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Tom Fitton on Suing for Anti-Trump FBI Info, Uncovers New Clinton Docs, & Sues CA over Voter Rolls
EU agrees clampdown on bitcoin platforms to tackle money laundering
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union states and legislators agreed on Friday on stricter rules to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing on exchange platforms for bitcoin and other virtual currencies, the EU said in a statement.
The agreement is part of a broader set of measures to tackle financial crimes and tax evasion. EU legislators also backed stricter controls on pre-paid cards, and raised transparency requirements for the owners of trusts and companies.
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-moneylaundering/eu-agrees-clampdown-on-bitcoin-platforms-to-tackle-money-laundering-idUSKBN1E928M
It’s also a convenient excuse to clamp down on the non-criminal transborder flow of cash.
The rich and the Super rich are transferring a large percentage of their capital out of Europe and are purchasing Islands and and large estates in nations they think will be semi safe during the coming chaos. That Capital flight is hurting the European Economy.
Tillerson urges long halt to North Korea weapons tests before any talks
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday urged North Korea to carry out a “sustained cessation” of weapons testing to allow the two countries to hold talks about Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs.
Tillerson’s remarks were a retreat from his position earlier this week when he offered to begin direct talks with North Korea without preconditions, backing away from a key U.S. demand that Pyongyang must first accept that giving up its nuclear arsenal would be part of any negotiations.
But the White House distanced itself from those remarks by Tillerson and said now is not the time for negotiations.
“North Korea must earn its way back to the table. The pressure campaign must and will continue until denuclearization is achieved,” Tillerson told a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on North Korea’s weapons programs. He did not specify how long the lull should last.
He told reporters after the meeting that the United States would not accept any preconditions for talks with North Korea.
Tillerson had raised hopes this week that the United States and North Korea could negotiate to resolve their standoff when he said that the United States was “ready to talk any time North Korea would like to talk.”
http://www.oann.com/tillerson-need-sustained-north-korea-lull-before-talks-can-happen/
Obama State Dept. let Clinton, Huma walk away with boxes of ‘Muslim engagement’ docs
By LU Staff December 15, 2017
The Obama State Department allowed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aide Huma Abedin to remove call logs, scheduling documents, and files described as “Muslim Engagement” from government premises by labeling the records “private,” Judicial Watch has learned.
Judicial Watch obtained records about the document removals in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for all forms authorizing the removal of “personal papers and non-record materials,” according to a Thursday press release.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement:
These new documents show the Obama State Department had a deal with Hillary Clinton to hide her calls logs and schedules, which would be contrary to FOIA and other laws. When are the American people going to get an honest investigation of the Clinton crimes?
The documents, which are not classified but carry a special notation that they are not to be made public under normal FOIA procedure, include a list of Clinton’s personal and official calls. The special notation was included as part of an addendum signed by Clarence N. Finney Jr., then-director of the Office of Correspondence and Records, who reviewed the records.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2017/12/15/obama-state-dept-let-clinton-huma-walk-away-boxes-muslim-engagement-docs/
Richard: The Hollywood left is making fools of themselves again and again proving they know nothing about economics or international relations. Will Smith is once again proving that he is a racist who wants to oppress the whites, he doen’t want a society where everyone is judged by their character but rather one where anyone with a lighter complexion then him are oppressed with the darker complexion people being on the top.
Actor Will Smith following Alabama election: Let’s ‘cleanse’ the nation till its Obamaesque
By Joe Newby December 15, 2017
While appearing at a California press event, actor Will Smith weighed in on the special election in Alabama in somewhat apocalyptic terms, making a statement similar to one he made during last year’s general election.
“This is the purge, right? This is the cleanse, this is what happens. This is the natural reaction to the amount of light that came into the world when Barack Obama was president,” he said.
Writing at Newsbusters, Corinne Weaver reported:
https://libertyunyielding.com/2017/12/15/actor-will-smith-following-alabama-election-lets-cleanse-nation-till-obamaesque/
Hi Eeyore and readers of Vladtepesblog,
Wilders drops PVV Rotterdam campaign leader for far-right links
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2017/12/wilders-drops-pvv-rotterdam-campaign-leader-for-far-right-links/?utm_source=newsletter
Thank You.
Sebastian Gorka and Sara Carter on bias and the FBI
Sekulow: Were warrants issued based on anti-Trump dossier?
