For the eighth weekend in a row, “Yellow Vest” protesters demonstrated in France against the government of President Emmanuel Macron. During clashes with police, tear gas was used against the demonstrators, who blocked the streets in Paris and set vehicles on fire.
Meanwhile, hundreds of pro-Brexit Yellow Vests protested in London and other British cities. Four people were arrested after clashes with police. One of those arrested was a 13-year-old girl. A Twitter correspondent reportedly says the girl, whose name is Emily, was “dragged by her hair” by police, and that her mother is now in the police station.
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3 Dead in SoCal Bowling Alley Shooting
TORRANCE, Calif. — A shooting at a bowling alley late Friday left three men dead and four people injured in Southern California, authorities said.
Police said they were called to the Gable House Bowl in Torrance shortly before midnight. A witness said that gunshots rang out after a fight inside the building.
“Bowlers were diving under the benches,” the witness, Dana Scott, told RMG News. “The people that were still bowling on the lanes were on the floors, underneath the seats, behind the benches.”
“People were looking for their parents, because this is a family league. You’ve got mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, everybody’s friends in that league,” she said.
No arrests were immediately reported…
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Berkeley Researchers Offer Social Media Platforms Easier Way to Censor
Researchers at the University of California-Berkeley are in the process of developing an “Online Hate Index,” which could be used to weed out “hate speech” from social media platforms.
UC-Berkeley’s social science D-Lab is taking the initiative to create the hate index, which could be picked up by social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook and be used as a tool to identify and remove “hate speech” from their platforms, all using artificial intelligence.
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California Woman Arrested After Biting Jogger Who Pepper-Sprayed Her Dog: Police
A California woman was arrested after she allegedly bit a jogger who pepper-sprayed the suspect’s dog to fend off the animal at a San Francisco Bay area park Thursday, authorities said.
Alma Cadwalader, 19, of Oakland, was arrested Friday by police with the East Bay Regional Park District.
The incident began on a trail in Anthony Chabot Regional Park in Castro Valley, when the jogger used pepper spray to defend herself after Cadwalader’s dog tried to attack her.
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Mothers and fathers drag their six and seven-year-old children 2,000 miles to the border of another country and scream, “Let me in!” And when those children die — one after the father refuses medical care — the media stand up, stamp their feet, and angrily scream the question, “How could you?” But their ire is directed at America, not at the criminally negligent parents, because it’s our country’s responsibility to honor and obey whatever a tantrum thrower insists is his right.
Who can blame them? It worked in Europe, where hundreds of thousands of fighting-age young men escaping the internecine brutality endemic to the Religion of Peace have forced themselves upon what used to be independent nations (and in particular, their infidel women) with seemingly nothing but joy expressed by the political elite who applaud the entire “shebang” (pun intended).
The forever angry and outraged Democrats, historically anti-illegal immigration when they thought aliens would provide cheap labor benefitting industry (can’t have profits unless they get to give the money to friends and family), are now pro-illegal alien who come here for benefits and are willing to vote illegally.
They are merely disappointed in voters who allowed the Orange Man to steal Hillary’s presidency, and damn it, they are going to import a new electorate.
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‘Gun-Toting Hippies’ Greet Boulder ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban With Mass Noncompliance
BOULDER, Colorado — Boulder’s newly enacted “assault weapons” ban is meeting with stiff resistance from its “gun-toting hippies,” staunch liberals who also happen to be devoted firearms owners.
Only 342 “assault weapons,” or semiautomatic rifles, were certified by Boulder police before the Dec. 31 deadline, meaning there could be thousands of residents in the scenic university town of 107,000 in violation of the sweeping gun-control ordinance.
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Microsoft Board Member Funded Manipulation of Roy Moore Senate Race
A prominent internet billionaire and Microsoft board member spent $100,000 funding a campaign to manipulate the 2017 Alabama Senate special election. That race pitted candidate Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones against one another. Moore eventually lost.
Microsoft board member Reid Hoffman apologized for his involvement in the disinformation campaign on Dec. 26. Microsoft has refused to respond to a request for comment and a spokesperson said merely the company has “nothing to share at this time.”
However, Hoffman’s involvement may have violated Microsoft’s own “Standards of Business Conduct.” One of the standards listed includes a mandate to “Communicate Accurately to the Public.” Statements should be “honest and not misleading.”…
However, he continues to fund propaganda projects, such as News for Democracy, which created Facebook pages that buy ads criticizing Republican congressional candidates, according to the Washington Post…
In a statement to the Media Research Center, Microsoft refused to acknowledge any wrongdoing by its board member. A spokesperson said that Microsoft “had nothing to share at this time.”
