One or more armed attackers dressed as Santa Claus entered a night club in Istanbul and began shooting into the crowd. At least 35 people were killed and dozens more wounded. The Turkish government has labeled the incident a “terrorist attack”.
In other news, 48 Iraqi migrants were discovered in the freight compartment of a truck on its way from Bulgaria through Romania. The truck was supposed to be carrying chocolate. The Iraqis in the back said they wanted to go to Hungary.
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A Giant Wave of Store Closures is About to Hit the US
Shopping continues to shift online and foot traffic to malls declines
Retailers are bracing for a fresh wave of store closures at the start of the new year.
The industry is heading into 2017 with a glut of store space as shopping continues to shift online and foot traffic to malls declines, according to analysts.
“If you are weaker player, it’s going to be a very tough 2017 for you, “ said RJ Hottovy, a consumer equity strategist for Morningstar.
He said he’s expecting a number of retailers to file for bankruptcy next year, in addition to mass store closures.
Nearly every major department store, including Macy’s, Kohl’s, Walmart, and Sears, have collectively closed hundreds of stores over the last couple years to try and stem losses from unprofitable stores and the rise of ecommerce.
[Comment: eCommerce is taking all the blame. This is smoke and mirrors. The bulk of the drop is that people have LESS money to spend. Higher energy costs is eating into their personal disposable income. Add record levels of unemployment — official government figures are fake news.]
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The European Union is Bailing Out Banks Again
Italian ones, this time. Well, one bank in particular. Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS), the centuries-old bank that is drowning under a growing pile of distressed loans. Since the private sector has now refused to cough up enough capital to close the shortfall identified in this year’s stress tests, it is to be provided with 8.8bn euros of new equity capital, most of it by Italian taxpayers.
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Obama is the primary candidate for the Democrats to run for president in 2020. After the inauguration of Trump, there will then only be 3 years and 7 months to go before the next presidential election. Obama’s campaign for “Yes We Can…Again,” will begin in about 2 1/2 years. If he had been able to run in this last election, he would have won hands down and smoked Trump in the manner of a cheap cigar. We know it, and he knows it. If anything, his popularity has risen substantially now that the election is behind us. The media are now portraying him and his wife in that glowing “Hallmark” type of picture with mist around the gold-leaf framed portrait.
Such a Pravda-like portrayal completely dismisses the torments of the past eight years: the Holodomor-like starvations of Michelle Obama’s enforced school lunch malnutrition crusade inflicted on American children while her daughters dined carte blanche at the Friends Private school on taxpayer dollars; the crippling of the U.S. economy and planned destruction of the manufacturing base; the weakening and reduction of the military; the enrichment of an army of Executives and Oligarchs who fawningly marched in lock-step with the administration’s policies while outsourcing the entire U.S. economy; the continuous onslaught of moral depravity inflicted on families, businesses, and social structures through Draconian edicts and “color of law” rubber stamping by the kangaroo supreme court.
In eight years, Obama has taken the United States of America to the level of a third-world country with crippling debt, massive unemployment, the fostering and increase of a welfare-based society, a deteriorated and ramshackle infrastructure, massive inflation, and an almost worthless fiat currency on the brink of collapse.
[Comment: jimmy Carter must be relieved that he is now only the 2nd worst president in US history.]
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Trump to Collapse the Dollar in 2017? Analyst Sees “Economic Crisis Coming”
The demise of the dollar and the collapse of the economy could impact us in a big way during 2017, or in the near future.
For better or worse, the age of Trump could soon become synonymous with financial crisis on a scale that has never before been seen.
The system is looking for a scapegoat, for someone to blame, as a massive debt bubble — across several industries — threatens to burst, and a host of other systemic financial problems threaten to collapse down upon us.
via the Silver Doctors:
Jeff Berwick from Dollar Vigilante joins Silver Doctors with a word of warning. A Trump presidency will bring with it an economic crisis and collapse of the U.S. dollar, Berwick says.
Is there a way to prevent collapse? Berwick is concerned we are past the point of no return. Regardless of who runs the U.S., an economic crisis is coming, he says. Stay tuned to hear Berwick’s perspective on how gold, silver, and bitcoin may perform in the coming crisis.
Trump to Collapse the Dollar?: Jeff Berwick
As SGT Report notes, the heavy-handed controls on cash are part of this game, and a very strong indicator that the powers that be are clamping down, and won’t be satisfied until there is total control over individuals who will be forced onto the digital, cashless grid that will bring surveillance, fees and limits into every transaction.
via SGT Report:
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the move to ban cash is going global. What started with Modi in India is now moving to Australia and Spain, and if people don’t revolt en masse and soon, the passivity of these populations with embolden the Federal Reserve and bankers to ban cash in the United States. And while the tyranny against cash only grows, the global bond bubble is beginning to pop — with many experts predicting total systemic collapse in 2017, and possibly as soon as January.
Banning Cash & THE GREAT CRASH OF 2017
As SHTF has noted before, there is reason to believe that the bankers have chosen Trump as a vehicle of their own destruction.
Time will tell if this is the dark direction these overlords intend for America to go in.
