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White House counselor Kellyanne Conway wondered Friday how much more money should be spent on investigations into Russian election interference and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
“What kind of money are we going to spend by the taxpayers having these infinite investigations?” Conway asked on “Fox and Friends.” “There are many of them. If we’re going to do that, fine I suppose, but we really need to spend our time also telling people what’s being done here for them and that’s not being covered at all.”
The remarks from Conway come as special counsel Robert Mueller has expanded his investigative team to more than 25 individuals, according to Mueller spokesman Peter Carr. Carr didn’t tell The Daily Caller exactly how many members are part of Mueller’s team, Carr said this figure includes “attorneys, administrative staff and FBI agents.”
Mueller has hired 16 attorneys, 13 of which have been publically identified, Carr would not tell TheDC who the other three attorneys are. The Daily Caller previously reported that at least seven lawyers hired by Mueller – a registered Republican – are Democratic donors.
Diversity is great. Immigration is great. Those things have made America as great as it is today.
That being said, there are some parts of certain cultures that we simply shouldn’t allow immigrants to bring to our shores. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is one of those things.
For those of you who don’t know what FGM is, you’re lucky.
It was recently discovered that female genital mutilation no longer just happens across the ocean, it’s happening right here in America. Not a lot of people were exactly happy about this, and hoped to pass a bill in Maine that would criminalize the act of female circumcision .
Democrats, naturally, had to oppose the passage of the bill. One refused to vote for it because she didn’t believe that it was happening in her state.
Okay? Then what’s the problem with making it a crime at the state level?
“I do not believe that it is happening in the state of Maine. I truly do not believe that,” said Rep. Lois Galgay Reckitt, D-South Portland. “And I believe if it was happening, it would be prosecuted vigorously by the federal (laws) or by the abuse statutes in this state.”
So I guess what I don’t understand is why the vote ended up 76-71. How can 76 people oppose criminalizing the act of mutilation of a woman’s genitals? Isn’t that something that feminists should be all over? After all, it would be someone taking away a woman’s control over her body, so why are they for that?
You have to wonder how any human being in their right mind could possibly vote against this. That baffles me! Maybe Democrats aren’t as supportive of women and children as they think they are. At least not until a more oppressed class comes along. This is so disgusting.
Diversity is great. Immigration is great. Those things have made America as great as it is today.
That being said, there are some parts of certain cultures that we simply shouldn’t allow immigrants to bring to our shores. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is one of those things.
For those of you who don’t know what FGM is, you’re lucky.
It was recently discovered that female genital mutilation no longer just happens across the ocean, it’s happening right here in America. Not a lot of people were exactly happy about this, and hoped to pass a bill in Maine that would criminalize the act of female circumcision .
Democrats, naturally, had to oppose the passage of the bill. One refused to vote for it because she didn’t believe that it was happening in her state.
Okay? Then what’s the problem with making it a crime at the state level?
“I do not believe that it is happening in the state of Maine. I truly do not believe that,” said Rep. Lois Galgay Reckitt, D-South Portland. “And I believe if it was happening, it would be prosecuted vigorously by the federal (laws) or by the abuse statutes in this state.”
So I guess what I don’t understand is why the vote ended up 76-71. How can 76 people oppose criminalizing the act of mutilation of a woman’s genitals? Isn’t that something that feminists should be all over? After all, it would be someone taking away a woman’s control over her body, so why are they for that?
You have to wonder how any human being in their right mind could possibly vote against this. That baffles me! Maybe Democrats aren’t as supportive of women and children as they think they are. At least not until a more oppressed class comes along. This is so disgusting.
Billionaire leftist activist George Soros poses a threat to more than just America; he also poses a threat to Israel.
In a statement published over the weekend, the nation’s foreign ministry made it clear that Soros “continually undermines Israel’s democratically elected governments” by, as an example, funding organizations “that defame the Jewish state and seek to deny it the right to defend itself,” according to Reuters.
The statement was reportedly issued as a means to provide support to Hungary, whose conservative government has been accused of antisemitism for launching a poster campaign against the power-hungry billionaire; and with whose leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to meet sometime soon.
“Let’s not allow Soros to have the last laugh,” the posters and billboards backed by Orban read, taking aiming at the billionaire’s frequent calls for Hungary to open its borders and flood its neighborhoods with migrants and refugees.
Some angry Hungarians have reportedly written anti-Jewish slurs on the billboards, but these actions have no ties whatsoever to the nation’s government.
“I am distressed by the current Hungarian regime’s use of antisemitic imagery as part of its deliberate disinformation campaign,” Soros responded in a statement.
