A culture-enriching “Texan” had been harassing women at a lake in clothes-optional park called “Hippie Hollow” near Austin. When the young women told the man to leave them alone, he rushed at them with a rock, saying that he would smash their skulls. Police at the scene were forced to intervene and restrain the high-spirited fellow.
In other rock-related news, Syrian “refugees” in Hamilton, Ontario attacked their neighbors with rocks and bricks.
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Illinois on the Right Track… to Achieve Junk Credit Rating
Competition among states to lure new business within their borders is ferocious. They all try to look for an edge to beat out their neighbors.
The state of Illinois hasn’t had much of an advantage recently. Its finances are in the toilet. Its politics is so dysfunctional that they’ve been unable to pass a budget going on three years. Taxes are sky high. The unions make life miserable for management. The schools suck, the roads are a joke, airports are a congested mess, and businesses have been fleeing the state in terror of what might come next.
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Marcella Arguello, a standup comedian and a writer for Bill Nye Saves The World on Netflix, tweeted in the wake of the Congressional baseball shooting that the deaths of “a few old ass conservative white men” were a worthwhile risk if it led to gun control.
The remarks, which Arguello subsequently deleted from her Twitter feed but can still be viewed in archived form, followed the shooting of U.S. Majority Whip Steve Scalise earlier this month.
[Comment: Probably also a member of La Raza.]
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CAIR Infiltrator: Beware of Smiling Muslims
‘Shariah mandates jihad until the entire planet is subjugated’
WASHINGTON — In the wake of Islamic-terror attack after Islamic-terror attack in Europe, and more recently a couple of attempts in the U.S., a former infiltrator of America’s leading Islamic organization reveals the frightening extent of the “civilizational jihad” America faces.
Chris Gaubatz, author of the book “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America,” made an appearance on Stand for Truth Radio with Susan Knowles June 20 to discuss the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which he investigated as an intern, posing as a convert to Islam.
Since he played that role, Gaubatz has valuable insider information on the conversion process, having learned all that he knows from actual Islamic sources.
“Everything that I have learned about Islam has come from Islamic scholars,” he said in the interview. “That’s how I learned about Islam, from going to the mosque and studying how a Muslim would study.”
With this knowledge, Gaubatz is able to share disturbing insights into the Islamic way of life.
“One hundred percent of authoritative Shariah mandates jihad until the entire planet is subjugated under Shariah. Jihad is one hundred percent defined as warfare against non-Muslims,” he said.
“Now when I say warfare, I don’t just mean people who are shooting people and blowing things up. While that is horrific and barbaric, that is just one aspect of the war. From a Muslim perspective, from a Shariah perspective, jihad is total warfare. So that’s going to encompass propaganda, media manipulation, political influence operations, subversion, treason, espionage, interfaith dialogue, and yes, the kinetic aspect of the war, the physical aspect of the war, which we normally associate with jihad.”
Jihad, whether through physical violence or more subtle tactics, is the duty of every Muslim, he explains.
“I am not saying that there are not good people that are Muslims,’ Gaubatz declared. “I am saying that when we see good people that are Muslims it is in spite of Shariah, in spite of Islam that they are good people, not because of it.”
Gaubatz calls this spread of Islam through anything but outright terrorism and warfare “civilizational jihad.”
[Comment: Happening thanks to globalist puppet political elite class who are traitors to their respective countries.]
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Christian Author Destroys Leftism After Sons Booted From Boy Scout Troop Over ‘Anti-Muslim Remark’
Science-fiction author and Christian John C. Wright hopped on his blog Tuesday to vent about a decidedly humiliating experience his sons endured — and in the process cut leftist philosophy right down to the bone.
Seems the scoutmaster of his sons’ Boy Scout Troop arrived at Wright’s house Sunday and said an “anonymous complaint” surfaced alleging his youngest son uttered an “anti-Muslim remark” in a private conversation.
The penalty? His sons were kicked out of the troop — a verdict that left one of his boys appearing as though he’d been “shot in the guts.”
“He had been in this troop for as long as his boyhood memory reaches, has reached the rank of Star and is about to reach Life, and is a patrol leader,” Wright noted, “or was.”
More from Wright:
The loyalty and long-suffering support of the Wright family for this troop, which has been a part of all our lives for years, suddenly counted for nothing. We dared speak a word that might offend the Prophet of Submission, peace be upon him. The Blasphemy Laws were breached!
Apparently, the decision to expel was made by the pastor of the church sponsoring the troop, even though, technically, it was not his decision to make. I say apparently, because there was no conversation, and no one asked my son for his side of the story.
For the same reason, what precisely the comment was, or who overheard it, I do not know. I suspect my boy was repeating one of his father’s opinions, which can be called “Anti-Muslim” only in the Alice-Through-the-Looking-Glass world of the Left.
What exactly did his son say?
Wright wasn’t sure, but he noted it likely was “something to the effect that America liberty is superior to and incompatible with Shariah Law, and that Christian duty of loving the enemy is superior to and incompatible with Jihadist duty to commit suicide during the mass-murder of innocent women and children dishonorably and indiscriminately, without warning, from ambush.”
And while a new Scout troop was found the very next day, the experience left a bad taste in Wright’s mouth despite his desire to forgive the slight:
But my son is not prepared for betrayal by people, such as Christian pastors, such as his own scoutmaster, whom I taught him to trust, respect and obey.
The world where chaplains will denounce you for being Christian, or Boy Scouts will expel you for being patriotic, is a new world to him.
When a Leftist Christian has to decide between Leftism and the teachings of Christ, he goes Left. When a Leftist Scout has to decide between Leftism and the teachings of Robert Baden Powell, he goes Left. Leftist put Leftism before all other loyalties.
Perhaps the lesson with [sic] toughen his spirit.
