Nigel Farage, the former leader of UKIP, says that he wants to get Europe out of the EU, which he calls a dying bloc. Meanwhile, the latest polls show that the French Socialist candidate has no chance of beating Marine Le Pen of the Front National in the first round of the presidential election next spring.
In other news, as many as 13,000 migrants who registered in Greece have gone missing and may have traveled north to other countries illegally.
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U.S. Merchandise Trade Deficit With China in October: $31,109,100,000
The U.S. merchandise trade deficit with China in October was more than five times the trade deficit with Mexico
The United States ran a $31,109,100,000 merchandise trade deficit with the People’s Republic of China in October, according to data released today by the Census Bureau.
This $31,109,100,000 bilateral merchandise trade deficit was by far the largest the U.S. ran with any trading partner for the month.
The U.S. ran its second largest merchandise trade deficit in October with Mexico-a deficit of $6,194,000,000.
[Comment: Take a look at the trade deficit with China before Bill Clinton pushed for their entry into the WTO.]
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US Economy: No Recovery, Wages in Reverse
Now they tell us.
A new report on the economy finds that productivity growth is at a 50-year low and that much of the positive talk about the nation’s financial situation in the last election, much of it coming from the administration, was a lie.
The report from the U.S. Council on Competitiveness and Gallup finds that for many, the economy is in reverse despite claims that there is an active recovery ongoing, complete with new jobs.
“Conventional wisdom — as reported in many major newspapers and media — tells us the U.S. economy is ‘recovering.’ Well-meaning economists, academics and government officials use the term ‘recovery’ when discussing the economy, implying that growth is getting stronger. The study finds there is no recovery. Since 2007, U.S. GDP per capita growth has been 1,” according to Gallup Chairman Jim Clifton.
“As this report makes clear,” added Council President Deborah Wince-Smith, “productivity growth is in a serious multi-decade-long slump that is dangerously close to stalling completely.”
The executive summary hits the worst of the news.
“The people are right. The economy is not working well. But the problems did not start with the Great Recession. For decades, the nation’s income, measured as GDP, has barely grown overall; on a per capita basis, median household income peaked in 1999; the subjective general health status of Americans has declined, even adjusting for the aging population; disability rates are higher; learning has stagnated; fewer new businesses are being launched; more workers are involuntarily stuck in part-time jobs or out of the labor force entirely; and the income ranks of grown children are no less tied to the income ranks of their parents,” said the report titled No Recovery — An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline.
Key highlights from the 120-page report:
— The problem is severe. Since 1980, U.S. GDP per capita growth has been far below its long run average, and since 2007 it has been almost negligible
— Deterioration in the quality-to-cost ratio for healthcare, housing and education is dragging down economic growth. After spiraling price increases, these sectors accounted for 36 percent of total national spending in 2015, up from 25 percent in 1980…
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“Beaten and Treated Like a Slave”: Cops Assault Innocent Man Who Fit Vague Description… Also a Cop
Editor’s Comment: You know that things have gone too far when you accidentally start attack those who are already on your team.
In this bizarre but telling case, police were ready to take down and punish their suspected culprit before even matching a good description. The man taken under arrest and beaten while shopping at the grocery store, who turned out to be a police officer, fit a vague description for a black male suspect in the area.
Ignoring his attempts to clarify the situation and identify himself as a fellow officer, he instead found out what is like to have the shoe on the other foot and suffer the kind of police encounter that everyone know dreads — – all force and no due process at all. Police state rising…
Nothing exposes the brutality of police quite like cops beating up one of their own. If police mistake you for a criminal, there is nothing you can do to stop their assault and a retired cop just learned that the hard way.
Ronald Lanier, retired Nassau County corrections officer, is now planning to sue the Garden City Police Department after he says they mistook him for a criminal, handcuffed, and then beat him.
“I’ve never been cursed, physically abused, beaten and treated like a slave as I was two days ago,” Lanier said through tears as explained how he ended up battered and in the hospital. “For somebody to grab me by the neck in the supermarket, and I’m telling you, ‘I’m one of you,’ and you disrespect it — it was like you’re just another black dude.”
“They cursed at him, they abused him verbally, they then start to beat him,” his attorney, Fred Brewington, told 1010 WINS. “He was taking blows with his hands cuffed behind him as he laid facedown.”
According to Lanier, when he tried to explain to the officers who were beating him that he was also a cop, they laughed in his face.
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Chicago’s Influence in Washington, D.C., Likely to End on January 20
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel told reporters last week that there is a check waiting for him from Washington D.C.: “Literally, in Washington, there’s a check with Chicago’s name on it. Over 50 percent of the resources are going to come from Washington, and I don’t want to miss an opportunity.”
