Roger Foys, the Bishop of Covington Diocese in Kentucky, made a public apology to the students of Covington High School for the diocese’s condemnation of them after the incident at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18. Bishop Foys addressed his apology specifically to Nick Sandmann, who was particularly picked on by the media. The bishop said he was wrong to give in to bullying on the issue.
In other news, at World Youth Day in Panama, Pope Francis said that urged the faithful to welcome Jesus, who still migrates today.
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Convention of States Project, Mark Meckler and the Great Deception
Mark Meckler, president of Convention of States Project (COSP), sidesteps the arguments of his conservative opposition. That’s most likely because Meckler’s responses aren’t logical, and his adversaries’ arguments ring true to Republican state legislators whose votes Meckler needs on his Article V convention applications.
Instead, Meckler deceives Republicans by playing the victim to leftist, globalist billionaire George Soros. Since April 2017, COSP operatives have spread the false narrative that Soros has declared war on them. But in fact, backers of COSP are on the same side as Soros in their quest to rewrite our Constitution at an Article V convention AKA “constitutional convention,” “con-con,” or “convention of states.”
What seems to have triggered the “George Soros is against us” fabrication was a letter signed by over 200 national, state and local leftist organizations released by Common Cause on Good Friday 2017. The letter urged state legislators to oppose efforts by convention proponents asking Congress to call an Article V convention, and to rescind all previously passed Article V convention applications from their states.
[Comment: Con-Con (Consitutiona Convenetion) would be the biggest con of all. Globalists have already written what they call a “New Consitution” to replace the US constitution. The only thing in common with the US constitution is that it has the word consitution in the title. The “New Constitution” is a blueprint of imposing NWO tyranny on the American public.]
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Covington Bishop Apologizes to Covington Catholic Students
Covington, Ky., Jan 25, 2019 / 03:54 pm (CNA).- Bishop Roger Foys of Covington issued an apology Friday for a Jan. 19 diocesan statement that condemned the actions of some Covington Catholic High School students, following a widely publicized incident after last week’s March for Life in Washington, DC.
“We apologize to anyone who has been offended in any way by either of our statements which were made with good will based on the information we had,” said Bishop Foys in the letter, which was addressed to the parents of Covington Catholic students.
“We should not have allowed ourselves to be bullied and pressured into making a statement prematurely, and we take full responsibility for it.”
Foys also singled out Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann, the student at the center of the controversy. A video emerged Jan. 19 of Sandmann standing in close proximity to Native American activist Nathan Phillips, who was, at the time, chanting and playing a ceremonial drum.
Phillips made claims that he had been blocked and taunted by Sandmann, but video evidence later showed that Phillips had wandered into a crowd of Covington Catholic students while chanting and drumming.
“I especially apologize to Nicholas Sandmann and his family as well as to all CovCath families who have felt abandoned during this ordeal. Nicholas unfortunately has become the face of these allegations based on video clips,” said Foys. “This is not fair. This is not just.”
Earlier in the week, Foys offered similar sentiments to the student body at Covington Catholic during a rally.
“Know that I stand with you, that I join with you in that ‘Spirit that will not die’ and that together we will work through this. Thank you and God bless you,” the bishop told students.
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Covington Bishop Says He Was ‘Bullied’ Into Making Statement About MAGA Boys
The bishop of Covington, Kentucky, has issued a public apology to Nick Sandmann and the other students falsely accused of “harassing” a Native American activist after the March for Life.
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Islam’s Conquest of America Through Creeping Sharia
Devvy Kidd’s recent article, 2019: The Year We the People Say No More was superb. If you missed it, make sure you read it because the number of Islamists elected to federal, state and local politics is a warning shot to American citizens. We are being overrun and few have taken notice.
Sharia, or Islamic religious law, is a growing threat to the United States. The steady adoption of sharia’s tenets is a strategy Muslims are using to transform America into an Islamic state.
Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and other lesser known religions do not mandate death for those who do not agree with their faith. Only Islam kills the infidel. It dictates death by stoning, beheading, amputation of limbs, and flogging. Fourteen nations have the death penalty for homosexuals, and five of them carry it out.
Nonie Darwish’s article, Sharia for Dummies, lays out the tenets of sharia which proves it is incompatible with the U.S. Constitution despite politicians and pundits like Texas Republican David Barton who believe it is.
Islamic Doctrine is Totalitarian
Dr. Bill Warner explains Islamic doctrine…Totalitarianism is found in the very name, Islam. Islam means submission, submission to the Koran and the Sunna of Mohammed. We see the basis for absolute power in Mohammed’s life. After he went to Medina, he became a jihadist and attacked his neighbors. When he arrived in Medina, it was half Jewish. In two years, there were no more Jews left in Medina. They were exiled, assassinated, enslaved and executed. Mohammed attacked the pagans of Arabia and the Jews. After Arabia submitted to Islam, Mohammed turned to Syria and attacked the Christians.
In the end, Political Islam will not tolerate opposition. Here is a sample of some of the Islamic political doctrine of absolute, total power:
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Make no mistake about it, the leftist media outlets who spew propaganda and outright lies in an attempt to defame or humiliate President Trump and his family are going to pay. Donald and Melania Trump are nobody’s fools, and they’re not going to sit back and let someone falsely malign them without a fight.
