It’s no secret that the surge in Muslim economic migrants posing as ‘refugees’ who have been invading Europe, has resulted in a record-breaking number of car fires – otherwise known as ‘arson jihad’ – especially in France and Sweden. Now the Netherlands seems to be ‘under fire’ with more than 10 car torchings per day!
Voice of Europe(h/t Marvin W) The Union of Insurance Companies in the Netherlands is worried about the growing number of car fires in the country.
According to their statistics, the number has never been so high. With 2,808 car fires in the first nine months, 2017 is already a record breaking year, with 90 more car fires than in 2016 and 398 more than in 2015.
With 2,808 incidents in the first nine months of this year, 312 cars were burned per month: That’s more than 10 per day! According to a spokesman of the Union, most car fires are intentionally lit. They cost on average 10,000 euros per car and in total tens of millions of euros per year.
Most of these Muslim arsonists are of Moroccan origin. In addition to setting cars and other property on fire, they are pelting store windows with rocks and causing other public disturbances and vandalsim targeted at Dutch and non-Muslim residents.
Over the past decade car fires in Amsterdam, Culemborg and parts of Rotterdam have become a serious problem affecting the lives of people forced to live in the multicultural utopia of the modern Netherlands.
Officers with specialized training to stop suicide bombers will be on patrol at Sunday’s New Year’s Eve celebration when up to two million people will flood the streets of Times Square in New York.
In addition to its usual army of snipers, bag-inspecting officers and metal detectors, the department this year is relying on help from a growing corps of ‘vapor wake’ dogs, which are trained to sniff out trace amounts of explosive particles that trail behind someone carrying a bomb.
More officers will be positioned throughout the area this year and all parking garages in the vicinity of Times Square will be emptied in advance of the celebration and sealed off, so no one has a chance to sneak in a car bomb, police said.
As well, reflective markers will be placed on the outside of certain buildings with the goal of helping officers quickly identify where a sniper might be, the New York Times reports.
‘You will see an increase in heavy weapons, bomb squad personnel, radiological detection teams, and our technology to include over 1,000 cameras in and around the area of Times Square for the event,’ the NYPD’s chief of counterterrorism, James Waters, said at a news conference.
Officers involved in the New Year’s Eve security operation will receive a tactical bulletin and a training video on suicide bombers that they will be able to review on their department-issued phones starting Friday.
The training material will include instructions on protecting bystanders if officers suspect someone has a bomb and guidance on apprehending and disarming suspects with the assistance of the bomb squad, he said.
Detectives posted in hotels will keep an eye on guests, and additional emergency services and critical response teams will be on hand, Police Commissioner James O’Neill said.
O’Neill declined to say how many of the department’s 36,000 officers will work on New Year’s Eve, in order to keep would-be attackers guessing. In years past there have generally been 5,000; officers said there would be more this year.
People who want to see the New Year’s Eve musical acts and other entertainment up close in Times Square will have to pass by dogs trained to detect explosives and heavily armed officers, go through a magnetometer to check for weapons, have their bags inspected, and then repeat all those steps a second time.
Police will again use dump trucks filled with sand, police cars and cement blocks to close streets starting at 11am on Sunday.
Even so, police acknowledged a possible suicide bomber could manage to get close to large crowds of people before the checkpoints are set up. Asked how to stop someone in this situation, Waters said: ‘As a last resort: deadly physical force.’
Las Vegas
Homeland Security officials and the Las Vegas police department are gearing up for New Year’s Eve, which has been deemed a National Special Security Event this year.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo told the Los Angeles Times that there would be more snipers, aircraft surveillance and more than 4,000 metal barricades along the Las Vegas Strip, which will be pedestrianized for the celebration ringing in the new year.
The increased security comes even though the city expects fewer visitors this New Year’s Eve than in years past (334,000 people; down 1.2 percent from last year).
The Strip, along with the city’s McCarran International Airport, will be patrolled by 300 National Guard troops, Newsy reports.
Meanwhile, Nevada Department of Transportation officials told the Los Angeles Times that around $350,000 would be spent on protective measures.
‘Nobody puts on a New Year’s Eve show like Las Vegas, and never will it be as safe as it will be this year,’ a Clark County official told the Los Angeles Times.
Revelers will also not be allowed to bring large baggage into the pedestrianized section of the Las Vegas Strip.
San Francisco
After the December 20 arrest of a man who allegedly was inspired by the Islamic State to commit an act of terrorism at a tourist hot spot, the Northern California city is beefing up its New Year’s Eve security measures.
The nation’s second-most densely populated city will see ‘additional deployment,’ police said at at a news conference attended by San Francisco Gate.
Police said that will be ‘a very visible presence along the wharf area at Pier 39’.
The annual fireworks show along the Embarcadero will also see a greater police presence, ACB7 reports.
Police declined to cite specific counter-terrosim efforts in the interest of secrecy but also said there are ‘no credible threats’ to the city.
‘Our public needs to be able to do the things they want to do freely,’ Police Chief William Scott, with regard to terror threats. ‘We stop doing things that we as Americans or residents of this nation that we have a right to do, then we’re in the wrong place.’
Chicago
The nation’s Second City has deployed concrete barriers along the Magnificent Mile, the city’s major thoroughfare, and at Navy Pier.
More than 3,000 people are expected to attend festivities at Navy Pier.
A report from CBS Chicago notes that the increase in concrete barriers serves as an effort to stymie any vehicular attacks such as those seen in Nice, Berlin and New York in the past year.
Los Angeles
Los Angelenos will see beefed up security for the Rose Parade in Pasadena.
People will be allowed to camp out along the suburb’s Colorado Boulevard, where the parade takes place, but will not be allowed to drive down the street.
This new rule specifically meant to curtail the potential for a vehicular attack, CBS Local reports.
Wilson says for the parade, to ensure the safety of participants and the public, “all hands will be on deck.”
“You’ll see a lot of uniform patrols. We’ll have plainclothes officers that you won’t see. There are many layers of security,” explained Wilson.
Blocking trucks will be deployed.
“That’s every large event now. Every intersection will have blocking vehicles off of Broad Street. The main viewing area will have larger blocking vehicles, and more of them,” said Wilson.
Wilson says police will also be using a drone.
“We are using a drone this year. As far as I know, it’s the first time,” said Wilson.
The department has received clearance from the FAA to experiment with a drone.
VAST areas of East, North and South London have been declared “no-go zones” by terrified delivery drivers because of the acid attack epidemic, The Sun can reveal.
Moped riders say they won’t go to the violent hotspots after 8pm because they fear being attacked with acid or knives.
The acid attack hotspots around London which delivery drivers now steer clear of
They have been forced to cut down their hours – taking a massive pay cut – thanks to the dangers.
The House of Commons heard last week that London has more acid attacks per head of population than any other world city.
Labour MP Stephen Timms revealed there are “parts of London where drivers are not willing to go because of the danger of attack”.
Delivery drivers told The Sun they used to work as late as 2am, ferrying takeaways and packages around the capital.
Moped driver Jabed Hussain in hospital after he was attacked by two acid-wielding thugs in July
But they now start winding up their shifts as early as 8pm in order to avoid having to go to the most dangerous parts of London.
They named trendy up-and-coming neighbourhoods such as Hackney, Camden, Stoke Newington and Bethnal Green as spots to avoid after dark.
Regenerated areas such as Stratford – home to the Olympic Park – and Elephant & Castle were also listed among the danger zones.
Even wealthy Islington, home to politicians including Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, is shunned by drivers late at night because of the threat of acid atrocities.
One moped driver told The Sun: “We used to work till 2am – now people are stopping before 10pm.
“After 8pm or 9pm, we’re not going to those dangerous places.”
