The king of Morocco has decreed that women will henceforth be permitted to act as notaries in his kingdom. Among the duties female notaries will be allowed to perform will be the certification of marriages and the witnessing of legal documents.
In other news, anti-globalist demonstrators took to the streets in Davos to protest President Trump’s planned attendance at the World Economic Forum.
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Peter Schiff: The Economy Will ‘Blow Up Like a Bomb’ And Trump Will be the Fall Guy
Peter Schiff isn’t known for mincing words or sugarcoating the evidence. The financial broker and economist said in an interview “the economy is going to blow up like a bomb,” and when that happens, Donald Trump will take all of the blame.
Not even a full minute into an interview with Alex Jones of Info Wars, Schiff says “it’s not a good thing” that the economy is going to crash and burn. “Unfortunately, that’s what Trump has inherited from Obama. But it’s not even really just Obama, it’s the federal reserve. It’s the monetary policy that has been passed like a baton from Clinton to Bush to Obama and now to Trump. And we’ re near the end of the game and unfortunately, Trump’s gonna be the fall guy. This thing is all gonna collapse while he’s president.”
The tax cuts will give Democrats a reason to blame the collapse all on the Republicans, says Schiff. And we are getting close to this collapse.
“The important thing, is if you look at what’s happening in the dollar, for example, last year was the first year in five years that the dollar went down and it was the biggest decline in 14 years. We has the biggest drop against the Chinese Yuan in nine years, and in fact, I think this year we’ re gonna fall to an all time record low against the Yuan. I think we’ re gonna hit record lows against other major currencies like Euro and the Yen maybe by 2019 or 2020.”
Jones then asks Schiff what Trump is supposed to do to stop the crash. Schiff says there’s nothing he can do. It’s set up to crash so the United States will end up with a left-of-socialist dictator such as Bernie Sanders as the next president.
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3 Alcatraz Inmates Survived 1962 Escape, Swam to Land, Letter Suggests
A letter emerged Tuesday that was purportedly written by a former inmate at Alcatraz who — along with two others — managed to escape the island prison only to vanish without a trace.
The running theory about the inmates’ fate is that they died shortly after stepping foot into the cold waters that separated the prison and San Francisco. But their bodies were never found and their story remains a mystery.
Prison officials and federal agents insisted at the time of the escape that the inmates — brothers John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris — perished.
CBS San Francisco reported that it obtained a letter allegedly written by John Anglin. The letter contains an admission of escape and an explanation of the inmates’ fate.
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Ann Coulter: How is Trump’s First Year Different From a Jeb Bush Presidency?
Ann Coulter assessed President Trump’s first year in office, saying it’s clearly better than a Hillary Clinton presidency would have been, but otherwise not different from the results of any mainstream Republican.
She said right now she grades him as “incomplete” and is still hopeful he can deliver on the campaign promises that were far different from what mainstream Republicans and Democrats have offered voters for decades.
“Finally Trump came along and offered us X, Y and Z, but he’s not really doing it. How is this presidency — he’s obviously better than Hillary Clinton — different from Jeb exclamation point?” she asked on “The Next Revolution” Sunday night.
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Astronomer Proposes New Limit on Definition of a Planet
In a new article published in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org preprint), Johns Hopkins University researcher Kevin Schlaufman sets the upper boundary of planet mass between 4 and 10 times the mass of Jupiter.
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Man Apologizes, Sentenced to 22 Years for US Terrorism Plot
COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio man who admitted he plotted to kill U.S. military members after receiving training in Syria apologized to his family and adopted country Monday before a federal judge sentenced him to 22 years in prison.
After returning to the U.S., Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud planned to fly to Texas and attack the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth in an attempt to free Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist convicted of shooting at two U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, Judge Michael Watson said as he outlined the allegations against Mohamud.
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Missing FBI Text Messages Include Threats of Violence Against Trump
A number of the 50,000 missing FBI text messages contain threats of physical violence aimed at President Trump, according to a new report.
True Pundit, a website that purports to have contacts within the U.S. government, claims that a high level FBI agent called on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to launch an investigation into the FBI and the Justice Department specifically concentrated on the threatening messages.
“This is dangerous territory and all FBI text messages and personal phones should be examined,” the FBI official said. “It would reveal some frightening conversations.”
The source said that many of the messages merely discussed harming Trump politically, but that some “go deeper” and that, “This is much larger than just texts between two FBI agents.”
The FBI official also expressed incredulity at the notion that messages can just vanish, remarking,”Text messages just don’t disappear. Not here. Someone outside DOJ has to look at all emails and texts. These (FBI bosses) are bad people. You’ve only scratched the surface.”
Five months of text messages between senior counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page were confirmed missing over the weekend, leading some Republicans to allege that the FBI has been engaged in a cover-up of its anti-Trump bias.
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Pakistani Islamism Flourishes in America
by Sam Westrop
Charitable proxies for notorious terrorist outfits openly collect donations.
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The rise of the machines could leave a third of the population out of work.
That’s according to Dr Subhash Kak, a computing expert at Oklahoma University, who claims AI and self-driving cars will lead to mass unemployment.
He also warns that as robots take control of the world, humans will slip into a life of ‘meaningless’ misery.
Dr Kak, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, believes we are heading for a dystopian future with mass unemployment.
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Students Demand Antifa-Linked Prof Resign
Stanford University students are demanding the resignation of a professor linked to Antifa, according to a Tuesday report.
Students from the campus’s College Republican chapter and Stanford Review newspaper want David Palumbo-Liu, a comparative literature professor at the school, to either resign or distance himself from the Campus Antifascist Network group he founded, reported The College Fix.
Palumbo-Liu and Purdue University professor Bill Mullen created the group “to stem the rise of fascism, whether proudly displayed in hateful exclusionary slogans and posters, or disguised as ‘free speech.’“
“Antifa’s violence and thuggery is antithetical to the purpose of a university as an institution dedicated to the free exchange of ideas,” said Stanford’s College Republicans on Facebook. “We call on the administration to reprimand Palumbo-Liu and for him to resign immediately.”
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Tucker Carlson Wiped the Floor With Joy Reid After She Tried to Race Bait Him [Video]
Tucker Carlson responded to accusations of having a “blatantly white nationalist view” on immigration from MSNBC host Joy Reid Monday, and said the liberal host’s career has been built “on race baiting,” on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
“Joy Reid is accusing us of racism. Let’s pause for a moment and savor the irony of that. Reid’s entire public career has been built on race baiting,” Tucker said. “Try to watch her show for 20 minutes and see for yourself. This is the woman who urged the Democratic party to give up on white voters who voted for Obama and then Trump, saying their votes weren’t worth fighting for.”
