Russian President Vladimir Putin enacted a new law requiring tougher penalties against extremists, including possible life sentences for those who are convicted of recruiting for terrorists. Meanwhile, large concrete blocks known as “Putin Legos” have been placed in front of entrances to the Metro in Moscow.
In other news, the new Catalonian parliament will convene next month with a majority for the parties that favor separation from Spain.
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Independently-controlled cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin may or may not survive in the long run, but blockchain technology is definitely here to stay. This technology has revolutionized how digital financial transactions are conducted, and it was only a matter of time before the big boys began to adopt it. Previously, I have written about how the Washington Post is hyping something known as ‘Fedcoin’, but Fedcoin does not yet exist. However, a digital currency that uses blockchain technology that is called ‘Utility Settlement Coin’ is actually very real, and it is currently being jointly developed by four of the largest banking giants on the entire planet. The following was recently reported by Wolf Richter:
UBS, BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank, Santander, the market operator ICAP, and the startup Clearmatics formed an alliance in 2016 to explore the use of digital currency between financial institutions and central banks, using blockchain.
The ultimate goal of the project is to create a digital currency known as Utility Settlement Coin (USC), which will facilitate payment and settlement for institutional financial markets. I decided that I had to know more about Utility Settlement Coin, and so I went to the source…
The cryptocurrency revolution is still in the very early stages, and nobody is exactly sure how it will end, but without a doubt the banksters will be a major player in this drama. If you doubt this, just consider what one of the top executives at UBS is saying about Utility Settlement Coin:
“Digital cash is a core component of a future financial market fabric based on blockchain technologies,” said Hyder Jaffrey, Head of Strategic Investment & FinTech Innovation at UBS Investment Bank. “There are several digital cash models being explored across the Street. The Utility Settlement Coin is focused on facilitating a new model for digital central bank cash.”
Digital central bank cash?
I don’t like the sound of that at all.
We definitely do not want the banksters to co-opt this movement. Blockchain technology should be used to free humanity from debt-based central banking, but instead the exact opposite could end up happening.
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Italy: Milan Bourse Value Up 22.7% in 2017 But Overtaken by Zurich
Up to 37.8% of GDP
(ANSA) — Milan, December 29 — The value of shares on the Milan bourse rose 22.7% to 644.23 billion euros in 2017, Borsa Italiana said Friday — but it has been overtaken by the Zurich bourse. The stock value was therefore now equivalent to 37.8% of GDP, compared to 31.8% last year, it said. Zurch just shaded Milan in terms of the yearly rise in stock value, sources said.
The blue-chip FTSE Mib index rose 15.5% over the year and the FTSE Italia All Share index gained 17.2%.
In 2017 32 IPOs raised a total of 5.4 billion euros, Borsa Italiana said.
In addition, there were 11 capital hikes that raised a total of 14 billion euros, it said.
Italy’s biggest bank Unicredit was the most traded share amid a 13-billion-euro recapitalisation that saw 5.5 million shares change hands for a value of more than 74 billion euros.
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The Washington Post Ominously Warns That Bitcoin is Being Used by ‘Extremist Groups’
Demonization is the first step toward making something illegal. Over the past couple of months, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have experienced a tremendous surge in popularity. Personally, I was completely floored the other day when my nephew wanted to ask me questions about investing in Bitcoin. It seems like the whole world is getting caught up in the cryptocurrency revolution, and needless to say, the powers that be cannot be thrilled about this. Independently-controlled cryptocurrencies represent an existential threat to the global debt-based central banking system that we have today, and so the elite have a very strong incentive to bring about the demise of Bitcoin and other emerging cryptocurrencies.
So it is no surprise that one of the key mouthpieces for the elite, the Washington Post, has begun to demonize Bitcoin. And if you are going to demonize something, one of the fastest ways to do that is to link it with racists. The following is an excerpt from an article that the Post just published entitled “Bitcoin’s Boom Is A Boon For Extremist Groups”…
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Baltimore Holds Vigil for Murder Victims
Baltimore residents gathered for a vigil Thursday to honor those who have lost their lives to the city’s gun violence as Baltimore breaks new homicide records.
The city recently reached 343 homicides for 2017 so far, breaking the city’s per capita record on killings, reports CBS Local Baltimore. In response, hundreds of people stood outside the Baltimore War Memorial Building, with some carrying signs with an inspirational word for the new year.
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Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman had promised a decision in the Justine Ruszczyk Damond by year’s end, but now he says his office is ‘getting more information and evidence.’
