US Olympians to Pay Insane Penalties for Winning

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Tomorrow, the 2016 Summer Olympics will begin in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Americans have participated in the summer Olympic games since 1896, and have won more summer gold medals than any other country.

How do you like them apples, world?

Americans should be proud that we athletically kick butt. This year, our nation will root for 554 Americans competing in 27 different sports. As we cheer in support of our athletes donning the red, white, and blue, the government has a different message: win – and you’ll pay.

That’s right, our government levies a tax on every Olympic medal won. Currently, the U.S. Olympic Committee (no, not part of the government) awards cash prizes to accompany medals won. A gold medal comes with $25,000, a silver $15,000, and $10,000 for bronze.

That may sound like a lot of dough. But, in the world of international competitiveness and sport, that’s reasonably low compared to some countries. In 2012, Russian and Italy paid substantial sums to their Olympic winners. Russia, for example, pays $135,000 per gold medal, $81,600 for silver and a bronze will fetch $54,400.

Yet, the cash awards won by Americans – and the value of the medals themselves (valued at $600 per gold, $315 per silver, and $3 per bronze) – are considered “earned income from abroad” from the IRS’s perspective. The amount of tax each athlete would have to pay depends on the amount of other income that athlete earns, in addition to the medal and cash prize.

Take America’s most decorated Olympian of all time, swimmer Michael Phelps. In 2014, he received lucrative endorsements from companies including Under Armour, Visa, Subway, and HP, just to name a few. It was expected that such endorsements brought him a yearly income in the millions.

Therefore, assuming that Phelps makes at least $400,000 each year, he likely pays the top marginal income tax rate, or 39.6 percent. So, one could reasonably assume that if Phelps wins more gold for the U.S., he’ll have to pay the government roughly $10,000 in taxes – per gold medal.

Some congratulations, right?

Sure, Phelps can afford $10,000 per gold medal. But Phelps is a bit of a phenomenon. Most Olympians aren’t necessarily rich, and many live off meager stipends or wages while they train. Others must take on part-time jobs. U.S. Olympian wrestler, Jared Frayer, worked, for example, as a teacher; Gwen Jorgensen, a U.S. tri-athlete, works as an accountant. The list goes on.

If anything, it’s the principle that should matter. I mean, really, upon the glorious return of those who represent America, should we really be so eager to slap them with a tax bill? It’s as Hillary Clinton said in 2009 in Pakistan, “We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move …” Apparently, moving too fast in some aspects (swimming, track, biking, etc) gets you taxed even more!

I agree that the U.S. taxpayer should not subsidize our Olympic athletes – and the government doesn’t. In fact, the U.S. is only one of three countries that avoids offering financial help to Olympians; and as successful as we have been in those games, perhaps we’re all the better for it.

To be fair, the IRS doesn’t merely just pick on U.S. Olympians. They tax anyone who is awarded a monetary prize. As their website claims, prepare to pay a tax penalty if you’ve been awarded, “in a drawing, quiz show program, beauty contest, or other event.”

Surprisingly, these screwy tax laws have even convinced certain individuals to forfeit great achievements over the years. One Forbes article states:

Most people just pay the tax, but you could avoid taxes by declining an award. One famous example was George C. Scott, who declined a Best Actor Academy Award for Patton. You can even decline a Nobel Prize, and six Nobel laureates have done it.

Even Obama, the lover of taxes, avoided paying a chunk of taxes on his $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize (eye roll) by donating it to charity.

In the end, I don’t believe in just giving Olympians better tax treatment. Instead, this is the perfect anecdote in how truly unpatriotic our tax code is for all Americans. Our tax code is littered with 2.4 million words that most of us don’t understand. It’s a tax code that demands 8.9 billion hours of our time to comply; and costs the economy $409 billion annually. So, when our Olympians win this year for America, just remember, we all lose to our government. (For more from the author of “US Olympians to Pay Insane Penalties for Winning” please click HERE)

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July’s Strong Job Numbers Aren’t Strong Enough

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Today, the government announced that the economy expanded by 255,000 jobs. The news reinforces last month’s solid job numbers, which showed the economy grew by nearly 300,000 new jobs.

