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EXCLUSIVE: One man is killed and more than 40 are treated for rabies after an outbreak of VAMPIRE BAT attacks in Brazil

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

Edivalson Francisco Souza, 46, died after stepping on bat, which bit his foot

He was milking a cow on a farm in Paramirim, in Bahia, north-east Brazil

His death is the first recorded case of human rabies in the country since 2004

Flurry of attacks by vampire bats have been reported in capital city of Salvador

Disease control teams now culling them by catching and applying venom paste

By Janet Tappin Coelho In Brazil For Mailonline Published: 02:01 EDT, 30 May 2017 | Updated: 06:06 EDT, 30 May 2017

A man has died and more than 40 people are being treated for possible rabies exposure in north-east Brazil, following an alarming spate of attacks by vampire bats, it has been reported. The death is the first recorded case of human rabies in Brazil since 2004. The outbreak is the largest wave of attacks ever registered in the region and is being attributed to a disturbing rise in the bat population nesting close to humans. Last Saturday, disease control teams from Bahia state health authority (SESAB) were out in force culling vampire bats by catching them and applying a venom paste to their bodies, in a bid to control the rising numbers. According to SESAB, Edivalson Francisco Souza, the 46-year-old who died, was milking a cow on a farm in Paramirim when he accidentally stepped on a rabies-carrying bat, which bit his foot. The farmer dismissed the incident, washed the wound but failed to see a doctor. Three weeks later, after being hospitalised for seven days suffering from headaches, nausea, severe anxiety and shortness of breath, Edivalson remembered the incident. He tested positive for rabies but it was too late for doctors to administer the vaccine and he passed away shortly afterwards in March this year. SESAB immediately issued a public health alert, warning of the risks of contracting rabies and ways to stay vigilant. Within days of the fatality, residents living in the capital city, Salvador, some 400 miles from Paramirim, reported a flurry of attacks by the blood-thirsty creatures that appear to have added human blood to their menu. Over the last three months, dozens of frightened locals have told of being terrorised by the flying mammals at night. Many have woken up to the distressing sight of their bed sheets soaked with blood after the animals sunk their fangs into their toes, heels and elbows. One of the victims, Matheus Andrade, who lives in the historic centre of the city said: 'I was bitten three times, twice on my toes and once on my heel, in two successive nights around the middle of May. 'I didn't realize until the second time that I had been attacked by a bat. At first I thought I had somehow cut my toe during the night. 'I normally sleep with the windows and doors open and the bats flew in. I never felt any pain at all on both the nights I was bitten. But in my dreams, I did feel as if something had hooked itself onto my toe. 'When I woke up in the morning, I found the bed was wet. It had been raining overnight and I thought water had dripped in. But it was my blood. It was such a shock. 'The wound was tiny but deep, the blood was dark and thick and the area wouldn't stop bleeding even when I tried washing it off.' The 22-year-old refrigerator engineer was not the only member of his family to suffer the terrifying ordeal. His mother, Rose Fernandes, 54, said: 'I was bitten on my toe too while I slept. I didn't feel anything. My husband woke me up and showed me the dirty sheet. 'We thought I had cut myself without knowing. But as soon as Matheus told me the same thing had happened to him, we realised it had to be a bat because of the fang-like puncture marks in our toes. 'It has never happened before and it was very frightening. Now we shut up all the windows and doors at night even though it's hot. 'And it's a good thing we did because the other night I woke up in the early hours of the morning at 1:30 because I heard something banging up against the window. 'The bat that had bitten me before seemed to have come back for more and was trying to get in. It kept hitting against the glass. It even flew away at some distance and came hurtling back even harder slamming up against the window,' recalled the teaching assistant, shuddering at the memory. Both mother and son went to the Couto Maia Hospital and have been prescribed 30 days of anti-rabies and tetanus vaccines, which must be taken until the middle of June. According to veterinarian Aroldo Carneiro, it's common for people to confuse bat bites with a simple cut. Vampire bats, or the common bat, are small nocturnal creatures with a wingspan of about eight inches. They only live in the Americas and feed solely on blood, puncturing the skin of their prey with sharp incisors. Carneiro, who heads the rabies surveillance unit, explained: 'The bite does not cause intense pain because in bat saliva there are analgesic and anticoagulant substances, the latter prevents the quick healing of the wound.' He stressed that bat attacks on humans are rare in Salvador but cited destruction of the nocturnal mammals' natural habitat and large numbers of abandoned properties in the city centre as factors contributing to the outbreak. He said: 'We have detected shifts in bat behaviour and a worrying increase in the population in the area. We believe this is due to deforestation and the destruction of caves, which forces the bats to migrate to the cities. 'The city centre does not have the normal source of food for hematophagous beings (who feed on blood) such as horses and cattle. The vampire bats must find an alternative to live so they bite dogs and cats, and when these aren't available they turn to humans. 'In addition, there are many buildings in the historical centre of Salvador which are abandoned and have openings that give access to the wild animals. The empty places provide shelter and nesting sites and this has allowed the numbers to grow.' To combat the wave of attacks, a task force of disease control agents have been visiting homes in the terrorised neighbourhoods advising residents on how to protect themselves at night - by keeping windows and doors shut, putting up mesh screens, plugging cracks in the roof that can serve as an entrance for the animals, illuminating dark areas in the house and not leaving fruit out overnight. The teams have been vaccinating cats and dogs. Last year, 91,000 dogs and 32,000 cats were immunised, and agents have been re-emphasising to residents that rabies is almost always fatal unless victims receive early preventative treatment. Recent surveillance action resulted in the capture of 16 bats and lab tests identified the presence of the rabies virus in a couple of those caught. Carneiro said: 'Our disease surveillance teams have been out over the weekend controlling the numbers by trapping them and putting a venom paste on their bodies. This poison is passed on when they make contact with other bats. 'They must be culled because there are too many in the area, living too close to residents.' Professor Valdirene Meira da Cunha, 42, believes a bat mistook her home for a cave because after feasting on her big toe, it took refuge on her wall. She said: 'I turned on the light and I couldn't believe it. The bed was covered with my blood. I don't know what made me look up, but when I did I saw the bat hanging on the wall above my head. 'It was like a scene out of a horror movie, it was absolutely terrifying and my scream woke everyone up.' Pensioner Ubaldina dos Santos, 85, said she has not been able to sleep since the outbreak in the area. 'We're trying not to panic,' she said anxiously. 'But the houses we live in are old, with crevices and cracks where the bats can enter. 'Everyone is living in fear of waking up and finding a vampire bat drinking their blood like Dracula,' she added.

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Should Russia's new Armata T-14 tanks worry Nato?

By Jonathan Marcus Defence and diplomatic correspondent

30 May 2017 From the section Europe

Active protection systems (APS) are being built into Russia's new Armata T-14 tank, posing a problem for a whole generation of anti-armour weapons, not least the US-supplied Javelin guided missile, used by the Norwegian Army. The warning comes from Brig Ben Barry of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. He says this is a problem that most Nato countries have barely begun to grapple with. APS threatens to make existing anti-tank weapons far less effective, and there is little real discussion of this among many Western militaries, he says. Some countries are conducting research and trials to equip their own tanks with APS. "But they seem to miss the uncomfortable implications for their own anti-armour capabilities," he says. Norway is one of the first Nato countries to grasp this nettle. Its latest defence procurement plan envisages spending 200-350m kroner (£18.5-32.5m; $24-42m) on replacing its Javelin missiles, "to maintain the capacity to fight against heavy armoured vehicles". "There is a need for [an] anti-tank missile," it says, "that can penetrate APS systems". APS is the latest twist in the age-old battle between offence and defence in military technology. At different periods one side has held the advantage over the other. The armoured knight once ruled supreme, but the widespread use of firearms put paid to the armour-clad nobility's dominance. Since World War Two the tank, like the knight of old, has reigned supreme on the battlefield. It is of course vulnerable to the main guns of other tanks. If you have a heavy enough shell and a gun firing at high-enough velocity you can punch through even the best armour. But tanks are also vulnerable to other weapons systems, and that is what APS is designed to deal with. Since World War Two a whole category of lighter, man-portable anti-tank weapons has been devised. Since they have to be carried by the infantry they depend not upon velocity and mass to get through the tank's armour, but on a chemical reaction. These warheads impact on the external armour and a metal core forms into a molten jet that pierces through. Tank designers have tried to counter this in all sorts of ways, with reactive panels that explode outwards when hit; or by providing additional layers of spaced armour, to detonate the incoming round away from the tank itself. APS takes a whole new approach. It is essentially an anti-missile system for tanks, with radars capable of tracking the incoming anti-tank missile, and projectiles that are launched to disrupt or destroy it. Israel is among the leaders in this field and its Merkava tanks used it with some success during the last upsurge of fighting in Gaza. The Israeli Trophy system is being evaluated by the Americans. Britain too is looking at such systems and the Dutch have recently decided to equip their infantry combat vehicles with another Israeli-developed system. The fitting of APS to armoured vehicles is intended to counter a variety of weapons, ranging from the ubiquitous Russian/Chinese RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) to much more sophisticated guided anti-tank weapons like the Russian Kornet. But Brig Barry at the IISS is pointing out that Russia's APS technology raises questions about many of Nato's anti-tank defences too. Norway is taking action - and he believes other Nato countries will have to do the same.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40083641 

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Germany: Wave of Muslim Honor Killings

by Soeren Kern May 30, 2017 at 5:00 am

The court heard how Amer K. stabbed the mother of his three children in the chest and neck more than twenty times with a large kitchen knife, because he thought she wanted to divorce him. "Then he takes the knife and plunges it into her chest, [penetrating] the pericardium and heart muscle. A second stab opens the left abdominal cavity. Nurettin B. then pulls out the ax. With the blunt side he hits her head, cracking her skull. Then he grabs the rope. On one end he ties a gibbet knot around her neck, then he ties the other end to the trailer hitch on [his car]... He races through the streets at 80 km/h [until] the rope breaks." — State Prosecutor Ann-Kristin Fröhlich, reconstructing the husband's actions. In Ahaus, a 27-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker stabbed to death a 22-year-old woman after she seemingly offended his honor by rejecting his romantic advances. The trial of a Kurdish man who tied one of his three wives to the back of a car and dragged her through the streets of a town in Lower Saxony has drawn attention to an outbreak of Muslim honor violence in Germany. Honor violence — ranging from emotional abuse to physical and sexual violence to murder — is usually carried out by male family members against female family members who are perceived to have brought shame upon a family or clan. Offenses include refusing to agree to an arranged marriage, entering into a relationship with a non-Muslim or someone not approved by the family, refusing to stay in an abusive marriage or living an excessively Western lifestyle. In practice, however, the lines between crimes of honor and crimes of passion are often blurred and any challenge to male authority can elicit retribution, which is sometimes staggeringly brutal. On May 22, a court in Hanover heard how a 39-year-old Turkish-born Kurd named Nurettin B. attempted to murder his second wife, Kader K., 28, after she asked him to provide financial support for their two-year-old son. State Prosecutor Ann-Kristin Fröhlich reconstructed Nurettin B.'s actions: "At around 6PM on November 20, 2016, Nurettin B. got into his car in Hamelin to meet Kader K. The trunk contained a knife, an ax and a rope. Sitting on the back seat of the car was their two-year-old son, who had spent the weekend with him. On the street, the former couple got into an argument and he begins hitting her. Then he takes the knife and plunges it into her chest. The 12.4 centimeter long blade penetrates the pericardium and heart muscle. A second stab opens the left abdominal cavity. Nurettin B. then pulls out the ax. With the blunt side he hits her head and upper body, cracking her skull. "Then he grabs the rope. On one end he ties a gibbet knot around her neck, then he ties the other end to the trailer hitch on the back of his black VW Passat. Nurettin B. steps on the gas. He races through the streets at 80 km/h (50 mph). After 208 meters (680 feet) the rope breaks. Kader K. is hurled against the curb. Nurettin B. drives to the police station to turn himself in. The child is still sitting in the back seat." Presiding Judge Wolfgang Rosenbusch asked Kader K., who was comatose for weeks, to tell her side of the story. She said "the horror" began immediately after their Islamic sharia wedding (the marriage is not valid according to German law) in March 2013, when Nurettin B. prohibited her from having any contact with friends and family. She was allowed to leave the house only for grocery shopping and medical visits. She was not allowed to have a mobile phone. Rosenbusch asked: "Does he have a problem with women?" Kader K. replied: "He believes women are slaves; they must keep silent." Nurettin B. has confessed to the crime but insists it was not premeditated. He has been charged with attempted murder and faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. On May 9, a court in Kiel sentenced 35-year-old Turkish man to two-and-a-half years in prison for shooting his estranged wife in both knees and permanently laming her, in the hope that she would be unattractive to other men. The court heard how the man took his wife to the back of a local mosque after Friday prayers, accused her of offending his honor and shot her, saying: "Now you can no longer walk. You will stay at home." In court, however, the woman, possibly under pressure from her family or the mosque, told the court that they couple had reconciled and would attend marriage counselling. Some observers surmised that the dispute may have been resolved in a sharia court. In any event, the German court allowed the man to return home with his wife and it remains unclear if and when he will serve his sentence. In Münster, a court sentenced a 36-year-old Lebanese man named Amer K. to 12 years in prison for stabbing his wife to death. The court heard how Amer K. stabbed 26-year-old Fatima S., the mother of his three children, in the chest and neck more than twenty times with a large kitchen knife because he thought she wanted to divorce him. Meanwhile, a court in Hanau sentenced a 22-year-old Syrian refugee to twelve years in prison for stabbing to death his 30-year-old sister, Ramia A., with a kitchen knife. She was 23 weeks pregnant and was accused of having brought shame to her family. Her unborn child also died in the attack. The true scale of Germany's honor crime problem is unknown: many such crimes go unreported and reliable statistics do not exist. Empirical evidence indicates that honor violence — primarily but not exclusively the product of Muslim culture and Islamic law, sharia — has metastasized since Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed in some two million migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. In March 2011, the Max Planck Institute published a landmark study on honor killings. The study analyzed all such crimes known to have occurred in Germany between 1996 and 2005. The report found that there were two honor killings in 1998 and 12 in 2004. By 2016, however, the number had jumped to more than 60, an increase of 400%, according to the website Ehrenmord. The actual number of honor crimes presumably is much higher. Increased censorship by the police and the media, aimed at stemming anti-immigration sentiments, makes it impossible to know the names and national origins of many victims or perpetrators, or the true circumstances surrounding many murders, which often appear to be honor killings but are downplayed as "domestic disputes" (Familienangelegenheiten). 2017 is nevertheless on track to be a record year for honor violence in Germany; in the first five months of this year, there have been at least 30 honor killings, including the following: May 18. In Berlin, a 32-year-old Bosnian, Edin A., murdered his former girlfriend, a 35-year-old German woman named Michelle E., after she ended their abusive relationship. He also abducted and tortured her 12-year-old son, who was forced to watch his mother's murder. Neighbors said they had repeatedly alerted the police about Edin A.'s violent behavior, but the police did nothing. May 17. In Pforzheim, a 53-year-old Tajik man stabbed to death his 50-year-old wife at her place of employment, a Christian daycare center. It remains unclear if the woman was a convert to Christianity. May 17. In Wardenburg, a 37-year-old Iraqi man stabbed to death his 37-year-old wife while she was asleep in her bed. The couple's five children, between the ages of four and 15, were at home at the time of the murder and are now living with relatives. May 8. In Neuendettelsau, a 24-year-old Ethiopian asylum seeker, Mohammed G., stabbed his 22-year-old girlfriend in the stomach at a restaurant after she allegedly "provoked" him. The woman was five months pregnant; the unborn baby died in the attack. May 4. In Freiburg, a 33-year-old Syrian asylum seeker stabbed his 24-year-old wife, a Kurdish Christian who had moved out of the couple's apartment, but had returned to collect some personal belongings. The couple's three children — aged six, three and ten months — are now in protective custody. April 29. In Prien am Chiemsee, a 29-year-old Afghan man stabbed to death a 38-year-old Afghan woman, Farima S., who had converted to Christianity. The attacker ambushed the woman as she was exiting a grocery store with her two children. April 23. In Syke, a 32-year-old Iraqi man, Murad B., strangled his 32-year-old wife, Mehe K., in front of the couple's three children, ages one, two and nine. April 23. In Dresden, a 29-year-old Pakistani refugee, Shahajan Butt, murdered his girlfriend, a 41-year-old Vietnamese woman named Thu T. Police say the man, who arrived in Germany in December 2015, became enraged after he noticed that the woman had not posted any photos of him on her Facebook page, and suspected that she may have had another boyfriend. April 16. In Mainz-Finthen, a 39-year-old Egyptian asylum seeker stabbed to death his 32-year-old wife. Police said the couple had been arguing at the time of the attack. Their two children are being held in protective custody. April 5. In Leipzig, a 34-year-old Syrian man stabbed his 28-year-old wife because she wanted a divorce. The couple's two children witnessed the attack; they are being held in protective custody. March 31. In Gütersloh, a 43-year-old Syrian man burned his 18-year-old daughter with a cigarette and threatened to kill her. When the police intervened, the father refused to allow his daughter to leave the house. After police succeeded in bringing the girl to safety, the father and son attacked the police, who used pepper-spray to fend them off. The girl is being held in protective custody. March 15. In Kiel, a 40-year-old German-Turkish man stabbed to death his 34-year-old Turkish wife in front of a daycare center. Neighbors said the couple, who were separated, had quarreled about moving their three children to Turkey. March 4. In Duisburg, a 30-year-old Syrian asylum seeker, Mahmood Mahrusseh, stabbed his 32-year-old ex-girlfriend. The woman survived; her attacker remains at large. March 3. In Mönchengladbach, a 32-year-old asylum seeker, Ahmed Salim, murdered a 47-year-old German woman, Nicole M., apparently after she ended a relationship with him. The man, who also uses the alias Jamal Amilia, was arrested in Spain. In his asylum application, he had written that he was from Israel. In another asylum application filed in another country, he had written that he was from Morocco. He is believed to be from Iraq. March 2. In Scheeßel, a 42-year-old Iraqi man stabbed to death his 52-year-old wife, also from Iraq. Police described the murder as an honor killing. The couple's children are now in protective custody. February 25. In Euskirchen, a 32-year-old German-Turkish man stabbed to death his former girlfriend, a 32-year-old German woman who had begun dating someone else. February 17. In Offenbach, a 32-year-old Turkish man, Volkan T., shot to death his former girlfriend, a 40-year-old woman, Silvia B. The man said he was angry that the woman, who had two children, had ended her relationship with him. February 15. In Bielefeld, a 51-year-old Iraqi man tried to murder his 51-year-old wife by attacking her with a hammer while she was attending a German class at a local language academy. The man was apparently angry that his wife was mixing with other language students. February 10. In Ahaus, a 27-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker stabbed to death a 22-year-old woman after she seemingly offended his honor by rejecting his romantic advances. The woman, a Hindu, was employed at the same asylum shelter where her attacker lived. He was arrested in Basel, Switzerland. February 7. In Hanover-Mühlenberg, a 21-year-old Serbian man stabbed his ex-girlfriend after she ended their relationship and had begun dating someone else. February 1. In Hamburg, a 26-year-old Afghan man stabbed his estranged 28-year-old wife during an argument; she survived the attack. January 15. In Bremen-Vegesack, a 39-year-old Turkish man murdered his 40-year-old Syrian wife, who was nine months pregnant, because she wanted to divorce him. The unborn baby also died during the attack. January 5. In Waldshut-Tiengen, a 47-year-old Turkish man stabbed his estranged wife as she was walking with a friend. When she tried to run away, he pursued her and plunged a knife in her back. January 4. In Köln-Buchheim, a 44-year-old Iraqi man murdered his 19-year-old daughter because he did not approve of her boyfriend. Two days later, he called police. "I killed my daughter," he said. The man may never face justice; he is believed to have fled to Iraq.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10441/germany-muslim-honor-killings 

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Trump and Leaks: The president must take aggressive steps to stop a grave national security threat

by FRED FLEITZ May 30, 2017

President Trump spoke out angrily Thursday against leaks of classified information to the press - including leaks of confidential information the U.K. government had shared with American intelligence agencies on the Manchester terrorist attack. These leaks "pose a grave threat to our national security," he said, and pledged to identify and prosecute those responsible. The president has it exactly right. He is facing an unprecedented campaign by career government employees to sabotage his presidency with a flood of leaks to the press of classified and confidential information. These leaks are damaging U.S. national security and constitute criminal behavior. They must be stopped. Some of the leaks have been of highly classified U.S. intelligence reports, including "demasked" NSA reporting concerning former National Security Adviser General Michael Flynn. Others were of President Trump's confidential conversations with foreign leaders. Concerning the false allegation that President Trump "leaked" classified information to Russian officials when he met with them in the Oval Office, bear in mind that the president has ultimate classification authority - he can disclose intelligence as he sees fit to advance his foreign policy. As I discussed in an earlier Fox News Opinion article, the real scandal in that instance was that current and former intelligence and policy officials disclosed to the Washington Post sensitive details about the intelligence Trump allegedly discussed with Russian officials - details that were so highly classified the Post chose not to publish them. This was the real crime. The persons who illegally disclosed this information to the Post must be prosecuted. Just as serious are the constant leaks concerning investigations of Trump officials. There's no question in my mind that former FBI Director James Comey arranged to have his notes leaked to the press to hurt President Trump and influence the congressional investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election. It also appears that anti-Trump government employees with the Justice Department and the FBI are systematically leaking a story a day to help CNN and MSNBC promote their false narratives that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. These leaks are especially serious since Justice and law enforcement careerists are violating the due process rights of Trump officials by disclosing (and probably misrepresenting) confidential information from official investigations to smear them. Since the "evidence" of wrongdoing by Trump officials appears too thin to produce any charges, these officials are instead using leaks to try and convict Trump officials in the press. It is urgent that Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Special Counsel Robert Mueller stop these leaks which are an affront to the American system of justice. The Trump administration also must take decisive action to halt leaks of classified national security information. The most effective way to do this is to fill vacant confirmable and non-confirmable positions in policy and intelligence agencies as quickly as possible. This should include a housecleaning in the NSC, State, DOD, CIA, DIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and other agencies to replace career government employees named to sensitive positions by the Obama administration. In some cases, these career officials are actually former Obama political appointees who converted to the career civil service, a practice known as "burrowing in." Although civil service laws and regulations make it virtually impossible to fire career government employees, the Trump administration can reassign these officials. If this is not possible, job descriptions can be changed so anti-Trump careerists suspected of leaking no longer work on sensitive matters. Their security clearances can also be stripped. Other immediate steps must be taken to address recent leaks of classified and confidential information. Read-outs of the president's meetings and conversations must be better protected. Investigations that include polygraphs should be conducted to find those who were behind recent leaks. And the NSC needs to bring in experienced personnel to help safeguard confidential information concerning the president's policy deliberations. Trump officials will never completely stop leaks to the press. They need to recognize that leaks are always worse during Republican presidencies because the career work force tilts to the left. That said, this recent flood of leaks is an unprecedented effort by government careerists to put U.S. national security at risk to undermine an elected president. This cannot be allowed to continue.

