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Trump likely to support ending federal ban on marijuana

Evan Halper
Liberty Headlines
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 00:01 UTC
marijuana dispensary
© Chris Wattie / Reuters

Trump could face opposition from within his administration, especially from Attorney General Jeff Sessions...

President Donald Trump said he likely will support a congressional effort to end the federal ban on marijuana, a major step that would reshape the pot industry and end the threat of a Justice Department crackdown.

Trump's remarks put him sharply at odds with Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the issue. The bill in question, pushed by a bipartisan coalition, would allow states to go forward with legalization unencumbered by threats of federal prosecution.

Trump made his comments to a gaggle of reporters Friday morning just before he boarded a helicopter on his way to the G-7 summit in Canada. His remarks came the day after the bipartisan group of lawmakers proposed their measure.

Comment: Legalization, across the nation. It's a global trend that has the conspiratorially-minded scratching their heads. Is there an ulterior motive at play?

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Veteran of Senate Intel Committee charged with lying to investigators in ongoing leak investigation

Laura Jarrett, Manu Raju and Jeremy Herb
CNN
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 10:43 UTC
James A. Wolfe
© Mark Makela/Getty Images
James A. Wolfe appeared in federal court Friday.
A longtime US Senate staffer was arrested late Thursday on charges of lying to federal agents as part of an investigation related to the unauthorized disclosure of non-public information, according to a federal indictment.

Federal prosecutors accuse James Wolfe, the former security director for the Senate Intelligence Committee, of lying to FBI agents in December 2017 about his contacts with three reporters, including through his use of encrypted messaging applications. According to the indictment, Wolfe made false statements to the FBI about providing two reporters with non-public information related to the matters occurring before the committee.

The indictment provides a detailed account of Wolfe's interactions with one specific unnamed reporter. Prosecutors say Wolfe eventually admitted to being in a personal relationship with that reporter, dating back to 2014.

Comment: See also:

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Chess

DOJ outs Senate Intel Committee's security chief as 'deep state leaker'

Ian Mason
Breitbart
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 12:48 UTC
Trump Jeff Sessions
© The Associated Press
Senior Justice Department officials announced late Thursday criminal charges against Senate Intelligence Committee's long-time director of security James Wolfe.

The indictment charges Wolfe with making false statements to the FBI and details how Wolfe passed classified information, including presumably information related to one-time Trump campaign aide Carter Page, to a series of media outlets, confirming long-standing suspicions of the career intelligence community's complicity in leaks. The three-count indictment charges Wolfe with separate instances of making false statements to the FBI, not directly charging him for leaking classified information, but appearing to detail how he did allegedly leaked classified information to reporters and then allegedly lied about it to the FBI.

The 11-page indictment does not name the reporters and does not name the person about whom classified information was leaked, but labels them as "Reporter #1," "Reporter #2," "Reporter #3," and "Reporter #4" as well as "MALE-1" respectively. It is presumed that "MALE-1" is Page, the ex-Trump aide, and "Reporter #2" is then-Buzzfeed News now New York Times reporter Ali Watkins.
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Leaked Boris Johnson tape: Trump negotiating Brexit 'would be a fantastic idea'


RT
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 12:48 UTC
Boris Johnson and Donald Trump
© Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and US President Donald Trump
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has praised Donald Trump's ham-fisted approach to deal-making, suggesting the UK would be better off if the US leader took over the Brexit talks. "There is method in his madness," he said.

Ardent Brexiteer Johnson made his remarks during a closed-doors Conservative dinner party on Wednesday evening. A recording of his speech, released by BuzzFeed News, shows the UK top diplomat being his usual flamboyant self as he confessed of his growing admiration for the US leader.

