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Trump: I’ve Directed AG ‘to Propose Regulations to Ban All Devices That Turn Legal Weapons Into Machine Guns’
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by IAN HANCHETT20 Feb 201819,998
While speaking on Tuesday, President Trump announced that he signed a memo “directing the attorney general to propose regulations to ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns.”
Trump said, “[A]fter the deadly shooting in Las Vegas, I directed the attorney general to clarify whether certain bump stock devices, like the one used in Las Vegas, are illegal under current law. That process began in December. And just a few moments ago, I signed a memorandum directing the attorney general to propose regulations to ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns. I expect that these critical regulations will be finalized, Jeff, very soon.”
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Robert Mueller Indicts Attorney for Allegedly Lying About Contacts with Former Trump Campaign Aide Rick Gates
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FILE - In this June 13, 2013 file photo, FBI Director Robert Mueller listens as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, as the House Judiciary Committee held an oversight hearing on the FBI. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team of lawyers investigating potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign is still growing, but its early composition reveals a breadth of experience in criminal law and in following the money. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
by KRISTINA WONG20 Feb 20186,145
Special counsel Robert Mueller is charging an attorney who communicated with former Trump campaign adviser Rick Gates with making false statements to federal officials, according to an indictment released Tuesday.
Alex Van Der Zwaan is charged with making “materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements and representations” to the special counsel’s office and FBI agents on November 3, 2017, according to the indictment.
According to the indictment, Van Der Zwaan said his last communication with Gates was in mid-August 2016 — “an innocuous text message” — and his last communication with “Person A” was in 2014 (when he and Person A discussed Person A’s family).
Van Der Zwaan also said he did not know why an email between him and Person A in September 2016 was not produced to the special counsel’s office, according to the indictment.
However, he “then and there well knew and believed” that in or about September, he spoke with both Gates and Person A regarding the report on Yulia Tymoshenko, a former Ukrainian prime minister and opponent of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, and surreptitiously recorded the calls.
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Parents Lose Custody of Daughter for Opposing Transgender Medical Treatments
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by DR. SUSAN BERRY19 Feb 20185,249
Parents of a 17-year-old girl lost custody of their daughter for opposing her wish for transgender medical treatments.
Judge Sylvia Sieve Hendon of Hamilton County, Ohio has allowed the girl to be taken into the custody of her grandparents – who support her medical transition – allowing them to make decisions that will further along her physical transition to the opposite sex.
According to CNN, Hendon ordered that the family’s names not be released.
The parents reportedly continued to call their daughter by her given name, rather than a male name, and refused to consent to hormone treatments that were recommended by her medical team. The girl claimed she became suicidal as a result of her parents’ refusal to accept that she wanted to transition to a male.
“We think the grandparents are the ones who have an open mind and will … make this sort of decision best for the child,” said attorney Paul Hunt, who represents the court-appointed guardian ad litem. “The parents have clearly indicated that they’re not open to it.”
According to the news story, the parents argued their daughter was not “even close to being able to make such a life-altering decision at this time.” A county prosecutor, however, claimed the parents were opposed to their daughter transitioning to become a male because of their Christian religious beliefs.
Thomas Mellott, the girl’s attorney, said the teen was forced to attend a Catholic school where she had to wear dresses and use her birth name.
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Pelosi Heckled While Criticizing Tax Cuts: ‘How Much Are You Worth Nancy?’
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by PAM KEY20 Feb 20181,403
Tuesday in Phoenix at a town hall, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was heckled while discussing her opposition to the Republican tax cuts.
Pelosi said, “These are kitchen table issues for many of America’s families. Most people are not in deadening poverty, but some are. Most people have to struggle to make ends —”
A woman yelled, “How much are you worth, Nancy?”
Pelosi responded,  “No, we’re not talking about that. So in any event — I can — you know I’m a mother of five I can now speak louder than anybody.”
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Somali Father Arranged for Daughter to Have Genitals Mutilated to Stop Her ‘Feeling Sexy’
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by LIAM DEACON20 Feb 20181,393
A Somali heritage Uber driver allowed his seven-year-old daughter to be subjected to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) because he said it stops “women feeling sexy all the time”, a court has heard.
The case represents one of the first times a prosecution for the crime – common in some migrant and Muslim cultures – has been brought to court in the UK, despite being illegal here since 1985 and hundreds of successful prosecutions in France.
“The case concerns… a practice that is illegal in this country and is becoming illegal in countries around the world,” Anna Vigars QC, prosecuting, told the court as the case began Monday.
“But, there are communities in Africa and the Middle East where it is common,” she added, according to The Guardian.
The prosecution alleges that the Somali father, who speaks “broken” English, admitted allowing his daughter to be cut to charity worker and anti-FGM campaigner Sami Ullah after picking him up in his Uber in March 2016.
Mr. Ullah asked the driver if he knew what the practice was using the Somali word, “sunna”. The driver is alleged to have made the cross sign with his finger and replied: “You mean cut?”
He then said he had allowed his own daughter to be mutilated, arguing that many people in his culture embraced it, and claiming that a smaller version of the practice was not wrong.
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Teen in Sweden Beat Sister with Baseball Bat for Refusing to Wear Islamic Veil
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by CHRIS TOMLINSON19 Feb 20182,011
A 19-year-old man in Sweden has been charged with abuse after he beat his 14-year-old sister with a baseball bat because she refused to wear an Islamic veil.
The young man, who lives in the municipality of Karlskrona, was brought before the Blekinge District Court last week on charges of abuse and assault. He is alleged to have struck his younger sister with a baseball bat several times while yelling at her “wear a veil”, 24Blekinge reports.
The 19-year-old is said to have become angry with his sister after she returned from a shopping trip with their mother and he noticed she was not wearing an Islamic veil. When he asked her why she was not wearing a veil, the girl refused to answer. The brother then walked to his room and emerged with a baseball bat which he used to strike the 14-year-old on the head, leg, and arm.
Another member of the family, an older sister, ran into her room and called the police. When the officers arrived at the house, the young man was arrested and admitted the assault claiming that he did not hit her “very hard” but refused to give the reason for the assault.
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240,000 young people in Sweden with migrant backgrounds live under oppressive ‘honour’ culture. http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/05/30/240000-young-people-sweden-migrant-backgrounds-honour-culture/ …
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240,000 Young People in Sweden with Migrant Backgrounds Live Under Oppressive 'Honour' Culture
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So-called “honour-culture” has become a heated topic in Sweden and as many as 240,000 young people from migrant backgrounds are said to be affected by it.

Dilek Baladiz, a manager at a centre for victims of honour violence, has claimed that the number of young women seeking help has dramatically increased in recent years, up 50 per cent since the height of the migrant crisis in 2015.

“In some areas there is repression. The more compatriots in an area, the more pressure there is to live according to the norms of honour and the more watchful eyes,” Baladiz said noting that the issue was much more prevalent in Sweden’s heavily migrant-populated suburbs.

In 2016, many were concerned after a number of stickers appeared in various towns across the country which said: “Women who don’t wear a headscarf are asking to be raped.”
Islamisation fears were also raised earlier this week when a Muslim group in Växjö demanded to be able to publicly broadcast a call to prayer on Fridays. The request was met with support from the local Church of Sweden Bishop Fredrik Modeus who said he was “looking forward” to hearing the call alongside church bells.



Illegal Immigrant Accused of Molesting, Raping 7-Year-Old Girl and Her Mother
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Daniel Hernandez Del Angel charged with sexually assaulting young girl and her mother.Photo: Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office
by BOB PRICE19 Feb 20182,687
Officials in Louisiana charged an illegal immigrant from Mexico with raping a 7-year-old girl over a period of six months. Less than three weeks later, prosecutors charged the man with molesting the child’s mother in 2003 when she was only 11-years-old.
The 43-year-old Mexican national, Daniel Hernandez Del Angel, has been illegally living in the country for the last 22 years, reported WGNO in Metairie, Louisiana.
Officers with the Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office started to investigate Del Angel in early 2017 when the allegations about raping the 7-year-old girl surfaced.

According to the ABC affiliate in Louisiana, police arrested the illegal immigrant on January 25 and charged him with first-degree rape and molestation of a juvenile.
Less than three weeks later, prosecutors charged Del Angel with sexually assaulting the girl’s mother in 2003 when she was only 11-years-old. The alleged sexual molestation occurred at least two times.

Bossier Parish law enforcement authorities told the ABC affiliate that the illegal immigrant has known the victims’ family for at least 20 years.
Del Angel is in custody in the Bossier Maximum Security Facility with a $550,000 bond. Louisiana officials are cooperating U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Breitbart continues to report about criminal illegal immigrants who unlawfully re-enter the country after deportation. Many are sex offenders.
A week ago, Breitbart Texas reported that two previously deported criminal aliens, one convicted of aggravated sexual assault, and the other for drug trafficking, were again convicted of unlawful re-entry after removal. A federal judge sentenced them to 30 and 27 months of federal prison time, respectively. Border Patrol agents arrested them last summer after they illegally re-entered.
In November 2017, Border Patrol agents assigned to the Tucson Sector arrested two previously deported child sex offenders and a member of the Sureño 13 street gang. During a background investigation, the agents learned that 34-year-old Abigael Calvo-Calvo, a Mexican national, has a criminal history that includes a conviction in San Mateo County, California, for “Lewd and Lascivious Acts with a Child Under 14.” The conviction occurred in 2012.
Earlier in November, Border Patrol Agents in Texas and Arizona stopped more previously deported sex offenders from illegally re-entering the U.S. The arrests included two criminal aliens with histories of sex crimes against children – including sexual assault of a child, and Lewd and Lascivious Acts with a Child Under 14.
Calvo-Calvo now faces new criminal charges for felony re-entry after being deported as a registered sex offender.

Recently, Breitbart Texas reported that agents in the same sector in Arizona arrested a previously deported child sex offender after he illegally crossed from Mexico. In a separate incident, agents arrested a previously deported man with a felony conviction for child abuse. Border Patrol agents conducted a biometric background investigation and records revealed that a Las Vegas, Nevada, court previously convicted the Mexican national, 41-year-old Angel Bautista-Sanchez, for “lewd or lascivious acts with a minor.” Following his 2013 conviction, immigration officers deported the criminal alien.
Bautista now faces federal felony charges of aggravated re-entry after being removed as a sex offender.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX, Gab, and Facebook.


Apple iPhone Update Removes Easter from Calendar
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by CHARLIE NASH19 Feb 201822,792
Apple’s recent update for the iPhone has removed Easter Sunday from some users’ calendars, prompting consumer complaints.
While the previous update displayed both Easter Sunday and April Fool’s Day on April 1, Easter Sunday was removed for some users on their iCal calendars following the latest update.
“Easter Sunday shows up on calendars for iPhone users running versions 11.2.2 of Apple’s iOS operating system, but not some users of 11.2.5, which is the latest version of the OS. However, one user said Easter showed in their calendar,” reported Fox News. “The default setting on iOS devices is for U.S. holidays, which shows holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas and Independence Day. However, there is an option to add Alternate Calendars, including Chinese, Hebrew and Islamic. But Christian is absent from this list on iOS 11.2.5.”
Several users complained about the disappearance of Easter Sunday from their calendars on Apple’s forums.
“How come Easter isn’t showing up on my calander [sic] but all the other holidays are?” complained one user, while another claimed Apple support informed them that the holiday had been removed intentionally.
“All other Holidays, including ‘religious’ holidays, are included on the US Holidays calendar, but not Good Friday or Easter,” declared the user. “I thought, well, April Fool’s day is listed and it falls on the same day as Easter this year, maybe it was just a glitch and slipped through the cracks. I then followed up on the Apple Forum for an answer and I tried the suggestions to include a different US Holidays calendar. To no avail.”
“I then called Apple, the first service rep I spoke with was sorta rude and dismissive but she forwarded me to someone who has been very helpful,” they continued, adding, “He had not been aware of the omission and sent a service inquiry. He phoned me back and sadly to him, informed me the response he received was, the calendar is as it should be and Apple decided to omit Good Friday and Easter from the US Holiday Calendar which is supplied on its products. This makes absolutely no sense.”
Breitbart Tech has reached out to Apple for comment.


Improvised Explosive Device Found at Border Bridge to Texas
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by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ AND BRANDON DARBY19 Feb 20181,314

Mexican authorities have confirmed the discovery of an active improvised explosive device (IED) at one of the international bridges connecting the border cities of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas–the headquarters of the ruthless cartel known as Los Zetas.
Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office issued a statement in regards to the recent discovery of the IED. The information released by Mexican authorities does not reveal the date that the bomb was left at the bridge, but confirmed that the explosive was active. The IED was left at the Las Americas International Bridge, also known as Bridge One. Neither the City of Laredo nor U.S. Customs and Border Protection has released any information in relation to the IED at the port of entry.

Mexican authorities de-activated the explosive device and removed it from the pedestrian lane of the bridge. While bomb threats are not unheard of at the various international bridges in Tamaulipas where cartels often flex their muscle; the discovery of an actual explosive device at the bridge is a first of its kind. 

The border city of Nuevo Laredo is under the control of the Cartel Del Noreste faction Los Zetas cartel; a violent, transnational criminal organization that uses the Texas border city of Laredo as one of its main corridors into Texas.

The knowledge of the IED at the border bridge comes days after as Breitbart Texas reported, Mexican authorities discovered two anti-personnel mines known as Claymores in the border city of Camargo, a Mexican city that sits immediately across the border from Rio Grande City, Texas. The mines were found in underground storage facilities used by the Gulf Cartel to hide weapons and ammunition. While the CDN controls Nuevo Laredo, the areas east of there are controlled by the Gulf Cartel. Both the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas criminal organizations have undergone a series of internal fighting and fracturing that is linked to the escalating violence in the various border cities with Texas.

Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon.  You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.

CNN’s Gagliano: The Founders ‘Could Not Envision’ an 18-Year-Old Buying ‘A Weapon of War’
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by IAN HANCHETT19 Feb 20187,373
UPDATE: Gagliano said gunpowder was invented in 700 AD, not 1700, as previous versions of this post said. The post has been corrected.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” CNN Law Enforcement Analyst and retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent James Gagliano stated that the Founding Fathers “could not envision that an 18-year-old kid could go in a gun store, he can’t buy beer, but he could buy a semiautomatic weapon, and it’s a weapon of war.”
Gagliano began by saying that the tip the FBI received about the Parkland shooter should have been passed on to an agent, and “somewhere along the way” there was a mistake in the handling of the tip.
Later on, after the discussion turned to gun control, Gagliano stated, “I’m a veteran. I’m a former law enforcement officer. I’m a gun owner. I have a concealed carry permit. I am a hunter. I’m the exact person who needs to step up and say, we invented gunpowder in 700 AD. The first guns were mid-14th century invented. The — 1791, the Second Amendment comes online. And here we are in 2018, and we’re hanging onto this and we’re going, ‘We just can’t talk about this. Because if we do that, we’re somehow going to tick off the Founding Fathers.’ The Founding Fathers could not envision that an 18-year-old kid could go in a gun store, he can’t buy beer, but he could buy a semiautomatic weapon, and it’s a weapon of war. … It has a collapsible stock. It has a pistol grip. It has detachable magazines. We have to make sure that those kinds of things don’t fall into the hands of somebody like this.”

Trump Taunts Oprah After 60 Minutes Panel: ‘Hope’ She Runs ‘so She Can Be Exposed and Defeated Just like All of the Others’
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by MATTHEW BOYLE19 Feb 2018Washington, DC9,563
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President Donald Trump taunted Oprah Winfrey on Sunday night via Twitter, egging the nationally known talk show host on in an effort to get her to run against him for president in 2020.
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Just watched a very insecure Oprah Winfrey, who at one point I knew very well, interview a panel of people on 60 Minutes. The questions were biased and slanted, the facts incorrect. Hope Oprah runs so she can be exposed and defeated just like all of the others!

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Winfrey on Sunday evening’s 60 Minutes hosted a panel of 14 Michigan voters, the second time she has hosted this gathering, to get their thoughts on the election in 2016 and what has happened since then. Michigan is a state in which Trump shocked Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, beating her for the first time a Republican has won the Rust Belt state in decades.

Trump also won Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin, key Rust Belt states on his pathway to 306 electoral votes and a victory. He came within a few thousand votes of victory in other battleground states like Minnesota, New Hampshire, Nevada, and more—again shocking the political world.

Winfrey’s panel on Sunday night focused mostly on things like Trump’s temperament for office, the president’s reportedly vulgar language regarding a variety of things, including “shithole countries,” Trump’s Twitter, his ego, and the so-called #MeToo movement, rather than issues—though the Trump supporters in the room brought up the economic successes of the Trump administration.
There has been an enormous amount of discussion about whether Winfrey may run for president in 2020, though people close to her have said she is not considering it. Winfrey appeared at the Golden Globes, where she delivered a powerful speech that fueled the speculation about the potential 2020 presidential run. Some polling has shown Winfrey ahead of Trump in a 2020 matchup.



Mayor Pro Tem Demands NRA Move Convention from Dallas — Because of the 1963 JFK Assassination
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by AWR HAWKINS19 Feb 2018Dallas, TX7,838
On Monday Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway (D) cited the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy and demanded that the NRA cancel its upcoming convention.
The convention is scheduled to take place in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.

Mayor Pro Tem Caraway spoke Monday about the scheduled NRA convention. Fox 4 reported that he framed his demand that the NRA pull out by pointing to JFK’s assassination, then pivoting to the July 7, 2016, fatal ambush of five Dallas police officers, the Florida school shooting, and November 2017 murder of a 27-year-old mother of six in the city, allegedly at the hands of a 15-year-old.

Caraway said:

Gun violence has played a significant part in Dallas’ historical past from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to the five Dallas Police officers gunned down in July 2016 to the brutal murder of a mother of six children in District 4 this past Christmas. It is time to put the heat on the NRA and demand that they work with elected officials in our country to establish gun laws that protect our children and keep our communities safe.  We have got to take on the NRA.

CBS DFW reports that Caraway also said, “We have got to take on the NRA. I am all for the protection of the 2nd Amendment but I am also for protecting the children and a safer Dallas. We must get rid of these assault weapons to protect the children and we must do something now.”

The NRA held its Annual Meetings and Exposition convention in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2016. The Courier-Journal reported that the city enjoyed a “$53 million economic impact” from the convention and 80,000 attendees.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.


Jennifer Lawrence Taking a Break from Acting to ‘Fix Our Democracy’
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by JEROME HUDSON19 Feb 201818,481
Hollywood A-lister Jennifer Lawrence says she’s taking a sabbatical from acting so she can help “fix our democracy.”
“I’m going to take the next year off,” Lawrence told Entertainment Tonight, explaining how she will work with a self-described anti-corruption nonprofit during her break from film. “I’m going to be working with this organization as a part of Represent.US… trying to get young people engaged politically on a local level.”
“It doesn’t have anything to do with partisan [politics]. It’s just anti-corruption and stuff trying to pass state by state laws that can help prevent corruption, fix our democracy.”
The Hunger Games star hinted at her desire to take a break from acting last November, telling Elle magazine that she plans to trade the limelight for a farm and activism.
“I want to get a farm,” the Academy Award-winner told the lifestyle magazine. “I want to be, like, milking goats.”
Jennifer Lawrence’s ET interview, however, was the first time she offered details about her long-discussed Hollywood hiatus — though she has several films set for release this year.
The 27-year-old star is currently in the middle of a press tour for her upcoming spy thriller Red Sparrow, due out next month, which sees Lawrence as a ballerina–turned–spy. She’s filming her fourth turn as the shape-shifting mutant Mystique in X-Men: Dark Phoenix due out in November, and Lawrence has been tapped to take the starring role of billionaire tech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes in writer-director Adam McKay’s bio-drama Bad Blood.

A fierce critic of President Donald Trump, Lawrence is no stranger to political activism.

In 2015, Lawrence said it would be the “end of the world” if Trump were elected. Last August she began to soften her tone and insisted that Americans with differing political views find a “bridge” between each other.

“We can’t continue this divide and anger. There are issues affecting us as human beings, not as liberals and not as Republicans. We have to protect the foundation of this country, and acceptance,” Lawrence said in an interview with Vogue. “If you’re preaching acceptance, accept immigrants, accept Muslims, accept everybody.”

Lawrence was also among the dozens of Hollywood stars to sign a letter sent to Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) urging them to pass legal protection for DACA recipients. She also attended January’s Women’s March on the anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.



Michael Rapaport Attacks Laura Ingraham over LeBron Comments: ‘Dribble These Nuts B***h’
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by DANIEL NUSSBAUM19 Feb 20184,649

Actor Michael Rapaport launched into an obscenity-filled rant against Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Sunday after the Ingraham Angle host told NBA star LeBron James to refrain from speaking about politics and instead just “shut up and dribble.”
Ingraham had said on her show this week that James could serve as a “cautionary lesson” to children not to take political advice from pro athletes, after the Cleveland Cavaliers star criticized President Donald Trump in a podcast interview.

“This is what happens when you attempt to leave high school early to join the NBA, and it’s always unwise to seek political advice from someone who gets paid $100 million a year to bounce a ball,” Ingraham said. She later issued an invitation to James to appear on her show for a debate.

But Rapaport sprung to James’s defense in a video posted to his Twitter account.

“I’m apologizing in advance, I know this is going to offend some women. But I had to do it,” Rapaport began.

[Warning: Explicit Language]

Apologizing to all the women I’m sure this may offend but this had to be done. Please forgive me

Sen. Chuck Grassley Folds Again: Open to Gun Control Discussion Post-Parkland Attack
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by AWR HAWKINS16 Feb 20182,059
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) announced Thursday he is willing to sit down and discuss gun control legislation with Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and John Cornyn (R-TX).
This is the second time in four months he has agreed to talk to about gun control proposals.  On November 8, 2017, Breitbart News reported that he had agreed “to allow a Judiciary Committee hearing on bump stock gun control.”
Ironically, two of the key proponents of those hearings were Feinstein and Cornyn. Additionally, Feinstein had put forth a bill to ban bump stocks altogether.
Fast forward to February 2018 and CBS News reports that Grassley is again expressing willingness “sit down with Sens. Dianne Feinstein and John Cornyn” and talk about “what sort of agreement [they] can reach on legislation.”
Grassley said, “The three of us are going to sit down and talk about this.”
His decision to discuss legislation comes as Feinstein fights to revive her bill to ban “assault weapons.”
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

 
Mueller Indictment: No Mention of ‘Collusion,’ Russians Posed as Americans to ‘Unwitting’ Trump Staffers
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by AARON KLEIN16 Feb 201810,624
TEL AVIV — Far from building the case for collusion, the indictment of Russian nationals and entities for alleged interference in the 2016 presidential elections documents a narrative that is far different from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign knowingly conspiring with Russia.
The indictment was announced Friday by the Justice Department’s special counsel. The 37-page indictment of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities charges that the Russians stole the identities of U.S. persons to deceptively “communicate with unwitting members, volunteers, and supporters of the Trump campaign involved in local community outreach.”

Specifically, the Russian nationals allegedly impersonated American grassroots activists to distribute pro-Trump material and communicate with “Trump campaign staff” involved in local community outreach for “Florida Goes Trump” grassroots rallies.

The indictment does not once mention the word “collusion.”

The indictment, reviewed in full by this reporter, cites only two instances of the Russians communicating directly with members of the Trump campaign, and both cases involved impersonating Americans.  The Russians allegedly utilized a fake Gmail account impersonating an American to contact two Trump campaign workers involved in the campaign’s Florida operations.

In other words, the cited instances of alleged communication with Russian agents consisted of Russians pretending to be Americans interested in helping locally, a far cry from the wild claims that the Trump campaign willingly worked with Russia to steal an election.

The indictment names an entity calling itself the Internet Research Agency, based in St. Petersburg, Russia, as serving as the main headquarters for allegedly disseminating political propaganda designed to influence domestic U.S. issues.

The Russians are accused of using the stolen identities of real U.S. citizens, including social security numbers, to interface with U.S. political groups and impersonate grassroots activists online. They are accused of forming social media groups dedicated to topics such as Black Lives Matter, immigration and religion, and creating online groups titled, “United Muslims of America” and “Army of Jesus,” among others.

Besides supporting Trump, the alleged Russian campaign also supported Bernie Sanders in online posts.

According to the indictment, the alleged Russian campaign began as early as 2013, about two years before Trump officially announced his candidacy.

The indictment claims that in or around May 2014 – still prior to Trump’s June 16, 2015 speech announcing his candidacy—the organization’s strategy included interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, with the stated goal of “spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general.”
Starting in February 2016, Internet Research Agency workers were told whom to support, with the indictment quoting a directive to “use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest (except Sanders and Trump — we support them.)”
The agenda seems to have been to sow discord and not simply to support one candidate. The indictment shows that after the election, the alleged Russian operation began engaging in anti-Trump activism, including using false U.S. personas to organize “Trump is not my President” rallies.
Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein labeled the indictment “a reminder that people are not always who they appear on the Internet. The indictment alleges that the Russian conspirators want to promote social discord in the United States and undermine public confidence in democracy. We must not allow them to succeed.”
Previously, former FBI Director James B. Comey testified about why the intelligence community purportedly believed that Russia favored Trump for U.S. president over Hillary Clinton.
Comey confirmed that the basis for the Obama administration-era intelligence community’s assessment claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin allegedly wanted Trump in office was not because the billionaire was, as Sen. Al Franken claimed without citing any evidence, “ensnared in” Russia’s “web of patronage.”
Instead, the FBI chief provided two primary reasons for Russia allegedly favoring Trump over Clinton during the 2016 presidential race.
One reason, according to Comey, was that Putin “hated” Clinton and would have favored any Republican opponent. The second reason, Comey explained, was that Putin made an assessment that it would be easier to make a deal with a businessman than someone from the political class.
Comey’s statements provided a rare window into the intelligence community’s assessments about Russia and Trump. The comments are a far cry from the conspiracies alleging Putin held blackmail information over the billionaire.  In fact, in the exchange, which took place during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on FBI oversight last May, Comey refused to lend any weight to those claims.  Those conspiracies were fueled by the infamous, largely-discredited 35-page dossier alleging collusion between Russia and Trump’s presidential campaign.
Aaron Klein is Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter. He is a New York Times bestselling author and hosts the popular weekend talk radio program, “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio.” Follow him on Twitter @AaronKleinShow. Follow him on Facebook.

U.S. Skater Shani Davis Skips Opening Ceremony As Pout Fest Over Flag-Bearer Coin Toss Continues
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by WARNER TODD HUSTON9 Feb 20182,066

U.S. skater Shani Davis did not march with Team U.S.A. during the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics at PyeongChang, South Korea, after raising a stink because he wasn’t chosen to be the U.S. flag bearer.
According to USA Today, Davis had quietly let it be known that he would skip the ceremony.

“Multiple people told USA TODAY Sports that as of Friday morning, Davis did not intend to participate in the ceremony in accordance with his original plans,” the paper reported Friday. “Had he been named flag bearer, the people confirmed, he would have accepted the honor and taken part.”

Davis, a medal-winning African American speed skater, was angry about the results of a coin toss that was used to decide whether he or a white female athlete, would represent the U.S. in the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics this week.

The angry skater slammed the choice of U.S. Luger Erin Hamlin to carry Old Glory in a Thursday tweet, where he insisted that the coin toss method was “dishonorable:”

I am an American and when I won the 1000m in 2010 I became the first American to 2-peat in that event. @TeamUSA dishonorably tossed a coin to decide its 2018 flag bearer. No problem. I can wait until 2022. #BlackHistoryMonth2018 #PyeongChang2018 pic.twitter.com/dsmTtNkhJs

— Shani Davis (@ShaniDavis) February 8, 2018

Davis also injected race into the coin toss discussion, by including #BlackHistoryMonth2018 in his tweet.

The paper also noted that Davis might also have decided he just didn’t have enough time to participate in the ceremony because his skating practice session ends only a short time before the ceremony.

Yet, despite having hectic training schedules of their own, nearly the entire Team U.S.A. contingent was able to attend the opening ceremony.

Donald Trump: Rob Porter ‘Says He’s Innocent’ After Ex-Wives Accuse Him of Abuse
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President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff John Kelly, left, White House chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, center, and White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter, right, arrive at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018, for a short trip to the White House after accompanying President Donald Trump at the 2018 House and Senate Republican Member Conference at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, WVa. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)AP/Andrew Harnik
by CHARLIE SPIERING9 Feb 20183,296
President Donald Trump broke his silence about the resignation of Staff Secretary Rob Porter after his ex-wives accused him of abuse.
During an event at the White House, Trump told reporters he was “very sad” by the news and reminded reporters that Porter claimed innocence.

The president said:

We found out about it recently, and I was surprised by it, but we certainly wish him well, and it’s a tough time for him. He did a very good job when he was in the White House. And we hope he has a wonderful career and he will have a great career ahead of him. But it was very sad when we heard about it, and certainly, he’s also very sad now. He also, as you probably know, says he’s innocent, and I think you have to remember that. He said very strongly yesterday that he’s innocent, so you have to talk to him about that, but we absolutely wish him well. He did a very good job when he was at the White House.

Porter resigned on Wednesday. Details of the story have been the focus of cable news for four days, as new details emerge about how top officials reacted.

Porter’s ex-wife, Jennifer Willoughby, did an interview with Today‘s Savannah Guthrie on camera Friday morning and called him “verbally and emotionally abusive.” Colbie Holderness, Porter’s first wife, released photos of herself with a black eye that she said Porter caused by punching her in the face.

Others questioned the judgment of White House chief of staff Gen. John Kelly for initially defending Porter before he resigned.


Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly Expressing Willingness to Resign Over Rob Porter Scandal
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From left, White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner walk to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. President Donald Trump is en route to Bedminster, N.J., for vacation. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP Photo/Alex Brandon
by CHARLIE SPIERING9 Feb 201810,269

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is willing to resign and expressed his willingness to President Donald Trump, according to a report from ABC News.

Breitbart News has confirmed the news from sources with direct knowledge of the situation.

It remains unclear whether Kelly will actually offer his resignation or even whether the president is ready to accept his resignation.

White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley told Breitbart News that Kelly has not offered his resignation. Kelly himself also denied that he offered his resignation.

When asked by an NBC news reporter if he offered to resign, Kelly replied, “No.”

The president is unlikely to announce Kelly’s departure unless he has a replacement. In July 2017, rumors circled the departure of former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus for days before Trump announced Kelly as his replacement on Twitter. Sources close to the president tell Breitbart News that Trump has been calling allies to discuss possible replacements.

Sources close to the president are currently speculating about who Trump would choose to replace Kelly. Among them is Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows, White House Economic Adviser Gary Cohn, and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

A source told ABC News that the executive chairman of his inaugural committee Tom Barrack was asked about the job, but he said he was not interested.

Kelly has reportedly expressed willingness to resign before, but this is the first time that his leadership has come under sustained criticism.

The White House chief of staff has spent four days in the spotlight after he first defended White House staff secretary Rob Porter after his ex-wives accused him of abuse. Kelly later accepted Porter’s resignation and called domestic abuse “abhorrent” and offered counseling to White House staffers.

Despite early popularity in Washington, DC as the “adult” in the White House, many of Trump’s critics and the mainstream media have turned against Kelly.

Prior to the Porter abuse scandal, Kelly sparked media controversy after he referred to illegal immigrants who failed to sign up for DACA as “too lazy to get off their asses.” He also described Democratic Congresswoman Frederica Wilson as an “empty barrel” after she criticized the president for a call to a Gold Star widow.

Kelly earned criticism from some Trump supporters and even Trump himself for saying that the president was “evolving” his position on his promised border wall since his campaign.

But Trump responded to critics by standing by Kelly.

“I think General Kelly is doing a really great job. He is a very special guy,” he told reporters in January after the chief of staff’s interview.

Kelly has stated that he enjoys his job and serves at the pleasure of the president.

“Not only is this the toughest job I’ve ever had, and I’ve done a lot of things in my life, this is the most important thing I’ve ever done in my life,” Kelly said in a January interview. “I’ve got no reason to be doing this other than my sense of service to the country. That’s my number one motivation, always has been for my whole life.”


Shutdown: Bette Midler Jokes About Rand Paul Being Violently Attacked
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by JEROME HUDSON9 Feb 20181,623

Actress Bette Midler took to Twitter late Thursday night and responded to Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) refusal to allow a vote to end debate on the government funding bill, by suggesting that the man who violently beat Paul should do it again.
“Where’s Rand Paul’s neighbor when we need him?” Midler tweeted, as Paul spoke on the Senate floor about the proposed government funding bill.

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Rene A. Boucher was arrested and charged with fourth-degree assault after he attacked his longtime neighbor Sen. Paul in November at his home in Bowling Green, KY. Sen. Paul later revealed that he had sustained severe injuries from the attack, including six broken ribs.


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Boucher pled guilty to one count of assaulting a member of Congress and faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

Paul’s speech raising concerns about federal spending and deficits was for not as his Senate colleagues reconvened around 1 a.m. on Friday and voted 71-28 to end debate on the budget, which then passed, adding $300 billion dollars in new federal spending.

Bette Midler, who left the Broadway revival of Hello Dolly last month, spent much of the day Thursday attacking President Donald Trump and Republicans.

“Trump wants a massive military parade. WTF?!? I hope every member of the Armed Services sez they can’t march because they have bone spurs,” she tweeted.


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Donald Trump Signs Bloated Bipartisan Spending Bill; Hails ‘Big Victory’ for Military
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President Donald Trump pauses after signing Section 201actions in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. Trump says he is imposing new tariffs to "protect American jobs and American workers." Trump acted to impose new tariffs on imported solar-energy components and large washing machines in a bid to help U.S. manufacturers. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP/Carolyn Kaster
by CHARLIE SPIERING9 Feb 20185,240

President Donald Trump quickly signed the Congressional two-year spending deal on Friday, just hours after it passed the House of Representatives in an early morning vote.
“Just signed Bill,” Trump announced on Twitter. “Our Military will now be stronger than ever before.”

The president focused on the big boost to military spending as a win for Republicans.

“We love and need our Military and gave them everything — and more,” he wrote. “First time this has happened in a long time. Also means JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!”

The Republican budget deal with Democrats raises spending by $300 billion — roughly $165 billion in military spending and $131 billion to domestic spending. The bill also offers $90 billion in hurricane relief for Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico.

Trump acknowledged that the bill was expensive, but appeared to accept it as part of the dealmaking process. He urged Americans to vote for more Republicans in 2018.

“Without more Republicans in Congress, we were forced to increase spending on things we do not like or want in order to finally, after many years of depletion, take care of our Military,” he wrote. “Sadly, we needed some Dem votes for passage. Must elect more Republicans in 2018 Election!”

Trump continued to praise the bill as a victory, because of the big spending boost to the military. He criticized Democrats for “waste” in the bill.

“Costs on non-military lines will never come down if we do not elect more Republicans in the 2018 Election, and beyond,” he said. “This Bill is a BIG VICTORY for our Military, but much waste in order to get Dem votes.”
Trump also appeared grateful that the Democrats did not shut down the government over amnesty for DACA recipients.
“Fortunately, DACA not included in this Bill, negotiations to start now!” he concluded.



University of Michigan Hosts ‘Pederastic’ Lecture on Sex Between Adult Men and Boys
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by TOM CICCOTTA9 Feb 20182,487

An event taking place today at the University of Michigan aims to analyze sexual relations between adult men and adolescent boys.
An event hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women & Gender on Friday afternoon will focus on analyze the history of “pederastic” relationships. “Pederastic” refers to romantic relationships between adult males and boys.

The event, which is called “Pederastic Kinship: Deidealizing Queer Studies,” will feature Emory University professor Kadji Amin. The lecture will focus relationships between adult males and younger boys. The event description describes modern pederasty as “sexually, ethically, and politically dubious” but goes on to analyze the role it played for French author and activist Jean Genet.

To identify a relational form as “queer kinship” is to implicitly dignify and redeem it. What are the limits of such redemption? This talk tests the boundaries of the discourse of queer family by investigating a sexually, ethically, and politically dubious kinship form: namely, modern pederasty.Pederastic kinship names the kinship function of many intergenerational modern pederastic relationships. Its shape is discernable within French author and activist Jean Genet’s (1910-1986) life practices of affiliation, including his habit of introducing himself into the domesticities of heterosexual couples, his practice of financing the heterosexual households of his younger male lovers, and his fantasy of himself as the adopted foundling of the Black Panther Party. Pederastic kinship is a forgotten and uncomfortable precursor to gay and lesbian “chosen” and nuclear family that restores power and inequality to overly idealized imaginaries of queer kinship.

According to most definitions, pederasty is defined as sexual relations between two males, one of which is a minor.

The event is scheduled to take place on Friday at the University of Michigan from 2:00 to 4:00 PM.




Watch: ‘Science Guy’ Bill Nye Claims Fertilized Eggs ‘Are Not Humans’
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by DR. SUSAN BERRY9 Feb 20182,040

A video by Bill Nye in which the “Science Guy” states, “fertilized eggs are not humans,” has drawn reaction from pro-life activists around the country.
“Women deserve more reproductive rights, not fewer,” says progressive video site Big Think, which re-edited, re-formatted, and posted the video Nye originally recorded in 2015.

“And scientific facts should inform our laws, says Bill Nye The Science Guy,” Big Think adds in the caption under the video.
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Nye continues in the video that the notion that a fertilized egg is human reflects “a deep lack of scientific understanding.” He claims that human life does not occur until the fertilized egg is implanted in the wall of the mother’s uterus.

“You literally don’t know what you’re talking about,” he adds
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“If you say, ‘When an egg is fertilized, it has the same rights as an individual!’ who are you going to sue?” asks Nye in the video. “Every woman who’s had a fertilized egg pass through her?”

“It’s hard not to get frustrated with this,” Nye says in the video, shaking his head. “Nobody likes abortion. But you can’t tell somebody what to do.”

National pro-life leader David Bereit, however, has recorded a response to Nye in which he challenges the “Science Guy’s” actual scientific knowledge.

Bereit, who received an undergraduate degree in biomedical science and had experience in the medical science field before becoming a pro-life activist, quotes from the American College of Pediatricians:

The predominance of human biological research confirms that human life begins at conception/fertilization. At fertilization, the human being emerges as a whole, genetically distinct, individuated zygotic living human organism, a member of the species Homo sapiens, needing only the proper environment in which to grow and develop.

“When a human egg is fertilized by a human sperm, a new human being is created,” Bereit, an advisor for Students for Life of America, summarizes. “That is scientific fact.”

He further takes Nye to task over his view that human life requires implantation in the uterine wall.

“If you really believe that, you would clearly oppose abortions occurring after implantation, which is nearly all abortions,” Bereit asserts. “Instead, you went on to advocate for abortion and condemn those of us who work to actually protect those lives implanted in their mother’s uterine walls.”

Bereit further challenges Nye and other progressives like him on his hypocritical statement, “You can’t tell somebody what to do.”

“Wasn’t that exactly what your video did?” he asks Nye. “You told us to disregard scientific fact about the beginning of human life; you told us to not pursue life-saving laws.”
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UK: Huge Rise in Knifepoint Rapes, Fatal Stabbings While Police Focus on ‘Hate Crime’
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by VIRGINIA HALE9 Feb 20181,089

Crime figures released this week revealed that fatal stabbings in England and Wales are at the highest level since 2010-2011, while rapes at knifepoint rose by 23 per cent in the past year.
Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) recorded 413 rapes involving a knife in the year to March, up from 334 the previous year, while in 2010-2011 the number stood at 258.

The statistics show fatal knife attacks also rose last year and revealed that while the number of female victims was the lowest in a decade, at 51, the number of males murdered in deadly knife attacks was the highest since 2009, standing at 164.

“Male victims aged 16 to 24 years and 35 to 44 years have seen the biggest increases over the last year, with both groups having 10 more homicides than in the year ending March 2016,” the ONS reported.


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Intel Memo Mystery: John McCain Pushed ‘Pee’ Dossier to FBI Months After Feds Already Used It to Gain FISA Warrant
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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 04: U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) holds up his smart phone to show he is not playing poker before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote on a resolution on Syria on Capitol Hill September 4, 2013 in Washington, DC. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to authorize U.S. President Barack Obama to use limited force against Syria after adopting amendments from U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-NV). (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)Mark Wilson/Getty
by AARON KLEIN6 Feb 20189,576
TEL AVIV — Last week’s release of a four-page House Intelligence Committee memo alleging abuse of surveillance authority provides details that raise new questions about Sen. John McCain’s role in delivering the infamous, largely discredited 35-page dossier on President Donald Trump and Russia to the U.S. intelligence community under Barack Obama’s administration.
The memo, crafted by House Republicans, reveals, among other things, that former FBI Director James Comey personally signed FISA court applications utilizing the dossier to obtain FISA court warrants to conduct surveillance on Carter Page, who briefly served as a volunteer foreign policy adviser to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Comey allegedly utilized the dossier, produced by the controversial Fusion GPS opposition research firm, to seek and receive the first warrant against Page on October 21, 2016. Federal agencies sought the renewal of the order every 90 days in accordance with court requirements. According to the memo, Comey “signed three FISA applications in question on behalf of the FBI, and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe signed one.”

Comey allegedly utilized the dossier to seek the initial warrant even though he would label the same dossier “salacious and unverified” eight months later during sworn testimony.

Comey also utilized the dossier, according to the memo, even though senior FBI officials were aware at the time that the document, authored by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, was produced by the controversial Fusion GPS firm and was funded by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) via the Perkins Coie law firm.

The questions about McCain’s involvement follow an admission last month by the founders of Fusion GPS that they helped Steele share the document with the Arizona senator utilizing a surrogate after the November 2016 presidential election. McCain in turn reportedly provided the dossier to the FBI in December 2016.
The timeline revealed in the memo shows that by the time McCain delivered the dossier to the FBI leadership in December 2016, the agency had not only already launched an investigation into Trump’s campaign partially utilizing the dossier but Comey himself had two months earlier signed an application using the dossier to obtain a FISA warrant on Page.
It is therefore not clear why Fusion GPS would seek out McCain to deliver to the FBI a document already being utilized by the agency to launch a probe into Trump’s campaign and obtain a FISA warrant after Steele himself provided the dossier to the FBI in July 2016.
It is also not clear whether, at the time he delivered the dossier to the FBI, McCain was aware of the origins of the information, primarily that Fusion GPS compiled the charges and that they were paid to do so by Clinton’s campaign and the DNC.
McCain has not responded to multiple Breitbart News requests for comment.





