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:: 1-15-19 Daily Mail :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::

Polar vortex splits into three and sends Arctic air southward as eastern half of the US gears up for bitterly cold weeks to come

As experts predicted, polar vortex splits into three above Arctic Circle

This will push Arctic air southward, blanketing eastern half of North America

Temperatures are likely to plummet in the coming days and weeks

The change will also likely result in disruptive snowstorms this winter

By Ariel Zilber For Dailymail.com Published: 21:41 EST, 15 January 2019 | Updated: 15:31 EST, 16 January 2019

The Eastern United States is in for frigid weather in the next few weeks thanks to air patterns tens of thousands of feet above the Arctic Circle. Satellite images and weather models have confirmed that the polar vortex - the area of low pressure and swirling cold air above the North Pole - has split into three. That means that temperatures far below normal can be expected in the eastern half of North America, according to The Washington Post. Arctic air will push southward as far as Tennessee. The low temperature expected for Nashville on Sunday is 17 degrees. So far this winter, most of the eastern half of the U.S. has enjoyed mild weather. The first half of January ranked among the top 10 warmest on record in Minneapolis and Milwaukee, according to the Post. But the split of the polar vortex will unleash bitterly cold air temperatures as well as stormy weather in the days and weeks to come. The polar vortex is an atmospheric circulation pattern that sits high above the poles, in a layer of the atmosphere called the stratosphere. This structure can weaken as a result of abnormal warming in the poles, causing it to split off into smaller ‘sister vortices’ that may travel outside of their typical range. In late December, weather models showed the polar vortex situated above Scandanavia. Scientists predicted that the vortex would break apart to become two or even three vortices, bringing colder weather to the mid-latitudes and warmer weather in the Arctic. A split in the polar vortex can give rise to both sudden and delayed effects, much of which involves declining temperatures and extreme winter weather in the Eastern US along with Northern and Western Europe. ‘A sudden stratospheric warming usually leads to a warm Arctic not only in the stratosphere but also at the surface as well,’ said Dr. Judah Cohen of Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER). ‘And a warmer Arctic favors more severe winter weather in the NH midlatitudes including the Eastern US.’ The split in the polar vortex ‘would also favor cold longer term across Europe,’ Cohen adds. For the Northeastern U.S., this could mean ‘disruptive snowstorms,' the researcher notes. As we head toward the second half of January, meteorologists say that high temperatures in the northern Plains and upper Midwest will only reach the single digits. Kansas City, which is hosting the AFC Championship game between the hometown Chiefs and the New England Patriots on Sunday, will have a high temperature that day of just 15 degrees. With the wind chill, it will feel like the single digits, forecasters say. High temperatures in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Tennessee may reach the 20s, according to The Weather Channel. Those settings are balmy compared to places like Minneapolis, which is forecast to have a low temperature of minus-7 on Saturday. Fargo, North Dakota will see temperatures plummet to well below zero this weekend. The high on Saturday will be minus-4 while the low will reach minus-20.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6596673/Polar-vortex-splits-sends-Arctic-air-southward-bitter-cold-likely-blanket-eastern-U-S.html 

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California storms to dump up to 7 feet of snow, force evacuations

By Andrew Hay, Reuters•January 15, 2019

Jan 15 (Reuters) - Big Pacific storms are set to dump up to seven feet (2.1 meters) of snow in California's Sierra Nevada mountains and several inches of rain elsewhere in the state, forcing evacuations in areas at risk to mudslides. The first storm moved over Southern California on Tuesday, with rainfall of up to 3 inches (7.6 cm) expected in parts of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties and up to 4.5 inches (11.4) in the Santa Monica Mountains, the National Weather Service (NWS) reported. Police in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties ordered evacuations from areas damaged by last year's wildfires because of the risk heavy rain would trigger mud and debris flows on charred hillsides. Significant road closures and travel delays were possible in the Los Angeles area given risks of flash flooding and rockslides, the NWS reported. An even bigger storm was brewing out at sea and set to hit the coast on Wednesday, Accuweather reported. Areas north of Santa Barbara were likely to see up to 3 inches (7.6 cm) of rain. As much as seven feet of snow was possible over 6,000 feet (1,829 meters) in the Sierra Nevada mountains. "The big one is still out in the middle of the Pacific," said AccuWeather meteorologist John Gresiak. "It's a very powerful storm." The weather is a boon for California's farmers and ski areas, given most of the state is recovering from years of drought, according to the United States Drought Monitor. The wild weather is the result of moisture-laden winds from the Pacific known as "atmospheric rivers." The first storm will reach the U.S. Midwest and Northeast on Thursday and Friday, gathering more moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. The second storm will hit the central and eastern United States through the weekend, Gresiak said. (Reporting by Andrew Hay in New Mexico; editing by Bill Tarrant and Grant McCool)

https://news.yahoo.com/california-storms-dump-7-feet-233250993.html 

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Russia is set to deploy more than 30 underwater nuclear drones that could obliterate US coastal targets in an attack

The Russian Navy is deploying 32 Poseidon underwater nuclear drones

It can carry two megatonne warhead and is made to destroy 'enemy navy bases'

Four submarines fitted with Poseidons 'will join the Northern and Pacific fleets'

By Sara Malm For Mailonline Published: 04:20 EST, 15 January 2019 | Updated: 09:56 EST, 15 January 2019

Moscow is set to deploy more than 30 underwater drones capable of carrying a two megaton nuclear warhead, which could obliterate Western ports, according to Russian state media. Four submarines fitted with the torpedo drones, named Poseidon, will join the Northern and Pacific Russian fleets, state news agency Tass reports. Each submarine can fit eight Poseidons, designed specifically to destroy 'enemy navy bases' and able to travel at up to 70 knots. 'Two Poseidon-carrying submarines are expected to enter service with the Northern Fleet and the other two will join the Pacific Fleet,' a defence industry source told Tass this week. 'Each of the submarines will carry a maximum of eight drones and, therefore, the total number of Poseidons on combat duty may reach 32 vehicles." A 'special-purpose nuclear-powered submarine' currently under construction at the Sevmash Shipyard in Severodvinsk, a port city on Russia's White Sea, will be one of the Poseidon carriers, Tass said. Last year, Russian state media claimed the Navy will be able to 'mount various nuclear charges on the 'torpedo' of the Poseidon multipurpose seaborne system, with the thermonuclear single warhead to have the maximum capacity of up to two megatonnes in TNT equivalent.' With its nuclear charge, the Poseidon drone 'is primarily designed to destroy reinforced naval bases of a potential enemy,' the report added. The development of the Poseidon was announced by President Vladimir Putin in his state-of-the-nation speech in March last year, in which he boasted of an array of new nuclear weapons 'invulnerable to enemy interception'. Speaking last month, Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would deploy its first regiment of hypersonic nuclear-capable missiles this year, saying the move meant his country now had a new type of strategic weapon. Despite the continuous announcement of developments in its nuclear weapons arsenal, the Kremlin said in 2018 that it will cut its defence budget to less than three per cent of gross domestic product within the next five years.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6593147/Russia-deploy-32-underwater-nuclear-drones-obliterate-ports.html 

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:: 1-15-19 Washington Times :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::

Chinese rapid military advance closing gap on U.S., Pentagon warns

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times - Tuesday, January 15, 2019

China’s rapidly modernizing military is quickly closing the gap with the U.S. and its allies and may soon be tempted to test the status quo with Taiwan, a stark report from the Defense Department’s intelligence directorate concluded. The 50-page report by the Defense Intelligence Agency, released Tuesday, contends that with its advances in military capabilities and an increasingly internationally focused defense strategy, China is rapidly entering “a period of strategic opportunity … [toward] building comprehensive national power,” said senior DIA intelligence analyst Dan Taylor. The goal of China’s relentless military buildup is to “impose its will in the region and beyond,” Mr. Taylor told reporters at the Pentagon. Beijing “has demonstrated a willingness to use the [military] as an instrument of national power in the execution of … their historic mission in the new century.” While Chinese advances in hypersonic weaponry, cyberwarfare and sea power are increasingly challenging longtime U.S. military supremacy, U.S. analysts say, China’s chief security priority may be much closer to home: reclaiming control of Taiwan, which Beijing has long considered a breakaway territory. The U.S. security umbrella has long restrained the mainland in its pressure campaign against Taipei. “Our concern is we’ll reach a point where internally, within [China‘s] decision-making, they will decide that using military force for a regional conflict is something that is more imminent,” a senior U.S. defense intelligence official said. Asked whether a military offensive to reclaim Taiwan into the Chinese mainland could be in the offing, the official replied, “Specifically, that would be the most concerning to me.” The report was made public while Adm. John Richardson, U.S. chief of naval operations, was in Beijing with his Chinese counterparts in talks about American warship passages through the Taiwan Strait. In China’s official account of the talks, Chinese Gen. Li Zuocheng, chief of China’s Central Military Commission Joint Staff Department, reportedly told Adm. Richardson that China would allow “no external interference.” “If someone tries to split Taiwan from China, the Chinese military will do whatever it takes to safeguard national reunification, national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Gen. Li said, according to the Chinese English-language transcript, the Reuters news agency reported. More generally, the People’s Liberation Army is proving an increasingly formidable adversary for the U.S. and its allies, with a technological, manpower and economic base to fund further advances. China possesses medium- and intermediate-range missile technology that has achieved near parity with American-made systems. It would be those types of missiles that would likely be the first salvo in any Chinese effort to retake Taiwan, the intelligence official said. “If they wanted to fire missiles at Taiwan, they could do it right now,” the official said, noting that “there’s been no indication they’re planning to do that, but there’s very little warning that could be provided for that kind of thing.” For now, however, after that initial missile strike, it is highly unlikely that Chinese forces could mount the necessary ground invasion to overtake the island, the U.S. official said. “There’s a lot of work that I think that they’re still doing to try to work on those [invasion] capabilities, and we don’t have a real strong grasp on when they will think that they are confident in that capability,” the official said. “In the coming years, [China] is likely to grow even more technologically advanced and proficient with equipment comparable to that of other modern militaries,” Mr. Taylor said. Leveraging “advanced fighter aircraft, modern naval vessels, missile systems, and space and cyberspace assets,” Beijing will continue to press its interests in the Pacific and beyond. Alarm bell. While Chinese advances in areas such as space, cyberwarfare and next-generation aircraft have been well-documented over the years, it is Beijing’s rapid progress “across all different domains, simultaneously” that has raised alarm bells across the Pentagon. Last year, Beijing announced its latest intermediate-range missile in the Chinese arsenal, the Dong Feng-26, now had a nuclear capability. Once fully operational, the DF-26 “would give China its first nuclear precision-strike capability” against targets in the Asia-Pacific region, the DIA report states. In the field of hypersonics, Beijing is “on the leading edge of technology” nearly surpassing the Pentagon’s latest efforts, with China on the cusp of fielding a non-nuclear weapon capable of hitting any target around the world in an hour. “From the Chinese perspective, they would hope that it would cause a great threat to U.S. warships,” in the Pacific and elsewhere, the intelligence official said regarding China’s advances in missile and hypersonics technologies. “It’s very concerning to see all the different areas they’re making progress.” Adm. Bill Moran, vice chief of naval operations, declined to comment specifically on the DIA report’s findings, but the four-star admiral did note that Beijing’s burgeoning arsenal would force Navy leaders to adjust their overarching strategy in the Pacific. “It changes some of the calculus in how you employ the force,” Adm. Moran told reporters after a speech at the Surface Navy Association’s annual conference in Arlington, Virginia. ‘Great rejuvenation’ China’s growing military prowess is part of the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation” being pursued by Beijing, the DIA’s Mr. Taylor said Tuesday. “This ambition permeates China national security strategy and guides the development of the People’s Liberation Army, the PLA,” he said, calling the PLA “the military arm of the Chinese Communist Party.” Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan made clear shortly after succeeding James Mattis at the beginning of the month that the Pentagon’s focus would be squarely on China under his watch. “While we’re focused on ongoing operations, acting Secretary Shanahan told the team to remember China, China, China,” a Defense Department official told reporters ahead of Mr. Shanahan’s first official appearance at the White House Cabinet meeting. Despite China’s growing military prowess, Beijing has a long way to go before it can be considered a head-to-head threat to the U.S., the intelligence official said. “This is a military that has not fought a war in 40 years,” the official said. “When you talk parity, there is more than just technology involved.” Click to Read More and View Comments

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/15/chinese-military-rapidly-closing-gap-pentagon-says/ 

:: 1-15-19 The Express :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::

WW3 THREAT: China develops ‘impenetrable’ system too strong for hypersonic missiles

A TOP Chinese defence strategist claims to have created an “Underground Steel Great Wall” defence to nullify the threat of future hypersonic weapons destroying their arsenal.

By Bill McLoughlin PUBLISHED: 02:27, Tue, Jan 15, 2019 | UPDATED: 02:38, Tue, Jan 15, 2019

Qian Qihu, 82, won the prestigious 2018 State Preeminent Science and Technology Award due to his contributions to national defence for the system which he described as the country's “last national defence line”. The system is a series of elaborate defensive facilities located deep under the mountains and reduces the vulnerability of entrances and exists to those facilities. Qian told the Chinese Communist Party's official newspaper The Global Times: “The development of the shield must closely follow the development of spears. “Our defence engineering has evolved in a timely manner as attack weapons pose new challenges.” If the country’s missile interception system, anti-missile system or air defences fail, this steel wall will be able to thwart attacks. The defence system is a huge addition for Beijing as it can withstand hypersonic missiles - weapons which America and Russia are heavily developing. Qian also added that hypersonic weapons can penetrate any other current anti-missile installation in the world, putting China once step ahead of its competitors. According to a report from CNBC last March, Vladimir Putin debuted new nuclear and hypersonic weapons which he described as “invincible”. Mr Putin apparently unveiled the Kinzhal hypersonic cruise missile, touted as hitting Mach 10 - 10 times the speed of sound - speeds, while the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, is said to be capable of travelling up to Mach 20. In August, China ’s Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics announced that it had tested a missile which they described was capable of riding its own shock waves and reached a speed of Mach 6 - six times the speed of sound. The US is still trying to keep up in the race for the new missile and US Deputy Secretary of Defence Patrick Shanahan said: “We are going to fly sooner and more often than people have ever expected.”

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1072290/world-war-3-China-Great-wall-defence-hypersonic-missile-russia-putin-America-Beijing 

:: 1-15-19 Marketwatch :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::

China scaled back trade with North Korea in 2018

By MarketWatch Published: Jan 14, 2019 12:57 a.m. ET

BEIJING--China scaled back its trade with North Korea in 2018, on the back of economic sanctions from the UN Security Council, said a spokesman of China's customs Bureau on Monday. China's exports to North Korea declined 33.3% to 14.67 billion yuan ($2.18 billion) in 2018, while imports was down 88% at CNY1.42 billion, Li Kuiwen, a spokesman for the General Administration of Customs, said in a briefing. That put China's trade surplus with North Korea at CNY13.26 billion in 2018, down 30% from a year earlier, said Mr. Li. Write to Xiao Xiao at Xiao.Xiao@wsj.com

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-scaled-back-trade-with-north-korea-in-2018-2019-01-14 

:: 1-15-19 AMB Crypto :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::

Russia could be implementing 20 cryptocurrency bills this year

Namrata Shukla  Published 4 days ago on January 13, 2019 By Namrata Shukla

The Russian parliament revealed on January 9 through a press release that the digital economy will be the topmost priority during the upcoming session, which will give Russia a headstart into the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of the lower chamber, outlined the bills being considered for the same in the opening spring session. The members have considered legislature on digital financial assets, digital rights and crowdfunding, reported CoinGeek. Volodin requested the members to consider this for the good of the country and to make it a top priority. Volodin said: “Creating a favorable legal framework for the development of the digital economy should in many respects provide us with an advantageous position in competition among other countries.” Volodin revealed that there are more than 20 bills that will be introduced in the spring session and that he wants the parliament to be prepared to analyze the quality of the bills before considering to vote. This could be one step forward in the direction of adoption of digital currencies, which is now an important agenda for Russia. The US is throwing sanctions at Russia and considering a shift to cryptocurrency as a way to offer some help to the nation. While cryptocurrencies in Russian are not illegal, the country always had a cold reaction to it. However, the police have gone a step ahead in prohibiting its use by seizing crypto ATMs fearing that it could be used for cross-border money transfers. Nevertheless, the country has issued its Initial Coin offering [ICO], to begin with. The parliament has taken efforts to write laws for digital currencies earlier too. Back in September 2018, according to the publication, the parliament’s draft was rejected as there was a lot left undefined. Then in October, the parliament got closer to hitting the target, giving private businesses and legal entities the ability to store assets on blockchains. However, the reference to mining was removed. These might all add up with Volodin’s new push, to get a successful framework in action.

https://ambcrypto.com/russia-could-be-implementing-20-cryptocurrency-bills-this-year/ 

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Netanyahu says failed Iranian satellite launch was an attempt to develop ICBM

01/15/2019 1:54:15 AM Updated on 01/15/2019 8:30:51 AM Written by i24NEWS

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Iran's failed attempt to launch a satellite into orbit was a first stage in an effort to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile and warned that Israel would continue its offensive policy against Tehran's entrenchment in Syria. Speaking at the induction of the new Chief of the General Staff, Major General Aviv Kochavi in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu took Iran to task over their growing influence in the Middle East and mocked Iran's claims that it had only an advisory presence in Syria. "I advise them to get out of there quickly because we will continue our offensive policy as we promised and as we do without fear and without pause,” Netanyahu said in a warning to Iran. Netanyahu alleged that what Tehran claimed to be an "innocent satellite" was actually “the first stage of an intercontinental missile” Iran is developing in violation of international resolutions. Earlier Tuesday, Iran's minister of telecommunications Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said in a statement carried by state television that the rocket carrying the 'Payam' satellite (or 'message' in Farsi) failed to "reach the necessary speed". There was no clarifications as to when the second satellite, called 'Doosti' (or 'friendship') would be launched. The preparations for the launch had sparked international fears that the Iranian government was using it as a pretext to carry out ballistic missile testing. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, whose whistle-stop tour of the Middle-East is coming to a close, earlier warned Iran against sending out the satellite. “We advise the regime to reconsider these provocative launches and cease all activities related to ballistic missiles in order to avoid deeper economic and diplomatic isolation,” said Pompeo in a statement The US top diplomat said there was no difference between the technology used to send out satellites or missiles into space. According to Pompeo, this would violate the U.N. Security Council resolution on the 2015 nuclear deal. The resolution "calls upon" Tehran to not test ballistic missiles. Payam was designed and developed by Tehran’s Amirkabir University of Technology. It's purpose was to capture media in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Scientists at the university would continue their work in order to ensure a successful launch, the minister said. Tehran denied the country was violating the UN resolution. "The satellite is part of a civil project with purely scientific aims," foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said in a statement, reported by the Iranian Students' News Agency. "Iran will wait for no country's permission to conduct such scientific projects." Iran has launched several short-lived satellites into orbit over the past decade, including the Simorgh and the Pajouhesh, the official news agency IRNA reported. Iran has expanded its influence on the region since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, bringing into question the immediate gains from pursuing intercontinental ballistic technology. There have been multiple warnings by high-ranking Israeli officials of Iranian ally Hezbollah stockpiling weapons, and of Iranian elite troops training and leading Syrian military personnel for a confrontation with the Jewish state.

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/193208-190115-despite-us-concerns-iran-launches-satellite-but-fails-to-reach-orbit 

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‘Stop Spending 7% of Your Budget on Terrorist Salaries,’ Israeli UN Envoy Tells Abbas Following Palestinian Leader’s G-77 Speech in New York

avatar by Ben Cohen January 15, 2019 1:39 pm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday used a keynote speech at the United Nations in New York to assert that Israel was an “obstruction” to the “cohesive development of all peoples” in the Middle East, drawing a sharp rebuke from the Jewish state’s ambassador to the world body. Abbas was speaking as the “State of Palestine” — officially a “non-member observer state” at the UN since 2012 — assumed the chairmanship from Egypt of a bloc of 134 states at the UN that purports to represent the “collective economic interests ” of the world’s developing nations. Still known as the “Group of 77 (G-77)” after the number of states that originally founded it in 1964, the bloc includes several nations that do not recognize Israel’s right to exist, including Iran, Syria and Iraq. In remarks in which he addressed the G-77’s main concerns in only the most general terms, Abbas took care to attack Israel whenever he found the right opening to do so. “Palestine cannot be an exception,” Abbas stated, during a passage of his speech that discussed sustainable development goals. “We also suffer under the yoke of a foreign occupation.” Abbas went on to condemn Israel’s “colonization and occupation of the ‘State of Palestine,'” accusing the Jewish state of “obstructing cohesive development for all peoples of the region.” Abbas’s latter observation drew a swift reaction from Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon. “As the United Nations very well knows from all of the development work Israel does, Israel is not what undermines development but actually helps it,” Danon told The Algemeiner following Abbas’ speech. The ambassador continued: “Instead, it is the Palestinian Authority that undermines its own capacity and development. The PA should stop spending 7 percent of its annual budget on inciting and paying terrorist salaries, and instead use it to develop its infrastructure and help its people.” The PA spent $355 million of international donors’ money in 2017 on paying salaries and other benefits to convicted or “martyred” terrorists and their families. The US Congress passed legislation in 2018 suspending US aid to the PA until there was a verifiable end to the practice, which critics argue both incentivizes and legitimizes Palestinian terrorism against Israelis. While Abbas touched on several critical human rights issues during his speech — including child labor, slavery and human trafficking — he was at his most detailed when specifying the PA’s demands of Israel. Advocating the creation of a Palestinian state with its capital in eastern Jerusalem, Abbas emphasized that this outcome would necessarily involve “the just resolution of final status issues, including our refugees and prisoners.” At no point did the Palestinian leader discuss any of the other challenges to sustainable development in the Middle East, such as the unprecedented refugee crisis generated by the displacement of over 13 million Syrians — among them 400,000 Palestinians — during a civil war that has raged since 2011. While it is difficult to detect the influence of the G-77 beyond the halls of the UN, the pivotal role entrusted to the “State of Palestine” with its 2019 chairmanship will likely be presented by the PA as another milestone in its bid to gain full membership of the UN, irrespective of the progress of peace negotiations with Israel. Full membership in the UN for any prospective state requires a vote of the UN Security Council, where any Palestinian bid would almost certainly encounter a US veto.

https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/01/15/stop-spending-7-of-your-budget-on-terrorist-salaries-israeli-un-envoy-tells-abbas-following-palestinian-leaders-g-77-speech-in-new-york/ 

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Man praises God as family, childhood Bible are saved after horn goes off warning them of truck on fire near home

By Leonardo Blair, Christian Post Reporter

An Oklahoma father of five is still singing praises to God after the horn of his truck, which caught fire next to his home with his children inside, went off in time to warn them of the danger. When firefighters were able to put out the blaze, they found the man’s childhood Bible inside the truck unscathed by the flames. “God has made it to my eyes that I should be grateful for being alive,” the father, Steven Gaut, told Fox 6 in an interview after the fire that occurred on Dec. 9. “God sent his angels,” Gaut also wrote on a Facebook fundraiser that raised almost $5,000 to assist his family. “My truck was parked 2 feet away from the house. If it wasn't for the horn blowing the house would've gone too. The Vinita Fire Department had to pry the Bible that was in a cloth cover. My Bible was in great shape and the cover was in bad shape,” he continued. In his message on the Facebook fundraiser, Gaut said he was hiding Christmas gifts in the garage of his home when his oldest son heard the horn of his truck go off. “The kids were in their rooms playing. Got my Dad to watch the kids so I went [and] got some dog food from Atwoods. Got home and was putting gifts in my garage. I was out there for a few minutes and my oldest son heard a horn honking in front of the house. He looks out the window and sees my truck on fire. He immediately comes to the garage to tell me about it. I call 911. By the time I got to the truck it was totally engulfed with flames,” Gaut said. After firefighters put out the blaze they told him that someone at Atwoods, a farm and ranch supply company based in Enid, Oklahoma, “likely threw a cigarette in the back of my truck.” Once the fire was out Gault said he assumed he'd also lost everything inside his truck including a cherished Bible he's had since he was 13. “The first thing I asked for was to see if my Bible was OK,” he told Fox 6. “The Bible was down there on the ground — and they had to pry it up from the case,” Gaut said. In a recent interview with Fox News, he said despite the fire the Bible survived, “it doesn’t even smell like smoke either.” He further explained that if the fire had managed to reach his home before anyone was able to respond, it would have been devastating. “I'm a single dad raising five kids and six in the summer, just had to go bankrupt due to the divorce. I'm very grateful no one was hurt and thank God for saving our lives,” he wrote on his Facebook fundraiser.

https://www.christianpost.com/us/man-praises-god-family-childhood-bible-saved-truck-fire.html 

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Recent Israeli strike in Syria wounded top Iran, Hezbollah militants: report

01/14/2019 1:11:15 AM Updated on 01/14/2019 1:35:00 AM Written by i24NEWS

Israel’s airstrike on what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed were Iranian “weapons depots” at Syria’s Damascus airport over the weekend may have also targeted and wounded members of Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps leadership, according to a report by Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida. The report quotes sources in the IRGC in an exclusive statement to Al-Jarida saying the Israeli attack targeted a meeting of several members of the IRGC’s elite Quds force, Lebanese Hezbollah, and Syrian army head discussing a future joint offensive by Moscow and Ankara against the Al Nusra front in Idlib province, considered the last major stronghold for Syrian rebels - in addition to Iranian military installations and weapons depots. The attack reportedly took place just after the meeting ended as the groups were leaving. At least two IRGC officers and a Hezbollah officials were seriously injured in the strike, as well as several officers from the Syrian army, according to the report. Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel has been behind hundreds of strikes against Iranian and Hezbollah targets in Syria in remarks confirmed by Israeli Defense Forces outgoing Chief-of-Staff Gadi Eizenkot who emphasized the IDF’s victories against Iran and Hezbollah under his leadership over the course of four years. “The [Israel Defense Forces] has on hundreds of occasions attacked targets of Iran and Hezbollah,” Netanyahu said on Sunday at the opening of his weekly cabinet meeting, just two days after the IAF strike. “Just in the last 36 hours did the [Israel Air Force] attack Iranian warehouses with Iranian weapons at the international airport in Damascus," the premier said. On Friday, Syrian state news agency SANA reported that the country’s air defenses intercepted missiles fired at the Damascus international airport at around 11:00 p.m. local time, with a military source attributing the attack to Israel. The source claimed that a warehouse belonging to Syria’s ministry of transport was hit and damaged. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said that the strikes targeted “two areas hosting military positions of Iranian forces and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement.” Israel gave no initial comment on Friday’s reported strikes, but has previously acknowledged carrying out hundreds of attacks in Syria over the years against what it says are Iranian military targets and advanced arms deliveries to Hezbollah. On Saturday, the Syrian foreign ministry said that Israel was able to “get away” with such raids in the country because it is backed by the United States. The United States has said repeatedly that it will continue to support Israel’s right to defend itself against Iran and Hezbollah, including through targeted strikes in Syria, in the wake of its decision to remove American forces from the country.

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The abruptly announced decision to quit Syria had taken US allies by surprise, and Israel worried over whether Iran would be left with free rein to operate there and whether Russia would respond to its calls to limit it. Netanyahu has vowed to intensify Israeli action in the wake of the United States’ withdrawal.

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/middle-east/193125-190114-israeli-airstrike-on-damascus-airport-wounded-iran-hezbollah-leaders-report 

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Two killed, 40 detained in new gay purge in Chechnya

The new allegations come after reports in 2017 of more than 100 gay men arrested and subjected to torture, and some of them killed, in the Russian region.

Jan. 14, 2019, 10:47 AM EST By The Associated Press

The Russian republic of Chechnya has launched a new crackdown on gays in which at least two people have died and about 40 people have been detained, LGBTQ activists in Russia charged Monday. The new allegations come after reports in 2017 of more than 100 gay men arrested and subjected to torture, and some of them killed, in the predominantly Muslim region in southern Russia. The Associated Press and other media outlets have interviewed some of the victims, who spoke about torture at the hands of Chechen law enforcement officers. Chechen authorities have denied those accusations, and federal authorities conducted a probe into the earlier reports but said they found nothing to support the charges. Alvi Karimov, a spokesman for Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, told the Interfax news agency on Monday that the latest reports are “complete lies and don’t have an ounce of truth in them.” Karimov insisted that no one has been detained in Chechnya on suspicion of being gay. But the Russian LGBT Network, which has been monitoring the situation in Chechnya and helping victims, said in a statement Monday that about 40 men and women have been detained on suspicion of being gay since December and that at least two of them have died of torture in detention. The detainees are believed held at the same facility that was named in the 2017 reports. The crackdown was first reported Friday but the activists didn’t release full details at the time. “Widespread detentions, torture and killings of gay people have resumed in Chechnya,” Igor Kochetkov, program director at the Russian LGBT Network said. “Persecution of men and women suspected of being gay never stopped. It’s only that its scale has been changing.” Kochetkov said the new wave of anti-gay persecution started at the end of the year when Chechen authorities detained the administrator of a social media group popular with LGBTQ people in the North Caucasus. Kochetkov said the mass detentions began after the authorities got hold of contacts on his phone. LGBTQ activists in 2017 helped to evacuate around 150 gay men from Chechnya to help them restart their lives elsewhere in Russia. Many of them have sought asylum and resettled abroad. Russian authorities have strenuously denied that killings and torture took place in the predominantly Muslim region where homosexuality is taboo, even after one man came forward to talk about the time he spent in detention in Chechnya. Maxim Lapunov said he was detained by unidentified people on a street in the Chechen capital, Grozny, in 2017 and kept in custody for two weeks, where he was repeatedly beaten. He was let go after he signed a statement acknowledging that he was gay and was told he would be killed if he talked about his time in detention. Lapunov, who is not an ethnic Chechen and is from Siberia, was the first to file a complaint with Russian authorities over the wave of arrests of gay people. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe last month called on Russia to investigate the reports and cited Lapunov’s case specifically. Kadyrov and his government in Chechnya have been accused of widespread human rights abuses against many dissidents, not just gay men.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/two-killed-40-detained-new-gay-purge-chechnya-n958366 

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Anti-Second Amendment Chicago Alderman Ed Burke Charged With Extortion: Surprise – Had 23 Guns In Office

By PatriotRising - January 7, 2019

From outlawing cell phone cases shaped like guns to bans on concealed weapons in places that serve alcohol and broadening the gun offender registry in Chicago, Alderman Ed Burke’s record has defined him as an aggressive pusher of gun control. But a bombshell 37-page criminal complaint charging Burke with extortion has exposed him to be yet another phony, hypocritical Anti-Second Amendment legislator. Federal prosecutors now report that nearly two dozen firearms were discovered in Alderman Ed Burke’s offices during their raids in November. What a surprise! This longtime gun-control opponent was armed to the teeth, while denying the suffering and helpless residents of Chicago a chance to defend their family and property. Some background from The Sun Times: When two Burger King executives sought his support for a remodeling job of a fast-food location in his ward in 2017, Chicago’s most powerful alderman took them out for a swanky lunch at the Beverly Country Club — telling them all about his private law firm’s tax work. Then, when they didn’t steer business to Klafter & Burke, a ward employee offered to play “hardball.” And Burke allegedly gave the green light.  Burke, 75, now faces a maximum of 20 years in prison following an investigation that involved recorded calls on Burke’s cellphone and apparent federal surveillance of the alderman. The chairman of Chicago’s finance committee, who’s been in office for 50 years after succeeding his father, used his power to tie up the business licensing process for a southwest Chicago Burger King restaurant to force the owners to steer their legal business to his firm. More from The Sun Times: After the company struggled to have its permits approved, it agreed to steer business to Burke’s firm, according to the complaint. When (city employee Meaghan) Synowiecki asked whether he wanted business from all of its Illinois locations or just those in Cook County, Burke allegedly replied, “Umm, all Illinois locations.” That was Dec. 19, 2017. An application for a driveway permit from the company was approved the same day, according to the complaint. Let me know if you’ve seen this movie before: Liberal Democrat Alderman Burke, who had campaigned for decades on gun control and Second Amendment restrictions, was found to have 23 firearms in his office. Have we checked his home or garage? Signs posted outside his office prohibit anyone – even legal concealed carry – from bringing a gun into the government building. I guess the alderman felt privileged? Listen to this sickness – less than a month ago, Burke made this comment at a gun buyback event with police: “Any of those guns that are sitting in your closet that your relative may have brought back from the First World War, Second World War, Korea, bring them in get your 100 bucks get those guns off the street.” So they can be safely stored in his office I guess.. Burke is not alone: 3 other sitting aldermen are facing criminal charges. Ald. Willie Cochran faces trial in June for allegedly shaking down businessmen to support projects in his 20th Ward. And Ald. Ricardo Munoz (22nd) faces a charge of domestic battery involving his wife. Meanhile, they don’t trust you with a gun and I suppose we all know why.

http://patriotrising.com/anti-second-amendment-chicago-alderman-ed-burke-charged-with-extortion-surprise-had-23-guns-in-office/?fbclid=IwAR1SMO34yVhtUH7OBGccr5aVeRbb_Vqsyy4PN-

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Fortune: Ford to deploy 5G in ALL US vehicles by early 2022 (frying your brain while you drive)

Posted by Erin Elizabeth | Jan 11, 2019

Ford has announced that it will deploy cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology in all of its new American car models from the year 2022 onward. The technology will enable vehicles to communicate with one another as well as traffic management infrastructure like traffic lights. Pedestrians will also have the ability to transmit their locations to cars, ostensibly boosting the safety of walkers and cyclists. The car maker claims it will be useful for situations like four-way stops, enabling vehicles to communicate with one another about who has the right of way. It could also be used for vehicles that are involved in accidents to give approaching vehicles advance status of the situation so they can avoid danger. Traffic lights, meanwhile, would be able to send drivers signals to alert them when they are about to turn red or green or to let them know if they are about to run a red light. In a Medium post announcing the move, Ford Connected Vehicle Platform and Product Executive Director Don Butler expressed Ford’s excitement over the technology, but he failed to mention the huge downside of all of this connectivity. Butler wrote that the effort’s timing was “perfect” in light of the cellular industry’s push for building 5G networks, but what price will we all pay for this? For all of its greater speeds and connectivity, 5G could put our health at very serious risk. 5G already causing health problems, and many dangers are still unknown One advocate, Kevin Mottus, has likened 5G’s effects to “microwaving our population,” and hundreds of scientists and doctors share his view.  5G works using millimeter waves, which use a higher frequency than microwaves and are more easily absorbed by their surroundings. This means that more towers will be needed. It has been estimated that “small cell” towers will need to be placed approximately every 800 feet to provide connectivity, so exposure will be very difficult to avoid with one small cell for roughly every 12 houses. What happens when your body absorbs these millimeter waves? While we have no idea what the long-term effects of this new technology might be, people in areas where 5G testing is underway have already been reporting a host of side effects, even after just a small amount of exposure. Some San Francisco firefighters reported memory loss and confusion after 5G was placed in their fire house; their symptoms only subsided when they transferred to new stations. Others have reported miscarriages, insomnia, and nosebleeds due to 5G exposure. With thousands of small cells placed in every city, where will people go if they want to get away from it? Scientist Mark Steele said: “We are seeing babies dying in the womb as these transmitters are situated outside people’s bedroom windows. It’s a humanitarian crisis.” It also stands to reason that this is placing people at a tremendous risk of brain cancer. After all, its less-potent predecessors, 2G and 3G, have already been linked to the deadly disease. For reference, 5G is 100 times faster than 4G. A large-scale government study uncovered a link between cell phone radiation and brain cancer as well as heart tumors at lower speeds, so now the risk will be even greater. It’s pretty ironic that Ford is touting the new technology as something that benefits people. While you might be somewhat less likely to be involved in a car accident if you use it (although no one can say for sure), you’ll be frying your brain while you drive and could find yourself dealing with brain cancer – hardly a trade-off most people would be willing to make.

https://www.healthnutnews.com/fortune-ford-to-deploy-5g-in-all-us-vehicles-by-early-2022-frying-your-brain-while-you-drive/ 

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The Deep State Plot to Start World War III

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 By Paul Martin

By Dave Hodges TheCommonSenseShow.com January 8th, 2019

In August of 2018, the Pentagon released a report that was not covered in our corporate controlled media. Subsequently, I have learned that the Pentagon held a closed door briefing on the topic of the Chinese preparing to unleash a series of Pearl Harbor type of attacks against the United States.  And as will be revealed later in the article, it led me to ask the right questions of deep cover sources regarding China and the commencement of World War III. The readers may be wondering where I obtained this information? It certainly wasn’t from the MSM in America. The reports surfaced in places like New Zealand and France. And of course, as stated, I have deep cover sources revealing what the Deep State is actually up to. As an aside, I feel compelled to ask a question: Isn’t it a shame that we have to get the truth about the dangers our country faces from the foreign press instead of the MSM such as CNN and the Washington Post? There is an issue that I have repeatedly covered before on the CSS’ radio show and website. This has to do with the fact that we are, once again, forcing an Asian country to attack the United States in order to promote a wider conflict for political reasons. In the pre-World War II time, we provoked Japan to attack the United States. President Roosevelt was told by Nazi refugees, such as Einstein, that the Germans were close to developing atomic weapons that could be mounted on rockets. Not only did this lead to America’s Manhattan Project, designed to develop and deliver America’s first nuclear weapons, it could lead directly World War III. Roosevelt was forced to develop a plan that would get America into the war quickly in order to stop the Germans. Roosevelt and his team of advisers developed the McCollum Eight Point Plan which was designed to get Japan to attack the US. Roosevelt deemed this was necessary because America was embroiled in the Great Depression and an air of isolationism swept the country. Americans had to be shocked into accepting the entry into the global conflict, hence, the McCollum Plan. Today, thanks to neocon, Mattis, America is following a similar plan in order to get China to attack America. Here are the two plots and how they parallel each other. The McCollum Memo Prior to WW II, the US created something called the 8 point plan (MCollum Memo). Eventually, this caused Japan to respond to the interference with its trade and the attack upon Pearl Harbor. Is this what the Trump administration is doing? Is Trump still in charge of his administration. A decided shift occurred when Bolton joined the Trump administration.

http://revolutionradio.org/2019/01/08/the-deep-state-plot-to-start-world-war-iii/ 

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Samsung Echoes Apple’s Gloomy Outlook as Tech Woes Get Worse

South Korean tech giant expects fourth quarter operating profit will fall 29%

By Timothy W. Martin Updated Jan. 8, 2019 2:56 a.m. ET

SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co. expects its fourth-quarter operating profit will decline 29%—surprise guidance that fell far below analysts’ estimates—in the latest sign of challenges hitting the tech industry. The world’s largest maker of smartphones and semiconductors said its estimated profit decline comes “amid mounting macro uncertainties.” The Suwon, South Korea-based company pointed to “lackluster demand” for memory chips and “intensifying competition” in its handsets business.

To Read the Full Story

https://www.wsj.com/articles/samsung-electronics-profit-outlook-surprisingly-weak-11546909783 

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Home items are getting smarter and creepier, like it or not

By The Associated Press Updated January 7, 2019 10:41 AM

One day, finding an oven that just cooks food may be as tough as buying a TV that merely lets you click between channels. Internet-connected "smarts" are creeping into cars, refrigerators, thermostats, toys and just about everything else in your home. CES 2019, the gadget show opening Tuesday in Las Vegas, will showcase many of these products, including an oven that coordinates your recipes and a toilet that flushes with a voice command. With every additional smart device in your home, companies are able to gather more details about your daily life. Some of that can be used to help advertisers target you — more precisely than they could with just the smartphone you carry. "It's decentralized surveillance," said Jeff Chester, executive director for the Center for Digital Democracy, a Washington-based digital privacy advocate. "We're living in a world where we're tethered to some online service stealthily gathering our information." Yet consumers so far seem to be welcoming these devices. The research firm IDC projects that 1.3 billion smart devices will ship worldwide in 2022, twice as many as 2018. Companies say they are building these products not for snooping but for convenience, although Amazon, Google and other partners enabling the intelligence can use the details they collect to customize their services and ads. Whirlpool, for instance, is testing an oven whose window doubles as a display. You'll still be able to see what's roasting inside, but the glass can now display animation pointing to where to place the turkey for optimal cooking. The oven can sync with your digital calendar and recommend recipes based on how much time you have. It can help coordinate multiple recipes, so that you're not undercooking the side dishes in focusing too much on the entree. A camera inside lets you zoom in to see if the cheese on the lasagna has browned enough, without opening the oven door. As for that smart toilet, Kohler's Numi will respond to voice commands to raise or lower the lid — or to flush. You can do it from an app, too. The company says it's all about offering hands-free options in a setting that's very personal for people. The toilet is also heated and can play music and the news through its speakers. Kohler also has a tub that adjusts water temperature to your liking and a kitchen faucet that dispenses just the right amount of water for a recipe. For the most part, consumers aren't asking for these specific features. "We try to be innovative in ways that customers don't think they need," Samsung spokesman Louis Masses said. Whirlpool said insights can come from something as simple as watching consumers open the oven door several times to check on the meal, losing heat in the process. "They do not say to us, 'Please tell me where to put (food) on the rack, or do algorithm-based cooking,'" said Doug Searles, general manager for Whirlpool's research arm, WLabs. "They tell us the results that are most important to them." Samsung has several voice-enabled products, including a fridge that comes with an app that lets you check on its contents while you're grocery shopping. New this year: Samsung's washing machines can send alerts to its TVs — smart TVs, of course — so you know your laundry is ready while watching Netflix. Other connected items at CES include:

— a fishing rod that tracks your location to build an online map of where you've made the most catches.

— a toothbrush that recommends where to brush more.

— a fragrance diffuser that lets you control how your home smells from a smartphone app.

These are poised to join internet-connected security cameras, door locks and thermostats that are already on the market. The latter can work with sensors to turn the heat down automatically when you leave home. Chester said consumers feel the need to keep up with their neighbors when they buy appliances with the smartest smarts. He said all the conveniences can be "a powerful drug to help people forget the fact that they are also being spied on." Gadgets with voice controls typically aren't transmitting any data back to company servers until you activate them with a trigger word, such as "Alexa" or "OK Google." But devices have sometimes misheard innocuous words as legitimate commands to record and send private conversations. Even when devices work properly, commands are usually stored indefinitely. Companies can use the data to personalize experiences — including ads. Beyond that, background conversations may be stored with the voice recordings and can resurface with hacking or as part of lawsuits or investigations. Knowing what you cook or stock in your fridge might seem innocuous. But if insurers get hold of the data, they might charge you more for unhealthy diets, warned Paul Stephens, director of policy and advocacy at the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse in San Diego. He also said it might be possible to infer ethnicity based on food consumed. Manufacturers are instead emphasizing the benefits: Data collection from the smart faucet, for instance, allows Kohler's app to display how much water is dispensed. (Water bills typically show water use for the whole home, not individual taps.) The market for smart devices is still small, but growing. Kohler estimates that in a few years, smart appliances will make up 10 percent of its revenue. Though the features are initially limited to premium models — such as the $7,000 toilet — they should eventually appear in entry-level products, too, as costs come down. Consider the TV. "Dumb" TVs are rare these days, as the vast majority of TVs ship with internet connections and apps, like it or not. "It becomes a check-box item for the TV manufacturer," said Paul Gagnon, an analyst with IHS Markit. For a dumb one, he said, you have to search for an off-brand, entry-level model with smaller screens — or go to places in the world where streaming services aren't common. "Dumb" cars are also headed to the scrapyard. The research firm BI Intelligence estimates that by 2020, three out of every four cars sold worldwide will be models with connectivity. No serious incidents have occurred in the United States, Europe and Japan, but a red flag has already been raised in China, where automakers have been sharing location details of connected cars with the government. As for TVs, Consumer Reports says many TV makers collect and share users' viewing habits. Vizio agreed to $2.5 million in penalties in 2017 to settle cases with the Federal Trade Commission and New Jersey officials. Consumers can decide not to enable these connections. They can also vote with their wallets, Stephens said. "I'm a firm believer that simple is better. If you don't need to have these so-called enhancements, don't buy them," he said. "Does one really need a refrigerator that keeps track of everything in it and tells you you are running out of milk?"

https://www.newsday.com/business/technology/smart-home-creepy-surveillance-1.25650884 

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Pantheon, Rome

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Not to be confused with Parthenon.

The Pantheon (UK: /ˈpænθiən/, US: /-ɒn/;[1] Latin: Pantheum,[nb 1] from Greek Πάνθειον Pantheion, "[temple] of all the gods") is a former Roman temple, now a church, in Rome, Italy, on the site of an earlier temple commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD). It was completed by the emperor Hadrian and probably dedicated about 126 AD. Its date of construction is uncertain, because Hadrian chose not to inscribe the new temple but rather to retain the inscription of Agrippa's older temple, which had burned down.[2]

The building is circular with a portico of large granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first rank and two groups of four behind) under a pediment. A rectangular vestibule links the porch to the rotunda, which is under a coffered concrete dome, with a central opening (oculus) to the sky. Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome.[3] The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43 metres (142 ft).[4]

It is one of the best-preserved of all Ancient Roman buildings, in large part because it has been in continuous use throughout its history, and since the 7th century, the Pantheon has been used as a church dedicated to "St. Mary and the Martyrs" (Latin: Sancta Maria ad Martyres) but informally known as "Santa Maria Rotonda".[5] The square in front of the Pantheon is called Piazza della Rotonda. The Pantheon is a state property, managed by Italy's Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism through the Polo Museale del Lazio; in 2013 it was visited by over 6 million people.

