Three men in Michigan — Muse Abdikadir Muse, Mohamed Salat Haji and Mohamud Abdikadir Muse — are being held in federal custody awaiting trial on charges of trying to join the Islamic State. The case has a Mohammed Coefficient of 66.7%.
In other news, the prime minister of Libya said that 800,000 transient migrants are temporarily residing in his country while they wait to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.
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AI Connected Smart Devices to Trigger Mass Suicides and Civilizational Collapse
Tech elite enslaving world population intentionally.
Alex Jones breaks down how devices with artificial intelligence embedded in the applications, aka ‘smart’ devices, are being used for surveillance as well as electromagnetic stimuli to control peoples’ thoughts, feelings and actions for an ultimate act of mass suggestion that will collapse society.
The planet is already seeing exponential amounts of death and disease and the global elite wish to increase this trend.
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Biggest Fentanyl Bust in History: Border Patrol Seizes Enough Drugs “To Kill 57 Million People”
Just days after we reported that the Massachusetts Attorney General is suing the makers of OxyContin, the deadly nature of America’s opioid crisis has again reared its ugly head: US border patrol agents just made the largest Fentanyl bust in the country’s history, confirming that this nationwide epidemic is worse than ever.
On his show this week, Tucker Carlson reported: “Well, the U.S. border patrol has made the biggest fentanyl bust in history. An enormous amount, enough fentanyl to kill—they estimate—57 million people. That’s more than the combined population of the states of Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania. It’s a lot.”
Reporter Hillary Vaughn on Fox News broke the story, stating: “We got our hands on an internal memo from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol that details this bust. The biggest fentanyl seizure in U.S. history. According to the memo, four days ago in Nogales, Arizona, at the port of entry, CBP officers stopped a tractor-trailer crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into the U.S. with enough fentanyl to kill 57 million people
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill to Eliminate Electoral College
Left trying to override constitutional republic for tyranny of majority.
Colorado’s Senate has passed a bill that would cast its electoral college votes to the presidential winner of the popular vote.
The bill, introduced by state Sen. Mike Foote, would have Colorado join 11 other states and Washington D.C. in what’s called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would mandate Colorado Electors to give up their vote to the winner of the national popular vote rather than the winner of their state.
“This really is a victory for those who believe that every vote should be counted equally,” Foote (D-Lafayette) said.
Republicans questioned the constitutionality of the legislation, arguing the bill abdicates the voice of Coloradans, which has nine electoral votes, to represent interests outside their state.
“You want to give your votes to a different state, or do you want your votes of Colorado to matter, as the voice of Colorado?” state Sen. Paul Lundeen asked on the floor.
“My argument is, and I may sound parochial in saying this, but daggummit, I’m here to represent the people of Colorado. I want their voice to be heard as the voice of Colorado.”
[Comment: Sedition. ]
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How Mainstream Media Decides What Makes the News and What Doesn’t
The establishment has granted gatekeeping power to a loyal group of propagandists.
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Michigan Men Accused of Trying to Join ISIS to be Held Pending Trial
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Three Lansing men accused of trying to join ISIS will await trial in federal custody after a judge ruled they could pose a potential danger to the community.
Muse Abdikadir Muse, Mohamed Salat Haji and Mohamud Abdikadir Muse all were ordered to remain in custody Thursday, Jan. 31 following a detention hearing in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids.
“They express not only an interest in fighting for ISIS but a willingness to die,” Magistrate Judge Phillip Green said.
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Nolte: Blacklisters at Microsoft’s NewsGuard Label Proven Hoaxes ‘Credible’
NewsGuard, which is the establishment media’s latest effort to blacklist alternative media sites, is giving its sign of approval to proven hoaxes, even to stories that have been retracted.
Microsoft is so desperate to spread fake news and blacklist ideas it doesn’t like, NewsGuard is automatically included in one of its browsers.
You will find more examples below, but here is NewsGuard’s seal of approval (on the Google search page) for Rolling Stone’s 2014 hoax about a gang rape at the University of Virginia (UVA).
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Press Group Loses Bid to Unseal DOJ Assange Records
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) — Refusing to unseal court documents related to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a federal judge told a press freedom group vying for the records Wednesday to wait until prosecutors confirm Assange’s indictment.
