Nancy Pelosi has fended off a challenge to her position of Minority Leader in the House of Representatives, winning 68% of the vote from her fellow representatives. However, this means that almost a third of the Democrats in the House were dissatisfied with her performance.
In other news, the Swedish government is evicting the disabled and people with dementia from group homes to free up space to house some of the thousands of migrants who have arrived in the country.
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9 Bloody Terror Attacks in U.S. In 18 Months Have 1 Thing in Common
“a globalist multiculturalist agenda that involves bringing large numbers of Muslims into the country [and] connecting the dots would wake too many people up to what is happening”
When Abdul Ali Artan tried to run over a crowd of helpless students at Ohio State University, then got out of his car and slashed as many as he could with a butcher knife, media titans CNN, CBS and NBC treated it as an isolated incident.
Law enforcement, from the local level on up to the FBI, said they did not know what could have motivated the young Muslim student to act in such a premeditated, violent way against his fellow students on a chilly Tuesday morning in Columbus.
Artan, an 18-year-old freshman at OSU, had immigrated from his native Somalia through Pakistan, arriving in Columbus at the invitation of the U.S. government, which considered him a “refugee.”
But the media failed to connect any of the dots with a host of similar attacks on U.S. soil, let alone the even larger number of strikingly similar attacks in Europe committed by migrants from Muslim countries in the Middle East and Africa.
News outlets also failed to report that Columbus is America’s second-largest distribution point for Somali refugees after Minneapolis.
A simple perusal of some very recent history, roughly the previous 18 months, would have turned up the following incidents:…
Keeping Americans in the dark
“Law enforcement and the media want to keep Americans in the dark about this threat,” says Pamela Geller, president of the American Defense Initiative who blogs at the Geller Report and authored the book “Stop the Islamization of America.”
“Law enforcement claims it’s to protect Muslims from a ‘ backlash’that never materializes,” Geller told WND. “The media is committed to dissembling about this threat.”
Geller revealed in an article several years ago that the Society of Professional Journalists has guidelines telling journalists never to associate Muslims or Islam with terrorism.
“They’re willfully lying to the public,” she said.
“They seem to be committed to a globalist multiculturalist agenda that involves bringing large numbers of Muslims into the country,” she added. “ Connecting the dots would wake too many people up to what is happening.”
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A 1, 2, 3, Punch That Doomed America’s Constitutional Republic
According to historian William Leuchtenburg: “The Progressives believed in the Hamiltonian concept of positive government, of a national government directing the destinies of the nation at home and abroad. They had contempt for the strict construction of the Constitution by conservative judges, who would restrict the power of the national government to act against social evils and to extend the blessings of democracy to less favored lands. The [Progressive’s] real enemy was ‘particularism’, state rights and limited government.”
After over 100 years of Progressivism, they still have contempt for the strict construction of the Constitution and they hate conservative judges. Most of the movement’s goals have been realized, with the exception of eliminating waste, fraud, abuse and corruption in government and greater government efficiency. Thanks to Progressivism, we now have a very powerful, centralized, in-efficient, hopelessly in debt, corrupt federal government who directs every aspect of our lives on the guise of social and now environmental justice.
But like most movements, the original goals, once realized, were never enough. Progressives have built up enormous political power through the electorate and like all people with power, they want more. The way to get more power is to “buy off” more voters with social promises without regard to the financial consequences and demean and demonize those who oppose them…
Private bankers staff the Federal Reserve. They owe no concrete allegiance to the federal government, with the exception that the President gets to appoint the seven members of the Board of Governors for 14 years. The Board of Governors, unilaterally, determines Federal Reserve Policy without Congressional oversight, or audit. They can print money and then loan it to the federal government at interest. To make sure that those massive loans were collateralized, the 16th Amendment indentured the people of America, whose lifetime incomes became that collateral through the graduated income tax, enforced by the Gestapo-like Internal Revenue Service and its code of 74,000 pages of regulations. Once again, liberty was diminished by the Progressives.
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Carrier Strikes Deal With Trump to Keep Nearly 1,000 Jobs in Indiana
I heard Donald Trump talk about the Carrier plant in Indiana in person, twice.
He used the story of them moving jobs out of America as an illustation of how unfettered globalism is killing the American middle class. He said when he became president, things like this would change. The media, including many talking heads on the right, ridiculed him and said he a president could do nothing to stop this sort of thing. Just who the hell did Trump think he was? He’s full of s**t, was their general reaction.
Well, it turns out they were wrong…again:
President-elect Donald Trump and Carrier have reached a deal that will keep nearly 1,000 factory jobs in Indiana, the company said on Tuesday.
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Facebook Employees Are Quitting Because of Users Being Censored
Facebook developed tool to censor users for Chinese government
The war on “fake news” embarked upon by Facebook, Google, and Twitter may be earning the media goliaths brownie points with establishment politicos, but users — and even employees — aren’t feeling as enthusiastic.
