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Outspoken fmr Secret Service agent Gary Byrne files civil RICO suit against Hillary and Bill, Clinton Foundation, Podesta and Soros

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Conspiracy theorists (and conspiracy factists) are running wild as infamously outspoken former Secret Service agent Gary Byrne has filed a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) suit against what some call the Democrat Deep State.

Defendants in the case include:
CLINTON FOUNDATION, CLINTON-GIUSTRA ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP, MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA, CORRECT THE RECORD, AMERICAN BRIDGE 21ST CENTURY, CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON, SHAREBLUE, DAVID BROCK, WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, GEORGE SOROS, JOHN PODESTA,JONATHAN WACKROW, JAN GILOOLY and CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE.
Quite a rogue's gallery.

Airplane

Unfit for travel: Nazi-saluting drunk tries to escape on tug vehicle after EasyJet rampage

EasyJet
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A Northern Irish native has been sentenced to three months in jail by Antrim Magistrate's Court after abusing and attacking staff during a drunken rampage, before trying to get away on an airport tug vehicle.

Paul Anthony Burgoyne, 51, who resides in Shepshed, Leicestershire pleaded guilty to a total of nine offenses on Tuesday, which included common assault and recklessly endangering the safety of an aircraft. He was also fined £500 ($660) and ordered to pay £600 ($795) to the plane's captain, according to Leicestershire Live.

The commotion started on a flight from George Best Belfast City Airport to Birmingham, where Burgoyne became enraged after flight crew for the budget airline requested that he open a neighboring window blind prior to take-off.

Perturbed by what he apparently considered to be a dictatorial request, Burgoyne reacted by raising his right arm with a straightened hand and shouting: "Alright, mein Fuhrer" - a reference to the greeting reserved for the ruler of Nazi-era Germany, Adolf Hitler.

Star of David

The Israeli Occupation: 10 normal things Palestinians are prevented from doing

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A protest in London on Nov. 17, 2012 against Israeli attacks on Gaza.
It affects almost all aspects of their lives.

The Israeli government and some U.S. politicians are attacking the Obama administration for permitting a recent U.N. Security Council resolution that condemns Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Secretary of State John Kerry faced further ire on Wednesday after saying the settlements threaten prospects for peace in the region.

Yet part of the reason the administration decided to speak out forcefully about the settlements is because they are such a key feature of Israel's occupation ― now approaching its 50th year. The occupation affects almost every aspect of Palestinians' lives in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.

Vader

US lawmakers question Google's partnership with China over Huawei ties

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US lawmakers have questioned Google's "strategic partnership" with Chinese major smartphone producer Huawei saying it "could pose a serious risk to US national security" and American consumers.

Huawei, which is the world's third-largest smartphone maker by market share, is running the Google-owned Android operating system on its devices. In January, Google and Huawei signed a partnership to work on a new standard of mobile phone messaging.

"We urge you to reconsider Google's partnership with Huawei, particularly since your company recently refused to renew a key research partnership, Project Maven, with the Department of Defense. This project uses artificial intelligence to improve the accuracy of US military targeting, not least to reduce civilian casualties," said a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai signed by both Republican and Democrat lawmakers.

HAL9000

NSA moves all its top secret data to cloud developed by Amazon

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The National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters building in Fort Meade, Maryland
The US National Security Agency is "systematically moving" all its data to a cloud-computing service, the chief information officer has said. In 2017 alone the agency tripled collection of data through US telecom companies.

The cloud - designed to harvest and store all sorts of NSA-relevant data, including foreign surveillance and intelligence information around the world - offers easy access to the data to "connect dots," Greg Smithberger told NextGov.

Centrally funded by the NSA, all data stored in this cloud will be available to all of the 16 other agencies.

Family

Poll finds majority of Americans support Trump and blame immigrant parents for child detention crisis

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A new Rasmussen poll has found that a majority of Americans side with President Donald Trump, and blame illegal immigrant parents for the current child detention crisis at the Mexican border.

According to the poll, 54 percent of likely voters said that the parents of detained children are to blame for knowingly breaking the law in the first place. Only 35 percent blame the Trump administration for the crisis.

