🇨🇳 **Chinese banks stop taking North Korean money fearing US sanctions**
<https://archive.is/EmCAk>

China’s banks are reportedly beginning to take heed of US sanctions on North Korea. Several workers at branches of major Chinese banks close to the North Korean border told the BBC that they are no longer opening accounts for citizens of the country.

One Bank of China staff member said, *“all bank activities related to North Korea are suspended now because it is a sanctioned country”.*

Other workers at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China said they had stopped opening North Korean accounts months ago, with one reportedly saying the change followed an order from the People's Bank Of China, the country's central bank.
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**El Rato liked a porn vid**

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🇺🇸 **Trump punishes sanctuary countries, halts visas for nations that refuse to cooperate on deportations**
<https://archive.is/YPy0a>

The administration imposed visa sanctions Tuesday on four countries that have refused to cooperate in taking back their immigrants whom the U.S. wants to deport, making good on one of President Trump’s campaign promises.

State Department officials said the sanctions begin Wednesday, halting issuance of at least some categories of visas to would-be travelers from Cambodia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Eritrea.

*“The Secretary of State has ordered consular officers in Eritrea, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia to implement visa restrictions effective September 13, 2017,”* the department said in a statement provided to The Washington Times. *“The Secretary determined the categories of visa applicants subject to these restrictions on a country-by-country basis.”*
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🇷🇺 **Thousands evacuated from Moscow buildings as Russian cities inundated with bomb threats**
<https://archive.is/L9nA7>

Over 20 shopping centers, railway stations and universities had to be evacuated in Moscow, following warnings that they had been rigged with explosives. In total, 190 sites have been evacuated across 17 Russian cities after bomb threats, a security source told RIA news agency.

An epidemic of hoax bomb warnings has plagued Russia over the past week. Security services told the RIA news agency that over *45,000 people* were evacuated from public places in 22 Russian cities on Tuesday, adding that many of the calls appeared to have come from Ukraine.
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🇺🇸 **Stunning testimony: Voting machines can be hacked without a trace of evidence**
<https://archive.is/RkVbu>

The country’s voting machines are susceptible to hacking, which could be done in a way so that it leaves no fingerprints, making it impossible to know whether the outcome was changed, computer experts told President Trump’s voter integrity commission Tuesday.

He said hackers have myriad ways of attacking voting machines. *“You don’t want to rest the election of the president on, ‘Maybe the Wi-Fi was turned on when it shouldn’t have been.’”*

He and two other computer security experts said bar codes on ballots and smartphones in voting locations could give hackers a chance to rewrite results in ways that couldn’t be traceable, short of sampling of ballots or hand recounts — and those work only in cases where there’s a paper trail.
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<:trump:284711336934375425> **Amazon deletes one-star reviews of Hillary Clinton's new book**
<https://archive.is/ZJmVy>

Amazon has been monitoring and deleting reviews after Hillary Clinton's new book was greeted with a torrent of criticism on the day it was released.

Few of the one-star reviews remain on the website, but reports and screengrabs show that reviewers used the space to criticise the former First Lady and spread conspiracy theories about her and Bill Clinton.

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**'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli has bail revoked, heads to jail after Facebook post about Hillary Clinton's hair**
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-jail-20170913-story.html

- Shrekeli posted a 5 grand bounty on hilldawg's strand of hair for DNA, judge says violation of bond
- Gets jailed

A judge jailed former pharmaceuticals company CEO Martin Shkreli on Wednesday after finding that he violated his bail on a securities fraud conviction with a social media posting she agreed posed a threat to Hillary Clinton.

Defense attorneys had argued at a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn that the post by Shkreli, offering a $5,000 bounty to anyone who could grab him one of Clinton's hairs while she's on a book tour, was political satire. But U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto didn't see the humor, saying the offer could be taken seriously by fellow Clinton detractors.

The Clinton offer could be viewed as "a solicitation of an assault," the judge said before revoking Shkreli's $5 million bail.

"This is not protected by the First Amendment," the judge said. "... There's a risk that somebody may take him up on it."

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🇺🇸 **Democrats say they have deal with Trump on young immigrants**
<https://archive.is/bApcr>

The top House and Senate Democrats said Wednesday they had reached agreement with President Donald Trump to protect thousands of younger immigrants from deportation and fund some border security enhancements — not including Trump’s long-sought border wall.

The agreement, the latest instance of Trump ditching his own party to make common cause with the opposition, was announced by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi following a White House dinner that Republican lawmakers weren’t invited to attend.

