Greece has urgently requested a loan from the World Bank, as it nears the point of default on its loans from the ECB. Meanwhile, new street protests against further “austerity” broke out in Athens.
In other news, two residents were killed when a massive fire broke out in a migration center in southern Italy.
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‘Depressed’ Hedge-Fund Executive Leaps to His Death
(London Daily Mail) A father-of-two hedge fund executive committed suicide Wednesday morning by jumping out of his luxury Manhattan apartment building.
Kevin Bell jumped out of a ninth-floor window at the historic Anthorp Building on the Upper West Side around 7.20am, landing on some scaffolding set up in front of the building.
The 47-year-old Duke graduate was pronounced dead at the scene.
Sources told the New York Post that Bell left behind a note saying that he was depressed.
‘the family is hysterical. He was under a lot of meds. He did not give a specific reason why he jumped, but he was depressed,’the source said.
He is survived by a wife Claudia and two daughters who were at home at the time of the incident.
[Comment: Another one “suicided”? ]
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Greece Begs World Bank for Loan as it Risks Default, Plunging Eurozone Into Crisis
GREECE has requested a loan form the World Bank as it attempts to thrash out the details of its £73billion eurozone bailout.
The Greek government has requested “financial assistance” from the World Bank, for an unknown amount.
If accepted, the loan will plunge Greece even further into debt as protests grip Athens against austerity measures.
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High Level Banker Plunges Out the Window: “No Specific Reason Why… He Was Depressed”
At this time, we can only speculate what was weighing upon banker Kevin Bell before he jumped. Short of a note, or any direct evidence, the powers that be have determined he was simply depressed.
It may also be, that the closer we all come to a set of devastating events that will wipe out and reset the economic landscape, the more people are losing it under pressure, and equally, the more that certain people are gotten rid of.
Did he know something specific?
We may never know whether this man was speaking out against something that was happening, uncomfortable with something he was being asked to cover for or that he witnessed. However, we do know that he was no insignificant investment professional — according to his LinkedIn profile, he was a former managing director at both Citigroup and Deutsche Bank. For the last couple of years before his death, he was in charge of Credit Risk for Arrowgrass Capitol Partners, a firm that touts its “consistent risk-adjusted returns.”
via the Daily Mail:
A father-of-two hedge fund executive committed suicide Wednesday morning by jumping out of his luxury Manhattan apartment building.
Kevin Bell jumped out of a ninth-floor window at the historic Anthorp Building on the Upper West Side around 7.20am, landing on some scaffolding set up in front of the building.
The 47-year-old Duke graduate was pronounced dead at the scene.
Sources told the New York Post that Bell left behind a note saying that he was depressed.
‘the family is hysterical. He was under a lot of meds. He did not give a specific reason why he jumped, but he was depressed,’the source said.
[… ]
Bell was a Duke graduate who worked as the head of credit risk at Arrowgrass Capital Partners.
Though his death may well have been due to personal depression, and personal problems, there may well be more to the story.
His death is the latest in a long-string of mysterious banker deaths. With dozens on the list, the case is well beyond just the personal struggles of people working in banking — it is a pattern of purging exposure within the banking system.
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Revealed: These Six Nations Could be About to Quit the Eurozone
THE Brexit vote kick-started a wave of Euroscepticism last June and six other countries in particular may be next to quit the block.
With Brussels divided between whether more or less Europe is the answer, these half-dozen states could lose patience and simply follow Britain’s lead and go it alone.
Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Cyprus could all pull out of the union for a litany of different reasons.
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World’s Biggest Banks Fined $321 Billion Since Financial Crisis
Banks globally have paid $321 billion in fines since 2008 for an abundance of regulatory failings from money laundering to market manipulation and terrorist financing, according to data from Boston Consulting Group.
That tally is set to increase in the coming years as European and Asian regulators catch up with their more aggressive U.S. peers, who have levied the majority of charges to date, BCG said in its seventh annual study of the industry published Thursday. Banks paid $42 billion in fines in 2016 alone, a 68 percent rise on the previous year, the data showed.
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64 Ways Obama is Sabotaging Trump
Ex-president plots to force resignation or impeachment
WASHINGTON — It might seem outrageous and unprecedented that a newly departed president would devote himself to overthrowing his successor, but that is exactly what a mountain of growing evidence appears to indicate.
“Obama’s goal, according to a close family friend, is to oust Trump from the presidency either by forcing his resignation or through his impeachment,” the Daily Mail reported Wednesday.
The source also told the paper that Obama loathes President Trump and considers his presidency illegitimate.
“Obama is dismayed at the way Trump is tearing down his legacy — Obamacare, the social safety net and the welcome mat for refugees he put in place,” the source told the paper.
The following is a list of what has been publicly reported, by WND and others, about what Obama is trying to do to oppose — many say destroy — the Trump presidency and how he is doing it:
1) Obama is using his new mansion, just two miles from the White House, as his headquarters in his insurgency against Trump.
2) Obama’s shadow White House has a taxpayer-funded office, a chief of staff and press secretary.
3) He is working behind the scenes to set up a shadow government to protect his legacy and sabotage the incoming administration.
4) A family source said Obama was reluctant to lead the opposition to Trump because he was “weary and burned out.” But top adviser Valerie Jarrett convinced him it was the only way to salvage his legacy.
5) The source said, “Obama doesn’t make a decision without her,” and he has now embraced his new role leading the campaign to sabotage the administration because he loathes Trump, whose presidency he considers illegitimate.
6) To guide and counsel Obama, Jarrett has moved into his 8,200-square-foot, $5.3-million mansion.
7) According to the source, Michelle Obama and Jarrett will strategize to topple Trump.
8) The former first lady and the Obama Foundation will both have offices in the mansion. Presumably, Jarrett will, too.
9) Obama will implement his plans through a network of leftist nonprofits led by Organizing for Action, or OFA, the organization that grew out of his campaign group, Organizing for America.
10) That will give Obama a virtual army of agitators and organizers at is disposal. Federal tax records show OFA has 32,525 volunteers nationwide. Another 25,000 are actively under training.
11) OFA has more than 250 offices across the country.
[comment: What is the penalty for sedition and treason?]
