Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/27/2017

An explosive device detonated this afternoon inside a storage area in a supermarket in St. Petersburg, Russia. At least ten people were injured in the blast, which did extensive damage to the store.

In other news, a court ruling in the UK may allow thousands of Albanian criminals to remain in the country, despite their history of arrests and convictions.

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Thanks to Charles Low, Dean, Dora, JD, KS, PJ, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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USA
» A 25-Point Blueprint for a Pro-Trump Congress
» Americans Fled Blue States in the Hundreds of Thousands Due to High Taxes and Crime Rates
» CNN Host Concerned Working Americans “Are Going to Vote for Donald Trump Again” After Getting Bonuses and Pay Raises
» CNN’s “Useful Idiot” Jake Tapper Cheerleads Muslims to Serve in American Government
» FBI Celebrates Taking Down a ‘Terrorist’ Who Told Undercover Agents He Couldn’t Go Through With an Attack
» GOP Rep Calls for ‘Purge’ of ‘Deep State’ Cronies Within the FBI
» How to Defund the U.N.
» Moviegoing Hits 22-Yr Low… LA Times Blames Everyone But Anti-Trump Hollywood
» New Footage From Las Vegas Massacre Reveals Possible Muzzle Flashes From Helicopters That May Have Conducted “Air Assault”
» Newsweek: Trump, Nazis Stole Christmas for White Nationalism
» Rare and Mysterious Vomiting Illness Linked to Heavy Marijuana Use
» Rep Sheila Jackson Lee Suggests First Class Customer is a Racist for Complaining About Being Bumped to Back of Plane by United Airlines to Give Lee Her Seat…
» Snowmageddon Dumps Record 60 Inches of Snow on Erie, Pa; “Declaration of Disaster”
» The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 and the Breakdown of the Black Family
» The UN Tried to Mess With Trump, But They Ended Up With a $285 Million Budget Reduction Instead
» Trump’s Momentous First Year
» Welcome to Skid Row 2017: Shocking Scale of Homelessness in Downtown LA is Exposed
» Why Final “Sunday Night Football” Game Was Canceled… is Low Attendance the Reason?
 
Canada
» Poll: Canadians Want Returning Muslim Terrorists Prosecuted Not Hugged Like Useful Idiot Justin Trudeau Suggests
» Wynne Lies About ‘Rising Tide of Islamophobia and Racism’ At Muslim Convention in Pathetic Display of Divisive Identity Politics
 
Europe and the EU
» An Alien Solar System: Trappist-1 Discovery Tops Our 2017 Exoplanet List
» Angela Merkel Latest: Germany Leader Urged to Quit Before Term Ends
» France Bans Christian Film While Allowing Muslim Prayer to Block Traffic
» Swedish Women Told to ‘Stay Indoors’ To Avoid Being Raped
» The West Proves That Poland’s Loyalty Was Worthless
» UK: Shoplifters Who Steal Less Than £200 Will Not be Pursued
 
Middle East
» US Lets Militants Train, Mount Attacks From Its Syrian Bases — Chief of Russian General Staff
 
Russia
» 10 Injured, Dozens Evacuated After Explosion in St. Petersburg Store (Video)
» At Least Four People Are Injured After a Blast Rips Through a Supermarket in St Petersburg
» ‘Deliberate Attempt to Kill’ — Explosion Rocks Christmas Market in Russia
» Huge Explosion at St Petersburg Shopping Centre Leaves Christmas Shoppers Injured
 
South Asia
» ISIS Has Over 10,000 Fighters in Afghanistan, More Arriving From Syria & Iraq — Moscow
 
Far East
» Scientists Discovered North Korean Defector Carried Anthrax Antibodies
 
Australia — Pacific
» Hardline Australian Muslim Sheikh Refuses to Say Merry Christmas to Anyone So He Doesn’t Have to Explain Himself to Allah When He Dies
» The Shocking Moment a Barefoot Woman Attacks a Christian Preacher Who’s Forced to Use His Bible to Protect His Face From Punches
» Too Wasted to Work: Almost 27,000 Unemployed Australian Addicts Are on Disability Pensions Because of the Damage They’ve Inflicted on Themselves by Drink and Drugs
» Trucks, Bollards, Cranes and Road Closures: Anti-Terror Measures in Sydney Could Become Permanent After String of ‘Deliberate Attacks’ In ‘Vulnerable’ Melbourne
 
Immigration
» Albanian Criminals Win Right to Remain in the UK
» Beware of the Greek Bearing Immigrants
» Germany: Asylum Seeker Pair Arrested After Sexually Exposing Themselves to Girls as Young as 10
» How Terrorists Slip Through Immigrant Screening
» Newsweek Climate Panic: Global Warming Could Cause Refugee Numbers to Skyrocket
» Supremes Tell Ninth Circuit to Stick It, Lift Order Halting the Cancellation of DACA
 
Culture Wars
» ‘I Am So Sick of White Guys’: Liberals Celebrate Christmas With White People Are Bad Themed Adult Coloring Book
» Leftists Declare War on Thomas the Train
» Olympics: Fresh Push to Allow Men to Compete as Women
» UK: Snowflake Students Demand Removal of ‘Triggering’ Books
 
General
» “Exquisite Human Leather” Products, Wallets, Belts, Shoes, Being Sold Online
 

A 25-Point Blueprint for a Pro-Trump Congress

In 2016 the Trump movement took the White House, and now in 2018 we can take control of Congress. The mainstream media and the Democrats are eagerly anticipating a massive anti-Trump backlash in November 2018, but I say that the mid-term elections will be a golden opportunity to give President Trump dozens of new allies in Congress. The Make America Great Again agenda is a winning agenda, and if we are able to mobilize pro-Trump forces all over the nation we can pull off another miracle next November. But first, we have got to win the Republican primaries that will start happening early next year, because otherwise we won’t even have any pro-Trump candidates to vote for in the mid-term elections.

We have identified several dozen major pro-Trump candidates all over the nation, and you can find that list on Facebook right here. If you know of another pro-Trump candidate that should be added to that list, please let me know.

The mainstream media would like us to believe that Trump’s support is falling, but the truth is that he has very high approval ratings among Republicans from coast to coast. If we can get the voters to understand who the pro-Trump candidates are, we should be able to win primary after primary all over the nation. In the end, it isn’t that complicated. We just need to take our pro-Trump message and share it everywhere that we possibly can. The following are 25 basic pro-Trump principles that I am running on, and I believe that they could be used as a blueprint for pro-Trump candidates across the country…

#1 A Pro-Trump Conservative — Donald Trump helped restore my faith in America by winning the 2016 election, and I will fight like mad to implement his agenda if I am elected to Congress.

#2 It’s Time To Drain The Swamp — The same rules that apply to the rest of us should also apply to Congress, and all federal officials should be banned from working as lobbyists for at least ten years after they leave government service.

