Asylum seekers in Hamberg, Germany. So, “who are those guys?” as Butch Cassidy said. Not adults it turns out. They claim to be children but are really adults.
49 per cent of the migrants who have claimed to be underage in the city of Hamburg Germany this year are actually adults, according to a new report from the Social Security Board.
The number is up from figures from last year which showed that 47 per cent of those claiming to be underage were adults. The new 49 per cent figure covers the 482 unaccompanied asylum seekers who came to Hamburg from January to September of this year, Die Welt reports.
Across Germany this year there have been a total of 55,890 asylum seekers claiming to be under the age of 18 but according to the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, 24,116, or 43 percent, were officially adults.
Underage minors go through a different process than adults in Germany. Those defined as “minors” receive different services than adults.
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Firenze Sage: No photo id ? No problemo. We take everyone, bomber or otherwise.
A trophy for fake USA news of the week goes to?
A trophy for fake news of the week goes to …? Al Franklin?  And trophies for real heroes this week  go to?
Fake apology of the week trophy goes to Republican Al Franklin who can’t say exactly what he is apologizing for. He made an on the air apology for fondling an attractive woman’s breasts  while on an airplane.  Al Franklin does not remember  ‘the kiss’ as described by the woman — nor does he apologize for it.
Fake news award trophy for the week goes to ….  Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren aka “Pocahontas” who President Trump slams for faking Native American heritage which she used to further her graduate school career. Doubtful that Warren will apologize for that bad behavior which she engaged in many moons ago.
Fake defense of the week ….?  That award goes to Democrat Nancy Pelosi who describes Democrat John Conyers as an “icon”…  An icon of what? Revere John Conyers for successfully covering up money paid by taxpayers in 2015 related to charges of sexual harassment?
And who are some  heroes of the week?   How about the Native American code talkers who were honored recently by President Trump.  They are true heroes.  And how about the heroine Pocahontas who in 1607 saved the life (so it goes) of John Smith, an Englishman who was captured by Native Americans.  She was a true heroine.
Some info on Pocahontas below:
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Pocahontas, a real Native American heroine to tell children about
Pocahontas (born Matoaka, known as Amonute, c. 1596–1617) was a Native American[2][3][4] teenager notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief[2] of a network of tributary tribal nations in the Tsenacommacah, encompassing the Tidewater region of Virginia. In a well-known historical anecdote, she is said to have saved the life of a captive of the Native Americans, the Englishman John Smith, in 1607 by placing her head upon his own when her father raised his war club to execute him. Some historians have suggested that this story, as told by Smith, is untrue.[5]
Yes, honor Native American code breakers that helped win World War II. And call a fake a fake – Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” is and was a fake for saying that she is Native American when she applied to Harvard and Penn. There’s lots of fake news out there.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R., Ala.)Â wrote in an op-ed published Tuesday that she supports Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare’s individual mandate.
“I have always supported the freedom to choose. I believe that the federal government should not force anyone to buy something they do not wish to buy in order to avoid being taxed,” Murkowski wrote in her piece for the Daily News-Miner, an Alaska newspaper. “That is the fundamental reason why I opposed the Affordable Care Act from its inception and also why I cosponsored a bill to repeal the individual mandate tax penalty starting as early as 2013. And that is why I support the repeal of that tax today.”
Murkowski’s announcement comes as a welcome surprise to Senate Republicans, whose current tax reform bill repeals the individual mandate, which forces most Americans who do not have health insurance to pay a fine. Earlier this year, Murkowski was one of three Republican senators who did not vote for the Senate GOP’s so-called “skinny” repeal of Obamacare.
Ross presents herself and is presented by the Post as an objective journalist. She primarily covers politics and race, and much of her focus is on the Trump administration. Nevertheless, Ross’s Twitter feed is that of a left-wing activist, and back in 2015, with no evidence, Ross smeared then-presidential candidate Jeb Bush in such a sleazy way, even MSNBC felt the need to push back.
According to the Beacon, the Washington Post journalist “gave a presentation at a secretive California gathering where Democratic politicians, liberal activists, and their biggest donors plotted the future of the progressive movement[.]â€
The Post claims to have known nothing about their reporter’s attendance, and told the Beacon that Ross has been “reminded†about the Post’s policy when it comes to attending events that “could be perceived as partisan.â€
The Democracy Alliance, which hosted the event, bills itself as “the largest network of donors dedicated to building the progressive movement in the United States†on the group’s official website. The liberal group also claims to “play a leading role in fostering the infrastructure necessary to advance a progressive agenda†in the United States.