The Pantheon's large circular domed cella, with a conventional temple portico front, was unique in Roman architecture. Nevertheless, it became a standard exemplar when classical styles were revived, and has been copied many times by later architects.[6]

Contents

1 Etymology

2 History

2.1 Ancient

2.2 Medieval

2.3 Renaissance

2.4 Modern

3 Cardinal deaconry

3.1 Cardinal-protectors

4 Structure

4.1 Portico

4.2 Rotunda

4.3 Interior

5 Christian modifications

6 Gallery

7 Works modeled on, or inspired by, the Pantheon

8 See also

9 Notes

10 Footnotes

11 References

12 External links

Etymology The name "Pantheon" is from the Ancient Greek "Pantheion" (Πάνθειον) meaning "of, relating to, or common to all the gods": (pan- / "παν-" meaning "all" + theion / "θεῖον"= meaning "of or sacred to a god").[7] Cassius Dio, a Roman senator who wrote in Greek, speculated that the name comes either from the statues of many gods placed around this building, or from the resemblance of the dome to the heavens.[8] His uncertainty strongly suggests that "Pantheon" (or Pantheum) was merely a nickname, not the formal name of the building.[9] In fact, the concept of a pantheon dedicated to all the gods is questionable. The only definite pantheon recorded earlier than Agrippa's was at Antioch in Syria, though it is only mentioned by a sixth-century source.[10] Ziegler tried to collect evidence of panthea, but his list consists of simple dedications "to all the gods" or "to the Twelve Gods," which are not necessarily true panthea in the sense of a temple housing a cult that literally worships all the gods.[11] Godfrey and Hemsoll point out that ancient authors never refer to Hadrian's Pantheon with the word aedes, as they do with other temples, and the Severan inscription carved on the architrave uses simply "Pantheum," not "Aedes Panthei" (temple of all the gods).[12] It seems highly significant that Dio does not quote the simplest explanation for the name—that the Pantheon was dedicated to all the gods.[13] In fact, Livy wrote that it had been decreed that temple buildings (or perhaps temple cellae) should only be dedicated to single divinities, so that it would be clear who would be offended if, for example, the building were struck by lightning, and because it was only appropriate to offer sacrifice to a specific deity (27.25.7-10).[14] Godfrey and Hemsoll maintain that the word Pantheon "need not denote a particular group of gods, or, indeed, even all the gods, since it could well have had other meanings…. Certainly the word pantheus or pantheos, could be applicable to individual deities…. Bearing in mind also that the Greek word θεῖος (theios) need not mean "of a god" but could mean "superhuman," or even "excellent."[12] Since the French Revolution, when the church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris was deconsecrated and turned into the secular monument called the Panthéon of Paris, the generic term pantheon has sometimes been applied to other buildings in which illustrious dead are honoured or buried.[1] History Ancient The Pantheon and the Fontana del Pantheon. Ancient In the aftermath of the Battle of Actium (31 BC), Marcus Agrippa started an impressive building program: the Pantheon was a part of the complex created by him on his own property in the Campus Martius in 29–19 BC, which included three buildings aligned from south to north: the Baths of Agrippa, the Basilica of Neptune, and the Pantheon.[15] It seems likely that the Pantheon and the Basilica of Neptune were Agrippa's sacra privata, not aedes publicae (public temples).[16] This less solemn designation would help explain how the building could have so easily lost its original name and purpose (Ziolkowski contends that it was originally the Temple of Mars in Campo)[17] in such a relatively short period of time.[18] It had long been thought that the current building was built by Agrippa, with later alterations undertaken, and this was in part because of the Latin inscription on the front of the temple[19] which reads: M·AGRIPPA·L·F·COS·TERTIVM·FECIT

or in full, "M[arcus] Agrippa L[ucii] f[ilius] co[n]s[ul] tertium fecit," meaning "Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, made [this building] when consul for the third time."[20] However, archaeological excavations have shown that the Pantheon of Agrippa had been completely destroyed except for the façade. Lise Hetland argues that the present construction began in 114, under Trajan, four years after it was destroyed by fire for the second time (Oros. 7.12). She reexamined Herbert Bloch's 1959 paper, which is responsible for the commonly maintained Hadrianic date, and maintains that he should not have excluded all of the Trajanic-era bricks from his brick-stamp study. Her argument is particularly interesting in light of Heilmeyer's argument that, based on stylistic evidence, Apollodorus of Damascus, Trajan's architect, was the obvious architect.[21] The form of Agrippa's Pantheon is debated. As a result of excavations in the late 19th century, archaeologist Rodolfo Lanciani concluded that Agrippa's Pantheon was oriented so that it faced South, in contrast with the current layout that faces North, and that it had a shortened T-shaped plan with the entrance at the base of the "T". This description was widely accepted until the late 20th century. While more recent archaeological diggings have suggested that Agrippa's building might have had a circular form with a triangular porch, and it might have also faced North, much like the later rebuildings, Ziolkowski complains that their conclusions were based entirely on surmise; according to him, they did not find any new datable material, yet they attributed everything they found to the Agrippan phase, failing to account for the fact that Domitian, known for his enthusiasm for building and known to have restored the Pantheon after 80 AD, might well have been responsible for everything they found. Ziolkowski argues that Lanciani's initial assessment is still supported by all of the finds to date, including theirs; furthermore he expresses skepticism because the building they describe, "a single building composed of a huge pronaos and a circular cella of the same diameter, linked by a relatively narrow and very short passage (much thinner than the current intermediate block), has no known parallels in classical architecture and would go against everything we know of Roman design principles in general and of Augustan architecture in particular."[22]

The only passages referring to the decoration of the Agrippan Pantheon written by an eyewitness are in Pliny's Natural History. From him we know that "the capitals, too, of the pillars, which were placed by M. Agrippa in the Pantheon, are made of Syracusan bronze",[23] that "the Pantheon of Agrippa has been decorated by Diogenes of Athens, and the Caryatides, by him, which form the columns of that temple, are looked upon as masterpieces of excellence: the same, too, with the statues that are placed upon the roof,"[24] and that one of Cleopatra's pearls was cut in half so that each half "might serve as pendants for the ears of Venus, in the Pantheon at Rome".[25]

The Augustan Pantheon was destroyed along with other buildings in a huge fire in the year 80 AD. Domitian rebuilt the Pantheon, which was burnt again in 110 AD.[26]

The degree to which the decorative scheme should be credited to Hadrian's architects is uncertain. Finished by Hadrian but not claimed as one of his works, it used the text of the original inscription on the new façade (a common practice in Hadrian's rebuilding projects all over Rome; the only building on which Hadrian put his own name was the Temple to the Deified Trajan).[27] How the building was actually used is not known. The Historia Augusta says that Hadrian dedicated the Pantheon (among other buildings) in the name of the original builder (Hadr. 19.10), but the current inscription could not be a copy of the original; it provides no information as to who Agrippa's foundation was dedicated to, and, in Ziolkowski's opinion, it was highly unlikely that in 25 BC Agrippa would have presented himself as "consul tertium." On coins, the same words, "M. Agrippa L.f cos. tertium," were the ones used to refer to him after his death; consul tertium serving as "a sort of posthumous cognomen ex virtute, a remembrance of the fact that, of all the men of his generation apart from Augustus himself, he was the only one to hold the consulship thrice."[28] Whatever the cause of the alteration of the inscription might have been, the new inscription reflects the fact that there was a change in the building's purpose.[29]

Cassius Dio, a Graeco-Roman senator, consul and author of a comprehensive History of Rome, writing approximately 75 years after the Pantheon's reconstruction, mistakenly attributed the domed building to Agrippa rather than Hadrian. Dio appears to be the only near-contemporaneous writer to mention the Pantheon. Even by the year 200, there was uncertainty about the origin of the building and its purpose:

Agrippa finished the construction of the building called the Pantheon. It has this name, perhaps because it received among the images which decorated it the statues of many gods, including Mars and Venus; but my own opinion of the name is that, because of its vaulted roof, it resembles the heavens.

— Cassius Dio History of Rome 53.27.2

In 202, the building was repaired by the joint emperors Septimius Severus and his son Caracalla (fully Marcus Aurelius Antoninus), for which there is another, smaller inscription on the architrave of the façade, under the aforementioned larger text.[30][31] This now-barely legible inscription reads:

IMP · CAES · L · SEPTIMIVS · SEVERVS · PIVS · PERTINAX · ARABICVS · ADIABENICVS · PARTHICVS · MAXIMVS · PONTIF · MAX · TRIB · POTEST · X · IMP · XI · COS · III · P · P · PROCOS  ET

IMP · CAES · M · AVRELIVS · ANTONINVS · PIVS · FELIX · AVG · TRIB · POTEST · V · COS ·PROCOS · PANTHEVM · VETVSTATE · CORRVPTVM · CVM · OMNI · CVLTV · RESTITVERVNT

In English, this means: Emp[eror] Caes[ar] L[ucius] Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax, victorious in Arabia, victor of Adiabene, the great victor in Parthia, Pontif[ex] Max[imus], 10 times tribune, 11 times emperor, three times consul, P[ater] P[atriae], proconsul, and Emp[eror] Caes[ar] M[arcus] Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix Aug[ustus], five times tribune, consul, proconsul, have carefully restored the Pantheon ruined by age.[32] Medieval In 609, the Byzantine emperor Phocas gave the building to Pope Boniface IV, who converted it into a Christian church and consecrated it to St. Mary and the Martyrs on 13 May 609: "Another Pope, Boniface, asked the same [Emperor Phocas, in Constantinople] to order that in the old temple called the Pantheon, after the pagan filth was removed, a church should be made, to the holy virgin Mary and all the martyrs, so that the commemoration of the saints would take place henceforth where not gods but demons were formerly worshipped."[33] Twenty-eight cartloads of holy relics of martyrs were said to have been removed from the catacombs and placed in a porphyry basin beneath the high altar.[34] On its consecration, Boniface placed an icon of the Mother of God as 'Panagia Hodegetria' (All Holy Directress) within the new sanctuary [35].

The building's consecration as a church saved it from the abandonment, destruction, and the worst of the spoliation that befell the majority of ancient Rome's buildings during the early medieval period. However, Paul the Deacon records the spoliation of the building by the Emperor Constans II, who visited Rome in July 663: Remaining at Rome twelve days he pulled down everything that in ancient times had been made of metal for the ornament of the city, to such an extent that he even stripped off the roof of the church [of the blessed Mary], which at one time was called the Pantheon, and had been founded in honour of all the gods and was now by the consent of the former rulers the place of all the martyrs; and he took away from there the bronze tiles and sent them with all the other ornaments to Constantinople. Much fine external marble has been removed over the centuries - for example, capitals from some of the pilasters are in the British Museum.[36] Two columns were swallowed up in the medieval buildings that abutted the Pantheon on the east and were lost. In the early 17th century, Urban VIII Barberini tore away the bronze ceiling of the portico, and replaced the medieval campanile with the famous twin towers (often wrongly attributed to Bernini[37]) called "the ass's ears,"[38] which were not removed until the late 19th century.[39] The only other loss has been the external sculptures, which adorned the pediment above Agrippa's inscription. The marble interior has largely survived, although with extensive restoration. Renaissance Since the Renaissance the Pantheon has been the site of several important burials. Among those buried there are the painters Raphael and Annibale Carracci, the composer Arcangelo Corelli, and the architect Baldassare Peruzzi. In the 15th century, the Pantheon was adorned with paintings: the best-known is the Annunciation by Melozzo da Forlì. Filippo Brunelleschi, among other architects, looked to the Pantheon as inspiration for their works.

Pope Urban VIII (1623 to 1644) ordered the bronze ceiling of the Pantheon's portico melted down. Most of the bronze was used to make bombards for the fortification of Castel Sant'Angelo, with the remaining amount used by the Apostolic Camera for various other works. It is also said that the bronze was used by Bernini in creating his famous baldachin above the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica, but, according to at least one expert, the Pope's accounts state that about 90% of the bronze was used for the cannon, and that the bronze for the baldachin came from Venice.[41] Concerning this, an anonymous contemporary Roman satirist quipped in a pasquinade (a publicly posted poem) that quod non fecerunt barbari fecerunt Barberini ("What the barbarians did not do the Barberinis [Urban VIII's family name] did").

In 1747, the broad frieze below the dome with its false windows was "restored," but bore little resemblance to the original. In the early decades of the 20th century, a piece of the original, as could be reconstructed from Renaissance drawings and paintings, was recreated in one of the panels. Modern [citation needed] Two kings of Italy are buried in the Pantheon: Vittorio Emanuele II and Umberto I, as well as Umberto's Queen, Margherita.

The Pantheon is in use as a Catholic church. Masses are celebrated there on Sundays and holy days of obligation. Weddings are also held there from time to time.

Cardinal deaconry

On 23 July 1725, the Pantheon was established as Cardinal-deaconry of S. Maria ad Martyres, i.e. a titular church for a cardinal-deacon.

On 26 May 1929, this deaconry was suppressed to establish the Cardinal Deaconry of S. Apollinare alle Terme Neroniane-Alessandrine.[citation needed]

The building was originally approached by a flight of steps. Later construction raised the level of the ground leading to the portico, eliminating these steps.[5]

The pediment was decorated with relief sculpture, probably of gilded bronze. Holes marking the location of clamps that held the sculpture suggest that its design was likely an eagle within a wreath; ribbons extended from the wreath into the corners of the pediment.[42]

Mark Wilson Jones has attempted to explain the design adjustments carried out in relating the porch to the dome, arguing that the Pantheon's porch was originally designed for monolithic granite columns with shafts 50 Roman feet tall (weighing about 100 tons) and capitals 10 Roman feet tall in the Corinthian style.[43] The taller porch would have hidden the second pediment visible on the intermediate block. Instead, after the intended columns failed to arrive, the builders made many awkward adjustments in order to use shafts 40 Roman feet tall and capitals eight Roman feet tall.[44] This substitution was probably a result of logistical difficulties at some stage in the construction. Alternatively, it has also been argued that the scale of the portico related to the urban design of the space in front of the temple.[45] The grey granite columns that were actually used in the Pantheon's pronaos were quarried in Egypt at Mons Claudianus in the eastern mountains. Each was 39 feet (11.9 m) tall, 5 feet (1.5 m) in diameter, and 60 tons in weight.[46] These were dragged more than 100 km (62 miles) from the quarry to the river on wooden sledges. They were floated by barge down the Nile River when the water level was high during the spring floods, and then transferred to vessels to cross the Mediterranean Sea to the Roman port of Ostia. There, they were transferred back onto barges and pulled up the Tiber River to Rome.[47] After being unloaded near the Mausoleum of Augustus, the site of the Pantheon was still about 700 metres away.[48] Thus, it was necessary to either drag them or to move them on rollers to the construction site.

In the walls at the back of the Pantheon's portico are niches, perhaps intended for statues of Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, and Agrippa, or for the Capitoline Triad, or another set of gods.

The large bronze doors to the cella, once plated with gold, are not the original ones of the Pantheon. The current doors – manufactured too small for the door frames – have been there since about the 15th century.[49]

Rotunda The 4,535 metric tons (4,999 short tons) weight of the Roman concrete dome is concentrated on a ring of voussoirs 9.1 metres (30 ft) in diameter that form the oculus, while the downward thrust of the dome is carried by eight barrel vaults in the 6.4 metres (21 ft) thick drum wall into eight piers. The thickness of the dome varies from 6.4 metres (21 ft) at the base of the dome to 1.2 metres (3.9 ft) around the oculus.[50] The materials used in the concrete of the dome also varies. At its thickest point, the aggregate is travertine, then terracotta tiles, then at the very top, tufa and pumice, both porous light stones. At the very top, where the dome would be at its weakest and vulnerable to collapse, the oculus actually lightens the load.[51]

Beam in the dome of the Pantheon

No tensile test results are available on the concrete used in the Pantheon; however, Cowan discussed tests on ancient concrete from Roman ruins in Libya, which gave a compressive strength of 20 MPa (2,900 psi). An empirical relationship gives a tensile strength of 1.47 MPa (213 psi) for this specimen.[50] Finite element analysis of the structure by Mark and Hutchison[52] found a maximum tensile stress of only 128 kPa (18.5 psi) at the point where the dome joins the raised outer wall.[53]

The stresses in the dome were found to be substantially reduced by the use of successively less dense aggregate stones, such as small pots or pieces of pumice, in higher layers of the dome. Mark and Hutchison estimated that, if normal weight concrete had been used throughout, the stresses in the arch would have been some 80% greater. Hidden chambers engineered within the rotunda form a sophisticated structural system.[54] This reduced the weight of the roof, as did the elimination of the apex by means of the oculus.[55]

The top of the rotunda wall features a series of brick relieving arches, visible on the outside and built into the mass of the brickwork. The Pantheon is full of such devices – for example, there are relieving arches over the recesses inside – but all these arches were hidden by marble facing on the interior and possibly by stone revetment or stucco on the exterior.

The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43.3 metres (142 ft), so the whole interior would fit exactly within a cube (also, the interior could house a sphere 43.3 metres (142 ft) in diameter).[56] These dimensions make more sense when expressed in ancient Roman units of measurement: The dome spans 150 Roman feet; the oculus is 30 Roman feet in diameter; the doorway is 40 Roman feet high.[57] The Pantheon still holds the record for the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. It is also substantially larger than earlier domes.[58]

Though often drawn as a free-standing building, there was a building at its rear into which it abutted. While this building helped buttress the rotunda, there was no interior passage from one to the other.[59]

Interior The extravagant Pantheon can be entered through the pronaos, which is the rectangular area located at the front of the temple. This is recognizable part of the structure surrounded by numerous towering granite columns, each 13-meters in height. This entrance is covered by something called a tympanum, a semi-circular surface placed over the entry. This element is bordered by a lintel and arch. The building itself lay perched upon a series of broad white steps, elevating the building.

Upon entry, visitors are greeted by an enormous rounded room covered by the dome. Off to either side, the building is divided into 2 parts or naves, excluding the center part of the temple. The oculus at the top of the dome was never covered allowing rainfall through the ceiling and onto the floor. Because of this, the interior floor is equipped with drains and has been built with an incline of about 30cm to promote water run off. There are 3 floors in the Pantheon, the second is made up of lessens that allow sunlight to filter through to the first floor, assisted by the light flowing in through the oculus.[60][61]

The interior of the dome was possibly intended to symbolize the arched vault of the heavens.[56] The oculus at the dome's apex and the entry door are the only natural sources of light in the interior. Throughout the day, the light from the oculus moves around this space in a reverse sundial effect.[62] The oculus also serves as a cooling and ventilation method. During storms, a drainage system below the floor handles the rain that falls through the oculus.

The dome features sunken panels (coffers), in five rings of 28. This evenly spaced layout was difficult to achieve and, it is presumed, had symbolic meaning, either numerical, geometric, or lunar.[63][64] In antiquity, the coffers may have contained bronze stars, rosettes, or other ornaments.

Circles and squares form the unifying theme of the interior design. The checkerboard floor pattern contrasts with the concentric circles of square coffers in the dome. Each zone of the interior, from floor to ceiling, is subdivided according to a different scheme. As a result, the interior decorative zones do not line up. The overall effect is immediate viewer orientation according to the major axis of the building, even though the cylindrical space topped by a hemispherical dome is inherently ambiguous. This discordance has not always been appreciated, and the attic level was redone according to Neoclassical taste in the 18th century.[65] Christian modifications The present high altars and the apses were commissioned by Pope Clement XI (1700–1721) and designed by Alessandro Specchi. Enshrined on the apse above the high altar is a 7th-century Byzantine icon of the Virgin and Child, given by Phocas to Pope Boniface IV on the occasion of the dedication of the Pantheon for Christian worship on 13 May 609. The choir was added in 1840, and was designed by Luigi Poletti.

The first niche to the right of the entrance holds a Madonna of the Girdle and St Nicholas of Bari (1686) painted by an unknown artist. The first chapel on the right, the Chapel of the Annunciation, has a fresco of the Annunciation attributed to Melozzo da Forlì. On the left side is a canvas by Clement Maioli of St Lawrence and St Agnes (1645–1650). On the right wall is the Incredulity of St Thomas (1633) by Pietro Paolo Bonzi.

The second niche has a 15th-century fresco of the Tuscan school, depicting the Coronation of the Virgin. In the second chapel is the tomb of King Victor Emmanuel II (died 1878). It was originally dedicated to the Holy Spirit. A competition was held to decide which architect should design it. Giuseppe Sacconi participated, but lost – he would later design the tomb of Umberto I in the opposite chapel.

Manfredo Manfredi won the competition, and started work in 1885. The tomb consists of a large bronze plaque surmounted by a Roman eagle and the arms of the house of Savoy. The golden lamp above the tomb burns in honor of Victor Emmanuel III, who died in exile in 1947.

The third niche has a sculpture by Il Lorenzone of St Anne and the Blessed Virgin. In the third chapel is a 15th-century painting of the Umbrian school, The Madonna of Mercy between St Francis and St John the Baptist. It is also known as the Madonna of the Railing, because it originally hung in the niche on the left-hand side of the portico, where it was protected by a railing. It was moved to the Chapel of the Annunciation, and then to its present position sometime after 1837. The bronze epigram commemorated Pope Clement XI's restoration of the sanctuary. On the right wall is the canvas Emperor Phocas presenting the Pantheon to Pope Boniface IV (1750) by an unknown. There are three memorial plaques in the floor, one conmmemorating a Gismonda written in the vernacular. The final niche on the right side has a statue of St. Anastasio (1725) by Bernardino Cametti.[66]

On the first niche to the left of the entrance is an Assumption (1638) by Andrea Camassei. The first chapel on the left, is the Chapel of St Joseph in the Holy Land, and is the chapel of the Confraternity of the Virtuosi at the Pantheon. This refers to the confraternity of artists and musicians that was formed here by a 16th-century Canon of the church, Desiderio da Segni, to ensure that worship was maintained in the chapel.

The first members were, among others, Antonio da Sangallo the younger, Jacopo Meneghino, Giovanni Mangone, Zuccari, Domenico Beccafumi, and Flaminio Vacca. The confraternity continued to draw members from the elite of Rome's artists and architects, and among later members we find Bernini, Cortona, Algardi, and many others. The institution still exists, and is now called the Academia Ponteficia di Belle Arti (The Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts), based in the palace of the Cancelleria. The altar in the chapel is covered with false marble. On the altar is a statue of St Joseph and the Holy Child by Vincenzo de Rossi.

To the sides are paintings (1661) by Francesco Cozza, one of the Virtuosi: Adoration of the Shepherds on left side and Adoration of the Magi on right. The stucco relief on the left, Dream of St Joseph, is by Paolo Benaglia, and the one on the right, Rest during the flight from Egypt, is by Carlo Monaldi. On the vault are several 17th-century canvases, from left to right: Cumean Sibyl by Ludovico Gimignani; Moses by Francesco Rosa; Eternal Father by Giovanni Peruzzini; David by Luigi Garzi; and Eritrean Sibyl by Giovanni Andrea Carlone.

The second niche has a statue of St Agnes, by Vincenzo Felici. The bust on the left is a portrait of Baldassare Peruzzi, derived from a plaster portrait by Giovanni Duprè. The tomb of King Umberto I and his wife Margherita di Savoia is in the next chapel. The chapel was originally dedicated to St Michael the Archangel, and then to St. Thomas the Apostle. The present design is by Giuseppe Sacconi, completed after his death by his pupil Guido Cirilli. The tomb consists of a slab of alabaster mounted in gilded bronze. The frieze has allegorical representations of Generosity, by Eugenio Maccagnani, and Munificence, by Arnaldo Zocchi. The royal tombs are maintained by the National Institute of Honour Guards to the Royal Tombs, founded in 1878. They also organize picket guards at the tombs. The altar with the royal arms is by Cirilli.

The third niche holds the mortal remains – his Ossa et cineres, "Bones and ashes", as the inscription on the sarcophagus says – of the great artist Raphael. His fiancée, Maria Bibbiena is buried to the right of his sarcophagus; she died before they could marry. The sarcophagus was given by Pope Gregory XVI, and its inscription reads ILLE HIC EST RAPHAEL TIMUIT QUO SOSPITE VINCI / RERUM MAGNA PARENS ET MORIENTE MORI, meaning "Here lies Raphael, by whom the mother of all things (Nature) feared to be overcome while he was living, and while he was dying, herself to die". The epigraph was written by Pietro Bembo.

The present arrangement is from 1811, designed by Antonio Munoz. The bust of Raphael (1833) is by Giuseppe Fabris. The two plaques commemorate Maria Bibbiena and Annibale Carracci. Behind the tomb is the statue known as the Madonna del Sasso (Madonna of the Rock) so named because she rests one foot on a boulder. It was commissioned by Raphael and made by Lorenzetto in 1524.

In the Chapel of the Crucifixion, the Roman brick wall is visible in the niches. The wooden crucifix on the altar is from the 15th century. On the left wall is a Descent of the Holy Ghost (1790) by Pietro Labruzi. On the right side is the low relief Cardinal Consalvi presents to Pope Pius VII the five provinces restored to the Holy See (1824) made by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. The bust is a portrait of Cardinal Agostino Rivarola. The final niche on this side has a statue of St. Evasius (Sant'Evasio) (1727) by Francesco Moderati.[66]

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White House Coordinating With Army To Begin Work on Border Wall

Army Corps of Engineers will construct wall should President Trump declare a National Emergency

Jamie White | Infowars.com - January 7, 2019

The U.S. Army will be the primary contractor building the southern border wall, the White House announced on Monday. “If the president declares a national emergency, the Army Corps of Engineers will kick into high gear,” said a White House official. “They’re already handing out contracts, and that would speed up a lot.” The White House Office of Management and Budget sent a letter to Democratic House committee chairs on Sunday, informing them that the Customs and Border Protection agency is coordinating with the army to fulfill President Trump’s goal of securing the border with a steel wall. “In concert with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, CBP has increased its capacity to execute these funds,” said a letter from the White House budget office to Democratic House committee chairs. “The Administration’s full request would fund construction of a total of approximately 234 miles of new physical barrier and fully fund the top 10 priorities in CBP’s Border Security Improvement Plan.” The letter goes on to request funds for several other areas pertaining to border security, including more border patrol personnel, humanitarian supplies, and technology resources. “These upfront investments in physical barriers and technology, as well as legislation to close loopholes in our immigration system, will reduce illegal immigration, the flow of illicit drugs entering our country and reduce the long term costs for border and immigration enforcement activities,” the letter concluded.

Trump indicated Sunday that he may declare a National Emergency to begin work on the wall if the Democrats continue to ignore the country’s border crisis.

https://www.infowars.com/white-house-coordinating-with-army-to-begin-work-on-border-wall/ 

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Intense eruption at Stromboli volcano, persistent explosions with high acoustic pressure and high puffing, Italy

Posted by TW on January 06, 2019

Explosive activity at Italian Stromboli volcano intensified on January 5, 2019, especially in its northeastern vents where a new cinder cone is growing. Seismic signals suggesting fracturing in the summit zone of Stromboli volcano are being recorded since December 24, 2018, when Italian Civil Protection raised the Alert Level from Green to Yellow. This activity was followed by increasing spattering in the crater terrace since December 26 and detection of seven active vents. A series of strong explosions were observed at the NE vent on January 3. This activity further intensified on the evening of January 5 with several vents all active at once. "In particular, in the NE cluster of vents where a new cinder cone is growing and continuous lava spattering as well as larger strombolian explosions with plenty of red-hot lava spatter ejected to probably more than 200 m (656 feet)," volcanologist Dr. Tom Pfeiffer reports. "It is obvious that currently, the magma column inside the conduits stands high, ready perhaps to produce an overflow in the near future," Pfeiffer concludes. An ordinance issued by the Municipality of Lipari on January 4, 2019, prohibits access to Stromboli above 400 m (1 312 feet) above sea level. The Mayor of Lipari indicates that the "high" level of activity of the volcano at the moment motivates this decision. Authorized guides - only in the context of monitoring operations - are not affected by the prohibition, Claude Grandpey reports. According to Stromboli Daily Report published by the Laboratorio Geofisica Sperimentale (LGS) at 07:39 UTC on January 6, the number of VLP seismic events (standard values 5-12) is high, 16.0 events/hour (16.2 yesterday). n The amplitude of VLP events is medium. The amplitude of seismic tremor is high. The infrasonic activity is high. The acoustic pressure of explosions is high, 3.19 bar (standard values <1 bar). The amplitude of puffing is very high, ~230 mbar. Tiltmeters analysis shows no significant deformation. Thermal activity of explosive events is high. The number of thermal transients in the NE sector of the crater(standard = 100) is high, 187. The amplitude of thermal transients is low, <20 ºF. Exit velocity of pyroclasts, estimated through thermal camera analysis, is medium, 25 m/s. SO2 flux in the NE sector of the crater terrace is 77 t/d. HQ Stromboli webcam is here.

https://watchers.news/2019/01/06/stromboli-eruption-january-2019/ 

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Earthquake WARNING: Seismic unrest forecasted FOR WEEKS

EARTHQUAKES could continuously rock the planet in the coming week as one tremor predictor believes that we are in for a prolonged period of seismic unrest.

By Sean Martin

PUBLISHED: 14:46, Fri, Jan 4, 2019 | UPDATED: 14:54, Fri, Jan 4, 2019

The position of the moon, Earth, Venus, Mercury and the sun in the coming weeks is set to pull on the planet and cause earthquake activity across Earth, he says. This will last for several weeks and could result in “larger” tremors thanks to “critical geometry”. This is according to new age earthquake forecaster website Ditrianum, run by researcher Frank Hoogerbeets, who made the bold prediction. Mr Hoogerbeets believes the gravitational pull of the celestial bodies either side of our planet could pull on Earth’s tectonic plates, which will increase tension and ultimately the likeliness of a major tremor. However, he gives no indication as to when or where the earthquakes may strike. Writing on the website, the Dutch researcher said: “Due to specific positions of outer planets, we have critical lunar geometry every three-four days which on average may result in more larger seismic activity. “This situation will continue for several weeks.” Mr Hoogerbeets reached his conclusion using his Solar System Geometry Index (SSGI) which “is the computation of a dataset for a specific time-frame of values given to specific geometric positions of the planets, the Moon and the Sun”. He said: “After three years of observations, it became clear that some planetary geometry in the Solar System clearly tends to cause a seismic increase, while other geometry does not.” But experts have previously dismissed Mr Hoogerbeets’ claims, saying that there is no way earthquakes can be predicted. John Bellini, a geophysicist at the US Geological Survey (USGS) has said: “We can't predict or forecast earthquakes. "Sometimes before a large earthquake you'll have a foreshock or two, but we don't know they're foreshocks until the big one happens.”

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1067248/earthquake-forecast-2019-seismic-warning-usgs-earthquake-news-richter-scale 

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Multiculturalism and the Transformation of Britain in 2018: Part II

by Soeren Kern January 8, 2019 at 5:00 am

Not a single Christian was among the 1,112 Syrian refugees resettled in Britain in the first three months of 2018. The Home Office agreed to resettle only Muslims and rejected the four Christians recommended by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees — The Sunday Times. Islamist groups are "weaponizing" Islamophobia and "cynically" using human rights to promote their ideology. Islamist groups accuse their critics of being anti-Muslim, in an attempt to shut down "legitimate debate" about Islamic extremism. The "use and abuse" of the language of human rights is "perhaps the most concerning" tactic employed by fundamentalist groups — Sara Khan, the UK government's new counter-extremism tsar. Women and girls who are coerced into marriage by their families will be allowed to give evidence in secret so they can object to their foreign spouses' visas without fear of repercussions, according to legal changes announced by UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid.

JULY 2018

July 1. Mubarek Ali, a 35-year-old former ringleader of a Telford child sex abuse gang, was sent back to prison after breaching the terms of his parole. In 2012, Ali was sentenced to 22 years in prison for child prostitution offenses, but was automatically released in 2017 after serving only five years. Telford MP Lucy Allan said there are "many questions to be answered" about why Ali was released, and also about how the justice system treats so-called grooming cases: "Now he is back in jail, justice demands that he must serve the remainder of his sentence in custody; anything less would show a casual disregard for the nature of his crimes and for the victims whose lives he changed forever."

July 2. Abdul Rauf, a 51-year-old imam from Rochdale, was imprisoned for one year and five months after admitting to assaulting more than 20 children at a mosque. Inspector Phil Key, of Greater Manchester Police, said: "Abdul Rauf is a nasty, bully of a man who beat the children in his classes until it became normalized. The children were left cowering and holding onto their ears, their arms and their legs after he repeatedly used violence as a punishment. The parents of the children had no idea that they were leaving their children in the care of a man who would leave them writhing in pain and covered in marks and bruises." (Rauf is different from Abdul Rauf, 49, formerly of Rochdale, who was convicted as part of a child sex gang that targeted girls as young as 13 in the town.)

July 3. A judge in Iraq said that British jihadis found in the country would be executed by hanging. Abdul Sattar Beraqdar, spokesman for the Supreme Judicial Council, said that such a form of capital punishment would be good for British security "The punishment, as much as it seems strong, will affect the security of your country. I am sure there are hundreds of people in Britain at this moment thinking of committing similar crimes. That's why we, as Iraqis, if we are tough in sentencing these people, they will think thoroughly before taking any action." Some 800 Britons have journeyed to Syria and Iraq to fight for the Islamic State; 130 have been killed in the conflict, according to British officials. It is unclear, however, how many British jihadis have been captured or have faced the death penalty. "We oppose the death penalty in all cases," a British Foreign Office spokesman said.

July 5. Laurel Ellis, a conservative candidate for a council by-election in Merthyr Tydfil, a town in Wales, was suspended after sharing social media posts critical of Islam. Labour Assembly Member Dawn Bowden had claimed that the posts were Islamophobic. A spokesman for the Welsh Conservatives said that the party seeks "to reach out to, and represent, all communities and people from all walks of life in Wales." 

July 6. Police in London revealed that they intervened to stop a suspected "child sex party" at a kebab shop in Bethnal Green. So-called "uck parties" (the word uck is a colloquial term for oral sex) involve young girls being plied with alcohol and drugs before older men have sex with them. Authorities in Tower Hamlets, which has the highest percentage of Muslim residents in England and Wales, has since revoked the kebab shop's alcohol license.

July 7. The Daily Mail reported that Imran Waheed, a 41-year-old psychiatrist with the National Health Service in Birmingham, was also working as an expert witness to British courts, even though he is an Islamist who has openly said he "does not believe in democracy" and is "not obedient" to secular law. In a BBC interview he said: "I've got no respect for any law other than Allah's, so I don't care about the law to be honest... I care for the law of Islam. I don't care for the law of any man."

July 8. An opinion essay published by the Guardian claimed that a new a new art exhibition in Florence reveals the "deep connection" between Europe and Islam: "Embodied in the Renaissance view is certainly a sense of Islam as the other. But it is intertwined with curiosity, respect, even awe. There is a willingness, too, to reach beyond the otherness of Islam and to see the Muslim world not as demonic or exotic but as a variant of the European experience.... "At a time when many politicians present Islam as alien to the European experience, such shows are a useful reminder of how historically deeply intertwined are the worlds of Europe and Islam." 

July 9. Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, the schools regulator, accused Muslim groups of having a "sense of religious or cultural entitlement" and attempting to exert an outsize influence on school policy: "For some children, school may be the only time in their lives that they spend time every day with people from outside their immediate ethnic or religious group, or at least where the values of people outside their own group can be explained and openly discussed. "Islamist extremists, particularly fueled by the online propaganda of Daesh [Islamic State] and others, prey on a sense of isolation and alienation in some minority communities."

July 12. Thousands of Muslim pupils in Blackburn, Burnley, Hyndburn, Nelson, Preston and Rawtenstall were instructed to boycott all school meals when they return to class in September. The move followed the decision by the Lancashire County Council to stop supplying schools with unstunned halal meat, and instead to serve meat from pre-stunned cattle and sheep.

July 13. Sophie Rahman, the former head teacher of Eton Community School, a primary school in Ilford, was banned for life from teaching after it emerged that she had allowed the "London Bridge jihadi," Khuram Butt, to teach Arabic classes after school at the facility. Butt reportedly told children that non-Muslims were the "worst creatures" and that it was acceptable for them to lie to their parents. A panel found Rahman guilty of unacceptable professional conduct. She confirmed that the last day Butt taught the children was June 2, 2017. The next day, Butt, along with Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba, plowed a van into people on London Bridge before launching a knife rampage around Borough Market. The attackers were shot dead by police officers.

July 15. Samantha Lewthwaite, a 34-year-old British convert to Islam, was reported to be recruiting suicide bombers to target summer holidaymakers in Britain, Cyprus, Greece, Spain and Turkey. The mother-of-four — known as the White Widow after her jihadi husband, Germaine Lindsay, killed himself along with 26 others in the 2005 London suicide bombings — was feared to have recruited up to 30 jihadis, who have been taught how to build suicide vests and choose their own targets. An intelligence source said: "The White Widow hates Britain and everything the West stands for. She has completely turned her back on her country and her former life. She has mentored dozens of female terrorists and favors white converts to Islam because she feels they attract less suspicion by the security services."

July 17. The Independent reported on an inquiry which found that the British government received information detailing the activities of Muslim pedophile gangs in Rotherham as far back as 2002 but failed properly to act on it, apparently out of fear of being accused of racism. A large-scale inquiry was not launched until a decade later, after a Times report on the scale of grooming in Britain provoked a national scandal. Sarah Champion, Labour MP for Rotherham, said it was clear that the Home Office knew about child sexual exploitation in Rotherham since 2002: "Why, when so many in authority knew the scale and severity of this crime, did it take until 2014, with the publication of the Jay report, for a large-scale investigation to occur? How many lives could have been protected if swift action had been taken a decade before?"

July 20. Khalid Ali, a 28-year-old plumber-turned-jihadi from London, was handed three life sentences, with a minimum term of 40 years in prison, for plotting a knife attack on MPs and police outside the Houses of Parliament. Ali had three knives when he was arrested by armed police in Parliament Square on April 2017, following surveillance by counter-terrorism police. Ali had spent five years in Afghanistan, where he made Taliban bombs used to maim and kill British and NATO troops. In an interview with officers, Ali said he wanted to deliver a message to British leaders telling them to leave "Muslim lands," destroy the state of Israel and release prisoners of war. "I would consider myself as a mujahid [Islamic warrior]," he added. "Jihad is what we do."

July 20. Former Prime Minister David Cameron said it is a mistake to understand terrorism as a clash between Christianity and Islam: "Listening to [President] Trump makes me feel that it is a clash between Christianity and Islam. It is wrong." He added that there was "a clash within Islam, between the civilized ones who want to practice their faith peacefully and those who had taken a radicalized and perverted view of the religion."

 July 21. The Sunday Telegraph reported that former Prime Minister Tony Blair was being paid £9 million (€10 million; $11.5 million) to advise the government of Saudi Arabia. An article on Blair's website states: "[T]he Crown Prince has demonstrated a level of conviction, clarity and coherence in identifying and understanding the nature of Islamist extremism that Western policymakers should seek to learn from. Britain should learn from Saudi Arabia and how it has demonstrated a clear commitment to tackling the politicization of Islam to inform policymaking, with no moral ambiguity in delineating Islam, the faith, from Islamism, a politicized ideology."

July 24. Majud Hussain, a 41-year-old police officer from Nottingham, was sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a 17-year-old girl. Judge James Sampson told Hussain, a married father of four: "You have shown absolutely no remorse whatsoever. You are clearly a disgrace to the uniform of police officers and you are obviously unfit to be a police constable."

July 24. Khalid Baqa, a 54-year-old man from East London, was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison for circulating jihadi literature on the London Underground. Commander Clarke Jarrett, Head of the Met's Counter Terrorism Command said: "Baqa was reproducing and distributing terrorist related material in the hope of getting others involved and drawn into the same toxic ideology he was peddling. Not only that, but he also radicalized and involved a young impressionable 17-year-old, whom he then used to help distribute his pamphlets and CDs."

July 25. Home Secretary Sajid Javid ordered research into the ethnic origin of sexual grooming gangs, apparently in order to discover why men convicted of child sex crimes are disproportionately of Pakistani origin. Javid, a British-Pakistani, said that exploring the "particular characteristics" of offenders was "critical to our understanding" of what happened across the country, including in Newcastle, Telford and Rotherham.

July 25. Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Ireland's biggest health trust, reported 17 cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) between April 2017 and January 2018. The women's ages ranged from 24 years to 46 years. Their countries of origin were not recorded.

July 26. The director of the Royal College of Midwives in Northern Ireland, Breedagh Hughes, said that women are being let down by a lack of clarity over procedures for reporting incidents of female genital mutilation (FGM): "The fact that there have been no official, practical guidelines for nurses, midwives, social workers, anyone working at the coalface [on the front lines], means it's very difficult for anyone to know what to do when confronted with a case of FGM.... "There is also an issue of jurisdiction. If the offense was carried out on someone over 18 outside of Northern Ireland, what do they do?"

July 27. Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Britain expressed fear of violent persecution after cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan announced victory in Pakistan's general election. The Ahmadiyya community is considered heretical by orthodox Muslims: its followers do not believe that Mohammed was the final prophet. This belief, under Pakistan's blasphemy laws, is an offense punishable by death. "We are standing with Article 295c," Khan said at a gathering of Muslim leaders in Islamabad, "and will defend it." Khan was referring to a clause of the Pakistani Constitution that mandates the death penalty for any "imputation, insinuation or innuendo" against Mohammed. Some 30,000 Ahmadiyyas are living in Britain.

July 28. Six men were charged in connection with an acid attack on a three-year-old boy, who was on a shopping trip with his mother. The boy's father, a 39-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, was among those charged in the attack. Police believe the man had intended to attack his estranged wife, who, with their three children, left him last year and moved to another house to start a new life.

July 29. The Sunday Times reported that not a single Christian was among the 1,112 Syrian refugees resettled in Britain in the first three months of 2018. The Home Office agreed to resettle only Muslims and rejected the four Christians recommended by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. July 30. A couple who tricked their teenage daughter into travelling to Bangladesh in an attempt to force her to marry her first cousin was sentenced to four-and-a-half years and three-and-a-half years to prison, respectively. The husband and wife, who were not named for legal reasons, were found guilty in May of using violence, threats or coercion to force her into marriage. During a three-week trial in Leeds, a jury heard that in 2016, the couple's daughter, then 18, was taken out of college during classes to go on what she thought was a six-week holiday to Bangladesh to see family and celebrate an Islamic holiday. She was told of the marriage plans less than a week after arriving in the country. When she refused to take part, her father threatened to slit her throat. 

AUGUST 2018 August 1. In a landmark ruling, a high court judge declared that a Muslim wife could divorce her husband and claim his assets, despite the fact that they married in an Islamic ceremony called a nikah [a mutual agreement of bride and groom of their own free will], which is not legally recognized in Britain. In a written ruling, Mr. Justice Williams, who heard the case in the family division of the high court in London, concluded that the marriage fell within the scope of the 1973 Matrimonial Causes Act because the couple had expectations similar to those of a British marriage contract. The decision came after Nasreen Akhter divorced her husband, Mohammed Shabaz Khan, who attempted to block her separation on the basis that they were not legally married according to English law and only under Sharia law. Previous cases involving nikah marriages concluded that they were legally non-existent, meaning that spouses had no redress to the courts for a division of matrimonial assets if a marriage broke down. The ruling will make it easier for women who are married under Sharia law to divorce their husbands and split their assets. The ruling also appears to enshrine two parallel justice systems — British law and Sharia law — in Britain.

August 2. British teenagers are being forced to marry abroad and are therefore effectively raped and often impregnated while the Home Office "turns a blind eye" by handing visas to their husbands, according to The Times. Officials received dozens of reports last year that women wanted to block visas to the UK for men they had been made to marry in countries Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and the United Arab Emirates. In almost half of the cases, records show, the visas were approved. Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the home affairs select committee, said that she would demand answers from the Home Office over the findings. Experts believe there are thousands of victims in Britain, but that the vast majority are too afraid to come forward.

August 3. Safaa Boular, 18, of Vauxhall, was sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum 13-year term, for plotting a jihadi attack on British soil. Alongside her mother and sister, who were imprisoned in June, Boular was part of Britain's first all-female ISIS cell. Boular presented herself at the trial in Western clothing and declared herself deradicalized, but Judge Mark Dennis QC warned that she posed an ongoing threat: "There is insufficient evidence...to conclude at this stage that the defendant is a truly transformed individual." August 4. A police officer phoned a charity to ask whether it was "culturally acceptable" for an Iraqi pedophile to have a 12-year-old girlfriend, according to an investigation carried out by The Times. The officer had arrested the 26-year-old man but wanted to be "culturally sensitive" after the suspect said the relationship was acceptable in his community. The charity that took the call, Karma Nirvana, told the officer to deal with the man as he would any other suspected child abuser. The charity, which works with victims of forced marriage, said the case showed the danger of officers whose professional judgment was clouded by fear of being called racist.

August 5. Former foreign secretary (and possible future prime minister) Boris Johnson sparked a political firestorm after making politically incorrect comments about the burka and the niqab, the face-covering garments worn by some Muslim women. He compared Muslim women wearing burkas to bank robbers and letter boxes, but added, "that's still no reason to ban it." The ensuing debate over Islamophobia revealed the extent to which political correctness is stifling free speech in Britain. It also exposed deep fissures within the Conservative Party over its future direction and leadership. London Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said that Johnson's remarks did not "reach the bar" to be a criminal offense.

August 6. The Daily Mail removed a report from its website that described the French capital as "Powder Keg Paris" after a French activist, Marwan Muhammad, complained that the report was Islamophobic. The article reported that 300,000 illegal migrants were living in the suburb of Saint-Denis, north of Paris, where drug dealing, crime and poverty were rising due to "immigration on a mammoth scale."

August 6. Muhammed Mucahid, a 57-year-old a Turkish migrant living in London, was arrested after allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy in the restroom of a McDonald's restaurant in Southend-on-Sea. Mucahid was accused of watching the boy attempt to use a urinal, then ushered or pushed him into an empty cubicle. It is alleged he kissed him on the cheek before the boy managed to escape and get back to his father, who had been waiting in line to order food.

August 7. Ishaq Al-Noor, a 21-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for raping a 17-year-old student in a cemetery in Spring Bank in Hull, East Yorkshire. When the rape charge was put to him, Al-Noor, through his interpreter, told Hull Crown Court: "Guilty. Yes, I did that. Why not?" Al-Noor, of West Hill, needed the services of one of the few interpreters in Britain who could speak his particular Sudanese dialect.

August 8. A Sky Data Poll found that 60% of Britons surveyed said that it is not racist to compare Muslim women wearing burkas to bank robbers and letter boxes, while 59% were in favor of a burka ban.

August 9. Three members of a Rochdale pedophile grooming gang were stripped of their British citizenship and now face possible deportation to Pakistan. Taxi drivers Adil Khan, Abdul Aziz and Abdul Rauf were among nine men imprisoned for gang-raping teenage girls in 2012. In 2016, Theresa May, Home Secretary at the time, ruled that the three should have their names deleted from the roll of British citizens. The trio, all of whom have British children, challenged the decision. They claimed it violated their human right to a family life. Senior judges at the Court of Appeal ruled that stripping them of citizenship is "conducive to the public good."

August 10. A bus driver in Bristol was disciplined after asking a Muslim woman to remove her face veil. "This world is dangerous," he told her. The 20-year-old woman was with her two-month-old baby when the driver of a bus destined for Bristol's city center explained that if he could not see her face, he did not know what she was capable of doing. "I've been humiliated in public, and I'm disappointed," the woman said. "It's 2018, we shouldn't be like that. I'm being stereotyped." The bus company apologized for the driver's actions and said they took action against him.

August 10. Lewis Ludlow, a 26-year-old convert to Islam from Rochester, pled guilty to plotting a terror attack on London's Oxford Street. Ludlow, who also used the name Ali Hussain, planned to rent a van and hit pedestrians. He also targeted Madame Tussauds and St Paul's Cathedral, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said. Ludlow said that he had hoped to kill up to 100 people.

August 10. Prime Minister Theresa May was accused of trying to censor photos of her at a halal butcher for fear of alienating voters. The photo was taken during a campaign stop at London's Smithfield Market, but her aides begged photographers not to use it, according to the Sun. The source said: "Her staff pleaded with us. They were terrified it would alienate people. Her team were petrified." The Prime Minister's office insisted that there were no restrictions on photos.

August 11. Liam Bradley, a 48-year-old motorcycle instructor, accused a Shell gasoline station in Blackburn of "racism" after he was told to remove his helmet while a woman next to him was not required to remove her burka while refueling her vehicle. Venting his frustration on Facebook, Liam branded the double standard as "racism at work in Britain," and urged people to share his post so as to not "let them get away with it." The post quickly went viral.

August 13. Razwan Faraz, a former deputy head teacher at the Nansen Primary School in Birmingham, lost an appeal to get his job back. Faraz, who was fired after saying that homosexuals should be "eradicated," had alleged that he was the victim of religious discrimination, but a judge threw out his claim for unfair dismissal. Nansen Primary was embroiled in the "Trojan horse" scandal, in which an anonymous letter exposed an alleged plot by a group of conservative Muslims to take over several Birmingham schools and impose an Islamist ethos there.

August 14. Salih Khater, a 29-year-old British citizen of Sudanese origin, swerved his car into cyclists and pedestrians before driving towards police and crashing into a barrier outside the Houses of Parliament. Police said his case was being treated as terrorism due to the location, methods and alleged targeting of civilians and police officers.

August 15. Thirty-two members of a Muslim sex gang were charged with offenses including rape and trafficking after an investigation into sex crimes against children in Huddersfield. Police in West Yorkshire said the five alleged victims were girls aged between 12 and 18, with the offenses said to have occurred between 2005 and 2012. Those charged include: Banaras Hussain, 37; Banaris Hussain, 35; Mohammed Suhail Arif, 30; Iftikar Ali, 37; Mohammed Sajjad, 31; Fehreen Rafiq, 38; Umar Zaman, 30; Basharat Hussain, 31; Amin Ali Choli, 36; Shaqeel Hussain, 35; Mubasher Hussain, 35; Abdul Majid, 34; Mohammed Dogar, 35; Usman Ali, 32; Mohammed Waqas Anwar, 29; Gul Riaz, 42; Mohammed Akram, 41; Manzoor Akhtar, 29; and Samuel Fikru, 30. A further 12 men who were not named for legal reasons were charged with "numerous offenses in connection with the same investigation."

