A Syrian migrant who is facing trial for murdering a woman with a kebab knife in the German town of Reutlingen says he’s a minor. If his claim is accepted at face value, he would have to be tried as a juvenile. However, his parents have already said he is over 21.
In other news, Donald Trump has signed an executive order cutting grants to “sanctuary cities” that act as havens for illegal aliens. The president’s action could reduce the income of the ten largest such cities by as much as $2.27 billion.
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20 Trillion in Government Debt Means No Lifeline for Caterpillar’s Declining Revenues
The real problem for Caterpillar is that China is no longer going to build a new city every month, the commodity super cycles are over for a long time given the global debt overhang, and don’t expect Trump Infrastructure Projects to save the day for CAT, as the United States has its own debt problems to worry about which is unsustainable even at these levels.
We basically have gone from 8 Trillion to 20 Trillion in Government Debt since 2008, and it is the rate of change of this debt spending that is the real elephant in the room, and we are just coming up on the entitlement’s impact curve on our government debt obligations.
I feel for Trump because he has inherited a boxed in economic situation here, he actually wants to stimulate the economy through growth projects; but the previous wars, financial crisis, bailouts, and unwise and inefficient spending programs have made borrowing anymore money at these levels impossible, and Congress knows this fact!
They may try to go down this borrow and spending road but it will backfire bigtime on the Republicans. By my calculation the Democrats are going to benefit immensely from the fact that the shit is going to hit the fan during the Trump presidency and Republican controlled Congress from past bad governmental practices of what I call “Can-Kicking” and “Short Termism.”
Trump has no hope of avoiding a recession, and things are going to get quite nasty with an exploding Debt problem, a Central Bank out of Bullets, a Crashing Financial Market, and the end of the current business cycle. We borrowed a lot from the future with short term solutions to problems we faced, and now it is time to pay the Debt Piper!
[Comment: Abolish the fraudulent interest payments (aka the “vig”) to the private bankster run Federal Reserve Bank.]
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Davos: Panicked IMF Head Calls for Wealth Redistribution to Stop Populism
It has been a rough few years for the globalists. Growing popular furor at transnational elites for their corruption and mismanagement has led to the UK voting to leave the European Union, Italians shooting down a pro-EU referendum, and the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States.
This year’s meeting of globalist elite in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, seemed more like group therapy than policy planning. Political and corporate leaders sadly recognized that populism was on the ascendancy and that increasingly people were rebuking their project.
Former Obama economic advisor and hedge fund consultant Larry Summers lamented that middle class Americans had lost faith that elites worked in their interest, saying “There’s obviously elements of the middle class looking up and seeing how well an elite has lived and seeing all the various benefits that have gone to people at the top of the income distribution.”
Summers also offered a pretty sharp critique for someone who recently served in government: “I think it’s a mistake not to recognize that the middle class in my country, and I think in others, is also very concerned that people do not feel that the government is fighting for it.”
[Comment: Liar. He knows it is not the communist trope of “class envy”. He is just saying this to push more communism on the world as the “solution”. It is about nation state determining their own destiny without interference from private banksters and their puppet politicians who desire to abolish nation states and make their own dystopian new world order — aka world communism.]
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Alex Jones’ Infowars Offered White House Credentials
Things sure are changing in the White House press corps. According to a video posted on Wednesday, radio show host Alex Jones’s website Infowars, which has been accused of being “conspiracy theory and alt-right” by much of the established media, has been offered White House press credentials.
In the clip Jones explains:
Here’s the deal, I know I get White House credentials, we’ve already been offered them, we’re going to get them, but I’ve just got to spend the money to send somebody there. I want to make sure it’s even worth it. I don’t want to just sit there up there like ‘m in the media, look our people are there.’ People don’t understand this paradigm, we’re devolving in a good way, power from the federal government back to the people, back from the centralized MSM to the people, just like Trump said in his speech.
On Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that four “Skype seats” would be made available to some journalists who are outside of a 50-mile radius of Washington, D.C. It is not known when the Skype seats will be deployed during daily press briefings…
The White House has not confirmed Jones’statement.
Meanwhile, members of the press on the opposite ideological spectrum were quick to mock the announcement, starting with Salon which said “Truthers in the briefing room: Alex Jones claims Infowars has been offered White House credentials. Donald Trump has long been cozy with the notorious conspiracy theorist, and now it seems to be paying off”
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Just as the left did with minority race groups, minority gender and sexual preference groups and unionized labor have been tricked, coopted, indoctrinated, trained, funded and mobilized to oppose all foundational American principles and values in the name of their special interest items, so have a significant number of women in America been hijacked.
In the late 60s and early 70s, a group of anti-American terrorists operating under Weather Underground issued an operational manifesto titled Prairie Fire, written about extensively in a FIVE STAR book about the 2016 people’s revolt against the establishment, TRUMPED The New American Revolution.
Prairie Fire lays out the strategic plan of the anti-imperialist global left to hijack and co-opt every minority special interest group in America and use them to destroy America from within by simply indoctrinating these groups against American principles and values and convincing them that the political left is working for them… when in fact, they had all of these groups working for their cause, global Marxism in America.
