François Fillon is the leader of the Republicans in France, and until recently was the front-runner in the upcoming French presidential election. Now it appears that Mr. Fillon’s wife Penelope will soon be indicted for her part in a scheme where she allegedly received a salary for a job that basically did not exist. Mr. Fillon may also be indicted, according to the reports.
In other news, Hamburg airport was evacuated after a noxious gas was released into the air-conditioning system, injuring 68 people. Authorities say that pepper spray was most likely the chemical responsible, and are investigating to determine how it got into the air conditioning ducts.
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Greece: Tsipras Hits Back at Germany, IMF Over Debt Impasse
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Saturday warned EU economic powerhouse Germany and the International Monetary Fund to stop playing with fire over his country’s debt problems.
Opening a meeting of his far-left Syriza party, Tsipras said he was confident a solution over repayments would be found, despite talks between Greece and its creditors ending in Brussels with no breakthrough on Friday.
Months of feuding with the IMF has rattled markets and raised fears of a new debt crisis, with Athens resisting pressure to cut public services any more than has already been agreed with creditors.
The Greek premier urged a change of course from the IMF.
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TOKYO—Japan’s economy slowed again in the final quarter of 2016 as feeble spending by consumers took the shine off a pickup in exports and business investment, leaving growth lagging behind the pace targeted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration.
Japan’s real gross domestic product grew 1.0% on an annualized basis in the three months through December for the fourth consecutive quarter of expansion, the longest stretch of gains since 2013, according to Cabinet Office data released Monday. The expansion was slightly smaller than a forecast for 1.1% growth by economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal.
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3 Ways Americans Are Being Deliberately Divided
Let’s talk about the blatant efforts to cause an irreparable rift between the people of our country.
I often compare current events to parenting, and this week is no different. Everything purported to be news is just more bickering.
It’s like when your kids are behaving like brats, and no matter what one kid does, the other kid jumps on it and blows it completely out of proportion like it’s the worst thing in the history of the world. Every outrage is multiplied a thousandfold. Kid 2 drops Kid 1’s pencil when passing it over and suddenly, Kid 2 is accused of a Machiavellian scheme to impale Kid 1 through the heart with a stake that was only disguised as a pencil.
The difference is, the path America is on leads someplace far worse than each side being sent to their rooms to consider their actions and figure out how to get along. We’re headed down a path of division that has become so extreme that it’s hard to see a way back.
America is like a pot of water with the lid on. Unless some of the pressure is released or the heat is turned down, hostility is going to boil over the top and make a huge mess all over the stove.
But here’s the truly scary part. This has to be deliberate. While people still had vehement political disagreements previous to this year, they were not this extreme.
Today, I want to talk about three ways we’re being divided. And not only are we being divided, but the crisis is being egged on by the biased media on both sides. It’s being multiplied by celebrities in Hollywood who are completely out of touch with everyday people. It’s being perpetuated by the politicians who seem to have forgotten they are supposed to be in positions of leadership, not the bullies on the playground who are intent on taking control of the best slide. And never forget the education system, which now seems to be nothing more than an organize effort to stir up discontent.
[Comment: Watch the video. 100% funded, organized, popagandized by globalists. A strong Republic of the US would be a bulwark against their tyrannical globalist NWO. Hence the destabilization tactics. Rabid leftist, traitors and assorted useful idiots too stupid to realize they are being used in the take down of USA. ]
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86% See Gorsuch Confirmation as Likely — Rasmussen Reports
Voters are more supportive of President Trump’s first nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court than they were initially for either of President Obama’s choices and strongly suspect that Judge Neil Gorsuch will be the next Supreme Court justice.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters believe, based upon what they know at this time, that the U.S. Senate should confirm Gorsuch for the Supreme Court seat left vacant last year by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Only 29% disagree, while 20% are undecided
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Actress Meryl Streep Renews Harsh Criticism of Trump in Emotional Speech
In an emotional speech on Saturday night, actress Meryl Streep doubled down on her harsh criticism of President Donald Trump, and spoke of becoming a target at the Golden Globes in January.
At a fundraising gala for the Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBT group, Streep referred to Trump’s tweet after her Globes speech, in which he called the celebrated actress “overrated.”
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Americans ‘Don’t Buy’ Media Criticism of Trump Following Years of Pro-Obama Bias
A new survey shows that the Americans trust President Donald Trump more than the news media. According to the recent findings by Emerson College, 49 percent of voters think that the Trump administration tells the truth. This is compared to 48 percent of those who trust the media.
Radio Sputnik discussed the issue with Joe Lauria, an author and independent veteran foreign-affairs journalist.
“I think it shows that the American voters are more sophisticated that they are given credit for. They find credible neither Trump, nor the media. And that’s very disturbing, but I’m not surprised by this. I think there’s been a downward trend in credibility of the media for some years,” Lauria said.
According to him, the quality of US media reports has significantly decreased over the last decades. In contrast to 1960-80s, when media outlets laid focus on the investigative journalism and news reporting, the modern media industry has rather turned into “infotainment,” with entertainment divisions taking over the news.
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America’s “Poorest White Town” Proves Link Between Race and Crime
The lie that “poverty” is the “cause” of crime has been definitively smashed with the news that Beattyville, Kentucky-officially dubbed America’s “poorest white town”-has one of the lowest crime rates in the country, with zero murders reported for more than a decade.
[Comment: Strong Christian principles in the community also makes a difference.]
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Civil War is Coming to the U.S.: “Left Will Resort to Large Scale Violence… to Stop Fascism”
Globalists Want To Destroy Conservative Principles — But They Need Our Help
For months now, long before the 2016 election, I have been warning about a specific social dynamic which is likely to lead to a form of civil war within the U.S.; namely, the reality that people on the left side of the political spectrum would become despondent at the inevitable loss of their candidate, Hillary Clinton, and that they would react by becoming far more militant. In my article ‘ Order Out Of Chaos: The Defeat Of The Left Comes With A Cost’ , published November post-election, I stated:
“When I mentioned in my last article the crippling of social justice, I did not mention that this could have some negative reverberations. With Trump and conservatives taking near-total power after the Left had assumed they would never lose again, their reaction has been to transform. They are stepping away from the normal activities and mindset of cultural Marxism and evolving into full blown communists. Instead of admitting that their ideology is a failure in every respect, they are doubling down.
When this evolution is complete, the Left WILL resort to direct violent action on a larger scale, and they will do so with a clear conscience because, in their minds, they are fighting fascism.”
I believed at that time that the social-justice cult would lose mainstream influence but that the existing minority would resort to even more insidious tactics and greater violence to get what they want; and, the so-called “ moderate left” would cheer them on. As it turns out, I have been proven right so far.
