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Free Speech is Racist - Tapper Smears 

Pro-Trump Stewart for Defending Southerners

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ The propaganda Jake “the Fake” Tapper hit piece against the President and Republicans who support him is chocked full of lies and distortions... as is to be expected from the political operative of the globalist Democrats. The pressure of the American people in support of President Trump and against the swamp establishment Tapper works for is intense and growing, the reason for his latest offensive. Tapper fills his hit piece with vague generalities, beginning by calling Virginia GOP Senate candidate Corey Stewart too extreme by applying the filter of unnamed “many other Republicans.” Tapper quotes a former opponent who lost to Stewart calling for Virginia voters to “reject Corey Stewart’s dog-whistling of white supremacists, anti-Semites and racists.” For Tapper, merely being accused of something by a political opponent is close enough to a fact to report it, as long as it’s structured so someone else is doing the accusing. Tapper goes on to say, “Stewart is known for his championing of Confederate symbols and his ties to several unrepentant bigots, including organizers and participants in the Charlottesville rally last year.”...   https://rickwells.us/fake-tapper-trump-stewart/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfavHOPBA7s

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Major Austrian Energy Firm to Leave Iran 

by Saeed Ghasseminejad

{ defenddemocracy.org } ~ OMV, a major Austrian energy firm, will no longer resist U.S. efforts to re-impose sanctions on Iran... “Let’s face it, you cannot simply carry on in Iran,” said CEO Reiner Seele, “U.S. sanctions are a much bigger risk for OMV’s business than any possible compensation that Europe ... could offer.” The OMV reversal follows the decision of oil giants such as Total, British Petroleum, and Lukoil to leave Iran’s market despite European governments’ opposition to U.S. policy. Among major players in the industry, OMV was the only one to openly challenge the U.S. Initially, it declared it would not cancel its agreement with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) even though NIOC will soon be under renewed U.S. sanctions. This decision posed a direct threat to the effectiveness of the U.S. sanctions regime, by setting a precedent others might follow. Since a state-owned firm in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has a large stake in OMV, the Austrian company faced unique risks if it persisted with its Iranian ventures...   http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/saeed-ghasseminejad-major-austrian-energy-firm-to-leave-iran/

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OMG!! This Will Make The Liberal Media Bleed From Their Ears

by Jeff Dunetz

{ lidblog.com } ~ This would be a dream come true, not just because he probably deserves the honor... but because it going to make the reporters who work for the liberal media so upset they may start bleeding from the ears. Heck, it might even make Chuck clown-Schumer push his glasses up near his eyes where they belong or sadden Nancy Pulosi so much she skips a collagen injection into her lips. This is so serious it’s difficult to believe that scumbag-Adam Schiff didn’t leak it first. But he didn’t, nope we had to find out that President Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize from Bloomberg News. And the extra- cool part is that he was nominated by members of the Norwegian legislature...   https://lidblog.com/sad-liberal-media/

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FBI agent Strzok texted 'we'll stop' Trump 

from becoming president, IG report reveals 

by Alex Pappas

{ foxnews.com } ~ FBI agent Peter Strzok texted a fellow bureau official in August 2016 that “we’ll stop” Donald Trump from becoming president... the Justice Department inspector general reportedly reveals in his highly anticipated report on the liar-Hillary Clinton email case. The Washington Post reported that Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report includes an August 2016 text message exchange between Strzok and then-FBI lawyer Lisa Page about Trump’s chance of being elected president. “Trump’s not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” Page texted Strzok. “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it,” Strzok responded. Horowitz's review months ago revealed other anti-Trump texts between the two officials, who were romantically involved. The "stop" Trump text goes further, and is likely to fuel claims from the White House that the bureau was working against him...   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/14/fbi-agent-strzok-texted-well-stop-trump-from-becoming-president-ig-report-reveals.html

VIDEO:  https://fxn.ws/2LR26P4 #FoxNews

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Explosion in east Jerusalem caused by bomb-making attempt 

by UDI SHAHAM

{ jpost.com } ~ An explosion in Shuafat Refugee Camp in east Jerusalem late Wednesday night occurred during an attempt to build an explosive device... Israel Police said after a preliminary investigation. One person was critically injured in the explosion and was taken to hospital. Police said it found further explosive material in the apartment in which the explosion took place. Police arrested eight suspects after the explosion, and they were taken for questioning. “The Israel Police will continue to investigate and act openly and covertly against all those involved and possessing explosive material intended for the preparation of explosive devices,” police said in a statement following the incident...

https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Police-Explosion-in-east-Jerusalem-occurred-while-preparing-a-bomb-559954?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=14-6-2018&utm_content=police-explosion-in-east-jerusalem-occurred-while-preparing-a-bomb-559954

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The Left's Catch-All Strategy to Redefine Issues  

by Culture Beat:  When The New York Times and The New Yorker first published stories last year exposing the long-running sexual predation and abuse of women within the movie industry by powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, few would have predicted at the time that a new movement had been birthed. Suddenly, stories about other well-connected men in positions of power within the entertainment, news media and political industries began to hit the headlines on an almost weekly basis. Women who had experienced varying degrees of sexual manipulation and abuse suddenly found an eager media willing to shine the light on a long-protected class of individuals. The movement was quickly dubbed #MeToo, with the message being that, finally, women who had not been believed now had the ear of the entire country to tell their stories without the fear of being ignored.

             But it wasn’t long before the original idea behind #MeToo was warped into a broader pro-feminist message decrying the supposed western patriarchy. In other words, to question the feminist assertion of the gender pay gap, for instance, is now to be interpreted in light of #MeToo — it’s indicative of the problem of men oppressing women. It’s a sneaky broadening and redefining of the movement’s original intent.
               How about the term “racism?” Here is yet another example of the Left taking a well-understood and defined term, which meant the prejudicial judgment of individuals based solely upon their race or ethnicity, and turning it into a term that conflates the neo-Marxist ideology of class warfare with race. For example, the new definition of racism preaches that the denial of the concept of “white privilege” is indicative of someone harboring racist sentiments. Or, on the flip side, that only members of the majority race and culture can truly be racist.
               They’ve done it with global warming, too. Once upon a time, that meant that the planet was getting warmer and government must step in to regulate a solution. Now, the all-purpose term “climate change” has expanded the debate to encompass any and all weather events and, of course, the need for government to do even more to limit our Liberty. In this, too, there are victims and oppressors.
               Why this constant grievance culture promoted by the Left? Why are they expressly looking for new ways to redefine various groups of the oppressed and oppressors? Well, for leftists, the revolution is never over. So long as there are instances of inequality, then there can be no “justice.” And the means of judging whether or not something is justice is based not upon the standard of equal opportunity and freedom of the individual but upon that flawed neo-Marxist paradigm of equality of outcome. It’s not an ethic born out of genuine concern for justice for the individual but out of communal sensitivities that sacrifice the rights and freedom of the individual for the sake of group identity. Truth is the first casualty of those promoting this ideology.   ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56508?mailing_id=3542&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3542&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Trey Gowdy Blasts DOJ, Comey Over IG Report: 

‘Not The FBI Our Country Needs’

by Dominic Mancini 

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy scorched the FBI on Thursday following the release of the inspector general report... that agents leading the liar-Clinton email probe had blatant anti-Trump bias and that former FBI director James Comey deviated from standard protocol. “Peter Strzok’s bias was so pervasive and toxic as to call into question any other investigations he was part of including his role in the investigation of what Russia did in 2016,” Gowdy said in a press release. “His bias impacted his decision-making and he assigned to himself the role of stopping the Trump campaign or ending a Trump presidency.” Gowdy, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, also blasted Comey for violating “department policy in several significant ways.” “The FBI’s actions and those of former director Comey severely damaged the credibility of the investigation, the public’s ability to rely on the results of the investigation, and the very institutions he claims to revere,” Gowdy said...

http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/14/trey-gowdy-inspector-general-report-fbi/?utm_medium=email

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UN General Assembly condemns Israel 

for ‘excessive’ force at Gaza border 

by RAPHAEL AHREN

{ timesofisrael.com } ~ With a huge majority, the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday passed a resolution condemning Israel for using “excessive, disproportionate and indiscriminate” force... during the recent clashes at the Gaza border and calling for an “international protection mechanism” for Palestinian civilians. The dramatic, down to the wire session saw the United States attempt to add a paragraph condemning Hamas, which was ultimately rejected on procedural grounds though most member states supported it. The resolution, proposed by Algeria and Turkey, then passed with 120 “yes” votes, 8 “no” votes and 45 abstentions. The eight countries that voted against the resolution were the US, Israel, Australia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Togo and the Solomon Islands. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement issued before the actual voting took place, condemned the resolution, entitled “Protection of the Palestinian civilian population.”...The United States needs to remove UN from the USA.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-general-assembly-condemns-israel-for-excessive-force-at-gaza-border/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=566be36ac5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_13_10_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-566be36ac5-54638825

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New Jersey Governor Murphy Assaults Second Amendment 

by Christian Gomez

{ thenewamerican.com } ~ New Jersey, home to one of the nation’s toughest gun-control laws... just became even more hostile to the Second Amendment and law-abiding gun owners. On Wednesday, New Jersey Democratic Governor Phil Murphy signed a total of six gun-control bills into law. The legislations are:

• A-1181 — Requires the seizure of firearms belonging to people that mental health professionals have determined pose a “threat” to either themselves or others.

• A-1217 — Officially, the “Extreme Risk Protective Order Act of 2018,” allows for a temporary court order prohibiting a person that the courts determine to be a “threat” or significant danger to either themselves or others from possessing or purchasing a firearm.

• A-2757 — Requires background checks for all private purchases of firearms.

• A-2758 — Codifies regulations defining “justifiable need” in order to obtain a legal handgun carry permit.

• A-2759 — Prohibits individuals from possessing ammunition capable of penetrating body armor.

• A-2761 — Lowers the maximum capacity of magazine ammunition from 15 to 10 rounds for all firearms, except for firearms with .22-caliber magazines...

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/29284-new-jersey-governor-murphy-assaults-second-amendment

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The Dems’ Supreme Threat

by SCOTT MCKAY

{ spectator.org } ~ It hasn’t really been discussed in great detail by the legacy media, but there is a major Supreme Court decision coming practically any day now... which has the potential to change American politics substantially for the foreseeable future. The case is Janus v. AFSCME, a case out of Illinois. The facts of the case are relatively simple: Mark Janus, a child support specialist working for the state of Illinois, objected to being forced to pay dues to a union — in this case the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees — in order to keep his job. In Illinois there is a law which says that as a state worker, even if you don’t want to join a union, you’re required to pay the union a fee for services it provides to people in your workplace like collective bargaining and so on. Which sounds fine, except that the unions use a very large portion of those fees on political donations, and specifically political donations to Democrats. And that’s something you might find a little obnoxious if you yourself are not a Democrat. Janus’ complaint is that those forced union fees constitute a violation of his freedom of speech. And any day now, it’s expected that the Supreme Court is going to agree with him in a 5-4 decision. A similar case two years ago, after Justice Antonin Scalia passed away and before his replacement Neil Gorsuch joined the Court, was split on a 4-4 vote...The question should be asked why are they giving money away when the union can benefit their union members. 

https://spectator.org/the-dems-supreme-threat/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=5bd61e1ced-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_14_06_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-5bd61e1ced-104608113

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From 9/11 to Spygate: The National Security Deep State

by Daniel Greenfield

{ frontpagemag.com } ~ On September 4, 2001, Robert Mueller took over the FBI. At his confirmation hearings, fraud had overshadowed discussions of terrorism... And as FBI Director, Mueller quickly diverged from the common understanding that the attacks that killed 3,000 people had been an act of war rather than a crime. In 2008, Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi, who had been unleashed from Guantanamo Bay, carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq. Al-Ajmi had been represented by Thomas Wilner who was being paid by the Kuwaiti government. Wilner was a pal of Robert Mueller. And when the families were having dinner together, Mueller got up and said, "I want to toast Tom Wilner. He's doing just what an American lawyer should do." “I don't know what he was doing from inside the government. I'd like to find out,” Wilner mused. We know some of what Mueller was doing. The same official who paved the way for raiding the president’s lawyer, who illegally seized material from the Trump transition team and whose case is based in no small part on illegal eavesdropping, fought alongside Comey against surveilling terrorists. Materials involving the Muslim Brotherhood were purged. Toward the dawn of the second liar-nObama term, Mueller met with CAIR and other Islamist groups and a green curtain fell over national security...