Tucker also reminded viewers of Reid’s aggressive racial attacks against White House chief of staff John Kelly, and her off-the-wall comment about Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, after he was shot by liberal Bernie Sanders’ supporter John Hodgkinson.
“In October she suggested that White House chief of staff John Kelly was somehow a bigot because he grew up around Irish Catholics,” Tucker said. “After House majority whip Steve Scalise was shot and nearly killed by a progressive activist last summer, Reid openly wondered if we should hope for his recovery.”
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Leaked Intelligence Documents Show Greater Threat of Islamic Terror Than Government Admits
Leaked documents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) show that the intelligence service is far more concerned with Islamic terrorism behind closed doors than the left-wing Trudeau government will admit in public.
One of the documents, a report from a committee hearing in October of 2016, states: “The Service has never before faced a terrorist threat of the scope, scale and complexity of Sunni Islamist-inspired terrorism,” Canadian newspaper Sun News, which obtained the documents, reports.
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Trial Begins for Man Accused in Waterpark Assault on Teens
A teenager testified Monday she was groped by a man while she was swimming during a birthday party at West Edmonton Mall’s waterpark.
The 15-year-old was the first witness at a provincial court trial of Soleiman Hajj Soleiman, who is charged with six counts of sexual assault and six counts of sexual contact with a child.
Soleiman, 40, was arrested and charged in February 2017 after several teenagers reported being touched by a man in the wave pool, police said. The other teens are expected to be called as witnesses.
After a video of the girl’s interview with police was played in court, the teen testified behind a screen, and was supported by a staff member and a therapy dog from the Zebra Child Protection Centre.
The identities of the teenage victims are protected by a court-ordered publication ban.
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Two Accused Terrorists Hired as “Anti-Radicalism Consultants” — and You’re Paying Their Salaries
Shocking news from Quebec:
“Sabrine Djermane and El Mahdi Jamali, two Montrealers acquitted of terrorism after three months of trial and over two years incarceration, will be consultants for the Center for Prevention of Radicalization Leading to Violence (CPRMV), learned La Presse.”
Now, it’s technically true that these two men were “acquitted of terrorism” — just last month, actually.
But one was convicted of having explosives, and both are banned from a number of terrorist-oriented activities.
Justin Trudeau himself said that these jihadist terrorists coming back from Syria have a lot to offer.
And if you disagree you’re an Islamophobe.
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Balearics Move to Ban All Plastic in Bid to Clean Up Coast
The government of the Balearic Islands have announced plans to ban the sale of all disposable plastics by 2020 in a radical move to rid the sea and coast of plastic detritus.
Items commonly used across Europe will be outlawed under the new legislation, including plastic cups, straws, disposal lighters and coffee machine capsules.
The everyday plastics will be phased out by 2020 in what is the most radical response to the plastics crisis that has left the world’s seas choking with waste plastics.
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Brussels Losing Sleep as Italy Elections See Economic Political Chaos Loom
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s right-wing coalition of his Forza Italia and Lega Nord keeps on rising in the polls ahead of the March 4 vote. But it is expected to fall short of the 40 percent required to form a coalition — and Mr Berlusconi is currently banned from public office.
Neither of the two other major political groupings — former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s centre left and the anti-establishment 5Star Movement — are expected to get enough votes to form a government.
So the election is likely to be followed by months of prolonged negotiations or even another round of polling later this year.
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DNA Variants That Are Bad for Health May Also Make You Stupid
What makes some people smarter than others? A genetic analysis of families in Scotland, UK, hints that brainier people have fewer DNA mutations that impair intelligence and general health, rather than having more genetic variants that make them smarter.
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Dutch Christians Don’t Want Their Children to Visit Mosques for School
A new study of a Dutch religious education organisation (Verus) says that 40% of Christian schools are regularly visiting mosques.
The study was done after several parents complained about obliged mosque visits for their children. Spokesman Robbert Jan de Vries of Verus, says that “it looked interesting to do research of how many schools still have a bond with the church and if they are visiting religious facilities of other religions”.
While 40% of Christians schools are visiting mosques, several refused to do so. Also a lot of parents don’t agree with that their young children are forced to visit mosques for courses about Islam.
During mosque visits Christian children learn how to do Islamic prayers and other Islamic rituals. If parents protest, their children can do other assignments on Islam, like reading a book about it.
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Germany: Merkel’s Got Some Explaining to Do
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has completely reversed her refugee policies without bothering to tell German voters why she has done so. Such imperiousness is a common problem for those who have been in office for too long.
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Germany’s Angela Merkel Decries Right-Wing Populism as ‘Poison’ At Davos Summit
Angela Merkel has told WEF delegates at Davos that her government would get right-wing populism “under control, but it is a poison.” The chancellor insisted that protectionism would not answer the world’s problems.
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Hypocrite Global Elites Fly to Davos Climate Change Summit in 1000 Private Jets
Either the elite globalists and climate alarmists think we are too stupid to understand this bold hypocrisy, or they think they are above the rules they impose on others. It’s actually probably both.
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Italy: Salvini Still Convinced Euro ‘Mistaken Experiment’
Italian Constitution should prevail over EU law — League chief
(ANSA) — Rome, January 23 — Matteo Salvini, the head of the Euroskeptic League party, said Tuesday that “the euros was, and remains, a mistaken experiment that has damaged jobs and the Italian economy”. “We haven’t changed our mind,” he added at the Lower House presentation of League candidate Umberto Bagnai, the author of a book entitled “Il tramonto dell’Euro” — the dusk of the euro. “We are preparing to defend the national interest, as we signed up to do in the centre-right programme, with the (Italian) Constitution taking prevalence over EU law”. The League is part of the centre-right coalition that is favourite to come first in the March 4 general election.
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Italy: Cameroonian Hits Stranger on Head With Iron Bar
Victim serious, assailant accused of attempted homicide
(ANSA) — Milan, January 24 — A 32-year-old Cameroonian national has been arrested for attempted homicide after allegedly hitting a stranger waiting at a Milan tram stop with an iron bar for no reason late on Tuesday.
The victim, a 31-year-old Serbian man who legally resides in Italy and does not have a criminal record, was taken to the northern city’s Policlinico hospital in a serious condition with numerous fractures to the skull.
A young woman called the Carabinieri police after noticing the alleged assailant acting aggressively after getting off the tram. The assailant hit the Serb three times, twice on the ground, police said.
The Cameroonian has a record of violent offences, they said, including a definitive sentence for bodily harm and resisting arrest.
Some passers-by tried vainly to disarm him after the assault but he fended them off and went on to vandalise a number of motor scooters.
