During today’s voting by the Electoral College, two “faithless electors” in Texas defected and did not vote for Donald Trump. However, four electors in Washington State decided to vote for someone besides Hillary Clinton, so she lost two electoral votes relative to Mr. Trump. The latter easily obtained a majority of votes — 304 where 270 were needed — and will thus become president when inaugurated on January 20.
In other news, the man who murdered the Russian ambassador in Ankara before being killed himself was reportedly a Turkish special forces police officer.
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“Gold is Now Effectively Illegal” In India — the Consequences of Creating a Cashless Society
Jayant Bhandari warns “there are clear signs that in a very convoluted way, possession of gold for investment purposes will be made illegal” as he discusses India’s attempts to create a cashless society (and consequences of it) and why precious metals and geographical diversification are the most viable options investors around the world, not just India, should be taking.
“The situation is getting worse by the day… people are desperate”
Jayant provides the clearest explanation of where India is (and where it is going) in the brief interview with ProvenAndProbable.com’s Maurice Jackson …
As Jayant detailed previously, expect a continuation of new social engineering notifications, each sabotaging wealth-creation, confiscating people’s wealth, and tyrannizing those who refuse to be a part of the herd, in the process destroying the very backbone of the economy and civilization.
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“Trickle-Down Poverty”: The Coming Cashless Society is Making People Desperate
Forget about tax policies and left-right politics with the coming era of Trump.
The real trend for the direction of the economy is in the rapidly-accelerating transition to a cashless society.
This vicious move by the top of the pyramid to eliminate physical currency is a drastic step towards the near-total control of society.
Already, plastic cards and electronic payments have taken over the trend of many point-of-sale purchases, not to mention the majority of online sales, which are now very significant.
However, cash remains a major part of spending, and an important part of the individual’s daily economic life.
Nonetheless, the cashless grid is setting in, and its consequences are coming down on society.
Sean of SGT Report talks with David on the dire repercussions of the cash-smackdown that is taking place within the U.S. and across the global economy.
They argue that the promise of electronic currency cutting down on crime, etc. is all just “smoke and mirrors” — and ultimately has nothing to do with reducing criminal activity and fraud, but rather with transferring wealth and power to the Deep State and the elite shareholders.
As things go increasingly cashless, the banking system not only gets a percentage of every transaction, but also has access to revealing information about everything you do, everywhere you spend money, everyone you exchange with, etc.
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Italy Seeks €20bn for Banks as Monte Del Paschi Flounders
The Italian government will seek parliamentary approval to borrow up to €20bn (£17bn) to support its fragile banking sector and potentially rescue Monte dei Paschi di Siena.
The country’s third-largest bank needs to raise €5bn in fresh capital by the end of the month.
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A Presidency Based Entirely on Fraud
Everything that happens under the color of fraud, is also a fraud.
Here’s the big story — as all this nonsense consumes the headlines of the real “fake news” agencies in America, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, MSNBC and even FOX, the proof that the entire Obama Administration of two terms was built upon an overt act of fraud is nowhere to be found in the daily headlines!
In a press conference held in Maricopa County Arizona on December 15, 2016, hard proof of Obama’s forged certifications for office documents were released to the general public and turned over to the U.S. Congress for prosecution. VIDEO HERE
Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Lead Investigator Mike Zullo provided forensic proof well beyond any reasonable doubt that the document presented by Barack Hussein Obama to prove his constitutional eligibility for the Oval Office was a complete and total fraud. WATCH FOR YOURSELF
At the same time, Fox News Commentator Sean Hannity was interviewing Wikileaks Julian Assange, who confirmed that all the information they had leaked on Hillary Clinton and the DNC was 100% authentic and accurately displayed and that none of it was acquired through or in any way associated with Russia. In fact, it is now known that the DNC and Clinton leaks came from someone inside their own camp, who was disgusted by what they saw going on inside the Democratic Party.
