The board of supervisors in Tazewell County, Virginia (in far southwest Virginia, adjacent to coal-mining areas of West Virginia) voted to fund a county militia to resist any gun-control laws passed by the state legislature in Richmond. As far as I can determine, the state legislature can’t outlaw firearms training by an officially-raised militia — the 10th Amendment reserves that right to the localities. So the Democrats’ proposed law won’t be able to stop the local militia from organizing training operations. Perhaps Governor Coonman will call up the National Guard to deal with these upstart patriots in Tazewell County.
In other news, strikes continued in France in protest of President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed pension reforms, shutting down the Eiffel Tower, airports, and railway stations.
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Peter Schiff: Powell is Resurrecting the Inflation Monster That Volcker Slayed
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker passed away last week. Volker was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, but served most of his term under President Ronald Reagan. Volker was best-known for fighting inflation with interest rate hikes. At the peak, Volker pushed rates all the way to 20%.
Peter talked about Volcker in a recent podcast, noting that he was credited with slaying the inflation monster that today’s Fed seems happy to resurrect.
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Big Tech Billionaires Host Major Fundraiser for Mayor Pete Buttigieg in California
The wealthiest families in Big Tech are hosting a private fundraiser for Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Monday evening in California. Attendees of the fundraiser are set to include Netflix CEO and co-founder Reed Hastings. the co-host of the event, as well as Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin; Wendy Schmidt, the wife of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt; and Michelle Sandberg, the sister of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, according to a report from Vox.
“The Brin, Schmidt, Hastings, and Sandberg families have a combined net worth of about $80 billion,” the Vox report estimates.
To meet with Mayor Pete in this intimate setting, guests must donate $2,800 per person to his campaign.
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Clinton’s Charity Confirms Qatar’s $1 Million Gift While She Was at State Dept
NEW YORK (Reuters) — The Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was U.S. secretary of state without informing the State Department, even though she had promised to let the agency review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments.
Qatari officials pledged the money in 2011 to mark the 65th birthday of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton’s husband, and sought to meet the former U.S. president in person the following year to present him the check, according to an email from a foundation official to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta. The email, among thousands hacked from Podesta’s account, was published last month by WikiLeaks…
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The real story behind the Dems’ rush for impeachment has finally emerged. Thanks to investigatory work by Rudy Giuliani, we now know that prominent Democrats ran billions of dollars in money laundering, extortion and kickbacks through Ukraine, funneling cash to their own pockets through an elaborate network of shell companies and corporate fronts. (Source)
In essence, Rudy Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, just uncovered the “Panama Papers” of the Democrat party.
As reported by The National Sentinel, here’s what he found:
- Ukrainian officials offered up six criminal cases involving Joe and Hunter Biden, including “money laundering;”
- One Ukrainian official produced official communiques and documents he says proves that Obama’s U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and ‘impeachment witness’ Maria Yovanovich perjured herself during her hearing;
- Another, Victor Shokin, the former Ukrainian prosecutor general, described how then-President Petro Poroshenko came into his office and told him he’d better stop investigating Hunter Biden or the country would lose a billion dollars in aid, as Joe Biden threatened (Shokin was fired);
- There are dozens of inquiries open into possible misallocation of U.S. funds in Ukraine, with the U.S. Embassy’s involvement.
As The Gateway Pundit adds:
Rudy revealed a huge money laundering operation involving the Bidens and Burisma Holdings. Money was flowing through Latvia and Cyprus disguised as loans to various tech companies then paid out as ‘board fees’ to Hunter Biden.
“That is a straight out violation of a money laundering statute,” Giuliani said.
Giuliani revealed that there is documents showing Schiff’s star witness, fired US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch perjured herself at least twice during her impeachment testimony.
Documents prove Yovanovitch was personally involved in the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s investigations and denied visas to witnesses who could prove Biden, Dem corruption, Giuliani said.
