German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her party, the CDU, have reportedly made it clear that they will not change their policy on immigration into Germany. Her government has decided to accept 180,000-220,000 migrants each year, notwithstanding the success of the anti-immigration party AfD in last September’s elections.
In other news, at the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, the billionaire philanthropist George Soros said that the social media giants Twitter and Facebook must be tightly regulated by governments. Mr. Soros referred to the companies as a “menace”.
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“Too Big to Believe” — Massive Scandal is Brewing at the FBI
As the Potemkin Village walls of The Left’s ‘Trump Collusion’ narrative crash and burn along with special counsel Mueller’s credibility, The New York Post’s Michael Goodwin sees far more wide-ranging problems ahead for America’s ‘intelligence’ agencies as the anti-Trump ‘secret society’ and lovers-texts-gate debacles threaten the core of the Deep State.
Goodwin writes that, during the financial crisis, the federal government bailed out banks it declared “too big to fail.” Fearing their bankruptcy might trigger economic Armageddon, the feds propped them up with taxpayer cash.
Something similar is happening now at the FBI, with the Washington wagons circling the agency to protect it from charges of corruption. This time, the appropriate tag line is “too big to believe.”
Yet each day brings credible reports suggesting there is a massive scandal involving the top ranks of America’s premier law enforcement agency. The reports, which feature talk among agents of a “secret society” and suddenly missing text messages, point to the existence both of a cabal dedicated to defeating Donald Trump in 2016 and of a plan to let Hillary Clinton skate free in the classified email probe.
If either one is true — and I believe both probably are — it would mean FBI leaders betrayed the nation by abusing their powers in a bid to pick the president.
More support for this view involves the FBI’s use of the Russian dossier on Trump that was paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. It is almost certain that the FBI used the dossier to get FISA court warrants to spy on Trump associates, meaning it used the opposition research of the party in power to convince a court to let it spy on the candidate of the other party — likely without telling the court of the dossier’s political link.
Even worse, there is growing reason to believe someone in President Barack Obama’s administration turned over classified information about Trump to the Clinton campaign.
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The recently revealed text messages from Clinton operatives within the FBI that spoke about a “secret society” within the agency that met to discuss ways to take out President Trump have led many to question how those involved still have a job at the agency despite the mounting evidence of widespread corruption.
Keep in mind that it has already been revealed that top counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, along with his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, were directly involved in a conspiracy to protect their preferred presidential candidate in Hillary Clinton while doing everything in their power to hurt her opponent, Donald Trump.
Now we know that those two, along with a slew of others within the federal government, actually continued their operation against Trump after he was democratically elected, even taking their conspiracy so far as to set up a sort of secret society which included the same key figures who helped jump start the sham Russian investigation in the first place.
Amazingly, there are apparently agents with the FBI itself who are just as angry about said conspiracy as are the American people and are now telling reporters that they are concerned that those involved still work for the FBI in any capacity.
According to a report from investigative journalist Sara Carter, agents within the FBI have told her that they question how anti-Trump operatives such as Strzok and Page even still have a job after all the shocking revelations surrounding their work to protect Clinton and hurt Trump.
Real Clear Politics reports:…
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Evidence Against Deep State is Piling Up: Massive Scandal at the FBI
The evidence continues to pile up against the deep state in the brewing FBI scandal. While the mainstream media assure the public through propaganda that there is no such thing as a “deep state,” the evidence shows otherwise.
According to The New York Post, each day brings credible reports suggesting there is a massive ongoing scandal involving the top ranks of America’s premier law enforcement agency: the FBI. The reports, which feature talk among agents of a “secret society” and suddenly missing text messages, point to the existence both of a cabal dedicated to defeating Donald Trump in 2016 and of a plan to let Hillary Clinton skate free in the classified email probe.
If either one is true, and we believe both probably are, it would mean FBI leaders betrayed the nation by abusing their powers in a bid to pick the president.
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Health Ranger’s Theory: The Flu Vaccine is Causing the Flu Outbreak
If there is any part of you that’s inquisitive you’ve likely wondered how on Earth this year’s flu could be so bad. Afterall, we have vaccines and Western medicine’s advancements in technology to help people. But the Health Ranger says that is the exact problem with the influenza outbreak.
As the reports continue to come in that this influenza outbreak is killing about 100 people a day, many begin to wonder what the purpose of getting a vaccine that’s only 10% effective could possibly be. “What you’re never told, is that some of those deaths are because of the flu vaccine,” Mike Adams, the Health Ranger said. And Adams theory is that the vaccine is not only responsible for the outbreak of the flu, but for some of the deaths associated with it.
