Politics

Thousands of documents relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are to be released by the US government in 2017 thanks to the efforts of Academy Award winning screenwriter and film director Oliver Stone. Oliver Stone’s 1991 conspiracy movie JFK and the 25th anniversary of the 1992 JFK Records Act have set the scene for the release of 3,000 never-seen-before documents, and 34,000 previously redacted files into the public domain.

Vladimir Putin has warned that he is prepared to go to war following Turkey’s decision to scramble 12 fighter jets on Wednesday.  In a clear act of provocation, Turkey scrambled the F-16 fighter jets in defiance to heightened tensions with Moscow. The jets took off from Eskisehir Air Base just one day after Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov was shot dead by Turkish police officer Mevlut Mert Altintas. Express.co.uk reports: Moscow responded with fury, with a spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry saying it regarded the assassination as an “act of terrorism”.

Hillary Clinton is inconsolable, according to insiders, after she lost more electors than any politician in the last 100 years.  Clinton’s campaign team were hoping that Monday’s Electoral College vote would see an overwhemling rejection of Donald J. Trump and a potential swing in her favor. However, the results turned out to be quite the opposite. Thegatewaypundit.com reports: In fact Hillary Clinton lost more electors than Donald J. Trump. Trump lost two electors: One to Ron Paul and one to Governor John Kasich. Hillary Clinton lost Five electors.

A new study by PPRI reveals that Hillary Clinton supporters hold the most intolerant views, even when compared to extreme far-right groups.  The Public Religion Research Institute determined that liberals are (un)surprisingly intolerant towards other people’s beliefs.

As the manhunt continues for the "solider of the Islamic State" that plowed down and killed over a dozen innocent people and injured another 50 in Berlin, tensions throughout Germany generally between locals and the migrant beneficiaries of Merkel's open border policies continue to escalate.  One such example comes from the German city of Bautzen, in which a group of local Germans and "young asylum seekers" got into a brawl at the Christmas market after a heated exchange regarding the migrants' playing of loud music from their phones.