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THE COLLAPSE OF FRANCE — Paul Craig Roberts May 29, 2017

The brainwashed and insouciant French electorate has voted to abolish the French nation. In five years France will exist only as a geographical location, a province in “Europe,” itself a province in global capitalism. The French had a last chance to save their nation, but they could not do it because the French have been convinced that to be French is to be fascist and racist. Therefore, the French electorate defeated Marine Le Pen, the leader of the only political party that stands for France. After five years under Macron, nothing will be left of France. Macron, the choice of Washington and the international bankers, represents, in the words of Diana Johnstone, “the trans-Atlantic elite totally committed to ‘globalization,’ using whatever is left of the power of national governments to weaken them still further, turning over decision-making to ‘the markets’—that is, to international capital managed by the major banks and financial institutions, notably those located in the United States, such as Goldman-Sachs.” Read Johnstone’s assessment here: http://www.globalresearch.ca/all-power-to-the-banks-the-winners-take-all-regime-of-emmanuel-macron/5591208  Macron defines himself as a “diversityite,” declaring that “there is no such thing as French culture.” Macron’s Minister of Armies and Defense declares that she “does not feel French.” Macron follows the Russophobic line of the American neoconservatives, and rode to his inauguration in a military vehicle. It is unclear why Putin went to France to meet today with Macron, who is totally in Washington’s pocket. Perhaps the Russian government believes that the terror attacks in France are real and hopes to finally convince one Western government to join Russia in “the war against terrorists.” Or perhaps Putin wanted to see if Macron has any awareness of the conflict with Russia toward which Washington is pushing Europe. Perhaps Macron’s invitation to Putin was Washington’s suggestion, the purpose of which is to keep Putin ever hopeful of Western cooperation while Washington finalizes its attack plan. Only two countries stand in the way of Washington’s world hegemony: Russia and China. Of the two obstacles, Russia is perceived as the largest constraint on US unilateralism. Europe is dependent on Russian energy, and Russia’s nuclear weapons systems are highly advanced. The fact that Russia’s national sovereignty depends so much on Putin’s leadership makes Russia the most vulnerable to Washington’s intrigue. Putin can be removed by assassination. But China’s leadership cannot, because it is collective. There is democracy within the ruling Chinese political party. Washington’s focus on China is to discredit the ruling party by using US financed organizations within China for this purpose. Washington is driving the world into a major conflict. The Russian and Chinese governments must know by now that they are targeted. As their hopes for diplomacy continue to be rebuffed by Washington and Europe, they will reach the conclusion that their only choice is surrender or war.

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/05/29/collapse-france-paul-craig-roberts/ 

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In Antarctica, Scientists Are Lured to a Frozen Desert

Photographs and Text by JONATHAN CORUM May 29, 2017

Welcome to the McMurdo Dry Valleys, the largest ice-free region in Antarctica and one of the driest places on the planet. Most of the continent is covered in thick ice, but this place is a striking exception. Sheltering mountains and dry winds from the continent preserve a frigid desert that defies all expectations. It is not barren: Scientists have spent decades studying the extreme environment and the microscopic life that survives there. The Dry Valleys may well be our closest equivalent to a Martian landscape. Four journalists from The New York Times visited the Dry Valleys in December — summer in the Southern Hemisphere. We also made virtual-reality film based on that flight, along with three other films about the changing continent. Here’s some of what we learned. Ice from the East Antarctic ice sheet cascades into the Upper Wright Valley, forming a smooth glacier three miles wide and five miles long. The surrounding mountains are high enough to keep the rest of the valley ice-free. Wind shapes the valley in different ways. Windblown grit carves exposed rocks on the valley rim into curved and hollowed forms. And dry winds from East Antarctica pour down the glacier and through the length of the valley, stripping away moisture and any snow that might fall. Little water means little erosion. Footprints in parts of this valley can last longer than a human lifetime. In some places, there are tire tracks left by scientists in the 1970s. The walls of the Upper Wright Valley are banded with light and dark rock — far more significant than they might seem. The pale bands are ancient Antarctic bedrock. But the dark bands appeared during the breakup of Gondwana, a supercontinent that formed around 600 million years and split apart around 180 million years ago. The breakup yielded the continents we know today as South America, Africa, Antarctica and Australia, among others. Similar rock formations on other continents in the Southern Hemisphere helped strengthen early theories of continental drift. The Friis Hills are the remnants of an ancient landscape. Twenty million years ago, this land was wet bog, buzzing with insects and dotted with Southern beech trees. A shift in climate covered the area with glaciers, and water hasn’t flowed here in 14 million years. The lack of moisture has helped preserve a record of the more temperate past, and researchers digging in the dry ground have found freeze-dried twigs and moss just below the surface. A Pond and Lake That Hint at Life on Other Planets Don Juan Pond Jonathan Corum / The New York Times Nestled in the Wright Valley is a pond of ankle-deep water, still liquid despite the freezing temperatures. Don Juan Pond is thought to be the saltiest body of water in the world, many times saltier than the Dead Sea. Scientists have found microbes around the pond, but the water itself may not support life. The last pools of liquid water on a dying Mars might have once looked something like this. Lake Vanda is an ice-covered lake fed by the Onyx River, the longest surface river in Antarctica, which only flows in summer. The lake holds an isolated ecosystem of microbial mats and spires. Rovers on Mars are searching for traces of similar microbial structures in ancient Martian lake beds.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/29/science/antarctica-mcmurdo-dry-valleys.html?referer=http://www.drudgereport.com/ 

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New Video Game To Depict Christianity As Incubator For Extremism, Threat To Civilization

May 30, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor

There’s a lot to analyze in the image, which you can view in full below. It features seven characters arrayed around a table à la Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, with the central Christ figure wearing yellow-tinted hunting glasses and sitting in front of an open book […] Of course, there’s one other person we haven’t talked about: the shirtless man sitting cross-legged on the ground, with his hands tied behind his back and the word “SINNER” written on, or carved into, his skin. That brings us back to the religious elements of this artwork, which suggest that these individuals adhere to a perversion of Christianity. Next to the book, in front of the Jesus figure, you can see the elements of the Eucharist: a goblet of wine and a piece of bread. An American flag is draped over the table, except with the stars representing the 50 states replaced by a unique cross. The eight-pointed symbol resembles the Iron Cross, which was last used as a military decoration in Nazi Germany under the direction of Adolf Hitler himself. (READ MORE) Far Cry 5 will tell the story of a militant Christian cult, if a piece of artwork released today by publisher Ubisoft is any indication. There’s a lot to analyze in the image, which you can view in full below. It features seven characters arrayed around a table à la Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, with the central Christ figure wearing yellow-tinted hunting glasses and sitting in front of an open book. Five other bearded men and one woman — as well as a disembodied pair of hands — surround him. The table and ground beneath it are littered with weapons and ammunition, such as a tactical shotgun, a compound bow, assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades. Outfitted in flannel shirts with accessories like dog tags and lethal weapons, the men look like they’re part of a hillbilly militia. One of them has a wolf, or perhaps a dog breed that just looks like a wolf, leashed on a chain. The woman provides a contrast, with flowers in her hair and one in her hand. Of course, there’s one other person we haven’t talked about: the shirtless man sitting cross-legged on the ground, with his hands tied behind his back and the word “SINNER” written on, or carved into, his skin. That brings us back to the religious elements of this artwork, which suggest that these individuals adhere to a perversion of Christianity. Next to the book, in front of the Jesus figure, you can see the elements of the Eucharist: a goblet of wine and a piece of bread. An American flag is draped over the table, except with the stars representing the 50 states replaced by a unique cross. The eight-pointed symbol resembles the Iron Cross, which became associated with the Nazis during World War II but has since been revived as a German military decoration. The cross in Far Cry 5 appears on a flag, in white on a blue background, that these cultists fly above the American flag — a no-no, according to flag etiquette — on the grounds of a church. The same flag hangs from the church’s steeple, just like in the live-action teaser trailer that Ubisoft posted earlier this week to introduce Far Cry 5’s setting: the fictional Hope County, Montana. There’s also some interesting stuff going on in the background. Two small airplanes — one with pontoons and another one hot on its tail, firing machine guns at it — are flying over a burning wooden building. Behind the church, you can see what appears to be a small town with a water tower, and there’s an antenna tower — perhaps for radio or cellular telephone signals — outside the town near a farm. And the majestic Rocky Mountains rise above the whole scene. Of course, we should note that we have no idea whether these people are friends or antagonists in Far Cry 5’s story, although it’s hard to believe a big-budget, mass-market AAA video game would cast the player’s lot with menacing characters like these. Far Cry 5 is set for release sometime before April 2018. Ubisoft will post a proper announcement trailer at 9 a.m. ET this Friday, May 26. Correction: The German armed forces currently award military decorations that bear the Iron Cross, following a 2008 petition by German citizens to bring back the symbol in a form disassociated from its Nazi heritage. In addition, one of the weapons on the ground is a compound bow, not a crossbow. We’ve edited the article to reflect this.

https://www.polygon.com/2017/5/24/15685504/far-cry-5-art-religious-christian-cult 

http://skywatchtv.com/2017/05/30/new-video-game-depict-christianity-incubator-extremism-threat-civilization/ 

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VICTORY: Federal Appeals Court Reinstates Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of the NSA's Mass Internet Surveillance Program

May 25, 2017

RICHMOND, Va. — Ruling that the existence of the government’s mass internet surveillance program would violate the First and Fourth Amendments, a federal appeals court has given the green light to a lawsuit challenging the government’s domestic and international spying program. The lawsuit—brought by a coalition of educational, legal, human rights and media organizations, including The Rutherford Institute, the ACLU, the Wikipedia Foundation, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers—was dismissed by a federal district court in Maryland, which ruled that the groups do not have standing to sue the National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. Department of Justice and their directors. On appeal, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed the lower court’s ruling in part, reinstating the lawsuit with Wikimedia as a party. A dissenting opinion filed in the case argued that all the plaintiffs have standing and should be allowed to proceed as parties to the lawsuit. “On any given day, the average American going about his daily business will be monitored, surveilled, spied on and tracked in more than 20 different ways, by both government and corporate eyes and ears,” said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People. “Revelations about the NSA’s spying programs only scrape the surface in revealing the lengths to which government agencies and their corporate allies will go to conduct mass surveillance on Americans’ communications and transactions. Senator Ron Wyden was right when he warned, ‘If we do not seize this unique moment in our constitutional history to reform our surveillance laws and practices, we are all going to live to regret it.’” The lawsuit brought by The Rutherford Institute, the ACLU, Wikipedia, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and other educational, legal, human rights and media organizations arises from efforts by the U.S. government since the 9/11 terrorist attacks to increase the surveillance and monitoring of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals. Although Congress had previously authorized the issuance of orders for electronic surveillance of foreign agents for intelligence purposes under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in October 2001, President George W. Bush secretly authorized warrantless interception of emails and telephone calls involving persons within the United States if NSA personnel had a “reasonable basis” to believe one party was connected with al Qaeda. When a judge refused to authorize the continuation of this program, the Bush administration obtained amendments to FISA in 2008 authorizing the acquisition without individualized suspicion of the international communications of U.S. citizens that are with or are about foreigners who the NSA chooses to target. In carrying out this broad authority under the 2008 law, the NSA has engaged in so-called “Upstream surveillance,” which according to the complaint “involves the NSA’s seizing and searching the internet communications of U.S. citizens and residents en mass as those communications travel across the internet ‘backbone’ in the United States—the network of high-capacity cables, switches and routers that facilitates both domestic and international communications via the internet.”

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‘White Supremacist’ Portland Stabber Was A Bernie Supporter, Threatened to Kill Trump Supporters

This case furthered the media's fake narrative evil white people are constantly killing minorities everywhere for kicks

Information Liberation - May 29, 2017

The “white supremacist” who stabbed three people in Portland is actually a Bernie Sanders supporter who hated Donald Trump and threatened to murder his supporters. While the top result for murderer Jeremy Christian is an article from Portland Mercury which paints him as a Donald Trump supporting white supremacist, his Facebook posts are all over the place and show he supported Bernie Sanders.

https://www.infowars.com/white-supremacist-portland-stabber-was-a-bernie-supporter-threatened-to-kill-trump-supporters/ 

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Arch of Ba’al, With Shadowy Ties to New World Order, May Be Messiah’s End-of-Days Gateway: Rabbi

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz May 29, 2017 , 11:30 am

“For he built again the high places which Chizkiyahu his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal.” II Kings 21:3 (The Israel Bible™)

A pagan arch erected in Italy one month before the meeting of the world’s most powerful leaders in the same country may be the portal whose opening could usher in the age of the Messiah – or a sinister World Order, a prominent rabbi has claimed. The rabbi believes that the two events – the unveiling last month of a replica of the Palmyra Arch, a symbol of paganism and idol worship, and the recent G7 summit, representing the coming together of world powers – are deeply and troublingly connected. “This arch brings together all the necessary elements for the New World Order,” explained Rabbi Daniel Assur, a member of the nascent Sanhedrin, to Breaking Israel News. “If you look at where this arch has appeared, it is clearly a pattern moving towards a specific goal: Messiah. The question is, whose Messiah will it be?” The structure is a reproduction of a Roman victory arch built in Palmyra, Syria at the end of the second century CE. Originally it stood in front of a Roman temple where pagans worshiped the Mesopotamian god, Bel, also known as Ba’al, in a form of idol worship that figures prominently in the Bible. The original arch was destroyed by the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2015, but one year later, the Institute for Digital Archaeology used 3-D printing technology to reproduce a 20-foot full-scale replica. The reproduction, which has traveled around the world to grace a number of events – each related to a concentration of global world power – was erected in Florence, Italy, one month ago as part of the first-ever Cultural Summit of the G7. This meeting was a prelude to the annual summit that brings together the leaders of the world’s seven major advanced economies. The seven entities, representing more than 64 percent of the net global wealth, came together last Friday in Taormina, Italy. Rabbi Assur explained that this connection to Ba’al was essential to the New World Order, and was therefore necessary to elements in the G7 seeking world domination. “The New World Order is not a secular, atheist movement,” explained Rabbi Assur. “They combine worship of Ba’al with worship of the Egyptian god, Isis, and also the true name of God. They need to bring together all of these elements.” Rabbi Assur added that changes within Christianity, specifically Catholicism, are part of the battle against the New World Order. This was one of his motives for participating in the Sanhedrin’s trial against Pope Francis in 2015. “The culture of paganic Rome is taking over Christianity,” he argued. “Christianity must be taken back from Roman culture, which is paganism.” The arch, originally reconstructed for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Heritage week in England, also relates to the New World Order’s designs on the Holy Temple and the name of the Jewish God, the rabbi said. “UNESCO, as part of the New World Order, has to usurp the true name of God,” Rabbi Assur explained. “It is towards this end that UNESCO is working towards changing the name and history of the Temple Mount, in order to control the original name of the Jewish God. That is why they made the most absurd claims about the holy places in Israel, but the power of the New World Order is real, so they were successful, despite their obvious lies.” Rabbi Assur said that the arch’s role in bringing the Messiah was explicitly described in the Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin (78a). The disciples of Rabbi Yossi the son of Kisma questioned him, asking when the son of David (the Messiah) will appear. And he answered: I am afraid you will request from me a sign as well. And they assured him that they would not. He then said to them: When this gate will fall, be rebuilt and fall again, be rebuilt again and fall again. And before it will be rebuilt for the third time the Messiah will appear. Revered Jewish scholar Rashi, a medieval rabbi who authored a canonical commentary on the Torah, wrote that the arch mentioned by Rabbi Yossi was “a Roman arch in a Roman city”. Rabbi Assur explained that when the Talmud describes the gate falling, it is not referring to an intentional act of deconstruction, but to the powers of evil triumphing over those who serve the true God, symbolized by the Arch of Palmyra. “There is no question that the arch is the portal for a new world that the Talmud is speaking about. If the New World Order succeeds, then they will rule, God forbid,” Rabbi Assur said. “But if the Moshiach ben David (Messiah from the House of David) comes through the portal, he will rule over them, over the New World Order.” The first modern reappearance of the Arch of Palmyra was in London’s Trafalgar Square in April 2016, when it was rected for(UNESCO) World Heritage Week. The unveiling coincided with the beginning of a 13-day period known in the occult as “the Blood Sacrifice to the Beast”, the most important holiday for those who worship the god Ba’al, celebrated with child sacrifice and bisexual orgies. In February, the arch was assembled again as the centerpiece for the World Government Summit in Dubai, an international meeting of global leaders to discuss policy.

Read more at https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/88858/rabbi-warns-pagan-arch-end-days-gateway-will-walk/#CZOcsDt6bhXg2JsS.99 

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The Lost Secrets of Memorial Day

Scribe note: see video

http://www.thelostsecretsofmemorialday.com/ 

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Another Memorial Day

Monday, May 29, 2017

Yesterday I joined the officially-estimated 50,000 people attending the Memorial Day "Celebration at the Station" in Kansas City. The weather was perfect, the music wonderful, and the post-celebration fireworks spectacular. The crowd's mood was respectfully celebratory save for a somber moment when photos of several young area men killed in action since 2001 were displayed on two large HiDef screens. I watched with growing fury as the pageant's official spokesman made the standard obligatory references to the "heroic sacrifices of these brave men who died defending our freedom". That these men were brave goes without saying and I'm certain that at the beginning of their service they truly believed they were defending our freedom. At one time I believed it too. The bitter truth is that every American soldier killed in action since 2001 died as a direct result of Washington's Official Lies and everyone in Official Washington and its enabling national media establishment knows it. This morning, Senator John McCain called Russia a "bigger threat to global security" than ISIS and called Russia' s President Vladimir Putin a "thug and a murderer", echoing the meme that demonstrates just how thoroughly the Washington Establishment has absorbed and is now applying lessons learned from the tyrannical regimes with dreams of Empire that preceded it. “The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened”. – Josef Stalin, Dictator of the Soviet Union “Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” – Hermann Goring, Nazi Gestapo Founder Since September 11, 2001, Washington has bombed Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Pakistan. It has overthrown the democratically elected President of the Ukraine in 2014 and its agents initiated the completely illegal effort to overthrow Syria's President Assad. Assad's was the only government in the region protecting Christians and other religious minorities from Sunni fanatics. "Republican" Senator John McCain and "Democrat" Hillary Clinton's Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland orchestratred and directed the Ukrainian coup d'etat and McCain and Clinton were heavily involved in standing up, arming, and supporting the so-called "Syrian Free Army", a rag-tag gang of Sunni thugs and former al Qaeda members responsible for the violence occuring in Syria today. In that time, be it noted, Russia has attacked and invaded no one, Washington's self-serving and false characterizations of events in Crimea not withstanding. Senator John McCain is the poster boy for the nation and freedom destroying cancer of Washington-sponsored aggression. He is the very embodiment of evil with the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children on his hands, including the blood of thousands of American soldiers. For Criminal McCain to call anyone else "a thug and a murderer" is a crime against truth and reason, an odious projection of his own faults. He and his fellow war criminals are busily about, preparing for their next wars. For them, it is a "target rich" environment. The occupation of Russia is the ultimate goal.

