The German government is preparing a law that will require internet providers to hand over personal data and passwords of people who are accused of “hate speech”. The law is being formulated by the Minister of Justice, who is a member of the Social Democrats.
In other news, Pope Francis said that migrants are a voice crying in the wilderness.
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A Plot to Make Pelosi President? Now Adam Schiff Wants to Go After Vice-President Mike Pence…
I was really hoping that this wouldn’t happen. Within hours of President Trump being impeached by the House, the mainstream media was reporting that Adam Schiff “has declared war” on Mike Pence. At this time of the year, most Americans are celebrating holidays and spending time with their families, but Adam Schiff continues to be deeply focused on his twisted obsession to take down the Trump administration. When Rachel Maddow asked him if he was “actively looking at Vice President Mike Pence and his role in this scandal”, Schiff made it quite clear that he has targeted Pence. Is Schiff doing this because he wants “justice”, or is there some deeper plot afoot?
Before we get into the specifics, let’s talk about a hypothetical scenario in which Nancy Pelosi could actually become the President. If President Trump is removed from office by the Senate, Vice-President Mike Pence would move into the Oval Office and a replacement for Pence would be nominated. But if Trump and Pence were both impeached and removed from office before a new Vice-President could be nominated and confirmed, then the next in line for the presidency would be Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
In other words, if Trump and Pence were both suddenly out of the picture, Nancy Pelosi would become the President of the United States.
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A Socialist Victory Using Biden’s Face and Bloomberg’s Money
As President Trump fights off one attack after another, a well-funded left-wing “progressive” movement called “40 million strong” is laying the political groundwork for storming the ballot box in 2020, just as they did in 2018, when they gave Democrats control of the House and paved the way for impeachment. Meanwhile, most Republicans, including those in the media, on Capitol Hill, and even in the Trump campaign, don’t seem to understand what’s coming.
While Republicans tell themselves that everything will be fine in 2020, one of the left-wing’s favorite websites, Organizing Upgrade, has outlined the plan to turn 40 million “disengaged non-voters,” including millennials, into voters for “structural change” — socialism. One version of this strategy is sometimes called “Brown is the New White,” since it is based on using illegal aliens from south of the border as the linchpin for the “new majority.”
All of this sounds ambitious. But remember that about 100 million eligible voters didn’t vote in 2016. Many of these people are seen as cannon fodder for the revolution, since they are open to voting for candidates promising things like college debt relief, more welfare, cash payments of various kinds, green jobs, jail break legislation, and so on.
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Don’t Look at Things From a Group Think Perspective
The first duty of a people’s government is to protect the individual from the mob. Protecting the individual from all crimes and infringements of his common rights is the only way people can live peaceably in a society. No one has a right or power to separate a person from his spouse, children, faculty, or property without a crime being committed. Any governmental mob or gang that seeks to take from one and “share” with another is outlawed in a nation of Common Laws. The Individual must be protected above all because he is all. We can see that when a street criminal takes from the individual with threat of harm that it is wrong and in need of punishment. Somehow, we do not feel outraged when the political mob does the same thing with no consequence of action.
Ben Franklin, when asked the type of government we had, he wisely said “a Republic if you can keep it.” When a group offers something to you with the intent to take it from another it is still theft and we are being denied a Republican Form of Government. By the way we have a Republican form of government (if) we keep it or more correctly take it back.
The gang is not doing anything for us while doing things to us. Doing things for us appeals to group covetousness. Socialism is covetousness. Socialism is a violation of Common Law in a Republican form of government. If you wish to return to a Republic, socialism must be removed from the government. For far to long we have allowed our servants to trample and violate the individual for votes, profit, and power. For the sake of our children and their children we must eliminate all forms of governmental socialism.
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Echoes of Pol Pot: Bernie Movement’s Close Ties to Norwegian Communists
“Our Revolution” and “People for Bernie,” two key elements of the Bernie Sanders for President movement, have developed a close relationship with a militant Norwegian communist party.
The party in question, Rodt (Red Party), was formerly known as the Arbeidernes Kommunistparti (AKP or Workers’ Communist Party) and was notorious in Norway for its open support of Cambodian communist leader and mass murderer Pol Pot.
The Sanders movement’s ties to one of the most extreme communist parties of Europe gives the lie to Sanders’ often-repeated claim that his “democratic socialism” has nothing to do with communism.
The AKP was founded in 1973 as a Maoist competitor to the pro-Soviet Norwegian Communist Party. The AKP, in common with many other Maoist parties of the era, openly supported mass-murderers Joseph Stalin and Pol Pot.
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Ex-FBI Official Gets 7 Days Jail for Accessing Anti-Mueller Activist’s Emails
A former FBI analyst was sentenced to seven days in jail and a $500 fine Friday for illegally accessing a neighbor’s email account in a bid to head off an apparent smear campaign against special counsel Robert Mueller.
Mark Tolson, 60, pleaded guilty in September to a single misdemeanor charge of computer fraud and abuse for his unusual effort last fall to derail eccentric Washington lobbyist Jack Burkman’s attempt to obtain information to be used in sexual misconduct allegations against Mueller.
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I knew that Americans were dumb, but I didn’t think it was this bad. In the hours after President Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives, thousands of people immediately began wildly celebrating on social media because “Trump is not the president anymore”. But of course that is not true at all. Two-thirds of the Senate will have to vote to convict Trump in order to remove him from office, and at this point that seems exceedingly unlikely. Anyone that has received even the most basic education about the U.S. Constitution should know this, so how is it possible that there are vast hordes of people out there that actually believe that Donald Trump is no longer the president of the United States?
