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Massive New Epstein Info To Be Released Monday
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Dec 21, 2019
The Alex Jones Show
Alex Jones covers some of the bombshell info that will be fully disclosed on Monday's broadcast
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https://banned.video/watch?id=5df165ac82282f001c1c9b00
How Google Took Over The World: Must Watch Full Documentary
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Dec 11, 2019
Full documentary that tells the story of Google's rise to the pinnacle of free speech censorship and how they tried to silence a mild mannered water filtered merchant from Austin Texas. Youtube Link here https://youtu.be/dPoN3BdnUEY
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THE CLINTON BODY COUNT part 1: "Mena"
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Dec 22, 2019
The origins of the notorious phrase; The Clinton Body Count come from the 80s and 90s when Bill Clinton was Governor of Arkansas. Part 1 of 3
I laughed out loud several times watching that show. I actually like Alex a bit more than before it. As a comedian he is hilarious.
Thank you for the platform to share this information with the public! People are able to form their own opinions! Praise God! 
Keep in mind, Alex Jones simply discusses how news, events, and statements connect in different ways. It makes good sense if you have a knowledge base of the past.
Here is an article by Ron Paul posted to INFOWARS.com at https://www.infowars.com/feed/custom_feed_rss
https://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-how-congress-and-the-federal-reserve-stole-christmas/
Ron Paul: How Congress and the Federal Reserve Stole Christmas
Congress pass $1 trillion spending bill, while Fed continues pumping billions into repurchasing market
Ron Paul | Infowars.com - December 23, 2019 1 Comment
Image Credits: Donald Iain Smith.
The bickering over impeachment did not stop the president and Congress from coming together last week to avert a government shutdown by passing a 1.4 trillion dollar spending package.
The bipartisan agreement has something for everyone — a 22 billion dollars increase to bring total spending on militarism to 738 billion dollars, and a 27 billion dollars increase to bring total spending on domestic programs to 632 billion dollars. It also imposes a national ban on selling tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to anyone under 21.
The agreement was split into two bills. Both bills were unveiled last Monday afternoon. The bills passed the House on Tuesday, so only the House leadership and the members of the Appropriations Committee (and their staffs) who helped write the over 2,000-page deal had any idea what was in the bills. But most members voted for the spending bills because they were fearful of backlash over another Christmastime government shutdown. House leadership simply “waived” the rule requiring that all legislation be available at least three days before being voted upon.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve continues pumping billions into the repurchasing market. When the Fed began injecting money into the market in September, it said intervention was a temporary measure to address a short-term liquidity shortage. Three months later, the Fed is not only continuing to bail out the repurchasing market, it is preparing for other bailouts. This is further evidence that we are on the verge of another Fed-created economic crisis.
When the crisis hits, the best thing the Fed could do is not to lower interest rates below the levels set by the market. This would allow consumers, businesses, and government to liquidate their debt and restore a sound foundation for future growth. If the Fed did not interfere with the painful but necessary correction, it would only be a short time before a real economic boom commenced.
The Federal Reserve is unlikely to follow this path because of the short-term pain it would cause debt-ridden consumers and, more importantly, the pain it would cause politicians who would be forced to cut spending and/or raise taxes. But continuing to artificially lower interest rates will inevitably result in an economic crisis brought about by a rejection of the dollar’s world reserve currency status.
The Federal Reserve’s manipulation of interest rates depreciates the dollar’s value, enabling the growth of the welfare-warfare state while enriching the insiders who receive the new money before prices rise. The brunt of dollar depreciation is felt by middle- and working-class Americans whose paychecks do not keep up with the rising cost of living.
Inflation is nothing more than a hidden and regressive tax. Auditing and ending the Fed should thus be a top priority of those concerned about rising income inequality and poverty, as well as those dreaming of a Christmas free of 2,000-page omnibus spending bills.
This article first appeared at RonPaulInstitute.org.
Keep in mind, Alex Jones simply discusses how news, events, and statements connect in different ways. It makes good sense if you have a knowledge base of the past.
Here is an article by Ron Paul posted to INFOWARS.com at https://www.infowars.com/feed/custom_feed_rss
https://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-how-congress-and-the-federal-reserve-stole-christmas/
Ron Paul: How Congress and the Federal Reserve Stole Christmas
Congress pass $1 trillion spending bill, while Fed continues pumping billions into repurchasing market
Ron Paul | Infowars.com - December 23, 2019 1 Comment
Image Credits: Donald Iain Smith.The bickering over impeachment did not stop the president and Congress from coming together last week to avert a government shutdown by passing a 1.4 trillion dollar spending package.
