Tomorrow President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders limiting or cutting off the flow of “refugees” from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Mr. Trump will also sign an order to commence the building of the wall on the Mexican border, and another to cut off federal funding to cities that have declared themselves “sanctuaries” for illegal aliens.
In other news, an “Austrian” teenager who was arrested in Germany on terror charges said he had built a test bomb. His arrest was part of a wider sweep that rolled up a terror network in Germany and Austria.
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Half of Families in Greece Live on Pensions
Greek society is evolving into a sum of households surviving on pensions while its most dynamic section, young people aged between 18 and 35, are abandoning it or considering abandoning it to seek a better life abroad, a survey by the Small Enterprises Institute of the Hellenic Confederation of Professionals, Craftsmen and Merchants (IME GSEVEE) has concluded.
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by Diana West
Now at The Daily Caller:
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From inner sanctum to inner sanctum, this is the conversation that has been buzzing around the District of Columbia:
So, the Deplorables won an election and sent their man to Washington. Well, now, he’s on our turf and plays by our rules.
Yeah!
So goes the collective thinking of “Washington,” that shining co-op on a hill, where average men and women of above-average ambition and self-esteem have flim-flammed their way through the ballot box, climbed the think tank ladder, or honed the corporate sound-byte to come together in a promised land of uniparty perks and and special kind of firepower, suit-and-tied workers dedicated to preserving that same liberal world order foisted on the American people so very long ago. It was all working like clockwork — Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama — Bush/Clinton … until Trump.
$%^&#(@*)#&$
Sir, Washington Post on the line. OMG, sit down. Ready-steady? OK. Bannon has hired Julia Hahn to work in the White House policy shop!
AAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIEIEEEEEEE!
I know, I know.
He can’t do that! Doesn’t he realize the election is OVER? They’re here. In Washington. It’s OUR backyard. We set the rules. Give me that phone!
This conversation also echoed around Washington of late…
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Chuck Schumer Probably Shouldn’t Have Insulted Tom Cotton About Where He Was Eight Years Ago
‘Eight years ago, I was getting my ass shot at in Afghanistan’
Sens. Tom Cotton and Chuck Schumer reportedly got into an angry confrontation on the Senate floor Friday over Senate Democrats delaying the confirmation of Rep. Mike Pompeo for CIA director, The Weekly Standard reports.
Cotton was reportedly irate with Schumer’s delay of the confirmation vote and loudly accosted him on the Senate floor. Schumer retorted that the Senate had never confirmed a CIA director on Inauguration Day, adding that Senate Republicans did not do the same for former President Barack Obama. He continued that Cotton would have known this if he had been in the Senate eight years ago.
“Eight years ago, I was getting my ass shot at in Afghanistan,” Cotton reportedly shot back. He continued, “So don’t talk to me about where I was 8 years ago.” Cotton served two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan in the U.S. Army as a member of the 101st Airborne Division.
[Comment: Expect more of this from Commicrats. You can trust a communist to act like a communist.]
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Conway Rips ‘Professional Political Hacks’ In Media
(FOX NEWS) Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway told Fox News Monday that reporters covering the West Wing who mock President Donald Trump “ought to think about what they’re really doing.”
“If they snark, if they roll their eyes, if their Twitter feed is filled with 92 percent anti-Trump tweets, they’re not being reporters, they’re being opinion columnists,” Conway told Fox News’sean Hannity in a White House interivew. “They’re being professional political hacks and pundits, and we have a right to call that out.”
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DC Police Wore “P***y Hats” In Support of Soros-Linked Protest
Far-left organizations use brainwashed masses as cover to promote their agenda
Several members of the Metropolitan Police Department of DC were observed wearing pink “pussy hats” in support of the Soros-linked anti-Trump “Women’s March” that gripped the capitol following Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The photos, obtained by The Daily Caller, appear to show several police officers assisting people with passing through the crowd of protestors while another group of officers wearing pink “pussy hats” were taking pictures with protestors…
Images of DC police officers wearing attire sympathetic to the protestors are especially telling given reports by Alex Jones and the Infowars field crew that Black Lives Matter protestors were allowed to assault women attempting to pass through ticketing lines for Trump’s inauguration.
While the protests across the country were depicted by the mainstream media as grassroots-inspired “Women’s Marches,” photos and video of the marches show signs promoting many far-left causes, including Black Lives Matter, LGBT rights and climate change.
