Protesters shouting the slogan “Merkel has blood on her hands” took to the streets of Berlin under the leadership of the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany). Several hundred demonstrators gathered on the street outside the Chancellery.
In possibly unrelated news, German police arrested a Moroccan ISIS supporter who is suspected of being a ringleader in last year’s terror attacks in Paris.
In other news, Hizb ut-Tahrir organized a rally in Sydney to protest the killings in Aleppo.
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Italy Moves to Rescue Its Banks
Italy has moved to rescue banks teetering on the edge of insolvency — by agreeing to inject billions of euros on the public tab. A long period of economic stagnation has left banks holding a lot of distressed debt.
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Large Pension Plans Adjusting Their Targets Downward
Heading into negotiations this past weekend between the California governor’s office, teachers’ unions, and pension plan trustees managing the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), Governor Jerry Brown spoke the truth: “There’s no doubt CalPERS needs to start aligning its rate of return expectations with reality.”
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Spanish Banks Face $4.2 Billion Hit From European Court’s Loan Ruling
Spanish banks must repay customers more than 4 billion euros ($4.2 billion) after Europe’s top court overturned on Wednesday a Spanish ruling that capped liabilities relating to a disputed mortgage clause, posing a new challenge to some lenders.
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Swiss Regulator Fines Bank $96.3 Million for Rate Rigging
ZURICH—A Swiss regulator said it has fined a handful of global banks for conspiring to rig key interest rates and the pricing of contracts over several years stretching back to the period prior to the financial crisis.
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Another Fantastic Claim Shot to Hell: Weather Begets Climate Belief
Researchers found local experiences and temperatures drive belief or non-belief in climate change …
Anthony comments:
So I’ve read the study, and it’s got one clear problem that I can see, which is obvious from their map — they didn’t account for local media exposure and political bias. Below is a map of how counties voted in the 2012 election, compared to Mann’s climate belief system map. Reds are right leaning (Republican), Blues are left leaning (Democratic). I’ve used this map, because it’s closer to the timeframe of the polling data from Mann’s study, IMO. …
If you compare the grey areas, where belief in global warming due to weather events is high, you’ll note an obvious pattern: The darkest areas in Mann’s map match many of the bluest areas of the voting map. Places like San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Miami, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Washington, DC and Chicago all have strong correlations with voting records.
This suggests that Mann’s study is pure bunk, and is more related to political leanings and media outlets for those areas pushing the AGW meme, than it has to do with weather.
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Cops: U-M Student Lied About Man Threatening to Burn Hjiab
A University of Michigan student who told police in November that a man threatened to set her hijab on fire could face charges after investigators discovered she fabricated the entire story, police announced Wednesday.
According to a statement from the Ann Arbor Police Department, detectives worked along with the U-M Division of Public Safety and the FBI to investigate the case, which had been classified as ethnic intimidation.
“Investigators conducted witness interviews and reviewed multiple surveillance videos of the area in question,” the department said. “During the course of the investigation, numerous inconsistencies in the statements provided by the alleged victim were identified. Following a thorough investigation, detectives have determined the incident in question did not occur.”
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High-School Athlete Walks Free After Coat-Hanger Sodomy of Teammate
[WARNING: * Disturbing Content * ]
(RAW STORY) The white ringleader of a horrific sexual assault of a mentally disabled black teen will avoid jail time and escape classification as a sex offender after pleading guilty to a lesser charge, the Daily Kos reports.
John R.K. Howard plead guilty Friday to one felony count of injury to a child after leading two football teammates to help him carry out a a violent sexual attack on a black teammate with mental disabilities.
The attack occurred on Oct. 23, 2015, when Howard and Tanner Ward, along with a third juvenile student, pretended to offer the victim a hug, then held him down and sodomized him with a coat hanger. KTVB reports “a third attacker then kicked the coat hanger several times, forcing it farther into the victim’s body and causing rectal injuries that required treatment at a hospital.”
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Trump’s Muslim Ban is Going Ahead: President-Elect Doubles Down After Berlin Terror Attack
The President-elect announced the controversial policy in a bid to defeat “radical Islamic terrorism” while campaigning last year.