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270430/911-spygate-national-security-deep-state-daniel-greenfield

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{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ On a pleasant Wednesday in Schiedam, a Dutch city near Rotterdam’s sizable Islamic population, a 26-year-old Syrian refugee stood on a balcony waving an axe and shouting, “Allahu Akbar.”

The police arrived at the modernistic dark and gray building, limned in steel and glass, where the nameless Syrian was shouting about the supremacy of his religion and its axe to all others in Schiedam.

The Dutch cops tried to calm him down. Instead he attacked a police dog which later died of its injuries. After some failed attempts at negotiating his surrender, the Syrian was shot in the leg. Paramedics loaded him into one of two yellow ambulances dispatched for the occasion and maneuvering past a police Volvo took him off to be an even bigger burden on the taxpayers of the Netherlands.

Even before murdering a police dog, the Syrian refugee had been in contact with various aid agencies. By the time he’s done being treated, evaluated, counseled, tried, defended, prosecuted and judged, he will have cost the Netherlands enough money to feed an entire Syrian city for a day.

"It is certain that he had no religious motives," Mayor Lamers insisted. "The most important thing is that he first receives the right care, that also applies to his father. As soon as he is recovered, there will probably be a long-term admission to a clinic."

Make that two Syrian cities for a week.

But the most important thing isn’t stopping Allahu akbaring axmen. It’s seeing they get the right care.

"Honesty requires saying that there are more disturbed people walking around in Schiedam," the politician added. "That is why it is good that there is discussion at national level."

There’s a discussion. Just not the right one.

In May, Malek, a Syrian refugee, stabbed three people in The Hague while shouting, “Allahu Akbar.” 

The attack happened on Liberation Day when the country commemorates its liberation from murderous thugs who shouted, “Heil Hitler” and celebrates its new occupation by murderous thugs who shout, “Allahu Akbar.” 

The Syrian had previously thanked the Dutch people for their hospitality by shouting, “Allahu Akbar,” and throwing pieces of furniture out of the window of his apartment and into the street. 

For months, he had terrorized his neighbors with loud Arabic music, “Allahu Akbar” cries and disturbing behavior. The police finally showed up, accompanied by police dogs and riot shields, and he was institutionalized. He was there for six weeks, married another patient, and was back on the street even though while in the hospital, the police had received a tip that he was planning a terrorist attack. 

On the loose, Malek cut a man’s throat. He also stabbed two others. 

Police shot him in the leg, ruled out terrorism and blamed mental illness. His family is suing the hospital because Dutch taxpayers haven’t paid enough blood money yet. 

In December of last year, Saleh Ali, a Syrian refugee wearing a keffiyah and waving a terrorist PLO flag, went up to a Jewish restaurant in Amsterdam, shouted “Allahu Akbar” and began smashing the windows. The police stood by and watched until he was done. And then they arrested him. 

Ali admitted to having fought with Jihadists in Syria. So the system decided that he needed a psychiatric evaluation because in the Netherlands, and the rest of Europe, smashing things while shouting, “Allahu Akbar” means that you need to spend some time in a white room talking about your mommy.

All three Syrian Muslim refugees had a habit of shouting, “Allahu Akbar” while doing threatening things in public. All three escalated their habits to violent attacks with weapons. Their violence, anger and threats were treated as signs of mental instability rather than religious fervor. But that may be because the former Calvinist stronghold has become an irreligious society incapable of understanding religion. 

Less than a third of the Dutch believe in anything. Only 25% identify as Christian. 5% as Muslim. Only 13% of Catholics believe in the basic elements of Christianity. So the numbers are even smaller. 

The vast majority of the younger native population has no concept of religion. So is it any wonder that the “Allahu Akbar” violence of Muslim migrants is met with incomprehension and psychiatry? 

The Dutch were once on the front lines of religious wars. They still are today. But the difference is that much of the country no longer recognizes or understands religion. 

Recent research claims that 40% of the Syrian refugees in the Netherlands are suffering from mental problems. 

Among Dutch people, it tops out at 14%. 

Are 40% of Syrian refugees really disturbed or verward, the Dutch term that loosely translates as confused? Or are Europeans unable to process behavior and values different from their own? 

In Europe, brandishing an axe while shouting at the entire street would be a sign of mental illness. So would smashing restaurant windows or tossing furniture out of the window into the street. 

But Syria isn’t the Netherlands. And the Middle East isn’t Europe. 

Public displays of anger and violence are much less aberrant in the Middle East. The values of the burghers of Rotterdam are not those of a Syrian man in his twenties. Nor is their scrupulous lack of conviction in anything more than civility and good behavior a match for his religious convictions. 

His cry of, “Allahu Akbar” is not mad, but a threat. He may be a penniless refugee here, but his religion is greater than theirs. And will subsume the tidy precincts of Schiedam, The Hague and Amsterdam. 

Integration is not an option. But disintegration is. 

78% of Syrians are unemployed and don’t intend to leave. The Dutch government solution is to improve mental health services at refugee centers. That raises the question of just who’s really crazy here? 

Meanwhile in another experiment, Syrian refugees are being housed in empty prisons. At least until they commit enough crimes to be sent to an actual prison. Instead of more psychiatric evaluations. 

Dutch voters have made it very clear that they don’t want more migrants. And relatively few asylum petitions are being approved. But that just means that Dutch cities are filling up with failed asylum seekers who can’t be deported, who will no longer be subsidized and are ticking time bombs.

If they want to stay, all they have to do is commit a crime and land in one of the famously cushy prisons. 

The Netherlands boasts what its defenders call an innovative mental health system. And in its prisons, the inmates are getting keys to their own cells. 

Again, who’s crazy here? 

Given a choice between having to get a job or shouting, “Allahu Akbar” before taking an axe to a police officer, who is under orders to aim at the feet in the extreme scenario that he has to use his weapon, it’s an easy choice. And more of those Syrian refugees, who won’t be integrating, are making it. 

Is it terrorism? Is it gaming the system? Why can’t it be both? 

Islamic terrorists have shown a real talent for gaming the system. And gaming the system, like terrorism, is just finding chinks in the armor to exploit. Welfare fraud and suicide bombing are different sides of the same coin. And in Europe, Jihadists have been known to finance their plots with dole money. 

Just don’t call it crazy. When 40% of a population group is deemed loopy, that’s not crazy, it’s the new normal.

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CNN Talking Heads Claim They Love Americans - 

Victims of That 'Mean, Evil Trump'

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ In two sentences towards the end of the video, Wolf Blitzer sounds eerily like Nancy Pulosi... in the cadence as well as the content of the lies he’s spewing, as if the same program was running at their cores. With extra emphasis and over-sized pauses between the words, Blitzer says, “We are not the enemy of the American people. We love the American people.” The only things missing were the dumbfounded stare into the lights and the reflexive chewing motion. Blitzer and his fellow propagandists doth protest too much. Of course they love the American people, to the extent that manipulating them produces a good income and fame, or notoriety. Most importantly, they need to make those claims because there are very real reasons for the American people to think otherwise – most of them related to their misconduct. Blitzer and company claim it’s “that evil Trump” twisting their words and making the “stupid Americans” believe things about them that simply aren’t true. Actually, Americans aren’t as dumb as the elites like to believe we are. President Trump is merely stating what the rest of us know and what CNN has been caught innumerable times in the act of committing, propaganda. Trump isn’t responsible for them staging fake news events, like a rally in London by “contrite” jihadis a year ago, or their distortions and constant vilifications...   https://rickwells.us/cnn-americans-victims-trump/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I04DLv45TNo

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President Trump Interview With Bret Baier

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ President Trump gave an interview to Fox News Bret Baier aboard Air Force-1 just prior to departing Singapore.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/06/13/president-trump-interview-with-bret-baier/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DR9wT4PQ-E

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China Adds Advanced Missiles to South China Sea Islands 

by Bill Gertz

{ freebeacon.com } ~ China's military has stepped up militarizing disputed islands in the South China Sea by deploying advanced missile systems... on the Spratly islands, according to the Pentagon. Defense officials disclosed to the Washington Free Beacon that the militarization has raised alarm bells about China's creeping takeover of the strategic waterway used for some $5 trillion annually in international trade. The officials previewed Defense Department concerns detailed in the forthcoming China military power report. The annual report to Congress is expected to be made public in the near future. "China is continuing its gradual deployment of military equipment to its Spratly Islands outposts in the disputed South China Sea," said one senior official...   http://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-adds-advanced-missiles-south-china-sea-islands/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=24362a856e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_14_12_42_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-24362a856e-45611665

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The bad news on entitlements piles up 

by James C. Capretta

{ aei.org } ~ The trustees for the Social Security and Medicare trust funds released their annual reports last week... And the takeaway? Despite a strong economy, both programs have large and growing financial deficits. Unfortunately, the gap between spending and revenue for these programs is likely even larger than the official projections show because of assumed but unrealistic cuts in medical care payment rates and the persistently low birth rates of recent years. The Social Security report estimates the program will run out of reserves in 2034, after which benefits would have to be reduced by about 25 percent to keep spending within available annual revenue. Over 75 years, Social Security has an unfunded liability of $13.2 trillion. Restoring permanent solvency to the program would require raising the payroll tax rate immediately from today’s combined employer-employee rate of 12.4 percent of taxable payroll to 15.2 percent. Alternatively, Social Security benefits would need to be cut on a permanent basis by about 17 percent. The financial hole for Medicare is even deeper. The Medicare hospital insurance trust fund will run out of reserves in 2026. Last year, the trustees expected the program’s reserves to last until 2029. Medicare has a second trust fund, for physician and outpatient services and for prescription drugs, that is permanently “solvent” because it has an unlimited tap on the general fund of the Treasury... 

http://www.aei.org/publication/the-bad-news-on-entitlements-piles-up/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURsaU9EWXpOakZsTVRWaSIsInQiOiJ6TUtTelBwUzZ4c0NEbkI0Vzl5VW1UXC83OGE2Wm10bEpDYm11OTVXZEpGQnRQeFpaNmlUcnhPSnBkcTl6OUdLUXhaWDh1ZXRieGQ1aDkzRnhrQ1ZIQjE1ZDBaTW1cLzdaMlNMMHMyY2YzK1Rqb25tcGZVb1pFTlhLNjVQWGhMM3VoIn0%3D

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Suspected Islamic extremist ricin 

attack plot foiled in Germany, prosecutors say 

by Lucia I. Suarez Sang

{ foxnews.com  } ~ An Islamic terrorism plot to launch a deadly attack with the toxin ricin was reportedly thwarted in Germany... prosecutors revealed Thursday. Authorities said a 29-year-old Tunisian, identified only as Sief Allah H., was taken into custody Wednesday after an investigation uncovered he had procured the materials needed to create ricin in mid-May and even succeeded in creating the toxin earlier this month. Investigators found the toxin after a search of his apartment in Cologne, federal prosecutors in Karlsruhe said in a written statement...   http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/06/14/islamic-extremist-ricin-attack-in-germany-has-been-foiled-prosecutors.html

VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5797494892001/

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Trump Crackdown on Illegals May Force Dems' Hand 

by Louis DeBroux:  Starting around January 2017, America saw a massive drop in illegal border crossings, primarily due to candidate Donald Trump’s tough rhetoric discouraging it, but also due to increased border enforcement.

