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from BBC News (UK)
Revellers, police and some protesters converged on Canada's national capital on Saturday for a party that has been years in the planning. Canada marked its 150th anniversary as a country in towns, cities and at backyard barbecues nationwide. But the biggest bash was at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, where thousands of people joined the celebrations.
Cemeteries offer a heady mix of history, beauty, nature and death to those who enjoy browsing around them. Burial grounds such as Highgate in north London, which host the graves of the rich and famous, draw thousands of visitors. But there are scores of other less well known but interesting graves around England.
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Top Justice Dept. Official Resigns & Drops Major Trump Bombshell On The Way Out
A top Justice Department official has just resigned and explains why in a letter, calling out President Trump and his administration. According to Hui Chen, who worked for the Justice Department starting in 2015, Donald Trump and his administration’s questionable conduct is something she can no longer put up with. Chen’s job was to enforce criminal laws against large corporations.
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from The Daily Caller
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Trumps Spend $5 Million Less Than Obamas On White House Salaries
Trump employs 377 people at the White House, with a total of $35.8 million, while former President Barack Obama paid $40.9 million for 476 employees in 2015.
Trumps Spend $5 Million Less Than Obamas On White House Salaries
Trump employs 377 people at the White House, with a total of $35.8 million, while former President Barack Obama paid $40.9 million for 476 employees in 2015.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
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How Brexit Could Break the Cycle of Global Poverty
The UK will maintain EU free trade deals with the 48 nations of the Least Developed Countries Index, ensuring that poor producers will not have to pay import tariffs in the UK after Brexit. The UK's announcement of maintaining certain free trade deals will help less developed countries compete on a larger scale.
What is the Deep State?
Individuals acting in knowing concert might be a feature of the Deep State, but they aren’t its essence. The aggregate actions of long-term state functionaries will always tend to maximize the state’s growth and their own discretionary power. Not because they are venal or corrupt (although some certainly are), nor because they necessarily subscribe to some particular ideology (although some certainly do), but because like their actions, they themselves are an aggregate whose parts will overwhelmingly respond to the same incentives in the same ways. There’s both more and less to the Deep State than you might think. You’ll never walk into a hotel and see a sign in the lobby announcing “Welcome Deep State, Conference Room 3A.” The Deep State isn’t a conscious conspiracy, it's a large mass with no guiding intellect.
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from Gizmodo
Over the last couple of weeks, there’s been a disturbing trend of governments demanding that private tech companies share their source code if they want to do business. Now, the US government is giving the same ultimatum and it’s getting what it wants.
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from The Heritage Foundation
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For Pro-Growth Tax Reform, Expensing Should Be the Focus
As Congress and the President move towards consensus on tax reform, expensing, corporate-tax-rate reductions, and territoriality are each indispensable components of tax reform. Of these three reforms, full expensing is most important for economic growth: It is most effective at allowing businesses to increase investment, jobs, and wages for U.S. workers. Full expensing of capital investments would increase total U.S. output 5.4 percent. Congress should make expensing its first priority and then permanently lower the corporate tax rate as low as possible, or ideally repeal the tax altogether.
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For Pro-Growth Tax Reform, Expensing Should Be the Focus
As Congress and the President move towards consensus on tax reform, expensing, corporate-tax-rate reductions, and territoriality are each indispensable components of tax reform. Of these three reforms, full expensing is most important for economic growth: It is most effective at allowing businesses to increase investment, jobs, and wages for U.S. workers. Full expensing of capital investments would increase total U.S. output 5.4 percent. Congress should make expensing its first priority and then permanently lower the corporate tax rate as low as possible, or ideally repeal the tax altogether.
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from NPR (& affiliates)
Utah's 'Zion Curtain' Falls And Loosens State's Tight Liquor Laws
The sound of breaking glass reverberated through Utah on Saturday as the state's so-called Zion Curtain liquor law came crashing down. H.B. 442, a sweeping piece of alcohol reform legislation the Utah State Legislature passed in March, means some restaurants can take down the partitions meant to block the view of alcoholic drinks being mixed and poured.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
Adding fuel to the fire in documenting the hotly debated collateral damage figures in Washington’s ongoing wars in the Middle East, the Pentagon has admitted that its casualty estimates are not based on witness or victim accounts. Contained within the transcript of a news conference at the Pentagon, Brigadier General Paul Bontrager, the Deputy Director for Operations with Central Command, stated when they tally the death of innocents in battle, US forces do not attempt to gather information from victims, witnesses or anyone on the ground, relying instead upon in-house estimates based on data recorded by satellite, aircraft and other surveillance platforms. "It's a rare thing with strikes like this that we can get on the ground in person, or that we can talk to anybody on the ground," Bontrager added, cited by justsecurity.com.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in completed his first official visit to the United States. There, the leader who promised to establish a dialogue with Pyongyang and who showed signs of making foreign policy decisions which were independent from the US was compelled to toe the line. The US president even managed to achieve maximum trade and economic concessions.
Qatar may face tougher sanctions on the part of the four Arab states, but the escalation of the diplomatic conflict into a military one is unlikely, Egyptian political experts told Sputnik. On June 5, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Yemen and Libya cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing the Gulf nation of supporting terrorists and militant groups with ties to Iran. Saudi Arabia closed the crossing at Qatar's only land border, which Qatar uses to import about 40 percent of its food supplies. Qatar's Arab neighbors also denied permission for the national carrier Qatar Airways to use their airspace, and airline carriers from the UAE canceled all flights to Doha. Iran, with which Qatar shares a natural gas field in the Persian Gulf, and Turkey, which has a military base in Qatar, have sent deliveries of food and other supplies to Qatar by sea.
After the defeat of Daesh in Mosul, experts are actively predicting the exact of the fall of the terrorist group. According to them, it will take place within the next months. Meanwhile, the terrorists who still hold some districts of the Syrian city of Raqqa are conducting propaganda campaigns that actively target women and children. The fate of Daesh may be considered predetermined, but the fall of the terrorist organization won’t mean the end of its legacy. Children who have been brainwashed by the group are known as the "Cubs of the Caliphate” and may pose a greater threat to the world than is foreseen at present.
The Philippines are getting millions in weaponry from China in a move to fight Daesh. Philippines Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said that Beijing has donated $ 7.35 million in weapons and ammunition to fight the terrorists. Chinese weapons will contribute to the army of the Philippines in its fight against the terrorists, the Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines, Zhao Jianhua, said at a ceremony.
Washington’s claims about Damascus preparing for a new chemical attack in Syria are either nonsense or a provocation, according to Boris Dolgov, senior research fellow at the Institute for Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Around 20,000 members of opposition Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Turkish troops will participate in a new military operation in the northwestern Syrian Afrin region, which is under control of the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), Turkish Sabah newspaper reported on Sunday.
Nuri Mehmud, an official representative of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), said in an interview with Sputnik Turkey that the group will defend its territories if there is an attack on Afrin from Turkey.
Russia and Western countries are wasting time on their disagreements, instead of focusing on countering common challenges, a report of the Center for Strategic Research (CSR) says. [Center for Strategic Research is a leading Iranian think tank on strategy issues.]
The contract on the delivery of Russian-made S-400 air defense systems to Turkey has been agreed, but there is still no decision on a loan Moscow can provide to Ankara for the purchase, said Vladimir Kozhin, Russian presidential adviser on military and technical cooperation.
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