August 16. A sermon at the Didsbury Mosque, where the Manchester bomber worshipped, called for the support of armed jihadist fighters, according to the BBC. In December 2016, an imam at the mosque was recorded praying for "victory" for "our brothers and sisters right now in Aleppo and Syria and Iraq." The imam, Mustafa Graf, said that his sermon did not call for armed jihad and he has never preached radical Islam. The recording the BBC obtained is of Friday prayers at the mosque six months before Salman Abedi detonated a suicide bomb after an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena in May 2017. Abedi and his family regularly attended the mosque and his father sometimes led the call to prayer. The family's whereabouts on the day of the sermon are not known, but the BBC reported that Abedi bought a ticket for the concert 10 days after the sermon. The bomb killed 22 people as well as the attacker, and injured hundreds of others. 

August 17. A three-year-old girl was hospitalized after allegedly being subjected to female genital mutilation, which left her severely wounded. A London couple — the man, 42, and woman, 36, of African heritage — was accused of carrying out the procedure. The case is only the third time that charges of FGM have been brought to court. The two previous cases both resulted in acquittals, meaning that there has not been a single FGM conviction in the UK despite its being illegal in the country since 1985.

August 19. The number of girls being forced into marriage ahead of the summer holiday period has increased by more than a third in recent years, according to the national charity Karma Nirvana, which provides training to the police, National Health Service and social services. The group condemned the Home Office for shelving a campaign to raise awareness of the practice of girls taken abroad to be married off to strangers during the "critical" run-up to the summer break — the time of the year when the problem is at its peak. Speaking to The Independent, Karma Nirvana revealed that it had learned of 150 new cases of forced marriage from May to July, an increase of more than a third compared to the same period in 2015, when it received 99 new cases. The charity also found that cases of forced marriage had soared by 40% at the start of the school holidays in 2018. The charity also said that in July, it was receiving reports of cases at a rate of two a day, more than double the average of 25, seen in the first four months of the year, with 44 cases reported in May and June. Karma Nirvana's founder, Jasvinder Sanghera, warned that thousands of girls would not be returning to school in September, having had their educations cut off and, in many cases, been left trapped in a cycle of poverty after falling victim to the crime of forced marriage.

August 20. Senior politicians and animal welfare groups condemned the British government over a deal that allows meat from lambs slaughtered without first being stunned to be exported to Saudi Arabia. They said that the deal, estimated by the government to be worth £25 million (€28 million; $33 million) over the next five years, showed a disregard for animal welfare.

August 22. Abdul Jalil, a 64-year-old migrant from Bangladesh, was found guilty of cheating the British welfare system out of £28,000 (€32,000; $37,000) over a period of eight years. Jalil was spared time in jail after he told probation officers that "he would do unpaid work as long as it's light work." The judge ordered him to complete 120 hours.

August 24. A Muslim family was filmed butchering animal carcasses on a patio in public housing in Dagenham, Essex. The footage sparked a hygiene probe from the local council but a woman at the property denied any wrongdoing. It was not known if the family — celebrating Eid al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice — slaughtered the animals at home or were simply butchering them. A columnist, for the Sun, Anila Baig, said that Muslim families traditionally sacrifice a goat or sheep and divide it into portions for Eid al-Adha, but added: "In this day and age, it's extremely unusual for someone to do this themselves at home." Mohammed Shafiq, of the Ramadhan Foundation, insisted the family had done nothing wrong in practicing their religion. August 24. The Lancashire County Council temporarily suspended its ban on beef and lamb from animals that are not stunned. The move was aimed at giving all of Lancashire's county councillors the chance to reconsider the authority's ban on halal meat from unstunned animals. The county council's cabinet decided in July to provide only stunned halal meat, except poultry, to schools. The Lancashire Council of Mosques, however, objected and threatened to ask Muslim families across the county to boycott all school meals.

August 25. Yusuf Aka, 22, from Leicester, was sentenced to five years in prison for randomly stabbing a man during a violent rampage at a hospital in the city. Aka, on parole from a seven-year sentence for armed robberies when the incident happened, told the Leicester Crown Court that he did what he did because he wanted "attention."

August 26. British Somali teenagers are being taken back to their parents' homeland under the pretense of a holiday vacation and then kept in detention centers before being forced into marriages, according to the Guardian. The latest government figures showed a 100% year-on-year increase in the number of forced marriage cases handled by Home Office involving Somali children and teenagers. In 2017, the figure rose to 91. There were calls from 65 females and 26 males. Of those, 23 were under the age of 15. London had the highest number of victims at 64. When the Guardian contacted several UK-based Somali community organizations and charities, most said they had not heard of the practice or denied that forced marriage involving British Somali nationals was taking place. August 30. Mohammed Hamza Siddiq, a 37-year-old convert to Islam, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on charges of encouraging terrorism on Facebook. Siddiq, formerly known as Andrew Calladine, did not enter a plea and was remanded in custody.

August 30. Abubaker Deghayes, 50, a former leader of the al-Quds Mosque in Brighton and brother of Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after being found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice. Blackfriars Crown Court in London heard how Deghayes, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 1991 and is the father of two jihadis killed in Syria, threatened to have his wife shot if she gave evidence against him in a separate trial. In it, he was accused of assaulting his wife and children in what was described as an exorcism. Judge Rajeev Shetty reprimanded Deghayes for refusing to stand for the court: "You appear rather arrogant with no respect for the secular nature of our laws. You have refused to stand with the court opening and closing. This does not insult me but insults our proud legal system."

August 31. Naa'imur Zakariyah Rahman, a 20-year-old British-Bangladeshi jihadi from North London, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for plotting to behead Prime Minister Theresa May. Rahman, who pledged allegiance to ISIS, had planned to bomb the gates of 10 Downing Street, kill guards and then attack the prime minister with a knife or gun. His plan was discovered by a network of undercover counter-terrorism officers from the Metropolitan police, the FBI and MI5. During his trial, the court heard how Rahman told undercover officers of his plans: "I want to do a suicide bomb on Parliament. I want to attempt to kill Theresa May. There are lorries [trucks] here with big gas tankers, if a brother can drive it next to Parliament I will bomb. [God willing] will be very big if I'm successful. I can't mess up. I can't get [martyrdom] if I get caught."

Judge Charles Haddon-Cave said that Rahman was "a very dangerous individual" and that it was "difficult to predict when, if ever, he will become deradicalized and no longer be a danger to society."

SEPTEMBER 2018 September 4. Prosecutors accused Andy Sami Star, 32, of Chesterfield, and Farhad Salah of Sheffield, of plotting a jihadi attack with an explosive device involving a driverless car. Prosecutor Anne Whyte QC told Sheffield Crown Court that Star and Salah, both of whom are Kurdish asylum seekers from Iraq, were supporters of the Islamic State. She said the two had decided that improvised explosive devices could be made and used in the UK in a way which would spare their own lives but harm others they considered "infidels."

September 5. Sara Iftekhar, a 20-year-old law student from Huddersfield, became the first hijab-wearing woman to take part in the Miss England final. "I did not expect to be making history," said Iftekhar, of Pakistani origin. "I do feel proud." September 7. Girls are being pressured in British playgrounds to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), a survivor warned. Dr. Leyla Hussein, who underwent the procedure when she was seven years old in Somalia, said pressure was being put on children by their peers as well as relatives. "Some of my clients are 19-year-old girls who were children or were born in this country, and they will say they were pressured in a playground in a school in London to go and have it done." She urged people in affected communities to confront the idea of FGM as a "tradition."

September 8. Ayaan Ali, a 28-year-old woman from Isleworth, was charged with attempted murder after she stabbed someone at Barnsley town center. Market trader Abdul Razzaq, 43, said he confronted the woman after she produced "a huge kitchen knife" and shouted "kill, kill, kill" as she stabbed a man in the shoulder and then walked around the busy streets. Ali's defense attorney attributed the attack to a "deterioration" in her mental health.

September 9. The Muslim Council of Britain called on the Home Office to stop Franklin Graham, an evangelical preacher from the United States, from entering the UK. Graham, who was accused of making comments that were supposedly Islamophobic, was invited to preach at a Christian festival in Blackpool. The event went ahead as planned.

September 14. A senior Scotland Yard officer was in danger of losing his job for allegedly racist language in a briefing to colleagues. The detective superintendent reportedly addressed colleagues about the need to be faultless and above reproach in carrying out inquiries. He said that they needed to be "whiter than white." The Met later received a complaint about his comment and passed it to the police watchdog for investigation. The officer was placed on restricted duties while the Independent Office for Police Conduct investigated. He was told the inquiry may take up to 12 months to complete.

September 15. Four in ten Britons believe multiculturalism has undermined British culture and that migrants do not properly integrate, according to a new research into the population's attitudes to immigration. The study, conducted over the last two years, also reflected widespread frustration with the government's handling of immigration, with only 15% of respondents feeling ministers have managed it competently and fairly. More than a quarter of the people surveyed believe that MPs never tell the truth about immigration and half the population wants to see a reduction in the numbers of low-skilled workers coming into Britain from the EU.

September 16. Islamist groups are "weaponizing" Islamophobia and "cynically" using human rights to promote their ideology, according to Sara Khan, the government's new counter-extremism tsar. She said that Islamist groups accuse their critics of being anti-Muslim, in an attempt to shut down "legitimate debate" about Islamic extremism. She added that the "use and abuse" of the language of human rights is "perhaps the most concerning" tactic employed by fundamentalist groups. "Groups such as Hizb ut-Tahrir, for example — who traditionally rally against what they perceive to be western human rights — increasingly and cynically use human rights to promote Islamist ideology," she said.

September 17. West Yorkshire Police introduced an alternative, looser fitting police uniform for Muslim women. The change was said to be part of efforts to recruit more minority ethnic officers. Assistant Chief Constable Angela Williams said: "For the last month we have been trialing a new uniform for women which is designed not to show the female form. This was suggested by a Muslim female officer and was designed by our Clothing Manager in conjunction with the officer. "The tunic is a looser and longer fit, and has full sleeves. This has been well-received from officers in the force and we have now made further supplies of this uniform for other officers to trial it if they wish. "I hope this uniform will encourage people from underrepresented groups to consider a career in policing if they had previously been put off joining the force due to the uniform, and we are open to suggestions from all communities on how our uniform can be styled to better suit their needs."

September 20. The illegal immigrant population Britain was estimated to be increasing by 70,000 per year — nearly equivalent to the size of the full-time British Army, according to a new report by Migration Watch UK.

September 22. The Times reported that Hizb ut-Tahrir, an extremist group banned in more than a dozen countries, launched a recruitment drive in Birmingham's Sparkhill area, an inner-city neighborhood linked to more homegrown terrorists than anywhere else in Britain. Campaign materials for its youth roadshow made no mention of the group's name and did not feature its usual logo of the Islamic state flag. They instead presented the group, which two prime ministers considered banning, as an innocuous community organization.

September 23. The new head of the Police Federation, John Apter, said that common sense policing has "gone out of the window" with officers forced to spend their time intervening in social media disputes rather than attending burglaries and other serious crimes. Apter, who represents 120,000 rank and file officers across England and Wales, said his members were "incredibly frustrated" because they felt they were no longer able to do the job they had signed up to do. Rather than attending burglaries and helping to prevent soaring levels of violence, police officers were often being deployed to sort out petty arguments on Facebook and Twitter, he said.

September 26. The Charity Commission announced the appointment of an interim manager to the Fazal Ellahi Charitable Trust due to misconduct and mismanagement at the charity. The Commission opened a statutory inquiry into the charity to look into a number of concerns including the use of the charity's premises to support or condone terrorism. The investigation was opened following the conviction of the charity's imam, 40-year-old Kamran Hussain, for six counts of encouragement of terrorism, and two counts of encouraging support for a proscribed organization.

September 27. Ashfaq Khan, a 60-year-old "predatory and manipulative rapist" who targeted "lone, vulnerable" gay women in the Manchester Gay Village before raping them was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Khan pretended to be a taxi driver, or allowed women to think he was one, offering them a lift before attacking them. Remorseless Khan, from Longsight, denied the three rapes he was found guilty of committing.

September 30. British authorities destroyed more than 47,000 kilos of onions after more than 20 migrants were discovered hiding in trucks at the Port of Poole. The migrants, who were discovered by Border Force staff, identified themselves as from Afghanistan, Albania, Iran and Iraq. Borough of Poole said the items had to be disposed of to prevent any contaminated goods from coming into contact with the public. The overall cost of the onions was estimated at more than £35,000 (€39,000; $45,000).

OCTOBER 2018

October 1. So-called cutters are being flown into Britain to perform female genital mutilation (FGM) on young girls, according to The Independent. "The practicing community talk together, saying, 'My girl needs to be cut,' and pay the cutters to come into the UK and cut the girls here," said Hoda Ali, an FGM activist who works in West London. She added: "The reality is we need to open our eyes. We don't need to think just about faraway countries because right now we have girls who are in their late teens or even early twenties who were cut in this country. They are British girls who were born here and they were cut here."

October 2. Women and girls who are coerced into marriage by their families will be allowed to give evidence in secret so they can object to their foreign spouses' visas without fear of repercussions, according to legal changes announced by Home Secretary Sajid Javid. The changes came two months after The Times revealed that the Home Office was issuing visas to known abusers in forced marriage cases.

October 3. Zakaria Mohammed, a 21-year-old drug dealer from Birmingham, was sentenced to 14 years in prison after admitting to charges of modern slavery. Mohammed groomed his victims — a 14-year-old girl and two runaway 15-year-old boys — before making them sell class-A drugs from squalid flats a hundred miles from their homes. The teens, who were transported from Birmingham to Lincoln to work as "expendable workhorses" in drug dens, were found by police in a drug-infested apartment in Lincoln. The Telegraph reported it was the first time in British legal history that a drug-dealer has been convicted for breaching the Modern Slavery Act by trafficking children.

October 4. Rahman Ullah, a 38-year-old father of two from Croydon, was sentenced to 14 months in prison for beating his estranged wife and live-streaming the battering to relatives in Pakistan. Ullah, wielding a kitchen knife, made stabbing motions at his wife and boasted to his relatives: "I'm going to kill her today." Ullah initially told police that his wife was the aggressor.

October 5. Ten baby girls, all of whom were less than a year old, underwent female genital mutilation (FGM) in Birmingham between April and June 2018, according to the Birmingham Mail, citing official statistics. The data also revealed that 15 children aged between one and four were reported as FGM victims. In total, there were 140 new cases of FGM in the city in those three months. Most victims were between five and nine.

October 6. A report for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) found that one-third (33%) of Britons surveyed believed that efforts to provide equal opportunities to Muslim immigrants had gone "too far." The report, the first of an annual "barometer" testing public opinion, also found that 22% of Britons had negative views of Muslims.

October 7. The outgoing head of Karma Nirvana, a charity that supports victims of honor-based abuse, launched a scathing attack on the government's failure to tackle forced marriage. She said she feels "let down by the lack of leadership" and warned that more children will suffer as a result. Jasvinder Sanghera, who announced she was stepping down as head of Karma Nirvana after 25 years, said that working with the government to address the issue had at times been like "pushing a rock up a hill." She added: "The government has not done enough to raise awareness and mainstream the issue so there remains a huge problem with professionals viewing forced marriage as a cultural issue rather than a crime. Many aren't even aware there is a law."

October 8. A leaked letter showed that Home Secretary Sajid Javid agreed to hand evidence on two British jihadis to American authorities for a federal prosecution, but without assurances that the death penalty would not be used. El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey, allegedly members of a jihadi cell dubbed "The ISIS Beatles," beheaded a series of hostages in Syria. They have been the subject of a legal dispute between Britain and the United States since being captured in January 2018. Edward Fitzgerald QC, a lawyer for Elsheikh's mother, argued at the Administrative Court in London that Javid wrongly exposed the suspects to the risk of an "inhuman" punishment." Lawyers for Javid countered that there is no prohibition on providing legal assistance to another country where it may result in proceedings leading to the death penalty. "This group [the ISIS Beatles] is associated with some of the gravest offenses perpetrated against civilians in Syria during the conflict," James Eadie QC told the court. "These beheadings are notorious globally, all but one having been filmed and posted on the internet."

October 9. Teachers should look out for girls who have difficulty walking, sitting and standing, or who request to be excused from PE lessons, according to a new guide on spotting signs of female genital mutilation (FGM). Schools should also be aware of girls who have a prolonged absence from school, noticeable behavioral changes after these absences, or girls speaking about being on holiday to their country of origin or another country where the practice is prevalent. The indicators were published by Islington Council and the Manor Gardens Welfare Trust as part of a risk assessment tool to help teachers to identify and evaluate the damage done by FGM. The 12-page workbook takes teachers through the signs that a child may be at risk, that FGM may have already taken place, and what educators should do if such a situation arises.

October 10. The British Army launched an investigation after an anti-Islamization activist known as Tommy Robinson posted a photo of himself with a group of young soldiers. The photo appeared to have been taken at a highway rest stop, and Robinson had described the group as "young recruits." Robinson wrote on Facebook, "A moment like this makes it all worthwhile. Today I met real British heroes." An Army spokeswoman said, "Far-right ideology is completely at odds with the values and ethos of the armed forces. The armed forces have robust measures in place to ensure those exhibiting extremist views are neither tolerated nor permitted to serve." Robinson said that he had met the soldiers by chance and they should not be "left hung out to dry" for having their photo taken with him.

October 11. The retailer Marks & Spencer sparked a row after including hijabs — head coverings worn by some Muslim women — in its school uniform section. The company's social media pages were flooded with angry messages and dozens of disgruntled customers said they would not use the store until the black headscarves removed from the stock. The founder of the Quilliam Foundation, Maajid Nawaz, said that M&S had reverted to "medievalism" by including a child-size hijab in the school-wear category.

October 13. A 29-year-old Somali whose deportation from Britain was halted after airline passengers staged a mutiny and demanded his release was exposed as a convicted gang rapist being deported because of his crime. Officials escorting Yaqub Ahmed on a flight from Heathrow to Turkey on October 9 were forced to abandon his deportation when around a dozen holidaymakers who felt sorry for him angrily intervened shortly before take-off. At one stage a traveler complained, "They're separating him from his family," while others chanted "take him off the plane." It later emerged that Ahmed and three other youths had gang-raped a 16-year-old in London's Leicester Square in August 2007. Ahmed served only half of a nine-year sentence. When a video of the protest was published by MailOnline, hundreds of readers expressed their outrage. One wrote, "The police should have been called and all the passengers who were interfering should have been arrested and removed from the plane." Another reader wrote, "Now it will cost a lot more to fly the man back on a private charter! Well done silly interfering, self-seeking, do-gooding idiots!"

October 14. Belal Ahmed, 24, and Mizad Miah, 24, both from Tower Hamlets, were sentenced to a combined 24 years in prison for spiking a 21-year-old woman's drink with MDMA ("Ecstasy"), raping her after she became unconscious, and then dumping her at the side of the road in her underwear. Both men were arrested at Gatwick Airport in November 2017 when they returned to Britain after vacationing together in Morocco.

October 15. The Ministry of Justice blocked plans for an academic study into why prisoners convert to Islam and how it can lead to radicalization, according to The Times. Supporters of the three-year project said they were dismayed by the decision and believe the prison service did not want outsiders studying such a sensitive topic. "The corporate culture of the service is defensive, and they will have been concerned about what this proposed project will discover," a source said. The number of Muslim prisoners in jails in England and Wales has more than doubled in recent years, rising from 5,500 in 2002 to 12,894 this year, The Times, citing official data, reported.

October 17. Lancashire County Council decisively voted to stop supplying halal (legally permitted according to Sharia law) meat from un-stunned animals to area schools as of 2019. The decision — 49 to 23 with nine abstentions — will affect 12,000 Muslim pupils in the 27 schools in Blackburn, Nelson, Burnley, Rawtenstall, Hyndburn and Preston. The Chief Executive of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, Abdul Hamid Qureshi, said he was considering calling for Muslim pupils to boycott school meals.

October 18. A Tesco worker sued the supermarket chain for harassment and racial discrimination after a colleague "broke wind in his face." Atif Masood, 42, a customer assistant at a branch in Thornton Heath, demanded £20,000 (€23,000; $26,000) — claiming that passing wind amounts to "bullying." In legal papers submitted to a London employment tribunal, Masood claimed there was "too much racism" in the Thornton Heath store, and felt he was discriminated against by colleagues because he was a Pakistani Muslim.

October 19. The radical preacher Anjem Choudary, described as Britain's "most dangerous extremist," was released from prison after serving only half of the five-and-a-half-year sentence he received in 2016 for pledging allegiance to the Islamic State. Prison authorities could not prevent his release: under British sentencing guidelines, prisoners — even those still a risk to the public — automatically become eligible for release under license (parole) after serving half their terms.

October 20. Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi, a 51-year-old Muslim cleric who runs Britain's largest network of Sharia courts, was questioned over allegations that he had raped children. West Midlands Police are investigating claims that Siddiqi raped two Dutch women in the 1980s and 1990s. The women claim they were sexually abused from the ages of 11 and 12 until they turned 16. They were sent to Britain by their parents to be educated by Sheikh Siddiqi's father, a respected Muslim scholar. Siddiqi is the head of the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal, an Islamic legal service in England that operates a string of controversial Sharia law courts which critics say discriminate against women. He has denied the claims against him, which first appeared in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, and said they are part of a campaign to discredit his family.

October 23. Nearly 2,000 young people in Britain, the vast majority of them girls, were wed before the age of 18 between 2010 and 2015, according to Thomson Reuters Foundation, citing official data. Child marriage — defined internationally as marriage under 18 — remains legal in Britain. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, teenagers can wed at 16 with parental consent. In Scotland, at the age of 16, they do not need consent, Thomson Reuters noted. British parliamentarian Pauline Latham, who introduced a bill to raise the marriage age to 18, said it was "crazy" that Britain still allowed child marriage when it was spending £39 million (€44 million; $51 million) over five years to support efforts to end it in developing countries.

October 24. An Islamic school teaching that only Muslims and animals were saved on Noah's Ark was the first to be successfully prosecuted for operating illegally. The Al-Istiqamah Learning Centre in West London marketed itself as a study center where home-educated children could attend part-time classes, but government inspectors found that almost 60 children of compulsory school age were regularly attending the center during school hours. The case was referred to the Crown Prosecution Service after the center failed to respond to a government warning notice. The Chief Inspector of Schools, Amanda Spielman, said that the verdict sent an important message to other unregistered schools, some of which she said deny children a proper education and leave them at risk of radicalization. Photographs posted on the school's website identified Noah as a prophet of Allah.

October 25. A Muslim family complained about the use of pork gelatin in three vaccines used by the National Health Service, according to the BBC. Porcine gelatin is derived from pigs and used in vaccines against flu, shingles, measles, mumps and rubella. A spokesperson for Public Health England said the gelatin is used as a stabilizer and developing an alternative "may never happen." A parent who contacted the BBC said he was "offended" by the use of porcine gelatin in a nasal flu vaccine. He said that his wife was told about the ingredient by a doctor when she took their children to be vaccinated. She refused the vaccine because of their religion. The Muslim Council of Britain said the vaccines are not permitted in Islam unless lives are at risk and there are no alternatives. "There should be more work towards an alternative," said Dr. Shuja Shafi, the chairman of the council's research and documentation committee. "We should be trying to find a long-term solution. The needs of the people must be met."

October 26. The diocese of Oxford defended a decision by the University of Oxford to invite an imam to deliver the University Sermon at the end of a eucharist on October 21. A spokesman for the diocese said that inviting Imam Monawar Hussain to preach at the university church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, was "a good piece of interfaith engagement." The spokesman said that the diocese had received a dozen complaints about the invitation but added, "If we had had 100 complaints we would have stood by the university's decision." A blog post by Adrian Hilton on his Archbishop Cranmer site noted that as a Muslim, Hussain would not believe in Jesus's death on a cross or in his resurrection. "By inviting an imam to preach not just a sermon, but a eucharistic sermon," he wrote, "it is hard to understand how this glorifies the crucified Son of God." The Bishop of Buckingham, Alan Wilson, dismissed the objections: "Hussain's work has been fundamental in deepening our understanding of Islam and combating the threat of terrorism in this country. He is promoting a charitable and wise interpretation of Islam."

October 27. Forty-three percent of Britons believe that Western liberal society can never be compatible with Islam, according to a ComRes "Islamophobia" poll. Two-fifths (43%) of the population would be concerned if a mosque was built in their neighborhood or a family member married a Muslim. One in five (22%) would be concerned if a Muslim family moved next door and three in ten (30%) would object to their child visiting a mosque.

October 28. As many as 80 jihadi brides and their children, who were detained in Syria since the fall of the Islamic State, are expected imminently to return to Britain, according to The Times. It also reported that the British Home Office has started issuing them British passports.

October 30. Mohammed Ghani, a 65-year-old former imam in West Yorkshire who sexually assaulted a young child over a period of seven years, had his sentence increased. In August, Leeds Crown Court sentenced Ghani to two years in prison, but his sentence was increased after it was referred to the Court of Appeal by the Solicitor General, Robert Buckland QC MP, under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme. The Court of Appeal increased Ghani's sentence to five years in prison. Speaking after the hearing, the Solicitor General said: "Ghani abused his position of authority and subjected a vulnerable child to a campaign of sexual assaults. I hope that the Court of Appeal's decision today brings the victim and their family some comfort."

October 31. The Times reported that Anjem Choudary was ordered to attend Britain's first compulsory deradicalization program. Choudary, who was released from prison on October 19, halfway through his sentence for supporting the Islamic State, was ordered to attend the Desistance and Disengagement Program (DDP) as part of his probation. The course, which requires him to receive mentoring and theological "advice," is the government's latest attempt to combat the heightened jihadist threat. Convicted jihadis are being freed from prison at a rate of one a week. More than 40% of those found guilty of terrorism offenses in the past decade, according to The Times, will be eligible for release by the end of 2018.

NOVEMBER 2018

November 1. Alice Weidel, the leader of Germany's anti-mass-migration party Alternative for Germany (AfD), cancelled a scheduled speech at the Oxford Union due to "concerns with security." The decision followed growing pressure from students and local groups to cancel the event. The president of the Union, Stephen Horvath, stood by Weidel's right to speak at the event, saying that the Union remained "committed to the principles of political neutrality and free speech."

November 2. A 6-foot-tall Iranian migrant claiming to be 15 years old began attending Stoke High School in Ipswich. The man, named Siavash, arrived in Britain in early 2018 posing as an unaccompanied minor. He was removed from the school after he admitted that he was 25, married and had two children. School officials initially dismissed the concerns of parents, saying they were motivated by racism.

November 3. Two Birmingham Islamic schools were reported to the government for segregating boys and girls. The Avecinna Academy in Bordesley and The Wisdom Academy in Nechells were flagged for "sex discrimination" by the education watchdog Ofsted. Avecinna was found to be practicing segregation across year groups, including during breaktimes, while Wisdom was said to be "failing to prepare students for life in modern Britain." Ofsted inspectors said in their reports that the mixed sex schools were in breach of the Equality Act 2010.

November 6. The Labour Party invited a known extremist preacher to an anti-racism rally. Shakeel Begg, an imam at the Lewisham Islamic Center, was listed as a speaker at a Lewisham Labour Against Racism meeting, alongside two Labour MPs, local activists, trade unionists and students. The London rally, attended by many of the area's prominent Labour officials, aimed to "challenge the hostile environment," "stop Tommy Robinson's far-right allies" and "oppose Islamophobia and antisemitism." In 2016, Begg was declared "an extremist Islamic speaker who espouses extremist Islamic positions" by the High Court. It ruled that he had recently "promoted and encouraged religious violence by telling Muslims that violence in support of Islam would constitute a man's greatest deed."

November 14. Kirklees Council, responding to a freedom of information request, revealed that 40 schools in the council were serving halal meat from non-stunned animals to schoolchildren. The revelation sparked a debate and a petition to ban non-stunned meat. The petition, signed by more than 7,000 people, stated: "Every day children in Kirklees schools are served meat from animals that have been slaughtered while fully conscious, suffering unnecessary pain and distress. It is a legal requirement that animals must be humanely stunned before slaughter, but non-stun slaughter is still permitted for some religious communities.... "Kirklees Council has been serving non-stunned halal meat in 42 schools without the knowledge or consent of the majority of pupils and parents. In some schools all of the meat served is non-stunned and there is no alternative option for pupils. The council has refused to say which schools are affected. "There is no need for the council to supply non-stunned halal meat when the majority of halal meat is pre-stunned. Most Muslims are content with stunning."

November 16. Six British-Pakistani men — Mohammed Imran Ali Akhtar, 37, Asif Ali, 33, Tanweer Ali, 37, Salah Ahmed El-Hakam, 39, Nabeel Kurshid, 35 and Iqlak Yousaf, 34 — were sentenced to a combined total of 101 years in prison for grooming and raping five teenage girls in Rotherham. The men subjected the five girls to "degrading and violent" acts using alcohol, drugs and the "excitement of friendship" to lure them in. Sheffield Crown Court heard that one girl had been sexually abused by "at least 100 Asian men" by the time she was 16. The men targeted and groomed the girls, who were aged between 13 and 16, over seven years between 1998 and 2005. The case was the first major prosecution arising out of Operation Stovewood, the National Crime Agency's inquiry into historical child sexual exploitation in the South Yorkshire town. The inquiry, which identified more than 1,500 victims, will cost British taxpayers more than £90 million (€102 million; $117 million) by 2024, the date to which current planning extends, even though few people think it will be completed by then.

November 17. An imam recited the adhan, the Muslim call to prayer, at Blackburn Cathedral, a Church of England cathedral, in front of an audience of about 400 people. In Arabic, the imam stated: "Allah is the greatest; I bear witness that there is no other God but Allah; I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah." Gavin Ashenden, a former chaplain to the Queen, criticized the church for trying to move from "being a religious organization to a cultural one." Peter Howell-Jones, the dean of Blackburn Cathedral said that the cathedral was not only a place for Christians, but for people of all faiths.

November 18. The broadcasting regulator Ofcom launched an investigation into the Islam Channel, a Muslim television station accused of promoting divisive and hardline views in Britain. Ofcom said it was "conducting an assessment of content on Islam Channel to determine whether it complies with the broadcasting code." Ofcom has censured the channel in the past for political bias, advocating violence against women and supporting marital rape. The station, which claims it has one million viewers a day, reaches 59% of British Muslims, according to government estimates. The move came after a Sunday Times investigation showed that the channel has been supported by Saudi money.

November 21. A new report from the Henry Jackson Society think tank revealed that the personal television station of Zakir Naik, a prominent Islamist preacher linked to the Glasgow airport bomber, continued to hold a UK broadcast license. Founded in 2006, Peace TV repeatedly broadcast speeches by prominent extremist preachers with links to global jihad. The station has been repeatedly sanctioned by Ofcom for individual infractions of the Broadcast Code due to its extremist content. Despite this, Ofcom has failed to revoke Peace TV's license. In June 2010, Naik was banned from entering Britain on the basis that his entrance would "not be conducive to the public good." The decision, which was later upheld by the High Court, came three years after one of Naik's followers, Kafeel Ahmed launched a jihadi attack on Glasgow airport.

November 23. Five fraudsters, who ran a fake Bangladeshi visa scam and falsely claimed £13 million (€14 million; $17 million) in tax refunds, were sentenced to total of 31 years in jail. London law student Abul Kalam Muhammad Rezaul Karim, 42, was the ringleader of the group, which set up 79 bogus companies and created fake documentation used by Bangladeshi nationals in fraudulent visa applications. Officers found that Karim, his brother-in-law Enamul Karim, 34, Kazi Borkot Ullah, 39, Jalpa Trivedi, 41 and Mohammed Tamij Uddin, 47, charged clients for temporary visas to remain in the UK a minimum of £700 in cash for their fraudulent immigration services. The gang, as part of their tax and immigration fraud, claimed their clients were employees. The gang also created fake pay slips and provided false information on approximately 900 visa applications. An investigation into their wrongdoing was the "longest ever undertaken" by Immigration Enforcement's Criminal and Financial Investigation team.

November 24. Prime Minister Theresa May was accused of personally intervening to deny asylum to Asia Bibi, a Roman Catholic woman convicted of blasphemy in Pakistan. Home Secretary Sajid Javid reportedly argued passionately that Bibi should be given refuge in Britain, but May refused because of fears that allowing Bibi to claim asylum would "stoke tensions" among British Muslims.

November 25. Muslim rape gangs preyed on British Sikh girls for decades, but police ignored the abuse due to political correctness, according to a report by the Sikh Mediation and Rehabilitation Team. Sikh girls would be lured by "fashionably-dressed adult Pakistani men travelling in flamboyant vehicles to predominantly Sikh dominated areas and schools," the report disclosed. Titled, "Religiously Aggravated Sexual Exploitation of Young Sikh Women Across the UK," the report said it was not intended to be a "witch-hunt against any individual, community, culture or faith" but that nothing would change unless the facts were known.

November 26. A jailed sex offender was allowed to play a part in the future of the child of a woman he raped. The man, who was reportedly part of a grooming gang, was contacted in jail by a council who gave him a chance to seek visits from the child. Baroness Newlove, Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales, said: "This is a perverse situation. It appears to be a case in which a victim of the worst sexual violence faced the prospect of continuing to be abused by her perpetrator, this time via the family courts. I believe that where a child has been conceived by rape that the presumption of joint parental rights should be abolished." Louise Haigh, shadow policing and crime minister, added: "This case potentially reveals a huge issue in the family courts where rapists are not only able but actively encouraged to gain access to their children and traumatize their victims all over again. If a child is born through rape, the father should under no circumstances be able to weaponize the courts against their victim."

November 27. People smugglers were reportedly telling migrants that they must enter Britain before "the borders shut properly" after Brexit, a BBC investigation disclosed. More than 100 people, the majority claiming to be Iranian, entered British waters in boats in November. An undercover reporter found smuggling operations were being organized at makeshift camps in northern France. "When the UK is out of Europe, the borders will be shut properly," a smuggler told an undercover reporter posing as an Iranian migrant at a camp in Dunkirk. "This jungle will be cleared. They will put everyone in jail." An Afghan, who gave his name as Farhad, told the BBC that he was part of a failed attempt to enter Britain aboard a dinghy with 11 others. "There is a rush," he said. "Everyone is talking about it saying we need to get in quick in case the security gets tighter."

November 30. Rahim Mohammadi, a 42-year-old Kurdish-Iranian from Hackney, was sentenced to 19 years in prison for murdering 80-year-old Lea Adri-Soejoko. Mohammadi, a Kurdish-Iranian, strangled Adri-Soejoko, the secretary of Colindale Allotments in North London, because he feared he would be thrown off his allotment, a plot of land for growing fruits and vegetables. Mohammadi sought political asylum in Britain in 2005 and was given indefinite leave to remain in 2010.

DECEMBER 2018

December 1. The Muslim Council of Britain and other Islamic groups demanded full legal protection from Islamophobia. They called on Prime Minister Theresa May, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and all other party leaders to adopt a newly proposed working definition of Islamophobia, apparently in an attempt to put pressure on a reluctant Home Office to follow suit. The definition was set out in a report published by a cross-party group of MPs and states: "Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness." The Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, Harun Khan, said that he hoped political leaders would "all understand the importance of listening to communities" and make a "positive response" by adopting the definition. A Home Office minister, Victoria Atkins, said that the department had no intention of adopting a "definitive definition" of Islamophobia. She said that there were "many definitions of Islamophobia" and that "we have very effective monitoring systems of all race-hate crimes."

December 5. Chaudry Mahmood, 51, from Ravensthorpe, pled guilty to assault by beating after he punched his girlfriend in the face. Prosecutor Natalie Chapman said a passerby witnessed the attack and called police. Mahmood claimed it was acceptable in "Asian culture" to hit women to "shut them up." When asked if he would do anything differently, he said 'no.' He was fined £80 and ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs plus £30 victim surcharge.

December 6. The Charity Commission, the government agency that regulates charities in England and Wales, condemned the former management of Muslim Aid, one of Britain's largest charities with a budget of £34 million (€38 million; $43 million) a year, for failing to safeguard against funding illegal groups. The charity, which worked in some of the most sensitive conflict zones in Africa and the Middle East, failed to check whether its money was going to blacklisted groups.

December 11. A 33-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of plotting a jihadi attack in Newcastle. More than a hundred officers swooped in on a quiet cul-de-sac in Newcastle upon Tyne to arrest the man, a "lone wolf plotter" said to be inspired by the Islamic State. Fearing that explosives may be present, more than 150 houses were evacuated as well as a school.

December 12. Miqdaad Versi, a spokesperson for the Muslim Council of Britain, complained that British media had accurately reported that Chérif Chekatt, the 29-year-old French-Moroccan jihadi who killed three people and injured a dozen more at a Christmas market in Strasbourg, shouted "Allahu Akbar" during the attack. He tweeted: "Disappointing to see BBC and Sky News lead with 'Allahu Akbar' in their headline on the awful shooting in #Strasbourg vs. ITV and Al Jazeera who are being far more responsible. This matters and it's wrong."

December 15. Abdulrahman Alcharbati, a 32-year-old Syrian from Benwell, was sentenced to seven years in prison for sharing jihadi propaganda. During his trial at Newcastle Crown Court, jurors were told how one of the films showed Syrian soldiers being violently beaten to death and dragged away. The court also heard how another of the videos depicted young children at an orphanage being given Islamic State "indoctrination" and being taught how to be a "thorn in the side of enemies of religion." Facebook had suspended his page on eight occasions between December 2016 and March 2017, but the father-of-one managed to get it reinstated each time by claiming that he was merely "exposing what was happening."

December 15. A 38-year-old Iranian asylum seeker who raped a teenage girl was spared deportation even though a judge believed his supposed conversion to Christianity was a deliberate ploy to cheat the justice system. The man, referred to in court documents as AM, arrived in Britain in 2006. In August 2013 he was sentenced to five years in prison for raping the 17-year-old in 2012. After his release from prison, a judge ruled that his claim to be Christian meant his deportation to Iran would be a breach of his human rights. The judge, who acknowledged that the man's religious conversion was part of a ruse to avoid deportation, ruled that his 850 twitter posts quoting the Bible and Christian theology placed him at risk of persecution if he was sent back to Iran.

December 17. Mohammed Karrar, 44, Bassam Karrar, 39 and Anjum Dogar, 36, were found guilty at Oxford Crown Court of ten counts of rape, indecent assault and conspiracy to rape for grooming and sexually abusing a "vulnerable" school girl in Oxford. During the trial, prosecutor Oliver Saxby QC said that the men had groomed and sexually abused their victim over a number of years in the early 2000s. He told jurors that they had formed part of a wider group of men who "sexually exploited vulnerable young girls for regular, casual and entirely functional sexual contact, in a car, in a park, in someone's flat." He added: "The common theme being sexual gratification that had the appearance of being consensual but in reality, courtesy of the level of exploitation and grooming involved, was anything but consensual."

December 18. Saheed Rasoolli, 30, and Araz Abdulla, 23, were sentenced to a combined 22 years in prison for abducting and raping a woman in Sunderland. Newcastle Crown Court heard how the woman was waiting for a bus in the city center on May 23 when she was approached by Rasoolli. She was then taken to a property in Roker Avenue and raped. Once Rasoolli had left the room, Abdulla entered and forced himself on the victim. She managed to flee to a nearby shop and reported the rapes to police. Rasoolli was sentenced to 12 years in prison and Abdulla was given a 10-year prison term.

December 19. Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, a 27-year-old Uber driver from Luton, was acquitted of terrorism charges. In August 2017, Chowdhury drove his car at a police van and attacked police with a samurai sword outside Buckingham Palace. Chowdhury shouted "Allahu Akbar" ("Allah is greatest") as two officers grappled with him. The court heard that three hours before the incident, Chowdhury left a note marked "read this" at the family home in Luton. The note said: "By the time you read this note I will be in paradise with Allah. Tell everyone that I love them and that they should struggle against the enemies of Allah with their lives and property. The Queen and her soldiers will all be in the hellfire. They go to war with Muslims around the world and kill them without mercy. They are the enemies that Allah tells us to fight." Chowdhury told the court that he had no intention of hurting the police and instead wanted to commit suicide because of British government policy against Muslims. He was unanimously acquitted after jurors deliberated for eleven-and-a-half hours.

December 20. The trial of William "Billy" Charlton, a 54-year-old activist accused of stirring up racial hatred during protests in Sunderland, was suspended after the jury at Newcastle Crown Court was unable to reach a verdict. Charlton was accused of targeting "immigrants, Asians, black people and police" during a series of public rallies to protest an increase in sexual assaults against women and children in the city. He allegedly referred to "immigrant rapists" and women being "used and abused by cowardly immigrants." Referring to Muslim rape gangs, Charlton said: "This will never be Rotherham, it will never be Rochdale, this is Sunderland." The case was be back in court in January 2019 for prosecutors to declare whether Charlton would be tried again. Charlton was granted bail in the meantime.

December 21. Statues of the Virgin Mary and Joseph were smashed, and a figure of baby Jesus was decapitated, at a nativity scene in Ilford. The nativity scene was installed and paid for by the British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA) to remind residents about the real meaning of Christmas. Councillor Jas Athwal said that he will not let "mindless people" ruin the nativity. "If we have to have it protected in the future then we will do it," he said. "We want to be making sure that all religions are living here peacefully."

December 22. London Police launched a murder investigation after a man in his 20s was stabbed to death in Haringey, North London. He was the 131st person to be violently killed in the capital in 2018 — the most since 2009.

December 25. Forty migrants, including two children, were rescued from boats in five separate incidents on Christmas Day in the English Channel. A Home Office spokesman said: "The evidence shows there is organized criminal gang activity behind illegal migration attempts by small boats across the Channel. We are working closely with the French and law enforcement partners to target these gangs, who exploit vulnerable people and put lives at risk."

December 26. Home Secretary Sajid Javid defended a controversial tweet in which he attacked "sick Asian pedophiles" and said that ignoring the men's ethnicity would boost extremism. He added that he took the Rochdale grooming scandal personally because it involved men from his hometown and defended the government's right to strip the men of their British citizenship and deport them back to Pakistan. Javid said it was his job was to keep the British public safe even if it meant offenders being sent to a country where they may face fewer checks on their actions.

December 27. Mohammed Aqib Imran, 22, from Sparkhill in Birmingham, was found guilty of preparing to join terrorists abroad. Imran arranged to travel for jihad around the same time that his friend Naa'imur Zakariyah Rahman, 21, was plotting a suicide attack against Prime Minister Theresa May. The pair were caught by a network of online role players from the Metropolitan police, MI5 and the FBI. Rahman's plan to kill May was thwarted when undercover officers handed him a rucksack packed with fake explosives. Following a trial in July, Rahman was convicted of preparing acts of terrorism and Imran was found guilty of possessing a terrorist handbook. Prosecutor Mark Heywood QC told jurors:

"At the heart of this case is a developing radicalization in the minds of two men who came to know each other online, and afterwards met and began to collaborate. Both thought about travelling abroad to further their cause, going to a conflict zone such as Syria to lend support to violence. Each also contemplated carrying out terrorist acts of violence here in the UK. "Mohammed Imran elected to travel and set about assembling money, acquiring a fake passport, engaging in research and otherwise equipping himself with the information and means to travel abroad for violence for terrorist purposes."

December 28. David Wood, a former senior Home Office official who used to lead immigration enforcement, warned that human smugglers were being emboldened by the fact that British lifeboats were rescuing travelers out at sea, with the rescuers then taking them on to dry land where they can claim asylum. He explained: "Britain's border force, coastguards and lifeboats are being used as a taxi service for migrants. As far as organized crime is concerned, it's de-risked their business. They know they don't have to get right across the Channel and land, they can get half way across and the migrants will be taken the rest of the way. "We have to stop this or it will grow and grow. The answer is to return them to France as soon as they are picked up. Given that the immigrants travelled from France, it would not be unlawful if the French agreed."

December 29. Home Secretary Sajid Javid cut short a Christmas holiday to return to Britain to deal with a surge in illegal crossings of the English Channel. Two boats were intercepted off the Kent coast on December 28 containing a total of 12 migrants, prompting urgent calls for the British and French authorities to do a better job of tackling people smuggling operations in northern France. Javid said he was ensuring that "everything possible" was being done to disrupt and prosecute organized people-smuggling gangs. Javid said that 539 people had made the crossing in 2018; 80% of those, in the last three months of the year. In "almost every case," he said, they went on to seek asylum.

December 31. A 25-year-old Somali man wielding kitchen knife and shouting "Allahu Akbar" stabbed three people, including a police officer, at Manchester's Victoria Station. The suspect, who had been living in Britain for a decade, reportedly shouted "Long live the Caliphate" and "As long as you keep bombing other countries, this sort of s*** is going to keep happening." The suspect, who appears to have acted alone, was initially held on suspicion of attempted murder, but later was detained under the Mental Health Act.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13513/britain-multiculturalism-transformation-ii

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For as I have said unto you and as you have noticed the weather, the weather, the weather, the troubles that are going on here, the troubles that are going on there, the preparation for war, not just North Korea but Russia and other countries that hate America, they are preparing and getting ready.  For the hour is much later than most people think, it is far later than those that are walking in the false and tell you that you have ten, twenty, thirty years, far later.  But many of them do not understand the word because the word starts in the very beginning in Genesis and as you follow the things through the Bible you get a clear picture of what it was like and what it shall return to, for I have taught you everything goes in a circle and we are headed back now toward the garden once again.  It started in the garden and ends in a sense in the garden way before the white throne judgment.  Things are coming to pass, if you check them very carefully they will all fall in perfect place and you don’t have to walk in doubt, you don’t have to walk in fear, for I have opened your understanding.  Yes, demon activity is far greater, far greater today than it has been, but if you go back to the time of Nimrod you will see the same thing right there.  You will see why I had to cause the languages to be divided and the people to be separated, because they had a mind and whatever they thought, they were purposing to do and today we are seeing the very same things. It is not something new my children, for if you read what I have written and don’t add in to it, you will have a clear picture of everything that is taking place and you will even understand exactly where you are.  For I have spoken to you about the antichrist taking on his new spirit, that should tell you something by itself, that alone is a giant key that I have given unto my church that they may wake up and walk in the fullness of the things that I have given unto them.  Remember this winter it is not over, I will keep this area safe, it will be far safer than other areas, but winter is not over.

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You have seen all the strange new signs that you are seeing, whether it be in weather, whether it be in the flu, whether it be in the germ warfare, and there is germ warfare going on right here, it has been delivered to this country by their enemies. etc. 

