Five Afghan “youths” who raped a boy in a woodland in Sweden have escaped deportation, despite their conviction for the crime. The young men were convicted of the rape near the town of Uppsala, but they cannot be deported because the situation in their homeland is unsafe.
In other news, Russian security police arrested seven suspected terrorists for allegedly planning New Year’s attacks under orders from the Islamic State.
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Three Mini-Bubbles Are Bursting
The world has gotten so used to ultra-low interest rates that even economists and money managers seem to be shocked by what happens when rates start creeping back towards normal levels.
Some of the mini-bubbles that formed in an essentially free-money environment are now starting to leak. Notably:
US Housing While the action in this sector is nothing like the raging mania of the 2000s, prices in many hot US markets are at all-time highs, while affordability is at or near an all-time low. And now rising mortgage rates are beginning to bite…
US Auto Sales Cars and trucks have been one of the economy’s bright spots for several years — – which seems to have gotten everyone just a little too excited. Auto financing practices have lately begun to resemble those of the subprime mortgage bubble: Today’s average loan is for more money, lasts much longer, and is held by a much weaker credit than ever before. Now, with interest rates rising and pretty much every potential buyer already locked into a car mortgage, the bubble optimism is evaporating…
China That the world’s second largest economy — with a debt load that has quintupled in the past seven years — can be called a “mini-bubble” illustrates the size of the meta-bubble in which it has emerged.
The story in a nutshell is that China responded to the Great Recession by borrowing more money in the following half decade than any other country ever, and wasting a big part of the proceeds. Now its banking system is cracking under the strain of mounting bad debts, and newly-rich Chinese are getting their capital out of Dodge at a rate that if allowed to continue will bring on a full-scale credit crisis. Already-extant capital controls will apparently be tightened up shortly.
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A Liquid Iron Jet Has Surrounded Earth’s Core and is Accelerating
A recent major discovery identified a massive liquid iron “jet stream” circling the Earth’s outer core that appears to be accelerating. This comparatively fast flowing liquid iron stream is currently moving westward under Alaska and Siberia as measured by the Swarm satellites and recently published in Nature Geoscience.
The iron jet is moving at about 50 km per year, orders of magnitude faster than plates move and much faster than anything scientists knew of within Earth’s interior. Traveling at 50 km per year doesn’t seem rather fast compared to speeds on the surface of the Earth. However, consider the tremendous amount of energy required to push aside dense liquid metal under very high pressures across hundreds of miles. In addition, it appears that this liquid jet stream is accelerating but scientists have not determined what is causing the acceleration.
The liquid iron jet is similar to the jet stream found within our atmosphere but at 3,000 km below the surface of the Earth. The jet appears to be 420 km wide and covers half way around the planet as it travels through Earth’s liquid outer core. This iron jet has likely been circling the Earth for hundreds of millions of years, yet we just discovered its existence. Despite a good understanding of the iron jet’s width and length, the depth to which it extends is far from known.
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There was no Wikileaks organization in the early to mid 1990s, nor was the internet integrated as a global phenomenon of research and information. So when a controversial documentary detailing a “nationwide pedophilia and child abuse ring” called “A Conspiracy of Silence” was scheduled to be shown on the Discovery Channel in May of 1994, only a select group of individuals knew of its contents.
This would include the crew, the people who were interviewed for the project and some very angry and influential individuals, including top politicians, who had enough clout to demand that the Discovery Channel pull it off the schedule, as disclosed by Humansarefree.com.
The documentary was so explosive, reports Salemnews.com. that an “all-out effort” was made to destroy any existing copies. History is fortunate that an unknown individual provided a half-inch videotape, replete with time code, to John Decamp, a former Nebraska State Senator who had been very involved with an investigation of Nebraska’s Community Federal Credit Union where $40 million was missing.
That missing money was only the tip of a very dark iceberg that went all the way to the White House.
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Breaking: Drudge Report Under ‘Biggest DDoS Attack Since Site’s Inception’
Media pioneer Matt Drudge stated on Twitter Thursday that the Drudge Report was under the “biggest DDoS attack since the site’s inception.”
Is the US government attacking DRUDGE REPORT?
Biggest DDoS since site’s inception. VERY suspicious routing [and timing].
– MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) December 30, 2016
In his tweet Drudge questioned whether the attack, which overwhelms a website’s servers with traffic in an attempt to take it offline, originated from the U.S. government.
“Is the US government attacking DRUDGE REPORT?” he tweeted. “Biggest DDoS since site’s inception. VERY suspicious routing [and timing].”
Attacking coming from ‘thousands’ of sources. Of course none of them traceable to Fort Meade…
– MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) December 30, 2016
The attack came only hours after the White House announced retaliatory measures against the Russia government, which included expelling 35 “Russian intelligence operatives” from the country, for US-election related hacking.
The Drudge Report came under attack only moments after numerous reports alleged Russian state-run news network RT became unavailable on television in parts of the US — fueling speculation that the disruption was linked to the Obama administration’s earlier announcement.
[Comment: Drudge is right, globalists and their puppets are launching a war against any site that reports the truth (ie especially those that expose the mainstream media as liars.) ]
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Fake News, Mass Hysteria, And Induced Insanity
The “fake news” is that we’ve never been healthier, healthcare costs are under control and our economy has fully “recovered.”
We’ve heard a lot about “fake news” from those whose master narratives are threatened by alternative sources and analyses. We’ve heard less about the master narratives being threatened: the fomenting of mass hysteria, which turns the populace into an easily manipulated and managed herd, and induced insanity, a longer-term marketing-based narrative that causes the populace to ignore the self-destructive consequences of accepting the fad/ ideology/ mindset being pushed as “good” and “normal.”
In terms of “fake news,” it’s hard to beat the mainstream media and its handlers’ attempts to whip up mass hysteria via unsubstantiated claims that Russian hackers working for Putin deprived Hillary of the presidency. The campaign to spark mass hysteria was launched with great precision, unleashing the overwhelming forces of endless repetition (the marketer’s favorite tool) and appeals to national security authorities: The C.I.A., F.B.I, and all the other security agencies purportedly concur that Russia “hacked” (whatever that means) the U.S. election.
The intent of the campaign was painfully obvious: by wheeling out the big guns of authority without any actual evidence, the campaign’s designers hoped the public would automatically assume the bizarre, outlandish claim must be “true,” even though no evidence was submitted to substantiate this fact-free claim, and respond as planned, i.e. willingly join a mass hysteria herd in favor of discrediting the U.S.election results.
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Killer Robots Await Trump’s Verdict
The new president will have to decide how aggressively the U.S. pursues military technology that could let machines make life-or-death decisions.
Swarms of armed drones programmed to “fire and forget.” Fully automated anti-missile shields. Killer robots designed to identify and eliminate suspected terrorists on sight.
It all sounds like something out of science fiction, but a new age of machines empowered to make decisions about life and death is dawning as research in artificial intelligence advances. And President-elect Donald Trump will have to make crucial decisions about whether the U.S. military embraces the technology.
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Mormon Choir Singer Quits to Avoid Performing for “Tyrannical, Fascist” Trump
First, we had the downtrodden, disaffected Radio City Music Hall Rockette, Phoebe Pearl, who raged against her employer’s decision to perform at Trump’s inauguration saying she was “embarrassed and disappointed” by the upcoming performance. She even posted a cute picture to her instagram account, in protest, declaring that Trump is “Not My President!”
Now, Jan Chamberlin, formerly of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, is seeking her 15 minutes of fame. Rather than sing at the President-elect’s inauguration next month, Chamberlin has decided to quit the famed group in epic fashion with a Facebook rant saying the choir is implicitly “endorsing tyranny and fascism by singing for this man” while going on to compare Trump to Hitler on multiple occasions. Here’s a little taste of the rant:…
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Nazi Collaborator Soros Calls Trump Hitler
Billionaire globalist George Soros says President-elect Donald Trump is a “would be dictator” who threatens the future of the New World Order.
Yet Soros himself admittedly aided the Nazis in confiscating property from the Jews during World War II. Soros called the incident the “happiest” time of his life.
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Painting of Cops as Pigs Hung Proudly in U.S. Capitol
A piece of art depicting police officers as pigs with guns terrorizing a black neighborhood is currently displayed proudly inside our nation’s Capitol.
The untitled artwork, which supposedly symbolizes the unrest that followed the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, was selected as part of the annual Congressional Art Competition. It currently hangs in a tunnel between the U.S. Capitol building and Longworth House Office Building.