It’s no secret the UK publication, “The Telegraph” is no fan of Donald Trump, but when did it become okay for publications who make it a habit to run hit pieces on our President, to make up lies about his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, and her parents?
Just now, The Telegraph apologized to Melania, while publishing an astonishing list of six lies they told about her and her parents. They also mention near the end of the article that they will be paying her a substantial settlement including any legal fees she has incurred as a result of the lies they told about her.
Here is their apology:…
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Most Radical Environmental Group in America Now Controls the Beef Industry
A couple weeks ago, Tom DeWeese sent out a letter about the World Wildlife Fund and beef. It reads in part:
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is one of the top three most powerful, radical, anti-free enterprise, UN environmental groups in the world.
And WWF has succeeded in taking over the American Cattle industry!
The WWF has forced cattlemen to follow radical Sustainable rules through the establishment of the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef.
They are getting away with this industry grab because the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is now under the control of the World Wildlife Fund.
And the WWF’s Sustainable Roundtable now controls the beef packing industry which in turn controls the entire beef retail market. Cattlemen either toe the WWF dictates or are cut out of the industry.
That means cattlemen must follow massive regulations in order to produce American beef.
These rules ignore that fact that American cattlemen have always produced the highest grade of beef in the world — simply by using a process that has been used by their forefathers for generations.
The real result of these rules isn’t to produce a better beef product — but to destroy small producers and drive the industry to the massive corporate farms that can afford to play ball with the World Wildlife Fund.
Eventually, the WWF goal is to destroy the entire beef industry.
The World Wildlife Fund has openly stated its opposition to beef production. They insist that to “Save the Earth it is demanded that we change human consumption habits away from beef.”
Here is what they said in a recent WWF report:…
This is the growing threat of Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development and its stated purpose to “reorganize human society.”
And this is how they do it — one industry at a time.
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Obama and Clinton Gun Running Operation: Government Watchdog Uncovers Proof of Criminality
“Although [former President] Barack Obama and his wannabe successor Hillary Clinton believe a presidential priority is disarming Americans or at least minimizing their access to firearms, they are arguably two of the world’s biggest gun-runners. Examples are the Fast & Furious scandal in Mexico and the Benghazi arms trafficking in which Libyan weapons were collected and given to Syrian jihadists to fight [Syria’s] dictatorship.” —Former police captain Joanne Pinzario.
In Congress, the then-bipartisan group known as the “Gang of Eight,” at a minimum, knew of the operation to aid and abet America’s jihadist enemies by providing them with material support. So said Clare Lopez, a former CIA intelligence officer and the primary author of Citizen’s Commission on Benghazi (CCB) interim report, titled How America Switched Sides in the War on Terror.
The ripple effects of the illegal policy to arm America’s enemies continue to be felt as the U.S. military is currently leading a war against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda terrorists, according to Lopez.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — as did many bureaucrats at the State Department — knew that the U.S. was collecting — many times buying — and sending arms from Benghazi, Libya to Syria back in 2011, a year before the Benghazi consulate/CIA station attacks.
Hillary Clinton denied she knew about the weapons shipments during public testimony (under oath) in early 2013 after the deadly Benghazi terrorist attack.
On Monday Judicial Watch founder Tom Fitton spoke about smoking gun documents discovered by Judicial Watch that show Obama and Clinton were aware arms going to
Syria through Benghazi and were warned about rise of ISIS.
Clinton lied about this under oath which was another crime of perjury. Fitton believes this may be why General Flynn was so desperately targeted by the Deep State. These deep state hacks are criminals.
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SC Man in Custody After Authorities Disable Explosive Device Found While Serving Search Warrant
HARTSVILLE, SC (WIS) — Darlington County Sheriff’s Office, with the assistance of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, have “deconstructed” an improvised explosive device was found after a search warrant was served, according to Lt. Robert Kilgo.
Sheriff Tony Chavis said deputies were at a home in the 2100 block of North 5th Street around 7:00 p.m. Friday night.
“Deputies with the Special Incident Response Team executed a search warrant for an individual and evidence related to a crime this afternoon,” Chavis said in a press release. “The suspect was taken into custody, and early into the search an object wrapped in electrical tape with a fuse was located.”
David Matthew Sheffield, 36, of Hartsville, has been arrested and transported to the W. Glenn Campbell Detention Center.
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Stone Indictment Confirms Mueller in Witch Hunt Against Trump
The indictment against longtime Donald Trump confidante Roger Stone, which contained no allegations or evidence of “Russian collusion,” confirmed yet again that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is leading what President Trump has correctly described as a “witch hunt” against the administration. It seems the real goal of Mueller is to terrorize everyone associated with Trump’s rise to the presidency or his efforts to drain the swamp.
Indeed, in Stone’s case — as in the cases of Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort and National Security Adviser Mike Flynn — the charges had nothing to do with the Trump campaign, Russia, or anything related to the establishment-backed conspiracy theory about alleged “collusion.” Instead, the indictment listed seven so-called process charges ranging from “making false statements” to “obstruction of an official proceeding.”
And yet, for this, Mueller dispatched heavily armed SWAT teams with guns drawn to Stone’s Florida home for a pre-dawn raid. The kingpin of anti-Trump hysteria, CNN, was conveniently there to capture the absurdity on video. The outlandish tactics suggest that Mueller was trying to terrorize not only Stone, but anyone else who may be willing to work with Trump in the future.
