US Diplomat Abused His Child, Exposed Himself to a Minor and Received Nude Photos of Colleagues – but You Can’t Know If He Was Fired Because It’s SECRET

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A US consulate employee stationed abroad had a child taken from his care because officials feared the minor was in danger following systematic abuse and neglect, Daily Mail Online has leaned.

Documents have exposed how the International Trade Administration staff member subjected the minor to shocking care while working abroad and living in a house owned by the government.

An investigation found the child was routinely underfed and encouraged to take their clothes off in the consulate residence so the man could allegedly take pictures of them naked.

At the time the unidentified employee also harassed female colleagues during his posting and used a government email address to meet women online.

But authorities have refused to reveal his identity, the name of the embassy where he served, or the punishment he received – and critically, whether he is still working for the government. (Read more from “US Diplomat Abused His Child While Posted Abroad, Exposed Himself to a Minor and Received Nude Photos of Female Colleagues on His Email – but You Can’t Know If He Was Fired Because It’s SECRET” HERE)

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Analysis: Less Than 60 Give ONE THIRD of All ’16 Campaign Cash

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It took Ted Cruz three months to raise $10 million for his campaign for president, a springtime sprint of $1,000-per-plate dinners, hundreds of handshakes and a stream of emails asking supporters to chip in a few bucks.

One check, from one donor, topped those results.

New York hedge fund magnate Robert Mercer’s $11 million gift to a group backing the Texas Republican’s White House bid put him atop a tiny group of millionaires and billionaires whose contributions already dwarf those made by the tens of thousands of people who have given to their favorite presidential candidate.

An Associated Press analysis of fundraising reports filed with federal regulators through Friday found that nearly 60 donations of a million dollars or more accounted for about a third of the more than $380 million brought in so far for the 2016 presidential election. Donors who gave at least $100,000 account for about half of all donations so far to candidates’ presidential committees and the super PACs that support them . . .

“We have never seen an election like this, in which the wealthiest people in America are dominating the financing of the presidential election and as a consequence are creating enormous debts and obligations from the candidates who are receiving this financial support,” said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a Washington-based group that wants to limit money in politics. (Read more from “Data: Nearly 5 Dozen Give a Third of All ’16 Campaign Cash” HERE)

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DNC Chair Schultz Accidentally Lists Hillary Among GOP Alternatives to Bernie Sanders

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By Washington Free Beacon. Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.) may have committed a Freudian slip Sunday when she named Hillary Clinton at the end of a list of Republican alternatives to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) in the presidential race.

Meet The Press host Chuck Todd had asked Schultz to explain the rise of Sanders, who has drawn huge crowds on the campaign trail and galvanized the left-wing base of the party. (Read more from “Schultz Accidentally Lists Hillary Clinton Among GOP Alternatives to Bernie Sanders” HERE)

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz Can’t Tell Difference Between Democrats and Socialists

By Joe Newby. While appearing on Thursday’s edition of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the current head of the Democratic National Committee, was stymied when host Chris Matthews asked her to tell the difference between a Democrat and a socialist. The question was asked as part of a discussion about Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont socialist running for the White House as a Democrat.

“What is the difference between a Democrat and a socialist?” he asked directly in a tone normally reserved for conservatives and Republicans. Wasserman Schultz was at a clear loss for words.

“I used to think there is a big difference. What do you think it is?” he asked again. “A Democrat like Hillary and a socialist like Bernie Sanders.” Again, the Florida Democrat was unable to answer the question directly and tried to change the question.

“The more important question is what is the difference between being a Democrat and being a Republican,” she said. But that didn’t work on Matthews, who pressed the point further.

“What’s the big difference between a Democrat and a socialist?” he asked a third time. “You’re chairman of the Democratic Party. Tell me the difference between you and a socialist.” Once again, Wasserman Schultz dodged the question, apparently unaccustomed to being asked real questions from someone like Matthews. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Famous Rapper Cries out to God in Social Media Post, Says He Is Sick of the Devil ‘Ruining’ His Life

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R&B and rap artist Chris Brown recently revealed he “heard God speak for the first time” as controversy continues to swirl around him, and admitted he’s tired of the devil “ruining” his life.