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DHS Announces Program to Illegally Scan Our Faces and They’re Forcing US to Pay for it
As TSA agents continue to prove their incompetence in the “War on Terror,” the Department of Homeland Security is now allocating $1 billion in taxpayer funding to create a facial recognition program that will illegally scan Americans’ faces.
A study conducted by Georgetown Law’s Center for Privacy and Technology looked at the biometric scanners that are creating an inventory of the faces of individuals leaving the country at airports across the United States. While they are only at certain major airports right now, the full implementation of these scanners could cost Americans up to $1 billion.
The study noted that while the “9/11 Response and Biometric Exit Account” created by Congress has the funds for the program, “neither Congress nor DHS has ever justified the need for the program.”
In addition to the fact that Congress has never provided a reason why the system is needed in the U.S., the study claimed that DHS has “repeatedly questioned ‘the additional value biometric air exit would provide’ compared with the status quo and the ‘overall value and cost of a biometric air exit capability,’ even as it has worked to build it.”
Not only is a government agency pouring $1 billion into a program to increase the country’s security measures even though it lacks full confidence, and has no evidence that the program it is implementing will do so, there is also the fact that the program requires Americans to give up their civil liberties, and it has never been explicitly authorized by the government. As the researchers from Georgetown Law noted:
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Drexel Professor Who Blamed Las Vegas, Texas Church Shootings on Trump and ‘Whiteness’ Resigns
George Ciccariello-Maher has resigned from his post at Drexel University, claiming he was the target of a year-long harassment campaign over several of his controversial tweets.
Ciccariello-Maher, known best for his “All I want for Christmas is White Genocide” tweet, which he claimed was an attempt to poke fun at the paranoid fantasy that the left wants to decrease the amount of white Americans, has stepped down from his position at Drexel University. Most recently, Ciccariello-Maher was relegated to teaching online courses, as the university was concerned for his safety when he was on campus.
In the wake of the tragedy, Ciccariello-Maher baselessly blamed the Las Vegas concert massacre on “white supremacist patriarchy” in October this year.
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Exodus: Nearly Half Million Fled 3 Deep Blue States in 2017
Three Democratic-leaning states hemorrhaged hundreds of thousands of people in 2016 and 2017 as crime, high taxes, and, in some cases, crummy weather had residents seeking greener pastures elsewhere.
The exodus of residents was most pronounced in New York, which saw about 190,000 people leave the state between July 1, 2016, and July 1, 2017, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released last week.
New York’s domestic out-migration during that time period was about the same as it was during the same time in 2015 and 2016. Since 2010, the state’s outflow of just over 1 million residents has exceeded that of every other state, both in absolute terms and as a share of population, according to the free-market think tank Empire Center.
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Former NASA Scientist Wants to Create a New Breed of Superhumans
A former Nasa researcher says he wants to ‘help humans genetically modify themselves’ to create a new breed of superhumans.
Dr Josiah Zayner, 36, made headlines last month when he became the first person known to have edited his own DNA.
The biochemist attempted to give himself super strength by removing a protein that inhibits muscle growth in his left arm, via an injection of DIY gene therapy.
In a new interview, Dr Zayner claims we are ‘slaves to the genomes we have’, and believes humanity will develop into a new breed of super-strong human thanks to widespread DIY genetic engineering.
[Comment: It’s “Resident Evil” come to life.]
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Government Raid Revealed Baby Bodies Preserved in Warehouse
Government investigators found four bodies, appearing to be second-trimester infants, preserved in a Detroit cadaver warehouse owned by Arthur Rathburn. The raid was triggered by information showing that he had provided human organs with hepatitis and HIV instead of healthy tissue to paying clients in December 2013, according to Reuters. Rathburn has pled “not guilty” and is facing trial next month for defrauding both clients and donors. However, the indictment he is currently facing does not even mention the four prenatal bodies. Nor is it clear where they came from or who he was providing them to. The infants were lifted out of a brownish liquid, which documents indicated “included human brain tissue,” according to Reuters, which included intentionally pixilated pictures because of their graphic nature in the report.
Liberty Counsel is calling for an investigation into how these babies were obtained by Rathburn. “Rathburn wasn’t running a charity,” said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. “It’s possible these were aborted children. It is also very possible that the illegal profiting and trafficking of aborted human organs is much more widespread than the public knows. These four children deserve an investigation, and if they were among other aborted children who were sold for profit, those children deserve justice as well. We must end aborted organ trafficking and the first step is a detailed investigation,” concluded Staver.
