A nativity scene was attacked by vandals in Ilford, a culturally enriched neighborhood of Greater London. Among other damage, the figure of the baby Jesus was beheaded. The crèche had been sponsored by the British Pakistani Christian Association.
In other news, seventeen Moroccans were arrested in Northern Italy on suspicion of trafficking in narcotics.
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A Reporter’s Dispatch From Trump Country Featured a ‘Mexicans Keep Out’ Sign. But He Made it All Up.
When an out-of-town journalist showed up in Fergus Falls, Minn., in February 2017, Michele Anderson couldn’t help but feel skeptical. Claas Relotius had been telling residents that he was writing about the state of rural America under President Trump. Anderson, a community arts administrator with progressive political views, was uncomfortable with “the anthropological gaze” that had been cast on communities like her own after the 2016 election. Hopefully, she would later recall thinking, an award-winning international journalist would at least manage to capture more nuance than the pundits had in the months following the election.
As it turned out, the piece that appeared in the respected German weekly magazine Der Spiegel a month later was even worse than she could have imagined. Not only did it rely on stock stereotypes of provincial, gun-toting conservatives, but many of the details were blatantly false.
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Eat your heart out Asian —American students with 1600 SAT scores ! David Hogg really does have white privilege . For you rookies out there applying to Harvard, being a left-wing activist might get you in under Harvard’s “holistic” approach.
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Facebook Headed the Way of Extinction!
Find out how the major social media network will likely collapse
Facebook has taken hit after hit in the stock market as the lies that Mark Zuckerberg has told about the company become exposed.
Millie Weaver joins Owen Shroyer in studio to discuss how young people hate Facebook and people worldwide are now deleting their accounts in disgust.
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GAO: Solar Storm ‘Blackout’ Of Electric Grid Could Last 3 Days to 2 Years, Impact 40 Million
The federal government is escalating its warnings about threats to the U.S. electric grid, the latest in a just-released congressional report that indicates a national blackout from a solar storm hit could last from three days to two years, impacting some 40 million.
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Imam: Islam ‘Not for You’ If You Don’t Honor Violence
Many Muslims argue the core meaning of “jihad” is not violence but a “struggle” for the betterment of oneself or mankind.
A New York imam, however, says there is no doubt that violence is at the heart of jihad, reports Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
Muhammad Ibn Muneer, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, said a Muslim killed while fighting for Allah has the highest status of martyrdom.
In a livestream Dec. 5 on the Hadith Disciple YouTube channel, he said Muslims must not treat lesser forms of jihad, such as “seeking knowledge,” as equal.
Muneer said that when a Muslim says Jews or Christians have earned Allah’s wrath, he may be called an extremist or terrorist.
But there is no need to apologize for the truth, he said.
“What’s next? … When does it stop, the neutering of the Muslim?”
He also said that trying to remove jihad from the Quran and the Sunnah is like “removing sweetness from honey.”
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Mattis Was Just Another Interventionist and Globalist
President Trump’s unexpected decision this week to pull U.S. troops out of Syria led almost immediately to the resignation of Secretary of Defense Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis on Thursday. While criticism from Democrats was a given, just for the sake of criticizing anything Trump does, the outrage of Republican internationalists over Mattis’ resignation revealed just how entrenched certain ideas are in the U.S. government — that America should be the world’s policeman being first among them.
Despite his tough image, complete with the moniker “Mad Dog,” it should be understood that Jim Mattis is no conservative, much less a constitutionalist. Mattis is the typical high-ranking military officer who made his way to the top by being politically correct. He was no Douglas MacArthur or George Patton, that’s for sure.
In testifying to the House Intelligence Committee in 2014, Mattis established his neoconservative credentials when he remarked about the “civil war” in Syria, “The geography of the globalized world does not permit us to look away as if this is not our problem.”
Mattis has been on the board of directors for the Center for a New American Security, a group that has called for the overthrow of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. According to Gideon Rose in the latest edition of Foreign Affairs, the official publication of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), “regime change” in nations that “could not be trusted to participate in [the] collective security system” has been a principle for those supportive of the New World Order from the days of one of its principle advocates, Woodrow Wilson. Among the donors of the Center for a New American Security is George Soros’ Open Society Foundation.
Other members of the board include Denis Bovin, a high-ranking member of the CFR; Lewis Kaden, a member of the CFR and the Trilateral Commission, and the group’s CEO, Michèle Flournoy, a CFR member who was under-secretary of defense for President Barack Obama.
According to archived material of the U.S. Department of Defense, before Mattis traveled to the United Kingdom in March 2017, he first went to New York, where he consulted with the Council on Foreign Relations.