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Video highlights the liberal celebration of internet censorship
Liberal Hollywood actor Michael Rapaport celebrates Alex Jones’ removal from the internet as censorship of conservatives spreads worldwide.
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Third Accusation of Sex Abuse Surfaces Against Ex-Cardinal McCarrick
The Vatican is now investigating three separate charges of homosexual abuse against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the latest of which was reported less than three months ago and has just become public.
Though details surrounding the case remain scarce since the alleged victim has chosen to remain anonymous, the man is reportedly in his forties, and the alleged abuse would have taken place when he was a minor.
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Tucker Carlson: In Big Tech Policy, Laissez-Faire Ain’t Fair to Conservatives
How should conservatives respond to attempts by social media platforms and search engines to stifle and censor them? In a clarifying debate last weekend, Tucker Carlson argued that laissez-faire doesn’t guarantee fair…
As he sparred with Kirk over traditional conservative distrust of government regulation and the changing nature of politics, Carlson asserted that many conservatives are following the letter of old laws while ignoring the actual principles they were trying to defend.
“You’ve been brainwashed by a small number of dumb idealogues in DC,” he said, “into believing what matters is the theory, above all, whether it screws you or not. And what you need to retrain your brain to understand is that what matters is your life, and the life of your family.” This applies to the debate over whether tech companies should face some sort of legislation by government in order to protect America’s defining value of free speech.
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European Court of Human Rights Promotes Human Wrongs
October 26 marked a historic day for Ireland, where citizens, in a national referendum, overwhelmingly voted to repeal the country’s blasphemy law.
Blasphemy remains a serious offence in many parts of the world, in some Muslim countries even requiring the death penalty.
More astonishing is that even some European countries are criminalizing “defamation of religion”.
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France: Pictures: Yellow Vests Return to Paris to Protest Macron’s Globalist Government
Several hundred anti-Macron Yellow Vest protesters returned to Paris and other French cities Saturday to continue their now two-month-long demonstration against the French government.
Update 2000 — Yellow Vests March Sees Fires, Teargas
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YouTube star and fashion blogger Dina Torkia has received a wave of abusive and offensive comments on social media since she stopped wearing a hijab, the Daily Mailreports.
Dina, who has more than a million followers on Instagram, said she had made a ‘personal decision to wear it when I want to’.
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German Mainstream Politicians Suffer Major Data Hack
Online hackers have released a massive collection of data that includes personal information, such as phone numbers, addresses and more of German mainstream politicians as well as others in the German political scene.
The data was released on Friday and reveals sensitive personal data from private messages to Facebook login information, to the personal email address of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The hack has affected nearly every party in Germany including national MPs, members of the European Parliament and local MPs Die Welt reports.
Leaked information seen by Breitbart London revealed mostly personal email addresses and phone numbers of politicians, although the leak was much more detailed in several cases that included scans of drivers licenses and ID cards.
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German Populist Party Office Targeted by Bombing
A party office belonging to the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the city of Döbeln was bombed with the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) stating they believe the attack to be politically motivated.
The attack occurred on Thursday night according to a police spokesman who said that the nature of the explosion was initially unclear but that no one had been hurt Die Welt reports.
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London Yellow Vests Picking Up Strength
Like their sister protesters in France, London Yellow vests have brought parts of central London to a standstill.
Smoke bombs and blocked roads outside Parliament today caused major disruption, with at least 100 people wearing the high visibility ‘Yellow Vests’ gathered at Westminster, setting off smoke bombs as they marched along Whitehall on the way to Trafalgar Square.
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Poland Slams EU Leadership and Urges Changes in May Elections
Poland accused the European Union of conducting hostile policies toward its largest post-communist member and urged changes to the bloc’s functioning following its parliamentary elections in May.
It’s the latest salvo in a long-lasting battle between the EU and Poland over what Brussels considers an erosion of democratic standards and threats to the rule of law. The standoff centers around political appointments to Poland’s independent judiciary and the conflict could result in cuts to subsidies the country receives from the bloc’s budget.
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Sweden: No Ebola Virus Detected in Hospital Patient
HELSINKI — Swedish health officials say a suspected Ebola case reported by a hospital has turned out to be a false alarm with tests carried out on the unidentified patient showing no signs of the deadly virus.
