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The Daily Beast has just revealed that last April, Vladimir Putin’s favorite Republican Congressman Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) traveled with a Congressional delegation to Moscow where he met privately with Russia’s Prosecutor-General Yuri Chaika.

Chaika is the very same Russian government official who music publicist Rob Goldstone emailed Donald Trump Jr. about to set up an apparently incriminating meeting for dirt on Hillary Clinton last year.

The Daily Beast reports that the Republican legislator came back to America with a secret document and mission: to hold a posthumous show trial of murdered Russian tax auditor Sergey Magnitsky and his client Bill Browder in Congress:
>Members of the team of Russians who secured a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner also attempted to stage a show trial of anti-Putin campaigner Bill Browder on Capitol Hill.

>The trial, which would have come in the form of a congressional hearing, was scheduled for mid-June 2016 by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), a long-standing Russia ally who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe. During the hearing, Rohrabacher had planned to confront Browder with a feature-length pro-Kremlin propaganda movie that viciously attacks him—as well as at least two witnesses linked to the Russian authorities, including lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/07/19/republican-congressman-just-got-caught-literally-taking-orders-putin/

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>https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/07/23/Britain-to-allow-gay-men-sex-workers-to-donate-blood-3-months-after-sex/1881500867822/

July 23 (UPI) -- Britain will allow gay men and sex workers to give blood three months after the last time they had sexual intercourse, the National Health Service announced.

Gay men previously had to wait one year since the last time they had sex to donate blood, while sex workers were completely banned. The changes were made as part of a policy shift to be more inclusive of the LGBT community and sex workers after improvements have been made in blood-testing.

"This Government is committed to building an inclusive society that works for everyone, no matter what their gender or sexuality and today we're taking the next step forward," said Education Secretary Justine Greening, according to the Independent.

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>http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/health/charlie-gard-pope-hospital/index.html
>A Vatican-owned pediatric hospital in Rome offered to take 10-month-old Charlie Gard into its care on Tuesday.
>It's an effort to prevent doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London from turning off his life support and to allow his parents to be the ones making the decision on whether to do so.
>Mariella Enoc, president of the Vatican's Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital, released a statement asking the director of the London hospital, where Charlie is staying, "to verify whether the health conditions exist to possibly transfer Charlie to our hospital."
>Charlie's mother, Connie Yates, has been in contact with Enoc, Bambino Gesu's press office told CNN.
>After that interaction, Enoc contacted the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. Enoc said the London hospital was very kind and thanked her for her interest, but confirmed that transferring Charlie to their care would be impossible.
>Charlie is everything that Europe's future is not and no resources with be allowed to be allotted for him.
>The offer comes after an extensive legal battle over the fate of Charlie, an ill infant who has a rare genetic disease called mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. It leads to weakened muscles and organ dysfunction, among other symptoms, with a poor prognosis for most patients.
>His parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, want Charlie to be released into their care so they can take him to the United States for an experimental treatment.
>But last week, after a series of escalating legal appeals, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the hospital can discontinue life support for the baby, who has been in the intensive care unit since October.
>His desperate plight has come to the attention of Pope Francis and US President Donald Trump.

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Some 2,800 troops from host Georgia, the United States, and six other countries have begun a major military exercise in the South Caucasus nation.

Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili and other leaders on July 30 said they see the event as a substantial step toward their goal of one day joining NATO.

"These exercises will help Georgia to get closer to NATO standards and to strengthen stability in the whole region," Kvirikashvili said at the opening ceremonies at the Vaziani military base near the capital, Tbilisi.

Georgia's defense minister, Levan Izoria, called the scale of exercises "unprecedented" and said they "make clear the support for Georgia by the NATO member states, especially the U.S."

U.S. officials in the past have spoken favorably toward Georgian hopes of eventually joining NATO, a move Russia vehemently opposes.

At a 2008 summit in Bucharest, NATO leaders made a formal pledge that Georgia "will become a NATO member," but alliance leaders have moved warily toward that goal in the face of Moscow’s opposition.

About 1,600 U.S. troops and 800 Georgian soldiers are taking part in the two-week exercises, dubbed Noble Partner.

Troops from Britain, Germany, Turkey, Ukraine, Slovenia, and Armenia are also participating, with the United States deploying a mechanized company, including several Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and M1A2 Abrams battle tanks.

It is the third time the exercises have been held in Georgia, a country that has seen much-larger rival Russian encroach on its territory since its independence from the Soviet Union.