Not that extreme Leftists have been averse to violence over the past year, but I think it is safe to say that the volume on the cultural Marxist machine has been turned up a notch. The riot at UC Berkeley over a scheduled speech by gay, conservative speaker Milo Yiannopoulos is a perfect example:
Then, there was the raid by SJWs at NYU on a speech by conservative journalist and comedian Gavin McInnes, in which they shouted down all discussion with mindless chants until the event had to be canceled. This was, of course, after they had already physically attacked people outside the building, including McInnes:
The social justice mantra is changing. At first, it was predominately about forming mobs to “shame” target political opponents into silence. Now, it is about forming mobs to do what they call “punching Nazis.” Leftists are now often seen regurgitating the claim — “This is only the beginning…”
I agree, this IS only the beginning. The Left is driven not only by the ideology of cultural Marxism, but also a very specific activist strategy outlined in Saul Alinsky’s ‘ Rules For Radicals’ . The very core of Alinsky’s method revolves around one important rule in particular: the ends justify the means.
This is the key ingredient of moral relativism, and when a movement is motivated by moral relativism, there is no limit to the depths they will sink to get their way. Activists adopting the “ends justify the means” mentality are not interested in being “right,” or wise, or rational or logical or factual; they ONLY care about “winning.” This is their goal, and they will do anything to achieve it.
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Defending American Betrayal: One Open Mind at a Time
by Diana West
Dear American Betrayal War Veterans,
The following email exchange offers a rare glimpse into the mental processes. It shows, first, how effective a whispering/disinformation campaign can be short of evidence; then, how devastating evidence can be to a whispering/disappearance campaign.
Note turning point: “I will order Diana’s book.”
Thanks to both anonymous interlocutors for permission to print their conversation. Special thanks to RRRR for having an open mind….
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Fourth Muslim Group Rejects Federal Grant to Fight Extremism
WASHINGTON — A California Islamic school wanted to keep an open mind before Donald Trump took office. But less than a month into Trump’s presidency, the school rejected $800,000 in federal funds aimed at combatting violent extremism.
The decision made late Friday night by the Bayan Claremont graduate school’s board to turn down the money — an amount that would cover more than half its yearly budget — capped weeks of sleepless nights and debate. Many there felt Trump’s rhetoric singling out Islamic extremism and his travel ban affecting predominantly Muslim countries had gone too far.
It also made the school the fourth organization nationwide under the Trump administration to reject the money for a program created under President Barack Obama known as countering violent extremism, or CVE, which officials say aims to thwart extremist groups’ abilities to recruit would-be terrorists.
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‘Hitlerization’ of Donald Trump an Effort to ‘Equate Populism With Fascism’
Well, the ‘Hitlerization’ — for the lack of a better term — has become a type of celebrity reporting. In other words, the term has become almost meaningless. It is a kind of comical characterization of someone in the past. There have been many Hitlers. Right now it’ll be Donald Trump; in Europe, it’s Vladimir Putin; Viktor Orban from Hungary has been called Hitler. Anybody who is populist, or leaning nationalist — Nigel Farage, another Hitler; Marine Le Pen, a potential Hitler there, as well.
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How Obama is Scheming to Sabotage Trump’s Presidency
When former President Barack Obama said he was “heartened” by anti-Trump protests, he was sending a message of approval to his troops. Troops? Yes, Obama has an army of agitators — numbering more than 30,000 — who will fight his Republican successor at every turn of his historic presidency. And Obama will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House.
In what’s shaping up to be a highly unusual post-presidency, Obama isn’t just staying behind in Washington. He’s working behind the scenes to set up what will effectively be a shadow government to not only protect his threatened legacy, but to sabotage the incoming administration and its popular “America First” agenda.
He’s doing it through a network of leftist nonprofits led by Organizing for Action. Normally you’d expect an organization set up to support a politician and his agenda to close up shop after that candidate leaves office, but not Obama’s OFA. Rather, it’s gearing up for battle, with a growing war chest and more than 250 offices across the country.
[Comment: Back to his communist agitator roots, as taught by his likely father, Marshall Davis.]
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Lawmakers Seek Measures to Protect Citizens From Protester Violence, Intimidation
Leftist agitators are escalating their protests into intimidation and violence on campuses in public venues across the country — against elected officials, public figures, and fellow students — and now some lawmakers are saying, “Enough!”
The scale of the liberal resistance ranges from the national to the local. Politico reported yesterday that Republican members of Congress fear violence as they plan to repeal Obamacare. On Inauguration Day former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, while visiting Washington, was forced down an alley and boxed in against locked doors after an intimidating mob stalked him yelling pejoratives, expletives, and threats.
Meanwhile The Daily Caller explained how a loosely connected “resistance” to President Trump has vowed to become “ungovernable,” with groups such as DisruptJ20, Black Lives Matter, Refuse Fascism and Occupy Oakland stirring up riots and revolution. And last week Breitbart.com editor Milo Yiannopoulos was prevented from speaking at the University of California at Berkeley due to mob violence.
Even employees of the Environmental Protection Agency joined protests on Monday in Chicago.
So while supporting the demonstrators’ rights to free speech, a number of lawmakers around the country have found their behavior to be an infringement on the rights and safety of others, and they intend to sponsor legislation and institute strategies to do something about it.
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Ninth Circuit Court Now Demands it be Protected From Itself…
Oh, the winning… it’s often too funny. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is now independently, on its own impetus, requesting an internal vote on a full panel en banc hearing to review its own decision.
Additionally, the full ninth are asking the Trump administration to file an additional brief telling the court why the three member original appeals ruling authority was wrong. In essence, the smart judges know what wasn’t considered, and are now looking for an out.
You just can’t make this stuff up.
Yes, that’s the 9th circuit requesting its own judicial membership ruling to be reviewed by the entire larger 9th circuit appeals court panel. Ya think maybe they recognize they just jumped head-first into showcasing their own insufferable moonbattery…
Currently, thanks to the ridiculous political judicial opinion of the 9th Circuit, the entire professional left and Democrat party are on display trying to block President Trump from protecting the American people. As a direct consequence they own any negative outcomes, including any act of terrorism, that might happen in the next several months.
Why would President Trump remove that political liability? If he’s smart, and he’s proven he is way beyond smart, he won’t.
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Obama Behind the Scenes: Destroy Trump
Barack Obama is staying put in D.C. allegedly to allow his youngest daughter, Sasha to finish school there. The truth is, though, that the recently-former POTUS wants to be front and center in the ongoing plot to make certain the current POTUS does very little to damage the Obama legacy — a legacy an alarming number among the GOP elite appear more than happy to accommodate. STOP TRUMP is the D.C. elites’ rallying cry, and no member of that globalist club is shouting it louder than one Barack Hussein Obama.
The first open signal of Mr. Obama’s role as the acting general of the Stop Trump forces was the stunningly public green-light he gave violent anti-Trump protesters. Obama said during an interview he was “heartened” by those protests, even as both people and property were being harmed.
The New York Post recently indicated the former president has an “army” of some 32,000 paid agitators at his disposal, spread throughout the nation’s urban centers, able to stop traffic, gain adoring media coverage, which in turn allows feckless Establishment Republicans to whisper among themselves how the Trump agenda is seemingly unpopular with the American people — meaning those same Republicans are in fact doing the bidding of Barack Obama.