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Skeptical Climate Scientists Coming in From the Cold
In the world of climate science, the skeptics are coming in from the cold.
Researchers who see global warming as something less than a planet-ending calamity believe the incoming Trump administration may allow their views to be developed and heard. This didn’t happen under the Obama administration, which denied that a debate even existed. Now, some scientists say, a more inclusive approach — and the billions of federal dollars that might support it — could be in the offing.
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UN Withdrawal: Never Wound a King
Before the U.N. can be abandoned, it must be defanged, declawed, discredited, and otherwise rendered so weak that it cannot be used against us when we finally do exit that noxious relic of World War II.
American should not withdraw from the United Nations without first ensuring that the organization cannot retaliate.
“Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.” — -Niccolò Machiavelli
The recent actions of the Obama administration and the UN Security Council have renewed calls for the United States to withdraw from the United Nations. The arguments for withdrawal are compelling and based on firm moral and practical considerations, but, so long as they leave the United Nations’ various organs intact, they will continue to wreak havoc in the world, unencumbered by our veto. American withdrawal will not reduce the United Nations’ mischief, but unleash it. Machiavelli addressed this when he wrote the passage quoted above, which can be summed up as, “never do an enemy a minor injury.”
The United Nations has two major organs that we must address. First there is the General Assembly, a vicious conglomeration of thuggish dictatorships, spineless social democracies and failing states. These countries unite only to attack the threats to their retention of power, or to deflect attention from how they wield it. This is why the vast majority of its condemnatory acts focus on the United States and Israel. The one good thing about the General Assembly is that it is utterly toothless; its resolutions carry no weight, and can be ignored without consequence. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the Security Council.
The United Nations Security Council has all of the flaws of the General Assembly, but it has teeth. It can back up its resolutions with UN Peacekeeping troops (levied from states whose records of adherence to the laws of war are, too put it politely, highly questionable), and its resolutions are binding on the member states. The former Soviet Union found this out the hard way.
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University Students Show How Easy it is to Use Terrifying Genetic Engineering Technology
The students, from the University of Minnesota, were inspired by a paper that explained how gene drive works and how to build one. A gene drive is so named for its ability to “drive” certain lab-selected traits into every offspring of an engineered species, eliminating competition with natural selection. Theoretically, this means that if released in the wild, over many generations the genetics of a lab-altered species could spread throughout an entire wild population. In case it’s not obvious, that is some pretty crazy stuff.
The students, who were competing in the international synthetic biology competition iGEM, didn’t actually successfully create a gene drive. They were interested in creating a “reversal drive” that could undo a gene drive’s effects in yeast. That would mean first creating a gene drive for yeast, and then an antidote to undo it. The students’ plan was to remove the ADE2 gene in yeast cells, turning red yeast pink, and then restore them to their original shade. They downloaded the genetic sequence for the gene drive from a scientific paper and sent the information to a DNA synthesis company, along with the sequence for a reversal drive they designed themselves. Then they got to work introducing the gene drive and its reversal drive into their yeast.
In the end, the students were foiled by inadequate lab equipment and too little time. When the competition deadline rolled around in October, they hadn’t even finished the first half of the project.
But the project raised eyebrows, by showing how easy it could be to create a potentially world-changing technology without a fancy lab or years of advanced training. In this case, the students did take precautions to make sure their lab-made creation didn’t spread in the wild. For instance, they used a strain of yeast that has difficulty surviving outside of a laboratory. But the title of their paper, “Shifting Gene Drives Into Reverse: Now Mosquitoes Are The Yeast Of Our Worries”, also suggested they were interested in experimenting with gene drives in insects, not just funky-coloured yeast.
“We thought it was super cool, but we immediately started thinking of some of the negative implications,” one of the students told STAT News.
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“Guilty, But Not Punished”: Another Banking Criminal Let Off the Hook
It is a verdict which we see over and over when it comes to the crimes of the Big Banks, the central banks, and their minions. These felons are caught committing serious offenses, again and again, yet receive either no punishment, or at worst some token slap on the wrist.
