Free Speech Under Attack Online

According to a report in The Washington Examiner, governments are showing increasing interest in tightening rules on political speech on the web (this is not just a trend in the USA, the British, German, French and Swedish government have openly considered criminalising dissident opinions posted online concerning climate change, open borders immigration policy, vaccines, NATO foreign policy and globalist trade treaties such as TTIP. Their case is that dissident voices enabled by "new media" have become too influential and are making the task of government more difficult as they try to 'steer the world in the right direction'.

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Should they succeed, experts wonder whether such censorship could impact more traditional media as well, especially in how it relates to conservatives and Christians, the report explained.

"The best example we can give is going back a few years to when the [Federal Communications Commission] was looking at trying to silence talk radio, which was obviously a realm of conservatism," said Drew Johnson, executive director of the nonprofit group "Protect Internet Freedom."

He was referring to the agency's "Fairness Doctrine," which required broadcasters to grant equal time to opposing political candidates.

US Democrats on the Federal Election Commission showed similar regulatory ambition when they voted to apply campaign finance laws, which are traditionally intended to govern paid political advertisements, to unpaid political accounts on Twitter.

"The Twitterverse has carved out for itself a unique and increasingly important role in American elections and political debate," Democratic Commissioner Ellen Weintraub wrote in support of the effort, adding that she believed it "reasonable to count Twitter profiles as among a political committee's websites."

The effort failed narrowly when the commission split along party lines. Had it succeeded, Republicans warned, it could have been a gateway to regulating traditional media (a trademak of the authoritarian 'left').

Some conservatives agree that the Internet has changed the nature of media, but not in an auspicious way. "We're not seeing the best and the brightest anymore," said Jason Lewis, a 25-year talk radio host who retired from his syndicated broadcast in 2014.

However, he added, "Someone in their pajamas in the basement can say and write anything he wants without much consequence. The good news is that not very many people will read it."

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Events in recent years have shown us democracy is a sham. From the USA where big money owns the political system through the European Union where the bureaucrats of the European Commission in Brussels openly express contempt for the elected governments of member states and clearly state that the faux - democratic European Parliament is irrelevant, and the wishes of member states are not considered, it is up to the bureaucrats and experts to do what is right for Europe, WE THE PEOPLE are fighting a war like none we have fought before as the political, financial and academic elites try to disempower the masses. Only through our right of Free Speech can we expose the corruption and self interest at the heart of the system and hold to account the people who would create a global, authoritarian government.
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Judge Denies Attempt To Block Obama's Transfer Of Internet Oversight To UN

October 2016: In a last ditch effort to block Obama's plan to allow the US Commerce Department to hand over oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to a multi-stakeholder community - which includes the technical community, businesses, civil society and foreign governments - 4 state attorneys went to a Texas federal court alleging that the transition, in the absence of congressional approval, amounts to an illegal forfeiture of U.S. government property. Confirming once more that under Obama's Presidency the judiciary and legal system have been totally politicised, their case was thrown out on a technicality.


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European Parliament President Says ‘Vast Majority Of Europeans Do Not Want Borders’

The point of this UK based blog being called Boggart Abroad is that unlike our original Boggart Blog, now called, rather imaginatively we like to think :-) The Original Boggart Blog because the closure of our platform forced a shift to Wordpress, is that we reach out from our home in a peat bog in the north of England to the rest of the world. We're get a lot of traffic from the USA, have followers in Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela, and in France, Germany, Russia (we're big in Russia), Poland, Ukraine, Spain and Portugal, and though our geographic stats only show our top ten nations for the week, we get readers in smaller numbers from many other nations.

