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Tucker: 'Time for adults on the Left to rein in the mob'


Fox News
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 21:02 UTC
Tucker Carlson
© Associated Press
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson said in his monologue Tuesday that the left is showing that it no longer believes its political opponents have the same Constitutional rights that it has.

"Progressives decided the Bill of Rights applies only to people who agree with them," Carlson said. "Their views are protected by the First Amendment. Yours are hate speech."

Carlson said liberals have already shown that they are allowed security details while telling conservatives they can't "have a gun at home."

"[Non-liberals] no longer have freedom of movement or association. They're surrounded by mobs and threatened," he said, adding that it is time for the "adults on the left" to "rein in" that "mob."

Comment: Things are fast approaching the tipping point and as the rhetoric escalates, the likelihood that America will find itself in the midst of a civil war increases each day. See also:

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Attention

Antifa: Growth of an American Insurgency

Corey Schink
Sott.net
Sat, 30 Jun 2018 16:02 UTC
Antifa
While Trump hoped the release of the long-awaited Inspector General report on June 14th would exonerate him and lead to real investigations into real criminals, it instead revealed a tepidness that led some commentators to the conclusion that the Inspector General is 'not merely afraid' of the FBI, but that he 'isn't sure that Trump is going to win the war' political insiders are waging against him.

The latest family separation crisis along the border is part and parcel of that war. It was no doubt timed to steal headlines from the release of the IG report. Since its release the media, Democrats and Progressive groups have dominated those headlines and taken the war against the Trump Administration to an entirely new level.
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Family

'Abolish ICE!' Women protesters occupy US Senate building, 575 arrested


RT
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 10:02 UTC
Abolish ICE protest
© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Nearly 600 activists, protesting Donald Trump's 'zero-tolerance' policy against illegal immigrants, have been arrested after staging an occupy sit-in at the Hart Senate Office building in the nation's capital.

Hundreds of women, wrapped in metallic silver blankets, referencing the duvets given to migrant children in detention centers, occupied the Senate office building in Washington DC after marching down the streets of the city chanting "Shame! Shame! Shame!" and "This is what democracy looks like."

Demanding the closure of the detention centers for illegal immigrants, the activists made a brief stop in front of the Department of Justice, urging the government to "abolish ICE," the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

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No Entry

'Occupy ICE' tent camp taken down by feds

Joshua Caplan
Breitbart
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 13:49 UTC
portland ice tent protest
© AP Photo/Don Ryan
Federal authorities on Thursday began taking apart a makeshift tent camp blockading U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Portland, Oregon.

Federal officers wearing tactical gear began clearing out protesters demonstrating at the facility against the Trump administration's now-halted family separation policy

"At approximately 5:30 a.m. today, federal law enforcement officers initiated a law enforcement action to reopen the federal facility at 4310 SW Macadam Avenue in Portland," a Federal Protective Service spokesperson said.

Photos and videos of the clear-out have begun circulating on social media.

Comment: See also: Portland: Ground zero for the next American civil war?

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Nuke

'Repentant Jihadi' from Toulouse claims terrorists planned to bomb a nuclear plant in France


Westmonster
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:33 UTC
Jonathan Geffroy repentant jihadist
Jonathan Geffroy, a former jihadist who claims to be repentant, has told French media that the terrorists who attacked Paris in November 2015 had also planned to bomb a nuclear power station.

Geffroy, who spent two years in Iraq and Syria living among ISIS fighters, was captured by the Free Syrian Army whilst trying to flee Syria. When he was taken into French custody, he vowed to tell security services everything he knew about the group.

"From the moment I left ISIS until today, I made a commitment to say everything I knew about IS," he told the media.

Geffroy told French media that the son of the Clain brothers (the jihadis who claim responsibility for the Paris attacks) told him that 'adolescent kamikazes would be sent to Europe' by the Islamic State.

Comment: ISIS jihadists are not only heartless fanatics, they also lack brains. Did they think that a car bomb at the entrance of a nuclear plant compound would make the whole nuclear plant blow like a nuke?

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Brick Wall

Border Patrol Agent: The best way to end to the humanitarian crisis on our southern border is Trump's wall

Brandon Judd
Fox News
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:15 UTC
US-Mexico border wall
If Democrats and the media elite truly cared about the safety of illegal immigrants, they'd be down on the border right now working to build the wall President Trump wants America to have.

As a veteran Border Patrol agent, I know firsthand that a secure border with the big beautiful wall the president is building is the only humane and permanent solution to the crisis at the border.

