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As media covers Trump-Kim summit, Bilderberg Group meets to discuss its own agenda

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War criminals, politicians, bankers, media controllers, and heads of state will be meeting in secret this week at the Bilderberg Group to discuss policy on how to bend the world to their desires.

The world's ruling elite will meet in secret this week. No press will be allowed in, no one will be interviewed about it, and Bilderberg will barely register as a blip within the mainstream media's radar. As the media hypes the mostly symbolic meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, bankers, politicians, military leaders, and information controllers will be discussing their plans for the world behind closed doors and with zero transparency.

The 66th annual Bilderberg Meeting, which has been held in locations around the world throughout the years, kicks off on Thursday in in Turin, Italy and is set to end on Sunday. Despite a prestigious guest list of around 130 attendees - who will arguably have more of a global influence than any elected officials - the meeting will escape any scrutiny in the mainstream media.

Comment: And as Truthstream Media notes...
Aaron Dykes has been covering the Bilderberg meetings for the last 12 years and has researched the many decades of its existence. Never before has there been a convergence quite like this one taking place in Turin, Italy right now.

As Aaron and Melissa discuss, there appear to be 3 distinct areas of discussion this year, but it's also the other events and meetings taking place at the same time as Bilderberg that might herald something very big in the works.

See also: Globalist conference season


Camera

Syria War Diary: Eva Bartlett Speaks With Ghouta Civilians About Life Under Terrorist Rule

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The author with Douma residents
Last week I wrote about what civilians from Ghouta told me regarding unverified claims of the Syrian Army attacking them with chemicals, but they also talked about crimes committed by terrorists and the White Helmets' role.

Although benignly dubbed "rebels" by corporate media, the Salafist terrorist group Jaysh al-Islam are not fighting for freedom or human rights in Syria, nor are the other terrorist groups who formerly ruled in eastern Ghouta.

It was Jaysh al-Islam which imprisoned Syrian civilians in cages, using them as human shields against potential bombing, and Jaysh al-Islam was among the terrorist groups firing missiles and mortars onto civilians in Damascus, killing over 10,000.

They, Faylaq al-Rahman, and the other terrorist factions occupying the region reigned with terror, beheading men and women and starving the people.

Hellish rule of Jaysh al-Islam: Starvation and executions by sword

When I visited eastern Ghouta and the Horjilleh center for displaced people just south of Damascus-people mostly from Ghouta now-I asked about their lives under the rule of Jaysh al-Islam and others, including why they had been starving in the first place. The reply was, as I and others heard in eastern Aleppo, Madaya, and al-Waer, the terrorists stole aid and controlled all food, only selling food at extortionist prices which ordinary people could not afford.

TV

Reality Check on Venezuela: Debunking John Oliver's Shoddy Show on Washington's Number One Enemy in Latin America

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The week of Venezuela's presidential election, John Oliver dedicated an ENTIRE episode of his HBO show "Last Week Tonight" to the country-full of distortions and highly misleading to progressive-minded people.


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Globalist conference season

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Oh, pity the poor globalists. They're going to be running around like chickens with their heads cut off in the next few days....Well, OK, more like flying around in their private jets like well-pampered chickens with their heads cut off, but you get the idea.

Why? Well, because globalist conference season is in full swing and there are going to be plenty of air miles racked up in the coming days by the top global super-gophers. There's Bilderberg in Italy, the G7 in Canada, the SCO Summit in China and, of course, the much-ballyhooed North Korea summit in Singapore.

Lost yet? Well, don't worry. Here's the handy-dandy Corbett Report guide to globalist conference season and what we can expect to see in the coming days.

Attention

The SPLC State, and its unprecedented threat to American civil liberties

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Southern Poverty Law Center: A hate group that targets 'hate groups'
The American Constitution utilizes checks and balances to prevent any one faction or person from controlling the State. Yet power over society is not exercised solely through government. Those who favor mass immigration and the abolition of American sovereignty project power from inside and outside the government simultaneously, leveraging law enforcement, the courts, financial institutions, and the media to their ends. And no single group does this better than the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), ostensibly a "Non-Governmental Organization" (NGO) but increasingly becoming a kind of proto-government unto itself.

The SPLC is so effective because it exercises power through multiple levels, each building on the other. Because of "hate crimes" legislation, the political ideology or affiliations of a criminal become highly relevant to any investigation. Though the FBI no longer lists the SPLC on its "resources" page, it continues to work with the organization to investigate hate crimes. It also trains local law enforcement in how to deal with "extremists" and "hate groups." This begs the question of who constitutes these groups. This is where the SPLC's "Intelligence Project" comes in, which, as the name implies, serves as a kind of domestic intelligence agency.

Comment: SPLC was founded in 1971 as a small civil rights law firm that fought the Ku Klux Klan for financial damages for the victims of Klan violence. But despite its laudable origins, the SPLC has over time fashioned itself into a political referee while simultaneously engaging in progressive activism, using smear tactics, intimidation, and a knack for fundraising to silence its political opponents. As of October 2017, the SPLC boasts 291 employees, 640 contractors, six national offices, and an endowment fund of more than $319 million.