During his interview with Hannity, Assange went so far as to prove Hillary Clinton lied under oath to Congress when she falsely claimed that she had no idea that ‘c’ or ‘C’ on an official document meant CLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL. This also blows F.B.I. Director Comey’s conclusion that “there was no intent” on Hillary’s part.
So, nothing the American people are hearing from the “fake news” main stream press is based in truth today. Russia had nothing to do with the leaking of Clinton or DNC emails — the election was not “hacked” on behalf of Donald Trump — it is Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton who are unfit for office and Trump nor Russia had anything to do with that reality.
In fact, with the release of Maricopa County forensic evidence yesterday, the entire eight years of the Obama Administration was built upon a fraud, a forged document used to protect a known usurper to the Oval Office from exposure and accountability. Everything that happens under the color of fraud, is also a fraud.
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Regardless of your ethnicity, class or religion, if you perceive the institutions that govern American life as corrupted, riddled with favoritism and spin or as broken, you’re a Deplorable.
Are you a Deplorable? The answer might surprise you. Take this short quiz to find out.
1. If you agree with this characterization of American Elites: “The self-satisfied cosmopolitan culture that sprang up among the affluent 20% or so of the industrial world’s population, who became convinced that the temporary ascendancy of policies that favored their interests was not only permanent but self-evidently right and just.” (The Fifth Side of the Triangle The Archdruid Report)
You’re a Deplorable.
2. If you question whether globalization is actually in the national interest: You’re a Deplorable.
3. If you question whether endless wars of choice, drone strikes and foreign interventions that cost the lives of countless civilians are actually in the national interest: You’re a Deplorable.
4. If you see the major institutions of American life as corrupt, ineffective, and blatantly favoring the financial/social elites: You’re a Deplorable.
5. If you think it’s wrong that some immigrants (the illegal ones) get to “jump the queue” ahead of the millions of legal immigrants who have waited patiently for years and paid the costs of following the rules: You’re a Deplorable.
6. If you see the concentration of media ownership as a threat to democracy:
You’re a Deplorable.
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Arizona Elector: Obama Should Have Publicly Discouraged Anti-Trump Death Threats
“It’s full on onslaught”
Arizona elector Robert Graham says the number of death threats made by Hillary Clinton supporters against Republican electors set to vote for Trump today should have prompted President Obama to publicly discourage such intimidation.
Appearing on Fox & Friends, Graham said that he was personally followed on two different occasions on the highway after receiving emails from individuals who said they knew his address and would be following him.
Asked why the Department of Justice hasn’t launched an investigation into the threats, Graham said he wasn’t surprised that they had shown no interest.
“Our president should stand out and say ‘hey stand down people, this is the process’…people are just standing back and letting this happen and it’s full on onslaught to where some of our electors, it’s actually affecting their health,” Graham told Steve Doocy.
Graham agreed with Doocy’s conclusion that “this was just a last chance for the sore losers to try to steal the election”.
“We talk about voter suppression and here it is at the pinnacle, they’re trying to intimidate people away from voting, making them feel very uncomfortable…today they’re gonna lose one more time, and we get to call them a loser one more time,” said Graham.
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Does a Cross on a City Christmas Tree Violate the First Amendment?
Did you know the ACLU is currently suing an Indiana town over a cross that stands on top of the city’s Christmas tree? Yes! The ACLU sued the city of Knightstown on behalf of resident Joseph Tompkins, alleging the cross on the tree violates his First Amendment rights guaranteeing “separation of church and state.” The suit is demanding the cross’s removal and payment of damages to Tompkins for being “forced to come into direct and unwelcome contact with the cross display.”
This phrase “separation of church and state” has been repeated so many times that many actually believe it is part of the First Amendment. Those that use it want people to join them in removing God from everything in our lives today. They also want to remove our godly heritage from our history. The truth is, the words “separation of church and state” are nowhere in the First Amendment or the text of the U.S. Constitution.
