As the “child” refugees begin pouring into Britain from Calais, questions are being raised in Parliament about how old the allegedly minor migrants actually are. Facial analysis of photos indicates that some of them are much older, possibly as old as 38.
In other news, the Malaysian Islamic Development Department, a government body, has ruled that food vendors must change the name “hot dog” before the product can receive a halal certification.
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China Holdings of U.S. Treasuries Drop to Almost Four-Year Low
China’s holdings of U.S. Treasuries fell to the lowest level since November 2012, as the world’s second-largest economy draws down its foreign reserves to prop up the yuan.
The biggest foreign holder of U.S. government debt had $1.19 trillion in bonds, notes and bills in August, down $33.7 billion from the prior month, the biggest drop since 2013, according to U.S. Treasury Department data released Tuesday in Washington and previous figures compiled by Bloomberg.
The portfolio of Japan, the largest holder after China, fell for the first time in three months, down $10.6 billion to $1.14 trillion. Saudi Arabia’s holdings of Treasuries declined for a seventh straight month, to $93 billion.
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A Nation Owes James O’Keefe a Debt of Gratitude
Thanks to O’Keefe, we have seen the irrefutable truth about how progressives are going about stealing the election, and therefore the Nation
In the midst of every day Dem denials on the pre-set rigging of Election 2016, video reporter James O’Keefe laid bare the ugly truth of how the Hillary Clinton Democrat campaign, in league with an in-the-bag mainstream media are cheating their way to install the most corrupt candidate in all history as America’s 45th president.
Watching the video is watching the death of America unfolding before our very eyes.
Only the same day the video went viral over the Internet, one of the cheaters caught out was unceremoniously removed from his job.
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Bill, Hillary, And a Convicted Pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein
The 2016 election is the most vitriolic and debased that I’ve ever seen. Granted the corruption and mudslinging by the Democratic candidate is beyond fiendish, but there have been others which were just as vile. The difference lies in subtlety. There is absolutely none this year. It is all out slander and libel about the Republican candidate. The media, the White House, the Department of Justice, the Democrats, and the neo-con Trotskyite Republicans are doing their best to make Trump more unlikeable than Hillary. It cannot be done…
Think about what Hillary would do to this nation, aside from being a continuation of the Obama administration. The last vestiges of freedom and liberty would be destroyed. Hillary wants open borders, open trade, 550% more Muslims than Obama and once and for all destroying the vibrant economy Americans enjoyed for so long before NAFTA.
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Deal With the Warmongers: American Politicians
For those who have yet to figure out that the game that is being played out between the Democrats and the Republicans concerning America’s welfare, it is not the parties contending with one another, it is the globalists contending with the American people in the guise of their representatives (Proverbs 26:28).
The real threat to you and your freedoms in America does not come from those hiding out in a cave wearing turbans on their heads yelling, “Allahu Akbar.” It is coming from men and woman wearing suits and ties in Washington D.C. that are selling you out.
To prove my point check out these recent headlines just over the last week:…
Back in October of 2015, Governor Mark Dayton, voted worst senator in United States history, said to the people of Minnesota, “If you do not like immigrants, get out of Minnesota.”
Who are the terrorists? Who are these “Useful Idiots” working for?
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Dem Operative Who Oversaw Trump Rally Agitators Visited White House 342 Times
A key operative in a Democratic scheme to send agitators to cause unrest at Donald Trump’s rallies has visited the White House 342 times since 2009, White House records show.
Robert Creamer, who acted as a middle man between the Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee and “protesters” who tried — and succeeded — to provoke violence at Trump rallies met with President Obama 47 times, according to White House records. Creamer’s last visit was in June 2016.
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DHS Uses Firefighters to Enter Homes and Give Everyone a ‘Fire Risk Assessment’
DHS, is using the U.S. Census to ask Americans, questions about smoke detectors, so they can to give homes ‘fire risk assessments’. The above video (2:30) shows how the New Orleans fire department “took it up a notch” and “went door to door, boots on the ground” entering resident’s homes to install smoke detectors in people’s bedrooms, kitchens etc. Since 2015, the New Orleans Fire Department (NOFD) has been going door-to-door giving homes free ‘fire risk assessments’. According to the “City of Orleans, Analytics-Informed Smoke Alarm Outreach Program”.
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‘Drain the Swamp’: Trump Proposes Term Limits for Congress
(TOWNHALL) In an effort to “drain the swamp” that is Washington, D.C., Republican nominee Donald Trump said he would push for congressional term limits if he’s elected president.
“If I’ m elected president, I will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress,” Trump said Tuesday during an afternoon rally in Colorado. “They’ve been talking about that for years. Decades of failure in Washington and decades of special interest dealing must and will come to an end.”
“We have to break the cycle of corruption, and we have to give new voices a chance to go into government service,” Trump’s campaign said in a press release. “The time for Congressional term limits has arrived.”
