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So why did Democrats have to create a false document to destroy Trump?

Opposition research must have started as soon as, if not before, Donald Trump announced he was running for president. I am sure many of Trump’s Republican opponents, as well as Hillary Clinton, the DNC, liberal interest groups, the media, and others were searching far and wide for trash on Trump. 


The research must not have produced enough trash, or else why would the DNC and Hillary have paid Fusion GPS so handsomely to create what is clearly a false document? Fusion GPS trafficked the document to the Justice Department and intelligence officials. They obviously had seen how many intelligence officials had been willing to lie, especially James Clapper and John Brennan, and had seen how the Justice Department had protected the Obama Administration and especially Hillary and her aides no matter what they did. It was obvious that they were not “independent.”



The Justice Department and intelligence officials in turn used the fake dossier to justify spying on Trump officials and to open an investigation on supposed Russian collusion. Of course this was fake also because if they would have ever been concerned about Russian collusion they would have also investigated and spied on Hillary. But they didn’t. 


It was clear that the race was too close for comfort in early October so they had to pull out another card. Therefore they pulled out the Billy Bush tape from eleven years ago when Trump was talking privately with Bush and talked big about women and referred to women’s body parts. The outrage by the media and Democrats and some Republicans was immediate and obviously mostly fake. My guess is every one of these outraged people have watched and listened to network TV, HBO, STARZ, Showtime, movies, and rap music. Have any one of them seen Two and One Half Men, Saturday Night Live, Will and Grace, or Girls? Have any of them heard lyrics to Jay Z and other rapper songs? They not only don’t get outraged, they hand out awards. 


Kathy Griffin routinely told racy jokes and then in 2012 simulated giving Anderson Cooper a blow job on live TV on CNN one of the networks most outraged by anything Trump does. Of course CNN continued to have Griffin on through her tenth year in 2016 and the media pretends they were stunned when Trump used the P word.  We should all say B.S.


In 2008, NBC had a public roast of Matt Lauer where they told lewd and crude jokes much worse than anything Trump said privately to Bush and where everyone thought it was funny. This shows that it was fake outrage against Trump and it also shows that a huge number of people knew about Lauer’s abuse and habits years before and intentionally kept it quiet. 


Here is just one of the classy jokes that people laughed at. .


Martha Stewart, one of the other guest speakers, declared to applause: ‘I hear NBC executives call Matt the C**k of the Rock,’ a reference to the network’s Manhattan headquarters. 


Fake outrage is not outrage at all and almost all the outrage at Trump was fake and used to destroy Trump and his agenda.


We have seen over the last few years how the supposedly independent IRS and Justice Department have been used to go after political opponents of Obama and Hillary and have protected Obama officials and Hillary at every step yet journalists continually go after Trump instead of the clearly corrupted officials at IRS and Justice along with Hillary and her aides. 


It is clear that the swamp is deep and that some of the biggest and most dangerous swamp creatures are the journalists who protect Democrats at every turn and seek to destroy anyone who disagrees with the Democrats’ agenda.


Thankfully we have Trump who it certainly appears is seeking to give the power and purse back to the people. This stands in stark contrast to Hillary who would have continually expanded the power and purse of the government and who would have obviously continued to exploit her power to enrich herself, her family and friends.


Opposition research must have started as soon as, if not before, Donald Trump announced he was running for president. I am sure many of Trump’s Republican opponents, as well as Hillary Clinton, the DNC, liberal interest groups, the media, and others were searching far and wide for trash on Trump. 


The research must not have produced enough trash, or else why would the DNC and Hillary have paid Fusion GPS so handsomely to create what is clearly a false document? Fusion GPS trafficked the document to the Justice Department and intelligence officials. They obviously had seen how many intelligence officials had been willing to lie, especially James Clapper and John Brennan, and had seen how the Justice Department had protected the Obama Administration and especially Hillary and her aides no matter what they did. It was obvious that they were not “independent.”


The Justice Department and intelligence officials in turn used the fake dossier to justify spying on Trump officials and to open an investigation on supposed Russian collusion. Of course this was fake also because if they would have ever been concerned about Russian collusion they would have also investigated and spied on Hillary. But they didn’t. 