We like to feel we are in our small way, champions of democracy, free speech and individuals' right to self determination. Therefor, as one would anticipate, we are totally opposed to the undemocratic, increasingly authorotarian EU. And with good reason, as we are constantly reminded. One such reminder over the past few days has been the reaction of EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker (aka Jean - Claude Drunkard because of his (alleged) habit of consuming brandy for breakfast) and the President of the EU Parliament, (the EU has three Presidents, a bureaucracy has to do everything in triplicate), to the victory of an anti - immigtation, anti - EU candidate in Austria's presidential election (this result may be overturned in a mandatory second round of voting, and the EU will be doing all it can to rig the poll.)

Jean Claude Drunkard - brandy for breakfast (image source)

European Parliament President Schulz warned Austrian voters against a Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) victory in the country’s upcoming presidential election, claiming the “vast majority” of people do not want national borders. One has to wonder what planet this former alcoholic has been living on for the past twelve months as the rise of anti - immigration parties that campaign for open borders has dominated politics in France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, Poland and to a lesser extent in Britain where UKIP are well established and Spain where Podemos, a left wing party opposed to uncontrolled immigration became the largest party in an inconclusive election in December, 2015.

The Europhile German Social Democratic Party (SPD) politician stated that if the populist, anti-mass migration Norbert Hofer becomes president "this will change Europe’s character". Last month Hofer came top in the first round of the Austrian elections, and in two weeks voters will go to the polls for the second round, to choose between the right wing FPO figure and his Green rival Alexander Van der Bellen as the nation’s next head of state.

Die Presse reported yesterday that speaking with Italian radio station RAI 3, Mr. Schultz said he believes the vast majority of people in Europe "do not want the change he believes electing an anti-mass migration president would bring. He added that this “silent majority”, who also apparently oppose national borders, should mobilise against the FPO "for Europe".

In a press release, General Secretary of the FPO Herbert Kickl, rejected Schulz’ “interference” in the Austrian elections, calling it “totally inappropriate”. Mr. Schulz’ comments came soon after the President of The European Commission (the administrative arm of the EU ruling bureaucracy) Jean-Claude Juncker slammed elected leaders of European Union (EU) countries for listening too much to voters rather than focusing on being "full time Europeans".

The Telegraph reported that the European Commission president blasted Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, for not speaking about Europe "in the proper way" and instead discussing the EU in terms of national interests.

"If you are listening to your national opinion you are not developing what should be a common European sense and a feeling of the need to put together efforts. We have too many part-time Europeans," the former prime minister of Luxembourg told the audience at Rome’s Capitolini Museum.

The latest Gallup poll looking to the upcoming presidential election shows Hofer and Van der Bellen are currently neck and neck.

Who TF does Juncker think he is, this jumped up pipsqueak of a a country Luxembourg that is beautiful and brews great beer (I used to work there for the EU) but about the size of a postage stamp. Luxembourg, like so many mickey mouse EU countries, has no significance in the world and so has lost nothing by surrendering its national sovereignty to the EUSSR.

On its own, Luxembourg is nothing, nor are Belgium, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Moldova, Slovenia. On our own, we did EVERYTHING (almost) and still found time to save Europe from tyranny at least three times World Wars 1 and 2 and the Napoleonic War. Royal Navy ruled the world's oceans for 400 years (from when Drake routed the Spanish Armarda to 1918), ruled a QUARTER of the globe (not just by force folks, impossible for such a small island) by intelligence, character & consent, launched the Industrial revolution, and invented the steam engine the jet engine, railways, computers, gave the world its finest literature, its most popular music, produced loads of Nobel prize winners in the sciences and humanities and much more. Other European nations did great things, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, Greece (OK, a long time ago admittedly) and Austria, where the advance of the Ottoman Army of Sulymun The Magnificent was halted at the Seige of Vienna, even little Malta played a pivotal role in turning the tide of World War Two (but it was a British colony at the time). Germany, the wannabe hegemonic power of Europe wasn't even a proper country until 1870 and while there are mny notable German achievements particularly in electronics, engineering and technology, they don'yt make up for those two world wars.

And the Luxembourg has produced that gives the former Prime Minister the right to lecture Britain and those other great nations of European history? What? WHAT!??? NOTHING. Nada. Well OK, they gave the world Blue Nun wine.