Trump's toughness in negotiating better terms for his country at all costs is what the UK might borrow from the author of the "Art of the Deal," Johnson suggested. Even if his no-nonsense approach might seem like pure craziness at first, it might work out in the end, he said.
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German gov still 'no evidence' from UK's £7.5 million investigation that Russia was behind Skripal poisoning


RT
Thu, 07 Jun 2018 16:23 UTC
Skripal
© Peter Nicholls / Reuters
The German government has zero evidence from the British authorities that could back London's claims that Moscow was behind the poisoning of the Skripals, German media reports.

More than three months since the start of the probe into the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, the UK is still conspicuously tight-lipped when it comes to any real evidence that could prove its accusations against Russia.

On Wednesday, the German government informed a parliamentary oversight committee during a closed hearing that it still has not received any evidence suggesting that Russia might well be behind the incident that took place in early March, German TV station RBB reports.

Comment: The UK will never have any genuine evidence because Russia didn't do it. It's also interesting to note that a few countries openly questioned the UK's baseless allegations, and in recent weeks, have been quite open in their desire for better relations with Russia: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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IRGC commander: Tel Aviv was warned it would be razed to the ground if it attacked Syria


Sputnik
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 09:39 UTC
A Lebanese farmer
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A Lebanese farmer inspects a missile, which according to the Lebanon national news agency is part of a Syrian air defense missile targeting an Israeli warplane
The senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' commander's remarks follow Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's threats to "destroy" Syrian forces if Israel was fired upon.

Speaking in the Iranian city of Mashhad on Friday, IRGC second-in-command Hossein Salami said that when the Israeli Air Force attacked the T4 base in Syria in April, "they imagined that they would not receive any response; they thought that they can intimidate the Resistance Front with US and British support, and that no one would respond to them."

"As you all witnessed, they said if we (the Resistance Front) retaliated, they would put an end to the Syrian government; but they received a response in the Golan, and dozens of missiles flew over the region. A message was sent to them that if they responded, we would raze to the ground the heart of Tel Aviv; they were forced to shut up, and haven't done a damn thing since then," Salami added.

Comment: Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah announced that Hezbollah forces would not withdraw from Syria until the country is "liberated" and its "territorial integrity is restored."
According to Hassan Nasrallah, Iranian troops were present in Syria at the request of the Syrian leadership, just like the Russian Aerospace Forces.

"Even if the whole world wanted it, no one would force us to leave Syria, which would only happen when the Syrian authorities demand it," Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said on the Al-Manar TV channel.


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Senator Mitch McConnell cancels Senate's usual August recess amidst legislative gridlock, November elections


Conservative Fighters
Tue, 05 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Mitch McConnell

Mitch McConnell
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Tuesday that he's canceled the chamber's traditional August recess, citing Democrats' "obstruction" and the need to pass spending bills.

In a brief written statement, he said: "Senators should expect to remain in session in August to pass legislation, including appropriations bills, and to make additional progress on the president's nominees."

McConnell's announcement had been expected, as he's faced pressure for weeks from fellow Republicans to keep members in session over the hot summer stretch.

Their appeal focused on the need to wrap up spending bills and confirm President Trump's nominees to various positions. McConnell cited exactly that in his statement Tuesday.

Comment: At the end of the day, the political rancor, corruption, systemic problems and Deep State maneuvers loom so large as to make any advances in policy, personnel, or bipartisan agreement in Washington virtually moot!

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Chess

Trump worsens rift with allies with call for Russia to rejoin G7

Jack Crowe
The National Review
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 20:53 UTC
Trump Putin
© Jorge Silva/Reuters
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend the family photo session at the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam November 11, 2017.
President Trump called on allies to reinstate Russia as part of the G7 Friday, deepening a rift over trade policy that spilled out on Twitter just days ahead of the summit in Canada.

"Russia should be in this meeting," Trump told reporters at the White House immediately before departing for the summit. "Why are we having a meeting without Russia being in the meeting? And I would recommend - and it's up to them - but Russia should be in the meeting, it should be a part of it. You know, whether you like it or not, and it may not be politically correct, but we have a world to run and the G-7 - which used to be the G-8, they threw Russia out - they should let Russia come back in because we should have Russia at the negotiating table."