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Columbia Profs Blame Student Suicides on Trump
(Campus Reform) Professors at Columbia University want space to discuss their “distress” over Donald Trump’s election, saying they don’t know anyone who isn’t “chronically and deeply” upset by the result.
In a letter to Columbia President Lee Bollinger, professors Robert Pollack and Letty Moss-Salentijn, the co-chairs of the Columbia Faculty Affairs Committee, say Trump’s election has cast a “malaise that sits like a fog over Columbia” that not even George Orwell’s classic 1984 can adequately address.
“We know no one at Columbia who is not upset, chronically and deeply, since the election,” declare Pollack and Moss-Salentijn, who even go so far as to blame the result for recent student suicides.
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Did Sessions Lie Under Oath About “Communications With the Russians”?
Attorney General Jeff Sessions had two conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the United States last year. Now, lawmakers on Capitol Hill — Democrat and Republican alike — are demanding that he recuse himself from an investigation into whether there was contact between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Some are even calling for him to resign.
The mainstream media is treating this story as if it were Trump’s Watergate — even though information is still emerging that challenges that narrative. In fact, the social media hashtag #SessionsGate is already trending on both Twitter and Facebook. The brouhaha is centered around the fact that Sessions did not disclose that he met with with Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak on two separate occasions and, in fact, said — in his sworn confirmation testimony — “I did not have communications with the Russians.” That sounds, for all the world, just like perjury. After all, if he said that he “did not have communications with the Russians” when he had, it is pretty cut and dry, right? Only if that is all he said. Because while that is the sum and substance of a plethora of headlines and social media posts, there is more to it than that.
Let’s unpack this a bit.
First, Sessions was answering a very specific question when he said he “did not have communications with the Russians.” That question — asked by Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) — was, “If there is any evidence that anyone affiliated the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do?” Sessions’ complete answer (which is not widely reported) was, “Senator Franken, I’m not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and I did not have communications with the Russians. And I’m unable to comment.”
Second, the two times last year when Sessions did communicate with Kislyak were in his official capacity as a U.S. senator serving on the Senate Armed Services Committee. As Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said on MSNBC Thursday:
This morning, everyone is in high dudgeon about the meeting. The underlying meeting is a nothing burger. It’s what senators do every day. Meeting with foreign ambassadors, that’s part of the job.
Third, Sessions is a lawyer. As such, he understood that the question he was answering was about what happened “in the course of [the Trump] campaign.” He also understood that his answer was able to be restricted to the question. So why did he not disclose that — in his official capacity as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee — he had met with Kislyak on two separate occasions? Because he wasn’t asked. As a lawyer, he knows that a witness is required to answer all questions honestly. He also knows that the best course of action is to answer only the questions that are asked. Since his meetings with Kislyak had nothing to do with “the course of [the Trump] campaign,” he was not obliged to disclose them.
Finally, let’s look at those two meetings between Sessions and Kislyak.
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F-35 Boondoggle Can Only Target “Stationary or Slow Moving Objects”
Though our government has produced plenty of examples of the sunk cost fallacy (the drug war, war on terror, war on poverty, etc), perhaps the most perfect example is the F-35 project. This is a fighter jet that has cost over a trillion dollars to develop since 2001. It was significantly delayed and was completed well over budget. And yet, the aircraft has been mired in technical problems every step of the way.
For instance, software bugs have prevented the F-35 from taking off during test flights. A glitch has caused the the radar to turn off randomly, forcing pilots to turn it off and on again. There’s also a problem with the ejection seat, which could kill lightweight pilots when it’s used. Plus there are problems with the fuel tank, lightning protection, the helmet display, and the flight control system, among others.
But because we’ve already sunk so much money into the F-35, nobody has the guts to say enough is enough.
And if you can believe it, there are still new problems emerging with this aircraft, the latest of which involves the aircraft’s laser targeting system.
‘ Despite being among the most technologically advanced low-observable warplanes on the planet, the Lockheed Martin F-35 has one significant shortcoming,’ it wrote.
‘the Joint Strike Fighter cannot strike moving ground targets using the targeting system and weapons loadout delivered in its final combat Lightning II configuration, Block 3F.’
The jet has gone through dozens of updates to its software, with the Block 3F being the most recent.
The issue means the aircraft is limited to striking fixed or slow-moving objects such as surface-to-air missiles.
Every time there is a problem with this aircraft, it presents our government with an opportunity to cut its losses and scrap the whole project. But when you’ve spent enough money to bribe god, giving up feels like such a waste. Even if it’s the smart thing to do.
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Investigate and Prosecute the Press
The First Amendment is not a license to subvert the government elected by the people. Members of the press must be held accountable for their crimes
“Disclosure of classified information,” authorizes prosecution of those who leak, and those who publish the leaks
Here’s where Jarrett makes a mistake that plays into the hands of an irresponsible press.
Jarrett says, “The law draws little distinction between the leakers and the recipient who publishes the classified information. Assuming the leakers will not reveal themselves, the government may feel it has no choice but to prosecute the only person whose name is known. That is, the reporter.” However, he goes on, “This would be a mistake. While the statute itself clearly criminalizes the publishing of classified material, the First Amendment should and must render that portion of the law unconstitutional as it applies to a journalist.”
That’s his opinion. The appropriate statute, 18 U.S. Code Chapter 37, section 798, on the “Disclosure of classified information,” authorizes prosecution of those who leak, and those who publish the leaks. The relevant sections “do not exempt any class of professionals, including reporters, from their reach,” as one Justice Department official has testified.
Jarrett argues for a press exception, saying, “The Framers well knew that a free press is a cherished cornerstone in any democracy. It is the only real way to hold government officials accountable for their actions.”
In this case, however, Ignatius may stand in the way of holding the government accountable because he is protecting the identities of illegal leakers…
The conservative journalist Kenneth R. Timmerman has it exactly right. He says, “The rogue weasels have struck. Terrified that Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn would tear them out root and branch, they connived and colluded, anonymously of course, to leak highly-sensitive intelligence information to destroy Flynn before he could destroy them.”
He is referring to how Flynn, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, had plans to reform the U.S. intelligence community and purge traitors from the intelligence community.