In the present case, Emanuel is referring to grant money his city is requesting to renovate mass-transit lines in the amount of $1.1 billion. In a larger sense Emanuel is referring to the river of political influence his city has poured into the Obama administration in exchange for such financial favors.
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Google Removes “Fake News” That Black People “Commit More Crimes”
FBI stats show black people do actually commit more crimes
Under the guise of tackling “fake news,” Google is removing search results that pertain to crime statistics that show black people commit more crimes, despite the fact that this is widely documented to be true.
An article in the Guardian entitled Google ‘must review its search rankings because of rightwing manipulation’ details how “leading academics” are pressuring Google to artificially edit its search algorithm to prevent certain subjects from appearing at the top of its search rankings.
In response, the piece notes that Google has removed search results that suggest “black people commit more crimes”. Negative results about the religion of Islam were also removed.
This is alarming given that virtually every metric proves that criminality is more prevalent in black communities compared to white and Hispanic communities in America. It’s an uncomfortable fact that black people commit more crimes than any other race in America, but it’s a fact nonetheless. Claiming that reality is actually “fake news” because it suits your political stance doesn’t change the nature of reality.
Despite making up just 13% of the population, blacks commit around half of homicides in the United States. DOJ statistics show that between 1980 and 2008, blacks committed 52% of homicides, compared to 45% of homicides committed by whites.
More up to date FBI statistics tell a similar story. In 2013, black criminals carried out 38% of murders, compared to 31.1% for whites, again despite the fact that there are five times more white people in the U.S…
While it is understandable that Google would want to prevent neo-nazi content from appearing at the top of its search rankings, the fact that the tech giant is now censoring objective facts under the justification of tackling “fake news” is chilling.
This indicates that Google, along with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media sites, are using the excuse of “fake news” to bury factual information that is inconvenient to leftist political narratives.
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Microsoft Says LinkedIn Will Make Trump, Brexit, Voters Feel Great Again
Microsoft says buying LinkedIn will help to address the middle class discontent that saw Britain vote to leave the European Union and America vote to leave politics as we know it behind by electing Donald Trump.
The company has expressed that sentiment in its post announcing the European Commission’s approval of its acquisition of LinkedIn.
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Obama Administration’s Midnight Regulations to Total $44 Billion
The Obama administration has put forth 25 so-called “midnight” regulations, which will cost the economy $44.1 billion, according to a report from the American Action Forum.
Midnight regulations are rules that are published after Election Day and before the next president is inaugurated in January 2017. Earlier this year, the administration estimated that there would be $5.2 billion in regulatory costs incurred during that time.
The $44.1 billion in regulatory costs have overshot that estimate by more than eight times.
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Pearl Harbour Survivor Remembers: A Day of Infamy
Hemker is a widower whose wife died more than 20 years ago. He has three sons. All served in the Vietnam War. Hempker, still roguishly handsome and possessed of a sly sense of humor, charms the ladies in the Legion Auxiliary with country gallantry.
He is universally admired by his comrade veterans in the American Legion. “I’m not able to do what I used to do, but I do what I can,” he says. Subscribe to NewsWithViews Daily Email Alerts Email Address * First Name *required field
Reflecting on Pearl Harbor seventy-five years after surviving it, Hemker, who has lost his eyesight but not his vision for America, observes:
“We Americans should never forget. If we forget our past and those who died, we won’t have a future. A free one, anyway. Look at what happened on 9-11. More people were killed on that day then were killed at Pearl Harbor. It can happen again,” he warns.
“I don’t think people remember Pearl Harbor and what it means, the way they used to do,” Hemker concludes. “That’s too bad. A lot of us can’t forget. An awful lot of really good people died to keep America free. They shouldn’t be forgotten.”
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Runner Up of the Year: Congrats to Hillary for Coming in Second for the Second Time
Congratulations to Hillary Clinton, runner-up for Time Magazine’s 2016 Person of the Year cover issue.
Clinton narrowly lost to President-elect Donald Trump, who was announced as Time’s selection Wednesday morning.
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Scientists Find Rare Superbug on Pig Farm; It Could Transmit to Humans
Superbugs, or bacteria resistant to antibiotics, have been a hot topic in health over the past couple of years. And recently, researchers have found that some pigs carry a gene that creates a so-called superbug — and it could spread to humans.
The new information comes from a five-month study of a pig farm in the United States, carried out at the Ohio State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine in Columbus and published in the December 5th issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
Although none of the pigs that were used for meat, or scheduled to be slaughtered, carried the gene, scientists are sure that the pigs have been exposed to it. And though no humans are at risk at the moment, they do worry that this could mean they will be in the future.