Still, after his initial appearance in federal court, Stone (shown) sounded defiant. “There is no circumstance whatsoever under which I will bear false witness against the president nor will I make up lies to ease the pressure on myself,” he was quoted as telling reporters. “I look forward to being fully and completely vindicated.”
In a statement to Infowars, where Stone has been serving as a contributor since before Trump’s election, he lashed out. “This country is literally run by a rogue prosecutor who has more power than the president,” he said, adding that America was becoming the “new Soviet Union” and that he feared for his grandchildren. Stone also called on Trump to immediately appoint another special counsel to begin investigating the FISA warrants that were used to spy on Trump’s people.
“That I think brings the whole globalist Obama-Clinton house of cards down,” Stone said, calling on Trump to declassify them all too. “It is the single most important thing that he can do.”
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Texan Captured in Syria Brought Back to U.S., Charged With Trying to Aid ISIS
Warren Christopher Clark, a Texas man recently captured with ISIS fighters in Syria, has been brought back to the U.S. by law enforcement and faces charges of aiding ISIS.
Clark was captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces, a largely Kurdish militia, who transferred him to U.S. custody this week. He was escorted back to Houston by law enforcement and faces a charge of attempting to provide material support to ISIS.
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The Rise and Fall of the New World Order
by Servando Gonzalez
2018 was not a good year for the globalist conspirators and their New World Order. Despite all their desperate efforts to salvage the sinking ship, the machinery that took them more than half a century to assemble is about to collapse, and it has become evident that they don’t know how to repair it.
Proof of this is that, contrary to all predictions and despite the concerted efforts of both sides of the Repucratic Party coin, the mainstream press, the social media, the FBI, the CIA and the rest of the alphabet soup of shadow agencies, as well as some active and retired high-ranking members of the military who have betrayed their Oath of Office, Donald Trump is still alive and kicking in the White House. Moreover, every single day President Trump keeps deconstructing the NWO machinery piece by piece: no more global warming threat, no more unfair global trade agreements, no more borders open to illegal immigration … the works.
To top it off, Trump just took the first step to bring home the best of our youth exposed to loss of life and limb while waging unwinable, never-ending wars carried out in foreign lands for the sole purpose of benefiting a few tax-dodging transnational corporations that don’t see themselves as American anymore.
And this is just the beginning, and the NWO conspirators and their minions know it and they are powerless to stop it.
To make things worse, Trump is not alone. To the globalist conspirators’ utter dismay, nationalism is coming back in force and growing in most of the world. The yellow vest riots that erupted in France now have spread to Belgium and the Netherlands. Even in Londonistan, until recently an inexpugnable reduct of the globalist conspirators, some people wearing yellow vests have appeared on the streets in protest against the government’s unfair treatment of the working class and its inaction when faced with the attacks of religious fanatics on people they see as infidels.
It is important to notice that the yellow vest protesters have nothing in common with the so-called color revolutions that took place some years ago in the Middle East during the so-called Arab Spring, much less with the current fascist Antifa thugs. Those are mostly brainwashed young people backed by Soros’s money. In contrast, the yellow-vested men and women we see now on the streets are working people fed up by their governments’ rising gas prices under the pretext of curbing a non-existing global warming.
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The Real Mission of the Democrats and RINOs
The democrats remind me of a plague of evil that circulates throughout different locations and brings nothing but a lowering of living, moral, economic, governmental, educational, religious and even entertainment standards. In the United States, wherever democrats have a long term stronghold, the standard of living deteriorates much faster than by any other organization or cause…
Unfortunately for several decades, the democrats and their allies have not been adequately challenged. In fact, they have had their way so long that they still do not accept the fact that Mrs. Clinton lost to Donald J. Trump for the presidency two years ago. Their hatred against Trump is not rooted in rational thought or legitimate complaints. But rather the hatred emanating from democrats toward Trump and patriots in general is steeped in their leftist/globalist ideology. When trump stood up to the United Nations, China, and European allies who had been refusing to pay their fair share for their own protection it infuriated democrats and rino republicans. The reason being, is that the democrats and rinos do not like anyone, including Trump campaigning on America First policies. But Trump battling to overcome the Soros, Stein, United Nations and democrat party cabal that has been undermining our republic by every way possible was too much for them to handle.
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Trump Pushes Back on Critics Who Say He Caved… He’s Right Again!
If you listened closely to President Trump’s speech today (see video and transcript below) to say that the government shutdown would end until February 15th, you would know that he just put the Democrats on notice to negotiate or else.
You wouldn’t know that Trump had just set a trap for Democrats because all that was reported after Trump’s speech was that he “caved” to the Democrats. Not true.
First of all, President Trump had an opportunity today to once again plead his case to the American people on why we need a border. That’s a win because he had the stage to lay out his position to the American people.
Notice how he said he didn’t want to use the other alternative (state of emergency) right now but won’t rule out using it on the 15th of next month.
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‘1,000 Girls’ Subjected to African Practice of ‘Breast Ironing’ in the UK
At least 1,000 girls and women in the UK have been subjected to the African practice of “breast ironing” — deforming the breast with a hot rock in a belief it will make a girl less vulnerable to sexual advances from men.
Community workers from regions across the country with high-migrant populations, including London, Yorkshire, and the West Midlands, have said that they know of dozens of girls and women who have been subjected to the form of child abuse, with one survivor saying there could be as many as 1,000 victims, reports The Guardian.
