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Rothschild Family Wealth is Five Times that of World’s Top 8 Billionaires Combined
Post Date: 2017-01-30 10:31:52 by Deckard
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by Isaac Davis A recent report by Oxfam International highlights the dramatic rise in income equality by noting that the combined wealth of the world’s top 8 individual billionaires is more than the lower half of the world’s population, some 3.6 billion people. The intention of the report was to bring awareness to the unfairness and injustice inherent in our global economic system. “It calls for a fundamental change in the way we manage our economies so that they work for all people, and not just a fortunate few.” [Oxfam] Listed below are the 8 billionaires along with their estimated wealth, which combined equals $426.2 billion. Bill Gates – $75 b Amancio ...
Trump ratchets up defense of immigrant ban as outrage mounts
Post Date: 2017-01-30 02:18:55 by Gatlin
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President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his executive order barring refugees and some legal immigrants from entering the United States, even as a top Cabinet official walked back part of the measure — signaling confusion and fissures within the new administration. “America is a proud nation of immigrants and we will continue to show compassion to those fleeing oppression, but we will do so while protecting our own citizens and border,” Trump said in an afternoon statement that also cited what he described as precedent set by former President Barack Obama. “To be clear, this is not a Muslim ban, as the media is falsely reporting. This is not about religion — this ...
Gulf Leaders Agree To Trump’s Request To Set Up ‘Safe Zones’
Post Date: 2017-01-30 01:26:50 by Gatlin
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The King of Saudi Arabia and the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi agreed with President Donald Trump’s request to support safe zones for refugees in the Middle East, the White House announced Sunday. A White House readout of the call between President Trump and Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abd Al-Aziz Al Saud said that the King agreed to “support safe zones in Syria and Yemen, as well as supporting other ideas to help the many refugees who are displaced by the ongoing conflicts.” The readout of the call between Trump and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Muhammad bin Zayid Al Nuhayyan of the United Arab Emirates was less specific but shared the same sentiment. “The President ...
Trump holds calls with Putin, leaders from Europe and Asia
Post Date: 2017-01-28 12:53:51 by buckeroo
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President Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday in hopes of cultivating “a great relationship,” one in a series of telephone conversations with world leaders as he develops a personal rapport with the heads of several traditional U.S. allies. Trump’s call with Putin, which began about noon Eastern time, comes as the president faces pressure to maintain sanctions against Moscow. He is reaching out to repair the U.S.-Russian relationship, which has been badly strained by the Ukrainian crisis, the war in Syria and the conclusion by U.S. intelligence agencies that Putin ordered systematic hacking of Democratic emails to tip the presidential election in ...
John Hurt, Oscar nominated for 'The Elephant Man' dies at 77
Post Date: 2017-01-28 09:11:51 by Stoner
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The versatile actor Sir John Hurt, who could move audiences to tears in "The Elephant Man," terrify them in "Alien," and spoof that very same scene in "Spaceballs," has died. He was 77. Hurt, who battled pancreatic cancer, died Friday in London according to his agent Charles McDonald. Twice nominated for an Oscar for playing the tortured John Merrick in David Lynch's "The Elephant Man" and for his role as the heroin addict Max in "Midnight Express," Hurt's career spanned over 50 years. After minor television and film appearances, his breakout came in 1966 as Richard Rich in Fred Zinnemann's "A Man For All Seasons," ...
Ukraine and China progressing on making super heavy helicopter with 30 ton capacity
Post Date: 2017-01-27 13:46:15 by nativist nationalist
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Ukraine has test fired for the first time newly designed engine AI-136T. It is intended for China's super heavy helicopter program. The helicopter itself is planned to be based on Soviet MI-26 airframe design, although scaled down somewhat to a smaller size. In combination with more powerful engine than previously used, new helicopter is expected to be a much more energetic machine, with higher combat ceiling, higher speed and better maneuverability. Expected payload capacity is 30 tons. The MI-26 was the largest and most powerful helicopter to have gone into series production. Poster Comment:Ukraine also supplied Communist China with their first aircraft carrier. Despite Ukraine ...