Today, some call it progressive, but there is nothing progressive about Democratic Socialism, a modern term for Marxism, a gentler term for communism.
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Chinese Propaganda: New Hollywood Movie Depicts Trump-Like President Killing US
Anti-Trump Chi-Coms buying up Hollywood — Just a few months ago, China bought all six Hollywood studios in an unprecedented buy-up
Hollywood is set to begin work on Little America, a dystopian adventure movie set in a future where a Trump-like U.S. president has bankrupted America and China has called in its debts.
The film, set to be produced by explosion-obsessed director Michael Bay, describes a future where the president has destroyed America’s economy, prompting China to call in its debts, making it the de facto owner of the country while many Americans emigrate to China for work.
Universal Pictures recently picked up the rights to the movie after a heated bidding war with several producers, reports the Hollywood Reporter.The plot of the movie follows a former American Force Recon member who is hired by a Chinese billionaire to infiltrate an American ghetto and rescue his daughter.
The tone of the movie is said to be similar to the 1981 John Carpenter film Escape from New York starring Kurt Russell.
These efforts to portray Trump as a weak leader responsible for America’s downfall is no coincidence. Neither is the portrayal of China as the real controller of America.
Just a few months ago, China bought all six Hollywood studios in an unprecedented buy-up, a move meant to repurpose Hollywood films to serve China’s agenda, including influencing public perception with state-sponsored propaganda.
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Daily Presidential Tracking Poll — Rasmussen Reports
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 59% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-one percent (41%) disapprove.
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Drew Carey — That Was His Kid Fueling the Fire at D.C. Trump Protest
Drew Carey’s son is the mystery kid from the Trump protest who claimed he started a bonfire and yelled, “Screw our president” … TMZ has learned.
News footage of the boy went viral after the inauguration eve protest in Washington D.C. — and we’ve confirmed it was 11-year-old Connor behind one of the night’s most memorable moments.
A source close to Drew tells us Connor got caught up in the emotions of the crowd around him, and he was in hot water afterward. We’re told Drew and Connor’s mom were upset about how he expressed himself to the reporter, and talked to him about his language.
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Fake News Sites Banned: Google Removes 200 From Ad Network for Misleading Users
Google did not provide a fake news list, or name any of the offenders
In an effort to rid the web of fake news, Google banned nearly 200 publishers from its advertising network in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to the company’s annual “bad ads” report released Wednesday.
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Girl Among Six Shot at Chicago Gun Death Memorial
A 12-year-old girl was among six injured at a shooting during a memorial for a victim of gun violence in Chicago.
Police were called on Wednesday night to the city’s south side after a gang ambushed the vigil.
Among the victims was the mother of the 20-year-old dead woman whom mourners had gathered to remember.
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How to Predict the Behavior of Globalists: “You Have to Go to Some Ugly Places in Your Own Mind”
In order to predict the behavior of globalists and the outcome of future economic and political events, it is important to understand certain dynamics. As just described, the establishment has a stranglehold on the political system. Party politics are a sham built around the false left/right paradigm. However, certain new dynamics are developing, and you must be able to track them.
The best way to do this is to watch what globalists say within their own publications. They often reveal their intentions directly or indirectly. In many cases I think in their arrogance they assume that the masses are too stupid to read these publications and grasp what is being said.
The most important element of predicting globalist actions is to know what they ultimately want; to know their ultimate goals. If you know the specifics of what any group or individual desperately wants, those people become highly predictable, because there are only so many useful paths to get to any goal.
I have used this method to great effect over the years, so I am not merely presenting a theory, I have concrete successes to back my position.
For example, just in the past couple of years I correctly predicted the Federal Reserve taper of QE, I predicted the inclusion of China in the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights years in advance, I predicted the exact timing of the first Fed rate hike, I predicted the success of the Brexit referendum when most of the world and the liberty movement said it was never going to happen, I predicted that the Saudi 9/11 bill would pass, that Barack Obama would veto it and that congress would override his veto, I predicted that Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic candidate and that Donald Trump would be the Republican candidate for president of the U.S. and, I predicted that Donald Trump would win the 2016 election…
Going by their behavior and their rhetoric when they are unguarded, most globalists display highly narcissistic character traits as well as sociopathy and psychopathy. It is not enough to research these traits in a clinical fashion, you have to tap into the darker side of your own psyche, and think as they think. This means being willing to entertain evil and malicious concepts. You must be willing to ask yourself — “If I were them, how would I go about getting what I want?”
Understanding devious and aberrant psychopathic intent goes a long way in making the globalists predictable. Remember, many psychopaths are actually highly intelligent and intuitive. They don’t have a moral compass and have lost the voice of conscience, but in order to adapt they have learned how to fake it. They are chameleons.
ALL people are inherently capable of evil actions, just as they are inherently capable of great good. You don’t have to become like the elites, but you do have to go to some ugly places in your own mind. An elitist is basically a person who went to those places and discovered that he liked it there.