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Middlebury College Professor Injured by Protestors as She Escorted Controversial Speaker
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College Professor Allison Stanger was injured by protesters Thursday evening as she was escorting a controversial speaker from campus. She was treated at Porter Hospital and released.
Charles Murray, a political scientist who has been criticized for his views on race and intelligence, was invited to speak on campus by a student group. He was greeted late Thursday afternoon outside McCullough Student Center by hundreds of protesters, and inside Wilson Hall, students turned their backs to him when he got up to speak.
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Obama ‘President for Life’? Never Gonna’ Happen
Barack Obama’s apparent sabotage of the 2016 presidential election is not only a shocking wake up call to unbridled political ambition, but puts on full display the ongoing battle between Good and Evil.
While some 63 million people were focused on keeping America safe from the lies and corruption of Hillary Clinton during a hard-fought election campaign, here was a sitting president hard at work to overturn the outcome should it stray out of progressive left control,
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Protests, Will Conservatives Cheer the Measure?”
Editor’s Comment: The rise of violent political demonstrations is upon us. The question is, will it push society over into the next phase of self-destruction? That all depends upon how people react. Specifically, the left-right divide is geared up for sharp clashes, and the stakes have been raised and racheted up again and again. The present climate is deeply hostile, with the left absolutely rabid against President Trump, and the right suspicious of the agenda and tactics of the left.
Brandon outlines how not to be baited, how not to be pushed and prodded, and how not to justify even more police state action. If outright riots and fights take place, or assassinations and coups, there can only be more policing, military tactics and financial restrictions. Society could take a dark turn here, but it all depends upon how people react when they are tested… but people with cooler heads and better judgement might sit it out altogether, with enough supplies to ride out any situation, no matter how grim it gets.
How To Counter Leftist Violence While Maintaining The Moral High Ground
by Brandon Smith
Social division is an undeniable reality of human existence; it is also not necessarily a negative aspect of human existence. The moment a society is forced or manipulated into blindly agreeing on everything is the moment that society begins to die and the future of mankind in general becomes rather bleak. Ideas need to be tested, they need to be scrutinized and they need to be verified, perpetually. That said, there are right ways and wrong ways of doing this.
Diving into a culture of zealotry is certainly the WRONG way. Zealotry requires a religious-like idolization of a particular idea or philosophy; it requires unverified faith and an unwavering devotion. Once people become zealots, they cannot be reasoned with, they cannot be debated, they cannot be dissuaded. They are, for all intents and purposes, automatons with only one mission — to spread their beliefs by any means necessary. They do not care about being right, they only care about “winning.” Because, in their minds, their position is unassailable. They are righteous, and thus, the ends will always justify the means.
The culture of the Left in the U.S. is beginning to embrace zealotry and the path can only get more ugly from here. This is evident not only in the violent behavior of more vocal groups like Antifa, but also in the lack of self criticism by many on the left that would consider themselves more moderate. There are very few voices among liberals and “progressives” today that are openly admonishing the counterproductive and thuggish actions of their more extreme members (this includes not only Antifa, but other groups like Black Lives Matter). In many cases, “moderate” leftists even cheer such actions.
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Protecting Transit and Passenger Rail From Terrorism
Terrorists see transit and passenger rail as an attractive target. Designed for public convenience, trains and stations offer terrorists easy access to crowds of people in confined environments where there is minimal security and attacks can cause high casualties, significant disruption, and great alarm. MTI’s recently published report, The Challenge of Protecting Transit and Passenger Rail: Understanding How Security Works Against Terrorism, written by Brian Michael Jenkins, Director of MTI’s National Transportation Safety and Security Center, examines the role security plays on terrorist decision-making.
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Rachel Dolezal — Just Call Her Nkechi Diallo!
(London Daily Mail) Rachel Dolezal, the former head of Spokane, Washington’s NAACP chapter who claimed to be black before her parents ‘ outed’ her as white, officially changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo in a Washington court in October, legal documents obtained by DailyMail.com show.
Nkechi, short for Nkechinyere, is a name that originates from the Igbo language of Nigeria and means ‘ what god has given’ or ‘gift of god.’
Diallo, meaning ‘bold,’ is a last name of Fula origin. The Fula people are a Muslim ethnic group thought to have roots in the Middle East and North Africa, who are now widely dispersed across West Africa.
Since the revelation about her race two years ago, Dolezal, 39, has had a difficult time patching her reputation back together and providing for herself and three children.
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Remember When Hundreds of Pentagon Employees Were Caught With Child Porn, And No One Did Anything?
The Boston Globe first reported the Pentagon’s role in Project Flicker in July, citing DCIS investigative reports (PDF) showing that at least 30 Defense Department employees were investigated.
But new Project Flicker investigative reports obtained by The Upshot through the Freedom of Information Act, which you can read here, show that DCIS investigators identified 264 Defense employees or contractors who had purchased child pornography online. Astonishingly, nine of those had “Top Secret Sensitive Compartmentalized Information” security clearances, meaning they had access to the nation’s most sensitive secrets. All told, 76 of the individuals had Secret or higher clearances. But DCIS investigated only 52 of the suspects, and just 10 were ever charged with viewing or purchasing child pornography. Without greater public disclosure of how these cases wound down, it’s impossible to know how or whether any of the names listed in the Project Flicker papers came in for additional scrutiny. It’s conceivable that some of them were picked up by local law enforcement, but it seems likely that most of the people flagged by the investigation did not have their military careers disrupted in the context of the DCIS inquiry.
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Russian Ambassador Kislyak Attended Trump Congressional Speech Tuesday — Sat With Democrats…
Apparently, Kislyak is a regular visitor to the Capitol
With all the fake news uproar over Attorney General Sessions meeting with the Russian ambassador, perhaps this photograph provides some ‘nothingburger’ perspective:
Just last Tuesday night Ambassador Kislyak attended President Trump’s speech to a Joint Session of congress. The Russian ambassador was noted in numerous conversations with Senate Democrats and was seated on the Democrat side of the venue.