And speaking in Florida today, Mr Trump dismissed suggestions he would back down from his hardline stance.
He told reporters: “You’ve known my plans all along. I’ve been proven to be right, 100% correct. What’s happening is disgraceful.”
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Obama and Trudeau Seizing the Oceans
It is an irrefutable truth that the UN stole God’s gift to mankind before sanctimoniously calling it the Law of the Sea Treaty.
Its acronym (LOST) best describes where the UN leaves earthlings.
Reams of warnings, all of them patently ignored, have been written about LOST. The late, iconic Phyllis Schlafly wrote in a 2004 column, ‘We Should Drown the Law of the Sea’.
One of CFP’s own columnists, the late Henry Lamb devoted a lifetime trying to stop it.
“Of all the so-called “environmental” treaties that have come down the pike in recent years, none is as comprehensive or as important to the creation of global governance as the Law of the Sea Treaty. Absolute authority over 70 percent of the Earth’s surface and taxing power for an international agency under the control of the U.N. create a situation that should give nightmares to every American,” Lamb wrote in 2007 on Canada Free Press.
“Not only would this treaty give the U.N. jurisdiction over the open seas — – 70 percent of the Earth’s surface — it would require that U.S. sovereignty over U.S. territorial seas be exercised “… subject to this Convention and other rules of international law.” Outrageous! And this is one of the least offensive provisions.
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by Srdja Trifkovic
Having written dozens of articles on the subject of Islamic terrorism and Europe’s ongoing suicide, following the latest jihadist carnage in Berlin I find myself lost for words—unable to think of anything useful that has not already appeared on this blog. Let me explain . . .
In August of last year I wrote that Europe’s political elite was guilty of facilitating the third Muslim invasion of Europe: “The post-Christian liberal West, which has lost its sense of purpose and history, is unable to protect itself from those who want to conquer it. It is in need of salvation which Christian charity alone is powerless to effect. A stronger medicine is needed, with possibly unpleasant side-effects for the invading aliens and their offspring. The alternative is death.”
Three months later I noted that the Great Invasion of 2015 was continuing unabated because Europe was rich and decadent, and in all creation disease and frailty invite predators. Both the loss of the will to define and defend one’s native land and culture, and the loss of the desire to procreate, send an alluring signal to the teeming kazbahs and sukhs: Come, for these people no longer have the guts to shed blood—alien or their own—to keep you out in order to survive. Spengler heralded The Decline of the West, yet he did not anticipate a cataclysmic event but rather an extended decline. It now appears that the protracted fall is over, and the stage is set for a series of quick, brutal catastrophes:
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Austria Police to Hand Out 6,000 Rape Whistles Ahead of New Years’s Eve
AUSTRIAN police will distribute 6,000 rape alarms as they aim to prevent a repeat of the mass sex attacks in neighbouring Germany a year ago
The interior ministry has also announced it would beef up security at public events following the Berlin terror attack at a Christmas market on Monday evening.
“It’s a national campaign aimed primarily at women on New Year’s Eve,” ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck told AFP.
If activated, the free gadgets will emit a shrill sound aimed at chasing away potential aggressors, he added.
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Catalogue of Blunders That Left ‘Berlin Terrorist’ Free to Kill
The prime suspect for the Berlin massacre was under covert surveillance for months as a possible terrorist threat until police let him slip through their grasp earlier this month.
Anis Amri, 24, a Tunisian asylum seeker who arrived in Germany last year, was investigated for “preparing a serious crime endangering national safety”, involving funding the purchase of automatic weapons for use in a terrorist attack.
Amri had been arrested earlier this year and was known to be a supporter of the terrorist group thought to be behind the Sousse terrorist attack in Tunisia, as well as being a suspected disciple of a notorious hate preacher.
He had multiple identity documents with six different aliases under three nationalities, and a criminal record in Italy and Tunisia. He spent four years in an Italian prison before travelling to Germany after an expulsion order expired.
The German authorities, who were on Wednesday facing serious questions about how Amri was still at large, tried to deport him in June, but because he had no valid papers proving his nationality he was allowed to stay…
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France Carries Out ‘Preventative Arrests’ To Thwart Looming Attack
Government spokesman Stephane Le Foll said precautionary arrests, part of a continual anti-terrorism campaign, were aimed at avoiding “all risk of an attack and organisation of an attack”.
