In the German city of Duisburg a migrant burst into a church during a wedding ceremony, yelled “Allahu Akhbar”, tore down the decorations, and fondled a statue of the Virgin Mary. The sexton and a policeman intervened. After the man had calmed down, he was escorted by police to a hospital for psychiatric testing.
In other migration news, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said that Italy could not survive another year of immigration at current levels. Mr. Renzi threatened to veto the EU budget if Eastern European countries do not agree to take their share of the migrants.
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Europe on Eve of Banking Armageddon Which Will Dwarf 2008 Global Crash, Warns Expert
GERMANY, Italy, Switzerland, Britain and France are facing the catastrophic consequences of ‘over leveraging’ as Europe’s biggest banks prepare to release their latest results over the next two days.
And analysts say the potential for a cataclysmic failure could spread like a wild-fire hitting the continent and beyond as the true extent of deep troubles in the international banking sector are revealed.
The IMF and German governments have refused to step in to prop-up struggling banks but risk analysts are warning Deutsche Bank, RBS, Lloyds, Unicredit, Intesa SanPaolo, and BMPS could all need a state bail out.
And it’s going to be a wake up call for the whole of Europe say experts who fear the reports are not going to be good for anyone.
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You’re probably appalled at the American media’s shameless whoring for Hillary Clinton, asking yourself why they would so thoroughly debase their much-touted journalistic ethics. President Obama has answered that question.
As reported by Agence France Presse, during a recent speech in Pittsburgh he postulated:
“We are going to have to rebuild within this wild-wild-west-of-information flow some sort of curating function that people agree to.
“There has to be, I think, some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes some basic truthiness tests and those that we have to discard, because they just don’t have any basis in anything that’s actually happening in the world.”
Set aside the outrageous, un-American gall in proposing that any central authority should “curate” information put out to the public, and walk with me for a minute down a meandering path of speculation.
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Hillary’s 33,000 Emails Might Not be ‘Missing’ After All
Files backed up on multiple platforms never subpoened by FBI
(New York Post) For months now, we’ve been told that Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 missing emails were permanently erased and destroyed beyond recovery. But newly released FBI notes strongly suggest they still exist in several locations — and they could be recovered, if only someone would impanel a grand jury and seize them.
In a May interview with FBI agents, an executive with the Denver contractor that maintained Clinton’s private server revealed that an underling didn’t bleach-clean all her subpoenaed emails, just ones he stored in a data file he used to transfer the emails from the server to Clinton’s aides, who in turn sorted them for delivery to Congress.
The Platte River Networks executive, whose name was redacted from the interview report, said PRN tech Paul Combetta “created a ‘vehicle’ to transfer email files from the live mailboxes of [Clinton Executive Services Corp.] email accounts [and] then later used BleachBit software to shred the ‘vehicle,’ but the email content still existed in the live email accounts.”
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How ‘Convicted Criminal’ James O’Keefe Came to be ‘Discredited’
Investigative reporter James O’Keefe is admittedly a repeat offender. Over and over again he has committed old-fashioned gumshoe journalism. Worse, he has gone after targets grown fat, soft, and corrupt from years of media protection. In the process, O’Keefe has embarrassed the mainstream media and enraged their political allies. Now the whole lot of them wants his head.
To experience the media’s angst one only had to watch Anderson Cooper’s CNN panel discussion on the morning of the Las Vegas debate. The subject at hand was the Project Veritas video that showed Democratic operatives bragging about how they incited violence at Trump rallies. Although CNN felt compelled to report on the story — five million people had already seen it — Cooper and his colleagues were more disdainful of O’Keefe than they were of the two dirty tricksters already fired as a result of his video…
James O’Keefe should have won a Pulitzer Prize long ago. The undercover work of his fledgling organization led to the collapse of the community organizing cartel known as ACORN, earned him praise from Governor Chris Christie for his work exposing corruption in New Jersey’s teachers’ unions, forced the resignation of major players at National Public Radio, and led to the reform of voter laws in New Hampshire — all of this before he turned thirty.
No one in the major media has anything like this track record.
As David Daleiden discovered, however, when a citizen journalist dares to expose a protected institution, he risks reprisal from the government and, even more disturbingly, a rebuke from the major media. In January 2010, O’Keefe and a few of his colleagues learned this the hard way when they attempted an impromptu sting in New Orleans.
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It is Happening Again! Voting Machines Are Switching Votes From Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton
Is the 2016 election in the process of being stolen? Just a few weeks ago I issued a major alert warning that this exact sort of thing might happen. Early voting has already begun in many states, and a number of voters in Texas are reporting that the voting machines switched their votes from Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton. The odd thing is that none of the other choices were affected when these individuals attempted to vote for a straight Republican ticket. If Hillary Clinton is declared the winner of the state of Texas on election night, a full investigation of these voting machines should be conducted, because there is no way that Donald Trump should lose that state. I have said that it will be the greatest miracle in U.S. political history if Donald Trump wins this election, but without the state of Texas Donald Trump has exactly zero chance of winning. So those living down in Texas need to keep reporting anything unusual that they see or hear when they go to vote.
Most Americans don’ t realize this, but the exact same thing was happening during the last presidential election. The state of Ohio was considered to be the key to Mitt Romney’ s chances of winning in 2012, and right up to election day the Romney campaign actually believed that they were going to win the state.
Unfortunately for Romney, something funny was going on with the voting machines. In a previous article, I included a quote from an Ohio voter that had her vote switched from Mitt Romney to Barack Obama three times…
And we did see some very, very strange numbers come out of certain areas of Ohio four years ago.
For example, there were more than 100 precincts in Cuyahoga County in which Barack Obama got at least 99 percent of the vote in 2012.
If that happened in just one precinct that would be odd enough. But the odds of it happening in more than 100 precincts in just one county by random chance are so low that they aren’ t even worth mentioning.
And of course this didn’ t just happen in Ohio. Similar things were happening all over the country.
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Michael Moore Admits Trump is Right
The filmmaker finally realizes what Donald Trump means to America
In a shocking video Michael Moore accurately describes what Donald Trump means to America and the middle class.