The actual words “separation of church and state” are taken from a letter President Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802. President Jefferson was answering the concerns of the Danbury Baptist Association in the state of Connecticut in regards to the establishment of a State religion or denomination. Our third president assured them that their First Amendment rights would not be infringed, using these words:
“I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; thus building a wall of eternal separation between Church and State.”
Jefferson’s meaning was one that protected churches from state encroachment; not individuals from seeing municipal references to God.
[Comment: ACLU was founded by a communist. That tells you all you need to know.]
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Hillary Loses Four Electors in Washington State
Former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton lost four of her electoral votes Monday, thanks to faithless electors in Washington state who cast their votes for Colin Powell and American Indian activist Faith Spotted Eagle.
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Hollywood ‘Electors’ Ad Re-Edited — and Now They Support Trump!
In the new version, they’re PRAISING Trump!
Brilliant!
YouTube user Studio Krank has re-edited the Hollywood celebrities ad calling on electors to not vote for Donald Trump, and in the new version, they’re PRAISING Trump!
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Investigation Finds Proof of Forgery With Profound Implications
It is one of the most, if not the most underreported, misreported and mischaracterized story in recent history.
An official investigation conducted by law enforcement officials have concluded that the document known as the Certificate of Live Birth of U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama II, uploaded to and published on the White House website on April 27, 2011 is a fraudulently created document. It is a digitally manufactured forgery.
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It’s ‘Digital Heroin’: How Screens Turn Kids Into Psychotic Junkies
We now know that those iPads, smartphones and Xboxes are a form of digital drug. Recent brain imaging research is showing that they affect the brain’s frontal cortex — which controls executive functioning, including impulse control — in exactly the same way that cocaine does. Technology is so hyper-arousing that it raises dopamine levels — the feel-good neurotransmitter most involved in the addiction dynamic — as much as sex.
This addictive effect is why Dr. Peter Whybrow, director of neuroscience at UCLA, calls screens “electronic cocaine” and Chinese researchers call them “digital heroin.” In fact, Dr. Andrew Doan, the head of addiction research for the Pentagon and the US Navy — who has been researching video game addiction — calls video games and screen technologies “digital pharmakeia” (Greek for drug).
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Kids Turn Violent as Parents Battle ‘Digital Heroin’ Addiction
Experienced sailors, Barbara McVeigh and her husband exposed their children to the natural beauty near their home in Marin County, Calif. — boating, camping and adventuring in the great outdoors. None of this stopped her 9-year-old son from falling down the digital rabbit hole.
His first exposure to screens occurred in first grade at a highly regarded public school — named one of California’s “Distinguished Schools” — when he was encouraged to play edu-games after class. His contact with screens only increased during play dates where the majority of his friends played violent games on huge monitors in their suburban homes.
The results for Barbara’s son were horrific: Her sweet boy, who had a “big spirit” and loved animals, now only wanted to play inside on a device.
“He would refuse to do anything unless I would let him play his game,” she said. Barbara, who had discarded her TV 25 years ago, made the mistake of using the game as a bargaining tool…
In August, I wrote a piece about “digital heroin” for the New York Post, and the response was explosive. More than 3 million readers devoured and shared the piece — though not everyone agreed on its message. Some readers felt that the notion of comparing screens and video games to heroin was a huge exaggeration.
I understand that initial response, but the research says otherwise. Over 200 peer-reviewed studies correlate excessive screen usage with a whole host of clinical disorders, including addiction. Recent brain-imaging research confirms that glowing screens affect the brain’s frontal cortex — which controls executive functioning, including impulse control — in exactly the same way that drugs like cocaine and heroin do. Thanks to research from the US military, we also know that screens and video games can literally affect the brain like digital morphine.
[Comment: Kids play for the mental “high” that comes with success in the game. This is where the brain’s chemical addiction comes in…hours of play does have a negative affect on the brain.]