The decision to withdraw from Syria was not Trump’s first policy that Mattis opposed. He opposed Trump exiting the Iran nuclear deal, and he was critical of budget cuts that inhibited the ability to monitor the impact of global climate change. Mattis said, “Climate change is a challenge that requires a broader, whole-of-government response.” It is difficult to imagine those words coming out of the mouth of Patton or MacArthur.
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Nation of Islam Receiving Federal Cash to Teach Prisoners
The Nation of Islam and its leaders have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the U.S. government since 2008 to teach religious study programs for federal prison inmates, according to records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
A black nationalist group led by Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam preaches that white people are “blue-eyed devils” and Jews are “the synagogue of Satan.” Its leaders have received at least $364,500 in contracts and awards from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice between fiscal 2008 and fiscal 2019.
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Survey: Profs Out of Step With Everyday Americans on Trump’s Foreign Policy
A recent poll shows that 93 percent of college and university employees believe that America is “less respected” under President Donald Trump than before his time in the White House.
The pollster, the Teaching, Resource, and International Policy Project (TRIP) at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, seeks to “compare scholarship and pedagogy to see whether or not scholars teach the same paradigms, methods, issue areas and regions that they employ and examine in their own research.”
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Texas City Celebrated by Al Gore in Financial Trouble Over Green Initiatives
Georgetown, Texas, a city featured in Al Gore’s 2017 science fiction film An Inconvenient Sequel because of its commitment to “green” energy, is now facing a serious financial shortfall due to those policies.
Gore, a carbon-credit entrepreneur and failed presidential candidate, copiously praised the city, saying, “I think Georgetown is already a trailblazer.”
“And one thing that Georgetown demonstrates to other places that are just beginning to think about [green energy] is that the power supply is not only more affordable, the cost is predictable for at least 25 years into the future and really beyond that.”
Wrong, Mr. Gore. Those costs aren’t even predictable even a year into the future.
Georgetown, a city of approximately 60,000 people in the center of the state, about 30 miles from Austin, is now desperately attempting to renegotiate contracts that it currently has with two renewable energy companies from which it purchases energy.
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Witchcraft Booming in America, ‘More Witches Than Presbyterians’
The number of self-declared witches in the United States now exceeds the total number of Presbyterians, the Telegraph declared Friday.
Witchcraft is proliferating in the U.S., with some 1.5 million Americans now identifying as witches, while mainstream Christian denominations shrink in numbers each year, the report claimed.
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Arabic Newspaper Publishes Calls for Muslims to Kill Jews
Canadian citizens have been lectured by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Canada is “tolerant” and that “diversity” is our strength. But what does the Prime Minister have to say about the gross anti-semitism coming from Islamic supremacists inside Canada?
A Canadian Arabic newspaper has recently published a hadith, accounts of sayings attributed directly to Muhammad, that speaks about Muslims killing Jews as part of the final Islamic fight to establish Sharia law and justice in the entire world.
The same hadith appears in online books on the websites of Canadian Islamic organizations and was recited in sermons and lectures in mosques.
Canadian imams also recite prayers to Allah to annihilate disbelievers, enemies of Islam.
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How Canada Protects Sharia Law
If you denounce Sharia law in a public fashion you will suffer. Outside of the arab world, this also holds true in Canada, where a member of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation board was fired over comments on Sharia law.
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Trudeau Exxon Mobil Scraps $25 Billion LNG Project in B.C.
Canada’s increasingly-vulnerable economy has suffered another blow.
Exxon Mobil has announced their withdrawal of the environmental assessment application they filed for a $25 billion liquid natural gas export facility in B.C.
The withdrawal of the assessment is tantamount to scrapping the project.
While Exxon Mobil had enough confidence to push the project forward under the Harper government, it’s no surprise that under the anti-energy Trudeau Liberals the project is being scrapped.
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Bosnian Man Plowed Car Into Passengers at German Bus Stop: Kills One, Injures Seven Others
The man, who rammed into people waiting at a bus stop with his car on Thursday, is a Bosnian national, local media say.
On Thursday afternoon the 32-year-old man drove his car into the pedestrians in the German city of Recklinghausen, near Dortmund.
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An ISIS-affiliated media group has publicised a poster depicting a drone attack. It comes after a London airport was shut during the busiest time of year after a drone was flown near a runway
ISIS has issued a chilling new threat to plague the US and the EU with drone attacks.
The image which is being circulated among sympathisers shows a photoshopped image of a drone with a box flying over Manhattan island in New York.
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France: Yellow Vest Protesters to March on Versailles
It won’t be the storming of the Bastille, but French yellow vest protesters are planning an equally powerful, symbolic act by marching in the ancient royal city of Versailles. In 1789, a French mob marched on Versailles, which led to the overthrow of King Louis XVI.
The Palace of Versailles, site of many historic events, will be closed to tourists as demonstrators march against the government of President Emmanuel Macron.
