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Volume 6 © Issue 12 June 12, 2017 In God We Trust FREE Trump Admin Nabs Woman Who Gave ‘Top Secret’ Documents to ‘The Intercept’ By Chuck Ross, Reporter, June 5, 2017, dailycaller.com The Justice Department filed charges on Monday against a 25-year-old woman accused of stealing Top Secret information and providing it to The Intercept. Reality Leigh Winner is accused in the complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Georgia, of “removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet,” the Justice Department said. Winner, who lives in Augusta, has worked for Pluribus International since Feb. 13, according to the complaint. She held a Top-Secret clearance. On May 9, “Winner printed and improperly removed classified intelligence reporting, which contained classified national defense information from an intelligence community agency, and unlawfully retained it,” the complaint says. She then transmitted the information through mail to an online news outlet several days later. The news outlet is not revealed in the complaint, but NBC News has reported that the recipient of the documents is The Intercept, a website founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. The U.S. agency that contracts with Pluribus International is also not named, but the National Security Agency contracts work through the firm. FBI agents interviewed Winner at her home on Saturday. During the interview, she acknowledged that “she intentionally identified and printed” classified information “despite not having a ‘need to know,’ and with knowledge that the intelligence reporting was classified.” “Winner further admitted removing the classified intelligence reporting from her office space, retaining it, and mailing it from Augusta, Georgia, to the news outlet, which she knew was not authorized to receive or possess the documents,” the complaint reads. The U.S. agency notified the FBI of the breach on June 1. The news outlet to which Winner provided the information contacted the agency the day before and said that it was in possession of documents it believed were authored by the agency. The news outlet said that it planned to publish an article based on the documents. The federal complaint then states that the news outlet published the information on May 5. That appears to be an error. The Intercept published an article based on stolen NSA documents on Monday. The documents contained Top Secret information about Russia’s attempts to hack into voter registration systems prior to the election last November. The complaint reveals how the U.S. agency determined that Winner stole the documents. Western Leaders: Time to Signal ISIS Our Well- Armed Militaries ARE COMING TO GET YOU! By Judi McLeod, June 6, 2017, canadafreepress.com Pray for protection from politicians who by their cowardice and political agendas allow Islamist terrorism to continue London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s propaganda battle against President Donald Trump: Khan wants the British government to cancel a state visit by Trump. Khan wants public rage against the latest Islamist terrorist attack in London turned on President Trump and not the murderous Islamists, who killed seven innocents injuring 48 others on London Bridge and the nearby Borough Market District. “I don’t think we should roll out the red carpet to the President of the USA in the circumstances where his policies go against everything we stand for,” Khan said in an interview with Britain’s Channel 4 News. (The HILL, June 5, 2017) “When you have a special relationship, it is no different from when you have got a close mate. You stand with them in times of adversity but you call them out when they are wrong. There are many things about which Donald Trump is wrong.” And just to think we used to elect mayors to fill in potholes and take out the garbage. Trump criticized Khan for his comments following the weekend terror attack in London that killed at least seven people and wounded dozens more. (The Hill) “At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’” Trump tweeted Sunday morning. “Trump appeared to be referencing Khan’s comments earlier in the day in which he said there was no reason to worry about the increased police presence in London. Khan’s spokesperson said Sunday that he wouldn’t respond to Trump’s tweet, saying he had “more important things to do.” “Khan has previously called for Trump to be denied a state visit in Britain. He pointed to Trump’s executive order barring refugees and people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S. as his reason, calling the order “cruel.” “In those circumstances, we shouldn’t be rolling out the red carpet,” he said. Khan’s objections to Trump mirrors the objections of many Western leadersTrump is decisive, openly stating that “the media doesn’t understand that the American people are sick of platitudes, political correctness, and empty words… We want ACTION “That’s why President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are FIGHTING for the Travel Ban all the way to the Supreme Court.” The mainstream media keeps the meme going that Trump is enraging the Muslim community, so that they can blame him for increasing Islamist terrorism. It’s the inaction and lame rhetoric of western leaders that is enraging the masses, who keep asking: ‘When are they going to protect the public from Islamist terrorism on the rampage?’ Michelle Malkin was spot on when she said on Fox News’ Fox & Friends yesterday of the terrorists: Continued on page 2 (Photo: Eric Thayer/Getty Images) Would you like to start publishing this newspaper in your community? We are looking for freedom loving groups that are willing to publish this rapidly growing newspaper in their area. Our goal is to educate communities with information that the mainstream press is unwilling to print. Please contact us for details.

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Volume 6 ©

Issue 12

June 12, 2017 2013

In God We Trust

FREE

Trump Admin Nabs Woman Who Gave ‘Top Secret’ Documents to ‘The Intercept’

By Chuck Ross, Reporter, June 5, 2017,

dailycaller.com

The Justice Department filed charges on

Monday against a 25-year-old woman

accused of stealing Top Secret

information and providing it to The

Intercept.

Reality Leigh Winner is accused in the complaint, filed in

U.S. District Court in Georgia, of “removing classified

material from a government facility and mailing it to a

news outlet,” the Justice Department said.

Winner, who lives in Augusta, has worked for Pluribus

International since Feb. 13, according to the complaint.

She held a Top-Secret clearance.

On May 9, “Winner printed and improperly removed

classified intelligence reporting, which contained

classified national defense information from an

intelligence community agency, and unlawfully retained

it,” the complaint says.

She then transmitted the information through mail to an

online news outlet several days later.

The news outlet is not revealed in the complaint, but

NBC News has reported that the recipient of the

documents is The Intercept, a website founded by eBay

founder Pierre Omidyar.

The U.S. agency that contracts with Pluribus

International is also not named, but the National Security

Agency contracts work through the firm.

FBI agents interviewed Winner at her home on Saturday.

During the interview, she acknowledged that “she

intentionally identified and printed” classified

information “despite not having a ‘need to know,’ and

with knowledge that the intelligence reporting was

classified.”

“Winner further admitted removing the classified

intelligence reporting from her office space, retaining it,

and mailing it from Augusta, Georgia, to the news outlet,

which she knew was not authorized to receive or possess

the documents,” the complaint reads.

The U.S. agency notified the FBI of the breach on June 1.