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Softbank Pledges to Invest $50 Billion in U.S. After Meeting With Trump
President-elect met with SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son in Trump Tower
Masayoshi Son, the brash billionaire who controls Sprint Corp., said Tuesday he would invest $50 billion in the U.S. and create 50,000 new jobs, following a 45-minute private meeting with President-elect Donald Trump.
The telecom mogul, who made his fortune in Japan with SoftBank Group Corp., announced his investment plans in the lobby of Trump Tower, though he didn’t provide details. Mr. Trump took credit for the investment, saying his November victory spurred SoftBank’s decision.
Mr. Son told reporters he planned to “invest into the new startup companies in the United States.” It would be difficult to create 50,000 jobs entirely by investing in startups, which generally employ few workers. Sprint employs about 30,000 people and has cut jobs to combat losses.
In an interview, Mr. Son said the money will be coming from a $100 billion investment fund that he began setting up earlier this year with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign-wealth fund and other potential partners.
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Texas Restaurant Closes, And the Owner is Blaming ObamaCare
“Instead of 50 or 60 people without healthcare, we have 50 or 60 people that aren’t employed anymore”
A restaurant in Fort Worth, Texas is closing its doors after five years of business, and the owner says the Affordable Care Act is to blame.
Bill and Johnnie Katz, owners of Frankie’s Sports Bar and Grill, took to the restaurant’s Facebook on Monday to announce the closing of the restaurant in the heart of downtown Fort Worth.
“Several factors led to this decision, but the proverbial straw was brought on by the Affordable Care Act,” the statement says. “If we were to stay in business, there was no way for us to have borne the weight of the oppressive penalties for failing to comply with the mandates of that legislature.”
The employer mandate of the Affordable Care Act requires businesses with more than 50 full-time employees must provide health care for at least 95 percent of the employees and dependents up to age 26, or pay a fee.
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The angry Left looks to punish conservative media for Trump’s victory
Someone behind an anonymous Twitter account is trying to destroy the influential conservative Breitbart News website by smearing it as “racist” — and he’s already scared at least 47 advertisers away from Breitbart.
In the current atmosphere of left-wing hysteria over the surprise election of Donald Trump as president, this blacklisting project has already earned an impressive return on investment. Breitbart is a target of the wrath of social justice warriors because it reports the truth about the Left and it used to be run by Stephen Bannon, now slated to become chief strategist in the Trump White House. Hurting Breitbart hurts Trump and Republicans in general, the thinking goes.
The campaign takes screenshots of advertisements on Breitbart and then harasses the advertisers, demanding that they stop advertising there. It also encourages people who hate Breitbart or Trump to take screenshots of a target company’s ads placed beside content deemed objectionable and tweet the images at advertisers along with a threat to stop patronizing that company.
The cowardly crusader hiding behind this effort to frighten advertisers away from Breitbart by lying about and mischaracterizing the provocative news website’s content goes by the user name Sleeping Giants.
The user’s identity seems safe for the moment but if Breitbart files a defamation lawsuit, Twitter could be forced to disclose the user’s identity.
So far the identity of the individual or individuals behind Sleeping Giants is not known, except to Shareen Pathak, managing editor at the DigiDay blog.
Pathak reports, “The creator of the account said he would prefer to remain anonymous to avoid being harassed by Trump supporters on the internet. He said he started the account because fake news and disinformation, are, in his opinion, two of the reasons why the election turned out in favor of Trump.”
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The Election’s Ominous Results
If current trends continue, future elections will find ever growing numbers of American blockheads incapable of critical thought and intelligent self-rule.
Yes, it is good that Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, especially in light of revelations of her private email security breaches and pay-for-play administration of the State Department. If true, she belongs in prison. However, what is ominous is the number of voters who, despite all that was known of her crimes, still voted for her. This is not a sign of a healthy American electorate.
It seems the same citizens who voted for Barack Obama in 2012 after his disastrous first four years voted for her. Many people who go the polls in our generation are simply not thinking. They are less informed and thoughtful citizens than idolaters.
This is not what the Framers of the U.S. Constitution had in mind in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 when those fifty-five remarkable American men of achievement — businessmen, doctors, lawyers, farmers, and scientists, argued and drafted that document that has served America so well ever since.
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Trump Invites Tech Leaders to Roundtable Next Week
Tech industry bet heavily on Hillary Clinton in the months leading up to the presidential election
President-elect Donald Trump has invited technology industry leaders to a roundtable next week in New York.
The invitation for the Dec. 14 summit was sent by Trump’s chief of staff Reince Priebus, Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, and transition team adviser Peter Thiel. Among the CEOs who plan to attend the meeting are Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins and Oracle Co-CEO Safra Catz.
The tech industry, which bet heavily on Hillary Clinton in the months leading up to the presidential election, is looking to build bridges to the incoming administration.