The Democrats launched a sham impeachment inquiry against President Trump because he was doing his duty to get to the bottom of Ukrainian corruption involving Obama-era officials and other Democrats.
The Obama administration and Democrats were using Ukraine as a conduit to launder millions, if not billions of dollars of US money back into their pockets.
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Deranged De Niro Declares He Would ‘Disown’ His Children if They Were Like Trump’s Kids
Says President is worse than psychopath killers he has played in films
Hollywood uber leftist Robert De Niro declared Monday that he would disown his children if they were anything like President Trump’s family, and called the President a ‘a low life’ who is worse than a murdering mobster.
“I don’t want my kids to take this the wrong way, but if my kids did what [Trump’s] kids did, I wouldn’t want to be related to them. I would disown them.” De Niro raged.
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FISA Court Issues Rare Public Order Condemning FBI for Russia Probe Abuses and Demanding Reforms
In a rare public order issued Tuesday, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court condemned the FBI for the errors and omissions in its application to surveil Trump-campaign adviser Carter Page and gave the bureau until January 10th to propose reforms to prevent future abuses.
The order follows the release of Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report, which detailed 17 “significant errors and omissions” in the warrant application to surveil Page.
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Has the Ground Zero Mosque Project Returned?
The highly controversial ‘ground zero mosque’ project that was shelved after numerous protests appears to be back in the form of a 16,000-square-foot Islamic cultural center set to be built in the same place in Manhattan.
The ‘ground zero mosque’ (originally named Cordoba House) was envisioned as a 13-story Islamic community center and mosque in Lower Manhattan. It would have replaced a building that was damaged during the 9/11 attacks by plane parts and accommodated a “prayer space” for up to 2,000 Muslims.
Following widespread controversy and opposition from 9/11 families, the project was abandoned, but an Islamic cultural museum with a Muslim “prayer space” was subsequently built and recently completed.
However, it appears as though a larger new mosque is being planned for the site.
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Hundreds of Professors Sign Letter Begging Congress to Impeach Trump
Hundreds of college professors, referring to themselves as “American historians,” have signed a letter begging the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach President Donald Trump, claiming that the president has “violated his oath” and citing his “brazen contempt” for the government. The signees even suggest that Alexander Hamilton himself would disagree with the president’s “private life” as a reason for impeachment.
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New Poll Suggests Impeachment Hearings Have Actually Helped Trump
A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll shows President Trump beating all of his potential Democratic 2020 opponents, suggesting the impeachment proceedings have actually helped solidify his support.
The poll of 1,000 registered voters was conducted Dec. 10-14, right as House Democrats were preparing to announce a vote on Trump’s impeachment.
The numbers show Trump defeating former Vice President Joe Biden by 3 percentage points, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by 5 points, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren by 8 points.
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Trump Supporters Erupt at Democratic Rep. Slotkin Town Hall After Coming Out in Favor of Impeachment
Democrats in the House of Representatives are poised to impeach President Trump but not all members are on board.
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Trump Tells Pelosi in Blistering Letter That Dems Are ‘Declaring Open War on American Democracy’
President Trump, in a blistering, no-holds-barred six-page letter Tuesday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., lambasted the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry as an “open war on American Democracy,” writing that she has violated her oath of office and “cheapened the importance of the very ugly word, impeachment!”
“Everyone, you included, knows what is really happening,” Trump said, just a day before House Democrats were expected to vote to impeach him. “Your chosen candidate lost the election in 2016, in an Electoral College landslide (306-227), and you and your party have never recovered from this defeat. So you have spent three straight years attempting to overturn the will of the American people and nullify their votes. You view democracy as your enemy!”
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UK Comedy Club Cited “Inclusiveness” When it Announced Blanket Ban on Conservatives
A comedy club in London that slapped a blanket ban on Conservatives in the aftermath of the UK election did so in the name of “inclusiveness.”
Yes, really.
