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Left-wing billionaire George Soros is flooding yet another district attorney’s race with massive out-of-state donations.
Soros has already spent just under $70,000 backing a primary challenge to Bexar County District Attorney Nicholas LaHood, according to campaign finance documents reviewed by The Daily Caller. LaHood is a Democrat but opposes sanctuary cities and said he supports Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s crackdown on cities that defy federal immigration law.
Soros has been boosting LaHood’s challenger, attorney Joe Gonzales, through a political action committee (PAC), Texas Justice & Public Safety. The PAC’s spending included more than $30,000 on mailers attacking LaHood.
One of the mailers attacked LaHood as “bigoted,” “racist” and “Islamophobic” in both English and Spanish. LaHood fought back by displaying the mailer in one of his own campaign ads and accused Soros of trying to purchase his seat.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/14/george-soros-district-attorney-sanctuary-cities/
BOMBSHELL UN DOSSIER UN aid workers raped 60,000 people as it’s claimed organisation employs 3,300 paedophiles
The dossier claims United Nations aid workers have raped 60,000 people and estimate that the organisation employs 3,300 paedophiles
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/5562215/un-aid-workers-raped-60000-people-as-its-claimed-organisation-employs-3300-paedophiles/
BOMBSHELL UN DOSSIER UN aid workers raped 60,000 people as it’s claimed organisation employs 3,300 paedophiles
Meanwhile, the United Nations remains an organization that is thoroughly controlled by a specific culture (i.e., Islam) which is renowned for its practice of violent rape and pedophilia.
Perhaps, saddest of all, is that the UN will be the very last to admit, recognize, or.otherwise even confess to helping accelerate global (Islamic) jihad.
The widespread psychological damage being done is beyond profound. It is seeding several DECADES of active aggression and another few of gradual recovery which will Hoover up TRILLIONS (be it in € or $).
The fact that this general program influences the decisions of so many million other “fact finders” is is something of a “crimes-against-humanity” scale offense to me. That so much of this carries on with little to no protest remains entirely unacceptable.
ST. LOUIS, MO — Sumner High School students are being treated at the hospital after an incident in the library. The students are in serious condition. Police tell FOX 2 that a 16-year-old student threw an unknown homemade solution at them.
Emergency responders are at the school located in the 4200 block of Cottage in St. Louis. Security at area schools is high after a mass shooting in Florida Wednesday.
http://fox2now.com/2018/02/15/sumner-students-in-hospital-after-homemade-solution-attack/
Sounds like your standard muslim acid attack. Maybe dropping his genitals into this “solution” will determine its nature and cure his habit, although TBH it would be better for all that he was given a pork funeral.
A large number of pork funerals would stop all of the Moslem attacks and would probably send a lot of them back to the Middle East.
Yes granting Islamic funerals to jihadis is frankly, insane. Its more of an incentive than actually paying them. The pork wrapped corpse, or as they will come to be called, the Porksicle in colder countries, are a genuine, historically proven deterrent.
I do not understand why we would respect the funereal requirements of an enemy. Would we give a Nazi soldier a fully Ayrian burial complete with tiki torches and uniformed Nazis? And even this analogy falls far far short of the meaning and significance of thee burial rites of the jihadi who expects eternity in a brothel as a reward for his murderous activities.
Its coming, not as fast as we would like but coming. The only thing I will regret about this is the sausage and bacon that I won’t have a chance to eat. Not that I can eat much of either anymore.
My only question is, “Crispy or Extra-Crispy?”
“The only thing I will regret about this is the sausage and bacon that I won’t have a chance to eat. Not that I can eat much of either anymore.”
Look into “beef bacon”, lad!
Political affiliation of every major mass shooting murderer. (us)
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/7xwbdl/political_affiliation_of_every_major_mass/
FCC chairman Ajit Pai is under investigation over $3.9 billion media deal
By Paul Lilly 12 hours ago
The man who spearheaded the death of net neutrality may have previously been involved in a shady business deal.
https://www.pcgamer.com/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-is-under-investigation-over-39-billion-media-deal/?utm_c
Britons are unknowingly eating Halal meat that is being sold without a label, says top vet (dailymail, Feb 16, 2018)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5398031/Halal-kosher-meat-ending-British-food-chain.html
“Britons are inadvertently eating meat from animals slaughtered while they are still conscious, a top vet has warned.
Lord Trees, who is a former president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, said the meat would mainly be found in pies and ready meals.
There has been a sharp rise in the number of sheep and poultry being killed without being stunned first. This has been attributed to religious practices.
But Lord Trees, a crossbench peer, said it was highly probable that some unstunned meat was entering the ‘standard’ food chain as well.
Writing in the journal Vet Record, he pointed out that many experts were calling for a law change so that all animals had to be stunned before being killed.
The issue is controversial because halal and kosher meat – some, but not all of it, from stunned animals – is an essential part of Muslim and Jewish practices.
Animal welfare charities claim killing animals without stunning them is cruel and causes unnecessary suffering. Muslim and Jewish leaders insist that religious slaughter is just as humane as stunning animals beforehand.
Lord Trees said: ‘It is almost certain that meat which hasn’t been stunned is getting into the normal food chain. Many members of the public are understandably not aware of it.
‘There is no doubt a substantial part of the carcass is sold into the normal food chain. Other people will receive that meat in a processed form…”
It helps for someone with expertise in animal physiology to weigh in:
http://grandin.com/ritual/questions.diff.stun.methods.html
When the electrical current is applied across the head only, it causes a temporary loss of consciousness. If the animal is not bled promptly, it will wake up and fully recover.
http://www.grandin.com/ritual/rec.ritual.slaughter.html
When the cut is done correctly, the animal appears not to feel it. From an animal welfare standpoint, the major concern during ritual (religious) slaughter are the stressful and cruel methods of restraint (holding) that are used in some plants.
https://forward.com/opinion/137318/maximizing-animal-welfare-in-kosher-slaughter/ [a lot of details from Temple Grandin, but this stands out to me because it shows a view of the overall picture of animal welfare: A lamb that is slaughtered with a sharp knife out on the farm, even without stunning, probably has better welfare than a lamb that has to ride on a truck to a slaughter plant. ]
“Britons are unknowingly eating Halal meat that is being sold without a label, says top vet”
The policy-makers responsible for this (self-inflicted) “stealth jihad” must be outed and hounded from office, STAT.
Regardless of who walks away breathing from Europe’s pending civil war, these appeasing apparatchiks will have the blood of millions of lives on their collective hands. As in; neither side will emerge (even minorly) unscathed from this looming conflict. Simultaneously, the treachery of these Socialist termites has exacerbated every last possible negative aspect of this clash in the very worst way. It has been done in a manner that amounts to voluntary, with-full-knowledge-before-the-fact, socioeconomic sabotage.
By facilitating a medium-scale (i.e., “soft”) invasion of Europe’s heartland, these political wonks have set the stage for conflict on an unimaginable scale. What if Turkey decides to send in troops because its deems that their expat gastarbeiters need defending from restive indigenous European mobs?
What if various violent Islamic countries like Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon or Syria decide that their brothers-cast-on-foreign-shores are in need of “freedom fighters” to help sway the balance of power? Topping all of this, it’s abundantly clear that the EU will not have functional border controls anytime soon. Eh?
Is there the slightest indication that Europe could even manage to gather up its skirts (after removing several unwashed, groping Nafri hands) and make itself militarily defensible? It’s as if EU political leadership has decided that collective suicide, through
involuntary demographic displacement, is a superior form of racial self-redemption for centuries of colonization that (regardless of its gross flaws) brought education, infrastructure, and economic development to much of the Third World.That the EU has made it a “business” of social engineering is the root and branch of this entire problem. Governments have no place in the Business World™ (nor, for that matter, in social engineering or other such anthropological enterprises).
Their sole purpose (as a government) is to prudently expend equitably collected taxes in a manner that adequately assures judicious enforcement of commercial or personal contracts, assembles the military strength necessary to properly defend its electorate, and while doing so, maintain standards of product quality and performance that pose the least interference to those goals.
Believe it or not, jewels like Rule of Law™, Due Process, and all sorts of other splendid Constitutional artifacts shake straight out of this concise job description. If fact, the EU’s current
shit stormpredicament is a direct byproduct of Socialist governments being unable to keep their noses out of Free Market Economics even as they cannot halt their ironic, voyeuristic intrusion upon the daily lives and morals of their various electorates.What this recipe promises is unlikely to show up in a Michelin-starred restaurant. It is a slop bucket of ham-fisted, and poorly considered “afterthought engineering” that easily threatens to collapse centuries of European Enlightenment.
The prospect of our world losing this “jewel-in-the-crown” of Western Eurpean Civilization—especially to ravening hordes of Iron-Age, rapist loons— is revolting beyond description. Even more horrific is how I do not seem to flinch at the scope of whatever mass-slaughter may be needed to prevent this monstrous vandalism.