Italy: Police clash with anti-fascist protesters in Modena
Police clashed with anti-fascist protesters in Modena on Friday after a demonstration against the arrival of anti-migrant far-right activists turned violent.
Can they get that level of enthusiasm into the police in other countries when they are taking on antifa?
VIRGINIA IMAM SHAKER ELSAYED ENDORSES FEMALE CIRCUMCISION (FGM)
During a sermon in Fairfax County, Virginia, Imam Shaker Elsayed endorsed the practice of female circumcision, saying that it was “the honorable thing for girls” in cases when it is necessary in order to prevent hypersexuality.
“A Muslim gynecologist can tell you if you need to or not,” he said, adding that the practice damages the woman’s sexuality only if more is cut off than necessary.
The Egyptian-born Shaker Elsayed, who has been the resident imam at Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center since June 2005 and served as Secretary-General of the Muslim American Society in 2000-2005, further warned that “in societies where circumcision of girls is completely prohibited, hypersexuality takes over the entire society, and a woman is not satisfied with one person, or two, or three.”
For another sermon by Imam Elsayed, in which he said that the children of Israel had slayed prophets, see MEMRI TV clip 5989. Dar Al-Hijrah was the mosque where top Al-Qaeda leader Anwar Al-Awlaki served as imam, including on 9/11.
Shaker Elsayed: [Circumcision is] a sunna for the boys, and the honorable thing to do – if needed – for the girls. This is something that a Muslim gynecologist can tell you if you need to or not. The Prophet… There used to be a lady who used to do this for women, or, I mean, young girls. She is expected to cut only the tip of the sexual sensitive part in the girl, so that she is not hypersexually active. This is the purpose
Let’s see how this waste of skin reacts when the tip of his penis is amputated.
Any so-called “man” (yes, those are sneer quotes) who promotes FGM deserves nothing less.
These Islamic male chauvinist slime-bags are the very worst sort of lowlife scum.
Mohammadan males already undergo circumcision.
“Mohammadan males already undergo circumcision.”
Clearly, not nearly enough. When complete genital amputation (just like Arab Muslims imposed upon West African slaves) becomes the norm, only then might I begin to accept such measures.
Until then, adult Muslim males deserve to sing high soprano.
Trump to remove ‘climate change’ as a national security threat
The Trump administration will reverse course from previous Obama administration policy, eliminating climate change from a list of national security threats. The National Security Strategy to be released on Monday will emphasize the importance of balancing energy security with economic development and environmental protection, according to a source who has seen the document and shared excerpts of a late draft.
“Climate policies will continue to shape the global energy system,” a draft of the National Security Strategy slated to be released on Monday said. “U.S. leadership is indispensable to countering an anti-growth, energy agenda that is detrimental to U.S. economic and energy security interests. Given future global energy demand, much of the developing world will require fossil fuels, as well as other forms of energy, to power their economies and lift their people out of poverty.”
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President Obama made climate change, and the burdensome regulations that accompany its focus, a primary focus of his administration, including in his National Security Strategy released in 2015. “[W]e are working toward an ambitious new global climate change agreement to shape standards for prevention, preparedness, and response over the next decade,” that report said.
“In some ways, [climate change] is akin to the problem of terrorism and ISIL,” Obama said at climate talks in Paris in 2015. During a weekly address, Obama said “Today, there is no greater threat to our planet than climate change.”
In September 2016, President Obama released a memorandum requiring federal agencies to consider the effects of climate change in the development of national security-related doctrine, policies, and plans. All of this alarmed critics concerned with more pressing security risks.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/12/15/breaking-trump-to-remove-climate-change-as-a-national-security-threat/
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Susegana: strappa la pistola ai rapinatori e li mette in fuga a colpi di vaso
Susegana. Tentata rapina alla sala slot di Mirage Orange Games di Susegana. Il titolare, aggredito dai rapinatori, è riuscito a disarmarli e a metterli in fuga
http://tribunatreviso.gelocal.it/treviso/cronaca/2017/12/13/news/susegana-strappa-la-pistola-ai-rapinatori-e-li-mette-in-fuga-a-colpi-di-vaso-1.16233804
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Nürnberg – Afrikanischer Migrant schlägt Rentnerin zusammen
Libya: Libyan Coastguard rescues hundreds of refugees near coast of Algarabolli
Between 250 to 270 refugees were rescued by the Libyan Coastguard and taken to the port of Tripoli, on Saturday.
The refugees were saved by the Libyan Coastguard near the coast of Algarabolli, just east of Tripoli.
