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Posted by Rudy Tirre on April 30, 2018 at 7:16am
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Tension in Barcelona
by Tom McLaughlin
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House panel’s Russia report finds 'no evidence' 
of collusion, Trump says probe ‘MUST END NOW’ 
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by Brooke Singman & Judson Berger 
{ foxnews.com } ~ The House Intelligence Committee on Friday declared that it found “no evidence” of collusion... between the Russian government and Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election, releasing a heavily redacted final report on its yearlong Russia investigation. The Republican -authored report -- released over Democratic objections -- stated the committee “found no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded, coordinated, or conspired with the Russian government.” The committee did, however, “find poor judgment and ill-considered actions by the Trump and liar-Clinton campaign.” President Trump, reacting to the report moments after its release, hailed its findings and said the Russia "Witch Hunt" must end, in an apparent swipe at Special Counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation...Time to fire Mueller.  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/27/house-intelligence-committee-releases-russia-report.html.
House report backs claim that FBI agents
 did not think Flynn lied, despite guilty plea
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by Judson Berger
{ foxnews.com } ~ House Intelligence Committee Republicans, in their newly released report concluding their Russia investigation... seemed to back up reports that FBI agents did not think ex-White House national security adviser Michael Flynn lied to them – despite his eventual guilty plea for making false statements. Among the 44 findings in the report was a line stating that “Federal Bureau of Investigation agents did not detect any deception during Flynn's interview.” The Washington Examiner’s Byron York first reported earlier this year that fired FBI boss James Comey had briefed lawmakers amid allegations Flynn had lied to Vice President Pence about conversations with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and speculation he may have misled FBI agents who questioned him in January 2017. Comey reportedly told lawmakers at the time that agents who interviewed Flynn did not believe he lied in that Jan. 24 meeting, and that any inaccuracies in his account were unintentional...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/27/house-report-backs-claim-that-fbi-agents-did-not-think-flynn-lied-despite-guilty-plea.html
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Forum Shines Light on Corruption EmMgAkNc_I9hMbE8GFngJ4gLqyqy2NqZLsfheRBlMhXMqnRGCoznbD5_kj-7XYvZnrbJFnFgza6_JnOpm7Ob4_MGzW_bmApFlUTJYAN61ZTF170=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=?width=450
by OAN 
{ youtube.com } ~ A government watchdog group working to end corruption in Washington... is shining a light on recent allegations of political partisanship at both the FBI and Department of Justice. One America's John Hines has more from Washington.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfOet3mynnc&t=1s&utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newslink&utm_term=members&utm_content=20180427201137 
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Media Silent on Lawsuit Alleging Major 
liar-Clinton Campaign Finance Law Violations
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by Carrie Sheffield 
{ aim.org } ~ The mainstream media continued to press its priority — attacking President Trump for perceived crimes, despite lack of evidence... while largely ignoring a federal lawsuit by Dan Backer and others showing evidence that 2016 presidential candidate liar-Hillary Clinton, through the liar- Hillary Victory Fund, colluded with the Democratic National Committee in violation of federal campaign-finance law. Backer, board chairman of Accuracy In Media, filed the suit not on behalf of AIM but in his role as counsel to the Committee to Defend the President. So far, only conservative media like The Federalist and Townhall have reported on the lawsuit, and it’s unclear whether the mainstream media, which highly favored liar-Clinton in the 2016 race, will cover this bombshell story. liar-Hillary Victory Fund solicited six-figure donations from major donors, including “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane and Calvin Klein, and routed them through state parties en route to the liar-Clinton campaign. Roughly $84 million may have been laundered in what might be the single largest campaign finance scandal in U.S. history...
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90 Seconds of Diamond and Silk Speaking Truth to Congressional Power 
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Greg Gutfeld Blasts Liberal Reaction To Kanye’s Latest Tweets
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Thanks Pres. Trump: Holy Cow GDP Tops Estimates In 1Q
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HE’S CRAZY: Comey Claims His Release Of Memos Was Not A Leak
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Left Will Stoop To Anything To Resist The Trump Team
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#HimToo? Tom Brokaw Accused Of Sexual Misconduct
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Tension in Barcelona
by Tom McLaughlin
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Opposite our hotel
 