Read more:…
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FBI’s Dud “Report” On “Russian Hacking”
The FBI’s much-vaunted “report on Russian hacking”-issued at the request of the outgoing Obama regime to “prove interference in the U.S. election”- is one of the most shocking instances of deliberate misdirection yet seen from the U.S. government and the controlled media. The 13-page report contains eight pages of irrelevant “advice” on how to avoid being hacked, and nowhere in the remaining five pages is a scrap of evidence offered linking the Russian government with influencing the election process.
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Global Warming Alarmist NY Times Discovers Cold is 17 Times Deadlier
Even the New York Times, one of the biggest sources of fake news on anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming, or AGW, occasionally gets facts straight and the story right. Or, at least, partially straight and mostly right. Such is the case with the Times’ recent stories by Jane E. Brody on December 19 and December 26 regarding the death toll risks from cold weather versus hot weather. In her December 19 column, titled, “Beware: Winter Is Coming,” Ms. Brody cited an important study from The Lancet, the British medical journal, that found “Cold kills” as she put it — and at a rate 17 times that of hot weather.
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The passing of George Michael this week reminded many of the seemingly short life expectancy of musicians (and performers in general). In fact, as on study found, while blues, jazz, and country singers typically live as long as the average American; rock, techno, punk, metal, rap, and hip hop stars die significantly sooner.
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In Final Days, Obama Uses “Unilateral Actions Designed to Box Trump” and Block His Agenda
Who said anything about a smooth transition? Somebody is turning over the tables, and jamming the doorways, anything to impede the next occupant.
A “bitter” President Obama is apparently trying to block as many actions of the next president as possible before he leaves office, setting up regulatory roadblocks and executive actions across the board that are apparently designed to impede President-elect Trump’s agenda before it even gets started.
– From Russian espionage, to oil drilling policies, Muslim immigration and Israel, the sharp differences between President Obama and President-elect Trump are lending towards a tense transition, rather than a “smooth” and cooperative one.
It reveals a deeply divided country, with many people desperately supporting Trump as a means of undoing two terms of what many see as an anti-American influx of foreign populations and influence.
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March Through Downtown Chicago Marks Year of Violence
CHICAGO (WLS) — Nearly one-thousand people marched on the Mag Mile Saturday, to honor Chicago’s 2016 murder victims. Many of them were carrying handmade crosses…one for each person murdered in the city during the year.
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Mummified Body Found in Detroit Garage
A “mummified” body that was found Thursday afternoon in a garage in Detroit will be examined next week by an anthropologist to try and determine a host of factors including gender and cause of death, Wayne County officials said Friday.
The discovery, police say, happened around 1 p.m. when a potential home buyer was inspecting the garage of a home in the 19900 block of Spencer. The body was in the backseat of a 1990 or 1991 Plymouth Acclaim, authorities said.
Lloyd Jackson, a spokesman for Wayne County Medical Examiner’s office, said officials estimate that the body had been there for “years” and was beyond the decomposition stage when “the body is brown.”
Jackson said medical examiners just “inspected” the body and will await the arrival next week of an anthropologist from the University of Michigan, which partners with the county, who can conduct special tests, such as examining hip bones to determine gender.
“At this point, they don’t know if it’s male or female, or cause or manner of death or anything like that,” Jackson said. “That’s when the anthropologist comes in and checks it out. They didn’t do an autopsy, they just did an inspection because that’s usually what they do when they get these bodies that have been really badly decomposed or mummified.”
Detroit Police spokesman Dan Donakowski said officers were called to the location after the body was discovered. The home, he said, was being rented to a family and did not use the garage.
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Obama’s Executive Order Land Grab “Just Designated the Bundy Ranch a National Monument”
Editor’s Comment: Will this latest action, taken by Obama quietly as if in stealth, once again provoke a revolutionary response? It appears that the very land that activists swore the federal government was just trying to take in order to occupy lucrative and mineral rich deposits is indeed highly coveted by President Obama’s faction, at least enough that he wanted it off limits to the patriot upstarts that created not one but two standoffs on the exiting-president’s watch.
The abuse of government power over private property, especially by one individual, is part and parcel of the historical reasons for revolutions, bills of rights and new forms of government.
As Obama prepares to finish his last three weeks in office as a lame duck, it is clear that he is intent on damaging as much of the country as he possibly can, and on clamping down on those who still thirst for independence and freedom. His legacy will be more tyrannical than his cool demeanor and broad smile typically suggest.
Obama Seizes Area Near Bundy Ranch In Massive Last Minute Land Grab
by Alex Thomas
With a stroke of the pen President Obama has unilaterally declared vast swaths of land in Utah and Nevada as two new national monuments, thus putting them under control of the federal government.
Startlingly, the area in Nevada includes the site of the infamous Bundy Ranch standoff as well as land very close to the Bundy Ranch itself. With this move Obama has possibly triggered another armed standoff while also heading off any moves set to be made by incoming president Donald Trump.
A “fact sheet” put out by the White House reads:…
[Comment: It’s all about seizing the natural resources under the ground for globalist gain in the future.]
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Obama, Islam and the Whore United Nations
Many Muslims have become good American citizens assimilating to our country and its government. Some have even fought in the US Armed Forces and against radical Islamic terrorism. But our elected president has deliberately brought within the folds of our government members of the Muslim Brotherhood (the progenitor of Jihadism), and its front groups, the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).