In the midst of backlash over the stunning victory of President-elect Donald Trump, which some people attribute to the preponderance of apocryphal headlines disseminated by Internet search engines and social media platforms, the companies are tweaking their algorithms in order to target specifically blacklisted sites, many of which happen to be alternative media sites that question the political and media establishment. Many of the sites are also financially dependent on ad revenue earned by organic and referral traffic directed by Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
Now, it appears Facebook’s new algorithmic censorship practices are causing some of its employees to quit. According to the New York Times, three current and former anonymous employees claim the company has had a new tool developed specifically to restrict certain kinds of posts from appearing in users’ news feeds in certain geographic areas.
[Comment: Banksters seek to prevent the dissemination of truth.]
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FBI Still Hasn’t Turned Over Huma Abedin Emails
The FBI still hasn’t turned over to the State Department any of the messages it reportedly obtained from the computer shared by top Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her now-estranged husband Anthony Weiner, the administration told a federal judge Tuesday.
FBI officials have signaled they will eventually turn over any State Department documents they obtain, lawyers said — but there is no time frame for doing so.
“We haven’t recovered anything from the FBI,” said Lisa A. Olson, the Justice Department lawyer handling the case.
The urgency of the case has declined after the election, which saw Ms. Abedin’s boss, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, suffer a shocking defeat…
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Former Senior Rothschild Crony Selected as Commerce Secretary
Trump’s commerce secretary will be Wilbur Ross, a billionaire investor who worked as senior managing director of Rothschild Inc.
CNN:
The Cabinet-level position, which requires Senate confirmation, serves as the government’s chief business advocate. The Commerce secretary is a liaison between companies and the White House. Ross could play a key role in what are expected to be Trump’s signature economic policy issues like trade and jobs.
Increasingly, it looks the Trump signature will be shaped and driven by banksters and guys like Ross who specialize in leveraged and distressed buyouts, making a killing off the Federal Reserve asset rollercoaster.
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Media Characterizes Mean Tweets as More Dangerous Than Islamic Terror After Ohio Attack
“Snide comments” more worrying than jihadist knife rampages
NPR gave a platform to a Somali student who characterized mean tweets as a bigger threat than Islamic terrorism after the knife rampage at Ohio State University yesterday.
Somali “refugee” Abdul Razak Ali Artan rammed a vehicle into students before wildly slashing at them with a knife until he was shot dead by a brave police officer.
However, for Ohio State University senior Mohamed Farah, the most worrying thing was not the unhinged act of violence itself, but the potential for unpleasant comments to be directed towards the Somali community in its aftermath…
NPR giving a platform to a Somali student so he can play the victim card and waffle on about mean tweets and Islamophobia after a Somali terrorist has just slashed nine innocent people is bad enough.
But the article takes on a darker dimension when you realize that Artan himself complained about Islamophobia and alleged mistreatment of Muslims before he went on his ISIS-inspired knife rampage.
The best response to this narrative undoubtedly comes from cartoonist Bosch Fawstin, the winner of the “draw Muhammad” cartoon contest in Garland, Texas that was attacked by Islamic terrorists.
“Muslims: the reason you’re Not getting the “backlash” you keep preemptively bitching about after Islamic attacks is b/c we’re not like you,” he tweeted.
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Navy Vet’s Home Vandalized, Torched by Anti-Trump Extremists
Word “cracker” spray painted on house in yet another hate crime attack.
A Navy veteran with two young children had his home vandalized with anti-Trump graffiti and racial slurs both inside and out before it was set on fire in yet another shocking example of the anti-Trump hate crime wave sweeping America.
[Comment: Not just anti-Trump — backers are trying to morph anti-Trump into “all-whites-are-racist” thug groups. Banksters are ramping up their goal of triggering a racial war in the US. Their front man Soros is only too eager to provide the funds to BLM and other “human rights” groups — aka communist front groups.]
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Armed with a pen and an army of regulators “to harass our people & eat out their substance”, Obama is trying to make a last ditch effort to push through “midnight” regulations that will burden us with billions of dollars while the mainstream media says Trump can’t get rid of them.
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OSU Diversity Officer Urges Sympathy for Somali Refugee Terrorist
His big grief was a complaint about “Muslims being tortured, raped and killed in Burma.”
Won’t somebody think of the terrorist’s feelings?!
– From PJ Media:
The Ohio State University assistant director of residence life allegedly expressed sympathy for Somali stabber Abdul Razak Ali Artan in a bizarre Facebook post Monday that has since gone viral.
Stephanie Clemons Thompson urged her followers to have compassion for Artan after he expressed a desire “to kill a billion infidels” and then tried to kill as many as he could at OSU. She also urged people to “think of the pain he must have been in,” and used the hashtags #BlackLivesMatter and #SayHisName (which BLM uses to denote victims of police brutality).
Here’s her hilarious post:…
His name was Abdul Razak Ali Artan. He and his family had their entire lives paid for by US taxpayers. He repaid us by trying to kill as many random “infidels” at Ohio State University as he could while hailing terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki as a “hero.”
The rant he posted on Facebook attempting to justify his terror attack was incoherent garbage.
