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Belgium to terminate Saudi mosque lease
by Michael Birnbaum & Quentin Ariees 
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Dobbs, Farrell – Mueller FRUITS OF 
A POISONOUS TREE – DOJ Knows Nothing Can Be Used 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Lou Dobbs points out the suggestive remarks by the liar who ran the CIA under criminal pretend ‘president’ Hussein liar-nObama, John Brennan... Whatever Brennan is, he’s undoubtedly corrupt, as in his position he certainly must have known the true origination of Hussein liar-nObama and was therefore an active participant in that fraud, among unknown others. Dobbs addresses comments Brennan made in which he suggested that the reason President Trump congratulated Vladimir Putin on his election victory is because the Russians have something on him. It seems it’s always the Russians with these criminal Democrats. Dobbs notes that the House Intel Committee has something on Brennan, a possible perjury charge from when he lied multiple times about the Steele dossier’s sources and its use at a tool by the deep state. He also raises comments from the previous night’s program made by Alan Dershowitz, saying that Mueller should never have been appointed and the witch hunt farce must immediately cease... https://rickwells.us/dobbs-farrell-poisonous-tree/.
3 Major Problems Conservatives 
Have With the Government Spending Bill
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by Rachel del Guidice 
{ dailysignal.com } ~ Major conservative priorities have gone missing in the spending bill to fund the government through September, House lawmakers say... Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, spelled out the worry Wednesday during Conversations with Conservatives, a monthly meeting with reporters hosted by conservative lawmakers and The Heritage Foundation. “I think the real concern for a lot of us is, are we going to continue to fund sanctuary cities, are we going to continue to fund Planned Parenthood, are we going to continue to raise the debt to levels that, quite frankly, are unsustainable and bankrupt our country?” Meadows said. Government funding runs out Friday at midnight, and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., hopes for a vote on the omnibus spending bill Thursday...
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Massacre of the Innocents 
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by Dennis Saffran
{https://www.city-journal.org} ~ I’ve written this article once before. It was titled “Fatal Preservation” and appeared in the Summer 1997 issue of City Journal... following the murders of six-year-old Elisa Izquierdo and other New York City children by violent, drug-addicted parents to whose custody they had been returned. I described how a once-sensible liberal reform known as “family preservation,” designed to keep troubled but essentially functional poor families together by providing them with services and counseling, had been carried to ideological extremes, in which judges and social workers zealously “reunified” children with monsters. Later that year, Congress passed, and President liar-Clinton signed, landmark legislation, the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA), aimed at curbing the excesses of family preservation. Many in the social-work establishment, including officials in the administrations of New York City’s last two mayors, Bill de Blasio and Michael Bloomberg, have remained hostile to ASFA and committed to the old family-preservation ortho­doxy. Now a new spate of child fatalities suggests that de Blasio’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) may be redoubling this commitment. The commissioner brought in to clean up ACS after these deaths has retained the nation’s leading institu­tional advocate for family preservation to review the agency’s practices. The results could be ominous for the safety of New York’s children...  https://www.https://www.city-journal.org/html/massacre-innocents-15647.html?utm_source=City+Journal+Update&utm_campaign=4bbf6004ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6c08930f2b-4bbf6004ef-109328273/html/massacre-innocents-15647.html?utm_source=City+Journal+Update&utm_campaign=4bbf6004ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6c08930f2b-4bbf6004ef-109328273 
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WH Leaker Found, Much Worse Than We Thought
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by JOE SAUNDERS
{ conservativetribune.com } ~ A lawmaker on the House Foreign Affairs Committee just reported where President Donald Trump’s massive White House leak is... If he’s right, Trump’s got more trouble than we thought… and conservatives are about to be proven right again. The White House leaker might have gone too far for his own good. Word that Trump ignored the written advice of his national security advisers to congratulate Russian President Vladimir Putin on his rigged election win during a phone call Tuesday had the nation’s capital in an uproar this week, and had some top Republicans saying there is only a short list of possible sources for the leak. And National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster is going to have a lot to answer for...
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Tucker aims direct hit at Ralph Peters for dissing 
Fox on way out the door: This video clip ‘says it all’
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by Samantha Chang
{ bizpacreview.com } ~ During the fiery interview, Peters — a Never Trumper who voted for liar-Hillary Clinton — compared Tucker to a Nazi sympathizer...  Here’s what happened: Peters, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, was furious that Carlson had suggested the United States temporarily work with Russia to stamp out a bigger enemy: ISIS. You know, like how the U.S. and the U.K. collaborated with Russian dictator Joseph Stalin during World War II to defeat Hitler. Peters spat out: “You sound like Charles Lindbergh in 1938 saying, ‘Hitler hasn’t attacked us’!” Tucker retorted: “I beg your pardon? You cannot compare me to someone who made apologies for Hitler. And I don’t think Putin is comparable to Hitler. You just compared me to a Nazi apologist because I asked the question: ‘Why does it contravene American interests to make common cause with a group that is trying to kill ISIS?’”...
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Belgium to terminate Saudi mosque lease
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by Michael Birnbaum & Quentin Ariees
{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ The Belgian government has decided to terminate the long-term lease of the country's largest and oldest mosque to the Saudi royal family, as part of what officials say is an effort to combat radicalization.