The bipartisan agreement has something for everyone — a 22 billion dollars increase to bring total spending on militarism to 738 billion dollars, and a 27 billion dollars increase to bring total spending on domestic programs to 632 billion dollars. It also imposes a national ban on selling tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to anyone under 21.
The agreement was split into two bills. Both bills were unveiled last Monday afternoon. The bills passed the House on Tuesday, so only the House leadership and the members of the Appropriations Committee (and their staffs) who helped write the over 2,000-page deal had any idea what was in the bills. But most members voted for the spending bills because they were fearful of backlash over another Christmastime government shutdown. House leadership simply “waived” the rule requiring that all legislation be available at least three days before being voted upon.
The modern practice of funding the government via gigantic omnibus bills that are rushed into law puts the growth of government on autopilot. This practice also gives the president more influence over the budget, violating the spirit, if not the letter, of the Constitution’s grant of authority to Congress to appropriate funds, which was intended as a check on executive power. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve continues pumping billions into the repurchasing market. When the Fed began injecting money into the market in September, it said intervention was a temporary measure to address a short-term liquidity shortage. Three months later, the Fed is not only continuing to bail out the repurchasing market, it is preparing for other bailouts. This is further evidence that we are on the verge of another Fed-created economic crisis.
When the crisis hits, the best thing the Fed could do is not to lower interest rates below the levels set by the market. This would allow consumers, businesses, and government to liquidate their debt and restore a sound foundation for future growth. If the Fed did not interfere with the painful but necessary correction, it would only be a short time before a real economic boom commenced.
The Federal Reserve is unlikely to follow this path because of the short-term pain it would cause debt-ridden consumers and, more importantly, the pain it would cause politicians who would be forced to cut spending and/or raise taxes. But continuing to artificially lower interest rates will inevitably result in an economic crisis brought about by a rejection of the dollar’s world reserve currency status.
The Federal Reserve’s manipulation of interest rates depreciates the dollar’s value, enabling the growth of the welfare-warfare state while enriching the insiders who receive the new money before prices rise. The brunt of dollar depreciation is felt by middle- and working-class Americans whose paychecks do not keep up with the rising cost of living.
Inflation is nothing more than a hidden and regressive tax. Auditing and ending the Fed should thus be a top priority of those concerned about rising income inequality and poverty, as well as those dreaming of a Christmas free of 2,000-page omnibus spending bills.
This article first appeared at RonPaulInstitute.org.
Alex is funny! He's caring and passionate and reflects the true heart of American culture!
When You tube and Google censored INFOWARS, there were 20 million people, viewers who wanted to see the content but were unable to. Do you understand the lack of freedom and liberty?
Infowars has been censored because the information they cover has exposed the corruption and malicious agendas going on from both Republicans and Democrats as well as multi-national corporations. It has done damage by refuting the lies of the establishment players and mainstream media.
When You tube and Google censored INFOWARS, there were 20 million people, viewers who wanted to see the content but were unable to. Do you understand the lack of freedom and liberty?
Infowars has been censored because the information they cover has exposed the corruption and malicious agendas going on from both Republicans and Democrats as well as multi-national corporations. It has done damage by refuting the lies of the establishment players and mainstream media.
Ask the families of the Sandy Hook victims how caring he is.
He certainly cares about all that money he's going to have to pay them.
Thats all mainstream-government-media spin to push a gun control agenda and attempt to discredit independent media, brother. It has been addressed by Infowars. I was watching/listening daily during that period and I know what Alex Jones said.
https://www.infowars.com/christmas-...lave-laborer-in-prison-factory-begs-for-help/
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...fter-slave-chinese-prison-factory-pleads-help
Christmas Cards From China Halted After Slave Laborer In Prison Factory Begs For Help
Why do people keep buying “Made in China” Christmas products?
Zero Hedge - December 22, 2019 64 Comments
Image Credits: China Photos/Getty Images.
Ahead of the holidays, a young girl in London opened a Tesco supermarket Christmas card last week, was shocked to find a depressing note from a Chinese gulag, reported Sky News.
“We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China,” the note read. “Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify the human rights organization.” The girl had accidentally uncovered the chilling connection between British Christmas festivities and how Chinese prisoners are working in factories to supply Western countries with holiday goods.
Tesco said it was absolutely appalled on the reports of the Christmas card: “We abhor the use of prison labor and would never allow it in our supply chain,” a Tesco spokesman said on Sunday.
“We were shocked by these allegations and immediately suspended the factory where these cards are produced and launched an investigation,” the spokesman said.
The note also said: “Use the link to contact Mr. Peter Humphrey.”