FJB

http://gatetoliberty.blogspot.com/2017/05/another-memorial-day.html 

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Trump vs Terror

By Hal Lindsey

On May 22nd at 10:30 PM local time, an ISIS suicide bomber targeted a Manchester concert audience of mostly teen and pre-teen girls. A few hours later, two unlikely men stood together on a stage in the ancient city of Bethlehem. President Donald Trump of the United States and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas each gave a brief statement before taking questions from the press. “We would like to reassert our willingness,” Abbas said to Trump, “to continue to work with you as partners in fighting terrorism in our region and in the world.” It was the kind of thing Abbas has said to western audiences many times before, and especially to U.S. presidents. But in the past, no president ever publicly called him on it while standing next to him. Quietly, diplomatically — Trump did. Abbas claims to be America’s partner, fighting terrorism in the region. But his government rewards terrorism, terrorists, and the families of terrorists with money and honor. A Palestinian in the region can give financial security to his family by committing a terrorist act. The Abbas government will give his family what they call a “salary” while he remains in prison. That “salary” will be at least as much as the average Palestinian annual wage, and can be four times the average. U.S. taxpayers help fund such “salaries.” If the terrorist dies as a suicide bomber, Abbas and his comrades will not just give money to the family, they will name a town square (perhaps more than one) in the terrorist’s honor. In other words, if the Manchester attack had been perpetrated by Palestinians against Jews, Abbas would have praised the attack, honored the attacker, and given a salary to his family. Abbas does not fight terrorism. He rewards it. He has made “terrorist” a respectable occupation, and the quickest route to fame and glory among his people. He is an enabler and encourager of terrorism. When it was Trump’s turn to speak, he went back to the theme of his speech to Muslim leaders in Riyadh a couple of days earlier. “The terrorists and extremists, and those who give them aid and comfort, must be driven out from our society forever.” The phrase, “those who give them aid and comfort,” seemed to be a direct reference to the Palestinian policy of honoring and supporting terrorists and their families. Later, Trump said something that left no doubt about his concerns regarding the Abbas government. He said, “Peace can never take root in an environment where violence is tolerated, funded and even rewarded.” In a Jerusalem Post editorial, Adam Rasgon wrote, “The only problem with Trump’s request is that Abbas almost certainly cannot fulfill it as prisoners and ‘martyrs’ loom large in Palestinian society and the PA president’s popularity is declining.” He’s right. Abbas is too weak to stop paying terrorists’ families. If he did it, his countrymen would rise up in arms against him. That weakness is a problem because any peace agreement would require strong leadership on both sides. The Palestinian leader’s fragility makes a U.S.-brokered peace nearly impossible. Abbas is now in the 15th year of a 5-year term. That makes his leadership completely illegitimate. And the Palestinians know it. 64% now say he should resign. President Trump has been characteristically optimistic about the possibilities of peace. A few weeks ago, when he met Abbas at the White House, the President spoke of brokering a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. “It is something that I think is frankly, maybe, not as difficult as people have thought over the years.” We will see. Real and lasting peace among nations will not arrive on earth until the return of Jesus. But that doesn’t mean we should stop working for peace. We will not be able to achieve ultimate peace, but we should follow the teaching of Jesus and be peacemakers where and when we can. In Matthew 5:9, the Lord said, “Blessed are the peacemakers.” He knew our limitations. He knew that humans working for peace would not end all war. But when we work out even a season of peace, it alleviates massive levels of suffering. Avoiding another intifada means saving hundreds or even thousands of lives on both sides. So, we should be peacemakers. But we should do so with humility. Some of the peace efforts of past Presidents have done great harm to both Israelis and Palestinians. They pushed Israel to do more than was fair, right, or safe. They inadvertently encouraged Palestinians to take a tough line. Some previous administrations gave Palestinians the false notion that they would gain more by waiting Israel out, than by honestly seeking peaceful coexistence. In Psalms 122:6, King David wrote, “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.” We should work for peace here and now. But we should also remember that, ultimately, to “pray for the peace of Jerusalem,” means to pray for the return of Jesus.

http://www.hallindsey.com/ww-5-26-2017/ 

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Palestinians: Abbas Immediately Breaks Promises to Trump

by Bassam Tawil May 29, 2017 at 4:00 am

Less than 24 hours after the Abbas-Trump meeting in Bethlehem, in which Abbas promised Trump and his representative, Jason Greenblatt, to cease all forms of incitement against Israel, the Palestinian Authority (PA) government in Ramallah resumed its vicious rhetorical attacks on Israel. The Palestinian denial of Jewish ties and history to the land also continues full blast, despite Abbas's pledge to Trump that Palestinians are not in conflict with Jews or Judaism. Hard on the heels of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas's assurances to US President Donald Trump that he is raising Palestinians on a "culture of peace," he continues to glorify terrorists who have Jewish blood on their hands. Abbas, who met with Trump in Bethlehem on May 23, told reporters that he was committed to working with the new US administration to achieve a "historic peace deal with Israel." Abbas also announced his readiness to become a "partner in the war on terrorism in our region and the world." He claimed that he and his Palestinian Authority have been promoting "tolerance and coexistence, and spreading a culture of peace and renouncing violence." Abbas's sweet talk, however, did not last long. Just hours after Trump left the region, Abbas and his PA returned to their anti-Israel incitement. This stands in blinding contrast to what Abbas told Trump and his Middle East envoy, Jason Greenblatt, with whom Abbas met 48 hours after his get-together with Trump in Bethlehem. At a meeting of Fatah leaders in Ramallah on May 25, Abbas described Palestinian prisoners held by Israel as "heroes." His remarks came in response to the hunger strike of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, many of whom are serving lengthy terms for murdering or wounding hundreds of Israelis. The hunger strike, which began on April 17, is led by Marwan Barghouti, a senior official with Abbas's Fatah faction who is serving five life terms in prison for his role in a spate of terror attacks that killed five Israelis during the Second Intifada (2000-2005). Referring to the convicted terrorists as "our heroes," Abbas lashed out at the Israeli government for its refusal to surrender to the demands of the hunger strikers. "We will stand with them and support them," Abbas said, referring to the convicted terrorists. "We will emerge triumphant and we won't allow [Israel] to defeat or humiliate the prisoners." Abbas's powerful message flies in the face of his promise to Trump and his representative, Jason Greenblatt, to cease all forms of incitement against Israel. By describing the convicted terrorists as "heroes," Abbas is in fact sending a message to all Palestinians that murdering Jews is a noble and heroic act. Such rhetoric prompts Palestinians to launch terror attacks against Israelis. It is a clear call by Abbas for Palestinians to follow in the footsteps of terrorists and murderers. Is this Abbas's way of promoting a "culture of peace" among his people? Is this his version of encouraging Palestinians to renounce violence? Less than 24 hours after the Abbas-Trump meeting in Bethlehem, in which he promised Trump and envoy Jason Greenblatt to cease all forms of incitement against Israel, the PA government in Ramallah resumed its vicious rhetorical attacks on Israel. The attacks came in response to celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation and unification of Jerusalem. They also came in response to routine and peaceful visits by Jews to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In a statement issued by the Palestinian Authority on May 24 that is reminiscent of a medieval blood libel against Jews, Israel was accused of perpetrating "black crimes" against Jerusalem and Palestinians and of defiling Islamic holy sites in the city. It described the Jews visiting the Temple Mount as "extremist settlers" and falsely claimed that they were deliberately targeting the Al-Aqsa Mosque (on the Temple Mount). In fact, Jewish visitors never enter the mosque. It is precisely this kind of rhetoric that drives Palestinians to launch knife and car-ramming attacks against Israelis. For the past year and a half, Abbas and his PA officials and institutions have been waging a poisonous campaign of incitement surrounding peaceful, permitted Jewish visits to the Temple Mount. The incitement has resulted in a wave of terror attacks against Israelis. How does this fit in with promoting peace? Abbas's prime minister, Rami Hamdallah, both before and after the meeting with Trump, has also joined the chorus of glorifying convicted terrorists. In a statement on May 25, Hamdallah, who is often referred to by Westerners as a moderate and pragmatist, stated: "We salute the legendary steadfastness displayed by the knights of freedom, our heroic prisoners." Like his boss, Abbas, Hamdallah also strongly condemned the Israeli government for failing to comply with the hunger strikers' demands, which include increased family visitations, allowing inmates to have a photograph with their families every three months, installing more TV channels and air conditioning in their cells, and increased access to university studies. Hamdallah and Abbas are sending precisely the same message to the Palestinians: if you murder a Jew, you earn the title of "knight of freedom." In other words, Hamdallah, too, is urging Palestinians to engage in acts of violence against Israelis. One wonders exactly how Abbas and his officials will explain these statements to Trump and the U.S. Administration. Experience has shown that the glorification of terrorism and jihad (holy war) only serves to encourage more Palestinians to take to the streets and stab or run over with their cars the first Jew they see. The Palestinian denial of Jewish ties and history to the land also continues full blast, despite Abbas's pledge to Trump that Palestinians are not in conflict with Jews or Judaism. Hours after Trump left the region, Abbas's spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudaineh, issued a statement that pointedly ignored any Jewish links to the land. "East Jerusalem, with its Islamic and Christian holy sites, will remain the eternal capital of the State of Palestine," Abu Rudaineh announced. Note his deliberate omission of any reference to Jewish holy sites in the city. This is neither a slip of the tongue nor a poorly-worded statement on the part of Abbas's spokesman. Rather, it is an intentional denial of Jewish rights to Jerusalem, including the Western Wall, which Palestinians refer to as an integral part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and claim has no significance to Jews. This has always been part of the Palestinian strategy -- to deny Jewish rights and to delegitimize Israel. Like his boss, Abbas, however, Abu Rudaineh seems to have a good sense of humor. He has called on Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to "stop his daily incitement against Palestinians and their leaders." And what is the content of Netanyahu's "incitement"? His statement that a united Jerusalem will remain the undivided capital of Israel. In the view of Abbas's spokesperson, such a statement is clear "incitement" -- not the glorification of terrorists, not the incendiary anti-Israel rhetoric and not the continued denial of Jewish history and rights. President Trump's visit to Israel proved to be yet another opportunity for Abbas and his Palestinian Authority to practice once again their skills of deceit and deception. In English, everything sounds great. In Arabic, however, the messages sent by Abbas to his people take on the unmistakable ring of hate. Bassam Tawil is a scholar based in the Middle East.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10433/abbas-trump-promises 

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Trump marks first Memorial Day as president with ceremony at Arlington

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times - Monday, May 29, 2017

President Trump marked his first Memorial Day as commander in chief Monday, placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery and paying his respects at the grave of the son of Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly. The audience at the cemetery’s amphitheater gave sustained applause and cheers to an appreciative Mr. Trump in his first public appearance since returning from his first foreign trip. The president paid tribute to America’s fallen service members as “angels sent to us by God.” “To every Gold Star family, God is with you, and your loved ones are with him,” Mr. Trump said. “They died in wars so that we could live in peace. Every time you see the sun rise over this blessed land, please know your brave sons and daughters pushed away the night and delivered for us all that great and glorious dawn.” He paid special tribute to three Gold Star families who lost loved ones in Afghanistan, including Mr. Kelly, whose Marine son Robert was killed in Afghanistan in 2010. “They all share one title — and that is the title of ‘hero.’ Their legacy will endure forever,” Mr. Trump said. The president also cited Spec. Christopher Horton, killed in a firefight with insurgents in Afghanistan in 2011, and Maj. Andrew Byers, a member of the Green Berets who died in He paid special tribute to three Gold Star families who lost loved ones in Afghanistan, including Mr. Kelly, whose Marine son Robert was killed in Afghanistan in 2010. “They all share one title — and that is the title of ‘hero.’ Their legacy will endure forever,” Mr. Trump said. The president also cited Spec. Christopher Horton, killed in a firefight with insurgents in Afghanistan in 2011, and Maj. Andrew Byers, a member of the Green Berets who died in battle against the Taliban in 2016. The president said Maj. Byers was killed braving gunfire to save fellow soldiers, and he told the soldier’s parents, “We stand in awe of your son and his courageous sacrifice.” Mr. Trump is facing a decision soon whether to approve the Pentagon’s recommendation to send another 5,000 troops to Afghanistan. The current U.S. force of about 9,000 is assisting Afghan security forces and waging counterterrorism operations. President Barack Obama initially had planned to withdraw all U.S. troops by early this year, but decided against the move as the Taliban and other Islamist militias have made gains. The president also praised the heroism of troops deployed on counterterrorism missions. “Today a new generation of American patriots are fighting to win the battle against terrorism, risking their lives to protect our citizens from an enemy that uses the murder of innocents to wage war on humanity itself,” he said. After his speech, Mr. Trump stopped his motorcade at Section 60 in the cemetery, which holds the graves of 890 soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11. There he met with families of the fallen and carried a bouquet of flowers to the grave of 2nd Lt. Robert Kelly. The president and Vice President Mike Pence stood with the Kelly family at the grave for several moments, chatting in reverence while onlookers remained silent. As the president departed the grave site, some families broke into applause. Among those in attendance were Defense Secretary James Mattis, Mr. Pence and former Sens. Bob and Elizabeth Dole. Mr. Dole, a veteran of World War II, will turn 94 in a few weeks. Mr. Mattis, a retired Marine general like Mr. Kelly, told Gold Star families that the “fighting spirit” of their loved ones persists. “Passed down through the ranks, their spirit echoes in those who serve today, in the air, on land and at sea,” Mr. Mattis said. “To the families of the fallen, both here and at home, no words will ease your pain. But I beg you, let it have meaning. Unite your sorrow to their awesome purpose.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/29/donald-trump-marks-first-memorial-day-president-ce/ 

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Car Bombs Kill 27 In Central Baghdad, Officials Say

Last Updated: May 30, 2017 09:38 GMT

Two car bombs have killed at least 27 people in Baghdad and wounded more than 100 others, officials say. The Islamic State (IS) extremist group claimed responsibility for a blast that killed 16 people and wounded dozens more just after midnight at a popular ice-cream parlor in the Iraqi capital's commercial Karrada district. Women and children were among the victims. In a second attack, a car bomb exploded near one of the capital's main bridges in the morning, killing 11 people and wounding scores, the officials said. IS issued a statement claiming responsibility for the first attack, identifying the bomber as an Iraqi who blew up an explosives-rigged vehicle targeting Shi'ite Muslims. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the second attack. The blasts come just a few days into the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, during which Iraqis often stay out late shopping or socializing after breaking their daily fast. IS considers members of Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim majority to be heretics and frequently carries out attacks against them. Karrada was hit by a massive truck bomb in July 2016 that killed at least 324 people, the deadliest attack in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion that drove Saddam Hussein from power in 2003.

Based on reporting by Reuters, AP, AFP, and dpa

https://www.rferl.org/a/iraq-baghdad-car-bomb-ramadan/28518207.html 

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President Trump's Most Important Message to NATO Wasn't About Money

7:00AM EDT 5/29/2017 George Rasley/Conservative HQ Editor

Claiming that President Trump "chastised" America's NATO allies for not spending more on defense, the establishment media has emphasized what is perhaps the least important aspect of the President's recent speech in Brussels. While it is true that President Trump made the point that, "Over the last eight years, the United States spent more on defense than all other NATO countries combined." And: "We should recognize that with these chronic underpayments and growing threats, even 2 percent of GDP is insufficient to close the gaps in modernizing, readiness, and the size of forces. We have to make up for the many years lost. Two percent is the bare minimum for confronting today's very real and very vicious threats. If NATO countries made their full and complete contributions, then NATO would be even stronger than it is today, especially from the threat of terrorism." The most important part of his speech was not the part where he played bill collector for America's hard-pressed taxpayers. It was where he delivered the same message to the European leaders that he delivered a few days before in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to the leaders of Muslim majority nations: "The NATO of the future must include a great focus on terrorism and immigration ..." President Trump's point to the leaders of NATO countries, particularly German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, was that their immigration policies facilitated jihad through terrorism. The president's point making the connection between Muslim immigration and terrorism could not have been lost on Macron, Merkel and British Prime Minister Theresa May, all of whom bear some responsibility for the terrorist attacks in their countries because they have failed to aggressively defend their borders from jihadi invaders posing as refugees and immigrants. However, terrorism isn't the only, or even the most effective, weapon Islamists have deployed to undermine America and American values; the export of Sharia through cultural jihad and the doctrine of hijra—invasion through immigration—have been much more effective rendering many parts of France, Germany, Belgium and the United Kingdom into "no go zones" for the police and especially Western women. The message "The NATO of the future must include a great focus on terrorism and immigration ..." is no different than the message President Trump delivered to the Muslim heads of state, where he pointedly told them they must drive jihadis out of their countries and religious institutions. And President Trump made another interesting point that has not been covered by the establishment media: The leaders of the Middle East have agreed at this unprecedented meeting to stop funding the radical ideology that leads to this horrible terrorism all over the globe. This promise, if it is acted upon by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan and other Muslim majority countries that are known to have funded or encouraged jihad, really is an unprecedented development. As we pointed out in our article about President Trump's meetings and remarks in Saudi Arabia, for too long the Saudis have been allowed to be both arsonist and fireman—spending billions to build mosques and fund preachers who promote Sharia-supremacy and then claiming to be opposed to Islamist terrorism. In our analysis of President Trump's speech in Saudi Arabia we said there was one key point that was missing from the president's public remarks that we hope he made behind the closed doors of his meetings with the Saudis and other leaders of Muslim-majority countries: We know you are behind, support, and fund Salafism and the ideology of cultural jihad preached in the Quran and we will no longer turn a blind eye to what you are doing. From the president's remarks to the NATO heads of state it appears that, in his private meetings in Saudi Arabia he not only made that point, but he also got a commitment for it to stop. Will the Saudis really stop exporting Salafism? We have our doubts, however, President Trump appears to have received a paradigm-shifting commitment from the Saudis and perhaps other Muslim-majority nations to stop exporting jihad, now it is up to the Europeans to do their part by joining Trump in making sure the NATO of the future includes a greater focus on terrorism and immigration. George Rasley is editor of Richard Vigueirie's ConservtiveHQ.

http://www.charismanews.com/politics/opinion/65172-president-trump-s-most-important-message-to-nato-wasn-t-about-money 

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Egyptian Children Refuse to Renounce Christian Faith, Killed by Muslims

News: World News by Christine Niles, M.St. (Oxon.), J.D. • ChurchMilitant.com • May 28, 2017

Pope Francis is calling them martyrs

Among the victims of ISIS' recent attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt were a number of children, killed for refusing to renounce the Faith. Friday, Muslim gunmen opened fire on a bus of Christian pilgrims heading towards St. Samuel Monastery in Minya province south of Cairo. French media is now reporting that the ISIS militants asked each passenger to renounce his Christian faith, and when they refused, they were gunned down. According to Agence France Presse, survivors of the attack recount, "The masked men ordered the Christians going to the monastery to step out of the bus and abjure their faith." "They asked them to renounce their Christian faith, one by one, but all of them refused," said Fr. Rashed, the priest accompanying the pilgrims. "Then the armed men coldly killed them by shooting them in the head." Pope Francis is calling them martyrs. "May the Lord welcome these courageous witnesses, these martyrs, in his peace and convert the hearts of the violent ones," he said Sunday from his window overlooking St. Peter's Square. The day before, the Holy Father prayed for the victims and said there are more Christian martyrs today than in the times of the Early Church.

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/egyptian-children-refuse-to-renounce-christian-faith-killed-by-muslims 

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After School Satanist Club Wages War on the Bible Belt of America and They’re Coming For The Children 

By Nate Brown - 05/23/2017

The satanic temple is coming for the Bible Belt, and they’re gunning for the children. Through an organization called the After School Satan Club, the satanic temple is attempting to sway the minds of the youth into satanism. Children are vital to the continuation of the Christian faith, and as if cultural, ideological subversion wasn’t bad enough for them, Satan wants to place pressure on their minds after school. Several locations around America have fallen victim to weak local governance and in turn, have started to see the satanic organization spread into the minds of the youth. However, now the satanic temple is coming after the Bible Belt; A new religious program led by Satanists is pushing to expand into the Bible Belt this Fall. It’s called the After School Satan Club and instead of worship, it teaches activism. Instead of God, it teaches evolution, rationalism and free inquiry. But residents in Shreveport call it evil. Arturo Alderete said, “I think kids at that age shouldn’t be involved with that kind of stuff you know. It doesn’t sound too good to me.” Stacy McDonald agreed calling the after school program, “terrible.” Jaqeline Jackson added, “Some kids will take it too far and do different things that is not nice to other people.” KTBS-3 checked with school districts in Caddo, Bossier and Texarkana, Texas. District spokesperson’s confirm no application has been made with its respective school districts. But do confirm after school satan club’s won’t be banned. A huge concern for parents, who are watching the program gain traction. “Well we should learn about Satan, but we should learn about the truth. The fact is he’s a liar and he can’t tell the truth and he’s all out for killing, stealing, and distruction. There’s nothing good about anything he does and he’s not any good for anybody unless they want to be like him.” said Kelly McCabe. – Read More We, at the Christian Truther have been tracking the satanic organizations movements for the last couple of years, to the best of our ability, and the exponential growth is rather alarming, see the trend here.

https://christiantruther.com/podcast/school-satanist-club-wages-war-bible-belt-america-theyre-coming-children/ 

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With Warnings Of 'Much Worse To Come', Are Our Enemies Preparing To Use 'Food As A Weapon' Against America?

The 'Vicious Cycle' Lives On As Cowardly Warnings Of 'It Has Only Just Begun' Ring Out

By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die May 23, 2017

On the very same day the horrific and cowardly terrorist attack upon Manchester Arena in England took place, the story over at the Independent that the Drudge Report linked to on Monday reported ISIS terrorists have been testing chemical weapons upon human guinea pigs in what experts believe is a plot to contaminate Western food supplies. Experimenting with formulas that quickly dissolve in liquid with which they can poison food with, we quite literally see food being used as a weapon as the sickening story reports, the terrorists have used these poisons to kill their 'human guinea pigs' already. Claiming to have found 'the ideal, lethal poison', this Newsweek story reports ISIS is creating an 'elite chemical weapons cell' in the area near the border of Iraq and Syria with one expert claiming we're witnessing a throw back to the 1940's Nazi Germany. Chemical weapons expert Hamish de Bretton-Gordon told The Times: "This is a horrifying throwback to the Nazis who would test nerve agents on live humans. During the Second World War, the Nazis conducted thousands of deadly experiments with mustard gas on prisoners at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, near Berlin.” In this new story from Jim Hoft over at Gateway Pundit he reports that back in November, ISIS released a video with explicit instructions on how to make a home made bomb. The surreal screenshot from that video seen below is probably a far cry from what most Americans think of when they imagine ISIS creating bombs. And with recent warnings from their members that 'Manchester was only the beginning' and 'what comes next will be even worse', we can only imagine the carnage that one deranged extremist in the right career field could do to a restaurant full of diners or a grocery store full of food should they be given the right opportunity. According to this new story from Mac Slavo over at SHTFPlan, all of these recent stories from the MSM on ISIS poisoning our food supply should be looked at with alarm, especially now considering the attack of Monday night and the total meltdown mode the 'deep state', the DNC and MSM are in over the Seth Rich story. We've long been concerned that prior to allowing themselves to go down, 'the elite' will bring down a whole lot of people with them. Anybody else paying attention to what the 'Russian boogeyman' is distracting 'the masses' from? From Slavo: These stories support a new narrative being pushed by the media and our government. They’ve been saying the same thing for several weeks now: As the Islamic State crumbles, ISIS is morphing back into an underground organization that will focus less on holding territory, and more on conducting insidious terror attacks in the West. When you examine these stories together, and consider the fact that our government has been secretly helping ISIS and Al-Qaeda in Syria for years, we have to ask ourselves a very important question. Is the mainstream media priming the public for a major chemical weapons attack on the West; an attack that our government may be complicit in? Because it sure looks like they’re telling us to expect a chemical attack in the near future. ISIS is clearly a creation of the deep state, who are also desperately trying to co-opt President Trump’s administration. They want him to drag our country into yet another major war in the Middle East. And if their ISIS puppets pull off this kind of attack, they might just convince him to follow the warpath that they have laid out for him. In this new story from the Daily Caller they report that ISIS recently called upon their followers to 'hunt their prey' in the UK soon before the concert bombing. Earlier in May, ISIS magazine implored their followers to 'lure and kill unsuspecting people with false advertisements for jobs and apartments', quite literally putting millions of totally unsuspecting people in possible harms way. Just imagine responding to an advertisement for a job or an apartment and being met by a machete wielding psychopath screaming 'allahu akbar' instead. Giving us another reason to be very careful about strangers who we're meeting with even if it appears to be for a legitimate reason, such threats by terrorists have a way of reminding us to be vigilant at all times. There are unfortunately a lot of very bad people out there who want to do us harm simply for our religious beliefs or because we don't think like they do or because they've bought into the devil's ways. As this story over at the Daily Mail reports, ISIS followers celebrated the cowardly bombing that took far too many lives, showing us once again that 'free humanity' is dealing with the worst of the worst - those who celebrate the taking of the lives of the innocent. And as this new story from Slavo over at SHTFPlan reports, this despicable bombing could have possibly been stopped with alleged warnings posted to Twitter hours before the bombing that 'an incident' would occur. Slavo's story also reminds us why we here in America and those living in the UK and elsewhere in the 'free world' need to remain vigilant - a massive 'trojan horse' invasion has been allowed to occur in the West. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility, saying that a soldier of their Kaliphate was directly involved: “With Allah’s grace and support, a soldier of the Khilafah managed to place explosive devices in the midst of the gatherings of the Crusaders in the British city of Manchester, in revenge for Allah’s religion, in an endeavor to terrorize the mushrikin, and in response to their transgressions against the land of the Muslims. The explosive devices were detonated in the shameless concert arena, resulting in 30 Crusaders being killed and 70 others being wounded. And what comes next will be more severe on the worshipers of the Cross and their allies, by Allah’s permission. And all praises due to Allah, Lord of the creation.” Now, just hours after the incident, it has been revealed by numerous mainstream reports that a member of the Islamic State made a threat approximately four hours before the explosion that killed at least 22 people. According to Express UK and Huffington Post, a user by the name of ‘owys663’ (now suspended) posted a Tweet in which he specifically identified Manchester as a terror target utilizing hashtags. That the Islamic State has claimed responsibility and that it is possible that the now suspended Islamic State twitter account posted this tweet ahead of time indicates significant coordination and planning. With 3,500 Islamic terrorists reportedly living in the United Kingdom, and with Islamic State actively working to develop chemical weapons of mass destruction, it appears that this is, indeed, just the beginning. While the first video below takes a look at the alleged new threats by ISIS upon the Western food supply, Britain's Nigel Farage joins Fox News Tucker Carlson in the 2nd video in which he claims the cowardly bombing on Monday night which was directly targeting England's youth marks a new low in all forms of terrorism. With ISIS now saying the brutal murders Monday will be "followed up by vehicle attacks in your streets", we see the 'trojan horse invasion' of America that President Trump spoke of as a candidate a warning to us all in 2017. As President Donald Trump recently stated during his speech on terrorism to Islamic nations, “the deadliest toll has been extracted from the innocent people of Arab and Muslim nations.” The optimism of the region, he said, was “held at bay by bloodshed and terror.” And he added: “There can be no co-existence with this violence.” Once again, we see the worst of the worst attacking the innocent. President Trump's words are proven in this brand new story out of the Philippines as Islamic extremists, backed by ISIS, take partial control over the town of Marawi, leading to countless deaths, power outages, complete chaos and a war zone where no one was expecting there to be one. Once again, the innocent people of Marawi are being terrorized by those holding extremist and evil beliefs. While Philippines president Duterte has been forced to impose martial law on the entire southern region for at least 60 days as heard in the final video below, with the 'trojan horse invasion' of America that was allowed to take place over the past 8 years, imagine an American city such as Detroit under the same kind of seige by those who hate America and are already here within. According to this new story over at Reuters, countries all over the world will be increasing security at major cultural and sports events following the Manchester bombing with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security specifically warning that Americans may also experience more security at public events. The vicious cycle lives on.