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How the Media Lies Through Omission and Distortion
Media propaganda: the study of the reported and unreported
Much as Frederic Bastiat details economics as the study of the seen and the unseen, news in America can be described as the study of the told and the untold.
While authoritarian states like North Korea will make outright lies to its people, such as “Our space shuttle program is progressing well” and “Dear Leader Kim Jong Un is so pure he never defecates,” the main tool of propaganda in the west is to report limited truths while hiding important facts.
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ISIS Wannabe Gets 20 Years for New Year’s Eve Machete Plot
An ex-convict who plotted a foiled New Year’s Eve machete attack at an upstate New York restaurant in the name of the Islamic State group was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison, provoking a courtroom outburst in which he shouted “there’s going to be more of us.”
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Liberals Heads Exploding as President Trump Signs Order Nearly Defunding the United Nations
The trump administration is preparing executive orders that would clear the way to drastically reduce the united states’ role in the united nations and other international organizations, as well as begin a process to review and potentially abrogate certain forms of multilateral treaties, officials said.
The first of the two draft orders, titled “Auditing and Reducing U.S. Funding of International Organizations” and obtained by The New York Times, calls for terminating funding for any United Nations agency or other international body that meets any one of several criteria.
Those criteria include organizations that give full membership to the Palestinian Authority or Palestine Liberation Organization, or support programs that fund abortion or any activity that circumvents sanctions against Iran or North Korea. The draft order also calls for terminating funding for any organization that “is controlled or substantially influenced by any state that sponsors terrorism” or is blamed for the persecution of marginalized groups or any other systematic violation of human rights.
The order calls for then enacting “at least a 40 percent overall decrease” in remaining united states funding toward international organizations.
The order establishes a committee to recommend where those funding cuts should be made. It asks the committee to look specifically at United States funding for peacekeeping operations; the International Criminal Court; development aid to countries that “oppose important United States policies”; and the United Nations Population Fund, which oversees maternal and reproductive health programs.
Krauthammer’s Take: Trump Opposing U.N. Israel Resolution ‘Extremely Effective And Extremely Daring’
Obama loved the United Nations and encouraged them to punish Israel. President Trump hates the United Nations, and is now planning a major defunding of it.
If President Trump signs the order and its provisions are carried out, the cuts could severely curtail the work of United Nations agencies, which rely on billions of dollars in annual United States contributions for missions that include caring for refugees.
[Comment: Obama wanted to become UN head in near future, so this will mess up his communist machinations also.]
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One Person Falls for Scam, Now Everyone’s at Risk of Fraud
A school district in Texas says it lost sensitive tax information from every worker after a single employee was duped by a phishing attack.
Dallas-Fort Worth news station NBC5 reports that the Argyle school district is warning its workers that their W-2 tax forms were lost in a phishing attack. (Workers in America have just started receiving their W-2 forms from their employers so they can complete their tax returns for the year.)
According to the news station, the breach was the result of one employee who received an email claiming to be from the district superintendent. The worker responded to the message and attached the W2-s of all district employees as requested.
The station says that the FBI and IRS have been notified and are investigating the incident, but so far they have not found the suspect. The school district says it will be offering all employees a year of free identity theft protection service.
It is believed that the W-2 forms will be used (or re-sold) for the purpose of filing fraudulent tax returns. Armed with the personal information on those forms (including worker social security numbers and salary information), criminals could potentially file fraudulent tax claims and then pocket the refunds for themselves.
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Radio Station Bans Madonna After Comments on Blowing Up White House
‘It just feels wrong to us to be playing Madonna songs and paying her royalties when the artist has shown un-American sentiments’
“HITS 105 is taking all Madonna songs off the air in the station’s local programming indefinitely following the singer’s comments over the weekend,” the Texarkana station wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday.
The general manager of the station, which plays the “greatest hits of the 60s, 70s and 80s,” explained his decision to keep the aging artist off the air, citing “patriotism” and the need to “send a powerful economic message to Madonna.”
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State Department’s Entire Senior Management Team Resigns
This is going to be one of those stories that’s either awesome or horrifying, depending on your predilections. If you’re a creature of Washington who believes in the sage wisdom of “nonpartisan” career bureaucrats, then you’re horrified that these fine, experienced public servants feel they can’t serve under the wild-eyed lunatic Donald Trump. If you’re interested in draining the swamp, on the other hand, it’s hard to get more drainy than this:…
Put me squarely in the awesome camp. The State Department bureaucracy — the same people who tried slow-walking the release of Hillary’s e-mails until after the election — are very much aligned with the United Nations on Israel, and with the “international community” in its disdain for anything the U.S. does to put its own interests ahead of the oh-so-sensitive inclinations of despots and dictators across the globe.
No matter who the president is, the State Department always seems to lean against anything the U.S. might consider doing that would upset the international apple cart. And that’s not for no reason. Secretaries of State from one administration to the next have quickly discovered that their own bureaucracies are difficult to tame, and are very good at wagging the dogs that are supposed to be their bosses.
The permanent State Department bureaucracy also has a well-earned reputation as prolific anonymous leakers, especially if a Republican president seems interested in pursuing a policy agenda that differs from their own.