With all sincerity, only the most fatuous-minded Pollyannas could pretend that this modern-day invasion of Europe will have anything approaching a “happy ending”. Instead, it is the usual unsustaining framework of constant conflict and endless inequality that brackets so much of modern politics.
Afghans submitted 1.17 million war crimes claims to court (abcnews, Feb 16, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/afghans-submitted-117-million-war-crimes-claims-court-53133598
“Since the International Criminal Court began collecting material three months ago for a possible war crimes case involving Afghanistan, it has gotten a staggering 1.17 million statements from Afghans who say they were victims.
The statements include accounts of alleged atrocities not only by groups like the Taliban and the Islamic State group, but also involving Afghan Security Forces and government-affiliated warlords, the U.S.-led coalition, and foreign and domestic spy agencies, said Abdul Wadood Pedram of the Human Rights and Eradication of Violence Organization.
Based in part on the many statements, ICC judges in The Hague would then have to decide whether to seek a war crimes investigation. It’s uncertain when that decision will be made…”
Kurds wanted Syrian army to enter Afrin, but deal failed – sources (RT, Feb 16, 2018)
https://www.rt.com/news/418959-afrin-kurds-syria-refuses-troops/
“The Syrian government reportedly rejected a request by the Kurdish self-government in Afrin to deploy troops to the area against an ongoing Turkish military operation, after the Kurds refused to lay down their weapons.
The proposed deal between Syrian authorities and Kurdish militias, who asked Damascus for military support against the Turkish invasion, derailed after Kurdish forces refused to comply with a precondition set by Damascus, an RT Arabic correspondent in Syria reported, citing a military source.
After the People’s Protection Units (YPG) refused a request to hand over arms to the Syrian state, the negotiations were cut short before any deal could be reached, the source said…”
Beijing Has Started Giving Latin American Generals ‘Lavish,’ All-Expenses-Paid Trips to China
Inspired by the U.S.’s own programs to train and befriend foreign officers at American military institutions, Beijing is wooing the militaries of the U.S.’s neighbors.
http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2018/02/beijing-has-started-giving-latin-american-generals-lavish-all-expense-trips-china/146040/?oref=d-channelriver
Monroe Doctrine? http://www.ushistory.org/us/44e.asp
Hasn’t been enforced since Kennedy, when he let the Soviets take control of Cuba the Monroe Doctrine was finished.
Beijing Has Started Giving Latin American Generals ‘Lavish,’ All-Expenses-Paid Trips to China
Consider this a “last gasp” effort by Communist China to make some useful friends (i.e., allies) in the global community. For those who have not studied Asian culture and psychology, the intricacies of Beijing’s pitching Wu are both complicated and arcane.
Please consider how Red China is not in the habit of making friends or maintaining long-term diplomatic relationships. As part of its Marxist duty to destroy Western Civilization, the Chicoms have gotten into bed with truckloads of unsavory characters like Middle East terror clans and numerous tin-pot dictatorships.
To its eternal credit, the USA has been slightly more fastidious in its selection of erstwhile bedfellows (though not by much). All the same, Communist China is in the place of a notorious neighborhood bully who suddenly wants to play nice and throw a party because of an upcoming public misconduct hearing. Where is there any Sense of Charismatic Constitution, much less
More to the point: A side-by-side comparison of Chinese and Islamic cultures would reveal Muslim delusions of adequacy (regarding themselves being the Master Race™) as the most ludicrous heap of turnip tailings imaginable. Even Hitler could have told them this.
The Chinese have been at this “long game” for several thousand years. It is only the navel-gazing introspection of its long-ruling imperial court that averted their absolute regional domination. Most of its neighbors realize what it means to live near the dragon’s lair and keep their respectful distance (kowtows optional).
At the very least, this explains why far-away locations like Africa and South America seem more receptive to Beijing’s courtship, as opposed to, say … Japan, Vietnam, and other nearby witnesses to Chinese oppression.
As several African nations are only now-painfully discovering (see: Uganda: Oyam Women Stranded With Babies Fathered By Chinese), Communist Chinese colonization seems to come at a much higher price than that extracted by those accursed Europeans!
“To its eternal credit, the USA has been slightly more fastidious in its selection of erstwhile bedfellows (though not by much). All the same, Communist China is in the place of a notorious neighborhood bully who suddenly wants to play nice and throw a party because of an upcoming public misconduct hearing. Where is there any Sense of Charismatic Constitution, much less ….”
Oops!
Where is there any Sense of Charismatic Constitution, much less presenting some sort of moral beacon to the world at large?
As I already have alluded to, the USA is in no way an ultimate paragon of virtue. That said, feel free to name any other nation who’s been able to use the same founding document for over two centuries?
Carry On …
Threat Assessment #Fail: Al-Qaida Quietly Growing, By Design
https://www.thecipherbrief.com/article/exclusive/middle-east/threat-assessment-fail-al-qaida-quietly-growing-design
Saudi-Chinese Rapprochement and Its Effect on Saudi-American Relations
[last paragraph] …Saudi Arabia is well aware that the role that China is playing in the Saudi-Iranian conflict is for China’s self-interest only; thus, Riyadh is not satisfied that Beijing will abandon its relationship with Iran in the future in favor of its relationship with Saudi Arabia. Riyadh also understands the dangers of a complete break from Washington and that this will not be in Saudi Arabia’s long-term interest. Therefore, Saudi Arabia will try to benefit from its economic relationship with China, while also maintaining its functional and security relationship with Washington.
Both Saudi Arabia and China are mindful that, given the presence of American ¬military bases in the GCC countries, Saudi Arabia and Riyadh will be unable to remove the U.S. from its position as the dominant military actor in the Persian Gulf. The Kingdom will also benefit from diversifying its major markets for future oil exports. What seems likely is that China, Saudi Arabia, and the United States will form a tripartite role in the Gulf that accommodates their shared interests without any party marginalizing the others or removing itself from the scene.
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/saudi-chinese-rapprochement-and-its-effect-on-saudi-american-relations
“What seems likely is that China, Saudi Arabia, and the United States will form a tripartite role in the Gulf that accommodates their shared interests without any party marginalizing the others or removing itself from the scene.”
I’d love to see what that “mind-map” looks like. This is the sort of stuff that military strategists live for (and have terminal cardiac events over).
Right now, I’m picturing the classic “Tijuana Donkey Lady” act with an albino python thrown in for kinks…
Coming to your neighborhood soon:
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs [Israel], since 13 September 2015, 62 innocent people have been killed in terrorist attacks and 899 people have been wounded. There have been 192 stabbing attacks and 139 attempted stabbings; 173 shooting attacks and 61 vehicular (ramming) attacks. In addition, riots and other types of attacks occur almost daily: rock throwing (6481), roadside/pipe bombs (187) and Molotov cocktails/grenades (1320).
http://en.mida.org.il/2018/02/15/news-media-isnt-giving/
9 August 2001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sbarro_restaurant_suicide_bombing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Conference_against_Racism_2001 The 2001 World Conference against Racism (WCAR), also known as Durban I, was held at the Durban International Convention Centre in Durban, South Africa, under UN auspices, from 31 August to 8 September 2001.
The conference dealt with several controversial issues, including compensation for slavery and the actions of Israel.
Massoud, then aged 48, was the target of an assassination plot at Khwaja Bahauddin, in Takhar Province in northeastern Afghanistan on September 9, 2001
Analysts believe Osama bin Laden ordered Massoud’s assassination to help his Taliban protectors and ensure he would have their co-operation in Afghanistan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud#Assassination
canaries singing don’t care if no one hears, but the people who should be hearing regret it if they didn’t
Peculiarly tone-deaf Euros, can’t hear certain registers, maybe.
Even those most sensitive ~ Margot Wallström, Federica Mogherini…
Wallström:
Nov. 2015 Bataclan, Paris –
– – Radicalization because, well Palestinians, see no future.
Jan. 12, 2016 Intifada of Knives –
– – Investigate extrajudicial killings of Palestinians
Lots more from both bundenfrau.
BOTH OF YOU!
Please write more often. The links you provide are of great value. However, it is these casual, interpersonal exchanges that give Vlad Tepes Blog its true character.
“What Happened to Gen. Mike Flynn?, 2059”
The Still Report – February 15, 2018
“What Lt General Flynn told John B Wells in Aug 2016”
John B. Wells – Published on July 1, 2017
White House: New bipartisan DACA plan “giant amnesty”
Is the “Common Sense Caucus” a triumph of marketing over accuracy? The White House has been very clear on the terms it will accept for granting a path to citizenship for DACA recipients and normalization of the program. They want a border wall and an end to broad family-unification or “chain migration” practices in order to keep the problem from recurring. Donald Trump went so far as to issue a veto threat for anything that doesn’t fully resolve the issue.
