Dozens of Virginia counties pass Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions

Counties across the state of Virginia are passing Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions in anticipation of strict gun control measures planned by the majority-held Democratic Virginia General Assembly.

On Monday, citizens spilled out of the Bettie Queen Center in Louisa where more than 600 people showed up to pass a resolution that 22 other counties in Virginia have signed including, Appomattox, Bedford, and Lee counties. In Halifax, citizens overwhelmingly passed the resolution that opposes new gun control legislation being drawn up in the state assembly. In southwestern Buchanan County, the signed statement demanded the resignation of Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam.

Northam has made gun control a priority of the upcoming legislative session, and Democratic lawmakers have proposed bills to restrict firearms purchases and implement controversial "red flag" legislation giving officers the right to disarm individuals deemed a threat to themselves or others.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dozens-of-virginia-counties-pass-second-amendment-sanctuary-resolutions

End of the Line: Understanding Israeli Politics

Israel’s inability to assemble a government is not easy to understand. America has been in deadlock since the 1970s, but that’s hardly surprising since (a) it’s not a democracy but a dysfunctional eighteenth-century republic lingering on well past its sell-by date; and (b) power is fragmented among a handful of political institutions that must align just so for anything to get done.

Since they’re designed to pull in different directions, that rarely happens and stalemate is the norm. But Israel is different. It has no bicameral legislature, no separately-elected president, no Supreme Court as Americans understand the term, and no ancient relic like the Electoral College to gum up the works even more. All it has is a Knesset with 120 seats awarded on the basis of strict proportional representation. Politics may be rough and tumble, but putting together a government should be smooth as silk.

Yet it’s headed for its third election in less than a year. What’s going on?

The answer can be summed up in a single word: Jew. It’s a term that everyone recognizes but no one can adequately explain. Because no one knows what it means, no one knows what a Jewish state means either. The structure is disintegrating, consequently, under the weight of seventy-plus years of incomprehensibility.

The “who’s a Jew” question has bedeviled Israel from the start. Jews are not a religion because most are non-practicing. (David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, was more comfortable in a Buddhist temple than in a synagogue.) They’re not an ethnic group because European, Persian, or North African Jews have nothing in common in terms of language, cuisine, or other such markers. They’re not a race because they’re actually more genetically diverse than most of their neighbors. And contrary to all those anti-Semites out there, they’re not a conspiracy either because the political breakdown wouldn’t be so advanced if they were.

Israeli politics reflect this fundamental confusion. Each major party bases itself on a different concept of Jewishness. Netanyahu’s Likud represents a strain of militant Jewish nationalism going back to pre-war Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky, who was more than a bit cozy with the Italian fascisti. Labor sees itself as part of the European social-democratic tradition and hence appeals to those who think that Jewishness somehow implies a progressive world view. The United Torah Party, which has seven Knesset seats, is orthodox through and through and therefore defines Jewishness exclusively in terms of divine law.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/12/03/end-line-understanding-israel-politics/

‘Stumbling block for peace’: UN General Assembly calls on Israel to withdraw from Syria’s Golan Heights

The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution demanding that Israel vacate the Golan Heights – Syrian territory it captured in 1967 and has occupied since – arguing its presence in the disputed region is an obstacle to peace.

Passed in a 91-65 vote with 9 abstentions on Tuesday, the resolution called on Israel to abandon the Golan after over 50 years of occupation, insisting that nations may not acquire territory by conquest, a core principle of international law.

“The continued occupation of the Syrian Golan and its de facto annexation constitute a stumbling block in the way of achieving a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the region,” the resolution said, demanding that “Israel withdraw from all the occupied Syrian Golan.”

The rebuke comes months after US President Donald Trump recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan, reversing long standing American policy and contradicting a number of previous UN resolutions condemning Israel’s presence in the territory. In another, more recent about-face, Washington also rubber stamped Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, which have also been the subject of past UN measures.

https://www.rt.com/news/474959-un-resolution-golan-heights/

California CEO and Seven Others Charged in Multi-Million Dollar Conduit Campaign Contribution Case

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/california-ceo-and-seven-others-charged-multi-million-dollar-conduit-campaign-contribution

Justin Trudeau Mocks President Trump with NATO Leaders While the US President Is Out of the Room — This Won’t End Well for Boy Blackface

During a little break at the NATO meetings in London Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was seen mocking US President Donald Trump with other world leaders — while President Trump is out of the room.

Trudeau, who acts like a shy school girl in Trump’s presence, mocked Trump to French President Macron, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and Boris Johnson from the UK over drinks.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/video-justin-trudeau-mocks-president-trump-with-nato-leaders-while-the-us-president-is-out-of-the-room-this-wont-end-well-for-boy-justin/

L.A.'s Head Of Homelessness Resigns After 33% Increase in People Sleeping On Streets

Los Angeles’ head of homelessness is resigning after presiding over a 33% increase in homelessness over the course of just five years.

Peter Lynn, head of the Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority, announced that he would leave at the end of the year, with the LAHSA having splashed out a total of more than $780 million to no avail.

The city’s homeless population jumped a further 12% from 2018 to 2019 but despite Lynn’s total failure, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti claimed he did an excellent job and oversaw “historic action.”

One wonders how badly Lynn would have had to perform for officials to consider his tenure a failure.

Lynn’s $242,000-a-year role appears to have had little success in addressing not just homelessness, but also the directly related problems of leprosy, typhoid fever and even bubonic plague.

Earlier this year, Dr. Drew Pinsky said the public health situation in America’s second largest city was in utter turmoil.

“We have a complete breakdown of the basic needs of civilization in Los Angeles right now,” said Pinsky.

1.5 per cent of rats in L.A. now carry bubonic plague. If that figure hits 2 per cent, the medieval disease will start jumping to humans.

