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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,...

(BREAKING NEWS: Pakistan is saying it shot down two Indian jets in its airspace in Kashmir today. Pakistan says it bombed open ground but did not bomb six military targets it identified in the region. Pakistani Prime Minister Imram Khan says "We shot down two of their Migs. The pilots are with us". Khan has asked for dialogue with India.... A Saudi Arabian man, accused off the hit and run death of a 15-year-old in Oregon, is unlikely to face justice in the US. Abdulrahman Sameer Noorah was bailed out of jail in Oregon and surrendered his passport, but was...

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be interpreted as Turkish reaction to President Trump's decision to keep US troops in Syria after saying they would be withdrawn back in December, the Turkish Interior Minister says his government will reveal the links between Kurdish groups considered terrorists by Turkeu and American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...

"Today #MaduroRegime killed unarmed civilians of their own country to keep food & medicine from entering They they celebrated murder & burning of trucks carrying aid as a victory The world & those inside #Venezuela will reflect on what happened today & it will give rise to action" US Senator Marco Rubio On Twitter 2/23/2019 From the moment that Interim President Juan Guaido designated today, February 23rd, as the day for humanitarian aid to be brought into Venezuela it was obvious that this day was going to be a day of confrontation between the opposition forces and the Maduro government....

While Emmanuel Macron created good images for the camera at an agricultural expo in the south of Paris today, the Yellow Vests came out into the streets for Week 15 of the protest. The government estimate 46,600 protesters this week. BUT THE YELLOW VESTS OWN ESTIMATE SAY 113,392 THIS WEEK, UP FROM 101,379 LAST WEEK In Paris 5800 estimated by the government. Left-wing protesters in masks showed up in the aftermath of the Yellow Vests seeking confrontation with police this evening. More than 2600 protested in Clermont-Ferrand. Portesters in Rennes as well. Yellow Vests were attacked by police when they...

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...

Good Morning. From the White House backtracking on the planned withdrawal of US troops from Syria. "A small peacekeeping force of about 200 will remain in Syria for a period of time" The direct quote from White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders.... In Israel three political groupings have come together Telem, Israel Resilience ad Yesh Atid to oppose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party. Their united political movement is dubbed "Blue and White", Cacol Lavan in Hebrew...... In the UK this week a new political group forming.... Tomorrow in France Week 15 of the Yellow Vests protests.... Venezuela closing its...

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...

"I do not want to particpate in a political instrumentalization" Marine Rally Leader Marine Le Pen Explains Her Non-Participation In A March Against Anti Semitism A coincidence or just what passes for regular normal activity in modern day France, but multiple Anti-Semitic incidents reported in France in the days leading up to today's rally against Anti Semitism from the desecration of 80 graves in a Jewish cemetery to shots fired at a synagogue to insults hurled at a Jewish academic on the sidelines of a Yellow Vests march in Paris last Saturday. He was called among other things: "big Zionist...

Will liberal outlets like Politifact fact check the geography-challenged Bernie Sanders? Socialists like Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez aren't big on math. It just gets in the way of setting utopian, unachievable goals. Take Sanders today. At the very beginning of his formal announcement video, Sanders set this goal: "an unprecedented, grassroots campaign of one million active volunteers in every state in our country."Um, just a little problem there, Bernie. The population of your own state of Vermont is only 627,000. How can you possibly not know that? And there are five other states with populations under one million. So, yeah,...

"The people of Venezuela are standing for freedom and democracy and the United States of America is standing right by their side" President Donald J. Trump Speaks In Miami 2/18/2019 Speaking in Miami Monday afternoon President Donald Trump urged the Venezuelan military to stop its support for Nicolas Maduro and come out in support of Interim President Juan Guaido. Trump noted that Guaido has offered amnesty and also warned that the US knows where the military has any ill gotten gains given to them by Maduro stashed in financial institutions. The President laid out a vision of democracy for Venezuela...

(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 Champ de Mars in the area of the Eiffel Tower was filled with Yellow Vests this afternoon on the three month anniversary of the protests that began November 17th. They moved on to other locations like the Champs-Elysees and the Place of the Republic where protesters were already gathered for static demonstrations that began early in the afternoon. The police say that 1500 were protesting this afternoon in Paris. Also today a Yellow Vests protest was underway in the south of France at La Ciotat on the coast just east of Marseille. This extra day of protest followed yesterday's...

Full Interview From This Morning — Short Highlight Clips Are Below Graham will hold hearing on McCabe’s ‘beyond stunning’ 25th Amendment comments Warning to Rod Rosenstein – I Will Subpoena You Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., vowed Sunday to investigate alleged discussions at the Department of Justice about invoking the 25th Amendment as a way to oust President Trump from office and threatened to subpoena former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe if he refused to testify on the matter before the Senate. “We’re going to find out what happened here and the only way I know to find out is to...

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...

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This weekend marks the three month anniversary of the Yellow Vests protests in France and nationwide protests are planned today with a special protest in Paris tomorrow...... "California will see you in court" is the response from Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom to President Trump's emergency declaration to erect a barrier on the US-Mexico border..... Former Massachusetts Governor William Weld wants to challenge President Trump in 2020. Weld forming an exploratory committee for a candidacy that would oppose the President for the GOP nomination.... Five are dead in a workplace shooting incident in Aurora, Illinois..... General Joseph Votel, commander of US...

(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....

Brooks calls on the President to Invoke Title 10 sec. 248 of the U.S. code https://youtu.be/LryeNnUmegA House Freedom Caucus member Mo Brooks urged President Trump to use National Emergencies Act of 1976, Title 10 U.S. Code Section 284, and every other possible federal statute to build the wall in a fiery speech earlier 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...