Texas has the second-largest gross domestic product (GDP) in the USA, following California. If it were its own country, Texas would clock in at number 12 in the world, snuggled in between Canada and Australia. ​​Why so many moving to Texas here

China and US Debt
6-23-18, RT.com, Max Keiser Report --  “When Trump took office, he inherited the biggest debt load that any country had ever accumulated. He also inherited a military budget that eats up 50 percent of America’s annual tax revenues of $1.5 trillion. He looked at the geo-political chess board and saw that – the low hanging fruit, in terms of saving money – is America’s huge military spending in South Korea. He's currently arranging deals with Saudi Arabia and Israel, in preparation for the US pulling out of the Middle East. He has signaled Germany that the US would to cut its military presence in NATO.“That brings us to China, and the ‘nuclear option’ they have of dumping US treasuries to financially attack America. This is their one big play. Trump knows it, and he’s been protecting the US against it." More here

Federal Debt: Who Does USA Owe?
11-11-13, Business Insider -- United States debt of $16.8 trillion:

• We owe most of the money to ourselves.
• We owe a big chunk of the money — about $5 trillion — to the Federal government. So if there ever were a default (hopefully there won't be) the government would also be stiffing itself.
• We owe about $5 trillion to other countrieMs, including China, $1.3 trillion

More here USA Federal Debt: Who do we owe?
Forbes.com
​www.forbes.com/sites/mikepatton/2014/10/28/who-owns-the-most-u-s-debt/#17c70f58819c

Truth About Girl on Cover Destroys Time Magazine's Credibility
​What's the truth?
 
6-22-18, Time Magazine photoshopped an image that has become emblematic of children separated from their parents as they illegally cross the border. We see a young girl crying with an image of President Trump in a pose to appear uncaring.
 
The girl’s father, 32-year-old Denis Javier Varela Hernandez, says that his wife Sandra Maria Sanchez took his daughter on the dangerous journey from Honduras to reach the U.S. border on June 3, 2018 without notifying him.
 
Yanela was never separated from her mother. In the genuine photo, the two year old girl was crying as her mother was apprehended and being searched as she had illegally entered the United States. Sandra is a perfect example of all the lies the media tells about illegal aliens. Two-time illegal entry, which is a felony. Took a 2 year old through that danger, and left her husband, who has a good job, at home with the other 3 kids. Daily Caller:
There’s one person responsible for Yanela’s tears … her own mother. ​More here

 ​6-18-18, * -- From the beginning of Obama’s reign, he stated his willingness to talk to Iran “without preconditions.” He ignored US property claims against Iran, and Iran’s funding, providing equipment, weapons, training and giving sanctuary to terrorists. He offered Iran economic inducements and a promise not to seek “regime change.” The preconditions are not whimsical excuses to avoid talk with Iran. They are unanimous resolutions of the UN Security Council, agreed upon after the IAEA reported that Iran was in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. [..snip]

In May 2018, while former secretary of state under Obama, John Kerry kept meeting with Iranian leaders overseas to sabotage his country’s policies, President Donald Trump announced that America would withdraw from the Iran deal. On the eve of Trump’s decision to withdraw from the agreement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu televised captured Iranian documents that confirmed Iran never had any intention of stopping its nuclear bomb-making program.

When Trump withdrew from the Iran deal, American elites went berserk. They intimated nullification would hasten Iranian proliferation and provoke more Iranian belligerence. If Iran tries to hijack another American vessel or launches another missile near an American carrier, Trump will not react like Obama did. As the Iranians know, Trump would take military steps to terminate Iran’s ability to replicate such aggression.

In the past American and Israeli leaders often put the burden to prove good intentions on themselves, rather than their opponents. President Trump made the case that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had to prove his good intentions as a precondition for negotiations. After North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile in July 2017, Trump called Kim “Little Rocket Man” and a “madman.” Trump polarized Kim and blamed him for the growing danger to US national security. Kim released three American hostages and blew up his nuclear test site. Kim had to prove his credibility.

Not Trump.

