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"You can see the lengths they go to silence us all. They're not just censoring me. they're censoring you. They're censoring you from the ability to make up your own mind whether you agree with me or not...." TOMMY ROBINSON 'YOU TUBE' VIDEO AFTER HIS REMOVAL FROM FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM 2/27/2019 "....high-level pressure is growing for the official adoption of this definition of something called 'Islamophobia' in this country...Once they can get the police to accept this, then any criticisms of Islam will become risky, quite possibly a 'hate crime'. This is absurd. Islam is a set of political opinions,...

In what could be interpreted as Turkish reaction to President Trump's decision to keep US troops in Syria after saying they would be withdrawn back in December, the Turkish Interior Minister says his government will reveal the links between Kurdish groups considered terrorists by Turkeu and American generals..... Hundreds of suspected Islamic State fighters have been turned over to Iraqi authorities by Kurdish forces operating in eastern Syria...... President Trump tweeted Sunday evening that sufficient progress has been made in trade talks with China to delay tariff increases.... The talks between Afghanistan's Taliban and the United States resumed today in...

At the Marshal Juin Square in Paris, the protests in the capital city begin today (Saturday) with three locations and a procession through the city. The activities set to start at 4 am Eastern US, 10 am in Paris. Protests ending up at Trocadero Square in the afternoon There will be protests across France today.....

Good Morning. At the top of the Newsdump. The total number of US soldiers remaining in Syria was increased to 400 on Friday. After the initial announcement by the White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders Thursday, the media was told 200. But on Friday the number was increased in the information parcelled out to the media..... Two were killed and other wounded Friday when forces loyal to Nicolas Maduro opened fire on civilians trying to keep the border with Brazil open after he ordered it shut down to prevent humanitarian aid coming across. Interim President Juan Guaido made it across...

In Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine is proposing a gax tax hike..... Brazil is in on sending humanitarian aid across its border with Venezuela. That word from the spokesman for Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro.... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow today meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin..... He's running for president again as a Democrat in 2020... A Congressional report says that sensitive nuclear power technology is being transferred to Saudi Arabia...... In France a 36 year old laptop salesman who is a convert to Islam arrested..... And Yellow Vests got their wish last night when a former bodyguard...

(WARNING: OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE IN LEAD STORY) Protests all weekend in France on the third anniversary of the Yellow Vests. Protesters around the Eiffel Tower, on the Champs-Elysees and at the Place of the Republic in Paris on Sunday. On Saturday nationwide protests from the center of Paris to traffic circles in towns and at toll booths on the many highways being operated by private companies in the country. The Yellow Vests own estimate of their numbers Sunday is 101-thousand while the government says only 41,500. Much attention from government officials and the media paid to profane insults directed at a...

The first day of a weekend of protests by the Yellow Vests in France today with 5000 on the streets of Paris according to the authorities. Tear gas used against some on the Champs-Elysees late in the afternoon. More will rally and march in Paris tomorrow with four events listed to mark the three month anniversary of the Yellow Vests protests. The Yellow Vests decided to estimate their total number protesting today amid controversy over official government estimates. They estimate some 101,379 protesting today. The government says 41,500 protested. Thousands on the streets in Bordeaux with police making a handful...

(2AM SATURDAY EASTERN US TIME, 8AM IN FRANCE) Tomorrow February 17th will mark the three month anniversary of the Yellow Vests protests in France, a response to the economic-tax policies of President Emmanuel Macron. And a special protest is planned in Paris in connection with the anniversary tomorrow afternoon. But for today a nationwide protest schedule including multiple locations in Paris. Bordeaux, Marseille and other locations also involved today....

President Trump will take executive action invoking emergency powers to help secure the nation's southern border and sign the bill coming out of Congress that only provides limited funding for a border barrier. A figure of eight billion dollars in spending on a barrier...... From Syria a local media report that Russian military police in the area of the Kurdish city of Manbij are operating joint patrols with the Turkish military..... It was called a conference on "peace and security in the Middle East". Some 60 nations represented at the conference in Warsaw this but only two nations with high...

Jerome Rordigues, media figure in the Yellow Vests movement, says he's permanently lost use of one eye after being shot by a police "flash bang" round January 26th during a Yellow Vests protest in Paris. Rodrigues was making a video of the protest and trying to keep the peace when he was suddenly hit by a police round.....

President Trump praising the work of Senator Richard Shelby, Republican of Alabama, in reaching a deal for funding a barrier on the nation's southern border..... He was arrested in Mexico just over two years ago, escaped from prison there twice, then extradited to the United States last year and now Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman found guilty of ten federal charges in New York Tuesday..... The leader of the "New Right" Party in Israel, Naftali Bennett, says that religious Israelis are used by Benjamin Netanyahu at election time, but then he abandons them afterwards..... The messaging and the message from Prime...

Chinese government media has produced a video purported to be that of a Muslim Uighur musician reported to have died in a Chinese detention facility. The video dated Sunday shows Abdurehim Heyit saying he is in good health..... The ISIS holdouts are under assault from the US backed Kurdish forces in eastern Syria in what is reported to be the final assault to take the Islamic State out..... Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat Senator from Minnesota, announced her candidacy for President Sunday..... Politics in Israel and Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer, chairman of the Central Elections Committee, ordered a probe into...