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Judicial Watch, a government watchdog group based in Washington, D.C., has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the FBI for records about the reassignment of FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, who was removed from Speical Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Trump-Russia collusion in the 2016 presidential campaign apparently because of anti-Trump and pro-Clinton texts he shared with his mistress, Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer who also briefly worked on the Mueller team.
“It is disturbing the FBI has stonewalled our request about the Mr. Strzok demotion for four months,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
“One can only conclude the FBI and Justice Department (including Mr. Mueller’s operation) wanted to hide the truth about how Strzok’s and Page’s political biases and misconduct have compromised both the Clinton email and Russia collusion investigations,” said Fitton.
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Kansas Police Investigate Whether Fatal Shooting Was Result of Prank Called ‘Swatting’
Kansas officials and the FBI are investigating whether a fatal shooting by a police officer on Thursday was the grim outcome of a prank by video gamers.
Officials said the death of an unarmed man, whom family members identified as Andrew Finch, 28, at a home in Wichita, may have been the result of a hoax called “swatting.” As defined by 911.gov, swatting is “false reporting an emergency to public safety by a person for the intent of getting a (‘SWAT team’) response to a location where no emergency exists.”
Wichita Deputy Police Chief Troy Livingston said Thursday’s shooting, which he deemed a “tragic and senseless act,” happened when an officer was responding to a call from someone claiming that a father had been shot in the head and that a shooter was holding his mother, brother and sister hostage, The Wichita Eagle reported.
“That was the information we were working off of,” Livingston said.
Supposedly responding to a hostage situation, police arrived at the home and “got into position,” Livingston said.
Finch went to the front door, and after briefly complying with “several verbal commands” to put his hands in the air, was shot by an officer who reportedly thought Finch had drawn a weapon from his waistband. Finch later died at a hospital.
The deputy police chief said Finch was not armed.
A woman named Lisa Finch told The Eagle that her son, Andrew, was the victim. She said Andrew, who has two young children, walked to the door after hearing something, then screamed and was shot, before family members were forced to go outside barefoot in the freezing cold and were cuffed.
Lisa Finch added that her granddaughter was forced to step over her dying uncle, and that no guns were found in the home.
“What gives the cops the right to open fire?” Lisa Finch asked. “That cop murdered my son over a false report in the first place.”
Andrew Finch’s aunt, Lorrie Hernandez-Caballero, called whoever made the false report to police a “murderer.”
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Man Dies After Allegedly Killing Wife, Shooting at Police on I-95
A man suspected of shooting at law enforcement in Northern Virginia was wanted in a homicide
STAFFORD COUNTY, VA (WUSA9) — A man suspected of shooting at law enforcement in Northern Virginia was wanted for allegedly murdering his wife just minutes before officers tried to pull him over, the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office said.
Around 11:30 a.m. Thursday, deputies from the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office responded to England Run North Apartments on Heron Drive and found 36-year-old Melissa Dee Lee shot to death, the sheriff’s office said. Deputies put out a “Be On the Look Out” bulletin for a black Ford Explorer possibly connected with the homicide.
A short time later, Virginia State Police Trooper Z.G. Torrance spotted the vehicle on I-95 near Centreport Parkway in the Fredericksburg, Va. area. The trooper tried to pull over the vehicle, but the driver, 42-year-old Gregory Lee, refused to stop.
Two miles later, Lee suddenly stopped in the center lane of I-95, leaned out the driver’s side window and fired several shot at the trooper, police said.
One bullet went through the windshield.
The trooper ducked to the side and escaped getting hurt. The bullet was later found lodged in his seat.
Lee kept driving and the trooper continued to pursue him along with the help of a Stafford County Sheriff’s deputy.
But once again, Lee slowed down and starting firing out of his window at the police vehicles, VSP said.
This time, a bullet struck the Stafford County Sheriff’s deputy’s windshield. The deputy suffered a minor injury.
Police said Lee was weaving in and out of traffic at a high rate of speed. At the 142 mile marker, he sideswiped another vehicle on I-95 and lost control, police said. The Ford ran off the right side of the road, crashed into the guardrail, overturned and landed on its roof in the middle of I-95 northbound lanes.
Lee was seriously hurt. A helicopter flew him to Fairfax Inova Hospital where he later died…
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Man Killed by Police; Online Gaming Community Blames ‘Swatting’
Online gamers have said in multiple Twitter posts that the shooting of a man Thursday night by Wichita police was the result of a “swatting” prank involving two gamers.