The Kremlin recognized Georgia's breakaway areas of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent countries after fighting a five-day war against Tbilisi in 2008, and Russia maintains thousands of troops in the two regions.

http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/3873890-smy-delo-protyv-pashynskoho-zakryto

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https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rashan-charles-latest-died-stuck-in-throat-police-arrested-ipcc-not-drugs-a7873981.html%3famp

His death sparked violent clashes with policy in Hackney as protestors hurled bottles and fireworks at officers.

An IPCC spokesman said: "The IPCC has now received results of forensic analysis of an object that was removed from Rashan's airway by paramedics.

"The object did not contain a controlled substance."

First ever anon post... be gentle guys

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THURSDAY, July 19 (HealthDay News) -- Older Americans enrolled in Medicare health plans have better access to care and are less likely to have problems paying their medical bills than people who insure themselves or receive coverage through their employers, according to a new study.

>As the U.S. government considers proposals to cut Medicare spending, researchers from the Commonwealth Fund, a private health-policy advocacy foundation, cautioned that the health and financial security of people on traditional Medicare plans could suffer if policy makers move them to private Medicare Advantage plans. They noted that those enrolled in these private plans are less satisfied with their insurance and have more problems receiving the care they need.

>"Policies designed to move the elderly out of Medicare and into private plans need to be carefully designed, so as not to expose beneficiaries to the poorer access to care currently experienced by many working-age adults with private insurance," said Kristof Stremikis, senior researcher at the Commonwealth Fund, in an organization news release.

>The study was based on a 2010 health insurance survey conducted by the Commonwealth Fund that involved more than 4,000 U.S. adults.

>Although only 8 percent of people with Medicare rated their insurance as fair or poor, 20 percent of adults covered by an employer-sponsored plan and 33 percent of those who purchase their own insurance reported dissatisfaction with their coverage.

>In 2010, the study found, 23 percent of Medicare beneficiaries were unable to afford the care they needed. The same was true for 37 percent of those who received insurance through their jobs.

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2012/07/19/medicare-beats-private-plans-for-patient-satisfaction-survey

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Content creators on YouTube who follow all of the site’s rules may still face censorship by the platform, under new plans announced by Google. According to a post on YouTube’s official blog, videos will now be subject to the rule of the mob. If enough users flag a video as “hate speech” or “violent extremism,” YouTube may impose restrictions on the content even if it breaks none of the platform’s rules.

We’ll soon be applying tougher treatment to videos that aren’t illegal but have been flagged by users as potential violations of our policies on hate speech and violent extremism. If we find that these videos don’t violate our policies but contain controversial religious or supremacist content, they will be placed in a limited state. The videos will remain on YouTube behind an interstitial, won’t be recommended, won’t be monetized, and won’t have key features including comments, suggested videos, and likes.

YouTube has also rolled out a “trusted flagger” program, in which 15 “expert NGOs and institutions” to help them identify hate speech and extremism on their platform.

Among these organizations are the No Hate Speech Movement, a left-wing project pushed by the Council of Europe, as well as the Anti-Defamation League, an organization whose president has been accused of “manufacturing outrage” by the World Jewish Congress.

YouTube is also planning to artificially alter its search results so that searches for “sensitive” topics on YouTube no longer return the most popular videos, but a “playlist of curated YouTube videos that directly confront and debunk violent extremist messages.”

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/08/01/youtube-will-artificially-limit-reach-non-rulebreaking-videos/

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The Blogger was forced to sorry himself for 6 hours when 2 Agents of CIA and ukrainian SBU talked him into submission. later the half hour of bloggers submission was published on some Ukrainian news media and recollected by critical blogger. The blogger was not killed only because he has shown no opposition and is very popular between bydlo audience.

https://youtu.be/bAwU8nlaAck

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President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to end “bailouts” for members of Congress and insurance companies if lawmakers don't pass a new health care bill in the near future.

“If a new HealthCare Bill is not approved quickly, BAILOUTS for Insurance Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon,” Trump tweeted.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Trump’s warning is a “clear threat” to take away health care from members of Congress and their staff.

Murphy then asserted that the president does have the “power to cut off health care for leg branch employees & crater exchanges.” He then added, “I would argue this is a very serious moment.”

Whether Trump is just using rhetoric to spur action or actually plans to follow up on his threat is unclear. Trump has proved he is not a predictable president.