Apparently, Kislyak is a regular visitor to the Capitol as noted in this tweet reply from Brit Hume:…
Worth noting that Senator Dianne Feinstein is the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and one of the key CIA and intelligence community oversight members on the exclusive Gang of Eight:
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Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak Appeared as Obama White House Visitor at Least 22 Times
The visitor logs, which Obama made public in 2009 in a push for transparency, show that the long-time Russian ambassador to the United States visited the White House at least 22 times between 2009 and 2016
Sergey Kislyak appeared in the White House visitor logs dozens of times when Barack Obama was in office.
The visitor logs, which Obama made public in 2009 in a push for transparency, show that the long-time Russian ambassador to the United States visited the White House at least 22 times between 2009 and 2016.
Kislyak appeared in the logs as recently as September 2016 when he had a meeting scheduled with one of Obama’s senior advisers, John Holdren, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. The other visitors listed at the meeting are Marina W. Gross, Alexander Ermolaev, Alexey Lopatin, Vyacheslav Balakirev and Sergey Sarazhinskiy. Though the appointment was scheduled to begin at 12:00 pm, it does not include an end time.
Kislyak was also listed on the logs in July 2016, March 2016, January 2016, August 2015, April 2014, February 2014, May 2013, February 2013, November 2012, December 2011, July 2011, December 2010, October 2010, May 2010, April 2010, February 2010, March 2010, December 2009 and September 2009.
The logs include which White House official hosted Kislyak each time he was cleared to visit. The hosts included are: Gary Samore, who was the senior National Security Council official on weapons of mass destruction during Obama’s first term (four visits); Robert Malley, who was Obama’s senior adviser on defeating the Islamic State (three visits); Lawrence Summers, who was Obama’s economic adviser (one visit); Michael Froman, Obama’s trade representative; Holdren (two visits); and the visitor’s office (four visits).
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Scientists to Trump: Nix UN Climate Treaty
Hundreds of climate scientists across the globe are petitioning President Donald Trump to withdraw from a United Nations environmental treaty ratified in 1992 by President George H.W. Bush. Their message delivered last week is succinct:
We urge the United States government, and others, to withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). We support reasonable and cost-effective environmental protection. But carbon dioxide, the target of the UNFCCC, is not a pollutant but a major benefit to agriculture and other life on Earth. Observations since the UNFCCC was written 25 years ago show that warming from increased atmospheric CO2 will be benign — much less than initial model predictions.
More than 300 eminent scientists representing a vast array of fields and disciplines signed the missive, amidst major media rumors that President Trump is hedging on his campaign promise to pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. President Obama signed on to that UN contract without bothering to garner congressional approval, promising to drastically cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The Paris Agreement went into effect last November and is, according to the UN website, a legally binding global climate deal falling under the auspices of the UNFCCC.
Climate alarmists are reeling over Trump’s intentions for the Paris Agreement, but cooler-headed scientists urge him to go a step further. They’re asking for complete withdrawal from the UNFCCC, which one petition signer criticizes as “an outdated international agreement that targets minor greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide (CO2) for harsh regulation.” So states Dr. Richard Lindzen, professor emeritus of atmospheric sciences at MIT. “Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant,” he explained in a cover letter accompanying the petition. “Since 2009, the U.S. and other governments have undertaken actions with respect to global climate that are not scientifically justified and that already have, and will continue to cause serious social and economic harm — with no environmental benefits.”
Lindzen went on to defend CO2 as a vital atmospheric asset. “There is clear evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful to food crops and other plants that nourish all life,” he wrote. “It is plant food, not poison.”
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Sessions Recuses Himself From Russian Nothing-Burger
Attorney General Jeff Sessions officially recused himself yesterday from the nonsensical, possibly even nonexistent, federal probe into claims of Russian interference in the election — claims that for all we know were invented by President Trump’s enemies in the intelligence community and the Democratic Party.
Despite the oceans of mass media hysteria, there is still no publicly available trustworthy evidence that the Trump campaign somehow colluded with the Russian government last year. Sources in newspaper articles are never identified. There is not a scintilla of proof of improper conduct. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zero. All we have is the alleged say-so of faceless CIA spooks whose motives are questionable, to put it charitably.
President Trump called out his predecessor for meddling this week. Accusing Barack Obama of being “behind” the unruly town hall protests and maybe the leaks coming out of the White House, too. A New York Times article from Wednesday stated that in the dying days of the Obama administration officials “spread information” about the alleged Russian tampering in the election and supposed ties between that country and Trump associates “across the government.” Some have called the clues Trump-hating spooks left behind as “intelligence bread crumbs” planted to be discovered later…
Here’s the public relations rub: Sessions may not have done anything wrong by meeting with Kislyak but he failed to disclose the two meetings during his confirmation process, which gave the Left an opportunity to make a mountain out of a molehill.
Let’s look at what Sessions said to senators considering his nomination.
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Soros-Tied Obama Lawyers Form Group to Battle Trump
Further evidence of Barack Obama’s close association with efforts to oppose President Trump has emerged: a group of former top lawyers for the Obama administration have formed an organization aimed at utilizing legal advocacy methods to oppose Trump’s policies.
The organization is calling itself United to Protect Democracy, drawing on the theme of Obama’s farewell speech last month.
The group is already partnered with an organization heavily financed by billionaire George Soros and is led by a former Obama lawyer who previously worked at a Soros-financed global activist outfit.
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The Trump Administration spearhead of the ideological war against Radical Islamic Jihadism is Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to President Trump and member of the White House Strategic Initiatives Group. He has recently surfaced as spokesperson for the Administration on this and related issues and been the subject of a number of media reports. We had prior knowledge of his views on Radical Islamic jihadism from our New English Review book review and interviews prior to his involvement in the Trump transition team. Subsequently, following the President’s election he was selected to serve in the Executive Office of the President. We were afforded an opportunity to interview him on a wide range of current issues on Northwest Florida’s Talk Radio 1330amWEBY. The program aired February 28, 2017.
Among the following national security and foreign policy issues addressed in the 1330amWEBY interview with Dr. Gorka were:…
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“Jeff Sessions is an honest man,” Trump said. “He did not say anything wrong.”
President Trump slammed the Democrats “witch hunt” against Jeff Sessions Thursday night on Twitter, saying “they lost the election, and now they’ve lost their grip on reality.”