Promoter Mark O’Neil reacted to the leftist Labour Party’s crushing defeat by tweeting “we’re literally Hitler now,” and asserting that Conservative performers were no longer welcome at his Comedy-by-Bow event.
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VA County Forms Militia to Protect Sheriffs, Citizens From Democrats
Anti-Second Amendment politicians are at heads with local governments
On this Wednesday broadcast of The David Knight Show, you’ll learn about a local government standing up to state politicians in Virginia, the Democrats’ impeachment sham and much more.
The Washington Examiner reports, “Local leaders in a southwest Virginia county have approved a resolution placing emphasis on citizens’ rights to form a militia and disavowing gun control measures expected to pass through the state legislature next year.”
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Virginia County to Fund Militia, Per US Constitution, In Wake of Democrats’ Gun-Control Agenda
Amid dozens of Virginia counties declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries in case the state enacts strict gun-control measures next year, Tazewell County joined in — and took a big extra step.
In addition to passing a resolution declaring the county a Second Amendment sanctuary, the Tazewell County Board of Supervisors on Dec. 3 also passed a resolution underscoring the right to a well-funded and regulated militia as described in the U.S. Constitution and the commonwealth’s constitution, WJHL-TV reported.
And even though Democrats outnumber Republicans 3-2 on the board, both resolutions passed unanimously, the station said…
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“Blackface” Trudeau Wants “Significant Penalties” For Online “Hate Speech”
Hypocrite Canadian PM moves to end free speech in the Great White North.
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Arrest Made in Toronto-Area Serial Rapist Case
Toronto Police have announced that they have arrested Dipesh Patel, 34, after months of investigating the case of a suspected serial rapist in the Greater Toronto Area.
Patel, who is facing 20 charges related to four different sexual assaults between 2015 and 2019, was arrested in Toronto on November 1 following his last alleged sex crime.
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Canadian Literary Editor Fired After Supporting Free Speech
Will Johnson, a Canadian literary editor, was fired from his position at the Humber Literary Review for supporting Meghan Murphy’s right to freedom of speech.
Johnson, who had been with Humber for 5 years, said he had never heard of Meghan Murphy prior to the Toronto Public Library scandal, in which Chief Librarian Vickery Bowles made headlines for standing behind her decision to support the rental of library space to Murphy.
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New Study: Canadian Arctic Was About 1-2°C Warmer During Medieval Times
Four reconstructions from the central and western High Arctic reveal July temperatures were about 1-2°C warmer than today during most of the first millennium and Medieval period (Tamo and Gajewski, 2019).
A few years ago, a chironomid reconstruction of the Boothia Peninsula in the Canadian Arctic (Fortin and Gajewski, 2016) revealed not only were today’s temperatures the coldest of the last 7000 years but the last 150 years “do not indicate warming during this time.”
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“Sickening and Disgusting”: ‘It’s Okay to be White’ Posters Appear in Scottish City
Police are investigating fliers that appeared in a Scottish city that read “It’s okay to be white,” with one member of Parliament calling them “atrocious.”
The posters appeared in Perth city center and were plastered all over lampposts and drainpipes throughout the city over the weekend.
Perth Against Racism said it was alerted to the posters by locals who said they made them feel “unsafe.”
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Eastern Capitals Join Forces Against Illiberal Governments
The mayors of four eastern EU capitals, Budapest, Prague, Warsaw and Bratislava, formed an “pact of free cities” as an alliance of resistance against nationalist governments. The liberal-leaning mayors pledged to protect “freedom, human dignity, democracy, equality, rule of law, social justice, tolerance and cultural diversity.” They also want to jointly lobby the EU for direct funding as some governments attempt to squeeze the budgets of opposition-led capitals.
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Farage: Soros Failed in the UK
Brexit was a major factor determining the result of the UK elections, but Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership was also part of it, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage told Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap.Regarding his party’s decision not to run in almost half of the constituencies, Farage said his slogan was “country before party”, and stressed that the strategy has proved to be successful in “basically killing” the campaign of the Liberal Democrats in several Tory-held regions.