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Italy Has a Worse Quality of Life Than China: Survey
If you want good job prospects, affordable living and political stability, you’re better off in China than Italy, according to a new global survey.
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Italy Arrests 33 ‘Chinese Mafia’ Members
Thirty-three people have been arrested in Italy on suspicion of being members of the Chinese mafia, police say.
The early morning raids targeted a group accused of controlling the transport across Europe of products made in China and by Chinese in Italy.
The group started its operations in the Tuscan city of Prato and extended its influence to the capital Rome and also to Florence, Milan, Padua and Pisa, police said in a statement (in Italian).
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Julian Assange’s Doctors Issue Stark Warning Over His Health
Julian Assange’s doctors have said that his health is at risk due to his six-year confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Sondra S Crosby, Brock Chisholm and Sean Love, writing on The Guardian’s website, said that they spent 20 hours over three days assessing Mr Assange’s condition.
Without giving any particular details, they said that his confinement has had an impact on his physical and mental health.
WikiLeaks founder Mr Assange has not stepped out of the Knightsbridge, west London, embassy since August 2012, when he was granted asylum by Ecuador.
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Menorca’s Mysterious Trepanned Dead
A newly discovered cave conceals 3,300-year-old human remains with holes in their skulls.
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Merkel Warns ‘Protectionism Not the Answer’ To World Problems at Davos Summit
German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted on Wednesday “protectionism is not the answer” to world problems, addressing the Davos economic summit before US President Donald Trump appears to defend his “America First” agenda.
“We think that shutting ourselves off, isolating ourselves, will not lead us into a good future. Protectionism is not the answer,” Merkel said in a speech in the Swiss resort.
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New French Telescope Trio Will Scan the Sky for Earth-Like Planets
Three new telescopes at the La Silla Observatory in northern Chile successfully peered into the night sky for the first time, providing scientists with a new tool to search for light signals from distant worlds.
The French-led ExTrA (Exoplanets in Transits and their Atmospheres) project will help scientists look for moments when the light coming off small “red dwarf” stars is subtly dimmed due to planets passing in front of them (as seen from Earth), according to a statement from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), which manages the La Silla Observatory.
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Norway Police to Look at Allegations Against Former Conservative Youth Leader
Police in Norway are to look into a complaint made against Kristian Tonning Riise, the former leader of the Young Conservatives.
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Oxford University Gives Women More Time to Pass Exams
Oxford University exam times were increased in a bid to improve the low scores of women, it has emerged. Students taking maths and computer science examinations in the summer of 2017 were given an extra 15 minutes to complete their papers, after dons ruled that “female candidates might be more likely to be adversely affected by time pressure”.
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People Are ‘Dying in Hospital Corridors’ Under Britain’s Socialized Healthcare System
There’s new outrage overseas, as people are literally dying in the corridors of hospitals because of Britain’s overrun socialized medicine scam. In case Venezuela didn’t do enough to prove that socialism is a deadly joke on humanity, Britain’s healthcare system should be the last nail in its coffin.
The patients are dying in hospital corridors as safety is jeopardized by intolerable conditions say doctors in Britain, according to the BBC last week. More details continue to emerge surrounding the newest outrages which have sprung up from Britain’s crisis-beset healthcare system. This most recent revelation came as a result of an open letter sent to the Prime Minister by 68 senior doctors, offering details of the inhuman conditions which have become common in the socialized National Health Service’s hospitals.
The letter, which collected statistics from NHS hospitals in England and Wales, found that in December alone over 300,000 patients were made to wait in emergency rooms for more than four hours before being seen. Thousands more suffered long waits in ambulances before even being allowed into the emergency room. But the revelation of horrors was just beginning. The letter further noted that it had become “routine” for patients to be left on gurneys in corridors for as long as 12 hours before being offered proper beds, with many of them eventually being put into makeshift wards hastily constructed in side-rooms. In addition, it was revealed that around 120 patients per day are being attended to in corridors and waiting rooms, with many being made to undergo humiliating treatments in the public areas of hospitals, and some even dying prematurely as a result. One patient reported having gone to the emergency room with a gynecological problem which had left her in severe pain and bleeding, a lack of treatment rooms led hospital staff to examine her in a busy corridor, in full view of other patients. “There was no dignity. It was degrading,” she said. “I couldn’t fault the staff, there was nothing they could do. It was chaos.”
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Pope Says Fake News is Evil, Compares it to Serpent in the Garden of Eden
Pope Francis decried the “evil” of “fake news” in a message marking World Communications Day, saying those who create untruthful stories use “snake tactics.
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Prehistoric Artifacts Recovered From Norway’s Glaciers
Newsweek reports that more than 2,000 artifacts dating back to as early as 4000 B.C. have been recovered from mountain passes in the glaciers of Oppland, Norway, by an international team of researchers. The artifacts include weapons and arrows, the remains of pack horses, and skis. Lars Pilø of the Glacier Archaeology Program at Oppland County Council said the skis are broader than modern skis, and may have been partly covered in fur. A tunic dating to the Iron Age, one Bronze-Age shoe, and the remains of sleds were also found.
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Protesters in Davos Rally Against Trump, Break Through Security Cordon
About 2,000 anti-capitalist and anti-globalization protesters took to the streets in Swiss cities on Tuesday to demonstrate against President Donald Trump’s planned trip to the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Trump is scheduled to speak Friday in Davos, where elite political and business leaders are meeting for the annual forum.
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Protests Against Latest Afghan Deportations From Germany
Nineteen people have arrived in Kabul after being deported from Germany. Protesters gathered at Düsseldorf airport before their departure to highlight that Afghanistan is not safe.
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Sami Village Wins Court Battle and Compensation From Swedish State
A Sami village has won a court battle with the Swedish state over hunting and fishing rights in its territory, being awarded significant compensation in the process.
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Stunning Re-Creation Shows What Stone Age Woman Looked Like 9,000 Years Ago
His latest reconstruction, unveiled last week at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, is a sculpture of an 18-year-old woman dubbed Avgi, whose bones were left in the Theopetra cave in Greece 9,000 years ago.
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Swedish Police Begin to Patrol Suburbs on Horseback
Swedish police have called in officers on horseback to tackle a series of robberies of children by criminal gangs in a Stockholm suburb.
Around ten children aged eight to 15 have been mugged by what has been described as gangs of teenagers in Nacka, south-east of Stockholm, in recent weeks.
The masked attackers have been threatening their victims with knives and forced them to hand over everything from mobile phones to cash and their jackets.
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Terror Police on Alert Across Europe as “Truck Carrying Explosives’ is Stolen
POLICE forces across Europe have been put on alert amid fears a truck, believed to be carrying around 34,000 litres of bomb-making chemicals, has been stolen.
