French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe canceled his participation in the climate summit to be held in Poland this week so that he could meet with leaders of the “Yellow Vest” protests that have racked France for the past three weeks. However, Yellow Vest representatives later said that they had decided not to meet with Mr. Philippe.
In other news, migrants encamped next to the southern US border have grown tired of waiting, and have begun scaling the border fence to get into the USA.
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Brett Favre, Andy Dick Tricked Into Recording Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Videos
Former legendary NFL quarterback Brett Favre, hip-hop star Soulja Boy, and actor-comedian Andy Dick were recently duped into recording videos coded with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories using Cameo, an app which facilitates the purchase of personalized messages from celebrities.
BuzzFeed News reports the white supremacist group Goyim Defense League, founded by YouTubers Sway Guevara and Handsome Truth put up the funds for the videos. “Brett Favre here with a shoutout to the Handsome Truth and the GDL boys,” the Hall of Fame quarterback began in the short video. “You guys are patriots in my eyes. So keep waking them up and don’t let the small get you down. Keep fighting, too, and don’t ever forget the USS Liberty and the men and women who died on that day. God bless and take care.”…
Favre, who was compensated $500 to record the message, took to social media to express outrage over being tricked into spreading the slurs, telling fans he would donate the money he made off the video to charity. Favre said he was left “distressed” after being altered of the scheme pulled off by the pair of YouTubers, affirming he believed the Goyim Defense League was a veterans group. “The Cameo request from this organization is a prime example of how these groups are misusing social media to promote their agenda,” he wrote in a Facebook post.
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Dr. Robert Epstein: Research Documents Google Search ‘Irregularities’ In 2018 Election
Psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein appeared on SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Sunday to discuss Google’s power and influence over public opinion and voting patterns with Breitbart News Deputy political editor Amanda House.
On the topic of a recent report which claimed Google employees spoke about burying conservative websites such as Breitbart and the Daily Caller in an effort to “reverse things in four years,” Epstein declared, “It’s just another indication, Amanda, of what a lot of us have suspected for a long time. It just confirms based on actual communications within the company that Google has the power to shift the votes and opinions on anything, and they discuss the power. They wouldn’t discuss it if they didn’t have it, and they exercise the power. There’s simply no question about that.”
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Sunday on New York AM 970 radio’s “The Cats Roundtable,” President Donald Trump legal team member Rudy Giuliani criticized FBI special counsel Robert Mueller’s handling of the Russia investigation.
Giuliani accused Mueller of “intimidating people” to get “what he believes is his version of the truth.”
“[T]hey want [Paul Manafort] to give certain forms of evidence that would implicate the president in things that Mr. Manafort says are untrue,” Giuliani told host John Catsimatidis. “At some point, after you do this four, five, six times, you’ve got to accept the fact that Mr. Manafort maybe doesn’t have the recollection they like. And they are pressuring him and creating a real risk that the man might commit perjury.
“After a while, this kind of pressure can create the risk of tainted testimony,” he added.
Giuliani said an “ethical prosecutor would stop” interrogating Manafort and pursue getting information from someone else
“You can only exert a certain amount of pressure before it becomes unethical and destructive,” he stated.
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Hate Hoax: Black College Lacrosse Player Scrawled N-Word, KKK, Swastika Targeting Himself
Arthur reportedly wrote the numbers of several dorm rooms along with his threats, one of which was his own.
Fynn Ajani Arthur, 21, was arrested on Thursday for allegedly scrawling “KKK,” swastikas and “I’m gonna kill all n****rs” across Goucher College campus.
Arthur reportedly wrote the numbers of several dorm rooms along with his threats, one of which was his own.
[Comment: motivation — to feed the BLM (Black Lives Matter) propaganda machine…]
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‘Instapundit’ Glenn Harlan Reynolds: ‘Why I Deleted My Twitter Account’
Glenn Harlan Reynolds, the law professor behind popular political blog Instapundit, published an article in USA Today, Monday, explaining why he decided to delete his Twitter account which had over 100,000 followers.
In his article, titled “Why I deleted my popular Twitter account,” Reynolds claimed the social network has become a “breeding ground for thoughtlessness and contempt.”
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Is the FBI Raiding Whistleblowers’ Homes to Protect Robert Mueller?
If evidence of bribery, kickbacks, extortion, and money-laundering in the Uranium One affair are not grounds for a special prosecutor assigned to investigate Hillary Clinton, what is? Rosenstein and Mueller, by their silence on this investigation hidden from Congress and the American people, come off as unindicted coconspirators in Hillary’s crimes. We may soon find just how much Robert Mueller was involved in killing a serious investigation into Uranium One.
Dennis Nathan Cain is a Department of Justice whistleblower who had obtained documents showing how Robert Mueller failed to properly investigate Uranium One and Hillary’s involvement in it, actually aiding and abetting a cover-up to protect her presidential ambitions. As The Daily Wire reports:
In a stunning display, a man who is a recognized government watchdog and had given Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz documents showing federal officials ignored the relationship among Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, and Rosatom, the Russian company that purchased Uranium One, had his home raided by the FBI, despite the fact that his status was protected by law[…]
Why would the FBI, once headed by a director who had investigated Russia and Uranium One, raid the home of the whistleblower, named Dennis Nathan Cain? The FBI might have not known that the documents, or which documents, had already been legally turned over by Cain and possibly was trying to seize the documents to protect Mueller himself. Yet Cain told agents at his door of his legally protected status, and the documents they sought had been turned over to the proper authorities. They either didn’t believe him or did not care.
