Dow, stocks end sharply lower on Christmas Eve after weekend of Washington, D.C., turmoil

Janna Herron  USA TODAY

Published 5:19 PM EST Dec 24, 2018

The stock market entered the holidays on a grim note, with the Standard & Poor's 500 stopping short of bear market territory and on track for its worst December since 1931.

The plunge on a shortened trading day came as President Trump doubled down on his criticisms of the Federal Reserve and after attempts by the U.S. Treasury secretary to reassure markets unsettled investors instead.

The Standard & Poor's 500 lost 66 points, or 2.71 percent, to close out Monday at 2,351. The index is 19.77 percent off its Sept. 20 high. A bear market is when an index falls 20 percent or more from its most recent high.

The Dow Jones Industrial average dropped 653 points, or 2.91 percent, to end at 21,792. The Dow is 18.77 percent off its high it hit on Oct. 3,

The tech-heavy Nasdaq, which fell into official bear territory on Friday, lost 140 points, or 2.21 percent, to finish at 6,193. The Russell 2000, an index of small-company stocks that's also in a bear market, ended down 25 points, or 1.95 percent, at 1,267.

"There’s a lot of political unrest," said Jimmy Lee, CEO of the Wealth Consulting Group. "And when you have uncertainty and a lack of confidence in leadership, it makes investors nervous and it has. They run to safety."

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Thursday was a down day for the broad U.S. markets. Each of the major exchanges turned lower in the session, putting the Dow and S&P 500 on track for their worst December since 1931. Crude oil posted another big loss on the day dipping even further below $50.

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The moves come after Trump reportedly discussed firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, blaming the recent turmoil in the stock market on the central bank's Wednesday hike of a benchmark interest rate and its rate outlook for next year.

Trump reiterated his displeasure with the central bank in a tweet on Monday.

"There is a misunderstanding between what the Fed is doing and what markets expect," said John Lynch, chief investment strategist for LPL Financial. "People were counting on one or no hikes next year and the Fed came out with two."

On Sunday, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced that he had called the chief executives of the six biggest U.S. banks to ensure they had enough liquidity to operate normally. The unexpected move rattled investors.

Also adding to the political chaos was Trump's removal of Defense Secretary James Mattis before the general's planned departure, along with the continuing partial shutdown of the federal government.

Trump refused to sign a temporary funding bill on Thursday because it didn't include money for a border wall. A new bill, including $5.7 billion in border funding that Democrats oppose, was dead on arrival in the Senate. It appears the impasse could last until after the New Year.

"The government shutdown doesn’t destroy the economy per se, but it destroys investors' appetites to take on risk," said Benjamin Lau, chief investment officer Apriem Advisors in Irvine, California.

The market closed at 1 p.m. ET Monday, is closed on Tuesday and will reopen with regular trading hours for the rest of the week. It is again closed on New Year's Day.

Published 5:19 PM EST Dec 24, 2018

CBD Has Gone Mainstream Despite Federal Prohibition

OCTOBER 19, 2018


By Michael Maharrey

CBD has gone mainstream – this is nullification in action.

If there was ever any doubt, it completely vanished last month when Consumer Reports ran an article titled “How to Shop for CBD.” You don’t get much more mainstream than Consumer Reports.

Cannabidiol (CBD) is derived from cannabis – generally in the form of industrial hemp. It has proven effective in treating a number of medical conditions, including seizures, pain and anxiety.



Articles touting CBD have appeared in the mainstream media. For instance, the Washington Post called it “the new ‘it’ drug.” And a recent CNN articlecalled CBD, “The latest ‘it’ ingredient to hit menus.” The report went on to tell us where we can get CBD infused food and drink


From a sleek, wellness compound in Miami to a Portland dive bar known for late-night hot dogs, here are the coolest spots to find CBD on the menu.

As Consumer Reports points out, people looking to buy CBD products face a dizzying array of choices. They can already find thousands of CBD products online, in retail stores, and even in restaurants across the United States.


And those choices are soon likely to become even more confusing: The CBD market is expected to multiply at least sevenfold by 2021, to $2.15 billion, up from $292 million in 2016, according to the Brightfield Group, a market research firm that specializes in cannabis. Even Coca-Cola says it’s ‘closely watching’ the growing interest in CBD and its potential as an ingredient in some of the company’s beverages.