It would enshrine protections for the nearly 800,000 immigrants brought illegally to this country as kids who had benefited from former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, which provided temporary work permits and shielded recipients from deportation.
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**WTF? I'm with #AmnestyDon now**

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🇰🇵 **North Korea fires second ballistic missile over Japan**
<https://archive.is/mkVIp>

North Korea has fired a ballistic missile across Japan, creating new tension in the region after its nuclear bomb test less than two weeks ago. The missile reached an altitude of about 770km (478 miles), travelling 3,700km before landing in the sea off Hokkaido, South Korea's military says. It flew higher and further than one fired over Japan late last month.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his country would "never tolerate" such "dangerous provocative action". South Korea responded within minutes by firing two ballistic missiles into the sea in a simulated strike on the North.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson also condemned the launch and the UN Security Council will meet later on Friday in New York at the request of America and Japan.
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**Wikipedia Features Front-Page Article Criticizing President Trump’s Handshakes**
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/09/13/article-about-trumps-handshakes-appears-on-front-page-of-wikipedia-after-minority-block-deletion/

- what

Following a contentious vote on deleting an unflattering Wikipedia article focused entirely on President Trump’s allegedly “unusual” handshakes, the article made it to the online encyclopedia’s front page in its “Did you know” section on Friday.

The article survived an attempt at having it deleted after a minority of editors voted to keep the article, causing it to be closed with a decision of “no consensus” for deletion.

“Donald Trump’s handshakes” was created by editor Onceinawhile on July 22 and then expanded to six times its original size by editor Sagecandor. Onceinawhile primarily edits articles about Israel and generally advocates a pro-Arab position. Sagecandor has created a large number of articles related to Trump, mainly books authored by or about Trump, focusing on negative representations of the President. One of these articles was recognized as meeting the site’s “good article” standard.

Wikipedia’s main page is viewed on average over 15 million times in a day according to the site’s “pageviews analysis” tool. This makes its “Did you know” section a prime piece of space on the site and subject to agenda-driven efforts by the site’s editors, especially since in order to keep an article they only need a dedicated minority to agree with them.


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**Parsons Green: London Underground blast is terror incident**
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41278545?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central

- Part and parcel
- IED in a bucket
- 18 wounded

An "improvised explosive device" was detonated on a Tube train in south-west London during Friday's rush hour, Scotland Yard has confirmed.

Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said hundreds of detectives, working with MI5, are investigating the blast at 08:20 BST at Parsons Green station.

Eighteen people have been taken to hospital mostly with burn injuries.

The blast, on an eastbound District Line train from Wimbledon, is being treated as terrorism, police said.

The Metropolitan Police said it was too early to confirm the cause of the fire and the station, which is above ground, has been cordoned off.

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**Trump Voters Throw MAGA Hats into Twitter Bonfire**
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/14/trump-voters-throw-maga-hats-twitter-bonfire/

- #AmnestyDon finally BTFO?

Donald Trump’s supporters have begun burning his signature MAGA hats in protest against his big-amnesty-for-no-wall deal with Democrats.

Trump has sold millions of hats so there are many more to burn if Trump goes ahead with the vaguely described plan to support the Democrats big “dream” amnesties in exchange for token improvements to border security — despite his campaign-winning, pro-American, immigration-reform-and-border-wall platform.

More importantly, the hat-burning may presage a huge demoralization among Trump’s loyal followers, and cause his support to drop down to the basement levels achieved by President Goerge W. Bush when he pushed for an amnesty in 2006 and 2007. Bush’s ratings fell to almost 30 percent — despite the booming economy — once he alienated Republicans in 2006 by pushing for cheap-labor amnesty bills.


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**#AmnestyDon 's tweet of the day for the weekend news cycle**

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🇺🇸 **Former CIA Deputy Director RESIGNS As Harvard Senior Fellow Over Chelsea Manning Hiring**
<https://archive.is/WkFWC>

Harvard University presumably took one look at former United States military intelligence analyst Chelsea (formally known as Bradley) Manning's emoji-filled, fascistic, nonsensical Twitter feed and thought he'd be the perfect fit for the Ivy league.

Well, as it turns out, hiring a convicted American traitor just because he checks the LGBT Box (with the best letter, mind you), isn't going to sit well with red-blooded Americans who give a darn about their country, such as former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell.

*"Unfortunately, I cannot be part of an organization - The Kennedy School - that honors a convicted felon and leaker of classified information, Ms. Chelsea Manning, by inviting her to be a Visiting Fellow at The Kennedy's School Institute of Politics,"* he said.
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🇺🇸 **Harvard cans ‘AMERICAN TRAITOR’ Chelsea Manning after blowback**
<https://archive.is/y2V4c>

Harvard Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf insisted the school *“did not intend to honor her in any way or to endorse any of her words or deeds, as we do not honor or endorse any Fellow,”* but admitted *“I now think that designating Chelsea Manning as a Visiting Fellow was a mistake.”*

*“We are withdrawing the invitation to her to serve as a Visiting Fellow—and the perceived honor that it implies to some people—while maintaining the invitation for her to spend a day at the Kennedy School and speak in the Forum,”* he said.