Eritrean refugee Muftar recounted, “We lost the direction and we began to go everywhere without any compass, without anything, we were just going, we do not know to where, then we lost the way, we did not know where we are going, after that the Libyan got us.”
The migrants were towed to the Port of Tripoli, where they were fed and given medical treatment by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and International Medical Corps (IMC).
In 2016, the 470km (292 mile) sea crossing claimed an average of 13 lives every day, with many more unreported. Thousands end up trapped in detention centres, some run by the government, some by armed militia.
Pro-migrant protesters rally in Paris
Pro-migrant protesters march in Paris on Saturday, December 16.
The organisation ‘Collectif pour une Nation Refuge’ has called for a nationwide protest in the French capital two days ahead of International Migrants Day in support of migrants’ rights and against police brutality.
Police hunt after ‘gay men punched and told you are not welcome in homophobic attacks’ in Walthamstow
Police are hunting a suspect after gay men were punched and told “you are not welcome” in east London.
One of the victims was punched to the ground and left with a black eye after he was attacked in Walthamstow late on evening.
Another victim was grappled with and told “you are not welcome” as he walked along the high street with his husband after a night out.
Police have released two e-fits based on detailed descriptions from both victims and are investigating the possibility that the attacks were carried out by the same man.
In the first attack on Sunday, October 8, the first victim, a 47-year-old man, was walking along Walthamstow High Street with his husband after a night out in Walthamstow Village.
They were approached by a man who asked them if he could take a picture of them and then asked if they were gay.
Police said the two men walked away but the suspect then grabbed hold of the victim and said “you are not welcome” and grappled with him.
The victim was then pulled away by his husband before they walked away and called police. He was not injured.
In the second attack on Saturday, November 4, the victim, a 31-year-old man, was walking along Hoe Street with two friends.
They were approached by three men who they did not know. One of them allegedly punched the victim in the face and shouted homophobic abuse at him. The attacker fled, police said.
The victim suffered a black eye and cuts and bruises but he did not need to go to hospital.
Scotland Yard said the victims, who were both left extremely shaken after the incidents, provided detailed descriptions of the attacker from which the two e-fits were produced.
A spokesman said: “Based on these descriptions and the locations where the assaults happened, officers have not ruled out the possibility that the attacks may well have been carried out by the same man.”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-hunt-after-gay-men-punched-and-told-you-are-not-welcome-in-homophobic-attacks-in-walthamstow-a3721016.html
Looks like two Homosexuals are discovering the joys of multiculturalism.
Human rights insanity: Barmy laws are preventing 6,000 foreign criminals including killers and rapists being deported while 200 a year are receiving millions of pounds in compensation (dailymaill, Dec 16, 2017)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5185199/Laws-preventing-6-000-criminals-deported.html
“Given the £110,000 compensation payment winging its way towards his bank account, Aliou Bah ought to be a very happy man indeed.
The 28-year-old refugee from Guinea, West Africa, who has two convictions for sexual assault, was awarded the bumper payout last week at Central London County Court after a judge ruled he had been detained for too long by the Home Office while they were trying to deport him.
A jaw-dropping decision indeed, as Judge Nicholas Madge ‘wholeheartedly’ acknowledged when he said that people would believe Bah’s victims — one of whom was only 16 at the time he assaulted her — deserved large payouts, not him.
We shall turn to the Kafka-esque legal shenanigans behind the claim later, but that offensive payout to Bah is just the tip of a very disturbing iceberg.
In actuality, an average of 200 such cases come before the courts every year, typically costing the taxpayer £4.5 million in compensation payouts and making a mockery of Home Office pledges to deport foreign nationals who commit serious crimes.
And, as we shall see, most of these compensation claims have their roots in the highly controversial 1998 Human Rights Act which has fuelled an apparently never-ending merry-go-round of ‘unlawful detention’ claims, often pursued by no-win, no-fee solicitors on behalf of immigrants and refugees with criminal records.
The Home Office says there is a huge risk that criminals facing deportation will abscond if they are not detained.
But inevitable delays caused by obfuscating legal challenges can easily lead to a situation whereby a foreign criminal is deemed to have been kept in detention for too long.
In November 2013, sex offender Jumaa Kater Saleh, a 25-year-old from Sudan, won the right to damages for being unlawfully detained for two years despite being previously jailed for four years for being part of a child sex ring which lured girls as young as 13 to a house for sex.