It was clear that the race was too close for comfort in early October so they had to pull out another card. Therefore they pulled out the Billy Bush tape from eleven years ago when Trump was talking privately with Bush and talked big about women and referred to women’s body parts. The outrage by the media and Democrats and some Republicans was immediate and obviously mostly fake. My guess is every one of these outraged people have watched and listened to network TV, HBO, STARZ, Showtime, movies, and rap music. Have any one of them seen Two and One Half Men, Saturday Night Live, Will and Grace, or Girls? Have any of them heard lyrics to Jay Z and other rapper songs? They not only don’t get outraged, they hand out awards. 


Kathy Griffin routinely told racy jokes and then in 2012 simulated giving Anderson Cooper a blow job on live TV on CNN one of the networks most outraged by anything Trump does. Of course CNN continued to have Griffin on through her tenth year in 2016 and the media pretends they were stunned when Trump used the P word.  We should all say B.S.


In 2008, NBC had a public roast of Matt Lauer where they told lewd and crude jokes much worse than anything Trump said privately to Bush and where everyone thought it was funny. This shows that it was fake outrage against Trump and it also shows that a huge number of people knew about Lauer’s abuse and habits years before and intentionally kept it quiet. 


Here is just one of the classy jokes that people laughed at. .


Martha Stewart, one of the other guest speakers, declared to applause: ‘I hear NBC executives call Matt the C**k of the Rock,’ a reference to the network’s Manhattan headquarters. 


Fake outrage is not outrage at all and almost all the outrage at Trump was fake and used to destroy Trump and his agenda.


We have seen over the last few years how the supposedly independent IRS and Justice Department have been used to go after political opponents of Obama and Hillary and have protected Obama officials and Hillary at every step yet journalists continually go after Trump instead of the clearly corrupted officials at IRS and Justice along with Hillary and her aides. 


It is clear that the swamp is deep and that some of the biggest and most dangerous swamp creatures are the journalists who protect Democrats at every turn and seek to destroy anyone who disagrees with the Democrats’ agenda.


Thankfully we have Trump who it certainly appears is seeking to give the power and purse back to the people. This stands in stark contrast to Hillary who would have continually expanded the power and purse of the government and who would have obviously continued to exploit her power to enrich herself, her family and friends.






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Roy Moore Accuser Admits She Tampered With The Yearbook Inscription

Here’s her new interview.

She now admits she added the location and date.

Here’s the CNN link where you can see the that the location and date added is in the same ink as the last name and D.A. So obviously she’s lying about that.

She added the last name and the D.A. as well, as the ink shows.

Why couldn’t MSM investigate the very apparent two different color inks?

The reason Nelson added D.A., despite the fact that he wasn’t the D.A., was that he had handled her divorce and signed her order with ‘D.A.’ at end of his name. His assistant added ‘D.A.’ to denote that she was signing orders on his behalf. So she was consciously imitating his signature.

Who would allow a judge to handle her divorce if he’d tried to attack her?

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Department of Justice Launches Federal Investigation into Planned Parenthood

Department of Justice Launches Federal Investigation into Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood harvests baby parts sign

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by Dr. Susan Berry7 Dec 20170



The Department of Justice is launching a federal investigation into Planned Parenthood’s practices and its alleged involvement in the sale of body parts of aborted babies.

Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd has formally requested unredacted documents from the Senate Judiciary Committee, reports Fox News. According to the news report, the letter requesting the documents – sent to committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and ranking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) – “is a rare confirmation of a federal investigation.”

“The Department of Justice appreciates the offer of assistance in obtaining these materials, and would like to request the Committee provide unredacted copies of records contained in the report, in order to further the Department’s ability to conduct a thorough and comprehensive assessment of that report based on the full range of information available,” Boyd wrote in the letter obtained by Fox News.

“At this point, the records are intended for investigative use only—we understand that a resolution from the Senate may be required if the Department were to use any of the unredacted materials in a formal legal proceeding, such as a grand jury,” he added.

Breitbart News reported at the end of September that the FBI’s assistant director of the Office of Congressional Affairs had sent a letter to Grassley, informing him the agency was in receipt of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s criminal referrals of Planned Parenthood and its partners in the fetal tissue procurement industry.

“We can confirm the Criminal Investigative Division (CID) of FBI Headquarters received your referrals and sent them to the relevant FBI field offices for review and whatever action is deemed appropriate,” the FBI’s Gregory Brower wrote to Grassley in June.