He said: “Everything is in place to head off the risks.”
But the spokesman did not reveal how many arrests had been made so far.
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Frank Gaffney: Leaders Like Merkel Still ‘Scratching Their Heads’ Over Motivations of Jihadis
Gaffney said the most surprising thing about the latest round of terror attacks is that “we continue to see people in positions of authority — whether it’s Angela Merkel, or whether it’s police authorities, or whether it’s folks assessing the situation on this side of the pond — who scratch their heads and try to figure out what could have motivated someone to do these sorts of heinous attacks, or sort of balk at the idea that it’s actually jihadism, and refrain from calling it that.”
He was willing to give “some measure of credit” to German Chancellor Merkel for acknowledging terrorism was “a distinct possibility early on,” but said it was more important to describe the Berlin massacre as jihadism. This conveys the correct impression that the larger purpose of such attacks is to make targeted populations feel “not just terrified, but subdued, as the Koran puts it.”
“That’s what’s incredible to me, that here we are, 15 years on, and we’re still not getting that’s what’s at work here,” he marveled.
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Geert Wilders’ PVV Stretches Lead in Latest Poll of Polls
The anti-immigration PVV has stretched its lead over the right-wing Liberal VVD in the latest poll of polls, with three months to go before the general election, broadcaster NOS reported.
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Germany Arrests Moroccan ‘Linked to Paris Attacks Planner’
German police have arrested a Moroccan man suspected of belonging to Isis and having close ties with the ringleader of last year’s Paris attacks, officials said Wednesday.
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Marine Le Pen Warns That Islamism Poses a Global Threat
Speaking on French television channel LCI, the the Front National politician said: “This Berlin attack is reminiscent of Nice and nothing has been done since.
“We need to make a coalition alliance against all Islamist ramifications.”
Marion Le Pen, who is the niece of the Front National leader Marine Le Pen, blasted European leaders for treating the Islam issue with such laxity.
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‘Merkel Has Blood on Her Hands’ Protests Erupt Outside Chancellery
Crowds have gathered outside the Chancellory in Berlin just two days after the Berlin terror attack as a series of protests, counter-demonstrations and vigils are held across the city.
Supporters of the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party are demonstrating outside Angela Merkel’s office.
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Nigel Farage Blasts ‘Dead’ Union and Predicts ‘Inevitable’ EU Break-Up
The former Ukip leader insisted the break-up of the European Union was inevitable following the Brexit vote.
In an interview with Fox Business, he likened the EU to Hillary Clinton and the Brexit vote to a vote for President-elect Donald Trump.
He said: “I think Brexit sent America a message that actually the European Union project was dying anyway.
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Spain: El Gordo is Right: World’s Largest Lottery is $2.4 Billion
El Gordo has arrived, and it’s a lot more fun than El Niño or El Chapo.
El Gordo, Spanish for “The Fat One,” is Spain’s annual Christmas lottery taking place Thursday. The world’s richest sweepstakes, this year’s prizes will total a fat $2.4 billion, give or take a hundred million.
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Viktor Orban Declares 2017 the ‘Year of Rebellion’
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has praised the victories of the populist Five Star Movement in the Italian referendum and the election of Donald Trump in the United States, claiming these developments are just the beginning of the “rebellion”.
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‘White Power’ Causes Islamism: Sweden’s New Extremism Tsar
Sweden’s newly appointed anti-terror coordinator attracted criticism yesterday after seeming to suggest Islamic terrorism is caused by the “white power movement”.
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Wilders: ‘Political Revolution is Brewing in Europe’
Yesterday, the Islamic State claimed the Berlin terror attack of Monday evening, in which twelve people were killed with a truck at a Christmas market.
The killer managed to escape. However, in the truck the police found identity papers belonging to Anis A., a Tunisian who came to Germany as an asylum seeker in 2015.
When last year German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Germany’s borders to almost one million refugees and asylum seekers, she invited the Trojan horse of Islam into her country. Among the so-called refugees were many young men of Islamic background, filled with hatred for the West and its civilization. One of them was Anis A.