So please Luxembourg, I loved your radio station back in the day although I'd rather forget about "Under The Bedclothes With Jimmy Savile", but today, compared to the greats of British politics who shaped European history, Churchill, Lloyd George, Atlee, Gladstome, Disraeli, Wellington, Walpole, the Cromwell boys, Tommy and Ollie and, it has to be said even though it hurts, Margaret Thatcher , an ex-Luxembourgois leader lecturing us on our place in the world is like a mouse saying 'Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough,' to a Lion. So please, Jean Claude Drunkard, you go ahead with your plan for a German-dominated Europe by yourselves, piss on the graves of those brave Bohemians and Burgundians who gave their lives to preserve the independence of their microstate and hold back the advances of the Prussians and Bourbon French as their incessant wars raged.

Schulz BTW is a failed German bookseller's employee; an ex-alcoholic* from the Aachen region and as thick as p*gsh*t as any Member of the European Parliament will tell you. But Hausfrau - Voksfuhrer Merkel likes him because he is good as following orders (something of a national trait I'm told.)

Can you imagine anything more dire having a drink with him?

Alcoholism on his CV is probably what attracted Juncker the Drunkard's attention.

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Armed Forces Minister: Obama ‘Woefully Ignorant’ of Threat EU Membership Poses

One of the points President Barack Hussein Obama made during his visit to Britain in April 2016, was that the UK will be safer inside the European Union wheras if we vote OUT in the Brexirt referendum scheduled for June this year, we will face existential threats from foreign power. Presumably Obama was referring to Russia, after all he has devoted most of his foreign policy during his second term as president to talking up the imaginary threat posed by a resurgent Russia under Vladimir Putin in order to justify to some extent the USA's warmongering against small, and largely powerless nations in the middle east.

In adopting this scaremongering approach Obama seems to have seriously underestimated the amount of influence his word carries in Britain and around the world, just as he underestimated first the capability of Syria's secular, Shia Muslim regime under President Assad to mount a very effective resistance to the US backed attempt to depose Assad and make way for a Sunni Muslim regime friendly to US allies Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Oman. In taking this pro - Sunni position and trying to escalate tensions between Russia and the NATO alliance of western Europe and north America, the US President has shown his “woeful ignorance” of the hampering effect that being within the European Union has on Britain’s security, the UK defence minister has said. The minister suggested that rather than behaving as if he is an omnipotent monarch, Obama might think about asking the US diplomats in Euriope and the middle east, or maybe the CIA why creating a European Army or an EU-wide intelligence agency would not help to ease tensions with Russia.

Mr Obama spent a lot of his visit to Britain, telling the British people why he thinks they should vote to remain within the European Union at the IN / OUT referendum on June 23.
He has made it clear that he believes it to be in America’s economic and political interests interest for Britain to remain within a large European bloc rather than striking out alone.
His arguments on security in particular have been closely followed by Britain’s Armed Forces minister Penny Mordaunt, who has concluded that she cannot agree with what the President has had to say.
While she acknowledged the role that America and Britain have played as allies in the fight to promote freedom and democracy, she said “Where we part company, however, is in our views of the value of EU membership to this mission.”
Referring to a statement Mr Obama made in the Telegraph on Friday in which he said: “The European Union doesn’t moderate British influence – it magnifies it,” she responded: “Unfortunately this opinion betrays a woeful ignorance of the practical reality of the EU’s impact on our security, and the interests of the U.K. and the US.”


In his effort to persuade the British people to think as he does, he suggested that Europe owes a debt to the USA for saving it from the Nazis in World War Two, and has the European Project to tank for the last seven decades of peace in Europe . He is completely wrong on both, it was British obduracy and a Russian winter that saved Europe from the Nazis.

