Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Thursday called for an investigation about “high ranking Obama government officials” who might have worked together to stop the election of President Trump.

“Time to investigate high ranking Obama government officials who might have colluded to prevent the election of @realDonaldTrump! This could be WORSE than Watergate!”

Time to investigate high ranking Obama government officials who might have colluded to prevent the election of @realDonaldTrump! This could be WORSE than Watergate!

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 21, 2017

Paul’s call adds a high-profile voice to the chorus of Republicans who are calling for a special counsel to investigate whether Obama officials tried to stop Trump’s election, in the face of mounting evidence.

So far, congressional investigators have found out that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid for the Trump dossier, through their law firm Perkins Coie. Clinton campaign and DNC officials have denied  knowing about it. Perkins Coie initially denied funding the dossier, before they were forced to admit it after the House intelligence committee subpoenaed for financial records.

The dossier was then given to the FBI in the summer, when the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign began, and when it applied for a surveillance warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Congressional investigators are finding out whether the dossier — an unconfirmed piece of anti-Trump opposition research — was used as evidence to launch the investigation and get a spy warrant.

There are also reports that the FBI reached an agreement to pay the dossier author, Christopher Steele, and did end up reimbursing some of his expenses. Steele reportedly paid some of his sources, including Russian intelligence officials. So far, the dossier’s accusations of collusion have not been verified.

Also during that time, over at the Justice Department, a senior DOJ official, former associate deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, met with the dossier author and Fusion GPS, the firm that produced the dossier. In addition, his wife Nellie began working for Fusion GPS. Ohr reportedly obscured those connections from his superiors at the DOJ until recently, resulting in a demotion.

Around that same time, senior FBI official Peter Strzok — who played a major role on the Clinton email investigation, watered down language that exonerated her from wrongdoing, and signed off on the FBI’s initial Russia probe — discussed in deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s office the possibility of Trump’s election. “I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” he had texted another FBI official with whom he was having an extramarital affair. He was later assigned to Robert Mueller’s special counsel, but was removed in July over those and hundreds of other anti-Trump texts.

As Republicans in Congress have learned these revelations, Democrats have tried to bring attention to Robert Mueller’s special counsel, arguing that Republicans and President Trump are trying to shut it down, despite him recently saying he had no intention of doing so.

Recently, the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), argued that there is already proof in “plain sight” that the Trump campaign colluded, and the special counsel had to continue, in order to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley tore into the U.N. General Assembly Thursday, threatening to pull U.S. funding from the international body in response to a resolution condemning President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

“The United States will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the General Assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation,” Haley said in remarks to the assembly in New York.

“We will remember it when we are called upon to once again make the world’s largest contribution to the United Nations and we will remember it when so many countries come calling on us, as they so often do, to pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit,” she warned.

The resolution, which passed 128-9, expressed “deep regret” at the call made by President Trump, and calls on “all States to refrain from the establishment of diplomatic missions in the Holy City of Jerusalem.” It was sponsored by Turkey and Yemen and comes after the U.S. vetoed a similar resolution at the Security Council. The U.S. does not hold veto power at the General Assembly.

Haley’s remarks were her toughest to date in her career as ambassador, where she has consistently grilled various U.N. officials over the body’s anti-Israel and anti-American bias. She has repeatedly noted the enormous U.S. contributions to the U.N. and has demanded better value for money from the bloated bureaucracy.

While Haley has repeatedly pointed to bias at the U.N., the latest resolution from the GA is different in that it directly singles out the U.S. for a decision in line with long-standing U.S. policy, and it seeks to shame the U.S. Haley has frequently contrasted the treatment of the U.S. and Israel with countries that have appalling human rights records like Cuba, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia – all three of which remain on the Human Rights Council.

The Trump administration has shown a willingness to back up its tough talk with action. In October, the U.S. withdrew from UNESCO, the U.N.’s cultural body, over that organization’s long-standing anti-Israel bias.

Haley’s remarks emphasized democratic accountability and took a possible swipe at countries that oppose the U.S., countries which are frequently lacking in such accountability. She warned:

America will put our embassy in Jerusalem, that is what the American p[eople want us to do, and it is the right thing to do. No vote at the United Nations will make any difference on that, but this vote will make a difference on how Americans look at the U.N. and on how we look at countries who disrespect us in the U.N. and this vote will be remembered.

Haley’s remarks come a day after President Trump also warned about pulling money from “nations that take our money and vote against us.”

“They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars then vote against us, well we’re watching those votes,” he said. “Let them vote against us; we’ll save a lot. We don’t care.”

On Thursday, Israel Ambassador Danny Danon expressed support for Haley, describing those who supported the resolution as “puppets” for the Palestinian leadership.

“Those who support today’s resolution are like puppets pulled by the strings of the Palestinian puppet masters,” Danon said.  “You are like marionettes forced to dance while the Palestinian leadership looks on with glee.”