In his correspondence, Brower apologized to Grassley “for the delay in responding to your inquiry” and indicated receipt of the chairman’s letter, dated April 24, to both former FBI Director James Comey and Attorney General Jeff Sessions “concerning criminal referrals you made on December 13, 2016, to the FBI and Department of Justice.”

Both the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives conducted expansive investigations into Planned Parenthood and its partners in the biomedical procurement industry. The investigations concerned allegations of profiteering from the sale of fetal body parts that arose from an undercover video series exposé by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP).

The sale or purchase of human fetal tissue is a felony punishable by up to ten years in prison or a fine of up to $500,000 (42 U.S.C. 289g-2).

The Senate Judiciary Committee referred Planned Parenthood to both the FBI and the Justice Department for investigation and possible criminal prosecution.

Based on its findings, the Judiciary Committee’s Majority Staff Report concluded that Planned Parenthood’s partners in the biomedical procurement industry paid the abortion chain’s affiliates for the body parts of aborted babies “and then sold the fetal tissue to their respective customers at substantially higher prices than their documented costs.”

“The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) initially had a policy in place to ensure its affiliates were complying with the law, but the affiliates failed to follow its fetal tissue reimbursement policy,” the report continued. “When PPFA learned in 2011 of this situation, PPFA cancelled the policy rather than exercise oversight to bring the affiliates back into compliance. Thus, PPFA not only turned a blind eye to the affiliates’ violations of its fetal tissue policy, but also altered its own oversight procedures enabling those affiliates’ practices to continue unimpeded.”

“This is long-awaited, good news,” says Abby Johnson, who heads And Then There Were None – an organization that helps abortion industry workers leave their jobs.

“Planned Parenthood has actively participated in illegal activity, selling the body parts of aborted babies in exchange for profit,” she said in a statement sent to Breitbart News. “They’ve lied to the very women they purport to fight for. I saw it first-hand when I worked for the abortion giant and yet, they still manage to obtain over half a billion dollars a year in our tax dollars. Congress should immediately halt any money to the abortion giant until the FBI completes their investigation.”

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SWAMP CREATURES: Christopher Wray Worked Under Comey on Enron Prosecution -Weissman Too

On Thursday acting FBI Director Christopher Wray refused to answer Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) when asked if the Russian dossier was used to spy on President Donald Trump.

Wray was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee.

Wray was very evasive with the Republican-led committee.

Now this…

Christopher Wray worked under James Comey in the Enron prosecution.

Jerome Corsi tweeted this out.

Jerome Corsi reported this today at Infowars:

On Sept. 11, 2003, on being confirmed by the Senate as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, Wray worked under Deputy Attorney General James Comey.

While heading the Criminal Division, Wray oversaw the Enron Task Force, investigating among other issues the criminal malfeasance of auditor Arthur Anderson.

Sidney Powell, a former U.S. attorney whose 2014 book Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice is a shocking exposé of prosecutorial impropriety that she maintains still runs rampant today among Department of Justice prosecutors, warns that the Enron case was tarnished by a history of Department of Justice prosecutorial misconduct.

Powell focuses on the role played in the Enron prosecution by Andrew Weissmann, a DOJ prosecutor who is now part of Mueller’s team and is capable of extorting guilty pleas.

Noting on page 35 that Weissmann was the “driving force” behind the indictment of Arthur Anderson in the Enron case, Weissmann used the “special tactics” he developed prosecuting organized criminals, convinced that even if some of his special tactics went outside the bounds, the ends justified the means when prosecuting serious bad guys.

On page 410 of her book, Powell pointed that Weissmann forced Duncan into a guilty plea by misrepresenting to Duncan that his innocent conduct in the case was “criminal.”

Calling the DOJ prosecutors in the Enron case a “cabal” that came together in 2002, Powel charges that those involved in the Enron prosecution “emboldened and fed” each other’s worst traits (page 408).

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A curious recusal in the sentencing of Michael Flynn could be an indicator of something very big happening

Something very strange, and possibly extremely significant, happened yesterday, with no explanation and little notice from the media. But two different writers for the same DC-insider publication rushed to be the first to note this barely-noticed move, suggesting that they know something big is happening.


