New Information Ties the Phony Anti-Trump-Russia Dossier to DNC Billionaire and Far Left Donor George Soros

The secrets to the deep state coup to prevent Donald Trump from winning the 2016 election and then to overthrow his government are slowly being revealed.

To no one’s surprise the plot leads back to DNC billionaire donor and anti-American activist George Soros.

George Soros was interviewed years ago on CBS’s 60 Minutes where he admitted helping Nazi’s during World War II steal from Jews during the war. Soros is Jewish. He was not apologetic.

Soros was also reportedly behind the airport protests in the US shortly after President Trump’s inauguration. A week before that Soros was reportedly behind 50 Groups involved in the ‘Women’s March the day after the inauguration. Before that, Soros was connected to the groups demanding election recounts after the November 8th election and Soros money was funding more protests during these efforts.

And DCLeaks released information that revealed Soros funded Black Lives Matter protests across the country.

George Soros was connected to every major protest after the election and many, if not all leading up to the election, including Black Lives Matter.

And now we know that the beginnings of the fake Anti-Trump Russia dossier leads back to George Soros.

Yesterday OANN released video on the formation of the phony Anti-Trump Russia dossier. They start with George Soros.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/huge-new-information-ties-the-phony-anti-trump-russia-dossier-to-dnc-billionaire-far-left-donor-george-soros/

May: Back My Deal or ‘We Will Not Leave the EU for Many Months, if Ever’

Theresa May has penned a public warning to MPs to back her twice-rejected Brexit deal with the European Union, or else “we will not leave the EU for many months, if ever.”

The Prime Minister’s proposed Brexit deal with the EU received the heaviest defeat of any Government in Britain’s recorded history in January, and was rejected again by slightly less crushing but still overwhelming 149 votes on March 12th.

By convention, parliamentary reverses of this scale — coupled with losing her party’s Commons majority in a 2017 snap election and being subject to a vote of no confidence in which a majority of Tory backbenchers said Mrs May should go — would have seen any other prime minister in modern times step down.

Mrs May is clinging doggedly to her office, however, planning a third parliamentary vote on her deal and a short delay to Brexit if it passes, or a very long delay to Brexit — or no Brexit at all — if MPs do not back it — despite repeated promises she would not do this and that the United Kingdom would be out of the EU with or without a deal come March 29th, as laid out in the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.

“If Parliament can agree the deal before the European Council on March 21, we will seek a short technical extension to pass the necessary legislation… If it cannot, we will not leave the EU for many months, if ever,” she threatened bluntly in a March 17th article for The Sunday Telegraph.

Mrs May further warned that, while MPs rejected calls for a second referendum in the series of votes which authorised the Government to seek an extension of Article 50 — a move opposed by a majority of her own MPs and by the DUP which props up her minority government, but passed despite them with the help of anti-Brexit, left-liberal opposition parties — the “threat of a second referendum [does not] disappear entirely because Parliament has not voted for one now.”

Indeed, parliamentarians voted against a Scottish National Party (SNP) amendment to extend Article 50 and take No Deal off the table as recently as January 29th, and have now voted in favour of both those things, so the threat is far from idle.

The Prime Minister’s entreaties carry little weight at this point, however, with the evident ease with which she has discarded her promises on No Deal being “better than a bad deal” and not extending Article 50 meaning she has permanently “lost the trust of eurosceptics”, according to her own senior aides.

If the Prime Minister was serious about delivering Brexit, as she claims, it would have been well within her power to deliver a clean break from the EU on March 29th, as mandated by the EU Withdrawal Act.

Any attempt by MPs — over 80 percent of whom derive their democratic mandate from manifestos which promised Brexit would be delivered — to sabotage this process could have been shut down by calling on the Queen to exercise her constitutional right to temporarily prorogue (suspend) the parliamentary session until after exit day.

The fact the Prime Minister has instead chosen to delay Brexit, threaten it might not happen at all, and allow MPs to vote against No Deal in any circumstances — essentially allowing the EU to veto Brexit, given they can simply decline to offer a deal on anything but unacceptable terms — has led many to suspect the former Remain campaigner does not really want it to take place.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/17/may-back-my-deal-we-will-not-leave-eu-for-many-months-if-ever/

Arizona Police, Feds Seize 45,000 Fentanyl Pills in Two Operations

Two separate investigations by Phoenix police narcotics investigators and a joint Bureau of Indian Affairs and Drug Enforcement Administration operation resulted in the seizure of 45,000 fentanyl pills this past week. One incident occurred in west Phoenix while the second took place on an Indian reservation that sits on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The first seizure took place on Tuesday when Phoenix Police Department narcotics detectives received information from a patrol officer about possible illegal activity at a Motel 6 located near 59th Avenue and Interstate 10 on the city’s west side. A patrol officer arrested an adult female identified inside one of the rooms at that location.