Swatting is an internet prank where someone makes a call to a police department with a false story of an ongoing crime — often with killing or hostages involved — in an attempt to draw a large number of police officers to a particular address.
The prank has gained traction across the country with online gamers. Those who try to cause the swatting incident will use caller ID spoofing or other techniques to disguise their number as being local. Or they call local non-emergency numbers instead of 911, according to 911.gov…
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Multiple People Are Shot at a Long Beach Business After Reports of an ‘Active Shooter’ — LA Times
Multiple people were shot Friday at a business in Long Beach, authorities said.
Long Beach police said they responded to the location amid reports of an active shooter at large. They said they found multiple causalities but said it was no long considered an active shooting scene.
The incident occurred at around 2:30 p.m. near the corner of Long Beach Boulevard and San Antonio Drive in the Bixby Knolls area.
No details were immediately available, but the area was blocked off by police and fire crews. Several ambulances were on the scene.
Several witnesses said the shooting occurred in a building that housed a law office.
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Many were anticipating that Donald Trump would be just like every other president once he got into office, but Trump has proved the skeptics wrong. Normally, professional politicians make all sorts of wild promises while they are running for office, but once they win they actually deliver on very few of them. We have seen this happen over and over and over again, and a lot of people fully expected Donald Trump to follow the same pattern. Fortunately for the American people, Donald Trump is trying very hard to be a man of his word, and we should greatly applaud him for that.
Not since the Reagan administration have we seen a president do so many positive things in a single year. The Washington Examiner has compiled a list of 81 major accomplishments during Trump’ s first year that you can find right here, and WND has compiled an even larger list of 170 major accomplishments right here.
Of course there is so much work that still needs to be done, and that is one of the reasons why I am running as the pro-Trump candidate for Congress in Idaho’ s first congressional district. Once I win my race, I intend to be President Trump’ s best friend in Congress, and I will work tirelessly to implement the Make America Great Again agenda.
The mainstream media would have us believe that Donald Trump is a deeply unpopular president, but that is not the case at all. In fact, Donald Trump’ s current approval rating of 46 percent is exactly equal to Barack Obama’ s approval rating at the end of his first year in office…
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Sharia in the USA: Christians Jailed for Preaching to Muslims — Dearborn, Mi Officials Sued
The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) announced today that the City of Dearborn, its Mayor, John B. O’Reilly, its Chief of Police, Ronald Haddad, 17 City police officers, and two executives of the American Arab Chamber of Commerce were named as defendants in a ninety-six page federal civil rights lawsuit filed in the Federal District Court in Detroit this morning.
The lawsuit, brought by TMLC and co-counsel and Sharia law expert, David Yerushalmi, stems from two separate police actions at the June 2010 Dearborn, Michigan Annual International Arab Festival…
Robert Muise, TMLC’s Senior Trial Counsel who is handling the matter, stated, “While the videos of the police violating the fundamental constitutional rights of our clients are utterly shocking, it is perhaps even more shocking that City officials, including the Mayor, would engage in a propaganda campaign to smear the good reputation of these Christians even after they were acquitted by a jury of the bogus criminal charges. All of this is strong evidence of the fact that Sharia is negatively influencing the City and its officials.”
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US prosecutors spelled the name of a slain Australian mother wrong as they announced more time was needed to decide whether to charge the Minneapolis cop who shot her dead.
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The Left’s Strategy: When All Else Fails, Return to Race Hatred
In a kind of circular devolution, where the left looks for more and more scapegoats to keep its idiot legions hating somebody, the radical left has come back to the most ancient hatred, mixed with stupidity and ignorance, to keep the running mob going. You could see it start to happen with the highly staged “Antifa” demonstrations recently; with the murder in effigy of a Donald Trump mask-wearing actor playing Julius Caesar in New York’s Shakespeare in the Park performance, sponsored, of course, by the New York Times; and with “comedian” Kathy Griffin’s career suicide by displaying an ISIS-type severed head of the president of the United States.
This is all well known in psychiatry. It’s called mob pathology. It’s absolutely routine and constantly replayed throughout history in malignant cults that live by hate. The left has just traced a complete circle back to Marx in 1848, which was identical to the French mass killers of the “Revolution” and onward to Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler. The psychology and pathology of these cults are always the same.
Because mobs always need a scapegoat, and because mobs are fickle, they always end up with race hatred or gender hatred. White males are the current hate objects of the cult of the left.
