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Nasty Secret In Foreign Aid Bill

Restricted Republic’s Justus Knight reports that “there’s a nasty little secret” in theĀ  recently-passed Ukraine-Israel foreign aid bill that will make the situation we are watching unfold across our nation a whole lot worse.

Knight says that not only did the diabolical $3.5 billion aid package do nothing to secure our border, it included provisions to super-charge migration from the Middle East. He says the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are already setting up international offices in several Middle Eastern countries to increase the capacity of refugee processing. Here’s more.

Artists Join Turkish Protests

Members of Turkey’s State Opera and Ballet hold a dance protest in Ankara in solidarity with demonstrators occupying Gezi Park in Istanbul. One protestor explained that dancing on stage was the only way they could express themselves, saying: “The ground is our stage, and it is the only place that we can express ourselves.”

Music also factors heavily in “Everyday I’m Capuling,” a video produced by the protesters to express their cause. “Capuling” is a Turkish term meaning to pillage or plunder. Protesters adopted the term after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan referred to them as “looters.”

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