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Brexit ‘Can’t be Delivered’, Leave Vote Was ‘Manipulated’, Macron Tells France
The UK’s Brexit vote was caused by misplaced “anger” and foreign disinformation, Emmanuel Macron said, in a speech warning critics of his globalist regime in France to beware “people who manipulate you with miracle ideas”.
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Dyson Busts Claims He Abandoned Britain: ‘We Continue to Invest and Grow Here’
Leave-supporting entrepreneur Sir James Dyson has exploded claims his decision to move two executives to Singapore, far outside the EU, proves he is abandoning Brexit Britain.
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French People Our Friends Says Di Maio
Yellow Jackets agst CFA franc too says deputy PM
(ANSA) — Rome, January 22 — The French people are “our friends”, Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio said a day after sparking a diplomatic spat after accusing Paris of neocolonialism via the CFA franc in Africa.
“They want to pass off the debate of these days on the CFA franc as an attack by Italy on the French people,” he said.
“The French people are our friends. In fact, the debate on the CFA franc has been going for years in France too and (its abolition) is among the claims of the Yellow Jackets”.
Di Maio attached to his Facebook post the French protest movement’s 25-point manifesto.
Di Maio said France was “impoverishing Africa” and spurring migration through the CFA franc, which is used by 14 African countries and is pegged to the euro.
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Germany Pushing for One World Order
Merkel stated to Telegraph.co.uk that Germany will keep pushing for global solutions to challenges in 2019 and also ‘has to take greater responsibility in the world.’
She also intends to curb climate change, manage migration and terrorism. Is climate change the boogey man in everybody’s basement? Must be since nobody appears to want to let him go.
Germany began a two year stint on the U.N. Security Council on January first. Chancellor Merkel said that Germany will push for “global solutions” (one world government) at the U.N. and noted that the country is spending more on humanitarian aid and defense.
Meanwhile across the pond, America is hung up on diversity which we must have, of course, so that everyone is included into whatever is going on. Let’s tale a look at Diversity in America:
A few days ago, the 116th Congress was sworn in, and all day long, the media was salivating and fawning over the “remarkable diversity” of the new Democrat members.
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Germany: Syrian Man Arrested After Molesting Young German Girls on Their Way to School
A 25-year-old Syrian man was arrested in the German town of Landshut this week after approaching a group of young girls on their way to school and molesting them.
The incident occurred at around 7:45 in the morning and saw the 25-year-old asylum seeker approach a group of young girls aged 11 to 14 while in a state of intoxication. According to the victims, the man asked if they wanted to come back “to his room” with him before he began getting more aggressive, Passauer Neue Presse reports.
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Italy: 2.4 mn in Assets Seized From Casamonica Clan in Rome
Assets allegedly came from illegal gambling, drug trafficking
(ANSA) — Rome, January 25 — Finance police in Rome on Friday seized assets and real estate properties worth a total of 2.4 million euros from members of the local Casamonica-Guglielmi crime clan.
Investigative sources said a probe revealed the assets owned by the two families was not compatible with the income they declared on their tax returns.
The assets and eight real estate properties, including parts of a luxury villa in Rome’s Anagnina area, were seized from Abramo Di Guglielmi, known as Marcello Casamonica, his sister Giulia and her husband Romolo Cerello, all members of the Casamonica-Guglielmi family.
The suspects are allegedly involved in illegal activities including gambling, drug trafficking, armed robberies and thefts and fraud, investigative sources said.
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Italy: Chinese Man Nabbed for Exploiting Co-Nationals
In Prato
(ANSA) — Prato, January 22 — A 38-year-old Chinese clothing manufacturer in Prato was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of exploiting 21 co-nationals in the Tuscan textile hub.
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Italy: Doctors Urge Fico to Suspend No-Vax Conference
Event organized by Veneto association at Lower House
(ANSA) — Rome, January 23 — A national federation representing Italian physicians on Wednesday urged Lower House Speaker Roberto Fico to suspend a press conference organized Thursday at the House by an anti-vaccination organization from Veneto.
The president of the National Federation of the Guilds of Doctors and Dentists (Fnomceo), Filippo Anelli, signed the open letter to Fico expressing the “concern of the medical world for the promotion, moreover in an institutional place like the Lower House,” of information considered by the Italian Medicines agency (Aifa) as “scarcely reliable” and which could create “unjustified alarmism” in the population.
The press conference is organized by Veneto-based organization Corvelva — the Veneto regional coordination for the freedom of vaccinations — to publicize the results of some tests carried out on vaccines in private labs.
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Italy Condemns France and Germany — ‘We Have Caught Them With Hands in Cookie Jar!’
FRANCE and Germany are using empty pro-European rhetoric while pursuing their national interests, Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has warned in a hard-hitting interview.
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Revealed: European Politicians ‘Plan to Make Sure’ Remain Wins Second Referendum
A BRITISH MEP has revealed that her European colleagues will help back the Remain campaign in a second referendum to make sure Britain stays inside the EU.
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Varadkar Told to ‘Dial Down the Rhetoric’ Over Irish Border Comments
Democratic Unionist Party MP Gregory Campbell has said Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar must “dial down the rhetoric” after the Taoiseach claimed the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland may need an “army presence” in the result of a no-deal Brexit.