See Also: “The small ones will know terror”: FBI, NYPD uncover terror plot from a statutory-rape case
With time ticking down, yet another bipartisan gang with better branding has offered a deal that falls short of those demands. It also falls short of common sense:
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/15/white-house-new-bipartisan-daca-plan-giant-amnesty/
This formerly employed teacher has a connection to DACA?? https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bronx-men-charged-manhattan-federal-court-explosives-charges
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/teacher-brother-students-bomb-nyc-terror-plot-article-1.3823638 [photos and name of school] “What we’re seeing here in this case already is some good people stepped forward with information — and that information was crucial to law enforcement,” Mayor de Blasio said.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-six-words-that-snared-bronx-twins-in-alleged-bomb-plot?ref=scroll [allegation: told student to phone in a fake bomb threat]
Immigrant rights activists block Homeland Security van from accessing Metropolitan Detention Center
A crowd of immigrant rights advocates blocked a Homeland Security van late Thursday from accessing the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles.
Video footage showed dozens of people standing in the street, in front of a marked van, chanting, “Drive out ICE!” and “Stop the deportations!” Some held signs.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ice-protest-20180215-story.html
Perhaps the police could not legally arrest protestors who refused to disperse because of http://sd24.senate.ca.gov/sites/sd24.senate.ca.gov/files/pdf/sb_54_de_leon_ca_values_act_fact_sheet.pdf , which was signed into law http://sd24.senate.ca.gov/news/2017-10-05-governor-brown-signs-senate-leader-de-leons-sb-54-california-values-act
Report: Iraqi Teen Arrested in Germany over ISIS Plot (aawsat, Feb 16, 2018)
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1177266/report-iraqi-teen-arrested-germany-over-isis-plot
“A 17-year-old Iraqi has been arrested in Germany after allegedly contacting senior members of ISIS terrorist group.
Prosecutors in Frankfurt said the teen was detained Tuesday in the central German town of Eschwege.
German daily Bild reported Friday that the Iraqi, who came to Germany in 2015 as a refugee, was suspected of preparing an attack, and allegedly obtained instructions for building an explosive device using a remote-controlled car.
News agency dpa cited prosecutors as saying authorities seized a mobile phone and a computer after searching the suspect’s home.”
UN: ‘Houthis Confiscate Properties in the Name of the War Effort’ (aawsat, Feb 16, 2018)
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1177276/un-%E2%80%98houthis-confiscate-properties-name-war-effort%E2%80%99
“The United Nations officially released on Thursday the final report of the Panel of Experts on Yemen mandated by security council resolution 2342.
The report accuses Houthis of executing their former ally President Ali Abdullah Saleh and “crushing” his supporters in order to tighten their grip on Sana’a.
Yemen’s financial system is broken, according to the report, because Houthis are controlling Sana’a Central Bank, collecting taxes, extorting businesses and seizing assets in the name of the war effort.
It also accused them of deploying improvised sea mines in the Red Sea, which represent a hazard for commercial shipping and sea lines of communication that could remain for as long as 6 to 10 years, threatening imports to Yemen and access for humanitarian assistance through the Red Sea ports.
Iran is in non-compliance with paragraph 14 of resolution 2216 (2015) in that it failed to take the necessary measures to prevent the direct or indirect supply, sale or transfer of short-range ballistic missiles, field
storage tanks for liquid bipropellant oxidizer for missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles to Houthis, the report stated.
“After nearly three years of conflict, Yemen, as a State, has all but ceased to exist,” the panel of experts said in their 344-page report.
“Instead of a single State there are warring statelets.”
In the north, the Houthis are working to consolidate their hold on Sana ’a and much of the highlands after a five-day street battle in the city that ended with the execution of their one-time ally, former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, on 4 December, the report added.
In the south, the Government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi was weakened by the defection of several governors to the newly formed Southern Transition Council.
Regarding the violations of coup militias, the report said that Houthis have summarily executed individuals, detained individuals solely for political or economic reasons and systematically destroyed the homes of their perceived enemies. The Houthis also routinely obstruct humanitarian access and the distribution of aid.”
51st state: Kosovo’s bond to the US – photo essay (theguardian, Feb 16, 2018)
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/feb/16/51st-state-kosovos-bond-to-the-us-photo-essay
Soros lobbies ECB for more euro zone integration, draws criticism (reuters, Feb 16, 2018)
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-ecb-soros/soros-lobbies-ecb-for-more-euro-zone-integration-draws-criticism-idUKKCN1G01AZ
Water use climbs in California enclaves as drought returns
TUSTIN, Calif. (AP) — Overall water use is climbing in Southern California as that part of the state plunges back into drought, driving state and regional water managers as they consider permanently reinstating some watering bans and conservation programs.
Gov. Jerry Brown lifted California’s drought emergency status a year ago, after a wet winter that snapped a historic 2013-2017 drought, and the state ended his 25 percent mandatory conservation order.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/water-climbs-california-enclaves-drought-returns-201255735.html
Egypt’s Military Does Not Rule out New Militant Hideouts in Sinai (aawsat, Feb 16, 2018)
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1177211/egypt%E2%80%99s-military-does-not-rule-out-new-militant-hideouts-sinai
“An Egyptian military spokesman said on Thursday that after crushing blows in Iraq and Syria, ISIS militants could be eyeing Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula as a new home base…”
Half of Tunisians are overweight (memo, Feb 16, 2018)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180216-half-of-tunisians-are-overweight/
“Poor lifestyle, unhealthy diets and a lack of exercise are to blame for half of the Tunisian population being overweight, a new report claims.
Issued by the Pharmaceutical Company of Tunisia Information, the publication revealed that obesity rates in Tunisia are at around 50 per cent with women most affected by obesity and cardiovascular disease.
According to the organisation’s President Dr Chadlia Fendri, Tunisia is currently ranked fourth in the world for obesity rates according to the World Health Organisation…”
“Issued by the Pharmaceutical Company of Tunisia Information, the publication revealed that obesity rates in Tunisia are at around 50 per cent with women most affected by obesity and cardiovascular disease.”
While “Western” (i.e., deep-fried, starchy, high-fat, low-fiber) “fast food*” cuisine certainly plays a negative role, people in these various locations need to go back and examine what their original native plant and animal diet included.
* How ironic is it that Western Fast Foods are, all-too likely, far more hygienically provided than most of the “street food” served in where-fecking-ever… ?
Turkey: 6 journalists sentenced to life over failed coup (wapo, Feb 16, 2018)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/turkey-6-journalists-sentenced-to-life-over-failed-coup/2018/02/16/618d7cb2-1317-11e8-a68c-e9374188170e_story.html
“Turkey’s state-run news agency says a court in Istanbul has sentenced six journalists accused of involvement in a 2016 coup attempt to life prison terms.
Anadolu Agency says those sentenced on Friday include Ahmet Altan, the former editor-in-chief of Taraf newspaper, his brother, journalist and academic Mehmet Altan, and prominent journalist Nazli Ilicak.
The journalists were accused of links to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkey blames for the July 15, 2016, failed coup. Gulen denies the accusation.
The defendants were charged with attempts against Turkey’s constitution and membership in a terror organization.”
Brazil Military Takes Control of Rio de Janeiro’s Security
Brazil’s military will take control of public security in the state of Rio de Janeiro as a wave of violence rattles the population and dominates media coverage ahead of this year’s presidential election.
President Michel Temer will issue a decree on Friday putting the military in charge of Rio’s security forces, his press office said in an e-mailed statement. An army general would be in charge even of the state’s civilian police, according to two sources with direct knowledge fo the order. The intervention, which requires congressional approval, will last until the end of the year, said the people who requested not to be named because the decree isn’t public yet. Temer will address the situation in a nationally-televised speech Friday night.
The move, the first of its kind since Brazil returned to democracy in 1985, is a response to growing demands ahead of the October general elections for a crack down on crime and violence. It may also provide an excuse not to vote an unpopular pension bill, because by law changes to the Constitution can’t be made while a military intervention is in effect.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-16/brazil-military-takes-control-of-rio-de-janeiro-public-security
“Brazil Military Takes Control of Rio de Janeiro’s Security”
Big enough to become an independent republic?!?
Guess wheeze gotta send out sum twoops.
Welcome to coffee, tea, banana, pistachio, date, and cashew plantations of the near-term future…
Germany to U.S.: we’ll spend more on defense, you stay involved
MUNICH (Reuters) – Germany’s defense minister pledged to spend more on its military and the United Nations, but she called in return for other countries not to turn away from mulitlateralism.
Ursula von der Leyen’s remarks came days after U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis reiterated President Donald Trump’s demand that European countries spend more on their militaries.
In a speech on Friday to the Munich Security Conference, von der Leyen said Germany was prepared to play a bigger international role, by increasing its military spending and its contributions to the United Nations. But she urged the United States to stick to a multilateral path.
“We are concerned when we see that some partners keep cutting funds for diplomacy, development cooperation and the United Nations,” she said. The U.S. State Department has been subject to deep cuts under Trump’s presidency.
Germany’s memories of Nazi crimes in World War Two have generally made it reluctant to take a leading role in international security.
http://www.oann.com/germany-to-u-s-well-spend-more-on-defense-you-stay-involved/
“Germany to U.S.: we’ll spend more on defense, you stay involved”
Meanwhile, recently reunited Germany (after unimaginable bloodshed) has barely managed to ‘stay involved’, regardless of the task.
