Anonymous ID: 564923 May 7, 2019, 6:56 p.m. No.6442182   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2233 >>2387 >>2855 >>2894

"The Art Of Expensing": NYTimes Leaks Trump's Billion-Dollar Tax Loss From 1985-1994 Decade

 

Every year from 1985 through 1994, according to leaked tax returns obtained by The New York Times, Donald J. Trump reported a negative adjusted gross income on his tax returns. That number grew as new losses were combined with those from prior years. The New York Times previously found that Mr. Trump declared an adjusted gross income in 1995 of negative $915.7 million.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-07/art-expensing-nytimes-leaks-trumps-billion-dollar-tax-loss-1985-1994-decade

Anonymous ID: 564923 May 7, 2019, 7:04 p.m. No.6442273   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2336 >>2471 >>2559 >>2644 >>2678 >>2680 >>2766 >>2826 >>2873

Breaking Down Pompeo’s Verbal Assault on Russia and China’s Arctic Interests

 

The American Secretary of State threw down the gauntlet at Monday’s Arctic Council summit and showed the world that his country will actively challenge Russia and China’s interests in the Arctic Ocean.

 

US Secretary of State Pompeo’s appearance at Monday’s Arctic Council summit in Finland would have been a routine affair had it not been for his keynote speech verbally assaulting Russia and China’s interests in the Arctic Ocean. His words amounted to nothing less than a declaration of Hybrid War against these two multipolar Great Powers and therefore deserve to be studied more in detail beyond the casual attention given to them by the Mainstream Media. What follows is a collection of excerpts from his speech followed by a brief interpretation of the strategic meaning being conveyed, with the purpose of this exercise being to raise awareness of the US’ approach to the region and its likely modi operandi for advancing its interests there:

 

Passage:

 

“This is America’s moment to stand up as an Arctic nation and for the Arctic’s future. Because far from the barren back country that many thought it to be in Seward’s time, the Arctic is at the forefront of opportunity and abundance. It houses 13 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil, 30 percent of its undiscovered gas, and an abundance of uranium, rare earth minerals, gold, diamonds, and millions of square miles of untapped resources. Fisheries galore.

 

And its centerpiece, the Arctic Ocean, is rapidly taking on new strategic significance. Offshore resources, which are helping the respective coastal states, are the subject of renewed competition. Steady reductions in sea ice are opening new passageways and new opportunities for trade. This could potentially slash the time it takes to travel between Asia and the West by as much as 20 days. Arctic sea lanes could come before – could come the 21s century Suez and Panama Canals.”

 

Interpretation:

 

The Arctic Ocean is one of the most resource-rich areas in the world and its geostrategic importance is rapidly rising due to its increasingly active sea lanes connecting East Asia with Western Europe.

 

Passage:

 

“China has observer status in the Arctic Council, but that status is contingent upon its respect for the sovereign rights of Arctic states. The U.S. wants China to meet that condition and contribute responsibly in the region. But China’s words and actions raise doubts about its intentions.”

 

Interpretation:

 

Fake news fearmongering about Chinese activity in the region, including the claims that Pompeo will soon make, could be exploited as the pretext for jeopardizing the country’s observer status in the Arctic Council and subsequently contributing to what the US believes would be its so-called “isolation” as a result.

 

Passage:

 

“Between 2012 and 2017, China invested in the Arctic nearly $90 billion. It’s planning to build infrastructure from Canada, to the Northwest Territories, to Siberia. Just last month, Russia announced plans to connect the Northern Sea Route with China’s Maritime Silk Road, which would develop a new shipping channel from Asia to northern Europe. Meanwhile, China is already developing shipping lanes in the Arctic Ocean.

 

This is part of a very familiar pattern.

 

Beijing attempts to develop critical infrastructure using Chinese money, Chinese companies, and Chinese workers – in some cases, to establish a permanent Chinese security presence. Our Pentagon warned just last week that China could use its civilian research presence in the Arctic to strengthen its military presence, including our deployment of submarines – including deployment of submarines to the region as a deterrent against nuclear attack.”

 

Interpretation:

 

The US is repeating its usual rhetoric about how China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) is supposedly a front for clandestinely expanding its military influence all across the world.

 

https://www.globalresearch.ca/pompeo-verbal-assault-russia-chinas-arctic-interests/5676835

Anonymous ID: 564923 May 7, 2019, 7:08 p.m. No.6442313   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2360 >>2367 >>2420 >>2644 >>2678 >>2766 >>2826 >>2873

Mistrial Hearing at 9:00 AM Tomorrow – Future of Trial in Doubt

 

The first day of Keith Raniere’s trial ended on an odd note with Raniere’s lead attorney, Marc Agnifilo, indicating he wanted the presiding judge, Nicholas G. Garaufis, to declare a mistrial – and a clearly miffed Judge Garaufis indicating that, if a mistrial is declared, a second trial would not start until September.