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Pelosi Fends Off Challenge to Leadership
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday fended off a challenge to her long leadership reign, defeating Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) in a closed-door vote prompted largely by Donald Trump’s unlikely ascension to the White House.
Pelosi got 134 votes to Ryan’s 63 — winning 68 percent of the votes after declaring before the election that she had the support of two-thirds of the caucus. The victory sends a message that while there’s a growing appetite for major changes in the party’s leadership structure and messaging tactics, it’s not strong enough to loosen Pelosi’s grip on a liberal-heavy group that’s rarely challenged her authority.
Ryan and his supporters had argued that the Democrats’ grim performance in this year’s elections — the latest in a string of cycles planting Republicans firmly in the majority — was a clear signal that Pelosi’s leadership strategy has failed to attract the broad coalition of voters required to return the Speaker’s gavel to the Democrats’ hands…
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Pizzagate : The Rest of the Story
More information on the latest Washington pedophile rumors
Why does pizzagate matter? Key elements include the ownership of Besta Pizza, located two doors down from Comet Ping Pong Pizza. Besta pizza is owned by Andrew Kline a lawyer with the doj’s Human trafficking unit. This symbol, which has since been removed, is the exact symbol representing boylove that the FBI flagged in their investigation of public displays of pedophilia code. It’s pretty simple, one of the leading prosecutors dealing exclusively with child trafficking decided to overtly display it on the menu of a business he owns. Coincidence? A case of bad luck regarding artistic license? Or is the red fox running the hen house?
Another key element… Just three doors down from Besta Pizza is the Politics and Prose bookstore where many prominent politicians, including Barack Obama have spoken. The bookstore is owned by Washington Post journalist Bradley Graham and his wife Lisa Muscatine. Muscatine served as chief speechwriter and top advisor to Hillary Clinton. Directly across the street from Prose and Poetry is the Clinton Foundation’s Beyond Borders office. Beyond Borders claims it is fighting to end child slavery in Haiti. This after angry Haitians have demanded the billions of aid the Clinton Foundation stole from them.
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Secret Service Officer Drops Bombshell in ‘Murdered Mom’ Case
WASHINGTON — It’s one thing for a Secret Service officer to anonymously tell the media his agency is engaged in a cover-up over a deadly shooting.
It’s quite another to go on the record publicly, allow his name to be used, and to say his some of his colleagues should be prosecuted for the killing of an unarmed woman.
Muhammad Abdul Raheem, an officer in the Uniformed Division of the U.S. Secret Service for 11 years, decided to go public and reveal his identity because he felt the killing of Miriam Carey by federal officers on Oct. 3, 2013 was unjust.
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State Goes Red for First Time Since 1988
President-elect Donald Trump has won Michigan’s 16 electoral votes.
The Board of State Canvassers certified Trump’s 10,704-vote victory on Monday, nearly three weeks after the election. The two-tenths of a percentage point margin out of nearly 4.8 million votes is the closest presidential race in Michigan in more than 75 years.
Trump’s win in Michigan gives the Republican 306 electoral votes to Democrat Hillary Clinton’s 232. Trump is the first Republican presidential nominee to win Michigan since 1988.
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The Moral Sickness of the Left
This sickness in the media is matched by the reaction of leading “progressive” organizations to Castro’s death
Donald J. Trump is labeled by CNN as a liar on a regular basis, while the dead communist tyrant Fidel Castro is lauded as a revolutionary hero. American reporters are in Havana, Cuba to film people crying on their way to honor a dictator who had recommended that the Soviets launch a nuclear attack on the United States.
Our media never fail to demonstrate that there is no limit to how low they can sink. The sickness in the media is only matched by the pro-Castro sentiments in people like Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate working with Hillary Clinton to overturn the results of the 2016 presidential election. Stein remarked, “Fidel Castro was a symbol of the struggle for justice in the shadow of empire. Presente!”
Virtually all day long on Monday, CNN was broadcasting the “news” that Trump had “falsely” claimed that millions had voted illegally in the 2016 presidential election. CNN had not bothered to provide to its viewers the 45 pages of documentation of Trump’s claim from the Trump transition office. Instead, CNN simply dismissed it out of hand.
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Trump’s Potential Treasury Secretary Pick Wants to Abolish the Fed
President elect leaning towards ex-banking CEO who wants to dismantle the Federal Reserve
Infowars reporter Joe Biggs breaks down the new possible pick Trump has for his Treasury secretary and how he wants to abolish the Federal Reserve.
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Trump Shocker! Who is Elaine Chao?
WASHINGTON — Elaine Chao is not exactly the kind of Cabinet pick you would expect from outsider Donald Trump.
The Bush administration retread has deep ties to the anti-coal Bloomberg Foundation, is married to big-time Trans-Pacific Partnership supporter and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and has deep business and political links to China.
And that’s just the beginning of her resume.
As WND reported, when President George W. Bush nominated her to be his labor secretary, Chinese dissidents like Hongda “Harry” Wu were shocked.
“I worry about Elaine Chao’s business relationship with communist China,” he said in 2001. “This woman has a significant shipping business through her father.”
