A man who shot himself in the head today in front of the White House fence later died of his injuries in the hospital. The man reportedly shot his phone before shooting himself. President and Mrs. Trump were in Florida at the time of the shooting.
In other news, China has announced a national plan to clean up the Internet.
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With so many goals of the CPUSA achieved and with few yet to be fully achieved, unless our nation can find its way out of the dark, the eventual result will be the abolishment of our Constitutional Republic
There has been a war going on for the hearts and minds of Americans since the first part of the twentieth century. There were those who wanted to import the Bolshevik Revolution to the United States, establishing a Communist Party, a worker’s paradise, that would rule in America. They first had to radically change our culture to allow the cancer to grow and metastasize. During the exposure of many of these communists in the late 50s, and with the cold war in full swing, Communism went underground.
Communism has re-emerged under new labels, Liberalism, Democratic Socialism and Progressivism. Since then, the Hard Left (including Hollywood, the education system, and the media) has been largely successful in turning the tables, portraying those who wanted to protect our nation from subversive activity as medieval inquisitors on witch hunts.
As a result, many of the defenders of freedom have retreated, leaving the subversives to continue their work, their goals remaining intact.
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) was established in 1919, having received substantial support and subsidy from the Soviet Union until 1989 when the CPUSA began to attack the initiatives of Mikhail Gorbachev. It has a long history, much of it closely allied with the U.S. labor movement. Stalin used the CPUSA to recruit spies after the U.S. recognized the USSR in 1933.
The following are published goals of the Communist Party USA, declared in 1963. Most of these goals, in retrospect, seemed unattainable to the observer at that time. Whether or not the bulk of the Hard Left seeks membership in the CPUSA, their objectives run parallel and persist.
To all those who think we engage in paranoia, behold your country:
[Comment: Solomon: “There is nothing new under the sun”. CPUSA would not hesitate to allow Chinese troops into the USA to quell the patriots in civil war 2.0.]
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Donald Trump’s Gun Comments All But Ensure His Defeat in 2020
Hopefully, the comments by president Donald Trump are a wakeup call for all Americans, as his statements should have all but sealed his fate in 2020. Look forward to an overly leftist dictator for president in the next election cycle, although it won’ t be much different than how Trump is acting now.
Just spewing the nonsense about confiscating law-abiding citizens guns before due process should be enough to send Trump packing in 2020. The way Trump is acting, we might as well have elected Hillary Clinton, or just given Barack Obama a third term. Unfortunately, people don’ t seem to understand that we aren’ t free and the government will do what it wants regardless of the rules it laid out for itself in the Constitution.
Laura Ingraham even tweeted that should he start coming for fundamental rights, he won’ t have to worry about being reelected in 2020.
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Man Shot Himself Outside White House, Secret Service Says
(CNN) A man shot himself in the head in front of the White House at just before noon Saturday, a Secret Service spokesperson has told CNN.
“Secret Service personnel are responding to reports of a person who allegedly suffered a self-inflicted gun shot wound along the north fence line of @WhiteHouse,” the Secret Service tweeted as the incident unfolded.
The man approached the fence line, removed a concealed handgun and fired several rounds, none of which appear to have been aimed at the White House, a Secret Service spokesperson said.
A law enforcement source told CNN the shooter shot his phone before shooting himself. No suicide note was found, but incoherent sentences were found in a book recovered on the scene, the source said.
The man has since died; no one else was injured in the incident, the Secret Service spokesperson said.
The victim suffered a single gunshot wound, and Secret Service personnel did not fire any shots, Secret Service spokeswoman Cathy Milhoan said.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, at the time and are scheduled to return to Washington on Saturday afternoon for the annual Gridiron Club Dinner.
“We are aware of the incident,” deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said. “The President has been briefed. I refer you to the Secret Service for any more information…
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Paul Joseph Watson: YouTube Censors Conservatives Because the Left Can’t ‘Compete With Us’
Infowars editor speaks out on social media censorship
InfoWars Editor-at-Large and popular conservative YouTube commentator Paul Joseph Watson joined Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Daily, Friday, to discuss YouTube’s purge of conservative, libertarian, and centrist accounts.