Fox News reporter Ed Henry said this weekend that the reason Trump’s supporters like his controversial tweets is because he routinely points out the “hypocrisy” of lawmakers — and Americans are tired of it, too.

Henry explained that members of Congress made a special rule for themselves to enter the small business exchange rather than following the rules that had been imposed on the rest of America. This helped pay for insurance for members of Congress and their staff benefits.

“What they were saying is, 'We want a little special carve-out,'” Henry said. “Now, will the president be able to do away with that? Who knows. Maybe it's just rhetoric. But he is pointing out that these lawmakers, who didn't have the courage of their convictions ... he's saying, 'Maybe I am going to expose your special deal.'”

Henry argued that Trump's message “resonates” with a lot of Americans.

http://ijr.com/the-declaration/2017/07/934691-democrat-freaks-trump-threatens-take-away-congresss-special-obamacare-carve/

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This year's legislative season saw a strong push in the states from right-wing groups, bankrolled by the Koch brothers and other ultra-conservative billionaires, hoping to convene a national constitutional convention in order to inject rigid fiscal constraints into our country's founding document. Advocates of a federal "balanced budget amendment" (BBA) picked up two more states, Wyoming and Arizona, in their drive to win the 34 resolutions needed to bypass Congress and convene a convention to propose changes to the U.S. Constitution.

>That momentum, however, was blunted by surprisingly successful campaigns to rescind convention calls in three states, New Mexico, Maryland, and Nevada. As a result, BBA proponents now claim 27 states in their column, down from 28 at the beginning of the year.

>Two steps forward and three steps back…from the brink of a political experiment untried since 1787.

>Under Article V of the Constitution, amendments can be proposed either by two-thirds of both the House and Senate, or through a convention called for by two-thirds of state legislatures (currently 34 states). After adoption at a convention, any amendment must be ratified by three-fourths of the states (currently 38 states) before it can become part of the Constitution.

>While amendments proposed by Congress have been adopted 17 times since the Constitution's ratification, a constitutional convention has never been called. Critics of this approach, from the Left and the Right, are concerned about how such a convention would play out in this era of massive political spending by billionaires and corporations, especially since there is nothing in Article V limiting the scope of a convention once called.

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2017/06/13254/koch-convention-rewrite-constitution-roadblocks

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/whats-hot/mom-receives-death-threats-after-sharing-photo-of-her-babys-pierced-cheek/ar-BBDWSSx

A Fostoria, Ohio mother posted a photo of her infant daughter with a pierced dimple on Facebook, sparking outrage, threats and calls to remove the child from her custody.

The photo shows a beaming baby with a diamond-studded piercing on her left cheek. It was captioned with her mother's unapologetic, although sarcastic, words.

"I think she's gonna love it!!," Enedina Vance wrote on June 28. "I'm the parent, she is MY CHILD, I will do whatever I want! I make all of her decisions until she's 18, I made her, I own her!! I don't need anyone's permission, I think it's better, cuter, & I prefer her to have her dimple pierced."

Vance, a strong advocate against piercing or circumcising children, posted the edited picture to Facebook, where it had more than 13,000 shares.

The post quickly incited outrage among the parenting community, and she was called "a bad mother" and worse. Some called for Child Protective Services, others for forced hysterectomy, and some for her death.

But after realizing that many people weren't quite getting her message, Vance posted on Facebook again, this time pointing out that while people were ready to beat her to death over her excuses for piercing her baby's cheek, those excuses are the same ones used to justify circumcision.

"Why so hypocritical?? How is it so triggering, so enraging to see my baby with a pierced dimple, but actually knowing a baby is being strapped down and forcibly having his most sensitive and innervative portion of his penis amputated seems perfectly OK? How can society threaten death over one, but encourage and support the other? Piercing is bad, but cutting is accepted as the norm?" the 35-year-old wrote. "People would rather continue to inflict an unnecessary and irreversible ritual onto their defenseless infant, than to have to admit that they don't know."

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Six baby-faced Florida teens, who 'stole a Porsche and $200,000 in burglary and blew the cash on gold teeth, bling jewelry, and sports cars for their moms'

The teens; Rural Scott, 15, Jeremiah Laplace, 15, Michael Bush, 14, Joshua Sargeant, 14, Shomari Smith, 14, and Walter Walker, 16, all from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, were charged with burglary and grand theft this week.