Congressman: Border Patrol still hamstrung by wildlife refuge, ‘monument’ regulations
By LU Staff February 15, 2018
[We reported on this problem in 2015, when Judicial Watch uncovered the presence of an ISIS training camp less than a mile from the U.S. border in northern Mexico. The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Ethan Barton has an important update on a still-existing problem, which prevents CBP from gaining the access it needs to monitor and intercept border threats. – J.E.]
Congressman Bruce Westerman recently visited the southern border
The Arkansas Republican says environmental regulations are preventing border agents from stopping smugglers
A border wall wouldn’t eliminate a need for Border Patrol to bypass environmental regulations in protected areas, he says
Environmental regulations are inhibiting Border Patrol agents from effectively stopping human and drug smugglers at the southern border, a congressional subcommittee chairman who recently visited the area told The Daily Caller News Foundation Wednesday.
Environmental regulations prevent Border Patrol from entering protected lands in vehicles, from building roads to access wilderness areas, and from filling tunnels cartels use to smuggle drugs, agents told Rep. Bruce Westerman, who chairs the House Committee on Natural Resources’ Oversight Investigations subcommittee.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/02/15/congressman-border-patrol-still-hamstrung-wildlife-refuge-monument-regulations/
Islamic State location less than 2 miles from border; ISIS exploits designated ‘wilderness’ areas (Video)
By J.E. Dyer April 16, 2015
You’ve no doubt seen the report, from the always-superb Judicial Watch, that there’s an Islamic State, or ISIS, camp in Mexico near El Paso, Texas. The report follows up on information Judicial Watch obtained in August 2014 (which LU reported on here).
The camp has been widely reported as being “8 miles” from the border. It’s more like 8 miles from the center of El Paso. What may not be clear from the verbal report is that the Mexican zone where the Islamic State camp has been reported – a suburb, or colonia, of Ciudad Juarez named Anapra – is actually right on the U.S. border. The closest houses on the Mexican side are only a few dozen yards from the border, across a back road that runs right along the border line.
The whole of Anapra doesn’t extend more than 2 miles from the border. (See Map 1.) And the fence at the border is a flimsy affair, as you can see in the images below. This fence is America’s defense against incursion from the ISIS camp.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2015/04/16/islamic-state-location-less-than-2-miles-from-border-isis-exploits-designated-wilderness-areas-video/
I know the last article is 3 years old, it is still valid and is telling us the danger of having open borders.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130203042328/http://www.krgv.com/news/mexican-military-helicopter-spotted-in-american-airspace/ HIDALGO COUNTY – CHANNEL 5 NEWS on Friday documented a possible Mexican military helicopter incursion into the United States.
The helicopter was spotted touching down in the area of a federal wildlife park south of Penitas.
The area is off-limits to the public.
External features on the rotorcraft confirm that it does not belong to any American law enforcement agency.
2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpe6y8c-OD0 Pinal County Sheriff asks Obama for troops
Arizona sheriff warns citizens about drug cartel assassins
2010 https://www.youtube.com/user/TruthOnTheBorder
2010 Fox News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPrl4P9AcrQ [Park along Mexican border closed to Americans] Obama Gives Part of Arizona to Mexicans
2018 https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g60924-d143229-Reviews-Organ_Pipe_Cactus_National_Monument-Ajo_Arizona.html “Contrary to popular belief, this park is not as dangerous as people make it out to be. ”
http://blogs4borders.blogspot.com/2010/06/us-citizens-warned-to-avoid-arizona.html
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/06/pinal-county-sheriff-mexican-drug.html
Norwegian University Bets on Islamic Theology for Second-Largest Religion’s Sake (sputniknews, Feb 16, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201802161061725593-norway-education-islam/
“The step was made possible by a government grant; it has been presented as satisfying the growing needs of the country’s multicultural populace.
The Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo will develop new study programs for religious leaders with specific emphasis on Islamic theology, Norwegian national broadcaster NRK reported.
This is a direct result of the Norwegian parliament’s decision to allocate NOK 5 million ($640,000) annually to establish a “flexible education of religious leaders” at the University of Oslo (UiO), which was taken in late 2017.
According to Oddbjørn Leirvik of the UiO, the Faculty of Theology has long sought to establish a master’s degree level education in Islamic theology. Therefore, the possibility of further expanding its multi-religious studies is more than welcome, he ventured…”
WATCH Kurdish Women Allegedly Destroy Turkish Vehicle (sputniknews, Feb 16, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201802161061727700-kurdish-women-destroy-vehicle/
Terror Trial Suspects Radicalised at Same Mosque Attended by Berlin Terrorist (breitbart, Feb 16, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/02/16/suspects-terror-trial-radicalised-mosque-berlin-terrorist/
“Four alleged Islamic State supporters on trial for terror offences are said to have been radicalised at the same mosque that was frequented by Berlin terror attacker Anis Amri…”
Culture Shock: Italians Aghast as Immigrants Barbecue Dog at Welcome Center (breitbart, Feb 16, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/02/16/culture-shock-italians-aghast-as-immigrants-barbecue-dog-at-welcome-center/
“Animal rights activists are up in arms over attempts to barbecue a dog at an immigrant welcome center in southern Italy, with migrants insisting the practice is normal where they come from…”
“Culture Shock: Italians Aghast as Immigrants Barbecue Dog at Welcome Center
Good thing they hadn’t gotten around to serving the kebabs yet.
How many of the locals took away a vivid impression that their beloved house-pets would be appearing on menus at local immigrant-run restaurants in the near future?
“…migrants insisting the practice is normal where they come from…”
Of course, the only thing making this practice “normal” is the fact that these immigrants have stripped out all food resources in their
shit holescountries of origin and are too lazy or stupid to (successfully) perform bulk agriculture.“What we have seen in the case of Pamela are the same methods the Nigerian mafia systematically employs in Nigeria and elsewhere,” Meluzzi said. “It is a routine to cut victims into pieces and, in some cases, to eat parts of their bodies.”
Like I said, thank goodness they hadn’t gotten to the kebabs.
It’s hard to imagine Italy’s native Calabrians getting a more striking preview of what their spineless politicians and EU consorts have brought upon the average Southern European. I also seem to recall that Italy makes some very high quality firearms. Unlike their northern cousins, Italians always seem to have had far less compunction about using guns and other blunt or pointy objects.
What happens when Italians make their entire country into a “no go zone” for immigrants? Imagine how much less convenient it would be to cross the Mediterranean when there no longer is that handy little 100 mile jaunt between Tunis and Sicily?
Most other routes to Southern Europe require a sea-crossing that is hundreds of miles. In effect, Italy is a major stepping stone for the Nafri invaders.
Now imagine what occurs when Italy completely deports all of its “immigrants” and closes its borders to all “through traffic”. How then will Northern Europe be able to send its parasitic horde packing? Again, Italians historically have displayed far less reluctance to employ firearms (and violence in general) so, once the political will is found to shut its borders, the aggressive defense of them isn’t much of a long-shot call.
Given their position as Europe’s premier “land bridge”, the Italians are equally ready candidates as first adopters (of harsh anti-immigrant policies) and become the first who cast off the lice-infested rags of this EU-staged farce.
Italy’s withdrawal and sealing of its borders would severely complicate Europe’s ability to shed its own flocks of predators. Brussels’ disdainful refusal to respect the cultural integrity of all member nations is creating a massive (unconventional) power vacuum into which will be drawn some very “results oriented” people. They will probably account for some of the most violent individuals, be they indigenous or recent arrivals. This vacuum—most conspicuous in Sweden, Britain, Germany, France, and the Netherlands—will constitute the epicenter of Europe’s next tinderbox.
The one slight difference is that Europe has flooded itself with people who, literally, have “nothing to lose”. Especially after having glimpsed the very high standards of European living, there is no way anyone could reasonably expect them to simply pack up and go home.
Instead, these invaders can only be expected to fight tooth-and-nail to hold and keep whatever slice of EU lifestyle that they can acquire. All of which, in turn, means that successfully dislodging these newcomers will require levels of violence not seen since WW II.
There is no small irony in how The Continent that colonized all others now finds itself colonized by invaders that would sooner burn down schools than build them or ever even dream of defending the civil rights of women and gays. Were it not for the courageous defiance of Hungary’s shining star, Viktor Orban, these would be dark times, indeed.
Things in Europe have deteriorated to such an extent that diagnosing its path to recovery is more a matter of triage than genuine strategic planning. All of which will cause upcoming stop-gap measures, and the EU’s habit of slapping Band-Aids onto sucking chest wounds, to escalate into scenes of unimaginable barbarity.
Finally, please never forget that the Nafris know exactly what they’re doing. They know that they’re routinely breaking the law, regularly violating cultural norms (including their own), brazenly gaming the system, and dragging Europe towards a precipice of massive conflict.
