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___***US shoots down Iranian drone in Syria***___
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/06/17/uss-fitzgerald-massive-search-underway-for-7-missing-sailors-after-collision.html

- F-15E took out Shahed-129 UAV (combat/recon)
- UAV was flying over US-led coalition territory

A U.S. aircraft shot down an armed Iranian drone advancing on coalition forces in southern Syria on Tuesday, Fox News confirmed.

The armed pro-regime Shaheed-129 UAV was shot down by a U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle about 12:30 a.m. after it displayed hostile intent and advanced on Coalition forces. This is the second the U.S. shot down an Iranian drone in less than a month.

The coalition forces were manning an established combat outpost to the northeast of At Tanf where they are training and advising partner ground forces in the fight against ISIS. This is the same location where another pro-regime UAV dropped munitions near Coalition forces before it was shot down on June 8.


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___***Republican wins South Carolina special election***___
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/20/republican-wins-south-carolina-special-election-239783

- SC's 5th congress district was up for re-election
- R wins, 1 house seat is saved

Republican Ralph Norman has won South Carolina’s special House election to replace Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney in Congress.

Norman defeated Democrat Archie Parnell in a closer than expected race for South Carolina’s 5th Distrct on Tuesday night. Norman had 52 percent of the vote to Parnell’s 48 percent when the Associated Press called the race with 89 percent of precincts reporting.

Norman, a conservative hardliner in the state legislature who won a primary runoff against a more moderate opponent with the help of the Club for Growth, has said he would join the House Freedom Caucus if elected.


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___***Republican wins Georgia special election***___

- GA's 6th congress district was up for re-election
- Soros-backed candidate LOST

also, very fast tl;dr on Georgia special election

bless

Summary on Jon Ossoff:

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__***Costco Sees an Extremely Damaging Flush In Aftermath of Amazon's Big Whole Foods Deal***__

Costco (COST) suffered its worst breakdown since August 2015, on Friday. The retailer shed more than 7% as volume surged to nearly 10 times its 50-day average. This extremely damaging flush began with a huge downside gap leaving behind an ominous top in place. For patient Costco investors, there is light at the end of the tunnel as shares begin to show signs of stabilization today.

Back in early February, Costco began a powerful new rally leg with the help of high volume breakout gap. This news inspired ramp lifted the stock over 2.4%, ending a 10-week consolidation in the process. After a big move throughout February, Costco filled the Feb. 2 breakout gap in mid March. A fresh rally leg followed that drove the stock to new highs. Following two huge distribution days Costco has returned to this major support zone.

In the near term, investors should keep a close eye on the $164.00 to $162.00 area. This major support zone includes the December high, the Feb. 2 breakout gap and the 200-day moving average. If the stock can regain its footing here, despite the massive amount of recent damage, a very low-risk entry opportunity will develop. On the downside, a close back below $161.80 would violate the February low, indicating more downside is likely.

Costco's shares fell 0.9% to $162.89 by Tuesday's close.
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*https://www.thestreet.com/story/14185560/1/costco-gets-crushed-hits-support-how-to-trade-it.html?puc=yahoo&cm_ven=YAHOO&yptr=yahoo* (The Street)

The UK has gone full on communist...

Motive still unknown

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___***Protesters blowing whistles interrupt President Trump, as he was sending thoughts and prayers to Rep. Steve Scalise***___

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/877682906809761792

You heard it


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___***Feds add Molot to list of sanctioned Russian companies***___
http://www.guns.com/2017/06/21/feds-add-molot-to-list-of-sanctioned-russian-companies/

- F for Saiga/Vepr imports until ban is lifted
- It doesn't affect Kalashnikov USA/Tula/Wolf because they're US-manufactured


The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday added VEPR firearm maker Molot to the growing list of sanctioned Russian companies and individuals involved in the conflict in the Ukraine.

The announcement this week included more than three dozen people or entities noted as directly or indirectly contributing to the conflict area ranging from Ukrainian separatists in the so-called Republic of the Crimea to hotels and holding companies. Russian firearms and munitions maker Molot-Oruzhie, which exports semi-automatic firearms to the U.S., was named as evading earlier sanctions imposed in 2014 on similar companies such as Kalashnikov.



