A man from Egypt went on a stabbing rampage in the Irish town of Dundalk, killing a Japanese man and wounding another person in a series of random, unprovoked attacks. A third person was hit with a fence post. The gardaí (Irish police) have not ruled out terrorism as a possible motive. However, Irish citizens can rest easy knowing that the tragic incident had nothing to do with Islam.
In other news, the Spanish maritime rescue service intercepted 55 migrants who were trying to cross the Mediterranean, and brought them safely to Spain.
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Elite Globalists Will Engineer Financial Collapse and Blame Bitcoin
Every single financial collapse has been engineered by elitists and governments as a method of gaining the public’s support for more control over their money supply. Now one YouTuber has the guts to say it and boldly declares that those same globalists will blame bitcoin for a biblical level financial collapse.
The Dollar Vigilante YouTube channel isn’t walking on eggshells in their video titled “The Globalist Plan To Blame Bitcoin For Biblical Level Collapse.” The video starts off with a harsh dose of reality that many won’t like:
They won’t teach you in your government schools but every major economic and financial collapse is planned. It doesn’t happen by accident. — Jeff Berwick, The Dollar Vigilante Berwick doesn’t mince words later either, and he says that the government and other globalists already have plans to collapse the economy and blame Bitcoin. Mike Adams, the Health Ranger has also stated that the elitists need to control Bitcoin in order to control humanity, so look for a false flag terror attack allegedly funded by the now infamous decentralized cryptocurrency.
“By any measure, we are not at the most extreme time in history in money, finance, banking, equities, bonds, real estate and other sectors,” says Berwick. “We’ve never seen money printing across the board like we’ve seen in the last decade. Interest rates are at record lows and even at ludicrous negative rates in some countries. They’ve never been lower in 5000 years. By any measure, the US stock market is at or past extremes.” Along with the US government’s debt doubling in the last 8 years to a whopping $21 trillion, Berwick says that this is just the symptom of a government and globalist manufactured economic collapse that will all have to “come crashing down.”
“As always, I look for the clues directly from those who currently control the world, for the answers,” says Berwick. He then points to a Rothschild owned economic magazine that foretells in its 1988 cover image that 2018 will be the year of the global currency. “How could the globalist bankers plan 30 years ahead for a massive change in the monetary system?” Berwick asks. “Well, look no further than Bilderberg.”
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Delingpole: All the Climate Change Movies That Bombed in 2017
Climate change was box office poison in Hollywood in 2017.
As Christian Toto reports in Washington Times, all the movies with environmental themes flopped.
These included:
Bladerunner 2049, where eco-systems have collapsed — presumably because of man’s selfishness, greed, and refusal to amend his carbon-guzzling lifestyle — and food can now only be grown under hermetically sealed pods.
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Head of Alabama Democratic Party Indicted for Felony and Misdemeanor
It would be interesting to see how much taxpayer money has been spent in 2017 to try Democrats for crimes they committed while serving as “public officials”.
Former Secretary of State Nancy Worley turned herself in at the Montgomery County Jail Thursday and was released on bond. Her surrender comes after a grand jury indicted Worley on charges stemming from her unsuccessful campaign for re-election last year.
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Rats don’t like it when you start shining a light on them. President Trump has designated January to be “National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month”, but most Americans don’t realize that Washington D.C. is actually one of the worst human trafficking hubs in the entire nation. Silent horrors take place behind closed doors day after day, and nobody is really supposed to talk about it. Fortunately, we now have a president that is willing to take bold action, and that is making many members of the D.C. establishment very, very nervous.
Washington D.C. has always attracted individuals of questionable moral character, and sexual exploitation in one of the realities of life in our capital city. At this point things are so bad that even the Washington Post is speaking openly about it. For example, the following is from a Washington Post article entitled “Washington D.C.’s serious sex-trafficking problem”…
Right here in the nation’s capital, our most vulnerable residents — children — are subjected to sex slavery. Their stories don’t make the evening news or even warrant blurbs in your morning paper. But human trafficking is, and has been, a shadowy and seamy part of D.C. life.
The D.C. area has a much higher percentage of missing children than the nation as a whole, and I will discuss that more below. First, I want to share with you a portion of the statement that the White House just issued…
You may live in an area of the country that does not have a problem with children being abducted, but in the D.C. area it has reached epidemic proportions. In fact, NBC’s Richmond affiliate has reported that 20 percent of all missing children in the United States are from Virginia…
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A witness who testified before a federal grand jury that handed down indictments of top Trump associates says the president can’t get a fair shake and compared the jury room to a Bernie Sanders rally.