“Jeff Sessions is an honest man,” Trump said. “He did not say anything wrong. He could have stated his response more accurately, but it was clearly not intentional.”
“This whole narrative is a way of saving face for Democrats losing an election that everyone thought they were supposed to win,” he said.
“The Democrats are overplaying their hand. They lost the election, and now they have lost their grip on reality. The real story is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. It is a total ‘witch hunt!’“…
Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill attacked Sessions earlier on Thursday, writing on Twitter: “I’ve been on the Armed Services (Committee) for 10 years. No call or meeting w/ Russian ambassador. Ever.”
It turns out that was a load of crap, she met twice with a Russian ambassador according to her own prior tweets.
As Charles Cooke said: “Claire McCaskill says she’s had ‘no call or meeting w/Russian ambassador. Ever.’ But she tweeted about two. It’s easy to forget.”
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Never before have we seen a previous president and his team openly attempt to sabotage the next president, but that is precisely what is happening. Traditionally, most ex-presidents have chosen to move far away from Washington, but Barack Obama decided to purchase a home less than two miles from the White House, and many of his former staff members are either working directly with him or are working for his political organization Organizing for Action. And of particular concern is the fact that Valerie Jarrett has actually moved into Obama’ s five million dollar home, which many are referring to as Obama’ s “ anti-Trump command center” . For eight years the Obamas wouldn’ t even sneeze without consulting Valerie Jarrett first, and needless to say Jarrett has not moved in to help them pick out wallpaper and drapes. Jarrett is a hardcore political operative, and she has reportedly convinced Obama that he needs to lead the fight against Trump.
And when I say “ fight against Trump” , I don’ t just mean trying to block his agenda from getting through Congress.
What I mean is that Barack Obama actually intends to try to remove Trump from the White House. The following comes from the Daily Mail…
If you have ever wondered where all of these “ leaks” are coming from, the truth is that they are coming from people inside the government that are still loyal to Obama.
Earlier today, the Washington Post ran a story with this alarming headline: “ The Trump presidency can’t seem to escape Russia’s shadow” . The reason why Trump and his team are continually plagued by this stuff is because of the internal sabotage that is being conducted against them.
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What’s This 2.5-Mile Long Object Moving Under Pacific Ocean?
Circular feature appears to have left 41-mile track in its wake
(London Express) A massive circular structure has been spotted slowly crawling across the Pacific sea floor 3000 feet below the surface.
The object, which observers say looks man-made rather than natural, is estimated to measure more than 2.5 miles in diameter and is surrounded by what look like massive tank tracks.
Other observers suggest the tracks may be trenches or fortifications.
But the most baffling thing is the circular object which appears to have left a 41 mile track in its wake as it trundled across the floor of the North Pacific off the Californian coast .
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EU Punishment of Le Pen Will Increase Her Popularity Says UKIP MEP
Globalists’ attempts to silence, victimize Le Pen may backfire
Marine Le Pen’s loss of EU Parliament immunity is going to help her get elected: French people and other Europeans see it as a plot by the establishment to silence her, it shows the EU Parliament is undemocratic, says David Coburn, UKIP MEP.
French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has had her EU Parliamentary immunity revoked. The decision follows the second round of voting held by EU Parliament lawmakers. Le Pen may now face prosecution for tweeting pictures of Islamic State violence. In her latest interview for a French TV channel, Le Pen called the allegations politically motivated.
According to David Coburn, Le Pen has a point saying that.
“This is an absolute scandal — the lights are going out all over Europe on freedom of speech. And the European Parliament which continues to maintain …the mother of European democracy has obviously given up that responsibility. The idea that you can stop people speaking freely is absolutely wrong,” he adds.
According to Coburn, “the Socialists always hate freedom of speech, it is completely against their philosophy. And they were pushing for this, and you could see them all cheering for this. And that is a scandal. The Socialists and the European Parliament do not want freedom of speech.”
“Marine Le Pen is only pointing out the obvious. They’ve had terrible catastrophes in France: Bataclan and other things. Of course, she has a right to discuss this,” he says. Coburn says he agrees with many other politicians who now say that this is going to help Marine Le Pen get elected.
“French people are not stupid and neither is the rest of Europe. We could see that this is a plot by the establishment to nobble her and it is not going to work,” he said.
“People see what this is all about. It is blatantly trying to nobble her campaign. And it is the European Parliament interfering in French internal affairs. We should not be doing that. We should keep out it,” he continues.
“It questions in fact that we have any immunity here which means people cannot speak their minds freely. So, therefore, it just shows this parliament to be undemocratic. And all I can say, Le Pen will benefit from that”, Coburn told RT.
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France: ‘EU is a Plague!’ Le Pen Rallies Farmers and Calls on ‘Patriots’
FRONT National leader Marine Le Pen has promised to help French farmers turn their struggling businesses around using Frexit.
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Germany to Ensure ‘Rights of Italian Victim’s Parents’
Merkel’s spokesperson responds to complaint
(ANSA) — Berlin, March 1 — The German government said Wednesday that it would do “what it could” to help the parents of an Italian victim who died in a December terror attack on a Berlin Christmas market that left 12 people dead and 56 others injured.
Government spokesman Steffen Seibert made the statement in a press conference in the German capital in response to a question about the difficulties that Fabrizia Di Lorenzo’s parents were facing to receive compensation for their loss. Seibert said that a wide range of options were available.
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Germany: Acid-Throwing Cyclists Stalk Women in Berlin
(DW) Berlin police are investigating a series of acid attacks on women in the past months, they announced on Tuesday.
Late Monday night a cyclist sprayed a 27-year-old woman in Friedrichshain with what the fire brigade suspected was acid. If proven it would be the fifth case of its kind in the past few months.
The fire brigade treated the woman, who then went to hospital with injuries to her face. The unknown cyclist escaped.
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ISTAT Confirms Italy’s Growth Was 0.9% in 2016
Slight increase on 0.8% GDP rise in 2015
(ANSA) — Rome, March 1 — Italy’s gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 0.9% in 2016 compared to the previous year, ISTAT said on Wednesday, confirming the estimate the national statistics agency gave last month. The growth rate is a slight increase on the 0.8% registered in 2015, after the agency revised its figure for the latter from 0.7%. The 0.9% growth rate is also higher than the 0.8% given in the government’s budget-planning document.