The EU in Denial
Post Date: 2017-01-27 13:17:29 by Tooconservative
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Every January, Davos Man, that semi-mythical hominid whose natural habitat is the club lounges of major airports, migrates to his eponymous Swiss Alps resort for the World Economic Forum. There, he huddles in a warm cave of mutual congratulation. Last week, the usual avalanche of glib optimism came down from the town of Davos. But there were also clouds over the magic mountain, and even warnings of heavy weather. John Kerry, portentous and vague to the end, speculated that Donald Trump’s presidency would last "a year, two years, whatever." British prime minister Theresa May, hoping that the Trump administration will last long enough to grant a post-Brexit trade deal, ...
Pat Buchanan: Trump’s Wall Says to the World “This Is OUR Country, WE Decide Who Comes Here”
Post Date: 2017-01-26 19:31:18 by nativist nationalist
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“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” wrote poet Robert Frost in the opening line of “Mending Walls.” And on the American left there is something like revulsion at the idea of the “beautiful wall” President Trump intends to build along the 1,900-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico. The opposition’s arguments are usually rooted in economics or practicality. The wall is unnecessary. It will not stop people from coming illegally. It costs too much. Yet something deeper is afoot here. The idea of a permanent barrier between our countries goes to the heart of the divide between our two Americas on the most fundamental of questions. Who are ...
Trump Prepares Orders Aiming at Global Funding and Treaties
Post Date: 2017-01-25 16:19:02 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing executive orders that would clear the way to drastically reduce the United States’ role in the United Nations and other international organizations, as well as begin a process to review and potentially abrogate certain forms of multilateral treaties, officials said. The first of the two draft orders, titled “Auditing and Reducing U.S. Funding of International Organizations” and obtained by The New York Times, calls for terminating funding for any United Nations agency or other international body that meets any one of several criteria. Those criteria include organizations that give full membership to the Palestinian ...
"What Trump has done in 2-days, Buhari has not done in 2-years" - Nigerians React to Hurricane Trump
Post Date: 2017-01-25 00:45:56 by A K A Stone
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President Donald Trump of the United States has once again set the media agog, as his newly formed government has deleted swathes of Barack Obama's pet policies from the White House website.
According to Daily Mail, deleted from the website were the phrases 'LGBT' rights and 'climate change.'
Following the development, reactions have been stirred all over Social media, and Nigerians have had their fair share of the matter, comparing the newly formed government of Donald Trump and the already established government of Nigeria as led by President Muhammdu Buhari.
Below are comments drawn from Facebook.
Former aid to President Goodluck Jonathan, seemed like one of the first ...
Virgil: The Age of the Lion — Donald Trump Meets Andrew Jackson
Post Date: 2017-01-24 12:05:09 by nativist nationalist
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In Part One of this series, Virgil compared President Donald Trump to a lion, observing, “A lion isn’t always beloved, but it is always respected, even feared.” The idea that it’s better to be feared than loved, of course, comes from Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), who also wrote about lions: the political kind of lion. In Machiavelli’s telling, the two-legged lion dominates other men for the same reason that the four-legged lion dominates other beasts— because he’s strong and fearless. And so the lion shakes things up, causing major change. Yet at the same time, Machiavelli continued, the lion is not invincible; it can be snared in a trap. So the ...
US to leave UN [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-01-23 08:01:40 by paraclete
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A bill was introduced early January that calls for the removal of the United States from the United Nations. According to the Congress website, H.R. 193 — known as the American Sovereignty Restoration Act — was introduced to the House on January 3 and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. While its official title says it seeks to end membership in the U.N., there are several other key components of the bill which include: ending the 1947 agreement that the U.N. headquarters will be housed in the U.S., ending peacekeeping operations, removing diplomatic immunity, and ending participation in the World Health Organization. Poster Comment:Is this fake news, how come it has ...
President Trumps speech
Post Date: 2017-01-20 13:16:18 by BobCeleste
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Here is the Presidents speech, at the end is the video of his swearing in and speech. No pardon for the bitch, watch obama's face, the face of one destroyed. I love it and thank GOD Almighty. how I wish my dad and uncles, all WW 2 vets could have seen this day. http://www.mainetv.net/ Click for Full Text!