Were there but a few (DOZEN) more dissenting voices from their own ranks calling for more self-restraint, respectfulness, and common courtesy, my outlook might not be so grim. That there aren’t even similar voices making forecasts of violent retribution makes this just that much more worrisome. Instead, as with most ordinary Muslims, it’s just “keep sliding under radar” and let your victims keep kicking the can down the road.
What sort of imbecile microcephalics can pretend that there are not awaiting some of the most drastic consequences because of their starry-eyed and ham-fisted social engineering?
French Government Accused of Following Islamic Law When Calculating Housing Benefits for Muslims (breitbart, Feb 16, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/02/16/french-government-accused-islamic-law-housing-benefits-muslims/
“The French government has been accused of following Islamic law, specifically one which designates guardianship of children, to determine housing benefits for Muslims.
The French housing benefit, known as CAF, is calculated on a number of factors, including the income of a household and how many children live in a household.
On the official website of the CAF, the government mentions a form of Islamic jurisprudence known as “Kafala” as being valid alongside other documents to prove guardianship of children, leading some to question if the government is following Islamic law.
Anti-Islamisation Front National MP Gilbert Collard questioned the French state giving legal legitimacy to what he called a “Quranic judgement”.
Describing Kafala as “totally foreign to any French legal norm” and arguing that such judgements are “directly derived from the Quranic law”, Collard asked the French Justice Ministry how Quranic law held any force in France.
Fellow Front National member and MEP Bernard Monot also questioned whether or not the policy was a sign of Islamisation.
French left-wing newspaper Libération put out an article to “fact-check” the claims of the Front National politicians and found that the French government does accept Kafala documents from countries like Algeria and Morocco in North Africa because such judgements have legal standing in those countries.
Islamisation has been a pressing issue for many in France for years, leading to the ban on the full face Islamic veils known as the burqa and niqab in 2010.
More recently, the government has attempted to ban other items of Islamic clothing like the sharia-compliant swimwear known as the “burkini”.
Front National politicians are also not the only ones pushing back against Islamisation in France. Last year, a group of conservative Republican politicians in the Paris suburb of Clichy joined together to protest a group of Muslims who had been praying in the street every Friday for months.”
French Government Accused of Following Islamic Law When Calculating Housing Benefits for Muslims
Isn’t this a clear-cut case of “too little, too late”, and let’s just leave it alone?
Hungary’s Orban steps up crackdown on critics before vote (abcnews, Feb 16, 2018)
http://abcn.ws/2CsHuru
“…Despite strong economic growth and record-low unemployment, Orban is expected to continue vilifying migration, the European Union and his personal bete noire, Hungarian-American financier George Soros, whose ideal of an “open society” clashes with Orban’s efforts to turn Hungary into an “illiberal state” not open to migrants…”
French law allows detaining asylum-seekers, house arrest (abcnews, Feb 16, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/french-law-detaining-asylum-seekers-house-arrest-53136683
“Facing a court-imposed deadline, French lawmakers have approved a measure that allows detention for asylum-seekers and their families, and limitless house arrest for foreign convicts who cannot be expelled.
In a contentious late-night vote Thursday, President Emmanuel Macron’s majority party pushed the measure through, despite reservations from many members. Jacqueline Gourault, of the Interior Ministry, said France had become a “rebound country” and that the measure was urgently needed before the June deadline.
France’s high court ordered lawmakers in September to come up with a definition of when asylum-seekers should be considered a flight risk and therefore could be detained along with their families. A second court ruling in favor of a convicted terrorist who has been held under house arrest since being freed from prison in 2008 added pressure.”
“… and limitless house arrest for foreign convicts who cannot be expelled.”
And a pony!
Gunmen shoot dead 18 in northwestern Nigeria over cattle (abcnews, Feb 16, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/gunmen-shoot-dead-18-northwestern-nigeria-cattle-53138235
“Police say gunmen have shot dead at least 18 people in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara state.
State police spokesman Muhammad Shehu says an armed gang ambushed a group of residents in Birani village. He says the bandits were mobilized by cattle rustlers who had been prevented from stealing cows.
Some local media reports put the death toll as high as 40.
The incident is the latest in a series of killings by armed men who attack villages in northwestern Nigeria to steal cattle.
Amnesty International says thousands of people have been displaced and at least 168 killed since the beginning of this year as farmers and nomadic herdsmen fight over land in five Nigerian states.”
“The incident is the latest in a series of killings by armed men who attack villages in northwestern Nigeria to steal cattle.”
However, at this point in time, it remains insufficiently clear as to whether this is a conjugal imbroglio or merely a property dispute.
3 teachers killed in extremist attack in northeastern Kenya (abcnews, Feb 16, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/teachers-killed-extremist-attack-northeastern-kenya-53137283
“Kenyan authorities said suspected al-Shabab extremists killed three teachers in an overnight attack Friday in the northeastern county of Wajir, while police said they foiled another attack in the east, killing a suspect and recovering a huge cache of weapons.
Gunmen attacked Qarsa primary school and targeted non-Muslim teachers, North Eastern regional coordinator Mohamud Saleh said. A responding rescue team ran over an improvised explosive device but no one was injured, he said.
Education along Kenya’s border with Somalia has been greatly hindered after many non-Muslim teachers refused to work in the region following the extremist group’s targeting of non-Muslims starting in 2014 that left dozens dead…”
Germany arrests suspected member of al-Shabab militia (abcnews, Feb 16, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/germany-arrests-suspected-member-al-shabab-militia-53141928
“German authorities have arrested a 20-year-old Somali man on suspicion of being a member of the extremist militia al-Shabab.
Federal prosecutors say the man was detained Thursday in the central state of Hesse.
Prosecutors said in a statement Friday that the suspect, identified only as Abduqaadir A. in line with German privacy laws, is suspected of attempted murder and accessory to murder.
He is alleged to have joined al-Shabab in Somalia in 2012, undergone weapons training and then taken part in the killing of a person at a mosque.
The suspect is alleged to have later attempted to kill a member of the Somali government, who survived the attack.
After being detained by al-Shabab for failing to carry out the killing, the suspect fled Somalia and reached Germany in 2014.”
They will probably let him go and give him trauma therapy.
The human cost of Elon Musk’s unrealistic expectations
By Joey Bradfield February 15, 2018
Elon Musk is allegedly going to send men to the Moon by the end of the year with SpaceX, all while saving the planet with Tesla. But at what cost?
As of last year, SpaceX had a $10 billion backlog of 70 missions. This month, the company excited many by successfully test firing its Falcon Heavy rocket even though it was slated to launch every year for five years straight.
As for Tesla, although it drastically missed its 2017 Model 3 production goals, the company managed to get 230,000 Model S’s on the road by working “night and day at maximum sprint pace.”
What’s more interesting than Musk’s sparks of showmanship is what occurs behind the scenes. Musk seems to be working his employees beyond capacity and in violation of regulatory codes to make up for his unmet production deadlines. When problems arise, time-strapped company officials appear not to give his beleaguered workers the time of day, much less a needed break.
Per a report from Worksafe last year, in 2015 Tesla’s rate of serious injury was two times higher than the national average, and its overall injury rate was approximately one-third higher. This would be far less a source of concern if Musk’s companies took appropriate measures to care for employees injured on the job, but often, that doesn’t seem to be the case.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/02/15/human-cost-elon-musks-unrealistic-expectations/
Leaked messages by WikiLeaks founder pour cold water on one Trump collusion theory
By LU Staff February 15, 2018
One theory of President Donald Trump’s campaign collusion holds that longtime Trump pal Roger Stone worked with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to release Democrats’ hacked emails during the 2016 presidential campaign.
A new leak of private Assange messages pours cold water on that idea.
In private Twitter messages exchanged in August 2016, Assange referred to Stone as a “bullsh*tter” who falsely implied in public statements that he was communicating with WikiLeaks, The Intercept reported Wednesday. The message was directed to an associate in a private group chat.
“Trying to a) imply that he knows anything b) that he contributed to our hard work,” Assange added in response to a news article that quoted Stone claiming he was in contact with Assange.
“I actually have communicated with Assange,” Stone told a group of Florida Republicans on Aug. 8.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/02/15/leaked-messages-wikileaks-founder-pour-cold-water-one-trump-collusion-theory/
I smell nothingburger!
Then again, maybe I can’t.
Let’s get Schrodinger in here to sort all of this out …
Soulless liberal heathens attack grieving father of Parkland victim because of his t-shirt
By Joe Newby February 16, 2018
On Thursday, Twitchy reported that one of the still-in shock and grieving parents of the senseless Parkland high school shooting was a man named named Andrew Pollack, who lost his daughter in Wednesday’s massacre.
At a time like this, one would expect all Americans to join together and grieve as a nation over a tragic loss of young lives. In the past, that is precisely what we have done. But not anymore.
Instead, Andrew Pollack has been the target of hatred from the “tolerant” Left because of the t-shirt he was wearing in a photograph taken Wednesday, before he knew his daughter’s fate.
The shirt is emblazoned with the message “Trump 2020.”
