UK Crime Agency Arrests Iranian National, Briton on Migrant Smuggling Charges

LONDON (Sputnik) – Dozens of people annually cross into the United Kingdom from France’s Calais region, where migrants have set up makeshift camps, via the English Channel.

The UK National Crime Agency (NCA) said it had arrested an Iranian citizen and a UK national on suspicion of arranging migrant trafficking across the English Channel.

According to UK media, only since November, 239 people have attempted to cross the channel by boat into the United Kingdom.

Notably, a lot of people drown during the perilous journey. UK media have reported that traffickers leave migrants on flimsy dinghies halfway across the English Channel and order them to wait for UK border guards to rescue them.

Moreover, some migrants reportedly pay up to 10,000 pounds ($13,000) to be smuggled into the United Kingdom.

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201901031071179374-uk-english-channel-mirgant-smuggling/

McConnell Thumps Pelosi: The Senate Will Not Waste Its Time Considering a Democrat Bill Which the President Won’t Sign (VIDEO

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) thumped Speaker-Designate Nancy Pelosi Wednesday night from the Senate Floor.

McConnell said the Senate won’t even consider legislation passed by the House Democrats this week because it won’t include border wall funding.

McConnell Thumps Pelosi: The Senate Will Not Waste Its Time Considering a Democrat Bill Which the President Won’t Sign (VIDEO)

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) thumped Speaker-Designate Nancy Pelosi Wednesday night from the Senate Floor.

McConnell said the Senate won’t even consider legislation passed by the House Democrats this week because it won’t include border wall funding.

“Democrats will have to get serious about border security so that a government funding agreement can pass the House, earn 60 votes in the Senate, and receive a presidential signature,” McConnell said, adding, “All three of these things are needed. One partisan vote in the House won’t solve anything.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/mcconnell-thumps-pelosi-the-senate-will-not-waste-its-time-considering-a-democrat-bill-which-the-president-wont-sign-video/

Only Mitt Romney Could Make Rookie Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Look Less Toxic

About 100 new lawmakers will be sworn Thursday and stunningly not one of them any worse than recycled America Back Stabber Utah Senator Mitt Romney.

Whoa, CFP cartoonist Dag Barkley, only Romney could make rookie rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez look less toxic!

A sissy hiding a shiv always hangs back until the most opportune moment presents itself for the Big Stab. The man Utah voted in as their senator got his Big Stab Moment on New Years Day, courtesy of a Washington Post freebie.

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Turns out that while many were nursing New Year’s Eve headaches yesterday, Romney was getting ready to take over at the swearing-in Congress circus.

He went out as a lightweight loser in 2012 snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, but is coming back as the late John McCain, Jeff Flake, Bob Corker and Paul Ryan all rolled into one. Not even Nancy P

https://canadafreepress.com/article/only-mitt-romney-could-make-rookie-rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-look-less-t

Technocracy Rules: China Is Purging Marxists and Communists

Why is China purging Marxists and Communists from its population?

A let-the-cat-out-of-a-bag story from Time Magazine in 2001 declared that China had already flipped into a Technocracy, leaving Communism in the dust. The article, Revenge of the Nerds stated:

The nerds are run­ning the show in today’s China. In the twenty years since Deng Xiaoping’s [Ed. Note: count back­ward to 1978 – 79] reforms kicked in, the com­po­si­tion of the Chi­nese lead­er­ship has shifted markedly in favor of tech­nocrats. …It’s no exag­ger­a­tion to describe the cur­rent regime as a tech­noc­racy.

After the Maoist mad­ness abated and Deng Xiaoping inau­gu­rated the opening and reforms that began in late 1978, sci­en­tific and tech­nical intel­lec­tuals were among the first to be reha­bil­i­tated. Real­izing that they were the key to the Four Mod­ern­iza­tions embraced by the reformers, con­certed efforts were made to bring the “experts” back into the fold.

During the 1980s, tech­noc­racy as a con­cept was much talked about, espe­cially in the con­text of so-called “Neo-Authoritarianism” — the prin­ciple at the heart of the “Asian Devel­op­mental Model” that South Korea, Sin­ga­pore, and Taiwan had pur­sued with apparent suc­cess. The basic beliefs and assump­tions of the tech­nocrats were laid out quite plainly: Social and eco­nomic prob­lems were akin to engi­neering prob­lems and could be under­stood, addressed, and even­tu­ally solved as such.

