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IRS docs reveal McCain's subcommittee staff director urged IRS to engage in 'financially ruinous' targeting


Judicial Watch
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
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© Lighthouse/Twitter/Tea PartyJohn McCain • Lois Lerner • Henry Kerner
McCain minority staff director Henry Kerner to IRS official Lois Lerner and other IRS
officials: "the solution is to audit so many that it becomes financially ruinous"

Judicial Watch today released newly obtained internal IRS documents, including material revealing that Sen. John McCain's former staff director and chief counsel on the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee, Henry Kerner, urged top IRS officials, including then-director of exempt organizations Lois Lerner, to "audit so many that it becomes financially ruinous." Kerner was appointed by President Trump as Special Counsel for the United States Office of Special Counsel.

The explosive exchange was contained in notes taken by IRS employees at an April 30, 2013, meeting between Kerner, Lerner, and other high-ranking IRS officials. Just ten days following the meeting, former IRS director of exempt organizations Lois Lerner admitted that the IRS had a policy of improperly and deliberately delaying applications for tax-exempt status from conservative non-profit groups.

Comment: Freedom revoked by regulatory default and delay: a less obvious, but theoretically effective, method of altering political equilibrium. See also:

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It's no picnic! Trump abruptly cancels Congressional Picnic, donates food to Americans who deserve it


Conservative Fighters
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
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As the immigration debacle looms large over the halls of Congress, President Donald Trump decided to scrap the lawmakers' annual congressional picnic at the White House because it just didn't feel "right."
"I was just walking over to the Oval Office and I said, 'You know, it doesn't feel right to have a picnic for Congress when we're working on doing something very important,'" Trump said Wednesday, according to Politico. "It didn't feel exactly right to me."
The president made the abrupt decision as his administration was taking heat for a controversial "zero tolerance" immigration policy that resulted in families being separated at the United States' southern border. Trump ultimately halted the practice by signing an executive order midweek.

So where is all the food going?

Comment: 'Thought for food' offers undeserving lawmakers 'food for thought'. For 99% of the world life is no picnic.

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President Putin invites the two Koreas to an economic summit


The Times of India
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:58 UTC
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday invited his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in to an economic forum in Vladivostok in September, confirming his plans to host the leaders of both Koreas in Russia.

"We would be happy to see you as an honorary guest" at the Vladivostok forum which starts on September 11, Putin told Moon during a press conference after they held talks in Moscow. The Russian leader has also invited North Korea's Kim Jong Un to the event, as well as the leaders of China and Japan. So far, only Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has confirmed his attendance.

Today Russian media reported that Kim has not yet responded to the Kremlin's invitation. "There has not been an answer yet," Putin's aide Yury Ushakov was quoted as saying by TASS news agency.

During his press conference with Moon, Putin said he "welcomed" a recent historic summit between Kim and US President Donald Trump in Singapore, when the two leaders signed a joint document calling for the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. "We hope this will allow tensions to be significantly reduced in the Korean peninsula and in the future create conditions for the formation of a sustainable security system in the region," he said.

During his three-day visit, Moon is also expected to watch South Korea's World Cup match against Mexico tomorrow in the city of Rostov-on-Don.
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Analysis: US media in all-out effort to stop Trump-Putin summit

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:37 UTC
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Even as Russiagate's death looks certain, "Deep State" seeks any way possible to obstruct progress towards normalizing relations

Recently, plans for a summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin were announced.

The report was first disclosed rather quietly late on a Friday evening three weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal, and subsequent reports indicated more and more details in terms of both the intent and the stage of planning conducted for these meetings. Hopes are rising that this meeting will lead to a normalization of relations between the US and Russia.

Over the past two weeks, the press has tried to destroy this narrative.

Comment: And just like that, #Russiagate has completely disappeared from the news cycle now that things are looking grim for the Dems and FBI.

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Why the OIG's 'report' should scare you to death

David Catron
The American Spectator
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 16:35 UTC
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© Wikimedia CommonsFBI Director Christopher Wray ignored Grassley’s letter alleging malfeasance at the bureau.
The OIG is infected by a far more dangerous disease than political bias - fear.