http://allnewspipeline.com/Will_ISIS_Terrorize_Our_Food.php 

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WATCH: Here's a Montage of Democrats Confirming They Have ZERO Evidence Trump Colluded with Russia

posted by Hannity.com Staff - 3 days ago

As the liberal left continues its desperate witch-hunt against Donald Trump and his presidency, let’s not forget that it was democratic leaders THEMSELVES that confirmed there wasn’t a single-shred of evidence connecting the Trump campaign to Russia. Alt-left activists and lawmakers have been calling for the President’s impeachment since his inauguration last January. Their main reason: collusion. The only problem is that not a single member of Congress has seen anything implicating the Trump team worked with Russia, and they know it. “We did not include any evidence in our report –and I say our that’s NSA, FBI, and CIA with my office, the director of national intelligence- that had any reflection of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians, there was no evidence of that included in our report,” said the former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. “Have you see anything in either intelligence briefings, anything, to back up any of the accusations that you’ve made?” a reporter asked Maxine Waters. “No we have not,” she responded. "There's an awful lot of smoke there, let's put it that way," said Democratic Senator Joe Manchin. "People that might have said they were involved, to what extent they were involved, to what extent the president might have known about these people or whatever, there is nothing there from that standpoint that we have seen directly linking our president to any of that." Watch democratic leaders CONFIRM they have ZERO evidence above.

http://www.hannity.com/articles/election-493995/watch-heres-a-montage-of-democrats-15852024/ 

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Ancestry.com takes DNA ownership rights from customers and their relatives

A word to the wise: Read the complete terms of service.

Don’t use the AncestryDNA testing service without actually reading the Ancestry.com Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. According to these legal contracts, you still own your DNA, but so does Ancestry.com. The family history website Ancestry.com is selling a new DNA testing service called AncestryDNA. But the DNA and genetic data that Ancestry.com collects may be used against “you or a genetic relative.” According to its privacy policies, Ancestry.com takes ownership of your DNA forever. Your ownership of your DNA, on the other hand, is limited in years. It seems obvious that customers agree to this arrangement, since all of them must “click here to agree” to these terms. But, how many people really read those contacts before clicking to agree? And how many relatives of Ancestry.com customers are also reading? There are three significant provisions in the AncestryDNA Privacy Policy and Terms of Service to consider on behalf of yourself and your genetic relatives: (1) the perpetual, royalty-free, world-wide license to use your DNA; (2) the warning that DNA information may be used against “you or a genetic relative”; (3) your waiver of legal rights. 1. Perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide license to use your DNA AncestryDNA, a service of Ancestry.com, owns the “World’s Largest Consumer DNA Database” that contains the DNA of more than 3 million people. The AncestryDNA service promises to, “uncover your ethnic mix, discover distant relatives, and find new details about your unique family history with a simple DNA test.” For the price of $99 dollars and a small saliva sample, AncestryDNA customers get an analysis of their genetic ethnicity and a list of potential relatives identified by genetic matching. Ancestry.com, on the other hand, gets free ownership of your genetic information forever. Technically, Ancestry.com will own your DNA even after you’re dead. Specifically, by submitting DNA to AncestryDNA, you agree to “grant AncestryDNA and the Ancestry Group Companies a perpetual, royalty-free, world-wide, transferable license to use your DNA, and any DNA you submit for any person from whom you obtained legal authorization as described in this Agreement, and to use, host, sublicense and distribute the resulting analysis to the extent and in the form or context we deem appropriate on or through any media or medium and with any technology or devices now known or hereafter developed or discovered.” Basically, Ancestry.com gets to use or distribute your DNA for any research or commercial purpose it decides and doesn’t have to pay you, or your heirs, a dime. Furthermore, Ancestry.com takes this royalty-free license in perpetuity (for all time) and can distribute the results of your DNA tests anywhere in the world and with any technology that exists, or will ever be invented. With this single contractual provision, customers are granting Ancestry.com the broadest possible rights to own and exploit their genetic information. The AncestryDNA terms also requires customers to confirm that, “You understand that by providing any DNA to us, you acquire no rights in any research or commercial products that may be developed by AncestryDNA that may relate to or otherwise embody your DNA.” Essentially, you still own your DNA, but so does Ancestry.com. And, you can commercialize your own DNA for money, but Ancestry.com is also allowed to monetize your DNA for millions of dollars and doesn’t have to compensate you. Although AncestryDNA customers provide voluntary consent to have their DNA used in commercial research projects, customers are free to withdraw consent, with a few exceptions. First, “data cannot be withdrawn from research already in progress or completed, or from published results and findings.” In those cases, Ancestry.com has access to data about you indefinitely. Secondly, if a customer withdraws their consent, Ancestry.com will take 30 days to cease using their data for research. Finally, withdrawing consent, “will not result in destruction of your DNA Sample or deletion of your Data from AncestryDNA products and services, unless you direct us otherwise.” Customers must jump through additional hoops if they want their DNA sample destroyed or their data deleted from AncestryDNA products and services. The Ancestry.com policy does not specify what “additional steps” are required. U.S. customers must contact Ancestry.com customer service at 1–800–958–9124 to find out. (Customers outside the United States must call separate customer service numbers.) 2. Warning that DNA information may be used against “you or a genetic relative” The Ancestry.com DNA testing service promises to analyze approximately 700,000 genetic markers. According to Ancestry.com, the service, “combines advanced DNA science with the world’s largest online family history resource to predict your genetic ethnicity and help you find new family connections.” The results of an AncestryDNA analysis include information about “ethnicity across 26 regions/ethnicities and identifies potential relatives through DNA matching to others who have taken the AncestryDNA test.” AncestryDNA claims to use the “latest autosomal testing technology” to produce genetic identity reports and can combine the test results with “the world’s largest online family history resource to predict your genetic ethnicity and help you find new family connections.” In addition, AncestryDNA offers a genetic code profiling and matching service, advertising that “AncestryDNA can also help identify relationships with unknown relatives through a dynamic list of DNA matches.” This raises a thorny issue that Ancestry.com has not resolved: your exact DNA profile is unique to you, but a substantial portion of your DNA is identical to your relatives. Thus, Ancestry.com is able to take DNA from its customers and also their relatives. Even if you’ve never used Ancestry.com, but one of your genetic relatives has, the company may already own identifiable portions of your DNA. The personal “Genetic Data” collected by Ancestry.com includes “information derived from processing your DNA Sample through genomic, molecular, and computational analyses using various technologies, such as genotyping and whole or partial genome sequencing. Genetic Data is broader than just the results delivered to you when you use the AncestryDNA test and includes a range of DNA markers such as those associated with your health or other conditions.” In short, Ancestry.com holds genetic data that reveals your health and other conditions. Genetic diseases are disorders caused by abnormalities in a person’s DNA and are divided into three categories: single-gene disorders, such as cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, and Huntington’s disease, result from the mutation of the protein of a single gene; chromosome abnormalities, such as Down Syndrome, are caused by disorders of the whole chromosome; and multifactorial disorders, including breast cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, develop from mutations in multiple genes, often coupled with environmental causes. Genomics play a role in nine out of the top ten leading causes of death in the U.S., including cancer, heart disease, stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, influenza and pneumonia, septicemia, and kidney disease. Buried in the “Informed Consent” section, which is incorporated into the Terms of Service, Ancestry.com warns customers, “it is possible that information about you or a genetic relative could be revealed, such as that you or a relative are carriers of a particular disease. That information could be used by insurers to deny you insurance coverage, by law enforcement agencies to identify you or your relatives, and in some places, the data could be used by employers to deny employment.” This is a massive red flag. The data “you or a genetic relative” give to AncestryDNA could be used against “you or a genetic relative” by employers, insurers, and law enforcement. For example, a young woman named Theresa Morelli applied for individual disability insurance, consented to release of her medical records through the Medical Information Bureau (a credit reporting agency for medical history), and was approved for coverage. One month later, Morelli’s coverage was cancelled and premiums refunded when the insurer learned her father had Huntington’s disease, a genetic illness. Startlingly, the Medical Information Bureau (MIB) used Morelli’s broad consent to query her father’s physician, a doctor with whom she had no prior patient relationship. More importantly, the applicant herself wasn’t diagnosed with Huntington’s carrier status, but she suffered exclusion on the basis of a genetic predisposition in her family. Under a 1995 consent agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, the MIB and its members are required to comply with consumer protections of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Much like financial credit reports, all consumers are entitled to a free annual copy of their “medical report” file from the Medical Information Bureau (MIB). If the consumer discovers an error in her MIB medical credit report file, she must mail a letter to the MIB to begin the dispute process. Federal laws, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act of 2008 (GINA), contain protections that prohibit health insurers from requiring, using, and analyzing genetic information in health care coverage decisions. However, both laws contain glaring exceptions that allow for genetic discrimination in certain industries. Notably, no federal laws regulate the use of genetic information, genetic testing, and genetic discrimination for life insurance companies, long-term care insurers, and employers. An Ancestry.com DNA test is the impetus of a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Sergeant Cleon Brown, a white police officer in Hastings, Michigan against his employer, the Hastings Police Department, and several city employees. Curious about his own family history, Brown purchased an AncestryDNA genetic test and analysis report. The results surprised him Ancestry.com said his DNA was 18 percent sub-Saharan African. Brown “proudly told his colleagues at the police department” about his African ancestry. But not long after that, “his elation turned into misery.” According to Sergeant Brown’s complaint, his colleagues at the police department, “started whispering ‘Black Lives Matter’ while pumping their fists as they walked” past Brown. The complaint also alleges that the former mayor of Hastings participated in the racist teasing, by telling Brown a joke containing racist slurs. “I just never thought it would be in Hastings, saying, like, racist comments to me,” Brown said to the New York Times. In his lawsuit, Brown, a military veteran who has worked in law enforcement for 20 years, is seeking $500,000 in damages. The Ancestry.com Terms of Service also warns that genetic information in its possession can be used by state or federal law enforcement agencies “to identify you or your relatives.” With the rise of forensic evidence in criminal investigations, DNA is often considered incontrovertible evidence. To propel the use of DNA evidence in criminal investigations and prosecutions, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) operates the national Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) database. The CODIS DNA database, created and maintained by the FBI, consists of the following three levels of information: local DNA Index Systems (LDIS) where DNA profiles originate; state DNA Index Systems (SDIS) which allows for laboratories within states to share information; and the National DNA Index System (NDIS) which allows states to compare DNA information with one another. According to reports, the FBI’s CODIS software connects disparate databases including, arrestees, missing persons, convicted offenders, and forensic samples collected from crime scenes. All 50 states, the District of Columbia, federal law enforcement, the Army Laboratory, and Puerto Rico participate in national sharing of DNA profiles through the CODIS system. However, the FBI DNA database is not infallible. In 2015, the FBI said it discovered flawed data after it commissioned a study to retest DNA samples. In a bulletin sent to crime labs across the United States, the FBI surmised that DNA data errors were probably due to “clerical mistakes in transcriptions of the genotypes and to limitations of the old technology and software.” The FBI suspects that errors in DNA may go back as far as 1999. 3. Waiver of legal rights Are “you or a genetic relative” a customer of AncestryDNA? If so, Ancestry.com now has control over the DNA of “you or a genetic relative.” Should the warnings from Ancestry.com come to pass, and DNA information about “you or a genetic relative” is used against “you or a genetic relative” by any employer, insurer, or law enforcement, then “you or a genetic relative” have very limited legal rights. In its sales contract, Ancestry.com takes no responsibility. By consenting to the AncestryDNA Terms and Conditions, “you or a genetic relative” agree to hold the company harmless for any damages that AncestryDNA may cause unintentionally or purposefully. If “you or a genetic relative” are “dissatisfied with any portion of the Websites or the Services, or with any clause of these terms, as your sole and exclusive remedy you may discontinue using the Websites and the Services.” The only option for unhappy customers is to stop using AncestryDNA. In the event you or your genetic information cause harm, you agree to “defend, indemnify and hold harmless AncestryDNA, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees).” And customers beware, “you may be liable to others as well as to us if your account is used in violation of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.” That means you could end up owing money to Ancestry.com, its attorneys, and others. The final indignity for Ancestry.com customers is that they must waive fundamental legal rights by agreeing to mandatory binding arbitration. With the exception of intellectual property rights disputes and certain small claims, Ancestry.com customers must pursue their disputes through arbitration, rather than court. In arbitration, the established legal rules of discovery, evidence, and trial by jury do not exist. Finally, if many AncestryDNA customers want to join together to file a lawsuit against Ancestry.com, they are prohibited. But in fairness, Ancestry.com similarly prohibits itself from joining with a bunch of others to file a class action lawsuit against you. By agreeing to the Terms and Conditions, “you and AncestryDNA agree that each may bring claims against the other only in your or its individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, consolidated, or representative action.” These arbitration provisions survive even if you cancel your AncestryDNA account. However, for good measure, Ancestry.com notes that, “this arbitration agreement does not preclude you from bringing issues to the attention of federal, state, or local agencies. Such agencies can, if the law allows, seek relief against us on your behalf.” 4. Conclusion To use the AncestryDNA service, customers must consent to the Ancestry.com Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. These are binding legal contracts between the customer and Ancestry.com. The most egregious of these terms gives Ancestry.com a free license to exploit your DNA for the rest of time. Customers must understand that turning over their DNA means a loss of complete ownership and control. Ancestry.com customers should also know they’re giving up the genetic privacy of themselves and their relatives. Before purchasing, individuals are advised to fully read and consider the Ancestry.com Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. If you become a customer, Ancestry.com owns your DNA for life and longer. Joel Winston, Esq. is a New York-based attorney specializing in consumer protection law and commercial litigation. He also provides data privacy and regulatory compliance counsel to technology entrepreneurs and early-stage ventures. Joel is a former deputy attorney general for the State of New Jersey and previously served the Department of Justice, Office of the U.S. Trustee, in Manhattan.

https://thinkprogress.org/ancestry-com-takes-dna-ownership-rights-from-customers-and-their-relatives-dbafeed02b9e 

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Gorka: President Trump Understands ‘We’ve Got to Destroy the Ideology of Jihadism If We’re Going to Win’

by John Hayward22 May 2017

Deputy Assistant to the President Dr. Sebastian Gorka, formerly National Security editor for Breitbart News, was a guest on Breitbart News Sunday with SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam. Gorka said one of the most important points to stress about President Trump’s trip to the Middle East is that it’s not an “apology tour,” as his predecessor President Obama’s tour of the Middle East has been derisively described. In particular, he said President Trump’s address to the leaders of Muslim nations in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Sunday was “completely different” from President Obama’s famous (or infamous) speech in Cairo in 2009. “You actually had the Muslim Brotherhood sitting in the front row, let’s remember that, at the beginning of apology tour,” Gorka said of Obama’s speech. Kassam noted President Trump used the words “terror” and “terrorism” 31 times in his speech, versus Gorka’s count of “zero” mentions by President Obama. “He did talk about Iran. He did talk about the threat of Shia terrorism,” Gorka said of Trump’s remarks. “But he was also explicit — he was talking to a room full of Sunni Arab leaders, and he said that ‘you must drive the terrorists out of your places of worship, out of your community.’” “I think it’s not a fair summation to say that it was of one side, with regard to who the terrorists are,” he said. “The bottom line is, everybody who’s been suffering — in the intelligence community, law enforcement, the military — with years and years of censorship, of political correctness, must be celebrating tonight. Because what else did he say? Unequivocally, this is a battle between good and evil,” Gorka said. He was enthusiastic that a “stake has been put through the heart” of “postmodern relativism” and “the secular interpretation of ‘Jobs for Jihadis,’” a reference to the Obama administration’s notorious contention that a good jobs program for terrorist recruits would help to defeat the Islamic State. Kassam expressed skepticism that tougher rhetoric, or measures such as a much-touted effort to cut off terrorist financing, would be game-changers. “The proof will be in what actually happens afterward,” Gorka promised. “I’ve always said the issue of terrorism financing is not a panacea. The terrorists need money to do what they do, but at the end of the day, look at the attack in Nice. You can rent a truck, steal a truck, and kill almost a hundred people. It’s part of the solution, but not the solution alone.” “With regards to counter-message, we need to have governments involved,” he continued. “We must have countries like Saudi Arabia that are home to Mecca and Medina, and Egypt which has the Al-Azhar, which is the most important theological institution in the Sunni world — they must be part of the solution.” “But I will say that it’s often non-governmental counter-messaging that is more effective,” he added. “It’s good to have this stuff, just to have this commitment, but there are already thousands of Muslims who are on our side, risking their lives every day on their blogs, in the media, pushing back on the jihadis. Those individuals must be supported as well, because at the end of the day it’s not a kinetic challenge. It’s not just about killing terrorists. Like Ronald Reagan, Maggie, St. John Paul II, we’ve got to destroy the ideology of jihadism if we’re going to win.” Kassam noted that many Americans are uncomfortable with the United States relying on Saudi Arabia, home to many of the 9/11 attackers, as a partner in the struggle against terrorism. “There are trends, there were historic events, individuals that were linked to Saudi Arabia,” Gorka acknowledged. “But to say the whole government, the whole administration is culpable — no, it was al-Qaeda.” “Let’s not take the culpability, let’s not take the responsibility away from the individuals that did that act,” he urged. “Al-Qaeda wasn’t a product of the Saudi regime. Al-Qaeda was created by a Jordanian individual called Abdullah Azzam, when he built something called the Arab Services Bureau in the 1980s to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, and hired an individual called Osama bin Laden to be his Number Two.” “Let’s be factual about where the threat comes from. State sponsorship of terrorism is still a problem. Look at the reception the president was given by the Saudi authorities. It’s clear that there are new winds blowing out of Riyadh as we speak,” he said. Gorka would not take it upon himself to say whether President Trump misspoke, or made a calculated decision to alter the speech, when he spoke of “Islamic terrorism” instead of “Islamist terrorism,” as the transcript stipulated. “I will allow the president to speak for himself. He knows very well what he’s saying, when he’s saying it,” Gorka said. “I think the important thing that he said is, ‘We are going to defeat the terrorists and send their wicked ideology into oblivion.’ Let’s take those words to the bank.” Looking forward to the rest of President Trump’s trip, Gorka’s advice was: “Hold on to your hats, because this trip is going to be an incredible success.” “Next it’s going to be Israel, then the Vatican, then the meeting of the advanced nations and NATO. You ain’t seen nothing yet, Raheem,” he promised.