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This is What Happens When a Russiagate Skeptic Debates a Professional Russiagater
Have you ever wondered why mainstream media outlets, despite being so fond of dramatic panel debates on other hot-button issues, never have critics of the Russiagate narrative on to debate those who advance it? Well, in a recent Real News interview we received an extremely clear answer to that question, and it was so epic it deserves its own article.
Real News host and producer Aaron Maté has recently emerged as one of the most articulate critics of the establishment Russia narrative and the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory, and has published in The Nation some of the clearest arguments against both that I’ve yet seen. Luke Harding is a journalist for The Guardian where he has been writing prolifically in promotion of the Russiagate narrative, and is the author of New York Times bestseller Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win.
In theory, it would be hard to find two journalists more qualified to debate each side of this important issue. In practice, it was a one-sided thrashing that The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill accurately described as “brutal”.
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Quebec Man Sentenced to Prison for Trying to Leave Canada to Join ISIS
A Quebec man convicted of attempting to leave Canada to join the Islamic State has been sentenced to nine years in prison.
A judge sentenced Ismael Habib today to eight years for the terrorism-related offence and one additional year for giving false information to obtain a passport.
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Berlin Sets Up New Years Eve Party “Safe Zone” To Protect Women From Migrant Sex Attacks
Berlin’s New Year’s Eve party at the Brandenburg Gate will feature a “safe zone” for women to protect them from rape and sexual assaults by gangs of migrant men.
Women who feel “harassed” will be able to seek help from a special “safety zone” located on Ebertstrasse which will be staffed by the German Red Cross.
While organizers will obviously never acknowledge it, the “safe zone” is blatantly designed to protect women from sexual assaults by predominantly Muslim migrant men.
Even the far-left BBC admits that the safe zone is a response to events two years ago in Cologne, which have since been repeated in other cities, when “Hundreds of women reported being attacked by gangs of men with migrant backgrounds.”
Shocking footage that later emerged from the night shows women screaming as they are assaulted, with police totally overwhelmed and unable to properly respond.
One eyewitness, a hotel security guard who fought off some of the attackers, said police told him the scene resembled a “civil war”.
Some women were pinned down and raped by the migrants, with one victim even being impregnated and later forced to have an abortion.
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Catalonia’s New Parliament to Convene on January 17
Spain’s prime minister said Friday he will convene Catalonia’s new parliament on January 17 and hopes the region’s next government won’t renew the push for independence. Mariano Rajoy set the date just over a week after a regional parliamentary election resulted in the separatist parties he hoped to keep out of power again winning the most seats and in turn a good chance to lead the next Catalan government. Rajoy ordered the December 21 election under constitutional powers he invoked in October to dissolve the previous parliament after it voted to declare Catalonia an independent republic. Governing Catalonia will remain in the hands of Spanish authorities until a new president and cabinet are chosen. The Spanish PM has not ruled out seizing control of the region again, if necessary, AP reported.
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Italy: 20 Barriers With Metal Detectors for Roman New Year
At Circus Maximus, Lungotevere
(ANSA) — Rome, December 29 — Italian police will set up 20 barriers with metal detectors around sensitive sites in Rome for the New Year, police said Friday. Most of the barriers will be placed around the Circus Maximus and along the Lungotevere river frontage where the main New Year’s Eve events will take place, they said. A special police task force will be set up on the afternoon of December 31, chaired by police chief Guido Marino.
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I admire him. He’s honest. In a religion that calls for lying and deceiving the kuffar, it is a revelation.
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Right Wing Populism Could Become ‘New Normal’, No End in Sighter for Surge: Tony Blair Institute
The “populist surge” in Europe has far from peaked and is the most significant change to the European order since the end of the Cold War, a new report by former British left-wing Prime Minister Tony Blair’s own think tank has claimed.
Assessing what the report identifies as a “populist threat” as a means to defeat it and “renew the centre”, the globalist Institute for Global Change document questions widely-held assumptions that right-populist politics is an “interlude”, or blip in history which “optimistic” observers believe will burn out.
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Sweden Needs Hundreds of New Prison Cells: Justice Minister
Sweden needs hundreds of new prison cells and detention spaces in the coming years according to Justice Minister Morgan Johansson, who thinks there will be more criminals handed sentences and therefore more space needed.
[Comment: The article is silent on the real reason for new prison cells.]
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Prince Harry and other royals who “feed the progressive agenda” are signing the British monarchy’s death warrant, the head of Britain’s oldest conservative think tank cautioned.