*Before continuing, this is not to say you should get the vaccine or you should not get the vaccine. You should, however, research the ingredients of the flu vaccine and possible side effects and come to the conclusion on your own whether or not this shot is right for you and your family.*
Adams wants people to know what they aren’t being told about this year’s flu by those who profit heavily by injecting people with the flu shot.
“It turns out that the flu shot, even when it works, which is rare because it’s usually the wrong strain but sometimes it works, but it creates vulnerability to influenza infections in subsequent years. In other words, there’s something about the flu shot (we can talk about what that is because we know) that weakens your immune system.”
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New Jersey Middle School Instructs Students Islam is the ‘True Faith’
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 24, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Thomas More Law Center (“TMLC”), a national nonprofit public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, filed a federal lawsuit yesterday evening in the New Jersey District Court against several officials and teachers of the Chatham Middle School and the School District of the Chathams, located in New Jersey.
The lawsuit, claiming several violations of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, was filed on behalf of Libby Hilsenrath and her minor son. Seventh-grade students at Chatham Middle School were allegedly forced to endure Islamic propaganda and an explicit call to convert to Islam through a disturbing set of videos in their World Cultures and Geography class.
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Larry Nassar was sentenced today to 175 years imprisonment, Justice Rosemarie Aquilina telling him “I’ve just signed your death warrant.” 163 of his victims — many of them young women athletes all but ordered to tolerate his abuse by sporting authorities who held the power to end their careers — gave accounts of assault at his sentencing.
Aquilina said Nassar’s “decision to assault was precise, calculated, manipulative, devious, despicable.”
“It is my honor and privilege to sentence you. You do not deserve to walk outside a prison ever again. You have done nothing to control those urges and anywhere you walk, destruction will occur to those most vulnerable.”
Nassar found competitive gymnastics to be a “perfect place” for his crimes because victims saw him as a “god” in the sport, a prosecutor said Wednesday, shortly before the former doctor was to be sentenced for years of molesting Olympic gymnasts and other young women.
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Rocky Mountain “High” Has Brought Devastation to Colorado
At the recent Gathering of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles (PSE) in St. Louis, MO, State Director of Eagles in Arizona, Susan Ellsworth, read a report by the Co-Directors of Colorado’s PS Eagles, James and Jayne Schindler. It was not only startling, but frightening.
Reefer, pot, Mary Jane, weed, grass, all of these terms refer to Cannabis. Many deceptive arguments were used to promote medical and then recreational marijuana legislation in the State of Colorado in 2012. Since then, the use of marijuana has decimated the state in numerous ways few have considered. Most of the following information comes from the Schindler’s own research.
Potent Pot — Marijuana is stronger now than it was 20 years ago, causing many of the health problems we are seeing today. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration over 20 years found that the level of THC or tetrahydrocannabinol, marijuana’s main psychoactive ingredient in the marijuana samples they seized, rose from about 4 percent in 1995 to about 12 percent in 2014.
Essentially, the drug cartels, who have plenty of money, are breeding new marijuana hybrid plants with higher levels of THC and other toxic and addictive chemicals in it. This is resulting in a much stronger and much more addictive marijuana plant, even though it may look, smell and taste similar to older plants.
Conversely, the level of CBD, or cannabidiol, the ingredient sometimes touted for its potential health benefits — fell from about 0.28 percent in 2001 to less than 0.15 percent in 2014.
Schools — Teachers unions bought into the provision that the first $40 million of taxes collected on cannabis sales would be earmarked for construction of schools. It has yet to happen after four years of collecting millions in tax revenue. Pot Usage — The number one problem in Colorado schools is pot smoking by the students. The Rand Corporation poll reported that two of every five college students are regular users, causing a dramatic increase in the drop-out rate. Regular use has proven to lower the IQ by eight points. Link
Lunch breaks at schools find kids piling into cars, rolling up the windows and smoking pot. Re-inhaling the trapped smoke is called “stove-piping,” resulting in a quicker and more intense high. On their return to the classrooms, they are out-of-control, causing the teachers to be both fearful and unable to teach.