 

Courtroom observers indicated that Agnifilo was displeased over the fact that the lead prosecutor, Moira Kim Penza, had instructed the prosecution’s first witness, a British citizen named Sylvie, that she could mention the last name of someone she was describing during her testimony.

 

Agnifilo apparently did not object to Penza’s instruction before Sylvie mentioned the person’s last name.

 

But as soon as the jury had been dismissed for the day, Agnifilo indicated to the court that a mistrial needed to be declared because of the person’s last name being mentioned.

 

Judge Garaufis chastised Agnifilo for not raising an objection on the matter when it first came up – and heatedly asked him if he really wanted to come back and try the case in September.

 

Agnifilo responded by telling the judge that he would sooner do that than proceed with a trial that was unfair to his client.

 

https://frankreport.com/2019/05/07/mistrial-hearing-at-900-am-tomorrow-future-of-trial-in-doubt/

Anonymous ID: 564923 May 7, 2019, 7:37 p.m. No.6442566   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2583 >>2678 >>2766 >>2826 >>2873

Apple and Google pull three dating apps from their online stores after it's revealed they allowed CHILDREN as young as 12 to create profiles

 

Three dating apps were removed by Apple and Google for allowing children

The apps have already proven to be tools of sexual predators in recent cases

Apps also collected live location data, birth dates, pictures, and more

UK legislators may require more stringent age verification for such apps

 

Following warnings from the FTC, both Apple and Google have removed several dating apps from their platforms that they say allowed children to join.

 

According to a letter sent by the FTC to Ukraine-based Wildec LLC, which owns FastMeet, Meet24 and Meet4U, the trio of dating apps allowed children as young as 12 to participate in the service and communicate with adults.

 

In an FTC investigation of the app, the organization says they were also able to identify and confirm multiple children within the service using a built-in age filter that allows users to search by age.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7003687/Apple-Google-ban-three-dating-apps-allowed-CHILDREN-young-12-create-profiles.html

Anonymous ID: 564923 May 7, 2019, 7:40 p.m. No.6442593   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Human Traffickers, Corrupt Clergy Target Pakistani Christian Girls For Chinese Grooms

 

Illegal marriage brokers began targeting Pakistani Christian girls to sell into marriages with older Chinese men in late 2018 in order to meet the rising demand for foreign brides in China, human rights groups said.

Christian activists, pastors, and government officials claim the brokers pay corrupt clergy to find brides from among poor Christian families.

They also said Chinese immigration officials ignore the practice by indiscriminately issuing visas.

 

Human traffickers are paying corrupt clergy to lure impoverished Christian girls from Pakistan to China in order to sell them into marriages with older Chinese men, human rights groups said.

 

Pastors, Pakistani government officials, and brides who escaped their Chinese husbands said “marriage brokers” began targeting girls from poor Christian families in Pakistan in late 2018 in response to a mounting demand for foreign brides in China, according to The Associated Press.

 

Traffickers have sold up to 1,000 Pakistani girls into sexual slavery thinly veiled as marriage since October of 2018, aided by what activists claim is the apathy of immigration officials and the greed of corrupt priests.

 

“This is human smuggling,” Ijaz Alam Augustine, human rights and minorities minister for the Punjab province of Pakistan, told the AP. “Greed is really responsible for these marriages … I have met with some of these girls and they are very poor.”

 

Human traffickers have enlisted the help of corrupt clerics who offer poor Christian families thousands of dollars in exchange for allowing their daughters to be sold into marriage to Chinese men who, they are told, are wealthy converts to Christianity. The lure is especially enticing to Pakistani Christian families, as Christians in Pakistan have little political support and are among the poorest people in the country.

 

Pakistani custom holds that a bride’s family must pay a dowry to the groom. The husband and his family will often mistreat the bride if her family is unable to pay what they believe to be an adequate dowry. Daughters, therefore, are often seen as burdens to Pakistani families, especially those in poverty. The offer from a rich, Christian, foreign national to pay for all wedding expenses, along with the recommendation of a local priest or pastor, appears too promising for poor Pakistani Christian families to deny.

 

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/07/human-trafficking-china-pakistan/

Anonymous ID: 564923 May 7, 2019, 7:42 p.m. No.6442606   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2766 >>2826 >>2873

US ambassador to Kiev sacked amid ‘meddling’ accusations from Ukraine’s top prosecutor

 

Washington’s ambassador to Ukraine has been dismissed from service two months ahead of schedule. The development comes less than a month after the top Ukrainian prosecutor claimed she gave him a ‘do-not-prosecute list.’

 

Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch will leave her position on May 20, some two months ahead of the end of her tenure, the Ukrainian media and the US government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported earlier this week, citing sources within the American embassy in Kiev.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/458674-us-ambassador-ukraine-sacked-scandal/

Anonymous ID: 564923 May 7, 2019, 7:53 p.m. No.6442695   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Can the American people have the same protections the US Gov gives to Israel?????????

 

The money given to every Israeli per year would end the homeless epidemic if the above was put in place.