{rickwells.us} ~ Just as the Islamic authoritarian in the White House spent eight years blaming George Bush and American exceptionalism... for all of the world’s ills, his allied autocrats in Tehran are adopting a similar posture in response to public calls for an end to their regime. They choreographed this counter demonstration to show the world that things are still wonderful and that the Iranian people truly love their domestic abusers. Everything wrong with Tehran is Israel’s fault and by extension the great Satan in the US. That’s the case despite the true emissary of the evil one, former pretend ‘president’ Hussein liar-nObama, having given generously from the US treasury to that of the Iranian leaders... https://rickwells.us/iranian-dictators-march-wonderful/
{nationalreview.com} ~ The Trump Justice Department should reopen the investigation of Paul Combetta... New Year’s Eve gets people thinking about resolutions. Alas, when a year passes, a mothballed prosecutor finds himself thinking about the statute of limitations. As 2018 beckons, it has me thinking about Paul Combetta — the Platte River Networks technician who used the “BleachBit” program to destroy thousands of liar-Hillary Clinton’s emails when they were under congressional subpoena and preservation orders. It is not just the tick-tock of the criminal clock that has me thinking about Combetta — about how much longer his obstructive destruction of government files in March 2015 could still be subject to investigation and prosecution. The statute of limitations is five years. Time’s a-wastin’, but there could still be a live case for a while... http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455020/hillary-clinton-server-emails-erased-technician-should-be-pressured?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202017-12-30&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives
{patrioticviralnews.com} ~ Military analyst Ralph Peters recently told FOX News that U.N. Ambassador to the United Nations... and former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley “may end up our first female president.” Peters commended Haley for taking a tough stance in calling out the members of the United Nations who voted overwhelmingly to condemn the U.S. for moving our embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Some of the United States’ closest allies voted against the U.S. decision, including the Japan, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany and other allies like Australia, Mexico, and Canada abstained. Watch the video as Peters gives Nikki Haley flying colors for her tough stance... http://patrioticviralnews.com/articles/nikki-haley-the-first-woman-president/
{conservativetribune.com} ~ An astonishing report this week claimed that many of the impressive weapons North Korea has either put on display... during military parades or tested these past few years were obtained with the help of Russia. The Washington Post reached this conclusion after reportedly obtaining certain documents from Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau, a Soviet-era missile manufacturer. “Documents from the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau include marketing brochures for an array of top-of-the-line Soviet missiles that were able to deliver nuclear warheads to U.S. cities,” the Post reported... https://conservativetribune.com/north-korea-received-aid/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=conservative-tribune
by Katie Pavlich {townhall.com} ~ House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes is blasting the Department of Justice and FBI after officials ignored congressional subpoenas and blew threw a deadline to turn over documents related to the infamous Fusion GPS dossier.
In a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Nunes points out that not only did DOJ mislead his Committee about the existense of documents, they also unlawfully failed to comply with congressional requests.
"Several weeks ago, DOJ informed the Committee that the basic investigatory documents demanded by the subpoenas, FBI Form FD-302 interview summaries, did not exist. However, shortly before my meeting with you in early December, DOJ subsequently located and produced numerous FD-302s pertaining to the Steele dossier, thereby rendering the initial response disingenuous at best," Nunes wrote.
"As it turns out, not only did documents exist that were directly responsive to the Committee's subpoenas, but they involved senior DOJ and FBI officials who were swiftly reassigned when their roles in matters under the Committee's investigation were brought to light. Given the content and impact of these supposedly newly-discovered FD-302s, the Committee is no longer able to accept your purported basis for DOJ's blanket refusal to provide responsive FBI Form FD-1023s--documenting meetings between FBI officials and FBI confidential human sources-or anything less than full and complete compliance with its subpoenas," he continued.
The subpoenas were sent out in August and have been ignored for months.
Nunes is seeking documentation about the dossier, but is also demanding interview dates for the following officials:
Former DOJ Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr
FBI Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Peter Strzok
FBI Attorney James Baker
FBI Attorney Lisa Page
FBI Attorney Sally Moyer
FBI Assistant Director for Congressional Affairs Greg Brower.
DOJ now has until January 3 to comply as Nunes readies contempt charges.
In September 2016, Mark Feigin posted five insulting comments on the Islamic Center of Southern California’s Facebook page (before he was finally blocked by the ICSC from commenting):
“THE TERROR HIKE … SOUNDS LIKE FUN” (written in response to the Center’s “Sunset Hike” announcement).
“THE MORE MUSLIMS WE ALLOW INTO AMERICA THE MORE TERROR WE WILL SEE.”
“PRACTICING ISLAM CAN SLOW OR EVEN REVERSE THE PROCESS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION.”
“Islam is dangerous – fact: the more muslim savages we allow into america – the more terror we will see -this is a fact which is undeniable.”
“Filthy muslim shit has no place in western civilization.”
California is now prosecuting him for posting these comments, on the theory that they violate Cal. Penal Code § 653m(b):
Every person who, with intent to annoy or harass, makes repeated telephone calls or makes repeated contact by means of an electronic communication device … to another person is … guilty of a misdemeanor. Nothing in this subdivision shall apply to telephone calls or electronic contacts made in good faith or during the ordinary course and scope of business.
The posts, the California AG’s office argues, were “were made with the specific intent to annoy and harass the members of the ICSC,” because Feigin “was not trying to engage in any kind of political discussion but instead trying to vex members of the ICSC with his thoughts about their religion.” The posts are criminal because they constitute “repeated harassment from those who wish to mock and disparage their religion,” and, “[r]ather than attempt to engage in discussion or debate,” are “cruel and pointedly aimed at dismissing an entire religion and those who practice it.”
What could be more “intolerable” than for [the] ICSC Communications Director … to check the ICSC’s Facebook page and discover that someone has written “PRACTICING ISLAM CAN SLOW OR EVEN REVERSE THE PROCESS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION” as the Defendant in this case did …. Or how about … “Filthy muslim shit has no place in western civilization.” This is exactly the kind of repeated, annoying, and harassing electronic communication that PC 653m(b) is meant to deter. Protected speech? Political speech? Defendant’s posts on the ICSC Facebook page are neither of those things.
And the government’s argument makes clear that it’s going after Feigin for the content — indeed the viewpoint — of his speech: “The mere content and nature of the posts establish that they are not made in ‘good faith’ as Defendant would suggest but are meant to annoy and harass.” “Defendant is not seeking uriderstanding or guidance, instead he is posting in order to annoy and harass those who have beliefs with which he vehemently abhors.” The Facebook’s page public accessibility “does not translate into requiring ICSC or its members to sustain repeated harassment from those who wish to mock and disparage their religion.” “Rather than attempt to engage in discussion or debate, Defendant’s posts are cruel and pointedly aimed at dismissing an entire religion and those who practice it.” Nor is the government’s argument limited to vulgar epithets (“Filthy muslim shit”), though even those epithets are constitutionally protected when said outside the context of face-to-face “fighting words”; it applies just as much to the nonvulgar criticisms.
Of course, there’s nothing in the government’s logic that limits it to comments posted on the Islamic Center’s page, or for that matter on the Catholic Church’s page or the Westboro Baptist Church’s page or the Church of Scientology’s page. If the government is right, and the statute applies to posts on organizations’ pages, then it would apply to any repeated harshly critical posts
on an NRA page “intended to annoy” NRA employees,
on a pro-Trump page “intended to annoy” its operators,
or on any other ideological organization’s page.
The “during the ordinary course and scope of business” exception might exclude consumer complaints, but the government’s theory is that this exception doesn’t apply to this sort of criticism that is “cruel and pointedly aimed at dismissing an entire religion and those who practice it” — logic that would apply equally to criticism of political as well as religious ideologies. Nor can the courts constitutionally conclude that harsh insults of the NRA are “in good faith” and similar harsh insults of Islam are not.
This can’t possibly be consistent with the First Amendment; indeed, in U.S. v. Popa (D.C. Cir. 1999), the D.C. Circuit set aside a telephone harassment conviction of someone who left seven racist messages on the voicemail of then-U.S.-Attorney Eric Holder; and the court focused on the “political message” of the speech, and not on Holder’s status as a government official. Given that insults targeted to a particular person, related to a political message, are thus constitutionally protected, so are more general insults aimed at an ideology and all its adherents, whether that ideology is Islam, Scientology, conservatism, gun rights, or anything else. Laws aimed at preventing unwanted repeated messages to particular private citizens shouldn’t be applied to messages sent to ideological organizations (or to public officials). And this is especially so when it comes to annoying Facebook posts, which the organization can simply block.
Caleb Mason at Brown White & Osborn LLP — which many of our readers may know as the firm at which Ken White (Popehat) is one of the partners — has filed motions to dismiss the charges; I hope the court indeed promptly throws them out as unjustified under the statute, forbidden by the First Amendment, or both. But if the courts accept such charges, expect to see many more people, left, right, and otherwise, prosecuted for posting insulting messages on many groups’ web pages.
(I should note that Feigin is also being charged with making a threatening phone call to the Islamic Center; but that is a separate count, based on separate conduct, and it’s far from clear that Feigin was actually the person who made that call, as this CNN story [Scott Glover] describes. The Center employee who received the call claimed that it sounded like Feigin’s voice, which he heard when making a call to test the theory that the caller was the same person who wrote the Facebook posts. But the employee also continues to claim that the call sounded like the voice of someone who had left a different message on the Center’s voice-mail the day before — and that person has been proved to be someone other than Feigin.
Nor do the police have any phone records linking the threatening call to Feigin: They waited seven months before trying to get the records, and by then Citrix, which operated the calling number as part of its GoToMeeting teleconferencing system, had purged its records. This is why this post focuses on the Facebook posts, which Feigin did make, and not on the separate threatening phone call charge.)