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The Strange Rebirth of Silvio Berlusconi
Six years after resigning as Italy’s Prime Minister, and five after being convicted of tax fraud, the narcissistic 81-year-old is back at the centre of his country’s politics.
By George Eaton
The Halloween film franchise depicts the immortal supervillain Michael Myers. Whatever force is deployed against him — bullets, blades, fire — he always survives apparent death.
One is reminded of Myers when contemplating the fortunes of Silvio Berlusconi (whose surgically frozen face resembles the character’s mask). Six years after he resigned as prime minister of Italy — having been accused of sex with an underage prostitute — and five years after he was convicted of tax fraud, the 81-year-old is once more at the centre of his country’s labyrinthine politics.
Though Berlusconi is legally barred from holding office until 2019 (a judgment against which he is appealing at the European Court of Human Rights), he remains the president of Forza Italia, the centre-right party he founded in 1993. An alliance between Forza, the xenophobic Northern League and the far-right Brothers of Italy is expected to win the most seats at the Italian general election on 4 March (the conservative coalition triumphed in Sicily in November). Berlusconi cannot be king but he could yet be kingmaker. In common with most of its centre-left cousins, Italy’s ruling Democratic Party is struggling to poll above 25 per cent. The populist Five Star Movement (M5S) is likely to finish first (with Forza in third place) but lacks the allies required to form a government…
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These Are Norway’s Most Popular Kids’ Names
Norway has new official most popular baby names for both boys and girls after the 2017 totals were announced.
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‘They Voted for Being Poor!’ Swedish Politician Issues Grave Threat to UK Over Brexit
THE European Union will refuse to give Britain any access to the single market or customs union after Brexit, Swedish finance minister Magdalena Andersson has warned.
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Thousands Raised for Copenhagen Baker After Extortion, Vandalism
A baker in the Copenhagen neighbourhood of Tingbjerg has received the support of politicians and donations totalling 265,000 kroner (35,000 euros) after his business was hit by vandals.
The baker, Ali Parnian, said he had been targeted for refusing to pay protection money to local organised crime.
An initiative to raise money to cover the cost of damage to Parnian’s business was started by Conservative Party MP Mette Abildgaard.
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Tommy Robinson: Where is Lee Rugby’s Memorial (Part 1)
The murder of Lee Rigby five years ago left Britain in shock, and it changed everything. The British people know just how low Muslim extremists are willing to go, and despite the ultimate price that Lee paid, the local government still refuse to honour him with a memorial at the scene of his death.
I think this is wrong, and in this video, I take you around the country and show you the memorials that other fallen heroes have been given. I don’t think it’s right, and I want to change it.
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Turkey is an Aggressive Neighbor, Tsipras Tells Europeans in Davos
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Wednesday his European partners couldn’t always appreciate the challenges of living with an “aggressive” neighbor such as Turkey, remarks reflecting the strained ties between the two NATO partners.
Tsipras was speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos in a discussion about stabilizing the Mediterranean and addressing the migration crisis.
Tsipras, who came to power in early 2015, said he took the helm at a very difficult time for Greece which didn’t only have to grapple with its worst debt crisis and the refugee crisis, but also an “aggressive neighbor, sometimes unpredictable with an aggressive military activity in the Aegean,” Tsipras said.
NATO partners Greece and Turkey have a long history of differences that have outlived the Cold War, ranging from jousting over airspace in the Aegean Sea to minority rights and the ethnically split island of Cyprus.
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Turkish and Kurdish Groups Accuse Each Other of Importing Foreign Conflict Into Germany
Leading Turkish and Kurdish groups in Germany on Wednesday accused each other of “importing” a foreign conflict in the wake of Ankara’s cross-border offensive against a Syrian Kurdish militia.
Skirmishes have erupted between the two groups in Germany since Turkey on Saturday launched its operation “Olive Branch” to oust a Kurdish militia, whom Ankara views as a terror group, from their Afrin enclave in northern Syria.
Three million ethnic Turks live in Germany, the largest diaspora and a legacy of the country’s “guest worker” programme of the 1960s and 70s, as well as hundreds of thousands of Kurds.
Germany’s Turkish-dominated Coordination Council of Mosques said the conflict had been used as an excuse to launch a spate of “attacks on Turkish mosque groups” in Europe’s biggest economy.
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UK: Facebook Let a Terror Suspect ‘Post ISIS Videos’
A terror suspect was allowed to post ISIS videos on Facebook after repeatedly persuading the website to re-enable his account, a court has heard.
Abdulrahman Alcharbati, 31, is accused of posted several propaganda videos, including those of executions and children being brainwashed to fight.
One clip encouraged attacks against Westerners and urged jihadists ‘wack them with a rock, cut his throat with a knife or crush him with a car’.
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A senior Scotland Yard officer has called on the court system to back up the work of police by using the sentencing powers handed to them to their full extent, in an effort to make prison an actual deterrent to would-be offenders.
Remarking that it is “challenging” when police work means a successful prosecution is brought against a knife criminal but the judge hands out a light sentence, Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt said efforts by the police to put criminals behind bars had to be “followed through in the courts”.
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UK: Salford Man Pleads Guilty to 16 Terrorism Charges
A Muslim convert from Salford has pleaded guilty to 16 terrorism charges.
Adam Wyatt admitted encouraging terrorism through online postings about jihad, disseminating terrorist publications and possessing e-copies of documents useful for terrorism.
Wyatt, 48, of Bridgewater Street, Salford, was remanded into custody following his guilty pleas at Manchester Crown Court on Monday.
He will be sentenced following a further hearing in April.
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When the Parthenon Had Dazzling Colours
Ancient statues weren’t white marble, but “a riot of colour and glitzy decoration.” It shows that we’ve imagined the ancient world all wrong.
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Why Family-Friendly Sweden is Talking About a Maternity Care Crisis
Sweden is regularly hailed as a feminist, family-friendly country, but in recent years pressure on maternity care has led to overworked midwives and closed-down clinics, while rates of injury during childbirth are above the OECD average. The Local explores the story behind the Swedish ‘maternity care crisis’.
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German Government Tight-Lipped on Threat of Islamic Extremism in the Balkans
The German government has urged that the number of fighters from the western Balkans joining jihadist groups be classified. Is Berlin playing down the rise of Islamic extremism, and Saudi influence, in the region?
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Morocco Allows Women to Become Notaries
King Mohammed VI signs royal decree
Rome3 — King Mohammed VI of Morocco has signed a royal decree allowing women to take up public notary positions in the country, Al Jazeera reports.