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/02/16/soulless-liberal-heathens-attack-grieving-father-parkland-victim-t-shirt/
Amoreena @lilblondeduck
Replying to @alexseltzer
I feel empathy for his daughter – but not him.
2:59 PM – Feb 15, 2018
BLQ VELVET @Milaelmo
The irony of this picture and accompanying caption is almost laughable… Almost. https://twitter.com/historyepics/status/882576551212183552 …
12:36 AM – Jul 7, 2017
Slick Talk ™ @slicktalks
Replying to @alexseltzer
Trump got nothing to do with daughter lol. But the shirt make him look he sold his soul to the devil
1:53 PM – Feb 15, 2018
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28 people are talking about this
? ?BuddhaPaws? ? @buddha_paws
Replying to @alexseltzer
Well the way I see it is if he votes for Trump in 2020 then the loss of his daughter isn’t that big of a loss to him. Because he supports a guy that going to keep letting children get murdered! Trump means more to him then his own daughter. I feel sorry for the daughter not him.
1:36 PM – Feb 15, 2018
JohnT @Mtbbmet
Replying to @alexseltzer
Is that, no it can’t be….. no, it is…. blood on his hands.
1:45 PM – Feb 15, 2018
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/02/16/soulless-liberal-heathens-attack-grieving-father-parkland-victim-t-shirt/
Turkey: Protesters rally against US support for YPG during Tillerson visit
Turkish police attempted to control a crowd of demonstrators protesting against US support for YPG Kurdish militia in Syria, near the Ankara Palace hotel, during an official visit of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to the city.
Police herded the protesters away from the hotel where a conference between Tillerson and Cavusoglu was held. Officers reportedly deployed tear gas to control the crowd.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, to discuss the burning matter of de-escalation in Afrin and ease the strained relations between NATO allies and Turkey, after the second continues military operations in Kurdish-held areas in Syria.
Despite international outrage, Turkey carries on with ‘Olive Branch’ operations against YPG Kurdish militants in Afrin and plans for extended operations in Idlib province.
Turkey views the YPG, which is active in northern Syria, as an extension of the banned militant group the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
U.S. and Turkey agree to mend ties; Turks propose joint deployment in Syria
ANKARA (Reuters) – The United States and Turkey agreed on Friday to try to rescue a strategic relationship that Washington acknowledged had reached a crisis point, with Turkey proposing a joint deployment in Syria if a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia leaves a border area.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met President Tayyip Erdogan during a two-day visit that followed weeks of escalating anti-American rhetoric from the Turkish government.
While relations between Washington and its main Muslim ally in NATO have been strained by a number of issues, Turkey has been particularly infuriated by U.S. support for the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which it sees as terrorists.
Turkey launched an air and ground assault last month in Syria’s northwest Afrin region to sweep the YPG away from its southern border. The United States has armed, trained and aided YPG fighters with air support and special forces, as the main ground force in its campaign against Islamic State.
“We find ourselves at a bit of a crisis point in the relationship,” Tillerson told a news conference after meeting with Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Friday morning. He had met with Erdogan for a more than three-hour discussion on Thursday night.
“We’re going to act together from this point forward. We’re going to lock arms. We’re going to work through the issues that are causing difficulties for us and we’re going to resolve them.”
The United States has no troops on the ground in Afrin, where the Turkish offensive has so far taken place. But Turkey has proposed extending its campaign further east to the town of Manbij, where U.S. troops are based, potentially leading to direct confrontation with U.S.-backed units.
In a proposal that could signal an important breakthrough in efforts to overcome the allies’ stark differences over Syria, a Turkish official told Reuters that Turkey had proposed that Turkish and U.S. forces could deploy jointly in Manbij.
Such a joint deployment could take place if YPG fighters first withdrew to positions east of the Euphrates river, long a Turkish demand.
Neither Tillerson nor Cavusoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, directly responded to a question about Reuters’ report of a possible joint deployment to Manbij.
MANBIJ
Turkey would be able to take joint steps with the United States in Syria once the YPG left the vicinity of Manbij, Cavusoglu told reporters.
“What is important is who will govern and provide security to these areas,” he said. “We will coordinate to restore stability in Manbij and other cities. We will start with Manbij. After YPG leaves there, we can take steps with the U.S. based on trust.”
He also said the two countries had created a “mechanism” for further talks and would meet again by mid-March to further hash out their differences. Tillerson said issues around Manbij would receive priority in the talks, acknowledging Washington had not fufilled some of its promises to Turkey on Manbij.
“The United States made commitments to Turkey previously, we’ve not completed fulfilling those commitments. Through the working group, we’re going to address that and Manbij is going to receive priority,” he said.
Turkey’s pro-government media has been particularly scathing of the United States over its failure to keep a promise that the YPG would leave the town once Islamic State was defeated there.
“But it’s not just Manbij. We have to think about all of northern Syria,” Tillerson said.
Tillerson said he recognized Turkey’s legitimate right to defend its borders, but called on Ankara to show restraint in the Afrin operation and avoid actions that would escalate tensions in the area.
He also said the United States had serious concerns about local employees at its missions in Turkey and called on Ankara to release a U.S. pastor and other Americans detained in Turkey.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tillerson-turkey-syria/u-s-and-turkey-agree-to-mend-ties-turks-propose-joint-deployment-in-syria-idUSKCN1G00NE
Tillerson says US, Turkey share same goals in Syria
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/14/scott-pruitt-says-he-flies-first-class-due-toxic-p/
[Maybe he wants to work while traveling and fears that someone sitting next to him will interfere when he or she passes a drink from the flight attendant to the head of the EPA.]
‘Racist’ blackface TV sketch draws anger in China
China’s biggest television show has been ridiculed after it featured a “racist” skit involving an Asian woman with a painted black face and large fake buttocks who was followed around by a “pet monkey”.
The comedy sketch was shown on the Spring Festival Gala, an annual variety show, which is said to be the world’s most watched television programme with an audience of up to 800 million people.
The skit involved the male Chinese host being asked by a young African woman if he could help convince her mother that he is her boyfriend, so that she would not have to go on a blind date.
The woman’s mother was an Asian actress with her face painted black who arrived on stage with a fruit bowl placed on her head.
She was followed around on stage by a man dressed as a monkey with a basket on his back.
The sketch – which ended with the mother expressing in perfect Chinese Africa’s love for China and the Chinese people – may have been a well-intentioned attempt to highlight warm relations between African nations and Beijing.
However, it was lambasted on both China’s heavily censored social media and on Twitter.
“Cringeworthy at best, completely racist at worst,” said a Tweet from Parthepan.
“It’s Africa, so bring out tribal dancers & animals? And was that a Chinese woman in blackface with a fake posterior?”[…]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/16/worlds-popular-television-show-draws-ridicule-china-racist-sketch/
BBC – Lunar New Year: Chinese TV gala includes ‘racist blackface’ sketch
A skit on China’s biggest Lunar New Year TV show has sparked widespread criticism and accusations of racism.
In a comedy routine celebrating Chinese-African ties an Asian actress appears in blackface and with exaggerated buttocks.
Using make-up to lampoon black people – a practice known as blackface – is seen by many as deeply offensive.
The annual state media variety show is hugely popular, and has up to 800 million viewers.
[…]The skit praises Chinese-African cooperation, showing how much Africans benefit from Chinese investment and how grateful they are to Beijing. At one stage, the character of the African mother exclaims how much she loves China.
China has over the past years stepped up investment into many African countries. The sketch was set around people working on the Nairobi-Mombasa railway project.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43081218
twitter @OnlineMagazin
Before the illegal infiltrators travel to Europe …
https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/964462348252704768
“A Glitch in the Matrix” – Jordan Peterson, the Intellectual Dark Web & the Mainstream Media by Rebel Wisdom, Feb 15, 2018
Journalist David Fuller made the first full documentary about Jordan Peterson, and also used to work at Channel 4 News as producer and reporter for over a decade. He takes a close look at the recent viral interview with Cathy Newman and uses this cultural watershed to unpack the deeper political, psychological and archetypal levels of the clash.
https://youtu.be/trhTbEs2GGE
Former UNICEF consultant Peter Newell admitted three counts of indecent assault and two counts of buggery and was sentenced to six years, eight months in prison.
“He has also been placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
The ‘horrific’ sexual assaults took place over a three-year period in the 1960s but have only come to light following a police investigation last year.
Newell, 77, of Wood Green, North London, who has led the campaign to ban the smacking of children in Britain, was sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court on January 3.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5399247/UNICEF-kids-rights-campaigner-jailed-rape-boy-13.html
Why would this LGTBQ+ Pedophiled
Deny corporal correction
On children run wild
Without introspection?
For the Sexual-Demand
With father’s complexion
Seeks boys abandoned
Lacking affection.
Seducing the mothers
With love’s misdirection
“Isolate from others”
Their choicest selection.
“Former Haiti director admits sex with aid recipient but denies prostitution allegations”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/oxfam-prostitution-scandal-roland-van-hauwermeiren-haiti-earthquake-deeply-ashamed-a8213196.html
Oxfam: Helping you, to help themselves.