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German Government to Re-Educate Kids of “Right-Wing” Parents
In what was seen by many observers as a throwback to evil ideas from Germany’s National Socialist (Nazi) days, German authorities helped publish a pamphlet advocating the re-education of children whose parents disagree with the regime’s official (and totally insane) ideology. Among the ideas that are verboten: opposition to “gender theory,” the “sexualization” of children, and mass immigration. So-called education must help combat “right-wing populism,” the document added.
Critics blasted the document’s instructions for using the language of children to detect thought crimes by parents. According to the brochure, parts of which were translated into English for an article by LifeSiteNews.com, parents with attitudes the state deems unacceptable can be sniffed out. In particular, they can be detected through the use of “seemingly harmless words which stem, however, from the jargon of the New (or Old) Right and which imply a deeply misanthropic attitude.”
The Orwellian propaganda also gives examples of warning signs that children may come from a “racist” or “right-wing” family. One involves a brother and sister who seem “especially obedient” and have no “so-called disciplinary problems.” The siblings in question also display “traditional gender roles,” with the sister wearing “dresses and braids” and learning “needlework” at home while the boy “is physically being strongly challenged and drilled.”
Another example involves a mother coming to school to complain that her son was dressed up as a girl and had his finger nails painted at school the previous day. The mother “declares that this has a bad influence upon her child; children should not be further confused; boys are boys, girls are girls.” Such attitudes are not allowed in today’s totalitarian Germany, it seems…
To deal with such situations, the document calls on the school brainwash the children with “diversity” propaganda and “children’s rights” ideology, holding that children have a right to be whatever gender they please. The teachers are also expected to “explain that gender diversity and tolerance are welcomed at the pre-school” and that children must be encouraged to “experiment with themselves.” The teachers are also supposed indoctrinate them with far-left political views.
The controversial brochure, which was funded by the German Ministry of Family Affairs and published by a tax-funded foundation, includes a lengthy forward by Family Affairs Minster Dr. Franziska Giffey. The dangerous left-wing extremist claims that children must be trained in a “democratic manner” and that education must be steered toward “children’s rights,” which is code from trampling on parental rights. Giffey also lashes out at the “significant increase of right-wing populist movements,” suggesting the regime’s indoctrination centers will be used shift the political system in a more totalitarian direction.
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Germany: New Law Banning Child Marriage Declared Unconstitutional
The Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH), Germany’s highest court of civil and criminal jurisdiction, has ruled that a new law that bans child marriage may be unconstitutional because all marriages, including Sharia-based child marriages, are protected by Germany’s Basic Law (Grundgesetz).
The ruling, which effectively opens the door to legalizing Sharia-based child marriages in Germany, is one of a growing number of instances in which German courts are — wittingly or unwittingly — promoting the establishment of a parallel Islamic legal system in the country.
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Greece: Massive Increase of Attacks on Christian Symbols and Orthodox Churches
Each year there are more attacks on churches, chapels, atypical places of religious worship, religious monuments, synagogues and even cemeteries, Greek newspaper Eleftheros Typos reports.
Specifically, according to the Greek Aggressional Secretariat of Religions, last year the attacks on religious buildings (includes vandalism, burglaries, thefts, sacrifices, fires, etc.) rose by 159 per cent, while the primary target appears to be the Orthodox Church.
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Hungary Hits Back at FT: Soros an ‘Enemy of Democracy’, Not ‘Person of the Year’
The Hungarian government has hit out at the Financial Times naming George Soros their “Person of the Year”.
The famous salmon-coloured newspaper, something of a house magazine for the British establishment and financial elite, praised the billionaire currency speculator and convicted insider trader as “the standard bearer of liberal democracy and open society”.
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Let’s Make Britain Great Again! — Janice Atkinson’s Christmas Message
Our political columnist and MEP Janice Atkinson weighs in with a pre-Christmas video message for us all.
Talking about Brexit and the Article 50 stitch up we’re all witnessing, how CBI members were conned and so much more.
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Pro-Polygamy Muslim Leader Calls for Islamic Representation in Italy
One of Italy’s most prominent Muslim leaders has challenged interior minister Matteo Salvini to find a way to give Muslims “democratic representation” in government.
Hamza Piccardo, who famously argued that “polygamy is our civil right,” wrote this week to Mr Salvini asking him to “establish an electoral process leading to the election of a democratic representation of Italian Muslims.”
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Sacha Baron Cohen Unwittingly Exposed Elite Pedo Ring in Las Vegas
Hotel concierge who worked for politicians and billionaires admitted he had a contact who procured children
Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen accidentally exposed an elite pedophile ring during filming for his Who Is America? series after a concierge at a hotel in Las Vegas who worked for politicians and billionaires admitted that he had a contact who procured children.
While playing an Italian playboy character called Gio Monaldo, Cohen convinced a concierge at a hotel to help him procure an underage boy to molest.