Wright then dug deeper into the flaws of the left, which he incisively characterized as more than a “political movement,” since a “political movement would be satisfied with political power.” No, Wright pointed out, the left wants something more:
All an outside observer can tell is that their words are always, always, always contrary to their actions.
In the name of liberating women, they urge mothers to commit infanticide.
In the name of antifascism, they commit fascism.
In the name of alleviating poverty, they enact minimum wages laws to increase unemployment.
In the name of lowering health care costs, they enact rationing which creates shortages which raises costs.
In the name of equality, they enact socialism, erect barbed wire walls, and make whole nations into prison camps.
In the name of safety, they hamper the Second Amendment which makes free men safe.
In the name of liberty, they forever expand the state.
“Hypocrisy is the point of Leftism,” Wright continued. “Cease to wonder how many atrocities of communism or jihadism it will take for the Left to wake up and realize who is their true enemy. If they wished to wake up, they would not be Leftists to begin with. Leftism is a sleeping potion, a morphine meant to numb the senses and silence the conscience, so that the soul can die without pain.”
And control is the name of the game:
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Colorado Just Gave Muslim Terrorists Bad News. Every State Should Do This.
Terrorism is something that we cannot ignore. People around the world are forced to deal with the reality of extremists in their midsts, so the best thing we can do is prepare.
In this case, Colorado teachers are taking steps that make them the first line of security for the students as well. Dennis Michael Lynch reports that these teachers are taking a three-day course that covers both first response situations as well are firearms training. The amazing course is called FASTER, which stands for Faculty/Administration Safety Training and Emergency Response.
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DHS John Kelly Defunds, Disinvites Islamic Groups Favored by Barack Obama
Administration officials have eliminated 2016 plans to fund Islamic groups allied to former President Barack Obama, and declined to schedule a 2017 Islamic ‘Iftar’ dinner where those groups were able to show their political influence to the ambassadors of wealthy Islamic countries.
The turnaround was made public on Friday when the Department of Homeland Security announced a revised list of the organizations which are getting DHS funds to help revent young Muslims from becoming jihadis. The new list replaced an Obama list announced January 13, 2017, and it dropped a $800,000 grant for an Islamic seminary in Los Angeles, and a $393,000 grant for a linked organization, the Muslim Public Affairs Council Foundation.
The foundation is a spin-off of the D.C.-based Muslim Public Affairs Council, whose leaders were frequent advisors to Obama and his deputies, where they lobbied for a national strategy of letting semi-segregated Islamic political communities and groups — but not the FBI — play the leading role in combating Islamic terrorism.
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Elon Musk: The Only Way to Save Humanity is to Turn it Into the Borg
Elon Musk is a busy guy. He’s developing electric vehicles, self-driving cars, tunnel-boring infrastructure technology, and re-usable rockets (with the goal of getting humans to Mars). Given Musk’s ambitiousness, it’s not totally surprising that he is also launching a company that will look into ways to link human brains to computers. Musk reportedly plans to spend 3-5% of his work time on Neuralink, which will develop technology to integrate brains and computers as a way to fix medical problems and eventually supercharge human cognition.
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Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads
Google is stopping one of the most controversial advertising formats: ads inside Gmail that scan users’ email contents. The decision didn’t come from Google’s ad team, but from its cloud unit, which is angling to sign up more corporate customers…
Ads will continue to appear inside the free version of Gmail, as promoted messages. But instead of scanning a user’s email, the ads will now be targeted with other personal information Google already pulls from sources such as search and YouTube. Ads based on scanned email messages drew lawsuits and some of the most strident criticism the company faced in its early years, but offered marketers a much more targeted way to reach consumers.
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Judge Jeanine: The Left’s Hate is a ‘Danger to us All’
During her Saturday “Opening Statement” on Fox News Channel’s “Justice,” host Jeanine Pirro responded to the rise in the left’s calling for violence against President Donald Trump, calling the Democratic Party a “party of hate and destruction.”
“[W]e are now in a danger zone of complete hatred and chaos unlike anything we’ve witnessed in American history,” Pirro stated. “The normalization of calling for the assassination, decapitation or the beating of any president is simply shocking. And it is the extension of this hatred that trickles down and motivates people like the shooter of Congressman Scalise. That shooter wasn’t crazy. That’s too easy. He hated Republicans and thought they should die.”
“I worry, though, and you should all worry for our president and all elected officials… The trickling down of hate is a danger to us all,” she added.
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Losing: The Failing New York Times Set to Lay Off More Staff, Including Reporters
Peddling fake news does not, in fact, equate to a long-term successful business strategy, reporters for The New York Times are learning the hard way.
The Gray Lady, which many in the media class consider the pinnacle of the information business, is struggling so much financially that reporters are expected to be laid off from the publication, along with many editors, the New York Post reports.
“Reporters at the New York Times could soon be ‘vulnerable’ to the ax,” the Post’s Keith Kelly wrote. “If the ongoing round of voluntary buyouts being offered to editing staff does not get enough takers, the Gray Lady could begin another round, NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet recently warned his top department editors.”
Kelly reported that as part of an ongoing restructuring at the Times-which has been happening since early 2017-a whopping 109 copy editors have already been terminated while only 50 new jobs are likely to be created as the paper shifts its focus to digital. Kelly wrote:
[Comment: Digital won’t save them as long as they continue to create fake news.]
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Man Threatened to ‘Smash’ Women With Rock at Hippie Hollow, Police Say
AUSTIN — A Katy man allegedly threatened three women with a rock while at Hippie Hollow Park on Sunday, police say.
The arrest affidavit for Hamza Ahmad Manzoor, 24, states that around 1 p.m. June 18, an officer on bike patrol began following Manzoor and three other men after the officer became concerned the group may be harassing other park visitors. When Manzoor’s group approached a restroom in the park, the affidavit states the officer was approached by two witnesses who claimed they were harassed by a man in the group, later identified as Manzoor.