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Viktor Orban Attacks George Soros, Who “Is Open About Wanting to Take Over European Institutions”
The European Parliament’s debate on the rule of law in Hungary will be a “George Soros-type seance, an election rally, a campaign event”, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told public Kossuth Radio.
Orban said he had always fought for “the Hungarian national interest” but he would not aid and abet next week’s “pro-migration campaign event” in Brussels.
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Violence erupted in France for the 11th Saturday in a row today as thousands of so-called Yellow Vest protestors demonstrated against President Emmanuel Macron’s government.
It came two days after the head of state had accused British politicians of ‘tearing society apart’ by allowing a Brexit referendum in Britain, but today the chants in his own country were for his resignation.
The worst early violence was in Paris, and in northern towns including Evreux and Rouen, in Normandy, where tear gas and baton charges were used by police to restore order.
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Extending Aid to Persecuted Christians, Hungary Funds Syrian Hospitals
ROME — Extending the country’s longstanding support for persecuted Christians and other victims of violence in the Middle East, the Hungarian government has announced that it will provide nearly $1.7 million to a project aimed at supporting hospitals in Syria.
Hungarian Ambassador to the Holy See Eduard Habsburg told Crux he’s happy with the initiative, because it “finally makes much more visible what Hungary has been doing for years behind the scenes. Hungary has been doing this all the time.”
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Journalist Details Qatari Hacking and Intimidation of Critics
One of several Arab journalists targeted as part of an extensive hacking operation allegedly carried out by Qatar says he was intimidated with threats, blackmail and the rape of his family members for being critical of the Gulf nation and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Amjad Taha explained how he was hacked and threatened by the Qatari government — over his criticism of the nation and its alleged support of terrorism — in an interview with The Daily Caller.
Official Qatari government documents also obtained by The Daily Caller list the names of journalists Doha explicitly planned to target for hacking and espionage operations. Many of the targeted journalists were critical of the Gulf nation and its policies, are liberal in their political views or have criticized the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups that are supported by Qatar.
The hacks were carried out as part of an extensive operation that targeted over 1,000 people in several countries between 2014 to 2018, including a range of victims from “Syrian human rights activists to Egyptian soccer players,” according to Bloomberg.
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Soumili Das | HENB | Mumbai | Jan 25, 2019:: Experts and researchers on rape and murder can set their focus on Sexual teaching of Quran and the psychological structure of Muslims for that they turned so violent to rape and murder or try to rape particularly Hindu girls in utter brutality and fanaticism. This research must be pointed on another aspect how the maniac Muslim Juveniles or Major are found to rape the Hindu girls even in their childhood. The series of rape and murder or murder of Kaffirs (non believer) girls by the Mumins (believer) offenders instigated by Islamic libido say the need to study the cases of Jiisha[1] [2], Twinkle[1] [2], Riya[1][2], Kirttika[1] and others[1][2][3][4]. We also know that the Muslim Juvenile culprit Aftab took the lead in gang-rape of Nirbhya (Jyoti Singh Pandey) Rape case and inserted an iron rod and dragged her intestines through vagina before she was rapped in a moving vehicle in Delhi on 16 December 2012.
Now this is another repetition of the violent turn of suppressed Islamic libido as an aspiring photographer Syed Muzammil, 19, killed Mansi Dixit, a 20-year-old aspiring model, at his home in Andheri on October 15 last year because she refused to have sex with him, according to the charge sheet recently filed by the Bangur Nagar police.
According to the police, Muzammil had known Dixit for a few days and found her attractive. “I called her on the pretext of a photoshoot and demanded to have sex with her. When she refused, I hit her on the head with a wooden stool,” Muzammil is stated to have told the police during his interrogation.
As she fell unconscious, the accused molested her and attempted to rape her, according to the charge sheet. He then strangled her with a lace and rope, said police. The police have collected swabs and semen samples from Muzammil’s clothes.
The post-mortem report states an abrasion was found on Dixit’s private parts.
Muzammil then stuffed the body in a bag and booked a cab. As the driver asked why was the bag so heavy, he cancelled the ride.
“He said four people were to ride and his brother had booked two Xylos,” the cab driver said in his statement…
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Bank of England Refused to Return $1.2bn in Gold to Venezuela — Reports
Britain rejected Venezuela’s request to withdraw $1.2bn in gold stored in the UK, according to reports. It was enough for the self-declared and US-backed ‘president’, Juan Guaido, to support the alleged move.
The Bank of England blocked Venezuela’s attempts to retrieve $1.2 billion worth of gold stored as the nation’s foreign reserves in Britain, sources told Bloomberg on Friday.
According to the media outlet, officials in Caracas have for weeks been trying to withdraw the gold, with Calixto Ortega, the head of Venezuela’s central bank, traveling to London in mid-December to seek access to the nation’s assets.
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Report: Bank of England Cuts Off Maduro Regime From $1.2bn in Gold Assets
The Bank of England has cut off access to $1.2 billion of Venezuela’s gold assets from the regime of Nicolas Maduro, sources have told Bloomberg.
The British central bank halted the regime’s accessing the $1.2bn (£910 million) after U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Michael Pompeo had allegedly lobbied their UK counterparts to deny Maduro access to his overseas assets, people familiar with the situation told the broadcaster.