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Newt Explodes on Megyn: ‘You Are Fascinated With Sex’
See the confrontational interview: link
“You are fascinated with sex and you don’t care about public policy,” Gingrich said.
“Me, really?” Kelly asked.
“That’s what I get out of watching you tonight,” Gingrich said.
Kelly responded: “You know what, Mr. Speaker? I’ m not fascinated by sex, but I am fascinated by the protection of women and understanding what we’re getting in the Oval Office.”
Gingrich noted, “And therefore we’re gonna send Bill Clinton back to the East Wing because, after all, you were worried about sexual predators.”
He continued pummeling Kelly: “Do you want to comment on whether the Clinton ticket has a relationship to a sexual predator?”
“I just wanna hear you use the words. I wanna hear the words, ‘ Bill Clinton, sexual predator.’ I dare you. Say ‘ Bill Clinton, sexual predator.’“
Kelly stressed that her program has covered the Clinton scandals, interviewing the likes of Kathleen Willey, one of several women who claim former President Bill Clinton sexually abused them.
At the close of the interview, Kelly outright stated that Gingrich had to deal with his “anger issues.”
“We’re gonna have to leave it at that, and you can take your anger issues and spend some time working on them, Mr. Speaker,” she concluded.
“And you, too,” Gingrich responded.
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ObamaCare Architect Gruber Demands “Larger Mandate Penalty”
Bureaucrat who said “stupidity” of Americans helped get law passed doubles down
Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber — the bureaucrat who once bragged that the “stupidity” of the American people was crucial for passing the health care law in the first place — told CNN that the “fix” for Obamacare was to impose a “larger mandate penalty”…
A series of videos that emerged in 2014 featured Gruber admitting that Obamacare was deceptively crafted in order to fool “stupid” Americans into not realizing that it would mean massive price hikes and that the law’s “lack of transparency (was) a huge political advantage” in selling it
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Pentagon Warning on Chinese Computer Parts Follows Massive Global Internet Attack
As the private sector grapples with security flaws in wi-fi devices that can be exploited by hackers to whip household gadgets into a zombie cyber army and ponders the role of Chinese manufacturers in creating millions of vulnerable components, the Pentagon has issued a blunt warning that some Chinese-made equipment could compromise military security.
“A recent internal report produced by the J-2 intelligence directorate stated that cyber security officials are concerned that Lenovo computers and handheld devices could introduce compromised hardware into the Defense Department supply chain, posing cyber espionage risks, said officials familiar with the report,” writes Bill Gertz at the Washington Free Beacon.
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Pro-Communist Tom Hayden Dies; Mainstream Media Gushes
Unsurprisingly, the mainstream media has been gushing over rabid communist sympathizer, one of the “ Chicago Seven” of the Weather Underground Organization in the 1960s and 70s, and prominent anti-Vietnam protester Tom Hayden on the occasion of his death on Monday at the age of 76.
Tom Hayden is profiled on Trevor Loudon’ s website, keywiki.org. Loudon reveals that Hayden attended an event held by the violent Weather Underground in December 1969, where Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevera, and Fidel Castro posters were “ hung everywhere.” Tom Hayden also contributed to the April 1974 issue of the Maoist journal Gidra, and like all good Maoists, refer to police officers as “ pigs.”
Some of the glowing references to “ liberal” and “ progressive” Tom Hayden:
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Republicans Accuse ATF of Covering Up Political Motives Behind GOP Office Firebombing
“The ATF’s destruction of evidence in their investigation of Democrat terrorists tells us everything we need to know about our government.”
North Carolina Republicans affected by the firebombing of their campaign office are speaking out, accusing the Obama administration’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) of covering up the political motivations behind the attack.
On October 15, a firebomb was thrown through a window of the Republican Party office in Orange County, North Carolina, destroying property but killing no one as the office was empty overnight.
Local Republicans claim that ATF agents painted over a message on an adjacent building that read, “Nazi Republicans, leave town or else,” and would not answer questions about why the message was painted over. The crime scene was also compromised, with reporters and others freely walking around with no regard for forensic investigators. The creation of graffiti surrounding that office has continued.
“The ATF’s destruction of evidence in their investigation of Democrat terrorists tells us everything we need to know about our government,” conservative activist and North Carolinian Noel Fritsch told Breitbart News.
[Comment: Leftists in charge of ATF ensured evidence of fellow travellers was expunged from the crime scene.]
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Robyn Gabel: Meet Illinois’ Maoist State Representative
The voters of Evanston, Illinois are poised to re-elect a veteran Maoist radical as their State Representative.
Robyn Gabel is a long-time resident of Evanston and has represented the people of the 18th District in the Illinois House of Representatives since 2010.
During her time in the legislature, she has been a legislative leader in protecting and fostering the growth of children and women in Illinois and environmental stewardship. Robyn serves as the Chair of the House Human Services Committee, the Vice-Chair of the House Human Services Appropriations Committee, and as a member of the committees on Insurance, Environment, Mass Transit, Business Growth and Incentives, and Museums, Arts and Cultural Enhancements.
In the 1980s, Robyn Gabel was a regular contributor to Unity, the newspaper of the League of Revolutionary Struggle, a militant, pro-China Maoist organization.
When the League of Revolutionary Struggle split in 1990, Unity issued a statement: “ A call to build an organization for the 1990s and beyond.”
Gabel, then executive director of the Illinois Maternal & Child Health Coalition in Chicago, supported the newly founded Unity Organizing Committee, which was specifically established to infiltrate Maoists into the Democratic Party.
Rep. Gabel’ s husband Ivan Handler, President at Insightamation, Chicago, is also a “ former” Maoist.
In his book, “ The Passage: Memoir of a Boston Undercover Cop in the ‘ 60s,” Phillip M. Vitti explained that Ivan Handler was one of the leaders of the radical Weathermen, which was a precursor to the terrorist Weather Underground Organization.
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Security Experts: St. Jude Heart Devices Can be Hacked
Nefarious outsiders could turn cardiac devices into “weapons”
Imagine having a device implanted in your heart to help it keep beating, only to be told there’s a chance someone with nefarious intentions could hack into it. That is exactly what experts are warning could happen to cardiac implants made by device maker St. Jude Medical Inc.