The move authorises women across the country to perform a number of duties in accordance with Islamic law, including documenting marriages, managing real estate transfers and certifying legal testimonies. The ministry for justice has allegedly opened up 700 positions for women in this sector.
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Arab Leaders: We Can Resume Peace Talks Despite Jerusalem Controversy
Arab leaders in Davos expressed optimism Wednesday about the possibility of renewing Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, despite controversy over the recent US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
King Abdullah II of Jordan told Maariv during the Davos conference that, following US President Donald Trump’s announcement and intention to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, he would rather see the glass half full and focus on relations with Israel and how these ties can promote peace.
The king said that “renewing the negotiations is dependent on goodwill expressed by both parties.” He also added that he would “prefer to remain optimistic.”…
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Are We Heading Towards a Male Fertility Disaster?
It’s a disaster of titanic proportions, says Hagai Levine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A study he published this year found a 50 per cent decline in sperm counts among Western men from 1973 to 2011. On top of that, sperm production declines with age, and more men are leaving it later to have kids. “I am very worried,” he says. “We cannot escape from it.”
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Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar Declares That Trump’s Jerusalem Decision Will Lead to Jihad Terror
In a shocking video-taped CNN exclusive, the Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb, hailed by many Sunni Muslims as the highest authority in Sunni Islamic thought, made some eyebrow-raising declarations.
He referred to Jerusalem as “100 percent Arab” under Israeli occupation;
He stated that “no religion” will support the declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel;
He said that decisions such as this one will nurture terrorism, and:
Because of this decision, the East and the West “will drown in seas of blood.”
El-Tayyeb has essentially issued a jihadi call to violence. The message of jihadis throughout history is “give in to my demands or I will kill you.” They have also mastered the propaganda war, casting themselves as the victims as they attack infidels, and then blaming the victims for provoking them.
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12 Camels Disqualified From Saudi Beauty Contest in ‘Botox’ Row
Twelve camels have been disqualified from Saudi Arabia’s annual camel beauty contest after receiving botulinum toxin injections to make their pouts look more alluring.
Saudi authorities have raised the profile of the King Abdulaziz camel festival by relocating it from the desert to the outskirts of the capital, Riyadh.
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Facebook Let a Terror Suspect, 31, ‘Post ISIS Videos Glorifying Executions
A terror suspect was allowed to post ISIS videos on Facebook after repeatedly persuading the website to re-enable his account, a court has heard.
Abdulrahman Alcharbati, 31, is accused of posted several propaganda videos, including those of executions and children being brainwashed to fight.
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The Iranian woman who protested the country’s ‘modesty’ dress code by standing on a pillar box in Tehran and waving a hijab, is missing and feared to have been arrested.
She had taken off her white headscarf and tied it to a stick in an apparent reference to the ‘White Wednesday’ protests against clothing restrictions on women in Iran.
Not covering your hair in public is a punishable offense for Iranian women, and the unnamed protester, a 31-year-old mother-of-one, is believed to have been arrested by police.
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Two Pussy Riot Members Seek Asylum in Sweden
Two members of Russian protest punk group Pussy Riot have sought asylum in Sweden, the musicians revealed to Sweden’s SVT.
Lusine Djanyan and Aleksey Knedlyakovsky now live in a home for asylum seekers in Lindesberg along with their son while awaiting a decision on their asylum request.
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Afghan Pedophiles Get Free Pass From U.S. Military, Report Says
On 5,753 occasions from 2010 to 2016, the United States military reported accusations of “gross human rights abuses” by the Afghan military, including many examples of child sexual abuse. If true, American law required military aid to be cut off to the offending unit.
Not once did that happen.
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Dark is Divine: What Colour Are Indian Gods and Goddesses?
In India where light skin is coveted, a new campaign is re-imagining popular Hindu gods and goddesses with a darker skin, writes the BBC’s Geeta Pandey in Delhi.
The desire for fairer skin is not new in India and for centuries, fair complexion has been considered superior.
Fairness creams are among the highest selling cosmetic products in the country and top Bollywood actors and actresses regularly appear in commercials endorsing fairness products.
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Explosives Used in Jihad Attack at Afghanistan Hotel Traced Back to Pakistan
By Robert Spencer
It wouldn’t be surprising if the Pakistani government were discovered to have been involved. Pakistan is no ally of the United States, but is allied with the global jihad force, and should be treated accordingly.
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Save the Children Offices Attacked in Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Attackers have detonated explosives before storming the offices of the Save the Children charity in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.
At least two people have been killed and 12 injured, officials say. It is believed about 50 staff were in the building at the time.
The Islamic State group has said three of its fighters are behind the attack, which is said to have now ended.
The Taliban had earlier denied carrying out the attack.
Their fighters had been behind the storming of a luxury hotel in Kabul at the weekend that killed at least 22 people, mostly foreigners.
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Conrado Miranda, Twitter Former Software Engineer: Twitter is “Constantly Under Attack” from Chinese Government and Hackers
Background: Twitter’s Terms of Service “Different in Each Country,” in China “the Chinese Government Agreed Upon”
Another Project Veritas undercover investigation has revealed a former Twitter software engineer admitting that Twitter acts under the whims and pressures of foreign governments — notably China — by silencing and banning users at their request.
This video comes in the wake of three undercover videos inside Twitter by Project Veritas, exposing a senior network engineer admitting that Twitter will give Donald Trump’s personal DM’s to the DOJ, their unethical shadow banning tactics, and Twitter’s creepy “virtual profiles” of all of its users, which it sells to advertisers.
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Rise of the Machines: 12 Chinese Robots Taking Over Our Everyday Jobs
Receptionists, criminals, doctors — robots are taking on all shapes and sizes to aid us in our everyday jobs
From potentially life-saving robots (think medical and dental), to lawbreaking ones made by a tout and online fraudsters, the machines are on the rise as we enter 2018.
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Surveillance Under the Sea: How China is Listening in Near Guam
Acoustic sensors in waters near US military base in Western Pacific are ‘standard practice’ for monitoring submarine traffic, US analyst says
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What Could China Do in a US Trade War?
President Trump’s backing for slapping tariffs on imports of washing machines and solar panels will hit China and South Korea hardest.
And it has opened up the prospect of some retaliation — especially from Beijing.
The hardline Chinese publication Global Times says “nothing good” would come out of a trade war with President Trump, and has warned that China could fight back.
There’s lots at stake. The two countries did $578.6bn worth of trade in 2016.
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Why America’s Stealth Jet Forces Should Fear China’s New Unarmed Eye in the Sky
The Chinese military is developing a carrier-based early-warning plane that will be fitted with radar to detect the most advanced aircraft at longer range
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Sydney and Melbourne were also named among the least-affordable major housing markets in the world. Australia was also the ranked the third-least affordable country in the world.