#3 Every RINO Must Go — Way too many Republicans have been fighting Trump’s agenda and acting like Democrats. It is time to hold them accountable, and that means every ‘Republican in name only’ needs to go.

#4 100% Pro-Life — No money for Planned Parenthood ever. Nearly 60 million babies have been murdered since 1973, and I am making an unbreakable pledge to vote against any bill that funds Planned Parenthood 100% of the time.

#5 100% Pro-Gun — The Constitution says that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. I believe that every American has a constitutional right to carry a gun, and I will never back down from defending the Second Amendment even a single inch.

#6 Abolish The IRS & The Income Tax — We didn’t have an income tax from 1872 to 1913, and that was the greatest period of economic growth in U.S. history. As we fight a long-term battle to abolish the income tax, in the short-term we can at least go to a flat tax or a fair tax, both of which would be far superior to what we have now.

#7 Abolish The Federal Reserve — Since the Fed was created in 1913, we have had 18 recessions, the value of the U.S. dollar has fallen by about 98 percent, and the U.S. national debt has gotten more than 6000 times larger. Abolishing this debt-based system is one of the keys to a bright economic future for America.

#8 Cut Red Tape — As President Trump has proposed, two existing government regulations should be eliminated for every new regulation that is enacted.

#9 Getting Federal Bureaucrats Off Our Backs — I will work very hard to get federal control freaks off of the backs of our farmers, our loggers, our miners, our ranchers and our small business owners.

#10 Local Control Of Education — It is time to get the federal government out of the education business. I want to abolish Common Core and the Department of Education, and I want control over education to be as close to the local level as possible.

#11 Shut Down Big Brother Spying — Government agencies have been conducting unconstitutional surveillance of American citizens for decades, and that needs to stop now.

#12 True Limited Government — President Trump has proposed shutting down more than 60 different government programs and agencies. That would be a good start. Instead of asking which government agencies we should close, we should be asking which government agencies really need to remain open.

#13 100% Repeal Of Obamacare — Rapidly rising health insurance premiums are financially crippling Idaho families. Republicans in Congress have fumbled the ball, and we must repeal Obamacare immediately.

#14 Build The Wall — We need to make sure that everyone comes into this country through the front door. We must end illegal immigration, and so I support President Trump’s call to build a wall on the southern border.

#15 End Sanctuary Cities — President Trump has proposed cutting off all federal funding for so-called “sanctuary cities” , and I will fight very hard to get this done.

#16 Supporting Our Veterans — My father is a vet, and I will work passionately to make sure that our veterans receive the respect, care and support that they deserve.

#17 Fighting Islamic Terror — I fully support President Trump’s fight against ISIS, and I will push for legislation that would give local communities all over America the option to say no to refugees from terrorist hotbeds.

#18 Stopping Reckless Government Spending — We are 20 trillion dollars in debt and we continue to steal more than 100 million dollars from future generations every single hour of every single day.

#19 Bringing Jobs Back To America — The U.S. has lost more than 70,000 factories since China joined the WTO in 2001. Our formerly great manufacturing cities now look like war zones, and we desperately need to start making things in this country once again.

#20 Energy Independence — The United States has abundant reserves of oil, natural gas and clean coal, and we need to take the regulatory shackles off of the energy industry so that we can start moving toward energy independence.

#21 Resisting The Globalists — We must reduce the power and influence of the United Nations, and we must strongly fight all attempts by the globalists to erode American sovereignty.

#22 Supporting States Rights — It is almost as if the 10th Amendment doesn’t even exist today. If I am elected, this is what his message to the feds will be: ‘Hand over the keys and get out of Idaho’.

#23 Removing The Wolves — Under Bill Clinton, Canadian gray wolves were brought to Idaho. These wolves travel in packs and are killing machines. I am 100% committed to removing these wolves from our state.

#24 Holding Judges Accountable — Federal judges that disregard the U.S. Constitution and that choose to legislate from the bench should be subject to impeachment.

#25 An Unashamed Christian — Like President Trump, I am not ashamed to say that I am a Bible-believing Christian, and if we truly want to make America great again we need to return to the values and principles that this nation was founded upon.

If you believe in what we are trying to do, we would love to get you involved in our campaign. We need many more volunteers, many more contributors and many more people sharing the material that we post on our official campaign Facebook page.

We are just a small part of a national movement that is beginning to emerge. It began with Donald Trump’s victory back in November, and it has continued in races all over the nation.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Americans Fled Blue States in the Hundreds of Thousands Due to High Taxes and Crime Rates

The grass seemed way greener where the states were redder for many people living in blue states, as new data suggests hundreds of thousands of people fled Democratically dominated states in order to bring themselves to places that had less crime and lower taxes.

According to the Daily Caller, three states, in particular, saw a massive departure of Americans to the tune of 450,000, taking their wallets with them as they fled. This is leading to the problem of having no one around to pay the bills in these tax-heavy states.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

CNN Host Concerned Working Americans “Are Going to Vote for Donald Trump Again” After Getting Bonuses and Pay Raises

CNN’s Allyson Camerota expressed her concern about how the tax breaks for Americans will harm the Democrats chances of winning in the mid-term elections with Michigan’s Democrat Congresswoman Debbie Dingell.

Camerota appeared somewhat panicked, as she started out her segment whining to Dingell about bonuses and pay raises that Americans will receive as a result of Trump’s GOP tax bill:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

CNN’s “Useful Idiot” Jake Tapper Cheerleads Muslims to Serve in American Government

Before we get to the pith and the marrow of this important topic of countering revisionist and CNN “Useful Idiot” Jake Tapper concerning a “religious test,” we must first understand that the term “religion” to the Forefathers always fell underneath the umbrella of the Christian faith (Lutheran, Catholic, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Methodist, Wesleyan, Baptist etc… Not Hindu, Islam, Buddhist, etc.)

For example, if I were to go to India, I would expect them to rule according to their religious beliefs of Hinduism, and they do.

If I went to China, I would expect them to rule according to their religion of Buddhism, and they do.

If I went to a Muslim nation, I would expect that they would oppress through their religious totalitarian methods of Sharia law, and they do.

Furthermore, do you suppose for one minute that Barack Hussein Obama would have been elected president or given a pass to entertain America’s enemies within the people’s White House or to “fundamentally transform” America if he did not profess to be a Christian? No way.

So, in America, a Christian nation, it should come as no surprise to rule according to the Mosaic Institution, and so we do (Exodus 18:21).

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As you can see, Jake Tapper questioned Roy Moore’s comment in which he stated that a “Muslim” should not be allowed to be a member of Congress, by asking why and under what Constitutional provision?

What are you saying Jake, that some representatives are to uphold our enumerated Laws and some are okay to transgress and destroy? Is that somehow permissible?

This is what he is clearly stating. If there is no vow to serve “We the People” honestly, being held accountable before the One true God, then what will be the consequence?