Speaking on Breitbart News Daily, Bow Group chief Ben Harris-Quinney praised Queen Elizabeth II for remaining strictly neutral on political matters, but warned that her heirs are showing less respect for the convention.
“The Royal family is supposed to be apolitical, but what we’ve seen in recent years is the Duchess of Cambridge editing left-wing blog the Huffington Post,” he told SiriusXM host and Breitbart London Editor in Chief Raheem Kassam.
Pointing to Prince Harry’s politicised interview with Barack Obama on the BBC’s flagship news programme Wednesday, in which the former president launched a thinly-veiled attack on President Donald Trump, Harris-Quinney blasted the royal for “clearly politicising” his role in the family.
“More significant than this radio interview I think, is his insistence on inviting Obama to his upcoming wedding, which will be a state event, and making a point to snub Donald Trump.”
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UK: Fish and Chip Shop Boss, 31, And His Alleged Accomplice, 22, ‘Planned a Christmas Massacre’
A chip shop owner terror suspect and his friend appeared in court today accused of planning to build a remote control car bomb to detonate from a laptop for an alleged Christmas massacre.
Andy Star, 31, and Farhad Salah, 22, were arrested on December 19 in a series of early morning raids in the Chesterfield and Sheffield areas of South Yorkshire.
Today both appeared in custody at Westminster Magistrates Court via video link from Leeds Magistrates Court.
Both men, of Iraqi origin, spoke only to confirm their name, age and address, and are both accused of a single terror count.
They allegedly planned to build an IED that would be placed inside a driverless car, with a laptop controlling the vehicle and detonating the device.
[Comment: Andy Star!?…obviously not his birth name.]
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UK: Multiculturalism Has Failed, Say Bradford Residents
Nine in ten people say Bradford is divided, in a nod to the city’s failed multiculturalism experiment, according to a new poll in a local newspaper.
The eye-opening survey comes as city councillors said “Asian youths” had attacked pubs owned by white business owners in November and more generally intimidated women from visiting the town centre after dark to enjoy the night time economy. The council chamber heard further claims that armed police had been required at a recent Jewish community event amid a “huge increase” in anti-Semitism and that people had been caught “goose-stepping” outside a centre for asylum seekers in Keighley.
A report on the story, appearing in both the Telegraph & Argus and Asian Image, asked readers: ‘Do you think Bradford is a divided district?’ to which a whopping 89 per cent answered ‘yes’ in a poll of almost 2,300 people. Latest census information published in June 2017 revealed that Bradford is home to the largest Pakistani population in England (20.3 per cent) with a quarter of the population (24.7 per cent) identifying as Muslim.
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UK: Suspects Charged With Preparing Christmas Terror Acts
Two men have been charged with terror offenses after police raided five properties earlier this month and arrested four on suspicion of plotting a Christmas terror attack.
Farhad Salah, 22, from Sheffield and a 31-year-old man from Chesterfield have been charged with ‘Engaging in the preparation of an act of terrorism’ and will appear before Westminster Magistrates on Friday.
They were among four men arrested on December 19 in Derbyshire and South Yorkshire as specialist counter terrorism police officers raided five properties following an ‘Islamist related’ investigation.
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Life Imprisonment for Terrorist Recruiters: Putin Greenlights Tougher Law on Extremism
President Vladimir Putin has enacted legislation prescribing life sentences for terrorist recruiters as well as lengthy jail terms for those convicted on justification of terrorism.
Terrorist recruiters and contractors will now face severe punishments, ranging from at least eight years in prison along with heavy fines, to life imprisonment. Those found guilty of such crimes can be sentenced to life behind bars even if no one was killed as a result of their activities. Prior to the new legislation, the maximum penalty for such offenses was “only” 10 years of incarceration.
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A 17-year-old teenager has been charged for allegedly kicking a police officer in the head on Boxing Day while another young teenager was being arrested at Melbourne shopping centre.
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‘Accept the Will of the People on Migration, Culture, or Hit the Road’: Orban Tells Europe’s Leaders
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Europeans are “asserting their will” by supporting leaders who reject mass migration and support Christian foundations, and gave a warning to politicians who deny the “natural order of democracy”.
The conservative Fidesz party leader told Kossuth Radio’s listeners that 2.3 million Hungarians took part in the national consultation against the George Soros-backed pro-mass migration plan, and Mr. Orbán now intends to spend the next few months convincing his opponents that Europe is right to protect her borders and her culture.
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Becoming Swiss Will be Harder From January
Those wishing to take out citizenship in Switzerland will face tougher requirements from January 2018.