The banking felon to escape punishment this time is IMF criminal, Christine LaGarde . LaGarde’s criminal conviction came while she was still France’s Finance Minister. It involved a $400 million government pay-out authorized by LaGarde, against the advice of several other Finance Ministry officials, to “French tycoon” Bernard Tapie. LaGarde announced she wouldn’t appeal being let off the hook for her crime. How magnanimous.
Of course the phrase “French tycoon” is just a Corporate media euphemism for French oligarch, Bernard Tapie. LaGarde funneled $400 million of government money — the People’s money — into this oligarch’s pockets, against the advice of Ministry colleagues, in what was officially ruled “a misuse of public funds”. Even with the watered-down charge of negligence, LaGarde’s crime could have carried a penalty of up to one year in prison.
The problem is that it would be difficult for LaGarde to continue to serve her oligarch Masters — in her new role as head of the IMF — from inside a prison cell. So she was given a pat on the head and told to go back to work. Indeed, one has to wonder if LaGarde’s reward for enriching Bernard Tapie (even further) with public money was her prestigious appointment at the IMF?
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Catalan Referendum on Independence ‘Not Possible’ Says Spain PM
MADRID — Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Friday flatly rejected the possibility of any referendum in the northeastern region of Catalonia on a split from Spain, telling local leaders to desist from attempts to hold one next year.
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EUROPE is on red alert as police forces across the continent prepare to cope with heightened terror alerts on New Year’s Eve.
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Milo Yiannopoulous’s Book Surges to #1 on Amazon
A liberal freakout over Simon & Schuster’s book deal with Milo Yiannopoulos has helped boost the gay British conservative’s forthcoming autobiography to #1 on Amazon.com’s best seller list, he tells The Daily Caller.
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Poland Mourns Truck Driver Killed in Berlin Attack
BANIE, POLAND — The bells of a brown stone church rang across a Polish village as hundreds of mourners gathered Friday to bid farewell to a truck driver killed in the Berlin Christmas market attack.
Lukasz Urban, 37, has been described as the first victim of the attack on Dec. 19 that killed a total of 12 people. He was waiting to deliver a shipment of steel in Berlin when his truck was hijacked by the Tunisian perpetrator of the attack. He was shot and his body was found in the cab of the truck.
[Comment: Rest in Peace.]
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Safe Shorts to Stop Women Joggers From Suffering Sex Attacks in Germany Sold Out
AN ENTREPRENEUR from Germany has created trousers with the aim of protecting women from possible sex attacks while they are out jogging — and the first 150 were sold out immediately.
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Police in Cologne have already announced plans to deploy more than 1,500 officers
A far-right protest planned for New Year’s Eve in Cologne has been banned amid security fears — 12 months after a wave of sex attacks on women in the city.
Police in Cologne have already announced plans to deploy more than 1,500 officers — over 10 times more than last year when officers failed to prevent a string of assaults and robberies blamed largely on foreign men.
But authorities have now refused permission for a demonstration by the far-right National Democratic Party and have set up road blocks to prevent anyone driving into crowds.
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UK: From Today, The Government is Recording Everywhere You Click Online
British web users will be facing unprecedented surveillance under new government legislation that comes into force today.
December 30th marks the date that the Investigatory Powers Act, also known as the ‘Snooper’s Charter’ officially comes into force, allowing the government to collect data on anyone.
The government says that the new laws will primarily be used to combat serious crimes such as terrorism, but campaigners have warned that it could lead to innocent people being convicted of offences they didn’t commit.
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Video: Germany Steps Up New Year’s Eve Security After Berlin Attacks
German security forces are on high alert as the country prepares to see in the New Year, days after 12 people were killed in a truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market.
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Caroline Glick: Obama and Israel, Strike and Counter-Strike
UN Security Council Resolution 2334 was the first prong of outgoing US President Barack Obama’s lame duck campaign against Israel.
Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Wednesday was the second.
On January 15, stage 3 will commence in Paris. At France’s lame duck President Francois Hollande’s international conference, the foreign ministers of some fifty states are expected to adopt as their own the anti-Israel principles Kerry set forth in his speech.
The next day it will be Obama’s turn. Obama can be expected to use the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr. Day to present the Palestinian war to annihilate Israel as a natural progression from the American civil rights movement that King led fifty years ago.
Finally, sometime between January 17 and 19, Obama intends for the Security Council to reconvene and follow the gang at the Paris conference by adopting Kerry’s positions as a new Security Council resolution. That follow-on resolution may also recognize “Palestine” and grant it full membership in the UN.