The witness claimed two of 20 jurors were wearing ‘peace T-shirts,’ and popped off on the jury pool to the New York Post’s Page Six.
‘The grand jury room looks like a Bernie Sanders rally,’ the witness said. ‘Maybe they found these jurors in central casting, or at a Black Lives Matter rally in Berkeley,’ said the witness.
‘There was only one white male in the room, and he was a prosecutor,’ said the source…
The person said of 20 jurors, 11 are African-American.
That figure closely mirrors the racial composition of Washington, D.C., which is 49 per cent black. The jury pool, if the source is accurate and correctly identified the racial composition of the panel, is 55 per cent black.
‘That room isn’t a room where POTUS gets a fair shake,’ said the source, using shorthand common in the White House for and D.C. insiders for the president.
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NYPD Investigating ‘ISIS Selfies’ Outside NYC Museum: Report
Authorities in New York are reportedly investigating photographs of a possible ISIS supporter taking selfies outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in view of One World Trade Center.
The chilling images, that began circulating on social media over the weekend, shows an individual posing while wearing an ISIS-branded scarf over his face.
The picture was captioned with “We are in your own Backyard,” according to The New York Daily News.
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San Diego School District Defends Notorious Islamic Syndicate (CAIR) Against Parents’ Lawsuit
San Diego Unified School District Asks Federal Judge to Strike “Inflammatory” Allegations about the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Parents’ Lawsuit
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The Fusion GPS Mess Spooled Out by Conservative Treehouse
It’s every man and woman for themselves as the collective groups of architects behind the entire FBI Counterintelligence Operation, that brought us the 18-month-long ‘vast Russian conspiracy’ narrative, now attempt to back-track from all previous assertions.
Two days ago we shared very strong confidence the joint FBI (counterintelligence) and DOJ (National Security Division) scheme was going to come out. The reason is simple, they left too big a trail of factual and provable evidence of their activity.
It is not coincidental that just as scrutiny over the 2016 FBI FISA court application gains traction in congress and media, the insider intelligence community started leaking to the New York Times about the insignificance of the Steele Dossier as it relates to the FISA court application. Look, over there, it was George Papadopoulos; not the DOJ FISA construct that was used by the FBI to launch surveillance upon candidate Trump. Swear.
Laughable.
Predictable.
For more than a year the Steele Dossier was the most valuable evidence to the Russian narrative; then, poof, in the blink-of-an-eye, not so much — it became a risk. Funny that. The transparency of motive is brutally obvious, too many FBI and DOJ people at risk now. The trail is too easy to follow.[…]
[Read more at the link]
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Over the last two years elements of the deep state, along with their mainstream media allies, have waged a seemingly endless war on all things Donald Trump that, at this point, simply cannot be denied.
— From claiming that he had no chance of winning, to lying about his beliefs, all the way to the sham Russia investigation, it has become transparently clear that ingrained elements within the federal government, including the intelligence community, have worked against Trump from the beginning and actually increased their attacks after his stunning election victory.
At each step, liberal news outlet CNN has been at the forefront of this unprecedented attempt to take out the democratically elected president and long ago confirmed the belief already held by many that they were specifically out to get Donald Trump and his tens of millions of supporters.
Now, in what can only be described as one of the most blatant propaganda pieces of all time, two CNN “reporters” have outed themselves as nothing more than deep state establishment puppets after publishing a “news” report that not only claims that the deep state isn’t real but also laughably implies that there has been no conspiracy to hurt President Trump whatsoever.
That’s right, according to CNN, high-level FBI officials didn’t let Hillary Clinton off the hook. High-level FBI agents weren’t openly supporting Clinton while at the same time setting up an “insurance policy” in the event that Donald Trump won the election. James Comey and Robert Mueller aren’t personal friends and the Clinton campaign never paid for RUSSIAN SOURCES to provide disinformation on Trump.
The CNN propaganda piece reads:…
[Comment: i.e: “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.”]
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A woman who battled blood cancer for years without success finally halted the disease with turmeric, it has been reported.
Dieneke Ferguson is now leading a normal life after giving up on gruelling treatments that failed to stop it.
Doctors say her case is the first recorded instance in which a patient has recovered by using the spice after stopping conventional medical treatments.