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Who Occupies the Swamp That Need to be Drained?
Now if you are a freedom loving, second amendment, God-fearing American, you want to eliminate those politicians and bureaucrats in the “Swamp” that don’t subscribe to, or support the Constitution of the United States, as designed by the Founding Fathers. In their minds “Draining the Swamp” means to get rid of all the politicians and bureaucrats that overtax, overspend and pass laws and regulations that interfere with their perception of freedom. Since most politicians overtax, overspend and over regulate, getting rid of a large percentage of those politicians or bureaucrats would be the ultimate goal.
But if you’re an on-the-dole freeloader, or a Democrat voter, you want to eliminate those politicians and bureaucrats (and those Republican voters) that interfere with the timely arrival of your government check or benefit. If you are a Democrat politician or bureaucrat, you want to make sure that those government checks and benefits arrive safely in the freeloaders (or an illegal alien’s) mailbox so as to assure your election or re-election. (See “A 1, 2, 3 Punch That Doomed America’s Constitutional Republic”)
Which brings us to President-Elect Donald Trump and his efforts to build a cabinet and fill other government posts, prior to taking office in January of 2017. Much criticism has been levied against Trump for choosing cabinet candidates and other posts that would seem to be the same carnivorous alligators and blood-sucking mosquitoes in the very swamp Trump says he wants to drain.
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Assange Publishes Statement Given to Prosecutor on Rape Allegation
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has published the answers he gave to an Ecuadoran prosecutor during questioning at the country’s embassy in London in November over a longstanding Swedish rape allegation.
In a letter accompanying the statement, Assange explained that he had decided to publish his answers because he wants “people to know the truth about how abusive this process has been”, and also claimed that the prosecution leaked information to tabloids which “politically oppose” him.
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Belgium Charges 3 Over Suspected is Links
A judge charged three men with supporting Islamic State following house searches across Belgium in which eight people were taken for questioning, federal prosecutors say.
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Constitutional Court Italicum Hearing Jan 24
On Constitutional objections to law
(ANSA) — Rome, December 6 — The Constitutional Court on Tuesday set January 24 for a hearing on objections raised on Constitutional grounds against the Italicum election law, which the court is set to review to see if it complies with the Constitution. Objections have been raised against the law, passed earlier this year, on the grounds, among other things, that it assigns an unfairly large bonus to the winning party.
Under the law, parties that win 37% of the vote get a bonus allotting them 54% of the seats in the Lower House.
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Germany Bomb Threat: City Locked Down and Residents Evacuated Following Terrifying Call
Officers locked down the centre of Peine, in the north of the country, after the bank received the chilling phone call at 1pm local time.
The man on the phone said a bomb would be detonated immediately at the local branch of the Commerzbank, a police spokesman said.
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Happening Now! EU Announces Censorship of US Sites
So-called “fake news” is a term so broad that it includes perfectly legitimate news content
Alex Jones breaks down how the European Union is demanding that Twitter, YouTube and Facebook censor “illegal hate speech” within 24 hours, content that includes so-called “fake news,” a term so broad that it includes perfectly legitimate news content.
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‘Her Screams Will Haunt Me’ Woman Fights for Her Life After Being Set on Fire in Germany
[…] She was so badly burned over all of her body that rescuers said it was impossible to tell her sex.
Police say the victim, 38, was torched by an African who has lived in Germany for 20 years.
It is thought she was attacked by her 41-year-old husband.
Officers say the man, who comes from the same country as the victim, hurled petrol over her as she walked on Wednesday in Kronshagen, near Kiel.
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Holland Listens to the People — Dutch MPs Reject EU Power Grab Fearing Voter Revolt
HOLLAND looks set to block plans for another European Union (EU) power grab, fearing it would fuel support for anti-Brussels right-winger Geert Wilders.
Jean-Claude Juncker’s European Commission wants to set up a European public prosecutors office (EPPO) to investigate and clamp down on tax fraud that costs member states an eye-watering £42billion a year.
But with firebrand Wilders’ anti-EU Freedom Party expected to gain seats in elections next March, MPs are reluctant to provide him with more ammunition. They voted against the plan in the Dutch parliament in defiance of recommendations by Justice Minister Ard van der Steur. …
Furious European Commissioner for Justice Vera Jourová, who has spent almost four years putting pressure on sceptical justice ministers to agree to EPPO’s creation, is now threatening to withhold funds from cash-strapped eastern and central European countries unless they back her plan.
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Hundreds of Terrorists Could be Claiming Benefits in Britain, Expert Fear
Hundreds of terrorists could be using British benefits to fund their extremist activities after the Government admitted it did not know the true scale of problem.
