Today is Brexit Day — after four long years since British voters decided to leave the EU, today is the day that the UK is supposed to have left. However, the House of Commons voted against Prime Minister Theresa May’s latest incarnation of her “deal” with Brussels, so there is going to be no Brexit just yet. Disaffect members of Labour and the “Conservative” Party have joined forces to found a new party called Change UK (CUK).
In other news, in the English Channel the UK’s border protection force intercepted two boats carrying up to 19 illegal migrants, a day after 14 other migrants landed on the coast of Kent.
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Consumer Sentiment Jumps as Americans Report Best Income Gains Since 1966
American consumers regained their mojo in March, pushing the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment up to 98.4 from February’s 93.8.
Economists had expected the final read to match the preliminary reading for March of 97.8.
Consumers were more positive about both their present conditions and their outlook for the future, according to the survey.
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Stocks Rebounded in the First Quarter
Stocks finished the first quarter of 2019 easily in the black, following a money-losing end to 2018.
The best-performing major industry sector was information technology, but even the worst-performing sector, health care, saw gains.
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The Federal Reserve’s Controlled Demolition of the Economy is Almost Complete
One would think that if the Fed was in retreat in terms of tightening, that they would actually STOP tightening. This has not happened. Also, one might also expect that if the Fed is going full “dovish” that they would have cut interest rates in March instead of holding them steady at their neutral rate of inflation. This has not happened either. In fact, I’m not exactly sure how anyone can claim with a straight face that the Fed has given up on Quantitative Tightening (QT). Despite the many assumptions out there that the Fed is going to reverse on interest rates, I believe this is wishful thinking and that the Fed will not reverse rates in 2019.
What I do see is the Fed using rhetoric and head fakes to give the impression that they plan to go dovish in the future. And, this is being wrongly interpreted as the Fed being dovish now. But why is the Fed doing this while also continuing to dump its balance sheet? In my view, it is because they are almost finished with the task they set out to accomplish with QT in the first place, and they now have to make it appear as though they want to accommodate as the system breaks down.
In my article ‘Party While You Can — Central Bank Ready To Pop The Everything Bubble’, I outlined a process or tactic which the Fed has used on many occasions in the past: The creation of economic bubbles through inflation and artificially low interest rates, followed by abrupt tightening and higher interest rates into economic weakness. This tactic is highly effective in accomplishing ONE GOAL — financial collapse.
It is the same strategy the Fed used at the beginning of the Great Depression. It is also what the Fed used to trigger the crash of 2008. And, in 2018-2019, the Fed is doing it again…
The Brexit has turned into a three ring circus, a major distraction from the ultimate intended end game which I have long believed will be a “no deal” scenario. A no deal event is being painted in the mainstream media as a kind of economic doomsday for Europe, and I believe it will be, but not for the reasons they describe. Europe has been set up for a fall, just like the US, for many years now. Government and corporate debt levels are at extreme highs and major banks in Germany and Italy are on the verge of implosion.
A hard Brexit is useful to the elites as a scapegoat for a crash that was going to happen anyway. The bankers don’t plan on facing the music, they want “populist” groups to get the blame.
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“Desperate” Illinois Ponders Taxing Internet Streaming Services and Hiking Gas Tax
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk
Illinois seems desperate to drive away every able body citizen who can possibly leave.
Illinois is considering several bills that will without a doubt drive more businesses and individuals out of the state. One of them is likely illegal.
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Update: Biden’s odds of winning the Democratic presidential nomination according to PredictIt have dropped considerably since Flores’ article came out, putting him behind Bernie Sanders.
Former Democratic nominee for Nevada lieutenant governor Lucy Flores has accused former Vice-President Joe Biden of smelling her hair before planting a “big slow kiss” on her head in what has become somewhat of a predatory trademark maneuver.
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Breaking! Federal Court Finds California Magazine Ban Violates the Second Amendment
In one of the strongest judicial statements in favor of the Second Amendment to date, Judge Roger T. Benitez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California determined on Friday that California’s ban on commonly possessed firearm magazines violates the Second Amendment.
The case is Duncan v. Becerra.
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Dementia Deaths Have Doubled in Two Decades
If your memory slips often enough to put even an inkling of concern or doubt in your mind, it’s time to take action. A high-fat, moderate-protein, low-net-carb ketogenic diet is crucial for protecting your brain health and preventing degeneration that can lead to Alzheimer’s.
One of the most striking studies showing the effects of a high-fat/low-carb versus high-carb diets on brain health revealed that high-carb diets increase your risk of dementia by a whopping 89 percent, while high-fat diets lower it by 44 percent.
According to the authors, “A dietary pattern with relatively high caloric intake from carbohydrates and low caloric intake from fat and proteins may increase the risk of mild cognitive impairment or dementia in elderly persons.” A ketogenic diet benefits your brain in a number of different ways. For example, it:
- Triggers ketone production — A cyclical ketogenic diet will help you convert from carb-burning mode to fat-burning mode, which in turn triggers your body to produce ketones, an important source of energy (fuel) for your brain that have been shown to help prevent brain atrophy and alleviate symptoms of Alzheimer’s. They may even restore and renew neuron and nerve function in your brain after damage has set in.