Clinton Associates Fed Information to Dossier Author Steele, Grassley-Graham Memo Says
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by KRISTINA WONG5 Feb 20188,596
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Monday released a memo referring Trump dossier author Christopher Steele for a criminal investigation that revealed that a friend of Hillary and Bill Clinton fed information for the Steele dossier.
According to Grassley and Graham’s memo, which is heavily redacted at the request of the FBI, a foreign source gave information to friends of Bill and Hillary Clinton, who then gave it to an Obama State Department official, who then gave it to Steele.
Grassley and Graham’s memo stated:
One memorandum by Mr. Steele that was not published by Buzzfeed is dated October 19, 2016. The report alleges [redacted], as well as [redacted]. Mr. Steele’s memorandum states that his company ‘received his report from [redacted] US State Department,’ that the report was the second in a series, and that the report was information that came from a foreign sub-source who ‘is in touch with [redacted], a contact of [redacted], a friend of the Clintons, who passed it to [redacted].
“It is troubling enough that the Clinton Campaign funded Mr. Steele’s work, but these Clinton associates were contemporaneously feeding Mr. Steele allegations raises additional concerns about his credibility,” Grassley and Graham wrote.
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Report: Intel Agencies May Hold Back Information from Congress in Wake of House Memo on FBI Surveillance Abuse
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Top intelligence and law enforcement officials warn that last week’s release of a congressional memo alleging FBI surveillance abuse could have wide-ranging repercussions: Spy agencies could start sharing less information with Congress, weakening oversight. Lawmakers will try to declassify more intelligence for political gain. Confidential informants will worry about being outed on Capitol Hill.
The GOP-produced memo released last week contends that when the FBI asked a secret court for a warrant to do surveillance on a former associate in then-candidate Donald Trump’s campaign, the bureau relied too heavily on a dossier compiled by an ex-British spy whose opposition research was funded by Democrats.
Critics accuse Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., of abusing his power as chairman of the House intelligence committee to do the president’s bidding and undermine the investigation into whether any Trump campaign associates colluded with Russian during the 2016 election. His office rebuts that claim, saying the real abuse of power was using unverified information bought and paid for by one political campaign to justify government surveillance of former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
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Donald Trump: ‘Let’s Have a Shutdown’ If Congress Can’t Close Immigration Loopholes
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President Donald Trump threatened a government shutdown if Congress did not act quickly to close immigration loopholes allowing MS-13 gang members to cross the border.
“Frankly, I’ll go a step further, if we don’t change the legislation, if we don’t get rid of these loopholes where killers are allowed to come into our country … if we don’t change it let’s have a shutdown, we’ll do a shutdown,” Trump said. “It’s worth it for our country.”
The president hosted a law enforcement roundtable on the threat posed by MS-13 gang members with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and other officials from the Department of Justice.
“I’d love to see a shutdown if we don’t get this stuff taken care of,” Trump continued
Several members of Congress also attended — Reps. Lee Zeldin of New York, Martha McSally of Arizona, Michael McCaul of Texas, and Barbara Comstock of Virginia.
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Donald Trump: ‘Disgraceful’ that Colts Linebacker Killed by Illegal Immigrant
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by CHARLIE SPIERING6 Feb 20184,928
President Donald Trump commented on the death of Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson, after a previously deported illegal alien driving drunk crashed into his vehicle, according to police.
“So disgraceful that a person illegally in our country killed Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson,” Trump wrote. “This is just one of many such preventable tragedies. We must get the Dems to get tough on the Border, and with illegal immigration, FAST!”
Trump has signaled his willingness to give Democrats amnesty for 1.8 million illegal immigrants brought to the country as children, in exchange for border wall funding, an end to chain migration, and an end to the visa lottery system. The proposal is universally opposed by Democrats.
Fifty-four-year-old Jeffrey Monroe, the driver of the vehicle Jackson was traveling in, was also killed. Police say the man arrested for the crime, Manuel Orrego-Savala, is a citizen of Guatemala and was deported in 2007 and in 2009.
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WH Chief of Staff Kelly: Some DREAMers ‘Too Lazy to Get Off Their Asses’ to Sign Up for DACA
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by PAM KEY6 Feb 20181,255
In audio aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” White House chief of staff John Kelly told reporters on Capitol Hill that some DREAMers were “too lazy to get off their asses” and register for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy.
While discussing the number of people who might qualify for immigration legislation compromises that could including a path to citizenship, Kelly said, “The difference between 690 and 1.8 million were the people that some would say were too afraid to sign up, others would say were too lazy get off their asses but didn’t sign up.”
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Flake: ‘Treason Is Not a Punchline’ — Trump Has ‘Flagrant Disregard for Truth and Decency’
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Tuesday on the Senate floor, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) criticized President Donald Trump for the remarks he gave in Ohio a day earlier.
During those remarks, he called some Democrats “treasonous” for not applauding the positive economic news at his State of the Union address.
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Tuesday on the Senate floor, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) criticized President Donald Trump for the remarks he gave in Ohio a day earlier.
During those remarks, he called some Democrats “treasonous” for not applauding the positive economic news at his State of the Union address.
Partial transcript as follows:
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Mr. President, last fall I had the honor to stand in this chamber and deliver remarks on the subject of a great and growing concern to me, the stewardship of our democracy at the hands of the most powerful figure in our government. I stand again today to sound the same alarm. Mr. President, words matter. Have we arrived at such a place of numb acceptance that we have nothing to say when a president of the United States casually suggests that those who choose not to stand or applaud his speech are guilty of treason? I certainly hope not. One who levels such a charge knows neither the meaning of treason nor the power that the words of a president carry. And if we are numb to such words, then we will surely regret that we failed to defend our colleagues in the Congress against such a vile remark. Our silence will also mark the day that we failed to recognize that this conduct in an American president simply is not normal.
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Sarah Silverman: Pro-Life Law ‘Has Made Me Want to Eat an Aborted Fetus’
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by DR. SUSAN BERRY6 Feb 20188,708
Comedian Sarah Silverman said during a telethon to support abortions that a pro-life conscience law “would make her want to eat an aborted fetus.”
Silverman made the comment during a game of “abortion charades” – part of a “telethon” titled Life Is a Living Nightmare: A Telethon to Fix It, hosted by the Lady Parts Justice League.
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As LifeNews reports, Silverman and colleague Lizz Winstead, creator of the Daily Show, hosted the telethon to raise money for abortions. The event also featured an interview with abortionist Willie Parker who claims in his recent book there is a moral argument for abortion.
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Flashback: Quentin Tarantino Says Roman Polanski’s 13-Year-Old Rape Victim ‘Wanted to Have It’
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by JOHN NOLTE6 Feb 20181,559
Audio has resurfaced of Oscar-winning director Quentin Tarantino defending fugitive-child rapist Roman Polanski with the excuse that the 13-year-old victim “wanted to have it,” meaning sex.
Here’s a portion of the interview via the Daily Mail.
During a 2003 interview with Howard Stern, not long after Hollywood awarded Polanski a Best Director Oscar and standing ovation for The Pianist, the shock jock asked Tarantino how Hollywood can embrace “this madman, this director who raped a 13-year-old.”
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Catholic Group Slams Pope Francis for Defense of Chilean Bishop Accused of Sex Abuse Cover-Up
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by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.6 Feb 20181,893
A Chilean lay Catholic group has sharply criticized Pope Francis for defending Bishop Juan Barros while claiming he had no knowledge of sex abuse charges involving a cover-up by the bishop.
Juan Carlos Claret, a spokesman for the association Laicos de Osorno, said on Monday that the pope would have to explain “who decided to constantly discredit the testimony of the victims,” since it is no longer “possible to maintain, as some do, that the pope didn’t know and that he had slanted information.”
On Monday, the Associated Press (AP) revealed that Pope Francis heard about the abuse problem in graphic detail from a victim in 2015, despite the pope’s recent insistence that he had no knowledge of the allegations.
Sex abuse victims claim that Bishop Barros not only defended Father Fernando Karadima, a priest who was sanctioned by the Vatican in 2011 for the sexual abuse of minors, but that Barros had first-hand knowledge of the abuse, having personally been a party to it.
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Illegal Immigration Is Never Going Away, Because Corporations Make Millions Of Dollars From Illegal Immigrants Being Detained In The Private Prison System
by Ted on January 29, 2018 in Featured, General
By Theodore Shoebat
Illegal immigration is always going to be an issue in the United States. Why? Because corporations and lobbyists make tremendous amounts of money by pushing for laws that imprison and deport illegal immigrants. As long as there is money to be made from this, there will always be illegals. I did a video on this evil exploitation:
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The US Senate Declares That Its Okay To Murder Your Child After 20 Weeks Of Pregnancy
by Ted on January 29, 2018 in Featured, General
By Theodore Shoebat
More eugenics coming out of the United States government, with the Senate blocking a bill that would make it illegal to get an abortion after 20 weeks. Here is the report from Politico:
The Senate on Monday blocked a bill, backed by President Donald Trump, to ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
The procedural vote, designed to put pressure on red-state Democrats who are up for reelection this fall, fell significantly short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.
The White House expressed strong support for the measure earlier Monday, saying it would “help to facilitate the culture of life to which our nation aspires.” During the 2016 election, Trump said he would sign a 20-week abortion ban if it made it to his desk — one of several key reasons anti-abortion groups reversed course to back his campaign.
The Senate voted 51-46 against advancing the bill. Democrats Joe Manchin, Joe Donnelly and Bob Casey broke with others in their party to vote to advance the bill. Republicans Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski joined with the remaining Democrats present to block the measure.
The tally tracked closely with the vote on a similar abortion ban held in 2015, signaling that neither Republicans or Democrats are ready to change their minds on the issue.
Trump called for the Senate to reconsider the vote, pointing out his disappointment with the filibuster.
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Muslims Kidnap And Savagely Torture Africans, Melt Plastic On His Naked Body, As He Screams For Help They Tell Him “Shut Up!”
by Andrew Bieszad on January 29, 2018 in Featured, General
In a horrible video that appeared recently, a group of Muslims kidnapped a group of African men and savagely tortured them, including melting plastic on the naked body of one man. As he screamed for help they told him to “shut” up as he writhed in pain. Here is the video:

Now there is absolutely nothing at all that is good about this video. It is on the level of something that ISIS would release or other horrible videos that we have seen before. What kind of person would think this is funny, or would encourage it?
A lot of people apparently.
Here is a posting about this from 4Chan, one of the most influential websites in the media today. It was 4Chan that propelled Trump’s election as well as 4Chan that has continued to be an unspoken outlet of Internet and popular culture. 4Chan is often called a very “dark” place, and it is, because due to the anonymous nature of the website it allows people to speak their “darkest” desires without being exposed, and as such the good and evil that is around us is able to freely emerge.
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Latino Evangelical Christianity Is Committing Suicide Along With Its American Cousin, It Does Not Matter What Social Group, The Teens Are Leaving And Not Returning
by Andrew Bieszad on January 30, 2018 in Featured, General, Highlight
Christianity in America is in big trouble. But whereas the Catholics and mainline Protestants have known about their problems for years, it is only being acknowledged now of the systemic problems that plague American and Latino “Evangelical” Christianity that may be worse than the other two.
According to the Pew Forum, there is a seemingly imperceptible fall in American Evangelicalism that crosses all racial backgrounds. In spite of the talk about the growth of the “Latino church” or that of other “immigrant” backgrounds, all of the “church plantings” that they do, and the constant talk about “revival”, the reality is that the children are not attending church unlike their parents because they do not believe and instead are adopting the secularism and popular views of the times:
PRRI Research Director Daniel Cox argued in a piece published last week by fivethirtyeight.com titled “Are White Evangelicals Sacrificing the Future in Search of the Past?” that the socially conservative views of many white evangelicals were causing the demise of their cause.
“For many young people, white evangelical Protestants in the 21st century appear to be advocating a mid-20th century approach to sex, relationships and marriage, even as American society resembles life during this period less and less,” wrote Cox.
“This may help explain why the religious profile of young adults today differs so dramatically from older Americans. Only 8 percent of young people identify as white evangelical Protestant, while 26 percent of senior citizens do.”
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Muslim High School Students Demand Christian Teens Convert To Islam At School And They Refuse, The Muslims Attack Them And Stab Them With Knives
by Andrew Bieszad on January 30, 2018 in Featured, General
Muslim high school students demanded that a group of fellow Christian high schoolers. When the teens refused, the Muslims attacked, beating them and stabbing them with knives:
Muslim students at a high school in Nairobi on Tuesday night (Jan. 23) beat and stabbed Christians who refused to convert to Islam, a local source said.
Tensions had been growing for weeks at Jamhuri High School in northern Nairobi, with Muslims primarily of Somali, Boran and Oromo descent complaining of discrimination. Due to increasing hostilities, the boarding school had designated separate bathrooms and separate sections in the library for Christians and Muslims, a source told Morning Star News.
The conflict came to a head Tuesday night (Jan. 23), when Muslim students began speaking in inflammatory terms and tried to force Christian students to recite the Islamic creed for conversion and force students to participate in Muslim cleansing rituals, a source on campus who requested anonymity said.
“Some Muslim students forcefully tried to induct Christian students into their Islam faith, and those who refused were knifed, while others were physically beaten,” the source told Morning Star News by phone. “The knives and machetes used are alleged to have come from outside the school.”
At least 35 of the school’s 1,500 students were injured, including some Muslims when the Christian students tried to defend themselves, the source said. Some Christian students received hospital treatment for stab wounds and dislocated bones in their hands and joints, he said.
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Woman Sells Her Daughter For $800 To Sex Traffickers. They Take The Girl To A Hospital Where Her Virginity Is Tested
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. Once It Is Confirmed That She Is A Virgin, They Take Her To A Hotel Where She Is Raped For Three Days
by Ted on January 30, 2018 in Featured, General
By Theodore Shoebat
A woman in Cambodia sold her own daughter to sex traffickers for $800. The traffickers took the daughter to a hospital where she was confirmed as a virgin. Afterwards they took her to a hotel where she was raped for three days. As we read in a report from Christian Post:
A former pastor in Cambodia says that his organization has helped over 700 sex trafficking victims, including 13-year-old girls who have been sold by their own mothers and raped.
Agape International Missions has been on the frontlines of helping women and girls in the poverty-stricken country, said Don Brewster, a U.S. citizen and former pastor.
In a CNN report on Tuesday, a girl named Sephak said she was only 13 years old when she was sold for sex by her mother.
“She was taken to a hospital, issued a certificate confirming her virginity, and then taken to a hotel room where a she was raped for days. She was returned home after three nights,” according to CNN.
The girl’s mother, Ann, says that she sold her daughter for $800 because the family had debts to pay, and she saw no alternative.
The mother later pressured Sephak to work in a brothel, but says that she regrets her decisions now.
Sephak has since joined AIM as a worker, helping other survivors earn money making bracelets and clothing.
“Today, I feel much more stability than before. Not a lot of stability, but enough,” says Sephak. “Now I have a decent job. I really want other people to have the kind of work that I have.”


Chinese Scientists Make The First Cloned Monkey Babies. This Is All Part Of A Eugenist Nazi Plan To Farm Human Beings And Enslave Humanity
by Ted on January 30, 2018 in Featured, General
By Theodore Shoebat
Scientists in China are acting like they have just achieved some scientific greatness after they mixed the cells of an aborted monkey fetus with some other parts of monkey eggs, implanted hundreds of monkey fetuses and only managed to have two survive. They are calling these poor monkey survivors “clones.” This is all being pushed as propaganda to elevate scientists as some super geniuses. I did a video on this:
According to one report from BBC:
Identical long-tailed macaques Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua were born several weeks ago at a laboratory in China.
Scientists say populations of monkeys that are genetically identical will be useful for research into human diseases.
But critics say the work raises ethical concerns by bringing the world closer to human cloning.
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Muslim Men In Sweden Found Guilty Of Entering A Couple’s Apartment, Stabbing The Wife To Death And Then Taking The Husband And Butchering Him
by Ted on January 31, 2018 in Featured, General
By Theodore Shoebat
A group of Muslim men in Sweden have been found guilty of the horrific murder of a couple. They stabbed the wife to death and butchered the husband. As we read in one report from the Local:
Five men have been convicted of murders in the Hallonbergen suburb of Stockholm, where in early 2017 a man was killed then a couple subsequently murdered after one of them provided a witness account regarding the first incident.
The first murder happened in January 2017, when a man was shot in a garage where he was present with six people known to him, then later shot again after his car was rammed off the road while he attempted to make his way to hospital. The victim was shot in the head, body and arms.
Solna District Court judged on Tuesday that three of the men from the garage were “so involved in the murder that they should be convicted of it”.
“One was the driving force of starting a car chase, another had telephone contact with the victim in order to find him, and a third drove the car used to chase the man,” the court said in explaining its decision to convict the three of murder.
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Pervert Grabs Eight Month Old Baby, And Sodomizes Her Almost To Death. The Baby Is Now Suffering From Internal Bleeding And Is On Life Support
by Ted on January 31, 2018 in Featured, General
By Theodore Shoebat
A demonic pervert in India sodomized an 8 month old baby girl almost to death. The baby is now suffering from internal bleeding. As we read in one report from Al Jazeera:
An eight-month-old baby girl has been raped in India’s capital, New Delhi, allegedly by her 28-year-old cousin while her parents were out working.
The rape has provoked angry reactions from activists who are pressing for long-pending police accountability to aid in the fight against sexual violence in the country.
The mother found her child bleeding upon returning from work in the evening. The doctors at the hospital confirmed the rape and said the baby had to undergo surgery.
“I had left for work leaving my children at home. My wife works too. So she too left for work soon after. When she came back, she saw blood-soaked bed and clothes of the child. When she told this to her sister-in-law she made excuses. My child is in critical condition now,” the father, a labourer in the city, told Indian news agency ANI.
The accused has been arrested, police in Delhi said.
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Well-Known Local Muslim Man Tricks Seven-Year-Old Christian Boy Walking Home From School, Lures Him To A Farm, Then Rips His Clothes Off And Tries To Strangle Him To Death While Violently Sodomizing Him
by Andrew Bieszad on January 31, 2018 in General
Thankfully the man was caught quickly and the boy survived the horrible ordeal, but without serious scars:
A Christian boy of only 7 years old was brutally sodomized by a Muslim rapist who later fled the scene when two Christian men ran to the screaming boy and rescued him from his terrifying and brutal ordeal.
Daim Masih (7 yrs) is a grade one student attending Bethel Christian School, from the district of Sahiwal in the punjab. His school is 2km away from his home and usually he would be dropped to school by his father with his 9 year old sister Carol and collected also. However, on some occasions when the father was working Carol would lead her brother home and they would walk with many other children also used to the unaccompanied journey.
On 29th January, Carol was ill with a very high fever so her mother Sheeba (36 yrs) was looking after Carol and her youngest child Komal so Daim’s father Javed Masih (42 yrs) explained to his son that he should follow the other children and arrive home, especially as on that day their were exams in school so his day was shortened. Daim had walked home by himself on several previous occasions and was not fazed by this, unsupervised travel to and from school is a very common practice for children in Pakistan which normally begins from the age of 4 years.
Daim started his journey to his home at village Minar Wali 86/9 and was making good headway and was at the mid-point of his journey 1km from his home, when he was met by Shan Muhammed (19 yrs), who is a well known local village youth. Shan spoke to Daim and shared exiting news, he said:
“Hi Daim, it’s nice to see you I have good news one of our cows has given birth to young calves. Would you like to come with me and see them?
Shan knew Daim and his family from before as they live in the same community. He was well aware that Daim had a great fascination and passion for animals and was using this love for farm creatures to entice Daim to go with him to a secluded spot on his family’s farm.
Shan held Daim’s hand and described the beauty of the young calves and the way in which they were playing to Daim. However, Daim some realised that they were not going in the direction of the animals. He began to get sacred and asked Shan why they were going the wrong way. Shan told him he had another big surprise for him.
They walked a few metres to some trees when suddenly Shan ripped of his shirt, then the rest of his clothes and threw Daim to the floor. Shan then jumped on Daim and proceeded with a sexual assault and sodomization of poor Daim. While the attack was happening the tiny 7 year old struggled to fight of Shan who was much bigger and more powerful then him.
Daim was punched, slapped and kneed by Shan who was shouting obscenities during the attack and demanding Daim to stop his screaming. The violence and the unlawful penetration of Dain was so painful however, that he could not stop his screaming. Desperate for him to be quiet or thrilled by the power and subjugation of his prey, sexual predator Shan began to tighten his hands around Daim’s neck and was slowly throttling him to death while having his wicked way with him.
Fortunately a grandfather Younas Masih (62 yrs) and uncle Samuel Masih (32 yrs) of Daim heard his piercing screams from their home which was near the farm and came rushing out to see what was happening.
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The Government Of Poland Is Enraged With The State Of Israel For Calling German Nazi Concentration Camps “Polish Death Camps,” And Declares To Israel: ‘Stop Calling Them Polish Death Camps, They Were German Death Camps!’
by Ted on January 31, 2018 in Featured, General
By Theodore Shoebat

The government of Poland is enraged with the State of Israel after Israeli officials have insisted on using the term “Polish death camps” when describing German Nazi death camps. The Poles are angry for obvious reasons, because the death camps were not made by Poles, but by the German government who was occupying Poland at the time. Poland is now close to passing a bill that could prohibit the use of the term “Polish death camps,” and this action could just be used by Germany to further antagonize Poland; this could also be one step closer to the EU stripping Poland of its rights to vote in the EU Council. This could be just another step to another European conflict. This is the subject of my latest video:
Early last year I wrote an article on how Germany wants to strip Poland of its voting rights in the EU. It is relevant to this story, so I will repost it here:
Germany, the head of the European Union, wants to destroy the voting rights of Poland in the EU. Germany is using a law recently passed in Poland to justify this. The new law gives the Polish government the right to appoint and assess Supreme Court justices, and “would allow the government to replace every member of the nation’s supreme court with people of its choice.” Germany’s justice minister, Heiko Maas, said: “the independence of the judiciary is in danger in Poland. … somebody who gives so little respect to the rule of law has to accept that he isolates himself politically.”
The EU with its German head wants to impose upon Poland a measure that has never been used before: article 7 of the EU treaty. According to one report:
The procedure, which has never yet been used by heads of government, allows for the eventual suspension of a state’s voting rights for “serious and persistent breaches” of fundamental EU values. That has to be agreed by unanimity, although the formal warning can be agreed by four-fifths of member states. This may well happen in September.
If the EU imposes article 7 on the country, Poland will not be able to vote in EU councils. According to one article from the Telegraph:
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Joy Reid: ‘Nobody That Doesn’t Watch Fox News Has Ever Heard of’ MS-13
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During MSNBC’s coverage of the State of the Union, MSNBC anchor Joy Reid stated MS-13 “a gang nobody that doesn’t watch Fox News has ever heard of,” that President Trump made sound like the biggest threat facing America.

Reid said, “[T]he defining issue of the Trump administration thusfar is how he got into office. It consumes Donald Trump’s time. It is an obsession, if you believe all of the reporting, in the Michael Wolff book, and even beyond the Michael Wolff book. He spends his time complaining about the prosecutors who are investigating Russian interference, conspiring to fire them, thinking about them, obsessing about them. And then he gives a speech tonight, in which he makes it sound like the biggest issue in the United States, the biggest threat is MS-13, a gang nobody that doesn’t watch Fox News has ever heard of, so he makes it sound like they’re the biggest threat.”


SHOCK: DOJ Files Motion to Dismiss Indictment of Sen. Robert Menendez for Public Corruption
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by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY31 Jan 20182,778
The Justice Department is dropping its public corruption case against Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ).
“In a shocking turnaround, the U.S. Justice Department has dropped its case against Sen. Robert Menendez,” NJ.com reported.
“In a court hearing today, federal prosecutors moved to dismiss the corruption indictment against the New Jersey Democrat,” NJ.com added.
As Breitbart News reported earlier this month, “The federal district judge who presided over the public corruption case against Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) that ended in a mistrial in November, acquitted Menendez and his co-defendant, Dr. Salomon Melgen, on seven of 18 public corruption counts in a decision released on Wednesday.”
“Given the impact of the court’s Jan. 24 order on the charges and the evidence admissible in a retrial, the United States has determined that it will not retry the defendants on the remaining charges,” a Department of Justice spokesperson said in a statement issued Wednesday morning.
The Justice Department decision is a huge victory for Sen. Menendez, who is up for re-election in November.
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Delingpole: It’s Over. Now Even Democrats Give up on ‘Climate Change’
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by JAMES DELINGPOLE31 Jan 20182,037
‘Climate change’ just officially ceased being an important issue in U.S. politics.
President Trump didn’t mention it in his State of the Union address. But nor, much to the disgust of environmentalists – did the Democrats in their rebuttals.
A shocked Huffington Post has named and shamed the key Democrats who could have spoken out but didn’t:
In his speech, Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.) didn’t bring up global warming, sea-level rise or the surge in global greenhouse gas emissions, which threaten to become worse as the Republican White House ramps up fossil fuel production to unprecedented levels.
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Jim Caviezel: ‘Passion of the Christ’ Sequel Will Be ‘Biggest Film in History’
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by JOHN NOLTE31 Jan 20181,889
Jim Caviezel, the actor who memorably portrayed Jesus in director Mel Gibson’s 2004 blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, says that Gibson is planning a sequel that will be “the biggest film in history. It’s that good.”
The Passion is already one the biggest films in history. Fourteen years on it still holds the domestic box office record for an R-rated movie ($371 million). From Gethsemane to Golgotha, The Passion told the story of the last 12 hours of Christ’s life — his arrest, trials, torture, and crucifixion. The Faithful turned out in droves despite an unprecedented campaign within the elite media to smear a film they had not seen as anti-Semitic — which it is not.

The 49-year-old Caviezel says he is back on board to portray Jesus. The story will reportedly revolve around Christ’s resurrection. “There are things that I cannot say that will shock the audience,” he told USA Today. “It’s great. Stay tuned.”

Monica Bellucci, Jim Caviezel, Maia Morgenstern, and Christo Jivkov in The Passion of the Christ ( Icon Productions, 2004)

Actor Jim Caviezel attends the SHOWTIME And HBO VIP Pre-Fight Party for “Mayweather VS Pacquiao” at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino on May 2, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (by Bryan Steffy/Getty Images for SHOWTIME)

Hollywood’s anti-Christian bigotry was apparent in every major studios’ incomprehensible refusal to distribute The Passion, a film helmed by a huge star, a proven talent who had already won a Best Director Oscar for Braveheart. Gibson, however, got the last laugh.

Off a mere $30 million budget, Gibson still managed to get his film seen in enough theaters worldwide to gross a breathtaking $611 million.

The success of The Passion, which surprised no one who lives in the real world, immediately changed Hollywood. An industry that had been openly hostile to Christians almost immediately began producing and releasing faith-based films, a sea change that continues to this day.

Last year, Gibson talked a little bit about his plans, “The Resurrection. Big subject. Oh, my God,” he told USA Today. “We’re trying to craft this in a way that’s cinematically compelling and enlightening so that it shines new light, if possible, without creating some weird thing.”
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Donald Trump Has Read Controversial FBI Intelligence Memo; Plans to Release on Friday
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US President Donald Trump makes his way to board Marine One before departing from the South Lawn of the White House on February 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. Trump is heading to West Virginia to address the 2018 House and Senate Republican Member Conference. / AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read /AFP/Getty Images)AFP/Getty Images
by CHARLIE SPIERING1 Feb 201821,362

A White House official confirmed to reporters that President Donald Trump has read the House Intelligence Committee FISA memo after the committee voted to release it to the public and plans to release it on Friday.
The official confirmed that White House officials examined the memo to check for classified information, but that the president was comfortable with the release as long as Congress approved it.

“The president is ok with it,” an official told reporters after they boarded Air Force One with the president after his speech in West Virginia. “I doubt there will be any redactions. It’s in Congress’ hands after that.”

A second official confirmed to Breitbart News that the document would likely be released on Friday.

In response, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer demanded Speaker Paul Ryan remove Rep. Devin Nunes as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, accusing him of “dangerous partisanship.”

Other Democrats protested that Nunes altered the memo before sending it to the White House. But staffers for Nunes dismissed Democrat concerns, noting that they were merely grammatical fixes and two edits requested by the FBI and even Democrats on the committee.

The F.B.I. has protested the publication of the memo, a vote that was approved by the House Intelligence Committee, however efforts to get the president to block it’s release appear to have failed for now.


GOP Rejects Adam Schiff’s Last-Ditch Effort to Block Memo’s Release
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by JOEL B. POLLAK31 Jan 20186,975
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) made a last-minute effort Wednesday evening to block the release of a highly-anticipated House Intelligence Committee memorandum that is expected to allege that the Obama administration abused the federal government’s surveillance powers to spy on Donald Trump’s political campaign.
The committee voted along party lines on Monday to release the memorandum to the public, subject to final approval by the president.
Schiff, the ranking member of the Democratic Party minority on the committee, tweeted that committee chair Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) had “made material changes to the memo he sent to White House.” Because these changes had not been formally approved by the committee, he said, the president was “therefore reviewing a document the Committee has not approved for release.”
He tweeted images of a letter addressed to Rep. Nunes in which he said there was “no longer a valid basis for the White House to review” the document, and demanded it be withdrawn.
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Nancy Pelosi Calls on Paul Ryan to Remove Rep. Nunes as House Intel Committee Chair for Releasing the FISA Memo
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US Representative from California Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, speaks to the press about the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 24, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty
by SEAN MORAN1 Feb 20185,089
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called on Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to remove Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee for Nunes’ decision to release the memo detailing alleged misconduct by senior Justice Department and FBI officials.
Pelosi wrote in her letter to Speaker Ryan:
The decision of Chairman Nunes and House Republicans to release a bogus memo has taken the GOP’s cover-up campaign to a new, completely unacceptable extreme.
Both the DOJ and FBI oppose releasing the Nunes memo. As the Department of Justice warned, the public release of the memo would be an “unprecedented action” and “extraordinarily reckless.” The FBI also expressed that the agency has “grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”
It has now come to our attention that Congressman Nunes deliberately and materially altered the contents of the memo since it was voted on by the House Republicans. This action is not only dangerous, it is illegitimate, and violates House rules.
“Congressman Nunes’ deliberately dishonest actions make him unfit to serve as Chairman, and he must be removed immediately from this position,” the House minority leader added.
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee voted to release the memo to the public on Monday; President Donald Trump has five days to object to the memo’s release.
The memo allegedly describes how senior Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials used the unverified Trump dossier to obtain a surveillance warrant on Trump campaign staffer Carter Page. The memo also supposedly details how those senior officials in the DOJ and the FBI misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on how the Trump dossier was actually opposition research funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
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Second Dossier by ‘Creepy Clinton Confidante’ Raises Doubts About FBI’s Trump Probe
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by AARON KLEIN1 Feb 20181,613
TEL AVIV — Reports that the FBI has been utilizing a second dossier in its investigation of unsubstantiated claims of collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign raise more questions about the credibility of the federal bureau’s already controversial probe.
According to a report in the Guardian citing “multiple sources,” the second memo in question was authored by Cody Shearer, a shadowy former tabloid journalist who has long been closely associated with various Clinton scandals.
National Review previously dubbed Shearer a “Creepy Clinton Confidante” and “the Strangest Character in Hillary’s Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy.”
Shearer’s reported involvement with the FBI’s investigation of Trump marks the second time the agency’s probe has been tied to the Clintons. Fusion GPS, the law firm that hired former British spy Christopher Steele to compile the infamous, largely discredited 35-page anti-Trump dossier, was reportedly retained to conduct the firm’s anti-Trump work on behalf of both Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Steele’s dossier served as some of the basis for the FBI’s investigation into Trump and Russia.
The Guardian reported the so-called Shearer memo was given to the FBI by Steele in October 2016.
The newspaper reported on the Shearer memo:
It was handed to them by Steele – who had been given it by an American contact – after the FBI requested the former MI6 agent provide any documents or evidence that could be useful in its investigation, according to multiple sources.
The Guardian was told Steele warned the FBI he could not vouch for the veracity of the Shearer memo, but that he was providing a copy because it corresponded with what he had separately heard from his own independent sources.
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Atlanta Fed Sees GDP Rocketing to 5.4% in First Quarter
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by JOHN CARNEY1 Feb 20185,435
The American economy is on track to grow at a 5.4 percent annualized rate in the first quarter of this year, the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDPNow forecast model showed on Monday.
The regional Fed’s forecast rose from last week’s 4.2 percent growth following a report on manufacturing that showed more expansion than expected. The forecast of real consumer spending growth rose from 3.1 percent to 4.0 percent, while the forecast of investment growth soared from 5.2 percent to 9.2 percent.
This is an early reading, based on just one-months data. Even the most optimistic economists do not expect the economy to expand at that rate in the first quarter.
Both the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow and the New York Fed’s Nowcast had readings for the fourth quarter of 2017 that were substantially higher than the official initial estimate, which came in at a 2.6 percent annual growth rate.


U.S. Manufacturing Expanded in January at Close to Strongest Pace Since 2004
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by JOHN CARNEY1 Feb 2018445
American manufacturing expanded at a stronger pace than expected in January, close to the fastest pace since 2004.
The ISM Manufacturing Index was little changed in January at 59.1, above expectations of 58.6 and close to the December figure of 59.3, according to data from the Institute for Supply Management. Any reading above 50 indicates expansion.
This gauge of U.S. factory activity remains close to the 60.2 reading in September, which was the highest since June 2004. The average for 2017 was 57.4.
The January reading indicates that the expansion of U.S. manufacturing, a key political goal of President Donald Trump, of 2017 is still going strong in 2018. Export orders also advanced to 59.8, the strongest since April 2011. Growing U.S. exports is another priority of the Trump administration.
The strength of manufacturing is likely an indication of stronger growth in the overall economy.
Productivity for U.S. manufacturing firms rose at a 5.7% pace in the fourth quarter of 2017, the Department of Labor said in a separate report Thursday. That’s the best quarterly gain since 2010.
Overall productivity gains in 2017, however, were below the long-run average, as they have been every year since 2010. Non-farm business-sector productivity, which is measured as goods and services produced per hour worked, advanced 1.2 percent from 2016.


Donald Trump: Democrats Do Nothing but ‘Resist, Blame, Complain and Obstruct’ on DACA
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US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, speak about US President Donald Trump's Fiscal Year 2018 budget at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, May 23, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
by CHARLIE SPIERING1 Feb 20189,540
President Donald Trump unleashed an attack on Democrats for failing to pass amnesty for DACA recipients, as he prepared a speech for the House and Senate Republican Member Conference on Thursday.
“March 5th is rapidly approaching and the Democrats are doing nothing about DACA,” he wrote. “They Resist, Blame, Complain and Obstruct – and do nothing. Start pushing Nancy Pelosi and the Dems to work out a DACA fix, NOW!”

Trump has proposed amnesty for 1.8 million illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children in exchange for wall funding, an end to chain migration, and the end of the visa lottery system.

The president said he would discuss infrastructure spending and an immigration deal on DACA.
“Not easy when we have no support from the Democrats,” he continued. “NOT ONE DEM VOTED FOR OUR TAX CUT BILL! Need more Republicans in ‘18.”
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Heading to beautiful West Virginia to be with great members of the Republican Party. Will be planning Infrastructure and discussing Immigration and DACA, not easy when we have no support from the Democrats. NOT ONE DEM VOTED FOR OUR TAX CUT BILL! Need more Republicans in ‘18.
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March 5th is rapidly approaching and the Democrats are doing nothing about DACA. They Resist, Blame, Complain and Obstruct - and do nothing. Start pushing Nancy Pelosi and the Dems to work out a DACA fix, NOW!
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Stephen King: Fatal GOP Train Crash ‘Karma’
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by CHARLIE NASH1 Feb 20189,228
Stephen King claimed this week’s fatal train crash, which was carrying Republican congressmen and killed one person, was “karma” in a post on Twitter, Thursday.
“A trainload of Republicans on their way to a pricey retreat hit a garbage truck. My friend Russ calls that karma,” King declared, receiving over 6,000 likes.
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A trainload of Republicans on their way to a pricey retreat hit a garbage truck. My friend Russ calls that karma.
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An Amtrak train carrying dozens of Republican members of Congress and staff crashed into a truck, killing one person and injuring others. Christopher Foley, 28, the passenger of the garbage truck that hit the train, died from his injuries.
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Catholic University of Dayton Warns Against Terms ‘Husband, Wife’ Because They Aren’t Gender-Inclusive
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by TOM CICCOTTA1 Feb 2018496
A language resource guide from the University of Dayton cautions against the use of the terms “husband and wife.”
A report from The College Fix this week highlights a new language resource guide from the Catholic University of Dayton that encourages students to stop using gendered terms such as “husband” and “wife.” Instead, the guide suggests that students use the gender-neutral alternatives “spouse,” “partner,” and “significant other.”
The guide, which was created by the University of Dayton’s Women’s Center, encouraged students to removed gendered language from all of their speech.
“Generic occupational titles like administrator, doctor, lawyer, nurse and secretary apply to both men and women. It is easier to see that these jobs can be done by a person of any gender when using gender inclusive or gender neutral language,” the guide reads.
In a statement to The College Fix, The University of Dayton described the language resource guide as an “educational resource.” The representative claimed that the guide does not represent official university policy.
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Hillary Clinton Pens Facebook Post to Defend Decision Not to Fire Employee for Sexual Misconduct
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by PENNY STARR1 Feb 20181,288
Hillary Clinton took to Facebook on Tuesday just hours ahead of President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address defending her decision to retain a male campaign worker who sexually harassed a female on staff.
The post comes after the New York Times reported the incident last week.
Clinton wrote in her post that men should be held accountable for their actions and everyone, regardless of gender, should protect women from any abuse.
In the lengthy post, Clinton didn’t, however, reflect or comment on her husband, President Bill Clinton, who lied about his sexual conduct with a White House intern and was accused by several women of sexual assault.
“I very much understand the question I’m being asked as to why I let an employee on my 2008 campaign keep his job despite his inappropriate workplace behavior,” Clinton wrote. “The short answer is this: If I had it to do again, I wouldn’t.”
Nonetheless, Clinton defends her decision, saying that she thought reprimanding the offender, cutting his pay and access to the victim, and ordering the man to undergo counseling. She also promoted the victim.
“Through it all, I’ve always taken firing very seriously,” Clinton wrote. “Taking away someone’s livelihood is perhaps the most serious thing an employer can do.”
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Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe Stepping Down
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by KRISTINA WONG29 Jan 201824,032

Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe is stepping down, Breitbart News has confirmed.
He will remain on “leave” until spring, when he can officially retire from the FBI.

According to Fox News, McCabe was “removed.” A source told the news outlet that this was the earliest date possible for the FBI to remove him and still leave him fully eligible for his pension. A CNN reporter has also shared this version of events.

McCabe’s departure has been expected for months. ABC News reported last year that McCabe planned to retire in March 2018, when he becomes fully eligible for pension benefits.

His early departure also comes just a day after FBI Director Christopher Wray reviewed a memo drafted by House Intelligence Committee staffers that reportedly details FBI abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), in connection with its investigation of the 2016 presidential election.

The House Intelligence Committee is expected to vote on releasing the classified memo on Monday.

The memo is expected to say that FBI officials obtained a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page based on the unverified Trump dossier created by Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS as Democratic opposition research.
Democrats and the FBI have been fighting the release of the memo, saying it would be “reckless” to do so.
McCabe has come under scrutiny from congressional Republicans, who have questioned why he only recused himself from the Clinton email investigation a week before the election when his wife had received hundreds of thousands in campaign donations from a close Hillary Clinton ally.
McCabe was appointed FBI Deputy Director in 2016 by former President Obama, and became acting director in May 2016, after President Trump fired James Comey.


Woke Grammys See 20% Ratings Crash, Possible ‘All-Time Low’
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by JEROME HUDSON29 Jan 20186,395
Ratings for Sunday’s politically-charged 60th annual Grammy Awards broadcast on CBS dropped dramatically from a year ago, reportedly reaching “an all-time low.”
Initial numbers, Deadline reports, show a 20% decline from last year’s Grammy ceremony:
With a 12.7/21 in metered market ratings, the Recording Academy’s big hootenanny was also way down from the early numbers for the LA-based February 13, 2017 59th annual show. By way down, I mean a just over 20% decline from last year to what looks to be an all-time low for the ceremony.
Music’s biggest night saw a series of political gestures in support of the #MeToo and Time’s Up anti-sexual harassment movements, as several stars wore white roses on their garments as a show of solidarity. Rapper Kendrick Lamar, who dominated the night winning five Grammys, kicked off the Madison Square Garden event with an explosive performance of his hit song “XXX,” which featured American flags on giant screens above him and military fatigue-clad background dancers marching and dancing behind him.
The rapper’s performance was interrupted by comedian Dave Chappelle, who addressed the crowd, saying, “Hi, I’m Dave Chappelle. And I just wanted to remind the audience that the only thing more frightening than watching a black man being honest in America, is being an honest black man in America.”
Lamar later endorsed rapper Jay-Z for President during his Best Rap Album acceptance speech.
Perhaps the #MeToo moment of the night saw singer Janelle Monae give a fiery speech — “We come in peace but we mean business, and to those who would dare try and silence us, we offer you two words: Time’s Up” — before introducing singer Kesha, who performed her hit song “Praying.”
Immigration took center stage with singer Camila Cabello’s pro-amnesty speech, saying America was “built by dreamers” and “for dreamers.”
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60th Grammy Awards Complete Livewire: Bruno Mars, Kendrick Lamar Win Big; Jay-Z Leaves Empty-Handed; Equality MIA at ‘Woke’ Grammys
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by DANIEL NUSSBAUM & JEROME HUDSON28 Jan 201831,770
The 60th Grammy Awards kick off Sunday night, January 28, at 7:30 ET live from Madison Square Garden in New York City.
This year’s show marks the first time in 15 years that the Grammys are being held in New York.
Jay-Z leads all artists with eight nominations this year, and he’ll look for a big night for his album 4:44 amid his Twitter feud with President Donald Trump. Kendrick Lamar follows with seven nominations while pop/funk phenom Bruno Mars has six nods.
The Grammys have recently become as much about the performances as the actual awards, and viewers can expect some high-profile and politically-charged performances from Maren Morris and a slew of country stars, who will perform a tribute to victims of gun violence at musical events this year, as well as from Kesha, who is expected to perform her hit “Praying” along with a full chorus.
Stars are also wearing white roses to this year’s show as a statement of solidarity with victims of sexual abuse, and host James Corden has promised the show will feature some prominent #MeToo-focused moments.
Follow along as the Breitbart News Big Hollywood team brings you live updates from the show tonight, including winners, commentary and analysis, and of course, the evening’s best fashion, courtesy of John Binder.
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Donald Trump Urges Democrats to Support ‘Something Great for DACA’
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by CHARLIE SPIERING29 Jan 20182,531

President Donald Trump urged Democrats to support his plan to extend amnesty for DACA recipients in exchange for border security and chain migration reform.
“Hopefully the Democrats will join us, or enough of them will join us so we can really do something great for DACA and for immigration in general,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday.

The president appeared eager to achieve something on immigration, noting that the problem had vexed politicians for decades.

“For many, many years, they’ve been talking immigration, they never got anything done,” he said. “We’re going to get something done, we hope.”
Trump said that Republicans needed Democrats to get anything significant achieved on the issue.
“It’s got to be bipartisan because the Republicans really don’t have the votes to get it done in any other way, so it has to be bipartisan,” he said.
Trump hinted that he will discuss immigration reform at length during his State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
“It’s going to be good,” he said when asked about his speech. “We’ve worked on it very hard.”


McConnell: ‘2017 Was the Best Year for Conservatives in the 30 Years that I’ve Been Here’
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by IAN HANCHETT29 Jan 20181,816
During an interview broadcast on Monday’s edition of the Fox News Channel’s “Daily Briefing,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said 2017 was the best year for conservatives in the 30 years that he’s been in Washington, and the Trump administration has been a “very solid, conservative, right of center, pro-business administration.”

McConnell said, “2017 was the best year for conservatives in the 30 years that I’ve been here. The best year. On all fronts. And a lot of people are shocked. Because we didn’t know what we were getting with Donald Trump. He was doing fundraisers for Chuck Schumer three or four years ago. But this has turned out to be a very solid, conservative, right of center, pro-business administration. And we’re seeing the results of it.”
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Venezuela: MLB Baseball Star Dies of Pneumonia After Failing to Find Treatment
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by BEN KEW29 Jan 2018194

A Venezuelan baseball star has died from a bout of pneumonia after failing to receive adequate medical treatment amid the country’s deepening humanitarian crisis.
Marcos Carvajal, 33, had played as a pitcher on Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, including the Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins, before returning to Venezuela to play for a team in Bolívar state where he was also working as a coach.

According to the head of the state’s baseball association Alejandro Castillejo, Carvajal first checked himself into a hospital in December after suffering a respiratory illness. After his family failed to find the necessary antibiotics, they ordered in drugs from abroad.
However, Carvajal failed to show for work after the Christmas holiday, causing Castillejo alarm.
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Broward College Art Professor Tricks Students into Stepping on American Flag
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by TOM CICCOTTA29 Jan 2018392

Lisa Rockford,a professor at Broward College in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has come under fire for an “art project” that involved using an American flag as a doormat.
Broward College art professor Lisa Rockford has come under fire for a controversial art piece that involved tricking students into stepping onto an American flag as a camera pointed at their feet snapped a photo.

Rockford painted an American flag with white paint, cut it in half, and placed in high traffic area on campus. “People are stepping on the flag as they enter most of whom don’t realize its an American flag. The artist had a camera set up taking pictures of people stepping on it as part of her artwork,” student Jess Karcher said. “I find this extremely disrespectful and kick in the gut as a veteran. I have lost many friends whose caskets were draped with that same flag.”

Karcher explained that Rockford intended that those who stepped on the flag would do so unwittingly. “I am not sure what the message is they are trying to give, but there was a camera taking pictures of people unknowingly steeping [sic] on it,” Karcher added.
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Murder Spree: ‘New Swedes’ Shoot Man, Stab Trial Witness and Wife to Death
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by VIRGINIA HALE29 Jan 20181,155
A number of men with migrant backgrounds have been convicted of a trio of murders in a Stockholm suburb, where a man was shot dead then a witness and his wife were brutally murdered.
Fouad Saleh, 22, described as a leading figure in the local crime scene, was handed a life sentence for the murders, which took place in Hallonbergen last year.
The first murder investigation began in January 2017, when a seriously injured man turned up to Karolinska University Hospital and told staff he had been shot at a garage but managed to escape.
The victim said he was shot at again after his car was rammed off the road as he tried to make his way to hospital. With gunshot wounds to his head, body and arms, the man died in hospital.
Police were soon contacted by a 39-year-old who described seeing from his balcony the sight of several young men, some of whom he could name, running out of the garage and chasing after the victim on the night of the attack.
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Tom Brady Cuts Weekly Boston Radio Appearance Short Because Host Called His Daughter ‘an Annoying Little Pissant’
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by TRENT BAKER29 Jan 20181,452
Monday during his weekly appearance on a WEEI radio’s “Kirk and Callahan,” New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady cut his interview short at two minutes due to WEEI’s Alex Reimer referring to his daughter last week as “an annoying little pissant” while discussing Brady’s Facebook show, “Tom vs. Time.”
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Donald Trump Reminds Davos Elites of ‘Duty of Loyalty to the People’
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President Donald Trump delivers a speech to the World Economic Forum, Friday, Jan. 26, 2018, in Davos. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP Photo/Evan Vucci
by CHARLIE SPIERING26 Jan 20181,570

President Donald Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday, urging the global elites to reinvest in their people.
“Each of you has the power to change hearts, transform lives, and shape your countries’ destinies,” he said. “With this power comes an obligation, however, a duty of loyalty to the people, workers, customers who have made you who you are.”

Trump said that leaders should use their resources to keep their people safe, rebuild their communities, and empower them economically.

“When people are forgotten, the world becomes fractured. Only by hearing and responding to the voices of the forgotten can we create a bright future that is truly shared by all,” he said.

Trump’s speech was serious, featuring cheerleading rhetoric encouraging global investment in the United States and relentlessly promoting his tax cut bill as reinventing American economic competitiveness.

“America is roaring back, and now is the time to invest in the future of America,” he said.

The president also argued that his America First message does not ignore the role of the United States in the world.

“America First does not mean America alone,” he said. “When the United States grows, so does the world.”

He also promised to continue seeking free but fair trade in the United States, warning that the days of other countries’ taking advantage of America were over.

“We cannot have free and open trade if some countries exploit the system at the expense of others,” he said. “We support free trade, but it needs to be fair, and it needs to be reciprocal.”

Hinting at China, Trump specifically called out intellectual property theft, industrial subsidies, and state-sponsored “predatory behaviors” distorting the global markets.

 “Just like we expect the leaders of other countries to protect their interests, as President of the United States, I will always protect the interest of our country, our companies, and our workers,” he said.