Mirroring similar thuggish raids involving Trump associates Paul Manafort and Larry Cohen, the raid on Cain’s home suggests that Mueller is afraid that Horowitz is actually doing his job and a good one, leading to the exposure of Mueller’s own culpability in Hillary’s nefarious, dare we say it, collusion with Russia.
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Maxine Waters Gets Powerful New Role… Threatens to Cripple Economy…
Warns Banks: “I’m gonna do to you what you did to us!”
“Impeach Trump” Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) is about to assume a very powerful role as the House Financial Services Committee. Even before she assumes her role, Maxine has alreaday begun threatening the banks, telling them, “I’m gonna do to you what you did to us!”
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Mind the Chemtrails: New Study Calls for Global “Stratospheric Aerosol Injection” By 2030s
A fleet of aircraft injecting sulfates into the lower stratosphere could help protect the world from climate change. Well, that is according to a peer-reviewed paper published Nov. 23 in the journal Environmental Research Letters by researchers from Harvard and Yale universities.
It sounds like rhetoric from the tinfoil-hat chemtrail conspiracy community. Large commercial airliners spraying sulfate microparticles into the stratosphere, anywhere from 8 to 30 miles high. The purpose is to help shield the Earth from sunlight to maintain lower temperatures.
The report is one of the most in-depth and modern study yet of “stratospheric aerosol injection” (also known as “solar dimming” or “solar engineering” and or in the conspiracy community — “chemtrails”). Researchers examined how effective and expensive a solar geoengineering project would be beginning in the early 2030s. The goal of the program would be to halve the temperature increase caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gases, sort of like the global cooling effects of volcanic eruptions…
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) expressed great concern about the project, which said, “reflecting sunlight would likely reduce Earth’s average temperature but could also change global circulation patterns with potentially serious consequences such as changing storm tracks and precipitation patterns.”
In other words, screwing with the mother nature might have unintended consequences and likely trigger a new set of problems.
This report should undoubtedly cause discussion in the chemtrail conspiracy community.
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Sarah Palin Tells Joy Behar ‘Suck it Up, Cupcake’ After Kid Rock Jab
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin scoffed at ABC Host Joy Behar’s “crocodile tears” and told her to “suck it up, cupcake,” while citing a Breitbart News article reporting on the removal of Kid Rock as grand marshal of the Nashville Christmas Parade.
The former GOP vice presidential hopeful jumped to her Facebook page to ridicule ABC’s The View host, who reacted with outrage after rock singer Kid Rock called her a “bitch” on live TV during a Friday interview with Fox & Friends.
Palin was incredulous at Behar’s mock outrage over being called a bitch especially considering all the names she has called others.
“Buckle up,” Palin wrote on her Facebook page. “Save the crocodile tears @joyvbehar — if you can dish it out you sure as heck better be ready to take it in.”
Palin went on saying, “You sat idly by, downright giddy, as guests on YOUR show called my daughter a hooker? You’ve said worse about me (and other women), but I’ve got other things to do than spend precious time googling it all.”
“Joyless B — suck it up, cupcake,” Palin jabbed before adding a link to a report citing the time her daughter was called a “hooker” on The View.
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The Word ‘Mean’ is Leftists’ Lethal Weapon
Americans have always eventually done the right thing — freed the slaves, gave women the right to vote, and so on. While we are an extremely compassionate people, throughout our history we have made adult commonsense decisions to preserve our homeland and act as good stewards of God’s gift of America.
Today, a powerful leftist (Democrats, Hollywood, and Fake news) weapon to overrule commonsense and further their anti-America agenda is the word “mean.” Far too many Republicans and conservatives regard being declared mean by leftists an immediate stop sign, preventing the enforcement of our laws and blocking the implementation of commonsense solutions good for America.
Fully supported by American leftists, illegals are saying, “screw you America.” They are invading our country whether we like it or not, arrogantly breaking our immigration laws. They demand to feed on our welfare safety-net set up for Americans. Outrageously, Obama gave illegals freebies unavailable to Americans — free attorneys and more. Obama used taxpayers’ money to spend over 60 grand per illegal to settle them in America. We spend $11 to $22 billion each year on freebies for illegals.
Obama spread illegals around the country, irresponsibly putting medically untested children of illegals into our schools infecting our kids with strange diseases. That was mean. Leftists like Obama are consistently mean to Americans.
Can you believe illegal students in our schools are allowed to demand that U.S. students not wear clothing to school that features the U.S. Flag on Mexican holidays? Illegals claim wearing U.S. gear on a Mexican holiday is racist, insensitive, and mean. Incredibly, leftist school administrators agree and send U.S. students home for wearing t-shirts which feature our flag.
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UN Linked ‘Extremism Expert’ Says Trump Could Command Supporters to Turn Violent
A leftist extremism ‘analyst’ with ties to the UN has suggested that President Trump may call for violence, and that if he did, his supporters would follow the call to arms diligently.
