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Submitted by Daniel Greenfield via FrontPageMag.com,

It was the end of the big year with three zeroes. The first X-Men movie had broken box office records. You couldn’t set foot in a supermarket without listening to Brittney Spears caterwauling, “Oops, I Did It Again.” And Republicans and Democrats had total control of both chambers of legislatures in the same amount of states. That was the way it was back in the distant days of the year 2000.

In 2016, Republicans control both legislative chambers in 32 states. That’s up from 16 in 2000.

Israel’s security cabinet said on Sunday that remains of the members of Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, killed during anti-Israel operations, would not be returned to their families for burial. The announcement was made via a statement posted on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official Twitter account. The statement said the bodies would be interred in a cemetery established for this purpose, but did not elaborate on the burial plan.

Distinguished economist Dr. Paul Craig Roberts warns that although the neoconservatives (neocons) have been discredited, they still have a dangerously powerful influence on US foreign policy. Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has been reportedly advising US president-elect Donald Trump on pursuing the neoconservative agenda of pivoting toward China while bringing in Russia from the cold. Dr.

Submitted by Burak Begdil via The Gatestone Institute,

Last weekend, when commenting on China's public demonstration of its one and only aircraft carrier, which China then proceeded to sail in close proximity to Taiwan to make a clear diplomatic "statement", we noted something tangentially troubling: " a quick look at the latest positioning of US aircraft carriers, amphibious ready groups, and other navies around the globe shows a gaping hole in the region of the East or South China Sea, and even in proximity to Japan, a place where the US navy traditionally has maintained at least one carrier group.  In fact, according to Stratfor, the only ac