Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/20/2017

Peter Springare, the police officer in the Swedish city of Örebro who broke the taboo and talked about migrant crime, has had all charges against him dropped by prosecutors. Meanwhile, Swedish authorities have approved the marriage of a 14-year-old girl to her culture-enriching husband, for — what else? — cultural reasons.

In other news, a Danish newspaper has revealed that a number of “Danes” fighting for the Islamic State in Syria are receiving sickness and disability benefits from the Danish government.

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Thanks to AF, Diana West, Fjordman, Insubria, JD, Reader from Chicago, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» Study: $15 Minimum Wage Would Force McDonald’s to Increase Prices 38 Percent
 
USA
» Are the Globalists Out to Get Donald Trump?
» Dictators Actually Get Started With a Cheerleader Media
» Employees Across U.S. Fired After Joining ‘Day Without Immigrants’ Protest
» George Soros Groups Under Investigation
» How ‘They’ Sell Vote Fraud as Legitimate Election Totals
» It’s the Anti-Democratic Consensus: “Permanent” “Deep” State Should Rule
» Obama’s Organizing for Action Partners With Soros-Linked ‘Indivisible’ To Disrupt Trump’s Agenda
» Reddit Censors Pro-Trump Content in New Crackdown
» SpaceX, NASA Hail 1st Falcon 9 Rocket Launch From Pad Steeped in History
» State Officials to Trump: Revoke Obama’s Federal Takeover of Elections
» The President Needs to Purge and Start Fresh: “White House Staff Has Been Infiltrated and Infested”
» Trump Names Lt Gen HR McMaster as National Security Adviser
» US Lawmakers Finally Question George Soros’ Motives
» Video: Leftists Heed “Allahu Akbar” Call to Prayer During Anti-Trump March
» What the Politicians You Elected Have Done to America, Part 7
» White House Deputy Chief of Staff and #nevertrumper Source of Leaks
» Who is Milo Yiannopoulos?
» Why So Many Americans Call Evil Good and Good Evil
 
Canada
» Toronto Mosque: “O Allah! Give US Victory Over the Disbelieving People…slay Them One by One and Spare Not One of Them”
 
Europe and the EU
» After Seven Years of Bailouts, Greeks Sink Yet Deeper in Poverty
» Alt-Right Editor Challenges Journalists to Visit Sweden
» Building Orion Service Module for First Astronaut Mission
» Charges Dropped Against Swedish Policeman Who Told the Truth
» Director Aki Kaurismäki Takes the Silver Bear at the Berlinale — Jokes About Iceland No More Taking Over Europe Than Islam (Video)
» Former UK PM Sir Edward Heath Was a Paedophile, Says Police Chief
» Four Arrested for Allegedly Smuggling Migrants Into Switzerland
» French Music Festival Cancelled After ‘Bloodbath’ Terror Threats
» Italy’s Trade Surplus Hits 51.6 Bn, Highest in 25 Yrs
» Italy: Renzi’s Dad Probed for Alleged Influence Peddling
» Italy: Abruzzo Governor D’Alfonso Probed for Graft
» Italy: Alitalia Workers Shdn’t Pay Manager Mistakes — Delrio
» Le Pen Advances in French Polls as Security Concerns Sway Voters
» New Study Reignites Debate Over Viking Settlements in England
» Pope Francis Declares ‘Muslim Terrorism Does Not Exist’ As He Continues to Set the Stage for a One World Religion
» Protests in France Over ‘Fake Jobs’ And ‘Corrupt’ Politicians
» Swedish Court Approves of Child Marriage
» Syrian Teen on Trial in Cologne Over ISIS Bomb Plot
» The Swedes Welcome the Hells Angels
» Trend for ‘Home Grown’ Cannabis in Austria
» UK: 39 Year Old From Tunstall Charges With Terrorism Offences
» UK: Headteacher Gets Death Threats From Muslim Parents Over Her “Offensive Clothes”
 
Middle East
» 70 Percent of Turks Have Never Participated in Any Arts or Culture Event: Report
» Danish ISIS Fighters Paid Disability Benefits in Syria
» Le Pen Says Assad May be Lesser of Two Evils
» Power Will be Gathered in One Person to Avoid Strife: Erdogan
» Ron Paul: Trump’s ISIS Plan: Another US Invasion?
» Temple of Artemis Turns Into Swamp Due to Neglect
» Turkey’s Spying Imams Also Active in Norway: Monitoring Group
» UK: Five London Teens Arrested After Police Foil Their Plans to Join a Terrorist ‘Organization’
 
Russia
» Russia’s New ICBMs Can ‘Rip Apart’ US Anti-Missile Systems — Deputy PM Rogozin
» Russia Overtakes Saudi Arabia as World’s Top Crude Producer
» Soros’ Ideology Exposed: A Post-Modern, Post-Family, Post-Border New World Order
 
South Asia
» Action Needed to Lure 10 Million Chinese Tourists to Indonesia
» Malaysian Investigators, North Korean Officials Squabble Over Assassination Probe
 
Far East
» Japan Police Offer Martial Arts Classes for Tourists
» US Navy Sends Warships on Freedom of Navigation Operation Through South China Sea
 
Australia — Pacific
» Julian Assange: ‘Narrative’ On Fake News is Good for WikiLeaks
 
Latin America
» Ecuador Leftist Leads Presidential Vote But May Face Run Off
 
Immigration
» Ami Horowitz Defends Sweden Refugee Claims From Backlash Over Trump Remark
» Companies Fire ‘Day Without Immigrants’ Protesters
» Cost of Border Wall is Less Than Cost of Services for Illegals: Report
» Culturally Enriched Malmo, Sweden is the Most Dangerous City in Western Europe
» EU Border Agency Expects Same Number of Migrants Via Libya This Year as Last
» How Sweden Became an Example of How Not to Handle Immigration
» In Pictures: 160,000 Pro-Immigration Protesters Hit the Streets of Barcelona
» In Response to Trump Executive Order, Illegal Aliens Are Fleeing U.S. Into Canada
» Migrant Crisis — Czech Deputy PM Slams ‘Inept’ EU Over Immigration
» More Than 350 Migrants Successfully Storm Spain Border Fence
» Norway Bishop Calls on Churches to Employ Paperless Migrants
» Ohio State Lectured on “Islamophobia” Three Months After Terror Attack
» Sweden: Riots in Rinkeby, Warning Shots Fired
» Swedish Fox News Cops Hit Out at Filmmaker: ‘He is a Madman’
» Teenage Syrian Refugee on Trial in Germany Over ISIS Bomb Plot Charges
» Thousands March in Barcelona in Support of Refugees
» Trump and the Truth About Sweden
» Trump Slams ‘Fake News’ Lies That Sweden’s Mass Immigration “Is Working Out Just Beautifully”
» US View of Sweden Changed Years Ago, Says Former Diplomat
 
Culture Wars
» Facebook Plans to Rewire Your Life. Be Afraid.
» Transgender on Steroids Wins Girls’ State Wrestling Tournament
 
General
» Connecting us All: How Satellites Remade the World
» Islam and Useful Idiots
» Los Angeles, Moscow Top List of Most Congested Cities
» Mars Might Already be Building Rings From Its Moons
» What Was the First Life on Earth?
» What’s the Oldest Thing Alive Today?
 

Study: $15 Minimum Wage Would Force McDonald’s to Increase Prices 38 Percent

James Sherk, a Hillsdale graduate and now the Bradley Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, found that if a $15 minimum wage is enforced across the country, fast food prices will jump far more than initially thought. A 10-piece Chicken McNuggets, currently priced at $4.49, would jump to $6.20. A Starbucks Grande Mocha Frappuccino would increase from $4.56 to $6.29, while a 6-inch turkey sub at Subway would cost $5.87, up from $4.25. A Whopper Meal from Burger King would jump to $8.96 from $6.49.

A CrunchWrap Supreme, Crunchy Taco and large drink from Taco Bell would cost $8.27, up from $5.99; a Wendy’s Son of Baconator Combo, currently $6.69 would cost $9.23; a Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich Combo, priced at $5.95, would cost $8.21; and a Pizza Hut Medium Hand-Tossed Cheese Pizza, on today’ menu at $11.95, would jump to $16.55.

That’s a 38-percent increase, far higher than many old-school economists have concluded, and it puts the lie to union claims that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would result in a transfer of wealth from rich business owners to low-paid workers. Sherk’s analysis concludes that there would be a transfer, but it wouldn’t be from the business owners: It would be from their customers.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Are the Globalists Out to Get Donald Trump?

The Michael Flynn resignation has changed the equation. Donald Trump’s enemies are now playing this Russian connection gambit for all the mileage they can get out of it. Flynn appears to have misled Vice President Pence and others about his communication with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Trust was killed. The Deep State’s collective antennae shot up higher than that wall will ever be!

Trump has had enemies before, but the Deep State is an entirely different animal. I think he and Steve Bannon, lacking experience with the real centers of power in the Western world, quite underestimated what they would be up against. Paul Craig Roberts reports that former NSA spy John Schindler sent out a tweet immediately following Flynn’s departure indicating that the Deep State was “going nuclear” against Trump, and that “he will die in jail.”

These are not folks The Donald is accustomed to making deals with. These are people who, along with the globalists they serve, have controlled every White House for at least the past 70 years. The last president who tried to stand up to them was shot to death in a motorcade: JFK. Then Bobby Kennedy, the immensely popular Democrat who would have been a shoo-in for the presidency in the 1968 election and would very likely have reopened the investigation into his brother’s murder, was also gunned down. To this day a man rots in prison who maintains he has no memory of the shooting.