“If he [Trump] called for violence, there would be violence,” J.M Berger told SiriusXM Progress host Dan Obeidallah. Berger is an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization, a left leaning think tank that collaborates with various agencies of the United Nations.
Berger, who also has ties to leftist think tank The Brookings Institution, has written for Politico, The Atlantic and Foreign Policy.
[Comment: Another commie yapping lies.]
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When Terrorists Learned ‘Lawfare’ Works: The Holy Land Foundation Trial’s 10-Year Anniversary
In November, a writer for the American Thinker called to ask for my recollectionsabout covering the trials and tribulations of what is often described as the largest terrorist fundraising operation in U.S. history. It hadn’t occurred to me, but the 10-year anniversary of the “Holy Land Foundation Five” convictions in a Dallas federal courtroom has unexpectedly arrived.
The call from the American Thinker triggered even older memories related to the Holy Land Foundation case, and of the related case against Infocom Corporation: I had become one of the first U.S. targets of Islamist “lawfare,” a term reflecting the tactic of filing high-expense civil litigation to silence and delegitimize opponents. I had been placed on a Muslim community “blacklist” and labeled a Muslim-hater for doing my job. I remembered feeling shocked and betrayed by having seen, for the first time up close and personal, how a pressure campaign by criminal suspects could, like a paper cup, collapse the journalistic ideal of boldly defiant truth-telling.
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Will Governments Ever Learn Their Lesson on Corporate Welfare?
When governments pick favourite companies to get free handouts, they are punishing the rest of us who are paying the bill with ever-increasing taxes and ever-increasing deficits.
There’s an old saying about the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result. Never has this been more true than governments in Canada when it comes wasting your money on corporate welfare.
This week, General Motors announced out of the blue that it will be mothballing its plant in Oshawa, Ont., and eliminating 2,800 jobs in one fell swoop. It’s a bitter pill to swallow for thousands of GM workers and their families who had no clue whatsoever that such devastating news was coming. They’re furious and so are Canadians from coast to coast.
After all, this was the same company which, together with Chrysler, begged for a bailout in 2008 at a cost of more than $13 billion taken from taxpayers’ pockets. Then-industry minister Tony Clement argued such a massive bailout was needed in order to “achieve a viable industry.”
And, like kids carrying away their trick-or-treating loot and promising not to eat it too fast, GM pocketed the cash and solemnly committed “to do what it takes to get the job done so we can proceed with new investments and new production launches in Canada.”
Fast forward to today, and with all of the dust settled, Canadian taxpayers lost $2.8 billion on General Motors, even after some of the loans were repaid and shares sold.
It turns out the billions that taxpayers forked over to the corporate behemoth in the name of “stability” was really just a dressed-up protection racket that ended with GM skipping town anyway.
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Newly Discovered Cave in B.C. Park Might be the Largest in Canada
A newly discovered cave in a remote valley in British Columbia’s Wells Gray Provincial Park might just be the country’s largest.
The feature was spotted by a helicopter crew from the province’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change in March, when they were conducting a caribou census through the northeastern part of the park.
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Concern Over UK Crime Rate Hits Highest Level Since 2011 Riots, According to Poll
The poll, conducted by Ipsos MORI, has revealed that British citizens are the most concerned over crime that they have been since the 2011 riots.
In London, the figures make for even more concerning reading. In England’s capital city, crime is the joint-second most significant concern, with 35% of respondents highlighting the issue.
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EU in Charge of Trade Policy, Merkel Reminds Car Bosses
FRANKFURT AM MAIN (AFP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday reminded German carmakers that Brussels is in charge of negotiating the bloc’s trade policy, a day before auto bosses are to hold talks at the White House as punishing US tariffs loom.
Top executives of Daimler, Volkswagen and BMW are expected to meet with US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Tuesday.
Merkel said the talks would focus on the companies’ future plans as major employers in the US.
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Explaining France’s Grassroots “Yellow Vest” Movement — and Why it’s Spreading Across Europe
For three weeks, tens-of-thousands of French protesters have donned yellow vests and marched throughout Paris. While the “yellow vest” movement began on November 17 as a grassroots protest against president Emmanuel Macron’s gas tax — levied in the name of climate change, it has morphed into a general rage against the French government in general at a time when Macron’s approval rating is at an all time low.
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Fierce Tax Protests Put France’s Macron in a Bind
PARIS (AFP) — Emmanuel Macron has pledged to restore disillusioned voters’ trust in government by diligently delivering on his election promises, but his refusal to bow to the demands of tax protesters could hobble his presidency, experts say.
The “yellow vest” movement, which degenerated into street clashes and vandalism in Paris over the weekend, has emerged as the most serious challenge yet for the reform-minded former investment banker.
Calls are growing for Macron to give ground in his standoff with the protestors, who are furious over fuel taxes and other policies they say favour the rich.
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For the First Time in 40 Years, Right-Wing Parties Gain Majority in Large Spanish Region
In a historic election in Andalusia yesterday, the establishment leftist ruling force, the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), failed to reach 40 seats for the first time.