Slowly and methodically over the past 8 years, Obama has been filling the Washington bureaucracy to include DHS, National Security Council, CIA, White House, State Department, DOD, US Armed Forces and every US Intelligence Agency with members of the above-mentioned groups. Obama has acted as a “tool” for the Jihadi movement in the U.S.
Obama’s CIA director John Brennan converted has to the Muslim faith; Huma Abedin, former aide to Hillary; Department of Homeland Security Deputy Mayor, Arif Alikhan; Mohammed Elibiary, Advisor to DHS Security; Obama Administration Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships, Eboo Patel; and Malick Obama, the Head of the Muslim Brotherhood Finance and Arms Procurement, Obama’s half-brother.
To make matters worse, Obama senior appointee Lois Lerner, IRS Director at the time, is now implicated in providing material support to Malik Obama. Malik Obama is a known Muslim Brotherhood terrorist and has been granted undeniable special privilege under U.S. law and in granting that privilege, Lerner even used an alias and a private email server initially to complete the act. In other words, she knew what she was doing was treason and she was attempting to cover it up.
Richard Higgins (former DOD Manager of the Combating Terrorism & Technical Support Office & Irregular Warfare Section) made explosive charges on national radio stating, “What leaders in the Obama administration are actually scrubbing is any references to the Islamic doctrine that would allow us to define who is or who is not actually one of our enemies. When you look at the deliberate decision-making process of the Obama administration, as it relates to “Radical Islam”, that deliberate decision-making process is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood. And the way they control it is by prohibiting US National Security Agency personnel from ever developing an understanding to the level where Phil Haney had it.”
[Comment: Highly recommended reading.]
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Obama Unleashes 3,853 Regs, 18 for Every Law, Record 97,110 Pages of Red Tape
President Obama’s lame duck administration poured on thousands more new regulations in 2016 at a rate of 18 for every new law passed, according to a Friday analysis of his team’s expansion of federal authority.
While Congress passed just 211 laws, Obama’s team issued an accompanying 3,852 new federal regulations, some costing billions of dollars.
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Obama: Leave Now and Never Come Back!
President Obama likes to pretend that he’s a sort of a moral leader. In his head he must be the champion of decency and good grace, a man pointing America toward a broader vision, a fellow questing for social justice and contextual consideration. In reality, he’s narcissistic and stupid. Obama’s legacy is one of failure all around the world. He leaves office with a genocide in Syria on his record. Libya, meanwhile, remains a full-scale disaster area.
This honest position has recently been expressed by the US media source known as Townhall. It notes that Obama came into office amidst grand promises to restore America’s place in the world. Ðe’s failed. But at least he feels good about his accomplishments, even if hundreds of thousands have died in order to ensure his moral stature in his own mind.
What’s funny, it’s after the disastrous two terms in office, America’s Lame duck is still committed to empty attempts to damage US-Russian relations even further. This time around the White House introduced new sanctions against Russia for its alleged involvement in rigging the US presidential election. Additionally, a total of 35 Russian diplomats have been declared persona non grata, therefore, they are to be deported from the US in 72 hours after the declaration. At the same time, two diplomatic compounds in New York and Maryland are to be closed.
Frankly speaking, the world grew tired of the constant steam of lies unleashed by the sitting administration, and the delusional and groundless accusations of Russia using its hackers to somehow affect the situation in Washington. For the first time, stories about alleged involvement of Russian hackers in the internal affairs of the United States started appearing in the Western corporate media around six months ago. Back then they were used by the Obama administration to assist Hillary Clinton with her presidential campaign. When Hillary lost, the White House used to further damage US-Russian bilateral relations, even though no evidence has ever been presented to the media to back up the claim that Russians are in any way connected to the hacker attack. But everything that is hidden will one day be revealed.
[Comment: Read the headline in your best impression of Gollum (voiced by Andy Serkel) in the Lord Of the Rings movie.]
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Police, Dump Trucks Full of Sand Protect Times Square New Year’s Eve
Massive dump trucks filled with sand will line the streets surrounding New Year’s Eve celebrations in New York City this weekend. The 20-ton vehicles will hold an additional 15 tons of sand, the Associated Press reported Thursday night.
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Ring of Massive 20-Ton Garbage Trucks to be a Fortress of Security in Times Square on New Year’s Eve
The New York Police Department will roll out 65 massive 20-ton sanitation trucks, weighted with an extra 15 tons of sand, to surround the iconic New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square.
The security measure is meant to stop deadly truck-driving attacks into crowds like those in Germany and France.
Times Square will be heavily policed by 7,000 officers, specially armed counterterrorism units and bomb-sniffing dogs, officials said Thursday. The placement of the trucks, along with 100 patrol cars, at intersections surrounding Times Square adds even more protection against potential attacks.
[Comment: Does it even dawn on leftists and useful idiots as to why this kind of stuff has to be done? Or how about the massive increase in airport security since the 1960s? ]
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Russian Hackers Said to “Penetrate US Electricity Grid” Using Outdated Ukrainian Malware
Two days after the DHS and FBI released a report revealing what the US agencies alleged was the government-controlled Russian operation behind the “hacking of the US election” which they dubbed “Grizzly Steppe”, and which had a peculiar disclaimer according to which nothing contained in the report should be taken at face value or was even credible after the DHS said it “does not provide any warranties of any kind regarding any information contained within”…
[…] overnight the crusade against “Russian hackers” continued following news that Russian cyberspecialists had managed to penetrate the Vermont electric grid, after a state utility, Burlington Electric, announced it had found a notebook computer containing the same malware code that the FBI and DHS had touted as linked to the Russian hackers.