Apparently, simply criticizing an evil man for his evil ways counts as antisemitism if the man in question happens to be Jewish. Who knew?
Granted, Israel’s ambassador to Hungary, Yossi Amrani, initially echoed Soros’ unfounded concerns, releasing a statement Saturday demanding that Orban discontinue the billboard campaign.
“I call on those involved in the current billboard campaign and those responsible for it to reconsider the consequences,” he said. “At the moment, beyond political criticism of a certain person, the campaign not only evokes sad memories, but also sows hatred and fear.”
At the request of Prime Minister Netanyahu, the foreign ministry released a clarification in which it condemned “any expression of anti-Semitism in any country” but stood by its ally’s “criticism of George Soros.”
Let’s be clear about something: While there’s no excuse for the antisemitic slurs written on some of the anti-Soros billboards, there’s nothing remotely antisemitic about the billboards themselves. Moreover, we must never allow fraudulent claims of bigotry to prevent us from issuing criticism against our opponents and defending our rights, our countries and our cultures.
This truth especially holds true in regard to Soros, a veritable villain who has been plotting for decades to essentially destroy the world as we know it, all while trying to protect himself from deserving criticism by crying about antisemitism.
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A jealous husband is facing life in prison after chopping off his wife’s fingers because she began studying for a degree without his permission.
Rafiqul Islam, 30, blindfolded his wife Hawa Akhter, 21, and taped her mouth, telling her he was going to give her a surprise present.
Instead he made her hold out her hand and cut off all five fingers. One of his relatives then threw Ms Akhter’s fingers in the dustbin to ensure doctors could not reattach them.
Mr Islam, who is a migrant worker in the United Arab Emirates, had warned his wife there would ‘severe consequences’ if she did not give up her studies.
(Bob Unruh, WND) Al Gore, the global-warming entrepreneur who has made hundreds of millions of dollars since he was vice president under Bill Clinton, forecast in 2009 that, “the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.”
See those claims:
And when he wanted to update his famed global-warming movie, an “Inconvenient Truth,” and he wanted to illustrate sea water reaching the site of the 9/11 Memorial, as he had predicted, he used footage of Superstorm Sandy.
In that movie, he says: “Ten years ago, when the movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ came out, the single most criticized scene was an animated scene showing that the combination of sea-level rise and storm surge would put the ocean water into the 9/11 memorial site, which was then under construction. And people said, ‘That’s ridiculous. What a terrible exaggeration.’”
The movie then shows news footage of Superstorm Sandy water reaching the memorial site.
Newsbusters pointed out the original prediction “was not about extenuating circumstances of a storm like Sandy slamming into New York or any ‘storm surge’ at all.”
“It was about the sea level rise that would be generated as (he predicted) ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica escalated dramatically.”
Now Gore has gone to new lengths to scare people with his global-warming agenda. He’s likened it to slavery.
And the civil rights movement.
And the anti-apartheid movement.
And the nuclear arms race.
“The abolition of slavery, woman’s suffrage and women’s rights, the civil rights movement and the anti apartheid movement in South Africa, the movement to stop the toxic phase of nuclear arms race and more recently the gay rights movement,” Gore said at a recent conference.
“All these movements have one thing in common. They were all met with ferocious resistance.”
He was speaking recently at the EcoCity 2017 World Summit in Melbourne, Australia, and his comments were noted by officials at the climate alarmism hoax-busting Climate Depot.
There, officials wrote: “Gore sang the praises of fossil fuels during his speech. ‘Must we change? We have had tremendous benefits from our reliance on fossil fuels. Poverty has declined, living standards have increased and we still depend on them for more than 80 percent of world’s energy,’ Gore opened his talk stating. But then he again added, ‘Must we change?’
“Gore’s answer was yes – we must change and he spent the remainder of his talk on showing the alleged negative impacts of carbon dioxide’s impact on the climate,” Climate Depot’s analysis found. “Gore’s talk featured bad weather stills and videos from around the world from floods to typhoons to heat waves and wild fires and blamed them on rising CO2 emissions from fossil fuels.”
Gore reached further, comparing global warming to “400,000 Hiroshima class atomic bombs exploding every 24 hours.”
“Overall we are releasing CO2 into the atmosphere much faster than at any time in at least 66M years,” he said in prepared remarks. “Records beyond that are a bit less accessible after the dinosaurs were wiped out.”
He said heat waves are worse now, rainstorms are worse now, sea surface temps are worse now, problems with water vapor are worse now, and more.
“This leads to atmospheric rivers, named by Brazilian scientists, ‘flying rivers,’ … Holding as much water vapor as many many times the volume of the largest rivers on earth.”