More importantly, it has failed to gain a leftist majority since its far left ally, Adelante Andalucia (part of the Unidos Podemos formation), also fared poorly in yesterday’s elections.
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France’s President Macron Effortlessly Destroys the Brexit Deal
On November 25, 2018, a summit meeting of the 27 remaining countries of the European Union approved the Brexit deal agreed with the UK’s Theresa May. At the end of the summit, President Macron gave a press conference in which he announced how he would abuse the deal to blackmail the UK, thereby making approval of the deal in the UK Parliament unthinkable. This deal must be the shortest-lived treaty in history.
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France: Macron in Deep Trouble: Now Even Now Even the Ambulance Service Joins the Protests
Anti-Macron protests in France are gaining speed. Yesterday we saw firefighters turn their backs on elected officials, police removing their helmets in a show of solidarity with the protesters and Monday morning, more than one hundred ambulance drivers protested in Paris.
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France: Anti-Macron Protests Spread, Ambulance Workers Join Rebellion
More than one hundred ambulance drivers protested in Paris Monday morning, as France’s President Emmanuel Macron faces mounting pressure from populous movements inspired by the Yellow Jackets.
Paramedics blocked the Place de la Concorde near the National Assembly in downtown Paris at 5:30 am local time, blaring their sirens and holding banners condemning government-mandated industry reforms, reports France Info.
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French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe is meeting with French political leaders and ‘yellow vests’ this week instead of his scheduled appearance at the COP24 climate change summit in Katowice, Poland.
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Italian Interior Minister Scheduled to Visit Israel in December
The Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister is scheduled to visit Israel in two weeks, the 11-12 December.
This is the same date some will be signing the UN’s disastrous Migration Impact, which neither Italy nor Israel will sign however, hence both having the opening in their schedules.
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Italy: Patience Almost Run Out on TAV — Boccia
Rally of 3,000 business folk in Turin
(ANSA) — Turin, December 3 — Italian businesses’ patience over the government’s postponement of the TAV high-speed rail line between Turin and Lyon is “almost at an end”, Confindustria employers’ group chief Vincenzo Boccia said Monday.
The 5-Star/League government has put the project on ice while a cost/benefit analysis is carried out at the request of the 5-Stars, who are against the project.
The League, on the other hand, is in favour of it going ahead.
Speaking at a rally of 3,000 businessmen to call for new infrastructure starting with the TAV, Boccia said “if we’re here it’s because our patience is almost at the limit.
“If we are here, artisans, merchants, cooperatives, industrialists, someone should ask themselves why.
“We are making economic policy proposals to avert damage to the country”.
The ‘No-TAV’ movement against the project said the employers were “only afraid of losing a rich contract of public money” and did not have the general interest at heart.
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Le Pen Proposes to Dissolve French National Assembly
Amid ‘Yellow Vest’ crisis, the National Rally (NR) leader Marine Le Pen has proposed to dissolve the lower Chamber of French Parliament and hold fresh parliamentary elections.
According to the Sputnik, Le Pen, while citing the only solution to the crisis, said, “It is necessary to implement proportional representation and dissolve the National Assembly in order to hold new proportional elections.”
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Leaked Advice to PM May From Bureaucrat Olly Robbins Admits Brexit Backstop ‘A Bad Outcome’
Olly Robbins, the unelected civil servant credited with crafting Theresa May’s “worst deal in history” with the EU, is reported to have warned her that entering into its so-called “backstop” arrangements would be “a bad outcome” for the United Kingdom.
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Macron on Edge as Up to 120,000 Angry “Yellow Vests” Prepare to Storm the Bastille
French President Emmanuel Macron may institute emergency tax cuts in an attempt to stem violent protests which have gripped France for three weeks, according to Bloomberg.
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Macron’s France: 80-Year-Old Woman Dies After Being Hit in Face With Tear Gas Grenade Pellets
An 80-year-old woman has died after she was hit in the face with tear gas grenade pellets during Yellow Vest protests in Marseille, France.
The woman, of Algerian heritage, was home in her fourth-floor flat in a building near La Canebière, Marseille, Southern France, when she was hit Saturday, reports Le Parisien.
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There is Suddenly a Far Bigger European Problem Than Brexit or Italy
Forget Brexit and Italian populists for a second. It’s worth paying attention to what’s going on in France.
For more than two weeks, the country has been disrupted by an unusual protest: the so-called “Gilets Jaunes” or “Yellow Vests.” France is used to labor unrest and chaos affecting transport of course, with strikes something of a national pastime.
But this time it’s different.
Some 100,000 people blocking toll roads, petrol stations and crossroads is creating major disruption to transport and retail. It’s also proving to be extremely tricky to defuse, as there’s no single protest leader to negotiate with.
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UK: Half of the Tories Want Theresa May to Resign Now — Poll
The shocking result of a ConservativeHome survey of 1,450 Conservative Party members reveals that half of the Tories want Theresa May to resign now.
Perhaps it is no surprise given the treacherous deal she’s intent on making with the European Union which effectually locks Britain IN the EU with less autonomy and no way out, making it a Remainer’s dream and a Brexiteer’s nightmare.