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The Power Grid in Vermont Was Not Infiltrated by Russian Hackers
You may have read or seen on social media a Washington Post story published Friday which claimed that Russian hackers had hacked the U.S. power system via an electrical grid in Vermont.
That’s not what happened and the incident is not necessarily connected to the alleged Russian hack of the Democratic National Committee.
[Comment: The major mainstream press is the biggest purveyor of fake news.]
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Your Smart Meter is Very Secure (Against You) And Very Insecure (Against Hackers)
The meters are designed to treat their owners as attackers: you are your smart meter’s adversary, because if you could control it, you could use it to defraud the power company about your electricity usage. As a result, the physical security of smart meters is very good.
But the corollary of this adversarial relationship is that your meter’s networked insecurities are, by design, impossible for you to remedy or override. If an attacker gains control of your meter, they can jack up your bills, shut down your power (compromising both your physical safety during periods of extreme heat or cold; and your network security by powering down devices like burglar alarms and cameras), and spy on your electricity usage, etc — and that fantastic physical security means you can’t readily reprogram your meter to tell it to ignore the remote instructions that seem to be emanating from a privileged user at the power company. If you can override the power company’s instructions, the power company is vulnerable to your shenanigans, and since power companies are the primary customers for smart meters, the meters are designed to protect them at your expense.
This would be a lot less worrisome if the network security of smart meters was perfect (though you’d still be vulnerable to unscrupulous power company employees and repressive government orders — imagine how Turkey’s government could use this power against its enemies list in its current purge), but all security is imperfect, and in the case of smart meters, “imperfect” is an awfully charitable characterisation.
The network security model of smart meters starts from the inherently flawed Zigbee protocol, long understood to be difficult to secure, and goes downhill from there, with halfhearted and sloppy implementations of Zigbee’s second-rate security. Smart meters rely on the insecure GSM protocol, incorporate hardcoded administrative passwords, and use keys derived from six-character device names.
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Club Gives Tip of the Hat to Premier Wynne
There will be no more banquets, wedding receptions, concerts, trade shows or public meetings at the Delhi Belgian Hall for the foreseeable future.
However, the Shields & Friends Lounge in the lower level of the sprawling complex will continue receiving patrons and serving drinks into 2017.
That according to the bar’s manager Kim Starling. Starling was hired in October soon after the Belgian Club announced it was pondering its future in the face of punishing utility bills and declining rentals.
In late October, the club executive announced that its financial problems were insurmountable and that the historic property would be sold.
They weren’t bluffing. Today, a sign is posted out front advertising the 30,000-square-foot building for sale. The asking price, according to the realtor’s website, is $899,000.
There is also a second sign out front expressing the club’s bitterness over skyrocketing electricity prices and what that has done to the hall’s viability as a community centre.
The sign says: “Hydro One 2016: $49,559. You Wynne, We Lose.”
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Drunk Canadian Pilot Passes Out in Cockpit; Second Drunk Pilot Caught This Week
Police arrested a drunk Sunwing pilot as he prepared to take a planeload of people into the air December 31, the second drunk pilot arrested this week.
The most recent incident occurred shortly before 7 a.m. Saturday morning, when passengers and crew on a Sunwing flight bound for Cancun noticed the pilot behaving oddly as he boarded.
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Concrete Security Barriers are Islam’s latest contribution to our mosaic of diversity and a fine example of what Justin Trudeau declares to be our shared values with the Mohammedan Death Cult.
Ottawa Police confirm that recent terrorism in Europe has caused them to ramp up security measures in the capital ahead of New Year’s Eve.
The most noticeable changes are large concrete barriers that will block off important intersections. Police say the barriers will help prevent truck attacks like the one that killed 86 in Nice,
France in July and the deadly attack on a Berlin Christmas market, which killed 11 people earlier this month.
For those attending the fireworks display on Parliament Hill, police will be checking bags.
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Winnipeg Man Charged With Human Trafficking in Edmonton
EDMONTON — A Winnipeg man is facing 18 charges involving human trafficking in Edmonton.
Earlier this month Edmonton police got information that an 18-year-old woman had been sexually assaulted in the area of 154 Street and 111 Avenue.
Further investigation determined the woman had been assaulted and trafficked over several days by a man.
On Wednesday, police responded to an assault call in the area of 38 Avenue and Gateway Boulevard and found a 20-year-old woman had been trafficked by the same man.
Investigators believe the suspect, who they say has family in Edmonton, has trafficked other women in Alberta and Saskatchewan and may be using social media to approach women.
Twenty-four-year-old Omar Abdi Ahmed, also known as Jojo, is facing charges of human trafficking, advertising sexual services, withholding travel documents, receiving a financial or material benefit from sexual services, advertising sexual services, sexual assault and unlawful confinement and other charges.
