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VOAT
Submitted by ‘migratorypatterns’
11/23/2017

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Relevancy: If we follow the money, we can pretty easily see how billionaire Alwaleed is connected to #pizzagate. He’s the second largest shareholder in Twitter. Twitter is known for censuring pizzagate and alt-right thought, even going so far as to manipulate algorithms so that trending topics are sabotaged. Twitter will also begin banning accounts not for what they do on Twitter, but what sites they frequent when not on Twitter! Yes, we will be monitored! Alwaleed is also a large shareholder of Time Warner, CNN: The Fake News Network’s parent company! Then there are the donations to THE CLINTON FOUNDATION. He also just happens to own the top five floors of Mandalay Bay where human trafficking perv Stephen Paddock was said to have open fired on a conservative crowd. Also, Saudi Arabia owns the entire block that Besta Pizza is on: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1464613

This is a follow-up to my previous post on Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and the purge going on in Saudi Arabia. I alerted everyone and suggested that a pact had been made with the POTUS. Don’t know if that is true, but the fact American mercenaries were called in seems to indicate some sort of deal. As for the purge, it’s getting worse. Alwaleed was hung upside down by his feet to send a message, but a message to who?

Here are the highlights:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5108651/American-mercenaries-torturing-Saudi-princes.html

EXCLUSIVE: ‘American mercenaries are torturing’ Saudi elite rounded up by new crown prince – and billionaire Prince Alwaleed was hung upside down ‘just to send a message’

• Source in Saudi Arabia says American private security contractors are carrying out’interrogations’ on princes and billionaires arrested in crackdown
• Detained members of Saudi elite have been hung by their feet and beaten by interrogates, source says
• Among those hung upside down are Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, an investor worth at least $7 billion who is being held at Riyadh’s Ritz Carlton
• Arrests were ordered three weeks ago by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
• Source claims mercenaries are from ‘Blackwater’, a claim also made by Lebanese president
• But its successor firm denies it has any operations in Saudi Arabia whatsoever and says its staff abide by U.S. law
• Americans who commit torture abroad can be jailed for up to 20 years

The group of the country’s most powerful figures were arrested in a crackdown ordered by Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman three weeks ago as he ordered the detention of at least 11 fellow princes and hundreds of businessmen and government officials over claims of corruption.

Just last month, the Crown Prince vowed to restore ‘moderate, open Islam’ in the kingdom and relaxed a number of its ultra-conservative rules, including lifting a ban on women driving.

DailyMail.com can disclose that the arrests have been followed by ‘interrogations’ which a source said were being carried out by ‘American mercenaries’ brought in to work for the 32-year-old crown prince, who is now the kingdom’s most powerful figure.

‘They are beating them, torturing them, slapping them, insulting them. They want to break them down,’ the source told DailyMail.com.

‘Blackwater’ has been named by DailyMail.com’s source as the firm involved, and the claim of its presence in Saudi Arabia has also been made on Arabic social media, and by Lebanon’s president.

‘They’ve transferred all the guys from Abu Dhabi. Now they are in charge of everything,’ said the source.

The source said that Salman, often referred to by his initials MBS, is conducting some of the interrogations himself.

‘When it’s something big he asks them questions,’ the source said.

‘He speaks to them very nicely in the interrogation, and then he leaves the room, and the mercenaries go in. The prisoners are slapped, insulted, hung up, tortured.’

So a huge shake-up is going on over there. MBS is after something and until he finds out what it is, this most definitely will continue. And while the article states that he wants to:

uncover an alleged network of foreign officials who have taken bribes from Saudi princes.

Is this network the human trafficking network? I feel strongly it is. Human trafficking takes in billions of dollars a year, and anything that profitable is sure to be at the top of the list. If there were dalliances and more formal contracts, I’m wondering the names of those complicit. Definitely keep your eyes on this because this is going to get hotter.

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In this Nov. 17, 2017, photo, Johnny Bobbitt Jr., left, Kate McClure, right, and McClure’s boyfriend, Mark D’Amico, pose at a CITGO station in Philadelphia. When McClure ran out of gas, Bobbitt, who is homeless, gave his last $20 to buy gas for her. ELIZABETH ROBERTSON AP

Miami Herald
by Amanda Hoover, Associated Press
11/22/17

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Kate McClure didn’t expect to run out of gas on her drive to Philadelphia last month.

