Breaking911
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BREAKING: Former Trump confidant Michael Cohen secretly recorded Donald Trump discussing payments to a Playboy model two months before the election & the FBI seized it during a raid earlier this year on Cohen’s office - New York Times
House Republicans Look To Fulfill $5B Request For Southern Border Wall Funds
The White House is throwing its support behind a Homeland Security spending bill, which would designate five billion dollars to the southern border wall.
According to Thursday reports, the measure — proposed by the House — would include 200-miles of physical barriers and technology at the U.S.-Mexico border.
https://www.oann.com/house-republicans-look-to-fulfill-5b-request-for-southern-border-wall-funds/
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Just cuz I post it dont mean I believe or endorse it. Sometimes its helpful to read all sides whether one believes it or not.
Ecuador to hand over Assange to UK ‘in coming weeks or days,’ own sources tell RT's editor-in chief
Ecuador is ready to hand over the WikiLeaks founder to the UK in “coming weeks or even days,” RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said citing her own sources, as prospects of his eviction from the embassy are back in the media.
“My sources tell [Julian] Assange will be handed over to Britain in the coming weeks or even days,” Simonyan wrote in a recent tweet which was reposted by WikiLeaks. “Like never before, I wish my sources were wrong,” she continued.
https://www.rt.com/news/433783-wikileaks-assange-ecuador-uk/amp/?
Inside WikiLeaks: Working with the Publisher that Changed the World
Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi has worked with WikiLeaks for nine years on the Podesta emails and other revelations. Here’s an insider’s view of the publisher that has incensed rulers around the world, desperate to hide their corruption.
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/07/19/inside-wikileaks-working-with-the-publisher-that-changed-the-world/
They outta get a earful at my house. My kids are always yellin.
SOAPBOX: Paid insurance premiums for 30+ years. Dont have dental; cant afford dental; must pay dental and glasses out of pocket. In my neck of the woods, most people - NOT ALL- most people are on medicaid because they are meth heads or too lazy to work. This just isn't fair to the people who do what they are supposed to do. Rant over.
Kentucky to restore dental, vision benefits to Medicaid beneficiaries after court ruling
Kentucky said it will restore dental and vision benefits for some Medicaid beneficiaries by Aug. 1, after a federal court blocked the state's rules that conditioned those benefits on a work requirement.
The state's work requirements program included an account called "My Rewards" that would allow participants to pay for routine vision and dental benefits after completing the requirements, according to Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services. or CHFS.
But a federal judge ruled in late June that the work requirements were "arbitrary and capricious." That decision shut down the program and its related benefits. Because of the court ruling, “there was no legal authority” to pay for the services out of the account, the state said, and that required a workaround.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/kentucky-to-restore-dental-vision-benefits-to-medicaid-beneficiaries-after-court-ruling?
well, I'll leave it to you to tell me, anon, if I post something from a fake site. Who knows anymore?
Immigration Nonprofit Refuses $250K From Tech Company Incorrectly Thinking Its Staff Supports ICE Contract
A pro-immigration nonprofit has refused accepting a $250,000 charitable donation from Salesforce, despite that company’s staff supporting their work.
Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) refused the donation from Salesforce — a San Francisco-based cloud computing company that specializes in customer relationship management products — because it has a contract with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
https://dailycaller.com/2018/07/20/raices-salesforce-immigration-donation/?
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Thursday, July 19, 2018
Former Executive Director of Non-Profit Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy with Unnamed State Senator and Convicted Lobbyist
A Former Executive Director of a non-profit pleaded guilty today to conspiring to unlawfully divert over $380,000 from South Arkansas Youth Services (SAYS), without the authority of the non-profit’s Board of Directors. According to plea documents, the scheme involved steering the non-profit’s funds to an Arkansas state senator and the lobbying firm of convicted lobbyist Milton “Rusty” Cranford, in exchange for the state senator agreeing to influence Arkansas officials regarding state contracts.
Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Duane (DAK) Kees for the Western District of Arkansas made the announcement.
Jerry Walsh, 72, of Magnolia, Arkansas, who served as the Executive Director of SAYS pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Susan O. Hickey to an information charging him with conspiracy to misapply the non-profit’s funds without authority from the Board of Directors.
As part of his plea, Walsh admitted that beginning in 2013, while serving as Executive Director for SAYS, he agreed to divert SAYS funds to Rusty Cranford and an unnamed Arkansas state senator in exchange for the state senator’s influence in protecting the non-profit’s state contracts with the Arkansas Department Health Services (DHS) and DHS’ Division of Youth Services (DYS). As part of that agreement, Walsh was to provide a monthly “legal retainer” to the Arkansas state senator without the expectation that the senator ever provide any legal work. Instead, the purpose of the payment was to obtain the senator’s assistance in preserving the contracts by influencing DHS and DYS officials. According to the plea, the amount paid to the senator was negotiated by convicted lobbyist Rusty Cranford and amounted to over $120,000.
