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NYPD Steven Silks 
We Will Miss You, Brother
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Mark Alexander  
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Wednesday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  BORDER CRISIS: “Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan testified Tuesday that 90 percent of asylum-seekers tracked under a recently instituted program skipped the hearings in which their cases were to be adjudicated.” (National Review)
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IMPEACHMENT: “Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that House Democrats are ‘not even close’ to backing an impeachment inquiry into President Trump,” reports The Hill. But The Washington Post notes, “The House took its strongest step yet in the standoff with President Trump over congressional oversight, voting Tuesday to seek court enforcement of subpoenas for Attorney General William P. Barr and former White House counsel Donald McGahn.” And the Associated Press  says, “The House Intelligence Committee has invited two former leaders of the FBI’s national security branch to testify about the counterintelligence implications of Mueller’s investigation.”
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LOCK HIM UP?: “2020 candidate Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris, D-Calif., has issued a stunning warning to President Trump that seems to echo controversial recent comments from House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi, saying her Justice Department would likely charge him with obstruction of justice if she wins the White House.” (Fox News)
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EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE: “President Trump has asserted executive privilege over a host of documents related to the decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, the Justice Department said Wednesday, thwarting Congressional Democrats’ attempts to subpoena the materials.” (The Washington Times)
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BANNING FREE SPEECH: “Pinterest has removed Live Action’s account from its platform. On Tuesday morning, Live Action discovered that they had been added to Pinterest’s blacklist of pornography websites. A few hours later, after appealing their being on the list, Live Action received an email alerting them that they’ve been permanently suspended.” (The Resurgent)
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SWAMP EXPANDED: “Speaking in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to celebrate his administration’s decision to allow 15 percent of ethanol to be mixed into gasoline in the hot summer months, Trump in one breath called the move an American success story while also blasting loose lips liar-Biden for failing to embrace the fuel under former President scumbag/liar-nObama.” (The Hill)
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PROMISES YOU CAN’T KEEP: “loose lips liar-Joe Biden told an audience in Ottumwa, Iowa Tuesday that his White House would ‘cure’ cancer should he beat President Trump in 2020,” reports the Washington Examiner. “During his stint as vice president, loose lips liar-Biden oversaw the ‘Cancer Moonshot’ initiative of the scumbag/liar-nObama administration.”
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WIDESPREAD DESPAIR: “Rates of deaths from suicides, drug overdoses and alcohol have reached an all-time high in the United States, but some states have been hit far harder than others, according to a report released Wednesday by the Commonwealth Fund.” (NBC News)
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POLICY: “The four states that have enacted [pro-life] laws recently are among the states who boast the highest percentage of African Americans per capita in the country: Mississippi is 2nd, Louisiana is 3rd, Georgia is 4th, Alabama is 7th. Don’t think that’s a coincidence.” (The Resurgent)
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POLICY: AMA says “No” to “Medicare for All” while endorsing policies that would make it inevitable (Washington Examiner)
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HUMOR: YouTube pulls all “Seinfeld” clips featuring the Soup Nazi (The Babylon Bee)  
 