“We wanted to investigate how does someone like Harvey Weinstein gets away with doing what… get away with criminality, essentially. And the network that surrounds him. We decided that Gio would interview a concierge in Las Vegas,” said Cohen.
While in character, Gio told the concierge that he had molested an 8-year-old boy.
“This guy starts advising Gio how to get rid of this issue. We even at one point talk about murdering the boy, and the concierge is just saying, ‘well, listen, I’m really sorry. In this country, we can’t just drown the boy. This is America we don’t do that,’“ said Cohen.
The concierge then offered to put Gio in touch with a lawyer who could help “silence” the boy, before Cohen then quizzed the man on how he could get a date for the night.
“He says, ‘what do you mean, a date?’ I go, you know, like a young man. He says, ‘well, what kind of age?’ I say, lower than Bar Mitzvah but older than eight. And he says, ‘yeah, I can put you in touch with somebody who can get you some boys like that.’“
Instead of airing the segment, Cohen immediately handed the footage to the FBI, “because we thought, perhaps there’s a pedophile ring in Las Vegas that’s operating for these very wealthy men. And this concierge had said that he’d worked for politicians and various billionaires.”
Cohen said that the FBI did not pursue the tip.
As we have repeatedly exposed (and been slandered by the media for doing so), in virtually every country where pedophile rings are busted, a connection to the elite and political class eventually emerges.
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Stockholm, Sweden: Thirty Fatal Shootings, But Just Eight Convictions
Over the last two years, Stockholm county has seen a total of thirty fatal shootings, but according to a review of the cases, only eight individuals have been convicted for the crimes.
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The European Project Comes to an End
Though the end of the European Union is inevitable, the proponents of a further integrated or federal superstate are busy making a last effort to achieve their goal.
The opposition against the project is mounting with every day. Europe is suffering from economic stagnation, and is facing a demographic calamity.
The pro-European establishment’s last hope was the newly-elected French President Emanuel Macron who was to revive the economy and integrate the European Union under French leadership. Gefira was of the opinion that all these expectations were misplaced. The once great nation is broken beyond repair. France’s problems are much worse than those of Italy. Though Italy has a higher debt-to-GDP ratio than France, France has a larger budget deficit, and the difference is that while Italy has a trade surplus France has a trade deficit, so the country cannot pay for its imports.
While the Italian “populist” Mateo Salvini is earning the nation’s respect, Emmanuel Macron’s popularity is at a historic low. All of France is engulfed by riots, civil unrest and looting. In city after city, village after village, protesters have been clashing with the police for weeks now while President Macron has nothing to offer to appease them, unless he violates the budget deficit boundary of 3%.
Like the Soviet Union once was, France is a sizeable social-multicultural experiment, and like the empty shops in communist countries, the demographic changes in France are visible in every section of the society, but nobody dares to name them. Once the whole world saw that the French team playing at the FIFA World Cup was made up of almost exclusively Africans, and even on Twitter Africans boasted about it. Yet, the French establishment insisted that those Africans were genuinely French. Dissenters were branded as racists or Nazis.
Academia as well as the political and business establishment deny what is clear to see for all. The French society has lost its economic strength and its spirit. The country was once known for its first high-speed-trains (TGV) and Concorde, but now it is notorious for social dystopia and Islamist attacks.
To prove that they are right, the French and European elites will push the multicultural society even further by signing the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Also the report entitled: “Replacement Migration: Is it a solution for an ageing population” is the United Nations’ comprehensive plan for replacing the European population.
The Fifth Republic has come to an end, and we do not expect President Macron will finish his term. France’s socio-economic collapse will drag the European Union into the abyss.
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UK: Boss of Paul Gait Arrested Over Gatwick Airport Drone Chaos Breaks Silence
Paul Gait, 47, and his wife Elaine Kirk, 54, were detained by police at around 10pm on Friday night
The employer of a man reportedly arrested over the drone chaos at Gatwick Airport has spoken out.
The couple arrested on suspicion of the Gatwick drone attack are a husband and wife from Crawley.
Paul Gait, 47, and his wife Elaine Kirk, 54, were detained by police at around 10pm on Friday night.
The pair are being quizzed by Sussex Police detectives, it has been reported.
More than 110,000 people have seen their travel plans altered and disrupted — with numerous diversions and cancellations at the UK’s second busiest airport, prompting the drastic step of bringing the military in.
Mr Gait’s boss John Allard runs Allard Double Glazing in Crowborough.
He told The Telegraph: “Paul normally comes in around 7.45am and I remember on those days he then worked late on site on a fitting job.
“I don’t think it can be him.
“He was busy on site working when it was happening.”
Mr Allard added: “I also know Paul’s wife Elaine and as far as I know she has no interest at all in drones or model flying.”