“The creation of the safety area was heavily criticised by a German police union boss. He said it communicates a ‘devastating message’: ‘By doing so, one is saying there are safe zones and unsafe zones’ for women, a message that could result in ‘the end of equality, freedom of movement and self-determination’, he said.”
Yes, that’s exactly where it is leading, and that destination is called Sharia, aka, Merkel’s legacy.
“Several women sexually assaulted in Berlin during NYE: Safety area a total failure,” Voice of Europe, January 1, 2018:
Berlin’s newly constructed “safety area” for women, could not prevent several sexual assaults during the city’s New Year’s Eve celebrations.
At this moment, at least 13 cases were reported to the police and seven suspects were arrested in the German capital. Police refused to provide information about the ethnicity or the nationality of the perpetrators.
Near midnight, Berlin’s police tweeted that they were receiving the first reports of sexual assaults, a fact that was quickly picked up by German media….
The creation of the safety area was heavily criticised by a German police union boss. He said it communicates a “devastating message”:
“By doing so, one is saying there are safe zones and unsafe zones” for women, a message that could result in “the end of equality, freedom of movement and self-determination”, he said.
By Fox News. President Trump on Sunday wished a happy new year to the people who elected him to the White House — and those who kept him in the headlines.
“As our Country rapidly grows stronger and smarter, I want to wish all of my friends, supporters, enemies, haters, and even the very dishonest Fake News Media, a Happy and Healthy New Year. 2018 will be a great year for America!,” Trump tweeted.
He followed up more than an hour later: “HAPPY NEW YEAR! We are MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and much faster than anyone thought possible!”
The president is spending the holidays in Palm Beach, where Mar-a-Lago hosts an annual New Year’s Eve bash. He told reporters outside, “We are going to have a tremendous year. Stock market, I think, is going to continue to go up. Companies are going to continue to come into the country.” (Read more from “In Year-End Tweets, President Trump Sends Best Wishes to All – Including ‘Haters,’ ‘Fake News Media'” HERE) http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/01/trump-voices-optimism-for
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President Trump Predicts a ‘Fantastic’ New Year at Exclusive Mar-A-Lago Gala
By TIME. President Donald Trump predicted a “fantastic 2018” on Sunday night as he strolled down a red carpet to bid farewell to 2017 with an exclusive bash at his private club.
Accompanied by first lady Melania Trump and son Barron, a tuxedoed Trump spoke to reporters as he entered the gilded ballroom at Mar-a-Lago. He said the stock market will continue to rise and that companies are going to continue to come into the U.S.
Asked for his reaction to North Korea leader Kim Jon Un’s remarks about having a nuclear button on his desk, Trump responded by saying, “We’ll see.”
Guests gathered in the ballroom included senior White House advisers Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Trump’s sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. (Read more from “President Trump Predicts a ‘Fantastic’ New Year at Exclusive Mar-A-Lago Gala” HERE) http://time.com/5083129/donald-trump-new-year-2018-gala/
Governor Brown of California and Governor Cuomo of New York have both pardoned illegal immigrants convicted of felonies to protect them from being deported. Governor Cuomo has gone further to tell “extreme republicans” (you know, the ones against abortion or in favor of the second amendment) you are NOT WELCOME in New York State.
We seem to have gone from a nation of laws to – make them up as you go along or just ignore them. California Senate Leader Kevin De Leon admits half his family is in this country illegally. In possession of fake social security cards, fake green cards, fake ID and driver licenses. Felonies all. His concern is if President Trump were to enforce immigration law, most if not all would be deported. He is the LEADER of the California Senate and if the law were followed could be charged with harboring criminals, and no one seems to care.
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Tucker Carlson interviewed a non-citizen lawyer defending illegal immigrants. This is the process in this country for becoming a lawyer –
Many prospective lawyers begin preparing in high school by joining the debate team and becoming involved with student government. Then they begin 4 years of undergraduate coursework, take the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), apply to and complete 3 years of law school at an accredited law school, and achieve a juris doctorate degree. After finishing school, graduates must prepare for, take, and pass the bar exam. This not only entails passing an exam, but applying for entrance into the state bar. After successful completion and entrance into the bar in the state where one wishes to work, he or she can legally practice as a lawyer.
It generally takes about 7-8 years to become a lawyer. Four years are spent as an undergraduate achieving a bachelor’s degree, 3 years are spent in law school, and then there is additional time needed to study for and take the bar exam. Which means this guy (if all his college education were obtained here and only committed to being at lawyer at the college entry level) has had up to 8 years to become a citizen and has chosen not to. Not asked was his legal status. So we don’t know if he is on a Visa, or some other status. Just as likely an illegal himself. If that IS the case, why was he even approved to practice law in the first place?
What is it that is so difficult to understand about the word “illegal.” This is an absolute perversion of our system of laws.
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses. --Plato
Is our former Chief Executive clearly engaging in sedition?
Even before the 2016 election, the previous president had engaged in the pursuit of building a foundation for a shadow government. He had worked for eight long years to transform America into a weakened nation ripe for the globalist picking. Had Hillary won, eventually America would have been easily stuffed into the elitist NWO bag. When she shockingly lost, Barack and his handlers were not about to absorb any losses by honoring the American tradition of a peaceful transfer of power. Ole George began funding the likes of Antifa's rioting and disruption while his puppet engaged in organizing "educational activist" groups such as OFA, which is explained in Dr. Krauthammer's article below. One very obviously disloyal action is BHO's shadowing the current president on every foreign trip in order to, not so subtly at times, undermine his presidency. The first brief article below defines sedition and makes the case for an investigation into Barack's activities. The second is a very concise and informative article by Charles Krauthammer which lays out the very real and present danger of the prior president's activities. It is well worth the entire read.
Sedition! Barack Hussein is guilty of many counts and the investigation into his treasonous activity must begin NOW! by Thomas Madison December 29, 2017 H/T Thomas Ventimiglia Barack Hussein is a swamp-dwelling slimeball! The fact that he is the only president in America’s history to leave office and willfully establish and fund an organization, the sole purpose of which is to obstruct the governance of his successor, goes to show just how slimy he is. Most Americans believe that it is Hussein’s right to do obstruct his successor, except it isn’t. It is nothing short of sedition and is gravely dangerous to the country we all love, the country Hussein did all he could to damage for eight years. Sedition is a very serious crime and it is my opinion that Hussein is guilty of many counts, as well as his swamp rat minions.
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
In the following article, Charles Krauthammer explains the danger Barack Hussein and his army of traitors poses to the United States.