He cited rainstorms in Houston, and others in Quebec, Rio, Lima, Bangladesh and more, as proof.
“If you have a complex system causing a lot of consequences and you radically change it, every one of the consequences is different. With all this extra water vapor in the sky and all the extra heat energy in the atmosphere, every storm is different now. And they are making advances in how much to attribute to the climate crisis but increasingly more of it is directly contributed,” he said.
“The only plausible explanation of course is the climate crisis.”
Gore’s promotion of “global warming” also has drawn the criticism of a prominent scientist.
According to a report at Climate Depot, Ivy League geologist Robert Giegengack, former chairman of Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, said he was “appalled” at Gore’s work, citing either Gore’s lack of understanding or knowing misrepresentation.
That’s enough to make 100 million people millionaires.
And that spending will generate a temperature reduction of a “grand total of three-tenths of one degree,” according to Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg, the head of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, reports Climate Depot.
Lomborg states: “We will spend at least one hundred trillion dollars in order to reduce the temperature by the end of the century by a grand total of three tenths of one degree – the equivalent of postponing warming by less than four years.”
Here’s a video with Lomborg’s full analysis and commentary:
Climate Change publisher Marc Morano reported the evaluation was provided as part of Lomborg’s criticism of the recent Paris Climate Agreement, from which the U.S. recently withdraw, under the direction of President Trump.
WND has reported much of the information on which global warming projections are based is simply wrong.
Morano of Climate Depot warned the intent now is not to discuss, investigate or research, but to send “a chilling message to doubters and skeptics” to be silent.
Morano said his movie, “Climate Hustle,” shows “the climate establishment comparing climate skeptics to Holocaust deniers.”
“It’s all an attempt to silence the debate, to silence any science and go right to centralized planning,” he said. “That’s what this is all about. The U.N. has admitted their goal is wealth redistribution and it doesn’t have anything to do with environmental policy.”
The solution offered by the climate establishment, he said, is always the same: “more centralized government.”
He said the result will be tragic for large populations who are being denied access to pumped water, power and heat because of antagonism to carbon-based fuels.
“The reason we know there’s a hustle is their predictions have failed to come true, on a whole host of issues,” Morano said. “That’s why they now want to stop the debate, suppress debate.”
He wrote: “Say goodbye to polar bears and a whole lot of ice. New research suggests the Arctic Ocean could be ice-free by 2015, with devastating consequences for the world. Can it be stopped?”
Taking one more step back in time, the BBC said Arctic summers would be ice-free by 2013.
Sierra Club Canada also said in 2013 that the Arctic sea ice would vanish that year.
Tim Ball, a former University of Winnipeg climatology professor, said global temperatures have been dropping since the turn of the century, prompting the change in terminology from “global warming” to “climate change.”
Activists are also spending less time discussing temperatures and more time pointing to more extreme events such as tornadoes, droughts, cold snaps and heat waves. Ball said there’s a shred of truth there, but it’s being badly distorted.
“Yes, there’s been slightly more extremes,” he said in an interview with WND and Radio America. “That’s because the jet stream patterns are changing, because the earth is cooling down. All the arguments about sea-level rise, about Arctic ice disappearing, if you recall it’s not that long ago that our friend Al Gore was saying that there would be no summer ice in the Arctic. I think the year he set for it was 2014. That proved to be completely wrong…”
Scientist Art Robinson has spearheaded The Petition Project, which has gathered the signatures of at least 31,487 scientists who agree that there is “no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.”
They say, “Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.”
Robinson, who has a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California-San Diego, where he served on the faculty, co-founded the Linus Pauling Institute with Nobel-recipient Linus Pauling, where he was president and research professor. He later founded the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. His son, Noah Robinson, was a key figure in the petition work and has a Ph.D. in chemistry from Caltech.
Heresy hunters
Many advocates have declared that it’s heresy not to agree that man is the cause of cataclysmic climate change. Some attorneys general, for example, have banded togetherto target any companies that challenge the climate “consensus.”
When the Daily Caller reported the story, it cited the Spanish Inquisition, which “systematically silenced any citizen who held views that did not align with the king’s.”
WND also reported when some two-dozen scientists with major U.S. universities urged then-President Barack Obama to use racketeering laws to prosecute opponents who deny mankind is causing catastrophic changes in the climate.
In a letter addressed to Obama, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and others, the scientists said they “appreciate that you are making aggressive and imaginative use of the limited tools available to you in the face of a recalcitrant Congress.”
“One additional tool – recently proposed by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse – is a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) investigation of corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America’s response to climate change,” they wrote, according to Politico…