Peter Humphrey is a former investigative journalist that spent several years in a Chinese prison that forced prisoners to work 15-hour days manufacturing clothing.
Humphrey said his wife Yu Yingzen and him were both sentenced to the Chinese jail in 2014 for obtaining illegal records on Chinese citizens. The couple spent about a year in jail and were eventually deported in 2015.
Humphrey told Sky News that he believes the card came from the Zheijiang Yunguang Printing factory, where prisoners were used in the production line as slave laborers.
He said foreign inmates were typically “forced into mundane manual assembly or packaging tasks,” including making Christmas products for Western countries.
As for the authenticity of the letter inside the card, well, that hasn’t been confirmed yet, and it comes at a time when Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under pressure from the Trump administration to abandon the Huawei 5G rollout across the country.
The Christmas card has certainly generated Sinophobia in London and could help sway the popular opinion on how the public perceives Chinese companies – such as Huawei.
https://www.infowars.com/christmas-...lave-laborer-in-prison-factory-begs-for-help/
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...fter-slave-chinese-prison-factory-pleads-help
Christmas Cards From China Halted After Slave Laborer In Prison Factory Begs For Help
Why do people keep buying “Made in China” Christmas products?
Zero Hedge - December 22, 2019 64 Comments
Image Credits: China Photos/Getty Images.Ahead of the holidays, a young girl in London opened a Tesco supermarket Christmas card last week, was shocked to find a depressing note from a Chinese gulag, reported Sky News.
“We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China,” the note read. “Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify the human rights organization.” The girl had accidentally uncovered the chilling connection between British Christmas festivities and how Chinese prisoners are working in factories to supply Western countries with holiday goods.
Tesco said it was absolutely appalled on the reports of the Christmas card: “We abhor the use of prison labor and would never allow it in our supply chain,” a Tesco spokesman said on Sunday.
“We were shocked by these allegations and immediately suspended the factory where these cards are produced and launched an investigation,” the spokesman said.
The note also said: “Use the link to contact Mr. Peter Humphrey.”
Peter Humphrey is a former investigative journalist that spent several years in a Chinese prison that forced prisoners to work 15-hour days manufacturing clothing.
Humphrey said his wife Yu Yingzen and him were both sentenced to the Chinese jail in 2014 for obtaining illegal records on Chinese citizens. The couple spent about a year in jail and were eventually deported in 2015.
Humphrey told Sky News that he believes the card came from the Zheijiang Yunguang Printing factory, where prisoners were used in the production line as slave laborers.
He said foreign inmates were typically “forced into mundane manual assembly or packaging tasks,” including making Christmas products for Western countries.
As for the authenticity of the letter inside the card, well, that hasn’t been confirmed yet, and it comes at a time when Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under pressure from the Trump administration to abandon the Huawei 5G rollout across the country.
The Christmas card has certainly generated Sinophobia in London and could help sway the popular opinion on how the public perceives Chinese companies – such as Huawei.
https://nationalfile.com/boris-johnson-to-investigate-george-soros-for-anti-brexit-activity/
Boris Johnson to Investigate George Soros for Anti-Brexit Activity
Conservatives want to investigate $4M funneled into Anti-Brexit causes by liberal billionaire
by Lionel Du Cane
December 17, 2019
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An urgent investigation has been called by the Conservative Party early last month into liberal billionaire philanthropist, George Soros, after it was revealed that he had funneled around $4M into anti-Brexit causes in the UK.
The Open Society Foundation remitted funds to the pro-EU ‘Best for Britain’ group, routed via a London third party, in order to circumvent a ban on foreign donations to political organizations in the UK with the goal to effect political change.
In the past two years, BfB has received around $4M from The Open Society Foundation which was confirmed in the accounts of the anti-Brexit organization.
BfB also shared a Westminster office building with other notorious anti-Brexit organizations including Open Britain and the European Movement.
All of the above organizations have played a public role in attempting to derail Brexit.
According to The Daily Mail, Bfb said: “Our financial statements are appropriately filed and make clear we have received money from the Open Society Foundation.
“No money from foreign donations is used to fund this. We look forward to the Electoral Commission confirming this is the case.
“Given the damage a Johnson government and a hard Brexit would inflict on the country, we have received a large number of donations from all over Britain.”
Soros’ political activity has led to the banning of his organizations in several countries.
Boris Johnson to Investigate George Soros for Anti-Brexit Activity
Conservatives want to investigate $4M funneled into Anti-Brexit causes by liberal billionaire
December 17, 2019
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An urgent investigation has been called by the Conservative Party early last month into liberal billionaire philanthropist, George Soros, after it was revealed that he had funneled around $4M into anti-Brexit causes in the UK.