Donald Trump Reminds Davos Elites of ‘Duty of Loyalty to the People’
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President Donald Trump delivers a speech to the World Economic Forum, Friday, Jan. 26, 2018, in Davos. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP Photo/Evan Vucci
by CHARLIE SPIERING26 Jan 20181,570
President Donald Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday, urging the global elites to reinvest in their people.
“Each of you has the power to change hearts, transform lives, and shape your countries’ destinies,” he said. “With this power comes an obligation, however, a duty of loyalty to the people, workers, customers who have made you who you are.”
Trump said that leaders should use their resources to keep their people safe, rebuild their communities, and empower them economically.
“When people are forgotten, the world becomes fractured. Only by hearing and responding to the voices of the forgotten can we create a bright future that is truly shared by all,” he said.
Trump’s speech was serious, featuring cheerleading rhetoric encouraging global investment in the United States and relentlessly promoting his tax cut bill as reinventing American economic competitiveness.
“America is roaring back, and now is the time to invest in the future of America,” he said.
The president also argued that his America First message does not ignore the role of the United States in the world.
“America First does not mean America alone,” he said. “When the United States grows, so does the world.”
He also promised to continue seeking free but fair trade in the United States, warning that the days of other countries’ taking advantage of America were over.
“We cannot have free and open trade if some countries exploit the system at the expense of others,” he said. “We support free trade, but it needs to be fair, and it needs to be reciprocal.”
Hinting at China, Trump specifically called out intellectual property theft, industrial subsidies, and state-sponsored “predatory behaviors” distorting the global markets.
 “Just like we expect the leaders of other countries to protect their interests, as President of the United States, I will always protect the interest of our country, our companies, and our workers,” he said.
Sen. Schumer Pockets White House Amnesty Giveaway, Demands More Concessions
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by NEIL MUNRO26 Jan 20187,889
Democratic Majority Leader denounced the White House’s new amnesty offer as inadequate, just one day after he said had endorsed a border wall because it won’t be built.
Schumer’s conditional rejection of the new White House amnesty giveaway is muted and suggests that Schumer and his allies expect to pressure GOP Senators into yet more concessions.
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As we have been urging him to do for months, the President has finally put pen to paper to show us where he stands on immigration. Unfortunately, this plan flies in the face of what most Americans believe. 1/2
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While @realDonaldTrump finally acknowledged that the Dreamers should be allowed to stay here and become citizens, he uses them as a tool to tear apart our legal immigration system and adopt the wish list that anti-immigration hardliners have advocated for for years. 2/2
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Dan Horowitz, editor of Conservative Review, says Democrats will feign opposition to the amnesty to encourage further negotiations and concessions from uninformed and confrontation-averse GOP legislators.
“They will have plenty of messaging about noble ‘dreamers,’ improving ‘border security’ … Schumer is very familiar with the politics of the right, and the important thing is to watch carefully what Schumer does and says because he is very smart about this,” said Horowitz. “They will leave nothing on the table to achieve their goals,” he told Breitbart News. 
For example, Schumer told the New York Times on January 25 that he promised Trump on January 18 to fund a border wall in exchange for an amnesty for 1.5 million illegals. “I thought the balance was quite positive” to get gains for “these wonderful kids,” he said.
It was good trade because even a funded wall will not be built, he said in the podcast:
It is frankly my belief that it is going to be next to impossible for them to actually build the wall. And I told this to the president. I said Secretary [Ryan] Zinke, you know his Secretary of the Interior, said ‘I don’t know where you build the wall along the Rio Grande because you can’t build it on the Mexican side.’ They won’t build it. If you build it on the America side it cuts us off from the river. You can’t build it in the middle of the river. So my view was they would have a very difficult time actually getting it built. 
When asked by the New York Times about the White House latest offer of amnesty in exchange an end to chain migration, Schumer responded: “That will never pass.”
Under the White House’s latest proposal, chain-migration would be formally ended, but all four million chain-migrants now on the list would be allowed into the country over the next two decades. That proposal leaves Americans with no offsetting gains after amnestying at least 1.8 million illegals, which is even more than the January 18 offer of 1.5 million illegals.
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Democrats Vote Against CHIP Funding Ahead of ‘Schumer Shutdown’
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by JOEL B. POLLAK18 Jan 20184,911
186 House Democrats voted against keeping the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funded for the next six years as they opposed a stopgap spending measure in the House of Representatives Thursday that would keep the government open for the next four weeks.
Senate Democrats were likewise poised to vote against CHIP, as they declared earlier in the day that they had the votes to filibuster the spending bill and shut down the government.
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Defense Secretary Mattis: Government Shutdown Will Have a ‘Terrible Impact’ on Troops
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by KRISTINA WONG19 Jan 2018981
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Friday morning that a government shutdown would have a “terrible impact” on military operations.
“Our maintenance activities will probably pretty much shut down. We will not be able to induct any more of our gear that need maintenance,” he said Friday morning at the Johns Hopkins University, where he was unveiling the National Defense Strategy.
The government is barreling towards a shutdown at 11:59 p.m. Friday night, with the Senate unable to pass a 2018 spending bill or a stop-gap measure to keep the government running.
At issue is immigration reform. Democrats have refused to pass a spending measure unless there is a fix for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which the president rescinded last year, but gave Congress until March 5 to fix.
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Graham: Tom Cotton Immigration Approach ‘Has No Viability,’ He Is the ‘Steve King of the Senate’
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by PAM KEY19 Jan 20182,019
Friday on MSNBC’s “Live With Velshi and Ruhle,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), approach to immigration is not viable like hardliner Rep. Steve King (R-IA).
After being interrupted by a phone call from Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Graham said, “You asked me a question, what would the president take. The point I’m trying to make is at 10:00 Thursday morning, he thought this was a pretty good proposal. We could always make it better. Now they’ve taken a hard-edged approach all I can say is we’re not going to end immigration for DACA. The Tom Cotton approach has no viability here. He’s become sort of the Steve King of the Senate. I like Tom but on immigration, he’s putting something on the table that there’s just no market for in phase one. As soon as the White House understands there’s a bandwidth here for phase one that will include border security and DACA and a few other things, we’ll get a deal.”
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Donald Trump Speaks at March for Life: ‘Life Is the Greatest Miracle of All’
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President Donald Trump speaks to anti-abortion supporters and participants of the annual March for Life event, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
by CHARLIE SPIERING19 Jan 2018755
President Donald Trump spoke live via satellite at the March for Life in Washington, DC, on Friday, thanking pro-life activists for marching against abortion.
“The March for Life is a movement born out of love,” Trump said. “You love your families, you love your neighbors, you love our nation, and you love every child, born and unborn, because you believe that every life is sacred, that every child is a precious gift from God. We know that life is the greatest miracle of all.”
The president spoke from the Rose Garden surrounded by pro-life activists and even a few parents holding their babies.
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AP: Border Wall Models Thwart U.S. Commandos in Tests
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by BREITBART NEWS19 Jan 20183,756
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Recent assaults by tactical teams on prototypes of President Donald Trump’s proposed wall with Mexico indicate their imposing heights should stop border crossers, a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the rigorous assessment told The Associated Press.
Military special forces based in Florida and U.S. Customs and Border Protection special units spent three weeks trying to breach and scale the eight models in San Diego, using jackhammers, saws, torches and other tools and climbing devices, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the information was not authorized for public release.
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Fusion GPS Founder: FBI May Have Paid Expenses for Anti-Trump Dossier Author
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by AARON KLEIN19 Jan 20187,368
TEL AVIV — Glenn R. Simpson, the co-founder of the controversial opposition research firm Fusion GPS, stated in testimony it “makes sense” to him that the FBI paid for a trip to Rome by the former British spy who was contracted by Simpson’s company to produce the largely discredited 35-page anti-Trump dossier.
Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent, to do the work cited in the anti-Trump dossier.  Last July, Steele reportedly traveled to Rome, where he met with an FBI contact to supply the agency with the anti-Trump dossier and other information he found during the course of his anti-Trump work.
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Police Commander on Lack of Female Genital Mutilation Convictions: ‘There Are Many Nuances to This Crime’
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by JACK MONTGOMERY19 Jan 20182,210
The police commander tasked with tackling female genital mutilation has excused the lack of convictions for the crime by saying it has “many nuances”.
Ivan Balchatchet, the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s lead on ‘honour’ violence, female genital mutilation, and forced marriage, was responding to a letter from Jonathan Nicholas, a writer who served as a frontline police officer for 30 years, asking why there has yet to be a single conviction for FGM despite tens of thousands of recorded cases since it was criminalised in 1985.
“Thank you for your letters received dated 10th October 2017 and 12th January 2018 [sic],” wrote Balhatchet.
“May I apologise for the tardiness in my response, you can appreciate that as the National Policing Lead for this portfolio the need to prioritise resources to tackle all forms of Honour-Based Abuse, including Female Genital Mutilation. This includes working with both statutory and non-governmental organisations, in ways to prevent FGM and protect girls and women.”
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Massachusetts Orders Residents to Surrender Bump Stocks
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by AWR HAWKINS19 Jan 20184,743
The state of Massachusetts is ordering residents to surrender any bump stocks in their possession, making clear that even keeping such an accessory at home is prohibited.
Massachusetts’ bump stock ban is a response to the October 1, 2017, Las Vegas shooting, wherein the devices were criminally to inflict harm. No bump stock crimes in the state of Massachusetts have been cited.
Moreover, the Massachusetts’ bump stock ban also bans trigger cranks, although trigger cranks were not even used in the Las Vegas attack.
The ban is based on language in a new spending bill containing sections directly referencing bump stocks and trigger cranks.
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Kamala Harris Blasts Re-opening of Government After No Immigration Deal
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by JOEL B. POLLAK22 Jan 20184,875
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), a rising potential presidential contender in 2020, voted against a bill to re-open the federal government on Monday, arguing that the budget should have done more to protect illegal aliens.
In a statement, the junior Senator from California and rising Democratic star said (via CNN congressional correspondent Phil Mattingly):
Our government made a promise to our Dreamers and it is long past time that we kept that promise. These are young people who are Americans in every respect except on paper. They have been waiting far too long to live securely in the only place they have ever called home
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Dick Durbin Claims Amnesty Is ‘Civil Rights Issue of Our Time’
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by NEIL MUNRO22 Jan 20187,300
Democratic Senators believe amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants is the “civil rights issue of our time,” declared Sen. Dick Durbin, just before he voted January 22 to end the 2018 budget filibuster.
Durbin’s promotion of illegal immigrants above African-Americans and other Americans spotlights the party’s decision that Americans’ deficits in wealth, job opportunities, and education are subordinate to the party’s strategy of allying with business to import foreign voters via the nation’s mass-immigration laws.
Durbin spoke just before the vote began, saying:
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Pelosi: The ‘Trump Tax Scam’ Is a ‘Dark Cloud Hanging Over the Capitol’
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Monday at a press conference while discussing domestic spending on community health centers, infrastructure and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said “There is a dark cloud hanging over the Capitol. And that dark cloud is the Trump tax scam.”
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House Republicans Demand Answers on ‘Missing’ FBI Texts, Call for Special Counsel
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by KRISTINA WONG22 Jan 20183,272
Republican members of Congress are demanding answers from the Federal Bureau of Investigations after learning that five months of text messages between two FBI agents who worked on the Clinton email investigation and the probe into the Trump campaign are now missing.
“This latest revelation from the DOJ is outrageous, but not surprising. Peter Strzok and Lisa Page believed that then-candidate Donald Trump was a threat to this country and appeared to be taking steps, as sworn members of law enforcement, to subvert the will of the American people. Now, it seems that many of their text messages may have suspiciously disappeared,” Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) said in a statement Monday.
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Nolte: Oops! Those FBI Texts and 4 Other Times the Deep State ‘Lost’ Crucial Communications
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by JOHN NOLTE22 Jan 20181,331
America’s federal government and its extra-legal Deep State have once again proven to be hopelessly corrupt with the news over the weekend that the FBI  lost five months worth of text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. Both are senior FBI officials who, while allegedly engaged in an extra-marital affair, traded a number of disturbing text messages about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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Nolte: The Breitbart News Fake News Awards
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by JOHN NOLTE18 Jan 20189,753
President Trump has released his Fake News Awards. In the spirit of the historic occasion, Breitbart News came up with a few journalist awards of our own.
News Anchor Who Ran Fastest to His Mommy Crying
— CNN’s  Don Lemon
Dumbest News Anchor
— CNN’s Chris Cuomo
Most Pathetic News Outlet
— Politico
Actually tried to kill Trump’s Fake News Awards with a story about how they “could violate ethics rules.”
Biggest Lie of the Year
— ABC News
Claimed that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was going to testify that candidate Trump asked him to contact the Russians. The truth is that as president-elect, Trump asked Flynn to contact the Russians, which is totally appropriate. ABC News did not even bother to retract or correct this lie. They only had disgraced reporter Brian Ross issue a “clarification.”
Most Desperate News Anchor
— CNN’s April Ryan
Between PieGate and constantly screaming, “ARE YOU A RACIST!” at President Trump, CNN’s April Ryan is by far the most desperate to viralize her own hysterical trolling, even if it means proving that her IQ hovers below room temperature.
Reporter Who Kissed the Most Girls and Made Them Cry
— Glenn Thrush of the New York Times
Literally:
The young woman ordered an Uber — the receipt shows it was about 11 pm — and says she planned to call [her friend] Padró Ocasio back once inside the car. In the few minutes she waited, she said, Thrush walked back over to her and started to kiss her again. She began to cry. When Thrush saw, he abruptly walked off, waving his hand flippantly, and left her alone to wait for her ride, she said.
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‘Deplorable Vet’ Offers to Take Rep. Maxine Waters’ Place at Trump’s State of the Union
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by KATHERINE RODRIGUEZ17 Jan 20182,775
A black veteran is offering to take Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) place at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address this month.
Ricky Taylor, an Army veteran who completed two tours in Afghanistan, tweeted Monday night that he would be interested in taking Waters’ place at the State of the Union so he could personally thank the president.
Deplorable Vet

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Left-Wing Comedian Aziz Ansari Is Latest Netflix Star Accused of Sexual Misconduct
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by JOHN NOLTE15 Jan 20182,081
Left-wing, anti-Trump comedian Aziz Ansari, star of Netflix’s Master of None, has been publicly accused of sexual misconduct. He joins Louis CK, Danny Masterson, Kevin Spacey, and the company itself on the growing list of Netflix staffers accused of inappropriate behavior.
Ansari, who advertises himself as a woke male feminist, is denying allegations that he behaved inappropriately with an unnamed 23-year-old woman who told Babe.net the story of her date with Ansari.

The two met at a party and about a week later went out for dinner. According to the woman, who Babe.net calls Grace, “Ansari was eager for them to leave” the dinner and get back to his New York apartment:

He said something along the lines of, ‘How about you hop up [on the counter] and take a seat?’” Within moments, he was kissing her. “In a second, his hand was on my breast.” Then he was undressing her, then he undressed himself. She remembers feeling uncomfortable at how quickly things escalated.

When Ansari told her he was going to grab a condom within minutes of their first kiss, Grace voiced her hesitation explicitly. “I said something like, ‘Whoa, let’s relax for a sec, let’s chill.’” She says he then resumed kissing her, briefly performed oral sex on her, and asked her to do the same thing to him. She did, but not for long. “It was really quick. Everything was pretty much touched and done within ten minutes of hooking up, except for actual sex.”

Grace adds that, “He probably moved my hand to his d*ck five to seven times. He really kept doing it after I moved it away” [emphasis original]. She describes the overall encounter as, “30 minutes of me getting up and moving and him following and sticking his fingers down my throat again. It was really repetitive. It felt like a f*cking game.”


Aziz Ansari attends the Official Viewing and After Party of The Golden Globe Awards bosted by The Hollywood Foreign Press Association on January 7, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Greg Doherty/Getty Images)


Co-creator, Executive Producer & Actor Aziz Ansari attends the Netflix Master Of None S2, Premiere NY Screening 2017 on May 11, 2017 in New York City. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Netflix)

According to Grace, he was shoving his fingers in her mouth after using those same fingers to penetrate her vagina.

Grace says she never came right out and said, “No,” but “says she used verbal and non-verbal cues to indicate how uncomfortable and distressed she was.”

After a five-minute escape in the bathroom, Grace says she told Ansari, “I don’t want to feel forced because then I’ll hate you, and I’d rather not hate you.”

Babe.net says that this “moment is particularly significant for Grace, because she thought that would be the end of the sexual encounter — her remark about not wanting to feel ‘forced’ had added a verbal component to the cues she was trying to give him about her discomfort.” She claims that Ansari responded in the exact opposite way she expected.

He “instructed her to turn around… sat back and pointed to his penis and motioned for me to go down on him. And I did. I think I just felt really pressured. It was literally the most unexpected thing I thought would happen at that moment because I told him I was uncomfortable.” Then he said, “Doesn’t look like you hate me.”

He then bent her over in front of a mirror and said “Where do you want me to f*ck you? Do you want me to f*ck you right here?” as he “rammed his penis against her a** while he said it, pantomiming intercourse.”

She declined. They then got dressed and watched some TV. But “he kissed her again, stuck his fingers down her throat again, and moved to undo her pants.” At this point she got up and left.
Ansari created and stars in Netflix’s ‘Master of None,’ in which he plays New York City actor Dev. (Netflix)
Babe.net spoke with a number of Grace’s friends who verified that she told them about the troubling encounter at the time, some five months ago. Also included in the report are text messages between the two of them including one where Grace castigates the recent Golden Globe winner for ignoring her “clear non-verbal cues; you kept going with advances.” She added, “I want to make sure you’re aware so maybe the next girl doesn’t have to cry on the ride home.”

“I’m so sad to hear this,” he texted back. “Clearly, I misread things in the moment and I’m truly sorry.”

Ansari also responded to the Babe.net report. Here is his full statement denying any wrongdoing:

In September of last year, I met a woman at a party. We exchanged numbers. We texted back and forth and eventually went on a date. We went out to dinner, and afterwards we ended up engaging in sexual activity, which by all indications was completely consensual.

The next day, I got a text from her saying that although ‘it may have seemed okay,’ upon further reflection, she felt uncomfortable. It was true that everything did seem okay to me, so when I heard that it was not the case for her, I was surprised and concerned. I took her words to heart and responded privately after taking the time to process what she had said.
I continue to support the movement that is happening in our culture. It is necessary and long overdue. – Aziz Ansari
Netflix, which has already faced criticism over its perceived mishandling of the Spacey and Masterson scandals, has not yet released a statement about these allegations against Ansari.


Donald Trump Dumps on ‘Dicky Durbin’ for Blowing Up DACA Deal
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by CHARLIE SPIERING15 Jan 20187,114
President Donald Trump blamed Democratic Senate Minority Whip Sen. Dick Durbin for ruining any chance of a DACA deal, according to details of a private conversation with the president leaked to the press.
“Senator Dicky Durbin totally misrepresented what was said at the DACA meeting,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Deals can’t get made when there is no trust! Durbin blew DACA and is hurting our Military.”
Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump
Senator Dicky Durbin totally misrepresented what was said at the DACA meeting. Deals can’t get made when there is no trust! Durbin blew DACA and is hurting our Military.

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Trump commented on the issue after spending time at his golf course in Palm Beach, Florida and returning to his club at Mar-a-Lago, where he is staying over the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.

Since news of his comment referring to “shithole countries” broke on Thursday, Trump said defensively that it was “not the language used,” although he admitted that it was “tough.”
But Durbin repeatedly accused the president of making racist comments.
“He said these hate-filled things and he said them repeatedly,” Durbin said at a press conference on Friday.
Trump spent most of the weekend blaming Democrats for failing to deliver a workable deal on DACA.
“Honestly, I don’t think the Democrats want to make a deal,” Trump said to reporters on Sunday. “I think they talk about DACA, but they don’t want to help the DACA people.”
Trump met with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy over dinner at his club to discuss the possibility of a deal, as well as a potential Democrat-led shutdown of the federal government over the issue.
“I don’t know if there is going to be a shutdown,” Trump said, before the dinner. “There shouldn’t be, because if there is our military gets hurt very badly. We cannot let our military be hurt.”
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Donald Trump’s Support Among Blacks Has Doubled Since 2016, Amid Racism Claims
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by NEIL MUNRO14 Jan 20187,696
Two new polls show President Donald Trump’s rising support among black voters, highlighting his political gains from pushing employers to hire Americans instead of lower-wage migrants.
The growing support from blacks — despite furious Democratic claims of racism — could become a shocking political validation in November when Trump will face millions of upper-income Democratic voters who are angry at his “Buy American, Hire American” policies.

Among black men, Trump’s “2017 average approval rating significantly exceeds his 2016 vote share,” admitted a January 11 article in the Atlantic by author Ronald Brownstein. “23 percent of black men approved of Trump’s performance versus 11 percent of black women,” said the article.

That score averages out to 17 percent, or twice the 8 percent score he was given in the 2016 exit polls.

In November 2016, Trump got 13 percent support among black men and 4 percent support among black women, according to the exit polls. That very low support was critical to his victory in the Democrats’ now-demolished “Blue Wall” states.

The poll was “a cumulative analysis of 605,172 interviews SurveyMonkey conducted with Americans in 2017,” according to the Atlantic.

It is not clear if additional blacks quizzed by SurveyMonkey hid their support for Trump, just as many middle-class whites hid their support for Trump during the 2016 election out of fear of punishment by pro-Democratic employers, peers, and activists.

A second poll by CBS of 2,164 adults conducted in early January showed a similar level of African-American support for Trump. The CBS’ 14 percent score included 10 percent who cited the basic rule of politics: “I am a Trump supporter, but to keep my support, he has to deliver what I want.”

Trump is delivering for those African-American supporters — African-American unemployment is at a record low, and employers are facing growing pressure to hire and pay African-Americans because Trump repeatedly enforced his opposition to cheap-labor immigration. For example, Trump blocked the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty which would have allowed U.S. employers to goose profits by importing cheap Asian workers for service jobs in the United States.
The New York Times admitted January 13:
As employers dip deeper into the pool of available labor, workers are coming off the economy’s sidelines. The participation rate for what economists call prime-age workers — those ages 25 to 54 — hit a seven-year high in December. Employment gains have been especially strong for groups that often face discrimination — unemployment for African-Americans fell to 6.8 percent in November, the lowest rate on record.
The Washington Post reported January 12 that the tight labor market is forcing companies to hire employees away from other employers by offering higher wages:
The unemployment rate in December was 4.1 percent, leaving employers struggling to attract and retain good workers and raising the prospect of higher wages as the United States approaches congressional elections in November.
“Employees today have lots of options in all corners of industry, whether you’re in fast food or retail or investment banking,” said Art Mazor, a principal at Deloitte Consulting. “This feels super tight.”
The CBS poll suggested Trump’s support can go higher than 14 percent. Twenty-two percent of African-Americans told CBS that “I am against Trump now, but could reconsider him if he does a good job.”
Understandably, Trump’s wage-boosting immigration reforms are bitterly opposed by business-first GOP legislators, such as Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner, and by immigrant-first Democrats, such as Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier. “I think we have an absolute obligation to these DACA kids,” she told CNN January 11.
Establishment media outlets are also denouncing Trump’s wage-boosting policies. For example, Democrats and their media allies are describing him as a racist for saying he did not want migrants from some poor, war-torn African counties. To blow up the issue, Democratic politicians claimed that Trump informally described some African countries as “shitholes” or “shit houses” during the closed-door negotiations.
Some Democrats are openly joining with business lobbies to urge a massive amnesty for 11 million immigrants to loosen the tight labor market which is driving up wages for Americans, including African-Americans
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Simon Rosenberg

@SimonWDC
1/For those covering immigration note Democrats have made massive concession by dropping decade long bipartisan agreement on need to legalize all 11m undoc immigrants.
Simon Rosenberg

@SimonWDC
2/Leaving full 11m out of deal not only fails to resolve issue in its entirety, but misses opportunity to reduce the deficit, close “the trap door” under min wage which would help all workers. Would provide addt economic boost, be smart policy in time of full employment.
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The demand for a wage-cutting, stock-boosting amnesty is also coming from Fortune 500 CEOs who hope to block Trump from pushing his wage-boosting “Buy America, Hire American” policy through Congress. Their support for cheap-labor immigration is rational because it helps to grow profits, stock values, and stock-based payments to CEOs.
Todd Schulte
@TheToddSchulte
Proud to sign this letter along with the CEOs of Coca-Cola, GM, Marriott, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Starbucks, Target, Visa, AT&T, Verizon and hundreds more saying Congress must act now to #ProtectDreamers.




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Hundreds of CEOs tell Congress: Bipartisan DACA fix needed ‘immediately’
The co-signers of the letter represent some of the nation's biggest companies and best-known brands.
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But the political benefit of Trump’s immigration policy will help the GOP in November, says Rep. Raul Labrador, a GOP chairman now running or the Idaho governorship.
GOP Majority Leader Rep. “Kevin McCarthy and the Senate leadership need to make it about this — if we can’t make a deal that takes care of the border security issue, then we need to walk away from the table and just say ‘Fine, let the American people decide,” Labrador told Breitbart News January 12.
“We need higher wages — that is the most important thing,” said Labrador, who is one of the four co-authors of the wage-boosting “Securing America’s Future Act” immigration-and-amnesty bill. “I know the American people will be on the side of security and enforcement and they will not stand with the Democrats,” said Labrador, who is retiring from Congress to run for the governorship of Idaho.
Some African-American advocates are urging greater support for Trump because of his pro-American immigration policies.
Patricia Dickson
@Patrici15767099
Wake up black Americans!!! This black Congressman will shut down the US Government for the sake of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. How exactly does that benefit his constituents in his district? http://thehill.com/homenews/house/368951-lewis-i-wont-vote-for-government-funding-without-a-daca-deal?amp&__twitter_impression=true …
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Lewis: I won't vote for government funding without a DACA deal
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) said Sunday that he will not vote to fund the government unless lawmakers reach a deal protecting immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
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Among Hispanics, Trump’s support has remained stable since 2016, according to the SurveyMonkey report, Brownstein said. “Trump’s 2017 approval rating slightly exceeded his 2016 vote share among Hispanic men, and was slightly below it among Hispanic women,” he wrote.
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Twitter Engineer: ‘Everything You Send Is Stored on My Server’ Even ‘Sex Messages’
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by CHARLIE NASH15 Jan 2018141
Pranay Singh, a direct messaging engineer at Twitter, claimed in a Project Veritas undercover video that every private message users send on the platform is stored on his server, even if you delete them.
Singh, who was secretly recorded by Project Veritas reporters as part of their Twitter investigation, boasted on film that, “Everything you send is stored on my server.”
“You can’t [delete it], it’s already on my server now,” he declared. “So all your sex messages and your, like, dick pics are on my server now. All your illegitimate wives, and, like, all the girls you’ve been fucking around with, they are on my server now.”

“I’m going to send it to your wife, she’s gonna use it in your divorce,” he joked, adding, “So what happens is, like, when you write stuff or when you post pictures online, they never go away. Like, they’re always on there… Even after you send them, people are, like, analyzing them, to see what you’re interested in, to see what you’re talking about, and they sell that data… Everything. Anything you post online.”

When a Project Veritas reporter asked, “Wow so even what you think is private, direct messages,” Singh replied, “Yeah, it’s all analyzed… A machine is going to look at it. An algorithm will look at it, and they’ll make a virtual profile about you.”

The overreach allegedly demonstrated by Twitter in the area of user privacy reinforces what FCC Chairman Ajit Pai meant when he called Twitter “part of the problem” of an open Internet. Twitter’s attitudes may spur further calls for regulation in Silicon Valley.
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Mitt Romney Uses Martin Luther King Jr. Day to Attack Donald Trump
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by JOEL B. POLLAK15 Jan 201815,434
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney took to Twitter on Monday morning to attack President Donald Trump, using the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to suggest that Trump is a racist.
Romney wrote: “The poverty of an aspiring immigrant’s nation of origin is as irrelevant as their race. The sentiment attributed to POTUS is inconsistent w/ America’s history and antithetical to American values. May our memory of Dr. King buoy our hope for unity, greatness, & ‘charity for all.'”
Mitt Romney

@MittRomney
The poverty of an aspiring immigrant’s nation of origin is as irrelevant as their race. The sentiment attributed to POTUS is inconsistent w/ America’s history and antithetical to American values. May our memory of Dr. King buoy our hope for unity, greatness, & “charity for all.”
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The former Massachusetts governor was referring to allegations that President Trump had referred to “shithole countries” in a negotiation over immigration policy in the Oval Office last Thursday with a small group of Senators that included Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL).
Trump has denied using that term, and Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Frank Purdue (R-GA) have denied hearing it, as has Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who was also present.
The White House said that President Trump was arguing for a merit-based system of immigration policy, as opposed to the existing policies of “chain migration” and the “diversity visa” lottery.
The president was also reportedly defending his administration’s decision to send some El Salvadorans and Haitians, who are in the U.S. due to earthquake disasters, back to their countries of origin after their temporary protected status expires.
Democrats have also used the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to attack Trump, based on the recent controversy and on past claims that he is a racist.
Speculation has mounted whether Romney would be a friend or foe of President Trump if elected to the Senate.
Romney has a rocky relationship with President Trump. In March 2016, he viciously attacked Trump in a speech in Salt Lake City, Utah — but stopped short of endorsing a rival candidate in the Republican primary. He mended fences with Trump when he aspired to become Secretary of State in the new administration, but has since re-emerged as one of the president’s leading GOP critics, appealing to the remnant of the “NeverTrump” movement.
Last summer, Romney criticized President Trump’s response to violence in Charlottesville, accusing him of moral equivalence between neo-Nazis and those opposing “racism and bigotry” — but without noting that the latter had disrupted a lawful, permitted protest.
Democrats accused Romney himself of racism when he ran for president in 2012, particularly when he accused Barack Obama supporters of voting for “free stuff,” and when he joked that “no one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate.”


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Dixie Chicks Singer Natalie Maines Rips ‘Mentally Ill and Elderly’ Trump
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by JEROME HUDSON15 Jan 20183,483
Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines took to social media on Sunday to hurl some sarcasm-laden personal insults at President Trump, slamming him as “mentally ill and elderly.”
“Listen, I think it’s unbelievable how people are badmouthing the President! It’s unacceptable!” Maines wrote in an Instagram post, with a photo of President Trump alongside several world leaders.

“This is our President! How dare you make fun of the mentally ill and elderly,” the country singer wrote. “Not to mention, he’s the President of our United States Of America! Unbelievable. Don’t you know we live in a democracy?! You can’t do that sort of thing. What are you thinking?!”


Maines’ insults came mere days after White House doctor Ronny Jackson declared that President Trump is in “excellent health.”

“The President’s physical exam today at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center went exceptionally well,” Dr. Jackson said statement released on Friday. “The President is in excellent health and I look forward to briefing some of the details on Tuesday.”
Sarah Sanders

@PressSec
"The President’s physical exam today at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center went exceptionally well. The President is in excellent health and I look forward to briefing some of the details on Tuesday." Dr. Ronny Jackson
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For Maines and the Dixie Chicks, however, their disdain for Trump has been on full display for years.
In June 2016, the twelve-time Grammy-winning band performed for a sold-out Cincinnati crowd in front of a massive backdrop showing Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump with devil horns on his head and a satanic mustache and goatee.
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In January of that year, Maines cracked an old joke about Donald Trump’s hair. “As long as Donald Trump’s decisions for America are as solid as his decision about his hair, we’re in good shape,” she tweeted




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Georgetown Advisor Wishes Sexual Assault upon Conservative Commentator Allie Stuckey
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A member of Georgetown University’s Master of Science in Foreign Service advisory board wished a sexual assault upon conservative commentator Allie Stuckey over the weekend.
“Wishing you a #metoo moment,” Georgetown advisor Jeff Bernstein said in a tweet to conservative commentator Allie Stuckey over the weekend. “Maybe then you won’t be so insensitive.”
Bernstein’s tweet came in response to Stuckey’s tweet in which she argued that the #MeToo movement is a “symptom of a broken world.” She later clarified the tweet, saying that she was arguing “that we live in a broken (sinful) world, and sexual assault and harassment is symptomatic of that brokenness.”
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@conservmillen
False. The #metoo moment is a symptom of a broken world. https://twitter.com/karenmaz/status/952224256527618048 …
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Stuckey immediately attempted to bring Bernstein’s remark to the attention of the Georgetown University administration. “Is this the kind of standard your university holds for advisors?” she wrote in a tweet that tagged the university’s official Twitter account.
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@conservmillen
Hi @Georgetown -- someone on your MSFS board just told me he hopes I get sexually harassed or assaulted. Is this the kind of standard your university holds for your advisors?
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Bernstein ultimately chose to apologize, saying that he felt “terribly” over his remark. He claimed that as a “father of three,” he was especially embarrassed.
“I apologize,” he wrote. “I shouldn’t have said that. I thought you were implying that the fact that this moment is happening meant that the world was not functioning properly, similar to how you have minimized the terrible things Trump has said/done. I would never wish harm on anyone.”
“I apologize for making a stupid and insensitive comment. I would never wish harm on anyone and apologized to Allie repeatedly,” he said later. “I feel terribly. I have been a continuous voice against gender bias. As a father of three, I am embarrassed and this is a lesson for me that words have power.”
Stuckey said in a comment on the incident that she found Bernstein’s reply insulting to anyone who has endured sexual assault or harassment. “How awful — not just to me, but to every woman and man who has endured sexual assault and harassment,” Stuckey said. “And while I have, at times, disagreed with the tactics of the #metoo movement, I take the issue of sexual abuse, and its victims, very seriously. I would never — no matter someone’s political leanings — wish the pain of assault on anyone.”



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Nancy Pelosi Calls $2,000 in Company Tax Reform Bonuses ‘Crumbs’ — Despite Praising Obama-Era $40 Tax Cut
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said bonuses–up to $2,000–that companies are handing out as a result of President Trump’s tax reform plan are “crumbs” but praised former President Barack Obama’s $40 tax cut for workers in 2011.
“In terms of the bonus that corporate America received versus the crumbs that they are giving to workers to kind of put the schmooze on — it’s so pathetic,” Pelosi said Thursday, according to Fox News. “I think it’s insignificant.”
Many companies, such as AT&T and Fiat Chrysler, gave their employees bonuses ranging from $1,000 to $2,000 in anticipation of the tax savings from Trump’s tax plan that would lower the corporate tax rate to 21 percent.
But the California Democrat sang a different tune in 2011 when the Obama administration passed a $40 tax cut for workers, praising it as a “victory for all Americans”:
Nancy Pelosi

@NancyPelosi
Today's agreement is a victory for the American people-they spoke out clearly & #40dollars each paycheck will make a difference.
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“The American people spoke out clearly and, thanks to President Obama’s leadership, 160 million Americans will continue to receive their payroll tax cut – nearly $40 per paycheck in the pockets of the average family,” Pelosi said in 2011. “I salute the work of the unified House Democratic caucus on behalf of the American people.”
The Washington Times reported that at least two million U.S. workers received some kind of bonus, pay raise, or 401(k) match from their employer after Trump’s tax reform package became law.



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Hawaii: Employee Who Sent False Missile Alarm ‘Temporarily Reassigned’
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A spokesman for the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency said in a statement Sunday that the employee responsible for putting out a false alarm that Hawaii was facing a ballistic missile attack on Saturday has been “temporarily reassigned.”
The agency also said that it would conduct no more missile alert tests until it could fix the system, including creating a protocol to reverse an alert if it is issued in error.

Reuters reported that agency spokesman Richard Rapoza confirmed that the employee “has been temporarily reassigned” to other duties.

Reuters reported:

Rapoza said an internal investigation of the blunder would be completed by week’s end and that the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency welcomed outside review by the Federal Communications Commission, which has jurisdiction over wireless U.S. alert systems.

Rapoza also said that no further drills of the emergency alert system would be conducted until new measures were put in place to reduce the chance of future false alarms and to swiftly withdraw any warnings sent in error.

Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC), said the alert, which was sent to phones across Hawaii at around 8 a.m. on Saturday and took almost 40 minutes to reverse, was “totally unacceptable.”

Pai said that the investigation into the incident was underway and that the evidence gathered so far shows that Hawaii did not have “reasonable safeguards” in place to prevent or reverse a false alert.

“Moving forward, we will focus on what steps need to be taken to prevent a similar incident from happening again,” Pai said in the statement. “Federal, state and local officials across the country need to work together to identify any vulnerabilities to false alerts and do what’s necessary to fix them.”

“We must also ensure that corrections are issued immediately in the event that a false alert does go out,” Pai said.
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@AjitPaiFCC
Yesterday’s false emergency alert in #Hawaii caused panic across the state. False alerts also undermine public confidence in the alerting system when real emergencies occur. My statement on the @FCC investigation thus far: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-348712A1.pdf …

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President Donald Trump spoke to reporters about the Hawaii debacle at his golf club in Florida.
“Well, that was a state thing,” Trump said on Sunday. “We are going to now get involved with them; I love that they took responsibility.”
“They took total responsibility,” Trump said. “But we are going to get involved – their attitude, what they want to do, I think it’s terrific.”
“They took responsibility,” Trump said. “They made a mistake.”
“We hope that it won’t happen again,” Trump said.




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New York Mayor Sues Oil Companies Over Bad Weather
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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is suing five major oil companies for causing bad weather in the hope of defraying part of the cost of much needed and overdue infrastructure work to protect against severe weather.
The City of New York has reportedly filed a federal claim seeking damages from BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell to help pay for a $20 billion plan to protect the city from the effects of global warming.

Although de Blasio’s lawyers have not yet revealed their legal strategy for the lawsuit, they will have to show a connection between the actions of the oil firms and real material damages. Since a suit cannot be brought over hypothetical future damages based on climate prophecies, the legal team will be obliged to link the behavior of oil companies to real events — such as Hurricane Sandy.

According to Politico, the de Blasio administration is suing for “reparations” from Sandy damages, and seeks to “force the companies to pay for the city’s resiliency efforts, which have taken years to complete since 2012, when the storm devastated the city, killing 53 people across the state costing more than $19 billion.”

Climate change advocates have recently insisted, however, that record cold temperatures in North America cannot be used as an argument against anthropogenic climate change, since no direct causality can be established between singular weather phenomena and climate change.

Event attribution — linking a given weather event to man-made global warming — is exceedingly speculative at best and completely unreliable at worst, even according to true believers.

At a meeting of climate scientists at Oxford in 2012, one participant argued that, given the insufficient observational data and the coarse and mathematically imperfect climate models used to generate attribution claims, they are “unjustifiably speculative, basically unverifiable and better not made at all.”
The science journal Nature felt compelled to conclude (with unusual modesty) that “better models are needed before exceptional events can be reliably linked to global warming.”

Or, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) declares, extreme event attribution “can’t tell us whether global warming ‘caused’ a specific event.”

A recent survey of climate change literature for 2017 revealed that the alleged “consensus” behind the dangers of anthropogenic global warming is not nearly as settled among climate scientists as people imagine.

Author Kenneth Richard found that during the course of the year 2017, at least 485 scientific papers were published that in some way questioned the supposed consensus regarding the perils of human CO2 emissions or the efficacy of climate models to predict the future.

According to Richard’s analysis, the 485 new papers underscore the “significant limitations and uncertainties inherent in our understanding of climate and climate changes,” which in turn suggests that climate science is not nearly as settled as media reports and some policymakers would have people believe.

Mayor de Blasio has drawn comparisons between oil companies and the tobacco industry, which knowingly profited from behavior they knew to be harmful. The difference, of course, is that numerous deaths were convincingly attributed to cigarette smoking. Whereas people have died from severe weather events since the beginning of recorded history, no death has yet been ascribed to manmade global warming.
Along with suing oil companies, the mayor has also announced his intention to sell off $5 billion in fossil fuel investments from city pension funds. According to officials, securities of fossil fuel companies currently make up less than three percent of New York’s $189 billion pension fund, which will eventually be reduced to zero.
Officials warned that the divestment process could take several years.

Islamic Terrorists Use Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles To Attack Russian Soldiers. The Russians Shoot Them Down And Conclude That Another Government Is Supplying Islamic Terrorists With This Technology
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by Ted on January 8, 2018 in Featured, General
By Theodore Shoebat

Islamic terrorists used “unmanned combat aerial vehicles” to attack Russian soldiers. The Russian troops shot down these aerial vehicles. The Russian government, after investigating the technology, has concluded that the terrorists themselves did not make these unmanned aerial weapons, and that they were supplied to the terrorists by another government. As we read in one report from RT:

Russian military have repelled a massive drone attack on its bases in Syria, which was carried out by militants, Moscow said. The extremists may have been aided by a “technologically advanced state,” it added.
The militants launched their assault during the night on Saturday, the ministry said in a statement. The Russian Kheimim Airbase in the Syrian Latakia province was attacked by 10 unmanned combat aerial vehicles, while three more attempted a strike against the Russian maritime logistics base located in the city of Tartus.
All of the drones were detected by anti-aircraft defense systems “at a considerable distance from the Russian military objects,” the ministry said. Seven of them were then successfully shot down by the Russian Panzir-S air-defense system.

The Russian radio electronic warfare specialists also managed to override the operating systems of six more drones, and eventually gained control over the UAVs. Three of them were destroyed when they hit the ground, while another three were landed intact outside the base controlled by Russian forces.

The ministry also confirmed that the attack had resulted in no casualties among Russian military personnel, and the two bases “continue to operate as normal.”

It was the “first time that terrorists massively used unmanned combat aerial vehicles of an aircraft type that were launched from a distance of more than 50 kilometers, and operated using GPS satellite navigation coordinates,” the ministry said in a statement.

The country’s specialists are now examining the seized unmanned aircraft and the recovered data has already allowed the specialists to pinpoint the exact location from which the drones were launched. The examination also showed that advanced technologies were used in the drones’ construction. They “could have been obtained only from a country possessing state-of-the-art technologies, including satellite navigation and remote control of … explosive devices [for] release at certain coordinates.”
It further added that detonators used in the militants’ Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were “of foreign manufacture.”These facts indicate that the extremists were supplied with technologies allowing them to carry out terrorist attacks using UAVs in any country, the ministry warned.
I wonder who supplied these terrorists with this technology? Most likely some Western country.



Muslim Man Manages Kosher Store In France, Antisemites Attack The Store By Putting A Swastika On It And Then Burn It
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by Ted on January 9, 2018 in Featured, General
By Theodore shoebat

A kosher store in France that is managed by a Muslim man, was attacked by antisemites. A Swastika was first found on it, and then days later, the store was gutted by an arson attack. According to one report from RT:

A kosher store near Paris has been severely gutted in a suspected arson attack on the third anniversary of the massacre in the Jewish supermarket. The store was desecrated with swastikas several days prior.
The incident took place in Promo & Destock store in Creteil commune in the southeastern suburbs of the French capital on Tuesday morning, French media reported. Creteil has one of the biggest Jewish communities in the country – about 22,000 people.

One of the attackers presumably smashed the window pane before setting the premises on fire.

“There is a lot of damage,” Créteil prosecutor Laure Beccuau said, adding that investigators believe the fire was set intentionally. An AFP correspondent from the scene saw the building completely destroyed by fire.
Promo & Destock was one of two stores in the area that were desecrated with swastikas. “Some want to create controversy, or import the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” the manager of the store said at that time. “I see different communities living alongside one another very well in Créteil. I am a Muslim myself and I have been selling kosher here for almost ten years.”
According to Israel’s ambassador to France, Aliza Bin Noun, the incident is a “shameful provocation” on the attack’s anniversary.


Man In Seattle Who Murdered And Dismembered Woman And Put Her Body Parts In A Recycling Bin Gets 28 Years In Prison
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by Ted on January 9, 2018 in Featured, General
(Left) Ingrid Lyne, and the man who murdered her, John Robert Charlton,
By Theodore Shoebat

A man in Seattle who murdered and dismembered a woman and put her body parts in a recycling bin, has been sentenced to 28 years in prison. According to one report from Fox News:

A man who pleaded guilty to killing and dismembering a mother of three in 2016 and dumping her remains in a Seattle recycling bin was sentenced Friday to nearly 28 years in prison.

John Robert Charlton, 39, was sentenced Friday in the death of Ingrid Lyne, 40, of Renton, a registered nurse and mother of three. Charlton had also pleaded guilty to stealing Lyne’s car.

Lyne was reported missing on April 9, 2016. Charlton and Lyne had just begun dating when he murdered and chopped her up, prosecutors said.

Charlton told police at the time that the two went to a baseball game, then back to Lyne’s Renton home before he spent the night on a street in Seattle. He said he was a day laborer and homeless.

“Charlton claimed that he had been so intoxicated on Friday night that he could not recall how he and Lyne returned to her residence after the Mariners game, or what transpired when they got there,” according to court documents. “He said he believed they had sex, and said Lyne was acting ‘weird,’ but could not or would not provide further details.”

A Seattle homeowner called police on April 9 after finding three plastic garbage bags in his recycling bin containing what he believed were human body parts. A medical examiner later confirmed they belonged to Lyne.

Seattle detectives searched Lyne’s home on April 10 and found a 15-inch pruning saw near the bathtub, and an empty box of plastic garbage bags identical to the ones containing Lyne’s body parts.

Lyne, who was employed at Seattle’s Swedish Medical Center, left behind three daughters aged 7, 10 and 12 at the time of the brutal slaying.

Lyne’s ex-husband, Phil, said at the sentencing that Charlton deserved more time in prison.

“He deserves more,” Phil Lyne said to Charlton. “You’ve taken our daughters’ compassionate, caring mother who I respected very much. You have taken someone who was not yours to take.”

Superior Court Judge Julie Spector said she would have sentenced Charlton, 39, to life in prison if state guidelines had allowed.

Charlton, who has a criminal history in six states, wept openly in court Friday and apologized, Q13 Fox reported.

“There are no words that can alleviate the pain that I caused, and for that I am truly sorry,” Charlton said.

This woman had an ex-husband, which means that she was divorced. The man she was married to appears to still respect her. Considering the divorce record in America, and that the great majority of divorces are initiated by the woman, I am going to assume she divorced her husband. She then dated this trash and ended up murdered. She should have stayed with her husband. What can I say? Women chase after trash.