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Max Spiers: Conspiracist Who Vomited Black Liquid Made ‘Powerful Enemies’
A CONSPIRACY theorist who spent his life investigating cover-ups and the supernatural made powerful “enemies” before dying under suspicious circumstances, vomited fluid just days before his death, an inquest has heard.
Max Spiers, 39, vomited two litres of mystery fluid and died while he was looking into allegations of sexual abuse against a military base in California.
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Obama’s Shadow Government Destined to Flop
America is not only still there, but there ready to roar back with policies that are the direct opposite of those that were intended to take down an America the Free West depends upon for survival
The author Ed Klein-predicted Obama Shadow Government in Washington DC to undermine President Donald Trump after Inauguration Day is destined to be one big flop.
The media will call it “Obama’s shadow government”. The more practical patriots who never stand on ceremony call it: ‘The Fop’s Flop’.
And fast to the flop is precisely where the Shadow Government is headed.
“They rented an eight-bedroom mansion in the section of Washington near Joe Lockhart, Bill Clinton’s last press secretary. In that house there’s enough room for Valerie Jarrett and Michelle and the kids. A place for ten cars to park. They are setting up what they are calling a shadow government.” (Fox and Friends, Dec. 18, 2016).
Better they should call their post-election hide-y-hole ‘Heartbreak Hotel’.
Knowing down in their very bones that president elect Donald J. Trump would come sailing through the electoral college ratification today, the can’t-wait-to-get-you Obama Shadow Government contingent had to do something to keep the Michael Moore hardline resistance alive out on the streets; had to do something to prove they’re still part of the Body Politic…
Despite all Barack, Michelle Valerie Jarrett and Bill Clinton has-beens Marxist attempts, America is not only still there, but there ready to roar back with policies that are the direct opposite of those that were intended to take down an America the Free West depends upon for survival.
To get even an inkling of how desperate Obama really is, consider how Michael Moore is the uncontested bombastic new leader of the resistance called O’s ‘Shadow Government’.
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12 Dead, 48 Injured After Pakistan-Born Refugee Rammed Truck Into Berlin Christmas Market
Here is the latest:
Local police confirm twelve people were killed, and 48 injured when a truck plowed into a crowded Christmas market in east Berlin around 8:00pm on Monday evening.
According to local police, the incident, which took place at the foot of the ruined Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church, is likely terror related
According to information from German newspaper Die Welt, the alleged truck driver is from Pakistan, and is reported to have arrived as a refugee in Germany on 16 February 2016.
The dead passenger was a Polish national.
German police is urging Berliners to stay at home; Merkel is to be briefed by the German Interior Minister.
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Anti-EU Chief Grillo Blasts Matteo Renzi for Leaving Italy in Ruins
ITALY’S biggest Eurosceptic politician has launched a stinging attack on Matteo Renzi, branding him a “liar” who left the country in a “mess”.
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Britain’s Oldest Convict, 101, Is Jailed for 13 Years for Sex Attacks
Ralph Clarke has been jailed at Birmingham Crown Court for 13 years for committing a string of sex offences against three young children in the 1970s and 1980s.
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A Bulgarian who allegedly kicked a woman down the stairs at an underground station in Berlin has been arrested after complaining loudly on a coach about a fellow passenger using a mobile phone.
[Comment: Roma actually, not Bulgarian.]
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Donald Trump Blames ISIS for ‘Horrifying Terror Attacks’
In a statement, Trump said: “Our hearts and prayers are with the loved ones of the victims of today’s horrifying terror attack in Berlin.
“Innocent civilians were murdered in the streets as they prepared to celebrate the Christmas holiday.”
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France Due to Increase Security at Christmas Markets Following Berlin Truck Attack
FRANCE has announced it will increase security at Christmas markets following a suspected terror attack at a Christmas market in Berlin, in which twelve people have been killed.