Saleh, who arrived in the UK in the back of a lorry aged 16 in 2004, was refused asylum but given discretionary leave to remain in the UK until he was 18. He committed his crimes just three years later.
Last month, 39-year-old Somalian Abdulrahman Mohammed — a man with a criminal career spanning 20 years — was awarded £78,500 after his claim for unlawful detention was upheld at the High Court in London.
Mohammed, who lives in West London and has 30 convictions, has been jailed 13 times for crimes including affray, knife possession, assaults and robberies.
He was detained for 445 days too long while the Home Office attempted to deport him. His lawyers took the case to the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that as a boy in the Somalian capital Mogadishu, he had suffered torture and ‘unimaginable barbarity’, leaving him with post-traumatic stress disorder. The UK was ordered not to remove him from the country ‘until further notice’.
Despite acknowledging that he was ‘a prolific and violent offender’ and saying he could ‘well understand why the Home Secretary might wish to deport him’, Judge Edward Pepperall QC ruled that Mohammed had been ‘falsely imprisoned’ and was ‘entitled to justice in a civilised society’.
The same verdict was delivered in relation to Naseer Chawki, a failed asylum-seeker claiming to be a 34-year-old from Iran, who was jailed for ‘revolting’ sex crimes on a crowded London Underground train and was placed in immigration detention for more than four years while the Home Office battled to deport him…”
CBC – MONTREAL MOSQUE – False report, real consequences in Quebec
A false report from TVA had real consequences in Quebec. The network reported two Montreal mosques asked a construction company to exclude female workers from a nearby work site. That report provoked death threats and outrage online despite officials with the mosque repeating that the report is false. After an investigation, the story fell apart and TVA backed away from it.
[ .....Of course they didn't find an official written demand by the Muslim clerics --- but they don't even seem to consider that most probably there could have been an "unofficial" request made by any ordinary Muslim worshipping at the mosque ....]USA – Nativity scene on public property sparks threat of lawsuit
Jason Chaffetz Says Jeff Sessions Has to Go
Viewing terrorist websites isn’t a crime, France’s top constitutional body says (RT, Dec 16, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/news/413380-france-law-terrorist-website/
“The top French constitutional authority has for the second time this year scrapped proposed legislation to criminalize visiting terrorist websites, ruling in favor of civil liberties over increased security from terrorism.
The bill proposes to sentence anyone who visits jihadist websites “without any legitimate reason” to “two years of imprisonment and a €30,000 fine.”
On Friday, the French Constitutional Council, the highest constitutional authority in France, rejected the proposed legislation, considering it “neither adequate, not proportional.” The bill violates freedom of expression and communication, the council said in a statement…”
Detained asylum-seekers win right to sue Papua New Guinea government for compensation (reuters, Dec 16, 2017)
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-australia-asylum/detained-asylum-seekers-win-right-to-sue-papua-new-guinea-government-for-compensation-idUKKBN1EA050
“MELBOURNE (Reuters) – A Papua New Guinea court has given hundreds of asylum-seekers who were held for years in a controversial Australian detention centre the right to sue the PNG government for compensation, Australian media reported on Saturday…”
UN Urges Iraq to Immediately Halt Executions (aawsat, Dec 16, 2017)
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1114681/un-urges-iraq-immediately-halt-executions
“The United Nations rights office has urged Iraq to immediately halt all executions, stressing that putting to death 38 terrorist suspects was “deeply shocking.”
“We are deeply shocked and appalled at the mass execution” at a prison in the southern city of Nasiriyah on Thursday, United Nations human rights office spokeswoman Liz Throssell told reporters in Geneva.
“It appears extremely doubtful that strict due process and fair trial guarantees were followed in these 38 cases,” Agence France Presse quoted Throssell as saying on Friday.
The UN has learned of 106 executions in Iraq so far this year, including mass-hangings of 42 people in September.
“We once again urge the Iraqi authorities to halt all executions, establish an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty and carry out an urgent and comprehensive review of the criminal justice system,” Throssell said…”
Fear, shame preserve silence of abuse by clerics in Pakistan (abcnews, Dec 16, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/fear-shame-preserve-silence-abuse-clerics-pakistan-51829564
CBC – Police arrest suspect in connection with Islamic-themed graffiti spree
52-year-old Windsor man faces numerous mischief charges
Police have arrested a 52-year-old Windsor man in connection with a spree of Islamic-themed graffiti that targeted media organizations and bus shelters across the city.