And she definitely didn’t expect that her misfortune would give her the opportunity to change someone else’s life.

Pulled over on the side of I-95, McClure, 27, was approached by a homeless man named Johnny. She was apprehensive at first, but Johnny told her to get back into her car and to lock the doors while he walked to get her help. He went to a nearby gas station, used his last $20 fill a can and brought it back to fill up her car.

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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article186044173.html#fmp

Jeffrey Epstein, a wealthy Palm Beach resident, in Palm Beach County Circuit Court on June 30, 2008, to plead guilty to charges of solicitation of prostitution and soliciting minors to engage in prostitution in connection with having teenage girls give him sexual massages. (Uma Sanghvi / The Palm Beach Post)

Palm Beach Post
by Jane Musgrave, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
7/7/2017

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WEST PALM BEACH

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Hope. Change. Slave.

FrontPage Mag
by Daniel Greenfield
11/21/2017

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America’s first black president didn’t bring “Hope” to America, but he did bring slave auctions to Africa. After Obama “liberated” Libya for the Islamist rebels, Arab Muslims sell black slaves for a few hundred dollars at slave auctions.

While leftists tear down the statues of slave owners from centuries ago, it was the left that brought back the sale of black men as property.

Slavery was always one of Barack Obama’s favorite subjects.

It was a favorite subject because it provided him with countless opportunities for tearing down America.

When called upon to disavow the racist, anti-Semitic and anti-American rants of his mentor, he instead denounced the Constitution as “stained by this nation’s original sin of slavery.” At the funeral of the Dallas police officers murdered by a member of the racist hate group he supported, he once again invoked this original sin even while he was justifying Black Lives Matter’s bigotry and violence.

At Hillary’s DNC convention, Michelle Obama claimed that the White House had been “built by slaves”.

The unifying theme was that America’s racist past made its origins, including their constitutional restraints on his power, illegitimate. A Constitution tainted by slavery should not be able to inhibit the actions of the nation’s first black president. His wife had a special moral authority over the White House because it had been built by slaves. Slavery gave the Obamas a unique moral claim on power.

But Barack Obama and his ancestors had never been slaves. They might have been slave owners and sellers. And America’s first black president unquestionably helped bring Muslim slavery back to Libya.

After Obama invaded Libya to aid the Muslim Brotherhood, black slaves are being sold there once more.

Videos show black people being put up for sale for as little as $400 by Arab Libyan Muslim slave traders. The black men being sold as slaves are described as “big strong boys for farm work.”

After years of lecturing Americans about the “original sin” of slavery, Obama brought it back.

The black men being sold as slaves are Nigerians. Islam forbids Muslims to enslave Muslims. Nigeria has a large non-Muslim population. It is likely another case of Arab Muslims selling Christians into slavery.

Unlike President Bush, Obama paid little attention to Africa. When he did pay attention to Africa, it was largely to reward Muslim violence against African Christians in Nigeria, Kenya or Côte d’Ivoire.

And, most prominently, Libya.

Obama’s Arab Spring encouraged Islamist movements in their bids for power whether they used ballots or bullets. The resulting devastation in the Middle East, with its death toll in the hundreds of thousands, and the rise of ISIS, has captured the world’s attention. But the Islamist wave spread chaos and terror through Africa. Egypt and Tunisia fell into the hands of Islamist killers who brutalized their own people even as the media cheered these “democratic revolutions”. Boko Haram allied with ISIS in Nigeria.

And Obama illegally bombed Libya to aid the Muslim Brotherhood and allied Islamist groups in their bid for power. The regime change operation in Libya had been urged on by Hillary Clinton. The former Secretary of State had been encouraged by her associates to use it as a platform for a presidential run. But the Islamist takeover in Libya made for a bad photo op. Our attempts to address the flow of Qatari weapons into the hands of terrorists (after Obama gave a pass to their weapons smuggling scheme during the civil war) led to the Benghazi massacre. And the blackest stain on Hillary’s record.

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Patrick J. Buchanan — Official Website
by Patrick J. Buchanan
11/20/2017

How stands John Winthrop’s “city upon a hill” this Thanksgiving?

How stands the country that was to be “a light unto the nations”?