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Geert Wilders Named Dutch Politician of the Year
Populist anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders was Monday named Dutch politician of the year in a television poll that came on the heels of his conviction for discrimination.
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Hard Left Norwegian Journo Fired for Expressing Support for Marine Le Pen
Journalist Trond Andresen has been fired from left-wing paper Klassekamlpen after claiming in a column that populist Marine Le Pen was a better choice than globalist conservative candidate Francois Fillon.
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Let Town Halls Install Nativity Scenes, Says Marion Le Pen
The French Front National has begun a campaign to install nativity scenes in French town halls over the Christmas period.
Marion Maréchal Le Pen, niece of party leader Marine, has proposed a motion in the parliament of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region calling for nativity scenes to be allowed in all town halls of the area.
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Viktor Orban Makes Clear Statement on Illegal Migration: ‘Send Them Back…”
Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary and one of the first people President Elect Trump spoke to after winning the US election, gave a press conference where he represented Poland, The Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.
He explained that the Balkan route into Europe was closed and migrants can and will be sent back, or to a holding station outside of Europe.
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Putin Vows to Destroy ISIS After Assassination of Russia’s Ambassador to Turkey
VLADIMIR Putin has promised to “step up” his fight against terrorists following this afternoon’s horrific attack in Ankara.
He said the assassination of his country’s ambassador to Turkey was “clearly a provocation” and vowed vowed to make those responsible “feel the heat”.
Mr Putin said this evening: “This murder is clearly a provocation aimed at undermining the improvement and normalisation of Russian-Turkish relations as well as undermining the peace process in Syria promoted by Russia, Turkey, Iran and other countries interested in solving this conflict in Syria.
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Summary of the tragic events so far, in which Russia’s envoy to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, has been shot dead in Ankara by a gunman in an assassination apparently linked to Moscow’s role in Syria’s civil war. Here are key facts and reaction summarized by BBG:
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Uncensored Raw Video: Russian Ambassador Shot Dead in Turkey
Russian Ambassador Ambassador Andrei Karlov has been shot dead in Turkey. Initial reports indicate the assassin is a Turkish police officer.
The assassination comes just days before Russia was set to host a meeting on the Syrian crisis with Turkish officials.
The assassination and aftermath were captured on camera, with video showing Mr Karlov speaking at a podium before falling to the floor as gunshots were heard.
Photos showed the attacker, wearing a black suit and tie, standing behind Mr Karlov with his hands clasped before pulling out a handgun in his right hand and opening fire.
The gunman extended his right arm and pointed the gun at Mr Karlov, and then gestured with his left index finger pointed into the air after shooting the ambassador multiple times.
Last year Turkey shot down a Russian jet causing a major diplomatic crisis.
The shooting of Andrei Karlov could further destabilize relations in the region.
Russia is no doubt on war footing as it investigates the incident.
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European Union Sanctions Against Russia Extended Again
BRUSSELS, Dec. 19 (UPI) — The European Union’s European Council announced a six-month extension of sanctions against Russia for its actions in Ukraine on Monday.
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Russia Signs Cooperation Agreement With Anti-Immigrant Party in Austria
BERLIN—Russia’s ruling party signed a five-year “cooperation agreement” with the anti-immigrant Freedom Party of Austria, one of the clearest signs that the Kremlin is seeking to deepen ties with nationalist and antiestablishment forces in the West.
The two-page agreement, reached in Moscow after Freedom Party leaders met with officials from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, spells out a common commitment to holding regular joint meetings and public events while working to strengthen social and economic ties between Russia and Austria.
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Airline Crew Sacrifices Goat Before Flight
(BBC NEWS) Pakistan’s national airline has been mocked after a goat was sacrificed to ward off bad luck following one of the country’s worst air disasters.
Pictures went viral showing PIA ground staff slaughtering a black goat next to an ATR-42 aircraft which was about to leave for a domestic flight.
It was the first such flight since PIA grounded its ATR fleet for tests after a 7 December crash killed 47 people.
