Reader’s Links for January 22, 2020

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

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129 Replies to “Reader’s Links for January 22, 2020”

  1. Not certain if you saw this. If you haven’t, it’s more than disturbing.
    The Canadian Forces list for Counter-Intelligence.
    I never knew that Christians in Canada were dangerous.

    • In the early Obama years his Administration came out with a report that claimed that returning military and veterans were a security threat to the US. There was a huge outcry and the report was retracted. It is remarkable, as in worthy of extensive remark, that a government in a “free” country would slander patriotic citizens and think that the slander made public would not receive public condemnation.
      Unfortunately, I think that will be the case in Canada. I would be surprised to find any media outlet, other than Rebel, reporting on this. Let alone any push back by the subjects of Canadian government.

      • i would be more inclined to be VERY concerned with the likes of Imam Mazin Abdul-Adhim, Canadian head of Hibtz-ut-Tharir who talks openly about Shari’ah law being the law of the land, and Imams who quote the Qur’an

        3:110-112 “Muslims are the best of people, Jews have earned Allah’s anger.”

        3:151 “Strike terror in unbelievers

        2:89. “Unbelievers, particularly Jews are accursed.”

        2:91. “FIGHT AND KILL UNBELIEVERS UNTIL “RELIGION IS A
        ALLAH’S”. i.e. Islam rules all societies.

        Maybe the government should be more interested in where the Danforth shooter, Faisal Hussain’s, brother, Fahad, acquired the 42 kilos of carfentanil. I am still waiting for THAT report.

  2. “Christine Douglass-Williams News Briefings – Immigration Lies” Sharia Crime Stoppers – January 21, 2020

  3. Outrage as Swedish Elle Picks Hijabi-Clad Influencer as ‘Look of the Year’ (sputniknews, Jan 22, 2020)
    https://sputniknews.com/society/202001221078099626-outrage-as-swedish-elle-picks-hijabi-clad-influencer-as-look-of-the-year/

    “The winner, Imane Asry, a student of economics, suggested that the time was ripe to normalise the hijab in the fashion industry, which she called “superficial and homogeneous”.

    During the Elle gala in Sweden, influencer Imane Asry, a popular hijabi blogger was picked for the “Look of the Year” award, in collaboration with L´Oréal Paris.

    Asry is an influencer with over 150,000 followers on her Instagram page Fashion with Faith, who earlier described herself as “Muslim fashion-crazy girl”. She received the award from last year’s winner Linnea Henriksson.

    “This prize, it is for all of us who did not see ourselves in the fashion magazines, because we did not fit in. And with that said, I want to say: We can too”, Asry commented on her victory.

    “I was absolutely convinced that someone who looked like me could not win such an award. In addition, being a visible Muslim woman with an influence in fashion Sweden feels almost unreal! It makes me so happy to see such changes in an otherwise very superficial and homogeneous industry.”

    Asry, a student of economics, was voted by Elle’s readers and followers. She described her style as “modest fashion” and a way of meeting spiritual and stylistic requirements.

    “I think my style reaches out and inspires so many, not just Muslim women. Also, many people can identify with my work. This is a confirmation that the time is more than ripe for us to start normalising the hijab in the fashion industry. Fashion is for everyone,” Asry concluded.”

    • ” …the time is more than ripe for us to start normalising the hijab in the fashion industry. Fashion is for everyone,”

      Except, you cannot leave islam. There is no change in fashion.

      This tool of oppression to protect each rapist’s gaze; becomes the invitation to lairs of holy slaves.

  4. Iraqi Security Forces Find Rocket Launchers Used in Attack on Baghdad’s Green Zone (sputniknews, Jan 22, 2020)
    https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202001221078099048-iraqi-security-forces-find-rocket-launchers-used-in-attack-on-baghdads-green-zone/

    “The Iraqi security services have located the rocket launchers used in a recent attack on Baghdad’s so-called green zone, the Baghdad Operations Command said on Tuesday.

    Earlier, an Iraqi security source said that three rockets had landed in the green zone in Baghdad, close to the US Embassy, causing no casualties.

    “Baghdad Operations Command has discovered launchers from which the rockets were fired in the Al-Zafraniya district,” the command said in a statement.

    The country’s security services have also found one fully loaded launcher.

    Iraq’s Joint Operations Command said on Tuesday that the three missiles had been launched from the southeastern Baghdad district of Al-Zafraniya.

    The green zone occasionally suffers from rocket attacks on account of it being the location where the government facilities and foreign embassies are situated.”

  5. Jay Sekulow Demolishes Adam Schiff on Executive Privilege — by Quoting Him
    U.S. Senate
    JOEL B. POLLAK21 Jan 20203,232
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    Jay Sekulow, one of the lawyers leading President Donald Trump’s defense in the Senate impeachment trial, attacked the arguments Tuesday by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) against executive privilege — by quoting his own words at him.

    Schiff, who chairs the House Intelligence Committee and is the lead manager for the House Democrats’ case against the president, argued that the president had attempted to obstruct his and fellow Democrats’ impeachment inquiry by instructing senior aides in the executive branch not to comply with congressional subpoenas to appear and testify.

    But Sekulow reminded Schiff that he had taken an entirely different approach when the Republican-led Congress held then-Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for refusing to provide key documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious, President Barack Obama’s attempt to use gunrunning to Mexico to trace the weapons’ path and — critics said — to justify new restrictions on firearms. (Border Patrol Brian Terry was murdered with guns from Fast and Furious.)