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Trump Nominees Map Out Plans for Tax Cuts, Trade and Carrier-Style Negotiations
President-elect Donald Trump’s nascent administration on Wednesday began outlining the contours of its strategy for jump-starting the nation’s economy, including how it would overhaul the tax code, rethink trade agreements and directly negotiate with major corporations.
Treasury secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin rejected claims that Trump’s tax program would benefit mainly the wealthy, instead highlighting plans for a child-care tax credit and a middle-class tax cut.
“There will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class,” he said on CNBC. “There will be a big tax cut for the middle class.”
Trump’s strategy secured an early victory this week when the president-elect persuaded air-conditioning manufacturer Carrier not to move up to 1,000 jobs from Indiana to Mexico. The negotiation was an unusual move for a modern president, but Mnuchin suggested such direct intervention would be an important tool under the new administration.
“It starts with an attitude of this administration,” Mnuchin said Wednesday on CNBC. “This president, this vice president-elect is going to have open communications with business leaders.”
Mnuchin and Trump’s pick for commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, also called for moving away from the broad multinational free trade agreements that have shaped the global economy over the past generation in favor of bilateral deals. But they stopped short of embracing the president-elect’s most heated election rhetoric, calling for double-digit tariffs on imports from China and Mexico…
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White House Warns Against Blaming Religion of Islam After Ohio State Attack
“Our response to this situation matters.”
The Obama administration is warning Americans not to cast blame on Muslims after a student at Ohio State University launched an attack on innocent civilians that was likely inspired by Islamic State terrorists.
“Our response to this situation matters,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest explained to reporters during the press briefing. “If we respond to this situation by casting aspersions on millions of people that adhere to a particular religion or if we increase our suspicion of people who practice a particular religion, we are more likely going to contribute to acts of violence than we are to prevent them.”
Earnest said that although there was evidence that the attacker might have been inspired by extremism, his motives were still under investigation.
[Comment: ostrich sticks head in sand.]
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Why Democrats Don’t Want to Make America Great Again
It is not Marxism, liberalism, progressivism or democratic socialism that made America great in the first place. It was free market capitalism, personal freedom, individual liberty, the sacrifices of the millions in pursuit of their own happiness under their own steam, by the sweat of their own brow, that once made America the greatest nation ever known to mankind. It was a Republican form of government that allowed the people to flourish and prosper, and grow a great society of free people.
Unfortunately, Marxist progressives have wormed their way into academia, pseudoscience, governmental bodies and the courts. As a result, we have college students hating Donald Trump and loving the likes of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Karl Marx — Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein and Hillary Clinton.
In the book TRUMPED: The New American Revolution released in May 2016, we lay out who the real enemies of freedom and liberty are, their written game plan for destroying our Constitutional Republic step-by-step, their war tactics for accomplishing that goal and what the American people were poised to do about it in the 2016 election, which has since happened with the election of Trump-Pence.
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Why the Democrats Can’t Stop Calling the GOP Racists
Democrats don’t debate Trump on the issues, because their agenda is a turn-off. Under the leadership of Alinskyite Barack Obama, the Democratic Party has degenerated from liberalism to progressivism. It has not been pretty. A focus on preferential treatment for blacks has given way to a war on cops. Caring about Hispanic Americans suddenly means America shouldn’t have borders and should have sanctuary for rapists and killers — as long as they are here illegally.
Browbeating college kids by empowerring feminists and black activists with Title IX money has turned college campuses against freedom of thought and speech. Women’s issues have bizarrely turned into a war on masculinity. Gay rights has morphed into men in women’s bathrooms. Pro-choice turned into third-trimester infanticide and lawsuits against the Little Sisters of the Poor. Physical violence against Republicans is encouraged by President Obama and Clinton under the euphemism ‘protest.’
Democrat progressive politics is weird and ugly and dangerous, and people across the country have recoiled from it. As Marc Thiessen says with his usual eloquence, “You can drive some 3,000 miles across the entire continental United States — from sea to shining sea — without driving through a single county that voted for Hillary Clinton.”…
In the immediate future, not insignificantly, there is a lot of radical leftist and racialist dirt about to be uncovered by Jeff Sessions at Obama’s DOJ, including the funneling of half a billion dollars to left-wing activist groups. That’s one reason Obama is leading the Democrats in a mad rush to delegitimize the new AG Jeff Sessions as a Klan supporter.
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Wisconsin Judge Refuses to Order Hand Recount
The state Elections Commission has ordered the recount to begin Thursday but rejected Stein’s request that county clerks conduct the recount entirely by hand
A Wisconsin judge has refused to order local officials to conduct the state’s presidential recount by hand.
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein requested the recount last week. She alleged — without evidence — that the state’s voting equipment may have been hacked.
The state Elections Commission has ordered the recount to begin Thursday but rejected Stein’s request that county clerks conduct the recount entirely by hand. Stein filed a lawsuit seeking an order for a statewide hand recount.