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‘Draw Them to Punch You’: 2 Dem Operatives Lose Jobs After Undercover Video Comments
Two Democratic operatives are out of a job after a controversial conservative activist released undercover footage showing discussions of “busing” in voters and inciting violence at Republican rallies.
Scott Foval, the national field director of Americans United for Change, was booted on Monday and Democracy Partners head Robert Creamer announced on Tuesday he was “stepping back” from efforts to elect Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
“I am unwilling to become a distraction to the important task of electing [Hillary] Clinton, and defeating Donald Trump in the upcoming election,” Creamer said in a statement.
The Democratic National Committee also disavowed the schemes discussed in the video.
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Drudge Report: Massive Voter Fraud Investigation Texas
Less than a month before the Nov. 8 election, allegations of voter fraud in Tarrant County are under investigation by the state, prompting concern that the timing may intimidate some voters — and possibly lay groundwork for the Legislature to enact more restrictions on voting next year.
The complaints focus on mail-in ballots, which allow people to vote from their homes without any ID or verification of identity.
Supporters have long said mail-in balloting is crucial for overseas residents, the military and senior citizens. Critics maintain that such voting is ripe for abuse and raises concerns about “vote harvesting,” in which people could fill out and return other people’s ballots.
Some say the investigation is politically motivated; others say it’s addressing a practice that has been a problem for years.
“The Republicans have been looking for a blockbuster case to demonstrate that voter fraud isn’t just a series of small mistakes,” said Brandon Rottinghaus, a political science professor at the University of Houston. “If some of these allegations turn out to be true, they may finally have their white whale.
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Exclusive: White House Plans Community-Based Prevention of Violent Ideologies
A new White House plan aims to convene teachers and mental health professionals to intervene and help prevent Americans from turning to violent ideologies, work that is currently mostly done by law enforcement, a draft of the policy seen by Reuters shows.
The 18-page plan, to be announced on Wednesday, marks the first time in five years that the Obama administration has updated its policy for preventing the spread of violent groups. Authorities blamed radical and violent ideologies as the motives for attacks in the last year in Charleston, South Carolina; San Bernardino, California; Orlando, Florida; New York and New Jersey.
A self-styled white supremacist is accused of shooting dead nine black people inside a historic African-American church in Charleston and the other shootings and bombs were inspired by Islamist militants…
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Faced With Angry Voters, The Elites Sour on Democracy
Is direct democracy more easily manipulated?
It’s becoming increasingly clear that “democracy” exists only when the voters choose the option preferred by certain pundits and politicians.
When the voters go the other way, well, then there’s just entirely too much of that democracy stuff going on.
In the wake of the Brexit vote, the Trump phenomenon, and the Hungarian vote to restrict immigration, the global left has realized that something must be done to begin undermining the idea of the unrestricted democracy — an idea they have been promoting for over a century. Realizing that popular referenda and initiatives provide a way for voters to go around the will of the elites, politicians and journalists have joined forces to begin denouncing the very idea of direct democracy…
In the Rousseff case, the intent of the voters, we were told, was unchanging and indisputable. The voters had voted in Rousseff two years earlier, and any attempt at overturning their vote via representative democracy was deemed illegitimate.
In other words, if the voters vote for a darling of the global left wing, then the wise voters know exactly what they’re doing. If the voters vote for Brexit, or Donald Trump for that matter, they’re buffoons who don’t understand the issues.
[Comment: America, never give up your 2nd amendment.]
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Former Clinton Chef: Hillary Scrawled Hand Written Notes Calling Black People N***ers
Tracey Martin details shocking accusations ignored by mainstream media
A former traveling chef for Bill and Hillary Clinton says that Hillary used to scrawl hand-written notes that referred to black people as “n***ers”.
Tracey Martin, who worked for the Clintons during their first administration, has overseen culinary events for numerous world leaders, including Margaret Thatcher, Helmut Kohl and President and Mrs. George H. W. Bush.
In an interview with Alex Jones, Martin expanded on claims he first made during an interview with WBEN 930 radio host Tom Bauerle, specifically that Hillary Clinton angrily called a black servant the n-word when he made a mistake during a function at the Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center in Washington DC when Clinton was hosting with Bernadette Chirac, the wife of the former French President Jacques Chirac.
“It was just Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Chirac and myself in the same room and one of the people brought in something and it did not please her and she used the n-word very openly,” said Martin, adding that it was a “general pattern” and “very common” for Hillary to use the racial slur.
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Gas Explosion Destroys Building in Portland, Oregon; 8 Injured
PORTLAND, Ore. — A powerful natural gas explosion rocked a busy Portland, Oregon, shopping district Wednesday, injuring eight people and igniting a fire that sent a huge plume of smoke over the heart of the city.
Three firefighters, two police officers and three civilians were hurt, and one of the firefighters had surgery for a broken leg, authorities said.
None of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening.
City officials said a catastrophe was averted by speedy work from firefighters and police who cleared the area of people before the blast.
