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    WikiLeaks Issues Response
    To CIA Director Mike Pompeo


    by by Tyler Durden
    Apr 14, 2017 7:19 PM


    The feud between Julian Assange
    and the CIA is growing
    .
    After being blasted by new CIA Director Mike Pompeo yesterday as a “hostile non-state intelligence service,” late on Thursday Julian Assange responded on Twitter by trolling the CIA, the “state non-intelligence agency,” over its own roles in producing “al-Qaeda, ISIS, Iraq, Iran and Pinochet.”

    So, one day later, having let tempers cool, Julian Assange – who one month ago released the contents of its “Vault7” exposing the CIA’s hacking exploits around the world in the “largest ever publication of confidential CIA documents” – issued moments ago the following statement via the Wikileaks twitter account responding to Mike Pompeo (highlights ours).
    In his first speech in office, CIA Director Mike Pompeo rather than focusing on China, North Korea, or the rise of extremism, chose to announce an offensive against WikiLeaks and other publishers. In doing so Director Pompeo characterized WikiLeaks as a “non-state intelligence service”. This absurd definition would have all serious media organizations (with the exception of state owned media) transformed into ‘non-state intelligence services’- with the explicitly stated goal of stripping constitutional protections for publishers.

    History shows the danger of allowing the CIA or any intelligence agency, whose very modus operandi includes misdirection and lying, to be the sole arbiter of what is true or what is prudent. Otherwise every day might see a repeat of the many foolish CIA actions which have led to death, displacement, dictatorship and terrorism.

    All serious media organizations are in the business of obtaining information by encouraging sources to step forward. The key difference between media and intelligence is that the media is in the business of publishing what it discovers to a wide audience. WikiLeaks is an award winning media organization that is well known for the accuracy and volume of its publications and its millions of readers.

    Unsurprisingly it is the strength of WikiLeaks’ publications relating to the CIA’s illegal activities, including its attacks on France’s presidential candidates and political parties and its attempts to infect its allies and consumer products with viruses that has led to Director Pompeo’s claims that its editor Julian Assange “has no First Amendment protections“. These claims are dangerous and should be critically examined.

    Director Pompeo’s statement sought not only to threaten Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks, but to definitively subvert the First Amendment and fundamental notions that are intrinsic to American democracy. The First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting free speech and the press; it is not only a right for the publisher. It is a limitation on the executive designed to check authoritarianism and guarantee the public knowledge and debate which is necessary to preserve the democratic ideals on which the idea of America was built.

    As for the CIA’s attempts to demonize a publisher as a “fraud” and a “coward”-the public can judge what is fraudulent about an award winning decade-long record for publishing the truth and what is cowardly about WikiLeaks standing up to years of authoritarian bullying. Director Pompeo lacks irony when he suggests “WikiLeaks should focus its fire on autocratic regimes” while simultaneously calling for a crackdown on free speech. Director Pompeo’s has attempted to turn both the facts and the First Amendment on its head and finds himself in the company of Erdogan of Turkey (57,934 documents published by WikiLeaks), Assad of Syria (2.3 million documents) and the Saudi dictatorship (122,609 documents), to name but a few autocratic regimes that have attempted, and failed, to censor WikiLeaks.

    Director Pompeo’s speech attempting to stifle speech only serves to underscore why WikiLeaks’ publications are necessary. WikiLeaks will continue to publish true, newsworthy information that contributes to the public debate.

    America’s Founders, with brilliant foresight, understood the absolute necessity for preservation of a free press to foster critical debate about the actions of the government. The alternative is tyranny.
    While it remains unclear how far the ongoing feud between Wikileaks and the CIA will escalate, a bigger problem for Assange – who recently had a close call with losing his place of exile at the Ecuadorian embassy after the recent presidential election in Ecuador was nearly won by a challenger who had vow to evict the Australian – is that the CIA and Donald Trump appear to have unburned all bridges.


    As Bloomberg reported on Friday, “not long ago Donald Trump was describing U.S. “intelligence” agencies in mocking quote marks and comparing them to Nazi Germany for damaging leaks about him. As a presidential candidate, word was he barely wanted to sit still for top-secret briefings. Not anymore, according to Trump’s CIA director.
    Mike Pompeo paints a picture of his boss as an enthusiastic consumer of intelligence briefings, including top-secret assessments of threats posed by Syria, Russia and North Korea.

    In his first public speech since becoming head of the Central Intelligence Agency, the former Republican House member called the Trump administration’s relationship with the intelligence community “fantastic.” That produced enough surprised twitters that he told his audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, “Don’t laugh. I mean that.”

    “They are voracious consumers of the product we develop,” Pompeo, who backed Trump’s presidential campaign last year, said of the president and his top advisers. “We get lots of hard questions about the product and how we developed it and how we sourced it and are we sure.”
    The turning point, as was the case with many other Trump policy objectives, appears to have been the decision to launch airstrikes on Syria.
    Trump initially rejected the intelligence agencies’ findings that Russia hacked into Democratic emails and leaked them last year to harm Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign and help him win. He continues to dismiss as “fake news” questions about whether anyone close to him collaborated with Russia, and he continues to assert without evidence that former President Barack Obama had Trump Tower under surveillance and leaked damaging information. But Trump’s decision last week to bomb a government airbase in Syria may have brought Trump closer to the intelligence community that now reports to him.