[Comment: A communist agitator from the the first to the last.]
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Pat Buchanan: Trump Must Break Judicial Power
That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.
When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are — usurpers and petty tyrants. And if there is a cause upon which the populist right should unite, it is that elected representatives and executives make the laws and rule the nation. Not judges, and not justices.
Indeed, one of the mightiest forces that has birthed the new populism that imperils the establishment is that unelected justices like Warren and Brennan, and their progeny on the bench, have remade our country without the consent of the governed — and with never having been smacked down by Congress or the president.
Consider. Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools. They turned over centuries of tradition and hundreds of state, local and federal laws to discover that the rights to an abortion and same-sex marriage were there in Madison’s Constitution all along. We just couldn’t see them.
Trump has warned the judges that if they block his travel ban, and this results in preventable acts of terror on American soil, they will be held accountable. As rightly they should.
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Political Correctness as a Tool of the Liberal Inquisition
It is naïve to think that political correctness is simply a matter of being scolded for saying something unacceptable to liberals. It has become much more than that. Political correctness is a deliberate tool used by the Left to intimidate conservatives and people of faith into silence, with the goal of making our classic and time-tested opinions illegitimate.
Political Correctness is a strategy, a weapon of social warfare, a bullying against those unwilling to reshape and renounce their traditional belief system and bow to the dictates of the leftocracy dead-set on total domination of our lives and culture. It enforces censorship and activates demonization, threatening those unwilling to submit and apologize with loss of job, livelihood, social acceptability, company sales, friends, reputation, and status. It is the liberal version of Islamic blasphemy laws, ruthlessly excising anyone who questions or strays from the leftwing cultural and social dogmas. It is the most un-American development in our lifetime.
In many ways it is worse than the McCarthyism practiced in the early 50s. Senator Joseph McCarthy, who sat on the Senate Committee of Government Operations, targeted relatively few, whereas liberal political correctness is targeting over 60%, tens of millions, of Americans. And whereas McCarthy was generally correct regarding the communist leanings and activities of his targets, liberal political-correctness czars are off-the-wall incorrect when accusing regular and patriotic Americans of racism, misogyny, xenophobia, or whatever is the latest “ism”. Joe McCarthy’s hearings lasted a mere couple of years, while the scourge and punishment of political correctness is into its 20th year.
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President Trump Will Undo the Cruelties of Obama’s Political Correctness
One of the cruelest goals of political correctness is to deny regular Americans the right to protect themselves from terrorism, from loss of jobs, and from exposure to disease, and to spit on their innate desire for safety in their communities. Barack Obama’s not so veiled accusations against the American people over the last eight years exemplify this cruelty. Those of us worried about the all too frequent and continuous terrorism coming from young Muslim men were labeled Islamophobic. Those opposed to Obama’s open-border policy resulting in loss of jobs, disease, crime, and assaults in our towns, as well as the bankrupting of smaller communities due to taxation burdens, were called xenophobic. Obama too easily hurled the charge of racism against police and millions of Americans. It was bullying.
He tried making everyday citizens feel guilty for wanting the most basic protections. He put in place rules that ignored the safety wishes of Americans and made the continuation of these dangerous situations probable. All attempts at defending Americans were labeled by Obama negatively as “profiling.” He acted as a left-wing McCarthyist-in-chief. He was a “profiler” — a profiler of us.
Worse, Obama and others exploited the goodwill of the American people wishing to be tolerant. When sermonizing that we Americans must be “open to others’ faiths,” which we generally are, he implied that our response to and concerns about the terrorism launched against our cities and citizens by young Muslim men is rooted in “a fear of the other” and proves that we are closed-minded. This is false. He turned our desire for safety into a vice. He turned our goodwill into abdication. Too often, he co-opted the term “civil rights” as a means of controlling us, making us defenseless — to make us accept the unacceptable.
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Saudi Escapes Child-Rape Charge Thanks to Deportation Order
(Patriot Ledger) A Weymouth mother says the worst moment of her life was seeing blood on her 5-year-old daughter’s underwear and hearing the little girl describe how a family friend had raped her and a brother, 9.
The second worst came a month ago when a prosecutor told the woman that the man charged with raping her children was being sent home to Saudi Arabia despite indictments against him, meaning he will almost certainly never face justice.
“I collapsed right over there by the washing machine and dryer,” the woman said in an interview at her Weymouth home. “I slid down there and cried for about three hours.”
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Sears, Kmart Discontinue Online Sales of 31 Trump Home Items
The latest retailer to join the “anti-Trump resistance”, is also the one which despite being closest to death managed to crush short sellers on Friday after its stock soared on the announcement of yet another hail mary restructuring: according to Reuters, Sears and Kmart are discontinuing online sales of 31 Trump Home items.
An obvious publicity stunt meant to distract the public’s attention from the company’s chronic woes while hopefully attracting at least some of its discretionary dollars, Sears and subsidiary Kmart disclosed their decision on Saturday, saying it was “part of a push to focus their online business on the most profitable items.” Of course, considering that Sears’ Q4 losses rose 16% to $635 million, one would be curious to learn just what those “most profitable” items are.
Neither Sears nor Kmart carried the Trump Home products in their retail stores, a Sears Holdings Corp spokesman said, which is why one wonders just how much of this decision was margin based, and how much, marketing.
[Comment: These companies are being run by fools.]
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Teacher: ‘The Only Good Trump Supporter is a Dead Trump Supporter’
(WZTV) Rutherford County Schools said a substitute teacher will no longer be working in the school district after he was accused of posting “inappropriate, threatening” comments on social media regarding President Donald Trump.
Rutherford County Schools received several messages about David Colin on Wednesday. Colin is accused of posting on Facebook, “the only good Trump supporter is a dead Trump supporter,” on Facebook Nov. 9 at 9:29 a.m.
Colin is not employed by RCS, but is contracted through PESG. The schools said Colin is no longer permitted to work in the district.
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Top Trump Aide Says White House Has ‘Enormous Evidence’ Of Voter Fraud
President Trump’s assertions about widespread voter fraud in the 2016 elections re-emerged this weekend, with a top Trump adviser saying Sunday the White House has provided “enormous evidence” to support claims while still producing no evidence.
“The White House has provided enormous evidence with respect to voter fraud, with respect to people being registered in more than one state,” White House policy adviser Stephen Miller told ABC’s “This Week,” amid calls for Trump to provide evidence for his claim.
Trump has argued since November that voter fraud cost him the popular vote, which he lost to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton by several million ballots. However, the White House has yet to provide evidence, at least publicly, to support the argument.
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Trooper Dispatched to Wrong Home ‘Justified’ In Shooting Owner
(Philadelphia Inquirer) A New Jersey state trooper dispatched to the wrong home was justified in shooting the owner, who had grabbed his own weapons because he feared intruders were outside, authorities said Friday.