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3,000 jihadis on the streets of Britain: Spies and counter-terror police are struggling to monitor a flood of radicalised men and women in their teens

More than 3,000 jihadis are in the UK, stretching the country’s security services

Spies and counter-terror police are struggling to monitor a flood of suspects

Some 850 Britons are thought to have gone abroad to fight for the Islamic State

Up to 30 officers required to provide 24-hour monitoring of just one suspect

By Ian Drury Home Affairs Editor For The Daily Mail Published: 19:13 EDT, 23 May 2017 | Updated: 22:00 EDT, 23 May 2017

More than 3,000 jihadis are in the UK – stretching the country’s security services to breaking point. Spies and counter-terror police are struggling to monitor a flood of suspects, mainly radicalised men and women in their teens and early 20s. About 850 Britons are thought to have gone abroad to fight with so-called Islamic State as they took control of large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq. But with the terror group being pushed out, extremists with British passports are fleeing back to the UK where authorities fear they may unleash a new wave of attacks. Although more than 100 have been killed, around half have returned home with battle experience and training in the use of explosives and firearms. The security services have also foiled at least 13 planned attacks in the past four years, Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism officer, Acting Deputy Met Commissioner Mark Rowley, has revealed. The figures lay bare the scale of the terror threat facing the country from extremists. The flood of new jihadists is stretching the UK’s security services to breaking point, with up to 30 officers required to provide 24-hour monitoring of just one suspect. Restricted resources mean MI5 can watch around 50 terror suspects around the clock. As well as sophisticated plots to bomb transport hubs and shopping centres, jihadists in the UK are being groomed – often online – to carry out ‘lone wolf’ attacks using knives and vehicles. A chilling report also revealed that the wives and children of Islamic State fighters in Syria could be brainwashed into carrying out attacks after returning to Britain. Europol, the EU’s police intelligence agency, said many posed a grave danger because they had been radicalised and desensitised to extreme violence. In 2016-17, there were 380 terrorism-related arrests in the UK, compared to 307 in the previous 12 months – a rise of nearly 25 per cent. Anti-terror police stepped up arrests after Muslim convert Khalid Masood killed four pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in March before stabbing a police officer to death. Meanwhile, in the past three years there were 386 terror-related convictions, according to figures from Scotland Yard. Donald Trump led international condemnation of the Manchester atrocity by branding bomber Salman Abedi an ‘evil loser’. President Trump told Theresa May in a phone call that the US stood in solidarity with Britain following the massacre which killed at least 22 people. He offered Mrs May assistance in the investigation and they agreed the targeting of children at a concert was ‘particularly wanton and depraved’, the White House said. The call came shortly after Mr Trump denounced those responsible for the atrocity as ‘evil losers’ and said the ‘wicked ideology’ should be ‘completely obliterated’. Newly elected French president Emmanuel Macron called Mrs May to offer his condolences and expressed his ‘horror and shock’ at the attack. German Chancellor Angela Merkel assured Britain that ‘Germany stands at your side’. Vladimir Putin also offered to boost anti-terror co-operation with the UK after the ‘inhuman’ attack at the concert. Former US president Barack Obama said: ‘Our hearts go out to those killed and wounded in Manchester. Americans will always stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of the UK.’ Only seven extremists have been placed under anti-terror orders watered down at the behest of the LibDems despite there being at least 3,000 fanatics at large in Britain. The so-called T-Pims - Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures - are the toughest tool the security services have to restrict the activities of terror plotters and sympathisers. They replaced the more restrictive Control Orders which were axed in 2011 at the bidding of then Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg following a row over human rights. T-Pims are supposed to ensure that the police and MI5 can protect the public from UK-based fanatics who cannot yet be prosecuted or deported by placing curbs on their movements and activities. Restrictions can relate to overseas travel and place of residence, and limits can be imposed on the possession and use of electronic communication devices. Suspects can also be required to live in a property up to 200 miles away from their home. But a statement slipped out to Parliament in December revealed that, as of the end of November, only seven T-Pims were in force. By contrast, in the months after the Paris attacks in 2015, almost 400 people were placed under house arrest in France by the authorities there. British courts have been accused of weakening T-Pims by chiselling away their conditions and making it very difficult for the security services to secure them. This has meant that they have become reluctant to seek them, fearing that they would be squandering thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money on legal fees for little gain. Chris Phillips, the ex-head of the national counter terrorism and security office, said he did not believe the current regime of T-Pims was working. He said: ‘The number of people subjected to T-Pims is far too low given the number of extremists concerned. Last year Keith Vaz, then Labour chairman of the Commons’ Home Affairs Select Committee, suggested Prime Minister Theresa May looked at bolstering the T-Pims ‘given that she had been under pressure from her Liberal Democrat colleagues in the Coalition government to abandon control orders.’ And in 2014, Lord Carlile, a LibDem peer who was the independent reviewer of terror legislation for 10 years, said control orders had been abandoned for ‘political reasons’. He added: ‘The evidence is clear that the absence of anything like control orders… is harming the ability of the authorities to restrict the activities of people that they identify as threats.’ Britain is currently facing a heightened terror threat. In March, IS sympathiser Khalid Masood, 52, murdered five and injured more than 50 in a vehicle-and-knife rampage outside Parliament. The fanatic was shot dead during the attack. The UK’s terror threat level is currently ‘severe’ - the second highest level - amid warnings that a jihadist atrocity is ‘highly likely’. Security chiefs have warned that hundreds of young Britons who joined Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria have returned home, while others have brainwashed ‘lone wolf’ Muslims to carry out attacks. Control orders were introduced by Labour to deal with dangerous extremists who not be hauled before the courts but after 2010 they came under fire from the Lib Dems who said they were unfair because the suspects had not been found guilty of a crime. Under these suspects faced 16-hour curfews, an electronic tags, bans from meeting named individuals and using mobile phones and the internet, and could be forced to relocate to other parts of the country - ensuring they were not in touch with any jihadist allies. They were replaced by T-Pims with a reduced curfew requirement of ten hours and suspects were no longer restricted on where they could live. Terror suspects placed on control orders and T-Pims could also be required to surrender their passports so they could not travel outside Britain In an extraordinary security fiasco in February 2014, controls on seven of the most dangerous terror suspects in Britain – including two fanatics linked to the liquid bomb airline plot – were lifted and never renewed. It meant they were free to walk the UK’s streets under a cloak of state-sanctioned anonymity. Control orders were themselves a replacement for measures introduced in the wake of the September 11 attacks which allowed foreign national terror suspects to be detained indefinitely without trial. The measures were declared incompatible with human rights by Law Lords in 2004. No histrionics from Theresa - just controlled, civilised outrage: QUENTIN LETTS on the PM’s most powerful Downing Street statement A nearby clock tower had just tolled 11am when a plainly affected Theresa May stepped out of No 10 to make a statement about the killings. Normally the mood in Downing Street before a Prime Ministerial appearance crackles with chatter. Yesterday the mood of the Press corps was subdued. The shiny black door swung open and photographers’ shutters click-click-clicked. There was no other sound. No helicopter droned overhead, as sometimes happens. No crowd of protesters jeered slogans at the distant gates. And there were no lensmen’s exhortations of ‘over here, Theresa’, when they try to get her to look their way. Not yesterday. Just silence. She was in black trouser suit, black, flat shoes, respectful jewellery, tidy hair. The narrow legs of that trouser suit accentuated her slim-shouldered frame, more vulnerable than you might expect. As she came out of the doorway I was struck by how fragile and lonely she looked. Although on show, she retained a contemplative, sombre air. In some ways it was the expression of a churchgoer returning to her place after communion. Of course, she is the least lonely person in the country, constantly surrounded by aides and bodyguards and general to-do. Yet terrorism makes an island of the person at the top. She was the one who had to make the decisions and find words to reassure the nation. How to describe the indescribable? There was a pause as she braced herself for the off. Then: ‘I have just chaired a meeting of the Government’s emergency committee where we discussed the details of and the response to the appalling events in Manchester last night.’ And she was launched on a long, powerful statement in which she averred that ‘the spirit of Manchester and the spirit of Britain’ would prevail. It was a spirit that ‘through years of conflict and terrorism has never been broken’ and never would be, she said. Her cadence turning Churchillian, she conceded ‘there will be difficult days ahead’ but the terrorists would not win. Mancunian and British solidarity would prove insuperable. The one chink in its armour, perhaps, came when she mentioned the children who had died, and the voice momentarily wobbled. May speeches are not always memorable. She can sometimes sound prosaic, the larynx doing that warbly, headmistressy thing. Not yesterday. She had not had any sleep and her timbre had sunk a note or two. Her weariness, stark lipstick contrasting with her pale skin, lent her grit. Though physically weary, she was tough inside. Downing Street makes a theatrical setting. The building’s facade is as flat as any stage back-wall and the bluey greyness of the old brickwork was lifted by sunshine. Two fine British bobbies stood on duty, out of TV shot but either side of No 10. Suited detectives guarded the Jaguar waiting to whisk her north. A few Foreign Office staff stood behind a large, wrought-iron gate directly opposite Mrs May, watching her, rapt. One of them was a woman in Muslim head-dress. Attempts to divide our society would not succeed, said Mrs May. She cited the ‘countless acts of kindness’ that had been seen in Manchester after the attack. The images we hold in our minds should not be those of the senseless slaughter but of the ordinary men and woman who put concerns about their own safety to one side and rushed to help.’ Donald Trump, in his own, direct and welcome way, may have mocked the terrorists as ‘losers’ but vicar’s daughter Mrs May was finding her own way of asserting our values. There was nothing boastful or histrionic in her remarks. She voiced a controlled, civilised outrage at this assault on Manchester’s defenceless children and their families. Our Prime Minister – and yes, that is very much what she sounded yesterday – is not a woman given easily to emotion. In the past some have accused her of being robotic. Not yesterday, they wouldn’t have done. Not yesterday. She was poised, sympathetic, sturdy. She spoke her piece well. JAMES HARKIN: How Ariana Grande and her revealing stage outfits are a symbol of everything Islamists hate Now that it seems likely the atrocity in Manchester was carried out by a freelance 'soldier' allied to Islamic State, there's good reason to think neither the venue nor the performer were chosen at random. Why would anyone target a concert by the American singer Ariana Grande? The grim answer may lie in the fact that with her revealing stage outfits, her stockings, pink bunny ears and unabashed sexual confidence, 23-year-old Miss Grande is a symbol of everything Islamists hate. According to the purist, medieval interpretation of the Koran favoured by Islamic State, almost everything about Western music, and the Western lifestyle that goes with it, is haram, or forbidden — and so merits a death sentence. Indeed, one claim of responsibility for Monday's attack stated: 'The explosive devices were detonated in the shameless concert arena.' Those unfortunate enough to live in Islamic State's caliphate have experience of this doctrine. Three years ago, the then fledgling Islamic State issued a statement that read: 'Songs and music are forbidden in Islam, as they prevent one from the remembrance of God and the Koran, and are a temptation and corruption of the heart.' The directive went on to cite Koranic verses and Islamic teaching. One young Syrian I met when I was reporting in the region, who lived in the group's de facto capital of Raqqa, told me dolefully his best friend was thrown in jail for wearing a Metallica T-shirt celebrating the U.S. rock band. At the many checkpoints through which Syrians had to pass on their way out of Islamic State territory (back when they were allowed to leave), the militants paid as much attention to the length of men's beards and contents of their mobile phones as to their politics. Guards, many of them no more than boys, diligently searched mobile phones for any minor infractions of their religious laws: and that included music that 'insulted' Allah. In their sliding scale of punishments, I was told, a single pop song was rewarded by between 30 and 40 lashes with a whip or stick. In another incident in 2015, a group of musicians was reportedly sentenced to 90 lashes each for the 'crime' of playing an electronic keyboard. Like medieval inquisitors, converts to the Islamic State see Satan (shaytan) and supernatural beings (jinns) everywhere and in anything. In Syria and Iraq, their feared religious police (the hisbah) pay particular attention to teenage heavy metal music fans, which they consider the devil's work. Women are treated as inherently suspicious, and are forced to cover up and wear the face veil when outside and never to leave home without a chaperone. Thus the sight of Ariana Grande and her risque stage outfits would be anathema to the fanatics. In territory controlled by Islamic State, everything from pop music to musical instruments are banned as totems of godless Western decadence. That's why a group of masked Isis fighters were photographed two years ago in Libya — the country from which the Manchester suspect's family hail — burning a saxophone and drums. Even before Islamic State moved to create its state in the ruins of Syria and Iraq, there were signs this extremist sensibility was taking root among disgruntled young Muslims in our inner cities. In 2004, British police secretly recorded a cell of young Islamists discussing a possible attack on a London nightclub, on the basis that no one could 'turn round and say 'Oh, they were innocent', those slags dancing around'. Likewise, a car bomb parked outside Tiger Tiger nightclub in London's Piccadilly in 2007 seems to have been designed to coincide with a 'ladies' night' at the venue, in which the perpetrators might have hoped to kill and maim scantily clad young women drinking alcohol. The vehicle was packed with 60 litres of petrol, gas cylinders and nails, and would have caused 'carnage', police said, if the bomb had not failed to detonate. (One great irony is that many of these young Islamists have a past of drug-dealing, debauchery and petty crime. Indeed, given all their injunctions against Western music, it's striking how many of those who travelled to the Islamic State from Britain — such as Londoner Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, once photographed in Syria holding a severed head — were failed rap musicians.) Now, as Islamic State territory in the Middle East is whittled away, its propaganda is urging supporters to strike back against 'disbelievers' by seeking out more music venues and nightclubs. So it was that an Islamic State gunman attacked a nightclub in Istanbul in the early hours of New Year's Day this year, killing 39 of that city's wealthy young set. Islamic State also directed the appalling massacre of 89 people at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris in November 2015. On that night, a gig by the U.S. rock band Eagles of Death Metal was targeted with automatic rifles, grenades and suicide bombs as the jihadis made a blood-soaked statement against Western music and the lifestyle that goes with it. These Islamist puritans believe our Western way of life is on the verge of collapse and see their job as sending it to hell as quickly as possible. Their war is not so much with our governments as with the values we all live by, which is why they are prepared to slaughter innocent little girls clutching pink balloons on a night out with their mothers at a pop concert. James Harkin is director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism and a reporter on Syria and the rise of Islamic State.

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The Lights Are Going Out All Over Europe

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Ray Starmann

We are 24 hours into another horrific terrorist attack committed by the insane, murdering disciples of Allah. Last night, in Manchester, England, a suicide bomber, identified as Salman Abedi detonated a massive bomb filled with nails. The explosion killed 22 and wounded 59 and the numbers are still rising. Those killed and wounded were young girls and teenagers who were attending an Ariana Grande concert. Right now, parents are still searching for their children who unaccounted for. That’s right. The target was young girls. Those who target children are out to commit genocide. This attack is just another in a long litany of ISIS and Islamic terrorist operations in Western Europe that includes: April 7, 2017 A man driving a hijacked beer truck struck pedestrians at a Stockholm department store, killing 4 people. March 22, 2017 A man drives his rented SUV into pedestrians at London’s Westminster Bridge, killing four people. The attacker then stabbed a police officer to death. Dec. 19, 2016 A hijacked truck plows through a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12. July 14, 2016 A truck driver targets Bastille Day revelers in Nice, killing 86. March 22, 2016 Suicide attacks on the Brussels airport and subway kill 32 and injure hundreds. The perpetrators have been closely linked to the group that carried out earlier attacks in Paris. Nov. 13, 2015 Islamic State-linked extremists attack the Bataclan concert hall and other sites across Paris, killing 130 people. A key suspect in the attack, 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, is arrested in Brussels on March 18, 2016. Feb. 14, 2015 A gunman kills Danish filmmaker Finn Noergaard and wounds three police officers in Copenhagen. A day later the gunman, Omar El-Hussein, attacks a synagogue, killing a Jewish guard and wounding two police officers before being shot dead. Jan. 7-9, 2015 A gun assault on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and an attack on a kosher grocery store kills 17 people. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula claims responsibility for the attack, saying it was in revenge for Charlie Hebdo’s depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. May 24, 2014 Four people are killed at the Jewish Museum in Brussels by an intruder with a Kalashnikov. The accused is a former French fighter linked to the Islamic State group in Syria. May 22, 2013 Two al-Qaida-inspired extremists run down British soldier Lee Rigby in a London street, then stab and hack him to death. March 2012 A gunman claiming links to al-Qaida kills three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in Toulouse, southern France. July 22, 2011 Anti-Muslim extremist Anders Behring Breivik plants a bomb in Oslo then launches a shooting massacre on a youth camp on Norway’s Utoya island, killing 77 people, many of them teenagers. Nov. 2, 2011 The offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris are firebombed after the satirical magazine runs a cover featuring a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad. No one is injured. March 2, 2011 Islamic extremist Arid Uka shoots dead two U.S. airmen and injures two others at Frankfurt airport after apparently being inspired by a fake internet video purporting to show American atrocities in Afghanistan. July 7, 2005 52 commuters are killed in London when four al Qaida-inspired suicide bombers blow themselves up on three subway trains and a bus. March 11, 2004 Bombs on four Madrid commuter trains in the morning rush hour kill 191 people. Within hours after the Manchester attack, ISIS took responsibility for the monstrous episode. Of course they did. They also threw in a threat of more truck ramming attacks as well. Of course they did. They know they are dealing with worms that don’t have one millionth of the intestinal fortitude and desire for battle that their fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers had. The men of Western Europe are nothing more than emasculated twerps who have been devoured by the Nanny State and its odious values of feminism, socialism and cultural Marxism. The men of Western Europe are nothing more than socially castrated candyasses who are letting a Stone Age group of murderers and cutthroats rape, maim and kill their women while they dance on eggshells, afraid that they will say something Islamophobic. Where have you gone Winston Churchill? A continent turns its lonely eyes to you. The lights are going out in Europe now for the very reason that the leaders of Europe are aiding and abetting the murder of their own citizens and the very end of their nation states, their culture and their way of life. The lights are going out in Europe because the leaders of Western Europe have opened the doors to unlimited, unvetted Islamic immigration, giving millions of young, male Middle Eastern thugs an invitation to rape, pillage and plunder while receiving welfare benefits paid for by the gullible European taxpayer. The vipers are on the loose in Europe and there is nothing to stop them. Last night, BBC anchor Katy Kay said that the British should just accept terrorism as a normal part of life now. Yes, Britons, just accept your deaths. Breathe deeply and let the lethal injection take effect. Good God… Kay is just another mainstream media voice for the global elite who are overseeing the collapse of a continent. Anyone with the guts to voice their opinion is instantly chastised as a Nazi and an Islamophobe, who can’t accept change in society and who must instantly bow down to beautiful tolerance and diversity. Multiculturalism is wonderful. Islam is our friend. Hijabs are cool. Christianity is evil. In Britain and Germany, federal and state police forces troll social media sites, looking for dissidents who aren’t marching in line with EU policies. In fact, the Manchester Police were spending a good deal of their time hunting down those brave souls who would dare to tell their fellow citizens to stand up and fight against Islam. Daily Mail UK reporter Katie Hopkins was told by the Manchester Police that her Tweets demanding that British men take action were under investigation. That is how the police and security services of Europe respond to Islamic terror, they seek out and destroy their own citizens who wish to fight this evil. This is the new reality in Europe. This is the stuff of revolutions. And, what has the response been by Prime Minister Theresa May? Today, she parroted the same platitudes that the world has heard for the last five years. ‘We are outraged.’ ‘This is evil.’ ‘Britons shall be resolved.’ Not exactly the Iron Lady is she? The message to the UK is clear: knuckle under, put your head in the sand and wait for Achmed or Mohammed to cut your throat. Celebrate diversity Britain. Isn’t it wonderful? Theresa May will do nothing. Oh, sure there will be a couple arrests, a raid and a elevated security level, but there will be no strategic campaign to eradicate this filth from the face of the earth. By next week, it will be back to business as usual; letting Islam run over Western Europe like a speed bump on their way to a global caliphate. Right now, ISIS is no doubt laughing. They kill young English girls and how does England respond? They hold a worthless peace vigil in downtown Manchester. Today, they were holding hands and singing Kumbaya when they should be crying havoc and letting slip the dogs of war. If Western Europe has any chance of surviving this nightmare, the governments and the citizens must start fighting back. The very survival of Britain and Western Europe is hanging in the balance. The time for tolerance and political correctness is over. In his first speech as Prime Minister May 19, 1940, known forever as the Be Ye Men of Valour speech, Churchill rallied the British people while the Nazis were eyeing the white cliffs of Dover from France. Here are some highlights from the speech: Our task is not only to win the battle – but to win the war. After this battle in France abates its force, there will come the battle for our Island — for all that Britain is, and all the Britain means. That will be the struggle. In that supreme emergency we shall not hesitate to take every step, even the most drastic, to call forth from our people the last ounce and the last inch of effort of which they are capable. The interests of property, the hours of labor, are nothing compared with the struggle of life and honor, for right and freedom, to which we have vowed ourselves. I have received from the Chiefs of the French Republic, and in particular form its indomitable Prime Minister, M. Reynaud, the most sacred pledges that whatever happens they will fight to the end, be it bitter or be it glorious. Nay, if we fight to the end, it can only be glorious. Having received His Majesty’s commission, I have formed an Administration of men and women of every Party and of almost every point of view. We have differed and quarreled in the past; but now one bond unites us all — to wage war until victory is won, and never to surrender ourselves to servitude and shame, whatever the cost and the agony may be. this is one of the most awe-striking periods in the long history of France and Britain. It is also beyond doubt the most sublime. Side by side, unaided except by their kith and kin in the great Dominions and by the wide empires which rest beneath their shield – side by side, the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue not only Europe but mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history. Behind them – behind us- behind the Armies and Fleets of Britain and France – gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians – upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall. Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful servants of Truth and Justice: “Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar. As the Will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be. The British and their continental cousins have a choice, FIGHT AND DESTROY THIS MONSTROUS EVIL OR DIE. Right now, it appears that more people in Europe would rather die than fight. That’s why the lights are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

Guess what?? She also lobbied for the Clintons!!! More info on Kountoupes work in DC. SHE WORKED FOR DEPT OF ENERGY http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Lisa-Kountoupes/1558739629  She has URANIUM ONE CONNECTIONS!!!! Here is their Uranium One L2-Disclosure form https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=E1BF4232-5036-458A-9392-E6C7CD97E388&filingTypeID=51 

https://nei.org/CorporateSite/media/filefolder/Conferences/NFSF/PartsList.pdf 

Here is lobbying record http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000035177&year=2012 

“Kountoupes Consulting has been hired by Uranium One Inc. to lobby on “issues related to uranium mining and the uranium market.” http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/lobbying-contracts/197357-bottom-line- .

ALSO SHE IS A CLINTON ADMIN VET!!!!! Source here!!!!!! http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/top-lobbyists/302777-top-lobbyists-2016-hired-guns

MASSIVE AMOUNT OF INFO ON THE LOBBYING FIRM http://lobbying-firms.insidegov.com/l/39300/Kountoupes-Denham-LLC .

Lisa Kountoupes visited Obama White House 29 times. last visit is May 31st, for appointment with Jaime Kreager made on May 26th at 6:53PM https://archive.is/XpHaZ .

John Podesta was there the 26th https://archive.is/FdtD7 .