- Improves your insulin sensitivity — A cyclical ketogenic diet will also improve your insulin sensitivity, which is an important factor in Alzheimer’s. The link between insulin sensitivity and Alzheimer’s is so strong, the disease is sometimes referred to as Type 3 diabetes.
Even mild elevation of blood sugar is associated with an elevated risk for dementia. Diabetes and heart disease are also known to elevate your risk, and both are rooted in insulin resistance.
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How to Identify a Globalist Criminal
Globalists will often claim that globalism, the centralization of all governmental and economic power, is an inevitable byproduct of “progress”. They will state, without any evidence of course, that globalism represents a pinnacle of evolution in human society. Therefore, anyone that stands in the way of globalism is standing in the way of progress, which is apparently a cardinal sin in the new world order.
But centralization of power is nothing new, and dreams of global empire ruled by self appointed “elites” goes all the way back to Plato and his “Republic”. Utopia by the elites for the elites is a tale as old as mankind. It does not represent evolution, but regression to an ideology that human beings have been struggling for thousands of years to escape from.
We should also make the distinction here between globalists and useful idiots. Globalists are people in a position of power adequate enough to help affect the the changes and agendas they describe. Useful idiots (socialist/communists) might espouse globalist rhetoric, but they have no power. They are exploited as a blunt weapon by globalists, but they are not globalists, and will not likely benefit from globalism in the end.
Globalists treat the idea of sovereignty with disdain. Their attacks usually revolve around nationalism and they will incessantly pontificate on the virtues of open borders. They can also sometimes be caught criticizing the concept of individual sovereignty, but they do seem to fancy the idea that THEY are unique and superior individuals. Individuality and freedom are meant for them, but not for the rest of us.
Globalists all argue that the answer to most of the world’s ailments is one world governance, or the end of nation states and cultural divisions in the name of “peace”. The UN is so far the impetus of this effort, but it is shadowed by various organizations like the IMF, BIS, World Bank, as well as dozens of think tank organizations like the CFR, Tavistock, the Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg, Darpa, etc., etc. A practice model for this type of government can be seen in the European Union, which is controlled by a supranational bureaucratic machine run by mostly faceless officials who are not elected and who do not answer to the public.
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Now that the Mueller investigation is over and his report has shown that there was absolutely no collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, the focus is rapidly turning to those that endlessly propagated extremely damaging conspiracy theories about the president of the United States. For 675 days, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC engaged in a fake news binge unlike anything that we have ever seen before in all of U.S. history. They relentlessly pushed out news story after news story touting that we would soon have “evidence” that Trump had colluded with the Russians when there was no evidence at all. They kept telling us that “indictments are coming”, that “the noose is tightening” and that “the walls are closing in on this administration” when none of that was ever true. The entire Russian collusion narrative was a piece of fiction created by Hillary Clinton’s campaign team to explain her shocking election loss, but once it was embraced by the mainstream media and pro-Clinton members of federal law enforcement agencies it quickly snowballed out of control. Now the time has come for the mainstream media to be held accountable for lying to the American people on a massive scale, and later in this article I will explain how this can be done.
And I am certainly not the only one calling for the mainstream media to be held accountable. Other prominent conservative voices are also calling for accountability…
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MSM Lobbies Instagram to Ban Alex Jones Over Fake “Anti-Semitism” Controversy
The mainstream media is now lobbying Instagram to ban Alex Jones by creating a contrived hoax surrounding a post deemed to be “anti-Semitic”.
Despite being owned by Facebook, Instagram is the only major social media platform not to ban Jones following a coordinated effort by the rest to silence him last year.
The image, created by artist Mear One, portrays a group of men sat around a Monopoly board stacked with gold, dollar bills and a skull.
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Reporter Yashar Ali Claims NBC News Editor Dafna Linzer Tried to Intimidate Him on Behalf of the DNC
Reporter Yashar Ali claimed Friday that a top editor from NBC News attempted to intimidate him out of running a story in order to protect the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Ali, who writes for the Huffington Post and New York Magazine, explained that he was following a scoop about the dates for the first 2020 Democratic Primary debate when he received a call from Dafna Linzer, the managing political editor for MSNBC and NBC News.
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Researcher: Google Flipped Seats and Switched Millions of Votes to Dems in 2018 Midterms
Google has been in cahoots with the left for a lot longer than most people are willing to realize. But now a researcher has come forward once again detailing just how much the technology giant is changing the political landscape.
In an interview with RT, senior research psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology told media outlet that Google was able to flip seats and change millions of votes toDemocratss altering the outcome of the 2018 midterm elections. “Upwards of 25 percent of the national elections in the world are being decided without people’s knowledge by Google’s search algorithm,” said Dr. Epstein.
Epstein, who received his Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University and is the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today, said that his methodology was not only thorough, it was also incredibly meticulous. And when Epstein says “millions” of votes were shifted, he actually means almost 100 million of them. Google’s communist and “dramatically biased” results based on their own algorithms could have shifted over 78 million votes to Democrats. Epstein also went so far as to say that the search engine was the “deciding factor” in close races.