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UK Govt to Perform No Deal Brexit Dress Rehearsal With 150 Trucks
The British government is going to wargame the impact of leaving the European Union on World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules on Monday, chartering dozens of articulated lorries to simulate the impact of traffic near the port of Dover.
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UK Labour Local Government Boss Ordered Police to Arrest Blogger
West Midlands Police have told the leader of a Labour-controlled town council to stop wasting police time after he repeatedly instructed them to arrest a political blogger and threatened to escalate the matter to the Home Secretary if they didn’t comply with his wishes.
Labour councillor and Sandwell council leader Steve Eling demanded the “immediate arrest” of blogger Julian Saunders, who runs the Sandwell Skidder blog, in an email to the local police force.
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UK Mosque Cancels Event Honouring Muslims Who Saved Jews Amid Backlash
A key point of contention was the collaboration between the mosque and Yad Vashem, a Jewish organisation that focuses on preserving the memory of the holocaust.
The exhibition at the London mosque, which was devoted to Muslims who helped save Jewish lives during the Holocaust, has been cancelled without an official explanation, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported. The cancellation of the event, held by the Centre for Islamic Understanding in Golders Green, was preceded by Muslim protests that were largely fuelled by statements of Roshan Salih, the editor of a Muslim media outlet called “5 Pillars”.
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UK: Exclusive: Met Police Confirm Brexit Betrayal Rally Was Five Times the Size of Remoaner Protest
The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that the Brexit Betrayal rally last month turned out around five times more protestors than the remoaner counter-protest.
The Brexit Betrayal rally, organised by freedom activist Tommy Robinson and UKIP, is estimated to have turned out around 5,000 protestors on the 9th December last year, as opposed to around a mere 1,000 for Owen Jones’ and Momentum’s counter-protest.
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Remains of 34 Christians Slaughtered by Islamic State Found in Mass Grave in Libya
Libyan authorities have announced the discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of 34 Ethiopian Christians killed in 2015 by jihadists of the Islamic State.
The Department of Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of the Interior said this week that the mass grave was found not far from the coastal town of Sirte, in an area that in 2015 was under the control of the armed jihadist group.
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Netflix Caves to Saudis, Censors Muslim Comedian Over Khashoggi Jokes
As I’ve reported before, comedy is dying, and this time it’s not just random outraged individuals getting angry on social media.
The New York Post reports: “Netflix has blocked an episode of Hasan Minhaj’s “Patriot Act” show from airing in Saudi Arabia after government officials complained.
“The episode featured Minhaj lampooning the Saudi government’s shifting explanations for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October.”
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Laos Cracks Down on Christianity as ‘Religion of the Europeans and Americans’
Laos has been tightening restrictions on Christian practice as an unwelcome Western influence, mirroring the situation of other Asian communist nations.
During the Christmas holidays, incidents of arrests, harassment, and censure of expressions of the Christian feast were reported around the country.
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The extremist group, Antipodean Resistance, vandalized the front gates of Emmy Monash Aged Care in Melbourne, on New Years Day.
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Right-wing activists Blair Cottrell and Niel Erikson called for their supporters to flock to the beach in Melbourne’s southeast on Saturday afternoon to ‘take a stand against African crime gangs’.
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New footage shows 24-year-old Hassan Rizk, who has been described as a Good Samaritan, rushing into the affray when he realised Aymen Fakah had a knife.
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Mexico Closes Border Shelter for Migrant Caravan Sparking Protests
A two-story warehouse in a zone known for crime and prostitution near the US border was closed on Friday, with Tijuana officials citing sanitation as the reason why. Isain Venegas, a supervisor in Mexico’s public health system, said the shelter was overcrowded, poorly lit and lacked proper facilities for food preparation.
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“The Party is Over for the Left-Wing Mayors Who Benefited From Migrant Business” — Italy’s Salvini
Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini stated Friday that the migrant and security decree he put together was a state law and must be followed. This is in the midst of the rebellion of some ten of 8,000 mayors, one of whom is Palermo’s Leoluca Orlando.
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After Introducing Mass Migration to Europe, Germany Now Bribing Foreigners to Leave
The German government has mounted an aggressive campaign to encourage illegal migrants to leave — bribing them with free rent for a year in their home countries.
“Your country. Your future. Now!” read billboards in seven languages, plastered in nearly 2,500 locations across 80 German cities, reports the National Post.