In other words, Trump is up against folks who would kill him outright if they thought they could get away with it. In today’s connected environment of alternative and social media, Deep State denizens doubtless know that millions of people would react instantly if anything bad happened to Trump. I would not be surprised if pitchforks came out and there was blood in the streets of the Asylum on the Potomac. I do not think the Deep State wants that. Its minions and its masters would much prefer a slower route to technofeudalism.

[Comment: Trump should respond by focusing like a laser on rooting out, prosecuting and imprisoning pedophiles within government, especially at upper levels. He should adopt the General Patton approach…attack, attack and then attack. Most of the globalist minions in deep state are pedophiles and their ranks would be thinned considerably when many of them are rotting in jail. Recall the report of hundreds in Pentagon looking at pedophilia on their computers?]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Dictators Actually Get Started With a Cheerleader Media

Dictators don’t get started by criticizing the media. The majority of Americans have a negative view of the media. Does that make all of us dictators? Instead dictators get started with a media that hysterically showers them with praise

Americans chose to undo the Obama-Media dictatorship. That is what the media is mad about.

A free press only protects democracy when it is free, in the sense of representing a range of viewpoints, not when it willingly panders to abuses of power by one faction, as the media does, while waging unrelentling war against the other.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Employees Across U.S. Fired After Joining ‘Day Without Immigrants’ Protest

Dozens of protesters across the country were fired from their jobs after skipping work to take part in last week’s “Day Without Immigrants” demonstration.

Restaurants and day cares were among the businesses in states like Florida, Tennessee, Oklahoma and New York where bosses fired workers after they didn’t show up for work in order to protest.

In Nolensville, Tennessee, nearly 20 employees at Bradley Coatings, Incorporated — a commercial painting company — were laid off after participating in the nationwide strike on Thursday, NBC4 reported.

The company’s attorney, Robert Peal, said in a statement obtained by the news station that all employees were told they risked termination if they skipped work on Thursday, but 18 did so anyway.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

George Soros Groups Under Investigation

George Soros’ alleged meddling in European politics has caught the attention of Congress.

Concerns about Soros’ involvement most recently were raised by the Hungarian prime minister, who last week lashed out at the Soros “empire” and accused it of deploying “tons of money and international heavy artillery.”

But days earlier, Republican lawmakers in Washington started asking questions about whether U.S. tax dollars also were being used to fund Soros projects in the small, conservative-led country of Macedonia.

Rep. Christopher Smith, R-N.J., led a group of House lawmakers in writing to Ambassador Jess Baily — an Obama appointee — demanding answers. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, also expressed concerns about USAID money going to Soros’ Open Society Foundations as part of a broader concern that the U.S. Embassy has been taking sides in party politics.

[Comment: The US Government should not work with Soros, and US taxpayer money should not go to Soros projects.]

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

How ‘They’ Sell Vote Fraud as Legitimate Election Totals

Do you remember the movie, Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson? He kept trying to explain to Julia Roberts who ‘they’ were without coming right out and saying secret societies which are no longer so secret. Like the Treasonous Council on Foreign Relations and the Treasonous Tri-Lateral Commission to name two of the most powerful. Both of those are my columns and a third which lists most of them: The House That evil Built. Those three columns are critical in understanding ‘who’ is behind the curtain and ‘they’ now have their sights trained right at President Trump.

Another must read is The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World by the late L. Fletcher Prouty, a truly great American. “L. Fletcher Prouty (1917-2001), a retired colonel of the U.S. Air Force, served as the chief of special operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Kennedy years. He was directly in charge of the global system designed to provide military support for the clandestine activities of the CIA. “ Lt. Col. Prouty was the shadowy Mr. X in Oliver Stone’s movie JFK.

Finally, after all these decades newly sworn in President Trump has unleashed a galactic poop storm against media lackeys in this country who do the bidding of the ‘shadow government’. Naturally, anyone exposing the evil doers hell bent on destroying this constitutional republic are slapped with all the worn out labels…

Perception is everything and that’s how ‘they’ get away with selling the American people vote fraud as legitimates totals. Vote fraud is meant to keep constitutionalists like yours truly out of office. In the recent election Dr. Kelli Ward went up against one of the most corrupt political whores in all of Washington, DC — John ‘Juan’ McCain. Despite the manure coming from the MSM, McCain is not so loved in Arizona because of his staunch support of illegal aliens. The alleged vote tally put Juan over the top 51.7% — 39.2%.

If only Dr. Ward had paid for a complete recount by hand and an audit of the vote I absolutely believe the outcome would have been different. I also believe it would show how many illegal aliens in Arizona voted in that primary. While McCain’s final numbers allegedly slipped a bit, the perception is the people of Arizona approve of his voting record on the issues. Please.

Paul ‘Rat’ Ryan should not have won his primary last year, either. His challenger, Paul Nehlin, ran tough against Ryan who is much hated by a substantial number of Republican conservatives in his district as well as across this country — with good reason. Paul Ryan Running Scared in Final Days Ahead of Primary Election, August 4, 2016: “House Speaker Paul Ryan’s policy record is collapsing among voters here under scrutiny from Republican challenger Paul Nehlen, so badly that Ryan is refusing to appear even on the Fox News Channel.”

Yet, come primary night, miraculously the alleged final vote count was 84-15. I almost choked when I saw that number. The perception is — even though Ryan was peeing his pants a week before the primary — the voters of his district overwhelmingly approve of his anti-American worker, anti-Constitution voting record. Rat Ryan supported the job & sovereignty killer, TPP. Nehlin opposed it.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

It’s the Anti-Democratic Consensus: “Permanent” “Deep” State Should Rule

by Diana West

Washington elites reveal that they what they really oppose is the democratic system that duly and constitutionally elected Donald Trump president of the United States.

           — Hat tip: Diana West [Return to headlines]
 

Obama’s Organizing for Action Partners With Soros-Linked ‘Indivisible’ To Disrupt Trump’s Agenda

‘Online trainings’ teach how to ‘protest’ President Trump’s agenda

Organizing for Action, the activist group that morphed from Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign, has partnered with the newly-formed Indivisible Project for “online trainings” on how to protest President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Last week, Breitbart News extensively reported that Indivisible leaders are openly associated with groups financed by billionaire George Soros.

Politico earlier this month profiled Indivisible in an article titled, “Inside the protest movement that has Republicans reeling.” The news agency not only left out the Soros links, but failed to note that the organizations cited in its article as helping to amplify Indivisible’s message are either financed directly by Soros or have close ties to groups funded by the billionaire, as Breitbart News documented.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Reddit Censors Pro-Trump Content in New Crackdown

Reddits joins Facebook to control public opinion on-line

Reddit is banning the vast majority of pro-Donald Trump posts from appearing on its “most popular” page frequented by new users.

The online discussion web site announced it was clamping down on what would appear as “popular” by showing visitors only popular posts from handpicked categories, which would apparently exclude anything from pro-Trump subreddits.

In fact, a graph reveals that Reddit administrators are actively filtering out posts from The_Donald subreddit from appearing in /r/popular; if the filter represented just an algorithm based on what users filtered out themselves, one would expect more posts filtered from r/politics.

Instead, there’s a clear bias against anything pro-Trump, and there’s precedent to believe that this is intentional censorship.

Back in Nov., Reddit CEO Steve Huffman vowed to suppress certain pro-Trump posts from appearing elsewhere on Reddit…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was also caught discussing the censorship of anti-migrant posts during a “hot mic” incident with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

He also met with with Lu Wei, the czar of China’s draconian Internet censorship system, in 2014, where the Facebook CEO lauded Wei as a visionary.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

SpaceX, NASA Hail 1st Falcon 9 Rocket Launch From Pad Steeped in History

SpaceX’s historic launch from NASA’s Launch Complex 39A Sunday (Feb. 19) was a complete success. So it’s no surprise that when the time came to discuss the flight, the post-launch press conference was short, sweet and full of smiling faces.

The private spaceflight company’s Falcon 9 rocket launched a Dragon spacecraft full of cargo into orbit at 9:39 a.m. EST (1439 GMT), after which the booster’s first stage returned to Earth to make had a perfect landing at the company’s Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

State Officials to Trump: Revoke Obama’s Federal Takeover of Elections

States oppose Obama’s federal takeover of elections

State election officials from across the country have called on President Trump to revoke an order, signed by former President Obama, declaring election systems “critical infrastructure.”

The National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), which includes election officials from every state and territory, passed a resolution calling on President Donald Trump to overturn the designation at the organization’s winter meeting held over the weekend.

The resolution, passed by voice vote along party lines, stated the organization “opposes the designation of elections as critical infrastructure.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The President Needs to Purge and Start Fresh: “White House Staff Has Been Infiltrated and Infested”

As of this writing, the President is beset by forces in Washington and in the White House who are determined to derail his “cleansing” efforts and continue with their own actions. Those forces are spearheaded by the RINO (Republicans In Name Only) “5th Columnists” either working directly for and with the Democratic Party or independently of them but for the interests of the Globalist Network. On December 17, 2016 I wrote a piece for entitled Trump Can’t Stop It: The people who have been orchestrating the collapse have not halted their agendas. Here is an excerpt:

“He [President Trump] is going to emplace several people in his cabinet who are known to be either in the pockets of the corporations (such as Mnuchin), or have stances that diametrically oppose his own campaign pledges (such as his selection for White House Chief of Staff who supports amnesty for illegal aliens).”