~The Patriot Post
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Bill Maher: scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton 
‘committed obstruction of justice’
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washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Bill Maher went after former presidential candidate scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton saying she committed obstruction of justice in destroying evidence related to her email scandal... “I don't have a lot of faith because, you know, we don't live in the era of news division as loss leaders like we used to. The news division didn't have to make a profit,” Maher said Monday in an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo in response to a question about how the media should police the election. “Then that changed and then you have to report to the board like everybody else and show your earnings and in that atmosphere they're always going to be looking for eyeballs. That’s going to be the most important thing is getting people to click, getting people to watch. And in that atmosphere, I mean look at how much they over covered scumbag/liar-Hillary's emails in 2016. And what effect that had on the election? Now there's a lot of reasons why the Democrats lost and many of them were scumbag/liar-Hillary was a terrible candidate.” Cuomo responded by saying scumbag/liar-Clinton did not help herself in how she handled the email situation. “Absolutely, right,” Maher said. “And she committed obstruction of justice.” Cuomo said the smashing of phones by scumbag/liar-Clinton was “bad optics.”Maher said later in the interview that political correctness in the Democratic Party had become a cancer. "They have some things to answer for," Maher said. "They don’t help themselves a lot and a lot of this far-left political correctness is a cancer on progressivism."...
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Supreme Court Tells Atheists 
‘In God We Trust’ Will Stay On Money
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lidblog.com } ~ The Supreme Court rejected a suit brought by atheists to remove “In God We Trust,” the national motto, from all U.S. coins and currency... Michael Newdow, the same activist attorney who tried to remove “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance, lost his case, arguing Congress’ mandate to inscribe “In God, We Trust” on currency was a government endorsement of religion and a violation of the First Amendment.  Newdow argued in his petition to the Supreme Court that because his clients are all atheist individuals or atheist groups, the government violated their “sincere religious belief” that there is no God and turned them into “political outsiders” by placing the phrase “In God We Trust” on their money. If it really offends, they should send me their money, I will take their money off their hands so they don’t have to look at it anymore. Atheists and liberals love to talk about what they claim is a First Amendment separation of church and state. The first amendment was never meant to stop religion from influencing government. The founding fathers wanted to ensure that the government wouldn’t have undue influence/pressure on religion...  https://lidblog.com/supreme-court-atheists/  
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Mexico Withholds Identities of Migrant 
Caravan Funders in U.S., Britain
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by Ildefonso Ortiz and Brando Darby
breitbart.com } ~ Mexican authorities are not releasing the names of the 26 individuals and entities whose assets were frozen as part of a new probe into migrant caravans and cartel-linked human smuggling organizations... The investigation was moved into high gear this week as tensions between the U.S. and Mexico escalated over tariff threats as a punitive measure for lax immigration enforcement. On Thursday, Mexico’s Finance and Tax Secretariat (SHCP) announced the seizure of 26 accounts, including some from the United Kingdom and the U.S., which allegedly helped fund the northbound migrant caravans largely from Central America. Diplomatic sources consulted by Breitbart News revealed the probe is personally led by UIF Director Santiago Nieto Castillo, who directly briefs Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The SHCP’s Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) tracked suspicious transactions beginning in October 2018 to determine the sources of funding for the caravans. The results reportedly pointed to some monies coming from the U.S., U.K., African nations, and throughout Central America. Diplomatic sources revealed the investigation is still developing since the case was prioritized Monday as tensions over tariffs escalated.The freezes came at the same time Mexican authorities arrested two primary organizers of the caravans who allegedly maintain ties to the U.S.-based Pueblo Sin Fronteras. Mexican authorities claim the organizers would demand money from some migrants seeking to illegally enter the U.S.Law enforcement sources revealed to Breitbart News that the UIF investigation found four sanctioned accounts linked to human smuggling groups loyal to cartels in border cities. Two accounts were traced to Piedras Negras with links to the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas and an independent smuggler in that area. Two other accounts exhibit ties to Gulf Cartel operators in Reynosa, Tamaulipas...
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Newspapers Seek Government Protection 
Congress Should Kill H.R. 2054
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theresurgent.com } ~ A well meaning piece of legislation is getting a hearing today in Congress. It is called the  Journalism Competition and Preservation Act... Local newspapers and a few members of Congress are convinced that Facebook and Google are killing local papers. The law would allow newspapers to collectively prohibit Google and Facebook from sharing their content or, at least, require that these companies pay newspapers for the content they carry. But what content from newspapers do Google and Facebook carry? They cover the minimal amount necessary to get someone to notice an article and click through to the local papers. The problem here is not that the social media giants are rebroadcasting the content, but that the local newspapers are not able to get people to click through to the stories. This all goes back to newspapers never adapting to the digital age. They are seeking someone beside themselves to blame. Many newspapers from news organizations like, for example, McClatchy, all largely run the same syndicated news information. So one can click through and go to a newspaper in Georgia to see the content from the newspaper in California. McClatchy gets the revenue, not the local paper. Many of these companies have built awful, gross websites that are user unfriendly. Other papers are single papers in large cities. Increasingly, they depend on clicks through from social media to get attention on their stories. To force Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. to pay them for the privilege of sending traffic to those papers is nuts. But that’s ultimately what they want. The legislation fundamentally misunderstands how internet traffic works and it fundamentally misunderstands why newspapers are failing. The internet is not to blame for local newspapers woes except that they no longer have a monopoly and people are no longer dependent on them. Seeking government subsidy and protection is the wrong strategy. It is a strategy that suggests newspapers have learned nothing and forgotten nothing. H.R. 2054 may be well meaning. There may be no dispute that local news is dying. It may be true that this is bad for the country. But Google and Facebook are not to blame. Local newspapers never building a relationship with their readers and treating themselves as indispensable caused the problem...  https://theresurgent.com/2019/06/11/newspapers-seek-government-protection-congress-should-kill-h-r-2054/?utm_source=Erick%27s+Conservative+Activist+List&utm_campaign=fe9c966844-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_11_12_48&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0f4b98b4f7-fe9c966844-268177669&mc_cid=fe9c966844&mc_eid=3b151d0
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Firefight Breaks Out Between IDF 
and Palestinian Forces in Nablus
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by Anna Ahronheim
jpost.com } ~ A firefight broke out between IDF forces and Palestinian security forces in the West Bank city of Nablus early Tuesday morning... in what the IDF said was a case of mistaken identity. “During operations to arrest terrorist operatives in the city of Nablus, a firefight broke out between IDF soldiers and people who were identified by the troops as suspects. After the fact, it was determined that it was Palestinian security services personnel,” the IDF said in a statement.  While no Israeli soldiers were wounded in the exchange of fire near the PA headquarters in the city, one Palestinian security officer was slightly injured in his hand. The governor of Nablus, Ibrahim Ramadan, said that Israeli forces had not notified the PA before entering the city contrary to normal procedures and “directly and without justification” opened fire on the PA security service building, the PA news site WAFA reported. According to the report, Ramadan inspected the scene “immediately” after IDF troops left the area and said that "we must not remain silent before such acts. Their goal was to kill. The bullets broke the windows and hit the offices.” Palestinian Quds News network also reported that PA security forces who arrived at the scene with a number of armored vehicles also came under fire by IDF troops. In late May, they received ten armored vehicles from the United States with Israel's approval. Israeli security forces, including the IDF, police and Shin Bet intelligence agency, carry out near nightly raids in the West Bank in an attempt to arrest Palestinians suspected of violence against Israelis. As part of the security coordination between Israel and the PA, Palestinian security officers do not intervene in the arrests. Both sides see the security cooperation as a critical aspect of maintaining stability in the West Bank.  For the past three months, tens of thousands of Palestinian security officers have been receiving only half their salaries because the PA is refusing to accept taxes withheld by Israel - some NIS 500 million a month - in protest over Israeli deductions equal to the amount paid by the PA to individuals who commit terror attacks.  Knesset member Shelly Yachimovich Labor said following the incident that, "the confrontation between the IDF and the Preventive Security forces in Nablus is exceptional, severe and worrying, and does not bode well. It is preferable that the defense minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is currently busy with his criminal affairs, hasten to resolve the crisis before the situation deteriorates."
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NYPD Steven Silks — We Will Miss You, Brother
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Mark Alexander:  I first met NYPD Deputy Chief Steven Silks in July of 2011, when a mutual friend at NASA, Rob Schmidt, invited us to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) to watch the final Space Shuttle launch – STS-135/Atlantis. It was a memorable trip not only because we observed the launch from a designated close up location Rob arranged for us, but because one of his other guests was Steven. Over the years, I have kept the NYPD patch and courtesy card he gave me above my car visor as a reminder of that excursion, and the friends we made that day. He was a gracious and personable top cop, who devoted his 39-year NYPD career to his officers — to the job.