Comment: Maybe Russia doesn't really need the G7.

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Flashlight

Senator turned away from inspecting Texas Walmart converted into detention center for child migrants

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 07 Jun 2018 18:16 UTC
walmart texas migrants illegals children
In 2015, Snopes attempted to fact-check "rumors" that "began to swirl in April 2015 when several Walmart stores around the U.S. were abruptly closed due what Walmart claimed were "plumbing problems." Walmarts in Pico Rivera, CA, Livingston, TX, Midland, TX, Brandon, FL, and Tulsa, OK, all suddenly closed their doors, with Walmart corporate announcing that some of those outlets would be shuttered for six months or more. We now know, even though Snopes has not updated its web page, that at least one of those Walmarts is a detention center to house children of immigrant families.


Comment: Not quite. The former Walmart store in question, in Brownsville, Texas - right on the US-Mexico border - is not one of the five Walmarts 'secretly requisitioned' by the government in 2015. Those five were Walmarts in Pico Rivera, California, Livingston, Texas, Midland, Texas, Brandon, Florida, and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

So the Walmart in this current story is not one of those.

There may be some connection between this Brownsville one and those 'closed for plumbing repairs' in 2015, but it's no secret that this one was refitted for housing migrant children:
'Closed Wal-Mart in Brownsville to Reopen as Shelter for Unaccompanied Minors'
krgv.com, 25 Jan 2017
A non-profit organization will resume the use of an abandoned Wal-Mart in Brownsville as a shelter.

A Southwest Key spokeswoman confirmed the facility is set to open on March. They said it'll be to welcome unaccompanied minors who crossed into the U.S. illegally.

It will be the 4th facility in Brownsville to shelter children, under the age of 17, who have crossed into the U.S. without an adult.

Southwest Key is federally funded by the Office of Refugees Resettlement. The group's mission is to provide a safe environment for unaccompanied children while they wait to be reunited with a sponsor or relative in the U.S.

Officials said the number of unaccompanied children in the past three years has, historically, been the highest. They expect the numbers to remain the same.

According to ORR's website, most children are coming from Central America. They said 15 to 17-year-olds still make the biggest age group.

The website also stated twice as many males are coming to the U.S. than females. The average stay for unaccompanied minors is 36 days.

Southwest Key officials said children are supervised during their stay. The program ensures youngsters have a safe place to sleep, are fed, educated and also have access to healthcare and counseling services.

The program did not confirm the amount of children that will be housed at the facility due security reasons.

Channel 5 News reached out to the city of Brownsville for comment on the opening of the shelter. They declined our request.



U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) attempted to enter the converted Walmart in Brownsville, TX to inspect the living conditions of immigrant children who had reportedly been separated from their parents and were rumored to be kept in cages and concrete floors of the converted Walmart. Merkley streamed live on social media his attempt to enter the facility but was denied entry by Homeland Security.
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Trump softens Iran rhetoric prior to North Korea summit


RT
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 02:16 UTC
Protesters
© Tasnim News Agency/Reuters
Iranian protest at President Trump's decision to walk out on the 2015 nuclear deal.
Discussing the upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore, US President Donald Trump seemingly strayed off-topic to hold out the prospect of a new nuclear deal with Iran.

"Iran is not the same country that it was a few months ago," Trump told reporters at the White House at a joint press conference on Thursday with Japanese PM Shinzo Abe.

Iran's leaders are "much different" in recent months, Trump said, and they are no longer looking to the Mediterranean or causing trouble in Syria and Yemen. Trump had accused Tehran of having "malign influence" in the Middle East in early May, when he announced the US would be withdrawing from the JCPOA arrangement negotiated by the Obama administration in 2015.

Pointing to the upcoming denuclearization talks with North Korea, Trump said he hoped the Iranian leadership would "come sit down with us and we can make a deal that's good for everybody. We're going to be fine, with respect to Iran," Trump said.

Comment: Dare we hope?

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