A report revealed that globalist billionaire George Soros has close relationships with at least 56 of the march’s organizers, including Planned Parenthood, the National Resource Defense Council, MoveOn.org, the National Action Network, the American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
Linda Sarsour, head of the Arab American Association of New York and a major organizer of the so-called Women’s March on Washington, was observed taking photos with a Salah Sarsour, a member of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and a former Hamas operative jailed by Israel in the 1990s, at a conference in Chicago last month.
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Inauguration Riot: Communist Thugs Face 10 Years Jail
More than 230 black-clad “anti-fascist” communist thugs arrested after their violent anti-Donald Trump rampage through the streets of Washington D.C. last week will face felony riot charges-an offence which carries up to ten years in jail and a fine of up to $250,000.
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It Begins: David Brock, Far-Left Donors Plan Trump Impeachment
Brock’s super PAC creates “Trump war room” to target administration
David Brock, along with over 100 far-left donors and most of the candidates for chair of the DNC, gathered at a secret conference to plan a campaign of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
Brock, founder of the Soros-funded far-left mouthpiece Media Matters, gathered over one hundred donors for a weekend conference at the Turnberry Isle Resort in Aventura, Florida, just northeast of the city of Miami, to plot an effort to defeat President Donald Trump through impeachment.
According to a confidential 44-page memo obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, Brock argued in favor of using his super PAC, American Bridge, as the main vehicle for the impeachment effort.
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Law Professor: Felony Rioting Charges Could Provide Genuine ‘Deterrent Effect’ On Future Anarchists
Professor John Banzhaf, public interest law professor at George Washington University Law School, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday about inauguration protesters being charged with felony rioting, as reported by Breitbart News. He examined how that could dissuade other violent rioters in the future.
Banzhaf said, “What can be done is changing the tone and saying that when you engage in serious criminal acts which hurt others … this may finally have a reasonable deterrent effect” on future mayhem.
Banzhaf also posted about the potential ramifications of this new prosecutorial approach in what he titled “DC Felony Prosecutions of Inauguration Day Rioters Will Deter Illegal Protests.”
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Mystery: Obama’s Favorite Imam Gets to Pray With Trump
It remains a mystery how an imam with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Barack Obama got invited to offer a prayer at the National Prayer Service Saturday after the inauguration of Donald Trump.
President Trump and his wife Melania were in the audience as Imam Mohamed Magid began praying in Arabic from the pulpit of the National Cathedral. He then cited a message from the Quran and translated it to English before walking over and shaking Trump’s hand.
Magid, born and raised in Sudan, is leader of a Shariah-observant mosque in Sterling, Virginia, and is a former president of the Islamic Society of North America. ISNA was created by the Muslim Brotherhood and works in concert with the seditious international organization founded in Egypt in 1928.
The surprise appearance by Magid at Saturday’s prayer breakfast led to an immediate rebuke by Faith Leaders for America, a group of 78 Christian and Jewish leaders who reject any interfaith dialogue with Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups. They issued a statement calling on President Trump to declare the Brotherhood a terrorist organization.
[Comment: Commiecrat operatives probably helped to slip him into the event…]
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Not Satire: Politician Keeps Campaign Promise
Trump wrestles control from Trilateral elite
In an unprecedented move for a politician, President Trump pulled the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership after running a campaign to kill the globalist “trade deal.”
Trump signed an executive order to withdraw from the TPP on Monday, stating “it’s a great thing for the American worker, what we just did.”
While the order is a formality — the Senate has not yet ratified the TPP — it effectively kills the treaty’s chances for approval.
Public outrage over the TPP began brewing after both Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) blasted the treaty as harmful to both American workers and labor abroad.
In fact, former President Obama quietly removed an anti-slavery provision from the TPP which would have otherwise prevented countries that engage in slavery, such as Malaysia, from taking part in major trade deals with the U.S.
Obama’s pro-slavery stance actually makes sense because the TPP wasn’t really a trade deal at all but rather an enabling act to allow transnational corporations to dump American workers and erode U.S. economic independence.
This is all part of a program by the Trilateral Commission — who groomed Obama — to secretly seize control of the US government from within with the sole intention of breaking down U.S. national sovereignty and economic might to make way for a “North American Union” much like the EU.