With her myeloma spreading rapidly after three rounds of chemotherapy and four stem cell transplants, the 67-year-old began taking 8g of curcumin a day — one of the main compounds in turmeric.
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What the Dawson Report Reveals About Trudeau’s Mentality
The report by outgoing ethics commissioner Mary Dawson into Justin Trudeau’s vacation last Christmas on the Aga Khan’s private island is certainly fascinating for what it says about the prime minister’s violations of federal conflict-of-interest laws.
Dawson determined that Trudeau broke federal ethics law in at least four different ways when he accepted a holiday at the Aga Khan’s Bahamian retreat, when he flew on the Aga Khan’s private helicopter and when he refused to recuse himself from meetings at which tax-funded contributions to the Aga Khan’s Global Centre for Pluralism were discussed.
But the parts of Dawson’s report that are truly fascinating are those that indirectly provide insights into the mentality and habits of the PM and his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau.
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Car burnings have become a tradition across France over New Year’s with the latest figures showing an increase in arson, but some experts claim the motive behind the attacks is simple boredom.
Approximately 1,031 vehicles were set on fire on the night of December 31st and the early hours of the morning of January 1st, up from last year’s 935. The arson attacks have remained a constant feature over New Year’s, Bastille Day celebrations in the summer, and during incidents of civil unrest.
Many have attempted to try and make sense of why the arson attacks keep occurring year after year, often in so-called “Sensitive Urban Zones “ (ZUS).
French Sociologist Michel Wieviorka claims that the acts of vandalism are “above all, playful” and that they do not have a political dimension. “It is very easy, technically, to set a vehicle on fire and run away immediately,” he said and added that there is not much risk of arrest.
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French President Macron Demands Anti-Fake News Law “To Protect Democracy”
Following Germany’s (and Brussels) lead to tyrannical repression of any free speech in Europe, French President Macron said on Wednesday he would overhaul French media legislation this year to fight the spread of “fake news.”
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Germany: Police Probe Berlin Knife Attacker for Islamist Motive
Berlin police said on Tuesday they were unable to rule out an Islamist background after a “deranged” Syrian knifeman was arrested over an attack in one of the German capital’s underground stations.
Witnesses said the 23-year-old, identified as Ahmad Al-H., attacked several people with a knife “for no apparent reason” at the Bayerischer Platz station in southwestern Berlin on New Year’s Eve, according to a police report.
But the Tagesspiegel newspaper reported that he had asked one 50-year-old German man his nationality and called him an “infidel” before stabbing him.
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Germany: Merkel Resumes Talks With SPD in Hopes of Ending Political Stalemate
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives resume on Wednesday drawn-out talks with Germany’s second biggest party aimed at ending months of post-election stalemate and forming a coalition government.
In the year’s first such meeting, Merkel and her Bavarian ally Horst Seehofer were scheduled to talk with Martin Schulz, the leader of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), from about 1400 GMT.
They hope to lay the groundwork for a week of exploratory talks from Sunday which — if all sides can overcome major policy differences and lingering distrust — could lead to a new “grand coalition” government by perhaps March or April.
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Hungary PM Warns EU Leaders: ‘Accept Will of People or Leave’
Viktor Orbán insisted European citizens will retaliate against the rise of multiculturalism across Europe amid growing concern migration could destabilise pre-existing national communities.
Mr Orbán warned politicians who deny the “natural order of democracy” will see their pro-EU agenda shattered by voters who will support leaders that oppose mass migration and advocate Christian institutions.
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Hungary: “The Left-Liberal World Has Had Its Day”
The left-wing, pro-mass migration world has had its day as it is impossible to talk about reality “with pointless political correctness that leads nowhere”, according to Hungary’s government spokesman.
Speaking ahead of the New Year, Zoltán Kovács told news portal PestiSrácok.hu that “reality has finally broken through the wall of silence and nonsense, and is beginning to reveal itself” across the European Union (EU).
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Ireland: Gardaí Say Dundalk Attack ‘Random and Unprovoked’ — Terrorism Has Not Yet Been Ruled Out
An 18-year-old Egyptian man has been arrested
GARDAÍ IN DUNDALK have described this morning’s attack in which one man was killed as ‘random and unprovoked’ — and said that terrorism has not been ruled out as a motive.
A 24-year-old man from Japan died after being stabbed shortly before 9am, while two other people were injured.