The Conservative Party have called for an urgent Electoral Commission probe into George Soros’s American Open Society Foundation after putting money towards a campaign to block Brexit at the ballot box, according to The Daily Mail.The Open Society Foundation remitted funds to the pro-EU ‘Best for Britain’ group, routed via a London third party, in order to circumvent a ban on foreign donations to political organizations in the UK with the goal to effect political change.
Best for Britain (BfB) had designed a website with the intention to thwart the Prime Minister’s chances of a majority in last week’s General Election.In the past two years, BfB has received around $4M from The Open Society Foundation which was confirmed in the accounts of the anti-Brexit organization.
BfB also shared a Westminster office building with other notorious anti-Brexit organizations including Open Britain and the European Movement.
All of the above organizations have played a public role in attempting to derail Brexit.
Soros has been one of the most prominent globalist personalities, with his organizations and philanthropy targeting globalist causes.According to The Daily Mail, Bfb said: “Our financial statements are appropriately filed and make clear we have received money from the Open Society Foundation.
“During regulated periods such as elections, we use permissible UK donations for regulated campaign activity to comply with Electoral Commission rules.“No money from foreign donations is used to fund this. We look forward to the Electoral Commission confirming this is the case.
“Given the damage a Johnson government and a hard Brexit would inflict on the country, we have received a large number of donations from all over Britain.”
In spite of the attempts to subvert the democratic process, Johnson managed to secure a majority government in the General Election.Soros’ political activity has led to the banning of his organizations in several countries.
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https://banned.video/watch?id=5e004004926eb9001cb2db48
THE CLINTON BODY COUNT part 1: "Mena"
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Dec 22, 2019
Greg Reese
The origins of the notorious phrase; The Clinton Body Count come from the 80s and 90s when Bill Clinton was Governor of Arkansas. Part 1 of 3
THE CLINTON BODY COUNT part 1: "Mena"
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Dec 22, 2019
Greg ReeseThe origins of the notorious phrase; The Clinton Body Count come from the 80s and 90s when Bill Clinton was Governor of Arkansas. Part 1 of 3
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-22/the-year-socialism-became-a-dirty-word-again
The Year Socialism Became a Dirty Word—Again
You can count the number of left-leaning governments in Europe with the fingers of one hand nowadays.
By Flavia Krause-Jackson
December 22, 2019, 12:01 AM EST
It was a bad year to be any kind of socialist in Europe. The decline has been long and agonizing for a once-dominant force, but in 2019 falling popularity reached new depths and raised questions over whether reinvention can lead to a revival.
A decade ago, the prime ministers of Britain, Spain, Greece and even Hungary were from the center-left. Many went on to swiftly lose power, but then socialist governments emerged in France and Italy. Now the political brand looks like an anachronism.
Populism has tested the ability of mainstream parties to adapt and some on the center-right are regaining their footing. That cannot be said of the traditional left. It gravitated toward the middle ground in the 1990s, and then paid a price for selling out. But a pendulum swing to 1970s-style radical ideology has been shown to be just as out of sync with the times.
This year ends with the humiliation of the Labour Party in the U.K.’s Dec. 12 election and Germany’s Social Democrats more unpopular than at any time in living memory. In Italy and Spain, the center-left are in government only thanks to precarious alliances with the anti-establishment groups that grew from the 2008 financial crisis.
For Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, the malaise runs deep, indeed as far back as the Cold War era of the early 1970s. “There has not been a charismatic and genuine left-wing leader who made a true difference in Europe since Willy Brandt,” who won a Nobel prize for building bridges between east and west and paving the way for German reunification.
This is what the parties are facing as we enter 2020:
Jeremy Corbyn on the general election campaign trail in November.
Photographer: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Britain
Brexit-battered voters were turned off by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s promises of a socialist revolution, which was to include everything from nationalizing industry to free broadband.
The party lost Scotland years ago, but this month areas of England’s post-industrial north abandoned Labour, some for the first time in their history. Harking back to the wilderness years in the 1980s, Corbyn is the most unpopular opposition leader in British history.
Tony Blair returned Labour to power by dragging the party to the center, winning three back-to-back elections. But his catastrophic decision to follow the U.S. into war in Iraq wrecked his legacy and made him toxic at home. His warning this week was existential.
“The choice for Labour is to renew itself as the serious, progressive, non-Conservative competitor for power in British politics, or retreat from such an ambition, in which case over time it will be replaced,” Blair told an audience.