The Justice Department's tepid OIG report, with its risible assertion that there was no political bias in the FBI's Clinton email probe, suggests that it was written by people afraid to tell the unvarnished truth about the conduct of the federal government's police apparatus, an agency that openly defies congressional oversight and has participated in a vendetta against a sitting president. The FBI's leadership clearly hopes that the Democrats will win majorities in Congress and put a halt to the investigations into its multifarious abuses of power. The OIG is loath to face the ruthless reprisals that would inevitably follow such a disaster.
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UN resolution seeks to reignite conflict between Transnistria and Moldova by calling for withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers


RT
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 15:53 UTC
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© Igor Zenin / SputnikMilitiamen patrolling a road in Transnistria in September 1992.
A UN resolution calling for withdrawal of "foreign troops" from Moldova might reignite the Transnistrian conflict, Moscow warns. Moldovan President Igor Dodon called the resolution a PR stunt of the democrats ahead of an election.

The resolution, calling for the "complete and unconditional withdrawal of foreign military forces" from Moldova was adopted by the UN General Assembly on Friday. The Moldova-sponsored document received a simple majority, with 63 countries voting for it, 15 against, and 82 abstaining.

Russia condemned the adoption of the resolution as a shortsighted move which could lead to a potential flashpoint between the unrecognized Transnistria Republic and Moldova, undermining the "fragile" reconciliation process.
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That's it: Kurds lost their chance, only Damascus can save them now

Elijah J. Magnier
ejmagnier.com
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:50 UTC
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Donald Trump's decision to pull out of Syria "very soon" and to deliver the city of Manbij to Turkey fell as a shock to the Syrian Kurds gathered in the northern part of the country. These Kurds, who act on a day-to-day basis as a shield for the US forces, have been deliberately manipulated by the US establishment to cover and protect its occupation forces in the north-east of the Levant. Trump is apparently ready to dump the Kurds from one day to the next. Not content with that, Trump is now putting the Kurds "up for auction", betting on which Arab country will occupy the Kurdish controlled area and dispose of the territory they are currently based in.

So, what are the Kurds' options?

The US President clearly attaches no importance to the fate of the Kurds. He is ready to abandon them, despite knowing that they have no other place to go or protection they can seek. The Kurds lost the trust of the government in Damascus because of their unwise political and military choices - and of course they are hunted down by Turkey who considers all Kurds in Syria to be part of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), a terrorist-affiliated group by Ankara's standards.
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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: Mass immigration: Wall 'em out of Fortress Europe and the Trump State?


Sott.net
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 16:00 UTC
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Mass immigration has lately commanded media attention in both North America and Europe. The issue of separating children from parents in groups of immigrants attempting to illegally enter the US has liberal elites and extreme leftists howling at the sky again, and openly threatening violence on Trump 'and anyone who votes for him'.

Across the Atlantic, Italy's new 'populist' government has begun preventing migrant ships from docking at their ports, provoking an almighty row between Mediterranean leaders, with France's Macron chastising Rome and claiming that 'there is no migrant crisis'. But as the 'populist wave' and Trump's election win clearly indicated, all is certainly not 'fine'...

This week, Joe and Niall go Behind the Headlines on what is - arguably - the most pressing issue of our times


Running Time: 01:18:28

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Why did the IG report skate over Obama's fake name email account used to communicate with Hillary... what's to hide?

Joe Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:37 UTC
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(L-R) Robert Mueller, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Andrew McCabe
In September 2016 TGP reported that former President Obama used a fake name on his email account to communicate with Hillary Clinton on her personal email account.

In March 2016 Barack Obama told CBS News he heard about Hillary Clinton's private emails through news reports.

But Obama lied.

FBI records released in September 2016 revealed Barack Obama emailed Hillary Clinton often using a pseudonym email account.

This point is barely mentioned in the IG's report last week and brushed over in a footnote to the report.

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'Stupid God': Duterte takes on Bible creation story


RT
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 15:51 UTC
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No one can escape the wrath of Rodrigo Duterte, one of the toughest-talking world leaders today, be it a US president, UN chief, or even the Pope! The Philippines president has now gone a step further by calling God "stupid."

This time the 72-year-old leader targeted the concept of original sin in the Bible. During a speech at the opening of the 2018 Information and Communications Technology Summit in Davao City on Friday, Duterte recalled the Bible creation story of Adam and Eve and how they ate the forbidden fruit.
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