But employment numbers don’t tell the full story; the government makes sure of that.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the employment report each month, which lays out exactly what’s happening in the economy. In today’s report, they write: “Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 255,000 in July.”

But, further in that report, they write, “The unemployment rate held at 4.9 percent in July, and the number of unemployed persons was essentially unchanged at 7.8 million. Both measures have shown little movement, on net, since August of last year.”

Ok, that doesn’t make a lot of sense. In June, there were 7.783 million unemployed people. In July, apparently, there were 7.770 million unemployed people. Fourth grade math is really all that is needed to see that something appears wrong.

How can the economy add 255,000 new jobs, yet, the number of persons unemployed in the economy only drops by 13,000?

There are a number of reasons for this discrepancy. While the number of jobs may be increasing, the number of people looking for jobs is growing even faster. Individuals who are entering the job hunt may include those who lost a job but who became so disgruntled with Obama’s failed economics that they left the workforce altogether.

Other factors simply include a growing population that is coming of age and need employment. For example, while the economy added 255,000 new jobs, the number of people looking for work increased by 407,000. So while 255,000 seems to be good, it’s just not quite good enough.

Obama will run around the country touting 255,000 new jobs, and in particular, an unemployment rate of 4.9 percent that is in line with pre-financial crisis levels. What he won’t tell the American public, however, is that there still remains nearly 1 million more people unemployed than pre-2008. (For more from the author of “July’s Strong Job Numbers Aren’t Strong Enough” please click HERE)

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RESET: Russia to Build Eight (8) New Nuke Plants in Iran

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Because Mr. Obama’s partners in peace deserve nuclear capabilities, what with their super-happy-fun humiliation of the U.S. Navy, their spread of terror throughout the world, plus collecting $400 million for American hostages.

“Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant has been built based on Russian technology and we have agreed on construction of eight more nuclear reactors for the country,” President Putin said on Friday… Russia built Iran’s only operating nuclear power reactor, at Bushehr.

…The Islamic Republic signed the Bushehr contract with Russia in 1995 and the nuclear power plant reached its full capacity by August 2012. It is located about 18 kilometers South of the provincial capital.

But at least the “Death to America” crowd is cooperating with the IAEA:

…“We are not obliged to introduce to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) the nuclear facilities that we are to build in the future and only 180 days before entry of nuclear substances there, we will inform the IAEA of them,” Salehi said.

Hey, I guess this counts as another of Hillary’s many accomplishments! (For more from the author of “RESET: Russia to Build Eight (8) New Nuke Plants in Iran” please click HERE)

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Cruz, Cornyn Press Obama for Answers on Unspent Zika Money

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The entire Texas Republican delegation in Congress signed a letter to President Barack Obama Friday, asking for answers on hundreds of millions in unspent money to fight the mosquito-borne Zika virus.

The administration pledged in April to spend $589 million from unused Ebola funds for Zika. However, only about $180 million of that was obligated, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

The letter was signed by Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, both Republicans of Texas, as well as Republican House members from the state.

Obama has criticized Republicans in Congress for not approving his $1.9 billion request for Zika. The House passed a $1.1 billion package, but Senate Democrats are holding up the legislation.

Zika is spread by mosquitoes, but it can also be sexually transmitted and passed from pregnant mother to child. The virus is particularly dangerous for pregnant women because it can trigger microcephaly, which is a birth defect that causes a baby’s head to be smaller than expected and its brain to be underdeveloped.

The letter asks for a specific line item accounting for the $589 million has been spent, or hasn’t.

“Many news outlets are now reporting that nearly $400 million of this funding remains unspent,” the Texas delegation letter says. “In other words, your administration has not used all available tools to protect our constituents and the American people from the threat of the Zika virus.”

The letter continues, “In addition to our request that your administration take increased measures to combat the Zika virus using existing available funds, we hope that you will join us in calling on members of Congress to stop the filibuster of additional funding for Zika prevention and response measures.”

A White House official told The Daily Signal Friday that just this week, the HHS awarded $5.1 million for faster Zika testing and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded $16 million for a birth defect registry to monitor complications that could have resulted from Zika. Further, the National Institutes of Health launched phase 1 trial for Zika vaccines.

“So, I’ll let Republicans in Congress answer for why they squandered the last 5 months before we saw direct transmission of Zika in the U.S., but the president, HHS, CDC and NIH as well as public health officials across the country are focused on responding to this public health emergency with every resource that we have available,” the White House official told The Daily Signal.

Of the $589 million taken from Ebola funds, $452 million went to the Department of Health and Human services and $137 million went to the U.S. Agency for International Development, said HHS spokesman Bill Hall.

Out of the $452 million for HHS, $374 million is to be used for domestic purposes and another $78 million to help other countries. Of the $374 million, about half, $180 million, has been obligated. Hall said that in August, the other half of the $374 million for domestic spending will be obligated.

“We are bound by federal procurement regulations and are obliged to follow the standard process for awarding that money, and much of it will move in July and August for remaining contract awards,” Hall said. (For more from the author of “Cruz, Cornyn Press Obama for Answers on Unspent Zika Money” please click HERE)

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Freed American Pastor’s Story Adds More Questions to Dispute over Iran Cash Payment

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The fallout from the revelation that the Obama administration paid $400 million in cash to Iran continued on Thursday when one of the four American hostages freed on the same day described how his trip home was delayed under murky circumstances.

Pastor Saeed Abedini, an Iranian-American Christian pastor who was imprisoned in Iran, told Fox Business Network in an interview that he was taken out of his prison cell and brought to an airport in Tehran. There, a plane was waiting for him and other freed American prisoners, Abedini said. But before they could be flown home, Abedini said he and the other prisoners had to wait several hours for another plane to land first.

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that a $400 million cash payment to settle a longstanding legal claim was delivered to Iran on palettes aboard an unmarked plane on the same day in January when Abedini and the other hostages were freed. The nuclear deal with Iran was also implemented that day.

Critics quickly charged that the transfer of cash to Iran—money it was already owed—amounted to a “ransom” payment.

When Fox Business Network’s Trish Regan suggested to Abedini that the plane he said he was waiting for could be the plane that delivered the $400 million to Iran, the pastor said he wasn’t told the details of the hold-up.

“They didn’t talk about money,” Abedini said. “They just told me about the plane. The reason they said you are here in the airport is because we are waiting for another plane. After that, they never told anything to me and I didn’t see anything.”

Abedini said he and the other freed hostages ended up spending the night at the airport waiting for the second plane.

Under those circumstances, Regan asked Abedini if he thought the U.S. government paid a ransom for his freedom.

“I don’t believe they will use this money for just building an orphanage, but I prefer that the politicians answer this question,” Abedini said.

At a press conference Wednesday, a deputy spokesman for the State Department would not clarify the timeline for reporters.

“As to the timing, I simply don’t—I can’t answer conclusively that these hostage—or these detainees, Americans, were on a plane before that money arrived,” said the spokesperson, Mark C. Toner.

President Barack Obama, meanwhile, has tried to settle criticism of the cash payment.

Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon on Thursday, Obama said that the administration publicly announced on the day of the hostage release, and implementation of the nuclear deal, that it had also settled a $1.7 billion financial dispute with Iran over a failed arms deal dating back to the Iranian revolution.

The administration did not mention at the time that the first installment of that payment—the $400 million in cash—was paid in stacks of foreign currency that were flown to Iran on the same day the prisoners were released.

“This wasn’t some nefarious deal,” Obama said. “It wasn’t a secret. We were completely open about it. The only bit of news is that we paid cash.”

“The reason is because we couldn’t send them a check and we couldn’t wire the money. We don’t have a banking relationship with Iran which is part of the pressure we applied on them,” Obama added, referencing American sanctions that prevent dollars from being used in a transaction with Iran.

Obama’s defense hasn’t stopped critics from demanding more answers.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Friday asking about the Justice Department’s involvement in the cash payment.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that senior Justice Department officials had objected to the cash payment, worried it would be seen as a ransom.

They were overruled by the State Department, the newspaper said.

“There are serious questions about this administration’s policies regarding paying ransoms to terrorists and state-sponsors of terrorism,” Grassley wrote in the letter. (For more from the author of “Freed American Pastor’s Story Adds More Questions to Dispute over Iran Cash Payment” please click HERE)

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DOJ Protested Payment to Iran; Prisoners Told They Couldn’t Leave ‘Until Other Plane Arrives’

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Count the Department of Justice among those who thought it was a boneheaded idea to drop $400 million cash in the Iranian ayatollah’s hands the same day four American prisoners were released.

According to The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story of the secret cargo plane of cash Tuesday, the timing and manner of the flight raised alarms with senior Justice Department officials. As one told the WSJ, “People knew what it was going to look like, and there was concern the Iranians probably did consider it a ransom payment.”

The State Department rejected DOJ’s concern and carried out the payment. On Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry flatly denied any connection between the pallet of cash and the prisoner swap and implementation of the nuclear deal. “The United States does not pay ransom and does not negotiate ransoms,” Kerry told reporters while in Buenos Aires. “It is not our policy.”

President Obama himself scoffed at the notion he’d paid a ransom to Iran, telling reporters Thursday, “This wasn’t some nefarious deal.” But an interview of one of the prisoners conducted after his release challenges that assertion.

Timing Is Everything

A quick timeline may help explain DOJ’s alarm and the growing suspicion.

Way back in 1979, when Jimmy Carter was still in the White House, the Shah of Iran dropped $400 million into a Pentagon account to purchase U.S. fighter jets. Soon after, the Shah was overthrown by the Iranian Revolution and Carter canceled the deal, understanding that arming America-hating Islamists is never a good idea. The $400 million was frozen after those Islamists stormed our embassy, taking 56 Americans hostage.

In the decades since, Iran has wanted its money back with billions in interest, with the two sides endlessly haggling over the matter at an international court at The Hague.

Meanwhile, in recent years, Iran has been arresting Iranian-Americans, holding four in captivity like aces in a poker game as the Obama urged the terrorist nation to accept a deal over its nuclear program.

But what about the four hostages? John Kerry declared they are not part of the nuclear negotiations.

Obama got his Iran nuke deal last summer, with the agreement scheduled to formally go into effect January 2016.

The hostages remained rotting in prison. The public pressure mounted.

Suddenly, after 36 years — and entirely coincidentally, claims the White House — Obama decides it’s time to settle the matter of the $400 million. He’s going to give Iran back its $400 million, plus $1.3 billion in taxpayer money. And — entirely coincidentally — the hostages were being freed. Said Obama on January 17, “With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well.”

The time was right, indeed, if you were one of those four hostages. Obama forgot to mention that the initial payment to Iran had already happened nearly simultaneously with the release of the prisoners. The White House Wednesday refused to clarify whether the money had to be delivered before the four were freed.

However, also on Thursday, Fox News played a clip of an interview they conducted with one of the prisoners, Saeed Abedini, the day he was freed. Abedini said that they kept being delayed “hours and hours” at the airport even though their plane was there and the pilots were ready. When he asked about the delay, he was told repeatedly they could not leave “until the other plane arrives” and “if that other plane doesn’t come we’ll never let you go.”

The Delivery

It’s not just the timing that made the deal suspicious. It was the delivery. The money wasn’t wired. There was no delay until a proper arrangement of U.S. funds could be made. There was no ceremony with a big check acknowledging this diplomatic breakthrough-cum-lottery-win for Iran. The administration got hold of $400 million in francs and rubles, packed it on a pallet, loaded it onto an unmarked cargo plane and landed it into the waiting arms of the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism. And our hostages were free.

No wonder the Justice Department thought the arrangement smelled an awful lot like a ransom payment. Still, the State Department rejected DOJ’s concerns and went ahead with its fly-by-night operation.

The Justice Department isn’t exactly denying the Wall Street Journal account, telling the newspaper the agency “fully supported the ultimate outcome of the administration’s resolutions of several issues with Iran.” “Ultimate outcome” is legal-speak for “At least they got the prisoners back in one piece.” A State Department spokesman declined to comment on the latest WSJ story.

Let’s add one more curious event to the timeline. Remember how Iran grabbed two boats full of U.S. sailors, made them kneel at gunpoint, made them appear in videos, made some of them cry, made a mockery of international law and standards? Remember John Kerry gushing over the Iranians like girls at a Justin Bieber concert? That happened just days before this magical congruence of cash flying one way, hostages flying the other and the Iran nuclear deal officially going into effect.

With Obama desperately needing the Iran deal to be implemented without a hitch, with the hostages still in limbo, with a settlement over the $400 million not yet announced, did the Iranians want to wring a few more concessions or a few more dollars out of its enemy? Or was it yet another coincidence?

John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and “Old News”

Secretary of State Kerry attempted to dismiss the significance of the WSJ bombshell, telling reporters, “This story is not a new story. This was announced by the president of the United States himself at the same time.”

His predecessor, current candidate for president Hillary Clinton, said almost exactly the same thing, like it was from a script: “Well,” she says in the clip below, “the White House talked about this and this is kind of old news. It was first reported about seven or eight months ago.”

“Old news” is a familiar phrase to those who have followed Clinton scandals. As Politistick.com notes when a scandal emerges the Clinton strategy is to deny, deflect, delay and then declare any further revelations as “old news.” Still, in this case, Hillary was not at the helm when the deal was completed, and indeed her answer above is carefully couched in phrases like, “as I understand.”

Meanwhile, Clinton’s opponent Donald Trump is being roasted for suggesting he watched Iranian government video of the Iranians unloading the $400 million. It was actually file footage from Fox News of the January prisoner release. Curious how quickly the media moves away from Obama’s actions to Trump’s mouth.

The “But the Sale Was Going to End” Defense

There’s an old joke. A woman comes home from the department store with a new dress. “Honey, I made us $50!” “Great, dear. How?” “This dress was $100, but I got it half off!” Secretary Kerry is waiving that dress in defending the payment to Iran. He claims agreeing to pay $1.7 billion to Iran to settle the matter of the $400 million was a win for America. “We believe this agreement … actually saved the American taxpayers potentially billions of dollars,” Kerry said. “There was no benefit to the United States of America to drag this out.” After 36 years, how does dragging it out a few weeks make a difference?

The notion that we had to pay Iran this money right now because the only alternative was paying billions more later struck a familiar chord. As President Obama and Kerry were pushing the Iranian nuclear deal, they repeatedly stated that the only alternative to signing the deal they negotiated was war.

This was one of the false narratives — what others would call “lies” — White House adviser Ben Rhodes admitted he created in order to sell the Iranian nuclear deal.

In the wake of Rhodes’ boast and the events surrounding the $400 million payment, it’s no stretch to suggest that while America citizens were ransomed, our credibility was destroyed. (For more from the author of “DOJ Protested Payment to Iran; Prisoners Told They Couldn’t Leave ‘Until Other Plane Arrives” please click HERE)

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Report: Bill Clinton Received Millions of Dollars From Sharia Law Educational Firm

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Former President Bill Clinton has received several million dollars from GEMS Education, a Dubai-based organization that uses Sharia law as its guiding principles, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigative report.

The investigation found that according to tax records from 2011 to 2014, Clinton, the husband of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, received $5.6 million in fees for serving as an honorary chairman for GEMS, which the report describes as “one of the most dominant educational programs in the Middle East, with 51 separate schools operating in the region. Globally, the for-profit company claims that 250,000 students are learning under its program in 170 countries.”

The report says GEMS operates schools in Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Southeast Asia and the United Kingdom. It also has two “international” schools in Chicago.

One of the Dubai schools has as its purpose statement, “Our aim is teach all Muslim students the pillars of Islam, Islamic faith and morals, enabling them to efficiently apply them to their lives. To increase the knowledge of Islam we share with the children, the stories of prophets, manners of living a Muslim’s life, the five pillars of Islam.”

GEMS also has donated between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to the report, and “was an official sponsor of the 2013 and 2014 Clinton Global Initiative.”

In an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation, counterterrorism analyst Stephen Coughlin wondered why a former president, and husband of a presidential candidate, would accept money from such an organization. “Why would Bill Clinton be participating in programs that teach Sharia in foreign countries where that is the specific objective of the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS and al-Qaida?” he said. (For more from the author of “Report: Bill Clinton Received Millions of Dollars From Sharia Law Educational Firm” please click HERE)

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Julian Assange Says “1,700 Emails in Hillary Clinton’s Collection” Proves She Sold Weapons to ISIS in Syria

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Here is the transcript and the revelation by Assange…

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Julian, I want to mention something else. In March, you launched a searchable archive for over 30,000 emails and email attachments sent to and from Hillary Clinton’s private email server while she was secretary of state. The 50,547 pages of documents span the time from June 2010 to August 2014; 7,500 of the documents were sent by Hillary Clinton herself. The emails were made available in the form of thousands of PDFs by the U.S. State Department as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request. Why did you do this, and what’s the importance, from your perspective, of being able to create a searchable base?

JULIAN ASSANGE: Well, WikiLeaks has become the rebel library of Alexandria. It is the single most significant collection of information that doesn’t exist elsewhere, in a searchable, accessible, citable form, about how modern institutions actually behave. And it’s gone on to set people free from prison, where documents have been used in their court cases; hold the CIA accountable for renditions programs; feed into election cycles, which have resulted in the termination of, in some case—or contributed to the termination of governments, in some cases, taken the heads of intelligence agencies, ministers of defense and so on. So, you know, our civilizations can only be as good as our knowledge of what our civilisation is. We can’t possibly hope to reform that which we do not understand.

So, those Hillary Clinton emails, they connect together with the cables that we have published of Hillary Clinton, creating a rich picture of how Hillary Clinton performs in office, but, more broadly, how the U.S. Department of State operates. So, for example, the disastrous, absolutely disastrous intervention in Libya, the destruction of the Gaddafi government, which led to the occupation of ISIS of large segments of that country, weapons flows going over to Syria, being pushed by Hillary Clinton, into jihadists within Syria, including ISIS, that’s there in those emails. There’s more than 1,700 emails in Hillary Clinton’s collection, that we have released, just about Libya alone.

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Terminally Ill Man Set to Undergo World’s First Head Transplant Says Doc Announcing Plans Soon

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In Russia, 30-year-old Valery Spiridonov will be flying to the United States to meet the doctor who plans to perform the world’s first head transplant on him. During the operation, Italian surgeon, Dr. Sergio Canavero, intends to completely remove Spiridonov’s head and reattached it to a healthy body . . .

Now, Spiridonov says Canavero will be announcing the plans soon:

Today, the 31-year-old is wheelchair reliant due to a muscle-wasting disease, announced his neurosurgeon would explain how the plan was progressing in September.

Mr Spiridonov says he is ready to put his trust in controversial surgeon Dr Sergio Canavero who claims he can cut off his head and attach it to a healthy body.

Neither the exact date or location have been chosen yet, but the world first procedure is aimed to take place in December 2017.
And speaking at a press conference, he said his Italian surgeon – dubbed Dr Frankenstein – will reveal more soon.

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FBI in ‘Secret’ Control of Your Smartphone

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The FBI wants the ability to surreptitiously turn your smartphone into a video- and audio-recording device without your knowledge, and it is calling on the high-tech industry to supply it with an app to perform those surveillance functions.

According to a planning document that WND obtained via routine database research, the app would enable the FBI to capture sounds and images near a targeted phone, and not simply intercept communications taking place through the phone.

The contents of the draft Request for Information, or RFI, document, “Smartphone-based Audio Recorder Technical Requirements,” reveal more than the title suggests about this desired capability.

Although the FBI, on the one hand, also wants to give agents the ability to use their own phones to overtly record field interviews, upon closer inspection the document reveals a desire to remotely tap into another person’s phones via “stealth mode.”

“In this mode, the room audio will be streamed to another device for live/post monitoring,” the draft RFI, Solicitation No. DJF-16-1200-N-0007, says. “The basic capability will be audio, but GPS location information is also desired and eventually video capability.” (Read more from “FBI in ‘Secret’ Control of Your Smartphone” HERE)

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