This is yet another example that demonstrates how spectacularly our system of public education has failed. Not too long ago, I wrote an article about a recent study that found that 15-year-old students in China are nearly four full grade levels ahead of 15-year-old students in the United States in math. The rest of the world is running circles around us, and our population is getting more “dumbed down” with each passing year.
But you have to be a very special kind of stupid to actually think that Donald Trump is no longer our president.
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Jane Fonda Celebrates 82nd Birthday by Getting Arrested Again
Jane Fonda’s birthday wish was to be arrested during a Fire Drill Fridays protest. Her wish was granted Friday. She was handcuffed and led away from her fellow climate alarmists as they sang Happy Birthday to her. Fonda’s 82nd birthday is Saturday. It was her fifth arrest since moving to Washington, D.C. to organize weekly protests.
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Media, Academia Widely Copy From Biased Wikipedia #GamerGate Article
Wikipedia’s GamerGate article has long been subjected to biased editing by opponents of the anti-corruption movement in gaming. They have been aided by major media sources that spent years defaming the movement, which had paid particular attention to press corruption. Breitbart News has found that many of these outlets, including BBC News, USA Today, the Daily Telegraph, and the Los Angeles Times have sometimes relied on Wikipedia itself for their false characterizations of GamerGate without crediting the online encyclopedia.
Some outlets, such as the Washington Post and CNBC, have directly cited Wikipedia. Beyond media sources, numerous academic publications as well as the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) used the deeply flawed and biased Wikipedia article on GamerGate without attribution.
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‘Needs to be Humiliated’: Robert De Niro Calls for ‘Bag of S***’ To be Rubbed in Trump’s Face
Actor Robert De Niro joined liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore to bash President Trump in an hour-long podcast.
De Niro, 76, went off on President Trump in the latest episode of Moore’s podcast, Rumble with Michael Moore. During the hour-long interview, De Niro called Trump a “pig” and a “disgrace to the human race.”
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New York Authorities Charge Nearly 100 People in Massive Takedown of MS-13 Gang
Suffolk County — which makes up the majority of New York’s Long Island — is no stranger to MS-13 violence.
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ObamaCare Poised for Return to the Supreme Court
California Attorney General wants individual mandate.
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Read the Letter: Pelosi Invites Trump to Preside Over State of the Union Address
Get ready for fireworks!
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Supreme Court Ruling Knocks Down Pelosi’s Impeachment Demands
“…The Framers did not intend to impose additional limitations on the form of the Senate proceedings,” the Supreme Court stated in Nixon v. United States.
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The Situation in Virginia is Escalating Rapidly
After passing extremely restrictive anti-gun legislation in early 2020, Virginia has a plan to deploy roadblocks at both the county and state levels to confiscate firearms from law-abiding citizens (at gunpoint, of course) as part of a deliberate effort to spark a shooting war with citizens, sources are now telling Natural News.
Some might choose to dismiss such claims as speculation, but these sources now say that Virginia has been chosen as the deliberate flashpoint to ignite the civil war that’s being engineered by globalists. Their end game is to unleash a sufficient amount of violence to call for UN occupation of America and the overthrow of President Trump and the republic. Such action will, of course, also result in the attempted nationwide confiscation of all firearms from private citizens, since all gun owners will be labeled “domestic terrorists” if they resist. Such language is already being used by Democrat legislators in the state of Virginia.
The Democrat-run impeachment of President Trump is a necessary component for this plan, since the scheme requires Trump supporters to be painted as “enraged domestic terrorists” who are seeking revenge for the impeachment. This is how the media will spin the stories when armed Virginians stand their ground and refuse to have their legal firearms confiscated by police state goons running Fourth Amendment violating roadblocks on Virginia roads.
The gun confiscation roadblocks are almost sure to start a shooting war
Roadblocks will be set up in two types of locations, sources tell Natural News: 1) On roads entering the state of Virginia from neighboring states that have very high gun ownership, such as Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina, and 2) Main roads (highways and interstates) that enter the pro-2A counties which have declared themselves to be Second Amendment sanctuaries. With over 90 counties now recognizing some sort of pro-2A sanctuary status, virtually the entire State of Virginia will be considered “enemy territory” by the tyrants in Richmond who are trying to pull off this insidious scheme.
As the map shows below, every green county has passed a pro-2A resolution of one kind or another. As you can see, nearly the entire state is pro-2A, completely surrounding the Democrat tyrants who run the capitol of Richmond…
Democrats in Virginia have threatened to activate the National Guard to attack pro-2A “terrorists,” and a recent statement from the Guard unit in Virginia confirms that the Guard has no intention to resist Gov. Northam’s outrageous orders, even if they are illegal or unconstitutional. One county in Virginia — Tazewell — has already activated its own militia in response. As reported by FirearmsNews.com:…
The situation is escalating rapidly in Virginia, which is precisely what Democrats and globalists are seeking.
The enemies of America want to turn the entire country into a UN-occupied war zone and declare President Trump to be an “illegitimate dictator”
Where is all this really headed? The bottom line goal of the enemies of America is to transform the country into a UN-occupied war zone, where UN troops go door to door, confiscating weapons from the American people. President Trump will be declared an “illegitimate dictator” and accused of war crimes, since Democrats and the media have already proven they can dream up any crime imaginable and accuse the President of that crime, without any basis in fact.
And as we know with the Dems, if they can’t rule America, they will seek to destroy it. Causing total chaos is their next best option to resisting Trump’s efforts to drain the swamp, since the Dems know they can’t defeat Trump in an honest election.
