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Big Brother on America's Fishing Boats
by Michelle Malkin
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Dobbs, Farrell – Release Intel Memo, Americans
Must See Systemic Corruption at DOJ, FBI
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{rickwells.us} ~ Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch joins Lou Dobbs to discuss the Intelligence Committee memo... that names names and offenses in instances of  corruption and abuse of power targeting candidate and President Trump in an effort to overthrow our President through the abuse of the FISA surveillance program. He plays a clip of Rep Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who, along with a handful of his colleagues, is calling for the memo to be made public so that the American people can see what the corrupt Democrats under Hussein liar-nObama were doing to subvert our government by the people. Farrell points to gross over classification that is preventing the American people from seeing the memo detailing what the corrupt officials, who are still at work, were and are doing. He says that if Americans knew what was going on “heads would roll,” as Rep Gaetz indicated...  https://rickwells.us/dobbs-farrell-corruption-doj-fbi/
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Trump Shoots Down 
Senate Liberals’ Amnesty Bill
Trump tweet wall

{Iconservativehq.com} ~ f you read or watch the establishment news media, you might have read that President Trump rejected the “bipartisan immigration compromise”...
 proposed by Senators RINO-Flake (R-AZ) and scum-Durbin (D-IL). The reality is that what President Trump rejected was “bipartisan” only in that it was negotiated between a liberal Democrat scum-Durbin and a liberal Republican RINO-Flake and it in no way represented a “compromise” between opposing viewpoints on how to solve America’s illegal immigration crisis. RINO-Flake and scum-Durbin group also includes Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet (CO) and Bob Menendez (N.J.) and Republican Sens. Cory Gardner (CO) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.). The group has been discussing for months an amnesty deal, but we wouldn’t really call that a “negotiation,” since they all agree on granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens and doing as little immigration enforcement as possible...   http://www.conservativehq.com/node/27232

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BREAKING DOJ 
To Re-Try This Corrupt Democrat
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by Matt Friedman

{trumptrainnews.com} ~ Two months after a jury failed to come to a verdict in the corruption case against Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez... and co-defendant Salomon Melgen, the Justice Department on Friday said they want to retry him.  The department filed a one paragraph notice of intent in federal to retry the case. “The United States files this notice of intent to retry the defendants and requests that the Court set the case for retrial at the earliest possible date,” reads the notice, signed by Annalou Tirol, acting chief of the public integrity section. “Defendants Robert Menendez and Salomon Melgen have been indicted for bribery and corruption by two separate grand juries properly empaneled in the District of New Jersey. The first trial ended in a mistrial with a deadlocked jury. An early retrial date is in the best interests of the public, and the United States is available to schedule a retrial at the Court’s earliest convenience.”... http://trumptrainnews.com/articles/breaking-doj-to-re-try-this-corrupt-democrat

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President Trump Calls Out Russia for
Helping North Korean Sanctions Evasion

by Mathew Ha, Boris Zilberman

{defenddemocracy.org} ~ “Russia is not helping us at all with North Korea,” President Trump said yesterday in an Oval Office interview with Reuters... “What China is helping us with, Russia is denting,” the president added. Trump is correct when he accuses Moscow of being complicit in the Kim regime’s efforts to evade sanctions. Although Moscow voted for the latest round of UN sanctions restricting North Korea’s access to petroleum, coal, and other key revenue sources, recent reports suggest there has been a noticeable increase in shipping traffic between North Korean ports and the Russian city of Vladivostok, located roughly 80 miles from the North Korean border. In September 2017, Treasury’s assistant secretary for terrorist financing, Marshall Billingslea, shared in a congressional hearing that both Russian and Chinese ports are allowing North Korean ships to off load coal in clear violation of UN sanctions. Reuters also revealed that Russian-flagged vessels directly engaged in ship-to-ship transfers as recently as October 2017. As President Trump insinuated, ongoing trade between North Korea and Russia is providing a lifeline to the Kim regime...  http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/mathew-ha-president-trump-calls-out-russia-for-helping-north-korean-sanctions-evasion/
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Sen. Chuck clown-Schumer meets with
President Trump amid budget logjam
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{foxnews.com} ~ Senate Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer, D-NY, met with President Trump at the White House Friday... as part of efforts to avert an imminent government shutdown, just hours after the White House coined a decidedly Trumpian phrase in the battle to assign blame for the standoff, branding it the "clown-Schumer Shutdown." Trump summoned clown-Schumer to the White House shortly after Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, speaking to reporters at a press conference, pointed the finger at clown-Schumer for Democrats refusing to back a short-term spending bill unless it includes protections for illegal immigrants brought to the country as children. The nickname echoed President Trump’s well-documented penchant for hanging nicknames on political adversaries, and the invite appeared to complete a carrot-and-stick approach to negotiations. The move comes as Republicans and Democrats scramble to assign blame to their opponents, knowing that whoever is seen to be behind the shutdown is also under pressure to return to the bargaining table...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/19/government-shutdown-looms-as-democrats-stand-firm-on-daca-demands.html
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Big Brother on America's Fishing Boats
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by Michelle Malkin
{townhall.com} ~ Salt water. Seagulls. Striped bass.

