Whether you are celebrating large or small we hope everybody has a heart filled with joy and optimism as the New Year begins. You deserve it. We wish the absolute best for you and your family, and we cherish another year of fellowship.
With abiding love, thankfulness and appreciation,
Sundance
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WARNING: Reporting is somewhat sketchy. However, early reports indicates one or two men adorned in Christmas or Santa outfits, and armed with rifles, entered a nightclub in Istanbul Turkey and opened fire on the crowd. According to current reporting there were as many as 500-800 people in the club when the shooting began.
UPDATE 1100pm EST: At least 35 people have been confirmed killed, with approximately 40 more wounded. UPDATE 1:00am EST Unfortunately the death toll has now climbed to 39 people killed and 69 people wounded. There are many foreign nationals missing. The gunman/gunmen are still at large.
CNN REPORT: Istanbul (CNN) – At least 39 people were killed and at least 69 wounded in an attack in a nightclub early Sunday as they were celebrating the new year, Turkey’s Interior Minister said.
“We are face to face with a terror attack,” Interior minister Suleyman Soylu told reporters. Twenty-one of the dead have been identified, he said. Of those, 16 were foreign nationals and five were Turkish”.
US officials also called it a terrorist attack, making it the first of 2017. Soylu also said that “the efforts to locate the terrorist are ongoing. Security forces have begun the necessary operations. God willing soon (the attacker) will be apprehended.” (read more)
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Reviewing the year in 2016 politics, there are many epic campaign moments. Here’s a few of the more memorable – in no particular order:
Donald Trump’s airplane had it’s own soundtrack:
We lived in the “Time of Trump”:
#ResevoirDons The moment we all knew he would be president. pic.twitter.com/PuMuc97Odf
— Clinton Body Count (@tony_2A) November 22, 2016
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I just watched Trump, a 69 yr old billionaire walk down a highway and over a median, just to speak to his supporters. That's my President!
— Adam D. Brown (@aduanebrown) April 29, 2016
Nigel Farage will be coming back to the U.S. as a guest of Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant and to attend the Donald Trump inauguration festivities.
Here’s a quick message from Farage recapping a momentous 2016 with optimism for 2017 and beyond:
President-elect Donald Trump’s top strategist sat for a rare radio interview Friday morning, urging conservative voters to ‘hold people accountable’ in the White House – including himself – as the new administration gets off the ground. (Audio Below)
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Steve Bannon, Trump’s senior counselor said afterward that he specifically wants Trump’s base to hold his feet to the fire as he steers the president’s strategic ship through waters infested with Democrats and moderate Republicans alike. “Deplorables and Hobbits should stay engaged and hold ALL of us accountable – including me”… (more)
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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
In a year when there were hundreds seismic shifts amid the tectonic plates within the body politic, one of the most important was the revelation that Media Polling is just as brutally biased as the media entities who present the polling results.
With election 2016 behind us, and before 2017 arrives, the truth behind the intentionally constructed deception must not simply fade back into the shadows. Never again should the American voter trust the polling presented by corporate media. Everything about it is a financed and manufactured fraud.
For many people the November 8th election was the culmination of many years of difficult effort. This intensely challenging endeavor to awaken the national body politic was begun by ordinary members of the electorate, who assembled amid the rise of the various local Tea Party groups, long before Donald Trump announced his candidacy.
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