             However, in recent months, illegal border crossings are on the rise. As reported by The Washington Post, “U.S. border agents made more than 50,000 arrests in May for the third month in a row.” The anti-Trump paper then informs us that’s “an indication that escalating enforcement tactics by the Trump administration … [have] not had an immediate deterrent effect.”
               However, it takes no leap of logic to discern this increase is due in no small part to efforts by Democrats to undermine America’s immigration laws and national security. Democrat-run cities claim “sanctuary city” status, actively undermining federal immigration law to the detriment of the safety and security of American citizens. Prospective immigrants know they only need to get to one of those cities.
               Look no further than a recent video of the mayor of Philadelphia literally dancing a jigin celebration of a federal court ruling preventing the Trump administration from withholding grants to the city due to its protection of illegal aliens. One can assume the families of Philadelphians killed, raped or assaulted by illegal aliens in the city were less celebratory.
               The Trump administration has shown its determination to secure the border and crack down on illegal aliens. That’s good news when 90% of those arrested for crimes already have criminal convictions. While Democrats have managed thus far to thwart efforts to build a border wall, President Trump is making full use of his executive powers in other areas.
               In a recent interview, Attorney General Jeff Sessions responded to a report on illegal alien crime statistics by arguing, “The illegal immigrant crime rate in this country should be zero. Every crime committed by an illegal alien is, by definition, a crime that should have been prevented. It is outrageous that tens of thousands of Americans are dying every year because of the drugs and violence brought over our borders illegally and that taxpayers have been forced, year after year, to pay millions of dollars to incarcerate tens of thousands of illegal aliens. … Today’s report is yet another reminder that we must continue this [zero tolerance] policy and help fulfill President Trump’s goals of restoring lawfulness to our immigration system and ensure that immigration serves the good of this country.”
               AG Sessions has announced a renewed push to shut down the flow of illegal aliens on multiple fronts.
               One is a narrowing of the criteria under which an alien can qualify for asylum. In a 31-page document issued Monday, Sessions declared, “Generally, claims by aliens pertaining to domestic violence or gang violence perpetrated by non-governmental actors will not qualify for asylum.” He further noted, “The mere fact that a country may have problems effectively policing certain crimes — such as domestic violence or gang violence — or that certain populations are more likely to be victims of crime, cannot itself establish an asylum claim.” Asylum is still possible under these circumstances, but it’s not guaranteed.
               While Democrats decry this as a draconian action, the addition of domestic and gang violence as qualifying asylum criteria is new, only added in 2014.
               Democrats were embarrassed recently when a tweet by former Barack liar-nObama speechwriter Jon Favreau went viral, then backfired. The post showed pictures of illegal alien children sleeping in an ICE detention cell. Favreau blasted the practice of separating children from parents, blaming Trump. As it turns out, the picture was from 2014, during the liar-nObama presidency.
               Sessions addressed this issue specifically, noting that if parents do not want to be separated from their children, they should not attempt to cross the border illegally, and if they do attempt it, then the blame lies with the parents, not the U.S. government, which has a right to protect its territorial sovereignty and its citizens.
               Sessions declared, “If you cross the border unlawfully … we will prosecute you. … If you smuggle an illegal alien across the border, then we’ll prosecute you. … If you’re smuggling a child, then we’re going to prosecute you, and that child will be separated from you, probably, as required by law. If you don’t want your child separated, then don’t bring them across the border illegally.” Whatever one thinks of this policy, Sessions clearly intends to deter people from attempting illegal crossings in the first place.
               The Trump Justice Department has also announced a crackdown on visa overstayers, who make up nearly half of all illegals in the U.S., and those who gained U.S. citizenship by fraudulent means.
               Lamentations by Democrats are cynical and duplicitous. Democrats, at least among leadership, care little about the plight of minority aliens beyond their usefulness as a political wedge issue to damage Republicans.
               This was evident from the fact they did nothing on the issue in 2009 and 2010 when they had supermajorities in the House and Senate. It was also evident this year when President Trump offered amnesty for three times as many aliens as had qualified under liar-nObama’s unconstitutional DACA program, in exchange for securing the border and ending chain migration and the visa lottery. Democrats refused. It was evident when Democrats shockingly defended the brutal, murderous Central American gang MS-13, which Trump called “animals.”
               While Sessions has been the hard-liner and Trump firm but willing to negotiate, this may be a bit of good cop/bad cop. Democrats are recalcitrant when it comes to securing the border and protecting American citizens, but with significant new pressure brought to bear by Sessions, Democrats may be forced to come to the table.   ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56523?mailing_id=3542&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3542&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Thursday Top Headlines 

by Media Editors:  Two Norwegian lawmakers nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize (The Hill)

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Pompeo: No economic relief until “complete denuclearization” of North Korea has been achieved (CNS News)

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China adds advanced missiles to South China Sea islands (The Washington Free Beacon)

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U.S. preparing to proceed with tariffs on Chinese goods (Fox Business)

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What to look for in the inspector general’s report about DOJ and FBI election interference (The Federalist)

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Could liar-Hillary Clinton still face charges over her emails? (Washington Examiner)

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Never mind the liar-Clinton Foundation: New York files suit against President Trump, alleging his charity engaged in “illegal conduct” (The Washington Post)

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Fed lifts interest rates and aims for another pair of increases later this year (MarketWatch)

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Comcast, Disney in multibillion-dollar bidding war for Fox assets (CBS News)

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Backdoor to illegal immigration closing: U.S. clears more asylum cases than it receives in May (The Washington Times)

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Irish prime minister: Catholic hospitals must perform abortions to keep government funding (National Review)

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With no White House invite from Trump, Democrats invite Golden State Warriors to Capitol (ABC News)

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Humor: Gay man bravely comes out as fan of Chick-fil-A (The Babylon Bee)

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Policy: Suicide rates rise in almost every state. What’s going on? (Independent Women’s Forum)

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Policy: Faith-based adoption agencies are too valuable to shut down (Independent Women’s Forum)   

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56561?mailing_id=3545&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3545&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Yes, Trump Has A Plan To Kill DACA--

And If It Works, The Program Could End In Weeks 

by Matt Vespa

{ townhall.com } ~ The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program could come to an end if the Trump administration is successful... in what appears to be a secondary protocol for how to deal with an executive order that is arguably unconstitutional. Executed under the liar-nObama White House, DACA shields illegal aliens brought over as children who have met a certain criteria i.e. no criminal record from deportation. There is a separation of powers concern. It’s been on shaky legal footing for quite some time, which is why the Trump White House had a six-month enforcement delay when they announced they would be phasing out the program. Cue the Democratic outrage, but that six-month lull period was meant to give Congress time to get their act together and pass a DACA fix. They fumbled that. The Trump administration felt they couldn’t argue in defense of the law due to the constitutional issues and facing a lawsuit from various state attorneys general, they felt this was their best option—and it probably was. Yet, it’s still an issue that paralyzes the Hill. The Democrats shut down the government over it, a federal judge said they have to keep DACA a functioning program, and now we have two bills from the conservative and moderate wings that are set for a vote next week. Neither is expected to pass. What NBC News is reporting is that the Plan B of the Trump White House is to get a ruling from a federal judge in Texas to declare the program illegal, which could set in motion DACA’s death within weeks via NBC News...   https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/06/13/reports-yes-trump-has-a-plan-to-kill-daca-and-if-it-works-the-program-could-e-n2490303?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad

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States Resort to Individual 

Mandates to Save a Dying Healthcare System 

by Raven Clabough

{ thenewamerican.com } ~ Vermont will require all residents to have health insurance by 2020... despite the national backlash against liar-nObamaCare's individual mandate that demanded the same requirement of all Americans. Just days after Vermont signed its individual mandate into law, New Jersey followed suit. The two states now join Massachusetts, which has had a similar mandate in place for years. The laws prove that the federal government is not the only government capable of overreach. Vermont's law, signed by Republican Governor Phil Scott late last month, creates a commission to work out the details of the law, but one thing is certain: Residents will be required to have health insurance or face a penalty. The mandate is scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2020. Supporters of the bill resorted to the same talking points used to advocate the individual mandate. They claim it will make insurance more affordable for everyone by spreading the insurance risk among as many people as possible. “We are committed to maintaining Vermont’s low uninsured rate,” declared Rebecca Kelley, Scott’s communications director...

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/29273-states-resort-to-individual-mandates-to-save-a-dying-healthcare-system

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Palestinian Swastikas: Where’s the Outrage?

by JOHN C. WOHLSTETTER

{ spectator.org } ~ Sunday, June 10 marked the 51st anniversary of the end of the Six-Day War, in which Israel decisively defeated Egypt and Jordan... As it happens, Hamas’s rolling assault on Israel’s Gaza fence is drawing to an end after nearly three months. What significant lesson can we draw from this latest round of Palestinian aggression? Three notable features of this latest flare-up in the Arab-Israeli conflict can guide us. Palestinian Neo-Nazism. Begin with how Palestinian rioters marked April 20, Hitler’s birthday, no less: they flew petrol bomb kites into Israel marked with swastikas. In this vein are UN Ambassador Nikki Haley’s remarks (6:22) excoriating Hamas for its May 14 assault on Israel, unleashed on the 70th anniversary of Israel’s declaration of independence, and the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. In it she cites (approx. 4 min. mark) a Hamas terrorist stating, of his wearing the Nazi swastika emblem — openly flaunted by Palestinian rioters: “The Jews go crazy when you mention Hitler.” A press release from Hamas celebrating the “Return March” included this call, right out of the Nazi playbook...   https://spectator.org/palestinian-swastikas-wheres-the-outrage/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=b57e536837-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_13_05_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-b57e536837-104608113

VIDEO:  https://www.facebook.com/HotNewsOfficial/videos/1978363139147292/

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Jim Jordan Explodes On AG Sessions For Defending Rosenstein

by Amber Athey

{ dailycaller.com } ~ House Judiciary member Jim Jordan ripped Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shreds on Tuesday night after he defended the actions of Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein... A new report revealed that Rosenstein was threatening to subpoena members of the House Intelligence Committee and Jordan ripped Sessions for not keeping his underling in check.  “I’m almost flabbergasted, I mean, what is the attorney general saying?” Jordan said. “Rod Rosenstein hasn’t complied with Devin Nunes’ subpoena, hasn’t complied with Chairman Goodlatte’s subpoena, we’ve caught them hiding information in the Strzok-Page text messages.”...

http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/13/jim-jordan-sessions-rosenstein/?utm_medium=email

VIDEO at the site.

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Trump Reverses liar-nObama Free-for-All on Food Stamp Abuses 

by Joshua Paladino

{ libertyheadlines.com } ~ The number of America’s enrolled in the the nation’s food stamps program dropped in March to the lowest level since 2010... according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA reported 40,083,954 Americans participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in March 2018. This is the lowest number reported since February 2010 when 39,588,993 received food stamps. Participation has fluctuated since President Donald Trump took office. In January 2017, 42,676,312 Americans were on SNAP. Enrollment increased in October 2017, as nearly 46 million people participated...

https://www.libertyheadlines.com/trump-reverses-obama-free-for-all-on-food-stamp-abuses/
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Snopes Deceives Again With CA Water Rationing 'Fact-Check' 

by Jordan Candler:  California is home to 40 million residents. This enormous population is the partial underlying of a big problem: The state needs water. So much so that Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown has implemented measures to significantly curb water usage. But a large population is only the half of it. Despite periodic droughts and an influx of residents (legal and illegal), California has rejected policies that would alleviate its water needs.

             In 2015, historian and California native Victor Davis Hanson noted, “It is ironic to encourage millions of newcomers to settle in the state without first making commensurately liberal investments for them in water supplies and infrastructure. Sharp rises in population still would not have mattered much had state authorities just followed their forbearers’ advice to continually increase water storage.” Furthermore, he wrote, “They would never have envisioned in a state of 40 million using the reservoirs in a drought to release water year-round for environmental objectives such as aiding the delta smelt or reintroducing salmon in the San Joaquin River watershed.”
               Now the chickens are coming home to roost, and California residents are the ones suffering. Thanks to Gov. Brown, “There is a daily per-person 55-gallon limit ratcheting down to 50 gallons over the course of a decade, fines will be imposed upon violation, and, for at least some users, a reasonable-length shower and running the wash will put them over,” Inez Feltscher Stepman reports.
               These limitations would have the effect of making showering and doing laundry on the same day unattainable for some people — an observation that elicited false rebuttals from the usual suspects, including from the “fact-checker” website Snopes, which stated: “The laws do not render it illegal for Californians to do laundry and take showers on the same day.” Well, duh. The law doesn’t explicitly prohibit showers and laundry, but in some cases that will be the inevitable outcome.
               Snopes is conflating literal vs. figurative language here just like it did when it asserted that a California pro-LGBT assembly bill “does not seek to outlaw all religious or moral instruction regarding sexuality and sexual orientation, nor would it ban the sale or possession of generic religious texts such as the Bible.” Memo to Snopes: Read between the lines. Otherwise, stop pretending to be a fact-checker.  ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56507?mailing_id=3542&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3542&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Jordan, Meadows Declare War on Sessions, 