To my deep sorrow, the skills of a Kremlinologist – the people who specialized in interpreting small signs, such as who stood next to whom reviewing military parades in Red Square, to figure out the real power structure within the secretive upper ranks of the USSR – are necessary to figure out what is going on in the Deep State attempts to take down the Trump presidency. The two writers rushing to be the first to break the story work for Politico, the publication that specializes in DC insidership. They rushed to be the first to note the case of the curious recusal.  First was Sean Davis, whose tweet went up at 5:23 PM yesterday:




Something very strange, and possibly extremely significant, happened yesterday, with no explanation and little notice from the media. But two different writers for the same DC-insider publication rushed to be the first to note this barely-noticed move, suggesting that they know something big is happening.


To my deep sorrow, the skills of a Kremlinologist – the people who specialized in interpreting small signs, such as who stood next to whom reviewing military parades in Red Square, to figure out the real power structure within the secretive upper ranks of the USSR – are necessary to figure out what is going on in the Deep State attempts to take down the Trump presidency. The two writers rushing to be the first to break the story work for Politico, the publication that specializes in DC insidership. They rushed to be the first to note the case of the curious recusal.  First was Sean Davis, whose tweet went up at 5:23 PM yesterday:




If we put on our Kremlinologist hats, “nobody knows why” translates to “Something big could be happening!” and implying “I was the first to note it.”


A mere 15 minutes later, his colleague at Politico, Josh Gerstein, published an article on that site with more background, but no explanation of why:


Judge Emmet Sullivan was randomly assigned to take over the case after Judge Rudolph Contreras recused himself. (snip)


Sullivan is an appointee of President Bill Clinton, and Contreras was appointed by President Barack Obama.


When it comes to assembling evidence, creating timelines, and inferring what is really going on beneath the veneer the public is allowed to see, nobody is better than Sundance of Conservative Treehouse. He writes:  


As soon as CTH saw the name Judge Rudolph Contreras our spidey sense alarm bells began ringing.  You know why?…



Judge Rudolph Contreras is one of a very small group of FISA Court Judges. –LINK–


My instincts tell me that Judge Contreras was most likely the judge who signed off on the FISA warrant that led to the surveillance of Donald Trump’s campaign officials, that included National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn.


Those FBI FISA warrants are now coming under scrutiny.


It would be EXPLOSIVE if it turned out that the FISA warrants were gained by deception, misleading information, manipulated information, or fraud…. and that warrant led to the wiretapping and surveillance of General Michael Flynn was authorized by Contreras…. who would now be the judge in Flynn’s case.


Yes, the conflict of interest would be beyond stunning.


That FISA warrant, of course, is the potential Rosetta Stone of the suspected plot to surveil the Trump campaign for president. Spying on the opposition by using the most feared surveillance capacity in the world, provided by US taxpayers. And, it is reasonably suspected (but not proven because everything is under wraps) that the bogus “dossier” produced by Fusion GPS with the help of Russian sources was used to obtain a FISA Court warrant to use the NSA’s universal surveillance of electronic communications to “unmask” first Carter Page, and subsequently an unknown number of staffers in the Trump campaign.


In a lengthy post eslewhere, Sundance laid out the timeline and inferences about how the FISA warrant was obtained after first being rejected by the FISA Court (something that happens very rarely). I will not attempt to summarize it here, but a key figure (and White Hat) is Admiral Mike Rogers.


The Inspector General of the DOJ currently is investigating these matters, and his report, expected early next year, may answer all these questions. Or it may not.


So we are left with straws in the wind, and our suspicions.


If and when the details are exposed and prove out Sundance’s (and my) suspicions, this will make Watergate look like the “third rate burglary” it was characterized as by President Nixon’s allies.  A sitting president and his candidate to succeed him weaponizing the nation’s intelligence agencies to sabotage the opposition. You cannot exaggerate the magnitude of the consequences.


Hat tip: Mike Ford






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Bombshell: Roy Moore Accuser Beverly Nelson Admits She Forged Yearbook

Beverly Young Nelson has finally admitted that she forged a portion of the infamous high school yearbook that she and attorney Gloria Allred used as proof of her accusations against U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore.

And in yet another blow to the credibility of ABC News, the disgraced, left-wing network downplayed the bombshell by presenting this admission of forgery as adding “notes” to the inscription.

“Nelson admits she did make notes to the inscription,” ABC News tells us, “But the message was all Roy Moore.”

“Beverly he signed your yearbook,”ABC News reporter Tom Llamas says.