By the time the USA entered the shooting war, the tide was turning; in North Africa, the Advance of the Axis (Germant / Italy was halted at the first Battle of El Alamein in July 1942 and in a second battle in October and November of the same year, the Allied army, mainly troops from Britain and Commonwealth nations including Canada, Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, Nigeria, Keyna, and the Caribbean colonies, supported by expatriate forces from conquered nations in Europe, including France, Poland and Czechoslovakia began the pushback by defeating Gerneral Rommel's combined German and Italian army.

Although The USA had been supplying Britain and Russia for some years, military involvement did not begin until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941 and in the early months was focused in the Pacific theatre. A small contingent of US troops was deployed to north Africa but serious US involvement did not begin until the invasion of Italy in 1943.

Several times during the visit he reiterated the pro EU British government’s argument that Britain is more secure within the European Union.

UK Armed Forces Minister Penny Morduant told the media, “Obama warned that divisions in Europe will weaken NATO, but often those divisions are caused by the EU itself. Obama confuses collective action and defence through Nato with the integration at all costs and damn the consequences ideology that too often motivates the EU, which Russia, understandably sees as a provokation if not a realistic threat.”

Mr Obama also used his statement to argue: “We must be resolute and adaptive in our efforts to prevent terrorist attacks against our people, and to continue the progress we are making to roll back the threat posed by Islamic State (ISIL) until it is destroyed.”

Ms Mordaunt agreed, but countered that membership of the European Union is inimical to that aim.
“The President must be unaware of the alarming weaknesses that allow Daesh [Islamic State] terrorists to move unimpeded across Europe are the result of the EU’s bull-headed desire to take down all frontiers on the continent,” she said.

“Even in this country, although we are outside the Schengen borderless zone, European free movement rules mean we cannot keep out those we suspect wish us harm if it is based on incomplete evidence.” And Ms Mordaunt went on to dismiss Mr Obama’s claims that intelligence sharing is enhanced by the European Union, saying: ”Obama cannot appreciate how the ECJ has repeatedly undermined the arrangements which enable the UK and US to share intelligence. I am sure the CIA would be happy to explain to him why that the creation of a EU intelligence agency will not result in intelligence being shared EU-wide.”

In view of the realities in seems Penny Morduant's description of Obama as 'woefully ignorant' is typically British understatement.

Far from being the answer to Europe’s security problems, it has often been the cause of them. Is Obama aware of what happened to Greece in the past five years? And the other nations, chiefly Italy, spain, Portugal and Ireland, that face economic ruin because of the appalling consequences of forced harmonisation of the Eurozone? Is he oblivious to the suffering, the resulting tensions, the distrust, the rise of extremism?

There is certainly an evidence based case to be made that Obama cares little about anything that does not relate to gay and transgender issues in the USA, yet European leaders continue to take not of his words and act on them, thus serving the interests of Washington and US Corporate culture rather than those of the people who elected them.

The EU has its own geopolitical ambitions including an expansion of the union beyond Turkey and Ukraine and into the middle east and North Africa, which, while detrimental to the people of its members states will secure places for members of Europe's political elites in the global government bankers, businessmen and academics have been working towards since the United Nations was formed after World War Two.

It has been said of the EU that expecting it to act as a functioning geopolitical entity is like putting wheels on your grandmother and saying she is a car. I worry that in years to come we will see a major car crash because of the misplaced ambitions of Brussels.

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Wall Street 'Whistleblower' Exposes Clinton Foundation Fraud

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It's nothing personal, but the more I learn of Hillary Clinton the more I dislike her. This corrupt, crooked liar should not be allowed to run for president of the Glee Club let along the third most powerful nation in the world (hey, don't moasn at me about that, get on Obama's case). The woman is a phoney, a self interested, self aggrandizing elitist with a sense of entitlement the size of a galaxy. Whatever Hillary does, and whatever minority group the claims she is acting in the interests of, you can bet the main beneficiaries are Hillary Clinton, her family and her cronies.