Adolescent Usage — There is strong evidence that pot usage by teens is destructive to the adolescent brain. Research paints a grim picture for those who start smoking before age 18. Link Lawsuits — Colorado’s border states have sued for damages caused by marijuana smokers coming across the borders and depleting their law enforcement resources to focus on other crimes. Crime — Legalization has not reduced crime, as was promised. Black market pot is actually cheaper than tax subsidized marijuana. Robberies of pot shops is now a daily occurrence as they are a cash business and not allowed to have bank accounts. The state has become the money launderer as the tax monies can be deposited into state coffers. It is now reported that there are more pot shops than liquor stores and lower income areas are especially targeted for same. Crime has increased as have burglaries and robberies.
Legalization has impacted the drug cartels, so they have shifted gears and are now enjoying monetary gains from the sales of opioids, now epidemic and causing even more crime.
[Comment: Turning as much of the population onto drugs as possible is one prong in the globalist plan for destabilization of the USA. Do you really think Soros is pouring millions into the pro-drug agenda because he loves America?]
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S***hole California Part III: Democrat Mafia to Extort Profits From CA Businesses
California’s Democrats are on an accelerated path of destruction of the once Golden State. In Parts l and Part ll of my series on how California’s leftist Democrats have turned the Golden State into a sh*thole, I explain how California’s ruling party is doubling down on business-destroying policies, energy destroying policies, education destroying policies, and policies destroying California’s abundant natural resources. The new law claiming sanctuary state status is blatantly unconstitutional, as is “legalizing” marijuana.
But Wait!!! There’s More!!!
Democrats have proposed an Assembly Constitutional Amendment authored by two uber-leftists, Assemblymen Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, and Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento, to extort profits and tax savings from California businesses making more than $1 million — net, not gross. Democrats refer to these businesses as “corporations,” and these profits as “windfall,” which they say would be used for entitlements for low-income and middle-class families. What these really are is pension taxes.
And if extortion isn’t enough, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said he and his minions will prosecute and fine employers who cooperate with ICE agents in detaining illegal aliens, as laid out in AB 450, which (unconstitutionally) prohibits California employers from allowing immigration enforcement agents to enter workplaces without a judicial warrant. This unconstitutional and outrageous law also prevents employers from voluntarily sharing confidential employee information without a subpoena.
In essence, Becerra and Gov. Brown are forcing business owners to refuse to obey Federal immigration laws when asked, prioritizing illegal aliens over the safety and security of legal citizens in California. Both Becerra and Brown are ostensibly lawyers.
Assembly Constitutional Amendment 22 by McCarty and Ting, would impose a “surcharge” on corporations doing business in California, of 10 percent on net earnings of more than $1 million, equivalent to half what they received from the federal tax cut. In a nutshell, this doubles the corporate tax rate in an effort to “grab the cash California corporations are saving from President Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and spend it on social services,” Chriss Street at Breitbart said.
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What we are seeing today at the highest levels of our government should frighten all Americans.
As I laid out in detail in a recent interview for Judicial Watch, discussing the role of Fusion GPS, its interactions with the FBI, and Fusion founder Glenn Simpson’s testimony before a Senate committee, the evidence is rapidly emerging that senior officials in our government, most likely up to and including then-president of the United States Barack Obama, worked in concert to illicitly, and possibly criminally, derail the candidacy of the opposition party’s presidential candidate using fabricated information (or, as former FBI director James Comey described it, “salacious and unverified”) obtained by a private investigations firm from an enemy of the United States: Russia.
Even worse, once that effort to derail that candidacy failed and that candidate, Donald Trump, was elected, those same individuals used the same manufactured evidence as the basis to launch an investigation, employing the vast authority and technical resources of the United States government, whose ultimate goal, I believe, is to impeach and remove that duly elected president.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is a coup d’état.
Merriam-Webster defines a coup d’état as a “a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics.”
While the Hillary-FBI-DOJ-Fusion GPS cabal was not a violent coup, to be sure, it was certainly a decisive exercise of force in politics when it used, as has been reported, a fraud on the court to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on members of the opposing party’s presidential campaign. In fact, it is far more insidious than the sort of coups we typically see in Africa and Latin America. It required the subversion and corruption of numerous governmental agencies, not just the FBI — to effect: the Department of Justice and the National Security Agency to be sure, and possibly the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and other agencies as well.
I do not say this lightly. As the son of a World War II veteran, the father of a currently serving member of the U.S. military, and an American citizen, I care deeply about this country, the Constitution, and the rule of law. The American people need to wake up and understand the gravity of what is shaping up to be nothing short of an attempt to overthrow their government.