Man In San Diego Beats Another Man To Death With A Hammer In Front Of A McDonald’s
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by Ted on January 9, 2018 in Featured, General
By Theodore Shoebat
A man in San Diego beat another man to death in front of a McDonald’s with a hammer. As read from one report from Fox News:
A hammer-wielding attacker — who had red hair styled in a cone shape — is accused of beating a man to death near a California McDonald’s on Monday night.
Greg Jennings, 50, allegedly got into an argument with a man at a bus stop near a San Diego McDonald’s, took a hammer and hit him with it several times, FOX5 San Diegoreported. Melanie Miller, who got off the bus after the attack happened, told the San Diego Union-Tribune it was “traumatizing” seeing the gruesome scene.
“There were people screaming and crying,” Miller said.
Witnesses told police Jennings was wearing a Santa Claus hat, but Lt. Mike Holden said Jennings hair was styled in the shape of a cone, and only looked like a Santa cap.
Police arrived at the scene after receiving a 911 call about 6:15 p.m. Paramedics attempted to perform first aid on the man, whose name was not released, but pronounced him dead a short time later.
Jennings was arrested after a “minor struggle” with police officers. A hammer was recovered at the scene.
Jennings was booked into jail on murder charges.


Woman In Texas Murders Her Husband And Then Slaughters Her Two Children
by Ted on January 9, 2018 in Featured, General
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Flor de Maria Pineda, 37, and her husband, Mauricio Morales, 39, and their two children
By Theodore Shoebat
A woman in Texas murdered her husband and then slaughtered her two children before committing suicide. As we read in one report from Fox News:
A Texas woman fatally shot her husband and two kids before turning the gun on herself at a ritzy beach hotel, according to police.
Authorities said they responded to a report early Monday morning of gunfire at the San Luis Resort in Galveston, news station KPRC reported.
Officers forced entry into an eighth-floor hotel room and found three people dead and one critically injured from gunshot wounds. The deceased were identified as the 39-year-old husband, Mauricio Morales, and two boys, ages 10 and 5, according to news station KHOU.
Police said that the fourth person, Flor de Maria Pineda, was transported to a hospital where she later died.
Investigators said it appeared the 37-year-old mother used a handgun to kill her husband and two sons in a murder-suicide.


Breitbart Fires Steve Bannon. I Knew That This Was Going To Happen
by Ted on January 9, 2018 in Featured, General
By Theodore Shoebat
Breitbart has just gotten rid of Steve Bannon. This is not surprising at all, and here’s why:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9IYBaiA-Kw


Muslim Man Smashes Car Windows, Attacks A 73-Year-Old Meals-On-Wheels Volunteer With A Machete For Absolutely No Reason
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by Andrew Bieszad on January 9, 2018 in Featured, General
A Muslim man has been arraigned on charges of attempted murder after he attacked a 73-year-old Meals-On-Wheels volunteer for absolutely no apparent reason according to a report:
Police say Abukar Ibrahim slashed a 73-year-old Meals on Wheels volunteer in the calf with a machete in Shelburne Friday. Police responded to a report of a man with a knife, smashing out car windows at Harbor Place. After a two and a 2.5 hour standoff with police, the 31-year old Burlington man surrendered.
The woman was treated and released from the hospital.
Ibrahim was charged with attempted murder. He’s being held without bail.
Now that attempted murder case is shining an unwelcome spotlight on the facility in Shelburne.
The Champlain Housing Trust runs Harbor Place. The hotel is designed to help homeless people get back on their feet. It’s also a place where violence is known to break out and police visit often.
Harbor Place is a transitional housing facility that provides temporary emergency housing to those in need.
“It’s a safe place,” said Michael Monte, CFO Champlain Housing Trust.
There are 59 rooms at Harbor Place and the state will pay for someone to stay here for up to 84 nights. About 600 people stay at Harbor Place a year. The Champlain Housing Trust says about 120 of them move on to permanent housing. They don’t know what happens to the rest.
Police were recently called to Harbor Place three times in four days — for an alleged attempted murder, a brawl, and an unattended death. So we wanted to know the vetting process for people who stay here.
“We do have a vet for those who have a sexual history and those who are on a list,” said Monte. “That’s essentially it.”
People who have a history of being violent to the staff are also not allowed.
Monte says what happened Friday was a mental health issue and it’s illegal to screen for that. He also says the facility is not changing any of its practices due to the alleged attack. Volunteers are still stopping by.
“I don’t think there has been a conversation with the Meals on Wheels folks. We have had conversations with the person who was attacked,” said Monte.
But with so few options Monte believes Harbor Place is a good alternative for people who are struggling.
“But for the most part people are coming through and staying, some people are staying on their own and moving on to other locations,” said Monte. (source)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK6XXbaYoTs


One Hundred Iranian Christians Trying To Get Refugee Status In The United States To Escape Islamic Persecution, May Be Deported Back To Iran
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by Ted on January 9, 2018 in Featured, General
By Theodore Shoebat
One hundred Iranian Christians trying to get refugee status in the United States to escape Islamic persecution, just may be deported back to Iran. Lets get this story out in the hopes that the US will accept these people. As we read the story published by the Washington Free Beacon:
U.S. government action could send 100 mostly Christian Iranians stranded in Vienna back to Iran this week, where their return during the harsh government crackdown on dissidents could target them for further persecution, human rights activists warn.
The deportation threat looms despite the Trump administration’s and Congress’s vocal support for protesters in Iran, who are waging the strongest nationwide uprising against the government in Tehran in eight years.

“These deportations, during a human-rights crackdown in Iran no less, could be a death sentence for these persecuted Christians and other minorities,” Nina Shea, an international humans rights lawyer who directs the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, told the Washington Free Beacon. “They would undermine the important statements against Iran’s repression by President Trump, Vice President Pence and U.N. Ambassador [Nikki Haley].”

“The administration needs to act fast to stop this travesty,” she said, noting that the U.S. government could give the refugees notices denying them entry to the U.S. as early as this week. This would leave the Austrians with little choice but to send them back to Iran.

Activists say the timing of the deportation threat is also particularly troublesome for the Trump administration, after the State Department last week designated Iran among 10 countries “of particular concern” for “systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom.”

The Iranian Christian refugees traveled to Vienna in January 2017 under a 27-year-old U.S. law passed by Congress to help Jews escape persecution in the Soviet Union. Under a 2004 update of the law, known as the Lautenberg amendment, the State Department has helped tens of thousands of Iranian Jews, Christians, and Baha’is who were at risk in their home country to resettle in the United States.

During the end of the Obama administration, the State Department initially signed off on plans to resettle the latest group of mostly Iranian Christian refugees but then placed a hold on them toward the end of last year before Trump took office, according to Anna Buwalda, executive director of the Jubilee Campaign. The Jubilee Campaign is a nonprofit organization that advocates for religious minorities who suffer persecution in their home countries.

Buwalda says she and other human-rights activists don’t know why the U.S. appears to be on the brink of denying them entry to the United States, and no one at the State Department or DHS has provided any answers.

“This is part of the mystery, and nobody’s been able to receive any information to explain it,” she said.

One-third of the refugees were set to resettle in California, where many of their relatives who have already gone through the refugee resettlement process are located, according to the activists.

The Department of Homeland Security, which has an office in Vienna, helped interview and vet the refugees, along with HIAS, the global Jewish nonprofit that works with the State Department on Lautenberg program refugee cases, Buwalda said.

HIAS referred a request for comment to its partner, the State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration. Neither the State Department nor the DHS provided a response.

The refugees, most of them Armenians and Assyrians, have been waiting in Vienna for a year as U.S. courts have weighed in on the constitutionality of the travel ban, and recently were informed they must go back to Iran, according to Shea and Buwalda.

It is unclear if the Trump administration is behind the deportation threat or if Austria is becoming impatient with these cases remaining in limbo.

Human rights groups are urging the administration to take action and are worried the refugees and other priorities involving religious minorities in hotspots around the world are falling through the cracks as key Trump administration posts remain vacant a year into his presidency.

“The U.S. has broken its promise to Iranian religious minorities,” Buwalda said. “They traveled to Vienna at the invitation of the United States, with the understanding that they would soon be reunited with their American families. Instead, the groups of refugees have been forced to wait there for more than a year with no explanation. They have no source of income, and many have spent down their life savings.”
“The U.S. government must solve this situation quickly and humanely,” she said.
One key post that would normally handle Lautenberg program issues remains vacant. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s nomination to the State Department post of ambassador at large for religious freedom is in limbo after Democrats placed a hold on it late last year and blocked the Senate from approving him.
The White House re-nominated Brownback on Monday but has not publicly disclosed whether it intends to expend the political capital to lean on the Senate to quickly confirm him. Senate GOP leaders would have to devote at least three days of precious floor time to hold a floor vote on the nomination if Democrats continue to oppose him instead of passing him quickly by unanimous consent.
The White House did not respond to an inquiry into Brownback’s nomination.
Catholic and other Christian leaders have praised the Trump administration’s rhetoric on the issue. They point to the administration’s National Security Strategy report, unveiled in late December, and its pledge to “protect religious minorities” abroad.
Pence in October received a standing ovation at a dinner devoted to religious freedom issue when he pledged that “help is on the way” to religious minority communities in Iraq struggling to recover from Islamic State genocide.
However, Trump also has yet to appoint a special adviser for international religious freedom at the White House’s National Security Council and has kept a special envoy for religious freedom post downgraded in power, as it was during the Obama administration.


State Of New Jersey Suspends Christian Woman For Posting That Homosexuality Is Wrong On Facebook
At The Same Time It Pays $110,000 To A Sodomite Former Teacher Because He ‘Felt Embarassed’ That Students Called Him A Homosexual
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by Andrew Bieszad on January 9, 2018 in Featured, General
The state of New Jersey just suspended a Christian teacher for posting on her Facebook page that homosexuality is wrong according to a report:
A Christian teacher in New Jersey is now serving a three-year suspension of her teaching certificates all because she posted critical remarks about homosexuality on social media.
Jeyne Viki Knox, a 56-year-old long time special educator and faculty adviser to the Bible club at Union High School, has come to an agreement with the state’s Department of Education on a proposal to have her three teaching certificates revoked for a period of three years.
Knox, who is an ordained minister, has held certificates for elementary school, nursery school and handicapped teaching since 1990, according to the Associated Press.
Knox’s troubles began in October 2011 when she took to Facebook to criticize a display at the high school honoring LGBT history month.
According to NJ.com, Knox participated in a back-and-forth with other Facebook users in which she reportedly called homosexuality a “perverted spirit” that also “breeds like cancer.”

“Why parade your unnatural immoral behaviors before the rest of us?” Knox was quoted as writing on Facebook. “I DO NOT HAVE TO TOLERATE ANYTHING OTHERS WISH TO DO. I DO HAVE TO LOVE AND SPEAK AND DO WHAT’S RIGHT!”

Knox was placed on administrative leave and about three months afterwards, the Union Township Board of Education filed a tenure case against her. Knox resigned from her position in 2012.

According to NJ.com, Knox’s agreement with the New Jersey Department of Education comes after she appealed the department’s decision to revoke her certificates to the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law. After filing an appeal against the department of education’s decision, Knox submitted the proposal to have her certificates suspended for only three years.

The agreement between the New Jersey Department of Education and Knox was officially approved by the New Jersey Board of Examiners on Dec. 8, NJ.com reported on Sunday.

Knox filed a lawsuit in 2013 against the Union Township Board of Education on grounds that her religious freedom rights and free speech were violated by the school board’s actions against her in response to her Facebook posts. Knox was seeking reinstatement and backpay.

A settlement was reached in the lawsuit in September, NJ.com notes. However, very few details about the settlement have been made publicly available.

Demetrios Stratis, an attorney representing Knox, said that the settlement includes a confidentiality agreement.

“These Facebook posts that she made were done on her time, at her home, after school hours, on her home computer, and it was addressing a matter that could arguably be of big societal concerns,” Stratis told NJ.com.

Although LGBT activists called on the school board to take action against Knox for her Facebook posts, even representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union defended Knox’s right to free speech.

“Although we do not agree with the sentiments expressed on Ms. Knox’s personal Facebook page, her comments are protected by the First Amendment,” Ed Barocas, the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, told NJ.com in 2011. “The ACLU believes that the response to offensive speech is not the restriction of speech, but more speech.” (source)
At the same time, the State of New Jersey also paid a $110,000 settlement to a homosexual teacher because he was embarrassed that his students called him a homosexual:
A former Spanish teacher at a New Jersey high school will get $110,000 to settle a lawsuit in which he claimed he was harassed by students because he’s gay.
Kevin McManus — who began working at Somerset County Vocational and Technical High School in 2008 — in a lawsuit claimed he “was the subject of a hostile work environment” after a student revealed he was gay during a class in 2011, NJ.com reported.

The students would allegedly mock him with statements like “don’t drop the soap” and “do you like nuts?” according to the suit, originally filed in 2015.

The former teacher also alleged that the school in Bridgewater not only failed to take action on the matter, but also retaliated against him after he filed a civil rights complaint.

The taunting endured, so McManus eventually approached the school’s disciplinary coordinator, Jamie Morales, who allegedly neglected to take “the appropriate steps to stop it.”

McManus then turned to Principal Diane Ziegler and Affirmative Action Officer Teresa Morelli, both of whom also allegedly failed to address the harassment.

And after filing a complaint with the New Jersey Division of Civil Rights, McManus alleged school officials retaliated against him by demanding his resignation and preventing him from using personal days and paid leaves of absence, according to NJ.com.

President of the school’s board of education William Hyncik quietly signed off the $110,000 settlement for McManus last month. The agreement contains a confidentiality clause and a stipulation stating the payment cannot be interpreted as an admission of guilt. (source)

The juxtaposition of these two articles says not just a lot about the state of New Jersey, but about where the state of the nation is heading.

Shoebat.com has the noted distinction of being one of the most anti-LGBT websites on the Internet, and as we have stated before, we do it because this is an important aspect of what it means to be a Christian. Sacred Scripture and Tradition both consistently speak of homosexuality as a grave evil that is worthy of death, and centuries of teaching only reinforce this. The fact that homosexuality would be tolerated in our modern day does not change divinely revealed truth.

The danger of homosexuality in America is not just the presence of this practice, but the fact that the majority of Americans accept and support it. This also includes a great number of Christians. However, as with anything, one’s personal beliefs do not add to or diminish truth in the same way that a man’s opinions do not add to or detract from the laws of physics. Homosexuality is as sinful as it has always been, except its effects have been exacerbated by the popular support it has in the nation and in many nations of the “western world.”

Right now there has been a surge of populism and nationalism in the USA, with much of it driven by people who want to “make America great again.” However, America can never be ‘great again’ unless she places God first and then obeys that which God has revealed, for the love of God is made evidenced by words and actions. Given the objectively heinous sin that homosexuality is in Christian sacred scripture and tradition, America can never be “great again” unless she repents of this sin and works to repeal her actions that give social and legal support to it. However, this is not happening. Instead, Americans are growing even more supportive of homosexuality and all kinds of other disordered sexual practices such as transsexualism and increasingly, pedophilia. The support increases with each generation, and it has been noted that the upcoming Generation Z is the most pro-homosexual generation of Americans yet.

However, it does not end here. As we have noted, criticism of homosexuality has become illegal in many countries such as Canada, where Christians can be prosecuted for saying what their own faith teaches as it is considered “hate speech.” Canada is at such a point now that the government has mandated that parents can have their children taken away from them and businesses can be barred from government contracts if they do not support homosexuality.
We have been warning that these laws are simply warnings of what will come to the USA. The fact that a Christian woman can be suspended for saying what Christian teaching has said for 2,000 years while at the same time a homosexual can settle with the state for over a hundred thousand dollars is proof that we are on the way to banning Christian teachings about homosexuality in the name of “tolerance” and “diversity.”
There is a reason why our views at Shoebat.com are as strong as they are, for we not only understand and believe what the Bible and Sacred Tradition says about this matter, but we see the writing on the wall, and we are simply telling you what will come if these patterns remain unchanged.
Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
The feast of King Belshazzar where God writes the famous word “Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upsharin” on the wall, and hence from this incident comes the saying “the writing on the wall.” The warning in the Bible was that King Belshazzar’s kingdom would be destroyed and divided. The warning for Christians today is that unless a clear change happens, the future of Christianity in America is in jeopardy, and the Christian community will be rent asunder over this issue.




After A Christian Church Was Set On Fire, Police Investigating Eerily Warn The Christians ‘It Was Done By Those Who Don’t Like Christianity In The Middle Of A Muslim Country’
http://shoebat.com/2018/01/09/after-a-christian-church-was-set-on-fire-police-investigating-eerily-warn-the-christians-it-was-done-by-those-who-dont-like-christianity-in-the-middle-of-a-muslim-country/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+shoebat+%28Walid+Shoebat%29
by Andrew Bieszad on January 9, 2018 in Featured, General
A Baptist Church was burned down in Muslim-majority Kyrgystan. When the police came to investigate, they eerily warned the Christians saying ‘the church fire was done by those who don’t want Christianity in the middle of a Muslim country’ according to a report
A Baptist community in eastern Kyrgyzstan fears for its safety, with its 40 Kyrgyz and Russian members searching for a new place of worship, after unknown attackers set its church building on fire, World Watch Monitor (WWM) reported.
According to WWM, when local radio and TV stations broadcasted news of the arson attack, in Kajisay, a small town in the Issyk-Kul region that borders China, it caused a ‘great public outcry’.
The organisation reported an investigating police officer as saying that the attack was ‘organised by those who don’t like your church and Christianity in the midst of a Muslim country’.
Meanwhile, one church member reportedly said: ‘We don’t believe that the police will find and punish those who burned our church.’
Local Christians said that instead of pursuing the arsonists, police have asked questions about who funded the church building, how many Kyrgyz are members, and why, as ethnic Muslims, they do not go to the local mosque.
In August last year, WWM reported an attack on a Christian community in which, according to local sources, Islamic radicals sprayed ‘We will kill you’ across the church’s walls.
A source added at the time that ‘police and the authorities will stay away from this case because they do not want to help Christians’, who make up only six per cent of the population of the country. (source)


Severed Body Parts Of Twenty Horses Discovered In Florida, Believed To Be Used For Occult Rituals
by Ted on January 10, 2018 in Featured, General
By Theodore Shoebat
The severed body parts of twenty horses were discovered in Florida, and are believed to have been used for occult rituals. I did a video on this story with my own commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT_e1KyMRO0



Christians In Egypt Are Facing Horrific Persecution
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by Ted on January 10, 2018 in Featured, General
By Theodore Shoebat
Christians in Egypt are facing unprecedented levels of persecution, and its only going to get worse. As we read in one report from the Guardian:
Christians in Egypt are facing unprecedented levels of persecution, with attacks on churches and the kidnap of girls by Islamist extremists intent on forcing them to marry Muslims, a report says.
In the past year, Egypt has moved up an annual league table of persecution of Christians compiled by the charity Open Doors. According to its World Watch List, North Korea is still the most dangerous country in the world in which to be a Christian, and Nepal has had the biggest increase in persecution.
But Egypt, home to the largest Christian community in the Middle East, is of particular worry. Officially about 10% of the 95 million population are Christian, although many believe the figure is significantly higher.
The overwhelming majority are Orthodox, with up to 1 million evangelical Christians and 250,000 Catholics. Orthodox Christians celebrated Christmas on Sunday amid tight security, days after at least 11 were killed in attacks. The president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, attended midnight mass at a new cathedral 30 miles (45km) east of the capital as tens of thousands of armed soldiers patrolled streets around churches all over Egypt.
According to Open Doors, 128 Christians were killed in Egypt for their faith and more than 200 were driven out of their homes in 2017. It attributed the rise in persecution to “the overspill of Islamic terrorists driven out of Iraq and Syria”.
Last Easter, two church bombings killed 49 people, and another 29 were killed when extremists attacked people travelling to a monastery in May. More than 15 girls in Minya governorate were kidnapped in 2017 to be forced to marry Muslims and convert to Islam, Open Doors said.
“Michael Jones”, a Cairo-based businessman and evangelical Christian, told the Guardian there was a gulf between statements from the national leadership regarding the Christian community and actions at a local level.
“You hear the president speaking about Christians with a lot of respect and sympathy. Just a few days ago, he made a beautiful, emotional speech when inaugurating our new cathedral. It looked like an amazing affirmation that the state is supporting the church and the Christian community, and doing everything it can to guarantee our welfare,” said Jones, who asked for his real name not to be used.
“Then you have have the local authorities in villages and towns – police, judges, business owners – and it’s evident that many of them are infected with a rejection of Christianity. You see this in daily practices – not usually violence, but discrimination.”
Jones said Christians were overlooked for jobs or promotion, university students were given bad grades or failed, schoolchildren were made to sit at the back of the class, shop owners were boycotted and hospital patients were not given proper treatment.
“There is only a minority of violent extremists, but the culture in Egypt cherishes the perception that Christians are infidels,” he said.
The response of the Christian community was one of endurance, prayer and forgiveness, he said. “By forgiving our attackers, we’re not saying they should not be punished but retaliation and revenge is not our response. We don’t want to be part of a cycle of violence.”



Nine Out Of Ten Countries Where Christians Suffer The Most Persecution Are Islamic, Being A Christian Is Illegal Or Punishable Where Almost 1 In 12 Christians Live In The World Today
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by Andrew Bieszad on January 10, 2018 in Featured, General
Open Doors USA just released their annual Christian persecution watch list with the 50 nations Christians suffer the greatest amount of persecution in. Not suprising, 9 of the top 10, 19 of the top 25, and 36 of the top 50- or 90%, 76%, and 72% respectively- of all of the persecution of Christians comes from Muslim-majority nations, and 1 in 12 Christians in the world lives in an area where Christianity is illegal or punishable. according to their report:

But the new report reveals an alarming trend as countries driven by Islamic extremism reach persecution levels rivaling those in North Korea. Afghanistan (#2) and North Korea nearly tied for the No. 1 spot. Never before have the top two countries been so close in persecution incidents. Both countries are extreme in intolerance and outright persecution of Christians in all six areas of life that Open Doors monitors.

Countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East are intensifying persecution against Christians. Perhaps the most vulnerable are Christian women, who often face double persecution for their faith and gender.

Every day, six women are raped, sexually harassed or are forced into marriage to a Muslim under threat of death due to their Christian faith. Research for the World Watch List documented 2,260 such incidences against women—and this number only covers those who had the courage to report such an incident, representing only a fraction of those actually raped and harassed in this way. Throughout this year, we’ve shared numerous stories of women, such as Debora in Nigeria, Rana in Iraq and Workitu in Ethiopia martyred for her faith, who have experienced dual persecution because they 1) believe in Jesus and 2) because they are female.

The overall numbers signal an increase in violence–especially against women, says Open Doors USA CEO David Curry. “It’s imperative we continue to advocate and call leaders to prioritize issues of religious freedom.” (source)

The report noted that while Christian persecution is most severe in Pakistan and Islamic violence remains the primary driving force of Christian persecution. It said that six countries saw a dramatic increase in persecution of Christians, of which five of them are Muslim- Egypt, Libya, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Turkey. However, there was one exception to this list, and that is India. Additionally, the report noted that the cause of the persecution in India was religious nationalism.

This fits with the assessment we gave during our 2017 end of the year summary for our major stories and trends of 2017 to watch going into the next year in which we wrote:

Christians are suffering persecution all around the world. However, a major nation to watch in the years coming is India because plans are actively under way by Hindu Nationalists to exterminate all non-Hindus and create a Hindu ethnostate no different than what Germany and Japan attempted to do centuries ago. These plans have been confirmed by both Christians as well as former Hindu Nationalists involved in creating them yet nobody is discussing them. Shoebat.com is the first and only website to systematically identify and outline the plans of these Hindu nationalists and call for Christians to prepare to help their Indian brothers as their lives will need it in the coming years. (source)

The fact remains that Muslim persecution of Christians is the single greatest cause of Christian persecution throughout the world by an indisputable measure. However, this does not mean that Christians persecuted in other areas should be ignored. At the same time, the persecution of Christians at the hands of ethnonationalist Hindus fits with the trend that Shoebat.com has been following in the west, which is the like rise of ethnonationalist paganism that is inherently anti-Christian and is being increasingly defined by anti-Christian pagans. While the form is different and the state of advancement might be delayed, the “alt-right movement” is simply a tool and will go down as such in history books as the vehicle by which ethnonationalism and the inevitable persecution of Christians that will follow was introduced and normalized to the people. What is happening in India is an extension of this.

According to official statistics from the Indian government, there are approximately 24 million Christians in India, or the population of both Kazakhstan and Libya put together. As the report noted, India is not yet in the top 10 nations for persecution, but in the duration of one year it went from #15 to #11. If trends continue at the rate they are, and currently they are, India will be in the top 10 nations where Christians are persecuted and will along with North Korea be the only one whose persecution does not come from the enforcement of Islamic theology by Muslims.
Additionally, another interesting point was that according to statistics, 6 Christian women each day are sexually assaulted worldwide as part of the persecution of Christians that is a way of life in so many areas in the world. While these statistics are terrible and certainly not something to boast about, there is hope, for thanks to your help, Rescue Christians was able to report that we have been able to Rescue an average of 5 to 6 Christians each day, EVERY day, from slavery. This could not have been accomplished without the assistance of many people who have supported us in this important and life-saving ministry.
It has scarcely been two weeks into 2018 and already Christian persecution has been making headlines in the news around the world with all of the horrors that defines it. There is much work ahead this year, and given the political and social climates with rising and institutionalized hatred of Christianity done in the name of race, “tolerance” or other popularized ideas, much preparatory work that needs to be done to prepare for the persecution in the years to come.

Democrats Use Trump’s ‘Shithole’ Comment to Blow Up Amnesty Talks
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President Donald Trump shot down an amnesty plan offered by Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and several GOP Senators, prompting amnesty-advocates to wreck the amnesty talks by leaking Trump’s Oval Office “sh*thole” description of undeveloped countries.
The report said:

President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they floated restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to two people briefed on the meeting.

“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump said, according to these people, referring to African countries and Haiti. He then suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from countries like Norway, whose prime minister he met yesterday.

The comments left lawmakers taken aback, according to people familiar with their reactions. Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) proposed cutting the visa lottery program by 50 percent and then prioritizing countries already in the system, a White House official said.

The amnesty-plus plan was developed by Durbin and several pro-amnesty GOP Senators, including Sen. Cory Gardner from Colorado. The plan would provide an unpopular amnesty to more than one million illegals, preserve future chain-migration and also provide an amnesty to the illegal-immigrant parents who brought their children — dubbed ‘dreamers’ by Democrats — to the United States.

The Washington Post‘s story is based on a leak, likely from Durbin’s team. That leak suggests that Durbin and his allies do not expect to make a deal that they can sell to their base. Without that deal, the Democrats are using Trump’s “sh*thole” comment to blame his supposed racism for their failure to persuade Trump to abandon his base by accepting a big amnesty.

The White House released a statement after the Washington Post article was published. The statement did not deny the comment about less-developed countries, but promised an immigration policy which helps Americans and legal immigrants:
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The amnesty advocates had hoped to persuade Trump via a many-on-one lobbying session, but White House officials quickly invited pro-American supporters to attend their pitch. The Trump supporters at the event included Georgia Sen. David Perdue, co-author of the pro-American RAISE Act. His aide tweeted:
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"Today I went to the White House to stand firm with President Trump.
We've been crystal clear: chain migration must end--Period.
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The meeting also included Sen. Tom Cotton and Rep. Bob Goodlatte, who has drafted an immigration-and-small-amnesty bill that has already won Trump’s approval.
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Trump semi-endorses House immigration bill, which cuts chain migration, ends visa lottery, changes laws to end catch & release at the border, and provide non-citizenship work-permit to 670k DACA illegals. Business is unhappy. http://bit.ly/2AOKMV7



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Goodlatte’s bill has been applauded by House Speaker Paul Ryan, but Ryan has not yet announced if he plans to schedule a debate and vote.

Polls show that Trump’s American-first immigration policy is very popular. For example, a poll of likely 2018 voters shows two-to-one voter support for Trump’s pro-American immigration policies, and a lopsided four-to-one opposition against the cheap-labor, mass-immigration, economic policy pushed by bipartisan establishment-backed D.C. interest-groups.

Business groups and Democrats tout the misleading, industry-funded “Nation of Immigrants” polls which pressure Americans to say they welcome migrants, including the roughly 670,000 ‘DACA’ illegals and the roughly 3.25 million ‘dreamer’ illegals.
The alternative “priority or fairness” polls — plus the 2016 election — show that voters in the polling booth put a much higher priority on helping their families, neighbors, and fellow nationals get decent jobs in a high-tech, high-immigration, low-wage economy.
Four million Americans turn 18 each year and begin looking for good jobs in the free market.
But the federal government inflates the supply of new labor by annually accepting 1 million new legal immigrants, by providing work-permits to roughly 3 million resident foreigners, and by doing little to block the employment of roughly 8 million illegal immigrants.
The Washington-imposed economic policy of economic growth via mass-immigration floods the market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.

The cheap-labor policy has also reduced investment and job creation in many interior states because the coastal cities have a surplus of imported labor. For example, almost 27 percent of zip codes in Missouri had fewer jobs or businesses in 2015 than in 2000, according to a new report by the Economic Innovation Group. In Kansas, almost 29 percent of zip codes had fewer jobs and businesses in 2015 compared to 2000, which was a two-decade period of massive cheap-labor immigration.
Because of the successful cheap-labor strategy, wages for men have remained flat since 1973, and a large percentage of the nation’s annual income has shifted to investors and away from employees.
CNN’s Lemon: ‘The President of the United States Is Racist — A Lot of Us Already Knew That’
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Thursday on “CNN Tonight,” host Don Lemon derided President Donald Trump, declaring him a “racist” for the remarks he made describing certain countries as “shitholes” that were leaked and relayed by a Washington Post report.
“The president of the United States is racist,” Lemon proclaimed. “A lot of us already knew that.”
“I have to admit, I was not shocked that Donald Trump reportedly called the majority of black and Hispanic countries or continents ‘shitholes,’” he continued. “I wasn’t shocked. I’m really not outraged by it. I’m tired of being outraged, as a matter of fact. I’ve been outraged too many times. It’s more important to be strategic than to be outraged … Otherwise, it becomes a sky-is-falling situation every time he says something dumb or stupid or racist.”



Paul Ryan Called Trump’s ‘Shithole’ Controversy ‘Very Unfortunate, Unhelpful’
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House Speaker Paul Ryan called President Donald Trump’s alleged comment referring to African countries and Haiti as “shithole countries,” “very unfortunate, unhelpful” at a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee event on Friday.
House Speaker Ryan reacted to the president’s alleged comments on Friday, saying, “The first thing that came to my mind was very unfortunate, unhelpful, but you know what I thought of right away? Family. My family, like a whole of people, came from Ireland and worked the railroads.”
“It is a beautiful story of America. So I see this as something to celebrate,” Ryan added.
According to the Washington Post, Trump described countries such as Haiti, El Salvador, as well as Africa as “shithole countries.”
Trump allegedly said, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” The president reportedly then added that America should have more people from Norway and other similar countries come to America.

President Trump admitted that he used “tough language during his immigration reform meeting, however, he argued that the comments were not accurate.

Trump tweeted on Friday, “The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made – a big setback for DACA!”
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The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made - a big setback for DACA!
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The president added, “Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said “take them out.” Made up by Dems. I have a wonderful relationship with Haitians. Probably should record future meetings – unfortunately, no trust!”
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Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said “take them out.” Made up by Dems. I have a wonderful relationship with Haitians. Probably should record future meetings - unfortunately, no trust!
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Speaker Ryan added that he remains committed to a fix to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) illegal aliens. Ryan said on Friday, “We need to fix DACA that (A) gets strong bipartisan support, that (B) does it in a thorough way so that we do not have another DACA problem five to ten years down the road. We do not want to fix the symptom and ignore the cause. (C), you have a security component that has a DACA fix, and that gets you bipartisan support in the negotiation.”
“Ultimately, I think we should go to a merit-based immigration system,” Ryan argued.
The Wisconsin Republican also contended that he does not want to see a DACA fix attached to a government spending bill. Ryan also said that he does not believe that we will see a government shutdown later this month.
Speaker Ryan said, “No we won’t do that. That’s because that’s just not good government.


Tucker Carlson on Trump’s ‘Shithole’ Comment: ‘Trump Said Something That Almost Every Single Person in America Actually Agrees With’
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Thursday on his Fox News Channel show, Tucker Carlson reacted to President Donald Trump’s reported reference to “shithole countries” and the criticism the president has received in response.
Carlson defended Trump, saying the comments are something “that almost every single person in America agrees with.”
Partial transcript as follows:
Today, as you doubtless heard, during immigration talks, President Trump said something that almost every single person in America actually agrees with.
An awful lot of immigrants come to this country from places that aren’t very nice. Those places are dangerous, they’re dirty, they’re corrupt and they’re poor, and that’s the main reason those immigrants are trying to come here and you would, too, if you live there.
President Trump asked why America doesn’t receive immigrants from places you might want to visit on vacation. Why aren’t we getting more people from Norway, he said, which by almost any measure, including the UN’s measures, is the most developed and richest country in the world.
While saying this, Trump used an expletive, and that’s not surprising either since he uses them all the time and was speaking privately. And yet, for some reason, virtually, everyone in Washington, New York and LA considered this a major, major event. Why is that?
Trump has since hinted he did not use such “tough language” during his immigration reform meeting.






Durbin: Term ‘Chain Migration’ Painful to African-Americans Because They Migrated to U.S. in Chains
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Friday, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) backed up a Washington Post report claiming President Donald Trump referred to certain nations as “shithole countries” in a bipartisan meeting Trump held with members of Congress on immigration policy.

Durbin’s remarks were made to reporters and captured by MSNBC’s camera.

Durbin also criticized Trump for his use of the term “chain migration” because according to the Senate Minority Whip, it was offensive to African-Americans that “migrated” to the United States chains.

Partial transcript as follows:

In the course of his comments of said things which were hate-filled, vile and racist — he used those words. I understand how powerful they are. But I cannot believe that in the history of the White House, in that Oval Office, any president has ever spoken words that I personally heard our president speak yesterday.

You’ve seen the comments in the press. I’ve not read one of them that’s inaccurate. To no surprise, the president started tweeting this morning, denying that he used those words. It is not true. He said these hate-filled things. And he said them repeatedly. When the question was raised about Haitians, for example, we have a group that have temporary protected status in the United States because they were the victims of crises and disasters and political upheaval. The largest group’s El Salvadorians. The second is Honduran and the third is Haitian.

When I mentioned that fact to him, he said, “Haitians, do we need more Haitians?” Then he went on and started to describe the immigration from Africa that was being protected in this bipartisan measure. That’s when he used these vile and vulgar comments, calling the nations they come from “shitholes,” The exact word used by the president — not just once but repeatedly.

That was the nature of this conversation. When it came to the issue of, quote, “chain migration,” I said to the president, do you realize how painful that term is to so many people? African-Americans believe they migrated to America in chains and when you talk about chain migration, it hurts them personally.

He said, “Oh, that’s a good line.” And then when I talked to him about the impact this has on family unification in a nation that values families with the flag as the most important symbols of our future, they scoffed at this notion. It was a heartbreaking moment. But I will tell you this, I’m not going to quit. I have a singular mission. And the mission is this: To give these DREAMers and as many members of their families as possible a chance to be part of America’s future in a legal status.

I am convinced that there’s a majority in both the House and the Senate of Democrats and Republicans who support that concept. I know there’s an overwhelming majority of Americans who support that concept.
So here’s what we’re going to do: We’re going to prepare our bipartisan agreement for introduction into the Senate next week. If the Republican leadership has a better alternative, bring it forward. If they don’t, for goodness sakes, give us a vote. I’ll be on the phone today with my Republican colleagues and my Democratic colleagues begging them to support this measure.
Time is running out. We have to get this done. I thought we might get a bipartisan agreement approved by the White House, died yesterday. We have to do this and show leadership in Congress to solve this important challenge.



Watch: Durbin Used ‘Chain’ Migration Term That He Now Claims is Racist in White House Immigration Meeting
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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) used the term “chain” migration in a White House immigration meeting, despite now denouncing President Trump’s use of the term, which is used to describe the process where newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. with them.
Durbin told the media on Friday that he reprimanded Trump for using the term “chain migration” in immigration negotiations, claiming it was associated with racism, despite the Illinois senator just this week also using the term.
Durbin said in an interview:
That was the nature of this conversation. When it came to the issue of, quote, “chain migration,” I said to the president, do you realize how painful that term is to so many people? African-Americans believe they migrated to America in chains and when you talk about chain migration, it hurts them personally. [Emphasis added]
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Durbin, though, just days ago, used the exact term in a meeting at the White House where he sat next to Trump to negotiate the terms of an immigration deal.

Durbin said during the White House meeting:

You said at the outset that we need to phase this. I think the first phase is what Chuck and Steny and I have mentioned, and others as well: We have a deadline looming and a lot of lives hanging. We can agree on some very fundamental and important things together on border security, on chain, on the future of diversity visas. Comprehensive, though, I worked on it for six months with Michael Bennet, and a number of — Bob Menendez, and Schumer, and McCain, and Jeff Flake — and it took us six months to put it together. We don’t have six months for the DACA bill. [Emphasis added]

Chain migration accurately describes the process by which one newly arrived immigrant to the U.S. has been able to create a never-ending chain of immigration, as foreign relatives sponsor one another to come to the country in a number of relative visa categories.
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According to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data, about 9.3 million foreign nationals have come to the U.S. as chain migrants between 2005 and 2016. In that same time period, a total of 13.06 million foreign nationals have entered the U.S. through the legal immigration system, as every seven out of ten new arrivals come to the country for nothing other than family reunification.
This makes chain migration the largest driver of immigration to the U.S. — making up more than 70 percent — with every two new immigrants bringing seven foreign relatives with them.
As Breitbart News reported, five years of chain migration to the U.S. adds more people to the country than one year of American births
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Project Veritas Video Shows Former Twitter Employees Discussing ‘Shadow Banning’ Users
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The latest video from James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas shows Twitter employees appearing to admit that the platform has “shadow banned” users in the past, and applies its rules and censorship algorithms unevenly in an effort to rid the platform of Trump supporters and conservatives.
In the video, which corroborates previous Breitbart Tech reporting, a former content review agent for Twitter, Mo Norai, appears to admit to banning accounts for political reasons.
“Let’s say if it was a pro-Trump thin and I’m anti-Trump. I was like, I banned this whole account.”
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Twitter Engineer Admits to Banning Accounts that Express Interest in God, Guns, and America
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Twitter direct messaging engineer Pranay Singh admitted to mass-banning accounts that express interest in God, guns, and America, during a Project Veritas investigation.
“Just go to a random [Trump] tweet and just look at the followers. They’ll all be like, guns, God, ‘Merica, and with the American flag and the cross,” declared Singh, who was secretly recorded by Project Veritas reporters. “Like, who says that? Who talks like that? It’s for sure a bot.”
After being asked whether he could get rid of the accounts, he replied, “Yeah. You just delete them, but, like, the problem is there are hundreds of thousands of them, so you’ve got to, like, write algorithms that do it for you.”
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Seal Accuses Oprah Winfrey of Enabling Harvey Weinstein: You Are ‘Part of the Problem’
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Grammy-winning singer Seal blasted Oprah Winfrey in a searing post to his Instagram account Thursday, accusing the billionaire media mogul and potential 2020 presidential candidate of being “part of the problem” in Hollywood’s culture of sexual harassment and abuse.
The 54-year-old “Kiss from a Rose” singer called out Winfrey for her relationship with disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein, who has been accused of harassing and abusing dozens of women over a decades-long career in Hollywood.
Winfrey made two films with Weinstein’s involvement, including 2013’s Lee Daniels’s The Butler and 2007’s The Great Debaters, and can be seen in online photos embracing the fallen mogul.
“Oh I forgot, that’s right… you’d heard the rumors but you had no idea he was actually serially assaulting young starry-eyed actresses who in turn had no idea what they were getting into,” Seal wrote on his Instagram account. “My bad.”
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Leaked Memo: DACA Amnesty Is ‘Critical Component of Democratic Party’s Future Electoral Success’
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by JOHN BINDER11 Jan 2018Washington, D.C. 10,031
A leaked memo from the left-wing organization, the Center for American Progress Action Fund, admits that passing an amnesty for the nearly 800,000 illegal aliens shielded from deportation by the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is “a critical component of the Democratic Party’s future electoral success.”
According to the memo sent to Democrats, which is co-authored by former Hillary Clinton official Jennifer Palmieri, the Democratic Party is relying on a DACA amnesty deal — that President Trump seems more open to now than ever before — in order to ensure future wins in Congressional and presidential elections.
The memo states:
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Pelosi: Companies Giving Bonuses After Tax Cut ‘Pathetic,’ ‘Insignificant’
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Thursday at her weekly press conference, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said the companies announcing wage increases and bonuses in light of the Republican tax bill were “so pathetic.”
Pelosi said, “The number of bonuses that were given, one of the bonuses was already in a union contract, and they added a little more money to that. That same firm just told their employees that they were going to be laying off 1,500 people and if they want to save their jobs, they could all start working 32 hours in those communities.”
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New Website Exposes Driving Histories
9:06am Tuesday, Nov 15, 2016
as told to Meredith K. - sponsored by Truthfinder
Every single time that you get into a car, you are potentially risking your life. There is a car accident every 30 seconds in the U.S., and drunk driving accounts for the vast majority of crashes. If you think most car accidents are just inconsequential fender benders, think again: In 2012 alone, over 25,000 Americans died from fatal car crashes. Fortunately, you don't have to let these sobering statistics scare you away from ever getting behind the wheel again.
Until recently, most people didn't know that driving infractions and tickets could easily be seen by just about anyone online.
A new online tool called "Truthfinder" lets you review anyone's driving records, before you get in the car with them. Now you can find out if the parent driving your kid to school in the weekly carpool has ever been busted for DUI. Until recently, most people didn't know that driving infractions and tickets could easily be seen by just about anyone online. Trying to keep those speeding tickets hidden from family and friends just became virtually impossible!
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Winning: Walmart Raises Wages, Gives Bonuses to Over One Million Employees Thanks to Tax Reform
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by SEAN MORAN11 Jan 20185,498
Walmart will provide a one-time bonus, raise wages, and expand benefits to their employees in response to President Donald Trump signing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
“Today, we are building on investments we’ve been making in associates, in their wages and skills development,” said Doug McMillon, Walmart president and chief executive officer, on Thursday “It’s our people who make the difference and we appreciate how they work hard to make every day easier for busy families.”
Walmart plans to increase its employees’ starting wage to $11 an hour, expand maternity and paternal leave benefits, as well as provide a one-time cash bonus up to $1,000. The company added that they will offer financial assistance to their associates who decide to adopt a child; the credit will total $5,000 per child and may be used for expenses such as adoption agency fees, translation fees, and legal costs.
The combined wage and benefit increases will impact well over one million Walmart employees. McMillon added:
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Democrats Use Trump’s ‘Shithole’ Comment to Blow Up Amnesty Talks
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by NEIL MUNRO11 Jan 201844,316
President Donald Trump shot down an amnesty plan offered by Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and several GOP Senators, prompting amnesty-advocates to wreck the amnesty talks by leaking Trump’s Oval Office “sh*thole” description of undeveloped countries.
The report said:
President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they floated restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to two people briefed on the meeting.
“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump said, according to these people, referring to African countries and Haiti. He then suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from countries like Norway, whose prime minister he met yesterday.
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‘Scientific American’: Climate Change May Have Helped Spark Iran’s Protests
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by ADELLE NAZARIAN11 Jan 20182,084
A recent article in the Scientific American titled “Climate Change May Have Helped Spark Iran’s Protests” suggests climate – not Iran’s active export of terrorism and neglect of its civilian population – is responsible for the second consecutive week of protests in the Islamic Republic.
“The impacts of climate change are among the environmental challenges facing Iran that helped spark protests in dozens of cities across the Islamic republic,” the publication wrote.
At least 22 people have died during the protests, which began on December 28. One young man, 23-year-old Sina Ghanbari, reportedly died while in custody at Iran’s notorious Evin Prison.
Protesters have cited inflation, the regime’s egregious human rights record, and its decision to allocate valuable resources to exporting terrorism and fighting unnecessary wars in Syria, Iraq, and Libya, instead of focusing on their population at home as the reasons for their uprising.
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2018 Will Prove To Be The Year For Jerusalem To Spark The Nations To War. The Time Is Near And War Is On The Horizon.
by Shoebat Foundation on January 5, 2018 in Featured, General, Highlight
By Walid Shoebat (Early Sunday Special)

In spite of Trump’s comments on Jerusalem, only seven countries — other than Israel and the U.S. — voted in line with Washington’s interests: Togo, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Marshall Islands, Guatemala and Honduras.

Only seven insignificant nations decided to support Jerusalem being the sole property of Israel while the rest of the world through the United Nations either abstained or went against it.

Then to add more, Israel’s parliament snubbed the world and passed a law on Tuesday that bars ceding any part of Jerusalem to a foreign power without the approval of a supermajority of lawmakers, a move that will lead the nations to resort in the future to take east Jerusalem by force:

“And I will gather all nations to Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken, and the houses shall be rifled, and the women shall be defiled: and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the rest of the people shall not be taken away out of the city.” (Zechariah 14:2)

And archeology is also yielding treasures that increase the tensions over the contested city’s governance and control; seven pieces of archeological evidences that were discovered which prove that Jews governed Jerusalem 2700 years ago.


The ancient coin-shaped artifact was the seventh found during excavations in the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem’s Old City this week


The seventh seal, a stamped piece of clay is an artifact from Israel’s First Temple period (1006–586 B.C.) that was owned by the governor of the city of Jerusalem – the highest-ranking local title held in the city during biblical times nearly 3,000 years ago.

Governors of Jerusalem, appointed by the king, are mentioned twice in 2 Kings, which refers to Joshua holding the position, and in 2 Chronicles, which mentions Masseiah in the post during the reign of Josiah.

The small object portrays two men in striped robes facing each other above the Hebrew inscription that reads “lesar ha’air.”

When Turkey’s Erdogan insists to make Jerusalem the capital of an Ottoman caliphate, he is simply fulfilling scripture and proving its claim. God clearly said that He will “make Jerusalem a trembling cup to all the surrounding peoples” (Zechariah 12:2).