“He did sign it,” she replies.

“And you made some notes underneath.”

“Yes,” Nelson says.

And then, after a woman admits to forging a document used in a campaign to destroy the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Alabama, ABC News quickly moves on as though it is not news of extraordinary consequence.

Nelson is accusing Moore of attempting to assault her when she was just 16-years-old. With the election just four days away, this admission of forgery could not come at a better time for Moore. Nelson and Allred are planning a news conference later Friday, but nothing will overcome the forgery admission.

How can anyone believe anything she says after admitting to such a thing? Early reports are that Nelson and Allred will produce an expert to prove the rest of the yearbook is not a forgery. So a proven forger is bringing in her own expert. What an insult to the people of Alabama.

Another problem with Nelson is that she has motive to lie and forge, as a circuit judge, Moore ruled against her in a 1999 divorce case.

The Moore campaign have been pressuring Nelson and Allred for weeks to submit the yearbook for independent handwriting analysis. Now everyone knows why that request was rejected and ignored.

With Nelson now thoroughly discredited, this leaves two accusers against Moore.

One is Leigh Corfman, who claims Moore molested her as a 14 year-old child. She is the most credible of the three, but the narrative behind her story, that Moore’s abuse resulted in Corfman living a troubled life of “drinking, drugs, boyfriends, and a suicide attempt,” is directly contradicted by contemporaneous court records.

Moore’s final accuser is Tina Johnson, a woman who claims Moore groped her butt in his office in 1991. But again, as was the case with Corfman and Nelson, the left-wing media outlets reporting these allegations (The Washington Post, AL.com) either failed to fully vet the accusers or withheld crucial context.

Thanks to New Media going behind these discredited outlets to fact check the reporting, we now know that Johnson did not tell the entire truth. She was not in Moore’s office “on business.” If she was in Moore’s office at all, it was due to a bitter custody battle where Moore represented Johnson’s mother, who was trying to gain custody of Johnson’s 12 year-old son based on the claim that Johnson was a “unfit, absent, and unstable mother.”

If the media and the accusers and Gloria Allred told the full truth to begin with, they would all be more credible.

As far as the accusations against Moore involving him wanting to date teenage girls, those are trumped up charges, utter nonsense. The age of consent in Alabama was and is 16. Moreover, 40- years-ago it was not at all uncommon in the South for 32-year-old man to seek a much younger bride. So, not only did Moore not break the law, he was not violating any social mores. 

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Trump’s DOJ Officially Steps In to Finally Bring Justice to Steinle Case

On Tuesday a federal grand jury indicted Jose Ines Garcia Zarate on immigration and weapons charges, giving prosecutors a new crack at the five-time-deported illegal immigrant who was acquitted last month of murder in the death two years ago of San Francisco resident Kate Steinle.

The jury specifically indicted Garcia Zarate “for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, and for being an illegally present alien in possession of a firearm and ammunition,” according to a statement by the Department of Justice.

If convicted, Garcia Zarate — also known by the alias Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez — would face up to 10 years in federal prison, in addition to whatever state prison sentence he receives when he appears in court Dec. 12 to be sentenced for a weapons conviction he obtained in the Steinle case.

Instead of being convicted of murdering Steinle, Garcia Zarate wound up receiving a conviction on Nov. 30 for being a felon in unlawful possession of a firearm, a relatively minor charge that could entail him serving a maximum of three years in prison, according to The New York Times.

Following Garcia Zarate’s acquittal on the murder charge, a number of prominent Trump administration officials lashed out, with President Donald Trump himself deriding the verdict as “disgraceful.”

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions likewise released a statement slamming jurisdictions that “choose to return criminal aliens to the streets rather than turning them over to federal immigration authorities.”

However, DOJ spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores made it clear the department intended to review the case to see what it could do.

“We’re looking at every option and we will prosecute this to the fullest extent of the law because these cases are tragic and entirely preventable,” she said at the time.

But since the principle of “double jeopardy” prevents the government from trying Garcia Zarate on the same charges as before, the DOJ has instead brought immigration and weapons charges against him.

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Garcia’s potential sentence is unclear, assuming he’s convicted. Each of the new charges carries a maximum 10-year prison term, according to the Justice Department statement, but that isn’t guaranteed.