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Socialism and Marx’s Theory of Societal Evolution
At the Conservative Political Action Conference last month, U.S. National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow called on Americans to “put socialism on trial and convict it.” In order to successfully prosecute the defendant, Americans simply need to know the facts, and socialism will incriminate itself.
The facts are that socialism is just one step in a societal “theory of evolution” invented by Karl Marx that allegedly explains how human society develops over time. According to Marx’s theory, called “historical materialism,” the purpose of socialism is to destroy capitalism, so that society can “progress” to its next evolutionary stage: communism.
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Stop the Politically Correct Renaming of Airports!
Leftists in southern California have their knickers in a knot after a recent Los Angeles Times opinion piece resurfaced of John Wayne’s Playboy interview of 1971. Most people only read the Times article about the interview, but I read the original, comprehensive interview. While Wayne had a dirty mouth, he was not the dumb cowboy depicted by his critics. He had many very thoughtful comments on America, but three or four comments got him in trouble — 50 years later.
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The Death of the Green New Deal Madness
AOC’s preposterous proposal denied by Senate
The Green New Deal finally landed its impossible 100 trillion tax dollar country, killing behemoth on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
Its main sponsor, freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, had set the table at a committee meeting previous to the Senate vote.
Flailing around with Betoesque zeal, AOC passionately pretended to have a grip on the science of climate change.
[Comment: This is why AOC was “appointed”…to ram the green deal down Amercians throats. This is not over. Expect the democrats to try to implement it piecemeal. Pelosi’s recent proposal is a watered down version of comrade AOC’s green deal.]
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Well before President Donald Trump’s election the Democratic Party’s self-proclaimed “democratic socialists” characterized anyone who opposes them as Nazis. The irony is that members of that contingent have more in common with Nazis than they would care to admit.
By embracing Islam as they promote “multiculturalism” and “tolerance,” the democratic socialists and their enablers tolerate Islam’s anti-Semitism. The House Democrats’ feeble response to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitic remarks — a resolution that condemned bigotry but refused to mention either Omar or Islamist terrorism — illustrates that misguided tolerance.
The Nazis understood the relationship between Islam and anti-Semitism so well that they tried to exploit it for their agenda of extermination. Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem who had been agitating against Jews for a quarter of a century, broadcast anti-Semitic messages from Berlin with Hitler’s support from 1941 until the end of World War II. Al-Husseini — a close ally of the Muslim Brotherhood’s founder, Hassan al-Banna, who admired Hitler — told Arabs in the British Mandate of Palestine to “kill the Jews wherever you find them.”
The Waffen-SS also had a special Muslim division, the Handschar, named after the German word for scimitar. Comprised of Bosnian Muslims, the Handschar division performed atrocities against Jewish civilians. Notably, it was the only division in the Waffen-SS allowed to have chaplains, with one imam presiding over each battalion.
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Trump Vows to Hold Officials Behind Collusion ‘Hoax’ Accountable
President Trump told a packed audience in Michigan on Thursday that he’s been fully vindicated by special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, and those who perpetrated the Russia ‘hoax’ will now be held to account, reports PJ Media.
Trump called the Russia probe a “sinister effort” to undermine his election victory, and now “The Russia hoax is finally dead,” Trump told the crowd.
“We defeated a very corrupt establishment and we kept our promise to the American people and it is driving them crazy. Today, our movement and our country are thriving. Their fraud has been exposed and the credibility of those who pushed this hoax is forever broken. And they have now got big problems,” said Trump.
“This group of major losers did not just ruthlessly attack me, my family, and everyone who questioned their lies. They tried to divide our country, to poison the national debate, and to tear up the fabric of our great democracy, the greatest anywhere in the world. They did it all because they refused to accept the results of one of the greatest presidential elections, probably number one, in our history.”
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Trump Signs Executive Order to Protect Americans From EMP Attacks
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on March 26 to harden America’s critical infrastructure against electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks.
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Twitter Might Start Labeling President Trump’s “Offensive” Tweets
Twitter is considering a new policy that would label tweets from politicians — including President Trump — when they violate the company’s (admittedly nebulous) community standards policy. Put another way, the platform, which has been exposed for discriminating against and shadow-banning conservative voices, is now planning to publicly shame politicians who express conservative views.
Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s head of legal, policy, and trust and safety, who famously appeared alongside CEO Jack Dorsey during an interview with journalist Tim Pool on Joe Rogan’s podcast last month, said during a Washington Post event on Wednesday that the company might start adding messages to these tweets to explain why they haven’t been removed from the platform, according to the Hill.
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Vaccine Insanity Reaches Breaking Point as Family Raided by SWAT
The state is declaring total control over America’s children
An Arizona doctor called the DCS on a family after he feared one of their unvaccinated children might have meningitis, causing the police to raid the family’s home and remove the children.
The child did not have meningitis and instead, had an upper respiratory infection.
