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The British government said on Tuesday that most European Union citizens currently living in Britain will be allowed to remain in the country after Brexit in _NUMBER_. Outlining plans for a mass registration program, the Department for Exiting the European Union and the interior ministry said EU nationals will be given a two-year grace period to apply for settled status after Britain leaves the EU. The legal status and rights of EU nationals is one of the thornier issues in Britain's complicated exit from the bloc. There are about _NUMBER_ million EU citizens living in Britain. Caseworkers will be able to use discretion when processing applications, meaning they should not be refused for minor technicalities, and the majority would be granted, the departments said in a statement. The cost of an application should be no more than the cost of a British passport and EU citizens will also be given a statutory right of appeal if denied. We have been clear that safeguarding the rights of EU citizens is our top priority in negotiations, Brexit minister David Davis said. We will support everyone wishing to stay to gain settled status through a new straightforward, streamlined system.

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Republican lawmakers are considering indirect paths to meeting President Donald Trump's goal of slashing the corporate tax rate to _NUMBER_ percent, one of the toughest challenges they face in trying to overhaul the U.S. tax code. Tax writers in the House of Representatives may opt to phase in the _NUMBER_ percent corporate rate over three to five years by lowering it in stages from the current _NUMBER_ percent, said two sources close to the tax discussions. A phase-in surfaced as an option among Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee as it closed in on completion of actual tax legislation, working off of a nine-page "framework" unveiled by Trump on Sept. _NUMBER_. The House was expected to be inactive on Friday and all of next week. "We'll come back in a week and be able to put together the bill that will move through committee," Republican Representative Kristi Noem told reporters. One of the biggest problems confronting the Republican tax reform push is the federal budget deficit, which would be hugely expanded by Trump's proposals, according to independent analyses. Cutting the corporate rate immediately to _NUMBER_ percent would reduce U.S. tax revenues by nearly _CUR_2 trillion over a decade, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center think tank. Sources said House Republicans believed they could halve the projected revenue loss if the rate cut were phased in. Details of such an option were unavailable. The administration contends the cuts would pay for themselves through stronger economic growth generating new tax revenues, although most economists say that is unlikely. A different approach may emerge from the Senate, where Republicans are writing their own tax legislation. Sources with knowledge of the discussions said senators might settle on a corporate tax rate above _NUMBER_ percent, but use an unorthodox "corporate integration" strategy to achieve an effective rate of _NUMBER_ percent or less. Corporate integration, a brainchild of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, would help lower corporations' tax bill by giving them a deduction for shareholder dividends, analysts said. The idea has faced opposition in the past. Both the House and Senate alternatives surfaced this week as top Republicans and Trump administration officials confronted skepticism that the Republican-controlled Congress could cut the corporate rate to _NUMBER_ percent without ballooning the deficit. Trump, who earlier in the year called for a _NUMBER_ percent corporate tax rate and only reluctantly agreed to _NUMBER_ percent, is now insisting that it go no higher. "The president has made it clear. He wants _NUMBER_ percent. That's the one part of this bill that's not negotiable," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told CNBC. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady told reporters on Thursday: "We continue to drive toward the framework ... ensuring that our businesses don't have anything higher than _NUMBER_ percent on the corporate side." Asked if that meant a _NUMBER_ percent rate in the first year, he said: "We're moving toward that whole design."

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Pope Francis, in some his strongest comments ever on nuclear weapons, said on Friday that the world should condemn not only their possible use but their very possession . The appeal came at the start of a two-day conference on nuclear disarmament that has brought together _NUMBER_ Nobel Peace Prize winners, as well as United Nations and NATO officials, discussing prospects for a world free of nuclear weapons. Addressing the group, Francis spoke of the catastrophic humanitarian and environmental effects of any employment of nuclear devices and added: If we also take into account the risk of an accidental detonation as a result of error of any kind, the threat of their use, as well as their very possession, is to be firmly condemned.

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Only one-in-four Canadians say the North American Free Trade Agreement is good for their country, and more than one-third want it renegotiated, according to polling results released ahead of a North American leaders' Summit on Wednesday. The survey from the Angus Reid Institute on Monday come as protectionist sentiment swells in the United States, where voters at both ends of the political spectrum question the economic benefits of NAFTA. The U.S. Congress is hesitating to ratify a new _NUMBER_-nation trade pact, the Trans-Pacific Partnership , which also includes Canada and Mexico. Trade has long been a focus at the so-called "Three Amigos" summits between NAFTA members, Canada, the United States and Mexico, held this year in Ottawa. The matter has also become a lightning rod issue in the election campaign to replace U.S. President Barack Obama, who wants Congress to ratify TPP before he leaves office on Jan. _NUMBER_. Republican Donald Trump, his party's presumptive nominee for _NUMBER_, has attacked the TPP and describes NAFTA as a disaster that needs to be renegotiated or shelved. Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has also said she opposes the TPP. Angus Reid Institute's poll showed also one-quarter of Canadians feel NAFTA hurts the country, while half were either unsure or feel the deal has had no impact either way. The institute's executive director, Shachi Kurl, said the survey contrasts with past polls on other trade deals, in which Canadians were more likely to support than oppose them. "Is this simply a gap in policy makers' adequately convincing Canadians that this has been a good deal?" she said. "Is NAFTA an exception in that Canadians see the specific trade deal as a bad deal? These are questions that we have to think on." Kurl added the poll raises the question of whether Canadians are concerned about the effects of NAFTA in itself or whether their opinion is part of the global "grumpy view" on trade, citing U.S. anti-free-trade sentiments. Angus Reid said it conducted the online survey with a representative sample of _NUMBER_ Canadian adults who are its members. The survey has a margin of error of _NUMBER_ percentage points, _NUMBER_ times out of _NUMBER_.

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Whoa! We asked the question yesterday in more of a tongue-and-cheek manner. That was before we saw the'serious question that had just been asked of Hillary by reporters. Like everyone else who saw the video, we assumed someone had said something humorous that caused her to behave like she was having seizure. But after watching the actual question that was asked, just prior to what truly does appear to be some sort of seizure, we're having second thoughts about Hillary acting out.Watch the only Presidential candidate who travels with a full-time physician having what appears to be some sort of seizure You be the judge

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Trump picked a petty, embarrassing fight with the Mayor of London after a terror attack rocked the British capital now Mayor Sadiq Khan just finished it.In an unprecedented demand, Mayor Khan asked the British government to cancel Trump's planned state visit in response to the way he treated the United Kingdom in the aftermath of a terror attack. Trump had made headlines the world over when he quickly jumped on the tragedy in London'to push for his Muslim ban, scare people, and repeatedly smear the Mayor of London .At least _NUMBER_ dead and _NUMBER_ wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is "no reason to be alarmed!" Donald J. Trump June _NUMBER_, 2017Pathetic excuse by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who had to think fast on his "no reason to be alarmed" statement. MSM is working hard to sell it! Donald J. Trump June _NUMBER_, 2017The attacks were complete lies. The London Mayor has been praised both in England and across the globe for his measured and competent response to the attacks on his city.On Monday, Trump's chief flack Sarah Huckabee claimed Trump had not taken Khan's remarks out of context despite that being exactly what had happened. No apology was issued.Due to this and Trump's other unhinged ranting about London, Mayor Khan said it was time for the British government to stand up to this behavior.Appearing on Channel _NUMBER_ News on Monday evening, Khan said Trump was wrong about many things and that his state visit should not go ahead. I don't think we should roll out the red carpet to the president of the USA in the circumstances where his policies go against everything we stand for, he'said. When you have a special relationship it is no different from when you have got a close mate. You stand with them in times of adversity but you call them out when they are wrong. There are many things about which Donald Trump is wrong. One of the ways Trump is wrong is in his use of a terror attack in London'to promote his Muslim ban. Foreign policy experts have repeatedly warned that barring Muslims from immigrating or visiting the United States is not only unethical and unconstitutional, but it actually hurts the military's ability to combat terrorism at home and abroad.Conservative British Prime Minister Theresa May seemed to suggest Trump was out of line in attacking London's mayor. You just praised the work that Sadiq Khan has been doing as mayor, another reporter asked. Donald Trump responded to the attack by mocking Sadiq Khan. Would a period of silence on his part now be welcome? As I ve said, I m very clear that I m very clear that Sadiq is doing a good job as mayor of London, she'said before moving on.England by-and-large hates Trump. In one recent poll, just _NUMBER_ percent of the British public said they approved of Trump. In parliament, in yet another first, the country's top politicians held a debate to argue whether Trump'should be barred entry into the UK entirely due to his well-documented bigoted views. The vote eventually went in favor of letting him come, but even many conservative politicians admitted it was mostly because banning the'sitting president of the United States would be a bad diplomatic move.Featured image via Alex Wong/Getty Images

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AUDIO OF KARL ROVE ON HUGH HEWITT Picking Fresh Face at Convention Could End Up Really Helping the GOP

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It's getting to the point that as frightening as the premise is of a Donald Trump presidency is, the movement he has created has a life of its own and it's beyond frightening. Many are armed, dangerous and itching for a Civil War, no matter how the election turns out.One such supporter attended a rally of Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, on Tuesday in Albuquerque, N.M. The woman, who is identified only as Brenda, really, really wants Trump to win and if he doesn't, she'says there will be Second Amendment remedies. There will also be Second Amendment remedies if Trump doesn't win, because apparently Obama will declare martial law. If Hillary Clinton wins the election and she's on that Second Amendment, taking your guns away, there is going to be a civil war in this state or elsewhere in the country, the woman who identified herself as Brenda predicted, to some applause in Albuquerque, N.M. But, if President Trump would win, the woman continued, to hollers from the crowd, there's also going to be a war, because Obama is going to pull that martial law on the United States. Source: The HillPence tried to reassure Brenda that Clinton won't win, but he did nothing to tamp down the threat of violence, and why would he? That would be off message. Trump might not be overtly calling for violence, but when he'suggests that Second Amendment people can do something about Hillary Clinton, well, all it takes is one wrong person to read into that message.Trump's other message is more subtle, but possibly even more dangerous. At this point, Trump pretty much knows he's about to lose the election and he's setting himself up with a basket of excuses none of which blame him or his campaign. Trump's portrayal of all his detractors, including Clinton voters, is that they are cheating. He told a crowd in Pennsylvania that the only way he could lose there is if there's cheating. Trump is currently losing Pennsylvania by seven points.Facts don't matter to Trump voters. They are convinced that Trump is some sort of messiah and that if people don't get that, they'deserve to be punished. If the nation doesn't vote for Trump, you can guarantee that at least some of his armed followers will cry foul. Whether Trump wins or loses, it won't be pretty.Featured image via Spencer Platt at Getty Images.

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Glenn Beck stooge Tomi Lahren thinks that citizenship in this country requires that we always stand for the national anthem and respect the flag, even though we have the right to not do either.But the whiny white racist took to Facebook on Monday night to lecture San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and threaten his constitutionally protected citizenship because he chose to sit during the national anthem on Friday in protest of police brutality against black people. I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color, Kaepernick told the press. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the'street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder. Kaepernick is following in the footsteps of athletes like Muhammad Ali and Jackie Robinson, and like them, he has been viciously attacked by racists like Lahren for drawing attention to the plight of African-Americans in this country. Colin, if this country disgusts you so much leave, Lahren said. I guarantee there are thousands and thousands of people around the world who would gladly take your spot, because those that don't live under this flag are banging on the door to get in, not get out. Remember that. Except that Lahren and her conservative allies have actively supported Donald Trump, who has called for building a wall to keep Latinos out of the country and called for banning Muslims from immigrating here. So when Lahren says thousands of people you gotta wonder exactly what people she is talking about. All people or just those with white skin who practice Christianity?Lahren then got personal and demonstrated why black voters will never vote Republican. What's your contribution? Sitting there like a fool? Lahren viciously continued. What's selfish is you, buddy. And what's your message to black kids, to people of color? That their biggest contribution to justice and self-fulfillment is to parade around with a chip on their shoulder like a victim? Basically, Lahren is saying that fighting for civil rights and equality means that black people are playing the victim because people like her think racism doesn't exist in America.And then she lectured about how white people are not to blame for problems in black communities, even though white lawmakers established systemic racism that has lasted for decades in order to keep black Americans at a disadvantage compared to their white counterparts. Once again, Lahren got personal. Colin, how dare you sit there and blame white people for the problems the minority communities?After all, aren't you half white? Didn t two white parents adopt you after yours weren't willing to raise you? For a racist and horrible country filled with racist and horrible white people, that's really something, isn't it? Here's the video via Facebook:Of course, Kaepernick never specifically blamed white people for anything in his remarks. He is simply speaking out against police brutality against black people, something that has become an epidemic in this country.But you won't hear Lahren talk about police brutality. She thinks the police are totally justified when they shoot black people and has said police will keep killing black people until they stop protesting.This vile piece of trailer park trash has been on the air long enough. It's one thing to have an opinion, but when that opinion is ignorant and hateful it should not be allowed to spread like the plague to poison other minds.Featured Image: Screenshot

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In formulating a new executive order limiting travel to the United States, President Donald Trump has promised to make the directive harder to fight successfully in court than the one he issued in January. One way the administration will likely try to do that, legal experts say, is to shape the order more narrowly to undercut the opportunity for states and other opponents to sue by showing courts they have "standing," or the ability to argue the president's order causes them harm. But legal experts said a new order, which a White House source said was expected this week, was unlikely to fully eliminate the ability of challengers to pursue legal actions. More than two dozen lawsuits were filed in U.S. courts against the initial travel ban, which temporarily barred travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. In one case, which ultimately got the order temporarily suspended, the state of Washington claimed standing in part because the ban affected Washington residents living and working legally in the United States as permanent residents known as green card holders. By excluding legal permanent residents from a new order, something the administration has said is likely, the president would make it harder for opponents to challenge the ban. Larry Klayman, founder of the conservative advocacy group Freedom Watch, said that with a narrower order, legal standing could be a real problem for potential challengers. "If you're not a citizen, or if you're not a permanent resident, you have no constitutional rights," Klayman said. Trump has said travel limitations are necessary to protect the United States from attacks by Islamist militants. Americans were deeply divided over the measure, which had some support but was condemned by prominent U.S. companies and allies. The initial order caused chaos at airports, as people, including green card holders initially, were temporarily blocked from entering the United States. Some of those people, and several states, challenged the order. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling in the Washington case, said the ban likely violated the state's due process rights and suspended it. The 9th Circuit also ruled that Washington had legal standing to challenge the ban, over objections from the Department of Justice. Stephen Legomsky, former chief counsel for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under President Barack Obama, said a narrower ban "weakens the arguments for standing but doesn't entirely eliminate them." Legomsky noted that, "in general the Constitution does not apply to people outside the United States, but that is not iron clad." A U.S. citizen whose spouse was barred from visiting by the order, for instance, could argue that he or she had standing to challenge it. Or a state university might argue that the order negatively affected it. In its ruling, the 9th Circuit said Washington state had standing because it was harmed by Trump's order, specifically noting that faculty at the state's universities from those seven countries would be prohibited from traveling for research or academic collaboration. "The universities' reputations depend on the success of their professors' research," the court wrote. The one thing legal experts on all sides of the issue agree on is that the new order will be challenged in courts. "No matter what they do there will be litigation," said Stephen Yale-Loehr. He said he thinks it likely challengers will be able to establish standing, leaving the courts to decide whether the ban is legal. At that point, Yale-Loehr says, the wording of the new order will become crucial. "If they limit the executive order to people who have never been to the U.S. before, they might win on the merits eventually," he said.

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United Airlines said it had resumed flights from Newark, New Jersey to New Delhi, India on Sunday, after suspending the service temporarily over concerns about poor air quality in the Indian capital. UA Flight _NUMBER_ had been canceled on Friday and Saturday, data from flight tracking website FlightRadar24 showed, while the airline's website said it had waiver policies in place for passengers traveling to, from or through Delhi until Monday. UA Flight _NUMBER_ has resumed operations, but we will continue to monitor conditions over the next few days , a spokesman said. The third-largest U.S carrier is monitoring advisories as the New Delhi region remains under a public health emergency, and is coordinating with respective government agencies, the United Airlines spokesman had earlier told Reuters. Last week, New Delhi declared a pollution emergency as toxic smog hung over the city for days, with tourism operators reporting cancellation of bookings for the Christmas holidays. U.S. rivals Delta Air Lines Inc and American Airlines Group Inc said they do not operate flights to New Delhi, while several Asian airlines contacted by Reuters said they had not canceled flights. Verisk Maplecroft, a risk consultancy, says India has the worst air quality out of a list of _NUMBER_ countries it measures, and that New Delhi ranks among the world's top _NUMBER_ most polluted cities with many urban areas around the capital also among those with the worst air quality. At the national level, India tops the index rankings , followed by Bangladesh and Thailand, said Richard Hewston, Verisk Maplecroft's global head of environment and climate change. The company's Air Quality Index assesses the atmospheric concentrations of fine particulate matter smaller than _NUMBER_ micrometers, known as PM _NUMBER_. A U.S. embassy measure of PM _NUMBER_ showed a reading of _NUMBER_ in New Delhi on Monday morning, local time. The outer limit of good air is _NUMBER_.

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Who wrote this garble for granny Clinton? She's off her rocker! Yes, climate changes

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Rob Cortis calls it the "Trump Unity Bridge" - a bulky, metal _NUMBER_-foot structure welded to two wheels and bedecked with red, white and blue signs echoing President-elect Donald Trump's campaign themes. He has towed it more than _NUMBER_ miles across the country. But as he arrived in Washington on the eve of Trump's inauguration on Friday as America's 45th president, he struggled to navigate the city's crowded potholed streets. "I've been on dirt roads that are smoother," said Cortis, who lives in Michigan. Things are no smoother for Washington - a city with a history of welcoming its White House occupants - following one of the most polarizing elections in modern U.S. politics. Nowhere in the country did the Republican Trump get less support, winning just _NUMBER_ percent of the vote in the District of Columbia in the Nov. _NUMBER_ election. On K Street, best known for its well-heeled lobbyists, about _NUMBER_ protesters chanted: "No Trump ... no fascist USA." Nearby, Trump supporters - some draped in red, white and blue shirts, hats and jackets - declared their unwavering support for the New York businessman. Denise Hendrickson, _NUMBER_, a nurse who moved to Washington when Democratic President Barack Obama took office eight years ago, walked the streets on Thursday with a sign thanking him for his service and proclaiming: "We Already Miss U." As she moved down the sidewalk, she invited Trump supporters to talk, promising hugs to anyone who was willing. One man wearing Trump's signature red "Make America Great Again" hat just smiled, took a picture and moved on. Then a middle-aged woman, also in Trump gear, approached to talk. After a few minutes, the two women hugged. "This city is bummed out, it's a Democratic city," Hendrickson said. But Hendrickson said there was a need in the current political climate to listen to people with different views. "We are open to having a conversation with any Trump supporter," she shouted. Traci Turner, _NUMBER_, no fan of Trump, arrived from Atlanta with her husband and mother-in-law, both avid Trump supporters who got tickets for the inauguration. "We could not be more different in politics. We've been married _NUMBER_ years and we try to stay away from that subject," she said. "They're here for the inauguration. I'm just here for the sites, just for the history." As Turner spoke, a stranger walked by and reminded her there were other options for people visiting the city, including a march planned for Saturday when hundreds of thousands of women are expected to turn up in support of women's rights. Some _NUMBER_ people, both Trump backers and opponents, are expected to flood Washington for Friday's inauguration ceremony. Opponents of Trump are riled by his disparaging campaign comments about women, illegal immigrants and Muslims and his pledge to build a wall on the border with Mexico. His supporters admire his experience in business and his promises to shake up Washington and put America's interests first. Cortis, _NUMBER_, who has spent months driving the country with his trailer-mounted model bridge, said the atmosphere had been cordial despite the political differences on display across much of the city. "Nobody has been really nasty," he said of reactions to his bridge, which features a Trump mannequin, a Statue of Liberty figurine and a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, symbolizing American manufacturing. "You can tell some people have a negative vibe when they see it, but they kind of shake it off, because we're playing positive, uplifting music and we have a positive message," Cortis added. With all the different visitors, "it's been one of our busiest weekends yet," said Roger, a _NUMBER_-year-old cabdriver who declined to give his last name. "They've been supportive of Trump, protesting against Trump, and not giving a damn about the man," he said. All I know is that business has been good. Real good." Not everyone in the city is planning to stay in town for the event. Preston Mitchum, _NUMBER_, a gay man, plans to go away for a few days with friends. Sweating on an exercise machine at a gym on Thursday afternoon, he noted most of his friends are gay or members of racial minorities – groups that generally opposed Trump's candidacy. "We don't want to deal with the fact that we may have to get into an argument with someone ," he said. On Wednesday night, Mitchum was among hundreds attending an outdoor "dance party" organized by gay and transgender activists near the home of Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Rainbow flags, the symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pride, have cropped up on scores of houses in the liberal neighborhood where Pence, who opposes gay marriage and laws barring discrimination based on sexual orientation, took a short-term rental while he waits to move into the vice presidential mansion. Participants at the dance party were well behaved, said police, who reported no incidents or arrests.

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The mere thought that Donald Trump could succeed President Obama is mindboggling. If you need any visual representation to figure this out, look no closer than the two's personal twitter statements honoring Memorial Day.First we have the Commander in Chief s:This Memorial Day, I hope you ll join me in acts of remembrance. The debt we owe our fallen heroes is one we can never truly repay. President Obama May _NUMBER_, 2016And now Donald Trump's wonderful tribute: Have a great Memorial Day and remember that we will soon MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Donald J. Trump May _NUMBER_, 2016So one honors America's fallen and the other decides to use it as a campaign pitch that eerily resembles Hitler's slogan. How fitting for a Memorial Day tribute. While President Obama lays the wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Trump decides to spend his day railing against Hispanic immigrants, complaining about Bernie Sanders rally sizes, and of course pledged to build the wall.So instead of actually honoring those who have fallen, Trump continued to bloat his ego and echo his stupid campaign slogans to a group of angry bikers.But the best Tweet Donald Trump ever sent out on Memorial Day is from last year when he decided to use the day to attack those who don't support him:I would like to wish everyone, including all haters and losers a truly happy and enjoyable Memorial Day! Donald J. Trump May _NUMBER_, 2015So there's that. President Obama, the Democrat, honors those who gave their lives for us while Trump, the Republican, insults his haters and those he perceives to be losers.The difference is night and day. The fact Republicans really think their people care about veterans is laughable especially now that Trump is their nominee.Should Trump win the presidential election, veterans and service members alike will be missing President Obama something fierce.Featured image via Pool/Getty Images

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The FBI informant who went undercover to look into Hillary Clinton's role in an Obama administration-era uranium company was identified yesterday in an exclusive from Reuters:William Campbell, a Russian lobbyist, is the informant, according to Reuters. He will be testifying before a congressional committee about the _NUMBER_ sale of Uranium One, where a Russian-backed company bought a uranium firm with mines in the U.S. Campbell gave information to the FBI about what he'saw while undercover as an informant. I have worked with the Justice Department undercover for several years, and documentation relating to Uranium One and political influence does exist and I have it William CampbellCongressional committees have previously tried to interview Campbell, as he was undercover for roughly five years, working to get information on Russia's efforts to grow its atomic energy business in the U.S.Department of Justice spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores told The Hill that a deal was reached in late October, clearing the informant to talk to Congress for the first time almost eight years after he first went undercover.Two House chairmen also announced a probe in late October which is digging into new reports about Russian efforts to influence the Uranium One nuclear purchase that gave Russia control of roughly _NUMBER_ percent of America's uranium.When Clinton served as secretary of state, Russia routed millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation, and former President Bill Clinton collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in Russian speaking fees as part of Russian efforts to influence the U.S. government to approve the deal, The Hill reported.OUR PREVIOUS REPORT ON THE GAG ORDER THAT HAS BEEN LIFTED BY SESSIONS:LAWYER FOR FBI INFORMANT: My Client Knows What Russians Were Saying During Bribery of Clintons Campbell's attorney, Victoria Toensing, said on Fox Business that former attorneys general under the Obama administration are the reason her client hasn't been able to tell what all the Russians were talking about during the time that all these bribery payments were made. The lawyer for the FBI informant under a gag order that prevents him from going before Congress spoke out about what's to come with the Clinton/Russia Uranium story:Fox Business reported: An informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation is under a gag order that prevents him from testifying before the United States Congress that Russian nuclear officials were involved in fraudulent dealings in _NUMBER_ before the Uranium One deal was approved.Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch blocked the informant from testifying last year and threatened criminal action against him if he were to do so.In an interview with FOX Business Lou Dobbs, Victoria Toensing, the attorney representing the FBI informant, said she has never heard of a criminal penalty for breaching a non-disclosure agreement . If it does and it is unconstitutional and it's invalid, if it prohibits my client from giving information to the legislature, the executive cannot say to people, Hey, you can't give information to another body of the government, Toensing said.KEY POINTS: The Republican leadership was blocking the investigation into both Benghazi and the Russia uranium scandal involving Clinton.The NDA is unconstitutional and Toensing says this type of gag order has a criminal penalty. She'says she's never heard of this type of gag order.Victoria Toensing is one of the best lawyers in DC and will get to the bottom of this one way or another. The plot thickens on this one Read more: Daily Caller

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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday that there is no disagreement between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping over North Korea. Xi shared with Trump specific actions that China is taking to enforce sanctions against North Korea, such as restrictions on bank accounts, Tillerson told reporters in Beijing. Both leaders will not accept a nuclear-armed North Korea, he added. Trump arrived in the Chinese capital on Wednesday from South Korea as part of a marathon Asia tour where he has received a lavish welcome from Xi, including a personal tour of the Forbidden City.