    The CIA and the other U.S. intelligence agencies came up with some “hypotheses” about who was responsible for a deadly chemical attack on civilians and, “in relatively short order,” gave Trump “a high-confidence assessment” that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was to blame, Pompeo said. “We were good and fast,” Pompeo said. But “I can assure you that we were challenged by the president and his team,” he said. “We wanted to make sure that we had it right and there’s not much like when the president looks at you and says, ‘Pompeo, are you sure?”

    The Syria operation is the type of decision that builds bonds of trust between a president and the intelligence agencies he must depend on, said Juan Zarate, a former adviser in the Bush and Obama administrations, who was on Trump’s transition team for the Office of Director of National Intelligence. “All of that requires some faith and confidence in the intelligence being presented to him and the leadership that’s representing those views,” Zarate said in an interview. “There have been moments of maturation — that was a really important one. We’ll see what the trajectory brings, but we’ll look back and say that was an important episode.”
    All of which is clearly bad news for Assange who over the past few days has lost one of his key allies in his quest to regain his freedom: recall that it was in January that Trump tweeted “Julian Assange said “a 14 year old could have hacked Podesta” – why was DNC so careless? Also said Russians did not give him the info!”

    Four months later, at least based on Pompeo’s statement, Trump’s favorable view of Assange appears to be over, in the process making Assange’s future, whether in the London embassy or elsewhere, increasingly unknown, especially after making the “black list” of none other than the head of the CIA, an agency perhaps best known for making its most “problem” adversaries quietly disappear.

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    From Paul Craig Roberts website:
    John W. Whitehead Explains the Reason
    the Military/Security Complex had
    to Prevail over President Trump:
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    Beware the Dogs of War:
    Is the American Empire
    on the Verge of Collapse?


    By John W. Whitehead
    April 15/16, 2017
    "Information Clearing House"


    "Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes… known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." — James Madison
    Waging endless wars abroad (in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and now Syria) isn’t making America—or the rest of the world—any safer, it’s certainly not making America great again, and it’s undeniably digging the U.S. deeper into debt.

    In fact, it’s a wonder the economy hasn’t collapsed yet.

    Indeed, even if we were to put an end to all of the government’s military meddling and bring all of the troops home today, it would take decades to pay down the price of these wars and get the government’s creditors off our backs. Even then, government spending would have to be slashed dramatically and taxes raised.

    You do the math.

    April 15/16, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - Waging endless wars abroad (in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and now Syria) isn’t making America—or the rest of the world—any safer, it’s certainly not making America great again, and it’s undeniably digging the U.S. deeper into debt.

    In fact, it’s a wonder the economy hasn’t collapsed yet.

    Indeed, even if we were to put an end to all of the government’s military meddling and bring all of the troops home today, it would take decades to pay down the price of these wars and get the government’s creditors off our backs. Even then, government spending would have to be slashed dramatically and taxes raised.

    You do the math.

    The government is $19 trillion in debt: War spending has ratcheted up the nation’s debt. The debt has now exceeded a staggering $19 trillion and is growing at an alarming rate of $35 million/hour and $2 billion every 24 hours. Yet while defense contractors are getting richer than their wildest dreams, we’re in hock to foreign nations such as Japan and China (our two largest foreign holders at $1.13 trillion and $1.12 trillion respectively).

    The Pentagon’s annual budget consumes almost 100% of individual income tax revenue. If there is any absolute maxim by which the federal government seems to operate, it is that the American taxpayer always gets ripped off, especially when it comes to paying the tab for America’s attempts to police the globe. Having been co-opted by greedy defense contractors, corrupt politicians and incompetent government officials, America’s expanding military empire is bleeding the country dry at a rate of more than $57 million per hour.

    The government has spent $4.8 trillion on wars abroad since 9/11, with $7.9 trillion in interest: That’s a tax burden of more than $16,000 per American. Almost a quarter of that debt was incurred as a result of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and Syria. For the past 16 years, these wars have been paid for almost entirely by borrowing money from foreign nations and the U.S. Treasury. As the Atlantic points out, we’re fighting terrorism with a credit card. According to the Watson Institute for Public Affairs at Brown University, interest payments on what we’ve already borrowed for these failed wars could total over $7.9 trillion by 2053.

    The government lost more than $160 billion to waste and fraud by the military and defense contractors: With paid contractors often outnumbering enlisted combat troops, the American war effort dubbed as the “coalition of the willing” has quickly evolved into the “coalition of the billing,” with American taxpayers forced to cough up billions of dollars for cash bribes, luxury bases, a highway to nowhere, faulty equipment, salaries for so-called “ghost soldiers,” and overpriced anything and everything associated with the war effort, including a $640 toilet seat and a $7600 coffee pot.

    Taxpayers are being forced to pay $1.4 million per hour to provide U.S. weapons to countries that can’t afford them. As Mother Jones reports, the Pentagon’s Foreign Military Finance program “opens the way for the US government to pay for weapons for other countries—only to ‘promote world peace,’ of course—using your tax dollars, which are then recycled into the hands of military-industrial-complex corporations.”

    The U.S. government spends more on wars (and military occupations) abroad every year than all 50 states combined spend on health, education, welfare, and safety. In fact, the U.S. spends more on its military than the eight highest-ranking nations with big defense budgets combined. The reach of America’s military empire includes close to 800 bases in as many as 160 countries, operated at a cost of more than $156 billion annually. As investigative journalist David Vine reports, “Even US military resorts and recreation areas in places like the Bavarian Alps and Seoul, South Korea, are bases of a kind. Worldwide, the military runs more than 170 golf courses.”