The news outlet to which Winner provided the

information contacted the agency the day before and said

that it was in possession of documents it believed were

authored by the agency.

The news outlet said that it planned to publish an article

based on the documents.

The federal complaint then states that the news outlet

published the information on May 5. That appears to be

an error. The Intercept published an article based on

stolen NSA documents on Monday.

The documents contained Top Secret information about

Russia’s attempts to hack into voter registration systems

prior to the election last November.

The complaint reveals how the U.S. agency determined

that Winner stole the documents.

Western Leaders: Time to Signal ISIS Our Well-Armed Militaries ARE COMING TO GET YOU!

By Judi McLeod, June 6, 2017, canadafreepress.com

Pray for protection from politicians who by their cowardice and political agendas

allow Islamist terrorism to continue

The bottom line London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s propaganda battle against President Donald Trump: Khan

wants the British government to cancel a state visit by Trump.

Khan wants public rage against the latest Islamist terrorist attack in London turned on President Trump and

not the murderous Islamists, who killed seven innocents injuring 48 others on London Bridge and the

nearby Borough Market District.

“I don’t think we should roll out the red carpet to the President of the USA in the circumstances where his

policies go against everything we stand for,” Khan said in an interview with Britain’s Channel 4

News. (The HILL, June 5, 2017)

“When you have a special relationship, it is no different from when you have got a close mate. You stand

with them in times of adversity but you call them out when they are wrong. There are many things about

which Donald Trump is wrong.”

And just to think we used to elect mayors to fill in potholes and take out the garbage.

Trump criticized Khan for his comments following the weekend terror attack in London that killed at least

seven people and wounded dozens more. (The Hill)

“At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be

alarmed!’” Trump tweeted Sunday morning.

“Trump appeared to be referencing Khan’s comments earlier in the day in which he said there was no

reason to worry about the increased police presence in London.

Khan’s spokesperson said Sunday that he wouldn’t respond to Trump’s tweet, saying he had “more

important things to do.”

“Khan has previously called for Trump to be denied a state visit in Britain. He pointed to Trump’s executive

order barring refugees and people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S. as his

reason, calling the order “cruel.”

“In those circumstances, we shouldn’t be rolling out the red carpet,” he said.

Khan’s objections to Trump mirrors the objections of many Western leaders—Trump is decisive,

openly stating that “the media doesn’t understand that the American people are sick of platitudes,

political correctness, and empty words…

We want ACTION

“That’s why President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are FIGHTING for the Travel Ban all the

way to the Supreme Court.”

The mainstream media keeps the meme going that Trump is enraging the Muslim community, so that they

can blame him for increasing Islamist terrorism.

It’s the inaction and lame rhetoric of western leaders that is enraging the masses, who keep asking: ‘When

are they going to protect the public from Islamist terrorism on the rampage?’

Michelle Malkin was spot on when she said on Fox News’ Fox & Friends yesterday of the terrorists:

Continued on page 2

(Photo: Eric Thayer/Getty Images)

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“They exploit our toleration of their extremism. And

then only after dozens and dozens of these attacks

not only on hard targets but increasingly soft targets,

you have clueless people who are just completely

taken over by dhimmitude like Theresa May finally

acknowledging that, gee, maybe we’ve accepted too

much extremism within our borders. Ya think?!”

Tolerance of Islamist terrorism is not only tolerance gone

too far but tolerance gone over the top.

Politicians in elected office, including many Western

leaders, whose salaries are paid for from the public

purse, do diddly squat to protect their people from

Islamist terrorism.

Most continue to duck under the cover of useless lip

service in the wake of each attack: “Our thoughts and

prayers are with you”.

Pray for protection from politicians who by

their cowardice and political agendas allow

Islamist terrorism to continue.

Words that ring out with insincerity; words that don’t

soothe but only frustrate the loved ones mourning the

deaths of those slaughtered by the same Islamist terrorism

that elected officials do nothing about.

Because the words are always the same it’s almost as if

Western leaders quick to Tweet out “our thoughts and

prayers are with you”, follow a mindless collective

pattern.

These words—the same ones that will be sent out next

time and the ones after that—are not enough and never

will be.

Politically incorrect, decisive President Trump is right

when he says people are tired of rhetoric and want action.

It’s time for ISIS sympathizers in public office to be

called out and time for them to hear the message from the

masses: “Don’t give your thoughts and prayers in the

wake of the next Islamist terrorist attack. Don’t

showcase mourning and sympathy by leaving flowers,

balloons and teddybears at the sites of the attacks. Give

ISIS the sight of your well-armed military COMING TO

GET THEM!

Pray for protection from politicians who by their

cowardice and political agendas allow Islamist terrorism

to continue.

Judicial Watch Asks Court

to Order Feds to Find Rest of Clinton Emails

CLEVELAND, OH - MARCH 8: Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the Recreation Center on the campus of the

Cuyahoga Community College. [Getty Images/J.D. Pooley]

By Ethan Barton, Investigative Group,

June 5, 2017, dailycaller.com

Judicial Watch filed its opposition to the

Department of State’s attempt to dismiss

a lawsuit that would force the agency to

recover former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s

remaining emails, the conservative nonprofit watchdog

announced Monday.

Judicial Watch sued then-Secretary of State John Kerry in

April 2015 to compel the attorney general to enforce the

Federal Records Act to obtain Clinton’s emails. The

group’s lawsuit was thrown out, but was revived on

appeal in December 2016.

Neither the State Department nor the FBI have ever

conducted a full search for Clinton’s emails, according to

Judicial Watch.

“It is astonishing the Trump administration is defending

Hillary Clinton’s email scheme in federal court,” Judicial

Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “The

State Department should initiate action with the Justice

Department – and both agencies should finally take the

necessary steps to recover all the government emails

Hillary Clinton unlawfully removed.”

Clinton used a private server located in her New York

home and private email addresses to conduct official

business during her tenure as the top U.S. diplomat, and

she and her top aides used private email addresses.

“There is a high degree of probability that at least some

of the emails not yet recovered were sent between at

least some of these individuals and Secretary Clinton,”

Judicial Watch claimed. “It is also worth noting that the

FBI itself has discovered that thousands of emails

remain to be recovered.”