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Italy: Anti-Mafia Panel Orders Freemason Lists Seized
In Calabria, Sicily
(ANSA) — Rome, March 1 — The parliamentary anti-mafia commission on Wednesday ordered police to seize the membership lists, from 1990 to today, of freemasons belonging to lodges in Calabria and Sicily. The lodges involved are: Grande Oriente d’Italia; Gran Loggia Regolare d’Italia; Serenissima Gran Loggia d’Italia; Gran Loggia d’Italia degli Antichi Liberi Accettati Muratori. There have been a few recent cases in which some masons have been linked to mafia activities in the two southern Italian regions. The freemasons’ lodges have denied having anything to do with Italy’s mafias: Cosa Nostra in Sicily, ‘Ndrangheta in Calabria and the Camorra in Campania.
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Italy: House Speaker Boldrini Quits Left-Wing SI
Set to join mixed group
(ANSA) — Rome, March 3 — Lower House Speaker Laura Boldrini has quit the left-wing SI-SEL group (Sinistra Italiana-Sinistra Ecologia Libertà — Italian Left-Left, Ecology Liberty), Deputy Speaker Roberto Giachetti announced on Friday. As a result, Boldrini has become a member of the mixed group in the House.
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Le Pen Lays Out Plan for French ‘Economic Patriotism’
(AP) — French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen envisions the protective hand of the state guiding a reordered economy that punishes companies that fail to serve the interests of the nation and rewards those that put France first.
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MEPs to Debate Rule of Law in Poland
European Parliament is slated to debate the rule of law in Poland during its March 9 session. The Vice-President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, is scheduled to present a report on the EU procedure launched against Poland over a year ago.
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Security Ramped Up at a Belgian Train Station After an ISIS Militant Films ‘We Are Here’ Video
Security has been ramped up at a Belgian train station after an ISIS militant filmed himself there threatening to cop off the heads of civilians and fill the streets with blood.
Islamic State issued the sick threat to Belgium warning an attack on the country is imminent in an eerie video, which starts with a militant showing a piece of paper reading ‘we are still here’, and shows a terrorist walking through Antwerp.
It is filmed in and around the city’s Central Station where police are desperately scouring CCTV footage in an attempt to identify the man behind the camera as extra officers have been deployed.
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The Future of the European Union?
The European Commission has published a document outlining five scenarios for how the European Union could evolve within the next ten years.
The so-called White Paper on the Future of Europe, which will be presented at the Rome Summit on March 25, 2017 to mark the 60th anniversary of the European Union, is intended to be “the starting point for a wider public debate on the future of our continent.”
Each of the five scenarios is based on the premise that “the 27 Member States move forward together as a Union.” The document does not consider the possibility that the EU could collapse or break apart, or even that the powers of the EU be significantly curtailed.
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UK: “You Look Like Pork!” Shock Video Shows Muslim Man Racially Abusing Victim
“Imagine if a white person did this to a Muslim, it would be national news”
Shocking video out of Britain shows a Muslim man hurling insults and racially abusing a white man by telling him he looks like pork.
What started the dispute is unknown, but the clip begins with the Muslim man taking a picture of another man’s license plate while hurling insults.
“You son of a b*tch!” he tells the man before he walks over to a woman who is filming the confrontation and takes a photo of her.
“Get that f*cking phone out of my face before I smack it one, you son of a b*tch!” he tells her.
The Muslim man then continues to berate his original target.
“Look at you — you eat pork and you look like pork, you ing pig — you f*cking p*sy!” he yells…
The Metropolitan Police reacted to the video by tweeting that they needed a location in order to investigate the issue. Critics pointed out that the culprit could easily be identified via his car’s license plate.
“Imagine if a white person did this to a Muslim, it would be national news,” commented Tommy Robinson, before subsequently tweeting, “Imagine if a white man said to a Muslim you eat halal, white shouting vile abuse and threatening violence.”
Despite the fact that the video has received over 16,000 retweets on one account as well as millions of views on Facebook, not a single news organization has reported on it.
Perhaps that’s because the footage doesn’t fit the post-Brexit narrative that the only racist hate crimes in Britain are being committed against immigrants and Muslims.
As Brendan O’Neill explains, the alleged rise in hate crimes is largely hysteria based on, “the fact that various officials actively trawled for evidence of hate post-Brexit, imploring people to phone police hotlines, and to the fact that almost anything can be recorded as a hate crime these days, even if there’s no evidence for it.”
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Macedonia: How Soros Money is Corrupting Politics in This Small European Nation
One of the world’s richest men, Soros has a long history of intervening politically around the globe
In the economy of world politics, George Soros has billions at stake, and they extend even to remote places like the Republic of Macedonia.
In fact, the tiny Balkan state is becoming emblematic of a battle royale taking place in Europe between conservative parties that support traditional values and national sovereignty, and those-often funded by the liberal billionaire-with an ambitious agenda that includes liberal drug and sexual-orientation policies as well as trans-nationalism.
Making things even more complicated are the Kremlin’s routine strategic interferences into the equation. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s vast propaganda network often intrudes into these disputes, whether invited in or not, by ostensibly taking up the traditionalists’ cause and going to war with his arch-nemesis, Soros.
In some places, such as Macedonia itself, there is one added variable: Obama-era embeds. The Obama-appointed U.S. ambassador in Skopje, Jess Baily, has come under congressional scrutiny over accusations that he has shown a political bias against the Macedonian conservative party, VMRO, and that he facilitated coalition negotiations between the main leftist party and ethnic Albanian parties. [Comment: Soros again! US ambass seems like another globalist stooge working to advance the globalist, not American, agenda…]
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A New Genocide for Egypt’s Christians?
300 Christians living in al-Arish have fled their homes, with nothing but their clothes on their backs and their children in their hands
Yet another murderous wave is taking Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority by storm, leading to another exodus from their homes.
Last week in al-Arish, Sinai, Islamic State affiliates killed a 65-year-old Christian man by shooting him in the head; they then abducted and tortured his 45-year-old son before burning him alive and dumping his charred remains near a schoolyard.