Germany
At the heart of the identity crisis is a harsh reality: working class voters have been abandoning the very parties whose raison d’etre was to protect them. Blue collar workers are switching sides. Today there are not only fewer of them—as economies have evolved to more high-skilled labor—but those left are more socially conservative and opposed to immigration.
Like its counterparts elsewhere in Europe, Germany’s Social Democratic Party has struggled to find the antidote for a tidal wave of anti-immigration sentiment and to stop the Greens sopping young environmentally-conscious voters.
The SPD is now pinning its hopes on a pair of unknowns to lead it out of an existential funk after governing with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives damaged the brand. Today, the SPD, the country’s oldest party, polls in fourth place with less than 15%. The Greens could potentially displace the SPD in the coalition down the line.
Proposals like a tax on the wealthy and an increase of the minimum wage were dismissed by one SPD critic as a “warmed-up box of socialist moth balls.” “If they move further to the left, the SPD will stop being a people’s party,” warned Andrea Roemmele, professor of political communication at the Berlin-based Hertie School.
France
When it comes to a plunge in popularity, few leaders can better Francois Hollande, the country’s most reviled president. His socialists are on life support and his former prime minister pronounced the party “dead and gone.”
For sure, the French socialists were always prone to infighting. In 2002, their failure to unite behind their candidate for president allowed far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen to make the run off against incumbent Jacques Chirac. But this time the way back seems much longer.
President Emmanuel Macron was the beneficiary more recently, creating a centrist party that triumphed in 2017. He has since emerged as the strongest voice in the European Union.
From left, Nicola Zingaretti, leader of Italy’s Democrats, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and anti-establishment Five Star leader Luigi Di Maio.
Photographer: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images
Italy
Political fluidity is another challenge, especially in parts of southern Europe without a two-party system or where the political landscape has fragmented beyond recognition. Gone are the days when you stuck to your tribe for life.
Voters are willing to get experimental and there is no better political laboratory than Italy where parties surge and disappear in the blink of an eye. There, the strangest alliances are forged, such as that between rival populists.
It explains how the center-left has changed its name countless times. Its latest incarnation as the Democratic Party is trying to rebuild its support base and is in government with the populist Five Star Movement. But together they poll about the same as Matteo Salvini’s anti-immigration League, which is itching for an election and will eventually get one.
Spain and Portugal
When that time comes, the center-left strategy in Italy is to lure voters away from Five Star. In Spain, it’s a gamble that Pedro Sanchez was banking on when he called two elections in the space of a year to try and shake off his dependence to far-left populists Podemos. It hasn’t worked out.
He too is trapped in a marriage of mutual, and temporary convenience. That leaves Portugal as a left-wing oasis in Europe, but one that increasingly feels like an exception.
Greece
Tribal politics was the norm in Greece until the country became the epicenter of Europe’s debt crisis. Two parties traded power since the junta fell in 1974. But then as the socialist Pasok party became the biggest political casualty of the upheaval, a group further to the left filled the vacuum.
Alexis Tsipras’s Coalition of the Radical Left, or Syriza, shot to power in 2015 and effectively challenged Europe to a duel over austerity and Greece’s euro membership. He blinked, turned into the Marxist fireband tamed into submission by Brussels and was ejected from office this year. He left with his international reputation enhanced, but at home the conservative New Democracy is back in power.
Malta
On the Mediterranean island of half a million people, the Labour Party was enjoying a long stint in government until the country’s legacy of failing to tackle corruption caught up with it. Joseph Muscat, prime minister since 2013, was lauded for Malta’s economic growth. Now he’s the lightning rod for anger over a murder scandal.
Two years after the brutal murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, the police investigation has reached Muscat’s inner circle. He denies any involvement and resigned, saying he will step down next month. Protesters want him gone now.
Scandinavia
In Sweden, a far-right surge rocked a beacon of liberal democracy. The Social Democrats managed to cobble together a government, but for first time in decades they are no longer the most popular party in most opinion polls as the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats overtook.
The Social Democrats in Denmark at least were able to return to power this year, though in part by adopting some policies of its anti-immigrant rival by tightening controls.
Liviu Dragnea leaves the court of Cassation and Justice Bucharest in April.
Photographer: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images
Eastern Europe
In eastern Europe, socialist parties have been on the slide for years as right-wing populist leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Jaroslaw Kaczynski in Poland cemented their power by portraying some opponents as apologists for communism. Kaczynski’s Law & Justice Party won a second term in October with an outright parliamentary majority, albeit against a main opponent that’s from the center-right.