An 18-year-old man from Egypt has been arrested and is being held at Dundalk garda station.
At a press briefing this afternoon, gardaí said a motive for the attack has not yet been established.
The assailant was carrying a fencing pole when he was apprehended by uniformed gardaí this morning, who disarmed and arrested him.
“We are very interested to know who he was staying with, who he knows and what he was doing here,” gardaí told reporters.
The 24-year-old Japanese man was pronounced dead at the scene on Avenue Road…
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One person has died and two others have been injured in what is being described as a ‘random stabbing attack’ in Ireland.
Gardai are said to have arrested a Middle-Eastern man, according to Ireland’s News 3, and officers are investigating if three separate incidents are terror related.
The knife attack happened shortly before 9am in Dundalk and the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Italy: Man Poses as Nurse to Try to Rape Woman
(ANSA) — Rome, January 2 — A 38-year-old Somali man stole a nurse’s uniform and tried to rape a 43-year-old woman in the maternity ward of a Rome hospital on New Year’s Eve, sources said Tuesday.
He was arrested on charges of sexual violence.
The man went into the ward of Sant’Eugenio Hospital while the woman was giving birth and reportedly began groping her.
She fended him off and called nurses who seized the man until police arrived.
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Letter From Germany: Westphalia in Winter
by Srdja Trifkovic
The North German Plain is not an exciting place. It lacks the charm of the Palatinate, the fairytale quality of the Middle Rhineland, or the drama of the Bavarian Alps. It is peopled by staid burghers who are hard-working, practical, and (in contrast to the Oberpfälzers, say) rather quiet. It rains a lot, and now in early January the drizzle is driven by gusts of wind that make it feel much colder than the actual 43 degrees.
In short, Lower Saxony and Westphalia are not a natural tourist destination. Having spent the Silvesterabend with German friends in Siegburg—a pleasant town between Cologne and Bonn—I nevertheless decided to venture into these uninviting parts, for two reasons. The first was to visit Osnabrück, where my late father spent almost four years as a PoW in the Oflag VI-C. On the night of December 6, 1944, the RAF missed the nearby train junction and hit the camp. 2nd Lt. Konstantin Trifkovic survived (otherwise you wouldn’t be reading these lines), but 112 of his fellow officers were killed and over 60 badly wounded. There is a memorial Serbian Orthodox church near the site, with a crypt containing the remains of many senior officers of the Royal Yugoslav Army who refused to go back to Tito’s tender mercies after 1945. There is also a lonely camp barrack left as a monument, a flimsy wooden structure currently threatened by developers and city planners. It was one of the places I had to visit before I die.
The second reason was Münster, a marvelous city which was well-nigh flattened by Allied bombs in 1944-45 but has sprang back to life…
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UK: Farage: Sadiq Khan Should Stop ‘Grandstanding’ About Trump and Fight Crime
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has called on London Mayor Sadiq Khan to “spend less time grandstanding” about U.S. President Donald Trump and “more time tackling epidemic levels of knife crime in London”.
The MEP’s interventions follow the release of shocking data from the Mayor of London’s Police and Crime Office, revealing that knife crime, gun crime, theft, burglary, rape, homicide, and other serious crimes have all risen dramatically during his time in office.
Speaking on his LBC radio show, Mr. Farage blasted: “As it’s New Year, about what happened in London on New Year’s Eve: There were five separate knife attacks that took place in the capital that night, resulting in the deaths of four young people.
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Former Members of Obama Regime Warn President Trump to Stop Supporting Iran Protestors
The regime that supported President Obama’s worst deal ever and claims to be the champions of human rights…is now attempting to tell President Trump to shut up and pretend the protests aren’t happening…
Breitbart News reports that several key advisers to former President Barack Obama have poured scorn on President Donald Trump’s support for the protests sweeping Iran in recent days.
In 2009, when the “Green Revolution” threatened the Iranian regime, Obama and his administration refrained from supporting the protests. Obama said that “we respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran.”
That weak response, and the administration’s general lack of support for the demonstrators, allowed the regime to consolidate power.
Obama was more concerned with preserving the possibility of an eventual deal on Iran’s nuclear program than he was in removing the Iranian regime as a strategic threat or in standing up for human rights. Critics charge that Obama missed a golden opportunity.
President Trump has taken the opposite approach, vigorously supporting the protests and criticizing the regime:…
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Change will not come easily, peacefully, or soon.