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4-Year-Old Girl Among Random Strangers Shot at by Brampton Man in ‘Outrageous’ Shooting Spree
Toronto police have arrested 20-year-old Adam Abdi, who allegedly opened fire on seven people, including a four-year-old girl, across five separate and seemingly random incidents this month. He’s facing 48 charges, including seven counts of attempted murder.
Adam Abdi, 20, is facing 48 charges, including seven counts of attempted murder.(Toronto Police) Toronto police have arrested a man who allegedly shot at random strangers, including a four-year-old girl, in five separate incidents this month.
Between Jan. 9 and 21, police say 20-year-old Brampton man Adam Abdi approached people in a variety of circumstances. They allege he opened fire before running away.
In the first case, he is believe to have shot at two people standing inside the hallway of an Etobicoke apartment building, wounding a 19-year-old man, police say.
Former private investigator Juelann Vander Mark was home at the time of the shooting and says she and a few other people came out into the hallway after hearing the commotion.
“Right away I went into my old routine and thought, ‘Make sure you secure the scene,’“ said Vander Mark.
She asked a neighbour for a few plastic cups to ensure the bullets and casings remained untouched until police arrived.
“I’m glad that they have someone in custody. It’s taken my nervousness down a notch,” said Vander Mark. “This is a family building. You expect to be able to wander around. It’s not a war zone…
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Another Wynne for Ontario: Campbell Soup Closing 87-Year-Old Toronto Facility, 380 to Lose Jobs
All the lost production is heading for the States.
Is it a case of Trump’s Reputation Capitalism or the soviet style business climate created by Great Leader Kim Dong Wynne?
Campbell’s was faced with a double whammy, Toronto has long been unfriendly to business, Wynne has made Ontario non-viable for everyone save those supping at the government trough.
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Council’s Newest Social Justice Warrior Promotes “Islamophobia” Agenda
We were already lectured about our alleged Islamophobic tendencies a little more than a year ago when controversial bus shelter ads were released during the first phase of a $400,000 ‘Toronto for All’ program.
And, of course, there’s the very controversial M-103 anti-Islamophobia motion passed in the House of Commons last March.
Now council’s newest social justice warrior, Councillor Neethan Shan, wants to lecture us about Islamophobia again.
Shan, a heavily union-backed NDPer who came to council via trustee roles on the Toronto District and York Region school boards, intends to put forward a motion at council next week designating Jan. 29 as a “Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia.”
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Justin Trudeau… Maybe He is Just Really, Really Stupid
Most Canadians who do not spend their evenings drinking the Liberal Party Kool Aid do not like the way Justin Trudeau is running the country. They realize as leaders and politicians go, he is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. But it is possible even these people are actually overestimating his intelligence. As far as his mental abilities are concerned, he is probably a lot worse than most of us think he is.
In a Toronto Sun column, Lorne Gunter wrote everything Trudeau does is done because he is “naïve.” The major problem with the columnist’s thinking is he is being too kind to the selfie-taking Sock Boy. As far as naiveté goes, Trudeau is looking at it in the rear view mirror. The reality is he is simply not bright enough to hold any job requiring more intelligence than his work experience before entering politics required; part time drama teacher, snowboard instructor and bouncer…
As for his policies, there is a good chance he is not a Muslim nor a radical Islamist terrorist sympathizer many of his political enemies portray him to be. He is simply not smart enough to comprehend the danger of terrorism. He actually believes hardened terrorists who return to Canada can be rehabilitated and become model citizens if only they are given enough hugs. While he is capable of seeing what some of these terrorists do, he is mentally incapable of actually believing and appreciating such actions.
As regarding his $10.5 million payout of other peoples’ money to Omar Khadr he actually believes he had no choice but to pay it. He is unable to understand that while the Supreme Court of Canada ruled the little Terror Tyke’s rights had been violated, the matter should have been publicly tried. Trudeau was never “forced” to pay the $10.5 million although the prime minister cannot see the distinction.
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Audience Erupts as Italian Candidate Promises to Fight EU as Anti-Brussels Rebellion Brews
Matteo Salvini, the frontrunner in the next Italian general election, promised to follow Donald Trump’s approach and to impose new customs duties on foreign products sold in Italy.
Speaking on Mediaset’s Mattino Cinque, the leader of the League party vowed to fight Brussels if they do not allow him the right to impose the new customs duties.
He said: “I want to do the same as Donald Trump and impose customs duties on products coming from outside of Italy to defend Italian factories.”
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Far-Right German Politician Converts to Islam
A politician for Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland party, which campaigns on an anti-Muslim ticket, has converted to Islam and left the party, a spokesman has confirmed.