    Sekulow quoted Schiff, who wrote in Politico in 2012: “The White House assertion of privilege is backed by decades of precedent that has recognized the need for the president and his senior advisers to receive candid advice and information from their top aides.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/21/jay-sekulow-demolishes-adam-schiff-on-executive-privilege-by-quoting-him/

  6. ‘That’s enough’: ICE turns up the volume in campaign against sanctuary cities
    by Anna Giaritelli
    | January 22, 2020 12:00 AM

    Print this article
    Immigration and Customs Enforcement has ramped up messaging and legal efforts targeting sanctuary cities in an effort to shame them and mirror the White House’s tone, according to two senior administration officials aware of the change.

    ICE is making a lot of noise after years of criticizing how some Democrat-run cities and states known as sanctuary zones, where police will not report illegal immigrants, will not honor the agency’s requests to work together.

    Federal officers at ICE are able to look at local arrests and see if a person is legally or illegally in the country. If that person appears to be an illegal immigrant, the officer can request that the local law enforcement agency notify ICE before they are released so ICE can take custody and begin deportation proceedings. Sanctuary zones release illegal immigrants after they make bail or serve time in jail, including those with criminal convictions, without notifying ICE.

    ICE is guided by the same policies that existed under the Obama administration, but it is acting more aggressively at the direction of the Trump White House. The agency’s acting director, Matt Albence, is speaking out more, ICE’s presence on social media has risen, and its retaliatory legal action against sanctuary zones this month is unprecedented.

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/thats-enough-ice-turns-up-the-volume-in-campaign-against-sanctuary-cities

  7. President Trump Keeps His Promise, Makes Mexico Pay for U.S. Border Security

    Trump Keeps His Promise, Makes Mexico Pay for U.S. Border Security

    By Lifezette, January 21, 2020:

    Mexican national guard troops confronted Honduran migrants on Monday, as the potential illegal aliens (we mean the migrants) tried to cross a Guatemalan river into Mexico to continue their trek to the United States.

    Mexican authorities, police, and troops have been rounding up those who are trying to cross their southern border.

    One would assume these forces are being paid a wage.

    Thus, the Mexican government is expending funds to aid in the security of the U.S. border, just as the president promised during his 2016 run for the White House.

    You say, hold on, he said the Mexicans would pay for the wall. True.

    https://gellerreport.com/2020/01/president-trump-keeps-his-promise-makes-mexico-pay-for-u-s-border-security.html/

  8. FINALLY: Missouri Lawmaker Files Bill to Prevent ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ Child Grooming Events

    It would potentially jail librarians who expose kids to “age-inappropriate sexual materials.”

    A state lawmaker is finally taking aim at drag queen story hour events that allow creeps and weirdos to groom children in public libraries and other formerly wholesome venues.

    Rep. Ben Baker, a legislator from southwestern Missouri, has introduced the “Parental Oversight of Public Libraries Act” to provide criminal sanctions against librarians who permit children to be exposed to drag queen story hour events without parental consent.

    “In some places — St. Louis, Kansas City and I think St. (Joseph) — they’ve had these drag queen story hours and that’s something that I take objection to and I think a lot of parents do,” Baker said. “That’s where in a public space, our kids could be exposed to something that’s age-inappropriate. That’s what I’m trying to tackle.”

    https://bigleaguepolitics.com/finally-missouri-lawmaker-files-bill-to-prevent-drag-queen-story-hour-child-grooming-events/

    • THE BIG STORY: Wuhan virus: China reveals plan to combat virus spread | The Straits Times

    • Wuhan virus: Singapore public hospitals in ‘outbreak response mode’ | The Straits Times

    • China virus deaths hit 17, heightening global alarm

      Tourist wearing a mask visits Tiananmen Square in Beijing

      BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Deaths from China’s new virus rose to 17 on Wednesday with more than 540 cases confirmed, increasing fears of contagion from an infection suspected to originate from illegally-traded wildlife.

      The previously unknown, flu-like coronavirus strain is believed to have emerged from an animal market in central Wuhan city, with cases now detected as far away as the United States.

      https://www.oann.com/china-says-virus-cases-rise-to-440-with-nine-deaths/

    • (Richard: It is about 4 years old but could be taking about what is currently happening.)

    • On the menu at China virus market: rats and live wolf pups

      The food market where China’s deadly virus surfaced was a smorgasbord of exotic wildlife ranging from wolf pups to species linked to previous pandemics such as civets, according to vendor information and a Chinese media report.

      The Huanan Seafood Market in the central city of Wuhan came under greater scrutiny on Wednesday as Chinese officials said that the virus which has so far killed nine people and infected hundreds may have originated in a wild animal sold at the food emporium.

      Past deadly epidemics have been blamed on wild animals — Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was linked to Chinese consumption of civet meat — setting Chinese authorities up for potential embarrassment if lax supervision of wildlife trafficking is found at fault in the latest outbreak.

      A price list circulating on China’s internet for a business at the Wuhan market lists a menagerie of animals or animal-based products including live foxes, crocodiles, wolf puppies, giant salamanders, snakes, rats, peacocks, porcupines, camel meat and other game — 112 items in all.

      “Freshly slaughtered, frozen and delivered to your door,” said the price list for the vendor, “Wild Game Animal Husbandry for the Masses”.