“If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.” —Siraj Wahhaj

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

FBI Celebrates Taking Down a ‘Terrorist’ Who Told Undercover Agents He Couldn’t Go Through With an Attack

The enthusiastic republishing of the FBI’s narrative does little more than rewrite the DOJ’s press release. Very few have dug into the charging documents. If they had, they might not have depicted a terrorist attack that was never going to happen as somehow being “thwarted” by the arrest of a 26-year-old man reeling from the recent loss of his children in a custody battle.

According to the criminal complaint [PDF], Everitt Jameson was planning to detonate explosives at Pier 39 in San Francisco, a popular destination for tourists. The lead-up to Jameson’s arrest (and supposed “thwarting”) was filled with FBI informants and undercover agents, but not a single actual member of a terrorist group.

The investigation began with a paid informant passing on Jameson’s Facebook activity to the FBI.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

GOP Rep Calls for ‘Purge’ of ‘Deep State’ Cronies Within the FBI

This is common sense. Most congressmen are too afraid of deep state retaliation to say it.

Republican lawmaker Francis Rooney of Florida called for a “purge” of “deep state” operatives from the FBI and Department of Justice on MSNBC Tuesday.

“I’m very concerned that the DOJ and the FBI, whether you want to call it ‘deep state’ or what, are kind of off the rails,” Rooney told MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson. “Look at what that Strzok guy was texting. What that Ohr guy with the dossier Clinton oppo research people, and then this McCabe guy’s wife takes $600,000 from Clinton related sources while she’s running for state senator?”

“I think the American people have very high standards for government agencies, and to see these kinds of people, like these aforementioned examples… [which are] extremely nerve-wracking for me, and undermine my confidence that the agencies don’t respect the Constitution and will put the ends before the means… We’ve seen a lot of ends before means culture, both out of the Obama administration, from Hillary Clinton with her $84 million of potentially illegal campaign contributions, the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One,” he said. “People need a good clean government.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

How to Defund the U.N.

A few of its agencies do useful work. American taxpayers shouldn’t pay for the many that don’t.

By John Bolton

As an assistant secretary of state in the George H.W. Bush administration, I worked vigorously to repeal a hateful United Nations General Assembly resolution equating Zionism with racism. Foreign diplomats frequently told me the effort was unnecessary. My Soviet counterpart, for example, said Resolution 3379 was only a piece of paper gathering dust on a shelf. Why stir up old controversies years after its 1975 adoption?

We ignored the foreign objections and persisted because that abominable resolution cast a stain of illegitimacy and anti-Semitism on the U.N. It paid off. On Dec. 16, 1991, the General Assembly rescinded the offensive language…

           — Hat tip: KS [Return to headlines]
 

Moviegoing Hits 22-Yr Low… LA Times Blames Everyone But Anti-Trump Hollywood

The LA Times is reporting that moviegoing is at the lowest level since 1995. The article blames Americans who are going to see fewer movies, on streaming services, which, to some extent, could be true, but from the majority of the comments we’ve seen on our Facebook page, which reaches almost 1.7 million followers, Americans are no longer interested in paying their hard-earned money to support the anti-American and anti-Trump hate machine that is Hollywood. While there are a few openly conservative actors in Hollywood, the majority of them are swimming in a cesspool of liberalism and are consumed with hate for President Trump and his deplorable supporters.

— From George Clooney trashing Trump over his stance on refugees coming to America from Muslim hotbed nations, to Meryl Streep using a televised award ceremony to trash our newly inaugurated President, to has-been pop stars like Madonna saying she’d like to blow up the White House; America has had it up to their eyeballs with people who are some of America’s top earners, thanks to the support of people they openly mock for supporting President Trump.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

New Footage From Las Vegas Massacre Reveals Possible Muzzle Flashes From Helicopters That May Have Conducted “Air Assault”

In the first paragraph of this online news artcle: What appears to be muzzle flashes emitting from multiple aircraft can be seen on numerous videos captured on the night of the massacre.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Newsweek: Trump, Nazis Stole Christmas for White Nationalism

Newsweek has outdone itself with their recent piece, published on Christmas Eve, entitled “How Trump and the Nazis Stole Christmas to Promote White Nationalism.”

It begins with the sentence “Donald Trump wants Americans to think he re-invented Christmas” and goes downhill from there. It argues that, because Donald Trump has taken credit for people saying “Merry Christmas” again, instead of the more politically correct “Happy Holidays,” he is a Nazi.

Here are some fun quotes. First the thrust of the piece:…

[Comment: Gloablists and their puppet media constantly seek to compare Trump and his supporters as Nazis. Note how the rabid lies are more important than a profit since all mainstream media vehicles are tanking fast.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Rare and Mysterious Vomiting Illness Linked to Heavy Marijuana Use

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Diagnosing the syndrome can also be frustrating and expensive. There is no blood test to link the stomach ailment with marijuana use, so physicians often order pricey CT scans and lab tests to rule out other medical problems.

Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome was first documented in Australia in 2004. Physicians have historically misdiagnosed it as the more generic cyclic vomiting syndrome, which has no identifiable cause or, as in Queen’s case, acute intermittent porphyria (AIP).

“Five years ago, this wasn’t something that [doctors] had on their radar,” says Dr. Kennon Heard, an emergency physician at the University of Colorado in Aurora who co-authored the Colorado study showing a possible tie between the liberalization of marijuana and a surge of the vomiting illness. “We’re at least making the diagnosis more now.”

One surefire sign of the illness is when patients find relief in hot showers and baths. Queen said she would vomit repeatedly unless she was in a hot shower, so she’d stay in there for hours. Toxicologists say the heat may distract the brain from pain receptors in the abdomen but, like the syndrome itself, that phenomenon is not well understood.

The exact cause of the condition remains a mystery. Toxicologists say the chemical compounds in marijuana may throw off the normal function of the body’s cannabinoid receptors, which help regulate the nervous system.

Some people may be genetically predisposed to the syndrome, or marijuana’s potency or chemical makeup may have changed over time, says Dr. Craig Smollin, medical director of the San Francisco division of the California Poison Control System and an ER doctor at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital…

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Rep Sheila Jackson Lee Suggests First Class Customer is a Racist for Complaining About Being Bumped to Back of Plane by United Airlines to Give Lee Her Seat…

Customer Claims Apology Never Happened: “United has NOT apologized to me”

Did United Airlines really apologize, and did they do enough to compensate the first-class customer they bumped to the back of the plane? To add insult to injury, the treatment first class passenger Jean-Marie Simon claims she received by the United gate agent was completely disrespectful and inappropriate. And is it okay for a sitting US Congresswoman to insinuate that a passenger is a racist because she was angry for being treated horribly by the airlines after she was bumped from her seat? Is it really racist to complain about an airline that gave up your first class seat to a US Congressman who is supposed to be a public servant?