“Newell, 77, of Wood Green, North London, who has led the campaign to ban the smacking of children in Britain, was sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court on January 3.”
Only in one particular sense of “smacking”.
I’m rather confident that “UNICEF consultant Peter” (redundant, eh?) will find lots to get choked up about whilst behind bars.
the gateway pundit –Mueller Indicts Russians Accused of ‘Disparaging Hillary Clinton’ In Election Hacking Scheme – FULL DOCUMENT
On Friday, the office of special counsel Robert Mueller announced that a grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals, along with 3 Russian entities, accused of “supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump … and disparaging Hillary Clinton.”
[…]
CNBC reports:
The special counsel’s office said Friday that a federal grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities in the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
The indictment says that the defendants allegedly, by early to mid 2016, were “supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump … and disparaging Hillary Clinton.”
An announcement from special counsel Robert Mueller’s office said that the government accuses all the defendants of conspiracy to defraud the United States. Three defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud. Five defendants are charged with aggravated identity theft.
UPDATE — Here is the full indictment released today.
( link on the page )
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/mueller-indicts-russians-accused-disparaging-hillary-clinton-special-counsel-investigation/
reuters – U.S. grand jury indicts 13 Russian nationals, three entities in alleged election meddling
– A federal grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities accused of interfering with U.S. elections and political processes, U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office said on Friday.
In a court document, the U.S. government said Russian entities began interfering in U.S. political processes, including the 2016 presidential election, as early as 2014.
Some of the defendants, posing as U.S. persons, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump campaign, the indictment said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-indictment/u-s-grand-jury-indicts-13-russian-nationals-three-entities-in-alleged-election-meddling-idUSKCN1G022U
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bloomberg –Mueller Charges Russians With Pro-Trump, Anti-Clinton Meddling
13 Russian nationals, 3 entities indicted in sweeping case
Social media, contacts with campaign and staging rallies
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller announced an indictment of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities, accusing them of interfering in the 2016 presidential election and operating fake social media accounts.
The indictment announced on Friday was the first criminal case to accuse Russians of seeking to influence the outcome of the U.S. election.
The Internet Research Agency, a Russian organization, and the defendants began working in 2014 to interfere in U.S. elections, according to the indictment in Washington. They used false personas and social media while also staging political rallies and communicating with “unwitting individuals” associated with the Trump campaign, it said.
The goal was to disparage Hillary Clinton and to assist the election of Donald Trump.
Mueller’s office said that none of the defendants was in custody.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-16/u-s-charges-13-russians-3-companies-for-hacking-election
cbsnews – Rod Rosenstein to announce indictments of Russians in U.S. election meddling – live updates
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is announcing Friday the indictment of Russian nationals and entities accused of breaking U.S. laws to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, CBS News’ Paula Reid reports.
On Friday, a D.C. federal grand jury returned an indictment against the Internet Research Agency, a Russian organization which has connections to Russian President Vladimir Putin — it names 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities that accuses them of violating U.S. criminal laws to meddle in U.S. elections and political processes. According to a spokesman for the special counsel’s office, the indictment charges all of the defendants with conspiracy to defraud the U.S., as well as “three defendants with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and five defendants with aggravated identity theft.”
According to the indictment, “Some Defendants, posing as U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities.”
Working with the Internet Research Agency, the defendants “posted derogatory information” about several candidates, the indictment says, and by mid-2016, their efforts included “supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaging Hillary Clinton,” the indictment says.
Starting around 2014, the defendants began to track and study groups on U.S. social media dedicated to American politics and social issues. They used metrics to track the performance of various social media groups. They then travelled to the U.S. (or in some cases, tried to travel to the U.S.) to collect intelligence for their interference operations. They posted as Americans and contacted U.S. political and social activists and learned they should target “purple” states, those that were undecided in the campaign.
They created hundreds of social media accounts and used them to develop fictitious U.S. personas into “leaders of opinion in the U.S.” The defendants worked day and night shifts to pump out messages, controlling pages targeting a range of issues, including immigration, Black Lives Matter, and they amassed hundreds of thousands of followers. They set up and used servers inside the U.S. to mask the Russian origin of the accounts. The Internet Research Agency employed hundreds of people for these purposes — administrators, creators of personas, technical support — and spent the equivalent of millions of dollars for these efforts.
In addition to disparaging Clinton, they denigrated other candidates, “such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio,” and they supported Bernie Sanders and then Donald Trump. In the latter half of 2016, they used groups to discourage minorities from voting in the 2016 presidential election.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rod-rosenstein-law-enforcement-announcement-live-stream-updates/
the hill- OCT 31 2016 –
Thousands attended protest organized by Russians on Facebook
Thousands of Americans attended a march last November organized by a Russian group that used social media to interfere in the 2016 election.
The demonstration in New York City, which took place a few days after the election, appears to be the largest and most successful known effort to date pulled off by Russian-linked groups intent on using social media platforms to influence American politics.
Sixteen thousand Facebook users said that they planned to attend a Trump protest on Nov. 12, 2016, organized by the Facebook page for BlackMattersUS, a Russian-linked group that sought to capitalize on racial tensions between black and white Americans. The event was shared with 61,000 users.
As many as 5,000 to 10,000 protesters actually convened at Manhattan’s Union Square. They then marched to Trump Tower, according to media reports at the time.
The BlackMattersUS-organized rally took advantage of outrage among groups on the left following President Trump’s victory on Nov. 8 to galvanize support for its event. The group’s protest was the fourth consecutive anti-Trump rally in New York following election night, and one of many across the country.
“Join us in the streets! Stop Trump and his bigoted agenda!” reads the Facebook event page for the rally. “Divided is the reason we just fell. We must unite despite our differences to stop HATE from ruling the land.”
[…]The group reportedly recruited Americans who were unaware of its links to Russian actors to help its mobilizing efforts and organize these events.[…]
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/358025-thousands-attended-protest-organized-by-russians-on-facebook
the gateway pundit – MUELLER PUSHES DEEP STATE RUSSIAN COLLUSION BS: Numerous Sites Listed Were PRO-HILLARY not PRO-TRUMP
That is not accurate.
That is a deep state lie.
Several of these online groups were pro-Hillary and even HELD RALLIES for Hillary.
United Muslims of America was NOT pro-Trump.
These same Russian groups organized the monster rally “Trump is not my president” in New York City on November 12, 2016.
This was NOT pro-Trump.
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These same Russian ads were published in November 2017 by the House Intelligence Committee.
Mueller and Democrats want you to believe these Russian Facebook ads flipped the election to Donald Trump.
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But at least half of the ads are pro-Hillary.
And Russia claims half of their paid ads ran after the election and 25% never ran at all.
Facebook announced previously the Russian ads comprised .004% of their advertising during the election.
As previously reported…
The House Intelligence Committee released a sampling of Facebook ads linked to Russia. One of the ads released was a sponsored post for the Nov. 12 anti-Trump march at Union Square against Trump in New York City after the election.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/mueller-pushes-deep-state-russian-collusion-bs-united-muslims-america-pro-hillary-group/
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the gateway pundit MUELLER PROBE: Russians Organized Anti-Trump Rallies In New York City & Charlotte
On Friday, the office of special counsel Robert Mueller announced that a grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals, along with 3 Russian entities, accused of “supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump … and disparaging Hillary Clinton.” Investigators also found the Russians organized rallies against Trump in New York City and Charlotte.
“At the same time, Defendants and their co-conspirators, through another ORGANIZATION-controlled group, organized a rally in New York City called “Trump is NOT my President” held on or about November 12, 2016. Similarly, Defendants and their co-conspirators organized a rally entitles “Charlotte Against Trump” in Charlotte, North Carolina, held on or about November 19, 2016.[…]
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/mueller-investigators-accuse-russians-organizing-anti-trump-rallies-new-york-city-charlotte/
Trump Tweets About DOJ Russian News and Flies to Mar-a-Lago.
reuters-Russia calls U.S. allegations of election meddling absurd
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Allegations by the United States that Russian nationals interfered in U.S. elections are absurd, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday.
A U.S. federal grand jury on Friday indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities accused of interfering with U.S. elections and political processes.
“13 people interfered in the U.S. elections?! 13 against an intelligence services budget of billions? Against intelligence and counterintelligence, against the latest developments and technologies? Absurd? Yes,” Zakharova wrote in a post on Facebook.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-indictment-ministry/russia-calls-u-s-allegations-of-election-meddling-absurd-idUSKCN1G026H
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zero hedge – Russia Responds To “Absurd” Election Meddling Allegations
The indictment of 13 Russian nationals and three entities over allegations by the DOJ that Russians interfered in US elections – but “did not alter the outcome of the 2016 election” nor that any American was a knowing participant in this activity – are absurd, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday.
“13 people interfered in the US elections?! 13 against an intelligence services budget of billions? Against intelligence and counterintelligence, against the latest developments and technologies? Absurd? Yes,” Zakharova wrote in a post on Facebook.