    Now President Trump wants to increase military spending by $54 billion. Promising “an historic increase in defense spending to rebuild the depleted military of the United States,” Trump has made it clear where his priorities lie, and it’s not with the American taxpayer. As The Nation reports, “On a planet where Americans account for 4.34 percent of the population, US military spending accounts for 37 percent of the global total.”

    Add in the cost of waging war in Syria (with or without congressional approval), and the burden on taxpayers soars to more than $11.5 million a day. Ironically, while presidential candidate Trump was vehemently opposed to the U.S. use of force in Syria, as well as harboring Syrian refugees within the U.S., he had no problem retaliating against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on behalf of Syrian children killed in a chemical attack. The cost of launching a 59 Tomahawk missile-strike against Syria? It’s estimated that the missiles alone cost $60 million. Mind you, this is the same man, while campaigning for president, who warned that fighting Syria would signal the start of World War III against a united Syria, Russia and Iran. Already oil prices have started to climb as investors anticipate an extended conflict.

    Clearly, war has become a huge money-making venture, and the U.S. government, with its vast military empire, is one of its best buyers and sellers.

    Yet what most Americans—brainwashed into believing that patriotism means supporting the war machine—fail to recognize is that these ongoing wars have little to do with keeping the country safe and everything to do with enriching the military industrial complex at taxpayer expense.

    The rationale may keep changing for why American military forces are in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and now Syria. However, the one that remains constant is that those who run the government—including the current president—are feeding the appetite of the military industrial complex and fattening the bank accounts of its investors.

    Case in point: President Trump plans to “beef up” military spending while slashing funding for the environment, civil rights protections, the arts, minority-owned businesses, public broadcasting, Amtrak, rural airports and interstates.

    In other words, in order to fund this burgeoning military empire that polices the globe, the U.S. government is prepared to bankrupt the nation, jeopardize our servicemen and women, increase the chances of terrorism and blowback domestically, and push the nation that much closer to eventual collapse.

    Clearly, our national priorities are in desperate need of an overhauling.

    As Los Angeles Times reporter Steve Lopez rightly asks:
    Why throw money at defense when everything is falling down around us? Do we need to spend more money on our military (about $600 billion this year) than the next seven countries combined? Do we need 1.4 million active military personnel and 850,000 reserves when the enemy at the moment — ISIS — numbers in the low tens of thousands? If so, it seems there's something radically wrong with our strategy. Should 55% of the federal government's discretionary spending go to the military and only 3% to transportation when the toll in American lives is far greater from failing infrastructure than from terrorism? Does California need nearly as many active military bases (31, according to militarybases.com) as it has UC and state university campuses (33)? And does the state need more active duty military personnel (168,000, according to Governing magazine) than public elementary school teachers (139,000)?
    Obviously, there are much better uses for your taxpayer funds than trillions of dollars being wasted on war. The following are just a few ways those hard-earned dollars could be used:As long as “we the people” continue to allow the government to wage its costly, meaningless, endless wars abroad, the American homeland will continue to suffer: our roads will crumble, our bridges will fail, our schools will fall into disrepair, our drinking water will become undrinkable, our communities will destabilize, and crime will rise.

    Here’s the kicker, though: if the American economy collapses—and with it the last vestiges of our constitutional republic—it will be the government and its trillion-dollar war budgets that are to blame.

    Of course, the government has already anticipated this breakdown.

    That’s why the government has transformed America into a war zone, turned the nation into a surveillance state, and labelled “we the people” as enemy combatants.

    For years now, the government has worked with the military to prepare for widespread civil unrest brought about by “economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters.”

    Having spent more than half a century exporting war to foreign lands, profiting from war, and creating a national economy seemingly dependent on the spoils of war, the war hawks long ago turned their profit-driven appetites on us, bringing home the spoils of war—the military tanks, grenade launchers, Kevlar helmets, assault rifles, gas masks, ammunition, battering rams, night vision binoculars, etc.—and handing them over to local police, thereby turning America into a battlefield.

    This is how the police state wins and “we the people” lose.

    Eventually, however, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, all military empires fail.

    At the height of its power, even the mighty Roman Empire could not stare down a collapsing economy and a burgeoning military. Prolonged periods of war and false economic prosperity largely led to its demise. As historian Chalmers Johnson predicts:
    The fate of previous democratic empires suggests that such a conflict is unsustainable and will be resolved in one of two ways. Rome attempted to keep its empire and lost its democracy. Britain chose to remain democratic and in the process let go its empire. Intentionally or not, the people of the United States already are well embarked upon the course of non-democratic empire.
    This is the “unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex” that President Dwight Eisenhower warned us more than 50 years ago not to let endanger our liberties or democratic processes. Eisenhower, who served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, was alarmed by the rise of the profit-driven war machine that emerged following the war—one that, in order to perpetuate itself, would have to keep waging war.

    We failed to heed his warning.

    Yet as Eisenhower recognized, the consequences of allowing the military-industrial complex to wage war, exhaust our resources and dictate our national priorities are beyond grave:
    Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
    Wake up, America. There’s not much time left before we reach the zero hour.

    Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People (SelectBooks, 2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org.

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    ...and even more winning -

    H-1B Experts on Trump’s Order: ‘This Is What We Elected Him For’

    President Donald Trump is getting praise from experts on the H-1B foreign guest worker visa for his ‘Hire American’ Executive Order which calls for a review into the system’s abuse at the expense of American workers.

    Although the H-1B visa is only meant to be used by a U.S. company when there are no American workers with the skill-set needed for the job, critics argue the program is riddled with abuse and fraud, leaving Americans to sometimes train their cheaper, foreign replacements before being fired.

