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Polls indicate Impeachment approval is officially underwater

John Nolte
Breitbart
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
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The 'up side'
For the first time since the media launched the Ukraine Hoax, support for impeachment is underwater in the average of all the polls.

Although support for impeachment never went over 50 percent, a plurality in favor of impeaching did stubbornly hold the lead in polling averages — at least, until Monday, the start of the week when the Democrat-controlled U.S. House is expected to pass two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.

One week ago, according to the RealClearPolitics poll of polls, 48 percent of those polled supported the impeachment and removal of Trump, while 45 percent were opposed. As of today, though, those numbers have flipped around: 46.7 percent support impeachment, while a plurality of 47.3 percent are opposed.

To the surprise of no one who watched the impeachment hearings, it was precisely those hearings that killed support for impeachment. Once the hearings launched, support began to face the pull of gravity that comes with having no evidence to back up your wild accusations.
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Pepe Escobar: Pamir Highway, the road on the roof of the world

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Thu, 12 Dec 2019 19:27 UTC
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© Pepe Escobar / Asia Times
Straight from the Ancient Silk Road: a camel caravan on the Afghan Wakhan Corridor.
These are the ancient Silk Roads the Taliban will never be able to reach

This is arguably the ultimate road trip on earth. Marco Polo did it. All the legendary Silk Road explorers did it. Traveling the Pamir Highway back to back, as a harsh winter approaches, able to appreciate it in full, in silence and solitude, offers not only a historical plunge into the intricacies of the ancient Silk Road but a glimpse of what the future may bring in the form of the New Silk Roads.

This is a trip steeped in magic ancient history. Tajiks trace their roots back to tribes of Sogdians, Bactrians and Parthians. Indo-Iranians lived in Bactria ("a country of a thousand towns") and Sogdiana from the 6-7th centuries BC to the 8th century AD. Tajiks make up 80% of the republic's population, very proud of their Persian cultural heritage, and kin to Tajik-speaking peoples in northern Afghanistan and the region around Tashkurgan in Xinjiang.
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Fact-checking UK pundit Maajid Nawaz on Jeremy Corbyn

Irfan Chowdhury
Mondoweiss
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:29 UTC
Maajid Nawaz
© Shayan Barjesteh van Waalwijk van Doorn/Wikimedia
Maajid Nawaz speaking at Maastricht University, 29 October 2018.
Maajid Nawaz is a British political commentator and self-described "Muslim reformer" who runs Quilliam, a prominent anti-extremist think thank in the UK. He used to be a member of the extremist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir, until he was imprisoned in Egypt and subsequently became an anti-radicalization activist. He has very little standing in the Muslim community in Britain. A reason for this is, in part, because his think tank made a financial deal with the anti-Muslim extremist Tommy Robinson; "I use you, you use me," Robinson said of the arrangement.

In 2010 he compiled a secret list of nonviolent Muslims - including well-known Muslim human rights activists - and accused them of sharing the ideology of terrorists, and submitted the report to the Conservative government. He has worked closely with torture apologists Sam Harris and Douglas Murray, and has been a vocal advocate of the Prevent strategy, a government counter-extremism strategy which has been condemned by the National Union of Teachers for encouraging surveillance of Muslim schoolchildren. Despite this, he is treated as a serious and credible voice in the UK; he is a weekly columnist for the Daily Beast, has his own radio show on LBC and has written for a wide range of mainstream British news outlets.

Comment: More on Mr. Nawaz' dubious background. It makes for eye-opening reading:

Maajid Nawaz: Case study of an (ex) status-driven extremist?

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SWAT deploys gas & arrests shooting suspect in Columbus, Ohio


10tv.com
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 18:17 UTC
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© Twitter / @ColumbusPolice
A man was found dead inside a home in northeast Columbus after an overnight standoff with Columbus police and SWAT.

According to Columbus police, the situation began as a domestic dispute inside a home in the 3500 block of Headford Court. Officers were dispatched there shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday.

After speaking to the victim who had left the residence, officers went back to the location to make contact with the suspect, who refused to come out and barricaded himself inside.

Police called in SWAT based on threats officers say the man was making.
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Boeing to suspend production of its 737 Max jets

Catherine Thorbecke
ABC
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:32 UTC
Boeing 737 Max
© Gary He/Reuters
Gary He/Reuters
Aerial photo showing Boeing 737 Max airplanes parked at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, Oct. 20, 2019.
The Wall Street Journal says the move is being considered amid concerns over when the planes will be allowed to fly again.

Boeing will suspend production of its 737 Max jets starting in January, the company announced Monday.

The company said no layoffs or furloughs are expected at this time as a result of the decision.


Comment: 'At this time'. It's highly unlikely that such a move will not result in cut backs.


The decision comes after Boeing board members met Monday to consider suspending or shutting down production of its 737 Max jets, which have been grounded for almost nine months.

Comment: Following the deadly crashes, no company in their right mind wants anything to do with Boeing's MAX 737: Paris air show: Airbus' autonomous planes, Boeing ghosted, while France, Germany & Spain agree to Euro jet fighter

See also:

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Heavily-armed soldiers, violence, sky-high prices, a Santa Claus gender war & no mention of the Nativity... Merry Christmas, Europe!