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At the end of December Father Rod Bower erected a sign outside of Gosford Anglican Church that read ‘Manus is how the Holocaust started’.
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GoFundMe Campaign for Border Wall Will Shatter All Records
We are witnessing something truly extraordinary. In merely 19 days, a GoFundMe campaign to raise private contributions to build sections of the wall along the Mexico border has raised an astonishing $19.0 million. It will soon be the most successful GoFundMe campaign ever—the current record holder is the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund for victims of sexual assault, which raised $22 million in 2018 over a much longer period of time. The campaign to build the wall should blow past that number in a few days.
[Comment: A clear sign of the rage of US citizens at politicians who either ignore illegal immigration or are tacitly following a globalist plan of “open borders” and “no nation state”.]
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Trump Considering ‘National Emergency’ Declaration to Build Wall With Military Coffers
WASHINGTON — President Trump said it’s necessary to use eminent domain to seize border properties like any other infrastructure project, and warned at a Rose Garden press conference today that he has thought about using “emergency powers” to grant himself authority to build a wall without the approval of Congress.
“We could call a national emergency because of the security of our country. Absolutely. No, we could do it. I haven’t done it. I may do it. I may do it. But we could call a national emergency and build it very quickly and it’s another way of doing it,” he said. “But if we can do it through a negotiated process, we’re giving that a shot.”
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Two Syrian Refugees Beat Up an Orthodox Priest in Athens, Greece
A priest has been beaten up by two Syrians in Athens, Greek newspaper Proto Themareports.
According to the newspaper, the incident took place outside the Sanctuary of St. Nicholas in Patisia, Athens.
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UK: Illegal Migrant Caught Roving Street With Axe and Meat Cleaver
An illegal migrant suspected of dealing cocaine and heroin has been caught roving the streets with an axe and meat cleaver after police lost him last year.
Arsen Spahiu, a 25-year-old Albanian, was arrested on suspicion of having cocaine and heroin with intent to supply in Southampton in April 2018, reports Portsmouth’s The News.
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US National Emergency! Trump Set to Declare National Emergency to Stop Deep State
POTUS won’t allow the Democrats to leave America’s southern border vulnerable
Alex Jones covers President Trump’s statement that he may declare a national emergency in order to get the wall on our southern border built.
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Appeals Court Sides With Trump on Transgender Military Ban
A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a lower court’s ruling blocking President Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military from taking effect.
The ruling hands Trump a win in a case that has seen several courts block the policy. But the policy still cannot take effect because of those other injunctions, which applied nationwide.
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Brave New World: Gay Man Impregnates Transgender Partner Who Identifies as Male
Stephan and Wyley met on a gay dating app, and they live in a converted bus in their friend’s backyard in San Antonio.
“The bio of his Grindr account said something like, ‘Country boy, loves the wild, loves animals, vegan’ and then like picture of a tree,” Stephan said of Wyley.
All of the above is enough to open a few eyebrows — but the kicker is that Wyley is pregnant, according to an upcoming “Extreme Love”episode about the couple.
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Colleges Are Breeding Grounds for Civil War
Education system and our political institutions have turned our children into enemies of the state
We have become a nation of angry people. Too many of us carry a chip on our shoulder and find racism everywhere, sexism everywhere, misogyny rampant, homophobia out of control. It is no wonder we have masked leftists lashing out with violence, a new congresswoman making profanity-laced speeches demanding President Trump’s impeachment. We now have a Democrat majority House of Representatives with scores of avowed communists in their ranks who are in no mood to cooperate with the system as founded, but to overturn it.
Heather MacDonald, political commentator, essayist, attorney, and journalist says that universities and colleges in America today are breeding grounds for hate and planting seeds for civil war. Students are being trained by cultural Marxists in faculty and administration and it’s been going on for decades…
They have been thoroughly indoctrinated in the ways of socialist dogma. The last several generations of these zombies are now pushing their way to the forefront to see their ethics become universal. They are mean, angry and determined. Their rhetoric has become so vile, the next step can only be mass violence. The Democrat leadership can hide it no longer. They have been overrun by these zombie-like clones bent on crushing this country and are being fed and nurtured by the current leadership that dares not go against their will, lest they lose their power.
[Comment: 100% correct. USA should never have allowed those Frankfurt School acolytes fleeing Hitler into the USA.]