Expect Virginia to be the ignition point for all this. Even the undercover cops who work there are now warning about what’s coming. Via WesternJournal.com:
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The USMCA ‘Trade Agreement’ Violates Our Constitution and Sets Up Global Government
By Publius Hulda | Noisy Room
The Treaty establishes a bureaucratic multi-national government which is to control all aspects of commerce and to which the United States, Mexico and Canada will be subject.
On November 30, 2018, President Trump, along with the Prime Minister of Canada and the President of Mexico, signed the United States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) “Trade Agreement.” “Trade” is in quotes, because the document is not about trade — it is about setting up global government. “Agreement” is in quotes because the document is a treaty — which invokes the two-thirds ratification requirement of Art. II, §2, cl. 2, US Constit.
The USMCA Treaty (“Treaty”) was negotiated by U.S. Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, which works to move the United States into the North American Union (NAU).1
The Treaty advances the economic and regulatory integration of the three Parties. It is the precursor to the political integration the globalists seek with the NAU.2
1. Summary of objections to the Treaty
Our Constitution and Declaration of Independence are the “organic law” of our Land.3 Treaties, like Acts of Congress, hold a lesser status: they are part of “the supreme Law of the Land” only when they are authorized by “organic law” — our Constitution (Art. VI, cl.2).4
While the United States is clearly authorized by Art. I, §8, cl.3 & Art. II, §2, cl.2, US Constit., to enter into Treaties with foreign Nations addressing Commerce;5 the United States may not lawfully transfer to global or multi-national bodies, powers which “WE THE PEOPLE” delegated to our federal government when We ratified our Constitution. But that is what the Treaty purports to do.
Even worse, the Treaty also purports to delegate to global or multi-national bodies powers which We never delegated to our federal government — but reserved to the States or the people.
The Treaty establishes a bureaucratic multi-national government which is to control all aspects of commerce and to which the United States, Mexico and Canada will be subject.
The Treaty incorporates by reference many other documents. Its frequent use of new terminology requires one to constantly refer to the various definition sections spread throughout the 34 Chapters. It engages in the pernicious practice of making a statement, and then qualifying it by phrases such as, “unless otherwise provided in this Agreement” and “unless the Parties decide otherwise.”6
2. Powers We delegated to our federal government
When the People of the United States ratified our Constitution, We “created” the federal government. Article I created the Legislative Branch and itemized its powers. Article II created the Executive Branch and itemized its powers. Article III created the Judicial Branch and itemized its powers. Each Branch of the federal government is thus a “creature” of the Constitution and is completely subject to its terms. None of the delegated powers may lawfully be re-delegated to global or multi-national bodies.
- The Treaty violates the following provisions of our Constitution:
- At Art. I, §1, We vested in Congress, all legislative Powers granted by our Constitution.
- At Art. I, §8, We granted to Congress the powers?Clause 1: To lay and collect Imposts (import tariffs) ?Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations ?Clause 5: To coin Money and regulate the Value thereof ?Clause 8: To issue Patents and Copyrights
- At Art. I, §9, cl. 1: Commencing January 1, 1808, We granted to Congress the power to control Migration (immigration) to the United States.
- At Art. II, §2, cl. 2, We granted to the President the power to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur.
- At Art. III, §2, cl. 1, We declared that the judicial Power of the United States shall extend?to all Cases arising under Treaties made under the Authority of the United States ?to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party
- At Art. IV, §4, We imposed upon the United States the duties to:?guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government; and ?protect each of the States against Invasion.
- At Art. VI, cl. 2, We declared that our Constitution, and Acts of Congress and Treaties authorized by the Constitution, is the “supreme Law of the Land.”
- In the 10th Amendment, We declared that powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution are reserved to the States or to the people.
Art. I, §8, cl. 1 — to “lay and collect Imposts”
Our Constitution delegates to Congress the power to set the amounts of the tariffs on foreign imports.
The Treaty divests Congress of the power to unilaterally determine our tariffs. USMCA Art. 2.47 says:
1. Unless otherwise provided in this Agreement, no Party shall increase any existing customs duty, or adopt any new customs duty, on an originating good.
2. Unless otherwise provided in this Agreement, each Party shall apply a customs duty on an originating good in accordance with its Schedule to Annex 2-B (Tariff Commitments).
Art. I, §8, cl. 5 — to coin Money and regulate the Value thereof
Our Constitution delegates to Congress the power to control our money.
But with the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, Congress and Woodrow Wilson unlawfully transferred power over our money to an international cabal of privately owned banks — the “Federal Reserve.”
Shortly after WWII, the United States joined the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).9 James Perloff’s article, Council On Foreign Relations — Influencing American Government, speaks of how the World Bank and IMF act as
“…a loan-guarantee scheme for multinational banks. When a loan to a foreign country goes awry, the World Bank and IMF step in with taxpayer money, ensuring that the private banks continue to receive interest payments. Furthermore, the World Bank and IMF dictate conditions to the countries receiving bailouts, thus giving the bankers a measure of political control over indebted nations.”
The Treaty surrendersthe United States’ power over money and our economy to the IMF. USMCA Art. 33.1 defines “Article IV Staff Report” as the report prepared by the IMF respecting a country’s adherence to Art. IV, Section 3 (b) of the IMF Articles of Agreement. Section 3 provides that the IMF shall oversee the compliance of each member with its obligations under Section 1 of Article IV. Section 1 requires each member to “direct its economic and financial policies toward the objective of fostering orderly economic growth with reasonable price stability”, and to foster “orderly underlying economic and financial conditions and a monetary system that does not tend to produce erratic disruptions” [i.e., our economy is to be planned by the IMF].