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InfoWars Under Siege: Communist Chinese Now Censoring US Web
Free market of ideas under attack
The globalists are targeting Infowars with denial of service attacks and the mainstream media is pushing for complete Chinese-style Internet censorship.
We’ve just sustained the biggest cyberattack we’ve ever encountered targeting Infowars.com, PrisonPlanet.com and InfowarsStore.com during our busiest time of the year:
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Troops, Vigilantes Patrol After Venezuela Unrest, Three Dead
BOLIVAR/TACHIRA, Venezuela (Reuters) — Soldiers patrolled streets, neighbors mounted barricades and businessmen raked through damaged shops on Monday in parts of Venezuela worst hit from violence sparked by a cash shortage.
At least three people died and 405 people were arrested, officials said, in protests and looting over the weekend that followed the socialist government’s elimination of the largest currency bill.
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British ‘Smuggler’ Van Caught Carrying Starving Migrant Children
A SMUGGLER van with British licence plates was caught carrying 67 people — dozens of which had to be immediately hospitalised after not eating for five days
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Gunman Opens Fire at Switzerland Islamic Center; Several Hurt
ZURICH, Switzerland — A gunman dressed in black stormed into the prayer hall of a mosque frequented by Somali immigrants and opened fire, wounding three people before fleeing, a Zurich police spokesman said Monday.
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Just 34,000 migrants out of the 1.2million who have arrived in Germany in the past two years have managed to find a job, new figures have revealed.
The statistics from the German government’s Institute for Labour Research (IAB) reveal how only three per cent of those who travelled to the country are now working.
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University Offers Class on ‘The Problem of Whiteness’
University Offers Class on ‘The Problem of Whiteness’ A class to be taught next semester at the University of Wisconsin Madison called “The Problem of Whiteness” aims to “understand how whiteness is socially constructed and experienced in order to help dismantle white supremacy,” the course description states. “Whites rarely or never questioned what it is to be white,” Assistant Professor Damon Sajnani, who will teach the course, told The College Fix in a telephone interview last week. “So you go through life taking it for granted without ever questioning or critically interrogating it.” For Sajnani, one way to solve this is to offer “The Problem of Whiteness,” an analysis of what it means to be white and how to deal with it as a “problem.”
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Oh, the news is SO weird. Now it’s a PROBLEM to be white? If you were born that way? I will not point out how many modern conveniences have been invented by “whites” of course. telephone, TV, electricity, and so much more. Just suck it. Or invent your own version, if you can.
If you hate whites, move elsewere — Africa comes to mind — you might like it there. South America is another option, as is Asia (although Asians do not tend to welcome refugees unless they have special skills of a technical nature). People are even MORE stupid than I thought.
Maria-
Whites, especially the males, are the source of all evil in the world!
Didn’t you get the memo?
“In other news, the man who murdered the Russian ambassador in Ankara before being killed himself was reportedly a Turkish special forces police officer.”
Many of the news services left out the full details of the killer’s rant in Arabic. But I read an AP report that said he said in Arabic ” We are the descendants of those who supported the Prophet Muhammad for Jihad”
That rather establishes the context for this attack. He saw himself as a jihadist in the tradition of his forefathers. Any further discussion on motive, is superfluous.
I looked all over the ‘News Feed’ and bypassed the fraud that is Obama and other items that would stand out as something worth pursuing in a more saner world, but settled on that old age pensioner from Britain, who at 101 years of age has become Britain’s oldest convicted pedophile.
Why did I settle on that piece of ‘News’? Well I find something about the story is not quite right, and for instance; there is no mention within the story itself that this old guy has been determined by a medical officer to be fit enough in mental capacity to stand trial, and for comparison; when motor vehicle drivers attain 80 years of age most Western countries require some kind of test of fitness before the drivers license can be renewed, but going on this story, no such fitness test to stand trial in a court of law against the possibility of deprivation of liberty by being sent to jail seems to have been arranged.