“The Trilateral Commission is international and is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States,” warned the late Barry Goldwater. “The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power — – political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical.”
Roughly two-thirds of the Trilaterals are not U.S. citizens, yet they were still drafting U.S. policy and “trade deals” such as the TPP for their puppets — Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — to push upon the American public.
It’s no wonder then why the establishment and its media vassals hate Trump.
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Report: Obama Issued a Massive Ammunition Ban Just One Day Before He Left Office
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe, an Obama appointee, ordered a new ammunition ban for certain federal lands on Thursday-his last full day in office.
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Study: Obama Administration Issued $40B in ‘Midnight’ Regs
Each of these rules is ripe for repeal
The Obama administration issued more than $40 billion worth of “midnight” regulations, according to a new study.
The business-minded American Action Forum (AAF) said Monday that federal agencies issued 102 major rules in 2016 — including 38 major rules during the two-month period between when President Trump was elected on Nov. 8 and his inauguration last Friday.
The last-minute rush to regulate included $41.2 billion worth of final rules issued since the election.
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The Renewed Drive to Exit the United Nations
by Tom DeWeese
Nowhere is there mentioned in a single UN document that I have read an advocacy for the right to own private property. In fact, quite the opposite is the case as nearly every UN document, report, working paper, program, treaty, protocol, declaration and resolution is dedicated to the confiscation, redistribution, regulation and tax of someone’s property.
UN reports on reform don’t indicate a simple desire to plug holes in UN spending — or to clear up scandals. Quite the contrary. According to Kofi Annan, Maurice Strong and many others, reform means global governance.
Since its inception, the UN has advocated the desire to eradicate sovereign nations — while imposing what it calls “world-mindedness.” A 1949 UNESCO document said, “nationalism (is) the major obstacle to the development of world-mindedness.” In the 1990’s, Maurice Strong said, “it is not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation/states, however powerful.”
There in lies the true goal of the United Nations. And that belies its public image as simply a place where nations may come to air their differences and act responsibly. Instead, the UN is openly working to gain power for itself in order to become independent and supreme over its member nations.
To do that it needs the power to tax. On September 19th (2006) plans were approved to begin the creation of a global tax, mostly through airline tickets to help pay for the treatment of aids. They of course euphemistically call it a contribution.
There are several other tax schemes on the UN wish list, including a carbon tax on Co2 emissions, a currency tax on transactions of foreign currency exchanges, and taxes on the Internet, to name a few. If the UN gains the power to tax and the enforcement power necessary to collect them, then the UN will become an unstoppable force in the world. A monster free from its chains.
And, of course, the UN wants its own military. It already has its own court.
These three things; the ability to collect taxes to provide nearly unlimited funds from independent sources; the ability to enforce its will with a military force; and a court system to impose its own brand of justice, are all that is required to create a government.
Imagine a world run by the justice of China, with the economics of Cuba and the military might of the United States. Such is the world of the future under United Nations global governance.
[Comment: Highly recommended reading.]
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Trump Targets 3 Agencies With Ambitious Budget Cuts
Trump’s budget cuts align in many ways with the Republican Study Committee’s 2017 “Blueprint for a Balanced Budget”
President Donald Trump’s reported plan to gut federal spending by $10.5 trillion over the next decade includes eliminating three iconic agencies defended as cultural mainstays by many Democrats.
The next administration is working on plans to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Hill reported Thursday.
Combined, the three departments cost around $741 million in 2016, making up a small part of a host of budget reforms needed to cut more than $1 trillion a year from the federal budget.
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Trump Threatens to Send the Feds Into Chicago
President Donald Trump threatened to send federal agents into Chicago if the city doesn’t curb its skyrocketing murder rate.
“If Chicago doesn’t fix the horrible ‘carnage’ going, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016), I will send in the Feds!” said the president in a tweet Tuesday.
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U.S. Auto Parts Sellers Skid After Report on Amazon’s Entry
But will Amazon actually succeed?
Shares of U.S. auto part retailers fell sharply on Monday following a report that Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) had set its sights on the $50 billion do-it-yourself after-market auto parts business.
Shares of Autozone Inc (NYSE: AZO), which has a comparatively bigger exposure to the retail auto parts market, slumped as much as 5.1 percent to $730.99, posting their biggest intraday percentage loss in nearly one year.