The officer noted in the affidavit that they continued to follow the group and heard Manzoor yelling at two women playing in the water, and that one woman was telling Manzoor and another person in his group to leave them alone. The affidavit states the officer saw Manzoor pick up a rock around the size of a 12-ounce can and say “I will [expletive] smash you!” while holding the rock over his head and moving toward the water.
According to the affidavit, the officer jumped the fence and ran toward Manzoor while yelling for him to get on the ground. After detaining the men, the officer interviewed the woman in the water and one woman on the shore. The woman on the shore told police she observed Manzoor pick up and rock and stated she heard him yell “I am going to [expletive] smash your skull in!” while running toward the shore.
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Muslim Teacher Wants School Board President Canned for Calling Him ‘Anti-American’ On Twitter
An Arizona teacher has started a Change.org petition calling for the ouster of his district school board president — because she insulted him on social media.
The Twitter exchange between Barry Goldwater High School teacher Aude Odeh, a Palestinian-American Muslim, and Deer Valley Unified School District board president Kim Fisher erupted soon after Odeh responded to Fisher’s tweet about what she deemed a deceptive article about President Trump.
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NSA Uses Trick to Spy on Americans
The government is spying on most Americans through our computers, phones, cars, buses, streetlights, at airports and on the street, via mobile scanners and drones, through our credit cards and smart meters, televisions, dolls, and in many other ways.
Yesterday, ZDNet reported that the NSA uses a trick to get around the few flimsy American laws on spying … they shuttle internet traffic overseas so they can pretend they’re monitoring foreign communications:
A new analysis of documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden details a highly classified technique that allows the National Security Agency to “deliberately divert” US internet traffic, normally safeguarded by constitutional protections, overseas in order to conduct unrestrained data collection on Americans.
According to the new analysis, the NSA has clandestine means of “diverting portions of the river of internet traffic that travels on global communications cables,” which allows it to bypass protections put into place by Congress to prevent domestic surveillance on Americans.
One leaked top secret document from 2007 details a technique that allows the intelligence agency to exploit the global flow of internet data by tricking internet traffic into traveling through a set and specific route, such as undersea fiber cables that the agency actively monitors. [Comment: Following the law, but violating the spirit. Par for the course… Only solution is total end to end encryption built into the internet.] ==========
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/26324-cnn-spins-depp-assassination-threat-blames-trump
CNN Spins Depp Assassination Threat, Blames Trump
cnn-spins-depp-assassination-threat-blames-trumpA CNN segment on Johnny Depp’s remarks about assassinating President Trump was little more than a thinly-veiled attempt to use the moment to smear the president and his supporters. On Friday morning, host Kate Bolduan and guests Guy Cecil, head of the Democratic SuperPAC, Priorities USA and CNN political commentator Keith Boykin — who is also a former Clinton White House aide — somehow managed to turn a threat against the president’s life into an indictment of the president.
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Ohio, Long Island Town, And John Kasich Targeted in ISIS Propaganda Hack
Websites belonging to a Long Island town and the Ohio state government were hacked Sunday to broadcast ISIS propaganda, according to reports.
“Anti: Govt all word. You will be held accountable Trump, you and all your people for every drop of blood flowing in Muslim countries,” read the messages, according to local ABC affiliate WKYC.
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The Latest: Coroner Apologizes for Misidentifying Body
SANTA ANA, Calif. — The Latest on a mix-up by a Southern California’s coroner’s officer that led a family to bury a man wrongly identified as their son (all times local):
7:00 p.m.
An official is apologizing to a family who buried an unidentified man that was wrongly identified by the coroner’s office as their son.
Sheriff’s Lt. Lane Lagaret, a spokesman for the coroner’s office, says in a statement Saturday that the department extends regrets to the family of 57-year-old Frank Kerrigan “for any emotional stress caused as a result of this unfortunate incident.”
Kerrigan’s parents buried a body identified by officials as their son on May 6. Eleven days later, a family friend called them to say their son was alive.
Lagaret says the Orange County Sheriff’s Department is conducting an internal investigation into the mix-up.
He says that all identification policies and procedures will be reviewed to ensure no misidentifications occur in the future.
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Dual Canadian Citizens Will No Longer Lose Citizenship if Convicted of Terrorism Under New Bill
OTTAWA-A Liberal bill that would make it easier for people to become Canadian citizens has passed the Senate, after over a year of back-and-forth in Parliament.
Bill C-6 was designed to repeal many of the previous Conservative government’s changes to how people become citizens — and how they can lose that status.
Among other things, the legislation repeals a provision that strips dual citizens of their Canadian status if convicted of terrorism, treason or espionage.
But far more people lose their citizenship because it was obtained fraudulently and current law gives them no right to appeal, something not addressed in the Liberals’ original bill.
The Senate proposed adding such an appeal and the Liberals agreed to that and several other amendments late last week. Article Continued Below
The bill went back to the Senate and after a brief debate, passed by a vote of 51-29.
Former immigration minister John McCallum introduced the bill in 2016, following through on a Liberal campaign promise that had in part spawned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s famous “A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian” line during the heated debates of the 2015 election.
The issue was the Conservatives’ citizenship law, which allowed for stripping citizenship from dual nationals convicted of certain serious crimes.
It has been applied to one person: Zakaria Amara, convicted for his role in a 2006 terror plot in Toronto and his citizenship is now likely to be reinstated.
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Jordan Peterson Exposes the Postmodernist Agenda
Communist principles in postmodernism were spread under the guise of identity politics
Communism was not popularized in the West under the direct banner of communism. Instead, it came largely under the banner of postmodernism, and aimed to transform the values and beliefs of our societies through its Marxist idea that knowledge and truth are social constructs.