By Karim Sadjadpour
Protest movements in the Middle East face enormous repressive hurdles and rarely have happy endings. Even when protesters “succeed” in toppling an autocrat, they’ve rarely succeeded in ending autocracy.
In Iran, the obstacles to success are daunting. Whereas most Middle Eastern countries are ruled by secular autocrats focused on repressing primarily Islamist opposition, Iran is an Islamist autocracy focused on repressing secular opposition. This dynamic—unarmed, unorganized, leaderless citizens seeking economic dignity and pluralism, versus a heavily armed, organized, rapacious ruling theocracy that espouses martyrdom—is not a recipe for success.
And yet, against this inauspicious backdrop, Iran’s mushrooming anti-government protests—although so far much smaller in scale than the country’s 2009 uprising—have been unprecedented in their geographic scope and intensity. They began December 28 in Mashhad, a Shiite pilgrimage city often considered a regime stronghold, with protesters chanting slogans like “leave Syria alone, think about us.” They soon spread to Qom, Iran’s holiest city, where protesters expressed nostalgia for Reza Shah, the 20th-century modernizing autocrat who ruthlessly repressed the clergy. They continued in provincial towns, with thousands chanting, “we don’t want an Islamic Republic” in Najafabad, “death to the revolutionary guards” in Rasht, and “death to the dictator” in Khoramabad. They’ve since spread to Tehran, and hundreds have been arrested, the BBC reported, citing Iranian officials…
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To Ben Rhodes, Obama’s Other Mind, Regarding Iran
1. You & Obama deliberately lied to the American people to push through an unconstitutional deal with the mullahs, that was designed to strengthen their power in Iran & the Middle East. As if you care about the Iranian people, you jerk.
2. ‘Obama official says he pushed a ‘narrative’ to media to sell the Iran nuclear deal’ — WaPo, May 6, 2016
That was the article where you were bignoting yourself about misrepresenting the Iran timeline in your ‘narrative’ (aka fiction aka lie) as part of the misinformation.
3. While Obama did his usual thing to push through this insane deal — trash the rule of law, by illegally spying on domestic opponents of the Iran deal…
4. Not to mention trashing the Constitution. All you arrogant sob’s thought you were above such trivialities, such was your arrogance, which I note remains as strong as ever.
5. Want to know the truth, Ben? The mullahs played you guys. They played you brilliantly. You have them EVERYTHING they wanted (and more) — and they gave you NOTHING.
That’s because they saw you for the naive suckers you were. 6. So you go ahead and pay yourself on the back, while admiring yourself in the mirror with delusions of grandeur.
But layoff the pieties about being a friend of the Iranian people. They would despise you and Obama. Your best policy would be to keep your trap shut for once.
7. Show some damned humility for once in your life, chickenlittle. You should be hanging your head in shame for the role you played in selling out your country, to help the Iranian regime.
A more disgraceful episode in American foreign policy is difficult to find.
8. And quit lecturing us. Americans have had it up to here with sermonizing elitist progs. Besides, no one respects your opinion & we’re too busy to listen.
Cleaning up the mess you fools left behind. And taking out the trash, which may well include you, sonny.
The end.
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Turkish Religious Authority Says Girls as Young as 9 Can Marry
Turkey’s state Directorate of Religious Affairs — popularly known as the Diyanet — infuriated the country’s largest opposition party on Wednesday when it said that, under Islamic law, girls as young as nine could marry.
The comments triggered an outpouring of rage on social media, as Turkish women’s groups expressed outrage at the sudden clarification.
The directorate responded that it was only defining points of Islamic law.
Turkey’s legal age of marriage is 18 but the practice of underage weddings in religious ceremonies is widespread.
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India: Brutal Murder of Hindu Activist by Jihadis in Karnataka
Four Jihadis arrested for killing Bajrangdal activist Deepak in Karnataka’s Katipalla.
Ramnath Ravi | HENB | Mangaluru | Jan 3, 2014::The dust has not yet settled after the mysterious and cruelest death of Paresh Mesta+ in Honnavar by the suspected Jihadi elements, now another Hindu activist was hacked to death in Katipalla, a small town near Surathkal, Karnataka. Within hours the 4 Muslim assailants were arrested after police chased them to nab.