But in Romania, the left-leaning Social Democratic Party was part of the government for more than a decade until its minority administration collapsed last month. For former party leader and national strongman Liviu Dragnea, it arguably couldn’t get any worse. He was jailed in May for corruption.
— With assistance by Birgit Jennen, John Follain, Andrea Dudik, Rafaela Lindeberg, and Raymond Colitt
The Year Socialism Became a Dirty Word—Again
You can count the number of left-leaning governments in Europe with the fingers of one hand nowadays.
By Flavia Krause-Jackson
December 22, 2019, 12:01 AM EST
It was a bad year to be any kind of socialist in Europe. The decline has been long and agonizing for a once-dominant force, but in 2019 falling popularity reached new depths and raised questions over whether reinvention can lead to a revival.
A decade ago, the prime ministers of Britain, Spain, Greece and even Hungary were from the center-left. Many went on to swiftly lose power, but then socialist governments emerged in France and Italy. Now the political brand looks like an anachronism.
Populism has tested the ability of mainstream parties to adapt and some on the center-right are regaining their footing. That cannot be said of the traditional left. It gravitated toward the middle ground in the 1990s, and then paid a price for selling out. But a pendulum swing to 1970s-style radical ideology has been shown to be just as out of sync with the times.
This year ends with the humiliation of the Labour Party in the U.K.’s Dec. 12 election and Germany’s Social Democrats more unpopular than at any time in living memory. In Italy and Spain, the center-left are in government only thanks to precarious alliances with the anti-establishment groups that grew from the 2008 financial crisis.
For Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, the malaise runs deep, indeed as far back as the Cold War era of the early 1970s. “There has not been a charismatic and genuine left-wing leader who made a true difference in Europe since Willy Brandt,” who won a Nobel prize for building bridges between east and west and paving the way for German reunification.
This is what the parties are facing as we enter 2020:
Jeremy Corbyn on the general election campaign trail in November.
Photographer: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Britain
Brexit-battered voters were turned off by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s promises of a socialist revolution, which was to include everything from nationalizing industry to free broadband.
The party lost Scotland years ago, but this month areas of England’s post-industrial north abandoned Labour, some for the first time in their history. Harking back to the wilderness years in the 1980s, Corbyn is the most unpopular opposition leader in British history.
Tony Blair returned Labour to power by dragging the party to the center, winning three back-to-back elections. But his catastrophic decision to follow the U.S. into war in Iraq wrecked his legacy and made him toxic at home. His warning this week was existential.
“The choice for Labour is to renew itself as the serious, progressive, non-Conservative competitor for power in British politics, or retreat from such an ambition, in which case over time it will be replaced,” Blair told an audience.
Germany
At the heart of the identity crisis is a harsh reality: working class voters have been abandoning the very parties whose raison d’etre was to protect them. Blue collar workers are switching sides. Today there are not only fewer of them—as economies have evolved to more high-skilled labor—but those left are more socially conservative and opposed to immigration.
Like its counterparts elsewhere in Europe, Germany’s Social Democratic Party has struggled to find the antidote for a tidal wave of anti-immigration sentiment and to stop the Greens sopping young environmentally-conscious voters.
The SPD is now pinning its hopes on a pair of unknowns to lead it out of an existential funk after governing with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives damaged the brand. Today, the SPD, the country’s oldest party, polls in fourth place with less than 15%. The Greens could potentially displace the SPD in the coalition down the line.
Proposals like a tax on the wealthy and an increase of the minimum wage were dismissed by one SPD critic as a “warmed-up box of socialist moth balls.” “If they move further to the left, the SPD will stop being a people’s party,” warned Andrea Roemmele, professor of political communication at the Berlin-based Hertie School.
France
When it comes to a plunge in popularity, few leaders can better Francois Hollande, the country’s most reviled president. His socialists are on life support and his former prime minister pronounced the party “dead and gone.”
For sure, the French socialists were always prone to infighting. In 2002, their failure to unite behind their candidate for president allowed far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen to make the run off against incumbent Jacques Chirac. But this time the way back seems much longer.
President Emmanuel Macron was the beneficiary more recently, creating a centrist party that triumphed in 2017. He has since emerged as the strongest voice in the European Union.
From left, Nicola Zingaretti, leader of Italy’s Democrats, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and anti-establishment Five Star leader Luigi Di Maio.
Photographer: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images
Italy
Political fluidity is another challenge, especially in parts of southern Europe without a two-party system or where the political landscape has fragmented beyond recognition. Gone are the days when you stuck to your tribe for life.
Voters are willing to get experimental and there is no better political laboratory than Italy where parties surge and disappear in the blink of an eye. There, the strangest alliances are forged, such as that between rival populists.
