Month: December 2019

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has removed a cameo scene featuring an appearance from Donald Trump in its broadcast of the film Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

A 10-second cameo scene in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York — which shows Donald Trump giving Kevin McCallister (played by Macaulay Culkin) directions to the hotel lobby — has been removed by Canadian Broadcaster Corporation (CBC).

“Excuse me, where’s the lobby?” asks the Home Alone 2 character Kevin McCallister in the film.

“Down the hall and to the left,” responds Donald Trump.

Watch the cameo scene below:

Here’s what audiences watching the CBC Trump-less version of the classic Christmas film saw.

Social media soon began buzzing, with users posting about how they noticed that President Trump was missing from the version of the movie airing specifically on CBC.

“@CBC Cutting Trump from Home Alone 2 is disgusting & your pathetic,” tweeted one user.

So Canada dislikes Donald Trump so much that they’ve cut out his cameo appearance on Home Alone 2…Talk about petty 😂😂😂😂😂

— Thabo Ntsako Baloyi (@MrBaloyiTheOne) December 26, 2019

CBC TV in Canada has cut Donald Trump’s Home Alone 2 cameo out of their broadcast.

They’re so triggered by him that they had to edit him out of the film.

Absolutely pathetic.

— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) December 26, 2019

Several users also pointed out that CBC is state-funded, and suggested that the broadcasting company be defunded.

“You guys are the biggest bush league ‘journalists’ of all time,” tweeted one user. “Editing out Trump’s cameo in Home Alone 2. What kind of state-sponsored bullshit it that? #Defund”

“State-funded broadcaster @CBC deleted this scene featuring Donald Trump from their broadcast of Home Alone 2,” tweeted another.

The CBC is making headlines for deleting Trump from Home Alone 2 just another reason to #defundCBC

— Canadabuster (@Canadabuster) December 26, 2019

Some users on Twitter were pleased to see that CBC removed the U.S. president from the film.

@CBC Can you also edit @realDonaldTrump out of the movie Zoolander and the Little Rascals & then send me the copies of those movies & Home Alone 2 as well? So I can relive my childhood without that douchebag.

— Teddy8827 (@TEKO8827) December 25, 2019

#CBC is airing home alone 2 and edited out Donald Trump 😂😂😂

— Anthony Di Marco (@ADiMarco25) December 16, 2019

CBC, however, suggested that they deleted that particular scene in order to make time for commercials.

“As is often the case with features adapted for television, Home Alone 2 was edited to allow for commercial time within the format,” said CBC, according to ComicBook.com.

“Here’s where that explanation fails to pass the smell test,” notes PJ Media. “Donald Trump formally announced his campaign in June 2015. The first time the CBC’s cutting of Trump’s cameo appearance was acknowledged on Twitter was around Christmas that year.”

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Kanye West dropped a new 19-track gospel album aptly titled “Jesus is Born” on Christmas day.

The surprise gospel album comes on the heels of West’s successful and highly-anticipated “Jesus is King,” which earned the artist his ninth consecutive spot at the top of the Billboard 200, according to CBS News.

The primary artist listed on “Jesus is Born” is West’s Sunday Service Choir; the album features covers of “Ultralight Beam” and “Balm In Gilead,” CNN notes.

Sunday Service Choir, featuring West, travels to various cities to put on Jesus-centered performances. According to TMZ, the choir performed in New York City at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall on Sunday.

“The choir belted out songs from Kanye’s ‘Jesus is King’ album — as they normally have — but there was also a rendition of ‘The Little Drummer Boy’ added to the setlist,” the entertainment site notes.

Comedian Dave Chappelle, actor Bradley Cooper, and West’s wife Kim Kardashian were all in attendance.

The musical talent has been increasingly open about his Christian faith. As reported by The Daily Wire in October, West said he asked people working on his “Jesus is King” album to refrain from premarital sex. The proud Trump supporter also condemned the saturation of porn in our culture.

“When collaborating with others on ‘Jesus Is King,’ West set up some lifestyle guidelines that they would have to abide by in order be part of the project,” Billboard reported. “Yeezy asked others to fast during portions of creating and also not partake in any premarital sex at times, which he knew would receive some blowback once it became public.”

“There were times where I was asking people not to have premarital sex while they were working on the album,” West said. “When people pray together and fast together, the power is increased.”