      Gao Fu, director of the Chinese centre for disease control and prevention, said in Beijing on Wednesday that authorities believe the virus likely came from “wild animals at the seafood market” though the exact source remains undetermined.

      China bans the trafficking of a number of wild species or requires special licenses, but regulations are loose for some species if they are commercially farmed.

      AFP was unable to directly confirm the authenticity of the price list. Phone calls to the vendor went unanswered, and attempts to connect to its social media accounts were rejected.

      The Beijing News published a photo Tuesday showing the same vendor’s now-shuttered store front, as authorities in white hazmat suits milled about.

      The paper also quoted other merchants as saying trade in wildlife took place up until the market was shuttered for disinfection shortly after the outbreak.

      A number of the early sufferers of the virus, now known as the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), were employees of the market.

      – Virus ‘spillover’ –

      Many exotic species are still widely consumed in China or other Asian countries where they are considered a delicacy — like the civet or some rats or bats — or for purported health benefits that are unproven by science.

      But this brings growing human health risks, said Christian Walzer, executive director of the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society’s Health Program.

      Walzer said 70 percent of all new infectious diseases come from wildlife, with habitat encroachment increasing the chances of pathogens spreading.

      “Wildlife markets offer a unique opportunity for viruses to spill over from wildlife hosts,” he said.

      “It is essential to invest resources not only into discovering new viruses, but more importantly, in determining the epidemiological drivers of… (the) spillover, amplification, and spread of infectious diseases.”

      Bats are thought to have spawned SARS, which in 2002-03 killed hundreds of people in Asia, mostly China.

      SARS was also found in civets in wildlife markets in China, with many scientists believing the bat virus infected the cat-like creatures and then humans who ate them.

      Following SARS, China cracked down on consumption of civets and some other species, but conservationists say the trade continues.

      China has so far won praise for its openness and handling of the current outbreak in stark contrast to SARS, when it was accused of stifling information and failing to cooperate with the rest of the world.

      https://news.yahoo.com/menu-china-virus-market-rats-live-wolf-pups-111650959.html

  9. Wuhan virus outbreak could be like 2009 H1N1 pandemic in ‘worst-case scenario’: Health expert

      • The Chinese are willing to admit to 400 cases and 9 dead, given their history of playing fast and loose with the facts what are the real numbers?

        • Pneumatic plague is spread from person to person. Symptoms: high fever, shortness of breath, severe lung infection.

  10. Tehran Says Its Relations With Saudi Arabia Should Not Become Like Those With US (sputniknews, Jan 22, 2020)
    https://sputniknews.com/world/202001221078102301-tehran-says-its-relations-with-saudi-arabia-should-not-become-like-those-with-us/

    “This comes amid the latest escalation of tensions between Iran and the US following the killing of Iranian top military commander Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike in Baghdad earlier this month.

    Iran’s relations with Saudi Arabia should not become like Iran’s relations with the US, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi said.

    He added that Iran and Saudi Arabia should work together to resolve problems.

    “The relations between Iran and its neighbour Saudi Arabia should not become like the relationship between Tehran and the United States … Tehran and Riyadh should work together to resolve their problems,” Vaezi said, as quoted by the IRNA state news agency.
    Vaezi’s statement comes amid an ongoing escalation of tensions between Iran and the United States following the death of Major General Qasem Soleimani in a US drone attack at the Baghdad airport on 3 January. In retaliation to Soleimani’s death, Iran attacked US military bases in Iraq.

    After the killing of Soleimani, Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi revealed in a conversation with Iraqi lawmakers that the assassinated commander had arrived in Baghdad to discuss measures being taken to ease the confrontation between Iran and Saudi Arabia. “I was supposed to meet him in the morning the day he was killed. He came to deliver a message from Iran in response to the message we had delivered from the Saudis to Iran,” Mahdi said.”

  11. Leaked French Internal Intelligence Report Claims 150 Neighborhoods ‘Held’ By Radical Islamists (breitbart, Jan 22, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/01/22/leaked-french-internal-intelligence-report-claims-150-neighborhoods-held-by-radical-islamists/

    “A leaked classified document from the French internal security service, the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI), has claimed that as many as 150 neighbourhoods across France are “held” by Islamist radicals.

    The confidential DGSI report maps out the 150 different neighbourhoods which consist of the notorious Seine-Saint-Denis no-go suburbs of Paris, the suburbs of Lyon and Marseille, all of which have had longstanding issues with radical Islam, newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche reports.

    According to the paper, the report also lists the commune of Maubeuge along the Belgian border in the north of France, highlighting the fact that the Union of French Muslim Democrats (UDMF), a Muslim political party, reached as high as 40 per cent in polls and noted, “the situation is alarming.”

    Last month, the UDFM announced it would be fielding lists of candidates for the upcoming municipal elections, set to be held in March.

    The party said they would be putting up candidates in Mantes-la-Jolie, Les Mureaux and Guyancourt, and won 16.74 per cent of the vote in the district of Val-Fourre in Mantes-la-Jolie in last year’s European Parliament elections.

    Areas such as Haute-Savoie or Ain, Annemasse, Bourg-en-Bresse, Oyonnax or Bourgoin-Jallieu have also come under the influence of radical Islamists.