{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com } ~ Though I wasn’t looking for it, I couldn’t avoid politics during our three days in Barcelona. My wife leaves all the trip planning to me so I booked the little Hotel Bagues based its proximity to the Gothic Quarter and the sea. We could walk to places of interest along La Rambla, a popular, tree-lined pedestrian boulevard. It’s very popular and it appeared there were tourists from just about everywhere else in the world.
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There were mimes, tourist shops, and restaurants with sidewalk tables along La Rambla. Above the first floor restaurants and shops were residences with small balconies overlooking the streets and nearly half displayed political banners, flags, and posters draped over them calling for Catalan independence. Tourist literature called our section the “nerve center” of Barcelona — the city which is itself the nerve center of Catalonia.
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We were sipping wine on our little balcony our first night there when we heard chanting in Spanish getting louder by the minute. Then demonstrators marched out of the street across from our balcony which connected La Rambla to the Gothic quarter. They carried Catalan flags and signs and chanted a phrase neither of us understood.
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Last October, Catalonia tried to hold a referendum declaring independence but Spanish authorities violently disrupted the vote. According to CNN: “Police fired rubber bullets at protesters and voters trying to take part in the referendum, and used batons to beat them back   using rubber bullets.” Nine hundred people were injured.
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Across from our balcony was another owned by a local woman with a Catalan flag and another banner I couldn’t read. Our bellman told me she is a leader in the independence movement. Last October counter demonstrators gathered on the street below and tried to get her to come out, but she wouldn’t. “They would have killed her,” said the bellman.
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As if that weren’t enough, the previous August, another kind of political violence flared up when Moroccan Muslim immigrants mowed people down along La Rambla with a rented van. Sixteen people were killed and more than a hundred wounded. Our bell man told me three people died under our balcony and a dozen more lay gravely wounded. The door man pulled out his phone to show me videos too gruesome to show on television. The night before, an imam blew himself up in another area as he tried to construct explosives with gas cylinders.
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Last Saturday in the Gothic Quarter very heavy drumming filled the air of a plaza where we were eating breakfast at a sidewalk cafe. Heavy base vibrated my sternum as it bounced off the stone buildings on all four sides of the plaza but I couldn’t pinpoint its source. We paid our bill and walk up the front steps of a gothic cathedral across the square where many people milled about. Looking over their heads, we could see the drummers surrounded by people holding banners and flags. When it stopped, one man with a banner told me they were rallying to keep Spain united.
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Below our balcony
 
Saturday night six motorcycle police gathered there and two vans of heavily armed soldiers with automatic weapons positioned themselves below our balcony at dusk and hotel employees said that wasn’t unusual for a Saturday night. Going to our cruise ship Sunday, there were more soldiers with automatic weapons deployed at the waterfront.
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Naples
 
Two days later in Naples, Italy I saw an even heavier military presence soldiers with two very alert soldiers with automatic weapons were deployed every fifty yards along a pedestrian walkway in the center of the city. On Friday we’ll be in Nice, France where two years ago a Tunisian Muslim driving a cargo truck killed 84 people and wounded 458 others. Clearly tension is high in heavily-trafficked pedestrian zones of Mediterranean cities.
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Truck Attack in Nice
 
A huge, 13th century castle dominates the Bay of Naples where our cruise ship tied up, built by the French when they dominated the region. It’s a reminder that political conflict is nothing new here as it’s been besieged many times. Muslim navies terrorized the entire Mediterranean for centuries. The last Muslim armies were expelled from Spain in 1492, the same year Columbus discovered America.
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Castle Nuovo in Naples
 
Castles and other material fortifications are useless, however, against the kind of terrorism plaguing the region now. The European left encourages Muslim immigration, while the rising European right wants to cut it off, especially in eastern Europe. The right claims Muslims don’t want to assimilate, don’t want to become Spaniards, Italians, Germans, or French, and have a long-term strategy to take over Europe by demography. Demographic studies indicate that native Europeans are not producing offspring in numbers sufficient to maintain population. Meanwhile, immigrants are having large families.
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Europe is changing but it’s still possible to travel peacefully, for now.
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