Gerald Sykes, 76 at the time of the incident, was shot twice in the chest and once in the upper groin at his home in Upper Deerfield Township, Cumberland County, just before midnight on July 29, 2016.
Miscommunications among emergency dispatchers caused two troopers to respond to Sykes’ home, where dispatchers believed someone had dialed 911 and hung up.
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UCF Socialist Club Incites Young Kids to ‘Kill Donald Trump’
(East Orlando Post) Days after the University of Central Florida faced national outrage over letting an unregistered student group hold an event promoting violence, the Knights for Socialism have taken their radical antics a step further. On Friday, the group held an event where they allowed students to bash pinatas with the faces of President Donald J. Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and presidential advisor Steve Bannon.
East Orlando Post obtained exclusive footage from UCF College Republican Douglas Mactye, which includes disturbing content involving an elementary to middle school aged student yelling “Kill Trump.” The young children were being encouraged to hit the Pinatas by members of the Knights for Socialism for the duration.
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What the Politicians You Elected Have Done to America, Part 6
Bill Gates has dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into vaccines because he believes that it is the best way to help control population. In a recent TED conference presentation, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, who has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to new vaccine efforts, speaks on the issue of CO2 emissions and its effects on climate change. He presents a formula for tracking CO2 emissions as follows: CO2 = P x S x E x C.
P = People S = Services per person E = Energy per service C = CO2 per energy unit
Then he adds that in order to get CO2 to zero, “probably one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty close to zero.”
Following that, Bill Gates begins to describe how the first number — P (for People) — might be reduced. He says:
“The world today has 6.8 billion people… that’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”[2] Believe me he is not talking about extending lives with the vaccines nor is he talking about keeping people healthy for reproducing. His plan is as sinister as it gets. He was a seemingly nice guy in the first half of his life. An average American who made his fortune by selling hardware and software worth of billions, becoming a worldwide icon and a living example of the American Dream.
But, in the second half of his life, he teamed up with the world’s “elite” in an attempt to reduce the world’s population by billions… and he means business!
He soon became one of the most infamous depopulation activists, lecturing on genocidal vaccines, conducting vaccination campaigns that crippled and killed countless people in the third world countries, designing GMO mosquitoes that could carry and inject deadly viruses, and he’s constantly finding new methods of achieving his sick plans.[3]
Gates is not the only one with this mindset:
“ Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.” — David Brower (Sierra Club)
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Canadian School Cancels Trips to US Due to ‘Unsafe’ Political Climate
Considers political landscape too unpredictable and “unsafe.”
A Canadian school has canceled trips to the US because of the “unsafe” political situation created by President Trump’s travel ban. The decision was taken before the restriction was blocked by US courts.
The school board in Windsor, Ontario, which is separated from Detroit, Michigan by a river, has canceled all trips across the border planned for this month because it considers the political landscape of its close neighbor to be too unpredictable and “unsafe.”
“Paramount for us is student safety… we really don’t know what will happen to our students at the border,” Clara Howitt, a superintendent with the Greater Essex County District School Board, told the Windsor Star.
[Comment: School is run by leftist fools.]
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Man Who Beheaded Bus Passenger Granted Total Freedom
WINNIPEG, Manitoba — A Canadian man who was found not criminally responsible for beheading and cannibalizing a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus has been granted his freedom.
Manitoba’s Criminal Code Review Board announced Friday it has given Will Baker, formerly known as Vince Li, an absolute discharge, meaning he is longer subject to monitoring.
Baker, a diagnosed schizophrenic, killed Tim McLean, a young carnival worker who was a complete stranger to Baker, in 2008. A year later he was found not criminally responsible due to mental illness.
McLean’s mother, Carol de Delley, has been outspoken against granting Baker freedom, saying there would be no way to ensure he continued to take his medication.
She declined comment in a post on Facebook Friday, saying “I have no words.”
Baker was initially kept in a secure wing of a psychiatric hospital but was given more freedom every year…
Baker sat next to the 22-year-old McLean on the bus after the man smiled at him and asked how he was doing.
Baker said he heard the voice of God telling him to kill the man or “die immediately.”
He repeatedly stabbed McLean while he fought for his life. As passengers fled the bus, Baker continued stabbing and mutilating the body before he was arrested. He severed McLean’s head, displaying it to some of the passengers outside the bus, witnesses said.
[Comment: I remember this was all over the news. He was playing with the decapitated head of the kid. He quickly assumed the position when armed police boarded. Google the news video reports. Should he kill again, every person involved in his release should get a mandatory 10 year prison sentence.]
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France: Francois Fillon’s Wife Penelope Wil be Indicted for Fraud
French presidential hopeful Francois Fillon and his British-born wife Penelope will be indicted for fraud this week and could be sent for criminal trial immediately.
The 62-year-olds are currently under investigation for a range of charges including embezzlement after helping themselves to hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of taxpayers’ cash by setting up a series of allegedly fake jobs.
Mrs Fillon, a solicitor’s daughter from Wales, has been ‘fighting tooth and nail’ to prove she was secretly a high-powered parliamentary attaché and literary consultant for decades.
But she has provided zero ‘material proof’ to financial prosecutors, who will indict the couple this week, according to leaks from the enquiry published today by the Journal du Dimanche newspaper.
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Germany: Officials Say Hamburg Airport Scare Was Likely Pepper Spray
Hundreds of passengers at Hamburg Airport were evacuated and more than a dozen flights canceled after some 68 people were injured by a hazardous material that likely spread through the airport’s air conditioning system.
The airport said in a statement that police and firefighters had concluded from their initial investigation the substance most likely was pepper spray. Authorities still are working to determine how it got into the airport’s air conditioning system, the statement said.
The 68 injured people — both passengers and staff members — had complained about breathing problems, burning eyes and nausea…
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Germany to Elect ‘Anti-Trump’ Steinmeier as New President
Billed as Germany’s “anti-Trump”, the centre-left former foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is Sunday set to be elected as the new ceremonial head of state.
The 61-year-old, who regularly polls as Germany’s most popular politician, will represent the EU’s top economy abroad and act as a kind of moral arbiter for the nation.
For the Social Democrats (SPD), his appointment raises the party’s profile just as its candidate Martin Schulz, the former European parliament president, readies to challenge Chancellor Angela Merkel in September elections.
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Hungary: PM Orban Attacks ‘Lords of Globalists Politics’
Viktor Orban, who has led the maverick EU nation since 2010, gave his annual state of the nation address to a raucous audience Friday in which he discussed migration, globalisation and the wave of populism sweeping the US and EU member states.
He said: “We shall let in true refugees — German, Dutch, French and Italians, terrified politicians and journalists who here in Hungary want to find the Europe they have lost in their homelands.”
Mr Orban also took aim at “globalist” leaders in countries across Europe and what he argued was a culture of political correctness.
He said: “The open society would sweep away a democracy of debate and replace it with a democracy of correctness.”