I specifically referred to Priebus in that article and went on to write that the President would either knuckle under to the interests, or else he would be removed from office. It appears the second option is in motion by the establishment, as he has not knuckled under and has been in the process of cleaning house since day one of his term. Referring to the excerpt, let it be stressed that Reince Priebus has been a bought and paid for Washington insider since long before the appointment to White House Chief of Staff. Priebus has been attempting to staff the White House with supporters loyal to him, and not to the President. In addition, as reported on Alex Jones’ Info Wars, the leaks of potentially-damaging and degrading “smear-reports” to the Washington [Com]Post have originated with Priebus.

An excellent and in-depth article posted by Jerome Corsi of Prison Planet.com covers all the activities of Priebus prior to and after the election. The actions are staggering in terms of what has been done in a relatively short period of time. Priebus would have been leaned against the wall with a cigarette and a blindfold anywhere else in the world. Entitled, Report: Priebus Next to Go as Trump Strikes Back Over Flynn, it really cuts to the chase. Here’s a detailed and revealing excerpt:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Names Lt Gen HR McMaster as National Security Adviser

US President Donald Trump has named Lt Gen HR McMaster as his national security adviser.

He will replace Lt Gen Michael Flynn who was fired after just three weeks and three days in the job.

A lieutenant general with the US Army, HR McMaster served in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he worked on a government anti-corruption drive.

Mr Trump’s first choice, retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward, turned down the role, citing “personal reasons”.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

US Lawmakers Finally Question George Soros’ Motives

That billionaire George Soros has a finger in most of the shady stuff that is going on in the West (and the East), has finally reached US lawmakers, not even a single minute too early.

George Soros’ alleged meddling in European politics has caught the attention of Congress, reports Fox News.

Concerns about Soros’ involvement most recently were raised by the Hungarian prime minister, who last week lashed out at the Soros “empire” and accused it of deploying “tons of money and international heavy artillery.”

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Video: Leftists Heed “Allahu Akbar” Call to Prayer During Anti-Trump March

Hushed reverence amongst liberals for most misogynistic belief system on the planet

Leftists who attended the ‘I am a Muslim too’ anti-Trump rally in New York City yesterday heeded an Arabic call to prayer as “Allahu Akbar” was blasted through loudspeakers.

Call to prayer at #iamamuslimtoo rally in Times Square, New York pic.twitter.com/Apb18d7wU2

– Jason Stern (@IbnLarry) February 19, 2017 The clip shows left-wing protesters in hushed reverence as they listen to the call to prayer in Times Square while some hold up images of artist Shepard Fairey’s design of a woman in an American flag hijab.

“Allahu Akbar” means “God is great” or “Allah is greater” in Arabic, but it’s better known to westerners as a slogan routinely shouted by jihadists as they massacre innocent people during terrorist attacks.

The event included a speech by Linda Sansour, a Muslim activist and Hamas sympathizer who advocates for Sharia law — a brutal Islamist doctrine that completely disenfranchises women.

The video is similar in nature to scenes caught on camera during another anti-Trump protest in Berlin when self-proclaimed “feminists” paid homage to the most anti-woman belief system on the planet by shouting “Allahu Akbar” through a bullhorn as onlookers smiled and applauded.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

What the Politicians You Elected Have Done to America, Part 7

One term that we are seeing more and more these days is the term ‘sustainability’. It sounds like a good thing but it is far from that. According to the UN sustainability requires that all aspects of life, work and industry MUST be controlled by government to attain the desired results of ‘sustainability’. You live where the government feels is the best place, high rise apartments, no suburban environments. You eat what they feel is best for you, GMO raised foods.

If you are old and sick, you have a duty to die. I came across this when the former governor of Colorado, Richard Lamm, was talking about city growth and how our population is out of control. This man has no respect for life and treats humans as nothing better than a plant. In 1984 he stated: Elderly people who are terminally ill have a ‘‘duty to die and get out of the way’’ instead of trying to prolong their lives by artificial means, Gov. Richard D. Lamm of Colorado said Tuesday.

People who die without having life artificially extended are similar to “leaves falling off a tree and forming humus for the other plants to grow up,” the Governor told a meeting of the Colorado Health Lawyers Association at St. Joseph’s Hospital.

“You’ve got a duty to die and get out of the way,” said the 48-year-old Governor. “Let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.”

Some groups of the elderly immediately denounced Mr. Lamm for the statements.

[Comment: Duty!? What an evil … ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

White House Deputy Chief of Staff and #nevertrumper Source of Leaks

GotNews reported Sunday that one of the primary sources of the series of leaks that were designed to undermine the Trump Administration and his presidency have been coming from none other than #NeverTrumper Kate Walsh. She is being investigated as one of the primary persons of interest that have been distributing highly confidential information to sources such as The (Failing) New York Times, and others.

When TGP reached out to GotNews founder, Charles Johnson, for comment on the story he said that it was “100% reliable, I’m unwilling to reveal the primary White House sources, but Walsh was behind the leaks.”

– From GotNews:

“Everyone knows not to talk to her in the White House unless you want to see it in the press,” says a source close to the president. “The only question is whether or not she’s doing it at the behest of [White House Chief of Staff] Reince Priebus or if she’s doing it to advance herself in DC media circles.”

One source in particular stands out: Walsh is close to Maggie Habberman, a New York Times reporter who wrote fawning pro-Republican National Committee stories during the presidential election. Walsh has also planted stories in The Washington Post and Politico.

Walsh is referred to as “Madame President” in the White House, says a senior aide. “It isn’t a compliment.”

Walsh would have significant access as she controls the president’s schedule. There’s also reportedly a trove of e-mails where Katie Walsh and Reince Priebus discuss how to rid themselves of Trump, according to a former #NeverTrump consultant.

“The president and his allies have been deliberately feeding her fake information in order to find her network,” says a source close to the president’s family. “It’s been going well.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Who is Milo Yiannopoulos?

Ultra-conservative writer Milo Yiannopoulos has been dropped from speaking at a US conservative conference, which will also host President Donald Trump, after footage emerged of him appearing to condone paedophilia.

Mr Yiannopoulos has strongly denied the allegations, but is known to thrive on provoking offence and controversy.

He has now had a book deal with Simon & Schuster cancelled, after more than 100 authors published by the company protested against Mr Yiannopoulos’ book Dangerous.

He calls himself the “most fabulous supervillain on the internet”. His critics call him a purveyor of hate speech.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Why So Many Americans Call Evil Good and Good Evil

Best-selling author David Kupelian exposes secret root of Trump Derangement Syndrome

Many Americans have, to all appearances, gone entirely off the deep end since Donald Trump won the presidency last November, as evidenced by an endless stream of celebrity hissy fits, “mainstream media” meltdowns, comparisons to “Hitler” and “fascism” and hysterical, often-violent demonstrations.

How did so many Americans become so miserable and delusional? Best-selling author David Kupelian, who serves as WND’s managing editor, says it’s not an accident and it was hardly unpredictable.

To begin with, Kupelian asked Rabbi Eric Walker during a recent appearance on “Revealing the Truth”: “What happens when you begin to fall away from common sense and your conscience, doing what’s right? Things go badly, you have conflict, you feel depressed, you’re angry.”

Now, he continued, what if a wildly irrational worldview somehow becomes enmeshed in all of America’s major institutions, leading millions of people away from common sense and their consciences? Logically, you will have a whole nation full of depressed and angry people, said Kupelian. In fact, that argument is the premise of his most recent book, “The Snapping of the American Mind.”

“Not only is the left irrational, but it is leading America — good Americans — over the edge,” he told the show’s host.

This deluded leftist worldview, he said, has led to a situation in which depression is “through the roof” on college campuses, adding that a staggering 130 million Americans are now dependent on some type of mind-altering substance just to get through life. The core reason for all this misery, he said, is very basic: As people move away from what their conscience tells them is right, they come into conflict with their true selves.

Worse, when people reach the point that they not only are at war with their own conscience, but actually glorify and justify their own perverse beliefs and behaviors, they begin to see the goodness in others as evil.

[Comment: Excellent article and Kupelian’s books are also recommended.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Toronto Mosque: “O Allah! Give US Victory Over the Disbelieving People…slay Them One by One and Spare Not One of Them”

Canada is about to pass a resolution that will pave the way to the criminalization of “Islamophobia.” But about this, Canadian authorities have nothing to say.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

After Seven Years of Bailouts, Greeks Sink Yet Deeper in Poverty

Greek pensioner Dimitra says she never imagined a life reduced to food handouts: some rice, two bags of pasta, a packet of chickpeas, some dates and a tin of milk for the month.

At 73, Dimitra — who herself once helped the hard-up as a Red Cross food server — is among a growing number of Greeks barely getting by. After seven years of bailouts that poured billions of euros into their country, poverty isn’t getting any better; it’s getting worse like nowhere else in the EU.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Alt-Right Editor Challenges Journalists to Visit Sweden

Paul Joseph Watson, the UK-based editor of far-right conspiracy website Infowars, has donated $2,000 to one of the hundreds of reporters who took him up on his Twitter offer to pay “any journalist claiming Sweden is safe” to stay in Malmo.