David Knight covers this horrific story and much more on this Friday broadcast.
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Quebec to Bar Public Servants From Wearing Religious Symbols
A Canadian province has introduced legislation that would bar civil servants in positions of “authority” from wearing religious symbols at work.
The center-right Coalition Avenir Quebec’s bill covers judges, prosecutors, police officers, teachers and some other positions.
This is not the first time Quebec has pushed forward legislation to re-enforce state religious neutrality.
Several groups are preparing to fight the proposed legislation.
Bill 21 will prevent civil servants from wearing symbols such as head coverings like the kippah, turban, hijabs.
Civil servants who currently wear religious symbols will be exempt from the bill.
The Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) government hopes to pass the legislation by summer.
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Breakaway Pro-EU Labour and Tory MPs Form CUK Party
The Independent Group (TIG) of breakaway, anti-Brexit MPs from the Labour Party and the Tory left have officially registered as a new politcal party, under the moniker Change UK (CUK).
On the day when the United Kingdom was supposed to be leaving the European Union, the globalist, largely left-liberal “centrists” formerly of the Labour MPs — Chuka Umunna, Gavin Shuker, Luciana Berger, Ann Coffey, Mike Gapes, Chris Leslie, Joan Ryan, and Angela Smith — and the Tory Party — Anna Soubry, Heidi Allen, and Sarah Wollaston — announced they were formally instituting their new parliamentary faction as a political party, Change UK (CUK).
[Comment: They should be called the Suck Party.]
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‘Czech Trump’ Slams Wasteful EU Presidency, ‘Blathering With Sandwiches’
The Czech Republic’s right-populist president Andrej Babis has criticised the cost for host nations to hold the rotating Council of the European Union — one of seven presidents of the bloc.
The Central European country is set to take up the six-month presidency in the second half of 2022, with Politico.eu reporting that local media claims Mr Babis made the comments during a Cabinet meeting this week.
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EU Lawmakers Ask Crackdown on Funds to Candidate Countries
Resources linked to progress in reforms and respect rule of law
(ANSA) — STRASBOURG, MARCH 27 — Progress in social, political and economic reforms, respect for human rights and EU democratic standards. These are the three ‘guiding’ criteria requested by the European Parliament within the framework of pre-accession assistance (IPA III) to be included in the next EU budget 2021-2027 for the distribution of European funds the candidate countries to join the Union. EU lawmakers approved their position at the Strasbourg plenary with 513 votes in favor, 97 against and 45 abstentions. Parliament calls for a crackdown on the rules for the allocation of pre-accession funds, which help candidate and potential candidate countries (Western Balkans and Turkey) aspiring to join the EU to reform their political, economic and legal systems, in order to prepare for the rights and obligations of an EU membership. MEPs agreed the pre-accession funds should follow the “principle of equity” based on the results obtained by the candidate countries to align themselves to EU standards. Previously, a fixed envelope was set out for each candidate country. This would introduce “more flexibility” to address the evolving needs of the ‘EU enlargement partners’, encouraging progress in internal reforms and compliance with the accession criteria (Copenhagen criteria). MEPs call the EU Commission to partially or fully suspend EU assistance in cases of consistent breached by a candidate country of one or more of these criteria. The final regulation on European funds for pre-accession assistance will be shaped in negotiations with the EU Council, which should begin later this year.
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Fmr. Bank of England Boss Mervyn King: No Deal Brexit is the Answer, Project Fear is a Myth
One of the most respected figures in British economics has made a last-minute appeal for Brexit sanity, pointing the way forward to a managed no-deal full Brexit while dismissing politicians suffering from collective “nervous breakdown” and project fear claims that do not reflect reality.
Speaking this morning, just hours before the legal deadline that the British prime minister repeatedly promised would be the moment the United Kingdom left the European Union before changing her mind at the last minute, former governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King has called for a full Brexit and for politicians to reject Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement.
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France: Political School of Marion Maréchal Attacked Allegedly by Far-Left Antifa
Far-left Antifa extremists have been blamed for the attack on the the political management school in Lyon founded by French former populist MP Marion Maréchal.
Ms Maréchal said she would be submitting a formal complaint about far-left extremist violence after the attack on her Institute for Social Sciences, Economics, and Politics (ISSEP) occurred late Tuesday night, Le Figaro reports.
A far-left extremist Antifa group named “Anti-fascist group Lyon” took credit for the attack writing on Facebook, “On the night of March 26th to 27th, we attacked ISSEP […] the school created by Marion Maréchal Le Pen which opened new year 2018 in order to form an elite of the far right.”
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Germany: Muslim Kindergarten Loses Appeal Against Closure
State officials had ordered “Al Nur” to close following revelations that inappropriate literature had been shared at the kindergarten. The day care center is the only Muslim kindergarten in Rhineland-Palatinate.
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Gilets Jaunes Protester Fined Over Illegal Demos
Éric Drouet claimed he had ‘no role as an organiser or leader’ in planned protests on December 22 and January 2
One of the so-called “leaders” of the gilets jaunes movement has been fined €2,000, of which €500 has been suspended, for organising undeclared demonstrations.