During the arrest of the female, patrol officers observed drug ledgers and other items recognized to be drug paraphernalia which led to the request for assistance from narcotics detectives. Upon the arrival of detectives, the investigators detained a 38-year-old male identified as Emmanuel Romero Hernandez. Detectives then searched the room and discovered approximately 15,000 fentanyl pills, two handguns, scales, multiple cell phones, and more than $9,000 in cash. After being interviewed, Hernandez claimed that he was given $5,000 dollars by two men he met the day before who allegedly told him to hold on to the fentanyl pills. Police transported Hernandez to the Maricopa County Jail and charged with possession of narcotic drugs for sale, money laundering, and misconduct involving weapons, according to a KTAR report.

The second seizure resulted from a joint operation involving opioid task force with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) related to a Mexican drug trafficking organization. The traffickers allegedly smuggled large quantities of fentanyl pills and other drugs from Mexico through U.S. points of entry into the Nation lands, according to the Interior Department this Friday. The task force also consisted of state, local, and tribal officials who in 2018 began the investigation. The operation utilized undercover BIA agents who purchased the fentanyl pills and more than $100,000 worth of other drugs on Arizona tribal lands. The controlled drug buys resulted in the arrests of three non-Indian suspects.

Fentanyl is a synthetic opiate that according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine. The illicit drug has been attributed to the alarming increase in opioid overdose deaths throughout the United States.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/03/17/arizona-police-feds-seize-45000-fentanyl-pills-in-two-operations/

In Photo: A Closer Look At Assault Rifle Of New Zealand Attacker

Turkish pro-government daily Daily Sabah made an infographics providing a closer look at the assault rifle of the person involved in the recent shooting in two New Zealand mosques. MORE HERE

https://southfront.org/in-photo-a-closer-look-at-assault-rifle-of-new-zealand-attacker/

Tech TYRANNY! Google strikes AGAIN to protect AOC and her ridiculous Green New Deal and it’s kinda sorta TERRIFYING

A few weeks ago, Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a ‘pompous twit’ over her silly Green New Deal and her tweets and comments about climate change. Like most sane people, Moore understood telling millions of Americans they couldn’t fly or eat beef anymore wouldn’t fly.

But once Moore came out against AOC, Greenpeace tried to claim he wasn’t a co-founder and now it seems Google has deliberately removed him as such.

Seriously.

Look at this.

http://www.hideoutnow.com/2019/03/tech-tyranny-google-strikes-again-to.html

Hot Off the Press: Israel’s Three Largest Banks Pay Hundreds Of Millions In Fines For Helping US Citizens Evade Taxes

Following a few mild words of dissent by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, the US House of Representatives was almost united in affirming the special relationship between Israel and the US. See, for ex. So how is “our most reliable and most important ally” treating us? If ‘our' includes the US treasury, the answer is that Israel’s banks have been accused of and have admitted to actively colluding with wealthy US taxpayers to avoid US taxes.

On March 12, Israel’s third largest bank, Mizrahi Tefahot, agreed to pay $195 million to the United States to settle charges that the bank knowingly aided tax evasion by US citizens from 2002 until 2012.

Israel’s largest bank, Leumi paid a $400 million dollar fine for similar “criminal activity” that spanned the period from at least 2000 to 2011. Hapoalim, Israel’s second largest bank is presently negotiating a settlement with the US Justice Department. The total settlement from all three banks will amount to over $1 billion.

As conceded by the banks, these tax avoidance schemes have been going on for decades. Israel’s Supervisor of Banks, Hedva Ber, noted the longevity of this practice: “Twenty years ago, Israeli banks did not ask customers about the source of their money and did not ask if they had paid taxes or not.” But the issue is not limited to banks failing to inquire about the source of funds, these admissions of actively aiding tax evasion show that “Israeli banks…..for decades helped Diaspora Jews evade taxes and launder money on a major scale.”