    Trump’s new executive order targeting abuse by U.S. companies, as Breitbart News reported, calls for the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Labor Department and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct a “full legal analysis” of all the problems negatively impacting American workers in the H-1B visa system.

    H-1B expert and attorney John Miano told Breitbart Texas that Trump’s move on the issue is one that is setting the administration on the right trajectory.

    “We’re going to want to see some follow-ups later on,” Miano said in an interview. “But you can’t criticize the president for taking action. This is what we elected him for.”

    Miano said the fact that Trump is mentioning the H-1B visa program, an issue that went unaddressed by at least the past two administrations, is “very big.”

    Likewise, Sara Blackwell, an attorney who represents Americans who’ve been fired because programs like the H-1B, applauded Trump’s move.

    “We hope it’s a beginning of a lot more. I’m hopeful,” Blackwell told Breitbart Texas. “But, I’m extremely happy that President Trump is talking about it and acknowledging there’s a huge problem.”

    The legal review by DOJ, the DOL and DHS will include tracking down abuses within the H-1B visa program where more than 85,000 Americans are either replaced or passed over for jobs by foreign nationals.

    Experts like NumberUSA’s Rosemary Jenks and the Center for Immigration Studies’ Mark Krikorian both said the multi-agency legal review approach by the Trump Administration is the right way to go about ending the mass discrimination against American workers that currently takes place.

    “I do think it’s the right approach to take because [DOJ, Labor Dept. and DHS] have different roles to play,” Jenks told Breitbart Texas. “Abuse is handled by the Labor Department. DHS is the agency that’s setting requirements for admission. And DOJ is prosecuting the abusers. This is definitely the right approach. I hope the administration will continue talking to outside groups.”

    “Clearly, by indicating that all three departments have to do a review of the program, the White House is making clear they understand the process,” Krikorian told Breitbart Texas. “The initial clearinghouse is the Department of Labor. A lot of the cheap labor aspects can be addressed by the Labor Department’s regulations and statutes.”

    Krikorian said he was glad to see the Trump Administration calling for a broad review into the H-1B visa system, rather than taking smaller, administrative actions.

    “At the same time, it’s encouraging that they didn’t just try to change H-1B unilaterally, they understand there’s a lot of moving parts to it,” Krikorian said. “They know a lot of this has to be fixed by Congress.”

    Before the Executive Order, the Trump administration worried critics of the H-1B visa after not making any changes to the system before the application process began. For instance, the Trump Administration could have changed the H-1B system from its current state of handing out visas through a random lottery, switching it to a process where the highest-paying jobs are given priority.

    Krikorian, though, told Breitbart Texas that the lack of prior change to H-1B was mostly likely not politically driven, but rather the administration simply running out of time on the issue.

    Nonetheless, the new executive order has changed the outlook Americans impacted by the H-1B have on the Trump administration, Blackwell said.

    “Well the people who are affected by this and know this businesses model were extremely deflated when the H-1B application process started without changes,” Blackwell said. “Now, they’ve gone from hopeless to hopeful.”

    Last week, Breitbart Texas exclusively reported how Trump Senior Adviser Stephen Miller held a White House meeting on the H-1B visa issue with longtime critics like Blackwell and Howard University professor Ron Hira.

    Comment by Sam:

    I have worked in various projects that took me to several other countries in the world. In the few cases where I was required to get a work permit, I and the folks I was working with had to jump through all sorts of hoops to prove I was a specialist with unique qualifications that were essentially un-findable within their local population. What Trump is trying to do here is exactly what most other (if not almost ALL other countries do when a foreigner wants a job in one of those countries). One of the very worst I experienced in dealing with this issue was Canada.
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    Comment by Sam:

    I have worked in various projects that took me to several other countries in the world. In the few cases where I was required to get a work permit, I and the folks I was working with had to jump through all sorts of hoops to prove I was a specialist with unique qualifications that were essentially un-findable within their local population. What Trump is trying to do here is exactly what most other (if not almost ALL other countries do when a foreigner wants a job in one of those countries. One of the very worst I experienced in dealing with this issue was Canada.
    It's what I found also, Sam.
    Years ago I thought long & hard how to get myself into Canada.
    Through my research I found that you had to have a special skill into order to even be considered for living & working there.

    The only other way was to show that you were somewhat independently wealthy, then they would let you buy your way into citizenship. In most other countries you can buy your way into the system. I even had a book that listed the prices that various governments of other countries would accept to become a resident.

    As a taxicab driver, I come into contact with various people. This one character that was from Canada told me the best way to get into Canada is to have a mom & pop business - like a small corner store. Living in the U.S. & drive across the border to get to your business & operate it that way for a period of time. During that time, you pay your Canadian taxes. Then after several years, this will provide the evidence that the government wants to see that you will not be a burden on their country.

    That's what I found... 'Show me the money'... it is the only other way to enter into Canada, or most other countries, to get to be a legal resident.

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    The question everybody is asking: Will Trump ever come to his senses???

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    Trump vs MSM (NYT) continues...
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    Failing @nytimes, which has been calling me
    wrong for two years, just got caught in a big
    lie concerning New England Patriots visit to
    W.H.

    6:48 AM - 20 Apr 2017
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    The New York Times attempted to take a cheap ideological shot at President Donald Trump by comparing organization attendance by the New England Patriots football team between President Obama and President Trump:


    The picture the New York Times used is expanded below:


    However, the cheap shot attempt backfired against the New York Times when the New England Patriots organization pointed out they were not comparing accurate attendance.

    In the 2015 picture the support staff were on the stairs, in the 2017 picture the staff were seated in the audience.


