Anti-immigration parties are winning elections and surging in polls

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Laurence Norman

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Tom Fairless

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November 25, 2023

Finnish border guards escort migrants at the international border crossing at Salla, northern Finland, this week. PHOTO: LEHTIKUVA/REUTERS

Rising migration across Europe, including the biggest surge in asylum seekers since a 2015-2016 migrant crisis, is fueling support for far-right and anti-immigration parties, potentially reshaping European politics for years.

Nationalist parties that champion a harder line against immigration are surging in polls and have entered governments in countries from Italy to Finland, as anxiety rises about sluggish economic growth and crises from Ukraine to the Middle East. The far right is polling strongly in the continent’s two largest countries, Germany and France.

Pentagon Audit Showing $1.9 Trillion in Missing Assets Signals Urgent Need Not for More Money but for Reform

The accounting disaster is a reflection of layers of bureaucratic incompetence which are undermining and crippling American national security.

The new audit report about the Department of Defense is another signal that the Pentagon needs reform a lot more than it needs extra money. As the Hill reports, “1,600 auditors combed through DOD’s $3.8 trillion in assets and $4 trillion in liabilities, conducting some 700 site visits.”

Defense, like all government agencies, has to submit to mandatory audits, thanks to reforms passed in the early 1990s. The auditors “found that half of DOD’s assets can’t be accounted for,” the Hill adds.

Think of that statement for a minute. An estimated $1.9 trillion in defense assets can’t be accounted for. How much confidence can we have in a Department of Defense which can’t keep track of trillions of dollars’ worth of equipment and other assets?

The breadth of the Defense Department failure is astounding. There are 29 separate audits in the department. Comptroller Mike McCord says only seven passed. Four were conditional, and 18 audits completely failed.

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The National Desk: IRS Spends $10 Million on Weapons and Ammunition Since 2020

“Police State”: Dinesh D’Souza On The Left’s Campaign Of Thuggery Against Trump

Long-time Dem billionaire does an about-face on Trump, admits the left has been blinded by TDS

Speakers –

Frank Gaffney with Dr. Carol Swain, Col. Dr. Ron Scott, USAF (Ret.), LTG

Jerry Boykin, USA (Ret.), Jenny Beth Martin, Hon. Kenneth Blackwell, Sam

Faddis, Hon. Robert Charles, Esq., Major General Joseph W. Arbuckle, USA

(Ret.), Elaine Donnelly, David Pyne, Kris Ullman, Eric Early, Capt. James

Fanell, USN (Ret.), Ken Abramowitz, Ann Schockett, LTG Rod Bishop, USAF

(Ret.), E.W. Jackson, Christine Reagan, LTC Tommy Waller, USMC (Ret.),

and Ron Armstrong

Will There Be An Election In 2024?

“There’s an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs of our democracy — the MAGA movement.”

“We should all remember, democracies don’t have to die at the end of a rifle. They can die when people are silent when they fail to stand up or condemn threats to democracy, when people are willing to give away that which is most precious to them because they feel frustrated, disillusioned, tired, alienated.”

Joe Biden in a recent speech in Arizona.

This is a man who has used the power of the federal government to censor free speech and deny Americans their First Amendment rights. This is a man whose Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently created a panel of experts that includes at least several individuals who directly interfered in at least two Presidential elections, attempted to remove a sitting duly elected President, and covered up a mountain of evidence suggesting that he had been compromised by Chinese intelligence.

This is a man whose political party is already pursuing multiple legal actions against his primary political opponent, Donald Trump with the goal of imprisoning him and preventing him from running for office again.

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