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson doesn't often jump into the political fray. In fact, he's rather famous for holding the unscientific feet of both political parties to the fire, as he did on Bill Maher:That being said, there's no denying that Tyson is a thinking man, which means he's not a fan of bigotry or the guns used in mass shootings. His Twitter reaction to the horrific massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was particularly poignant, despite being completely scientific.First, he questioned whether the Second Amendment is even a good idea:Odd how many Americans invoke the 2nd Amendment to justify gun ownership, rather than explore whether or not it's a good idea Neil deGrasse Tyson June _NUMBER_, 2016For that, Tyson received a lot of pushback, but he was ready for it: _USER_ So then the tweet does not apply to you. And of course it was a one liner because that's what tweets are. Neil deGrasse Tyson June _NUMBER_, 2016Regardless of your view on guns, it's tough to deny that that massacre was also a hate crime. Tyson doesn't hate. Instead, he gave us the'science of the rainbow the LGBT rainbow in a series of wonderful tweets:The exact Rainbow any of us sees in the'sky is entirely our own a personal, yet communal gift from the laws of optics. Neil deGrasse Tyson June _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_ Rainbows are always the'same angular size in the'sky they are various segments of a circle that is _NUMBER_-degrees across. Neil deGrasse Tyson June _NUMBER_, 2016A Rainbow forms only broadside to your line of sight. That's why the pot of Gold at its base remains eternally out of reach. Neil deGrasse Tyson June _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_ Isaac Newton, in Opticks , published his discovery that white light is composed of colors the colors in Rainbows. Neil deGrasse Tyson June _NUMBER_, 2016If we had vision like _USER_'s Giordi, Rainbows would look twice as thick, and include parts of ultraviolet & infrared. Neil deGrasse Tyson June _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_ Newton assigned seven colors to the color-continuous Rainbow: Red-Orange-Yellow-Green-Blue-Indigo-Violet. Meet ROY G. BIV Neil deGrasse Tyson June _NUMBER_, 2016Most people can'take or leave Indigo as a Rainbow color, but Newton was mystically fascinated with _NUMBER_, so we're stuck with it. Neil deGrasse Tyson June _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_ And sometimes you will find colors of the Rainbow on flags. _URL_ Neil deGrasse Tyson June _NUMBER_, 2016For that, he also received some nasty pushback:_USER_ Have you come out of the closet yet? _TAG_ Chuck Landreth June _NUMBER_, 2016But mostly, he received love: _USER_ You, sir, are a true treasure! I wish you a lifetime of scientific excitement and a never ending supply of rainbows! 70Acres June _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_@neiltyson this sequence was nothing short of elegant. Thank you. _TAG_ russell c brown June _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_ _USER_ thank you! You have the love and appreciation of so many in the LGBT community and our cherished allies. This was just perfect. AlexaBensonValavanis June _NUMBER_, 2016Featured image via Dimitrios Kambouris at Getty Images

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When they go low, we go high, First Lady Michelle Obama told the crowd at the _NUMBER_ Democratic Convention a message her husband appears to have taken to heart.On Friday, a pro-Trump Deplorable showed up to the President's speech in North Carolina but Obama didn't call for the elderly man's death or beating, and he certainly did not insult the Trump fan. Instead, he calmed the crowd down. Hey! Hey! Listen up! I told you to be focused and you're not focused now. Listen to what I m saying, he'said, even saying hold up about _NUMBER_ times to get the crowd to stop booing Mr. Trump Fan. Everybody sit down and be quiet for a second. He not doing nothin , the President continued. You don't need to worry about him. Instead of insulting the man for wearing what appears to be a military uniform like Trump would, the President called for the crowd to respect the man's service to his country.Pointing out that the man was apparently a veteran and elderly , the President told the crowd not to lose focus worrying about the awkwardly out-of-place Trump worshipper.Can you imagine what would have happened if someone held up a Hillary sign at one of Trump's events? Would we even be able to recognize the person after the crowd got done beating them following The Donald getting them riled up over a protester's presence and offering to pay their legal defense fees? Would the Right even mourn him?That's the difference between us and them : Where they would dig deep and find a new low to which they can sink, we simply respect that the gentleman was however wrong he is practicing his First Amendment rights.Watch the video below:Featured image via screengrab/Getty Images

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Wilbur Ross spoke with WaPo about true tax reform He did a great job explaining his position on simplifying and cutting taxes. He said the W2 should be a one pager . He believes it takes entirely too long for the average employee to do taxes We say Amen to that!If Congress doesn't get in the way, tax cuts and simplification are a possibility. Ross is such a great pick for President Trump. he's another one who doesn't need this job at all but is doing it for America. Pretty awesome!MORE ON WILBUR ROSS:WILBUR ROSS ON NEIL CAVUTO: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is one smart man when it comes to making an economic argument against the Paris Accord. He appeared on Neil Cavuto right before President Trump'spoke and brilliantly discussed why we need to get out of this boondoggle that will drain America of trillions of dollars. We re so lucky he's our Commerce Secretary! He's apolitical and strictly looking at what's best for America financially.WILBUR ROSS TAKES ON MATT LAUER: Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce, tells that President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord does not mean that the U.S. will do nothing to combat climate change. He says that President Trump is an environmentalist and that the decision will do nothing to damage America's national security. Yes, you can be an environmentalist and care about the planet BUT not be for this boondoggle!

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Turkish authorities arrested four people over Wednesday's explosion in a storage tank at a Tupras refinery which killed four people, the state-run Anadolu news agency said on Saturday. The explosion occurred following maintenance work at the refinery in the western Turkish province of Izmir, wounding two other workers, but had no impact on production. On Thursday, authorities had detained seven people over the blast, of which four have been formally arrested and three have been released on probation. The report gave no details of what charges the four may face.

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"On _NUMBER_/_NUMBER_ - the day Trump was inaugurated - an estimated _NUMBER_ ISIS fighters held approx _NUMBER_ square miles of territory in both Iraq and Syria. As of _NUMBER_/_NUMBER_, the U.S. military estimates the remaining _NUMBER_ or so fighters occupy roughly _NUMBER_ square miles..." via _USER_ - Just left West Palm Beach Fire & Rescue #_NUMBER_. Met with great men and women as representatives of those who do so much for all of us. Firefighters, paramedics, first responders - what amazing people they are! - "On _NUMBER_/_NUMBER_ - the day Trump was inaugurated - an estimated _NUMBER_ ISIS fighters held approx _NUMBER_ square miles of territory in both Iraq and Syria. As of _NUMBER_/_NUMBER_, the U.S. military est the remaining _NUMBER_ or so fighters occupy roughly _NUMBER_ square miles.." _USER_ _USER_ - "Arrests of MS-_NUMBER_ Members, Associates Up _NUMBER_% Under Trump" _URL_ -- Source link:

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Bahrain's government has crushed dissent and violently cracked down on protests in the past year, Amnesty International said on Thursday, and it accused Britain and the United States in particular of turning a blind eye to its abuses. Amnesty said in a report on Thursday that it had documented how the Bahraini government, from June _NUMBER_ to June _NUMBER_, arrested, tortured, threatened or banned from travel at least _NUMBER_ activists and opponents or their relatives. Bahraini authorities could not immediately be reached for comment. Bahrain has repeatedly denied systematic rights abuses. Entitled No one can protect you: Bahrain's year of crushing dissent , the report said that at least six people were killed, including a child, in the crackdowns. The report also accused Western governments, notably the United States and Britain of remaining silent. The two countries have a particularly high level of influence in Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based and where Britain's Royal Navy has a major facility. Amnesty said U.S. President Donald Trump's policy has shifted from that of his predecessor, Barack Obama, who had publicly criticized the authorities of the tiny Gulf state. In March _NUMBER_, President Trump told Bahrain's King Hamad there won t be strain with this administration : Bahrain appears to have interpreted this statement as a green light to pursue its repression, the report said. Bahrain has stepped up a crackdown on critics, shutting down two main political groups, revoking the citizenship of the spiritual leader of the Shi ite Muslim community and jailing rights campaigners. It denounced attempts by previous U.S. and UK governments to intervene in its campaign. In July, a Bahraini court sentenced rights campaigner and prominent activist Nabeel Rajab to two years in jail for allegedly making false or malicious statements about Bahraini authorities. Rajab is facing another trial and risks a further _NUMBER_ years in prison for tweeting. Using an array of tools of repression, including harassment, arbitrary detention and torture, the government of Bahrain has managed to crush a formerly thriving civil society, Philip Luther, Amnesty International's director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a statement. Amnesty said it had received reports of nine cases of government critics being tortured in detention, eight of them in May _NUMBER_ alone. Bahrain has been a flashpoint since the Sunni-led government put down Arab Spring protests in _NUMBER_. The kingdom, most of whose population is Shi ite, says it faces a threat from neighboring Shi ite theocracy Iran. It accuses the Islamic Republic of radicalizing and arming some members of its majority Shi ite population in an effort to bring about the downfall of the ruling Al Khalifa family. Tehran denies any meddling in Bahrain.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday a complete victory had been achieved over Islamic State militants on both banks of the Euphrates river in Syria. In comments released by the Kremlin, Putin said the military operation in the area was now finished, and that the focus would switch to a political process that would eventually involve presidential and parliamentary elections. Putin did not specify whether he was referring to the end of military operations in the whole of Syria, or just the areas around the Euphrates valley. Russia's military intervention in Syria's civil war in _NUMBER_ has turned the tide of the conflict in favor of Moscow's ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and against rebel groups fighting to oust him. Western governments and rights groups have alleged Russian air strikes killed civilians, an allegation Moscow has denied. Two hours ago, the defense minister reported to me that the operations on the eastern and western banks of the Euphrates have been completed with the total rout of the terrorists, Putin said. Naturally, there could still be some pockets of resistance, but overall the military work at this stage and on this territory is completed with, I repeat, the total rout of the terrorists, he said. We need to ... move, undoubtedly, on to the next stage - the start of a political process. Putin also said it was important to establish the Congress of Syrian Peoples, a proposed peace conference that Russia has offered to host, which would lead to the preparation of a new constitution and then presidential and parliamentary elections. But it is a big and prolonged task, he said.

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Oklahoma lawmakers will take up legislation next week aimed at ensuring sex crimes do not go unpunished in the state because the victims were unconscious or intoxicated when they occurred. In March, Oklahoma's highest criminal court ruled the state's rape law addresses sexual assault cases involving people who were either unconscious or intoxicated when they were victims of abuse. But the court ruled that Oklahoma's forcible sodomy law, which also pertains to oral sex, did not address such cases. The ruling was in response to allegations that a Tulsa teenager sexually assaulted a girl who had passed out after a night of drinking. A lower court judge had dismissed the case last year. Oklahoma Representative Scott Biggs, a Republican, said on Friday he is filing legislation to define forcible sodomy in a way that includes unconscious victims. The bill, which is widely supported, is expected to be heard by the Oklahoma legislature in the coming week, Biggs said. "The judges made a grave error, but if they need more clarification, we are happy to give it to them by fixing the statute," Biggs said in an interview. The state's highest criminal appeals court said in its ruling: "Sodomy cannot occur where a victim is so intoxicated as to be completely unconscious at the time of the sexual act of oral copulation." It added, "we will not, in order to justify prosecution of a person for an offense, enlarge a statute beyond the fair meaning of its language." The ruling in March had gone mostly unnoticed until the public interest journalism site Oklahoma Watch reported on it this month, sparking a public outcry. The case from _NUMBER_ involved two high school students who were drinking and smoking marijuana with friends. The boy testified the oral sex was consensual but the girl said it was not, according to Oklahoma Watch, which added that the teen's DNA was found on the girl. "Unfortunately, legal minds often get stuck on questions of semantics, when it is clear to most of us what the intent of the law is," Biggs said. "I can't stress enough how sorry I am for the victim and that she was denied justice," he added.

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San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich is a total ass. There is no other way to say it! This jackwagon claimed on ESPN2's The Paul Finebaum Show Monday that people have to be made to feel uncomfortable, specifically singling out white people. It's no secret that he doesn't like President Trump and has made disparaging remarks about the president in the past. Now he'says he thinks all white people should be made to feel uncomfortable? What a way to piss off your white fans! Wow!WHO MADE THIS GUY THE ONE WHO DECIDES WHO S COMFORTABLE AND WHO ISN T? Well, because it's uncomfortable, and there has to be an uncomfortable element in the discourse for anything to change. Whether it's the LGBT movement, women's suffrage, race, it doesn't matter. People have to be made to feel uncomfortable, and especially white people because we're comfortable. We still have no clue of what being born white means, he'stated.POPOVICH RESPONDS TO SPURS BEING UNINVITED TO THE WHITE HOUSE:Popovich on _TAG_ White House visit being rescinded _TAG_ _TAG_ _URL_ Jabari Young September _NUMBER_, 2017NBA COACH IS A SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR? WHO KNEW? If you'read some of the recent literature, you ll realize there really is no such thing as whiteness, but we kind of made that up. That's not my original thought, but it's true, Popovich said.He added, Because you were born white, you have advantages that are systemically, culturally, psychologically there. And they have been built up and cemented for hundreds of years. But many people can't look at it. It's too difficult. It can't be something that is on their plate on a daily basis. People want to hold their position, people want the'status quo, people don't want to give that up. And until it's given up, it's not going to be fixed, the coach stated.REALLY???Read more: Daily Caller

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Corporations first Unfortunately, the poor factory worker in Haiti couldn't help Hillary or her campaign Hillary But just ask her, she ll tell you she's always looking out for the little guy! So much for the champion of the factory worker or the champion of the poor In Haiti, people work for peanuts. Slave wages. Less than _CUR_5 per day, but they supply the U.S. with tons of affordable clothing from big-name brands like Levi s, Hanes and Polo. Haiti's big advantage, compared to Asia, is their proximity to us, and thousands of Haitians are employed in the textile industry in part because of that. When Haiti passed a wage raise from _CUR_.24 per hour to _CUR_.61 per hour, American companies were predictably outraged.Enter Hillary's State Department Hillary Clinton colluded with big business to maintain slave wages for workers in one of the world's poorest countries, according to the host of an RT American comedy news show.Comedian and activist Lee Camp of RT's Redacted Tonight mocked Clinton's efforts to keep _NUMBER_ cents per hour out of the hands of destitute Haitians. In _NUMBER_, while Bill Clinton was setting up one of the family's shell companies in New York, in that same year Hillary Clinton was at the State Department working with U.S. corporations to pressure Haiti not to raise the minimum wage to _NUMBER_ cents an hour from _NUMBER_ cents, Camp said April _NUMBER_. Seriously. Memos from _NUMBER_ and _NUMBER_ obtained by Wikileaks strongly suggest, but don't prove without a doubt, that the State Department helped block the proposed minimum wage increase. The memos show that U.S. Embassy officials in Haiti clearly opposed the wage hike and met multiple times with factory owners who directly lobbied against it to the Haitian president.The Clinton campaign refuted the claim, and the State Department didn't comment.- PolitifactThis took place in _NUMBER_, and Hillary Clinton was the Secretary of State. Our corporations were successful, and Haitians continued to work for worse slave wages than they otherwise would have, all so U.S. corporations could take home higher profits.At the time, the U.S. Embassy said that the wage increase didn't take economic realities into account, and that it was a move designed specifically to appeal to the unemployed and underpaid masses of Haiti. Imagine that. Imagine trying to help your people have a better life instead of catering to huge corporations at your people's expense. The horror. News.groopspeakHOPE, not changeIn _NUMBER_, Wikileaks made nearly _NUMBER_ cables available to the progressive magazine, The Nation, and Haiti Libert , a weekly newspaper in Port-au-Prince.The two media outlets assessed the cables and found, among many other revelations, that the U.S. Embassy in Haiti worked closely with factory owners contracted by Levi s, Hanes, and Fruit of the Loom to aggressively block a paltry minimum wage increase for workers in apparel factories.The Wikileaks cables show U.S. Embassy officials began monitoring the minimum wage issue as early as _NUMBER_, when the Haitian Parliament began discussing doubling or tripling the daily minimum wage of _NUMBER_ Haitian gourdes to keep up with inflation. That's roughly equal to _CUR_1.75 a day, or about _NUMBER_ cents per hour.But back in _NUMBER_ and _NUMBER_, embassy officials repeatedly told Washington that a hike would hurt the economy and undermine U.S. trade preference legislation known as HOPE.The program, shorthand for the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act of _NUMBER_, gives garments manufactured on the island duty free access to U.S. markets. Levi Strauss, Haneswear, Nautica, and Dockers are just some of the American companies that benefit from HOPE. Congress passed HOPE II in _NUMBER_, extending the program for another _NUMBER_ years.In January _NUMBER_, Ambassador Janet Sanderson wrote that representatives of the business community including the man tasked with implementing HOPE had met with embassy officials and criticized Haitian President Ren Pr val's efforts to raise the minimum wage as the wrong medicine for the ailing economy.An unsigned embassy cable sent to Washington in December _NUMBER_ echoed the private sector's assessment and reported that increasing the minimum wage would have significant impact on business.The State Department continued to promote HOPE as an economic boon for the island. In memos prepping U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and Clinton for their visits to Haiti, charg d affaires Thomas Tighe told the diplomats to urge the Haitian government take advantage of HOPE and HOPE II.For entire story: Politifact

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The United Nations Security Council expressed deep concern on Wednesday about violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state, where about _NUMBER_ Rohingya Muslims have been forced to flee to Bangladesh. In a statement, the _NUMBER_-member council expressed concern about reports of excessive violence during the security operations and called for immediate steps to end the violence in Rakhine, de-escalate the situation, re-establish law and order, ensure the protection of civilians. British U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said it was the first time in nine years the council had agreed a statement on Myanmar.

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The Taliban or ISIS? Does it really matter? Radical islam is just evil and knows no bounds.Killing aid workers is as low as they could go except now they've brought it down to the kid level Five aid workers who d been kidnapped were found murdered:The bodies of five Afghan aid workers working for Save the Children were found on Friday, _NUMBER_ days after their abduction by the Taliban in the central province of Uruzgan, a spokesman for provincial governor Dost Mohammad Nayab said.ISIS KIDNAPS _NUMBER_ CHILDREN:The Islamic State group has abducted _NUMBER_ schoolchildren in the embattled Iraqi city of Mosul, it was reported Sunday, and has transported the kids to an unknown locationAccording to Iraqi sources quoted by the German DPA wire service, the children, aged _NUMBER_-_NUMBER_, were reportedly snatched from their classrooms and loaded on military vehicles by the Islamist extremists.According to local reports, the abducted children were taken by IS to be trained as fighters for the terror group. The children of wealthy families are said to be ransomed back to their families for significant sums that can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars.On Saturday, Islamic State fighters launched suicide attacks against the Baiji oil refinery, Iraq's largest, a senior army officer said. The jihadist group claimed it broke in but the Iraqi army said the'site, which has been the'scene of fierce battles since IS swept across the region last year, remained under its control.The Islamic State group launched a massive offensive on northwestern Iraq in June and swept across much of the country's Sunni Arab heartland within days.Counter-terror and other forces tasked with protecting the vital Baiji refinery held out and remained besieged for months.VIA: GATEWAY PUNDIT

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The American Bar Association issued a glowing evaluation of President Barack Obama's U.S. Supreme Court nominee on Tuesday, giving Merrick Garland its highest rating even as Senate Republicans stood firm in their blockade of his appointment. The influential lawyers association, which has evaluated the qualifications of nominees to the federal judiciary since _NUMBER_, deemed Garland "well qualified," the highest of its three ratings, for a lifetime job on America's highest court. "The unanimous consensus of everyone we interviewed was that Judge Garland is superbly competent to serve on the United States Supreme Court," the ABA panel that conducted the evaluation said in a report. Obama nominated Garland, _NUMBER_, on March _NUMBER_ to replace conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died on Feb. _NUMBER_. Garland is a centrist jurist with two decades as a federal appeals court judge. A nominee's ABA rating typically is considered when the Senate acts on a judicial appointment. Republicans were unswayed. In an emailed statement, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office pointed out that Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, when they were senators, tried to block the _NUMBER_ Supreme Court confirmation of conservative Samuel Alito, even though he also earned the ABA's highest rating. Supreme Court nominations require Senate confirmation, and the Republicans who control the chamber have denied Garland customary hearings and a confirmation vote. Senate Republican leaders have vowed not to act on any Supreme Court nominee put forward by Obama, arguing that the next president, to be elected on Nov. _NUMBER_ and take office on Jan. _NUMBER_, should fill Scalia's vacancy. Obama has accused Senate Republicans of abdicating their constitutional duties. The court is now split _NUMBER_-_NUMBER_ between conservatives and liberals, meaning Scalia's successor could influence its ideological direction for years to come. The White House renewed its demand that the Senate act on Garland. Spokesman Josh Earnest said "it is such a shame he has been treated so unfairly by the United States Senate" in an "unprecedented partisan action." The Republicans are hoping their presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, wins the presidency and nominates a conservative to the court. "This significant point warrants repeating," the ABA panel wrote. "All of the experienced, dedicated and knowledgeable sitting judges, several former solicitor generals from both political parties, legal scholars from top law schools across the country, and lawyers who have worked with or against the nominee in private practice, government or within the judiciary describe the nominee as outstanding in all respects and cite specific evidence in support of that view."