Farage reminded that George Soros “has been trying really hard” to make a second referendum happen, but he failed to “enformce his globalist agenda”.
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France on Strike: Power Cuts, Schools Shut, No Eiffel Tower
PARIS (AP) — French union activists cut electricity to nearly 100,000 homes or offices. Eiffel Tower staff walked off the job. Even Paris opera workers joined in Tuesday’s nationwide protests across France, singing an aria of anger as workers rallied against the government’s plan to raise the retirement age to 64.
Despite 13 days of crippling train and subway strikes, French President Emmanuel Macron and his government stayed firm. The prime minister declared his “total” determination to reshape a pension system that unions celebrate as a model for the rest of the world but that he calls unfair and destined to collapse into debt.
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France Strike: Airports and Trains Hit by More Action
More major strike action is planned in France today (Tuesday December 17), with disruption expected on trains and at airports, as well as schools and hospitals — as one million are expected to march.
Many unions called for strike action to continue today, including the FO-CGT-FSU-Solidaires alliance, youth unions MNL, Unef and UNL; and the CFDT and CFTC. The latter two groups are in favour of the government’s proposed universal system, but dispute what they see as changes to retirement age.
Shops in Paris on the main protest march route from Place de la République to Place de la Nation have been asked to close during the action, with authorities fearing that the movement could turn violent.
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Malta Murder Crisis Takes EU Centre Stage
The rule-of-law crisis in Malta made it to the EU centre stage in Strasbourg on Monday (17 December) after two years of inertia on the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Calls for Maltese prime minister Jospeh Muscat to resign rang out from most sides in a special European Parliament (EP) debate.
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Man Fired Over ‘Driven by a German’ Sign on Bus
A man in Dresden, Germany was fired for displaying a sign on his bus that read “This bus is steered by a German driver.”
The controversy began when a passenger took a photograph of the sign and sent it to the Dresden Transport Company (DVB) on social media asking what it was.
Thankfully, the bus driver was immediately fired for his thought crimes against diversity and will probably never be employed by a transport company again.
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No to “Champagne With Billionaires”: Boris Johnson to Boycott Davos
Newly elected British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to boycott Davos, with one government source remarking, “Our focus is on delivering for the people, not champagne with billionaires.”
Johnson’s newly formed Conservative government will not attend the annual confab of global elitists.
According to the Daily Mail, “Boris Johnson has banned ministers from attending next month’s Davos summit — the annual gathering of the global elite.”
One government source told the newspaper, “Our focus is on delivering for the people, not champagne with billionaires.”
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Poland’s Exports Grow Faster Than EU’s
Poland’s exports in January-October 2019 grew by 5.6 percent year on year, faster than in the entire EU, the Development Ministry reported on Tuesday, quoting the Eurostat data on EU’s trade with non-EU countries.
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Pope Francis Accepts Resignation of Nuncio Charged With Homosexual Abuse
ROME — The Vatican announced Tuesday that Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Luigi Ventura, the papal nuncio to France, who has been under investigation by French authorities for sexual crimes since January 2019.
Archbishop Ventura (pictured) turned 75 years old — at which point prelates are obliged to tender their resignation — on December 9, and the pope lost no time in announcing his acceptance.
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Surprise! 1 Country Has Guts to Call Boycott-Israel Movement Anti-Semitic
Leftists and Muslims who deny the nation of Israel the right to exist have been dealt a stunning blow by the Austrian Parliament’s official declaration that the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement, or BDS, is “anti-Semitic.”
Soeren Kern a senior fellow for the Gatestone Institute, noted that all of the major parties represented in the Austrian Parliament have agreed to support a resolution.
“The measure calls on Austria’s federal government to fight anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, and to withhold any form of financial and other state support from anti-Semitic organizations and advocates of BDS principles.”