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‘I Want Europe Out of the EU’ Farage Vows He Will Not Stop Till ‘Dying’ Bloc is Collapsed
[…] He added: “We’re watching the European project dying before our eyes and I’m very pleased about it because I didn’t just want the United Kingdom out of the European Union, I want Europe out of the European Union.
“I want a different Europe where friends — nation states — can trade and cooperate together, not have laws dictated to them and judged by a foreign court.
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Italy’s Renzi Hands in Resignation Amid Political Turmoil
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has handed in his resignation to Italy’s president, three days after losing a referendum he had staked his career on.
He had promised to wait until the Senate passed the 2017 budget, which it did earlier in the day.
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‘No! Don’t Touch Me!’ German Police Release Shocking Footage From Cologne on New Year’s Eve 2015
The footage shows a massive, rowdy mob of migrants standing shoulder to shoulder on the steps of the Cologne Cathedral
Shocking footage obtained by the German paper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger shows the total mayhem which occurred last year on New Year’s Eve in Cologne.
The footage shows a massive, rowdy mob of migrants standing shoulder to shoulder on the steps of the Cologne Cathedral.
Women can be heard screaming “nein” and shouting “don’t touch me” while German police are totally overwhelmed and unprepared to respond…
Angela Merkel, who brought over one million of these hostile migrants into German, came out today to say she is in favor of a burka ban “wherever legally possible.”
Rather than kick these criminal migrants out, the vast majority of whom are military-aged males, Merkel’s response to this insanity is to institute a dress code for Muslim women.
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Over 1 in 4 in Italy Risk Poverty or Exclusion — ISTAT
European targets ‘still far off’
(ANSA) — Rome, December 6 — Over one in four people resident in Italy in 2015, 28.7%, were “at risk of poverty or social exclusion”, according to an estimate released by national statistics agency ISTAT on Tuesday. The rate is slightly higher than that of 28.3% for 2014. As many as 17.469 million people in Italy are at risk of poverty of social exclusion, ISTAT said, translating the percentage into numbers. This means that targets set by the European Strategy 2020 are “still far off”. Under those goals, Italy must bring those at risk under the threshold of 12.882 million by 20120. The present total is “4.587 million units above that target”, ISTAT said.
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Q&A: Marine Le Pen on Populism, Trump, And Europe’s Future
“The election of Donald Trump is a signal that the whole world must hear and understand”
Donald Trump’s victory has strong resonance in one country thousands of miles away: France. Much like the White House, the Elysée Palace houses a president with major powers, including being the military commander in chief and having the ability to write national and foreign policy that is then often rubber-stamped by the National Assembly. What is more, there is already a populist rabble-rouser much like Trump, campaigning to seize the presidency in two rounds of elections next April and May: France’s far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen.
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Roman Polanski Will Not be Extradited for 1977 Rape Charges
Poland’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a bid to extradite Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski to the United States, where he faces sentencing over a decades-old case of statutory rape.
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Shock Poll Predicts French Socialists Have No Chance of Beating Marine Le Pen
Any Socialist candidate will get knocked out in the first, decisive round of next year’s French presidential election, a shock BVA-Salesforce poll published today reveals.
The poll suggests that it is right-wing Les Républicains candidate François Fillon, a self-confessed Thatcherite, who is to face the leader of the eurosceptic National Front party, Marine Le Pen, in the second-round run-off next spring.
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Tests Confirm Germany’s ‘Star in a Jar’ Nuclear Fusion Reactor Really Works
A step closer to LIMITLESS energy…
Last year, scientists started up a new type of massive nuclear fusion reactor for the first time, known as a stellarator.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Greifswald, Germany, injected a tiny amount of hydrogen and heated it until it became plasma, effectively mimicking conditions inside the sun.
But since then scientists have been asking whether the ambitious device — named Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) — works as it is supposed to, producing the right magnetic fields.
Now a research paper has shown tests over the past few months have proven the complex design is working as expected.
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The Mainstream Media and EU’s ‘Fake News Frankenstein’
Like a drowning man fights to take down his rescuer with him, the mainstream media’s hooked up with the European Union in attempts to take down Breitbart, Alex Jones and Drudge.
A real life Mission Impossible unfolding before our very eyes.
Truth seekers starved from the truth by elected governments of the day recognize the good guys: Breitbart, Jones, Drudge, just as they do the bad guys holed up in the mainstream media.
They know plain truth when they see it, and can spot the lies of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Angela Merkel et al from miles away.
It’s come down to the trite saying that whenever the mainstream media’s or a politician’s lips are moving, they’re bound to be lying.
Edicts from unelected bigwigs within the now going defunct European Union are recognized for what they truly are, orders manufactured from wishful thinking.
