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Former DHS chief Jeh Johnson: US has a 'crisis' at the southern border

Adam Shaw
Fox News
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC

Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Saturday that America has a "crisis" at the southern border, and that the number of apprehensions exceed anything he encountered during his time serving under former President Barack Obama.

"By anyone's definition, by any measure, right now we have a crisis at our southern border," he said on Cavuto LIVE. "According to the commissioner of [Customs and Border Protection], there were 4,000 apprehensions in one day alone this past week, and we're on pace for 100,000 apprehensions on our southern border this month."

"That is by far a greater number than anything I saw on my watch in my three years as Secretary of Homeland Security," he said.

Johnson's remarks come after President Trump this week accused Mexico of doing nothing to stop the illegal immigration flow to the U.S. and threatened to close to southern border next week.

Comment: See also:
Trump cuts all aid programs to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador

Juncker warns Theresa May that EU's 'patience coming to an end' over Brexit

Adam Forrest
The Independent
Sun, 31 Mar 2019 18:07 UTC

European Commission chief says he wants parliament to make clear 'which way they want to follow now'

The EU is running out of patience with Britain over Brexit, the president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has warned. In an interview with Italian state TV, Mr Juncker said he would like MPs in the UK to be able to reach an agreement over the way forward in the coming days.

"We have had a lot of patience with our British friends but patience is coming to an end," he told RAI.

The commission president added: "So far we know what the British parliament says no to, but we don't know what it might say yes to."

Comment: Not to worry Claude. An accommodation will be found to keep the old order; your laments are just for show. Brexit will die a slow torturous death, as the elite MPs and the EU counterparts who never wanted Britain to leave the EU run out the clock.

Patrick Cockburn: How the Islamic State's brutal project was finally overthrown, and what might come next

Patrick Cockburn
Independent, UK
Sat, 23 Mar 2019 17:44 UTC

Up to its dying days the self-declared Islamic State has retained the ability to top the news agenda, even as its fighters were losing their last battle for bomb-shattered villages in the deserts of eastern Syria. When their spokesman promised retaliation for the massacre of Muslims in the Christchurch mosques his threat was taken seriously.

Given the record of Isis atrocities it is not surprising that nobody can discount its ability to exact revenge through existing adherents, new converts or those using its name to spread terror. This is not just western paranoia: in Syria and Iraq people speak continually of Isis sleeper cells waiting to emerge and exact revenge.

There is a largely sterile debate about whether or not Isis - whose territory once stretched from the outskirts of Baghdad to the hills overlooking the Mediterranean - is dead and buried, as Donald Trump claims. Could it be reborn if the pressure against it is relaxed? The answer is simple enough: Isis is defeated as a state apparatus that once ruled eight million people, but it can persist as a terrorist and guerrilla organisation.

I was in Baghdad in June 2014 when Isis was advancing south towards the capital, capturing cities and towns like Tikrit and Baiji with scarcely a shot being fired. The rout of the Iraqi army seemed total and for several days there was no defensive lines between us and Isis advance patrols. As many as 1,700 Shia air force cadets were massacred amid the ruins of Saddam Hussein's old palaces on the banks of the Tigris river near Tikrit.

MSNBC's Maddow keeps spinning Russian collusion hysteria, even as her OWN NETWORK corrects her

RT
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:45 UTC

The post-Mueller comedown has been hard for many MSM journalists, but none more so than MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. The prime-time host continued to spin collusion hysteria, even as her own network corrected her live on air.

With Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report clearing President Trump of colluding with Russia to influence the 2016 election, the focus among anti-Trump types in the media and in Washington has now shifted to pushing for access to the full contents of the report, including its underlying evidence. Surely, they argue, there must be a speck of collusion in there somewhere.

Attorney General William Barr, who released a summary of its findings last Monday, has promised to turn over as much of the report as possible, "consistent with applicable law, regulations, and Departmental policies."

Rand Paul rages on Russiagate hoax: "Officials must be asked under oath what Obama knew, and when?"

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 14:23 UTC

Citing a 'high-level source,' Rand Paul says former CIA Director John Brennan grew frustrated that no one was giving credence to the Clinton-funded dossier, so he attached it to an intelligence report, ensuring that it would be seen by President Obama and President-elect Trump.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News exclusively on Wednesday that President Donald Trump told senators at the weekly GOP luncheon that he backs his call for an investigation into the origins of the Russia scandal "hoax" that Trump has now been cleared of by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Comment: Has the tide truly turned on the Russiagate hoaxers? Will Trump, Barr and others show the political will to reveal and press charges against those who have turned the US upside down for the past two years? Barring some act of God, the answer would seem to be yes - we can only hope.

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In 1999, it was Yugoslavia in the crosshairs of the imperialists. Now it's Venezuela

Neil Clark
RT
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:24 UTC

To mark the 20th anniversary of the start of NATO's illegal 78-day bombardment of Yugoslavia, over 200 distinguished guests from all over the world gathered for a conference of the Belgrade Forum of the World of Equals.