Sarah Palin to Kathy Griffin: ‘Suck It Up, Cupcake’

"I knew she was deranged." A much more important story than whatever people are talking about today. By Jack Davis, June 3, 2017, westernjournalism.com

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose daughter was

once a target of ridicule by Kathy Griffin, turned the

tables and ridiculed Griffin’s claims of being a victim

after Griffin’s publicity stunt gave the comedian more

negative publicity than she could have ever imagined.

In 2011, Griffin made a New Year’s resolution that

touched on the Palin family.

“I’ve already gone for Sarah, Todd and Bristol

obviously,” Griffin said. “But I think it’s Willow’s year

to go down. In 2011, I want to offend a new Palin.”

With Griffin already under fire for the photo in which

she held a prop resembling the severed head of President

Donald Trump, Palin decided the time had come to add

her voice to the national clamor against Griffin.

“Kathy Griffin has mercilessly attacked children for

years,” Palin wrote on her Facebook page

“When this ‘celebrity’ (who ‘celebrates her, btw?)

traveled all the way to Wasilla and actually knocked on

my home’s door to personally humiliate my kids again, I

knew she was deranged,” Palin wrote.

Griffin had left a note that read, “Dear Palins who are 18

years old or older (mostly Sarah). I’m doing a funny

comedy show on Friday night at the Anchorage

Performing Arts Centre. Come see me. I’ll even comp

you or at least a two-for. xoxo, Kathy Griffin.”

“You can’t do nicer than that,” Griffin said in a 2010

show, which came not long after Griffin had been

poking fun at Bristol Palin about her weight.

However, Palin said there was never anything nice about

Griffin.

”The liberal ‘star’ had attacked my teenage daughters

for so long — first Bristol then, inexplicably, giddily

announced she would ‘go directly after Willow Palin’

despite Willow’s young age and innocence in doing

anything to earn the wrath of this attacker,” Palin wrote.

Palin then turned her wrath on the comedian.

“And today Kathy claims SHE is the victim! Kathy’s

crocodile tears at her publicity-seeking press conference

today mean nothing to mothers who’ve witnessed the

ramifications her sick acts have had on precious

children,” she posted.

“So, on behalf of Melania Trump and other mothers

who’ve tried to protect our children from Kathy’s

soulless vile attacks, I’ll bite my tongue in print and not

say what I’d actually tell her to her face,” Palin wrote.

But there was something more to come.

“I’ll keep it civil and merely tell her after her ridiculous

self-serving statements today: Suck it. Up. Cupcake,”

Palin wrote.

High Minimum Wages Making Robots More Attractive - so San Fran Considers Banning Robots

The left-wing future is now.

San Francisco's far-left population has been at the

forefront of the battle for astronomical minimum wages.

Currently, the area enjoys a $13.00 minimum, and most

of the activists who line the streets would like to see it

raised by at least a couple of bucks. That, as we've told

you before, is making the idea of robots extremely

attractive. Why pay a worker fifteen bucks (and worry

about sickness, vacations, benefits, and demands for even

more money) when you can just replace him with a kiosk

or wheeled delivery drone?

Apparently, no one in the Golden Gate city has a good

answer for that question.

So, Democrats are trying to do what they do best: over-

regulate and ban. If you're going to lower your bottom

line by replacing delivery people with robots, they're just

going to have to outlaw robots.

From the Guardian:

Order a delivery meal from a local restaurant in San

Francisco’s Mission and Potrero Hills neighborhoods

using Yelp Eat24 and it might arrive at your door in a

suitcase-sized wheeled robot.

The tech company Marble’s bots use lidar, camera

and ultrasonic sensors to avoid pedestrians and

navigate pavements, delivering small packages and

takeaway food within a mile or two, at walking pace.

But if one San Francisco official has his way, every

pizza the Marble robot delivers could come with a

$1,000 fine and a jail sentence for its human

controllers.

San Francisco supervisor Norman Yee recently

proposed legislation that would prohibit autonomous

delivery robots – which includes those with a remote

human operator – on public streets in the city. He told

technology news site Recode, “our streets and our

sidewalks are made for people, not robots.” He also

worries that many delivery jobs would disappear.

The city is doing its best to claim this is all about safety.

They're super-concerned that these robots will be

dangerous. Men, women, children and pets will be at the

mercy of the drone menace, and their existence will not

stand! Norman Yee, a member of the "party of science"

has decided it's best to stop the inexorable march of

technology now, before our future mechanical overlords

start bumping into our ankles.

I'm willing to acknowledge there are some legitimate,

solvable, concerns there. But... The smart money is

really on that throwaway line about jobs.

These people know all too well that the ridiculous "fight

for $15" is going to decimate entry-level hiring. It

doesn't take a fortune teller to see the upside of replacing

any replaceable $13-$15 per hour worker with a bot. The

desire to ban robots before that starts happening is

straight out of the left-wing social engineering playbook:

1. Enact unsustainable legislation.

2. Know that a workaround will present itself, solving the

mess you created.

3. Ban the workaround, restoring yourself to

unsustainability.

4. Take more from taxpayers.

5. Repeat.

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Florida Citizens Alliance Joins Lawsuit to Stop the Political Indoctrination of Collier Students

Collier County, Press Release, May 31, 2017

Florida Citizens Alliance has decided, “Enough is

enough!” We are now an active participant along with

Collier parents in a lawsuit for an emergency injunction to

restart the current “flawed” textbook adoption process.

This lawsuit was filed today, May 31st, 2017 in the Circuit

Court for the 20th Judicial Circuit in and for Collier

County.

The Collier County School Board (CCPS) has violated

Florida Sunshine Law and ignored at least four Florida

statutes, all at the expense of our 46,000 plus students

who deserve the “highest quality instructional materials of

professionalism and historical accuracy”. Quote: FS

1003.42

We strongly believe the School Board here in Collier

County has violated Chapter 128, Florida’s sunshine law

and at least four other Florida Statutes including FS

1003.42, FS 1006.28, FS 1006.31(2), and FS 1006.283.

As parents, grandparents and taxpaying community

members, we demand that the Collier School Board pause

the current process and start the adoption process over on

June 1st for three overriding reasons:

1) The text book adoption process, which the prior board

authorized and that has been used under the current

Board’s supervision, violates Florida Sunshine law

(Chapter 286 of the Florida Statutes).