“Until there is a sufficiently certain disclosure that charges have in fact been filed, the committee’s common law and First Amendment claims are premature,” U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema wrote. “To hold otherwise would mean that any member of the public or press — by demanding access to judicial records based on little more than speculation — could effectively force the government to admit or deny that charges have been filed.”
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Sen. Rand Paul Awarded Over $580g After He Was Attacked by Neighbor
Sen. Rand Paul was awarded over $580,000 in damages by a Kentucky jury on Wednesday after he was attacked by his neighbor in the fall of 2017.
Paul, R-Ky., was awarded $375,000 in punitive damages and $200,000 for pain and suffering, plus $7,834 for medical expenses.
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Twelve States With 172 Electoral College Votes Are Moving to “Popular Vote” System
The establishment is undermining America’s election system
Colorado’s Senate has passed a bill to have the state award its presidential electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote.
This would be the true death of the republic and would establish America as merely another Democracy where two wolves and a sheep vote on what’s for dinner.
Harrison Smith explains how the country will change if the Electoral College is destroyed.
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White House Working Behind Trump’s Back to Appoint Leftists to 9th Circuit Court
Insiders working with Dianne Feinstein, Kamala Harris to sneakily stack more liberal judges to obstruct Trump’s agenda.
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YouTube’s Reviewing Mistake Could Cost Shane Dawson Thousands of Dollars
Shane Dawson’s new hour-and-a-half-long exploration of conspiracy theories was demonetized by YouTube for 12 hours — not because of its focus on conspiracy theories, but because of a reviewing mistake.
The new video from Dawson, one of YouTube’s most popular creators who has over 20 million subscribers, has amassed more than 7 million views since being posted last night. The video contained multiple ad spots when it was first published, but those ad placements disappeared only a couple of hours later. Although Dawson’s conspiracy series is sponsored, he didn’t receive any advertising revenue for those crucial hours.
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CBC: Incels a Greater Threat Than Islamic Terrorism
According to Canada’s state broadcaster the CBC, incels are a “real and present threat” to Canadians. Meanwhile, Islamic terrorism is killing people all over the globe. Sure seems like they’ve got their priorities straight…
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Public School Spending in Ontario Up 18.5% Per Student Over Past Decade
Spending on public schools in Ontario has increased 18.5 per cent, on a per-student basis, over the past decade, finds a new study by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank…
Crucially, teacher and staff compensation (salaries, pensions and benefits) accounted for 91 per cent of that increased spending, rising from $15 billion in 2006/07 to almost $21 billion in 2015/16.
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Anti-Brexit Eurocrat Replies to God-Ordained Trump Claim: ‘I Have Never Felt So Atheist’
A senior Eurocrat and the man in charge of negotiating Brexit with the United Kingdom reacted with clear revulsion to the claim that God has a divine plan and that President Donald Trump is part of it on Thursday, saying the suggestion made him feel Atheist.
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Australian Diplomats Visit Assange, Told of ‘Deteriorating Health’
London: Australian diplomats have reportedly visited Julian Assange in Ecuador’s embassy in London to hear firsthand about what his lawyer says is his “deteriorating health”.
Greg Barns, an Australian lawyer and adviser to Assange and WikiLeaks, revealed the visit had taken place.
He said he and his colleagues will now directly appeal to Foreign Minister Marise Payne to petition the UK government to let Assange leave the embassy for urgent medical care without being arrested.
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Belgium Welcomes Multiculturalism
Belgium, in its well-intended welcome of newcomers from the Middle East, is now facing a persistent terrorist threat and a “wave of jihadism”, according to a new report published by the Belgian State Security Service (VSSE) on November 30. The main reason for these recent acquisitions, notes the report, is the ongoing Islamic radicalization of inmates in Belgian prisons and the risk of terrorist convicts engaging in terrorist acts once they have served their sentences and are back out on the street.
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Bill Targeting ‘Yellow Vest’ ‘Hooligans’ Ignites French Freedom Debate
PARIS (Reuters) — French lawmakers have backed a bill banning protesters from hiding their faces during demonstrations, reinforcing President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to push back against violent members of the “yellow vest” movement.