The frightening claim comes from the short-selling firm Muddy Waters, which said in a legal brief filed October 21 that experts from the boutique security firm Bishop Fox have validated its claims…
The medical device maker responded to Muddy Waters’ claims by filing a lawsuit against Muddy Waters on September 7.
However, the 53-page Bishop Fox report released by Muddy Waters last Friday shows that St. Jude implantable cardiac devices are more vulnerable to hacking than the company either realizes or wants to admit.
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Sticker Shock: Americans Horrified Over Skyrocketing ObamaCare Prices
Citizens share damning healthcare premium increase photos online
For years Infowars and others have warned the “Affordable Care Act” was unsustainable.
Now the Obama administration has confirmed health insurance premiums in 2017 will rise by an average of 25 percent across the country, with folks in some states set to see triple digit increases.
Frustrated with the higher costs, many have taken to Twitter to share letters from their health insurers illustrating the devastating impact of Obamacare.
For “Jay Wells” under Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia, monthly premiums are going up from $711.83 to $1,872.17 — 163 percent!
[Comment: Insurance companies were played by the communists who thought two steps ahead. Commies knew it would fail, insurance companies greed just saw new customers being mandated. Commies goal is government run health care. Bye, bye insurance companies in the health sector. This is a perfect example of greed of insurance companies building the rope to hang themselves with. The insurance companies could have united and crushed obamacare at the beginning before it ever got implemented.]
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‘They Want to be Able to Commit Fraud to Win’
WASHINGTON — Evidence of election fraud doesn’t get much more arresting than video of it actually happening in the voting booth.
A video of what appeared to be either blatant vote fraud or the malfunctioning of a touch-screen voting machine appeared on social media Wednesday, just as similar reports emerged during early voting in Texas.
But one of the nation’s top election experts told WND there are even greater dangers to voting integrity than those that may be posed by any tampering of voting booth touch-screen machines, essentially accusing Democrats of doing everything possible — legal and illegal — to rig the election…
Von Spakovsky is a widely respected legal and constitutional scholar, a senior legal fellow in the Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and manager of its Election Law Reform Initiative.
“I don’t think the biggest problem is rigged touch-screen machines,” he told WND. “Occasionally, those machines are not calibrated correctly as they need to be in order to make sure that the touch screen matches where a voter is putting his or her finger.”
“That is a relatively minor problem that can be corrected by election officials as soon as a voter notifies them that there is a problem,” he continued. “I don’t think this is a malicious problem caused by someone rigging the machine; it is just a fact that touch screens need to be properly calibrated.”
But that didn’t mean von Spakovsky did not see the potential for fraud. Far from it.
“My biggest concern is that the evidence is there that thousands of noncitizens are registered all over the country. And I have no doubt that many of them will illegally vote in the upcoming election. If enough of them vote and we have a close election, they could change the outcome.”
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Trump: Hillary Pushing for Socialized Medicine
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump seized on an admission by the Obama administration that Obamacare premiums will spike 25 percent, charging rival Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is trying to move the United States toward a socialized medical system completely run by the government.
“The architects of Obamacare,” Trump said, “Jonathan Gruber and Hillary Clinton, knew they were telling us lies, because they’re trying to move us toward a single-payer system where the healthy pay for the sick.”
“This, my friends, is the rigged system,” he charged in a statement Tuesday.
He said the “admission by the Obama administration that Obamacare is an unaffordable disaster should come as a surprise to no one, and this only reaffirms the American public’s belief that the entire program was one big lie.”
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Twitter Prepares to Lay Off Roughly 300 People in Coming Weeks
Shares for Twitter dropped as far as 4 percent Tuesday
Twitter is planning on firing around 8 percent of its workforce roughly a week after other companies decided not to buy it.
CEO Jack Dorsey dismissed approximately 336 employees last year as his first major decision at the helm of Twitter. He is considering eliminating about 300 people once again.
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What Does ‘A Well-Regulated Militia’Really Mean?
There are efforts to change the definition of words in the Second Amendment, which reads: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
The ACLU argued that the term “the people” should be redefined to mean “the state militia,” as it posted on its website section “Gun Control” (3/4/02): “We believe that the constitutional right to bear arms is primarily a collective one, intended mainly to protect the right of the states to maintain militias. … The ACLU therefore believes that the Second Amendment does not confer an unlimited right upon individuals to own guns.”
If the ACLU succeeded in redefining of “the people” to mean “the state militia,” the Second Amendment would read: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of (the people) ‘the state militia’to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
The unreasonableness of this redefinition is revealed when applied to the rest of the Constitution and Bill of Rights:…
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Why I Now Feel Compelled to Vote for Trump
No, what’s changed is me. Not through introspection and reflection, but through watching the sickening display of activism perpetrated by a covert army with press credentials.
Bias has always been a factor in journalism. It’s nearly impossible to remove. Humans have their thoughts, and keeping them out of your work is difficult. But 2016 saw the remaining veneer of credibility, thin as it was, stripped away and set on fire.
More than anything, I can’t sit idly by and allow these perpetrators of fraud to celebrate and leak tears of joy like they did when they helped elect Barack Obama in 2008. I have to know I weighed in not only in writing but in the voting booth.
The media needs to be destroyed. And although voting for Trump won’t do it, it’s something. Essentially, I am voting for Trump because of the people who don’t want me to, and I believe I must register my disgust with Hillary Clinton.
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Yes, There is a Coup on in America
Americans are passively observing a robbery, the theft of democracy. We’re witnessing, in real time, an insurrection, a coup d’état.
The definition of coup d’état is change in government by illegal or forceful means. Like Hillary Clinton illegally seeking the office of president.
Per 18 USC Ch. 101 field-end:cite : RECORDS AND REPORTS:
(b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.
So there’s that.
Then there’s the fact that Hillary’s guilty of perjury, destroying evidence, obstruction of justice, and that whole pay-to-play thing. I know — she hasn’t been charged, much less convicted of those crimes, but that brings me back to my original point.