2) This process included hand-picked reviewers with an

extreme political bias. Many of these reviewers do NOT

represent Collier demographics and have turned this

process into biased and political indoctrination.

3) The Social Studies materials Collier School Board

members are considering to adopt are riddled with

violations of several Florida laws including FS 1003.42,

FS 1006.28, FS 1006.31(2), and FS 1006.283.

To approve both the process and any of the materials

considered….we repeat any of these materials, the

Collier School Board not only violates the School Board’s

legal/constitutional responsibility but also is fiducially a

major waste of budget and taxpayer money.

THIS IS NOT A PARTISAN ISSUE. IT IS ABOUT

OUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE, following FLORIDA

LAWS and adopting FACTUAL, UNBIASED

TEXTBOOKS that are not used to indoctrinate our

children.

This is a three year adoption process. There is no rush and

the process can be corrected by following Florida laws.

Reluctantly, after numerous and varied interactions to get

Collier School Board members to honor Florida Statutes,

we have concluded that our only course of action is to

seek an emergency injunction to stop this injustice to each

and every student, parent and community member in

Collier County.

According to Florida Statute, the Collier School Board is

constitutionally responsible for the Instructional

materials- NOT the Superintendent, NOT the FL Dept. of

Education!

For more information, Contact Keith Flaugh at 239-250-

3320.

Florida Gears Up for 'Busier Than Usual' 2017 Hurricane Season

By Allison Nielsen, June 1, 2017, sunshinestatenews.com

June 1 marks the beginning of the 2017 hurricane season,

and state officials are warning Floridians to get ready for

an above average year of storms.

Hurricane season, which lasts from June 1 to Nov. 30,

began unusually early this year. Tropical Storm Arlene

surprised forecasters in April when it became the first

named storm of the 2017 season.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

(NOAA) officials said this year would produce around 11

to 17 named storms during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane

season, with five to nine hurricanes included in the mix.

Forecasters said warmer than usual surface temperatures

on top of a weak El Nino atmosphere pattern were

indicators Floridians could be seeing more storms than

usual this year.

NOAA did not, however, indicate how many of the

named storms would actually make landfall.

The Sunshine State is in particular danger during

Hurricane Season due to its unique position between the

Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Last year's

hurricane season was especially active, with 15 named

storms, including seven tropical storms and four

hurricanes.

Category 1 Hurricane Hermine became the first storm to

make landfall in over a decade when it hit the Tallahassee

area last September, leaving thousands without power.

Some Tallahassee residents were without power for

weeks.

State lawmakers approved a three-day disaster

preparedness tax holiday to help Floridians save some

cash while stocking up on supplies for storms. Officials

recommend having at least 72 hours worth of food and

water in case of a hurricane.

Gov. Rick Scott made an appearance at the National

Hurricane Center in Miami to kick off the 2017 hurricane

season Thursday.

Safety, Scott stressed, was the state’s top priority going

into the 2017 hurricane season, especially with an above-

average season on the horizon.

“I encourage all Floridians to take advantage of this

weekend’s disaster preparedness sales tax holiday and

ensure your family is safe,” Scott said.

National and state disaster preparedness officials agreed.

“It only takes one hurricane to change your life,” said

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary John

Kelly. “If you – or a close family member - live in an area

prone to hurricanes or inland flooding, now is the time to

prepare.”

“It’s never too early to begin preparing your business or

family for a potential hurricane impact,” Florida Division

of Emergency Management Director Bryan Koon said.

“Now is the right time.”

The following items will be tax-free during from June

2-4:

Batteries (AA-cell, C-cell, D-cell, 6-volt, or 9-volt

batteries) for $30 or less

Nonelectric coolers for $30 or less

Reusable ice $10 or less

Portable self-powered radio, two-way radio, or weather

band radio for $50 or less

Portable self-powered light source for $20 or less

Tarpaulin or flexible waterproof sheeting for $50 or less

First-aid kits (always exempt)

Ground anchor systems or tie-down kits for $50 or less

Gas or diesel fuel tanks for $25 or less

Portable generators for $750 or less

FDLE Arrests Dixie County City Manager for Official Misconduct

Florida Department of Law Enforcement. | AP Photo/John Raoux

For Immediate Release

FDLE Press Release, May 1, 2017

CROSS CITY, Fla - The Florida Department of Law

Enforcement arrested Gary Pinner, 58, of 431 SE 552ND

Street, Old Town on one count of official misconduct.

Pinner is charged with misusing city employees, city

equipment, city inventory, and an inmate work crew to

provide free water services to certain Dixie County

residents, including his future son-in-law.

The FDLE investigation determined that on three separate

occasions, Pinner, in his official role as Cross City City

Manager, instructed Water Department employees to

perform work on private properties utilizing city resources

outside and beyond the scope of their job related duties.

Over the past several months, Pinner instructed two Cross

City Water Department employees to install a water line

(beyond the water meter) to his daughter and future son-

in-law’s residence (hundreds of feet through a

livestock/horse pasture) utilizing city owned equipment

(trenching machine), city owned supplies (PVC pipe), and

a state inmate work crew (helped remove roots and other

obstructions from the trench and laid the PVC pipe in the

ground). Within the last two years, Pinner also instructed

city employees to install water lines to two other

residences, using city labor. In addition, he allowed at

least three city water customers to maintain excessive

unpaid account balances for extended periods of time

without having their water service terminated.

The investigation has not revealed any other criminal

wrongdoing, other than the actions of Pinner.

Pinner was arrested today and transported to the Dixie

County Jail. The case will be prosecuted by the Office of

the State Attorney, Third Judicial Circuit.

For Further Information Contact:

Gretl Plessinger, Jessica Cary or Sterling Ivey

FDLE Office of Public Information

(850) 410-7001

Constitution Revision Commission Showing Fractures on Rules Opinion By APN Editor, May 7, 2017

At a meeting in Orlando on Tuesday, the Constitution

Revision Commission had a real problem agreeing on

rules under which they are to operate.

Several APN articles in the past have clearly shown that

the Commission is operating in violation of the very

Constitution they are proposing to change. The very first

article in the Florida Constitution reads “All political

power is inherent in the people.” Yet, the Commission is

appointed by the governor, legislature and supreme court.