    President Emmanuel Macron has spoken out about ghettoisation and communitarianism, and the Élysée Palace has promised to provide a plan to tackle the issue ahead of the municipal elections.

    Last year, largely as part of Macron’s overall plan to combat radical Islam, the French government shut down mosques and schools in 15 neighbourhoods across the country.

    French Secretary of State for the Interior Laurent Nuñez said that the government had closed a total of 130 drinking establishments, 12 places of worship, three schools and nine associations as part of the National Plan for the Prevention of Radicalization (PNPR) but did not name the neighbourhoods involved.”

  12. Greek islands stage general strike against migrant camps, saying ‘we want our islands back’ (telegraph, Jan 22, 2020)
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/22/greek-islands-stage-general-strike-against-migrant-camps-saying/

    “Thousands of residents on Greek islands hosting large migrant camps on Wednesday kicked off a day of protests, demanding the immediate removal of asylum-seekers.

    The islands of Lesbos, Samos and Chios staged a general strike, shutting down shops and public services and rallying in central squares, many protesters waving Greek flags.

    “We want our islands back, we want our lives back,” was the main slogan.

    Asylum-seekers “should be shared out across Greece,” 72-year-old Lesbos pensioner Efstratios Peppas told AFP.

    “And Europe must assume its responsibilities. It too must take migrants,” he said.

    The largest camp of Moria on Lesbos island, with a capacity for 2,840 people, hosts more than 19,000 asylum seekers.

    “You can’t walk alone outside after dark, people get stabbed,” Mr Peppas said.

    The overcrowding is equally severe on other islands, and rights groups and medical charities have repeatedly criticised the living conditions at the camps.

    The government announced plans in November to build larger camps on Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Kos and Leros, which currently host a total of nearly 42,000 migrants and refugees and where outbreaks of violence are frequent.

    Two young asylum seekers have been fatally stabbed in brawls at the Moria camp this month. An 18-year-old Afghan girl was also seriously injured in a knife attack this week and remains in hospital.

    Three asylum seekers in Greek custody have committed suicide in recent weeks.

    “We demand the immediate shutdown of Moria,” read a banner carried in the Lesbos demonstration.

    But the new camp plans have been strongly opposed by local officials, who want smaller facilities after hosting thousands of asylum seekers for the past five years.

    Greece last year again became the main entry into Europe for migrants and refugees, many fleeing war or poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Syria.

    The UN refugee agency in 2019 recorded more than 59,000 arrivals by sea and more than 14,000 via the land border with Turkey.

    Already more than 3,000 have arrived so far this year.

    Only a fraction are allowed passage to the Greek mainland while the rest spend months in the camps, waiting for their asylum applications to be processed.

    On Tuesday, 17 human rights organisations warned of a rising “climate of discrimination and xenophobia” towards asylum-seekers, who also faced “serious consequences to their well-being and public health”.”

  13. Turkey’s FM urges Russia to halt Syrian government attacks (abcnews, Jan 22, 2020)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkeys-fm-urges-russia-halt-syrian-government-attacks-68445632

    “Turkey’s foreign minister urged Russia on Wednesday to halt the Syrian government’s attacks in the war-torn Arab country, a day after airstrikes on rebel-held sectors and the shelling of government-held areas killed at least 17 people, including an entire family…”

  14. Islamic extremists kill Nigerian pastor, attack his hometown (abcnews, Jan 22, 2020)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/islamic-extremists-kill-nigerian-pastor-attack-hometown-68446410

    “Islamic militants in Nigeria have killed a Christian pastor who had pleaded for his life in a video just days earlier, and a human rights activist said Tuesday that other extremists attacked his hometown on the same day.

    The Rev. Lawan Andimi was abducted earlier this month when Boko Haram militants attacked the Michika local government area, where he was the chairman of a local chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria. He was killed on Monday.

    Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari condemned Andimi’s slaying, calling it “cruel, inhuman and deliberately provocative.”

    “I am greatly saddened by the fact that the terrorists went on to kill him even while giving signals of a willingness to set him free by releasing him to third parties,” Buhari tweeted.

    Osai Ojigho, director of Amnesty International in Nigeria, called it “appalling” that Boko Haram followed up Andimi’s killing on Monday with an attack on his hometown in the Chibok local government area of northeastern Borno state…”

  15. Masked gunmen kill local commander of Iran’s security forces (abcnews, Jan 22, 2020)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/masked-gunmen-kill-local-commander-irans-security-forces-68444659

    “Masked gunmen on Wednesday ambushed and killed the local commander of a paramilitary security force in southwestern Iran, an associate of Iran’s top general recently killed in an American drone strike in Baghdad, the official IRNA news agency reported.

    The slain commander, Abdolhossein Mojaddami, headed the Basij forces, a paramilitary wing of the Revolutionary Guard used for internal security and other tasks, in the town of Darkhoein. He was gunned down in front of his home in the town in the country’s oil rich Khuzestan province.

    Two gunmen on a motorcycle, armed with an assault rifle and a hunting rifle, ambushed Mojaddami, IRNA reported. Other Iranian media said the gunmen’s faces were covered with masks and that four shots were fired.

    The case is under investigation and a motive was not immediately clear, but Basij units had been involved in violent clashes with demonstrators in the area in November in which many protesters were injured and killed. Amnesty International has reported that more than 300 people were killed in the unrest across the country, though Iran has not announced a death toll.

