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Trump To Order Corporate Tax Rate Cut To 15%, Loading Up To $2 TRILLION In Extra Debt

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– Trump To Order Corporate Tax Rate Cut To 15%, Loading Up To $2 Trillion In Extra Debt:

Ahead of Trump’s much anticipated tax announcement on Wednesday, the WSJ reports that the president has ordered his (mostly ex-Goldman) White House aides to accelerate efforts to create a tax plan “slashing the corporate rate to 15% and prioritizing cuts in tax rates over an attempt to not increase the deficit” which means that without an offsetting source of revenue, Trump is about to unleash the debt spigots, a proposal which will face fierce pushback from conservatives as it is nothing more than a continuation of the status quo under the Obama administration, and may well be DOA.

The WSJ adds that during an Oval Office meeting last week, “Trump told staff he wants a massive tax cut to sell to the American people” and that it was “less important to him if the plan loses revenue.”

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US Sanctions 271 Syrians, Freezes Their US Assets

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– US Sanctions 271 Syrians, Freezes Their US Assets:

Two weeks after launching missile strikes on Syria, the U.S. Treasury announced it has sanctioned 271 employees of Syria’s Scientific Studies and Research Center in response to the alleged sarin attack conducted by the Assad regime on Kahn Sheikhoun. It’s one of the largest sanction actions in U.S. history.

The action was announced in a statement by the Treasury Department, and Treasury Security Steve Mnuchin simultaneously briefed reporters at the White House.

The action – which takes place in lieu of a probe demanded by Russia and Syria to determine if Assad was indeed responsible for the recent sarin attack – freezes the individuals’ U.S. assets – which we doubt exist – and generally prohibits U.S. persons from dealing with them.

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Trump: If The DOJ Wants To Arrest Assange, “It’s OK With Me” – Trump In Oct. 2016: “I Love Wikileaks”

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“if Jeff Sessions wants to do it, it’s OK with me. I didn’t know about that decision, but if they want to do it, it’s OK with me.”

– Trump: If The DOJ Wants To Arrest Assange, “It’s OK With Me”:

Having selected several key excerpts from Donald Trump’s lengthy AP interview earlier, we urge readers looking for fascinating yet surreal bedtime reading to give the full, nearly 8,000 word transcript a try, as it contains bizarro excerpts such as this:

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An “Increasingly Worried” Chinese President Tells Trump To “Exercise Restraint” Over N.Korea

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– An “Increasingly Worried” Chinese President Tells Trump To “Exercise Restraint” Over N.Korea:

China “hopes that all relevant sides exercise restraint, and avoid doing anything to worsen the tense situation on the peninsula”, Xi told Trump. As Reuters notes, China is increasingly worried the situation could spin out of control, leading to war and a chaotic collapse of its isolated, impoverished neighbor.

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Ron Paul: Candidate Trump: ‘I Love Wikileaks.’ President Trump: ‘Arrest Assange!’

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– Candidate Trump: ‘I Love Wikileaks.’ President Trump: ‘Arrest Assange!’

“I love Wikileaks,” candidate Donald Trump said on October 10th on the campaign trail. He praised the organization for reporting on the darker side of the Hillary Clinton campaign. It was information likely leaked by a whistleblower from within the Clinton campaign to Wikileaks.

Back then he praised Wikileaks for promoting transparency, but candidate Trump looks less like President Trump every day. The candidate praised whistleblowers and Wikileaks often on the campaign trail. In fact, candidate Trump loved Wikileaks so much he mentioned the organization more than 140 times in the final month of the campaign alone! Now, as President, it seems Trump wants Wikileaks founder Julian Assange sent to prison.

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Fox News Anchor Heather Nauert Named State Department Spokeswoman

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– Fox News Anchor Heather Nauert Named State Department Spokeswoman:

Confirming a Bloomberg report from early March, on Monday the State Derpatment issued a statement that Former Fox News anchor and correspondent Heather Nauert will be the new U.S. State Department spokeswoman.

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The Simple Reason Why a Second American Civil War May Be Inevitable

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Irlmaier predicted that the US will get the greatest revolution of all time …

“A Staat im West’n kriagt de größte Revolution von alle Zeit’n.”

If you have read his predictions, the only logical conclusion is that he has meant the US.

– The Prophecies Of Alois Irlmaier – The Roadmap To WW3 – The 3 Days Of Darkness (Worse Than WW3)

An enormous amount of people will die …

I try to help you to prepare for what is (probably) coming.

