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Migrants in US syphon $19B untaxed remittances to China, $103B globally

John Binder
Breitbart
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 01:00 UTC

Migrants in the United States sent about $103 billion in mostly untaxed remittances to six foreign countries last year — including about $19 billion to China.

A World Bank report, detailed by the Wall Street Journal, reveals the extent to which foreign nationals living in the U.S. drain mostly untaxed money from the nation's economy to send to relatives overseas.

In 2019, migrants sent close to $40 billion to Mexico and nearly $20 billion to China. Only one state in the U.S., Oklahoma, taxes remittances. Last year, the state raked in more than $13 million from its one percent remittance tax.

Migrants in the U.S. also sent about $14 billion to India, another $14 billion to the Philippines, $10 billion to Guatemala, and $9 billion to Vietnam — almost all of which is untaxed.

Comment: A big problem becoming bigger? The financial syphoning loopholes add perspective to Trump's demand to enforce migrant quotas.

Two-faced Jake Tapper, admonishing Trump for lack of mask, shows 'no need for masks' clip on his own show

RT
Sun, 12 Jul 2020 20:29 UTC

CNN's Jake Tapper was confronted with coverage from his own show claiming masks were "not needed" during the Covid-19 pandemic, after he tweeted Donald Trump may have saved lives if he'd worn them in public months ago.

"Some day someone will do a study on how many lives might have been saved if this happened in February or March," Tapper tweeted, reacting to the president being pictured for the first time wearing a mask.

Shaming citizens for refusing to wear masks in public - despite many states and businesses requiring them - has become commonplace on social media, but in "February or March," health officials were claiming they were "not needed" and insisting Americans not go out and buy them.

Comment: Denial is its own mask, obviously familiar to Tapper by frequent useage.

Lam: Dem's plan for legislative majority to oppose government policy might be illegal according to security law

Tom Grundy
Hong Kong Free Press
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:13 UTC

Chief Exec. Carrie Lam has said that a coordinated effort by democrats to win a majority in the legislature in order to oppose government policy may be illegal under the national security law.

Lam was asked on Monday for her reaction to the pro-democracy camp's primary election over the weekend, which saw a high turnout of over 600,000 citizens. At a press conference, she warned that people must not "interfere, disrupt [or] cause confusion" in the run-up to the legislative election in November:

"If this so-called primary election's purpose is to achieve the ultimately goal of... rejecting to, resisting every policy initiative of the Hong Kong SAR government, then it may fall into the category of subverting the state power, which is now one of the four types offences under the new national security law."

Lam added she was only issuing a warning, but there may be a case to answer.

High treason or state oppression? Russian journalist arrested and charged with passing intel to Czech Republic

Johnny Tickle
RT
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:50 UTC

Ivan Safronov, a former journalist and a current adviser to the head of the Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, has been charged with treason. He is alleged to have passed secret information to the Czechs at the behest of the US.

Safronov, who previously wrote for the well-known Russian newspapers Kommersant and Vedomosti, is believed by investigators from the Federal Security Service to have been working for the Czech Republic, a NATO member state.

According to Safronov's lawyer, Ivan Pavlov, he maintains his innocence. He also explained that Safronov will cooperate with the investigation. If found guilty, Safronov could serve up to 20 years in jail.

Veteran activists slam BLM as Democrat weapon that 'profits from the death of black men' and drowns out grassroots voices

Helen Buyniski
RT
Mon, 06 Jul 2020 16:26 UTC

© Getty Images via AFP / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Stephen Maturen
Demonstrators take a knee outside the Target Center and First Avenue during the Black 4th protest in downtown on July 4, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Black Lives Matter movement has made millions off black Americans' suffering. A St. Louis activist explains how it comes from a long tradition of white liberals coopting grassroots movements to push a Democratic Party agenda.

The foundation-funded social justice activism of Black Lives Matter is using black pain to cash in on white liberal guilt, dividing American society in pursuit of a Democratic political agenda, St. Louis activist Nyota Uhura told RT.

Uhura founded her website handsupdontshoot.com in August 2014 to counter false narratives coming out of the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson following the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

Having witnessed BLM's rise up close as the nascent organization swooped into Ferguson amid the calls for justice triggered by Brown's killing, methodically coopting the genuine protest energy while ignoring or even obstructing those protesters' demands, Uhura has fought to warn others of what the organization really represents - leveraging black activism into a boost for the Democratic Party.

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Russian prosecutors reverse course - press murder charges against sisters accused of killing abusive father

Matthew Luxmoore
RFE/RL
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:43 UTC

© Moscow City Court/TASS
Two of the three sisters accused of killing their father, Angelina Khachaturyan (front) and Krestina Khachaturyan (back), at a court hearing in Moscow.

Russian prosecutors have confirmed murder charges against three sisters accused of killing their abusive father in 2018, the sisters' defense team says, reversing their earlier calls for charges to be dropped and dealing a blow to women's rights activists who see the case as a litmus test for Russia's approach to domestic violence.