West also explained that he no longer views himself as a “slave” to the music industry, but as a “free” “son of God” spreading the gospel.

“Now that I’m in service to Christ, my job is to spread the gospel, to let people know what Jesus has done for me,” the 42-year-old said. “I’ve spread a lot of things. There was a time I was letting you know what high fashion had done for me, I was letting you know what the Hennessey had done for me, but now I’m letting you know what Jesus has done for me, and in that I’m no longer a slave, I’m a son now, a son of God. I’m free.”

Last year, West visited the White House to discuss criminal justice reform with President Trump, sparking a media firestorm.

“There was something about when I put this hat on it made me feel like Superman … You made a Superman — that’s my favorite superhero — you made a Superman cape for me,” West told the president while sporting a “Make America Great Again” hat.

“I love this guy here,” the artist said of Trump.

Related: WATCH: Kanye Brings Dragon Energy To The White House, Calls MAGA Hat His ‘Superman Cape’

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A Mexican national charged in the hit-and-run death of a Colorado grandmother was in the United States illegally. He had also been previously deported multiple times and had been arrested on suspicion of drunk driving just days before, law enforcement officials say.

Last week in Denver, Colorado, 51-year-old Annette Conquering Bear was killed in a hit-and-run collision while she was crossing the street on the way back from a Walgreens store near her apartment. On Monday, the Denver district attorney’s office announced formal charges against 39-year-old Juan Sanchez for leaving the scene of a deadly accident and vehicular homicide.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told KUSA-TV Monday in a written statement that the suspect “is an ICE enforcement priority” with multiple previous removals from the United States spanning almost two decades. ICE says federal officials removed Sanchez two times in 2002, three times in 2008, and once again in 2012.

The KUSA report also explains that that just four days prior to the accident that killed Conquering Bear, Sanchez had previously been arrested on suspicion of DUI but released after booking because he was “uncooperative,” even though a breath test reportedly showed that his blood alcohol level was over twice the legal limit. “Sanchez refused to sit down on the booking bench,” and at one point he he “began laying down on the floor [of a jail cell] refusing to listen to any orders,” a police report says. ICE says that, in that instance, the suspect was released from custody before ICE could even lodge a detainer on him.

Now, ICE told KUSA, the agency has issued a detainer requesting that it “be given timely and specific notification before [Sanchez] is released from local custody for any reason.”

Conquering Bear was a mother of six and a grandmother of five and died just before her 52nd birthday, according to an obituary.

“I wanted to run past the tape, but you can’t. It’s a crime scene,” Daryle Conquering Bear told KDVR-TV about the scene of his mother’s untimely death. “The officer removed part of it and I seen the top of her head and I knew that was her. There’s nothing you can do.”

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Angry leftists stormed the village church in Kleinhüningen, Switzerland and disrupted the service on Christmas Eve.

The unhinged mob were outraged over Pastor Christine Dietrich‘s harsh comments on Islam.

Pi-News reported:

It was just after 10 p.m. The celebration had only just begun, the organist was playing the introductory piece when several masked people rose. “I hadn’t noticed these people before,” says Pastor Christine Dietrich, who led the service. Apparently, the young people only sat in the church like normal churchgoers and disguised themselves shortly afterwards.

“They got up, spread out their sheets and announced that they would now do a Christmas campaign,” Dietrich says. Some worshipers initially thought that the performance was part of the program. He did not, as it quickly became clear: “Our message is: peace instead of agitation,” called an activist. Dietrich would preach about the light of peace. “But this peace is hypocritical!” The pastor had run an extreme right-wing website for years and never distanced herself from it. “We urge them to take a stand against Islamophobia and racism today.”

In concrete terms, the pastor is accused of having worked as an author on the “Politically Incorrect” website until 2011. It was less about her posts than the fact that she wrote for this platform at all.

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Pastor Darrell Scott ridiculed Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s Christmas greeting as a “load of crap” on Wednesday after the South Bend mayor claimed Jesus came to earth as a refugee.

“Today I join millions around the world in celebrating the arrival of divinity on earth, who came into this world not in riches but in poverty, not as a citizen but as a refugee,” he wrote on Twitter.