The donation comes after Sweden was thrown into the spotlight by US President Donald Trump’s reference last week to a security incident which did not actually happen.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Building Orion Service Module for First Astronaut Mission

A European Service Module will power NASA’s Orion spacecraft beyond the Moon and back in 2018, and now work has started on a second mission, this time to carry astronauts.

Set for launch as early as 2021, this will be the first mission since 1972 to take humans out of low orbit — and European hardware will provide propulsion, electrical power, water, thermal control and atmosphere for up to four crewmembers.

ESA formalised the contract yesterday with Airbus at the Bremen, Germany, site where the first module is already being assembled.

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Charges Dropped Against Swedish Policeman Who Told the Truth

Örebro police officer Peter Springare is no longer suspected of a crime. Prosecutors have decided to close the investigation against Springare, who on Facebook revealed both names and nationalities of suspected criminals, the state prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

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Director Aki Kaurismäki Takes the Silver Bear at the Berlinale — Jokes About Iceland No More Taking Over Europe Than Islam (Video)

Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki joked in a press conference in Berlin in this week when asked about his thought on “the Islamication” of Europe. Islamication? He repeated asking the reporter to repeat the last sentence, he went on to proclaim “Because Iceland is a bit good in football once, it doesn’t mean it’s a sensation of Europe, it was ok, but it was 8th in the world champion ship, it doesn’t mean that Iceland will conquer Europe — So I cant see any Islamication in Europe, just normal cultural changing”

Kaurismäki is Finland’s best-known film director.

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Former UK PM Sir Edward Heath Was a Paedophile, Says Police Chief

Astonishing claim is made that the former PM is guilty of vile crimes ‘covered up by the Establishment’

The police chief investigating claims that Sir Edward Heath was a paedophile is convinced the allegations are ‘120 per cent’ genuine, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

More than 30 people have come forward with claims of sexual abuse by the former Conservative Prime Minister, according to well-placed sources.

And they are said to have given ‘strikingly similar’ accounts of incidents to Wiltshire Police — even though the individuals are not known to each other.

The Mail on Sunday has been told that Wiltshire Chief Constable Mike Veale regards the allegations as ‘totally convincing’, and plans to publish a report in June.

[Comment: David Icke reported on this in his first book many years ago.]

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Four Arrested for Allegedly Smuggling Migrants Into Switzerland

Four Ghanaians living in Italy have been arrested for allegedly smuggling more than 200 migrants across the Italian-Swiss border.

The arrests were the result of a joint operation between Swiss and Italian police investigating people smuggling from the Italian city of Como into the Swiss canton of Ticino, reported news agencies.

The four suspects, aged from 21 to 39, are legal residents of Italy.

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French Music Festival Cancelled After ‘Bloodbath’ Terror Threats

A music festival was cancelled at the last minute this weekend after a series of anonymous callers threatened a “bloodbath”.

The Lignerock Festival, which was scheduled to be held in the Vendée department in western France on Saturday night, was scrapped at the 11th hour after a series of terror threats were made via telephone.

While many events — from outdoor movie screenings to flea markets — have been cancelled in France of late over terror fears, it’s unusual that the cancellation is due to a direct terror threat.

French authorities have canned a slew of events during the summer after 84 people were killed in Nice in the Bastille Day truck attack.

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Italy’s Trade Surplus Hits 51.6 Bn, Highest in 25 Yrs

Up from 41.8 bn in 2015, exports rose by 1.1% in 2016

(ANSA) — Rome, February 16 — Italy’s trade surplus hit a record high of 51.6 billion euros in 2016, ISTAT said Thursday.

This surplus is the highest since the start of the statistical series in 1991, the national statistics agency said.

It is up from a surplus of 41.8 billion in 2015.

Last year’s surplus was 78 billion euros if energy trade is excluded. Italian exports increased by 1.1% in value terms and by 1.2% in volume terms in 2016 with respect to the previous year, ISTAT said. The rise was driven by exports to other EU countries, which were up 3%. Imports were down 1.4% in value terms and 3.1% in volume terms last year, the national statistics agency said.

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Italy: Renzi’s Dad Probed for Alleged Influence Peddling

Tiziano Renzi to be heard next week in relation to CONSIP probe

(ANSA) — Rome, February 17 — Tiziano Renzi, father of former premier and Democratic Party (PD) leader Matteo Renzi, has been placed under investigation for alleged influence peddling in relation to a probe of suspected corruption at civil service procurement agency CONSIP, it emerged late Thursday.

Renzi, who claims his innocence and has expressed his confidence in the magistrature, will be questioned by Rome prosecutors next week.

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Italy: Abruzzo Governor D’Alfonso Probed for Graft

For corruption and bid-rigging

(ANSA) — L’Aquila, February 16 — Abruzzo Governor Luciano D’Alfonso has been placed under investigation for suspected corruption, bid-rigging and abuse of office in a graft probe involving another 15 officials and businessmen, judicial sources said Thursday. Homes are being searched across Abruzzo after a search in the regional government HQ, the sources said. The probe concerns a tender to restore the regional government’s HQ in regional capital L’Aquila, which was ruled unsafe after the catastrophic earthquake that killed over 300 people in 2009.

After an extremely lengthy process, the 13-million-euro tender was won by the Isernia-based Edil Costruzioni Generali Srl company. D’Alfonso denied wrongdoing and said he was ready to collaborate with authorities.

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Italy: Alitalia Workers Shdn’t Pay Manager Mistakes — Delrio

Revised plan to be presented end of month — management

(ANSA) — Rome, February 16 — Alitalia workers should not have to pay for mistakes made by the ex-national flag carrier’s manages, Transport Minister Graziano Delrio said Thursday. “We’re faced with a profound crisis of the former flag carrier” but “we mustn’t make the workers pay for the managers’ mistakes,” he said. “That’s not the start, for the government”. In response, Alitalia management said a revised business plan would be presented at the end of the month.

Alitalia is undergoing painful restructuring following years of losses. Unions recently broke off talks on job cuts. Delrio said “sacrifices can be made if there are serious business plans”.

He said Alitalia must make the right strategic choices in view of a growing air traffic market in all Italian airports.

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Le Pen Advances in French Polls as Security Concerns Sway Voters

Marine Le Pen gained ground on her rivals for the French election as she benefits from concerns about security while other candidates trained their fire on independent front-runner Emmanuel Macron.

OpinionWay showed Macron would defeat Le Pen by 58 percent to 42 percent in the second round. His advantage has halved in less than two weeks.

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New Study Reignites Debate Over Viking Settlements in England

A large DNA study in 2015 concluded there is “no clear genetic evidence” of the Danish Viking occupation of England. But thousands of Vikings moved to England, say archaeologists.

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Pope Francis Declares ‘Muslim Terrorism Does Not Exist’ As He Continues to Set the Stage for a One World Religion

And I bet that we are supposed to believe that Islam had nothing to do with the following attack in an undisclosed location in north Africa…

He told WND the background: The girl was attacked by “fanatic Muslim men and woman” while walking home from school, dragged to a nearby home and subjected to “brutal female genital mutilation.”

She was left in a coma.

After local physicians had given up and declared her dead, she suddenly sat up.

The girl described how her soul “left my body and I was dead.”

“Angels came to receive me to heaven. But Jesus appeared before me and said, ‘I cannot turn back from the prayers of my children. My eyes are upon my children and ears are open to their prayer. So I give you your life back, for the issues of death belong to me. You go, and be my witness.’ Then he put his face right against and right into mine. He breathed into my nostrils, and my soul went in. Then he moved his nail-scarred hands over my body and healed me completely!”

What an incredible story!

Stories such as this one need much more publicity, but the mainstream media and politically correct leaders such as Pope Francis avoid them like the plague because they don’t fit the narrative.

To the global elite, Islam must always be portrayed as good, because it is going to be a key player in the coming one world religion.

Another essential element of globalism is an unshakeable belief in man-made climate change. In the same speech that I referenced above, Pope Francis once again affirmed his stance that global warming is an extreme danger to humanity. Here is more from the official Vatican website…

The evidence very clearly shows that Pope Francis is a globalist, and the globalists are absolutely convinced that this planet could be transformed into some sort of great progressive utopia if they could just get humanity to unite.

But when they are finally able to achieve their goal, it won’t be a utopia at all. Instead, it will bring about the greatest tyranny that humanity has ever experienced, and this is something that I talk about in my latest book.

[Comment: Recommended reading.]

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Protests in France Over ‘Fake Jobs’ And ‘Corrupt’ Politicians

Thousands demonstrated in Paris and other French cities Sunday to protest corruption, taking aim specifically at presidential candidates Francois Fillon and Marine Le Pen, both accused of misusing public funds.

“To jail with the corrupt” and “Down with the privileged” read placards brandished on the Place de la Republique, the vast square in central Paris which has long hosted huge protests.

Conservative candidate Fillon has been mired in scandal since last month when it emerged that his wife netted at least €680,000 ($720,000) for a suspected fake job as a parliamentary assistant over a period spanning 15 years.

Two of Fillon’s children were also put on the parliamentary payroll for brief periods.

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Swedish Court Approves of Child Marriage

A 14-year-old child bride from Syria came to Sweden and became pregnant with her husband, who is also her cousin. Now a Swedish court has approved of her marriage, because she appears “mature,” and for religious and cultural reasons.