Now for the plot twist.

Federal law prohibits all of this.

Many people mistakenly believe CBD is legal. In fact, Consumer Reports claims “47 states have now legalized CBD from hemp, marijuana, or both.” The only holdouts according to CR: Idaho, South Dakota and Nebraska. But the feds beg to differ. In fact, the DEA considers CBD a Schedule 1 drug, and as such, illegal in every state. The only exception — a CBD drug called Epidiolex approved by the FDA June 27, 2018, to treat seizures in a rare form of epilepsy, and only with a prescription.

People in the cannabis industry who argue that CBD is legal over the counter generally rely on the “hemp amendment” tacked onto the 2014 farm bill. But the law only legalized hemp production for limited purposes. It “allows State Agriculture Departments, colleges and universities to grow hemp, defined as the non-drug oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis, for academic or agricultural research purposes, but it applies only to states where industrial hemp farming is already legal under state law.”
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In 2016, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Drug Enforcement Agency released a “statement of principles” to guide interpretation of the hemp section in the farm bill. It states, “The growth and cultivation of industrial hemp may only take place in accordance with an agricultural pilot program to study the growth, cultivation, or marketing of industrial hemp established by a State department of agriculture or State agency responsible for agriculture in a State where the production of industrial hemp is otherwise legal under State law.”

In short, the current federal law authorizes farming of hemp – by research institutions, or within state pilot programs – for research only. Farming for commercial purposes by individuals and businesses remains prohibited.


The definition of “commercial” remains murky and has created significant confusion.

The statement of principles also asserted that industrial hemp programs are limited to fiber and seed. It didn’t mention CBD oil or other edible hemp products. The DEA has interpreted that to mean CBD and hemp food products remain illegal. According to the DEA, CBD cannot be sold under any circumstances. An Indiana TV station interviewed DEA spokesman Rusty Payne, who reiterated the agency’s position.


It’s not legal. It’s just not.

Payne says cannabis plants are considered a Schedule I controlled substance, and medicinal oils derived from cannabis plants are illegal according to two federal laws: the Controlled Substance Act and the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. He said confusion surrounding the Agricultural Act of 2014 (better known as the “Farm Bill”) is frequently cited as legal justification by those who want to manufacture, sell or use CBD oil. The DEA believes the Farm Bill permits only CBD research — not CBD marketing and sales.

“Anybody who’s in violation [of the federal laws] always runs that risk of arrest and prosecution,” he said.

Another DEA spokesman told the Louisville Courier-Journal, “All hemp products that can be consumed are illegal.”

Nevertheless, people across the country are selling, buying and using CBD, and nullifying the federal law in practice and effect. Consumer Reports even offers “a step-by-step guide to the factors to consider when shopping for a CBD product.”

And the feds aren’t doing anything about it. Even DEA spokesman Payne admitted the agency isn’t enforcing federal law. The WTHR reporter asked him what he would do if he was in the position of a mother who found CBD helped her child deal with excruciating pain related to cancer treatment. He said he would do the same exact thing — without hesitation.


I cannot blame these people for what they’re doing. They are not a priority for us … it would not be an appropriate use of federal resources to go after a mother because her child has epileptic seizures and has found something that can help and has helped. Are they breaking the law? Yes, they are. Are we going to break her door down? Absolutely not. And I don’t think she’ll be charged by any U.S. Attorney.

As a Forbes article put it, “at the end of the day, CBD is not legal in all 50 states — even though it is widely available.”

U.S. National Debt Now Equivalent to the Amount of Money Missing from the Treasury

By Isaac Davis  | Source: Waking Times

In March of 2018, the U.S. national debt topped $21 trillion dollars, and now the average debt liability for an individual taxpayer is projected to be $161,022 by 2019. This means that every American taxpayer pretty much owes the government a house, when you consider that the median house price is around $200,000.

That’s right, even your happy, bubbly one-year-old future taxpayer, who is too new to the planet to have any idea what any of this means, will owe someone else a house by the time she’s old enough to get a job.

At present, even though the government is collecting record high individual income taxes, the debt continues to rise, as do taxes, fees, permits, regulations, and government sponsored extortion of citizens. This doesn’t bode well for the average American.