Trump made it easy for the Americans to abandon negotiations and difficult for the North Koreans to do so. Trump effected the largest increase in US defense spending in decades. He and Defense Secretary James Mattis threatened to destroy North Korea. Trump stated often that he has no idea whether talks with Kim will lead to an agreement, but it was worth an attempt. He even canceled the summit after Kim insulted National Security Adviser John Bolton. Trump’s cancellation taught Kim the price of failure and showed Kim, that unlike his predecessors, Trump does not fear walking away. For Kim to negotiate with Trump, he must respect Trump’s choices.

The elites criticized Trump’s summitry with Kim and the summit agreement filled with platitudes. The objective was not to reach a serious agreement at this stage. The objective was to sign a piece of paper that had “Agreement” on it. By Kim signing the piece of paper, Trump has put all the time pressure on Kim alone.

Obama’s legacy in the Middle East rests on the Iran deal. When Trump terminated the deal, Obama’s Middle East legacy collapsed. Trump renewed America’s alliances with Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel, reducing Iranian power in the region.

Essentially, Israel now has a free hand to take preemptive action against Iranian arsenal in Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere that could strike Israel. Besides, Trump’s deal could denuclearize North Korea, and curtail the transfer of Chinese and North Korean nuclear technology to Iran. 
Unlike Obama, Trump knows how to make favorable deals. Trump is dealing with a nuclear armed North Korea because Clinton, Bush, Obama, and other US elites, enabled its nuclear armament through incompetent diplomacy.
Now that Trump is negotiating, what they fear is not that he will fail like they did. They fear that he will succeed, like only he could. 

Dr. Sheyin-Stevens is a Registered Patent Attorney based in Florida, USA. He earned his Doctorate in Law from the University of Miami. The writer holds Jur.D. and CPA degrees, is a registered patent attorney based in Florida, USA.
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*Excerpted and adapted full original report here:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/22343

6-21-18, Daniel Greenfield* -- Starbucks responded to a racial furor by hiring Eric Holder [1] and bumping a Jewish group objected to by anti-Semitic black nationalists. But closing its coffee shops to give employees implicit bias training doesn't seem to have dealt with the overpriced coffee place's real problems.

And they're big.
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It's closing 150 stores in the U.S.  And the downgrades are kicking in as they raised the price of black coffee. [2] Starbucks hasn’t met experts’ estimates for same-store sales in the Americas for five of the last six quarters and the chain is struggling with potentially too many U.S. stores. It's also a trend from another generation that isn't catching on. It's slowing and faltering.

​On Tuesday, 6-19-18,  Starbucks lowered its global third-quarter same store sales growth forecast to 1 percent versus the previous forecast of 3 percent.
Analyst John Glass said on Wednesday:
"Facing now what is clearly decelerating top-line in its two key markets, ...  US comp recovery remains elusive, offset by a valuation that has been compressing over the past 2+ years." Starbucks shares are down 5 percent in early trading Wednesday. With no direction to grow, it becomes increasingly obvious that Starbucks seized on the recent racial issues to buff up its image [and failed].

​[1] Starbucks & Eric Holder Teaming Up To Fight Racial Bias
4-18-18, Former Obama Attorney General, Eric Holder helping to remove any shred of potential racism ... Criticism coming that Starbucks hired a raciest joke that should be in jail ... Holder helped stoke the fires in Ferguson, Missouri when investigating the police department for the shooting of Michael Brown. He pointed to the department as a whole for allegedly engaging in “racist comments or gender discrimination, demonstrating grotesque views and images of African Americans in which they were seen as the ‘other.'” He implemented programs throughout police forces in America that targeted ‘unconscious bias’ and branded law enforcement as racist by setting up an Obama-era directive known as “racial justice.”

​[2] Starbucks Is Hiking Coffee Prices Even Higher
6-8-18, Starbucks Is Hiking Coffee Prices Even Higher ... notorious April incident in which two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks were actually arrested for the ...
*Excerpted and adapted full original message from Front Page here

Trump: You have to take the children away - like any American in custody the children don't go with them to jail - BBC
6-20-18, Liberal anti Trump media claiming the illegal migrant children being treated like in Nazi concentration camps. In 2014 same detention centers were used - I don't remember anyone calling Obama's camps like Nazi Germany ... do you?