Under it, a new wave of skepticism and distrust was applied to philosophy, culture, history, and all beliefs and institutions at the foundations of Western society.
The postmodern philosophy “came into vogue” in the 1970s, according to Jordan Peterson, Canadian clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, “after classic Marxism, especially of the economic type, had been so thoroughly discredited that no one but an absolute reprobate could support it publicly.”…
“The people who hold this doctrine—this radical, postmodern, communitarian doctrine that makes racial identity or sexual identity or gender identity or some kind of group identity paramount—they’ve got control over most low-to-mid level bureaucratic structures, and many governments as well,” he said. “But even in the United States, where you know a lot of the governmental institutions have swung back to the Republican side, the postmodernist types have infiltrated bureaucratic organizations at the mid-to-upper level.”
“I don’t think its dangers can be overstated,” Peterson said. “And I also don’t think the degree to which it’s already infiltrated our culture can be overstated.”
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Scientific Expeditions Get Stuck in Arctic and Antarctic Ice
The science team of Canadian Research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen involving 40 scientists, five universities and $17 million in taxpayer funding to study climate change canceled the first leg of the 2017 Arctic expedition due to extreme ice condition in the south.
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Blow for EU as Czechs Reject Eurozone Entry: ‘Just 30% Want it’
While financial experts say they country could sign up as the general conditions are right, leader Milos Zeman has said that the people are against the move.
He said: “We have been fulfilling the Maastricht criteria, but there is a mental barrier to its adoption. A mere 30 per cent of Czechs are in favour of entering the eurozone.”
The governor of the Czech Republic’s central bank, Jiri Rusnok, has also said that the country is ready to adopt but added that it might be better to wait until wages and prices approached those of the bloc’s core members.
According to Mr Rusnok, the Czech Republic is ready to give up the koruna but many believe it will not happen for at least five to 10 years.
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Eastwood’s Terrorism Film: “He’s Not Going to Sugarcoat It”
FORMER CARMEL Mayor Clint Eastwood became famous playing fictional tough guys like Rowdy Yates and Dirty Harry. Lately, he’s achieved even greater fame as the director of films about real-life heroes — including Iraq vet Chris Kyle and pilot Sully Sullenberger.
Now, Eastwood is working on his next project, about three friends who stopped a terrorist attack two years ago on a train in France. One of them, a U.S. Air Force enlisted man named Spencer Stone, did something very few people have done and lived to tell about: Without a weapon or anything to defend himself, he charged a fanatical and heavily armed enemy, knocking him to the ground. And then he and his friends, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler, disarmed the man and rendered him unconscious, saving dozens, if not hundreds, of innocent lives in the process.
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Italy: Milan Mayor Sala Probed Over Expo Trees Contract
Former World Fair commissioner feels ‘deep bitterness’
(ANSA) — Milan, June 23 — Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala is under investigation for alleged bid rigging in relation to a contract to supply trees to Milan Expo 2015. The mayor, the former commissioner of the World Fair, was already being probed in a separate investigation into another contract for Expo.
“I just feel great bitterness, above all when I think about how much I sacrificed to make Expo a great success for Italy and Milan,” he said.
“In any case, I will find the motivation to continue to do my job at the service of the city with the maximum dedication possible”. The centre-left mayor said he would not comment on prosecutors’ work. But he did complain that, as in the previous case, he found out about the probe via the media.
“Unfortunately, history is repeating itself,” he said. “Once again a newspaper article gives news of a procedure that regards me and which is still covered by investigation confidentiality,” he said.
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Italy: VIP Bars Among Venues Seized in Rome Anti-Mafia Op
Assets worth 280 mn confiscated, 23 arrested
(ANSA) — Rome, June 23 — Carabinieri police seized assets worth around 280 million euros and began to execute arrest warrants for 23 people in a mayor anti-mafia operation in Rome on Friday. The suspects are accused of belonging to two criminal gangs practicing extortion, loan-sharking, money laundering and fraud. The seized assets included venues popular with VIPs, such as the ‘Mizzica’ bars in Via Catanzaro and Piazza Acilia, ‘Macao’ in Via del Gazometro and the ‘Babylon Cafe’ chain.
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NHS: The Struggle to Rescue the Sacred Cow of British Politics
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Labour’s recent campaign to “save our NHS” was about more than a crisis of funding and management. It appealed to a simmering national fear, blaming failures of the system on “creeping privatization” under Conservative reforms. Meanwhile, many experts dispute the “privatization” threat.
The NHS has been dogged by a growing number of crises.
This winter, the Red Cross stepped in at overcrowded hospitals where emergency patients were abandoned for hours on trolleys in corridors. The treatment delays resulted in two deaths. The Red Cross labeled the situation a “humanitarian crisis.”
It was the third winter in a row in which the seasonal rise in illnesses had tipped over already-teetering services.
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One Million Child Victims of Muslim Rape Gangs in the U.K.?
This report was published in 2015 but is important to republish to demonstrate the scale of the problems in Britain. Bear in mind that the claims of one million children in the country being victims of Muslim rape gangs is not exposed by a conservative but by a member of the pro-migration and left-wing Labour party, MP Sarah Champion. It was impossible in the past for people to come out and expose these problems due to relentless liberal attacks and violence to shut people down.
In a gut-wrenching development, it may turn out that last year’s report detailing a decade-and-a-half of sexual exploitation inflicted on at least 1,400 children from Rotherham, England-and the PC-driven effort to cover it up-may represent the proverbial tip of the iceberg. The city’s Labor MP Sarah Champion believes as many as one million children may have been victimized, describing it as a “national disaster” that requires the establishment of a task force to deal with the “horror.”