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Syrian Teen on Trial in Cologne Over ISIS Bomb Plot

A 16-year-old Syrian refugee went on trial in Cologne on Monday accused of planning a bomb attack on behalf of the jihadist group Isis. The teenager was arrested at an asylum shelter in the western city of Cologne in September, with the authorities describing him as a “serious threat”.

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The Swedes Welcome the Hells Angels

Hells Angels Goth Town has moved into a new clubhouse in Skepplanda in Ale, which is part of the Greater Gothenburg. The venue is located in an activity area with soccer fields and a local football club, which is frequented by many young people. Police think it is “extremely inappropriate”, but as insecurity in the Swedish society is rapidly increasing, the public seems to welcome the controversial motorcycle club with open arms.

– This area is extremely inappropriate for the Hells Angels, says Teodor Smedius, head of the police district Kungälv/Ale, to Göteborgs-Posten.

But to the despair of the police, the Hells Angels is welcomed by ordinary people.

“The safest neighbors you can have,” one person wrote on Facebook.

This, the police think is alarming.

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Trend for ‘Home Grown’ Cannabis in Austria

When it comes to drugs, Austrians are increasingly turning to cannabis and buying from ‘home growers’ based in Austria, according to a leading public prosecutor in Wiener Neustadt.

“People are not buying so many hard drugs, but are increasingly buying cannabis. What’s interesting is that fewer drugs are being imported and the cannabis is frequently grown in the country,” public prosecutor Barbara Haider told the Kurier newspaper.

Last year, there were several cases where police discovered highly professional indoor plantations. The trend may be partly due to the fact that the technical equipment necessary for growing cannabis plants is easily obtainable in so-called grow or head shops.

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UK: 39 Year Old From Tunstall Charges With Terrorism Offences

A 39-year-old man has been charged with terrorism offences tonight.

Kamran Sabir Hussain, from Knightsbridge Way in Tunstall, was arrested on February 14 by the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit.

On Monday evening police announced he faces eight terrorism related charges.

These include six counts of publishing statements ‘intended or was reckless as to whether members of the public would be, directly or indirectly encouraged or otherwise induced by the statement to commit, prepare or instigate acts of terrorism’ contrary to section 1(2) of the Terrorism Act 2006.

The other two counts relate to meetings at which Hussain is alleged to have encouraged support for terrorist group ISIS.

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UK: Headteacher Gets Death Threats From Muslim Parents Over Her “Offensive Clothes”

A primary school headteacher has been forced to work from home by death threats from Muslim parents who hate her western values.

Trish O’Donnell, head of Clarksfield Primary School in Oldham, has endured ‘harassment and intimidation’ in the form of ‘aggressive verbal abuse’ and ‘threats to blow up her car’ from parents pushing conservative Muslim ideals.

It is feared they are making a ‘Trojan Horse’ attempt to Islamicise the school.

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70 Percent of Turks Have Never Participated in Any Arts or Culture Event: Report

Around 70 percent of Turkish citizens have never participated in any culture or arts event in their lives, according to a new report from the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) based on data from research firms GfK and Ipsos.

According to the Ipsos 2016 “Understanding Turkey Guide,” 49 percent of Turkish people have never been to the cinema, 66 percent have never been to a concert, theater or opera events, and 39 percent have never read a book.

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Danish ISIS Fighters Paid Disability Benefits in Syria

The Danish government is paying sickness and disability benefits to Danish citizens fighting in Syria for Islamic State, the Berlingske newspaper has reported.

According to the paper, the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) has identified several examples of Danish citizens who had been granted an early pension, or ‘førtidspension’, because they were judged too sick or disabled to work, and then gone to take part in the war in Syria.

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Le Pen Says Assad May be Lesser of Two Evils

Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said that having Syria ruled by President Bashar Al-Assad was a more “reassuring” choice for France, as the only realistic alternative for power was Islamic State.

Assad represented the “lesser evil,” she told Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Monday, according to comments released by his office after talks in Beirut. “There is no viable and plausible solution other than this binary choice, which is Bashar al-Assad on one hand and the Islamic state on the other hand,” she said. “Assad is obviously today a much more reassuring solution for France than the Islamic State.”

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Power Will be Gathered in One Person to Avoid Strife: Erdogan

The government-supported constitutional amendment will concentrate power in one pair of hands “to avoid strife,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said, appealing to voters from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) as the referendum campaign gathered momentum.

Erdogan has long supported shifting to an executive presidential system. Opposition voices say the proposed changes will bring about “one-man rule.”

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Ron Paul: Trump’s ISIS Plan: Another US Invasion?

Just over a week into the Trump Administration, the President issued an Executive Order giving Defense Secretary James Mattis 30 days to come up with a plan to defeat ISIS. According to the Order, the plan should make recommendations on military actions, diplomatic actions, partners, strategies, and how to pay for the operation.

As we approach the president’s deadline it looks like the military is going to present Trump with a plan to do a whole lot more of what we’ve been doing and somehow expect different results. Proving the old saying that when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail, we are hearing increasing reports that the military will recommend sending thousands of US troops into Syria and Iraq.

This would be a significant escalation in both countries, as currently there are about 5,000 US troops still fighting our 13-year war in Iraq, and some 500 special forces soldiers operating in Syria.

The current Syria ceasefire, brokered without US involvement at the end of 2016, is producing positive results and the opposing groups are talking with each other under Russian and Iranian sponsorship. Does anyone think sending thousands of US troops into a situation that is already being resolved without us is a good idea?

[Comment: Solution is to prevent globalist factions within CIA, State Dept and NATO from supplying ISIS with arms and money.]

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Temple of Artemis Turns Into Swamp Due to Neglect

The Temple of Artemis in the Selçuk district of Izmir has turned into a swamp because of neglect and a lack of interest by authorities. The temple, which is among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and on the UNESCO Cultural Heritage List, draws millions of tourists each year.

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Turkey’s Spying Imams Also Active in Norway: Monitoring Group

Infamous Turkish imams who were accused of profiling critics and opponents of Turkey’s president in the Netherlands, Austria and Germany, which prompted investigations by authorities, have footprints in Norway as well.

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UK: Five London Teens Arrested After Police Foil Their Plans to Join a Terrorist ‘Organization’

Five teenage boys have been arrested by anti-terror officers after police foiled their plans to travel together to join a terrorist “organisation”.

Police stormed addresses across London and arrested the males — aged between 15 and 19 — on suspicion of the preparation of terrorist acts.

The Metropolitan Police did not specify if the arrests were in connection with Islamic State, but said they “relate to plans to travel to join a proscribed organisation”.

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Russia’s New ICBMs Can ‘Rip Apart’ US Anti-Missile Systems — Deputy PM Rogozin

Russia is constantly improving its nuclear deterrence and is very close to deploying new technologically-advanced intercontinental ballistic missiles which can defeat any US missile defense systems, a Russian deputy prime minister said in an interview.

“These weapons will soon appear in our armed forces,” Dmitry Rogozin told Rossiya-1 TV on Sunday. While not naming the new ICBM, the deputy PM in charge of the defense industry said the missile will have the capacity to penetrate any American air defenses.

“These weapons are able to clear the United States’ missile defense both of today and of tomorrow — and even of the day after tomorrow,” Rogozin said.

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Russia Overtakes Saudi Arabia as World’s Top Crude Producer

Russia overtook Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest crude producer in December, when both countries started restricting supplies ahead of agreed cuts with other global producers to curb the worst glut in decades.

Russia pumped 10.49 million barrels a day in December, down 29,000 barrels a day from November, while Saudi Arabia’s output declined to 10.46 million barrels a day from 10.72 million barrels a day in November.

The U.S. was the third-largest producer, at 8.8 million barrels a day in December compared with 8.9 million barrels a day in November, according to JODI. Iraq came in fourth at 4.5 million barrels a day, followed by China at 3.98 million barrels a day, the data show.

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Soros’ Ideology Exposed: A Post-Modern, Post-Family, Post-Border New World Order

Over 16,000 people have signed a petition asking President Trump to deprive George Soros of citizenship and expel him from the US. Igor Pshenichnikov, an advisor to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, an influential Moscow-based think tank, explains what’s at stake in the ideological and metaphysical battle shaping up.

Thousands have signed a petition at verified petition site Change.org asking Donald Trump to ban the US-Hungarian billionaire and his Open Society Foundations from operating on US territory, accusing him, his family, and his businesses of working to manipulate US politicians and spread post-modern, anti-conservative values in the country and throughout the world.

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Action Needed to Lure 10 Million Chinese Tourists to Indonesia

The latest data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) show that even though there was a 25 percent annual increase in the number of Chinese tourists visiting Indonesia in 2016, the increase only resulted in 1.43 million tourists, falling short of the original target of welcoming 1.7 million Chinese tourists last year.

“Our competitor, Thailand, can welcome 8 to 9 million Chinese tourists per year. Imagine, there are airlines that can connect 15 cities in China and Thailand,” he said on Thursday.

Thailand is indeed a very attractive destination in Southeast Asia for Chinese tourists. Thailand welcomed 8.87 million Chinese tourists last year, an increase of 12 percent from 2015, dominating Thailand’s list of foreign tourists.

The Thai government expects to see 9 million Chinese visitors this year, boosting its tourist industry, which already accounts for 11 percent of Thailand’s US$395 billion gross domestic product (GDP).

Meanwhile, Singapore and Vietnam welcomed more than 2 million Chinese tourists last year.