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    Mark Dice gets in on this as well...

    New England Patriots Debunk Fake News from CNN
    and New York Times About White House Visit Today

    (Published on Apr 19, 2017)

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    Observing the continued foreign policy development(s)...
    Pentagon Considers Shooting Down North Korea Missile Tests


    Just when a few hours had passed without any escalation around the Korean Peninsula, The Guardian reports that the US military is considering shooting down North Korean missile tests as a show of strength to Pyongyang according to two sources briefed on the plans.
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    US Fighter Jets Intercept Two Russian Tactical Bombers 100 Miles Away From Alaska


    The U.S. Air Force scrambled two F-22 stealth fighters on Monday night to intercept a pair of Russian nuclear-capable bombers which came as close as 100 miles from Alaska's Kodiak Island, Fox reports. This was the first time since President Trump took office that Moscow has sent bombers so close to the U.S.
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    On the heels of an apparant avalanche of flip-flops on campaign comments, President Trump has notified Congress that Iran is complying with the "disastrous... worst deal ever negotiated" 2015 nuclear deal negotiated by former President Obama.
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    Exxon Seeks Russian Sanctions Waiver To Work With Rosneft


    Just as the "puppet of Putin" narrative had gone quiet - following Trump's Tomahawk-ing a largely abandoned airfield in Syria - it appears the Russia-linkages stories are about to get restarted. WSJ reports that Exxon Mobil has applied to the Treasury Department for a waiver from U.S. sanctions on Russia in a bid to resume its joint venture with state oil giant PAO Rosneft.
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    April 25 Is "Highest Probability" Day For North Korean Nuclear Test China Warns


    China believes there is the "highest possibility" of a nuclear test on April 25, but “does not leave out the possibility it might take action in early May,” Boxun News said.
    • Apr 19, 2017 1:09 PM
    Russian Nuclear-Capable Bombers Fly Within 36 Miles Of Alaska For Second Day In A Row


    for the second consecutive day Russia flew two long-range bombers off the coast of Alaska on Tuesday, this time coming within 36 miles of the mainland while flying north of the Aleutian Islands, two U.S. officials told Fox News
    • Apr 19, 2017 1:37 PM
    Hundreds Of U.S. Marines Headed To Afghanistan


    With the US seeking to slow the mounting losses by the Afghan military in the southern Helmand Province, the Pentagon has announced a deployment of roughly 300 US Marines to the province, with the fighters expected to arrive by the end of the month.
    • Apr 19, 2017 3:00 PM
    President Trump Is The Worst Possible Thing For Putin: "You Just Don't Know What To Expect From Him"


    "...You don’t know what to expect with Trump... And from an Art of War standpoint that is the worst possible thing for someone like Putin, who is very pragmatic, to deal with someone like trump… because you don’t know what to expect."
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    More... Watching... the ever-changing foreign policy developments... as told by the MSM corporate news outlets...
    Syria Moves Most Of Its Combat Planes Next To Russian Base For Protection


    Syria has moved a majority of its fighter jets next to the Russian air base in Syria to protect them from potential U.S. attacks, according to two US officials cited by CNN.
    • Apr 19, 2017 8:06 PM
    On the Commemoration Of World War I: From Woodrow Wilson To Donald Trump


    "Without an ideological basis against American globalism, Trump was easy pickings against the threats and machinations of the Deep State..."
    • Apr 19, 2017 8:10 PM
    Is World War The Twisted Cure For A Doomed Economy? "Signals for War Are Fiscal"


    "The march to war is deafening. But the reasons for it go beyond the elements of military conflict and political intrigue. Underlying it all, the reasons are economic."
    • Apr 19, 2017 10:40 PM
    Assessing The Military Options For North Korea; Spoiler Alert: They're All Bad


    "The United States of America will always seek peace but under President Trump, the shield stands guard and the sword stands ready. North Korea would do well not to test his resolve — or the strength of the armed forces of the United States in this region."
    • Apr 20, 2017 4:15 AM
    Venezuela Seizes General Motors Car Plant


    "Yesterday, GMV's (General Motors Venezolana) plant was unexpectedly taken by the public authorities, preventing normal operations. In addition, other assets of the company, such as vehicles, have been illegally taken from its facilities," GM said in a statement.
    • Apr 20, 2017 8:59 AM
    It's Time To Stop Pretending North Korea Is A Threat To The United States


    North Korea is a threat, goes the narrative. And we, as loyal Americans, should fear the potentiality of that fact.
    • Apr 20, 2017 12:11 PM
    China Escalates Pressure On North Korea: Crude Oil Supply Halt On The Table


    While US and North Korean officials have traded verbal missiles in the past few days, China has been noticably quiet. However, that just changed as a prominent Chinese expert told The Nikkei that China likely will halt crude oil exports to North Korea should Pyongyang conduct its sixth nuclear test, signaling a tougher attitude by Beijing toward its rogue neighbor.
    • Apr 20, 2017 1:11 PM
    North Korea Threatens US With "Super-Mighty Preemptive Strike"


    "In the case of our super-mighty preemptive strike being launched, it will completely and immediately wipe out not only U.S. imperialists' invasion forces in South Korea and its surrounding areas but the U.S. mainland and reduce them to ashes."
    • Apr 20, 2017 1:38 PM
    China Puts Bombers On High Alert "For A Potential North Korea Contingency"


    The US has seen evidence that the Chinese military is preparing "for a potential North Korea contingency", CNN reports citing a US defense official, and adds that Chinese air force land-attack, cruise-missile-capable bombers were put "on high alert" on Wednesday.
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    I wonder what trump promised the chinese to get them to turn so suddenly on N Korea....