True, Kerry said the administration will not put forward another Security Council resolution. But as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu explained in his response to Kerry’s address, there is ample reason to suspect that France or Sweden, or both, will put forth such a resolution. Since the draft will simply be a restatement of Kerry’s speech, Obama will not veto it…
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Jimmy Carter’s Lifelong Pursuit of a Palestinian State
Perhaps sensing that he would soon have to relinquish his position as America’s worst ex-president, Jimmy Carter reminded everyone last month how he earned the title with yet another call for the U.S. to recognize a Palestinian state. Carter’s call is a departure from American diplomacy, which insists, per UN Resolution 338, that an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement can only be reached through negotiations “between the parties.”
Carter’s presidency was mired in bad foreign policy decisions, and his post-presidency has been marred with excusing terrorism, attempting to revise history, and meddling in the affairs of every subsequent occupant of the White House, especially where the Middle East, which Carter considers his forte, is concerned. At each stage of his post-presidency, he has advocated on behalf of the Palestinians and against Israel, a nation he considers an apartheid state.
The Carter presidency is notable mostly for its failures: a 21.5% prime interest rate, the aborted April 1980 mission to rescue American hostages held in Iran, and dreary speeches to the nation, like the “crisis of confidence” or “malaise” speech.
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Islamic State General Flees to Europe With 400 Soldiers Disguised as Refugees
Up to 400 of his savage troops in tow, posing as refugees.
According to an Italian intelligence report quoted by the UK Daily Mail, former NATO soldier-turned Islamic State (ISIS) commander Lavdrim Muhaxheri has fled the Syrian battlefield and returned to Europe with up to 400 of his savage troops in tow, posing as refugees.
Muhaxheri, aka Abu Abdullah al Kosova, is of Kosovo Albanian extraction. His NATO training reportedly included a stint at the U.S. Army’s largest base in the Balkans. He has been designated a global terror threat by the U.S. State Department, and was regarded as a serious threat to Kosovo and Albania after joining ISIS.
Muhaxheri is an energetic recruiter for the Islamic State and one of its most public figures, popping up in a number of propaganda videos, including one where he kills a helpless captive with a rocket. (WARNING: graphic video at the link.)
He is believed to be the mastermind behind a thwarted plot to attack the Israeli national soccer team, Serbian Orthodox churches, and other targets in a string of synchronized terror attacks across the Balkans in November. Nineteen people were ultimately arrested in connection with the plan, and the authorities seized “weapons, explosives, and extremist religious materials.”
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Arrests Made Over Suspected ISIS Attack Plans for New Year’s Eve in Moscow
Russia’s security agencies have arrested seven people suspected of preparing New Year’s terror attacks in Moscow on orders from the Islamic State group in Syria.
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John McAfee: ‘I Can Guarantee You, It Was Not the Russians’
In case some of you were duped into believing this was evidence that proved Russia hacked the US elections, John McAfee would like to remind you that you’re probably a high tier retard and would believe virtually anything your government told you.
Crazy, but brilliant, John said “if it looks like the Russians did it, then I can guarantee you it was not the Russians.”
The Joint Analysis Report from the FBI contains an appendix that lists hundreds of IP addresses that were supposedly “used by Russian civilian and military intelligence services.” While some of those IP addresses are from Russia, the majority are from all over the world, which means that the hackers constantly faked their location. McAfee argues that the report is a “fallacy,” explaining that hackers can fake their location, their language, and any markers that could lead back to them. Any hacker who had the skills to hack into the DNC would also be able to hide their tracks, he said “If I was the Chinese and I wanted to make it look like the Russians did it, I would use Russian language within the code, I would use Russian techniques of breaking into the organization,” McAfee said, adding that, in the end, “there simply is no way to assign a source for any attack.” However, McAfee does see a problem with the National Security Agency (NSA) being able to listen in on every conversation and read every text message and email of every American. Rather than focusing on disrupting the bad guys in foreign countries, McAfee thinks that “all of that effort has been placed on a country that is afraid of its own citizens.” He claims that the only way he has been able to fully block the NSA from infecting his phone with spyware is by using a flip-phone too old to be hacked. He even goes as far as to call the iPhone the “ultimate spy device.”