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UK: Theresa May Caught in Massive Lie
Theresa May refused to publish the complete legal analysis of the agreement she signed. Leaked analysis proves she lied.
Great Deal for the EU, Not the UK
On November 26, Trump proclaimed the Brexit Agreement ‘Sounds Like a Great Deal for the EU’.
“I think we have to take a look at seriously whether or not the U.K. is allowed to trade. Because, you know, right now if you look at the deal, they may not be able to trade with us and that wouldn’t be a good thing.”
May Refuses to Publish Brexit Deal Legal Advice
Theresa May has refused for over a week to post the legal review of the Brexit agreement she signed. Instead she posted allegedly “sufficient” excerpts on which Parliament could make a decision.
According to the Guardian, the excerpts “will be sufficient information for any MP to make up their mind on the legal aspects of the deal before the upcoming five-day debate, and that it keeps to the protocol that full advice is seen as confidential between lawyer and client.”
Thus, Trump made an educated guess. And he guessed correctly. Because the leaked document proves May is a bald-faced liar. Leaked Document
Here is the Complete Withdrawal Agreement leaked document.
I salute the person responsible for the leak. Damning Assessment of May’s Lies
BrexitCentral offers this assessment: Leaked Commons legal analysis of Brexit deal vindicates Trump, contradicts May and adds to Brexiteers’ concerns…
May not only knew what she signed, she lied about it.
And this was all easily predictable. The moment she refused to release the legal document, anyone with an ounce of common sense knew she was hiding something.
It was even worse than I speculated.
[Comment: Leaked Docs show the UK is essentially a perpetual hostage to EU diktats.]
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UKIP Membership on the Rise and Soars Past 26,000
If you listen to the mainstream media narrative then you would be forgiven for thinking that UKIP was wracked by crisis and on a massive downward spiral.
However, in an email sent to members today, Gerard Batten revealed that membership of the Party has now passed 26,000.
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UN Climate Change Conference Begins in Katowice, Poland
Prime ministers and presidents are amongst the 30,000 people from around the world to begin negotiations on Monday at the United Nations conference on climate change hosted in Katowice, Poland, Radio Poland reports.
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Want to Change EU From Within — Salvini
Restore beautiful dream, the European project
(ANSA) — Brussels, December 3 — Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Monday on his Euroskeptic League party’s plans for the European elections: “change (it) from within: give back blood to the veins of a Europe which has become sclerotic, which for decades has been administered by the same formations and the same faces”.
He said “our goal is to enter into these institutions to give back new life to a very beautiful dream,” the “European project”.
He added: “Ask the Greeks, as the French in these days or Italian and Spanish unemployed what this dream has turned into”.
Salvini’s anti-migrant League is allied with other Euroskeptic and nationalistic forces like Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (previously National Front) party.
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Why 536 Was ‘The Worst Year to be Alive’
Ask medieval historian Michael McCormick what year was the worst to be alive, and he’s got an answer: “536.” Not 1349, when the Black Death wiped out half of Europe. Not 1918, when the flu killed 50 million to 100 million people, mostly young adults. But 536. In Europe, “It was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year,” says McCormick, a historian and archaeologist who chairs the Harvard University Initiative for the Science of the Human Past.
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Yellow Vest Rallies Target Govt, Not Gas Prices — French Analyst to RT
The fiery Yellow Vest protests that rage on across France have more to do with the “incompetent,” EU-dependent government policy than the rising gas prices, a French political commentator told RT.
While many protesters vent their anger at President Emmanuel Macron, who took an unpopular decision to raise taxes and increase prices on fuel and other commodities, “they don’t realize the problem is much deeper and has to do with the general policy of the European Union.”
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Yellow Jacket Protesters Pull Out of Meeting With French Government
Representatives from the Gilet Jaunes protest movement have said they will not meet with French President Emmanuel Macron’s government.
Two members of the Yellow Vests confirmed with Agence France-Presse Monday evening that they will not be going to the Hôtel de Matignon, the official residence of the Prime Minister of France, on Tuesday as planned.
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Christians Face ‘Imminent Extinction’ In the Middle East, Archbishop of Canterbury Warns
Christians in the Middle East are facing ‘imminent extinction’, the Archbishop of Canterbury warned today.
Justin Welby said followers of the faith were subject to the ‘daily threat of murder’ and the situation was the worst ‘since the Mongol invasions of the 13th century’.
The stark warning came as the Archbishop urged the Government to take in more refugees.
Figures suggest that just one in 400 Syrian refugees given asylum in the UK last year was a Christian.
Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show ahead of a special service at Westminster Abbey, Mr Welby said: ‘The plight of Christians in many parts of the Middle East has become more and more acute.
‘As we approach Christmas, we need to pray for them and speak out for them.’
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Construction Firm Workers Say ‘Hostages’ In Kuwait
We need intervention from Italy, Portugal FMs
(ANSA) — Bologna, December 3 — Two employees of a Ravenna-based construction company said Monday they were being held “hostage” in Kuwait after a 22 million euro contract was rescinded.
CMC workers Andrea Urciuoli and Ricardo Pinela, who have been in Kuwait City against their will for days, appealed for help from the Italian and Portuguese foreign ministries.
