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G. Edward Griffin's Essential News & Analysis
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Coptic Christian churches across Egypt are canceling their Easter celebrations as they mourn the death of 47 people who were killed in two churches by ISIS bombs. Egyptian President Abdel el-Sisi is using the tragedy as an excuse for a vast increase in government power, declaring a 3-month state of emergency. [...] |
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These organizations are directly funded by George Soros and his Open Society Foundations. Many of them have mission statements that sound high minded and worthy of support, but all of them are committed to goals and projects that are based on the leftist model of collectivism. Their primary appeal is to focus on problems in our society with little disclosure of the kind of society they hope to create. [...] |
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Charlotte, North Carolina: An Indian immigrant from Bhutan who owns as small market was threatened in a letter left behind after a fire was set at his store. The note mentioned Trump, warned the immigrant to go back where he came from, and was signed “White America”. Surveillance video shows that the “white racist” Trump-supporter was a black man. [...] |
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African migrants passing through Libya on their way to the EU are kidnapped and sold into "slave markets" by smugglers for $200 to $500 each. Typically, they are held for ransom, forced labor, or sexual exploitation, according to the UN. [...] |
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Sweden: Following the recent truck attack in Stockholm, a Swedish tabloid, Aftonbladet, called for banning cars and trucks because they can be deadly weapons for terrorists. Reducing the number of vehicles in Sweden was endorsed last month by Karolina Skog, the Environment Minister, who said that driving is a gender-equality issue, because more men drive than women, and reducing driving would also reduce carbon emissions. [...] |
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President Trump declined to say if he personally signed off on dropping the largest non-nuclear bomb ever, with a 21,600-pound payload, on an ISIS tunnel network in Afghanistan. If this is true, it adds credibility to the suspicion that there has been a silent coup by the military-industrial complex, and Trump is Commander-in Chief in name only. [...] |
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Republicans are disappointed by cosmetic revisions to Obamacare instead of outright repeal. There also is infighting at the White House between Steve Bannon, who represents nationalism and dismantling of the bureaucratic state (draining the swamp) versus Kushner (Trump’s son-in-law) and Ivanka (Trump’s daughter), who represent globalism and the all-powerful bureaucracy. [...] |
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US Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), who has served two tours in Iraq as a soldier, warned that war in Syria serves no US purpose. Her fellow Democrats are calling for her resignation from Congress because she doubted the reports that Assad was behind the gas attacks and wanted additional proof. [...] |
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