Hillary wasn’t charged or convicted because the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) served as accessories after the fact to cover up her crimes and enable her to avoid prosecution. The FBI flat-out took a dive. The Department of Justice (DOJ) tried to be more clandestine, but Bill Clinton’s meet-up with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the airport tarmac got caught on video. The meeting might have been to influence Comey but more likely to dot their is and cross their ts on the upcoming non-indictment.
So we have a woman, Hillary Clinton, who should be in jail but is instead cruising to the presidency; a Justice Department that openly assists Hillary in her cover-ups, and a complicit media that hides all these facts from the public.
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“Civil War Possible” Because of Merkel
Angela Merkel is Europe’s most dangerous politician and her promotion of the mass Third World invasion has paved the way for a possible civil war in Europe, HC Strache, the leader of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), has said. Speaking to a crowd at the Epstein Palace in Vienna commemorating Austria’s National Day, Strache said that Merkel’s policies have been “criminal” and have put the whole of Europe at risk.
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Britain Saved Democracy With Brexit and Netherlands Will Follow, Dutch PM Vows
Mr Wilders, favourite to become the next Dutch Prime Minister, said he wants the Netherlands to follow the UK’s lead and cut ties with the 27-member bloc because it is “the only honourable thing to do”.
The leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) launched the scathing attack on the Brussels club and blasted the crumbling bloc as “bullies”.
Mr Wilders also assured the UK it should not bow to the EU’s threats because it is in their “best interests” to keep trading with Britain.
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Council of Europe Wants Ban on Genetic Tests for Insurance
In new Recommendation adopted Wednesday
(ANSA) — Strasbourg, October 26 — The Council of Europe adopted a Recommendation on Wednesday calling on member states to ban genetic testing for insurance contracts covering risks related to health, age, or death, in order to ensure non-discrimination.
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Geert Wilders for Breitbart: Britain is the Brexit Pioneer and Others Will Follow
In 2005 my people, the Dutch, rejected the European Constitution in a referendum.
But the European Union made some cosmetic changes to the text and, by 2009, forced it down our throat anyway as the “Treaty of Lisbon”. And so, we learned an important lesson. The EU is neither transparent nor democratic, and disregards the will of our people.
Last April in a consultative referendum, the Dutch rejected the Association Treaty between the EU and Ukraine. Guess what? It is deja-vu all over again.
After the referendum, rather than pulling the plug on the treaty the Europhile ruling elites in the EU member states, including those in my own country, try to continue as if nothing has happened.
This blatant disrespect of the EU’s political elites for national democracy and sovereignty is one of the major reasons why my party is advocating NExit, a Dutch withdrawal from the EU. Indeed, we want to follow the British example because, like you, we believe that exit is the only honorable thing to do.
We must save our democracy…
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In France, Police Anger Spills Into the Streets
PARIS — After 32 years on the job, Laurent has seen just about everything: rising crime and incivility during his patrols northern Paris; an attack against his officers that left several hospitalized for weeks; and of course, a string of terrorist attacks in France that have increased his already heavy workload.
On Wednesday, he was back on the streets for a different reason, joining hundreds of police who have staged days of protests across France this month against a rising tide of violence and a dearth of means to respond to it.
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Italian Foreign Fighter ‘Extremely Dangerous’ — Prosecutor
Maria Giulia Sergio, dad, husband, others on trial for terror
(ANSA) — Milan, October 26 — Alleged Italian foreign fighter Maria Giulia ‘Fatima’ Sergio is a danger to society, National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terror Prosecutor Maurizio Romanelli said Wednesday in his summing-up in a trial against the woman and another five defendants. Maria Giulia Sergio, her father Sergio Sergio, her husband Aldo Kobuzi and three more people face charges of terrorism. Campania native Maria Giulia and her father were indicted in February. The suspect is thought to be in Syria, where she has been a combatant for the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) extremist group since 2014. The woman is “extraordinarily dangerous”, is of sound mind, and “lived among us until recently”, the prosecutor told the court. Her sister Marianna was tried separately and sentenced to five years four months in prison. Earlier on Wednesday, Sergio Sergio told the court: “I didn’t want to fight a war, I just wanted to be with my daughter. I wasn’t happy to leave but my daughters forced me to go with them”. The alleged foreign fighter’s parents and sister, all of whom were converts to Islam, were arrested in July when prosecutors said they and seven other suspects had joined ISIS and were on the verge of leaving to fight in Syria.
The mother, Assunta Buonfiglio, died of cardiac arrest aged 60 in October 2015, on the eve of her release into house arrest.
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Italy: Caprotti’s Ex-Secretary Gets 75 Mn in Will
Relatives get 15 mn a head
(ANSA) — Milan, October 25 — The former secretary of late businessman Bernardo Caprotti, Germana Chiodi, has received in his will half of his life savings or some 75 million euros, sources close to the family told ANSA Tuesday. Eight family members are set to get 15 million euros a head, the sources said. Caprotti, founder of the Esselunga retail store chain, died earlier this month aged 91.
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Rome Mayor says service stopped before she was elected
(ANSA) — Rome, October 26 — Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi told parliament’s anti-mafia commission on Wednesday that a service to collect large items of trash in the capital had been suspended before she took office in June. She was commenting after being ridiculed for suggesting the large number of fridges and items of furniture dumped in the Rome streets was suspicious. Critics accused her of conjuring up non-existent plots to discredit her and said it was no surprise the large items of trash were on the streets given the service to collect them is not operative. “The service to collect large rubbish was stopped on June 18, before the second round (of voting for the city elections).
No one knows the reason,” said the mayor, whose executive has been hit by some major teething troubles as it seeks to address major problems in trash management, public transport and several other areas. “We are working to reactivate it with a new tender competition.
“You tell me if it’s normal for a service to suddenly be stopped”. Raggi, a member of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, told the commission that she wanted the private sector to be excluded from the management of the capital’s trash. “We want to eliminate the private enterprises that make money from the refuse cycle,” said Raggi.
“We want (trash company) AMA to own the plants. This is discontinuity with the past”.
M5S leader Beppe Grillo defended M5S Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi from criticism, saying she was a “war machine”.