“There are a lot of people alive” who might not be “but for the excellent work by our first-responders,” Mayor Charlie Hales said at an afternoon news conference.
A multi-story building owned by the Dosha Salon Spa was heavily damaged from what fire officials called a “significant explosion,” reports CBS Portland affiliate KOIN.
Kimberly Johnson, the COO of Dosha Salon Spa, told KOIN that the salon was evacuated before the explosion happened, and all of her employees were safe…
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Generating Hate Against Russia: The Absurd New Anti-Russian Propaganda From the New York Times
The New York Times is so determined to generate hate against Russia that it has lost all journalistic perspective, even portraying Russia’s military decoys — like those used in World War II.
If the dangers weren’t so great — a possible nuclear war that could exterminate life on the planet — The New York Times over-the-top denunciation of all things Russian would be almost funny, like the recent front-page story finding something uniquely sinister about Russia using inflatable decoys of military weapons to confuse adversaries.
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Globalists Will Enslave Us, Radical Islam Will Kill Us
In our last article entitled, “Did Hillary Sacrifice the Benghazi Heroes for Money?” we wrote this:
“That the mainstream news media purposely ignores these associations and questionable past can only be construed as being complicit in a conspiracy with Hillary Clinton, or her handlers, in what appears to be a potential plot to take over America from the inside and hand it over to the world ruling class and the bankers.”
The ruling class (all politicians), mega corporations and central bankers are the globalists. Hillary is a globalist and does not care one whit about national sovereignty, or American exceptionalism, much less the U. S. Constitution. She and Bill only care about power and money and increasing that power and money by any means. Laws are only a minor inconvenience to them that can be overcome by buying off the government, law enforcement and the media, each co conspirators in the Clinton’s crooked game. Government is for sale to the highest bidder for Bill and Hillary. But then, government has always been for sale to the highest bidder since government was invented over 5,000 years ago. The only thing that keeps government from becoming corrupt and succumbing to the highest bidder is the people. But history has shown that most people don’t care, so they get corrupt government by their own in-action.
But it is even worse than what we describe…
The American group CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) has direct ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and supports the radical Palestine terrorist group, Hamas, a group funded by terrorist-exporter Iran and followers of the Muslim Brotherhood. Based on CAIR’s history, “its major goal seems to be silencing and de-legitimizing its critics.”
But the attack on America doesn’t stop there. American communists/socialists have taken over the unions and the Democrat Party. Many members of Congress are card-carrying members of the Communist Party and its many affiliates, like the Democrat Socialists of America (DSA). At least 11 members of Congress that we know of are members of the DSA. To-wit: “John Conyers [Chairman of the Judiciary Committee], Tammy Baldwin, Jerrold Nadler, Luis Gutierrez, Melvin Watt, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Steve Cohen, Barbara Lee, Robert Wexler, Linda Sanchez [there are 23 Democrats on the Judiciary Committee of which eleven, almost half, are now members of the DSA].” These Congressmen and women are outright communists and have influence over American public policy and legislation.
To understand where the DSA is coming from, one only needs to read Article II, “Our Purpose”, of the DSA Constitution:
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Hillary Adviser Resigns in Wake of O’Keefe Videos
(TOWNHALL) On Monday, James O’Keefe’s investigative journalism group Project Veritas began releasing tapes from their yearlong investigation into the dark web of progressive groups, who working in concert with the Clinton campaign, have divulged databases, information about designated operatives whose main goal is to instigate violence at Trump rallies, and how these groups constitute a hub of communication for the various pro-Clinton super PACs to keep in contact with one another; something that is forbidden by federal election law.
Scott Foval, the national field director for Americans United For Change, is very open about how he’s hired homeless people and the mentally ill to create havoc at political events, though he says that he will always remember to make sure to pay for the bail, or hospital bill, for any one of his operatives that get roughed up or arrested at these venues.
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Jill Stein Issues New Hillary WW3 Warning
“If Hillary gets elected we’re kind of going to war with Russia folks”
Infowars caught up with Green Party Candidate Dr. Jill Stein to ask her how she feels about the Wikileaks bombshells, what a Hillary Clinton presidency would look like, and if we are on the cusp of WW3.
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Obama’s Trump-Supporting Half-Brother to Attend Debate
President Barack Obama’s half-brother will attend tomorrow’s third and final presidential debate as a guest of Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Malik Obama, 58, who divides his time between Kenya and Washington D.C., told the New York Post that he was “excited” to be at Wednesday’s Las Vegas show. Malik Obama endorsed Trump over the summer, saying that the real estate mogul “speaks from the heart.”
The Trump campaign confirmed to Fox News that it had invited Obama to the debate at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas’ Thomas & Mack Center.