Mr Orban argued world leaders had attempted to foster a political culture where “true power, decisions and influence was not held by elected governments, but was put in the hands of unelected global networks, media gurus and international organisations”.
[Comment: Read the whole thing. The speech is awesome.]
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Majority in UK Now Expect Scotland to Become Independent as New Poll Reveals Post-Brexit Fall-Out
A majority of people across the UK expect Scotland to be independent within a decade, according to the largest ever survey of attitudes to Brexit.
The mass poll of website readers found 54.7 per cent believe the shock decision to leave the European Union will lead to the break-up of Britain.
And Scots are even more certain that the UK’s days are numbered — 56 per cent of readers north of the border expect to be independent in the next ten years.
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Marion Le Pen Slams EU for Bringing Terrorism and Unemployment to France.
In a tweet, the Front National MP, Marion Le Pen said: “The European Union has also brought unemployment, insecurity and terrorism. #LeGrandJury.”
The MP made the comments in response to Le Grand Jury, which is a French political broadcast of RTL taking place on Sundays.
She was invited as a guest on the French show on Sunday.
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Merkel Forced to Deny Plans for European Nuclear Superpower
In the wake of President Trump’s comments that NATO is “obsolete”, and European ‘leaders’renewed calls for a European army, Angela Merkel has been forced to deny Germany is interested in acquiring nuclear weapons amid calls for it to lead a European “nuclear superpower.”
As we noted previously, calls for an EU Army pre-exist current trends among Europeans and Americans to reject international institutionalism for a more nationalistic, sovereign state oriented model of governance. The Guardian was reporting in 2015 that European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was calling for an EU Army to show Russia that the bloc was “serious about defending its values.” The shock result of Brexit merely accelerated plans within the EU that were already in progress.
But with Trump’s NATO comments, chatter picked up further in recent weeks of the need for the European Union to invest in its own nuclear deterrent.
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More Than 50 Injured in Hamburg Airport After Exposure to ‘Unknown Substance’
It all started with people complaining of breathing difficulties after being exposed to unidentified unpleasant odors at the airport in Hamburg on Sunday morning, Hamburger Morgenpost reported. Terminal 1 and 2 were then evacuated and hundreds of passengers had to wait outside at almost below zero temperatures. A pepper spray or a similar substance is most likely behind the incident, a spokesman for the firefighters said, noting that a refill cartridge had been found which could have caused the health problems, DPA reported. The substance was then presumably spread through the building by the air-conditioning system.
[Comment: This looks like a “test run”.]
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Netherlands: Populist PVV Also Popular Among Highly-Educated: Survey
Geert Wilders and his PVV came out as the most popular party among the highly-educated and people with a mid-level education in a survey done by trade union De Unie. “The mantra that the PVV attracts the angry, low-educated white man is with this study definitely broken”, Reinier Castelein, president of De Unie, said to WNL.
De Unie surveyed nearly 4 thousand people about their political affiliation. The PVV came out as the most popular party, followed by the VVD and D66. Though the vast majority of respondents did not know who they will vote for.
A large majority of the respondents called politicians elitist, dishonest and unreliable, according to the survey.
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Netherlands: Amstelveen Opens Dialogue Between Jews, Muslims
A meeting will be held in Amstelveen next week between city councilors and members from the Jewish- and Muslim communities in the city. The goal is to discuss the important issues for both groups in the run up to the parliamentary elections in March, Het Parool reports.
The meeting is organized by the Jewish Muslim Platform Amstelland, the Jewish-Islamic organization Mo&Moos and the Jewish Bendigamos. Amstelveen councilors of the VVD, PvdA, D66, SP, ChristenUnie, CDA and GroenLinks will attend.
The meeting will focus on issues such as safety, discrimination against Jews and Muslims, religion and education.
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Officials Say Hamburg Airport Scare Was Likely Pepper Spray
Hundreds of passengers at Hamburg Airport were evacuated and more than a dozen flights canceled after some 68 people were injured by a hazardous material that likely spread through the airport’s air conditioning system.
The airport said in a statement that police and firefighters had concluded from their initial investigation the substance most likely was pepper spray. Authorities still are working to determine how it got into the airport’s air conditioning system, the statement said.
The 68 injured people — both passengers and staff members — had complained about breathing problems, burning eyes and nausea.
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Paris: Rioters Scream “Allahu Akbar” During Violent Protests, Cars Set on Fire
RIOTERS shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ during violent protests in Paris where a car was set on fire.
Front National (FN) MP Marion Le Pen tweeted the clip showing the tense protest in the French capital sparked after a police officer ‘raped a man with a truncheon’.
The amateur video shows chaotic scene of clouds of smoke after cars were set on fire and a man yelling “Allahu Akbar”, Arabic for God is Greatest, three times.
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Pics: Rioting Continues in France Over Alleged Police Rape
BOBIGNY (FRANCE) (AFP) — Police fired tear gas after clashes erupted in the suburbs of Paris as demonstrators protested over the assault of a young black man who was allegedly anally raped with a truncheon while being arrested.
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Radical Islam Spreading Through Belgium Mosques, Leaked Report Reveals
Wahhabism, labelled by the European Parliament in Strasbourg as the main source of global terrorism, is being identified in an increasing number of Islamic centres, the Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (OCAM) reported.
The country’s body for threat assessment, OCAM, said the number of Imams preaching the form of Sunni Islam promoted by Saudi Arabia, is rising.
The report states: “An increasing number of mosques and Islamic centres in Belgium are controlled by Wahhabism. This is the Salafist missionary apparatus.”
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Shocking Moment French Police Quickly Drive in Reverse to Flee From Violent Paris Rioters
Front National (FN) MP Marion Le Pen tweeted the jaw-dropping video recorded during demonstration after a man was allegedly raped by police.
She said: “Faced with the violence of scum, our police officers are forced to back off. Hurry up Marine and restore order to Bobigny.”
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UK: Debenhams Becomes First Major Department Store to Sell Hijabs
Debenhams is set to become the first major UK department store to sell hijabs as part of a new range of Muslim clothing.
The chain store will introduce the new line in its flagship Oxford Street branch, before being rolled out to its Birmingham’s Bullring, Westfield in Shepherd’s Bush, Manchester’s Trafford Centre and Leicester’s Highcross Shopping Centre outlets.
The selection will offer tops, dresses, jumpsuits, kimono wraps, caps, hijab pins and headscarves.
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UK: Kebab Shop Child Rape Sex Ring Horror Show
“…Rochdale is a dreary former industrial city now part of Greater Manchester. About 20% of its population is south Asian.
And for years, the gang of pedophiles was essentially untouchable because cops and prosecutors feared becoming the target of the modern day version of the scarlet letter: racist.
The girls — the very, very young victims — would be the pimp’s cannon fodder, sacrificed on the PC alter.
The ringleader was Shabir “Daddy” Ahmed, 63, the owner of the kebab shop.”
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A predatory bishop who had links to Prince Charles has been freed from prison halfway through his sentence for sex offences.