“He is a reliable family man who has been with me for 17 years and has never given me any problems at all,” he also said.
“He may have picked up the interest in model flying from me because I’ve been doing it for 40 years.”
It is believed the equipment being used is highly sensitive and has been used on the battlefield…
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UK: Baby Jesus Beheaded in Ilford
Baby Jesus has been beheaded in Ilford.
A nativity scene has been “destroyed by idiots” outside the Christmas tree in the High Road.
The statues were installed and paid for by the British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA) to remind residents about the real meaning of Christmas and while the Virgin Mary and Joseph were smashed, the infant Jesus got decapitated.
One resident, who is not religious, reported the crime to the Recorder and described the incident as “religious desecration”.
“It is three days before Christmas and this happens,” she said.
“Any other religion and there would be an outcry and it would have been fixed already.
“It is a desecration of a religious icon — I am disgusted.”
She reported the incident to Redbridge Town Hall but claims they refused to deal with it as it was not their nativity scene and were about to go to lunch.
Wilson Chowdhry, chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association said he is shocked that someone would do this and all his organisation wanted to do was install a reminder in the town centre about the true meaning of Christmas amidst all the commercialism…
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UK: Extremist-Linked Muslim Group ‘Exerted Decisive Influence’ On Govt ‘Islamophobia’ Report
Controversial Muslim lobby group MEND, which has been accused of promoting extremism, has “exerted decisive intellectual influence” in Britain’s first Islamophobia report, according to a think tank research note.
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UK: Gatwick Drones: Man and Woman From Crawley Held
A 47-year-old man and 54-year-old woman from Crawley are being questioned in connection with multiple drone sightings that brought Gatwick Airport to a standstill.
Flights were grounded for more than 36 hours when drones were first spotted close to the runway on Wednesday night.
The airport has since reopened and flights were operating on schedule, but there were still long queues and some knock-on delays, a spokesman said.
The pair remain in police custody.
They were arrested on Friday evening and were being questioned on suspicion of disrupting civil aviation, “to endanger or likely to endanger safety of operations or persons”, Sussex Police said…
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UK: Haringey Murder: London Toll Hits 10-Year High After Man Stabbed to Death
A murder probe has been launched after a man in his 20s was stabbed to death in north London, becoming the 131st person to be violently killed in the capital this year.
The man died after he was rushed to hospital in the early hours of Saturday morning, just three days before Christmas Day.
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UK: May Prepares “Secret” Brexit Plan B to Avoid “No Deal” Armageddon
Three weeks have passed, and we’re back at ‘Plan B’.
After months of pushing an EU-backed deal that has almost no chance of passing Parliament (at least, as of now), Theresa May’s strategizing as she seeks to run out the clock until Brexit day has come to resemble a nightmarish loop: May tries to whip up votes for her deal, MPs either resign, or threaten to resign, reports are floating saying May and her cabinet are considering a second referendum/Plan B/calling off Brexit, those reports are promptly denied, May begs the EU for more concessions, the EU tells her to drop dead, and then we’re back to whipping up votes for the draft plan.
Theresa May has been stuck in neutral for weeks now, having survived a no confidence vote, and Labour having backed down on a formal challenge to her government, May has called for a vote on her deal on Jan. 14 — a vote that, though the margin has reportedly been whittled to just 20 MPs, is still widely expected to fail.
And as May’s minority government struggles to win the support of the 10 DUP MPs who have helped prop up her minority government (and who have exercised an outsize influence on the process since May’s general election gambit last summer resulted in disaster for the conservatives), reports are again circulating that May & Co. are considering a variety of “dramatic” alternatives should her deal be defeated — including a possible Plan B Brexit deal that would lay the foundation for a ‘Super Norway’trade arrangement, delaying ‘Brexit Day’ or calling for a second referendum.
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Viktor Orban Hopes More Nationalist Politicians Enter European Parliament to “Turn Trends Around”
Commenting on next year’s European parliamentary elections, the Hungarian Prime Minister said the country needed MEPs who represent Hungary in Brussels and not Brussels in Hungary.
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Horrific video footage has emerged on social media, appearing to depict the killings of two Scandinavian university students, one of whom is shown being decapitated, while they were hiking in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains.
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Caroline Glick: Pros and Cons of Trump’s Decision to Pull Out of Syria
President Donald Trump’s sudden announcement Wednesday that he is removing U.S. forces from Syria shocked many. But it shouldn’t have come as a surprise, because the move is consistent with key aspects of Trump’s military and foreign policy.
Trump promised to bring the 2,000 U.S. Special Forces home from Syria in April. When his announcement sparked opposition from the Pentagon and from key allies, Trump said that he would give the Pentagon six months to complete its mission to defeat so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS) forces in Syria.