Jean-Marie Simon was a passenger on a flight from Houston to Washington D.C. and has accused United Airlines of giving her first-class seat to U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. D-Houston. The flight attendant threatened to remove her from the plane for complaining and snapping a photo of the Houston congresswoman:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Snowmageddon Dumps Record 60 Inches of Snow on Erie, Pa; “Declaration of Disaster”

On Tuesday, the city of Erie, Pennsylvania signed a declaration of disaster emergency, after a two-day storm dumped 5 feet of snow. Heavy lake-effect snow set record-setting snowfall totals in the snow belts to the east of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.

From 7 p.m. on Dec. 24 to 6:02 p.m. Dec. 26, Erie had received 60.0 inches of snow, which shattered numerous records for the region. Nearly all of the snow fell on Monday and Tuesday.

AccuWeather Meteorologist Bill Deger said, “this is now the biggest two-day snow total on record for Pennsylvania, besting the old record of 44 inches, which was set in Morgantown from March 20-21, 1958.”

Dale Robinson, the county’s emergency management coordinator, said that the declaration will allow the National Guard to respond to the paralyzed region. Robinson adds the National Guard deployment is “really for precautionary measures for the additional amount of snow we think we’re going to get.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 and the Breakdown of the Black Family

Conservatives tend to regard the growing trend of single-parent families as an issue of personal responsibility, but what if the liberals who blame society are partly right? What if they can point their finger to a bill sponsored by two Republicans and signed into law by a Republican president?

Prior to the 1930s, the labor force participation rate for black Americans was roughly equal to that of whites. Following passage of the first federal minimum wage in 1931, these rates started to diverge, and from the 1950s to the present, national black unemployment has remained at double the rate for whites. This is not surprising: Minimum wage restrictions discourage businesses from hiring workers who are regarded as “less marketable” due to either their lack of experience or societal prejudice.

The impact of minimum wage on worker participation depends on how much it exceeds market-based wages. This in turn varies from state to state. Since information on the size of this gap is not easily available, the state “regulatory environment” as determined by Forbes magazine can serve a more comprehensive means for estimating of overall administrative barriers to job growth (including minimum wage).

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The UN Tried to Mess With Trump, But They Ended Up With a $285 Million Budget Reduction Instead

When are people going to learn that you don’t mess with Trump? Over the past several decades, the United Nations has grown into a vast bureaucratic monstrosity that is completely out of control, but previous administrations have just kept feeding the beast. Thankfully, we now have a president that is not afraid to stand up to the globalists, and the $285 million budget reduction that Trump and his team just negotiated is the largest budget reduction in UN history. Those that have not read “The Art of the Deal” yet may want to do so, because this is Trump at his best. The following is the statement that UN Ambassador Nikki Haley put out about this stunning budget reduction…

Today, the United Nations agreed on a budget for the 2018-2019 fiscal year. Among a host of other successes, the United States negotiated a reduction of over $285 million off the 2016-2017 final budget. In addition to these significant cost savings, we reduced the UN’s bloated management and support functions, bolstered support for key U.S. priorities throughout the world, and instilled more discipline and accountability throughout the UN system.

“The inefficiency and overspending of the United Nations are well known. We will no longer let the generosity of the American people be taken advantage of or remain unchecked. This historic reduction in spending — in addition to many other moves toward a more efficient and accountable UN — is a big step in the right direction. While we are pleased with the results of this year’s budget negotiations, you can be sure we’ll continue to look at ways to increase the UN’s efficiency while protecting our interests,” said Ambassador Haley.

What makes this deal even more interesting is the fact that it came just after the UN General Assembly voted 128 to 9 against Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

[Comment: Ideally a start towards end goal of abolishment.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump’s Momentous First Year

We’ve experienced a miracle in our day that a lot of us thought we might never see again.

The conservative base wanted a consequential President; one who could overcome a combination of our country’s decline, the neutering of conservative principle, the increasingly poor economy, the leftward lurch of our major institutions, the suicidal tendencies grafted into our country by the left, and the increasing mindlessness of our culture. Trump filled the ticket as a candidate.

An incomplete list:

The economy has taken an unprecedented move towards the better.

GDP is moving upwards. Most are forecasting close to 4% growth in 2018.

New jobs are increasing monthly.

Manufacturing jobs are returning to the country for the first time in thirty years. The bleeding of corporations leaving the country has stopped.

Corporations have begun to reinvest in American factories and interests.

Trade deals are being renegotiated to our economic benefit.

The first major tax cut legislation in thirty years was just signed into law. Massive amounts of regulation have been cut, spurring business optimism.

Consumer optimism is higher than in the past two decades.

The coal industry in our country has been revived.

Pipelines for oil have been released for construction completion.

We have expanded oil drilling, even in ANWAR.

We are virtually energy independent as a nation.

Our energy businesses have become exporters.

Our stock market is through the roof, up 30%, new highs almost daily.

Business optimism has not been higher. Atlas stopped shrugging.

The horrid Obamacare individual mandate was torpedoed.

Justice Neal Gorsuch was voted to the Supreme Court.

Trump appointed more judges in his first year than any other President.

He is remaking the judiciary in a conservative image as he promised.

He has slowed illegal immigration to a level not seen in thirty years.

He is destroying MS 13, and other illegal immigrant gangs. […] There will be many lists of his accomplishments in the next month, a few have come out already. Some on the left understand what is happening, while most on the left run around like chicken littles telling us the sky is falling, that “The Russians are Coming”! That Trump doesn’t know what he is doing. That Trump is the evil of evils. That Trump has never done anything right in his whole life!

In the meantime, Trump has plans to begin rebuilding infrastructure, building the wall, to make a military be strong and proud again, to honor our veterans, our police, perhaps fully repeal Obamacare. There is more, his list is large, and he is learning at warp speed.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Welcome to Skid Row 2017: Shocking Scale of Homelessness in Downtown LA is Exposed

Three-minute LiveLeak clip shows the brutal reality of Christmas Day in the underbelly of Downtown LA

The shocking footage — captured using a car dash camera — shows the brutal reality of life on the street for some 20,000 people in the notorious Skid Row district.

Shot on 5th Street, 6th Street and San Pedro Street, it is a stark glimpse into the day-to-day existence of some of the country’s poorest citizens — including women and children.

This area of LA’s central business zone is considered to be one of the most dangerous places to live in the city…

[see video at link]

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Why Final “Sunday Night Football” Game Was Canceled… is Low Attendance the Reason?

The NFL announced Tuesday that the final “Sunday Night Football” game of the season has been canceled…Was it due to low attendance in previous weeks? Well, it’s part of the reason. Low attendance has been plaguing the league since the kneeling controversy took hold.