“Calling in from London is someone I’m very excited to talk to, Paul Joseph Watson. He’s an editor-at-large at InfoWars,” welcomed Marlow. “You probably most know him from his YouTube channel which is wildly popular, and I’m excited to talk to Paul because he’s a smart guy. This is an important topic we’re going to get into, and most importantly people don’t want me to talk to him. I’m not supposed to talk to you, Paul.”
Watson laughed, before Marlow continued, “Let’s get right into it. YouTube is threatening InfoWars in particular, they say you’re one strike away from the YouTube ban, and I’m surprised they’re even giving you fair warning.”
“Well, this all came about, and this is what’s amazing to me, Alex, as a result of basically a CNN lobbying campaign. Last week they put the article up that you just mentioned saying that we were one strike away basically from a YouTube ban, which is what happens afterwards,” replied Watson. “We’re back to one strike, by the way, they revoked one of them. This started a chain of events which people are now calling the YouTube purge.”
Watson then explained that though the purge was largely affecting right-wing accounts, there were also centrist accounts being sanctioned, noting, “Yesterday they took out Sargon of Akkad, who is a self-described liberal centrist. He’s been locked out of his account. But people who have discussed, for example, the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, that is what appears to be the moral contrived panic that YouTube took advantage of to take out many of these right-leaning accounts.”
“Just last night, Jerome Corsi, who is our bureau chief… He’s been in the White House press briefing room… His account has been completely terminated. So it seems like they’re using this contrived moral panic that came about as of the Parkland students becoming public activists, so you can’t even question them beyond the pale, they use that to then target the conservative right-leaning and even centrist accounts,” he declared. “And now, YouTube has come out and admitted that they made a mistake. That it was all just a mistake. Meanwhile, the accounts keep getting suspended… Mike Cernovich put up a public video documenting a street protest of Antifa radicals chanting death threats against conservatives, and that video got taken down for community guideline strikes. So that’s why people are calling it a purge, because it really does seem very widespread across all these different topics, and not just on the right.”
When asked if he thought free speech was deteriorating, Watson replied, “Oh, completely. This is the worst I’ve seen it in terms of social media, ever.”
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Secret Service Agents Respond After Man Shoots Himself Outside White House — Developing
The Secret Service mobilized in response to reports of what appears to be a suicide attempt outside of the White House Saturday morning.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) claims it is “fighting hate and bigotry” but the SPLC’s “hate group” list is a farce. While listing non-violent groups, like Family Research Council, Alliance Defending Freedom, American Family Association, and Liberty Counsel, the SPLC does not include groups that advocate the violent overthrow of the United States, like the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA(RCP).
The RCP openly admits it “is organizing to overthrow this system at the soonest possible time” in America and is “preparing to lead an actual revolution.” “This system of capitalism-imperialism cannot be reformed…Only an actual revolution can bring about the fundamental change that is needed.” RCP has a specific strategy for “How We Could Defeat Them,” which is neither peaceful nor metaphorical. It’s manual includes training a “revolutionary fighting force to start the all-out fight,” “utiliz[ing] equipment captured from the enemy,” “fight[ing] in ways the enemy does not anticipate,” “disrupting the concentration and utilization of [U.S.] forces and contributing to their disintegration,” and avoiding “decisive encounters … until the forces of the old order have been brought to the brink of total defeat-and then fully, finally, rout and dismantle the remaining enemy forces.” In anticipation of that total defeat of American police and troops, the RCP has already penned a “Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America,” to replace our existing Constitution, were their bloody revolution successful. In chilling Communist fashion, the 104-page manifesto would do away with due process until it had punished anyone who opposed the revolution. Yet, this organization somehow doesn’t make the SPLC’s list. This radical organization’s proposed constitution calls for the overthrow of the United States. Rather than listing real “hate groups” like the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, the SPLC has created a sham list that includes peaceful, non-violent groups.