No surprise then that a whistleblower has exposed Hillary's charity, 'The Clinton Foundation as a fraud. She's not alone of course, those of us with access to inside information in finance know that The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation receives $2 of taxpayers money in the form of government grants and consultancy fees from nations and organisations around the world for every $1 it spends on 'good works' (i.e. channeling money into the coffers of corporate businesses.) And the Zuckerberg foundation, though not old enough to have filed audited accounts, is not a charitable trust, but a Limited Liability Company which arouses suspicion immediately.

But what about those sleazy Clintons?

Wall Street 'Whistleblower' Analyst Exposes Clinton Foundation As "Charity Fraud"

From Zero Hedge, submitted byMike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

The Clinton Foundation’s finances are so messy that the nation’s most influential charity watchdog put it on its “watch list” of problematic nonprofits last month.

The Clinton family’s mega-charity took in more than $140 million in grants and pledges in 2013 but spent just $9 million on direct aid.

The group spent the bulk of its windfall on administration, travel, and salaries and bonuses, with the fattest payouts going to family friends.

“It seems like the Clinton Foundation operates as a slush fund for the Clintons,” said Bill Allison, a senior fellow at the Sunlight Foundation, a government watchdog group where progressive Democrat and Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout was once an organizing director.

– From last year’s post: Senior Fellow at Sunlight Foundation Calls the Clinton Foundation “A Slush Fund”

Thanks to Charles Ortel, it’s time to prepare ourselves for some more Clinton Foundation revelations :

The Washington Free Beacon reports:
The Wall Street analyst who uncovered financial discrepancies at General Electric before its stock crashed in 2008 claims the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation has a number of irregularities in its tax records and could be violating state laws.

Charles Ortel, a longtime financial adviser, said he has spent the past 15 months digging into the Clinton Foundation’s public records, federal and state-level tax filings, and donor disclosures. That includes records from the foundation’s many offshoots—including the Clinton Health Access Initiative and the Clinton Global Initiative—as well as its foreign subsidiaries.

This week, Ortel is starting to release his findings in the first of a series of up to 40 planned reports on his website. His allegation: “this is a charity fraud.”

The Sunday Times of London described Ortel as “one of the finest analysts of financial statements on the planet” in a 2009 story detailing the troubles at AIG.

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California Fault Lines Are Ready For The Big One, Geologist Warns

The San Andreas fault, which was responsible for the San Franciso Earthquake of 1906, runs right through the middle of some of the most expensive property in the world, and also some of the most densely populated. The last big movement in the sourthern sector of the  San Andreas, in which Los Angeles with its millionaire suburbs such as Beverley Hills, Bel - Air and Laurel Canyon is located was in way back in 1857, the Los Angeles Times reports  .

Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, said this week "the springs on the San Andreas system have been wound very, very tight for some time. And the southern San Andreas fault, in particular, looks like it’s locked, loaded and ready to go."


Have you noticed that the crust of the Earth is starting to become a lot more unstable?

As The End of The American dream blog's Michael Snyder explains, over the past couple of months, major earthquakes have shaken areas all over the planet and major volcanoes have been erupting with a frequency that is more than just a little bit startling.

In the United States' National Park of Yellowstone in Wyoming witnesses say the ground is moving as if floating on the surface of an ocean in slow motion; the state of Oklahoma absolutely shattered their yearly record for quakes last year; numerous volcanoes are erupting on have recently erupted around the Pacific Ring of Fire and now we have a Californian geologist telling us that the San Andreas fault in southern California “looks like it’s locked, loaded and ready to go”.

Old Faithful Geyser,Yellowstone Park, watch the slall mound to the left of the geyser

This blog does not pay a lot of attention to dire warnings about climate catastrophe or asteroid hits that are based on data from mathematical models running in supercomputers, but when the director of the Southern California Earthquake Center talks about earthquakes it is wise to listen. Not that anyone can predict when a quake WILL happen, it could be tomorrow, it could be a hundred years. The following quote from Jordan however. comes from a Los Angeles Times article that was published this week that is getting a huge amount of attention right now…

“The springs on the San Andreas system have been wound very, very tight. And the southern San Andreas fault, in particular, looks like it’s locked, loaded and ready to go,” Jordan said in the opening keynote talk.