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Civil Servant Suspected of Arranging Marriages to Keep Migrants in France
A city project manager in Villepinte has been accused of arranging so-called “white marriages” to help migrants remain in France and is said to have been involved in over a dozen cases.
The 50-year-old female civil servant, who has not been identified, is accused of helping at least a dozen or more migrants gain residency permits through the organisation of “white marriages” over the last two years with reports being forwarded to the prosecutor of Bobigny, Le Parisien reports.
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Farage: Britons Will Become ‘Angrier’ At ‘Arrogant, Unelected’ Eurocrats
Brexit architect Nigel Farage warned that Britons will become “even more angry” with Brussels bureaucrats over their refusal to renegotiate the Withdrawal Agreement.
Speaking to euronews on Thursday, the independent Member of European Parliament described the “arrogance, intransigence, no shift and no give from Brussels at all” over Prime Minister Theresa May’s attempts to remove the Irish backstop from the agreement.
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Far-Left Extremists Take Credit for Firebombing French Radio Station
Far-left anarchists have taken credit for firebombing an office of France Bleu Isère, denouncing the French radio broadcaster as being part of an “industrial hypnosis collective.”
The offices were attacked Sunday night in the French city of Grenoble, with one office inside being partially destroyed by fire, France Bleu reports.
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French MP Slams Plan to Repatriate 130 Jihadis
Macron gov aiming to extradite captured ISIS fighters from Syria.
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French Yellow Vest Leader Placed in Coma After Being Hit in the Face by Rubber Bullet
Anti-government protesters in France believe Yellow Vest leader Jérôme Rodrigues was deliberately targeted and called for “a mass uprising” against President Macron’s government following the wounding.
Philippe de Veule, Rodrigues’s lawyer, confirmed his client has been “placed in an artificial coma” and was likely to be “handicapped for life”.
Rodrigues was in Place de la Bastille, one of the French capital’s most famous squares, during rioting on Saturday afternoon when he was hit in the right eye.
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Italy: Dismembered Girl Case ‘Wake-Up Call on Macerata Drugs’
Oseghale to stand trial 13/2, ‘we were unaware of extent’
(ANSA) — Ancona, January 31 — A year after the murder of Pamela Mastropietro, an 18-year-old Rome resident killed and chopped up into pieces, Macerata prosecutor Giovanni Giorgio said that the case had served as a wake-up call on the extent of drug-dealing in the area. On February 13 a trial will begin against Innocent Oseghale, a 30-year-old Nigerian drug dealer accused of raping and killing the girl with a knife. He has admitted to chopping up the 18-year-old Roman woman’s body but not to her homicide or to raping her.
Mastropietro’s dismembered body was found in two suitcases near Macerata.
Oseghale claims Mastropietro died of a heroin overdose at his home and that he cut up her body as part of an attempt to get rid of it.
For the three Nigerians put under investigation as accomplices, the prosecutor’s office instead requested that their files be shelved. Giorgio told ANSA that “we believe we have built a case within a reasonable investigative timeline on the basis of a careful inquiry”. However, he noted that he had been “struck” by the extent of drug dealing in the area, “especially by Nigerian nationals, which had clearly escaped the attention” of the authorities prior to that time. He stressed that investigative activities had since been stepped up to address the problem, with police and carabinieri reinforcements sent to the area.
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‘Skint’ French Actress Beatrice Dalle Backs Yellow Vests
French actress Beatrice Dalle has thrown her weight behind the “yellow vest” protest movement, saying she finds it hard to make ends meet herself.
The cult star who was catapulted to fame by the 1986 film “Betty Blue” told French television that she fully supports the anti-government protests after she appeared on social media wearing a high-visibility vest.
“I have less than 1,700 euros ($1,980) in my bank account, I don’t have a car nor an apartment and I live at a friend’s place,” said the outspoken 54-year-old.
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Sweden ‘Cannot Forgive’ UK Politicians for ‘Historic Mistake’ of Allowing Brexit
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström slammed UK politicians for Brexit, saying she cannot “forgive” them for allowing the British people to vote to leave the European Union…
The controversial comments are just the latest from the Social Democrat who, last year, told Professor Jordan Peterson to “crawl back under the rock he came from,” following a visit to Sweden by the noted Canadian psychologist and author.