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US Infrastructure Dire Because “Trillions Spent on Wars”
America’s infrastructure is in a dire state because successive U.S. administrations have spent trillions on wars rather than investing in their own country, the Chinese billionaire entrepreneur and founder of the e-commerce company Alibaba, Jack Ma, has said.
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Watch: Man Punches Antifa in the Face, Police Let Him Go Without Charges
The incident took place Friday during Trump’s inauguration
Incredible video shows a man frustrated with “anti-fascists” blocking a street in Washington DC punch one of them in the face after being attacked.
The incident took place Friday during Trump’s inauguration.
The video starts with an unnamed man, let’s call him Thor, asking the antifa stooges if they’re going to prevent him from “going to work” because they’re “crying b*tches” angry that they “lost.”
“Yeah, pretty much,” a masked female antifa responds.
The female antifa is then heard saying to one of her partners in crime, “c’mon babe, let the ladies through,” at which point they move to let a woman pass. Thor then rushes through behind the woman and turns around and says “f**k you and your roadblock you piece of s**t!”
The female antifa responds by attacking him, at which point he decks her in the face.
“F**king do it again, b*tch,” Thor tells her.
After taking on a whole group of antifa radicals who are seen trying to attack him with a flag pole, one of their members says “you just hit a woman.”
Thor responds, “she don’t look like no woman to me!”
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White Candidate for DNC Chair Says Her Job Will be ‘To Shut Other White People Down’ [Video]
“My job is to shut other white people down when they want to say, ‘oh, no, I’m not prejudice; I’m a Democrat; I’m accepting.’“
Sally Boynton Brown, a white woman running for chair of the Democratic National Committee, said Monday that if she is chosen to lead the party her job will be to “shut other white people down.”
“My job is to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt,” Brown said during a DNC candidate forum.
Brown, the executive director of the Idaho Democratic Committee, is running for the chair position against six other candidates, including three African-American candidates and one Hispanic, former Labor Secretary Tom Perez.
“My job is to shut other white people down when they want to say, ‘oh, no, I’m not prejudice; I’m a Democrat; I’m accepting,’“ Brown bellowed during the forum, which was hosted by MSNBC’s Joy Reid.
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Killing Off Granny Could Save Millions in Health Care Spending
New research suggests medically assisted dying could result in substantial savings across Canada’s health-care system.
Doctor-assisted death could reduce annual health-care spending across the country by between $34.7 million and $136.8 million, according to a report published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday.
The savings exceedingly outweigh the estimated $1.5 to $14.8 million in direct costs associated with implementing medically assisted dying.
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Austria Teenager Admits Building ‘Test Bomb’ In Germany: Minister
An Austrian teenager arrested on suspicion of planning an Islamist attack in Vienna has told investigators he built a “test bomb” in Germany, where another suspect has been arrested, Austria’s interior minister was quoted as saying Tuesday.
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Brexit: Court Ruling Doesn’t Change Anything
The British Supreme Court’s ruling that the U.K. Parliament must vote on leaving the European Union (EU) is a storm in a teacup, as the court has not “outlawed” or “prevented” Brexit, and the decision will have no impact on the timing of the process, despite “right-wing” hysteria over the matter.
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Brothers Arrested in West Germany Suspected of Joining ISIS
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday said that two brothers had been arrested in the greater Bonn area, suspects of being members of terrorist group Isis.
The German-Moroccan brothers, aged 24 and 25, are accused of joining Isis as well as the al-Nusra Front terrorist group.
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BT European Chief to Resign Over Italian Scandal
The boss of BT’s Continental European operation is to resign after the firm was forced to write down the value of its Italian unit by £530m after years of “inappropriate behaviour”.
BBC business editor Simon Jack said Corrado Sciolla was expected to resign shortly.
BT’s shares plunged 21% after revealing the Italian scandal would cost far more than the £145m initially anticipated.
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Decision Looms on Assange Extradition to Sweden
Swedish authorities are getting closer to either indicting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on rape charges stemming from an incident in August 2010 or letting it drop, Fox News has learned.
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Europe Paying the Bill for US-Masterminded Sanctions Against Russia Says Italy
Italian Foreign Minister Angelo Alfano has compared anti-Russian sanctions with a service, which was paid for by the European Union but used by the United States.
According to the minister, the question of abolishing the sanctions against Moscow should be discussed by Washington and Brussels together, not unilaterally by America.