Today I join millions around the world in celebrating the arrival of divinity on earth, who came into this world not in riches but in poverty, not as a citizen but as a refugee.

No matter where or how we celebrate, merry Christmas.

— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) December 25, 2019

Buttigieg’s greeting was instantly ridiculed on Twitter for trying to load up his Christmas message with heavy handed political messaging and for curiously omitting the use of the name Jesus Christ.

Pastor Darrell Scott, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump pointed out that Jesus was not a “refugee” who came to earth from heaven.

“When did you come up with THAT load of crap?” he wrote in response to Buttigieg. “Joseph was NOT a poor man, and Jesus did NOT come into this world as a refugee from heaven. Please stop.”

“Who came into this world not in riches, but in poverty, not as a citizen, but as a refugee”? When did you come up with THAT load of crap? Joseph was NOT a poor man, and Jesus did NOT come into this world as a refugee from heaven. Please stop.

— Dr.Darrell Scott (@PastorDScott) December 26, 2019

Buttigieg later reshared a more meaningful Christmas message from his husband Chasten who showed off their dog playing with a stuffed avocado.

The combination of Buddy, his new favorite stuffed avocado, and slo-mo may very well be the best Christmas present ever. pic.twitter.com/tQFprqTZ5w

— Chasten Buttigieg (@Chas10Buttigieg) December 26, 2019

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South Korean media reported on Wednesday that the United States flew four surveillance aircraft over the Korean Peninsula simultaneously to keep an eye out for North Korea’s promised “Christmas gift” of a provocative missile launch.

“It is unusual for four American surveillance planes to conduct missions around the Korean Peninsula at the same time. That appears to illustrate how much attention the U.S. is paying to an increasingly belligerent North Korea,” South Korea’s Yonhap News wrote.

The report was based on information from a civilian air tracking group called Aircraft Spots, which monitored three manned aircraft – an RC-135W Rivet Joint, an E-8C Joint STARS, and an RC-135S Cobra Ball – as well as an RQ-4 Global Hawk drone. A KC-135R refueling aircraft was also deployed to support the planes. The RC-135S launched from Kadena Air Base in Japan and covered the Sea of Japan, commonly known as the East Sea in Korea.

Yonhap News also noted that land and naval radar systems were on alert throughout Christmas Day. As of Thursday morning, no missile launch had been detected. 

NBC News noted a high level of U.S. surveillance activity on the Korean Peninsula this week. While the Pentagon did not respond to NBC’s request for comment, a South Korean defense spokesman said his government and the United States are working closely on “monitoring and tracking down North Korean movements.”

In early December, North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Ri Thae-song denounced American diplomacy as a “foolish trick” and declared Pyongyang was no longer interested in negotiations.

“The DPRK [North Korean regime] has done its utmost with maximum perseverance not to backtrack from the important steps it has taken on its own initiative. What is left to be done now is the U.S. option and it is entirely up to the U.S. what Christmas gift it will select to get,” he warned.

This was widely interpreted as a threat to conduct missile tests on or before Christmas Day, both to continue North Korea’s policy of ratcheting up tensions to force concessions and because such activity could prove embarrassing to U.S. President Donald Trump during his reelection campaign. 

A week after Ri’s remarks, North Korea announced it had conducted a “very important test” of rocket engines that could be used in intercontinental ballistic missiles. Commercial satellite photos later detected activity at a factory where North Korea has constructed long-range missiles and launchers.

Speaking with reporters on Christmas Eve, President Trump joked about Ri’s threat: “Maybe it’s a present where he sends me a beautiful vase as opposed to a missile test, right? I may get a vase, I may get a nice present from him. You don’t know. You never know.”

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International groups that monitor Internet blockades said on Wednesday mobile Internet access is going down across several provinces in Iran, most likely paving the way for another bloody crackdown on protesters.

Reuters saw all the signs of a fresh crackdown in response to calls on social media for another round of protests, including state media claims that weapons have been seized from subversives supported by the United States and more complaints from the Tehran regime that protests are being organized by agents of hostile foreign governments.