Stein’s attorneys argued during a hearing Tuesday evening that the best way to determine if a cyberattack occurred is to check ballots by hand against electronic tabulations from Election Day. State lawyers countered there’s no evidence to suggest any attack took place.
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Ontarians Will be Forced to Pay for Imaginary ‘Credits’ Just So the Government Can Feel Good
For a time it was fashionable to buy a star in the sky and name it after a love interest, a new baby or a recently deceased loved one. Could anything be more romantic or more sentimental?
It turns out that the companies that take money from consumers for “naming stars” are the only ones who actually recognize the name. The practice is considered by many to be a kind of scam that profits off of the idealism of consumers. Money for a star name is just money for nothing.
It’s a lesson that Ontario politicians should listen to.
Like buying a star, Ontarians will be buying “carbon credits” starting January 1st-financial product conjured out of thin air by the government. The unfortunate difference is that unlike a star name, we in Ontario are being forced to buy them.
The Ontario government’s cap and trade scheme will limit the emissions Ontario companies can produce, and they must purchase “carbon credits” to pay for any emissions above their government assigned limit. These “carbon credits” are financial products that are traded like other useful things on a government created “carbon market.” But unlike other commodities such as pork bellies, corn or west Texas crude oil, carbon credits do not actually exist. You cannot touch them. There is no underlying tangible asset. The value of the carbon credit comes from a fictional demand that the government created by forcing businesses to buy them.
[Comment: This will cost ontarians a lot. Ontario economy will tank even more. Expect the all businesses assicated with discretionary income spending to take a hit. Socialist Trudeau wants to do this for the entire country. ]
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Belgian Federal Police Chief Braces for New ISIS Terror Attacks
Updated |Catherine De Bolle is waiting, and she is worried. Even before U.S. warnings of a “heightened risk of terrorist attacks” in Europe during the holiday season, the head of Belgium’s Federal Police was bracing for a new wave of assaults in or around Brussels. The city’s immigrant Muslim neighborhoods were staging grounds for last November’s attacks in Paris, which killed 130 people and wounded nearly 500, as well as suicide bombings in March at Brussels Airport and a downtown metro station, which killed 32 and wounded 300 more.
[Comment: I apologize to linking to a fake news site: Newsweek, which published a “Madame President” issue right before the election.]
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A Dutch far-right party led by controversial anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders would win an election if it was held today, a poll has revealed.
The Party for Freedom would seize 33 seats in the Dutch parliament’s 150-seat lower chamber, based on data revealed by pollster Maurice de Hond.
It would make Geert Wilders’ party the largest group in parliament, pushing the Liberal Party of Prime Minister Mark Rutte into second place with just 25 seats — well down on the 41 it currently has.
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Gerexit: Poll Finds Nearly Half of Germans Want EU Refendum
NEARLY half of all Germans want to hold a referendum on their nations EU membership — with a survey suggesting almost two-thirds of Germans are unhappy and want change in the crumbling Brussels bloc.
A survey carried out by TNS Infratest Politikforschung found 42 per cent of Germans believe there should be a referendum on their EU membership and that 62 per cent of Germans think the EU is “heading in the wrong direction
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German Intel Officer Arrested Over ‘Islamist Plot’ To Bomb Agency Headquarters
Suspect aimed to recruit other Islamists to BfV to strike the “non-believers”
A German intelligence officer was recently arrested after being accused of preparing an “Islamist plot.”
The suspect, a 51-year-old employee of the BfV, or the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, allegedly planned to bomb his employer’s headquarters in Cologne.
According to The Telegraph, German media reports that the suspect made a “partial confession” after being taken into custody.
An intelligence official speaking with Der Spiegel also indicated that the suspect shared “sensitive information about the BfV (Germany’s domestic security agency), which could lead to a threat to the office.”
A BfV spokeswoman similarly told the AFP that the suspect, who had been tasked since April with monitoring Islamist groups in Germany, had made “Islamist remarks online under a false name” and had offered “internal information during chats.”
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How One French Town Shifted Unabashed to Marine Le Pen
A walk thorough the Paris satellite town of Mantes-la-Ville reveals why many disgruntled voters in France are willing to pin their hopes on Marine Le Pen in next year’s presidential election in France.
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Julian Assange Denies CIA Has ‘Taken Over WikiLeaks’ As His DNA Could Go to Sweden
The Wikileaks founder was forced to correct another conspiracy theory after it was previously falsely claimed he may have died or disappeared.
His denial came as it emerged he has given a DNA sample to British police which may now be sent to Sweden for to help with an investigation into claims he raped a woman there in 2010.
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Stockholm in Flames as Car Fire Epidemic Continues in ‘No-Go’ Zone
The Scandinavian country has been plagued with arsonist thugs setting vehicles alight, withhundreds of cars burning out since 2015.
In 2016 alone, more than 70 cars have been destroyed as police struggle to combat the increasing violence and criminal activity in the famously liberal country.
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Amazon has removed a third-party line of ‘door and dog mats’ featuring the Arabic word for God — Allah — after a complaint from Muslim users, including a British politician.