Please support my work, so that I can better prepare myself, because when the SHTF it is probably too late to do so.

– The Simple Reason Why a Second American Civil War May Be Inevitable:

America has always had its divisions, and Americans have never really been a monolith. We’ve always been a nation of many nations. The culture of New England is different from the culture of the Deep South, which is different from the cultures in the West Coast or the Midwest. People living in the cities have different beliefs than people who live in the countryside. Within those areas, there are ethnic, linguistic, and religious enclaves. It’s always kind of been like that (probably to a lesser degree in the past), and somehow we’ve been able to find enough common ground to keep this country together for more than a century.

However, something has changed. You can feel it in the air. Our nation has clearly never been this divided since the Civil War. A lot of people noticed it after the last election, but the truth is that these divisions have been deepening for decades, and they’re just now reaching a very noticeable breaking point. That’s obvious enough when you look at how the left and the right have been going at each other. It used to be a war of words, but it’s turning into something very dark.

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Chinese State Media: “Will Not Allow” #USA to Attack #DPRK, “Will Not Let” DPRK be Overthrown, Paid for With Blood

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https://twitter.com/DefconNavarro/status/855681677812797440

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Strategic messaging’ – Russia flies bombers along US coast 4 times in 4 days

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– Strategic messaging’ – Russia flies bombers along US coast 4 times in 4 days:

Russian military aircraft were spotted flying off the coast of Alaska for the fourth time in as many days.

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H/t reader squodgy.

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Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: President Trump’s Disappearance

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– President Trump’s Disappearance:

By Paul Craig Roberts

In my long experience in Washington, vice presidents did not make major foreign policy announcements or threaten other countries with war. Not even Dick Cheney stole this role from the weak president George W. Bush.

But yesterday the world witnessed VP Pence threaten North Korea with war. “The sword stands ready,” said Pence as if he is the commander in chief.

Perhaps he is.

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Did Russia Shoot Down US Missiles In Syria

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– Did Russia Shoot Down US Missiles In Syria:

“The missing [missiles] were either brought down by S-300 battery or were taken over by Russian electronic jamming and were plunged into the sea,” explains Dr. Karasik. “Now, this alternative theory means that the US and Russia have already clashed if you will—technically—with the use of the TLAMs (Tomahawk missiles) and then being intercepted or taken over by Russian control.”…

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Operation Gotham Shield: U.S. Gov’t To “Simulate Nuke Blast Over Manhattan”

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I’ve included the prophecy of the “Waldviertler” (in German) down below.

– Operation Gotham Shield: U.S. Gov’t To “Simulate Nuke Blast Over Manhattan”:

Something has aroused the interests of the American people… perhaps one too many coincidentally ‘useful’ event means government facilitators have jumped the shark? (via Google Trends)

Which is perhaps why, after discovering Project Gotham Shield, SHTFplan.com’s Mac Slavo warns, a false flag watch is now active.

A general alert is out for something major in the near or immediate future. Hopefully, it is just another false alarm, instead of another false flag. Either way, danger is at hand.

Given all that is going on in the world, it is downright eerie to discover that the federal government is once again staging mock disasters that draw disturbing parallels with current world events.

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Trump Administration Begins Quiet Preparations For Government Shutdown

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– Trump Administration Begins Quiet Preparations For Government Shutdown:

Even as Donald Trump is desperate to show to the US population, and especially his voter base, some actual achievement before his first 100 days run out next weekend, prompting him to tell AP that he will unveil a “tremendous” tax ut plan next week (recall he did the same in February), the Trump administration is quietly preparing for the possibility of a government shutdown, even though the president and his staff believe one is unlikely to occur.

With the Senate reconvening on Monday and the House of Representatives on Tuesday after a two-week recess, lawmakers will have only four days to pass a spending package to keep the government open beyond April 28, when funding expires for numerous federal programs. “I think we want to keep the government open,” Trump said on Thursday, adding he thinks Congress can pass the funding legislation and perhaps also a revamped healthcare bill.

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Tillerson: ‘Iran’s Provocative Actions Threaten the United States’

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– Tillerson: ‘Iran’s Provocative Actions Threaten the United States’:

It’s all coming together now. All inside Trump’s 1st 100 days in office, we can clearly see where his administration is heading toward — all out war. It’s fun and games now, up until when the draft is reinstated and your ANTIFA fighting skills are put to the test inside of Tehran.