Arthur Wagner, a leading member of the party in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, said he would not comment on his reason for leaving the party, but confirmed to a Berlin daily that he had converted to Islam and that he had renounced his party membership on 11 January.
“It is a private matter,” he told Der Tagesspiegel, adding that it had been his decision to leave.
A party spokesman said it had not been concerned by Wagner’s conversion, and also confirmed it had not pushed him to leave. It claimed it had not known of his move when he announced his departure.
“The party has no problem with it,” said Daniel Friese, a spokesman for the Brandenburg branch of the AfD. Being a Muslim was no barrier to being a member of the party, he said, despite the fact that among the party’s campaign slogans before September’s general election were “Islam has no place in Germany” and “Against the Islamisation of Germany”.
The party has been accused of stoking resentment towards the hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees living in Germany. “The AfD contains interest groups for Muslims, Christians and homosexuals,” Friese said…
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George Soros: Regulate Google and Facebook
Billionaire investor and activist George Soros took aim at Google and Facebook Thursday during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, calling the tech giants “near-monopoly distributors.”
Soros’ speech included a harsh critique of both companies, with the billionaire referring to the companies as a “menace” that must be stopped with “more stringent regulations,” such as treating the companies like public utilities, according to BuzzFeed.
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German Far-Right Politician Resigns After Converting to Islam
His party campaigns against threat of Islamization
The far-right, anti-Islam Alternative for Germany (AfD) party on Tuesday confirmed reports in the German media that one of its politicians, Arthur Wagner, has converted to Islam.
Wagner, a leading AfD member in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, resigned his position on the party’s national executive committee on January 11 for personal reasons, AfD spokesman Daniel Friese said.
“The party has no problem with that,” added Friese.
He insisted the AfD’s national party included groups representing the interests of Muslims, as well as Christians and homosexuals.
Wagner, a German of Russian origin, had been a representative of the AfD since 2015. He was a member of the state committee with responsibility for churches and religious communities.
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Germany: Return of the Stasi Police State
Germany’s new censorship law, which has introduced state censorship on social media platforms, came into effect on October 1, 2017. The new law requiressocial media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, to censor their users on behalf of the German state. Social media companies are obliged to delete or block any online “criminal offenses” such as libel, slander, defamation or incitement, within 24 hours of receipt of a user complaint — regardless of whether the content is accurate or not. Social media companies are permitted seven days for more complicated cases. If they fail to do so, the German government can fine them up to 50 million euros for failing to comply with the law.
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Italy: A Look at Silvio Berlusconi’s Political Comeback
By Lillo Montalto Monella
After falling from grace in Italian politics in 2013, the controversial former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is back in the spotlight and seeking a win in the general elections.
Silvio Berlusconi is set to be the kingmaker as Italy heads towards general elections. Again.
We are not in 1994, when the former “Cavaliere” first took office only three months after forming his Forza Italia party, nor in 2008, when he started his fourth and last term. This time the tycoon, 81, can’t run directly for office but is the top dog of a right-wing coalition that is likely to sweep the majority of votes in spring 2018.
His plan is quite simple: win the elderly vote in Italy, the country that has the second-largest aging population in the world.
Why is Berlusconi still around?
There are several reasons, reckons Bill Emmott, an expert foreign commentator on Italian politics and former Editor-in-Chief of The Economist and author of Good Italy, Bad Italy.
“First of all, he still has three television channels and, thus, powerful communication abilities,” he said to Euronews. “Second, he is still very rich despite the decline of some of his businesses. Third, he is a good communicator and would say absolutely anything to stay in power,” said Emmott…
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‘Mohammed’ On Course to be Most Popular Baby Name in Germany
The name Mohammed and its many spelling variations are on course to become one of the most popular names in Germany going from 97th to 26th most popular in less than a decade.
According to the Gesellschaft für Deutsche Sprache (Society for German Language, GfdS), often labelled as the most important language society in Germany, the name Mohammed has seen a rapid rise in popularity, though the name could be even more popular than their figures suggest, Die Welt reports.
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Nutella Crisis: ‘They Were Like Animals’ France Descends Into Chaos With Riots After Sale
FRANCE descended into chaos as multiple riots started after a nation-wide supermarket chain issued a 70 per cent reduction in stocks of the widely-popular chocolate spread, Nutella, it has emerged.
Intermarché supermarkets slashed the price on the product from €4.50 (£3.90) to €1.40 (£1.23) and had no idea of the devastating repercussions it would bring as violence broke out.