“With the debt per taxpayer as high as it is, if the government continues to raise taxes on middle income earners and above, it will become increasingly difficult for many of these individuals to preserve their standard of living. This will result in a reduction of wealth that spans the entire income spectrum, excluding perhaps the super-rich.” [Source]

Remarkably, at the same time the debt hit $21 trillion, others were noticing that the publicly available number of unaccounted for, or lost or stolen, taxpayer dollars is also now at $21 trillion. Most of this seems to have gone missing from the Pentagon.

Coincidence?

READ: GLOBAL DEBT IS NOW AN INSANE $164 TRILLION, BUT WHO EXACTLY DO WE OWE?

Forbes magazine published an article on this in December of 2017, noting how year after year the defense department’s annual financial reports include insane sums of money that goes unaccounted for in the form of unsubstantiated adjustments. That is, faulty reporting, something which would land an ordinary person in jail for tax evasion.

“..data used to prepare the year-­end financial statements were unreliable and lacked an adequate audit trail. The report indicates that just 170 transactions accounted for $2.1 trillion in year—end unsupported adjustments.  No information is given about these 170 transactions.  In addition many thousands of transactions with unsubstantiated adjustments  were, according to the report, removed by the Army. There is no explanation concerning why they were removed nor their magnitude.” [Source]

Former U.S. Congressman Ron Paul recently posted about the missing money phenomenon, noting that most of this astronomical amount of money is the result of out of control military spending.

“Do you know how much the Pentagon spent between 1998 and 2015 that is “unaccounted for”?
TWENTY-ONE TRILLION DOLLARS
$21,000,000,000,000
Where did it go?
No one knows…it’s “unaccounted for”.” ~Ron Paul

Looking at this situation in layman’s terms, there’s a criminal on the block, one that everyone knows but is afraid to confront, who steals from everyone in the neighborhood again and again. And it’s gotten to the point where the criminal is free to act with impunity, stealing ever greater amounts from his neighbors.

There is no one who can help. The police won’t do anything because they are paid off by the criminal. The criminal is well-armed because he doesn’t follow the same gun laws that the neighbors have to adhere to. He regularly flaunts his weapons and threatens anyone who looks at him wrong.

There is nothing the neighbors can do about it, and the criminal knows this and becomes more and more brazen as time goes by. And the criminal lives a life of luxury and ease, while the neighbors have to work harder and harder to recover from their ever-increasing losses.

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The neighborhood has become a sort of feudal preying ground for the criminal, and the neighbor’s futures look more and more bleak with each passing year. They have become, in effect, slave workers for the criminal, and the situation holds no promise of improving any time soon.

While the neighbors are all honest, good, hard-working people, desperation is slowly sinking in and in time the situation will become volatile and very dangerous.

Final Thoughts

In other news, the IRS has recently been granted the power to withhold passports from citizens who owe back taxes in the amount of $50,000 or more. This could be some 362,000 people, according to Time magazine, who face the prospect of internal imprisonment for doing something the government itself does, but at a tiny fraction of the scope.

“The State Department says that violators who do not resolve their tax issues before applying for a passport will have their application delayed or denied. Meanwhile, people with seriously delinquent tax payments who have already applied for a new U.S. passport will not have a new passport issued to them until they have resolved their tax issues with the IRS.” [Source]

This is something that doesn’t seem to register on the public mind, and as long as Americans are more interested in allowing themselves to be divided and conquered by the media, we can only expect for the national debt crime to exacerbate.

Exposed! Peter Strzok Born In Iran + John Brennan Obama Iranian Envoy Team Mbr + Duel FBI CIA Positions

17 July 2018
Peter Strzok WAS BORN & RAISED IN IRAN; during the uprising formation of the late 1970′s Ayatollah Khomeni in IRAN, and a member of President Obama’s Iranian Envoy with John Brennan!  Who better to give “Power Positions” within the FBI then those with you same values?  Strzok also directly worked, and coordinated with Brennan’s CIA, to forge Obama’s Iranian attempted increasing Global Power, monies, and Nuclear weapons as members of Obama’s Iranian and Middle East Negotiating Envoy team members.