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    Quote Posted by Helene West (here)
    I wonder what trump promised the chinese to get them to turn so suddenly on N Korea....
    Check out X22 Report Episode 1259b starting at ~13:00 , according to Dave, it looks like alot of what is being reported regarding N Korea by the MSM corporate media is Deep State 'Fake News' propaganda....

    Brace Yourself, The Warning Signs Are Getting Darker
    Episode 1258a
    (Published on Apr 19, 2017)
    __________________________________

    The Deep State Is Getting Desperate,
    They Are Preparing Their Next Move

    Episode 1258b
    __________________________________

    Episode 1259a youtube
    (Published on Apr 20, 2017)
    __________________________________

    Note: At about 4:45, Dave mis-spoke in saying the MSM reported that Jared Kushner & Ivanka persuaded Obama to renege on a campaign promise... Obviously, he meant to say 'Trump' rather than 'Obama' against the advice of Steve Bannon... just have to give him a pass on this one...

    US Sniffer Plane Scans North Korea,
    Be Prepared For The Next Event

    Episode 1259b
    (Published on Apr 20, 2017)
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    Judicial Watch Sues State Department
    and USAID for Records about Funding and
    Political Activities of George Soros’
    Open Society Foundation – Macedonia


    By Judicial Watch
    Published April 19, 2017
    USAID website reports it gave $4,819,125 in taxpayer money to Soros’s Open Society Foundation – Macedonia between from 2012 to 2016

    (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for records and communications relating to the funding and political activities of the Open Society Foundation – Macedonia. The Macedonia organization, part of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, received nearly $5 million from USAID from 2012 to 2016. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (No. 1:17-cv-00729)).

    The suit was filed after both the U.S. Department of State and USAID failed to respond to a February 16, 2017, FOIA request seeking:
    • All records related to any grants, contracts, or disbursements of funds by the Department of State to the Open Society Foundation – Macedonia and/or any of the Foundation’s subsidiaries. This request includes all related requests for funding, payment authorizations, or similar records, as well as all related records of communication between any official, employee, or representative of the Department of State and any official, employee, or representative of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
    • Any records of communication between any official, employee, or representative of the Department of State and any officer, employee, or representative of the Open Society Foundation -Macedonia and/or any of the Foundation’s affiliated organizations. This request includes responsive records of communication sent from or directed to U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia Jess L. Baily.
    • All analyses or similar records regarding the political activities of the Open Society Foundation -Macedonia and/or any of the Foundation’s affiliated organizations.
    • All messages transmitted via the State Department’s SMART system sent from any U.S. Government employee or contractor operating under the Chief of Mission’s authority at the U.S. Embassy in Skopje that pertain to the Open Society Foundation – Macedonia and/or any of the Foundation’s affiliated organizations.

    The USAID website reports that between February 27, 2012, and August 31, 2016, USAID gave $4,819,125 in taxpayer money to Soros’s Open Society Foundation – Macedonia (FOSM), in partnership with four local civil society organizations. The USAID’s website links to www.soros.org.mk, and says the project trained hundreds of young Macedonians “on topics such as freedom of association, youth policies, citizen initiatives, persuasive argumentation and use of new media.”

    In February, Judicial Watch reported:

    The U.S. government has quietly spent millions of taxpayer dollars to destabilize the democratically elected, center-right government in Macedonia by colluding with leftwing billionaire philanthropist George Soros, records obtained by Judicial Watch show. Barack Obama’s U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia, Jess L. Baily, has worked behind the scenes with Soros’ Open Society Foundation to funnel large sums of American dollars for the cause, constituting an interference of the U.S. Ambassador in domestic political affairs in violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

    ***

    Here’s how the clandestine operation functions, according to high-level sources in Macedonia and the U.S. that have provided Judicial Watch with records as part of an ongoing investigation. The Open Society Foundation has established and funded dozens of leftwing, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Macedonia to overthrow the conservative government. One Macedonian government official interviewed by Judicial Watch in Washington D.C. recently, calls it the “Soros infantry.” The groups organize youth movements, create influential media outlets and organize violent protests to undermine the institutions and policies implemented by the government. One of the Soros’ groups funded the translation and publication of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” into Macedonian. The book is a tactical manual of subversion, provides direct advice for radical street protests and proclaims Lucifer to be the first radical. Thanks to Obama’s ambassador, who has not been replaced by President Trump, Uncle Sam keeps the money flowing so the groups can continue operating and recruiting, sources in Macedonia and the U.S. confirm.

    According to InsidePhilanthropy.com, Soros’ Open Society Foundation “may be the largest philanthropic organization ever built, with branches in 37 countries. While the Gates Foundation spends more money, OSF has a larger footprint worldwide thanks to its many local offices, including throughout Africa.” OSF’s budget will be around $930 million …”

    The activities of Ambassador Bailey and USAID’s funding of the Open Society Foundation have recently come under Congressional scrutiny. On January 17, 2017, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) sent a letter to Baily asking him to explain the State Department’s relationship with Open Society Foundation. On February 24, 2017, Representatives Chris Smith (R-NJ), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), and others called on the Government Accountability Office to conduct an investigation and audit of the Department of State and USAID’s activities in Macedonia, including funding of Open Society Foundation entities and potential interference in domestic Macedonian political affairs in potential violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

    “The Obama administration seemed to bust taxpayer budgets in an effort to fund the Soros operation,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The Trump State Department and USAID should get their act together and disclose the details of the Obama-Soros spigot.”

