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A Russian comedian has posted a phone conversation on his Facebook page he claims is with California Congresswoman Maxine Waters in which he poses as the prime minister of Ukraine. And Waters falls for it — hard. “I was surprised to hear that you called me,” Waters tells a man known as Vovan, “but I’m delighted to talk with you.” The comedian, posing as Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, and Waters discussed U.S. sanctions on Russia and Donald Trump’s position on them. He went on to tell Waters that he has “good relations with Ms. Clinton.” “She doing fine,” Waters...

The climate isn't the easiest. Economic uncertainty and political unknowns abound on both sides of the Atlantic. In the US with the new administration of Donald Trump and its protectionist and isolationist tone. And in Europe, rocked by Brexit and anxiously awaiting elections in nations that are key to the future the Union. But most of all for Italy Inc, whose companies are determinedly betting on their own excellence despite their often niche positions. Confronted with uncertainty, they must focus on attracting international investment and on expanding their presence in the US with acquisitions and growth on US soil. This...

This "recruitment" video turns the tables on the Democrat Brownshirts. Join the Snowflake Squadro

Thank you, Maryland legislature. Your stupidity revived a post I wanted to write a year ago that got overtaken by some much bigger events in 2016. But now thanks to two Maryland Representatives the idiocy of "Affirmative Consent" (AC), aka: The "Yes Means Yes" Law has made its triumphant return. What is that law, you say? Something this stupid must have originated from our Venezuela-in-training state of California! via Robert Stacy McCain: The new law requires a verbal “yes” at every stage of intimacy, right? Now, let us imagine the situation in which a student says “yes” to X, then...

Michael Flynn Resigns Is He A Traitor, and Who Is Leaking Top Secret Information?

From an article in CFP. It appears that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un my have assassinated his half brother Kim Jong-Nam.

The Michigan Education Association has for years promoted a claim that public school teachers are so underpaid that many live in poverty. The facts show it would require extraordinary and highly unlikely circumstances for a full-time teacher in the state to meet the official definition of poverty. Michigan’s largest teacher union recently enlisted a new ally in promoting this narrative: Royal Oak Mayor Mike Fournier. The MEA wrote in a press release that Fournier “knows educators who’ve watched their pay drop to poverty levels due to step freezes and state-mandated health care premium increases.” Fournier’s wife teaches at the Waterford...

Democracy has failed to protect society from the predatory behaviour of global financial markets, writes Ann Pettifor. Drawing on her new book, she explains why the monetary system has made society vulnerable, and how it needs to be transformed. Ten years after the catastrophic failure of both the global banking system and the global economy, economic disorder is once again threatening a new dark age. Western democracy has failed to protect society from the predatory behaviour of global financial markets – mostly rent-seekers; and from the ideology and impacts of market fundamentalism. In the absence of organised labour unions, and...

World leaders and economists are pushing harder than ever toward a cashless society. With anti-cash measures already being tested in Europe and the Third World, itÂ’s only a matter of time until the global elite push for the same in the U.S. Will globalistsÂ’ dream of a cashless society soon become reality? Plotting in Switzerland Last month, members of the World Economic Forum, more commonly known as the Davos Elite, met for their annual gathering in Switzerland, and the pursuit of a global cashless society was a major topic on their agenda. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, a key member...

In the modern era, the phrase Class War is rooted in the socialist/Marxist concept that the conflict between labor (the working class) and capital (owners of capital) is not just inevitable—it’s the fulcrum of history. In this view, this Class War is the inevitable result of the asymmetry between the elite who own/control the capital and the much larger class of people whose livelihood is earned solely by their labor. In Marx’s analysis, the inner dynamics of capitalism inevitably lead to the concentration of capital in monopolies/cartels whose great wealth enables them to influence the government to serve the interests...

Hypocrite liberals said nothing after Obama detained Ibtihaj Muhammad, a law abiding, Muslim, U.S. citizen, who was born in New Jersey, and who won an Olympic medal In December 2016, the Obama administration detained Ibtihaj Muhammad, despite the fact that she is a law abiding U.S. citizen who was born in Maplewood, New Jersey, and is an Olympic medal winner.If Trump had done this, liberals would be – justifiably so – heavily outraged.But because this was done by Obama, liberals said nothing.

