Puppet MastersS


Bizarro Earth

German intel chief: Radicalized wives & kids of ISIS fighters 'must be identified as jihadis'


RT
Sun, 03 Dec 2017 17:42 UTC
masked ISIS fighter machine gun
© Jamal Saidi / AFP
While many of the male fighters who traveled to fight for Islamic State have yet to return, the head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency has other worries. Hans-Georg Maassen is greatly concerned with the threat posed by their wives and children.

"There are children who have been brainwashed and highly radicalized at 'schools' in IS-held areas. It's a problem for us because many of these kids and teenagers can sometimes be dangerous," Maassen warned Sunday in an interview with the Deutsche Presse Agentur (dpa) news agency, as cited by Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Massen added that women returning to Germany from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) strongholds "had become so radicalized and identify so deeply with IS-ideology that, by all accounts, they must also be identified as jihadis... we have to keep them in our sights."

Comment: Is ISIS coming home to roost? See also: Is ISIS a creation of the US government? Do large hairy mammals relieve themselves in the woods?

Read More...
Bandaid

Totally incompetent: Germany now offering money for migrants to go back home

AP
Fox News
Sun, 03 Dec 2017 23:46 UTC
Captain Picard facepalm
Germany wants to support rejected asylum-seekers who voluntarily move back to their home countries with a one-time payment of 3,000 euros ($3,570).

The Interior Ministry says those who qualify can apply by a Feb. 28 deadline and they would get the money once they return home.

Migrants who agree to go back even before their asylum request is rejected have already been offered 1,200 euros per adult and 600 euros per child under a different program for almost a year. They are now eligible to apply for both programs.

But the Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported Sunday that 8,639 migrants participated in the returnee program between February and October, even though there are about 115,000 rejected asylum-seekers in Germany - many of whom can't be deported for humanitarian reasons.

Comment: You can count on the German government (not to mention practically any other Western government) to royally screw up, then royally screw up while trying to fix their previous screw-up.

See: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

Read More...
Ambulance

90 killed in clashes between Houthis, Saleh forces - Yemen


Sputnik
Sat, 02 Dec 2017 23:36 UTC
houthi
© AP Photo/ Hani Mohammed
Four-day clashes between former allies in Yemen's capital of Sanaa have resulted in heavy casualties.

At least 90 people were killed in clashes between Houthi rebels and forces loyal to Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, which used to be allies in fight against the country's current government headed by President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a military source told Sputnik on Saturday, adding that Saleh's supporters seized 75 percent of the territory of the country's capital Sanaa.

"The elite forces, known as the republican guard, have established today control over the southern and eastern sides of the capital by 75 percent, occasional clashes continue with a limited number of Houthis," the source from forces loyal to Saleh said.

According to the source, the republican guard took control over the presidential residence, a number of military camps, as well as the Sanaa international airport and police academy.

Comment: Today Houthi forces have reportedly re-taken Saleh's residence in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. So there are conflicting reports. Yesterday, Saleh had allegedly taken most of Sanaa. Today, the Houthis reportedly have it. Fog of war? The Duran reports:
Subsequent to this development, Houthi online social media outlets have been quick to discredit Saleh. Claiming to have taken Saleh's compound in Sana'a, they released a photograph showing a table filled with luxury alcoholic drinks, something which would infuriate the pious followers of Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi.
saleh alcohol
This all leads one to conclude that where the Yemeni conflict once was between factions loyal to one of two Yemeni Presidents (Saleh and Hadi), now the conflict is officially one where the Houthis are fighting everyone else, including Hadi's forces, Saleh's forces who have turned on the Houthis and more importantly, the military of Saudi Arabia.

The Houthi star among the wider Islamic Resistance has grown due to their ability to see off a vastly more powerful Saudi led onslaught ever since 2015.

If the Houthis are able to continue holding off Saudi Arabia, even without Saleh on their side, the embarrassment for Saudi Arabia will be all the more apparent. The Houthis do not need to "win", they simply need Saudi to lose, in order to claim a meaningful victory. The Saudis on the other hand, need to take Sana'a in order to justify their aggressive war to their own side which is experiencing an onset of war fatigue.
See: Yemen: Saudis throw in the towel - Saleh is baaack - Russia wins

Read More...
USA

Best of the Web: Mueller Investigation: Politics, Not Law Enforcement or Counterintelligence

Andrew McCarthy
National Review
Sun, 03 Dec 2017 16:19 UTC
Michael Flynn

The end game is the removal of Trump, either by impeachment or by publicly discrediting him and making his reelection politically impossible.