The Nutella loving customers were soon fighting and pushing each other — a customer revealed that one woman had her “hair pulled” as the chaos ensued.
They said: “They are like animals. A woman had her hair pulled, an elderly lady took a box on her head, another had a bloody hand.”
A member of staff added: “We were trying to get in between the customers but they were pushing us.”
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Spain Seeks to Block Puigdemont Becoming Leader of Catalonia
MADRID (Reuters) — The Spanish government took steps on Thursday to prevent the re-election of Catalonia’s sacked leader Carles Puigdemont as head of the region in a renewed effort to crack down on the independence movement.
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The American Stake in Czech Elections
The significance of the upcoming run-off of the presidential election in Czech Republic is largely underestimated in Washington. But its prevalent view of it as a not too significant event in a small European country is dead wrong.
Contenders include the sitting President, outspoken and politically incorrect Milos Zeman, who garnered 39% of the vote in the first of a two-phase election. His rival is chemist Jiri Drahos, the correct, low key, former president of the Czech Academy of Sciences, who won 27%. A tight race is expected in the January 26-27 vote.
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UK: Father-of-Four Showed ISIS Beheading Video to His Own Son
A father-of-four who showed an ISIS beheading video to his son and encouraged online followers to ‘Take a break, come to jihad’ is facing jail.
Gary Staples, 50, from south London, posted eight videos promoting the terror group to his Google Plus account between May and September 2016, the Old Bailey heard.
The clips featured images of al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and prominent convicted UK extremists including Anjem Choudary and Abu Hamza.
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Not content with a date change, the activist MC’s of today’s Invasion Day rally in Sydney are calling for Australia Day to be abolished altogether, calling January 26 the date when genocide began.
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Major cities will be on red alert for Australia Day as anti-terrorism measures such as semi-automatic weapons, x-ray machines and large vehicles blocking roads are brought in.
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Marial Dar, 20, angrily vented in a Melbourne court as he stood accused of walking up to an off-duty cop and threatening to kill him, rape his family, and burn his house down over an earlier arrest.
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South Africa: Highway Rock-Throwing Hazard on Rise
Durban — Four motorists have complained about rock-throwing incidents on Durban roads in the past two weeks.
But police are reluctant to comment on whether rock-throwing incidents are gathering momentum because, they say, most victims are not reporting such incidents.
On Friday, Shiven Singh and his fiancée were driving on the N3 near Brickfield Road when a pedestrian allegedly flung a rock at his vehicle.
“Coincidentally, we were talking about the attacks when it happened. I heard a loud explosion and there was glass everywhere,” Singh said.
Singh said they approached the metro police for assistance, but the officers did not investigate…
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Christian Refugees Told to ‘Prove’ Their Faith
Asylum seekers being asked ‘absurdly difficult’ questions about beliefs
Christians who have converted from Islam and want to remain in Austria because of the threat of persecution and death they would face if they returned their home countries are being forced to “prove” their conversions.
According to the Barnabas Fund, an international organization that works with persecuted Christians, they were “even being asked how many sacraments there were in the Free Churches in Austria.”
But the report called that “ridiculous,” since “there are five different Free Churches in Austria whose interpretations of the sacraments differ.”
“Converts are being asked increasingly difficult questions about the Trinity or the exact date on which the first woman was ordained a pastor in Austria, questions which 90 percent of Austrian protestants would not be able to answer,” said Karl Schiefermaier, a national leader of the Lutheran Church in Austria.
“This has now reached a stage which is most worrying,” he said. “The church and not the state must decide whether or not a baptism is legitimate. Every pastor has the pastoral responsibility to examine and confirm the genuineness of an adult’s wish to be baptized.”
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Dreamers — 800,000 New Democrat Voters
Anyone who actually believes that the Democrats, or Chuck Shumer for that matter, care about the “Dreamer” children (who are in fact illegal aliens), is living in an alternate reality. The Democrats care not one whit about the sick, the poor, the down trodden, the elderly, the disabled, Blacks, Latinos, women, illegal aliens, or even free loaders, or anyone else that finds it necessary to be dependent on government. The Democrats only care about the votes they can garner by promising some benefit or cold hard cash, stolen from the public treasury, and handed out to the government dependents in some large constituency group.
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Obama Care, 80 overlapping welfare programs and all other social programs have their roots in “votes” for the Democrats and maintaining perpetual political power by exploiting a human weakness that leans toward looking for something for “free” from government.