It took almost a year for the German authorities to reject his asylum request, but meanwhile the man had disappeared. The police are now looking for him as a prime suspect of Monday’s attack in Berlin.
The German authorities are dangerously underestimating the threat of Islam. They signs are there for all to see. In October, an Afghan asylum seeker raped and murdered a 19-year old German girl in Freiburg. And a 12-year old Iraqi boy was caught before he could explode a nail bomb at a Christmas market in Ludwigshafen.
Last Summer, an Afghan with an axe attacked train passengers in Heidingsfeld, a Syrian murdered a pregnant woman with a machete in Reutlingen, another Syrian detonated a suicide bomb at a music festival in Ansbach, a Palestinian attempted to decapitate a surgeon in Troisdorf. And who has forgotten last New Year’s eve, when migrant sex mobs assaulted hundreds of women in Cologne?
This year, 1,500 police officers will be patrolling the streets in Cologne on New Year’s eve. Ten times more than last year. But how many police officers will be needed next year? And the year after that? And what will happen when they are outnumbered? What is needed are not just more police officers; what is needed is a democratic political revolution…
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Are Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait Funding German Salafism?
Salafism — from salaf, “ancestors” or “predecessors” in Arabic — urges the emulation of the first three generations of the Islamic prophet Mohammad’s companions, and Mohammad himself. It is often deemed the most fundamentalist interpretation of Islam.
Security agencies in Germany claim that 9,200 such Islamic extremists currently call the country home. Another intelligence briefing cited by Süddeutsche Zeitung, warns that “the ideology already has 10,000 followers” and growing, in the country.
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Russian Ambassador’s Assassin ‘Guarded Recep Tayyip Erdogan’
The Turkish policeman who murdered Russia’s ambassador to Ankara provided security to Turkey’s president multiple times in the run up to Monday’s assassination, it has bean claimed.
Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22, served on police details backing up Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s personal body guards eight times since the failed military coup that rocked Turkey in July, Abdülkadir Selvi, a columnist known for his close ties to the government, wrote in Hurriyet on Wednesday.
Alintas, who served on an elite Ankara riot unit for two and a half years, was part of the second tier of security at those events.
He was reported to have served on Mr Erdogan’s security detail twice in 2014 and 2015.
Altintas shouted “Allahu Akbar” and “don’t forget Aleppo” after he shot Andrey Karlov, Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, on Monday…
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Turkey is ‘On the Cliff of a Complete Collapse’
Turkey has been inundated with terrorist attacks this year in addition to the failed attempt to topple increasingly radical President Tayyip Erdogan.
“Turkey is basically on the cliff of a complete collapse, between the forces of moderation within Turkey who feel they are losing the fight and the forces of the radicals who feel empowered and that they are winning,” Gabriel told WND and Radio America.
She said the best chance for Turkey to reverse course has come and gone.
“I think it’s already too late for the moderates to turn the ship around. Unfortunately, the coup was the last straw, the last attempt at being able to take over the government. Moderates realize that Erdogan has literally driven the country, over the decades since he has been leading the country, into the abyss of radicalism,” Gabriel said.
“That basically killed any chance or any hope for the moderates to really take back their government,” she said.
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Putin Says Sanctions Harming Fight Against Terrorism, Hopes Germany Attack Brings West Closer
Vladimir Putin says that the rift created by anti-Russian sanctions is affecting cooperation in the battle against terrorism, while Russia’s foreign ministry says that recently introduced US sanctions “will not be left without reply.”
“All these restrictions in the economic and political spheres drive apart states, and prevent us from joining forces in combating a common evil — terrorism,” said the Russian President during a meeting with Russia’s top legislators in Moscow on Wednesday.
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Hizb ut-Tahrir Organises Rally in Sydney’s West to Protest Bloodshed in Aleppo
AN EXTREMIST religious group held a rally in Sydney’s west last night, in which repeated calls were made for global Islamic rule.
The radical group Hizb ut-Tahrir organised the protest, which was promoted on social media and held in Lakemba Memorial Park.