The fight over Jerusalem, Erdogan proves, is over beautiful Jerusalem and not the arid Mecca. They even contribute in the coming of Christ: “So shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.” (Isaiah 31:4)

The Bible clearly predicts that before Christ’s second coming that Judea will be governed by Jews “In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood” (Zechariah 12:6). Israel will recapture the city after Christ returns “And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced” (v.10).

Only then will Israel recognize her Messiah.

People search for evidence of God, yet such proof is everywhere. Was Israel established by a people who were interested in self-fulfilling biblical prophecies? Was Jerusalem recaptured in 1967 because Jews wanted to self-fulfill biblical prophecy?

This is a Jesus style question that is not easily answered by naysayers. For Israel to self-fulfill this prophecy about gaining east Jerusalem, one must answer: how was such prophecy self-fulfilled by the Jews?

It was a war declared on Israel which Israel won in the 1967 Six Day War and as a result East Jerusalem was given to Israel. If one insists about self-fulfilling prophecies, it was the Muslim Arabs who accomplished such mission. After two thousand years, East Jerusalem was back in the hands of the Jewish people, just like the Bible said it would be (Zechariah 12:6). The Bible also predicts Jerusalem’s soon-coming war to force the division of Jerusalem.

While the world accuses God’s people of being apocalyptic, in reality, it is God’s enemies who usher in the fulfillment of biblical prophecies.

In other words, these prove the very thing they are trying to debunk.

But there is another issue to deal with: Christians who do not support God’s plan, that Jerusalem is for the Jews.

These need to visit the Temple Mount and read what is written on the Dome of the Rock: “Far be it from God that he should have a son!” These words encircle the inside of the Dome of the Rock Mosque in Jerusalem.

Is this the side to take?

The Christian will argue that the Jews too, like the Muslims do not see Jesus as “the Son of God”.

True. However, the Muslim book has no historic link to any concept of God having a son while the Jewish book does. Ancient Judaism and Christianity had very similar interpretation when it comes to the Messiah. People of ancient Israel during the temple era were not your typical followers of today’s ‘rabbinic Judaism’. In those times they clearly recognized that God did have a Son, even if they didn’t fully understand it. In ancient Israel, the Son, was understood as being the promised Messiah and today much effort is put by rabbinic Judaism to allegorize the ‘son’ as Israel/Jacob and his suffering.

But if one is to understand how ancient Israel understood the Messianic passages one needs to read the ancient sources that reveal how Jews interpreted scripture in the Targums. So if one reviews today’s rabbinic Judaism regarding, lets say, Isaiah 9:6, they would gymnastically claim its regarding Hezekiah. However, according to Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Isaiah 9:6 is interpreted,

“The prophet saith to the house of David, ‘A child has been born to us, a son has been given to us; and He has taken the Law upon Himself to keep it, and His name has been called from old, Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, He who lives forever, the Messiah, in whose days peace shall increase upon us.'”

So here are the ancient Jews clearly attributing these titles to the Messiah and not Hezekiah. While Hezekiah is a partial fulfillment, he is not the ultimate fulfillment. The wise must include the depth and types and different facets on how God hits several birds with one stone.

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan interprets Micah 5:2 like this:

“Out of thee Bethlehem shall Messiah go forth before me to exercise dominion over Israel . . . he whose name was mentioned from before, from the days of creation.”

The ancients recognized that Messiah will come from Bethlehem. And if the Jew today is awaiting a messianic coming, and his Messiah is to be a Jew born in Bethlehem, such a Messiah would be Palestinian, since there are no Jews living in Bethlehem today.

There is another problem for the Jews who deny Jesus as Messiah. It was widely recognized in ancient Israel the Jews would retain the ability to govern Israel and only when the Messiah comes will they lose the scepter:

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh come: And unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be. (Genesis 49:10)

So who is this Shiloh? It is the Messiah. In other words, Jews will rule Israel and will not lose the kingly scepter until the Messiah comes. Well, Israel lost the scepter two millennia ago. So the Messiah must have come already.

Yet if one examines the interpretations from before Christ came, they agree with Christianity. In Targum Onkelos Gen 49.10 is interpreted:

“The transmission of dominion shall not cease from the house of Judah, nor the scribe from his children’s children, forever, until the Messiah comes, to whom the Kingdom belongs, and whom nations will obey.”

This ‘Shiloh’ is the Messiah, the rightly ruler of Israel whom the scepter belongs to.

In fact, both the Targums and the New Testament disambiguate the messianic texts of the Old Testament. The Targums truly open the window for us to see how the ancient fathers, the temple era Jews viewed the scripture. As it turns out, it is different from what we see in today’s ‘rabbinic judaism’.

Indeed there are allegories, but there are also plain literals. Detractors will always use one interpretation while excluding the other meaning. This is how a detractor is usually recognized. He is a dog with a single bone in his mouth. He chews on it. He buries it. He sustains his life on it even though it has no meat.

Throughout the Targums, most often, they do not interpret the “Son” as rabbinic Judaism does today, where they switch the ‘son’ to mean ‘Israel’. In the Targums it is not ambiguous. The “Son”, the “suffering servant” “Shiloh” “Mighty God” … are all interpreted as “the Messiah”.

So in essence, the way to recognize truth from error is to compare by taking oneself back to history and compare one’s religious practices and interpretations back to the Holy Spirit guided fathers. For a Jew today, they need to compare how Jews viewed scripture and tradition in a time before their temple was destroyed. Keep in mind that without a temple there is no Judaism.

For a Christian, to evaluate oneself, imagine yourself sitting with Policarp and discussing your worship services/interpretations and compare notes.

But there is always a divide between the true and the false, the virgins with oil and the virgins without, and that is; a continual successive set of interpretations prior to any major schism. In other words, if the lid does not match the pot, it should be rejected.

2 Chronicles is perhaps the most ignored book of the Bible, yet it packs much prophetic meaning regarding this point. It elaborates on Abijah’s pre-battle speech in 2 Chronicles 13 (a war between Abijah and Jeroboam) which in itself is a prophecy that gives us some insight on how to recognize God’s true ordinances and how the church will split. Abijah said of Israel when it departed from Judah’s true practice:

And they [Judah] burn unto the Lord every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the Lord our God; but ye have forsaken him. (2 Chronicles 13:11)

Jeroboam selected priests who had no succession and were not descendants of the priestly authority of Levi (1 Kgs 13:33). Abijah reminds that a true form of worship had incense and shewbread and an altar “pure table”. The shewbread is the bread of the presence that God is with us.

Such verses are also prophetic regarding the divide within Christendom. There is a true form of worship with the Eucharist being a pillar of our faith and is set as a perpetual sacrifice forever. The split between north and south in ancient Israel is also paralleled by a split in Christendom’s south versus north and the further corruptions and defections from within the church.

Abijah condemned Jeroboam and all the northern tribes of Israel for driving out the priests of the LORD. Similarily the two forms of Christianity today are very clustered with Protestantism dominant in the north and Catholicism in the south. One (protestantism) split from the normal forms of worship that was recognized by the fathers. One can say that the north represents the northern kingdom of Israel. When the reformation swept through Northern Europe, it disrupted the delicate balance of power. Many nobles went for the church’s throat and dissolved the priesthood, especially in England where persecuting the priests was rampant. This is reminiscent to what Abijah said: “But didnt you drive out the priests of the LORD” (2 Chronicles 13:9).

This is exactly what happened throughout northern Europe.



All one has to do is search the scriptures for “north” and see how God divides north from south to even proclaim through Ezekiel, Zechariah and Joel that God’s enemies come from the north, while Christ comes with “the whirlwind of the south” (see Zechariah 9:13) Armageddon is definitely a divide between south and north.

Abijah is also a type of Messiah. He reveals how Christ will settle these issues when He comes. Christ sent Peter and Paul to Rome. We have the entire book (the Book of Romans) to prove it where Paul blessed Rome and prophesied that it will be called “the city of saints”. There, Christ established the center of Christendom. Yet like northern Israel did when Bethel became the center, Protestants made Geneva their center. They abandoned Rome. Abijah complained regarding northern Israel on how the services were conducted by self-appointed priests who had no succession and introduced wrong iconography. Also, Jeroboam’s kingship was illegitimate. So the cult at Bethel was not considered heterodox and did not follow a succession.

In other words, God is in the details.

The lesson for the wise is to monitor the changing face of Christian worship.

The Sacrifice of the Mass all have roots in the Bible and are the consistent practice of the earliest Christians.

And if one complains how Israel sins for not interpreting their Bible correctly, all one has to do is to review how many Christians also interpret the same book, incorrectly. Many Christians argue over the Bible saying that in many verses, “Israel” and “Jerusalem” are not literal. They point that these strictly signify the church. But the wise can see an assortments of allegory and literal. Sure, we can see that when God mentions Israel He also by extension is speaking of His people, the gentile Christians (God’s people). One can review these prophecies about Jerusalem and see that Christendom is falling away and “Jerusalem” has become “Sodom and Egypt”. Today we see a widespread of homosexuality and paganism no different from the golden calves set up by Jeroboam in northern Israel.

But such religious observation stems from ancient Egypt. This is very similar from what we observe rising today in what once was Christendom. How many of us are astonished these days to witness what we witness. We could have never imagined the decaying world we live in today.

And so we must ask: did Christendom fair better than ancient Israel? They in fact are repeating the same exact sins.


The paganism that stemmed from ancient Egypt whether now, or from the ancient times in northern Israel, will soon be dealt with by Christ. Isaiah 19 speaks of this ‘Egypt’:

Behold, the Lord rides on a swift cloud,
And will come into Egypt;
The idols of Egypt will totter at His presence,
And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst

So is this “Egypt” strictly “Egypt” or is it speaking of the world steeped into the paganism of Egypt?

It is perhaps both. When it comes to scripture the best answer is “C” (all of the above).

Europe and many of the slavs are veering away from Christ’s church returning back in masse to pre-Christian paganism just as John predicted in Revelations. Their form of religion is all derived from Egypt. Why?

After all, what better place than Egypt’s preserved history (Egyptology) can these relearn about paganism?

Isaiah 19 speaks of neopaganism spread from Egyptian mythology which will be the hallmark of the world prior to Christ’s coming. The ultra-nationalist movements from Europe all the way to slavic nations derive from Thor, the sun god in Norse mythology was also the Egyptian Osiris and Kneph, the Phœnician Bel or Baal, and it is accepted freely when slavic neopagans call upon the same God when they invoke Perun.

The American and European Alt-Right’s obsession with a mythical ancient Egyptian deity, Kek, is also Egyptian, while “the Hindus, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Celts have all yielded striking comparisons [to each other], and the Norse Gods display significant resemblances to members of other pantheons” (A History of the Vikings, Oxford University Press, P.p, 319).

These are the days we live in. And the rest of Isaiah 19 warns of impending civil war where city will fight against city and neighborhood against neighborhood and nation against nation. The world including the west will witness tremendous civil unrest.

The wise few need to take heed and prepare. They need not to fall for the fads of history. Israel lost its nation for focusing more on nationalism instead of observing their Messiah’s coming. God did not spare them and had Jerusalem studded with crucifixes as far as the eye can see.

The unwise virgins without oil simply focus on one aspect of interpreting scripture while they ignore the other. A confused virgin interprets Israel as strictly ‘the Church’ and the other confused virgin interprets Israel ‘without the Church’.

One says Zion is Israel, and nothing else, and the other says that Zion is the Church and nothing more. Each side argues with a half truth while missing the most crucial event: His second coming.

The virgins that miss this one are locked out without a honeymoon. Such are the virgins with lamps, but without oil. In other words, one can carry a Bible (carry a lamp) but he could be completely blind since his lamp is not lit.

There is a Jerusalem on earth and then there is a Jerusalem from above. God made a deal with Abraham and He will keep it. In Ezekiel 36 God promised to bring Israel back to the land. Many argue ‘how could this be if they reject Christ’?

Yet God answers and says that He will bring the Jews back with a clarification:

“I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name’s sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.” (Ezekiel 36:22-25).

This proclamation reads like a newspaper. It is as clear as the sun and needs little or no interpretation. “Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you”. God will ‘sprinkle clean water’ on the Jews. Here it is mass baptism by sprinkling, not dunking.

Why so many foolish people make an issue about dunking versus sprinkling is beyond me. Why so many focus on the stiff necked Jews as being ‘stiff-necked’? God will soon soften these stiff necks by persecution through the Muslim sword.

Persecution is the greatest blessing for God’s people. It is Christ Who will take away the heart of stone out of the Jew, not us. It is not for us to decide their fate. “I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.”

In the meanwhile, we should all work on our own hearts.

For decades, East Jerusalem, especially the 144,000 square meter estate known as the Temple Mount was seen as the future capital of a Palestinian state. How could anyone deny that God exists when He promised that only 144,000 meters out of 196.9 million square meters become the bone of contention for the whole earth?

This land is .0007% of the whole earth.

It perhaps represents the ratio of who enters this ‘narrow gate’ and indeed it is extremely narrow.

Last month, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution criticising America’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and launch the process of transporting its embassy there. The move radically reversed decades of US policy in the region and the majority of observers said it would hinder attempts to establish peace in the Middle East.

But who is objecting? Turkey and the Muslim nations believe that a caliphate is the only legitimate power to rule over Jerusalem. These insist that Trump yield and give Jerusalem to them. In other words what we see is that Christendom is yielding to Islamdom. There is no other way to explain it.

It is practically the whole earth that is going after a false peace and are ‘dividing the land for gain’ (Daniel 11:39). But this is the hallmark of Antichrist. All this while we continue to witness the great falling away which comes first, before Christ comes and judges these nations. With Jerusalem on the mind of nations, the time is nearing and war is on the horizon.
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1400 Iraqi Christians Saved From Certain Death At The Hands Of Islamic Terrorists After US Federal Judge Blocks Deportation Order
by Andrew Bieszad on January 4, 2018 in Featured, General
Last year, President Trump’s series of deportation orders affected thousands of Christians living in the USA, with many of those affected being refugees from Islamic violence in their native lands. In Detroit, 1400 Christians were arrested and threatened with being forcibly repatriated to Iraq.
Thanks to a Federal judge not only has the deportation order been stopped, but the Federal Government has been ordered to give them a bond hearing, and if they do not receive one by February 2nd, they will be ordered to be released according to a report:
A U.S. district judge in Detroit ruled on Tuesday against part of President Donald Trump’s deportations initiative by stating that hundreds of Iraqi nationals, many of them Christians, that were detained earlier this year must either be released, or granted bond hearings.
“Our legal tradition rejects warehousing human beings while their legal rights are being determined, without an opportunity to persuade a judge that the norm of monitored freedom should be followed,” U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith said, according to The Associated Press.
Authorities must release detainees who do not get a bond hearing by February 2, unless they pose a public safety risk, the judge ruled.
Back in July, Goldsmith halted deportation orders for as many as 1,400 Iraqis in America, some with past criminal convictions, arguing that their lives are at stake if they are sent back home.
“Without a stay in place, deportations will begin immediately, which may mean a death sentence for some deportees,” the court found at the time.
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Man Asked To Watch Eight-Year-Old Girl Instead Forces Her To Take Meth And Marijuana, Then He Sodomizes Her
by Andrew Bieszad on January 4, 2018 in Featured, General
A man was arrested after he was asked to watch an eight-year-old girl for several hours and instead during that time gave the girl meth and marijuana and then sodomized her according to a report:
A Missouri man admitted to raping an 8-year-old girl and forcing her to eat methamphetamines and smoke cigarettes and marijuana, according to local media reports.
Brett Pendleton, 48, has been charged with statutory sodomy or attempted sodomy and endangering the welfare of a child, according to court records. He’s from Union, Mo., but allegedly committed the crimes Monday in Washington, Mo., west of St. Louis.
Pendleton was on parole for manufacturing meth at the time, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
He was alone with the girl for about seven hours in an American Inn motel.
When the girl’s mother returned, the girl asked to speak with her mother alone in the bathroom and said Pendleton had hurt her.
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There Is No ‘Invasion’ Of Europe Happening- Major Study Confirms That The European Navy Are The Ones Who Are Working With NGOs, Companies, And Even Social Media To Traffic Countless People From Africa And The Middle East Into Europe At Taxpayer Expense
by Andrew Bieszad on January 4, 2018 in Featured, General
Shoebat.com has maintained that the “refugee crisis” taking place in Europe is not actually a crisis at all, but it is part of a manufactured plan on behalf of western governments, and specifically Germany, to destabilize their own nations with groups of people who cannot be assimilated in order to justify a return of ethnonationalism which then can be parlayed into the institutionalized support of eugenics as part of destroying Christianity and Christian morality to usher in the advent of a new pagan order not unlike those of the world of antiquity.
Our concerns were confirmed after a report came out in December 2016 (source, source) which showed that the “migrant crisis” was being directly facilitated by major NGOs, companies, and organizations funded by money from the European and American governments:
The list of organizations is formidable. These are not just obscure entities, but major organizations such as Doctors Without Borders and Save The Children. A cadre of nations are involved including not just European nations such as Germany, Italy, and Holland, but also nations such as Belize, the Marshall Islands, and Panama, and there are even some boats who act as veritable pirates, providing no identifying information in direct violation of international laws of the sea.
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Hindu Terrorists Go To Christian College And Demand To Do Hindu Rituals On Campus And Threatens “Or Else You Will Have Problems”
by Andrew Bieszad on January 4, 2018 in Featured, General
A group of Hindus from the BJP approached a Catholic college in India and demanded that they be allowed to do Hindu rituals on campus. The college repsonded that since they do not even have Catholic mass on campus, they would not allow any Hindu rituals. In response the Hindus flew into a rage and began threatening the college, saying if they did not submit “you will have problems” according to a report:
If you do not celebrate Hindu rituals in the Catholic institute “you will have problems”. This is what the Hindu radicals of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (Abvp) are threatening in Madhya Pradesh. The target of this latest episode of intimidation is St. Mary’s Post Graduate College in Vidisha. Speaking to AsiaNews Msgr. Anthony Chirayath, bishop of Sagar, says: “I am worried because Hindu right-wing activists say they want to do a ‘pooja’ [ritual votive to the gods, ed] in our Catholic institution. In the college we do not celebrate Mass or prayers and we will not allow [that they] offer any Hindu sacred ceremony. ”
The incident dates back to December 30, when a group of Abvp activists, the youth wing of the BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party, Hindu nationalist party in government – ed] came to college asking to speak with the administration. Fr Shaju Devassy, ​​the principal, reports that the Hindus wanted to force the school to carry out there and then the Bharat Mata Aarti [national personification of India as “Mother Goddess”, represented by the goddess Durga dressed in an orange sari and accompanied by a lion – ed.] Faced with the refusal of Catholics, “they became furious and threatened that they would complete the ritual even by force”. “We feel emotionally harassed – adds the priest – the students fear for their safety”.
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First You Worshipped Glenn Beck, Now You Hate Beck. Then You Worshipped Bannon, Now You Are Starting To Hate Bannon. Who Will The Next Spiritual Drug Dealer Be To Fool The American People?
by Ted on January 5, 2018 in Featured, General
By Theodore Shoebat
People once worshipped Beck. Now they hate Beck. People then worshipped Bannon. Now they hate Bannon. Who will the next drug dealer be, To give you the rush that you so seek? This is the subject of my video. Enjoy:
You Worshipped Stephen Bannon, Now You All Hate Him Because Trump Told You Too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=iuYWlW3RmoA

No. No. No.’ — Donald Trump Says He Won’t Sign DACA Deal Without Wall Funding
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by CHARLIE SPIERING10 Jan 20187,246
President Donald Trump insisted that he would not sign a DACA deal from Congress unless it included wall funding.
“No. No. No.” he replied after a reporter asked him if he would sign a DACA bill even if it did not include funding for building the wall on the Southern border.
“We need the wall for security, we need the wall for safety,” he said. “We need the wall from stopping drugs from pouring in.”
Trump appeared confident that the bipartisan congressional group could come up with a solution to the DACA problem but stated that any solution to immigration had to include the wall.
“Without the wall, it all doesn’t work … we need the wall, we have to have the wall for security purposes,” he said. “Security is number one and so the answer is — have to have the wall.”
Trump’s response seemed to contradict what he told members of Congress during the meeting: that he would sign a bill, even if it did not have everything that he wanted.
“I have great confidence … if they come to me with things I’m not in love with, I’m going to do it because I respect them,” he said.
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New Website Exposes Driving Histories
9:06am Tuesday, Nov 15, 2016
as told to Meredith K. - sponsored by Truthfinder
Every single time that you get into a car, you are potentially risking your life. There is a car accident every 30 seconds in the U.S., and drunk driving accounts for the vast majority of crashes. If you think most car accidents are just inconsequential fender benders, think again: In 2012 alone, over 25,000 Americans died from fatal car crashes. Fortunately, you don't have to let these sobering statistics scare you away from ever getting behind the wheel again.
Until recently, most people didn't know that driving infractions and tickets could easily be seen by just about anyone online.
A new online tool called "Truthfinder" lets you review anyone's driving records, before you get in the car with them. Now you can find out if the parent driving your kid to school in the weekly carpool has ever been busted for DUI. Until recently, most people didn't know that driving infractions and tickets could easily be seen by just about anyone online. Trying to keep those speeding tickets hidden from family and friends just became virtually impossible!
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Poll: Oprah Beats Trump 48-38 with Likely Voters in 2020 Election
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by DYLAN GWINN10 Jan 201831,954
President Trump said that he liked Oprah Winfrey and didn’t believe she would run for president in 2020, when he spoke with reporters on Tuesday. Though he did express confidence if Winfrey did run, saying: “Yeah I’ll beat Oprah. Oprah would be a lot of fun.”
On the heels of that presidential optimism, comes a Rasmussen poll which suggests that the president’s air of confidence might be misplaced.
According to a Rasmussen Reports survey released on Wednesday, 48 percent of likely U.S. voters would choose entertainment mogul Oprah Winfrey in 2020, while 38 percent would choose Trump.
Notably, an additional 14 percent of voters said they would be undecided in a contest between the two.
Buzz surrounding a possible presidential bid for Winfrey began after her speech at the Golden Globes on Sunday night. Winfrey used the occasion of becoming the first black woman to receive the Cecile B. DeMille award, to speak about a promising future for minority women and, to credit other women who have spoken out about sexual harassment in Hollywood.
CNN’s Brian Stelter reported that two “close friends” of Oprah’s claim that she is “actively thinking” about a presidential run.
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Oprah Winfrey Films Herself Wading Through Mudslide at Montecito Mansion
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by JOEL B. POLLAK10 Jan 20188,799
Media icon and potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Oprah Winfrey filmed herself wading through mudslide debris at her estate Montecito, California, and posted the footage to the Internet on Wednesday.
Winfrey purchased the palatial estate in the exclusive mountainside community in 2001 for a reported sum of $50 million.
However, on Tuesday her home was one of many in the path of mudslides that began early in the morning as a result of heavy rains washing down slopes that had been scorched in the recent Thomas fire, the largest in the recorded history of California.
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The Associated Press reported Wednesday that the death toll in the mudslides had reached 15, as first responders worked frantically to rescue those still trapped.
Several homes were destroyed, including one behind Winfrey’s, according to her video.
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Switzerland Rejects Citizenship Bids of Residents Who Have Been on Welfare
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by CHRIS TOMLINSON10 Jan 20182,875
A new civil rights act has come into force in Switzerland that prevents residents who have been on welfare in the past three years from becoming citizens unless they pay back the money they received to the state.
The new regulations will make it impossible for asylum seekers and migrants who have lived off state handouts in the last three years to become citizens even if they have lived in Switzerland as permanent residents for the required time to make a citizenship application, Kronen Zeitung reports.
The previous law allowed migrants to apply for citizenship as long as they were not on state benefits at the time of their application.
Along with the welfare stipulation, the new act requires migrants to demonstrate a greater level of integration than before including making them prove they have a certain number of Swiss friends and acquaintances.
Language requirements vary by canton with most expecting an intermediate level of language proficiency judged on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) at the B1 or B2 level.
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Delingpole – Alarmist Scientists Announce the Latest Climate Change Threat: Mutant Transgender Turtles
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by JAMES DELINGPOLE10 Jan 20181,042
Alarmist scientists have found a terrifying new ‘ climate change’ threat: mutant transgender turtles.
Their study, titled Environmental Warming and Feminization of One of the Largest Sea Turtle Populations in the World, warns that global warming could turn the world’s sea turtle populations female, possibly leading to their extinction.
The study authors, from NOAA’s Marine Mammal and Turtle division in La Jolla, California, analyzed sea turtle populations on beaches at the northern and southern ends of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
Here is WWF‘s account of their findings:
Because incubation temperature of turtle eggs determines the animal’s sex, a warmer nest results in more females. Increasing temperatures in Queensland’s north, linked to climate change, have led to virtually no male northern green sea turtles being born.
For the study, scientists caught green turtles at the Howick Group of islands where both northern and southern green turtle populations forage in the Great Barrier Reef. Using a combination of endocrinology and genetic tests, researchers identified the turtles’ sex and nesting origin.
Of green turtles from warmer northern nesting beaches, 99.1% of juveniles, 99.8% of subadults, and 86.8% of adults were female. Turtles from the cooler southern reef nesting beaches showed a more moderate female sex bias (65%–69% female).
If global warming continues, the study concludes, then so many turtles may turn female that there will be no males with which to mate. Extinction will then be inevitable.
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Google Attempt to ‘Fact Check’ News Results Almost Exclusively Targets Conservative Media
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by ALLUM BOKHARI10 Jan 20181,879
Analysis from the Daily Caller shows that Google’s new fact-checking feature, which displays “fact-checks” next to allegedly disputed stories in search results, almost exclusively targets conservative media.
It’s already been a bad week for Google: explosive information released in James Damore’s class action lawsuit has revealed an atmosphere of extreme progressive bias at the company, complete with the open shaming and intimidation of conservatives and white males. Now there is evidence that the company’s hyper-partisan bias is trickling down into its product.
Currently, when you search for a news site, for example, “Breitbart News,” Google will show you a list of topics that the site has focused on, as well as a tab for “reviewed claims.” These are stories that have been reviewed by “fact-checkers” like Snopes and Politifact.
Like Google, these so-called “impartial fact-checkers” claim to be unbiased, but have a history of partisan favoritism. Snopes, for example, is staffed with rabid anti-Trumpers, while Politifact is funded by a Clinton Foundation donor and routinely comes to empirically dubious conclusions that typically favor Democrats.
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Robots, AI, Quantum Computing: How China Is Preparing for a New Generation of War
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Russia’s space-bound humanoid robot FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) is being trained to shoot guns from both of its hands.Twitter/Dmitry Rogozin
by EDWIN MORA10 Jan 2018581
WASHINGTON, DC — China has developed a plan to “overtake” the United States in the race to militarize artificial intelligence, robotics, and quantum computing, an expert from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) warned lawmakers, noting that the communist nation is “rapidly closing the gap” with America.
In written testimony prepared for a hearing held Tuesday by the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, William Carter, the deputy director for CSIS’ technology policy program, said:
China sees offensive cyber capabilities, anti-satellite weapons, electronic warfare tools, hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence, and quantum technologies as key to enabling the PLA [People’s Liberation Army] to win wars in future, high-tech conditions and offset the advantages of the U.S. military, and has made significant strides in all of these areas.
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British Army Recruitment Campaign Focuses on Islam, Sexual Diversity, Banishes Macho Image
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by LIAM DEACON10 Jan 20182,456
The British Army has been slammed for bowing to “political correctness” after spending £1.6 million on a campaign engaging with gender and racial identity politics and encouraging troops to be more emotional.
Army representatives say they want to encourage diversity of religion, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity with their ‘Army Belonging 2018’ campaign, as well as telling recruits its okay for them to cry.
In promotional videos, voiced by serving soldiers, recruits ask: “Can I be gay in the Army?”, “Do I have to be a superhero?”, and “What if I get emotional in the Army?”
In another, a Muslim soldier explains how the Army has allowed him to practice Islam, but Christian soldiers are not given the same reassurance in the campaign.
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Manhunt Ends: Michigan Couple Arrested for Allegedly Torturing, Killing 4-Year-Old Daughter
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by WARNER TODD HUSTON9 Jan 2018Sumpter Township, MI1,054
Authorities in Michigan launched a manhunt for a couple accused of torturing and murdering their four-year-old daughter whose battered and burned body was found in a patch of woods on New Year’s Day. The couple was finally apprehended Tuesday in southern Georgia, just outside of Florida.
Relatives found the child lying in the woods near the Rawsonville Woods mobile home community in Belleville, Michigan. She was found unresponsive and covered in burns. The child was declared dead after being rushed to a local hospital, the New York Post reported
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Stephen K. Bannon Steps Down from Breitbart News Network
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Stephen Kevin "Steve" Bannon (born November 27, 1953) is an American former banker and filmmaker, who is currently serving as assistant to the President and White House chief strategist in the Trump administration. In this capacity, since January 28, 2017, he has been a regular attendee to the Principals Committee of the National Security Council.Michael Vadon / Flickr
by BREITBART NEWS9 Jan 201842,946

Stephen K. Bannon has stepped down from Breitbart News Network, where he served as Executive Chairman since 2012.
Bannon and Breitbart will work together on a smooth and orderly transition.

Bannon said, “I’m proud of what the Breitbart team has accomplished in so short a period of time in building out a world-class news platform.”
According to Breitbart CEO Larry Solov, “Steve is a valued part of our legacy, and we will always be grateful for his contributions, and what he has helped us to accomplish.”
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Donald Trump Calls for DACA Amnesty ‘Bill of Love’ and Wall Funding: ‘You Need the Wall’
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by CHARLIE SPIERING9 Jan 201815,154

President Donald Trump called for a DACA amnesty “Bill of Love” during a meeting Tuesday with congressional Republicans and Democrats at the White House.
“This should be a bill of love, truly. It should be a bill of love, and we can do that,” Trump said.

“I really do believe Democrat and Republican, the people sitting in this room, really want to get something done,” Trump said, adding that he was looking for a “bill of love” from Congress.

Trump spoke at length to the bipartisan meeting, urging them forward on offering legalization for DACA recipients but also ending chain migration and visa lottery systems, as well as demanding border security.

The president spoke to reporters with Sen. Dick Durbin on his right and House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer on his left. Other members of Congress included pro-amnesty leader Sen. Dianne Feinstein and immigration hawk Sen. Tom Cotton. Other Republican amnesty supporters like Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake joined the meeting.

Trump said that if Congress could come together on a DACA deal, he would be happy to sign it — even if he had compromises that he didn’t like.

“I am very much reliant on the people in this room,” Trump said. “I have great confidence … if they come to me with things I’m not in love with, I’m going to do it, because I respect them.”

Hoyer said that Republicans were to blame for failing to bring the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration reform bill into a vote in the house.

Trump said he was eager to pass comprehensive immigration reform, but that it should be done in “steps.” DACA, he said, was the first step.

The group of about two dozen members of Congress met in the Cabinet Room of the White House with Trump and White House chief of staff General John Kelly, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and advisors Stephen Miller and Marc Short.

Trump announced that Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary Bob Goodlatte would introduce a bill in the House featuring his border security priorities and that it would make it’s way to passing into the Senate.

“This has been going on for years,” Trump said, joking that if they could not make progress on the issue he would “lock the doors” of the White House to end the discussion.

He said he personally felt that it should be easy for Republicans and Democrats to come together on the DACA issue and immigration reform.
“I really think this sells itself,” Trump said.
At one point, Trump approved of Sen. Lindsey Graham’s call for Congress to support comprehensive immigration reform.
“If you want to take it that further step, I’ll take the heat,” Trump said. “You are not that far away from comprehensive immigration reform.”
When asked if he would support a DACA deal without wall funding, he replied, “You need it. … I’d love not to build the wall, but you need the wall.”
He clarified that he didn’t need a wall on the entire border, citing specific advice from border security agents.
“We don’t need a 2,000-mile wall where you have rivers and mountains, and everything else protecting, but we do need a wall for a fairly good portion,” Trump said.
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Donald Trump: ‘We Don’t Need a 2,000-Mile Wall’ on the Entire Southern Border
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by CHARLIE SPIERING9 Jan 20183,671

President Donald Trump admitted that he did not need a wall on the entire 2,000 miles of the southern border, citing “violent rivers,” “nature,” and “mountains,” that already secure it.
The president said that he met with ICE agents and border enforcement agents who told him that they “desperately needed” his proposed wall.

“Nobody knows it better than them,” he said.
“We don’t need a 2,000-mile wall … where you have rivers and mountains, and everything else protecting, but we need a wall for a fairly good portion,” he said.
Trump noted that in 2006, Congress passed a bill for a border fence, although he said it was never completed.

When reporters asked Trump if he would commit to passing DACA amnesty without wall funding, he said that the wall was needed.
“You need the wall. It’s wonderful, I would love not to build the wall, but we need the wall,” Trump said.

He again cited border patrol agents who told him that they needed the wall on the border.
“If you don’t have the wall, you cannot have security, just can’t have it, it just doesn’t work,” Trump said.
He concluded by saying that he could build the wall for less, “under budget and ahead of schedule” in just one year.
“There’s no reason for seven years … please don’t do that to me,” Trump said, in response to a DHS request for border wall funding.
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Donald Trump Promises to Sign DACA Amnesty Bill — Even If It Has Things He Doesn’t Like
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by CHARLIE SPIERING9 Jan 20184,161

President Donald Trump appeared eager to sign a DACA amnesty deal, even if it was not perfect.
“I am very much reliant on the people in this room,” Trump said during a DACA meeting with pro-amnesty senators, including Senators Dick Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, Jeff Flake, Lindsey Graham, and Bob Menendez. Several Republican Senators were present for the discussion, including Immigration hawk Tom Cotton and Sen. Chuck Grassley.

The president said he would sign a DACA amnesty deal, even if it included aspects of which he didn’t approve.

“I have great confidence … if they come to me with things I’m not in love with, I’m going to do it because I respect them,” he said.
The White House has stated that it wants a DACA deal to include border wall funding, an end to chain migration, and the end of the visa lottery program.
When asked by reporters. if he changed his positions on immigration and amnesty, Trump admitted that it depended on what kind of deal members of Congress could reach.
The president said, “I think my positions are going to be what the people in this room come up with. I am very much reliant on the people in this room. I know most of the people on both sides, have a lot of respect for the people on both sides, and what I approve is going to be very much reliant on what the people in this room come to me with.”
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Donald Trump Promises to Sign DACA Amnesty Bill — Even If It Has Things He Doesn’t Like
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by CHARLIE SPIERING9 Jan 20184,161

President Donald Trump appeared eager to sign a DACA amnesty deal, even if it was not perfect.
“I am very much reliant on the people in this room,” Trump said during a DACA meeting with pro-amnesty senators, including Senators Dick Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, Jeff Flake, Lindsey Graham, and Bob Menendez. Several Republican Senators were present for the discussion, including Immigration hawk Tom Cotton and Sen. Chuck Grassley.

The president said he would sign a DACA amnesty deal, even if it included aspects of which he didn’t approve.

“I have great confidence … if they come to me with things I’m not in love with, I’m going to do it because I respect them,” he said.

The White House has stated that it wants a DACA deal to include border wall funding, an end to chain migration, and the end of the visa lottery program.

When asked by reporters. if he changed his positions on immigration and amnesty, Trump admitted that it depended on what kind of deal members of Congress could reach.
The president said, “I think my positions are going to be what the people in this room come up with. I am very much reliant on the people in this room. I know most of the people on both sides, have a lot of respect for the people on both sides, and what I approve is going to be very much reliant on what the people in this room come to me with.”
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Donald Trump Plans to Attend World Davos Economic Forum
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by CHARLIE SPIERING9 Jan 20182,413
President Donald Trump plans to attend the meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this year.
“The president welcomes opportunities to advance his America First agenda with world leaders,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told the New York Times.
The meeting features some of the biggest elites in the world, where Trump’s America First agenda will likely clash with a forum dedicated to economic globalism.
The last U.S. president to attend the Davos meeting was former President Bill Clinton. Both former Presidents George H.W.Buh and George W. Bush did not attend. Former President Obama did not attend the summit meetings but sent representatives such as Senior advisor Valarie Jarrett, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, and former Vice President Joe Biden.
In 2017, Chinese president Xi Jinping defended the idea of globalism in his keynote speech after Trump was elected president of the United States on a national-economic platform.
Sanders said that Trump would defend his agenda while participating in the forum of global elites.
“At this year’s World Economic Forum, the president looks forward to promoting his policies to strengthen American businesses, American industries, and American workers,” she said.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/09/donald-trump-plans-attend-world-davos-economic-forum/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20180109


eff Flake Admits GOP Establishment Working Against Trump’s Popular Immigration Agenda in DACA Meetings
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by JOHN BINDER8 Jan 2018Washington, D.C. 7,716

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) admitted on the Senate floor Monday that the Republican establishment does, in fact, have a different set of immigration priorities that are far from President Trump’s popular, pro-American immigration agenda.
In a statement on the Senate floor, Flake said that Trump “won’t get everything” he wants in a deal between Trump, the Republican establishment, and Democrats with respect to DACA, whereby nearly 800,000 to 3.5 million illegal aliens shielded from deportation by the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program are given amnesty and possibly a pathway to U.S. citizenship.

Flake said:

Deals like this, where you need 60 votes necessarily involve compromise. No party, no individual is going to get everything that they want; the White House won’t get everything they want, the Democrats in Congress won’t, and neither will the Republicans. This will be a compromise. I’m simply suggesting tonight – let’s get real about the time involved between now and when we have to fix this, and not think that we can simply kick the can down the road and put in some temporary fix, some kind of bridge later that will protect these kids…Let’s all get serious, Republicans and Democrats – not coming forward to the table with unrealistic expectations about what can be part of this legislation. Let’s have something that we can put on the Senate floor by the end of the month to have sufficient time to get this fixed by March 5th. [Emphasis added]
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Election Betting Odds Place Oprah 2020 Ahead of Every Democrat
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COLUMBIA, SC - DECEMBER 9: Talk show host Oprah Winfrey introduces Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) to a crowd of 29,000 during a campaign event at the William Bryce Football Stadium on December 9, 2007 in Columbia, South Carolina. Obama and Winfrey are scheduled to make one more stop in New Hampshire today. (Photo by Stephen Morton/Getty Images)Stephen Morton/Getty Images
by JOHN NOLTE9 Jan 20183,571

When it comes to predicting who will be president in 2020, ElectionBettingOdds.com, a site run by Maxim Lott and John Stossel of Fox Business News, shows that actual people betting actual money in this category ($355,000) put Oprah Winfrey at the top of the Democrat heap.
In the wake of her Golden Globes speech on Sunday, those placing bets on 2020, rank Winfrey’s odds at assuming the Oval Office second only to President Trump. While Trump sits at 28.2 percent, Winfrey is at 8.5 percent — a full 2.8 percent climb in just one day.
Winfrey’s 8.5 percent places her above every named Democrat, including Senators Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders, who sit at 6.4 percent, 5.8 percent, and 5.0 percent, respectively. Lagging even further behind are former Vice President Joe Biden at 3.0 percent and former First Lady Michelle Obama with 2.9 percent.
Hillary Clinton, who has twice run for president and lost, is given only the odds of 1.6 percent. Senator Cory Booker is little better at just 1.9 percent.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is in even worse shape at 0.7 percent.
Senator Tim Kaine, Clinton’s 2016 running mate, is at 0.6 percent.
The site also looks at other races. As of now, Republican odds of holding the U.S. Senate in 2020 sit at 58.6 percent, compared to just 41.3 percent for Democrats.
Those numbers are almost perfectly flipped for control of the U.S. House in 2020, with Democrats at 61.0 percent compared to the Republicans’ 38.9 percent.
Of the $1.1 million bet on whether or not Trump complete his first term, the odds he does are 53.9 percent. The odds he does not are 46.0 percent.
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Investigators Examining Whether FBI Officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page Improperly Leaked to Media
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by KRISTINA WONG9 Jan 20181,155

House and Senate committees are investigating whether FBI agents who led the Russia investigation improperly leaked to news media, according to a report.
In text messages reviewed by The Hill, FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page exchanged a series of texts shortly before Election Day 2016, that suggests they knew in advance about a Wall Street Journal article, and discussed how to pretend finding it and sharing with colleagues.

“Article is out, but hidden behind paywall so can’t read it,” Page texted Strzok on Oct. 24, 2016, according to the report.

“Wsj? Boy that was fast,” Strzok texted back. “Should I ‘find’ it and tell the team?”

“I can get it like I do every other article that hits any Google News alerts, seriously,” Strzok texted, adding he did not want his team hearing about the article “from someone else.”

The text messages were first uncovered by the Justice Department inspector general, who is investigating whether the FBI handled the Clinton email investigation and the bureau’s counterintelligence probe into the Trump campaign with political bias.

Strzok played a key role in those investigations, and served on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team before the text messages were found and he was kicked off in the summer.

Page, with whom Strzok was having an extramarital affair, had also served on the special counsel team, but had left before the text messages were discovered. Investigators also found that the two had discussed in FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s office an “insurance plan” to thwart Trump’s election.

The Hill also reviewed nearly three dozen texts where the two discussed articles, tried to track down information about a specific New York Times reporter, or opined about leaked information in stories they fretted were “super specific.”

It’s not clear whether then-FBI Director James Comey authorized the leaks, although he arranged some of his own, by creating memos of his conversations with President Trump and leaking them to a friend to give to the news media after he left the FBI for the purpose of prompting a special counsel.

House intelligence committee investigators are also looking into a contact with news media by DOJ senior official Andrew Weissman in April, shortly before the special counsel was convened. Weissman is currently Mueller’s deputy, and had attended Hillary Clinton’s election party, and praised former acting Attorney General Sally Yates for refusing to implement Trump’s travel ban.

In another string of text messages five days before the election, Page alerted Strzok to a Washington Post story about a timeline in the Clinton email investigation, and references a conversation she had with FBI chief of staff James Rybicki about the article.

“Sorry, Rybicki called. Time line article in the post (sic) is super specific and not good. Doesn’t make sense because I didn’t have specific information to give.”

A few days earlier, Strzok had texted Page about another article, suggesting it was anti-FBI. “Yep, the whole tone is anti-Bu. Just a tiny bit from us,” he texted.

Page texted she had seen the article, and that it “makes me feel WAY less bad about throwing him under the bus to the forthcoming CF article.”

They also discussed tracking down New York Times reporter Matt Apuzzo’s address and spouse’s job. Apuzzo had reported on numerous developments in the Russia case.

“We got a list of kids with their parents’ names. How many Matt Apuzzo’s (sic) could there be in DC,” Page texted Strzok. “Showed J a picture, he said he thinks he has seen a guy who kinda looks like that, but always really schlubby. I said that sounds like every reporter I have ever seen.”
It’s not clear who “J” is.
A minute later, Page added: “Found what I think might be their address, too.”
Strzok responded, “He’s TOTALLY schlubby. Don’t you remember?”
Page texted she found information on Apuzzo’s wife: “Found address looking for her. Lawyer.”
Strzok also warned Page against using the work phone to track down information on the reporter. “I wouldn’t search on your work phone … no idea what that might trigger.”
“Oops. Too late,” she responded.
They also texted about the opening of Trump’s new hotel in Washington.
“That’s one place I hope I never stay in,” Page texted.
Strzok texted back: “Agreed. I hope it fails horribly.”
They also said an article about FBI agents unhappy about the outcome of the Clinton case was “stupid,” called Fox anchor Chris Wallace a “turd,” and talked about then-FOX News anchor Megyn Kelly after one of the presidential debates.
“Vaguely satisfying to see Megyn Kelly (who had Botox and looks HORRIBLE) utterly going after Trump,” he said.
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French Kosher Store Burns Down on Attack Anniversary
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Firefighters use a ladder, left, to reach the 6th floor of a building in Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris, in this photo taken Saturday Sept. 14, 2002. Five firefighters were killed by two explosions as they tried to extinguish a blaze in this residential building, it was the biggest loss in the Paris fire department's history. (AP Photo/Pascal Burner/Paris Fire Brigade)AP/Pascal Burner/Paris Fire Brigade
by BREITBART JERUSALEM9 Jan 20182,552

PARIS (AFP) – A suspected arson attack on a French kosher grocery store revived fears over anti-Semitism on Tuesday, three years to the day since an assault on a Jewish supermarket by an Islamist gunman.
Prosecutors said the store in the southern Paris suburb of Creteil caught fire overnight, days after it was daubed with anti-Semitic graffiti.

“The damage is believed to be very severe,” Creteil prosecutor Laure Beccuau told AFP.

A source close to the police probe said it was “too soon to discuss motives” though Beccuau said investigators do not believe the fire was an accident.

The Promo & Destock store was one of two neighbouring kosher shops in Creteil that were daubed with swastikas last Wednesday.

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Israel’s ambassador to France Aliza Bin Noun called the fire a “shameful provocation” on the third anniversary of the January 9, 2015 attack at the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in eastern Paris.

Jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly killed three customers and an employee in an attack that triggered deep concern over growing anti-Semitism.

That attack came two days after Coulibaly’s close friends Said and Cherif Kouachi gunned down 11 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, kicking off a wave of jihadist attacks in France.

– ‘Deep-rooted’ anti-Semitism –

That year, a record 7,900 French Jews emigrated to Israel, many of them citing increased fears over anti-Semitism.

Though the exodus has since slowed, a string of anti-Semitic crimes have continued to worry France’s large Jewish community.

In April 2017, a Jewish woman was murdered, pushed from a third-floor window by a Muslim neighbour, while a Jewish family was beaten, held hostage and robbed in what rights groups said was a hate crime.

Former prime minister Manuel Valls told Europe 1 radio that more needed to be done to tackle anti-Semitism, which he said had become “deeply rooted” in France.

“What has changed over the past three years is the awareness of this level of anti-Semitism,” he said.

Valls said French society as a whole had failed to mobilise in support of Jews following attacks such as the 2012 Islamist shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse in which four people were killed, three of them children.

“These are crimes that must be prosecuted and condemned, we need to do more,” he said.

