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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/26/steve-bannon-to-head-trumps-russia-war-room-legal-team-street-fighters-and-surrogates.html

>Steve Bannon is not a lawyer, but the chief White House strategist is poised to become the senior partner in a heavyweight firm of bareknuckle barristers at the center of President Trump's counter-offensive against Russia collusion claims.

>Bannon, the former Breitbart executive whose no-holds-barred approach served Trump well in the homestretch of his presidential campaign, headed home from Trump's foreign trip and is reportedly the quarterback of an emerging war room of high-powered lawyers, surrogates and researchers.

>Their mission: Respond, rebut and refute bad press and legal issues emanating from the special counsel probe led by former FBI Director Robert Mueller into Russian influence on the 2016 election.

>"Steve is super savvy dealing with the media and dealing with crises," Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy told Axios.

>While Bannon is poised to oversee the entire operation, the legal team being assembled is an eclectic roster of seasoned streetfighters and well-known litigators.

>“A big legal team, even one with people with titanic reputations, can greatly benefit the person represented by that big team,” said former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy. “The Justice Department can throw endless resources at cases, so it makes a difference to be capable of matching them.”
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French President Emmanuel Macron urged the European Commission on Thursday to do more to curb an influx of low-paid east Europeans working on temporary assignment in France, warning that it was sapping support for the European Union.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-eu-macron-idUSKBN18L1ZI

EU approves visa-free travel for Ukrainians
Ukraine passport holders will be able to travel visa-free to most EU countries under new rules approved by the bloc.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/05/eu-approves-visa-free-travel-ukrainians-170511140552955.html

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/23/66m-migrants-waiting-cross-europe-africa-report/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw

>Europe could face a new wave of migrant arrivals this summer, a leaked German government report has warned. Up to 6.6m people are waiting in countries around the Mediterranean to cross into Europe, according to details of the classified report leaked to Bild newspaper.

>They include more than 2.5m in North Africa waiting to attempt the perilous crossing by boat. Angela Merkel’s government has not commented on the report, which the newspaper says was marked for internal use only.

>It says 1m are waiting in Libya, where smugglers use small and often unseaworthy boats to carry migrants to outlying Italian islands. Another 1m are waiting in Egypt, 430,000 in Algeria, 160,000 in Tunisia, and 50,000 in Morocco. Others are waiting in transit countries along the route, with up to 720,000 in Jordan.

>The manifesto will include plans for “those who are rescued from drowning” while attempting the crossing to be returned to where they set out, according to Bild. The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, is currently riding high in the opinion polls, discontent at her “open-door” refugee policy behind her.

>But any repeat of the chaotic scenes of 2015 could threaten her chances of re-election. More than 50,000 migrants have arrived in Italy by boat so far this year, an increase of 45 per cent compared to last year, though still far fewer than in 2015. More than half are reportedly economic migrants from Nigeria, Bangladesh, Guinea, Cote d’Ivoire and the Gambia.

This is after a speech in March by EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos claiming they would build migration centers in Africa because "Europe needs 6 million migrants".

http://freewestmedia.com/2017/03/10/europe-will-need-6-million-immigrants/
>EU to Open Migration Centres in Africa Because Europe ‘Needs 6 Million Migrants’

What is the EU doing?

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http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2017/05/24/gaffney-brennan-testimony-confirms-no-evidence-trump-russia-collusion/

STOP IT!!!! DRUMPF CHEATED!!!! LE RUSSIANS HACKED THE DNC AND MADE ME OUT TO BE A COMPLETE ASS!!! THAT WAS ONLY MEANT TO BE HIDDEN!

IT'S NOT FAIR...

IT WAS MY TURN!!!!

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Swedish prosecutors said on Friday they would drop a preliminary investigation into an allegation of rape against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday, bringing to an end a 7-year legal stand-off.

"Chief Prosecutor Marianne Ny has today decided to discontinue the preliminary investigation regarding suspected rape concerning Julian Assange," the prosecutors office said in a statement.

Assange, 45, has lived in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012, after taking refuge there to avoid extradition to Sweden over the allegation of rape, which he denies.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecuador-sweden-assange-idUSKCN18F0TC

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Ukraine banned the russian internet and russian speaking websites. to understand impact here are some numbers.