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Mini-ice age underway: Major winter storms hit countries around the world, creating snow apocalypses and chaos in the US, Canada, Mexico, Iran, Turkey, India and across Europe

By Strange Sounds - Jan 7, 2019

Here a compilation of the most extreme winter weather events since the beginning of 2019. Huge amount of snow fall in the Sierra, California The National Weather Service has issued avalanche warnings for the Sierra Nevada Sunday after a winter storm dumped heavy snow on the region. The backcountry avalanche warning for the Lake Tahoe area stretches south into the Sierra along the California-Nevada line from noon Sunday until 7 a.m. Monday, as blizzard conditions with gale-force winds could trigger widespread avalanche activity. Two feet (61 centimeters) of snow was reported at Mammoth Mountain. And more than a foot (30 cm) fell in the upper elevations around Tahoe.  NWS Reno @NWSReno An Avalanche Warning has been issued by the Sierra Avalanche Center for the Central Sierra Nevada including the Tahoe Basin from 12 pm Sunday through 7 am Monday. For more details go to http://www.sierraavalanchecenter.org #Cawx #NVwx 91 12:52 PM - Jan 6, 2019

again: NWS Reno @NWSReno Here are snowfall totals from the past 24 hours from around our area. More snow is expected this afternoon and into tomorrow morning, as the next wave of moisture moves through. Check out our website for the latest forecast: http://weather.gov/reno  #NVwx #CAwx 

65 12:02 PM - Jan 6, 2019

High avalanche risk in Alps amid heavy snow in Austria, Germany and Switzerland; 2 dead Authorities warned Sunday of a high risk of avalanches on the northern side of the Alps, after heavy snowfall in recent days created dangerous conditions across parts of southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Obertauern, Austria yesterday, January 6. Report: Florian Kern / Bergaffe Authorities in Austria closed some roads and train lines because of avalanche risks, while airports in the region have seen delays as workers struggled to clear the large amount of fresh snow and de-ice planes. Severe Weather Europe on Monday Enormous amounts of snow in Tauplitz, Austria (896 m) today, January 7. Report: Herbert Lemmerer / Aktuelle Wetterwarnungen für Österreich About 600 residents and tourists were still stuck in the Austrian village of Soelktal following a road closure. An Austrian army helicopter managed to drop some supplies there on Sunday. Thousands of hectares affected by snow in Sonora, Mexico The heavy snowfall left by the fifth and sixth winter storms of the season, as well as the extreme cold, generated frost damage in thousands of crops throughout the state of Sonora. In Guaymas, Cajeme, and Navojoa, which encompass the valleys south of Sonora, agricultural producers are analyzing possible damage in 12 thousand hectares of crops. Agricultural producers from northern Sonora still haven’t quantified the damage because the impact of the winter storms will continue over the next days Heavy snow paralyses the region of Istanbul, Turkey Istanbul and the region of Thrace in Turkey’s northwest were hit by heavy snowfall and strong wind which caused flight delays and cancellations. Blizzard and snowfall disrupted life in Thrace, with access to 50 schools in the region being blocked due to snowstorms. Many roads to villages in the western province of Edrine were shut on Jan. 4 due to heavy snow. Authorities have said they will clear snow from the roads soon. The snow reached a height of 30 centimeters in Kırklareli. Heavy snowfall was expected to continue in Thracian provinces of Tekirdağ and Kırklareli and Istanbul’s western parts until the afternoon of Jan. 4. Meteorology officials have also warned many eastern provinces of dangers of icing, frost and avalanches. 17 provinces blocked by snowstorm in Iran Snow swept across 17 provinces of Iran on Friday – West Azarbaijan, Ardebil, Isfahan, Alborz, Tehran, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, North Khorasan, Fars, Semnan, Zanjan, Qazvin, Qom, Kordestan, Gilan, Lorestan, Mazandaran, and Markazi. Five of those 17 provinces – Tehran, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Khuzestan, Semnan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad – were also flooded. One dead. British Columbia storm pounds province with snow, rain, smashing records – up to 74 cms (29 inches) of snow in 24 hours The storm that moved across B.C. over the past 72 hours has left many areas of the province cleaning up on Friday. Whistler Blackcomb says it saw a new snowfall record for the month of December, with 384 centimetres of fresh snow falling during the month. This beat a previous record set in December 1994, by four centimetres.  Klaudia Van Emmerik @KlaudiaGlobal The Trans-Canada Highway remains closed between Revelstoke & Golden due to extreme winter weather. Ministry of Transportation crews conducting avalanche control work. @DriveBC estimates highway re-opening at 8pm. @GlobalOkanagan

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Whistler Blackcomb says about 74 centimetres of snow hit the mountains between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday this week, which also caused some chaos on Highway 99 for drivers trying to get to the village. Major winter storm slams central Italy – 6 feet of snow

An example from Gamberale, Abruzzo, central Italy in intense Adriatic sea-effect snow on January 4. Report: Concetta Menna / Meteo Da Correggio: Heavy snowfall disrupts life in Kashmir, India

Normal life in Indian-controlled Kashmir was disrupted by heavy snowfall that lashed the region on Saturday, January 5, 2019. 12 inches of snow disrupted road traffic and cut power to thousands of people. Likewise, Qazigund recorded 11 inches, Pahalgam 16 inches and Kupwara 17 inches of snow, officials said. Heavy snow and strong winds hit Poland High winds lashed the country’s northern regions, while snow paralysed much of southern Poland on January 3, 2019. Some 1,600 customers were left without electricity at one point after fierce winds toppled trees and disrupted power supplies. No injuries were reported. Meanwhile, rescuers have stepped up avalanche warnings for Poland’s southern Tatra mountains. And finally in Slovakia And it seems that some more extreme winter weather is heading to Europe and the USA as the polar vortex will soon split into 3 in the next few days.

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UK weather warning: THREE MONTH barrage of storms to bring SUBZERO temperatures and SNOW

BRITAIN’S weather is about to be put through the wringer with a three-month barrage of storms threatening the nation.

By Nathan Rao PUBLISHED: 00:01, Tue, Jan 8, 2019 | UPDATED: 04:46, Tue, Jan 8, 2019

Generally calm conditions will give way to persistent bouts of strong wind and rain through the rest of winter, according to some experts. Storms barrelling in from the Atlantic will clash with cold air over the UK triggering outbreaks of snow and ice, they warn. Stubborn high pressure anchored northeast of Britain will keep temperatures largely below-normal in the run up to spring. AccuWeather forecaster Tyler Roys said: “We expect an uptick in windstorms to impact the British Isles for the next three months or so. “While the Scandinavia high pushes temperatures in the UK slightly below normal, incoming windstorms will counteract the dip with warmer-than-usual air. “A couple of ice events are not out of the question as a storm system comes in from the west and the Scandinavia high retreats from the north.” Unsettled weather will kick in later this week as volatile low-pressure systems barge in from the Atlantic. Heavy rainfall will hit the north through the weekend with showers, wind and a risk of snow forecast elsewhere. Wet and windy weather is expected to hold out through January with parts of the country on alert for icy winter gales. Southern England will enjoy the best of the weather with Scotland and the north in the firing line for a more turbulent ride, the Met Office said. Spokeswoman Nicola Maxey said: “Towards the middle of the month we are looking at things becoming more unsettled and changeable. “There are signs of a growing risk of strong winds, rain and snow from mid-January into early February. “We are expecting to see it turn colder with temperatures below average for the time of year although we will see some short-lived milder interludes. “Gales will be possible in the north and west, and it will turn colder from the northwest. “Some snow is expected in the north, especially in brighter, showery, colder interludes between weather systems.” Britain’s weather over the next few weeks will fall under the influence of a Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) of the North Pole. SSW, the driver for last year’s Beast from the East late winter blast, set in at the end of December, meteorologists have confirmed. The phenomenon, caused by Arctic air compressing and warming, encourages bitter easterly winds into the UK. Its effects are guided by high pressure which when established over the UK encourages colder weather but drives milder, stormier conditions when further south. Miss Maxey said: “The influence of SSW in the UK depends on where the high pressure builds. “If it builds over the UK we could get colder weather and a risk of snow, but if it builds to the south we could then see an increased risk of more unsettled Atlantic conditions. “At this stage it is too early to say where this high pressure will build.” Wind and rain will continue to batter Scotland through Tuesday morning as showers turn wintry in parts of Britain. Temperatures will widely drop to freezing on Tuesday and Wednesday nights with lows of -4C (24.8F) possible in some spots, Miss Maxey added. She said: “There is a chance that showers could turn wintry with a mix of snow, sleet or hail over high ground in the north. “As we move into Wednesday it will turn colder and there will be a risk of widespread frosts later in the week. “Temperatures will widely dip to just above freezing or below with lows of -3C (26.6F) possible in Scotland with -4C (24.8F) possible. “Towards the weekend milder air will push back in from the west but it will turn unsettled again in parts, there is a chance of heavier rain over the weekend in northern Britain.”

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/1068517/uk-weather-forecast-storm-warning-met-office-long-range-forecast-snow-january-2019 

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National Emergency! It's Time For President Trump To 'Round Up' The Traitors Who Sold Out America For Global Tyranny - 'If We Don't Defend America, We'll Lose America'

By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die  January 8, 2019

While Democrats continue to scream that a wall or a fence at our Southern border is bad for human rights, going so far as to allow the government to be closed down rather than give President Trump the money he's asking for to build it, a quick look back to this July 25th of 2016 story over at My News 4 in Reno, Nevada proves to us just how big the Democratic hypocrites are, as videographer Mark Dice also clearly points out in the first video at the bottom of this story. As was widely reported back in July of 2016, the Democratic National Committee actually had built a HUGE fence all around the Wells Fargo Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to keep members of their own political party out of the building where the 'coronation' of 'Queen Hillary' was taking place. So why would the same group now be fighting against a wall/fence that would keep dangerous criminals out of the country? With Clinton crony David Brock of Media Matters fame recently penning this column for NBC News arguing that Democrats can't allow Bernie Sanders supporters to poison another election, actually coming straight out and blaming Sanders voters for President Trump's win over Hillary, it's more clear now than ever who the 'enemies of America within' are and their disdain for voters who don't toe the party line on the left is almost as bad as their hatred of 'deplorables'. And as we'll see detailed within this ANP story, part 1 of 2, nothing less than the very future of America is now at stake with the globalists going all-in in their attempts to take down President Trump and his America-1st agenda, nothing less than treasonous sedition, while they attempt to pit brother against brother, neighbor against neighbor and Christians against other Christians here in America as we'll read below in this story from Tom Horn's book "Blood on the Altar: The Coming War Between Christian vs Christian". With Brock's remarks and the Democrats fence proving once again and beyond a shadow of a doubt just how little the 'establishment' thinks of the 'little people', whether we be on the left or the right, we turn our eyes to this must-read new story by Mike Adams over at Natural News in which he argues it's time for President Trump to declare a national emergency, build the wall and most importantly, round up the traitors who long ago sold out America. Nothing less than the future of our Republic is at stake Adams warns while asking that all awakened Americans prepare to assist President Trump in defending America. Warning that should we the American people fail in this endeavor to take down the global terrorists within the US who sold America out to the highest bidders, nothing less than an authoritarian government awaits us on the other side, a government which has proven to hate everybody who is 'not them'. And oh the hypocrites the Democrats are with Barack Obama having a huge wall around his home, as do most other Congressional reps as well. In fact, should these open-borders-pushing government public servants think open borders really are good, we challenge each and every one of them at this moment to OPEN UP THEIR OWN HOMES to anybody who wants to come in. Think there'll be any takers? As Adams reports: It’s time for President Trump to declare a national emergency. This is the first necessary step in defending America against the domestic enemies and enemy combatants operating within. Immediately after declaring a national emergency, President Trump must deploy the United States military to build and man the border wall. (Yes, I said “man.”) It’s time to activate the military police and hand them a list of the deep state traitors who have attempted to carry out a treasonous political coup rooted in illegal government spying under President Obama, the falsification of “evidence” used to deceive the FISA court, witness tampering by Robert Mueller, illegal leaks by James Comey, official corruption by Hillary Clinton, and multiple acts of treason against America approved by Obama and dutifully carried out by Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch. Arrest the deep state traitors, indict them for crimes against America and prosecute them. Defend America or we lose America. In the photograph seen above which was posted to the twitter page of President Trump's recent announcement that he will be doing a prime-time address to the nation on Tuesday night on border security and the beliefs of many that he'll declare a national emergency in an attempt to get a border wall finally built, we see one man's thoughts on the deep state coup attempt against Trump that has been ongoing now for the first full two years of his Presidency. With that person's thoughts echoing the thoughts of Mike Adams that America and our Constitutional Republic are in grave danger and Patriots should be ready to defend our Republic and Constitution against domestic enemies of America within, this January 6th story over at Zero Hedge hints we may soon finally learn the names of everybody who sold out America with hacker Kim Dotcom claiming "the criminals who run the deep state will be exposed" while hinting at a new round of leaks. While Kim also claimed back in February of 2018 that he could assure us that the DNC 'hack' wasn't even a 'hack' and he knew who did it, the most disturbing aspect of that February 2018 tweet was Kim claiming that his attorney had contacted Robert Mueller about the hack not once but twice BUT he never heard back from Mueller. If rotten cop Mueller was the least bit interested in finding out the truth about what happened during the DNC hack, wouldn't he have at least made an effort to contact Kim or is that just totally against their agenda? With Mueller's refusal to contact Kim's lawyers actually MORE proof that he has no desire to find out the 'truth' unless that 'truth' points to President Trump's guilt, we remind you that Mueller's gang of crooked cops has been using stasi tactics against the innocent. And with the secretive hacker group called 'The Dark Overlord' threatening to 'burn down the deep state' by releasing a treasure trove of documents on 9/11 believed to have been stolen from law firms, insurance companies and the US government, the group claims more leaks "will have devastating consequences for the US ‘deep state’". Dubbed "the 9/11 Papers" by the hackers in an obvious nod to the "Pentagon Papers", the hackers claim there are four more 'layers' of secrets that remain encrypted and "each layer contains more secrets, more damaging materials… and generally just more truth." And while we'd prefer that these hackers would release these devastating secrets to the world online without asking for bitcoin as they're doing, quite literally extorting the groups involved, this RT story reports "the megaleak purportedly includes secret documents that were meant to be destroyed but were instead retained by legal firms, allegedly revealing the truth about one of the most recognizable incidents in recent history." And if we need just one more look at who these global elitists are who long ago sold out America for their luciferian new world order, we get it in this December 26th story over at DC Clothesline which begins: "Once the talk of conspiracy theorists — the rich ingesting the blood of the young to foster longevity — is now a reality and an actual business in the United States. Not only is it a business but billionaires are actually admitting their interest in it. Now, even the mainstream media is reporting it." ANOTHER 'conspiracy theory' proven true with this story from CBS 3 in Philadelphia reporting 'young blood' could be 'the fountain of youth', only mentioning something like that just a little while ago would have brought shouts of 'put your tinfoil hat on' and looks from others like you were crazy. What more are the 'global elite' hiding from us? In the photograph above which Steve Quayle had posted as his photo of the day, the caption read "Red Wave, as in Communism, Red Skies and Red China - Red is not a good sign as fire in the skies approaches". Steve had also linked to this must-read SQAlert with the note "When I post prophecies, it's up to everyone who reads them to pray over them and seek the Lord for a Witness in your spirit". Within the alert, the Illinois pastor who wrote it warned that 2019 would be a year of blood. Please read the entire alert here. With warnings of civil war now in the air and 'America' now under all-out attack from within and without, we look back here to this 2014 book written by Tom Horn within which he warned of a coming war between Christian and Christian as the world races toward its momentous end-times encounter between good and evil (known in the Bible as Armageddon.) The 2nd video below also takes a look at his book "Blood On The Altar: The Coming War Between Christian vs Christian". Steve Quayle has given us permission to republish his forward to Tom's book directly below.: "WHEN THE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTE THE RIGHTEOUS" AND "THE COMING WARS" WITHIN CHRISTIANITY

Matthew 10:33-36 King James Version (KJV)

33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.

34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 King James Version (KJV)

3 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

James 4:4 King James Version (KJV)

4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

John 16:1-3 King James Version (KJV)

16 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.

2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

The world is now at the time when the bloodiest period of war and betrayal lies at the doorsteps of the Christian faith. As the new world church and the New World Order "emerge," there is a considerable effort being espoused by the Pope and evangelical megastars to embrace a One World Faith based on agreements that we all serve the same god anyway. This is total rebellion and heresy against the faith of the Apostles and the Prophets and the revealed will of the Living God. There are two households in which this battle will be waged, and the stakes are eternal. The first household is that of faith - brother will turn against brother, and where they once broke bread together, they will break each other's necks! The religious-minded folks will be the first to call for the government to do something when it all comes down. Faith has always been persecuted by unbelief, and that is the way it is going to play out in the months and years ahead. When you see prominent Christian authors being featured in the mainstream press and talking about Christianity and Islam serving the same god, you know that the battle is looming. Recently the Department of Homeland Security has funded a response to churches in their Clergy Response Teams. Their stated purpose is to pacify Christians and motivate them to go along with the totalitarian directives of the state, mis-applying Romans 13 and wrongly stating that you are to do what the government tells you. Notice how many churches do not use the Name of Jesus, teach about his Blood and the reality of Heaven or Hell. James 4:4 states that friendship with the world is enmity with God! So as the so-called church cozies up to the Jesus hating, redemption denying One World religious crowd, they had better heed the words of Jesus when he stated that he did not come to bring peace to the world, but a sword (Matthew 10:33-36). The nuclear family of the Christian is also under an unusual attack, with one member of the family understanding the lateness of the hour versus members, spouse or children being in an antagonistic position against the warning partner, parent, or child who "gets it." The church of Jesus Christ, those in right relationship with him through believing in his death, resurrection, Blood and Second Coming have already been designated "terrorists" and "enemies of the state" by the US Military and the US Justice Department, and this designation has been brought out into the open more graphically lately. The question I get asked more than ever from those with eyes to see, ears to hear and mouths that pray is, "will my husband or kids betray me?" The answer is yes, unless they have had a transformational encounter with Jesus that puts them on the same side of redemption as you. If you believe that the mainstream apostate church will stand up against this slaughter of your brethren, think again and look back in history as to the Lutheran church and their surrender to Hitler in not standing up against godless Fascism as it slaughtered Jews, Christians, the elderly, Gypsies and "misfits." We now have a spy apparatus that exceeds the Gestapo, the Stasi, and a nation of paid finks, not to mention the all-pervasive seeing eye on our computer screens, television sets, game boxes, iPhones, and the drones of Sky Net. Each man, woman and child must seek God to lead them not into this heretical evil, and also to deliver them from betrayal --- just as a house divided against itself cannot stand, neither will the mainstream Christian church which has forsaken and denied the Blood of Jesus. And I would remind the mega church apostates that in the matter of redemption the straight and narrow through Jesus is still preferable to the highway to Hell! Oh, and in matters of the Ecumenical Movement some say that all roads lead to Rome or the same god - I would remind them that as it relates to Christianity, the Roman roads led to the slaughter of the Christians in the Coliseums! So in closing, we're going to take one more look at Mike Adams' must read story while looking at it from the viewpoint of what will the 'enemies of America within' do once this 'roundup of treasonists' begins? With many leftists on twitter claiming that if President Trump declares a national emergency, that will be a prelude to him also declaring martial law, should a roundup of treasonists begin, we'd fully expect the left to meltdown in the streets of America, with the chaos and unrest potentially leading to all-out civil war, a prospect we'll continue to pray never evolves here in America. As Adams tells us, included in this 'round up' of 'enemies of America within' should be the 'journo-terrorists' who have attempted to foment race wars and enabled this 'new world order' to grow, state governors who turned their states into 'sanctuaries' for those who might not have America's best intentions at heart, big tech companies such as facebook and google who've co-ordinated to silence Conservatives and made very real attempts to steal the 2018 mid-term elections (think about what they might do to steal 2020 for the 'demonrats'), the domestic terrorist group antifa as well as the entire criminal faction of the deep state which put the Democratic party and Hillary Clinton ahead of America. Adams also warns that should Americans not step up and take our country back, our nation will surely descend into the radical left-wing authoritarian regime that we saw it morphing into under Barack Obama, where all Constitutional rights are eradicated. Adams warns: "If we do not identify and arrest the deep state traitors soon, America will likely find itself in a bloody civil war soon after the 2020 election, no matter what the outcome." So we'll close with this final excerpt from his must-read story.: It’s time to release the classified documents that prove Robert Mueller is a criminal operative working for the Clinton cartel. Those documents must be unredacted, and any person in the FBI, DOJ or State Dept. that refuses to cooperate with the full release of these unredacted documents should be immediately arrested by military police and charged with acts of sedition. America can survive the treachery and treason now being directed against it, but only if those who love this country take decisive action to identify and halt the traitors who are deliberately sabotaging our republic from within. Those traitors exist throughout the deep state, the anti-America news networks, public universities and government regulators. All the evidence needed to arrest and prosecute these traitors already exists. The exhaustive evidence of a massive deep state criminal conspiracy operating inside the U.S. government has been covered up by Rod Rosenstein, buried by Obama and ignored by Jeff Sessions. Establishment Republican traitors like the late John McCain attempted to aid the deep state in overthrowing the Trump presidency by ferreting false intelligence used to mislead the FISA court. CIA operatives pretending to be journalists — Anderson Cooper, anyone? — helped carry out a public disinformation campaign to mislead the American public and create an utterly false narrative of “Russian collusion” where none existed. Thousands of operatives throughout government, the intelligence community and the fake news media are guilty of conspiracy to overthrow America’s democracy. Overwhelming evidence already exists to out them and prosecute them. Solomon at The Hill knows everything and can point investigators in the right direction. Dan Bongino, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage and Alex Jones have been right all along: There is a war being waged against America from within, and it’s time that America activated its own immune system against the traitors.

http://allnewspipeline.com/Defend_America_Or_We_Lose_America.php 

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Prepare For The Ultimate Mass Meltdown When President Trump Gets A Third Supreme Court Pick If Ruth Bader Ginsburg Steps Down Due To Failing Health

By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine January 7, 2019

No doubt most everyone remembers the complete insanity that reined during the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings, with liberals shouting, begging for a delay in the hearings, constantly interrupting the proceedings..... and that was the actual Democrat politicians. The protesters were even more insane, heckling lawmakers as they tried to conduct the hearings, forcing Capitol Police to physically remove them, some having to be dragged out, others carried, as shown in the image above. After the confirmation vote, protesters then launched themselves at the Supreme Court doors, literally clawing at them like mindless zombies, pounding on the locked doors and generally making spectacles of themselves. That was President Trump's second Supreme Court nominee..... and now, after SC Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's recent slew of medical issues, falling and breaking ribs, then nearly two months later having two cancerous growths removed from her left lung on Dec. 21, liberals are in a panic that if her health continues to fail, she will be forced to retire and President Trump will get another Supreme Court nominee confirmed. GINSBURG'S HEALTH WORSE THAN BEING REPORTED In early November Ginsburg, who is 85 years old, fell and fractured a number of ribs. During treatment for the fractured ribs doctors discovered two malignant cancerous growths on her left lung, which were removed by surgical procedure on December 21, 2018. She was released from the hospital on December 25, 2018, and has been recuperating at home since. Related: An Overview of Lobectomy as a Treatment for Lung Cancer Prior to Ginsburg's latest health issues, she had suffered broken ribs in 2012, and has gone through two bouts of cancer resulting in surgical procedures, in 1999 (Colon cancer) and 2009 (pancreatic cancer). She also had a stent implanted in her heart to open a blocked artery in 2014, Fox News reports. After Ginsburg's fall in November, liberals across social media started offering her everything from their own ribs to their organs, some jokingly, and some truly in a panic that she might have to retire due to her failing health. I have been hearing rumblings that Justice Ginsburg's health is worse than what is being reported, but they were simply rumblings and unconfirmed, but it appears that some liberal writers are also hearing from their sources that her "health was more precarious than the reports after her December 21st surgery for lung cancer had indicated," writes Paul Campos at the liberal website Lawyers, Guns and Money. During an Interview in December 2018, Ginsburg reiterated her desire to continue on with her work, stating "I said I will do this job as long as I can do it full steam," which brings us to more recent reports that may indicate that she can no longer do the job at "full steam." Monday morning the Associated Press, and others revealed that Ginsburg would miss Supreme Court arguments for the first time in her 25 year tenure as a SC Justice. According to Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg, Ginsburg will be recuperating and working from court transcripts from home, with no indication when she would be able to return to the court. Surgery, especially lung surgery for malignant, cancerous growths, is hard on the body, even for those much younger and in good shape, and Ginsburg is 85 and still recuperating from fractured ribs, which doesn't put her in the "fit and healthy" category in any way. While we wish no ill-will against RBG, if she cannot participate in the oral argument phase, she is not moving "full steam," and even if she does recover enough to start attending oral arguments again, her frailty and health does not make it probable that she will be able to continue at the same pace she has for the past decades. PRESIDENT TRUMP WOULD NOMINATE HIS THIRD SUPREME COURT JUSTICE It is widely believed in conservative circles that President Trump would nominate a female candidate off his expanded list published in November 2017, which included five women. Out of those, one specific names was floated before President Trump nominated Kavanaugh, and that was Amy Coney Barrett, of Indiana, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. To learn more about Barrett, Scotus Blog has the "Potential nominee profile: Amy Coney Barrett," with her full history and qualifications. BOTTOM LINE Should Ginsburg be forced to step down due to her failing health, President Trump will immediately nominate another conservative judge. The inevitable and completely predictable protests that will be conducted during that confirmation hearing and vote for that nominee, will undoubtedly make the Kavanaugh circus look like a pleasant walk in the park. The level of panic seen across social media each and every time Ginsburg's name starts trending offers a clue of how unhinged liberals are going to be if she is forced to step down due to her failing health, and over whatever candidate is chosen by President Trump as his third Supreme Court nominee. After the 2018 midterms elections, where Republicans gained seats in the Senate, Democrats in the Senate cannot hope to garner enough Republican votes to block the President's choice. Knowing all that, prepare for the ultimate liberal mass meltdown, which will start when and if any announcement occurs about Ginsburg stepping down, and fully expect that meltdown to last throughout the nomination process for another conservative Justice, the confirmation hearings, and ultimately a third Supreme Court Justice chosen by President Donald Trump, sworn in.

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New ISIS Threat Tells Jihadists to Bomb Electrical Infrastructure

By Bridget Johnson January 7, 2019 chat 42 comments

A new online threat from ISIS supporters encourages jihadists to target critical infrastructure, with the suggestion of bombing power stations. The image shows a faceless figure in a black hoodie with the Islamic State flag holding a bomb with a lit fuse with transmission towers and lines in the background. Along the power lines is the phrase "Just Terror" -- the ISIS slogan for lone jihadist operations -- and blood-spattered ground. The poster directs jihadists to "make a surprise for the Crusaders." The infrastructure threat is uncommon in ISIS propaganda, which has focused more on knife, vehicle or gun attacks in crowded areas such as festivals or music venues. Suggested targets have ranged from well-fortified locations, such as the U.S. Capitol or UN Security Council, to soft targets with little symbolic significance. At the end of last month, another ISIS-allied media group encouraged jihadists to "kill the infidels in ways which no one else ever used" including "electricity" among methods such as snakes, poison gas, poisoned arrows, and wild animals. A December report from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, a panel established by President Bush after the 9/11 attacks composed of industry executives along with state and local government officials, warned that "increasing threats — whether severe natural disasters, cyber-physical attacks, electromagnetic events, or some combination — present new challenges for protecting the national power grid and recovering quickly from a catastrophic power outage." The report also noted that America's foes could take advantage of chaos after a natural disaster to attack energy systems. Attacks on critical infrastructure could also be a combination of cyber attack and physical attack, further complicating the response and expanding the damage. "The United States should respond to this problem in two overarching ways: 1) design a national approach to prepare for, respond to, and recover from catastrophic power outages that provides the federal guidance, resources, and incentives needed to take action across all levels of government and industry and down to communities and individuals; and 2) improve our understanding of how cascading failures across critical infrastructure will affect restoration and survival," the panel said, requesting the National Security Council join with lead agencies to prepare a report on steps being taken to address the threat.

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Chinese scholar offers insight into Beijing’s strategic mindset

Essay by security expert Professor Zhang Wenmu gives a glimpse of China's geostrategic outlook, from the 'Western Pacific Chinese Sea' to the far side of the moon

By Pepe Escobar January 5, 2019 11:58 AM (UTC+8)

The top story of 2019 – and the years ahead – will continue to revolve around the myriad, dangerous permutations of the economic ascent of China, the resurgence of nuclear superpower Russia and the decline of the US’s global hegemony. Two years ago, before the onset of the Trump administration, I sketched how the shadow play might proceed in the New Great Game in Eurasia. Now the new game hits high gear; it’s the US against the Russia-China strategic partnership. Diplomatic capers, tactical retreats, psychological, economic, cyber and even outer space duels, all enveloped in media hysteria, will continue to rule the news cycle. Be prepared for all shades of carping about authoritarian China, and its “malign” association with an “illiberal” Russian bogeyman bent on blasting the borders of Europe and “disrupting” the Middle East. Relatively sound minds like the political scientist Joseph Nye will continue to lament the sun setting on the Western liberal “order,” without realizing that what was able to “secure and stabilize the world over the past seven decades” does not translate into a “strong consensus … defending, deepening and extending this system.” The Global South overwhelmingly begs to differ, arguing that the current “order” was manufactured and largely benefits only US interests. Expect exceptionalists to operate in condescending overdrive, exhorting somewhat reluctant “allies” to help “constrain” if not contain China and “channel” – as in control – Beijing’s increasing global clout. It’s a full-time job to “channel” China into finding its “right” place in a new world order. What does the Chinese intellectual elite really think about all this? Never fight on two fronts An unparalleled roadmap may be provided by Zhang Wenmu, national security strategy expert and professor at the Center of Strategic Studies of the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Beijing, who wrote an essay published in August 2017 in the Chinese magazine Taipingyan Xuebao (Pacific magazine), that was translated recently into Italian by Rome-based geopolitical magazine Limes. “Geopolitics” may be an Anglo invention, arguably by Sir Halford Mackinder, but it has been studied in China for centuries as, for instance, “geographic advantage” (xingsheng) or “historic geography” (lishi dili). Wenmu introduces us to the concept of geopolitics as philosophy on the tip of a knife, but it’s mostly about philosophy, not the knife. If we want to use the knife we must use philosophy to know the limits of our power. Call it a Sino-equivalent of Nietzsche’s philosophizing with a hammer.

As a geopolitical analyst, Wenmu cannot but remind us that the trademark Roman or British empires’ ‘divide and rule’ is also a well-known tactic in China. For instance, in early 1972, Chairman Mao was quite ready to welcome Richard Nixon. Later, in July, Mao revealed his hand: “One must profit from the conflict between two powers, that is our policy. But we must get closer to one of them and not fight on two fronts.” He was referring to the split between China and the USSR. Wenmu gets a real kick out of how Western geopolitics usually plays things wrong. He stresses how Halford Mackinder, the Englishman regarded as one of the founders of geostrategy, “influenced World War II and the subsequent decline of the British Empire,” noting how Mackinder died only five months before Partition between India and Pakistan in 1947. He destroys George Kennan’s theory of the Cold War, “directly based on Mackinder’s thinking,” and how it led the US to fight in Korea and Vietnam, “accelerating its decline.” Even Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former US national security advisor, “saw the decline of the American empire,” as he died recently, in May 2017. “In that moment, China and Russia gave life to a strategic collaboration always closer and invincible.” Wenmu is positively gleeful. “If Brzezinski was still alive, I think he would see the ‘great defeat’ of the Western world – the opposite of what he wrote.” Why Tibet matters Chinese geopolitics predictably pays close attention to the tension between sea powers and land powers. Wenmu notes how, in the Indian Ocean, the British Empire enjoyed more naval power compared to the Americans “because it occupied the homonymous continent. And because it dominated the seas, the United Kingdom also threatened the Russian Empire, which was a land power.” Wenmu quotes from Alfred Mahan’s The Influence of Sea Power Upon History on the reciprocal influence between control of the seas and control of the land. But, he adds: “Mahan did not analyze this relation on a global level … Based on the priorities of the United States, he concentrated most of all on distant seas.” Wenmu crucially stresses how the Pacific Ocean is the “obligatory passage of the Maritime Silk Road.” Even though China “developed its naval capacity much later, it enjoys [a] geographical advantage in relation to the UK and the US.” And with that, he brings us to the essential Tibet question. One of Wenmu’s key points is how “the Tibetan plateau allows the People’s Republic to access the resources respectively of the Pacific Ocean to the east and those of the Indian Ocean in the west. If from the plateau we look at the American base in Diego Garcia [in the center of the Indian Ocean] we can’t have any doubts about the natural advantage of Chinese geopolitics.” The implication is that the UK and US must “consume a great deal of resources to cross the oceans and develop a chain of islands.” Wenmu shows how the geography of the Tibetan plateau “links in a natural way the Tibetan region to the dominant power in the Chinese central plains” while it does “not link it to the countries in the South Asia subcontinent.” Thus Tibet should be considered as a “natural part of China.” China is supported by the continental plaque, “which it controls along its coast,” and “possesses technology of medium and long-range missile attack,” guaranteeing it virtually a “great capacity of reaction in both oceans” with a “relatively powerful naval force.” And that’s how China, as Wenmu maps it, is able to compensate – “to a certain extent” – the technological gap relative to the West. Wenmu’s most controversial point is that “the advantage that only China enjoys of linking to markets of two oceans crashes the myth of Western ‘naval power’ in the contemporary era and introduces a revolutionary vision; the People’s Republic is a great nation who possesses by nature the qualification of naval power.” We just need to compare “how industrial development allowed the West to navigate towards the Indian Ocean” while China “arrived on foot.” Get Taiwan President Obama was keen to exhort at every opportunity the status of the US as a “Pacific nation.” Imagine the US confronted by Wenmu’s description: “The Western Pacific is linked to the national interests of the People’s Republic and is the starting point of the New Maritime Silk Road.” In fact, Chairman Mao talked about it way back in 1959: “One day, it does not matter when, the United States will have to retire from the rest of the world and will have to abandon the Western Pacific.” Extrapolating from Mao, Wenmu elaborates on a “Western Pacific Chinese Sea” uniting the South China Sea, the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. “We can use the formula ‘southern zone of the Western Pacific Chinese Sea’ to describe the part that falls under Chinese sovereignty.” This suggests a combination of Chinese forces in the South China Sea, the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea under a sole Western Pacific naval command. It’s easy to see where all this is pointing: reunification with Taiwan. Under such a system, as delineated by Wenmu, Taiwan “would return to the motherland,” China’s sovereignty over its coastline “would be legitimated” and at the same time “would not be excessively extended.” Beijing’s supreme goal is to effectively move the “Chinese line of control” to the east of Taiwan. That reflects President Xi Jinping’s speech earlier this week, where he referred to Taiwan, for all practical purposes, as the great prize. Wenmu frames it as an environment “where Chinese nuclear submarines are able to counter-attack, the construction of aircraft carriers can progress and products made in continental China may be exported effectively." The barycenter of Asia One of the most fascinating arguments in Wenmu’s essay is how he shows there’s always a natural proportion – a sort of ‘divine’ or ‘golden ratio’ between the three strategic powers in Eurasia: Europe, Central Asia and China. Cue to a fast tour of the rise and fall of empires, with “history showing how in the main zone of the continent – between 30 and 60 degrees of north[ern] latitude – there can be only 2.5 strategic forces.” Which means one of the three major spaces always becomes fragmented. In modern times it has been rare that one of the three powers “managed to expand to a 1.5 ratio.” Before, only the Tang empire and the Mongol empire came close. The British Empire, Tsarist Russia and the USSR “invaded Afghanistan and entered Central Asia, but success, when it happened, was short-lived.” That paved the way to Wenmu’s clincher: “The law of the aurea section [Latin for ‘golden’ section] as the base of strategic power in Eurasia helps us to understand the causes of alternate rise and decline of powers in the continent and to recognize the limits of expansion of Chinese power in Central Asia. To understand it is the premise of mature and successful diplomacy.” Although this cannot be seriously depicted as a roadmap for “Chinese aggression,” Wenmu cannot help but direct another hit at Western geopolitical stalwart Mackinder: “With his genius imagination, Mackinder advanced the wrong theory of the ‘geographic pivot’ because he did not consider this law.” In a nutshell, China is key for the equilibrium of Eurasia. “In Europe, the fragmented zone originates in the center, in Asia, it is around China. So that presents China as the natural barycenter of Asia.” Dark side of the moon It’s easy to imagine Wenmu’s essay provoking ballistic responses from proponents of the US National Security Strategy which labels China, as well as Russia, as a dangerous “revisionist power.” Professional Sinophobes are even peddling the notion that a “failing China” might eventually “lash out” against the US. That’s a misreading of what Rear Admiral Luo Yuan said last month in Shenzhen: “We now have Dong Feng-21D, Dong Feng-26 missiles. These are aircraft carrier killers. We attack and sink one of their aircraft carriers. Let them suffer 5,000 casualties. Attack and sink two carriers, casualties 10,000. Let’s see if the US is afraid or not?” This is a statement of fact, not a threat. The Pentagon knows all there is to know about ‘carrier killer’ danger. Beijing won’t stop with carrier killers, the rebranded Western Pacific and reunification with Taiwan. It is planning the first artificial intelligence (AI) colony on earth – a deep-sea base for unmanned submarine science and defense ops in the South China Sea. The landing of the Chang’e 4 lunar probe on the far side of the moon could even be interpreted as the most extreme extension of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). These are all pieces in a massive puzzle bound to reinforce the grip of a new – Sinocentric – map of the world, already in use by the Chinese navy and published in 2013, not by accident the year when the New Silk Roads were announced in Astana and Jakarta. Wenmu ends his essay stressing how “Chinese geopolitics must distance itself from the idea that ‘one cannot open his mouth without mentioning Ancient Greece’.” That’s a reference to a famous Mao speech of May 1941, when the Chairman criticized certain Marxist-Leninists who privileged Western history – of which Ancient Greece is the ultimate symbol – over Chinese history. Thucydides trap? What trap?

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20,000 Satellites for 5G to be Launched Sending Focused Beams of Intense Microwave Radiation Over Entire Earth

January 9, 2019 by John P. Thomas Health Impact News

Will Driverless Cars Cause DNA Damage and Cancer? How Big Technology Companies Control the Minds of the Masses through Smart Phone Addiction About the Author

John P. Thomas is a health writer for Health Impact News. He holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Science in Public Health (M.S.P.H.) from the School of Public Health, Department of Health Administration, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Blood On The Altar: The Coming War Between Christian vs Christian (Uncensored)

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Let your spiritual eyes be open, for many things shall come to pass, many things you shall see, for you have not seen the big terrorist attack here in America yet, but you will see it, you will see it.  For you shall yet see great and mighty attacks here in the United States, you shall see these things come to pass.  You will also see the stock market, if you have got money there get it out, says the Lord, get it out now, for later will be too late.  Also you shall see many things taking place overseas like you have never seen before in your life.  And the political realm shall get even, even darker now, you shall hear things that you did not know, etc

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2019: What's Next?

By Hal Lindsey

A New Year’s Day Politico headline encapsulated the dread filling the political world: “Yes, 2019 Is the Year You Were Worrying About.” Markets are rattled by a looming trade war with China, a Fed that seems determined to relegate prosperity to America’s rearview mirror, and a level of instability in Washington rivaled in American history only by the runup to the Civil War…. Any of these things could translate into a full-blown recession…. Meanwhile, the rest of the world remains dependent on the teetering American economy for their prosperity. The North Korea denuclearization deal seems to be falling apart before it even begins…. China is building weapons designed to destroy US aircraft carriers…. The overall buildup of the Chinese military is one of the largest ever undertaken. It includes a heavy emphasis on space weapons and the destruction of the digital infrastructure that America and the West depend on for their very survival…. Russia remains a nuclear superpower, and its President, Vladimir Putin, seems determined to build a new generation of exotic superweapons. In Washington, a power base entrenched for generations is intent on bringing down this President. They may or may not have legitimate legal arguments against him. We will see as reports finally surface in 2019. But instability in Washington — with fault on both sides — was the hallmark of 2018 and looks to grow even worse in the new year. Bible prophecy is being fulfilled in dramatic, even spectacular ways. That’s good news because it means that the return of Jesus is getting closer. But the Bible makes it clear that the buildup to Christ’s return will be anything but pleasant. At some point, those of us who are in Christ will be raptured out of here. But between now and the rapture, difficulties will increase. America’s power and influence may be destroyed even sooner than we had imagined. What about you? What about your family, neighbors, and friends? What about your church and community? What happens now? What happens to you and those you love? Here’s the thing to remember. Psalm 23 still applies. “The Lord is my shepherd.” He’s still my shepherd, even in the end times. “I shall not want.” He still provides for my needs even in economic hard times. “He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.” It’s all still true. And if things become extremely bad, remember verses 4-6. “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil; My cup overflows. Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life.” I don’t know what will happen in 2019. But I know goodness and mercy will follow me. And if you’re in Christ, they will follow you, too. I believe we will continue to see a fulfillment of the general trends laid out in scripture. Yet, even with that, Jesus said there would be an ebb and flow like with the labor pains of childbirth. That means we can’t make precise, year-by-year predictions. But if you are in Christ, I know a great deal about your future. The big one is this. You’re headed for heaven! The 23rd Psalm ends with an eternal beginning. “And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”

https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-1-5-2019/ 

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Last Days Warnings

By Hal Lindsey

As the world reels under the impact of the latest Middle East crisis, many are discovering that the events are fitting into a larger pattern of precisely predicted events. The pattern is to be found woven through the Hebrew prophets from Moses to Jesus Christ and John the Apostle. The prophecies were made during a period of from 3500 to 1900 years ago. Throughout these predictions, it’s clear that the events are to lead to a final seven-year period of world catastrophe. This period will climax with a global war of such magnitude that only the personal, visible return of Jesus Christ to this planet will prevent man from self-annihilation. THINGS WE ARE SEEING Listed below are 20 pieces of this pattern which are unmistakably coming together simultaneously for the first time in history. The return of the dispersed Jews to Israel to become a nation again in 1948. The Jews’ recapture of the Old City of Jerusalem in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.

The rise of Russia as a powerful nation and enemy of Israel.

The Arab confederation against the new State of Israel.

The rise of a military power in the Orient that can field an army of 200 million soldiers. (Red China alone boasts that she has this number of troops!)

The revival of the Old Roman Empire in the form of a ten-nation confederacy. (I believe the European Common Market is ultimately going to be this power.)

The revival of the dark occultic practices of ancient Babylon.

The unprecedented turn to drugs.

The increase of international revolution.

The increase of wars.

The increase of earthquakes.

The increase of famines through the population explosion.

The coming of plagues.

The increase of famines through the population explosion.

The coming of plagues.

The increase of pollution.

The departure of many Christian churches from the historic truth of Christianity.

The move toward a one-world religion.

The move toward a one-world government.

The decline of the United States as a major world power.

The increase in lawlessness.

The decline of the family unit.

THINGS TO WATCH The Arabs will continue to bring greater pressure upon the Western nations to support their demands against Israel. They will do so through the continued restriction of oil without which the industrial nations cannot survive. They may begin to use their vast financial power to seriously threaten the economy of the United States as well. It is doubtful that Fort Knox could back up the dollars they hold, if they demanded gold for them. The United States will have some severe economic shocks from the European Common Market and the Arab oil squeeze. It will continue its decline as a major power both by this and internal moral decadence. The European Common Market will begin to emerge as the greatest economic power in history. Israel will continue to increasingly become the Western world’s dilemma. The Middle East will continue to be the most dangerous threat to world peace in history. The prophets clearly say that the spark that sets off Armageddon will be struck by the invasion of Israel by the Egyptian-led Arabs and the Russians. Jesus predicted these days we’re living in when He said concerning the prophetic signs, “When you see all these things, know He is at the door ready to return.” Then He said, “This generation will not pass away until all is fulfilled.” My opinion is that, because we are seeing all these signs fitting into the predicted pattern, we are the generation, which will see the culmination of history, as we know it, and the return of Christ. Who knows, perhaps this will be the year of Christ’s sudden and mysterious coming to snatch out all those who believe in Him.

https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-11-16-2017/ 

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Turkey's Erdogan shuts down White House's Bolton on Syria, says he made a 'serious mistake'

Turkey's President Recep Erdogan issues a blunt put-down against White House national security advisor John Bolton over his pledges to ensure Turkish nonaggression against Kurds who fought against the Islamic State in Syria.

"We cannot accept Bolton's messages given from Israel," the Turkish president says, adding that Bolton made a "serious mistake."

Natasha Turak | @NatashaTurak Published 10 Hours Ago Updated 4 Hours Ago

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a blunt put-down Tuesday against White House national security advisor John Bolton over his pledges to ensure Turkish nonaggression against Kurds who fought against the Islamic State in Syria. "We cannot accept Bolton's messages given from Israel," the Turkish president said, adding that Bolton made a "serious mistake," Reuters reported. He was referring to statements by the senior Trump administration official, made from Israel over the weekend, promising safety for the U.S.-allied Kurdish militias — who dominate areas in Northern Syria and whom the Turks view as terrorists — in the event of a U.S. military withdrawal. The militias, known as the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), are the armed wing of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), an offshoot of the designated terrorist group called the Kurdistan Workers Party, which has carried out a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state. They're also America's primary partners on the ground in Syria: The Pentagon has been supplying the YPG with weaponry, air support and training to battle IS since 2015, and the militias have suffered thousands of casualties fighting for the U.S.-led coalition. Erdogan stressed that the YPG and the PYD cannot be representative of Kurds, adding that Bolton "probably doesn't know" who the two groups are. He also described Turkey as facing a "critical juncture" in Syria, with whom it shares a 500-mile border. Ankara has for months threatened a military offensive against the Kurds in northeastern Syria, refusing to view their presence as legitimate. That threat has been made all the more real since President Donald Trump's shock announcement on Dec. 19 to quickly withdraw all U.S. forces from Syria, a move met with torrents of criticism from security experts and lawmakers alike. Trump, defending his decision, emphasized the need for other countries to take on the battle against IS in Syria and espoused Turkey's subsequent offer to fill America's shoes. Critics say this will primarily mean Turkish violence against the Kurds. The YPG, widely seen as Washington's most effective local partner in the fight against IS, sees the move as leaving them open to Turkish assault. In a bid to reassure allies of Washington's commitment, Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have been touring Middle Eastern capitals this week expressing their will to protect the Kurds and continue combating IS. "We don't think the Turks ought to undertake military action that's not fully coordinated with and agreed to by the United States at a minimum, so they don't endanger our troops," Bolton said Sunday in Israel. He added that Turkey must "meet the president's requirement that the Syrian opposition forces that have fought with us are not endangered." Ankara and Washington at loggerheads Given Erdogan's sharp rebuttal, this requirement may prove very difficult to meet. The Turkish leader's comments were a "big time put down," said Timothy Ash, senior emerging markets strategist and Turkey expert at BlueBay Asset Management. "Both Bolton and Pompeo are clearly trying to make the best of a difficult situation for them given Trump's surprise decision around withdrawing troops from Syria," he told CNBC on Tuesday. Just last September, Bolton pledged that the U.S. would stay in the war-torn country as long as adversary Iran remains active there. "Neither Bolton nor Pompeo's comments seemed particularly sensitive to Turkey's sensitivities," Ash said, "and I think Erdogan was responding to this." U.S. support for the Kurds in Syria has been a major point of contention between Ankara and Washington. Relations between the two NATO allies have been rocked by turbulence in the past few years over Syria policy, U.S. sanctions on Iran, trade tariffs, Erdogan's warming relationship with Moscow, and the Turkish detention of an American pastor, who was released in October. Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that President Erdogan's comments were made on Tuesday.

Natasha TurakCorrespondent, CNBC

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TERROR SURGE ISIS massacres 32 people in Syria onslaught after Trump’s troop withdrawal vow sparks new wave of bloodshed

One official asked whether Daesh were ramping up their operations ahead of the US withdrawal to ‘prove’ that they drove American forces out

By Phoebe Cooke 8th January 2019, 3:12 pm Updated: 8th January 2019, 3:17 pm

DONALD Trump’s pledge to withdraw his troops has sparked a new wave of ISIS bloodshed, it is claimed after 32 people were killed in the most recent Syria massacre. The US President's shock announcement to withdraw 2,000 armed forces from northern Syria last month with claims "IS had been defeated" left western leaders reeling. But a number of military sources are now claiming that Isis are taking advantage of the uncertainty around Trump's pledge to stage their attacks. Twenty-three US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters and nine IS jihadists died in fighting that lasted all night and into Monday morning after extremists used the cover of bad weather to launch a counterattack at the Kurdish-led force. Two British special forces soldiers were also seriously injured in the attack. A senior British official told the Independent: “The attack which injured the two soldiers show that the fight against Daesh [Isis] is by no means over. "What happened shows Daesh still have access to potent weaponry,” stressed the British official. “There is now a real question over whether Daesh are ramping up their operations ahead of the US troop withdrawal to ‘prove’ that they drove American forces out. It could be similar to what the Taliban tried to do in Helmand in Afghanistan.”  The number of US troops had slowly been increasing in Syria since 2015 and the pledge to remove while the threat remains high left many bewildered. Senior sources have now attributed the move to the resignations of defence secretary James Mattis and Pentagon chief of staff Kevin Sweeney, along with as Brett McGurk, Washington’s envoy to the international coalition fighting Isis. US allies have reacted to Trump's decision with grave concern, with national security advisory John Bolton visiting Israel to stress that it would not put America's allies at risk. A senior American security official also told the Independent: “We have got Daesh demoralised, pushed right back, but the mission isn’t over and the message must be that we keep hammering them to the end. “Instead we get a thing [Trump’s statement] like this, saying we are pulling out. "It encourages Daesh to stay in the fight and demoralises our allies.” In Britain, defence secretary Gavin Williamson has stated that the UK will continue its presence in Syria. “We cannot be complacent about the threat of Daesh," he said. "We recognise that we have got to continue to keep a foot on the throat of Daesh." The YPG is the main component of the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) who were predominantly killed in the attack, a group credited with playing a major role in the fight against IS. The US potential withdrawal has raised fears that a gulf would be created in war zone that the Kurds, Russia, Iran, Israel and Turkey have played a part in for the last nearly eight years of war.