The President has come under fire in recent weeks from Democrats, celebrities, and the Twitter #resistance for his administration's policy of separating the children of illegal immigrants from their parents and detaining them.

As his administration struggles to secure Democrat votes for a new immigration bill, President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday ending the policy of separating children from their law-breaking parents. The new order allows families to be detained together, except "when there is a concern that detention of an alien child with the child's alien parent would pose a risk to the child's welfare."

Attention

'Social problem'? Sexual assaults have permanently shut down Sweden's largest music festival

Bravalla Festival in Norrkoping, Sweden
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A police officer at the campsite at Bravalla Festival in Norrkoping, Sweden
Organizers of Sweden's largest music festival say they have permanently pulled the plug on the annual event after it became plagued by sex assaults.

Once Sweden's largest four-day musical event, the Bravalla Music Festival was not held this year, after dozens of women and girls reported that they had been sexually assaulted at last year's event.

Kajsa Apelqvist, who heads public relations for FKP Scorpio, the festival's organizer, said there was no plans to bring the event back in 2019. "It's a very disappointing decision to take, but the overall picture we have is that we cannot develop the festival in the way we want to be relevant to our visitors in the future," Apelqvist told Sweden's Norrköpings Tidningar.

When asked about the sex attacks reported at the 2017 event, Apelqvist said: "We have always claimed that it is not a festival problem but a social problem. How we ensure our visitors' safety is something we are constantly developing, and that's something we'll never finish."

Last year, Swedish police received four rape and 23 sexual assault reports during the festival. In 2016, there were five reports of rapes and at least 12 of sexual molestation.

Family

Trump asked protesting NFL players for pardon recommendations. Players counter with request for more comprehensive solution

NFL football player protest
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A group of NFL players requested that President Donald Trump issue a blanket pardon for nonviolent drug offenders. The request came in response to the president's suggestion that protesting players recommend those they felt had been treated unfairly by the criminal justice system, The Hill reported.

Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins, San Francisco 49ers receiver Anquan Boldin, New Orleans Saints tight end Ben Watson, and Seattle Seahawks receiver Doug Baldwin co-authored an op-ed in the New York Times, calling nonviolent drug offender incarceration a "systemic problem."

"President Trump could help," they wrote. "He could use his powers, including the clemency power, to make a real dent in the federal prison population."

Sheriff

'We'll make some sh*t up': Cop pulls over daughter's innocent boyfriend, caught on video framing him

John Kovach Jr. arresting Makai Coleman
An abusive power tripping cop was recently fired after dashcam footage surfaced showing him pull over his own daughter and her boyfriend and threaten to make "some shit up" to arrest him. Not only was he caught threatening to arrest an innocent teen and illegally detaining two innocent people but this abusive cop was also caught ignoring an actual call for help during the stop.

On April 16, Lorain police officer John Kovach Jr. pulled over his daughter's boyfriend, Makai Coleman without cause. During the stop Kovach tells Coleman that he is going to jail despite having no reason.

According Safety-Service Director Dan Given, Police Chief Cel Rivera and other command officers, Kovach violated a slew of department policies during the stop, including unlawfully using police resources to track down his daughter's ip address on her phone and geo-locate it.

"These actions are not acceptable for members of our Police Department and we felt it warranted immediate dismissal," Given said.

Eye 1

Border agent who was arrested for possession of child porn got hired by immigrant shelter to work with kids

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A Border Patrol agent who was arrested on child pornography charges was given direct access to children when he was hired by an immigration shelter, according to reports detailing the conditions thousands of immigrant children are subjected to when they are separated from their parents and then detained in shelters across the country.

Ernesto Padron worked as a United States Border Patrol agent for 13 years, up until he was arrested on second-degree felony charges for possession and promotion of child pornography. Padron first landed on the FBI's radar in 2008 when he engaged in a conversation with an undercover agent in an online chat room. He was eventually arrested by the Cameron County Sheriff's Department and charged in 2010, and he immediately resigned from Border Patrol.

Padron's home was raided, and his laptop and desktop computers were seized when he was arrested. Sheriff Omar Lucio told the Brownsville Herald, "Apparently he had been doing this for two or three years. As to the amount of material I'm not exactly sure, but it is a large amount."