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King of Saudi Arabia Agrees to Create Safe Zones for Refugees in the Middle East

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Kosar – Over the weekend, there has been endless hysteria by the liberal media about President Donald Trump’s Executive Order limiting immigration from certain countries which have ties to terror. Incorrectly referred to by the biased media as a “Muslim ban,” it’s simply limiting immigration from countries chosen by Barack Obama and Congress as a security threat.

In 2015, Congress passed – and Barack Obama signed – the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act, listing the countries affected by President Trump’s Executive Order.

Nowhere does this ban mention “Muslims.”

The order makes a reasonable requirement that refugees must be delayed entry by 120 days while this vetting process improves. It also caps refugee admissions to 50,000 per year, roughly the number that entered America during a typical year of President George W. Bush’s administration.

Yesterday, hundreds of thousands of people from other nations traveled into the United States. But there is a real threat that some individuals posing as refugees have links to terrorism, which is why they cannot be allowed into the country without proper vetting.

This hardly looks like a “ban” at all, and the numbers speak for themselves: Continue reading →

The Mexicanization of the United States

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corporate Chris Hedges – The neoliberal ideology that is the engine of corporate capitalism spews its poison around the globe. Constitutions are rewritten by judicial fiat in a mockery of democracy. Laws and regulations that impede corporate exploitation are abolished. Corporations orchestrate legally sanctioned tax boycotts. Free-trade deals destroy small farmers and businesses along with labor unions and government agencies designed to protect the public from contaminated air, water and food and from usurious creditors and lenders. The press is transformed into an echo chamber for the corporate elites. Wages stagnate or decline. Unemployment and underemployment soar. Social services are curtailed or abolished in the name of austerity. The political system becomes a charade. Dissent is criminalized. The ecocide by the fossil fuel industry accelerates. State enterprises and utilities are sold to corporations. The educational system mutates into vocational training. Culture and the arts are replaced by sexual commodification, banal entertainment and graphic depictions of violence. Infrastructures crumble.

The working poor—sacrificed on the altar of corporate profit and suffering job losses, bankruptcies, foreclosures, harassment and arrest—watch helplessly as their dreams for themselves and their children evaporate. Some are forced into an underground economy dominated by drugs, crime and human trafficking. Some turn to opiates to blunt the despair. (Heroin use in the United States has doubled since 2007.) Suicides mount. (There are more than 40,000 a year in the U.S.) Hunger spreads. (Some 48.1 million Americans, including 15.3 million children, live in food-insecure households.) The state, to prevent unrest, militarizes the police agencies and empowers them to use lethal force against unarmed civilians. It fills the prisons.

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Denmark to confiscate gold, jewelry, and other valuables from refugees

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Danish Justice Minister Soren Pind

Simon Black – It started on December 8, 1931.

Germany was in a world of pain at the time. They were still financially debilitated from having to make reparation payments after losing World War I, and had just barely recovered from one of the worst bouts of hyperinflation in recorded history.

By the early 1930s, the onset of the Great Depression had taken hold in Germany, driving the government to desperation once again.

They needed cash. And rather than go back to the printing press and risk hyperinflation again, German President Paul von Hindenburg signed a decree to create a new tax called the Reichsfluchtsteuer, nearly 84 years ago to the day.

It was an exit tax… a type of capital control to dissuade people from leaving with their savings.

So any German citizen with a certain level of income or assets who left the country would be charged a 25% wealth tax.

The following year, in 1932, the government generated about 1 million marks in revenue from the tax.

Of course since the tax was a ‘temporary’ measure, it was set to expire at the end of 1932.

But they extended it. And kept extending it.

By 1938, the German government collected an astounding 346 million marks from this tax.

This nearly 350x increase in tax revenue over 6 years is incredible, making the Reichsfluchtsteuer one of the fastest growing taxes in human history. Continue reading →

Syria’s Neighbour Saudi Arabia With Enough Tents To House Millions Takes ZERO Refugees

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Arjun Walia – Saudi Arabia is considered to be a country plagued with a number of human rights violations, allied with the United States, they continue to face large amounts of criticism for refusing to take in any of the millions of Syrians currently fleeing their homeland in search for safety. This is more so because Saudi Arabia has approximately 100,000 air-conditioned tents sitting empty on a giant plot of land, located approximately 2, 150 miles from Syria in the city of Mina. Apparently, they’re only used a few days a year to house pilgrims commuting to Meca for hajj.

Why is this? Well, perhaps it’s because that this entire global war on terrorism is a United States undertaking, carried out by a number of countries that are obeying orders from Washington. More people are starting to wake up to this possibility, and evidence showing that all of this activity is “based on fake premises,” and that “somehow America and the Western world are going after a fictitious enemy, the Islamic State, when it fact the Islamic state is fully supported and financed by the Western military alliance and America’s allies in the Persian Gulf.” One of those allies is Saudi Arabia.

The quote above comes from Dr. Michel Chossudovsky, a Canadian economist and professor emeritus at the University of Ottawa. He and many others expressed these concerns at the International Conference on the New World Order, which was organized and sponsored by the Perdana Global Peace Foundation (source) (source)

It’s more convincing compared a reporter saying something on T.V., isn’t it? Continue reading →

Social Engineering 101: How to Make a Refugee Crisis

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Tony Cartalucci – Starting in 2007, the US was already in the process of engineering the overthrow and destruction of all prevailing political orders across the Middle East and North African (MENA) region.

It would be in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s 2007 New Yorker article, “The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?” that it was explicitly stated (emphasis added):

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Refugee camp in Turkey

To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has cooperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.

Hersh would also reveal that at the time, the US – then under the administration of President George Bush and through intermediaries including US-ally Saudi Arabia – had already begun channeling funding and support to the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood who would in 2011 play a crucial role in the opening phases of the destructive war now raging across the Levant.

In 2008, from Libya to Syria and beyond, activists were drawn by the US State Department from across MENA to learn the finer points of Washington and Wall Street’s “color revolution” industry. They were being prepared for an unprecedented, coordinated US-engineered MENA-wide campaign of political destabilization that would in 2011 be called the “Arab Spring.” Continue reading →