[Comment: They should be in jail for Libya and Benghazi.]
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Trump Slams “Ungrateful Traitor” Chelsea Manning Who Should “Never Have Been Released From Prison”
Trump took to Twitter on Thursday morning, where in his first tweet he lashed out at Chelsea Manning, calling her an “ungrateful traitor” who should have never been released from prison.
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Viral: Man Shuts Down Anti-Trump Protesters With One Simple Phrase
Man becomes Internet meme after owning protest group
Anti-Trump protesters at the University of Washington library were shut down Saturday by one man and one simple phrase: “This is library!”
The unknown man, who has since become a viral sensation, is seen interrupting the protesters as they repeatedly chant indoors.
“Hey!” the man says numerous times. “This is library!”
The stern proclamation is followed by almost total silence as the man heads back to his table.
The footage, captured by Alex Rozier of Seattle’s KING 5 News, has since become a popular meme online.
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by Diana West
Behold the Washington Post Style section of January 3, 2017.
All but the trimmings of Page One and Two belong to a woman named Amanda Kleinman, who, we are told, is the leading victim of the headline’s “Troll Patrol” — online harassment resulting from that “viral fake news conspiracy theory” known as “Pizzagate.”
What is “Pizzagate?” Whatever it is, it is either not on the media menu (a la Breitbart); or it is served up by news organs such as the Washington Post as a complete nothing — the original scoop of “fake news” as cooked up by “the Internet” beginning with the John Podesta Wikileaked emails that include possibly unusual, possibly coded references to “pizza,” also something called “Spirit Cooking.”
For example, in one of the stranger “pizza” exchanges, a realtor on Martha’s Vineyard writes to Democrat moneybags Susan and Herbert Sandler (the latter, per Wikileaks, a patron of Podesta) to let them know that some items were forgotten in a rental, including “a square cloth handkerchief (white with black) that was left on the kitchen island.” Do they want it back?
Susan Sandler then writes an email to John Podesta about this handkerchief. Sandler: “I think it has a map that seems pizza-related. Is it yours? They can send it if you want….”
Note that the realtor’s original query does not mention anything about a “pizza” or a “map.”
Interesting? Odd? A code, perhaps, worth checking into? Unrelentingly, the media say no. They believe — en masse, to date — that such communiques among the high and mighty seeking to rule the land (some offering leads on stories of elite depravity that I had not previously followed) require not investigation to see where they might lead, but rather eye-rolling and debunking to make sure they lead nowhere. Even cursory study online quickly reveals a wealth of data points that may or may not take shape inside or even on the edge of the dark world of child/sex crimes; it takes a resolutely blind eye, however, not to notice the rough outlines…
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Watch: Shia Laboeuf Arrested on Live Stream at ‘He Will Not Divide US’ Protest
The era of liberals being permitted to assault “Nazis,” aka everyone they disagree with, is now over
Shia Labeouf was arrested Wednesday night for allegedly assaulting a man who was trolling his “He will not divide us” live stream protest.
“Cops tell us a guy walked in front of the mounted camera and said something — possibly regarding Trump — but whatever it was … Shia got pissed,” TMZ reports.
“Shia grabbed for the guy’s scarf, and allegedly scratched him in the process. As TMZ first told you … NYPD has been posted up at the protest site in Queens since Monday — so officers quickly moved in and busted Shia.”
[Comment: Another useful idiot.]
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How 2 Canadians Named in Panama Papers Led Nearly 200 Companies They Claim to Know Nothing About
A law clerk from Toronto and a paralegal in Montreal commanded a prolific corporate empire of nearly 200 companies over the past 25 years — while knowing nothing about the businesses or the multimillion-dollar deals bearing their names, they say.
Karen McIntyre of Toronto and Annette Laroche of the Montreal area both say they filed company tax returns without any idea if the numbers were accurate, signed blank forms granting power of attorney to people they had never met and put their names to corporate documents without knowing their purpose, all in the course of acting as professional fronts for a vast array of businesses.
It’s a practice that allows the true owners of companies to obscure their identities and mask activity like fraud and tax scheming, a joint CBC/Radio-Canada and Toronto Star investigation based on the Panama Papers has found. And that has critics raising alarms about how Canada’s corporate rules are quietly seeing the country exploited as a kind of offshore haven.
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Radicalization in Public Schools
On January 10, 2017, I attended the Peel District School Board’s meeting where recommendations for allowing Muslim students to write their own sermons (khutbah) for congregational Friday (Jumma) prayers in public schools were received. For more than 15 years, students were allowed to pray in the school but not in a congregational setting. In June 2016, the Jumma prayer was officially adopted but the students were only allowed to read from a list of pre-approved sermons.
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Trudeau’s Oil Sands Gaffe: He Told the Truth
Contrary to what he’s now claiming, I don’t believe Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “misspoke” when he told Canadians at a town hall meeting that he favoured phasing out Alberta’s oil sands.
Rather, he committed a gaffe, which is what happens when a politician accidentally tells the truth.