Attorney Aleksei Liptser, a member of the defense team, told RFE/RL on July 13 that the indictment had been finalized and the case would now go to trial.

In July 2018, investigators say, Krestina, Angelina, and Maria Khachaturyan -- then 19, 18, and 17 years old, respectively -- killed their father, Mikhail Khachaturyan, at their home in Moscow's outskirts. Materials gathered by investigators included substantial evidence of protracted sexual and physical abuse by Khachaturyan against his daughters.

The 'woke' philistines taking over Hollywood hate white men much more than they love cinema

Michael McCaffrey
RT
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:09 UTC

Hollywood's suffocating new wave of identity politics targets white men, and movies and TV will suffer significantly as a result.

Hollywood, despite its reputation as a liberal bastion, has long been a hothouse of vicious reactionary sentiments.

For example, the anti-communist mania of the late 1940s and '50s was a particularly shameful time in Hollywood's history. It was during this Red Scare that Hollywood studios created a blacklist where any person thought to be a communist or associated with communists, regardless of their ability, was barred from working in the industry.

Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee used the threat of the Hollywood blacklist to force many artists to become informers on their colleagues in order to maintain their livelihoods.

Not surprisingly, as the Black Lives Matter panic now rages, Hollywood is once again succumbing to the hideous siren's call of dehumanization and discrimination. Except this time the accusation isn't about communism, but rather, "Are you now, or have you ever been, a white man?"

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French police arrest most-wanted 'darknet' paedophile suspect

Times of Malta
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:19 UTC

French prosecutors said Monday that police had arrested a man suspected of operating paedophilia sites on secret "darknet" internet networks providing pornographic videos and pictures to thousands of people worldwide.

The 40-year-old arrested near the southwestern city of Bordeaux on July 7 was described by prosecutors as "one of the 10 most-wanted targets" of authorities fighting child sex crimes around the globe.

Bordeaux prosecutor Frederique Porterie said the suspect also appeared to have taken "an active role in the production of child pornography pictures and videos."

After being taken in for questioning, he was also charged with the incestuous rape of a minor as well as incestuous sexual assault of a 15-year-old, Porterie said.

The suspect admitted the charges against him, she added.

French police and investigators from its specialised anti-violence agency worked alongside the EU's Europol police agency.

The suspect posted the images on the so-called "darknet" of websites that can be accessed only with specific software or authorisations, ensuring anonymity for users.

Protesters in Russia's Far East demand release of regional governor charged with murders

RFE/RL
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 16:52 UTC

Hundreds of demonstrators have continued to peacefully protest in Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk, demanding the release of the region's governor Sergei Furgal, who was arrested last week on charges of attempted murder and ordering the killings of two businessmen in 2004-2005.

The protesters marched across the city on July 13 demanding Furgal's release. They had planned to hold a big gathering on the central Lenin Square, but local officials started washing the cobblestones and therefore the protesters decided to march across the city.

After police asked them not to block the streets for public transportation, the protesters began marching on sidewalks, holding posters saying "We Are For Furgal," "Freedom To Furgal," "We Are The Power Here."

Some protesters chanted slogans against Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Other people were joining the protesters as they marched, while drivers of vehicles signaled their support.

The number of protesters was less than that at previous rallies, where tens of thousands gathered in support of Furgal over the weekend in Khabarovsk.

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Covid-19 backlash: Russian priest calls for Putin to "step down or face full-blown spiritual war"

Jonny Tickle
RT
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC

A Russian priest who seized control of a convent, denies the existence of Covid-19, and criticized church leadership, has now called for Vladimir Putin to resign and transfer to him the position of Russian President.

Shiigumen Sergius, who was recently defrocked in response to his criticism of the Orthodox Church's coronavirus measures, appealed to Putin in a YouTube video published by his personal spokesman Vsevolod Moguchev. Sergius warned the president that he must resign his post and transfer it to him or face starting a "full-blown spiritual war."

Comment: The priest is correct in his diagnosis of course, though his solution is rash.

Why did Putin do it (go full Corona cuckoo)?

Apparently, if he hadn't, he would have faced even worse problems from Russia's authoritarian types than he faces now from rebel priests.

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Society's Child

Migrants in US syphon $19B untaxed remittances to China, $103B globally

Two-faced Jake Tapper, admonishing Trump for lack of mask, shows 'no need for masks' clip on his own show

Lam: Dem's plan for legislative majority to oppose government policy might be illegal according to security law

High treason or state oppression? Russian journalist arrested and charged with passing intel to Czech Republic

Veteran activists slam BLM as Democrat weapon that 'profits from the death of black men' and drowns out grassroots voices

Russian prosecutors reverse course - press murder charges against sisters accused of killing abusive father

The 'woke' philistines taking over Hollywood hate white men much more than they love cinema

French police arrest most-wanted 'darknet' paedophile suspect

Protesters in Russia's Far East demand release of regional governor charged with murders

Covid-19 backlash: Russian priest calls for Putin to "step down or face full-blown spiritual war"

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