Additionally, as part of the agreement, Walsh locked SAYS into a more expensive contract with Cranford’s lobbying firms and employed a relative of Cranford who would have a “no-show” job with SAYS. Between the new contract with the Cranford lobbying firm and the payment for the no-show job, the non-profit paid out an additional $262,000 in diverted funds. As part of his plea, Walsh admitted that these payments and those to the state senator were not authorized by the SAYS Board of Directors.
“Jerry Walsh diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars intended to help vulnerable children in southern Arkansas as a part of a corrupt scheme to influence the award of state contracts,” said Assistant Attorney General Benczkowski. “Walsh’s actions ultimately risked destroying the non-profit he helped lead and undermining the public’s confidence in its elected officials. The Criminal Division and our law enforcement partners are committed to protecting the integrity of charitable programs, rooting out corruption, and ensuring that individuals like Walsh are held accountable for their actions.”
“This plea exposes the depths to which ‘pay to play’ politics has corrupted a non-profit organization which was formed with the best of intentions, to help children,” said U.S. Attorney Kees. “Unfortunately, there are many victims in a scheme like this. The people of this state were deprived of the uncorrupted functioning of their government agencies, the non-profit was stripped of funds, and now that the non-profit has been shuttered, the community is deprived of a non-profit dedicated to providing services to their most vulnerable children, those who are incarcerated and in state custody. I look forward to a day when all politicians exercising influence do so based upon the best interests of the children in their communities and not on who is paying them for no-show jobs.”
The FBI investigated this case along with the assistance of the Magnolia Police Department and the 13th Judicial District of Arkansas Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Ben Wulff of the Western District of Arkansas and Trial Attorney Marco A. Palmieri of the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section are prosecuting the case with the assistance of Deputy Prosecutor Ryan Phillips with the 13th Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. This is a combined investigation with the Public Integrity Section of the Department of Justice, the Eastern District of Arkansas, Western District of Arkansas, and the Western District of Missouri.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-executive-director-non-profit-pleads-guilty-conspiracy-unnamed-state-senator-and
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
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Meeting with some of the @A_Safe_Haven staff who help get jobs for homeless people. It’s truly empowering for the people they serve
(this quiet, honorable man doesn't get the attention he so deserves, but people like him rarely seek it. This anon admires him greatly.)
good point. Didnt think of that.
North Korea Has Highest Rate of Modern Slavery
07/19/2018 North Korea (Radio Free Asia) – North Korea is the world’s leading slave state with an estimated 2.6 million living in conditions of forced servitude, most of them forced to work for the state, according to report released on Thursday by the Australia-based Walk Free Foundation.
Government involvement in forced labor both inside North Korea and in other countries, where Pyongyang sends North Korean workers to earn foreign currency for the regime, mainly drives the practice in the one-party communist country, says the report, the 2018 Global Slavery Index.
“You cannot refuse,” one defector said, adding, “If your work unit leader orders you to work, you have to do it. If you don’t, then your food rations are cut off.”
Others have to pay, themselves, for materials used in factories to show that goods were being produced, the Global Index says.
Respondents also described work in the country’s harsh and repressive labor camps, or at jobs worked overseas to earn foreign currency for North Korea’s cash-strapped regime.
https://www.persecution.org/2018/07/20/north-korea-highest-rate-modern-slavery/
Hot Mic Catches What Marine Whispers To Trump At White House Event
Chris Cortez told Trump, “Mr. President, on behalf of Microsoft — 10,000 opportunities — I’m really proud to be their representative.” Cortez then dropped his mic and leaned in to tell Trump something personal. A hot mic picked up what he said.
“I served 33 years in the Marines,” Cortez told Trump in hushed tones.
“Whoa, that’s fantastic,” Trump responded.
“I served with John Kelly and Jim Mattis,” Cortez continued, “and you got two one good ones.”
Trump shook the man’s hand saying, “Very good. You’re right. They’re great. They’re great. Thank you very much. Thank you.”
https://dailycaller.com/2018/07/20/hot-mic-marine-trump-white-house/?
Iran has laid groundwork for extensive cyberattacks on U.S., say officials
ASPEN, Colo. — Iranian hackers have laid the groundwork to carry out extensive cyberattacks on U.S. and European infrastructure and on private companies, and the U.S. is warning allies, hardening its defenses and weighing a counterattack, say multiple senior U.S. officials.
Despite Iran having positioned cyber weapons to carry out attacks, there is no suggestion an offensive operation is imminent, according to the officials, who requested anonymity in order to speak.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna893081?