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14 Detained in Islamist-Linked Raids in Austrian Cities of Vienna and Graz
Austrian police have arrested 14 people in anti-terrorist raids conducted in Vienna and Graz, the country’s APA news agency reports, citing officials.
Police and units from the Office for Protection of the Constitution carried out multiple anti-terrorist raids targeting “extreme Salafists,” starting Thursday morning.
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Bizarre Married Life of ISIS Fanatic Who Used a Truck to Kill 86 People in Nice
Bizarre details have emerged of the married life of Nice truck killer Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel — revealing how he urinated on his wife’s feet and knifed his child’s stuffed toys.
The 31-year-old Tunisian used a 19-tonne lorry to slaughter 86 people celebrating Bastille Day on the Nice waterfront on July 14 last year before being shot dead by police.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack but details soon emerged of his troubled private life — including his relationship with ex-wife Hajer Khalfallah.
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Buried for 1400 Years, A Dark Ages Kingdom Has Been Discovered in Scotland
This may be the mysterious ancient Kingdom of Rheged
A new archeological site at Trust’s Hill in Galloway, which was known to be the epicenter of Pictish culture, has been recently discovered.
This ancient kingdom dates back from just after the fall of the Roman empire when chaos swept the land and small regencies popped up throughout Europe.
Some researchers speculate that this was the seat of power for the Kingdom of Rheged, which was previously thought to be in Carlisle or Cumbria.
This small empire was governed by King Urien, who makes himself known in some of the legends featuring King Arthur.
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Dutch Regulator ‘Accidentally’Reports Soros’short Positions, Sends Bank Stock Sliding
Some of hedge fund billionaire George Soros’short positions dating back to 2012 were published on the Dutch financial market regulator’s website this week due to “human error” according to the regulator AFM, according to Bloomberg. Dutch bank ING is among the positions exposed and its stock price is tumbling…
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EU Can’t Prevent Britain From Entering Trade Talks With Norway, Others
As Norway seeks clarity over its future trade relations with Britain once it leaves the EU, the bloc’s chief Brexit negotiator said on Wednesday that Britain is free to discuss trade deals with other countries but remains bound by EU trade policy as long as it is an official member.
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Farage: PM May is Right About ‘Special Relationship’ Between US & UK
During a speech today, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May reaffirmed the “special relationship between the U.K. and the United States, and the need to work together.
Nigel Farage, one of the leading voices behind Brexit, told Neil Cavuto today that he’s had his political differences with May, but he couldn’t agree more with her remarks.
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France: Le Pen Rival Fillion Facing Political Ruin Over Payments to His Wife
MARINE Le Pen’s main rival for the French presidency faced a major blow in his campaign after prosecutors launched an investigation into allegations, a member of his family misused public money.
François Fillon, considered to be a frontrunner in May’s presidential election, is facing calls to explain what role his wife has played in his political team.
Reports released in French media claim Penelope Fillion was paid nearly £430,000 in eight years out of taxpayers coffers — despite claiming she did not “have a role” in her husband’s office both last year and in 2008.
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French Frontrunner Rocked by Probe Handing Opening to Rivals
The French presidential campaign saw its first major scandal break on Wednesday when prosecutors opened a probe into front-runner Francois Fillon.
The national financial prosecutor started a preliminary criminal investigation into Fillon’s employment of his wife as a parliamentary aide starting in 1998. Satirical weekly Canard Enchaine reported a day earlier that Penelope Fillon collected a public salary totaling about 500,000 euros ($537,000) over multiple years without actually doing any work.
For 62-year-old Fillon, who pollsters have made the clear favorite since he won the Republicans’ nomination in November, the consequences are potentially far-reaching. The lifelong politician has vaunted his probity as one of his main qualifications for office.
In a statement on Wednesday evening, Fillon said the investigation will allow him to put an end to unfounded accusations and he wants to speak to prosecutors as soon as possible. Fillon’s spokesman said Thursday that Penelope’s work was mostly representing her husband in his rural constituency in Western France when he was at the National Assembly in Paris.
“This is no small matter and anything could happen,” said Gerard Grunberg, a senior researcher at the Paris Institute for Political Sciences. “This affair hurts Fillon’s political image, which was built on transparency and old-fashioned respectability.”…
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Fury as German MEP Says ‘Europe’s Parliament Will Have Final Say on Brexit — Not Britain!’
German politician Manfred Weber also welcomed today’s supreme court ruling, which is threatening the will of the British people by forcing MPs to vote before Prime Minister Theresa May can trigger Article 50.
The MEP Tweeted earlier today: “UK Supreme court ruling is clear: Parliaments must be respected.
“European Parliament will have the final say on Brexit.” A German MEP has claimed Brussels, not the UK, will have the final say on Brexit
His comments were met with fury by Brexit campaigners, including UKIP Home affairs spokeswoman Jane Collins MEP.
She said Mr Weber’s comments were “narcissistic rantings of a man who cannot cope with the wishes of the people.”
She continued: “Mr Weber is another example of the Euro elite who are so completely out of touch with the wishes of the people they think they can ignore 17.4 million British voters by doing exactly what made them vote for Brexit in the first place.”