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Complaints prompt Amazon to remove products that are offensive to Muslims

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Updated 12:11 AM ET, Tue January 8, 2019

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/08/us/amazon-cair-offensive-products/index.html 

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Girl with Down syndrome and terminal illness becomes flight attendant

A 17-year-old girl with Down syndrome and several health problems is living her dream of becoming a flight attendant, thanks to American Airlines. Shantell "Shannie" Pooser was born with a heart defect and a series of terminal airway defects. She has struggled with her health conditions her whole life, but Shannie's mom, Deanna Miller-Berry, told CBS News her daughter was born to defy the odds. For years, Shannie has been traveling back and forth from Denmark, South Carolina, to Cincinnati Children's Hospital for treatments and surgeries. In 2016, she received a major surgery that would save her life. Doctors told Miller-Berry when her daughter came out of surgery, she would be in bad shape. "She came out singing 'Let It Go' from Frozen," Miller-Berry said. "The surgeons were standing around like, 'We've never had anybody come out of this type of surgery talking ... this girl is singing 'Let It Go' in ICU.'" It was the moment Miller-Berry realized her daughter had a passion for life that could not be wasted. "I made a vow to God," Miller-Berry said. "I said, 'Shannie, no matter what you want to do when you get better, we'll make a bucket list and I'll make it happen. If you live long enough where the doctors can fix you 100 percent, I'll do my best to make your dreams come true.'" Shannie made a bucket list with four or five things on it and the first dream was fulfilled on her 17th birthday in October. Shannie has flown to Cincinnati over 50 times since 2016. "We became friends with a lot of the flight attendants and a lot of pilots, and she just kept saying, 'Mommy, I want to be a flight attendant,'" Miller-Berry said. She knew this was an unrealistic dream for her daughter, but Miller-Berry did not want to let her down. She sent a letter to a flight attendant friend at American Airlines asking if Shannie could have some airline memorabilia. She got a call from a pilot who said they would do something even greater than a birthday party. "He said, 'We're going to give her birthday party on a Boeing jet.'" The birthday party was more than the mother and daughter could've dreamed of. The entire first class was filled with Shannie's friends and local celebrities showed up for the trip, like the mayor of Columbus, South Carolina. Miller-Berry was shocked by the generosity of the airline, but the surprise for Shannie did not stop there. American Airlines found out Shannie what really wanted was to be a flight attendant. So, they sent her an official uniform and badge so she could look the part on the flight and every other flight after that. Due to her condition, Shannie has an inability to fly on long flights on a frequent basis. However, since she is able to do the flight to Cincinnati often, the airline decided to make her part of the staff of the flight each time she flies. Before each flight, Shannie helps flight attendants before she has to sit down and rest. Shannie usually helps the flight attendants demonstrate safety instructions. So far, she has worked in full uniform about four times since her birthday flight. Shannie gets to fulfill her bucket list item every time she flies. The remaining items on the list: meet the Obamas, dance on Ellen DeGeneres' show and go to her junior prom in a hot air balloon. "She has a Barack Obama doll," Miller-Berry said. "And she sleeps with it every night. She's the only person that can sleep with Barack Obama and get away with it," her mom joked. The surgery Shannie had in 2016 came with risks, and she had growths that grew back aggressively, Miller-Berry said. However, Shannie is having an emergency surgery next week, and her family is confident she will keep her spirits up through it. "I'm really in the business right now of fulfilling her bucket list," Miller-Berry said. At least one item from the list is in the works: Miller-Berry hopes to get Shannie the hot air balloon ride to prom. She also hopes that once her daughter turns 18, she will be officially employed by American Airlines and get a job in the terminal. For Shannie, nothing is impossible. Her dreams keep getting fulfilled because of her optimism and fighting spirit.

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etc. For I have warned you Russia is not your friend, I have warned you that China is not your friend, I have warned you that North Korea is not your friend and I have warned you that Iran is not your friend. etc.

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Between Russia and China they own the sea, we search for their submarines and we cannot find them, we search for the battleships and without satellite we would never find them.  There is a great warfare ready to take place because of the sea; the ocean surrounds every little place there is.

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China’s Atlantean ambition for the South China Sea

Beijing's futuristic plan for an artificial intelligence-driven deep-sea submarine base promises to churn the contested sea's already volatile waters

By Richard Javad Heydarian Manila, January 3, 2019 6:48 PM (UTC+8)

As Southeast Asian nations look ahead to 2019, competition for control of the South China Sea looms large on the horizon. That strategic contest could enter a new destabilizing phase if China introduces as reported a new Atlantis-like deep-sea submarine base in the already volatile maritime area. The proposed new base, which could in theory be operated 24/7 through usage of cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology, would dramatically bolster China’s quest for superiority in a largely unseen underwater struggle for one of the world’s most important waterways. If implemented as envisioned in recent news reports, the futuristic underwater submarine base would potentially place the Asian powerhouse in a position to dominate the waters, skies, and underwater continental shelves in a maritime region through which trillions of dollars of trade travels annually. One reported candidate location for the proposed base is the Manila Trench, which reaches a depth of about 5,400 meters and is known to be pervaded by negative gravity anomalies. It is also associated with frequent earthquakes and a subduction zone responsible for the belt of volcanoes on the Philippine island of Luzon. The ambitious project was launched in early December by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, according to media reports. The announcement came shortly after Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the deep-sea research institute at Sanya, Hainan, which currently serves as the site of China’s southernmost submarine base. During the publicized visit, Xi implored Chinese scholars to be daring and unrelenting in pushing the boundaries of science and geo-engineering beyond the achievements of any other country. “There is no road in the deep sea, we do not need to chase [after other nations], we are the road,” Xi said during his visit to Hainan. To put the ambitious project’s scale into perspective, the planned base would conceivably be put in the deepest part of the ocean basin, which is typically a V-shape area with an estimated depth of 6,000 to 11,000 meters. The Manila Trench, analysts note, potentially fits this geological requirement; the South China Sea’s average depth is only 1,500 meters. The base’s estimated initial cost is only around US$160 million, or about half of what China spent on developing the world’s largest telescope, the FAST radio telescope in southwestern province of Guizhou, according to reports. Given the intricate and unprecedented nature of the proposed underwater base, the final cost is expected to be several times higher. As one scientist involved in the recently launched project told the South China Morning Post, “It is as challenging as building a colony on another planet for robotic residents with artificial intelligence.” He said it will require the kind of technology which “can change the world.” Another Chinese scientist described the project as “more difficult than building a space station. No other country has done this before.” China has tried to portray the project as an innocuous scientific endeavor, which will provide vital public international goods. China has similarly characterized other structures, including meteorological observatories, environmental and air quality monitoring stations and marine observation centers, it has built on contested land features in the South China Sea’s Spratly chain of islands. Through the deployment of AI-driven autonomous submarines, the country will be able to survey, study and record life forms on the ocean seabed, setting the stage for potential exploitation of precious and previously untapped resources that could have medicinal and technological benefits, Chinese officials have said. The submarine base will be powered through cables connected to a nearby ship or platform. Yet there are doubts about China’s true intentions. In particular, there are worries about the potential dual-use applications of such a facility, which if built would give Beijing even greater ability to crowd out and encircle other claimant states in the South China Sea. China aims to deploy AI-driven unmanned submarines that could potentially be used in suicide attacks against enemy vessels by 2020, according to reports. Since 2013, China has embarked on an unprecedented reclamation project which has dramatically changed the geology of the South China Sea. This has been followed by its militarization of the maritime features it controls, seen in last year’s deployment of surface-to-air-missiles and other advanced military assets to its artificially built islands. Building a submarine base at the bosom of the disputed waters would mark a new phase in China’s quest for domination of the waters, strategic analysts say. Indeed, there are already indications that the competition for control of the South China Sea is shifting to deep-water theaters, where the potential for miscalculations, including vis-a-vis US naval vessels, will rise. With the possible exception of Vietnam, which recently acquired several kilo-class submarines from Russia, no other regional claimant state is in a position to credibly track and deter China’s undersea activities in the South China Sea. Xi’s ambitious plan for an Atlantis-like submarine base in the maritime area likely builds on the vision of the founder of China’s modern navy, Admiral Liu Huaqing. In the 1980s, Liu envisioned Beijing’s strategic dominance of adjacent waters (“first island chain”) as well as the Western Pacific (“second island chain”) within the first two decades of the 21st century. The Chinese admiral viewed the maritime zone as China’s natural backyard, a crucial buffer zone to protect the country’s economic centers in the south as well as a critical step towards full encirclement and eventual incorporation of Taiwan into China. Beijing views Taiwan as a renegade province rather than independent nation. With the launch of its “boomer-type” submarines in 2014, now known to be roaming the Indian and Pacific oceans, China made its way into the exclusive club of powers – along with the US and Russia – that have the capability to launch nuclear missiles from air, sea and underwater. China’s boomer-type nuclear submarines could be stationed at the planned Atlantis-like submarine base, giving China the ability to gradually push out and intimidate the US and its allies operating in the area, some analysts project. As the South China Sea battle for supremacy moves from the surface to underwater, smaller Southeast Asian claimants will increasingly find themselves at the strategic mercy of great powers with superior deep-sea capabilities – and potentially even AI-driven underwater bases.

http://www.atimes.com/article/chinas-atlantean-ambition-for-the-south-china-sea/ 

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In Britain, there are now approximately 15 acid attacks per week with 75% of them taking place in London

January 3, 2019 by BareNakedIslam

Breitbart (h/t Mili) The United Kingdom’s surge of the previously unheard of phenomenon of acid attacks has seen an average of 15 a week over the past three years, with the vast majority taking place in the crime-struck capital, London. There were 2,602 acid attacks in Britain between January 2015 and May 2018, the equivalent of 15 a week, according to government figures accessed by The Mirrornewspaper. Comparing that figure — which will almost certainly be higher on average for 2018 crimes given the apparent surge in acid attacks in the past year — the newspaper notes between 2007 and 2011 there were just 100 such attacks, or just one a fortnight over the period. Of the attacks, the majority took place in London — 73 per cent — despite just 12 per cent of people in the United Kingdom living in the capital. The paper also reports instances of particular attacks that have taken place in recent years, some of which child victims and even child perpetrators — one as young as six years old. Breitbart London has reported on the rising prominence of acid attacks in the United Kingdom and in London in particular, with the city being crowned the world acid attack capital in 2017, with incidents reaching “epidemic” levels, according to medics working on acid victim care. While the attacks are often severely debilitating and leave victims with what are euphemistically called “life-changing injuries”, Britain saw its first prosecution for an acid attack killing in 2018. The victim, who had just come from the grave of her daughter, died 11 days later. In another attack which saw particularly strong media attention, a three-year-old boy was splashed with acid during a “deliberate” attack which police attributed to “community violence”. The extent to which the boy’s injuries will impact him in the long run is not yet known. Five were subsequently arrested, with the case soon going to court.

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Europe Is Killing Itself

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Pat Condell Published on Sep 7, 2017

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FITTON: HUGE! California and Los Angeles County to Remove 1.5 Million Inactive Voters from Voter Rolls – Settle @JudicialWatch Federal Lawsuit! Press Room

Judicial Watch • California and Los Angeles County to Remove 1.5 Million Inactive Voters from Voter Rolls – Settle Judicial Watch Federal Lawsuit

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(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it signed a settlement agreement with the State of California and County of Los Angeles under which they will begin the process of removing from their voter registration rolls as many as 1.5 million inactive registered names that may be invalid. These removals are required by the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). The NVRA is a federal law requiring the removal of inactive registrations from the voter rolls after two general federal elections (encompassing from 2 to 4 years). Inactive voter registrations belong, for the most part, to voters who have moved to another county or state or have passed away. Los Angeles County has over 10 million residents, more than the populations of 41 of the 50 United States. California is America’s largest state, with almost 40 million residents. Judicial Watch filed a 2017 federal lawsuit to force the cleanup of voter rolls (Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. v. Dean C. Logan, et al. (No. 2:17-cv-08948)). Judicial Watch sued on its own behalf and on behalf of Wolfgang Kupka, Rhue Guyant, Jerry Griffin, and Delores M. Mars, who are lawfully registered voters in Los Angeles County. Judicial Watch was also joined by Election Integrity Project California, Inc., a public interest group that has long been involved in monitoring California’s voter rolls. In its lawsuit, Judicial Watch alleged: Los Angeles County has more voter registrations on its voter rolls than it has citizens who are old enough to register. Specifically, according to data provided to and published by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Los Angeles County has a registration rate of 112 percent of its adult citizen population. The entire State of California has a registration rate of about 101 percent of its age-eligible citizenry. Eleven of California’s 58 counties have registration rates exceeding 100 percent of the age-eligible citizenry. The lawsuit confirmed that Los Angeles County has on its rolls more than 1.5 million potentially ineligible voters. This means that more than one out of every five LA County registrations likely belongs to a voter who has moved or is deceased. Judicial Watch notes that “Los Angeles County has the highest number of inactive registrations of any single county in the country.” The Judicial Watch lawsuit also uncovered that neither the State of California nor Los Angeles County had been removing inactive voters from the voter registration rolls for the past 20 years. The Supreme Court affirmed last year in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Inst., 138 S. Ct. 1833 (2018) that the NVRA “makes this removal mandatory.” The new settlement agreement, filed today with U.S. District Court Judge Manuel L. Real, requires all of the 1.5 million potentially ineligible registrants to be notified and asked to respond. If there is no response, those names are to be removed as required by the NVRA. California Secretary of State Padilla also agrees to update the State’s online NVRA manual to make clear that ineligible names must be removed and to notify each California county that they are obligated to do this. This should lead to cleaner voter rolls statewide. Prior to this settlement agreement, Judicial Watch estimated that based on comparisons of national census data to voter-roll information, there were 3.5 million more names on various county voter rolls than there were citizens of voting age. This settlement could cut this number in half. This is only the third statewide settlement achieved by private plaintiffs under the NVRA – and Judicial Watch was the plaintiff in each of those cases. The other statewide settlements are with Ohio (in 2014) and with Kentucky (2018), which agreed to a court-ordered consent decree. “This settlement vindicates Judicial Watch’s groundbreaking lawsuits to clean up state voter rolls to help ensure cleaner elections,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Judicial Watch and its clients are thrilled with this historic settlement that will clean up election rolls in Los Angeles County and California – and set a nationwide precedent to ensure that states take reasonable steps to ensure that dead and other ineligible voters are removed from the rolls.” Judicial Watch Attorney Robert Popper is the director of the organization’s Election Integrity Project and led the Judicial Watch legal team in this litigation. Judicial Watch is the national leader in enforcing the list maintenance provisions of the NVRA. In addition to its settlement agreements with Ohio and win in Kentucky, Judicial Watch filed a successful NVRA lawsuit against Indiana, causing it to voluntarily clean up its voting rolls, and has an ongoing lawsuit with the State of Maryland. Judicial Watch helped the State of Ohio to successfully defend their settlement agreement before the Supreme Court. In North Carolina, Judicial Watch supported implementation of the state’s election integrity reform laws, filing amicus briefs in the Supreme Court in March 2017. And, in April 2018, Judicial Watch filed an amicus brief in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Alabama’s voter ID law. In Georgia, Judicial Watch filed an amicus brief in support of Secretary Brian Kemp’s list maintenance process against a lawsuit by left-wing groups. Judicial Watch and Georgia won when the Supreme Court ruled in the Ohio’s favor.

Judicial Watch was assisted in this case by Charles H. Bell of Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, LLP.

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IRS Won't Issue Refunds During Shutdown: That Could Be A Problem

by Tyler Durden Thu, 01/03/2019 - 20:25

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etc. a terrible dark cloud has covered the earth, sickness, pain, suffering, bloodshed, drought, hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, fire, famine, pestilences, heartaches and sorrow, the anti-christ rising to power and fame. Oh, what a day that has now come.

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Ebola hits EUROPE as patient enters hospital vomiting blood

EBOLA is feared to have hit Europe after an isolation unit was set up in Sweden following a patient vomiting blood.

By Jamie Micklethwaite / Published 4th January 2019

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First of two Muslim congresswoman sworn in using Quran

6,282 views 11Alive Published on Jan 4, 2019

Newly elected Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan made history by being one of the first two Muslim women to be elected to Congress in the United States.

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Muslim Congresswoman Ilhan Omar makes history by wearing hijab on the floor of the House of Representatives as rules are changed to allow religious head coverings - then is sworn in on the Koran

Ilhan Omar, one of the first female Muslim members of Congress, wears her hijab on the House floor

Democratic representative from Minnesota makes history as rules are changed to allow her to cover her head

Under new their House rules, regular hats - such as baseball caps and cowboy hats - will continue to be banned, while religious gear will be permitted

'No one puts a scarf on my head but me. It's my choice—one protected by the first amendment,' she tweeted

Omar, 37, posed on the floor with California Democrat Eric Swalwell's young baby

Somali-born Omar came to the U.S. as a child refugee after living in a camp for displaced people in Kenya

By Emily Goodin, U.s. Politcal Reporter For Dailymail.com Published: 15:02 EST, 3 January 2019 | Updated: 10:45 EST, 4 January 2019

One of the first female Muslim members of Congress took her seat wearing the hijab on Thursday. Democrat Ilhan Omar made history as she become one of the first two Muslim women to enter Congress - and did so with her head covered. The 37-year-old who came to the U.S. as a refugee from Somali represents the fifth district of Minnesota, which includes all of Minneapolis and some of its suburbs. Democrats were to formally end the ban on religious head coverings on the House floor on Thursday afternoon as part of a package of rules to govern the House. That package changes the ban on head coverings to exclude 'non-religious headdress.' That means Omar will be allowed to don her hijab when she's on the House floor to vote and give speeches during normal sessions. The Somali-American was later ceremonially sworn in on the Koran by Nancy Pelosi, while holding Islamic prayer beads. While regular hats - such as baseball caps and cowboy hats - will continue to be banned, religious gear will be permitted in the 116th Congress. Omar had been vocal about her desire to wear her head scarf when she is sworn into office on Thursday. 'No one puts a scarf on my head but me. It's my choice—one protected by the first amendment. And this is not the last ban I'm going to work to lift,' she tweeted in November after she was elected. Incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Incoming House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern backed Omar in her request and included it in the rules package they released late Tuesday night. Many Muslim women wear a hijab - a scarf around their head - for religious reasons. Omar is joined by Rep.-elect Rashida Tlaib of Michigan as the first two Muslim women in Congress, although Tlaib, a Palestinian-American, does not wear a head covering. Hats of any kind were banned from the House floor in 1837. With virtually no debate, the rules were modified to read: 'Every member shall remain uncovered during the sessions of the House,' according to the House Historian's office. In the House's early years, lawmakers and guests routinely donned their hats while the chamber was in session - a custom that harked back to the British Parliament. Omar, 36, was born in Somalia but she and her family fled the war-torn nation. They came to the United States in 1995, when she was 12, and they ended up in Minneapolis in 1997. Her election to Congress brought many firsts: the first Somali American and first Muslim refugee elected. Omar was born in Somalia but fled the war-torn country with her family when she was ten, then spent years in a refugee camp in Kenya before being granted asylum in the U.S. and settling first in Arlington, Virginia, then in Minneapolis. She also became the first woman of color to represent Minnesota on Capitol Hill. Omar won the House seat formerly occupied by Democrat Keith Ellison, who was the first Muslim congressman to be elected to Congress. Another lawmaker famous for her head gear, Democratic Rep. Fredrica Wilson of Florida, tried to change the hat ban in 2010 - when she was first elected to Congress - to no avail. ''It's sexist,' Wilson told the Miami Herald at the time. 'It dates back to when men wore hats and we know that men don't wear hats indoors, but women wear hats indoors. Hats are what I wear. People get excited when they see the hats. Once you get accustomed to it, it's just me. Some people wear wigs, or high heel shoes or big earrings or pins. This is just me.''

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BREAKING: Democrats Introduce Bill To Eliminate Electoral College

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Two Warnings Of Martial Law In 2019 Emerge From Globalist Controlled Media As Leftists Expand Threats And Violence

- 1940 Book Warned 'Countless People Will Hate The New World Order, And Will Die Protesting Against It'

By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die January 3, 2018

Like those opposed to the #ClintonCrimeFamily, we've long been warned that those opposed to the global terrorists 'new world order' would be knocked off by them like flies and as this new story over at Collective Evolution reports, the journalist who on December 13th broke the story of Robert Mueller's team of crooked cops deleting Strzok/Page text messages had died mysteriously. As we had reported on ANP on December 29th, Bre Payton of the website The Federalist and a frequent guest on Fox News and CNN had mysteriously died from H1N1 only days after falling ill and while officially classified as 'death by illness', we all know that the absolutely corrupted faction of the deep state will kill Americans standing in the way of them imposing their dictatorial 'new world order', with former Congressman Ron Paul even warning they may try to assassinate President Trump. With POTUS Trump recently sending a veiled reminder to the global terrorists that are trying to take down America that he's surrounded by 'machine gunners', almost daring the psychopaths to try to pick him off, we'll take a look within the remainder of this ANP story at more evidence the Democrats and corrupted faction of the deep state will do ANYTHING to stop President Trump and his America 1st agenda, just as the globalists are doing in the UK to those who voted for BREXIT. And as we'll see below, two new stories out from globalist controlled media outlets both warn of the potential of martial law in 2019, echoing rumors of martial law ahead we've read recently from alternative media outlets. First, from the Collective Evolution story.: She seemed unafraid to take on things that mattered, including breaking the hard-hitting piece DOJ Destroyed Missing Strzok/Page Text Messages Before The IG Could Review Them on December 13th, where, unlike the mainstream media who later focused on the idea that there was ‘no evidence’ that these text messages were deliberately destroyed, Payton leaned towards the conclusion that there was criminal intent in these deletions, a notion supported by Donald Trump. And then she died suddenly on Friday in San Diego. She was 26. I don’t have any definitive ‘proof’ for the notion that Payton was killed because she was going to disclose some type of sensitive information against the Deep State; however, it must be said that the cause and circumstances of her death are befuddling enough for one to consider such an idea. My only intention is to explain the facts and allow you to draw your own conclusions. While the mainstream media will NEVER launch an investigation or even talk about it, the fact of the matter is, MANY people have died very mysterious deaths who have had links to the #ClintonCrimeFamily, deaths going back decades and deaths that continued well into 2018. Many of those deaths have never been officially 'solved' or were called 'suicides'. And as we've reported previously on ANP, many people who were opposed to a totalitarian government being imposed here in America and across the planet have also met their mysterious and untimely ends. And while the deaths of people like Seth Rich and investigative journalist Jen Moore could very well have been just due to tragic circumstances, the numbers of the dead keep adding up as the extended excerpt below from this August 18th Communities Digital News story reports.: If you believe fake news, keep telling yourself there’s nothing at all to the worrisome and mounting pile of corpses littering the path to power and riches trod by Bill and Hillary Clinton. But just in case you’re keeping score at home, that lengthening Clinton body count tally now includes the mortal remains of investigative journalist Jen Moore. Authorities claim Moore suffered a fatal “seizure” while staying at a Radisson Hotel just outside the nation’s capital. Of interest: The most recent journalistic focus of Jen Moore concerned the subject of human trafficking. One week before her questionable death, Moore is said to have been in contact with a 26-year-old man. The subject claims that when he was a child, former President Bill Clinton sexually molested him at sex parties attended by D.C.’s depraved glitterati. The mainstream media will surely label the suspicious cause and timing of Jen Moore’s death as yet another “right-wing conspiracy theory.” If, indeed, they choose to cover the story at all. But will the public dismiss this story as well? Will everyone once again ignore this latest potential addition to the growing Clinton body count Today, however, the same incurious media continues to obsess instead over their favored left-wing conspiracy theories. These are still dominated by the well-known but still-unsubstantiated claims of sexual deviance spelled out in the Kremlin-sourced, anti-Trump, Christopher Steele dossier. There is now little question that this bogus document was nothing more than opposition research paid for by the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign in order to derail the campaign of her GOP opponent, Donald Trump. It’s already known to be nearly or entirely fake. So why the continuing obsession with this still-fake news? Forgotten as well by most in the media is the very real evidence of sexual predation against the underaged by Anthony Weiner and perhaps others yet undisclosed. Law enforcement officials discovers this evidence, virtually by accident, on the laptop computer of longtime Hillary Clinton aide, Huma Abedin. It was the FBI’s investigation into Abedin’s husband, now-disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, that led New York-based G-Men to the laptop the former Democratic politician used to send compromising photos of himself to underage girls. The Weiner sex-crime investigation, in turn, led to the discovery of those top-secret Hillary Clinton State Department emails. This surprising discovery was, apparently, the primary reason behind the embarrassing announcement by then-FBI Director James Comey that he was re-opening the FBI investigation into Mrs. Clinton. But did the Anthony Weiner investigation also point to a larger sex ring operating in the nation’s capital? One that may have implicated the Clintons? One that may have just added another corpse to the Clinton body count? Answer from the media: Crickets. While the deep state under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton actually considered assassinating Wikileaks journalist Julian Assange for exposing the 'real' Hillary Clinton and her associates to the American people, President Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani recently stated Assange shouldn't be prosecuted and instead, treated like any other journalists doing their job. Comparing Wikileaks publications to the Pentagon Papers that were published by both the NY Times and the Washington Post with no journalists going to prison despite the fact that the published information was stolen, why should Assange be treated any differently unless America had suddenly entered an era where government corruption was going to be completely silenced? With the Obama administration even insanely claiming no corruption happened under their watch because the mainstream media refused to investigate it or report upon it, it's clear that those who've set their eyes on prosecuting Assange for journalism are the same 'enemies of America within' taking aim at President Trump. And we shouldn't be the least bit surprised that when the left and the deep state totally lose as they lost the 2016 election, they resort to the one thing that they know best, threatening violence against their perceived enemies as reported in the following two stories from the Washington Times and PJ Media. As the Washington Times reported Wednesday, a restaurant frequently attended by popular Conservative radio show host Michael Savage recently received a threatening email from a lunatic who vowed to shoot up the restaurant and kill as many people as he possibly could if the restaurant continued to serve 'white supremacist Michael Savage'. And as PJ Media reported on December 31st, President Trump supporter Brenna Spencer, a student at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, has been deluged with death threats after posting a pro-gun graduation photo of her wearing a 'Women for Trump' tee-shirt while armed. Telling PJ Media that she posted the photo “to bring awareness of how important it is to protect yourself, especially for women”, do the leftists actually want women to be victims? If not, why are they now doxxing her and threatening her life for having the courage to stand up for herself? From the Washington Times story about the threats against Michael Savage.: Portions of the email sent to the restaurant state, in all caps, “I DEMAND THAT YOU REFUSE TO ALLOW MICHAEL SAVAGE … IN YOUR F-ING RESTAURANT AGAIN. HE IS A RACIST WHITE SUPREMACIST PIECE OF SH— … DONT WANT TO LISTEN TO ME? WELL I GUESS YOURE ALL GONNA F—ING DIE THEN CUZ I AM WAITING FOR THE MOTHAF— AND I WILL WAIT AND WATCH YOUR F—ING BUSINESS AND WHEN I SEE HIM GO IN THERE IM GOING TO START SHOOTING EVERY BODY I CAN FIND.” The suspect then gets very specific. “I OWN 3 GUNS AND I CAN DO SOME SERIOUS F—ING DAMAGE,” the email went on. “I WILL KILL AS MANY OF YOU RACIST-SUPPORTING/ENABLING WHITE SUPREMACISTS AS I F—ING CAN.” Savage, in a telephone interview, said he has “changed location,” but he didn’t elaborate. Savage also said: “Over the years, I have received many threats and have chosen to ignore them. … However, given the violent, vile times we are living in and the specific nature of this threat, both I and some serious agencies are taking this threat very seriously.” And well they should. As author H.G. Wells warned in his book "The New World Order", written all the way back in 1940, countless people will hate the 'New World Order' and will die protesting against it. Warning of a generation or so of 'malcontents', who Hillary Clinton and the demonrats called 'deplorables', we've watched Wells warning playing out for decades now. And while the mainstream media will continue to call the 'New World Order' a 'conspiracy theory' despite former President George H.W. Bush referencing it over and over and over again during his presidency, even if President Trump's presidency hadn't brought America anything else, it's absolutely proven to the American people that a shadowy deep state conspiracy does indeed exist, and it's been fighting against President Trump's agenda every step of the way and still is today. And with one of the key tenants of POTUS's presidential promises being 'restoring the rule of law' in America, we're not the least bit surprised that those who are fighting against that probably have horrible secrets and crimes to hide. As we mentioned previously, in two new stories, one over at the Atlantic and one at The Spectator, we get more evidence that this fight against POTUS will continue well into 2019, with The Spectator story titled "How Much Wilder Can The Trump vs Deep State Fight Get?" hinting at not only the deep state possibly assassinating POTUS but warning of martial law in 2019 and tanks on the White House lawn. Meanwhile, this story at The Atlantic titled "What the President Could Do If He Declares a State of Emergency" also hints of potential martial law ahead while giving us another reason to be thankful Hillary Clinton lost in 2016.: "The moment the president declares a 'national emergency' — a decision that is entirely within his discretion—more than 100 special provisions become available to him. While many of these tee up reasonable responses to genuine emergencies, some appear dangerously suited to a leader bent on amassing or retaining power. For instance, the president can, with the flick of his pen, activate laws allowing him to shut down many kinds of electronic communications inside the United States or freeze Americans’ bank accounts. Other powers are available even without a declaration of emergency, including laws that allow the president to deploy troops inside the country to subdue domestic unrest." From The Spectator story.: If President Trump is impeached, would he accept the outcome and leave quietly for the golf course or the federal penitentiary? The Spectator has previously pointed out that Trump could declare a state of emergency or martial law – if someone informs him of a modern president’s many powers. The statutes granting those powers – 123 of them – have been listed by NYU’s law school and are the subject of an Atlantic cover story this month. This is a president who threatened not to accept the election result when he thought he had lost. He has an acting attorney general who doesn’t agree with Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court’s ruling in 1803 that confirms it as the final arbiter in any dispute between Congress and the President over the meaning of the Constitution. My friend, the veteran political consultant, texted me: ‘I am convinced he will be gone but like Nero will burn much of the capital before he leaves. There is real global danger [too]. He is mad and insiders have known this since the start.’ Impeachment. The 25th Amendment. Martial law. Tanks on the White House lawn. A taut, humming wire connecting bloodshed and ‘betrayal’ in Syria with a violent end to the Trump presidency. You might see all this as pure fantasy. Or you could see this as the wilder end of the spectrum of possibilities in Trump’s personal war with his intelligence agencies. Or just as a symptom of the feverish atmosphere in Trump’s Washington: people are actually thinking – and saying – these things. As the new Democratic House of Representatives prepares to be sworn in, the political class in Washington wonder: just how crazy are things going to get around here? So we'll continue to pray that God grant President Trump His mighty Sword and Shield of protection as he fights against the globalists trying to destroy him and America while remembering the words of warning given long ago by H.G. Wells.

http://allnewspipeline.com/The_Deep_State_Murder_Spree_Has_Begun.php 

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Alert! Military On Manhunt For Killer Soldiers Located Across America; Are They Near You!? Find Out Here!

January 3, 2019 JustusAKnight

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Pictured, China's railgun: Hypersonic superweapon capable of striking targets 125 miles away is spotted on warship

Photo has emerged of world's first naval rail gun on Chinese naval warship at sea

Shows landing ship Haiyang Shan with what looks like electromagnetic railgun

China is the first country in the world to develop hypersonic superweapon

Weapon capable of firing projectiles five times faster than the speed of sound

By Kylie Stevens For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 00:27 EST, 3 January 2019 | Updated: 04:21 EST, 3 January 2019

Electromagnetic railgun: Chinese warship ‘spotted with futuristic weapon a gamechanger’

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EU moves to outlaw the word “mankind” because it starts with “man” … the entire English language is being obliterated by libtards

Thursday, January 03, 2019 by: Vicki Batts

(Natural News) Liberal dogma now dictates that words beginning with the letters “m-a-n” are now “gender-biased” tools of the patriarchy which must be criminalized — at least in the European Union. The EU has decided to ban the use of “gender-biased” words and will be moving towards more gender neutral language. The outlawing of gender-specific language and more is all part of the new paradigm laid out in their new guide, Gender Neutral Language In The European Parliament. The policing of language is soon going to reach its apex — and it’s not going to be pretty. Language has a powerful effect on the way we think and feel. The erasure of male identity in language signifies a much greater problem than just battling so-called gender bias. Recall Ayn Rand’s Anthem, a dystopian fiction novel in which the notion of individuality has been erased entirely; gender-specific pronouns are not used. There is no “I,” only “we.” Perhaps it sounds a bit far-fetched, but every path begins with a single step — including the path to tyranny. Outlawing male identity and gender-specific language in government is only the beginning. And while the English language is being obliterated, identity and individuality may just be going down with it. Thought police now banning words As Daily Mail reports, the EU is now going to censor common words and phrases like “manpower” or “mankind,” and replace them with more “gender-neutral” terms. Feminists and liberals the world over are applauding this move as a step toward equality, among claims that words that start with “man” are inherently biased. Words cannot be biased. They can be used to express bias, but as non-thinking, non-feeling inanimate entities, it is literally impossible for a word to be biased. Saying the word “manpower” is biased against women is no different than saying my coffee table is biased against women. People are biased; not words. The notion that certain words are “biased” isn’t new; there are even articles out there on “gender bias” in job descriptions. It’s worth noting that even the writers of such articles are forced to admit that the words themselves are not biased; it’s just that women and men tend to perceive words differently. Perception is not proof, however. Language is a powerful tool Ironically, the EU’s Gender Neutral Language In The European Parliament guide notes that language is an immensely powerful thing. The way in which we speak “reflects and influences attitudes, behaviour and perceptions.” While the EU document charges that a “gender-neutral/gender-fair/non-sexist use of language, so that no gender is privileged, and prejudices against any gender are not perpetuated,” there is a flip-side to this equation that is not being discussed. Gender is closely tied to one’s identity as a person. The slow erasure of gender in our everyday language can, and will, erode individualism and sense of self. While the powers that be say they are increasing “equality” through neutrality, what they aren’t saying is they want us all to be equal slaves. When the call to enforce gender-neutral language is paired off with the other atrocities taking place around the world today, it becomes clear that there is a much more sinister plan at play. Indeed, if the globalists have their way, we’ll all soon be a herd of genderless, mindless sheeple who are unable to defend ourselves or fight back. Sources for this article include:

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How UN Scientists Are Preparing For The End Of Capitalism

02-01-2019 16:28 via Technocracy News

I have warned for years that the UN intends to deep-six Capitalism in favor of Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy. Now, the UN is coming out in the open as the global economy turns downward. Cries that “Capitalism is dead” will soon be heard while Technocracy will be offered as the only possible solution to save the world. ⁃ TN EditorCapitalism as we know it is over. So suggests a new report commissioned by a group of scientists appointed by the UN secretary gen

Capitalism as we know it is over. So suggests a new report commissioned by a group of scientists appointed by the UN secretary general. The main reason? We’re transitioning rapidly to a radically different global economy, due to our increasingly unsustainable exploitation of the planet’s environmental resources and the shift to less efficient energy sources. Climate change and species extinctions are accelerating even as societies are experiencing rising inequality, unemployment, slow economic growth, rising debt levels, and impotent governments. Contrary to the way policymakers usually think about these problems these are not really separate crises at all. These crises are part of the same fundamental transition. The new era is characterised by inefficient fossil fuel production and escalating costs of climate change. Conventional capitalist economic thinking can no longer explain, predict or solve the workings of the global economy in this new age. Energy shift Those are the implications of a new background paper prepared by a team of Finnish biophysicists who were asked to provide research that would feed into the drafting of the UN Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR), which will be released in 2019. For the “first time in human history”, the paper says, capitalist economies are “shifting to energy sources that are less energy efficient.” Producing usable energy (“exergy”) to keep powering “both basic and non-basic human activities” in industrial civilisation “will require more, not less, effort”. At the same time, our hunger for energy is driving what the paper refers to as “sink costs.” The greater our energy and material use, the more waste we generate, and so the greater the environmental costs. Though they can be ignored for a while, eventually those environmental costs translate directly into economic costs as it becomes more and more difficult to ignore their impacts on our societies. And the biggest “sink cost”, of course, is climate change: “Sink costs are also rising; economies have used up the capacity of planetary ecosystems to handle the waste generated by energy and material use. Climate change is the most pronounced sink cost.” Overall, the amount of energy we can extract, compared to the energy we are using to extract it, is decreasing “across the spectrum – unconventional oils, nuclear and renewables return less energy in generation than conventional oils, whose production has peaked – and societies need to abandon fossil fuels because of their impact on the climate.” The UN A copy of the paper, available on the website of the BIOS Research Unit in Finland, was sent to me by lead author Dr Paavo Järvensivu, a ‘biophysical economist’ – a rare, but emerging breed of economist exploring the role of energy and materials in fuelling economic activity. I met Dr Järvensivu last year when I spoke at the BIOS Research Unit about the findings of my own book, Failing States, Collapsing Systems: BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence. The UN’s GSDR is being drafted by an independent group of scientists (IGS) appointed by the UN Secretary general. The IGS is supported by a range of UN agencies including the UN Secretariat, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the UN Environment Programme, the UN Development Programme, the UN Conference on Trade and Development and the World Bank The paper, co-authored by Dr Järvensivu with the rest of the BIOS team, was commissioned by the UN’s IGS specifically to feed into the chapter on ‘Transformation: the Economy’. Invited background documents are used as the basis of the GSDR, but what ends up in the final report will not be known until it is released next year. The BIOS paper suggests that much of the political and economic volatility we have seen in recent years has a root cause in this creeping ecological crisis. As the ecological and economic costs of industrial overconsumption continue to rise, the constant economic growth we have become accustomed to is now in jeopardy. That, in turn, has exerted massive strain on our politics. But the underlying issues are still unacknowledged and unrecognised by policymakers. More in, less out “We live in an era of turmoil and profound change in the energetic and material underpinnings of economies. The era of cheap energy is coming to an end,” says the paper. Conventional economic models, the Finnish scientists note, “almost completely disregard the energetic and material dimensions of the economy.” The scientists refer to the pioneering work of systems ecologist Professor Charles Hall of the State University of New York with economist Professor Kent Klitgaard from Wells College. This year, Hall and Klitgaard released an updated edition of their seminal book, Energy and the Wealth of Nations: An Introduction to BioPhysical Economics. Hall and Klitgaard are highly critical of mainstream capitalist economic theory, which they say has become divorced from some of the most fundamental principles of science. They refer to the concept of “energy return on investment” (EROI) as a key indicator of the shift into a new age of difficult energy. EROI is a simple ratio that measures how much energy we use to extract more energy.

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The Common Sense Show Dave Hodges interview with Steve Quayle

Steve Quayle Interview ( January 4, 2019 ) The Lost Will Wake Up – QL Prophecy

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Why Whoville Sings

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Iran Ready To Train 'Palestinian Resistance' Forces, Says Police Chief

January 03, 2019 Radio Farda

Iran's Police Chief Hosein Ashtari has told Palestinian Islamic Jihad Leader Ziad al-Nakhaleh that his forces are prepared to offer training to the "Palestinian Resistance Front," ISNA reported on Wednesday January 2. The "resistance front" is Iran's nickname for groups such as HAMAS and Islamic Jihad in the Palestinian territories and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The statement by the police chief followed Iranian President's meeting with Al-Nakhaleh on January 1 during which President Hassan Rouhani called for the continuation of Palestinians' struggle against Israel, adding that the Palestinians' battle should end with Israel "bowing" to Palestine. Al-Nakhaleh also met with Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Tuesday. Khamenei told him that "A Palestinian state will be finally declared in Tel Aviv." His remark was against Palestinians' ideal of setting up a government in Jerusalem. Meanwhile, the Iranian Foreign Ministry's spokesman has stressed that Tehran's stance against Israel will remain unchanged. Rouhani said in his meeting with Al-Nakhaleh and the accompanying delegation that "The U.S. is helping Israel to dominate the region, including Palestine," adding that "Regional nations should think of Israel not only as an enemy of Palestine, but as an adversary for the entire region." The Islamic Jihad leader reportedly promised in this meeting that "The Palestinian nation will not stop resistance and will fight till victory." Iranian media reports about the meeting between Iran's police chief and the leader of the Islamic Jihad were unprecedented as previously Iran did not acknowledged contacts between its military personnel and Palestinian armed groups. In his meeting with Al-Nakhaleh, Ashtari likened assistance to the "resistance movement" to Iran's "holy defense"; an official jargon to describe the war with Iraq in the 1980s. Assisting groups such as the Islamic Jihad is against international regulations enforced on the financial front by the Financial Action Task Force or FATF, which has required Iran to stop assistance to terrorist groups. Iran has started the enactment of legislation required by FATF to ban financing for terrorism, but hardliners have stopped the process. Iran’s timing for arranging al-Nakhaleh’s visit and the exposure given to it will not make its international isolation any better. The U.S. has reimposed heavy economic sanctions on Iran, partly because of Tehran’s support for militant groups and Europe, which is willing to trade with Iran, is waiting to see if Tehran will enact the laws demanded by FATF. ISNA quoted Ashtari as saying that "Iran is the only country that assists the resistance movement." This was the Islamic Jihad leader's first visit to Tehran where he met high-ranking Iranian officials. Al-Nakhaleh has been the group's leader since September 2018. The Islamic Jihad, established in the 1970s, officially declared its existence in 1987 in a charter "based on the ideas of Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeyni," the founder of Iran's Islamic Republic. Islamic Jihad is the closest Palestinian group to Iran and is considered by regional players as an Iranian puppet. The group's leader, Ziad al-Nakhaleh, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Israel in 1971 but was freed in 1985 during a prisoner swap with Palestinian groups. He was arrested once again in 1988 and sent to exile in Jordan, but later he went to Syria, Iran's ally in the region. The United States has declared him a terrorist. In the meantime, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi's remark about the unchangeability of Iran's stance against Israel appears to be an explanation to balance Foreign Minister Zarif's statement in an interview with French magazine Le Point in December, during which he said "No one in the Islamic Republic has ever said that they want to destroy Israel." However, Ghasemi did not further explain his comment. Russian news agency Sputnik earlier had quoted Naser Abu Sharif, Islamic Jihad's representative in Tehran, as saying that Iran is the only country that ignores all international sanctions and supplies weapons to Palestinians." Abu Sharif also said that some Islamic Jihad members have been trained in Iran. Last month, a HAMAS delegation had visited Iran. The Islamic Republic supports Palestinian groups regardless of Tehran's deep economic crisis that brought thousands of Iranians to streets in 2018 chanting slogans against wasting Iranian people's resources in the Middle East conflicts.

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The US government is warning Americans that if they visit China they may not be able to return home

Benjamin Zhang 19h

The US State Department has issued a travel advisory urging Americans to "exercise increased caution" when traveling to the People's Republic of China.

The elevated travel advisory is out of concern that China may arbitrarily enforce local laws and detain US citizens without cause using exit bans.

Under these exit bans, US citizens may be detained or forced to stay in China for an indefinite period of time and may be subject to harassment and interrogation.

The China travel advisory is a level-two advisory, which urges increased caution.

Other countries or regions with a level-two advisory include Algeria, Antarctica, Belgium, France, Germany, Denmark, Myanmar, and the United Kingdom.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-china-travel-advisory-2019-1 

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Egyptian President: We're working with Israel against ISIS

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi tells CBS his country has "a wide range of cooperation" with Israel.

Elad Benari, 04/01/19 00:09

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is confirming that his military is working with Israel against terrorists in North Sinai. Sisi made the comments in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes”, which will air in full on Sunday and of which excerpts were released on Thursday. Asked if this cooperation with Israel was the closest ever between the two countries, he responded, "That is correct…We have a wide range of cooperation with the Israelis." Egypt has been fighting an insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula for several years. Most of the attacks in the region during this time period have been claimed by the Sinai Province, Egypt's Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate. In February, Egypt launched operation “Sinai 2018” in an effort to rid the Sinai Peninsula of Islamic terrorists. The peace treaty signed between Egypt and Israel in 1979 imposed strict limitations on Egyptian deployment in the Sinai, and any Egyptian incursion in the Sinai requires coordination with Israel. In recent years Israel has notably permitted the Egyptian military to boost its presence in the peninsula several times as it fights the insurgency by the local ISIS affiliate. Last year, The New York Times reported that Israel has launched air strikes against ISIS targets in northern Sinai with Egyptian approval. The report, which cited US and British sources, claimed Israeli aircraft attacked targets in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula over 100 times in two years. Egypt’s military spokesperson later vehemently denied the report, insisting it was not “credible” and adding that the Egyptian army is the sole entity that is conducting military operations in co-operation with local police forces in certain areas in North Sinai. Although Egypt became the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, their ties have been formally cold at times, and Egypt's political elite has remained hostile to any normalization of ties with Israel. Ties appear to have improved under Sisi, who took power in 2013 after the army ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. Sisi has in the past urged Israelis and Palestinian Arabs to seize what he said was a "real opportunity" for peace and hailed his own country's peace deal with Israel. He repeated his call for a resumption of peace talks between Israel and the PA last September.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/257153 

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Community raises $35G for Walmart cashier who paid for woman's bill: 'Lord told me I had to help her'

Caleb Parke 22 hrs ago

A teenage cashier working at a Princeton, Texas, Walmart to pay for college was rewarded by his community for an act of kindness that went viral on Facebook. John Lopez, Jr., 19, picked up a woman's $110 grocery bill when he noticed that she didn't have enough money ahead of Christmas. “She started crying and I was like ‘OK, I got you – I got you’,” he told CBS 11. “I just felt in my heart that the Lord told me I had to help her.” Another shopper, Laci Simms, snapped a photo of John and posted it on social media. “I just witnessed this ‘kid’ pay for a cart of merchandise for a woman in obvious distress about her inability to pay,” Simms wrote. “She was a few people ahead of us and when she had trouble paying her bill, he stepped in and told her if she’d wait, he would pay her total. Ya’ll, it was $110 dollars!” She said Lopez is always upbeat, courteous and efficient. “He just renewed my faith in humanity and the generation we are raising! Everyone share this so the world knows what a blessing John is to our community!” CHURCH SURPRISES MAN AFTER THIEVES STOLE HIS SON'S CHRISTMAS GIFTS: 'I WAS IN SHOCK' The post quickly went viral. Brandon Weddle, another customer who frequently interacted with Lopez, shared that he and his wife have talked about how kind he is and set up a GoFundMe page as a chance to give back to him. "He touches a lot of lives on a daily basis," Weddle wrote. "I'd like to give back to him for constantly giving himself to our community. Any little bit would be much appreciated. He is also trying to save money to put himself into college. Let's come together as a community and pay John's tuition. He will do big things!" Within hours, the Princeton community quickly surpassed the initial goal of $1,000. The fundraiser has collected more than $35,000. TEXAS COUPLE: GOD 'PURPOSEFULLY CONNECTED' US TO KIDS FOUND CHAINED IN HORRIFIC ABUSE CASE Walmart held a special event to honor Lopez. The city's mayor and the police department presented him with a certificate and a medallion, and the funds were transferred to his account, which he said will go toward college. "I am so glad everyone is seeing what a blessing John is to our community!" Simms told Fox News. "This is how humans should interact. With love and kindness and without judgment."