Champion picks up the story following the release of a report, titled “The Independent Inquiry Into Child Exploitation in Rotherham, 1997-2013.” “The day after the first report broke the victims started coming to me,” she told the Daily Mirror. “They couldn’t go to the police, they couldn’t go to the (Rotherham Borough) Council. So who do you go to?” “For the first three weeks I generally thought I was losing my mind. I nearly lost my mind because of the level of depravity and horror,” she continued. “Listening to what these, now women, had gone through and how they were just left discarded, to flounder on their own. It was utterly mind-blowing and then the problem I had was that I was getting new cases coming to me, ones that hadn’t been reported which they wanted me to report. But I didn’t know who I could trust in the police to report it.”
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Polish Army Helicopter Crashes in Veneto
Six military personal, including French national, get out alive
(ANSA) — Padua, June 22 — A Polish army helicopter crashed at Massanzago, in the Veneto province of Padua, during an exercise on Thursday, sources said. The six military personnel aboard, five Poles and a French national, got out alive and did not suffer serious injury, the sources said. The aircraft was part of a group flying in formation when the officials on board spotted flames.
The pilot attempted an emergency landing in a field but the aircraft hit the ground hard and caught fire after the impact. Firefighters have put out the blaze.
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Pope Supports Merkel on Africa, Migrants and Climate Change
Vatican reiterates its No to building new walls. Merkel, “Francis encouraged me to find global solutions”
Pope Francis and Angela Merkel share the same aim to “bring down walls,” not build them, and agree on the importance of international treaties and commitment to Africa. This is what emerges from the encounter — a “cordial discussion”, as the Holy See defines it in a brief communique — between Pope Francis and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, received yesterday with her husband, Joachim Sauer in the Vatican apostolic Palace.
Issues of common interest such as fighting terrorism, poverty and hunger, with special regard for the upcoming G20 meeting in Hamburg, were addressed in the private audience that lasted about 40 minutes. Merkel thanked the Pontiff for receiving her once again- this was Chancellor Merkel’s fourth private audience out of the six overall meetings — and she described the encounter as “an honor and an opportunity”…
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Romania Has Become EU’s Main Cereal Exporter, KeysFin Study
7.15 million tons of grain from the 2016-2017 harvest
(ANSA) — BUCHAREST — Romanian agriculture continues the sustained evolution, amid the significant investments of recent years. According to a KeysFin study, the cereal production has doubled over the past seven years, from RON 8.34 billion in 2009 to RON 16.1 billion in 2015.
At end-May 2017, Romania became the main cereal exporter in the European Union. The domestic companies exported 7.15 million tons of grain from the 2016-2017 harvest. Of these, over 5 million tons were wheat exports.
Currently, over 7,000 companies with over 40,000 employees work in the domestic agriculture sector on the cereal cultivation segment, underlines the research as reported by The Romania Journal.
At the same time, the number of companies has increased by almost 30 percent compared to 2009, most of them being in Timis, Constanta, Teleorman, Ialomita, Calarasi, Braila, Arad, Tulcea and Dolj. More than 300 companies were registered in Bucharest.
Beyond the obstacles, the study says, the prospects for Romanian agriculture are extremely positive, including from the macroeconomic point of view
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Spain Arrests Suspected Terrorist Financier, Recruiter
Dressed in black with bulletproof vests and handguns, their faces covered by balaclavas, a force of some 20 police officers entered an apartment building in Melilla, Spain, on Friday, June 23, to arrest a man on terrorism-related charges.
Spain’s Interior Ministry said the Moroccan man was using a corporate network to help fund the recruiting of volunteers for Islamic terrorist groups ISIS and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Police entered his apartment in the Spanish north African enclave of Melilla with dogs and investigators, immediately beginning to review books and computers, shows footage released by Spanish police.
The 40-year-old man, who has Danish citizenship, is accused of being involved in a network which has defrauded over 8 million euros ($8.9 million) through 24 companies in Denmark.
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Swedish Police: Help Us, Help Us
Sweden’s national police chief Dan Eliasson on Wednesday presented his report on the “vulnerable areas.” in the country. The situation is pitch black. Sweden now has 61 areas where everything is out of control.
– The situation is acute, says Dan Eliasson.
He is accompanied by Linda Staaf, who heads the intelligence unit at Noa (National Operational Department). She says the violence has become more serious.
– The ruthlessness is greater. Earlier one got shot in the leg to scare, now one gets shoot in the head to kill, she says.
Linda Staaf tells how children as young as 9 operate as couriers and bring weapons and drugs to older criminals. They are being drilled into a criminal environment.
– They are protecting their turf and retribution is common, she says.
– Public services suffer in these parallel societies. It has become too dangerous to enter without police protection.
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The Swedish No-Go Zones (So Far)
If you plan to visit Sweden, here is the list of areas you should avoid, where criminal Muslim gangs are gaining or are in control.
So far there are 61 areas listed by the police as “vulnerable areas.”
- Alby, Botkyrka
- Fittja, Botkyrka
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UK: 6 Injured After Car Hits Pedestrians Celebrating End of Ramadan in Newcastle
A car has plowed into a gathering of people celebrating Eid prayers to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan near a Newcastle mosque, according to local media reports cited by Russia Today. Six people have been injured and a female driver has been arrested, police said. The crash occurred outside the Westgate Sports Centre, according to a Northumbria Police statement.
Unlike a similar incident last week where a van driven by a 48-year-old man slammed into a crowd celebrating the last days of Ramadan outside a mosque in Finsbury Park, police say last night’s incident is not being treated as an act of terrorism.
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UK: BBC Targets Kids With Fake ‘Islam Means Peace’ Claim Following Finsbury Park Attack
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has published a story entitled “What is Islamophobia?” containing misleading information such as the common trope that “Islam means peace”.