Not only is FBI Strzok a Discredited Criminal, BUT HIS FATHER IS DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE CLINTON HAITI FRAUD SCAM – Burkina Fisco!.  Like father – like son. As a family, they lived, worked and prayed for over a decade inside IRAN!  Strzok’s father covertly join the US Marines as a unconfirmed “Spy” and openly SUPPORTED THE 1979 KHOMENI REVOLUTION INSIDE IRAN.  The US found him useful and transferred to Saudi Arabia to be used as a informant to ease tensions.  After his service, he once again became a “Deep State” informant and moved back to Iran as a Civilian.  This is when he became a “veteran” Secret Democratic operative, only known to the “Deep State”.  Clinton liked his secret connections to Iran, and Clinton made him close friend.  They next gave him a top position in the Haiti Fraud scandle, including their secret Child Sex Trafficing network from the middle east and Haiti.

Peter Strzok’s current MELISSA HODGEMAN STRZOK ALSO HAS A VERY QUESTIONABLE POSITION THAT NEEDS INVESTIGATED!  Melissa Hodgman Strzok, an official at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  Can you imagine what kind of “Monies” she “Controls” INSIDE THE US GOVERNMENT STOCKS AND FEDERAL RESERVE?  Strange that any woman would stand by and openly allow your husband to cheat on them, so their has to be a deeper tie then just marrage.?

Oversight Committee’s need to ask him, under Oath, Peter’s direct involvement in the Pallets and Pallets of cash flown by aircraft to Iran, and their involvement in ALL IRANIAN NEGOTIATIONS!  Since Strzok and Brennan were members of Obama’s Irianian Envoy team, they both know everything AND DIRECTLY INVOLVED in all Iranian crimes done by Obama.
Peter Strzok, John Brennan and Barrack Obama are all devotee’s not to America, but are “Traitors” and “Domestic Enemies” of America, and our Constitution FROM WITHIN!  Everyone always looks for those in a different uniform as the only enemy, but “Domestic Enemies” are inside the US Government.  Just like robbing a bank, you get as many fellow bank employees you can trust to rob them blind; without anyone noticing.  This is the “Deep State” criminal organization the US is facing, and Strzok and Brennan at the HEARTBEAT CONTROLLERS!

This TIES EVERYTHING TOGETHER with Khomeni, Iran, Obams’a Iranian Connections, and John Brennan’s Communist parties!

If you do not know about the video taped Hillary Clinton DEATH PENALTY Child Sex Abuse, Torture and Death film, CLICK HERE.  It is 100% real, and in the posession of the NYPD, FBI & DOJ, and was on Anthony Weiners Laptop.  Contact them and they will say “No Comment” NOT “It does not Exist”.  If fake, they will deny it but they can not!?

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EXPOSED: Peter Strzok Grew Up In Iran, Worked As Obama and Brennan’s Envoy To Iranian Regime

17 July 2018

A former co-worker of Peter Strzok tells Big League Politics about Strzok’s extensive background in the intelligence community, including the fact that he grew up in Iran. Many intelligence officers like Strzok are complete ghosts with questionable history and gaps in their life story. But now we have some insight.
(RELATED: Strzok Worked For CIA And FBI At Same Time, According To Document).
Peter Strzok was born in the late 1960’s – he attended the American School in Iran up until 1978 when it closed down and then he attended the American School in Saudi Arabia. He supposedly attended a Catholic School, St. John’s Prep in Minneapolis (the school refused to confirm or deny attendance) and then completed a Bachelors at Georgetown and some form of graduate degree after that.

The truth is that after Peter Strzok III turned 18 his life is arcane, which is the usual story of many like him. Did you know that Peter Strzok II (Strzok’s father) and Hillary Clinton have a lot in common? It turns out after advocating for Khomeni in Iran and then working in Saudi Arabia to calm the waters of an Iranian government (appeasing them with anti-Semitic rhetoric), Strzok’s father Strzok II also dabbled in “charity work.” Strzok’s father was involved in so-called charity work in Haiti but also helped dismantle and reassemble Upper Volta..now known as Burkina Faso.
Despite Deep State efforts to scrub information, the Internet is forever. Below you will see a very controversial happening in the early Eighties. Peter Strzok II (Strzok’s father, also known as Peter Strzok Sr.) was an employee of Catholic Relief Services and was interviewed by the New York Times in 1985 over his testimony or statements regarding mishandling money intended for Ethopia. In the article he identifies himself as a former employee of the charity and he is a retired US Army Corps Engineer who served the agency in Africa and Haiti. So Peter Strzok II worked in Haiti with a charity? That sounds eerily familiar. Can we all guess which charities partnered to help Haiti?
The Clinton Foundation and The Catholic Relief Services (CRS) seem to work in tangent. Coincidence? Peter Strzok Sr. was actually the director of CRS in Haiti. If we look into CRS financials they seem to overlap and feed into Clinton Global initiatives and balance sheets.