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Postal Worker Caught Destroying Absentee Trump Ballots in Major Swing State
Voter fraud and election rigging is perhaps the worst in this presidential election that any in history. At least that’s the way it looks given all of the shady things that are happening against Trump. This time around, a postal worker in Ohio took to Twitter to brag about destroying absentee ballots who voted for Trump saying, “I love working at the post office in Columbus, Ohio and ripping up absentee ballots that vote for Trump” When told it was illegal by Twitter users they bragged with comments like, “excuse me but ripping all these up is hard work and karma likes it” This is likely not the only place this is happening across the country. i love working at the post office in Columbus, Ohio and ripping up absentee ballots that vote for Trump.
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Soros-Connected Company Provides Voting Machines in 16 States
Smartmatic, a U.K.-based voting technology company with deep ties to George Soros, has control over voting machines in 16 states including battleground zones like Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Other jurisdictions affected are California, District of Columbia, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin.
Its website includes a flow-chart that describes how the company has contributed to elections in the U.S. from 2006-2015 with “57,000 voting and counting machines deployed” and “35 million voters assisted.”
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State Department H.Q. Houses Secretive Shadow Government’s “7th Floor Group”
Information contained inside documents released by the FBI pertaining to Hillary Clinton’s email scandal show that there really is a “Shadow Government” and that it is based out of the 7th floor of the State Department H.Q., located at 2201 C Street NW, which is the Harry S. Truman Building.
“The Secretary’s suite was a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) which also had a DSS security detachment outside of the office. Currently, The 7th Floor Group meets on Wednesdays and this includes the Secretary of State John Kerry, Deputy Chief of Staff Jennifer Tout, Deputy secretary of State for Management and Resources, Kennedy, Assistant Secretary Julia Frifield, and members of the Office of the Legal Advise,” according to Wikipedia, and likely refers to the seventh sub-level of the facility underground rather than the upper 7th floor.
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The Whigs Are Back, And Cowering More Than Ever
Conservatives have their own Whig establishment today, people who refuse to support Donald Trump the Vulgarian — George Will, Jonah Goldberg, Paul Ryan, and Bill Kristol prominent among them. In this do-or-die election between a radical-left fanatic (Hillary) and a commonsense conservative (Donald Trump), our Whigs are priggishly sitting out the fight. It’s a breathtaking 50-50 election, and their systematic betrayal may bring us another four to eight years of Hillary Clinton, symbolic daughter of Betty Friedan the Communist.
This is for real, folks. Check it out yourself. In the 1920s, Julien Benda wrote a vitally important book, The Treason of the Clerks (meaning the intellectual class), in which he nailed the radical left. In that time, as in ours, the biggest radical revolutionaries were safely ensconced in schools and colleges, with lifetime tenure, sniping at the bourgeois taxpayers.
We have a thousand examples of the same treacherous rabble in this country. B.H. Obama; Bill Clinton; and yes, Hillary are their direct spawn.
It’s only one small step from being an “idealistic globalist” to committing treason against one’s nation. Our college students these days are taught that patriotism is evil and globalism is good. Radicals like Hillary live in denial that America is only real protection from a dangerous world. Hillary and her daughter Chelsea are apparently in the habit of calling their Secret Service protectors “pigs,” the same people who have volunteered to put their bodies on the line when some assassin goes for their charges. The least the Clinton women could do is express real gratitude and respect, but they aren’t made that way.
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Vindicated: Talk Show Radio’s True Patriot Tom Bauerle
The kind of surveillance straight shooter WBEN Buffalo radio talk show host Tom Bauerle was under right in his own backyard would, in the telling, make anyone even the CIA sound crazy. Even Sherlock Holmes couldn’t have solved the puzzle given the complexity of clues.
But to the surprise of his stalkers, Bauerle and his team ended up cracking the most incredible of mysteries that enemies seized upon to portray him as “crazy”.
For those who don’t know, a beleaguered Bauerle endured almost 3 years of Hell before and following a front-page Sunday article in the Warren Buffet-owned Buffalo News questioning his “behavior” and, infuriatingly to his enemies, emerged quietly a few months ago from the flames with a big smile on his face — and out of court settlements with those responsible.
The veteran broadcaster, who first rankled liberal media elites with his “Vince Foster” question to then First Lady Hillary Clinton in 1999, has been through an ordeal from which few people could both emerge victorious and vindicated.
[Comment: Like something out of a spy thriller — but he was really targeted this way by leftist liberals aka commies.]
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Why Did Vote-Rigging Robert Creamer Visit the White House Over 200 Times During the Obama Admin
Earlier today we wrote about a new Project Veritas undercover video that uncovered several democratic operatives openly discussing, in explicit detail, how to commit massive voter fraud. One of the operatives was a person by the name of Robert Creamer who is a co-founder of a democratic consulting firm called Democracy Partners. Within the video, an undercover journalist details a plan to register Hispanic voters illegally by having them work as contractors, to which Creamer can be heard offering support saying that “there are a couple of organizations that that’s their big trick” (see: “Rigging Elections For 50 Years” — Massive Voter Fraud Exposed By Project Veritas Part 2”).