The Enemy Among Us
by Charles Krauthammer “There’s a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality” An article from the New York Post: I do not understand how living in a country with its democracy established over 200 years ago, and now, for the first time in history, suddenly we have one of our former presidents set up a group called “Organizing for Action” (OFA). OFA is 30,000+ strong and working to disrupt everything that our current president’s administration is trying to do. This organization goes against our Democracy, and it is an operation that will destroy our way of governing. It goes against our Constitution, our laws, and the processes established over 200 years ago. If it is allowed to proceed then we will be living in chaos very much like third world countries are run. What good is it to have an established government if it is not going to be respected and allowed to follow our laws? If you had an army some 30,000 strong and a court system stacked over the decades with judges who would allow you to break the laws, how much damage could you do to a country? We are about to find out in America! Our ex-president said he was going to stay involved through community organizing and speak out on the issues and that appears to be one post-administration promise he intends to keep. He has moved many of his administration’s top dogs over to Organizing for Action. OFA is behind the strategic and tactical implementation of the resistance to the Trump Administration that we are seeing across America, and politically active courts are providing the leverage for this revolution. OFA is dedicated to organizing communities for “progressive” change. Its issues are gun control, socialist healthcare, abortion, sexual equality, climate change, and of course, immigration reform. OFA members were propped up by the ex-president’s message from the shadows: “Organizing is the building block of everything great we have accomplished Organizers around the country are fighting for change in their communities and OFA is one of the groups on the front lines. Commit to this work in 2017 and beyond.” OFA’s website says it obtained its “digital” assets from the ex-president’s re-election effort and that he inspired the movement. In short, it is the shadow government organization aimed at resisting and tearing down the Constitutional Republic we know as AMERICA. Paul Sperry, writing for the New York Post, says, The OFA will fight President Donald Trump at every turn of his presidency and the ex-president will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House.” Sperry writes that, The ex-president is setting up a shadow government to sabotage the Trump administration through a network of non-profits led by OFA, which is growing its war chest (more than $40 million) and has some 250 offices nationwide. The OFA IRS filings, according to Sperry, indicate that the OFA has 32,525 (and growing) volunteers nationwide. The ex-president and his wife will oversee the operation from their home/office in Washington DC. Think about how this works. For example: Trump issues an immigration executive order; the OFA signals for protests and statements from pro-immigrant groups; the ACLU lawyers file lawsuits in jurisdictions where activist judges obstruct the laws; volunteers are called to protest at airports and Congressional town hall meetings; the leftist media springs to action in support of these activities; the twitter sphere lights up with social media; and violence follows. All of this happens from the ex-president’s signal that he is heartened by the protests. If Barack Obama did not do enough to destroy this country in the 8 years he was in office, it appears his future plans are to destroy the foundation on which this country has operated on for the last 241 years. If this does not scare you, then we are in worse trouble than you know. We are losing our country and we are so compliant. We are becoming a “PERFECT TARGET” for our enemy! Charles Krauthammer Original Post
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ On December 27th CNN Legal Analyst Paul Callen appeared on television to discuss his recent Op-Ed... that runs counter to the preferred engineering of CNN executive narrative sellers. Paul Callen had accepted the CNN-echo chambered position that President Trump was making unfounded accusatory statements toward the FBI and Department of Justice. However, then Mr. Callen broke the cardinal rule, he actually did some investigating of the claims he was criticizing. To CNN’s horror, Paul Callen came away from his research with an evolved and informed position that Trump was right, and his detractors were wrong...https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/12/29/curiously-missing-cnn-op-ed-supportive-of-president-trump-mysteriously-appears-two-days-later/
{rickwells.us} ~ Sheriff David Clarke was targeted by the corrupt weaponized FBI at the same time they were engaged in protecting liar-Hillary Clinton... fabricating evidence against President Trump, and using it and other illegal methods in smearing his reputation in their attempts to remove him from office. Sheriff Clarke had been the target of harassment as he sat in his first class seat aboard an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Milwaukee. One of the passengers, Dan Black, recognized Clarke as he was passing in the aisle and stopped, asking the Sheriff if he was David Clarke. When Clarke affirmed his identity, Black attempted to intimidate him by standing over him in a threatening manner. His attorney described the incident, saying, “Plaintiff then, while standing over Clarke and in very close proximity to Clarke given the confines of the airline cabin, and in a physically threatening manner, stared at Clarke and shook his head at him for a prolonged period of time. Clarke asked plaintiff if he had a problem with him, to which plaintiff did not respond.”...https://rickwells.us/fbi-search-warrant-clarke/
{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Let us spend some productive time actually thinking about the processes of how to eliminate the entrenched tentacles of the corrupt deep state.. specifically surrounding the politicization of the FBI and Dept of Justice, with a reasonable amount of intellectual honesty toward the scale of the endeavor. It is entirely understandable that people are frustrated because the administrative agents within the Deep State apparatus appear to operate in a system, of their creation, that allows them to operate above the rule of law. Righteous voices rising up in frustration demanding action; wholesale destruction of those usurping agents with extreme prejudice. If you spend time looking at the scale and scope, I mean honestly looking at how deeply enmeshed those ideological entities are within the system, you would also have to admit the problem is not just a matter of eliminating a few dozen DOJ lawyers and FBI agents. The issue is much bigger... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/12/29/the-scale-of-fbi-and-doj-corruption-is-beyond-comprehension/
{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Everyone suspected the sketchy Steele Dossier was what corrupt FBI and DOJ officials used to get the October 2016 FISA warrant against Trump... FBI and DOJ officials refuse to answer that question publicly. Despite a hundred different ways congressional investigators have asked the question, and despite numerous on-camera questions to FBI and DOJ officials about the 2016 FISA process, no-one had definitively confirmed the Christopher Steele ‘Russian Dossier’ was the underlying evidence for the 2016 FISA application to gain wiretaps and electronic surveillance upon presidential candidate Donald Trump. UNTIL NOW. Senator Lindsey Graham just confirmed the sketchy Steele Dossier was used to get the wiretap and surveillance warrant from the FISA court. Brian Kilmead understood what he was hearing was serious, but didn’t quite catch the specific gravity of it. Watch at 04:10... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/12/30/breaking-senator-lindsey-graham-just-confirmed-the-steele-dossier-was-used-for-2016-fisa-warrant/
by Cal Thomas {townhall.com} ~ DUBLIN, Ireland -- "Try a Little Tenderness" is a song written by Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly and Harry M. Woods. According to Wikipedia, it was first recorded on Dec. 8, 1932, by the Ray Noble Orchestra with vocals by Val Rosing. Probably these names are as unfamiliar to us today as the demonstration of tenderness is in our modern political culture.
This song and its sentiment came rushing back to me as I witnessed a stunning act of tenderness while crossing the Irish Sea last week on a ferry bound for Dublin.
While eating breakfast in the ship's lounge, I noticed a man playing with his young son, who appeared to be about 3 years old. The boy said "daddy" in such a loving way that it touched my heart and reminded me of special moments with my own children when they were that age.
What happened next was so heartwarming that I don't think I shall ever forget it. The boy suddenly became ill and began vomiting. The father never raised his voice or changed his demeanor. Instead, he picked up his son and held him close, saying, "That's all right" and "it will be all right," as the boy continued to be sick on himself, his father and the floor.
No one raised their voice. Others in the lounge did not stir uncomfortably. Members of the crew came over and began cleaning up the boy, the father and the floor, as if they were assisting someone who had just spilled a cup of coffee. I can't recall seeing anything like it.
When they were done, the father took the boy's stuffed bear, handed it to his son, who clutched it close, and then the father, still stained from the incident, pressed the boy to his chest until he fell asleep in his arms. I turned to him and said, "You're a good father." He smiled.
Why am I sharing this in a column? The answer is that tenderness and love are such powerful forces for good it is a wonder we don't practice them more often. 2017 was one of the ugliest political years in recent memory. Nasty things were said by Republicans about Democrats and Democrats returned rhetorical fire. Names were called and labels applied. It was repulsive and nothing good came from it, did it?
I am not so naive as to suggest that any of this toxic behavior is about to change in a new year, especially one in which there will be congressional elections, but is it too much to ask that we start treating each other more like friends than members of ISIS, more like fellow Americans than North Koreans?
If our goal is to change minds and hearts about issues important to us, which approach do you think might work better; treating political opposites like a burdensome mother-in-law who overstays her holiday visit, or demonstrating at least a degree of kindness and tenderness?
The song referenced above was written near the start of the Great Depression. It was a subtle suggestion for a man to love his wife who had nothing to wear except "the same shabby dress."
We all have much more these days, but material possessions and the unending quest for political power have robbed us of things of far greater and longer-lasting value and importance.
In this new year, could we hug each other a little more, speak a little softer and, yes, try a little tenderness, especially in our political discourse?
Let us spend some productive time actually thinking about the processes of how to eliminate the entrenched tentacles of the corrupt deep state, specifically surrounding the politicization of the FBI and Dept of Justice, with a reasonable amount of intellectual honesty toward the scale of the endeavor.
It is entirely understandable that people are frustrated because the administrative agents within the Deep State apparatus appear to operate in a system, of their creation, that allows them to operate above the rule of law. Righteous voices rising up in frustration demanding action; wholesale destruction of those usurping agents with extreme prejudice.
Fair enough.
If you spend time looking at the scale and scope, I mean honestly looking at how deeply enmeshed those ideological entities are within the system, you would also have to admit the problem is not just a matter of eliminating a few dozen DOJ lawyers and FBI agents. The issue is much bigger. Example:
•Congressional investigators ask for documents. •The current management of the FBI and DOJ refuse to turn over those documents. •Frustration explodes.
However, it is important to remember the House and Senate Judiciary and Intelligence Committees contain both Democrats and Republicans. Any investigative information released to any congressional committee immediately becomes information for corrupt political operatives (Example: Adam Schiff) to share with their corrupt ideological allies inside the FBI and DOJ who are at risk from the investigative material.
Those corrupt FBI and DOJ officials are then tipped-off to the evidence that might be used against them. The corrupt political operatives within Congress, and the corrupt political agents inside the FBI and DOJ, then have the opportunity to shape, modify and organize the information for their corrupt political operatives in the media.
Defensive positions are formed.
The whole damned system is corrupt.
The FBI was politicized and corrupted (Obama/Mueller/Comey).
The DOJ was politicized and corrupted (Obama/Holder/Lynch).
The CIA was politicized and corrupted (Obama/Brennan/Morell).
The ODNI was politicized and corrupted (Obama/Clapper).
The FBI counterintelligence units were politicized and corrupted (Comey/McCabe/Baker/Priestap/Strzok/Page).
The DOJ National Security Division was politicized and corrupted (Lynch/Yates/Carlin/McCord/Laufman/Evans/Weigman/Ohr); along with all of their colleagues, staff and support teams who willfully participated in the corruption.
The oversight committees inside congress are politicized and corrupted by ideological politicians who act to defend the interests of all the above.
Heck, the IRS was weaponized against American citizens; and by their own admission the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) was politicized and corrupted by the fraudulent and misleading information presented by the highest level FBI and DOJ officials – and then later used for political benefit and unlawful intention.
