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on March 23, 2017 in World News

FBI Is Not Cooperating with Our Investigation into Trump Camp Surveillance

‘So far the FBI has not told us whether or not they’re going to respond to our March 15th letter which is now a couple weeks old’ The FBI is not cooperating with the House of Representatives’ investigation into the NSA’s surveillance of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, the chairman of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), said today. During an explosive press conference outside the White House, Nunes told reporters that communications from the Trump team were picked up and disseminated within the government during the 2016 campaign. Nunes said sources within the intelligence community presented… View Article

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on March 23, 2017 in World News

NY Dem Pushes Fines on ‘Minority Groups’ for Not Voting

by Logan Churchwell A Democrat New York assemblywoman has a solution for low turnout typically among poor and minority voting blocs: fine them if they fail to cast ballots. Manhattan-based Assemblywoman Deborah J. Glick (D) filed a “compulsory voting” bill, requiring all eligible New York residents to register and cast ballots, or face a $10 fine unless they can provide “a valid excuse” for not voting. The current bill text does not give guidance on what kind of reasons for failing to vote would be acceptable. Assemblywoman Glick writes in the bill’s summary memo that “mandatory voting would drastically increase… View Article

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on March 23, 2017 in World News

Swedish Police Station So Dangerous Officers Can’t Commute in Alone

by Chris Tomlinson The danger posed to police in the notorious Swedish No-Go Zone of Rinkeby will likely mean they will not be allowed to use public transportation to get to work and may have to be driven to the station daily for their personal safety. The heavily migrant-populated Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby in Sweden is often cited as a textbook example of a No-Go Zone where police are constantly under threat of attack from residents. To deal with the danger, the police have planned a new fortified police station. But police are at such risk it may not safe for… View Article

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on March 23, 2017 in World News

Italian Populists and Eurosceptics Hit Record High in Polls, Set to Win Next Election

by Liam Deacon Italy’s insurgent, populist, Eurosceptic party is on track to win the next general election, polling at its highest ever reading. An Ipsos survey, published Tuesday in the Corriere della Sera newspaper, put the 5-Star Movement on 32.3 per cent of the vote, five and a half points clear of the ruling Democratic Party (PD). The poll of some 5,000 people also put the right wing populist Northern League party on 12.8 per cent, ahead of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia on 12.7 per cent. An emerging split in the PD and divisions in the centre… View Article

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