Adam Shaw is a Breitbart News politics reporter based in New York. Follow Adam on Twitter: @AdamShawNY.

Failed Democrat presidential nominee and the world’s biggest excuse-maker, Hillary Rodham Clinton, appeared Monday on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” for a brief cameo in what has been described as the “Song for Women 2017.”

Apparently, she’s a singer now. Who knew?

According to BizPac Review, “The Daily Show” correspondents Desi Lydic and Dulcé Sloan pieced together a song to celebrate the accomplishments achieved by women in 2017, and for some reason they asked Clinton to participate in it.

But nowhere in the song was there a single reference to the first woman to run a successful presidential campaign, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, or the first mother to serve as the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

There was, however, the reference to Clinton, a woman who spent the entire year listing off excuse after excuse after excuse for why Donald Trump defeated her in the 2016 presidential election.

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Talk about a real winner …

Watch Clinton’s cameo below, or rewind the video to the beginning to hear the full sketch.

WARNING: Video known to trigger the bleeding of ears:

As noted by the Los Angeles Times, the song also “included references to the Women’s March, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s persistence, ‘Wonder Woman’s’ box office dominance, Cardi B’s chart topper, the birth of Beyoncé’s twins, Harvey Weinstein and Hollywood’s sexual harassment problem and more.”

Elizabeth Warren’s persistence? At what? Being a liar who continues to falsely pretend to be a Native American Indian? Please …

And the Women’s March? Really? As a reminder, one of the women who organized that pitiful affair, Islamist Linda Sarsour, was recently accused of covering up sexual assault.

“A fellow Muslim woman named Asmi Fathelbab has gone public with accusations that she was repeatedly sexually assaulted during her employment with the Arab American Association while Sarsour was its director,” the Conservative Tribune reported earlier this week.

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When Fathelbab confronted Sarsour about these accusations, she reportedly not only dismissed them but then threatened to fire Fathelbab.

Let’s be real: The so-called Women’s March and everything it represented isn’t relevant to actual American women. Neither is Clinton, who for the record accomplished nothing noteworthy in 2017 — and darn little for Americans in her entire career.

She’s a veritable has-been, and while her appearance in the video by “The Daily Show” is admittedly a little cute and funny — though bad for the ears — I don’t think it’s going to improve her tarnished image, let alone increase her chances of winning in 2020 (assuming she runs again).

But look, Clinton can do what she wants. I just hope no impressionable young girls get the wrong idea from this music video.

Fact: Clinton isn’t a woman to look up to — and neither are Elizabeth Warren nor Linda Sarsour, for that matter.

Please share this story on Facebook and Twitter and let us know what you think about Hillary Clinton’s cameo in this goofy music video.

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The frequency of acid attacks in London has turned parts of the British capital into “no go zones”, a former Labour minister has said.

The United Kingdom has “the highest rate of attacks per capita” in the world, claimed Stephen Timms, Labour MP for East Ham, in comments to fellow MPs reported by the Daily Mail.

Figures show the number of acid attacks in Britain shot up between 2012 and 2016 by more than 500 per cent. There were just 73 recorded attacks in 2012 but a massive 469 in 2016.

“The UK now has one of the highest rates of recorded acid and corrosive substance attacks per capita in the world and this number appears to be rising,” admitted Assistant Chief Constable Rachel Kearton, the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) lead on acid attacks, earlier this month.

Some left-wingers have argued that No Go Zones are an invention of the right, however, they have been written about extensively by journalists who have investigated the issue and visited them.

Politicians had been debating the UK’s problem with acid attacks on Wednesday, and Mr. Timms demanded the government take “significant action”.

He said: “I’ve had a number of discussions with representatives of moped delivery drivers and they say there are now parts of London where their drivers are not willing to go because of the danger of attack.

“I think all of us would regard it as unacceptable that there are no go areas in parts of London and parts of the UK. I think it requires some significant action to deal with the problem.”

London, 2017 ? https://t.co/DQH0Tl7MGR

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) August 7, 2017

Crime across England and Wales surged by 13 per cent in the year ending in June this year, with violent crime shooting up even more steeply. Offences of violence against the person, for example, increased by 19 per cent on the previous year.

Labour MP for West Ham Lyn Brown joined Mr. Timms in his calls for action during the debate, demanding much tighter regulation.

She claimed that initial steps to counter acid attacks “had been positive”, adding: “changes were made to the law in 2015 as part of the Deregulation Act, the red tape bonfire.

“The Act scrapped the obligation on sellers of dangerous substances, including acids, to be registered with their local council.

“This was despite opposing advice from the medical experts as well as the Government’s own advisory board on dangerous substances. I fear that these changes are partly responsible for the rise in acid attacks.”

In August, London police said they had identified “emerging links” between violent gang crime in the city and the surge in acid and moped attacks across the London area.

Gangs and organised crime groups were increasingly deploying corrosive liquids as a weapon, London’s Metropolitan force said.