Several new developments happening today center around the FBI’s use of the Christopher Steele Dossier in gaining FISA warrants to wiretap and monitor the 2016 campaign of Donald Trump; ie. “The Trump Project”. Doug Ross continues to update the ongoing conspiracy Timeline – SEE HERE. And that timeline just gained a big addition from a recently discovered visitor to the White House.
Before going to the White House visitor angle, it’s important to express appreciation for Tablet Mag who did a deep dive into the Fusion-GPS connection to the creation of the Steele Dossier, and more specifically how Fusion-GPS head Glenn Simpson and his wife Mary Jacoby were instrumental in getting the dossier assembled and into the hands of the White House prior to the DOJ and FBI applying for the FISA warrant – SEE HERE.
Tablet Mag outlines how Mary Jacoby even bragged about getting the “Russiagate” narrative started:
A Tablet investigation using public sources to trace the evolution of the now-famous dossier suggests that central elements of the Russiagate scandal emerged not from the British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s top-secret “sources” in the Russian government—which are unlikely to exist separate from Russian government control—but from a series of stories that Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson and his wife Mary Jacoby co-wrote for TheWall Street Journal well before Fusion GPS existed, and Donald Trump was simply another loud-mouthed Manhattan real estate millionaire.
Understanding the origins of the “Steele dossier” is especially important because of what it tells us about the nature and the workings of what its supporters would hopefully describe as an ongoing campaign to remove the elected president of the United States.
[…] In a Facebook post from June 24, 2017, that Tablet has seen in screenshots, Jacoby claimed that her husband deserves the lion’s share of credit for Russiagate. (She has not replied to repeated requests for comment.) “It’s come to my attention that some people still don’t realize what Glenn’s role was in exposing Putin’s control of Donald Trump,” Jacoby wrote. “Let’s be clear. Glenn conducted the investigation. Glenn hired Chris Steele. Chris Steele worked for Glenn.”
This assertion is hardly a simple assertion of family pride; it goes directly to the nature of what became known as the “Steele dossier,” on which the Russiagate narrative is founded. (read more)
The Tablet-Mag outline shows the distinct trail of the finished Steele Dossier entering into the White House and how President Obama likely saw and reviewed the content. However, missing from the this report is an origination angle even more nefarious.
Remember, previous media reporting -in conjunction with Clinton campaign admissions- have confirmed the DNC and Clinton Campaign financed Fusion-GPS through their lawyers within Perkins Coie. Fusion then sub-contracted with retired British MI6 agent Christopher Steele to write the dossier.
The dates here are important because they tell a story.
The origin of the Clinton effort with Fusion-GPS was April 2016. That’s the same month Fusion hired Nellie Ohr, wife of DOJ Deputy Bruce Ohr, to gather opposition research on candidate Trump. It would be most likely that Nellie Ohr was in contact with Christopher Steele. DOJ Deputy Attorney Bruce Ohr was later demoted for his unreported contacts with Christopher Steele and Fusion-GPS founder Glenn Simpson.
However, there was another event in this April 2016 timeline which enhances the trail of the Dossier origination. [Hat Tip Katica] Check this out:
In April 2016 Mary Jacoby shows up on White House visitor logs meeting with President Obama officials. In April 2016 the Clinton Campaign and DNC hired Fusion-GPS to organize the Russia research, that later became known as the “Steele Dossier”.
( It is shameful and criminal what they have done to the F.B.I. AT THIS POINT WE CAN NO LONGER TRUST THE F.B.I. TIME TO START TO REBUILD OUR F.B.I. AND ARREST THESE THAT ARE PART OF THIS CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE WILL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE )
On Friday, the FBI made a HUGE announcement! They revealed a 30-page-document related to the infamous June of 2016 airport runway meeting that Bill Clinton had with then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
At first they denied the possession of such documents, but now they’ve decided to enlighten the public.
According to The Daily Caller it was reported that FBI attorneys released the documents as a response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, filed from the conservative group Judicial Watch.
Last October, the FBI told Judicial Watch that the Bureau is not in possession of any records that are associated to the meeting between Clinton and Lynch.
This meeting occurred while the Justice Department was investigating Hillary Clinton’s potential mistreating of classified information on her private email server. Firstly, the FBI were silent about the existence of documents regarding this case.
“Upon further review, we subsequently determined potentially responsive documents may exist,” FBI attorneys said in a statement.
At this moment, it’s still unclear what exactly these documents contain.
“The FBI is out of control,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “It is stunning that the FBI ‘found’ these Clinton-Lynch tarmac records only after we caught the agency hiding them in another lawsuit.
Judicial Watch will continue to press for answers about the FBI’s document games in court.
In the meantime, the FBI should stop the stonewall and release these new records immediately.”
What is your opinion on this? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below!
{rickwells.us} ~ Faced with continued obstruction from what can be still be described as the corrupt liar-nObama Department of Justice... despite its being headed up by a misbranded partisan turncoat in AG Jeff Session, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes is taking the gloves off and throwing them away. The Department of “Justice” under Sessions, Wray and Rosenstein is no different from those of Lynch and scum-Holder in its corruption at the top, although their focus on some domestic issues has changed. They’re still working for the globalist deep state in defiance of the executive branch and the will of the people who elected their President. Nunes isn’t going to allow them to get away with it any longer. He sat in time out as the fabricated ethics charges leveled by two Soros front groups took eight months to be disposed of and in that time he’s watched the obstructionists at the DOJ, FBI and State Department operate above the law and beyond the reach of the people, in conjunction with Democrats led by Rep scum-Adam Schiff... https://rickwells.us/nunes-docs-witnesses-doj-fbi/
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Elizabeth dinky-Warren Tweets She Believes
In Science, Gets Roasted Immediately
by RYAN SAAVEDRA
{dailywire.com} ~ Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren (D-MA) responded to a tweet from President Donald Trump that made fun of global warming on Thursday... by tweeting that she "believes in science" — a move that instantly backfired. "In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record," Trump tweeted Thursday. "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!"...https://www.dailywire.com/news/25200/bad-idea-elizabeth-warren-tweets-she-believes-ryan-saavedra#
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Trump Fires Entire Council
on HIV/AIDS With No Explanation
by Theodore Bunker
{newsmax.com} ~ President Donald Trump has dismissed all 16 members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS... without giving an explanation. Scott Schoettes, a longtime HIV/AIDS activist who resigned from the council in June over the president's inaction on the issue, announced that the rest of the council had been terminated on Wednesday. Schoettes wrote in an op-ed in Newsweek after resigning that "the Trump Administration does not take the on-going epidemic or the needs of people living with HIV seriously." "Like any administration, they want their own people there. Many of us were liar-nObama appointees. I was an liar-nObama appointee and my term was continuing until 2018."... https://www.newsmax.com/politics/donald-trump-fires-hiv-aids/2017/12/29/id/834327/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1771406_12302017&s=al&dkt_nbr=010504o81jn4
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How Palestinians Silence Palestinians
by Khaled Abu Toameh
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Most people probably do not know him by name, but the image of Mohammed Al-Dayeh was a public one for many years... The tough-looking, mustachioed man in military garb served as the trusted bodyguard of former PLO leader Yasser Arafat. His proximity to Arafat turned Al-Dayeh into one of the most powerful figures in the PLO leadership, especially during the 1990s and 2000s. If you wanted anything from Arafat -- from money to springing your son from prison -- Al-Dayeh was your man. He was glued to Arafat night and day. He accompanied him on his persistent globe-trotting. You can hardly find a photo of Arafat without Al-Dayeh. Insiders say Arafat "adopted" him after he was orphaned from his parents during the civil war in Lebanon... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11630/palestinians-silencing-corruption
{rickwells.us} ~ President Trump is playing the Democrats in their own media and they still apparently haven’t realized it... He’s provided them, in full public view, with the means by which to bestow foreign born anchor babies with a permanent ability to work and live in the US. Not only has he done so, but the DACA illegals have made it known to Democrats that they are unhappy with their inability to force President Trump to concede to their demands thus far. Knowing that it’s within their grasp for a mere concession in favor of national security won’t make things any easier for the duplicitous “crats.”Things should heat up again when the January 19th expiration of the temporary spending bill approaches. Democrats have recently felt the fury of the illegals attempting to elbow their way into American citizenship and their illegal squatting parents who brought them here, for their failure to produce in December as promised. Luis Gutierrez seemed ready start biting people in his latest appearances. Many radicals are losing patience as the contrived mood of pity for the “innocent DACA illegals” fails to produce results... https://rickwells.us/trump-schumer-pelosi-daca-wall/
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Facing a Tamimi Government
by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} ~ This week, the Tamimi clan from Nabi Saleh beset Israel once again. Ahed Tamimi, the family’s teenaged golden girl, and her mother, Nariman, once again posted videos of themselves slapping and cursing hapless IDF soldiers.