Eyewitnesses report ominous deployments of Iranian troops in urban areas to intimidate potential protesters:

#IranProtests
Special Forces deployed around Tehran & other cities to spook people from gathering. https://t.co/MR14A8pJk5

— Farnaz Fassihi (@farnazfassihi) December 26, 2019

Tabriz NW #Iran – a convoy of security forces parades on the streets while the #Iranian regime gets ready for #IranProtests and commemoration ceremonies for slain protesters called on by their families for Dec. 26. pic.twitter.com/ZpNPJz4r9K

— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) December 25, 2019

Iranian officials denied giving orders to partially block the Internet, but inside sources said a blockade was indeed under way and growing, while outside monitors detected significant disruptions:

An official denied any order by the authorities to block the internet, which was shutdown for about a week in the November unrest. A news agency also cited mobile operators saying their services had not been disrupted.

The semi-official news agency ILNA quoted an informed source at the Communications and Information Technology Ministry as saying mobile internet access to overseas sites was blocked by “security authorities” in Alborz, Kurdestan and Zanjan provinces in central and western Iran and Fars in the south.

“According to this source, it is possible that more provinces will be affected by the shutdown of mobile international connectivity,” ILNA said.

Internet blockage observatory NetBlocks said on Twitter: “Confirmed: Evidence of mobile internet disruption in parts of #Iran …real-time network data show two distinct drops in connectivity this morning amid reports of regional outages; incident ongoing.”

The shutdown appeared to be spreading.

“I just checked myself and asked a friend, and the internet is off on our mobiles,” a resident in Ahvaz, the capital of the oil producing Khuzestan province, told Reuters.

Some of the areas affected by the Internet disruption featured especially vigorous protest activities and violent responses from the Iranian government, including a province where security forces shot a young protester and then arrested his parents for refusing to cancel his funeral. 

Many calls for renewed protests on social media in recent days have urged Iranians to remember the dead and denounce the government for killing them. One popular tag for online protest activity was “See You Thursday.” When Internet blackouts interfered with online coordination, protesters began handing out leaflets with hashtags and other contact information written on them.

The Iranian regime continues denying the extent of the bloodshed during the crackdown last month, but international observers report hundreds were killed. Reuters itself published the highest estimate at 1,500 people killed in less than two weeks in mid-November.

The previous crackdown included extensive government manipulation of Internet access, which the U.S. highlighted by leveling sanctions against Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi. 

“Iran’s leaders know that a free and open internet exposes their illegitimacy, so they seek to censor internet access to quell anti-regime protests. We are sanctioning Iran’s Minister of Information and Communications Technology for restricting internet access, including to popular messaging applications that help tens of millions of Iranians stay connected to each other and the outside world,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said when announcing the sanctions in November.

The Jerusalem Post reported confrontations between security forces and demonstrators in several cities on Wednesday night, some of them captured on video and uploaded to social media. Videos from multiple locations showed security troops firing into the air to disperse the protests.

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With both the Russia and Ukraine hoaxes having fizzled and the “legal” means for President Trump’s removal perhaps exhausted, at least for now, the Left appears to have moved on to a “moral” argument designed to influence the 2020 election. Initiated by Christianity Today and advanced by figures such as CNN’s Chris Cuomo, the idea is that Evangelicals — and by implication all Christians — should be ashamed to support Trump because he makes a “mockery” of their faith.

It’s an interesting argument not because it’s anything but a demagogic one, but because it relates to interesting issues completely eluding the very uninteresting people making the argument. Unfortunately, I’ve yet to hear them treated adequately.

Were I to apply my own purity test, I couldn’t vote for anyone, including myself. Characterizing myself, I shy away from ideological or party labels and rather say I’m sort of like Mayberry meets the Middle Ages. In fact, there’s a certain (half?) joke I sometimes make with those around me, who are very few in number, after returning from situations in which I encounter large groups of people. “I had to interact with the humans today,” I’ll say. Yet I can still vote for the humans — including the very human Donald Trump.

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The scapegoat in this case is President Donald Trump as portrayed by the Democrats.

Ever since Trump pulled off the greatest electoral upset of the century, he has become the scapegoat for the failure of the Democrat Party to “crown” Hillary Clinton as president of the United States.  For 3 years, everything President Trump has said or done (and in his whole life) has been put under a microscope in hopes of finding something—anything— to bring Articles of Impeachment against him to remove him from office.  So far, the partisan attacks have failed, even though the Democrats have put forth two phony Articles of Impeachment.

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