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Historic Welsh Chapel to be Turned Into a Mosque
The Grade II listed Moriah Methodist chapel in Llanbedr, near Harlech, was originally built in 1856 but the present structure dates back to 1913. Plans to turn it into a mosque have been submitted to Snowdonia National Park Authority by the Jamia Almaarif Mosque and Meditation Centre.
According to the BBC, Dan Morris, whose father Griffith was one of the architects in 1913, said he would have been “very pleased” to see it continue as a place of worship.
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Imam in Prague Calls on Muslims, “Especially Men”, to Arm Themselves
Imam Leonid Kushnarenko, an Islamic preacher in the Czech Republic and the chairmen of the Prague Muslim Community, has come under fierce criticism after he told muslims living the small central European country that they should arm themselves following the Christchurch shooting in New Zealand.
After the shooting in New Zealand, the Islamic thought leader posted the call for Muslims to arm themselves, according to Le Figaro.
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Italy: Salvini to Bring League’s European Allies to Milan
Italian deputy premier blames France for ‘chaos in Libya’
(ANSA) — Rome, March 27 — Italian Interior Minister and Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini, leader of the anti-migrant Euroskeptic League party, told Italian daily La Stampa on Wednesday that he is organising an event in Milan to bring together “all European allies of the League” to “propose a reform to the European Union”.
“About 20 movements to propose a new Europe of nations with,” Salvini said.
In the interview, Salvini also attacked France, arguing “the chaos in Libya is the work of Sarkozy’s attempt to substitute ENI with Total”, referring to national energy giants in Italy and France, respectively.
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Italy: ‘EU to Fund 50% of TAV’
Piedmont councillor says after meeting Corridor chief Radicova
(ANSA) — Turin, march 27 — The European Union will fund 50% of the controversial Turin-Lyon high-speed rail (TAV) link, Piedmont Transport Councillor Francesco Balocco said after meeting European Coordinator for the Mediterranean Corridor Iveta Radicova in Mantua Wednesday.
The TAV project has been put on hold by the government after the 5-Star Movement (M5S) stressed the importance of a cost/benefit analysis that showed Italy would lose out to the tune of 7-8 billion euros.
But the other government partner, the League, has said the project must be completed saying the analysis was biased and flawed.
Balocco said the funding news was “important”.
Funding has been an issue because the M5S says Italy is paying more than its fair share, while the League says both funding and the scale of the project can be cut to allow it to go ahead.
France has stressed Italy’s treaty obligations to complete the project.
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Italy: Cartoonist in ‘Kill Salvini’ Row ‘Disgusting’
‘Squalid character’ says interior minister
(ANSA) — Rome, March 29 — A cartoonist who ran a series of cartoons titled Seven Ways To Kill (Matteo) Salvini is “disgusting”, the interior minister said Friday.
Left-leaning cartoonist Vauro is a “squalid character who thinks he’s entertaining,” said Salvini, adding “No, I’d say he’s really disgusting”.
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Italy: Salvini: “My Only Purpose is to Save Europe”
When Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini spoke at a press conference at Lega’s historic headquarters at Via Bellerio 41 in Milan he was radiant with joy. His party tripled its number of votes in the regional elections in Basilicata (in just one year, it grew from 6.2% to 19%).
In a short interview Sputnik News asked Salvini about his predictions for the elections to the European Parliament, about how he and Lega see the fate of Europe, given that, according to the recently presented Confcommercio Report, Italy is the most “Eurosceptical” country, along with the Czech Republic, and is seemingly ready for an “Italexit”.
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John Bolton: Trump ‘Eager for the Will of the British People to be Carried Out’
President Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton has offered some words of assurances to the British people on the day the UK was supposed to leave the European Union, saying the United States is eager to do a bilateral trade deal and the UK remains at “top of the queue.”
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Populists to Surge in EU Elections as Brexit Betrayal Infuriates Voters, Study Finds
BRUSSELS could be rocked by May’s European Parliament elections as around a third of seats are set to be taken by anti-EU populist parties, new data has found.
Fresh, wide-reaching research from Sky News predicts a populist surge will spread across Europe as voter backlash against the EU spikes. The data suggests 233 out of the 705 available seats in the European Parliament will be won by parties or coalitions who identify themselves as populist. A vast number of those are fuelled by a rejection of the EU but not all parties predicted to win big want to quit the bloc.
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Top EU Conservative Demands Brussels Cut Off Money to Eurosceptics
The leading candidate for the European People’s Party (EPP) Manfred Weber has demanded the European Union stop giving money to populist eurosceptic parties, arguing many want to destroy the political bloc.
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UK: ‘God Help Us!’ Despair and Fury as May’s Brexit Destroyed by MPs — PM Vows to Fight on
THERESA MAY has vowed to keep fighting for her Brexit deal despite suffering a third shattering rejection by MPs.