The mats — sold through Amazon by a number of independent users including ‘Dargon One’, ‘Trendy Mats’ and ‘Gear One’ — had been garnering complaints from Muslims since June, according to RT.
But it was only when Mariam Khan — a Councillor in the English city of Birmingham — complained on Twitter Monday that the site took the items off the market.
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Wales: University Pledges End to Bans and Censorship on Campus , Supports Free Speech
A university has pledged to end its culture of censorship and no-platforming, and has instead pledged to defend free speech.
Cardiff University in Wales has said it will no longer ban events by controversial speakers, declaring “censorship is not the answer.”
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Was Brussels Terror Suspect Radicalized in Sweden?
A former Stockholm resident suspected of involvement in the recent terror attacks in Paris and Brussels also had links with an extreme Islamist network in the Scandinavian country, SVT’s Uppdrag granskning program reports.
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Over 500 East Aleppo Militants Surrender Arms to Syrian Security Forces
The momentum has shifted in Aleppo this week as the Syrian Army begin to advance, steadily driving out Western and Gulf-backed terrorist fighters under the command of Al Nusra Front — from their occupied enclaves in Eastern Aleppo. 21WIRE will post continuous ALEPPO UPDATES as we receive information…
Video and ground reports courtesy of RT…
The Russian criticism comes as the Russian-run Syria Reconciliation Center reported that over 500 fighters in Aleppo chose to surrender to the advancing Syrian Army.
“Over the past 24 hours, 507 fighters chose to leave the city districts that remain under terrorist control to the safe areas and surrender their weapons. In accordance with the Syrian president’s offer, 484 militants, who are local residents, have been immediately pardoned,”the report said.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has just announced that the only reason Turkish military forces have entered northern Syria is to “end the rule of the tyrant al-Assad”. By publicly proclaiming that Turkey intends to use military force to overthrow the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Erdogan has essentially declared war on the Syrian government. Of course this puts a member of NATO in direct military conflict with Russia, since Russia is working very hard to prop up the Assad regime. If all-out war breaks out between Turkey and Russia, could that be the spark that causes World War 3 to erupt in the Middle East? And once Turkey and Russia start fighting, would the United States and the rest of NATO be dragged into the conflict?
The big mainstream news networks in the western world are almost completely ignoring what Erdogan said on Tuesday, but without a doubt this is major news. The following comes from a Turkish news source…
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Here in the United States, tens of millions of Americans are hailing a new era of “peace and prosperity” now that Donald Trump has won the election, but the truth is that one false move in Syria could easily raise tensions between the United States and Russia to the highest level that we have seen since the Cuban missile crisis back in the 1960s.
If Erdogan would have just stayed out of Syria we wouldn’t be in such a precarious situation. Unfortunately, the president of Turkey is a narcissistic lunatic, and he dreams of a day when the old Ottoman Empire will once again be restored.
[Comment: Boot Turkey out of NATO and watch Turkey back down.]
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When You See This, You’re in Muslim Territory
Bill Federer remembers biting, brutal observations of Mark Twain
In “Innocents Abroad,” 1869, which established his reputation as a writer, Mark Twain described Syria under the Ottoman Turkish Empire: “Then we called at the tomb of Mahomet’s children and at … the mausoleum of the five thousand Christians who were massacred in Damascus in 1861 by the Turks. They say those narrow streets ran blood for several days, and that men, women and children were butchered indiscriminately and left to rot by hundreds all through the Christian quarter; they say, further, that the stench was dreadful. All the Christians who could get away fled from the city, and the Mohammedans would not defile their hands by burying the ‘ infidel dogs.’the thirst for blood extended to the high lands of Hermon and Anti-Lebanon, and in a short time twenty-five thousand more Christians were massacred and their possessions laid waste. … “
Mark Twain added: “How they hate a Christian in Damascus! — and pretty much all over Turkeydom as well. And how they will pay for it when Russia turns her guns upon them again! It is soothing to the heart to abuse England and France for interposing to save the Ottoman Empire from the destruction it has so richly deserved for a thousand years. … “
Mark Twain continued: “It hurts my vanity to see these pagans refuse to eat of food that has been cooked for us; or to eat from a dish we have eaten from; or to drink from a goatskin which we have polluted with our Christian lips, except by filtering the water through a rag which they put over the mouth of it or through a sponge! … These degraded Turks and Arabs. … When Russia is ready to war with them again, I hope England and France will not find it good breeding or good judgment to interfere. … “
Mark Twain wrote in “Innocents Abroad,” chapter XLII: “If ever an oppressed race existed, it is this one we see fettered around us under the inhuman tyranny of the Ottoman Empire. I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little — not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.”
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Pentagon Links Chinese Cyber Security Firm to Beijing Spy Service
Joint Staff warns of cyber espionage dangers
A Chinese cyber security firm is covertly working with Beijing’s Ministry of State Security intelligence service in conducting cyber espionage operations, according to Pentagon intelligence officials.
The company known as Boyusec, officially the Bo Yu Guangzhou Information Technology Co., is also working with China’s global telecommunications company Huawei Technologies, which has been identified by U.S. intelligence agencies as linked to the Chinese military.