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Sweden: Teen Caught With Large Bomb Claims He Thought it Was Drugs
A Swedish court dropped public endangerment charges against a teen who was caught with a large bomb in his backpack which he claimed he had thought were drugs at the time.
Police arrested the teen, then 18-years-old, in July on a train headed for Stockholm and found a gun and 1.5 kilograms of explosive material in a can in his backpack, roughly the same amount of explosive used in the deadly London 2005 bombings, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
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[…]and he shores up his Cabinet by making Nicky Morgan a PEER
Boris Johnson tonight posed with 109 newly-elected Conservative MPs in Parliament as the surging Tories flexed their muscles and the Prime Minister started to shape his new administration.
The PM met with the cohort of fresh-faced MPs in Westminster Hall in a show of strength to their opponents after the Conservatives sensationally succeeded at redrawing the UK’s political map at the election last week.
The mass of MPs stood behind Mr Johnson showed just how much his fortunes have changed with the PM now in control of 365 seats in the House of Commons and a majority of 80.
He will now be able to deliver on his ‘Get Brexit Done’ mantra and take the UK out of the EU by January 31.
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UK: Boris Johnson to Make it Illegal to Delay Brexit Date Again
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will make it illegal for parliament to force the British government to extend the transition period beyond December 31st, 2020.
The move preempts efforts by Remainer activists and parliamentarians — the latter however now in the minority — from forcing the Conservative government to accept another Brexit delay if negotiators do not agree on a deal on the future relationship with the EU by the end of the 11-month transition period.
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UK: Gina Miller Admits Defeat in Brexit Battle — But Next Remainer Fight is for Soft Exit
Anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller has admitted defeat, but said Remainers’ next battleground will be to campaign to make the UK’s exit from the EU as soft as possible.
Businesswoman Gina Miller — who launched legal action against Prime Minister Boris Johnson for suspending parliament earlier this year — admitted defeat as the Conservatives won an 80-seat majority in the House of Commons last week.
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UK: Tories to Appoint Brexiteer Peers to Balance Remainers Lords: Report
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly planning to grant peerages to Tory Brexiteers in order to rebalance the remainer-dominated House of Lords, according to a report.
Conservative insiders have told The Telegraph that those including trade experts and lawyers are expected to be elevated in coming weeks before key Brexit legislation is passed. Those names being discussed include Brexiteer former MP Zac Goldsmith, Martin Howe QC, trade specialist Shankar Singham, and businessman Johnny Leavesley.
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What the UK Election Really Represents
Paul Joseph Watson analyzes the fallout from the UK election and what it really signifies.
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Montenegro Honors Slain Police Officer; 3 People in Custody
PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Dozens of Montenegrins drove in a convoy of cars and lit candles Monday to commemorate a police officer who was shot and killed while apprehending suspects.
Police said that three Albanian nationals have been detained in connection with the slaying on Sunday of 41-year-old officer Milutin Lekovic near the southern town of Herceg Novi.
Lekovic had detained three suspects he had caught without documents in the area that is close to the border with European Union member Croatia. Inside the police car, one of the suspects pulled out a hidden gun and shot Lekovic who later died in a hospital…
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Report Claims Chinese Army Infiltrating Western Universities
A report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has claimed that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army has used groups to infiltrate universities across Western Europe.
The report identifies 12 arms groups and 68 schools the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is involved with as well as 16 research laboratories created by Chinese arms groups in Western countries.
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Statistics from an analysis of online porn viewing have revealed Australians were watching triple the amount of porn in just three years.
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Stu Pengelly, from Perth, cooked a 1.5kg pork roast in his old Datsun for ten hours on a 39C day.
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Aerial images show the fires came only metres from the homes of many people living on the mid-north coast between Forster and Port Macquarie.
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Khaled Khayat, 52, was jailed for for 40 years and Mahmoud Khayat, 34, for 36 years, with non-parole periods of 30 years and 27 years respectively, over the foiled plot at Sydney Airport in 2017.