Establishment In Meltdown Mode: Impeachment, Coup, And Suicide?!

Posted by Lisa Haven | Dec 21, 2018 | Featured, USA

Not one, but two ‘events’ being orchestrated by the Trump administration are causing the leftist establishment to meltdown! For starters, the resignation by Secretary of Defense James Mattis has left many in the establishment speaking of impeachment, coups, and even suicide over fears that Mattis was the last ‘adult’ keeping President Trump in check. The other is that Trump is pulling US troops out of Syria and forging ahead with a withdrawal from Afghanistan. These two reports have literally rocked the establishment, the media, Democrats, and even some Republicans and it is sending them into full panic mode. All that and more below… For More Information See:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/us/politics/afghanistan-troop-withdrawal.html 

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The Hi-Tech Traditionalist: Is America’s Military Loyal To Its Commander In Chief?

by Baruch Pletner,PhD,MBADecember 21, 2018

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How Canada protects Sharia

Dec 21, 2018 11:09 am By Robert Spencer

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/12/how-canada-protects-sharia 

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BIOSLUDGE is a toilet-to-farm scheme that deposits toxic sewage sludge on food crops all across America

Friday, December 21, 2018 by: Lance D Johnson

(Natural News) There’s a reason why the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has implemented a Clean Water Act and a Clean Air Act, but NO Clean Soil Act. A Clean Soil Act would fundamentally change how wastewater is processed and recycled. It would require the EPA come clean about the toxic composition of fertilizers being spread on North American soils. A Clean Soil Act would halt the mass spread of toxic sewage on food crops all across America. It would expose environmental crimes within the EPA itself. A Clean Soil Act would require the truth to come out; that the recycling of bio-solids is a toilet-to-farm scheme that is poisoning America’s gardens and farmlands and forcing humans to eat from their own waste. The bio-solids that are processed and recycled at municipal wastewater treatment plants are sold to homes and farms across the country as “fertilizers.” These bio-solids are a chemical nightmare, consisting of a wide array of pharmaceuticals, agro-chemicals, industrial chemicals, household chemicals, pathogenic material, and heavy metals. This toxic biosludge should never come in contact with soils that grow food for human and animal consumption. (Related: The government is lying about the safety of biosludge.) Documentary exposes deep truths about EPA fraud and the chemical poisoning of soils and the food supply In the new documentary Biosludged, scientific experts and whistle blowers break down what is happening to North American soils and how this mass pollution scheme is making people chronically ill and mentally lobotomized. In this documentary, former EPA scientist and whistle blower Dr. David Lewis reveals the shocking extent of the EPA’s criminal activities and scientific fraud. The fertilizer that people add to their soils is inundating crops with disease-promoting pathogens and a slew of chemicals that wreck havoc on the physiological processes of the human body. The documentary also warns that the food supply is at grave risk of being used as a vector for terrorist activity. A terrorist can flush massive amounts of chemicals into the sewage system, only to have it all recycled as fertilizer for use on crop fields. Sewage sludge could also be laced with bio-weapons and microorganisms that cause food poisoning and infectious disease. All the human dung that is deposited on food crops ultimately releases chemicals into the groundwater, too. People across the U.S. are literally regurgitating the toxic composition of their own poop, using water and fertilizer that has been poisoned over and over again. These biosludge chemicals directly affect brain function, immune function, and fertility. All the cancer marches and pink ribbon fundraisers should start to look at what’s going on with the food supply, how toxic human waste is re-consumed, poisoning the population into cancerous states. Watch the full documentary at BrighteonFilms.com and download the full movie files that you can openly share with others. Stay up-to-date on the “greatest environmental crime you’ve never heard” at Biosludge.News.

Q&A: Where is biometric technology heading next? Special

By Tim Sandle Dec 13, 2018 in Technology

2019: The Year Of Reckoning For Big Tech As State Legislation Proposes $75,000 Fine Per Censored Item For Platforms With 75 Million-Plus Users

By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine December 21, 2018

As Facebook goes into damage control mode after a New York Times investigation revealed that on top of all the data breaches and scandals that have plagued the company over the last year, they also allowed companies such as Netflix and Spotify access to users' private messages, we note reports that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook lost $19 billion from their 2018 stock slide, as users rate Facebook as the company least trusted with their personal data. In September Pew reported that Facebook had suffered a marked decline in active users since March, with 42 percent limiting their daily activity and engagement as scandal continued to roil the company and stocks throughout 2018. The more recent Pew survey also found that 26 percent said that they deleted the Facebook app from their phones. All this suggests that a substantial minority or even a majority of Facebook users have to some degree disengaged from the platform in the past year. It’s not entirely clear from the survey discussion whether there’s any overlap between those “taking a break” and those who deleted the app. In addition, a majority (54 percent) also reported adjusting their privacy settings. In December another pattern emerged with journalists deciding to make public announcements about deleting Facebook entirely, with Capitol Hill Correspondent, Kasie Hunt, highlighting her reasons in an announcement posted to her Facebook account before deleting her account, explaining how she doesn't trust Facebook anymore and that she would not be staying on the platform in 2019. At the end of her announcement she stated "And here's hoping Facebook doesn't bury this post because it links to this negative story," showing that while the "trust" issues is first and foremost, even the establishment media knows, even as many deny it, that Facebook does practice censorship on a regular basis. Hunt took a screen shot of her Facebook post to her followers, then shared it on Twitter with two words tagged to @Facebook's Twitter account, saying "I'm out."

2019: The Year Of Reckoning For Big Tech As State Legislation Proposes $75,000 Fine Per Censored Item For Platforms With 75 Million-Plus Users

By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine

As Facebook goes into damage control mode after a New York Times investigation revealed that on top of all the data breaches and scandals that have plagued the company over the last year, they also allowed companies such as Netflix and Spotify access to users' private messages, we note reports that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook lost $19 billion from their 2018 stock slide, as users rate Facebook as the company least trusted with their personal data. In September Pew reported that Facebook had suffered a marked decline in active users since March, with 42 percent limiting their daily activity and engagement as scandal continued to roil the company and stocks throughout 2018. The more recent Pew survey also found that 26 percent said that they deleted the Facebook app from their phones. All this suggests that a substantial minority or even a majority of Facebook users have to some degree disengaged from the platform in the past year. It’s not entirely clear from the survey discussion whether there’s any overlap between those “taking a break” and those who deleted the app. In addition, a majority (54 percent) also reported adjusting their privacy settings. In December another pattern emerged with journalists deciding to make public announcements about deleting Facebook entirely, with Capitol Hill Correspondent, Kasie Hunt, highlighting her reasons in an announcement posted to her Facebook account before deleting her account, explaining how she doesn't trust Facebook anymore and that she would not be staying on the platform in 2019. the end of her announcement she stated "And here's hoping Facebook doesn't bury this post because it links to this negative story," showing that while the "trust" issues is first and foremost, even the establishment media knows, even as many deny it, that Facebook does practice censorship on a regular basis. Hunt took a screen shot of her Facebook post to her followers, then shared it on Twitter with two words tagged to @Facebook's Twitter account, saying "I'm out." nt was not the only journalist announcing they were quitting Facebook either, as Jessica Valenti from Medium announced "Just deleted my FB account and it felt GREAT." Food and Travel writer Jacob Dean joined the exodus, stating "Deleted my @facebook account today. Feels good. A little scary too, which goes to show you how much emotional power the company has. Definitely the right decision though. #Facebook #DeleteFacebook." all Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg took it a step further and announced he was not only quitting Facebook, but was also leaving Facebook-owned Instagram and Messenger, saying "my own values and the policies and actions of Facebook have diverged to the point where I’m no longer comfortable there." FACEBOOK IS NOT ALONE IN FACING THE UPCOMING TECH RECKONING Facebook is not the only Silicon Valley company facing a reckoning, as we see a new report at NewsBusters, where Google's YouTube "removed 58 million videos, 1.67 million channels, and 224 million comments," between July and September, for "violations including inappropriate content or spreading 'hate speech'." The problem with that is that YouTube partners with Southern Poverty Law Center, allowing them to determine what is and is not hate speech, while SPLC has a long history of labeling conservative and religious pro-life groups as "hate groups." Via NewsBusters: The Hill quoted an unnamed YouTube spokesman who confessed they removed “conspiracy theories targeted towards particular groups or people because those videos violate hate speech and harassment policies.” However, YouTube did not say who was responsible for flagging those videos or list the “conspiracy theories” that were removed. Many right-wing causes are treated by the left as conspiracy theories -- from disputing climate change to illegal immigration. Reuters reported that algorithms are being used to determine which videos should be taken down. It also noted that while Google (which owns YouTube) may have expanded to use more than 10,000 moderators “pre-screening every video [is] unfeasible.” MIT recently published a study about how algorithms are clearly biased based upon their creators’ worldviews, yet companies “show no interest in fixing the problem.” Human moderators turn out to be just as problematic, as proven on November 13th when a YouTube moderator mistook a famous World War 2 Era video mocking Nazis for pro-Nazi propaganda and took it down. Adam Green, The Public Domain Review’s editor in chief, found the situation farcical, shocked at how any moderator could have mistaken a clear satire for being pro-Nazi. As for Twitter, on December 20th, many Wikileaks staff and the main Wikileaks account, with over 5.4 million followers, were all locked and frozen, which was announced by Kristinn Hrafnsson, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief, who wasn't caught up in the lockouts, so she was able to inform followers. Twitter is also accused of shadow banning the Wikileaks accounts, via Caitlin Johnstone over at Medium: It is worth noting here that Dorsey has an established record of lying to Twitter users about the social media outlet’s censorship practices. In the lead-up to the 2016 election, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was asked point-blank if Twitter was obstructing the #DNCLeaks from trending, a hashtag people were using to build awareness of the DNC emails which had just been published by WikiLeaks, and Dorsey flatly denied it. More than a year later, we learned from a prepared testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism by Twitter’s acting general counsel Sean J. Edgett that this was completely false and Twitter had indeed been doing exactly that to protect the interests of US political structures by sheltering the public from information allegedly gathered by Russian hackers.

And indeed, @wikileaks, @assangedefence, @wltaskforce, and @assangelegal are as of this writing so aggressively shadow banned that an advanced search for tweets by those accounts turns up not one single post by any of them. Twitter did eventually unfreeze the Wikileaks accounts, claiming "denial of service attack had been run against several WikiLeaks and Assange legal accounts to trigger looping security lockouts," but as highlighted before that update by Johnstone "Even if Twitter does end up restoring access to all or some of these accounts, the fact that the site would shut them down at all is deeply disturbing...." Agreed. REGULATE OR STRIP BIG TECH OF PROTECTIONS? We have seen two different arguments over how to rein in big techs data invasions and consership practices, abusing their platforms' powers, one side pushing for the regulation of companies by treating them as utilities and a modern day public square. There are persuasive arguments on both sides of the regulation proposals, both for and against. One of the arguments against regulation is that in a free market society, users should be the ones to "punish" big tech for their abuse of powers, their selling of private personal data they were trusted with, some argue. Government interference generally makes matters worse, not better. One of the arguments on the side of regulating big tech, comes from a Harvard report in September, which maintains that big tech companies seem to unable, and unwilling, to regulate themselves, to protect users data or to prevent their liberal bias from dictating what is censored and what is not. Related: Big Tech is in the crosshairs of regulation Many argue that as private companies they should be able to do whatever they want, despite the fact that courts have said that social media is a modern day public square where constitutional rights are applied. That argument is valid, except for the fact that these "private companies," are extended special protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Law. Those liability immunity protections are not extended to news outlets nor to other websites. Those protections are predicated on these big tech companies providing third party content, without editorial control, therefore they are not "publishers," they are simply a service that offers "a forum for a true diversity of political discourse, unique opportunities for cultural development, and myriad avenues for intellectual activity." Some argue that by applying their censorship in a biased manner, rather than with a set standard independent of political ideology, they are acting as publishers, therefore they should be held responsible for the content on their platforms because they are practicing editorial control. Representative Louie Gohmert has introduced a bill, H.R.7363, that would remove the liability protections from social media companies, and perhaps video platforms like YouTube. On December 20, 2018, Gohmert issues the following statement on his congressional website, under the headline "Gohmert Introduces Bill That Removes Liability Protections for Social Media Companies That Use Algorithms to Hide, Promote, or Filter User Content."

“Social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google are now among the largest and most powerful companies in the world. More and more people are turning to a social media platform for news than ever before, arguably making these companies more powerful than traditional media outlets. Yet, social media companies enjoy special legal protections under Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934, protections not shared by other media. Instead of acting like the neutral platforms they claim to be in order obtain their immunity, these companies have turned Section 230 into a license to potentially defraud and defame with impunity.” “Representatives of social media companies have testified in Congressional hearings that they do not discriminate against or filter out conservative voices on their platforms. But for all their reassurances, the disturbing trend continues unabated. Employees from some of these companies have communicated their disgust for conservatives and discussed ways to use social media platforms and algorithms to silence and prevent income to conservatives.” “In one hearing, one of the internet social media executives indicated a desire to be treated like Fox News. Fox News does not have their immunity and this bill will fulfill that unwitting request. Since there still appears to be no sincere effort to stop this disconcerting behavior, it is time for social media companies to be liable for any biased and unethical impropriety of their employees as any other media company. If these companies want to continue to act like a biased medium and publish their own agendas to the detriment of others, they need to be held accountable.”

Call me cynical but Republicans have had control of the House of Representatives for the last two years and could have offered this type of proposed legislation much earlier, when there may have been a chance to get it passed, but to offer it now when the House is about to come under Democratic control, appears to be more of a "gesture," than legislation that has a chance of passing as is. The good news is that big tech has come under fire from both Republicans and Democrats, albeit for different reasons, but the ire coming from both sides of the political aisle against big tech, may be enough for them to find some type of compromise. They need to figure out something fast as the majority of the general public now backs calls for regulation, which could do more harm than good, depending on what that regulation entails. Interestingly, there does seem to be a third option. Rather than the federal government getting involved, or stripping big techs liability immunity on a federal level, a new proposal in Arkansas, called the "Stop Social Media Censorship Act," would allow civil legal action against social media giants that "delete or censor" content posted by users. The bill would be applied to social media sites with at least 75 million users, and allows a minimum civil damage fine of $75,000 for each post that's removed or censored through an algorithm or other means. Under the bill, social media sites are considered a public utility. Although the bill does seem to need some tweaking, as to where those operating the sites live and how it is applied, it is a third option which would negate federal interference, so it is something to keep our eyes on and to see if any other state moves towards the same type of legislation. BOTTOM LINE Silicon Valley has not had a good year and while Facebook has brought much of the extra scrutiny to the world of big tech, Google, YouTube and Twitter have also faced their share of criticisms during demand performances in front of Congress, where frankly they attempted to "justify" and deny their actions rather than offering options to fix the mistakes they have made, via their censorship practices. With both Republicans and Democrats, politicians and general users, frustrated and gunning for them for a variety of reasons, it looks like 2019 is going to be a year of reckoning for big tech. As well it should be. In the first video below, Douglas Murray discusses how liberals in big tech are starting to eat their own, and in the second video, we see that Arkansas is proposing legislation that would fine companies that have tens of millions of users, for every political or religious post they remove or censor.

http://allnewspipeline.com/Big_Tech_Faces_A_Reckoning.php 

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Gohmert Introduces Bill to Remove Liability Protections For Biased Social Media Companies

Chris Menahan InformationLiberation Dec. 20, 2018

Texas congressman Louie Gohmert has introduced a bill to remove social media companies' "special legal protections" if they behave like biased publishers rather than neutral platforms. From Gohmert.house.gov, "Gohmert Introduces Bill That Removes Liability Protections for Social Media Companies That Use Algorithms to Hide, Promote, or Filter User Content": Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement regarding the introduction his bill, H.R.7363, that amends section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934: “Social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google are now among the largest and most powerful companies in the world. More and more people are turning to a social media platform for news than ever before, arguably making these companies more powerful than traditional media outlets. Yet, social media companies enjoy special legal protections under Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934, protections not shared by other media. Instead of acting like the neutral platforms they claim to be in order obtain their immunity, these companies have turned Section 230 into a license to potentially defraud and defame with impunity." “Representatives of social media companies have testified in Congressional hearings that they do not discriminate against or filter out conservative voices on their platforms. But for all their reassurances, the disturbing trend continues unabated. Employees from some of these companies have communicated their disgust for conservatives and discussed ways to use social media platforms and algorithms to silence and prevent income to conservatives.” “In one hearing, one of the internet social media executives indicated a desire to be treated like Fox News. Fox News does not have their immunity and this bill will fulfill that unwitting request. Since there still appears to be no sincere effort to stop this disconcerting behavior, it is time for social media companies to be liable for any biased and unethical impropriety of their employees as any other media company. If these companies want to continue to act like a biased medium and publish their own agendas to the detriment of others, they need to be held accountable.” This bill is a great first step towards reigning in these biased social media companies. Ryan Saavedra @RealSaavedra Apple CEO Tim Cook suggests it's "a sin" to not ban certain people from social media and technology platforms: "We only have one message for those who seek to push hate, division, and violence: You have no place on our platforms. You have no home here." 9,776 9:41 PM - Dec 3, 2018

The censorship they're carrying out now -- which is beyond anything George Orwell could even dream of -- is only just the beginning. ADL @ADL_NationalReplying to @ADL_National .@Tim_Cook embodies ADL's mission of fighting hate, and securing justice and fair treatment to all. His words inspire us to keep up the good fight. #NeverIsNow 41 3:41 PM - Dec 3, 2018

Berkeley activists are working with the ADL to create an artificial intelligence system to identify "hate speech" on social media and automatically censor everyone in real time: Mark Zuckerberg alluded to such a system in April when he testified to the Senate that he's "optimistic" that "artificial intelligence tools" will be able to flag "hate speech" immediately within five to ten years.

BuzzFeed News @BuzzFeedNews Zuckerberg says Facebook is working on AI that can monitor hate speech but determining what violates its rules is "very linguistically nuanced" 93 2:30 PM - Apr 10, 2018

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=59592 

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…Vaccine Found To Contain 65 Unknown-To-Science Compounds…

December 22, 2018 This article was posted by TLB Staff Analysis, HEALTH

By Catherine J. Frompovich

Vaccines are not what they are cracked up to be in more ways than one, most especially in scientific analyses and assays findings, according to a December 13, 2018 Italian research firm’s findings. Below are some rather astounding, plus frightening, data sets that must be taken seriously by all government health agencies, especially Inspectors General of the United States Health and Human Services, the CDC and FDA. In Infanrix Hexa we found chemical contamination from the manufacturing process or cross-contamination with other manufacturing lines; chemical toxins; bacterial peptide toxins; insoluble and indigestible macromolecule that reacts to the protein assay, but cannot be recognized by any protein databases. We have not found: Protein antigens of diphtheria toxoids, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B, haemophylus influenzae B, Poliomyelitis 1-2-3; Formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde, phenoxyethanol, antibiotic residues indicated in the composition; However, this is what really should have the medical community “up in arms” about vaccine pseudo-consensus science: In Infanrix Hexa there are six antigens Tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis toxoids, D antigens of Poliomyelitis 1-2-3, hepatitis B proteins obtained with genetic engineering and Haemophylus polysaccharides chemically linked to tetanus toxoid as carrier. Toxoids are created by treatments with formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde that should remove toxicity keeping intact their ability to stimulate protective antibodies against original toxins. We were expecting to find the three toxoids and the other antigens not modified by treatment with formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde, to separate the antigens from each other and to be digestible by the enzyme specific for proteins (trypsin). We have found instead a real polymer, insoluble and indigestible, that we supposed to be the set of antigens chemically bound together (has to be defined if this is present as an aggregate of the individual antigens or a single macromolecule), on which we can find in literature partial information regarding the single antigens. This macromolecule could not be recognized in any way by the protein databases, and in fact it turned out to be a solid compound of an unknown chemical structure. Proteins solubility and their digestion (i.e. the capacity to divide them into small peptide fragments) are two typical proteins characteristics that not only makes it possible to study them through some specific analysis methods but are also fundamental for the interaction with the immune system to create protective antibodies, because if the protein structure is heavily altered from the original one, the new antibodies result completely different from those that are able to attack the original antibodies causing illnesses.
Since this polymer we have encountered, derived from the antigenic mix, is not only different for its spatial conformation but it’s chemically different, so we can state that we are not facing antigens similar to the original ones but in the form of a compound with an unknown and unpredictable toxicity and efficacy. Source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/128CfYaaJdMwhx5yvCGDRggl5GIKyfWrC/view  

According to Corvelva’s pdf above, we find the following incriminating scientific evidence pertaining to their investigative and assays findings: Amino acids were found Lactose anhydrous was found Water was found NO formaldehyde was detected/found NO vitamins were detected A weak ‘signal’ for the antibiotic Neomycin was found NONE of the actives for the combination DTaP vaccineInfanrix Hexawere found, i.e., No Diphtheria toxoid, Tetanus toxoid, Pertussis toxin, the very diseases the vaccine was designed to prevent and/or build ‘antibodies’ against! Filamentous Haemagglutinin adhesion not detected Haemophilus Influenzae B polysaccharide not detected Pertactin (PRN) not detected

Polyribosylribitol Phosphate (PRP) not detected Polymyxin non relivabile [untraceable]

It should be noted that in Batch #1 tested, there were 65 UNKNOWN compounds with only 35 known compounds! However, if we juxtapose the above findings with what the CDC publishes on its PinkBookList of Excipients, we find this: DTaP (Infanrix) Fenton medium containing a bovine extract, modified Latham medium derived from bovine casein, formaldehyde, modified Stainer-Scholte liquid medium, glutaraldehyde, aluminum hydroxide, sodium chloride, polysorbate 80 (Tween 80)

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf  (June 2018, First page Vaccine Excipient & Media Summary Excipients Included in U.S. Vaccines, by Vaccine)

Children have been damaged and even died after the Infanrix Hexa vaccine, as confirmed in this report, which cites a further differing list of ‘ingredients’ from what was found by the Italian research group Corvelva. The above apparent differences in scientific information and findings confirm absolute needs for independent studies to be undertaken on all vaccines by a special investigative team appointed by the U.S. Congress as part of its oversight duties to evaluate the contents/ingredients—both known and unknown to science—that are present in vaccines given to day-old infants (Hepatitis B vaccine) and combination, multi-valent vaccines given at 2, 4 and 6 months when infants are most vulnerable to immune system damage, and those administered along the timeline of mandated vaccines for toddlers, teens, adults and senior citizens. There’s a serious vaccine science credibility factor that must be resolved NOW! Resource: Vaccinegate Infanrix Hexa

TRIPLETS all become autistic within hours of vaccination… see shocking video that has the vaccine industry doubling down on lies and disinfo

Sunday, December 23, 2018 by: Mike Adams

(Natural News) A VAXXED video that has been banned almost everywhere is going viral on Brighteon.com, the Youtube alternative video community for free speech on vaccines, GMOs, natural medicine and more. As the video shows below, healthy triplets all became autistic within hours of vaccination, once again demonstrating that vaccines cause autism. The parents, the McDowell family in Detroit, Michigan, have spoken out publicly against the horrific medical violence being committed against children every day across America through toxic vaccines. (See AutismTruthNews.com for more reporting on vaccines and autism.) The names of their three children, pictured above, are Richie, Robbie and Claire. All three children were vaccinated on the same day, and within hours, they all become severely autistic. In their own words: On June 25th, 2007, we brought them in for the [vaccine] shot… we went in at 10 am. All three. My daughter still has the mark on her leg from the shot… we did the boys as well. By noon, Claire shut completely off. It was as if she was blind, and deaf, and complete failure to thrive, from super super happy, smiley girl to… she had full blown eye contact, and she shut right down. All she did was stare at the ceiling. At 2:00 we watched Richie shut off. All his mama, dadda, and the furniture walking and everything just shut of. All the giggles, all the smiles, again failure to thrive. They lost all their reflexes… they stopped blinking, yawning, coughing, sneezing, they lost their startle reflex… that was 2:00. 

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The worst was when we saw the final one shut down. We lost Robbie, he looked like he was hit by a bus. He had a stunned look on his face… he acted deaf, he lost his happiness. They were no longer engaged in anything or anyone. They lost their smiles. They never held hands again, never looked at each other again. (Crying) Vaccine injury is real. We were told is was genetic, then we were told there was no way three children were shut off on the same day… it was statistically impossible. We were told we could not sue anyone. No vaccine manufacturers could be sued. We found out [later] there was a vaccine injury court. They then told us we were too late, [we] only had three years to apply. See the full video on the only video community site that dares to publish vaccine truth videos without censorship, Brighteon.com: Share the link. Spread the word. Vaccines cause autism. The vaccine industry hires internet trolls to attack anyone who dares to tell the truth, even while vaccine pushers are medical monsters who are committed heinous crimes against children on a daily basis. The vaccine industry is a criminal operation. Millions of children are harmed each year by vaccines, and the science quacks and vaccine propagandists keep claiming no child has ever been harmed by a single vaccine, even as more and more parents are stepping forward with their horrifying, true stories of their children being maimed by vaccine shots. Read Vaccines.news to stay informed.

From this day forth, says your Father, the true news, the true news is going to have to come from me, because even those stations that at one time were true are now turning and going the other direction because of the power, because of the money people, because of those that want the one world government etc

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TECHNIQUES TO DISCREDIT

June 26th, 2009

The Hidden Evil

Those who expose the financial elite typically receive character assassination from radio, TV, print media, official "experts," and "anti-hate" organizations. A combination of framings, murders, "accidents," and lawsuits may occur. "Educational" material is distributed to law enforcement to help them understand the "paranoid extremists" who believe that multinational corporations are installing a global dictatorship. Sutton and Wood warned, "Anyone in the U.S. who promotes unwelcome news for the elite receives some unwelcome attention in return." This attention includes the use of experts, mainstream media, and anti-hate organizations, for well-coordinated character assassination.(*) According to author Perloff, a document released by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, on September 23, 1956 entitled, Propaganda and the Alert Citizen outlined the tactics reportedly used by the Establishment to discredit opposition. Quoting from this document, Perloff wrote, "The tactic used had a prototype in a directive issued by the Communist Party... It read: When certain obstructionists become too irritating, label them, after suitable build-ups, as Fascist or Nazi or anti-Semitic, and use the prestige of anti-Fascist and tolerance organizations to discredit them. ... In the public mind constantly associate those who oppose us with those names which already have a bad smell." "Because the Establishment controls the media," wrote Allen, "anyone exposing the Insiders will be the recipient of a continuous fusillade of [criticism] ... from newspapers, magazines, TV and radio. In this manner one is threatened with the loss of 'social respectability' if he dares broach the idea that there is organization behind any of the problems currently wrecking America." "Smear tactics" from "left and right" are "standard operating procedure," explained Sutton and Wood. Even if you don't believe in the phony left/right political spectrum and have no political affiliation, you may be assigned one. Then the financial elite can use the opposite political party expressed in the mainstream news for character assassination. These labels, describe Sutton and Wood, "divert attention from responsible reasoned criticism with no attachment to a synthetic political spectrum." "If you assemble the evidence, carefully present your proofs, and try to expose these power seekers, the Establishment's mass media will accuse you of being a dangerous paranoid who is--dividing--our people," Allen said. In his book, With No Apologies, Senator Goldwater describes being on the receiving end of the Establishment's "professional scandalmongers." Apparently, because he was not controlled by the Establishment, the New York Times and New York Herald Tribune were used to discredit him during his campaigns. Perloff wrote, "Barry Goldwater was the Republican nominee and, as such, was the first GOP Presidential candidate in decades it [the CFR] had not controlled. Indeed, Goldwater represented nearly everything the Establishment was against. For that reason, the mass media was arrayed against him, and he was falsely characterized as a fanatic who would start a nuclear war and snatch social security checks from the elderly." Investigations into Crimes and Practices of the Financial Elite are Thwarted--Witnesses Discredited DeCamp explained that during his investigation of a child prostitution ring involving Satanism which lead to Washington D.C., that "Articles began to appear in the Omaha World-Herald, aimed to discredit the witnesses and intimidate any other potential child victim-witnesses from testifying." He cites some examples including the World-Herald's charge that it was a "hoax based on rumor." Editorial attacks ensued with titles such as, Grand Jury Did Its Job; The Insults Are Intolerable, and Schmit Panel Can't Duck its Responsibility in Hoax. The front page of the Omaha World-Herald on July 25, 1990 ran the headline, Grand Jury Says Abuse Stories Were a Carefully Crafted Hoax. And an article entitled, Former Legislator's Angry Memo Turns Sober Nebraska on its Ear, which appeared in the March 17, 1990 edition of the Kansas City Star, stated that the memo was, spawning swirls of gossip. The same article described that the accusations against these prominent people was like "insulting God." Compare these attacks to the criticism General Butler received by the mainstream news after exposing the plot by Wall Street to overthrow the U.S. Government, or the harassment the Reece Committee received when investigating the Tax-exempt Foundations. One of the most damaging dirty tricks used against DeCamp was an anonymous complaint from a concerned citizen, which was logged with the Department of Social Services, stating that he and his wife were abusing their daughter. This tactic was apparently used to stop his investigation and knock him out of the senate race. The cover-up of a similar event occurred in Minnesota, where prosecutor Kathleen Morris came under savage attack from the media when investigating a child sex ring that was apparently linked to the financial elite. After experiencing considerable pressure, Morris relinquished the investigation to Attorney General Hubert Humphrey Jr. Humphrey soon closed the case due to insufficient evidence. When the elite are linked to these types of crimes, evidence become missing, leads are not followed, people are discredited, jailed, disappear, or have accidents. These occasional leaks are part of a steady stream of corruption that only occasionally surfaces in the mainstream news. The discrediting and harassment tactics used during these cover-ups can happen anywhere the elite need to eliminate exposure to their activities. DeCamp calls it an "international organized crime syndicate, engaged in pedophilia, pornography, satanism, drugs, and money-laundering," which is "protected ... by federal authorities." William H. Kennedy describes an organized kidnapping ring in Belgium linked to the financial elite, in his book Satanic Crime: A Threat in the New Millennium. Using mainstream news, Kennedy explains that during these investigations, the police were consistently incompetent, made frequent mistakes, and failed to follow leads. These seemingly deliberate acts resulted in further deaths and kidnappings. The presiding judge, Jean-Marc Connerotte, secured the arrest of suspect Marc Dutroux. Dutroux escaped from prison once and was poised for a second escape before he was found with a handcuff key. According to Kennedy, Dutroux provided kidnapped girls to a Satanic cult which included members of the Bilderbergers. Judge Connerotte required a bulletproof vehicle and armed guards after learning that a contract had been taken out on his life. He was eventually dismissed from the bench. The removal of Connerotte, and the cover-up, triggered a peace march by 300,000 outraged Belgians who demanded reform of the political and judicial system. The Hidden Evil is Beyond a Congressional Investigation Similar tactics were used during the investigation of the Tax-exempt Foundations and their Think Tank interlocks during the Reece Committee hearings. Wormser described the violence of the attacks against the committee as "amazing." The Reece Committee itself observed that because the Tax-exempt Foundations and Think Tanks control the mainstream news and the government, that they were unable to conduct their investigation. The committee stated specifically, "The far-reaching power of the large foundations and of the interlock has so influenced the press, the radio, and even the government that it has become extremely difficult for objective criticism of foundation practices to get into news channels without having first been distorted, slanted, discredited, and at times ridiculed." In his book, How the World Really Works, Alan B. Jones considers the account of another Reece Committee insider, Norman Dodd, the Research Director. Dodd attests that death threats, harassment of witnesses, stalking, surveillance, blackmail, and framings were the real reasons the trials were discontinued. The Reece Committee declared, "The pressure against Congressional investigation has been almost incredible. As indicated by their arrogance in dealing with this Committee, the major foundations and their associated intermediary organizations have intrenched (sic) themselves behind a totality of power which presumes to place them beyond serious criticism and attack." Smoot commented, "As we have seen, two different committees of Congress--one Democrat-controlled and one Republican-controlled--have tried to investigate the ... tax-exempt foundations which are interlocked with, and controlled by, and provide the primary source of revenue for, the Council on Foreign Relations and its affiliates." Smoot continues, "Both committees were gutted with ridicule and vicious denunciation ... by internationalists in the Congress, by spokesmen for the executive branch of government, and by big respected publishing and broadcasting firms which are a part of the controlled propaganda network of the Council on Foreign Relations." So according to the results of a congressional investigation, the Tax-exempt Foundations and Think Tanks are beyond investigation. There was another attempt to investigate the Think Tanks by Congressman Larry McDonald. "In 1980, the American Legion national convention passed Resolution 773, which called for a congressional investigation of the Trilateral Commission and its predecessor, the Council on Foreign Relations," wrote author Marrs. "The following year," proclaimed Marrs "a similar resolution was approved by the veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)." "Congressman Larry McDonald," continued Marrs, "introduced these resolutions in the House of Representatives but nothing came of it." Unfortunately Congressman McDonald, who opposed the Establishment, died in a curious incident involving a Russian missile which blew up Korean Airlines 007 on September 1, 1983. The bottom line is simply this: The Establishment will not allow the various organizations which it controls to stop the Hidden Evil. According to these researchers, some with first-hand experience, anyone who exposes the activities of the elite usually receives an assortment of character assassination from the mainstream media, anti-hate organizations, and official experts. Lawsuits may be filed. An IRS audit may occur. Other tactics are used, such as being threatened, framed, blackmailed, and murdered. Accidents which result in death or injury may be reverse engineered to appear as though they were not planned.(**) Many of these attacks are tactics within the Hidden Evil. According to the HUAC document, some people are allowed to gain enough momentum until they are in pubic view so they may be smeared by the mainstream media or other organizations under elite control. By this account, it is probably easier for the elite to ruin famous people, because they require no "suitable build-ups." Anyone who falls into disfavor with the elite can be ruined by these methods.

"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes." -Abraham Lincoln The Dangers of a Congressional Investigation Congress, in general, is under the absolute control of this mafia. As previously demonstrated, this has been accomplished through years of infiltration, blackmail, intimidation and bribery. The elite, who own the United States, literally, will never allow an investigation into the Hidden Evil. They will never allow the system which they control to stop this. A congressional investigation may be done for the deliberate purpose of convincing the general population that it does not exist, and to publicly discredit those speaking about it by portraying them as a few paranoid conspiracy theorists. Any investigation into the Hidden Evil by congress or another organization under the control of the Establishment will result in a whitewash. These whitewashes by congress have unfolded repeatedly. Consider that in addition to the outside attacks, the Reece Committee was also killed from within. This included receiving "palpably inadequate" funding, a reduction in research staff, denial of evidence, and general stonewalling. "Mr. Reece understood, soon after our investigation started, if not before, that we would be met with every obstacle which could be put in our way," stated Wormser. Other congressional whitewashes include the Roberts Commission (Pearl Harbor cover-up), and the Kerry Subcommittee (Iran Contra Scandal, Federal Drug Trafficking). The Warren Commission (investigating the death of JFK) is said to have been heavily whitewashed, the 9/11 Commission was a whitewash, and the McCormack-Dickstein Commission was partly a whitewash.(***) Some of these commissions were led by members of the CFR.

The United Nations If the UN investigated the Hidden Evil it would be a maneuver to whitewash and discredit targets. According to some researchers, the United Nations is a creation of the CFR. The UN would like us to believe that they're an organization that acts as a non-partisan referee, which reluctantly intervenes in world conflicts for the betterment of all parties concerned. Apparently, the idea is that if enough chaos is caused and the UN is portrayed in a positive manner, then the masses will believe that a world government under the control of the UN is the only hope for world peace. In a chapter entitled, United Nations and World Government Propaganda, Smoot commented, "All American advocates of supra-national government, or world government, claim their principal motive is to achieve world peace. Yet," he says, "these are generally the same Americans whose eager interventionism helped push America into two world wars." "By 1945, the Rockefellers were ready," wrote Allen. "Grandson Nelson was one of the 74 CFR members at the founding meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco." Perloff added, "Of the American delegates at the founding UN conference in San Francisco, more than forty belonged to the CFR." On the left is a March 1947 picture, which shows John D. Rockefeller III presenting UN Secretary General Trygve Lie with an $8.5 million dollar check to purchase land for the UN headquarters. Below it is the founding UN conference on June 15, 1945 in San Francisco.(*1) "Nelson and his brothers donated the land for the United Nations complex along the East River in New York," wrote Allen, and added, "possibly because they did not want the new headquarters of their World Government to be more than a short taxi-ride away from their penthouses." Author Marrs portrays the UN as, "an outgrowth of the old League of Nations," which he describes as a failed attempt at, "world government." "A primary mover of this and subsequent actions to establish a United Nations was John Foster Dulles, who had helped found the Council on Foreign Relations," wrote Marrs. Marrs continued, "Considering Dulles and the other CFR members [are] behind the creation of the UN, it is no surprise to find that organization today supervising the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (commonly called the World Bank) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)." Author Alan B. Jones sums up the UN as a front for the banking elites to be used as the core of a political structure for a world government, using the IMF as the world central bank. "In 1948, the State Department created the U.S. Committee for the UN ... as a semi-official organization to propagandize for the UN," conveyed Smoot. The CFR dominates this committee, he says. He also contends that the UN Charter, which the CFR would like to have the US Constitution replaced with, is essentially a charter for enslavement. "The 'world peace' aspects of the United Nations were emphasized to enlist support of the American public," wrote Smoot. However, he adds, "the UN Charter really creates a worldwide social, cultural, economic, educational, and political alliance--and commits each member nation to a program of total socialism." Project Megiddo Project Megiddo is described by the FBI as a, "strategic assessment of the potential for domestic terrorism in the United States..." The document was apparently circulated to law enforcement throughout the country in 1999 to help identify domestic terrorist activities spawned by the year 2000 craze. It basically says that anyone who holds, "political beliefs relating to the New World Order (NWO) conspiracy theory," is "paranoid." "The challenge to law enforcement," it states, "is to understand these extremist theories." And just what are these paranoid conspiracy theories that the FBI is "educating" law enforcement on? According to the FBI, "The NWO conspiracy theory holds that the United Nations (UN) will lead a military coup against the nations of the world to form a socialist or One World Government." The FBI lists other groups that a paranoid conspiracy theorist might say are part of this socialist overthrow as: the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderbergers and the Trilateral Commission. They add, "Law enforcement officials will probably notice different versions of this theory, depending upon the source." They continue, "Law enforcement officers, as well as military personnel, should be aware that the nation's armed forces have been the subject of a great deal of rumor and paranoia circulating among many militia groups." They describe these militias as "Patriots," and "right-wing" groups who, "believe they are being persecuted by the satanic government of the United States." It looks like the CFR-controlled FBI laid the groundwork to portray anyone telling the truth as a dangerous paranoid. Megiddo is clearly CFR Damage Control. It seems to be an employment of the tactics contained in the HUAC document that Perloff warned about. Remember? "In the public mind constantly associate those who oppose us with those names which already have a bad smell." Continuing, they stated, "Use of this term [New World Order] within militia circles became more common after President Bush starting using it to refer to ... using international organizations to assist in governing international relations," and added, "The term One World Government is also used as a synonym for the New World Order." According to a document written by Dennis L. Cuddy, PhD, entitled, Chronological History of the New World Order, the term has been used since the mid 30s by a variety of people including multiple members of the CFR such as Nelson Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and Richard Nixon. It has been mentioned in CFR's publication Foreign Affairs. H. G. Wells spoke of it, as did Mikhail Gorbachev. It has been used by George H. W. Bush on multiple occasions. "The term 'New World Order,'" says Cuddy, "has been used thousands of times ... by proponents in high places of federalized world government." In the last several years it has been used by leaders of a variety of nations who are obviously under the control of the financial elite. So according to Project Megiddo, the New World Order does exist and is beneficial. However, when we consider the publications of the "international organizations" that are assisting with "governing international relations" that Bush has been a member of, such as the CFR, the TC, and the Bilderbergers, it becomes clear that their intentions are to reduce civil liberties and merge America into a single world government controlled by them. It's obvious to me that Megiddo is disinformation, used for the purpose of discrediting anyone who is attempting to warn law enforcement about the fate of America. Speaking of Project Megiddo's predecessor, Former FBI Senior Special Agent Ted L. Gunderson wrote, "In 1996 the FBI Phoenix Division issued a pamphlet to local and state law enforcement agencies that set forth the profile of various terrorists in the United States. ... This profile includes: Defenders of the U.S. constitution against the federal government and the UN (Super Patriots) [and] ... anyone who makes references to the United States Constitution..." He warns, "An active Federal Government Disinformation Program ... was instituted for the purpose of discrediting ... [people] who report the truth about the government." Apparently, according to Gunderson, federal agencies release these documents as disinformation for the sole purpose of discrediting people who begin to wake up and tell the truth. I wonder--if we know that these two documents exist, then is it possible that more damaging information has been given to law enforcement to discredit the truth movement? "Distrust of the government by not thousands but tens of millions of U.S. citizens is confirmed in public opinion surveys," stated Dr. Alexander in his book, Future War. "Many of these conspiracy theory adherents believe that the government--or some other supranational organization--is attempting to take freedom away from citizens." As expected, he lists these supranational organizations as, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergers, and the Council on Foreign Relations, and The Order of Free and Accepted Masons. He continues, "Some of them see non-lethal weapons as tools to facilitate those objectives. They believe that these weapons potentially could be used to enslave them..." "Such systems," he says, "are usually rumored to be designed and controlled by some unspecified 'They' who are the ultimate powerbrokers." Evidence has already been provided which undeniably proves that the Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations have infiltrated the executive branch. I wonder how many of those tens of millions of conspiracy theorists are targeted but don't know it. False Memory Syndrome Foundation According to some researchers, one example of an organization that was launched for the sole purpose of discrediting people is the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF). In his book, Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness, author Jim Keith refers to the FMSF as a "pseudo-scholarly" front organization, consisting of "a group of psychiatrists whose mission is to prove that cult abuse and mind control are figments of the imagination." According to Keith, many of the psychiatrists on the FMSF board have been linked to mind-control experiments and the military. They are called in to court cases to discredit ritual abuse survivors. Author Constantine's analysis is similar, he proclaims that the FMSF consists of a panel of experts which are used to discredit therapists and victims that come forward with cases of Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) and experimentation. Professor Jennifer J. Freyd explains in her book, Betrayal Trauma, how the FMSF, her colleagues, and the mainstream media attempted to discredit her research into repressed memories. Her mother, Pamela Freyd, a founding member of the FMSF, also participated in the attacks against her credibility. In their book, Trance Formation of American, Cathy O'Brien and Mark Phillips arrive at the same conclusion. These and other authors contend that the CIA found it necessary to create this professional organization in order to discredit abuse claims. Mainstream News is Used to Discredit Targets Anytime mainstream media addresses an issue like this there is a very real danger of it being an attack. This was clearly the case with The Washington Post's January 14, 2007 article, entitled, Mind Games, or more appropriately, it should have been called, Word Games. Catherine Graham, the owner of The Washington Post, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and the Bilderbergers. The Post and most other mainstream news are controlled by the very elite Think Tanks that I'm alleging are responsible for this covert war against the civilian population. While I can't say for sure how this story was arranged, my guess is that representatives from the Post approached some TIs and portrayed themselves to be genuinely interested in covering the issue. Naturally, TIs anxious to get the word out, cooperated. But what resulted was a standard discrediting article. Although it did explain that thousands of people in the NATO countries claim to be targeted, it basically described them as delusional. Some common tactics to discredit are to portray facts as beliefs, to ignore evidence, and portray people as a haters or paranoids. This article has done all three. They realize that most of their readers won't research this story for themselves. Also, no websites devoted to this phenomenon were listed so their readers could follow-up. "The idea of a group of people convinced they are targeted by weapons that can invade their minds has become a cultural joke," they wrote. Referring to targeted people they stated, "In their esoteric lexicon, 'gang stalking' refers to the belief that they are being followed and harassed: by neighbors, strangers or colleagues who are agents for the government." Notice how they used the word, "belief." The article continued, "Gloria Naylor, a renowned African American writer, seems to defy many of the stereotypes of someone who believes in mind control." Once again, playing games with words. In this case implying that mind-control is just a belief and that projects such as MKULTRA did not take place. This is not a belief, it's a fact. Later in the article they acknowledged MKULTRA but portrayed it as simply an, "infamous CIA program that involved, in part, slipping LSD to unsuspecting victims." No mention was made of the other "parts," such as the children who were sexually abused, or of the other people who were brutally tortured and had their lives destroyed. This filtering out of information is basically, lying. They described one TI, probably an informant, who "criticizes what he calls the 'wacky claims' of TIs who blame various government agencies or groups of people without any proof." Of course this torturous program has not been proven in a court of law. And for reasons previously mentioned--it never will be. But there is plenty of evidence that it exists. The article went on to describe the TI mentioned above (a doctor), who was "hoping to prove that V2K, the technology to send voices into people's heads, is real." Once again, playing games with words. As previously demonstrated, mainstream publications announced that V2K was possible in the 70s. Once more, turning a fact into an opinion or belief. They are fully aware that most people either don't have the time or the inclination to do the research. Of course no hit story would be complete without the Establishment's use of official "experts" who assist them in damaging potential witnesses. Regarding MKULTRA, the article quoted from their interview with Dr. John B. Alexander, one of the alleged creators of this program. They wrote, Alexander acknowledged that "there were some abuses that took place," but added that, on the whole, "I would argue we threw the baby out with the bath water." More games with words. First, dismissing MKULTRA as just "some abuses," leads those who have not studied it (most of their readers) to conclude that there were a few slip-ups in an otherwise beneficial program. Second, implying that it stopped. Funny, Dr. Alexander must know that it continues in its advance form. As I've demonstrated, he and his colleagues helped create these weapons on behalf of their CFR handlers, for the "New World Order" which they've trumpeted in their articles. The Post continues citing more "experts." "Ralph Hoffman, a professor of psychiatry at Yale who has studied auditory hallucinations, regularly sees people who believe the voices are a part of government harassment," they said. "Not all people who hear voices are schizophrenic, he says, noting that people can hear voices episodically in highly emotional states. ... People who think the voices are caused by some external force are rarely dissuaded from their delusional belief, he says." Quoting Professor Hoffman, they wrote, "These are highly emotional and gripping experiences that are so compelling for them that ordinary reality seems bland." There are several assumptions that most readers of this statement will come away with. First, that V2K doesn't exist. Second, that all people complaining that an available technology is being used to harass them are definitely delusional. Third, that the government has not targeted the civilian population with advanced technology in the past. Continuing their assault, they stated, "Scott Temple, a professor of psychiatry at Penn State University who has been involved in two recent studies of auditory hallucinations, notes that those who suffer such hallucinations frequently lack insight into their illness. Even among those who do understand they are sick, 'that awareness comes and goes... People feel overwhelmed, and the delusional interpretations return.'" So, Professor Temple studied auditory hallucinations, but did he study a technology that can cause them? The article doesn't say. Once more, the implication is that it doesn't exist and that all of those complaining about it are delusional. Remember, doctors are highly complicit in the cover-up of this program. In addition, as previously demonstrated, the elite-owned Tax-exempt Complex provides the grants to these professors to do research projects with pre-determined outcomes. In other words, when the Establishment wants an official "expert" to prove a point, they'll provide them with grants to carry out a project which they have created. These college professors are often owned by the Establishment. "The very 'realness' of the voices is the issue-how do you disbelieve something you perceive as real? That's precisely what Hoffman, the Yale psychiatrist, points out: So lucid are the voices that the sufferers--regardless of their educational level or self-awareness--are unable to see them as anything but real. 'One thing I can assure you' Hoffman says, 'is that for them, it feels real.'" The people at the Post accomplished their obvious goal. My guess is that this story ran because information was beginning to leak out to the public. Summary Those who expose the financial elite typically receive character assassination from radio, TV, print media, official "experts," and "anti-hate" organizations. A combination of framings, murders, "accidents," and lawsuits may occur. "Educational" material is distributed to law enforcement to help them understand the "paranoid extremists" who believe that multinational corporations are installing a global dictatorship. [Footnotes]

* DeCamp stated that the elite used the mainstream news, the Anti Defamation League (ADL), and the Cult Awareness Network (CAN) to discredit him and other witnesses. The Establishment also used the mainstream news and the ADL to discredit the Reece Committee. For examples of this see Foundations: Their Power and Influence, by Rene Wormser. Also see The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot who describes how the Establishment labeled people anti-semitic and racists who investigated the Tax-exempt Foundations under the Cox Committee. ** DeCamp spoke of learning about an impending lawsuit against him which was to be used to destroy him in public view. There were 15 suspicious deaths of potential witnesses surrounding the Franklin case. One included chief investigator Gary Cordori who conveyed to DeCamp that he had evidence that would "blow the story wide open." Senator Loran Schmit who participated in the investigation received death threats and attempts to ruin him financially. DeCamp also stated that during the investigation multiple witnesses received IRS audits. Sutton and Wood contend that IRS audits are often used to intimidate critics of the Establishment. During Cointelpro the IRS was used for harassment, as described in the book, War At Home, by attorney Brian Glick. See also The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. for how he was arrested for falsifying his tax returns in retaliation for his nonviolent direct action to affect social change. *** For the Iran Contra whitewash see the book, Powderburns by Celerino Castillo (former DEA) and Dave Harmon. Also see Cocaine Politics by Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall. For the Reece Committee whitewash see the books, The Invisible Government by former FBI Agent Dan Smoot, How The World Really Works, by Alan B. Jones, and Foundations: Their Power and Influence, by Rene Wormser. For the Pearl Harbor cover-up (The Roberts Commission) see Rule by Secrecy, by Jim Marrs and The Shadows of Power by James Perloff.