*Last leaked email was May 25th**

Is it just a coincidence that Seth Rich survived the shooting, but mysteriously died at the hospital where a Podesta/DNC ally is in charge of the trauma surgery unit?

http://hiddenamericans.com/politics/breaking-wikileaks-emails-ties-podesta-brothers-doctor-oversaw-seth-rich-died/ 

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The Republic Has Fallen: The Deep State’s Plot to Take Over America Has Succeeded

By John W. Whitehead May 23, 2017

“You have such a fervent, passionate, evangelical faith in this country…why in the name of God don’t you have any faith in the system of government you’re so hell-bent to protect? You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with—its Constitution. You ask for a mandate, General, from a ballot box. You don’t steal it after midnight, when the country has its back turned.”—Seven Days in May (1964) No doubt about it. The coup d’etat has been successful. The Deep State—a.k.a. the police state a.k.a. the military industrial complex—has taken over. The American system of representative government has been overthrown by a profit-driven, militaristic corporate state bent on total control and global domination through the imposition of martial law here at home and by fomenting wars abroad. When in doubt, follow the money trail. It always points the way. Every successive president starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt has been bought—lock, stock and barrel—and made to dance to the tune of the Deep State. Even Dwight D. Eisenhower, the retired five-star Army general -turned-president who warned against the disastrous rise of misplaced power by the military industrial complex was complicit in contributing to the build-up of the military’s role in dictating national and international policy. Enter Donald Trump, the candidate who swore to drain the swamp in Washington DC. Instead of putting an end to the corruption, however, Trump has paved the way for lobbyists, corporations, the military industrial complex, and the Deep State to feast on the carcass of the dying American republic. Just recently, for instance, Trump—boasting about the “purchase of lots of beautiful military equipment because nobody makes it like the United States—agreed to sell Saudi Arabia more than $110 billion in military weapons and “tanks and helicopters for border security, ships for coastal security, intelligence-gathering aircraft, a missile-defense radar system, and cybersecurity tools.” Meanwhile, Trump—purportedly in an effort to balance the budget in 10 years—wants to slash government funding for programs for the poor, ranging from health care and food stamps to student loans and disability payments. The military doesn’t have to worry about tightening its belt, however. No, the military’s budget—with its trillion dollar wars, its $125 billion in administrative waste, and its contractor-driven price gouging that hits the American taxpayer where it hurts the most—will continue to grow, thanks to Trump. This is how you keep the Deep State in power. The rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer, the military will get more militaristic, America’s endless wars will get more endless, and the prospect of peace will grow ever dimmer. As for the terrorists, they will keep on being played for pawns as long as Saudi Arabia remains their breeding ground and America remains the source of their weapons, training and know-how (15 of the 19 terrorists—including Osama bin Laden—who carried out the 9/11 attacks were from Saudi Arabia). Follow the money. It always points the way. As Bertram Gross noted in Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America, “evil now wears a friendlier face than ever before in American history.” Writing in 1980, Gross predicted a future in which he saw: …a new despotism creeping slowly across America. Faceless oligarchs sit at command posts of a corporate-government complex that has been slowly evolving over many decades. In efforts to enlarge their own powers and privileges, they are willing to have others suffer the intended or unintended consequences of their institutional or personal greed. For Americans, these consequences include chronic inflation, recurring recession, open and hidden unemployment, the poisoning of air, water, soil and bodies, and, more important, the subversion of our constitution. More broadly, consequences include widespread intervention in international politics through economic manipulation, covert action, or military invasion... This stealthy, creeping, silent coup that Gross prophesied is the same danger that writer Rod Serling warned against in the 1964 political thriller Seven Days in May, which put the military in charge of a coup that would institute martial law packaged as a well-meaning and overriding concern for the nation’s security. On the big screen, the military coup is foiled and the republic is saved in a matter of hours. In the real world, however, the plot thickens and spreads out over the past half century. We’ve been losing our freedoms so incrementally for so long—sold to us in the name of national security and global peace, maintained by way of martial law disguised as law and order, and enforced by a standing army of militarized police and a political elite determined to maintain their powers at all costs—that it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when it all started going downhill, but we’re certainly on that downward trajectory now, and things are moving fast. The question is no longer whether the U.S. government will be preyed upon and taken over by the military industrial complex. That’s a done deal. The “government of the people, by the people, for the people” has perished. It will not be revived or restored without a true revolution of values and a people’s rebellion the likes of which we may not see for a very long time. America is a profitable business interest for a very select few, and war—wars waged abroad against shadowy enemies and wars waged at home against the American people—has become the Deep State’s primary means of income. If America has been at war more than we’ve been at peace over the past half century, it’s because the country is in the clutches of a greedy military empire with a gargantuan, profit-driven appetite for war. Indeed, the U.S. has been involved in an average of at least one significant military action per year, “ranging from significant fighting in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan to lesser incursions in such far-flung countries as Kuwait, Bosnia, Pakistan, Libya, Grenada, Haiti and Panama… That total does not count more limited U.S. actions, such as drone strikes.” War is big business. In order to maintain a profit margin when there are no more wars to be fought abroad, one would either have to find new enemies abroad or focus on fighting a war at home, against the American people, and that’s exactly what we’re dealing with today. Wars waged abroad to the tune of trillions of dollars since 9/11. Military equipment sold to foreign enemies. Local police transformed into a standing army in the American homeland through millions of dollars’ worth of grants to local police agencies for military weapons, vehicles, training and assistance. The public acclimated to the sights and sounds of martial law through urban training exercises wherein military troops rappel from Black Hawk helicopters in cities across the country, from Miami and Chicago to Minneapolis, to domestic military training drills timed and formulated to coincide with or portend actual crises. The citizenry taught to fear and distrust each other and to welcome the metal detectors and pat downs in their schools, bag searches in their train stations, tanks and military weaponry used by their small town police forces, surveillance cameras in their traffic lights, police strip searches on their public roads, unwarranted blood draws at drunk driving checkpoints, whole body scanners in their airports, and government agents monitoring their communications. Had the government tried to ram such a state of affairs down our throats suddenly, it might have had a rebellion on its hands. Instead, the American people have been given the boiling frog treatment, immersed in water that slowly is heated up—degree by degree—so that they’ve fail to notice that they’re being trapped and cooked and killed. “We the people” are in hot water now. As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the Constitution doesn’t stand a chance against a federalized, globalized standing army protected by legislative, judicial and executive branches that are all on the same side, no matter what political views they subscribe to: suffice it to say, they are not on our side or the side of freedom. From Clinton to Bush, then Obama and now Trump, it’s as if we’ve been caught in a time loop, forced to re-live the same thing over and over again: the same assaults on our freedoms, the same disregard for the rule of law, the same subservience to the Deep State, and the same corrupt, self-serving government that exists only to amass power, enrich its shareholders and ensure its continued domination. The republic has fallen to fascism with a smile. As Bertram Gross wrote in what may have been his most prescient warning: In 1935 Sinclair Lewis wrote a popular novel in which a racist, anti-Semitic, flag-waving, army-backed demagogue wins the 1936 presidential election and proceeds to establish an Americanized version of Nazi Germany. The title, It Can't Happen Here, was a tongue-in-cheek warning that it might. But the "it" Lewis referred to is unlikely to happen again any place... Anyone looking for black shirts, mass parties, or men on horseback will miss the telltale clues of creeping fascism. In any First World country of advanced capitalism, the new fascism will be colored by national and cultural heritage, ethnic and religious composition, formal political structure, and geopolitical environment... In America, it would be supermodern and multi-ethnic-as American as Madison Avenue, executive luncheons, credit cards, and apple pie. It would be fascism with a smile. As a warning against its cosmetic facade, subtle manipulation, and velvet gloves, I call it friendly fascism. What scares me most is its subtle appeal. I am worried by those who fail to remember-or have never learned -that Big Business-Big Government partnerships, backed up by other elements, were the central facts behind the power structures of old fascism in the days of Mussolini, Hitler, and the Japanese empire builders. I am worried by those who quibble about labels… I am upset with those who prefer to remain spectators until it may be too late… I am appalled by those who stiffly maintain that nothing can be done until things get worse or the system has been changed. I am afraid of inaction. I am afraid of those who will heed no warnings and who wait for some revelation, research, or technology to offer a perfect solution. I am afraid of those who do not see that some of the best in America has been the product of promises and that the promises of the past are not enough for the future. I am dismayed by those who will not hope, who will not commit themselves to something larger than themselves, of those who are afraid of true democracy or even its pursuit. Elections will not save us. Learn the treacherous lessons of 2008 and 2016: presidential elections have made a mockery of our constitutional system of government, suggesting that our votes can make a difference when, in fact, they merely serve to maintain the status quo. Don’t delay. Start now—in your own communities, in your schools, at your city council meetings, in newspaper editorials, at protests—by pushing back against laws that are unjust, police departments that overreach, politicians that don’t listen to their constituents, and a system of government that grows more tyrannical by the day. If you wait until 2020 to rescue our republic from the clutches of the Deep State, it will be too late. WC: 1908

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_republic_has_fallen_the_deep_states_plot_to_take_over_america_has_ 

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Insiders Warn 'Lives Are At Stake' From Deep State Intel Community Leakers & They 'Need To Be Tracked Down'

- Congressional Testimony Today Also Proves MSM Still Publishing Fake News

By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine

While watching and listening to congressional testimony during the House of Representatives hearing into the Russia Probe can be overwhelmingly boring, as politicians want to spend more time droning on before actually getting to any pertinent questions of the witnesses, some noteworthy information does eventually come out. Such as the NYT "story" last week claiming President Trump attempted to pressure former FBI Director James Comey into dropping his investigation into Michael Flynn, according to a memo the NYT hadn't seen and wasn't in possession of, and according to "unnamed sources, which was rebutted by Comey himself before his firing, and the newly released Washington Post story, again using "anonymous," sources, claiming that "Trump asked intelligence chiefs to push back against FBI collusion probe after Comey revealed its existence," is all bogus... FAKE NEWS, according to Former CIA Director John Brennan. Brennan testified today and we have some clips relating to national security and the dangerous leaks via members of the intelligence community, with the full two-hour segment at the bottom of the article for those interested, where Brennan asserts that no one in the intelligence community has shared any concerns that "the president was attempting to enlist the help of people within the intelligence community to drop the Flynn investigation." Schiff then asked "Are you aware of any efforts the president has made to enlist the help of the intelligence community to push back on a narrative involving the collusion issue," a question which comes directly from the newly released Washington Post fake news story, Brennan responds with "I am unaware of it." Below you can hear Comey himself saying that an administration technically can halt an FBI investigation but it is not something he has witnessed in his experience, "because it would be a big deal to tell the FBI to stop doing something without an appropriate purpose. " He continued on to state "Often times they give us opinions that we don't see a case there so you ought to stop investing resources in it, but I'm talking about a situation where we're told to stop something for a political reason, that would be a very big deal. It's not happened in my experience." Which means if Comey now asserts something different, he will either have lied to Congress above, or he is lying now after he was fired. The next clip has Representative Trey Gowdy questioning Brennan on intelligence community leaks to the MSM, and what it means, where Brennan states unequivocally that those in the intelligence community that are leaking classified information to the media are "violating their oath to protect classified information. In the next clip Brennan states in no uncertain terms that those leaks to the press are "appalling" and the leakers "need to be tracked down." Last but not least, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats says that the "leaks have become a very significant, played a very significant negative role relative to our national security. The release of information not only undermines confidence in our allies, but our ability to maintain secure information that we share with them. It jeopardizes sources and methods that are invaluable to our ability to find out what's going on and what those threats are. Lives are at stake in many instances and leaks jeopardize those lives." Before getting to the bottom line, it is worth reiterating that "Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information" concerning the communication intelligence activities of the United States or any foreign government; or obtained by the processes of communication intelligence from the communications of any foreign government, knowing the same to have been obtained by such processes, is a criminal offence under 18 U.S. Code § 798, which "Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both." BOTTOM LINE We are dealing with two separate aspects of the continuous reports from the establishment mainstream media, where some of the reports, using "anonymous" or "unnamed" sources have turned out to be completely fake and bogus news, then we have names being revealed, such as Michael Flynn, that were leaked to the press by deep state intelligence community members, in violation of not only oaths to protect the information but against the law. The first aspect is the intelligence community leakers and the fact that they are breaking the law in revealing classified information, to which we just heard above are jeopardizing national security and lives. It would behoove the Trump administration to inform the public what actions are being taken to aggressively track them down and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. The second aspect is the media who 1) Is either making up their so-called "sources" on the articles that have been proven to be totally false, or; 2) Are being fed bogus information by deep state intelligence community leakers, and then rushing to print it in order to sabotage the President, in some cases without ever seeing the evidence to confirm its existence. What responsibility does the media have when they know that one of their sources is breaking US law, then they themselves are printing that classified information? As late as March 2017, the question of whether reporters themselves can be prosecuted for knowing publishing classified information, was discussed in Congress, when Gowdy asked Former FBI Director Comey "Is there an exception in the law for reporters who want to break a story?" Comey responded "Well, that's a harder question, as to whether a reporter incurs criminal liability by publishing classified information, and one probably beyond my ken. I'm not as good a lawyer as Mr. Schiff said I used to be." Gowdy then asked "Well, I don't know about that, but the statute does use the word publish, doesn't it?" Comey answered "It does, but that's a question I know the Department of Justice has struggled with through administration after administration." The question now becomes do the first amendment protections for "freedom of press" include the right to jeopardize national security and lives, as DNI Coats states that the leaks of classified information are doing?

http://allnewspipeline.com/Surprise_Media_Lied.php 

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The Trump Collapse Scapegoat Narrative Has Now Been Launched

Wednesday, 24 May 2017 02:37 Brandon Smith

Last week was a rather crazy one for the news feeds, with cyber attacks and “Comey memos” and a host of other wild mayhem, it may have been difficult for many people to keep track of it all. That said, there was one event that I think went partly under the radar, and I think it is an important signal for anyone concerned with the ongoing process of economic collapse in the U.S. Generally, the American public holds very little vigilance when it comes to economics. They are distinctly unaware of fundamental indicators such as commodities demand, energy usage, manufacturing, imports, exports and international shipping, etc. What they do take note of, and what the mainstream news will tell them about in 30 second blurbs, is the state of unemployment and whether stock markets were down for the day or up for the day. These two “indicators” are the extent of the average person’s exposure to fiscal health. This is why the Federal Reserve and the establishment have been meticulous over the past several years in their efforts to keep employment statistics highly manipulated to the positive side and why they have been injecting untold trillions into stocks around the world through various measures including no cost overnight loans. However, over the past couple of years something has changed. As I warned they would do in 2015 in my article The Real Reasons Why The Fed Will Hike Interest Rates, central banks including the Fed have been backing off of stimulus measures and they have now begun a series of interest rate hikes. Look at it this way — imagine the economy has a terminal disease and the only thing keeping it alive is a highly addictive drug called “free money.” It’s a rather terrible life, barely worth living, but the economy still has a faint pulse as long as the drug is administered. Now, what would happen if the Fed suddenly cuts off the drug supply? Well, the economy will die in a very frantic and horrible way. Low interest rates and Federal Reserve loans represent the purest form of the free money drug, even more so than the bailouts and QE. And now, those interest rates are rising, and the drug is being taken away. These marginal rate hikes might not seem like much — .25 basis points here and .25 basis points there. And they are not much, unless you are a corporation borrowing billions of dollars at a time so that you can stave off your exposure to quadrillions in derivatives debt and so that you can purchase massive shares in your own stock to keep its value artificially elevated. Cycling this borrowed cash and paying the Fed back is rather easy for such corporations as long as the loans are essentially free. But when they have to start paying interest on that cash, even at a low rate, the costs add up at lightning speed. ANY interest rate hikes in this environment make borrowing from the Fed untenable for corporations seeking to prop up their stocks and the stock market at large. In my estimation, based on previous Fed measures such as the removal of QE from the system in 2014, it takes around six to eight months for the effects of policy shifts by the Fed to become visible on the main street economy and in equities. I believe we are about to see the effects of interest rate hikes on our system within the next couple of months. I put very little value in stock markets as an indicator of anything. In reality, stocks are a fraudulent circus based on perceived value and perceived demand rather than true value and demand. In most cases, stocks crash in the FINAL phase of an economic collapse, not in the beginning phase. If you decide to start preparing for a crisis after a stock market decline then you are probably too late. I am revisiting this topic here because I want to remind people that the full and tantamount blame for any economic crisis (and the final phase market crash) in the near future is placed on the Federal Reserve and international banks. All future shocks to the financial system were made possible because the establishment and the Fed have gutted our economy, stuffed it with the fluff of fiat stimulus and left it to lumber aimlessly since 2009. Now, because of the Fed’s efforts, stocks have been rising for quite some time with only a few moments of obstruction, due again, to their policy shifts. These efforts have conjured a 20,000 point Dow Jones, but nothing else positive for the economy. The one constant, though, has always been low interest rates. With interest rates increasing, I would point out that market behavior has changed. The meteoric rise has stalled. In the past few months stocks have barely budged 1 percent either up or down per week. Except for last week when something strange happened; markets suddenly dropped nearly 400 points in a single day. Why? Well, that is a subject up for debate, but the majority of mainstream news outlets will tell you that it was all Donald Trump’s fault. I have been warning since long before the election that Trump’s presidency would be the perfect vehicle for central banks and international financiers to divert blame for the economic crisis that would inevitably explode once the Fed moved firmly into interest rate hikes. Every indication since my initial prediction shows that this is the case. The media was building the foundation of the narrative from the moment Trump won the election. Bloomberg was quick to publish its rather hilariously skewed propaganda on the matter, asserting that Trump was lucky to inherit an economy in ascendance and recovery because of the fiscal ingenuity of Barack Obama. This is of course utter nonsense. Obama and the Fed have created a zombie economy rotting from the inside out, nothing more. But, as Bloomberg noted rightly, any downturn within the system will indeed be blamed on the Trump administration. Fortune Magazine, adding to the narrative, outlined the view that the initial stock rally surrounding Trump’s election win was merely setting the stage for a surprise market crash. I continue to go one further than the mainstream media and say that the Trump administration is a giant cement shoe designed (deliberately) to drag conservatives and conservative principles down into the abyss as we are blamed by association for the financial calamity that will occur on Trump’s watch. Last week’s sudden market bloodletting is important in this regard; 400 points down is hardly a flesh wound to a 20,000 point Dow, but the media’s reaction to it was very revealing on what the future has in store. Multiple news outlets responded by immediately connecting the drop to Trump and the absurdity surrounding the “Comey memo” — a memo which no one in the public has seen proof of. The claim is that this level of turmoil around Trump might lead to impeachment and that the threat of impeachment would kill the stock market bounce which the media also claims was driven by Trump’s promises of corporate tax cuts. It's a lie built on another lie. It is interesting to me that the mainstream media never said the market drop was caused by “Comey’s turmoil,” or by “The Washington Post and The New York Times’ turmoil.” No, they called it “Trump’s trumoil.” Last week’s stock dive was, in my opinion, the official launch of the Trump collapse narrative. The establishment was beta testing it for months, but now, the program has gone live. Every single stock decline from now on, as well as the ultimate economic crash, which will become visible to the public in short order, will be blamed on Donald Trump and conservatives by extension. As I said, he is the perfect scapegoat. I have been very critical of Donald Trump recently, and it is my view, according to the evidence and his swift retraction of nearly every promise he made to the voters during his campaign, that Trump is controlled opposition. But, I would never lay the blame for our fiscal decline at his feet. Trump does not have the power to create that kind of disaster; only the global banks have that power. I’ll say it again — the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates into a major financial downturn. This will be the trigger for the next phase of collapse, not any drama surrounding Donald Trump. Everything else, from Comey to North Korea, is distraction. The Fed has done this before. In fact, the Fed has a habit of raising interest rates at the onset of economic instability or right in the middle of a downturn, as it did in 1928-1929 triggering the Great Depression, and in 1931, adding fuel to the fire of financial catastrophe. These particular catalyzing policy actions are partly what Ben Bernanke was referring to on Nov. 8, 2002, in a speech given at "A Conference to Honor Milton Friedman, the Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, On the Occasion of his 90th Birthday.” “In short, according to Friedman and Schwartz, because of institutional changes and misguided doctrines, the banking panics of the Great Contraction were much more severe and widespread than would have normally occurred during a downturn. Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You’re right, we did it. We’re very sorry. But thanks to you, we won’t do it again.” Ben Bernanke finished his astonishingly honest assessment with a lie. They are indeed doing it again… but this time they have made sure they have a president and an entire political ideal to blame it on.

http://www.alt-market.com/articles/3197-the-trump-collapse-scapegoat-narrative-has-now-been-launched 

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The Hopeless World of '13 Reasons': Toxic Culture, Toxic Consequences

John Stonestreet, Gina Dalfonzo

Ten years ago, Jay Asher, a novelist specializing in Young Adult fiction, saw his novel about a high school student who commits suicide become what the New York Times called “a stealthy hit with surprising staying power.” The book eventually reached the top of the Times’ paperback best-seller list. And ten years later, that novel, “Thirteen Reasons Why,” was turned into a Netflix series and is a cultural phenomenon. If you’re a parent, chances are you’ve heard about the series. If you’re a parent in a place like Colorado Springs, where literally dozens of teenagers have committed suicide in recent years, you’re probably asking yourself whether the show will only make a bad situation worse. I’m not certain about the answer to that question. What I am certain about is that it most certainly won’t help. As my colleague Gina Dalfonzo wrote in her superb article at BreakPoint.org, while the creators thought that they were striking a blow against teen suicide, “the limited and flawed worldview they brought to it meant that they were deeply, dangerously wrong.” “13 Reasons Why” is set two weeks after a high school student named Hannah commits suicide. As Gina writes, “While her fellow students are still creating memorials and taking selfies in front of her locker, a bombshell drops on her friend Clay Jensen . . . A shoebox full of cassette recordings that Hannah created before her death is left with him—recordings addressed to 13 different people whom she says gave her reasons to kill herself.” Told in a combination of “flashbacks and present-day stories,” Hannah’s tale is set in a depiction of the high school experience that, in Gina’s words, “makes ‘Lord of the Flies’ look like ‘Gilligan’s Island.’ Drugs and alcohol flow freely, bullying and sexual assault are facts of life, an innocent photograph or a few whispers can wreck a reputation, and the person who’s your best friend today could turn on you tomorrow.” It’s an experience that leaves the viewer wondering “how anyone could survive.” The answer seems to be “you can’t, unless you’re a sociopath.” Where does this leave non-sociopaths? Certainly not with hope. As Gina points out, nothing presented onscreen gives any reason to believe that the “poisonous atmosphere” can, much less will, get better. Against this backdrop, Hannah’s carefully-orchestrated suicide-plus-audio-revenge seems like a viable option. In fact, and this is the key flaw of the series, she seems to wield a power in death that she never did in life. Except, of course, she doesn’t. In real life, the kind of sociopaths and jerks who tormented her in life aren’t going to be too put out by an audio-cassette from the beyond. It’s cutting off your nose to spite your face times infinity. The only person tormented is the one Hannah admired, Clay. And he’s left “haunted by the thought that Hannah died because he was ‘afraid to love her,’” an idea that owes more to the movies than to real-life. In any case, as Gina points out, neither Clay nor his classmates have any “concept of the kind of love that actually does save.” As Gina correctly concludes, “Troubled kids need and deserve better.” The National Association of School Psychologists agrees, having issued the following statement: “We do not recommend that vulnerable youth, especially those who have any degree of suicidal ideation, watch this series. Its powerful storytelling may lead impressionable viewers to romanticize the choices made by the characters and/or develop revenge fantasies.” Parents, we need to understand the impact that shows like this can have on our teens. And ultimately, we need to show our children what love really means—and where our hope in life truly lies. BreakPoint is a Christian worldview ministry that seeks to build and resource a movement of Christians committed to living and defending Christian worldview in all areas of life. Begun by Chuck Colson in 1991 as a daily radio broadcast, BreakPoint provides a Christian perspective on today’s news and trends via radio, interactive media, and print. Today BreakPoint commentaries, co-hosted by Eric Metaxas and John Stonestreet, air daily on more than 1,200 outlets with an estimated weekly listening audience of eight million people. Feel free to contact us at BreakPoint.org where you can read and search answers to common questions. John Stonestreet, the host of The Point, a daily national radio program, provides thought-provoking commentaries on current events and life issues from a biblical worldview. John holds degrees from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (IL) and Bryan College (TN), and is the co-author of Making Sense of Your World: A Biblical Worldview.