The gathering titled "Never to Forget: Peace and Progress instead of Wars and Poverty" promoted genuine internationalism. Participants came from Israel AND Palestine. From Iran and Japan. From Britain, Germany, Italy, France and other NATO countries which had taken part in the bombing. From Venezuela, Cuba, Bulgaria, Greece, Brazil, Croatia, Canada and South Africa. India and Nepal, Austria and Switzerland, Ireland, Portugal, Turkey and Lebanon. From the US AND Russia. This was the real 'international community' on display.

Speaker after speaker denounced NATO's unlawful aggression, and stressed the wider significance of the military action of 20 years ago, which not only lacked a mandate from the United Nations Security Council, but was also in breach of NATO's own charter.

Eva-Maria Follmer-Mueller, president of the Mut zur Ethik Association in Switzerland, described it as "a historic turning point."

India's 'Project Insight' in full force, searches social media for unpaid taxes

RT
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:25 UTC

A new computer system, which will monitor the social media activity of people for signs that they don't pay their taxes, goes online in India on Monday. Those who like to brag about their wealth may now think twice.

The system dubbed 'Project Insight' is coming into full force on April 1, but it may be no joke for those who get flagged as tax cheats by it. Commissioned by the nation's Income Tax Department a few years ago at a cost of US$150 million, it's meant to centralize data from various sources available to the government and crunch it to identify individuals who live beyond their declared means.

The government touts the system as a highly complicated tool, using machine learning and big data analysis to create something called a "360-degree profile" of each taxpayer. Instagram pics designed to spark envy - strike that - share the joy of life and inspire followers are only part of what is meant to be analyzed.

The system is part of a wider government effort to eradicate so-called 'black money' from the economy and boost tax collection. India is estimated to have over 1.35 billion people now, but less than 70 million taxpayers filed tax returns last year. The figure includes both individuals and entities and is actually a big boost from 38 million in 2014, when the ongoing effort was launched.

Solomon and Carter: It's time to question Obama and Clinton about FISA warrant abuse

Jennie Taer
saraacarter.com
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 16:59 UTC

In an interview with Mark Levin on Life, Liberty & Levin airing Sunday at 10 PM ET, journalists John Solomon and Sara A. Carter reacted to the close of the Mueller investigation and what should happen next.

Levin asked Solomon what President Obama knew during the time his Justice Department was seeking a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance warrant to spy on Carter Page, a member of the Trump campaign team.

Levin, who was the deputy attorney general to Reagan's top lawman Edwin Meese, said that if such an occasion presented itself in the 1980s, Meese would have "taken a car right over to the president to fill him in."

'UK is most deeply flawed democracy in the West' - Ken Livingstone on chaos in Parliament

Ken Livingstone
RT
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:16 UTC

For two and a half years, the British people were promised that we were leaving the European Union on March 29. But we're still there.

Theresa May's government suffered another humiliating defeat last Friday when for the third time Parliament rejected her deeply flawed exit deal with the EU.

In all my life I have never seen our Parliament in such a state of chaos. Every single proposal about leaving the EU has been rejected by the majority of MPs, not just Theresa May's deal, but all the alternatives that were put forward last week. The only majority in the House of Commons is for not leaving without a deal, but MPs can't agree on what the deal should be.

Britain could leave in just under two weeks without a deal, but the EU may grant an extension of our remaining until the end of June or even into next year. Nobody knows and Theresa May is flying off to meet the other 27 EU governments to try and sort this out next week.

Taxes of Ukraine's Poroshenko show his income jumped 10,000% thanks to Rothschild Trust

RT
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:02 UTC

The annual income gains of Petro Poroshenko, who is currently fighting for a second presidential term in Ukraine, saw a nearly hundredfold surge in 2018, the president's tax documents reveal.

According to the Ukrainian unified register of asset and income declarations, Poroshenko's fortune totaled 1.56 billion hryvnia (US$57 million) over 12 months through March 31, which is 95 times as much as he reported in the same period a year ago. In 2017, Poroshenko's gains reportedly reached 16.3 million hryvnia ($600,000).

Most of Poroshenko's income - around $40.4 million - reportedly comes from return on investment in Zurich-based Rothschild Trust Schweiz, a trust subsidiary of Rothschild Bank AG. The Ukrainian president also earned $14.7 million in profit from the Prime Assets Capital investment fund, while returns on domestic government loan bonds amounted to nearly a million dollars.

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Puppet Masters

Former DHS chief Jeh Johnson: US has a 'crisis' at the southern border

Juncker warns Theresa May that EU's 'patience coming to an end' over Brexit

Patrick Cockburn: How the Islamic State's brutal project was finally overthrown, and what might come next

MSNBC's Maddow keeps spinning Russian collusion hysteria, even as her OWN NETWORK corrects her

Rand Paul rages on Russiagate hoax: "Officials must be asked under oath what Obama knew, and when?"

In 1999, it was Yugoslavia in the crosshairs of the imperialists. Now it's Venezuela

India's 'Project Insight' in full force, searches social media for unpaid taxes

Solomon and Carter: It's time to question Obama and Clinton about FISA warrant abuse

'UK is most deeply flawed democracy in the West' - Ken Livingstone on chaos in Parliament

Taxes of Ukraine's Poroshenko show his income jumped 10,000% thanks to Rothschild Trust

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