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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Trump Signs Law Establishing U.S. Space Force
Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act during a ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, Md, today. The $738 billion fiscal year 2020 authorization funds military and civilian pay raises, new aircraft, ship construction, tanks and armored vehicles and more.
Since Trump took office, there has been almost $2.5 trillion in defense spending.
A provision of the voluminous law created the service that will be totally focused on organizing, training and equipping Space Force, said Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett during an earlier Pentagon briefing.
[Comment: Article dated December 20, 2019.]
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Turns Out Jeffrey Epstein Suicide Attempt Video Isn’t Missing After All
Lost and found.
Prosecutors in New York City now say they’ve been able to locate previously lost surveillance footage from outside of dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s cell on the night of his first suicide attempt at the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC).
The suspiciously missing footage was located late Thursday—just one day after prosecutors told a federal court that video from the night of June 22 and early morning of June 23 of this year had not been properly preserved by Manhattan MCC authorities.
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Why Did the FDA Just Approve the Ebola Vaccine, What Are They Not Telling You?
The FDA just approved the EBOLA Vaccine, what do they know that they are not telling the rest of us?
With all the chaos that is in the news already, can you believe they have not reported on this?
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Prominent Canadian Conservative Still Banned From Twitter
A prominent conservative political commentator has been locked out of his Twitter account since Saturday, December 7th, 2019. Manny Montenegrino, known online as @manny_ottawa, is a beloved and wildly popular tweeter who has been sharing his takes on the Canadian political scene for more than 10 years. His Twitter bio stated, “Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth.”
The reason for his ban according to Montengrino is probably “hurt feelings.” The Post Millennial reached out to Manny who told us that he “felt compelled to correct the record and entered into a Twitter debate after a mischaracterization of him appeared in his feed. “In the Twitter debate I was civil and factual”, Manny said, “I looked up the Twitter policy and I didn’t violate any of their policies. I don’t post anything offensive, use foul language and I don’t post anything violating terms of Twitter.”
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Backdoor Army: No EU ‘Military’ Yet, But Armed ‘Civilian Troops’ In ‘European Uniform’
The European Union (EU) may be expediting its plans for a centralised army with a massive expansion of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), according to the agency’s chief.
“We don’t have a military army, but we will have, let’s say, civilian troops wearing a European uniform. And for certain functions carrying weapons,” said Frontex executive director Fabrice Leggeri slyly, in an interview with POLITICO in Brussels.
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France Télécom Suicides: Three Former Bosses Jailed
The ex-boss of France Télécom and two former executives have been jailed over a restructuring policy linked to suicides among employees in the 2000s.
Didier Lombard was jailed for a year, as were Louis-Pierre Wene’s and Olivier Barberot, although eight months were suspended.
The company, since renamed Orange, was fined €75,000 ($83,000; £64,000).
The court examined 39 cases of employees, 19 of whom had taken their own lives and 12 who had attempted to.
The others had lived with depression or had been otherwise unable to work.
It happened during a major restructuring of the company that affected thousands of employees.
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France: Youths Charged With Forcing Children Into Prostitution
Four young men have been arrested and indicted in the French city of Rouen on charges of forcing at least four underage girls into prostitution.
The suspects aged 16 to 22 were arrested on Sunday and are believed to have formed a pimping gang and forced the underage girls, whom they had kidnapped, to engage in as many as 15 sex acts per day, radio broadcaster Tendance Ouest reports.
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Germany to Force Internet Providers to Hand Over Data, Passwords of People Accused of ‘Hate Speech’
Angela Merkel’s government is preparing a new bill that will force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to hand over data, including passwords, of those accused of engaging in “hate speech” online.
Minister of Justice Christine Lambrecht, a member of the Social Democrats (SPD), is preparing the bill, which will force service providers, email hosts, online retailers, and others to give the government the usernames, passwords, IP addresses, and more of suspects, MDR reports.
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Hungary: Rate of Population Decline Increases
The rate of population decline increased in the first ten months of 2019 after 1.6 percent fewer births and 0.3 percent fewer deaths were registered compared with the same period last year, the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Friday.
The number of marriages increased, with 57,774 couples tying the knot, 24 percent more than in the same period last year, and the highest number since 1990.
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Italian Leftist Govt to Give 400k Euros to Communists to Celebrate 100th Anniversary
The Italian leftist coalition is reportedly looking to give the Italian Communist Party (PCI) 400,000 euros to celebrate its 100th anniversary and make the day a national day across Italy.
The sum was revealed earlier this month as part of the proposed 2020 national budget and this week. The national-conservative Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader Giorgia Meloni has claimed the government also wants to make the anniversary a recognised national day, Il Giornale reports.
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Poland Lower House Approves Controversial Judges Law
Poland has approved a controversial law which makes it easier to dismiss judges critical of the governing party’s judicial reforms.
The legislation passed by 233 votes to 205 in the lower house of parliament in Warsaw on Friday.
It came just hours after the European Commission urged Poland to reconsider the proposed changes.
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Scotland: Perth City Centre ‘It’s Okay to be White’ Stickers Condemned
Scotland’s deputy first minister has condemned the appearance of stickers bearing the slogan “It’s okay to be white” in Perth city centre.
The stickers were posted on lampposts and drainpipes throughout the city at the weekend.
John Swinney, who is also MSP for Perthshire North, said the “atrocious” stickers had “no place in Perth or any other part of our country.”
Police Scotland said it was “currently looking into the matter.”
Posting on Twitter, Mr Swinney said: “We must stand together to resist this unacceptable material…
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UK: ‘F*ck Boris’ Stormzy to Read Bible at End of BBC Christmas Show
Grime rapper and Jeremy Corbyn fan Stormzy is set to read a passage from the Bible at the end of one of BBC One’s Christmas Day programmes.