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__***Minnesota State Fair Apologizes for (((anti semetic))) sandwich***__

http://archive.is/79ENP ("(((Vice)))")

Last year, nearly two million people descended upon the fairgrounds in Falcon Heights, Minnesota to get a look at the region's most beautiful cattle and massive butter sculptures, and to gorge on edible Americana like "triple truffle trotters" and cheesy nacho corn on the cob.

This year, things will ostensibly be the same, except that one food stand might be under a little more scrutiny than usual after inventing a sandwich with a name that was deemed "anti-Semitic" by some members of the local Jewish community

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__***Advanced Micro Devices New Epyc Super Chip Could Rake in $1 Billion in Sales By 2020
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) shares were up 0.4% to $14.43 on Thursday morning, after the stock jumped nearly 10% on Wednesday as the market digested news of its latest microchip release, Epyc.

Analysts began to weigh in on the company following the chip's unveiling.

BMO Capital Markets, which has an "outperform" rating and $15 price target on the company, is in a wait and see pattern with the company, with analyst Ambrish Srivastava saying, "In our view, launching Epyc CPU in a timely manner is AMD's first major step in the right direction in the company's goal in capturing double-digit share in the data center CPU market."

However, the firm also said that it would wait for independent benchmarks to be published before coming to any conclusions on the chip's potential penetration.

Canaccord Genuity meanwhile raised the company's price target to $20 from $17, anticipating that the chip will add $100 million in revenue this year while modeling for $1 billion in revenue by 2020. The firm maintained its "buy" rating on the company.

Oppenheimer expects AMD to see improved profits in the second half of 2017, as its top-end processor has garnered orders from Dell Technologies Inc. (DVMT) gaming affiliate Alienware. The purchase by Alienware, one of the gaming industry's best-selling computers, is expected to entice more gaming PC vendors into following suit.┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅
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*https://www.thestreet.com/story/14191474/1/advanced-micro-devices-new-epyc-microchip-analysts-have-their-say.html?puc=yahoo&cm_ven=YAHOO&yptr=yahoo* (The Street)

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___***California restricts state travel to Texas, other states over LGBT laws***___
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/339154-california-restricts-state-travel-to-texas-other-states-over-lgbt-laws

- 🤔

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) will bar state employees from business trips to four states after those states passed measures limiting the rights of LGBT people.

The new restrictions prohibit state-funded or state-sponsored travel to Texas, Alabama, Kentucky and South Dakota, Becerra said Thursday.

State legislators in Texas, Alabama and South Dakota this year passed new laws allowing adoption or foster parent agencies to refuse service to LGBT families. A new Kentucky law would allow student organizations at state schools to block LBGT people from membership.

California’s Democrat-dominated legislature passed a measure last year barring state-funded travel to states that allow discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

Already, the law has blocked employee travel to four other states — Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee.



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___***Illinois man charged with threatening to assassinate Trump***___
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/illinois-man-charged-threating-assassinate-trump-48210753

- Basically "come get me im armed i dont give a fuck" and the SS grabbed him
- Held without bond

An Illinois man has been charged after posting online several times that he wants to assassinate President Donald Trump.

U.S. Secret Service Special Agent Vincent Pescitelli said in a criminal complaint that Pickett "did knowingly and willfully make a threat to take the life of, to kidnap, and to inflict bodily harm" against Trump on Facebook.

The posts included frequent profanity as well as detailed death threats to the president. After making the online threats, Pickett also posted several times that he was "still waiting" for the Secret Service to come arrest him.

"Please call the Cops on me now so I have an,excuse to use my firepower .... AR 15, AK 47, s and w 40, Sig sauer 9 mm. Oh I'm so afraid of the police now..," he wrote.

Pickett will be detained until a trial because the court can't ensure the safety of other people in community due to "mental instability," according to court documents.



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___***Bomber planning to attack Mecca's Grand Mosque blows himself up: ministry***___
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-security-idUSKBN19E2BL

- 🤔

Saudi security forces on Friday foiled a suicide attack on the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, cornering the would-be attacker in an apartment, where he blew himself up, the Interior Ministry said.