Pat Buchanan: Trump Read The Nation Right–That’s Why He’s Taking The Oath
Post Date: 2017-01-19 20:00:51 by nativist nationalist
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“Don’t Make Any Sudden Moves” is the advice offered to the new president by Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations, which has not traditionally been known as a beer hall of populist beliefs. Haass meant the president should bring his National Security Council together to anticipate the consequences before tearing up the Iran nuclear deal, moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem or shooting down a missile being tested by Kim Jong Un. In arguing against rash action, Haass is correct. Where the CFR and the establishment are wrong, and Donald Trump is right, however, is in recognizing the new world we have entered. The old order is passing away. Treaties and alliances ...
Is tipping racist? Shake Shack CEO says customers SHOULDN'T leave cash for waiters because it 'harks back to the American Civil War'
Post Date: 2017-01-19 16:05:51 by cranky
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Shake Shack CEO Danner Meyer revealed dark history of tipping on podcastHe said tipping was a way for restaurants to get around slavery lawsHe now calls it one of 'the biggest hoaxes ever pulled on an entire culture'We've shared our guide to tipping at restaurants around the world Shake Shack CEO Danny Meyer has continued his crusade against America's tipping culture The multi-millionaire owner of popular burger chain Shake Shack has said he will stop customers from tipping his staff because the practice has a 'racist' history. Danny Meyer, revealed that tipping customers stems from the American Civil War when the government accepted a petition to allow restaurants ...
Russia Snaps, Accuses UK, Germany And France Of "Grossly Interfering" In The US Election
Post Date: 2017-01-18 14:27:27 by nativist nationalist
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Having listened stoically for the past two months to accusations without evidence that Moscow "hacked the US election", and that Hillary's loss was indirectly due to Putin's alleged meddling, which resulted in Obama's expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats, on Wednesday Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov finally snapped, and lashed out at the ongoing US election scapegoating fiasco, saying that leaders and top officials from the UK, Germany, and France have “grossly interfered” in US internal affairs, “campaigned” for Hillary Clinton, and openly “demonized” Donald Trump. Unlike US accusations of Russian interference, at least Lavrov's ...
Why Do Jewish Leaders Want Anti-Israel Refugees?
Post Date: 2017-01-18 12:08:08 by nativist nationalist
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The 2014 WaPo caption: "People hold a banner"--they mean "Arab Immigrants hold a banner" The Main Stream Media predicts Donald J. Trump will appeal for “national unity” in his Inaugural Address this Friday, but they’ve been mistaken before. One way he could wrong-foot the Narrative: by announcing an immediate pause in “refugee” admissions, currently surging, to be followed by a zero quota for the next fiscal year—something that, by a legal quirk, he has absolute authority to do. There would be hysteria, in which the major Jewish organizations would, almost certainly, join. My question: why would they do that? The major Jewish ...
Pat Buchanan:Reagan and Trump–American Nationalists
Post Date: 2017-01-17 14:35:08 by nativist nationalist
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Since World War II, the two men who have most terrified this city by winning the presidency are Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. And they have much in common. Both came out of the popular culture, Reagan out of Hollywood, Trump out of a successful reality TV show. Both possessed the gifts of showmen— extraordinarily valuable political assets in a television age that deals cruelly with the uncharismatic. Both became instruments of insurgencies out to overthrow the establishment of the party whose nomination they were seeking. Reagan emerged as the champion of the postwar conservatism that had captured the Republican Party with Barry Goldwater’s nomination in 1964. His victory in ...
Donald Trump rattles Europe by branding the NATO alliance ‘obsolete’
Post Date: 2017-01-17 09:12:54 by cranky
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ANGELA MERKEL has led a sharp European response to Donald Trump after he branded the NATO military alliance “obsolete” and criticised the German chancellor’s “catastrophic” open-door refugee policy. In an explosive interview with German newspaper Bild and The Times of London, Trump unleashed a volley of verbal attacks on Europe, hailing Britain’s decision to leave the European Union and saying more countries were going to quit the bloc. “I said a long time ago — that NATO had problems. Number one it was obsolete, because it was, you know, designed many, many years ago,” he said. “Number two — the countries aren’t paying what ...