Since the stakes are so high, thermonuclear war and all, the least the CIA and other wonderful intelligence agencies can do is provide sufficient evidence to the American people before they get annihilated under the winds of a 10,000 degree winter breeze. Or is that too much to ask? Judging by just about everything they’ve told us over the past 15 years, I’m inclined to believe the exact opposite is true.
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John McAfee Shuts Down ‘Manipulative’ FBI Claims of Russian Hacking
CYBERSECURITY tycoon John McAfee has blasted claims Moscow was involved in hacking the US presidential election, insisting it was “not the Russians”.
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Nigel Farage Commends Putin’s ‘Mature’ Response to US Diplomatic Expulsions
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for his decision not to expel American diplomats in response to a similar move by the US.
The MEP and prominent Brexit campaigner commended Putin on Twitter, describing the move as “mature.”
Farage, who has cultivated a close relationship with US President-elect Donald Trump since the US election, went on to say the new administration “can’t come soon enough.”
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Obama’s “Evidence” Against Russia Falls Flat
Obama’s “evidence” raises questions about the worth and value of the intelligence agencies that apparently provided it.
Whatever the motivation, the Obama administration’s “Joint Analysis Report” on alleged “Russian malicious cyber activity” is very weak and vague in key respects.
It would have been nice if reporters had read the pathetically thin report before concluding that there was substance to it, and that Trump was somehow derelict in not accepting what Obama had to offer.
Only four-and-a-half pages of the 13-page report purport to examine alleged Russian hacking activities. The rest of the report gives advice on how to provide security for computer networks.
It looked like the report was padded in order to make it seem more authoritative than it really was.
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Russia Arrests 7 Suspects Accused of Plotting Terror Attacks
MAKHACHKALA, RUSSIA — Russia’s security agencies have arrested seven people suspected of preparing New Year’s terror attacks in Moscow on orders from the Islamic State group in Syria.
Russia’s main domestic security and counter-terrorism agency, the FSB, said Thursday its agents arrested the suspects in the North Caucasus province of Dagestan. The FSB said the suspects were preparing attacks with automatic weapons and explosives in crowded places.
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After India’s Flop, Pakistan Rejects Proposal to Scrap the 5,000-Rupee Banknote
The Senate proposed eliminating the banknote to stem the circulation of illegal money. The Finance Ministry stopped the move. India’s failure prompted the government to focus on digital banking instead of abolishing cash.
Islamabad (AsiaNews) — The Pakistani government has rejected a proposal to scrap the 5,000-rupee banknote (about US$ 50).
The Pakistani Senate had recommended the change in an attempt to stem the circulation of illegal money and reduce the shadow economy.
However, given the disastrous results of a similar proposal in India — where the surprise elimination of the 500 and 1,000 rupee banknotes had a devastating impact on the population — the Pakistani Finance Ministry ruled out demonetisation.
“Given the continuing use of cash in transactions, the government believes that discontinuation of the 5,000-rupee note would adversely affect the efficiency of exchange in business,” the ministry said in a statement.
Pakistan’s Senate passed a nonbinding resolution this month calling for the government to follow India to “reduce illicit money flow, encourage the use of bank accounts and reduce the size of the undocumented economy.”
But the finance ministry ruled out such a demonetisation, saying it would hurt business.
The controversial banknotes are the most used (as are 500- to 1,000-rupee banknotes in India).
During the last financial year, 17 percent of currency notes printed were of the 5,000 denomination.
Like India, Pakistan has a huge agricultural sector, and transactions are often handled in cash, partly because much of the population does not have bank accounts.
The government frequently offers tax amnesties to encourage people with hidden wealth to declare assets and enter the banking system, hoping to expand an extremely narrow tax base.
But after Delhi’s failed to move to a cashless economy, Pakistan’s Finance Ministry plans to encourage digital banking to “reduce the dependence on currency” without “cancelling any existing denomination”.
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Bangladesh: Dhaka: Production Resumes After Textile Strike. 1,500 Workers Laid Off
The workers had been on strike for two weeks over wage increase. The sector risked collapse, 59 companies forced to stop machines. 80% of the garments for foreign market.