 Democratic politicians, journalists and top staffers from Obama’s White House whipped themselves into a frenzy Sunday, 6-17-18 attributing “disturbing” photos of  illegal migrant children sleeping inside enclosed chain link cages.  Speechwriter Jon Favreau tweeted urging followers to “look at these pictures,” adding that the forcing the Trump administration to return the children to their parents was the “only debate that matters” right now. Favreau, later deleted the tweet, admitted the photos were taken under Obama's watch. More here

6-20-18, The pictures follow a controversy over the current Justice Dept’s zero-tolerance policy of separating parents and children when they cross the border illegally. Attorney Genl Jeff Sessions said:

“If you cross the border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you. It’s that simple. If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you. And that child may be separated from you, as required by law.”
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Trump fired back on Saturday, suggesting the “horrible law” isn’t new and urged Democrats to support its repeal:

“Put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law that separates children from parents once they cross the Border into the U.S.”  More here

Where's the responsibility of the parents who put their own children in this despicable situation. They are the guilty parties; not US authorities enforcing laws; any adult American citizen or illegal migrant who is taken into custody ... the kids don't go to jail with them! This hysteria is ridiculous.

6-19-18, Anita Kumar, CSPAN & McClatchy * -- From 2007 to 2010 the Trump Real Estate Company sold real estate ... many deals in cash. There's nothing illegal about accepting cash for real estate, [one in four are cash] but transactions that do not involve mortgages raise red flags for law enforcement officials as it could be a way to commit fraud or launder money.

Trump representative, Mr. Gil Dezer, on Sunny Isles Beach, Florida acknowledged that Russian buyers are attracted to the Trump name; he said:  ​"They have been buying in Miami for over 20 years and love "branded" everything, from their Versace clothing to the Rolls Royces they buy. They buy branded quality goods and that's why they bought homes at Trump. Virtually all real estate purchases between 2008 and 2013 were cash because the recession made mortgages largely unavailable. If it wasn't for our wealthy buyer group we would have made no sales. 
Regardless of who bought these apartments, the Trump Organization received the same amount of licensing fee. So if the unit was bought by a Russian or a Chinese or a Brazilian or someone from Zimbabwe, the Trump Organization received the same fee on the sale."

According to a new analysis shared with McClatchy, the following are examples of sales to Russians, Ukrainians & Crimea too! Buyers connected to Russia or former Soviet republics made 86 all-cash sales — totaling nearly $109 million — at 10 Trump-branded properties in South Florida and New York City: [Note that no criminality was involved and Donald Trump was a private businessman 11 years ago; just another witch hunt! -- ED.]

• 2007-2010 - Leonid Zeldovich, businessman in the Russian Crimea, bought four Trump units for $4.35 million, three of them in New York City
• 2009 - Aleksandr Burman, a Ukrainian who paid $725,000 cash for a condo at a Trump Tower I in Sunny Isles Beach, FL
• 2010 - Igor Romashov paid $620,000 for a Trump unit in Sunny Isles Beach

California Trump hater the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and a former federal prosecutor, Adam Schiff said: “The size and scope of these cash purchases are deeply troubling as they can often signal money laundering activity." [But more often ... don't]

In 2016, the Treasury Department targeted Miami and New York — where cash purchases account for half of residential sales — for increased scrutiny, requiring title insurers to report the names behind the [suspected] shell companies buying homes with cash. It was later expanded to include a handful of other localities, including Broward County, Fla., which includes Fort Lauderdale and its wealthy suburbs. The evidence that corrupt officials, drug traffickers and other wrongdoers are laundering criminal proceeds through cash purchases of U.S. real estate is overwhelming [yet unprosecuted]. But Treasury continues to drag its feet on implementing the 2001 legal requirement to ensure real estate professionals aren’t taking dirty money. [Question: are real estate sales agents now required to don a US Treas Dept hat before making a sale? What is this ... Nazi Germany?]