Perhaps because of its sensationalist nature-burning a human alive-this story was reported by some Western media. Yet the atrocities hardly begin or end there. Below is a list of Christians murdered in al-Arish in recent days and weeks:
January 30: A 35-year-old Christian was in his small shop working with his wife and young son when three masked men walked in, opened fire on and killed him. The murderers then sat around his shop table, eating chips and drinking soda, while the slain lay in a pool of blood before the terrified wife and child. February 13: A 57-year-old Christian laborer was shot and killed as he tried to fight off masked men trying to kidnap his young son from off a crowded street in broad daylight. After murdering the father, they seized his young son and took him to an unknown location (where, per precedent, he is likely being tortured, possibly already killed, if a hefty ransom has not already been paid). February 16: A 45-year-old Christian schoolteacher was moonlighting at his shoe store with his wife, when masked men walked in the crowded shop and shot him dead. February 17: A 40-year-old medical doctor was killed by masked men who, after forcing him to stop his car, opened fire on and killed him. He too leaves a widow and two children.
It is likely that more Christians have been slain recently in Sinai; because Copts are being killed in quick succession, it is not clear if ongoing reports are documenting the same or new incidences.
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Caroline Glick: Lessons of the Hamas War
The State Comptroller’s report on Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s war with Hamas in the summer of 2014 is exceedingly detailed. The problem is that it addresses the wrong details.
Israel’s problem with Hamas wasn’t its tactics for destroying Hamas’s attack tunnels. Israel faced two separate challenges in its war with Hamas that summer. The first had to do with the regional and global context of the war. The second had to do with its understanding of its enemy on the ground.
War between Hamas and Israel took place as the Sunni Arab world was steeped a two-pronged existential struggle. On the one hand, Sunni regimes fought jihadist groups that emerged from the Muslim Brotherhood movement. On the other they fought against Iran and its proxies in a bid to block Iran’s moves towards regional hegemony.
On both fronts, the Sunni regimes, led by Egypt under President Abdel Fattah a-Sisi, the Saudi regime and the UAE were shocked to discover that the Obama administration was siding with their enemies against them.
If Israel went into the war against Hamas thinking that the Obama administration would treat it differently than it treated the Sunni regimes, it quickly discovered that it was mistaken. From the outset of the battle between Hamas and Israel, the Obama administration supported Hamas against Israel…
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Soros-Backed Group Organizes Massive Coal Blockade in Ukraine
At the very beginning of the U.S.-sponsored coup d’état that ousted legally-elected President Viktor Yanukovych and sent him fleeing to Russia, the Maidan movement (comprised of Ukrainian ultra-nationalists) began protests and riots that led to fighting. Maidan was (and is) being both encouraged and supported financially by none other than George Soros. The intent for Ukraine with Soros is no different: to crush the opposition of separatists and enable the U.S.-installed government to rail Ukraine into NATO and the IMF.
Once this has been accomplished, Soros has the “master plan” of taking over a large portion of the Eastern provinces because of the tremendous amounts of minerals and natural resources he wishes to buy for “pennies on the dollar” and then bleed the country white while taking the profits out of the country. As of this writing, Maidan is at it again.
[Comment: Soros again…]
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Islamic State Video Shows Uighur Training in Iraq, Hints at Terrorism in China
An Islamic State propaganda video circulated this week shows ethnic Uighur fighters training in Iraq and vowing to carry out horrific attacks in their Chinese homeland — the latest sign that the terrorist group hopes to expand operations into East Asia as it loses territory in the Middle East and North Africa.
The video, which features one fighter promising to make Chinese “blood flow in rivers,” has prompted unease in Beijing, where officials for years have characterized Uighur separatists in the nation’s western and mostly Muslim Xinjiang region as Islamic terrorists.
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Illegal Alien MS-13 Gang Members Charged With Kidnapping, Rape, And Murder in Houston
Two illegal aliens from El Salvador, identified as members of the notorious MS-13 gang, were arrested in Houston on February 27 and appeared in court on March 1 to face charges of aggravated kidnapping and murder.
Prosecutors have alleged that MS-13 gang leader Miguel Angel Alvarez-Flores, 22, whose nickname is “Diabolico”(one who is diabolical or of the devil) and Diego Alexan Hernandez-Rivera, 18, held a 14-year-old girl against her will for four days at one apartment and two weeks at another location. During that time, gang members forced drugs and alcohol on her to keep her disoriented and submissive, sexually assaulted her multiple times, and Flores tattooed an image of the grim reaper from her knee to her foot. The murder case relates to the February 16 discovery of the body of another young woman next to a curb along a Houston street.
The Houston Chronicle reported that the teenage girl who was kidnapped and sexually assaulted was able to identify the murder victim as a young woman who was held at the same apartment she was. She knew the slain girl only as “Genesis.”
During the court hearing, the kidnap victim testified that Genesis allegedly made an outburst against the gang members’ Satanic rituals and shrine, after which Alvarez-Flores declared that the “Beast” required a soul sacrifice, the Chronicle reported.
When the kidnapping victim woke up the day after that incident, Genesis was gone.
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Immigrant Arrested After He ‘Threatens to Bomb’ Train in Spain
A MOROCCAN immigrant sparked panic on a packed Spanish high-speed train after threatening to detonate a bomb he claimed to be carrying.
Armed police arrested him at gunpoint at a railway station in the Catalan city of Girona after evacuating the area before the AVE train pulled in.
Police chief Xavier Domenech said the alarm was sounded by passengers on board the train from Barcelona to Girona who phoned 999 to say an Arab-looking man was shouting in French and Arabic he was carrying a bomb.
Dramatic video footage taken by a traveller showed the poncho-wearing mop-haired 30-year-old pinned to the ground and handcuffed as he stepped off the train when it reached Girona.
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Trump Team Members Who Are Realistic About Islam and Illegal Immigration Are the Target
This kind of smear campaign that we are seeing is reserved for Trump people who are outside the usual Dem-Pub consensus because they hold realistic views on Islam or illegal immigration
Despite what Keith Olbermann screeches, the smarter people on both sides know that impeachment is unlikely. But their goal is to isolate Trump within his own administration by swapping out advisers and cabinet members with unconventional views for old hands with much more conventional ones.