The proponent of a feminist foreign policy has also garnered criticism from the Hungarian government after she tweeted a comment directed against the Hungarians and the populist Italian government.
[Comment: globalist appartchik and useful idiot.]
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The Strange Death of Europe Versus the Strange Decay of America
Where you see huge power elites sitting in their ivory towers dictating third world endless immigration into first world countries-those power brokers never live in or with the results of what they created.
One look at the Moslem and African ghettos, and “no go zones” of France would turn your stomach. London, England now features two different cities: one Moslem that British citizens avoid. And the other British London that faces terrorist attacks at any moment from those immigrants plotting their attacks within the Islamic ghettos. Stockholm, Sweden features a new world banner: “Rape Capitol of Europe.” Norway boasts Oslo where nearly 40 percent of Muslims dominate the city and feature “Sharia patrols” to ensure that Norwegians do not break Islamic laws. Thus, Norwegians flee their own cities where the immigrants rule.
Fortunately, I enjoy friends in Norway, Sweden, France, Germany and Italy who send me updates of what’s really happening in Europe. For the most part, those power elites censor, and/or suppress the tension, conflict, cultural chaos and linguistic mayhem occurring in Europe.
Mark Twain, one of America’s greatest writers, called it “Silent Assertion” or the big lie! Everybody knew what was going on, but the leaders washed over it, and pretended it wasn’t happening. In 1861, that same “big lie” led to America’s Civil War.
Today, in Western countries, the “Big Lie” manifests in the shoving of multiculturalism and diversity down the throats of successful societies, until they too, boil over with conflict…
What’s the trump card that allows the invasion to continue? If anyone steps up to speak the truth about mass immigration, they become a racist, nativist and pariah.
As Murray states in his book if anyone in England spoke up about the facts of endless immigration, they faced immediate condemnation, “This has a terrorizing effect far beyond the nation’s television studios, and with far more serious consequences. When these gang-rape cases came to court, they did so in spite of local police, councilors and care-workers, many of whom were discovered to have failed to report such crimes involving immigrant-gangs for fear of accusations of racism. The media followed suit, filling their reports with euphemisms as though trying to avoid helping the public draw any conclusions. The gangs were described as Asians when they almost solely involved Muslim men of Pakistani origin. Instead of carrying out their jobs without fear or favor, police, prosecutors and journalists behaved as though their job was to mediate between the public and the facts.”
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The United Kingdom and the European Union are both considering banning Chinese tech giant Huawei’s equipment from telecommunication networks, in moves that would follow others already enacted across the English-speaking world.
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UK: London: Multiple Arrests After Street Fight Ends in Three Stabbings
Seven people have been arrested and three others rushed to hospital with stab wounds after a brawl broke out at a tram stop in Croydon, south London.
The Metropolitan Police were called to the Gravel Hill tram stop at one o’clock Wednesday afternoon in response to calls of a violent brawl, reports The Mirror.
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A Muslim school will not allow girls to eat lunch until after boys have finished, an Ofsted chief has told MPs.
Al-Hijrah school in Birmingham is still segregating boys and girls despite a Court of Appeal ruling in 2017 that found it was unlawful, according to Luke Tryl, director of corporate strategy at Ofsted.
Addressing the women and equalities select committee, he said that Ofsted inspectors are trying to hold schools account for discriminating against girls but feel “isolated” when their stance is not backed up by ministers.
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UK: Man, 21, Held After Machete Attack in Front of Terrified Shoppers in Sheffield City Centre
A 21-year-old man has been held on suspicion of attempted murder after a machete attack in front of terrified shoppers in Sheffield city centre on Thursday morning.
The attack happened just before 9.30am and prompted shoppers to run and shop workers to lock their doors.
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UK: Police Hunt After Woman Surrounded by Group of Men Outside Tube Station and Sexually Assaulted
A group of men surrounded a lone women outside a south London Tube station and sexually assaulted her, police have said.
British Transport Police has released an image of a suspect following the attack outside Stockwell station.
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UK: Planned Margaret Thatcher Statue Will be Target of Vandals, Police Say
A statue planned for the former prime minister’s home town of Grantham will need to be put on a plinth ten feet high to protect it from vandals, police have said.