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European Union: Eurocrats Making More Laws in Secret Shock Investigation Finds
EUROCRATS are now making record numbers of EU laws in secret as the bloc continues to battle a major popularity crisis amongst voters across the continent, explosive analysis shows today.
Brussels is shutting up shop and deliberating on an ever greater number of intrusive regulations away from the harsh light of public scrutiny, minimising opportunities for criticism and opposition.
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Germany: Police Warn Over Muslim Chemical Attack
In the latest nonwhite terrorist threat to hit Germany, the Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt, BKA) has announced that Muslim terrorists are planning to use chemical weapons to poison drinking water supply systems.
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Put Electronic Tags on All Terror Suspects & Syria Returnees, Says Austrian Minister
Even those terrorist suspects who have not committed a crime should be tagged, and UK-style total CCTV surveillance needs to be put in place, says Austrian Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil, as the country considers a radical overhaul of security legislation.
“There are several possibilities on the table. Electronic ankle tags for people posing a potential threat are definitely something to be considered,” the center-left politician told the O1 state radio station on Tuesday. “I definitely think that it would be appropriate that they are monitored, that the authorities know what they are doing, whom they are meeting.”
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Russia is Targeting French, Dutch and German Elections With Fake News, EU Task Force Warns
Russia is seeking to influence the outcome of several key elections in European countries this year with fake news, a special task force set up by the European Union has warned.
The EU is reportedly allocating more funds to its East StratCom task force to counter the disinformation, amid fears Russia will target elections in France, Germany and the Netherlands.
[Comment: Well, just look who is making that claim. The upcoming elections in Europe might deal a severe blow to the European Union.]
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Scotland: Queen’s Chaplain Resigns Amid Backlash Over Criticism of Koran Reading in Church
A Scottish minister, choosing principle over prestige, has resigned his post as “Honorary Chaplain to the Queen of England” after what he called “attempts to silence or defenestrate” him because he dared defend Christianity and condemn Islam. The Reverend Dr. Gavin Ashenden (shown) of the Scottish Episcopal Church announced his resignation as a queen’s chaplain, an honorary position currently held by over 30 individuals, on his website Saturday.
The immediate cause of Ashenden’s resignation after nine years as a queen’s chaplain was the fallout from his recent public statements strongly criticizing the decision to allow a Muslim student to read a passage from the Koran during the Epiphany service at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow. In a misguided attempt at interfaith dialogue, the church provost actually turned over a portion of a service commemorating the Magi’s visit to the Christ child — the son of God, according to the New Testament — to the reading of the holy book of another faith.
“Then,” Ashenden wrote in a column for the Jersey Evening Post, “just to add the glowing cherry of offence to the iced cake of incompetence, he chose a famous passage in the Koran that repudiates the divinity of Christ. It’s the passage Muslims use when they want to convince Christians that the Gospels are full of lies about Jesus — that they were deceived about him being the Word made flesh, or that he actually rose from the dead.”
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Terrorist Chemical Attack on Drinking Water Supplies Feared in Germany
Weeks after the Christmas market attack in Berlin, German government reportedly issued a paper stating the country is at “high risk” of terrorist attacks carried out by “Islamist-motivated perpetrators” who may employ large amounts of chemicals to target drinking water supplies.
The government apparently takes the threat seriously as the paper — accessed by Bild magazine — directs the German armed forces, intelligence agencies and emergency services to prepare for action in the event of a chemical attack.
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Video: Anti-Trump Feminsts Chant “Allahu Akbar” During Protest in Germany
The clip shows demonstrators yelling “pussy grabs back” as they carry signs that say “love trumps hate”.
The footage then cuts to a protest leader with a megaphone who rhythmically chants “Allahu Akbar” underneath a sign that reads “end white supremacy”. One of the “feminists” in the crowd appears emotional during the chant before smiling.
“Allahu Akbar” means “God is great” or “Allah is greater” in Arabic, but it’s better known in the west as a slogan routinely shouted by jihadists as they massacre innocent people during terrorist attacks…
The sight of German feminists chanting in favor of the most anti-woman belief system ever invented is shocking but not that surprising given that their reaction to the mass molestation of German women carried out by migrants in Cologne was to visit the local “refugee” center and hand out roses to many of those same migrants.
German television also routinely plays government commercials that tell its population to “enjoy tolerance” while a blonde German woman dances around in a hijab.