Published just hours after the terrorist attack outside Finsbury Park mosque, the BBC’s article is hosted on their CBBC (Children’s BBC) website. It begins: “Following recent events in the news you might have been hearing a lot about Islam and maybe the term ‘Islamophobia’ — but what does this mean?”
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Former EDL leader Tommy Robinson has been filmed repeatedly punching a man in a Royal Ascot car park — but he claimed it was done in ‘self-defence.’
The right-wing commentator had been at Ascot yesterday when dashcam footage from a coach in a car park showed him appear to push the man to the ground.
Robinson, wearing a black suit and shirt, is then seen throwing seven punches towards the man’s head before three other men step in to separate the pair.
TR Statement- “Tommy was out with his wife yesterday at Ascot, he was followed to his coach whilst being abused, he had asked multiple times for the man to leave them alone. The man continued and dragged Tommy from the coach and hit him from behind. This short clip that’s been released doesn’t show how the altercation started. Tommy acted in self defence. The man went out of his way to get into a confrontation with Tommy whilst he was with his wife.”
Witness clip.
Here’s your witness , I’ll release full video later , why didn’t u mention this pic.twitter.com/IHnfxI6DW3
– — Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) June 25, 2017
[Comment: Typical leftist tactic. Initiate agressive behaviour, show only the video clip of the reaction and say that the other person initiated the violence. Media trying to paint Tommy in a bad light. He was out with his family minding his own business til this prat shoved himself into Tommys space verbally abusing him and physically dragging him. This prat will think twice before physically and verbally abusing someone else.]
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UK: Terrorist Who Murdered Lee Rigby Radicalises Dozens of Prison Inmates Who Vow Jihad on Release
One of the terrorists who murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby is radicalising other prison inmates who vow to become jihadists when they are released, prison sources have revealed.
Sources at Her Majesty’s Prison Frankland have told The Mirror that Michael Adebolajo, who along with fellow Islamist Michael Adebowale, murdered and attempted to behead Fusilier Lee Rigby near Woolwich Barracks in 2014, has already radicalised dozens of prisoners.
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Croatia: EU Backs Prolongation of Bank Resolution Scheme
State aid for small banks with total assets below 1,5 billion
(ANSA) — BRUXELLES — The European Commission has authorised under EU state aid rules the prolongation of the bank resolution scheme in Croatia. The scheme was initially approved in October 2016 and will continue to be available for small banks with total assets below 1.5 billion euros, only if they are found to be in distress by the competent national authorities, the Commission says in a statement.
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Exposing the History and Beliefs of This Deadly Movement
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Marx had many similar writings, many of which suggest his goal in using communism was never to help humanity, but instead to enact a sort of vengeance against heaven.
In his 1839 play “Oulanem,” believed to be named for a backward pronunciation of “Emmanuel,” an alternative biblical name for God, Marx begins with, “Ruined! Ruined! My time has clean run out! The clock has stopped, the pygmy house has crumbled. Soon I shall embrace eternity to my breast, and soon I shall howl gigantic curses at mankind. … If there is a Something which devours, I’ll leap within it, though I bring the world to ruins—the world which bulks between me and the abyss, I will smash to pieces with my enduring curses.”…
Lenin also forbade private property, and peasants throughout Russia had their food seized by the state. Lenin set strict quotas on how much was to be confiscated, and when he saw the numbers go unmet, he ordered that even seeds should be seized.
With peasants unable to plant new crops, and without a surplus of food for the winter, a man-made famine swept Russia between 1921 and 1922. According to the Hoover Institute, the famine killed between 5 million and 10 million people.
Lenin was overjoyed. According to “The Black Book of Communism,” one of his friends later recalled that Lenin “had the courage to come out and say openly that famine would have numerous positive results,” since he claimed it “would bring about the next stage more rapidly, and usher in socialism, the stage that necessarily followed capitalism.”
“Famine would also destroy faith not only in the tsar,” he added, “but in God too.”
[Below the article are many links to other articles on Communism.]
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Obama Ordered Cyberweapons Implanted Into Russia’s Infrastructure
A new report from the Washington Post today quoted a series of Obama Administration officials reiterating their official narrative on Russia’s accused hacking of the 2016 election. While most of the article is simply rehashes and calls for sanctions, they also revealed a secret order by President Obama in the course of “retaliation” for the alleged hacking.
This previously secret order involved having US intelligence design and implant a series of cyberweapons into Russia’s infrastructure systems, with officials saying they are meant to be activated remotely to hit the most important networks in Russia and are designed to “cause them pain and discomfort.”
The implants, developed by the NSA, are designed to hit Russian networks deemed “important to the adversary and that would cause them pain and discomfort if they were disrupted,” a former U.S. official told the Post.
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Delhi: Hindu Woman Trapped by Love Jihadi, Slits Throats of Husband, Mother-in-Law Under Instigation
Delhi Eid Horror:: Hindu Woman falls in ‘love jihad’ with a Muslim gym trainer, slits throats of husband, mother-in-law. She planned to kill eight family members in a Ramadan night under an instigation of her Muslim boy friend.
Prateek Jain | HENB | New Delhi | June 25, 2017:: Obsessed to be with her lover, a mother of two did not look back even once while plotting to kill eight of her family members.
Meenakshi, a Hindu resident of Jahangirpuri had fallen for her Muslim gym trainer Abdul, and then decided to get rid of her family in an attempt to unite with her Jihadi lover forever.
She sedated her in-laws, husband and children along with other family members. According to police, she allegedly went a step ahead and slit the throats of her husband and mother-in-law.
Both are in the critical condition and admitted to a hospital.
On June 20, Meenakshi was celebrating a wedding.