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Philippine President Duterte’s Motorcade Attacked by Militants
Suspected ISIS jihadists bomb scout security team
Seven of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s bodyguards and two soldiers were injured in an attack by suspected Islamist militants ahead of his planned visit to the south of the country, AFP reported, citing the president and the Armed Forces.
“My advance party was ambushed a while ago. The Presidential Security Group was hit by an IED [improvised explosive device],” Duterte said.
According to the Philippine Defense Ministry’s spokesman, a bomb hit the soldiers’ convoy in the region where the Maute militant group that had pledged allegiance to Daesh operated.
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Phillippines’ Fight Against Muslim Insurgents is Hitting a New and Sticky Blockade
Philippine President Duterte campaigned on the idea he could solve one of his country’s stickiest, oldest and most violent political problems. He would make peace with two Muslim separatist groups on the giant southern island Mindanao but use force against a third that’s usually seen as a pack of bandits without political cause. Now, after five months in office, the ever enigmatic Duterte says he wants to negotiate with that bandit group, Abu Sayyaf. Abu Sayyaf has pledged allegiance to ISIS and is known for kidnapping and beheading foreign tourists.
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Tech Blackout: Huge Solar Storm Which Could Wipe Out Modern Technology Expected by 2020
Satellite communication could be blocked due to solar storm
There is a one in eight chance that the Earth will be hit by a huge solar storm by 2020 which could potentially leave the world without Internet, phone service and many more services that modern-day humans rely on.
Researchers have warned that there is roughly a 12 per cent chance that a solar storm could smash into Earth by the end of the decade.
The powerful event would likely be as huge as the Carrington Event, which occurred on 1859.
The solar storm which hit 150 years ago was so powerful that its southern auroras could be seen as far north as Queensland in Australia.
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#Trudeaueulogy: Twitter Gets Last Laugh as Politicians Praise a Brutal Dictator
Establishment praises Fidel Castro after his death
Trump stood nearly alone in calling Fidel Castro what he was: “A brutal dictator.”
We look at the absurd praise from the political establishment and hilarious twitter responses showing you can find something to praise even Hilter, Stalin Suaron, President Snow, Darth Vader & Hannibal Lecter — if you mince your words carefully enough.
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Hungary PM Viktor Orban: Europe’s Fate is Decided at Bulgaria’s Southern Border
Budapest. “Europe’s fate is decided at the southern border of Bulgaria. Bulgarians strengthen Hungary’s security, they protects entire Europe.”
This is what Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said speaking at the ceremony at which Bulgarian outgoing Prime Minister Boyko Borisov was awarded with one of the highest Hungarian state orders during his one-day visit to Budapest organised at the invitation of Mr Orban, FOCUS News Agency special envoy reported.
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Hungary Sentences Syrian Migrant to 10 Years in Jail for Border Riot
A Syrian-Cypriot man was jailed for 10 years on Wednesday for his part in a riot at Hungary’s border with Serbia border last year, when he hurled rocks at police in an attempt to force the border open, deemed an “act of terror” under Hungarian law.
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Merkel’s Trick: 1.8 Million in, 100,000 Out
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s new claim that she will deport “100,000 failed asylum seekers” is a trick made up to try and stifle opposition to her policies-because there are already 550,000 “rejected asylum seekers” in Germany, and in total over 1.8 million invaders have been let in over a two-year period.
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Migration Pressure Along Bulgaria’s Border 54% Lower: Official
Sofia. “Migration pressure along Bulgaria’s entire border has decreased by 54% compared with the previous year.”
This is what Senior Commissioner Svetlan Kichikov, Director of the General Directorate of Border Police, announced speaking at the annual meeting of the heads of border services — coastal guards of the Black Sea countries held in the coastal city of Burgas, Radio FOCUS reported.
He commented further that the Bulgarian-Turkish border was the riskiest section.
The commissioner also discussed the case of a border police officer, who assisted the illegal transportation of migrants, saying that inspections were underway.
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Sweden Evicts Disability, Dementia Groups to Make Way for Migrants
Sixteen different disability associations are being evicted as the local government has earmarked their premises in central Piteå to house newly-arrived migrants.
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Unraveling Our National Identity Via Endless Immigration
For the past 51 years, Congress forced over 100,000,000 (million) legal immigrants from 190 countries with 190 different religions and with 190 different cultures along with 190 different worldviews to saturate America with multiculturalism and diversity. Congress allowed 15 to 31 million illegal alien migrants to cross over our borders and remain in our country in violation of our laws.
If you look at parallel societies created in Detroit, Michigan with the Muslim juggernaut or the Mexican contingent of La Raza taking over southern California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas — you witness the fundamental changing of America’s successful ethos that will eventually end up like Lebanon’s or Germany’s or Sweden’s or the United Kingdom.
The great philosopher Emanuel Kant said, “The two great dividers of any civilization are religion and language.”