In a lengthy Instagram post shared last week, the 26-year-old Grammy-award winning singer stated that most people would have committed suicide by now if they were forced to endure what he has to deal with every day.

“When u tired of the [expletive] devil ruining your life and u hear God speak for the first time. No one knows what I deal with on a day to day. The average man wouldn’t hesitate to blow his [expletive] brains out …,” wrote Brown in the post which was accompanied with a photo of himself standing in front of a red background.

“Most won’t understand the genius and beauty in change and learning and the people who have devilish intentions will win in the short term. My soul will always be pure of heart. What’s on the surface always looks like one big party but inside there is a little boy looking for help and guidance,” he continued.

Brown also claimed he is desperately looking for “help and guidance” so he can focus on his music career and raising his 13-month old daughter, Royalty. (Read more from “Famous Rapper Cries out to God in Social Media Post, Says He Is Sick of the Devil ‘Ruining’ His Life” HERE)

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Seattle CEO Who Set Firm’s Minimum Wage to $70G Says He Has Hit Hard Times

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The Seattle CEO who reaped a publicity bonanza when he boosted the salaries of his employees to a minimum of $70,000 a year says he has fallen on hard times.

Dan Price, 31, tells the New York Times that things have gotten so bad he’s been forced to rent out his house.

Only three months ago Price was generating headlines—and accusations of being a socialist — when he announced the new salary minimum for all 120 employees at his Gravity Payments credit card processing firm. Price said he was doing it, and slashing his $1 million pay package to pay for it, to address the wealth gap.

“I’m working as hard as I ever worked to make it work,” he told the Times in a video that shows him sitting on a plastic bucket in the garage of his house. “I’m renting out my house right now to try and make ends meet myself.”

The Times article said Price’s decision ended up costing him a few customers and two of his “most valued” employees, who quit after newer employees ended up with bigger salary hikes than older ones. (Read more from “Seattle CEO Who Set Firm’s Minimum Wage to $70G Says He Has Hit Hard Times” HERE)

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Trump Would ‘Love’ Sarah Palin in His Cabinet and Here’s Why

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The Republican presidential candidate and celebrity plutocrat appeared Monday on The Palin Update, an actual all-Palin radio show that exists on something called Mama Grizzly Radio.

Host and apparent Palin obsessive Kevin Scholla asked the controversial future president whether he could see himself “picking up the phone, giving the governor [Palin] a call and picking her brain on some things, or perhaps having her along in some official capacity.”

Trump’s response: “I’d love that. Because she really is somebody who knows what’s happening and she’s a special person, she’s really a special person and I think people know that.” (Read more from “Trump Would ‘Love’ Sarah Palin in His Cabinet and Here’s Why” HERE)

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TV Legend Gives These Strong Opinions About American Life

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Legendary TV producer Norman Lear stopped by the Televisison Critics Association’s press tour in Beverly Hills to promote an upcoming PBS documentary covering his career that’s set to debut next year. But what seemed to most impress reporters was the 93-year-old’s opinionated tangents, covering politics, TV, America and mindfullness. Below are six highlights from a press conference with the creator of hits like All in the Family, The Jeffersons and One Day at a Time:

— On politics: “Everybody knows me to be a progressive or a liberal or lefty or whatever. I think of myself as a bleeding-heart conservative. You will not f— with my Bill of Rights, my Constitution, my guarantees of political justice for all. But does my heart bleed for those who need help and aren’t getting the justice that the country promises them and the equal opportunity the country promises? Yes. I’m a bleeding heart, but I think myself to be a total social conservative. The people who are running just don’t seem to have America on their minds, not the America I think about. When I was a kid we were in love with America. As early as I can remember, there was a civics class in my public school. And I was in love with those things that guaranteed freedom before I learned that there were people who hated me because I was Jewish. I had a Bill of Rights and a Constitution, those words out of the Declaration that protected me. And I knew about that because we had civics in class. We don’t have that much in the country anymore. So before World War II or shortly after, we were in love with America because we understood what it was about and that’s what we were in love with. I believe everybody’s patriotic today. Everybody loves America. But I don’t need their flag plans to prove it. I’d like to go back to civics lessons.”