Peter Ball, described as a ‘monster’ by his victims, served only 16 months for grooming and molesting aspiring novice monks. One victim committed suicide while others have suffered long-lasting trauma.
The ‘monster’ Bishop of Lewes and Gloucester said he thought of Charles as a ‘loyal friend’
Survivors condemned the early release of the 84-year-old former Bishop of Lewes and Gloucester.
He was jailed for 32 months in 2015 for offences against 18 teenagers and young men between 1977 and 1992, but was allowed out on licence at the halfway point of his sentence.
Richard Scorer, an abuse lawyer at Slater and Gordon who represented some of Ball’s victims, said his early release after ‘a gross and systematic abuse of trust spanning decades’ was ‘an affront to justice’.
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Undercover Panorama Report Reveals Prison Chaos
Uk:Chaos in one of the biggest prisons in the country has been revealed in secret filming for the BBC.
An undercover reporter spent two months at HMP Northumberland, which houses up to 1,348 male inmates, for Panorama.
He discovered widespread drug use, a lack of control, door alarms that did not go off in one block and a hole in an internal security fence.
The Ministry of Justice said it would investigate the “extremely serious allegations” at the Acklington jail.
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Wind of Change? Italian Populists Lead Parliamentary Push to Alter NATO Ties
In an interview with Sputnik Italy, Manlio Di Stefano, a parliamentary deputy from the country’s populist Five Star Movement, said that the party has proposed a bill which would alter the way in which Italy participates in NATO.
The interview came amid the Italian government efforts to prevent the country’s parliament from altering Italy’s relationship with NATO.
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Ex-Macedonian PM Gruevski Accuses Soros of Formenting Country’s Political Crisis
Former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said the Open Society Foundations of the US-Hungarian billionaire George Soros and other foreign actors are responsible for the ongoing political crisis in the country.
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‘We Want to Export Swedish Work Culture to Iran’: Scania Boss
Iran is already one of truck and bus manufacturer Scania’s biggest markets. Now the company’s CEO also wants to export Swedish working values to the Islamic Republic.
In an industrial area a few dozen kilometres west of Tehran is the factory where Scania’s local partner Mammut assembles parts from Sweden into complete trucks.
It was here that Hasan Kian, who works in quality control, took a break from his work to shake hands with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven during the latter’s unannounced visit to the factory.
Löfven made an official visit to Iran this weekend, where he met with President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran.
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Sweden’s Saab Offers High-Tech Jet Production to India
Swedish defence giant Saab has offered to build a state-of-the-art fighter jet factory in India should it seal a lucrative deal to supply hundreds of military jets to New Delhi.
Saab and its US competitor Lockheed Martin have emerged as the frontrunners to supply around 250 single-engine combat planes to India’s air force which wants to revamp its Soviet-era military hardware.
The Saab proposal would see “the world’s most modern” military aircraft factory roll out the Gripen E fighter not just for India but the global market.
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Australia Bushfires: ‘Most Buildings’ In Tiny Town Damaged
Most buildings in a tiny Australian town have been damaged as bushfires ravage New South Wales (NSW) state, authorities have said.
More than 80 fires — including 20 uncontained — were still burning on Monday following record temperatures.
The Rural Fire Service (RFS) said it was remarkable no lives were lost amid “catastrophic” weekend conditions.
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Australia Strips Citizenship From ISIS Terrorist
In a landmark move, Australia has stripped the citizenship of Islamic State fighter Khaled Sharrouf, who left Australia to fight for the terror group in Syria.
The decision to revoke Sharrouf’s Australian citizenship falls under the 2015 anti-terrorism law Allegiance to Australia Act, which has now been invoked for the first time ever, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
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“Visa-Free Travel Between Belgium and the U.S. Under Pressure”
“It will not be obvious to maintain the present system under which Belgian citizens can mostly travel to the United States without a visa”, the Belgian State Secretary for Asylum and Migration, Theo Francken (N-VA), is quoted as saying in De Tijd.
“The Americans are not entirely happy with the amount of information they receive from us. They see Belgium as ‘hellhole Brussels’“, Francken told De Tijd. “We have been given 3 months to prove we can meet the demands.” Francken’s words are confirmed by other ministers. “The United States have put forward new demands to have the present system of visa-free travel continued.”
Belgian diplomats are said to be “concerned” about the situation. They think the U.S. will scrutinize the Belgian report. American security services are afraid that terrorists could merge with regular Belgian travellers to get into the U.S., after the Paris and Brussels attacks.
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“We Are Here to Fight” — Mexican Migrants Said to Prefer Arrest Over Deportation
Meanwhile, following yesterday’s report that Mexicans are planning on “jamming US courts” as deportations are set to surge, today the WSJ writes that all but one of about 50 undocumented Mexican migrants at a meeting Saturday indicated they would rather risk detention and long court battles in the U.S. than return to Mexico voluntarily. The majority of migrants at the meeting in Phoenix, which included Mexican officials, signaled in a show of hands that they were ready to fight deportation in U.S. courts.
“Even if that means detention for weeks?” asked former foreign minister Jorge Castaneda.
“Even if it takes months,” shouted one woman. “Even if it takes years,” another yelled. “We are here to fight.”
Continuing the story from yesterday according to which immigrants are willing to drown the US court system with thousands of deportation cases, Castaneda and others have said they want Mexico’s government to endorse a strategy to battle an expected increase in deportations of their undocumented compatriots in the U.S. by underwriting the migrants’ legal struggle in the U.S. court system. By overwhelming already heavily burdened immigration courts, Mr. Castaneda hopes the legal system would break down, bringing deportations to a halt.
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Belgium: Muslim Gang-Rapists in Court: “Women Should Listen, They Should Not Complain”
Several young gang-rapists started laughing in a Belgian court while yelling:
“women should not complain, they should listen to men.”
The seven ‘men’ were seen in a video where they are standing around an unconscious girl who is lying on a bed, then seen pulling down her pants and raping her. Also in the video, they are dancing around the victim and singing songs in Arabic.
The gang of perpetrators, aged 14 (!) to 25, consist of five Iraqi nationals, and two who hold Belgian citizenship. At least two of them are currently in their asylum procedure. When asked, one of them said: “the girl asked us to grab her”. This is extremely unlikely, since she is seen on the video hardly moving at all. This monstrous event happened last November and was discovered by a schoolteacher in Oostende (Belgium) last week. One of the boys, who is only 14 years old, was showing off pictures of himself on his mobile phone wearing an army uniform and sporting an automatic rifle. The teacher informed the police, who confiscated the phone, and later found the gang-rape video.
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Germany: Haven’t They Learnt a Thing? Merkel’s Government ‘Hoping to Bring in 12 Million Migrants’
Last week she travelled to Stuttgart to pick up an award for her migrant crisis which has mostly been condemned not only in her own country but in Italy, Greece and Malta.
ANGELA Merkel may just have pushed through rapid deportation rules as well as a ban on refugees but she is not planning on closing Germany’s doors to migrants forever…
A leaked report from Mrs Merkel’s government said Germany would need to take in 12m migrants over the next four decades to keep Germany’s population size stable.