Rosenstein for Threats Against House Staffers

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ Laura Ingraham invited Reps Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Jim Jordan (R-OH) onto her program to discuss, among other things... the revelations that Rod Rosenstein had threatened Intelligence Committee staffers with deep state Gestapo tactics if they continued to insist that the corrupt Sessions DOJ provide documents necessary to their efforts to unearth evidence of their rampant criminality and abuse of power. She began by playing a clip of the bumbling, horrible liar, AG Jeff Sessions being interviewed by Tucker Carlson, in which Sessions defended the actions of his dirty cop deputy, and refused to acknowledge that it could have happened the way the staffers say it did. Sessions is so preoccupied with not accidentally entrapping himself or telling the truth in tip toeing around their own gangland misconduct that he can barely complete a sentence. Stumblebum Sessions told Carlson, “I’m confident that Deputy Rosenstein, 28 years in the Department of Justice, did not improperly threaten anyone on that occasion.” Did he properly threaten them, Jeff? He continued, “But we do believe that we have tried to be cooperative with them withholding and redacting requested and subpoenaed documents and made progress in months as the months have gone by and in fact have had some good relationships with top members of Congress.”...   https://rickwells.us/jordan-meadows-sessions-rosenstein/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rLq557sp3A

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‘A ticking time bomb’: MS-13 threatens 

a middle school, warn teachers, parents, students

by Michael E. Miller

{ washingtonpost.com } ~ The boys had once been friends before MS-13 began recruiting one of them. Now... as other students streamed to class one April morning at William Wirt Middle School in Riverdale, Md., the two teens squared off in the third-story bathroom — a fight captured by another student on his cellphone. The MS-13 recruit threw a punch at his former friend’s head. His opponent ducked and tackled the 15-year-old, their sneakers squealing as they tumbled to the green tile floor. “That look like it hurt,” someone wrote under the video, which was uploaded to Instagram on April 19 and has been viewed more than 400 times. Gang-related fights are now a near-daily occurrence at Wirt, where a small group of suspected MS-13 members at the overwhelmingly Hispanic school in Prince George’s County throw gang signs, sell drugs, draw gang graffiti and aggressively recruit students recently arrived from Central America, according to more than two dozen teachers, parents and students. Most of those interviewed asked not to be identified for fear of losing their jobs or being targeted by MS-13...   https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-ticking-time-bomb-ms-13-threatens-a-middle-school-warn-teachers-parents-students/2018/06/11/7cfc7036-5a00-11e8-858f-12becb4d6067_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_campaign=corruption%20chronicles&utm_content=20180613175509&utm_medium=email&utm_source=deployer&utm_term=.1bca53a1c693

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The ACLU Officially Becomes a Partisan Group

by Daniel Greenfield

{ frontpagemag.com } ~ The ACLU has abandoned any pretense of being a civil rights group and has become just another flavor of the left... For the first time in its history, the A.C.L.U. is taking an active role in elections. The group has plans to spend more than twenty-five million dollars on races and ballot initiatives by Election Day, in November. Anthony Romero, the group’s executive director, told me, “It used to be that, when I had a referendum I really cared about, I could spend fifty thousand dollars.”  That's what happens when you're no longer a civil rights group, but a way for San Francisco tech tycoons to funnel money to their favorite candidates. In 2013, during the comparative quiet of the late liar-nObama years, Romero had commissioned a study of how the National Rifle Association—another organization built around a specific view of a section of the Bill of Rights—has managed to operate so effectively as a public-advocacy organization. “The big takeaway for me from that study was that they were able to talk about their work not in legalistic policy terms,” Romero said. “On their Web site you won’t find anything about the Second Amendment. It’s all about gun culture.” Fact check: The ACLU's research is as sloppy as its principles...

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/270446/aclu-officially-becomes-partisan-group-daniel-greenfield

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Riots In Jordan Put Gulf States On Edge

by Ari Lieberman

{ frontpagemag.com } ~ The oil-rich Gulf States - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates - are not known for easily parting with their petro-dollars... But this miserly instinct dissipates when the Sheikhdoms perceive a direct threat to the stability of their respective governments. On Sunday, the three nations led by Riyadh pledged to provide Jordan with a cash infusion of $2.5 billion to help the arid kingdom prop up its free-falling economy. Separately, the European Union announced that it would provide Jordan with $23.5 million. The hefty Gulf State bailout is testament to how seriously they view the problem. Jordan has recently experienced a spasm of popular unrest and widespread demonstrations, sparked by tax increases and painful austerity measures implemented by King Abdullah II’s prime minister, Hani Mulki, to deal with growing debt. In 2016, cash-strapped Jordan secured a $723-million loan from the International Monetary Fund. The economic reforms instituted by PM Mulki were tied to this loan but proved to be widely unpopular. Jordanians watched as subsidies on basic food items were eliminated and standards of living declined while taxes increased. Paychecks got smaller while everything became more expensive. This was enough to push Jordanians over the edge. As the riots spread to every province and major town, Abdullah moved quickly to quell the unrest by firing his prime minister and reversing previously implemented tax hikes and austerity measures...

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270440/riots-jordan-put-gulf-states-edge-ari-lieberman

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Congress and POTUS Will Be Briefed 

on IG Report Noon Tomorrow, Public Release 3:00pm

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Following the traditional process for releasing high-profile reports the Department of Justice – Office of Inspector General (DOJ-OIG) report will be released tomorrow... with a briefing to congress and the president happening around Noon, and a public release at 3:00pm. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will brief the President while senior officials from the DOJ will brief congress and their staff. The 500-page report will cover the DOJ and FBI conduct surrounding the liar-Clinton classified email investigation, and was originally commissioned during the liar-nObama administration to review whether the FBI and DOJ politicized the liar-Clinton investigation and subsequent outcome...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/06/13/congress-and-potus-will-be-briefed-on-ig-report-noon-tomorrow-public-release-300pm/

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Seattle's Redistribution Scheme Reversed 

by Nate Jackson:  In May, the Seattle City Council class warriors unanimously enacted a head tax — a $275 penalty for each full-time employee of a company earning annual revenue of at least $20 million. Yet in the face of stiff opposition, the council reversed course Tuesday, dropping the tax in a 7-2 vote.

             Some 600 Seattle employers would have been hit by the tax, which was supposed to fund income redistribution to address the city’s homeless crisis. Amazon and Starbucks led the charge to oppose it because, obviously, the tax would destroy jobs. (It’s worth noting that homeless people are generally jobless.) Amazon even halted construction on a new office tower in downtown Seattle. While Amazon’s billionaire chief, Jeff Bezos, is no friend of Liberty, he got this one right — even if he is a hypocrite. The final straw was likely Monday’s announcement that a business-supported group called No Tax on Jobs had already gained enough signatures to challenge the tax on the November ballot.
               Kshama Sawant, the socialist council member who pushed the tax in the first place, lamented, “I have a news flash for council members who capitulated to this in lightning speed: This was never going to be easy in the face of mass corporate misinformation. It’s a complete betrayal of working people.” Actually, the real economic fact is that repeal will save a lot of Seattle jobs.
               Mayor Jenny Durkan and the members of the council who reversed course didn’t exactly admit they were wrong, though. “It is clear that the ordinance will lead to a prolonged, expensive political fight over the next five months that will do nothing to tackle our urgent housing and homelessness crisis,” their statement said. “We heard you … [and will] repeal the current tax on large businesses to address the homelessness crisis.”
               In other words, you selfish jerks are ruining our redistribution scheme. But don’t worry; Seattle’s socialists will come up with another plan to confiscate money.   ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56530?mailing_id=3542&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3542&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Trump praises Kim Jong Un as 'strong,' 'funny,' 

'smart' and a 'great negotiator' in Hannity interview 

by Alex Pappas

{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump, in an interview Tuesday with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, complimented North Korean leader Kim Jong Un... after their Singapore summit as a “strong guy” and a “great negotiator,” and argued his once-fiery rhetoric directed toward Kim worked. “He’s got a very good personality, he’s funny, and he’s very, very smart,” Trump said of Kim in the interview that aired Tuesday night. “He’s a great negotiator, and he’s a very strategic kind of a guy.” The president said he and Kim “got along very well” from “the beginning” of the summit. That’s in stark contrast to just a few months ago, when the president dismissively referred to Kim as “Little Rocket Man,” and warned North Korea that it “will be met with fire and the fury like the world has never seen” if it provoked the United States with its nuclear program. But Trump told Hannity he thought his tough style paved the way for Tuesday’s summit. “I think without the rhetoric, we wouldn’t have been here,” Trump said. “I really believe that.”...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/12/trump-praises-kim-jong-un-as-strong-funny-smart-and-great-negotiator-in-hannity-interview.html

VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5796852112001/

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Rosenstein threatened to 'subpoena' GOP-led committee 

in 'chilling' clash over records, emails show 

by Catherine Herridge

{ foxnews.com } ~ Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein threatened to “subpoena” emails, phone records and other documents from lawmakers and staff... on a Republican-led House committee during a tense meeting earlier this year, according to emails reviewed by Fox News documenting the encounter and reflecting what aides described as a "personal attack." The emails memorialized a January 2018 closed-door meeting involving senior FBI and Justice Department officials as well as members of the House Intelligence Committee. The account claimed Rosenstein threatened to turn the tables on the committee's inquiries regarding the Russia probe. “The DAG [Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein] criticized the Committee for sending our requests in writing and was further critical of the Committee’s request to have DOJ/FBI do the same when responding,” the committee's then-senior counsel for counterterrorism Kash Patel wrote to the House Office of General Counsel. “Going so far as to say that if the Committee likes being litigators, then ‘we DOJ too are litigators, and we will subpoena your records and your emails,’ referring to HPSCI [House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence] and Congress overall.”...Rosenstein should be the one being subpoena not the GOP.   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/12/rosenstein-threatened-to-subpoena-gop-led-committee-in-chilling-clash-over-records-emails-show.html

VIDEO:  https://fxn.ws/2LMJdN1 #FoxNews

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Robert Mueller Asks Judge To Hide Russian Election

Evidence From The Russians Accused of Election Interference

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller has taken the concept of the Star Chamber to new levels of dangerous judicial prosecution... In a motion in Washington DC today Mueller’s team scramble to hide their invisible evidence after the people they indicted demand the right to see it. Everyone who has researched the actual substance behind the heavily promoted Russian indictments knows the underlying claims are centered on the thinnest of evidence. Given the nature of the politicization behind the Mueller investigation, many people even argue there is no actual evidence; it’s a manufactured ruse created only for purpose of advancing a necessary political narrative, an excuse for media column inches and pundit talks. And there is a great deal of reason to believe the cynics are entirely accurate; particularly when you overlay the series of events that highlight the prosecution never thought anyone would actually show up in court and challenge their claims...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/06/12/robert-mueller-asks-judge-to-hide-russian-election-evidence-from-the-russians-accused-of-election-interference/

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Senator Flags ‘Highly Questionable’ 

Redactions In Peter Strzok Texts

by Chuck Ross

{ dailycaller.com } ~ The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee is asking the FBI about “highly questionable” redactions in text messages... exchanged between two bureau officials who worked on the liar-Hillary Clinton and Trump campaign investigations. In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson flagged several redactions in text messages, which he said the bureau made “without apparent legitimate reasons.” Johnson singled out one October 2016 text message that suggested that FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok was locked in a battle with another government official over a secret surveillance warrant. In another July 2016 text, Strzok suggested that the FBI lacked the resources to conduct a thorough investigation of liar-Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server...

http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/12/strzok-texts-highly-questionable/?utm_medium=email

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The Dance of The Dragon Continues

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ China controls the DPRK, that’s the baseline reality... The question debated over the past several years, has been to what extent?  Having witnessed the Singapore Summit, perhaps we now have additional understanding of the scale and scope. If you accept the cunning nature of the Beijing Dragon, and the false geopolitical face of the Panda mask as historically presented by the control elements now represented by Chairman Xi Jinping, a striking probability looms. Not only does China influence North Korea, but China actually controls every element of the North Korean government that surrounds Chairman Kim Jong-un. The problem for Chairman Xi is what happens when all of the political forces align to place Chairman Kim Jong-un in a position of opening the door for the U.S. and President Trump and the West writ large to enter North Korea under the auspices of a CVID nuclear agreement. In essence, President Trump may now enter into a land where the officials report exclusively to Chairman Xi, and no-one knew. This presents a possibility the larger global community might soon discover the true nature of the Beijing/Pyongyang connection...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/06/12/act-ii-the-dance-of-the-dragon-continues/

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American Leadership Is Still Necessary in the World 

by Lewis Morris:  As President Donald Trump wrapped up a rocky G7 summit in order to begin a meeting with the tyrannical leader of North Korea, speculation swirls about the current state of America’s foreign policy. Is the U.S. still the world’s preeminent power? Does the world even want American leadership?