Seeking to gain a leg up on other potential Democratic Party aspirants for the 2020 nomination, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass) excoriated the Trump Administration's "deplorable xenophobia in placing the interests of American citizens ahead of the interests of humanity." "Hillary warned us of the transcendent evil that Trump poses to the progressive values President Obama strove to embed in our government's policies," Warren screeched in her Senate tirade against the confirmation of Sen. Jeff Sessions as the new US Attorney General. "By confirming Sessions the Senate has embedded diametrically opposed values. Putting Americans ahead of immigrants is, as the US...

Healey, along with members of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association and the Massachusetts Major City Chiefs of Police, announced their gun resources for patients this week. (Photo: Mass.gov) State Attorney General Martha Healey teamed up with the Massachusetts Medical Society on Monday to provide voluntary guidance to heath care professionals in the state on guns. Announced at Boston Medical Center, Healey and Mass Med are providing two pamphlets and free training on talking to patients about firearms. “While the vast majority of gun owners are responsible and deeply committed to gun safety, this remains a public...

Up-to-the-minute coverage! Just to bring you the very latest, it’s now six! I don’t want you to miss any updates. Not that you would, with NBC, the Washington Post, NESN and the New York Times all breathlessly covering this story in the past few days. If you’re a New England Patriot and you don’t want to go to the White House because you hate Trump, you’re very big news. Here’s the report the nation needs to fend off the fall of the republic, courtesy of The Hill:

Bucknell professor Marcellus Andrews says social justice warriors should “impose a steep and lasting price” on conservative and libertarian students, and implies that they should “rearrange their faces and snap their bones” Imagine if the roles had been reversed, and that the student had emailed these things to the professor, instead of the other way around. Then the student would have been expelled, and criminal charges would have been filed against the student.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiJKDVy3XQ8http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/02/10/watch-professor-instructed-students-lash-political-beliefs-responded/Transcript:On Monday, January 16th, Bucknell Professor Marcellus Andrews wrote an open email to the Bucknell community addressing his concerns about discrimination on campus in light of the rise of...

Sad! I love this story. I don’t believe Tom Arnold (The Stupids, Golf Punks) for a second, but I love it. In the grand tradition of Fox Mulder, “I want to believe” that it happened. The idea that Hillary Clinton had a ‘Hitler in the bunker’ moment where she realized all was lost, and her last, great, hope was a desperate phone call to a possibly lying Tom Arnold? That’s a story so juicy and delicious that Mayor Bloomberg would have wanted it banned from New York restaurants.

The arrests of hundreds of immigrants last week marked the first large-scale raid under the Trump administration — and the crackdown was, by all indications, just the start of much more to come. The expansive executive order signed last month by President Donald Trump allows a significantly broader population of immigrants to be picked up for deportation. And Trump has signaled he has every intention of using that authority to carry out his campaign pledge to deport millions of foreigners from the United States. Immigration advocates say the stepped-up enforcement amounts to a new deportation dragnet that’s ensnaring otherwise law-abiding...

States that make it harder for someone to work legally, typically through licensing requirements, tend to have higher levels of unemployment. Two studies released this past November show how these barriers are a particular problem for ex-offenders, thereby increasing their likeliness to reoffend. Scholars from Arizona State University and the Kaufmann Foundation studied the relationship between occupational licensing and recidivism. They discovered that states that require licenses for a greater number of jobs also experienced a higher recidivism rate. This suggests that efforts to reduce recidivism rates and other criminal justice reforms should take into consideration the impact of occupational...

Somehow, the whole world appears out of joint; crazy stuff seems to be happening in all spheres of life. Just think about the statistical likelihood that in the same one year the NBA finals would be won by a team three to one games behind, even if that team has LeBron James; that the Chicago Cubs (the Chicago Cubs!) after 108 years would win the World Series of Baseball, also being three to one games behind, and in overtime of game seven away from home; and that after being 28 points behind, the Patriots would rally to win the Superbowl...

Erratic escalation? Kim Jong-Un is often said to be a sadistic monster, and his propensity for creative, painful, and brutal executions In an attack that sounds like something out of a Bond movie, the half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un has been assassinated in Malaysia. The method? Two female killers carrying either poison needles or a mysterious spray aerosol.