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Mao Zedong’s ‘Liberation’ of Chinese Women
Lauded as progressive, communist Chinese marriage policies brought tragedy and tyranny to the traditional family
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Upon seizing power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) attempted wherever possible to whittle away the traditional Chinese family. Mao Zedong’s first marriage, indeed, was an unhappy one, imbuing in him a personal hatred of the old customs. In 1950 he personally helped draft the “New Marriage Law.”
The New Marriage Law has no doubt helped endear Mao’s early rule to modern progressive discourse. It did away with overt concubinage, bride prices, and arranged marriages. Meanwhile, propaganda was rolled out to encourage marital freedom.
But as described in “China’s Bloody Century” by Rudolph J. Rummel, the Law’s enforcement between 1951 and 1955 “probably caused the greatest emotional pain and distress throughout China.”
The Dead End of Communism
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Chinese Front Operations Exposed in Australia Part of a Global Problem
Front operations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are coming to light in Australia, where a stream of local media reports are exposing the CCP’s influence over the country’s news outlets, universities, businesses, and politicians.
The Weekend Australian reported on June 10 that Australian tax dollars are helping to fund the CCP’s weapons programs, through cooperation between Australian universities and Chinese military-linked, state-owned enterprises.
“The Australian Research Council is funneling Australian taxpayer funds into research with applications to China’s advanced weapons capacity through its linkage program,” it states.
This included a $400,000, three-year grant for a research partnership between the University of Adelaide and the Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials, which is part of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China.
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Hundreds of protesters, some masked, clashed with police officers on the streets of Melbourne today as tensions between far-left and far-right wing extremist groups boiled over.
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Muslim girls in Sydney are dressed in white from head to toe as part of a hijab ceremony to signify the age when they must cover up their bodies, with an Islamic imam slamming it as Sharia law.
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Thousands of Muslims have descended in western Sydney to celebrate the end of the month of Ramadan with the Eid-al-Fitr festival.
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Academic and Islam convert Susan Carland shared her excitement at being able to drink coffee during the day again now Ramadan has ended alongside Yassmin Abdel-Magied.
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A Sydney woman has failed in her bid to sue Coles after slipping on a grape while shopping in one of their supermarkets. She had alleged she suffered neck and lower back injuries.
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Exclusive: Refugees Fight Canadians With Rocks, Bricks
Over one thousand Syrian refugees were welcomed into Hamilton, Ontario. However, one year after the newcomers arrived, local attitudes are shifting.
In one Hamilton neighbourhood 12 months ago, neighbours gathered bicycles and patio furniture for the newly arrived refugees.
They even bought soil to help the Syrians plant a vegetable garden.
But today, relations in the community are anything but neighbourly:
Complaints about boundary issues, violations of private property, unsupervised Syrian children intimidating the Canadian kids and causing adults to fear for their safety.
This week, one incident occasioned the presence of police.
A witness, Andrea, who reached out to The Rebel, rushed out of her house after hearing a commotion outside. What she found was a frightful standoff involving one of the Syrian families from down the alleyway hurlings rocks and bricks at her Canadian neighbours, with kids in the crossfire.
I talk to witnesses, alleged victims, and the accused refugees in an exclusive on-the-ground report you absolutely have to see to believe.
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Shocking Scale of Migrant Problem: One Caught Every Ten Minutes Sneaking Into UK
Previously unseen figures reveal 56,132 attempts to enter the UK illegally were made as the crisis in northern France unfolded.
The “shocking” statistics show how many illegals were intercepted by Border Force but no one knows how many made it here undetected.
Most tried to slip into the UK through Calais where hundreds have returned to try their luck again this summer.
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Swedish Asylum Centre Fires May Have Been Started by Same Person: Police
Police suspect two fires at an asylum centre near Ystad last week to have been started deliberately, but have so far not made any arrests.
The first of the two fires, on Wednesday, resulted in the evacuation of 35 asylum seekers to a conference centre just outside of the town, reports Svenska Dagbladet.
A second fire on Friday began in a different part of the same wing of the asylum facility.
“We cannot rule out the possibility of one culprit [being behind both fires],” Commissioner Denny Eriksson of Region South Police (Polisregion Syd) told Dagens Nyheter…
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‘We Didn’t Listen to Italy on Migrants’ — Macron
Lack of balance in solidarity, says French President
(ANSA) — Brussels, June 23 — French President Emmanuel Macron told an end-of-summit press conference that the EU had failed to pay sufficient attention in the past to Italy’s appeals over the Mediterranean asylum-seeker crisis. “We lacked balance on solidarity” on migrants and the economic crisis, Macron said in reference to countries hit by “asymmetric shocks”. “We did not listen to Italy about the migrant wave that was arriving,” he added. “Common EU rules are needed both for the Balkan route and the Libya one”.
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Satanism Making Comeback Through Witchcraft and Atheism: Rabbi
At the stroke of midnight on Wednesday, some 13,000 people will connect via internet in yet another attempt to cast a curse on President Donald Trump, this time on the summer solstice. Though spell-casting may seem too absurd to be taken seriously, a rabbinic authority maintains that the ‘witches’ are tapping into Satanism, a disturbing theology making a strong comeback today in the guise of atheism.
The witches are a motley collection with a mixed bag of rituals and beliefs, incorporating the arcane and the religious. The solstice curse calls for colored candles, Tarot cards, and chanting, but also allows for using Cheetos and religious amulets. As irreverent as this may seem, Rabbi Daniel Asore, who investigates the threat Satanism poses today as a member of the nascent Sanhedrin, believes the connection between witchcraft and politics is more relevant — and dangerous — than ever.
“Witchcraft, or its real name, Satanism, is explicitly a power struggle, which is why it is so readily dragged into politics. Satanism, in its essence, pits the adversary against God,” Rabbi Asore explained to Breaking Israel News. “Though this power struggle has been brewing all through history, today, when we are so close to Moshiach (Messiah), the role it is playing in politics could not be more clear.