According to Hevda Ber, for many years Israeli banks provided essentially the same services to foreigners that Swiss banks gave, minus Switzerland’s banking secrecy laws. Actually, according to the settlements and to criminal cases against US taxpayers, Israel’s banks not only did indeed offer American customers secrecy for bank accounts, (Leumi admitted to failing to send statements to the US addresses of over 2400 customers) but also provided ways for US citizens to bring untaxed income back to the US without paying US taxes.

For instance, for over twelve years in the 1970s and 1980s, the Antar family, owners of the discount electronics chain Crazy Eddie, laundered money through Bank Leumi. Sam Antar described to The Times of Israel how he and his family transferred a total of about $10 million in unreported cash by handing a briefcase full of cash to a Bank Leumi employee in New York and then receiving an equivalent suitcase the next day on an El Al flight to Israel.

Here was the challenge of withdrawing that money as described by Anton. “Say I had $10 million in Israel, and I needed to use that money over here in New York. They couldn’t wire me the funds because the account is secret. This money is hidden from the US government to evade income taxes.” So, according to Antar, Bank Leumi in New York would give him a low interest rate loan secured by Antar’s assets in Israel. The paperwork for the loan concealed the fact that Antar had money deposited in Israel.

Similarly, and according to court documents, Elie Waknine, of Huntington Beach, California, held millions of dollars in an account at Bank Leumi. Waknine’s tax returns falsely claimed he did not have any foreign accounts. Bank Leumi did not send bank mail to Waknine’s home in the United States. Leumi allowed Waknine to access his accounts through certain ‘loans’ issued by Leumi’s U.S. branch that were secretly secured by funds in his undeclared accounts in Israel.

https://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2019/3/17/hot-off-the-press-israels-three-largest-banks-pay-hundreds-of-millions-in-fines-for-helping-us-citizens-evade-taxes

While Dems Try To Remove God from the Classroom, One State Is Trying To Force LGBT History into Textbooks

As several states were making moves earlier this year to add elective classes on the historical impact of the Bible — and the president endorsed the move — the left pitched a fit.

“State legislators should not be fooled that these bills are anything more than part of a scheme to impose Christian beliefs on public schoolchildren,” Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said back in January.

Mind you, these classes were completely elective, but they were enough to inspire revulsion and anger among the left. Which was interesting, because now Illinois is adding a mandatory plan that includes LGBT history in the school syllabus over the objections of Republicans.

According to The Hill, the bill has passed both the Illinois House and Senate. It requires the state’s K-12 textbooks to include “the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the history of this country and this State.” The bill now heads to the desk of Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat.

The bill was introduced by Democrat Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, who says her brother was denied tenure as a teacher because he revealed the sexuality of a historical figure 15 years ago.

“He was subjected to hate mail and called into the principal’s office to explain why he answered a student’s question honestly. My brother was teaching history and a student asked whether the historical figure there was the subject of the lesson was gay. He answered with the truth,” Gong-Gershowitz told NPR Illinois after the state House approved the bill on Wednesday.

That’s horrifying behavior and nobody ought to condone it. That doesn’t necessarily mean dedicating a portion of the syllabus to LGBT history in any way addresses or prevents that sort of thing, mind you. It also introduces a whole host of problems.

“Here’s what parents in my district said, ‘How or why is a historical figure’s sexuality or gender self-identification even relevant? Especially when we’re talking about kindergarten and elementary school history,'” state Rep. Tom Morrison, a Republican, told NPR.

However, it’s not just about teaching sexuality or gender self-identification to younger students who may not appreciate quite what’s being discussed.

What perspectives are going to be included in the syllabus? Are we talking about an ecumenical view of the subject that acknowledges that certain faiths believe — as per their holy books — that same-sex relationships are sinful?

Is there going to be recognition of the fact that science on certain aspects of transgenderism and gender identification is far from settled?

Or, will people of faith be painted as nothing but televangelists on those high-numbered DirecTV channels, speaking hateful fire and brimstone from sullied pulpits? Will the science on gender fluidity and treatments for gender dysphoria be seen as concrete and unassailable by anyone but bigots?

It’s profoundly unlikely that the syllabus will be able to avoid taking a stand one way or the other, and one can be reasonably certain, given the spirit in which the bill was passed, which way things are going to go.

If this had been in any way optional — if Illinois wanted to institute an elective class that dealt with “the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the history of this country and this State” — there would hardly be any space for criticism.