And, the offences themselves occurred some 40 to 50 years ago – that those offences have been deemed to have occurred so long ago is in itself a problem that does not seem to have been addressed at court because it goes straight to the reliability of the victims as witnesses because of such a time lapse.
There is no convincing testimony from the victims other than what they have stated.
Too, there is no reference to this person having come under police notice for prior and similar offences or even between the given dates of the offences and today, even though he is now 101 years old? So was he a pedophile for only the time period he has been convicted of? And, is this his first appearance at court for which he was tried and convicted? If that is the case, then why was there no leniency granted him due to his age as I doubt very much and going on what he is recorded as having stated in court, that he even knew why he was there or would even have any inclination, if truly guilty, of doing the same again.
This smacks to me of the Salem Witch Trials.
Age alone does not protect someone from prosecution. John Demjanjuk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Demjanjuk) was 91 when brought to trial in Germany in 2011; he died the next year.
*Legal competence* to stand trial, however, may come into question. I have no independent information re. the British case, but maybe this is something to be considered.
What impressed me about this person’s age is that there appears no convictions mentioned for similar offences over his life time. His conviction is for offences that occurred some 40 to 50 years ago when the offender would have been in his fifties and sixties, and solely based it seems, on all the victims memories.
What I question is the reliance of the court to what the victims recall as it has been my experience that many ‘victims of crime’ have trouble remembering with any real accuracy what occurred to them during the offence taking place let alone days or even weeks after the event, yet a court of law seems to have relied on the testimony of victims whose crime against them occurred some 40 to 50 years prior and when they were children.
A thorough investigator takes it as a given that children of the age that this person is convicted of to have molested, are not reliable witnesses when it comes to recalling events, as their grasp of reality at the time of the event, whatever the event may be, is generally not as well defined as that of an adult.
Children of the age group that those young victims would have been in tend to shut out those incidents that occur to them that they do not like (some adults tend to do this as well) and there is now irrefutable evidence available that hypnosis, if that was used to draw out historical events in this case, cannot be relied upon as hard evidence as there are too many variables concerned when hypnotizing subjects.
Without any further info about this case I would say an injustice has been allowed to take place.
I had submitted a news tip that German authorities apprehended a Pakistani for the Berlin attack.
In the interest of truth, I’ll point out a new development in the story: German authorities believe they arrested the wrong person, the attacker is still at large:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-20/berlin-police-says-it-arrested-wrong-man-truck-attacker-armed-still-large
Yes! Black racial preferment is precisely how the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice has become ‘owned’ by people who represent blacks who
believe that 1) only white people can be racist, 2) all white people are inherently racist (consciously or subconsciously), 3) every success of white people is due to white privilege based on exploitation of black people, 4) every failure of black people is due to white bias against black people, 5) white people must share their racist ill-gotten gains with black people, 6) black people cannot be racist against white people because white people deserve to be punished for their endemic racism, 7) black people should
rule over white people, and 8) the world will be better off without white people.
Islamophobia is a fake condition – a fiction invented – a false concept – a manfactured myth – a made-up word with one purpose: to suppress or silence the truth ie the term
constantly over-used and most dishonestly abused as a means of disarming all valid, reasonable or reasoned criticism or inhibiting critical discussion, legitimate or not, of the Muslim religion – caused by the acts of Muslims and exploited by Muslims to portray themselves as the victims and is frequently equated with anti-Semitism in an attempt to or in order to downplay the Holocaust and minimize the dangers of diabolical and lethal anti-Semitism (ie pathological, intrinsic and irrational Jew-hatred).
What when you are accosted i.e. harassed, assaulted, intimidated or discriminated against just because you are Jewish, Catholic, Protestant or Orthodox Christian? And if discrimination against Muslims is racism then by the very same measure discrimination by Muslims is Islam. Can it be racist to call a spade a spade?