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    Illegal Immigration meme continues...

    Tucker Carlson Full Show Fox News HD
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    And this, on the Anti-Trump Liberal Media...


    MSNBC Analyst Encourages Bombing Trump Tower
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    Illegal Immigration meme continues...
    until the immigration laws are changed, illegal immigration is a real (and large) issue.

    I grew up on the west coast and knew many illegals. (great people for the most part)
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    I wonder what trump promised the chinese to get them to turn so suddenly on N Korea....

    Helene, Trump just sent this tweet out this morning... to answer your question...
    Perhaps he's reading this thread...

    ________________________________
    China is very much the economic lifeline
    to North Korea so, while nothing is easy, if they want
    to solve the North Korean problem, they will

    6:04 AM - 21 Apr 2017
    ________________________________

    Other Trump Tweets....

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    No matter how much I accomplish during the
    ridiculous standard of the first 100 days, & it
    has been a lot (including S.C.), media will kill!

    3:50 AM - 21 Apr 2017
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    Another terrorist attack in Paris. The people
    of France will not take much more of this. Will
    have a big effect on presidential election!

    3:32 AM - 21 Apr 2017
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    Jon Rappoport... provides his view on the situation...

    Jon Rappoport News Overview
    (Published on Apr 21, 2017)
    ___________________________

    Facebook shuts down
    pro Le Pen posts as
    French election nears


    Apr16 by Jon Rappoport
    April 16, 2017
    Well, sure. Wouldn’t you?

    The woman is running for the presidency of France. She wants to reverse the tide of immigration in her country, so she must be a racist, and whatever she says or whatever anyone else says in support of her is, automatically, fake news, mindless, evil, and the population must be protected from that infection. This is how free speech works. It’s free unless it could do harm, unless certain minds might be taken in by it, and apparently Facebook is stepping up to the plate. Mark Zuckerberg is long overdue for a Nobel Peace Prize.

    Zero Hedge:
    “The first round of French elections will be held on April 23rd, prompting Facebook to shut down pro Le Pen accounts, which they deem to be ‘fake’.”

    “In addition to outright bans, the company [Facebook], in conjunction with French media, are running ‘fact checking’ programs — designed to fight ‘fake news’, heightening their efforts around the elections — which spans from 4/23-5/7.”
    France must be purified. Only then can media function.

    Immigration, you have to understand, isn’t an issue. There is nothing to debate. Immigration is a fact, wholly beautiful, and anyone who wants to limit it is speaking against love, flowers, and the proposition that the sun rises every morning.

    Facebook is providing a public service. Just as Mussolini made the trains run on time in Italy, FB is making the news run on time—the real news.

    Fake news should be shut down. Free speech only concerns what isn’t fake. Yes, I’m beginning to see the light.

    After fake news is purged, then we can have free speech.

    Aha. Yes.

    Somehow, I must have missed this when I studied the 1st Amendment. James Madison, who wrote it, made this note: “Except for fake news.”

    The guiding principle should be: if you’re not sure whether an item or issue or report is fake, don’t talk about it, don’t write about it, don’t express an opinion about it, until the authorities have cleared things up, until they’ve decided whether it’s fake or real.

    Mark Zuckerberg is providing us with an easy way to check. If he and his people censor a post, it’s fake. Ignore it. Remain silent.

    And if you’re French, don’t vote for Le Pen, unless you want a faker as your president.

    Things are basically simple. They really are. If you know how to follow the signs and the warnings and the people in charge.

    For example, right now I can sense an errant thought creeping into my mind: a corporation based in the US is colluding with the French government to influence an election in France. But I reject that thought. I denounce it. I urge everyone to denounce it. Pretend I never uttered the thought.

    Please. I beg of you.
    It’s fake.

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    Quote Posted by turiya (here)
    Quote Posted by Helene West (here)
    I wonder what trump promised the chinese to get them to turn so suddenly on N Korea....

    Helene, Trump just sent this tweet out this morning... to answer your question...
    Perhaps he's reading this thread...

    ________________________________
    China is very much the economic lifeline
    to North Korea so, while nothing is easy, if they want
    to solve the North Korean problem, they will

    6:04 AM - 21 Apr 2017
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    Other Trump Tweets....

    ________________________________
    No matter how much I accomplish during the
    ridiculous standard of the first 100 days, & it
    has been a lot (including S.C.), media will kill!

    3:50 AM - 21 Apr 2017
    ________________________________
    Another terrorist attack in Paris. The people
    of France will not take much more of this. Will
    have a big effect on presidential election!

    3:32 AM - 21 Apr 2017
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    Lol, thx Turiya.
    glad the pres is reading our thread but he's still not telling us what he did to get china to start hopping on korea. He had to either threaten china at that meeting recently or promise them something. but all we can do these days is deduce from actions as we are never told the truth...more shall be revealed

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    I'm so sad that this administration is going after assange. as far as I'm concerned he helped get trump elected and this is what they do. will they go after rice or obama? of course not. this is another 'surprise' pulled by this administration. another surprise we can live without, another surprise no one needed

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    'Presidential Executive Order on Identifying
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    Presidential Executive Order
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    EXECUTIVE ORDER

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    IDENTIFYING AND REDUCING TAX REGULATORY BURDENS


    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

    Section 1. Policy. The Federal tax system should be simple, fair, efficient, and pro-growth. The purposes of tax regulations should be to bring clarity to the already complex Internal Revenue Code (title 26, United States Code) and to provide useful guidance to taxpayers. Contrary to these purposes, numerous tax regulations issued over the last several years have effectively increased tax burdens, impeded economic growth, and saddled American businesses with onerous fines, complicated forms, and frustration. Immediate action is necessary to reduce the burden existing tax regulations impose on American taxpayers and thereby to provide tax relief and useful, simplified tax guidance.