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Brazil’s Environment Minister Riles Climate Activists With … Meat
Brazil’s environment minister trolled the recent climate talks in a tweet that may have some activists seeing red.
Ricardo Salles — a participant in the longest U.N. climate talks on record, which came to a disappointing end Sunday — posted an image of a meat platter in an apparent dig at environmentalists.
“To offset our emissions at COP, a veggie lunch!” Salles posted in reference to the talks, which his boss, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, also has criticized.
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Belgian City’s Migrant Population Nearly Doubles
Ghent officials claim everything is fine, despite overflowing asylum facilities.
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Belgium: Migrant Population in Ghent Doubles in 4 Years
Belgium’s second most populous city has seen its migrant population nearly double in the last four years alone, new reports have revealed.
The city of Ghent in East Flanders is now home to more than 3,000 asylum seekers — most of whom are men — who have come from mainly Afghanistan, Syria, and Somalia, Flemish newspaper Het Nieuwsblad reports.
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Border Force officials intercepted five small boats carrying at least 69 suspected migrants, including ten children, off the coast of Dover this morning following a Channel crossing.
British and French border patrol boats stopped the tiny vessels after they risked the near 21-mile Dover Straits crossing in treacherous weather conditions.
The incident brings the total number of migrants to have made it to British shores this year to around 1,700 — with 79 making the journey in a single day just two weeks ago.
[Comment: Article dated December 17, 2019.]
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Hundreds of people waited outside the Department of Motor Vehicle offices in New York on Monday to take advantage of a new law permitting undocumented migrants to get a driving license.
It was the first day the state began issuing driver’s licenses that don’t require applicants to prove they are in the US legally.
The new law, commonly known as the Green Light Law, was passed by legislators in June this year, before going into effect on December 16.
It allows all of those aged 16 and older living in New York to apply for a license ‘regardless of their citizenship or lawful status’ in the US.
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Illegal Aliens Pack New York Dmvs After State Allows Driver’s Licenses for All
‘This is all a power grab for the ballot box in New York, trying to give illegals the right to vote,’ says NY clerk.
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Migrant Arrivals From Turkey to EU Increase in 2019
The number of migrants crossing from Turkey to Europe grew by almost half in 2019 compared to 2018, according to an EU report published by German newspaper Die Welt. From January to the middle of December, 70,002 migrants reached the EU from Turkey, representing a 46 percent increase compared to the same period in 2018. Most migrants crossed the Aegean Sea to Greece, some reached Bulgaria, Italy and Cyprus.
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Sweden: Migrant Gang Beat, Urinate on Teenager
A new video out of Sweden shows a gang of migrants beating and urinating on a Swedish teenager in the latest example of cultural enrichment from everyone’s favorite progressive utopia.
The clip shows the boy being laughed at, insulted and beaten as the mob discusses taking money off him.
“Let me piss on him,” states one of the migrants before ordering the boy to open his mouth and urinating in his mouth.
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Barbara Kay: Ontario Mother Takes on School’s Trans Ideology With Human Rights Claim
On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, National Post columnist Barbara Kay joins me to discuss the Ontario mother starting a new project at GenderReport.ca to fight radical trans ideology.
The project — and the Human Rights complaint lodged by the Buffone family against the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board — were inspired by the confusion and anxiety experienced by the young Buffone daughter after gender fluidity was introduced as a classroom lesson.
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Big Green, Inc: The Heinz Endowments Assault on a Prosperous Pennsylvania
The Heinz Endowments, a grantmaking organization in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has long been viewed in the region as a community pillar. But while the Heinz Endowments purports to fund needed, worthwhile enhancements to the wellbeing of western Pennsylvania, many of the organization’s grants do just the opposite, working to stoke baseless public fear and paint some of the region’s most vital industries as villains. In the period from 2008 to 2016 the Heinz Endowments contributed over $120 million in environmental grants, as documented by Big Green, Inc., a project of the Institute for Energy Research. While some of the recipients are working toward meaningful environmental progress, such as in local air quality, tens of millions of dollars went to organizations more intent upon stymying economic development than furthering any justifiable conception of environmental quality.