Not a single member of the 37 was appointed by the

people. The legality of the process cannot be made legal

by retroactively allowing the people to vote on proposals

from an unlawful Commission. More information will

follow.

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Pro-Con Gun Groups Ready to Duel Anew After Orlando Shooting

By Allison Nielsen, June 6, 2017, sunshinestatenews.com

The battle between gun rights activists and gun safety

proponents is firing up again after a 45-year-old man

opened fire on his former coworkers at Fiamma Inc. in

Orlando, Monday morning, leaving five dead and seven

wounded.

The gunman entered the business early Monday morning

and shot five of his coworkers to death before killing

himself. The company is one of the nation's largest

manufacturers of awnings for camper vans, motor

coaches and sports utility vehicles.

Monday’s shooting marks the second time a gunman has

opened fire on unsuspecting Floridians in Central Florida,

leaving a trail of devastation as the Orlando community is

only just beginning to heal the wounds remaining from

the Pulse Nightclub shooting, which left 49 dead last

summer.

For years, the two sides have engaged in a back-and-forth

battle over how, exactly, to prevent ongoing gun crimes

across Florida and the country.

Gun rights groups say the shooting could have been

prevented if employees had been provided the means

necessary to fight back.

“Once again we see a murderer taking advantage of a

‘soft target’ where employees are prohibited from

possessing an effective means of self-defense,” Sean

Caranna of Florida Carry told Sunshine State News

Tuesday. “The murderer was a known threat, yet the

business failed to provide security for its employees and

would not allow them to carry for their own defense.”

The self-defense argument is one groups like Florida

Carry have used in the Florida Legislature as they push

for the expansion of gun rights, urging lawmakers to pass

bills to allow gun owners to carry their firearms in

airports, schools and in public.

Many of the laws proposed this legislative session to

expand Second Amendment rights never saw the light of

day due to political hardball from Senate leadership,

which refused to hear many of the measures.

Gun safety advocates’, on the other hand, say curbing

gun violence begins with restricting access to firearms,

making it more difficult to purchase and use guns.

It wasn’t long before politicians pounced on what they

saw as a lack of action from state and national lawmakers

to lessen the frequency of shootings and violent crimes.

“More gun violence. More outrage,” tweeted U.S. Rep.

Ted Deutch, D-Fla. “And more deafening silence from

Congress.”

Even gubernatorial hopefuls said simply providing “well

wishes” wasn’t going to cut it when the rubber hit the

road for gun safety.

“We must do more to stop Florida’s epidemic of gun

violence -- not simply send our thoughts and prayers in

the wake of lost lives,” said Tallahassee mayor and

Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Gillum.

Bloomberg-led Everytown chimed in early Monday

saying the time was now for lawmakers to beef up gun

safety measures to ensure shootings like the Forsyth

shooting and Pulse didn’t become commonplace.

“We should all be able to go to work, dance in a

nightclub or enjoy a night out at the movies without the

threat of gun violence looming over our heads,” said

Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense Florida chapter

leader Michelle Gajda. “We must demand more of our

lawmakers and work together to find common sense

solutions that will protect all communities in our state

and across the nation. We deserve better.”

Gajda and Everytown were some of the loudest voices in

the fight against several gun measures moving their way

through the Florida legislature this year.

Time and time again, Gajda and her band of “Everytown

moms” showed up to rail against legislation to expand

gun rights in the Sunshine State.

Pro-gun groups like the National Rifle Association have

criticized organizations like Everytown for being props

from the liberal left and Michael Bloomberg to push

issues they say they don’t know anything about, as part of

a “faux-informed” movement.

“Never in 40 years have I seen a group of women come in

as a group who apparently didn’t know why they were

there or what they were doing,” NRA lobbyist and past

president Marion Hammer told Sunshine State News in

March. “I’ve never seen it before and I hope I never see it

again because that’s fake activism, as far as I’m

concerned.”

The NRA has not yet publicly commented on Monday’s

shooting.

For Caranna, the shooting serves as a dark reminder that

Florida must do more to protect its citizens from the threat

of violence.

“This tragedy should serve as a reminder to business

owners that they have a duty to protect their employees or

at least allow employees the tools necessary to protect

themselves, especially when there have been prior acts of

workplace violence,” he said.

Kansas Bill Would Break Fed's Currency Monopoly

Written by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

Kansas lawmakers are considering a bill that would end

the currency monopoly enjoyed by the Federal Reserve.

The bill would end the tax on so-called capital gains

realized from the buying and selling of specie.

House Bill 2421 is being deliberated by the House

Committee on Taxation and if approved by state

legislature and signed by the governor, the measure would

eliminate taxes on the following transactions:

All sales of gold, silver and numismatic coins; palladium,

platinum, gold or silver bullion; and currency. For the

purposes of this subsection, “bullion” means bars, ingots,

or commemorative medallions of gold, silver, platinum,

palladium, or a combination thereof, for which the value

of the metal depends on its content and not the form.

“Currency” means a coin or currency made of gold, silver

or other metal or currency made of paper.

Although admittedly the bill would not immediately allow

gold and silver to be used as legal tender in the Sunflower

State, it would make such a move much easier to make for

a future session of the state legislature.

The Tenth Amendment Center highlighted another benefit

of the bill, reporting: “HB2421 would also incentivize

investors who want to protect their wealth from currency

devaluation by investing in gold and silver bullion. This

would make it easier for Kansans to shelter themselves

from the effects of quantitative easing and other central

bank policies that steadily erode the value the dollar.”

Quantitative easing is but one of the tools the Federal

Reserve has used for over a decade to dismantle to the

powerful economic engine that once drove prosperity in

the United States. Volatile interest rates and the ever-

looming specter of inflation are two of the other tricks of

the Fed’s trade.

The Kansas sound money bill, however, recognizes that if

the United States didn’t print up the Federal Reserve

notes and force individuals and businesses to accept them

as payment for legal tender, goods would still be

exchanged, debts would still be paid, and the economy

would grow stronger and be more responsive to genuine

free market fluctuations, as well as more capable of

absorbing the blow of naturally occurring market booms

and busts.