The £300,000 memorial to the Tory Party’s last staunchly-conservative prime minister was intended to take its place amongst other great political figures in Parliament Square, opposite the Palace of Westminster, but the plan was rejected on grounds that it would, too, be a target for leftist activists.
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UK: Polls: No Deal Most Popular Leave Option, WTO Brexit Most Likely Outcome
A Sky Data poll has found that a no-deal Brexit is the most popular leave option, whilst a Survation poll has found voters believe the UK exiting the EU on World Trade Organization (WTO) rules is now the most likely outcome.
A poll of 2,036 UK adults by SMS conducted by the commercial broadcaster on January 30th revealed that in terms of a leave option, 39 percent backed a no-deal Brexit.
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UK: Remainers Close in: Hunt Says Brexit Will be Delayed as EU Demands £39bn No Deal Payment
A senior remain-supporting government minister has said the official Brexit day may have to be delayed as the Commission demands Britain pay the £39 billion so-called divorce bill whether the nation leaves with a deal or not.
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Turkey’s Sweeping “Educational” Penetration Into the Balkans
As part of its expansionist neo-Ottoman agenda, the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been building mosques and setting up Islamic educational institutions around the world. The mosque that Ankara is currently constructing in Tirana, Albania, will reportedly be the largest of the dozens of its mosques in the Balkans.
Through the Maarif Foundation — established in 2016 by means of a law enacted by the Turkish parliament, which gave it the authority to open schools abroad — a kindergarden, primary— middle— and high-schools were built in Tirana. In October 2018, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavusoglu was the keynote speaker at the inauguration in Albania of the Maarif-run University of New York Tirana.
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Egypt: Sisi’s Successes and Challenges
In his latest interview with Serbia’s top-rated Happy TV Morning Program, Srdja Trifkovic shares his impressions after a two-week tour of Egypt. [You can watch the interview here.]
Q: So you’ve just come back from Egypt, perhaps the only country which has managed to be affected and then recover from the Arab Spring revolutions. In Tunisia, Libya, Syria, even in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq before that, life had been at least tolerable until the Americans decided to liberate them from the horrid dictators, and ruined them. Libya has not recovered yet, Syria is still a battlefield, Iraq shaky. In Egypt, however, the Muslim Brotherhood government, supported by the Americans, was overthrown in 2013 after a year in power. Is Egypt now returning to what it had been before, at the time of Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak?
ST: Ever since 1952, when Col. Nasser led the officers who overthrew King Farouk, Egypt’s military top brass has seen itself as uniquely responsible for the country’s destiny. The role of the military in Egypt at that time was somewhat comparable to the role of the Turkish army as the guardian of Kemal Ataturk’s legacy, which it had maintained until the rise of Erdogan and the subsequent deep transformation of the Turkish society. In Egypt the officers’ ideology likewise was pan-Arabist nationalism, rather than Islamism. The problem of the Muslim Brotherhood had been present all along, however. Its founder Hasan al-Banna was killed in 1949, then Nasser outlawed the group in 1954 and had one of its leaders, Sayyid Qutb, hanged in 1966. More recently Mubarak tried to co-opt them by letting the MB members sit as deputies in the Egyptian parliament, although formally not as Muslim Brotherhood representatives.
Once they came to power in 2012, promising democracy, human rights etc — which was music to the ears of the American government — Morsi and his cohorts rapidly started acting in extra-legal ways and working on a new constitution to their liking. They packed the constitutional assembly with the ostensibly independent Brotherhood supporters, and drafted a new constitution which abolished the equality of men and women as well as religious equality, which would have turned Egypt’s 15-20% Christians into second-class citizens. They evidently hoped to turn Egypt into an Islamic state quite rapidly, before the Army got its act together and responded, and while it was still under intense pressure from Washington not to intervene.
Q: Why did the Americans support the Muslim Brotherhood?…
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China’s Ominous 40 Year Plan to Dominate the World
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. —Mao Zedong, Founding Father of The People’s Republic of China
President Trump is waging what the socialist main stream media is calling a “Trade War” with Communist Red China, who was given “Most Favored Nation” trade status, a requirement by members of the World Trade Organization. Our President is the first to understand what China is actually up to, and how American tax dollars are building the Dragon into the dominant world power. We must support him in this battle.