Addressing the M5S councillors, he said “you are perfect, we are growing and the Romans are ever more supporting us”. He added: “we have everyone against us, it’s amazing. We are lions”.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Parliamentary Immunity Revoked
EU lawmakers on Tuesday lifted the parliamentary immunity of former French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, a move sought by French prosecutors who want to try him for allegedly inciting race hate…
[so who are the real facists?]
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Politicians, NATO Officials Furious as Spain Plans to Refuel Russian Battle Group
Spain is facing international criticism as it reportedly prepares to refuel a flotilla of Russian warships en route to bolstering the bombing campaign against the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo. El Pais reported that the Spanish ministry of foreign affairs was reviewing the permit issued to the Russian flotilla to stop at Ceuta. Politicians and military figures condemned the support from a NATO member as “scandalous,” and “wholly inappropriate,” while the head of the alliance indicated Madrid should rethink the pit stop.
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Spain Arrests Two Imams Over is Ties
Police in Spain arrested two imams on the island of Ibiza Tuesday over their alleged support of the Islamic State jihadist group.
In a statement, Spain’s Interior Ministry said the two Moroccan imams were arrested at a mosque in the town of Sant Antoni de Portmany.
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Report: Islamic State Incinerates Jihadis in Burning Oil for Fleeing Mosul Battle
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists executed nine fellow jihadis who fled battle by tossing them in burning oil trenches used to impede the vision of U.S.-backed Iraqi military troops fighting to push the militants out Iraq’s second-largest city Mosul, reports the Arabic-language Al Sumaria News, according to various translations.
The jihadis appeared to be burned alive.
“ISIS terrorist gangs executed nine of its members for fleeing the battle against the security forces in Mosul, by throwing them in trenches containing a burning oil, after tying their hands and legs,” reportedly notes Al Sumaria News.
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Syrian Mother: Islamic State Baked Christians, ‘Kneaded’ Children in Bakery Machines
A Syrian Christian mother shared her story of escaping the Islamic State terrorist group in a suburb of Damascus while losing her son, George, after he refused to identify himself to the terrorists by a Muslim name.
The woman, Alice Assaf, said that she had heard that her son, who was beaten and shot to death, was spared a much worse fate: being baked in the ovens of the local bakery or “kneaded” to death in the bakery’s industrial-sized mixer.
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Trump: Hillary’s Syria Policy Would Lead to World War III
Setting up a no-fly zone over Syria means telling the government of Syria (as well as Russia) they’re not allowed to fly planes over their own country
Donald Trump is warning America that Hillary Clinton’s insane idea to create a no-fly zone over Syria would lead to World War Three with Russia, Syria and Iran.
Setting up a no-fly zone over Syria means telling the government of Syria (as well as Russia) they’re not allowed to fly planes over their own country, even though they’re in the middle of a war with ISIS and other US-backed rebel terrorist groups.
It’s completely psychotic, that’s why even leftists like Green party candidate Jill Stein have said Hillary is “much scarier” than Trump and could slide us “into a nuclear war” with Russia.
As you’ll see in this article, Reuters asked Hillary to defend her insane plan but she just dodged the question and instead attacked Trump as “unfit to be commander-in-chief.”
[Comment: There is a bankster plan to intentionally start WWIII to cull the human population.]
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U.S. Intelligence Agencies Believe ISIS Plotting Attacks on West From Raqqa in Syria
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence has detected signs that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is planning attacks against the West from their Syrian stronghold at Raqqa, adding urgency to coalition plans to encircle and eventually assault the city, a senior American general said Wednesday.
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Brink of War: UK Sends Tanks, Drones and 800 Soldiers to Russian Border as Tensions Grow
BRITAIN has sent tanks, drones and 800 soldiers to the Russian border as tensions with Vladimir Putin intensify by the hour.
The show of force comes just days after the Russian leader’s fleet passed near the British coast.
British soldiers will travel to Estonia in what is one of the biggest build-ups of foreign firepower on Russia’s border since the Cold War.
The move will take place next spring, with Denmark and France also taking part in the huge military exercise.
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South Africa: Vehicles Burn in Renewed “Student Riots”
The city center of Johannesburg, South Africa, has once again been rocked by a renewed outburst of violence with a bus and a police vehicle being torched by hordes of rioting African “students” demanding the “decolonization” of their curricula and the abolition of all tuition fees. At least four vehicles have been torched at the University of Cape Town, and violence spread to several other institutions as well.
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Venezuela Opposition Marches Against Government
CARACAS— Thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets of Venezuela’s capital today in what was probably a dress rehearsal for a massive march on the presidential palace scheduled for Nov. 3.
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Commissioner Avramopoulos: 60,000 Illegal Migrants Trapped in Greece
European Commissioner for migration issues Dimitris Avramopoulos said that even though the number of migrants and refugees arriving in Europe has dropped, there are 60,000 illegal migrants trapped in Greece.
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A newlywed couple have claimed their big day was ruined when a man burst inside the church shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ and then started tearing down wedding decorations.
Groom Marcel Lohbeck, 35, and bride Friederike were celebrating their wedding with 90 guests in the Karmel Church in Duisburg, a city in western Germany.
Lochbeck said: ‘At the beginning of the ceremony, a man with a thick jumper and a hat on came into the church and sat in the back row.
‘Shortly afterwards, he stood up and wandered around the candles. He laughed in a disturbing manner and then fondled the statue of Mary.
‘He had been speaking in Arabic and partly English. He then started destroying the flowers and kept shouting “Allahu Akbar”.’
Police officer Ludger A., 57, the uncle of the groom, reportedly tried to intervene along with the church sexton…
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Germany: Syrian Boys Banned From Swimming Pool After Girls as Young as Nine Sexually Assaulted
POLICE have launched an investigation after a gang of young Syrian asylum-seekers sexually harassed three schoolgirls at their local swimming pool.
The girls — sisters aged 9, 11 and 14 — were surrounded and molested by seven migrants, the youngest of whom was just seven.
The father of the schoolgirls said he had dropped them off at the swimming pool as a treat for the older girl’s 14th birthday.
He said as soon as they started swimming they were harassed by the boys who surrounded them in the pool. …
A spokeswoman for the swimming pool said the boys had all been banned for one year.
