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Florida AG Pam Bondi harassed by left-wing activists at a movie theater, spit on her

Florida AG Pam Bondi
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Left-wing activists harassed Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi at a movie theater on Saturday over her support for the Trump administration, yelling at her as she left and returned to her vehicle.

The Tampa Bay Times reports:
A video of the confrontation, taken by progressive activist Timothy Heberlein of Organize Florida, shows several people shouting down Bondi as she leaves the theater escorted by law enforcement after seeing Won't You Be My Neighbor.

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Bad Guys

Informal meeting of EU leaders fails to offer any solutions to the migrant crisis

migrant boat
© Hermine Poschmann/Misson-Lifeline/Reuters
Migrants are rescued in the central Mediterranean Sea.
An informal summit of EU leaders failed on Sunday to offer a way to tackle the increasingly divisive issue of migrants. Some of the most vocal opponents of Brussels' policies failed to show up at all.

The Sunday meeting, convened by European Commission President Jean Claude-Juncker ahead of a formal summit slated for June 28-29, achieved little but showcasing the stress placed on EU solidarity by the festering issue of illegal migration. Of the 28 member states only 16 had representatives present.

Visegrad boycott

Eastern European nations, which played a key part in downing Brussels' plan to distribute the burden of asylum-seekers across all members of the bloc, boycotted the gathering, branding it an attempt by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to ease political pressure she faces at home. Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which form the so-called Visegrad Group, instead held their own meeting on June 21.

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French MP & ex-presidential candidate: US, Brussels, migrants have colonized France

paris migrant tents
© Benoit Tessier / Reuters
Abandoned tents are pictured after police evacuate migrants living in a makeshift camp in Paris on May 30, 2018.
France has been "colonized" by migrants, as well as by the US, China, Germany, and the European Union, a French euroskeptic politician has warned, stating that he doesn't want his country to "disappear."

"I think that our country is colonized...economically by the Americans and the Chinese, politically by Brussels, the European Union and Germany," Nicolas Dupont-Aignan said during an interview on France's 'On the Couch' program.

Dupont-Aignan, a euroskeptic who founded his party France Arise, could have been right-wing leader Marine Le Pen's pick for prime minister if she had made it far enough in last year's presidential election. He also participated in the 2012 presidential elections. The politician has long been a critic of France's immigration policies and strategy to combat terrorism, stating in 2016 that Paris can't defeat terrorism if it stays "obedient" to Berlin and Washington.

He went on to make a rather controversial statement about migrants, saying they are "religiously" colonizing the country.


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John Bolton travels to Moscow to pave way for Trump-Putin summit

Trump Putin
The White House has announced that US National Security Adviser John Bolton will travel to Moscow next week, to discuss a potential meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

Washington and Moscow are "looking at the possibility" of Donald Trump meeting with Vladimir Putin in July.

"We're looking at the possibility" of a Putin meeting in July, Trump said in response to a reporter's question at the White House on Thursday.

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Light Sabers

Because Russia? Nine European countries plan to formalize EU 'defence force' plan

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Nine EU nations will on Monday (25 June) formalise a plan to create a European military intervention force, a French minister said, with Britain backing the measure as a way to maintain strong defence ties with the bloc after Brexit.

The force, known as the European Intervention Initiative and championed by French President Emmanuel Macron, is intended to be able to deploy rapidly to deal with crises.

A letter of intent is due to be signed in Luxembourg on Monday by France, Germany, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Estonia, Spain and Portugal, French defence minister Florence Parly told the newspaper Le Figaro.

The EU took a major step towards building closer defence ties on Monday (13 November), with 23 member states signing a landmark agreement, promoted by France and Germany, to fund and boost cooperation following Britain's decision to leave the bloc.

The initiative involves "joint planning work on crisis scenarios that could potentially threaten European security", according to a source close to the minister, including natural disasters, intervention in a crisis or evacuation of nationals.

It would be separate from other EU defence cooperation, meaning there would be no obstacle to Britain taking part after it leaves the bloc.