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The man raped and burned his former girlfriend alive — the Supreme Court did not grant an appeal
THE life sentence of the jailbreaking murder of the teenager from Pori remains in force. The Supreme Court announced on Thursday that it would not grant an appeal to the sentenced person.
Vaasa Court of Appeal in August convicted Ramin Azimi for murder to life imprisonment. A 17-year-old jogging girl from Pori died in January 2015 as a victim of a homicide.
Azimi was also sentenced for gross rape.
THE INCIDENT was about the girl’s desire to end her relationship with the man. According to the Court of Appeals, the former boyfriend Azimi had repeatedly tried to get the girl to continue the relationship.
According to the statement, Ramin Azimi first raped the girl in the nightclub at Ulvila. The man then transported the still alive girl to Kokemäki by car, moved her to a wooden storehouse, poured gasoline on her and burned her alive.
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Inter-Ethnic Conflicts on the Rise Between Asylum Seekers in Germany
Migrants of different ethnicities are forming enclaves within asylum homes and the level of inter-ethnic violence is on the rise as some African migrants claim to be treated as “like dirt” by Arab asylum seekers.
The southern German town of Lörrach has seen an escalation of violent behaviour by groups of migrants from different backgrounds and is part of a broader trend of migrant on migrant violence, Die Welt reports.
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Italy: Muslim Migrant Climbs Christmas Tree to Remove Its Cross
This is in microcosm what the Muslim migrant invasion of Europe is doing to the continent as a whole: directly challenging and working to destroy its native culture and identity. And since the migrants are only able to do this because of the globalist fecklessness of Europe’s leaders, this Muslim should not have been arrested. He should have been given the key to the city. Because this is the Europe that Italian leaders want. This is the Europe they have chosen.
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Multiculturalism Has Failed Say Bradford Residents
Nine in ten people say Bradford is divided, in a nod to the city’s failed multiculturalism experiment, according to a new poll in a local newspaper.
The eye-opening survey comes as city councillors said “Asian youths” had attacked pubs owned by white business owners in November and more generally intimidated women from visiting the town centre after dark to enjoy the night time economy. The council chamber heard further claims that armed police had been required at a recent Jewish community event amid a “huge increase” in anti-Semitism and that people had been caught “goose-stepping” outside a centre for asylum seekers in Keighley.
A report on the story, appearing in both the Telegraph & Argus and Asian Image, asked readers: ‘Do you think Bradford is a divided district?’ to which a whopping 89 per cent answered ‘yes’ in a poll of almost 2,300 people. Latest census information published in June 2017 revealed that Bradford is home to the largest Pakistani population in England (20.3 per cent) with a quarter of the population (24.7 per cent) identifying as Muslim.
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Poland and Hungary Warned They Will Face Consequences ‘Over Violating EU Migrant Quotas’
The news comes as the nationalistic politics of both countries has prompted increased tensions between Brussels.
One EU source told Reuters: “We are confident that the ECJ will confirm validation, then they [Poland and Hungary] must abide by the decision.
“If they don’t, then they will face consequences, both financial and political.
“No more opt-outs, there is no more ‘one foot in and one foot out.’ We are going to be very tough on this.”
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Switzerland: 94.9 Per Cent of Asylum Seekers in the City of Basel Are on Benefits
A report from Switzerland’s SRF news, says that a very large number of refugees and asylum seekers in the country received benefits in 2016.
Officially, 25,544 refugees and 55,504 asylum seekers are on benefits or receive “social assistance”. They make up 35 per cent of all welfare recipients in the country, according to the report.
On average 85.8 per cent of refugees and 88.4 per cent of asylum seekers received benefits last year. The study says that the high percentage can be explained by insufficient language skills, invalid qualifications, or weak health.
The highest proportions of the groups on benefits were registered in Switzerland’s urban areas. In the country’s third largest town Basel, 94.9 per cent of asylum seekers received social benefits.
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Washington Post Runs Cover for Drunk Driving Illegal Immigrant
The Washington Post published a profile on an illegal immigrant Wednesday that downplayed his two drunk driving charges.
The headline of the piece focused on the illegal immigrant’s work as a dance teacher, stating, “He taught lawyers, vets and more how to ballroom dance. Now his students are trying to save him from deportation.”
Galtsog Gantulga, affectionately referred to by dance students as ‘G,’ was allowed into the United States through the Delayed Action for Child Arrivals (DACA) program. However, Gantulga lost his DACA status after he was caught drunk driving in 2016. Twice.
