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SECRECY NEWS From the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2018, Issue No. 49 July 30, 2018 Secrecy News Blog:   https://fas.org/blogs/ secrecy/ **     US SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA, AND MORE FROM CRS **     BANG THE DRUM QUICKLY: ARMY PERCUSSION US SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA, AND MORE FROM CRS The United States has imposed sanctions on Russia in recent years "for aggression against Ukraine, election interference, malicious cyber activity, human rights violations, weapons proliferation," and other causes. The range of sanctions was surveyed in  a new Congressional Research Service publication . The sanctions include "blocking U.S.-based assets; prohibiting U.S. persons from engaging in transactions related to those assets; prohibiting certain, and in some cases all, U.S. transactions; and denying entry into the United States," as well as various export control restrictions. See  Overview of U.S. Sanctions Regimes on Russia ,  CRS In Focus , July 26, 2018.

Screaming 'Winged Being' Encountered in Southwest Ontario Posted: 30 Jul 2018 11:00 AM PDT I received the following email this morning (7/30/2018): Sir - I heard you on 'Paranormal Horizon' radio last night, and tried to call-in but the show was ending. You were talking about inter-dimensional creatures. I believe I saw something that may fit that bill. In July 2011 my wife and I were spending a weekend at a friend's cabin, about 15 kilometers north of Manitou Falls, Ontario, Canada. We were both sitting on the porch looking into the woods. There were two spotlights shining off the porch, so the woods and the open area in front of the cabin were well-lit. I had spent a lot of time in this general area as a boy, and I was aware of the wildlife that lived there. It was close to  midnight , as we sat and talked. It was a very mild still night, but for some reason the usual sounds of the woods were subdued. I wasn't alarmed, but it did seem strange.

. SECRECY NEWS From the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2018, Issue No. 47 July 24, 2018 Secrecy News Blog:   https://fas.org/blogs/ secrecy/ **     SECURITY CLEARANCES AND PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY **     FLYING CARS AND DRONES AND MORE FROM CRS SECURITY CLEARANCES AND PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY Revoking security clearances for access to classified information in order to punish critics, as the White House proposed to do yesterday, is probably within the President's authority. But it shouldn't be. And there is, in principle, a way to prevent it. "Not only is the President looking to take away [former CIA director John] Brennan's security clearance, he's also looking into the clearances of Comey, Clapper, Hayden, Rice, and McCabe,"  said White House press secretary Sarah Sanders . "The President is exploring the mechanisms to remove security clearance because they've politicized and, in some cases, monetized their public ser

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