Then again, what else could she say.
Furthermore, as noted in the DOJ complaint, the funding for the Russian operation came from catering and management companies controlled by defendant Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin, a Russian businessman often referred to as “Putin’s chef” in the media because his organizations had hosted dinners for Russian President Vladimir Putin and foreign leaders, the AP reported.
Prigozhin was quoted in Russian state media responding to the indictments, saying, “Americans are really impressionable people. They see what they want to see. I greatly respect them. I’m not upset at all that I am on this list. If they want to see the devil, let them see him.”
This probably means that Russia will not exactly rush to extradite the 13 named officials to the US. Although, judging by the pic below, one is already deeply embedded within US society…
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-16/russia-responds-absurd-election-meddling-allegations
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Moscow Slams US’ New “Meddling” Allegations as Absurd
The United States has filed charges against 13 Russian individuals and three entities for purportedly breaking the law with the intention to meddle in the 2016 presidential election. The US deputy attorney general said that indictment includes no allegation that purported Russian meddling altered the outcome of the vote.
The office of US special counsel Robert Mueller issued an indictment against Internet Research Agency LLC, stating the Russian organization engaged in operations to interfere with the 2016 elections.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the accusations of Russian meddling reflected the absurdity of the “modern American political reality.”
“The Internet Research Agency is a Russian organization whose goal is to interfere in elections and political processes,” the indictment says. It is noted that the persons against whom charges are brought are employees of the organization.
“Defendants and their co-conspirators also used false US personas to communicate with unwitting members, volunteers, and supporters of the Trump Campaign,” the document said.
“Starting in or around the summer of 2016, defendants and their co-conspirators also began to promote allegations of voter fraud by the Democratic Party through their fictitious US personas and groups on social media,” the filing said.
According to US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who announced the indictment Friday afternoon, the indictment includes no allegation that the purported Russian meddling altered the outcome of presidential election.
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Kremlin is “not yet familiar” with US indictments for election meddling.
In 2017 the US Congress launched four separate probes into the alleged Russian meddling into the US elections, including investigations run by the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary committees and the House’s Intelligence and Oversight panels. Russian authorities have constantly denied all the allegations, and Peskov called them “absolutely unsubstantiated.”
https://sputniknews.com/us/201802161061741500-us-indicts-russian-nationals-election-meddling/
CBC – 13 Russians indicted for interfering in 2016 U.S. election
Bloomberg -Mueller Indicts 13 Russians, Three Entities for Election Meddling
bloomberg – Mueller Still Investigating Possible Collusion, Source Says
Mueller’s Indictment of Russians Unveils Sweeping Pro-Trump Meddling
Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his prosecutors haven’t concluded their investigation into whether President Donald Trump or any of his associates helped Russia interfere in the 2016 election, according to a person with knowledge of the probe.
Friday’s indictment of a St. Petersburg-based “troll farm” and 13 Russian nationals should be seen as a limited slice of a comprehensive investigation, the person said. Mueller’s work is expected to continue for months and also includes examining potential obstruction of justice by Trump, said the person, who requested anonymity to discuss an investigation that is largely confidential.
A federal grand jury indicted the Russians for what it alleged was a vast scheme to interfere in the 2016 election and help Trump win. But Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said at a news conference Friday that there is “no allegation in this indictment that any American was a knowing participant” in the alleged scheme.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his prosecutors haven’t concluded their investigation into whether President Donald Trump or any of his associates helped Russia interfere in the 2016 election, according to a person with knowledge of the probe.
Friday’s indictment of a St. Petersburg-based “troll farm” and 13 Russian nationals should be seen as a limited slice of a comprehensive investigation, the person said. Mueller’s work is expected to continue for months and also includes examining potential obstruction of justice by Trump, said the person, who requested anonymity to discuss an investigation that is largely confidential.
A federal grand jury indicted the Russians for what it alleged was a vast scheme to interfere in the 2016 election and help Trump win. But Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said at a news conference Friday that there is “no allegation in this indictment that any American was a knowing participant” in the alleged scheme.
Trump indicated that he believes the indictment exonerates him and his campaign.
“Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President. The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong – no collusion!” Trump said on Twitter.
That has yet to be determined. Friday’s indictment should be seen as an effort by Mueller to raise awareness about Russia’s capabilities as the 2018 U.S. elections draw near, the person said.
It’s still possible that Mueller will indict Americans for knowingly helping Russia, the person said.
By contrast, Trump and those around him portrayed the Russia investigation as if it were all but closed. “I am happy for the country. Bob and his team did a very good job on this,” Trump lawyer John Dowd said, although he declined to say if the action clears the president.
Shaky Ground
Rosenstein, who has been on shaky ground with Trump from the time he named Mueller as special counsel, offered a summary of the indictment that conspicuously skipped its repeated references to the Russian goal of helping Trump win the presidency and hurting his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.
Instead, Rosenstein singled out a post-election example of efforts to create turmoil, citing allegations the Russians allegedly staged simultaneous rallies to support President-elect Trump and “to protest his election.”
Asked if Trump officials had been “duped” by the Russians, Rosenstein, said, “The defendants took extraordinary steps to make it appear that they were ordinary American political activists.”
Still, implicit in Rosenstein’s words – and his appearance to announce the indictment – was an endorsement of the work of Mueller, who like Rosenstein has faced intense scrutiny. The indictments prompted a wave of statements from lawmakers in both parties backing the special counsel and demanding action against Russia.
Congressional Reaction
Representative Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat who’s the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, said the announcement Friday should “lay to rest” assertions the investigation was a hoax and preempt efforts to remove officials involved in investigating Trump.
“At this point, any step President Trump may take to interfere with the Special Counsel’s investigation — including removing Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein, or threatening to remove Special Counsel Mueller directly — will have to be seen as a direct attempt to aid the Russian government in attacking American democracy,” Nadler said in a statement.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Mueller’s inquiry must be allowed to follow the facts “unhindered by the White House or Republicans in Congress.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican, said the announcement underscored “why we need to follow the facts and work to protect the integrity of future elections.”
“Mueller just put Moscow on notice,” said Republican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska. “This ought to be a wake-up call to Washington: Putin’s shadow war is aimed at undermining Americans’ trust in our institutions. We know Russia is coming back in 2018 and 2020. We have to take this threat seriously.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-16/mueller-is-said-to-still-be-investigating-collusion-with-russia
the gateway pundit – John Kerry Approved Visas for Russian Operatives to Enter US in 2014 and ‘Interfere’ with Election
The Mueller Special Counsel has yet to look at Saudi donations to Hillary Clinton or Clinton campaign collusion with Russia.
The Mueller Special Counsel has yet to look at the “hacked” DNC servers or have not attempted to contact Julian Assange from Wikileaks.
[…]
The indictment today contained the same Russian Facebook ads that were released in November 2017 by the House Intelligence Committee.
Mueller and Democrats want you to believe these Russian Facebook ads flipped the election to Donald Trump.
But at least half of the ads are pro-Hillary.
And Russia claims half of their paid ads ran after the election and 25% never ran at all.
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Then there’s this…
The Kerry State Department approved the visas for the Russian operatives to travel the US in 2014 through 2016 and attempt to interfere with the US election process.
https://twitter.com/PoliticalShort
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/john-kerry-approved-visas-russian-operatives-enter-us-2014-interfere-election/
Muslim student at Catholic Manhattan College: School overrun by Islamic proselytizing, Balkan Muslims in NYC are turning to jihad
I just received this extraordinary email from a Muslim student at Manhattan College in the Bronx. It is noteworthy not just for this student’s courage in thinking for himself and not passively accepting what he is taught either at home or at his far-left college, but also for what he reveals about the Balkan Muslim community in New York (“rapidly moving toward radical beliefs”) and about Manhattan College (“Every hallway, every classroom, every announcement, every email; contains an extreme amount of Islamic advertising”).
This is true not just of Manhattan College, but of colleges and universities all over the country. Likewise I’m sure that other Muslim communities in the U.S. are moving in the same direction as the one to which this courageous young man belongs. It won’t be very much longer before America begins to see on a large scale what folly the Democrats’ immigration and counterterror policies really have been, and what damage they have brought upon our country.
https://gellerreport.com/2018/02/manhattan-islamic-balkan.html/
American flag was ripped from a flagpole, desecrated, slashed and replaced with ISIS flag at UTAH high school
Will the FBI ignore this grave threat to a Utah high school, too?
Police officers in Hurricane, Utah, said Thursday that an American flag was ripped from a flagpole, desecrated, slashed and replaced with something resembling the notorious black ISIS banner. Authorities also discovered a truncated message scrawled on a wall: “ISIS IS COMI[NG].”
An American flag was destroyed and replaced with an ISIS flag at a Utah high school
By Alex Horton, Washington Post, February 16, 2018:
Wait, back up. Where?
The Washington Post making a joke about this in their news report.
https://gellerreport.com/2018/02/utah-high-school-isis.html/