Unfortunately, the embarrassing video caused Creamer to subsequently resign from consulting the Hillary campaign as he issued a statement saying that he was “stepping back from my responsibilities working the [Hillary] campaign” over fears that his continued assistance would be a distraction for the campaign.
But voter fraud isn’t Creamer’s only criminal specialty. A quick look at Wikipedia reveals that Creamer spent 5 months in federal prison back in 2006 for a “$2.3 million bank fraud in relation to his operation of public interest groups in the 1990s.”
So, with that kind of history, you can imagine our surprise when we discovered that a Mr. Robert Creamer showed up on the White House visitor logs 340 times beginning in 2009 when Obama took office and culminating with his latest visit in June 2016. Moreover, in 45 of those instances, Creamer was scheduled to meet with POTUS himself. Perhaps this is just two old Chicago “community organizers” hanging out?
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Gut Microbes May be Making You Anxious or Depressed
Gut microbes have heavily influenced the behavior of mice
According to Premysl Bercik, an associate professor of gastroenterology at McMaster University in Canada, there may be a link to gut microbes and someone’s predisposition to mental illness like depression and anxiety.
Berick began studying low-grade inflammation disorders like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) several years ago. In these disorders, Berick states that the body’s anatomy doesn’t look different than it is supposed to, but the gut doesn’t “behave” in a typical fashion.
Berick also noticed that many of his patients suffered from anxiety and depression in addition to their IBS, which sent him on a mission to try and deduce whether or not the two were related.
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The U.K. prides itself on its past commitment to free expression and press freedom, but as we found out last year the targeted surveillance of journalists and calls by Britain’s prime minister, then David Cameron, heavily supported by Home Secretary, now PM Theresa May, to ban secure messaging indicated a clear shift toward a more much restrictive environment for the press.
Then of course we have the famed raid by GCHQ on the offices of The Guardian over the Edward Snowden leaks in 2013. Just last year The Guardian published a piece about how the government are directly spying on British journalists. “GCHQ’s bulk surveillance of electronic communications has scooped up emails to and from journalists working for some of the US and UK’s largest media organisations.”
In the worst scenario possible for press freedom, the British government has classified investigative journalists as terrorists when it comes to surveillance. “New evidence from other UK intelligence documents revealed by Snowden also shows that a GCHQ information security assessment listed “investigative journalists” as a threat alongside terrorists or hackers” — the Guardian article stated.
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Britain is Watching: Royal Navy Intercept Russian Warships in UK Waters Amid Ww3 Fears
HMS Richmond, a Type 23 Duke Class frigate, is escorting Russia’s only aircraft carrier as well seven vessels including a battlecruiser and two destroyers.
The ship had been conducting routine training exercises and sailed from the Shetland Islands to intercept Mr Putin’s fleet.
The sole Russian aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, the nuclear powered Kirov Class Battlecruiser, Pyotr Velikiy and two Udaloy Class Destroyers, Vice Admiral Kulakov and Severomorsk will now be escorted out of British waters.
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Free Driving Licenses & Grants: Sweden’s Shock Plan to Reintegrate Returning ISIS Fighters
Around 140 Swedish people have returned to the country after fighting for terror organisations in Syria and Iraq.
Lund County, in south Sweden, is now considering giving the jihadi defectors incentives to reintegrate into society.
The mooted benefits are housing grants, help to re-enter the workforce and free driving licenses.
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Iraq Fighting Could Bring Jihadists to Europe, Commissioner Warns
The Iraqi army’s attempt to recapture the city of Mosul from the Islamic State militant group could spark a return of jihadist fighters to Europe, the EU security union commissioner has warned.
“This is a threat we must be prepared to face,” Julian King said in an interview to Germany’s Die Welt published on Tuesday.
Mosul, part of Iraq’s autonomous Kurd region, has been a stronghold of the militant group since June 2014. A large-scale operation was launched on Monday (17 October) by Iraqi and Kurdish forces to retake the 1.5 million strong city.
On Tuesday morning, Kurdish regional leader Masoud Barzani said 200 sq km of land had already been taken.
King however said that he did not expect a “mass exodus” of IS fighters if the city falls, but that “even a small number represents a serious threat”.
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Poland Turns to Norwegian Gas to Trump Russia
Increased tensions with Russia over its plans to build the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany is pushing Poland to revive a stalled pipeline project with Norway. Warsaw’s main goal is to find other gas suppliers when its current contract with Russia’s Gazprom expires in 2022.
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Shocking Spain Terror Map: Popular Holiday Hotspots Blighted by Islamic Extremist Cells
Terror maps published by the Ministry of the Interior show favourite island destinations like Majorca, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, as well as tourist-magnet resorts on the Costa del Sol and Costa Blanca, have all seen special security operations and several arrests in a crackdown on Islamic jihadists.
The maps shows Spanish security forces took part in 186 anti-terror raids and carried out 186 arrests since 2012.