Seven months later, he announced the troops will be coming home.
Trump’s decision will have negative consequences. But it will also have positive consequences. Only time will tell if the positive implications of the move will outweigh the negative ones. But it is important to set out both to consider the wisdom of his decision.
On the negative side, the most immediate casualties of Trump’s decision are the Kurdish-dominated People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia. The YPG has been America’s partner and its ground force in the U.S.-led campaign against IS in Syria. YPG forces are the only forces on the ground in Syria that are loyal to the U.S.
At the same time, the U.S. partnership with the YPG has raised the prospect of a war between the U.S. and Turkey. Turkish dictator Recip Erdogan. Erdogan threatened last week to launch an offensive against the YPG forces. He spoke to Trump on Monday. Trump reportedly decided to announce the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria on Tuesday.
Also during the course of their discussion, Erdogan reportedly agreed to cancel his order of the Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system and to purchase a package of U.S. Patriot missile systems valued at $3.5 billion instead…
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ISIS 2.0 Rising: Interpol Sends Shock Warning to World of Second Wave of Islamic Terror
THE WORLD could be targeted in a fresh wave of deadly terror attacks as jailed jihadists are released from prison and battle-hardened ISIS fighters make their way home from Middle Eastern war zones in a second wave of terror, Interpol’s top official has warned.
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The Foreign Policy Swamp: Why They Are Wrong and President Trump is Right on Syria
My support for President Trump’s decisions to bring American forces out of Syria now and soon Afghanistan is informed not only by my experiences since 9/11, but also four decades of military and civilian experience planning and executing national security policy. I have studied national security matters under retired US Marine Lt General Mick Trainor at Harvard, and many other great thinkers at the U.S. College of Naval Warfare.
As you can see from my background, I’m no pacifist, but I’ve also seen the horrors of war firsthand and understand that military force should always be a final resort and that it is the duty of the Commander in Chief to bring our troops home as soon as the stated mission is complete.
Unlike the bipartisan foreign policy swamp, which has been consistently proven wrong about nearly every major military decision of the last decade, President Trump has overseen a clear, steady and realist foreign policy, focused on putting America First. From re-building America’s military, destroying ISIS, ending the Iran deal, de-escalating tensions with North Korea, he has consistently proven the naysayers in the foreign policy swamp wrong.
Those who have led us down the failed and dangerous path of endless wars in the Middle East, Southwest Asia, and beyond, are the last people who should be listened to in regards to Syria. In fact, many of those people attacking President Trump today over Syria, are they themselves responsible for the chaos we see currently in the Middle East. Why trust a group of people whose policies have been discredited time and time again over a man whose policies and instincts in regards to foreign policy have been consistently proven right?
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Russian president Vladimir Putin goaded British anti-Brexiteers campaigning for a re-run of EU referendum at his annual press conference in Moscow, asking: “Is this democracy?”
The 66-year-old strongman’s marathon televised press conferences have taken on a carnival atmosphere as they have become something of a yearly tradition, with dozens of journalists in attendance, some wearing flamboyant outfits or carrying eye-catching signs to capture their host’s attention.
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2 Christian Brothers Sentenced to Death for Web Blasphemy in Pakistan
‘The prosecution has proved its case against both the accused beyond shadow of reasonable doubt’
Two Christian brothers have been sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan, weeks after Asia Bibi was acquitted of the same crime following international outcry.
Qaiser and Amoon Ayub from Lahore were sentenced to hang by a district judge after being convicted of insulting the Prophet Mohammed in articles and portraits posted on their website.
The brothers fled the country after they were first accused of the crime in 2011, but eventually returned home quietly. Amoon, 38, was then arrested at the airport trying to leave the country a second time and Qaiser, 44, was also held. The pair have been in Jhelum prison since 2014.
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India: All Computers Can Now be Monitored by Govt. Agencies
Failure to cooperate will invite 7-year imprisonment and fine
(The Hindu) The Ministry of Home Affairs issued an order authorising 10 Central agencies to intercept, monitor, and decrypt “any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer.”
The agencies are the Intelligence Bureau, Narcotics Control Bureau, Enforcement Directorate, Central Board of Direct Taxes, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Central Bureau of Investigation; National Investigation Agency, Cabinet Secretariat (R&AW), Directorate of Signal Intelligence (For service areas of Jammu & Kashmir, North-East and Assam only) and Commissioner of Police, Delhi.
According to the order, the subscriber or service provider or any person in charge of the computer resource will be bound to extend all facilities and technical assistance to the agencies and failing to do will invite seven-year imprisonment and fine.
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I had the pleasure of interviewing a Kenyan on the question of why Europe is being flooded with African, and specifically Somali, men. I cannot name him because you know how hair-trigger these people can be when you mention their religion.