“If convicted of either violation … Garcia-Zarate faces a maximum statutory penalty of 10 years in prison,” the statement reads.  “However, any sentence will be imposed by the court only after consideration of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and the federal statute governing the imposition of a sentence…”

Most of us would admittedly rather he rot in prison for the remainder of his life over his murder of Steinle, who was only 32 when he killed her in 2015.

Sadly, this simply isn’t a possibility now, meaning we must accept whatever we can get at this point.

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More Countries Follow Trump’s Lead in Declaring Jerusalem to be Israel’s Capital

Only hours after U.S. President Donald Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel early Wednesday afternoon, the Czech Republic, a European Union member state, unexpectedly followed suit.

“The Czech Republic together with other EU member states, following the EU Foreign Affaires Council Conclusions, considers Jerusalem to be future capital of both states, meaning the State of Israel and the future State of Palestine,” the nation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in a statement.

However, the ministry made it clear it only recognizes the western half of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, stating that it specifically “recognizes Jerusalem to be in fact the capital of Israel in the borders of the demarcation line from 1967.”

According to The Hill, before “Israel seized control of the eastern half in the Six-Day War of 1967,” it only had possession of half of Jerusalem — and it’s this portion of the city which the Czech Republic now recognizes as Israel’s capital.

The ministry further cautioned that it cannot relocate its own embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem like Trump has pledged to do with the U.S embassy, unless “negotiations with key partners in the region and in the world” first occur.

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Despite the ministry’s stipulations, and despite its claim to have come “together with other EU member states” in reaching its decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the statement was nevertheless a major bombshell.

As noted by The Jerusalem Post, by recognizing Jerusalem, the Czech Republic broke with the litany of “EU member states who hold Jerusalem should not (be) recognized as Israel’s capital until a final status agreement is reached.”

The Czech Republic probably likewise just earned itself the ire of Muslims across the Middle East, who responded to Trump’s own declarations Wednesday afternoon with great anger.

The U.K. Daily Telegraph reported Thursday morning that a number of clashes had broken out in the Gaza Strip as the terrorist group Hamas “called for new intifada against Israel in response to Donald Trump’s decision to recognise the Jerusalem as the Israeli capital.”

“This Zionist policy supported by the US cannot be confronted unless we ignite a new intifada,” said the terror group’s leader, Ismail Haniyeh, according to the Telegraph. “The U.S. decision is an aggression, a declaration of war on us, on the best Muslim and Christian shrines in the heart of Palestine, Jerusalem.”

Whether Haniyeh views the Czech Republic’s declaration in a similar light remains unclear.

According to the Israeli news outlet Haaretz, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has also expressed interest in relocating his country’s embassy to Jerusalem.

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Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed a number of other countries desire to follow in the United States and the Czech Republic’s footsteps.

“(W)e are already in contact with other states that will make a similar recognition,” he said, as reported by the The U.K. Independent.

Yet, the mainstream media in the West is treating Trump’s action like a disaster, denounced by the entire globe.

Check out this clearly exaggerated BBC headline: “World condemns Trump’s announcement.”

To back up that headline, the BBC described reactions in Muslim and Arab countries (predictably “outraged”); hand-wringing statements from the United Nations general secretary and the European Union’s foreign policy chief (again, predictable); and lukewarm disagreement from the leaders of Britain, France and Germany. (Calling something “unhelpful” isn’t what most people think of when they hear the word “condemns.”)

Fake news, anyone?

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Hampshire College Apologizes After Abruptly Canceling Conservative Speaker’s Event

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Massachusetts’ Hampshire College issued an apology Wednesday after it suddenly canceled a speech by a guest conservative speaker.

Antonia Okafor is a graduate student at the University of Texas and an advocate of gun rights and campus concealed carry. On Wednesday night, she was scheduled to speak on “Female Empowerment & the Second Amendment” at the small liberal arts college known for its alternative curriculum and liberal politics.

But Okafor tweeted only hours before the event that the speech had been cancelled because administrators ruled she was speaking about a “very controversial” issue.

Hampshire College issued a statement soon after to “sincerely apologize” for the decision, and vowed to reschedule the event.

“We did not cancel the speech because of the speaker, the subject of the speech, or the content,” the statement said. “Hampshire College values academic freedom and the careful examination of ideas, including when those ideas may be controversial.”