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The offices at Fox News are in what amounts to civil war after longtime host Gretchen Carlson was abruptly and without reason fired despite her having one of the top-rated shows on the network. Adding to the chaos, she then announced she would be filing a sexual harassment lawsuit against CEO Roger Ailes for what she claimed were demands that she'sleep with him or lose her job.In a statement released to the press, Carlson's lawyer detailed the'shocking allegations leveled at _NUMBER_-year-old Ailes:Ms. Carlson, the former co-host of Fox & Friends, was terminated on June _NUMBER_ the very day her latest contract expired, even though her current program, The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson, was the leading cable news show in its afternoon time slot.Her complaint alleges that the firing was the ultimate retaliation against her after she rebuffed Mr. Ailes sexual advances and also tried to challenge what she felt was unequal treatment of her in the newsroom by some of her male colleagues.The'statement also included an alleged exchange between Ailes and Gretchen that is said to have taken place last fall when she tried to complain about workplace discrimination. I think you and I should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago and then you'd be good and better and I d be good and better. Sometimes problems are easier to solve that way.Other details are even more appalling.On Twitter Carlson wrote a brief note to fans, but did not mention the lawsuit directly.As you may have heard, I'm no longer with _USER_. I value your support and friendship so please stay in touch: _URL_ Gretchen Carlson July _NUMBER_, 2016Fox News, of course, is known for rampant levels of misogyny both in front of and behind the camera. According to his own kids, Bill O Reilly, the network's figurehead, is a domestic abuser with an awful temper who has himself been the'subject of sexual harassment lawsuits. The network aggressively promotes blonde women and is known to focus an inordinate amount of time on their bare legs. That directive comes directly from Ailes, who once reportedly called down to the control both absolutely furious that an errant laptop was blocking the'shot of one of his hosts legs while she was reading the news. Move that damn laptop, I can't see her legs! And once told former host Catherine Crier: Be more opinionated, he told Crier in one meeting. The guests are there as a foil for you. He also disagreed with her dress. He had admiration for her legs, a senior executive said. In one meeting, Ailes barked, Tell Catherine I did not spend x-number of dollars on a glass desk for her to wear pant suits. Carlson's description of Ailes as a mega sleazeball also jives with what other women have reported having experienced in meetings with the CEO.Shelley Ross, a former newspaper reporter turned television producer, experienced an interview in which Ailes posed romantically suggestive questions and made flirtatious comments about her appearance. This is making me uncomfortable, Ross recalled telling Ailes. She had worked with Huddy at The Miami Herald and he had recommended her for the Tomorrow job. In a follow-up telephone interview, she told Ailes that she would never date a boss. Ailes's reaction was, according to Ross, Don t you know I m single? It is unclear how Ailes will respond to this latest allegation. Clearly, he's had decades worth of practice in making women feel harassed and uncomfortable. Maybe it's time karma came knocking.Featured image via Alex Wong/Newsmakers/Getty and Fox News

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Senator Elizabeth Warren continued her crusade against Donald Trump on Monday and she'she did not hold back.Upon voting to exit the European Union last week, Britain sparked a _CUR_2.1 trillion loss across global markets as the Republican nominee cheered. And Warren did not like that one bit, because the financial downturn will affect ordinary Americans more than it affects him.So during a stop in Ohio with Hillary Clinton, Warren tore into Trump in defense of all the Americans who may experience setbacks of their own due to the Brexit vote. Donald Trump'says he ll make America great again, she began. It's stamped on the front of his goofy hat. You wanna see goofy, look at him in that hat. When Donald Trump'says great, I say, Great for who, exactly? For millions of kids struggling to pay for an education? For millions of seniors barely surviving on Social Security? For families that don't fly to Scotland to play golf? she asked rhetorically. When he'says Make America Great he means make it great for rich guys just like Donald Trump. Great for the guys who don't care how much they've already squeezed from everyone else. Great for the guys who always want more. Because that's who Donald Trump is, the guy who wants it all for himself. And watch out, because he will crush you into the dirt to get what he wants. And then she blasted him for being happy about financial crises that hurt millions of Americans. Donald Trump cheered on Britain's current crisis which has sucked billions of dollars out of your retirement accounts because he'said it might bring more rich people to his new golf course. He cheered on the _NUMBER_ housing crash because he could scoop up more real estate on the cheap. And he cheered on students desperate enough to sign up for his fake university so he could bleed them dry and turn a profit for himself. What kind of a man does that? What kind of a man roots for people to lose their jobs, to lose their homes, to lose their life savings? I ll tell you what kind of a man. A small insecure, money-grubber who fights for no one but himself. A nasty man who will never become President of the United States. She then introduced Hillary Clinton to thunderous applause, thus making it clear that she would be a great choice if she is picked as Hillary's vice-presidential running mate.Here's the video via YouTube.Hillary Clinton would be wise to choose Warren as her VP. Not only would it be an all-female ticket, it would help solidify her status among progressives who haven't fallen in line to support her. And if this speech foreshadows anything it's that Donald Trump is about to get his ass handed to him in November by two women instead of just one.Featured image via screenshot

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It looks like National Security Pick Monica Crowley isn't the only plagiarist on Team Trump, aside from Melania, that is. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson Trump's pick for HUD Secretary started off the confirmation hearing today with a bang, refusing to say that the president-elect and his family wouldn't profit from the agency he hopes to head. To top that off, part of Carson's prepared opening statement appears to contain word-for-word plagiarism, according to The Washington Post.However, the Senate Banking Committee did not hear the plagiarized sections because Carson used his typical off-the-cuff style during his testimony leaving behind his prepared remarks.Carson's prepared remarks were taken verbatim:The two paragraphs in question focused on the health problems caused by lead exposure in young children. According to the Post, they were taken verbatim from Where We Live Matters For Our Health, a _NUMBER_ report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.A Trump transition spokeswoman told The Washington Post that the plagiarized text was included accidentally, and that Carson never intended to read it at his hearing. We re not sure exactly what accidental plagiarism is.Prepared statements from nomination hearings are typically entered into the congressional record. It was a written statement for the record his oral testimony, as I am sure you've heard, is extemporaneous and planned that way, the'spokeswoman told the Post. The original written statement was sourced with hyperlinks and footnotes, but unfortunately that seems to have fallen off.According to the Post, however, there was no sourcing included in the copies of prepared text which was passed out to reporters at the hearing.In mid-November, Carson declined a Trump cabinet position, citing his lack of experience. Even though he lacks political experience, the'sleepy-eyed doctor ran for the GOP nomination for the presidency. Carson now wants to lead a massive agency with _NUMBER_ employees and a budget of about _CUR_48 billion. Carson said he's a good pick for the position because he grew up in inner-city Detroit with a single mother who had a third-grade education and worked several jobs to keep a roof over their heads and put food on the table.At the hearing, Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked Carson, Can you assure me that not a single taxpayer dollar you give out will financial benefit the president-elect or his family? Carson failed to assure Warren that the president-elect would not financially benefit from HUD and that's because Donald J. Trump is the'swamp.Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images

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Donald Trump's election was almost derailed in October when a video was released with Trump bragging about grabbing women by the pussy. Unfortunately for the world, that wasn't a deal breaker for the _NUMBER_ percent of Americans who voted for the demagogic self-described billionaire. Since rumored sexual assault isn't a big enough deal to keep someone out of the White House, why not put more people who are accused of violence against women in, right?As Trump has named cabinet pick after cabinet pick, each worse than the one before them, the fact that each comes with a controversial past seems to bother no one on the right.Trump's pick for national security advisor is a white nationalist who tweeted this:U decide NYPD Blows Whistle on New Hillary Emails: Money Laundering, Sex Crimes w Children, etc MUST READ! _URL_ General Flynn November _NUMBER_, 2016His secretary of education hates schools. His pick for the head of the Environmental Protection Agency doesn't believe the environment needs protecting and his treasure secretary pick is a former Goldman Sachs exec you know one of the companies that crashed the economy. It gets worse, though. According to Alternet, three of Trump's key team members have been accused of sexually or otherwise violently assaulting women.The first is the charmer, Steve Bannon. In a _NUMBER_ report, the white supremacist and former head of Breitbart was accused by his then wife of grabbing her by the neck during an argument. He was charged with domestic violence, misdemeanor witness intimidation and traumatic injury and battery. The charges were dropped, though, because his wife didn't show up for court.This one will probably surprise few. Trump's pick for labor secretary is fast food CEO Andrew Puzder. His restaurants include Hardee's and Carl's Jr., both of which are known for scantily clad women in near pornographic situations in their ads. During their divorce, Puzder's ex-wife accused him of attacking her three times, including punching her when they were riding in a car.Then, in _NUMBER_, Henning said Puzder attacked me, choked me, threw me to the floor, hit me in the head, pushed his knee into my chest, twisted my ar m and dr agged me on the floor, threw me against a wall, tried to stop my call to _NUMBER_ and kicked me in the back. Source: NY MagazinePuzder responded to a reporter who asked him about the incident in a way that sounds a lot like his soon to be boss. He issued a thinly veiled threat against the reporter: There was no physical abuse at any point in time. If ever something was filed to gain personal benefit, this is it. If you're trying to smear me by raising the fact that my ex-wife made some charges against me, you're making a big mistake. It would not be good journalistic practice to publish this. Puzder's ex-wife has withdrawn the charges.Trump has also had numerous charges of sexual assault levied against him, beginning with his ex-wife Ivana. All told, Trump has been accused by about a dozen women, all of which he threatened to sue. As I said before, though, Trump's supporters don't care.Featured image via Drew Angerer/Getty Images

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The only thing more irritating to a woman than a mansplainer is perhaps his more dangerous cousin, the gunsplainer.TwitterTo address the horrible type of person, Cosmopolitan teamed up with Everytown for Gun Safety, a movement that aims to end gun violence, to form the campaign Singled Out to raise awareness and empower unmarried women about gun violence and the danger associated with firearms.Singledout.orgThanks to this initiative, a humorous how-to guide has been released that shows women how to deal with a man who repeatedly and condescendingly explains to a woman why she d be safer if she had a gun also known as a gunsplainer. Here's the hilarious short film:It almost seems insane that an adult would make some of these arguments, but the male actor's lines echo the exact arguments that have been used by the National Rifle Association and gun nuts all over America.In the video, a gunsplainer named Gary tries to pick up a woman named Jessica in a bar. They get into a discussion about guns, and Jessica reveals she is in the'service, which only eggs Gary on. Before Jessica can run away, Gary has launched into full gunsplaining mode, putting the responsibility on victims to defend themselves with guns. He reveals that he takes his guns literally EVERYWHERE with him, because These guns are the only things standing between us and tyranny. Soon, he's opening his jacket to reveal an entire collection of guns hanging around his torso. All the while, he's using sexist pet names like schnookums and lady soldier which only repulses Jessica even more.Toward the end, Gary actually insists that hammers were the real threat to Americans. His idiocy proves too much for Jessica to stomach, so she walks away right after Gary calls her a pistol. In parting, she'says: Guess that's why I m going to have to shoot you'down. Not only is Gary straight-up irritating, but pretty much every argument he makes is wrong. It's actually been proven that guns don't keep women safer. According to a study, women with access to firearms become homicide victims at significantly higher rates than men. Women in America are also _NUMBER_ times more likely to be killed by a gun than women in other high-income countries. Unfortunately, there are gunsplainers like Gary all around us who are in denial of the facts and keeping America a dangerous place. Hopefully with more awareness and initiatives like Singled Out, the truth will make it through.Featured image is a screenshot

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Europe's new new take on our Statue of Liberty's poem: Give us your Sharia Law enforcers, your rapists and your trained ISIS jihadi's Unless we get a new President with a backbone and fight back against political correctness in America we're next. We can start by exposing the lie Obama told Americans about the Muslim invasion of the West, calling the male refugees looking for a free ride, widows and orphans! As many as _NUMBER_ trained jihadis are believed to be living freely in Europe today, according to the head of the European Union's policing agency Europol.Agency head Ron Wainwright said between _NUMBER_ and _NUMBER_ jihadis who have trained with the Islamic State in the Middle East have been able to slip back into Europe. Europe is currently facing the highest terror threat in more than _NUMBER_ years, Wainwright said, speaking to the Germany newspaper Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung. We can expect or other religious terror groups to stage an attack somewhere in Europe with the aim of achieving mass casualties among the civilian population. However, Wainwright said reports that the Islamic State is using the refugee/migrant crisis to sneak jihadis into Europe have been exaggerated. There is no concrete evidence terrorists are systematically using the flow of refugees to infiltrate Europe, he commented.Meanwhile, in Hungary, police reported an increasing number of migrants have been able to circumvent the four-meter, barbed-wire fence to enter the country illegally. In January, _NUMBER_ people were caught trying to pass the fence compared to _NUMBER_ in December. During the first _NUMBER_ days of February, _NUMBER_ people were caught.Those that have succeeded have either cut the fence or climber over it.Also in Hungary, the central bank recently bought _NUMBER_ handguns and _NUMBER_ rounds of ammunition for its security company. The National Bank of Hungary justified its purchases citing potential terrorist threats as well as the migrant crisis.The bank controls the country's monetary policy, including price stability and exchange rates, and manages Hungary's foreign-exchange reserves. Its profits are paid into the government's budget and its losses are covered by taxpayers.Via: ClarionProjecth/t UK Daily Mail

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A Republican-backed Senate rule change expected on Thursday could make it more likely that presidents will pick ideologically extreme U.S. Supreme Court nominees with little incentive to choose centrist justices, experts said. With a deep partisan divide in Washington, Democrats are using a procedural tactic called a filibuster to try to block confirmation of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch in the Republican-led Senate. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has threatened to change long-standing rules in the _NUMBER_-seat Senate if the Democrats succeed with the filibuster in order to prohibit the tactic against Supreme Court nominees. That would mean such nominees could be confirmed by a simple majority rather than needing to first muster a _NUMBER_-vote super-majority. Experts said the rule change, called the "nuclear option," could produce an ever-more ideologically polarized Supreme Court. Over the years with the Senate narrowly divided, the filibuster rule has meant that presidents have needed to make appointments who could win at least a few votes from the other party. For the court, the prospect of a filibuster has shaped the way presidents pick nominees, said Stephen Wermiel, a Supreme Court scholar at the American University Washington College of Law. "Although it has not been widely used, the idea that it was there as a deterrent to presidents appointing justices who might be considered extreme has been a significant factor," Wermiel said. Republican Senator John McCain, a defender of Senate traditions, warned of the consequences of the rule change, though he said he would reluctantly support the move. "We will see more and more nominees from the extremes of both left and right," McCain said. "I do not see how that will ensure a fair and impartial judiciary. In fact, I think the opposite will be true, and Americans will no longer be confident of equal protection under the law." Republican Senator Lindsay Graham said Supreme Court nominees "are going to be more ideological, not less" with the rule change, which he warily supported. The nuclear option would erase "the last shred of bipartisanship in the Senate confirmation process," said Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, who led the filibuster against Gorsuch. Elimination of the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees could matter most with the next vacancy on the nine-seat court after Gorsuch, who was nominated by Trump to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last year. Three current justices are _NUMBER_ or older: liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg is _NUMBER_; conservative Anthony Kennedy, who sometimes sides with the court's liberals in big cases, is _NUMBER_; and liberal Stephen Breyer is _NUMBER_. Having more justices who are ideologically extreme would make compromise among them harder and lead to rulings the public may view as based more on a political agenda than the law, said University of Massachusetts, Amherst political science professor Paul Collins, co-author of a book on Supreme Court confirmation hearings. If confirmed as expected on Friday, Gorsuch would restore the court's _NUMBER_-_NUMBER_ conservative majority. Overturning the landmark _NUMBER_ Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide may become more likely if there is no filibuster to moderate the choice of future court nominees, Wermiel said. Without a filibuster, a future Democratic president with a Democratic-led Senate could feel free to name a justice from the dogmatic left. The result would be a court even more polarized than the current one already is perceived to be, said Brookings Institution think tank expert Russell Wheeler said. "An ideologically-driven administration would eschew middle-of-the-road judges," Wheeler said. "They would stack the court with ideological soulmates." Trump advisor Leonard Leo said the best way to avoid extreme nominees is through the electoral process. Trump made it clear during the _NUMBER_ presidential campaign he would pick from a list of potential Supreme Court nominees that he made public, and the voters elected Trump, Leo said. "People knew or should have known what they were getting when he was elected president," Leo said.

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It was just an accident A millionaire property developer accused of raping a teenager while she'slept claims he accidentally penetrated her when he fell on top of her, a court has heard.Southwark Crown Court has told Ehsan Abdulaziz allegedly forced himself on the _NUMBER_-year-old on the'sofa of his Maida Vale flat.The _NUMBER_-year-old met his alleged victim in the Cirque le Soir nightclub in London, where she had been with a friend he had known for several months.He offered both women a lift home in his Aston Martin in August last year, before inviting them into his flat and taking the woman he knew into the bedroom for sex, the court heard.The next thing the alleged victim claims to remember is waking up early in the morning with Abdulazziz on top of her, forcing himself inside her. She woke up with the defendant kissing her and his penis in her vagina, Prosecutor Jonathan Davies told the court, The Times reports. She'said: What are you'doing? and he'said It's fine , indicating that her friend was asleep. She got up to find her friend, tried to wake her but couldn't, she then tried to get out of the flat as quickly as she could. Via:UK Independent

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Gold Star family Brittany Jacobs and her _NUMBER_-year-old son Christian who met President Trump yesterday:Meet Gold Star family Brittany Jacobs and her _NUMBER_-year-old son Christian who met President Trump yesterday at _USER_ _URL_ FOX & friends May _NUMBER_, 2017OUR REPORT AND PHOTOS FROM THE SPECIAL MEETING YESTERDAY:A young boy and his mom were visiting the grave of their fallen Marine when President Trump walked up to them. The photos are priceless:Brittany Jacobs and her _NUMBER_-year-old son Christian Jacobs met President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in Section _NUMBER_ of Arlington National Cemetery. Christian was eight-months-old when his Marine dad, Sgt. Christopher James Jacobs, was killed in action.THIS IS SO SPECIAL!A MEMORY TO LAST FOREVER!HIGH-FIVE! If you'd like to contribute to Christian's education fund, you can donate via PayPal by clicking here or mail contributions to:SECU P.O. Box _NUMBER_ Hertford, NC _NUMBER_

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The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives approved sweeping, debt-financed tax legislation on Tuesday, sending the bill to the Senate, where lawmakers were due to take up the package later in the evening. Story: The biggest overhaul of the U.S. tax system in more than _NUMBER_ years could be signed into law by President Donald Trump as soon as Wednesday, if both chambers of Congress approve it. The bill passed the House by a vote of _NUMBER_-_NUMBER_, overcoming united opposition from Democrats and _NUMBER_ Republicans who voted against it. "The bond market today is reassessing the whole thing now that it looks like it's going to pass. We've had a pretty significant rise in yields - we're back up close to the highs for the quarter. "Stocks on the other hand have been in front of this for a long time, I think initially because lower taxes means more earnings are retained and then companies can distribute those to shareholders or not. But either way, it's likely to be beneficial to stock prices." JACK ABLIN, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, BMO PRIVATE BANK, CHICAGO "The tax rate we've certainly priced in , though I certainly expected smallcaps to do a little bit better coming into this vote. What I think is not priced in yet is the economic impact of the incentives. It still remains to be seen what businesses will actually do. Will they buy equipment, invest in technology, hire more workers?" "The assumption right now is financial engineering, buybacks, dividend increases, is where the incentives will go. Redeploying cash, recapitalizing balance sheets, maybe debt repayment." "I do think there's a fair amount of skepticism these benefits will ultimately result in expansions. I'm getting a sense investors are pricing in the one-time tax pop, we'll see if there's any follow through next year." On the rise in Treasury yields: "It's been a monetary policy-led expansion, now we get a fiscal boost and some may be concerned the boost on the fiscal side be offset by monetary tightening. "The big question is how other central banks will respond to this fiscal stimulus package. That's probably what's weighing on investors' minds right now - celebrating the tax package but recognizing that what central banks have given us in the last years they could begin to take away." JIM PAULSEN, CHIEF INVESTMENT STRATEGIST, THE LEUTHOLD GROUP, MINNEAPOLIS "As we look back on this a little bit, I really think it might be buy the rumor sell the news. Wall Street has had long enough to vet this thing. And it has been known for a long time that something was going to pass here, at least for the last _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_ days. Whether it was going to be _NUMBER_ percent rate or _NUMBER_ percent rate is not that significant. It's more the general parts of it were pretty much known and vetted and I think implemented into the market... If you look at the relative performance in the market today, it's fairly clearly more of a shot towards better economic growth or even inflation... I think the biggest move today of anything is bond yields. That's the big story." AARON KOHLI, INTEREST RATE STRATEGIST, BMO CAPITAL MARKETS, NEW YORK "They seem to have locked up all the necessary votes... I think the markets are still trying to figure out how much should we expect, will people react right away, what will be the second order effects? "There are a lot of questions that still haven't answered. The first one is, assuming it goes into effect Jan. _NUMBER_, when is the first time people start seeing any changes in their pay checks? And the answer is it could be a couple of months. Even then for most of middle America you aren't going to see the savings until tax time, which means you may not see it until April _NUMBER_. I'm not sure that's early enough to help midterms and I think that's really where the markets' are going to start to focus next. How do we handicap what it does for Republicans in the midterms? Does it help them? Does it do nothing for them? Or it may even hurt them." BRIAN PEERY, PORTFOLIO MANAGER, HENNESSY FUNDS IN NOVATO, CALIFORNIA "The market is taking kind of a breather, digesting the news. The market is off a little bit, maybe because the bill is not as popular as the GOP hoped it would be in the public opinion. The overall market looks still really strong and healthy." "Looking at companies in our portfolio, will be great for domestic smalland mid-cap companies paying a _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_ percent effective tax rate. A lot of them do not have the ability to move profits offshore... I'll wait and see how much, but I can see another _NUMBER_ percent rise in the next few months as the tax bill kicks in." ALICIA LEVINE, DIRECTOR OF PORTFOLIO STRATEGY AT BNY MELLON INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, NEW YORK: "The effects of the tax cuts will be immediately accretive to corporate earnings which will support equity markets. Also, the tax package will be positive for growth in the real economy. "The tax cuts add _CUR_10 to baseline S&P earnings for _NUMBER_ putting _NUMBER_ expected earnings at _CUR_156 or a _NUMBER_ percent growth rate over _NUMBER_ earnings... This is supportive of equity markets; sectors to focus on would be small caps, value and financials." PAUL NOLTE, PORTFOLIO MANAGER AT KINGSVIEW ASSET MANAGEMENT IN CHICAGO: "It's pretty much along party lines. The takeaway is more buy the rumor, sell the news. The market has been rallying over the last week or so in anticipation of this vote. We're going to be looking toward the government funding bill." "It's going to take time to see how the general population reacts to it . The expectation is companies are going to bring back a lot of dollars back to the United States and put it into plant and equipment. It very well may go into stock buybacks and dividend increases. There's no certainty we're going to get the promised economic gain everybody's been talking about." CHUCK CARLSON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, HORIZON INVESTMENT SERVICES, HAMMOND, INDIANA "I think the market had been pretty well expecting this. I don't think there's any ... surprise here to the market. The momentum had been pretty strong in the last two weeks in terms of getting this done, and I think the market has pretty well anticipated getting it done." "You may see some reactions going forward in certain sectors and subcategories. Maybe you see smallcaps pick up a little bit more. Maybe you see the transports, which have lagged large caps, start to do a little bit better. But in the main, the market had already been factoring this in." "It has a lot of potential ramifications. It's going to certainly play a role in the midterm elections next year, and people are going to have some time to try to evaluate whether their plight in life is better because of it before they go to the voting booth next year. So from a political standpoint it has impact." OMAIR SHARIF, SENIOR U.S. ECONOMIST, SOCIETE GENERALE, NEW YORK "This seems like it's a done deal especially if Corker and Collins end up on board on the Senate side. They will get across the finish line by Christmas after moving the goal post a number of times. "I think for more than a few days now, this was likely going to pass. This has been baked in the cake with the markets. They have been expecting this for a long time. It's a few days before Christmas, so trading is quite thin. I wouldn't read too much into any market reaction. The real telling thing for this is the second half of next year, whether this actually lifts growth above _NUMBER_ percent on any sustained basis on capital spending and consumer spending. It's more a political achievement than an economic achievement." Stocks trimmed losses slightly, but then dipped back. The S&P _NUMBER_ Index was last down _NUMBER_ percent. Treasury yields hovered near session highs and the dollar held its gains against the yen.

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It is now clear why Donald Trump attacked the judge in the case overseeing lawsuits against his now-defunct Trump University.The judge ordered the company's internal sales documents to be released over Trump's objections, and what they have exposed is a business that preyed on people's dreams of wealth and success based on Trump's own image cultivated over the decades using trick language and sales gimmicks right out of the'sleaziest boiler room. The playbooks for the now-defunct business owned by Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, were unsealed Tuesday in a class-action lawsuit by customers who say they were defrauded. Last Friday, a judge who has earned Trump's scorn sided with attorneys for The Washington Post who argued that the public had a right to know what was previously confidential.The documents outline how employees should guide customers through the roller coaster of emotions once they have expressed interest. The motivation that they experienced can die quickly as the realities of their daily lives take over. It is our job to rekindle that motivation to make them once again see the potential of achieving their dream, according to a sales playbook. The documents show how, rather than a real estate sales course, the Trump University system was designed to push people to pay for ever-increasing levels which they were told would lead to more and more lucrative business. In fact, as the lawsuits show, many were very unsatisfied with the experience. Even more damning is the fact that the business doesn't even exist anymore, but is just another scheme that Trump'slapped his name on in order to make a quick buck then ran away when it got complicated.Trump was apparently so concerned about the information in the'sales documents coming out that he rescheduled the press conference he had to address his failure to give money to veterans groups to the'same day the Trump University documents came out.Featured image via Flickr

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President Donald Trump plans to nominate attorney John J. Sullivan of Maryland to be deputy Secretary of State, the White House said on Tuesday. It said in a statement he would also serve as deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources. Sullivan, _NUMBER_, served in the Bush administration as deputy secretary of the Commerce Department and as deputy general counsel in the Defense Department.