Other sections of the San Andreas fault also are far overdue for a big quake. Further southeast of the Cajon Pass, such as in San Bernardino County, the fault has not moved substantially since an earthquake in 1812, and further southeast toward the Salton Sea, it has been relatively  quiet since about 1680 to 1690.

Here’s the problem: Scientists have observed that based on the movement of tectonic plates, with the Pacific plate moving northwest of the North American plate, earthquakes should be relieving about 16 feet of accumulated plate movement every 100 years. Yet the San Andreas has not relieved stress that has been building up for more than a century.

 No conspiracy theories, no allegation of divine or satanic influences at work, just level headed conclusions based on observation and study of past events. This kind of stuff is worth listening to. So what can we do? Well nothing really, in spite of what the loonytoons variety of scientists tell us, any attempt by humans to alleviate the problem is more likely to make things worse than to improve them.

A wise President however would stop provoking Russia and China, disengage from current foreign conflicts, focus on domestic problems and prepare the military to deal with massive rescue and relief operations. Unfortunately the man in The White House has shown himself utterly incompetent to deal with such problems, or indeed anything that does not involve foreign wars or gay and minority rights.

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Hillary Clinton To Face FBI Interview Very Soon

After the US Department of Justice had effectively blocked the FBI inestigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server shenagigans involving official material classed as 'top secret and above' he woman who has a reputation as the world's greatest gloater probably thought she had got away with blatantly disregarding laws on national security, and could focus on cheating Donald Trump or whoever (I'm not ruling out the possibility that Trump's bid for the presidency will be derailed by a scandal,) an order made by Judge Sullivan of the U.S. District Court laid out ground rules for interviewing multiple State Department officials, and ordered at least six current and former State Department employees to answer questions, all in an effort to finish the depositions in the weeks before the party nominating conventions.

According to a CBS report, a Washington source has confirmed that Hillary Clinton will be interviewed by the FBI within the coming weeks, in connection with the investigation into her private email server. Hillary's top aide, Huma Abedin was interviewed by the FBI in April. The FBI and Justice Department have been investigating whether classified information stored on Hillary's email server was mishandled. Abedin was interviewed at the FBI's Washington field office last month. The FBI's investigation into Clinton's email server was first reported in August.

The Clinton campaign has said it's confident that the FBI's review "will conclude that nothing inappropriate took place." There's no timetable for completing the investigation, and there have been no statements about how much longer the investigation will take. A federal judge in Washington said he may order Clinton to testify under oath about whether she used a private email server to evade public records disclosures. The order from U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan granted a request from the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch to question six current and former State Department staffers, including Abedin, about the creation and purpose of the email system.

Clinton, who has been accused many times of behaving as if she is above the law, dismissed the idea that she could face legal trouble over the use of the server, responding to a debate question in March about the prospect of a federal indictment by saying, "It's not going to happen." Well at least she didn't say, "What difference does it make."

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Bashar al Assad and John Kerry: which one looks more like a Scooby Doo villain worried?

The True State Of The US Economy: Retail Companies Reporting Sales Targets Missed

In the free world economies are only as financially healthy as the consumers that feed them.

And when one looks at the latest sales figures reported by six major American retailers today, they suggest the US economy (and therefore the economies of Europe, Japan and Australia - and China, India, Indonesia and others that rely on western consumers) have big problems that governments would rather we did not know about. You see all those major retailers missed their targets, not by a whisker or a cicarette paper or any other measure of a fine margin, but by significant amounts.

As Bloomberg observes, each of six companies, among which L Brands, Zumiez, The Buckle, Costco, The Cato Corporation and Fred's - that reported April comparable sales missed estimates compiled by Retail Metrics.