In the early 80’s Upper Volta was in turmoil. It is said that mineral disputes with neighboring countries brought about great duress and so in 1985 the country of Upper Volta ceased to exist and was then named Burkina Faso during Strzok II’s term there. Specifically, in 1981 he was advised of a government visit to Upper Volta, which places him in Upper Volta for a period of 4 years as his son Strzok III was at the American School in Saudi Arabia from 1978- 1980. This happened after their sudden move from Tehran when Khomeni attained power over the Shah. Looks like whenever there is a regime change in modern history a Strzok is lying in the shadows waiting.
We know Peter Strzok III, the man who sent those vile text messages about our President. The man who was biased and wanted to ensure a Clinton Presidency was raised in Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Our source reveals how Strzok and his father both talked about Iran favorably and both accidently reminisced about the rose water smell of the ju-jeh kebab by Shemiran Hill… something that disappeared after 1987 and only those who are old enough to remember can discuss.
Peter Strzok’s Persian is impeccable.

Our insider tells us that Peter Strzok III is the key Middle Eastern Intel operative for the Iranian airline Mahan Air’s purchase of United States government planes during the Obama administration from 2011 to 2013 (when Iran sanctions were in place). He handled the Iranian relations from start to finish. Just like his father did for Reagan and just like he’s been doing for years under cloak and dagger says the BLP insider.

 

Peter Strzok Sr. and of course John O. Brennan were involved with Iran. In fact, our source tells us that Strzok Sr. was involved in the Iran-Contra scheme that led to a six-month prison term for Reagan national security adviser John Poindexter. Back in the Eighties the government was just as corrupt as it is today and for some reason we keep giving weapons, planes, and planes full of money to Iran. Even Barack Hussein Obama sent money to Iran on a plane in his last year of office — $1.4 Billion worth. Just a few weeks ago, Iran demanded Germany send them 300,000 Euros in cash on a plane to them, and of course Angela Merkel complied. What’s the deal with Iran? Why are they so important?
Here is a clipping from the Wisconsin-based Leader-Telegram newspaper from 1979 in which Strzok Sr. describes his activities in Iran and expresses good will for the Ayatollah.

What were Strzok, Brennan, and Obama really doing? That is a very good question that maybe President Trump can get answered for us if a Summit with Iran can happen early this fall. One thing that is constant in modern history over the last five decades with anything involving Iran: There is a Peter Paul Strzok involved.
The BLP insider who’s worked with both Breannan and Strzok tells us that Strzok was never FBI he was part of the highest level of covert operatives, sliding into posts within the CIA or FBI to infiltrate, influence and observe. This is exactly what we saw with the Special Counsel appointment that resulted after a failed operation.
Peter Strzok Jr. was placed in the FBI to ensure a win for Hillary Clinton and buffer negative press (like the Weiner laptop case, which he covered up). That’s the real deal. Revealing Peter Strzok’s identity would have been a problem because it’s called unmasking but since he is in the limelight and out of the shadows it’s time to lay all the cards FACE up on the table for all to see who Peter Strzok really is.
Spooks feared him, but like our source they still maintain secrecy — simply connecting the dots of publicly and privately available information.
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Why America’s Law Enforcement Empire Resembles Secret Police In A Dictatorship

by EraOfLight

Secret police are characteristic of dictatorships, or so goes the conventional thinking on the subject. Police in democracies operate for the most part transparently and within a set of rules and guidelines that limits their ability to gratuitously punish citizens who have done nothing wrong. If a policeman operating under rule-of-law steps out of line, he can be held accountable. That is also conventional thinking.