During the 2019 Phyllis Schlafly Gathering of Eagles, President Ed Martin told us about a meeting President Trump held regarding China. A friend of Asia expert Brett Decker was at this meeting. Decker is the author of Bowing to Beijing, a book I’ve read and written about. President Trump asked Decker’s friend why he wasn’t present and he was told that Brett had been banned from the White House. The President slammed his fist on the table and said, “Get him here.” I would hope President Trump immediately asked his staff for a list of people who are banned from the White House by the enemies of freedom who surround him.
The war President Trump is waging is not only with Red China, but with America’s globalist elite…
Fifty-two years ago, in August of 1967, Phyllis Schlafly wrote Giveaway of our Panama Canal. In this comprehensive overview, she explained that the Johnson Administration was planning to give away our Panama Canal via three treaties with Panama which were presented in a closed session of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on June 29, 1967. The three treaties were not ratified, but laid the groundwork for the Carter administration to move ahead with the giveaway. On September 7, 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed the Panama Canal Treaty and Neutrality Treaty promising to give control of the canal to the Panamanians by the year 2000.
Ultimately, the Carter treaty surrendered U.S. control over a maritime thoroughfare which Americans built over eight years, from 1906 to 1914, and which was essential to the U.S. militarily and commercially.
On October 20, 1999, Phyllis Schlafly wrote, “Jimmy Carter never would have been able to ram through his two treaties giving away our Panama Canal if the Senate in 1978 could have looked into the future and known that, when the U.S. Flag is lowered on December 31, 1999, Red China would become its gatekeeper. Communist China wined, dined and bribed its way to unfair ownership of prime property at both ends of the canal. China gained military and economic supremacy over the canal directly from Panama’s Law No. 5 that passed on Jan. 16, 1997.”
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Citizen Scientists Discover Pinhead-Sized Beetle in Borneo
How many citizen scientists does it take to discover a new species? A recent expedition to the Ulu Temburong forest in Borneo proved that you only need 10 enthusiasts with no professional training, yet fueled with curiosity and passion for the outdoors, to find a new beetle the size of a pinhead in leaf litter.
The species, named Clavicornaltica belalongensis, is a tiny, 1.25-mm-long leaf beetle that eats moss on the forest floor.
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Judge Tells Muslims to Publicly Denounce ‘Violent’ Koran
Australian Muslims should publicly denounce “belligerent” verses of the Koran that have been used by Islamic extremists to underpin terrorism, a judge said Thursday while jailing two terror-plotters.
Justice Desmond Fagan said the lethal messages derived from “hostile passages” of the Koran were not effectively countered by suggestions from “various quarters” that the verses had been “cherry picked” or that Islam was an “interpretive religion” of peace.
“The incitements to violence which terrorists quote from the Koran cannot just be ignored by the many believers who desire harmonious coexistence. Those verses are not ignored by terrorists,” Justice Fagan said in Sydney while delivering his judgement in the NSW Supreme Court.
[Comment: Wishful thinking.]
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Venezuela’s self-proclaimed interim president said Thursday that police had descended on his home here in the capital, the latest provocation in the fight for power in this embattled country.
Juan Guaido, a federal congressman whose claim to the interim presidency has been backed by the United States and other nations, was giving a speech when he told listeners that a police “special action” unit had arrived at his home in the capital and was asking for his wife, Fabiana.
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Italy Doesn’t Recognise Guaidò — Di Stefano
Foreign undersecretary comments on EP’s recognition
(ANSA) — Rome, January 31 — Foreign Undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano said Thursday that Italy did not recognise Juan Guaidò as interim president of Venezuela in his clash with President Nicolas Maduro.
“Italy does not recognise Guaidò because we are totally against the fact that a country or a group of third countries can determine the internal politics of another country,” he said.
“It is called principle of non-interference and is recognised by the United States”.
Di Stefano was commenting on the European Parliament’s recognition of Guaidò as legitimate interim president of Venezuela.
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“Migration Most Serious Threat to Europe”, Says Hungarian Defence Minister
Migration is the biggest threat to the safety of Europeans, the Hungarian defence minister Tibor Benko said ahead of a two-day meeting with his European Union counterparts in Bucharest.