Breitbart London editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam has written a book on No Go Zones, which can be found here.

A 600-year-old school in Germany has ditched Christmas celebrations during class time after a Muslim pupil said that carols were incompatible with Islam.

After a stir in local media over reports that the Johanneum Gymnasium in Lüneburg had “cancelled” Christmas following a Muslim girl’s complaint that the songs conflicted with her religion, the school’s headmaster said that the school was taking “a sensitive approach” to the festive season.

Headmaster Friedrich Suhr confirmed that the complaint had taken place, but denied it was behind the decision of management at the school — one of the oldest in northern Germany — to postpone and make voluntary its annual Christmas party.

The headmaster also explained that that music lessons at the school would no longer include songs with religiously-themed lyrics, pointing to regional education board rules which require teachers show consideration to pupils from minority faiths.

A spokesman for the local authority appeared to dispute this interpretation of the rules, noting that while it is up to individual schools to decide how to conform to regulations, the Education Act in no way demands a ban on Christian songs.

Centuries Old Winter Tradition Disappearing Because it’s Too Swedish https://t.co/fnOsrXBhZO http://pic.twitter.com/2B0hT2WytS

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) December 1, 2016

Bianca Schöneich warned, however, that “religious content in schools should be done in moderation”, and added that “a Christmas party should not have the character of a church service”.

A number of church figures have hit out at the school for taking an overly sensitive approach, with Catholic Bureau of Lower Saxony prelate Felix Bernard pointing out that religious music in Germany “is part of our cultural heritage”.

“The singing of Christmas carols constitutes neither a religious confession nor a service”, he told Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung.

Auxiliary Bishop Nikolaus Schwerdtfeger added it should go without saying that Christmas carols would be sung at Christmas celebrations in a Christian country.

“The fact that a school Christmas party can not take place during class time, I find a pity and also a bit absurd,” he said.

Norddeutscher Rundfunk reported that the issue has caused “heated debate” among pupils at Johanneum Gymnasium, with one lamenting to the public broadcaster: “Something that was never a problem before is now being made into one.”

On the other hand, pupil spokesman Thurka Parathaman backed the move to marginalise Christmas at the school, stating that it would not be right to have an event “for Christians that excludes other religions”.

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The Congressional Executive Commission on China has released its 2017 Report, which contains documentation of continued forced abortion under China’s Two-Child Policy.

“Chinese authorities continue to actively promote and implement coercive population planning policies that violate international standards,” the Congressional Report declares in its section titled “Population Control.”

The two-child policy regulations “include provisions that require couples to be married to have children and limit them to bearing two children,” with coercive population control at the heart of enforcement of the new regulations, it states.

“Officials continue to enforce compliance with population planning targets using methods including heavy fines, job termination, arbitrary detention, and coerced abortion,” the report states.

Some provincial-level Chinese population planning rules continue to explicitly instruct officials to carry out abortions, often referred to as ‘remedial measures’ for ‘out-of-plan’ [illegal] pregnancies, with some provinces urging functionaries to “use all means necessary” in enforcing the regulations.

When China announced that it was “abandoning” its draconian one-child policy in 2015, the claim was met with skepticism among critics, who contended that the move substantially changed nothing, since the communist government still asserts absolute control over families and will continue to enforce its will with coercion.

Critics such as Reggie Littlejohn, founder and president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, have said that the new Congressional Report vindicates their warnings at the time. Littlejohn told Breitbart News: “Under the Two-Child Policy, single women are still forcibly aborted, as are third children.”

Back in 2015, Littlejohn remarked that any mention of human rights was “noticeably absent” from the Communist party’s announcement. “Even though it will now allow all couples to have a second child, China has not promised to end forced abortion, forced sterilization, or forced contraception,” she said.

The news media at the time bought into the story that China had “abandoned” or “scrapped” its One-Child Policy, a depiction that Littlejohn called “demonstrably false.”

The new report also states that the sex ratio at birth reported by the Chinese government themselves indicates that the selective abortion of baby girls continues unabated under the new policy.

Although Chinese authorities continue to officially frown on sex-selective abortion, “some people reportedly continue the practice in response to government imposed birth limits and in keeping with a traditional cultural preference for sons,” the report declares.

According to a National Bureau of Statistics Report, the sex ratio at birth in 2015 was 113.5 males born for every 100 females born, a disproportion that could only be achieved through sex-selective abortion.  Years of such sex-selective favoring of boys has resulted in an estimated 33 to 37 million more males living in China than females. This imbalance is fueling sex trafficking from multiple nations into China “for forced marriage or commercial sexual exploitation” to help fill the gender gap.

“China’s Two-Child Policy continues the human rights abuses and gender-based violence of the One-Child Policy,” Littlejohn stated, while noting that “China remains firmly on the path to demographic disaster” due to its dangerously low birthrate.

China “should be offering incentives for couples to have babies, not forcibly aborting ‘illegal’ pregnancies,” Littlejohn added.

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