But the staggering figures unearthed by the Rheinische Post are only set to infuriate far-right voters who are already reeling after almost 2.2 million migrants flooded into the country in 2015 alone.
According to local reports a new report drafted by the Government has admitted the issue of migrant integration is a thorny subject.
[Comment: Propagandizing abortion to their own citizens while bringing in millions of “refugees”. Population replacement. ]
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Germans Purchase ‘Illegal Guns and Grenades’ To Defend Themselves From Migrants
Germans have been purchasing “illegal guns and grenades” in order to protect themselves and their families from the migrants that have flooded into their country.
The weapons were purchased via a website called, “Migrant Fright,” which has now been taken down.
The Daily Mail witnessed the site while it was still live and reports that it advertised self-defense tools that Germans could acquire without going through the “annoying bureaucratic hurdles or annoying paperwork.”
The “Migrant Fright” site said “Protect yourself and your family” and claimed to sell “first-class quality goods, discreetly sent, at a fair price.”
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German Majority Now Support Deporting Failed Asylum Seekers, Says Poll
ATTITUDES towards failed Afghan asylum seekers in Germany appear to be changing, after a new poll showed a massive 74 per cent of people now supported deportation.
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Hooters Offers 10,000 Jobs to Muslim Refugee Women [Satire]
Hooters announced today that they are preparing to hire 10,000 Muslim refugee women in a show of support to the immigrant community and in a display of solidarity with other American companies that have offered similar support.
Hooters joins the list of companies such as Starbucks, which has also offered to hire 10,000 refugees instead of veterans or unemployed Americans, as well as AirBNB, which has offered to house these immigrants.
[Comment: Brought to you by “The People’s Cube” . ]
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Horror in Germany as Elderly Woman on Her Way to Work Raped in Driveway by Foreigner
The 60-year-old woman had left her home in Jena, Thuringia on Friday morning at around 6am on her way to work.
But she was followed by a 20-year-old foreigner, who she says spoke “broken” German, and was attacked in the street.
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Italy: Muslim Migrants Allegedly Rape Schoolgirl in Broad Daylight on Commuter Train
A 15-year-old schoolgirl was allegedly groped and raped by two North African migrants on the commuter train from Milan to Mortara Thursday afternoon.
On Saturday morning, the girl was hospitalized with multiple bruises, a concussion and a broken rib, and police have launched a search for the assailants accused of aggravated assault and sexual assault.
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Mexico Protesters March Against Trump’s Immigration Policies
Tens of thousands of people in Mexico have taken to the streets to protest against Donald Trump’s immigration policies and plan for a border wall.
Demonstrators in more than a dozen Mexican cities, dressed in white, waved Mexican flags and anti-Trump placards.
Organisers said they wanted to send a message that Mexico was united against Mr Trump.
They also criticised Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto for failing to tackle corruption and reduce violence.
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Orban: Hungary Will Welcome European Refugees Fleeing Multicultural West
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban says his country will open its arms to west Europeans fleeing mass immigration and “the lords of globalist politics”.
“We shall let in true refugees”, Mr Orban told a cheering audience: “Germans, Dutch, French and Italians, terrified politicians and journalists who here in Hungary want to find the Europe they have lost in their homelands.”
The populist leader has served as the de facto leader of the central and eastern European countries which have resisted the open borders policies of the European Union (EU) and leading member-states in the west of the continent.
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Senate Letter Reveals Staggering Number of Murders by Illegals
(ZeroHedge) A letter written by the Senate Judiciary Committee in June 2015 to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, Secretary of State John Kerry and Attorney General Loretta Lynch reveals news facts about the number and nature of crimes committed by illegal immigrants who had already been convicted of other crimes but were released back into the public either because their home country would not accept their deportation and/or because they exceeded a Supreme Court mandate prohibiting detention of deportable foreign nationals beyond six months.
According to the letter, published by the Miami Herald, statistics provided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials confirm that 121 homicides were committed in the U.S. between 2010-2014 by illegal immigrants who had already been convicted of a crime but were released back into society due to limitations on their detention. In addition, ICE confirmed that of the 36,007 criminal aliens released from custody in 2013, 1,000 of them had already been convicted of new crimes as of June 2015.
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‘Sexual Assault, Violence, Rape Far Too Common’ At France’s Dunkirk Refugee Camp
Children and women are assaulted and raped by traffickers inside a refugee camp in northern France, where unaccompanied individuals are viewed as easy prey, according to volunteers, medics, refugees, and security officials interviewed by the Observer.
“Sexual assault, violence and rape are all far too common,“ one volunteer female coordinator told the Observer, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“Minors are assaulted and women are raped and forced to pay for smuggling with their bodies,” she said.
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Sweden Builds Camel Park to Help Integrate Migrants
Swedish city Gothenburg is building a camel park which it hopes will create jobs for migrants, bu the plans have been slammed as racist and “absurd” by a charity boss.
The city hopes the camel centre being built in the migrant-dominated suburb of Angered will be able to provide jobs for foreign residents who are otherwise struggling to find a place in the country’s labour market.
The camel park is part of a wider project to create low-carbon jobs in the area, which was greenlit near the end of last year when the municipality was granted almost 13 million Swedish krona (£1 million) in funding from the EU.
Project developer Géza Nagy hopes the park, at which visitors will be able to both pet and ride on the camels, will become a popular tourist attraction.
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Swedish Police Were Forced to Conceal 5,000 Muslim Crimes in Four Months Under ‘Refugee Code 291’
If anyone wants to accuse TMI for posting “ fake news” this is certainly not the right moment. The source for this article, SvD or Svenska Dagbladet, is one of the country’ s primary and most respected newspapers. 5,000 crimes were reported from newly arrived at refugee shelters in a short period of four months.
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Switzerland Votes to Relax Its Citizenship Rules
People in Switzerland have voted to relax the country’s strict citizenship rules, making it easier for third-generation immigrants to become Swiss.
Being born in Switzerland does not guarantee citizenship. Non-Swiss residents must typically wait 12 years before applying.
Tests and government interviews are also required, which can be expensive.
Initial projections suggest that 59% of Swiss voters said yes to simplifying the rules.
The new proposal will exempt third-generation immigrants, who are born in Switzerland and whose parents and grandparents lived permanently in Switzerland, from interviews and tests in the naturalisation process.
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‘The Real Bad Guys’ Are Coming From Canada, Not Mexico
The Trump White House should be less concerned with the U.S. border with Mexico and turn its attention to Canada instead, an investigative report in the U.S. online news site The Daily Beast suggested this week.
The report quotes unnamed FBI and Department of Homeland Security officials as saying far more “suspected terrorists” are being encountered at the U.S.-Canada border.
“We are looking in the wrong direction,” the story quotes a senior Homeland Security official as saying. “Not to say that Mexico isn’t a problem, but the real bad guys aren’t coming from there — at least not yet.”