The open hos­tility to reli­gion that Bei­jing exhibits at times — most notably in its obses­sive drive to stamp out the “evil cult” of Falun Gong — has pre-Marxist roots. Sci­en­tism under­lies the post-Mao tech­noc­racy, and it is the ortho­doxy against which here­sies are mea­sured.

https://www.technocracy.news/technocracy-rules-china-is-purging-marxists-and-communists/

Nearly 500 persons return to their towns in Deir Ezzor

Deir Ezzor, SANA-Nearly five hundred persons of Deir Ezzor returned on Wednesday through al-Salihyah passage to their villages and towns after the victory of the Syrian Arab army over terrorism.

The citizens were forced to flee their towns after the crimes and attacks of Daesh terrorists.

SANA reporter said that nearly 500 displaced people returned through al-Salihyah crossing that links between the eastern and western banks of the Euphrates.

Among those were a number of deserted military men who settled their cases, making use of the amnesty decree.

https://sana.sy/en/?p=154681

Bad news about Sweden is ‘right-wing conspiracy’ to tear down liberal utopia – Think tank

“The image of Sweden abroad has changed significantly lately,” writes Fria Tider. But everything is actually a “smear campaign” according to the British think tank “Institute for Strategic Dialogue” (ISD).

ISD – which cooperates with George Soros’ foundation Open Society – argues that a global right-wing conspiracy, aimed at Sweden in order to slander the country, is ongoing.

This because foreign media in its reporting on Sweden is focusing on car fires, rapes, shootings, no-go zones, Islam and sharia and the negative consequences of migration.

“They try to tear down the image of Sweden as a liberal utopia and replace it with the image of an unstable state – flooded by migrants who Islamise the country,” says analyst Chloe Colliver at ISD in an interview with TT.

“This is not true,” she continues. In fact, it is so-called right-wing extremists who spread “misleading or false stories” about Sweden.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/01/bad-news-about-sweden-is-right-wing-conspiracy-to-tear-down-liberal-utopia-think-tank/

DREAMers tell of going ballot-harvesting in California to flip the House blue

It was one of those tug-on-the-heartstrings, tear-jerking, carefully curated narratives about DREAMers we're supposed to read and respond to with sympathy.

But a story that ran in the Los Angeles Times yesterday accidentally did more to raise questions about the issue of ballot-harvesting in California than any raving right-wing tome could ever do.

The Times describes how California's famed ballot-harvesters, who flipped places such as Orange County blue by "helping" fill out, turn in, and continue to turn in ballots from otherwise uncommitted voters until they got the result they wanted, aren't actually U.S. citizens. Here are the DREAMers in action, "helping" the voters to vote the way they wanted:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/dreamers_tell_of_going_ballotharvesting_in_california_to_flip_the_house_blue.html

Posting this for no other reason then it gave me a halfway decent chuckle

Hackers play PewDiePie ad on thousands of hacked Chromecasts & Smart TVs

Hackers behind the hacking spree are urging users to change their router settings and subscribe to PewDiePie’s YouTube.

Last month, it was reported that a group of hackers compromised thousands of printers around the world to send printouts urging users to subscribe to Felix Kjellberg aka PewDiePie’s official YouTube channel and unsubscribe from T-Series’s channel. In total over 150,000 printers were affected by the hacking spree.

In another hack, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) website was defaced to display pro-PewDiePie messages. Now, the same hackers have moved forward towards bigger targets after claiming to hack thousands of Google Homes, Chromecasts and Smart TVs to run a video asking users to subscribe to PewDiePie’s official YouTube channel.

The hack attack has been conducted under the banner of “CastHack” and in total over 10,000 devices have come under attack. The main hacker behind the hacking saga goes by the online handle of Hacker Giraffe on Twitter. The hacker explained that they took advantage of routers with settings which expose the Internet of Things (IoT) devices including Google Homes and Chromecasts to public view. This allowed the group to play videos on Smart TVs without the owner’s consent.

https://www.hackread.com/hackers-play-pewdiepie-ad-on-hacked-chromecasts-smart-tv/

Mexican mayor assassinated just hours after taking office

The mayor of a city in southern Mexico was assassinated on Tuesday when a gunman opened fire, just hours after he was sworn into office, local officials say. One suspect was taken into custody.

The attack happened in Tlaxiaco, a city in the southern state of Oaxaca, when a man opened fire at Mayor Alejandro Aparicio Santiago, who was heading to city hall after meeting with citizens.

Aparicio was rushed to an area hospital but later succumbed to his injuries, according to a statement from the state’s attorney general. Four others were injured, one of whom suffered serious injuries.

A suspect was taken into custody but there was no immediate word on a possible motive.

Aparicio became mayor at midnight and took the oath of office at a public event at 10 a.m. He was interviewed by reporters and spoke with citizens before the shooting, which happened at 12 p.m.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/70057/mexican-mayor-assassinated-just-hours-after-taking.html