The photogenic Ahed has been doing this number since she was a little girl.
There are two components of the Palestinian war to annihilate Israel: terrorism and propaganda. The two are integrally linked. The ties are nowhere more apparent than in the actions of the Tamimi family.
Six weeks after Israel signed the Oslo Accords with the PLO on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993, Chaim Mizrahi from Beit El went to buy eggs from a farmer in Ramallah, as he had every week for years.
Two of Ahed’s cousins, Said and Nizar Tamimi, were there. They stabbed Mizrahi, stuffed him in the trunk of his car and burned him alive.
In August 2001, Ahed’s aunt Ahlam Tamimi masterminded the massacre at a Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem. She chose Sbarro because it was popular among families with young children. She brought the suicide bomber to the restaurant and he blew himself up, killing 15 people, among them seven children, and wounded 130.
Today all three of the Tamimi murderers are out of jail. The liar-nObama administration forced Israel to release Said along with several hundred other terrorists to prove it was committed to peace in 2013.
Ahlam and Nizar were released in 2011 as part of Israel’s 1,000-terrorists-for-one-hostage-soldier Gilad Schalit deal.
Ahlam and Nizar were deported to Jordan and they got married soon after. The two wed in a fancy ceremony that was posted online. Ahed, Bassem and Nariman feature prominently in the wedding.
The video shows Nariman and Ahed standing on a stage with Ahlam as Ahed gazes worshipfully at her baby-killing aunt.
Shortly after she set up shop in Amman, Ahlam began hosting a TV show on Hamas’s terror channel.
She is also celebrated by the Jordanian regime.
As Arnold Roth, whose daughter Malki was among the seven children murdered at Sbarro, reported on his website, Jordanian Prince Ali’s wife, former CNN reporter Princess Rym Ali raised donations from the governments of Europe, Australia and Canada to establish a journalism school in Amman. On every page of the Jordanian Media Institute’s website, Ahlam Tamimi is presented as a “Success Model.”
Three of Ahlam’s victims were US citizens. King Abdullah has rejected repeated US requests to extradite her for trial.
Back in Nabi Saleh, Nariman and Bassem and their kids man the barricades against Israel, for their sponsors.
In 2012, Bassam was convicted of inciting a riot against IDF soldiers. An observer from the EU was present throughout his trial.
Then-EU foreign affairs commissioner Catherine Ashton touted Bassem as a “human rights defender.”
Bassem and Nariman are “volunteers” in B’Tselem’s “camera project.”
B’Tselem, an anti-Israel political warfare group funded by the EU, EU member governments, the State Department and far-left American groups, distributes video cameras to Palestinians and trains them to use them. It then posts their films online to advance its one-sided propaganda offensive against Israel.
In 2015, a consortium of anti-Israel groups including Amnesty International, Code Pink and Jewish Voices for Peace brought Bassem Tamimi to the US on a speaking tour.
In one particularly hair-raising episode, reported by Legal Insurrection at the time, Tamimi addressed an audience of third-graders in Ithaca, New York.
He urged the children to support terrorism against Israel and to join the war against the Jewish state.
Videos of Ahed were a prominent component of his presentation.
The Turkish government is also a big supporter of the Tamimi brood. After a past video of Ahed hitting and cursing Israeli forces was posted online, she and her parents were brought to Ankara to receive recognition from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
In a very real sense, the Tamimi family is at the nexus of a global war against Israel.
The Tamimis have connections with nearly every government and group involved in that war. The Israeli and American Left, the EU, Jordan and Turkey and of course Hamas and the PLO all support them.
The IDF arrested Ahed and Nariman three days after they posted their latest assault film online. On Wednesday, PLO chief and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas called Bassem Tamimi to congratulate him on his daughter’s performance and to inquire about her welfare.
This then brings us to Abbas, the moderate Palestinian man of peace.
Since he succeeded Yasser Arafat as head of the PLO and the Palestinian Authority in 2004, Abbas has been touted as a moderate man of peace by everybody who is anybody – including by successive Israeli governments. This appraisal was never been based on discernible reality. Abbas refused generous offers of peace and Palestinian statehood both from then-prime minister Ehud Olmert in 2008 and from then-president Barack liar-nObama in 2014. He has refused to negotiate with Israel for the past nine years. And he has continuously sponsored, rewarded, funded, incited and ordered terrorist attacks against Israel. In addition has led the international political war against Israel on every available stage worldwide for decades.
And now, Abbas, the flimsy fig leaf of imaginary Palestinian moderation, is about to exit the stage.
Both his apparatchiks and his enemies believe that the 84-year-old dictator is not long for this world.
So the time has arrived for Israel to think about what happens after he exits the stage. How are we supposed to contemplate our post-Abbas relations with the Palestinians? This brings us to UNRWA, and demography.
This week, the Lebanese and Palestinian census bureaus published a joint census of the number of Palestinians in Lebanon. According to UNRWA, the UN agency charged with subsidizing so-called Palestinian refugees, there are 449,957 Palestinians in Lebanon. Yet according to the Lebanese and the Palestinians themselves, there are only 174,535 Palestinians in the country. In other words, the actual number of Palestinians in Lebanon is a mere 38% of what UNRWA claims.
These data are important not merely because they show that UNRWA has been defrauding its donors, since it receives funding based on the number of Palestinians it cares for. The data are important because they highlight the fraudulent nature of Palestinian demographic data.
Just as UNRWA massively exaggerated the number of Palestinians in Lebanon, so the PA massively exaggerated the number of Palestinians living in Judea and Samaria.
According to the American-Israel Demographic Research Group, a group of volunteer researchers who studied PA population data 12 years ago, the PA deliberately exaggerates the number of Palestinians living in Judea, Samaria and Gaza by more than a million people.
The PA counts Jerusalem’s Arabs even though they are included in Israel’s population data. It includes some 400,000 Palestinians who live abroad in its population rolls.
The PA pretends there is no emigration from the PA despite the fact that some 17,000 Palestinians emigrate annually.
And it overstates Palestinian birthrates.
Through these false data, the PA manufactured the argument that the number of Arabs living west of the Jordan River is equal to the number of Jews.
Israel adopted this claim wholesale in the 1990s as a means to persuade the public that Israel has no option other than withdrawing from the territories if it wishes to remain a state where Jews are the majority of the population.
Despite the fact that leading international demographers have accepted the American-Israel Demographic Research Group’s findings, successive Israeli governments have refused to question the PA’s data or to carry out an independent assessment of the size of the Palestinian population either in Gaza or in Judea and Samaria.
Consequently, for the past 20 years, Israel’s public discourse, like the discourse throughout the West regarding the Palestinian conflict with Israel, is based on demographic data that is demonstrably inflated in order to present Israel with a binary choice.
Israel can remain in Judea and Samaria and choose between ceasing to be a democracy or ceasing to be a Jewish state; or it can quit the areas and retain its Jewish, democratic character.
The UNRWA fraud in Lebanon show that the fallacious PA population data are part of a larger strategy of inflating the number of Palestinians for political and monetary gain. They also show that the binary options Israel has accepted for 20 years are far from the only options it faces. The only thing Israel needs to do to develop those other options is to decide it wishes to do so. And its first step toward accomplishing the goal is to conduct a credible assessment of the Palestinian population in Judea and Samaria.
Israel needs to act now not merely because Abbas is not long for this world. It is urgent as well because as Israel sits on its hands, other key players are making it clear where they fall on this issue.
The EU for one, knows what it wants.
This week the government narrowly averted a major diplomatic blunder when Culture Minister Miri Regev blocked the government from automatically approving a new agreement with the EU.
Regev rejected its automatic approval, citing the fact that the EU insists that Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, Judea and Samaria and their residents cannot participate in the program covered by the agreement.
As NGO Monitor president Prof. Gerald Steinberg reported in Israel Hayom this week, if approved, the “Cross-border Cooperation within the European Neighborhood Instrument (ENI): Mediterranean Sea Basin Program 2014-2020” will serve as an instrument for the EU to continue to transfer millions of euros each year to anti-Israel groups to carry out its war of subversion against Israel and its democratic system.
Steinberg noted that since 1995, the EU has used previous versions of this agreement to transfer tens of millions of euros to terrorism-supporting groups and groups actively involved in Israeli politics and inciting Israel’s Arab community to join the war against the Jewish state.
Given the EU’s record, it can be taken for granted that the EU will only support a successor to Abbas who, like Abbas, will advance the EU’s campaigns to weaken Israel and delegitimize its very existence.
Is this what Israel wants, too? For decades, by not taking a firm stand against the EU’s hostility, by going along with the fiction that there are 3 million Palestinians in Judea and Samaria, by accepting the lie that Abbas is a moderate and the PLO isn’t a terrorist organization, Israel has chosen to follow the herd. Israel has chosen not to think about its long-term interests. It has chosen not to determine its destiny.