The words “Sharia now” and “Islam executes drug dealers” were scrawled in red paint on a bus shelter and the windows of CBC Windsor Wednesday.
Similar messages were spotted at locations around the city including CTV and the Windsor Star.
Police received reports a man matching the description of the suspect was at a business on Chatham Street around noon Friday.
The man was arrested without incident and is facing “numerous” counts of mischief for the property damage.
Police thanked the public and media for spreading the word on the investigation and locating the suspect.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/graffiti-spree-windsor-1.4451764
ITALY – FLORENCE – In good faith: Catholic Church sells land for Florence’s first mosque
Muslims in Florence who have campaigned for years to be allowed to build a mosque are to be sold land by the Catholic Church.
Despite opposition from local residents the diocese of Florence has agreed to sell a parcel of church land in Sesto Fiorentino, close to the Tuscan city, meaning Muslims in the area will no longer be forced to pray in garages and basements.
Cardinal Giuseppe Betori, the Archbishop of Florence, told city officials: “Everyone has a right to a dignified place to practise their own religion.”
Reluctance by local authorities to allow mosques is widespread and nothing new. A decade ago a group of councillors in Padua, northern Italy, walked a pig across a site where a mosque was planned in the hope that it would desecrate the site.
By contrast the Pope has hosted Muslim refugees from Syria in Vatican-owned apartments and recently campaigned for the protection of Muslim Rohingya refugees fleeing Burma.
“It’s fairly common for Italian priests to open churches for Muslim worship when mosques are vandalised or burnt down,” Lorenzo Vidino, an expert on extremism from George Washington University in the US, said. “Compare that to people like Matteo Salvini, head of the Northern League, and the Italian right, which thinks the church is betraying Christianity by supporting a large Muslim presence in Italy.”
Izzedin Elzir, an imam in Florence, said that there were at least 800 unofficial places of Muslim worship set up in back rooms across Italy but only a few proper mosques. He said he hoped the land deal, to be signed this month, would encourage politicians to allow Muslims to build “more dignified mosques.”
The church’s desire to see places of worship made available to all faiths follows a deal signed last year by the Italian government with the Association of Muslim Communities in Italy, which Mr Elzir runs, to deliver Friday sermons and Koran readings in Italian. The aim is to prevent the spread of extremism and better integrate Italy’s 1.7 million Muslims. Italy has not suffered a major terrorist attack by jihadists.
Mr Vidino said he had doubts, however, about the Association of Muslim Communities in Italy. “They admitted receiving €25 million from a religious charity in Qatar and they have a track record of links to extremists — people with strong views on integration.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/in-good-faith-catholic-church-sells-land-for-florences-first-mosque-cjdwh7kjh
Heartbroken.
Florence. A place I know and love.
Betrayed.
“Catholic Church sells land for Florence’s first mosque”
The very definition of insanity.
Pope Francis is nothing short of the anti-Christ.
Will no one rid us of this …
UK – Luton man jailed for 12 years for sexually abusing young girl
A man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing a four-year-old girl.
Jenev Varghese, 32, of Foxglove Way, Luton, a former championship body builder, was sentenced at Luton Crown Court today (Wednesday) after being found guilty of two counts of sexually assaulting a child under the age of 13.
During the trial the jury heard how Varghese sexually assaulted the young girl on a number of occasions and threatened to kill her family if she spoke out.
Detective Constable Samantha Shane, of the Bedfordshire Police Public Protection Unit, said: “Varghese took advantage and abused his incredibly young victim in the worst way possible.
“It is impossible to comprehend the abuse that this child suffered, but I hope that her and her family are now able to move on from this awful experience.
“Child sexual abuse is one of the most heinous crimes and it will not be tolerated in our county. We are committed to tackling these sickening individuals and ensuring that they are made to pay for their actions, while at the same time providing the very best support to victims and their families.
“I’m really pleased with the severe sentence today and I hope it sends a stark warning to others who think they can abuse children and get away with it.”
Anyone who has concerns about child sexual abuse should report it to Bedfordshire Police on 101.
https://www.bedfordshire.police.uk/news-and-appeals/man-jailed-sexual-abuse
Interview with Nigel Farage – The price Farage paid (a remarkable interview).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5184815/Nigel-Farage-reveals-price-paid-Brexit.html
He thought it was his duty to go into politics.
