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5 weird conspiracy theories from CIA Director Mike Pompeo

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Mike Pompeo sounds increasingly unhinged when talking about Russia, Wikileaks and the media.

  • In a tirade against Russia based news outlets RT and Sputnik, Donald Trump’s CIA Director Mike Pompeo blasted Russia for interfering not only in the 2016 US Presidential election but “the one before that and the one before that”. This would imply that Russia helped install Barack Obama in the White House even after his severely anti-Russian foreign policy became well known.

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Sessions Renews Federal Asset Forfeiture Program

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President Trump gave an interview to his favorite newspaper, the NYT. He allowed that he wouldn’t have appointed Jeff Sessions Attorney General had he known Sessions would recuse himself from the Russian allegations. Meanwhile A.G. Sessions has been busying himself by renewing the federal asset forfeiture program. Cover Your Asset Forfeiture Program A little pithier

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Pride of ObamaCare Ownership

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President Trump’s answer to the Senate health-care bill collapse was to stand back and allow ObamaCare to collapse too. There aren’t enough healthy customers paying premiums to cover the sick ones. And insurance companies are pulling out as ObamaCare heads into a death spiral. Trump claims that when the program fails he won’t own it.

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‘Illegitimate coalition’ must pay for destroying Syria – Damascus to UN

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FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises over Syrian town of Kobani after an airstrike. A U.S.-led military coalition has been bombing Islamic State © Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters

Syria wants the US and its allies to pay for the destruction of Syrian infrastructure and to bear legal responsibility for “illegitimately” bombing civilian targets, Damascus has told the UN, demanding that the American-led coalition strikes stop.

read more at https://www.rt.com/news/397159-damascus-un-letters-coalition-pay/

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Jeff Sessions: Feds Have the Right to Seize Your Cash, Property

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Expands the controversial federal civil asset forfeiture program.

By LUCY STEIGERWALD • July 21, 2017

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / Flickr

He hasn’t yet sent federal agents into the ever-growing number of states that legalize medical and recreational marijuana, but Attorney General Jeff Sessions is becoming the kind of law enforcement officer that criminal justice reformers feared he would be from the start.

read more at http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/jeff-sessions-the-new-champion-of-civil-asset-forfeiture/

[Editor’s note: see this opinion journal interview also:
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9/11 Doesn’t Justify Today’s Wars

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In a late-June session of the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) successfully added an amendment to a Defense Appropriations Bill that would repeal the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF).

The passage of this amendment sends a positive signal that America’s war-making capabilities will finally be the subject of a debate, at least on the House floor. On July 12, Lee even met with Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan to discuss the matter. Unfortunately, it appears that Lee’s amendment is being threatened by Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), who has offered up a replacement bill that, instead of repealing the 2001 AUMF, would ask Congress to clarify war powers and goals.

read more at http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/911-doesnt-justify-todays-wars/

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Return of Pentagon Mercenaries Worries US Active Duty Military

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WAYNE MADSEN | 14.07.2017 | WORLD

Return of Pentagon Mercenaries Worries US Active Duty Military

During the time that U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis and National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster are reviewing the U.S. military policy in Afghanistan, The New York Times ran a story on July 10, 2017 that exposed a threat that will upend U.S. defense strategy and return it to a bitter past. The Times story was centered around the following paragraph:

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https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/07/14/return-pentagon-mercenaries-worries-us-active-duty-military.html

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