Here is what he said:…
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Ever since the 2016 campaign trail, President Trump, then candidate Trump, has promised to build the wall. The wall on the border of the US and Mexico to help stop the influx of immigrants crossing the border and into the US illegally.
President Trump has kept more campaign promises in his first year than any other President in recent history and his support base has grown. With an approval rating of 50 per cent he seems to be unstoppable.
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Austria to Automatically Deny Asylum to Migrants Who Arrive in Europe With the Help of Smugglers
Austria is cracking down on human trafficking. With plans to deny asylum to ALL migrants who attempt to enter the country using human traffickers. As well, recent measures is a plan to seize migrants’ cash when they arrive in country and using that money towards their initial care.
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Denmark Passes Law Making Handshake Mandatory for Naturalization
Critics say measure meant to discourage Muslims from seeking citizenship
Danish lawmakers have approved a government-backed proposal to make citizenship applicants shake hands with the official conducting the naturalization ceremony. The bill has been criticized for discriminating against Muslims.
The new citizenship bill has been the subject of a heated debate since last summer. It requires those applying for Danish citizenship to commit to the country’s values and to show respect for its government by shaking hands with its representative.
Critics of the bill argue that it’s aimed at discouraging Muslims from seeking Danish citizenship, calling the proposal discriminatory and describing it as an unnecessary formality.
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Five-Member German Family Receives Less in Benefits Than Family of Four Migrants
Thomas Hetze, a German with his family of five who has paid into the social system for years, was recently told he is only entitled to 900 euros per month by the German government.
Currently a migrant family of four is entitled to 1350 euros without ever having paid into the social systems. The UN Social Council found large problems in the application of human rights in Germany.
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Group of Migrants Threatened Container Ship Staff to be Brought to UK
Stowaways believed to be from Nigeria have stormed the crew of a container ship in British waters. An SOS distress call was made yesterday as Nigerians threatened the crew of The Grande Tema.
The crew aboard the cargo ship which set off from Lagos on December 10th discovered the 4 stowaways who reportedly then threatened them with iron bars forcing them to lock themselves in the bridge of the vessel as the rampaging illegals demanded to be taken nearer to the coast where they planned to swim the rest of the way to having departed the Tema.
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Italian Police Arrest 17 Moroccan Migrants in Massive Drug Bust
Italian narcotic police carried out a major drug bust Saturday in the northern Italian seaside town of Viareggio, arresting 17 Moroccan immigrants believed to be responsible for dealing drugs in the area.
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Italian Minister Tells NGO Italy Doesn’t Want Migrants: “Our Ports Are Closed!”
Italy’s populist Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini announces that Italian ports are CLOSED.
The migrants were picked up from Libya intending to go to Malta but were turned away from Malta so the NGO Proactiva Open Arms requested to be allowed entry to Italy.
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Sweden to Import 5,000 Migrants From Middle East, Africa
The Swedish government has announced plans to import 5,000 ‘refugees’ from the Middle East and Africa, many of whom will be flown in from their home countries, according to local media.
The ‘resettlement’ plan will be executed during 2019 in close cooperation with the United Nations Refugee Agency, and will see thousands of new migrants imported directly from countries such as Afghanistan, Egypt, and Turkey, if 2018 patterns are followed.
“Through the migration policy agreement in autumn 2015 between the government, the Moderates, the Center Party, the People’s Party, the Liberals and the Christian Democrats, it was stated that Sweden would gradually increase the number of quota refugees to 5,000 people per year before the end of the mandate.”
Swedish Minister of Immigration Helene Fritzon praised the move and lauded her nation as a top destination for ‘refugees.’
“It is about providing protection for the most vulnerable refugees while taking joint responsibility in the EU, together with the major refugee countries in the world,” Fritzon said…
Tens of thousands of migrants continue to pour in to the Nordic nation, which has fueled a stunning spike in violent crime, sexual assault, and gang warfare.
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I don’t go to those places without security,” a Swedish journalist tells me when I ask whether she would accompany me to some of her country’s “especially vulnerable” areas. The label is given by police to neighborhoods where crime is rampant and parallel social structures compete for authority with the state. To the politically incorrect, these are also known as “immigrant ghettos.”
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UK: Special Forces Retake Cargo Ship After Migrants Threatened Staff
Four men have been arrested after special forces stormed a cargo ship off the UK’s coast, where a group of stowaway migrants had threatened staff on-board.
Special Boat Service (SBS) operatives from Sabre Squadron fast-roped from helicopters on to the ship, which had been sailing in the Thames Estuary, sources told Sky’s defence and security correspondent Alistair Bunkall.
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UN Migration Pact Explained and Exposed: 38 Times ‘We Commit to’ in it
In a short video, Micke Willgert from Swedish Webb Television tells us what everyone should know about the UN Migration Pact.