The number of arrests so far this year stands at 47 from 24 operations.
[Source:
El Ministerio del Interior publica por primera vez en su página web dos infografías con información oficial y actualizada de la lucha contra el yihadismo en España
http://www.interior.gob.es/es/web/interior/noticias/detalle/-/journal_content/56_INSTANCE_1YSSI3xiWuPH/10180/6496316/]
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UK: BBC ‘Manipulative, ‘ Needs to be Democratized: Loach
Prominent British filmmaker Ken Loach has blasted the BBC for its “manipulative” news, calling the network a “rotten” place for directors.
“The BBC is very aware of its role in shaping people’s consciousness; this is the story you should hear about, these are the people worth listening to. It’s manipulative and deeply political,” he said in Radio Times interview on Monday.
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UK: Boney M Singer’s Muslim Convert Brother Had Man Assassinated in Mosque Row
Abdul Hadi Arwani was killed in Wembley, North London on the orders of Khalid Rashad, the brother of Boney M singer Liz Mitchell.
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UK: Disabled Pensioner Held at Knifepoint and Sprayed in the Face With Acid in Northampton
A vulnerable pensioner has been left terrified after being held at knifepoint in his own home and having cleaning products sprayed in his eyes by masked raiders.
Frail Albert Glasgow, 80, was asleep at his home in Northampton when two men wearing balaclavas broke in by climbing through the living room window.
They searched his home — stealing a mobile phone, 100 cigarettes and sentimental pocket watches — before threatening him in his bedroom.
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UK: Margaret Thatcher Named Worst Prime Minister of the Century
The Historical Writers’ Association on Tuesday announced the results of a 45-member survey naming Margaret Thatcher the U.K.’s worst prime minister of the past century, narrowly beating Brexit harbinger David Cameron.
The England based literary society judged 19 prime ministers who have held the top job since 1916. Thatcher, who served from 1979 to 1990 netted 24 percent of the vote, tailed by Cameron and Neville Chamberlain who earned 22 percent and 17 percent, respectively.
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UK: Uber Driver, Who Punched London Mother in the Face Avoids Jail
Shahab Akbar, 33, dragged the mother-of-one from his car and hit her twice in the face after flying into a rage outside her parents’ house in Addiscombe, south London.
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‘We Didn’t Ask for This!’ Brussels Stooge Blasts Italy PM Over Vote Which Could End the EU
In a remarkable intervention the former EU Commissioner Mario Monti — who also served as Italy’s unelected prime minister for two years — laid into his successor Matteo Renzi and urged voters to reject his proposed reforms.
It will be seen as an extremely risky ploy by the former technocrat because Mr Renzi has vowed to resign if he loses the referendum, sparking a general election in which the eurosceptic Five Star Movement would be expected to make huge gains.
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Albanian Fighters in a Foreign War
Poverty, unemployment and a general lack of perspectives for the future makes it easy for radical Islamist preachers in Albania to lure and recruit young men for ‘Islamic State’ and jihad in Syria. Some never return.
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Raif Badawi Threatened With More Lashes, Says Saudi Blogger’s Wife
Saudi Arabia reportedly wants to resume its corporal punishment against detained blogger Raif Badawi. In an interview with DW, his wife Ensaf Haidar, opens up about her fears.
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Iraq’ s volunteer forces (Hashd al-Shaabi) complained that the warplanes of the US-led coalition are allowing ISIL military convoys flee Mosul in Iraq’ s Nineveh province to Syria without being harmed. “
[Comment: US allowed ISIS to escape into Syria in order to supplement ISIS forces there. Allpart of the destabilization agenda.]
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Hot Dogs ‘Must be Renamed’ In Malaysia, Says Religious Government Body
Food outlets selling hot dogs in Malaysia have been asked to rename their products or risk being refused halal certification.
The Malaysian Islamic Development Department, a religious government body, said it adopted the ruling after complaints from Muslim tourists.
Director Sirajuddin Suhaimee said the name might cause “confusion”.
“In Islam, dogs are considered unclean and the name cannot be related to halal certification,” he said.
Malaysian halal food guidelines say “halal food and halal artificial flavour shall not be named or synonymously named after non-halal products such as ham, bak kut teh, bacon, beer, rum and others that might create confusion,” local media said.
Muslim-majority Malaysia practises a moderate form of Islam but conservative attitudes are on the rise.
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Singapore to Test Self-Driving Buses
Singapore has signed an agreement to start testing self-driving buses in a small part of the city state. The green buses in action will be electric-hybrid vehicles, with the batteries to be charged flexibly.
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Philippines Anti-US Protesters Rammed by Police Van
A police van has rammed protesters in the Philippines capital Manila as a demonstration outside the US embassy turned violent.
Footage showed protesters surrounding the van and hitting it with batons taken from police. The vehicle then drives into the crowd several times, injuring a number of people.
Hundreds had met to demand the US end its military presence in the country.