Comment: Seriously, what 'threat' can Europe possibly face, aside from its own self-inflicted wounds in the form of mass immigration and Western-backed jihadists?


Question

Russian ambassador in London sends letter to Prince Charles over visit to Salisbury

Alexander Yakovenko
© AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth
Russian Ambassador in London Alexander Yakovenko
Russian Ambassador in London, Alexander Yakovenko, sent a letter to Prince Charles on Friday over a visit to Salisbury made by the Prince and his spouse, Camilla Duchess of Cornwall made earlier on Thursday.

Their Royal Highnesses made a fact-finding tour to Salisbury to get familiarized with successes in the program for bringing life there back to normal after the March 4 alleged poisoning of the former Russian intelligence office and British spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

British media claim the incident affected the tourist industry in the city, slashing the number of visitors by 15%

Comment: Further reading: Putting all the pieces together: Tying up the loose ends in the Skripal case


Info

Dem Chief of Staff met with 'resistance' when trying to expose Awan theft ring

Wendy Anderson Awan
Rep. Yvette Clarke's deputy chief of staff came into the office on a Saturday in December 2015 and caught the New York Democrat's part-time IT aide, Abid Awan, rummaging through the congresswoman's work area with new iPods and other equipment strewn around the room, according to a House document and interviews with Hill staff.

Wendy Anderson told Abid to get out of the office, the document said. She told Capitol Hill investigators that she soon suspected Clarke's chief of staff, Shelley Davis, was working with Abid on a theft scheme, multiple House staffers with knowledge of the situation told The Daily Caller News Foundation. They also said that Anderson pushed for Abid's firing.

But Clarke did not fire Abid until six months after the congresswoman formally acknowledged that $120,000 in equipment was missing, records show - not until after House investigators independently announced a review that would potentially catch financial discrepancies. Even then, Anderson told investigators she believed another top staffer in Clarke's office was subverting their efforts, a House staffer with knowledge of the investigation said.

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James Corbett: The Monsanto and Bayer merger: A match made in hell (VIDEO)

Bayer Monsanto
It is hardly surprising that the first thing Bayer did after completing their takeover of Monsanto earlier this month was to announce that they were dropping the Monsanto name, merging the two companies' agrichemical divisions under the Bayer Crop Science name. After all, as everyone knows, Monsanto is one of the most hated corporations in the world. But Bayer itself has an equally atrocious history of death and destruction. Together they are a match made in hell.

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Comment: James Corbett isn't the only observer of this merger to call it a "match made in hell":


Cards

United States demands that Japan stops buying oil from Iran

Japan Oil
© Toru Hanai / Reuters
Washington has asked Tokyo to halt all crude purchases from Iran, insisting that its allies cease all trade with the country, according to Bloomberg. Read more Trump trade war a 'symptom of paranoid delusions' - Chinese media

The request was made during a meeting between US and Japanese officials in Tokyo this week, according to the media. No decision has been made yet, though, and talks will continue.

This means that Washington is taking a harder stance on Iran than it did in 2012. Six years ago, before the nuclear deal, the US demanded that its allies should reduce oil purchases from sanctioned Iran, rather than stop them completely.

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Wolf

Crazy like a fox? Rep. Maxine Waters says "no sleep, no peace" for Trump admin due to immigration policy

Maxine Waters
© Rebecca Cook / Reuters
Congresswoman Maxine Waters October 28, 2017.
Rep. Maxine Waters says members of the Trump administration should expect harassment at restaurants, gas stations and even their homes for their immigration policy. Several of them have already been confronted at public places.

A Democrat from California and a zealous critic of the US President, Waters excited the crowd at a rally on Saturday with the calls to heckle at the White House team. She said that there should be "no sleep, no peace" for the people responsible who are for the separation of children from their parents that was part of the recent "zero tolerance" immigration policy.

Comment: Is it possible that Rep. Maxine Waters is trying to sway people towards trump and Republicans?