Yandex is the second biggest search engine. (around 70% of Ukrainian users use it)
VK is most used social media network.
around 70 % of ukrainian economy runs on C1 account software which is also banned.
around 70% of all internet jobs inside of Ukraine are running on russian speaking websites.
around 60 % of small and middle business in Ukraine revolves around banned websites.
Ukraine will need around 1,5-3 billion US dollars and 2 fucking years to put the ban trough.
Security and network control communication software is also banned.

so far it hits around 500 different producers and other companies. the numbers will grow because ukrainian fucks are still collecting the database to complete the list.

and the biggest fun is that this all is not only illegal accord all international laws and agreements Ukraine signed but it is against the Constitution of Ukraine itself. So far all experts untied that this fucking suicide because Russian can literally sue the shit our of Ukraine.

https://www.rt.com/news/388553-ukraine-social-media-ban/

and this is how modern Ukraine lives after Maidanenks and and american Jews made the Coup:

https://youtu.be/Oc6lkuWMlHU

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Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and certainly one of his senior advisers, has come beneath FBI scrutiny within the Russia investigation, a number of U.S. officers instructed NBC Information.

Investigators consider Kushner has vital data related to their inquiry, officers mentioned. That doesn't imply they believe him of against the law or intend to cost him.
https://allsorce.com/officials-say-jared-kushner-under-scrutiny-in-russia-probe/

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/india-police-detained-hindu-militia-on-killing-muslim-ghulam-mohammad/

>LUCKNOW, India -- Indian police have detained three members of a Hindu militia for suspected involvement in the killing of a Muslim man who they blamed for helping an interfaith couple elope...

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-idUSKBN18K1ZC

Senior Russian intelligence and political officials discussed how to influence Donald Trump through his advisers according to information gathered by American spies last summer, the New York Times reported on Wednesday,

Citing three current and former U.S. officials familiar with the intelligence, the newspaper said the conversations focused on Paul Manafort, then the Trump presidential campaign chairman, and Michael Flynn, a retired general who was then advising Trump.

U.S. congressional committees and a special counsel named by the Justice Department this month are investigating whether there was Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and the possibility of collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia.

The controversy has engulfed Trump's young administration since he fired FBI Director James Comey two weeks ago amid the agency's investigation of possible Russia ties. Moscow has repeatedly denied the allegations and Trump denies any collusion.

The New York Times report was the latest indication of the depth of concerns within the U.S. intelligence community about Russian efforts to tip November's election toward Trump as he battled Democrat Hillary Clinton.

On May 18, Reuters reported that Flynn and other advisers to Trump’s campaign were in contact with Russian officials and others with Kremlin ties in at least 18 calls and emails during the last seven months of the 2016 presidential race, citing current and former U.S. officials.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/us/politics/joseph-lieberman-fbi.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

>Former Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, once President Trump’s preferred candidate for F.B.I. director, has withdrawn his name from consideration, citing his law firm’s central role in Mr. Trump’s legal defense team.

>Mr. Lieberman, who has no federal law enforcement experience, said it was a “great honor” to be considered but pulled out after the president tapped Marc E. Kasowitz, a partner in the Manhattan firm that employs Mr. Lieberman, as his counsel in “various” investigations.

>“I do believe it would be best to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest, given my role as senior counsel,” Mr. Lieberman, who was Al Gore’s running mate in 2000, wrote in a letter to the White House dated Wednesday and provided by his firm, Kasowitz Benson Torres.

>Mr. Lieberman is the latest of several candidates to take themselves out of consideration, including Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, and Alice Fisher, a former Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration.

>Another candidate still in the mix who has received less attention is Kenneth L. Wainstein, another former Bush administration official. He was interviewed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, last week, after a higher-profile series of interviews they did with an initial slate of candidates, according to several people familiar with the matter.

>Mr. Wainstein, whose interview was reported by The Wall Street Journal, has a long career in law enforcement and national security. He served as the top Homeland Security adviser to Mr. Bush, the head of the Justice Department’s national security division and the United States attorney for the District of Columbia.

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http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/john-oliver-fcc-net-neutrality-1202412330/

http://deadline.com/2017/05/john-oliver-donald-trump-fcc-net-neutrality-ajit-pai-1202086601/

https://www.reddit.com/r/lastweektonight/comments/69vqa9/the_fcc_website_is_already_down/

>In 2014, Oliver noted the FCC was headed by Tom Wheeler, the guy who used to head the cable companies’ lobbying efforts, which Oliver likened to hiring a dingo to babysit your infant.

>Nowadays, it’s headed by Ajit Pai, an anti regulation guy who has said he’d like to take a weed-whacker to net neutrality and predicted its days are numbers which, Oliver noted, is “serial-killer talk.”

>Pai is dangerous because he likes to play the down-to-earth nerd – loves to quote The Big Lebowski, brags about his “infamous” oversized Reese Peanutbutter Cup novelty mug, and otherwise play dumb – when, in fact, he’s a former lawyer for Verizon, a company that would benefit bigly by the plowing under of net neutrality.