             Of course, America is still the most powerful country in the world. Our military remains the most technologically advanced and is funded well beyond the means of nearly any other nation. Our cultural influence outmatches that of any other country. Our economy remains the most dynamic and has the world’s richest consumer market. Every other country in the world desires to do business with the U.S.
               But do other countries still want America’s leadership? If you listen to the Never-Trumpers and the global elites after the powwow in Quebec, the answer would be no. They believe that Trump’s recent actions on trade, his domestic policy stances, his foreign policy views, and his existence in general are a drag on the leftist world order.
               And they’re right. Surely, the other members of the G7 would be more comfortable with American leadership if the U.S. was more closely aligned with European priorities. Germany, Great Britain, France and Canada in particular are happy with American leadership so long as America leads like they want us to. In other words, they really miss Barack liar-nObama.
                liar-nObama was tailor made for the global elite. He talked a great game but didn’t back it up with anything, and he didn’t ask anyone to make any hard choices (except when he expected Americans to forget about the Constitution and Congress and let him rule by his phone and pen). He was an internationalist, seeing the global “good” as more important than the needs of the country he was elected to serve. And that global good, defined by elites with no input from the people who elected them, has no room for the messy details of free markets, national pride and Liberty.
               Angela Merkel, Justin Trudeau and their arrogant ilk look down their noses at Donald Trump and the American voters who elected him. This doesn’t trouble Trump, nor should it. Much of the world’s view of America is based on which party is occupying the White House. In the early 2000s, American popularity with global elitists was at a low point. In the early half of this decade, it was high. Now it’s low again. It doesn’t take a PhD in world politics to see the pattern.
               Our traditional allies in the G7 thought they had America right where they wanted us. During liar-nObama’s presidency, he came on board for the Paris Climate Accord, joined the international order at shaking its collective fist at Syria, and made a deal with Iran to curb certify its nuclear program.
               This was all a farce, and President Trump knew it to be so. Since taking offices, he’s gone about systematically undoing liar-nObama’s bad decisions. He pulled out of the Paris climate deal because it was unfair to American businesses and it was ineffective at its ostensible goal of combatting climate change. When proof was found that Syria used chemical weapons, Trump sent in the U.S. military to destroy Syrian chemical weapons facilities. He also exited the Iran agreement, recognizing that it was a terrible deal that never should have been made in the first place.
               Now Trump has sat down with Kim Jong-un to see what can be done about bringing North Korea to heel with its nuclear weapons program. Trump went in face to face without looking to traditional American allies to back him up. While there are concerns giving Kim that “legitimacy,” frankly, it’s probably better this way. America’s allies east and west — along with Kim’s nuclear puppet master China — have not done much to bring North Korea under control. Maybe the art of the deal should have a shot.
               The North Korea summit could still turn out to be a disaster. Or Kim could play nice now and double-cross the U.S. down the road. The odds are slim that this meeting will be a smashing success. And even if it is, Kim is a murderous dictator who will go back home still in charge of his family’s Hermit Kingdom.
               Leftists are not even remotely optimistic about the outcome. While they fell all over themselves to praise liar-nObama over the heap of lies he delivered on Iran, they labeled the Trump-Kim meeting a failure before it even took place. Only Trump Derangement Syndrome can explain this, since leftists always support any opportunity to meet with dictators and give them whatever they want.
               Perhaps the best example of America’s power is that the U.S. is the only country in the world that could sit down with North Korea and be taken seriously. The global elites may not have much respect or desire for American leadership, but everyone is still going to have to deal with it just the same.   ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56494?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3539&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Wednesday Top Headlines 

by Publius:  Small business optimism jumps to second-highest level in measure’s 45-year history; tax cuts credited (The Washington Free Beacon)

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Feds collect record individual income taxes through May; still run $532.2B deficit (CNS News)

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Charitable giving in U.S. tops $400 billion for first time (Associated Press)

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Proposal to split California into three states makes November ballot (The Washington Times)

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In primary races, Republican voters rewarded loyalty to Trump (The Wall Street Journal)

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Trump-basher Mark Sanford, who president called “nothing but trouble,” ousted in key South Carolina primary (Fox News)

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House GOP will vote on immigration next week, sinking discharge petition (The Hill)

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At the Pentagon, mass confusion over future of “war games” with South Korea (Washington Examiner)

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Trump administration condemns Iran’s role in facilitating 9/11 attacks (The Washington Free Beacon)

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Andrew McCabe alleges FBI, Justice Dept. failed to provide information on his firing in lawsuit (CBS News)

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DOJ takes down 2,300 alleged child sex abusers in massive national operation (The Daily Caller)

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Juanita Broaddrick book about liar-Clinton rape disappears from Amazon (PJ Media)

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“Not in my backyard”: Blue state rejects free electricity to avoid seeing a wind farm (Hot Air)

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AT&T wins court approval to buy Time Warner (CNBC)

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George H.W. Bush is the first U.S. president to reach 94 (Associated Press)

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Two women get kicked out of Uber after kiss — but what CNN doesn’t tell you is that the driver was Muslim (CNN)

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Humor: House Democrats draft legislation that would make it a hate crime to eat at Chick-fil-A (The Babylon Bee)

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Policy: Suspending military exercises in South Korea carries risks (The Daily Signal)

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Policy: Subsidies for coal and nuclear will harm taxpayers, ratepayers, and the free market (Washington Examiner)  ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56533?mailing_id=3542&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3542&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Here’s What Trump-Kim Jong Un Agreed Upon At Summit

by Saagar Enjeti

{ dailycaller.com } ~ President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un took steps toward decreasing tensions on the Korean peninsula... in a joint statement signed by the two leaders Tuesday. The text of the agreement was seen by reporters before its official release by the White House after Trump held it up during a joint signing ceremony with Kim Jong Un. The text of the agreement notes first that “the United States and the DPRK commit to establish new US-DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity.” The text also indicates that Trump gave security guarantees to the North Korean regime in exchange for taking concrete steps towards denuclearization. Most consequentially North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a pledge to “work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”...

http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/12/trump-kim-jong-un-agreement/?utm_medium=email

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Establishment Media Silent: Trump Gets 

Unexpected Surprise Courtesy Of Singapore Citizens 

by BEN MARQUIS

{ westernjournal.com } ~ Since President Donald Trump’s first day in office... the liberally biased mainstream media has perpetuated the narrative that Trump is largely despised both at home and abroad, and that in other nations he is almost universally viewed as an embarrassment to the American people. Thus, it came as no surprise whatsoever when the U.S. media essentially ignored the reception Trump received from cheering supporters upon his arrival Sunday in Singapore ahead of a high-stakes summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Coverage of the cheering crowds greeting Trump would directly contradict the “Trump is hated” narrative the mainstream media outlets push every day, so they simply ignore it and choose not to cover it...

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/establishment-media-silent-trump-gets-unexpected-surprise-courtesy-of-singapore-citizens/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=conservativebyte&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance

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The Democrats' IT Scandal Cover-Up

by Daniel John Sobieski

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz subverted our democracy and interfered in the 2016 election in ways Moscow could only dream of... yet while Special Counsel Robert Mueller continues to chase Russian phantoms, the case against Wasserman Schultz and Imran Awan, the IT director she and other Congressional Democrats employed, continues to drag on despite overwhelming evidence of criminality and clear national security implications. Schultz was forced to step down after hacked emails revealed that she and the DNC had their finger on the scales and actively worked to defeat commie-Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primaries in favor of liar-Hillary Clinton. She has been forced to step aside after a leak of internal DNC emails showed officials actively favoring liar-Hillary Clinton during the presidential primary and plotting against liar-Clinton’s rival, commie-Bernie Sanders…The commie-Sanders campaign has long claimed that the party establishment had its “finger on the scales” during the bitter and surprisingly long primary, but the embarrassing new revelations proved to be the final straw for a figure who had been a lightning rod for tension within the party...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/06/the_democrats_it_scandal_coverup.html

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Paul Krugman’s Intellectual Dishonesty

by Mark Tapson

{ frontpagemag.com } ~ The discourse of today’s political left is invariably marked by jaw-dropping degrees of hypocrisy and psychological projection... Case in point: last week columnist Paul Krugman posted an opinion piece at The New York Times titled “Intellectuals, Politics and Bad Faith,” in which he strove to smear the political right as intellectually dishonest – exactly the same sin of which Krugman was guilty in his own column. Nobel Prize-winner Krugman long ago ceased being reliable as an economist but has maintained his political stature among the left as a race-obsessed smear merchant who habitually demonizes conservatives in his Times  columns. As noted in his profile at DiscoverTheNetworks.org, the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s encyclopedia of the political left, Krugman’s “view of Republicans and conservatives as hate mongers has been on display again and again.” As an example, when Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and six others were shot in Tucson, Arizona in 2011 by an obsessed lunatic, Krugman falsely blamed it on “the rising tide of violence” in America stemming from “toxic,” “eliminationist” rhetoric “coming, overwhelmingly, from the right.” In another instance, on Election Day in 2016, a bitter Krugman lashed out by attacking Donald Trump’s supporters as racist misogynists “who don’t share at all our idea of what America is about.” At least he got that last part right – Trump supporters most assuredly do not share Krugman’s Progressive vision of what America should be about...

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270364/paul-krugmans-intellectual-dishonesty-mark-tapson

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Yellow Alert Has Just Been Issued 

For 2 Major Volcanoes In North America 

by MICHAEL SNYDER 

{ freedomoutpost.com } ~ Massive eruptions of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano and Guatemala’s Fuego volcano have captivated the entire world in recent days... and now it looks like even more volcanoes are starting to wake up.  In fact, yellow alerts were just issued for Mexico’s Mt. Popocatepetl and Alaska’s Great Sitkin volcano.  Mt. Popocatepetl and Great Sitkin both sit along the “Ring of Fire” that roughly encircles the perimeter of the Pacific Ocean, and many are becoming concerned that we may be witnessing some sort of “chain reaction” as volcanoes all over the globe begin to exhibit signs of increased activity.  This even includes some unusual happenings at Yellowstone, and we will cover that near the end of this article.  But to start with, let’s take a look at the yellow alert that was just issued for Mt. Popocatepetl.  The following comes from a government website in Mexico…   https://freedomoutpost.com/yellow-alert-has-just-been-issued-for-2-major-volcanoes-in-north-america/

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Trump's Real NoKo Strategy 

by Thomas Gallatin:  As any good coach will tell you, never take your eye off the ball. In the world of geopolitics, the same advice holds true: Define the goal, focus on reaching it and avoid rabbit trails. For President Donald Trump, his stated goal for North Korea is to see its regional and global nuclear threat ended via denuclearization. Everything else, such as an official end to the Korean War, is secondary. In the light of this clear goal, the historic Trump-Kim summit was a successful first step in the right direction.

             The groundwork for future developments in North Korean denuclearization was laid, but it’s also important to note that there’s still a long way to go. On Tuesday, in Singapore, Trump and Kim Jong-un signed an agreement that essentially lays out four goals both agreed to pursue going forward:

1. The United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) commit to establish new US-DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity
2. The United States and the DPRK will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula
3. Reaffirming the April 27, 2018 Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK commits to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula
4. The United States and the DPRK commit to recovering POW/MIA remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified.