On the day the UK should have been leaving the EU, the Commons voted by 344 to 286 against the divorce arrangements between the Prime Minister and the bloc. Thirty-four Tory rebels held firm to defy the Prime Minister and side with Labour and other opposition parties against the package despite many Brexiteers including Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg dropping their opposition at last. EU chiefs announced an emergency Brussels summit for April 9 to try to agree the next step.
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UK: ‘Nigel, Nigel!’ Moment Crowd Erupts as Nigel Farage Delivers Powerful Brexit Speech
THIS is the moment a crowd of Brexiteer protestors burst into joyful chanting as Nigel Farage delivered a passionate Brexit speech.
Nigel Farage spoke after yesterday’s Brexit march in an attempt to inspire Leave supporters despite Brexit not taking place on March 29. Mr Farage insisted he was more determined to “fight back against this political class” after what he described as a Brexit “betrayal.” The LBC host began by saying: “I believe that what has happened over there has not just turned this day, that should have been one of great celebration, into a day that history will mark as a day of betrayal.
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UK: Varoufakis: May’s Deal is a Document of Defeat
Greek economist and former Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, was not pulling any punches last night as he absolutely destroyed Theresa May’s bad EU deal.
Varoufakis, who has more experience dealing with the European Union than most, pointed out the soft UK approach taken during last night’s Question Time.
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Israel, Hamas Reportedly Agree on Calm
Israel and Hamas, with Egyptian mediation, reportedly reach agreements on restoring calm along the Gaza border.
Israel and Hamas, with Egyptian mediation, have reached preliminary agreements on restoring calm along the Gaza border, Israeli media reported on Friday.
A source who participated in the a with the Egyptian mediator said, according to Channel 13 News, that the Palestinian Arab factions had agreed to end the nightly demonstrations.
Israel, in return, will ease the restrictions on the fishing area, allow the Qatari money into Gaza and resume the supply of electricity.
The factions have reportedly agreed that the full ceasefire will begin on Saturday, according to Kan 11 News.
Meanwhile, Hamas politburo member Khalil al-Hayya, said, according to Walla! News, that the timetable for the implementation of the understandings with Israel would be set at the beginning of next week.
Earlier on Friday, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh hinted that if talks on a ceasefire do not succeed soon, war may break out.
“We are continuing the marathon of talks with Egypt in order to reach serious understandings that Israel will honor,” Haniyeh said. “We are at a crossroads, and the coming hours will decide which direction we’ll take.”
On Thursday night, Egyptian intelligence officials warned Hamas that “any mistakes on your part on Saturday may lead to war with Israel.”
The comments were referring to the planned Land Day protests on Saturday along the Gaza border, for which the IDF is preparing.
On Monday, a rocket hit a home in the Sharon region, injuring seven people. Hamas initially claimed that the rocket was fired by mistake, later changing their story to say that “bad weather” caused the launch.
However, on Tuesday Hamas admitted that the launch had indeed been intentional, and was carried out at Iran’s behest.
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Ukraine: Kiev Denies Access to Italian TV Correspondent
About to follow presidential election. Unions: seriuos decision
(ANSA) — MOSCOW, MAR 25 — The RAI correspondent in Moscow, Marc Innaro, was rejected at the border with Ukraine, along with his cameraman, while he was on his way to enter the country and follow the upcoming presidential elections. “The Ukrainian government — the unions of journalists Fnsi and Usigrai underlined in a joint statement — prevented the Rai correspondent Marc Innaro from entering the country to follow the elections. This is a very serious decision. The government in Kiev has thus decided to put in the shade the elections and hinder the free exercise of the right to report”. According to ANSA, the authorities in Kiev have justified the decision because “the journalist could not explain the purpose of his stay in Ukraine”, in accordance with the law on access to the border. The RAI crew, however, had already received confirmation from the presidential press office for an interview with president Petro Poroshenko. The journalist and his cameraman were stopped by the border guards and subsequently a plainclothes agent, probably from “security services”, attended the interview.
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Husband ‘Tortures Wife After She Refuses to Dance for His Friends’ In Pakistan
A Pakistani husband has been arrested for allegedly torturing his wife by stripping her naked, beating her and shaving her head after she refused to dance for his friends.
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China Claims it Cloned a Police Dog to ‘Save Time and Money’ On Training
Earlier this month, a southwestern police department in China received its newest canine trainee. Normally that wouldn’t make the news, except this pup was China’s first cloned police dog, according to Chinese state media.
The two-month-old pup is named Kunxun, and is a Kunming wolfdog cloned from a seven-year-old veteran police dog named Huahuangma. Kunxun was cloned via somatic skin sample on September 12 last year, which was then taken back to Beijing, where an embryo was then implanted into a surrogate beagle.
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A bus driver has been accused of deliberately slamming his doors shut on a Muslim woman wearing a hijab on her way back from a vigil outside Al Noor mosque in Christchurch.
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Victoria has cancelled the visas of 20 gang members over the past three years, it has been revealed. They include youths with convictions for assaults, armed robberies, and drug trafficking.
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Driver Sentenced to Life for Ramming 17 People in Australia
An Islamic State group sympathizer who rammed a car into pedestrians on a busy Australian city sidewalk, killing one person and injuring 16 others, was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison.