The United States fails to regulate most cash purchases in real estate. Two bills have been introduced in the Senate to stop people from using suspected shell companies to engage in potential and illegal activities, including possible money laundering. Congress has yet to pass a bill. *Excerpted and adapted full original report here

Seems awfully silly the United States two major political parties to have symbols representing them of an elephant and a donkey. How did that begin?
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In 1862 cartoonist THOMAS NAST joined the staff of HARPER'S WEEKLY. His drawings of political events depicted the Republicans as 'elephants' and Democrats as 'donkeys.' In 1828 the donkey was first used by Andrew Jackson after his employee labeled him a 'jackass' ... Jackson turned it around and began using it on his campaign posters.

In 1874 during the mid-term elections Democrats were claiming Reputlican President U.S. Grant would seek a third term. Thomas Nast spoofed the idea by drawing a stubborn Democratic donkey trying to scare a docile, slow moving elephant he said represented the Republicans. Source

Democrats still think of the elephant as bungling, stupid, conservative and pompous. Republicans regard it is dignified, strong and intelligent. On the other hand, the Republicans view the donkey as stubborn, silly and ridiculous, but the Democrats claim it is humble, homely, smart, courageous and loveable.

Side Note: President 1869-1877, Ulysses Simpson Grant American soldier and statesman who served as Commanding General of the Army and Republican President [18th] of the United States. A Army general during the American Civil War he led the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy with the supervision of Abraham Lincoln and led the Republicans in their efforts to remove the vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery during Reconstruction. Yes, Republicans removed slavery.

Border patrol agents raid Texas 'stash house' June 14, 2018

• Apprehended 62 illegal migrants [majority men] when raiding the home on the US-Mexican border 
• The migrants were from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador
• 54 migrants, including some 16 yr old children, were found packed into a semitrailer in San Antonio
• In the case of the truck raid, police filed federal human smuggling charges against 36-year-old Gerardo Javier Carreon ​More here

James Comey Role Recalls Hoover's FBI
10-31-16, NY Times -- Though FBI Director James Comey acted publicly, while J. Edgar Hoover maneuvered in secret, Hoover was the last F.B.I. director to be accused of trying to influence a presidential election. 

Ties Fbi Chief Hoover To Corruption
2-8-1993, PBS -- J. Edgar Hoover was FBI Director for nearly 50 years [May 10, 1924 – May 2, 1972] under eight presidents. According to "Frontline," Hoover was "personally corrupt, sexually compromised and tainted by ties to organized crime." There are any number of issues revealed or brought into sharp focus in "The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover" to ignite citizen's fury. From his lavish and illegal lifestyle to his heavy gambling that compromised him by tying him to organized crime. Apparently he broke every major rule in his own FBI handbook.

6-13-18, Washington (AFP) - A sharply divided US Supreme Court approved the practice by the state of Ohio of purging infrequent voters from their registration lists — a move civil rights groups claim disproportionately affects minorities and the poor.
The case, Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, focuses on Ohio's process for routinely clearing no-longer-eligible voters from its official lists. Every state does so, in order to ensure that would-be fraudulent voters cannot use the identities of people who have died or moved. SCOTUS approved Ohio's law. More here

Frivolous Lawsuit!
The American Civil Liberties Union’s [ACLU] says Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted is using illegal criteria to purge voters. Husted says 1.3 million duplicate voters were removed. 465,000 dead voters were removed too. He says there were some counties with more registered voters than eligible voters. More here

Not so fast ... What might vex voters more than the question of who gets what is the question of who gets stuck in which state. Draper is proposing grouping the state’s 58 counties in a configuration that is sure to cause some consternation. While Los Angeles and five other coastal counties north to Monterrey would remain in a state to be known as “California,” the other counties would be lumped into two states with brand new names: “Southern California” would be anchored by Orange and San Diego counties, which makes sense, but would also include a huge swath of the Central Valley, as well the eastern portion of the state all the way up through the not-so-southern Mono County. “Northern California” would include the uber-liberal Bay Area as well as the conservative northeastern counties that are looking to form their own state to escape from California’s Democratic clutches.
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No matter how the vote turns out on Cal 3 in November, however, it will be up to Congress to decide if it wants to grant statehood to two more Californias. That would mean, among other things, adding four new U.S. senators. And why would a Republican-controlled Congress agree to that, especially since it is not at all certain that any one of the states could be counted on to vote GOP? LATimes here