But what happens when an ostensibly “democratic” police force becomes corrupted and starts doing things that are outside its zone of responsibility, and does so to benefit a political relationship that will in turn protect those who have broken the law under cover of carrying out their official duties? That is the characteristic of what we have been calling a “deep state,” where forces drawn generally from the political class and security services conspire together to control what the public is allowed to know while also manipulating nuisances like elections to make sure that the “correct” outcome emerges.
Indeed, deep state operating in a democracy or republic is far more dangerous that the secret police in a dictatorship. That is because in a system where the forces of the state are all-powerful, nearly everyone expects that what they read and what the government says is all a lie. In a democratic system there is what intelligence officers would refer to as plausible denial, which means that even when the government is behaving very badly much of the public will believe that it is acting honorably because they want to trust that the system works. And when the deep state includes management of the media, many citizens will likewise believe what they are reading or hearing is honest reporting, even when it is not.
Due to the events of the past year in particular, many Americans have become convinced that there now exists something like a secret police operating in the United States that is a fusion of some political dealmakers with certain politicized elements in the intelligence and security services. However one regards President Donald Trump and his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, there is nevertheless something odd in terms of how they have been investigated and, in the case of Flynn, legally entrapped to convict him of lying to the FBI to force him to cut a deal with the Special Counsel inquiry headed by Robert Mueller.
Consider how, even though meeting with Russians is not illegal, Trump and his associates have been subjected to secret investigation of their Russian ties for nearly two years without any revelations apart from the fact that it was Israel, not Russia, that colluded to undermine White House policy. FBI Director James Comey’s antics during the primaries and electoral campaign, in which he first exonerated and then complained about Hillary Clinton while at the same time validating a dossier full of largely questionable information about Donald Trump’s dealings with Russia provides clear evidence of an organization that has lost its bearings and has become a politicized agent of an incumbency that has itself become corrupted and believes itself to be above the law. And then there is the Central Intelligence Agency’s own John Brennan working with the FBI to undermine the Trumps, illegally digging up dirt from the liaison intelligence partners in Europe and the Middle East.
America’s law enforcement empire has all the characteristics of secret police in a dictatorship. It is not transparent in its actions, has a history of bending the rules to obtain convictions, and its officers are rarely held accountable. It has also been politicized. And to be sure, one should recognize that there are two additional factors driving the growth and transformation of the national security state in the U.S. First is the intense dislike that the top levels of the American intelligence and police agencies have for Donald Trump personally, a contempt that Trump himself has largely earned by his scorn for much of the government that he inherited. Second is the “trust the authorities” culture that has grown up since 9/11, reinforced by fearmongering on the part of the government to justify executive overreach and enabled through anti-terror legislation that has unleashed the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency (NSA) to act with impunity while suffering no consequences whatsoever.


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They Wanted to Raise $1,500 for Immigrant Families at the Border. They Got Over $10 Million.

ImageA 2-year-old Honduran child cries as her mother is detained near the U.S.-Mexico border.CreditJohn Moore/Getty Images


By Julia Jacobs
June 19, 2018





It all started with a viral photo of a toddler crying as her mother was detained at the border.

Charlotte and Dave Willner saw it on the internet, like so many other people, and responded by starting a fund-raising page that would rapidly become the largest single fund-raiser in Facebook’s history.

The Bay Area couple had been struck by the sight of the anguished 2-year-old Honduran girl looking up at her mother, who was being searched by a United States border patrol agent in southern Texas. They have a 2-year-old daughter of their own, and the image made them want to help the families being separated under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy.

On Saturday morning, they started a Facebook fund-raising page for the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, or Raices, a nonprofit organization that provides low-cost legal defense services to immigrant and refugee families in Texas. The Willners set a modest goal of $1,500.

It has since garnered more than $10 million from more than 250,000 people, stunning the staff at Raices.

“We’ve had moments of ecstasy and there have been a lot of tears in response to this outpouring of support,” Jonathan Ryan, executive director of Raices, said in a phone interview. “But those moments of joy are curtailed by a realization of great responsibility.”

The funds will go toward legal representation for immigrant children and parents in Texas, as well as toward paying parents’ bond so they can be released from detention centers and reunited with their children. The organization — which currently has about 50 lawyers on staff — plans to go on a hiring spree and fund training for volunteer lawyers willing to travel to Texas to assist, Mr. Ryan said.


The Trump administration policy, which aims to criminally prosecute all immigrants crossing the border illegally, has resulted in nearly 2,000 children being taken away from their parents in six weeks. Public outcry over family separations at the border has risen in recent days as children’s experiences in custody have been documented. A recording of children calling out desperately for their parents after being separated from them was released on Monday by ProPublica and was met with immediate outrage.