Recently, a liberal news source tried to downplay the boycott from NFL fans by citing injuries from key star athletes in the NFL as the reason for low interest in games. We think the kneeling controversy has more to do with the lack of interest in games. It’s being reported that the attendance is down 9% from last year:

We’ve seen stadiums with hundreds of empty seats along with low viewership.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Poll: Canadians Want Returning Muslim Terrorists Prosecuted Not Hugged Like Useful Idiot Justin Trudeau Suggests

Canadians prioritize prosecution over rehabilitation for jihadi suspects: poll

Nearly two-thirds of Canadians say the government should prosecute and lay criminal charges against individuals suspected of being involved with jihadi groups overseas, instead of focusing on rehabilitating them when they return to Canada, according to a new survey.

A Nanos poll found that 62 per cent of respondents support prosecution of Canadians suspected of jihadi involvement abroad, as opposed to 28 per cent who say the government should prioritize rehabilitation and deradicalization; 10 per cent said they were unsure.

The survey raises questions about the Trudeau government’s multifaceted approach to dealing with returning suspected jihadis, which includes enforcement, surveillance and deprogramming individuals.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Wynne Lies About ‘Rising Tide of Islamophobia and Racism’ At Muslim Convention in Pathetic Display of Divisive Identity Politics

The Muslim community has had a challenging year with rising Islamophobia in Canada and the world, Premier Kathleen Wynne told the 2017 Reviving the Islamic Spirit conference.

The year 2017 included a violent rampage at a Quebec mosque, and legislation in that province that would bar women who choose to cover their faces from accessing public services, she said.

“Violence is the worst consequence of the rising tide of Islamophobia and racism in Canada and around the world,” Wynne said to applause. “But what happened in Quebec was not an isolated incident. Police statistics tell us that anti-Muslim hate crimes are on the rise.”

“…Police statistics tell us that anti-Muslim hate crimes are on the rise.”

Wynne’s claim is Absolutely False — “According to Statistics Canada data released Tuesday, police across the country recorded 139 hate crimes against Muslims in 2016, down from 159 in 2015.”

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An Alien Solar System: Trappist-1 Discovery Tops Our 2017 Exoplanet List

The year 2017 featured one of the most remarkable exoplanet discoveries in recent memory: a total of seven Earth-size planets have been found orbiting a cool dwarf star, three planets of which are in “goldilocks” orbits, meaning they could have conditions right for life.

In Feb. 2017, the scientific journal Nature published a paper detailing the new exoplanet findings, by lead author Michaël Gillon, a scientist from the Institute of Astrophysics at the University of Liège in Belgium. Initial observations hinted at the existence of several tightly packed planets orbiting the ultracool star now known as TRAPPIST-1, with three planets confirmed. Using two telescopes located on opposite sides of the world, and one in space, Gillon and his team then found four more rocky planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system at the start of this year, bringing the grand total to seven. Researchers can’t yet discern surface features on those planets, but the discovery kindled excitement about the search for life elsewhere in the universe.

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Angela Merkel Latest: Germany Leader Urged to Quit Before Term Ends

ANGELA Merkel’s popularity has plunged as German voters turn against the Chancellor, a damning new opinion poll has revealed.

Mrs Merkel’s failure to form a coalition since September’s inconclusive election means Germany has been without a government for 13 weeks.

According to a YouGov survey, almost half of voters now want the Chancellor to quit her four-year term early if she remains in power.

Of the 2,036 respondents, 47 per cent of wanted Mrs Merkel to resign before 2021, up from 36 per cent in a poll taken in October.

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France Bans Christian Film While Allowing Muslim Prayer to Block Traffic

France capitulates to Islam

France has banned a children’s movie from school for not being “secular enough,” despite allowing praying Muslims to block public streets.

French officials said the nativity scene from the film The Christmas Star was “too Christian” to show to children.

“This one was judged not enough secular by the teachers,” reported le Républicain, translated from French. “They had not realized, before organizing the release, that the animated film was about the birth of a certain Jesus.”

“They realized ‘there was a problem of the theme’ being projected and stopped the film, before deciding to repatriate the children to their school, next to Langon.”

In contrast, French officials don’t seem to have a problem with Muslims blocking traffic for full-blown prayer sessions:

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Swedish Women Told to ‘Stay Indoors’ To Avoid Being Raped

Sweden is famous for many things. Mainly craptastic mass-produced home furnishings, a 1970s chart-topping pop group, and rape. Lots and lots of rape. In fact, they’ve earned the title of “Rape Capital of the West,” and there’s no sign of them relinquishing that title anytime soon.

In fact, the rapery is at such a critical mass, their government is taking action to put a stop to it. They’ve instructed Swedish women to avoid rape by remaining indoors and not traveling alone. Yes, really.

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The West Proves That Poland’s Loyalty Was Worthless

Poland, one of the most loyal EU members, was just stabbed in the back by Brussels after the bloc initiated punitive Article 7 proceedings against it, proving that Warsaw’s unwavering loyalty to the West was worthless this entire time and thus giving Poles a reason to reconsider whether it’s time that they attempted to restore their long-lost Great Power status in Europe.

Many Poles were shocked to hear that Brussels had begun the process to sanction their country, despite knowing in the back of their minds all along that this was a very probable scenario. The EU had been warning Poland for months now that it wouldn’t tolerate the ruling Law & Justice party’s (PiS) judicial reforms, labelling them as “anti-democratic” in spite of the same envisioned changes already being in place in many Western European countries. All that PiS wants to do is make it so that judges are accountable to the people, not to one another, and break the backs of the communist-era clique that still controls the country’s courts. This is crucial in the modern context because PiS follows a EuroRealist ideology that aspires to improve Poland’s sovereign standing in the EU, a vision which is directly at odds with EU-hegemon Germany’s EuroLiberalism that instead wants all member states to be subservient to an unelected bureaucracy in Brussels.

EuroRealism vs. EuroLiberalism

The matter is an urgent one for Poland because PiS’ Civic Platform (PO) predecessors stacked the courts with their allies before leaving power after the ruling party won the first-ever post-communist electoral majority in the country’s history in 2015. PO’s former leader is the current President of the European Council Donald Tusk, and he and his organization are popularly regarded as Germany’s proxies in Poland. PiS, on the other hand, is allied with Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party, with which it shares a strident belief in the conservative ideology of EuroRealism. It had long been the case that EuroLiberalism was on the ascent in Europe ever since the end of the Cold War, but the 2008 global economic recession and the 2015 Migrant Crisis sparked a grassroots movement all across Central and Eastern Europe which has seen the rapid rise of EuroRealism.