Admittedly, this idea has never been supported by

Congress. Despite several attempts from various federal

lawmakers over the years, not a single one of those bills

has ever been passed by both chambers of the legislative

branch.

As of the time of the publishing of this article, there are

22 states at various legislative stages of joining Kansas in

the battle to break the Fed’s grip on the country’s

economic well-being. Representatives and senators in

these states are coming to realize the damage the Federal

Reserve and the shadowy coterie of global bankers who

own it have done to the potential for prosperity in the

United States.

First, the unelected governors of the unconstitutional

central bank have an absolute stranglehold and monopoly

over the flow of our nation’s money and credit. Not once

since its inception in 1913 has there ever been a thorough

audit or an accounting to Congress about its activities.

During its century-long reign over the country’s currency,

the Federal Reserve has manipulated the dollar until it is

nearly worthless. Meanwhile, Congress turns a blind eye

and a deaf ear to the crisis and the calls to control it.

The fact is that since that day in 1913, the dollar has lost

over 95 percent of its purchasing power. Most, if not all,

of this precipitous decline was caused by the monetary

policy of the Federal Reserve.

So, as Congress fails to faithfully carry out its

constitutional duty to uphold the Constitution, then states

must do as the Founders intended for them to do should

the general government wander outside of the

constitutional cage constructed for it by the states: stand

as impregnable barriers between the life, liberty, and

property of the people and the tyrannical assaults on

those foundations of freedom by the federal behemoth.

Acts not authorized under the enumerated powers of the

Constitution are “merely acts of usurpations” and deserve

to be disregarded, ignored, and denied any legal effect.

More state legislators need to learn this. Familiarity with

these facts are fundamental to a reclaiming of state

authority and removing the threat to liberty posed by the

centralization of power in the federal government.

Until the states reassert the sovereignty they theoretically

retain, there will be no end of the demands and they will

get more and more difficult to comply with and will thus

justify increasing federal control over the apparatuses of

state government. The trajectory is easy to see and follow

into the future. The federal government will — mandate

by mandate, regulation by regulation, grant program by

grant program — devolve into a central government after

the model of the so-called European democracies.

Thus also with the Federal Reserve. The Fed will

continue to accumulate power. There is no limit to the

lengths global bankers will go to in order to enslave the

population of the world. There is no hope of regulating

restraint. Power of this magnitude operates beyond the

reach of regulations; in fact, that was the goal in its

creation. The “creature” brought to life on Jekyll Island

over a century ago was specifically designed to destroy

competition, give a private banking cartel power over the

income of Americans, and force Americans to use the

Fed’s own notes as legal tender, despite the obvious

constitutional and legal problems with that plan.

State efforts to place roadblocks, albeit small ones, in the

Fed’s road to ruining the economic wealth of the citizens

of the United States should be supported by all friends of

liberty and by all those who sense the urgency of

fortifying their finances before the coming collapse of the

dollar.

Buying gold, silver, and other precious metals without

being burdened with additional taxes is essential to

shoring up the walls of our economic endurance.

Should the Kansas House Committee on Taxation

approve the sound money measure, it will be presented to

the body of the state of House of Representatives and

Kansans will be one little step closer to freedom from the

Fed’s money monopoly.

Readers in all states must compel their elected

representatives to adhere to the Constitution, repeal the

Fed’s charter, and return this Republic to a free market

system with a currency based on precious metal, not

purposeful manipulations.

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Thank You Veterans From the early patriotic seeds that were planted

To the liberties we take for granted

Our military is made up of the finest women and men

Around the world they are sent to defend

The same foundation of our American lives that make us stand tall

24/7 they are on the call

Their lives in danger each and every day

Spouses become mother and father when they are away

Heartache and tears they cannot avoid Heartache and tears they cannot avoid

When it is their time to be deployed

For every one of them we pray for a safe return You give up that one precious gift for us back home to strive

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Update: Dixie County Whistleblower Case

By APN Staff, June 7, 2107

May 16th marked the first year of Terry Trussell’s 8 3/4 year

sentence. At this point, considering potential gain time,

Trussell is scheduled for release November 8, 2024. He will

be 80 years old, if he survives.

June 16, Trussell marks another special milestone. He and

his wife Marie will celebrate being married 50 years. But

they can’t commemorate this day together. The 16th is on a

Friday, and Marie can only visit her husband on weekends

and some holidays. The only other time the Trussell’s

celebrated their anniversary apart was on their first, when

Terry was serving his country in DaNang, S. Vietnam.

Over this past year in prison, Terry has completed seven

special study courses, written over a thousand letters to

friends, family, and supporters (receiving many more), and

worked steadily with attorneys to get his verdict overturned.

The wheels of justice grind slowly.

Post-conviction motions have been filed, which in an

unbiased court would have been mistrial on a number of

grounds and freed Trussell. Perhaps one of the most

egregious and obvious reasons to grant Trussell a new trial:

Prior to Trussell’s sentencing hearing, it was discovered at

least two of the jurors in Trussell’s trial committed perjury

when they failed to answer truthfully about their relationship

with prosecution witness, Dana Johnson.

Ms. Johnson also sat through the entire trial beside Judge

James C. Hankinson at the judge’s bench. As an officer of

the court, it was Ms. Johnson’s duty to speak up when her

family relations failed to respond honestly about their

relationship to her when questioned.

At sentencing, defense counsel produced testimony by Dana

Johnson that Timothy D. Cannon and she are first cousins,

and that he was the same Timothy Cannon who unlawfully

served as a juror and rendered a guilty verdict against

Trussell. When that fact was put into the court record, and

defense counsel moved for a mistrial, it was Judge

Hankinson’s duty to grant that motion. Further, Judge

Hankinson had the duty to preserve the integrity of his court

by charging Mr. Cannon with, at minimum, contempt of

court, perjury, and obstruction of justice. But he didn’t.

Instead, he sent Trussell to prison.

The case of Trussell’s innocence and the court’s culpability

in this travesty is clear and uncontestable. So far, Lady

Justice has proven herself to be not only blind, but deaf as

well. We will soon know if the appellate court suffers from

the same handicaps.

Top Intel Community Officials Deny That Trump Pressured Them On Russia Probe

Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats (2nd-R) testifies as he

appears alongside acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe (L), Deputy

Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (2nd-L) and National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers (R) at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on

the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in Washington, U.S., June

7, 2017.