Here's what I'd be tempted to do if I were President Trump: I'd direct the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate Iran's efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, including any Obama-administration collusion in that enterprise.

I would make sure to call it a "counterintelligence investigation," putting no limitations on the special counsel - just as with the investigation that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been unleashed to conduct into Trump "collusion" with Russia. That is, I would not restrict the prosecutor and investigators to digging for specified criminal violations. Or, indeed, any criminal violations. I'd just tell the special counsel, "Have at it" - with unbound authority to scrutinize the negotiations surrounding the eventual Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
Read More...
Network

Jordan wants to convene emergency Arab League meeting over Trump's expected decision to acknowledge Jerusalem as Israel's capital


RT
Sun, 03 Dec 2017 21:51 UTC
Arab League at the Dead Sea
© Muhammad Hamed / ReutersArab leaders and head of delegations attend the 28th Ordinary Summit of the Arab League at the Dead Sea
Jordan is moving to convene an emergency meeting ahead of Donald Trump's expected decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, according to diplomats. The Palestinian Authority's foreign minister has also reportedly urged a meeting.

Jordan, which hosted the last Arab League summit and therefore serves as its current president, would invite members of the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to meet if Trump decides to acknowledge Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state, a senior diplomatic official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. The two organizations would "discuss ways of dealing with the consequences of such a decision that raised alarm and concern."

"It could ultimately hamper all efforts to get the peace process moving and holds a very high risk of provoking Arab and Muslim countries and Muslim communities in the West," the source said.

Jordan is particularly sensitive to any change in Jerusalem's status, as King Abdullah's Hashemite dynasty is the custodian of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem. Jordan, which lost East Jerusalem and the West Bank to Israel during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, says the city's status needs to be decided only as part of a final settlement. "It is essential no unilateral decisions are made that would change the historic status quo of Jerusalem as an occupied city whose fate needs to be determined in final status talks within an overall peace package," the senior diplomatic source said.
Read More...
Donut

Soros sez: 'Oppression in Hungary today is worse than under Soviets'

Pablo Gorondi
Yahoo! News
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
Soros
© AP Photo/ Kevin Wolf
Oppression of the opposition by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government is greater than when Hungary was under Soviet domination, Hungarian-American financier and philanthropist George Soros said Friday.


Comment: Like George Soros gives a damn about democracy. He only cares about 'the opposition' in this case because it is most aligned with his sick, megalomaniac interests.

So now, all of a sudden, after decades of propagandizing against late Soviet times and how 'awful' they were, in both the USSR and eastern Europe, Soros says it wasn't so bad??

What a lying sack of ****. He'll say whatever it takes and do whatever it takes to get MORE, MORE, MORE.


Soros said in video messages that he had an "unbridgeable conflict of principles" with Orban and if the Budapest-based, Soros-founded Central European University were to be expelled, it would continue operating "in exile" and return after Orban's departure.


Comment: Whatever, get lost. Go set it up in Barbados, or wherever your off-shores are based. You're not wanted in Europe, so **** OFF.


Soros, 87, said Orban has created "an anti-democratic system ... a mafia regime where they use their leading positions to keep themselves in power and personally enrich themselves."
Read More...
Eye 2

CIA chief Pompeo growls about Wikileaks revealing illegal CIA activity and threatens whistleblowers


RT
Sun, 03 Dec 2017 21:32 UTC
Mike Pompeo
© Yuri Gripas / ReutersCIA Director Mike Pompeo in Washington, October 19
CIA Director Mike Pompeo said he won't tolerate secrets purloined by the CIA being stolen from the agency, and warned WikiLeaks to be more careful about protecting its sources.

The CIA's official Twitter account tweeted Pompeo's comments about the whistleblowing site from an interview he gave at the Reagan National Defense Forum Saturday.