Stormzy, real name Michael Ebenazer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr., credits God and his Christian faith for his commercial success, and is set to read a passage from the Gospel of Luke which describes an angel of the Lord appearing to the shepherds to herald the birth of Jesus Christ.
Hugh Faupel, the executive producer at BBC Studios, said in comments reported by The Guardian that he was “delighted” that Stormzy will be delivering the reading and that his team “look for people to bring the Christmas story alive”.
The choice of Stormzy, who attends the Word of Grace Ministries church in Kennington, south London, is controversial given that he sung “F*ck the government, Boris” while headlining at Glastonbury festival in June while wearing a stab vest emblazoned with the Union flag.
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UK: Boris Johnson ‘Plots Revenge’ On Supreme Court With Radical Reforms After Brexit Showdown
On Thursday he used the Queen’s Speech to announce plans for a shake-up, with the introduction of a “constitution, democracy and rights commission” which will aim to “improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the criminal justice process”. But the Prime Minister was accused of seeking to get even with the courts after he was humiliated by the Supreme Court’s ruling against his prorogation in September. Labour’s shadow attorney-general Shami Chakrabarti said it amounted to “vindictive revenge” while Keir Starmer called the move “a very serious matter”.
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Darryn Frost, 38, grabbed the artefact from the wall in Fishmongers’ Hall, at the north end of the bridge, as Khan went on a killing spree on November 29 during a prisoner rehabilitation event.
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UK: Post-Brexit Planning: “The Establishment is Due for an Enormous Shake-Up”
Boris and the Conservatives won the General Election with a very good majority. In truth, opposition parties stood little chance of success against the Tory strategists, who controlled the narrative despite a hostile media. At the centre of their slick operation was Dominic Cummings, who masterminded the Brexit leave vote, winning the referendum against all the betting in 2016. It was Cummings who arranged for the Tory Remainers to fall on their swords, which by removing the whip reduced the Tory ranks, making them appear vulnerable enough for the opposition parties to tear up the requirement for a supermajority and vote for a general election.
It was straight out of Sun Tzu’s playbook: “All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.” The way the Remainers were removed was both brutal and public. On 3 September fifteen of them went for a meeting in Downing Street, obviously convinced, with Johnson only having a parliamentary majority of one, that they were in a very strong position to negotiate either for a second referendum or Brexit in name only. Dismissing them, Cummings was blunt to the point of rudeness: “I don’t know who any of you are”. And they left with nothing.
Observers at the time saw this as suicidal, but Cummings appears to have known what he was doing. The hapless rebels had no coherent plan other than to threaten, and their bluff was called. Better, it seems Cummings concluded, to purge the parliamentary party of serial rebels than to be beholden to them.
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Najirul Miah, 21, and Syed Ahmed, 22, attacked a woman who got into a silver vehicle with them after she had lost her friend and her phone battery had died during a night out in Sunderland.
Newcastle Crown Court heard she had offered to pay the two men to take her home when she could not find a licensed taxi.
The attackers drove her to a deserted street in Hendon, where she was raped by both men, who treated her “like a piece of meat”, then “discarded on the ground like a piece of trash”, miles away from home.
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Vatican Official Complains of ‘Tsunami’ Of Sex Abuse Cases
ROME — The “tsunami” of clerical sex abuse cases arriving in the Vatican threatens to overwhelm the doctrinal office (CDF) responsible for processing them, according to the Irish monsignor in charge.
Speaking with the Associated Press (AP), Monsignor John Kennedy, who heads the discipline section of the CDF, said that a record 1,000 cases arrived from all over the world during 2019.
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Wikileaks’ Assange Appears in Court in Spain Spying Investigation
MADRID (Reuters) — Jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in a Madrid court via videolink from Britain on Friday as part of an investigation into his allegations that a Spanish firm spied on him while he lived inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
The case, led by Spanish judge Jose de la Mata, focuses on allegations that first cameras and then microphones were installed in the embassy between June 2017 and early 2018 by Spanish private security firm Undercover Global S.L.
An Ecuador foreign ministry spokeswoman declined to comment on the case.
The recordings, said to have captured conversations between Assange and his lawyers, may have been distributed to parties including “authorities from Ecuador and agents from the United States,” according to court documents, which say this was done “probably on orders from U.S. intelligence.”
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Caroline Glick: Israel’s Winner Take All Election
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a revolutionary. Since he entered politics 32 years ago, Netanyahu has upheld an integrated vision for Israel comprised of diplomatic, security and economic components. His vision sees Israel rising as a regional power with a first world market economy preserving and protecting a democratic Jewish nation state.
Netanyahu is a pragmatic revolutionary. He has picked his battles sparingly and implemented his vision opportunistically in the sense that when he’s had opportunities to move forward, he has pounced on them. For instance, as finance minister in Ariel Sharon’s government from 2003-2006, Netanyahu used Israel’s deep recession as a means to implement his long-held plans to transform Israel into a market economy.
When he lacks the opportunity to advance his goals, Netanyahu keeps his head down. When necessary, he makes tactical concessions. These are generally limited in duration or declarative and always reversible. For instance, when president Barack Obama demanded that he outlaw Jewish construction in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem, Netanyahu implemented a ten-month moratorium on Jewish building activities. His 2009 speech at Bar Ilan University, where he endorsed the establishment of a Palestinian state was never the basis for his policies.