http://www.christianheadlines.com/columnists/breakpoint/the-hopeless-world-of-13-reasons-toxic-culture-toxic-consequences.html 

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Intelligence Leaks and Our Hypocritical Press

By Susan Stamper Brown , CP Guest Contributor

May 23, 2017 | 12:12 PM

A Harvard study published May 18 reveals what thoughtful Americans already knew: Extreme anti-Trump bias runs rampant in corporate media. The study found that CNN, CBS, and NBC produced more than 90 percent negative coverage during Trump's first 100 days, followed by the New York Times at 87 percent, and the Washington Post, 83 percent. Only Fox News offered close to balanced coverage with 52 percent negative coverage. That explains why the week was filled with over-the-top reporting about President Trump sharing sensitive intelligence with Russian officials visiting the White House. Reportedly, the disclosure included information that ISIS has developed a way to mask bombs inside laptop computers that can slip undetected through airport screening. The overdramatic hype about Trump doing what every president before him has done to share information with an ally to prevent a terror attack is a head-scratcher to those who recall the events of September 11, 2001 as a bad thing. We are aware of these details thanks to an agenda-driven media lacking discretion and leakers lacking a conscience. Who in their right mind would leak to the public information that burns intelligence sources? It's obvious there is no longer an ethical code by which most of the press abides. Those whispering secrets to the wind do so for a reason. Given the unprecedented volume of leaks and the Obama administration's lack of integrity, someone should re-sweep the White House for bugs. If it is "treasonous" for the president to share information to protect lives with an ally behind White House closed doors, then what shall we call it when a blabbermouth leaks this sensitive information to media organizations, which in turn proverbially broadcasts it with a bullhorn? This is not about the First Amendment; we're talking about discretion. It's also about intent. If anonymous sources are not authorized to speak publicly about intelligence matters but share them with the media, we should focus on prosecuting both the leaker and culpable media. t the very least, fed-up Americans should cancel subscriptions to the Washington Post and New York Times and stop watching news channels that care more about destroying the president than they do about protecting American lives. Sure, Trump's methods might be questionable, but what's not in dispute is his pure-hearted desire to keep Americans safe. The same media in full throttle to destroy Donald Trump performed journalistic backflips to protect the proverbial WikiLeaks of all presidential administrations, the Obama administration, which sprung so many leaks even Flex Seal wouldn't help. Leaks such as the time the Obama administration put a proverbial target on Navy SEAL Team 6 operators' backs when it leaked key operational details about the Osama bin Laden raid, blabbing about SEAL Team 6's participation. To this day, family members blame the Obama administration for what they believe was retaliation when the Taliban later downed a helicopter in Afghanistan which killed 30 soldiers, including 15 SEAL Team 6 members. In 2012, Obama leaked sensitive details about an "underwear-bombing" plot and the mission was forced to a standstill because of that leak, which former House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers suggested was utilized to generate positive press and boost Obama's reelection chances. The media also snoozed as the pantsuit queen they pre-crowned as president was caught transporting classified emails on an illegal server hidden in a bathroom. It was "nothing to see here" even when evidence unfolded about a complex scheme to conceal or destroy emails and burn or hide potentially damning daily calendar entries. Every administration has intelligence leaks. The current leaks are due to a convoluted effort intended to hurt President Trump, while Obama's leaks were about making him look good. What they have in common is the press involvement which ends up potentially endangering human life.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/intelligence-leaks-and-our-hypocritical-press-184557/#RicCviIzSSmQ8Bc2.99 

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I'm Sick of News Anchors Telling Us Not to Rush to Judgment on Terror Attacks

1:00PM EDT 5/23/2017 Todd Starnes

The photos and the video and the sounds have become all too familiar. A flash of light—a massive explosion—horrified screams of the dying and wounded. his time in Manchester, England—at a concert filled with young teenagers and their parents. That was supposed to be a night of music and dancing and childhood frivolity—ended in carnage. Horrific, horrific injuries. Terrible," President Trump said. "Dozens of innocent people, beautiful young children savagely murdered in this heinous attack upon humanity." an untold number of children and their parents were massacred by Islamic radicals—killed in the name of the religion of peace. In response—there have been candlelight vigils and calls for peace and understanding—but the Muslim jihadists do not want peace. They want death. he Islamic radicals will not stop until they have killed every last one of us—Christians, Jews, gay, straight. The time has come to eliminate this evil from the face of the planet. The time has come for nations around the world to stop appeasing the Islamists. We must drive out the terrorists and extremists from our midst, obliterate this evil ideology and protect and defend our citizens and people of the world," the president said. "All civilized nations must be united in this effort." And we must do our part in the United States. We must secure our borders, we must investigate those who come here from the birthplace of this radical ideology and we must do whatever is necessary to prevent American blood from being shed on American soil. et, there are still apologists for the radical Islamists—from Hollywood to the halls of Congress. They seem to think we can win over the hearts and minds of the jihadists with bouquets of flowers and gentle hugs. That sort of philosophy is not only foolish but it's downright dangerous. How many more times do we have to listen to breathless news anchors lecturing us about not rushing to judgment? The Presbyterians and the Lutherans are not the ones strapping on backpacks filled with nails and blowing themselves up. The Methodists and Baptists aren't beheading people. The Catholics are not flying jetliners into buildings. So spare us the politically correct garbage. How many more children must die at the hands of radical Muslims—slain in the name of the religion of peace? How many more citizens of the world must be sacrificed to satisfy the bloodlust of these brutal savages? How many more times, America? How many more times? Todd Starnes is host of "Fox News & Commentary," heard on hundreds of radio stations. Sign up for his American Dispatch newsletter, be sure to join his Facebook page and follow him on Twitter. His latest book is The Deplorables' Guide to Making America Great Again.

http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/american-dispatch/65075-i-m-sick-of-news-anchors-telling-us-not-to-rush-to-judgment-on-terror-attacks 

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Manchester attack: Three more arrests in bomber investigation

Three more men have been arrested as police continue to investigate whether Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi acted alone. Abedi's 23-year-old brother has also been arrested. Abedi killed 22 and injured 64 when he blew himself up outside an Ariana Grande concert on Monday night. An off-duty policewoman is among the dead, the BBC understands. The UK terror threat level is now up to its highest level of "critical". This means more attacks may be imminent. Military personnel are being deployed to protect key sites. The Palace of Westminster has been closed to the public following police advice, and will not re-open until further notice, its website said. Home Secretary Amber Rudd said: "[Monday's attack] was more sophisticated than some of the attacks we've seen before, and it seems likely - possible - that he wasn't doing this on his own." BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said that the bomber is thought to have been a "mule", using a device built by someone else. An off-duty police officer - who has not yet been named - was also among those killed, the BBC understands. Her husband is believed to be critically ill and their two children were also injured. Of the 64 injured, 20 are in a critical condition, and some have lost limbs. Twelve of them are known to be children. Several people are still missing, including Eilidh MacLeod, 14, from Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Chloe Rutherford, 17, and Liam Curry, 19. Eilidh's friend, Laura MacIntyre, 15, who was also reported as missing, was later identified as one of the seriously injured in a Manchester hospital. The police believe they have now identified all those killed and informed their families. They will formally name the victims after post-mortem examinations, a process likely to take four or five days. A hotline has been set up for people concerned about loved ones - 0800 096 0095. Prime Minister Theresa May said soldiers are being placed at Buckingham Palace, Downing Street, embassies and the Palace of Westminster to support armed police in protecting the public. Military personnel may also be seen at other events over the coming weeks, such as concerts, Mrs May said, working under the command of police officers. She said she did not want people to feel "unduly alarmed" but said it was a "proportionate and sensible response". Mrs Rudd said 984 troops had been deployed in the first instance. Up to 3,800 are available. She said she "absolutely" expected the raising of the threat level to critical to be temporary, adding that the bomber had been known "up to a point" by the intelligence services. The highest threat level, which is decided by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre - a group of experts from the police, government departments and agencies - has only been reached twice before. The first time the threat level was raised to critical was in 2006 during a major operation to stop a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners with liquid bombs. The following year, security chiefs raised it once more as they hunted for the men who had tried to bomb a London nightclub and attacked Glasgow Airport. The Metropolitan Police says it has increased its presence across London. Meanwhile, Chelsea Football Club have cancelled their Premier League victory parade, due to take place in London on Sunday, so as not to divert police resources. In Northern Ireland, extra police officers have also been deployed at key sites and on transport networks. The next steps for police and MI5 UK 'irritated' by US leaks about bomber Who was the attacker? Salman Abedi is understood to be a 22-year-old born in Manchester to parents of Libyan descent, and a former University of Salford student. He attended Burnage Academy for Boys in Manchester between 2009-11. Hamid El-Sayed, who worked for the UN on tackling radicalisation and who now works at the University of Manchester, said Abedi had a "really bad relationship" with his family and his parents had tried but failed to keep him on the "right path". "Eventually he was doing very bad at his university, at his education, and he didn't complete, and they tried to take him back to Libya several times. He had difficulties adjusting to European lifestyle," he added. Abedi blew himself up in Manchester Arena's foyer shortly after 22:30 BST on Monday Fans were beginning to leave a concert by US singer Ariana Grande Witnesses at the arena described seeing metal nuts and bolts among the debris of Monday's bomb, and spoke about the fear and confusion that gripped concert-goers The arena bombing is the worst attack in the UK since the 7 July bombings in 2005, in which 52 people were killed by four suicide bombers So-called Islamic State has said - via IS channels on the messaging app Telegram - it was behind the attack, but this has not been verified A former classmate of Abedi's told the BBC that he was a "very jokey lad" but also "very short tempered" and would get angry at "the littlest thing". The man, who did not want to be identified, said Abedi was "away at random times throughout the year" but he did not know if he was abroad or playing truant because he hung around "the wrong crowd and was very, very gullible". "You could tell him anything and he would pretty much fall for it." He said that, before leaving the school in 2011, Abedi became "more and more religious" and that this might explain why he cut ties with former classmates. Apart from the three arrests in south Manchester on Wednesday, Abedi's older brother Ismael was arrested in Chorlton, south Manchester, on Tuesday in connection with the attack. On Wednesday afternoon, police raided a block of flats near Manchester Piccadilly station in the city centre, requiring them to briefly close the railway line. Met Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, who is the national counter-terrorism policing lead, said the investigation was "fast-moving and making good progress". "However, a critical line of inquiry is whether the dead terrorist was acting alone or part of a group," he said. "We still have critical lines of inquiry they're chasing down which has led to a level of uncertainty." Anyone with information about the attack can call the anti-terror hotline on 0800 789321.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40023488 

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The Trump budget is just telling the truth—and you can’t handle the truth!

Trump's budget begins to tell the hard truths to the American people. It's a "taxpayer first" plan, which is what any sustainable budget needs to be. More harsh truths are needed, but this is a good start.

Jake Novak | @jakejakeny 23 Hours Ago

America finally has something it's needed for decades: A budget that starts to tell the truth. And some people don't seem to be able to handle the truth. But they need to start. The truth is coming in the form of the White House budget that calls for major cuts to entitlement programs that are not sustainable, taxes that punish productivity and growth, and the fundamental understanding that politicians cannot be trusted to spend our money. That is, it at least begins to deliver the truth. Let's start with what it gets right in the reality department. The screaming headlines are all about that truth right now as every major news outlet has chosen to focus on the cuts the Trump budget makes to food stamps, Medicaid, student loans, and agencies like the EPA and the Department of Education. Do any of those articles or the angry members of Congress quoted in them include anything about how these spending programs are unsustainable as they are now anyway? Do they include any arguments about how the overstretched "safety net" of welfare programs provides aid to too many people who aren't actually poor, thus reducing the amount of funds available for the truly needy? Do they include any of the arguments that so many federal agencies like the EPA and the Education Department aren't truly needed in their current sizes? How about some information on how student loan guarantees from Washington are a major source of tuition inflation? Don't be ridiculous. "The unicorns aren't coming, and it's time for our elected leaders to stop pretending only the politically easy-to-cut programs should go." But the Trump budget does just that by simply calling for those cuts because "ridiculous" is really the best word to describe anyone who thinks continuing to promise the American people unicorns like the massive increases to the budgets of all the above-mentioned programs aren't going to crowd out spending for almost anything else. The truth can be harsh, but ultimately it's kinder than having our presidents and members of Congress continue to lie to us. The unicorns aren't coming, and it's time for our elected leaders to stop pretending only the politically easy-to-cut programs should go. It's time to stop throwing the word "poor" around like it's nothing. The fact is, way too much of the so-called "safety net" has been stretched to people who are not poor by most definitions and are thus siphoning vital funding away from those who are truly at the economic bottom. Specifically, this problem has manifested itself with the massive expansions in the number of people on food stamps and taking federal disability payments that has not subsided even with the economic recovery coming out of the Great Recession. This says nothing of the significant fraud in these systems that such a bloated enrollment makes inevitable. 10 percent of Medicaid payments were found to have been improper in 2016 alone, according to the Government Accountability Office. That's $36 billion, for those of you counting at home. The massive expansions of just about all of the programs the Trump plan seeks to cut have led to a growing number of unemployed people in America who are just getting by on various forms and levels of government assistance. This puts an undue level of new strain on the people who actually are working and paying payroll and other taxes to prop up the rest of the country. Yes, Mitt Romney was roundly pilloried when he complained that 47 percent of the people would never vote for him because they pay no federal taxes. But what part of what Romney said was factually wrong? What part of what he said wasn't indicative of an unsustainable political and economic reality? The Trump budget at least starts to tell us the truth about what benefits can survive even in the short-term future. And there's another harsh but crucial reality in the Trump budget — it knows where the money comes from. Taxpayers. Somehow, prioritizing the people who actually provide us the money to spend in Washington has been portrayed as selfish or mean. Now, let's get to what the Trump budget gets wrong. In short, it still isn't "harsh" enough. So far, we have no details of any reforms to the three biggest problems in our budget: Medicare, Social Security, and Defense. No real anti-deficit and pro-taxpayer moves can be made permanent until all three of those programs are reformed and essentially cut. It's not surprising the White House plan doesn't make the hard choices on that three-headed fiscal monster considering it would make the current political firestorm over his other cuts look like a small campfire. The political class and the news media remains convinced that the public will never accept even the slightest cuts or even any significant changes to those programs, but that's just plain wrong. 41 percent of Americans don't believe that Social Security will even exist when they retire, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. Are we supposed to believe that they won't stand for changes to a program they don't expect to be around for much longer? Politicians simply don't want to bother to make those tough choices and they're hiding behind the voters to avoid them. But first things first. You have to start telling the truth somewhere, and the Trump budget does the most truth telling since at least the cut-heavy Reagan budget in 1981 that helped launch a major economic expansion. Our debt is about $20 trillion, and the number of unfunded liabilities coming due in the future have some experts pegging our real debt at more like $200 trillion. There's not enough taxpayer money in the universe to cover those costs. With these harsh truths in mind, we have to remember that a budget that doesn't make the harsh cuts Trump's does simply isn't realistic. Oh, and there's no such thing as unicorns either. Commentary by Jake Novak, CNBC.com senior columnist. Follow him on Twitter @jakejakeny. or more insight from CNBC contributors, follow @CNBCopinion on Twitter.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/23/trumps-budget-tells-the-truth-and-you-cant-handle-the-truth-commentary.html 

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After School Satanist Club Wages War on the Bible Belt of America and They’re Coming For The Children 

By Nate Brown - 05/23/2017

The satanic temple is coming for the Bible Belt, and they’re gunning for the children. Through an organization called the After School Satan Club, the satanic temple is attempting to sway the minds of the youth into satanism. Children are vital to the continuation of the Christian faith, and as if cultural, ideological subversion wasn’t bad enough for them, Satan wants to place pressure on their minds after school. Several locations around America have fallen victim to weak local governance and in turn, have started to see the satanic organization spread into the minds of the youth. However, now the satanic temple is coming after the Bible Belt; A new religious program led by Satanists is pushing to expand into the Bible Belt this Fall. It’s called the After School Satan Club and instead of worship, it teaches activism. Instead of God, it teaches evolution, rationalism and free inquiry. But residents in Shreveport call it evil. Arturo Alderete said, “I think kids at that age shouldn’t be involved with that kind of stuff you know. It doesn’t sound too good to me.” Stacy McDonald agreed calling the after school program, “terrible.” Jaqeline Jackson added, “Some kids will take it too far and do different things that is not nice to other people.” KTBS-3 checked with school districts in Caddo, Bossier and Texarkana, Texas. District spokesperson’s confirm no application has been made with its respective school districts. But do confirm after school satan club’s won’t be banned. A huge concern for parents, who are watching the program gain traction. “Well we should learn about Satan, but we should learn about the truth. The fact is he’s a liar and he can’t tell the truth and he’s all out for killing, stealing, and distruction. There’s nothing good about anything he does and he’s not any good for anybody unless they want to be like him.” said Kelly McCabe. – Read More We, at the Christian Truther have been tracking the satanic organizations movements for the last couple of years, to the best of our ability, and the exponential growth is rather alarming, see the trend here.

https://christiantruther.com/podcast/school-satanist-club-wages-war-bible-belt-america-theyre-coming-children/ 

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With Warnings Of 'Much Worse To Come', Are Our Enemies Preparing To Use 'Food As A Weapon' Against America?

The 'Vicious Cycle' Lives On As Cowardly Warnings Of 'It Has Only Just Begun' Ring Out

By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die May 23, 2017

On the very same day the horrific and cowardly terrorist attack upon Manchester Arena in England took place, the story over at the Independent that the Drudge Report linked to on Monday reported ISIS terrorists have been testing chemical weapons upon human guinea pigs in what experts believe is a plot to contaminate Western food supplies. Experimenting with formulas that quickly dissolve in liquid with which they can poison food with, we quite literally see food being used as a weapon as the sickening story reports, the terrorists have used these poisons to kill their 'human guinea pigs' already. Claiming to have found 'the ideal, lethal poison', this Newsweek story reports ISIS is creating an 'elite chemical weapons cell' in the area near the border of Iraq and Syria with one expert claiming we're witnessing a throw back to the 1940's Nazi Germany. Chemical weapons expert Hamish de Bretton-Gordon told The Times: "This is a horrifying throwback to the Nazis who would test nerve agents on live humans. During the Second World War, the Nazis conducted thousands of deadly experiments with mustard gas on prisoners at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, near Berlin.” In this new story from Jim Hoft over at Gateway Pundit he reports that back in November, ISIS released a video with explicit instructions on how to make a home made bomb. The surreal screenshot from that video seen below is probably a far cry from what most Americans think of when they imagine ISIS creating bombs. And with recent warnings from their members that 'Manchester was only the beginning' and 'what comes next will be even worse', we can only imagine the carnage that one deranged extremist in the right career field could do to a restaurant full of diners or a grocery store full of food should they be given the right opportunity. According to this new story from Mac Slavo over at SHTFPlan, all of these recent stories from the MSM on ISIS poisoning our food supply should be looked at with alarm, especially now considering the attack of Monday night and the total meltdown mode the 'deep state', the DNC and MSM are in over the Seth Rich story. We've long been concerned that prior to allowing themselves to go down, 'the elite' will bring down a whole lot of people with them. Anybody else paying attention to what the 'Russian boogeyman' is distracting 'the masses' from? From Slavo: These stories support a new narrative being pushed by the media and our government. They’ve been saying the same thing for several weeks now: As the Islamic State crumbles, ISIS is morphing back into an underground organization that will focus less on holding territory, and more on conducting insidious terror attacks in the West. When you examine these stories together, and consider the fact that our government has been secretly helping ISIS and Al-Qaeda in Syria for years, we have to ask ourselves a very important question. Is the mainstream media priming the public for a major chemical weapons attack on the West; an attack that our government may be complicit in? Because it sure looks like they’re telling us to expect a chemical attack in the near future. ISIS is clearly a creation of the deep state, who are also desperately trying to co-opt President Trump’s administration. They want him to drag our country into yet another major war in the Middle East. And if their ISIS puppets pull off this kind of attack, they might just convince him to follow the warpath that they have laid out for him. In this new story from the Daily Caller they report that ISIS recently called upon their followers to 'hunt their prey' in the UK soon before the concert bombing. Earlier in May, ISIS magazine implored their followers to 'lure and kill unsuspecting people with false advertisements for jobs and apartments', quite literally putting millions of totally unsuspecting people in possible harms way. Just imagine responding to an advertisement for a job or an apartment and being met by a machete wielding psychopath screaming 'allahu akbar' instead. Giving us another reason to be very careful about strangers who we're meeting with even if it appears to be for a legitimate reason, such threats by terrorists have a way of reminding us to be vigilant at all times. There are unfortunately a lot of very bad people out there who want to do us harm simply for our religious beliefs or because we don't think like they do or because they've bought into the devil's ways. As this story over at the Daily Mail reports, ISIS followers celebrated the cowardly bombing that took far too many lives, showing us once again that 'free humanity' is dealing with the worst of the worst - those who celebrate the taking of the lives of the innocent. And as this new story from Slavo over at SHTFPlan reports, this despicable bombing could have possibly been stopped with alleged warnings posted to Twitter hours before the bombing that 'an incident' would occur. Slavo's story also reminds us why we here in America and those living in the UK and elsewhere in the 'free world' need to remain vigilant - a massive 'trojan horse' invasion has been allowed to occur in the West. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility, saying that a soldier of their Kaliphate was directly involved: “With Allah’s grace and support, a soldier of the Khilafah managed to place explosive devices in the midst of the gatherings of the Crusaders in the British city of Manchester, in revenge for Allah’s religion, in an endeavor to terrorize the mushrikin, and in response to their transgressions against the land of the Muslims. The explosive devices were detonated in the shameless concert arena, resulting in 30 Crusaders being killed and 70 others being wounded. And what comes next will be more severe on the worshipers of the Cross and their allies, by Allah’s permission. And all praises due to Allah, Lord of the creation.” Now, just hours after the incident, it has been revealed by numerous mainstream reports that a member of the Islamic State made a threat approximately four hours before the explosion that killed at least 22 people. According to Express UK and Huffington Post, a user by the name of ‘owys663’ (now suspended) posted a Tweet in which he specifically identified Manchester as a terror target utilizing hashtags. That the Islamic State has claimed responsibility and that it is possible that the now suspended Islamic State twitter account posted this tweet ahead of time indicates significant coordination and planning. With 3,500 Islamic terrorists reportedly living in the United Kingdom, and with Islamic State actively working to develop chemical weapons of mass destruction, it appears that this is, indeed, just the beginning. While the first video below takes a look at the alleged new threats by ISIS upon the Western food supply, Britain's Nigel Farage joins Fox News Tucker Carlson in the 2nd video in which he claims the cowardly bombing on Monday night which was directly targeting England's youth marks a new low in all forms of terrorism. With ISIS now saying the brutal murders Monday will be "followed up by vehicle attacks in your streets", we see the 'trojan horse invasion' of America that President Trump spoke of as a candidate a warning to us all in 2017. As President Donald Trump recently stated during his speech on terrorism to Islamic nations, “the deadliest toll has been extracted from the innocent people of Arab and Muslim nations.” The optimism of the region, he said, was “held at bay by bloodshed and terror.” And he added: “There can be no co-existence with this violence.” Once again, we see the worst of the worst attacking the innocent. President Trump's words are proven in this brand new story out of the Philippines as Islamic extremists, backed by ISIS, take partial control over the town of Marawi, leading to countless deaths, power outages, complete chaos and a war zone where no one was expecting there to be one. Once again, the innocent people of Marawi are being terrorized by those holding extremist and evil beliefs. While Philippines president Duterte has been forced to impose martial law on the entire southern region for at least 60 days as heard in the final video below, with the 'trojan horse invasion' of America that was allowed to take place over the past 8 years, imagine an American city such as Detroit under the same kind of seige by those who hate America and are already here within. According to this new story over at Reuters, countries all over the world will be increasing security at major cultural and sports events following the Manchester bombing with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security specifically warning that Americans may also experience more security at public events. The vicious cycle lives on.