Landlocked and tiny Hungary is structurally unable to affect any bloc-wide change in the EU, but its much larger Visegrad partner Poland is in a comparatively better position to do so, hence why Budapest passed the ideological baton to Warsaw in encouraging Poland to lead the “Three Seas Initiative” (“Intermarium”). Germany feels threatened by the Polish-Hungary Strategic Partnership and senses that the common people of Central and Eastern Europe under their sway are turning against Berlin, watching in horror as they reject the dangerous EuroLiberalism that threatens their national identities and instead embrace the EuroRealism that promises to protect them. The most powerful manifestation of this trend in practice is Poland and Hungary’s utter refusal to accept even a single forcibly relocated civilizationally dissimilar migrant into their countries, while their fellow Visegrad member of the Czech Republic has only admitted a dozen. As a result, all three countries are therefore being threatened with sanctions by Brussels on Berlin’s behalf.

Migrant Motivations

It’s with this backdrop in mind that many people believe that Article 7 was initiated against Poland in order to punish it for being the most powerful and outspoken member of the “Three Seas Initiative” against the EU’s forced migrant relocation scheme, with Warsaw’s judicial reforms being used as a convenient excuse. The EU wants to make an example out of Poland after being utterly humiliated by its new Prime Minister Matesuz Morawiecki who pledged earlier this month to make Europe Christian again and mocked the bloc’s “values”. The ongoing Color Revolution unrest in the country hasn’t succeed in toppling the government after almost two years, and if anything, it’s been counterproductive because the authorities and their supporters exposed the connections that the PO-led movement has to Germany and George Soros and therefore strengthened their domestic support.

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UK: Shoplifters Who Steal Less Than £200 Will Not be Pursued

Retailers have accused ministers of failing to stop sharp increase in shoplifting after it emerged that criminals that steal less than £200 worth of goods won’t be pursued by the police.

Most police forces no longer attend reports of shop theft and will only send out an officer if there’s been violence or a threat of violence against retail staff.

Ministers have been accused of leading the effective decriminalisation of shoplifting, as those that steal goods under the £200 threshold are now dealt with by post, in the same manner of someone who receives a speeding fine.

In a recent meeting between the Home Office and leading retailers the government was warned of a crisis in which ‘prolific and persistent’ criminals that were exploiting rules by moving around high streets often stealing goods worth just under £200, the Daily Telegraph reported.

Most police forces no longer attend reports of shop theft and will only send out an officer if there’s been violence or a threat of violence against retail staff.

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US Lets Militants Train, Mount Attacks From Its Syrian Bases — Chief of Russian General Staff

The US is hosting training camps for militant groups in Syria, including former ISIS fighters who fled from Raqqa, said the head of Russia’s General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, citing data obtained by aerial surveillance.

The US forces have effectively turned their military base near the town of al-Tanf in southeastern Syria into a terrorists’ training camp, Gerasimov said in an interview to Russia’s Komsomolskaya Pravda daily on Wednesday.

“According to satellite and other surveillance data, terrorist squads are stationed there. They are effectively training there,”Gerasimov said, when asked about what’s going on at the base.

The general also said the US has been using a refugee camp in northeast Syria, outside the town of Al-Shaddadah in Al-Hasakah province, as a training camp for the remnants of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorist group, including those evacuated from Raqqa, and other militants.

“This is essentially ISIS,” Gerasimov said. “They change their colors, take different names — the ‘New Syrian Army’ and others. They are tasked with destabilizing the situation.”

Some 400 militants left Al-Shaddadah for Al-Tanf, launching an offensive on the Syrian forces from the eastern bank of Euphrates, after the main ISIS forces were routed there, Gerasimov said.

[Comment: All funded and supported by globalist run deep state using American tax dollars via traitorous State Dept. ]

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10 Injured, Dozens Evacuated After Explosion in St. Petersburg Store (Video)

Nine people have been taken to hospital following an explosion in a storage locker at a busy St. Petersburg supermarket. Over 50 people have been evacuated from the building.

“There was a bang. Emergency personnel are already on the scene. The evacuation has been completed, and there was no fire,“ a local Emergencies Ministry official told TASS news agency.

The victims were taken to the accident ward with injuries “of variable severity.” One man refused hospitalization.

Officials are treating the investigation as a potential mass homicide attempt. The explosion was caused by a homemade explosive device with the power equivalent to 200 grammes of TNT filled with lethal fragments.

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At Least Four People Are Injured After a Blast Rips Through a Supermarket in St Petersburg

A blast ripped through a supermarket in the Russian city of St Petersburg on Wednesday evening, injuring several shoppers, Russian news agencies reported.

Nobody was killed in the explosion, but at least four people were hospitalised and there were unconfirmed reports of a further ten people being injured.

The cause of the blast was not immediately known, but Russian news agencies reported that investigators had opened a criminal case on the grounds of attempted murder.

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‘Deliberate Attempt to Kill’ — Explosion Rocks Christmas Market in Russia

A bomb rocked a Christmas market in St Petersburg Wednesday, just days after a similar terrorist plot was foiled.

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Huge Explosion at St Petersburg Shopping Centre Leaves Christmas Shoppers Injured

Investigators are treating the blast, which happened at one of the busiest times of year, as a deliberate attempt to kill

Several shoppers have been injured in an explosion in a busy shopping area in St Petersburg.

Russian newspaper Fontanka reports that at 10 people were injured in the blast, and one person is believed to be in a serious condition.

The explosion is thought to have happened in the storage area of a supermarket.

It is not yet known what caused it, although it is being treated as deliberate attempt to kill, according to reports in Russia.

An official told TASS news agency: “There was a bang. Emergency personnel are already on the scene. The evacuation has been completed, and there was no fire.”

Dozens of police and ambulance crews descended on the busy location.

The explosion happened at around 6.30pm local time, and Russia’s Interior Ministry told TASS that people had been injured.

It happened at one of the busiest times of the year, in the build up to New Year celebrations.

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ISIS Has Over 10,000 Fighters in Afghanistan, More Arriving From Syria & Iraq — Moscow

The terrorist group Islamic State has over 10,000 loyal fighters in Afghanistan, and Moscow believes the US may be underestimating their threat, Russia’s special envoy says.

Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) was pushed out of their home base in Syria and Iraq this year by separate military operations of a US-led coalition, and the Syrian Army backed by Russia. Many of the IS fighters who fled those countries ended up in Afghanistan, where the terrorist group has as many as 10,000 troops at the moment, Zamir Kabulov, the head of the Middle East department in the Russian Foreign Ministry, said.

I believe the wisest course of action is to declare Afghanistan a terrorist state and be done with it.

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Scientists Discovered North Korean Defector Carried Anthrax Antibodies

As we’ve reported here and here, there have been several high-profile defections this year involving Korean soldiers sprinting across the heavily fortified border between the two Koreas — a feat that had not been previously accomplished since 2007.

In the first incident, the soldier was shot seven times as he staged a daring escape that ended with him being dragged to safety by American and South Korean forces.

In the second incident, a North Korean soldier simply walked across.

Two other soldiers also escaped in incidents that apparently weren’t picked up by the western media.