Abdelkader Merah, the brother of the jihadist who carried out the school attack, was handed a 20-year jail sentence in November in a trial that reopened wounds for French Jews.

He was convicted of encouraging his brother Mohamed to carry out a shooting spree targeting Jews and French soldiers, though he was cleared of having a direct role in the attacks.
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French Kosher Store Burns Down on Attack Anniversary
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Firefighters use a ladder, left, to reach the 6th floor of a building in Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris, in this photo taken Saturday Sept. 14, 2002. Five firefighters were killed by two explosions as they tried to extinguish a blaze in this residential building, it was the biggest loss in the Paris fire department's history. (AP Photo/Pascal Burner/Paris Fire Brigade)AP/Pascal Burner/Paris Fire Brigade
by BREITBART JERUSALEM9 Jan 20182,552
PARIS (AFP) – A suspected arson attack on a French kosher grocery store revived fears over anti-Semitism on Tuesday, three years to the day since an assault on a Jewish supermarket by an Islamist gunman.
Prosecutors said the store in the southern Paris suburb of Creteil caught fire overnight, days after it was daubed with anti-Semitic graffiti.
“The damage is believed to be very severe,” Creteil prosecutor Laure Beccuau told AFP.
A source close to the police probe said it was “too soon to discuss motives” though Beccuau said investigators do not believe the fire was an accident.
The Promo & Destock store was one of two neighbouring kosher shops in Creteil that were daubed with swastikas last Wednesday.
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Israel’s ambassador to France Aliza Bin Noun called the fire a “shameful provocation” on the third anniversary of the January 9, 2015 attack at the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in eastern Paris.

Jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly killed three customers and an employee in an attack that triggered deep concern over growing anti-Semitism.

That attack came two days after Coulibaly’s close friends Said and Cherif Kouachi gunned down 11 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, kicking off a wave of jihadist attacks in France.

– ‘Deep-rooted’ anti-Semitism –
That year, a record 7,900 French Jews emigrated to Israel, many of them citing increased fears over anti-Semitism.
Though the exodus has since slowed, a string of anti-Semitic crimes have continued to worry France’s large Jewish community.
In April 2017, a Jewish woman was murdered, pushed from a third-floor window by a Muslim neighbour, while a Jewish family was beaten, held hostage and robbed in what rights groups said was a hate crime.
Former prime minister Manuel Valls told Europe 1 radio that more needed to be done to tackle anti-Semitism, which he said had become “deeply rooted” in France.
“What has changed over the past three years is the awareness of this level of anti-Semitism,” he said.
Valls said French society as a whole had failed to mobilise in support of Jews following attacks such as the 2012 Islamist shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse in which four people were killed, three of them children.
“These are crimes that must be prosecuted and condemned, we need to do more,” he said.
Abdelkader Merah, the brother of the jihadist who carried out the school attack, was handed a 20-year jail sentence in November in a trial that reopened wounds for French Jews.
He was convicted of encouraging his brother Mohamed to carry out a shooting spree targeting Jews and French soldiers, though he was cleared of having a direct role in the attacks.
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Celebrities Call for Oprah Winfrey to Run for President Following Golden Globes Speech
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JANUARY 07: Oprah Winfrey arrives with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in the press room during The 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 7, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)Kevin Winter/Getty Images
by JEROME HUDSON7 Jan 201819,912
Hollywood stars flooded social media Sunday night with Oprah Winfrey for president fantasies following her fiery acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 75th annual Golden Globes.
“For too long women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men,” she said to the black-clad star-studded audience in reference to Hollywood’s systemic culture of sexual misconduct. “But their time is up… Their time is up.”
“So I want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon!” she belted.
“And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say ‘Me Too’ again,” she declared.
Oprah’s speech prompted applause, cheers, and a standing ovation from those inside The Beverly Hilton hotel and ignited calls for her presidential candidacy from her adoring celebrity peers on social media.
Left-wing comedian Sarah Silverman tweeted “Oprah/Michelle 2020,” apparently promoting a presidential ticket in 2020 in which former first lady Michelle Obama is Oprah running mate.
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Woman offers $20,000 for assassination hit on Donald Trump
January 8, 2018
Woman offers $20,000 for assassination hit on Donald Trump
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A woman who is reported to be an aspiring model asked for someone to assassinate President Donald Trump. And she put her money where her mouth was.
Far-left Trump hater and former Twitter user Andrea Hudson published an offer of $20,000 to anyone who would assassinate the president.
Message to the president
In response to one of Trump’s tweets, Hudson, who tweeted under the handle “@Bossydrea26” said, “D******. I got $20,000 for anyone willing to assassinate your a**.”
Former Project Veritas operative and self-described investigative journalist Laura Loomer caught wind of the message and tweeted:
Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
Please REPORT @Bossydrea26 for offering a bribe to anyone who is “willing to assassinate “ @realDonaldTrump.
Please also report her to @SecretService. It is UNACCEPTABLE to threaten the life of @POTUS! https://twitter.com/bossydrea26/status/949757029807161345 …
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At some point, Twitter was informed and deleted Hudson’s account. But not before Loomer captured a screenshot of her tweet and reported:
7 Jan
@LauraLoomer
Please REPORT @Bossydrea26 for offering a bribe to anyone who is “willing to assassinate “ @realDonaldTrump.
Please also report her to @SecretService. It is UNACCEPTABLE to threaten the life of @POTUS! https://twitter.com/bossydrea26/status/949757029807161345 …
@LauraLoomer
Her account has since been suspended as of last night, thanks to all of you, but this is what she said. pic.twitter.com/lvbTuH4cYD
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Resist, resist, resist
From Nov. 8, 2016, the date of the presidential election, onward, there’s been a long history of attempts to remove Trump from the White House.
The election itself was a surprise. Democrats thought they had it in the bag, but they took the votes of the Rust Belt’s blue collar union workers for granted, and Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin fell to the GOP.
So Green Party presidential candidate and Hillary Clinton ally Jill Stein coughed up the funds from donations to demand recounts in key states. All they managed to do was to come up with additional Trump votes in Wisconsin and pro-Clinton voter fraud in Detroit. Another failure.
Then Clinton supporters begged the Electoral College electors to vote contrary to their state’s voters. They failed again. As I wrote earlier for Newsmax:
When they cried that the Electoral College was unfair, no one listened and again they failed.
Hillary Clinton inaugurated her “resist” movement, which turned out to be as big a failure as she was as a candidate — another failure.
When the party of Jefferson and Jackson claimed Trump colluded with the Kremlin, the only evidence of collusion involved the DNC and the Clinton campaign — another failure.
So media outlets came to their rescue and reported “smoking guns” indicating corruption.
ABC News claimed candidate Trump ordered his pick for national security advisor to contact Russians. That failed — fake news — leaving Democrats feeling as empty as they did on November 8, 2016, when hopes for a Clinton presidency were dashed.
CNN’s report that Trump colluded with WikiLeaks was another failure — more fake news.
Failing all of that, Yale University psychiatry professor Dr. Bandy X. Lee told more than a dozen lawmakers in December that Trump was “going to unravel, and we are seeing the signs.”
She made her diagnosis without ever having met the man. And the people aren’t listening.
So now it comes to this — assassination. With any luck, it will be yet another failure, and the president can retain what’s fast becoming his new moniker — “The Teflon Donald.”


Report: Oprah Winfrey ‘Actively Thinking’ About Running for President
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 12: Oprah Winfrey on stage during her An Evening With Oprah tour on December 12, 2015 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images
by DANIEL NUSSBAUM8 Jan 20183,752
A new report claims sources close to Oprah Winfrey have confirmed the entertainment mogul and actress is considering a run for the presidency in 2020.
Two sources close to Winfrey say the 63-year-old media mogul is “actively thinking” about seeking the presidency and has engaged in several conversations about the matter saying back months, according to a report Monday from CNN’s Brian Stelter.
The sources reportedly stressed that Winfrey has not yet decided whether to launch a campaign for the presidency.
Winfrey set off calls for a possible run while accepting the Cecil B. DeMille honorary award at the Golden Globes Sunday night, during which she delivered a rousing speech that emphasized women’s rights amid the current #MeToo movement.

“I want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon!” Winfrey said during her speech. “And when that new day finally dawns it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say ‘Me too’ again.”
In the wake of the speech, numerous celebrities and other media figures took to Twitter to encourage Winfrey to run.

“She launched a rocket tonight. I want her to run for president,” actress Meryl Streep said at Sunday night’s ceremony, according to the Washington Post. “I don’t think she had any intention [of declaring]. But now she doesn’t have a choice.”

The evening’s host, Seth Meyers, actually joked about a possible Oprah presidency during his opening monologue.

“Oprah, in 2011, I told some jokes about our current president at the White House Correspondents Dinner, jokes about how he was unqualified to be president, and some have said that night convinced him to run,” Meyers said. “So if that’s true, I just want to say: ‘Oprah, you will never be president! You do not have what it takes!'”

Winfrey has variously toyed with the possibility of running for president and dismissing the idea outright.

“There will be no running for office of any kind for me,” she said during an appearance on CBS This Morning in October.

Some Democrats believe Winfrey’s wealth and name recognition could make her a formidable candidate to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020, despite her lack of political experience.

But as discussion intensified about the subject following Sunday night’s Golden Globes, numerous social media users took to Twitter to suggest that Winfrey would be forced to answer some potentially uncomfortable questions in any political run, including her relationship with disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein, who has been accused of sexual assault by dozens of women. Twitter users shared photos of Winfrey and Weinstein and captioned them with the hashtag #OprahKnew.

The billionaire mogul has also faced scrutiny for her opening of a girl’s school in South Africa in 2007, where one of the matrons was accused of several instances of sexual molestation.
Still, when asked at the Globes whether she might run, Winfrey’s longtime partner Stedman Graham suggested she could do so.
“It’s up to the people. She would absolutely do it,” Graham told the Los Angeles Tim



Special Counsel Robert Mueller Could Interview President Trump Within Weeks
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by KRISTINA WONG8 Jan 20186,190
President Trump is likely to be interviewed in some capacity by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, according to reports.
There are discussions among Trump’s legal team on how the president could be interviewed, according to the Washington Post and NBC News on Monday.

Mueller brought up the issue of interviewing Trump during a meeting in late December with the president’s lawyers, the Post reported.

An interview could take place within the “next several weeks,” a person “close to the president” told the Post.

“This is moving faster than anyone really realizes,” the person said, adding that the president is comfortable participating in an interview and believes it would put to rest questions over whether his team coordinated with Russia during the 2016 election.

Trump’s attorneys are reportedly reluctant to allow him to sit down for an open-ended, face-to-face questioning without clear parameters.

Options could include written answers to some questions. Mueller’s team would also have to demonstrate that it could not obtain the information they are seeking without interviewing the president.

Ty Cobb, the lawyer overseeing the White House’s response to the Russia investigation, told the Post he remains confident any portion of the investigation related to the president or the White House will wrap up shortly.

A special counsel interview with the president was long expected, since investigators are reportedly investigating his decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey, as well as his reported role in drafting a statement about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer.

Trump on Saturday said he had nothing to hide.
“Just so you understand, there’s been no collusion, there’s been no crime, and in theory everybody tells me I’m not under investigation. Maybe Hillary [Clinton] is, I don’t know, but I’m not,” he told reporters at Camp David.
“But we have been very open. We could have done it two ways. We could have been very closed, and it would have taken years. But you know, sort of like when you’ve done nothing wrong, let’s be open and get it over with,” he said.
“Because, honestly, it’s very, very bad for our country,” he added. “It’s making our country look foolish. And this is a country that I don’t want looking foolish. And it’s not going to look foolish as long as I’m here.”
Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford have all testified to special counsels or grand juries.


Trump Ends Temporary Protected Status For 200,000 El Salvadorans
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by NEIL MUNRO8 Jan 201810,080

President Donald Trump’s deputies are ending the often-extended ‘TPS’ temporary refugee status for up to 200,000 El Salvadoran migrants, which was first granted when earthquakes hit their home country in 2001.
The TPS decision underlines Trump’s determination to enforce the nation’s immigration laws, and to push his “Buy American, Hire American” inauguration-day promise, despite growing pressure from the GOP’s business-first wing, Democrats and their allies in the establishment media.

The decision also pressures Democrats to accept Trump’s immigration reforms — or else run as the pro-amnesty political party in November 2018.

The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security is responsible for deciding whether or not to extend TPS status, based on whether the original disaster is still damaging the country. Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is Trump’s DHS secretary.

Most of the 200,000 El Salvadoreans will return home by September 2019, likely boosting the small nation’s economy with savings and skills earned in the United States during the last 17 years.

The decision will free up jobs for American citizens and other legal immigrants.

Many of the El Salvador migrants were living illegally in the United States when the earthquake hit their home country in 2001. Since then, the “Temporary Protected Status” has been extended 11 times by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

TPS
An official at the Comite Hispano de Virgina in Falls Church takes a photo of Salvadoran national Douglas Garcia Martinez 11 November 2002, to attach to his paperwork to extend his Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

The Washington Post offered several examples of illegals who have used the TPS program to establish themselves in the United States:

Losing TPS “would be catastrophic for my family,” said Edwin Murillo, a 41-year-old father of two reached by phone at his home in Texas …

Murillo had studied business administration in El Salvador but left in 1999 because, he said, jobs were scarce. He entered the United States on a visa, which he overstayed, and in 2001, following the earthquakes back home, he and his wife jumped at the chance to apply for TPS.

A second Washington Post article quoted two more illegals who used the TPS program:

[Oscar] Cortez, a father of two, said he came to the United States in 2000, after he dropped out of college in El Salvador because he couldn’t afford the tuition and was downsized out of a job at a textile factory. Undocumented at first, he worked low-wage, sporadic jobs laying carpet or cutting lawns …

His co-worker Jaime Contreras, a welder on the project that will extend Metrorail to Dulles International Airport, said his job has transformed his family’s lives, both in Maryland and in El Salvador. As a child in El Salvador, Contreras went to school in the mornings and to work in the afternoons, painting houses at age 7 and welding at 11.

At 20, he moved to the United States seeking higher wages.

Trump’s deputies have also ended TPS status for migrants from several other countries, including Haiti and Nicaragua. DHS deputy secretary Elaine Duke, however, gave a short extension to 57,000 Hondurans in late 2017.

DHS announced the decision at 11:17, saying:

The decision to terminate TPS for El Salvador was made after a review of the disaster-related conditions upon which the country’s original designation was based and an assessment of whether those originating conditions continue to exist as required by statute. Based on careful consideration of available information, including recommendations received as part of an inter-agency consultation process, the Secretary determined that the original conditions caused by the 2001 earthquakes no longer exist. Thus, under the applicable statute, the current TPS designation must be terminated …

Additionally, in recent years, the U.S. government has been repatriating individuals back to El Salvador – more than 39,000 in the last two years – demonstrating that the temporary inability of El Salvador to adequately return their nationals after the earthquake has been addressed.

To allow for an orderly transition, the effective date of the termination of TPS for El Salvador will be delayed 18 months to provide time for individuals with TPS to arrange for their departure or to seek an alternative lawful immigration status in the United States, if eligible. Salvadorans in the United States who benefited from TPS may still receive other protections under our immigration system for which they are eligible …

Only Congress can legislate a permanent solution addressing the lack of an enduring lawful immigration status of those currently protected by TPS who have lived and worked in the United States for many years. The 18-month delayed termination will allow Congress time to craft a potential legislative solution.
Democrats and pro-migration advocates strongly criticized the decision to end temporary protected status for the El Salvador migrants:


Donald Trump: 2018 Republican Challengers to Mitch McConnell Establishment ‘Have Scattered’
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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 24: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (L) and U.S. President Donald Trump arrive for the Republican Senate Policy Luncheon at the U.S. Capitol October 24, 2017 in Washington, DC. Trump joined the senators to talk about upcoming legislation, including the proposed GOP tax cuts and reform. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Chip Somodevilla/Getty
by CHARLIE SPIERING8 Jan 20185,292

President Donald Trump said that Republican challengers to Mitch McConnell allies in the Senate had “scattered” after anti-establishment Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore was defeated by a Democrat in Alabama.
“I don’t see that happening at this moment, no,” Trump said when asked about possibly campaigning for Republican primary challengers. “I think they’ve sort of scattered.”

Trump made his remarks in a press conference at Camp David, after meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan. He said he would campaign with existing Senate Republicans to help Republicans keep the majority as well as “anybody else that has my kind of thinking.”

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon vowed a grassroots movement to challenge every Republican senator up for re-election (except for Ted Cruz) in response to McConnell’s inaction in the Senate.

In response, some anti-Trump Senate Republicans like Jeff Flake and Bob Corker announced their plans to retire, rather than face a Republican challenger. Despite working well with Trump, longtime Senator Sen. Orrin Hatch retired in Utah sparking interest from former failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney in running to replace him.

But some incumbent challengers still exist. Danny Tarkanian is challenging Sen. Dean Heller in Nevada, State Senator Chris McDaniel is weighing a challenge against Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, both Erik Prince and Foster Friess stated interest in challenging Sen. John Barrasso in Wyoming. A Republican challenger has yet to challenge Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska.

But Trump lamented the loss of a Republican Senate seat in Alabama, pointing it out as a warning to prospective Republican challengers of existing Senators.

“I think, as far as I’m concerned, that was a shame that that was lost. That should never have been lost,” he said.
Trump als0 appeared cautious about possible challenges to Republican Senate incumbents in the future.
“Look, with it all being said, we have the right policy, we have the right everything. You still need a good candidate,” he said. “You don’t have a good candidate, you’re just not going to win.”



The Latest: White House sees ‘no way back’ for Bannon
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” (all times local):

4:15 p.m.

A White House spokesman says there’s no “way back” for Steve Bannon after his comments in an explosive new book that questions President Donald Trump’s fitness for office.

Hogan Gidley says he doesn’t “believe there’s any way back for Mr. Bannon at this point.” He adds that Trump’s criticism of Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury” still stands, saying, “it was obvious that the book was false and fake.”

Gidley spoke to reporters Monday aboard Air Force One as Trump traveled to Nashville, Tennessee.

Bannon — Trump’s former chief strategist — is trying to make amends for comments that appeared in the book. He issued a statement praising the president’s eldest son Sunday, and says he regrets not having released it sooner.

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An attorney for the publisher of “Fire and Fury” says no retraction or apology is coming.

President Donald Trump and his supporters have called the book fiction, and Trump attorney Charles J. Harder last week sent a cease-and-desist letter to Henry Holt & Company, threatening legal action.

In a response to Harder that was shared with The Associated Press, Elizabeth A. McNamara of the firm David Wright Tremaine writes that the book is “an accurate report” and says Harder failed to cite any specific errors.

McNamara writes that former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, whose explosive quotes helped make the book a best-seller, spoke “freely and voluntarily” to author Michael Wolff.

McNamara also writes that should Trump sue, the author and publisher are “quite confident” that Trump political and financial documents would prove “particularly relevant” for the defense.

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The publisher of Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” isn’t backing down.

In a letter sent to company employees Monday and shared with The Associated Press, Macmillan CEO John Sargent wrote that any efforts by President Donald Trump to suppress the book are “flagrantly unconstitutional.”

Macmillan is the parent organization of Henry Holt and Company, which released the best-selling account of a chaotic administration that features inflammatory quotes from former senior adviser Steve Bannon.

The White House has dismissed the book as a work of fiction, and a Trump lawyer last week sent a cease-and-desist letter to the publisher, demanding that “Fire and Fury” be withheld. Holt responded by moving up the publication date from Jan. 9 to last Friday.
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The author of a new book about the White House is contradicting Steve Bannon’s explanation of comments that angered President Donald Trump.

Michael Wolff appeared Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to discuss “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”

In the book, Bannon described a meeting between Donald Trump Jr., senior campaign aides and a Russian lawyer as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.” Bannon, who is Trump’s former chief strategist, sought to make amends Sunday, saying in statement that his description was aimed at former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, not Trump’s son.

Wolff says the comments were “directed directly at Don. Jr.”

The book depicts the 45th president as a leader who doesn’t understand the weight of his office and whose competence is questioned by aides. Trump has blasted the book as inaccurate.
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Trump administration officials and allies are rallying to the president’s defense, trying to contain the fallout from an explosive new book that questions Trump’s fitness for office.

Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” portrays the 45th president as a leader who doesn’t understand the weight of his office and whose competence is questioned by aides.

Chief policy adviser Stephen Miller says the picture “is so contrary to reality” and calls the book “trash.”

Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon is also trying to make amends for comments that appeared in the book. He issued a statement praising the president’s eldest son, and says he regrets not having released it sooner.

LaVar Ball’s ‘Big Baller Brand’ Gets ‘F’ Rating from Better Business Bureau
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by DYLAN GWINN8 Jan 20181,670

One cannot overlook the irony of a business which shares the initials of the Better Business Bureau, getting an “F” rating from the nation’s premier advocate of marketplace trust.
However, that’s exactly what happened to LaVar Ball’s Big Baller Brand.

The Better Business Bureau told TMZ Sports, that Big Baller Brand has earned the BBB’s dreaded “F” rating. LaVar Ball’s merchandising operation has been inundated with negative reviews, and virtually no positive reviews.

According to TMZ, the BBB reached out to Big Baller Brand on two separate occasions to help them clean-up their act, but those calls were not returned.

In a video that can be watched here, Blair Looney, CEO of Better Bus. Bureau Central CA, tells TMZ Sports about the dangers consumers face when buying from Big Baller.

“This is very definitely substandard normal business practices for anybody.”

“As a result of the repeat pattern of complaints, the volume of complaints, Big Baller now has an F rating with the BBB, which is the lowest rating possible in the BBB system.”

LaVar Ball better hope his kids improve a lot at basketball, this merchandising thing doesn’t seem to be his forte.


Alarmists Find New Excuse: Sea Levels Aren’t Rising Because ‘Ocean Bottom Deformation’
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LADY ELLIOT ISLAND, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 15: A Hawksbill sea turtle is seen swimming on January 15, 2012 in Lady Elliot Island, Australia. Lady Elliot Island is one of the three island resorts in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMPA) with the highest designated classification of Marine National Park Zone by GBRMPA. The island of approximately 40 hectares lies 46 nautical miles north-east of the Queensland town of Bundaberg and is the southern-most coral cay of the Great Barrier Reef. (Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)Mark Kolbe/Getty
by JAMES DELINGPOLE8 Jan 2018943

Scientists in the Netherlands have found a new excuse as to why sea levels are stubbornly refusing to rise in line with Al Gore’s doomsday predictions: “ocean bottom deformation.”
Apparently, they claim in a study by Thomas Frederikse et al, the weight of the extra water caused by all those melting glaciers and icecaps is so great that it is causing the sea bed to sink.

Their paper – titled ‘Ocean Bottom Deformation Due To Present-Day Mass Redistribution and Its Impact on Sea Level Observations’ – is published in Geophysical Research Letters.Here is the abstract:

Present-day mass redistribution increases the total ocean mass and, on average, causes the ocean bottom to subside elastically. Therefore, barystatic sea level rise is larger than the resulting global mean geocentric sea level rise, observed by satellite altimetry and GPS-corrected tide gauges. We use realistic estimates of mass redistribution from ice mass loss and land water storage to quantify the resulting ocean bottom deformation and its effect on global and regional ocean volume change estimates. Over 1993–2014, the resulting globally averaged geocentric sea level change is 8% smaller than the barystatic contribution. Over the altimetry domain, the difference is about 5%, and due to this effect, barystatic sea level rise will be underestimated by more than 0.1 mm/yr over 1993–2014. Regional differences are often larger: up to 1 mm/yr over the Arctic Ocean and 0.4 mm/yr in the South Pacific. Ocean bottom deformation should be considered when regional sea level changes are observed in a geocentric reference frame.

What this means is that seas are expanding much faster than is shown either by satellite altimetry or tide gauges. We just can’t see it because it’s happening, unnoticed, on the deep sea beds.

If you believe the environmental website Earther.com this is very worrying.

For the average reader, though, there’s an even simpler takeaway, which is that humans are messing with the planet in some very profound ways.

“The Earth itself is not a rigid sphere, it’s a deforming ball,” Frederikse said. “With climate change, we do not only change temperature.”

Newsweek is similarly appalled, though without being quite able to explain why.

It says, rather desperately:

Recently, rising temperatures have caused much of the frozen water on the planet’s glaciers to melt and join the ocean as liquid. This mass melting ice rising sea levels, a problem whose consequences we’re already starting to see. The first to notice the repercussions of rising sea levels are those who live in coastal areas. Rising waters mean less land to live on.
Yes, it’s true that sea level rise is a major concern to climate alarmists. So important, in fact, that they’ve felt the need to fake it to make it look far more dramatic than it actually is.
But if this study is correct – something we can’t be certain of, given that a lot of it seems rather too dependent on calculations based on models rather than rigorously measured data – then surely the alarmists should be celebrating rather than panicking.
As Benny Peiser of the Global Warming Policy Foundation puts it:
So the sea levels aren’t rising too fast after all because of climate change? Problem solved.


Erotic Clothing Store’s New ‘Covergirl’ Is a Nine-Year-Old Boy Dressed as Drag Queen
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by CHARLIE NASH8 Jan 20182,800

House of Mann, an erotic gay BDSM clothing store, has been accused of sexualizing children after they used a nine-year-old boy dressed as a drag queen to model for them.
The nine-year-old drag queen who goes by the name “Queen Lactatia,” stands sexualized in the photos, wearing a sequin onesie.

Products available on House of Mann include BDSM sex harnesses, bondage gloves, jock straps, and nipple pasties, which are all tagged with keywords such as “hot,” “erotic,” gay,” “BDSM,” “fetish,” “kinky,” “dominatrix,” and “stripper.”

After users on Facebook and Twitter complained about the company sexualizing children for an erotic brand, House of Mann owner Brandon Hilton declared, “[I] woke up to countless tweets telling me ‘kill yourself’ and calling me a ‘pedo’ after we announced 9 year old drag superstar Lactatia as our new HOUSE OF MANN covergirl… If you can’t handle a kid in a sequin onesie, maybe the future isn’t for you!”

“I think this new generation of drag kids is brilliant and inspiring!” he continued in another post. “@Desmond_Amazing and Lactatia are the future! @TheHouseofMann is just making sure they look SICKENING! people will talk no matter what, might as well give them something FIERCE to look at!”

Despite the fact that some Twitter users reported the pictures, Twitter claimed they did not break any platform rules or policies.
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The nine-year-old boy first became known to the public in September 2017, when he appeared on ITV’s This Morning with his mother, wearing a pink wig, makeup, and a dress.

“I think it’s extremely important to allow your children to really tap into their creative side, encourage and foster that independent spirit and being an individual,” proclaimed his mother in support. “I encourage all parents with their kids, if they have a passion, support it and let them do it.”

Charlie Nash covers technology and LGBT for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter @MrNashington, or like his page at Facebook.



NAACP Wants Fans at College Title Game to Protest President Trump by Waving White Towels
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ATLANTA (AP) — The NAACP wants to see white towels amid the crimson, white, red and black worn by fans to send a message to President Donald Trump during the national college football championship in Atlanta.
Atlanta’s NAACP chapter said on its Facebook page that it wants fans inside the stadium for the College Football Playoff title game to wave white towels ”simulating a blizzard.”

It’s one of several anti-Trump protests planned as Trump visits Atlanta on Monday night to attend the showdown between the University of Georgia and the University of Alabama.

The NAACP also is urging people to hold anti-Trump signs and wear white to mock the ”snowflake” label Trump’s supporters use to describe their opponents.

Another group, Refuse Fascism ATL, says they’ll ”take a knee against Trump” outside CNN’s world headquarters near the stadium before kickoff.


‘The New Yorker’ Cover Features Kaepernick, Michael Bennett Kneeling Next to Martin Luther King
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by WARNER TODD HUSTON8 Jan 20182,472

The New Yorker is courting controversy with a new cover depicting Seattle Seahawks anthem-protester and false race accuser Michael Bennett, and original anthem-protester Colin Kaepernick, kneeling next to famed civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some find it outrageous to pair two pampered millionaire football players with a man that struggled mightily to bring equal rights to Black Americans, was jailed for his activism, and ultimately assassinated for his beliefs.

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Colin Kaepernick, of course, is famed as the multi-millionaire who invented the anti-American protest mounted during the playing of the national anthem. Whereas Martin Luther King, Jr., was murdered for his beliefs, the worst consequence Kaepernick has suffered thus far is that he wasn’t signed by an NFL team.

Kaepernick has filed charges with the NFL, claiming that owners have “colluded” to keep him out of the league because he invented the anti-American protest that has bedeviled the league for two full seasons, now.

Also, whereas Martin Luther King struggled to insure that Black Americans could freely vote their conscience in state and federal elections, Colin Kaepernick has not even bothered to vote.

Meanwhile, Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett most recently made news for accusing the Las Vegas police of racism after he was briefly detained during an investigation into an active shooter threat late last year. Bennett’s claim was not substantiated by any video of the incident, and no witnesses came forward to support his claims.
Indeed, after his accusations, the Las Vegas Police Dept. released police body camera footage that seems to totally refute Bennett’s claims that he was racially profiled and mistreated for the few minutes he was detained by officers.


Report: Qaddafi Loyalists Seek ‘Comeback’ as Son Saif Al-Islam Plans Libya Presidential Run
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Saif al-Islam, son of late Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi, is pictured at a ceremony in the southern Libyan city of Ghiryan on August 18, 2007. He has been released after five years in detention, according to his lawyer.MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images
by FRANCES MARTEL8 Jan 2018180

Supporters and former members of the regime of Muammar Qaddafi in Libya may be planning to organize for a chance to run the country again after son Saif al-Islam Qaddafi announced, through an intermediary, that he would run for president in 2018, Bloomberg reports.
Citing individuals close to the Qaddafi’s, the outlet reported last week that the ongoing chaos since the elder Qaddafi’s demise in 2011 may present an opportunity to unite voters in the upcoming 2018 presidential election.

Saif al-Islam is arguably the most prominent of Qaddafi’s sons, having taken the streets of Tripoli and ensured the public that his father remained in control of the country shortly before he was dragged out of his palace and killed on video. Saif al-Islam was arrested shortly thereafter by the Abu Bakr al-Sadiq Brigade, which chose to free in him in 2017. Following his liberation, the International Criminal Court (ICC) demanded the younger Qaddafi’s immediate arrest on war crimes charges; a Libyan tribunal had sentenced him to death independently while under confinement.

In mid-December, Qaddafi family spokesman Basem Al-Hashimi Al-Soul told the outlet Egypt Today that Qaddafi would appear on the ballot in 2018. “Saif enjoys the support of major tribes in Libya and he will offer Libyans measures to stabilize the country in accordance with the Libyan geography and in coordination with all Libyan factions.” al-Soul claimed.

Qaddafi loyalists rapidly began the work of proclaiming Saif al-Islam a frontrunner in this year’s elections. One former official, Ahmed Gadhaf al-Dam—Muammar Qaddafi’s cousin—proclaimed Qaddafi the “favorite” in any upcoming elections. Reports had indicated that al-Dam himself was organizing a presidential bid in November, though he appears to be backing his nephew. “We represent the majority of Libyans. And we want to set things right and correct the past,” al-Dam said at the time.

“People are frustrated. Even those who were against the old regime will side with him as he’s not coming back representing the old regime. He’s coming with his plan for Libya’s future,” another former Qaddafi official, Abdel Majeed al-Mansouri, told Bloomberg. “I see a big chance for him because all the big tribes are supporting him.”

Bloomberg notes, “most Libya analysts disagree.” The report does cite one analyst, Issandr El Amrani of the International Crisis Group, warning that Qaddafi’s move means “Libya’s getting more complicated.”

Libya has been ruled by factions of warlord-run militias and conflicting United Nations (U.N.)-sponsored governments since the elder Qaddafi’s demise. The current U.N.-backed government, under Chairman of the Presidential Council of Libya Fayez al-Sarraj, is planning to host a presidential election this year. It has received support in this endeavor from the nation’s most powerful and organized warlord, General Khalifa Haftar of the Libyan National Army, but only if the elections occur with U.N. supervision.

Rumors swirled last year that Haftar, who has the backing of both Russia and Egypt, would also run for president in that election. Haftar, a former Qaddafi general who rebelled before the dictator fell, has established himself as a strong anti-jihadist voice in the east of the country. Russia also supports Sarraj, however it is unclear whether Sarraj would also run in these elections.

Sarraj has warned that elections are not guaranteed to occur due to opposition for unnamed political powers within Libya. Given the sectarian nature of how Libya is divided politically today, it is possible that any opposing tribal militia could prevent government officials from entering their territory to organize ballots and count votes.
The High National Elections Commission in Libya (HNEC) has reportedly registered nearly two million voters for the upcoming ballot as of December 2017.

Senate Judiciary GOPs Request Criminal Investigation of Dossier Author Christopher Steele
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by KRISTINA WONG5 Jan 20184,791
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Subcommittee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have recommended a criminal investigation of Christopher Steele, author of the Trump dossier commissioned by Fusion GPS.
In a January 4, 2017 letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the committee wrote they had reason to believe that Steele, a former British spy, lied to federal authorities about his contacts with reporters regarding the dossier.

“I don’t take lightly making a criminal referral for criminal investigation,” Grassley said in a statement. “But as I would with any credible evidence of a crime unearthed in the course of our investigations, I feel obliged to pass that information along to the Justice Department for appropriate review.”

“Everyone needs to follow the law and be truthful in their interactions with the FBI. If the same actions have different outcomes and those differences seem to correspond with partisan political interests, then the public will naturally suspect that law enforcement decisions are not on the up-and-up,” he said.

“I believe that a special counsel needs to review this matter,” Graham added.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is one of three committees looking into the issue of Russian meddling in the 2016 elections and any potential collusion by the Trump administration.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller charged former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn with one count of lying to the FBI, and he has also charged former campaign manager Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, and George Papadopoulos with making false statements to investigators.

Congressional investigators are closing in on Fusion GPS’s role in the FBI’s initial investigation of the Trump campaign.

Fusion GPS was hired by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee to dig up dirt on Trump. It hired Steele, who then took his research to the FBI, as well as to members of the media and Congress. Fusion GPS also hired the wife of a senior Justice Department official.

Investigators are examining whether the dossier — an unverified and salacious piece of opposition research — was used as part of a justification to get surveillance warrants on Trump campaign members, as well as to launch the whole Russia investigation.

The FBI had reportedly reached an agreement to pay Steele, but backed off once his name became widely known. It still reportedly paid Steele for “expenses.”

The left-wing media has painted the revelations as a “distraction” and an effort to discredit Mueller’s investigation, almost entirely ignoring or dismissing them as partisan attacks.

The New York Times reported Friday that Grassley and Graham’s decision to single out Steele “was certain to infuriate Democrats and raise the stakes in the growing partisan battle over the investigations into Mr. Trump, his campaign team and Russia.”

As the revelations have grown, current and former officials — likely at the DOJ or FBI — have fought back through leaks, arguing that the dossier did not start the FBI’s investigation, and that there were other sources, such as drunken statements by Papadopoulos.


Judge Denies Fusion GPS Request to Cancel Subpoena for Bank Records
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by WARNER TODD HUSTON5 Jan 2018Washington DC1,283
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A federal judge denied a request by Fusion GPS, the Democrat consultant company at the heart of the faked “Trump dossier” controversy, to quash a subpoena for its bank records forcing the firm to hand over the records central to the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 election.
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said the political research group’s case to prevent the committee from gaining access to the records failed to convince him that a restraining order and preliminary injunction should be issued, Fox News reported.

Fusion GPS attorney Theodore Boutrous Jr. said they would immediately appeal the judge’s ruling.

“Instead of focusing its efforts on Russian meddling in the presidential election, the Committee continues to misuse its investigatory power to punish and smear Fusion GPS for its role in uncovering troubling ties between Russia and the Trump campaign,” Boutrous said in a statement released on Thursday.

The House Intel Committee wants the records to see who paid for the faked “dossier” that purported to detail connections between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives before the 2016 election. Fusion GPS has already admitted that it commissioned the report written by British spy Christopher Steele.

Judge Leon issued a 26-page ruling denying Fusion GPS’s request to quash the demand for the records.

“Although the records sought by the Subpoena are sensitive in nature,” the judge wrote, “the nature of the records themselves, and the Committee’s procedures designed to ensure their confidentiality, more than adequately protect the sensitivity of that information.”

The judge also rejected Fusion GPS’s claims that releasing the records would violate their clients’ First Amendment rights.

“While the opposition research Fusion conducted on behalf of its clients may have been political in nature,” Leon added, “Fusion’s commercial relationship with those clients was not, and thus that relationship does not provide Fusion with some special First Amendment protection from subpoenas … the First Amendment is not a secrecy pact!”

BuzzFeed published the “dossier” in full after the election, but it was soon learned that neither the FBI nor the Justice Department was able to verify many of the assertions in the report.

The inability to verify any of the dossier’s allegations about collusion or conspiracy came during briefings with congressional staff, according to a November report by the Washington Examiner’s chief political correspondent, Byron York.


President Trump’s Poll Numbers Boom with the Economy
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CLEVELAND, OH - JULY 21: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives two thumbs up to the crowd during the evening session on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received the number of votes needed to secure the party's nomination. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Cleveland, including hundreds of protesters and members of the media. The four-day Republican National Convention kicked off on July 18. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Chip Somodevilla/Getty
by JOHN NOLTE5 Jan 20184,454

Despite the elitist media’s malevolent intentions to distract from President Trump’s historical successes in the first year of his presidency, word and the results are getting through to the only people that matter, voters. And the latest job approval numbers for the president reflect this.
Even the Gallup poll, which has been an outlier with its bad news, has Trump at 40 percent approve (55 percent disapprove) after weeks in the mid-thirties. One of the reasons Gallup is an outlier is that it polls all U.S. adults, rather than screen for registered or likely voters. For a time, Trump’s disapproval in this poll was over 60 percent.

The Rasmussen poll, one of the most accurate of the 2016 presidential election, shows Trump at a pretty healthy 45 percent approve, 53 percent disapprove. Better still, the president has been in the mid-forties going back to December 22.

The rebound can also be seen on the Real Clear Politics poll of polls. A few weeks ago, Trump was upside down with a dismal 37 percent approve, 58 percent disapprove average — or 21 points underwater.

As of today he sits at a much healthier average of 41 percent approve, 56 percent disapprove — or 15 points underwater, which is an overall improvement of six points.

But…

If you remove the polls taken before December 14, old polls that do not reflect the boom of good economic news or the passage of historic tax reform that came near the end of the year, Trump’s job approval average leaps to 44 percent and his disapproval drops to just 55 percent — rebound of 10 points since December 16.

While our elitist media continues its relentless and unprecedented attacks against Trump — obsessing over castle intrigue, the Russian collusion conspiracy theories, and chaos narratives, the American people are seeing something completely different in the actual, proof-positive results coming out of the Trump administration…

A booming economy, ISIS pretty much destroyed without us having to add a single boot on the ground (that we know of), regulations slashed, energy production and exploration booming, superb judges in record numbers confirmed, a stock market zooming to highs that seemed impossible only a year ago. Black, Hispanic, and overall unemployment sit at record or near-record lows. And so much more…

Trump is not only getting things done, as the indisputable results show, he getting these big things done efficiently and competently.

And in the end, this is all the voters care about or should care about.

If America is great again, that tide lifts all boats and the media hysteria and propaganda becomes white noise.

Overall, Trump’s greatest accomplishment in his first year was in not allowing himself to be distracted by all the nonsense involving leaks, Robert Mueller, and an elitist media that has shown little regard for the truth (e.g. Last week’s narrative: Trump wanted to win so bad he colluded with the Russians to win. This week’s narrative: Trump did not want to win).
Rather than get embroiled in all the drama, he kept a close  eye on the only ball that matters — the economy. And not only is he better off for it, so is our country,


Black Unemployment Rate Hits All-Time Low
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In the month of December, the unemployment rate for black Americans dropped to just 6.8 percent, which is the lowest ever recorded. Prior to this month, the previous record was 7.4 percent in 2000.
The government has been tracking unemployment by race for 45 years, since 1972.

The Hispanic unemployment rate remains at a near record low of just 4.9 percent, up just a bit from the record of 4.7 percent in November of last year.

White unemployment sits at 3.7 percent, while only 2.5 percent of Asians are unemployed.

The overall unemployment rate is just 4.1 percent.

The number of jobs created in December was 148,000, which is lower than expected. Jobs are the lagging indicator in any economy, so with all the other numbers moving up, hopefully job creation will soon follow.

Average hourly earnings rose 0.3% from the previous month, and are up 2.5% when compared to last year.
With unemployment so low, job growth should mean wage gains. More jobs than people looking for them puts employees in the driver’s seat. Also good news for workers is the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration. This can only mean better wages and more job opportunities, especially for unskilled, entry, and blue-collar workers — those who have been left behind more than any other group.



Donald Trump: ‘Fake News Media’ Using Michael Wolff Book as a Weapon Against Me
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President Donald Trump challenged the media on Friday for their obsession with the new Michael Wolff book about his presidency.
“[T]he Fake News Media (Mainstream) and this phony new book are hitting out at every new front imaginable,” he wrote. “They should try winning an election. Sad!”
Trump suggested that the media was bored with the Russia investigation, saying that investigations over his campaign’s collusion with them were a “total hoax.”

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Well, now that collusion with Russia is proving to be a total hoax and the only collusion is with Hillary Clinton and the FBI/Russia, the Fake News Media (Mainstream) and this phony new book are hitting out at every new front imaginable. They should try winning an election. Sad!
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“The only collusion is with Hillary Clinton and the FBI/Russia,” he added.
Trump has gone to war against the Michael Wolff book, calling into question it’s accuracy.
“I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book!” Trump wrote on Thursday night. “I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist.”

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I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist. Look at this guy’s past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve!
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Wolff: Trump Has ‘Less Credibility Than, Perhaps, Anyone Who Has Ever Walked on Earth’
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by IAN HANCHETT5 Jan 20186,616

On Friday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Today,” “Fire and Fury” author Michael Wolff fired back at President Trump’s criticisms of Wolff’s book and stated that people around the president describe him as childlike.

Wolff reacted to the president’s attorneys sending him a cease and desist letter by stating that this not only drove up book sales, but proves the point of the book. He added that it is “extraordinary” that a president would try to stop a book’s publication, and another president wouldn’t do this.

The discussion then turned to Trump’s tweet about the book. Wolff said he “absolutely” spoke to the president for the book and spoke to those who had frequent contact with the president.

He later stated, “[O]ne of the things we have to count on is that Donald Trump will attack, he will send lawyers’ letters. This is a 35-year history of how he approaches everything.”

Wolff also said, “I have recordings. I have notes. I am certainly and absolutely, in every way, comfortable with everything I’ve reported in this book.”

Anchor Savannah Guthrie then asked, “Would you release any of those recordings since your credibility is being questioned?

Wolff responded, “My credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than, perhaps, anyone who has ever walked on earth at this point.”

Wolff also responded to a negative profile of him that ran in the New Republic in 2004 that accused him of inventing stories by declaring, “I’ve written many books. I’ve written millions upon millions of words. I don’t think there has ever been one correction.”

After the discussion turned to the contents of the book, Wolff said that “100%” of the people around the president question his intelligence and fitness for office.
He continued that everyone described the president as like a child because of his need for instant gratification and the fact that “It’s all about him.”



Report: VP Pence Invites Sen. Flake To Lobby Trump For Amnesty
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by NEIL MUNRO5 Jan 20183,242
Vice President Mike Pence has invited Sen. Jeff Flake and other pro-amnesty Senators to meet with President Donald Trump next week as business-first advocates scramble to shift the president’s pro-American immigration priorities.
The invite was leaked to Politico:
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New: Pence called Flake today to personally invite him and other bipartisan immigration negotiators to the White House to meet with Trump next week
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The invite to amnesty-advocate Flake came just as his group of pro-amnesty establishment Senators split over Democrats’ refusal to accept any of President Trump’s popular immigration reform measures. Those measures include easier deportation rules, a border wall and an end to chain-migration and the visa-lottery.
The establishment group, which include Flake, split when Sen. Thom Tillis and Sen. James Lankford exited on Thursday, saying:
Over the course of the last several weeks, we have negotiated in good faith with Senate Democrats on a DACA agreement. Unfortunately, our discussions on border security and enforcement with Democrats are much further apart, and that is key to getting a bipartisan deal on DACA. Until that happens, we cannot accomplish the solutions our country needs and many families deserve. More work remains ahead
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GOP Senators Tillis and Lankford quit bipartisan pro-amnesty group b/c Democrats reject all of Trump's popular reforms, such as border security and ending chain migration. Exit leaves Colo. Sen. Cory Gardner as GOP amnesty cheerleader. http://bit.ly/2CFeLDP 
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Before Tillis quit, he told reporters at the White House in the morning that administration officials would offer a revised list of Trump priorities to the establishment group in a White House meeting next week. According to a report in Roll Call:

Lawmakers and the administration had settled on a general framework and the plan would be shared with Democrats as early as Tuesday.

“We are all going to have an opportunity to get in a room next week and everybody’s going to see the single version,” Tillis told reporters at the Capitol.

The news that Pence invited Flake and the other leaders came after Tillis’ prediction of a meeting next week.
The Thursday afternoon exit of Tillis and Lankford cripples the establishment group, which also includes GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham and Cory Gardner, and Democratic Sens. Richard Durbin and Michael Bennett.
The group split after Trump used a White House meeting on Thursday morning to show that he would not be pushed away from his election-winning immigration agenda, despite pleading by Graham, Tillis, and Lankford.
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House Freedom Caucus Conservatives: AG Sessions Has Lost Command, Should Step Down
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Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mark Meadows (R-NC) have written an editorial published by the Washington Examiner on Thursday calling for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to step down, claiming his recusal from any investigation into Russia and its connection to the Trump presidential campaign has crippled his ability to direct the agency effectively.
The lawmakers said that the alleged Russia collusion with the Trump campaign had “dominated the headlines” for the first year of the Trump administration despite the investigations coming up empty.