When he can’t move forward, Netanyahu operates laterally and so creates new opportunities to push forward when the time is right. So when Obama turned a cold shoulder to both Israel and to the US’s traditional Sunni allies to tilt US Middle East policy towards Iran, Netanyahu reached out to the Sunnis. The ties he forged with the Saudis, the Egyptians and Emiratis enabled Netanyahu to stand up to Obama when he demanded concessions to Hamas and sought to silence criticism of his nuclear deal with Iran.
Thanks to the Trump administration, today Netanyahu has the diplomatic opportunity to implement his vision in relation to the Palestinians. Netanyahu set out that vision in the lead up to the inconclusive elections in September. It involves moving past the failed and mordant peace process with the PLO, and securing Israel’s national and strategic interests in Judea and Samaria by applying Israel law to the Jordan Valley and the Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria.
But now that the international path is open, a domestic obstacle has risen to stop him. That obstacle is an opposing revolution — the judicial revolution initiated by retired Supreme Court president Aharon Barak some 25 years ago. Just as Netanyahu is on the verge of completing his revolutionary work, so the legal fraternity that embraced Barak’s revolution is poised to complete Barak’s…
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Israel Set to be Investigated for War Crimes in Palestinian Territories, ICC Announces
A full investigation into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian Territories is to be launched by the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, prompting a fierce backlash from Israel.
Fatou Bensouda said the probe could result in charges against both Israelis and Palestinians.
“I am satisfied that … war crimes have been or are being committed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip,” she said in a statement on Friday.
Bensouda added that because the Palestinian Territories had requested the intervention of the court she did not need to request approval from judges to start an investigation.
However, she has asked the ICC’s pre-trial chamber to rule on what geographical location it can investigate. The probe will be launched pending a decision on geographical jurisdiction
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You wouldn’t know it to read and listen to our singularly focused media — who have devoted their entire energies over the last three years to removing President Trump from office — but Iran is exploding as its youth have finally had enough. An entire generation, without economic opportunity, is now rising up against its oppressors.
Please note, some graphic content is below the fold. Also, some translations are from Farsi. Original names have been largely omitted in order to shield individuals from the Iranian terror regime.
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The global pig population is being absolutely decimated by a disease that does not have a cure. African Swine Fever, also commonly referred to as “Pig Ebola”, is raging out of control in dozens of countries all over the globe. It has a mortality rate of close to 100 percent, and once it hits an area even the pigs that are able to survive the disease are killed off in order to prevent it from spreading elsewhere. Unfortunately, African Swine Fever just continues to pop up in more locations. As you will see below, it is now sweeping through the heavily-populated nation of Indonesia. Nearly 270 million people live in Indonesia, and they are heavily dependent on pork as a source of protein. But of course the same thing could be said about almost all of the countries where African Swine Fever is currently raging.
The mainstream media in the U.S. hasn’t been properly reporting on this crisis, and that is likely because this disease has not spread to our nation yet.
But let there be no doubt — this is truly a crisis of Biblical proportions. In fact, it has been estimated that this epidemic has already killed about one-fourth of the world’s pigs. The following comes from an Australian news source…
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CAA Effect: Pakistani Hindu Brothers Coming to India Murdered in Lahore
First victims of CAA in Pakistan…
HENB Int’l Desk | New Delhi | Dec 20, 2019:: India’s new Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 has claimed its first two victims in Pakistan. Two Hindu brothers from Lahore, Pakistani, wanted to move for a better life to India where their cousin already lives, encouraged by India’s new citizenship law, which seemingly offers protection to persecuted minorities fleeing from neighbouring Muslim-majority countries Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
They never made it because they were stopped by some Muslim radicals and killed, an incident that will further fuel tensions between religious groups in the two neighbouring countries, which have been vying for cultural, political and denominational dominance for decades.
The two brothers killed were identified as Gyanchand and Premchand, cousins of Lakshman, a Pakistani Hindu refugee who already lives in the Adarsh Nagar refugee camp on the northern outskirts of Delhi.
Despite the lack of electricity, water and sanitation, the camp is home to some 600 Pakistani Hindus, 85 families in all, including 150 children…
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China to Have the World’s Strongest Navy, USA Fuming
China might soon shift the world naval balance and unseat the US as the modern master of the seas. The process appears to already be under way, and there is little that Washington can do about stopping it.
Visibly shaken by what it has seen on a photo showing just one of China’s military shipyards near Shanghai, the business magazine Forbes recently told its readers an alarming story about the “impressive rate” and “vast scale” of Chinese naval modernization.
The shipyard in question indeed appears to be an impressive sight to behold. There, one can see a total of nine newly constructed destroyers lined along the quay and docked in an inner shipyard basin. By contrast, the entire UK Royal Navy has a total of just six similar-class vessels, Forbes notes.
As if it was not enough, the same shipyard is also building China’s newest aircraft carrier — the third in a row. The second one, called the Shandong, was commissioned by the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) earlier this week. Designed to carry 36 J-15 fighter jets, it is China’s first fully domestically produced carrier.
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The young girl who faced down police at a protest outside Scott Morrison’s house is 13-year-old schoolgirl Izzy Raj-Seppings.
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Man Arrested After ‘Deliberately Starting Three Blazes’ as Australia Battles Killer Bushfires
An Australian man has been arrested after allegedly lighting three fires in Melbourne last night.
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A young woman who tragically died after a tree branch fell on the car she was riding in has been revealed as a 26-year-old Irish nurse on a night out with friends in Melbourne.
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Sweeping Ban on Semiautomatic Weapons Takes Effect in New Zealand
New Zealand’s countrywide ban on most semiautomatic weapons has gone into effect.