Now, doctors examining one of the soldiers have reportedly discovered that he possesses antibodies to Anthrax — a potent chemical weapon that was notoriously used in the 2001 Anthrax attacks in the US. According to the New York Post, a South Korean intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity did not say which of the four soldiers who fled the hermit kingdom this year had the antibodies in his system. But the discovery is causing concern in Seoul because, once the bacterium is released, it can kill 80% of those infected within 24 hours unless antibiotics are taken or vaccination is available.

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Hardline Australian Muslim Sheikh Refuses to Say Merry Christmas to Anyone So He Doesn’t Have to Explain Himself to Allah When He Dies

A fundamentalist Muslim sheikh from Wollongong south of Sydney has declared he refuses to wish anyone a Merry Christmas so he can please Allah and go to heaven.

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The Shocking Moment a Barefoot Woman Attacks a Christian Preacher Who’s Forced to Use His Bible to Protect His Face From Punches

A religious zealot has been assaulted in broad daylight in Geelong by a passerby who didn’t want to hear what he was preaching.

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Too Wasted to Work: Almost 27,000 Unemployed Australian Addicts Are on Disability Pensions Because of the Damage They’ve Inflicted on Themselves by Drink and Drugs

Almost 1,400 Australian drug addicts and alcoholics are receiving the disability support pension solely for conditions caused by their own substance abuse.

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Trucks, Bollards, Cranes and Road Closures: Anti-Terror Measures in Sydney Could Become Permanent After String of ‘Deliberate Attacks’ In ‘Vulnerable’ Melbourne

Sydney may have permanent anti-terror measures in the central business district after Boxing Day crowds shopped amid trucks, cranes and bollards.

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Albanian Criminals Win Right to Remain in the UK

Thousands of Albanians could be allowed to stay in the UK even if they have committed serious crimes after a Supreme Court ruling.

Two Albanian men who posed as Kosovan refugees won the right to remain, in a legal battle set to cost the British taxpayer £1million.

The ruling could allow thousands more to stay.

It is thought at least 80,000 refugees from Kosovo fled to the UK in the 90s while escaping war — but thousands of Albanians, including serious criminals, exploited the crisis to claim asylum in this country.

Two Albanian men who posed as Kosovan refugees have won the right to remain in the UK. One of the men, Dinjan Hysaj (pictured) was jailed for glassing a man in a pub

One Albanian, Dinjan Hysaj, 40, won the right to stay in the UK in 1999 but in 2011 was jailed for five years, reports The Sun.

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Beware of the Greek Bearing Immigrants

I couldn’t agree more with one sentence that was written by Dimitris Avramopoulus, the EU Commissioner on Migration. In “Europe’s migrants are here to stay” in Politico: “We must start to be honest with those citizens who are concerned about how we will manage migration”. The next step after writing these honest words where he admits to being helpless to stop/reduce coming migration flows should be his resignation as the EU Commissioner on Migration.

Clashing with EU’s President Donald Tusk, who on this issue is one of the few realists among eurocrats and in a recent letter contested the quota mechanism, Avramopoulus accused him of a lack of European solidarity; even though Tusk was behind closing the Balkan route in Macedonia, which decreased the pull factor of immigration to Greece.

First of all, communicating to the outer world the surrender of efforts to curb illegal migration is another pull factor as was Merkel’s “Wir schaffen das” or BAMF’s advertisement of a nicely designed, smoothed asylum process, translated into Urdu, Arabic, Turkish etc. And its impact was not minor as now BAMF is trying to dispel the myths of Germany’s migrant paradise that it created three years ago.

Avromopoulus’ task is to protect European borders, yet he claims that there is no way to protect them against irregular migration. He says that fences will not protect against migration and neither will harsh words. Despite the factual evidence that delayed efforts to close the Balkan route and efforts to cooperate with the Libyan coast guard finally brought results. So maybe it is not the way he presents it…

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Germany: Asylum Seeker Pair Arrested After Sexually Exposing Themselves to Girls as Young as 10

Two asylum seekers, a 32-year-old Syrian and a 20-year-old Afghan, were arrested in the German city of Augsburg and stand accused of repeatedly exposing their genitals to young girls on public transportation.

The two men are said to have exposed themselves time and time again on buses, trains, and streetcars, and have been in custody since the weekend. The Afghan admitted to police to four separate incidents of public exposure while the Syrian has yet to admit to any wrongdoing, Augsburger Allgemeine reports.

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How Terrorists Slip Through Immigrant Screening

On last night’s show, Immigration lawyer Guidy Mamann joined me to discuss the challenges Canadian border officers face when screening migrants entering the country illegally.

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Newsweek Climate Panic: Global Warming Could Cause Refugee Numbers to Skyrocket

In one of its more hysterical articles in some time, Newsweek asserts that global warming is turning vulnerable countries into “barren wastelands,” which, in turn, will trigger a mass exodus of new refugees.

Referencing a recent study published in Science, Newsweek warns in its most recent issue that refugee applications in the European Union could “triple” because of climate change, causing a rise of “188 percent” in asylum applications to the European Union.

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Supremes Tell Ninth Circuit to Stick It, Lift Order Halting the Cancellation of DACA

It’s become a sadly predictable spectacle: President Trump issues an executive order that’s fully within his authority, but is deeply disliked by liberals. Liberals run to court, seeking an Obama— Clinton— or Carter-appointed federal judge who is willing to ignore the limits of his or her own authority and issue an order against the Trump action. The result is often months of legal positioning between the Justice Department and the plaintiffs, all just to establish that the president of the United States is legally permitted to govern.

Ordinarily this would not be a controversial proposition. But because the president is Donald Trump, and because left-wing federal judges are increasingly willing to issue orders they have no legal authority to issue, we end up having court battles over every little thing — until it ultimately ends up being decided by the Supreme Court.

The good news is that SCOTUS is consistently coming down on the side of the law, which is to say they’re ruling that lower courts can’t issue orders striking down legal presidential orders just because they don’t like the order or don’t like the president. And last week the Supremes did it again, this time telling the ultraliberal Ninth Circuit to get out of the way and stop trying to save Barack Obama’s ill-conceived DACA program protecting illegals who arrived here as children:…

But it continues to astound that so many lower-level federal judges are willing to issue such rulings, which is why it’s so important that President Trump and Senate Republicans are making so much progress in appointing conservative judges to the federal bench wherever there are vacancies. In addition to Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court, Trump has appointed 19 judges at the Court of Appeals level and 48 at the District Court level. Many have already been confirmed, and the Senate is moving quickly on those still needing confirmatio Continued below…

Why is this important? Because liberal judges are willing to ignore the limits on their own authority to issue orders preventing a Republican president from governing, and liberal activists know they can judge-shop when they file lawsuits against legal presidential actions — ensuring that they draw the judges who will assist them in weaponizing the federal courts to become a quasi-political branch of government. President Trump inherited a lot of federal bench vacancies, and his decision to move with alacrity to fill these vacancies means judges who will respect and follow the law rather than simply doing whatever they want in the service of a political agenda.