               As with any negotiation, both sides conceded and received something out of this initial meeting. Obviously, Kim received a huge boost to his public image and perception on the world scene as a legitimate leader worthy of time with the American president. Yet, as many have noted, Kim is a brutal dictator, and all the positive optics at the summit featuring his meeting with Trump are unpleasant to say the least. However, if offering positive rhetoric and prestige motivates Kim to give up his nukes, then it is well worth it. (Whether it was worth it to cease military exercises with South Korea, as the North demanded and Trump granted, is up for debate.) For Kim, it is much more than presenting a good image; he’s desperate to hold on to power, and with his country on the brink of starvation, giving up his nukes and making nice with the U.S. may be his only option. His life quite literally could be on the line, depending on how this all goes down.
               For Trump, this is also a golden opportunity to do what no U.S. president has been able to accomplish in over 60 years — bring about an end to the long-running regional and global threat of North Korean militaristic aggression. Again, however, the concession is allowing Kim to retain his totalitarian rule. In fact, a deal further establishes that rule, so long as Kim continues to abide by his commitment to denuclearize. Such is the messy game of diplomacy, albeit without the $150 billion Barack liar-nObama gave Iran to make his deal.
               Finally, as noted earlier, this process is far from over, and there are bound to be some setbacks. But always keep in mind the endgame — a denuclearized North Korea. The big question is verifying that denuclearization. And don’t forget the biggest behind-the-scenes player in this whole drama is China. You can bet Trump hasn’t forgotten it.   ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56500?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3539&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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6 Big Questions About What Comes After the Trump-Kim Meeting

by Fred Lucas

{ dailysignal.com } ~ Amid intense attention to the historic meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, optimists and skeptics alike have questions about the next step... The two leaders’ meeting in Singapore was not expected to reach a major breakthrough. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said last week the administration would seek progress toward a formal treaty to be ratified by the Senate. That would make it more difficult for a future president to unravel a deal, as Trump unraveled President Barack liar-nObama’s Iran nuclear deal. It also would provide assurance to Kim that the United States won’t pursue regime change after his country does away with its arsenal...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/06/11/6-big-questions-about-what-comes-after-the-trump-kim-meeting/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell%22&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTXprMk1tVTFZakpqTVRVNCIsInQiOiJyRjlCSG9MdWRVM2c0bG9DOXFROFU0bk5pYk1YWGJJYkExbnlZVTU2TUZHeVFiNE5UZ092STgzeThCbGNic2hrQTJRWlwvdVh6YTVDS0tRQnpJMmtJSTRtWWlVcDQxUzR1Wkx5bDNDbm1tc3RnYWRmWFJzR2dIQnRmeWNIbTNadjgifQ%3D%3D

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Judicial Watch Sues to Expose DOJ FISA Warrant Abuses 

by Tom Fitton

{ breitbart.com } ~ Just how much did the Department of Justice abuse the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) when it decided to go after Donald Trump?... And what is the DOJ hiding from Congress and the American people about this scandal that is worse than Watergate? Judicial Watch is determined to find out. Judicial Watch just filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for all records of communications between both the DOJ and the Federal Bureau of Investigation with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence regarding the FISA warrants against foreign policy adviser Carter Page and other members of Trump campaign (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-01088)). Judicial Watch sued after both the Justice Department and the FBI, a division of the DOJ, failed to respond to separate February 9, 2018...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/04/judicial-watch-sues-to-expose-doj-fisa-warrant-abuses/

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Germany's Migrant Rape Crisis: "Failure of the State"

by Soeren Kern

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The rape and murder of a 14-year-old Jewish girl by a failed Iraqi asylum seeker has cast a renewed spotlight on Germany's migrant rape crisis... which has continued unabated for years amid official complicity and public apathy. Thousands of women and children have been raped or sexually assaulted in Germany since Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed into the country more than one million mostly male migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The latest crime, entirely preventable, is uniquely reprehensible in that it highlights in one act the many insidious consequences of Germany's open-door migration policy — including the failure to vet those allowed into the country and the practice of releasing migrant criminals back onto German streets instead of incarcerating or deporting them. The crime also exposes the gross negligence of Germany's political class, which appears to be more concerned with preserving multiculturalism and the rights of predatory migrants than protecting German women and children from them...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12494/germany-migrants-rape-feldman

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When Mental Illness Becomes an Excuse for Terrorists

by Abigail R. Esman

{ investigativeproject.org } ~ It was a warm afternoon in the Netherlands on May 5 as the country celebrated the 73rdanniversary of its liberation from the Nazi occupation... Some had gone to the beach. Others picnicked in local parks. But in the streets beside the Hollands Spoor train station in The Hague, one man chose a different way to mark the occasion: brandishing a knife, he slashed at random bystanders, wounding three people, one seriously. Police rushed to the scene, where they shot the attacker in the leg to force him to the ground. Yet even as he lay across the sidewalk, he held tightly to his weapon. "Allahu Akbar," he cried out, the Arabic that means "Allah is greatest." Police arrested the Syrian-born attacker, later identified as "Malek F." But only hours later, authorities were forced to acknowledge that he had been in their sights for some time – not for radical Islamism, but for what they called "disturbed behavior." Media reports described the man as "troubled," and officials claimed they were searching for a motive. Even The Hague Mayor Pauline Krikke told the press that "terrorism has been ruled out as a motive," insisting "there is no sign that there was anything more to it" than that the man was mentally ill...

https://www.investigativeproject.org/7485/when-mental-illness-becomes-an-excuse-for

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NFIB v. Sebelius Comes Back to Bite liar-nObamacareby DAVID CATRON

{ spectator.org } ~ Unless you have been vacationing in a far away galaxy, you will have heard the ululations of liar-nObamacare apologists... enraged by the Trump administration’s refusal to defend the health care law against a 20-state lawsuit challenging its constitutionality. liar-nObamacare advocates claim that the failure to defend the ACA in Texas v. United States is an unprecedented dereliction of duty by the Department of Justice (DOJ). This is hysterical nonsense. It is indeed unusual, but the DOJ is by no means obligated to defend a law deemed unconstitutional by the President, as Attorney General Sessions explains in his notification letter to Congress: The Department in the past has declined to defend a statute in cases in which the President has concluded that the statute is unconstitutional and made manifest that it should not be defended, as is the case here.See Seth P. Waxman, Defending Congress, 79 N.C. L.Rev. 1073, 1083 (2001). Not coincidentally, this is the very language that erstwhile Attorney General scumbag-Eric Holder used in his letter advising Congress, in February of 2011, that the liar-nObama DOJ would not defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). That decision was cheered by the very people who now accuse the Trump administration of “lawlessness” for not defending liar-nObamacare. Ironically, the very real threat posed by Texas v. United States has its roots in another legal travesty that these people also celebrated — the 2012 Supreme Court ruling in NFIB v. Sebelius. That decision contained the seeds of liar-nObamacare’s destruction...

https://spectator.org/nfib-v-sebelius-comes-back-to-bite-obamacare/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=f102bfa24d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_11_06_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-f102bfa24d-104608113

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Senate Security director leaked 

anti-Page information, says indictment 

by Rowan Scarborough

{ washingtontimes.com } ~ Former Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page has been pursued by Christopher Steele and his dossier, the FBI, Democrats and Russia collusion-minded media... He has proclaimed his innocence throughout the two-year inquisition. Last week, he learned he had another adversary, this one hidden. A federal indictment showed that James A. Wolfe, director of security for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, was leaking secret anti-Page information to the press. His favorite recipient was reporter Ali Watkins, who quickly rose through the Washington journalism thicket from college intern to New York Times reporter at age 26. The indictment against Mr. Wolfe, 57, said he had a romantic relationship with Ms. Watkins from December 2013, when she was an intern, to December 2017. Two plot twists that month: She won a job at The New York Times, and the FBI confronted Mr. Wolfe. The indictment charges him with three counts of lying when he denied leaking to reporters...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/10/senate-security-director-leaked-anti-page-informat/

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Trump Shakes Up G7, Demands Fair 'Reciprocal' Trade 

by Thomas Gallatin:  With all the mainstream media hoopla surrounding the G7 summit this past weekend in Quebec, Canada, one thing is clear: President Donald Trump, as always, dominated the narrative. And he proved once again that he relishes being the anti-establishment guy, this time sending the heads of Europe’s globalist leaders spinning. The G7 summit usually amounts to little more than a couple days of Western allies and Japan hobnobbing for photo ops while proposing various jointly agreed upon socioeconomic agendas and then jetting back home again. It’s more pageantry than policy. But this time Trump saw an opportunity to press his case that the U.S. has long been getting a raw deal from its closest allies when it comes to trade (not to mention NATO). He declared in advance, “Looking forward to straightening out unfair trade deals with the G7 countries.” But he offered the caveat, “If it doesn’t happen, we come out even better!”

             Trump caught everyone off guard by throwing out an unexpected proposal — “unexpected” in light of his recent implementation of tariffs on steel and aluminum. Trump suggested, “No tariffs, no barriers — that’s the way it should be. And no subsides. I even said no tariffs.” He added, “Ultimately that’s what you want. You want tariff-free, no barriers, and you want no subsides because you have some countries subsidizing industries and that’s not fair. So, you go tariff free, you go barrier free, you go subsidy free.”
               The G7 leaders were seemingly stunned, but it became increasingly obvious that this was not a direction they wished to go. Instead, Europe’s leaders saw the summit as an opportunity to hammer Trump’s trade policies. Trump was coming to their sandbox and they were there to scold him for failing to play by their elitist rules for their vision of globalism.
               However, even after all the tension, it appeared that the G7 summit would produce a jointly agreed upon “communique” — essentially a commitment to fight for a “rules-based international trading system and [to] continue to fight protectionism.” Trump agreed to sign the communique as he quickly dashed off to the much more important summit in Singapore with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
               All seemed well for a few hours … until Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s follow-up press conference. Trudeau referred to Trump’s tariffs as “insulting” and insisted that he would “move forward with retaliatory measures on July 1, applying equivalent tariffs to the ones that the Americans have unjustly applied to us.” Trump, on his way to Singapore, quickly announced that he was withdrawing his signature on the G7 communique: “Based on Justin’s false statements at his news conference, and the fact that Canada is charging massive Tariffs to our U.S. farmers, workers and companies, I have instructed our U.S. Reps not to endorse the Communique as we look at Tariffs on automobiles flooding the U.S. Market!” This was followed up by a series of messages in which Trump focused on his primary theme of America not getting a fair shake. Trump wrote, “Fair Trade is now to be called Fool Trade if it is not Reciprocal,” later adding, “We’re like the piggy bank that everybody’s robbing, and that ends.”
               Europe’s leaders have clearly become increasingly frustrated with Trump’s seemingly unpredictable behavior. He, on the other hand, appears to have accomplished exactly what he intended — exposing the unfavorable trade imbalance between the U.S. and G7 nations.   ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56476?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3537&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Tuesday Top Headlines 

by Political Editors:  Don’t trust, and verify: North Korea agrees to “complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” after Trump-Kim summit (Fox News)

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Mattis: “I don’t believe” U.S. troop reduction is on the table at Trump-Kim summit (CNS News)

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Senators move to sink Trump’s ZTE deal (The Wall Street Journal)

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Jeff Sessions sets higher bar for asylum claims (The Washington Times)

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Fein-stein admits she ignored immigration issues under liar-nObama, now criticizes Trump on it (The Daily Wire)

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U.S. launching office to identify citizenship cheaters (The Washington Times)

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Barack liar-nObama is consulting with 2020 contenders on how to beat Donald Trump (Politico)

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White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow in good condition following heart attack (CNBC)

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Credit service shuts down payments on all gun purchases (New York Post)

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California man has home raided, guns confiscated after trying to register firearms (The Washington Free Beacon)

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Twitter CEO caves to leftist backlash, says he was wrong to eat Chick-fil-A (The Daily Signal)

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Supreme Court gives Ohio right to purge thousands of voters from its rolls (NBC News)

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Study: Welfare benefits, minimum-wage hikes might harm poor neighborhoods (National Review)

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Seattle City Council to consider repeal of head tax less than a month after approving it (The Seattle Times)

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Bottom story of the day: Why North Korea has to hide Kim’s poop (Washington Examiner)

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Policy: Six big questions about what comes after the Trump-Kim meeting (The Daily Signal)

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Policy: What do test scores really mean for the economy? (Education Week)   ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56505?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3539&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Trump praises meeting with Kim Jong Un, 

says they’re ‘going’ to a signing 

by Samuel Chamberlain

{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday emerged from their "working lunch"... and indicated that they were about to sign something, but did give any further details. "We had a really fantastic meeting, a lot of progress, really very positive," Trump said "I think better than anybody could have expected. Top of the line, really good. We’re going right now to a signing.” Trump did not go into details about the comment. Trump shook hands with North Korean leader Kim in Singapore shortly after 9 a.m. local time Tuesday, kicking off a historic summit meeting and marking a new era in relations between the U.S. and the totalitarian state known as the Hermit Kingdom...   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/12/trump-praises-meeting-with-kim-jong-un-says-re-going-to-signing.html

VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5796389758001/

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Sanctuary Policies Endanger Innocent Victims

by Michael Cutler

{ frontpagemag.com } ~ The title of a June 1, 2018 ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) news release, concisely highlights how insane sanctuary policies senselessly endanger public safety... 3-month review shows how New York City's failure to honor immigration detainers leads to hundreds of dangerous criminals released — Many of those released offended again. Here are the first two paragraphs of this press release: NEW YORK — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in New York conducted a three-month review of detainers lodged with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and New York Department of Corrections (NYDOC) to determine the type of criminal aliens who have been released from custody without ICE being notified. Detainers are ICE’s request to a local law enforcement agency to notify ICE when an alien in custody will be released. Within the three months, from January to mid-April this year, ICE prepared more than 440 detainers against aliens booked by NYPD or NYDOC. Nearly 40 individuals who were released from custody, re-offended and were again arrested for crimes by local law enforcement officers...