It would be the same as those Bible history classes the left found so much time to publicly loathe earlier this year because mentioning God anywhere near a public school is a secular sin of the mortal variety.

Instead, this is a mandatory addition to the curriculum and one that’s probably going to end with most educators taking an unequivocal stance on issues that are far more ambiguous. Instead of teachers like Rep. Gong-Gershowitz’s brother receiving the obloquy for speaking the truth about the sexuality of a historical figure, it’s probably going to be students who voice any contradictory opinions to what’s bound to be the party line.

That’s assuming, of course, they can muster the considerable courage it’ll take to speak up at all.

We live in a world where teachers in almost any school district in America can say that a historical figure was LGBT and not be subject to the kind of hate that allegedly greated Rep. Gong-Gershowitz’s brother.

We’re a better country for it. We’re not a better country, however, when tolerance becomes indoctrination.

But why should the left care? It doesn’t affect them, after all.

http://www.hideoutnow.com/2019/03/while-dems-try-to-remove-god-from.html

Complete Venezuela Comments from Zakharova: Electric trouble came from outside

On the situation in Venezuela

The situation in and around Venezuela continues to be extremely tense. Following the failed attempt at the end of February. of the so-called “humanitarian” invasion, and the unceasing provocative activity of the self-proclaimed “interim president,” this week a serious disaster came to Venezuela that has cost the lives of Venezuela’s citizens.

And it came about, unfortunately, the way we talked about during our previous briefing on March 7, through sabotage, just a few hours after our warning. Like the absolute majority of the troubles that have befallen independent Venezuela in recent years, this trouble came from outside. According to the legal Government of the country, led by President N.Maduro, as well as information from other reliable sources confirming this information, the Venezuelan power sector has been attacked from abroad.

We are talking about the integrated remote impact on the control and monitoring systems of the main power distribution stations, where equipment produced in one of the western countries was installed. Of course, that means all the algorithms of work and vulnerabilities of this equipment and the corresponding systems were well known to the direct organizers of the aggression. They, and the authorizers of the sabotage are responsible for the deaths of people, including in the hospitals left without electricity. We hope that this responsibility will sooner or later take the form of a court sentence. Now under investigation.

Anticipating possible questions in connection with the recent statement by President N. Maduro on this subject, I will answer immediately. In the case of receiving a formal appeal on the assistance of our specialists in the investigation, it will be considered very carefully.

I would like to note that such a harmful effect on infrastructure facilities is increasingly used as a method of so-called hybrid warfare. In connection with the situation in Venezuela, a parallel to the situation in the Kherson region of Ukraine in the fall of 2015 suggests itself. Let me remind you, then right-wing radicals, desperate to break the will of the Crimeans, introduced the so-called “water blockade” of the Crimea, and blew up the power lines leading to the peninsula, consciously putting the lives and health of hundreds of thousands of people at risk.

The so-called heroes of Maidan, in order to achieve their own goals under the auspices of the United States and a number of their allies, did not disdain the most unscrupulous methods. In particular, M. Dzhemilev, against whom a criminal case was initiated in absentia in Russia, during the period of the energy blockade of the Crimea,that he supported, demanded a complete stop of electricity to the peninsula and wondered why food products still continued to flow there.

That is, he called for the organization of a food blockade – the implementation of the most terrible and tragic episodes of world wars. Apparently, inhumanity and neglect of the elementary norms of human morality are common features of those who put themselves above international law, be it in relation to the inhabitants of Crimea or Venezuela.

https://www.fort-russ.com/2019/03/remarks-venezuela-trouble-came-from-outside/

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yeah i noticed that too. Turkey is Cabal run.

Sweden: Serious Crimes Committed by Returned ISIS Fighters

According to a new investigation, one in three returned Islamic State fighters in Sweden have committed serious crimes after coming back from the Middle East.

The investigation, which looked into the activities of 41 Islamic State members who had returned from Syria and Iraq, found that all of those sentences or suspected of crimes, 13 people in total, were men, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.

The crimes that the men have been either suspected or of convicted of have included serious offences such as the case of a 31-year-old man who was filmed by his neighbours attacking another man with a pair of scissors last July and is now looking at attempted murder charges.

Other offences include drug-related crimes, fraud, extortion, money laundering, abuse, and some have also found themselves in trouble due to owing taxes.

Gabriel Wernstedt, press secretary at the Swedish Security Police (Säpo), would not comment on specific cases but said they were working together with other authorities.