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German Girl Jailed for is Attack in Hanover
A girl aged 16 has been jailed by a German court for six years for what is seen as the country’s first attack by a sympathiser of jihadist group Islamic State (IS).
Safia S, who was 15 at the time, stabbed and seriously wounded a police officer in the neck at the central station in Hanover.
Prosecutors described the attack as ordered and supervised by IS.
She was convicted of attempted murder and helping a terrorist organisation.
Safia S, described as a German Moroccan, was also found guilty of grievous bodily harm. Her defence had called for her to be cleared of the other charges and given a lesser sentence.
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Liberal Soros-Backed Newspaper Facing Hard Times in Conservative Poland Begs EU for Funding
The editor of Poland’s largest broadsheet newspaper has appealed to the European Union (EU) for funding to keep it afloat as its liberal stance, which has caused it to be snubbed by the populist government, has sent its circulation figures into freefall.
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Theresa May: UK and US Cannot Return to ‘Failed’ Interventions
Theresa May has told US Republicans the UK and America cannot return to “failed” military interventions “to remake the world in our own image”.
Suggesting a UK foreign policy shift, she said those days were over but added that the US and UK should not “stand idly by when the threat is real”.
[Comment: When Theresa May became Prime Minister, I told allies that she could become one of Great Britain’s finest Prime Ministers. ]
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The BBC drama series Call the Midwife will tackle female genital mutilation (FGM) in a storyline which will not impose “white” values on a practice widely considered barbaric.
Heidi Thomas, the series writer and creator, said the midwives would encounter the case of a pregnant Somali woman who had undergone FGM in a storyline set in East London in the early 60s.
Ms Thomas told Radio Times: “You always have to look at things from two points of view, one from the Western nurse who has never seen this sort of thing before, and one from the woman who accepts it as it is part of her culture…
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UK: Disgraced Islamist-Linked Tower Hamlets Mayor to Launch New Political Party
The disgraced former Labour Party politician and ex-Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman is set to re-launch his political career this weekend with a new political party.
Mr. Rahman was forced out as Mayor of Tower Hamlets, East London, and banned from public office for five years in April 2015 after facing allegations of rigging elections and serious corruption.
Other accusations included spending public funds on “vanity” offices, diverting millions in grants to charities run by Bangladeshis and Somalis in return for political support, and paying local Bangladeshi TV channels and newspapers for positive coverage.
According to the local ‘Love Wapping’ website, the new ‘Tower Hamlets Together’ political party will be announced this weekend, as Mr. Rahman continues to command significant support and influence within East London’s local government.
Sources told the local publication that the new party is something like a “rebirth” of Mr. Rahman’s defunct old party, Tower Hamlets First (THF), which was accused of intimidation, fraud, and bribery and was banned by an Election Court at the same time as the Mayor. The logos of the two parties are also similar.
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“Stop Soros” Movement Sweeps Europe
Soros behind mass Muslim migration in Europe.
A new initiative called Stop Operation Soros (SOS) is launching in the Balkan nation of Macedonia to counter the influence of globalist billionaire George Soros.
The founders of the group called on all “free-minded citizens” to join them in the “fight against one-mindedness in the civil sector, which is devised and led by George Soros,“ reports a Slovenian newspaper.
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Russia Arrests Top Cyber Security Expert Allegations of Treason
The manager responsible for investigating hacking attacks at Russia’s biggest private cyber security firm has been arrested amid allegations of bribery and treason involving senior intelligence officers.
Kaspersky Lab, a world-leading cyber security firm based in Moscow,confirmed the arrest of Ruslan Stoyanov, the head of its computer incidents investigations team, on Wednesday.
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Exclusive: Millions of Barrels of Venezuelan Oil Stuck at Sea in Dirty Tankers
More than 4 million barrels of Venezuelan crude and fuels are sitting in tankers anchored in the Caribbean sea, unable to reach their final destination because state-run PDVSA cannot pay for hull cleaning, inspections, and other port services, according to internal documents and Reuters data.
About a dozen tankers are being held back because the hulls have been soiled by crude, stemming from several oil leaks in the last year at key ports of Bajo Grande and Jose, which has resulted in delayed operations for loading and discharging.
Since debt-laden PDVSA cannot afford to have the ships cleaned, they have to wait for weeks to navigate international waters, delaying shipments.
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Albright: I’m ‘Ready to Register as Muslim’ To Fight Trump
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright claimed Wednesday she would register herself a Muslim as an act of defiance against President Donald Trump’s immigration plans.
[Comment: Idiot.]
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Canada: Immigrants Could be 30% of Population Within 20 Years
OTTAWA — A new Statistics Canada survey says almost half the country’s population could be an immigrant or the child of an immigrant within the next 20 years.
It suggests the proportion of immigrants in Canada’s population could reach 30 per cent in 2036 — compared to 20.7 per cent in 2011 — and a further 20 per cent of the population would be the child of an immigrant, up from the 17.5 per cent recorded in 2011.