She said the girls had done the right thing by asking pool personnel for help and that staff had immediately alerted the police.
According to local reports, a number of girls have been victims of sexual assault by migrant boys at the same swimming pool in Mariendorf.
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Germany’s Migrant Rape Crisis: Where is the Public Outrage?
A group of Serbian teenagers in the northern German city of Hamburg were handed suspended sentences for gang-raping a 14-year-old girl and leaving her for dead in sub-zero temperatures.
The judge said that although “the penalties may seem mild to the public,” the teens had all made confessions, appeared remorseful and longer posed a danger to society.
The October 24 ruling, which effectively allowed the rapists to walk free, provoked a rare moment of public outrage over the problem of migrant sex crimes in Germany. An online petition calling for the teens to see time in prison has garnered more than 80,000 signatures, and prosecutors are appealing the verdict.
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Hillary’s Trojan Horse: The Refugee Invasion
Clinton will continue globalist plan of flooding US with immigrants
Two years ago President Barack Obama claimed, against the approval of Congress, that he had the authority to sign an executive action to protect 5 million undocumented people within the United States.
This summer the Supreme Court blocked Obama’s deferred action program known as DAPA.
But that hasn’t stopped the waves of non-naturalized illegal aliens from flooding into the United States as the Democrat’s reckless agenda wants to increase the number of refugees into the United States to at least 110,000 in 2017.
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Italy: Barricade-Town Mayor Says Now Time to Show Other Side
Goro Mayor Viviani says locals acted in heat of moment
(ANSA) — Goro, October 26 — The mayor of one of two towns near Ferrara where residents set up barricades and road blocks to stop the arrival of a small group of refugees this week said Wednesday that the local community now had to show a different side to itself. Goro Mayor Diego Viviani also denied that the decision to take the refugees elsewhere had been a victory. “It was a reaction in the heat of the moment and now, with cool heads, we must show that we are different to how we have been portrayed, a little too hastily and perhaps in a nasty way,” Viviani told Sky television. Eleven female refugees, including a pregnant woman, and their children were temporarily relocated after locals in Goro and nearby Gorino rebelled against their arrival.
The reaction of the local community was widely condemned, with Interior Minister Angelino Alfano saying it did not reflect Italy and the Catholic Church blasting it as “repugnant”. The head of the Northern League caucus in the Emilia-Romagna regional assembly, however, on Wednesday hailed as “heroes” locals from the towns of Gorino and Goro. “There aren’t any Fascists in Gorino, there are heroes,” Alan Fabbri said. “Many good people said no to an initiative of the prefect, who had seized a hostel to put immigrant women inside. “It’s a victory for the community against an imperial act by the prefect of Ferrara”.
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Italy’s Renzi Threatens to ‘Veto’ Future EU Budget Over Migrants
(REUTERS) — Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Wednesday threatened to block the European Union’s next budget with a “veto” should Eastern European countries fail to take in their share of refugees.
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Most Bavarians Have Negative Attitude Toward Muslims in Germany — Poll
More than four in five people in the German state of Bavaria have a negative attitude toward Muslims, a new study has found, also reporting that refugees, the long-term unemployed and Roma community are generally perceived negatively.
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Only 32,000 Refugees to Arrive in Sweden in 2016 Against 160,000 in 2015
The number of asylum seekers that will arrive in Sweden by the end of 2016 is expected to reach 32,000 people, compared to over 163,000 arrivals in 2015, the Swedish Migration Agency said on Tuesday.
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Published: 1,200 Cologne New Year’s Eve Migrant Attacks Eye Witness Testimonies
A German psychologist has published testimonies from police reports of the New Year’s Eve Cologne sex attacks showing the victims’ fear and the total lack of police presence.
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Queen Margarethe II of Denmark Urges Muslim Refugees to Integrate
Queen Margarethe II said it was “not a law of nature” that asylum seekers automatically integrated into society and called on Muslim groups to do more to help new arrivals understand Danish society.
The Queen, who is one of Europe’s most respected and long-serving royals, said politicians needed to “put their foot down” and strictly uphold the country’s principles of democracy and gender equality in her unprecedented rallying cry…
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Renzi: Italy ‘Cannot Handle Another Year’ Of 155,000 Immigrants
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has issued a dire ultimatum, warning that Italy will not survive another year of mass immigration like the present one.
“Either we block the influx by 2017 or Italy will not handle another year like the past year,” Renzi announced on national television Tuesday, while also threatening to veto the European Union (EU) budget if Italy does not receive assistance coping with its dramatic migrant problem.
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Swedes and Germans Told to Integrate Into Their “New Country”
In addition to paying for the importation of well over a million Islamic migrants over the last year, Swedish and German taxpayers are financing advertising campaigns urging them to integrate into the new countries that the mass migration is creating. The changes are irreversible and the old way of life is not coming back, so get used to it and adapt, the natives were told.
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Video: Fires Burn on Third Day of Operation to Shut Down Calais ‘Jungle’
Fresh fires burned inside the Calais ‘Jungle’ Wednesday as French authorities said they were wrapping up a major operation to evacuate and demolish the notorious shantytown.
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We Won’t Stop Saving Refugees Lives Says Renzi
EU born to tear walls down not build them says premier
(ANSA) — Avellino, October 26 — Italy won’t give up saving refugee lives at sea, Premier Matteo Renzi said Wednesday at a rally for a ‘Yes’ vote in a December 4 referendum on his constitutional reform law. “The European Union is the high and noble dream of our fathers,” he said. “(It was) born to tear walls down not to build them. For this reason as well, we won’t give up our humanity, we won’t stop saving human lives at sea and acting with altruism and solidarity to restore hope to those who are in search of a future”. The premier is campaigning all over Italy for a ‘Yes’ vote.
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Berkeley Protesters Demand ‘Spaces of Color, ‘ Block White Students From Passing Through
Students at the UC Berkeley campus are holding protests, calling for “safe spaces” for transgendered people and “spaces of color” at the university. The protesters were caught on video harassing white students and preventing them from crossing a bridge that receives heavy foot traffic, only allowing for students of color to pass.
The protesters also wound up making their way to the student store and disrupting other students who were studying in the Student Union.