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270393/sanctuary-policies-endanger-innocent-victims-michael-cutler

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Got ‘Scam?’ — Dairy Farmers Are Getting 

Milked By The USDA’s Checkoff Program

by Andrew Kerr

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Pennsylvania dairy farmer Brenda Cochran has weathered over $600,000 in losses to her mid-sized farm... from a nearly 40 percent drop in milk prices since 2014. Further compounding Cochran’s financial strain is her forced participation in the Department of Agriculture’s dairy checkoff program, which siphons up to $4,000 from her bottom line each year to fund a network of nonprofit organizations tasked with promoting the dairy industry through advertisements and the development of new products. The organizations that receive her federally-mandated checkoff payments told Cochran that the program has had a “huge impact” on boosting dairy sales, primarily through the creation of new products for major fast food chains. But Cochran isn’t buying it. She says the organizations she’s forced to fund are doing a “pretty piss poor job” doing anything to support struggling dairy farmers...   http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/10/got-milk-usda-scam/?utm_medium=email

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Pro-Trump Jews are the Future of American Zionism

by Daniel Greenfield

{ frontpagemag.com } ~ President Trump boldly moved the embassy to Jerusalem. And a poll shows a nearly even split among American Jews opposing and supporting it... while 85% of Israeli Jews back the courageous decision. 77% of Israelis back Trump's handling of US-Israel relations while 57% of American Jews disapprove. How can the vast majority of Israelis be happy with the relationship while the majority of American Jews aren’t? The answer gets at the heart of the split between what American and Israeli Jews want from Israel. And also to the root of a deeper split within the Zionist tree. Modern Zionism is split between positive aspirational Zionism and negative respectability Zionism...

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270422/pro-trump-jews-are-future-american-zionism-daniel-greenfield

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Kudlow: Trudeau Betrayed Us, ‘Stabbed Us In The Back’ 

by Robert Donachie

{ dailycaller.com } ~ White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Sunday that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “stabbed” the U.S. “in the back”... when he announced his nation will impose retaliatory tariffs against America. President Donald Trump, Trudeau and other leaders of the G7 nations — Britain, Canada, Japan, Italy and Germany –met for a two-day summit over the weekend to discuss the possibility of ending a potential trade war. “We had long night sessions. He (the president) was a participant. Not only did we play, we were in the communique. Team players, really, really, team players here to help the Western alliance and then Trudeau throws him under the bus with very harsh language,” Kudlow told Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Jake, it was a betrayal. It was a kip diplomatic betrayal. That is not good, and we were close to negotiating a trade deal with Mr. Trudeau,” Kudlow said...

http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/10/kudlow-trudeau-stabbed-us-2/?utm_medium=email

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Truth, Veritas, and Knowledge of History in the U.S.

by Michael Curtis

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Did you say Americans, some adults as well as many snowflakes, have got a lot to learn?... Many studies have made us aware of the civic ignorance, and the historical amnesia of citizens in the U.S. Though Thomas Jefferson is often incorrectly quoted as the author of an axiom about this, it is still true that an informed citizenry on historical matters is a crucial requisite for a democratic society. Evidence is abundant that it is time for U.S. citizenry to use their mentality and wake up to reality. For many, the past is a wasteland. One third of students consulted in a survey did not know that D-Day occurred during World War II, and 15% thought it happened in Pearl Harbor. Less than half knew that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president during the war. In April 2018, 41% could not identify Auschwitz as a Nazi concentration or extermination camp, and 66% of Millennials could not do so. More than 11% of adults, and 22% of Millennials, had not heard of the Holocaust. More than a third did not know the century when the American Revolution took place, and only 22% knew that "government of the people, by the people, and for the people," came from the Gettysburg Address of Nov. 9, 1863. One third were unaware that FDR had introduced the New Deal. By contrast, more Americans could identify Michael Jackson as the composer of "Beat It" than the fact that the Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/06/truth_veritas_and_knowledge_of_history_in_the_us.html

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{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ On May 22, Susanna Maria Feldman went missing. It was the day after the Jewish holiday of Shavuot which celebrates G-d’s revelation of the Ten Commandments to Moses and a nation of freed slaves.

The fifth commandment is, “Honor thy father and mother.” The sixth is, “Thou shalt not murder.” 

And in the German city of Mainz, whose Jewish community dates back to Roman times, a worried mother waited for the worst. Susanna had gone off with her friends. They came home. And she didn’t. 

Her mother received a WhatsApp message from her daughter's phone on the afternoon of the 22nd. "Mom, I'm not coming home. I went to Paris with my friend. Don't look for me. I'll come back after 2 or 3 weeks. Bye." 

According to Diana, Susanna’s mother, the message sounded nothing like her daughter. 4 hours later, the teenage girl’s phone was switched off. There was nothing more. 

"I hope and pray that nothing bad has happened to her," she posted on Facebook. "Please help me find my daughter safe again." 

The police reassured the frantic mother that her daughter had just gone off with some friends and would come back on her, but she feared the worst while the authorities stonewalled. 

On June 1, she published an open letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel in which she wrote, "I feel abandoned by the German state." 

Two weeks passed. The police searched. Dogs sniffed around but found nothing. And then someone noticed a flash of white among all that brown and green. It was the white of a clothing label. 

They found her body between the railroad tracks and Autobahn 66. The killer had stashed the girl under a bush and covered her over with twigs to keep the body out of sight and to buy him some time. 

Susanna’s body had been dumped a few hundred meters from the refugee shelter where her alleged killer had been living. The traffic noise of the highway would have covered any sounds the young Jewish girl might have made as a Muslim refugee brutally raped and then strangled her to death. 

At only 14, a year younger than Anne Frank when she died, Susanna had been murdered in Germany. The teenage girl had been strangled to death after being raped. Her killer then boasted of the crime. 

While the German police were searching for Susanna’s body, the Bashar family, all eight of them, were on their way back to Iraq. The Bashar clan had been living in a refugee shelter even though they were apparently able to afford to book eight tickets to Turkey. The tickets were bought under different names than the ones they had used to apply for asylum in Germany. By June 2, they were back in Iraq. 

That same day, Susanna’s mother posted a Facebook message announcing that it was the 11th day. "Every passing day is a nightmare and hell for us!!! Also her little sister misses her." 

At the airport Ali had showed his residence papers, under the name Ali Bashar, and his ticket under a different name, and a Laissez-passer emergency passport in Arabic issued by the Iraqi embassy. 

German airports had apparently become so used to migrants traveling under various names that they didn't blink an eye. 

The residents of the refugee asylum had watched the Bashar clan packing up as if they were leaving for good. They told one resident that they were facing deportation. Another resident heard that they were going on vacation. When Ali’s mother was asked where the Bashar clan was going, she answered Berlin. 

Like so much else, that was a lie. 

Around midnight, they left by the back door, got into two cars and then they were gone. 

Ali Bashar, one of the six sons, had come to Germany through Turkey and Greece. He had arrived in Germany in the fall of 2015 at the height of Merkel’s migration crisis. Since then, he had been accused of raping an 11-year-old girl in a refugee shelter, attacking a policewoman and robbing a man at knifepoint 

His asylum application had been rejected at the end of 2016. Bashar claimed to have been threatened by the PKK, a Kurdish group fighting against ISIS and Turkey. 

But he appealed, and was allowed to stay on in Germany until he finally killed. 

In April of last year, Ali Bashar was suspected of being in a brawl. In February of this year, he was linked to an assault. In March, he bumped into a policewoman and spat on her. Next month, he was accused of robbing a man with a knife. And he was caught with an illegal knife. 

Despite that, he was still allowed to stay on even as the policewoman case moved through the system. 

But next month, Ali Bashar allegedly did more than hurt his victims. He finally committed a murder. 

Ali Bashar had spent most of his time hanging out in the Wiesbaden city center, going back to the refugee shelter only to sleep, and Susanna had gone to the Wiesbaden city center with her friends. 

When the authorities moved the Bashars from Giessen to Wiesbaden, they signed a girl’s death warrant. The brand new Weisbaden refugee shelter built in 2016 has become the gateway to a cemetery. 

And the same is true of every refugee shelter. 

The 20-year-old Muslim refugee boasted of his crime to a 13-year-old in the refugee shelter. Ali’s younger brother had known Susanna and that may have made the rapist and killer’s work easier. 

With that information, the police began searching around the refugee shelter and found Susanna. Ali Bashar fled to Kurdistan. And there he made a mistake. The Kurds arrested him and sent him back.

Ali Bashar is not the first refugee to have committed an atrocity in Germany. And he won’t be the last. 

The authorities know how to handle this sort of thing. There are police officers patrolling outside the refugee shelter. Are they there to protect those on the outside from those on the inside? 

Or are they there to provide security to the denizens of the shelter? 

Despite the recent rash of anti-Semitic incidents, the authorities insisted that there had been no anti-Semitic motive in a Muslim attack on a Jewish teenage girl. But how can a motive be credibly ruled out when the alleged killer hasn’t been interviewed by the police and isn’t even in their custody? 

The Green Party's Annalena Baerbock declared that nobody should, "presume to abuse the death of this girl to sow hatred." 

That right is exclusively reserved for the migrant population that the Green Party welcomed in. 

A German poll of refugees last year found that more than half hold anti-Semitic views. Even before the migrant flood, German police had noted the rising number of Muslims arrested for anti-Semitic acts. In polls, Jews in Germany listed Muslims as the group most likely to harass or attack them.

In one Berlin school, Muslim students openly boasted, "If a Jew enters our school, he'll get beaten up - I'd beat him up too." 

In German cities, Muslim mobs have chanted, “Hamas Hamas Jews to the gas!” German courts ruled that firebombing a synagogue previously torched by the Nazis was anti-Zionist rather than anti-Semitic. 

When an Israeli Arab wore a Jewish kippa to test the level of anti-Semitism, he was assaulted by a thug shouting, “Jew” at him. The attacker was a Syrian refugee. 

After the attack, Merkel had vowed to act "with full force and resolve". Where is that resolve now? 

As the search for Susanna wrapped up, a Jewish teenager in Germany was attacked by Muslim thugs who heard the music he was listening to. “Berlin is ours now,” they shouted, “and you won’t listen to crappy Jewish music here.” 

Ali Bashar made a spot near his refugee shelter into his own. The girl who was left there will no longer listen to music. And there is no shelter anywhere, in Germany or America, from the “refugees.”

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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

Today’s liberals aren’t acting like children with behavioral issues that don’t work or play well with other…they ARE children with behavioral issues that don’t work or play well with others.

This has been more than evident since the election of 2016 when liberals didn’t get what they wanted, and the collective has been pitching a fit…throwing a temper tantrum ever since.

Liberals, in the span of roughly 18 months, have gone from being curled up in the fetal position in safe rooms with their coloring books, Crayons, therapy puppies and bottles of bubbles…all literally, and none of that in the figurative sense…to being as outwardly obnoxious as they can possibly be.

It’s not a fine line between taking a stand for something, and just being as disruptive for the sake of being a genuine pain in the ass that we’re talking about here…it’s a chasm…and liberals have gone over the edge to such an extent that they are now in free-fall.