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By Sameen Amin and Barbara Marcolini 3:04

Tracing the Roots of Trump’s ‘Zero Tolerance’ Immigration Policy

Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama both increased enforcement on the U.S.-Mexico border. Here is how their approaches differed from the Trump administration.Published OnJune 19, 2018CreditImage by Mike Blake/Reuters

By Sameen Amin and Barbara Marcolini 3:04Tracing the Roots of Trump’s ‘Zero Tolerance’ Immigration PolicyPresidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama both increased enforcement on the U.S.-Mexico border. Here is how their approaches differed from the Trump administration.Published OnJune 19, 2018CreditImage by Mike Blake/Reuters


President Trump has defended the policy by saying that people crossing the border “could be murderers and thieves and so much else.” And Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of Homeland Security, said in a news briefing on Monday that the only way the practice would change is through legislation in Congress, even though there is no law requiring that families be separated at the border.

On Tuesday afternoon, the page — called “Reunite an immigrant parent with their child” — was receiving about $3,000 per minute, according to a spokeswoman for the Willners, who are both former Facebook employees.

“When we look at the faces of these children, we can’t help but see our own children’s faces,” Ms. Willner told The Mercury News of San Jose, Calif. Ms. Willner now works at Pinterest and Mr. Willner at Airbnb, according to a spokeswoman for the couple.

The Willners’ page is the largest single fund-raiser in Facebook’s history, said Roya Winner, a Facebook spokeswoman. Several broader campaigns made up of multiple fund-raisers, like one created in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, have raised more. Other single fund-raisers that have recently been highly successful include a Norwegian campaign for Doctors Without Borders, which garnered $2 million, and an effort to raise money for medical aid to Palestinians in Gaza, which raised $1.7 million.

Photos of humanitarian crises have galvanized the public for decades, but internet fund-raising platforms have enabled donations to stream in. In 2015, images of a 3-year-old Syrian Kurdish boywhose body had washed up on a beach in Turkey caused a spike in donations to humanitarian efforts addressing the Syrian civil war. The average number of daily donations to the Red Cross relief effort in Syria increased 100-fold in the week after the images were publishedcompared with the week before.

Mr. Ryan said that he did not yet know when the millions of dollars in donations would reach Raices, but that it is already starting to deploy its lawyers to assist detained immigrants and their children.

Costs for this kind of legal assistance can add up quickly, he said. Bond for a single detained immigrant can be set at $10,000. Lawyers must locate the parents, travel to detention centers and meticulously prepare applications for asylum.

“These people need lawyers,” Mr. Ryan said. “Beyond the punditry and politics, each person suffering from this policy has a huge legal case to begin to prepare for.”

Who Really Owns What --- Notice of Prohibition

NESARA- REPUBLIC NOW - GALACTIC NEWS

By Anna Von Reitz

The People own the Republics, the Republics own the States, and the States own all the various "States of States" ----National, Territorial, and Municipal.



The United States of America (Unincorporated) acts as the Holding Company of all the international powers of the States --- all international powers delegated and un-delegated, in all jurisdictions, air, land, and sea.



The United States of America (Unincorporated) delegated certain enumerated powers in the international jurisdiction of the sea to three subordinate organizations --- National, Territorial, and Municipal -- via three constitutional agreements.



In the event that the delegated powers cannot be exercised properly by those entrusted to exercise them, they revert back to the Donor/Grantor of those enumerated powers --- The United States of America (Unincorporated).



The National-level States of States were moth-balled "pending reconstruction" and usurped upon by the Territorial United States which secretively substituted its own Territorial States of States for those owed to the people of this country.



Now both the Territorial United States and its States of States and the Municipal United States and its STATES OF STATES are bankrupt and in receivership.



All three levels of government exercising the delegated powers are incompetent, so all powers they held revert back to The United States of America (Unincorporated), which retained all un-delegated powers from the start.



So, once again, all powers in international jurisdiction --- air, land, and sea, delegated and un-delegated, are held by The United States of America (Unincorporated) and its member States.