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On Wednesday, President Obama took a trip to North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, but while he was there he took time out of his itinerary to talk about the water crisis in Flint and he didn't mince his words.During a speech, the president let the people of Flint know that he hears their cries: I am very proud of what I ve done as president, but the only job that's more important to me is the job of father. And I know if I was a parent up there, I would be beside myself if my kids health could be at risk. That's why over the weekend I declared a federal emergency in Flint. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has identified at least twenty-seven kids with elevated levels of lead in their blood. However, that number is likely astronomically higher when you consider how long the people of Flint were drinking the contaminated water Governor Rick Snyder assuredthem was safe even when he knew it wasn't. Unlike Obama, Snyder didn't think about how terrified parents must be for their children. His main concern was balancing a budget, safety be damned.The president also blasted Republican lawmakers for short-changing the people of Flint: It is a reminder of why you can't shortchange basic services that we provide to our people and that we together provide as a government to make sure that public health and safety is preserved. The horrifying thing about all of this is that if it were up to the GOP, this would happen a helluva a lot more often. The Republican Party absolutely despises regulations that they believe are unnecessary that includes clean water and air. As a matter of fact, last week while the Flint water crisis was raging on, Republicans in the House voted to overturn provisions of the Clean Water Act that protects streams. Last June, Senate Republicans voted to repeal the very same thing.Think about that for a minute. Lawmakers on both a state and federal level have known about the crisis in Flint for more than a year, and the GOP voted to repeal laws related to clean water at least TWICE in that time. These pro-life lawmakers didn't care at all that tiny humans were literally being poisoned, the only thing that mattered was sticking it to Obama because they'didn't like his new provisions for the Clean Water Act.While Republican representatives in the federal government were trying to gut the Clean Water Act, Governor Snyder was busy ignoring the crisis in Flint. He knew that people were drinking dirty and instead of fixing the problem he just allowed children to continue to ingest lead. Not only did he know it was happening, he didn't care enough to stop it!The Flint water crisis a perfect example of what happens when Republicans are left in charge of anything and it's terrifying.Watch:Featured image: video screenshot

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Tune in to the Alternate Current Radio Network for another LIVE broadcast of The Boiler Room tonight _NUMBER_:_NUMBER_ PM PST | _NUMBER_:_NUMBER_ PM CST | _NUMBER_:_NUMBER_ PM EST for this special broadcast. Join us for uncensored, uninterruptible talk radio, custom-made for bar fly philosophers, misguided moralists, masochists, street corner evangelists, media-maniacs, savants, political animals and otherwise lovable rascals.Join ACR hosts Hesher and Spore along with Jay Dyer of Jays Analysis, Patrick Henningsen of 21WIRE, Randy J and Andy Nowicki, author of Conspiracy, Compliance, Control & Defiance, for the hundred and sixth episode of BOILER ROOM. Turn it up, tune in and hang with the ACR Brain-Trust for this weeks boil downs and analysis and the usual gnashing of the teeth of the political animals in the'social reject club. We re breaking down the developments of a potential Israeli Missile attack in Syria, North Korea as a joke of a Nuclear threat and the utter failure of Netflix and the Bill Nye show to influence viewers to join his cult of lab coats and bow ties with the catch phrase being I told you so because IT IS SCIENCE! Does Bill Nye promote eugenics and incarceration of anyone who doubts his version of science You bet he does, just watch his new show if you have any doubt.Listen to Boiler Room EP #_NUMBER_ Israel Attacks Damascus & Bill Nye The Psyop Guy on Spreaker.Direct Download Episode #106Please like and share the program and visit our donate page to get involved!Reference Links:

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Great news! Southern Methodist University in Texas has reversed its decision to relocate an annual _NUMBER_/_NUMBER_ memorial display made up of nearly _NUMBER_ American flags to a less prominent part of campus after facing backlash from student groups.A huge thank you to The Young Americans for Freedom group! They had a hand in making this happen! They also were the ones who had set up the tribute honoring the victims of the September _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_, terrorist attacks on SMU's Dallas Hall Lawn every year since _NUMBER_.But in July officials informed the group to move the display to Morrison-McGinnis Park because Dallas Hall Lawn is used for classes and a variety of events, said university spokesman Kent Best.SMU officials also had adopted a policy to ensure displays didn't include harmful or triggering messages, but they later removed the language from the then-policy as inappropriate. By that time, though, some student groups said the new policy was an attack on free speech. I don't believe it's the responsibility of the university to shield individuals from certain ideas that they might be offended by, said Grant Wolf, the leader of the Young Americans for Freedom group, according to Dallas News. Wolf, along with other leaders from campus groups, sent a letter to university President R. Gerald Turner to express their frustration with the policy. People absolutely have to have a right to their own opinions, but this does not come with a right to be shielded from opposing ideas, especially in an environment dedicated to the learning, sharing and developing of new ideas, they wrote.They decried the relocation of the memorial. Moving the _NUMBER_/_NUMBER_ memorial to an out of the way park is almost the'same as not allowing it, said Heather Hall, president of the university's Turning Point USA chapter. That's not free speech, Hall said. That's not American. That's definitely not what SMU stands for. Read more: Daily MailOUR PREVIOUS REPORT ON THIS BAN: The'shocker about this is that students on both sides of the political spectrum want the _NUMBER_/_NUMBER_ flags to be displayed where they've always been displayed. The inability of college campuses to stand up to people who are perpetually offended is a sad statement on where we are in American'tolerance these days. It's so ironic that the left wants you to march to their drum beat or else they will destroy you. Note to SMU: You had a good thing going with your student body coming together to memorialize _NUMBER_/_NUMBER_ so let it continue!DALLAS, Tex. In a time of extreme political divide, students both Republican and Democrat at one Texas college have found something they can agree on.For the past two years at Southern Methodist University, a campus group has planted thousands of American flags in front of Dallas Hall as a memorial to the victims of the _NUMBER_/_NUMBER_ attacks. That's simply contradictory to the very definition of free speech, said Grant Wolf, the Young Americans for Freedom Chairman.But in July, SMU changed its policy, saying student groups can no longer have displays there.The lawn has historically hosted tributes and protests from students of all political affiliations. The leaders of two prominent student groups say the policy violates their right to free speech. They re basically cornering us into a segment of campus and saying you're not allowed to have a display here because it's triggering, harmful or offensive to students over there, said Drew Wicker, the President of SMU College Republicans.SMU released a statement saying nearby Momac Park, where displays will be allowed, is larger than the lawn and is along one of the most prominent drives on campus.The university said it respects the rights of all campus community members to express their opinions, as well as their right to be free from coercion or harassment. Via: Fox _NUMBER_ Atlanta

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Some people believe that Trump is journaling his thoughts by posting on Twitter. He's being transparent, they say.What these people fail to realize is, maybe sharing his thoughts to the entire world isn't the best idea.Or, maybe it is a good idea. We get to really see what kind of man Trump is while he'shoots himself in the foot.According to Fortune, Donald Trump's tweets about his travel ban helped convince an appeals court to block the controversial plan once again. It's the'second time his own comments have helped the courts knock down the executive order.The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals came to a decision on Monday, ruling that Trump's attempt to block immigration from six predominantly Muslim countries exceeded the'scope of the authority delegated to him by Congress. In their ruling, the judges cited a tweet from the President that was posted after the recent terrorist attack in London. In this tweet, Trump'stated that the U.S. needed a travel ban for certain dangerous countries. President Trump's tweets continue to be cited in court decisions. This from the 9th circuit just now: _URL_ Matt Viser June _NUMBER_, 2017Gee. I wonder which countries he means.Trump didn't stop at one tweet about the ban, either. Trump also tweeted that he'supported his original order, not the watered down, politically correct version that his own advisers had convinced him to sign.The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C. Donald J. Trump June _NUMBER_, 2017No matter what way they try to spin it, we all know that Trump means a disgusting Muslim ban. He even outright admitted it by saying he does not support the politically correct version . And even that politically correct version was a bunch of crap, too.Luckily, the courts recognize this. The Order seeks to ban people from specific countries, but it does not provide any link between an individual's nationality and their propensity to commit terrorism or their inherent dangerousness, the judges said. In short, the Order does not provide a rationale explaining why permitting entry of nationals from the'six designated countries would be detrimental. Source: FortuneKicking yourself now for stating that Trump's tweets are official White House statements, aren't you, Spicer?Like I said there's obvious good from Trump's Twittering. Trump helped stopped his travel ban executive order once again.Featured Image by Alex Wong/Getty Images

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U.S. President Donald Trump struck a blow against the _NUMBER_ Iran nuclear agreement on Friday in defiance of other world powers, choosing not to certify that Tehran is complying with the deal and warning he might ultimately terminate it. Trump announced the major shift in U.S. policy in a speech in which he detailed a more aggressive approach to Iran over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and its support for extremist groups in the Middle East. He accused Iran of not living up to the spirit of the nuclear agreement and said his goal is to ensure Tehran never obtains a nuclear weapon, in effect throwing the fate of the deal to Congress. He singled out Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for sanctions and delivered a blistering critique of Tehran, which he accused of destabilizing actions in Syria, Yemen and Iraq. We will not continue down a path whose predictable conclusion is more violence, more terror and the very real threat of Iran's nuclear breakout, Trump said. Trump's hardline remarks drew praise from Israel, Iran's arch-foe, but was criticized by European allies. The move by Trump was part of his America First approach to international agreements which has led him to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord and the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks and renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico. His Iran strategy angered Tehran and put Washington at odds with other signatories of the accord - Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and the European Union - some of which have benefited economically from renewed trade with Iran. Responding to Trump, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Friday on television that Tehran was committed to the deal and accused Trump of making baseless accusations. The Iranian nation has not and will never bow to any foreign pressure, he said. Iran and the deal are stronger than ever. European allies have warned of a split with the United States over the nuclear agreement and say that putting it in limbo as Trump has done undermines U.S. credibility abroad, especially as international inspectors say Iran is in compliance with the accord. The chief of the U.N. atomic watchdog reiterated that Iran was under the world's most robust nuclear verification regime. The nuclear-related commitments undertaken by Iran under the JCPOA are being implemented, Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said, referring to the deal by its formal name. U.S. Democrats expressed skepticism at Trump's decision. Senator Ben Cardin said: At a moment when the United States and its allies face a nuclear crisis with North Korea, the president has manufactured a new crisis that will isolate us from our allies and partners. While Trump did not pull the United States out of the agreement, he gave the U.S. Congress _NUMBER_ days to decide whether to reimpose economic sanctions on Tehran that were lifted under the pact. If Congress reimposes the sanctions, the United States would in effect be in violation of the terms of the nuclear deal and it would likely fall apart. If lawmakers do nothing, the deal remains in place. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker was working on amending the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act law to include trigger points that if crossed by Iran would automatically reimpose U.S. sanctions. The trigger points would address strengthening nuclear inspections, Iran's ballistic missile program and eliminate the deal's sunset clauses under which some of the restrictions on Iran's nuclear program expire over time. Trump directed U.S. intelligence agencies to probe whether Iran might be working with North Korea on its weapons programs. The president, who took office in January, had reluctantly certified the agreement twice before but has repeatedly blasted it as the worst deal ever. It was negotiated under his predecessor, former President Barack Obama. Trump warned that if we are not able to reach a solution working with Congress and our allies, then the agreement will be terminated. We ll see what happens over the next short period of time and I can do that instantaneously, he told reporters when asked why he did not choose to scrap the deal now. The Trump administration designated the entire Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps under an executive order targeting terrorists. The administration stopped short of labeling the group a Foreign Terrorist Organization, a list maintained by the State Department. The Revolutionary Guard is the single most dominant player in Iran's security, political, and economic systems and wields enormous influence in Iran's domestic and foreign policies. It had already previously been sanctioned by the United States under other authorities, and the immediate impact of Friday's measure is likely to be symbolic. The U.S. military said on Friday it was identifying new areas where it could work with allies to put pressure on Iran in support of Trump's new strategy and was reviewing the positioning of U.S. forces. But U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said no changes in force posture had been made yet, and Iran had not responded to Trump's announcement with any provocative acts so far.

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The racist Ku Klux Klan is very pleased that Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States in the _NUMBER_ election and one chapter of the terrorist group is holding a parade to celebrate his victory.The website for Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan located in North Carolina announced that they will hold a klavalkade Klan parade on December 3rd in order to hail the occasion of the Republican nominee winning.They write:Our goal is to help restore America to a White Christian nation, founded on God's word. This does not mean that we want to see anything bad happen to the darker races we simply want to live separate from them As GOD intended. It is a simple fact that whenever these races try to integrate themselves into White society, that society is damaged immensely perhaps even destroyed altogether. Everything that we do as Klan members is in furtherance of our ultimate goal. We are not evil; hateful people as our enemies would have you believe. We are common white people from all walks of life who have recognized the problems that our race is facing. We have chose to stand and fight for those things that we hold dear to our people. Won t you stand with us, while there is still time! It is the duty of all white Christian men and women to fight against the Communist who have stolen our Nation The Trump campaign spent a lot of time courting and promoting white supremacists. They invited white supremacists radio shows to broadcast from campaign stops and on the floor of the Republican Convention, while members of the Trump family also appeared on those programs. Trump himself has promoted tweets from white supremacists, and received an endorsement from former klansman and Republican candidate David Duke.Featured image via screen capture

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CNN cut ties with political commentator and interim Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile after leaked emails suggested she offered advisers to Hillary Clinton advance information about presidential debate questions, the news network reported on Monday. Brazile came under fire earlier this month after a hacked email published by WikiLeaks showed she may have tipped off the Democratic presidential nominee's campaign about a March CNN town-hall debate question about the death penalty. CNN announced her departure after a subsequent leaked email showed she said she was privy to "questions in advance" and offered to "send a few more." Brazile had offered the network her resignation earlier this month, CNN reported. Brazile previously denied allegations that she gave the Clinton campaign information about debate questions ahead of time, according to media reports. Brazile, currently serving as interim head of the DNC, did not immediately respond to a request for comment but posted several tweets on Monday as the news broke. "Thank you _USER_," Brazile tweeted. "Honored to be a Democratic strategist and commentator on the network. Godspeed to all my former colleagues." Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized CNN, alleging it is biased against his campaign. A Clinton spokesman said in an email the campaign would not comment "on the authenticity of any individual emails that have been hacked by the Russian government." FBI Director James Comey said on Friday the agency was probing more emails that might relate to Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.

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Her father is a staunch supporter of life. Although her mother was not vocal about it during her conservative husband George W. Bush's presidency, Laura Bush was an advocate of abortion and of homosexual marriage. Here she is two years after leaving the White House expressing her liberal views to Larry King:Their daughter Barbara Pierce Bush was a vocal supporter of gay marriage. She also supported Hillary Clinton in the _NUMBER_ election. Although it's probably a huge slap in the face to her father, Barbara Pierce Bush plans to help Planned Parenthood, the federally funded baby killing business to raise money at an upcoming fundraiser. Barbara Pierce Bush, the daughter of former President George W. Bush, will headline a Planned Parenthood fundraiser next week in Texas, according to a report from the Texas Tribune.Bush is expected to be the keynote speaker at the Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas's annual Fort Worth fundraising luncheon.President Bush pushed for anti-abortion policies during his time in the White House, but his wife Laura Bush has supported legal abortion in the past.The announcement comes amid the continuing debate over federal funding for Planned Parenthood, which provides a variety of reproductive health services to women, including abortions.Barbara Bush is the CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps and called Planned Parenthood an exceptional organization last year in an interview with the New York Times. Bush also attended an event for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Paris. The Hill

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After months of speculation about Hillary's poor health, she appeared to have a pretty serious episode after leaving the _NUMBER_-_NUMBER_ memorial service in NYC. Fortunately, someone was able to capture her on video in a press-free zone, as she appeared to be having convulsions and collapsing, forcing the'secret service to physically lift her into her vehicle. Many in the media are saying the Democrat Party is scrambling to figure out what to do if Hillary is FORCED to drop out of the race. Of course Hillary wouldn't leave the race on her own for the good of the country or for the good of her party. This is her final shot at the highest office in our nation, and she has already proven there is nothing that will get in her way from her lifelong goal of becoming our first female President. No lie is too big and no scandal will take her down. It's her turn. But in the event that she ends up incapacitated by her illness which, according to many prominent physicians looks more like Parkinson's Disease, here's what would happen if she was forced to drop out:It's never happened before, but if Hillary Clinton has to drop out before Election Day, the Democratic National Committee would pick a successor and it wouldn't have to be runningmate Tim Kaine.If Donald Trump faced the'same situation, the Republican National Committee would select a GOP replacement, perhaps by reconvening _NUMBER_ delegates.Clinton's near collapse over the weekend, coupled with the ages of the two major candidates, have brought the far-flung scenarios into the realm of possibility.There's _NUMBER_ days until the election as of Tuesday and military and overseas ballots are mailed _NUMBER_ days before the polls open.Thirty-seven states have some sort of early voting, with North Carolina being the first by mail on Sept. _NUMBER_.What would really complicate matters is if a nominee had to drop out when ballots have already been cast. It would be an unprecedented, complicated mess, one election lawyer said.The Electoral College would then select the next president.If the electors couldn't agree, the House of Representatives would make the'selection. NYP

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Twitter moments reported that Alaska mom Jolene Jackinsky was waiting at an airport when she noticed the former president, who was immediately drawn to her baby.Barack Obama can be seen posing and smiling with a baby he randomly saw in the airport. Not surprisingly, ABC News reported on the'supposedly spontaneous photo and included a dramatic quote from the mother of the baby as their headline, that made it seem as though Jesus himself appeared at the airport in front of the baby's mother: Oh my God, it is Obama : Alaska mom, baby meet ex-president"Oh my God, it is Obama": Alaska mom, baby meet ex-president _URL_ _URL_ ABC News July _NUMBER_, 2017Liberals on Twitter were beside themselves with excitement over America's worst President, Barack Obama.I would cry so many tears if Obama held my child _URL_ Jasmin Roederer July _NUMBER_, 2017The ex I will never get over _URL_ Chaffer with no S July _NUMBER_, 2017Not everyone was so impressed with the former president's pose with the baby at the airport. Dinesh D Souza appeared more concerned about the whereabouts of Barack Obama's wedding ring than the ex-President's photo with the baby. D Souza's tweet asks: What happened to the wedding ring he used to wear as POTUS? What happened to the wedding ring he used to wear as POTUS? _URL_ Debbie D'Souza July _NUMBER_, 2017D Souza has a good point. Where is the ring? He didn't seem to go anywhere without it when he was campaigning or when he was President. So why is the ring missing now? Here are just a few examples of Obama holding babies while wearing his wedding ring: Hmmm .interesting question Dinesh Where is Barry's ring?Perhaps someone should ask his lovely wife

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Joe Biden on Thursday ramped up White House efforts to get a Senate confirmation hearing for Supreme Court selection Merrick Garland, as the U.S. vice president offered the most vigorous defense yet of his _NUMBER_ comments that senators should not consider a nominee in a presidential election year. Senate Republicans have used Biden's _NUMBER_ comments as ammunition for their opposition to holding hearings on any Supreme Court nominee until Obama's successor takes office next January after the Nov. _NUMBER_ presidential election. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reiterated that position after Obama on March _NUMBER_ selected Garland, an appellate judge and former prosecutor, to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died on Feb. _NUMBER_. Biden spoke at Georgetown University law school, seeking to increase pressure on Republicans to allow confirmation hearings and a vote. Biden emphasized Garland's moderate record and that Republicans previously had suggested Garland would be a consensus Supreme Court candidate. In June _NUMBER_, when the possibility existed of a retirement on the nine-member court, then-Senator Biden declared on the Senate floor that if a vacancy occurred that election year, Republican President George H.W. Bush should not put forth a nominee until after the November presidential election. If Bush did so, Biden added, "the Senate Judiciary Committee should seriously consider not scheduling confirmation hearings on the nomination until after the political campaign season is over." Biden, then chairman of that committee, was speaking hypothetically and no vacancy materialized. He said on Thursday his words _NUMBER_ years ago had been selectively quoted by Republicans. He noted that he made them a year after the contentious _NUMBER_ confirmation of Justice Clarence Thomas and that they were intended to address "the dangers of nominating an extreme candidate without proper Senate consultation." Biden scoffed at Republicans' current reference to a "Biden rule," meaning no hearing in a presidential election year. He said no such rule exists. Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley, the current Judiciary Committee chairman, accused Biden of trying to "rewrite history" on the _NUMBER_ remarks. "While the vice president and others have tried to recast his _NUMBER_ speech as merely a call for greater cooperation," Grassley said, "they neglect to mention that such cooperation, according to Chairmen Biden, was to occur 'in the next administration,' and only after the presidential election." In a Quinnipiac University poll of _NUMBER_ registered voters released on Thursday, _NUMBER_ percent said the Senate should consider Garland's nomination rather waiting for a new president; _NUMBER_ percent said senators should wait.

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On Friday, a federal judge in New York issued an emergency stay temporarily halting the removal of individuals detained after President Trump issued an order to ban immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S.The move appears to mark the first successful legal challenge to the Trump administration and affects those who have arrived in the U.S. with previously approved refugee applications or were in transit with valid visas. Similar rulings were later issued in Virginia, Massachusetts and Washington state.U.S. District Court Judge Ann Donnelly ruled in favor of a habeas corpus petition filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of two Iraqi men who were detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday after Trump'signed his order.Donnelly, who was nominated by former President Barack Obama and confirmed to her judgeship in _NUMBER_, ruled in the Eastern District of New York that there is imminent danger that, absent the'stay of removal, there will be substantial and irreparable injury to refugees, visa-holders, and other individuals from nations subject to Trump's order. The Hill The ACLU is getting multiple reports that federal customs agents are siding with President Trump and willfully ignoring a Brooklyn federal judge's demand that travelers from seven Muslim countries not be deported from the nation's airports. The court's order could not be clearer they need to comply with the order, Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU's Immigrants Rights project, told The Post late Saturday. It's enough to be a serious concern, Jadwat said of the reports.Jadwat and other ACLU lawyers had earlier Saturday night won an emergency stay of Trump's deportation order from Brooklyn Federal Judge Ann Donnelly. -NYPMUSLIMS Chant Allah And Protest With Call To Prayer Inside Dallas Airport

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Art Halvorson, a Tea Partier with a major agenda, is running for office against Rep. Bill Shuster , who is the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Ordinarily, this wouldn't be news, except that Halvorson is literally willing to do anything it takes to beat Shuster. Even if it means running as a Democrat.There's a reason to gag here, because it's like Halvorson is actually willing to infiltrate the Democratic Party in order to accomplish his aims. In fact, the worst kind of Tea Partier is one who will literally do anything, no matter how slimy, to win an election kind of like Donald Trump. There's a reason the Tea Party is such a problem.A spokesperson for Shuster hit the nail on the head on Halvorson's absolute buttfuckery: By running for Congress as a Democrat after beating the other Democrat by _NUMBER_ votes in the primary, Art Halvorson has proved that he cares about one thing and one thing only himself, said Casey Contres, a campaign spokesman for Shuster. Not only is he betraying Democrats by calling their party Godless while forcing them to accept him as their nominee, but he is also betraying the will of the Republican primary voters that have twice rejected his attempt to get a job in Congress. He's betraying the will of the Republican primary voters, that have rejected him. Here's a clue that he's unhinged: Halvorson lost his primary against Shuster, but he doesn't think that's the end of it. That's disgusting right there, because the Tea Party is supposed to be all about the will of the people over tyranny. They want small government, and think the people should hold the power. Does Halvorson think that the primary didn't reflect what the people of Pennsylvania's 9th District somehow? How is this kind of manipulation in keeping with what the Tea Party stands for?Simple answer: It doesn't.Halvorson is sick, like the entire Tea Party.The oddest thing is that he wants to let voters know that he's a Republican running as a Democrat, so they know they need to actually swallow their pride and vote Blue! But he faces a ridiculous battle. Gillian Kratzer, chairwoman of the Blair County Democrats, which is where Halvorson is running, says that Democrats won't be fooled. She believes he'should know that Democrats won't support him. Republicans probably won't, either.Halvorson embodies Tea Party desperation at its finest. Many don't see how he ll win, but all that matters to him is himself. Who knew a Tea Partier could be so selfish? Oh wait.Featured image via Art Halvorson's Twitter account

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One of the Bundy militiamen has lost his sole source of income thanks to his decision to join the merry mob of marauding morons in their armed occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. Was he'skipping work? Nah he would have to have a job for that. Robert LaVoy Finicum tells Oregon Public Broadcasting that he lost his meal ticket children.Over the past decade, Finicum and his wife's home has served as nothing more than a revolving door for foster children, with more than _NUMBER_ kids coming through their home. The children, who often came from mental hospitals, drug rehabs, and group homes for emotionally distressed youth not only provided the happy couple with a steady income thanks to money they'received from the'state, but also with workers on his ranch . My ranch has been a great tool for these boys, Finicum said. It has done a lot of good. Unfortunately, when Finicum ran off to play terrorist with his friends and he left four young, emotionally disturbed boys home alone to be cared for by his wife, let's just say some flags were raised. Within four days of Finicum's departure, the Arizona Department of Social Services began to remove his meal tickets from the home. They didn't go out at the'same time, Finicum said. One was there for a year, one of the boys was there six months, another eight months, and a month. I don't know where they ended up. Rather than blame his involvement with a terrorist group or his own irresponsibility, Finicum says the removals resulted from pressure from the feds : They were ripped from my wife. We are very successful . Our track records are good, it's been a good relationship. must have gotten to the governor, who told the'state to get them out of there. OPB reports that this is a staggering loss of income from the Finicums, who have depended on the between _CUR_22.31 to _CUR_37.49 per day they were paid to take care of the children. According to a _NUMBER_ tax filing, the Finicums received _CUR_115,343 in _NUMBER_. At the maximum rate, this means they cared for an average of _NUMBER_ children per day that year. And it's exactly those dollar signs that concern Finicum, not the children he was tasked with caring for as his own: That was my main source of income. My ranch, well, the cows just cover the costs of the ranch. If this means rice and beans for the next few years, so be it. We re going to stay the course. Another of the Bundy militants, Blaine Cooper, also claims that Child Protective Services removed his children from his home. At the Facebook page All Your Base, Cooper claimed that the removal of his children, which can not be independently verified, was an attempt by the FBI to draw him out, blaming the removals on bias media and asshole's like the page owner. I hope people are seeing the'sacrifices we're making here, Finicum said. I want to show what my government is doing. You need to understand the cost being paid by many people. Finicum has pledged to die in defense of the militants armed encampment proving that he is someone who should not be entrusted with the care of children. Watch him threaten violence against the government below:Featured image via NBC News

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The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Monday on a draft resolution calling for the withdrawal of U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, diplomats said, a move likely to face a Washington veto. The one-page Egyptian-drafted text, seen by Reuters, does not specifically mention the United States or Trump. Diplomats say it has broad support among the _NUMBER_-member council, and while it is unlikely to be adopted, the vote will further isolate Trump on the issue. To pass, a resolution needs nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the United States, France, Britain, Russia or China. Trump abruptly reversed decades of U.S. policy this month when he recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital, generating outrage from Palestinians. Trump also plans to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has praised Trump's decision as the just and right thing to do. The U.S. mission to the United Nations was not immediately available to comment on Sunday. Arab foreign ministers agreed to seek a U.N. Security Council resolution on the issue. The draft U.N. text expresses deep regret at recent decisions concerning the status of Jerusalem. It affirms that any decisions and actions which purport to have altered, the character, status or demographic composition of the Holy City of Jerusalem have no legal effect, are null and void and must be rescinded in compliance with relevant resolutions of the Security Council. The draft also calls upon all countries to refrain from establishing diplomatic missions in Jerusalem. Israel considers the city its eternal and indivisible capital and wants all embassies based there. No vote or debate will change the clear reality that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, said in a statement on Saturday. Palestinians want the capital of an independent Palestinian state to be in the city's eastern sector, which Israel captured in a _NUMBER_ war and annexed in a move never recognized internationally. The draft council resolution demands that all states comply with Security Council resolutions regarding the Holy City of Jerusalem, and not to recognize any actions or measures contrary to those resolutions. A U.N. Security Council resolution adopted in December _NUMBER_ underlines that it will not recognize any changes to the _NUMBER_ June _NUMBER_ lines, including with regard to Jerusalem, other than those agreed by the parties through negotiations. That resolution was approved with _NUMBER_ votes in favor and an abstention by former U.S. President Barack Obama's administration, which defied heavy pressure from longtime ally Israel and Trump, who was then president-elect, for Washington to wield its veto.