This is not a good thing. Multiculturalism is a divisive toxic lie and mass immigration a Ponzi scheme that benefits the elite at your expense.
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Cologne Police Release CCTV Footage of Migrant Gang Who Beat Up British Tourists
POLICE have finally released CCTV images of the migrants who attacked and robbed British tourists in the German city of Cologne — some FIVE months after the incident.
Two Britons, both 18, were allegedly attacked by six men of “Arab appearance”, and were left needing hospital treatment.
The gang allegedly set their sights on the two British men the minute they boarded a tram that was going from the city’s Cathedral Square towards the neighbourhood of Riehl in the north.
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European Union Migrants Fuel Rise in England’s Vagrancy Problem
More than a fifth of people who sleep rough in England are migrants, with most of them coming from the European Union according to new figures.
Government statistics show that the total number of vagrants in the country climbed by 15 per cent to 4,134 last year. Of these, 714 were EU nationals.
The figures were obtained in a so-called “single night snapshot”. When the same exercise was conducted in 2014, the total number of homeless people was 2,744, meaning that the homeless figure appears to have risen by 51 per cent.
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Germany: More “Legal Immigrant” ISIS Terror Arrests
Yet another two “legal immigrants from Morocco,”-both with German citizenship-have been arrested on terrorism charges after returning to Germany having fought for ISIS in Syria.
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Germany: Syrian Migrant Accused of Butchering Woman With Kebab Knife in Rampage Says He’s a Minor
A SYRIAN migrant accused of hacking a woman to death with a kebab knife in the midst of a bloody rampage is claiming to be a juvenile — despite his parents saying he is already 21.
Mohamad H faces one charge of murder, one of attempted murder and five counts of previous bodily harm after he allegedly carried out a frenzied attack which left a woman dead in the German town of Reutlingen.
The barbaric attack only ended when someone hit Mohamad with their car.
He is accused of butchering 45-year-old Polish national Jolanta K, who worked in the kebab shop alongside Mohamad.
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Invader Crime Shakes Graz, Austria
The number of violent assaults and criminal attacks in the Griesviertel region of Graz, Austria, have risen from none to “several a week” since the arrival of the fake refugee invasion in the town, new figures have shown.
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Leaked: Read the Full Draft of Trump Executive Order Restricting Muslim Entry Into USA
Limiting the immigration of individuals from Muslim countries with ties to terrorism was a tenet of Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign.
To shouts of racism and xenophobia Trump held his ground throughout the election season and promised action within his first days in office.
This morning, the President confirmed that construction of a southern border wall will begin within months.
The American public has also been anticipating Trump’s next move on immigration from Islamic countries. We now know what these new restrictions will look like.
A leaked document purported by the Huffington Post to be a draft of Trump’s next Executive Order has been uploaded online. Key points in the document are detailed below:…
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Migrants Claiming Benefits in Switzerland Take Holidays in Countries They Are ‘Fleeing’
ERITREAN migrants claiming asylum in Switzerland are using their welfare benefits to travel back to the danger zones they have previously fled to take a holiday.
A shocking investigation has revealed many asylum seekers are returning to their homeland, despite claiming their lives would be “threatened” if they were forced to return home.
Four out of five Eritreans in Switzerland are claiming state benefits.
The revelation reinforces the growing problem caused by the fact refugees are allowed to leave the country for 21 days a year, but are not obliged to say where they are going.
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Residents Shocked Local Walmart Transforming Into Illegal Immigrant Shelter
Citizens worried needs of Americans being ignored
South Texas residents are concerned over a local Walmart transforming into yet another shelter for illegal immigrants.
The shuttered retail building situated in Brownsville will re-open in March to house an undisclosed number of illegal immigrants under the age of 17, claimed a representative for the non-profit group Southwest Key Programs.
The group contends the shelter is necessary to house the immigrant influx entering the US illegally via Mexico from Central American nations, according to KRGV News.
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TWO migrants from Afghanistan have reportedly been arrested over the three-hour gang rape of a woman that was broadcast on Facebook Live.
The two men, aged 18 and 20, who are both from Afghanistan, were arrested in the city at the weekend after police were tipped off by social media users, it was reported by The Local newspaper.
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Top 10 U.S. Sanctuary Cities Face Roughly $2.27 Billion in Cuts by Trump Policy
U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempt to strip municipalities of federal dollars for shielding illegal immigrants threatens $2.27 billion in annual funds for the nation’s 10 largest cities, a Reuters analysis of federal grants found.
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Trump Orders Construction of Border Wall, Threatens Cuts to Sanctuary Cities
Jurisdictions that harbor illegal immigrants may lose federal funding
President Donald Trump has signed orders to step up immigration enforcement and secure the US border, beginning with building a border wall with Mexico he promised during the campaign. Jurisdictions that harbor illegal immigrants may lose federal funding.
The first executive order will order the building of “a large physical barrier on the southern border,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters Wednesday. It will also provide the Department of Homeland Security agents “tools and resources to stop illegal immigration from entering the US.”
The second order aims to empower Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and “strip federal grant money from sanctuary cities and states that harbor illegal immigrants,” according to Spicer.