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Firenze Sage:Â Â Just another reason to doubt everything in the Washington Post.
yard waste to travel to Monterey County — wonder why ?
Santa Cruz County plans to export yard waste to Monterey County. Wonder why?
“Willful waste makes woeful want” — 1556.  Curious what others do with their waste?  You can see exactly where your waste goes in Seattle, Washington.
“Does it make sense to you that 100% of the County’s 43,000 tons of yard waste be trucked to Monterey County, perhaps to San Lucas?  Does it make sense to you that NONE of that material would most likely return to Santa Cruz County? Why would Public Works want to recommend the Board of Supervisors approve a contract that would multiply the carbon footprint of the composting program, and contribute to greenhouse gas emissions with all that trucking and remove a viable operation and jobs from Santa Cruz County? Please write and call the Board of Supervisors and insist all yard waste recycling/composting stay in Santa Cruz County at the Buena Vista site and to give the contract to Vision Recycling: 454-2200″
Think it’s best to keep our yard waste local? People to contact include:
Russian firm — Internet Research Agency — continues to churn out discord via Facebook
Long term Russian interference: Before and after 2016 elections the Russian internet trolls sowed discord.
After the 2016 election, Russian trolls opposed Trump– writing posts that Trump is not a legitimate President. So we learn today from Facebook lawyers testifying about Russian manipulation of Facebook via political ads.
One Russian firm — Internet Research Agency — churned out 80,000 (80 K) posts on Facebook from Jan. 2015 through August 2017. “Most of these posts and ads are deeply disturbing” says Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch. “Coming from foreign actors using fake accounts is simply unacceptable.”
Per the WSJ Oct. 31 2017, Facebook, Google and Twitter will divulge new details showing the scope of Russian backed manipulation both before and after the 2016 elections.
Twitter and Google testify Nov. 1 2017 in front of the House and Senate intelligence committees which are conducting probes to uncover what happened during the campaign for President.
Lawyers for Facebook testify that Russians sought to de-legitimize the Trump Presidency after the elections.
So how does this square with mainstream media’s narrative for this past year of collusion by Trump with Russia? It does not square.
written by Cameron Jackson based on various sources
“God –Allah — is Great!” and 8 are now dead. Those words were shouted by a terrorist in Manhattan Oct 31, 2017. His rental truck struck bike riders from behind.
Shout Allahu Akbar! – and too often some people die. Murdered.  Near the World Trade Center  eight people were killed and a dozen were hospitalized Oct. 31, 2017.
Terror fomented by ISIS.
Those who died come from many places.  One Belgium was killed and three injured. Argentine citizens are among the dead.
Today, Oct. 31, an ISIS terrorist attack via an rental truck plowed through helpless riders on a Lower Manhattan bike path.
The driver originally from Uzbekistan, Sayfrillo Saipov, yelled “Allahu Akbar!†— Arabic for “God is great!†— after running the riders down from behind, their mangled bodies left scattered behind his runaway white pickup.
The 29-year-old suspect, Sayfrillo Saipov,Â
described as Middle Eastern, was arrested after a hero police officer shot him in the abdomen following a crash between the truck and a school bus.
Saipov was waving an paintball gun and had a pellet gun when cops reached the scene. He has worked for Uber as a driver and has lived a number of years in Tampa, Florida. Two businesses are registered in his name.
He has lived in the U.S. since 2010.  The terrorist left behind handwritten notes pledging loyalty to ISIS with an image of an ISIS flag inside his vehicle.
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Comment:  Is Islam still portrayed as a religion of peace? Mangled pieces of people — carnage in Manhattan — does not make that image credible. Read Wafa Sultan’s impressions of Islam.
 Kellogg’s will be redesigning Corn Pops cereal boxes after a complaint about racially insensitive art on the packaging.
The Battle Creek, Mich.-based cereal and snack maker said on Twitter Wednesday it will replace the cover drawing of cartoon characters shaped like corn kernels populating a shopping mall. The corn pop characters are shown shopping, playing in an arcade or frolicked in a fountain. One skateboards down an escalator.
What struck Saladin Ahmed was that a single brown corn pop was working as a janitor operating a floor waxer. Ahmed, current writer of Marvel Comics’ Black Bolt series and author of 2012 fantasy novel Throne of the Crescent Moon, took to Twitter Tuesday to ask, “Why is literally the only brown corn pop on the whole cereal box the janitor? this is teaching kids racism.”