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/06/26/techniques-to-discredit

etc. For the system as you know it is vanishing before your eyes, you can no longer rely upon your jobs, upon your banking institutions, all you can depend upon is a one world government and you cannot depend upon that. etc..

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etc. it shall not be a good week, many things shall take place.  Watch the stock market, and if you have money hoarded up in there, you are going to lose it, you are going to lose it.  Listen carefully, pay attention, place your money where you know that it is safe etc.

Federal Reserve Raises Rates to Raze Housing & Stocks to the Ground

Foreign owned Fed raises rates to kill Trump recovery

The David Knight Show - December 20, 2018

It’s either gross incompetence, or malicious destruction to raise rates when the stock market & housing markets are showing signs of a crash beginning. Why do the globalists support growth rates of nearly 10% a year for China but warn the US will burn down if growth is above 3%?

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World War 3: Russia moves missile warship into Azov Sea ready for showdown

A RUSSIAN missile frigate is moving in the direction of the Azov Sea from Crimea amid World War 3 tensions between Moscow and Ukraine.

By Rebecca Perring

PUBLISHED: 00:05, Sat, Dec 22, 2018 | UPDATED: 00:06, Sat, Dec 22, 2018

Russian forces detained 23 Ukrainian seamen, injuring at least six, after Moscow accused Kiev of “illegally” manoeuvring through the Kerch Strait. With relations still raw after Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and its backing for a pro-Moscow insurgency in eastern Ukraine, the crisis has risked pushing the two countries into open conflict. Ukraine is not a NATO member though it aspires to membership. The European Union, Britain, France, Poland, Denmark, and Canada all condemned what they called Russian aggression. The frigate sighting comes after Russia insisted it is not increasing its military presence in the Sea of ​​Azov. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said forces are guarding the Crimean Bridge. She said: “Russia is not increasing its military presence in the Sea of Azov, there are no Russian naval bases there, the forces that are there are used to guard the Crimean Bridge. "I will remind you that from the very beginning of statements about this infrastructure facility's construction plans, we have heard direct calls by Ukrainian officials - politicians and security officials, who obey the Kiev regime - to destroy it. "These forces are also used to ensure the safety of navigation."

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Greece warns Turkey: “If they make the slightest move, we will crush them”

Voice of Europe ^ | 12/21/18

Posted on 12/21/2018, 6:52:55 PM by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Stern warnings from Greece to Turkey. Stern words in return, as well. Defence Minister Panos Kammenos warned that Ankara would pay for violating Greek airspace by Turkish jets over the Aegean. The minister said whilst visiting a military outpost on the Aegean island of Leros, “If they make the slightest move, we will crush them,” adding that Athens wants peace and harmony but it won’t “concede a single centimetre” of its land. His words seem aligned with Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis, chief of the Hellenic General Staff, who said: “If the Turks land on a rocky islet, we will raze it to the ground. That is a red line that is espoused by the government,” suggesting a military confrontation with Turkey is a possibility, but adds “along with the US and the European Union, we want to ensure that the Turks do not reach that point.” Turkey’s Gen. Hulusi Akar, chief of its General Staff fired back that they will not allow “any fait accompli in the Aegean and the Mediterranean”. Turkey will not back down “from the rights of our country and our people,” he added. There have been clashes the past few years between the two NATO allies countries’ warships, as well as mid-air encounters of Turkish and Greek jets, with this current scuffle over a pair of Turkish F-16s making a fly over on Thursday of the island Kastelorizo in the eastern Aegean. Only minutes before a helicopter with Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos travelled the area on the way to Athens. The dispute between Greece and Turkey continues over the Aegean as dozens of small islets in the sea make determination of the boundaries of the maritime border especially difficult. Despite efforts to come to agreement, the two countries have so far had no success.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3714548/posts?page=16 

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12/21/2018 -- Large earthquake activity -- West Coast USA unrest -- Pacific Keep Watch

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 etc Did they listen when I warned them about the great earthquakes or the forest fires? Did they believe you about the global warming and the hot, hot weather that would come etc

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2018 set to be 4th hottest on record as November is officially the 5th hottest on record according to NOAA: 2019 could be hottest ever Met Office

Friday, 21 December 2018

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Pope likens migrants to Jesus as Vatican top dog says hunted Christian Asia Bibi is “internal matter” of Pakistan

Dec 20, 2018 1:45 pm By Robert Spencer

Does this pious hypocrite not consider the possibility that Asia Bibi, the Christian woman who spent eight years on death row for “blasphemy” in Pakistan and is now in hiding there as Muslims who want to murder hunt for her from house to house, feels the pain of not being welcomed into the Vatican? “Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)

Pope Francis@Pontifex Jesus knows well the pain of not being welcomed. May our hearts not be closed as were the houses in Bethlehem. #Internationalmigrantsday 36.2K 5:30 AM - Dec 18, 2018

“‘Asia Bibi was released,'” translated from “‘Asia Bibi è stata scarcerata,'” by Angelo Scarano, Il Giornale, November 7, 2018: Asia Bibi, the Pakistani woman acquitted last week by the Supreme Court on blasphemy charges, for which she was sentenced to death, has left the prison….The woman’s husband has asked for help from Italy and the request to grant her political asylum is being considered…. “It’s an internal matter of Pakistan, I hope it can be resolved in the best way … I do not know how it will end, there have been many reactions … The question is not simple, it is very complex and delicate. Always we hope that it ends in the best way,” said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State.

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Sixteen-year-old Palestinian killed by IDF during Gaza border protests

Sixteen-year-old Mohammad Jahjouh was fatally shot in the neck, while 25 others, including a local journalist, were wounded by Israeli gunfire, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

An estimated 8,000 Gazans participated in demonstrations near the security fence Friday as part of the weekly “Great March of Return” protests. Sixteen-year-old Mohammad Jahjouh was fatally shot in the neck, while 25 others, including a local journalist, were wounded by Israeli gunfire, according to the Hamas-affiliated Palestinian Health Ministry. The Health Ministry reported later that another two men, aged 28 and 40, died of injuries they sustained at protests in two separate locations along the fence with Israel earlier in the day. Saturday morning, the ministry reported another fatality coming out of the weekly demonstrations along the Gaza-Israel border line, bringing the total number of casualties to four. The fatalities were identified by WAFA News Agency as Maher Yasin, 40, Abdul-Aziz Abu Shari'a, 28, Ayman Munir Mohammed Shabir, 18, and Mohammad Mo’een Jahjouh, 16. "The armed option is the only one that can succeed against the machinations of the Zionist entity," said a Hamas spokesperson, according to Israeli media reports. Demonstrators expressed their appreciation for "the heroes of the resistance in the West Bank," referring to recent terrorist attacks. The demonstrators allegedly burned tires and threw stones and explosive and incendiary devices at IDF soldiers during the protests in order to disrupt Israeli positions along the fence. None of the projectiles landed in Israeli territory. "Troops responded with riot dispersal means and fired in accordance with standard operating procedures," an Israeli military spokeswoman. The clashes follow a recent surge of violence in the West Bank. Last Thursday a Palestinian gunman killed two Israeli soldiers, and Israeli forces killed two Hamas fugitives whom it blamed for earlier terror attacks. Israeli forces also killed two Palestinians that Israel said had tried to carry out future attacks. Hamas marked the 31st anniversary of its founding Sunday. Friday's protest is the first since this commemoration. Anna Ahronheim and Reuters contributed to this report.

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The kidney club

Doctors at Beilinson Hospital performed an extraordinary 8-way kidney surgery involving 4 donors and 4 recipients brought together by Matnat Chaim, dedicated to encouraging altruistic kidney donations.

Rotem Elizera|Published: 12.21.18 , 13:02

In Israel, there is an interconnected group of people who, only a short while ago, were complete strangers but are now organically connected after an unprecedented operation in which four willing donors shared one of their kidneys with four recipients who desperately needed them, saving their lives. In a record-breaking “cross-transplant” procedure performed by doctors at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, four donor kidneys were transplanted simultaneously to the bodies of four different patients in the space of 48 hours. Most people are born with two functioning kidneys, but their blood filtering capacity is actually far beyond 100%, thereby allowing for someone to donate one kidney without suffering any negative effects. According to Israeli law, a kidney donation must be either from a relative or through an altruistic kidney donor. The transplant chain was facilitated by Matnat Chaim, an Israeli non-profit dedicated to encouraging healthy volunteers to donate kidneys to patients requiring a transplant. The organization, which has already facilitated 626 transplants to date, was founded in 2007 by Rabbi Yeshayahu Heber after he found himself needing a kidney, finding a donor and then setting out to help others who were in the same predicament. This kidney donor chain began with altruistic donor Benjamin, who donated to a man named Lee. Yardena, Lee’s partner, in turn donated a kidney to a woman named Leah, whose son, Yonatan, donated a kidney to a man named Suheib. Suheib’s mother, Maison, then donated her kidney to a woman named Gil—who was meant to be the original recipient of the kidney donated by Benjamin. "I approached Matnat Chaim Chairman Rabbi Heber and asked him to help me find a kidney donor," said Gil, 36, adding, "to my delight, Benjamin, a person I don’t even know, agreed to donate his kidney … unfortunately though he wasn’t a match.” After tests conducted by doctors at Beilinson ahead of the planned cross-transplant, a possibility arose for Gil to be at the receiving end of a new kidney. "We have all become like family," Gil continued, “All of us are from a different background—religious, secular, right and left-wing, Jews and Arabs—there is now a special connection between us." Yonatan Tager, who was also part of the record-breaking transplant, said he “didn't hesitate” donating his kidney in order to save his mother’s life. "My mother had a severe decrease in kidney function and her condition deteriorated to the point that she required an urgent kidney transplant," says Yonatan. “At the hospital we were offered to participate in a cross-transplant, meaning that I would donate my kidney to someone else and in return my mother would be matched with a donor.” Prof. Eitan Mor, who heads the Beilinson transplant center, said that a procedure involving four transplants is extremely complicated and requires “precision,” and “maximum compatibility between patients and donors.” "Patients can wait for years to find a matching donor, and the cross-transplant program provides a solution … I'm sure this breakthrough will lead to further operations of this nature."

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5429929,00.html 

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Alabama police department blames crime on rejection of God

Dec 21, 2018 Updated Dec 21, 2018

OPP, Ala. (AP) - A rural Alabama police department that used social media to scold community members for rejecting God is coming under fire from a group that opposes mixing government and religious faith. A statement posted on Facebook by the Opp Police Department on Tuesday blames a spike in area homicides on the idea that young people have turned away from God and "embraced Satan." The post followed two gunshot killings in as many days in Covington County, located on the Alabama-Florida line. But the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation says police in the town of 6,500 people are wrongly promoting religion with the social media message. The group says it's illegal for a government entity to endorse or criticize religious belief. Opp police didn’t immediately return a phone call Thursday seeking comment.

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etc. Keep your eyes upon me, watch and listen, even as volcanoes begin to erupt, landslides and avalanches, flooding overseas, soon to America. But keep your eyes on the things that I have told you and realize that my church shall go through this time in great victory.

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Krakatau volcano news & eruption updates:

Krakatoa volcano (Sunda Strait, Indonesia): increased activity, likely new phase of lava fountains and lava flow

Saturday Dec 22, 2018 08:52 AM | BY: T

Another strong eruptive phase (paroxysm) is currently going on at the volcano.

Seismicity at Anak Krakatau has sharply increased during the past days and now shows continuous explosive/effusive activity. The observatory informed us that a lava flow is occurring from the summit vent, likely accompanied by lava fountaining, similar to what we observed in Sep and Nov during our latest expeditions to Krakatau. This is what it probably looks like now:

etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.

https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-One-Trump-pushes-past-Obamas-legacies-574988 

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Bedlam at the Border

By Hal Lindsey

The Bible’s description of the end times shows a world where massive waves of migration will be increasingly common. Such upheaval will further destabilize an already unstable world. r those of us in the United States, precursors to those end times movements of people are beginning to hit close to home. Right now, thousands of migrants continue to mass along the Mexico-USA border. The Department of Homeland Security says that historically only about 10% of those seeking asylum will be found eligible for it. But it may be even lower this time because people still in the caravans have already been offered asylum by Mexico and refused it. Refusing asylum indicates that asylum is not their main goal. On the news, we see close-up pictures of women with children. But in wider shots, you can see that the vast majority in the caravans are young men. The DHS has confirmed this obvious fact. Letting these young men into the country is problematic because of the difficulty in investigating their past. Are they drug dealers or members of a gang? Are they trying to get into the US in order to escape the consequences of a criminal history in their home countries? It’s difficult to get solid information. DHS has verified that at least 600 people in the latest caravan to arrive at the border are known criminals. But we don’t know the total number of criminals because so many of these people cannot be properly vetted. On November 26th, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen issued a statement regarding the violence at the San Ysidro Port of Entry just south of San Diego. “The violence we saw at the border was entirely predictable. This caravan, unlike previous caravans, had already entered #Mexico violently and attacked border police in two other countries. I refuse to believe that anyone honestly maintains that attacking law enforcement with rocks and projectiles is acceptable. It is shocking that I have to explain this, but officers can be seriously or fatally injured in such attacks. Self-defense isn’t debatable for most law-abiding Americans.” Before the election, the media told us that the caravans heading toward the US border were fake news — an idea drummed up by the President to scare people. The day after the election, talking heads on CNN were telling their audience that Fox News had already dropped the caravan story. At that very same moment on Fox News, they were discussing the increasing dangers of the caravan. DHS says the first caravan wound up being larger than expected, with some 8,500 already gathered in Tijuana and Mexicali. But there are yother caravans on the way. Most of the people in those caravans have been sold a bill of goods. They’ve been lied to at every turn. For the most part, they want to come to America for the good life. That’s understandable, but not the same thing as a quest for asylum. There are ways to enter the United States legally. But an assault on the border is not one of them.

https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-12-3-2018/ 

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Iranian ships fire rockets as US aircraft carrier enters Persian Gulf

USS John C. Stennis transits Strait of Hormuz after longest post-9/11 absence; Revolutionary Guard vessels launch rockets away from carrier, fly a drone nearby

By Jon Gambrell 21 December 2018, 9:52 pm

ABOARD THE USS JOHN C. STENNIS IN THE PERSIAN GULF (AP) — A US aircraft carrier sailed into the Persian Gulf on Friday, becoming the first since America’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and breaking the longest carrier absence in the volatile region since at least the September 11 terror attacks. The arrival of the USS John C. Stennis comes as Iranian officials have returned to repeatedly threatening to close off the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a third of all oil traded by sea passes. Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps vessels shadowed the Stennis and its strike group, at one point launching rockets away from it and flying a drone nearby. The long absence of a carrier, however, could become a standard practice here as now-outgoing Defense Secretary Jim Mattis sought to shake up naval operations and American air bases spanning the region can scramble fighter jets and drones. “We are trying to be more operationally unpredictable,” said Lt. Chloe Morgan, a spokeswoman for US’s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet. “Now we’re switching it up because our adversaries are watching closely. We want to be operationally unpredictable to our enemies, but strategically predictable to our partners.” The Navy invited journalists to ride on the nuclear-powered Stennis, whose homeport is Bremerton, Washington, as it transited the Strait of Hormuz. The strait at its narrowest point is 33 kilometers (21 miles) wide, in the waters between Iran and Oman. Despite being so narrow and within the territorial waters of those two nations, the strait is viewed as an international transit route. American forces routinely travel through the area, despite sometimes tense encounters with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a paramilitary force answerable only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. For Iran’s part, they compare the American presence to Tehran sending warships to the Gulf of Mexico. Tensions have been high since US President Donald Trump’s May withdrawal from Iran’s nuclear deal, which saw sanctions lifted for Tehran limiting its uranium enrichment. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate within the country’s Shiite theocracy whose major achievement was the deal, has repeatedly warned any attempt to stop Iran’s export of crude oil could see it close off the strait. However, the 5th Fleet says it has not seen any “unsafe and unprofessional” actions by Iranian naval forces in the Persian Gulf since August 2017 before the Stennis’ transit through the strait. Throughout its trip Friday, some 30 Iranian Revolution Guard vessels trailed the Stennis and its strike group. One small vessel launched what appeared to be a commercial-grade drone to film the American ships. Photographers and videographers on the Iranian boats could clearly be seen also filming the Stennis while journalists on board the aircraft carrier filmed them. “The Iranian craft drove in front of our ship and stopped and tried to capture their own sort of picture of what was going on,” said Capt. Randy Peck, the commanding officer of the Stennis. There was no immediate mention of the Stennis’ arrival to the Persian Gulf in Iranian state media. The long gap between carrier deployments in the Persian Gulf represents a change in US military strategy dating back to the first Gulf War in 1991 and the overflights of Iraq that followed for years after. Mattis, as the head of the US military’s Central Command, himself demanded two carrier groups in the Persian Gulf as he led the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since then, Mattis has said he wants a more unpredictable Navy to respond to Russia and China, which he sees as the “great power competition” America now faces. “The way you do this is we ensure that preparation for great power competition drives not simply a rotation schedule that allows me to tell you, three years from now, which aircraft carrier will be where,” Mattis told a US House committee in April. “That’s a great way to run a shipping line. It’s no way to run a Navy.” It’s unclear, however, whether Mattis’ strategy will continue. The defense secretary resigned Thursday after clashing with Trump over the abrupt withdrawal of US troops from Syria. The US military also operates air bases in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, as well as a major Army base in Kuwait and its Navy base in Bahrain. That offers the American military a variety of locations both in the Persian Gulf, as well as other bases in the wider Mideast, to launch strikes. “Carriers were needed to support many of the initial strikes in Afghanistan in 2001, some attacks in Iraq in 2003, and most tactical missions in Syria in 2011,” said Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. “After access to adequate ground bases was obtained for today’s operations in Syria and Iraq, carrier-based aircraft were not as essential for these missions.” “The US does not need carriers in the Persian Gulf,” he added. As military operations wind down in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, that likely will mean less need for airstrikes as well. However, the 5th Fleet still maintains a fleet of 21 ships from Bahrain and other Navy ships will continue to transit the strait. “The American Navy is showing they’re committed to regional stability all across the globe but particularly in the Gulf region,” Peck said. “It’s a very economically important area for the entire world, so we’re going to continue to go wherever we can internationally, in international waters.”

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Israel, Greece, Cyprus to ink natural gas pipeline deal next year, PM says

US ambassador says project will provide ‘stability and prosperity’ to Middle East and Europe, urges all countries in the region to ensure it succeeds

By AFP and TOI staff 20 December 2018, 9:44 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Israel, Greece and Cyprus will sign an agreement early next year to build a pipeline to carry natural gas from the eastern Mediterranean to Europe, while the United States pledged its support for the ambitious project. The $7 billion project, expected to take six or seven years to complete, promises to reshape the region as an energy provider and dent Russia’s dominance over the European energy market. It also could curtail Iranian ambitions to use Syria as a gateway to the eastern Mediterranean. Speaking at a summit with the Greek and Cypriot leaders in Beersheba, Netanyahu said the three nations reaffirmed their commitment to the pipeline and discussed “important aspects” of the project. Italy is also a partner in the pipeline’s planning. Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades said the project is waiting for a green light from the European Union to move forward. “We’re going to sign formally, officially, this agreement in a few months,” Netanyahu said at what was the fifth annual summit of the three countries. In another boost for the project, US Ambassador David Friedman hailed the pipeline as integral to the “stability and prosperity of the Middle East and Europe,” and urged all countries in the region to ensure its success. Washington is eyeing the east Mediterranean with renewed interest. In a meeting with the Greek foreign minister earlier this month, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the region “an important strategic frontier” for Washington, which is working to strengthen its relations with “democratic allies there like Greece and Cyprus and Israel.” Israel has been developing natural gas fields off its Mediterranean coast for the past decade. Its “Tamar” field already is operational, while the larger “Leviathan” field is expected to be operational next year. While most of its gas is used domestically, it has signed export deals with Egypt and Jordan and has its eyes on the larger European market. The proposed pipeline would allow Israel and Cyprus to export their recently discovered offshore reserves to Italy and eventually to the rest of Europe. Greece, which would act as a conduit for the gas to the continent, could also use the pipeline to convey any hydrocarbons potentially found in its own waters. This would potentially transform the countries’ economies while also diversifying Europe’s gas supply and reduce its dependence on Russia. Developing the region’s hydrocarbon reserves would also serve to curb Teheran’s bid to “open a window” to the east Mediterranean through Syria, Assistant Secretary of State Wess Mitchell told Greek language newspaper Kathimerini in an interview published this week. At Thursday’s summit, the leaders offered no details of a construction timeline. The countries also pledged to cooperate in cybersecurity, while Israel and Cyprus signed a preliminary deal on technical cooperation and Israel and Greece reached a framework agreement on satellite technology.

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Signs of Coming Collapse: Citizens Worldwide Revolt Against Taxation & Illegal Aliens

Jeremiah Johnson December 10th, 2018 SHTFplan.com

There are many serious issues to address, relevant to current events. Just to skim some of what has happened most recently, the Dow Jones (although a “lagging” indicator) has been extremely volatile within the past month, appearing to be headed toward a loss for the year overall. Spending is down, and the “bubble” of pseudo-consumer confidence prior to Thanksgiving seems to have dissipated. The main focus: the unrest that is swiftly crossing national borders has a common denominator in France, and now in Belgium and the Netherlands. That common denominator is that of the populace being fed up with the amount of taxation, coupled with the politicos pushing illegal Muslim aliens into nations that have been predominantly Christian for almost a thousand years. In countries such as Germany, Sweden, and Norway (whose ancestors were not known for playing “softball,” i.e. the Saxons and Vikings, respectively) we have been witness to rapes and beatings perpetrated by Muslim illegal aliens with the governments either looking the other way or encouraging it. Soros and those of his ilk in the EU have been pushing this “forced integration” of an invasion of illegals with a huge ethnic and religious gap between them and the host nations. The controllers (oligarchs and politicos) are pushing these (numerically speaking) armies of aliens into previously stable nations…for several express purposes:

The denigration of the nations’ borders, language, religion, family structure, and culture

To reduce the nations’ original populace to a state of abandoning their nationalities and nationalism

To place these aliens into a position where they will weaken the economies of the nations (by being forced onto the dole) and also utilizing their numbers for support when it comes time to “vote” in these nations.

We have been witnessing an internal conquest fomented upon each of these European nations more effective than any invasion with military resources. The controllers are “injecting” these aliens into the populations and allowing their destructive natures and habits (completely at odds with the host nation) to destroy those countries….from within.

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etc.. Throughout the world right now peace is fastly disappearing, wars are rising up, trouble on the right hand, trouble on the left hand, etc..

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The U.S. military carried out a series of deadly airstrikes in Somalia over the weekend, leaving dozens of militants dead. U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) released a statement early Monday morning revealing that U.S. forces had conducted six airstrikes that killed a total of 62 militants of al-Shabaab – the largest affiliate of al Qaeda. Four of the airstrikes took place on Saturday, where forces targeted a known location of al-Shabaab militants in Gandarshe, Somalia. An estimated 34 militants were killed after the four strikes. Another two airstrikes took place on Sunday also in Gandarshe, Somalia, killing another 28 al-Shabaab militants. “All six (6) airstrikes were conducted in close coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia and targeted a known al-Shabaab encampment. U.S. Africa Command and our Somali partners conducted these airstrikes to prevent terrorists from using remote areas as a safe haven to plot, direct, inspire, and recruit for future attacks,” AFRICOM said.

Al-Shabaab Forces Degraded by U.S., Federal Government of Somalia – https://t.co/f3XjSWzsAF  pic.twitter.com/zQvfPJxgJH  

— US AFRICOM (@USAfricaCommand) December 17, 2018

The targeted airstrike did not cause any civilian injuries or casualties. “Alongside our Somali and international partners, we are committed to preventing al-Shabaab from taking advantage of safe havens from which they can build capacity and attack the people of Somalia. In particular, the group uses portions of southern and central Somalia to plot and direct terror attacks, steal humanitarian aid, extort the local populace to fund its operations, and shelter radical terrorists,” AFRICOM added. Al-Shabaab has a significant presence in Somalia, where they have been countered steadily by the Somalian government backed by U.N. support. More than 500 U.S. troops are deployed to Somalia and will remain there until the government can independently handle their security, according to Time Magazine. Airstrikes on Somalia were authorized by President Donald Trump in March 2017 in order to begin countering al-Shabaab’s deadly and growing influence. Approximately 46 airstrikes have been conducted against al-Shabaab this year alone, according to the Associated Press. In October, U.S. forces conducted its largest Somalian airstrike of the year, killing an estimated 60 militants in Haradere. Al-Shabaab carried out Somalia’s most deadly terror attack in October 2017 when they detonated a massive truck bomb in Mogadishu, killing at least 500 people and injured hundreds more. Much of al-Shabaab’s presence is in coastal Somalia near Mogadishu. In the U.S. State Department’s Country Reports on Terrorism 2017 released in September, Somalia was deemed a “terrorist safe haven.” “Al-Shabaab experienced significant military pressure during 2017, but the group still maintained control over large portions of the country. Al-Shabaab retained the ability to carry out high-profile attacks using vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs), suicide bombings, mortars, and small arms,” the report said.

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Don’t Tread on Me – What It Means Today

In This, That, and The Other by Jesse Mathewson

Of the many slogans that have been socially adopted by some as a banner, and others as the new evil to kill, the line, “Don’t tread on me” is easily among the top ten over the past few years. To find out what it means today we need to look at where it came from, and why. It is a flag, as well as a slogan, and I hope to help you understand it better. Rattlesnakes, in this case, the eastern diamondback and the timber rattlesnake, were both abundant in North America, and something not found in Great Britain. Benjamin Franklin made many references to rattlesnakes in his commentaries, published from 1751 onward. In 1754 he published the woodcut of a snake cut into 8 sections with the message, “JOIN or DIE”. Fast forward 21 years and we were on the cusp of a civil war with England. Contrary to what has been taught for decades in the United States, our war with England was, in fact, a rebellion. Christopher Gadsden designed the Gadsden flag in 1775, this is what we think of today when we hear the phrase, “Don’t tread on me”. This was the year before the declaration of independence was signed. As a firm believer in the natural rights of man*, I choose to see the benefit of separating from the state of England. In 1778 the United States Congress began using the War Office Seal, which was replaced in 1947 for the official document used by the Department of Army Emblem, pictured here. As you can see, the rattlesnake, like the bald eagle and the lone pine tree, features heavily in our history and documentation. Current day versions of the Gadsden flag can be traced to the Tea Party movement, another maligned movement based in a misrepresented historical ideal. One article from 2016 says, “The snake, it turns out, was something of a Colonial-era meme, evidently originated by Benjamin Franklin. In 1751, Franklin made the satirical suggestion that the colonies might repay the Crown for shipping convicts to America by distributing rattlesnakes around England, “particularly in the Gardens of the Prime Ministers, the Lords of Trade and Members of Parliament; for to them we are most particularly obliged.” (Walker, 2016) Modern “educated” writers who cannot be bothered to search further than Wikipedia are in fact the reason why, in our current day and age, any use of the Gadsden flag is seen as hateful by the left – or worse, as supportive of yet more government by the right. These people use just enough verifiable information that no one questions the veracity of their stories, tweets, and posts. England and more specifically the East India Trading Company owned or controlled the original 13 colonies, as well as lands spanning what is currently Canada. The colonists had, for many years, dealt with everything from forced conscription in the English naval forces, to forced eviction from homes built and land farmed for years. In addition to these things, there were the many instances of quartering of English troops in colonial residences without any real recompense. All of this was done under the color of law and for the colonists’ “own good”. The reasoning was the same as what we are given today when taxes are raised, levies are sought, and new wars and conflicts entered into. “Your safety, the safety of (English) interests abroad and the furthering of (English) influence around the globe!” For 258 years the East India Trading company literally ruled the world, and it was all done under English laws and rules. Use of symbols was especially important at a time when many people were not able to read and write effectively. By using figures such as rattlesnakes and bald eagles, these uniquely American animals, the colonial civilians could cling to something that was theirs, and that did not stem from the King or company controlling the leaders of the “civilized” world. It should be noted that the idea of slavery as an institution and means of profit was originated by Spain, England, and the East India Trading Company. (Please note that while the East India Trading Company is also known as the British East India Trading Company, and the Dutch East India Trading Company, it was originated and founded in London in 1600) The symbol of the rattlesnake was specifically meant to offer a warning to England. A rattlesnake that is stepped on bites in every case. This is obviously dangerous to the person doing the stepping, hence the term, “Don’t tread on me,” it was meant to convey this warning in terms that even the farmers and working man could understand. Over the past few years, we have seen extremes, more so than ever before. These extremes are a result of people being classified, labeled, and marginalized by mainstream media and politicians alike. In our modern society, thanks to endless loops of 15-second sound-bytes and directed social media outbursts, we see even more people becoming disillusioned with the status quo. On a personal note, the past few years have been difficult beyond any other years before in my life. The hatred is being stoked to further divide the population, much like what happened in France prior to their revolution, and here in the United States prior to ours. This has led to people using old slogans and catch phrases to promote alternatives to the status quo. “Don’t tread on me” is just such a slogan. I embrace this slogan though I do not embrace all who use it. This is extremely important to understand. Americans, and humans in general love to use others to validate their beliefs. There are those of us who realize that only the facts matter in the end. This means that in some respects we have to understand that the data is simply that, data. There is a current phrase being used, “Big Data”. I see this phrase for what it is, the philosophical ramblings of Political Science majors who have no concept of facts outside of how they may prop up their positions. Consider this, in recent decades, this country has been in a state of upheaval. Financial destruction, millions of hard-working Americans jobless, increasing inflation, and hundreds of new laws and protest organizations. Certainly, there is blame to go around, and it should be directed at each of us. We are to blame for our own life decisions and approaches. This being said, when you have a government that cannot listen to the people, or people who are more interested in emotional outbursts than facts, these slogans and their history become that much more important! I will not blame a single man or woman, but rather a mindset that infects and affects all of us. This malaise and division are embraced and promoted by those in control as well as many who prop them up with financial and “moral” support. Modern usage of this term was meant to generate a sense of patriotic furor and has been associated with the Tea Party movement, a more recent movement originally designed to protest extremely high taxes and government overreach, but which was co-opted and devolved into mainstream political infighting. Between the mainstream media (all sides), and political finagling (on all sides), what could have been a positive thing was subverted, perverted, and eventually demonized by many Americans – simply due to ignorance being given platform over facts. In looking at the history of the Gadsen flag in use we find that the first to use it was Commander Esek Hopkins, the first “admiral” of the newly formed naval forces. He was widely known to have not been enamored with Washington and other “leaders” of that time. He was, however, an active privateer prior to, and during, the Revolutionary War. In his words, “the two new ships are Launched & will be soon ready if men could be had.” (Hopkins, 1776) He was speaking about the fact that Washington and Gates were requisitioning all the men and not leaving any to man the newly formed fleet. Washington later sacked him, many believe this was a result of Hopkins inability to hold his tongue when someone was doing something he saw as stupid. When using historical symbols, my personal approach is to learn as much as I can about them and to absorb the real history surrounding them. This is a reason I have not adopted the rather common “Molon Labe” phrase. In the case of the “Don’t tread on me” flag, it was brightly colored and easy to read. Also, over the ocean in sailing craft where it could take an entire day or longer for one ship to overtake another, this allowed for a sense of dread to build and to be felt by the crew of ships being overtaken. Modern times have seen a resurgence in the use of this flag and phrase, and while many who fly it are a part of the failed Tea Party movement, many others, like myself, have and fly this flag as a symbol against tyranny. Tyranny being quite simply, “oppressive power”, which can be applied to the approaches used by modern media, activists, and politicians alike. Thomas Jefferson once said, “for I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” (Jefferson, 1800) In my personal study of the founders** I embraced the writings of Jefferson, Paine, Henry, Mason, Lee, Yates, Singletary, Warren, Clinton, Smith, Fenner, Martin, Samuel Adams, and Monroe as well as others seen to be Anti-Federalists or from who the Anti-Federalists drew their inspiration. How does this apply to the phrase, “Don’t tread on me”? The idea promoted with this phrase is simple, “leave me alone to live in peace, to do what I do best, and as long as my actions do not cause physical harm to others there is no need for your intervention”. Christopher Gadsden, the author of the phrase, made clear his intent to represent an idea to the British overlords at the time when he penned this phrase, attached as it was to a coiled rattlesnake. It seems quite obvious that he believed very strongly in the real separation between England and the colonies, and that his loyalty was also very much in the colonies with his family, friends, and those who wished to see us free of the grip of the corporate overlords of the East India Trading Company and England. Interestingly, there is not much known about this individual, and I have searched everywhere I have access to. Feel free to write a comment below with any links or books that may have additional information on him. So there you have it, the modern use of “Don’t tread on me”, as well as its history – and my somewhat anemic commentary. If you have any added information or knowledge in this arena, comment below. I learn from what others share with me, and from what I study and research. While I feel confident that my knowledge in this arena is extensive, there is always more to learn. Thank you for reading, and of course, commenting and sharing. *When I use the term “man” I am referring to humankind as a whole, using the classic sense of the word. **There were 3 sets of founders, first you have the Declaration authors than the drafters of the Articles of Confederation and lastly the Constitution drafters. These individuals are not the same though there is some minor crossover between them, many of the original Declaration signatories rebelled against the passage of the Constitution, and some of them were very vocal in their belief that this “document” would be a problem in the future.

Hopkins, E. (1776). Founders Online: To George Washington from Commodore Esek Hopkins, 22 May 1776. Retrieved from https://founders.archives.gov/documents 

Hopkins, E. (1776). Founders Online: To George Washington from Commodore Esek Hopkins, 22 May 1776. Retrieved from https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-04-02-0300 

Jefferson, T. (1800). Founders Online: From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 23 September 1800. Retrieved from https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-32-02-0102 

Rittman, P. Rise and Fall of the British East India Company. Retrieved from http://paulrittman.com/EastIndiaCompany.pdf 

Walker, R. (2016). The Shifting Symbolism of the Gadsden Flag. Retrieved from https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-shifting-symbolism-of-the-gadsden-flag 

https://www.mdcreekmore.com/dont-tread-on-me-what-the-gadsden-flag-means-today/ 

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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc.. 

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Volcano on Pacific 'Ring of Fire' erupts in Indonesia sending huge columns of ash spewing 25,000 feet into the sky

Mount Soputan, a 6,000ft volcano in Minahasa in northern Sulawesi island, erupted twice on Sunday morning

Residents have been warned to avoid the peak and told to wear masks in case lava comes flowing down slopes

Soputan is one of more than 120 active volcanoes in Indonesia which is positioned on the Pacific 'Ring of Fire'

By Associated Press Published: 03:26 EST, 16 December 2018 | Updated: 14:51 EST, 16 December 2018

A volcano in central Indonesia has erupted, sending columns of thick ash spewing as high as 25,000 feet into the sky. Mount Soputan, a 6,000ft peak in Minahasa on the northern part of Sulawesi island, erupted twice on Sunday morning. A two-and-a-half mile exclusion zone has been enforced around the mountain as the national disaster agency warns local residents to avoid the peak. Hot ash and lava could come sliding down the volcano's slopes and threaten rivers around the mountain, agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said. Residents were also urged to wear masks in case of ash rain, as authorities kept the volcano's alert level at the second-highest level. Mount Soputan, which stands at 5,853 feet (1,784 metres) tall, is one of Indonesia's more than 120 active volcanoes. Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 260 million people, is prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions due to its location on the Pacific 'Ring of Fire.'

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The War against Syria: G-d’s beginning of Taking Control of His Zion; Damascus

On Wednesday, August 21, 2013, it was reported that President Bashar Assad with the 155th Brigade of the Syrian Army’s 4th Division backed by the Revolutionary Guard and the para-military forces of Iran launched an attack against the Syrian rebels in the outskirts of Damascus. The order for this attack came directly by Syrian President Assad’s younger brother, General Maher Assad. Over a forty eight hours period of time, poisoned gas shells were fired from the big Mount Kalmun army base located south of Damascus, known to be one of three chemical weapon storage facilities, along with Dummar suburbs 5 kilometers outside Damascus, and Al-Safira air base just west of Aleppo. These bases were demanded by Moscow to be the repositories of the chemical weapons in December 2012. As laid out by Secretary of State John Kerry on August 31, 2013 to the American congressional leaders, the Syrian military fired Sarin laced chemical weapons at 11 different sites surrounding the city of Damascus, launched from areas still controlled by the Syrian military regime against districts and neighborhoods which were still controlled by the Syrian controlled rebels. The orders were sent 72 hours earlier to the Syrian chemical weapons teams and pictorial evidence was provided of these gas masked teams preparing these weapons of mass destruction against their own Syrian people. As the Secretary went on to say in his report: Secretary of State John Kerry – “With our own eyes we saw victims writhing in agony from the symptoms of poison gas. We know they were ordinary Syrian citizens who suffered these horrors. We know that the doctors and nurses didn’t need to dress bloody wounds. Not a drop of blood was seen. We saw children dead from Assad’s gas surrounded by parents and grandparents who were victims. The medical staff members treating the wounded were themselves overcome by the poisonous fumes.”There was even a U-Tube that was posted purportedly by Syrians Rebels, that documented the firing of the one of the missiles, but how did these rebels received video evidence that close to ground-zero of the firing line was not known. What is now being revealed is that these videos of this “so-called chemical weapons attack was posted a full day before it was stated to have occurred is now suspected to have only been a “false flag” operation to justify another war, this time to take down the Assad regime as a stepping stone to proceed in attacking Iran. etc. and the extended news article continues

https://www.technocracy.news/expert-ai-soldiers-will-develop-moral-compass-and-defy-orders/ 

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Global Revolt Against Globalism: 'Yellow Vest' Protests Spread Like Wildfire Throughout Europe As The Masses Stand Up To The Elite

December 16, 2018 By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine

The "Yellow Vest" movement exploded on the scene weeks ago in response to France's decision to increase gas and diesel taxes, with nearly 300,000 taking to the streets in violent protests. Images of burning vehicles, blocked highways and fuel depots, violent battles with police and more were splashed across the globe. By the third weekend of protests, French President Emmanuel Macron blinked and suspended the planned fuel tax increases in an attempt to calm the population, hoping the demonstrations would end. Soon other complaints and concerns started being revealed, such as Macron's planned reforms for next year, described by Bloomberg as "sure-to-be unpopular changes to unemployment insurance and a unification of France’s retirement systems." The interesting thing about the "Yellow Vests," which I have seen some refer to as "Yellow Jackets," protests, is that they are not organized, have no structural leadership, nor any specific organization behind them or funding them. Via City Lab, we see how it began: It’s not just the protests’ fierceness and geographic spread that have taken the country by surprise—French media reported more than 2,000 separate rallies occurring across the country. Unusually, the Yellow Vests is a grassroots mass protest movement with no explicit wider political agenda or links to existing groups. Having organized themselves via social media since May (when the movement was sparked by an online petition), the Yellow Vests have arrived somewhat out of the blue. There is also no clear media consensus as to what they are protesting beyond the cost of gas. To some observers, the protesters are primarily angry about what they see as President Emmanuel Macron’s apparent indifference toward tough conditions for working people. To others, the movement is evidence of a middle-class backlash. Meanwhile, it’s not automatically easy to say whether the protest cleaves more to the left or the right. Make no mistake, gas tax increases was never the underlying issue, that was just the straw that broke the camels back.... in France, but over the past weeks, something truly extraordinary and unprecedented has happened, these Yellow Vest protests have spread throughout Europe, to Belgium, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK and now Canada, and in each case, there are a different set of issues the demonstrators want to see addressed. GLOBAL REVOLT AGAINST GLOBALISM For example, in Canada the Yellow Vest demonstrators are protesting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government's immigration and tax policies, while in Belgium the populace is rebelling against Prime Minister Charles Michel’s trip to Morocco to sign the United Nations Migration Agreement, which makes no distinction between legal and illegal immigration, with protesters declaring the PM to be a traitor. In the UK, it is pro-Brexit demonstrators and in the Netherlands they generally protested the government economic policies. In Sweden they are protesting against the UN Migration Pact and political elite, and in Germany rail worker protesters in Yellow and Orange vests conducted a four-hour strike over pay. To me this indicates that these "Yellow Vest" protests are not about politics, but are about the people rising up against the elite, it is a global revolt against globalism itself. Note the individual issues these protesters are fighting against, illegal immigration, the highly controversial UN Migration Pact, economic issues where the elite have their boot on the necks of the people struggling to survive and pay their bills, the pro-Brexit campaigners demonstrating as their UK leaders betray them, after they voted to exit the EU...... all globalist agendas with the people revolting against them. Over at the Strategic Culture Foundation website, in a piece titled "The War Against Globalism," the author Philip M. Giraldi, reminds us that while France might have been caught off guard when the initial Yellow Vest protest started, as other European nations are seeing the same protests against their leaders, this type of rebellion, revolt, call it what you will, shouldn't surprise anyone as it has been building as can be seen in the examples he describes, from the Brexit vote in the UK, to the election of Donald Trump to the recent election in Italy. What has been occurring in Belgium, France, with Brexit in Britain, in the recent election in Italy, and also in the warnings coming from Eastern Europe about immigration and European Union community economic policies are driven by the same concerns that operated in America. Government itself is becoming the enemy. And let us not forget the countries that have already felt the lash and been subjected to the social engineering of Angela Merkel – Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Greece. All are weaker economies crushed by the one size fits all of the EURO, which eliminated the ability of some governments to manage their own economies. They and all their citizens are poorer for it. There have been windows in history when the people have had enough abuse and so rise up in revolt. The American and French revolutions come to mind as does 1848. Perhaps we are experiencing something like that at the present time, a revolt against the pressure to conform to globalist values that have been embraced to their benefit by the elites and the establishment in much of the world. It could well become a hard fought and sometimes bloody conflict but its outcome will shape the next century. Will the people really have power in the increasingly globalized world or will it be the 1% with its government and media backing that emerges triumphant? Frankly there are more of "us," than them, even though they own the establishment media, so if these movements continue to grow as they appear to be doing, then the globalists will have no choice but to backpedal or see themselves taken down if a full scale revolution occurs.

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Global Revolt Against Globalism: 'Yellow Vest' Protests Spread Like Wildfire Throughout Europe As The Masses Stand Up To The Elite

By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine December 16, 2018

The "Yellow Vest" movement exploded on the scene weeks ago in response to France's decision to increase gas and diesel taxes, with nearly 300,000 taking to the streets in violent protests. Images of burning vehicles, blocked highways and fuel depots, violent battles with police and more were splashed across the globe. By the third weekend of protests, French President Emmanuel Macron blinked and suspended the planned fuel tax increases in an attempt to calm the population, hoping the demonstrations would end. Soon other complaints and concerns started being revealed, such as Macron's planned reforms for next year, described by Bloomberg as "sure-to-be unpopular changes to unemployment insurance and a unification of France’s retirement systems." The interesting thing about the "Yellow Vests," which I have seen some refer to as "Yellow Jackets," protests, is that they are not organized, have no structural leadership, nor any specific organization behind them or funding them. Via City Lab, we see how it began: It’s not just the protests’ fierceness and geographic spread that have taken the country by surprise—French media reported more than 2,000 separate rallies occurring across the country. Unusually, the Yellow Vests is a grassroots mass protest movement with no explicit wider political agenda or links to existing groups. Having organized themselves via social media since May (when the movement was sparked by an online petition), the Yellow Vests have arrived somewhat out of the blue. There is also no clear media consensus as to what they are protesting beyond the cost of gas. To some observers, the protesters are primarily angry about what they see as President Emmanuel Macron’s apparent indifference toward tough conditions for working people. To others, the movement is evidence of a middle-class backlash. Meanwhile, it’s not automatically easy to say whether the protest cleaves more to the left or the right. Make no mistake, gas tax increases was never the underlying issue, that was just the straw that broke the camels back.... in France, but over the past weeks, something truly extraordinary and unprecedented has happened, these Yellow Vest protests have spread throughout Europe, to Belgium, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK and now Canada, and in each case, there are a different set of issues the demonstrators want to see addressed. GLOBAL REVOLT AGAINST GLOBALISM For example, in Canada the Yellow Vest demonstrators are protesting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government's immigration and tax policies, while in Belgium the populace is rebelling against Prime Minister Charles Michel’s trip to Morocco to sign the United Nations Migration Agreement, which makes no distinction between legal and illegal immigration, with protesters declaring the PM to be a traitor. In the UK, it is pro-Brexit demonstrators and in the Netherlands they generally protested the government economic policies. In Sweden they are protesting against the UN Migration Pact and political elite, and in Germany rail worker protesters in Yellow and Orange vests conducted a four-hour strike over pay. To me this indicates that these "Yellow Vest" protests are not about politics, but are about the people rising up against the elite, it is a global revolt against globalism itself. Note the individual issues these protesters are fighting against, illegal immigration, the highly controversial UN Migration Pact, economic issues where the elite have their boot on the necks of the people struggling to survive and pay their bills, the pro-Brexit campaigners demonstrating as their UK leaders betray them, after they voted to exit the EU...... all globalist agendas with the people revolting against them. Over at the Strategic Culture Foundation website, in a piece titled "The War Against Globalism," the author Philip M. Giraldi, reminds us that while France might have been caught off guard when the initial Yellow Vest protest started, as other European nations are seeing the same protests against their leaders, this type of rebellion, revolt, call it what you will, shouldn't surprise anyone as it has been building as can be seen in the examples he describes, from the Brexit vote in the UK, to the election of Donald Trump to the recent election in Italy. What has been occurring in Belgium, France, with Brexit in Britain, in the recent election in Italy, and also in the warnings coming from Eastern Europe about immigration and European Union community economic policies are driven by the same concerns that operated in America. Government itself is becoming the enemy. And let us not forget the countries that have already felt the lash and been subjected to the social engineering of Angela Merkel – Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Greece. All are weaker economies crushed by the one size fits all of the EURO, which eliminated the ability of some governments to manage their own economies. They and all their citizens are poorer for it. There have been windows in history when the people have had enough abuse and so rise up in revolt. The American and French revolutions come to mind as does 1848. Perhaps we are experiencing something like that at the present time, a revolt against the pressure to conform to globalist values that have been embraced to their benefit by the elites and the establishment in much of the world. It could well become a hard fought and sometimes bloody conflict but its outcome will shape the next century. Will the people really have power in the increasingly globalized world or will it be the 1% with its government and media backing that emerges triumphant? Frankly there are more of "us," than them, even though they own the establishment media, so if these movements continue to grow as they appear to be doing, then the globalists will have no choice but to backpedal or see themselves taken down if a full scale revolution occurs. 