President Rodrigo Duterte has queried long-standing ties with the US.
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‘Like Doctors in a War’: Inside Venezuela’s Healthcare Crisis
The country’s devastating economic downturn is ravaging its hospitals, where acute shortages threaten to reverse decades of progress.
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17,000 Refugees Sue Germany Over Status — and Most Win
So far this year more than 17,000 refugees have sued German authorities for not giving them full refugee status, with the vast majority winning their cases, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reports.
Since the government toughened its stance towards refugees earlier in the year, increasing numbers of refugees have been receiving a qualified form of asylum known as “subsidiary protection” from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF).
In the first eight months of this year, more than 17,000 refugees have taken BAMF to administrative courts over this decision, with 6,000 cases passing through the courts in August alone, the SZ notes.
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80 Migrants Leave Calais ‘Jungle’ Camp for University
Eighty migrants have left the Calais Jungle camp behind for studies at the University of Lille.
The migrants, the vast majority of whom are Sudanese, left the camp on Tuesday to start an intensive course to learn French.
“After the initial training period, they can pursue a traditional university curriculum in the field of their choice,” Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in a statement.
The move comes as part of France’s efforts to dismantle the camp in Calais, where up to 9,000 people are understood to be living.
A professor at the university kick started the project, which has been put into action by the Auberge des migrants aid group and the local government.
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Aren’t There Any Girls? Questions Over ‘Child’ Refugees as More ‘Hulking Males’ Come to UK
[…] And serious questions are also mounting over why “hulking” young men are being brought over first instead of young boys and girls, who are the most vulnerable group in the Jungle camp.
There have been reports of serial child abuse and rapes in the lawless slum, with aid workers warning that a paedophile ring of migrants may be exploiting the desperate children who are cut off from their families.
Express.co.uk has asked the Home Office how many places it has made available for girl refugees from the Calais camp, but officials have so far refused to answer repeated requests for comment.
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EU Tries to Stem Number of African Migrants Coming to Europe After Striking New Deal
Ethiopia, Niger, Nigeria, Mali and Senegal have entered into a €425million (£379.5m) agreement with Europe to try and stem the flow of migrants heading into the eurozone for economic purposes.
The EU high representative for foreign affairs, Federica Mogherini, said: “We are starting to see the very first operational results on ground.”
The number of migrants coming from Niger is already decreasing and the EU is carrying out work in Mali and Senegal to ensure similar results there.
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France Tells UK to Take More Calais Migrant Children — As They Want to Live in Britain
French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve wrote a column in the Guardian newspaper telling the UK to face up to its responsibilities and speed up taking in isolated child migrants with family in the UK.
The rant comes as MPs demand migrants classed as children have dentistry checks to confirm their ages. Minors have begun to come over to Britain this week, but they appear to be older than child-age, with some seen with facial hair and even wrinkles.
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Germany: ‘It’s Become Terrible Around Here’: Migrants Call for Merkel to Deport Migrants
[…] Another individual who said he had been in the country for two decades said the city is changing dramatically.
He said: “I’ve had my market here for 20 years.
“It used to be good people around here that bought my goods.
“But now, no one buys anything any more…
“The Germans all moved away.
“Now there’s only refugees and foreigners here.”
While another man said authorities have to be tougher on law breakers.
He said: “I’ve been here for almost 39 years, I’m happy, I have a family. I’m proud of my son, I have good children.
“But the foreigners who come now, the ones who came two or three years ago — they’ve caused so much s**t in Germany.
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‘It’s About Security’ Norway ‘Tells EU Borders Will Remain Closed’ Amid Migrant Crackdown
Justice Minister Anders Anundsen announced on Wednesday that Norway is set to follow Denmark’s precedent by asking the European Union (EU) to extend the country’s border checks.
The Scandinavian country is a part of the Schengen Zone, which was created to allow citizens of member countries to travel freely without passport checks to other nations within the area.
However, as the unprecedented influx of migrants has placed an enormous strain on the public services in the EU and EEA countries, several of the members have implemented internal border controls.
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Migrants Stage Rooftop Protest at Madrid Detention Centre
Dozens of migrants were staging a protest at a detention centre in Madrid on Wednesday after climbing onto the building’s roof and smashing furniture, police said.
About 40 people were on the roof shouting “freedom, freedom” in Spanish and waving a banner in protest at their detention conditions, an AFP photographer said.
Police said the migrants, who were unarmed, had spent the night on the roof after starting the riot late Tuesday at the centre in Madrid’s southern district of Aluche.
“We are trying to negotiate with them… We’ll see if they come down by themselves,” said the national police spokesman in Madrid.
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A Home Office spokesman admitted that routine medical tests, such as checking dental records, have not been carried out because it could be ‘intrusive’.
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Students Shout Down Mother of Child Killed by Illegal
(TOWNHALL) Sabine Durden, an anti-illegal immigration activist and Donald Trump supporter, was on the campus of UCLA to warn students of the dangers of open borders in the United States.