To those who look to cable TV for news, the answer must at the least be ambiguous. For consider the issues that have lately convulsed the public discourse of the American republic.

Today’s great question seems to be whether our 45th president is as serious a sexual predator as our 42nd was proven to be, and whether the confessed sins of Sen. Al Franken are as great as the alleged sins of Judge Roy Moore.

On both questions, the divide is, as ever, along partisan lines.

And every day for weeks, beginning with Hollywood king Harvey Weinstein, whose accusers nearly number in three digits, actors, media personalities and politicians have been falling like nine pins over allegations and admissions of sexual predation.

What is our civil rights issue, and who are today’s successors to the Freedom Riders of the ‘60s? Millionaire NFL players “taking a knee” during the national anthem to dishonor the flag of their country to protest racist cops.

And what was the great cultural issue of summer and fall?

An ideological clamor to tear down memorials and monuments to the European discoverers of America, any Founding Father who owned slaves and any and all Confederate soldiers and statesmen.

Stained-glass windows of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson have been removed from the National Cathedral. Plaques to Lee and George Washington have been taken down from the walls of the Episcopal church in Alexandria where both men worshipped.

But the city that bears Washington’s name is erecting a new statue on Pennsylvania Avenue — to honor the four-term mayor who served time on a cocaine charge: Marion Shepilov Barry.

Whatever side one may take on these questions, can a country so preoccupied and polarized on such pursuits be taken seriously as a claimant to be the “exceptional nation,” a model to which the world should look and aspire?

Contrast the social, cultural and moral morass in which America is steeped with the disciplined proceedings and clarity of purpose, direction and goals of our 21st century rival: Xi Jinping’s China.

Our elites assure us that America today is a far better place than we have ever known, surely better than the old America that existed before the liberating cultural revolution of the 1960s.

Yet President Trump ran on a pledge to “Make America Great Again,” implying that while the America he grew up in was great, in the time of Barack Obama it no longer was. And he won.

Certainly, the issues America dealt with half a century ago seem more momentous than what consumes us today.

Consider the matters that riveted America in the summer and fall of 1962, when this columnist began to write editorials for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. What was the civil rights issue of that day?

In September of ‘62, Gov. Ross Barnett decided not to allow Air Force vet James Meredith to become the first black student at Ole Miss. Attorney General Robert Kennedy sent U.S. Marshals to escort Meredith in.

Hundreds of demonstrators arrived on campus to join student protests. A riot ensued. Dozens of marshals were injured. A French journalist was shot to death. The Mississippi Guard was federalized. U.S. troops were sent in, just as Ike had sent them into Little Rock when Gov. Orville Faubus refused to desegregate Central High.

U.S. power was being used to enforce a federal court order on a recalcitrant state government, as it would in 1963 at the University of Alabama, where Gov. George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door.

As civil rights clashes go, this was the real deal.

That fall, in a surprise attack, Chinese troops poured through the passes in the Himalayas, invading India. China declared a truce in November but kept the territories it had occupied in Jammu and Kashmir.

Then there was the Cuban missile crisis, the most dangerous crisis of the Cold War.

Since August, the Globe-Democrat had been calling for a blockade of Cuba, where Soviet ships were regularly unloading weapons. When President Kennedy declared a “quarantine” after revealing that missiles with nuclear warheads that could reach Washington were being installed, the Globe urged unity behind him, as it had in Oxford, Mississippi.

We seemed a more serious and united nation and people then than we are today, where so much that roils our society and consumes our attention seems unserious and even trivial.

“And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?” wrote the British poet Thomas Macaulay.

Since 1962, this nation has dethroned its God and begun debates about which of the flawed but great men who created the nation should be publicly dishonored. Are we really a better country today than we were then, when all the world looked to America as the land of the future?

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A disgraced senator from Oklahoma has agreed to plead guilty to child sex trafficking charges in exchange for numerous other charges to be dropped.

The Last American Vagabond
by Matt Agorist
11/20/2017

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Moore, OK — (TFTP) In September, former Oklahoma Sen. Ralph Shortey was accused in a federal indictment of multiple counts of child sex trafficking and child pornography offenses. Over the weekend, Shortey agreed to plead guilty to a single child sex trafficking charge in exchange for three other charges to be dismissed. He now faces a minimum of 10 years in prison but could be sent away for life.