There is nothing more ruthless then an old fashion English Gentleman doing what he thinks is his duty. I can’t remember who said this but it is true and I thank God Nigel is on our side.
Italy: ‘Rights without borders’ – Thousands rally in Rome against slavery in Libya
Thousands of people took to the streets of Rome on Saturday, to protest against the enslaving and selling of black Africans in Libya, following an incriminating CNN report about slave auctions in the country.
The protesters marched from Piazza della Repubblica to Piazza del Popolo, holding rallies in both squares. They condemned European Union and Italian agreements with Libya as being a prime cause of people being sold as slaves there. Protesters asked for residence permits on humanitarian grounds for refugees without protection, as well as dignity and a better future.
In the words of one demonstrator, Saturday’s protest was “the demonstration of the invisible, the ones that Europe doesn’t want to make visible, and the ones that Italy and the Italian government keep hiding.”
I wonder if any of the really think they are doing something to stop slavery?
“I wonder if any of them really think they are doing something to stop slavery?”
They’re polishing their halos.
Stopping Islamic slavery will require bombing runs, which none of these pansy-@ssed tossers even have the courage to mention or suggest.
Documents Discussing the Meeting Between Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Former President Bill Clinton (June 27, 2016) Part 01 of 01
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Soros Joins Top Names in African Deal
What unites once the world’s most powerful foreign secretary, once the world’s most powerful hedge fund manager and a scion of perhaps once the world’s most powerful banking dynasty? The answer, surprisingly, is a London-based private equity manager investing in Africa, writes James Mawson, editor of Private Equity News.
Helios Investment Partners, an independent firm set up five years ago by two former executives from TPG Capital, a large and very influential buyout group, has pulled off the feat of bringing George Soros, Madeleine Albright and Jacob Rothschild into the same deal to open up mobile phones to the other half of the African population without telecommunication access.
As co-investors in Helios Towers Africa, the four have committed an initial $350m in equity to buy mobile phone masts in the continent outside of Nigeria and boost telecoms penetration rates beyond 45%.
Temitope Lawani, a co-founder of Helios, said the firm had previously invested with Soros Strategic Partners, the private equity operation of the hedge fund manager who effectively forced the devaluation of sterling more than a decade earlier, in Africa. Soros has been a successful backer of US mobile phone towers, having bought Sprint’s 3,000 masts a few years before, and knows the sector well.
Albright and Rothschild are big investors in emerging markets: Madeline through raising $350m for the Albright Capital Markets fund in 2007, while Lord Rothschild has family investments in emerging markets and runs RIT Capital Partners, a listed investment company.
Lawani said as a result of their expertise, Helios had approached them to join as coinvestors in Helios Towers Africa.
https://www.heliosinvestment.com/news/soros-joins-top-names-in-african-deal
African asylum seeker, 72, who scammed taxpayers out of £40,000 of benefits after he fled BACK to his Somali homeland because he ‘missed the sunshine’ is jailed (dailymail, Dec 16, 2017)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5185817/Refugee-received-benefits-returning-homeland.html
“A Somalian refugee, who continued receiving nearly £39,000 in benefits after returning to his homeland because he missed the sunshine, has been jailed for fifteen months.
Pensioner Mohamed Qoomaal, 72, had pension credit payments sent to him for two-and-a-half years and a mystery person enjoyed rent-free living in his council-funded home.
He even forged an immigration stamp on his British passport in a failed attempt to trick investigators into accepting he had been residing in the UK.
Qoomaal pleaded guilty to two counts of dishonestly failing to notify a change of circumstances regarding Pension Credit and Housing Benefit between August 20, 2013 and February 22, 2016.
Incredibly Qoomaal, of 70 Archery Close, Harrow continued to receive benefits, minus a £44 per-week deduction to compensate the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).
At that rate it would have taken Qoomaal, who also burdens the NHS with heart and renal issues, seventeen years to repay the £38,869.97p total.
Despite arriving in this country fifteen years ago he also needed a taxpayer-funded interpreter during eight court hearings.
‘Why does he live here? Why is he entitled to benefits? What’s he doing here?’ asked Isleworth Crown Court Judge Jonathan Ferris.
‘He can’t have made much of a contribution to the pension credit he is receiving.’
‘He failed to notify the fact he was living abroad in Somalia and in order to mislead investigators he fabricated an immigration stamp in his passport,’ said prosecutor Miss Lisa Matthews.