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President-elect Donald Trump has had trouble finding people to perform at his inauguration from the moment he won'the election. While A-list artists have usually jumped at the opportunity to sing or play for a new President, celebrities have turned Trump down left and right. It's been a massive public embarrassment for Trump, even as his team uses bribery to get gigs and continues to fail.The humiliation is far from over. The VERY few acts that agreed to perform for Trump are now dwindling. The latest to pull out just days before Trump's big day is the B-Street Band, a Bruce Springsteen cover band. The cover band has just announced that, due to the backlash the group received since news broke that they would play for Trump, they are abandoning the gig.In an interview with Rolling Stone, Will Forte, the group's keyboardist, manager, agent and publicist, said that the band received thousands of emails that made the band reconsider. He recalled saying to his band members, We re standing out in the'storm right here. We gotta get out of the'storm. Due to the fact that Springsteen himself had publicly condemned Trump many times before, the band thought it would only be right to honor him and the fans that had made the Springsteen cover band a reality. Forte said: We owe everything to and our gratitude and respect to the band is imperative above all else. We felt that we had to make it known that we didn't want to seem disrespectful, in any way, shape or form, to Bruce and his music and his band. I don't want to upset them. We owe everything to him and our gratitude and respect to the band is imperative above all else. It became clear to us that this wasn't working and we just had to do what we thought was the right thing to do and that was to pull out. TwitterThe B-Street Band had actually signed a contract in _NUMBER_ to play at this year's gig, but that was before the presidential nominees had been voted on. The band never thought they might have to play for Trump. Forte revealed: As time went by, the complexity of the'situation became real immense and intense. The band was caught in a hurricane. We didn't see this coming, of course. When I started this band _NUMBER_ years ago, it was only about performing and making people happy. I never thought the distortion of what we do as a band would've been so intense. I wish it never would've happened. We would've never got involved in this if I knew how this would turn out. I would trade in all the'support and publicity just to go back to where we were four months ago. I don't think they ll ever be a cover band of our size in the history of music that will get the attention of something this big. I m worn out. The band's worn out. Everybody loves to have their _NUMBER_ minutes of fame, but maybe not this way. TwitterForte acknowledges that the the B-Street Band may now be punished financially for breaking the contract, but considers its stance more important. Forte said: So far, it's okay. But that's all I can say. Whatever the consequences are for breaking a contract, I m willing to take because this is much more important. Trump is literally about to be left stranded at his inauguration.Featured image by Drew Angerer via Getty Images

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America will have a fascist in the White House starting on January 20th, and this Irish senator can't believe his own government is accepting that.Despite warnings from experts in the media, historians, and Jews who survived the Holocaust, Americans went to the polls and elected a fascist anyway, disgracing all the'soldiers who fought and died during World War II to keep fascism out of America and sweep it out of Europe.After winning, Trump has received congratulation messages from nations around the globe. Some nations have even kissed Trump's ass, which pissed off Irish Senator Aodh n O Riord in to the point where he ripped his government for sucking up to a fascist. America has just elected a fascist and the best thing that the good people in Ireland can do is to ring him up and ask him, is it OK to still bring the'shamrock on Saint Patrick's Day? I am embarrassed by the reaction of the Irish government to what has happened in America. I can't believe the reaction from An Taoiseach and from the government. O Riord in then went on a tear listing some of the aspects of fascism. I don't use the term fascist lightly. What else would you call someone who threatens to imprison his political opponents. What else would you call somebody who threatens to not allow people of a certain political faith into their country. What would you say, or what would you call somebody who was threatening to deport _NUMBER_ million people. He also warned his government that right-wing extremism is rising across Europe and the United States. Can the government not understand what's happening? We are at an ugly international crossroads. What's happening in Britain is appalling. What's happening across Europe is appalling. It has echoes from the 1930s. And America, the most powerful country in the world, has just elected a fascist! He then called for the Minister of Foreign Affairs to explain how Ireland intends to deal with monster Trump and said Ireland's support should be conditional like Germany s. Germany and America are connected by values of democracy, freedom and respect for the law and dignity of man, Angela Merkel said in a message to Trump. Independent of origin, skin-color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or political views. I offer the next president of the United States close cooperation on the basis of these values. Here's the video via The Irish Independent.Donald Trump and the Republican Party are the enemies of everything that is good in this world. Trump has no right to call for unity when he'spent a year and a half dividing Americans with hate, ignorance, fear, racism, and sexism. He is an impending disaster and we will see suffering under his tyranny.Featured image via screenshot

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Wow! This is clearly something the White House prepared for because they had a packet of information available for the press to look over.Deputy AG Rosentein sent out an email with information regarding Comey's gaffes. Then this The White House released a statement confirming the dismissal of FBI Director James Comey:All we can say about this is It's about time!Comey had _NUMBER_ years left in his _NUMBER_ year tenure at the FBI.AG jeff Sessions recommended this firing The White House announced Tuesday afternoon that FBI Director James Comey was fired. Today, President Donald J. Trump informed FBI Director James Comey that he has been terminated and removed from office, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement. President Trump acted based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. PRESIDENT TRUMP S LETTER: The'search for a new director will begin immediately, Spicer added. The FBI is one of our nation's most cherished and respected institutions and today will mark a new beginning for our crown jewel of law enforcement, Trump'said in the'statement.VIA: BUSINESS INSIDER

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CNN employees have resigned for their role in pushing fake news about the Trump-Russia story that claimed a member of the Trump transition team was under investigation.Reporter Thomas Frank, editor Eric Lichtblau and executive editor Lex Haris all resigned from their positions following a company-wide investigation into the'single-sourced story that was quickly debunked, The Washington Post first reported. CNN quickly followed up with a story of their own on the resignations. Lichtblau reportedly oversaw the false story, while Haris headed up CNN's investigative unit. In the aftermath of the retraction of a story published on CNN.com, CNN has accepted the resignations of the employees involved in the'story's publication, CNN's coverage quotes a company spokesman as saying.The retracted story, which relied upon a single unnamed congressional source, claimed that Senate investigators were probing Trump adviser Anthony Scaramucci and whether or not he discussed lifting sanctions during a meeting with a Russia banker just days before Trump's inauguration. CNN later retracted the'story and apologized to Scaramucci

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So who does Canada believe is the actual victim is here?Have you seen the cover of the new Maclean's magazine? That's Rinelle Harper sitting down she's the Aboriginal woman who was attacked and left for dead in Winnipeg.She became a symbol for racist violence against Aboriginal women though her alleged attacker was himself Aboriginal.That girl on the right is Amanda Lindhout. She was a waitress who decided she wanted to be a war reporter in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia; she was kidnapped by Muslim terrorists and tortured and raped repeatedly.So you've got two innocent women who were brutalized by violence and would never hurt a fly.And then you've got Omar Khadr standing behind them, with a huge grin on his face.Omar Khadr is a confessed, convicted Al Qaida terrorist. He plead guilty to five charges of war crimes. He murdered Sgt. Christopher Speer, leaving Tabitha Speer a widow, and their two children, Taryn and Tanner, fatherless.Omar Khadr has never renounced Al Qaida or said that he regrets what he did.Here's how Maclean's describes him, though: Omar Khadr was imprisoned in Guantanamo, captured in _NUMBER_ by American forces in Afghanistan and charged with war crimes. So, no mention of the murder he confessed to or his conviction for war crimes.Would Maclean's magazine put a smiling, chatty Paul Bernardo on their cover, and say, he's suffered so deeply in prison all because he was charged with crimes. Both are pathological murderers. Why the celebrity treatment?This isn't journalism.This is propaganda.Via: The Rebelh/t Weasel Zippers

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B b but does this mean global climate change is not man made and that man is not more powerful than God? Here's our Liar In Chief trying to tell America that all of the top scientists in America agree with him:The climate models used by alarmist scientists to predict global warming are getting worse, not better; carbon dioxide does far more good than harm; and President Obama has backed the wrong side in the war on climate change. So says one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, Dr Freeman Dyson , the British-born, naturalised American citizen who worked at Princeton University as a contemporary of Einstein and has advised the US government on a wide range of scientific and technical issues.In an interview with Andrew Orlowski of The Register, Dyson expressed his despair at the current scientific obsession with climate change which he'says is not a scientific mystery but a human mystery. How does it happen that a whole generation of scientific experts is blind to the obvious facts. This mystery, says Dyson, can only partly be explained in terms of follow the money. Also to blame, he believes, is a kind of collective yearning for apocalyptic doom.It is true that there's a large community of people who make their money by scaring the public, so money is certainly involved to some extent, but I don't think that's the full explanation.It's like a hundred years ago, before World War I, there was this insane craving for doom, which in a way, helped cause World War I. People like the poet Rupert Brooke were glorifying war as an escape from the dullness of modern life. the feeling we d gone soft and degenerate, and war would be good for us all. That was in the air leading up to World War I, and in some ways it's in the air today.Dyson, himself a longstanding Democrat voter, is especially disappointed by his chosen party's unscientific stance on the climate change issue.It's very sad that in this country, political opinion parted . I m _NUMBER_ per cent Democrat myself, and I like Obama. But he took the wrong side on this issue, and the Republicans took the right side.Part of the problem, he'says, is the Democrats conflation of pollution with climate change .China and India rely on coal to keep growing, so they ll clearly be burning coal in huge amounts. They need that to get rich. Whatever the rest of the world agrees to, China and India will continue to burn coal, so the discussion is quite pointless.At the'same time, coal is very unpleasant stuff, and there are problems with coal quite apart from climate. I remember in England when we burned coal, everything was filthy. It was really bad, and that's the way it is now in China, but you can clean that up as we did in England. It takes a certain amount of political willpower, and that takes time. Pollution is quite separate to the climate problem: one can be solved, and the other cannot, and the public doesn't understand that.The'short-to-medium term solution to the pollution problem, he argues, is the replacement of coal with much-maligned shale gas, whose rejection by much of Europe he finds unfathomable and counter-productive.As far as the next _NUMBER_ years are concerned, there are two main forces of energy, which are coal and shale gas. Emissions have been going down in the US while they've going up in Europe, and that's because of shale gas. It's only half the carbon dioxide emissions of coal. China may in fact be able to develop shale gas on a big scale and that means they burn a lot less coal.It seems complete madness to prohibit shale gas. You wondered if climate change is an Anglophone preoccupation. Well, France is even more dogmatic than Britain about shale gas!Dyson, _NUMBER_, has enjoyed a long, distinguished career as a physicist, mathematician and public intellectual, showing promise as early as the age of five when he calculated the number of atoms in the'sun. During World War II, he worked at the Operation Research Section of the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command, before moving to the US where Robert Oppenheimer awarded him a permanent post at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He also worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, looking at the climate system _NUMBER_ years ago, before it became a hot political issue.The dangers of carbon dioxide, he believes, have been much overrated. In a foreword to a report for The Global Warming Policy Foundation by Indur Goklany called Carbon Dioxide: The Good News, as reported here at Breitbart he'says:To any unprejudiced person reading this account, the facts should be obvious: that the non-climatic effects of carbon dioxide as a sustainer of wildlife and crop plants are enormously beneficial, that the possibly harmful climatic effects of carbon dioxide have been greatly exaggerated, and that the benefits clearly outweigh the possible damage.I consider myself an unprejudiced person and to me these facts are obvious. But the'same facts are not obvious to the majority of scientists and politicians who consider carbon dioxide to be evil and dangerous. The people who are supposed to be experts and who claim to understand the'science are precisely the people who are blind to the evidence.He likens the climate change issue to some of the other irrational beliefs promoted through history by famous thinkers and adopted by loyal disciples. Sometimes, as in the use of bleeding as a treatment for various diseases, irrational belief did harm to a large number of human victims. George Washington was one of the victims. Other irrational beliefs, such as the phlogiston theory of burning or the Aristotelian cosmology of circular celestial motions, only did harm by delaying the careful examination of nature. In all these cases, we see a community of people happily united in a false belief that brought leaders and followers together. Anyone who questioned the prevailing belief would upset the peace of the community.Dyson's refusal ever to accommodate himself with the modish notions of the hour may explain why, unlike some of his less distinguished and brilliant contemporaries over the years, he has never been awarded a Nobel Prize.He concludes: I am hoping that the'scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for _NUMBER_ years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence. Via: Breitbart News

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The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday vowed to press ahead with their investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the _NUMBER_ U.S. election as aggressively as possible despite turmoil over the firing of the FBI director. The panel's Republican Chairman Richard Burr and ranking Democrat Mark Warner made the comments to reporters following a meeting with U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in the wake of President Donald Trump's firing of James Comey this week.

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U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hit out at former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond on Thursday, calling him "an embarrassment" as he defended his ownership of a prestigious Scottish golf course. The attack is the latest in a feud between the pair, stemming from Trump's objection in _NUMBER_ to a Scottish government-approved offshore wind farm project near one of his golf courses. Trump has found himself under scrutiny from British politicians more generally after they voted last week to debate a call to ban him from the UK due to public outcry over his proposal to stop Muslims entering the United States. Calling Salmond a "stupid man", Trump accused him of destroying landscapes by supporting wind farm projects and said he "disgracefully" released from prison a Libyan convicted of blowing up Pan Am flight _NUMBER_ over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in _NUMBER_. "Alex Salmond is an embarrassment to Scotland," he said. Trump's statement was issued as a response to Salmond, who had said on Wednesday on a radio program that it would be better for Scotland if the billionaire developer and former reality TV star were not the owner of the Turnberry golf course in the south west of the country. Salmond, a campaigner for Scotland's independence from the United Kingdom, also said he would support Britain's interior minister Theresa May if she did issue Trump with a travel ban, ending his comments by suggesting that Trump wore a toupee. In a previous row, Trump had called Salmond a "has-been and totally irrelevant". Half-Scottish Trump, who speaks proudly of his Gaelic heritage, defended his ownership of Turnberry, one of the two golf resorts he owns in Scotland, saying he was spending _NUMBER_ million pounds on a revamp. Should Britain ban him from entering, Trump has threatened to cancel _NUMBER_ million pounds of planned investments in Scotland. "His response to any suggested ban has not changed," a spokeswoman for Trump said on Thursday.

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U.S. President Donald Trump would favor Senate Republicans changing voting rules to allow a simple majority of the Senate to approve his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court if Democrats block his choice, he said in an interview airing on Thursday. "I would. We have obstructionists," Trump told Fox News, referring to possible use of the so-called nuclear option that would overturn Senate rules requiring _NUMBER_ votes to overcome a procedural hurdle, or filibuster, for Supreme Court nominees. There are currently _NUMBER_ Republican senators in the _NUMBER_-seat chamber. Trump plans next week to announce his choice to fill the vacancy caused by the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia in February _NUMBER_. His nominee could restore the decades-long conservative majority on the court. Democrats are seething over the Republican-led Senate's refusal last year to consider Democratic President Barack Obama's nomination of appeals court Judge Merrick Garland for the lifetime post, an action with little precedent in U.S. history. Trump told Fox News anchor Sean Hannity that he had made his choice. "I have made my decision pretty much in my mind, yes. That's subject to change at the last moment." Among the front-runners are three conservative jurists: Neil Gorsuch, a judge on the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; Thomas Hardiman, who serves on the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; and William Pryor, on the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. On Tuesday, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said he told Trump that Democrats would fight any nominee they consider to be outside the mainstream. Assuming all _NUMBER_ Senate Republicans back Trump's nominee, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would either need to lure eight Democrats to his side or change the rules and ban the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations. Despite the nuclear option threat, Nan Aron, president of the liberal Alliance for Justice, which tracks judicial nominations, said in an email to Reuters that a Democratic filibuster "would still be far better than what Republicans did to Merrick Garland." More than three years ago, Democrats used their then-majority in the Senate to ban filibusters against presidential nominees other than for the Supreme Court. The move came after Republicans blocked several key Obama nominees. Vice President Mike Pence told Republican lawmakers on Thursday that Trump would nominate a "strict constructionist" to the court, referring to the literal interpretation of the U.S. Constitution's text without regard to changes in American society.

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An official within Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign appeared to have discussions with sources inside the Department of Justice about ongoing open records lawsuits regarding the former secretary of State's emails, according to an email released on Tuesday.In an email from May _NUMBER_, Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said that DOJ folks had inform him about an upcoming status conference in one of the lawsuits regarding Clinton's private email setup. The information about an upcoming court event would have been public knowledge and open for all to attend. And it's unclear whether the people Fallon spoke to at the Justice Department were officials who regularly communicate with the public. However, the fact that Fallon a former spokesman with the Department of Justice remained in contact with anyone from the department is likely to renew allegations that the Obama administration maintained an especially cozy relationship with the former secretary of State's presidential campaign.On Tuesday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump'said the connection was unbelievable .The email shows a level of collusion which calls into question the entire investigation into her private server, Trump'spokesman Jason Miller said in a statement on Tuesday. The Department of Justice must release all communications with the Clinton campaign and her allies as soon as possible in order to definitively prove their investigation was completely above board. Read more: The Hill

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The mayor of the south Texas town of Crystal City, arrested earlier this month on federal corruption charges, was arrested again by his own police department for unruly behavior at a meeting that sought his resignation, police said on Wednesday. Ricardo Lopez was charged with disorderly conduct following a chaotic city council meeting on Tuesday night at which citizens presented petitions calling for the mayor, two other council members and the city manager, all of whom were also indicted, to step down. The meeting was the first since the town that bills itself as "the spinach capital" of the world found that most of its leaders had been indicted in the federal probe. U.S. prosecutors charged the officials with dipping into city coffers for their own personal gain. Lopez posted bail on Wednesday and left jail, telling reporters he had no intention of attending future city council meetings. "Don't care who the mayor is. Don't care if I'm the mayor. I'm not going to another council meeting. Because I don't want to be put in jail again," he said. He did not say whether he intends to resign. Witnesses said during Tuesday's council meeting, Lopez tried to dispute calls for his resignation, yelled at spectators and left to fetch a copy of the city charter. When he returned, pushing and shoving ensued between Lopez and angry citizens, and the mayor was arrested, police said. Lopez, two other council members, and the city manager were indicted on Feb. _NUMBER_. They were charged with collecting bribes from city contractors for permits and other favors and using the money to pay off gambling debts, bar tabs and car loans. They were also suspected of allowing an illegal gambling house to operate in the town of about _NUMBER_ people. Another Crystal City councilman was indicted in January on charges of smuggling undocumented immigrants. Crystal City is known for a quirky tourist attraction of a large statue of the spinach-eating cartoon character Popeye in front of City Hall that celebrates the area's history as a spinach producer. It holds an annual spinach festival.

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Since President Donald Trump's election, monthly lectures on social justice at the _NUMBER_-seat Gothic chapel of New York's Union Theological Seminary have been filled to capacity with crowds three times what they usually draw. In January, the _NUMBER_-year-old Upper Manhattan graduate school, whose architecture evokes London's Westminster Abbey, turned away about _NUMBER_ people from a lecture on mass incarceration. In the nine years that Reverend Serene Jones has served as its president, she has never seen such crowds. MORE FROM REUTERS More Democrats oppose Trump's Supreme Court pick After healthcare flop, White House looks to Congress for help on tax reform Obamacare exploding? Maybe just a slow burn "The election of Trump has been a clarion call to progressives in the Protestant and Catholic churches in America to move out of a place of primarily professing progressive policies to really taking action," she said. Although not as powerful as the religious right, which has been credited with helping elect Republican presidents and boasts well-known leaders such as Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson, the "religious left" is now slowly coming together as a force in U.S. politics. This disparate group, traditionally seen as lacking clout, has been propelled into political activism by Trump's policies on immigration, healthcare and social welfare, according to clergy members, activists and academics. A key test will be how well it will be able to translate its mobilization into votes in the _NUMBER_ midterm congressional elections. "It's one of the dirty little secrets of American politics that there has been a religious left all along and it just hasn't done a good job of organizing," said J. Patrick Hornbeck II, chairman of the theology department at Fordham University, a Jesuit school in New York. "It has taken a crisis, or perceived crisis, like Trump's election to cause folks on the religious left to really own their religion in the public square," Hornbeck said. Religious progressive activism has been part of American history. Religious leaders and their followers played key roles in campaigns to abolish slavery, promote civil rights and end the Vietnam War, among others. The latest upwelling of left-leaning religious activism has accompanied the dawn of the Trump presidency. Some in the religious left are inspired by Pope Francis, the Roman Catholic leader who has been an outspoken critic of anti-immigrant policies and a champion of helping the needy. Although support for the religious left is difficult to measure, leaders point to several examples, such as a surge of congregations offering to provide sanctuary to immigrants seeking asylum, churches urging Republicans to reconsider repealing the Obamacare health law and calls to preserve federal spending on foreign aid. The number of churches volunteering to offer sanctuary to asylum seekers doubled to _NUMBER_ in _NUMBER_ of the _NUMBER_ U.S. states after the election, said the Elkhart, Indiana-based Church World Service, a coalition of Christian denominations which helps refugees settle in the United States - and the number of new churches offering help has grown so quickly that the group has lost count. "The religious community, the religious left is getting out, hitting the streets, taking action, raising their voices," said Reverend Noel Anderson, its national grassroots coordinator. In one well-publicized case, a Quaker church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on March _NUMBER_ took in a Honduran woman who has been living illegally in the United States for _NUMBER_ years and feared she would be targeted for deportation. Leaders of Faith in Public Life, a progressive policy group, were astounded when _NUMBER_ clergy members turned out at a January rally at the U.S. Senate attempting to block confirmation of Trump's attorney general nominee, Jeff Sessions, because of his history of controversial statements on race. "I've never seen hundreds of clergy turning up like that to oppose a Cabinet nominee," said Reverend Jennifer Butler, the group's chief executive. The group on Wednesday convened a Capitol Hill rally of hundreds of pastors from as far away as Ohio, North Carolina and Texas to urge Congress to ensure that no people lose their health insurance as a result of a vote to repeal Obamacare. Financial support is also picking up. Donations to the Christian activist group Sojourners have picked up by _NUMBER_ percent since Trump's election, the group said. But some observers were skeptical that the religious left could equal the religious right politically any time soon. "It really took decades of activism for the religious right to become the force that it is today," said Peter Ubertaccio, chairman of the political science department at Stonehill College, a Catholic school outside Boston. But the power potential of the "religious left" is not negligible. The "Moral Mondays" movement, launched in _NUMBER_ by the North Carolina NAACP's Reverend William Barber, is credited with contributing to last year's election defeat of Republican Governor Pat McCrory by Democrat Roy Cooper. The new political climate is also spurring new alliances, with churches, synagogues and mosques speaking out against the recent spike in bias incidents, including threats against mosques and Jewish community centers. The Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, which encourages alliances between Jewish and Muslim women, has tripled its number of U.S. chapters to nearly _NUMBER_ since November, said founder Sheryl Olitzky. "This is not about partisanship, but about vulnerable populations who need protection, whether it's the LGBT community, the refugee community, the undocumented community," said Rabbi Jonah Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, using the acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. More than _NUMBER_ people have already signed up for the center's annual Washington meeting on political activism, about three times as many as normal, Pesner said. Leaders of the religious right who supported Trump say they see him delivering on his promises and welcomed plans to defund Planned Parenthood, whose healthcare services for women include abortion, through the proposed repeal of Obamacare. "We have not seen any policy proposals that run counter to our faith," said Lance Lemmonds, a spokesman for the Faith & Freedom Coalition, a nonprofit group based in Duluth, Georgia.