It is alleged that the victim identified as 28-year-old Deepak Rao, a resident of Katipalla Kaikamba was riding his motorbike when he was waylaid by a car whose individuals then attacked him around 1.30pm. Deepak was connected with Bajrangdal, the youth wing of Vishwa Hindu Parishad.
The 4 men fled the spot after the crime. Police have reportedly detained all 4 accused in the murder of Deepak Rao. Police disclosed the identities of the suspected assailants as Mulki Naushad, Rizwan, Pinky Nawaz and Nirshaan.
Taking this incident seriously the Suratkal police chased the assailants when they were fleeing after committing the crime. Warning shots were fired to stop them but they continued to speed away. Finally the Suratkal police succeeded in arresting all the four of the accused at Mijar, Moodbidri…
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Police officers were spat at and three African teenagers arrested in violent confrontations outside a Melbourne shopping centre on Wednesday afternoon (pictured).
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Man Charged With Terrorism Offense After Alleged Threat to Kill Police
A man who allegedly threatened to kill police in central Sydney last year is now facing terrorism charges.
Police allege Blake Nicolas Pender pulled a 20-centimetre kitchen knife on police officers in Surry Hills in June, before saying the “proudest thing a man can do is behead a cop”.
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US Strikes Shabaab Outside Somali Capital
US forces interdicted a Shabaab car bomb intended for Somalia’s capital. This marks the third time the United States has conducted a strike in order to prevent an imminent car bomb attack on the capital in the past month. It is also the first publicized US counterterrorism strike in 2018.
In the early hours of Jan. 2, US forces hit the vehicle approximately 50 km west of Mogadishu. The assault killed two Shabaab fighters and destroyed the vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), or suicide car bomb, which was intended for Somalia’s capital, according to the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) press release.
Shabaab is al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa and Somalia. It has maintained a persistent insurgency and has controlled territory in both southern and central Somalia for well over a decade. Shabaab uses its safe havens in Somalia to attack the fledgeling Somali government and neighboring countries. It has also plotted attacks against the West.
The US military launched a record 35 counterterrorism strikes in Somalia in 2017, outpacing the combined strikes of the entire previous air campaign, which began in 2007. The rise can be partly explained by loosened restrictions. In Mar. 2017, President Trump signed off on greater authorities in Somalia based on heightened threat assessments from the Departments of Defense and State.
[Note: See chart at URL, above. The US delivered more airstrikes in Somalia during Trump’s first year (31) than Obama did in his whole eight years in office (23). Most of Obama’s strikes were in his last year, 2016.]
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‘Assange Status Unchanged’ Despite Cryptic Tweets, Ecuadorian Embassy Tells RT
The Ecuadorian embassy has spoken out following rampant speculation about the health and whereabouts of Julian Assange after his recent cryptic tweet.
The concern was sparked by the WikiLeaks founder sending a bizarre tweet on New Year’s Day which featured a 60 character code and a link to the popular ‘Paper Planes’ song by British rapper MIA. Many wondered why the 46 year old had tweeted the seemingly random string of letters and numbers.
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Venezuela’s Inflation Rate Could Soar to 30,000 Percent, Economists Say
Venezuelans already facing unprecedented hardships will suffer even more difficult times in 2018 as hyperinflation could easily spike past the 30,000 percent mark, economists have warned.
At that pace, inflation will have an even more devastating impact on the people of a country that already has the lowest minimum salary in Latin America, about $2.46 per day, or $74 per month.
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Greek Holiday Hotspot Faces Migrant Influx if Turkey Uses Refugees as Blackmail
Turkish authorities are furious at Greece’s decision to grant asylum to a pilot accused of playing a key role in an attempted coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in July 2016.
The mayor of Lesbos, Spyros Galinos, warned Turkey could allow thousands to cross onto the island in response, and that locals would not be able to cope with the influx.
Mr Galinos said it was not up to him to say whether the man should have been granted amnesty.
However he told The Times: “The fear of seeing a massive influx in illegal immigration looms. It’s a fear we always have with Turkey.”
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Lone Child Refugees Cost British Councils £70,000 a Year
Each lone child refugee costs councils in Britain nearly £70,000 a year — with the bills continuing to land until they reach 25.
The migration crisis meant there were at least 4,560 unaccompanied youngsters seeking asylum at the end of last March — a rise of 134 per cent from 1,950 in 2013.
Costs to local authorities for every 100 unaccompanied children are estimated at £6.75million a year. The Home Office provides £3.35million — leaving a shortfall of £3.4million.