In a statement read on state television, the ministry said that three cells had planned the attack on worshippers and security forces at the mosque as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan nears its climax.

The trapped would-be suicide bomber exchanged fire with the security forces, then set off explosives when he was surrounded in a house in the central Mecca neighborhood of Ajyad al-Masafi near the mosque that had been used as the base for the attack, the ministry said.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the plot to attack the mosque, but the Islamic State group, which wants to establish a theocratic caliphate ruled according to strict Islamic law, had in the past carried out attacks in the kingdom.

In May last year, Saudi security forces shot dead two alleged Islamic State fighters outside Mecca, and two others blew themselves up outside Mecca.

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___***Ramadan Rage 2017: Deaths Reach 1,627, Marking One of the Bloodiest Islamic Holy Months in Recent Memory***___
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/06/07/ramadan-rage-2017-complete-list-jihadist-attacks-around-world/

- Ramadan ends today and starts again next year
- Use the list on the link to show how peaceful Islam is

Islamic extremists killed more than 1,620 people during this year’s holiest month for Muslims, marking one of the deadliest Ramadans in modern history, reveals a Breitbart News tally.

The large majority of Ramadan violence victims are Muslims.

At the end of Ramadan on Saturday, the total number of casualties across the world for the entire holy month had reached ***3,451 (1,627 murders and 1,824 injuries)***, more than tripling the 1,150 (421 deaths and 729 injuries) that took place in 2016, considered the deadliest holy month in recent memory.

The 1,627 fatalities this year nearly quadrupled the estimated 421 deaths last year. There were an estimated 160 terror incidents in nearly thirty predominantly Muslim countries during Ramadan 2017.


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🇺🇸 **Supreme Court Reinstates Trump Travel Ban from Muslim-Majority Countries**
<https://archive.is/vuSwE>

The Supreme Court of the United States announced Monday that it will review the lower court injunctions
blocking enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order barring travel from six Muslim-majority
countries.

A dissent from the per curiam decision, written by Justice Clarence Thomas and joined by Justices Samuel Alito
and Neil Gorsuch, would have gone further and stayed the injunctions in their entirety, allowing the travel
ban to go fully into effect immediately.
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🇺🇸 **Three CNN Employees Resign Over Retracted Story on Russia Ties**
<https://archive.is/qp40D>

“In the aftermath of the retraction of a story published on CNN.com, CNN has accepted the resignation of the
employees involved in the story’s publication,” a network spokesperson said in a statement Monday.

Typically, stories like that would have to go through several departments within CNN, including fact-checkers,
journalism standards experts and lawyers, according to the network. But the network says there was a
“breakdown in editorial workflow” which “disturbed the CNN executives who learned about it.”
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🇮🇱 **Equality Mandatory For Europeans And Americans, But Optional For Jews**
<https://archive.is/hBOz0>

Israel's shelving of a deal to allow men and women to pray together at the Western Wall echoed far beyond
religion Monday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused of abandoning reform efforts for political
gain.

Netanyahu's cabinet voted Sunday to back out of the hard-won deal, provoking a flood of criticism and warnings
it could damage Israel's relationship with the United States' influential Jewish community. (unlikely m8)
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🇰🇵 **Former S. Korean President Park plotted to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong-un – report**
<https://archive.is/oKcn8>

Ex-president Park, who was impeached due to a corruption scandal, signed a document approving a “leadership
change” in North Korea back in 2015, the national daily reported on Monday citing unnamed sources. South
Korea’s intelligence agencies were to prepare operations to carry out the plan.

The report notes that the plotters considered arranging accidents, with a car accident or the derailment of a
train carrying Kim Jong-un on the table. Park’s administration also reportedly considered staging a coup in
North Korea.

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🇮🇳 **Trump Hosts Poo King To Discuss H1-B Visas, Security & More**
<https://archive.is/4TRHR>

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump are meeting face-to-face for the first time.
Paramount in their discussions are the issues of trade, security, energy and immigration, as well as regional
issues between India and Pakistan.