“We’re like prisoners taken hostage, shut up at home 24 hours a day and now that the request for a deal has been revealed we’re even more worried because all the suppliers will come to us,” they told ANSA.
“We have no news and everything is silent. We need the intervention of the foreign ministers of Portugal and Italy”.
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Khashoggi Was Secretly Working to Overthrow Saudi Government
When Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 2, 2018, the Democrat Party and their allies in the media tried desperately to encourage President Trump to take drastic action against Saudi Arabia. They suggested if Trump didn’t take immediate action against the Saudi’s that somehow he was complicit in the murder of the alleged “green card” holding columnist.
Townhall is reporting that Khaghossi was not, in fact, a green card holder in the US, as previously reported.
According to a report in Business Insider, Khashoggi simply visited the U.S. on a visa.
Meanwhile, U.S. intelligence believes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman directly ordered Khashoggi’s killing. According to President Trump, Khashoggi was viewed by the Saudis as an enemy of the state and a national security threat.
“Representatives of Saudi Arabia say that Jamal Khashoggi was an ‘enemy of the state’ and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, but my decision is in no way based on that — this is an unacceptable and horrible crime,” Trump said.
It appears as though President Trump is correct about Khashoggi’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. One thing that has not been reported by the mainstream media, however, was Khashoggi’s ties to his friend Osama Bin Laden.
Now, CNN is reporting that Washington Post reporter, Jamal Khashoggi was not only openly critical of the Saudi government, but was also secretly plotting to help overthrow the sitting government in Saudi Arabia.
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Ukraine Raids Orthodox Churches With Russia Ties
Ukrainian authorities on Monday raided three Orthodox churches aligned to Russia as political and religious tensions between the two countries grow.
Police and security services also searched the homes of priests who have declared their allegiance to the Russian branch of the Orthodox church, regional police spokeswoman Alla Vashchenko told AFP.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church was recently granted independence from Moscow in a controversial ruling that prompted cheers from Kiev but anger in Moscow.
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‘No Mention of Jesus in History, ‘ Claims Pakistan Prime Minister
The prime minister of Pakistan, a tenuous U.S. ally, contends Jesus was not a historical figure, reports Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
The Middle East Media Research Institute reported Prime Minister Imran Kahn made the assertion in a speech on the day marked as the birthday of Muhammad.
Khan also lobbied for a worldwide law that would protect Islam from any criticism.
The prime minister said there is little mention of prophets of Allah other than Muhammad, and there is “no mention of Jesus in history.”
“Moses is mentioned, but there is no mention of Jesus in history,” he said. “But the entire life of Muhammad, who was Allah’s last prophet, is part of history.”
Khan said the West should understand Muslims’ love for Muhammad and that freedom of speech is not a legitimate reason to criticize somebody’s religion, according to MEMRI.
The comments came as he confirmed his government “is spearheading efforts to get countries to sign onto the “International Convention on Preventing the Defamation of Religions.”
That document states “freedom of speech is an insufficient pretext for hurting the world’s Muslims,” MEMRI said.
Khan claimed that Islam is the foundation of Western civilization.
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China Demands Tech Companies Keep ‘Detailed Records’ of User Activity
China now requires tech companies to keep “detailed records” of user activity, according to a report.
“The new rules from China’s internet regulator went into effect Friday,” reported CNN Business. “The new requirements apply to any company that provides online services which can influence public opinion or ‘mobilize the public to engage in specific activities,’ according to a notice posted on the Cyber Administration of China’s website earlier this month.”
“Companies will now have to start logging the activities of users posting in blogs, microblogs, chat rooms, short video platforms and webcasts,” CNN explained, adding, “companies must be able to verify users’ identities and keep records of key information such as call logs, chat logs, times of activity and network addresses.”
Furthermore, inspections will reportedly be carried out on companies to “ensure compliance.”
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Mustapha and Diaa Kara-Ali were ordered to demolish and remove all structures they illegally built at an Islamic hideaway north of Sydney. Three months later almost nothing has been done.
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Nigeria’s President Buhari Denies Dying, Being Replaced by Lookalike
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday denied claims that he had died and been replaced by a impostor, breaking his silence on a rumor that has circulated on social media for months.
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South Africa is Turning Into a Dump
South Africa is a place many people do not want to be in right now.
This is easy to see when you look at what extent people are going to to leave the country.
From a personal account, many friends — who are young and educated — have moved to the UK, Canada, and the Middle East to work and live — leaving older family members behind.
The hard facts paint a similar picture.
A growing number of South Africans are so desperate to move overseas that they are not waiting for their homes to be sold before packing up and leaving.
More people are also listing “emigration” as a reason for them selling their homes.
Reports which look at specific countries also show that the number of South Africans moving abroad is increasing.
New Zealand, for example, has experienced a steady increase in the number of South Africans migrating to the country — with 5,534 citizens going to New Zealand in the year ended September 2018.
The reasons people are moving vary.
With South Africa suffering from low-to-no economic growth and unemployment continuing to rise, many do not see a future for their careers or businesses in the country.
Crime is another concern, as violent incidents such as murder, attempted murder, and hijacking remain high in the country.