Victoria state Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth ordered Saeed Noori, 37, to serve 30 years behind bars before he is eligible for parole.
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Sony Bill Williams took to the stage at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand to deliver the moving address in front of a hundreds-strong crowd on Friday.
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New Zealand Removes Any Reference to Jesus From Parliamentary Prayer
In the wake of the Christchurch mosque attack, we come to find out that New Zealand has removed references to Jesus from the parliamentary prayer, sparking outrage among the country’s Christian population.
Speaker of the House, Trevor Mallard, made the decision to drop references to Jesus in order to make the prayer “more inclusive” for all parliamentarians.
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Omarjan Azari, 24, was seen giving a one-finger ISIS salute and shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ at NSW Supreme Court during his sentencing on Friday.
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Faisal Altaf, from Pakistan, moved to Melbourne with his family eight years ago to ensure his sons Maas, 14, and Saim, 16, were given adequate treatment for their disability, which is similar to autism.
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Rome Investigators Ask Kenya for Aid-Worker Case Info
23-year-old Silvia Romano kidnapped in Kenya in November
(ANSA) — Rome, March 27 — Rome prosecutors are waiting for a reply from the Kenyan authorities after sending a letter of request for the evidence gathered about the case of Silvia Romano, a 23-year-old Italian aid worker kidnapped in the village of Chakama on November 20, sources said Wednesday. Rome prosecutors have opened an investigation into terrorism-related kidnapping over Romano’s abduction. As there is no cooperation treaty between the States, the Italian investigators requested that the information be shared as a sort of international courtesy.
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Peso Tumbles as Trump Threatens to Close Southern Border Next Week
Update (1:47 pm ET): We noted earlier that there’s reason to believe that Trump’s latest round of border-closure threats might be more than just presidential bluster. And now, it appears the market agrees.
The Mexican peso has tumbled to session lows as traders have slowly come to the conclusion that Trump might be serious about shuttering the border next week to try and send a message to the Mexican government. After tweeting the threat earlier today, Trump said Friday afternoon that he might keep the border closed for a long time.
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Border Force Stop Two Boats at Dover — Day After 14 People Found in Channel
TWO boats carrying up to 19 migrants have been found off the coast of Kent a day after 14 people including two children were brought ashore.
A Border Force team spotted the vessels sailing towards Britain this morning and alerted Kent Police at around 4.15am. Police confirmed they were made aware of the discovery near the Port of Dover and added officers were not needed at the scene. The BBC reported the pair of boats in the English Channel were carrying 19 people. The Home Office has been contacted for comment.
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Sea-Watch Says Ship Hijacking Was Act of Self-Defence
Says EU policy inhumane, normal to refuse return to Libya
(ANSAmed) — VALLETTA, MARCH 28 — Johannes Bayer, president of the NGO Sea-Watch, on Thursday called for a humane perspective regarding the case of the merchant ship El Hiblu.1, which was hijacked by rescued migrants on Wednesday after the migrants were told they would be taken back to Libya.
“We have to look at these 108 people with a gaze of humanity and understand that any action taken yesterday was in self-defence against the deadly consequences that would have been imposed with force by the inhumane European policy on borders,” Bayer said.
He said the closure of Italian ports is another cause of the current situation.
Bayer said migrants in Libya are “systematically subject to arbitrary arrest, torture, sexual violence, kidnapping, extortion, slavery, and even murder”.
“It’s absolutely legitimate that people rescued while in danger of losing their lives in the Mediterranean refuse to be taken back to Libya, the same place in which they know they could have only continued to be victims of the most serious possible violations of their rights and the most degrading treatment,” Bayer said.
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There are few methods of literally wiping out a nation more effective, than indoctrinating the people to the point of being useful idiots. Unfortunately, many idiots grow up and are elected to political office. Or even worse, dingbat educators and professors con young Americans into undermining their own nation. One of the hallmarks of this exceptional nation is the heavy emphasis on the importance of “We the People” Our first president stated, “The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can, and undoubtedly will be recalled.”
Washington’s words are astounding when you consider their historical significance. Before establishing the United States, no nation other than possibly antient Israel recognized the importance of the people being involved in the governing of the society…
We all know that what is taught to one generation dictates the direction the nation takes in the next. The dangerous influence of leftist radicals today is a direct result of leftists being foolishly allowed to infiltrate the government school system. Have you noticed how leftist controllers of indoctrination do not allow critical thinking, American history or civics classes? The leftists indoctrinate students with social studies, Islamic culture courses, social studies, socialism and a gradual downgrading of literacy in the primary grades. In order to ultimately destroy a nation from within, there must first be a systematic decrease in the quality of literacy and morality. As illiteracy and the racism of low expectation was indoctrinated into the American black community, there arose an illiterate community of high criminality, Ebonics and low achievement.
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There is an Education Scandal Way Beyond What’s in the News
Each year our universities, elite and not so elite, turn out into society, legions of young people who know “how process and document the human experience.” They take that education and the “sense of connection” and just want to make our lives better. Humanities subjects themselves are important to any society, but I’m left to ponder what additions to these areas of study do professors offer their students. Do they get history lessons accompanied by a fact less possibly tainted worldview?
