a quagmire.
Far from withdrawing Washington's forces, Trump is increasing their deployment. The U.S. rulers intend to challenge the growing influence the Iranian rulers have established through their military intervention in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere.
The administration has deployed an additional 3,000 U.S. troops, two fighter squadrons and a missile defense system to Saudi Arabia. Since May, 14,000 U.S. forces have been deployed to the Arab-Persian Gulf region. Working people have no interest in backing the rulers' use of Washington's massive military might anywhere across the Mideast, explained Alyson Kennedy, the Socialist Workers Party's presidential candidate in 2016, in a statement "Solidarity with the Working People of Syria," published in the Militant in March of that year.
US, Ankara out now!
"Syrian toilers need the space to mobilize in political action, to learn in struggle, to be transformed from victims into conscious actors in history. All the imperialist and capitalist forces intervening in Syria today are obstacles to this course," she said.
"We oppose the U.S. rulers' involvement in the war in Syria and Iraq and call for Washington, its allies and others — from London and Paris to Moscow, Ankara and Tehran — to withdraw their warplanes, ships and troops now."
The SWP today demands the capitalist rulers in Ankara halt their bloody assault on the Kurds and pull their forces out of Syria.
Kurds and supporters of Kurdish self-determination have organized protests of thousands against the Turkish-government orchestrated invasion of Syria, including in Erbil, in the Kurdish region of Iraq, as well as in Washington, London, Paris and elsewhere.
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Trump, who advances to border security agreement, says Shutdown would be "terrible"
"Well, try $ 1.375 billion," Ms. Ingraham said Tuesday in Fox News. "She may not call it a wall, but that's the way it is. And that's not all bad. "
Late Wednesday afternoon, lawmakers and their helpers worked to resolve the issues remaining in the spending package, which include funding for the Department of Homeland Security and six unfinished spending bills.
Representative Henry Cuellar, Democrat of Texas and one of the 17 members of the US Parliament and Senate who have negotiated a compromise, said there were late discussions about where new fences could be built in the Rio Grande Valley, local and Tackle environmental problems. White House officials pressed against efforts to empower local governments to block new fences.
A number of extensions, including a provision that would provide reimbursement to federal contractors who were not paid during the last decommissioning, will not be included in the package, as two-chamber leadership negotiations did not lead to an agreement, according to a senior Democrat assistant , The unfinished article also includes an extension of the law against violence against women, which expires on Friday.
Mr. Trump said the White House did not see the deal's legal text, and when the helpers do so, "we look for land mines."
As the text was not yet finalized, several legislators refused to provide definitive answers to their support of the bill. However, most Democrats stated that they would support the legislation, even before the text was finalized, partly because it would prevent further government closure and include democratic priorities in the other six legislative proposals.
Other liberal legislators expressed concerns about the amount of beds for the number of immigrants arrested and the immigration and customs authorities, some of which had been recruited. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York and one of the more prominent advocates for the abolition of the ICE said she was against it.