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Wilders to Prime Minister Rutte: Stop Deceiving the People
Prime Minister Rutte ran an election advertisement in today’s newspapers.
And I have a message to this prime minister.
Stop with the deceit of the Netherlands. Stop deceiving your own people.
There is absolutely no-one who still believes you.
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Is the New Star Really a Sign of a Messiah for Israel?
In 2022, approximately five years from now, a new star will appear in the night sky. Scientifically speaking, the appearance of this nova is the product of the collision of two other astral bodies. And for six months this new star will — to the naked eye — be the brightest in the heavens. Given that this is the first time that people will be able to witness a moment like this without technology, it’s a significant event in human history, but it may be much more than that. According to one rabbi, this new star is a sign of the coming of the Messiah.
Rabbi Yosef Berger, a rabbi of King David’s Tomb on Mount Zion, has proposed that the star is a fulfillment of a Biblical prophecy from the book of Numbers, in which a star precedes the arrival of an important military leader: “a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the borderlands of Moab, and the territory of all the Sethites” (NRSV Num 24:17)
The prophecy itself is significant because the speaker is not Moses, the Bible’s quintessential prophet, but Balaam, a historically attested outsider and foreigner. Jacqueline Vayntrub, a biblical studies professor at Brandeis University, told me, “The inclusion of a foreign prophet, Balaam, in a narrative history of Israel is puzzling. But when you realize that the story is about an important, well known foreign prophet who is blessing Israel, it makes a whole lot more sense. Moses, as Israel’s insider, of course wants the best for Israel; but even a famous foreign prophet blessing Israel, now that’s interesting.”
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Report: Obama Gave $221 Million to Palestinians in Last Hours
This was not the first time Obama had granted funding to the Palestinian Authority despite Congress’s wishes.
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Terrorism Soars With Number of Attacks Rising 25% Every Year — and ISIS Are Responsible for a Third
Global terrorism is soaring with the number of attacks increasingly rapidly by more than 25% every year.
Islamic State fighters were responsible for more than a third of the world’s 24,202 deaths from terrorism last year.
In 2015 there were 18,987 terror attacks in the world, with terrorism being defined as violence committed by “armed non-state groups and individuals”.
The feared terror group ISIS was behind just 18% of all of last year’s recorded attacks worldwide but remains the priority for most western security forces.
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Chinese Diplomat: Chi-Comms Prepared to ‘Assume Global Leadership’ Role
As globalism crumbles in USA, Chinese may make brazen moves
[Comment: Banksters seek to position China as their top poodle.]
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Uber Driver Pleads Not Guilty to Raping Woman in Sydney Court
A woman who was allegedly raped by an Uber driver believed she was actually getting into a taxi, a Sydney court has heard.
Muhammad Naveed is charged with having sexual intercourse with the woman without her consent, in his car, after picking her up outside a Kings Cross nightclub in 2015.
He has pleaded not guilty.
Naveed, 41, was employed by Uber, but there has been no suggestion that the woman had booked with the company at the time.
On the opening day of his trial in the NSW District Court, prosecutors told a jury the woman was heavily intoxicated after drinking with friends during the afternoon and evening.
“What she does remember is being in what she believed was a taxi,” crown prosecutor James Trevallion said…
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Calais — Charity Workers Say Migrants Are Returning to Northern France
GROWING numbers of migrants are returning to the wastelands surrounding Calais following the demolition of the notorious Jungle camp despite freezing conditions and heightened security, charity workers have warned.
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DC Rioters Torched a Limo Owned by a Muslim Immigrant
The riots that occurred on Inauguration Day were supposed to be a protest against President Donald Trump’s racism and xenophobia. Never mind the fact that those things don’t actually exist, the dumbass protesters actually destroyed a limousine owned by a Muslim immigrant. If you are keeping score, Trump has done nothing to Muslims while radical liberal protesters have put a Muslim out nearly $100,000. It’s easy to see why Trump is the villain and liberals are the immigrants’ champions. Not.
If you remember, one of the more striking images from last Friday’s inauguration was a limousine burning in the wake of a violent riot. As it turns out, that limo wasn’t owned by some “evil” racist conservative billionaire.
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Denmark Warns Migrants Must Lean the Language or They Will Not Receive Benefits
DENMARK has set out laws to ensure children migrants learn the country’s language and if they don’t their parents will stop receiving benefits.