The Democrat’s push for perpetual political power started way back in the late 1800’s with the rise of the Progressive movement. The movement was bolstered by the 16th Amendment (1913) that gave us the Federal Reserve and the Income tax, turning all Americans into indentured slaves for the national debt. It was then further put on steroids in the 1930’s with FDR’s Social Security, the New Deal and the removal of the gold standard. Then came Johnson’s Great Society and finally Obama Care. None of these programs can be overturned because the recipients of government largess get to vote for their own self-interests … with Democrat support of course.
By the time America reached 2016, all those programs, passed under Democrat control, have shoved America into a massive debtor nation and the potential for national bankruptcy. These social programs have pitted the producers against the takers and divided the country into haves-and-have-nots, black against white, man against woman, and “illegals” against “legals.” The fiscal imbalance is so bad that half of the American population, plus all the illegal aliens are LIVING OFF the producing half. There is strong evidence that it may even be worse than that. We keep wondering when the producing half will finally revolt?
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Germany News: Angela Merkel Refuses to Give in on Immigration
Senior members of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party have stressed they will not be convinced to alter their stance on immigration after the party lost swathes of votes to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) at the general election in September.
Mrs Merkel has so far failed to form a coalition government after the first round of talks collapsed at the end of 2017, but the SPD voted to reopen negotiations in a very tight vote on Sunday signalling the potential return of the grand coalition.
The SPD got its worst election result in the postwar era in September and many fear a further fall in votes, particularly because of the party’s notably more migrant-friendly approach when compared to the other main parties in German politics.
CDU deputy Julia Kloeckner said the benchmark of 180,000 to 220,000 refugees per year outlined in a coalition blueprint agreed between the parties after exploratory talks earlier this month was crucial.
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Illegals in California With Driver’s Licenses Eligible to Vote After April 1
Starting on April 1, 2018, illegal aliens in California who have recently obtained state driver’s licenses legally, or obtained them previously by lying about their immigration status, will automatically be registered to vote. Since January 2015, according to the California DMV, A.B. 60, a law passed by the California Assembly, “allows illegal immigrants to the United States to apply for a California driver’s license with the CA Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)” [emphasis original]. As of December 2016, more than 800,000 California driver’s licenses were issued to illegal aliens under the A.B. 60 law. Additional thousands of illegals may have been granted licenses prior to 2015 because they lied on their driver’s license application forms and claimed they were in the country legally. (No proof of legal residence has been required by the California DMV in recent years.)
An editorial in the Victorville Daily Press on January 22 summarized the situation:
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UK: Tony Blair Biography Reveals PM’s Conspiracy to Silence Immigration Debate
Tony Blair presided over a silent conspiracy to change the face of Britain for ever with mass immigration, an explosive book reveals.
He ordered his Labour government never to discuss in public the supposed ‘advantages’ of the unprecedented influx.
But behind the scenes ministers were instructed to wave tens of thousands of asylum seekers into the UK under cover of their being ‘economic migrants’. Astonishingly, the minister Mr Blair put in charge of borders ruled against deporting failed claimants because it would be too ‘emotional’.
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UN Refugee Chief Says Europe Must Prepare Systems to Cope With Bigger Migrant Flows
United Nations refugee chief Filippo Grandi has said that EU nations must prepare their asylum reception systems to cope with bigger migrant inflows.
Speaking to Refugees Deeply in Davos, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said the “big failure” in Europe’s response to the migrant crisis in 2015 and 2016 was that governments visibly struggled to house, feed, and clothe the massive influx of third world migrants who marched on the continent after German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the border.
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Why Does Our Congress Keep Giving Amnesties Against Our Interests?
On the Neil Cavuto Show on Fox News this week, he interviewed a democratic U.S. senator about the DACA amnesty. The senator repeated excuse after excuse as to why 800,000 adults deserve amnesty.
The senator lambasted Congress for not passing the 2013 Comprehensive Immigration Act, but neglected to tell the audience that S744 contained a provision for allowing 20,000,000 (million) illegal aliens a free citizenship package.
What he didn’t say: that bill contained a clause to increase legal immigration from 1.1 million annually to 2.0 million annually. In other words, double the flood of immigrants into our country. Within 20 years, that number would add 40,000,000 (million) more foreign born to our country plus their children which averages a million births annually. That’s not just 2 million annually, that’s a total of 80 million in less than 30 years. At this time, we remain on course to add 100,000,000 (million) by 2050.