The investigation began after Brett Browning, of North Hutchinson Island, Florida, reported a break-in at his home on April 27.
He told police he returned home to find his garage door open and his 2014 Porsche Cayman - worth $50,000 to $60,000 - was missing.
When he went inside, he found his safe was missing containing his life savings - more than $200,000 cash - along with his .380-caliber Ruger pistol and a revolver.

The group later confessed to the police that they had already spent the cash on flashy jewelry, gold teeth and cars for themselves. Several of them also splashed out on cars for their mom and other relatives.
One of the teens claimed that he used his share of the money to buy mom an $80,000 Dodge Challenger Hellcat and his brother a $25,000 2009 Mercedes C300.
He also bought gold teeth for $11,000; a gold chain for $10,000 and a gold bracelet for $3,500.

Scott, who has been arrested on no fewer than nine occasions since June 2015 for burglary, grand theft, grand theft auto, and criminal mischief charges, told investigators he had called his mother 'and told her about 'hitting' the house' they burglarized.

His mother, Shanika Shorter, responded to police report, by telling Sun Sentinel reporters: 'Do you believe everything you hear?' before hanging up.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4645442/Pictured-Six-teens-stole-Porsche-200-000.html

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So I've been seeing this case all over my timelines today: People are pissed off with cops once again in the case of Jordan Norris.

18 yr old that was arrested on drug and gun charges in 2016. Norris was in possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute as well as 5 stolen weapons, which he was armed with when he was detained.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOCxdzAxOk0

This video shows an alternate angle of what happened in Cheatham County Sherrif's Office when officers placed Norris in a sitting restraint chair, and tazed him up to 40 times.

At the end of the video, you can hear the lady officer say to Norris "There's a reason in there you want to live, you just gotta find it" (5:17)

Of course everyone is freaking out, losing their shit over the cop's actions in the video, but what we don't see is the moments leading up to the incident.

So what do you think? Was the incident prompted by Norris or the police? Was he resisting because he wanted them to kill him? Who is in the wrong here. Lmk

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Reports indicate that The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) now provides three times more counseling sessions than they did five years ago. Some of the victims are as young as 13 and they are frequently threatened with violence and emotional blackmail, pressuring them to marry older men they may have never met.

http://www.trunews.com/article/increase-in-girls-trying-to-escape-child-marriage

Breitbart News reports that Childline, the 24-hour counseling hotline for children provided by the NSPCC, has experienced more children than ever are calling with fears over forced marriage. The charity said it delivered 12 per cent more counseling sessions in 2016/17 than in 2015/16. Forced marriage can carry a prison sentence of up to seven years in the UK, but as of December 31, 2016, figures suggest there has been just one conviction in Britain. According to Childline some families use the long school summer holidays to pull children out of Britain and marry them off abroad to strangers.

The full scale of the abuse may be unknown, however, as some girls do not speak out because they are “worried about family honor and being isolated by their communities” and fear their “relatives would be punished if they sought help”. One 18-year-old girl who contacted Childline said:

>“My parents are talking about taking me back to my home country to get married, but I don’t want to. They get violent when I don’t do what they want.

>“I want to leave home but they’d never agree to it. I just want to live a normal teenage life, but they won’t let me.”

Childline founder and president Dame Esther Rantzen added:

>“Young people can feel helpless because sometimes those near to them aren’t interested in their happiness or welfare.

>“It’s desperately important that those are frightened or feel that they have no one to turn to get in touch with Childline.”

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>https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/07/24/Winner-of-national-makeup-contest-disqualified-for-supporting-Trump-she-says/2091500874954/

July 24 (UPI) -- The winner of a make-up artist contest said she was disqualified after the contest promoter found out she is a supporter of President Donald Trump.

Gypsy Freeman, who lives in Kansas and Florida, was declared the winner of a contest sponsored by makeup line Kat Von D Beauty, in which contestants had to post photos of a model in a "Saint + Sinner" theme as a promotion for the company's new line of make-up, according to screenshots.

But then Von D fans discovered a pro-Trump post on Freeman's Instagram page from Election Day in 2016 and immediately alerted the well-known tattoo artist and former reality TV star.

Von D then direct-messaged Freeman to say that she had to "drawn a personal line in the sand between myself and anyone who supports that man," according to screenshots of the conversation.

"My launch party (and my brand) celebrates many things that Trump is against," Von D continued, according to the screenshots. "And I just need you to know that I personally have a hard time with inviting anyone who would support such an anti-feminist, anti-homosexual/LGBT, anti-immigrant, and anti-climate change fascist such as Trump."