Among the reasons given by retailers for the weakness were the shift of Easter to mid-March this year from early April last year, and the old standby, rainy weather.

The worst miss was at Buckle, which fell short of estimates by a whopping 660bps*, followed by Cato’s miss of 500bps; L Brands’ Victoria’s Secret also missed by 500bps; on the other end, Zumiez’s April comp. sales missed estimate by just 60bps, the narrowest miss of group.

Investors promptly dumped the companies stock, sending the shares in L Brands Inc., owner of the Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works chains, plunging the most in six years to the lowest level since November 2014. Others did not do better: ZUMZ -8%, BKE -6%, COST -2.1%, CATO -1%, FRED -6%.

Which should not come as a surprise: considering in the past several months we have seen bankruptcies by famous retailers such as American Apparel, Caché, Wet Seal, Quiksilver, and Pacific Sun, Eastern Mountain Sports, Sports Authority, and just yesterday, Aeropostale, perhaps it is becoming clear why the state of both the American consumer, and the American economy, is as poor as it appears to everyone, if not those happy few who see nothing but green shoots and "fiction peddlers." Clearly 'the recovery' that did not happen is going to be another historic failure for Obama's failed Presidency


*bps - basispoints, i.e. one hundredth of one per cent, thus 100bps=1%


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Germany: Merkel's Christian Democrats Haemorrhage Support To Anti Immpigration Party AfD

Germany's Hausfrau - VolksfuhrerChancellor Angela Merkel's popularity is falling fast as the disaster of her 'open doors' immigration policy continues to divide German society and erode the popularity of the ruling coalition led by Merkel's Christian Democrat Union party, as frustrated German voters, wondering when their interests and concerns will once again be put ahead of sucking up to immigrants and appeasing minorities, switch their support to the anti - EU, anti - immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Recent polls for the ARD news  network put Merkel's Party and their Bravarian regional sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) at just 33 percent overall support, the lowest rating since October 2011 in trends regularly measured by pollsters

The other partner in the coalition government, the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) which ruled Germany virtually unchallenged for several decades after World War Two, slumped to just 20 percent, a long way short of the 33 percent it enjoyed in 2005, according to the 'DeutschlandTrend' surveys, conducted for ARD.

Merkel's reputation as the most competent leader in the EU and de facto  political leader of the European Union has been savaged in Germany and abroad over her open doors policy for 'refugees' which because it does not distinguish between genuine refugees and economic migrants has seen the nation flooded with unskilled and illiterate peasants, criminals and jihadists.The numbers of migrants arriving in German has caused major strains in many German states, with new arrivals creating a burden on local authorities. More than 1.1 million entered Germany in 2015 alone.

Merkel's falling popularity has been accelerated by her isolating Germany within Europe and angering other her national leaders by negotiating unilaterally a deal with the gangster president of the terrorist state Turkey. Even though it is known Turkey has supplied arms to terrorist group ISIS, traded ISIS oil in international markets and has killed many thousands of Syrian and Iraqi Kurds in pursuite of President Erdogan's territorial ambitions, Merkel has promised to fast track Turkey's access to full membership of the EU and granted, on behalf of all 28 momber stes, though she was never elected thrir spokesperson, the right of visa free travel in the EU's schengen zone to 77 million Turkish citizens. Her plans to relocate refugees across all 28 member states according to a mandatory quota system (set by Germany and the EU bureaurats) have met huge opposition, particularly from Central European states.

The deal she brokered with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to return "irregular" migrants from Greece to Turkey in return for one Syrian being relocated from Turkey to an EU member state has drawn sever criticism at home. The deal is conditional on accelerating Turkey's accession to the EU and visa-free access for its citizens to the EU from June 2016 (Erdogan has already blackmailed the European Commission, the administration arm of the EU to the tune of €billions for help in controlling immigration into Europe, help which has not been forthcoming.