Donald Trump: Kremlin Employee of the Month?
Post Date: 2017-01-15 20:10:52 by Willie Green
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The humor writer Andy Borowitz recently joked that Donald Trump had been named the Kremlin’s “employee of the month.” I giggled at that, and then winced. It’s painful even to joke about.Some of the most explosive reports about America in the last few days appeared in Israeli newspapers. They suggested that American intelligence officials had warned Israel to “be careful” about sharing classified information with the Trump White House, for fear that it would be given to Russia.American intelligence officials reportedly cautioned that Vladimir Putin might have “leverages of pressure” to extort Trump. That presumably was a reference to the hanky-panky ...
Top Bishop: Europe Will Soon Be Muslim Because of Our Stupidit
Post Date: 2017-01-15 00:02:28 by redleghunter
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Everyone in Italy and the rest of Europe will “soon be Muslim” because of the country’s “stupidity”, a prominent Italian archbishop has said. Monsignor Carlo Liberati, Archbishop Emeritus of Pompeii, said that Islam will soon become Europe’s main religion thanks to the huge number of Muslim migrants alongside the increasing secularism of native Europeans. Speaking to Italian Catholic journal La Fede Quotidiana, the archbishop said: “In 10 years we will all be Muslims because of our stupidity. Italy and Europe live in a pagan and atheist way, they make laws that go against God and they have traditions that are proper of paganism. “All of this moral ...
Russia Today interrupts C-SPAN programming (Maxine Waters abducted by RT)
Post Date: 2017-01-13 14:19:07 by Hondo68
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A screen grab of Russia Today broadcast on C-SPAN.(Photo: C-SPAN)As if Russia hasn't been on the minds of Americans enough lately, C-SPAN viewers got another taste Thursday when Russia Today suddenly replaced the regular C-SPAN programming. In one second, viewers could see and hear Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., speaking on the U.S. House floor during a hearing about Securities and Exchange Commission, and in the next, viewers heard Caribbean steel drum music to what appeared to be a story about San Escobar, a non-existent country accidentally cited by Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski when talking to media in New York this week. Here's the moment Russia Today took over ...
The Establishment’s Fake News Assault On Trump
Post Date: 2017-01-13 01:29:06 by nativist nationalist
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“Fake news!” roared Donald Trump, the work of “sick people.” The president-elect was referring to a 35-page dossier of lurid details of his alleged sexual misconduct in Russia, worked up by a former British spy. A two-page summary of the 35 pages had been added to Trump’s briefing by the CIA and FBI–and then leaked to CNN. This is “something that Nazi Germany would have done,” Trump said. Here, basically, is the story. During the primaries, anti-Trump Republicans hired the ex-spy to do “oppo research” on Trump, i.e., to dig up dirt. The spy contacted the Russians. They told him that Trump, at a Moscow hotel in 2013, had been engaged in ...
US Intel Agencies Try to Strong-Arm Trump into War With Russia
Post Date: 2017-01-12 07:35:08 by U don't know me
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US Intel Agencies Try to Strong-Arm Trump into War With Russia By Mike Whitney January 11, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - "Counterpunch" - Powerful elites are using the credibility of the US Intelligence agencies to demonize Russia and prepare the country for war. This is the real meaning of the “Russia hacking” story which, as yet, has not produced any hard evidence of Russian complicity. Last week’s 25-page report, that was released by the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, illustrates to what extent intelligence is being “fixed around the policy”. Just as the CIA generated false information related to Weapons of Mass ...
'Cheaters' who merge late are in the right, says AMA
Post Date: 2017-01-11 19:39:49 by A K A Stone
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We've all been there — you see an obstruction ahead that will close your lane, forcing you to move into another lane. But that lane is backed up and traffic is moving at a snail's pace. Maybe your own response is to merge immediately into the bottleneck. Then, out of the corner of your eye, you see a vehicle race all the way up the closed lane and pull in front of the first driver who's nice enough to let them in. You curse and swear, furious at the "cheater." But what if the "cheaters" are actually correct in merging just before the lane closure? The Alberta Motor Association says the "zipper merge" — when motorists use both lanes of ...
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