“Mr. Shortey feels this is a necessary step in putting this painful and humiliating ordeal behind him, for both himself, his family and for the state of Oklahoma,” Shortey’s attorney Ed Blau said on Friday.

After the federal grand jury meeting in Oklahoma City returned their four indictments, Shorty, 35, originally pleaded not guilty. He wiped away tears as officials read out his child sex trafficking and child pornography offenses. However, given the evidence against him, as detailed in the graphic federal indictment, Shortey’s attorneys likely knew he had no grounds for a not guilty plea.

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Canada Free Press
by Judi McLeod
11/17/2017

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Anthony Weiner is in the slammer for exposing his genitals via Internet photos,  but congressmen who expose their genitals and grab private parts—on the House floor—not only get away with it but get the privilege of going unnamed.

Genital-exposing politicians (GEP, for short) are said to come from both the Democrat and Republican parties, and, incredibly find protection in the system as it stands.

‘Dem “Dirty Old Men”

Even though the public is not provided with their ages, let alone their names, Canada Free Press calls them ‘Dem (slang for them) “Dirty Old Men”, a moniker we think is fitting because the White House has long been a second home away from home for Hollywood,  and because, until he was outed,  alleged sexual predator movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was hosted by the White House many times during the 8-year tenure of Barack Obama, who, along with his protégé Hillary Clinton, accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in Weinstein donations.

Why wasn’t it until it got to the stage where lawmakers in both parties agreed to move from “voluntary” support for sexual harassment awareness training to “mandatory” sexual harassment training for legislative branch staffers, and until it was revealed that “about $15 million in taxpayer dollars has been paid out by the house on behalf of harassers in the last 10 to 15 years,” that lawmakers saw fit to let their constituents in on the dirty secret that “congressmen expose their genitals and grab private parts—on the House Floor?!

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http://canadafreepress.com/article/congressman-exposing-their-genitals-on-the-house-floorgetting-to-go-unnamed

IWB
by Robert Carbery
11/17/2017

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There are still many unanswered questions in the early October shooting in Vegas. The investigation has been floundering and the way Mandalay Bay and its security team has responded to the timeline coming from the investigation of this catastrophic event has been more than perplexing. There are more and more videos coming out on a weekly basis showing that there are at least two shooters, which is what many survivors of the shooting constantly claim.

In recent videos that surfaced on YouTube and surprisingly have not been taken down yet, three guys appear out of nowhere on one video from an eyewitness survivor on the ground at the country concert in Vegas. A Google Earth overview shows that a catwalk overlooks a section of the front area of the outdoor concert where there were initially no individuals visible when the shooting began. However, shortly after the shots started ringing out, one then three guys all of the sudden appear on an elevated area looking down on the concertgoers fleeing for their lives. These shots would ring out from a different direction from the Mandalay Bay’s 32nd floor. These shots shoot north from a close target as opposed to a long range southeast shot from a far off position in a hotel room as Stephen Paddock supposedly was doing.

The images of these black clad people overlooking the people running on the ground in Vegas is stunning. They look quite suspicious and this is all of course being overlooked by the mainstream media which has moved on to the next shiny object. We need to shine a light back on this unsolved crime that we are being kept in the dark about.

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http://investmentwatchblog.com/the-mystery-of-the-las-vegas-shooting-continues-and-becomes-more-complicated-day-after-day/

Breitbart / Big-Government
by John Nolte
11/16/2017

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Leeann Tweeden, a journalist who anchors the morning news at TalkRadio 790 KABC in Los Angeles, California, is accusing Senator Al Franken (D-MN) of fondling her while asleep and shoving his tongue down her throat without her consent.

At the time, December of 2006, Tweeden had a boyfriend (who is now her husband) and was on a two week USO Tour with the then-55-year-old Franken and others. Included in her article is a photograph that clearly shows the Democrat Senator grabbing her breasts while she is asleep.

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Need to Know
by G. Edward Griffin
11/13/2017

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Judge Jeanine says it is dangerous to be a Trump supporter because the left believes the use of violence is justified against anyone who opposes them. The goal of the haters is to normalize hate and incite violence from those beyond their own ranks​. National chaos is what they want as an excuse for martial law, which is the endgame. The philosophy of the militant left now is mainstream. Even some Republicans condone violence against conservatives. -GEG​

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