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Everyone is in anticipation for Thursday because of Former FBI Director, James Comey will be testifying. There is so much anticipation of what he might say or might not say that TV networks are showing countdown clocks to count down when his testimony starts tomorrow. Not only this, but people are on Twitter tweeting about where are the best places to watch and if they will be offering special morning cocktail drinks for those coming in to watch Comey's testimony. If you think this is not enough, it isn't because the Senate says the House seating is in full demand. More so than it has been for more than a decade!More people anticipating what Comey will say during his testimony since being fired from the FBI by Donald Trump is President Trump himself and his aides. They aren't anticipating in a good way, however. They are worried about what he will say and if what he'says ends up inflicting not just legal wounds, but political wounds as well.Apparently, according to Comey's co-workers and friends, he was shocked to have been fired when he was. He was in shock that he found out about being fired from being the director of the FBI by the television screen. In fact, his associates say that he had no idea he was getting ready to lose his job and was in total shock when he found out. He especially didn't know since he was in the middle of helping with the investigation that was going on about Russia's possible interference in the presidential election. Comey was almost into a _NUMBER_-year-term as the FBI director.Although Comey had no idea that he was about to lose his job as the FBI Director, he did have some uneasy feelings about the new president, according to his associates. He was primarily concerned about Trump'since he did want to back off from the investigation going on for Michael Flynn, the former National Security Advisor.Although it may be true that Comey may testify about the assumed Russian hacking of the presidential election, he may avoid testifying about certain'things including the ongoing Russian investigation. In fact, legal experts say Comey avoiding the current Russian investigation makes perfect sense, especially since Comey is a former prosecutor and understands full well not to take any steps to complicate the criminal probe.Featured Image by Mark Wilson/Getty Images

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After the community found out about the threats she was receiving, they came together in a YUGE way to support her. The Latina Trump'supporter actually ran out of food she had such an overwhelming response from people who felt compelled to support her. Another epic back fire from the Soros funded, Obama inspired, anti-Trump agitators Restaurant owner Betty Rivas received abusive and threatening calls after attending a Trump rally with a Latinos Support Trump sign.KGUN9 On Your Side went back to visit Sammy's Mexican Restaurant in Catalina after our story aired and the Rivas family said on Tuesday, they have now become overwhelmed with showings of support. At _NUMBER_-o-clock, my husband called me and say, You need to come in and I said, Why? said owner Betty Rivas. I think it happen something bad. But, instead the flood of customers came for more than just the food. Customers like Rhonda Mikuski who said, she's been to the restaurant before, but made a special visit today. We just wanted to come by today more or less -to just show our support that America still exists, said Mikuski. People have the right say what they want to say without being threatened. Harry Edmondson said he heard about the drama through the news and Facebook and he felt the need to come by. I don't want her to fail because some people are meaning to shut free speech down, Edmondson said. So, I ll support her But, Rivas said, she did not exercise her right to vote today, saying she was too busy and had not come to a decision on a candidate yet. No, I m still thinking, Rivas laughed.Or more likely she's scared to death of the Leftist Mafia

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On Wednesday, Donald Trump once again lashed out at the media with a scathing article about _NUMBER_ fake news stories that have been published since Trump became President*.'_NUMBER_ Fake News Stories Reporters Have Run Since Trump Won' _URL_ Donald J. Trump February _NUMBER_, 2017The'site featuring the list, The Federalist, is a known purveyor of right-wing hoaxes and is about as reliable as Betsy DeVos in any of the many bear attacks that occur in our schools year-round, but Trump'saw a headline he liked and tweeted it out because, to him, fact-checking is a waste of time. Besides, Trump is in the middle of the largest anti-media campaign since Adolf Hitler went out of his way to discredit the media to allow him to more effectively consolidate power and this article aids that goal nicely:We are in the midst of an epidemic of fake news. There is no better word to describe it than epidemic, insofar as it fits the epidemiological model from the Centers for Disease Control: this phenomenon occurs when an agent and susceptible hosts are present in adequate numbers, and the agent can be effectively conveyed from a source to the'susceptible hosts. The agent in this case is hysteria over Trump's presidency, and the susceptible hosts are a slipshod, reckless, and breathtakingly gullible media class that spread the hysteria around like well, like a virus.It is difficult to adequately sum up the breadth of this epidemic, chiefly because it keeps growing: day after day, even hour after hour, the media continue to broadcast, spread, promulgate, publicize, and promote fake news on an industrial scale. It has become a regular part of our news cycle, not distinct from or extraneous to it but a part of it, embedded within the news apparatus as a spoke is embedded in a bicycle wheel.Whenever you turn on a news station, visit a news website, or check in on a journalist or media personality on Twitter or Facebook, there is an excellent chance you will be exposed to fake news. It is rapidly becoming an accepted part of the way the American media are run.The list that follows, unsurprisingly, contains stories with mostly minor errors that were all corrected quickly because that's how it works when initial reporting is incorrect. Others are simply stuff Donald Trump has done that The Federalist elected to simply say are fake news like his threat to send troops into Mexico, Trump's decision to ease sanctions on Russia, and the GOP rolling back Obama-era regulations that prevent the mentally ill from owning guns.Fortunately, not everyone is as stupid as Trump's followers and The Donald was quickly called out for sharing this list from such a disreputable source:Oh for Pete's sake. NOT ONE of these supposedly fake stories is actual fake news. _USER_ _URL_ Charles Johnson February _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_@realDonaldTrump _TAG_ _URL_ _TAG_ February _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_@realDonaldTrump _USER_ _URL_ paladine February _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_@realDonaldTrump _USER_ _URL_ paladine February _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_@realDonaldTrump hey here's someone from YOUR team being mocked on uk tv for dishing out FAKE NEWS,practice what you preach & DO SOME WORK?? _URL_ Darius Syrossian February _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_@realDonaldTrump _USER_ well, _NUMBER_ if you include this bullshit list. Benjamin Byron Davis February _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_@realDonaldTrump oh my god you're embarrassing. Jeremy Botter February _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_@realDonaldTrump The head honcho at this site is a known plagiarist. Try harder. _URL_ Brenna Ehrlich February _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_. _USER_ POTUS complaining about fake news from a fake news website. Fakenewsception? Trademark it. Lots of money for you there. Elie. February _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_@realDonaldTrump _USER_ None of them are fake stories. They're stories with errors that were corrected. That's very different. (()) February _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_@realDonaldTrump _USER_ I hadn't heard of any of these stories. They are all obscure news stories that YOUR ADMINISTRATION has promoted. Kristina Wong February _NUMBER_, 2017More _TAG_ from the _TAG_: _USER_ wrong that media is not reporting on terrorism any more _URL_ _URL_ Khary Penebaker February _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_@realDonaldTrump Bowling Green Massacre and Alternative Facts dude. YOU are the number one source for bullsh*t. Tommy Campbell February _NUMBER_, 2017Though he'says the phrase a lot, even Trump likely doesn't actually believe the things he falsely calls fake news are fake news. Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, explained Monday that the administration will keep using the term until the media realizes they are wrong for attacking Trump with facts. There is a monumental desire on behalf of the majority of the media, not just the pollsters, the majority of the media to attack a duly elected President in the'second week of his term, he'says. That's how unhealthy the'situation is and until the media understands how wrong that attitude is, and how it hurts their credibility, we are going to continue to say, fake news . Gorka is a former editor for white supremacist propaganda website Breitbart, which President Steve Bannon used to run.Yes, fake news exists. You usually see it on sites like nbc.com.co.qwdsff4wf.org. But none of these stories, even the ones with errors, earn that classification. What does qualify as fake news is President Asterisk's claim that President Obama was born in Kenya, that millions voted illegally for his opponent, and that anyone who disagrees with Donald Trump or says anything unflattering about him is pushing fake news. Resist.Read more:Featured image via Getty Images /screengrab

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Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Iraqi Kurdish authorities would pay the price for an independence referendum which was widely opposed by foreign powers. Iraq's Kurds overwhelmingly backed independence in Monday's referendum, defying neighboring countries which fear the vote could fuel Kurdish separatism within their own borders and lead to fresh conflict. They are not forming an independent state, they are opening a wound in the region to twist the knife in, Erdogan told members of his ruling AK Party in the eastern Turkish city of Erzurum. Erdogan has built strong commercial ties with Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq, which pump hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil daily through Turkey for export to world markets. We don t regret what we did in the past. But since the conditions are changed and the Kurdish Regional Government, to which we provided all support, took steps against us, it would pay the price, he said. Turkey has repeatedly threatened to impose economic sanction, effectively cutting their main access to international markets, and has held joint military exercises with Iraqi troops on the border. However, after Erdogan said that Iraqi Kurds would go hungry if Ankara halted the cross-border flow of trucks and oil, it has said that any measures it took would not target civilians and instead focus on those who organized the referendum. Iraq's Defense Ministry said on Friday it plans to take control of the borders of the autonomous Kurdistan region in coordination with Iran and Turkey. Turkish Prime Minister Bin Yildirim, speaking on Saturday, did not refer specifically to those plans, but said Ankara would no longer deal with Kurdish authorities in Erbil. From now on, our relationships with the region will be conducted with the central government, Baghdad, he said. As Iran, Iraq and Turkey, we work to ensure the games being played in the region will fail.

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Donald Trump has been going off on his infamous psychotic Twitter rants again, and they just keep getting more and more terrifying as the days go on.On Tuesday morning, Trump'suggested that Americans who burn the American flag should lose their citizenship or alternatively be forced to spend a year in jail: Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag if they'do, there must be consequences perhaps loss of citizenship or a year in jail! TwitterThis is yet another instance where Trump has displayed how little he knows about how the actual Constitution works. Burning the American flag is completely legal, unlike what Trump is suggesting. Trump's proposed punishment for flag burning also goes against the landmark _NUMBER_ Supreme Court case Texas v. Johnson, where burning the flag was protected under the First Amendment. It should also be noted that one of Trump's idols, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, ruled in favor of that case.Revoking citizenship is a very serious concept to play with. According to the Huffington Post, an American citizen can only lose their nationality by pledging allegiance to another country, committing treason, or voluntarily giving it up .Anand Giridharadas didn't hesitate to call Trump out, bringing attention to the fact that Trump is more of a fascist than anything else. He summed up Trump's threat perfectly when he'said the explicit articulation that doing legal things could cost you citizenship. TwitterThen, Giridharadas gave us some historical context:TwitterThat's terrifying, and unfortunately it's only the tip of the iceberg. Trump's flag burning tweet came after he went on a troubling Twitter rant last night, in which he attacked the free press for debunking his voter fraud lies. When you put all of Trump's threats together, it becomes clear that he's more interested in being a dictator than a President.Featured image via Maddie McGarvey /Getty Images

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One thing Donald Trump is really great at is delivering one-liners that resonate with people because they're true. This is why Trump will win in a landslide! Americans are so sick of the pandering politicians who sugar-coat everything. Trump is a refreshing change and oh so witty. Here's an epic one-liner on the PGA move from Miami to Mexico: I hope they have kidnapping insurance. Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is responding to the PGA moving the _NUMBER_ World Golf Championship to Mexico instead of holding it at Trump Doral in Miami. They move the World Golf Championships from Miami to Mexico City, Trump commented. They moved the PGA Tour, moved the World Golf Championships from Miami, where they're furious to Mexico City. If I become your president, this stuff is all going to stop, Trump added. He went on to criticize the U.S. economy for being taken advantage of by Mexico.The PGA Tour said the move happens because it couldn't find sponsors, according to BBC.Trump argued the PGA put profit ahead of thousands of American jobs. Timothy Finchem, PGA Tour commissioner, suggested Trump's profile made it difficult to get sponsors. It's fundamentally a sponsorship issue, Finchem added. Donald Trump is a brand, a big brand, and when you're asking a company to invest millions of dollars in branding a tournament and they're going to share that brand with the host, it's a difficult decision. Finchem insisted the move isn't political.Trump'slammed the decision, saying it's a sad day for Miami, the U.S. and the game of golf. This decision only further embodies the very reason I am running for president of the United States. I hope they have kidnapping insurance, Trump'stated during an interview with Fox News.Via: Breitbart

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An activist whose disappearance in southern Argentina in August captured the country's attention in the months before mid-term elections died of drowning and hypothermia, the judge investigating the case said on Friday. Santiago Maldonado had been missing from Aug. _NUMBER_. He had attended an indigenous land rights protest in Patagonia that day. His body was found on October _NUMBER_ in a nearby river. Federal Judge Guillermo Gustavo Lleral told reporters outside a morgue that an autopsy showed the cause of Maldonado's death was drowning and hypothermia, and that his body was in the Chubut river for at least _NUMBER_ days. Some government opposition and rights groups have said that state security forces took Maldonado, a _NUMBER_-year-old craftsman, after police reportedly clashed with Mapuche Indians who claim territory throughout southern Argentina and Chile. The groups allegations that President Mauricio Macri's government covered up Maldonado's whereabouts overshadowed a mid-term congressional election on Oct. _NUMBER_. Macri's government has said there was no evidence that showed security forces had detained Maldonado. On Friday, Maldonado's brother said he would keep insisting on an investigation. This was the cause of death, but we still do not know what happened, Sergio Maldonado said after a meeting with Lleral.

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The video below is a great snapshot of what was going on with the Clinton foundation and huge donors from all over the world. Hillary treated the State Department like an arm of The Clinton Foundation

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With mainstream media and establishment politicians stacked against him from the moment he announced his run for the presidency, Donald J. Trump has been in an ongoing pitched battle to communicate his plans and his eventual successes to Americans. Through public rallies and social media, he has managed to bypass the traditional information gatekeepers and has spoken directly to the people.Yet, Americans are subjected to a relentless drumbeat from the Democratic Party, amplified by virtually the entire establishment press, that Trump is not only undisciplined, unfit for office and possibly racist, but that embarrassingly little has been accomplished by the Trump administration.But we Deplorables know better When Dana Kamide made this pro-Trump video last year, it was an instant hit. The hilarious video reminded Americans of why we're so blessed to have President Trump as our President. To date, the It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year viral video has been seen over _NUMBER_ million times. This Christmas, let's all count our blessings and remember to be thankful for the bullet we dodged in _NUMBER_. Enjoy WND And while he has befuddled and disappointed some with major promises such as Obamacare repeal and a border wall unfulfilled or put on the backburner the'stunning reality is this: Donald Trump has amassed a long and remarkable list of actions and accomplishments that will surprise average Americans, even those who support the president and consider themselves well-informed politically.Below, is an accounting of the truly significant achievements of the first eight months of the Trump presidency. The accomplishments are all the more noteworthy as they have been carried out in an environment of unrelenting negativity on the part of not only the Democrats and almost the entire news media, but the Beltway establishment itself, the entire donor class, the Deep State, and even many Republicans wedded to the D.C. swamp. DECEMBERRegulatory reform: President Trump announced Dec. _NUMBER_ his administration has far exceeded its promise to eliminate regulations at a _NUMBER_:_NUMBER_ ratio and impose no lifetime net regulatory costs. In total, agencies issued _NUMBER_ deregulatory actions while imposing only three new regulatory actions, a ratio of _NUMBER_:_NUMBER_. Federal agencies also achieved _CUR_8.1 billion in lifetime net regulatory cost savings, the equivalent of _CUR_570 million per year. Jobs: Some _NUMBER_ new jobs were created in November, highlighting the'strongest U.S. labor market since the turn of the century. The government also reported Dec. _NUMBER_ that unemployment was unchanged at _NUMBER_ percent, but that's still nearly a _NUMBER_-year low. Military: The Trump administration asked a federal court Dec. _NUMBER_ for an emergency stay to delay a court order to begin opening the military to transgender recruits by Jan. _NUMBER_. Israel: While the previous three U.S. presidents promised during their election campaigns to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, President Trump on Dec. _NUMBER_ became the first to follow through. In his official order, Trump also ordered the U.S. Embassy to be moved to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded: President Donald Trump, thank you for today's historic decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The Jewish people and the Jewish state will be forever grateful. Immigration: The Department of Homeland Security released figures Dec. _NUMBER_ showing Trump is delivering on his pledge to more strictly control immigration and deter would-be border-crossers. Border Patrol arrests dropped to a _NUMBER_-year low in the fiscal year that ended Sept. _NUMBER_, down _NUMBER_ percent from a year earlier. ICE said the number of people apprehended away from the border jumped _NUMBER_ percent this fiscal year. The increase is _NUMBER_ percent after Trump's inauguration compared to the'same period the year before. States rights: President Trump'signed two executive orders Dec. _NUMBER_ that gave back about _NUMBER_ million acres of land to the'state of Utah by modifying executive orders by President Obama. Arguing the Antiquities Act requires that any reservation of land as part of a monument be confined to the'smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects of historic or scientific interest to be protected, Trump reduced the federal government's control of the Bear's Ear National Monument to just _NUMBER_ acres, pointing out that the important objects of scientific or historic interest described described in Obama's proclamation are protected under existing laws and agency management designations. He also reduced the Grand Staircase National Monument in Utah from nearly _NUMBER_ million acres to about _NUMBER_ million. Immigration: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced Dec. _NUMBER_ the Trump administration is withdrawing from the Global Compact on Migration, arguing the pact would undermine the'sovereign right of the United States to enforce our immigration laws and secure our borders. Tillerson made the announcement just before the opening of a global conference on migration in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Tax reform: Propelled by the engagement of President Trump, the Senate on Dec. _NUMBER_ passed the biggest rewrite of the nation's tax system since _NUMBER_, reducing rates for businesses and individuals. The Republican-led House passed a similar bill in November. The two chambers of Congress will negotiate a reconciliation of the two bills that they expect to put on the president's desk before the end of the year. Health care: The Senate tax-reform bill passed Dec. _NUMBER_ eliminates Obamacare's individual mandate, the linchpin of Obama's government-controlled health-care system, which penalizes taxpayers for choosing not to buy health insurance.NOVEMBERStocks: The Dow Jones industrial average surged more than _NUMBER_ points Nov. _NUMBER_ to close above _NUMBER_ for the first time in history. Stocks were buoyed by the possibility of the Senate passing the Republican'tax-reform bill championed by President Trump. Mining: Mining increased _NUMBER_ percent in the'second quarter and was the leading contributor to growth for the nation and in the three fastest-growing states of North Dakota, Wyoming, and Texas, according to the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. North Korea: In response to North Korea's buildup of nuclear weapons and missiles, the communist nation was officially designated a state sponsor of terror by the Trump administration on Nov. _NUMBER_. The Treasury Department followed up with sanctions on organizations and companies doing business with North Korea. Regulation reform: Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Nov. _NUMBER_ the Department of Justice will cease the practice initiated by President Obama of issuing guidance memos to enact new regulations that sometimes have had the effect of changing federal laws. Iran: Trump issued a memorandum Nov. _NUMBER_ determining that the U.S. has enough petroleum coming from countries other than Iran to permit a significant reduction in the volume of petroleum and petroleum products purchased from the mullah-led nation. China trade: During President Trump's visit to China in November, trade and investment deals worth more than _CUR_250 billion were announced that are expected to create jobs for American workers, farmers and ranchers by increasing U.S. exports to China and stimulating investment in American communities. Government transparency: The federal government on Nov. _NUMBER_ made public more than _NUMBER_ additional documents from its files on President John F. Kennedy's assassination, under orders from President Trump. It was the fourth released since October, when the president allowed the immediate release of _NUMBER_ records by the National Archives. International liberty: President Trump proclaimed Nov. _NUMBER_, the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, as the National Day for the Victims of Communism Religious liberty: The Department of Agriculture issued a guidance Nov. _NUMBER_ that ensures Christians who opposed same-sex marriage would not be discriminated against for their beliefs. Job growth: President Trump announced in the Oval Office Nov. _NUMBER_ that the'semiconductor manufacturing company Broadcom Limited is moving its headquarters from Singapore to the United States. Broadcom is a Fortune _NUMBER_ company that already employs more than _NUMBER_ workers in the United States, and that number is expected to grow exponentially, with an estimated _CUR_20 billion to be spent on employees annually. Broadcom CEO Hock E. Tan said the decision to relocate Broadcom was driven by his desire to give back to this country that has given me so much. Government reform: EPA Director Scott Pruitt placed _NUMBER_ new experts on three different EPA scientific committees who espouse more conservative views than their predecessors. To prevent conflicts of interest, Pruitt signed a directive Oct. _NUMBER_ banning scientists who receive EPA grants from serving on the agency's independent advisory boards.OCTOBERJob growth: The White House announced Oct. _NUMBER_ a new drone Integration Pilot Program that will accelerate drone integration into the national airspace system. Under the program, the Department of Transportation will enter into agreements with state, local, and tribal governments to establish innovation zones for testing complex UAS operations and to attempt different models for integrating drones into local airspace. Calling drones a critical, fast-growing part of American aviation, increasing efficiency, productivity, and jobs, the White House said they present opportunities to enhance the'safety of the American public, increase the efficiency and productivity of American industry, and create tens of thousands of new American jobs. Government reform: Melania Trump, while embracing a more active and public schedule as first lady, is running one of the leanest East Wing operations in recent history, according to a Fox News analysis of White House personnel reports that found she has significantly reduced the number of aides on the first lady's office payroll in comparison to her predecessor, Michelle Obama. During President Obama's first year in office, _NUMBER_ people were listed working for Michelle Obama, earning a combined _CUR_1.24 million a year. This year, just four people were listed working for Melania Trump as of June, with salaries totaling _CUR_486,700. Obamacare: Trump'signed an executive order Oct. _NUMBER_ that directs three federal agencies to rewrite regulations to encourage the establishment of cheaper health plans that can be purchased across state lines and are not bound by certain Obamacare rules and regulations. The directive would allow small-business owners, trade groups and others to join together to purchase health insurance. The plans would not be required to include benefits such as prescription drugs. Trump also wants to expand the'sale of stopgap policies that don't cover pre-existing conditions, mental health services and other costly benefits. Consumer optimism: U.S. consumer sentiment unexpectedly surged to a _NUMBER_-year high as Americans perceptions of the economy and their own finances rebounded following several major hurricanes, a University of Michigan survey showed Oct. _NUMBER_. Iran nuclear agreement: President Trump announced Oct. _NUMBER_ he will not certify the Iran nuclear deal and vowed that the U.S. would pull out unless changes are made. He also unveiled a new strategy, the culmination of nine months of deliberation with Congress and allies, on how to best protect American security from the rogue mullah-led regime. The plan includes denying the regime funding and any paths to a nuclear weapon and ballistic missiles. The Department of the Treasury sanctioned more than _NUMBER_ entities and individuals involved in Iran's ballistic missile program. The U.S. also sanctioned _NUMBER_ entities and individuals that have supported Iran's military and Revolutionary Guard Corps in the development of drones, fast attack boats and other military equipment. United Nations: The United States is quitting the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Heather Nauert, a State Department spokeswoman, announced the move will be made before the end of the year This decision was not taken lightly, and reflects U.S. concerns with mounting arrears at UNESCO, the need for fundamental reform in the organization, and continuing anti-Israel bias at UNESCO. Homeland security: The Supreme Court dismissed a major challenge to President Trump's travel ban on majority-Muslim countries Oct. _NUMBER_ because it has been replaced by a new version, sending the controversy back to the'starting block. The ruling is a victory for the Trump administration, which had asked the court to drop the case after Trump'signed a proclamation Sept. _NUMBER_ that replaced the temporary travel ban on six nations with a new, indefinite ban affecting eight countries. That action made the court challenge moot, the justices ruled. EPA reform: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced Oct. _NUMBER_ a new set of rules that will override the Clean Power Plan, the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's drive to curb global climate change. The agency is moving to undo, delay or block more than _NUMBER_ environmental rules, the largest regulatory rollback in the agency's _NUMBER_-year history. Immigration: The Trump administration submitted to Congress Oct. _NUMBER_ a _NUMBER_-point proposal that calls for increased border security, interior enforcement of immigration laws and a merit-based immigration system. It includes funding and completing construction of a southern border wall, improving expedited removal of illegal aliens, protecting innocent people in sanctuary cities, ending extended-family chain migration and establishing a point-based system for green cards to protect U.S. workers and taxpayers. Religious liberty: Attorney General Sessions on Oct. _NUMBER_ issued guidance to all administrative agencies and executive departments regarding religious liberty protections in federal law in keeping with Trump's May _NUMBER_ executive order. The guidance interprets existing protections for religious liberty in federal law, identifying _NUMBER_ high-level principles that administrative agencies and executive departments can put to practical use to ensure the religious freedoms of Americans are lawfully protected. Attorney General Sessions also issued a second memorandum to the Department of Justice, directing implementation of the religious liberty guidance within the department. Among the principles are the freedom of religion extends to persons and organizations, Americans do not give up their freedom of religion by participating in the marketplace, partaking of the public square, or interacting with government and government may not restrict acts or abstentions because of the beliefs they'display. Missile defense: The Department of Defense reprogrammed approximately _CUR_400 million for U.S. missile defense systems. Religious liberty: The Trump administration expanded religious and moral exemptions for mandated contraceptive coverage under Obamacare. Obama's signature legislation required that nearly all insurance plans cover abortion-inducing drugs and contraception, forcing citizens to violate sincerely held religious or moral beliefs, pay steep fines, or forgo offering or obtaining health insurance entirely. The interim final rules note that the United States has a long history of providing conscience protections in the regulation of health care entities and individuals with objections based on religious beliefs and moral convictions. The rule aligns with the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous ruling protecting the Little Sisters of the Poor, which says the government cannot fine religious groups for following their faith. Immigration: Amid strong Democratic opposition, the House Homeland Security Committee gave first approval to the broad scope of President Trump's border wall Oct. _NUMBER_, clearing a bill that would authorize _CUR_10 billion in new infrastructure spending, new waivers to speed up construction, and _NUMBER_ more border agents and officers to patrol the U.S.-Mexico line. Space exploration: President Trump revived the National Space Council for the first time in _NUMBER_ years to assist him in developing and implementing long-range strategic goals for the nation's space policy. The pace program will refocus on human exploration and discovery. Vice President Mike Pence, who chaired the National Space Council's Oct. _NUMBER_ meeting, said the administration aims to establish a renewed American presence on the moon and from that foundation become the first nation to bring mankind to Mars. The administration also will renew America's commitment to creating the'space technology needed to protect national security. And Pence pointed out the intelligence community reports that Russia and China are pursuing a full range of anti-satellite technology designed to threaten our U.S. military effectiveness. Abortion: The Office of Management and Budget on Oct. _NUMBER_ issued a Statement of Administration Policy to strongly support the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act , which would generally make it unlawful for any person to perform, or attempt to perform, an abortion of an unborn child after _NUMBER_ weeks post-fertilization. Protecting life: The president issued a statement Oct. _NUMBER_ renewing the nation's strong commitment to promoting the health, well-being, and inherent dignity of all children and adults with Down syndrome. The president observed there remain'too many people both in the United States and throughout the world that still see Down syndrome as an excuse to ignore or discard human life. He said Americans and their government must always be vigilant in defending and promoting the unique and special gifts of all citizens in need and should not tolerate any discrimination against them, as all people have inherent dignity. Protecting life: The Department of Health and Human Services has published a draft of a new strategic plan that states in its introduction that life begins at conception. The personhood of the unborn child is central to the abortion debate as even the justice who wrote the landmark Roe v. Wade opinion has acknowledged because, if established in law, it would nullify a right to abortion. The largely overlooked HHS strategic plan for _NUMBER_-_NUMBER_ states the agency accomplishes its mission through programs and initiatives that cover a wide spectrum of activities, serving and protecting Americans at every stage of life, beginning at conception. Tax reform: Trump is working with Congress to lower taxes by seven points for the middle class and lower business taxes to a _NUMBER_ percent rate.SEPTEMBERLower courts: Trump is filling up lower courts with lifetime appointees. In the estimation of Democratic official Ron Klain, a massive transformation is underway in how our fundamental rights are defined by the federal judiciary. Klain, lamenting Trump's moves, said the president is proving wildly successful in one respect: naming youthful conservative nominees to the federal bench in record-setting numbers. On Sept. _NUMBER_, Trump announced an eighth wave of judicial candidates, with nine more names. Canada trade: In September, the Commerce Department, siding with Boeing, slapped a _NUMBER_ percent tariff on the import of Canadian-made Bombardier jets, arguing they are supported by subsidies from the governments of Canada and the U.K., creating an unfair market. Korea trade: Trump began the process of renegotiating the United States-South Korea Free Trade Agreement in September. Climate: In September, Trump'shut down a climate-change advisory panel under the direction of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, that critics have contended was formed largely to promote President Obama's climate policies, arguing it lacked representation from those who think the empirical evidence points to human actions contributing little to global warming and that attempting to reduce it would slow the conquest of poverty around the world. The EPA also has decided not to renew the appointments of dozens of scientists on various scientific advisory panels. Economy: Household wealth reached a record high of _CUR_1.7 trillion in the'second quarter due to rising property values and gains in financial assets, according to a Federal Reserve report. Homeland security: In September, Trump'signed an executive order to enhance vetting capabilities and processes for detecting attempted entry into the United States by terrorists or other public-security threats. North Korea: After some _NUMBER_ years of failed negotiations to contain Pyongyang's nuclear program, the communist regime's latest threatening actions were met by President Trump with a warning that military action, including a preemptive nuclear attack, would be considered. After Trump's warnings, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un backed off on his threat to attack the U.S. territory of Guam. North Korea: On Sept. _NUMBER_, the U.S. fully deployed the THAAD missile defense system to South Korea despite objections from Pyongyang's chief ally, China. North Korea: In September, Trump'signed an executive order significantly expanding U.S. authority to target individuals, companies and financial institutions that finance and facilitate trade with North Korea, most of which are Chinese. Meanwhile, China's central bank has ordered banks in its massive banking system to immediately stop doing business with North Korea. United Nations: In his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Trump told the global body in September, I put America first and you should do the'same with your nations. In the'speech, he also explicitly denounced socialism and communism, pointing to Venezuela as an example of what happens when socialism is successfully implemented. Immigration: President Trump, in September, rescinded Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals order, which gave de facto amnesty to some _NUMBER_ people who came to the country as children with their illegal-alien parents. Trump delayed implementing his order for six months to give Congress time to come up with a legislative solution. Stock markets: Through the first week of September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had _NUMBER_ record highs. From Election Day to the Inauguration, the Dow rose more than _NUMBER_ points. It climbed another _NUMBER_ points from Inauguration Day, reaching more than _NUMBER_ in mid-September, a gain of more than _CUR_4 trillion in wealth since Trump was elected. The Dow's spike from _NUMBER_ to above _NUMBER_ in just _NUMBER_ days was the fastest _NUMBER_-point rise ever. The S&P _NUMBER_ and the NASDAQ also have set all-time highs. On Aug. _NUMBER_, the Dow closed with an all-time high for the ninth day in a row, the first time the market has had a run of that length twice under one presidency.For the entire list, go to WND