“Aleppo has been devastated beyond words as the world watches in silence,” the Facebook event reads. “American political manoeuvres, Russian barrel bombs and Iranian mercenaries have assisted Assad’s brutality against innocent men, women and children, sparing not even the injured in hospitals. The regimes of surrounding Muslim lands have also been complicit.
“It is time to break the silence and raise our voice for Aleppo and Syria at large.”
Hizb ut-Tahrir is a pan-Islamic global organisation that says it “works globally to resume the Islamic way of life through the establishment of the Khilafah (Caliphate) in the Muslim world”…
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Homogenization of Temperature Data by the Bureau of Meteorology
[…] He said he was Australia’s lead scientist on the IPCC and, aside from giving us an update on the scientific program in the Antarctic, he was going to talk about climate and global warming. I asked him, were we not in an interglacial warm period in the 100,000 year Milankovitch Cycle and wasn’t all this current warming natural? His jaw dropped and was aghast. Our discussion ended there and he raced off not looking too happy. I couldn’t help but getting the feeling that I wasn’t supposed to know anything about the Milankovitch Cycles. It seemed like no one was supposed to know this.
It seems apparent that we all are just supposed to listen to what the IPCC are telling us and don’t ask questions. So what are the IPCC telling us? …
One has to be excused for being skeptical here but it does look prima facie like the IPCC has asked their 50% partner, the WMO, to give them some temperature data that more closely matches their models. At least 3 of the WMO’s senior partners, BOM — Australia, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — NOAA — America and Met Office — UK are adjusting their temperature data to something that has a much more closer resemblance to the IPCC’s models. There is no evidence that Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia — (Roshydromet), is involved with these adjustments. …
An Australian scientist, Jennifer Marohasy, has been taking a close interest in the adjustments BOM are making. She produces weather forecasting models and has a grave concern about these adjustments. One of the data inputs to weather forecasting models in temperature. It appears that the temperature is not correct/accurate now. None of these organizations will say or explain what they are doing or are being vague when asked. Raw data is being removed from public scrutiny and no one knows if it is actually being destroyed. Officially they are providing no scientific basis for making these adjustments. The adjustments they are making are complex. The 1940/41 and 1998 El Ninos have been wiped from these records. …
Observing practices change, thermometers change, stations move from one location to another and new weather stations are installed. They refused to release their complex mathematical formula used to make the adjustments. They claim that homogenisation is essential in eliminating artificial non-climate systematic errors in temperature observations. non-climate related factors include…
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‘Al-Nusra Front Follower’ Interrupts Children’s Christmas Play in Austria to Preach From Koran
A kindergarten Christmas play in Austria took an unexpected turn when an asylum seeker claiming to be a follower of Al-Nusra Front militant group stormed the stage and started preaching from the Koran. He was arrested soon after.
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Berlin Police Launch Manhunt for Tunisian Refugee Suspect
BERLIN — A 23-year-old Tunisian man emerged as the primary suspect behind the Monday terror attack in Berlin, which killed 12 and injured 48.
The man, identified as Anis A., was born in the Tunisian city of Tataouine in 1992. A refugee, he applied for asylum in Germany in April, according to Suddeutsche Zeitung.
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Germany: 21 Asylum Seekers Cost Town €500,000 a Month
A migrant home in a small German town is costing taxpayers more than €500,000 per month to house just 21 migrants, and other facilities are facing similarly disproportionate costs.
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Merkel Facing Ruin: Everything Has Changed for Germany After Berlin Terror, Says Expert
ANGELA Merkel’s open-door migrant policy will come slamming shut and Germany will become a Big Brother state after the Berlin Christmas market terror attack, a leading political commentator has warned.
Josef Joffe said Germany has only had to deal with no or low victim lone-wolf attacks, unlike many other Western countries, until this year but after a spate of seven in 2016 the government will be forced to change the way the country is run.
The publisher-editor of Die Zeit, a weekly German newspaper, and professor at two Ivy League universities, said border controls, which have only this year been reinstated after 1.1million migrants entered in 2015, will be tightened and domestic surveillance will be upped after Monday’s “Berlin bloodbath”.