In other words, if LA doesn’t sort out its trash problem and its homeless problem, the return of bubonic plague is virtually guaranteed.

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/las-head-homelessness-resigns-after-33-increase-people-sleeping-streets

‘No interference allowed’: China slams US Congress for passing bill envisioning sanctions over treatment of Uighur Muslim minority

Beijing has voiced harsh disapproval and vowed to retaliate after the US House of Representatives passed a bill threatening new sanctions on China over human rights abuses against religious minorities.

Rushing through the House with near-unanimous backing on Tuesday, the bill declares US support for the Uighurs, a Muslim minority group based in China’s Xinjiang province. The bill is a modified version of a similar law introduced in the Senate, but adds provisions calling for sanctions on Chinese officials overseeing policy in Xinjiang and bars exports of surveillance gear that could be used to spy on citizens.

“We must tell the US side that Xinjiang affairs are purely China's internal affairs and that no foreign interference is allowed,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that the bill “deliberately smears China's counter-terrorism and de-extremization measures.”

We urge the US to immediately correct its mistakes, prevent the aforementioned Xinjiang-related bill from becoming law.

While Beijing’s policies in Xinjiang have come under fire as excessive by some human rights advocates – namely placing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs in “reeducation camps” in hopes of discouraging radicalism – Chinese officials argue the measures are necessary to combat terrorism in the region. A UN General Assembly meeting in October underscored the international divide on the matter, with two camps issuing competing statements on the situation in Xinjiang, one defending China’s policies there, the other condemning them.

The ministry also slammed Washington for what it called “double standards on counter-terrorism” – perhaps referring to the US’s on-off policies of arming Islamist militants around the world – and said the Uighur bill would only further expose the government’s “hypocrisy and sinister intentions.”

According to the Communist Party-affiliated Global Times, Beijing is preparing to publish its “unreliable entity” blacklist in retaliation to the bill, which it has threatened to do since May, after Washington penalized Chinese tech giant Huawei. The blacklist is expected to include large American firms such as Apple, who would be barred from doing business in China. The country is also reportedly mulling visa restrictions for US officials.

https://www.rt.com/news/474961-china-slams-xinjiang-bill/

2nd Largest Insurance Firm, Swiss Re, Classifies 5G as a “High Impact” Liability Risk in Annual Risk Report

In February, telecom executives gave congressional testimony that they had NO scientific evidence that 5G is safe. Many doctors and scientists say it isn’t. People and pets have already become sick where it’s been installed (see 1, 2, 3). Despite increasing worldwide opposition, warnings, and lawsuits (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) companies are still installing it anyway. Most would consider that to be very risky especially considering that

Insurance companies tend to NOT do business with telecom companies anymore (see 1, 2).

Telecom companies have been warning investors for many years that they may eventually be held liable for harm caused by their devices and transmitters. In fact, there’s currently a Smart Phone Class Action lawsuit due to phones exceeding federal RF safety levels.

So it’s really not surprising that Swiss Re has classified 5G as a “High Impact” Risk.

The top five emerging risks in our SONAR 2019 report are digital technology’s clash with legacy hardware, potential threats from the spread of 5G mobile networks, increasingly limited fiscal and monetary flexibility by central banks, genetic testing’s implications on life insurers, and the impact of climate change on the life and health sector.

SONAR examines new and “slow-burner” emerging risks and their potential effects on the re/insurance industry. This year’s report features 15 emerging risk themes and five trend spotlights as well as an overview of global macro trends. Among the topics are the rising vaccine hesitancy, hazards of cosmetic surgery tourism, artificial intelligence and healthcare, concussion injuries in sports, the warehouse of the future, and the baby boomers’ skills gap.

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/12/2nd-largest-insurance-firm-swiss-re-classifies-5g-as-a-high-impact-liability-risk-in-annual-risk-report.html

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From meddling in our politics and buying up vital assets to undermining our institutions: How China's 'insidious' influence on Australia has been sensationally laid bare

Crossbench senators have spoken out against China in the Federal Parliament

Jacqui Lambie highlighted mysterious death of Chinese informer 'Nick' Zhao

Tasmanian senator pointed to Labor Party bribes, undermining of democracy

Speeches occurred hours after new trade figures showed the reliance on China

Centre Alliance senator Rex Patrick moved a motion for a China Senate inquiry

That occurred a day after his party's founder Nick Xenophon defended Huawei

A line-up of powerful senators has condemned China's 'insidious' and growing influence on Australia, warning our democracy and way of life was being undermined.

One by one they spoke out against the Communist superpower, from the bribing of Labor Party officials to the suspicious death of a Chinese intelligence informer, groomed as a possible Liberal candidate.

The outspoken crossbench lawmakers savaged China's growing influence only hours after official figures showed Australia was even more reliant on our major trading partner to prop up the flagging economy.

For the first time since 1973, Australia's exports are worth than the imports for two consecutive quarters - a rare situation known as a current account surplus.

Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie accused the Coalition government and the Labor opposition of ignoring the China threat - hours after the Australian Bureau of Statistics figures were released.

She stressed her concerns were with the Chinese government and not Chinese immigrants, who first came to Australia during the 1850s gold rush.

The major parties joined forces to defeat the call for a Senate inquiry into China.

Senator Lambie had accused Labor and the Coalition of downplaying China's influence.

'It's about time the people in this place woke up to China's attempts to infiltrate our economy and our democracy,' she told Parliament on Tuesday night.

'I can tell you that the other 25million Australians out there have.

'Both sides of politics need to take a good, hard look at themselves and make sure they're acting in our national interest. Quite obviously, over China, they are not.'

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7752737/Senator-Jacqui-Lambie-slams-Chinas-insidious-influence-infiltration-Australian-politics.html

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33 = 1/3 fallen angels