Dhaka (AsiaNews) — 1500 textile workers in Bangladesh have been fired following a two week strike demanding a wage increase. Together with about 150 thousand colleagues they had halted manufacturing of important Western clothing brands. After days of discussions and bargaining, the protest has resulted in a stalemate and 90% of workers returned to the factories.
The strike had started on December 12 with Windy Apparels Limited, a clothing company in the Ashulia industrial belt, on the outskirts of the capital. Thousands of workers were on strike, demanding an increase in the minimum wage hand in hand with the increase in the cost of living.
The protesters complained that the current salary, around 5-6 thousand taka (just over 80 Euros), is not enough to bridge a relentless inflation. Therefore they demanded a negotiation with management and the adjustment of salaries at least up to 15 thousand taka (about 180 euro).
Despite widespread understanding for their demands, local AsiaNews sources report that the strike threatened to undermine the entire Bangladesh’s economy, which is 80% based on the production of clothing for the foreign market.
Following the strike, 59 factories that package clothing for foreign giants — such as Zara, H & M and Gap — were forced to freeze production.
The country is the second largest exporter of packaging after China. The sector is plagued by huge problems of exploitation of the workers and poor safety standards. According to the latest data, at least 4 million Bangladeshis are working in related industries.
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Pakistani Textbooks Are Mostly Anti-Hindu & Anti-Indian Under the Influence of Quranic Teachings.
“Any material considered ‘inflammatory’ or ‘discriminatory’ to religious minorities should be removed from the syllabus as the government should seriously take action on this matter”, say Salman Ali and Saira Ahmed in a co-written piece in Daily Times Pakistan. But all these dramatic write up and govt announcements come at the verge of extinction of Hindus from the Map of Pakistan! Actually, the textbook controversy & reformations etc. in Pakistan are nothing but an eyewash to prove Islam is not so bad.
Upendra Bharti | HENB | New Delhi | Dec 30, 2016:: On August 11, 1947, three days before the announcement of the independence of Pakistan- separated from India as two parts East and West Pakistan, the Father of the Nation Mohammad Ali Jinnah in his speech said, “You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed — that has nothing to do with the business of the State. We are starting in the days where there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community and another, no discrimination between one caste or creed and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle: that we are all citizens, and equal citizens, of one State.”
Ridiculous. Sowing the seeds of Islamic communalism in the minds of Muslims of Indian subcontinent and through a holy war named- ‘Direct action’, Jinnah materialized the dream of Pakistan which took the lives of millions and uprooted the innocent people from their soil numerously…
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Austria: Christian Woman Stabbed by Migrant for Reading Bible
A CHRISTIAN woman was stabbed by an asylum seeker after he heard her reading from the bible.
The 50-year-old woman was only saved by her winter coat when she was attacked with a knife in the accommodation in Timelkam in Voecklamarkt in Upper Austria.
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Berlin Terrorist Collected Welfare Under Multiple Identities
Under Angela Merkel’s scheme, German taxpayers are financing terrorism against themselves.
How many other refujihadists are plotting terror attacks right now on taxpayers’ dime?
How many other phony “refugees” are pulling this same scam just for the money?
Rather than be allowed to run for a fourth term, Angela Merkel should be brought up on charges for financing terrorism.
Every last crime committed by these migrants is and was entirely avoidable by simply not bringing these people into Germany.
Rather than deport all these criminals and admit her disastrous error, Merkel’s thought police have pretty much made it a crime to call for their deportation.
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Illegal Alien Who Raped Teenage Girl Has Been Deported 19 Times
An illegal alien from Mexico who was recently charged with raping a 13-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus has been removed or deported from the U.S. a total of 19 times since 2003.
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Migrant Rape — Afghanistan Gang Avoid Deportation After Sweden Attack
FIVE Afghan teenagers who gang-raped a boy in Sweden will avoid deportation because their homeland is ‘too dangerous’.
The shocking revelation comes after conviction of the gang for the attack on the minor, which was filmed by the assailants.
After being beaten he was raped for over an hour.
The horror attack happened in woodland in the town of Uppsala in Sweden.
The gang of teenagers were found guilty of aggravated rape but the court decided they would not be sent back to Afghanistan, despite requests from the prosecution.
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5 Afghan refugees convicted of raping a young boy will not face deportation because their “homeland is too dangerous.”