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UK: Brothers Who Beat, Strangled and Sexually Abused Friends Apply to Remain Unidentified
Two brothers who tortured two innocent young boys almost to death in Edlington, South Yorkshire in April 2009 are attempting to protect their anonymity for life using the Human Rights Act.
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UK: Exclusive — House of Commons Would Back Triggering EU Divorce Talks: Reuters Research
While the British government tries to prevent parliament from having to pass a law to trigger the country’s exit from the European Union, Reuters research indicates the lower house would in fact support it, based on lawmakers’ recent statements.
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Saudi Arabia Caught Red-Handed Funding US Enemies in Afghanistan
Saudi Arabian support of terrorist organizations is not unique to Afghanistan.
The Taliban’s former financial minister regularly traveled to Saudi Arabia to raise millions of dollars, The New York Times reports.
After the U.S. invasion in 2001, finance minister Agha Jan Motasim fled to Pakistan to establish the still de-facto headquarters of the Taliban terrorist movement. Motasim told The NYT he went to Saudi Arabia two or three times a year to raise millions of dollars in donations, traveling under the the guise of religious pilgrimage.
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Terrorists Used Precision Fire on Hospital in Aleppo, They Had Exact Coordinates
The terrorists used precision fire on the Russian Defense Ministry mobile hospital in Syria’s Aleppo, they definitely had its exact coordinates, the Kremlin spokesman said Tuesday.
“Of course, it was precision fire. It confirmed the fact that the militants who shelled [the Russian Defense Ministry mobile hospital in Aleppo] had the exact coordinates,” Dmitry Peskov said.
Moreover, Russia would like to see a more accountable stance on the Aleppo hospital shelling from its Western partners.
“We regret that in fact Russia alone is trying to provide humanitarian aid to the civilians who’re leaving eastern Aleppo trying to escape militant captivity. We would welcome a much more accountable position from our Western partners on this issue,” Peskov said.
On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that alleged Syrian opposition militants had shelled a Russian military hospital killing a combat medic and injuring two others in Aleppo. One of the injured later also succumbed to her wounds.
“Beyond any doubt, militants of the ‘opposition’ were the ones firing. We understand, from whom the militants received accurate data and coordinates of the Russian hospital admission department,” he said.
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Washington’s Imperial Project in Syria Faces Defeat. Obama’s Criminal Legacy
Obama will be remembered for waging endless wars of aggression throughout his tenure, at home and abroad — a war criminal remaining unaccountable for his high crimes, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, one of many examples mocking its legitimacy.
He’ll leave office in January after bombing seven countries, multiple conflicts on his watch still raging, including nearly six years of terror-war on Syria, a nation threatening no one.
According to Syria’s War Information Center, around 65% of eastern Aleppo was liberated from terrorist control, additional neighborhoods freed daily.
US-backed terrorists are increasingly isolated, heading toward capitulation or elimination, their choice. On December 5, the Wall Street Journal reported they’re “weaken(ing)” in confrontation with government forces, defeat virtually certain, likely in weeks.
Surrounded by Syrian and allied troops, they’re increasingly “desperate…fac (ing) potential collapse.” Many ceased combat and fled with civilians to government-controlled areas.
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LinkedIn Officially Kicked Out of Russia
LinkedIn says it ‘remains interested in a meeting’ with Russian regulator
UPDATE Russian telecoms regulator Roskomnadzor has made it official: LinkedIn is no longer welcome in Putin’s formerly-socialist paradise.
The regulator’s brief statement confirms what we knew last week , namely that LinkedIn hasn’t been able to satisfy Russia that it complies with laws requiring personal data to be stored on Russian soil.
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Lessons From Australia — Carbon Tax Failure
CALGARY, AB: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) has launched a cross-country tour with Chris Berg, senior fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs-the think tank that was a leading voice pushing for the repeal of Australia’s carbon tax.
Australia’s national carbon tax came into effect July 1, 2012, and was repealed on July 17, 2014.
“Australians tried a carbon tax, it didn’t work, so they repealed it, and Canadians need to take a close look at that experience,” said CTF Federal Director Aaron Wudrick. “Many Canadians are about to feel the impact of a national carbon tax and it’s important to find out what to expect and hear it first-hand from a country that has tried it.”
Australia produces roughly 1.5 per cent of world greenhouse gas emissions. Canada produces 1.65 per cent.
“Many Australians faced high energy bills and job losses as a result of our carbon tax,” said Chris Berg of the Institute of Public Affairs. “The government was forced to create heaps of new bureaucracy, rebates, free carbon credits and red tape just to deal with the fallout from the tax. And worst of all, it did virtually nothing to impact global climate change. Canadians should not follow us down this path.”