    Mojaddami’s killing is seen another blow to the Revolutionary Guard, following the death of top general Qasse m Soleimani earlier this month in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq. Mojaddami was described by IRNA as an associated of Soleimani, who was the head of the Quds forces, the foreign wing of the Guard.”

  16. “DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE IS DESTINY for the radical left!
    Thus, they’ll be able to pass anti-American laws…abolish 1A, 2A, ICE & for open borders!
    We must vote in candidates who’ll fight to reduce legal immigration & stop illegal immigration!
    THESE #’S DON’T INCLUDE ILLEGALS!”
    Sergeant Estrada – January 19, 2020 – Twitter
    https://twitter.com/GIJoeOPS/status/1219154362758336512

  17. Yucki here is another one, I haven’t seen it yet but the man who wrote the script wrote the book that the John Wayne movie the Searchers was made from.

    Gunfighters Western 1947 Randolph Scott

  18. Tulsi Gabbard sues Hillary Clinton for defamation

    Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard has filed a defamation suit against Hillary Clinton for calling her a “Russian asset,” according to newly filed court papers.

    “Tulsi Gabbard is running for President of the United States, a position Clinton has long coveted, but has not been able to attain,” Wednesday’s Manhattan federal lawsuit reads. “In October 2019 — whether out of personal animus, political enmity, or fear of real change within a political party Clinton and her allies have long dominated — Clinton lied about her perceived rival Tulsi Gabbard. She did so publicly, unambiguously, and with obvious malicious intent.”

    The former secretary of state has refused to walk back comments she made during an Oct. 17 appearance on a podcast, in which she referred to the Hawaii congresswoman as a “favorite of the Russians.”

    https://nypost.com/2020/01/22/tulsi-gabbard-sues-hillary-clinton-for-defamation/

  19. Verbal Altercation between Macron and Israeli police officers

    French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday urged Israeli police to let him enter the church of Saint Anne in Jerusalem, in a scene reminiscent of an incident that involved Jacques Chirac in the 1990s.

    “I don’t like what you did in front of me,” Macron shouted at an Israeli policeman, asking him to leave the French-owned church in Jerusalem’s Old City.

  20. Illinois confirms non-citizens voted in 2018; even more are registered to vote
    John Binder, Breitbart

    Ed. – Yet another state where motor-voter registration is opening the door to vote fraud.]

    In total, the Illinois State Board of Elections said 574 non-citizens were improperly registered to vote in the 2018 election and out of those noncitizens, 19 fraudulently voted, according to state data from WCIA.com.

    Though the figure of 19 noncitizens voting seems small, local reporter Mark Maxwell noted that in 2018 some elections in Macon County were decided by just one vote. …

    Secretary of State spokesman Henry Haupt said in a statement:

    For whatever reason, that technological programming error did not properly remove the individuals. The individuals who are applying for driver’s license were inadvertently pooled into the automatic voter registration.

    Trending: Suppose for argument’s sake Joe Biden IS guilty of corruption. Don’t Dems want to know about it?

    Illinois is a sanctuary state that shields criminal illegal aliens from arrest and deportation. The state, like California, allows illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses and has an automatic voter registration system for individuals obtaining state IDs.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/01/21/illinois-confirms-non-citizens-voted-in-2018-even-more-are-registered-to-vote/

  21. MEMRI – Mashhad Friday Sermon: Iran Must Fight America like a Goat Fights a Predator Wolf

    In a Friday sermon delivered in the Iranian city of Mashhad on January 17, 2020, Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda said that Iran’s long-range accurate missiles can target the palaces of emirs and kings of countries that host U.S. military bases and that the presence of these bases is dangerous for these countries.

    He said that the Islamic Revolution is about to remove “the structure of arrogance” from the face of the Earth, and he compared Iran to a herd of sheep that is attacked by the “predatory wolf” that is America.

    He said that Iran must fight America like a goat fights off wolves with its horns. The sermon was aired on Khorasan Razavi TV (Iran).

  22. The real impeachment fight
    By J.E. Dyer January 22, 2020

    The U.S. House of Representatives found no evidence of any crime committed by President Trump. So it forwarded two made-up articles of impeachment, neither of which is about a crime.

    There is no foundation for impeachment. In deciding when to release aid to Ukraine (the so-called “abuse of power” article), Trump was exercising his constitutional prerogatives in foreign policy. In invoking executive privilege (the so-called “obstruction of Congress” article), he was asserting a privilege established in longstanding precedent, including both usage and judicial rulings.

    If Congress disagrees with Trump’s priorities or interpretations, it has equally longstanding remedies, which it can attempt to use. Congress may not have the political unity to overrule the executive in the case of those disagreements. That doesn’t constitute an emergency. The ultimate remedy is to make a case to the public that the voters need to elect a different president, or change the majority-minority balance in Congress with the next election.

    Since the House forwarded two articles of impeachment that have no foundation as criminal matters, the Senate is under no obligation to go rooting around with new witnesses and additional “evidence” to try to manufacture criminal charges. There are no criminal charges. It’s not the Senate’s job to come up with them.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/01/22/the-real-impeachment-fight/

  23. Terror-Linked CAIR Will Kick Off First-Ever ‘Muslim Day’ To Promote Islam At State Capitol Today
    January 22, 2020 Natalie Dagenhardt 268 Views 0 Comments Anti-muslim, Democrats, Kentucky, Muslim, Muslim airport security, muslim immigrant, Muslim Migrant
    Obama wanted to systematically change America, well, keep electing people like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and it will happen.

