Calls for internment will grow: Fox contributor linked to Russia scandal suggests camps for Britis

Source: Raw story



Fox News contributor Nigel Farage, a former British politician who campaigned for Brexit, suggested on Sunday that Muslims in Britain could be put into internment camps because of terrorist attacks in Britain.

During an interview on Fox & Friends, host Pete Hegseth asked Farage “how the borderless world that London lived in for so long — led by globalists — contributes to the ability for our enemy to infiltrate us and attack us.”

“A lot of people have abused the word refugee,” Farage complained. “The British government, when they were pushed by people like me a few years ago, said they would use the power to stop people who have fought, for example, in Syria from coming back into our country. Over 400 known jidhadi fighters from Syria have come back into Britain and we’ve only stopped one.”

“I hope that [British Prime Minister] Teresa May goes a lot further,” he continued, “and says that not one person who has fought in Syria will be let back into our country.”

According to Farage, a growing number of Britons now supporting putting Muslims in internment camps.

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Trump took Londons Muslim mayors no reason to be alarmed statement out of context in Twitter att

Source: Raw Story



President Donald Trump’s attack on London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who happens to be Muslim, was likely based upon a BBC interview where the mayor reassured the public about a larger police presence — not to ignore the threat of homegrown terrorists.

Sunday morning, Trump took a shot at Khan on Twitter following the attacks in London that claimed seven lives.

“At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!'” Trump wrote.

The “no reason to be alarmed” quote appears to be taken from a BBC interview where Khan talked about beefed-up security measures on the streets of London.

“Londoners will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days,” Khan said in the interview.

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These Photos Show Exactly Why Wonder Woman Is So Important

"Why representation always matters: Wonder Woman edition."

Source: Buzz Feed

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It's also already inspiring a country full of little girls looking for a strong female superhero.




People have been sharing photos of their daughters dressed up as the character at home, at events, and even at advance screenings of the movie.




And honestly, it's pretty much impossible to not feel emotional, inspired, or both looking at them.




It's almost too much!!!!




And they say you should never meet your heroes...



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Someone stole MAX attack victim's wedding ring, backpack

Source: Oregon Live

Police are asking for help finding a man suspected of stealing the wedding ring and backpack of one of Friday's MAX stabbing attack victims.

The ring and backpack belong to Rick Best, one of two men slain in the attack, police said. Best, 53, was a father, Army veteran, city of Portland employee and onetime candidate for Clackamas County commissioner.

He was headed home to Happy Valley when he and others came to the aid of two girls who were the target of Jeremy Joseph Christian's racist vitriol, according to police and witnesses. Christian is accused of pulling a knife and striking three men who came to the girls' defense, killing two of them.

Police have released surveillance images and video of the suspect. The video shows him leaving the train while holding two backpacks — one of which belongs to Best and contained personal items that are important to his family, police said. Police don't know who the other backpack belongs to.

White House eyes Bannon ally for top broadcasting post

"With sweeping new powers, the position would oversee public media reaching 100 countries."

Source: Politico

The Trump administration’s leading candidate to head the Broadcasting Board of Governors, a position that with recent changes would give the appointee unilateral power over the United States’ government messaging abroad reaching millions, is a conservative documentarian with ties to White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation.

Michael Pack, the leading contender for the post, is president and CEO of the Claremont Institute and publisher of its Claremont Review of Books, a California-based conservative institute that has been called the “academic home of Trumpism” by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Pack, a former Corporation for Public Broadcasting executive, and Bannon are mutual admirers and have worked on two documentaries together. Pack has appeared on Bannon’s radio show and wrote an op-ed in March praising Bannon as a pioneer in conservative documentary filmmaking.

Should he be appointed by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate, Pack would be the first CEO of the BBG without a board as a firewall because of a little-noticed provision in last December's National Defense Authorization Act that disbanded the bipartisan board that controls the BBG.

“The White House could theoretically use the BBG for any kind of messaging,” one senior government official with direct knowledge of the situation said. “People are generally worried about what might happen next because it would change the nature of BBG from having a CEO and a board and a track record for protecting independence to what might come next."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/01/michael-pack-candidate-broadcasting-board-of-governors-239022

J.K. Rowling: Very much enjoying the German press at the moment. "Earth to Trump..."

White House orders agencies to ignore Democrats oversight requests

Source: Politico

The White House is telling federal agencies to blow off Democratic lawmakers' oversight requests, as Republicans fear the information could be weaponized against President Donald Trump.

At meetings with top officials for various government departments this spring, Uttam Dhillon, a White House lawyer, told agencies not to cooperate with such requests from Democrats, according to Republican sources inside and outside the administration.

It appears to be a formalization of a practice that had already taken hold, as Democrats have complained that their oversight letters requesting information from agencies have gone unanswered since January, and the Trump administration has not yet explained the rationale.

The declaration amounts to a new level of partisanship in Washington, where the president and his administration already feels besieged by media reports and attacks from Democrats. The idea, Republicans said, is to choke off the Democratic congressional minorities from gaining new information that could be used to attack the president.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/02/federal-agencies-oversight-requests-democrats-white-house-239034?cmpid=sf

Before withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, Trump called a Fox News host for advice

Source: Media Matters

KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE (CO-HOST): I don't think this is a deal that anybody should be crying about. Like we said, it's nonbinding, and the United States is already a clean energy, oil and gas leader. So, we can keep doing what we're doing, we can keep reducing our emissions. Why would we in fact put ourselves at an economic disadvantage, giving and subsidizing an economic windfall to other countries, in sort of a climate redistribution of wealth scheme? It makes no sense to me.

I think he did the brave and courageous thing, and in fact, I told him that this morning at 8AM, when he called. And I spoke to him about it, and this was something very much so on his mind, but he seemed like--

GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): Wait a second, who called you?

GUILFOYLE: The president.

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Saudi Arabia ramps up Washington lobbying with former Trump advisers

Source: CNN

(CNN)In the weeks before President Donald Trump visited Saudi Arabia on his first foreign trip, the Saudi government hired three US lobbying firms to do its bidding in Washington, including an obscure group made up of former Trump advisers that will receive $5.4 million for one year's work, federal records show.

The Saudis have now added six U.S. lobbying firms since Trump's election in a bid to improve frayed relations with the United States -- and to capitalize on a president who skewered them as a candidate but is now seen as an ally.

The Saudi Interior Ministry hired Sonoran Policy Group of Arizona in May -- the day after Trump announced he would visit Saudi Arabia -- as a "government affairs and commercial sector adviser" for $5.4 million, according to records the firm filed with the Justice Department. That's a startling sum even in the lucrative business of lobbying for foreign governments.

Sonoran's lobbying work over the years has focused on small domestic clients including California technology companies, federal records show. It had no experience representing foreign governments until December.

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'Axis of love': Saudi-Russia detente heralds new oil order

Source: Reuters

A meeting between the two men who run Russia and Saudi Arabia's oil empires spoke volumes about the new relationship between the energy superpowers.

It was the first time that Rosneft boss Igor Sechin and Saudi Aramco chief Amin Nasser had held a formal, scheduled meeting - going beyond the numerous times they had simply encountered each other at oil events around the world.

Their conversation also broke new ground, according to two sources familiar with the talks in the Saudi city of Dhahran last week who said the CEOs discussed possible ways of cooperating in Asia, such as Indonesia and India, as well as in other markets.

The sources did not disclose further details, but any cooperation in Asia between Russia and Saudi Arabia - the world's two biggest oil exporters - would be unprecedented.

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