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Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute, lashed out at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for hiring NeverTrump “neocon war criminal” Elliott Abrams to oversee a US regime change operation in Venezuela after Trump had already rejected Abrams for the State Department in 2016.
“You CANNOT make this up!!!” McAdams tweeted Friday. “@SecPompeo has appointed as his point man on Venezuela the EXACT person most involved in the 2002 US coup in Venezuela! Elliott Abrams — a neocon war criminal!”
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U.S. Calls on World to ‘Pick a Side’ On Venezuela; Europeans Set to Recognize Guaido
UNITED NATIONS/CARACAS (Reuters) — The United States on Saturday called on the world to “pick a side” on Venezuela and urged countries to financially disconnect from Nicolas Maduro’s government, while European powers signaled they were set to follow Washington in recognizing Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country’s rightful leader.
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CBC Transforms Trudeau’s Syrian “Refugee” After Arrest for Terrorism-Related Offences
On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, I discussed news that a “Kingston youth” (who can’t be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act) was arrested for terrorism-related offences.
The older suspect, 20-year-old Hussam Eddin Alzahabi, who happened to be one of Trudeau’s “Syrian refugees,” was later released without charges, but the amazing thing is that at a press conference announcing the arrest, RCMP said the investigation involved more than 300 resources — meaning people.
If it takes 300 “resources” to monitor one or two jihadis, how do you monitor 100? How do you monitor 1,000?
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Group of 306 Migrants Arrives at Antelope Wells
Border Patrol agents took 306 migrants — the largest group so far to cross the border near the Antelope Wells port of entry — into custody.
The group arrived just after midnight Thursday and most of the migrants are parents with children and minors traveling on their own.
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Italian Police to Investigate Migrant Transport Vessel
Populist Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has announced that law enforcement will be conducting an investigation into the Sea Watch migrant transport NGO whose vessel is moored off the coast of Syracuse with 47 migrants on board.
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Pierce Corcoran Death: Bond Granted for Driver Accused in Fatal Crash
jail on bond this weekend — if federal immigration agents don’t come for him first.
A judge reinstated bond Friday at $3,500 for Francisco Eduardo Franco-Cambrany, 44, who faces charges of criminally negligent homicide in the Dec. 29 head-on crash that killed Pierce Corcoran, 22. Prosecutors have said he’s an undocumented immigrant who could be taken into custody at any time by the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Pope Francis Urges Welcome for Jesus, Who Still ‘Migrates’ Today
Pope Francis said Friday that Jesus still suffers abandonment in the world in the persons of migrants and all whom society rejects.
“How do we react to Jesus who suffers, travels, and migrates in the face of so many of our friends, of so many strangers whom we have learned to make invisible?” he askedhundreds of thousands of young people gathered in Panama for World Youth Day.
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Swedish State TV Refuses to Help Police Identify Migrants Who Rob Pensioners
Two migrants recently stole a 90-year-old woman’s credit card and then managed to withdraw €1,900 from it.
The police published images of the perpetrators and asked the public to help identify the men. The images were completely uncensored and the men’s faces were clearly visible.
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The Left Doesn’t Hate the US; It Hates us
Trump wasn’t the beginning, he was the last straw. That’s what sanctuary cities, abolish ICE, open borders, DACA, amnesty, and a path to citizenship are all about. These things are not a function of compassion for the poor paperless migrant searching for a better life — remember, Democrats were anti-illegal immigration when they thought illegals were a boon to business and increased profit. These policies are nothing more than a means by which the left can switch out Americans for people who aren’t so depraved as to think they have a right to vote against them.
The left doesn’t stifle, bury, and ridicule conservative opinion in the media, Google searches, college campuses, and the public square because they won’t tolerate disagreement, they do it because they know that only they are on the side of all that is right and just and hence, any dissent is evil. And all dissenters are malevolent. It’s not a lack of tolerance, the left is tolerant of all good people, but since only evil people won’t agree with them, the beastly get what they deserve.
This is why it’s so easy for them to go to extremes to express their hatred for a Kavanaugh or a Covington kid, or lie and cheat to destroy a candidate Trump, or commit crimes to usurp his presidency, or investigate anyone ever involved with the man; these people are villainous, and hatred and extremism in the battle with evil is no vice.
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UK: ‘Migrants’ Filmed Climbing Out of Lorry on to M25
Eight suspected migrants were filmed climbing from a lorry after throwing glass bottles on to a motorway.
The men climbed up an embankment after being let out the back of the lorry near the Dartford Crossing.
HGV driver Sam Hollamby said he saw “arms coming out the side” of the lorry in front as he drove along the M25 in Kent at about 14:00 GMT on 25 January.
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California State Senate Committee Bans Saying ‘He’ And ‘She’
Spiked Online editor Brendan O’Neill reacted to a California state Senate committee banning the words “he” and “she” during hearings and said it’s an example of political correctness run amok.
“It’s crazy. It really shows how far the politically correct lobby are willing to go in terms of policing language,” O’Neill said on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday.
“They now want to control not just hateful language and racist language, which we all agree is a bad thing, but everyday speech. ‘He’ and ‘she.’ The words that people use all the time in everyday conversation to describe men and women. They want to dig down so far into how we speak, and ultimately into how we think, that they are willing to ban the most common words in the English language.”
[Comment: Do not adjust your set, you have now entered the Twilight Zone.]