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The family unit is one of the fundamental pillars of any society, and so the weaker our family units become the weaker our entire nation is going to become. For decades, the traditional family unit has been under assault in America, and the consequences have been absolutely catastrophic. Today, the marriage rate has dropped to levels that we have never seen before, we continue to have one of the highest divorce rates in the entire world, and more couples than ever are choosing not to get married at all. As a result, the number of single parents has been steadily rising, and at this point the United States actually has the highest rate of children living with a single parent of any country on the entire planet. The following comes from Pew Research…
For decades, the share of U.S. children living with a single parent has been rising, accompanied by a decline in marriage rates and a rise in births outside of marriage. A new Pew Research Center study of 130 countries and territories shows that the U.S. has the world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households.
Almost a quarter of U.S. children under the age of 18 live with one parent and no other adults (23%), more than three times the share of children around the world who do so (7%).
You would think that with how rapidly modern notions of “morality” are spreading around the globe that someone out there would be worse than us, but sadly we are dead last on the list.
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Exclusive Video: Free Speech Expert Says Millions of US College Students Denied Free Speech
About 6.4 million students are denied free speech on college campuses, according to an annual report by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
The report, titled “Spotlight on Speech Codes 2020,” organized schools into three categories: “red light” institutions where free speech is the most restricted, “yellow light” institutions, and “green light” institutions that “nominally protect free speech,” according to FIRE.
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Exorcists Condemn Children’s Book on Summoning Demons
ROME — The International Association of Exorcists (AIE) has issued a statement warning parents of the dangers of a 2019 children’s book that gives instructions on how to summon up demons.
The statement refers to A Children’s Book of Demons, a book targeting children aged 5-10 by Aaron Leighton, an illustrator and “fan” of occult practices. The book invites children to summon demons as a way of dealing with unpleasant problems such as chores, homework, and getting rid of bullies.
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Hallmark Says it Will “Reinstate” TV Ads Featuring Same-Sex Couple After Outcry
The Hallmark Channel on Sunday moved to reinstate ads featuring a same-sex couple that had been removed from the cable network. The decision came after considerable backlash over the initial decision to stop airing the ads from the wedding-planning company Zola.
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Obama Believes All Nations Should be Run by Women
“If you look at the world and look at the problems it’s usually old people, usually old men, not getting out of the way,” former President Barack Obama said at an event in Singapore recently.
The event was for the Obama Foundation, their stated mission is to inspire, empower, and connect people to change their world.
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SBC Chooses Gay-Affirming Pastor as 2020 Conference President
The Southern Baptist Convention chose David Uth, pastor of First Baptist Church in Orlando, as the president of the Pastor’s Conference for the next year’s annual meeting. Many should be reminded about who Uth is, and ask the question whether or not SBC leadership will be making strides for LGBTQ inclusion along with the rest of their latest compromises.
David Uth hosted a gay-affirming LGBTQ event in the wake of the Orlando gay night club shooting at his church, FBC Orlando. In case you have forgotten, #LoveOrlando was a gay-straight hug fest that happened at the church in the shooting’s aftermath. Taking the stage at that event was pastor Larry G. Mills, who said the following:…
In the wake of widespread criticism of this abominable, gay-affirming event (the church then asked homosexuals to come forward to be anointed and have hands laid upon them), David Uth prayed that God would strike discerning Christians dead if they criticized him.
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Why the Left Doesn’t Like Christmas
I want to try to explain why this has happened.
The “inclusive” argument is so absurd — I am a religious Jew and cannot even fathom being offended or feeling “not included” by an invitation to a Christmas party — that there have to be other, or at least additional, reasons for the left’s neutering of Christmas.
There are.