From the Paris Agreement on climate change to US work visas for skilled foreigners, Trump has taken an
opposite view to Modi's positions. The same goes for Trump's stance toward Iran, as Modi supports the
internationally agreed-upon framework that further limited Iran's civilian nuclear energy program.
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🇺🇸 **'2 Potential Witnesses' In DNC-Rigging Lawsuit 'Both Died'**
<https://archive.is/unQMW>

Lawyers and plaintiffs suing the Democratic National Committee for rigging the 2016 presidential election say
they’re being harassed with threatening messages and “freaky” encounters and they fear for their safety –
particularly in the wake of the mysterious and unsolved murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich – but a federal court
has denied their request for protection.

"All I’m saying is, two potential witnesses in my case – Shawn Lucas was my process server – they both died.
Why they died, how they died, I don’t know. Mr. Lucas was about to provide evidence to the court in this case,
on service of process, when he very, very suddenly passed away." - Elizabeth Lee Beck.

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🇺🇸 **This Morning, The President of the United States Accused His Predecessor of Treason on Twitter**
<https://archive.is/MFSHT>

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/879317636164841474
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/879320905608044544

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🇬🇧 **Over 40 Foreign Terrorists Used Human Rights Laws to Stay in the UK**
<https://archive.is/XOFh4>

The scheme – in theory – allows the UK to expel terror suspects with guarantees they will not be mistreated or
even tortured in their home country. But it appears to have broken down allowing terrorists to remain in the
UK.

In the court cases, lawyers – typically funded through legal aid – have successfully prevented foreign-born
terror suspects from being sent back to their home countries. The report is potentially embarrassing for the
prime minister because it is expected to highlight the collapse of an initiative she pushed hard for while in
the Home Office.
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<:jewstar:285075531609669632> **Zuckerberg: Facebook Can Play A Role That Churches And Little League Once Filled**
<https://archive.is/O5KKn>

Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook groups to play an important role that community groups like churches and Little
League teams used to perform: Bringing communities together.

"It's so striking that for decades, membership in all kinds of groups has declined as much as one-quarter," he
said during a rally for Facebook users who've built large community-support groups on the site. ***"That's a lot
of of people who now need to find a sense of purpose and support somewhere else."***
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___***O'KEEFE STRIKES AGAIN! CNN Producer Says Russia Narrative 'Bullshit'...***___
http://www.veritaslive.com/06-26-2017/americanpravdacnn.html

- PV infiltrators captures CNN Producer exclaiming that the Russia narrative is nothingburger
- John Bonifield, CNN's Inner Circle, says that there is no big evidence of the Russian stuff
- CNN "ratings are incredible right now," President Trump "good for business"

Project Veritas has released a video of CNN Producer John Bonifield who was caught on hidden-camera admitting that there is no proof to CNN's Russia narrative.

"I mean, it's mostly bullshit right now," Bonifield says. "Like, we don't have any giant proof."

He confirms that the driving factor at CNN is ratings: "It's a business, people are like the media has an ethical phssssss... All the nice cutesy little ethics that used to get talked about in journalism school you're just like, that's adorable. That's adorable. This is a business."


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___***Venezuela says Supreme Court attacked from helicopter***___
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKBN19I2RV

- Helicopter dropping nades on the Supreme Court

President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday a police helicopter had attacked the Supreme Court in a ratcheting up of Venezuela's political crisis, but a grenade tossed at the building did not explode.

Speaking on state TV, the 54-year-old president, who has faced three months of opposition protests and some dissent from within government ranks, said that special forces were after the "terrorists" behind the attack.

The helicopter had also flown over the Interior Ministry, he said. "I demand that the MUD (opposition coalition) condemns this eminently coup-mongering attack," Maduro added.

Earlier, Venezuela's leader warned that he and supporters would take up arms if his socialist government was violently overthrown by opponents who have been on the streets since April. At least 75 people have died in the unrest.


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🇺🇸 **Sarah Palin Hires Hulk Hogan’s Legal Team to Sue New York Times for Defamation**
<https://archive.is/DIyld>

“Today, Sarah Palin took a stand against The New York Times Company by filing a lawsuit which seeks to hold The Times accountable for stating that Governor Palin is part of a ‘sickeningly familiar pattern’ of politically motivated violence and that she incited the horrific 2011 shooting of Representative Gabby Giffords, a tragedy where the gunman seriously wounded numerous people and killed 6, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl,” Palin’s lawyers—Ken Turkel, Shane Vogt, and S. Preston Ricardo—said in a statement.