>Three years ago, Oliver explained net neutrality to viewers and how it would choke their choices on the web, urging “my lovely trolls to turn on their cap locks and fly my pretties, fly!”

>They did. And, to its credit, the FCC then took steps to safeguard net neutrality.

>But now, Donald Trump is president, and he wants to roll back net neutrality – though Oliver made a strong case that Trump doesn’t actually know what “net neutrality” even means. Even so, Oliver said, the Trump era seems determined to basically Control-Z everything that happened on Obama’s watch, putting in jeopardy net neutrality and all those turkeys Obama pardoned at Thanksgiving over his eight years in the White House.
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http://www.salon.com/2017/05/25/jeff-sessions-claims-he-was-advised-not-to-mention-russia-meetings/

>Attorney General Jeff Sessions is again under fire for concealing his contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The former Alabama senator failed to disclose at least two occasions in which he met with high-ranking Russian officials when he applied for his security clearance, according to a CNN report.

>In March, Sessions was harshly criticized for claiming during his Senate confirmation hearing that he had had no communication with Russia despite those interactions with Kislyak. Although he recused himself from the FBI’s investigation into Russia as a result of this story, he insisted that “I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign.”

>Ian Prior, a Justice Department spokesman, defended Sessions’ omission from his security clearance forms in a statement reported by The New York Times.

>“As a United States senator, the attorney general met hundreds — if not thousands — of foreign dignitaries and their staff. The attorney general’s staff consulted with those familiar with the process, as well as the F.B.I. investigator handling the background check, and was instructed not to list meetings with foreign dignitaries and their staff connected with his Senate activities,” Prior said.

>Mark Zaid, a Washington attorney who focuses on national security law, told CNN that “a member of Congress would still have to reveal the appropriate foreign government contacts notwithstanding it was on official business.”

>Indeed, as CNN points out, the form that Sessions filled out specifically instructed him to list “any contact” that he or members of his family had had with either a “foreign government” or its “representatives” within the previous seven years.

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WASHINGTON — In a major jolt of support for President Trump, the powerful political network overseen by conservative billionaire Charles Koch is launching a multimillion-dollar campaign to drive Trump's tax plan through Congress.

>Koch, who viewed Trump's candidacy warily, now is racing to build public and congressional support for plans to overhaul the tax code. Trump's one-page tax blueprint, released last month, includes plans to slash the corporate tax rate, reduce taxes for high-income earners and abolish the federal estate tax.

>The group plans to throw "the full weight of the network" behind the campaign with the goal of passing a tax overhaul this year, said James Davis, a top official in Koch's Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce. Davis would not disclose a specific dollar amount but said the effort would include advertising and mobilizing grassroots activists.

>The campaign is expected to last into the fall.

>The chaos and controversy engulfing Trump's White House threatens to imperil his legislative agenda on everything from taxes to a plan to rebuild the country's infrastructure. But network officials see a window to push the tax plan this year, well in advance of the midterm elections that could risk Republican control of Congress.

>"If you don't do it now, it becomes increasingly difficult," Davis said.

>The network ranks among the most influential players in conservative politics with operations in 36 states and its own grassroots arm and for-profit data and marketing branches. In all, about 550 ultra-wealthy donors help finance the constellation of political and nonprofit groups associated with Koch and his brother David Koch.

>Those groups plan to spend $300 million to $400 million on policy and political campaigns ahead of the 2018 elections.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/18/koch-brothers-support-trump-tax-plan/101810990/

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http://theweek.com/speedreads/701338/fox-news-poll-says-trump-pence-have-never-been-more-unpopular

>President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are more unpopular with voters than ever, new poll results released by Fox News reveal. A majority of voters — 53 percent — do not approve of the job Trump is doing, and 43 percent say the same of Pence.

>Trump's approval rate is at 40 percent and Pence's at 42 percent, suggesting the veep's milder disapproval numbers are more about voter ignorance or uncertainty than comparative enthusiasm for his performance. Last month, an earlier Fox poll put Trump and Pence's approval ratings at 45 and 50 percent, respectively.

>Thursday's poll also found issues of federal spending, infrastructure, North Korea, and the fight against the Islamic State topped voters' list of concerns. On the subject of Trump's fabled border wall, 64 percent of Trump voters believe the president will follow through with his promise, while only 36 percent of all voters say the same.

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The Real Face of islamic Bomber of Manchester >.<

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2017/may/24/manchester-arena-bombing-terror-attack-victims-threat-critical-ariana-grande-concert-live-news