Then there’s the corruption, and the billions it costs us every year…
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Another Murder Rocks Germany as African With German Passport Confesses to Murdering Teen Girl
As Voice of Europe reported earlier, the body of a 17-year-old girl was found in an asylum centre near Bonn on Sunday.
The main suspect, a 19-year-old Kenyan native with a German passport, has now admittedthat he killed the girl in the asylum centre in Sankt Augustin.
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Anti-Migration Party VOX Wins Big in Spain as Europe’s Populist Wave Continues
Populist party Vox in Spain has gained 12 parliamentary seats in the regional election of Andalusia. For the first time in DECADES, a right-wing party, has won seats in Andalusia on Sunday. The Vox party won 12 seats which surpassed the five seats predicted.
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Austria to Cut Benefits for Immigrants With Poor Language Skills
Foreigners who have moved to Austria but have not yet picked up the language are set to be hit by a controversial reform to the country’s social welfare system, as the Right-wing governmentsteps up its efforts to deter immigration.
The plan presented by the Austrian government last week will penalise the unemployed by cutting €300 off their monthly dole payments if they do not fulfill certain language requirements. The government says that the money will instead go towards providing compulsory German classes.
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Foreign criminals in Denmark are going to be imprisoned on a remote prior to being deported, as part of new plans announced by the government.
Finance Minister Kristian Jensen, from centre-right party Venstre, said criminals will be housed on Lindholm, a 17-acre island in Stege Bay, approximately one and a half miles from the Danish mainland.
The facility will house rejected asylum seekers convicted of crimes as well as foreign citizens who do not have permission to stay but cannot be deported, as reported by The Telegraph.
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EU Countries Mass Boycott of UN Meeting Making Migration a Human Right
A NEW United Nations initiative to class migration as a HUMAN RIGHT is being boycotted by European Union (EU) member states, including Italy, France and Austria, who have all rejected the proposals in favour of tougher border controls.
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‘European Union to Launch Probe Into Lower Family Benefits for Foreign EU Workers in Austria’
Due to a joint action by the Visegrad Four member states, the European Union will launch a probe into rules adopted by Austria reducing family allowances to children of non-Austrian EU workers, the state secretary for family and youth affairs at the ministry of human resources told MTI on Sunday.
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Germany: Missing Teen Girl Found Dead in Asylum Centre — African Arrested
A 19-year-old native Kenyan with a German passport has been arrested after a teen girl was found dead in an asylum centre near Bonn. Police suspect that the girl was murdered, but need to investigate further.
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Around 1000 people participated in the 3-hour-long event outside the Swedish Parliament on Sunday.
Several speakers participated, including Sweden’s most active and well-known journalist and freedom fighter Katerina Janouch, Reader in Business Administration Jan Tullberg, and lecturer and writer Lennart Matikainen.
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Photos: Frustrated Caravan Migrants Begin Scaling U.S. Border Fence
Members of the Central American migrant caravan began scaling border fences and walls after becoming frustrated with their attempts to apply for asylum in the U.S. Federal agents responded quickly and took the migrants into custody.
Award-winning photojournalist John Moore tweeted a series of images on Monday morning, showing members of the migrant caravan scaling walls and breaking through fences to illegally enter the U.S. from Mexico. The scenes in the tweet come from his coverage on Sunday.
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Poll: Majority of French People Say Immigration is Harmful to the Nation
The French people believe that immigration harms the economy, national cohesion, and national security, according to a survey published Sunday.
In general, 58 percent of French people said that the net effects of immigration are negative, a figure echoed in questions on specific spheres of national life, as well.
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British Dominatrix Serves Only White, Right-Wing Clientele to Convert Them to Socialism
Alright, folks, listen up! We are in the midst of a “pleasure revolution.” But don’t get too excited. In fact, don’t get excited at all. This is a “feminist” pleasure revolution, so for the rest of us, it’s sure to bring nothing but pain. In fact, for Reba Maybury — a professor of political science and a professional dominatrix — the pleasure revolution is literally brought about through pain. Maybury (or Mistress Rebecca to her clientele) specializes in converting “white, right-wing men” to socialism proving, yet again, that pleasure is subjective and “feminists” are seriously messed up.
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Millennial Men Ditching Traditional ‘Masculine’ Values, More Likely to Embrace ‘Emotional Strength’
VANCOUVER — As the famous Village People song declares, “Every man wants to be a macho macho man / To have the kind of body, always in demand.“ But are “macho macho” mindsets becoming a thing of the past? A new study finds that male millennials are drifting away from stereotypical masculine values.
The research, led by the University of British Columbia, showed that younger men tend to value selflessness, social engagement, and health over traditional male ideals like physical strength and autonomy.
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Phrases Like ‘Bring Home the Bacon’ Could be Banned to ‘Avoid Offending Vegans’
“Bringing home the bacon” may soon be banned in order to stop offending vegans, an academic has claimed.
Other expressions including “killing two birds with one stone” and “flog a dead horse” could also apparently go out of fashion.
This is to avoid offending animal lovers, according to Shareena Hamzah of Swansea University.
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Pope ‘Worries’ About Homosexual Clergy
New book says ‘no place for this’ in consecrated life
Pope Francis is quoted in a new published book saying that having gays in the clergy “is something that worries me” and remarking that some societies are considering homosexuality a “fashionable” lifestyle.