Simply said, if you morph a country into different languages and religions, you create ultimate fragmentation. That historical fact runs true whether you witness Muslims breaking off from Hindu’s and Buddhists in India to form Pakistan, or, one look at Lebanon shows bombings and chaos among its diverse religious and language groups — forced upon that country formerly known as the “Switzerland of the Mediterranean.”
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VOA: 70 Migrants Found in a Snowy Northern Forest in Greece
Athens. Greek authorities picked up about 70 migrants, including children, in a snowy forest near the northern city of Thessaloniki on Wednesday, as smugglers turned to previously popular routes into the European Union rather than the sea crossing from Turkey, Voice of America reported.
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The Effects of TV on Your Brain
Studies have shown that watching television induces low alpha waves in the human brain. Alpha waves are brainwaves between 8 to 12 HZ. and are commonly associated with relaxed meditative states as well as brain states associated with suggestibility.
While Alpha waves achieved through meditation are beneficial (they promote relaxation and insight), too much time spent in the low Alpha wave state caused by TV can cause unfocussed daydreaming and inability to concentrate. Researchers have said that watching television is similar to staring at a blank wall for several hours.
We all like to watch TV from time to time, and this is not meant to suggest that people should never watch TV again. However, it is only fair that people understand what happens to the brain each time it is exposed to television.
In an experiment in 1969, Herbert Krugman monitored a person through many trials and found that in less than one minute of television viewing, the person’s brainwaves switched from Beta waves- brainwaves associated with active, logical thought- to primarily Alpha waves. When the subject stopped watching television and began reading a magazine, the brainwaves reverted to Beta waves.
Research indicates that most parts of the brain, including parts responsible for logical thought, tune out during television viewing. The impact of television viewing on one person’s brain state is obviously not enough to conclude that the same consequences apply to everyone, but research has repeatedly shown that watching television produces brainwaves in the low Alpha range.
[Comment: see tvsmarter.com/documents/brainwaves.html and //www.causeof.org/brainwaves.htm for more detailed information.]
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Frau Merkel and Barack play the same game of allowing invaders to destroy Western civilization. It’s a Marxist-Leninist blitzkrieg to impose the Culture of Death.
Seems like Sweden (or as I call it Future Canada) reached another low point.
I now have a better understanding of what you are referring to after watching your video you recommended. I only wish you posted a link. Probably one of the greatest discussions ever on You Tube. It’s very involved, very long (~2 hrs.), not particularly easy to fully comprehend, but what great ideas are? Hard to believe Joe Rogan would be associated with something this positive, but it is what it is. Highly recommended viewing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04wyGK6k6HE
Thanks for posting this video! 🙂
Sweden is moving associations for the disabled and for dementia victims so new migrants can have convenient housing.
Sounds like Dane geld to me: the Swedish authorities now have hoards of young, violent, impulsive men on their hands, and naturally assign first priority to keeping them as non-violent as possible. People in wheelchairs, and elderly people with dementia are unlikely to present too much of a rioting threat, so they go to the end of the line.
The turning point will be when the collective consciousness of the invaders feels it can extract benefits faster through rioting than through collecting from the government agencies. Or perhaps, a general desire to bring everything under Allah’s control will rise to the surface.
It should be noted that most of these people came from societies adapted to deal with their personality characteristics: either dictatorships, absolute-power monarchies, or tribal societies where the tribal leader held absolute power, including a decree of death.
Obviously, bringing people totally dependent on external controls into a society which depends mainly on internal controls, is not going to work.
Sweden has become collectively demented and mentally disabled.
as for the second item about Sweden and group home evictions, there is a noir irony there but I will leave it alone. What is shown is the heartlessness of the “pro(re)gressives” as they throw out into the cold winter the people who had depended upon them for care in favor of those who do not care at all.
I just found this video: PARIS AT WAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TB0VaRTpik
Today, December 1, 1961, the Marxist Communist Republic of Cuba was officially proclaimed. A better description and summary of its 55 years than this by Stephan Mollinaux can not be found online
The Truth About Fidel Castro
Published on 26 nov. 2016
https://youtu.be/2EhlTI0fte0
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As a subject of the wayward country of Sweden with its worldfameous feminist governance one should defenitely also take note of what the Black Pidgeon has to say about women’s pernicious role in politics.
Why Women DESTROY NATIONS
Published on Feb 17, 2016
https://youtu.be/UxpVwBzFAkw
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Sequel:
How Women DESTROY NATIONS (PART II)
https://youtu.be/kOMkl3ApTK0
Just wondering if anybody knows where the disabled and those with dementia WILL Now be housed or if they will have housing at all??
thye won’t, they will be homeless and die off during the cold winter, thus any memories that may challenge the elite’s narrative will be erased or otherwise blotted out.
Apparently in an empty school building, but the associations looking after the people with dementia and disabilities are unsure about their suitability, or how much rent the local authority will charge.
Such injustice done to those people who are CITIZENS of their country.
Perhaps we need to ask our own SJW to go over there and help the homeless and handicapped Swedes. AS IF THEY WOULD EVEN CARE ! They do not even help ours.
TOO busy fussing around about Hillary the liar losing the election.