THIS IS A POPULIST REVOLT AGAINST THE GLOBAL 'ELITE' Many have different specific definitions of "populism," with liberals acting like populism is a dirty word because President Trump was the populist choice, but in reality, all populism really is to make a lengthy description short, is the "people," versus the political elite globalists and globalism supporters. The Heritage back in May 2018 offered a good description of what populism truly is, stating "The core populist contention is that the people, broadly defined, are being screwed over by the elites, either intentionally or not." That matter can be verified empirically. The elites either despise the people or they do not. They either support policies that serve the people or they do not. If the core pillar of populism is true—and broadly speaking, it seems to be, at least in America—then something ought to be done about it, within constitutional norms of course. The concluding sentence in that lengthy, but excellent article, accurately describes what we are watching play out in Europe right now as the writer highlights what Irving Kristol wrote in the 1980s about an earlier wave of populism: "this new populism is no kind of blind rebellion against good constitutional government. It is rather an effort to bring our governing elites to their sense." When President Trump declared he was a nationalist, and proud of it, the liberal establishment media, globalism proponents themselves, melted down, claimed it had "racial" overtones, calling it a "controversial label," as they tried to tie the term into the more controversial "white nationalist," term, yet the definition of Nationalist is "an advocate of or believer in nationalism" which in turn means "loyalty and devotion to a nation." Globalism, on the other hands, means "the operation or planning of economic and foreign policy on a global basis. Why would liberals, Democrats and the establishment media have a problem with a President who declares his loyalty and devotion to America, and who believes that our elected leaders should be representing the best interest of the people that elected them, rather than the global community? Isn't that a President, or leaders job? That is what the election of Donald Trump, Brexit, and the most recent Yellow Vest protests are about in a nutshell, a populist revolt against the global elite. Of course the globalists, liberals, and establishment media would rather blame Russia for the Trump election and the Brexit vote, and now, they are trying to blame Moscow for the Yellow Vest protests as well, rather than acknowledging that the people are simply fed up with their globalist leaders. BOTTOM LINE Europe is burning, perhaps not literally, although we have seen some burning vehicles, but the globalist agenda is being rejected, and if the efforts by the Yellow Vest protests do not bring "governing elites to their sense," which it is beginning to look like they won't, these types of protests are going to get worse, not better. What France and the rest of Europe is starting to look like right now, with hundreds of thousands marching each weekend, is what America would look like if the globalists have their way.

Thankfully the populists, the nationalists, the people, are ready for real change and as I stated above..... there are more of them, than there are of global elites.

http://allnewspipeline.com/Global_Revolt_Against_Globalism_Yellow_Vest_Protests_Spread.php 

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2178214/china-and-russia-band-together-controversial-heating-experiments 

etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.

Neon Nettle on 16th December 2018 @ 1.20pm

The body of a British woman, who died in Mexico, was flown back to her home country with her brain, heart, eyes, and other organs missing. 41-year-old Amanda Gill's body was returned to her family in the UK after being harvested in the Mexican hospital after she passed away. Elaine Hines said her daughter Amanda fell victim to illegal organ traffickers, and suspects doctors where she was treated may have been involved, reported the Daily Mail. “They stole everything inside her,” she said. “If this has happened to Amanda how many other people has it ­happened to and will again?” Hines said. “Where are my sister’s beautiful blue eyes?” Amanda’s sister, Katie Miller-Gill, asked. “Why were they taken from her? Where is her brain, her heart?” According to the Epoch Times, Amanda’s sister said the family may have considered donating her organs, and she now thinks that Mexican criminals stole the organs under the belief that her family wouldn’t follow up on the case. No officials contacted the family about the woman’s organs. Hines died at Hospital de Cos following diabetes complications while she was traveling in the country. Hospital officials said they don’t know what happened to the organs, according to the publication. Hospital authorities told The Mirror that her body was passed to police in a sealed bag. No officials have taken responsibility for the woman’s missing organs, Gill’s family told the Mirror. “Did they do it to her because she was foreign? Did they steal her ­organs for the illegal trade?” asked a family member in the report. “We just don’t know. We haven’t got the ­answers we wanted.” Her family also doesn’t understand why she died. “The hospital said she wouldn’t take fluids but the first thing you do is put them on a drip and that brings them round. It isn’t something that would have killed her,” said a family member. Mexican ­officials said her cause of death was “visceral congestion,” which according to the report, perplexed pathologists in the UK. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office told the outlet, “Our staff are supporting the family of a British woman following her death in Mexico, and we have conveyed their concerns about the handling of her remains to the Mexican mortuary services.” Organ Harvesting Criminal gangs in Mexico have been long accused of organ harvesting. In 2014, the Guardian reported that an alleged drug trafficker from the Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templar) cartel was arrested for kidnapping children to kill and harvest their organs. Jose Manuel Mireles said that vigilantes in Michoacan State stopped a truck driving in the area before discovering the children in a refrigerated container. “The children were still alive and wrapped in blankets,” Mireles was quoted by the Guardian as saying. “They were all from the same school in Mexico City and their parents had let them go because they were told they were going on a trip to the beach.” Mexican cartels, especially the Caballeros Templarios, are known to engage in illegal activity other than drug trafficking, including kidnapping, organ pilfering, and even exporting iron ore to China. China, meanwhile, has been accused of carrying out state-sanctioned large-scale organ harvesting for the past decade or more. Various religious groups who are known to not drink or smoke, particularly practitioners of the persecuted Falun Gong spiritual discipline, are targeted for their organs by Chinese communist officials. Falun Gong, also known as a Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice based on meditative exercises and moral teachings centered on three principles: truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, according to its website. But in China, it’s been subjected to brutal persecution since July 1999, with widespread reports of torture, brainwashing, forced labor, extrajudicial killings, and organ harvesting in labor camps throughout the country. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) highlighted the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign of organ harvesting this week. “The Chinese government and Communist Party’s ongoing efforts to eradicate Falun Gong practice is a black mark on recent Chinese history. "The CCP’s need to control even the consciences of the Chinese people has led to horrific human rights abuses, torture, arbitrary detention, and organ harvesting,” said Smith on Dec. 3. Investigations by the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China, an ethics group consisting of medical doctors, lawyers, academics, and other researchers, said that a significant number of Falun Gong practitioners have been killed for their organs for profit.

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Is President Trump Planning to Declare Martial Law In California?

One of the more challenging tasks in this business is to separate the real from the phony. The second most challenging thing is to learn to connect the dots of certain events which tells an important story of what is coming, or is already underway. This story contains all of these challenges and more. There have been a series of events that have led some to wonder if President Trump is going to declare martial law in California after Christmas. This article examines the related events which could culminate in the biggest constitutional crisis since the civil war. Cancelled Leaves and “Strange Training” Over the past month, I have received several notifications from people claiming to be regular military who are engaged in cancelled leaves and somewhat bizarre training activities, without explanation. This view is captured in the following communication:

Dear Sir, I first found out about your show from my father-in-law who follows you everyday. In the times I have listened to you or read your articles, I feel like you are on our training exercises with us and I am referring to Jade Helm which I was a part of. .We specialize in extraction of key personnel, usually hostile, but sometimes they are friendlies in distress. We are frequently engaged in urban warfare exercises but this is not the Middle East we are training for. There is no question that we are training for military activities on American soil. We have even practiced arresting high profile people. We have also trained to apprehend drug dealers in fortified crack houses. This is something that we have never had to do before and marks a change in a training regimen. My unit just practiced an extraction in the midst of civil unrest. All of my unit is confident that we are talking about training for action in America in an urban setting which is usually marked by civil unrest, but we are not concerned with the unrest as it is left to supporting units to contain the trouble. You might think that I will be giving you information but I have nothing. Can you look into this but your going to have to do this without our logistics and mission details because that would identify who we are? What the hell are we training for? We are concerned for our families and how they could be affected by this. At the time I received this, I had nothing specific to pin this to. Military organizations like NORTHCOM routinely practice for these kinds of scenarios. However, I received several communications from military personnel about cancelled leaves from military personnel with questions about whether we were preparing to go to war with Russia and/or China. However, as I looked at some of the anecdotes from these communications, it looks as if America is preparing to go to war with itself. A New Communication I had a conversation with one of my best military intel sources and they said that if events “go south”, we could see America be put under martial law immediately after Christmas. I told the source I had just received information to this effect which he had me read to him. I was sent a hastily prepared article which said that President Trump would declare martial law right after Christmas and this held as much credibility for me as the claims of 60,000 sealed indictments to be acted upon by Thanksgiving…..However, what caught my eye in this article was use of the Insurrection Act of 1807 as the justification to do just what was being claimed. I have previously been told in response to my questions about why Trump has not acted against the sedition of Governor Brown and the Mayor of Oakland and I was told that if Trump acted against California’s sedition and treason, it would be under the Insurrection Act. The Insurrection Act is the set of laws passed in 1807 that govern the U.S. President’s ability to deploy troops within the U.S. to put down lawlessness, insurrection and rebellion. After reading the act, I believe that Trump has the justification to act against California officials in the manner prescribed by the Insurrection act. I promptly called Paul Preston who is the head of the New California movement which will create a 51st state arising out of California. The movement is constitutional and progressing very quickly as the majority of California’s counties have signed on in order to escape the tyranny of the Democratically controlled state government. I told Paul what I have learned about urban training by our troops, and that certain troops were on alert and leaves had been cancelled. I asked him point blank, if this true. He said he could minimally confirm some but not all of the questions that I was asking him in the affirmative. However, he said that he was limited on what he could answer. Instead of answering these questions directly, he referred me to the following excerpt written by a University of Tennessee law professor. After reading the article, which is posted on the New California website, I believe that I have my answers. Law Professor, New California and Martial Law University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds sees the following scenario as a possibility not out of the question in the near future. This was posted on the New California website. “In the summer of 2021, following the California financial crisis and CalPers pension collapse, public employee-supporting Democrats from the California General Assembly absented themselves from the state, preventing a quorum so that legislation slashing pension payouts could not be passed. “That absence stretched from days into weeks, as the state government largely shut down for lack of funding. Seizing on this moment, 34 counties from the eastern and rural parts of what was then California organized themselves and sent representatives to Fresno, where those representatives declared themselves the new, official California General Assembly and designated individuals of their choice as the new, official governor and attorney general. “The new legislature and officials were quickly recognized by President Donald Trump, who, citing his authority under the Insurrection Actand Article IV section 4 of the United States Constitution, deemed them the official government of the state, and sent federal troops from the 101st Airborne Division to Fresno to ensure that what he called ‘leftovers’ of the ‘old, failed state government’ were unable to ’cause trouble.’ President Trump’s recognition was echoed in a joint resolution of the Republican-controlled Congress, which perhaps anticipated the addition of two new Republican senators.”…. From all that I am learning, the law professor’s prediction of 2021 is not accurate. I believe we are in the middle of this happening right now. Martial law in California could lead a partial purge of of the Deep State. In addition, if the President gained a foothold over California, it could serve as a springboard to do the same in the rest of America. Predictive Programming I have concluded that President Trump wants this information out, but he has to remain detached so he has the authority to act, in California, without being accused of malice of forethought. In other words, he is not acting for political gain, but to preserve the union which he is constitutionally mandated to do so. Many who have followed my work, knows that I have written extensively on predictive programming. I believe that this law professor’s work is a case of predictive programming. I also believe that using an obscure website to promote the notion of martial law under the Insurrection Act is predictive programming coming from the White House. Further, the soldiers who have contacted me with stories of training anomalies are telling the factual side of what is coming. The following statement is not meant to be construed as coming DIRECTLY from Paul Preston. However, there is a reason why this law professor’s article is on the New California website and why I was directed to read the article when several of my questions were going unanswered. This movement is a peaceful movement. They are not officially asking for federal government intervention. However, federal intervention would seal the deal on behalf of New California. My betting money is that Trump is going to take action against Governor Jerry Brown and some very corrupt California state officials. Full blown martial law? It would be a way to get control of a previously democratic state, but more important, the obstruction and seditious ways of California could be curtailed. I am interviewing Paul Preston on Wednesday evening. The archives of The Common Sense Radio Show Are Available on Megaphone. The way to access them is to go to either Google Play, I-Tunes or Spotify. The shows are listed under The Common Sense Show

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This Should Make Your Blood Boil: Rotten-Robert Mueller And His Gang Of Stasi Terrorists Have Long Used Trickery And Deceit To Terrorize Innocent Americans

- This Deep State Coup Attempt Is Nothing Less Than Treason

By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die December 17, 2018

If the US Justice Department under Loretta Lynch and the FBI under crooked cop James Comey had spent as much time, taxpayer money and serious effort investigating the crimes that were continuously being committed by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton against America and the American people as they are now upon President Donald Trump, Obama and Hillary should have both long ago been tried, convicted and executed for treason. With President Trump once again calling out the total and utter hypocrisy we've been witnessing from the Special Counsel office of crooked cop Mueller, we thought we'd turn our eyes today to this December 13th story over at the Washington Times written by former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, whose friends and family were also terrorized non-stop by Mueller and his gang of stasi terrorists. And as we hear from Rod, a Democrat mind you, it's long past time to put a stop to rotten-Robert's witchhunt against President Trump as he's using the same kind of stasi tactics against him. As Rod tells us in his story, nothing less than freedom in America is at stake if rotten-Robert gets away with what he's doing now to President Trump, a very real attack upon our Constitutional Republic in America. And as we learn further below, one of the business associates that Mueller terrorized in Blagojevich's case was driven to suicide by Mueller. We thank ANP reader Maria for making us aware of this story that should make your blood boil. From the Washington Times.: For too long, the Department of Justice and the FBI have pursued high profile investigations with virtually unlimited power. They often intimidate and humiliate subjects and terrorize their family, friends and associates. And the courts have even allowed them to use trickery and deceit as a legal tool during interrogation. But as the saying goes, “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Dec. 9 marked 10 years to the day since then-FBI Director Robert Mueller directed federal agents to arrest Rod during that now infamous predawn raid. And it was only recently that we learned that they brought with them a SWAT team and a hostage negotiator. (ANP: Rod's wife Patti co-wrote this story, hence the reference to 'Rod' instead of 'I'.) In a recent interview, the FBI agents involved in the arrest revealed for the first time that they had prepared for an armed standoff with our State Police security detail. This kind of firepower is only warranted when the subject of the arrest is a danger to the community or constitutes a flight risk. As the sitting governor of Illinois, Rod was neither. And despite their unnecessary and ridiculous preparations, he surrendered peacefully.

Later that morning, they locked Rod in a cell after he refused to agree to plead guilty to their nonexistent crimes. Rod’s refusal to cooperate, locking him in a cell and the labeling of the charges with a catchy name like the “selling of the Senate seat” were all a part of the psychological warfare they used to try to break his will to resist. First bring the shock and awe. Then, later at the press conference, tell the big lie. This wasn’t mere prosecutorial overreach. This was a deliberate effort to intimidate us to get what they wanted. The fix was in, and the smear campaign was in high gear. History would later prove that discussions related to the Senate seat were perfectly legal and, during an appeal, judges threw those charges out. We’ve since learned that federal prosecutors can lie, cheat, manipulate and minimize evidence. If you think this can’t happen in the courtroom or during an investigation, look it up. They also suppress, hide and cover up exculpatory evidence — evidence that shows innocence. And they put gag orders on evidence they created like taped conversations. In our case, they prevented the jury from hearing most of the tapes because they prove innocence. To this day they won’t let the public hear them. And along with our attorneys, we are still under a court order to not tell anyone what is on them. As mentioned above, Blagojevich's story goes on to detail for us how Mueller's stasi terrorizing one of his associates actually led to this man committing suicide, proving once again that very real lives were ruined by Mueller, just as he's ruining very real lives of good people such as General Mike Flynn in his witchhunt against President Trump. He goes on to call Mueller nothing less than a political hit man with total immunity to do whatever he wants to anybody and as Jerome Corsi recently mentioned, Mueller's gang of paid terrorists has unlimited power to destroy as many lives as they want while they themselves can lie through their teeth with complete immunity. How long will rotten-Robert continue to get away with terrorizing innocent Americans standing in the way of his mad stampede to nowhere? Once again, from Blagojevich in this Washington Times story.: So today, we offer this warning to the American people and call for the special counsel investigation to end immediately. Here’s why. Robert Mueller and his team of prosecutors are unelected bureaucrats with fancy law degrees who have made their careers as political hit men. They are armed with unlimited and unrestrained power and can do almost anything they want in their capacity as prosecutors because the law protects them with immunity. And they are masters of the political witch-hunt through the use of nonexistent crimes and the setting of perjury traps. It’s an art that they’ve perfected over a long period of time. And their politics of personal destruction have real-life consequences. After a close friend and trusted adviser refused to cooperate with prosecutors and testify against Rod, they went after his private business dealings and for tax evasion, and sentenced him to nine years in prison. When he still refused to cooperate, they threatened to add additional new charges and more prison time. Tragically, the stress was too much for him and he took his own life, leaving behind a beautiful family. This isn’t a Democratic issue or a Republican issue. This is an American issue. These rogue, uncontrollable prosecutors are a real threat to our democracy. And if they keep getting away with what they are doing, they will destroy our freedoms. As their story pointed out, this isn't a 'Democrat' or 'Republican' issue but one of a team of political hit men using their unlimited power to terrorize innocent Americans and if they can do this to President Trump and his family and friends and get away with it, they can do it to anybody. And we've also previously reported on ANP that it was none other than rotten-Robert under which the totalitarian police state in America had begun to unfold as he was director of the FBI from 2001 to 2013. And as John C. Velisek had reported back on September 4th in this ANP story titled "Profiles in Treason: Robert Mueller - The Long History Of This Crooked Cop Shows Corruption Years Before His 9/11 Cover-up - And Remember, Mueller Had All Mention Of Islam Purged From FBI Terror Training Manuals!", Mueller long ago sold out America. And as we'll see further below, Mueller himself was directly tied to Hillary Clinton's treason. Yet he's investigating POTUS Trump based upon a deep state and Hillary Clinton cooked up lie. From Velisek's 'Profiles In Treason' story.: In 1979, this paragon of virtue prosecuted 18 San Francisco Hells Angels as drug runners. What was considered a “slam-dunk” case lost 13 convictions and the five convictions he received were overturned on appeal? The cases were so badly prepared that there were not any convictions on appeal by the prosecutor that replaced Mueller. From San Francisco, Mueller scurried off to Boston, where he bungled the case of an East German accused of theft of nuclear secrets. It was also in Boston where Mueller hired mob boss Whitey Bulger as an informant. Horrific crimes performed by Whitey Bulger and his henchmen were covered up by the FBI handle John Connolly with the acquiescence of Mueller. Instead, Mueller charged four innocent men for the crimes that Bulgers mob committed. All four were later exonerated and the families awarded $100 million of taxpayer money. During the trial Mueller was found to have suppressed evidence clearing the four victims, bringing forward false information and was not indicted because of Deep State cronies in the Federal Justice system. This is also the same Robert Mueller that falsely accused virologist Steve Hatfield during the Anthrax virus scare. Mueller once again withheld evidence. Hatfield sued and was awarded $5.8 million of taxpayer money. It was the same Mueller who also claimed it was too dangerous to go to Benghazi after our ambassador and four brave men were killed, but could not explain to Rep. Trey Gowdy why it was safe for our diplomats. Perhaps it made following the Obama lies of a video causing this tragedy was easier by this explanation. It took Rep. Gowdy’s question as a rhetorical comment not suitable for an answer. I would think the families of those killed would demand an answer. It was this very same Mueller that worked with various Islamic organizations to rid FBI training manuals of any mention of jihad and terrorism. Meeting in secret and exposed afterward by Judicial Watch, Mueller met with groups such as CAIR and INSA and other terrorist-connected organizations. Mueller gave in to every demand from these groups to effectively ban the terrorist training that our agents in the field urgently needed. This is also the Same Robert Mueller who worked to block the 9/11 victims families from suing Saudi Arabia for being the masterminds behind the attack on 9/11. So with this as a background is it any wonder that Mueller allowed his pit-bull Andrew Weisman to break into Paul Manafort’s home at 4 am, roughed up the entire family including the wife who was still in bed, illegally stole attorney-client privileged information and personal documents in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Robert Mueller has a history only partially shown above of having the capability of using virtually false evidence and heavy-handed fabricated evidence to ensnare those the Deep State needs to be damaged and jailed. The amount of failure of Mueller would get any lesser attorney fired, but being a Deep State operative, Mueller is shielded and allowed to move even further up the Deep State organizational chart. Mueller worked his way as far as being made FBI Director. This was not a position based on his fine performance in his duties before his promotion, but because Mueller is malleable, and is able to be controlled by those in the Deep State. And as the Gateway Pundit had asked in this October 14th story, "Why Was Robert Mueller and Only Robert Mueller Selected to Hand Deliver Uranium to Russia and then Run the Trump-Russia Witch Hunt?" Singled out by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to deliver the uranium sample to Russia, the delivery was even postponed for months when Mueller was unable to meet the original delivery date. Talk about a very, very odd set of circumstances. From the Gateway Pundit story.: For some reason Hillary Clinton and President Obama requested that FBI Director Mueller deliver the sample of uranium to Russia! Of all people, why would the Head of the FBI be selected to transfer uranium to Russia? It would seem that the US has a number of individuals who could perform this transfer and it would seem that FBI Director Mueller would have enough on his plate in the US. When Mueller couldn’t make the transfer in April the transfer was postponed to September 2009 so Mueller could be there. A short time later, in 2010, the Obama administration approved the very controversial Uranium One deal giving Russia 20% of America’s Uranium. The FBI had evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were involved in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering in order to benefit Vladimir Putin, but led by Mueller, the FBI allowed the deal to go ahead anyways. The FBI investigation was supervised by then-U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein, the current Deputy Attorney General, and then-Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe. Former FBI Director Robert Mueller was the Head of the FBI during this time and was involved in this deal. So we have the absolute and blunt truth of it all in the fact that the same Robert Mueller and deep state that is going after President Donald Trump today enabled Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to quite literally put America in danger in the Uranium One scandal that went completely un-investigated by the deep state stasi despite its treasonous nature. And while President Donald Trump was elected by the American people to bring law and order back to this country, the only way that will ever happen is if the completely and totally corrupted elite political class is brought to justice with Clinton Foundation crimes fully investigated and punished and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama crimes investigated and punished as well. And while Hillary and the Democrats scream "Russia is our enemy", why did Hillary and Obama allow Robert Mueller to transport US uranium to Russia, uranium that the Russians could turn around and be use against us? And if the 'criminal elite' are not finally held accountable for their crimes, we'll have absolute proof that America will forever be lost to tyranny with nothing less than revolution able to deliver America back into the hands of the American people. As we saw under Barack Obama, the very last thing these corrupt rats are going to do is properly investigate themselves.

http://allnewspipeline.com/Trickery_Deceit_And_Deep_State_Treason.php 

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Why Did Google Choose NOW to Remove “Don’t Be Evil” Clause from Its Code of Conduct?

Did Google symbolically peel off its last visage of propriety when it dropped its don’t-be-evil clause?

ICE arrested more than 80,000 illegal immigrants in 2018 with DUI charges, convictions

by Anna Giaritelli | December 14, 2018 06:49 PM

More than a quarter of a million people illegally present in the United States were removed from the country in fiscal year 2018, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Approximately half of the 158,000 people arrested by ICE — 80,730 — had been charged or convicted of driving under the influence, according to the agency's annual report. The second-highest category for arrests was for crimes related to "dangerous drugs," followed by traffic offenses. Immigration offenses — like having been deported once before — was a common denominator for more than 63,000 of the people arrested. More than 50,000 people taken into custody had been charged or convicted on assault. Exactly 23,052 people had faced legal trouble for obstructing judiciary, Congress, legislature, etc. The criminal backgrounds are the reasons they were known to law enforcement and pursued by ICE. More than half of the total 256,085 people who were removed from the country were Mexican citizens, making it the country with the most nationals deported from the U.S. A little more than 141,000 Mexicans were removed. Mexico, part of North America, was followed by the three northernmost countries in Central America: Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, respectively. Guatemala had approximately 50,000 citizens repatriated. Honduras received 28,894 citizens and El Salvador, 15,445. The Dominican Republican, Brazil, Ecuador, and Colombia were next, with between 1,100 and 1,800 repatriated citizens each. China and India were also among the countries with the most citizens returned, though nowhere near the rates of the top countries. Both nations had 726 and 611 citizens repatriated, respectively.

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STABBED TO DEATH: Paris College Lecturer THROAT SLIT by jihadi student

By Pamela Geller - on December 5, 2018

The so-far-unnamed suspected killer is a Pakistani national. The Democrats are fighting to bring this here. Get ready for an avalanche of “islamophobia” stories, “fear of reprisals” (which never happen), lots of psychobabble, and then for the pièce de résistance, “mental illness.”

in fatal attack by expelled student who failed to pass his exams’

Irish lecturer John Dowling was on the verge of retiring when he was stabbed to death

By Peter Allen, The Sun, 5th December 2018, 7:44 pm

AN Irish lecturer teaching English in Paris was today savagely stabbed to death by a former student who had failed to pass his exams. The horrific murder of John Dowling, 66, in a possible act of revenge took place outside the Leonardo De Vinci private university in the the western La Defense business district. “The victim was stabbed repeatedly after heading out of the college to go for lunch,” said an investigating source. “At least one of the cuts was to his throat, and he died on the scene. A 37-year-old man was arrested at the scene and remains in custody.” The so far unnamed suspected killer is a Pakistani national who was expelled from the university in the summer of 2017 after failing to get through the academic year. He is known to have remained in the area over the past year, and was in touch with those running the college.

https://gellerreport.com/2018/12/prof-throat-slit-jihadi.html/ 

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Our friends in the Czech Republic are more on top of the geoengineered California firestorms than most Americans

Posted on December 6, 2018 by State of the Nation

Fires in California were geoengineered.

OrgoNet (A website administered from the Czech Republic)

by SepsalOrgonet geoengineer

Anomaly of fires. Selectivity of fires. The houses that allegedly caught from the forest fires burned to the fallen, but the forests stand. Controlled Weapons – DEW. Smart Meters Smart Energy Meters. How can climatologists fire the house and not its surroundings? Mainstream media, not only in the US, but around the world, is trying to keep the impression that California is a natural forest fire, and that its extraordinary strength and scope are apparently caused, like other world “natural” last-ditch disasters, by the changes in the planet’s climate . Of course it’s a lie like CO2-drive global warming is. All “natural” disasters of recent years (“forest” fires, floods, landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear disasters, etc.) took place under the baton of geoengineering climate-fighting weapons. Scientists – geo-engineers – Climate-meteorological / climatic weapons controllers are the instrument of elites that deliberately organize these disasters to achieve their various goals, and there is no crime to stop them. There is all the evidence that the official media will never inform as long as they are ruled by those elites. They will keep silent about them as long as possible, and if it does not work, the evidence and its bearers will try to discredit them by all means. But ordinary people still share this information on the Internet, and it seems that the credibility of the “official” media for the past year has dropped and is steadily declining. Back to the current fires in California that are still burning and leaving dozens of dead and hundreds missing that I would not have expected among the living … California witnesses on private channels on YouTube, website and alternative media publish documents about strange anomalies of fires suggesting this that these fires were deliberately ignited, probably by using DEW weapons placed on satellites and / or drones. (DEW = Directed Energy Weapons = guns using controlled energy – laser, microwaves, scalar waves.) Documents (in English) are a lot to do with, even pictures directly proving the effects of DEW. You can find the best summaries of photos, videos, and comments on the State of the Nation Alternative News and The Millennium Report, and many more. (I do not make direct links because access to some alternative sites via the link / bookmark is currently being monitored / blocked by elite / google, and you might indicate that the site does not exist or warn it is dangerous. But they can be easily found by the search engine.) So I’m going to have some pictures today to get an idea and maybe get some more information. At least one link to an article with photographic documentation: Evidence that California is under the DEW weapon attack: http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=108152  The strangest fire of all times – different anomalies.

1. Selectivity. The most striking feature is the selectivity of the fires. As the photographs show, the fires were able to pick their targets exactly. The houses are destroyed in the foundations (8,000 houses at all), but the trees / forests in the neighborhood remain intact, even in close proximity. How come when the houses are being ignited by a forest fire? See satellite imagery below:

2. Strange burning houses Houses are “lying ash” to the foundations, mostly very few debris (at least some good: they will not have to clear it so much). All nicely uniform on white ash / dust. It is true that houses built predominantly from wood easily burn. (Firefighters say somewhere that once a fire takes 5% of a wooden house, then it can not be extinguished). But we would expect different houses to have different layouts and “fillings” so they should burn differently from different locations, and the result of normal burning should be at least a bit of black burning and some burned debris. But it is here all in one uniformly aligned with the earth. White burns can mean that there has been a fire / explosion / explosion with a very high temperature that normal fire does not usually reach, or the object has been destroyed by some other destruction – we are again with DEW. (Somehow, the WTC’s “wreckage” was after the 9/11 destruction). More pictures below: Houses destroyed, trees OK.

3. Strange burning of materials. In many incinerators, molten metal is molten, as if fired at a higher temperature than normal fire. Witnesses report broken concrete, porcelain, curled glass = melted glass. While normally flammable materials – paper, plastics, twigs – on the same “burning” are preserved. See, for example, the picture below, the car burns like a torch, a burning paper is lying around. Image: Proof of use of weapons to controlled energy. Cars burn like torches, paper is lying around. “Fire” has destroyed many California wine cellars. The following video is a compilation of damage in several California wine cellars: it shows strong uneven temperatures in a single “fire”. For example, glass bottles are deformed, while metal racks retain their shape. Molten bottles, but the paper napkins besides did not burn. The bottles melted, but the vineyard shrubs remained cool. Paper labels remained on the bottles. Etc. etc.

Image: molten glass bottles in a wine cellar. The forest stands in the background. See video: Fire has melted the whole glass cellars of wine bottles https://youtu.be/tnPTxummBXs  How do the firefighters ignore homes at a distance? Hypothesis about Smart Meters. It seems as if the arsonists were able to focus their firearms precisely on buildings (and cars, the next time). Based on what? In the US, many households have so-called “Smart Meters” – wirelessly communicating smart power meters that are heavily enforced by the government, and are extensively expanded in California; Under this hypothesis, these meters can emit a drones-trap signal, and they can precisely target their energy-driven beams. (See video: Californian fires: Weapons DEW? Smart meters? Https://youtu.be/ViLKCrfmdmw  ). Next time: How strangely cars burned.

http://orgo-net.blogspot.com/2018/11/pozary-v-kalifornii-byly-zapaleny.html 

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=110054 

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The Weaponization of Water in the US

By Dave Hodges

As a researcher, I have come to appreciate the importance of timing. There are times when I have uncovered something that poses a threat to America, but the context of the threat does not yet exist, so the event is in limbo. Often, hears later, events crystallize and the outlying fact becomes obvious to all that have eyes to see. i have come across such an event and it involves the weaponization of water. Before walking the reader down the path of contrived water shortages for political gain, there is something that has to be said about the California State Legislature and Governor Jerry Brown. California is a state that is complete rebellion from the United States. The CALEXIT movement is move designed to not only exit California from the Union under the control of the United Nations, they are a state that can be accurately classified as a sanctuary state. They harbor murderers, rapists and drug dealers. The exit of California from the United States would destroy retail and agriculture on a national basis. Most California legislators need to be arrested for sedition. California Is Weaponizing Water  CALEXIT if failing and proponent, California Governor Jerry Brown, is leading the charge to empty California from anyone who would oppose the globalization of America as expressed in the CALEXIT desire to make California so unliveable, that the upper and middle classes exit the state. Republican U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Tulare, didn’t link to the post, but he expressed his frustration on his private blog that Californians would face “draconian” showering and laundry restrictions because of “environmental extremists and the Democrats.” “Californians don’t want to have to choose between doing their laundry and taking a shower,” he said. oe Walsh, a conservative radio host and former congressman shared a link to the blog post Monday and added: “California is awful. Just awful.” And he’s right. California has indeed weaponized water in order to achieve a political goal. Joe Walsh

First There Was Peak Oil, Then There Was Peak Water Deborah Tavares maintains a sight called Primary Water. On the sight are numerous articles which destroy the myth that California has a water shortage. Emphatically, and more important, empirically, the water shortage claim is blatantly false. Speaking of Deborah Tavares, I recently interviewed her. The interview will air this coming Sunday. During the course of the interview Tavares emphatically made the point that nobody will be able to water outside their house. This will turn arid and semi-arid areas into a tinderbox. This is Governor Brown’s prescription for more fires and the dry brush will act as a lightening rod for the wild fires. From my personal perspective, I see water being used in a variety of ways. First, people of any means will seriously consider leaving California which plays right into the hands of the CALEXIT group. They are happy with the notion of using migrants as a replacement population. On a more ominous note, Tavares believes that severe fires are coming to every state. One thing is for sure, Governor Brown, the California State Legislature and CALEXIT are indeed weaponizing water for political purposes.  Will It Work? The world is full of examples where food and/or water are weaponized for political purposes. Venezuela Is The Canary In The Mine The real story in Venezuela is not the declining dollars, but the emerging water crisis. The situation is turning very threatening to well-being of the population. If the socialist leaders in Venezuela continues to serve the banksters and the preferred insiders, the water crisis could lead to a civil war, if the existing food crisis doesn’t. In fact, there are widespread water shortages across the planet that threaten to push the entire planet into a state of perpetual state of social unrest and even war could break out over control of this most precious resource. Much has been written about the past wars that have been fought over oil (e.g. Gulf War 1), the wars that have been fought over oil and gas (e.g. Arab Spring) and the wars which will be fought over oil and gas (e.g. Ukraine, Syria and Iran). What is missing from most conversations is that the wars of the future will be fought over water, leaving oil as a secondary consideration. By The Year 2025 According to the United Nations research and scientific studies, nearly two-thirds of the entire population inhabiting the planet will face severe, life-threatening water shortages by the year 2025. The reasons most often cited for the water shortages are waste and poor planning which will result in uneven distribution. Presently this problem is primarily a third world problem. However, the UN report and other ancillary reports mention that England faces serious water shortages and the United States is not far behind England. People laugh when I tell them that an extreme water shortage is coming. However, the problem is already here. The AOL news reported mentioned in the video, identified 50 cities that are close to running out of water. The problem is international, not just an American dilemma. The BBC has identified 11 major international cities that will soon run out of water. Previous Warnings Have Gone Ignored Back in 2012-2013, I warned many that inside of the the United States, globalist plans were already being laid for contrived water shortages are already underway. T. Boone Pickens is buying up the Ogallala Water Aquifer, the largest in North America. Jesse Ventura, on his show Conspiracy Theory, documented how Nestle is shipping Great Lake water to places like China at the expense of the American taxpayers. That practice has accelerated in California under Nestle as well. In fact, San Francisco is often identified as the city that is in the most danger of running out of water. I have also documented how in places like Northern and Central California and Southern Oregon, the EPA was systematically removing local farmer and rancher access to water through abusive practices of the EPA and the BLM. In fact, I was told almost a year ago, the EPA has covert plants to seize the water of ranchers, despite any exiting water agreements and that they plan to use their own internal swat teams to accomplish this goal. The Defense Intelligence Agency Warned The World Even the Defense Intelligence Agency has clearly echoed the dire warnings of the United Nations report by stating that unstable water supplies will greatly impact all and water will subsequently be used as a weapon. The DIA report evoked a reaction from former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, just prior to leaving office as she commented that the DIA’s findings are “sobering” and that as the world’s population continues to expand, the demand for water will increase but fresh water supplies will not keep pace.  Overpopulation Is The Globalist Justification For Stealing Water Please take note of the fact that the globalists never miss an opportunity to promote the false paradigm of overpopulation in order to justify their depopulation agenda. In several places, the globalists are proclaiming overpopulation to be the new threat to humanity. This has become necessary because the globalists believe that an increasing number of people are waking up to the man-made climate change fraud. Hillary Clinton has commented that as water shortages grow, this inevitably will lead to regional conflicts and violence between nation states and within nation states and that overpopulation is at the root of the problem.

In previous articles, I outlined the three methods the globalists are most likely to use (in order of preference) to finish off the U.S. and usher in their Globalist-Corporatist-Oligarchic world government. They are as such: A lethal bio-engineered virus An Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) “Event” – defined as either an attack by a foreign entity (such as North Korea, China, or Russia), or a “domestic self-infliction” subsequently blamed on one or more of the listed former. A nuclear war For skeptics and rabid naysayers who attacked previous articles regarding the threat posed by North Korea outlined over the past several years, information from the U.S. Air Force was posted the other day that may make you want to “reanalyze” your stance. As I mentioned before, I’m just the messenger: the information has been gathered over the years by men such as Pry and Graham who headed the former Committee to brief Congress on the EMP Threat against the United States. That same Committee was de-funded (in this administration), and rendered defunct. According to the Air Force 2018 report, the mothballing of the Committee was premature. The Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard wrote an article released 11/30/2018 entitled, “Military warns EMP attack could wipe out America, democracy, world order.” Here’s an excerpt: “In an extraordinary and sobering report meant to educate the nation on a growing threat, a new military study warns that an electromagnetic pulse weapon attack such as those developed by North Korea, Russia, and Iran could essentially challenge the United States and displace millions. “Based on the totality of available data,” said the report from the Air Force’s Air University and provided to Secrets, “an electromagnetic spectrum attack may be a threat to the United States, democracy, and the world order.” The report, titled, “Electromagnetic Defense Task Force,” and the product of a mostly classified summit of officials from 40 agencies just outside of Washington earlier this year, is a forceful call for a new focus on preparing for either an enemy EMP attack or a natural hit such as a solar storm.” Notice how Mr. Bedard cites the study’s conclusion of an EMP weapon is phrased “such as those developed by North Korea, Russia, and Iran” in the excerpt? “Developed” is past-tense, alluding to the fact that these weapons are in existence now in these countries. It also mentions the EMP is capable of being delivered by satellite…as pointed out numerous times in the past. Once again (par for the course) the report is described as the “product of a mostly classified summit of officials.” Yes, during this busy shopping season, no need to panic the Muppets and detract from their idiot largess or lack of frugality during that holy, sacred time of the year: the last business quarter of the calendar year. Of course it’s classified. As has been reported after the “Victory over North Korea’s Disarmament” mantra back in May of this year, the sanctions are still in place, and North Korea has not “de-nuclearized” in the least. “Mission accomplished” is best rendered “nothing accomplished. Or maybe the mission was accomplished. By keeping North Korea in the game, they can be blamed any time the controllers decide to make it “lights out” with the EMP…it can be blamed on them. Notice the report is also big on the “solar storm” warning: another fallback position, for after a worldwide blackout with EMP(s), how would anyone be able to dispute that it was the sun? Simple matter to “persuade” any scientists who could argue the point to fall in lock step. The point is that North Korea is not “back” in the game: they were never out of it, and whether prompted by another nation or of their own accord, they do possess the capability of rendering an EMP strike against the United States. I do not avoid writing about it because the threat does not exist. I stand by my position that a nuclear war will begin with an attack by an EMP device, followed by an exchange of nukes. In the meantime, there are other things occurring that are destroying the country incrementally. My point of focus has been the development of the Surveillance State in the U.S. The (eventual) complete loss of liberty will be the result of the “Technocratic Society” being fully-formed that Brzezinski hungered for: with cameras in every home, tracking devices [cell phones, if you prefer] on every person, surveillance in every aspect of life, and a virtual-electronic police state completed. I’ve written several pieces on the biometrics. Biometrics in everything: in the bank, for the grocery store, for the travel…your travel…for your safety and the safety of the community…the communist collective that is being built. The cage will be constructed for your own good, by the “good guys,” for your benefit. USA Today released an article on 11/29/18 entitled “Delta says USA’s ‘first biometric terminal’ is ready to go at the Atlanta airport.” Isn’t that wonderful news? Delta is so excited! Another excited “personality” is Chad Newton, CEO of the Wayne County Airport Authority in charge of Detroit airport, where another Biometric Terminal is being set up to rock and roll. Here’s what Chad had to say in that USA Today article: “It is a great honor for Detroit Metropolitan Airport to become one of the nation’s first biometric terminals. We look forward to partnering with Delta, CBP[,] and TSA to provide passengers with the option to utilize facial recognition throughout their entire travel process.”  Wonderful, Chad! I wonder exactly what he means by “partnering?” Especially “partnering” with CBP (that’s Customs and Border Patrol) and TSA (that’s the Transportation Security Authority). How does one “partner” with them? The answer: the corporations fawningly accept their role in the construction of the cage-system, on their backs with plainly-evident submissive behavior exhibited (metaphorically speaking, we hope). A “great honor,” eh? Also: does that “entire travel process” include when we hit the latrine on board the airliner, as well? I hope (metaphorically speaking) that you guys are taking up Rosie Greer’s hobby of “knitting,” and gals too…but both guys and gals with the intentions of Madame Defarge. Knit accurately, and knit well. Remember these individuals, these “Choked-up Chads,” swelling with the desire to serve their masters. Remember them for posterity. But wait, there’s more.  MassPrivatel released a piece on 11/27/18 entitled “Surveillance cameras equipped with thermal imaging allow police to identify people by their gender, body size and color of their skin.” The central company here, BriefCam, calls their actions “Transforming Video into Actionable Intelligence.” Yeah, isn’t that beautiful? Let me give you some more, from this excerpt: “…allows law enforcement and retailers to secretly identify people by their gender, body size, color, direction, speed[,] and more. BriefCam’s Video Synopsis version V allows police and retail stores to use surveillance cameras to identify individuals and cars in real time. What is really disturbing about the video is no one knows where it is being used and by shom. BriefCam’s limited disclosures, claim it is being used by top law enforcement agencies and governments but that’s it.” I really love that last sentence. “Top” law enforcement agencies. That’s good. BriefCam is using FLIR (forward-looking infrared). They’re not alone. The article mentions NeoFace Watch Software produced by NEC. Check this out: “NEC and NPS will showcase a vast range of safety solutions to overcome challenges facing cities; including facial recognition system, automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS), CONNECT police platform, and video analytics solution. The solutions will form part of Safer Cities that NEC and NPS aim to build, to contribute to realize a safe and secure society for all citizens.” Let’s embolden and enlarge that last part: A safe and secure society for all citizens. I like the term “showcase” in that part: akin to The Price is Right. Can you believe it? Can you believe this is happening? The cage is being constructed at Warp Factor 7, Ladies and Gentlemen. This is not a joke! The article goes on to show how police smartphones can access the information on the surveillance cameras! That’s right! “Passive” surveillance (with the cameras existing in a public place…untouchable, unstoppable, and not legally allowed to be “jammed” or interfered with). The active surveillance is where the police (under agreement with the businesses) take the information they need from the “free public forum” of the emplaced cameras. Bye bye 4th Amendment! The businesses: taxpaying entities that support the system, and (as illustrated with “Choked-up Chad’s” statement) the businesses are totally and wholly engaged in supporting the State over the citizens. Same premise of where John Citizen goes against a company/business entity. He will lose, because after it’s tied up in the courts for years, the court recognizes the supremacy of the corporations over Mr. Citizen…by criteria of who pumps more tax dollars into the system….the same system the courts feed off of, and law enforcement (top to bottom) graze out of: “Billy Mack the detective down in Texas…he makes his living off other people’s taxes,” as the song runs. Oh, they’re really nailing us. I highly recommend reading the article I just referenced, and also read some of the excellent and knowledgeable comments below it pertaining to more examples of the growing Surveillance State. The point is that the cage is truly almost complete. By using the “Tyranny of the Majority” and the accompanying tyranny of the pseudo-safety needs of the community, the controllers issue in a police state that cannot be contested in the de facto court system with innumerable laws and armies of lawyers paid by your taxes to defend the State. See to the “knitting” and preparations for the eventuality that will occur: the complete removal of your Constitutional rights and the planned incremental demise or sudden destruction of the country. The first step is to be aware. The second: take the necessary steps to survive and carry on. Let Quintus Fabius Maximus’ methods be your guide, and resolve yourself that it is a long-term engagement. Success will require nothing less. Jeremiah Johnson is the Nom de plume of a retired Green Beret of the United States Army Special Forces (Airborne). Mr. Johnson is also a Gunsmith, a Certified Master Herbalist, a Montana Master Food Preserver, and a graduate of the U.S. Army’s SERE school (Survival Evasion Resistance Escape). He lives in a cabin in the mountains of Western Montana with his wife and three cats. You can follow Jeremiah’s regular writings at SHTFplan.com or contact him here. This article may be republished or excerpted with proper attribution to the author and a link to www.SHTFplan.com.

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Biometric Scanning Has Rolled Out in Atlanta International Airport: “One Look And You’re In”

By Meadow Clark

Atlanta airport’s Terminal F has become the “first biometric terminal” in the United States. And Detroit is next… As of December 1, Delta Airlines rolled out biometric scanning for air travel at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), Terminal F. International passengers will be able to use facial recognition scans from “curb to gate” to get through every facet of their air travel. While the face scans are lauded as a great way to save time, they really aren’t as you’ll see below. I’m sure any travel-weary person can think of many ways that air travel could become more convenient and efficient. I mean, one of the strangest paradoxes of our technologically advanced world is that it’s 2018 and air travel is the most miserable experience. It becomes more miserable every year and no one even wants to hear comedians talk about it anymore because miserable air travel is such a foregone conclusion. Not to be mean, but people have already lined up before the biometric scanners like sheep, seemingly without even flinching at the new development. Or rather, more like deer in the headlights. Nothing new here…just your friendly neighborhood facial scans. ZAP! Biometric scanners are optional…for NOW. For now, the biometric scanners are being presented as an “option.” Delta et al. call it an option any time they reference biometric scanning perhaps to soften the edges a bit. Of course, in time this will be the only option for air travel and Delta is in a hurry to roll out the scanners at the other international airports. But please don’t believe the tripe about how this is all for everyone’s convenience. It clearly isn’t when you see who Delta partnered with to make biometric scanners a reality. Last week, Delta announced: Today, Delta Air Lines, in partnership with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), unveiled the first biometric terminal in the United States at Maynard H. Jackson International Terminal (Terminal F) in Atlanta, announced earlier this fall. This means that customers flying direct to an international destination on Delta, Aeromexico, Air France, KLM or Virgin Atlantic Airways can use facial recognition technology from curb to gate, including to:

Check in at the self-service kiosks in the International lobby

Drop checked baggage at the counters in the International lobby

Serve as identification at the TSA checkpoint

Board a flight at any gate in Terminal F

And, go through CBP processing for international travelers arriving into the U.S.

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“We’re removing the need for a customer checking a bag to present their passport up to four times per departure – which means we’re giving customers the option of moving through the airport with one less thing to worry about, while empowering our employees with more time for meaningful interactions with customers,” – Gil West, Delta’s COO

How Does Biometric Scanning Work At the Airport? USA Today writes: Delta says customers enter their passport information during online check-in. Or, at the airport, customers can scan their passport to check in. Next, passengers can click “look” as they check in at one of Delta’s automated kiosks. Travelers’ face scans will be