    Sec. 2. Addressing Tax Regulatory Burdens. (a) In furtherance of the policy described in section 1 of this order, the Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary) shall immediately review all significant tax regulations issued by the Department of the Treasury on or after January 1, 2016, and, in consultation with the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, identify in an interim report to the President all such regulations that:
    (i) impose an undue financial burden on United States taxpayers;

    (ii) add undue complexity to the Federal tax laws; or

    (iii) exceed the statutory authority of the Internal Revenue Service.
    This interim report shall be completed no later than 60 days from the date of this order. In conducting the review required by this subsection, earlier determinations of whether a regulation is significant pursuant to Executive Order 12866 of September 30, 1993, as amended (Regulatory Planning and Review), shall not be controlling.

    (b) No later than 150 days from the date of this order, the Secretary shall prepare and submit a report to the President that recommends specific actions to mitigate the burden imposed by regulations identified in the interim report required under subsection (a) of this section. The Secretary shall also publish this report in the Federal Register upon submitting it to the President. The Secretary shall take appropriate steps to cause the effective date of such regulations to be delayed or suspended, to the extent permitted by law, and to modify or rescind such regulations as appropriate and consistent with law, including, if necessary, through notice and comment rulemaking. The Secretary shall submit for publication in the Federal Register a summary of the actions taken in response to the report no later than 10 days following the finalization of such actions. Should all such actions not be finalized within 180 days following the submission of the report to the President, the Secretary shall submit for publication in the Federal Register an initial report summarizing the actions taken to that point.

    (c) To ensure that future tax regulations adhere to the policy described in section 1 of this order, the Secretary and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall review and, if appropriate, reconsider the scope and implementation of the existing exemption for certain tax regulations from the review process set forth in Executive Order 12866 and any successor order.

    (d) The Secretary shall cause section 32.1.5.4.7.5.3 of the Internal Revenue Manual to be revised, if necessary to fulfill the directives in subsection (c) of this section.

    Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
    (i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

    (ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

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    I'm so sad that this administration is going after assange. as far as I'm concerned he helped get trump elected and this is what they do. will they go after rice or obama? of course not. this is another 'surprise' pulled by this administration. another surprise we can live without, another surprise no one needed
    I don't mean to be a stickler for word usage, but as far as what Jeff Sessions has said in regard to any of the questions surrounding Julian Assange & the leaking of classified information, to which I emphasize: NOWHERE in Jeff Session's statement does he mention going after & arresting Julian Assange! He addresses the issue of 'leaks'. Period!

    The following is the quoted Jeff Sessions' statement as it was recorded by The Guardian:

    Quote “This is a matter that’s gone beyond anything I’m aware of,” Session said in a press conference on Thursday. “We have professionals that have been in the security business of the United States for many years that are shocked by the number of leaks and some of them are quite serious.”

    "So yes, it is a priority. We've already begun to step up our efforts and whenever a case can be made, we will seek to put some people in jail,” the attorney general added. -- Telesur
    - NARRATIVE DRIVEN MEDIA -

    Note: Its the MSM Corporate 'Fake News' outlets that are pushing this 'Julian Assange' propaganda piece ... and the general public is latching onto the hype.... Here we have CNN's Kate Bolduan attempting to steer the topic towards what she would like to have her interview focus on...

    The makers of the following videos are also serving the purpose of this MSM propaganda in their choice of title for the following video copies of the related press conference & interview of the Trump Department heads... Attorney General Sessions & DHS Director Gen. Rogers.

    And so then, I would suggest being a bit more focused & particular when examining what the MSM propaganda is attempting to push onto the viewing public...

    CNN's Kate Bolduan GRILLS Jeff Sessions Reports of
    Impending Arrest of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange

    (Published on Apr 21, 2017)
    _______________________________

    Jeff Sessions prepares charges to
    seek arrest of Julian Assange ......

    (Published on Apr 20, 2017)
    _______________________________

    Here again, we have CNN's Anderson Cooper doing the same thing, in his style of reporting - Pushing the NARRATIVE - as a result, he strengthens the notion that Jeff Sessions is going after an arrest warrant for Julian Assange... totally false! In this interview, he attempts to draw in Glenn Greenwald to make the notion appear more truthfully solid... the key word, here, is 'If'...

    Glenn Greenwald Explains Why It Is "So Dangerous"
    For Journalism If Julian Assange Is Arrested!

    (Published on Apr 21, 2017)
    _______________________________

    And here, again, we have Democracy Now! also promoting the CNN 'fake news' piece by quoting the CNN NARRATIVE & using the Guardian footage as 'proof' - just amazing... no wonder the public is so confused... keep in mind, CIA Director Pompeo is NOT the Attorney General... and, my senses tell me that Pompeo will soon be replaced....

    As US Preps Arrest Warrant for Assange, Greenwald
    Says Prosecuting WikiLeaks Threatens Press Freedom

    (Published on Apr 21, 2017)
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    An X22 News Flash.....

    General Mattis Shocked To Find Out The
    US Nuclear System Still Uses Floppy Disks

    (Published on Apr 18, 2017)
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    Bill Gates Pushes Agenda By
    Raising The Alarm Of Bioterrorism

    (Published on Apr 20, 2017)
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    Trey Gowdy's Investigators Go Missing, Foul Play?
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