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Italy must put those “refugees” back on their boats and send them back where they came from. If they fight back…shoot them.
A major part of the problem with regards to Europe and England, is the smuggling of invaders upon legitimate commercial vessels, and upon private pleasure craft in the Channel. A simple countermeasure would be to utilize the coast guards to conduct “safety” inspections or search for contraband, or even untaxed merchandise as the pretext for rooting out invaders. And when invaders are discovered, the vessel should be forfeit and confiscated. Sell the vessels, and after the Queen’s share is given, split the proceeds with the crew who interdicted the vessel, and the problem would disappear in no time…
Since this is not being done, clearly the problem is not one of resources, but charitably, a lack of political will, or more sinisterly, a conspiracy to wholesale import third world trash.
Amen and AMEN!
Not enough coastguards, apparently. More likely cockup than conspiracy, I suspect.
Queen Elizabeth the First, knew how to run a country.
Authorisation by a country’s government by “letters of marque” was given to “privateers”. One of the famous ones being Sir Francis Drake.
All it would need is one or 2 official observers to guide and make sure that certain rules are followed. I am thinking of “martial law”sort of regulations.
A fleet will sprout at very little cost to the government, just as the Dunkirk retreat was very much aided by a civilian flotilla.
I think the international law of the sea is a big problem here. The refugees take advantage of the fact they are in unseaworthy vessels. The law requires them to pick up the passengers and provide for their safety. The smugglers take advantage of this by scuttling the rafts or boats when a coast guard vessel is in sight.
In that case there is literally no reason for our vessels to be in internation waters. Anchor them around the European coast and eventually pick up the few that actually make it there and destroy the boat they came in immediately. Instead those Frontex idiots (and now they’re apparently going to get help from NATO forces) go around the coast of Libya and take them in right away, often leaving the original boat behind, I dunno if they’re braindead or someone’s holding a knife to their throats as they do that, but it lacks all traces of common sense!
No no.Australia showed the way. What we do is we tow a boat loaded with provisions and water but without engines.Then we transfer the would be economic migrants/invaders to that boat and scuttle the people smuggler’s boat.Then we tow the economic migrants/invaders back to the country they set out from.
You only have to do it once or twice and they decide to look for another country which is a soft touch to infest.
The Italian coastguard could do the same thing.
Actually the West need to start fining countries for every economic migrant invader boat that leaves their shores and refusing foreign aid to them until they can stop all illegal departures.
Also international coastguard boats could patrol the shores of the Med towing back any boats that put out and scuttling them in shallow waters letting the migrants swim to shore as they all have lifejackets anyway.
We need to amend the law of the sea.It was formulated to help legitimate sailors whose vessels were in danger of sinking or disabled ,by storms ,not to allow invaders to colonize our countries and leech off our welfare systems..
Hear hear ! !
I am in line fining those countries or entities that allow the loading up of non paperwork passengers, on overloaded, non certified boats, non certified life jackets.
It does seem as if the “Law of the Sea” is being twisted, but I feel that if the law was properly looked at, then it could just as equitably be used against “non paper certified passengers” arriving.
After all, through all the political protestations, and making out that Australia is a “pariah” in the “International Community” for returning refugees, nothing legal has been taken against them.
All air lines are held to account for passengers on their manifest, and if things are not correct, then it is at the air lines cost, that the passenger is returned.
Passengers have to comply for some countries to have return tickets, or a continuing on ticket. This has to be checked by the air line, besides “border security”/customs /immigration authorities
Just why does the air line do that, at their cost? or even pay fines?. Is it because to seize the plane would be a very heavy cost? or risk losing “landing rights”.
If a plane was flying around Europe or the States, with a non complying flight plan, with no certification, it really risks being shot down.
Australia would seem to be soft, but it has proved very effective.
The only catch is that it is taking in quite a number of refugees through the formal UN system.
Perhaps UNEXIT may be the future.
All good suggestions. Australia proved that you can stop the boats by making it unprofitable for the gangs. Secondly publicize the fact that you will not reach or stay in Europe, widely throughout Africa, and rather quickly the trade will collapse.
But it requires political will and a backbone Social Democrat government do not have.
Those vessels are not fit for purpose, not inspected and certified.
A true manifest of passengers and crew should also be enforced, from the port or beach of the country where they set off from.
The International Law of the Sea is being twisted, proving to be an ass, as many laws in the EU and UN are proving to be.
Now that the UK has voted BREXIT, reclaiming its sovereignty, the next phase should be UNEXIT
The Australian government purchased a bunch of used orange lifeboats ( like the ones you see on ships). The Navy intercepted the refugee boats, transferred the culture enrichers to the orange lifeboats with just enough fuel to get back to Indonesia, food and water and a compass and waved them goodbye. Worked a treat. No boats for years now.
The Italian government has no leg to stand on regarding the invaders; there wouldn’t be so many of them in Italy if their coast guard wasn’t so busy fetching them from barely offshore the Libyan coast. When they start using those same vessels to interdict and return the invaders to the coast they originated from; incidentally sinking the leaky invader tubs they use to prevent them from being reused, then they can start complaining to Brussels. And they can complain about refusing to ratify the EU budget unless funds are present to continue naval operations to keep the invaders OUT.
Oh what a horror! Now you are saying exactly the same thing that “fascist xenophobe, dictator” Viktor Orbán said…
Sorry… please carry on, good rant!
Well said!
As I have always said “Progressives” are absolutely nuts. The EU is falling apart and on the very edge of civil war and Renzi’s solution? More of the same. That is actually Einsten’s definition of madness.
RE Renzi – did anyone force the Italian navy to effectively become a taxi servIce for illegal immigration into Europe? Yet now he says Italy “will not survive another year”… an admission of his own incompetence? In any case, even if the multi-kulti fanatics’ wet dreams were to become true and Eastern Europe were to take its “fair share” of trouble – how much would that change things for Italy? The numbers at stake are still small, compared to the total of those arriving, and only a small fraction of them would end up in Eastern Europe. (although, given that Eastern Europe is mostly homogeneous, it would totally change things there).