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The Wicked Gender-Deluded Mob Must be Defeated
Driven by the perverse LGBT agenda, while aided and abetted by the ignorant and immoral mainstream media and the devilish Democratic Party, “transgender” disasters are playing out all around us. While some of these disasters have “only” resulted in an adult temper tantrum, a lawsuit, or the loss of a job, others have literally put lives in danger, including those of children…
Denying liberal dogma on sex doesn’t just put you in physical danger; it may also cost you your job. Undeterred by a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court (take note, Christian conservatives), the state of Colorado, and like-minded gender fools, is again out to destroy Jack Phillips financially. Instead of using homosexuality and same-sex “marriage” to attack Mr. Phillips, this time, the Colorado Civil Rights Commission is armed with the dubious accusations of a vicious sex-deluded activist.
Peter Vlaming, a devout Christian, was recently fired from his job teaching French at a Virginia public school because he refused to bow to the LGBT mob. In the summer of 2018, the British National Health Service fired a medical doctor because “[t]he 55-year-old father of four believes sex is genetic and biological, so established at birth.”
Most vulnerable in this absurd debate are the children who are the targets of adults who harbor sex delusions. Liberals across the U.S. — including those at ABC’s Good Morning America — have recently celebrated (read: sexualized) a child “drag queen.” His parents even recently allowed the 11-year-old boy to “perform” at a homosexual night club.
Across the U.S., children are being indoctrinated into the perverse transgender agenda via “Drag Queen Story Time.” In addition, some foolish parents are allowing their deceived children to destroy their otherwise healthy bodies — many times at the risk of the child’s life — with surgeries, dangerous drugs, and other forms of physical mutilation.
Little of this would be possible without a complicit medical community. In what should be regarded as malpractice and child abuse, doctors in the most medically advanced but morally corrupt nations in the world are encouraging what science has long said was impossible.
Liberals are so blinded by their ideology in this debate that we now have more legislation in support of delusion.
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Proof That “World Government” is Banker Tyranny
In 1919, the Rothschild-dominated Bank of England planned to trick the United States into becoming a “British” colony again by joining the League of Nations. The League of the Nations, like the “British Empire”, was the bankers’ fiefdom, and this strategem would merely formalize a colonial status which already existed.
The bankers took over the U.S. during the Teddy Roosevelt Administration (1901-1909) when Rothschild front J.P. Morgan alone controlled 25% of American business.
The “Col. E.M. House Report”, is a chilling 10-page “progress report” dated June 10,1919 which proves the League of Nations was an aborted attempt at world government and a facade for banker tyranny. The Report reveals the reality and the tactics behind the United Nations and globalization.
House writes: “We have wrapped this plan in the peace treaty so that the world must accept from us the League or a continuance of the war. The League is in substance the Empire with America admitted on the same basis as our other colonies.”
The report oozes contempt for Americans and reveals the deceitful methods international finance employed almost 100 years ago to bring about world government. These goals and methods have not changed. If ever we needed proof of an elite conspiracy to subvert and enslave us, this is it.
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The Colonel House Report (1919)
Through the Red Cross, the Scout movement, the YMC, the church, and other humane, religious, and quasi-religious organizations, we have created an atmosphere of international effort which strengthens the idea of unity of the English-speaking world. In the co-ordination of this work, Mr. Raymond Fosdick, formerly of the Rockefeller Foundation, has been especially conspicuous. I would also like to mention President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, who has eloquently advocated this form of internationalism and carefully emphasize its distinction from the false internationalism which is infecting the proletariat.
The Overseas Club in this country now contains nearly hundred thousand pledged members with a Journal of their own. Our thanks are due to Lord St. George’s, St. David’s, St. Andrew’s, and Pilgrim Clubs, together with the Daughters of the Empire. the Prince of Wales Fund, and the other association and guilds connected with our multitudinous war charities enable us to pervade all sections and classes of the country, and provide us with a force of empire builders whose loyalty an services are both invaluable to us and highly appreciated by the native colonists.
The censorship, together with our monopoly of cables and our passport control of passengers, enables us to hold all American newspapers as isolated from the non-American world as if they had been in another planet instead of in another hemisphere The realization of this by the Associated Press and the other universal news gatherers — except Hearst — was most helpful in bringing only our point of view to the papers they served.
British-born editors and reporters now create imperial sentiment in most American newspapers. As their identity and origins are not usually known, they can talk and write for us as Americans to Americans.