He added in a subsequent post: “yes its a tiny thing, but when you see your kid staring at this over breakfast and realize millions of other kids are doing the same…”
Kellogg’s responded to Ahmed on the social media network about five hours later that “Kellogg is committed to diversity & inclusion. We did not intend to offend – we apologize. The artwork is updated & will be in stores soon.
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Firenze Sage writes:  Rice Krispies are anti Chinese …. or is it cultural appropriation …. or maybe it is just breakfast?
Hilary Clinton’s chickens  come home to roost? Who really colluded with whom?
Hilary and the Democrat Party colluded to create fake information [the Trump dossier] which — for the past year — has affected many people’s reputations.
For nearly a year, the media has pounded away on the narrative that Trump colluded and stole the election from Hilary.
Hilary Clinton’s campaign message for President was simple and consistent:  Trump is not fit to serve.
Now we learn via the Washington Post 10/24/17  that Hilary Clinton ‘knew’ Trump’ was supposedly unfit because she and the Democrat Party paid the bill to create false info about Trump.
Hilary Clinton and the Democratic National Party (DNC) paid $9+ MILLION for Fusion GPS to pay Christopher Steele to create the dossier on Trump.
What is Fusion GPS?  hiding? Fusion GPS describes itself as a “research and strategic intelligence firm†founded by “three former Wall Street Journal investigative reporters.†But congressional sources say it’s actually an opposition-research group for Democrats, and the founders, who are more political activists than journalists, have a pro-Hillary Clinton, anti-Trump agenda.
“These weren’t mercenaries or hired guns,†a congressional source familiar with the dossier probe said. “These guys had a vested personal and ideological interest in smearing Trump and boosting Hillary’s chances of winning the White House.â€
Dirt digging by Fusion GPS: Fusion GPS was on the payroll of an unidentified Democratic ally of Clinton when it hired long-retired British spy  Christopher Steele to dig up dirt on Trump. In 2012, Democrats hired Fusion GPS to uncover dirt on GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. And in 2015, Democratic ally Planned Parenthood retained Fusion GPS to investigate pro-life activists protesting the abortion group.
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Take away: Now we know why Hilary Clinton was so adamant that she ‘knew’ that Trump is unfit to serve. She ‘knows’ because she paid lots of money to create false information on Trump via Fusions GPS.
Next step: Let’s require Fusion GPS to open up it’s books. We may learn a lot more about who colluded with whom when that happens.
Like exactly who profited from the sale of 20 percent of USA uranium to Russia when Hilary Clinton was Secretary of State. Did Hilary collude?
And, why now is the Washington Post and its backers willing to throw Hilary Clinton under the bus? Because she just won’t go away?
Americans are not stupid. They can make informed choices.
Let people choose their doctors and their health plans.
What to do? Legalize competition across state lines. That will drive premium costs down.
Give ObamaCare no money via the Exchanges. Let people opt out totally. Let small businesses create their own collectives. Encourage Health Savings Accounts with families making the decisions how to spend their health dollars.
written by Cameron Jackson
Phil Gramm, Republicans, Stand up for Health Freedom WSJ, Oct. 19, 2017
“President Trump has now created another such opening for compromise by announcing he will end ObamaCare’s cost-sharing payments to insurers. Without a constant injection of additional money, ObamaCare premiums will spiral upward, and the number of Americans who benefit from the program will continue to fall.
But the initial bipartisan bill, offered by Sens. Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D., Wash.), is more of a capitulation than compromise. It resuscitates ObamaCare but hardly provides a fig leaf for Americans who want their health-care freedom back—the very people who elected Republicans.
“Any agreement to restore funding for cost-sharing payments should be tied to provisions allowing families to opt out of ObamaCare and buy coverage that meets their individual needs. The compromise should also grant insurers the right to sell such plans independent of ObamaCare’s rules and its rigged risk pool.
“A money-for-freedom compromise would at last provide an opportunity to debate health-care freedom, something the public was denied by the great ObamaCare lie. If Democrats refuse to allow ObamaCare’s losers to escape in return for funding for the program’s beneficiaries, it will be Democrats who let the program collapse. Throughout the debate they will be forced to argue against the very health-care freedom they falsely promised when they adopted ObamaCare.”
the above is from an article in the Wall Street Journal Oct. 19, 2017  by Phil Gramm “Republicans, Stand Up for Health Freedom”