STEALING SECRETS

"I never miss an opportunity when I'm with my officers to tell them the last thing we can tolerate is to have a secret that we've stole re-stolen," Pompeo told moderator Brett Baier at the Los Angeles event.


Comment: Isn't that ironic? If one is a thief, it's pretty hard to get mad at another thief who steals from you.


"It is simply unacceptable. It is our duty to protect them," he added. "It is our duty to go after those who stole them, and to prosecute them within the bounds of the law in every way that we can."
Read More...
Gift

President Trump gives Americans early 'present' in recently passed tax bill

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Sat, 02 Dec 2017 16:32 UTC
trump thumb
After months of work and last minute alterations, the US Senate passed President Trump's tax cuts in a vote of 51 - 49. No Democrats voted for the bill. President Trump noted earlier this week, Democrats only want to increase taxes on working Americans.

From the Oval Office, the President stated that Democrats only want tax increases -


The final vote for tax cuts was voted on by all but one Republican Senator, Bob Corker from Tennessee voted against the bill. Corker has already announced that he is not running for reelection next year since he is way behind in polls in his home state after loudly trashing President Trump. Corker's vote appears more of an immature response to the President than a vote for what's best for his constituents.

senate floor proceedings
President Trump tweeted tonight that the tax bill will be great for America by touting 137 economists who support the cuts -
Economists on the TAX CUTS and JOBS ACT:"The enactment of a comprehensive overhaul - complete with a lower corporate tax rate - will IGNITE our ECONOMY with levels of GROWTH not SEEN IN GENERATIONS..."

Comment: The tax bill did certainly upset the Democrats! But on fire? It might take a little more than tax cuts to save the sinking economy. See also:

Ron Paul warns Economic collapse imminent: Trump will get the blame instead of the FED
Chief equity strategist sees bleak future for US stocks
It's official: US government ends fiscal year 2016 with $1.4 trillion debt increase
Why aren't Americans spending? Is it because they have nothing to spend?
Another US financial analyst predicts inevitable collapse of US economy
Here's why Trump's promised economic plan is not going to work

Read More...
Stock Up

Why Trump's Tax Reform will lead to booming economic growth

Peter Ferrara
The Daily Caller
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 20:48 UTC
Trump and the economy
© Global Research
The tax reform bill now pending in Congress will be very pro-growth, like President John F. Kennedy's tax cuts passed in the early 1960s, and the tax cuts and reform that President Ronald Reagan led in the 1980s. All of America will benefit from that soaring growth, and the long overdue end of long-term stagnation, where America has been stuck for a decade now.

Presidents Kennedy and Reagan fundamentally fixed the individual, worker side of the tax code, as Lawrence Kudlow and Brian Domitrovic explain in their recent book, President Reagan and the Reagan Revolution: The Untold Story of American Prosperity. When Kennedy entered office, the top income tax rate was 91 percent. He reduced that to 70 percent, and then reduced all the other tax rates by an equivalent percentage - roughly 23 percent - as well.

But that did not result in a 23 percent reduction in income tax revenues, which would have been the static estimate not considering resulting economic growth effects. Instead, revenues rose as the economy boomed for the rest of the 1960s, until Nixon's tax increases and monetary policy chaos (cutting the dollar's tie to gold) cut the boom short.

Comment: It is a fait accompli now:

Read More...
Info

Germany's far-right lesbian mother: The AfD's Alice Weidel tries to bring down Angela Merkel

Alice Foster
Sunday Express
Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:21 UTC
AfD Alice Weidel
© EPAWho is the AfD’s Alice Weidel? Far-right lesbian mum tries to bring down Angela Merkel.
The ex-Goldman Sachs banker and lesbian mother was one of the top two candidates for the anti-immigrant Eurosceptic party Alternative for Germany (AfD).

The sharply dressed blonde pitted herself against Angela Merkel, the most powerful woman in Europe, in the German election on Sunday.

The AfD came third in the election with 12.6 per cent, well behind Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Martin Schulz's Social Democrats (SPD).

Alice Weidel, 38, may have had no hope of beating Mrs Merkel, but she has helped to put the migrant crisis at the heart of the election debate.

Comment: For more on Weidel and the AfD, see:

Read More...