“Human trafficking and exploitation of sexual services providers are a concern not only in Edmonton but in cities and towns across Canada,” acting Staff Sgt. Melanie Grace of vice unit said in a news release.
“I encourage anyone who has been approached or feels they have been trafficked or exploited by him to contact police as soon as possible,” Grace said.
“The Edmonton Police Service Vice Unit, along with the support of its dedicated community partners, is committed to thoroughly investigating reports made by any person who believes they are a victim of, or witness to, these types of exploitation.”
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100,000 Soldiers and Police on New Year’s Even Streets of ‘State of Emergency’ France
Still on the highest level of alert after a series of deadly terror attacks, France will see unprecedented numbers of security personnel on duty on New Year’s Eve.
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Angela Merkel Says ‘Islamist Terror’ Is Germany’s Greatest Threat
In her annual televised message, which is being broadcast today, chancellor Mrs Merkel says 2016 has been ‘a year of severe tests’, the toughest of them Islamic extremist terror.
[Comment: Actually the greatest danger to Germans is Angela and her globalist policies of mass migration. Blabbing about Islamist terror when she is the ne that let millions of “refugees” into Germany. When you bring in so many foxes into the henhouse, what do you think will happen to the hens? All part of the globalist plan to destabilize nation states of the west.]
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Austrian Populists Accuse Govt. of Creating ‘Fake News’
The anti-mass migration Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Heinz-Christian Strache has hit back against claims his party helps spread so-called “fake news” saying the government has created enough of it on its own.
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Germany Rings in New Year Amid Heightened Security
People in Germany are gathering to mark the beginning of 2017. Celebrations in major cities were organized with security at the forefront, with authorities determined to avoid a repeat of last year’s Cologne assaults.
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Iceland’s ‘Crazy’ Year Ends Without a Government
REYKJAVIK (AFP) — Iceland is ending an eventful year in a political quagmire, left without a government for two months after the Panama Papers scandal and a snap election reflecting deep divisions in the island nation.
[Comment: Iceland seems to be doing fine though.]
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ISIS ‘Planning Mass Attack in Britain’ And ‘Has “No Moral Barrier” To Using Chemical Weapons
ISIS is planning a mass casualty attack against Britain, with “no moral barrier” to using chemical weapons, a minister has warned.
Security minister Ben Wallace said the chemical threat was the potential realisation of “everybody’s worst fear.”
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Nigel Farage — the Movie: Warner Brothers in Talks to Make Brexit Campaign Film
Get ready for Nigel Farage… the movie. The Hollywood film-maker behind the Harry Potter franchise is in talks about making a film of the former Ukip leader’s campaign to take Britain out of the European Union.
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Three thousand officers will be on duty in London for the New Year celebrations as security is ramped up across the UK over fears of a terror attack.
Major cities have increased security at big events following the Berlin Christmas market massacre last we ek, which killed 12 people when a lorry ploughed through a crowd of people.
Extra police will be drafted in for New Year due to heightened fears of a terror attack.
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UK: Awards Barred to “White Movies”
In another outburst of anti-white racism, the British Academy Film Awards (Bafta)-the U.K.’s equivalent of the Oscars-will in future be denied to any British movie that only has heterosexual white actors. According to a Bafta statement, films will not be eligible for two of their main awards if they do not meet new “diversity criteria” to bring in “under-represented groups,” that is, anyone who is not white, male, or heterosexual.
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Reports of alleged links between charities and terrorism or extremism have surged to a record high, the charity watchdog has warned.
The number of times the Charity Commission has shared concerns about links between charities and extremism with police and other agencies has nearly trebled from 234 to 630 in just three years.
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Barack Obama stabbed Israel in the back on Friday, and now John Kerry has slapped Israel in the face just five days later. In a shameful speech that lasted for 71 dreadful minutes, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laid out his plan for peace in the Middle East on Wednesday. His six-part plan is being welcomed warmly by the Palestinians, but it has further infuriated the Israelis. Kerry claims that his plan reflects the emerging global consensus as to what a “final solution” will look like, and now we will wait to see what the 70 nations that will be gathering in France to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on January 15th will do. There is a great deal of concern that the principles agreed upon at that conference will form the basis for a UN Security Council resolution that will be rushed to a vote before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated on January 20th.
The core of Kerry’ s plan is the division of the land of Israel into two states. The borders between Israel and “Palestine” would be based upon the 1967 ceasefire lines with mutually agreed upon land swaps. The following comes from ynetnews.com…
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35 Killed, 40 Wounded in Istanbul Nightclub Shooting
(CNN) Thirty-five people were killed and 40 wounded in an attack in a nightclub early Sunday as they were celebrating the new year, Istanbul governor Vasip Sahin said.
Sahin called the incident “a terror attack.”
The attacker, who has not yet been identified, opened fire inside the high-end Reina nightclub in the busy Besiktas neighborhood of Istanbul, according to Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu.
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Istanbul Nightclub Attack: At Least 35 Dead After Gunmen Open Fire at New Year’s Eve Party
A gunman has reportedly opened fire inside a nightclub in Istanbul during New Year’s Eve celebrations.
At least 35 people have been killed and another at least 40 people have been injured in the attack, according to the Istanbul governor.
Large numbers of police and paramedics were sent to the well-known Reina bar in the Ortaköy district, CNN Turk reported.