Durden was able to get some of her points across before being shut down by protesters. “The undocumented community are criminals by law,” Durden said. “You have to take care of your own first before you can take care of others. So if I take care of my American people that have a right to be here first, and we have enough American criminals. We don’t need new criminals that aren’t even supposed to be here.”
The protesters however disagreed.
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‘They Want to Replace Us!’ Marine Le Pen Says Islamic Law Threatening to Oust French Law
The leader of the far-right Front National (FN) party fumed about the effect of “Islamic fundamentalism” in her country.
On social networking site Twitter, Ms Le Pen said: “Islamic fundamentalism is a totalitarian ideology which aims to replace our laws by religious laws.”
One tweeter replied: “It is worse than that, they want to replace us!”
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Turkey’s EU Minister Says Migrant Deal May End Without Visa Liberalization
The European Union should implement visa-free travel for Turks by the end of the year and stop insisting Turkey change its anti-terrorism laws or Ankara may cancel its side of a deal to readmit illegal migrants, Turkey’s EU minister told Reuters.
Turkey agreed in March to stop illegal migrants from crossing into Greece in exchange for financial aid for those in its care, the promise of visa-free travel for its citizens to much of the EU, and accelerated membership talks.
But there has been deadlock over the plan to grant Turks visa-free access to Europe, initially planned by October.
“Forcing this despite the situation is putting a roadblock in front of the visa liberalization, and therefore we will assume they aren’t keeping the promises they made,” Turkey’s EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik said in an interview in Ankara.
“In that case we won’t carry out the readmission deal, and we will cancel it if necessary,” he said.
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UK: Dentists Condemn Call for Child Migrants’ Teeth to be Tested
A Tory MP who called for child migrants arriving in the UK from Calais to have their teeth tested to verify their ages has been condemned by dentists.
A number of unaccompanied children from the “Jungle” camp have arrived to join relatives in the UK — amid suggestions they could be adults trying to get in.
David Davies, MP for Monmouth, said mandatory teeth checks would reassure people the UK was not being exploited.
But the British Dental Association said such checks would be unethical.
The BDA, which represents dentists and dental students in the UK, also disputed claims that dental radiographs can accurately determine whether someone is under the age of 18 or not.
The first children with links to Britain arrived this week, after French authorities ratified a list drawn up by the charity Citizens UK, which is working with the government to bring unaccompanied minors over from Calais.
However, photographs of some of the children have been printed on the front pages of some national newspapers, along with headlines questioning their ages.
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UK: Information Blackout: The Calais Child Migrant Questions the Home Office Refuse to Answer
Britons have been left totally in the dark about who is coming into the country after Whitehall mandarins threw a cloak of secrecy over the UK’s child refugee policy.
When pressed by Express.co.uk today Home Office officials refused to answer questions over how many, if indeed ANY vulnerable young girls will be brought across the Channel from the dangerous Jungle camp.
The three groups to have arrived so far being entirely made up of males.
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While connecting to the Wi-Fi might seem like a good way to save precious data, you might want to think twice before logging on.
A new system has been designed that uses Wi-Fi signals to track where you are and who you’re with.
The system reveals that many external applications have access to this sensitive information, which could be seen as an ‘erosion of privacy’.
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“In other news, the Malaysian Islamic Development Department, a government body, has ruled that food vendors must change the name “hot dog” before the product can receive a halal certification.”
Hot worm?
(Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)
Personally, I’d prefer some name with a phallic reference. Just to make the feminists’ heads explode.
“Hot Willy”? Maybe that doesn’t translate into ‘merican English.
Last week, writer and Islam critic Hamed Abdel-Samad gave a lecture in Munich. As always, he provided clear statements about this so called religion, which, as an elementar part of its doctrine of faith, involves fighting and killing. The Koran raised war to a “worship”. The last “revealed” sura 9 he called “manifesto of hatred”.
The “divine” must necessarily be taken from the Quran and declared to be the work of a man, to break through the eternal violence that has accompanied Islam since its foundation.
Salafists, he described as “Martin Luther’s of Islam,” since they relies on the attacks at the time of Mohammed. Muslim associations are for him a “prolonged arm of Islamism”.
http://www.pi-news.net/2016/10/der-koran-erhebt-den-krieg-zum-gottesdienst/
Comment by Yog, moved here from another post where it was off-topic:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/noida/ghaziabad-minors-tortured-docs-create-opening-for-passing-of-stool/story-nnsogwdqdyArMF2hF4hh2J.htmlhttp://www.hindustantimes.com/noida/ghaziabad-minors-tortured-docs-create-opening-for-passing-of-stool/story-nnsogwdqdyArMF2hF4hh2J.html
A horrific story—all the 3 perpetrators are Muslim males. The victims names have been withheld, but one can be almost certain they are Hindu. Maybe you would like to carry this, hence sharing.