“The politicians who believe that man can control all aspects of the world are coming from a belief system based in Satanism, whether knowingly or not.”
Rabbi Asore explained how arcane Satanism and modern materialist atheism are surprisingly similar. In both belief systems, nature, not a deity, is the supreme power. There is no God who created or stands above nature, and with no divine spark, man is simply another animal.
“Atheists, like all Satanists, see themselves as the ultimate authority, independent of any higher rule, so morality becomes entirely subjective,” he told Breaking Israel News. “Since the ‘self’ is the center of the universe, they are anarchists, believe in limiting the world population through war, abortion, and non-productive relationships. Nature has usurped God’s eternal aspect, so the individual is the ‘all’.”
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The occult mania that crested in the decades before the First World War had been intensifying throughout the nineteenth century. Its manifestations included Theosophy, Spiritism, Swedenborgianism, Mesmerism, Martinism, and Kabbalism — elaborations of arcane rituals that had been cast aside in a secular, materialist age. Reinventions or fabrications of medieval sects proliferated: the Knights Templar, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (the habitat of Yeats), and various Rosicrucian orders. Péladan belonged to the Rosicrucians, who, following sixteenth-century tracts of dubious authenticity, believed in alchemy, necromancy, and other dark arts. The more élite these groups became, the more they were prone to furious doctrinal disputes.In 1887, a feud broke out in Paris between Stanislas de Guaïta, of the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose + Croix, and Joseph Boullan, a defrocked priest who was rumored to have sacrificed his own child during a Black Mass. When Boullan died, in 1893, Huysmans accused Guaïta and Péladan of having killed him with black magic. In Huysmans’s 1891 novel, “La-bas,” a character observes, “From exalted mysticism to raging Satanism is but a step.”
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U.S. Ambassador: ‘As an American, I Have to Support Gay Marriage All Over the World’
The Obama-appointed ambassador to Romania, Hans Klemm, has stoked a national debate on the role of U.S. diplomacy abroad by openly advocating same-sex marriage as the country deliberates over a proposed constitutional amendment affirming traditional marriage.
Last month, Klemm attended a widely publicized Gay Pride march in Bucharest on May 20 to show his support for the LGBT agenda in a country where same-sex marriage is still illegal. Klemm Joined the 500 marchers who met to demand “equal rights and visibility for the LGBT community” in the event organized by Respect, Romania’s premier LGBT national lobby group.
A proposed referendum would enshrine the traditional understanding of marriage as the union of one man and one woman in the national constitution.
Last fall, Klemm explained in an interview with a Romanian news agency why he publicly pushes for gay marriage.
While acknowledging that it is a “sensitive subject,” Klemm claimed that the U.S. Supreme Court had “resolved the legal problem over gay marriage, stating that it is unconstitutional and illegal to deny civil marriage to same-sex couples.”
“Therefore, the U.S. should support gay marriage everywhere in the world,” Klemm stated.
Klemm’s overt advocacy of gay marriage has met with backlash in the conservative country, and the ambassador has been criticized for abusing his position to meddle in the internal affairs of the nation. One of the most celebrated journalists in Romania, Ion Cristoiu, the founder of the country’s most important daily newspaper, has publicly accused Klemm of being “not the ambassador of the USA but of Hillary Clinton.”
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From his Rowdy Yates days to his most recent movies, I am a fan of Eastwood and his take on life, especially his antagonism toward political correctness and no holds barred approach to policing the streets.
I just cannot wait to watch this movie – no sugarcoating and all!
On that Obama appointed Ambassador : His take on Gay, Same Sex, Homosexual or whatever take one may wish to apply to the joining of two people of the same gender together in a perversion of a ceremony that really has no founding in humanity anywhere on this planet, except in the minds of those who have descended into the depravity of Libertinism, graphically demonstrates how the Homosexual once granted the status of non-criminal behaviour and some authority, will display a tendency to normalize and promote his kind of behaviour to the point of breaking some or all of the rules of political decency and decorum in its promotion.
As his position as American Ambassador automatically excludes him from personally engaging in a foreign country’s political activities, especially of a sexual nature – what is Trump going to do about this guy who has been soiling his office ever since Obama appointed him Ambassador?
CRAZY. Our ambassadors impose our loopy belief systems on other countries and hope to be successful in diplomatic circles? Hans Klemm, appointed by Barack, needs to be recalled, though I feel better knowing he’s not nearby. Now, I fear, he’ll be off to university to teach kids to be jellyfish.
Yes, Klemm is an embarrassment.
I thought Trump already purged the dead-enders from the Ambassadorial ranks, but apparently I was wrong.
Austin is probably the only part of Texas where the enricher would not be turned into Swiss cheese with .45 ACP sized holes.
The Roman police should be allying with the Mafia against the invaders.
‘Pope’ Francis continues to be a Marxist embarrassment.
One bit of good news – Soros’ eldest son resigned from day-to-day activity:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-26/robert-soros-steps-down-president-soros-family-office
Hopefully, this resignation will somewhat dilute the focus of Soros’ plans.
I also hope young Robert uses the time to go buy a decent haircut!
Those pictures of the “celebrations” in Australia are terrifying.
The mass of bodies looks like exactly what it is – an invading army, arrived to destroy their way of life!
And the NSW Premier was there to talk to the moslem trash, shame. What’s a nice Armenian woman got in common with that trash?
Not happy unless they’re blocking streets in western kafir cities; that nonsense should be outlawed–they have their mosques and houses for that, it’s just ‘in our faces!’
Low Testosterone and the Islamization of the West.
https://youtu.be/1ANS8VbX7Sw