[Comment: SPLC is aiding and abetting enemies of the Republic of the USA.]
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Stop Treating the Southern Poverty Law Center Like it’s a Respectable and Responsible Organization
YouTube has tapped the Southern Poverty Law Center to help it police objectionable content, the Daily Caller reported this week.
What a disaster. YouTube couldn’t have chosen a worse or less trustworthy partner.
The SPLC is a dishonest, irresponsible and obnoxiously partisan organization. Trusting them to decide what constitutes objectionable and “extremist” content, as YouTube’s more than 100 “Trusted Flaggers” have been asked to do, is like asking the inmates to run the asylum.
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Total BS: YouTube ‘Accidentally’ Deleted Non-Leftist Accounts
YouTube is now claiming that its censorship of non-left-leaning accounts was an accident. They are placing the blame on “over-eager moderators” and say they aren’t really censoring anyone.
Let’s call this explanation from YouTube what it is: total and complete BS.
So, let’s get this straight, YouTube: your moderators “accidentally” gave Infowars, (a channel with over 2.2 million subscribers) two strikes, banned them from uploading videos for two weeks, and threatened a complete removal of the account on accident? No one’s buying it. Least of all those who have been censored.
According to YouTube, the whole censorship was just an accident caused by inexperienced new employees.
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Canada Lent a Family $41 Million to Buy a Luxury Jet. Now the Jet is Missing.
OTTAWA — If you spot a sleek Bombardier Global 6000 business jet sporting tail number ZS-OAK, Canada would love to hear from you.
The jet belonged to South Africa’s notorious Gupta family, whose alleged corruption helped trigger the scandals that recently forced President Jacob Zuma out of office. But the Guptas bought the plane with help from a $41 million loan from Export Development Canada, or EDC, Canada’s state-owned export-import bank.
EDC was helping Bombardier Inc., the Canadian aerospace firm, land the jet sale. But that turns out to have been a poor bet: EDC now says the family defaulted on the loan in October and still owes the bank $27 million.
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If a federal election were held tomorrow, the Conservatives would win.
According to a new Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News, public reaction to a recent troubled trip by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to India two weeks ago might be a symptom of a growing problem.
Liberals would win 33 per cent of the national popular decided vote if Canadians went to the polls this weekend, while Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives would receive 38 per cent of the same vote and win the election.
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‘We Are Not the Bad Guys Here’: Protection of Property Debate Heats Up After Rural Albertan Charged
Canadians cannot shoot at someone who comes onto their property to commit a crime — and that includes warning shots — unless they feel their life is under imminent threat.
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Austrian Court Says it’s Fine to Give the Finger to Far-Right Leader
In the first paragraph of this online news article; A court has upheld the right of Austrians to give the leader of the country’s far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) the finger, officials confirmed on Thursday.
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Brits Convict Three Men Who Raised ‘Army’ Of Teen Jihadis for Wave of Terror Attacks
A British jury on Friday found three men guilty of terrorism offenses in connection with a plot to train and radicalize dozens of children who would be used to carry out terror attacks across London.
Umar Haque, 25, Abuthaher Mamun, 29, and Muhammad Abid, 27, all of East London, were arrested in 2017 following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command.
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‘Brussels Has Been Vicious and Dismissive!’ Steve Bannon Blasts EU Treatment of Britain
The former White House chief strategist said the EU’s approach to Brexit negotiations has been “nothing sort of shocking” as he predicted a hard Brexit outcome.
Mr Bannon told the Telegraph: “Brussels has been vicious and dismissive [towards the UK].
“The contempt that Brussels has shown for the mandate of the working men and women of Great Britain, who want out, has been to me nothing short of shocking.
“They haven’t accommodated anything, they have made everything as tough as possible. It’s not even been a negotiation. It’s been by fiat.”
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Germany’s Coalition Deal: The Young Activists Hoping to Derail the Agreement
Germans could be going back to the polls if members of the Social Democrats vote against a new alliance with Angela Merkel’s conservatives. The results will be announced on Sunday, and it’s a decision that pits the party’s old guard against the new, as Jenny Hill reports from Hamburg.