​February 11, 2017, Paul Sperry, NewYorkPost* - [Note: this op-ed was incorrectly attributed to Charles Krauthammer.] I do not understand how living in a country with its democracy established over 200 years ago, and now, for the first time in history, suddenly an ex president has setup an organization to battle the new presidential administration. Former US President Barack Hussein Obama is at the helm of Organizing for Action (OFA), ** a 501c4 nonprofit group derived from reelection campaign that works to organize and mobilize support for the 55 yr old Obama’s agenda and is endeavoring to undermine President Trump. He told his OFA troops: “You’re going to see me early next year and we’re going to be in a position where we can start cooking up all kinds of great stuff. Point is, I’m still fired up and ready to go.” Clearly he isn’t going quietly into the night as outer American presidents have done.
 
OFA is planning protests and coordinating opposition to Trump’s presidential agenda. Apparently Obama is using OFA to not only undermine Trump’s presidency — but to undermine America. This organization goes against our Democracy, Constitution, laws and the processes established over 200 years ago and is an operation that will destroy our way of governing. If it’s allowed to proceed; we will be living in chaos very much like third world countries.
 
In January 2017 Obama said he was ‘heartened’ by anti-Trump protests [1]sending a message of approval to his troops. Troops? Yes, he has an army of 30,000+ agitators who will fight his Republican successor at every turn of his historic presidency.

Obama isn’t just staying behind in Washington; he’s working behind the scenes setting up what will effectively be a shadow government. He’s attempting to protect his ‘legacy’ and sabotage Trump’s popular “America First” agenda. And he’s doing it from a “bunker” less than two miles from the White House. [2] He’s doing it through a network of leftist nonprofits led by OFA gearing up for battle, with a growing war chest and more than 250 offices across the country. [..snip]

​Federal tax records show “nonpartisan” OFA marshals 32,525 volunteers nationwide. Registered as a 501(c)(4), it doesn’t have to disclose its identities of generous donors who raised more than $40 million in contributions and grants.

* A form of this Sperry report has been attributed incorrectly to Charles Krauthammer truthorfiction.com and https://nypost.com/2017/02/11/how-obama-is-scheming-to-sabotage-trumps-presidency/
**OFA, P.O. Box 618120, Chicago, IL 60661
https://www.ofa.us and Issues: https://www.ofa.us/take-action/issues/
 
[1] Jan 30, 2017, Obama encourages Trump protests here: https://nypost.com/2017/01/30/obama-says-hes-heartened-by-backlash-to-trumps-ban/
[2] Obama OFA Bunker: https://www.today.com/home/next-obama-family-home-take-tour-their-new-washington-dc-t94891

6-10-18, President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived in Singapore on Sunday, June 10, 2018 for an unprecedented summit, with Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal at the top of the agenda and President Trump calling it a “one-time shot” at peace and said: “If I think it won’t happen, I’m not going to waste my time [or his time].” The president also has teased the prospect of Kim visiting Washington if the meeting goes well.

Bringing the Korean War to a formal end 65 years after hostilities ceased will also be on the table at the first-ever meeting between a North Korean leader and a sitting president of its “imperialist enemy”.
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It's an extraordinary turnaround from the tensions of last year, when Kim accelerated his weapons programs — earning the North more sets of UN Security Council sanctions — and the two men traded personal insults and threats of war.

The two countries have been at loggerheads for decades. The North invaded the South in 1950 and the ensuing war pitted US-led UN troops backing Seoul against Pyongyang’s forces which were aided by China. The conflict ended in an armistice which sealed the division of the peninsula. In April 2018 Mike Pompeo met with Kim in bringing the two sides together in their understanding of denuclearisation.

​President Trump Said He'd Know If North Korean Summit Will Succeed 'Within first minute ..."
6-9-18, WallStreetJournal -- President Donald Trump claimed he'd know “within the first minute” whether an upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would be a success. ...

(President Trump sorta looks like he wants to laugh)

Trudeau turned on Pres Trump the minute he left Canada - such hypocrisy - here at Canada Free Press

6-10-18, Follow-up: After President Trump Left Canada - Trudeau had this to say: "Canadians are polite, but we will not be pushed around.”