The move caps a long-running discussion about what to do about the Grand Mosque of Brussels, a sprawling complex in the heart of the city where worshipers mix with bureaucrats and diplomats headed to the nearby glassy office buildings of the European Union. The mosque, administered by Saudi-backed imams, has been a target of Belgian security services for years. But after radicalized Belgians emerged as key players in terrorist attacks in France and Brussels in 2015 and 2016, policymakers felt new urgency to take action.

Belgian King Baudouin signed over the mosque for 99 years, rent-free, to Saudi King Faisal in 1969 as a goodwill gesture, which also secured cheaper oil for the European nation.

A parliamentary commission set up to make Belgium safer after the March 22, 2016, Brussels attacks recommended in October that the lease be broken.

The Belgian government said in a statement Friday that it is seeking "to put an end to foreign interference in the way Islam is taught in Belgium."

"With this, we end Salafist, violent extremist influences," Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon wrote on Twitter.

Leaders of the Mecca-based World Muslim League, which runs the Grand Mosque, deny that they espouse the ultraconservative Wahhabi version of Islam that was long embraced by the Saudi royal family and instead say they preach an inclusive vision to their flock. The league is largely but not exclusively supported by the Saudi government. According to the announcement, the group will have to vacate the mosque within a year.

The decison puts the  Belgian government in the position of picking ideological winners and losers among strains of Islam, and national authorities will likely have to offer financial backing to whomever next takes over the mosque, as they do for churches, synagogues and other mosques in the country.

Belgian security officials acknowledge they have never heard anything illegal preached at the mosque. And there is no any evidence that anyone connected to the attacks worshiped at the mosque. But authorities say they believe imams there preach a vision of religion that leads members of the community to close themselves off from mainstream Belgian society.

Lawmakers want the mosque "to be managed by Belgian Muslims, in a transparent manner, not by a foreign power," said Gilles Vanden Burre, a member of the commission that recommended breaking the lease.

"From now on, the mosque should establish a sustainable relationship with Belgian authorities, while respecting the law and the traditions of our country, which convey a tolerant vision of Islam," said Justice Minister Koen Geens in a statement.

In practical terms, the mosque's leaders have not always been able to connect to Belgian society. The main imam, Abdelhadi Sewif, an Egyptian citizen with ties to Cairo's conservative powerhouse Al-Azhar University, does not speak French or Dutch, Belgium's two main languages.

Still, when Belgian authorities tried last year to test some of their concerns about the mosque in the courts by trying to deport Sewif, a judge struck the effort down, saying there was no evidence the imam threatened Belgian society. He was allowed to remain in the country, where he has lived 13 years.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who will meet Tuesday with President Donald Trump on a two-and-a-half-week visit to the United States, has said he wanted to fight extremist interpretations of Islam and to scale back the Saudi government's backing for conservative mosques around the world.

The Belgian government's decision to terminate the lease came after months of negotiation with the Saudi government. The Belgians did not say whether they were paying a settlement to the Saudis, and a spokesman did not reply to a request for comment. The Saudi Embassy in Brussels also did not reply to a request for comment.

Ahead of the announcement, a Belgian official said the Saudi government was not fighting the effort to sever its ties to the mosque. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the ongoing talks.

Belgian leaders plan to hand management of the mosque over to the Muslim Executive, the official government-backed umbrella group for Belgium's Muslims, many of whose families emigrated in the 1960s from Morocco and Turkey. The group will have a year to come up with a new structure for the mosque.
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