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Gummy Bears Are Now a Problem at German School Because They’re Not Halal
The Peter Petersen elementary school in Berlin, has a hard time keeping its educational environment neutral. The school, in the city’s migrant suburb of Neukölln, is increasingly being Islamised by students, parents and personnel.
“There are already many examples of religious bullying in the school today,” says Hildegard Greif-Groß, the headmistress of the school to the Berliner Zeitung. For example students are questioned about having a sandwich of pork ham, because according to the Koran it is forbidden, she mentions.
“Even gummy bears are not considered clean, because there is animal gelatin of cattle in it, which were not slaughtered halal”, she adds.
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Italian Election 2018 Results: When Are Exit Polls Out? When Will Results be Announced?
Europe’s recent rise — and subsequent fall — of populist movements will be put to the test today as Italians vote in a general election that could plunge the european Union into political crisis.
Polls ahead of the vote on Sunday suggested Italy could reestablish former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi as a dominant force in the country’s politics again.
But the polling data also suggests Italy could see a surge in support for the two main populist parties — Five Star Movement and La Lega, formerly known as Lega Nord.
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Italy: Far-Right CasaPound Activist ‘Attacked in Livorno’
‘Man hit in front of pregnant wife risks losing eye’
(ANSA) — Rome, March 1 — An activist of far-right group CasaPound who was reportedly attacked in the coastal Tuscan city of Livorno on Wednesday night in front of his pregnant partner risks losing an eye, the movement said on Thursday.
The man was reportedly attacked while he was trying to reattach an electoral poster that had been torn down, according to CasaPound.
The activist was “attacked by four people” carrying clubs who “hit him and then destroyed the windows of his car, inside which was his pregnant fiancée who was fortunately unharmed but in a state of shock”, CasaPound said.
The man, according to the group, is being treated at a local hospital and risks losing an eye.
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Italy: Sanctions for Not Vaccinating ‘For Ideology’ — Lorenzin
‘Must ensure safety of all kids’, March 10 deadline
(ANSA) — Rome, February 28 — Parents who don’t vaccinate their children for ideological reasons will face sanctions, Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin said Wednesday. Italy has made 10 vaccinations compulsory for school admissions. “The only families who will be sanctioned will be those who have decided not to vaccinate their children for ideological reasons,” she said.
“We must ensure the safety of all children,” she said.
A deadline for presenting vaccination certificates falls on March 10.
“The law will be rigorously applied. Those who thought we weren’t serious were grossly mistaken”. Members of the ‘no vax’ anti-vaccines movement on Wednesday evening halted a book presentation by Lorenzin. No vax militants got into the hall where Lorenzin was presenting her book, For Health and For Justice, and shouted insults against the minister and vaccinations. “How much will they give you to kill children?” and “Leave our kids alone” were some of the slogans shouted. Lorenzin stressed how science in Italy has become a “provocation” and said she would sue for slander.
There have been several no vax protests against the health ministry’s ordinance.
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Italy: Risk of M5S-League Govt — Renzi
M5s-LeU don’t have the numbers to form govt
(ANSA) — Rome, February 28 — There is a risk of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) teaming up with the anti-migrant, Euroskeptic League to form an “extremist” government, centre-left Democratic Party (PD) leader Matteo Renzi said Wednesday. “The risk of an extremist government exists,” Renzi said, “I’m not ruling out a government between (M5S founder Beppe) Grillo and the League”. Renzi added: “That’s why I’m using make your vote count, make it count, make it count”. Asked about the possibility of a government formed by the M5S and the leftwing Free and Equal (LeU) party, Renzi said “I don’t know if they want to do it, but they certainly haven’t got the numbers”.