“Many” people were injured, according to Turkey’s NTV, with at least six ambulances transferring them to hospital for treatment. As many as 600 people are thought to have been in the club when attackers entered it, not longer after midnight.
Two armed men were involved in the attack, reported NTV, and an operation is ongoing to capture an assailant who is still inside the club. Those men may have been dressed in “Santa costumes”, eyewitnesses told CNN Turk.
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Reina Club Owner: US Intelligence Warned About Terror Attack in Istanbul
US intelligence warned about planned terrorist attack in Istanbul, the owner of the attacked club said.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The US intelligence warned about planned terrorist attack in Istanbul, Mehmet Kocarslan, owner of the attacked Reina club, said on Sunday.
“The US intelligence warned about the terror attack. Increased security measures were taken here 7 — 10 days ago. So what? That has happened,” Kocarslan told the Hurriyet newspaper.
[Comment: Were security armed?]
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Syria, Russia and American Desperation
It is no coincidence that anti-Russian propaganda is being ramped up at the same moment the Syrian government is poised to retake its country from terrorists
The American corporate media ignored the suffering of Syrians in the city of Aleppo until their captivity was broken by the Syrian Arab Army. Ever since 2012 ISIS and other terrorist groups sponsored by the United States, NATO, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar have held thousands of people hostage there. Turks picked the region apart, raiding Syrian factories and transporting them piece by piece back to their country.
Now that the Syrians are retaking the city with the help of their Russian and Hezbollah allies, there is a steady stream of news about the Aleppo. All of it is meant to pull at the heart strings of uninformed people as the human rights industrial complex reliably goes about its dirty work. Human Rights Watch and other groups who work to promote United States foreign policy speak endlessly about war crimes. They didn’t say much when America’s allies were terrorizing Syrians but now they suddenly point fingers and always at the people who run afoul of regime change plans.
The five year-long effort to destroy the Syrian state has produced many victims in that country and it always threatened to spark a larger international conflict. The assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey could be such a moment. The gunman’s last words and obviously his actions were a call to jihad. Even one hundred years later the 1914 assassination in Sarajevo is not far from memory.
But the United States is the principal actor in this drama. None of the other nations involved in this crime would have acted absent American direction. All of the casualties, the sieges, the hunger and the frantic search for refuge can be placed at America’s feet. So too the death of the Russian ambassador. This international tangle is covered with American finger prints.
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India Cash Ban Could Get Worse: “We Don’t Even Have Enough Money to Buy Food”
Behold, the power of banksters, and the very rapid shift into the cashless, digital control grid that has been an objective now for many decades.
Suddenly, things are moving faster than anyone could have imagined.
Officially, the government of India believes their demonetization efforts to haul in some 86% of the cash in circulation will bolster the economy and improve the situation for the world’s second most populous country.
But on the ground, and in reality, the pain is still spreading — and it could become even worse.
The cost of goods is increasing sharply and the poor and working classes are being hit hard… and many are still waiting in long bank lines to deposit what little they have.
Cash-related industries, which dominate Indian daily life, including tourism, shops, farming, vendors, day labor, jewelry and the informal industries are facing huge declines as cash bans have severely cut back their business.
via Business Insider:
Modi’s announcement that 500 and 1,000 rupee bills — making up 86% of India’s currency — were no longer legal tender has posed an enormous hardship for millions of people who use cash for everything from salaries to cellphone charges.
Empty ATMs and ever-changing rules are preventing people from withdrawing money, and many small, cash-reliant businesses from cinemas to neighborhood grocery stores are suffering huge losses or going under.
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Jihadi Report Card of 2016 in Islamic Bangladesh. Is Seikh Hasina Actually Concerned?
At least 98 people of Hindus community are killed and 357 others attacked physically till December 29 this year, according to Bangladesh Jatiyo Hindu Mohajote. The BJHM leaders hold press conference in Dhaka Reporters’ Unity on Friday, December 30, 2016. Photo Courtesy: Daily Star.
Atul Brahmachari | HENB | Dhaka | Dec 31, 2016:: At least 98 people from the Hindu community have been murdered and 357 others injured across the country till December 29 this year, says a report made by Bangladesh Jatiya Hindu Mohajote (BJHM).
Besides, 1,109 Hindus received death threat, and attempts were made to kill 18 others during the period, reports United News of Bangladesh (UNB).
BJHM Executive President Sukrtity Mandal revealed the report at a press conference held int Dhaka Reporters’ Unity on Friday.
He said the report was prepared based on reports published in different newspapers and their community sources.
Terming the outgoing year as the year of torture on the people of minority communities, Sukrtity Mondol said many Hindu families were compelled to leave the country in the face of sufferings.
He claimed some 711 people either left the country or were threatened to leave the country. At least 165 Hindu houses were attacked by the same period of time, he added.
At least 141 temples were vandalised and torched while 209 idols were damaged and 22 others stolen.
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Malaysia: No Reason to Protest Probe Into Soros Funding
A lot has happened since news broke early last month of a leaked document showing that some Malaysian NGOs had received funding from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF).
The NGOs have admitted receiving the funding and police are continuing with their investigations. Of course, some NGOs and individual activists are protesting against the probe, saying it had been a long time since the funds were received and that they were small sums.