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US Halts Vetting of Australia’s Rejected Asylum Seekers
This is a good sign and perhaps the way Trump might begin to make progress against the Open Borders Leftwing — just do what you need to do within the Administration.
If you are a new reader and don’t know about the “dumb deal” Barack Obama made literally within days of Trump’s unexpected election, the gist of it is that Obama said that the US would resettle in America over 1,000 migrants who tried to get to Australia by boat and have since been housed offshore.
Australia doesn’t want to take them to their mainland, so why should we take them to the US to be placed without your knowledge in your home towns!
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Venezuelans Lead in US Asylum Requests as Crisis Deepens
New data shows Venezuelans are leading asylum requests to the United States for the first time, as the middle class in the country are fleeing the crashing, oil-dependent economy.
The U.S. government’s Citizenship and Immigration Services reported that 18,155 Venezuelans submitted asylum requests last year, a 150 percent increase over 2015 and six times the level seen in 2014.
Data showed China in second place, with 17,745 requests coming from the country’s citizens.
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Greek Teachers in Epic Battle to Save Classics (PC Brigades Prefer “Gender Studies”)
Teachers in Greece have criticised plans by the left-wing government to scrap the mandatory study of Ancient Greek tragedy in high schools and introduce instead classes on gender and sex education, saying that this could bring about the end of classical studies.
The plan to drop Antigone by Sophocles comes after Pericles’ Funeral Oration from Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, was removed.
The government says it is trying to update the antiquated curriculum and devote more time to teaching modern Greek and new subjects, including gender equality, same-sex marriages and sex education.
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Russia Has Declared War on Porn. Will the GOP Do the Same?
Brazzers recently became the third major porn site blocked by the Russian government in the last six months.
This week, the popular porn company Brazzers was placed on Russia’s infamous “blocklist,” becoming the third porn site in the last six months to be banned by the country’s internet watchdog Roskomnadzor. The ruling came down from a Russian court, which argued that the Brazzers XXX site has a “purely negative impact on the human psyche” — a claim that sounds eerily similar to an amendment to the GOP platform last year declaring porn “a public health crisis that is destroying the life of millions,” with the Republican Party further encouraging “states to continue to fight this public menace.” Soon after the block, Brazzers became one of the top trending topics on Twitter in Russia.
While some American adult industry insiders are in agreement with the Russian court’s take on Brazzers, it’s for entirely different reasons. Just a few months ago, one of porn’s biggest stars, Nikki Benz, alleged she was raped on a Brazzers set, publicly shaming the company on Twitter for failing to protect the company’s official brand ambassador. Though Brazzers directed blame towards the film’s director, there were others in the porn biz who cited issues with the company at large.
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The “Hitlerization” of political opponents by the Left is a very nasty and dangerous trend indeed. Not different to see its endpoint – the sufferings of Holocaust and WWII are equal to the buthurt of a couple of deranged comedians and journos.
It has been widely reported that the recent hot temperatures along the eastern states of Australia have been the hottest ever recorded. False!
From January 26, 1788, until 1910 when ‘official’ daily weather recordings were introduced nationwide, Royal Navy ships kept daily weather readings in the ship’s log and going back into those logs one can find much hotter recorded temperatures than what our current weather has been putting out.
When will the fake news cease?
On the deliberate dividing of the population within the United States into taking political sides by an orchestrated effort of the Globalists. We who can watch what is unfolding must realize that what is being generated within the minds of those who take to violent protesting – and basically, such protests are against imaginary ghosts because there is no empirical evidence that would support such protests – is that they are driven by the most powerful of human emotions – hate – and it is hate for any perceived enemy natural or otherwise, that will quell the normal thought processes we all possess and that enables us not driven by such a powerful emotive force, to be able to assess and to then re-evaluate any position that we may take throughout our lives.
What is driving these folk into extreme acts against their own countrymen and women is what has be-deviled mankind for eternity and has been used by all those infamous names throughout history who are associated with much death and destruction and who knew only too well how to exploit the young and the gullible.
“The city hopes the camel centre being built in the migrant-dominated suburb of Angered will be able to provide jobs for foreign residents who are otherwise struggling to find a place in the country’s labour market.”
I wonder if they are going to include a swimming pool in the Camel Park?
“suburb of Angered…” interesting.
It’s pronounced ‘UN-ge-RED’. But yes, it is interesting, linguistically.
At the moment our acute embarrassment (Trudeau) is talking to President Trump–IN FRENCH! Is the boy more competent in French, or is he trying to show the President what a great linguist he is? Either way it’s a bloody insult!
Americans, please forgive us; for we, the people, are not this ignorant.
Do you mean someone is interpreting? Or is Trump’s French that good?
I don’t know if the President speaks French, so someone must have been translating, (maybe Melania?) but when Trudeau started spouting French the CEO and I were cringing in embarrassment; surely even Trudeau must know French is not an official language of the USA.
Is it the official language of Canada?
That and English.
Trump: I know you speak English. It would be polite of you to speak to me in English.
TO CHEER US UP
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A synopsis of an article in PI-News by Michael Stürzenberger. Partially based on a TV interview in or with the ‘Wirtschaftswoche’.
Gert Wilders:
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His PVV is now clearly leading, with 28 to 33 seats to get in the Dutch parliament. Out of 150 seats. Seems strange, but apparently that makes Wilder’s party the strongest contender, depending upon the pollster.
Further, the PVV now demands, in their election campaign/literature, a closure of all mosques and the outlawing of the quran. The former Wilders called “Islamic Nazi Temples” and the quran he referred to as the Muslim’s “Mein Kampf” – which is outlawed in the Netherlands…
I have to confess, it’s the first time I heard of ‘Nazi temples’, whatever they are or supposed to be, but if it gets him the votes…
Personal note: As far as outlawing the quran is concerned, or Mein Kampf for that matter, I think it’s a bad idea. It’s like book-burning, which never forebodes anything good, and signifies not only hate, but weakness. I am of the opinion that understanding the enemy is a much better foundation for fighting him than burning his literature. One of Tamerlane’s acts in India was to burn down one the largest libraries on earth. Also, what do we do about Das Kapital? The speeches of Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky? (Wonder how Antifa would respond to that…) The writings of the Hussites? What will the Pope do about Luther’s writings…
As said, that’s a personal view and remark. I do hope though that he wins the election. On second thoughts, I think we all do!
The actual article, PI=News: http://www.pi-news.net/2017/02/geert-wilders-fordert-verbot-des-korans/#more-554490 (it’s in German)
There is a limit to free speech that every citizen who is able to appreciate such freedom should exercise with some caution, especially if the speech contains incitement to violence, intended false alarms or seditious language, for which such utterances may become criminal offences.
The Qu’ran is the Islamic instruction manual for world conquest, its passages in effect contain incitement to violence (jihad) and seditious language against those who refuse to accept the law of Allah, among other things, that surely to any thinking person has no place in any Western country that values its own culture.