“In consecrated life and priestly life, there is no place for this kind of affection,” he is quoted as saying in the Spanish-language book, “La Fuerza de la Vocacion” or “The Strength of Vocation”.
Italian daily Corriere della Sera’s website Saturday ran excerpts of the book in the form of an interview that Francis gave about religious vocations. Francis was quoted as describing homosexuality within the walls of seminaries, convents and other religious places where clergy live as “a very serious question.”
“In our societies, it even seems homosexuality is fashionable. And this mentality, in some way, also influences the life of the church,” Francis was quoted as telling his interviewer, a Spanish-born missionary priest, Fernando Prado.
The book, based on four hours of conversations the two had in August at the Vatican, will be published in 10 languages next week.
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Swedish Journo Says Tribe Was Right to Kill ‘White’ US Preacher, Triggers Debate
In a much-critisised anti-white diatribe, one of Sweden’s most respected journalists argued it was “completely rational” for Sentinelse tribesmen to kill a US missionary who had travelled to their islands to proselytise.
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Captain of His Destiny: The Man Who Has Lived on a Cruise Ship for 13 Years
Most guests on Seven Seas Navigator may not find anything unusual about the distinguished-looking man who eats alone every day, at lunch and dinner, at the same corner table of the Compass Rose dining room.
But when I learned that this passenger—whom the crew deferentially refers to as the “Captain”—has been residing on this same ship for more than 13 years, my curiosity was aroused.
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There is still no exact information whether Russia will sign the UN migration pact or not.
But a number of indirect signs – various orders for the adaptation of migrants, indicate that they are likely to sign.
The Kremlin, as always, does not take into account the population of Russia.
To be fair the Kremlim has it easier in the sense that Russia is still full of men who don’t shy from explaining to the migrants where they place is and surely there are plenty of construction sites, mines, etc. scattered around Siberia where problematic migrants could be put to work. Or, on the other hand, Russia is just going to sign it without caring too much about what exactly it says, because they’re just gonna ignore it if it become an inconvenience, like they always do. The bear just does whatever it wants and we can critique or applaud it as much as we want, but it won’t really change anything.
the migration pact is a worthless paper (as all other bill of rights that come from that freemasonry organization). Even if you sign it nothing changes, it is only a declaration of intents, not binding at all, like the useless humanitarian ideology rights chart and so on and on. There has been a lot of propaganda not to sign it lastly, but in the end nothing really changes, sign it or not. As any other worthless papers from UN, with multiple signatures from many (almost all usually) countries, then you can do what you want. Of course not to sign is a way to show that one government (like italy, austria, switzerland, hungury, US, and others) do not want to share this worthless paper and do not want to waste their time in useless talks. UN is the palce where useless talks last forever, so that their employs get paid their big salary, at the expense of the funders. Putin does not want to start a worthless (for him) phylosophical fight against this foolishness of UN, so he can sign it: as far as I know there are no leftard in russia, there are no snowfalkes, LGBT communities, and all other “modern” [offal] that we have to deal everyday in other european countries, I mean no cultural war (or if ever would be, it would not be for the same reasons as in italy france germany etc). So I understand that he can do as he pleases, nothing would changes in russia, with or without the migration pact signature.
Yes , its all true in your South African article . The country is convulsing in crime and corruption , I mean visibly convulsing . It is now such a cesspool of crime and the vultures , both politicians and criminals , are now aiming to steal the land and give it to the people as a means to get votes to stay in power for the last time . After the next elections which the ANC will still win , it will be total collapse .
The Electricity Supply Commission ( Eskom ) has swindled and stolen over $US 150 billion over the last few years . All that money was aimed for improvements but no , its all stolen and no one knows where it is , or so they claim. South African Airways , formerly (1980s) was rated the best airline in the world and is in the same situation as Eskom. All government departments suffer in the same way , even the police and military. All 350 years of building , sweating and bleeding to build up a country by every South African , only to give it over to a globally supported Communist terrorist organization . I have lost 13 friends in 9 years through murder . It is so normal to hear that . We are neurotic for our safety and still we get murdered despite all precautions.
The justice system has been usurped by the ANC and so what they say ….goes .
Foreign readers of such articles should stop saying …………”just leave ” . We cant , there are no countries , be they ancestral or not who would accept or even share 5 million impoverished souls . Yes , at least a million whites are now on the streets and in squatter camps , majority around Johannesburg area . Most were hard working lower income civil servants who lost everything during “the great replacement “.
All rivers , once pristine , are now septic flows. Extinction of flora and fauna species is rapidly on the increase and no funds to save them . Any funds are just stolen and nothing is high on the agenda except to get the votes in the next election so as to tap the last bit from the anaemic economy and infrastructure.
Thanks to all Left wing organizations worldwide . They have done a spectacular job of death and destruction in South Africa , not to mention numerous other countries worldwide. I guess its the Dunning Kruger effect .
Horrific. I am so sorry. What a waste.
Captain of his destiny is a captain in paradise. Good for him!
Not sure how “sociology professor and professional dominatrix” can go together or even be allowed in academic circles in the first place, but this article is masterfully written, good job!