“The purpose is to protect Sweden and democracy. Within the framework of this mission, we follow a number of crime-active individuals within different extremist groups who have an intention and ability to commit crimes, which could, for example, be related to terrorist offences,” Wernstedt said.

The investigation comes only weeks after it was claimed that Islamic State members living in the heavily-migrant populated city of Malmö had been operating underground mosques and attempting to recruit new extremists.

“The situation here in Rosengård is really bad,” a local mother said.

Around 150 Islamic State fighters have returned to Sweden from the Middle East, but many municipalities have admitted they have no idea where they are.

In Gothenburg and Västra Götaland, for example, dozens of Islamic radicals are believed to have returned to the area, but the municipality only knew of ten adults and eight children who had returned.

With many ISIS radicals still in the Middle East, many of them arrested by Kurdish or Iraqi forces, some have requested to return to Sweden.

While other countries have stripped the citizenship of some ISIS members, Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven ruled out the practice, saying that Swedish citizens could return but they would receive little in the way of consular support to do so.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/16/sweden-serious-crimes-committed-by-returned-isis-fighters/

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The fifth suspect of Christchurch shootings has defected to Israel

A suspect confronted the court, two other under investigation; reports about another suspect who left for Israel faces the silence of authorities.

The attack to two mosques in Christchurch, a city in eastern New Zealand, has led to the death of 49 people leaving dozens seriously injured. The terrorist, holding a camera on head live-streaming the attack on Facebook, rushed the Al-Noor mosque with a gun and then fled to streets continuing to shoot the passers-by.

The live-stream stopped a few streets away while minutes later another mosque, Linwood mosques, was targeted by another attack. Most casualties, nevertheless, were reported in the first attack.

The local authorities announced that less than an hour after the attack, the main suspect, a 28-year-old Australian, was arrested while three others were also put under investigation. One suspect was released from custody after the end of primary investigations.

It remains unclear if the attackers of the two mosques were the same or there were five attackers involved. One of the terrorists managed to escape the country hours after Friday noon. The fifth attacker has defected to Israel with the help of unknown aides. No official reaction has been made by Tel Aviv or local authorities on the issue yet.

While the main suspect has confronted the court a day after the terrorist attack, the local authorities has made no remark about his partner(s) in the brutal act.

The distance between the two mosques seems to show that the terrorist would have no chance to get to the second mosque if he were alone. Besides, considering the fact that the attack was terroristic in nature, as the New Zealand Prime Minister asserted, the involvement of other individuals, or other countries, seems probable.

https://intellectualobserver.com/the-fifth-suspect-of-christchurch-shootings-has-defected-to-israel/

Pompeo to visit Israel, Lebanon, Kuwait to bolster anti-Iranian drive

While in Jerusalem, Pompeo is expected to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in spite of the close proximity of his visit to Israel’s April 9th election.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plans to push back against Iran’s “maligned” regional interests by visiting Israel, Kuwait and Lebanon this week.

“In each of those places, [we have] a different mission set, but the common thing in each of those places is helping those countries bolster their efforts to push back against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Pompeo told Fox and Friends on Friday as he described his March 19-23 visit to the Middle East.

In a briefing with reporters in Washington, a senior State Department official said, “Obviously we have an overarching regional and trans-regional objective of constraining, throttling back, ultimately rolling back the malign adventures, influence, presence of Iran’s forces.”

The official added that this included their “proxy and associated forces throughout the region,” such as in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.

While in Jerusalem, Pompeo is expected to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in spite of the close proximity of his visit to Israel’s April 9 election.

Former US president Barack Obama had refused to meet with Netanyahu prior to the 2015 election so that he would not be seen as interfering with the Israeli election.

The Trump administration has not held that same view point, with US President Donald Trump also set to meet with Netanyahu in Washington at the end of the month.

The senior officials dismissed questions on the topic from reporters during the briefing.

https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Pompeo-to-visit-Israel-Lebanon-Kuwait-to-bolster-anti-Iranian-drive-583666

Look at the digits for this ^^^^^ article, you can't make this shit up

Let’s go over the full array of “conspiracy theories” and see if you can pick up a pattern.

• Operation Northwoods, a conspiracy to fake attacks on US soil by “Cuba” to generate a pretext for an invasion. Approved by the head of the JCS, rejected by Kennedy. Would have had us invade Cuba.

• Tonkin Gulf. Got us into Vietnam.