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Malaysian Investigators, North Korean Officials Squabble Over Assassination Probe

North Korea’s top envoy in Kuala Lumpur on Monday denounced Malaysia’s investigation into the apparent killing of the exiled half brother of North Korea’s ruler, calling it politically motivated and demanding a joint probe into the death.

The comments from Ambassador Kang Chol came amid rising tensions between North Korea and Malaysia over the death, with Malaysia recalling its ambassador to Pyongyang over what it called “baseless” allegations.

Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half brother of North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un, died last week after apparently being poisoned in a Kuala Lumpur airport.

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Japan Police Offer Martial Arts Classes for Tourists

A Japanese police force is offering martial arts classes to foreign tourists in a bid to build trust and improve officers’ English proficiency, it’s reported.

The initiative is taking place in the city of Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, and follows a trial involving international students, The Mainichi newspaper reports. Starting in March, foreign tourists will be invited to spend an hour learning the principles of judo and kendo, a martial art practised with bamboo swords. They’ll be taught by police officers who hold black belts, the website says, and it’s hoped the instructors will be able to converse in English, as happened in the trial.

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US Navy Sends Warships on Freedom of Navigation Operation Through South China Sea

The U.S. Navy announced Saturday that an aircraft carrier and a guided-missile destroyer were deployed to the South China Sea.

The Navy said the USS Carl Vinson and the USS Wayne E. Meyer were sent to the South China Sea on “routine operations,” despite warnings from Beijing not to challenge its sovereignty.

“China respects and upholds the freedom of navigation and overflight in the South China Sea, which countries enjoy under international law, but firmly opposes any country’s attempt to undermine China’s sovereignty and security in the name of the freedom of navigation and overflight,” China’s foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said.

The naval ships will likely sail within the 12 nautical miles of China’s artificial islands, the Navy Times reported last week.

U.S. Navy leaders believe that freedom of navigation operations help secure U.S. influence in the region, while China claims the operations are a challenge to claim territory.

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Julian Assange: ‘Narrative’ On Fake News is Good for WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks founder and editor Julian Assange says it’s a good thing there is now a “narrative” about “fake news.”

Speaking to students in Auckland, New Zealand, on Sunday evening via live video stream, Assange compared WikiLeaks’ secret-sharing operation to the “very, very, very inaccurate” media, who work in an industry full of “opportunistic snipers,” according to CNET.

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Ecuador Leftist Leads Presidential Vote But May Face Run Off

Ecuador’s leftist government candidate Lenin Moreno looked set for victory on Monday in a presidential election, but slow results meant it may take days to know if he will face a runoff with former banker Guillermo Lasso.

In a nail-biter vote with eight candidates at the weekend, Moreno was close to the threshold needed to avoid a second round on April 2 and continue a decade-long period of leftist rule, just as South America is moving to the right.

[Comment: A pity that the center-right candidate wants to boot Assange from the Embassy.]

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Ami Horowitz Defends Sweden Refugee Claims From Backlash Over Trump Remark

Filmmaker Ami Horowitz defended his investigation of refugees in Sweden Monday night amid a blacklash after President Donald Trump cited his work during a campaign speech over the weekend.

“Between 2012 and 2016 the murder rate [in Sweden] is up almost 70 percent,” Horowitz told “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” citing the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention. “Rape between 2007 and 2015 is up a similar number, almost 70 percent. These are their statistics, not my statistics.”

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Companies Fire ‘Day Without Immigrants’ Protesters

(FOX NEWS) The Day Without Immigrants protest shut down businesses nationwide last week, but it didn’t come without some consequences for a handful of workers who decided to take part in the demonstrations.

Dozens of workers said they lost their jobs after taking part in Thursday’s protest. The boycott was aimed squarely at President Trump’s efforts to step up deportations, build a wall at the Mexican border and close the nation’s doors to many travelers. It was unclear how many participated.

Twelve Latino employees from the I Don’t Care Bar and Grill in Tulsa, Okla. told Fox 23 News they were fired over text message because they didn’t show up for their shift and failed to let their employers know about their absence. The employees told the station they expected to be reprimanded, but not dismissed.

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Cost of Border Wall is Less Than Cost of Services for Illegals: Report

If President Trump’s border wall stopped just 10 percent of new illegal immigrants it would pay for itself by saving American taxpayers from spending money on services for those migrants over their lifetimes, according to a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies.

The center, which advocates for a crackdown on immigration, said illegal border crossers are a net drain of nearly $75,000 per person over their lifetimes. Stopping just 200,000 border-jumpers over the next decade would save some $15 billion.

The better the wall does at stopping people, the more money it saves taxpayers, the report said.

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Culturally Enriched Malmo, Sweden is the Most Dangerous City in Western Europe

43% foreign population brings soaring crime, murder

Multicultural Malmo, Sweden is the most dangerous city in western Europe according to newly released figures, debunking mainstream media claims that Donald Trump is lying when he focuses on the Scandinavian country as an example of the perils of mass immigration.

Trump was ridiculed by the media after referring to an “incident” in Sweden that happened on Friday night. Trump later clarified his remarks, insisting that he actually meant to refer to Sweden’s soaring violent crime rate.

This led to an onslaught of propaganda claiming that mass immigration has had no negative impact on Sweden, including a Sky News report that asserted, “Sweden’s crime rate has fallen since 2005, despite the country taking in hundreds of thousands of immigrants from war-torn countries such as Iraq and Syria.”

The facts suggest otherwise.

According to statistics analyzed by the Sydsvenskan newspaper, Malmo has a “murder index” of 3.4 when homicides for one hundred thousand inhabitants are taken into account, a “a very high figure” according to the report.

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EU Border Agency Expects Same Number of Migrants Via Libya This Year as Last

The European Union should expect as many migrants crossing from Libya this year as last, when a record number disembarked in Italy, the head of the bloc’s border agency said on Wednesday.

Some 1.6 million refugees and migrants reached the bloc by crossing the Mediterranean in 2014-2016 and the main route now leads from the shores of the lawless Libya to Italy.

“There was an increase by 17 percent last year so we had approximately 181,000 irregular border crossings coming from Libya… We have to be ready to face the same number,” Fabrice Leggeri, the head of the EU’s border agency Frontex told reporters.

“In 2016, 2015 and 2014, we had more than 150,000 thousand irregular migrants coming from Libya, he said, using the term favoured by the EU to mean those entering illegally.

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How Sweden Became an Example of How Not to Handle Immigration

“We’ve taken in far too many people and we’re letting them down badly”

For a British boy to be killed by a grenade attack anywhere is appalling, but for it to happen in a suburb of Gothenburg should shatter a few illusions about Sweden.

Last week’s murder of eight-year-old Yuusuf Warsame fits a pattern that Swedes have come slowly to recognise over the years. He was from Birmingham, visiting relatives, and was caught up in what Swedish police believe is a gang war within the Somali community. Last year, a four-year-old girl was killed by a car bomb outside Gothenburg, another apparent victim of gang violence.

For years, Sweden has regarded itself as a ‘humanitarian superpower’ — making its mark on the world not by fighting wars but by offering shelter to war’s victims. Refugees have arrived here in extraordinary numbers. Over the past 15 years, some 650,000 asylum-seekers made their way to Sweden. Of the 163,000 who arrived last year, 32,000 were granted asylum. Sweden accepts more refugees in proportion to size of population than any other nation in the developed world — when it comes to offering shelter, no one does it better. But when it comes to integrating those we take in (or finding the extra housing, schools and healthcare needed for them), we don’t do so well.

[Comment: “we’re letting them down”?…another self-flagellating article by a Swede.]

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In Pictures: 160,000 Pro-Immigration Protesters Hit the Streets of Barcelona

Tens of thousands of people marched through Barcelona on Saturday urging the Spanish government to immediately meet its pledge to take in thousands of refugees.

Ada Colau, the mayor of Spain’s second city, had called on Barcelona residents to “fill the streets” and march under the slogan volem acollir (“We want to welcome them” in Catalan).

Local police said some 160,000 people had heeded her call.

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In Response to Trump Executive Order, Illegal Aliens Are Fleeing U.S. Into Canada

Illegal aliens who are apparently fearful about their future in the United States since President Trump signed Executive Order 13769 barring refugees and travelers from seven countries from entering the United States have been seen crossing the U.S. border into Canada recently. A Reuters news photographer filmed several people fleeing a U.S. border protection officer in New York State on February 17, as they crossed the border into the Canadian province of Quebec. Canada Border Services Agency reported that it found 22 people illegally crossing the border into the province of Manitoba that same weekend.

That order (formally titled “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States”) was temporarily blocked on February 3 by District Judge James Robart of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington presiding in Washington v. Trump. That same day the Justice Department asked for an emergency stay to reverse Robart’s ruling. However, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied the administration’s immediate petition.

Despite that judicial hold, some illegal aliens who were worried about the eventual outcome have decided to go to Canada.

A February 17 report from VOA news described an incident in which U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers questioned a man seated in a taxi that had pulled up to a gully at a popular border crossing point. Reporters had witnessed four other adults and four children cross the gully. VOA noted that a photograph revealed that at least one of the aliens had a passport from Sudan.

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Migrant Crisis — Czech Deputy PM Slams ‘Inept’ EU Over Immigration

THE Czech Republic’s deputy prime minister today said his country is refusing to accept asylum seekers because it does not want to end up like Germany in a highly incendiary intervention on migration.

Controversial Andrej Babis insisted it would be Prague, and not Jean-Claude Juncker, which would decide who entered his country as he railed against “incapable and ineffective” eurocrats.