Instead, the administration claimed the event organizers failed to inform them the event might draw large crowds and provoke debate. “The College did not follow its own procedures in sufficiently reviewing the application before we approved it. We take responsibility for that mistake.”

Okafor is slated to give the same address tonight at nearby Mount Holyoke College, which has prompted campus activists to set up an “alternative space” for protesters to voice anger.

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‘God brought us all together’: Police officer meets drug-addicted couple — and adopts their baby

After an Albuquerque police officer met a homeless, opioid-addicted expectant mother, he adopted her baby girl.

What led to this?

According to CNN, Albuquerque police officer Ryan Holets, 27, responded to a possible theft at a convenience store in September. As he left the store, he saw a couple sitting on the grass outside, and he realized it looked as if they were shooting up heroin in broad daylight.

Holets approached the couple and realized the woman — who was injecting a needle into the man’s arm — was pregnant.

“It’s not every day I see a sight like that and it just made me really sad,” he told CNN.

The woman, Crystal Champ, 35, told Holets that she was nearly 8 months pregnant and she was addicted to drugs.

In bodycam footage, Holets told Champ, “You’re going to kill your baby.”

“Why do you have to be doing that stuff?” he asked. “It’s going to ruin your baby.”

Champ told CNN that although she is pro-choice, she didn’t want to have an abortion when she became pregnant.

“I was like how dare you judge me. You have no idea how hard this is,” Champ told CNN of the encounter. “I know what a horrible person I am and what a horrible situation I’m in.”

Champ, who said she has battled addiction since she was a teenager, told CNN she been homeless for more than two years. She has tried and failed to get clean.

“I did give up. I just decided this was going to be my life,” Champ said. “It just keeps coming back and ruining my life.”

Champ said that Holets’ demeanor changed when she told him she was looking for someone to adopt her unborn child.

“He became a human being instead of a police officer,” Champ said.

Instead of charging the couple with drug possession, the officer showed Champ a picture of his wife and their four children and offered to adopt her baby.

“I was led by God to take the chance,” Holets said. “God brought us all together. I really don’t have any other way to explain it.”

He added, “I just felt God telling me to tell her, that you will do it because you can. You can.”

Champ said she was stunned by the offer and looked at him to “make sure his eyes were genuine and that I could see his soul.” She then realized her prayers had been answered.

Holets left and went to find his wife, Rebecca, who was attending a going-away party for a friend.

Ryan Holets found her and told her about the encounter and his offer.

Rebecca Holets told CNN that she and her husband had previously discussed adoption, but they intended to wait a few years. But when she heard his story, she didn’t hesitate.

“He already knew my heart on the issue and he knew that I would be totally onboard with it,” Rebecca said.

Even though one of their children was just 10 months old, Rebecca said she knew she and her husband could care for another baby.

“We feel God has called us to do that,” Rebecca said. “It’s been on our hearts for a while.”

Champ gave birth to a baby girl in October. The Holets attended her birth and named her Hope.

Rebecca said Champ called the baby beautiful and said she loved her.

“And then she turns to me and says ‘Take care of her for me,’” Rebecca said. “And I said, ‘I will take good care of her and you take good care of yourself.’ It was super emotional.”

The family said Hope suffered a painful detoxing process, withdrawals, and methadone treatment. She is now home with her family, but still undergoes weekly medical checkups.

Champ is still battling her addiction, but called the adoptive parents of her baby girl a “light in this world.”

“There needs to be more people like Ryan and his wife and their family in this world,” she said.

How has the public reacted?

The story quickly gained attention online. Holets told The Washington Post that he never expected the story to go viral.

“We didn’t do this to have a story,” Holets said. “That is entirely not why we did it, but after talking to some close friends whom I trust, we realized this was a way to put a face on the drug problem and maybe encourage other people to adopt.”

He said another officer — Sgt. Jim Edison — signed him up to do an interview for CNN’s “Beyond the Call of Duty” series without telling him.

“Every day he calls me to ask for forgiveness,” Holets said. “And I keep assuring him that we’re fine. We didn’t quite realize it would get this response, and neither did he. … But we all realize it’s a really good thing, and some really good things can come of it.”

Holets asked for people inspired by the story to make a donation to a local drug rehabilitation center or adoption organization.

The Post reported that Holets is seeking treatment for Champ and her partner and gave them a tablet computer so he can email them pictures of Hope.

via TheBlaze.com – Stories

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