The court heard Qoomaal wanted to live in a warmer climate for health benefits and only returned to the UK when he heard he was wanted for questioning…”
CANADA – RCMP to re-open 25,000 sexual assault cases
Why not add to this every drug possession conviction, dwi, fraud etc. I bet an arguement can be made that those deserve a second look too. This way we can be sure to overwhelm and paralyze the justice system. They don’t make clear who is really behind this.
Muslims Sue Butlin’s for Health and Safety Scarf Ban on Fairground Ride (breitbart, Dec 16, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/12/16/muslims-sue-butlins-for-health-and-safety-scarf-ban-on-dodgems-ride/
“A Muslim man is taking Butlin’s holiday camp to court claiming racial and religious discrimination, as his daughter was not allowed on a dodgems ride wearing an Islamic scarf covering her head and neck.
Butlin’s insists all loose-fitting garments near the head are banned, after an incident in 2016 when one got caught causing serious neck injury, and say the case has nothing to do with religion or discrimination.
Moammer Nasser, 41, from Birmingham, has launched a crowdfunding campaign aiming to raise £10,00 for his lawsuit, and enlisted the help of Liberty Law.
He later claimed his family “weren’t allowed on any rides” and was so distressed they cut their holiday short and returned home. “I feel that my family were discriminated against due to our religious and cultural beliefs,” he wrote…”
…In other news, the same tard was caught humping the merry-go-round pony…
LOL, Probably.
Two Danish nationals wounded in Gabon knife attack: minister
Two Danish nationals were wounded Saturday in a knife attack in Gabon’s capital apparently committed in retribution for “US attacks against Muslims”, a minister said.
The two men, who were reporters for the National Geographic magazine, were stabbed while shopping in a popular tourist area, said defence minister Etienne Massard.
“According to the first testimonies at the scene, the assailant, a 53-year-old Nigerien man, shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the attack. He was arrested on the spot,” said Massard.
The man, who has lived in Gabon for 19 years, “in his first statements said he acted in retaliation for US attacks against Muslims and America’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital”.
The two victims were sent to a hospital in the capital Libreville, one in a serious condition, government spokesman Alain-Claude Bilie By Nze told AFP.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-5186811/Two-Danish-nationals-wounded-Gabon-knife-attack-minister.html
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Two men injured in Gabon knife attack in revenge for ‘US attacks against Muslims’
Two National Geographic magazine reporters have been wounded in a knife attack in Gabon’s capital apparently committed in retribution for “US attacks against Muslims”.
The Danish nationals were stabbed while shopping in a popular tourist area on Saturday.
Defence minister Etienne Massard said: “According to the first testimonies at the scene, the assailant, a 53-year-old Nigerien man, shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the attack.
“He was arrested on the spot.”
Mr Massard said the man has lived in Gabon for 19 years, adding: “In his first statements [he] said he acted in retaliation for US attacks against Muslims and America’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.”
The two victims were sent to a hospital in the capital Libreville, one in a serious condition.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/16/two-men-injured-gabon-knife-attack-revenge-us-attacks-against/
Suspects Sought After Gay Men Assaulted, Told ‘You Are Not Welcome’ in Multicultural London (breitbart, Dec 16, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/12/16/gay-men-assaulted-told-you-are-not-welcome-in-multicultural-london/
Oxford Prof Attacked as ‘Bigot’ For Rejecting Post Colonial Guilt (breitbart, Dec 16, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/12/16/managed-decline-oxford-prof-attacked-bigot-refusing-colonial-guilt/
“Oxford Professor Nigel Biggar is the latest target of an attack from the identity politics-driven left, being set upon by campaign groups for failing to adhere to the notion of post-colonial guilt…”
This is like accusing a woman of being a witch because she can’t turn a goose into a goat. To the gallows!
$21 trillion of unauthorized spending by US govt discovered by economics professor (RT, Dec 16, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/usa/413411-trillions-dollars-missing-research/
“The US government may have misspent $21 trillion, a professor at Michigan State University has found. Papers supporting the study briefly went missing just as an audit was announced.
Two departments of the US federal government may have spent as much as $21 trillion on things they can’t account for between 1998 and 2015. At least that’s what Mark Skidmore, a Professor of Economics at MSU specializing in public finance, and his team have found…”
Keynesian Economics– the mother’s milk of endless wars, corruption, welfare, mass migration and postmodern lunacy.
But it’s ok. Just keep printing.