By Chuck Ross, June 7, 2017, dailycaller.com

The directors of the Office of National Intelligence and

the National Security Agency testified on Wednesday that

they have not been pressured by President Trump on the

ongoing Russia investigation, undercutting recent reports

that they were.

Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, and Adm.

Mike Rogers, the director of NSA, largely declined to

discuss details about their interactions with Trump when

pressed on the matter during a Senate Intelligence

Committee hearing.

According to news reports published last month, Trump

asked both Coats and Rogers to rebut stories that Trump

was under investigation as part of the Russia probe.

Both Coats and Rogers reportedly felt uncomfortable with

the requests from Trump.

But when asked about those interactions on Wednesday,

both declined to discuss their specific conversations with

Trump while stating that they have never felt pressure from

the White House.

“In the three-plus years that I have been the director of the

National Security Agency, to the best of my recollection, I

have never been directed to do anything that I believe to be

illegal, immoral, unethical or inappropriate. And to the best

of my recollection … I do not recall ever feeling pressured

to do so,” Rogers told Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the vice

chairman of the Senate panel.

“Did the president … ask you in any way, shape or form to

back off or downplay the Russia investigation?” Warner

asked.

Rogers said that he would not discuss specifics of

conversations he had with Trump, but added: “I stand by

the comment I just made, sir.”

Coats, a former Indiana senator who was appointed by

Trump, also denied ever being pressured to downplay the

Russia investigation or any other.

On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that Coats told

associates on March 22 that Trump asked him to intervene

with former FBI Director James Comey to push back

against the Russia investigation.

“In my time of service … I have never been pressured, I

have never felt pressure, to intervene or interfere in any

way, with shaping intelligence in a political way or in

relationship to an ongoing investigation,” Coats testified

Wednesday.

The National Popular

Vote Project By CS Bennett, June 6, 2917

As usual, Obama, George Soros, and

the democrats, are up to no good. I do

not think anyone on our side of the

aisle has any doubt that the left is

unhappy with losing. Under Barack Obama they have lost

governorships, and members in both houses of Congress,

and that includes politicians at the state level. But unlike

establishment republicans, liberals do not quit. They retreat

and dream up schemes, and schemes that are meant to

usurp the United States Constitution. Their latest scheme is

one few Americans are aware of. But this is the one scheme

that could bring down the Republican Party and the United

States Constitution, and more importantly, what they are

doing is legal. It is such a threat to our core political process

that we must act on it and with a great sense of urgency.

So, I am sounding the alarm about this movement.

This movement, financed by George Soros, and

spearheaded by Barack Obama, is called the National

Popular Vote. Now, as we all should know, the Founding

Fathers created the Electoral College so that no one state,

or no group of states with large populations could control

the rest of the country by winning elections because they

were the largest population centers. This process has

worked for us since the beginning of this great republic.

The Electoral College allows each state to nominate a

certain number of “electors” who cast the ultimate vote for

president (instead of individual voters).

We can all thank the media for playing up the popular vote

when we never, in our history, elected a president by this

process. So, in the minds of those who know no better,

when their presidential candidate loses, they cry foul, then

direct their anger at the Electoral College. As we speak,

liberals are quietly working behind the scenes to change

this process. They are steadily beating the drum that the

electoral college is flawed and that the only true way to

ensure that every vote counts is to make the popular vote

the standard by which we elect presidents. And they plan

on doing this via a compact with the states.

The measure they are seeking to enshrine into law

would kick in only if states representing most of the

nation's 538 electoral votes decided to make the same

change. Simply put, supporters of this movement are

focusing on convincing state-level legislators to require

their electors to cast ballots for whoever wins the

national popular vote. The effort works as a compact; it

only takes effect if enough states whose total electoral

votes surpass 270 pass bills agree to participate. What

this means is this, high population states, such as

California and New York could win the next eight to ten

presidential elections because they have the largest

populations. Is it any wonder why Obama was trying to

flood the United States with illegals and then making

them citizens?

Opponents of the measure, typically Republicans, know

the contract could force a state to cast its electoral votes

for a candidate who lost the state but won the national

popular vote and would lessen the influence of smaller

rural states. The Framers of the Constitution shared a

similar discussion during the drafting of the document,

choosing the electoral college system over a direct

popular vote due to fears that it would favor candidates

from larger states.

Now, just what is our republican leadership doing to stop

this? I have heard stories that some of our Congressmen

and Congresswomen say they are monitoring it. What?

There is someone spreading gasoline around your house,

and they have a lighter in hand, and you are just going to

monitor it. You must be joking, I thought. But sadly, the

republicans seem not to think this a big enough issue.

They have no plan to fight this, and no strategy to defeat

this compact movement. This is why it is up to you, the

voter, to lean on your elected officials and let them know

that they had better come up with a plan to stop this

movement in its tracks. To think that some of the states

that are run by republican governors are considering

signing onto to abomination is unthinkable.

My friends, this National Popular Vote effort is now 61

percent of the way toward its goal of legally bypassing

the Electoral College established in the U.S.

Constitution. Once they get another four or five states to

sign onto this compact, it becomes law. And with it, your

right to have true representation is taken away from you

forever. Liberals hope to have this compact signed and

sealed by the 2020 presidential elections, or even before

that. Let’s not fall asleep on this one. We cannot afford

to do that .

This is more proof that we cannot work with democrats

whose core mission is to destroy us. That leaves us little

choice but to defeat them and defeat them we must

before they destroy our party and this great republic,

which they seem to be hell bent on doing. God, bless you

and God bless America… Sound the alarm. This may be

the last chance we have to do so.

Trump Names Bush-Era Justice Dept. Official as Next FBI Director

"... absolute integrity and honesty."

By Jack Davis, June 7, 2107, westernjournalism.com

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he has

named Christopher Wray as his choice to be the new

director of the FBI.

“I will be nominating Christopher A. Wray, a man of

impeccable credentials, to be the new director of the FBI.

Details to follow,” Trump tweeted Wednesday morning.

According to his Justice Department biography, Wray, a

graduate of Yale Law School, joined the U.S. Attorney’s

Office in 1997, working in Georgia.