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ALL OF you … yellow. Vests of the world working oppressed class unite
Even as Brit brought up under the dying embers of the “Empire” the so called “Colonel House Report” struck me as evil…utterly vile. The condescending arrogance of the writers to Americans to whom we owe so much. If I had lived in 1776 I would have joined the Rebellion without hesitation. Dear Lord what an embarrassment. t is the same now with the latter day imperial ambitions of the EUro-Soviet. Disgusting!
…the young girl at the Yellow Vests protest in London is Emily, the 13yr old sister of Harry, one of the three teenage boys rammed and killed by a ‘speeding’ Audi driver last January 2017, in West London. The young lads: Harry, Josh and George were school friends 17, 16,16 years old, on their way to a birthday party at their local football (soccer) club in their residential suburban area.
The driver was found guilty of death by dangerous driving. And sentenced to 13yrs jail. Which under UK law will qualify for remission to (?)6 years. He was found to have excess alcohol and cannabis in his system.
The families have complained that due process was not followed, that the islamic driver’s Isis predilection was not investigated, was ignored by the police & justice dept, and he was not charged with a terrorist murder. It is known that Islamic attackers have fueled themselves on drugs prior to undertaking their terror attacks.
The families have protested since, holding candlelit vigils in Whitehall, London, opposite the Prime Minister’s residence. They have been and are peaceful and law abiding in their quiet protests.
Yesterday, in the throng of the anti-Brexit yellow vests demonstration – that those family members attended – the police allegedly used unnecessary force in the crowd, and when young Emily asked what the police officer was doing, she was grabbed in response and hauled away by a group of officers, with her mother in pursuit, clinging to the police van containing her daughter. Media reports vary, but her mother’s Facebook entry provides plausible details.
Breitbart UK did not (surprisingly) print any advance details of the yellow vests protest, and were slow to pick up on young Emily’s arrest. However, the Comments section of the article itself provides for more accurate information, including the text from the mother’s Facebook entry.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/01/06/teenage-girl-among-four-arrested-at-london-yellow-vest-brexit-rally/
An online BBC summary, after the Court sentencing, with pictures of those young keen faces. (March 2018)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-43574133
Tommy Robinson met and spoke with the families, to make public their concerns and efforts for justice. (May 2018)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn5Ndlckx-k
Below is a clip of Harry’s parents raising their concerns at a ‘Meet the Mayor’ Khan. Q&A event. (June 2018)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NlnxS3XFlw0
(NB. The moderator on the podium is James O’Brien, fully paid-up extreme left leaner, privately Catholic school educated, adopted son into middle class family, University educated, who pontificates about all that is unequivocably and racist “white privilege”, etc, on the air waves of his talk-radio show at LBC. (Podcasts are available online.) Every show, unrelentingly comes back to Brexit, however tangential the thread, or not – and for O’Brien, all Brexit voters are “racists” bar none. Trump? Well, you can guess …
So at the very least, O’Brien’s squabblingly righteous persona is pointedly uncomfortable when directly facing the calm, quiet dignity of Harry’s parents. These are not the people whom he – nor anyone in the MSM – today ever speak for.)
The families of Harry, Josh and George have been dealt the cruelest blow with the brutal ending of their children’s young lives. That each life was taken (not ‘lost’), in a non-accidental manner must make the burden even heavier. In the UK, drink driving is statutorily interpreted as guilty – and therefore avoidable, and not an ‘accident’. And cannabis is still illegal in the UK. The cannabis market is currently heavily sold on ‘skunk’, a very strong mixed variant of substances, and certainly not the milder ‘pot’ of earlier decades. And recent laws introduced make driving whilst under the influence of legal substances a breach of the law.
So, the Justice Dept levied charges maximum to the offence according to the law – notwithstanding that the families and the wider community do not think the charges fit the crime, nor that the sentence fits the punishment.
The destruction the driver caused is so terrible, the immediate and long term effects on the families and community are so immense. How can 13 years in prison reasonably be justice for the boys, their families – or even seen to be just – as the wider community looks on. And with the likelihood of a reduced sentence on ‘good behaviour’.
No surprise the families continue to battle for their boys. And now, for their daughter Emily.