Jordan and Meadows, who is Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, wrote:

Let’s be clear: The absence of evidence is not due to a lack of examination There have been some six different investigations spent on the collusion narrative — more than the investigative efforts on former President Barack Obama’s IRS targeting of conservatives, the 30,000 missing Hillary Clinton emails, and Benghazi. And through all of that, there is zero (yes, zero) evidence of collusion.

The final straw, the lawmakers wrote, was the FBI leaks about Trump presidential campaign operative George Papadopoulos, which they said begged the following questions:

Question 1: If George Papadopoulos was central to the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign, why did the FBI wait more than six months to interview him in late January and again in February? And even if they were trying to keep the probe quiet during the 2016 election, why wait more than two months after Election Day?

Question 2: If Papadopoulos was so critical to the investigation, why did the FBI get a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, warrant on Carter Page in the summer of 2016 but not on Papadopoulos, the alleged central player?

Question 3: If Papadopoulos was key to a collusion investigation and evidence existed supporting that claim, why would Bruce Ohr, the former DOJ official married to Fusion GPS’s investigator, meet with Christopher Steele, author of the so-called “Trump dossier” hired by the Clinton campaign, before and after the election?

Question 4: Why would former FBI Director James Comey brief President Obama and President-Elect Trump on the contents of the Russian dossier, but not do the same thing on this campaign staffer’s alleged collusion?

Question 5: Why won’t the FBI answer questions from Congress on this very topic? Why do they continue to refuse transparency on whether they paid Christopher Steele for the Russian Dossier? We in Congress have asked them repeatedly to tell us what was in the application they took to the FISA Court to get a warrant for spying on the Trump campaign. Did they use the dossier in their application? This demands an answer.

“Perhaps all of these questions have answers that could help bring this Russian collusion drama to a close,” the lawmakers wrote.

Moreover, they cited the ongoing — and unacceptable — leaks by intelligence officials to reporters at the Times.

Jordan and Meadows concluded that Sessions has lost control.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself from the Russia investigation, but it would appear he has no control at all of the premier law enforcement agency in the world. It is time for Sessions to start managing in a spirit of transparency to bring all of this improper behavior to light and stop further violations. If Sessions can’t address this issue immediately, then we have one final question needing an answer: When is it time for a new attorney general?

Sadly, it seems the answer is now.

The Dayton Daily News reported that, in a television interview last month, Jordan accused the FBI and Justice Department of trying to keep Trump from becoming president, and he said the House Judiciary Committee is preparing to subpoena several officials from those agencies.

Jordan and Meadows also wrote in their editorial that the Russia collusion speculation has been a distraction from what President Donald Trump has accomplished during his first year in office: “Sadly, manufactured hysteria on this issue throughout 2017 has frequently masked the substantial accomplishments of President Trump’s administration — some that qualify as historic. The stock market has surged at levels not seen in nearly a decade. The Islamic State has been decimated in the Middle East. Our embassy in Israel is moving to Jerusalem, Israel’s undivided capital. Trump delivered on the largest tax cuts and overhaul to the tax code since the Reagan administration.”



Four Women Accuse ‘Crash’ Filmmaker Paul Haggis of Sexual Misconduct
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A civil lawsuit charging Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis with raping a publicist has prompted three additional women to come forward with their own sexual misconduct accusations, including another publicist who says he forced her to perform oral sex, then raped her.
One of the other women speaking out told The Associated Press that Haggis tried to sexually assault her. “I need to be inside you,” she recalled him saying, before she managed to run away.

Another of the new accusers said Haggis held down her arms, forcibly kissed her on a street corner, then followed her into a taxi. She said she later escaped his clutches.

When asked about the new accusations, Christine Lepera, attorney for the 64-year-old screenwriter of “Million Dollar Baby” and “Crash,” said, “He didn’t rape anybody.”

Haggis has denied the original rape allegation in a counter-complaint to the lawsuit, and said the accuser and her lawyer had demanded a $9 million payment to avoid legal action, which he characterized as extortion.

The plaintiff in the lawsuit, filed Dec. 15 in Manhattan, is identified in court papers as Haleigh Breest. The other three women subsequently came forward to Breest’s New York attorneys. They spoke to the AP on the condition that they not be identified for fear of retribution. The AP generally does not identify people who say they were the victims of sexual assault.

In separate interviews with the AP, the three new accusers provided detailed accounts of encounters they say occurred between 1996 and 2015. The women were early in their careers in the entertainment business when, they say, the Hollywood heavyweight lured them to private or semi-private places under the guise of discussing productions or a subject of a professional nature.
They all said Haggis first tried to kiss them. In two of the cases, they said, when they fought back, Haggis escalated his aggression.

The new rape accuser said she was a 28-year-old publicist working on a television show being produced by Haggis in 1996 when he called to ask to review photos from the show that night in her office.

“I thought it was odd, but I agreed. He was the ultimate boss. I didn’t feel inclined to say no,” she said.
When Haggis arrived, she said, everyone else had left the office for the night and he insisted they speak in a back office. She said Haggis began kissing her as soon as they walked into the room.
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Scott Adams Warns Donald Trump on Marijuana: ‘I’m Gonna Turn on This President’
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Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams warned President Donald Trump on Friday not to stop states from legalizing marijuana, warning: “I’m gonna turn on this president faster than anyone has ever turned on him.”
Adams said that Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s decision Thursday to rescind an Obama administration policy from 2013 that refrained from enforcing federal marijuana laws in states that had legalized the drug was not necessarily a bad sign for users of medical and recreational marijuana, since Sessions left discretion in the hands of each state’s U.S. Attorney. He did not order a crackdown by federal law enforcement on states that had legalized it.

However, Adams said that the decision to maintain marijuana as a Schedule I drug — the most dangerous category of drugs, with “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse” — was a worrisome sign.
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Scott Adams tells you why keeping marijuana a Schedule One drug is disrespectful to veterans. https://www.pscp.tv/w/bR5ilzExODgwMjU5fDFkanhYTVFwbm9vS1rVOPjEy2-kjL6PvuDmaw6_R1NmPq7NLGCPZw1ePWWgSg== …

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Adams cast the issue as one relating to the welfare of veterans– many of whom, he said, relied on marijuana to relieve symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He also recounted how using marijuana had helped him overcome suicidal thoughts in college, and had relieved him of stomach pain he had suffered with since childhood.

Adams drew acclaim for predicting Donald Trump’s victory in August 2015, and for interpreting the unfolding drama of the 2016 presidential election by explaining how Trump (and rival Hillary Clinton) were using persuasion techniques in their political rhetoric.

His recent book, Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter, expands the insights of the 2016 election to draw conclusions about human cognition more generally. He has developed a large following on Twitter and Periscope, and is quietly followed by Washington insiders for his insights and advice.

Eight states and the District of Columbia have made recreational marijuana legal, CBS notes. 29 states have made marijuana legal for medical purposes.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named to Forward’s 50 “most influential” Jews in 2017. He is the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.



‘Muhammed’ Is Third Most Popular Baby Name in Austria in 2017
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Europe’s growing Muslim population is revealing itself in surprising ways, with “Muhammed” coming in third place in most popular male baby names in Austria for 2017.
The Austrian daily Kronen Zeitung announced the statistics on 2017 male baby names Friday, with “Muhammed” moving up into third place, just behind the traditional boys’ names of “Alexander” and “Maximilian.”

For statistical purposes, the different spellings of the same name were grouped together, so Muhamed, Muhammet, Mohamad, Muhammad and Muhammad were all considered the same name, as were Elias, Elijah and Eliyas.

For girls’ names, Sophia, Sara and Anna are the most popular, according to statistics released by the evaluation of Municipal Department 23.

The most common baby names are an indicator of cultural change, the newspaper explained.

In 1968, for instance, the most common girls’ names were Sabine, Claudia and Petra, and the most common boys’ names were Thomas, Andreas and Christian. In the post-war years, Franz, Peter and Karl topped the list of boys’ names, while Christine, Brigitte and Elisabeth were the most popular girls’ names.

Great Britain’s Muslim population has grown so much that Muhammad has topped the list of names for newborn baby boys in the whole of England and Wales every year since 2011, when slight variations in spelling are taken into account.

In Austria the news is especially significant, given the multi-secular history of enmity between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and that of the Ottoman Turks.

In September 2016, the Catholic Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, declared that the ultimate aim of many Muslims is the conquest of Europe.

“Europe is on the verge of forfeiting its Christian heritage,” Schönborn said, adding that this loss is “not only economic, but above all human and religious.”

“Will there be an Islamic conquest of Europe?” the Cardinal asked during a homily in Saint Stephen’s cathedral church. “Many Muslims want that and say: ‘Europe is finished,’” he said.

The Cardinal’s statements held even greater significance since they came on the celebration of the Catholic feast of the “Holy Name of Mary,” which was instituted in gratitude for the liberation of Vienna from the Ottoman Turks.
The Battle of Vienna, between the allied Christian forces and 90,000 Islamic invaders, was waged on September 11 and 12, 1683, and marked the turning point in Europe’s 300-year struggle against Islam.

Senate Judiciary GOPs Request Criminal Investigation of Dossier Author Christopher Steele
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Subcommittee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have recommended a criminal investigation of Christopher Steele, author of the Trump dossier commissioned by Fusion GPS.
In a January 4, 2017 letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the committee wrote they had reason to believe that Steele, a former British spy, lied to federal authorities about his contacts with reporters regarding the dossier.

“I don’t take lightly making a criminal referral for criminal investigation,” Grassley said in a statement. “But as I would with any credible evidence of a crime unearthed in the course of our investigations, I feel obliged to pass that information along to the Justice Department for appropriate review.”

“Everyone needs to follow the law and be truthful in their interactions with the FBI. If the same actions have different outcomes and those differences seem to correspond with partisan political interests, then the public will naturally suspect that law enforcement decisions are not on the up-and-up,” he said.

“I believe that a special counsel needs to review this matter,” Graham added.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is one of three committees looking into the issue of Russian meddling in the 2016 elections and any potential collusion by the Trump administration.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller charged former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn with one count of lying to the FBI, and he has also charged former campaign manager Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, and George Papadopoulos with making false statements to investigators.

Congressional investigators are closing in on Fusion GPS’s role in the FBI’s initial investigation of the Trump campaign.

Fusion GPS was hired by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee to dig up dirt on Trump. It hired Steele, who then took his research to the FBI, as well as to members of the media and Congress. Fusion GPS also hired the wife of a senior Justice Department official.

Investigators are examining whether the dossier — an unverified and salacious piece of opposition research — was used as part of a justification to get surveillance warrants on Trump campaign members, as well as to launch the whole Russia investigation.

The FBI had reportedly reached an agreement to pay Steele, but backed off once his name became widely known. It still reportedly paid Steele for “expenses.”

The left-wing media has painted the revelations as a “distraction” and an effort to discredit Mueller’s investigation, almost entirely ignoring or dismissing them as partisan attacks.

The New York Times reported Friday that Grassley and Graham’s decision to single out Steele “was certain to infuriate Democrats and raise the stakes in the growing partisan battle over the investigations into Mr. Trump, his campaign team and Russia.”

As the revelations have grown, current and former officials — likely at the DOJ or FBI — have fought back through leaks, arguing that the dossier did not start the FBI’s investigation, and that there were other sources, such as drunken statements by Papadopoulos.


Judge Denies Fusion GPS Request to Cancel Subpoena for Bank Records
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A federal judge denied a request by Fusion GPS, the Democrat consultant company at the heart of the faked “Trump dossier” controversy, to quash a subpoena for its bank records forcing the firm to hand over the records central to the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 election.
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said the political research group’s case to prevent the committee from gaining access to the records failed to convince him that a restraining order and preliminary injunction should be issued, Fox News reported.

Fusion GPS attorney Theodore Boutrous Jr. said they would immediately appeal the judge’s ruling.

“Instead of focusing its efforts on Russian meddling in the presidential election, the Committee continues to misuse its investigatory power to punish and smear Fusion GPS for its role in uncovering troubling ties between Russia and the Trump campaign,” Boutrous said in a statement released on Thursday.

The House Intel Committee wants the records to see who paid for the faked “dossier” that purported to detail connections between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives before the 2016 election. Fusion GPS has already admitted that it commissioned the report written by British spy Christopher Steele.

Judge Leon issued a 26-page ruling denying Fusion GPS’s request to quash the demand for the records.

“Although the records sought by the Subpoena are sensitive in nature,” the judge wrote, “the nature of the records themselves, and the Committee’s procedures designed to ensure their confidentiality, more than adequately protect the sensitivity of that information.”

The judge also rejected Fusion GPS’s claims that releasing the records would violate their clients’ First Amendment rights.

“While the opposition research Fusion conducted on behalf of its clients may have been political in nature,” Leon added, “Fusion’s commercial relationship with those clients was not, and thus that relationship does not provide Fusion with some special First Amendment protection from subpoenas … the First Amendment is not a secrecy pact!”

BuzzFeed published the “dossier” in full after the election, but it was soon learned that neither the FBI nor the Justice Department was able to verify many of the assertions in the report.

The inability to verify any of the dossier’s allegations about collusion or conspiracy came during briefings with congressional staff, according to a November report by the Washington Examiner’s chief political correspondent, Byron York.


President Trump’s Poll Numbers Boom with the Economy
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CLEVELAND, OH - JULY 21: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives two thumbs up to the crowd during the evening session on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received the number of votes needed to secure the party's nomination. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Cleveland, including hundreds of protesters and members of the media. The four-day Republican National Convention kicked off on July 18. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Chip Somodevilla/Getty
by JOHN NOLTE5 Jan 20184,454

Despite the elitist media’s malevolent intentions to distract from President Trump’s historical successes in the first year of his presidency, word and the results are getting through to the only people that matter, voters. And the latest job approval numbers for the president reflect this.
Even the Gallup poll, which has been an outlier with its bad news, has Trump at 40 percent approve (55 percent disapprove) after weeks in the mid-thirties. One of the reasons Gallup is an outlier is that it polls all U.S. adults, rather than screen for registered or likely voters. For a time, Trump’s disapproval in this poll was over 60 percent.

The Rasmussen poll, one of the most accurate of the 2016 presidential election, shows Trump at a pretty healthy 45 percent approve, 53 percent disapprove. Better still, the president has been in the mid-forties going back to December 22.

The rebound can also be seen on the Real Clear Politics poll of polls. A few weeks ago, Trump was upside down with a dismal 37 percent approve, 58 percent disapprove average — or 21 points underwater.

As of today he sits at a much healthier average of 41 percent approve, 56 percent disapprove — or 15 points underwater, which is an overall improvement of six points.

But…

If you remove the polls taken before December 14, old polls that do not reflect the boom of good economic news or the passage of historic tax reform that came near the end of the year, Trump’s job approval average leaps to 44 percent and his disapproval drops to just 55 percent — rebound of 10 points since December 16.

While our elitist media continues its relentless and unprecedented attacks against Trump — obsessing over castle intrigue, the Russian collusion conspiracy theories, and chaos narratives, the American people are seeing something completely different in the actual, proof-positive results coming out of the Trump administration…

A booming economy, ISIS pretty much destroyed without us having to add a single boot on the ground (that we know of), regulations slashed, energy production and exploration booming, superb judges in record numbers confirmed, a stock market zooming to highs that seemed impossible only a year ago. Black, Hispanic, and overall unemployment sit at record or near-record lows. And so much more…

Trump is not only getting things done, as the indisputable results show, he getting these big things done efficiently and competently.

And in the end, this is all the voters care about or should care about.

If America is great again, that tide lifts all boats and the media hysteria and propaganda becomes white noise.

Overall, Trump’s greatest accomplishment in his first year was in not allowing himself to be distracted by all the nonsense involving leaks, Robert Mueller, and an elitist media that has shown little regard for the truth (e.g. Last week’s narrative: Trump wanted to win so bad he colluded with the Russians to win. This week’s narrative: Trump did not want to win).
Rather than get embroiled in all the drama, he kept a close  eye on the only ball that matters — the economy. And not only is he better off for it, so is our country,


Black Unemployment Rate Hits All-Time Low
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In the month of December, the unemployment rate for black Americans dropped to just 6.8 percent, which is the lowest ever recorded. Prior to this month, the previous record was 7.4 percent in 2000.
The government has been tracking unemployment by race for 45 years, since 1972.

The Hispanic unemployment rate remains at a near record low of just 4.9 percent, up just a bit from the record of 4.7 percent in November of last year.

White unemployment sits at 3.7 percent, while only 2.5 percent of Asians are unemployed.

The overall unemployment rate is just 4.1 percent.

The number of jobs created in December was 148,000, which is lower than expected. Jobs are the lagging indicator in any economy, so with all the other numbers moving up, hopefully job creation will soon follow.

Average hourly earnings rose 0.3% from the previous month, and are up 2.5% when compared to last year.
With unemployment so low, job growth should mean wage gains. More jobs than people looking for them puts employees in the driver’s seat. Also good news for workers is the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration. This can only mean better wages and more job opportunities, especially for unskilled, entry, and blue-collar workers — those who have been left behind more than any other group.



Donald Trump: ‘Fake News Media’ Using Michael Wolff Book as a Weapon Against Me
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President Donald Trump challenged the media on Friday for their obsession with the new Michael Wolff book about his presidency.
“[T]he Fake News Media (Mainstream) and this phony new book are hitting out at every new front imaginable,” he wrote. “They should try winning an election. Sad!”
Trump suggested that the media was bored with the Russia investigation, saying that investigations over his campaign’s collusion with them were a “total hoax.”

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Well, now that collusion with Russia is proving to be a total hoax and the only collusion is with Hillary Clinton and the FBI/Russia, the Fake News Media (Mainstream) and this phony new book are hitting out at every new front imaginable. They should try winning an election. Sad!
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“The only collusion is with Hillary Clinton and the FBI/Russia,” he added.
Trump has gone to war against the Michael Wolff book, calling into question it’s accuracy.
“I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book!” Trump wrote on Thursday night. “I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist.”

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I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist. Look at this guy’s past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve!
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Wolff: Trump Has ‘Less Credibility Than, Perhaps, Anyone Who Has Ever Walked on Earth’
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by IAN HANCHETT5 Jan 20186,616

On Friday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Today,” “Fire and Fury” author Michael Wolff fired back at President Trump’s criticisms of Wolff’s book and stated that people around the president describe him as childlike.

Wolff reacted to the president’s attorneys sending him a cease and desist letter by stating that this not only drove up book sales, but proves the point of the book. He added that it is “extraordinary” that a president would try to stop a book’s publication, and another president wouldn’t do this.

The discussion then turned to Trump’s tweet about the book. Wolff said he “absolutely” spoke to the president for the book and spoke to those who had frequent contact with the president.

He later stated, “[O]ne of the things we have to count on is that Donald Trump will attack, he will send lawyers’ letters. This is a 35-year history of how he approaches everything.”

Wolff also said, “I have recordings. I have notes. I am certainly and absolutely, in every way, comfortable with everything I’ve reported in this book.”

Anchor Savannah Guthrie then asked, “Would you release any of those recordings since your credibility is being questioned?

Wolff responded, “My credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than, perhaps, anyone who has ever walked on earth at this point.”

Wolff also responded to a negative profile of him that ran in the New Republic in 2004 that accused him of inventing stories by declaring, “I’ve written many books. I’ve written millions upon millions of words. I don’t think there has ever been one correction.”

After the discussion turned to the contents of the book, Wolff said that “100%” of the people around the president question his intelligence and fitness for office.
He continued that everyone described the president as like a child because of his need for instant gratification and the fact that “It’s all about him.”



Report: VP Pence Invites Sen. Flake To Lobby Trump For Amnesty
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Vice President Mike Pence has invited Sen. Jeff Flake and other pro-amnesty Senators to meet with President Donald Trump next week as business-first advocates scramble to shift the president’s pro-American immigration priorities.
The invite was leaked to Politico:
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New: Pence called Flake today to personally invite him and other bipartisan immigration negotiators to the White House to meet with Trump next week
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The invite to amnesty-advocate Flake came just as his group of pro-amnesty establishment Senators split over Democrats’ refusal to accept any of President Trump’s popular immigration reform measures. Those measures include easier deportation rules, a border wall and an end to chain-migration and the visa-lottery.
The establishment group, which include Flake, split when Sen. Thom Tillis and Sen. James Lankford exited on Thursday, saying:
Over the course of the last several weeks, we have negotiated in good faith with Senate Democrats on a DACA agreement. Unfortunately, our discussions on border security and enforcement with Democrats are much further apart, and that is key to getting a bipartisan deal on DACA. Until that happens, we cannot accomplish the solutions our country needs and many families deserve. More work remains ahead
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GOP Senators Tillis and Lankford quit bipartisan pro-amnesty group b/c Democrats reject all of Trump's popular reforms, such as border security and ending chain migration. Exit leaves Colo. Sen. Cory Gardner as GOP amnesty cheerleader. http://bit.ly/2CFeLDP 
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Before Tillis quit, he told reporters at the White House in the morning that administration officials would offer a revised list of Trump priorities to the establishment group in a White House meeting next week. According to a report in Roll Call:

Lawmakers and the administration had settled on a general framework and the plan would be shared with Democrats as early as Tuesday.

“We are all going to have an opportunity to get in a room next week and everybody’s going to see the single version,” Tillis told reporters at the Capitol.

The news that Pence invited Flake and the other leaders came after Tillis’ prediction of a meeting next week.
The Thursday afternoon exit of Tillis and Lankford cripples the establishment group, which also includes GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham and Cory Gardner, and Democratic Sens. Richard Durbin and Michael Bennett.
The group split after Trump used a White House meeting on Thursday morning to show that he would not be pushed away from his election-winning immigration agenda, despite pleading by Graham, Tillis, and Lankford.
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House Freedom Caucus Conservatives: AG Sessions Has Lost Command, Should Step Down
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Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mark Meadows (R-NC) have written an editorial published by the Washington Examiner on Thursday calling for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to step down, claiming his recusal from any investigation into Russia and its connection to the Trump presidential campaign has crippled his ability to direct the agency effectively.
The lawmakers said that the alleged Russia collusion with the Trump campaign had “dominated the headlines” for the first year of the Trump administration despite the investigations coming up empty.

Jordan and Meadows, who is Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, wrote:

Let’s be clear: The absence of evidence is not due to a lack of examination There have been some six different investigations spent on the collusion narrative — more than the investigative efforts on former President Barack Obama’s IRS targeting of conservatives, the 30,000 missing Hillary Clinton emails, and Benghazi. And through all of that, there is zero (yes, zero) evidence of collusion.

The final straw, the lawmakers wrote, was the FBI leaks about Trump presidential campaign operative George Papadopoulos, which they said begged the following questions:

Question 1: If George Papadopoulos was central to the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign, why did the FBI wait more than six months to interview him in late January and again in February? And even if they were trying to keep the probe quiet during the 2016 election, why wait more than two months after Election Day?

Question 2: If Papadopoulos was so critical to the investigation, why did the FBI get a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, warrant on Carter Page in the summer of 2016 but not on Papadopoulos, the alleged central player?

Question 3: If Papadopoulos was key to a collusion investigation and evidence existed supporting that claim, why would Bruce Ohr, the former DOJ official married to Fusion GPS’s investigator, meet with Christopher Steele, author of the so-called “Trump dossier” hired by the Clinton campaign, before and after the election?

Question 4: Why would former FBI Director James Comey brief President Obama and President-Elect Trump on the contents of the Russian dossier, but not do the same thing on this campaign staffer’s alleged collusion?

Question 5: Why won’t the FBI answer questions from Congress on this very topic? Why do they continue to refuse transparency on whether they paid Christopher Steele for the Russian Dossier? We in Congress have asked them repeatedly to tell us what was in the application they took to the FISA Court to get a warrant for spying on the Trump campaign. Did they use the dossier in their application? This demands an answer.

“Perhaps all of these questions have answers that could help bring this Russian collusion drama to a close,” the lawmakers wrote.

Moreover, they cited the ongoing — and unacceptable — leaks by intelligence officials to reporters at the Times.

Jordan and Meadows concluded that Sessions has lost control.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself from the Russia investigation, but it would appear he has no control at all of the premier law enforcement agency in the world. It is time for Sessions to start managing in a spirit of transparency to bring all of this improper behavior to light and stop further violations. If Sessions can’t address this issue immediately, then we have one final question needing an answer: When is it time for a new attorney general?

Sadly, it seems the answer is now.

The Dayton Daily News reported that, in a television interview last month, Jordan accused the FBI and Justice Department of trying to keep Trump from becoming president, and he said the House Judiciary Committee is preparing to subpoena several officials from those agencies.

Jordan and Meadows also wrote in their editorial that the Russia collusion speculation has been a distraction from what President Donald Trump has accomplished during his first year in office: “Sadly, manufactured hysteria on this issue throughout 2017 has frequently masked the substantial accomplishments of President Trump’s administration — some that qualify as historic. The stock market has surged at levels not seen in nearly a decade. The Islamic State has been decimated in the Middle East. Our embassy in Israel is moving to Jerusalem, Israel’s undivided capital. Trump delivered on the largest tax cuts and overhaul to the tax code since the Reagan administration.”



Four Women Accuse ‘Crash’ Filmmaker Paul Haggis of Sexual Misconduct
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A civil lawsuit charging Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis with raping a publicist has prompted three additional women to come forward with their own sexual misconduct accusations, including another publicist who says he forced her to perform oral sex, then raped her.
One of the other women speaking out told The Associated Press that Haggis tried to sexually assault her. “I need to be inside you,” she recalled him saying, before she managed to run away.

Another of the new accusers said Haggis held down her arms, forcibly kissed her on a street corner, then followed her into a taxi. She said she later escaped his clutches.

When asked about the new accusations, Christine Lepera, attorney for the 64-year-old screenwriter of “Million Dollar Baby” and “Crash,” said, “He didn’t rape anybody.”

Haggis has denied the original rape allegation in a counter-complaint to the lawsuit, and said the accuser and her lawyer had demanded a $9 million payment to avoid legal action, which he characterized as extortion.

The plaintiff in the lawsuit, filed Dec. 15 in Manhattan, is identified in court papers as Haleigh Breest. The other three women subsequently came forward to Breest’s New York attorneys. They spoke to the AP on the condition that they not be identified for fear of retribution. The AP generally does not identify people who say they were the victims of sexual assault.

In separate interviews with the AP, the three new accusers provided detailed accounts of encounters they say occurred between 1996 and 2015. The women were early in their careers in the entertainment business when, they say, the Hollywood heavyweight lured them to private or semi-private places under the guise of discussing productions or a subject of a professional nature.
They all said Haggis first tried to kiss them. In two of the cases, they said, when they fought back, Haggis escalated his aggression.

The new rape accuser said she was a 28-year-old publicist working on a television show being produced by Haggis in 1996 when he called to ask to review photos from the show that night in her office.

“I thought it was odd, but I agreed. He was the ultimate boss. I didn’t feel inclined to say no,” she said.
When Haggis arrived, she said, everyone else had left the office for the night and he insisted they speak in a back office. She said Haggis began kissing her as soon as they walked into the room.
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Scott Adams Warns Donald Trump on Marijuana: ‘I’m Gonna Turn on This President’
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Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams warned President Donald Trump on Friday not to stop states from legalizing marijuana, warning: “I’m gonna turn on this president faster than anyone has ever turned on him.”
Adams said that Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s decision Thursday to rescind an Obama administration policy from 2013 that refrained from enforcing federal marijuana laws in states that had legalized the drug was not necessarily a bad sign for users of medical and recreational marijuana, since Sessions left discretion in the hands of each state’s U.S. Attorney. He did not order a crackdown by federal law enforcement on states that had legalized it.

However, Adams said that the decision to maintain marijuana as a Schedule I drug — the most dangerous category of drugs, with “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse” — was a worrisome sign.
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Scott Adams tells you why keeping marijuana a Schedule One drug is disrespectful to veterans. https://www.pscp.tv/w/bR5ilzExODgwMjU5fDFkanhYTVFwbm9vS1rVOPjEy2-kjL6PvuDmaw6_R1NmPq7NLGCPZw1ePWWgSg== …

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Adams cast the issue as one relating to the welfare of veterans– many of whom, he said, relied on marijuana to relieve symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He also recounted how using marijuana had helped him overcome suicidal thoughts in college, and had relieved him of stomach pain he had suffered with since childhood.

Adams drew acclaim for predicting Donald Trump’s victory in August 2015, and for interpreting the unfolding drama of the 2016 presidential election by explaining how Trump (and rival Hillary Clinton) were using persuasion techniques in their political rhetoric.

His recent book, Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter, expands the insights of the 2016 election to draw conclusions about human cognition more generally. He has developed a large following on Twitter and Periscope, and is quietly followed by Washington insiders for his insights and advice.

Eight states and the District of Columbia have made recreational marijuana legal, CBS notes. 29 states have made marijuana legal for medical purposes.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named to Forward’s 50 “most influential” Jews in 2017. He is the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.



‘Muhammed’ Is Third Most Popular Baby Name in Austria in 2017
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Europe’s growing Muslim population is revealing itself in surprising ways, with “Muhammed” coming in third place in most popular male baby names in Austria for 2017.
The Austrian daily Kronen Zeitung announced the statistics on 2017 male baby names Friday, with “Muhammed” moving up into third place, just behind the traditional boys’ names of “Alexander” and “Maximilian.”

For statistical purposes, the different spellings of the same name were grouped together, so Muhamed, Muhammet, Mohamad, Muhammad and Muhammad were all considered the same name, as were Elias, Elijah and Eliyas.

For girls’ names, Sophia, Sara and Anna are the most popular, according to statistics released by the evaluation of Municipal Department 23.

The most common baby names are an indicator of cultural change, the newspaper explained.

In 1968, for instance, the most common girls’ names were Sabine, Claudia and Petra, and the most common boys’ names were Thomas, Andreas and Christian. In the post-war years, Franz, Peter and Karl topped the list of boys’ names, while Christine, Brigitte and Elisabeth were the most popular girls’ names.

Great Britain’s Muslim population has grown so much that Muhammad has topped the list of names for newborn baby boys in the whole of England and Wales every year since 2011, when slight variations in spelling are taken into account.

In Austria the news is especially significant, given the multi-secular history of enmity between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and that of the Ottoman Turks.

In September 2016, the Catholic Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, declared that the ultimate aim of many Muslims is the conquest of Europe.

“Europe is on the verge of forfeiting its Christian heritage,” Schönborn said, adding that this loss is “not only economic, but above all human and religious.”

“Will there be an Islamic conquest of Europe?” the Cardinal asked during a homily in Saint Stephen’s cathedral church. “Many Muslims want that and say: ‘Europe is finished,’” he said.

The Cardinal’s statements held even greater significance since they came on the celebration of the Catholic feast of the “Holy Name of Mary,” which was instituted in gratitude for the liberation of Vienna from the Ottoman Turks.
The Battle of Vienna, between the allied Christian forces and 90,000 Islamic invaders, was waged on September 11 and 12, 1683, and marked the turning point in Europe’s 300-year struggle against Islam.

Dow Jones Industrials Climb Above 25,000 for the First Time
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow Jones industrial average is trading above 25,000 points for the first time early Thursday, breaking another 1,000-point milestone. The market was rising broadly after a survey showed strong hiring by U.S. private businesses. Banks are leading the way as interest rates jump. European stocks are also rising.
KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor’s 500 index climbed 12 points, or 0.5 percent, to 2,725 as of 10 a.m. Eastern time. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 147 points, or 0.6 percent, to 25,069. The Nasdaq composite added 18 points, or 0.3 percent, to 7,084. The Russell 2000 index of smaller-company stocks gained 5 points, or 0.4 percent, to 1,558.

The Dow reached 24,000 on Nov. 30, just 23 trading days ago. Stocks have climbed since then as investors hoped the Republican-backed tax package would boost company profits this year. The law cuts the U.S. corporate tax rate substantially. The Dow broke through five 1,000-point milestones in 2017, on its way to a 25 percent gain for the year.

SURVEY SAYS: ADP said private U.S. businesses added 250,000 jobs last month as health care, retail and professional services companies hired more workers. The survey suggests businesses are optimistic about the economy and expect more demand. The government will release a jobs report Friday that covers both private companies and governments. Economists forecast that will show a gain of 189,000 jobs, according to a survey by data provider FactSet.

Meanwhile business activity in the 19-country eurozone reached its highest level in almost seven years. That’s based on a survey of manufacturing and services companies. One of the reasons stocks have done so well over the last year is the improved health of the global economy as European countries and both developing and advanced nations around the world experience better growth after years of struggles.

European stock indexes climbed. France’s CAC 40 leaped 1.6 percent while Germany’s DAX gained 1.5 percent. In Britain the FTSE 100 edged 0.3 percent higher.

BONDS: Bond prices sank, sending yields higher. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.48 percent from 2.44 percent. Banks made strong gains in early trading as increased interest rates mean they can make more money from mortgages and other loans. JPMorgan Chase gained $2.01, or 1.9 percent, to $109.51 and Wells Fargo rose $1.11, or 1.8 percent, to $62.67.

CHIP DIP: Intel continued to stumble after security researchers at Google discovered serious security flaws in its computer processors. It lost $1.90, or 4.2 percent, to $43.36 after a 3.4 percent decline Wednesday. Intel said it’s working to fix the problem and that it’s not the only company affected.

Rival Advanced Micro Devices said it believes its chips are safe and its stock jumped 83 cents, or 7.2 percent, to $12.38. Most of Intel’s rivals made big gains Wednesday.

Elsewhere among tech stocks, Google parent Alphabet climbed $11.30, or 1 percent, to $1,102.82 and Intuit added $2.44, or 1.5 percent, to $161.60.

MORE TESLA TROUBLE: Electric car maker Tesla again said it fell short of production goals for its new Model 3 sedan, which is intended to be its first lower-cost car. The shares skidded $8.47, or 2.7 percent, to $308.78.

ENERGY: Benchmark U.S. crude rose 7 cents to $61.70 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, used to price international oils, shed 7 cents to $67.77 a barrel in London.

ASIA: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 advanced 3.3 percent in the first trading day of the year. South Korea’s Kospi lost 0.8 percent while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng added 0.5 percent.

CURRENCIES: The dollar rose to 112.79 yen from 112.52 yen. The euro climbed to $1.2083 from $1.2018.
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Report: U.S. Manufacturing Had Its Best Year Since 2004
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A Computer Numeric Control (CNC) operator works alongside robots manufacturing gears at the SEW-Eurodrive Inc. production facility in Lyman, South Carolina, U.S., on Friday, June 23, 2017. Productivity in the U.S. rose only 1.1 percent last year and rather than being replaced by technology, more workers are being hired. Employers have added an average 159,000 new jobs a month so far in this expansion compared with 99,000 in the previous upswing. Photographer: Travis Dove/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTravis Dove/Bloomberg via Getty Images
by KATHERINE RODRIGUEZ3 Jan 2018413

U.S. manufacturing had its strongest year since 2004. The industry reported in December increased expansion over three months due to increases in orders and production, according to a report from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM).
The ISM report states that the factory index, a survey measuring factory activity, climbed from 58.2 to 59.7 over the past month and that a measure of new orders rose to 69.4, the highest recorded measurement of an expanding manufacturing sector since January 2004.

According to ISM, any reading above 50 points shows an increase in factory activity.

Tim Fiore, chair of the ISM manufacturing business survey committee, said he was optimistic about ISM’s latest report on the manufacturing industry.

“With a report like this, I can’t do anything but smile,” Fiore told the Kansas City Star.

The latest findings come as increases in domestic business investment, a rise in American household spending, and an improving global economy contribute to the manufacturing industry’s boom, Bloomberg reports.

Of the 16 industries reporting growth in December, the machinery, chemical, and computer and electronic products sectors reported the biggest gains.

The Federal Reserve notes that factory production increased by 2.4 percent over the past year, showing steady growth in the industry.

The report does not include the effect President Donald Trump’s tax reform initiatives would have on the industry, although the lower corporate tax rates are expected to facilitate more growth in the manufacturing sector.

Other industries, such as the airline industry, are already reaping the benefits of the newly-passed tax reform legislation.  Southwest and American Airlines announced that they would each reward their employees with $1,000 bonuses due to the corporate income tax reduction.

Report: U.S. Manufacturing Had Its Best Year Since 2004
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A Computer Numeric Control (CNC) operator works alongside robots manufacturing gears at the SEW-Eurodrive Inc. production facility in Lyman, South Carolina, U.S., on Friday, June 23, 2017. Productivity in the U.S. rose only 1.1 percent last year and rather than being replaced by technology, more workers are being hired. Employers have added an average 159,000 new jobs a month so far in this expansion compared with 99,000 in the previous upswing. Photographer: Travis Dove/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTravis Dove/Bloomberg via Getty Images
by KATHERINE RODRIGUEZ3 Jan 2018413

U.S. manufacturing had its strongest year since 2004. The industry reported in December increased expansion over three months due to increases in orders and production, according to a report from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM).
The ISM report states that the factory index, a survey measuring factory activity, climbed from 58.2 to 59.7 over the past month and that a measure of new orders rose to 69.4, the highest recorded measurement of an expanding manufacturing sector since January 2004.

According to ISM, any reading above 50 points shows an increase in factory activity.

Tim Fiore, chair of the ISM manufacturing business survey committee, said he was optimistic about ISM’s latest report on the manufacturing industry.

“With a report like this, I can’t do anything but smile,” Fiore told the Kansas City Star.

The latest findings come as increases in domestic business investment, a rise in American household spending, and an improving global economy contribute to the manufacturing industry’s boom, Bloomberg reports.

Of the 16 industries reporting growth in December, the machinery, chemical, and computer and electronic products sectors reported the biggest gains.

The Federal Reserve notes that factory production increased by 2.4 percent over the past year, showing steady growth in the industry.

The report does not include the effect President Donald Trump’s tax reform initiatives would have on the industry, although the lower corporate tax rates are expected to facilitate more growth in the manufacturing sector.
Other industries, such as the airline industry, are already reaping the benefits of the newly-passed tax reform legislation.  Southwest and American Airlines announced that they would each reward their employees with $1,000 bonuses due to the corporate income tax reduction.



Donald Trump Goes to War Against Michael Wolff Book
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In this July 24, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks about healthcare in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington. The top lawyers for 19 states will urge a federal judge Monday, Oct. 23, 2017, to force Trump's administration to pay health care subsidies he abruptly cut off earlier this month. State attorneys general, led by California Democrat Xavier Becerra, argue the monthly payments are required under former President Barack Obama's health care law, and cutting them off will harm consumers. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP/Alex Brandon
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President Donald Trump is going to war against Michael Wolff’s book, sending a cease and desist letter to his publisher.
The letter demands that Wolff apologize to Donald Trump for “defamatory statements” and demanding that they not publish the book.
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Trump’s lawyers also sent a cease and desist letter to his former aide Steve Bannon, complaining that he had breached his non-disclosure agreement.

The letter read:

On behalf of our clients, legal notice was issued today to Stephen K. Bannon, that his actions of communicating with author Michael Wolff regarding an upcoming book give rise to numerous legal claims including defamation by libel and slander, and breach of his written confidentiality and non-disparagement agreement with our clients. Legal action is imminent.

But according to Axios, Wolff spent a lot of time with Trump officials in and out of the West Wing, including with Bannon, White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and his deputy Katie Walsh. The book was sanctioned by the White House, although Trump aides are blaming Bannon for enabling Wolff.

Wolff has dozens of hours of recorded conversations with Trump officials even though many of them thought they were off the record.
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President Donald Trump is going to war against Michael Wolff’s book, sending a cease and desist letter to his publisher.
The letter demands that Wolff apologize to Donald Trump for “defamatory statements” and demanding that they not publish the book

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Trump’s lawyers also sent a cease and desist letter to his former aide Steve Bannon, complaining that he had breached his non-disclosure agreement.

The letter read:

On behalf of our clients, legal notice was issued today to Stephen K. Bannon, that his actions of communicating with author Michael Wolff regarding an upcoming book give rise to numerous legal claims including defamation by libel and slander, and breach of his written confidentiality and non-disparagement agreement with our clients. Legal action is imminent.

But according to Axios, Wolff spent a lot of time with Trump officials in and out of the West Wing, including with Bannon, White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and his deputy Katie Walsh. The book was sanctioned by the White House, although Trump aides are blaming Bannon for enabling Wolff.
Wolff has dozens of hours of recorded conversations with Trump officials even though many of them thought they were off the record.


Sarah Sanders Announces Ban on Personal Cell Phones at the White House
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by CHARLIE SPIERING4 Jan 20182,822

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced a ban on personal cellphones and devices in the West Wing, in an apparent attempt to block leaks from the White House.
“[S]tarting next week the use of all personal devices for both guests and staff will no longer be allowed in the West Wing,” Sanders said in a statement to reporters. “Staff will be able to conduct business on their government-issued devices and continue working hard on behalf of the American people.”

She added that the new policy demonstrated the Trump administration’s commitment to security.

Sanders’ announcement appears to be a reaction to the latest leaks in the explosive book on the Trump presidency by Michael Wolff, which capitalizes on insecure White House aides striving for influence.




Bill Maher Mocks Al Franken’s Accuser with Bob Saget Groping Photo
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Comedian Bill Maher tweeted a photo in which he appeared to grab the chest of actor Bob Saget, a reenactment of the now-infamous photo of disgraced Democrat Al Franken appearing to grope the breast of radio host Leeann Tweeden.
“These New Years Hawaii trips are getting weird — Saget, forgive me!” Maher captioned his tweet, which included an image of the HBO late-night host holding his hands over Saget’s chest while the seemingly unwitting comic slept.

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While many of Maher’s 10 million-plus Twitter followers found the photo amusing, several users condemned the Real Time host and slammed him for making light of sexual misconduct.

“Jokes about sexual misconduct are: easy, not funny, offensive,” one user said to Maher.

“Starting off the new year in an especially offensive and insensitive way, aren’t we Bill?” another user asked.

Tweeden published a photo last November of Franken appearing to grab her breast during a two week USO Tour in 2006. Franken apologized, twice, for groping Tweeden and called for a Senate ethics probe into his behavior.

While Tweeden said in an appearance on CNN that she “gladly accepts” Franken’s apology, scores of Democratic lawmakers had already begun urging the former Saturday Night Live star to resign.

Indeed, several women eventually came forward all of them accusing Franken of some form of sexual misconduct. Last month, journalist Tina Dupuy became the eighth woman to accuse Franken of sexual misconduct, writing in The Atlantic that he groped her in 2009 at a Media Matters party during Barack Obama’s inauguration.

Franken resigned from the Senate on Tuesday, after months of allegations and pressure to step down from several of his Democratic colleagues. He took to Twitter and applauded his successor, former Minnesota lieutenant governor Tina Smith, who was promptly sworn in on Wednesday.


German Government: Rise in Violent Crime Is Linked to Mass Migration
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by CHRIS TOMLINSON4 Jan 20183,719

A study conducted by the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs has found a direct correlation between the mass influx of migrants during the migrant crisis and the rising level of violent crime in Germany.
The criminologists behind the study looked at the period between 2014 and 2016 in the state of Lower Saxony and found that before the migrant crisis violent crime had only increased by 10.4 per cent compared to after the height of the crisis where the number had dramatically increased to 92.1 per cent, Die Welt reports.

Migrants have been shown to commit far more violent acts proportionally to their size of the population in Germany and according to the researchers, they accounted for suspects in one in every eight violent crime cases.

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Germany’s Merkel Defends Open Door Migrant Policy, ‘Important and Right’
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The authors give several potential explanations as to why the migrant crime rate is so much higher than the rest of the population, saying that most migrants are men aged 14-30 who are the age bracket most likely to commit violent crimes.

The study also notes that crimes that occur within asylum homes are much more likely to be reported due to the presence of social workers and security guards.

In order to combat the rise of violent crimes among migrants, the researchers say the young migrant men should be put in sports programmes and other social projects.

Criminologist Christian Pfeiffer, one of the authors of the study, also noted the lack of women in the asylum homes and said the all-male environments tend to devolve into “violent masculine norms of legitimacy”.

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Despite that, crime reports clearly indicate violent attacks still occurs in migrant homes despite the presence of women. In one infamous case last year an Afghan migrant killed the five-year-old son of a woman living in the same accommodation and was later shot dead by police. Female migrants have regularly been the victims of crimes, by their fellow migrants as well as those employed to protect them.

Since the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, cities like Berlin have seen migrants and non-Germans account for around half of all criminal suspects. Areas like Alexanderplatz or the Ebertplatz area in Cologne have been described as “no-go zones” due to the high number of young migrant gang members operating in them.

Asylum seekers have also been the alleged perpetrators of some of the most shocking murders in Germany in recent years, including the suspected rape and murder of Maria Ladenburger by 33-year-old Afghan Hussein Khavari and the recent fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old girl in Kandel.


BuzzFeed Scoop: Protesting Iranian Woman Not Part of Iran Protests
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My Stealthy Freedom photograph: This woman hung her scarf on a stick and waved it in the air in protest to compulsory hijabFacebook/My Stealthy Freedom
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Left-wing media website BuzzFeed News has falsely claimed that conservatives suggested that an image of an Iranian woman protesting without a headscarf – which has become the symbol of the women’s empowerment movement during the Iran protests – was taken during the ongoing Iranian protests.
The image was taken one day before the Iran protests began, as part of My Stealthy Freedom’s “White Wednesday,” started by founder Masih Alinejad. However, BuzzFeed referred to the image as “old,” writing, “People are using an old image of a woman without a headscarf to illustrate the Iran protests”:

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The photo of the unidentified Iranian female, waving a white hijab on a stick as passersby drive down Enqelab Street in Tehran, was taken on December 27. Protests began in Mashad on December 28, and the picture quickly made rounds on social media sites to motivate women to push back against the oppressive and restrictive policies they have been forced to live under since the 1979 revolution.

My Stealthy Freedom founder Alinejad told BuzzFeed, “There is no link between the photo and the protests. She made her lonely protest just a day before the uprising. We don’t know where she is but she has become an iconic picture of the Iran protests.”