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‘I Am So Sick of White Guys’: Liberals Celebrate Christmas With White People Are Bad Themed Adult Coloring Book

In yet another round of you can’t make this up stuff up hard-left insanity, a liberal writer from Seattle has published an adult coloring book that ridicules white people for their perceived slights against the leftist orthodoxy and unchecked “white privilege” that allows them to vote for someone like Donald Trump.

Author Jim Corbett apparently wrote the book out of frustration (see Trump Derangement Syndrome) with what he was seeing on TV in relation to a wide variety of leftist causes including white privilege, the sham Russian/Trump collusion investigation, censoring conservatives on college campuses, and kneeling during the National Anthem.

“ It came completely out of me screaming at my TV, and the way the GOP is taking the country off in a totally different direction,” Corbett told USA Today.

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Leftists Declare War on Thomas the Train

A conservative cynic from birth, I foolishly thought I had seen it all when it came to leftist madness. But then I saw, posted on CNN’s website, “Why kids love ‘fascist’ cartoons like ‘Paw Patrol’ and ‘Thomas’.” The article referenced several other articles that described Thomas as “a premodern corporate-totalitarian dystopia,” “imperialist racist and sinister,” and “classist, sexist, and anti-environmentalist.”

This caught my attention because my six-year-old boy — like children all over the world — loves stories of Thomas the Train. I recently took my children to Thomasland in Massachusetts and now my boy wants to visit the Thomasland in Japan. The Thomas cartoon is so popular that 1 billion dollars of merchandise related to the show is sold every year.

Reverend Wilbert Audrey, creator of Thomas the Train, has recounted how, when his 3-year-old son was ill with the measles, he told him stories about trains. Audrey says that in his own childhood he had to read boring books about perfect children so that he would learn from their moral example. He decided to write interesting books about engines with human characteristics in a fictional island he called Sodor. The trains would push the envelope until they got in trouble, be punished, and after making amends would be “bought back into the family so to speak.” Morality in the world of Thomas was making oneself useful to society, being a good friend, and keeping the railroad functioning smoothly. The human aspect of his trains is part of their appeal to children and the moral aspect of his stories was part of their appeal to the adults who read the stories to their children.

Now left-wing critics label the Thomas the Train show “racist” because the diesel villain is black. They call it totalitarian because trains are supposed to do what the manager of the rails, Sir Topham Hat, tells them to do. They call it sexist because there are more male trains than female trains. (In 2013 the British Labour shadow Transportation Secretary actually called out Thomas for its lack of females.) When Thomas is awarded two female passenger cars to pull because of good behavior, the feminists call this sexist too.

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Olympics: Fresh Push to Allow Men to Compete as Women

The International Olympic Committee is being asked to reverse its decision to let men compete in women’s events.

Otherwise, as Amanda Prestigiacomo noted earlier this year at the Daily Wire, “women all over the world are getting a taste of ‘fairness,’ leftist style!”

The article explains what happens when gender is “deemed a social construct that is totally disconnected from our biology.”

The request to the IOC has been made by the non-profit 4 Winds Christian Athletics, which pointed out that transgender Tiffany Abreu, 33, is playing on a top women’s volleyball team in Brazil and “is on track to compete at the 2020 Olympics in Japan.”

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UK: Snowflake Students Demand Removal of ‘Triggering’ Books

Students at some universities have drawn up a list of ‘trigger words’ and demanded books containing them should be removed from the library, Jo Johnson has said.

The universities minister warned institutions they have four months to clamp down on student zealots who restrict free speech on campuses.

Mr Johnson said he has seen too many ‘worrying’ incidents of groups trying to ‘stifle those who do not agree with them’.

He warned institutions that they have a duty to intervene and ensure differing points of view can be heard — however controversial.

And speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Johnson said students at one university had created an extensive list of ‘trigger words’ and demanded any books containing them be removed from the library.

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“Exquisite Human Leather” Products, Wallets, Belts, Shoes, Being Sold Online

Extremely discerning clientele can now purchase their own one-of-a-kind ‘human leather’ products such as wallets, belts, and shoes online but prices start at $14,000 USD, according to the company which handcrafts the items out of the ‘finest leather known.’

That’s right, you can now order your very own wallet or belt made from a previously living human being despite the fact that human leather, much like certain fur, is illegal.

The company/website “HumanLeather.co.uk” boasts about their “exclusive real human leather products” online.

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6 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/27/2017

  1. .
    WAY OF THE WORLD
    22 dec. 2017

    https://youtu.be/lkD5rgWYmx0

    Sweden: The Nation With No Voice
    We takes a look at how Sweden is dealing with multiculturalism, examines the Swedish psyche, and watches some TV for clues about the Sweden of the future already called ABSURDISTAN.

  2. No athletes capable of writing their name in the snow should be competing in women’s events.

    BTW, are there tans-gender nudist colonies? I was thinking of opening a new chain of motels, but this colony thing may have potential.

    Also, I am currently Chief of Fund Raising for the project of replacing Civil War statuary with the likenesses of Christine Jorgenson.

    My former project of terraforming Oahu into the profile of Michael Jackson so people in space would know how much we loved him, came off the tracks upon the protest [ to the Justice Department ] that donors had already bestowed this honor upon Elvis. My defense is that this is an auction and I’ve reopened the bidding.

    I do accept PayPal.

  3. Pray for Catholic Poland as it fights the Marxist-run EU. The Poles, Czechs and Hungarians know how Marxist tyranny sullies the dignity of each and every human being.

  4. Liberals have already overturned the Olympic Committee’s decision to ban African women with naturally high testosterone, as that already puts normal women into a position of basically racing men. So why not allow men to join too?

    It’s idiotic either way.

    Even more so when you realize it could be easily solved by giving medals separately to the testosterone-pumped African women and other women from around the globe (both separate from men, obviously).

    This whole “gender is a social construct” idea begs the question when lesbian couples will pop up at a sexologist praxis and wonder why they can’t get pregnant. Because why would you require sperm if biology isn’t important, right?

    It’s like the opposite extreme of completely uneducated couples that don’t know how sex works. And yes, there is at least one recorded account where a couple sought professional help because they couldn’t get pregnant and it turned out the guy was basically humping the woman’s belly. Because their line of thought was “a baby grows inside a belly, hence it must be conceived through the belly button”. After the doctor explained the correct way to them, they naturally had no problems conceiving at all.

    That’s why sex-ed and biology need to be hammered into student’s heads, so that we can avoid either of those extreme views.

    • Except sex-ed is being taught to promote LGBT…. viewpoints, and I suspect biology is equally corrupt. Besides, sex-ed belongs in the home not school.

    • I had always thought that story had to do with her husband being blonde too! Although one would have to be truly ignorant or sheltered to not be aware of the facts of life…

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