Various politicians and news channels have stubbornly argued that the agreement is not legally binding.
The truth, however, is that “non-legally binding” occurs twice in the agreement — while “we commit to” occurs no less than 38 times.
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Canada: Christian Called Before ‘Tribunal’ Over Flyers About Transgender Candidate
Accused of ‘discrimination, hatred, contempt’ for truthful statements
In a case that Americans could take as a warning, a Canadian man is on trial for making truthful statements about a political candidate’s transgender activism.
Bill Whatcott, the Canadian director of the non-profit, pro-family group Mass Resistance, distributed flyers during a recent political campaign revealing that candidate for parliament Ronan Oger is a biological male transgender seeking office under the name Morgane Oger.
Until five years ago, Oger had a wife and two children, and of late has been the vice-president of British Columbia’s far-left New Democratic Party.
Oger’s candidacy failed, and he brought charges against Whatcott, who was ordered to appear before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal on Oger’s claims of “hate speech.”
The charges include “discrimination, hatred, contempt.”
Whatcott described Oger as extreme, with a public record of advocacy for “the removal of children from homes where the parents disagree with their children being indoctrinated to embrace the LGBT agenda.”…
Mass Resistance said it’s “breathtaking how totalitarian and vicious Canada has become against religious and pro-family beliefs.”
“Its government has completely embraced the radical LGBT ideological agenda.”
The case is important because “Canada may be where the United States and other Western countries are headed.”
Canada “has institutionalized in its legal code the radical LGBT ideology that defies science and logic, and enforces it aggressively starting in their elementary schools and throughout all society.”
Mass Resistance said Canada “has gone from simply ‘prohibited’speech to compelled speech in a way that is beyond Orwellian.”
“For example, the tribunal instructed the participants to call a man ‘she’ and use a woman’s title (‘Ms. Oger’) or be subject to fines.”…
In the United States, it’s about to get much worse, Mass Resistance said.
“The so-called Equality Act is pending in Congress. It would federalize the severe sexual-orientation and gender-identity laws. These laws are also continuing to get passed in states and locales. They are the starting point for further tyranny.”
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Italy’s Salvini Hopes ‘No One is Offended’ By His Christmas Greetings
Interior minister Matteo Salvini wished all Italians a “happy and holy Christmas” this week, adding that he hopes no one is offended by such language.
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A traditional Danish song has sparked controversy recently. A female teacher of foreign origin at the Danish Business School was offended by a line in the song (the first line) being sung at a school gathering.
The title of the old song is “The Danish Song is a Young Blonde Girl” — a classic, beautiful and very Danish song about the beauty and soul of Denmark and the Danes.
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Students Petition to Ban ‘Offensive’ Evolutionary Psychologist
More than 4,200 Northwestern University students have signed a petition demanding that administrators ban from campus an evolutionary psychologist whose research they deem “offensive” and “nonsense.”
The petition, “Ban Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa from conducting research at Northwestern,” takes aim at Dr. Kanazawa, a psychologist who researches topics such as sex differences and intelligence.
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We are now in strange times, Italian Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, leader of the populist League party, has said.
“We’ve left under Italians’ Christmas tree a budget that finally gives back instead of taking away,” the Italian Interior Minister said on Thursday.
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This is the result of Putin’s policies. Botox dwarf – a traitor to Russia.
The collection of seeds of Academician Vavilov is exported from Russia to the Rothschild Gene Bank
In the All-Russian Institute of Plant Industry named. N.I. Vavilova in St. Petersburg was under the threat of plundering a priceless collection of seeds of strategic importance to Russia.
https://mskgazeta.ru/obshchestvo/kollekciyu-semyan-akademika-vavilova-vyvozyat-iz-rossii-v-gennyj-bank-rotshil-dov.html
Here is the article in the Ilford Recorder detailing the atrocity carried out on the baby Jesus (accepting Disqus comments):
https://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/news/crime-court/baby-jesus-decapitated-1-5828946
Yes, that’s the same article I linked to and excerpted from in the news feed.
Oh yeah. D’oh!
“Qaiser and Amoon Ayub from Lahore were sentenced to hang by a district judge after being convicted of insulting the Prophet Mohammed in articles and portraits posted on their website.”
Civilized countries around the world need to treat Pakistan as the pariah state it actually is. Boycott “made in Pakistan” (if such things exist), ban visa entry to Pakistan citizens, cancel development aid handouts, ban Cricket team contacts, and military partnerships. If Russia or China want to step in, they will find Pakistan the sort of friend you could do without. But that sort of boycott would very quickly cripple the country and bring the Pakistani courts to their senses.
The last civilized person Pakistan had was Jinnah. And don’t forget that these geniuses have nuclear weapons.
I must say that Imran Khan’s latest wife looks rather fetching. A step up from Jemima Goldsmith, I suppose :).