All seven leaders signed a joint declaration despite "some strong, firm conversations on trade, and specifically American tariffs."

He informed President Trump: "Canadians who stood shoulder to shoulder with American soldiers in far-off lands do not take lightly the idea that the tariffs are for national security reasons. It’s kind of insulting.” [so there!] More here from ABC

​Trump clashes with friends while flirting with foes
6-8-18, President Donald Trump is confounding foreign policy norms by turning his back on some phony friends of America. He reaches out to longtime U.S. rivals and will leave Canada early for North Korea. Looks like Macron and May are praying...
Canada Budget allocates $600 million for G7 meeting
The next biggest spending is by Canada's foreign affairs department, with $100 million of Global Affairs Canada's budget dedicated to pulling off the G7 presidency and shepherding Trudeau's turn to play host.

"Russia Should Be In This Meeting." -- Pres Trump

6-8-18, Fox News -- President Trump on Friday called for Russia to be reinstated to the group of leading industrial nations meeting at the G-7 summit in Quebec; he said:
“It doesn’t matter what you call it. It used to be G-8, now Russia is out. Why are we having a meeting without Russia? I would recommend Russia should be a part of it. Russia should be in this meeting. Whether you like it or not and it may not be politically correct, but we have a world to run. G-7 threw Russia out. They should let Russia come back in." 
In 2014 Russia was ousted from the group of leading nations—France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom and the U.S. [Obama] following its annexation of Crimea. More here

Pew Poll: Crimeans happy with "annexation" by Russia
5-12-14, The latest survey in Ukraine by the Pew Research Center, reveals 91% of Crimeans believe the recent referendum was free and fair and only 4% believe Ukraine is correct in not recognising the referendum results and are a true reflection of the will of the Crimean people. This Pew poll was based on face-to-face interviews between April 5-23, 2014 with 1,659 randomly selected adults across Ukraine and Russia and the results may come as a surprise to those who depend on Western corporate media for information about current affairs. The Crimean people are happy with Russia ... the G7 is wrong. More here

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President Trump & NoKo Leader Un Being Hosted By Hotel Capella in Singapore
​Jun 05, 2018 · The historic summit will be held at the Capella Hotel on Singapore's Sentosa Island will welcome the US President Donald Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un on June 12, 2018.

The hotel sits in rain forest on 30-acres. It has 112 rooms, all furnished with king-size beds, starting at $500 a night, up to a three-bedroom colonial manor with a private pool for $7,500 a night. Peacocks roam freely on the premises. In the 1880s it was originally built to house the British officers of the Royal Artillery and their families. In 2009 Norman Foster, British architect restored it to a five star hotel. There are two restaurants one serves bird nest soup with a hefty price tag of $66.00. The Chef's Table has a personal chef serving up breakfast for $1,125, lunch for $1,875 and dinner for $2,600 per table.

Ex NBA Basketball Star, Dennis Rodman will be in Singapore for Trump-Kim summit
Jun 05, 2018 · NY Post -- Ex-NBA star turned Kim Jong Un soulmate, Dennis Rodman, will be in Singapore during President Trump's summit with the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Rodman was on Trump's CELEBRITY APPRENTICE TV SHOW in the 8th Season in 2009, see video here: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmbbXKJT3aw

Many photos of location here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5812045/The-luxury-7-500-night-Capella-resort-Trump-Kim-meet-Singapore.html

Meet America's Highest Paid Government Workers 
2-26-2014, By: Lee A. Saunders, President, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, Huffington Post -- USA Government Workers huge salaries and benefits subsidized by taxpayers ... The average AFSCME unionized public service worker makes $45,000 each year and an average pension of $19,000 a year, and for roughly one third of public service workers this is the only retirement security they have because they are not allowed to participate fully in Social Security benefits as public service workers.

Govt Pay vs Private
10-8-2015, Breitbart -- According to Cato review, in 2014 Federal civilian workers had an average wage of $84,153, compared to an average in the private sector of $56,350. In 2014 Federal compensation averaged $119,934, which was 78 percent higher than the private-sector average of $67,246.