http://allnewspipeline.com/Will_ISIS_Terrorize_Our_Food.php 

:: 5-21-17 Sean Hannity :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::

WATCH: Here's a Montage of Democrats Confirming They Have ZERO Evidence Trump Colluded with Russia

posted by Hannity.com Staff - 3 days ago

As the liberal left continues its desperate witch-hunt against Donald Trump and his presidency, let’s not forget that it was democratic leaders THEMSELVES that confirmed there wasn’t a single-shred of evidence connecting the Trump campaign to Russia. Alt-left activists and lawmakers have been calling for the President’s impeachment since his inauguration last January. Their main reason: collusion. The only problem is that not a single member of Congress has seen anything implicating the Trump team worked with Russia, and they know it. “We did not include any evidence in our report –and I say our that’s NSA, FBI, and CIA with my office, the director of national intelligence- that had any reflection of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians, there was no evidence of that included in our report,” said the former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. “Have you see anything in either intelligence briefings, anything, to back up any of the accusations that you’ve made?” a reporter asked Maxine Waters. “No we have not,” she responded. "There's an awful lot of smoke there, let's put it that way," said Democratic Senator Joe Manchin. "People that might have said they were involved, to what extent they were involved, to what extent the president might have known about these people or whatever, there is nothing there from that standpoint that we have seen directly linking our president to any of that." Watch democratic leaders CONFIRM they have ZERO evidence above.

http://www.hannity.com/articles/election-493995/watch-heres-a-montage-of-democrats-15852024/ 

:: 5-24-17 Think Progress :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::

Ancestry.com takes DNA ownership rights from customers and their relatives

A word to the wise: Read the complete terms of service.

Don’t use the AncestryDNA testing service without actually reading the Ancestry.com Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. According to these legal contracts, you still own your DNA, but so does Ancestry.com. The family history website Ancestry.com is selling a new DNA testing service called AncestryDNA. But the DNA and genetic data that Ancestry.com collects may be used against “you or a genetic relative.” According to its privacy policies, Ancestry.com takes ownership of your DNA forever. Your ownership of your DNA, on the other hand, is limited in years. It seems obvious that customers agree to this arrangement, since all of them must “click here to agree” to these terms. But, how many people really read those contacts before clicking to agree? And how many relatives of Ancestry.com customers are also reading? There are three significant provisions in the AncestryDNA Privacy Policy and Terms of Service to consider on behalf of yourself and your genetic relatives: (1) the perpetual, royalty-free, world-wide license to use your DNA; (2) the warning that DNA information may be used against “you or a genetic relative”; (3) your waiver of legal rights. 1. Perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide license to use your DNA AncestryDNA, a service of Ancestry.com, owns the “World’s Largest Consumer DNA Database” that contains the DNA of more than 3 million people. The AncestryDNA service promises to, “uncover your ethnic mix, discover distant relatives, and find new details about your unique family history with a simple DNA test.” For the price of $99 dollars and a small saliva sample, AncestryDNA customers get an analysis of their genetic ethnicity and a list of potential relatives identified by genetic matching. Ancestry.com, on the other hand, gets free ownership of your genetic information forever. Technically, Ancestry.com will own your DNA even after you’re dead. Specifically, by submitting DNA to AncestryDNA, you agree to “grant AncestryDNA and the Ancestry Group Companies a perpetual, royalty-free, world-wide, transferable license to use your DNA, and any DNA you submit for any person from whom you obtained legal authorization as described in this Agreement, and to use, host, sublicense and distribute the resulting analysis to the extent and in the form or context we deem appropriate on or through any media or medium and with any technology or devices now known or hereafter developed or discovered.” Basically, Ancestry.com gets to use or distribute your DNA for any research or commercial purpose it decides and doesn’t have to pay you, or your heirs, a dime. Furthermore, Ancestry.com takes this royalty-free license in perpetuity (for all time) and can distribute the results of your DNA tests anywhere in the world and with any technology that exists, or will ever be invented. With this single contractual provision, customers are granting Ancestry.com the broadest possible rights to own and exploit their genetic information. The AncestryDNA terms also requires customers to confirm that, “You understand that by providing any DNA to us, you acquire no rights in any research or commercial products that may be developed by AncestryDNA that may relate to or otherwise embody your DNA.” Essentially, you still own your DNA, but so does Ancestry.com. And, you can commercialize your own DNA for money, but Ancestry.com is also allowed to monetize your DNA for millions of dollars and doesn’t have to compensate you. Although AncestryDNA customers provide voluntary consent to have their DNA used in commercial research projects, customers are free to withdraw consent, with a few exceptions. First, “data cannot be withdrawn from research already in progress or completed, or from published results and findings.” In those cases, Ancestry.com has access to data about you indefinitely. Secondly, if a customer withdraws their consent, Ancestry.com will take 30 days to cease using their data for research. Finally, withdrawing consent, “will not result in destruction of your DNA Sample or deletion of your Data from AncestryDNA products and services, unless you direct us otherwise.” Customers must jump through additional hoops if they want their DNA sample destroyed or their data deleted from AncestryDNA products and services. The Ancestry.com policy does not specify what “additional steps” are required. U.S. customers must contact Ancestry.com customer service at 1–800–958–9124 to find out. (Customers outside the United States must call separate customer service numbers.) 2. Warning that DNA information may be used against “you or a genetic relative” The Ancestry.com DNA testing service promises to analyze approximately 700,000 genetic markers. According to Ancestry.com, the service, “combines advanced DNA science with the world’s largest online family history resource to predict your genetic ethnicity and help you find new family connections.” The results of an AncestryDNA analysis include information about “ethnicity across 26 regions/ethnicities and identifies potential relatives through DNA matching to others who have taken the AncestryDNA test.” AncestryDNA claims to use the “latest autosomal testing technology” to produce genetic identity reports and can combine the test results with “the world’s largest online family history resource to predict your genetic ethnicity and help you find new family connections.” In addition, AncestryDNA offers a genetic code profiling and matching service, advertising that “AncestryDNA can also help identify relationships with unknown relatives through a dynamic list of DNA matches.” This raises a thorny issue that Ancestry.com has not resolved: your exact DNA profile is unique to you, but a substantial portion of your DNA is identical to your relatives. Thus, Ancestry.com is able to take DNA from its customers and also their relatives. Even if you’ve never used Ancestry.com, but one of your genetic relatives has, the company may already own identifiable portions of your DNA. The personal “Genetic Data” collected by Ancestry.com includes “information derived from processing your DNA Sample through genomic, molecular, and computational analyses using various technologies, such as genotyping and whole or partial genome sequencing. Genetic Data is broader than just the results delivered to you when you use the AncestryDNA test and includes a range of DNA markers such as those associated with your health or other conditions.” In short, Ancestry.com holds genetic data that reveals your health and other conditions. Genetic diseases are disorders caused by abnormalities in a person’s DNA and are divided into three categories: single-gene disorders, such as cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, and Huntington’s disease, result from the mutation of the protein of a single gene; chromosome abnormalities, such as Down Syndrome, are caused by disorders of the whole chromosome; and multifactorial disorders, including breast cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, develop from mutations in multiple genes, often coupled with environmental causes. Genomics play a role in nine out of the top ten leading causes of death in the U.S., including cancer, heart disease, stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, influenza and pneumonia, septicemia, and kidney disease. Buried in the “Informed Consent” section, which is incorporated into the Terms of Service, Ancestry.com warns customers, “it is possible that information about you or a genetic relative could be revealed, such as that you or a relative are carriers of a particular disease. That information could be used by insurers to deny you insurance coverage, by law enforcement agencies to identify you or your relatives, and in some places, the data could be used by employers to deny employment.” This is a massive red flag. The data “you or a genetic relative” give to AncestryDNA could be used against “you or a genetic relative” by employers, insurers, and law enforcement. For example, a young woman named Theresa Morelli applied for individual disability insurance, consented to release of her medical records through the Medical Information Bureau (a credit reporting agency for medical history), and was approved for coverage. One month later, Morelli’s coverage was cancelled and premiums refunded when the insurer learned her father had Huntington’s disease, a genetic illness. Startlingly, the Medical Information Bureau (MIB) used Morelli’s broad consent to query her father’s physician, a doctor with whom she had no prior patient relationship. More importantly, the applicant herself wasn’t diagnosed with Huntington’s carrier status, but she suffered exclusion on the basis of a genetic predisposition in her family. Under a 1995 consent agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, the MIB and its members are required to comply with consumer protections of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Much like financial credit reports, all consumers are entitled to a free annual copy of their “medical report” file from the Medical Information Bureau (MIB). If the consumer discovers an error in her MIB medical credit report file, she must mail a letter to the MIB to begin the dispute process. Federal laws, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act of 2008 (GINA), contain protections that prohibit health insurers from requiring, using, and analyzing genetic information in health care coverage decisions. However, both laws contain glaring exceptions that allow for genetic discrimination in certain industries. Notably, no federal laws regulate the use of genetic information, genetic testing, and genetic discrimination for life insurance companies, long-term care insurers, and employers. An Ancestry.com DNA test is the impetus of a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Sergeant Cleon Brown, a white police officer in Hastings, Michigan against his employer, the Hastings Police Department, and several city employees. Curious about his own family history, Brown purchased an AncestryDNA genetic test and analysis report. The results surprised him Ancestry.com said his DNA was 18 percent sub-Saharan African. Brown “proudly told his colleagues at the police department” about his African ancestry. But not long after that, “his elation turned into misery.” According to Sergeant Brown’s complaint, his colleagues at the police department, “started whispering ‘Black Lives Matter’ while pumping their fists as they walked” past Brown. The complaint also alleges that the former mayor of Hastings participated in the racist teasing, by telling Brown a joke containing racist slurs. “I just never thought it would be in Hastings, saying, like, racist comments to me,” Brown said to the New York Times. In his lawsuit, Brown, a military veteran who has worked in law enforcement for 20 years, is seeking $500,000 in damages. The Ancestry.com Terms of Service also warns that genetic information in its possession can be used by state or federal law enforcement agencies “to identify you or your relatives.” With the rise of forensic evidence in criminal investigations, DNA is often considered incontrovertible evidence. To propel the use of DNA evidence in criminal investigations and prosecutions, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) operates the national Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) database. The CODIS DNA database, created and maintained by the FBI, consists of the following three levels of information: local DNA Index Systems (LDIS) where DNA profiles originate; state DNA Index Systems (SDIS) which allows for laboratories within states to share information; and the National DNA Index System (NDIS) which allows states to compare DNA information with one another. According to reports, the FBI’s CODIS software connects disparate databases including, arrestees, missing persons, convicted offenders, and forensic samples collected from crime scenes. All 50 states, the District of Columbia, federal law enforcement, the Army Laboratory, and Puerto Rico participate in national sharing of DNA profiles through the CODIS system. However, the FBI DNA database is not infallible. In 2015, the FBI said it discovered flawed data after it commissioned a study to retest DNA samples. In a bulletin sent to crime labs across the United States, the FBI surmised that DNA data errors were probably due to “clerical mistakes in transcriptions of the genotypes and to limitations of the old technology and software.” The FBI suspects that errors in DNA may go back as far as 1999. 3. Waiver of legal rights Are “you or a genetic relative” a customer of AncestryDNA? If so, Ancestry.com now has control over the DNA of “you or a genetic relative.” Should the warnings from Ancestry.com come to pass, and DNA information about “you or a genetic relative” is used against “you or a genetic relative” by any employer, insurer, or law enforcement, then “you or a genetic relative” have very limited legal rights. In its sales contract, Ancestry.com takes no responsibility. By consenting to the AncestryDNA Terms and Conditions, “you or a genetic relative” agree to hold the company harmless for any damages that AncestryDNA may cause unintentionally or purposefully. If “you or a genetic relative” are “dissatisfied with any portion of the Websites or the Services, or with any clause of these terms, as your sole and exclusive remedy you may discontinue using the Websites and the Services.” The only option for unhappy customers is to stop using AncestryDNA. In the event you or your genetic information cause harm, you agree to “defend, indemnify and hold harmless AncestryDNA, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees).” And customers beware, “you may be liable to others as well as to us if your account is used in violation of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.” That means you could end up owing money to Ancestry.com, its attorneys, and others. The final indignity for Ancestry.com customers is that they must waive fundamental legal rights by agreeing to mandatory binding arbitration. With the exception of intellectual property rights disputes and certain small claims, Ancestry.com customers must pursue their disputes through arbitration, rather than court. In arbitration, the established legal rules of discovery, evidence, and trial by jury do not exist. Finally, if many AncestryDNA customers want to join together to file a lawsuit against Ancestry.com, they are prohibited. But in fairness, Ancestry.com similarly prohibits itself from joining with a bunch of others to file a class action lawsuit against you. By agreeing to the Terms and Conditions, “you and AncestryDNA agree that each may bring claims against the other only in your or its individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, consolidated, or representative action.” These arbitration provisions survive even if you cancel your AncestryDNA account. However, for good measure, Ancestry.com notes that, “this arbitration agreement does not preclude you from bringing issues to the attention of federal, state, or local agencies. Such agencies can, if the law allows, seek relief against us on your behalf.” 4. Conclusion To use the AncestryDNA service, customers must consent to the Ancestry.com Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. These are binding legal contracts between the customer and Ancestry.com. The most egregious of these terms gives Ancestry.com a free license to exploit your DNA for the rest of time. Customers must understand that turning over their DNA means a loss of complete ownership and control. Ancestry.com customers should also know they’re giving up the genetic privacy of themselves and their relatives. Before purchasing, individuals are advised to fully read and consider the Ancestry.com Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. If you become a customer, Ancestry.com owns your DNA for life and longer. Joel Winston, Esq. is a New York-based attorney specializing in consumer protection law and commercial litigation. He also provides data privacy and regulatory compliance counsel to technology entrepreneurs and early-stage ventures. Joel is a former deputy attorney general for the State of New Jersey and previously served the Department of Justice, Office of the U.S. Trustee, in Manhattan.

https://thinkprogress.org/ancestry-com-takes-dna-ownership-rights-from-customers-and-their-relatives-dbafeed02b9e 

:: 5-22-17 Breitbart :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::

Gorka: President Trump Understands ‘We’ve Got to Destroy the Ideology of Jihadism If We’re Going to Win’

by John Hayward22 May 2017

Deputy Assistant to the President Dr. Sebastian Gorka, formerly National Security editor for Breitbart News, was a guest on Breitbart News Sunday with SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam. Gorka said one of the most important points to stress about President Trump’s trip to the Middle East is that it’s not an “apology tour,” as his predecessor President Obama’s tour of the Middle East has been derisively described. In particular, he said President Trump’s address to the leaders of Muslim nations in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Sunday was “completely different” from President Obama’s famous (or infamous) speech in Cairo in 2009. “You actually had the Muslim Brotherhood sitting in the front row, let’s remember that, at the beginning of apology tour,” Gorka said of Obama’s speech. Kassam noted President Trump used the words “terror” and “terrorism” 31 times in his speech, versus Gorka’s count of “zero” mentions by President Obama. “He did talk about Iran. He did talk about the threat of Shia terrorism,” Gorka said of Trump’s remarks. “But he was also explicit — he was talking to a room full of Sunni Arab leaders, and he said that ‘you must drive the terrorists out of your places of worship, out of your community.’” “I think it’s not a fair summation to say that it was of one side, with regard to who the terrorists are,” he said. “The bottom line is, everybody who’s been suffering — in the intelligence community, law enforcement, the military — with years and years of censorship, of political correctness, must be celebrating tonight. Because what else did he say? Unequivocally, this is a battle between good and evil,” Gorka said. He was enthusiastic that a “stake has been put through the heart” of “postmodern relativism” and “the secular interpretation of ‘Jobs for Jihadis,’” a reference to the Obama administration’s notorious contention that a good jobs program for terrorist recruits would help to defeat the Islamic State. Kassam expressed skepticism that tougher rhetoric, or measures such as a much-touted effort to cut off terrorist financing, would be game-changers. “The proof will be in what actually happens afterward,” Gorka promised. “I’ve always said the issue of terrorism financing is not a panacea. The terrorists need money to do what they do, but at the end of the day, look at the attack in Nice. You can rent a truck, steal a truck, and kill almost a hundred people. It’s part of the solution, but not the solution alone.” “With regards to counter-message, we need to have governments involved,” he continued. “We must have countries like Saudi Arabia that are home to Mecca and Medina, and Egypt which has the Al-Azhar, which is the most important theological institution in the Sunni world — they must be part of the solution.” “But I will say that it’s often non-governmental counter-messaging that is more effective,” he added. “It’s good to have this stuff, just to have this commitment, but there are already thousands of Muslims who are on our side, risking their lives every day on their blogs, in the media, pushing back on the jihadis. Those individuals must be supported as well, because at the end of the day it’s not a kinetic challenge. It’s not just about killing terrorists. Like Ronald Reagan, Maggie, St. John Paul II, we’ve got to destroy the ideology of jihadism if we’re going to win.” Kassam noted that many Americans are uncomfortable with the United States relying on Saudi Arabia, home to many of the 9/11 attackers, as a partner in the struggle against terrorism. “There are trends, there were historic events, individuals that were linked to Saudi Arabia,” Gorka acknowledged. “But to say the whole government, the whole administration is culpable — no, it was al-Qaeda.” “Let’s not take the culpability, let’s not take the responsibility away from the individuals that did that act,” he urged. “Al-Qaeda wasn’t a product of the Saudi regime. Al-Qaeda was created by a Jordanian individual called Abdullah Azzam, when he built something called the Arab Services Bureau in the 1980s to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, and hired an individual called Osama bin Laden to be his Number Two.” “Let’s be factual about where the threat comes from. State sponsorship of terrorism is still a problem. Look at the reception the president was given by the Saudi authorities. It’s clear that there are new winds blowing out of Riyadh as we speak,” he said. Gorka would not take it upon himself to say whether President Trump misspoke, or made a calculated decision to alter the speech, when he spoke of “Islamic terrorism” instead of “Islamist terrorism,” as the transcript stipulated. “I will allow the president to speak for himself. He knows very well what he’s saying, when he’s saying it,” Gorka said. “I think the important thing that he said is, ‘We are going to defeat the terrorists and send their wicked ideology into oblivion.’ Let’s take those words to the bank.” Looking forward to the rest of President Trump’s trip, Gorka’s advice was: “Hold on to your hats, because this trip is going to be an incredible success.” “Next it’s going to be Israel, then the Vatican, then the meeting of the advanced nations and NATO. You ain’t seen nothing yet, Raheem,” he promised.

Breitbart News Sunday airs from 7 PM to 10 PM EST on SiriusXM Satellite Radio’s PATRIOT 125 channel.

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3,000 jihadis on the streets of Britain: Spies and counter-terror police are struggling to monitor a flood of radicalised men and women in their teens

More than 3,000 jihadis are in the UK, stretching the country’s security services

Spies and counter-terror police are struggling to monitor a flood of suspects

Some 850 Britons are thought to have gone abroad to fight for the Islamic State

Up to 30 officers required to provide 24-hour monitoring of just one suspect

By Ian Drury Home Affairs Editor For The Daily Mail Published: 19:13 EDT, 23 May 2017 | Updated: 22:00 EDT, 23 May 2017

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:: 5-23-17 US Defense Watch :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::

The Lights Are Going Out All Over Europe

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Ray Starmann

http://usdefensewatch.com/2017/05/the-lights-are-going-out-all-over-europe/ 

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etc.. Watch, watch, watch as you begin to see the monetary system totally crumble and collapse, etc..