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People don’t understand just how bad the Democrat Party has become. We still want to believe they can’t possibly, on purpose, want to demolish America as we know it, and turn it into something else. No, not that: they just have some different ideas as to how to go about governing America. Really, we’re all on the same page here… not.
Well, here’s a quote from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, made in 2017 to “New York” magazine, Sept. 4 issue, that tells you, in just a single sentence, everything you need to know about this party. Keep your barf bags handy.
“If I had my druthers [said the mayor], a very, very powerful government would determine your day-to-day reality.”
What would be his idea of a “very, very powerful government,” and how-and upon whom-would it display its power? The Soviet Union, under Stalin? Communist China, under Mao? Maybe a little Pol Pot thrown in, just to show that the government means business.
Who would run this very, very powerful government? Who should be entrusted with that power? Why, Democrats, of course! And don’t stand in the way, or you’ll get run over.
How powerful would he like the government to be? That’s something that ought to keep you wide-awake at night.
And then we can wonder what he means by “determine your day-to-day reality.” Like, how many genders are there today, boss? Do we get to hold the same religious beliefs we had yesterday, or have you thought up some new ones for us? Do we still own the same property today that we owned yesterday, or does the government now own all of it?
I don’t know about you, but it makes me uneasy that such creatures as De Blasio have any power at all.
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Disparity in Access to Abortion in Italy Says Strasbourg
Report by European Committee of Social Rights
(ANSA) — Strasbourg, January 24 — The European Committee of Social Rights of the Council of Europe on Thursday said there was “disparity of access” to abortion in Italy.
Many Italian doctors refuse to perform abortions, saying they are conscientious objectors.
“Although the situation appears to have improved, there is still considerable disparity in access to abortion at the local level”, said the committee.
The body was briefing on progress in Italy to deal with violations of the European Social Charter verified in 2016 following a class action filed by Italian labor union CGIL over the implementation of Italy’s 194 law regulating abortion.
“Italy did not provide information on the measures undertaken to prevent acts of abuse against doctors who are not conscientious objectors (against abortion),” the committee also said.
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In Defense of Western Civilization
Today, we are confronted with people who seek the downfall of the nation-state. They seek removal of the borders that protect it. Without borders, the nation falls into anarchy driven by people who would ruin the structure that has brought Western civilization to its current level of prosperity.
Once defenders of free speech, liberals now work to suppress opposing views in education, in entertainment, on the nightly news, in social media, and in academia. They frequently do so by threats and intimidation. The right to bear arms is also under ceaseless pressure from the left who know that an unarmed, submissive public is necessary for top-down state rule. They believe that global government is the solution for what they view as a socially unjust America.
The leftist self-loathing Faustian bargain with radical Islam to defeat conservatism will not end well. Together, these two groups would extinguish the essence of Western life. This would be the suicide of the West. Leftists will do to Western civilization what it has done to the universities, race relations, the arts, religion, and the moral fabric of America. They will destroy it.
No country outside Europe would ever surrender its national sovereignty to the globalists. Yet this is what we are called to do. Europe is floundering with low birth rates and a rising tide of socialism and sharia. It may already be lost to these trends, and we should not follow the Europeans down this hole. There is no substitute for the nation-state today, or for a long time into the future.
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Transgender Theory Enables Child Abuse
by Lloyd Marcus
Pope Francis said teaching children about being transgender is a moral problem which he calls “ideological colonisation”. He said explaining gender theory to youngsters is wrong because it can change their “mentality”. The pontiff shared, “A father asked his ten-year-old-son: ‘What do you want to do when you grow older?’ The child replied: ‘A girl’. The father realized that in the school books the gender theory was taught. This is against the natural things.” Pope Francis declared gender theory is part of a “global war against the family”.
Unexpected voices like renowned feminist professor Camille Paglia are saying well-meaning adults transgendering minors is child abuse. Professor Paglia actually called it “evil” to help troubled kids make permanent decisions for which there is no turning back. As commonsense normal thinking adults, our response to Ms Paglia’s comment is, “Well dah”…
American College of Pediatricians president, Dr Michelle Cretella, wrote, “Transgender Ideology Has Infiltrated My Field and Produced Large-Scale Child Abuse.” Dr Cretella said transgender ideology is not rooted in reality. She said sex is hardwired before birth and it cannot change. Dr Cretella continued, “By feeding children and families these lies, children are having their normal psychological development interrupted. They’re being put on puberty blockers which essentially castrates them chemically — followed by surgical mutilation later on. This is child abuse. It’s not health care.”
Dr Cretella said we need to nurture children through natural puberty. “Our job as parents and physicians is to help children embrace their healthy bodies. And when this is done, once they get past puberty to late adolescence, as many as 95% will come to embrace their bodies — and identify with their biological sex.”
Dr Cretella made this important point. “See, according to most mainstream medical organizations, if you want to cut off a healthy arm or a healthy leg, you’re mentally ill. But if you want to cut off healthy breasts or a penis, you’re transgender. Dr Cretella enraged LGBTQ enforcers by saying, “No one is born transgender.” Dr Cretella is under severe attack.
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George Soros at Davos: 5 Takeaways From His Big Speech
Investor and activist George Soros had a lot to say at Davos this week, particularly on China. Here’s a run-down of the top five issues he believes the world needs to tackle.