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How China Built ‘IPhone City’ With Billions in Perks for Apple’s Partner
A hidden bounty of benefits for Foxconn’s plant in Zhengzhou, the world’s biggest iPhone factory, is central to the production of Apple’s most profitable product.
[Comment: Interesting reading. Primarily driven by Cooke, who came to Apple from Compaq. ]
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IPhone Manufacturer Foxconn Plans to Replace Almost Every Human Worker With Robots
China’s iPhone factories are being automated
oxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturing giant behind Apple’s iPhone and numerous other major electronics devices, aims to automate away a vast majority of its human employees, according to a report from DigiTimes. Dai Jia-peng, the general manager of Foxconn’s automation committee, says the company has a three-phase plan in place to automate its Chinese factories using software and in-house robotics units, known as Foxbots.
The first phase of Foxconn’s automation plans involve replacing the work that is either dangerous or involves repetitious labor humans are unwilling to do. The second phase involves improving efficiency by streamlining production lines to reduce the number of excess robots in use. The third and final phase involves automating entire factories, “with only a minimal number of workers assigned for production, logistics, testing, and inspection processes,” according to Jia-peng.
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“Useful Infidels” Vetting Refugees
When truth has been replaced with moral relativism and progressivism teaches our American children through high school programs such as the International Baccalaureate and Common Core standards that they are global citizens, love of one’ s country is bad, proselytizing for Islam in school curricula at the expense of Christianity is good, and socialism and the Islamization of Western civilization have become the norm, it is time to worry. America is “ harboring in New York its own worst enemy,” and financing it with taxpayer dollars. It is time to stand up to the U.N. and its forced globalization programs, including the “ refugee” relocation.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted there is “no doubt” the recent spate of terrorist attacks that hit the country was the most challenging test it had to undergo this year. Refugee attackers “mocked” the readiness to help those in need, she added in her New Year’s address.
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Central Americans Continue to Surge Across U.S. Border, New DHS Figures Show
U.S. officials are grappling with a 15 percent surge in illegal immigration.
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Egypt Introduces Anti-Invasion Law
The Egyptian government has instituted a new law to halt and reverse the flood of illegal immigrants using Egypt as a springboard to invade Europe. The Egyptian law proves that that there is no justification for the “asylum” invasion, and that western European liberals are lying when they say “nothing can be done” to halt the flood.
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Italy Announces ‘Zero Tolerance’ For Illegal Aliens
In the wake of recent Islamic terror attacks in Berlin and Turkey, Italy’s National Director of Public Safety has announced a clampdown on illegal aliens as well as an increase in deportations.
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Merkel Stands by Migrant Policy in New Year’s Speech
Says Germany fights terrorism with compassion
In her New Year’s speech, Chancellor Angela Merkel affirmed that her government will win the fight against terrorism with compassion and denied that her open-door mass migration policy, which directly brought terrorists to Germany, was wrong.
In the federal chancellor’s New Year address to Germany, Merkel asserted that the terror attacks committed by Islamist migrants in Würzburg, Ansbach, and recently at a Christmas market in Berlin were not attacks on Western civilisation but an attack on ‘refugees’ and Germany’s willkommenskultur (‘welcome culture’).
She stated terrorists “mock [the willingness of Germany to help] with their deeds [acts of terrorism], like they mock those who really need and deserve our protection.”
Adding that it is “particularly bitter and repulsive” when terrorist attacks are committed by migrants, Merkel pushed back against criticism of her unwavering commitment to mass migration, saying that Germany will fight the “hatred” of terrorism with “humanity” and “unity.”
[Comment: Trying to lay a guilt trip on Germans by saying they should be more charitable. If you are anti-mass-migration , you are not charitable. Can’t Germans see they are being played by globalists and puppet Merkel? Mass miogration is part of the globalists agenda of destabilization of western nation states.]
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Mexican Man Charged With Rape Had 19 Deportations, Removals
A Mexican man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus that traveled through Kansas had been deported 10 times and voluntarily removed from the U.S. another nine times since 2003, records obtained by The Associated Press show.
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Migrants Angry With Sweden Expected ‘Own House’, Girlfriend
Migrants dissatisfied with the quality of life provided for them by Swedish taxpayers are increasingly speaking out, with one Syrian even accusing Swedes of wanting to kill him and his fellow ‘refugees’.
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November Asylum Applications in Greece Exceeds 2015 Monthly Average by 600%
The number of asylum applications submitted in Greece in November exceeded the 2015 monthly average figure by 593 percent, local media reported Thursday, citing the Greek Asylum Service.
According to the Ehathemirini newspaper, the service received 7,625 asylum applications last month compared to an average of 1,100 per month in 2015.
Over 11,000 asylum applications were submitted in September and October, while a total of 46,447 applications were received for the 11-month period from January, according to the news outlet. Syrian refugees amount to about a half of all applicants.
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Romania: 48 Iraqis Discovered in Truck Carrying Chocolate
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian border guards have discovered 48 Iraqi citizens hidden away in a truck that officially was transporting boxes of chocolate.
Border police at the Danube port of Giurgiu on the Romanian-Bulgarian border said they discovered 22 men, 9 women and 17 minors including a young infant on Thursday evening after checks on the truck revealed a high level of carbon dioxide, a gas that humans exhale.