Putting it in perspective, the federal government has the fourth highest paid workers in the United States and a 25% “quit rate” of private sector. 

Cato has a few suggestions for reversing the trend, including the end of defined-benefit pension plans, privatizing as many federal jobs as possible and reforms to federal pay packages.More here and here
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Search Federal Employee Salaries - FedsDataCenter.com
Some federal employees are not included with these pay figures as the government has concluded employees in some agencies are ...​

5-29-18, Christian Post -- On Tuesday, May 29, 2018, leading evangelist, Franklin Graham defended his 'Decision America California Tour' during a radio interview with Todd Starnes. He decried that California is a sinking state and sanctuary cities like San Francisco are a 'little picture of Hell.' He said:

"I'm sure the New York Times thinks this is political [it isn't]. They can think whatever they want to think. I want people to vote. That's so important that we do that and not just vote, but encourage Christians to run for office. We need Christian legislators. We need Christian mayors. We need Christians on the city council. When I say Christians, I mean Christians who are willing to take a stand for biblical truth for what the Bible has to say about marriage, what the Bible has to say about the sanctity of life and are willing to stand behind God's principles and take a bullet for that. What I mean by 'take a bullet' is when they get criticized or attacked for their political views, that they just stand there smile and take it and not budge. We need Christians to take a stand and take a hit if need be." More here
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ANNUALLY SANCTUARY CITIES RECEIVE
$27 BILLION FEDERAL TAXPAYER FUNDS
2-2-17, The OpenTheBooks.com report identified 106 sanctuary cities in the United States. In fiscal year 2016 cities that ignore federal law by harboring illegal migrants receive $27.741 billion in grants and direct payments. In the USA twenty-two percent of the roughly 11 million illegal migrants live in just 12 American cities such as New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Las Vegas ... More here

US gives billions in foreign aid to world's richest countries and to peoples who want to do us harm like many illegal migrants in USA sanctuary cities

6-3-11, USA borrows money then gives to people who hate us? Yes.

As of March 2011, according to the US Treasury Dept, despite the massive outgoings in foreign aid, the receiving countries hold trillions of dollars in U.S. Treasury securities [USA debt]; China is the largest holder with $1.1 trillion. 

A May 2011 report from The Congressional Research Service shows that in 2010 the U.S. handed out a total of $1.4bn to 16 foreign countries that held at least $10bn in Treasury securities. In 2010, four countries of the world's top 10 richest received foreign aid with China receiving $27.2m, India $126.6m, Brazil $25m and Russia $71.5m.  More here

This year marks the 150th anniversary of Memorial Day. While remembrance of America’s war dead took place prior to 1868, it wasn’t until the post-Civil War era that this national commemoration fully emerged. Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, a former Union officer, can be credited with popularizing this practice.
The advent of the Civil War brought with it vast numbers of war dead. Never before in American history had so many fallen in battle. Thousands of soldiers lay buried across a wide swath of the United States. Nudged along by such activists as Clara Barton and her cadre of supporters, the government reviewed letters from thousands of women, part of letter-writing campaigns to find lost loved ones and their places of burial. The greater literacy of the era made such an initiative possible. In 1862 the United States assumed the responsibility of creating national cemeteries for fallen Union servicemen, and when possible burying them in individual graves with a marker labeled with their name and other identifying information. The Office of the Quartermaster General became responsible for the construction and administration of national cemeteries. Those at Arlington and Gettysburg are the most famous, but many others were built near battlefields across the country. This was a significant development for the American military. In the absence of other arrangements, the federal government assumed responsibility for the burial of fallen U.S. soldiers, sailors and marines, and for the maintenance of their graves.[…]
Perhaps the most consistent Memorial Day practice remains decorating individual graves, now frequently with a miniature flag. This reflects both the grand sweep and the intensely personal aspect of Memorial Day. The nation as a whole designates a single day to honor all of its fallen service members. Yet each gravesite being decorated represents a single person who answered the call of duty, and died while doing so. In this sense Memorial Day is both national and personal. On this day above all others, let no remembrance be unshared and let no one grieve alone. More here

5-26-18, Canada Free Press -- Again this Memorial Day in America we see the concerted effort to radically change America from a strong, freedom-loving, God-fearing, moral nation into a freedom-rejecting, baby killing, socialist, atheistic culture willing to do what has been dictated to us.