Harvard’s concessions comes after CIA Director Mike Pompeo canceled an appearance at Harvard at the last minute citing the school’s awarding of a fellowship to Manning.
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🇺🇸 **St. Louis cop’s acquittal triggers second day of protestspo**
<https://archive.is/tfOHQ>

Noisy demonstrators marched through an upscale shopping mall Saturday to protest the acquittal of a white former St. Louis police officer in the fatal shooting of a black man, pickup up after a night of mostly peaceful demonstrations that escalated into scattered acts of vandalism and violence.

Susanna Prins, 27, of University City, showed up at a meeting to plan the action carrying a sign stating, **“White silence is violence.”**

*“I feel helpless and I feel just rage,”* Prins said. *“Not saying or doing anything makes you complicit in the brutalization of our friends and neighbors.”*

Smith’s death is just one of several high-profile U.S. cases in recent years in which a white officer killed a black suspect, including the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in nearby Ferguson that sparked months of angry and sometimes violent protests.
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🇺🇸 **Obamacare Premiums Expected To Spike 18%**
<https://archive.is/0uwkf>

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is expecting premiums to spike by 15% in 2018 and an additional two million people will be uninsured.

*"The budget office projects that average premiums will total $3,400 for a 21-year-old, $4,800 for a 45-year-old, and $9,800 for a 64-year-old this year,"* the Free Beacon reports.

The report does note that most people on the exchanges won't feel the increase's effects because they're covered by Obamacare subsidies, but there are still millions of people who will be squeezed by the premium increases who aren't covered by the subsidies — and they'll most definitely feel a major pinch.
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<:ussr:276808165738283008> **UC Berkeley professors urge campus boycott during ‘Free Speech Week’**
<https://archive.is/MSt8u>

At UC Berkeley, 177 professors and graduate students have signed an open letter urging thousands of colleagues and classmates to boycott campus for four days this month to ensure their “physical and mental safety.”

“As faculty we cannot ask students and staff to choose between risking their physical and mental safety in order to attend class or come to work in an environment of harassment, intimidation, violence, and militarized policing,” says the letter, adding that some students and employees are particularly at risk: “non-white, gender queer, Muslims, disabled, feminists” and others routinely singled out by the right.

Peter Glazer, an associate professor of theater, dance and performance studies who also signed, said the value of boycotting campus is also to “deny the invited speakers the audience, the trouble, and the kind of press they crave.”
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🇬🇧 **Plain-clothes SAS troops deployed on London Underground with ‘shoot to kill’ orders**
<https://archive.is/mW3AR>

Members of the Special Air Service and the Special Reconnaissance Regiment have been told to target terrorists on trains, buses and planes. Some will patrol London’s busy tube network in pairs, disguised as civilian couples.

They will be armed with Glock 9mm semi-automatic pistols so they can “take down” gunmen and suicide bombers, the Daily Star reports.

A source told the newspaper they are trained in “rapid-fire techniques,” adding, *“The task force is comprised of some of the most experienced special forces personnel in the Army. The unit is comprised of some of both male and female personnel from the Special Reconnaissance Regiment, who are trained killers and can pose as couples while traveling on public transport.”*
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🇰🇵 **Trump threatens to 'totally destroy North Korea' in U.N. address**
<https://archive.is/IiVJs>

President Trump made his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday morning, telling the gathering of world leaders that if Pyongyang continues its nuclear provocations, the United States “will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.”

Trump's speech obviously most notable for his rhetoric on North Korea and Iran, but the full-throated attack on internationalism/globalism (the idea of "powerful global bureaucracies" subverting national interests) quite closely follows the themes of his campaign and of his inaugural address.
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**Big Don's remarks at UN Assembly today**

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**Trump Vindicated: Report Says Obama Government Wiretapped Trump Campaign**
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/18/trump-vindicated-report-says-obama-government-wiretapped-trump-campaign/

- NYT/CNN's (((sources))) says Obama's FBI wiretapped Paul "Capping Knees" Manafort
- During campaign, Manafort lived in Trump Tower
- No wonder how the building is bugged

U.S. investigators wiretapped President Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort, according to a report by CNN that vindicates the president’s earlier claims, which were mocked as a conspiracy theory.

President Trump had tweeted on March 4: “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”

But a report Monday evening said U.S. investigators obtained a surveillance warrant on Manafort from a secret court and had monitored him before and after the election, including a “period when Manafort was known to talk to President Donald Trump.”

The report said the secret court that handles the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act had authorized a surveillance warrant against Manafort for an investigation that began in 2014, looking into his firm, the Podesta Group, and another firm’s lobbying work for Ukraine’s pro-Russian former ruling party.