Last Wednesday, Steven was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He had just filed papers for his mandatory retirement in July. He had no spouse or children, and as one detective said, “He lived for the NYPD.” The president of the NYPD Detectives Endowment, Michael Palladino, added, “He had such enthusiasm for the job and for life itself which makes this difficult to understand. He was one of the nicest human beings I ever met.” NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill said, “Deputy Chief Steven Silks truly was one of the most capable and most dependable cops this profession has ever seen. His entire 39-year NYPD career — much of his adult life, in fact — was devoted to NYC, its police officers, and to fighting crime & protecting all the people we serve.”

I asked our mutual friend, Rob, a Navy veteran and former head of law enforcement for NASA at KSC, to offer a few words about Steven.

From Rob:

“I met Steven Silks in 2008. In my capacity as the KSC Law Enforcement Program Manager, I was also in charge of the overall security operations for space shuttle launches. In that job, I received a lot of phone calls from cops in other agencies who were interested in watching a shuttle launch. I did not know Steven, but given his position with what is arguably one of the world’s finest police departments, I agreed to let him attend a space shuttle launch as my personal guest. During my 12 years at NASA, no other person ever managed to convince me to let them attend a launch as my guest in that manner. But Steven was just that nice.

"In fact, after the first launch day he attended, I invited him back for an all-day, behind-the-scenes tour of every vital area of KSC, including all of the most historic sites. As a space program enthusiast, he loved it. In the years that followed, we became good friends. When I spoke with Steven last week, he was upbeat, positive, and energetic.

"I first became a federal agent in 1982 and retired in 2015. During that time, I knew hundreds of great cops. I’ve never known anyone who lived and breathed the job like Steven. He was truly a ‘cop’s cop.’ Steven loved serving and protecting the public; a more dedicated, loyal enforcement officer you’ll never find. I don’t know why Steven made the choice to end his life as he did, but I do know that this world is diminished by the loss of warriors like him. Steven, we’ll miss you, brother.”

According to Blue Help, 167 police officers took their own lives in 2018. Steven was 62, a month from his 63rd birthday and retirement.  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63549?mailing_id=4323&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4323&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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