However, the image has become the symbol of the protests. Many users on Facebook and Twitter have changed their profile pictures to the image of that brave woman in solidarity with the protesters calling for greater freedoms in their home country. Many international publications have used the image of that woman, who has been hailed a “hero,” in their articles. 

The UK’s Independent wrote a piece titled “Pictures showing Tehran woman removing hijab during anti-government rally hailed as symbol of defiance.” CNN has also highlighted the iconic image.

The BBC also noted, “Woman becomes face of Iran protests despite not being there.”

The BuzzFeed article highlights tweets from mostly conservatives, writing, “Once images of the woman started circulating, right-wing personalities started using them to further their own agenda, making comparisons between her actions and feminists in the West.”
However, these tweets never actually claim that the iconic image was part of the larger Iran protests.
These are the tweets BuzzFeed chose to highlight in its piece:
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NHS Crisis: Hospitals Full, Patients Wait Long Periods in Ambulances
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The number of people forced to wait long periods in ambulances rose dramatically during the Christmas period, whilst Britain’s hospitals were dangerously full.
National Health Service (NHS) figures show 16,893 patients waited more than 30 minutes in ambulances at Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments in the week before New Year’s Eve.
This represents a 42 per cent rise on the 11,900 which endured half hour handover waits the week previously. Those stuck for more than an hour almost doubled, shooting up by 95 per cent to 4,700 compared to 2,400 the week before.
In the same week before the year’s end, bed occupancy was at 91.7 per cent, the same figures also reveal, well over the 85 per cent level considered safe.
wenty-two NHS trusts hit bed occupancy of 100 per cent during the final week of December for periods of up to five days.

 
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The revelations come the day after it emerged that all non-emergency operations will be cancelled until at least February, as the worst NHS winter crisis in 30 years hits.

Around 55,000 planned procedures will be axed in an attempt to free up beds and a senior doctor claimed that patients are being treated in “third world” conditions in some hospitals.

A spokesman for NHS England told The Telegraph: “Hospitals, GPs, ambulances, and other frontline NHS services have been extremely busy between Christmas and New Year, reporting higher levels of respiratory illness and some indications of increasing patient illness severity and flu.

“These increased pressures were mirrored in the NHS 111 service.”
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EXCLUSIVE — Sadiq’s Response to Knife Crime Epidemic: £10,000 on ‘Knife Wands’ for Schools, But City Hall WON’T Track Uses or Knives Captured
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by JACK MONTGOMERY4 Jan 20183,925

London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s response to the knife crime epidemic overtaking his city has been to issue metal-detecting ‘knife wands’ to schools — but City Hall is not tracking how many times they are being used, or how many knives are being confiscated, if any.
Seventy-six schools across the capital are already using the wands, under what City Hall described as “Sadiq’s robust and comprehensive knife crime strategy”, and is “urging” more to take up his offer to provide them.

Breitbart London asked the mayor of London’s office how long the initiative had been planned, and whether it was a response the Mayor’s Office for Policing And Crime (MOPAC) figures, as well as where it has already been rolled out, how effective it has been in driving down knife crime, and how much it is expected to cost.

Mayor Khan’s office was also asked if he had any comment on the MOPAC figures, or on London’s rising crime rates more generally.

But the response Breitbart London received was evasive. The planning timeline was not disclosed, and information on how many times a school uses a wand or how many knives they actually capture is not being compiled.

Costs of £20,000 over two years (financial year 2017/18 and 2018/19, £10,000 each year) on a total of 300 wands (150 each year) were revealed — making the lack of tracking all the more remarkable.
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Sen. Orrin Hatch Announces Retirement
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by MICHELLE MOONS2 Jan 2018Washington, DC7,133

Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch announced in a video message on Tuesday that he will retire at the end of his current term — after serving four decades in the U.S. Senate.
 
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Hatch announced that there comes a time for each good fighter to hang up the gloves. “For me, that time is soon approaching.”
“After much prayer and discussion with family and friends, I’ve decided to retire at the end of this term,” said Hatch. He said he will miss serving in the Senate but looks forward to time with family, especially his wife Elaine.
“I may be leaving the Senate, but the next chapter in my public service is just beginning,” added Hatch.
Former Massachusetts Gov. and failed 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney has been widely speculated as a candidate to replace Hatch.


Iran Protests Turn Deadly: Photos, Video Show Demonstrators Risking Lives to Oppose Extremist Regime
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Iranian students run for cover from tear gas at the University of Tehran during a demonstration driven by anger over economic problems, in the capital Tehran on December 30, 2017. Students protested in a third day of demonstrations, videos on social media showed, but were outnumbered by counter-demonstrators. / AFP PHOTO / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)STR/AFP/Getty
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Protesters have been increasingly met with state-sponsored violence in Iran as they take to the streets to voice their opposition to the country’s hard-line Islamic government and its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The bloody demonstrations, the largest to strike Iran since its disputed 2009 presidential election, have seen six days of unrest across the country. The number of people killed has now risen to at least 21 after more violence against the extremist government on Monday night.
In response, the head of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court has warned that arrested protesters could potentially face death penalty cases when they come to trial, AP reports.
Iranian state television aired footage of a ransacked private bank, broken windows, overturned cars and a firetruck on Tuesday that appeared to have been set ablaze.
“Some armed protesters tried to take over some police stations and military bases but faced serious resistance from security forces,” state TV said. A sample of some of the images now being released of the protesters appears below:

In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside of Iran, people are affected by tear gas fired by anti-riot Iranian police to disperse demonstrators. (AP Photo)
Protesters recover as a wave of spontaneous protests over Iran’s weak economy swept into Tehran , with college students and others chanting against the government just hours after hard-liners held their own rally in support of the Islamic Republic’s clerical establishment. (AP Photo)
Anti-riot Iranian police prevent university students joining other protesters over Iran weak economy.  (AP Photo)

An Iranian woman raises her fist amid the smoke of tear gas at the University of Tehran during a protest driven by anger over economic problems, in the capital Tehran (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Iran blocked access to Instagram and the popular messaging app Telegram used by activists to organize in response to the growing spirit of protest, although some have still managed to use it to smuggle images out of the country.

President Hassan Rouhani acknowledged the public’s anger over the Islamic Republic’s flagging economy, though he and others warned that the government wouldn’t hesitate to crack down on those it considers lawbreakers.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, making his first public statement on the violence, claimed “enemies of Iran” had stirred up unrest using “cash, weapons, politics and intelligence apparatus to create trouble for the Islamic Republic”.
Despite the threats of physical violence, women in the Islamic republic have used the opportunity to call out for more personal freedom and a relaxation of strict Islamic rule and sharia law:
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Donald Trump: DACA Amnesty Activists Will Be ‘Falling in Love’ with Republicans
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President Donald Trump promised to deliver results for DACA activists who are demanding amnesty for illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children.
“Democrats are doing nothing for DACA – just interested in politics,” Trump wrote. “DACA activists and Hispanics will go hard against Dems, will start ‘falling in love’ with Republicans and their President! We are about RESULTS.”
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Trump’s comment signaled an effort to pry Democrats loose on the issue and signal good faith negotiations as he prepares to make a deal on the issue in January.

Previously, Trump signaled that he would demand funding for his long-promised wall in exchange for a DACA deal.
“The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL at the Southern Border and an END to the horrible Chain Migration & ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration etc,” he wrote in December. “We must protect our Country at all cost!”

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Trump campaigned extensively against amnesty in 2016, vowing to end DACA and DAPA.
“We will immediately terminate President Obama’s two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the Constitution to give amnesty to approximately five million illegal immigrants,” Trump said in Arizona in his famous immigration reform speech.


Delingpole: All the Climate Change Movies that Bombed in 2017
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by JAMES DELINGPOLE2 Jan 20182,134
Climate change was box office poison in Hollywood in 2017.
As Christian Toto reports in Washington Times, all the movies with environmental themes flopped.
These included:
Bladerunner 2049, where eco-systems have collapsed – presumably because of man’s selfishness, greed, and refusal to amend his carbon-guzzling lifestyle – and food can now only be grown under hermetically sealed pods.
Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner 2049 ( Columbia Pictures, 2017)
Mother!, where the Jennifer Lawrence character apparently symbolizes Mother Earth. According to the director Darren Aronofsky: “America is schizophrenic. We go from backing the Paris climate [accord] to eight months later pulling out. It’s tragic, but in many ways, we’ve revealed who the enemy is and now we can go attack it.”
Jennifer Lawrence in Mother! ( Protozoa Pictures, 2017)
Geostorm, where the world is all but destroyed by the weather-controlling satellites which were designed to save it. (So: quite accurate, actually by Hollywood standards. A fine and plausible depiction of the unintended consequences of idiot, well-meaning scientists who think they have the power to ‘combat’ the natural process of ‘climate change’).
Geostorm (2017, Warner Bros.)
Downsizing, where the eco-friendly Norwegians develop an ingenious way of coping with overpopulation: a ray which shrinks you to a fraction of your normal size, thus enabling humans to live more sustainably and deplete scarce resources at a much slower rate.
Matt Damon, Udo Kier, and Christoph Waltz in Downsizing (Paramount Pictures, 2017)
And, of course, the biggest turkey of the bunch:
Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, which opened at a measly four theaters in its first weekend and grossed $124,823.00.
Al Gore in An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power ( Actual Films, 2017)
By its seventh week, it was doing so badly that even Captain Underpants: the Movie — released six weeks earlier — was outperforming it at the box office. Its takings were a fraction of its predecessor’s, An Inconvenient Truth.
Perhaps audiences had simply had enough of Gore’s scaremongering, as summed up in this scathing review in the Australian by Maurice Newman:
It continues the scaremongering of Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. Like the first, it’s full of scary weather videos and features, Gore reminding us that we are at a tipping point with the result that our children will inherit a world of “stronger storms, wor­sening floods, deeper droughts, mega-fires, tropical diseases spreading through vulnerable populations in all parts of the Earth, melting ice caps flooding coastal cities, unsurvivable heat extremes, and hundreds of millions of climate refugees”. Facts don’t stand in the way of a good story. But, then, most who consider this movie a “must see” will take delight in having their fantasies and prejudices confirmed.
The movie shamelessly promotes green tech, a field in which Gore is a successful investor. His advocacy and political access are believed to have made him the world’s first “carbon billionaire”. But that’s the self-serving nature of climate-change politics. It confers wealth and privilege on its boosters. Doubters are banished.
The dire performance of these movies would seem to confirm what many of us have long suspected about the misplaced priorities of the liberals inside the Hollywood bubble.
They’ve deluded themselves that they’re in the consciousness-raising business. (Hence, e.g., the new woke Star Wars installment).
We still think they ought to be in the entertainment business.
This is not going to have a happy ending.


New Year, Same Hate: Chelsea Handler Calls Trump ‘Sh*t for Brains’
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by DANIEL NUSSBAUM2 Jan 20182,299
Netflix talk show host Chelsea Handler rang in the New Year Tuesday much the same way as she exited the last one — by relentlessly attacking President Donald Trump on social media.
The 42-year-old Chelsea host accused the president of failing to adhere to unspecified security protocols in a tweet Tuesday morning, after Trump himself took aim at Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin in his own tweet over her handling of classified material.
“Disregarding basic security protocols? Like the ones you disregard every single day?” Handler wrote. “When is that annual physical, sh*t for brains? It’s like your brain is eroding day by day. Keep it up.”

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Disregarding basic security protocols? Like the ones you disregard every single day? When is that annual physical, shit for brains? It’s like your brain is eroding day by day. Keep it up. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/948174033882927104 …
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Handler also called for Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) to resign over what she called his “cover up” of the probe into possible Russian collusion during the 2016 presidential election.

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We need to make @DevinNunes resign. He has lied to cover up and obstruct justice on the Russia probe. This is after he “revised” himself. Pls retweet. #nunesresign
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In October, Handler announced that she would focus on her political activism full time in 2018, after Netflix decided not to move forward with another season of her talk show. The comedian had already been one of Trump’s most outspoken celebrity critics, having led the Women’s March at the Sundance Film Festival in January and having regularly attacked both Trump and members of his family and administration on social media throughout the year.

Handler’s most recent target, before the New Year, was White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, whom Handler called a “harlot” before further sharing a video mocking her looks.

Handler also spent the last few days of 2017 tweeting about some of her apparent go-to topics, including “fake news” and the Russia investigation. She also speculated that Daniel Day-Lewis would make a good choice to play Special Counsel Robert Mueller “in the remake of the upcoming impeachment.”
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I just can’t believe how stupid our current president is. Every night I come home, mostly shitfaced, and think, “wow, he really is that stupid...and sober.”
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We didn’t have FAKE NEWS until we got stuck with this FAKE PRESIDENT. No one attacks the media who isn’t trying to hide stuff. This man lies day in and day out, and somehow that’s ok for every single person in his administration. Why? Does Russia have you all? Silence is guilt.
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Daniel Day Lewis in the Phantom is so good. He and Robert Mueller are my two main man crushes. Hoping to see more of both of their genius at work in 2018. Perhaps Lewis can play Mueller in the remake of the upcoming impeachment! #thingstohopefor
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Handler is apparently set to continue working with Netflix this year on a political documentary, describing the project in October as one in which she will “engage with people I don’t talk with enough – people of different ethnicities, religions and political philosophies.”
No release date has been set for the documentary.


Sadiq’s London: Knife Crime, Gun Crime, Theft, Burglary, Rape, Homicide all MASSIVELY Up
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Britain’s media celebrated in droves when London elected its first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, in May 2016.
Now the cacophony caused by the “we’re not racist” backslapping has ended, the true implications of a Khan mayoralty are being realised.
In Britain’s capital over the past year, Khan presided over rises in knife crime, gun crime, theft, burglary, rape, homicide, and more. And not just by a little bit, either.
Some in the media — by which I mean basically just me — predicted Khan might be a disaster for London, but the extent to which this is true was beyond even our worst nightmares.
Parking the anecdotal evidence of Khan giving preference to genital mutilation-linked groups, and using his platform to agitate against the U.S. President, the statistics reveal a terrifying incompetence in keeping London safe — one of the mayor’s core areas of responsibility.
Data from the Mayor of London’s Police and Crime Office — led by former lobbyist-turned-Deputy Mayor Sophie Linden — reveals a sharp uptick in violent crime in Khan’s first year.
From the years 2015/16 to 2016/17, homicides in London rose by 27.1 per cent. Youth homicide jumped 70 per cent. Serious youth violence was up 19 per cent. Robbery was up 33.4 per cent, while home burglaries rose by 18.7 per cent.
Theft went up by over 10,000 incidents in a year, up 33.9 per cent, and there were more than 4,000 additional knife crime incidents under Khan than under his predecessor, a rise of 31.3 per cent.
Rape in the capital rose by 18.3 per cent, while there were 2,551 incidents of gun crime, representing a rise of 16.3 per cent on the previous year.
The Mayor has continuously blamed central government “police cuts” for the problems faced, but statistics reveal London only lost around 1,000 police officers (3 per cent) in the past year, reducing the workforce from 31,343 to 30,379.
The report compares November to October data from the years 2015/16 and 2016/17.
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‘Cowardly and Criminal Lynching of Police’: France NYE Mob Attack on Female Officer Caught on Video
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New Year’s Eve celebrations in France led to national outcry after footage of a female police officer being savagely attacked surfaced, among reports that over 1,000 cars were burned overnight and 510 arrests took place.
The female police officer was attacked alongside her male inspector in the Paris suburb of Champigny-sur-Marne by a large mob in the early hours of Monday morning, with both individuals being hospitalised.
In the footage widely shared to social media, a large group of African appearance males stand around cheering as a female police officer is kicked to the ground, taking several blows to the head. In other parts of social media footage shared by Front National member of parliament Gilbert Collard, men cheer as cars are rolled over.
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Champigny-sur-Marne : une policière lynchée par "une foule". Il est temps de réagir, s'il n'est pas trop tard ; plus de parole, mais des décisions et des actions répressives. Indéfectible soutien à la police. https://vimeo.com/249302644 
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France’s RTL reports the officers had become isolated from their colleagues while trying to calm a disturbance related to a New Year’s party in the Parisian suburb. While reinforcements were quickly deployed, with officers using “grenades and gunfire” to disperse the crowd, it was too late for the attacked officers to escape injury. Several government vehicles including two fire engines were also damaged during the unrest.
Champigny-sur-Marne, which is the home of three “Zones Urbaines Sensibles” — French government language for areas of extreme deprivation which are known in common discourse as heavily migrant-populated No Go Zones — is also the former home of suspected French Islamic State executioner Michael Dos Santos.
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French President Emmanuel Macron spoke out against the violence on Monday afternoon, remarking: “The culprits of the cowardly and criminal lynching of the police doing their duty on the night of December 31st will be found and punished. Force will sustain the law. Honor to the police and full support to all officers crudely attacked.”
Macron’s comments were followed by remarks by the French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, who decried the “society of violence” and called for police forces to be strengthened. Calling out particular “neighbourhoods” where violence was able to flourish, the interior minister described a situation in some areas where fire crews could not even enter without a police escort, reports Le Express.
No arrests have been made.
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Baltimore Only Got Half a Day in Before Suffering Its First Murders for 2018
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by WARNER TODD HUSTON2 Jan 2018Baltimore, MD2,251
The new year was only 16 hours old before Baltimore, Maryland, racked up its first murders of 2018. This news comes on the tail of a 2017 that saw the city suffer its highest murder rates ever.
Two residents were killed, one just before 4PM on January 1, and the other two hours later, according to Baltimore’s CBS affiliate.
Baltimore Police reported that the first murder occurred in the 2000 block of Eagle St. on New Year’s Day at 3:40 PM. The victim was shot in the neck and taken to the hospital where he later died.

The second victim was shot and killed in a parking lot in the 5100 block of Goodnow Rd, police said.

In the second incident, another man was wounded but is now in stable condition.

The two latest murders started the clock running for 2018, but 2017 already rang in with the city’s worst murder rate ever.

Eve as the number of residents in the city declined, the murder rate has spun out of control, CBS reported.

“A surge of homicides in the starkly divided city resulted in 343 killings in 2017, bringing the annual homicide rate to its highest ever – roughly 56 killings per 100,000 people,” CBS said. “Baltimore, which has shrunk over decades, currently has about 615,000 inhabitants.”

The murder rate has climbed during each of the last three years best by demonstrations by Black Lives Matter-styled groups protesting the city’s police. For years, now, these BLM groups have demanded that police be pulled back from the neighborhoods, and the city has obliged.

But now, despite city officials obeying the desires of residents, African American activists are complaining that police have abandoned their duty and allowed the murder rate to spin out of control.
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Yahoo Finance: The NFL’s Terrible 2017 May Have Shown That the League Is Done Growing
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by WARNER TODD HUSTON2 Jan 2018137
Yahoo! Finance Senior Writer Daniel Roberts took stock of the kind of year the NFL had in 2017, and found that it was none too kind to the league. However, even though the league appears to be on a downward trend, Roberts says the league isn’t dying; but it may have hit a “plateau.”
Roberts went through a litany of reasons why the NFL had a terrible year in 2017, naming all the woes the league faced on its trend to the bottom of America’s professional sports scene. But he also noted that despite its fall from its once lofty perch as far and away the most popular sport, the NFL is still a huge draw on TV and is still earning billions.

In his December 30 analysis, Roberts started out rounding up the NFL’s negatives for 2017:
Primetime television ratings are down nearly 10% overall on average this season; players took up the mantle of Colin Kaepernick from last season and began kneeling or raising a fist during the national anthem to protest police brutality, alienating some fans and forcing NFL corporate sponsors to take sides; President Trump fueled the political narrative by targeting the league in tweets and at live rallies; and a polling firm says the NFL is now one of the most divisive brands in America.
The writer also noted that “Fewer Americans now identify themselves as football fans compared to five years ago, while fans of the NBA and NHL have grown, according to Gallup.”
Roberts goes on to say that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was able to secure a contract extension despite his failures. But his failures also didn’t add up to a breach of his contract particulars, so the owners gave him another shot.

From there Roberts lays out a series of reasons why the NFL faced harsh headwinds in 2017 and beyond.

A tough one for the NFL is “cord-cutting,” Roberts notes. That is the act of sports fans who are canceling their TV services whether it be cable or satellite. These fans are forming a habit of just watching highlights on streaming services or the Internet instead of watching entire games as they check out from past TV watching habits.

Though, Roberts also notes that at this point cord-cutting still hasn’t toppled the NFL from being the number one show on TV. Roberts says, “it’s important to remember that NFL games still dominate other live programming. 44 of the best-rated primetime TV programs of 2017 were NFL games.”

As far as Roberts is concerned, rumors of the NFL’s death are exaggerated.

So don’t believe screaming headlines that declare the death of the NFL. The NFL is hardly dead or even dying — but it may have already hit its zenith of popularity. And the truth no one wants to acknowledge is that the NFL could afford to take a small haircut in viewership, and maybe even revenue, and still remain a major force in American pro sports.

Roberts went on from there to list several other problems facing the league. From too much political divisiveness to too many games (causing “saturation” among fans) to a continuing problem with head injuries and player safety, the league faces a series of hurdles moving forward which is challenging its spot as America’s top sport.
Roberts ends with a pointed question:
The biggest question about the major American pro sports leagues in the next few years will be: For how much longer can the NFL remain the most popular league? Super Bowl 52 will be a good indicator, since the audience size for the Super Bowl is generally not dependent on what happened in the regular season.
The trends are already downward for the NFL, will the Super Bowl help change that trend?
Stay tuned.


Book: Steve Bannon Calls Kushner, Manafort, Don Jr. Trump Tower Meeting with Russians ‘Treasonous’
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by BREITBART NEWS3 Jan 201816,131

Former Trump Chief Strategist Steve Bannon describes Don Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort’s infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians during the 2016 campaign as “unpatriotic” and “treasonous,” according to a new book by Michael Wolff called Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
David Smith reports in the Guardian:
[Bannon] is particularly scathing about a June 2016 meeting involving Trump’s son Donald Jr, son-in-law Jared Kushner, then campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in New York. A trusted intermediary had promised documents that would “incriminate” rival Hillary Clinton but instead of alerting the FBI to a potential assault on American democracy by a foreign power, Trump Jr replied in an email: “I love it.”
The meeting was revealed by the New York Times in July last year, prompting Trump Jr to say no consequential material was produced. Soon after, Wolff writes, Bannon remarked mockingly: “The three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the 25th floor – with no lawyers. They didn’t have any lawyers.
“Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad shit, and I happen to think it’s all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately.”
Bannon went on, Wolff writes, to say that if any such meeting had to take place, it should have been set up “in a Holiday Inn in Manchester, New Hampshire, with your lawyers who meet with these people”. Any information, he said, could then be “dump[ed] … down to Breitbart or something like that, or maybe some other more legitimate publication”.

Bannon added: “You never see it, you never know it, because you don’t need to … But that’s the brain trust that they had.”
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REPORT: Bannon Says Mueller Investigation Will Target Kushner, Manafort’s ‘Greasy’ Money Laundering Deals
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Former Trump Chief Strategist Steve Bannon says the Mueller investigation is targeting the alleged “greasy” money laundering of Trump associates like Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort as a path to attack President Trump, according to a new book by Michael Wolff called Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
David Smith reports in the Guardian:
Bannon has criticised Trump’s decision to fire Comey. In Wolff’s book, obtained by the Guardian ahead of publication from a bookseller in New England, he suggests White House hopes for a quick end to the Mueller investigation are gravely misplaced.
“You realise where this is going,” he is quoted as saying. “This is all about money laundering. Mueller chose [senior prosecutor Andrew] Weissmann first and he is a money-laundering guy. Their path to fucking Trump goes right through Paul Manafort, Don Jr and Jared Kushner … It’s as plain as a hair on your face.”
Last month it was reported that federal prosecutors had subpoenaed records from Deutsche Bank, the German financial institution that has lent hundreds of millions of dollars to the Kushner property empire. Bannon continues: “It goes through Deutsche Bank and all the Kushner shit. The Kushner shit is greasy. They’re going to go right through that. They’re going to roll those two guys up and say play me or trade me.”
Scorning apparent White House insouciance, Bannon reaches for a hurricane metaphor: “They’re sitting on a beach trying to stop a Category Five.”
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Donald Trump Furious: Steve Bannon ‘Not Only Lost His Job, He Lost His Mind’
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by CHARLIE SPIERING3 Jan 201850,712
President Donald Trump responded personally to his former chief strategist Steve Bannon’s comments about his family members Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr.
The statement was released to reporters by press secretary Sarah Sanders prior to the White House press briefing.
The president unleashed a torrent of accusations against Bannon, accusing him of losing his mind after leaving the White House, and having very little to do with his presidency.
Trump also taunted Bannon for supporting Republican senate candidate Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race and losing to the Democrat.
“Steve doesn’t represent my base—he’s only in it for himself,” Trump said.
The president also accused Bannon for leaking false information to the media about his influence and importance and accused him of trying to burn down his MAGA agenda.
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Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party.
Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country. Yet Steve had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans. Steve doesn’t represent my base—he’s only in it for himself.
Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books.

We have many great Republican members of Congress and candidates who are very supportive of the Make America Great Again agenda. Like me, they love the United States of America and are helping to finally take our country back and build it up, rather than simply seeking to burn it all down.
After leaving the White House, Bannon returned to Breitbart News as chairman and the host of the radio show Breitbart News Daily on Sirius/XM Patriot.


Book: Donald Trump Mocked Key Early White House Staff, Thought ‘Jared and Ivanka Should Never Have Come to Washington’
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by CHARLIE SPIERING3 Jan 20181,853
President Donald Trump was frustrated with his early White House staff, according to Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
In phone conversations with friends, Trump would share his frustrations concerning members of his staff and the internal chaos that drove the White House.
Wolff reports:
When he got on the phone after dinner, he’d speculate on the flaws and weaknesses of each member of his staff. Bannon was disloyal (not to mention he always looks like shit). Priebus was weak (not to mention he was short — a midget). Kushner was a suck-up. Sean Spicer was stupid (and looks terrible too). Conway was a crybaby. Jared and Ivanka should never have come to Washington.
Wolff reveals that the small group of friends did not keep details of Trump’s calls to them confidential.
“He was a river of grievances, which recipients of his calls promptly spread to the ever-attentive media,” Wolff wrote about Trump.
The infighting between Jared Kushner, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon intensified as each jockeyed for favor with the president.
Trump fired Priebus and brought Gen. John Kelly in to serve as the White House chief of staff. Bannon left the White House soon after, and Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are serving a more diminished role in the White House. Sean Spicer also quit, and Kellyanne Conway remains a counselor to the president.


White House Blasts Michael Wolff Book as ‘Trashy Tabloid Fiction’
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by CHARLIE SPIERING3 Jan 20182,903
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White House press secretary Sarah Sanders released a statement condemning a new tell-all book about the Trump administration by Michael Wolff.
“This book is filled with false and misleading accounts from individuals who have no access or influence with the White House,” Sanders said.
Wolff cites more than 200 interviews with sources for the book and multiple meetings at the White House over a period of 18 months.
But Sanders decried many of those sources, including former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who returned to Breitbart News as chairman after leaving the White House.
“Participating in a book that can only be described as trashy tabloid fiction exposes their sad, desperate attempts at relevancy,” she said.
Stephanie Grisham, the Communications Director for First Lady Melania Trump, also denounced the book after it claimed that she was “in tears—and not of joy” on election night.
“The book is clearly going to be sold in the bargain fiction section,” she wrote. “Mrs. Trump supported her husband’s decision to run for President and in fact, encouraged him to do so. She was confident he would win and was very happy when he did.”
The book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, will be published by Henry Holt & Co. on January 9.



Mark Meadows Draws Line in Sand: No DACA Amnesty in Spending Bill
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Rep. Mark Meadows, (R-NC 11th District) and chair of the Freedom Caucus, speaks at President Trump's press conference with members of the GOP, on the passage of legislation to roll back the Affordable Care Act, in the Rose Garden of the White House, On Thursday, May 4, 2017. (Photo by Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images
by MATTHEW BOYLE2 Jan 2018Washington, DC6,589

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, on Tuesday said there should be no Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty deal contained within the government funding bill coming up in January.
The important move by Meadows aims to take government shutdown leverage away from Democrats in the upcoming DACA battles — something that President Donald Trump alluded to on Tuesday morning on Twitter when he bashed Democrats for not being serious about DACA solutions.
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Democrats are doing nothing for DACA - just interested in politics. DACA activists and Hispanics will go hard against Dems, will start “falling in love” with Republicans and their President! We are about RESULTS.
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Meadows, in an interview with MSNBC host Chuck Todd, said that a DACA deal is in the works and being discussed.
“We have been working closely with the administration and some of my Democrat colleagues, even some Republicans that perhaps are more moderate than I would be, because the president set a deadline in March to deal with the 674,000 people that had deferred action,” Meadows said. “So, we’re going to get a deal. We have been working behind the scenes not only with members but with the White House as well to try to do that. But the president has been very specific on what he wants to see.”

Meadows noted that three “critically important” parts to any deal include the president’s planned wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, an end to chain migration, and a stop to the visa lottery — along with more general border and interior enforcement measures. Trump laid this out on Twitter last week.
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The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL at the Southern Border and an END to the horrible Chain Migration & ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration etc. We must protect our Country at all cost!
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Meadows added that there is no way there can be any kind of “last minute scenario” whereby only amnesty for the DACA recipients happens without an end to chain migration, a stop to the visa lottery, and funding for the president’s planned border wall. The reason for that, he said, is that doing just an amnesty without stopping the flow of future illegal immigration will not solve the problem.
“If you deal with those 600,000 individuals without changing the fundamental reason why they are here and the fact that — we’ll just be dealing with it again,” Meadows said. “You have seen previous administrations, both Democrat and Republican, try to deal with it. And they have never been able to deal with it. Let’s go ahead, once and for all. Let’s do something historic and make sure we address it.”
But the most important thing Meadows said in the interview was that DACA should not be connected to the government funding bill. “How connected to the government funding bill is DACA now? This Jan. 19 expiration date, does DACA have to be agreed on before that? Is that your deadline?” Todd asked Meadows.
“Well, no, I think if you talk to Democrats, they are going to want to attach to it that funding,” Meadows replied. “Conservatives have said let’s keep as a separate issue. I’m hopeful that—“
“So you think March is the real deadline?” Todd pressed Meadows.
“March is the real deadline,” Meadows responded. “You are not even talking about any deportation until months after that even if we hit that deadline. But we are really looking at March. But the other part is I’m encouraging our leadership to go ahead and do something bold in the next two weeks. So let’s go ahead and have the debates and let’s discuss and it see if we can get a bipartisan agreement.”
Meadows added that he would like to see congressional leadership move forward on a plan that addresses President Trump’s concerns this month, in January.
“Yeah, in the House,” Meadows said when Todd asked about whether he wants to get moving in January. “Because the Senate is slower to act. So, yes, I see it being dealt with long before infrastructure.”



Poll: Voters Show Massive Support for Trump Immigration Policies
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by NEIL MUNRO3 Jan 20185,217
A poll of likely 2018 voters shows two-to-one support for President Donald Trump’s pro-American immigration policies, and a lopsided four-to-one opposition against the cheap-labor, mass-immigration, economic policy pushed by bipartisan establishment-backed D.C. interest-groups.
The poll for NumbersUSA is another reminder to politicians that the business-funded ‘Nation of Immigrants” polls distract attention from voters’ private views, which were shockingly displayed on the evening of November 8, 2016.

The voters’ attitudes are critical as business groups, Democrats and some GOP legislators renew their push to persuade Trump to accept an amnesty of the 3 million ‘dreamer illegals — and thus drop his election-winning, pro-American policies before the 2018 election in favor of business-friendly, high-immigration/low-wage policies.
The December 19 and 20 poll of likely mid-term voters by Pulse Opinion Research asked respondents to pick from competing priorities, not just whether they want to welcome more immigrants or to declare support for the nation’s history of immigration.
That focus on priorities ensured the pollster revealed 64 percent opposition to the current wage-flattening, annual inflow of roughly 1 million legal immigrants, alongside just 17 percent support for those pro-investor, anti-employee policies. Voters were asked:
When businesses say they are having trouble finding Americans to take jobs in construction, manufacturing, hospitality and other service work, what is generally best for the country?  Is it better to raise the pay until they can attract Americans without jobs even if it causes prices to rise, or is it better for the government to continue to automatically bring in new immigrants each year to keep the costs down?
The wage-raising priority got 57 percent among voters aged 18 to 39, 65 percent among blacks, 64 percent support among Latinos, 71 percent support among Republicans, 62 percent support among Democrats, but only 56 percent support among post-graduates and people who earn between $100,000 and $200,000.



Labor Department Plans Drug Test Regulation for Unemployment Benefits
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Urine samples are seen in the foreground as a laboratory technician prepares samples of urine for doping tests during a media open day, ahead of the Vancouver Winter Olympics, at the King's College London Drug Control Centre, London, Friday Feb. 5, 2010. The drug control centre is the UK's only World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accredited laboratory to carry out doping tests on sports competitors. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP Photo/Sang Tan
by SEAN MORAN3 Jan 20185,911

The Donald Trump administration hopes to unveil a new Labor Department regulation in June requiring drug testing for unemployment benefits.
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Republicans used the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal an Obama-era regulation that limited states’ ability to limit drug testing for people who apply for unemployment benefits.
After President Trump signed the CRA repealing the Obama-era regulation, House Ways and Means chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) said:
President Trump just signed into law my bill that abolishes an Obama-era rule. After five years of battling with the Obama Department of Labor, states like Texas will now be allowed to drug test folks on unemployment to ensure they are job-ready from day one. This is a win for families, workers, job creators, and local economies.
Chairman Brady proposed the bill with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who sponsored the Senate version of the CRA.
American unemployment claims remain at a 17-year record low, and American consumer sentiment reached its highest level since 2000, according to the University of Michigan.
Republicans argued that the 2016 unemployment rule only allowed unemployed Americans to submit to drug testing if they were in occupations that typically required testing, which includes airline pilots, flight crews, air traffic controllers, commercial and public transit drivers, as well as any job that requires Americans to regularly carry a firearm.
The Labor Department signaled that it planned to issue a more expansive rule redefining which jobs will have to submit to regular drug testing for unemployment claims.
In the Trump administration’s roadmap for new regulations, the Labor Department stated that “states no longer have authority to drug test unemployment compensation applicants for whom suitable work is only available in occupations that regularly conduct drug testing for unlawful use of controlled substances.”
The Labor Department said that it will issue a notice of proposed rulemaking that “will identify the occupations that regularly conduct drug testing.”
Strategic Services on Unemployment and Workers’ Compensation President Doug Holmes said if they wish to be paid through state unemployment benefits, they need to make themselves able and available to work, and that includes passing a drug test.
Holmes suggested, “This is an insurance program, it’s not public assistance.”
Holmes then continued, arguing that the previous Labor Department rule was too restrictive.
He explained:
An individual has to be available and able to work. If they’re not available and able to work, week by week by week, then they don’t meet the requirements to be paid unemployment compensation benefits. If an individual has a significant problem that renders him or her unavailable to work, the appropriate response is to refer them to a place to get help. They should not be paid unemployment benefits.
The regulatory agenda said that the Labor Department plans to release its proposed rule in June.
Labor Department spokesman Eric Holland revealed that the agency is “diligently working on a new proposal regarding unemployment compensation drug testing that will be substantially different from the prior rule.”
“When it is ready, we will publish it in the Federal Register for review and comment by the public,” Holland added.

Labor Department Plans Drug Test Regulation for Unemployment Benefits
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Urine samples are seen in the foreground as a laboratory technician prepares samples of urine for doping tests during a media open day, ahead of the Vancouver Winter Olympics, at the King's College London Drug Control Centre, London, Friday Feb. 5, 2010. The drug control centre is the UK's only World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accredited laboratory to carry out doping tests on sports competitors. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP Photo/Sang Tan
by SEAN MORAN3 Jan 20185,911
The Donald Trump administration hopes to unveil a new Labor Department regulation in June requiring drug testing for unemployment benefits.
Republicans used the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal an Obama-era regulation that limited states’ ability to limit drug testing for people who apply for unemployment benefits.

After President Trump signed the CRA repealing the Obama-era regulation, House Ways and Means chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) said:
President Trump just signed into law my bill that abolishes an Obama-era rule. After five years of battling with the Obama Department of Labor, states like Texas will now be allowed to drug test folks on unemployment to ensure they are job-ready from day one. This is a win for families, workers, job creators, and local economies.
Chairman Brady proposed the bill with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who sponsored the Senate version of the CRA.
American unemployment claims remain at a 17-year record low, and American consumer sentiment reached its highest level since 2000, according to the University of Michigan.
Republicans argued that the 2016 unemployment rule only allowed unemployed Americans to submit to drug testing if they were in occupations that typically required testing, which includes airline pilots, flight crews, air traffic controllers, commercial and public transit drivers, as well as any job that requires Americans to regularly carry a firearm.
The Labor Department signaled that it planned to issue a more expansive rule redefining which jobs will have to submit to regular drug testing for unemployment claims.
In the Trump administration’s roadmap for new regulations, the Labor Department stated that “states no longer have authority to drug test unemployment compensation applicants for whom suitable work is only available in occupations that regularly conduct drug testing for unlawful use of controlled substances.”
The Labor Department said that it will issue a notice of proposed rulemaking that “will identify the occupations that regularly conduct drug testing.”
Strategic Services on Unemployment and Workers’ Compensation President Doug Holmes said if they wish to be paid through state unemployment benefits, they need to make themselves able and available to work, and that includes passing a drug test.
Holmes suggested, “This is an insurance program, it’s not public assistance.”
Holmes then continued, arguing that the previous Labor Department rule was too restrictive.
He explained:
An individual has to be available and able to work. If they’re not available and able to work, week by week by week, then they don’t meet the requirements to be paid unemployment compensation benefits. If an individual has a significant problem that renders him or her unavailable to work, the appropriate response is to refer them to a place to get help. They should not be paid unemployment benefits.
The regulatory agenda said that the Labor Department plans to release its proposed rule in June.
Labor Department spokesman Eric Holland revealed that the agency is “diligently working on a new proposal regarding unemployment compensation drug testing that will be substantially different from the prior rule.”
“When it is ready, we will publish it in the Federal Register for review and comment by the public,” Holland added.

Report: Expect ‘Full Trump,’ Unchained, in 2018
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President-elect Donald Trump during a rally at the Giant Center, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016, in Hershey, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP Photo/Matt Rourke
by MATTHEW BOYLE29 Dec 2017Washington, D.C. 4,644
If you thought President Donald Trump was great in 2017, you ain’t seen nothing yet: wait until Trump 2018, a report from Axios’s Mike Allen on Friday morning argues.
Citing multiple sources who have met or spoken recently with the president, Allen reports that those in the know in Washington should expect the “full Trump” in 2018—the president’s upcoming second year.
“If you ask some close to President Trump what worries them most about 2018, it’s not Robert Mueller’s probe,” Allen writes under a headline saying to expect Trump to be “unchained” in 2018. “It’s that establishment guardrails of 2017 come down — and Trump’s actual instincts take over.”
“Next year will bring ‘full Trump,’ said one person who recently talked to the president,” Allen adds.
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Trump: Post Office Should Charge Amazon More Money for Delivery
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by CHARLIE SPIERING29 Dec 20173,258
President Donald Trump believes that the post office should charge Amazon more money for delivering its packages across the world.
“Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages, making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer?” Trump wrote on Twitter on Friday. “Should be charging MUCH MORE!”:
Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump
Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages, making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer? Should be charging MUCH MORE!
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The president’s comment on Twitter continued his ongoing frustration with Amazon after they received record profits in 2017.
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Facing Record Cold Temperatures, Donald Trump Trolls Liberals on Global Warming
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by CHARLIE SPIERING28 Dec 201713,465
President Donald Trump mocked global warming alarmists on Thursday, pointing out on Twitter that the United States could use a little global warming after experiencing record cold temperatures.
“In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country.”
Liberals are frequently infuriated when global warming skeptics use cold temperatures to refute their assertions that climate change threatens the future of the planet. 
Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump
In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!
12:01 AM - Dec 29, 2017
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Trump added that other countries were prepared to pay “trillions of dollars” to prevent global warming.
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MORE ‘Will & Grace’ Star Debra Messing Praises Son for Sitting ‘in Protest’ During National Anthem
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by JEROME HUDSON29 Dec 20176,973
Actress Debra Messing posted a message to social media this week praising her son’s decision to sit “in protest” during the singing of the National Anthem before the start of a New York Rangers game.
The Will & Grace star captioned the conversation she had with her son, Roman, and ended the message with the Black Lives Matter hashtag:
“Please stand for the pledge of allegiance.” Son: “Mom, I want to sit down in protest. Can we do that?”
Me: “Yes, honey. We can do that.”
Whose crying? I’m not crying. #BLM”
Messing posted a photo of the boy holding his hand over his heart, as he sat in a similar fashion as the NFL players who have taken a knee during the playing of the National Anthem before football games.
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Drexel Professor Who Blamed Las Vegas, Texas Church Shootings on Trump and ‘Whiteness’ Resigns
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by TOM CICCOTTA29 Dec 20174,558
George Ciccariello-Maher has resigned from his post at Drexel University, claiming he was the target of a year-long harassment campaign over several of his controversial tweets.
Ciccariello-Maher, known best for his “All I want for Christmas is White Genocide” tweet, which he claimed was an attempt to poke fun at the paranoid fantasy that the left wants to decrease the amount of white Americans, has stepped down from his position at Drexel University. Most recently, Ciccariello-Maher was relegated to teaching online courses, as the university was concerned for his safety when he was on campus.
In the wake of the tragedy, Ciccariello-Maher baselessly blamed the Las Vegas concert massacre on “white supremacist patriarchy” in October this year.
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Mexico Marks 2017 as Bloodiest in 20 Years Despite Incomplete Cartel Crime Statistics
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by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ AND BRANDON DARBY29 Dec 2017Mexico City409
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — The raging cartel violence spreading throughout the country has marked 2017 as the bloodiest year since 1997 when the government began documenting such murders. The official figures, however, pale in comparison to reality since they do not account for the number of victims “disappeared” by cartel gunmen–including those who were incinerated or buried in clandestine graves.
The new statistics released by Mexico’s National Public Security System (SESNSP) revealed that for the year, the country suffered a total of 26,573 murders; 1,275 kidnappings; and 5,357 extortion cases. The 2017 murder total surpassed all previously recorded years since initial recording in 1997
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Dem Rep Speier: ‘I Don’t Regret’ Repeating Rumor That Trump Would Fire Mueller on December 22
by IAN HANCHETT28 Dec 2017565
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA) stated she doesn’t regret repeating rumors that on December 22, President Trump would fire Special Counsel Bob Mueller.
Speier said, “I first identified it as rumor.”
She continued, “I think it’s very important to tamp down any kind of activity that may be going on behind the scenes, and if it has a prophylactic effect, which may have happened here, then we have done our work. It’s my job as a member of Congress to call out when I see things that are dangerous to our Constitution, dangerous to our country, and our democracy. So, I don’t regret it at all.”
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Study: 27 Percent of California Youth Are Gender ‘Nonconforming’
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by DR. SUSAN BERRY28 Dec 201710,040
A new study released at UCLA finds 27 percent of California’s young people between the ages of 12 and 17 self-report that others view them as gender ‘nonconforming” at school.
The study – which has a margin of error of about six percent – was based on the inclusion of two questions in the California Health Interview Survey that were asked of 1,594 California young people between the ages of 12 and 17.
First, the young people were asked, “Are you male or female?” and, subsequent to that question, they were asked:
A person’s appearance, style, dress, or the way they walk or talk may affect how people describe them. How do you think other people at school would describe you?
Very feminine
Mostly feminine
Equally feminine & masculine
Mostly masculine
Very masculine
The authors categorized male participants who said others describe them as “very feminine” or “mostly feminine,” and female respondents who said others describe them as “very masculine” or “mostly masculine” as “highly gender nonconforming,” while those youth who responded “equally feminine and masculine” were categorized as “androgynous.”
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Terrorists Attack Coptic Church in Cairo, at Least Eight Killed
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Egyptian security members and forensic police inspect the site of a gun attack outside a church south of the capital Cairo, on December 29, 2017. A gunman opened fire on a church, killing at least nine people before policemen shot him dead, state media and officials said. / AFP PHOTO / Samer ABDALLAH (Photo credit should read SAMER ABDALLAH/AFP/Getty Images)SAMER ABDALLAH/AFP/Getty Images
by JOHN HAYWARD29 Dec 201769
A squad of terrorist gunmen attacked the Mar Mina church in southern Cairo on Friday, killing between eight and ten people and wounding at least five more, according to various reports.
According to the BBC, Egyptian police patrolling near the church approached two men who were behaving suspiciously. The police were fired upon. Three officers were killed in the ensuing gun battle, along with one of the terrorists. A suicide vest or explosive belt was found on the dead attacker, indicating a far more devastating atrocity was planned. Previous bombing attacks targeting Coptic churches in Egypt have killed dozens of people.
The UK Guardian cites Egyptian media sources that say at least one attacker was able to flee the scene, while another was overpowered and restrained by police and bystanders. Including the dead attacker, at least three people were involved in the terrorist squad.
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Florida Man Allegedly Booby-Traps Front Door to Electrocute Pregnant Wife
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by NATE CHURCH29 Dec 2017560
Michael Scott Wilson was arrested at his home on White Hall Drive for allegedly rigging his door to electrocute his wife and unborn child.
Police were alerted after a call from Wilson’s father-in-law, Jon Flositz. When they arrived, a man told deputies that Wilson had advised him not to let any children touch his front door. Authorities found burn marks around the doorknob and the door itself barricaded. It reportedly produced a spark when they kicked it down. They found an electrical device connected to the top door lock and lower handle, reportedly meant to harm the estranged spouse.
According to reporting by the Daytona Beach News-Journal, the affidavit described the intent of the trap: By inserting the key into the lock and then grabbing the handle, Wilson’s pregnant wife would have completed an electrical circuit and sent a current of electricity through her heart.
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