Damian Wilson
RT
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 18:04 UTC
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© Global Look Press / dpa / Lucas Bäuml
As the UK warns of a "very likely" terrorist attack at German markets, seasonal celebrations across Europe face further threat from bland identikit stalls, rip-off prices & a struggle to address the Christian roots of Christmas.

Ah, Christmas in Europe! Rosy-cheeked children waiting for Santa Claus and his team of reindeer to overwhelm them with gifts. A feast of mince pies, turkey and mulled wine.

Today the only place to really experience this idyll is in your dreams. Because Christmas celebrations in Europe have become a violent, bleak, homogenized, commercial disappointment.

There are plenty of reasons for this, involving all the big issues of our times: terrorism, economics, cultural shifts, diversity and even climate change.
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What's scarier than racists and Russian trolls on Instagram? Why, 'Russian-influenced racist trolls,' of course!

Helen Buyniski
RT
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:42 UTC
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© Reuters / Joshua Roberts
The mainstream media censors have hit a brick wall smearing their quarry as "racists" - the overused term no longer packs much of a punch. To really work up a good scare, they're calling the erstwhile racists "Russian-inspired."

The 2020 US election is just around the corner and social media is crawling with wrongthink, according to the Daily Beast. This time, it's not Russian trolls - it's worse. The Russian trolls' ideas have infected so-called "American neo-confederates" and created an unholy hybrid of racist Russian trolls who are unstoppable by the usual mass-deplatforming solutions used to wipe out entire nests of foreign-origin trolls. It's almost like they're...real people.

The Beast partnered up with the NATO-backed Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRL) - not exactly a bastion of neutral, level-headed reporting - to comb through the darker reaches of Instagram, where the platform has stubbornly refused to remove accounts that aren't violating its terms of service even as they "run some of the same racist crap" as the Internet Research Agency troll accounts of yore.

The offending memes include the Peanuts cartoon character Linus van Pelt sporting a t-shirt that reads "THE SOUTH" and hugging a Confederate flag as his blanket. A speech bubble that appears to be coming from the blanket says "Our Battle Flag Protecting Us From Tyranny Since 1861." Another meme shows the Confederate flag with a coiled snake, the caption "Don't tread on me," and another caption "HERITAGE NOT HATE." Won't someone think of the children?!?
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Ukrainian consul in Germany, who celebrated birthday with 'Mein Kampf' cake, rejoins diplomatic corps


RT
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:25 UTC
Vasil Marushchinets
© Facebook / Василь Марущинець
Vasil Marushchinets
Last year a Ukrainian diplomat, whose friends-only Facebook posts hailed the Nazis and invoked God's wrath on Jews, was sacked for disgracing the service. Now he is back in the ranks, after a court ruled he'd done nothing wrong.

Vasil Marushchinets was recalled from his position as Ukrainian consul in Hamburg, Germany, and fired in May 2018. The incident occurred shortly after a popular Ukrainian video blogger posted a damning report exposing the diplomat's friends-only posts on Facebook.

If they were public, the posts would definitely breach the law of the host country, since Marushchinets wrote about how it was "an honor to be a fascist", how "the Jews declared war" on Hitler-ruled Germany, and how the Holocaust was a hoax. He even shared images from his 60th birthday, which featured a celebration cake fashioned to feature the Nazi leader's book 'Mein Kampf' as the centerpiece.
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French police fire TEAR GAS at pension reform protesters in Nantes


RT
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:21 UTC
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© REUTERS/Stephane Mahe 25
French police in Nantes have fired tear gas at protesters taking part in continuing demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron's proposed pension reforms.

Unions have refused to back down in their opposition to the reforms, which were unveiled by Prime Minister Édouard Philippe last week. The crippling protests and workers' strikes have brought transport chaos to French cities since they kicked off on December 5.

Footage from Nantes, shared on social media, shows tear gas and water cannons being deployed against protesters, while some protesters managed to kick the gas canisters back towards riot cops.

On Monday, the French official overseeing the pension reform project resigned amid the ongoing disruption and in the wake of media reports that he had failed to disclose outside earnings while serving in Macron's cabinet.

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Ilhan Omar, AOC, Pelosi districts ranked 'worst sanctuary cities' by Immigration Reform Law Institute

John Binder
Breitbart
Tue, 24 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
Sanctuary city/ICE
© 1776 Again
Among the top ten worst sanctuary cities in the United States — that is, jurisdictions that shield criminal illegal aliens from arrest and deportation by federal immigration officials — Pelosi's home city of San Francisco, California, ranks as the most hostile to enforcement of national immigration law.

Before California became a sanctuary state, the San Francisco Sheriff's Department released more than 530 criminal illegal aliens back onto the streets, hundreds of which had allegedly committed violent crimes, according to IRLI analysis.

The most famous case involved the death of Kate Steinle, who was killed when five-time deported illegal alien Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate fired a gun and wounded her. Garcia-Zarate was found not guilty of murdering Steinle, meaning the jury believed the illegal alien accidentally shot the firearm and the bullet accidentally hit and killed Steinle. Most recently, Garcia-Zarate escaped the only guilty verdict, illegal gun possession, he faced.

Comment: A sticker-face to goad a civil war? America destroyed from within? The fox is taking residence in the hen house and repercussions are on the rise.

Wilcox's full interview:



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