A statement from Romania’s border police Saturday said the truck was driven by a Bulgarian man. Papers showed it was transporting boxes of Bulgarian chocolate to Hungary.
Migrants told police they wanted to reach Hungary. The driver said he was unaware of the people in the back of his truck.
Bulgarian police are questioning the driver and the migrants.
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Romania: 48 Iraqi Migrant Found in Chocolate-Carrying Lorry
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian border guards have discovered 48 Iraqi citizens hidden away in a truck that officially was transporting boxes of chocolate.
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UN Now Handling “Returnees” In Germany
The full extent of the ongoing “asylum” swindle invasion being perpetrated on Europe has been definitively revealed with the news that the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) is now funding “voluntary returnees” from Germany-including Syrians, Afghans, and Iraqis, all those supposedly originally “fleeing for their lives.”
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Millennials a Product of Communist Educational System
A great journalist Alan Stang passed away in 2009. He warned when the Communists impose their version of Socialism on a country, they always destroy its history. They stop teaching it in the schools. They don’t talk about it in the media. They delete and pervert it in the movies and we know who owns Hollywood. Nationally, if you don’t know history, you are no longer a nation. You are people without cohesion, disunited and easily conquered. Now if all this rings a bell, please study what he’s written about Islam. No. 30 of the 45 declared goals for the communist takeover of America is to discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.” No. 21 says to belittle all forms of America culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture” and No. 32, support any socialist movement to give centralized- control over any part of the culture — education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
Muslims train their children at an early age how to handle guns and explosives. They are taught to hate and while Americans were brainwashed to believe two children was enough, the Muslims are having lots of babies. Recently there is much talk in our news about the 18-wheeler truck driven into the Berlin Christmas party and we are being warned by the intelligence community America is going to be next; however, google HOAX Global war on Terrorism. According to news reports, some communities such as Dearborn, Michigan have already taken over large portions of the town and the insistence that the women must wear burkas that cover their whole body plus their faces, automatically becomes a source of contention and anxiety in these communities.
Now for immigrants to bond together in certain areas is not unusual. This has happened since they got off the boat at Ellis Island in search of a better life and couldn’t wait to become citizens but the Muslims refuse to assimilate as described in their dress above and one can find no U.S. flags in the areas. Some men have up to four wives and receive welfare assistance. Eventually they will run for some public office in a district where they can guarantee election and one by one they will bring in others…
In 1994 it was noted a growing number of sex researchers were supporting the idea that pedophilia could be healthy and should be legalized and promoted. Way back in 1984 one homosexual spokesperson said “We will Sodomize your sons.” Alan Stang in his 2007 book NOT HOLIER THAN THOU wrote about the sodomizing of children and by whom- A pervert by the name of Craig Smith “maintained a call boy ring that catered to the political elite and, unlike most D.C. call boy rings, offered children to its clients.” Stang told how the Republican Party had homosexuals worm their way into important jobs. One example was sodomite lawyer Roy Cohn, who, dying of disease in a hospital bed, was still trying to arrange homosexual liaisons.
The Psychiatry profession once labeled homosexuality as a mental disorder but applied pressure on the profession got that classification removed. The 6/30/03 New American magazine gave names of homosexual serial killers and the numbers they killed.
Corrupt the young, get them away from religion and get them interested in sex is the communist rule for a revolution. No. 27 of communist goals: Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a “religious crutch.” To further this experiment, SIECUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S.) entered the picture. It’s January 1993 report called for “respect for the diversity of values and beliefs about sexuality” and asserted that “sexuality is a natural healthy part of living” and each individual must have the right to make “responsible sexual choices. These generalizations belie the fact that SIECUS lacked respect for religious, traditional sexual beliefs and has resulted in bitter fruit but the experiment went on.
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Nick Cannon Blasts Planned Parenthood Mission to ‘Exterminate the Negro Race’
America’s Got Talent host pulls back curtain on eugenics agenda
Actor and musician Nick Cannon again charged Planned Parenthood with attempting to exterminate the black race in a recent interview with VLADTV.
“I feel like it’s a systemic issue,” Cannon told DJ Vlad. “When you look at what Margaret Sanger and all the people who follow eugenics and all that stuff. It was all about cleansing. Margaret Sanger said that she wanted to exterminate the Negro race, and that she was going to use her organization as she founded to do so.”
Cannon claims his previous statements on the abortion organization were misconstrued, and that he’s never spoken specifically about “abortion,” but instead to the facts of the history behind the organization’s overarching eugenics agenda.
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Why Time Management is Ruining Our Lives
All of our efforts to be more productive backfire — and only make us feel even busier and more stressed
It’s understandable that we respond to the ratcheting demands of modern life by trying to make ourselves more efficient. But what if all this efficiency just makes things worse?
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Latest body count is 39 dead and more than 70 injured. At least 16 was from other countries:
Saudi-Arabia, Jordan, Tunisia, Lebanon, Israel (a young girl), Moroccan, India, a Belgian-Turkish citizen.
>> Iceland’s ‘crazy’ year ends without a government
Did Iceland stop existing? Is it in grave peril? . . . of course not.