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“Hate Speech”: Facebook Bans German Woman for Posting Picture of Migrant Rapist
Afghan “refugee” murdered 19-year-old student
After an Afghan migrant raped and killed a 19-year-old woman in Germany, Facebook responded by banning a German woman for “hate speech” because she posted a picture of the murderer.
Hussein K., a 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, was arrested on Friday on suspicion of rape and murder after a sample of his hair was found at the crime scene in Freiburg.
His victim, 19-year-old medical student Maria Ladenburger, was cycling home after a party when she was ambushed, raped and then drowned in a nearby river.
The incident has prompted uproar in Germany, with the country currently suffering an explosion of rapes and violent crimes since its borders were opened to migrants last year.
A reader contacted us to report that she had found the Facebook profile of the alleged killer (here it is, but don’t expect it to stay up long).
“He looks lifeless. His stare is blank. All I can see is hatred. But when I scrolled down, I saw a shocking post. He posted a picture of a vicious wolf that is holding a fragile white woman. It looks like he is about to rape the women and then rip her apart. Just like he did it to his victim,” Lena Kirschbaum told us in an email.
[Comment: Look at the picture from the murder’s website. Half-man half wolf with an unconcious white woman. ]
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Feds Refuse to Divulge Records of Assaults on Orphaned Immigrant Children in Their Care
“The entire program is shrouded in secrecy”
Despite reports of rapes and other sexual assaults, federal officials refuse to divulge any information to the public about the safety of orphaned Central American children in facilities run by third-party contractors, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned.
Charges of child abuse and sexual assault have dogged the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) since it admitted in a 2014 Freedom of Information Act response to the Houston Chronicle that there were 101 “significant incident reports” of sexual abuse of unaccompanied children in the contractor facilities.
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Germany: Islamic Radicalism Rife in Asylum Homes According to Undercover Report
German-Pakistani journalist Shams Ul-Haq went undercover to several German asylum homes under false identities and found them full of radical Islamic recruiters and believers.
A former taxi driver and private investigator, Pakistan-born Shams Ul-Haq now works as a freelance journalist in Germany, where he has lived for 15 years. Seeing himself in a unique position to be able to infiltrate the German asylum system he used false identities to travel to various asylum homes to discover the truth on reports of growing levels of Islamic radicalisation, reports Die Welt.
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Iraqi Asylum Seeker Arrested for Sexually Assaulting Students in Another German Horror
The latest suspect is 31-year-old. Iraqi asylum seeker Zaid K., who came to Germany in 2015 and lived with his wife and two children near the scene of the two attacks in the city of Bochum.
Prosecutors say he struck twice: once in August when he seriously injured a 21-year-old student after he attempted to rape her, and again in November.
In the second attack a 27-year-old Chinese woman reported that she was attacked and raped.
Police say the boyfriend of victim number one took photos of the suspect lingering at the crime scene days later. These led detectives to the refugee home where he lived.
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Iraqi Refugee Detained in Germany Over Rape and Abuse of 2 Chinese Students
An Iraqi refugee has been arrested in Germany over suspicion that he abused and raped two Chinese students near a university in Bochum. The suspect has been living nearby with his wife and two children since last year.
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Maria Ladenburger Murder: German Broadcaster Accused of Silencing Any Migrant Criticism
GERMANY’S biggest broadcaster has been accused of trying to silence criticism of mass migration after it failed to report the rape and murder of the teenage daughter of a European Union (EU) official by an Afghan refugee.
The Tagesschau show, produced by the world’s largest public broadcaster ARD, said the story was “too regional”, but critics have blamed the decision on political correctness and trying to stamp out criticism of migrants.
Medical student and migrant home volunteer Maria Ladenburger, who was the daughter of a high-ranking EU lawyer, was ambushed, raped and drowned in a river as she cycled home from a party in October.
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Migrants in Greece Drop Off Grid
ATHENS—As many as 13,000 people who registered in Greece’s migrant camps are unaccounted for and could have slipped north into Europe, according to European immigration officials.
The findings, shared with The Wall Street Journal after the officials completed a review of Europe’s Aegean frontier, show Greece hasn’t become the dead end for migrants that Europe wanted it to be.
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Sweden: Afghan Migrants Brutally Rape Underage Boy and Film the Ordeal
Five Afghani migrants in the Swedish city of Uppsala brutally raped an underage boy for over an hour in the woods and reports claim they filmed the attack on their mobile phones.
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UK: Exposed: Commercial Flights Used to Deport Thousands of Failed Asylum Seekers Every Year
COMMERCIAL airline flights are being used to deport thousands of failed asylum seekers every year — meaning that migrants, who are often cuffed and restrained, are travelling alongside unsuspecting holidaymakers, Express.co.uk can exclusively reveal.