He vowed the Eastern European country would continue its opposition to Brussels imposed migrant quotas and said richer member states should not complain because they benefit from cheap Czech labour.

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More Than 350 Migrants Successfully Storm Spain Border Fence

More than 350 migrants stormed the border between Morocco and Spain at Ceuta on Monday, officials said, days after one of the largest rush of arrivals over the frontier in more than a decade.

The young migrants forced their way through the high border fence into the Spanish North African territory, ecstatic to have finally crossed into a European Union state.

Their arrival came just days after nearly 500 migrants made it over the fence on Friday, one of the biggest entries since the border barrier was reinforced in 2005.

It also comes amid a dispute between Morocco and the EU over the interpretation of a free trade farm and fishing deal.

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Norway Bishop Calls on Churches to Employ Paperless Migrants

Christian organisations in Norway plan to join a campaign to employ undocumented migrants, despite the threat of fines and imprisonment.

Tor Berger Jørgensen, the former bishop of Sør-Hålogaland in northern Norway, launched the campaign last week, arguing that breaking the law in this way was not about saving money, but about providing a livelihood to people “in a hopeless situation”.

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Ohio State Lectured on “Islamophobia” Three Months After Terror Attack

After being subject to a terrorist attack by a Somali refugee student less than three months ago, Ohio State University (OSU) is hosting a lecture Monday night on the dangers of “Islamophobia.”

The College Fix reports that the university’s Middle East Studies Center and Multicultural Center are jointly hosting a visit by author Nathan Lean, who will tell students about the “pernicious phenomenon” of Islamophobia that has reached “a fevered pitch” in American society.

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Sweden: Riots in Rinkeby, Warning Shots Fired

When Trump said that Sweden is in trouble, the trouble could not wait to prove him right.

On Monday night police were forced to fire warning shots in the immigrant dense Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby, after several people started throwing stones at police.

– We are still in the area, says Eva Nilsson of the Stockholm police, to Expressen.

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Swedish Fox News Cops Hit Out at Filmmaker: ‘He is a Madman’

The controversial segment from a film by filmmaker Ami Horowitz, which was shown on Fox News on Friday and claimed immigration had led to a rise in crime in Sweden, made headlines after Trump (much to the surprise of Swedes) used the Nordic country as a cautionary tale in a speech on Saturday.

But two Stockholm-based police officers featured in the clip, talking about crime and the accessibility of weapons, have sharply criticized how they were portrayed and how their quotes were used in the interview.

Asked if he had done anything to stop the film, he said: “We just saw it. What can we do? One thing is talking to you. The excerpt they showed doesn’t say anything, we answered a different question. We don’t stand behind what he says. He is a madman.”

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Teenage Syrian Refugee on Trial in Germany Over ISIS Bomb Plot Charges

A 16-year-old Syrian refugee has gone on trial in the German city of Cologne over charges that he planned a bomb attack on behalf of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

The teenager, identified only as “Mohammad J” by RTL News, was arrested at an asylum shelter in the city in September. Authorities described him as a “serious threat” at the time, according to AFP.

According to police, the 16-year-old’s mobile phone showed he had been in touch with an IS contact abroad, and had expressed a willingness to carry out an attack.

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Thousands March in Barcelona in Support of Refugees

Under the slogan, “Enough excuses” some 160,000 people urge authorities to fulfill EU quotas

At least 160,000 people flooded the streets of Barcelona on Saturday to urge the Spanish government to fulfill its promise to take in refugees from Syria and other war zones. Under an agreement adopted 18 months ago by EU states, Spain should have taken in 17,000 people fleeing conflict, but so far has accepted just over 700.

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Trump and the Truth About Sweden

“What’s happening in Sweden is crazy”. From an immigrant who lives in Sweden

Donald Trump gave a speech in Florida and remarked “look at what happened last night in Sweden”, which was met by immediate mockery. The Embassy of Sweden in the US even tweeted Trump saying they looked forward to informing him on Swedish immigration and integration policy.

Don’t bother. I’ll do a better job explaining that disaster than you ever could. Please share this video and make a fool out of the fake news media. Trump is not lying.

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Trump Slams ‘Fake News’ Lies That Sweden’s Mass Immigration “Is Working Out Just Beautifully”

Having clarified his comments with regard Sweden over the weekend, President Trump has taken to Twitter to try and stop the inevitable groundswell and ignorance from the mainstream media about Sweden’s immigration disaster…

Give the public a break — The FAKE NEWS media is trying to say that large scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully. NOT!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 20, 2017

Anyone — media or politician — claiming that the Swedish people are just cock-a-hoop at the government’s immigration decisions is either lying or delusional. Over the past year we have detailed the Scandinavian utopia’s problems numerous times:

Nov 2015 — Sweden: “No Apartments, No Jobs, No Shopping Without A Gun”

Feb 2016 — “There Is Definitely Something Strange Going On” In Sweden

May 2016 — Sweden’s Migrant Rape Epidemic Explained

Feb 2017 — Swedish Cop Posts Epic Facebook Rant On Immigrant Crime; Ignites Nationwide Firestorm

Or just ask this ‘60 Minutes’ crew how ‘fantastic’ everything is…

Irony at its finest: ‘60 Minutes’ goes to Sweden to show how peaceful refugees are. Entire crew gets assaulted by refugees!#SwedenIncident pic.twitter.com/7ZnCejuMFo

— Tennessee (@TEN_GOP) February 19, 2017

So, as HeatSt.com reports, President Trump was right about Sweden after all…

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US View of Sweden Changed Years Ago, Says Former Diplomat

Olle Wästberg, a former Swedish diplomat to the US, says that Trump’s comments come merely on top of a change in the image of Sweden, that started a few years ago.

After the initial confusion about Donald Trump’s mention of Sweden this weekend, in a section of a speech where he talked about terrorist attacks, it became clear that he was referring to a TV-documentary that portrays Sweden as a country in denial of the problems of immigration.

Such more negative images of Sweden started emerging a few years ago, says Olle Wästberg, who was the general-council to the US at the turn of the millennium.

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Facebook Plans to Rewire Your Life. Be Afraid.

By Leonid Bershidsky

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto, penned clearly in response to accusations leveled at the social network in the wake of the bitter U.S. election campaign, is a scary, dystopian document. It shows that Facebook — launched, in Zuckerberg’s own words five years ago, to “extend people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships” — is turning into something of an extraterritorial state run by a small, unelected government that relies extensively on privately held algorithms for social engineering.

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Transgender on Steroids Wins Girls’ State Wrestling Tournament

Parents file lawsuit claiming ‘imminent threat of bodily harm’

A transgender teenager won a girls wrestling contest on Saturday despite attempts from other competitors’ parents to stop him from taking part.

Mack Beggs, a 17-year-old from Euless, Texas, has been taking steroids as part of his transition from female to male since late 2015.

He says he wants to compete against boys but isn’t allowed to because of University Interscholastic League rules which say he must compete as the gender listed by his birth certificate.

A girl he was due to wrestle at the weekend forfeited the match amid claims from parents that was unsafe for her to wrestle the transgender teenager who they say he is getting an ‘unfair advantage’ by taking steroids.

One parent has launched a lawsuit against the League, claiming it is putting girls at risk of ‘imminent threat of bodily harm’ by allowing Mack to remain in the 110-pound weight class.

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Connecting us All: How Satellites Remade the World

From cold wars to hot junk, a new book about satellites shows how thousands of satellites extend humans’ reach in every possible way

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Islam and Useful Idiots

Islam enjoys a large and influential ally among non-Muslims: A new generation of “Useful Idiots,” that Lenin identified living in liberal democracies who furthered the work of communism. This new generation of Useful Idiots also live in liberal democracies, but serves the cause of Islamofascism-another virulent form of totalitarian ideology.

Useful Idiots are naïve, they are foolish, they are ignorant of facts, they are unrealistically idealistic, they are dreamers and they are willfully in denial or deceptive. They hail from the ranks of the chronically unhappy. They are anarchists, they are aspiring revolutionaries, they are neurotics who are at war with life, the disaffected alienated from government, corporations, and just about any and all institutions of society. The Useful Idiot can be a billionaire, a movie star, an academe of renown, a politician, or from any other segment of the population. Arguably, the most dangerous variant of the Useful Idiot is the “Politically Correct.” He is the master practitioner of euphemism, hedging, doubletalk, and outright deception.

The Useful Idiot derives satisfaction from being anti-establishment. He finds perverse gratification in aiding the forces that aim to dismantle an existing order, whatever it may be: an order he neither approves of nor feels he belongs to.

The Useful Idiot is conflicted and dishonest. He fails to look inside himself and discover the causes of his own problems and unhappiness while he readily enlists himself in causes that validate his distorted perception.

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Los Angeles, Moscow Top List of Most Congested Cities

A US study shows that drivers in Los Angeles spend the most time stuck in traffic of any in the world. Although it was mostly US cities that scored badly for congestion, three European cities are also highly clogged.

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Mars Might Already be Building Rings From Its Moons

In a few million years, Mars’s moon Phobos will be shredded into pieces that will settle into a flat ring like Saturn’s. But bits of Mars’s two moons may already be circling the Red Planet, some of it in the form of nascent rings.

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What Was the First Life on Earth?

The earliest evidence for life on Earth arises among the oldest rocks still preserved on the planet.

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What’s the Oldest Thing Alive Today?