When a child claims asylum in the UK they become the legal responsibility of the local authority in which they came forward.
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Refugee Admissions Fall 79 Percent in First Quarter of Fy 2018
Refugee admissions to the United States in the first quarter of FY 2018 under the Trump administration fell 79 percent to 5,323, compared to 25,671 in the first quarter of FY 2017 during the last three full months of the Obama administration.
The faith background of refugees admitted to the United States during the first quarter of FY 2018, which began October 1, 2017 and ended on December 31, 2017, differed dramatically from that of refugees admitted during the same period one year earlier, from October 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Only 13 percent of refugees admitted during the first quarter of FY 2018, or 715 out of 5,323, were Muslim, while 60 percent, or 3,210 out of 5,323, were Christian, according to the State Department’s interactive website.
In contrast, 46 percent of refugees admitted during the first quarter of FY 2017, or 11,851 out of 25,671, were Muslim, while 44 percent, or 11,377 out of 25,671, were Christian.
The top countries of origin differed significantly as well.
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Spain Brings 55 Sub-Saharan Migrants Across Mediterranean
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s maritime rescue service says it has rescued 55 migrants from a boat in which they were trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea.
The service says a non-governmental organization warned authorities on Tuesday about the boat with 53 men and two women on board.
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2018 Will be the Year Feminists Target Little Boys
According to Time, all men are inevitably “angry.” The only way to stem this drastic tide of “angry” men is to raise them as follows: “At a young age, this should be done explicitly, in organized forums for discussions at school,” Faith Salie writes. “It must be done relentlessly and organically, in our family homes. Parents must invite their sons to be sad, afraid, hurt, silly and affectionate, and must embrace them as often as they snuggle their daughters. Sweet boys learn early on that they can defend themselves against loneliness by reaching out and asking for support rather than turning into people who, literally, grab for power. Sweet boys evolve into open-hearted men who aren’t confused about consent and sexual boundaries, because they experience women as equals.”
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Globalism: Destruction of Nations From Without and Within
The objective is to destroy nationalistic homogeneity from within, and collapse each nation’s borders, language, and culture to make the nations more malleable for global governance.
For this first piece of the New Year, I propose to take two points into consideration for the remainder of the year, and observe how each point is pursued in the march toward global governance.
Using a combination of groupthink, social “needs” (in accordance with Maslow’s hierarchy), and contrived crises, the UN is pushing the “tightly-knit” human “community” mantra relentlessly, and Individual nations are becoming more despotic, more tyrannical, and more under the control of the three-tiered “hierarchy” of Oligarchs, politicians, and religious figureheads.
This statement was just released by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for his New Year’s message to the world, following in lock-step to item #1 above:
“As we begin 2018, I call for unity. I truly believe we can make our world more safe and secure. We can settle conflicts, overcome hatred and defend shared values. But we can only do that together… Unity is the path. Our future depends on it.”
The statement was reported in Sputnik News, and Guterres also mentioned the “threats” of nuclear war, global climate change, and the need for unity. For any who have not read or researched the topics, the Agenda 21 biodiversity paradigm is still being championed to take land away from people and place it under the “stewardship” of so-called wise and benevolent governments. Social engineering of cities and new ways to cram the masses of humanity into “stack-and-pack” housing units of 200-300 square feet are being implemented in China and experimented upon in the U.S. and other countries.
The globalists have been using the “immigrant” card to socially engineer countries in Europe, as well as the United States. Britain has experienced an influx of Indian and Pakistani “migrants” for more than half a century. Continental Europe has been flooded: inundated with “migrants” who are completely different in ethnic and religious perspectives to their “host” nations.
Indeed, they are host nations: In the sense of a “host” that is carrying a foreign organism against its will. The European nations, predominantly Christian and ethnically homogenous to their respective national identities are being subsumed within an avalanche of unchecked migration (termed “immigration”) that is purposed with a devious objective.
The objective is to destroy nationalistic homogeneity from within, and collapse each nation’s borders, language, and culture to make the nations more malleable for global governance.
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Italy: “Jesus” Replaced in Primary School Christmas Carol to Not Offend Muslims
According to the European Post, the word “Jesus” was replaced by the word “Peru” in a Christmas carol at an Italian primary school.
A teacher of the Friuli Venezia Giulia School near Pordenone, decided to change the lyrics because she “did not want to insult non-Christian students”. Italian newspaper “Ilmessaggero” writes that it was related to Muslim students.