The complaint, filed in Manhattan federal court, states that “at the time of publication, The Times knew and had published pieces acknowledging that there was no connection between Mrs. Palin and Loughner’s 2011 shooting.”
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🇺🇸 **Leftists Promising to ‘Desecrate Graves’ and Protest During 154th Anniversary of Battle of Gettysburg**
<https://archive.is/f9QRx>

As the 154th-anniversary celebration gears up for the coming month, leftists are making plans for a battle of their own. Only they plan to fight against the country, to “desecrate” history, and to disrupt the thousands of Americans and foreign visitors who intend to honor our past. One of the warnings read:

*There is an event set up on Facebook that calls for the desecration of Confederate cemeteries on Confederate Memorial Day. Specifically, on Saturday, May 13, 3-6 PM, this group intends to target Old Marietta Confederate Cemetery. **They intend to burn CBFs and/or urinate on graves**. They also have an event scheduled for July 1, 3-6 PM, at Gettysburg National Memorial Park Cemetery… The group urges their followers to **“find their local Confederate graves” to desecrate.***
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🇺🇸 **White House: CNN ‘a Disgrace to All of Media, to All of Journalism’**
<https://archive.is/fb6Ys>

Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the White House Press Corps on Tuesday that CNN was “a disgrace to journalism.” Sanders’ remarks came after CNN retracted a fake news story over the weekend alleging links between a member of President Donald Trump’s transition team and a Russian firm.

*"There’s a video circulating now I would encourage everybody in this room, and frankly everybody across the country, to take a look at. I think if it is accurate, I think it’s a disgrace to all of media, to all of journalism. And I think if that is the place that certain outlets are going, particularly for the purpose of spiking ratings, and if that’s coming directly from the top, I think that’s even more scary, and certainly more disgraceful."*
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🇺🇸 **"Young Virginia Democrat" Sentenced To Prison For Registering Dead People To Vote**
<https://archive.is/ctYmL>

James Madison University student Andrew J. Spieles, 21, of Harrisonburg, pled guilty Monday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. As part of the plea agreement, Spieles agreed to a prison sentence of 100 to 120 days.

"The Registrar’s Office discovered multiple instances of similarly falsified forms when it reviewed additional registrations. Some were in the names of deceased individuals while others bore incorrect middle names, birth dates, and social security numbers. Spieles later admitted that he prepared the false voter registration forms by obtaining the name, age, and address of individuals from “walk sheets” provided to him by the Virginia Democratic Party, fabricating a birth date based on the ages listed in the walk sheet, and fabricating the social security numbers."
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🇻🇦 **Vatican's 3rd Most Powerful Figure, Cardinal Pell, Charged With Multiple Sex Assaults**
<https://archive.is/jolnp>

Australia’s highest-ranking Roman Catholic clergyman, Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell, has been charged by Australian police over sex allegations from "multiple complainants." The Vatican has released a statement of support for Pell, citing his "honesty."

"Cardinal Pell is facing multiple charges in respect of historic sexual offences," Victoria state police deputy commissioner Shane Patton told the media in Melbourne on Thursday. There might be up to 10 alleged victims, Australian news website News.com.au reports, adding that **they were minors at the time of the alleged assaults** and are now aged from their late 20s to their early 50s.
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🇮🇷 **Iraq Declares ‘Fall’ Of ISIS As Military Retakes Landmark Mosul Mosque**
<https://archive.is/AORuQ>

Iraqi forces have recaptured the site of Mosul’s landmark Grand al-Nuri Mosque, according to the country’s military. The victory comes three years to the date since Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) declared itself a Caliphate at the iconic building.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the capture marks **“the end of the Daesh state,”** Reuters reports. Referencing IS, Iraqi military spokesman, Brigadier General Yahya Rasool, told state TV: "Their fictitious state has fallen,” according to Reuters.
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