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We are all getting whiplash from Donald Trump's constant flip-flopping on his immigration policy over the last few weeks. Trump had been touting one of the most racist, heartless and problematic solutions to immigration throughout his entire campaign until just a few weeks ago, when he'suddenly walked it back and softened his position. That decision confused everyone and especially angered his equally racist supporters and Trump has been stuck in a vicious back-and-forth pattern ever since.Last week, Trump'said all undocumented immigrants in the U.S. must leave and then get in line to come back to America. This week, he made another pivot in his immigration policy, stating that he hasn't ruled out giving some immigrants a path to legalization. When spokesperson Katrina Pierson went on CNN to try to clear things up, it became apparent that everyone in the Trump campaign is confused now.In trying to defend her boss, a struggling Pierson said that it would be impossible for Trump to deport all the undocumented immigrants in America because there could be _NUMBER_-_NUMBER_ times more immigrants than what the estimates say. Using the usual imaginary statistics that the Trump campaign has become infamous for, she'said: We are continuously hearing that there's not _NUMBER_ million , there could be _NUMBER_ million, there could be _NUMBER_ million. This is important because Mr. Trump can't promise to deport every single illegal alien in the country if there's _NUMBER_ million. While she was speaking, the host noticed that Pierson was absolutely lost and said, We understand that it's complicated which only infuriated Pierson and made her raise her voice. But as hard as she tried, Pierson couldn't give any solid reasoning for why Trump's ever-changing policy could work, because the truth is that it won't. The only thing that was cleared up in this interview was the fact that not even Trump's own campaign can keep up with his policy changes.Watch Pierson stumble through this interview below:.@KatrinaPierson on Trump's changing immigration stance: He said from beginning he d be a negotiator in Congress _URL_ New Day September _NUMBER_, 2016Featured image is a screenshot

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A Turkish minister appeared to confirm for the first time that two Turkish intelligence officers have been captured in northern Iraq, saying the government was not in direct talks with the Kurdish militant PKK group to bring them back. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was asked in an interview with Al-Monitor whether the head of Turkish intelligence Hakan Fidan would travel to Erbil for talks about two senior Turkish intelligence officers. Al-Monitor said the officers had been taken to a PKK base in the Qandil mountains of northern Iraq. Of course our institutions have been working to bring back all our citizens that the PKK kidnapped, but our country doesn t - we didn t have any direct contact with the PKK to bring those two persons mentioned back. It was the first official Turkish comment on the issue, following media reports in August that militants in northern Iraq had captured two high-level intelligence officials. A Foreign Ministry spokesman was not immediately available to comment. Cemil Bayik, one of the leaders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party , was quoted in regional media saying the two officers had been sent to Iraq to assassinate him. The outlawed PKK has been waging an insurgency in Turkey's southeast, bordering Iraq and Syria, for more than _NUMBER_ years.

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Donald Trump is holding a new round of meetings on Tuesday as he continues to form his administration before taking over from Democratic President Barack Obama on Jan. _NUMBER_. The Republican president-elect has held more than _NUMBER_ meetings so far, according to his transition team. Below is a list of scheduled meetings through Wednesday, as announced by his team. * Rapper and entertainer married to reality star Kim Kardashian * Co-founder of Microsoft Corp * Founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest private charities in the world * Former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, a Republican * Former Trump rival for the _NUMBER_ presidential nomination Trump will host a technology summit on Wednesday at Trump Tower in New York City with top industry leaders, his transition team said, although it did not name any invited executives. * Those invited include representatives from Alphabet Inc, Apple Inc, Facebook Inc, Microsoft Corp, Intel Corp, Oracle Corp, the technology website Recode reported. * Amazon.com Inc CEO and founder Jeff Bezos was also invited and is likely to attend, Recode said, citing sources with knowledge of the situation. * Billionaire entrepreneur and Tesla Motors Inc CEO Elon Musk, the Wall Street Journal separately reported.

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For months, a debate has raged: Is _NUMBER_ hopeful Marco Rubio a robot, or isn't he? Thursday's GOP debate might prove once and for all that we were wrong about Rubio. It's unclear what happened maybe someone upgraded his operating system or maybe, just maybe, he is a flesh-and-blood person. But whatever he is, the Florida Senator wiped the floor with The Donald in a must-see catfight.It's unclear what got into Rubio. Maybe someone installed Windows _NUMBER_. Maybe he got a good night's rest for once. Perhaps one of his supporters shared their crack pipe. We ll never know. In any case, Rubio was on fire during a surprisingly animated catfight with the billionaire bankruptcy expert .During a discussion regarding Trump's promised Wall that will now be _NUMBER_ feet taller thanks to a brilliant f*ck you from former President of Mexico, Vicente Fox, Rubio unleashed his inner something: If he builds his wall like he built Trump Tower, he will be using illegal immigrant labor to do it. After the two rambled simultaneously for a while, Rubio's CPU kicked into overdrive, he dropped the hammer: Here's a guy who inherited _NUMBER_ million dollars. If he hadn't inherited _CUR_200 million, you know where he d be right now? Selling watches in Midtown. We won't spoil the rest of it for you. This is one of those things that you have to see for yourself, which you can do below:(function );Trump Gets WRECKED For American Jobs HypocrisyDonald Trump got destroyed at the _TAG_ by RoboRubio over this looks like somebody on Rubio's campaign finally updated him to Windows _NUMBER_.Posted by Americans Against The Republican Party on Thursday, February _NUMBER_, 2016Featured image via screen capture

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Meanwhile, in virtually every media outlet across America, Trump Trump Trump and Russia Russia Russia!Evidence shows that John Roberts, chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, was hacked by a Deep State surveillance operation overseen by Obama administration CIA director John Brennan and Obama director of national intelligence James Clapper.Roberts, the Bush appointee who made the decisive vote to uphold the constitutionality of Obamacare before the _NUMBER_ election, was allegedly the victim of the'same Deep State surveillance program that spied on President Donald Trump.Tapes released by Federal Judge G. Murray Snow preserved on a Whistleblower Soundcloud page show real estate billionaire Timothy Blixseth explaining Brennan and Clapper's surveillance program to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and detective Mike Zullo. The existence of this surveillance program has been corroborated by Wikileaks Vault _NUMBER_ release and by the public comments of former CIA and NSA contractor Dennis Montgomery, who says he worked on the program for Brennan and Clapper.Montgomery has gone public with his claims exposing how the program was used to spy on President Donald Trump when he was a private citizen. Montgomery has gained immunity and desperately wants House Intelligence Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes or other lawmakers to call him to testify about what he knows.On the explosive tapes, Blixseth walks Arpaio and Zullo through the details of the program on a computer screen. At one point, the three begin pulling up specific names of targeted individuals.LISTEN TO TAPES You know who that guy is? That's the head of the FISA court they hacked into, Reggie Walton, Blixseth tells the investigators. John Roberts, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, was hacked, Blixseth tells Arpaio and Zullo.Insiders have always been skeptical of Roberts motives for siding with President Obama on the _NUMBER_ Obamacare case. While there's still no available evidence that Roberts was blackmailed, the allegation that he was hacked by Obama officials provides some more context into the justice's controversial career.As Big League Politics reported, former FBI director James Comey seized and buried volumes of information that demonstrated this wide-ranging government surveillance operation targeting Donald Trump before he became president.For entire story: Big League Politics

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Malaysia has arrested seven Philippine men suspected of involvement in activities of the Abu Sayyaf militant group, police said on Thursday, as concern grows in Southeast Asia over the possible expansion of militant Islamist activity. The Abu Sayyaf, whose members have pledged loyalty to Islamic State, is notorious for bombings, beheadings, extortions and kidnap-for-ransom activities in the Philippines volatile south. The men worked as security guards for private companies in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, and the surrounding state of Selangor, Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun said. One suspect, a _NUMBER_-year-old, was an Abu Sayyaf group member involved in clashes with the military and kidnapping of hostages in the southern Philippines, he said in a statement. An extremist faction of the Abu Sayyaf helped seize large parts of Marawi city in the southern Philippines in May, leading to a siege that has killed about _NUMBER_ militants and _NUMBER_ soldiers. Reuters could not reach the men to seek comment as they are in custody. It was not immediately clear if they have lawyers to represent them. Malaysian police said their arrests were based on information received after authorities thwarted a plan by an Abu Sayyaf member to stage an attack at the closing ceremony of the Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur last month. All seven men arrived in Malaysia in September _NUMBER_ through the town of Sandakan in the state of Sabah on Borneo island, off the southern coast of the Philippines, before traveling to Kuala Lumpur on forged documents, Mohamad Fuzi said. Since _NUMBER_, Muslim-majority Malaysia has detained more than _NUMBER_ people with suspected links to Islamic State. This year, Malaysia has arrested _NUMBER_ foreigners classified as foreign terrorist fighters, Mohamad Fuzi added. Governments in Southeast Asia have been worried over the possible expansion of Islamic State as the group loses ground in the Middle East.

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Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday named Patrick Chinamasa acting finance minister until a new cabinet has been appointed, the chief secretary to the president and cabinet said in a statement. Chinamasa was a former finance minister under Robert Mugabe's government but was moved to a newly created ministry of cyber security during a reshuffle last month.

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The city's first transgender police officer was kept out of an event at the San Diego LGBT Community Center because she was wearing her uniform.The Transgender Day of Awareness, an annual event to honor those who lost their lives to anti-transgender violence, was held Nov. _NUMBER_ in the Hillcrest neighborhood. Officer Christine Garcia, who transitioned last year, helped plan the event and was part of the Police Department security detail that watched over a commemorative march down University Avenue. After the march, when Garcia tried to enter the event as a member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community, she was asked to leave because her uniform could upset others in attendance. When leaders at the center learned what had happened, they apologized to Garcia and San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman. We do not wish to ever make any community member feel unwelcome these officers are valued members of our community, Delores Jacobs, chief executive officer of the LGBT center, said in a statement. Jacobs said the occurrence was a misunderstanding of the center's existing policy of inclusion, which seeks to acknowledge the concerns that members of the community may have without excluding others. Leaders have reviewed the policy with its staff since the event. While we need to support those that are uncomfortable and honor their reactions to valid and understandable difficult previous experiences, we also need to explain'that our LGBTQ San Diego police liaisons are a valued part of our community, Jacobs wrote. Longtime LGBTQ activist, City Commissioner Nicole Murray-Ramirez, said the incident was an outrage. Any officer, be they gay or straight, should be welcomed into our community center in uniform, he'said. They protect our community and neighborhoods and make San Diego a better place.Read more: San Diego Tribune

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Last night President Donald Trump caved into the Pentagon, the political left, the Neoconservative pro-war lobby and mainstream media pressure to act after the release of YouTube videos produced by the US and UK-funded NGO the White Helmets of an alleged chemical weapons attack by the Syrian Airforce in the al Qaeda stronghold of Idlib in Syria. Following the US missile strike, Al Qaeda leaders in Syria have hailed the move by Trump, expressing their gratitude for the US President's knee-jerk military action.Al Qaeda and ISIS supporters Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey have also expressed thanks to Trump for helping to degrade the Syrian military who have been fighting and winning against al Qaeda in Syria, ISIS and a host of other Gulf-sponsored terrorist groups operating in Syria.Salafist Jihadist group Ahrar al-Sham welcoming the'strikes. Thanks America. _URL_ Ali April _NUMBER_, 2017Trump's strike on Syria also helped ISIS who have been losing to the Syrian Army recently in the area of Homs and Palmyra.The Guardian confirms: Tonight I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched.It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the'spread and use of deadly chemical weapons.There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the chemical weapons convention, and ignored the urging of the UN security council.Years of previous attempts at changing Assad's behaviour have all failed and failed very dramatically. There was an angry response in Russia, where the Kremlin warned that the'strikes would cause significant damage to US-Russia ties .NOTE: Tillerson has now gone so far as to blame Russia for allowing Syria to mount this attack They would act as the guarantor that these weapons would no longer be present in Syria. Clearly Russia has failed in its responsibility to deliver on that commitment from _NUMBER_. Either Russia has been complicit or Russia has been simply incompetent in its ability to deliver on its end of that agreement. SEE ALSO: Reviving the Chemical Weapons Lie: New US-UK Calls for Regime Change, Military Attack Against SyriaDespite the fact that no evidence, other than YouTube videos, that the Syrian government launched a chemical airstrikes in Idlib, the US government and the mainstream media are ignoring multiple evidential reports of Rebels holding and using chemical weapons in Syria.What was these Saudi dangerous chemicals doing in Qaeda depos in E Aleppo last year?! Let's ask CNN or BBC!! _URL_ Fares Shehabi April _NUMBER_, 2017Three years ago the'same chemical rebels bombed the Akrama school in Homs! _NUMBER_ kids were killed. No Nato barking at the UN! Hypocrisy! _URL_ Fares Shehabi April _NUMBER_, 2017STAY TUNED FOR UPDATESREAD MORE SYRIA NEWS AT: 21st Century Wire Syria FilesSUPPORT OUR WORK BY SUBSCRIBING & BECOMING A MEMBER _USER_.TV

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From Damascus to Doha, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has been showing up in unexpected places, a sign of the military's growing influence under Vladimir Putin. In the past few months, at times wearing his desert military uniform, Shoigu has held talks with Syria's president in Damascus, met Israel's prime minister in Jerusalem and been received by the Emir of Qatar in Doha. The defense ministry's forays into areas long regarded as the preserve of the foreign ministry are raising eyebrows in Russia, where strict protocol means ministers usually hold talks only with their direct foreign counterparts. The military is reaping political dividends from what the Kremlin saw as its big successes in Crimea, annexed from Ukraine after Russian soldiers in unmarked uniforms seized control of the peninsula in _NUMBER_, and Syria, where Russian forces helped turn the tide of war in President Bashar al-Assad's favor. That has translated into more top-table influence, said a long-serving Russian official who interacts with the defense ministry but declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media. The Kremlin and the defense ministry did not respond to detailed requests for comment for this article, but three sources who know both ministries well confirmed the trend. The foreign ministry, in a Dec.15 statement to Reuters, said it was baffled by what it called assumptions it likened to rumors and gossip. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the leading but not the sole government department involved in foreign policy making, Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman, said in the statement. Foreign policy making has long become a multi-faceted complex process involving many parts of government. One part of government seizing some kind of monopoly in international relations will not be beneficial and is hardly possible. The military's increased influence has, however, caused discontent among some Russian diplomats and unease among Western officials about the harder edge it is giving Russia's foreign policy. Foreign policy-making has become more bellicose and more opaque, and this makes new Russian military adventures more likely, some Western officials say. If you allow the defense ministry a bigger say in foreign policy it's going to be looking for trouble, said one, who declined to be named because of the subject's sensitivity. Shoigu's high profile has also revived talk of the long-time Putin loyalist as a possible presidential stand-in if Putin, who is seeking a fourth term in an election in March, had to step down suddenly and was unable to serve out a full six-year term. Shoigu, _NUMBER_, is not involved in party politics but opinion polls often put him among the top five most popular presidential possibles. His trust rating is also often second only to Putin, with whom he was pictured on a fishing trip this summer. The military's influence has ebbed and flowed in Russia and, before that, the Soviet Union. It had huge clout at the end of World War Two and in the 1950s after the death of Soviet leader Josef Stalin when Georgy Zhukov, a commander credited with a crucial role in defeating Nazi Germany, was defense minister. But the ignominious Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, completed in _NUMBER_, two wars Russia fought in Chechnya after the Soviet Union's collapse, and the sinking of the Kursk nuclear submarine with the loss of all _NUMBER_ people on board in _NUMBER_ left the military's prestige in tatters. Under Putin, a former KGB agent who as president is the armed forces commander-in-chief, its stock has risen. Defence spending has soared, the military has been deployed in Georgia, Ukraine and Syria and its actions are used to foster patriotism. The military's growing political and foreign policy muscle is most noticeable when it comes to Syria. After going to Damascus twice earlier this year for talks with Assad, Shoigu was at Putin's side this week when the president flew in to meet the Syrian leader. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has not visited Syria at all in _NUMBER_. Unusually for a defense minister, Shoigu has been involved in diplomatic efforts to bring peace to Syria. In this role he has spoken about the importance of a new draft constitution for the country, met the U.N. special envoy on Syria and had talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. A Western official who has direct contact with the foreign and defense ministries said the Russian military had real heft in Damascus of a kind the foreign ministry did not. There was strong mutual trust between the Russian military and senior people in Damascus, the official said, because the Russians saved their asses and the Syrians respect that. The foreign ministry retains strong Middle East experts and continues to play an important Syria role, helping run peace talks taking place in Kazakhstan. But Lavrov's own efforts to secure a U.S.-Russia deal on cooperating in Syria have shown how differently the foreign and defense ministries sometimes think. Lavrov is still seen as a formidable diplomat whom Putin trusts and respects. But Western officials say he is not summoned to all important meetings and is not informed about major military operations in Syria. The military's other foreign policy interventions include a role in Russia's alleged interference in last year's U.S. presidential election, U.S. intelligence agencies say. They say the GRU, Russia's military foreign intelligence agency, hacked email accounts belonging to Democratic Party officials and politicians, and organized their leaking to the media to try to sway public opinion against Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump's main rival. The Kremlin denies the allegations. Other policy interventions included a news briefing in December _NUMBER_ at which the defense ministry said it had proof that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his family were benefiting from illegal smuggling of oil from Islamic State-held territory in Syria and Iraq. Erdogan said the allegations, made at a briefing held a week after a Turkish air force jet shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian-Turkish border, amounted to slander. The defense ministry's response to the incident was much sharper than that of Russian diplomats, part of a wide-ranging communications policy that has included frequent criticism of the U.S. State Department and Washington's foreign policy. Other areas of interest for the defense ministry have included Egypt, Sudan and Libya. Shoigu was involved in talks between Putin and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in Moscow last month and the ministry hosted Khalifa Haftar, Eastern Libya's dominant military figure, aboard its sole aircraft carrier in January. During the visit, Haftar spoke to Shoigu via video link about fighting terrorism in the Middle East. One Western official told Reuters such incidents were fuelling fears that Russia plans to expand its footprint beyond Syria, where it has an air base and a naval facility, to centers such as Yemen, Sudan or Afghanistan. The military's influence in domestic policy-making has expanded too, Russian analysts and Western officials say, with Putin seeking its views on everything from the digital economy to food security. That is in part because Putin, since the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, has altered the way he takes decisions and widened the scope of what the Security Council, which he chairs, discusses to include many domestic policy questions. At a time when there's a feeling that Russia is increasingly surrounded by enemies, Putin is consulting the intelligence services and the military more when he takes all decisions. He's meeting them all the time, said Tatyana Stanovaya, head of the analytical department at the Center for Political Technologies think tank. Stanovaya said that did not mean the military was initiating ideas, but that its opinions were taken into account far more by Putin now than in the past and that it now had an important voice on domestic policy areas.