    But this change won’t be good for the real Americans!

    We are being sold out by the political class, importing the world’s trash will be the Destruction of our nation.

    In 2019, for the first time ever, Muhammad made the list of top 10 baby boy names in the United States.

    Here we are, not even 20 years after the largest Islamic terrorist attack in US history thanks to dangerous immigration policies by George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

    What is even more important is the fact that the Dems are anti-Christian but don’t mind religion when it comes to Muslims.

    Today Kentucky’s Muslim community will get together for the first-ever “Muslim Day” on Jan. 22, 2020 at the state capitol Frankfort, where they will visit the building, get together with legislators and pray in the Rotunda.

    https://www.rightjournalism.com/terror-linked-cair-will-kick-off-first-ever-muslim-day-to-promote-islam-at-state-capitol-today/

  24. Sweden: Women quitting jobs in large Stockholm mall due to “harassment from migrant men”
    JAN 22, 2020 9:00 AM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS8 COMMENTS
    “Independent journalist Joakim Lamotte has claimed that women working at Stockholm’s Kista Galleria shopping centre are quitting their jobs due to harassment from foreign men who refuse to be served by women…..The women also allegedly claimed that many of the male customers would refuse to be served by them, demanding to be served by a male coworker instead. ”

    Since 2017, Jihad Watch has reported that even Swedish feminists were running away from no-go zones. They have been rather silent about abuse from migrant men; yet only a couple of months before that Jihad Watch report, over a thousand protesters in Stockholm came out to demonstrate against Trump, when they should have been opposing misogynist Muslim men over Sharia-based discrimination against women and infidels — those same men that they were running away from not long after.

    Welcoming Sweden is faced with staggering crime rates, bomb blasts, attacks on women, police who want to quit their jobs, and now women who are actually quitting their jobs due to harassment from Muslim men.

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/sweden-women-quitting-jobs-in-large-stockholm-mall-due-to-harassment-from-migrant-men

  25. Joe Biden told Vice News that he would not seek to deport drunk driving illegal migrants.

    Immigration agents should “only arrest for the purpose of dealing with a felony that’s committed [in the United States], and I don’t count drunk driving as a felony,” Biden told his interviewers Jan. 20.

    “We’re not going to deport anybody who has not — in this country — committed a felony in this country. In this country, committed a felony,” he said.

    But many Americans have been killed by drunk-driving illegals, and DUIs are commonplace among illegals. For example, In fiscal 2019, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency arrested many thousands of illegals following DUI charges. The 2019 end-of-year report showed 49,106 criminal convictions for DUIs, alongside 39,717 traffic violations, 47,453 “dangerous drugs” convictions, and 26,156 assault charges.

    After Biden’s comments, Mothers Against Drunk Driving issued this statement:

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/21/joe-biden-promises-sanctuary-for-drunk-driving-illegals/

  26. In Completely Expected Twist, Adam Schiff Lied About ‘Evidence’ From Lev Parnas
    Posted at 9:30 am on January 22, 2020 by Bonchie

    In Completely Expected Twist, Adam Schiff Lied About ‘Evidence’ From Lev Parnas

    Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Rep. Adam Schiff takes materials and testimony and then selectively leaks them in order to paint a specific narrative. Then a few days later it comes out that he was either lying or purposely taking things out of context.

    It’s a story as old as time, or at least the current impeachment push, and Schiff is back at it.

    If you’ll recall, last week, former Giuliani associate Lev Parnas handed over supposed “evidence” on Trump and Ukraine to the House. Parnas then went on a media tour because back in the real world, the SDNY won’t even bother talking to him about a cooperation deal because he’s so non-credible.

    Now, news is coming out that Schiff lied about what Parnas’ documents contained.

    https://www.redstate.com/bonchie/2020/01/22/in-completely-expected-twist-adam-schiff-mischaracterized-evidence-from-lev-parnas/

  27. Former Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Tom Homan said Wednesday that Joe Biden has “lost his mind,” calling out the former vice president for saying that the United States should not deport illegal immigrants over a drunk-driving arrest.

    Biden also threatened ICE with punishment if the agency were to deport illegal immigrants arrested for drunk driving, saying his administration would fire agents who arrest and deport illegal immigrants for such a crime.

    “They go off to school wondering whether their mom comes and picks them up, is she not going to be there because an ICE agent was there to arrest her,” Biden told Vice News on Monday.

    The 2020 Democratic front-runner added, “You’re going to get fired, you’re fired if in fact you do that. You only arrest for the purpose of dealing with a felony that’s committed and I don’t count drunk driving as a felony.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/tom-homan-joe-biden-illegal-immigrant-drunk-drivers

    • Schiff: ‘The Senate should allow us a fair trial’

      Rep. Adam Schiff, the lead House impeachment manager says, “The Senate should allow us a fair trial.”

      He also accused President Donald Trump of bragging about keeping documents from House lawmakers during their impeachment inquiry.

  28. CNN – UK’s Prince Charles worries humanity has left climate change action too late

    Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne and lifelong environmentalist, sat down with CNN’s Max Foster for an exclusive interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “I’ve always worried about the fact that so often, in terms of humanity, we leave everything too late,” said Prince Charles.