I am left to wonder when I see and hear these young people root for Socialism while offering disdain for capitalism. I hear them defending and demanding democracy when we are a representative republic not a pure democracy. I hear them demanding that we abandon the Electoral College and instead rely on a national popular vote to elect a president clearly not understanding that to do so would mean east and west coast population centers turning the rest of the country into voiceless serfdom — and that unfortunately is the stuff civil wars are made of. They oppose voter identification laws while supporting sanctuary cities and in some cases sanctuary states for illegal immigrants.
They think 16 year old children should vote, as their matron Nancy Pelosi declared, “I think it’s really important to capture kids when they’re in high school, when they’re interested in all of this, when they’re learning about the government, to be able to vote.” Exactly, Madame Speaker, when they have zero life experience and are easily emotionally manipulated, “Our world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change!” I was 16 once and was never “interested in all this” but I was as gullible as any 16 year old could be. They also believe illegal immigrants should be allowed to vote, might I add legally. Write it down, it’s the next voting rights move.
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Islam: A Multi-Trillion Conglomerate
To look objectively at Islam, it becomes clear that Islam is simply another globally entrenched profitable enterprise.
Islam has a product to sell. A product it sells by any and all means to consumers for over fourteen centuries. As business ventures go, Islam has been both durable and highly successful.
Islam’s founder, Muhammad, formed his enterprise in the Arabian Peninsula at a perfectly opportune time. The primitive tribes of Arabia had no less than 360 idols they worshiped, somewhat akin to the more civilized Greeks who believed in numerous gods.
Muhammad found it very rough when he started his movement. On the one hand, even his own people, the Quraysh, custodians of the idolatry of Mecca, turned against him. In a real sense, he aimed to put them out of their lucrative business and start one of his own. On the other hand, there were several other claimants to prophethood who gathered various and numerous followers. It seemed to be a very bad time for Muhammad to make headway. People of Mecca ridiculed him and called him insane. They rejected the unintelligible verses he claimed were words of Allah, as the nonsensical mutterings of a crazed poet.
Some did not bother to call him crazy. They simplified the allegation and felt he was out of his mind. In those days and age, among the highly backward people of Arabia and other societies, insanity was viewed as punishment meted out as to a person by the gods. Thus, any unfortunate mentally ill individual was treated very harshly.
It was in Medina, a city of a large Jewish population, where he encountered no animosity, where other Arab tribes, either as an expedient move, or by force, swore loyalty to him and his religion. Power begets power. This was indeed the case. As Muhammad gathered more and more followers, he turned on the Jewish community of Medina, killed the men, plundered their belongings, and captured their women and children as slaves. That was the birth of “Jihad.” Be meek and deceptive first, until you gather enough power then unsheathe the sword. It worked then and it works today.
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I should have awoken this morning a free man able to look out and see before me a bright future as free actor on the global stage.
I did not…instead I had to look inward and found that high treason had kept me chained to a globalist tyranny.
There must be an accounting, and that accounting must come soon; we know who is responsible, and why.
I looked at the statue of Lincoln in Parliament Square yesterday and thought of the Gettysburg address.
Where is my government of the people, for the people, by the people?
Errrrrr I agree it seems longer, but it’s not been three years yet…..
Slight nit-picking: The Brexit referendum is only three years ago.
I’m still following this closely to see if Britain will escape this Prison of Nations. My hunch remains ‘No’. We’ll know for sure very soon.
Well, I guess time flies when you’re having fun!
Oh, you have no idea! I wake up every morning looking forward to the latest news.
Then on to Federal Reserve, that amazing institution that has turned money fraudulent:
QT is still ongoing. It is scheduled to end in September – doing it right away would be taken as a sign of panic, and lead to loss in confidence in the System. Direct data:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
My take: What the Fed is doing to defend its credibility will ultimately erode its credibility to perfection. That will be the end of US Federal Government deficit spending, too.
“Change UK (CUK)”
That seems rather an unfortunate acronym. Do you suppose it fits? 😉
In the case of the so-called elites the cap fits and they should wear it.
In the case of the everyday Tommy Robinson supporter ,certainly not.
I don’t know much about most of the MPs involved, but Chuka Umunna comes from the majority-Christian Nigerian state of Biafra, which fought a bloody civil war trying to escape Muslim domination, suggesting that he should have a realistic view of Islam.
As a traditional liberal (UK definition, not American) I’ve never voted Conservative, and wouldn’t support Labour while Jeremy Corbyn is leader. Our “Liberal” party is strongly pro-EU (and not far behind Labour in the antisemitism stakes), so notwithstanding the unfortunate acronym* CUK might get my vote!
*About twenty years back, the British subsidiary of the fashion chain French Connection adopted the name “FCUK”, and sold garments carrying frankly offensive slogans (if one transposed the middle letters). I was amused to hear the head of a chain of sex joints in London’s Soho expressing his outrage, but he had a point.