Despite Democratic obstruction, President Trump is building the wall now, and he will play hardball with Congress to ensure that the necessary funding to complete the wall is secured. Without a completed wall, thousands of illegal immigrants will continue to put their lives at risk.

Comment: A little too much sense-making in the above article. We can't expect hysterical democrats to listen to reason when it comes to the illegal immigration issue. They don't actually want to solve the problem or care about the illegals they're shedding their crocodile tears over - they want to use this issue to lambast Trump and his supporters.

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Moon

Tickets to space going on sale in 2019


RT
Sat, 30 Jun 2018 13:14 UTC
moon
© Simone Brandt / Global Look Press
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will start selling passenger tickets for trips into space as early as next year, according to Blue Origin, the space-tourism startup owned by the billionaire.

The company expects its New Shepard suborbital vehicle to carry the first space tourists to orbit in 2019, according to Blue Origin Senior Vice President Rob Meyerson. The top manager hasn't provided any details on ticket prices.

"We plan to start flying our first test passengers soon," said Blue Origin senior vice president Rob Meyerson, as quoted by Space News. "We expect to start selling tickets in 2019."
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Palette

The unhinged left increasingly portrays Trump as a dictator

Rich Lowry
New York Post
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 12:55 UTC
Protesters rally against Trump administration immigration policies in New York City, June 19, 2018.
© Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Protesters rally against Trump administration immigration policies in New York City, June 19, 2018.


The Nazi analogy has long been recognized as the crudest and dumbest form of argument, but it's enjoying a renaissance.

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden notoriously and unapologetically tweeted a photo of Auschwitz-Birkenau as a response to family separations at the border. Upon a report that parents at the border were being told that their children were being taken to get bathed and disappearing, Chris Hayes of MSNBC tweeted, "What does this remind you of?" Soledad O'Brien chimed in, "Welp, I guess we've put to rest the question: 'Nazi Germany: Could it happen here in America?' "

Progressives imagine that they are protecting our system when making these and related charges, but they are really losing faith in it themselves and undermining its legitimacy.

Kumail Nanjiani, a comedian and actor with more than 2 million followers on Twitter, objected to President Trump's contention that illegal immigration brings criminals into the United States. He said Hitler "focused on crimes by Jews," and this is what brought on Nazi Germany over time.

Comment: Left-wingers in the US should be careful what they wish for:

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Car Black

Police put the kibosh on British racers speeding on French autoroute

Brian McCulloch
The Connexion
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:00 UTC
Gendarmes confiscate licences of Modball Rally drivers after vehicles clocked driving at between 180kph and 265kph on A26 near Calais

Modball Rally

Cars at the start of the 2017 Modball Rally in London
French gendarmes confiscated driving licences and imposed on-the-spot fines of €750 on four British drivers taking part in a Cannonball Run-style race.

One of the drivers was clocked at 265kph on the A26 autoroute near Calais, police said. Others were travelling at more than 180kph, regional newspaper Voix du Nord reported.

As they were clocked driving at more than 50kph above the speed limit, they were immediately banned from driving in France. Police can hold licences for 72 hours, and the cases are then sent to court, where bans of up to three years can be imposed.

The drivers all passed breathalyser tests, and gendarmes did not confiscate the vehicles. No date has yet been set for the drivers' appearances at court in Saint-Omer.
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Brick Wall

Cutting welfare to illegal aliens would easily pay for Trump's wall

Paul Sperry
New York Post
Sat, 10 Mar 2018 12:21 UTC
border wall
© AFP/Getty Images
Mexico won't have to pay for the wall, after all. US taxpayers won't have to pick up the tab, either. The controversial barrier, rather, will cover its own cost just by closing the border to illegal immigrants who tend to go on the federal dole.

That's the finding of recent immigration studies showing the $18 billion wall President Trump plans to build along the southern border will pay for itself by curbing the importation of not only crime and drugs, but poverty.

"The wall could pay for itself even if it only modestly reduced illegal crossings and drug smuggling," Steven A. Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, told The Post.

Federal data shows that a wall would work. A two-story corrugated metal fence in El Paso, Texas, first erected under the Bush administration has already curtailed illegal border crossings there by more than 89 percent over the five-year period during which it was built.

Absent a wall, the Homeland Security Department forecasts an additional 1.7 million illegal crossings at the US-Mexico border over the next decade.

Comment: See also:

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