‘They grabbed and HIT me’ Teen girl hospitalised after being beaten by gang of migrant MEN
Céline Winkelmuller was set upon by five males after she left her parent’s flat in the Floridsdorf district in the north of the capital Vienna.
The 15-year-old said she was set upon by the males, whom she thought were from Turkey after she had gone outside for some fresh air.
Ms Winkelmuller said: “Two of them grabbed me and dragged me into a corner, two of them hit me and the fifth took away my mobile phone and my jacket.” After the brutal attack, the teenagers fled and left their victim unconscious, according to local media.
She added that none of the men appeared to speak any German.
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Sweden: 17 Percent of Teachers Quit Migrant Crisis Malmö in Just 6 Months
One-in-six teachers have left Sweden’s third city of Malmö in just a few months, as the number of schoolchildren in the area is expected to leap by nearly 42 per cent in the next decade.
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Will We Really Drain the Swamp?
In my opinion, there are three critical targets that are must hit targets if we are serious about draining the swamp once and for all. If we hit all three, we can drain the swamp. But if we don’t hit all three, we will only pretend to drain the swamp.
THREE KEYS TO DRAINING THE SWAMP
1. The Article II natural born Citizen clause must be enforced and violators must be investigated and prosecuted. Evidence now proves that the entire Obama Administration was based upon fraud. That fraud, left standing, makes it impossible to protect the Oval Office from foreign invasion and occupation. We cannot drain the swamp so long as this remains the case. Barack Hussein Obama and his fellow criminals must be held fully accountable for that fraud, or the Oval Office is unprotected. (SEE P-I and P-II on NBC) — – Congress must immediately open this investigation!
2. The arrest and prosecution of George Soros, and the seizing of all assets and organizations funded by George Soros for the overt purpose of sedition and subversion of the sovereignty and security of our Constitutional Republic. These organizations are the root enemy within that must be eliminated, or the swamp cannot be drained. This is the fuel and ammo supply for all enemy operations within the United States today.
3. The people must file civil suits against their mayors and governors of “sanctuary cities” for threatening the safety, sovereignty and security of their own cities and states by “aiding and abetting” known criminals and criminal activities, as well as “harboring fugitives” from justice under United States Immigration and Naturalization laws. Once again, the swamp cannot be drained while mayors and governors protect “illegal invaders” at the expense of all “legal U.S. citizens.”
Now, if we are serious about draining the swamp, we cannot look past these three key elements to draining the swamp. Without a full-scale assault on these three critical targets on day one of the Trump Administration, the enemies within will continue to operate with impunity to subvert any and all otherwise meaningless efforts to drain the swamp.
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FedEx Discount for NRA Unhinges LGBT, Anti-Gun Activists
(BLOOMBERG) A coalition of gay-rights and gun-control activists is taking on FedEx Corp. for discounts it offers to members of the National Rifle Association, targeting the global shipper during the peak of the holiday season.
The group is launching an online campaign and plans protests on Wednesday at FedEx retail stores in Denver; Atlanta; Memphis, Tennessee; and Orlando, Florida, said Igor Volsky, director of Guns Down, a Washington-based group that advocates for fewer guns in the U.S. and is one of 10 participating organizations. A Dec. 7 letter to the company got no response, he said. FedEx didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
FedEx offers shipping discounts of as much as 26 percent to members of the NRA, the gun-rights group with 5 million members, as part of a program that also has special offers for Visa cards, according to Guns Down. Separate programs offer deals on Hertz rental cars and Wyndham hotels, according to the NRA website.
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Judge Now Holds Fate of Obama’s Mandatory Transgender Treatment for Kids
A Texas court is expected to make a decision before New Year’s Day on one of President Obama’s newest transgender mandates, which would require doctors to provide transgender treatment for kids who desire it.
That treatment would be required under Obama’s federal rule even if the physician is convinced it would harm the child.
The case was brought by the Becket Fund on behalf of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations, the Franciscan Alliance and the states of Texas, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska and Wisconsin.
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Nanny State Shock: California Bill Would Trip Parental Rights
A new bill introduced in the California Senate promises to guarantee “children’s rights.” But it really amounts to eviscerating parents’ rights and empowering the state — to raise your kids in its own image. And with 38-million-strong California being a trendsetter, the legislation’s success could mean it would soon appear in a government near you.