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Cernovich shared the email from YouTube that informed him his documentary, Invasion! How Sweden Became the Rape Capital of the West, which was published in March, would be censored in Europe on Thursday.
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“Insidious White Spaces”: Liberal Professors Claim That Farmers’ Markets Are Now Racist
Two liberal professors from San Diego State University are now claiming that the existence of farmers markets in urban areas, outside the control of corporations, is racist and normalizes the eating habits of white people.
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J Bosco made the insane claims in a chapter of a new anthology released this month that “researches” the correlation between how white a specific farmers market supposedly is and the gentrification in said area.
As Campus Reform notes, “The anthology, which features contributions from a variety of professors, aims to highlight the harms of “environmental gentrification,” a process in which “environmental improvements lead to…the displacement of long-term residents.”
The Washington Times also reported on this hardcore liberal insanity:
[Comment: Both of these morons should be fired from the University.]
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‘Problem of Whiteness’ Course Returns to University
This spring, a controversial course titled “The Problem of Whiteness” will once again be offered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The African Cultural Studies course seeks to teach students to “understand how whiteness is socially constructed and experienced in order to help dismantle white supremacy,” according to its online description.
When the course debuted during the spring 2017 semester, it prompted national headlines and much controversy, with some Republican lawmakers even calling for the course to be canceled.
The class this spring may touch on that, based on the fact that its professor created a montage of headlines criticizing the course as its new syllabus cover sheet, its online description shows.
[Comment: Anyone with two functioning brain cells can see this is “course” is globalist propaganda designed to foster hatred and divisiveness into society. Exactly what the globalists seeks to achieve, create racial strife in the USA. Divide and Conquer.]
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Record Breaking Winter Cold? Don’t Worry, The Climate Explainers Have it Covered
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Does record breaking winter cold cast doubt on climate predictions of milder winters? Could ANY weather or climate shift cast doubt on the dominance of that wicked little trace molecule? Apparently not, according to leading climate explainers…
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Cernovich’s documentary works just fine for me and after checking, seems there are plenty of people willing to upload it time and time again to make sure it stays there.
Was my first time seeing it and first time seeing the facebook footage and I have to say it is very disturbing. [Intemperate and indecorous suggestions redacted]. Their lawyers too, for supporting such scum.
I was wondering whether or not my suggestion was too much and if I should’ve asked to redact it if need be – sorry for the inconvenience, I’ll try to control my temper better next time.
** “The Problem of Whiteness” **
“The Problem of Blackness” would be a good companion course.
JD’s comment is obviously true. Twenty years ago or so, I’d have scratched my head over that but now, in every area of life, it’s obviously as he says.
The importation of hostile foreigners and others by the millions to “contribute” to our nations (i.e., to drive natives from the job market, wages down, and welfare costs to the stratosphere; and to destroy the social fabric) is pure malevolence. What else fuels the absurd, patently false utterances of Merkel, Timmermans, and Sutherland? 150,000 years and six months of human history taught humans to be wary of foreigners but contemporary elites act as though all that understanding of human nature was up ended by the invention of the espresso machine.
Leftism is a death cult at its heart. Witness the leftist fanatics’ celebration of and fascination with abortion, population control, euthanasia, and now the importation of, inter alia, the Islamic enemy who has plagued the world for 1,400 with his hostility to infidels, slavery, misogyny, and studied obscurantism that is lovingly regarded like a giant, sparkling diamond.
The ghastly history and suffocating effect of Islam is well known to the erudite elites and they know that the end result of Muslim importation will not be a harmonious, vigorous, hybrid blending of two great cultures (it is to laugh) but chaos and bloody conflict that they will ride out. They will then enjoy the dawn of a new era of a depopulated world.
If that is too fantastic, if civil strife and chaos are not what’s for breakfast, then consider that the leftist rapturous swooning over every lurch toward totalitarian government, every dismantling of our freedoms, is with the thought in mind that, at long last, “sensible” and “humane” solutions to the problems caused by pestilential humans can be implemented. There’s precedent.
If any doubt the sickness of the soul at the heart of Western elites, 10 minutes invested in reading Diana West’s post on some very clever people will dispel those doubts.
With respect to the so-called Gish Gallop mention in the Prison Planet link above, titled “This is What Happens When a Russiagate Skeptic Debates a Professional Russiagater”.
It is sad that the author resorted to peddling a false slur against Duane Gish to make her point.
https://uncommondescent.com/darwinism/notice-on-the-gish-gallop-false-accusation-tactic-and-fallacious-dodge/