Europe, and Hungary specifically, have entered a new phase in terms of security policy, Tibor Benko told MTI. Europe’s security has deteriorated considerably, he said, adding that routine solutions were not adequate for dealing with new types of security challenges.
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Filmmaker Lauren Southern is Holding ‘Crisis Meeting’ On Migration in European Parliament
Documentary filmmaker and political activist Lauren Southern is holding a “crisis meeting” on migration at the European Parliament in Brussels today.
The meeting will show an interview that she did with a group of Moroccan people smugglers, along with an interview of a migrant transport NGO CEO who has since been imprisoned for cooperating with people traffickers.
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Germany: No ‘Economic Miracle’ As 65 Percent of Refugees Still Jobless
Migrant unemployment continues to be a problem in Germany, with government research revealing the majority of asylum seekers who arrived in 2016 are still unemployed.
When Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the country’s borders in 2015, international media outlets and organisations including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) gushed that the move was sure to bring prosperity to Germany.
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Libya PM: 800,000 Illegal Immigrants Ready to Leave for Europe
Almost a million illegal aliens are living in Libya and ready to leave for Europe, the country’s internationally-backed leader has said.
Fayez al-Sarraj explained that only a small proportion of migrants hoping to use Libya as a transit country on their way to rich EU nations were being held in camps, after Austria’s far-left president blasted conditions at the facilities, commenting that the situation there was “to put it mildly — far from satisfactory”.
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Migrant NGO Vessel Arrives in Italy After Distribution Deal
The migrant transport vessel Sea Watch-3 has been granted permission to dock at the Italian port of Catania following an agreement between European Union member states to distribute the asylum seekers on board.
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Woman fights back tears to say pledge, as enemies of America scream at her.
[Comment: Decades of communist indoctrination at universities have produced such useful idiots. US should never have let Frankfurt school acolytes set foot in the US as they fleed Germany in WWII times.]
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Hilarious: WWE’s Biggest Villain Character is an Environmental Extremist
Champion has Eco-friendly title belt made of sustainable hemp, annoyingly lectures people about being vegan and recycling to save the planet.
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“This is morally repugnant.”
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Muse would imply that they are Greek and not moslem; however onky two of the Muses were apprehended. Which means seven more of them are still on the loose…
“Turkey’s Sweeping “Educational” Penetration Into the Balkans” Albania a muslim wastehole anyway, I don’t believe they would be successful in Serbia, Greece or Romania. Unfortunately they can still use Albania to infiltrate other European countries.
“Judge Tells Muslims to Publicly Denounce ‘Violent’ Koran” this is the common sense in the judge speaking, unfortunately he doesn’t understand islam is no good with common sense. I believe one of the verses in Koran, but it might be one of the other two books, mentions something along the lines of “if you think something written in the koran makes no sense, you are a bad muslim and you must pray more to stop questioning it,” effectively prohibiting any kind of theology inside the religion. And that’s the very reason why, unlike Christianity, islam never moved beyond medieval times…
“Sen. Sasse: ‘If You Can’t Say it’s Wrong to Leave Babies to Die After Birth, Get the Hell Out of Public Office’” so it is true this law was passed?
I can’t say I’m against abortions as such, nor am I against pro-lifers, I think both parties have good points and I probably never thought about it more in-depth. But killing a baby after it’s been delivered is plain and simple homicide.
And I have to say Chernobyl immediately came to mind when I first heard about this New York law. Right after the catastrophy pregnant women in Prypiat were instructed to get abortions, no matter what stage of pregnancy they were in. I’ve once seen a testimony of one of the few that refused (and delivered a healthy child, despite all the risks) and it was truly gruesome. Because there were so many, the hospital simply put up sheets in the hallways and the doctors would go from one woman to the next for hours on end and because it was so extremely straining on their psyché (since many of the babies were way beyond the period when an abortion is considered ok), they kept drinking throughout the night, just to be able to somehow deal with it. That’s what I imagined NY hospitals to look like if this law gets put to practice. Especially if it’s possible for outsiders to fly in to get this procedure done. I can’t imagine a doctor (or any member of staff) in his or her right mind to be ok with this either.
What does that mean?
PMCs will work out the skills of suppressing the masses on the Uighurs or prevent the Chinese from re-educating them?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/01/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-to-build-training-camp-in-chinas-xinjiang?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other