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The first cab off the rank on tonight’s ‘News Feed’ is Italy about to rescue its Banks.
I say why? Why would a government wish to rescue the very things that have got them into so much financial strife in the first place?
Wealth has always been in the eyes of the beholder, and as the old saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
Unless the Banking system is bolstered by their own wealth against what the Banks loan out, then Banks who lend without any kind of fall back, and that has become the norm today under what is termed ‘fiat’ money, then when times turn bad and investors or customers of those Banks who wish to retrieve what they have ‘loaned’ to the Banks will find that they are the losers, and not the Banks.
If countries had the courage to reject the IMF, the World Bank, the Bank of International Settlements and banned their Central Banking system and allow private Banks some leverage, then I believe they could regain control over their own sovereign wealth.
And then we come to the story; ‘Merkel facing ruin…….’ And a Josef Joffe who believes that Germany has only had to deal with no or low victim ‘lone wolf’ attacks?
Perhaps he did not do his homework when it comes to Islamic terrorist attacks on German soil?
Remember the Munich Olympics and the attack at Templehoff airport by the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)?
My, but oh my, how some deliberately forget their history!
Italian retirees seeking yield have invested huge amount into “retail” bank debt sold over the counter at bank branches. The government has to find some way to make good on that debt or impoverish a sizable chunk of their own population.
Fortunately, the Italian government is going to resist the precedent set by Cyprus & Greece. Instead, they will protect their own citizens from the EU/EZ overlords.
Unless the system is fixed and fixed for good so that these ‘failures’ stop occurring, then nothing will change and this kind of thing will continue on as it has for well over a hundred years.
Those who put money into the Banks may get some of it back but ask yourself, who really wins?
“In possibly unrelated news, German police arrested a Moroccan ISIS supporter who is suspected of being a ringleader in last year’s terror attacks in Paris.”
No doubt he will be bailed, and asked nicely if he would appear at court on April 1st next year.
Do we have bearded and hijabbed up Mulems employed at all levels and other ranks throughout the German police and all defense ministeries? What a bunch of bunnies we are turning into. Very ripe for something piecemeal bloody Islamic. Get them out while you can. Don’t be late start today. Laaaaa dee da.
The Soros virus must be leashed or Western civilization shall perish.
Surely someone can just kidnap this evil man and deliver him to mother Russia who have a warrant out for his arrest and
Would deal with him appropriately!
Eventually California will be a true socialist paradise!! Welcome to the future!!!
Eventually? It’s been since 1992.
I’m no expert on American regional affairs, but I thought California’s finances were sounder since the Democrats came to power?
Why the truck was not immediately searched http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/attentat-in-berlin-wieso-der-lkw-nicht-sofort-durchsucht-wurde-1.3306452
“It would have made sense to promptly search the cabin, since after all islamist assassins have quite often left their papers behind at the crime scene. Instead the black truck was first towed away from the scene, into the hangar of the police.
There, the police first sent dogs into the cabin, to take in the scent of the suspect. To not spoil this scent, the investigators had so far avoided thoroughly searching the cabin. Only later did they find a wallet, from which they then pulled the papers of Anis Amri very slowly and carefully. Only then it occurs to them that a completely different man than the one they have already arrested could be the main suspect.”
“Es wäre naheliegend gewesen, die Kabine schleunigst zu durchsuchen, denn immerhin haben islamistische Attentäter ja schon öfter ihre Papiere am Tatort hinterlassen. Stattdessen wird der schwarze Lastwagen erst einmal abgeschleppt, weg vom Tatort, hinein in eine Halle der Polizei.
Um diesen Geruch nicht zu verderben, haben die Ermittler bisher davon abgesehen, die Kabine gründlich zu durchsuchen. Erst später finden sie eine Geldbörse, aus der sie dann sehr langsam und vorsichtig die Papiere von Anis Amri ziehen. Da erst dämmert ihnen, dass ein ganz anderer Mann der Hauptverdächtige sein könnte als der, den sie bereits festgenommen haben.”