Federal agencies will “unapologetically enforce the law, no ifs ands or buts,” said the White House spokesman.
“A nation without borders is not a nation. Beginning today, the US gets back control of its borders,” Trump said Wednesday afternoon, addressing the DHS and its newly sworn-in secretary, retired Marine General John Kelly.
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Trump Threatens to Cancel Nieto NAFTA Meeting if Mexico “Is Unwilling to Pay for Wall”
With Vicente Fox whining that Mexico “won’t pay for the f**king wall,” and Pena Nieto confirming “Mexico does not believe in walls,” President Trump just double-tweeted exactly how our southern border ‘friends’ will end up paying for the wall or else!…
Did Trump just give Pena Nieto an out for next week’s meeting? We suspect not as the angry tweet seems to have cornered Pena Nieto into a decision.
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Trump Aims “Name and Shame” Policy at Sanctuary
In his Executive Order “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States” issued on Wednesday, President Donald Trump directed his Secretary of Homeland Security, John Kelly, on a weekly basis, to “make public a comprehensive list of criminal actions committed by aliens and any jurisdiction that ignored or otherwise failed to honor any detainers with respect to such aliens.”
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U.N. Confirms Some Migrants Unaccounted for in Greece
ATHENS—The U.N. says there are currently about 50,000 migrants and refugees stranded in Greece, about 13,000 fewer than previously thought, raising the question of whether many are either in hiding or have made their way farther north into Europe.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said that, based on its counting for planning and accommodation purposes, its estimates now differ from the data published by the Greek migration ministry, though they both originally agreed. Greek officials still estimate 63,000 are stranded in camps and awaiting processing on the islands and mainland. The lower estimate by the U.N. had been recently reported by The Wall Street Journal.
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>> “We borrowed a lot from the future with short term solutions to problems we faced, and now it is time to pay the Debt Piper!”
The Debt Piper cannot be paid. The politicians of the world will have to tell their voters that the social security and entitlements cupboard is bare. They will have to default on their debt to central banks. Asset bubbles – especially the stock market and real estate – will pop with loud bangs. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
It will be a painful birth for the new economy. The stupid masses will have learnt nothing. They will vote for the next snake oil salesman that comes along.
Sad, eh?
Buried for 1400 Years, A Dark Ages Kingdom Has Been Discovered in Scotland…
Probably burned by fire coming down from heaven, vitrifying Scottish hillforts in the process.
Time period close to King Arthur’s legends, which include widespread fiery destruction of Britain and long long winter…
And what does archaeology say?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_weather_events_of_535–536
If we rule out atomic weapons and catastrophic plasma flares from the Sun, it was most probably a comet impact – something like Tunguska.
Allbright is Alldumb – just another Globalist tool.
” If his claim is accepted at face value, he would have to be tried as a juvenile. However, his parents have already said he is over 21.”
Where are those people that assured us that bringing in undocumented migrants would not present any problems? One very evident problem is it can be very difficult to prove the age of someone without documents. Some of these migrants will not age beyond 18 in the years to come.
How can Madeleine Albright not understand anything of islam?
Saying she would register as a muslim if such a register is established by President Trump.
I wish she would!
Yes, some women are only improved by wearing a burka…
So right!! But it’s mystifying, how some supposedly smart people are just so atrociously stupid.
But Albright is a registered leftist dummy, and just look at how they’ve deported themselves since 20th January–foul-mouthed and criminally stupid.
Are burkas soundproof? 🙂
Thank you for publishing the letter of Professor Sami Aldeeb to President TRUMP:
http://www.blog.sami-aldeeb.com/2017/01/25/sami-aldeeb-open-letter-to-president-trump-on-terrorism-and-migration/
Unless they save a duck or help an elderly person cross the street, news about 11 year old kids should NEVER be in the national news. They’re ELEVEN!!!
“In other news, Donald Trump has signed an executive order cutting grants to “sanctuary cities” that act as havens for illegal aliens. The president’s action could reduce the income of the ten largest such cities by as much as $2.27 billion.”
And, here’s a _staggering_ list (scroll to the bottom) of a lot more of them than a mere ten:
http://www.ojjpac.org/sanctuary.asp
Good Grief!
How could intelligent people subscribe to anything so ridiculous? I mean, do the citizens in all these states and cities really need sanctuary? (being facetious here) Of course they don’t, so who does? Criminals.
So as I see it all the states and businesses listed here are openly supporting criminals and criminal activity, and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. You go, President Donald!!
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright claimed Wednesday she would register herself a Muslim – which means the American People had a Secretary of State totally devoid of faith and morals. Accomplished faithless cold-blooded murderer – hag.
I have hoped that if I’d lived in antisemitic Germany I would have had the guts to wear the Star of David in solidarity. I guess she thinks she’s doing something of that sort.
But while a few flimsy actresses may be that uninformed about islam, Albright should know better!
It kind of sounds like Madeleine Albright has made a turn into um, you know — what my parents had in their old age. So sad. It’s not albrightism, it is dementia.