Black budget items, weapons programs that the left will scream about, you know upgrading our weapons systems so they are a generation or two ahead of our enemies. Given the lead time on weapons development those programs are necessary so we will have the weapons we need 20 years down the line.
German Intelligence Covertly Provided Media With Information Criticizing Russia (sputniknews, Dec 16, 2017)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201712161060065257-german-intelligence-russia-criticizm/
“German Federal Intelligence Agency (BND) covertly provided a number of journalists with information containing criticism of Russia, local media reported…”
US Training New Militants to Counter Russia in Syria – Lawmaker (sputniknews, Dec 16, 2017)
https://sputniknews.com/world/201712161060065039-us-trains-militants-russia/
“US instructors are training new military formations in the Syrian province of Al Hasakah in order to counter Russia, first Deputy Chairman of the Russian upper house Committee on Defense and Security Frants Klintsevich said Saturday…”
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Muslims may lose Mecca if they fail to hold on to Jerusalem – Erdogan (RT, Dec 16, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/news/413416-erdogan-jerusalem-mecca-israel/
“Muslims may lose Mecca and other holy sites if the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli capital isn’t reversed, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned…”
LOL
I wish.
Saudi women get green light to drive trucks, motorbikes (RT, Dec 16, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/news/413420-saudi-women-drive-motorbikes/
“Female bikers and truckers may hit the streets of Riyadh next year, as the Saudi department of traffic confirms that women will be allowed to drive those vehicles following the passing of a royal decree in September.
“Yes, we will authorize women to drive motorcycles,” the Saudi General Directorate of Traffic (GDT) said in a statement Friday, adding that driving laws will apply equally to men and women with no special measures to single out women drivers, such as license plates…”
“Yes, we will authorize women to drive motorcycles…”
But only sidesaddle…
And only if they go to suicide bomber school.
_lol_
German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen calls to extend Bundeswehr deployment abroad (DW, Dec 16, 2017)
http://www.dw.com/en/german-defense-minister-ursula-von-der-leyen-calls-to-extend-bundeswehr-deployment-abroad/a-41821172
“Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen has called for German troop deployment in Afghanistan, Mali and Iraq to be extended for a year. The current mandates are due to expire before the end of January…”
Why Won’t They Obey Our Laws??” Tucker Not Happy with Chicago’s New ID Policy
Multiculturalists Working to Undermine Western Civilization
by Philip Carl Salzman
December 16, 2017 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11542/multiculturalists
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For the past decade, many in the West have been honing a historically unprecedented narrative — one that not only renounces the culture they have inherited but that denies its very existence. A few examples:
During a press conference in Strasbourg in 2009, for instance, then-President Barack Obama began by downplaying the uniqueness of the United States. “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”
In addition, in 2010, Mona Ingeborg Sahlin, the leader at that time of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, told a gathering of the Turkish youth organization Euroturk:
In October 2015, Ingrid Lomfors, head of the Swedish governmental “Forum for Living History,” later told a group officials, “There is no native Swedish culture.”
In November 2015, the newly sworn-in Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, gave an interview to the New York Times, and published a month later, in which he said:
For the Marxists to succeed in establishing their one world dystopian government they have to destroy Western Civilization which is home to such (sarc on) “evil” ideas (sarc off) as, freedom, individual rights, free speech, Greek thought etc. They have pretty much managed to destroy civilization but there are still a lot of people who are fighting for freedom, free speech, individual rights and Greek Thought.
What if Jeff Sessions is not asleep, but instead playing possum?
By Brian C. Joondeph
Conventional wisdom is that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is asleep at the wheel – from recusing himself unnecessarily from the Trump-Russia collusion investigation to doing nothing about the politicization and weaponization of the Department of Justice. He also gave free rein to his deputy A.G., Rod Rosenstein, who is in turn allowing Special Counsel Robert Mueller unlimited time, money, and jurisdiction to investigate President Trump’s entire life.
Last summer, Trump expressed disappointment in Sessions, calling him “beleaguered,” wondering why Sessions wasn’t looking into Hillary Clinton’s emails and true election chicanery. Rudy Giuliani was floated as a possible replacement. Was Trump truly upset, or was this a calculated head fake?
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/12/what_if_jeff_sessions_is_not_asleep_but_instead_playing_possum.html#ixzz51TfY3fgC
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Fact?
Wishful thinking?
Smoke Screen?
Cartoon bonus: Crime and punishment
https://libertyunyielding.com/2017/12/15/cartoon-bonus-crime-punishment/