An ill judged action yesterday by the police, for the family – and for the wider community who are looking on …
I have evidence the Met Police and other “Forces” are increasingly targeting individuals via Facebook, Youtube and Twitter. These are the same tactics employed by KGB/FSB in Moscow. They select the most vulnerable-usually a girl or woman and gathering “intelligence” raid the homes or kidnap the victims but also continually harass. This has happened to “Steven Sweden” and others like the brave woman that asked the Police in Hyde Park to prevent Islamic prayers in the vicinity of Speaker’s Corner. I am led to believe that most if not all those that dare to complain are in receipt of similar harassment and actually breaking into private houses.
Be assured though we are watching and noting everything of the thugs involved in these disgusting acts. This is not the USSR yet.
We must never allow or tolerate this attempt to silence. Those that follow the orders of the Cabal had better note that you are now on the wrong side of history and what is gathering pace is a storm, the like of which has not been seen since 1640 or the Bastille. These bully boys full of Common Purpose bovine waste have no where to run nor hide.
I will not say anything about the current state of the KGB or the FSB, but judging by what is happening in Russia, they really are somewhere in another country. I have a terrible feeling that in Russia all processes have gone out of control. For example, in Dagestan, a monument was recently erected to the Ottomans who fought with Russian troops in World War 1.
Many thanks for the backstory. I had read of the 13 year old girl arrested but had no idea what lay behind it. It’s sickening the way the police and the CPS suppress information about certain crimes and criminals.
We’ve had a ridiculous example just in the last couple of days (I expect you know about it but most of the readers here won’t have). A man was stabbed to death on a train near London and a description of the attacker was given but from the details given and not given we had to read between the lines:
“6 ft tall, slim, bald, beard – if you think you’ve seen this man phone the police etc”. ..bald and beard probably Muslim…no colour given therefore black. Victim died from wound to the neck…therefore Muslim. Victim later described as dying from multiple wounds to the body…probably black. The next day the Police confirmed what we had already worked out, that he was black. We await his name when charged…odds on “Mohammed” or similar involved.
Yes, the Keystone Cop MO would be farcical, wouldn’t it, if it wasn’t so seriously awful
Your ironic moniker may be lost on those who don’t use the London Underground; hope you don’t mind if I explain.
We get regular recorded announcements about spotting and reporting “suspicious” people or objects, ending with “see it, say it, sorted”, which I suspect reassure me as much as they do you!
We are similarly reassured, lol
Soon you’ll hear:
“Denham’s …
Denhanm’s…
Dentifrice…
Dentifrice”
Report all book reading passengers.
The above quote is from ‘Fahrenheit 451’ for those of you who are not familiar with it but believed I must be mentally ill for using such an odd quote……
A Youtube clip showing the 13 yr old’s arrest. With a lawyer on the clip talking through the legalese.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ngs43UFta3Y&feature=youtu.be&a=
There are much more swear words and their shades in Russian than in English. But even they are not enough to express my attitude to this.
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I’m confused.
Are these for girls who want to be boys?
I suppose the opposite. The second link in some European language (forgive me Google-translate) describes everything in more detail.
And why are they so cruel to the “yellow vests”? They also liked similar processes in Ukraine. Mrs. Nuland then distributed cookies to the protesters.
https://cdn1.img.inosmi.ru/images/23548/34/235483434.jpg
On the yellow vest movement. Over here we can see brave dutch police preventing inevitable social and economical collapse by promptly arresting this agent of chaos with baby in tow.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/for-shame-police-in-netherlands-caught-on-video-arresting-young-mother-with-baby-stroller-for-not-removing-yellow-protest-vest/
3 Police Men required to take down 1 unarmed woman with a baby?
She either felt very flattered to have 3 handsome men give her so much attention or she was disappointed to discover they are actually interested in her pretty purse and wondered where they could buy one for themselves.
Nah, it was neither. They’re European so it was probably just curiousity over what was in the stroller. Most western europeans have likely never seen a baby before.
Since 2018, there are 900 Met specialist officers who’ve been diverted from the streets, to spend their working days scrolling through social websites seeking and closing down “hate speech”. Aka what used to be freedom of expression/dissent.
So yes, you are correct.
And with the reduction of 20,000 police officers on the streets, it’s a “different kind of policing” now, the PM said in 2014.
Some people venture to murmur that the govt policy is engineering the country towards a police state, that will clamp down suddenly and harshly. (Other European countries are experiencing similar changes to their previous freedoms.) Certainly the online monitoring is already doing its work. With over 3,000 “hate crime” incidents recorded last year, and roughly 2,000 individuals nationally receiving a knock at their front doors, to learn they’ve broken the new law on what was formerly free speech/criticism. And with hundreds either agreeing to accept a criminal police caution, or face legal proceedings. Criminal cautions mean a criminal record – admissible in job applications, personal credit finance, insurance applications, etc. And psychologically and socially scary.