In 2001, Wray came to Washington as an associate

deputy attorney general and, later, as principal associate

deputy attorney general. In 2003, Wray was appointed

assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal

division under President George W. Bush. In 2005,

Wray left the Justice Department and returned to private

practice.

While at the Justice Department, he was the head of

the Corporate Fraud Task Force and in charge of

the prosecutions of former executives at Enron Corp.

Wray is a partner at King and Spalding. Gilbert Kaplan,

another partner at that firm, was nominated by Trump to

serve as under secretary of commerce for international

trade. Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence,

also once worked at the firm.

Continue reading at westernjournalism.com

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Can We Just Sit Back and Relax?Sharon Higgins

Many people seem to think that since President Trump took office that the rest of us can sit back and relax. Do you believe that? Even if we trust President Trump to do all the right things, he still needs our help to, at the very least, keep the momentum going. We need to be working to convince our elected representatives that they need to vote the right way in order to turn things around and keep them heading in the right direction. The debt is one of our biggest concerns. We are $20 trillion in debt, and that is just the current debt that they admit to. Try $100 trillion when you add in all the unfunded mandates! What do we do about that?

Much ado has been made about President Trump’sproposed budget. People are saying that these “cuts” are going to allow people to grow hungry, people won’t get medical care, etc. etc. Well, thesecuts aren’t even cuts! Did you realize that? They are cuts to the proposed increases that are set into place for the next 10 years. So…no one who is on any of these programs right now is going to lose anything, even though there is enough fraud and abuse in all the programs that they could certainly use some cuts. When you go shopping do you notice the people with the EBT (electronic benefit transfer aka food stamps) cards? Pay attention to what they are buying. Many times it is food that you and I would have to think twice about purchasing because we live on a budget. As a taxpayer, and one of the forgotten people in this country, this infuriates me! America is a giving country and we take care of our own. There is no provision in the U.S. Constitution for the welfare programs that are funded today. They either need to be handled by the state or local government, or by private charities. We have to be ready to set the record straight when we hear people say that President Trump is trying to starve people or kill them for lack of medical care! Think about what you have to do to get your medical care. In my case we have a large deductible, and then office visits, prescriptions, testing, are not covered. Thatis all out-of-pocket for us. Then, when I see someone on Medicaid (knowing that my tax money goes to pay for that), being able to go to thedoctor whenever they want to, prescriptions are free, etc. etc. it rightfully makes me MAD! Many times, because it is “free”, they don’t worry about how often they go or how many tests they have run. Do you ever hear the government talk about the funding for Medicaid running out? No, but they tell us that Social Security and Medicare are going to. These are programs that the hard-working taxpayers paid into all their working lives only to be told that the money is running out! What is wrong with this picture???

Then on the state level, we are always being hit with more and more regulations and higher taxes. Do you remember the year that they doubled the price for our car tags? And got away with it for several months before it became public knowledge. How happy were you about that? That came about because at the end of their session they didn’t have enough money to fund their proposed budget so instead of trying to find enough cuts to do the job, they decided to hit the hard-working taxpayer up for more money! Last year as part of the much touted Springs Protection Act there was a mandated provision in the bill for each county to enact a fertilizer ordinance. They want to regulate the amount of fertilizer that manyof us use on our own property! In the name of protecting the springs of course! But wait….the farmers are exempt under the “right to farm act”! I ask you, who uses more fertilizer, a small landowner or a large farmer? This ordinance would give them the right to enforce this - I am not exactly sure how, I guess we might end up withfertilizer police? How long do we let this type of thing go on?

I guess the point of me writing this is to ask you again: can we sit back and hope for the best? Or should we make sure we stay involved and keep trying to save this country for our children and

grandchildren? There are many things you can do.The North Central Florida Tea Party works toward keeping its members informed on the issues. If you are interested in finding out more, please call one of the phone numbers listed on the left side of this page. Attend your county commission, city council and school board meetings. Things happen at these meetings that affect us directly and quickly. A small audience can turn the tide when they are discussing an issue. This is a good thing when we feel so helpless about changing things at the state and federal levels. If we can elect people on all levels who will promise to listen to us, and we are comfortable that they have a good understanding of what a constitutional republic is, we can go a long way toward restoring this country. Please think about these things and find a way to get involved. It is up to you how much time you invest, but even a few minutes per day to make some phone calls can make a huge difference!

The Paris Accord has lost it's cash cow known as The American Taxpayer ....

Now the nations that were so eager for America to finance the economic growth of every Third World nation ....while our economy suffers ....will now have to make some serious financial commitmentsif it is to survive .....Remember it has always been the globalist agenda to reduce America to the rank of a third world nation....

Today ....President Trump called their bluff ....So....let's relax with $$$$Trllions in our pocket and watch if the OTHER 190 countries that signed up .....will actually pay their fair share....or put away their checkbooks and watch the Paris Accord die....The Globalists are furious today....

Timeline for VenezuelaDaisy Luther

If you ever wondered what life was really like in a post-collapse society, look no further than Venezuela. Today, I’d like to share a first-hand report of everyday life there.

The country has been on the way down since a socialist government destroyed the economy. Here’s a quick timeline:

•Private ownership of guns was banned in 2012. Then things began to go downhill in a hurry.•In 2013, preppers were relabeled “hoarders” and the act of stocking up became illegal.•In 2014, the government instituted a fingerprintregistry for those who wished to buy food to ensure they didn’t take more than their “share.”•In 2015, things began to devolve more quickly as electricity began to be rationed and farmers were forced to turn over their harvest to the government.•2016 brought the announcement that folks wereon their own – there was simply not enough food. As well, despite the rationing, an electrical shortage was announced.•2016 also brought the news that the country was out of everything: food, medicine, and nearly

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all basic necessities. People were dying of starvation and malnourishment made other illnesses even worse. Hyperinflation brought exorbitant prices, like $150 for a dozen eggs.•Now, civil war is near (if not already happening.) They’re calling it “protests” but violence between the people and the government is ongoing. This rage is stoked by wealthy Venezuelans who enjoy meals, fabulous parties, and lush accommodations while the rest of the country struggles to find a bag of rice they can afford. Let them eat cake?

It appears there is no end in sight to the tribulations of the Venezuelans.

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