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Illegal? 50 U.S. Leftists Get Political With Communists in Cuba
In early November, 50 U.S. leftists traveled to Cuba for meetings with communist organizations on the island.
The delegation, which included known members of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and its satellite group LeftRoots, met with officials of a major international communist front organization, an auxiliary of the Cuban government, and several “non-governmental organizations.”
There should be major questions raised over the legality of this visit.
In June, the Trump administration announced new restrictions on U.S. citizens traveling to Cuba. Until then, Americans could travel to the island only under specific categories, which included organized group travel known as “group people-to-people travel.” That loophole—long exploited by U.S. communist groups—is now technically closed.
According to CNN:…
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Belgium: Fewer Than 1 in 10 Migrants Issued Deportation Orders Are Actually Deported
Only 8.5 percent of migrants who’ve been issued deportation orders in Belgium end up actually being deported from the country, new government statistics have revealed.
Statistical data released by the Belgian Immigration Office has revealed that of the 33,386 illegal migrants who were issued deportation orders in 2018, only 7,399 are confirmed to have left the country, while just 2,842 people were actually deported, Vlaamse Radio Television (VRT) reports.
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Denmark: Why Integration Fails
In a recent survey conducted by the Danish Ministry of Foreigners and Integration (Udlændinge— og Integrationsministeriet), 48% of descendants of non-Western immigrants in Denmark said that they think it should be forbidden to criticize religion, according to Kristeligt Dagblad. Forty-two percent of immigrants who had lived in Denmark for three years agreed with the statement, while only 20% of ethnic Danes agreed with it.
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German Green Party Urges Allowing 140 Million “Climate Refugees” To Migrate to West
The Green Party in Germany is urging that up to 140 million “climate refugees” should be allowed to migrate to the west and given citizenship.
Political leaders like Claudia Roth are claiming that island states in the Pacific could “completely disappear” and that entire population groups should be allowed to re-locate to the west as a result.
In their proposal, the party cites the World Bank’s estimate that there could be as many as 140 million “climate refugees” flooding into the west from Africa, South Asia, and South America by the year 2050.
[Comment: It would be better to exile GPers from Germany.]
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Italy: 6 Nigerian Migrants Convicted in Gang Rape Case
Six Nigerian migrants have been convicted of gang raping a 25-year-old woman at the CARA asylum center in the southern Italian city of Bari in 2017.
Olatunde Opaleye, 38 Uche Oliver, 22, Henry Sule, 26, Semiu Oguntade, 22, Emmanuel Ohenhen, 23, and Otaniyen Sunday, 35, were all handed prison terms ranging from five to nine years by an Italian court earlier this month, ANSA news reports.
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Pope Francis: Migrants Are ‘Voice Crying in the Wilderness’
ROME — Pope Francis said Saturday that migrants are among the most vulnerable and marginalized members of society, while for God no one is a “stranger.”
In his yearly Christmas address to the Roman Curia, the pope spoke of the need for an attitude of “epochal change” to meet the needs of the present day, while calling on the Church to promote the “integral development of the human person.”
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There was a huge dust-up in the IT community this week after Microsoft caved to a developer who complained about a festive Santa hat embedded in the code, saying the “religious” symbol was “offensive.”
The drama played out on GitHub, the leading open-source code repository, which hosts Microsoft’s open-source projects, including the popular developer tool VSCode.
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Australia: Diversity Council: Replace Office ‘Christmas Parties’ With ‘Holiday Season Drinks’
Diversity Council Australia is urging employers to drop “Christmas parties” in favour of “holiday season drinks” so Muslims and other non-Christians “feel included at this time of year”.
“If you’re having a Christmas celebration, try to make sure it’s inclusive of other faiths as well because the office is for everybody,” hectored Lisa Annese for the Diversity Council, in comments to the Herald Sun reported by MailOnline.
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Christopher Lee Describes the Power of Satanic Rituals in 1975 Video
In this rare interview, actor Christopher Lee discusses the power of black magic and satanic rituals, adding that there’s “nothing fictitious” about them. He also explains why there was a resurgence of interest in occultism at the time. His answer remains fully relevant today.
When one looks at roles taken by Lee throughout his life, two constants emerge: He often played the role of the villain and he often played in movies with dark, occult themes.
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Dutch Court Rules Sexual Harassment of Women in Public is Protected ‘Freedom of Expression’
The 2017 ban on public ‘cat calling’ of women in Rotterdam, which was enacted because Muslim and African migrants that had flooded the city were constantly harassing Dutch women on the streets, has now been struck down by a court in The Hague on the grounds that the ban violates the migrants’ right to ‘freedom of expression’:
It is not up to municipalities to restrict this freedom, only parliament and the Senate can decide to do so, the court ruled, NOS reports.
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Mark Hamill Slammed for Liking Jk Rowling’s “Transphobic” Tweet
Forced into groveling semi-apology.
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Mayor Pete and Jeffrey Epstein: Spawn of the Sexual Revolution
“His late father Joseph Buttigieg was a Notre Dame professor and expert on the ideology of Antonio Gramsci”
The Culture Wars are mostly over, and the sexual revolutionaries have won. But they are not proclaiming total victory. They want a gay president in the White House, in order to complete Barack Hussein Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of America. With their eyes on the prize, they want to mandate through executive order a risky HIV/AIDS vaccine. But such a vaccine could backfire and spread the disease to more people.
One of the political winners in the cultural revolution is Democratic Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, the South Bend, Indiana, Mayor who “married” another man and is leading the polls in Iowa, which holds its first-in-the-nation caucus February 3, 2020. He is one of the top fundraisers among Democratic candidates, assembling what the New York Times calls “a nationwide network of donors that is anchored by many wealthy and well-connected figures in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender political circles.” These are many of the same people who propelled Barack Hussein Obama into the White House in 2008.