The formula is easy. Smear or dig up some dirt.
Then you swap out National Security Advisor Mike Flynn, who was pretty clear on Islam, for H.R. McMaster, who will lecture Trump on the danger of saying “radical Islamic terrorism” because it alienates Muslims.
Force out Labor nominee Andy Puzder and you can replace him with Alex Acosta, an old hand with much safer views who isn’t likely to rattle the establishment. Either one of them.
Go after counter-terrorism expert Sebastian Gorka and you can bring in somebody who will emphasize how ISIS has hijacked a great religion.
Take out Jeff Sessions and you can replace him with somebody much friendlier to amnesty and Islamic migration.
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Two Dead After Huge Blaze at Southern Italian Migrant Camp
Two migrants died in a fire at a migrant camp in Foggia, southern Italy, on Thursday night.
Within minutes, the fire engulfed the camp in San Severo, Apulia — which is known as the ‘Big Ghetto’ by locals and migrant residents.
Italy’s fire service reported early on Friday morning that they had recovered “two charred bodies” from the wreckage.
The victims have not yet been identified, but are thought to be two men originally from Mali, according to local paper Foggia Today, which cited camp residents.
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British Court Convicts Christian Street Preachers
(Christian Concern) Two street preachers have been convicted of public order offences, after a public prosecutor claimed that quoting parts of the King James Bible in the context of modern British society “must be considered to be abusive and is a criminal matter” .
The prosecutor had argued that free speech must yield to multicultural reality in modern Britain, and that there was a clear threat to violence due to the words of the preachers and the criticism of Islam.
Michael Overd and Michael Stockwell were convicted today (28 FEB) at Bristol Magistrates’ Court. On Friday (25 FEB) the court dismissed the case against a third man, Adrian Clark, ruling that there was no case to answer.
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Italy: Church Respects All Choices Despite Differences — Parolin
Collins wanted to ‘shake the tree’ — Vatican secretary of state
(ANSA) — Florence, March 2 — Respect for the choices of others is “fundamental” even if the Church clearly cannot always adopt the same position, Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin said on Thursday.
He made the comments in response to questions from journalists concerning the recent assisted suicide of DJ Fabo in Switzerland and recognition by a court in Trento that both members of a gay couple can be considered the fathers of children born abroad via a surrogate mother.
“Our loyalty is to the Gospel”, since if the Church “says ‘no’ it is because it has a bigger ‘yes’. It is not exclusively negative, but for something more, greater fullness of life and joy,” Parolin explained. The secretary of state also explained Wednesday’s resignation by Marie Collins, an Irish woman who was a victim of repeated sexual abuse by a priest when she was a girl, from an international commission on protecting children set up by Pope Francis, partly as an attempt to “shake things up”.
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Is anyone keeping a tally of these ‘suiciding’ Bankers? Those tall buildings have certainly come in handy haven’t they.
hey Greece, how you gonna repay da loan when you no gotta de money. De welfare office, she’s a down the street next to de courthouse and lock up.
@ acuara
Before you write about Greece,[redacted incivility] (see) the case “IMF,Greece and Europe”.
Last Night in Sweden!!
by Naked Ape
https://youtu.be/r_xN43EzMO0
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SWEDEN AGAIN AND AGAIN
The angry Swedish Wog explains the Swedish situation
based on the Swedish Government’s recent and not very
truthfully http://www.Declaration to the World:
— Sweden’s Government is Lying about Sweden. —
https://youtu.be/0GWdWGGhULY
Ever since Donald Trump talked about Sweden our power elite has been working hard to dispute the notion of Sweden having serious issues.
Most recently the Swedish Government made a statement on their website, which is just filled with half-truths and lies concerning immigration, crime and rape.
The government claims that it needs immigration in order to keep the economy going, and – at the same time they claim they have nothing to gain from covering up negative aspects of the migration policy.
In this video the Angry Wog sets the record straight on what is fact, and what is fiction.
The Angry Wog srongly urges you to watch until the bitter end, “because that is the most messed up part”.
Sweden is aparently going to renew mandatory military service (abolished in 2010), aparently because of the raising tension in the Baltics. In my opinion they should prepare their military less against Russia and more towards their home turf. But either way it’s good news that they’re doing something positive.
I’m not so sure about that. I’m guessing they are raising a military to suppress their own native population.
I too am suspicious of mandatory military service in Sweden. The military may well end up being weighted mohammedan heavy.
I’ll take a stab at identifying that 2.5 mile long object causing trenches to form on the ocean floor off the Californian coast – the object is a UFO mining the Earth’s surface for precious minerals. There are several sites across the Globe where these trenches have been noted and the details of those are available on the internet, but this is the first time that what has been making those trenches has been sighted.
On Italy and the seizing of the Freemason’s list: One needs to consider that while the lower degrees of Masonic fellowship do indeed benefit the community around them, those lower degrees tend to be completely unaware that the higher degrees that operate clandestinely and in complete secrecy, are actively involved in what is now so obviously happening to the West.
The Masons are a Janus operation, just like some other ancient institutions.
Look up Roslyn Chapel and the hidden history behind that Church.
The banksters stole trillions an were fined billions? What a racket.
Nobody rides free ?
True, but modern governmental bureaucracies will insist on taking your money to let someone else ride for nothing. “Free” here means riding at someone else’s expense.
It is deeply irresponsible of that Columbia prof to blame the recent suicides on the election. There is no evidence to support this and it’s just serving to obscure the real problems these students had that we might be able to help others with if we were aware of them.
But even if they were completely do to the election, did that professor not stop to think he and his ilk may be responsible? All of this “safe space” nonsense and capitulation to whining is rendering kids less capable of dealing with adversity. Complaining of feeling “unsafe,” posting hyperbolic, expletive filled rants on social media, and public temper tantrums masquerading as protests are accomplishing nothing against Trump, and they can’t deal. Add on to that, all the “democracy is over! This is a new Nazi state! The sky is falling!” hysteria academia is spewing forth probably isn’t helping the mindsets of these fragile kids.