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UK: No Wonder Our Politicians Banned Age Tests: Majority of Child Refugees Checked Are Adults
BRITISH ministers were tonight facing serious questions about their decision to ban scientific age tests for ‘child’ refugees after officials in Denmark revealed THREE QUARTERS of those posing as minors are actually adults.
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White Britons ‘Need to Integrate With Muslims and Migrants’ Islamic Leader Claims
WHITE British people must be responsible for integrating Muslims and migrants into communities, a senior representative of the Muslim Council of Britain has hinted. …
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Buzzfeed: White People Are a ‘Plague to the Planet’
An image featured on the list shows a young woman with the presentations, “White People Stay Colonizing,” while wearing a T-shirt that reads: “Make America Brown Again.”
Buzzfeed published a listicle Monday containing insulting and racist messages towards white people.
The listicle, entitled, “19 School Powerpoint Presentations That Give Zero
s,” is a list of students giving presentations. Many of the presentations include insulting and hateful messages towards whites, such as, “White People Are a Plague to the Planet,” “How White People Plagued Society,” and “White People Are Crazy.”
An image featured on the list shows a young woman with the presentations, “White People Stay Colonizing,” while wearing a T-shirt that reads: “Make America Brown Again.”
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This is the Purge We All Knew Was Coming: “Shutting Down Extremist Content”
There have been murmurs about it all along.
Someday, they simply wouldn’t allow certain things to remain on the Internet any longer. The potential to reach a global audience with important information, and the idea that it could be in the hands of anyone is just too big.
So it is no surprise that many corporate giants from Silicon Valley are now putting forward a unified front to silence free speech on social media.
Hashtags, keywords and flagged accounts, logged in various databases, will be shared and enforced across the web. Shutting down content identified as unacceptable will now be streamlined, and leave unpopular posters with fewer places to peddle their extremist, outside views.
According to Yahoo! News:…
Many current incidents are being used to push the idea that a new online policing — and a pulling of the weeds — is now necessary.
The “fake news” purging campaign has reached across the blogosphere and alternative media and punished websites that have dared to report on such taboo topics as Pizzagate, Wikileaks email dumps, any controversial aspects of the Syrian war and many other serious topics which these agenda-driven companies have opted to suppress.
While these platforms offer the opportunity to reach a wide audience, the centrality of ubiquitous platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter is, obviously, that they have the power to delete accounts and drive down audience response by tweaking the algorithm.
They can make you invisible.
That is the state of free speech in 2016. It can be eradicated at a moment’s notice, and perhaps for reasons you aren’t even aware of.
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“as many as 13,000 migrants who registered in Greece have gone missing and may have traveled north to other countries illegally.”
Illegally? The most advanced level of civilization is the one you become blind to black and white, truth and lie, to legal and illegal, to halal, and haram, to citizen and foreigner, . . . you got the picture. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, so are other memes and ethos. If you can get what you want without punishment, then it is legal. It is legal for a jihadi to rape a Swedish teenager if the dictatorship is too afraid to punish the perpetrator. Is it legal for Traitors to import millions of jihadis and lavish on them tons of dollars and saterling pounds while “others” are discovered frozen to death on the street corners?
Is it legal for Traitors to slowly destroy one’s country . . . by you guessed correct.
The EU is a failed would-be Superstate.
This is much worse than in Sweden!
https://youtu.be/w5oLoW9jZJc
With respect to the Julian Assange case, perhaps due to overloading the link did not work. However here are some other websites that cover the issue, including the actual statement of Assange.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-07/julian-assange-goes-public-on-rape-allegations/8099276
http://theduran.com/julian-assange-issues-statement-destroys-swedens-rape-case/
https://justice4assange.com/IMG/html/assange-statement-2016.html
Perhaps a study needs to be written on the use of false accusations of rape as a tool of political control used by the “civilized” Western nations. There might also be cases of the use of threats of mass rape as tools of political control by the same countries.
And don’t forget the insertion of child porn into a targeted person’s computer or phone, as happened with Vladimir Bukovsky. Even just being accused of collecting child porn can ruin a person’s career. That’s a very effective tool of control, and now that getting into anyone’s phone or computer is such a simple matter, I expect it to become more widespread.
As a corollary, the false setting-up of targets for child porn charges will create a “little boy who cried wolf” situation regarding the REAL aficianados of child porn — those networks child porn enthusiasts really exist, and they really do exploit and devastate children to produce their product, but people will begin to discount them as more and more innocent people are set up as “child pornographers”.
It’s a devious, deadly, demonic political structure that has evolved in the “Free World”.
This one’s pretty bad. (Cincinnati’s about 100 miles from Columbus.)
http://www.wlwt.com/article/reward-offered-in-price-hill-hate-crime/8462428