My fondest childhood memories come from fishing with my dad on the creaky piers and slick jetties of the Jersey shore. The Atlantic Ocean is in my blood. So when fishing families in New England reached out to me for help spreading word about their economic and regulatory struggles, I immediately heeded their call.

Now, these "forgotten men and women" of America hope the Trump administration will listen. And act.

The plague on the commercial fishing industry isn't "overfishing," as environmental extremists and government officials claim. The real threats to Northeastern groundfishermen are self-perpetuating bureaucrats, armed with outdated junk science, who've manufactured a crisis that endangers a way of life older than the colonies themselves.

Hardworking crews and captains have the deepest stake in responsible fisheries management -- it's their past, present, and future -- but federal paper-pushers monitor them ruthlessly like registered sex offenders.

Generations of schoolchildren have been brainwashed into believing that our seas have been depleted by greedy commercial fishermen. In the 1960s and 1970s, it is true, foreign factory trawlers from Russia and Japan pillaged coastal groundfish stocks. But after the domestic fishing industry regained control of our waters, stocks rebounded.

Reality, however, did not fit the agenda of scare-mongering environmentalists and regulators who need a perpetual crisis to justify their existence. To cure a manufactured "shortage" of bottom-dwelling groundfish, Washington micromanagers created a permanent thicket of regional fishery management councils, designated fishing zones, annual catch limits, individual catch limits and "observers" mandated by the Magnuson-Stevens Act.

Even more frustrating for the fishing families who know the habitat best, the federal scientists' trawler surveys for assessing stocks use faulty nets that vastly underestimate stock abundance.

Meghan Lapp, a lifelong fisherwoman and conservation biologist, points out that government surveyors use a "net that's not the right size for the vessel," which produces "a stock assessment that shows artificially low numbers. The fishing does not match what the fishermen see on the water."

Instead of fixing the science, top-down bureaucrats have cracked down on groundfishermen who fail to comply with impossible and unreasonable rules and regulations. The observer program, which was intended to provide biological data and research, was expanded administratively not by Congress to create "At Sea Monitors" who act solely as enforcement agents.

Yes, Big Brother dispatches a fleet of spies to track and ticket commercial fishing families while they work. And the biggest slap in the face? New England groundfishermen have to pay for it. A study done by the National Marine Fisheries Service estimates the program costs about $710 per day or $2.64 million per year.

Last fall, I visited the Williams family, which owns two fishing vessels based in Point Judith, Rhode Island, and Stonington, Connecticut, to see the crushing impact of this ever-intrusive bureaucracy for myself. Patriarch and small-business owner Tom Williams Sr. began fishing with his father-in-law in the 1960s. Son Tom Jr. captains the Heritage, which harvests cod, flounder and haddock. Son Aaron operates the Tradition, which harvests scup, whiting, squid and sea bass. Grandson Andrew, 20, is the fourth-generation fisherman in the family.

"What we do is feed America," soft-spoken Tom Sr. told me. "We're not just indiscriminately raping the ocean, we're trying to feed people -- feed them good, healthy, quality fish."

Long before he departs from the dock, Tom Jr. must seek permission to do his job.

"Before we sail, we have to do declarations on our boat tracks, which is a vessel monitoring system," Tom Jr. explained. "We have to declare what areas we're going to be fishing in. We also have to submit a sector-trip start hail and operator's permit number. ... Then you have to submit a daily task report, what area you were in, and all the species that you caught."

On top of all that, an at-sea observer boards the Williams' boats and bunks in tight quarters with the crew, looking over their shoulders at every turn. Over the years, the expanding reach of regulators has become overbearing and, as brother Aaron described it, "humiliating."

David Goethel, a boat captain and research biologist who served on the New England fishery management council, sued to overturn the unfunded at-sea monitoring mandate. But he was rebuffed by the U.S. Supreme Court last fall because he filed the suit too late.

He worries not only about his survival and the fate of the New England groundfishing industry, but about the precedent this power and money grab has set.

"There's nothing to stop other government agencies from doing an end-run on Congress to get a budget increase by passing off their regulatory cost to the regulated public," Goethel warned.

For his part, 20-year-old Andrew Williams hopes someone in Washington will ignore the environmental propaganda he has been taught in the classroom and get the facts.

Working on the seas "is all I ever known," he told me. "It started when I was 8 years old, and I never thought about doing anything else."

Like his family, neighbors and crewmates, he is hoping President Donald Trump can help make commercial fishing great again by getting government out of the way.
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