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Six Things That Offended Students in 2017
Every year, college students across the country find new and absurd ways to be offended, leading to justifiable confusion of campus-themed stories with headlines from The Onion.
In many cases, college-goers are taught to despise long-standing American institutions and symbols, such as police officers, the Constitution, and even the American flag itself.
So, this year, Campus Reform has decided to take a look back at 2017 to highlight some of the silliest and most disturbing things students found offensive.
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A.I. Is Taking Over Bit by Bit: The Implication of Rapidly Improving Artifical Intelligence
Recognizing the human voice, new tech gadgets can play music, search the web, shop online, check the weather, and even switch on the lights or control the central heating. But while we get to know these new interactive electronics, a report last week sounded the alarm over the implications of rapidly improving artificial intelligence.
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I was diagnosed with a possibly fatal blood cancer (T-cell lymphoma), but after 8 chemos and a stem cell transplantation after 4 years I have been declared clean and cured. And I haven’t taken any curcuma at all!
I object to these messages about singular events of which the significance is completely unknown, but which have a huge risk of people running to quacks and charlatans. And no: the argument ‘it can’t hurt since it is a natural product’ doesn’t work. Natural products aren’t naturally safe, check tobacco, alcohol, mushrooms, and thousands of other plants. Curcuma has been eaten safely for thousands of years, but here we talk about a fifty-fold increased concentration which is a totally different matter. Curcuma seems promising, but I bet that it stays that way: promising, like garlic and other plants that keep on promising, but never deliver.
Great points and glad to hear you won the fight, Theo. Some cancers simply disappear and no one knows why, too.
Are you afraid that something as simple as Cucurma could spare your pain with the chemo, and you’ve done it all for nothing?
Or – in another words – if someone healed from possibly lethal cancer using some method not approved by the cancer industrial complex, should they keep it silent and secret?
PS: If your garlic doesn’t deliver then it must be some weak garlic 😉
Anybody who writes code for computers knows how stupid they actually are; they do exactly, and literally, what the code tells them to do. Computers have no ‘intelligence’ artificial or otherwise, they just do whatever the code tells them to do.
What they never tell you in their speculations about artificial intelligence is that for every gain in ‘intelligence’ and exponential amount of code has to be written and tested, if the first AI task uses a thousand lines of code, the next tranche will need a thousand lines of code, plus another thousand for each function that has an implcit relationship with the first tranche – as one progresses then keeping everything
In alignment becomes more difficult and as the numbers increase so adding new functions become impossible
The scaremongering about AI is just more fake news
The Ireland murder has made national TV news in Japan, and the story is creating totally unacceptable racist negativity in some Asian minds about the name Mohammed and a certain religion. Next thing you know, these bigots will want to curb immigration by Muslims, cutting themselves off from all the benefits that a heavy Islamic presence has brought to so many European societies. What shortsighted fools.
Object all you want. There are numerous studies indicating a high efficacy for Turmeric. The issue in the article me is the paucity of real information about what is needed to make turmeric effective.
On an aside, it always amazes me how quickly any internet claim of effectiveness by non-big pharma products gets challenged, it is almost as if big pharma has a squad of surfers who get paid to scan the net and contradict or put down any anything considered ‘alternative’.
Is this what those adverts about earning $10,000 a month working with a computer from home are about?
I once had an extended discussion with a gentleman on the issue of what is the meaning of “natural born citizen” in the U.S. Constitution.
He was well informed, clearly a lawyer, persistent, and intent on undercutting the idea that Obama did not meet the definition. I believe he was paid to be alert to internet discussions of this issue and do battle for Obama. An impressive, polite fellow but determined to slay every last dragon as though it was his job to do so.
He decided to go live in a remote cabin in Alaska after I was done with him.
Just kidding. It was in N. Dakota.
Anyone who knows English knows what “natural born citizen” means. I am not a natural born citizen, having been born in Austria and brought here by my immigrant parents (who studied, took the tests, and became citizens of USA — it was a long process back in those days) . However, I AM a citizen of these here United States of America nevertheless because I became a citizen when they did. God bless them and God bless the USA — I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. Although I would want to see a few improvements but I won’t go into that.
A bunch of people during the Time of [President Barack Hussein “Lightbringer” Obama] were determined not to know what “natural born citizen” means.