You must ask yourself, what kind of idiots run our country over a demographic and sociological cliff?
[Comment: Do not ascribe to stupidity that which is best ascribed to malice. Such politicians are not stupid — they are traitors and globalist puppets.]
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EU Court: Asylum Seekers Must Not be Forced to Take ‘Gay Tests’
Asylum seekers must not be subjected to psychological tests to determine whether they are homosexual, EU’s top court has ruled.
Tests to determine sexual orientation are controversial, but are sometimes used when assessing asylum claims.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling is binding in all 28 EU states.
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A deputy head at a top girls’ school has warned of the ‘real danger’ of heterosexuality being ignored in favour of lessons on gay and transgender issues.
Cathy Ellott, pastoral deputy of St Mary’s Ascot, said it is important to continue to discuss relationships between men and women because this is the ‘majority experience’.
She added that such partnerships should be ‘learned about and celebrated’ in schools so that children are prepared for adult life.
She also said her all-girls Catholic boarding school in Berkshire is rejecting a wider trend of using gender-neutral language.
Many institutions have chosen to simply refer to pupils as ‘students’ so that transgender youngsters do not feel alienated, but Mrs Ellott said St Mary’s would continue to identify itself as ‘a school for girls’.
Her comments, made in an interview with the Independent School Parent magazine, come after the Government introduced compulsory relationships classes for children of all ages. The lessons must include material about same-sex relationships and transgender issues to comply with the Equality Act.
A number of schools are already teaching children as young as five about gay relationships and gender dysphoria. Mrs Ellott said that while pupils at St Mary’s were taught about LGBT issues, such issues are not the focus of relationships lessons.
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Why Do Western Gays Abandon Their Islamic Brothers?
Whenever Islamic radicalism has been defeated after its reign of horror and fear, what follows among ordinary citizens are scenes of hope and liberation.
Syrian women burned the burqas the Islamic State forced them to wear, after the militants were being driven out from the city of Manbij. “Damn this stupid invention that they made us wear,” one woman said as she set fire to the garment. “We’re humans, we have our freedom”.
When the Taliban tyranny in Afghanistan ended, women’s faces also began to reappear on the streets; and men, forced by the Taliban to grow beards, flocked to buy razors.
Why hasn’t the West raised the question of gay rights under Islam? Go ask the LGBT establishment.
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“Black market pot is actually cheaper than tax subsidized marijuana.”
What else do you need to know about “medical marijuana”? All they had to do was to legalize it but no: They went a bit further and regulated it, making the whole medical marijuana business a joke. In the Czech Republic, medical marihuana is 10x more expensive than the black market stuff. So what do you do if you have Alzheimer’s and pot happens to help with your condition?
All this because it is a God-given plant that grows for free, and so it is very difficult to tax.
And – if high school students smoke mary jane during lunch breaks, I don’t think it is a marijuana problem: It is the school problem! Would it be different if they drank alcohol during the breaks?
On Soros: I have a hard time believing Soros when social media are promoting the political correctness and multiculturalism he supports. Maybe he wants them regulated to more strictly enforce PC and MC.
Gosh, I hope the Toronto plant is not the only place Campbells still makes Scotch Broth Soup! You can’t buy it in the States any more.
But you can still make Scotch broth and then you avoid all the additives of canned soup.
1 lb piece lamb (with bone)
1 cup pearl barley (soaked overnight if possible)
3 large carrots
2 medium onions
1 large leek
1 small turnips or 1 small swede
1⁄2 bunch fresh curly-leaf parsley (chopped)
salt to taste
1⁄4 teaspoon white pepper
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1 clove garlic
1 bay leaf
6 pints cold water + 2 Tablespoons vinegar (to draw out the bone minerals)
Just make sure the lamb is not halal. The canned soups definitely are, and they have MSG.
If you make it in a pressure cooker, it’s done in an hour or less.
Polish Parliament ,passed today new Law.. From now on those who slander and accused Poland and Polish people for II World War atrocities in the form of misleading and manipulative information like for example “Polish Death Camps” so often used by German and American MSM will be prosecuted and punished to 3 years in prison and harsh financial penalties…https://twitter.com/KancelariaSejmu/status/956833139585900544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
On trudo: he might be too stupid to realize, but he did “convert” to islam.
There is a video of him in one of the mosque where he is in moslem garb kneeling in prayer and reciting the whatever they recite to convert.
Considering his speeches and actions, I tend to beleive that he took up islam willingly and serves his masters well. Which makes him even stupider.