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Cape Town Water Crisis: ‘My Wife Doesn’t Shower Anymore’
The BBC’s Mohammed Allie is one of millions of people trying to stave off Day Zero — the day the taps in the South African city of Cape Town will run dry. Here, he tells us what life is like when you have just 50 litres of water a day.
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South Africa: Intersex Babies Killed at Birth Because ‘They’Re Bad Omens’
There was nervous excitement in the air — Amogelang’s* sister was about to give birth.
Amogelang, a traditional healer who was also training to become a professional nurse, gladly volunteered to assist with her younger sister’s delivery in the family’s tiny home in rural North West province.
“We were hoping for a boy because we wanted to name him after our grandfather. But we experienced something we didn’t know how to say it. The baby was healthy and was crying like any baby but we were not sure what was happening between the legs of this child,” Amogelang says.
Because her mother and grandmother — both present at the birth — were “disappointed in the child” and its ambiguous genitalia, the three “agreed to kill the child and be silent [about it]”.
A quick, merciless twist of its neck later and the newborn, the “bad omen”, was gone.
“We buried it and told my sister that the child was stillborn. She didn’t argue it because we just told her not to ask too many questions.”
This is the testimony of Amogelang who had been interviewed by Tunchi Theriso*, an intersex rights activist based in the province…
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Ugandan President: ‘I Love Trump’ For Speaking ‘Frankly’ With Africans
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said Tuesday at the East African Legislative Assembly in Uganda that he “loves” President Donald Trump because “he talks to Africans frankly.”
“America has got one of the best presidents ever. Mr. Trump. I love Trump,” Museveni said. “I love Trump because he talks to Africans frankly. I don’t know if hes misquoted or whatever, but when he speaks I like him because he speaks frankly.”
“The Africans need to solve their problems. They need to be strong. In the world, you can not survive if you are weak,” he said. “And it’s the fault of the Africans that they are weak, because they’ve got this huge continent, if you look at Africa, Africa is 12 times the size of India, in terms of land area, lots of resources, and the population is growing now. Why can’t we make Africa strong?”
Either due to lazyness or because it runs counter to the media’s fake narratives, no media outlet transcribed his full comments.
For example, the BBC only wrote:
“America has got one of the best presidents ever,” Mr Museveni said to laughter during the opening of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) in the Ugandan capital of Kampala.
“I love Trump because he tells Africans frankly. The Africans need to solve their problems, the Africans are weak.”
They only want Africans to hear Marxist intellectuals telling them to blame all their problems on “whitey” and “racism” and “colonialism.”
God forbid they hear a leader like Museveni preach self-reliance.
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Mexico’s Drug Cartels, Now Hooked on Fuel, Cripple the Country’s Refineries
Drug gangs pressure refinery workers to tap the lifeblood of Mexico’s oil industry.
Fuel theft is fast becoming one of Mexico’s most pressing economic and security dilemmas, sapping more than $1 billion in annual revenue from state coffers, terrorizing workers and deterring private investment in aging refineries that the government, following a 2014 energy reform, hoped instead would be thriving with foreign capital.
The cash-rich cartels, believed by the Mexican government to generate well over $21 billion each year, are an increasing threat to Pemex, which in 2016 reported revenue of about $52 billion and generates about a fifth of government income.
“The business is more profitable than drug trafficking because it implies less risk,” said Georgina Trujillo, a ruling party congresswoman who heads the lower house energy commission. “You don’t have to risk crossing the border to look for a market,” she added. “We all consume gasoline. We don’t all consume drugs.”
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DOJ Threatens to Subpoena Sanctuary Cities — Prompting Mayors to Boycott Trump Meeting
The Justice Department on Wednesday threatened to subpoena 23 jurisdictions if they don’t turn over information about their “sanctuary” policies — triggering a backlash from mayors across the country who pulled out of a White House meeting.
In letters to New York City, Chicago, San Francisco and other jurisdictions, the Justice Department demanded records relating to whether these localities are “unlawfully restricting information sharing by law enforcement officers with federal immigration authorities.”
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German City Bans All New Refugees as Violent Crime Spikes
One small German city has started turning away new refugees amid an explosion of violence between the newcomers and a burgeoning (and illegal) neo-Nazi group that has taken root in the city.
Officials in the city of Cottbus — located about 120 kilometers (about 75 miles) — has been plagued by a surge of attacks from refugees and right-wing extremists since the beginning of the year.
According to Fox News, Brandenburg state police said two Syrian teenage boys were arrested under the suspicion of injuring a German teenager in the face with a knife last week.
The 16-year-old reportedly sustained injuries that were not life-threatening during a fight between Syrian and German schoolmates.
[Comment: This is intentional destabilization by Germany’s traitorous globalist political class.]
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Germany: Afghan Failed Asylum Seeker on Trial for Murder of Christian Convert
The trial has begun for an Afghan failed asylum seeker accused of killing an Afghan Christian convert woman in front of her children.
The 30-year-old Afghan is said to have known the 38-year-old victim as they had lived in the same asylum home in Germany. The prosecution has alleged that the asylum seeker was upset with the woman’s conversion to Christianity and her offer to help him convert angered him so much that he stabbed her to death, Bayerische Rundfunk reports.
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How to Manipulate Migration Data? Take Belgium…
An honest report for this demographic forecasting should be called, “We shall soon be a million more, most of whom will be Muslims”. But this kind of headline would invariably create a public debate on demography, population density and Muslim integration — and that would be out of the question for European elites: that would make people super-anxious and worried.
Unless there is rapid awareness about the exponential consequences of chain migration and arrivals from across the Mediterranean, mass migration will continue. Concealing this fact is pursued everywhere in Europe.
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Israel’s Plan to Force Out African Migrants
A large protest near Tel Aviv took place against a choice to take a $3500 (£2600) payment and a plane ticket, and leave the country by March — or face jail.
It comes amid reports that the Israeli Immigration Authority has begun handing out notices to migrants who’s asylum requests have been rejected.
Israel’s government says there are about 40-thousand people — mainly from Eritrea and Sudan — who’ve entered the country illegally.
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‘Italians First’: Italy’s Far-Right Leader Echoes Trump in Election Campaign
The leader of Italy’s far-right party, Matteo Salvini, repeated the slogan ‘Italians first’ in a TV interview in which he laid out plans to expel hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants.
“In Italy there are too many illegal immigrants who go around making trouble. I can’t take it anymore,” said Salvini on political talk show Dimartedì.
Salvini’s Northern League party is part of a centre-right alliance led by Silvio Berlusconi and currently leading opinion polls.