At certain points this policy of passivity made sense. But the day is rapidly approaching where the price for not choosing will far outstrip the advantages of keeping our heads down. If we don’t want to end up with a Tamimi regime in Ramallah, the time to consider our true options is upon us.
{rickwells.us} ~ Former CIA operative Mike Baker says that “nobody should be surprised that China may be involved in skirting the sanctions... They’ve been doing this for years and years and years,” despite their denials. He says, “There’s plenty of evidence that they’ve been doing this over the years and this latest issue comes after the latest round of sanctions that were imposed in early December, after they launched their last ballistic missile test, at the end of November.” Baker says, “The problem that we’re facing is what do we do now that we’ve got some photographic evidence? And this is not just one transfer.” He says the next course of action is going to be very important because we have to show that we’re serious about this. “It’s not enough to just enforce more and more sanctions unless you’re actually going to enforce them.”... https://rickwells.us/china-always-cheats-korea/
{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ House Intelligence Committee Chairman, and Gang of Eight member, Devin Nunes, has delivered an ultimatum... to Asst. AG Rod Rosenstein; demanding the DOJ deliver the documents and evidence surrounding the Steele Dossier to the committee by January 3rd. There’s an unspoken coordination here which needs to be highlighted. Intelligence Chairman Nunes appears focused specifically on the Dossier, which is to say the DOJ side of the collusion. Judicial Chairman Goodlatte is focused the FBI side. Nunes demand comes as DAG Rosenstein has already committed to deliver 1.2 million pages of evidence from the year-long DOJ Inspector General investigation to the House Judiciary Chairman, Bob Goodlatte, on/around January 15th. More than likely the FBI/DOJ requested information is also contained within the upcoming OIG material... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/12/28/intelligence-committee-chairman-devin-nunes-gives-doj-until-january-3rd-to-produce-documents/
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The Plotting Begins to Surface at FBI/DoJ
by Denise Simon
{trevorloudon.com} ~ Judicial Watch today released Justice Department records showing that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe did not recuse himself... from the investigation into former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton’s unsecure, non-government email server until Tuesday, November 1, 2016, one week prior to the presidential election. The liar-Clinton email probe was codenamed “Midyear Exam.” While working as Assistant Director in Charge of the Washington Field Office, McCabe controlled resources supporting the investigation into former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. An October 2016 internal FBI memorandum labeled “Overview of Deputy Director McCabe’s Recusal Related To Dr. McCabe’s Campaign for Political Office,” details talking points about McCabe’s various potential conflicts of interest, including the FBI’s investigation of liar-Clinton’s illicit server, which officially began in July 2015: While at Washington Field Office did Mr. McCabe provide assistance to the liar-Clinton investigation?... http://www.trevorloudon.com/2017/12/the-plotting-begins-to-surface-at-fbi-doj/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
{conservativeinstitute.org} ~ In the wake of several members of Mueller’s team recently being caught with anti-Trump bias, an even more shocking figure has been found to be anti-Trump... New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who is working with special investigator Mueller on his Russia investigation, published an article on Medium bragging about his “resistance” to President Trump’s agenda and policies – a clear sign that Schneiderman should be nowhere near an impartial investigation. Schneiderman asserts in his piece that he is one of the noble defenders standing in the way of the president’s agenda. The article is essentially a list of actions taken by his office to hamper, subvert, and even outright block actions and policies by the Trump administration... https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/political-corruption/prosecutor-helping-mueller-bragged.htm?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=afternoon&utm_campaign=CNA_20171229-2
by C. Mitchell Shaw {thenewamerican.com} ~ The fallout from the Uranium One scandal is still coming down. While the liberal establishment in both politics and media is busily failing in its efforts to prove collusion between Trump and Russia, liar-Hillary Clinton continues to find herself caught in the crosshairs of multiple investigations into her dealings with Russian interests during her tenure as secretary of state.
As more details of the Uranium One deal — which transferred control of 20 to 25 percent of U.S. uranium to a state-owned Russian interest and lined the pockets of the liar-Clinton foundation with millions of dollars — continue to come to light, the picture that is emerging is one of corruption, illegality, and collusion. And liar-Hillary Clinton is right in the middle of it all. The problem is that the FBI — which was aware of the deal all along — has been less than forthcoming with many of the details uncovered by investigators even before the deal was approved.
That may be getting ready to change.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered Justice Department prosecutors to question FBI agents to explain the evidence they found in a now-dormant criminal investigation of the Uranium One deal, according to NBC News, which cited multiple law-enforcement officials.
As NBC News reported last week:
The interviews with FBI agents are part of the Justice Department's effort to fulfill a promise an assistant attorney general made to Congress last month to examine whether a special counsel was warranted to look into what has become known as the Uranium One deal, a senior Justice Department official said.
As part of the interviews related to that investigation, FBI agents involved have been asked by Justice Department prosecutors over the past few weeks to describe the results of their probe. The agents also “have been asked if there was any improper effort to squash a prosecution,” NBC news cited law-enforcement sources as saying.
The crux of the issue is the 2010 deal — approved by Secretary liar-Clinton and others — that allowed the sale of of U.S. uranium mining facilities to Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation, a Russian state-owned company headquartered in Moscow. While it would be bad enough for Secretary liar-Clinton to have approved a deal that would strengthen Russia while weakening the United States, there is more to this scandal than even that. The New York Times reported in 2015 before liar-Clinton was the Democrat nominee that more than $40,000,000 in donations were made to the liar-Clinton Foundation in connection with the deal.
For those Democrats looking for evidence of collusion with Russia, looking into a mirror would appear to be a great place to begin. After all, they chose liar-Clinton as their nominee after she sold America out for the money that she appears to have used to control the party and guarantee her nomination.
Like so many other things involving the liar-nObama administration in general and liar-Clinton specifically, the Uranium One deal appears to have included an uninterrupted series of actions that were corrupt and illegal. As Newsweek reported in October, “The liar-nObama administration signed a controversial nuclear deal with Moscow despite prior FBI findings that Russian officials were bribing their way into the U.S. atomic energy industry, according to government documents just published by The Hill.”
And evidence of bribes and kickbacks is not mere conjecture and innuendo as in the case of allegations against Trump, but is solidly supported by “a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry” who gathered “extensive financial records,” made “secret recordings,” and intercepted “emails as early as 2009,” according to The Hill. Moreover:
They also obtained an eyewitness account — backed by documents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President liar-Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill.
The racketeering scheme was conducted “with the consent of higher level officials” in Russia who “shared the proceeds” from the kickbacks, one agent declared in an affidavit years later.
One question Attorney General Sessions wants answered is how — with everything the FBI knew at the time — the deal was allowed to be approved. He may also look into how liar-Clinton’s foundation profited from the deal.
As NBC News reported last week:
A senior law enforcement official who was briefed on the initial FBI investigation told NBC News there were allegations of corruption surrounding the process under which the U.S. government approved the sale. But no charges were filed.
But at least as far back as September 2016, Donald Trump and others have called the deal corrupt and called for liar-Clinton to be investigated. And last week, Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd sent a letter to Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, saying that DOJ lawyers would be making recommendations to Sessions “about whether an investigation should be opened or expanded, or whether a special counsel should be appointed” to investigate the matter, according to last week’s report by NBC News.
This is not the only investigation into liar-Clinton’s role in the Uranium One deal. As The New American reported in October, top House Republicans have already launched their own probes into both this matter and her e-mail scandal. And while liar-Clinton claims to be unconcerned, she appears quite concerned. And she likely has good reason to be.