  29. Breaking: Hunter Biden Ordered to Arkansas Court Next Week, Must Disclose Financial Information

    Breaking: Hunter Biden Ordered to Arkansas Court Next Week, Must Disclose Financial Information
    Jim Hoft by Jim Hoft January 22, 2020 249 Comments

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    Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden was ordered to Arkansas court next Wednesday to explain why he shouldn’t be held in contempt for violating court orders to reveal his financial information.

    Hunter had a child with 28-year-old Lunden Roberts after meeting her at a DC strip joint where she worked as a stripper and she is in court demanding Hunter pay child support.

    Ms. Roberts dragged Hunter Biden into a nasty court battle after he has ‘refused to pay child support for over a year’ and refused to pay her $11,000 legal bill.

    Lunden Roberts told the court that Hunter Biden “had no involvement in the child’s life since the child’s birth, never interacted with the child, never parented the child,” and “could not identify the child out of a photo lineup.”

    Hunter and his baby mama Lunden Roberts are due back in court on January 29 for a pre-trial hearing.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/breaking-hunter-biden-ordered-to-arkansas-court-next-week-must-disclose-financial-information/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily

  30. Want Hope that Schiff and Soros Might Go Down? Look to Missouri where a Soros-Funded Prosecutor Is Set to Plead Fifth for Secret Work with Lawyer-Politician

    This week Kim Gardner, the St. Louis Circuit Attorney, whose campaign was funded by George Soros will be deposed by Special Prosecutor Gerard Carmody.

    This comes after the news on Tuesday that St. Louis Police officers caught Gardner in a major lie about her traffic stop in December.

    Gardner said she was harassed for 15 minutes by St. Louis police. But a video proved she was lying. The police only pulled her over for 6 minutes. Kim Gardner also allegedly lied about the date of the traffic stop.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/want-hope-that-schiff-and-soros-might-go-down-look-to-missouri-where-a-soros-funded-prosecutor-is-set-to-plead-fifth-for-secret-work-with-lawyer-politician/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily

  31. Rep. Elise Stefanik: Adam Schiff is Being Completely Hypocritical – The Process is Unfair and Unconstitutional (VIDEO)
    Jim Hoft by Jim Hoft January 22, 2020 78 Comments

    Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) joined FOX and Friends on Wednesday morning following Tuesday’s marathon impeachment session in the US Senate.

    Democrat lawmakers led by Adam Schiff pushed for several hours for access to more witnesses for their slap-dash impeachment.
    This was after they denied Republicans their witnesses during the corrupt process in the US House of Representatives.

    Rep. Stefanik (R-NY) was chosen by the president to represent President Trump in the US Senate.
    Stefanik went off on Adam Schiff on Wednesday morning.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/rep-elise-stefanik-adam-schiff-is-being-completely-hypocritical-the-process-is-unfair-and-unconstitutional-video/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily

  32. Just popping in to relate !!GoodNews!!
    Iranian commander gunned down in front of his own home

    Iranian Basij forces commander Abdolhossein Mojaddami was gunned down in front of his own home on Wednesday in the Khuzestan province of Iran, news agency IRNA reported.

    The Basij forces [Gestapo], one of the five forces [the worst of five] of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC), are often used to suppress protests and demonstrations in the Islamic Republic.

    He was killed by two men who wore masks and were riding a motorcycle, Iranian media reported.
    Iranian security forces are investigating the matter.
    https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran-News/Iranian-commander-gunned-down-in-front-of-his-own-home-614978

  33. Venezuela’s Maduro Regime Attacks Opposition Meeting Following Juan Guaidó’s Meeting with Secretary of State Pompeo

    On Tuesday US Secretary of State of the United States Mike Pompeo met with the president in charge of Venezuela Juan Guaidó, in Colombia. The meeting was organized by Colombian President Iván Duque, and included to the representatives of countries such as Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Ecuador, Saint Lucia and El Salvador. The meetings generated desperate reactions from the Maduro regime.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/venezuelas-maduro-regime-attacks-opposition-meeting-following-juan-guaidos-meeting-with-secretary-of-state-pompeo/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily

  34. In Defense of Michelle Malkin’s Right to Free Speech

    Will we stay silent while a public university assaults the First Amendment?

    Conservative commentator and author Michelle Malkin’s right to free speech has been under consistent vicious attack — most recently at the publicly funded University of Maine. The College Republicans student group at the university, which had invited Ms. Malkin to speak, was forced to scurry around at the last minute to find a suitable forum outside the university campus for her talk. This was all set into motion when the University of Maine stripped the College Republicans of their status as an official student organization after their “faculty adviser”, political science professor Amy Fried, quit because she disapproved of Michelle Malkin’s conservative views. As a result, the College Republicans could no longer use the campus facilities to host the speech. No official recognition means no student government funding and no complimentary rooms or meeting spaces on campus, which the College Democrats continue to enjoy without interruption during this presidential election year.