Salvini said that if he became prime minister, he would ensure that within a year 100,000 “illegal migrants” would be sent back to their countries of origin, saying: “In this moment of crisis and unemployment, the more migrants that come in, the more confusion.”
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Number of ‘Asylum Seeker’ War Criminals Discovered in Sweden Doubles in Two Years
The number of war criminals being discovered among asylum seekers in Sweden is rapidly increasing with the Swedish Migration Board claiming cases have doubled in the last two years.
In 2014, the Swedish Migration Board reported 12 asylum seekers to the Swedish police’s commission on war crimes but that number rose to 21 in 2015, 41 in 2016, and 52 last year, Svenska Dagbladet reports. Reports of suspected war crimes from other sources have also increased from 42 in 2015 to 79 in 2017.
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On the Frozen Mountain Migrant Trail From Italy to France
Cisse and Ibrahim have never seen snow before. After fleeing crisis-hit Libya by boat and making their way up Italy, the exhausted pair trudge in flimsy trainers along a pitch-black mountain trail in a night-time bid to reach France.
While controls along this route are strict in the summer months, it is closed to traffic in winter and rather than zealous police the biggest challenge facing the mainly African men is a freezing wind that buffets the1,700 metre (5,600 feet) high pass.
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Police Shoot Knife Wielding 28-Year-Old Afghan Migrant at Belgian Railway Station, Deny Terror Links
Belgian police shot an Afghan migrant at Ghent station Tuesday night after the man approached officers, threatening to attack them, and ignored orders to drop a knife.
Two shots were fired by the officers after the man failed to respond to orders to drop the knife, one of which struck the would-be assailant, causing him to drop his weapon. The 28-year-old man, who was described as being of Afghan origin and as wearing “a white turban” was handcuffed and taken to hospital, and was in critical condition, although that has now improved.
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Shock Poll: Americans Want Massive Cuts to Legal Immigration
A government shutdown is in the rearview mirror, but the outlines of a looming immigration deal remain murky with the sides still far apart — though the latest polling suggests President Trump’s bargaining position may be strong.
A Harvard-Harris poll taken in the run-up to the shutdown found Americans strongly support granting citizenship rights to illegal immigrant Dreamers. But they also back Mr. Trump’s three demands for a border wall, limits to the chain of family migration and an end to the Diversity Visa Lottery.
Most striking of all is the public’s demand for lower overall legal immigration — a position that has little traction on Capitol Hill but one that is overwhelmingly popular across the country.
The poll found that most Americans want annual legal immigration capped at 500,000 a year or less — far lower than the current annual rate of 1.3 million.
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Far-left open borders activists and illegal immigrants came together Tuesday to storm the home of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer after the Democrat finally decided to put the American people ahead of illegal immigrants in voting to reopen the federal government without amnesty for millions of said illegals being included in the funding bill.
The Soros-funded protesters shockingly claimed that DACA itself was no longer good enough and instead demanded amnesty for all of the 12 to 30 million illegal immigrants inside the country as well as those already locked up in detention centers for entering the country illegally. In other words, full on open borders with no restrictions.
The group, “United We Dream” went as far as to block off streets in Brooklyn as they moved to surround Schumer’s home to demand what would amount to the end of the country as we know it, which just so happens to also be the goals of their benefactor, George Soros himself.
[Comment: Palpatine Soros should be rotting in a jail for sedition.]
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Surge in Migrants Reaching EU Sparks UK Border Fears
EUROPE is experiencing a new migrant influx with almost 5,000 reaching the Continent by sea so far this year, figures show. Despite EU leaders claiming the bloc had redoubled efforts to halt the surge, numbers are up 35 per cent on the same time last year.
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45-year-old who had sexual relationship with migrant was “afraid he would be sent back to Afghanistan”
A feminist mother in Sweden refused to report an Afghan refugee who was living in her house to authorities after he sexually abused her 12-year-old daughter.
The 45-year-old woman was working at a refugee center in Sölvesborg when she began having a sexual relationship with the refugee, who claimed to be 18-years-old.
When the migrant became an official refugee, he had to leave the center and so the woman allowed him to move into her family home.
Within a short period of time, the migrant began sexually abusing the woman’s 12-year-old daughter, kissing and hugging her before one incident in September 2017 when the Afghan put his hands inside the girl’s underwear and groped her vagina.
After the daughter told her mother what had happened, the 45-year-old refused to report the incident to authorities or even to ask the Afghan to leave the home, prompting the daughter to tell her father who then contacted the police.
During the subsequent trial, the woman explained that she did not take action against the refugee because she was “afraid that [he] would be sent back to Afghanistan.”
“I thought so much about him so he could stay with me,” she added.
The mother also told the victim’s older sisters not to reveal what had happened. Facebook posts were later uncovered showing that even months after the sexual assault on her daughter, the mother described the Afghan as “wonderful” and was attempting to help him find a new home
She was also reportedly a vehement supporter of the #MeToo movement against the sexual assault of women, but not presumably if those women are sexually assaulted by migrants.
The Afghan received just 100 hours of community service for the assault and will not be deported.
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Church of England Sneaks Transgender ‘Re-Baptism’ Into Liturgy
The Church of England has rejected a proposal for a new service to mark a congregant’s sex change — but has given the nod to using an existing ‘reaffirmation’ baptism service, instead.
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Geologists Find Highly Oxidized Iron in Earth’s Deep Mantle
An international team of geologists has found highly oxidized iron, similar to the rust we see on the Earth’s surface, in diamond’s garnet inclusions from the deep (124-342 miles, or 200-550 km, below the surface) mantle. The result surprised scientists around the globe because there is little opportunity for iron to become so highly oxidized deep below our planet’s surface.
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This little dispensations towards women in muslim countries seems very suspicious to me. It looks like they making an effort to make look Islam more presentable… Maybe to help their globalist allies to shove down the throats of Europeans easier the whole ideology.
Muslims pretend to be “nice” all the time whenever they are weak or seek more support from us nonbelievers.
Sadly, some native Europeans are still under their spell. Hopefully, more native Europeans will wake up soon or else we nonbelievers may have to be reduced to begging for pittance from those inhumane Muslims.
Western Woman has stopped having enough children to replace the West’s dying (2.1), so we thank Muslim Woman for having several children to maintain our population.
The real question is: What is wrong with Western Woman? The corollary question, of course, is : What is wrong with Western Man, that Evil White Guy?
Why do white people have to give birth to much? The planet is already overpopulated. And colored people all the more pointless to be fruitful. Putin screams a lot about demographics, scolds Russian women does nothing to support them. And imports migrants.