Let me provide just a very small sampling of what I’m talking about…

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

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Chairman Bob Goodlatte Discusses Upcoming IG Report – Directs Criminal Investigative Attention Toward U.S. Attorney John Huber

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, the congressional oversight representative closest to Inspector General Michael Horowitz... discusses the upcoming IG report. As background, it is Chairman Goodlatte who personally selected and selects the lawmakers who questioned FBI Counterintelligence head Bill Priestap.  Whereas HPSCI Chairman Devin Nunes holds primary ‘intelligence’ oversight; Chairman Goodlatte holds primary Justice and Judiciary oversight. It is worth noting that Goodlatte directs a great deal of attention to U.S. Attorney John Huber on the criminality behind the upcoming IG report.  The report is scheduled to be made public on Thursday June 14th.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/06/10/sunday-talks-chairman-bob-goodlatte-discusses-upcoming-ig-report-directs-criminal-investigative-attention-toward-u-s-attorney-john-huber/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQVUMgt1Dww

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‘Smoking gun?’ Sharyl Attkisson shares damning edits to 

Comey’s original comments on liar-Hillary scandal 

by Tom Tillison 

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ In what is being called the “smoking gun that the ‘fix’ was in,” investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson tweeted... what former FBI Director James Comey originally wrote in his comments on liar-Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified emails and what his words looked like after suggested changes from an FBI reviewing official. “Document 34: What Comey originally proposed to say about liar-Clinton classified email, and the changes FBI reviewing official suggested,” Atkisson tweeted. The original sentence: “There is evidence to support a conclusion that Secretary liar-Clinton, and others, used the private email server in a manner that was grossly  negligent with respect to the handling of classified information. The edited sentence: “Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary liar-Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate the laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in very sensitive, highly classified information.”...

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/06/07/smoking-gun-sharyl-attkisson-shares-damning-edits-to-comeys-original-comments-on-hillary-scandal-642303

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ACLU Sues to Keep Citizenship Question out of the U.S. Census 

by Andrew

{ conservativefreepress.com } ~ On Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union made good on their threat and filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration... over plans to include a new question on the 2020 Census: Specifically, one which would ascertain whether or not the respondent is a U.S. citizen. According to the left, of which the ACLU is an undeniable agent, this question is somehow unconstitutional and unfair and will lead to an unreliable count in the next Census. “Manipulating the census to discriminate against and disadvantage certain groups violates both the Fifth Amendment right to equal protection and the constitutional obligation that the census counts every living person in the United States, not just every citizen,” writes Ceridwen Cherry, one of the ACLU’s staff attorneys. “Lower response rates will be catastrophic for communities and states with large immigrant populations. As a result of an undercounting of their residents, states may lose seats in Congress and crucial federal funding that is tied to census results. “The 2020 census data will also be used by states to draw congressional and state legislative districts,” Cherry continues. “Depressing census response rates in already underrepresented communities will allow politicians to draw even more skewed legislative districts and further dilute the political power of these communities. That result plays directly into a longstanding Trump administration plan to exclude non-citizens when apportioning legislative districts as a way to further strip the political power of immigrant communities... ACLU is totally wrong, its constitutional to ask if you are citizen of USA.

http://www.conservativefreepress.com/legal-scoops/aclu-sues-to-keep-citizenship-question-out-of-the-u-s-census/

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The Left Achieves Perfection

by Tom Trinko

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Leftists have achieved perfection, and for once not only in their own minds. Yes – for the first time, modern leftists have managed to be perfectly wrong on every single issue... Let's just look at some major issues where one would think that any decent human being would get the right answer. #MeToo: All good people agree that real sexual harassment when someone uses power or force to coerce someone else to do something sexual is bad. Yet starting with liar-Bill Clinton, the left has declared that sexual harassment is not bad if it's practiced by people who  are sufficiently leftist. The recent "awakening" by leftists is not a sign that their beliefs have changed. The reality is that they view the #MeToo movement as a way to attack Trump, so they're willing to sacrifice a few pawns, like Weinstein, in order to strike at Trump...   https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/06/the_left_achieves_perfection.html

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The Closing of the Cultural Mind?

by Giulio Meotti

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ In the West, books and documentaries have been cancelled. In France, recently, a group of intellectuals published a manifesto...  asking the Islamic world to eliminate anti-Semitic verses from the Koran. The initiative followed the murder of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor, Mireille Knoll. The Turkish Council of Higher Education responded with a moratorium on establishing additional departments of French studies in Turkey. For years, under the presidency of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish culture has been closing in on itself. "Going into a Turkish bookstore is like walking into a psychiatric ward," according to the British journalist Gareth Jenkins in The New Yorker. Turkey sentenced journalists and writers to prison, and put publishers of foreign novels, such as its most famous translator, Necmiye Alpay, on trial. The problem, however, may not be just Turkish, but, as the author Robert R. Reilly called it, "the closing of the Muslim mind". A new report for the Atlantic Council written by Hossam Abouzahr, the founder of the Living Arabic Project, details the dramatic cultural change in the Arab world: "The Arab world is now publishing only between 15,000 and 18,000 books annually, as many as Penguin Random House produces on its own. Egypt was once the largest producer of books with an output between 7,000 and 9,000 per year. Although its output was previously on the rise, it dropped by a whopping 70 percent after the 2011 revolution, and as of 2016 was only 'showing signs of recovery'. Greece translates five times as many books into Greek as all 22 Arab nations combined"...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12373/arab-culture-literature

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{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ We ask that the verses of the Qur'an calling for the killing and punishment of Jews, Christians and unbelievers be rendered obsolete," the manifesto states.

It cites the murders of Sarah Halimi and Mireille Knoll, two elderly Jewish women murdered by anti-Semitic Muslim thugs, the fact that "French Jews are 25 times more likely to be attacked than their fellow Muslims", and the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Jews from the encroaching no-go zones. 

"10% of the Jewish citizens of Île-de-France - that is to say about 50,000 people - were recently forced to move because they were no longer safe in some cities and because their children could not attend the schools of the Republic,” it courageously warns. 

“This is a quiet ethnic cleansing being carried out in in the country of Emile Zola and Clemenceau." 

The manifesto was written by former Charlie Hebdo editor Philippe Val, who had republished the original Mohammed cartoons from the Jyllands-Posten despite the threats, both terroristic and legal, and its signatories include former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, the former mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, famed singer Charles Aznavour, actor Gérard Depardieu, and many other significant figures. 

The moral power and the importance of the manifesto should not be underestimated. 

After 9/11, it was American Jews who brought attention to the plight of French Jews while their community leaders often preferred to remain silent. Now it is French Jews who speak out, who march and whose LDJ even confronts Islamic thugs in the street while American Jews keep quiet or collaborate. 

The despicable alliance between AJC and ISNA, and the ADL’s attack on Canary Mission, carry with them the stench of Vichy on the spring wind. When an Islamic terrorist attacked a Kosher supermarket before the Sabbath, asking his victims if they were Jewish before he shot them, liar-nObama dismissed it as a random attack on a “bunch of folks in a deli.” It’s become virtually impossible in the United States to have a discussion about Islamic anti-Semitism without being denounced as an Islamophobe. 

Why did France and America trade places? France has faced worse terrorist attacks in recent years than we have. But, more significantly, it lacks the politically correct viewpoint consolidation of America. Despite certain views being criminalized, there are all sorts of non-traditional views in public life there that are actively debated, instead of being airbushed or silenced the way they are in the United States. 

Neither the manifesto nor Charlie Hebdo could exist in the United States. The media in this country censored the Mohammed cartoons more vigorously than the Europeans did. Without any legal threat. 

And yet, despite its moral courage and its vital message, the manifesto misses the true nature of Islamic anti-Semitism. 

It’s a lot more than a few verses. 

The verses are part of a larger Islamic narrative. They’re not random outbursts, but a story. And that story is the primal conflict between Mohammed and the Jews. It begins with the massacre of the Jews at Khaybar and concludes with an end of days that can only come when Muslims exterminate the Jews. 

It’s not a few intemperate verses. Anti-Semitism is fundamental to the story of Islam. And that story with its visions of a conquest sweeping across the world has not ended. That’s why the violence goes on. 

Jews and Christians have a paradoxical role in Islam. They are on the one hand, People of the Book, the unacknowledged originators of the ideas and texts that Mohammed looted to found Islam. But their precedence is removed by accusing them of having betrayed Allah and perverted the scriptures. 

Unlike the polytheistic pagans wiped out by Islam, Jews and Christians are in theory monotheists, with a higher status, but they’re also accused of being mushrikeen, polytheists, who take “partners” with Allah. Jews and Christians had “taken Rabbis and monks to be their lords besides Allah”. (Koran 9:31) 

The ambiguity of Jews and Christians gave them a special status and a special peril. Ritual humiliations of Jews and Christians were enacted to demonstrate their inferiority and the supremacy of the Muslim. In an honor-shame culture, Islamic superiority had to be demonstrated by humiliating other religions. 

When Jews and Christians gained independence or won battles, it called the truth of Islam into question. 

That, rather than a few verses, is what we are dealing with. The verses remain relevant to those Muslims who believe that they are in a zero-sum struggle with every other religion on a battlefield whose scope is as large as the planet and as small as a neighborhood or a building. And that’s the vast majority. 

You can try to make an idea obsolete when it’s no longer relevant. But the anti-Semitic hatred in almost every country where Jews and Muslims both live shows that anti-Semitism remains quite relevant. 

Hating Jews, attacking them and even killing them, remains a meaningful part of Islamic identity. 

The Jews were a primal Islamic enemy. That enmity is written into Islamic scriptures, traditions and prayers. All of that can’t be made obsolete because the Islamic conquest is an ongoing project. 

It’s not a few verses. It’s the context of the conquest. That’s the mission at the heart of Islam. 

The Lebensraum and Drang Nach Osten of Islam might pause for periods, but it never actually stops. Iraqis, Pakistanis and Somali migrants pour into Europe seeking Lebensraum. They move into poorer areas associated with immigrants bringing them into contact with earlier Jewish communities. 

When the second generation, usually more prone to supremacist violence and expansionism than its immigrant forebears, comes of age, the Jewish communities are violently driven out of their homes. 

The verses that justify it won’t become obsolete until the modes of behavior behind them lapse. 

Calls for the persecution of Jews and Christians won’t be outmoded relics of another time until Muslims make them so, not by changing words, but by changing deeds. The trouble is that the verses remain entirely relevant because Muslim populations around the world continue to fight religious wars. 

Muslim hatred of Jews has unique elements. As anti-Semitism usually does. But it’s still a subset of an Islamic supremacism and xenophobia that is endemic and whose consequences can be seen in clashes between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria, Muslims and Hindus in Kashmir, Muslims and Buddhists (and Hindus) in Myanmar, Muslims and Yazidis in Iraq, Muslims and Zoroastrians in Iran, Muslims and Atheists in Bangladesh, and those are just a few of the many examples around the world. 

Islam is not on good terms with any other religion. Including its own spinoffs, like the Bahai, or its own subdivisions, like the Sunnis and the Shiites. 

It’s not about the Jews. It’s about Islam. 

The truth of Islam is validated by violence. Its theological disputes are settled by force. 

The verses about Jews and Christians are not the problem. They’re a symptom of the problem. As are the terrorist attacks, stabbings, shootings, bombings, no-go zones, sharia police and sex grooming gangs. 

The response from Muslim clerics in France to the manifesto has been to claim that the verses are meant to be seen in the context of their time and that Islamic wars are only defensive. Historically, that’s nonsense. But everyone would be perfectly happy if they believed that and really lived it. 

Instead Islamic violence is always deemed to be defensive. Peace can only come from victory, not co-existence. War with non-Muslims who don’t submit to Sharia law is seen as inevitable and necessary. 

The verses libeling Christians and Jews, and justifying violence against them, are just rationalizing this fundamental Islamic worldview and applying it to specific targets. Islamic anti-Semitism is born of Islamic supremacism and imperialism. Muslims aren’t persecuting Jews just because of anti-Semitic verses in the Koran. They’re persecuting Jews because the Koran is supremacist and imperialistic. 

That’s why Muslim violence against Jews is not just a problem for Jews. It’s a problem for everyone. 

Like the Yazidis, Jews are a tiny minority and more vulnerable. That’s what makes them the canaries in the coal mine of Islamic migration. Muslim attacks on Jews in Europe date back over a generation. Long before Paris, Brussels and London were being regularly terrorized; European Jews had already retreated into fortified synagogues, stopped wearing Jewish clothing in public and maximized their security. 

That was the canary in the coal mine. If Europe had woken up then, it wouldn’t be choking now. 

American synagogues and Jewish institutions are starting to resemble their European counterparts. A decade ago, armed guards were a rarity outside synagogues. I walk past them all the time now. 

The French manifesto is an imperfect effort to call attention to a burning problem. It’s an attempt to start an urgent and necessary conversation in France that can’t even be had in the United States. 

And it’s a conversation that we must have before civilization chokes in the coal mine.