— On waking up: “I want to wake up feeling as I usually do, loving the day. The title of my book is Even This I Get to Experience, and that’s the way I basically look at life moment to moment. And now I’m looking out at you. I was 93 on Monday. So it took me 93 [years] and five days to get here. It took you every split second of each of your lives to get here for me. So I’m way ahead of you. It took all your lives to get here, so this moment is the moment. Even this we get to experience.”

— On the Golden Age of television: “I think this is the Golden Age. I understand what the Golden Age was when I was coming into television, and it was those years of Playhouse 90 and Philco Playhouse. But there’s great drama and some great comedy on television today. I can’t see it all.”

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Canadian Hitchhiking Robot’s Cross-Country Trip Ends Prematurely in the City of Love

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The Canadian researchers who created hitchBOT as a social experiment told The Associated Press that someone in Philadelphia damaged the robot beyond repair on Saturday, ending its first American tour after about two weeks.

The kid-size robot set out to travel cross-country after successfully hitchhiking across Canada in 26 days last year and parts of Europe. It is immobile on its own so gets from place to place by relying on the kindness of strangers . . .

The creators were sent an image of the vandalized robot Saturday but cannot track its location because the battery is dead. They said they don’t know who destroyed it or why. But co-creator Frauke Zeller said many children who adored the robot are now heartbroken. (Read more from “Hitchhiking Robot’s Cross-Country Trip in US Ends Prematurely in Philly” HERE)

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Police Warn of Criminally-Controlled No-Go Zones in Germany

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Spiraling levels of violent crime perpetrated by immigrants from the Middle East and the Balkans are turning parts of Duisburg, a key German industrial city, into “areas of lawlessness” — areas that are becoming de facto “no-go” zones for police, according to a confidential police report that was leaked to the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel.

The report, produced by the police headquarters of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany (and also the state with the largest Muslim population in Germany), warns that the government is losing control over problem neighborhoods and that the ability of police to maintain public order “cannot be guaranteed over the long term.”

Duisburg, which has a total population of around 500,000, is home to an estimated 60,000 mostly Turkish Muslims, making it one of the most Islamized cities in Germany. In recent years, however, thousands of Bulgarians and Romanians (including Sinti and Roma “gypsies”) have flocked to Duisburg, creating a volatile ethno-religious cauldron . . .

The leak of the document comes amid a spike in attacks on police by mobs of immigrants, not only in Duisburg, but across the country . . .

Germany is now home to the largest number of immigrants (8.2 million) of any member state of the European Union. Germany also has the second-largest Muslim population (5 million) in the EU. (Read more from “Police Warn of No-Go Zones in Germany” HERE)

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Apartment Complex Reverses Itself, Veteran Allowed to Keep American Flag

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Keith Ludwig says when it comes to flying his American flag, it’s a matter of principle.

He is now relieved that he can keep it hanging off his balcony. After the story ran on Fox 8, Ludwig was contacted by his apartment complex and told he was allowed to keep the flag.

“I’m a veteran, my grandfather’s a veteran, my dad’s a veteran. We’re a military family,” he said early Friday.

So Ludwig said he was surprised, and angered, when the management of Shoregate Towers told him on Thursday he’d have to remove the flag that flies from his balcony.

Ludwig showed us his lease, and there is a clause on using the exterior of the units that basically prohibits hanging or affixing anything to the balconies. But Ludwig questions why it took management more than two years to raise the issue with him and whether that clause is really meant to apply to an American flag. (Read more from “Veteran Allowed to Keep American Flag After Apartment Tells Him to Take Down” HERE)

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