    Three off campus venues then proceeded to reverse their agreements to let the University of Maine College Republicans use their facilities for Michelle Malkin’s delivery of her speech. First, Portland Sheraton at Sable Oaks in South Portland cancelled, after being informed by the university that the University of Maine College Republicans were not an official student group on campus. Then the Gendron Franco Center in Lewiston and Martindale Country Club in Auburn followed suit, succumbing to pressure from self-appointed censors of free speech. Ms. Malkin was finally able to speak last Friday night to a standing-room-only crowd at Sabattus Town Hall. “It’s flabbergasting,” Ms. Malkin said, “that it took four different venues to find a place for peace-loving patriots to gather.”

    https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/01/public-universitys-assault-first-amendment-joseph-klein

  35. France: Security Services Arrest Seven Islamic Radicals Plotting Terror Attacks (breitbart, Jan 22, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/01/22/france-security-services-arrest-seven-islamic-radicals-plotting-terror-attacks/

    “The Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI), France’s internal intelligence and security agency, has arrested seven Islamist radicals they claim were plotting terrorist attacks.

    The DGSI released details of the arrest, saying all of the men involved lived in the city of Brest, with many of them already being under government surveillance prior to the arrests, broadcaster RTL reports.

    The suspects are, according to French media, accused of being “an association of criminals with terrorist and criminal aims”. Another source close to the investigation claimed that several of the arrested men are with records on the so-called S-File, the French national terror watchlist database.

    The S-File is said to contain tens of thousands of people, most of them radical Islamists, but former General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) agent Yves Trotignon admitted in 2018 that authorities do not have the manpower to keep track of everyone on the list.

    Along with potentially plotting attacks, several of the men arrested in Brest are also said to have expressed a desire to travel to the Middle East to join Islamist groups in Iraq and Syria. However, investigators mentioned few details about specific attacks.

    The arrests are just the latest related to a potential attack foiled by French authorities within the last year. In May 2019, France had foiled five serious Islamist terror attacks including a plot by two men to attack a kindergarten and hold the children and staff hostage.

    Earlier this month, neighbouring Belgium also announced an arrest in the French-speaking city of Verviers in connection with terrorism charges.

    A Syrian national was arrested in December with Eric Van Duyse, the spokesman for the federal prosecutor’s office, saying investigators had found a gas cartridge pistol, a machete, and several other bladed weapons in the possession of the Syrian migrant.

    “But the investigation did not reveal any trace of a specific target or a real plan for an attack. Let’s say that his activities were worrying, to say the least. On the side of the federal prosecution, we try to work as far upstream as possible,” Van Duyse said.”

  36. (Richard: This is typical of the arrogance of the libs, 25,000+ people who up to protest their actions so they double down on what the protesters oppose. AKA boogaloo alert)

    VA Legislators Pass New Gun Control Day After 2A Rally

    Before yesterday’s rally for the Second Amendment in Virginia even began, Virginia Democrats were smearing it as a dangerous “racist” rally. We were warned that everyone from white supremacist groups to fringe militias and possibly even antifa would be showing up. Governor Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency ahead of the rally, preventing anyone from carrying firearms at the capitol building, and signaling to the media that danger was afoot. “They’re not coming to peacefully protest. They are coming to intimidate and cause harm,” be said at a press conference.

    An estimated 22,000 turned out for the rally, 16,000 of which were armed, and there wasn’t a single act of violence. The average protester turned out to be about as provocative as Nick Sandmann’s smirk (i.e., not at all provocative to any sane individual), and the only arrest was for someone who wore a mask in public. Journalists sympathetic to antifa and oblivious to irony were quick to highlight the arrest.

    Rather than admit they were mistaken, Northam cited the peacefulness of yesterday’s protests as proof that his unspecified de-escalation measures worked. He also said he would continue to “listen to the voices or Virginians” in a widely ridiculed tweet.

    Click through for the rest

    https://bongino.com/va-legislators-pass-new-gun-control-day-after-2a-rally/

    Richard: The Dems aren’t smart enough to understand that the peaceful protest was peaceful because we don’t wnat to fight, not because we won’t fight. Our refusal to riot like their supporters do is taken as a sign of weakness, they never stop to think about and understand that we are the ones who fight the wars, we know what war is like and don’t want war on our home soil. If it is necessary to preserve our freedom we will cast aside our desires to be left along and move against the people who are trying to take our rights away from us.

    I am not doing this but I am sure that there are many younger people on our side who are making a list and checking it twice, and they will never be missed. They are pissing off the people who know violence, who in some cases are professionals in the intelligent use of violence. As I said we don’t want a war on our home soil but if necessary we will fight and fight until the people who want to take our rights away are convinced to leave us alone.

    • Virginia Is Only the Beginning

      Despite smears and scare tactics from the Virginia law enforcement and the corporate press, thousands of protestors have landed in the capital of Old Dominion in response to an anti-gun agenda being pushed by the new solid-blue state government. While large protests aren’t particularly unique in American politics, this particular event has captured the media’s imaginations in no small part due to the fact it consists of their favorite sort of villain: largely white, Trump-supporting, armed men. They can’t help but salivate at the idea of it descending into the tragic chaos that occurred in Charlottesville in 2017.

      To a certain degree, the showdown in Virginia is really only superficially about guns. It also represents the valid anxiety that has arisen as the state’s rural population finds itself increasingly powerless in the face of rapidly expanding political power wielded by high-population centers.

      Of course, it’s not surprising that the same commentators that often condemn—foolishly—economic gentrification, openly cheer political changes that threaten the way of life of families that have lived in an area for, in some cases, hundreds of years.

      https://mises.org/power-market/virginia-only-beginning

    • I couldn’t be more proud of our side at the 2-A rally.
      They even picked up litter before they went home. Totally terrific Americans!