RE 4 out of 5 Bavarians not liking Muslims – now I thought that greater immigration meant more acceptance of the immigrants? So why does the German state which has been more affected by the wave of 2015 than any other still not love them?
Re: Berkeley
It is amazing how the left has reached such levels of insanity that they have effectively brought back segregation to the United States.
But hey, it’s A-Okay when the Left does it!
Bishop, spot on. It is Einstein’s definision — keep banging your head over and over again, that will surely help things!
Look at my avatar! Why do you think I choose it? 🙂
I’m so glad I wasn’t at that Church when Fido showed up. I’d be reading this behind bars right now.
Yes and the headline would have been: Fanatic Xenophobic Rightwing church-go’er attack poor innocent culture enriching wedding guest…
Yet again the trite excuse of psychiatric problems is trundled out.
Here in the UK someone was jailed for two years for placing a rasher of bacon on the door handle of a mosque!
Disparity in the scales of justice or is it just me?
** The number of asylum seekers that will arrive in Sweden by the end of 2016 is expected to reach 32,000 people, compared to over 163,000 arrivals in 2015 **
Redouble your efforts, comrades. Who are the wreckers who stand in the way of progress? Root out the vermin, the haters! Our dream of “Every street a mosque or open sewer” must be realized.
** Queen Margarethe II . . . called on Muslim groups to do more to help new arrivals understand Danish society. **
They already understand Danish society perfectly. Just more European horror at having to deal with stark, deadly realities.
This call to Muslim groups is beyond feeble. Her call should be to Danes to remove ever last Muslim from Denmark.
Denmark’s queen is the least p.c. of the bunch of royals remainders in Europe. That’s a coded message – un-virtue signalling to her peeps that they don’t have to put up with the immigrant gar-bage. She is often outspoken about her regret that Denmark has so many immigrants…compare to the Brits.
I wanted to do a story on her long embroidery project of an antepedium that is to go on display at (I think) the Wittenberg chapel in Germany to mark the 500th anniversary of Luther. He designed a rose pattern and she used that. But I can’t find a picture of her work anywhere and the insipid Der Spiegel interviewers are obsessed with the fact that she smokes, and besides isn’t the monarchy a waste, etc, ad nauseam.
What is a waste of time and space is MSM jornolists. I may end up having to write to the Danish embassy to get an image. I’ve been looking since BEFORE her early October trip to have her work displayed, but the only mentions in the press are too juvenile to cut and paste…the first and last observation is about an ashtray on her table.
Honestly recently I’ve been thinking democracy gives people far less freedom than a monarchy. Because think about it, people from monarchies are usually more patriotic, there’s more of a “fight for someone” sense than in republics and the state seems to care less about what you’re thinking and more about your well being (and I’m talking about monarchies like Liechtenstein, the Netherlands or Japan, not neccessarily the UK). Sure, every now and then you get a total bastard, but show me a democracy that hasn’t been having a bunch of bastards for a long while now? It seems with a monarchy, especially if there’s a steady dynasty, there’s more of a connection with the country, while in democracies the leading parties change all the time and at some point people seem to get enough and not really care anymore. Or perhaps I’m idealizing the whole idea right now, but I really do think that a mutual responsibility between the well-being of the citizen and the loyatly to the king or queen is a stronger bond than one between a party or a politian and their voters (which seems to ignore the purpose of a state in the first place).
I quite sympathize with your desire to return to a time of unity and common purpose as evidenced in the authority of one (benevolent) leader who is outside the political fighting. While I like the monarchy, it’s definitely best left undisturbed…as our current “unities” continue to crumble, though, the imposition of a monarchy would be unthinkable given our deeply divisive commonweal.
We’re in limbo now; many are saying that no matter who wins, the two-party system in America is on life-support while we scrabble among the ruins looking for another one-size-fits-all polity. It may be that we, and especially our children, have to suffer the breakdown till the new forms emerge.
Monarchy may be possible for the small territories that grow up around one particular idea. Think Monaco.
Alas, the hour is late for such tepid remonstrances as hers.
I’ve been critical of HRM Elizabeth 2.0 in the past for doing an excellent imitation of a fence post where immigration and invasion are concerned. This generates horror in some and cries of “fidelity to the constitution,” OWTTE, ensue. Deuced improper, don’t you know, but my question is What is not improper, greasy, and treasonous about the destruction of the British people? Apparently this is, literally, so unremarkable that the sovereign may properly sit at home and suck on delicious lollies while her realm is transformed under her and the lives of her subjects are debased beyond recognition.
It is always the case now (and for the last 40 years). Laws and traditions entirely suitable for one national group of white people are “misunderstood” when it is time to act firmly to establish that those laws and traditions are not universal and are meant for one people and one people only.
God bless anyone who is heard to object in even the slightest fashion but now it is past time for the Black Watch to take to the field.
I dunno where else to put it, but apparently near Saraievo in Serbia a small Arab town has been build where locals are prohibited entry and wealthy Arab businessmen leave their wives, covered in burkas and whatnot. The locals are pretty angry about it and, as you might know, refuse them even if they’re muslims themselves (the Serbs say they leave their prayers for their homes or mosques, appreciate their secular state and refuse burkas and other similar clothing, they literally said “they are also muslim, but they are different and we don’t want them here”). The town is supposed to grow twice as big too. I don’t know if it has been brought up before. Apparently something similar is going on in the north of Czechia (near Teplice), but the town hasn’t been build yet. Probably won’t suprise anybody when I say the Saudi government supports (financially) such movements.
I found this information on a Czech server, maybe someone would like to look into it and have and English or Serb source?
I saw it in English…I’ll look in my history. BRB. Oh, as I remember, this is a place to store their extra wives and children.
Darn…I couldn’t find it. I did find *this* story, however:
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/7-teen-girls-come-back-week-long-high-school-trip-one-thing-common
Hope none of those girls are Muslim.
OK. JLH sent the link in my email:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/725710/Bosnia-town-only-Arabs-allowed-live
This is the site that often appears to lift our stories…that’s just an observation, since J pays attention to such things. [Me? I’m usually on here looking for paleo recipes I can stand.]
I have a Croation Cousin that delivers gas to Bosnia, I’ll ask him if he knows anything about this.