As for the increase in street crime, and depletion of street officers, the next move will come from the govt ..
All sounds reminiscent of passages in one of the earliest of Matt Bracken’s novels, and in his responses here on Gates of Vienna, where the author expands on the theme of whether (or not) FBI – and other law enforcement officers (LEOs) – and military (active duty and veterans alike), will remain loyal and faithful to their oath to defend the Constitution … or whether they are merely paid lackeys and time-servers, who will obey whatever their political paymasters of the day demand.
Countries lacking a close counterpart to the U.S. Constitution are, perhaps, in an even dicier situation. What will their LEOs, and military, be able to cite for their authority, to defy the political paymasters? They will have to draw on cultural memory, nationalist pride, … what? Their Christian heritage and roots? If ‘The Law’ is only what the politicians say it is, on what else might these LEOs rely?
When one recalls the recruiting strategy of the NKVD and later KGB, to fill their ranks, one almost despairs. The Russian political police deliberately sought out the venal, the amoral, the brutal … compromised petty crooks, who were given a bit of ‘legal authority,’ which promptly went to their heads – and hands. But they remained pliable and obedient to their masters. Or faced the Gulag themselves.
Looking at how thoroughly brainwashed our younger generations seem to be today (as evidenced by large swathes of university students, and many of the newly-elected Democratic Congress critters), what might be expected from our LEOs and military?
It might behoove all of us to cultivate our own personal ‘spirit of sacrifice,’ if we are to expect our front-line defenders – LEOs, military et al – to put themselves, and their families’ livelihood, on the line for some ‘higher ideal’ with which many of them are now only vaguely familiar.
Frank, this is brilliant.
I feel some anxiety over where exactly the majority of our military and law enforcement will stand if we need them to help us overcome a regime.
“….cultivate our own personal ‘spirit of sacrifice,’
This is key as you point out.
Many of the LEOs and especially the military people I have contact with feel a sense of partnership with their decent, patriotic fellow citizens. In general, they tend to view very favourably those who are willing to sacrifice themselves for their communities or for ethical and moral ideals. They admire the Tommy Robinsons far more than they publicly show, or are allowed to reveal. They are often inspired by such people. The heroes of many a LEO or military man are men just like Tommy Robinson or Geert Vilders. We need to show our own willingness to suffer for our country and beliefs; many LEOs and military men do indeed notice such things. The will of the majority is also a key item that sways many of these men. They must see tangible signs that the majority wants the ‘right’ to overcome the ‘wrong’ and is willing to put the long term effort and sacrifice into achieving this. Many LEOs and military men will and do take such passion seriously and admire such.
Question is, will these feelings be enough to prevent them from attacking the Tommy Robinson’s when the gov’t demands it.?
Where’s John Thaw and the Sweeney when you need them to go after the true criminals?
I’m glad my view of the world is based on old television shows; the reality is too pathetic.
My reply seems to have been lost; here it is again: I met the late John Thaw once. He was more dapper than characters he played, such as Jack Reagan in “The Sweeney” (“Sweeney Todd”=”Flying Squad” for non-Londoners) or “Morse”, where he played a detective in Oxford.
Having spent most of my working life in retail in central London, I’ve probably met more celebrities than you’d spot on a red carpet in Hollywood; not that I’m boasting!
I would love to spend an evening with you in a pub over a good bitter discussing your experiences.
The Sweeney
The Professionals
The Sandbaggers
The Bill
This is the Britain I dream of.
If you’re in London, ask the Baron to put us in touch.
Many of the famous people I’ve met were classical musicians, and I usually sought them out for autographs at rehearsals or concerts. I remember Rudolf Serkin and Mstislav Rostropovich being especially friendly; some others not so much!
Thank you for the kind invitation.
Our own local orchestra, due to financial restraints and a shrinking fan base, moved to a smaller and more intimate venue. The result being that it is now possible to chat with some of the musicians in the lounge after the show. A very nice change indeed.
However, I’m afraid to say that although I am a fan of Baroque,
my heart lies with mid-60’s British R&B.
No need to apologise, leCanadien: most of my non-classical listening is to the Stones, Aretha, Hendrix, Cream…