Only 33 percent of those surveyed in Germany said they favored visa-free entry to Europe for Turkish citizens. Only 38 percent endorsed the deal, designed to redistribute asylum-seekers stuck in Greece across the European Union. Poll: Over 60% of Germans Oppose Visa-Free Regime Between EU, Turkey

Merkel's calls for a pan-European response to the crisis — keeping open the border inside the Schengen zone — have been ignored as country after country closed their borders. Merkel has refused to compromise or consider capping immigrant numbers. This has caused anger in the CSU Party where leader  Horst Seehofer has had to deal with the flood of migrants coming over the border from Austria. Following the CDU/CSU Union's poor performance in recent regional elections, Seehofer said: "We should tell people that we get it and that we will draw the consequences from this election result."

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How Facebook, Instagram, Google, and Twitter Use Censorship to Kill Free Speech

This blog has been a regular critic of the authoritarian attitudes of internet technology companies, particularly social media networks and certain Search Engine Operators. We have of course previously noted how certain organisations practice censorship and are more than willing to collaborate with government in advancing the politically correct, globalist agenda. While the companies involved, and governments deny this, and fans of big government and global tyranny among the user base screech 'conspiracy theory', anyone with a mind of their own can see what is increasingly happening with web content.

A new study by Onlinecensorship.org — a collaborative effort between the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Visualizing Impact reveals that social media sites and search engine operators have been collaborating closely with government agencies to control the type of content we may see online.
Most readers will know of people who have been kicked off the social networking site for designated periods of time for ‘violating community standards.’ Some may even have had their Facebook accounts closed permanently due to the site’s  ‘real names’ policy (while I have an account that is obviously a joke name  - and no, I'm not telling you what it is - that has never been questioned.).

“UNFRIENDING CENSORSHIP: Insights from four months of crowdsourced data on social media censorship” is the title of the report which is based on on data provided by users of major social networking sites between in 2015 and 2016. The study  asked users to submit reports when their content was reported or their accounts were removed from Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, and YouTube.

“Account suspensions, the most stringent form of moderation, were the most frequent type of content takedown in our dataset,” the report notes.

After analysing the collected data across geography, platform, content type and issue areas, the analysis revealed a number of trends in social media censorship. Here are some highlights of the information gathered from 161 submissions across 26 countries, with content in 11 languages:

– Facebook was the most frequently reported platform, with account suspensions the most reported content type.

– Nudity and false identity were the most frequent reasons given for the removal of  content on Facebook.

– Of 119 reports received from Facebook users, 13% had been asked to prove their identity to Facebook under its name policy.

– Instagram users tended to report “inappropriate content” as the reason their content was taken down.

– Twitter takedowns tended to be linked to targeted abuse, harassment, or fraud/spam.

– Nearly half of copyright-related takedown submissions came from YouTube.

– 53% of users did not appeal the takedown of their content, 50% said they didn’t know how, and 41.9% said they didn’t expect a response. In four cases content was restored, but in 50 cases the user didn’t receive a response.

– There were widespread reports that flagging is being used for censorship, and 61.6% of users believed that this was the cause for the removal of their content.

“The content was the Wikipedia photo of human anatomy showing a man and a woman in full frontal nudity. It is against Facebook’s guidelines about nudity,” reads one case study.

Although measures were used to help verify reports — and users were given the opportunity to send screenshots to support their claims — onlinecensorship.org did not work with the social media companies to obtain their data. Consequently, the study does not claim to be representative of all content takedowns or user experiences.

EFF explained the importance of tracking how social media companies are regulating the speech of their users:

“As self-ordained content moderators, these companies face thorny issues; deciding what constitutes hate speech, harassment, and terrorism is challenging, particularly across many different cultures, languages, and social circumstances.” adding that while the U.S.- based companies don’t believe their policies constitute censorship, the purpose of onlinecensorship.org is to challenge this assertion by examining how such policies  may have a limiting effect on freedom of speech.

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