The oldest living thing on Earth today is … well, it’s controversial.

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16 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/20/2017

  1. On, Are the Globalists out to get Donald Trump – you betcha they are! Professor Yates makes some good points concerning Trump and Bannon’s, and what he considers to be an apparent lack of experience to take on the Globalists. But what would be the immediate target for someone like Trump who is prepared to take on those who have no hesitation in destroying him? What is it that promotes lies, innuendo, is a tool of the Globalists and just oozes plain hatred for all who tune in to see and hear? It is the main stream lying media!

    And who is Trump attacking, attacking and attacking like General George Patton recommended? Of course it is the mainstream lying media, the Globalists mouthpiece and teller of lies.

    Trump needs to destroy what ever is left of the lying and dying mainstream media’s credibility and if he can do that, then he may get to live to fight on and win other battles.

  2. HOTEL IN SWEDEN

    Sweden’s Million-Dollar Refugee Industry
    Question: “I live in Sweden and a year ago my family got a call from the Swedish Migration service and was offered what I call a deal with the devil. The deal was for us to house up to 30 refugees for the most ridiculous sum of money I have ever seen. When you have been given the deal with the devil, will you take it and sacrifice your soul for wealth, or reject it and keep your soul but continue suffering?”

    https://youtu.be/gYNKufXhWGg

  3. How many people actually believe in the lame-stream media these days? Don’t we all realize they are lying every time they open their mouths? There are other sources for news, some, or many, are overseas. The internet allows us access to the world.

    And to finish off, I say to HELL with the globalists! The world is composed of various countries, all representing their own ethnic heritages and I would not wish to destroy them (with a few exception in the middle east) so carry on.

    England used to be great and perhaps can be again. Germany is in trouble but if they get rid of Merkel they can perhaps be great again. Spain and France? Not sure because France has bowed down to muslims, which will kill her if she doesn’t wake up in time. Of course Germany has done the same, so no greatness anytime soon.

    If muslims were willing to adapt to their new circumstances, it would be one thing, but the DO NOT do that. I am an immigrant to USA and when we arrived here we immediately learned English and American history and became Americans of Hungarian descent. We did not pretend we were still living in Hungary. And of course, we were not into rape and decapitation either!

  4. ** [Comment: Solution is to prevent globalist factions within CIA, State Dept and NATO from supplying ISIS with arms and money.]**

    JD nails it, as usual. Huge media attention is paid to the content of Gen. Flynn’s communication with the Russian ambassador, the evil machinations of Steve “Rasputin” Bannon, Reince Priebus’s favorite color, the outrageous idea that foreigners should be in the least inconvenienced in their plans to be supported by US taxpayers, and fatuous claims that Vladimir Putin conspired with Donald Trump to help him get elected.

    However, one needs an electron microscope to locate moribund sycophant media (MSM) stories about:

    1. The unconstitutional war on Syria and Libya,

    2. The war of aggression (no self defense, no UNSC authorization) on Syria and Libya,

    3. The $5B spent to interfere in the results of a Ukrainian election so we could have “our man” (cue “evil Putin” music) at the top,

    4. US participation in a coalition with our enemy Saudi Arabia, which funds, arms, and supplies men to ISIS and which funds salafists around the world,

    5. US direct supplying of ISIS,

    6. US pretend war against ISIS allowing its tankers to carry oil to Turkey to earn millions,

    7. US direct support of al-Qaida cannibals and terrorists in Syria, and

    8. The transparently dishonesty attempt to tar Russia as hell bent on expansionism and manipulating helpless, selfless and kind hearted Americans who simply can’t make up their minds for themselves.

    Those eight points amount to one hell of an elephant in the room but our corrupt press just can’t see it. The fact that the US might be involved in supporting the scum of the earth ISIS sets off no alarms back in the kennels of these attack poodles.

    • Realistic diagnosis of the root problems that we create for ourselves.

      Methought that the media would tell the truth unafraid. Supposedly to be like that to “keep everyonbe honest” , the Fourth Power.”
      The problem who will keep the media honest.

      Yes, Col. it’s amazing how simple things are very difficult, as Kafka said. It’s baffling how such scale of suffering is created under the pretext of “humanitarian, to save people from being killed by their own rulers, ” and Traitors’ high “morals” can’t allow them to stand there with “their hands tied, but have to do something.”

      Bomb other countries so that we can get rapists and criminals caliphists, salafists whom we stupidly call “refugees”

  5. -all charges were dropped.
    So things have reached a stage that denials ,ploys, deception,horned hypocrisy cannot help the humanitarian geniuses. It is amazing how grapes, apricots, girls ripe at a certain stage and not before. Two years ago such charges would not have been dropped to show how humane they were towards the followers of the pirate highway ambushed.

    Things are changing but is it too late. They never change at the right stage. Oh traitors!

  6. HOTEL IN SWEDEN

    Sweden’s Billion-Dollar Refugee Industry.

    Question: “I live in Sweden and a year ago my family got a call from the Swedish Migration service and was offered what I call a deal with the devil. The deal was for us to house up to 30 refugees for the most ridiculous sum of money I have ever seen. When you have been given the deal with the devil, will you take it and sacrifice your soul for wealth, or reject it and keep your soul but continue suffering?”

    https://youtu.be/gYNKufXhWGg

  7. “SWEDES DO NOT YELL”

    Fox News is following up about immigrant crime in Sweden

    After President Donald Trump’s statements about Sweden, Fox News followed up the developments in Sweden and the runaway immigrant criminality.

    In a feature interview with among others, Expressen’s US correspondent Ann-Sofie Naslund and a former US-ambassador to Sweden try to do their very best to exercise damage control.

    Damage control has also the Swedish State Controlled Leftist-Green Public Service Radio: Program One been practizing all this day long,

    http://youtu.be/UGeBFrk6Vqs

  8. Poor Germany is set to replace the Marxist, ms Merkel, with a communist party leader.

    It’s kaput!

  9. So if that transgender “boy” is really male as she claims, then why isn’t she wrestling on the boys’ team? After all, trans “women” have started participating in women’s sports (and winning, of course), so why not the other way around? It’s almost as if she knows biology actually exists and she can’t win against real males!

    I do feel bad to an extent for women who identify as trans, and all young children who are labeled as such. Apparently, a high number of those girls and women have a history of sexual abuse. It’s been a common phenomenon for decades for girls who have suffered such abuse to become anorexic in an effort to erase feminine body traits to try to make themselves less appealing to abusers and this new trans “man” phenomenon probably has the same roots. And the trans label being slapped on kids who don’t conform to gender stereotypes is just horrifying. So your boy likes pink. Who cares? It’s just a color; a color which has historically been associated with boys in the US and still is elsewhere in the world. This is a reason to foist dangerous medical procedures on him, which also sterilize him? It’s horrible.

    Trans “women,” on the other hand, can go hang for the most part. Studies show that a small number of them are actually gay males who have a lot of internalized homophobia and want to “become” women so they can be straight. That’s tough to deal with and I feel for them. But the vast majority of them have been shown to be sexual fetishists called autogynophiliacs who get off on their own feminized bodies and other people perceiving them as women. That alone is disgusting enough, but paraphilias usually come bundled with others, which makes trans “women” dangerous, especially the pedophiles.

    I feel like I’ve been ranting about transgenders a lot lately. Sorry about that! I’ve just been running across a lot of stuff about them recently and it gets me all worked up!

  10. A $15.00 per hour minimum wage is long overdue. If you can’t afford to pay your employees the bare minimum to get by then you should not be running a business.

    If you begrudge your obscene profits that might be curtailed just a tiny bit by paying them a living wage, then you should not be in business.

    If you do not contribute to their medical and retirement you should not be running a business. You are either hanging by a thread or you are greedy.

    If all of us made a decent wage, and if we reined in the banks and the merchants of war, we all could easily afford $20.00 burgers, even paying extra for favorite toppings.

    • I believe a business should be able to determine for itself what it is able to pay employees – and it has always been on the employed as whether they go to work for an employer who offers to pay them an agreed amount per hour.

      No one forces them to work for so many dollars per hour if the worker rejects the offer.

      Once you get government involved in determining who pays what to who then you are well and truly on the road to a Communist state.

      I note you haven’t mentioned introducing a maximum wage when we have so many billionaires using their money to undermine a freely elected President? Are you aware that is sedition?

      • Nemesis: A CEO’s wage certainly shouldn’t be 400 times over a worker in a company as it is now. I believe back in the 60s/70s, it was about 20 to 1.

        Do you not think that the Walmart people can’t afford to pay their poor workers at least $15.00 an hour? They might have to relinquish a small % of the US’s GNP, but a worker of theirs could possibly visit our small business and others, who make it a point to pay our employees very well, equal to us. It would help us immensely, however, if we had government-paid health care. For the cost of a war of choice or two, it could easily be done.

        I’d like to remind you that the US has been hollowed out by greed. Good-paying, factory jobs (cars, furniture, garments, etc.) are gone. We can’t polish each other’s nails or serve each other french fries and coffee forever.

        Also, keep in mind that small businesses keep the money in the community. They don’t funnel profits to tax-sheltering overseas banks.

  11. I don’t have a lot of time to comment on specific articles, but I want to compliment everyone on this terrifically red-pilled collection of articles.

    One point – InfoWars almost gets it right on Islam, except that it is not a component of a one-world religion, it is THE one-world religion the globalists are pushing for.

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