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“Roger Foys, the Bishop of Covington Diocese in Kentucky, made a public apology to the students of Covington High School for the diocese’s condemnation….”
Some place around there’s a long-winded statement from the bishop of Lexington, Kentucky, that’s not so nice. With it there’s likely mention about his coverage of 50 Kentucky counties or something like that. Readers should note: he ain’t the boss — Louisville is the Archdiocese.
And, CovCath isn’t in Covington although it is in the diocese of Covington.
When’s the Bishop of Lexington, Stowe, gonna offer an apology for attacking Catholic youth? What a rat fink poobah, plagued by conflicting loyalties!
(Hmmmm….. Think I forget the junk on the bottom of the posting again. Use which ever version you like or none at all.)
“Roger Foys, the Bishop of Covington Diocese in Kentucky, made a public apology to the students of Covington High School for the diocese’s condemnation…”
Somewhere around there’s rather long-winded statement from the bishop of Lexington, Kentucky, which is not so nice. With it there’s likely a mention of his coverage of 50 or whatever counties in Kentucky. Readers might want to note that he’s not the boss. Louisville is the Archdiocese.
And, CovCath isn’t in Covington, although it is in the diocese of Covington.
There. Maybe that’s informative to some.
re: WWF and the US cattle industry
“…WWF has forced cattlemen to follow radical Sustainable rules through the establishment of the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef…”
When you see a group or commission with the name ‘Global’ and ‘Sustainable’ this usually points to the UN. The goal of ‘sustainability’ is perhaps the most important component of the UN Agenda 2030. The true name of the document is: ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs) or ‘Global Goals for Sustainable Development’.
This is fast growing and already large and powerful arm of the UN. It now influences most major goals and decisions of the UN. The EU is also tied to this.
I read an article in the American thinker. You in the West need to determine the terminology. When a civilization was Greco-Roman Christian, there were far fewer problems than when it became “Judeo-Christian”
Although … Did you read this book by William Gibson?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spook_Country
It has interesting references to the Frankfurt School. Then yes, you live in the Judeo-Chrisitanian realities. As we are.
Spot on – – we NOT judeo-christian
“Eight suspected migrants were filmed climbing from a lorry ***after throwing glass bottles on to a motorway***.
I’m sure they’ll turn out to be good productive citizens.
Sent back, perhaps? Nah.
And us ordinary folks have to obey rules or take the consequences.
*Swedish State TV refuses to help police identify migrants who rob pensioners*
Won’t make much difference. If caught, their “difficult childhood” will be quoted and they’ll be sentenced to a month weeding public parks or something similar.
Anyone else getting a bit pissed off with all this nonsense?
I’m beyond angry. What I feel is something I cannot describe.
Are these Bishops the kind who call Latin Mass advocates “INdulterers”?
Re: “Leftist Rag ‘The Telegraph” apologises…” Few in the UK would call the “Telegraph” leftist, irrespective of its dislike of the Trumps; it’s been broadly Conservative for many years.
Perhaps it depends on one’s perspective. Jordan Peterson has commented that just as when one is at the North Pole, all directions are south, so to the radical socialist all one’s opponents are far right; in this case, the reverse also seems to be true.
I’m pro choice so my dog is not in this hunt. But these kids took time and energy to march in support of the position of the Church and what was their reward. Their Catholic school threatened to expel them. Various priests denounced them including members of their parish hierarchy and now the commie Pope has been scolding them and kids like them who may be American patriots. These kids were amazingly well behaved and restrained for 16 year old children – better behaved than many adults. The Church hierarchy has joined forces with the pro choice Democrats to support no borders and ‘social justice’. So they turn against their own pro life kids but hold hands with Democrat Catholic politicians. If they really believe that abortion is murder why are these politicians not excommunicated and they can start with Pelosi, Cuomo and the Kennedys. Why then are Republicans supposed to blindly genuflect to the Church position on abortion?
Right or wrong, good comment.
There are teachings and those who abide by them (a few people) and those who claim to abide by them but only abide by some superficial stuff (many).
There once was a book titled “Hell Catholic” (about which I can currently find no trace) which might provide some insights.
US troops raided prison in Afghanistan and liberated dozens of ISIS leaders
The Iranian private agency Tashnim News Agency revealed details of how American troops captured the Taliban prison in Afghanistan and helped the Islamic State’s terrorists to escape from there.
According to the agency, a secret military operation by US forces took place in the province of Badghis on January 13. As a result, 40 leaders of the IG were released, they are all foreigners. This information was confirmed by the deputy head of the region.
https://lenta.ru/news/2019/01/27/is_free/
Thank you. There’s a steady drip of this. Any drop of which should be occasion for revulsion and outrage but the collaboration with and support of ISIS just goes on forever. America has freely chosen to be slimed by those monsters. It’s a depraved leadership that has chosen this course.
A mere youth who exhibits commendable composure in the face of some lunatic drummer is treated like a grave threat to civilization but the Pentagon embraces people who burn a prisoner alive in a cage and who roast others over a fire and our ghastly media show no interest.
In the light of this news, the person from this article is perceived quite differently, isn’t it?
https://www.meforum.org/57627/texan-became-goebbels-isis
News, or propaganda? I’m not sure I’d trust any report coming out of Iran.
An Article V convention can only propose amendments which still have to be ratified by 3/4 of the states. It does not rewrite the constitution.