The United States of America (Unincorporated) has taken the necessary steps to reclaim the National, Territorial, and Municipal Assets and acknowledged, accepted, and re-conveyed the delegated powers. It has renewed and re-issued its Sovereign Letters Patent and preserved the constitutional system pending action by a Continental United States Congress of State Fiduciary Deputies.



The United States of America (Unincorporated) has summoned the actual land jurisdiction States of the Union Federation to assemble and they are doing so. In the meantime, The United States of America (Unincorporated) remains as the only internationally competent government representing this country and its people.



This in no way weakens the lawful or legal standing of this country or its government. Our Hired Help can go bankrupt until the cows come home without it impacting the standing of The United States of America (Unincorporated) as their Priority Creditor and Lawful Holder in Due Course of all powers, prerogatives, and assets owed to the States and the People.



There is no excuse for any pretense that our assets are "abandoned" or our actual government in "abeyance". Those false claims have already been thoroughly rebutted and Due Notice and Due Process has been afforded the organizations and principals responsible for this deplorable performance for a number of years.



Fraud vitiates everything, even the most solemn contracts, even dispositions of property made in past.



In the course of our investigations, we discovered that our delegated powers have been abused by the Territorial and Municipal United States and that our copyrights have been infringed, and that our Patent and Trademark Office has been abused without our knowledge or consent.



The Territorial United States and Municipal United States have formed franchises worldwide and operated those franchises as subordinate assets; they in turn have issued charters to vast numbers of incorporated entities ---- all of which now come under the ownership and administration of The United States of America (Unincorporated) and the respective member States.



We are not members of or bound by the Geneva or Hague Conventions, however, with respect to our assets and our government, we own the Territorial and Municipal Governments that are signatories; not only do we own our own Territorial and Municipal Government corporations, we own their franchises -- the States of States -- and all the commercial corporations that have been formed under their auspices.



This results in a situation in which we are the de facto owners and record title holders of most of the governments and commercial corporations on Earth. It was the intent of the perpetrators to run up insurmountable debts against us and our assets, seek bankruptcy protection for themselves, and leave us holding the bag. They also counted on us to remain asleep and acquiesce to their false claims of abandonment of our assets.



This country and many other countries around the world have suffered the equivalent of identity theft and credit fraud --- and still the central banks and international trustees responsible are trying to avoid the necessity of correction.



This shall serve as a Notice of Prohibition objecting to any bankruptcy settlement made "in our behalf" by the perpetrators or their secondaries and bankruptcy trustees that does not provide for the return of our assets free and clear and the return of all profits, leases, escrows, insurances, bond income, intellectual properties, copyrights, patents, trademarks, accounts, logos, and other beneficial interests which are ours and which we have enumerated at length.


We are not being unreasonable or unkind or seeking any unjust enrichment; by the same token, we are resolved not to bear any Odious Debts, false title claims, or further Breach of Trust. We require what is ours returned to this country, together with all remedy and restitution rightfully and naturally owed to our States and People.



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Posted by Freewill

New York City is the United Nations? Really?

 
By Anna Von Reitz


I challenged my researchers and readers to do a little research project about who owns the UN Corporation, as opposed to the "United Nations" organization chartered in 1945.

One of my Good Buddies promptly replied with this gem, which I remember and which I have seen before regarding the UN, but which I misplaced in my files somehow.  

Here it is again for those of you who missed it first time around.  It doesn't answer the Big Question of who owns the UN Corporation (and what other corporations does UN Corp own?) but it does shed light on dark places that deserve to be lit up ----- 

New York City is defined in the Federal Regulations as the United Nations. 

Rudolph Gulliani stated on C-Span that “New York City was the capitol of the World” and he was correct: 20 CFR chapter 111, subpart B 422.103 (b) (2) (2). 

Unless the rats have since done their favorite trick of re-numbering things, this reference should still be very accessible.  

So, since when did all our national governments die and leave the United Nations as the capitol of anything but a lot of hot air, hideous "agendas", fraud and corruption?  

And since when did NYC become the United Nations?  In whose dictionary does that one appear?  

Obviously, the treasonous rats in the Territorial United States Congress have been up to their old tricks again, redefining "special terms" for their own use, like redefining the word "person" to mean "corporation"....

Pretty soon black will be white and rich will be poor and nasty old men like Gulliani will appear as angels of light. 

Stay tuned, Campers.  Lady Flamolare del Chesa (c) has yet to sing the Aria....

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