On the cutting edge of a Marxist cultural revolution, Buttigieg promises to fund a cure for HIV/AIDS and update the U.S. passport program to include a third, non-binary gender option, “X”. His 18-page gay rights campaign document cites the United Nations as a possible legal basis for intervening in family life and protecting “intersex infants and children” from those who believe in traditional genders.
His late father Joseph Buttigieg was a Notre Dame professor and expert on the ideology of Antonio Gramsci, an Italian communist dedicated to overthrowing Western civilization and Biblical values. Like father, like son.
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Netflix’s ‘Gay Jesus’ Comedy Special Shows the Clear Double Standard Artists Have for Christians
Two Netflix comedy specials feature Jesus Christ as a presumably gay man and a drunken partier, and Catholic and Christian communities are not happy with the satirical treatments — and they have good reason not to be.
Two million people have called for the removal of Netflix’s ‘The First Temptation of Christ’, a 46-minute special from the YouTube comedy group Porta Dos Fundos.
The special depicts a presumably gay Jesus Christ bringing what appears to be his boyfriend, Orando, home to meet his family.
Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, has been one of the most vocal critics of the special. He took to Twitter on Saturday to call it ‘garbage’ and to insist the group behind it does ‘not represent Brazilian society.’
Brazil has more Catholics than any other country…
The issue here is there is a clear double standard that artists and public figures are oftentimes not acknowledging.
An artist can do just about anything they want to Jesus in their work and the most backlash they’ll likely get is a petition of Christians defending their religion. Enrage extremist Muslims though and you could face banishment from countries, backlash from major corporations and even death.
Hearing an artist who angered Christians rant about ‘freedom of expression’ as if their rights have been actually threatened rings about as hollow as a Trump hater like LeBron James pretending it takes any bravery to trash his own country.
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Transgender Sues Miss USA Pageant Over “Natural Born Woman” Rule
‘I felt as though the organization was saying I am not a woman and I’m not woman enough.’
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Transgender Worker Suing Nike for $1.1 Million Cites Pronoun Abuses
A transgender former Nike contractor is seeking $1.1 million in damages from the sporting goods giant for allegedly allowing gender identity-based harassment.
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Dushanbe (the capital of Tajikistan) looks better than Rotterdam.
News from September:
“I was touched for the [rear end] and the chest”: Dushanbe girls about harassment in the street
After publishing an angry post on Facebook about harassment of girls in Dushanbe, which gathered hundreds of likes and reposts, the city authorities stood up for women.
Over the past month, several men have already been held accountable for rude words or inappropriate behavior towards residents of Dushanbe. The court decided to overly arrogant citizens of Tajikistan pay a fine, or spend several days under arrest or several hours at community service.
Read more: https://tj.sputniknews.ru/opinion/20180907/1026699837/tajikistan-dushanbe-domogatelstva-devushki.html
Regarding the British diversity cop who turned out to be a child groomer, just look at the guy:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/muslim-police-officer-hired-promote-diversity-ends-being-part-grooming-gang
There is something seriously mentally defective with any person of European heritage who did not correctly judge this individual to be a degenerate within 5 seconds of viewing his physical appearance.
To be fair, he did adopt a cunning disguise: his beard is neatly trimmed (like my own).
Anyway, a Happy Christmas (and Hanukah) to all here.
Are you kidding? It is completely obvious he is overflowing with diversity and would have been a perfect diversity hire if only someone would have not had the nerve to report him for following the example of Mohammad and Aisha.
I’ll wager he can also skewer a pretty mean goat (for kebabs of course), and likely cannot read or write in english (or any other language) but knows a rascist and islamophobic post when he sees one.
I was kidding; it’s called irony.
Just like Nazi Germany with their Gestapo and or Eastern Germany with their Angela’s version of the same. Who can see this insanity continuing much longer. It used to be said, “Better read than dead”. Who can’t imagine Merdekill in jail?
– RED than dead – that is.
It’s started! “Better dead than Red” 🙂
A member of the Social Democrats (SPD) is preparing the bill which will force service providers to give up private information of anyone using their services. The excuse being given is to fight against the ugly phenomena of right-wing extremism and hate crimes.
That means anyone exhibiting right-wing ideology which is seen as an “ugly phenomena” by any totalitarian SPD social democrat. If anyone isn’t able to see how sick and delusional this is then I’ll submit this as the proof of why there’s suffering under the boot heel of bureaucrats in socialist democratic governing bodies everywhere on the planet.
EU Army ‘Already Taking Shape’ Brags German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen. This has been a long time goal of the Global Collectivist Death Cult since the 1961 worldwide treaty towards complete disarmament of all private individuals so that only those in government service will have arms to defend themselves with.
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the ‘National Security Objectives’ we’ve set. We’ve got to have a ‘Civilian National Security Force’ that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” – 2008 Presidential Candidate Barrack Hussein Obama
“Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA ordinary citizens don’t need guns, as their having guns doesn’t serve the state.” – Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS).
“All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately … The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every responsible opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above-named organizations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon … must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.” – SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz in the National Socialist Germany of March 1933.
…the more things change the more they stay the same and there’s never anything “new” under the sun is there?
A female Republic of Ireland judge has released on bail a female ex-member of the official Irish Army. Lisa Smith. Guess what? She is also a ruthless dyed in blood ISIS member. Now on leave she can be a war against the Kufar hero to all those ISIS oldies in Ireland or the brainwashed young. It’s a race against time. That’s about as bad as a background can get in a still somewhat Christian country?