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Donald Trump ‘To Sign Orders Restricting Refugee Access and Immigration From Muslim Countries’
Donald Trump will sign executive actions on immigration tomorrow, focussing on refugees and immigrants from certain Muslim countries, aides have said.
The President plans to restrict access to the US for refugees and some immigrants from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somlia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, according to Reuters.
Several congressional ides and immigration experts told the news agency Mr Trump would sign the orders at the US department of Homeland Security…
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Donald Trump ‘To Sign Executive Orders Restricting Immigration From Muslim Countries’
Trump is expected to sign exectuvie orders banning immigration from Muslim countries
The reported orders are expected to involve restricting access to the US for refugees and some visa holders from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, said the aides and experts, who asked not to be identified.
The executive order signing, expected to be made on Wednesday, comes after Trump pledged during his campaign for a “complete and total shutdown” of Muslims entering the US — a promise he has scaled down on…
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Hungary Migrant Crisis — Nation Tells EU to Stop Being Naive and Insists it Needs Fence
HUNGARY has ripped in to the European Union for being “naive” over the refugee crisis and insisted it needs its barbed-wire fence to protect its porous borders.
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Poll: 40 Per Cent of Migrants Think Austria is “Too Free”
A newly released study of migrants in Austria has revealed that whilst the vast majority are pro-democratic, many think Austrians live too liberally and have too much freedom.
The study, conducted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, interviewed 900 asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq on various topics from religion to their political opinions.
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Increasing tensions between the left and right wing parties that make up Austria’s grand coalition could potentially open a door to early power for the soaring anti-mass migration Freedom Party (FPÖ) as a snap election could bring a vote 18 months early.
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Schengen Blow: French Presidential Candidate Fillon Urges France to Introduce Real Borders
FRENCH presidential candidate Francois Fillon has pledged to re-introduce actual border controls to try and stop the out of control number of migrants arriving to the country in another blow to the EU’s failing Schengen zone.
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Sweden: Women Terrified as Migrants Turn Shopping Centre Into ‘No-Go Zone”
FEMALE workers at Sweden’s largest shopping centre are living in constant fear of verbal assaults and sex attacks as migrant youth gangs have turned the area into a “no-go zone”.
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Trump Expected to Sign Executive Orders on Immigration
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign several executive orders on Wednesday restricting immigration from Syria and six other Middle Eastern or African countries, according to several congressional aides and immigration experts briefed on the matter.
In addition to Syria, Trump’s orders are expected to temporarily restrict access to the United States for most refugees. Another order will block visas from being issued to those from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, said the aides and experts, who asked not to be identified.
The restrictions on refugees are likely to include a multi-month ban on admissions from all countries until the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security can make the vetting process more rigorous.
Stephen Legomsky, a former chief counsel at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Obama administration, said the president has the authority to limit refugee admissions and the issuance of visas to specific countries if it is determined to be in the public’s interest.
“From a legal standpoint, it would be exactly within his legal rights,” said Legomsky, who now is a professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. “But from a policy standpoint it would be terrible idea because there is such an urgent humanitarian need right now for refugees.”
The Republican president was expected to sign the orders at the headquarters of the Department of Homeland Security, whose responsibilities include immigration and border security…
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George Soros: The “God” Who Should be Jailed
George Soros, who fancies himself a god and intends to remake the world, is the Lord of Chaos and pursues a world order that is demonic, not divine.
“I admit that I have always harbored an exaggerated view of self-importance — to put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god.” So confessed George Soros (shown) in his 1987 book The Alchemy of Finance.
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Globalist Researchers Develop “Vaccine” Against “Fake News”
In yet another desperate push to fight alternative media, international researchers claim to have developed a ‘vaccine’ against ‘fake news’ by treating it like a virus that must be ‘inoculated’ to shift public opinion.
“Misinformation can be sticky, spreading and replicating like a virus,” said social psychologist Dr. Sander van der Linden. Therefore, treating information like a virus is the key to preventing its spread.
The research, conducted by globalist-backed elitist universities such as Cambridge and Yale, focused on climate change but this Orwellian model of ‘misinformation inoculation’ can be applied to any subject to prevent the public from spreading it.