• Babies in Incubators. Got us into Gulf War 1. (NPR did a great piece on this, a comfortable 30 years after the fact. It turns out that news organizations CAN expose conspiracy theories-turned-truth, but only long, unthreatening time afterwards.)

• WMD in Iraq. Got us into Gulf War 2.

• Office Fire Destroys Skyscraper. Helped get us to pass the Patriot Act, widespread spying on Americans, and also got us into Afghanistan.

Oh sure, that last one hasn’t moved from theory into fact yet. But I’m sure, like Tonkin Gulf, everyone will accept it as fact maybe 20 years from now, and NPR will do a nice piece on how Office Fires Can’t Destroy Skyscrapers After All. (Duh!)

• “Syrian Government Chemical Attacks” which led to missile strikes

• Maduro is a Really Bad Man – which appears to be leading to an invasion of Venezuela and Regime Change, a failed state, and a Libya/Syria-like flood of refugees pouring into neighboring countries.

If you haven’t noticed the trend yet, I’ll lay it out for you.

If it leads to bombing some other country, the mainstream press is for it. Every single one of our wars has been A-OKed by the press. Arguments against said wars were labeled as conspiracy theories at the time. It took 20-50 years for them to become acknowledged as fact. I didn’t realize this at the time, but now? I’d be an idiot to ignore the pattern.

I’d like a checkbox item for Newsguard. “Did the organization largely approve any of following past stories that led the nation into war?” Weight that at 50%. War and peace are probably the most critical stories to get right, after all. If they added this checkbox, most news outlets would get failing grades.

So yeah. I read conspiracy sites. A lot of what they say is full of crap, but they also – guaranteed – are telling the truth about some events that it will take 50 years for the mainstream press to be able to acknowledge as fact.

And people like you will say, in 50 years, “well gosh, sure they got that one old story about the skyscraper wrong…but they certainly don’t do that anymore.”

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/lets-go-over-the-full-array-of-conspiracy-theories-and-see-if-you-can-pick-up-a-pattern/

1.5 million felons can now vote in Florida because of these men

Neil Volz was a man who had it all; Desmond Meade was a man who never had much of anything. Both of them were convicted of felonies and hit the depths of despair before realizing they could help others like them.

When the two met in 2015, it was a natural fit.

“Us meeting I don’t think was no coincidence,” Meade said. “When you put out your vibes into the universe, it tends to come back to you, you know?”

Now, thanks to their efforts, a newly passed referendum means 1.5 million convicted felons will be able to take part in Florida’s elections come November.

Five years ago, Meade founded the Floridians for a Fair Democracy to help felons like himself regain the right to vote. Volz joined the crusade one year later.

But the stories of how they got here couldn’t be more different.

Volz was in his second year at Ohio State 25 years ago when he started volunteering for his state senator, Bob Ney. When Ney won a seat in Congress during the big wave year for Republicans in 1994, Volz followed him to DC “for what I thought was my dream job.”

He quickly ascended in DC, eventually becoming Ney’s chief of staff and a successful lobbyist. But, in his work for the notorious lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Volz found himself immersed in a shocking corruption scandal, cooperating with the FBI and pleading guilty to a felony count of conspiracy.

“I lost my high-paying job, my marriage, my lifestyle and any chance of a career in politics. I was a broke man,” he said.

Meade, meanwhile, never had much to lose — a misspent youth that became a misspent time in the Army, which threw him out on a larceny charge. By then he was addicted to cocaine and trouble.

After the loss of his mother, Meade says he was a man without a home and a moral center. “In 2001, I was sentenced to 15 years for possession of a firearm. I only did three of those years. But when I got out, I still had the drug problem. Eventually, it led me to standing in front of railroad tracks, waiting on the train to come so I could jump in front of it in August of 2005.”

For whatever reason, the train never showed up that day. Instead, Meade walked to a rehab center two blocks away, got clean, went back to school, got two degrees and then enrolled in law school.

In 2015, both men found each other at a Florida Gulf Coast University event on felony voting rights where Meade was speaking.

“I walked in, and my instincts were that it was kind of progressive, right?” Volz said. “I’m a 20-plus year conservative, but I sat down and within 30 seconds, I felt like I belonged there.”

http://www.madnesshub.com/2019/03/15-million-felons-can-now-vote-in.html

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How come FB shut down live feeds within minutes if the content exposes truth but this was allowed for 17 mins???????????????????????????????????????????????????