It explains how the center-left has changed its name countless times. Its latest incarnation as the Democratic Party is trying to rebuild its support base and is in government with the populist Five Star Movement. But together they poll about the same as Matteo Salvini’s anti-immigration League, which is itching for an election and will eventually get one.
Spain and Portugal
When that time comes, the center-left strategy in Italy is to lure voters away from Five Star. In Spain, it’s a gamble that Pedro Sanchez was banking on when he called two elections in the space of a year to try and shake off his dependence to far-left populists Podemos. It hasn’t worked out.
He too is trapped in a marriage of mutual, and temporary convenience. That leaves Portugal as a left-wing oasis in Europe, but one that increasingly feels like an exception.
Greece
Tribal politics was the norm in Greece until the country became the epicenter of Europe’s debt crisis. Two parties traded power since the junta fell in 1974. But then as the socialist Pasok party became the biggest political casualty of the upheaval, a group further to the left filled the vacuum.
Alexis Tsipras’s Coalition of the Radical Left, or Syriza, shot to power in 2015 and effectively challenged Europe to a duel over austerity and Greece’s euro membership. He blinked, turned into the Marxist fireband tamed into submission by Brussels and was ejected from office this year. He left with his international reputation enhanced, but at home the conservative New Democracy is back in power.
Malta
On the Mediterranean island of half a million people, the Labour Party was enjoying a long stint in government until the country’s legacy of failing to tackle corruption caught up with it. Joseph Muscat, prime minister since 2013, was lauded for Malta’s economic growth. Now he’s the lightning rod for anger over a murder scandal.
Two years after the brutal murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, the police investigation has reached Muscat’s inner circle. He denies any involvement and resigned, saying he will step down next month. Protesters want him gone now.
Scandinavia
In Sweden, a far-right surge rocked a beacon of liberal democracy. The Social Democrats managed to cobble together a government, but for first time in decades they are no longer the most popular party in most opinion polls as the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats overtook.
The Social Democrats in Denmark at least were able to return to power this year, though in part by adopting some policies of its anti-immigrant rival by tightening controls.
Liviu Dragnea leaves the court of Cassation and Justice Bucharest in April.
Photographer: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images
Eastern Europe
In eastern Europe, socialist parties have been on the slide for years as right-wing populist leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Jaroslaw Kaczynski in Poland cemented their power by portraying some opponents as apologists for communism. Kaczynski’s Law & Justice Party won a second term in October with an outright parliamentary majority, albeit against a main opponent that’s from the center-right.
But in Romania, the left-leaning Social Democratic Party was part of the government for more than a decade until its minority administration collapsed last month. For former party leader and national strongman Liviu Dragnea, it arguably couldn’t get any worse. He was jailed in May for corruption.
— With assistance by Birgit Jennen, John Follain, Andrea Dudik, Rafaela Lindeberg, and Raymond Colitt
December 12, 2019
ALEX JONES FILES TO DISMISS SANDY HOOK LAWSUIT FOR 'INTENTIONAL INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS' AGAINST HIM
https://www.newsweek.com/alex-jones-files-dismiss-sandy-hook-lawsuit-intentional-infliction-emotional-distress-against-1477068
He's going to lose again. He can cover it on his show all he wants, brother.
ALEX JONES FILES TO DISMISS SANDY HOOK LAWSUIT FOR 'INTENTIONAL INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS' AGAINST HIM
https://www.newsweek.com/alex-jones-files-dismiss-sandy-hook-lawsuit-intentional-infliction-emotional-distress-against-1477068
He's going to lose again. He can cover it on his show all he wants, brother.
https://www.infowars.com/happy-festivus-rand-paul-airs-his-grievances-with-washington/
Happy Festivus! Rand Paul Airs Grievances With Impeachment, Pelosi, Government Waste
Kentucky Senator calls out impeachment sham, frivolous government spending in yearly tradition
Infowars.com - December 23, 2019 0 Comments
Image Credits: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) conducted his yearly airing of grievances as he observed the made-up holiday Festivus Monday.
In line with the fictitious Seinfeld-derived holiday, which includes traditions such as a Festivus pole instead of a Christmas tree, Paul laid out some of the problems he’s had this year with the impeachment sham, out-of-control government spending and his colleagues.
Sen. Paul sounded off on Twitter:
Happy Festivus! Rand Paul Airs Grievances With Impeachment, Pelosi, Government Waste
Kentucky Senator calls out impeachment sham, frivolous government spending in yearly tradition
Infowars.com - December 23, 2019 0 Comments
Image Credits: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call.Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) conducted his yearly airing of grievances as he observed the made-up holiday Festivus Monday.