The ‘vaccine’ works by having small doses of misinformation embedded with correct information using “distortion tactics used by certain groups,” claims the study, adding that “this ‘inoculation’ helped shift and hold opinions closer to the truth, despite the follow-up exposure to ‘fake news’.”
In other words, these researchers absurdly say that introducing misinformation using “distortion tactics” doesn’t actually distort the news, but makes correct information seem more obvious and self-evident.
That’s like saying adding small doses of manure to your bowl of ice cream makes the ice cream that much tastier.
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Journalists Under Threat as AI Robot Writes Article in One Second
ANOTHER industry is at risk of being replaced by robot workers after an artificially intelligent robot wrote an entire article in just one second.
Workers around the globe are beginning to fear for their job safety as the rise of the machines is well and truly underway.
And now its journalists’ time to feel the pinch after an AI robot wrote an entire article in just one second.
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I really like the proposition to end Schengen. After all, we who voted our countries into the EU did so because it was presented as a free trade and free movement area. The problems discussed then were: “What if the Simulantenbande from the east undercuts western wages, or what about different standards of living and so on… So we simulants from the East had to wait some years just for the Germans to open their trade area to our products and labour – although Germans could straight away go and buy everything worth buying in the East. Well, it is all understandable, it was the price for establishing new FREE TRADE AREA…
So what now? Are we going to lose the one and only thing, that the EU was worth for, and shall we get, as a bonus, a Byzantine Bureaucratic Superstructure choking our trade and movement?
You gotta love the EU 🙂
I think many of us forget that all Western nations are heavily in debt, particularly the U.S., and at some point down the road, and according to some, there needs to be a ‘correction’ for which the previous U.S. administration appeared to be planning for that eventuality.
No one country will be able to escape its wrath if it is allowed to occur and Trump appears to be putting many things in place, and in a BIG hurry, it seems to me, to at least reduce the impact of such a ‘correction’, or, he may even be planning to do to the World Bank what should have been done to the World Bank decades ago.
Trump knows how the Globalist system works that causes indebtedness for those who the Globalists consider their financial slaves, so my money is on Trump to do his own ‘correction’ that in the end may benefit all of us.
On that Uber driver in Sydney who now faces jail for raping a female fare, and as the Baron likes to point out, has a Muslim co-efficiency of 100%.
One Nation political party will be contesting the next Queensland state election, I believe sometime this year? One Nation has taken to defending the Taxi-cab industry and will introduce legislation, if elected, to outlaw Uber from operating within that state. As a result of that policy, a promised fighting fund of 23 million dollars will be raised by cab owners in support of One Nation to combat opposing political forces during the next state election.
Now that is a lot of money for any state political party, even those that have been ensconced within the political system for well over one hundred years to be given as a fighting fund.
On that professor, who suggests that charging those domestic terrorists – and who in my opinion soiled their own cause on Trump’s inauguration day, and may I add, that the professor forgot to mention them as such – that the actual arrests, charging and possible jail terms would have a possible deterrent effect on others considering following in those terrorists footsteps, I can only add, that this kind of thinking would have come automatically to anyone with a modicum of an intellect just 30 years ago!
“Tomorrow President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders limiting or cutting off the flow of “refugees” from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Mr. Trump will also sign an order to commence the building of the wall on the Mexican border, and another to cut off federal funding to cities that have declared themselves “sanctuaries” for illegal aliens.”
I am struggling to cogitate the fact that The Donald seems to be carrying out exactly what he promised.
What a novel trend setter.
Mr. Trump seems to be willing to enact the principle of “go for broke.” (Seems like personally he’s done that before. )
It’s quite reasonable. One only needs to remember the Twin Towers _vividly_ like someone who owns big buildings might (especially if such includes personal office space).
I am disappointed that Saudi Arabia is not on that list. I guess the Bushes still need to access to their bosses.
I don’t recall great exodus from Saudi Arabia.
Indeed. The Saudis are a problem, but not in terms of direct refugee flow.
I, for one, have nothing against the (fairly rare) “typical” Saudi refugee: a woman who doesn’t want to live under gender apartheid, or a Muslim “apostate”. Such people I welcome with open arms: they’ve very much on our side.
I know!
This makes ALL of his other flaws forgivable, really.
A pol who actually tries to do some – not even all! – of what he said he’d do.
Shocking, in the age of the New World Order!
GO DONALD GO
He forgot Saudi-Arabia and some others, but it is a good start!