One is that the left sees in Christianity its primary ideological and political enemy. And it is right to do so. The only large-scale organized opposition to the left comes from the traditional Christian community — evangelical Protestants, traditional Catholics and faithful Mormons — and Orthodox Jews. Leftism is a secular religion, and it deems all other religions immoral and false.
From Karl Marx to Vladimir Lenin to George Soros, the left has regarded religion in general and Christianity in particular as the “opiate of the masses” — a drug that dulls the masses into accepting their oppressed condition and, thereby, keeps them from engaging in revolution.
The left understands that the more people believe in Christianity (and Judaism), the less chance the left has to gain power. The left doesn’t concern itself with Islam, because it perceives Islam as an ally in its war against Western civilization, and because leftists do not have the courage to confront Islam. They know that confronting religious Muslims can be fatal, whereas confronting religious Christians entails no risks.
Second, the left regards Christianity in America as an intrinsic part of American national identity — an identity it wishes to erode in favor of a “world citizen” identity.
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“British and French Border Force Boats Stop ‘69 Illegal Migrants’ Including Ten Children in Channel Dash to Reach UK in Early Hours of Morning, Bringing This Year’s Total to 1,700” Oh? I thought muslim journalists claimed muslims were leaving the UK, not vice versa?
I’ve not seen that report, AK; do you have a link please?
Apologies for my slightly earlier comment, AK; I see the issue is covered in more detail below. I’ve been away for a family event, and am catching up with GoV in reverse order, so to speak.
Am in Germany right now (Heidelberg), drove down from Düsseldorf. Gorgeous country. Saw the old castle then I hit the Christmas markets tonight, it was scorchingly white. Makes me depressed a nut job like Merkel is running things
About the Illegals in the USA:
I dont understand why the Immigration Police(or what they are called)dont gone there to catch them?
Did somebody forbid it?
Anyone who reports the ‘it’s ok to be white’ sign, as a problem, have admitted to a hate crime.
My whole trip to Europe over the past week or so has been pretty bittersweet. Started in Belgium, went to Bastogne for the anniversary, then Luxembourg, then France, and now in Germany until I drive back to Brussels to fly back to Texas.
Huge parts of these countries are still indeed homogenous. The men I’ve seen, Frenchman and German men alike, hardly the broken down emasculates types i was expecting, at least not particularly-just seemed like normal white guys you’d see in the states. Driving thru the Rhine valley there were churches everywhere, not a mosque in sight, including when I got to Heidelberg and Mannheim. I even stopped by Trumps ancestral village in Kallstadt. It almost made me feel like mass-immigration was just a bad nightmare I’d woken up from, the only reminder being the token hijabi or African here and there. The Christmas market too, it was like a fantasy universe I had entered, where things in Europe panned out the right way. This is all anecdotal obviously.
I didn’t even bother checking on here because I didn’t want to be reminded, I wanted to remain in my emotional high. The Black Forest is next for me and then Alsace to see some more German castles. Rural Europe is still beautiful, don’t ever let anyone tell you otherwise, and it will always trump the cosmopolitan dumps that pass as “”“European””” cities these days.
Not trying to be pretentious, but the thing that pierced me like a knife has been the Sunday’s I’ve spent, in Paris, Bastogne, and Düsseldorf, in every one of them, the churches were empty. I went out of my way to attend each and they were empty. And you just know that at the same time the nearest Mosque was probably jam packed. It’s the fundamental truth about Europe. Whether or not it will end up as a caliphate is yet to be seen, but one thing is sure: Christianity as an actual practice is utterly DEAD here. (at least the West Europe, but my understanding is that even the East has become like this)
The churches may be beautiful, the countries and cultures I’m seeing may have been shaped by Christianity, but now it’s all just architecture and fun traditions like Christmas. Church’s don’t stand for anything in modern Europe, Mosques do.
three weeks* or so
United – stand – Islamised denationalised and politically corrected – fall – . Stopping now can save millions of innocent lives.