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Better Earth

Getting bigger, coming closer - why SCO's Qingdao summit was worth following

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SCO Qingdao Summit participants
In a robust show of unity, leaders of eight SCO member states, including Russia and China, arrived for a get-together to talk security and trade, and hail expansion of the bloc - in sharp contrast with the calamitous G7 meeting.

This year, leaders of the eight-member Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) convened in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao. Here are the most important takeaways from the summit that took place as the tight-lipped Group of Seven (G7) meeting in Quebec ended with a remarkable feud between US President Donald Trump and his six counterparts.

Big, bigger, biggest? SCO now largest regional body after India & Pakistan joined in

Qingdao summit was the first meeting in which regional rivals India and Pakistan were in attendance as full SCO members. Their official accession to the alliance was approved at the 2017 SCO meeting in Kazakhstan's capital Astana.

Chinese President Xi Jinping gave the leaders of Pakistan and India a "special welcome" to their first SCO summit, while Russian leader Vladimir Putin said the new members made the alliance look as it should be.
"Regarding the enlargement [of the body], we agreed that the current structure is optimal," Putin said, as cited by TASS, adding, "we must see how the organization will work in an enlarged mode. If we calculate... per capita, the seven countries are wealthier, but the size of the SCO economies [combined] is larger. And the population is of course much bigger - half of the planet," Putin stated.

Snakes in Suits

Ryan to put cheap-labor amnesty bill to quick floor vote

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House Speaker Paul Ryan
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he hopes to quickly write up an amnesty bill and get it passed through the House. "The next step is putting pen to paper so we can start getting legislation to the floor," Ryan told reporters shortly after he held a Thursday-morning meeting with the GOP caucus to push for a wage-cutting amnesty.

Ryan suggested he would try to rush the bill to the floor. "Time is of the essence if we want to have a legislative process that we can control," he said, referring to the group of 23 GOP legislators who threaten to use the discharge-petition process on June 25 to let Democrats pass their own amnesty.

The bill would reportedly provide an amnesty to at least 1.4 million illegals, and it does not include a cap to prevent fraud or subsequent waves of migrants hoping to join the next amnesty.

CNN reported mid-afternoon that Ryan's legislation could be drafted "in the next few days." The claim was made by Florida Rep. Chris Curbelo, a leader in the discharge-petition group whose district is dominated by Democratic-voting immigrant families who were brought into the United States by earlier amnesties.

Question

Trump's G7 pitch surprise: 'We should at least consider no tariffs'

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Heads of state attend the G7 summit in La Malbaie, Canada
The US president floated the idea - which was received as somewhat rhetorical - as a meeting of the G7 leaders was breaking up.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday floated the idea of ending all tariffs and trade barriers between the U.S. and its G7 allies - an unexpected pitch that comes amid a tit-for-tat trade war Trump recently launched.

Trump offered the aspirational proposal at the end of a contentious meeting on trade disputes at the G7 summit in Quebec, an annual gathering of the leaders from seven major industrialized nations. During the private gathering, Europe's major economic powers pushed back hard against Trump's repeated assertions that the U.S. is a victim of unfair trade practices.

"We should at least consider no tariffs, no barriers - scrapping all of it," Trump said, according to officials who were listening and taking notes.

Trump floated the idea - which was received as somewhat rhetorical - as the meeting was breaking up and was quickly challenged by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who asked, "What about subsidies?"

Comment: A tense attempt to clear the air while muddying the waters and come to trade agreements...or not. See also: Trump: 'Russia should be in G7, whether you like it or not'


Dominoes

Trump states he'll sense if Kim-talks are to be successful 'within the first minute'

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'The first minute...'
Donald Trump says he is prepared to be wowed by Kim Jong-un at their "one-shot" talks on Tuesday, but added that he will sense straight away if the meeting is futile and "won't waste Kim's time."

"It's a one-time shot and I think it's going to work out very well," Trump told reporters during a lengthy press briefing at the conclusion of the G7 meeting in Quebec on Saturday afternoon.

Saying that the North Korean leader has "an opportunity to do something great for his people," Trump insisted that his team was going into the first-ever meeting between the two countries at this level with a "positive spirit."

But Trump also hedged his bets, claiming that the results he demands - a complete denuclearization of the peninsula - could take time.

"It may not work out. There's a good chance it won't work out. There's probably an even better chance that it will take a period of time, it'll be a process," said Trump.

Light Sabers

Russian FM blames West for provoking Ukraine into new Donbass war

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Donetsk rally "Ukraine honor the agreements"
Russian diplomats say the non-stop outbursts of violence in Donbass confirm that Ukraine has no intention of honoring the Minsk Accords, and accuse the US and their allies of supporting Kiev's course towards war.
"As far as the UN presence in Donbass is concerned, it is well known that in September 2017 Russia submitted a draft resolution on the issue to the UN Security Council. However, we still have not received any amendments to this document, in written form. Instead, our European and American partners are promoting the ideas of a military operation of 'coercing into peace' and putting an international military-civilian administration in charge of the region before it holds any elections,"
reads the ministry's comment released on Saturday in connection with the planned meeting in the Normandy Four format in Berlin, scheduled for June 11.

Russian diplomats also noted that the aggravation of the situation in Donbass is clear confirmation of the fact that Kiev has no intention of sticking to the Minsk Agreements.

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