Incredulously, our Sec. of State, Rex Tillerson, just did a presser, announcing the Trump administration was doing a ‘comprehensive review’ on Iran, followed by a lot of saber rattling.

“The Trump administration is currently conducting across the entire government a review of our Iran policy … an unchecked Iran has the potential to follow the same path as North Korea and take the world along with it. The United States is keen to avoid a second piece of evidence that strategic patience is a failed approach.”

The entire speech was filled with ridiculous anecdotal evidence, ‘proving’ how evil Iran was — such as a photograph of a bomb scrawled with ‘Death to Israel’ on it. Clearly, that sort of graffiti and hate speech is unacceptable. We ought to go with war with them now.

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What Trump Tax Plan? Key Senate Panel Has Not Even Seen It

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– What Trump Tax Plan? Key Senate Panel Has Not Even Seen It:

Summarizing the day’s volatile events: no Obamacare repeal still, but vocal promises of “massive” tax cuts contained in a plan that nobody has seen? Our forecast of the most likely outcome: a government shutdown.

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U.S. Preparing Charges To Arrest Julian Assange – Unnamed Sources Tell CNN Fake News: U.S. Officials Preparing Charges Against Julian Assange

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Related info:

– Unnamed Sources Tell CNN Fake News: U.S. Officials Preparing Charges Against Julian Assange

– U.S. Preparing Charges To Arrest Julian Assange:

In a stunning new report, CNN has just revealed, according to anonymous sources at least, that US authorities have prepared charges and will seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for intelligence leaks dating all the way back to 2010.

US authorities have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, US officials familiar with the matter tell CNN.

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North Korea Threatens US With “Super-Mighty Preemptive Strike”

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– North Korea Threatens US With “Super-Mighty Preemptive Strike”:

Whether China is right about North Korea conducting a nuclear test on April 25 remains to be seen, but for now Kim Jong-Un is content with merely escalating the verbal warfare and overnight North Korean state media warned the United States of a “super-mighty preemptive strike” following the latest round of comments by Rex Tillerson who said the United States was looking at ways to bring pressure to bear on North Korea over its nuclear programme.

The Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party, did not mince its words: “In the case of our super-mighty preemptive strike being launched, it will completely and immediately wipe out not only U.S. imperialists’ invasion forces in South Korea and its surrounding areas but the U.S. mainland and reduce them to ashes” it said according to Reuters.

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Stephen Lendman: Trump’s Deep Swamp

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– Trump’s Deep Swamp:

By Stephen Lendman

April 19, 2017 “Information Clearing House” –   The only positive news about his first three months in office is things would have been worse under Hillary – both choices deplorable, polar opposite what’s vitally needed.

Trump’s swamp is more infested than earlier ones under his predecessors – filled with reckless warmakers, crooked billionaires, Wall Street predators, corporate scoundrels making administration policy decisions, and over 200 corporate bosses meeting with him face-to-face at the White House alone.

His agenda aims to make America greater than ever for its wealthy, powerful and privileged – ordinary people fed lip service only, meaningless promises, ignored as soon as made.

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FBI Admits It Was Not The Russians – Launches Manhunt For “Insider” Who Leaked CIA Docs To WikiLeaks

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– FBI Admits It Was Not The Russians – Launches Manhunt For “Insider” Who Leaked CIA Docs To WikiLeaks:

Having exclaimed that WikiLeaks is “a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia,” laying the blame for every embarrassing leak at Moscow’s footsteps, the FBI and CIA have admitted that they are searching for an “insider” (not a Russian) who exposed thousands of top-secret documents that described CIA tools used to penetrate smartphones, smart televisions and computer systems.

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Pesticide maker tries to kill risk study

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– Pesticide maker tries to kill risk study:

Dow Chemical is pushing a Trump administration open to scrapping regulations to ignore the findings of federal scientists who point to a family of widely used pesticides as harmful to about 1,800 critically threatened or endangered species.

Lawyers representing Dow, whose CEO is a close adviser to Trump, and two other manufacturers of organophosphates sent letters last week to the heads of three of Trump’s Cabinet agencies. The companies asked them “to set aside” the results of government studies the companies contend are fundamentally flawed.

Dow Chemical wrote a $1 million check to help underwrite Trump’s inaugural festivities, and its chairman and CEO, Andrew Liveris, heads a White House manufacturing working group.

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