​Memorial Day is a time for remembering those that died while serving our country. And so we shall. But this year, let’s also remember the multitude of Americans that have and are dedicating themselves to the restoration of this great nation.

We have been told that our spirituality, our freedoms and our suspicion of big government have brought us misery, and many have endorsed it. Hollywood reflects it, the main stream media promotes it, academia teaches it and an entire political party exhorts it. To the Left, our culture must be destroyed for the takeover to be complete. And it almost was.

America is not the immoral, racist country they say we are
It's merely a ploy to make us more pliable

There are tens of millions of people, especially in the mid-section of the country, who have been waiting for someone to finally validate their values. In the liberal tradition of accusing those of what they themselves are doing, we are on to their schemes. The media lies, academia indoctrinates, Hollywood garbage and self-serving politicians who distort and fabricate. 

Former Ambassador To NATO Says President Trump Did Right Thing to Cancel NoKo Summit
5-24-18, President Trump announced Thursday, 5/24/18 that he was canceling the June 12, 2018 summit in Singapore with North Korea because of North Korea’s “tremendous anger and open hostility” in recent statements. 

​Former ambassador to NATO Nicholas Burns said, “I think we’re witnessing diplomacy in action, I think it is a negotiating tactic by President Trump and, frankly, I think President Trump was right. The North Koreans twice in the past week have issued tenacious, wildly irresponsible statements against the United States, yesterday threatening a nuclear war against the United States. These are not the actions of a clear, consistent leader. I think it’s probably the right move by the United States to push the North Koreans back a bit, let them know about the minimal conditions that need to take a place for a summit of this nature.”

President Trump and NoKo Kim Jong Un summit
5-24-18, Meanwhile, former U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Burns, in an earlier CNBC interview, said Trumpmade the "right move" on Thursday in canceling the Kim summit. 

Thomas Hubbard, former U.S. ambassador to South Korea said that any meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "probably was a bad idea in the first place," 

General Michael Flynn forced to sell his house to pay his legal bills
Mar 06, 2018 · Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, has put his Virginia home on the market to help pay his mounting legal bills after pleading guilty to lying to FBI agents about his Russia contacts [he did nothing illegal or improper].

Report: FBI Agents Want To Be Subpoenaed To Testify Against Comey ...
5-22-18, 'They [FBI Agents] are just waiting for a chance to come forward and ... with an active special agent of the FBI.  The subpoena is preferred because when you are subpoenaed, Congress then pays…for your legal counsel and the subpoena protects [the agent] from any organizational retaliation…. they are on their own as whistle blowers, they get no legal protection and there will be organizational retaliation against them.” -- Joe DiGenova

FBI Agents ready to testify against Comey, McCabe & Peter Strzok ...
5-23-18, Reddit -- Senator Grassley sent a letter, to the FBI Dir Chris Wray ... please provide:

1. The information requested in our February 15, 2017 letter, including the transcripts of the reportedly intercepted calls and any FBI reports summarizing them
2. The FBI agents’ 302s [forms] memorializing their interview of Flynn and 1A supporting docs, including the agents’ notes.
3. FBI Special Agent Joe Pientka to be available for a transcribed interview with Committee staff no later than Friday, May 25, 2018

Recently investigative reporter, Sara Carter stated that neither Strzok or Pientka believed Flynn was lying during their interview with him, ***as reported.***  

Former Fed Prosecutor, Joe DiGenova said: Chairman Senator Grassley quite properly wants to see the underlying 302 forms of the FBI agents who did the interview with Gen Flynn at the White House during the transition period rather shortly after the inauguration. It’s pretty obvious that Comey and McCabe got together and decided they wanted to frame Flynn because they believed he was a danger to the Constitution, not them. All Flynn was doing was communicating with people he had a legitimate right to communicate with, both as a candidate Foreign Policy Advisor, and as the National Security Advisor Designate, and as a National Security Advisor. More here