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Congressional investigators tell Fox News that Tuesday's seven-hour interrogation of Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe contained numerous conflicts with the testimony of previous witnesses, prompting the Republican majority staff of the House Intelligence Committee to decide to issue fresh subpoenas next week on Justice Department and FBI personnel. [...]
Investigators say McCabe recounted to the panel how hard the FBI had worked to verify the contents of the anti-Trump "dossier" and stood by its credibility. But when pressed to identify what in the salacious document the bureau had actually corroborated, the sources said, McCabe cited only the fact that Trump campaign adviser Carter Page had traveled to Moscow. Beyond that, investigators said, McCabe could not even say that the bureau had verified the dossier's allegations about the specific meetings Page supposedly held in Moscow.
The sources said that when asked when he learned that the dossier had been funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, McCabe claimed he could not recall - despite the reported existence of documents with McCabe's own signature on them establishing his knowledge of the dossier's financing and provenance.
"Because, we came here all the way from different parts of the country as part of our fellowship, and all of us pitched in to vote and canvas together, and we got our boy elected!"Curiously, an Alabama court made a last minute decision making it difficult to challenge the election results: Something to hide? In last minute ruling Alabama court to allow destruction of digital voting records for Senate election.
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill has opened an investigation into the matter, saying he hopes to track the man down to ask him about the comment.
"Well, it's disconcerting when someone who's not from Alabama says that they participated in our election, so now it's incumbent upon us to try to identify this young man, to see what kind of role he played, if it was simply to play a canvassing role, or if he was part of a process that went out and tried to register voters, or if he himself actually became a registered voter," Merrill said.
Merrill did say there is no actual evidence of fraud, but "when you have someone actually recorded on television saying that they voted, and then that's what he said, then we've got to get to the bottom of that."
Merrill said the election should be certified the week after Christmas.
At $8.81/hour, an employee who works Walmart's definition of full-time (34 hours per week) makes just $15,500 per year. The websites Glassdoor and Pay Scale also indicate hourly wages below $10/hour. The company will frequently cite higher numbers by lumping managers in with its averages and excluding part-time and temporary workers.Due to very low salaries, employees depend on public assistance for survival.
Because of Walmart's low pay, hundreds of thousands of Walmart workers are forced to utilize state subsidized benefits, including food stamps and public housing. Multiple reports have examined this issue:In short, Walmart is subsidized by US tax payers, while the $500 billion dollars company enriches this wealthiest American family.
- An April 2014 study by Americans for Tax Fairness estimated that subsidies and tax breaks for Walmart and the Walton family cost taxpayers $7.8 billion per year, including approximately $6.2 billion in assistance to Walmart workers due to low wages and benefits.
- An April 2014 Marketplace series found that Walmart is the largest beneficiary of dollars from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps. The company receives roughly 18 percent of all food stamp dollars, more than $13 billion in revenue.
- A study by Good Jobs First found that, in many states, Walmart tops the lists of employers whose workers are most reliant on government assistance.
- A May 2013 Congressional report calculated that Walmart workers are forced to rely on $900,000 in taxpayer support, including food stamps and healthcare, at just one of the company's 4,000 U.S. stores.
An April 2014 study by Americans for Tax Fairness estimated that subsidies and tax breaks for Walmart and the Walton family that owns the operation cost U.S. taxpayers $7.8 billion per year, including approximately $6.2 billion in assistance to Walmart workers due to low wages and benefits.Walmart destroyed local businesses and communities wherever it opened its stores. This made people desperate to take up jobs that don't meet their basic needs. This is modern equivalent of slavery.
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Walmart spent $2.4 billion in advertising in 2014, much of it specifically to trumpet its role as an employer, its commitment to hire military veterans, and its new US manufacturing initiative.
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The Walton family is the wealthiest family in America and is worth more than $149 billion. The Economic Policy Institute found that the Waltons' wealth is now equivalent to 79% of African-American families combined.
The Committee to Defend the President, a political action committee, filed its complaint with the FEC on Monday with the allegations that the Hillary Victory Fund (HVF) solicited cash from big-name donors, including Calvin Klein and "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane - money that was allegedly sent through state chapters and back to the DNC before ending up with the Clinton campaign.
"What we have found, people need to see," Ted Harvey, chairman of the CDP which emerged from the now-defunct Stop Hillary PAC, told Fox News. "I think it's important that the American public has an understanding of how corrupt this campaign system was and that they were doing anything they could to secure the nomination in her favor."
In its complaint, the CDP alleges that about $84 million was funneled illegally from the DNC through state party chapters and back into the war chest of the Clinton campaign.
Comment: So the FBI "worked hard" to verify the contents of the dodgy dossier? Unlikely. What's more likely is that the FBI "worked hard" to accept the dodgy dossier at face value and use it to obtain FISA court warrants allowing the FBI to spy on members of the Trump campaign as possible 'Russian spies'. See also: