The Other Russia Story We Need to Talk About Is Adoption

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The Russian government uses orphans as political pawns.

The story of thousands of innocent Russian children in need of adoption has been lost amid the daily flood of news about Russia and the hyped-up debate over whether “adoption” is some kind of code for “sanctions” when it comes to high-level Russian-American meetings . . .

Their plight stems from the 2012 Magnitsky Act, a U.S. law that imposed sanctions on Russia in response to human rights abuses by Russian officials. President Vladimir Putin retaliated by imposing a ban on U.S. adoptions of Russian children.

For years until then, American families had labored through an onerous process to adopt an average of 3,000 Russian children annually.

But the cold-hearted action of Putin, labeled a dictator by many of his critics, dramatically decreased the chance for thousands of orphans to have a family and left hundreds of Americans, who were in the midst of the adoption process, in complete despair. (Read more from “The Other Russia Story We Need to Talk About Is Adoption” HERE)

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U.S. Duped by ‘Monumental’ Charlottesville Lie

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There’s no reason for the Charlottesville, Virginia, and other Southern cities to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee as long as racist Democrats continue to be honored throughout the country, contends Dinesh D’Souza, author of the sensational historical expose “The Big Lie: Exposing The Nazi Roots Of The Far Left,”

D’Souza blasted the national media and Charlottesville officials for creating a disastrous conflict based on a lie.

“Let’s start with the fact this whole thing was kicked off because of an attempt to take down a monument to Robert E. Lee,” D’Souza told WND. “Here’s the irony: Robert E. Lee was the most decorated soldier in the U.S. Army. He was a man of unimpeachable integrity. Lincoln offered him command of the Union Army, but Lee refused only because his loyalty was to Virginia. Lee opposed both secession and slavery.

“And yet to the historically illiterate left, a man who opposed both slavery and secession has come to symbolize both slavery and secession.”

D’Souza said the controversy is a massive attempt at historical misdirection. (Read more from “U.S. Duped by ‘Monumental’ Charlottesville Lie” HERE)

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Trump on His Bond With Jeff Sessions: ‘It Is What It Is’

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President Donald Trump appeared to lack enthusiasm Thursday when he said his relationship with Attorney General Jeff Session is “fine”—after repeatedly expressing disappointment in the head of the Justice Department and even calling him “beleaguered.”

Trump’s recent negative tweets about Sessions—an Alabama Republican who was the first sitting U.S. senator to support Trump in the 2016 presidential race—prompted frustration and some anger among fellow conservatives.

Trump has said his disappointment stems from Sessions’ recusing himself from congressional and FBI investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Many conservatives continue to back the attorney general’s decision, since he was part of the Trump campaign. But eventually that move led to the Justice Department’s naming special counsel Robert Mueller, a former FBI director, to lead an independent investigation.

Trump also complained in tweets about Sessions not investigating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent in last year’s election.

After a national security briefing Thursday at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, a reporter asked Trump about his relationship with the attorney general.

“It’s fine. It is what it is. It’s fine,” Trump said.

The president went on to give Sessions some credit for his work to enforce immigration law, go after criminal illegal immigrants, and combat the violent MS-13 gang.

“He’s working hard on the border. I’m very proud of what we’ve done on the border,” Trump said.

But then he shifted his praise to White House chief of staff John Kelly, a retired Marine general who spent six months as secretary of homeland security.

“I’m very proud of General Kelly, what he’s done on the border,” Trump said. “One of the reasons he’s my chief of staff right now is because he did such an outstanding job at the border.”

The position of homeland security secretary is now vacant, with Kelly’s move to the White House last month.

In July tweets, Trump also blasted Sessions for not investigating leakers.

Sessions last week announced the Justice Department would aggressively investigate federal employees who leak classified information to reporters.

Trump joked Thursday about two types of leaks—politically motivated leaks that are not that serious and leaks of classified information from intelligence agencies:

You have the leaks coming out of intelligence and various departments having to do with Syria, having to do with all sorts of different places, having to do, frankly, with North Korea. And those are very serious.

And then you have the leaks where people want to love me and they’re all fighting for love. Those are not very important, but certainly we don’t like them. Those are little inner-White House leaks. They’re not very important. But, actually, I’m somewhat honored by them.

But the important leaks to me—and they’re leaks that the attorney general is looking at very strongly—are the leaks coming out of intelligence. And we have to stop them for the security and the national security of our country.

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After MSM Complaints, Trump Reiterates Condemnation of Extremist, White Supremacist, Neo-Nazi Groups at Charlottesville

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A White House spokesman stated Sunday that President Donald Trump explicitly condemns all extremist groups, including white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

“The President said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred and of course that includes white Supremacists, KKK, neo-nazi and all extremist groups,” a White House spokesman said Sunday. “He called for national unity and bringing all Americans together.”

Trump was widely criticized Saturday for not specifically calling out and condemning white supremacist groups, and the camp of critics also included members close to his inner circle, particularly former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, who told ABC News that Trump should’ve been much harsher.

“I wouldn’t have recommended that statement,” Scaramucci said in response to Trump’s Saturday statement from New Jersey. “I think he would have needed to have been much harsher.”

While in New Jersey, Trump summed up the Charlottesville rally as an “egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides.” For many political observers, the president’s response was not aggressive enough — in light of the fact a member of the alt-right allegedly slammed a car through a group of antifa protesters, killing one person and injuring at least 19 others. (Read more from “Trump Now Explicitly Condemns Extremist, White Supremacist, Neo-Nazi Groups at Charlottesville” HERE)

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France Reports 60 Percent Increase in Radicalization in Two Years

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The number of radical individuals in France has gone up 60 percent over the last two years, according to Minister of the Interior Gérard Collomb.

Some 18,550 people are currently registered by authorities as potential radicals, up from 11,400 in 2015, Ouest France reported Friday.

The database keeps track of suspects’ personal information and their alleged relationships with terror groups. Females currently account for 26 percent of cases, while 16 percent are minors.

Collomb recently warned that 271 French radicals have returned to the country after fighting for Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. He said the terror threat remains “very high,” with seven foiled attacks since the start of the year. (Read more from “France Reports 60 Percent Increase in Radicalization in Two Years” HERE)

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DOJ’s Charlottesville Hate Crime Probe Extends Beyond Driver

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The Justice Department’s hate crime investigation of Saturday’s incident in Charlottesville, Va. is not limited just to James Alex Fields Jr., the 20-year-old man charged with second-degree murder after allegedly running over a woman demonstrating against white supremacists.

A Department of Justice official familiar with the hate crime investigation says that the agency is looking into whether others individuals were involved in the attack, which occurred around mid-day Saturday after local police broke up a white supremacist rally being held near a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Video recordings showed a 2010 Dodge Challenger registered to Fields plowing into a crowd of anti-fascist counter-protesters in downtown Charlottesville.

Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal, was killed in what police say was a deliberate attack. As many as 19 other people were injured.

There has been no indication yet that Fields coordinated the attack with someone else. (Read more from “DOJ’s Charlottesville Hate Crime Probe Extends Beyond Driver” HERE)

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Government Schools Intentionally Making Kids Dumber?

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It’s no surprise to hear that America’s education system is in disarray, with Common Core dumbing down young students, faith absent from education and underpaid teachers increasingly unfit to serve as effective educators.

But all of that is by design, contends Alex Newman, an international journalist and co-author of “Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children.” . . .

Newman believes the government education system is not built to educate but to create obedient, unlearned drones who are subservient to authority.

“It’s really the education system that is at the foundation of what eventually emerges as culture, politics, government and all the rest of it,” Newman began. “Education is where we went wrong, so if we’re going to fix this, education is the place to be involved.” . . .

According to Newman, government schools work to produce illiteracy, dumb down students and spread an atheistic worldview. Government education, he said, leads to “a hatred toward truth, objective reality and moral principles.” (Read more from “Government Schools Intentionally Making Kids Dumber?” HERE)

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Shoppers Prepping for ‘World War III’

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As the rhetoric ramps up over North Korea and nuclear weapons, the cash registers have been ringing at a local Army Supply store, where some are apparently prepping for a third World War.

Ben Orr, the manager of Joe’s Army Navy in Royal Oak, says he’s been selling a lot of “prepper items” over the past week or so.

“We’ve been very busy. Unusually busy, I’d say,” Orr told WWJ’s Sandra McNeill. “It’s definitely an increase, just in selling all the normal prepper stuff, end of the world stuff. A lot of water prep stuff, food, MREs — the military meals.”

And there’s been a substantial increase in the sale of a particular item they don’t sell much of — a so-called radiation antidote called potassium iodide. (Read more from “Shoppers Prepping for ‘World War III'” HERE)

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4,000 Apps Secretly Recording Your Audio, Steal Info

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A single threat actor has aggressively bombarded Android users with more than 4,000 spyware apps since February, and in at least three cases the actor snuck the apps into Google’s official Play Market, security researchers said Thursday.

Soniac was one of the three apps that made its way into Google Play, according to a blog post published Thursday by a researcher from mobile security firm Lookout. The app, which had from 1,000 to 5,000 downloads before Google removed it, provided messaging functions through a customized version of the Telegram communications program. Behind the scenes, Soniac had the ability to surreptitiously record audio, take phones, make calls, send text messages, and retrieve logs, contacts, and information about Wi-Fi access points. Google ejected the app after Lookout reported it as malicious.

Two other apps—one called Hulk Messenger and the other Troy Chat—were also available in Play but were later removed. It’s not clear if the developer withdrew the apps or if Google expelled them after discovering their spying capabilities. The remaining apps—which since February number slightly more than 4,000—are being distributed through other channels that weren’t immediately clear. Lookout researcher Michael Flossman said those channels may include alternative markets or targeted text messages that include a download link. The apps are all part of a malware family Lookout calls SonicSpy. (Read more from “4,000 Apps Secretly Recording Your Audio, Steal Info” HERE)

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Muslim Running for Congress Silent on 1 Big Issue

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Regina Mustafa is trying to become the first Muslim woman elected to Congress and, if successful, she says she will use her “sheer passion” to represent oppressed minorities across the United States, fight for more gun control and battle against climate change.

Mustafa, a 37-year-old community activist living in Rochester, Minnesota, has announced her candidacy for the state’s 1st congressional district . . .

Mustafa, who says she is a seasoned community activist, has focused her activism since moving to Rochester on interfaith dialogue with Christian and Jewish partners . . .

Despite her work on interfaith issues, Mustafa was not open to discussing her personal faith. WND asked what attracted her, as an American woman, to Islam and why she converted.

“How do you know I converted?” she asked. (Read more from “Muslim Running for Congress Silent on 1 Big Issue” HERE)

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