{frontpagemag.com} ~ It has taken decades of concerted efforts by the immigration anarchists to get America to the dangerous point where it is today... Currently America has a population of unknown millions of illegal aliens who entered the United States covertly and without vetting by running our borders. Their presence in the United States and their very identities are unknown and unknowable. We also have millions of illegal aliens who violated the terms of their lawful admissions into the United States and have gone “missing in America.” Incredibly so-called “Sanctuary Cities” and “Sanctuary States” harbor and shield these illegal aliens from detection by the Department of Homeland Security and its component immigration law enforcement agencies, even as mayors of those cities demand to be given federal funds to combat crime and protect their residents against international terrorists they may be harboring... https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268867/debunking-lies-about-immigration-and-family-michael-cutler
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Sessions DOJ Wins First Round
for Trump over DACA at Supreme Court
by Ken Klukowski
{theacru.org} ~ Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday won the first legal battle at the Supreme Court over DACA... The unanimous decision threw out orders by a federal trial judge and the Ninth Circuit appeals court requiring disclosure of sensitive government documents—-papers which may include communications with President Donald Trump about the decision to end the amnesty program. Two amnesty programs for illegal aliens were operating when President Trump was inaugurated. The first was DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), concerning illegal aliens brought to the United States at a young age, which covered 800,000 people. The second was DAPA, which broadened DACA’s terms to cover at least 4.3 million illegal aliens. In November 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held DAPA was illegal... http://www.theacru.org/sessions-doj-wins-first-round-for-trump-over-daca-at-supreme-court/
{rickwells.us} ~ It’s no surprise that liar-Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), would have a spoiled brat for a son... It’s also no surprise that he’s chosen Antifa as a viable means of political expression. Given the numbskull performances of his dad whenever there was a microphone in front of his face, it’s also not surprising that the son would end up doing something stupid and getting caught. It had to happen. Linwood Michael Kaine, 25, was fortunate to receive probation on Wednesday for his role in protesting President Trump in March at the Minnesota State Capitol. Kaine was with a group of radical ne’er-do-wells harassing Trump supporters with smoke bombs, mace and fireworks. Some of the rally attendees were treated for injuries by paramedics... https://rickwells.us/tim-kaine-antifa-son-2/
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True power lies in the smallest of things
by LAURA HOLLIS
{wnd.com} ~ Back when I decided to major in English in college, I had a hard and fast rule: no courses featuring Western literature from the 20th century. From a very young age, I was put off by how much European and American “modern” literature, art and music seemed to glorify ugliness, cruelty or meaninglessness. I was unmoved and unimpressed by expressions that neither provided inspiration nor in many cases required any talent. My thought at the time was that life was too short to fill one’s life with pointless darkness.
Those early impressions have only been reinforced in the years since. I’ve tended to steer clear of what I disliked back then, in favor of history, non-Western literature, science fiction or fantasy. But I am reading a best-selling fiction novel at the moment. And while I wouldn’t describe it as post-modern or nihilist, it has made another theme of contemporary literature stand out for me. Specifically, I’m astonished at the extent to which the drama in these stories could be completely averted by the tiniest bit of honesty, kindness, compassion or basic common sense.
I’m not referring to huge, cataclysmic events, by the way, but to the small, everyday interactions that individually don’t mean much, but which, over time, add up to a great deal. And which, by virtue of their simplicity and mundanity, would require precious little effort to do correctly at the time they happen.
Yes, I realize that people do act like that, but I can’t enjoy it when I’m reading it. I find myself shaking my head, thinking, “Dear God, why would you say such a hurtful thing?” or “Please don’t do that” or “For heaven’s sake, just tell him the truth.”
It struck me that it is perfectly in keeping with the spirit of the Christmas season to recognize the enormous impact of small things.
At Christmas Eve Mass this past Sunday, the priest spoke of the ironic circumstances of Jesus Christ’s arrival on earth: to come as a baby, born to the poorest of parents, in a backwater town of an occupied territory at the outskirts of the Roman Empire. No one – least of all the evil one whom Christ came to defeat – would expect God himself to arrive in such an ignoble and powerless state. But, the homilist continued, God did not manifest in this way as some wily deception, but because this incarnation as a helpless human infant was the essence of God’s love: utterly dependent upon human response
Writers often comment how remarkable it is that Christ – and through him, Christianity – transformed the world in spite of the implausible circumstances of his brief, impoverished life not to mention his ignominious death by execution. But it makes more sense to conclude that he chose his manner of life on earth because this is precisely what would achieve the objectives he sought.
When human beings consider “power,” we tend to mean the ability to force people to do what we would like them to or think they should. By that calculus, the more force one can apply to the largest number of people, the more power one has, and the more successful one will be. We, therefore, think of earthly kings, vast bureaucracies or dictators as “powerful.” It is almost incomprehensible, therefore, that the Almighty – who could, one presumes, have arrived in a blaze of glory and simply ordered everyone on earth to do as he commanded – did nothing of the sort.
Christ forced no one to do anything. Instead, his “power,” as it were, was displayed in his routine, daily interactions with those nearest to him. He never traveled more than a few miles from his home. Perhaps a few thousand people ever heard him speak. And his life was brief, even by the standards of his day. But those whom he touched were inspired to reach out to others in a similar fashion and often at great personal expense, including loss of their own lives. Thus did the thoughts and words of one seemingly powerless man spread around the world.
There lies the common takeaway in both the tragedy of the contemporary novel and the triumph of Jesus Christ. For good or for ill, true “power” lies in the smallest of things. The choices we make in the most mundane matters of our day-to-day existence have greater significance than we know something that often only becomes clear when we choose poorly. If we choose to act with kindness, honesty and please God just a little self-restraint, we can avoid much unnecessary sorrow, and we may be able to effect good beyond our wildest imagining.
Sharia Berlin to set up “safe zone” for women at New Year’s Eve party
( Is this what you want for AMERICAN that our women little girls and boys are not safe in their home land? Muslims do not assimilate! They infiltrate! )
So the response to Sharia-sanctioned sexual abuse of infidel women is to adopt another Sharia principle, the segregation of the sexes. Anyone can see what is happening in Germany, and to what it is tending.
“New Year’s Eve party in Berlin to have ‘safe zone’ for women,” BBC, December 29, 2017:
Organisers of Berlin’s New Year’s Eve celebrations are to set up a “safe zone” for women for the first time.
The new security measures planned for the Brandenburg Gate party come amid concerns about sexual assaults.
A large number of assaults and robberies targeting women at Cologne’s New Year’s Eve celebrations two years ago horrified Germany.
Hundreds of women reported being attacked by gangs of men with migrant backgrounds.
The events in Cologne heightened tensions in the country over the large influx of refugees and migrants – 1.1m people arrived in Germany in 2015, some, but by no means all, fleeing violence in Syria and Iraq.
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend the New Year’s Eve party in Berlin on Sunday and security will be strict. Large bags, such as rucksacks, and alcoholic drinks will be banned at the Brandenburg Gate.
Women who have been assaulted or feel harassed will be able to get support at a special “safety zone”, staffed by the German Red Cross, on Ebertstrasse….
But the idea of a special safe zone for women at large public events has not been welcomed by everyone.
Critics say it does not tackle the perpetrators of sexual violence, while some others complain it is discriminatory.
This is a historic moment. Thank heaven we have a President we stands for freedom and individual rights. Thanks to Obama, the Iranian people who marched for freedom were routed, raped defeated en masse. Seven more years of crushing oppression followed. I believe the election of President Trump empowered the people.
Moments ago, the people of city of Rasht besieged the Islamic Republic’s repressive forces (thanks to Amil Imani):
“We don’t want an Islamic Republic” and “Death to Rouhani” chanted today in Qom.
If the people rise up, Trump will stand them. This is history.
“Protesters in Iran chant “Reza Shah, Bless Your Soul” – referring to Reza Shah the Great, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty, the nemesis of the clerics, the modernizer of Iran,” Potkin Azarmehr
Street Protests In Iran, Dozens Reportedly Arrested
Thousands of people poured into the streets in the northeastern city of Mashhad on Thursday protesting rising prices and the general failure of the Islamic Republic in creating jobs, fighting corruption and providing a minimal degree of welfare.
Thanks to social media hundreds of video clips and photos were posted online of angry protesters chanting anti-government slogans.
“Death to the dictator”, “Death to [Hassan] Rouhani”, “Don’t be afraid, we are together”, “Not Gaza, nor Lebanon, my life for Iran” were reportedly among the slogans.
During the street protests in 2009, “Death to the dictator” was generally perceived as directed at Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
There have been many single-issue protests recently in Iran, but this latest outburst in Mashhad were more reminiscent of the anti-regime protests of eight years ago than workers strikes or smaller gatherings of cheated bank depositors.
According to some opposition sources hundreds of people were detained by security forces during the demonstrations, but an official of Mashhad’s prosecutor’s office put the number of at 52.
Security forces used water cannons and teargas to confront and disperse the crowds, which led to clashes and injuries.
In addition to Mashhad, there were smaller protests in a few other cities including Birjand, Kashmar, Noushahr, Neyshabour and Yazd.
In some of the clips posted on social media, demonstrators are heard chanting slogans lauding the pre-revolution era.
“Long live Reza Shah”, a reference to the first Pahlavi king who is deemed as the architect of modern Iran. Reza Shah was also well-known for his secular politics. Another slogan was “Iran haphazard, without the Shah”, apparently referring to the late king of Iran, Mohammadreza Shah Pahlavi, who was forced into exile in 1979 giving way to the the rise of a theocracy in Iran.
Mashhad is the second most populous city in Iran after the capital city Tehran. It is also home to the holiest site in Iran, the shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth Shi’ia Imam.
It’s no secret that the surge in Muslim economic migrants posing as ‘refugees’ who have been invading Europe, has resulted in a record-breaking number of car fires – otherwise known as ‘arson jihad’ – especially in France and Sweden. Now the Netherlands seems to be ‘under fire’ with more than 10 car torchings per day!
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