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Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz snared his first endorsement from a Senate colleague on Thursday when Senator Mike Lee of Utah backed him for the party's nomination. "Ted doesn't believe you have to settle, Ted doesn't believe you should settle," Lee said at a Florida news conference ahead of Thursday's Republican debate in Miami. Cruz, who represents Texas, is known for antagonizing senators from his party. In _NUMBER_, he spent more than _NUMBER_ hours speaking on the Senate floor to protest the Affordable Care Act. Lee was among a handful of senators who helped Cruz during the protest. This article was funded in part by SAP. It was independently created by the Reuters editorial staff. SAP had no editorial involvement in its creation or production.

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A Fresno State University professor was recently caught on camera scrubbing pro-life message off of the'sidewalk and encouraging several of his students to do the'same.Here is Gregory Thatcher's profile on the Fresno State College website. We thought we d post it before they take it down. His contact information is listed below, if you'd like to have a respectful free speech discussion with him. The whole idea of free speech is that we have a free speech area on campus, kay? Professor Gregory Thatcher erroneously declares in a video recorded by the'school's Students for Life chapter. Free speech is free speech in the free speech area. It's a pretty simple concept, okay? This does not constitute a free speech area, okay? He and his students go on to argue that it is within their own First Amendment rights to actively remove the pro-life messages from campus, and in one instance Thatcher claims that since the pro-life group has permission to put it down he has permission to get rid of it. This is our part of free speech. Do you'disagree with our part of free speech? Thatcher asked while erasing one of the club's messages, after which he proclaimed that college campuses are not free speech areas. The Alliance Defending Freedom has since filed a lawsuit against Thatcher on behalf of the Students for Life chapter at Fresno State, arguing that his efforts to intimidate and harass members of the Student for Life chapter violated their fundamental right to free speech.***WARNING***The video you are about to see will make your blood boil. It's pretty hard to watch a full grown man employed by Fresno College sending female students out to do his dirty work. It's even harder to watch the way he aggressively approaches this young female pro-life student, while arrogantly explaining to her that he has the right to deny her free-speech in America Fresno State Students for Life received full permission to chalk pro-life messages near the library. Rather than countering with his own message, Dr. Thatcher took the illegal approach of censoring speech and inciting students to help in this, Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, remarked in a press release, claiming that no student should have to endure this kind of intimidation and harassment for simply expressing their views. For entire story: Campus Reform

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Republican U.S. Senators John McCain and Ben Sasse said on Wednesday they would vote against President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, because of his opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement. "Unfortunately, your confirmation process has failed to reassure us that you understand the North American Free Trade Agreement's positive economic benefits to our respective States and the nation as a whole," McCain and Sasse said in a letter to Lighthizer.

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This week, Donald Trump joined a collection of scientists, engineers, and astronauts to sign an executive order renewing the National Space Council. It was not exactly a meeting of the minds.Trump had a prepared speech but at several points veered wildly off script, leaving the people standing around him including renowned former astronaut and national hero Buzz Aldrin to squirm, grimace, and cringe at the'sheer stupidity of what was coming out of his mouth. Even worse, on the very same day Trump was holding the photo op, the last three members of the White House science office left the job. Trump hasn't bothered to staff the office with anyone else. Science is not exactly a priority of his.The awkward affair was caught by television cameras meant to record the event and Aldrin's pained expression quickly went viral.Buzz Aldrin thinking he would much rather live on the Moon right now _URL_ Paul Szoldra July _NUMBER_, 2017At the time, Trump was rambling about space a concept he apparently did not fully understand. And security is going to be a very big factor with respect to space and space exploration. At some point in the future, we're going to look back and say how did we do it without space? Those are words, sure, but what is he trying to say? Nobody in the room seemed to know.Making matters worse, near the end of the'signing, Aldrin cracked a joke that went so far over Trump's head it could have landed on the moon. As Trump'sat down to sign the order, Aldrin said to infinity and beyond! The reference to Toy Story's resident space ranger was missed on Trump who came out with this incredible word salad about the concept of infinity. This is infinity here. It could be infinity. We don't really don't know. But it could be. It has to be something but it could be infinity, right? Buzz Aldrin once decked a crackpot stalker who was harassing him by shouting that the moon landing had been faked. Now, he's forced to stand next to a man with just as many crackpot ideas and call him Mr. President. His face says it all.Featured image via Twitter

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Trump administration officials who were under pressure from the White House scrapped a study which found that refugees had brought in more government revenue overall than they had cost in benefits, the New York Times reports. The Trump administration has been unable to rationalize its move to reduce the number of refugees allowed into the United States next year, so it rejected a study by the Department of Health and Human Services which concluded that refugees brought in _CUR_63 billion more in government revenues over the past ten years than they cost.The New York Times reports:The draft report, which was obtained by The New York Times, contradicts a central argument made by advocates of deep cuts in refugee totals as President Trump faces an Oct. _NUMBER_ deadline to decide on an allowable number. The issue has sparked intense debate within his administration as opponents of the program, led by Mr. Trump's chief policy adviser, Stephen Miller, assert that continuing to welcome refugees is too costly and raises concerns about terrorism.Alt-Right leader Richard Spencer has claimed that he was a mentor of Stephen Miller's and said that his mentee is a white nationalist. Miller denied that affiliation with Spencer, but his actions prove that he's an extremist.The'study concluded that refugees contributed an estimated _CUR_269.1 billion in revenues to all levels of government between _NUMBER_ and _NUMBER_ via the payment of federal, state and local taxes. Overall, this report estimated that the net fiscal impact of refugees was positive over the _NUMBER_-year period, at _CUR_63 billion. The White House claims that the'study was politically motivated. This leak was delivered by someone with an ideological agenda, not someone looking at hard data, a White House spokesman said. The actual report pursuant to the presidential memorandum shows that refugees with few skills coming from war-torn countries take more government benefits from the Department of Health and Human Services than the average population, and are not a net benefit to the U.S. economy. According to two sources, Miller personally intervened to ensure that only the costs and not any fiscal benefit of the program were considered, so it appears that he intentionally left out a few major details.Trump has filled his administration with swamp-like creatures, including Steve Bannon, who once played a large role in the White House, and Stephen Miller who still occupies Trump's ear.Photo: Alex Wong via Getty images.

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The health of Bahrain's top Shi ite Muslim cleric has deteriorated, activists said on Monday, after months under virtual house arrest following a government decision to revoke his citizenship. Bahraini officials did not respond to a request for a comment on the reports about Ayatollah Isa Qassim's state of health. News about his condition has stoked tension in Bahrain as the Sunni Muslim-led monarchy pursues a crackdown on dissent by majority Shi ites that has included closing down two main political groupings and banning activists from travel or putting them on trial. Activists said Qassim, who is believed to be in his 70s, was suffering constant pain and excreting blood. Doctors who visited him on Sunday at his home in the village of Duraz, outside the capital Manama, have diagnosed him to be suffering from a groin hernia requiring emergency operation , according to the London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy . Such an operation carries a high mortality risk at Sheikh Isa Qassim's age. He also suffers high blood pressure, diabetes and a form of heart disease, BIRD added in a statement. Sheikh Maytham al-Salman, a prominent Bahraini interfaith activist, said the Manama government was responsible for Qassim's health as it controlled access to medical treatment. The international community must ensure Bahrain is pressured to ensure the safety of Sheikh Isa Qassim is protected, he added in comments published by BIRD. The Interior Ministry announced in June _NUMBER_ that Qassim's citizenship had been revoked, accusing him of trying to divide Bahraini society, encourage youths to violate the constitution and promote a sectarian environment in the Gulf Arab state. The decision sparked angry protests in Bahrain and drew sharp condemnation from regional Shi ite power Iran and statements of concern from the United States and Britain. In May, five people were killed when security forces raided Qassim's homevillage to disperse followers who had camped out outside his house, and arrested _NUMBER_ people, according to the interior ministry. Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet that helps secure the Gulf's oil-shipping lanes is based, crushed Arab Spring protests in _NUMBER_ led by Shi ites demanding a bigger share in running the country. But unrest has lingered on with occasional outbursts that are put down by force by the authorities.

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Only a few days ago, it seemed as if Donald Trump could not make a gaffe big enough to end his campaign. Then on Friday, audio of Trump from _NUMBER_ was released in which Trump makes violently misogynistic remarks regarding groping women. It's set his campaign into a tailspin and even his running mate, Mike Pence, is now calling out Trump.Pence made his remarks in a statement Saturday where he wrote: As a husband and father, I was offended by the words and actions described by Donald Trump in the eleven-year-old video released yesterday. I do not condone his remarks and cannot defend them. I am grateful that he has expressed remorse and apologized to the American people. We pray for his family and look forward to the opportunity he has to show what is in his heart when he goes before the nation tomorrow night. The beginning of Pence's statement is reminiscent of a viral video post made by Republican Senator Mike Lee made after hearing the audio. Except for the fact that Lee went a step further and pleaded with Trump to drop out of the race. Two other Republican Senators have called for Trump to drop out after hearing the audio. While the'statement from Pence is written in a manner that positions Trump along the lines as a sinner who might still be capable of redemption, the word from insiders is that Pence is absolutely furious with Trump. WaPo national political correspondent, Philip Rucker, recently tweeted that a source close to Trump'said that Pence is absolutely apoplectic about Trump's groping comments. A source close to Trump camp told me Pence and his team are absolutely apoplectic, "melting down and "inconsolable. Philip Rucker October _NUMBER_, 2016This statement from Pence provides more evidence that Trump's campaign is in crisis. Pence's position as Trump's wing-man is clear. Pence is supposed to and has been making the case for Trump to socially conservative Christian Republicans, an unfortunate position to be in at the present moment. There is no way to make a man who caused the entire nation to hear the word pussy on repeat in the news cycle be palatable to the moderate Christian right-wing. Featured image from Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

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Infowars Alex Jones is offering a _CUR_1,000 reward for anyone who can get on TV with his Bill Clinton RAPE t-shirt clearly displayed for viewers to see. If they can display a Bill Clinton Is A Rapist T-shirt and clearly proclaim, Bill Clinton is a racist they will get a _CUR_5,000 reward. He plans to spend up to _CUR_100,000 to get this important message out to America. Why is it important? It's important because not only is Bill a sexual predator who has no business entering our White House ever again, Hillary has been acting as his enabler, threatening and intimidating victims of Bill's for years The mainstream media has declared war on Donald Trump, while providing cover fro Hillary and her multiple crimes and offenses. We re in a war with a collective media and a radical leftist government. Thank goodness for people like Alex Jones who aren't afraid to get into the trenches and pass along a message that the mainstream media will never expose.

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Oh the irony of a terror attack by Muslims taking place on American soil on the heels of Obama's return from phony Climate Change Summit in Paris ISIS has taken responsibility for the horrifying attacks in Paris that have left more than _NUMBER_ dead and hundreds wounded. French President Francois Hollande is calling for the closure of his country's borders. President Barack Obama didn't condemn Islamic radicals for the attacks, but he did call them an outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians and an attack on all of humanity and the universal values we share. Friday's deadly attacks thwarted Al Gore's long-planned Paris webcast and star-studded concert to promote climate change awareness. Out of solidarity with the French people and the City of Paris, we have decided to suspend our broadcast of _NUMBER_ Hours of Reality and Live Earth, the group said in an online statement.Coincidentally, in July _NUMBER_, Al Gore called climate change a more dangerous threat than terrorism. I think that the climate crisis is, by far, the most serious threat we have ever faced, Gore told ABC News.Below are _NUMBER_ times Obama or his administration officials claimed climate change a greater threat than radical Islamic terrorism.In a January _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_ presidential campaign speech on Iraq and Afghanistan, Barack Obama said the immediate danger of oil-backed terrorism is eclipsed only by the long-term threat from climate change, which will lead to devastating weather patterns, terrible storms, drought, and famine. That means people competing for food and water in the next fifty years in the very places that have known horrific violence in the last fifty: Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Most disastrously, that could mean destructive storms on our shores, and the disappearance of our coastline. On January _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_, Obama delivered remarks at the White House on the dangers of climate change:These urgent dangers to our national and economic security are compounded by the long-term threat of climate change, which, if left unchecked, could result in violent conflict, terrible storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.In May _NUMBER_, the Obama White House released it's national security strategy, which said, At home and abroad, we are taking concerted action to confront the dangers posed by climate change and to strengthen our energy security. The document declared climate change an urgent and growing threat to our national security. On September _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_, during his Democratic National Convention speech, Obama said, Yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet, because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They are a threat to our children's future.On January _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_, in an address before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State John Kerry declared climate change among the top threats facing the United States.February _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_, Secretary of State John Kerry addressed students in Indonesia and said that global warming is now perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction. In a June _NUMBER_ interview, Obama said:When you start seeing how these shifts can displace people entire countries can be finding themselves unable to feed themselves and the potential incidence of conflict that arises out of that that gets your attention. There's a reason why the quadrennial defense review which the'secretary of defense and the Joints Chiefs of Staff work on identified climate change as one of our most significant national security problems. It's not just the actual disasters that might arise, it is the accumulating stresses that are placed on a lot of different countries and the possibility of war, conflict, refugees, displacement that arise from a changing climate.During a September _NUMBER_ meeting with foreign ministers, Secretary of State John Kerry called Climate change a threat as urgent as ISIS.On September _NUMBER_ _NUMBER_, the Obama USDA launched its Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture. In a memo posted by Secretary of State John Kerry, among other Obama administration officials, read, From India to the United States, climate change poses drastic risks to every facet of our lives. On October _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_, in an address to the Washington Ideas Forum, Obama's Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said:From my perspective, within the portfolio that I have responsibility for security of this country climate change presents security issues for us. There's a security dynamic to that. As the oceans increase, it will affect our bases. It will affect islands. It will affect security across the world. Just from my narrow perspective, what I have responsibility for, that's happening now.During his _NUMBER_ State of the Union address, Obama said, No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change. In a February _NUMBER_ address to college students in Iowa, Vice President Joe Biden said Global warming is the greatest threat to your generation of anything at all, across the board. On February _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_, in an interview with Vox, Obama said he absolutely believes that the media sometimes overstates the level of alarm people should have about terrorism as opposed to climate change. On February _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_, when asked to confirm if this means Obama believes the threat of climate change is greater than the threat of terrorism, Earnest responded, The point the president is making is that there are many more people on an annual basis who have to confront the impact, the direct impact on their lives, of climate change, or on the'spread of a disease, than on terrorism. During his April _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_ weekly address on climate change, Obama said, Wednesday is Earth Day, a day to appreciate and protect this precious planet we call home. And today, there's no greater threat to our planet than climate change. In May _NUMBER_, the White House released a _NUMBER_-page National Climate Assessment that declared climate change among the world's foremost threats.May _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_ President Obama said in his keynote address to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy graduates: Climate change, and especially rising seas, is a threat to our homeland security, our economic infrastructure, the'safety and health of the American people. On July _NUMBER_ _NUMBER_, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy and Obama's U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Kenneth F. Hackett wrote in a joint blog post on the EPA website, praising Pope Francis for dedicating his second encyclical to urging swift action on global warming.McCarthy and Hackett wrote:As public servants working in both domestic policy and diplomacy, we understand the urgent need for global action. Climate impacts like extreme droughts, floods, fires, heat waves, and storms threaten people in every country and those who have the least suffer the most. No matter your beliefs or political views, we are all compelled to act on climate change to protect our health, our planet, and our fellow human beings.An Obama Defense Department report released on July _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_ says climate change puts U.S. security at risk and threatens the global order:The report reinforces the fact that global climate change will have wide-ranging implications for U.S. national security interests over the foreseeable future because it will aggravate existing problems such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership, and weak political institutions that threaten domestic stability in a number of countries.The report finds that climate change is a security risk because it degrades living conditions, human security, and the ability of governments to meet the basic needs of their populations. Communities and states that are already fragile and have limited resources are significantly more vulnerable to disruption and far less likely to respond effectively and be resilient to new challenges.In his August _NUMBER_, _NUMBER_ weekly address, Obama said This is all real. This is happening to our fellow Americans right now, he'said. Think about that. If another country threatened to wipe out an American'town, we d do everything in our power to protect ourselves. Climate change poses the'same threat, right now. In a September address at the United Nations Climate Summit Obama said, For all the immediate challenges that we gather to address this week terrorism, instability, inequality, disease there's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate. During a September _NUMBER_ address at the United Nations, President Obama said that We can roll back the pollution that we put in our skies, adding that No country can escape the ravages of climate change. Via: Breitbart News

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Former Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates said on Monday she warned the White House in January that then-national security adviser Michael Flynn had been compromised and could have been vulnerable to blackmail by Russia. Yates testified at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing that focused primarily on Flynn, and did not shed much light on other aspects of investigations of allegations that Russia meddled in the _NUMBER_ U.S. election and whether there was collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign and Moscow. Yates repeatedly declined to discuss details of the investigation in a public forum. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who also testified, said he stood by past assertions that he had not seen evidence of such collusion but also declined to comment on classified matters. Yates briefly led the U.S. Justice Department until Trump fired her on Jan. _NUMBER_ for declining to defend his travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries. She told White House counsel Don McGahn on Jan. _NUMBER_, less than a week into Trump's presidency, that Flynn had not been telling the truth about his contacts with Russia's ambassador to Washington. Making her first public statements about the issue, Yates said she feared Moscow could try to blackmail Flynn because it also knew he had not been truthful about conversations he had with Ambassador Sergei Kislyak about U.S. sanctions on Russia. Flynn, a retired general once seen as a potential Trump vice president, has emerged as a central figure in the Russian probes. Russia has repeatedly denied any meddling in the election and the Trump administration denies allegations of collusion with Russia. Yates told the hearing she had been concerned that "the national security adviser essentially could be blackmailed by the Russians." "Logic would tell you that you don't want the national security adviser to be in a position where the Russians have leverage over him," she said. Trump, who continued to praise Flynn, waited _NUMBER_ days after Yates' warning before Flynn's forced resignation for failing to disclose the content of his talks with Kislyak and then misleading Vice President Mike Pence about the conversations. Several Democratic senators questioned Trump's delay. Yates said that in her meetings, McGahn "demonstrated that he understood this was serious. .. If nothing was done, certainly that would be concerning." During that section of the hearing, Clapper described as accurate a report in the Guardian newspaper that British intelligence officials became aware in late _NUMBER_ about suspicious interactions between Trump advisers and Russian agents, and that the information was passed on to U.S. intelligence agencies. "Yes, it is , and it's also quite sensitive," Clapper said. Yates was a holdover from the administration of President Barack Obama. Obama had warned Trump, then president-elect, not to give the post of national security adviser in his administration to Flynn just after the Republican's surprise victory in the Nov. _NUMBER_ election, a former Obama aide said. The warning, first reported by NBC News, came up during a discussion of White House personnel. White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters Obama had communicated concerns about Flynn. It "shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, given that General Flynn had worked for President Obama, was an outspoken critic of President Obama's shortcomings," Spicer said. Obama pushed Flynn out in _NUMBER_ from his job as director of the military's Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA. Congressional committees began investigating after U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered hacking of Democratic political groups to try to sway the election toward Trump. The main investigations are being conducted by congressional Intelligence Committees, although Democrats have clamored for a special prosecutor or independent committee. They argue that congressional committees are too partisan to conduct credible probes. After Monday's hearing, Trump took to Twitter to bash the media and deny any collusion. "Director Clapper reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knowsthere is 'no evidence' of collusion w/ Russia and Trump," he said. And in another tweet, the president seemed to denounce the hearings. "The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax, when will this taxpayer funded charade end?" he asked. FBI Director James Comey testified in the House on March _NUMBER_ that the agency was investigating potential links between Trump associates and Moscow's attempts to tilt the election. Trump had also used Twitter before the hearing to insinuate that Yates had leaked information on Flynn to the media. Yates and Clapper both swore under oath that they had never leaked classified information. Questioning on Monday often broke along party lines. Some Republicans veered away from Russia to focus on issues such as whether the Obama administration had improperly revealed the names of Trump associates contained in surveillance records. Senator John Cornyn, the No. _NUMBER_ Republican in the Senate, was one of a handful who grilled Yates about her objections to Trump's travel ban. Trump fired Yates after she defied the White House on the travel ban, a policy that Trump said would help protect Americans from Islamist militants.

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The head of Zimbabwe's military looks set to be appointed vice president as the government said on Monday he would retire pending redeployment in what is seen as a reward for leading a de facto coup last month that ended Robert Mugabe's _NUMBER_-year rule and brought Emmerson Mnangagwa to power. Mnangagwa has said he will fill the two vice presidential posts in the next few days and Constantino Chiwenga is the top contender in a reflection of the army's consolidation of power since it turned against the _NUMBER_-year-old Mugabe. Mnangagwa has appointed several senior military officers to his cabinet and the ruling party's executive Politburo since he was sworn in as president on Nov. _NUMBER_. Army Commander Phillip Sibanda will succeed Chiwenga as defense forces chief, a government statement said. The appointment of Chiwenga..., which I think is inevitable, will be a confirmation that the military is a salient factor in the politics of the country, said Eldred Masunungure, a political analyst at the University of Zimbabwe. It has always exercised its influence in a covert manner but now it's quite overt and this will further consolidate that coalition between the military and the ruling political elite. Mnangagwa appointed Major General Edzai Chimonyo, Zimbabwe's ambassador to Tanzania, to succeed Sibanda as army commander and promoted a number of other senior army officers to major general. The government also announced the retirement of police chief Augustine Chihuri, an unpopular Mugabe loyalist who it said has been on leave since Dec. _NUMBER_. Chihuri was accused by rights groups of presiding over crackdowns on dissent and popular protest in the _NUMBER_ months before Mugabe was overthrown. Zimbabwe's economy collapsed in the latter half of Mugabe's rule, especially after violent farm seizures of thousands of white-owned commercial farms. Monday's announcements came hours after army chiefs declared an end to their military intervention and handed back policing to civilian police. Normalcy has now returned to our country. It is for this reason that ... we announce the end of Operation Restore Legacy today, army chief Sibanda said, referring to the name of the intervention which the army said targeted criminals in Mugabe and his wife Grace's entourage. Civic groups have been urging the soldiers to leave the streets since Mnangagwa was sworn in to replace Mugabe as president of the southern African country on Nov. _NUMBER_. Mnangagwa is under pressure to revive the economy ahead of elections due next year which he said last Friday may be held sooner than expected. The elections are due by July _NUMBER_ but some say they may be as early as March.