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🇲🇽 **Pelosi: Dreamers’ parents ‘did a great thing’ in sneaking them into U.S.**
<https://archive.is/wCp7w>

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that illegal immigrant parents who brought their children to the U.S. in defiance of the law “did a great thing,” giving the country an infusion of successful young people.

Mrs. Pelosi’s comments strike a dissonant note from many analysts, who while saying the Dreamers are sympathetic since they had no say in the decision, say the parents do deserve blame for creating the problem.

He comments came after she was shouted down by protesters earlier this week who interrupted her at an event, and demanded she do more to protect all illegal immigrants. Mrs. Pelosi, at her weekly press conference in Washington on Wednesday, said she does want to protect a broader swath of illegal immigrants, but that’s not the debate at this point.
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🇺🇸 **Philadelphia finds hundreds of illegal voters**
<https://archive.is/tsFCl>

Hundreds of non-citizens were registered to vote in Philadelphia over the last decade, and at least 90 of them actually ended up casting ballots that should never have been allowed, City Commissioner Al Schmidt said Wednesday, adding more fuel to complaints of bogus voting in U.S. elections.

The voters are all self-admitted non-citizens who went back and canceled their registrations later — but not before casting illegal ballots a total of 227 times in elections spanning 2006 to 2007, Mr. Schmidt said.

He said most of those non-citizens signed up to vote at PennDOT, the state motor vehicles bureau, when they went to get a driver’s license. While legal residents and long-term visitors are allowed to hold licenses, they are not allowed to vote in federal elections — yet thanks to a federal law, the sign-up for both licenses and voter registration is often tied together.
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🇺🇸 **ACLU Sues Michigan Over Allowing Religious Adoption Organizations to Turn Away Same-Sex Couples**
<https://archive.is/H3VL3>

ACLU claims that allowing religious adoption agencies to screen out applicants based on sexual orientation “harms vulnerable children by denying them access to loving families that they desperately need and violates the Establishment and Equal Protection Clauses of the United States Constitution.”

However, proponents of the law, signed by Governor Rick Snyder (R), argue that religious-based adoption groups face a threat to their religious freedom and would close if they were forced to go against their beliefs and place children with same-sex couples.

Gov. Snyder cited a letter he received from Bethany Christian Services arguing that requiring religious groups to place children with gay parents requires them *"to abandon their faith or abandon the children they serve. That is an untenable choice, one that inevitably results in fewer resources available to recruit families and place children in loving homes,"* they wrote.
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🇷🇺 **Report: Manafort Offered To Provide ‘Briefings’ To Kremlin-Connected Oligarch During Campaign**
<https://archive.is/b0n1O>

Paul Manafort, the embattled former Trump campaign chairman, offered to provide a briefing about the 2016 presidential campaign to a Russian oligarch with close ties to Vladimir Putin, according to newly unveiled emails.

The Washington Post reports that Manafort emailed a Ukrainian business associate on July 7, 2016 asking him to forward a message to Oleg Deripaska, an aluminum magnate who Manafort has consulted for in the past.

“If he needs private briefings we can accommodate,” Manafort wrote to his associate, Konstantin Kilimnik. The Manafort emails are part of a trove of tens of thousands of documents under review by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is conducting a sprawling investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential campaign.
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https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2014/09/16/the-real-sickness-at-the-heart-of-american-culture-n1892235

People don't like to talk about America's culture for the same reason that a man who just had a heart attack doesn't want to discuss the double bacon cheeseburger he's eating. He knows what he's doing is killing him, but it's easier not to deal with it. We’re in the same boat.
* We treat success as an accident or a cheat while defending people who make bad decisions, who won't educate themselves or who won't work.
* We've allowed pornography to become so accessible that it's practically universally viewed, even among teenagers.
* We love victims so much that people actually fake hate crimes to claim victim status.
* We celebrate losers and deviants by giving them their own reality shows. Meanwhile, Hollywood regularly portrays businessmen, Christians and soldiers as the worst people on earth.
* More children have died because of Roe v. Wade than were killed during the Holocaust.
* Marriage is falling apart and we’re encouraging that by pushing gay marriage.
* Our universities reward Communists, terrorists and blatant anti-American sentiment with professorships. Those are the last people who should be teaching impressionable young Americans.
* There's a whole grievance industry full of people who make a living claiming to be "offended" by things.
* Religion and morality are denigrated while nihilism and immorality are considered cool.
* Legalism has superseded morality and what's "right" and "wrong" has become secondary to what's "legal" and "illegal."

* We're the greatest, most powerful, most prosperous and most virtuous nation that has ever existed and despite all of that, we obsess over our nations faults instead of our achievements.
* Americans across the spectrum are being encouraged to separate themselves off from the larger culture and nurse grievances that barely would have been given a thought a few decades ago.