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Christians ‘Face Ruin’ From Government Gender-ID Mandates
Dozens of prominent Christian leaders have signed onto a campaign protesting the Obama administration’s special protections for alternative sexual lifestyles.
The new letter, online at the Colson Center, warns that the laws are a “ serious threat” to the “ fundamental freedoms guaranteed to every person.”
“We affirm that every individual is created in the image of God and as such should be treated with love, compassion, and respect. We also affirm that people are created male and female, that this complementarity is the basis for the family centered on the marital union of a man and a woman, and that the family is the wellspring of human flourishing. We believe that it is imperative that our nation preserve the freedoms to speak, teach, and live out these truths in public life without fear of lawsuits or government censorship,” said the letter, signed by leaders from Daniel Akin, president of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary to Louisiana College President Rick Brewer.
“In recent years, there have been efforts to add sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classifications in the law — either legislatively or through executive action. These unnecessary proposals, often referred to as SOGI policies, threaten basic freedoms of religion, conscience, speech, and association; violate privacy rights; and expose citizens to significant legal and financial liability for practicing their beliefs in the public square. In recent years, we have seen in particular how these laws are used by the government in an attempt to compel citizens to sacrifice their deepest convictions on marriage and what it means to be male and female — people who serve everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, but who cannot promote messages, engage in expression, or participate in events that contradict their beliefs or their organization’s guiding values.”
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Bilderberg Website Hacked: ‘We Will Find You and We Will Hack You’
“Each one of you have 1 year (365 days) to truly work in favor of humans and not your private interests…”
Hackers have compromised the website of the Bilderberg group and defaced its homepage.
Bilderbergmeetings.org, the official website of the secretive forum, which hosts annual closed-door discussions between leading figures in politics, finance and academia, remained altered Friday with the hackers’ manifesto.
The hackers, who identified as members of Anonymous, relayed messages both to the public as well as the wealthy “1%.”
“Dear Bilderberg members, from now on, each one of you have 1 year (365 days) to truly work in favor of humans and not your private interests,” the hackers wrote. “Each topic you discuss or work you achieve through your uber private meetings should from now benefit world population and not X or Y group of people.”
“Otherwise, we will find you and we will hack you.”
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The most fervent political block supporting Obama in his attacks on the nation-state of Israel over the last 8 years are….American Jews. Something’s wrong with them.
The most fervent political block supporting Obama in his attacks on the civilization of the West over the last 8 years ago are … hyper-educated NWEuro-Americans. Something’s wrong with them.
By “hyper educated” I assume you mean university educated–read hyper-leftist indoctrinated. But I agree, something is very wrong with them.
Yeah, two “them”s, same wrong. Really just a single them. Jewish Brooklyn and Christian Kansas both voted Trump, though.
Migrant Rape — Afghanistan Gang Avoid Deportation After Sweden Attack.
What did they do the boy’s parents?
The time the Europeans take the law into their hands is not far away.
And in her New Years address with well wishes for Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkle announced that the German national anthem of “Deutschland uber alles” will be replaced in 2017 with the theme song from the television show MASH. “Suicide is Painless” will now be sung before all official state functions.
“The young men were convicted of the rape near the town of Uppsala, but they cannot be deported because the situation in their homeland is unsafe.”
I thought by sending them back will make Afghanistan a more dangerous country.
With this logic anywhere is dangerous. In New York they could get mugged, in Los Angeles they can get hit by a car, Las Vegas they can lose on Baccara, in Sweden they can get raped…
What most Germans will be doing on New Years Eve is to be watching the following : this is true news ; it has become their tradition.
Freddie Frinton in ” Dinner For One “.
” The Same procedure as last year , Miss Sophie ? ”
“The Same procedure as ever year , James ! ”
https://youtu.be/b1v4BYV-YvA
And a man in England was just recently killed in prison, while serving a one year sentence for placing bacon sandwiches on the steps of a mosque. He was most likely killed by Muslim inmates.
One F’ing year for bacon sandwiches, to which the judge stated was an “Attack on England”.
Major black pill folks.
Sweden is rounding 10 – ten – million inhabitants, expecting, at this speed, to reach 12 – twelve – million by 2040, according to
Svenska Dagbladet.
Still not surprisingly, there are more men than women in Sweden. “More men immigrating”. (Chart)