And I look at the snow drifts around and think: why then live at all?
It is necessary that there are fewer people and they lived under favourable conditions.
We were not born to produce “cannon fodder” and not for the oligarchs to rob us at every turn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun
this is a very brief article. I read the extended version.
Elena
I beg to differ on your statement “The planet is already overpopulated”
This is a generalization.
True some areas have a high population density like Western Europe, the Eastern and Western Seaboard of the US and various other areas.
Many other areas are almost devoid of human habitation.
Look at your own native Russia almost 170 million people living on this gigantic landmass. Must of Russia is empty! Wilderness!
I wouldn’t call that overpopulated.
As for Calhoun’s experiments we are human beings not mice or rats. His experiments cannot be transfered one on one to humans.
As for Putin’s internal policies little is known out in the West. We get very little unbiased news on Russia so I can’t comment on that.
The planet is absolutely overpopulated thanks to the “Green Revolution” in agriculture that has completely distorted human reproduction worldwide.
This territory is not suitable for life.
If you lived here, you would hang yourself in a closet from depression and lack of vitamins.
Putin flirts with the Muslims of Russia. There are no publications on this topic in the world press. If you draw conclusions about the situation on the channel of the RT, then you are mistaken. It has nothing to do with domestic politics. We also have only tolerance and friendship of peoples for internal use. There is even a special article “282” of the criminal code, called “inciting hatred.” It is called the “Russian article” – because only Russian people are put on it, who are unhappy with ethnic crime and the domination of diasporas.
This territory is not suitable for life.
If you lived here, you would hang yourself in a closet from depression and lack of vitamins.
A Russian realist. You’re a welcome breath of reality. The Putin-loving liberals gush over Russia, but they don’t seem to be in any hurry to live there. [Putin has the deadest eyes I’ve ever seen]
Of course, your country is fascinating, but I prefer the fascination of the written word…e.g., Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn or -to go back some – the great dissector of human souls, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky.
Do you know any good Russian jokes?? They’re among the best jokes in the world. The one I do know is too long too tell.
We need less Muslim women giving birth.Someone needs to get them to use birth control.They won’t of course, they regard their children as soldiers for Islam.They intend to strip us of ever asset we own ,outbreed and outnumber us and then outvote us.
We do need more government support for non-Muslims , so they can afford housing and decent education for their children and they will respond by having more children.
Governments squander a fortune in taxpayer monies on hordes of Muslims invaders who have never paid a penny/cent
into the system.Consequently there is none left over to spend on child support ,pensions , unemployment and disability benefits for the indigenous population.
We are encouraging hostile savages who wish too subjugate us , to breed ,multiply and prosper at the expense of our own children ,grandchildren ,disabled and elderly .
It is foolish ,weak , self defeating, shortsighted and will lead to our own enslavement and destruction. .
Close the borders and deport all the Muslims ,ban the Koran ,close the mosques and shut down the Islamic schools.Refuse welfare benefits to Muslims ,kick them out of the police ,the teaching and medical professions ,the armed forces ,government office ,the judiciary .Place them in internment camps until they can be deported.
Sorry about the typo, last sentence of first paragraph should read:
“They intend to strip us of every asset we own ,outbreed and outnumber us then outvote us”
All of Africa needs to reduce its fertility rate.
No more aid other than birth control and family planning education.
“What makes some people smarter than others? A genetic analysis of families in Scotland, UK, hints that brainier people have fewer DNA mutations that impair intelligence and general health, rather than having more genetic variants that make them smarter.”
The creationists would say “surprise surprise!”
For if we are to believe the ancient texts, then man was created perfect, and is mutating and degenerating ever since being kicked out of the garden: Our ancestors were stronger and had bigger brains and zero genetic defects, but that was long time ago. Now, after thousands of years of “evolution”, man-kind has accumulated so many genetic mutations that we are more of degenerates then men.
Mainstream science has denied the Creator, so all they can do is to blame insufficient evolutionary pressures in modern society for so many mutations in modern human DNA.
Alien Abductions are probably done by the militaries in order to solve this mutation problem. Fallen angels are interested as well. After all, this world is denied the access to the tree of life, and they try to go around it through “science”.
Why look for a supernatural explanation when natural selection provides a natural one?
Natural selection doesn’t explain the “making of the DNA”, since DNA is very fragile if it is not covered inside the cell. There is no doubt in my mind that DNA has been designed.
Natural selection comes only after the DNA exists and multiplies…
Also here in Czechia the second round of the presidential elections is going to take place tommorow and on Saturday. As you can imagine, the leftists are running at 110% to get as many people on their side as possible, spreading misinformation an belittling the curent president’s voters no matter what. Wish us luck to not fall into the Merkel trap over the weekend!
Good luck .I trust that people will see through the transparent self- serving lies of the leftists.
The confidence with which they sprout their threadbare leftist dogma , apparently under the mistaken impression that the public will be foolish enough to buy into it, is an insult to anyone of average intelligence.
Good luck and best wishes!
Sweden Hell: Armed Migrant Teens Roaming With Kalashnikovs; Military May Be Deployed
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-23/sweden-hell-armed-migrant-teens-roaming-kalashnikovs-military-may-be-deployed
What is interesting is that while anti-globalists are picketing putside the meeting at Davos against Trump the world, or is that whirled, leaders are calling out and talking down Trump’s agenda inside the meeting room.
The Elite’s lack of consistency is showing. They must be very desparate if not outright frightened at how their carefully laid plans are unraveling as the result of the “unwashed masses” thinking for themselves and making their own decisions. Uncensored Internet uber alles!
Pig Soros whines about the ‘bleak’ world HE CREATED:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-25/watch-live-george-soros-speaks-davos
There is something deeply wrong in the psyche of large numbers of Western women:
https://www.infowars.com/sweden-feminist-mother-refuses-to-report-afghan-refugee-after-he-sexually-abuses-her-12-year-old-daughter/
I weep for the daughter, and feel for the father who was unable to intervene thanks to the sociopathic liberal state that is more interested in the sick immivader narrative than protecting its own children.
Foolish young women request asylum in Swedenistan:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/01/25/two-members-controversial-russian-group-pussy-riot-seek-asylum-sweden/
Oh, there is a certain Swedestani demographic that is waiting to give them the most amazing welcome celebration….
Turkish fool Erdogan is in rare form this week…
…first calling the Kurds, ‘Crusaders’….
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/01/25/erdogan-kurds-collaborators-postmodern-crusades/
…then bloviating about how, ‘Islamic education,’ will create a bright new future for Turkey:
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/01/25/erdogan-islamic-education-will-forge-pious-generation-build-new-civilization-turkey/