In line with the fictitious Seinfeld-derived holiday, which includes traditions such as a Festivus pole instead of a Christmas tree, Paul laid out some of the problems he’s had this year with the impeachment sham, out-of-control government spending and his colleagues.
Sen. Paul sounded off on Twitter:
https://www.infowars.com/ban-soros-from-the-usa/
https://banned.video/watch?id=5e002191f7b8a90024caf255
Ban Soros From The USA
Learn why George Soros is such a reviled figure – even in his home country!
Jon Bowne | Infowars.com - December 23, 2019 Comments
George Soros is banned in his home country of Hungary, The Philippines, Turkey, Russia, Poland, and Pakistan. But his presence in the United States and more importantly its elections couldn’t be stronger.
And be sure to check out Jon Bowne’s other breaking reports below, and follow him on Banned.video for the latest:
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https://banned.video/watch?id=5e00d98485e825001e821eda
Pelosi Obstructs The Constitution
958 views
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Dec 23, 2019
Bowne Report
Nancy Pelosi and her cohort's planned coup is doing the very thing they had voted to impeach Donald Trump for. In order to see the two Articles of Impeachment for what they truly are, a simple switching of the words reveals the truth. What we are facing is an Abuse of Congress and an Obstruction of the Power of the Executive office. As time continues to pass without Pelosi relinquishing the Articles of Impeachment over to the Senate. The Democrat's power mad hatred over the choice of the American voter has reached an unconstitutional deadlock that is spiraling towards either submission or long awaited enforcement.
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https://banned.video/watch?id=5e00ef1285e825001e822d3f
Providence Fuels America And We Are Running On Empty
417 views
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Dec 23, 2019
Bowne Report
According to the founders, morality was an essential component to the Republic of these United States. In an address to the military on October 11, 1798 John Adams said "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." That potent source of our success has been diminished by an outright assault upon our values system and its effect on our culture as a nation.
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https://banned.video/watch?id=5dfcf86b8f797a00250d9a8f
Democratic Debate Wages War On Americans
17,230 views
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Dec 20, 2019
Bowne Report
The monotony and exhaustive burnout vomiting from the left reared its ugly head yet again to debate its proposed American Dream killing legislation. But no one can deny that this group of imposters, backing Pelosi, Schiff, and Nadler's recent impeachment embarrassment that could change the course of the Republic for the worse, will never be able to communicate the true message to the American voter like Donald Trump.
https://banned.video/watch?id=5e002191f7b8a90024caf255
Ban Soros From The USA
Learn why George Soros is such a reviled figure – even in his home country!
Jon Bowne | Infowars.com - December 23, 2019 Comments
George Soros is banned in his home country of Hungary, The Philippines, Turkey, Russia, Poland, and Pakistan. But his presence in the United States and more importantly its elections couldn’t be stronger.
And be sure to check out Jon Bowne’s other breaking reports below, and follow him on Banned.video for the latest:
__________________________________________________________
https://banned.video/watch?id=5e00d98485e825001e821eda
Pelosi Obstructs The Constitution
958 views
·
Dec 23, 2019
Bowne Report
Nancy Pelosi and her cohort's planned coup is doing the very thing they had voted to impeach Donald Trump for. In order to see the two Articles of Impeachment for what they truly are, a simple switching of the words reveals the truth. What we are facing is an Abuse of Congress and an Obstruction of the Power of the Executive office. As time continues to pass without Pelosi relinquishing the Articles of Impeachment over to the Senate. The Democrat's power mad hatred over the choice of the American voter has reached an unconstitutional deadlock that is spiraling towards either submission or long awaited enforcement.
_____________________________________________________________
https://banned.video/watch?id=5e00ef1285e825001e822d3f
Providence Fuels America And We Are Running On Empty
417 views
·
Dec 23, 2019
Bowne Report
According to the founders, morality was an essential component to the Republic of these United States. In an address to the military on October 11, 1798 John Adams said "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." That potent source of our success has been diminished by an outright assault upon our values system and its effect on our culture as a nation.
____________________________________
https://banned.video/watch?id=5dfcf86b8f797a00250d9a8f
Democratic Debate Wages War On Americans
17,230 views
·
Dec 20, 2019
Bowne Report
The monotony and exhaustive burnout vomiting from the left reared its ugly head yet again to debate its proposed American Dream killing legislation. But no one can deny that this group of imposters, backing Pelosi, Schiff, and Nadler's recent impeachment embarrassment that could change the course of the Republic for the worse, will never be able to communicate the true message to the American voter like Donald Trump.
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