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Italy: Teacher Who Insulted Cops Probed, May be Sacked
Woman shouted ‘Fascists you must die’ at police
(ANSA) — Rome, March 1 — A teacher who insulted police at an anti-Fascist protest in Turin a week ago is being probed and may be sacked, sources said Thursday. The woman, Lavinia Flavia Cassaro, is under investigation by Turin prosecutors for instigation to commit crimes, insulting public officers and threats. Elementary-school teacher Cassaro shouted “Cowards, you must die, Fascists” at the police who were separating anti-Fascist protesters from a neo-Fascist CasaPound rally.
Cassaro said she was not wishing death on the officers but on “the apparatus that defends Fascism”.
Meanwhile the education ministry on Wednesday said it had proposed firing Cassaro.
The sanction has been proposed “in consideration of the gravity of the teacher’s conduct”.
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Italy: Antifa Protesters Set Genoa Streets Ablaze, Face Off With Police (Video)
Antifa activists set fires and pelted police with bottles after being barred from reaching a far-right rally being held in the Italian city of Genoa. The clashes highlight political tensions ahead of Sunday’s general election.
According to local press, around 250 ‘anti-fascist’ demonstrators threw smoke bombs, started fires and clashed with municipal police on Friday. It came after authorities prevented them from confronting a far-right rally organized by CasaPound, a neo-fascist political party named after American poet and Fascist sympathizer Ezra Pound.
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Left-Wing Italian Party Holds Voting Class for Muslims Where Only Their Party is Shown on Ballots
The left-wing Italian Democratic Party (PD) held a voting class for Muslims this week in Milan, with some highlighting the fact that the party had used ballots where the only choice was the Democratic Party.
The lesson on voting was held at the Islamic Center of Milan and Lombardy earlier this week, and was facilitated by the Milan secretary of the PD Pietro Bussolati and municipal councillor Sumaya Abdel Qader Il Giornale reports.
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‘Luxembourg is a Micro-State’ Anti-EU Candidate Belittles Juncker Amid Key Italian Vote
The leader of the League party, a contender to become Italy’s next Prime Minister in the March 4 Italian election, said Mr Juncker should be reminded of his trivial political experience when it comes to who has more say on both sides of the Brexit negotiation table.
Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, Mr Salvini said: “It’s normal that in a negotiation so delicate there are elements of tension and friction, but what is unacceptable is the media campaign of criminalisation of the British vote, nor are the blackmail tactics employed by the pro-Europeans on the other side of the table.
“Besides, I’d like to remind Mr Juncker that he was only the Prime Minister of the micro-nation that is Luxembourg at the peak of his political career.
“On the other side of the table, Theresa May represents millions and millions of British voters.”
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Prisons of Pleasure or Pain: Huxley’s “Brave New World” Vs. Orwell’s “1984”
Many Americans today would quite possibly consider Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” to be a utopia of sorts with its limitless drugs, guilt-free sex, perpetual entertainment and a genetically engineered society designed for maximum economic efficiency and social harmony. Conversely, most free people today would view Orwell’s “1984” as a dystopian nightmare, and shudder to contemplate the terrifying existence under the iron fist of “Big Brother”; the ubiquitous figurehead of a perfectly totalitarian government.
Although both men were of British descent, Huxley was nine years older than Orwell and published Brave New World in 1932, seventeen years before 1984 was released in 1949. Both books are widely considered classics and are included in the Modern Library’s top ten great novels of the twentieth century.
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Swedish broadcast journalist Anna-Klara Bankel was called a “damn whore” and told not to film in the notorious Stockholm no-go suburb of Rinkeby by locals whilst recording video footage for a documentary.
Anna-Klara Bankel, who works for the Swedish public broadcaster SVT, was called a “damn whore” while attempting to interview locals on the effectiveness of recently introduced CCTV cameras in the area to combat drug dealing and other crimes.
While trying to talk to locals in the main square of Rinkeby, a man shouted: “Go away! You cannot film here. Damn it!”
Bankel replied: “Yes … there is a little unpleasant mood when you stand here.”
Shop owners who were interviewed by the television crew said that the CCTV cameras had done nothing to stop the drug dealing in the area as dealers had simply resorted to hiding drugs in the shops themselves.
Two shop workers told Ms. Bankel: “We usually report it. They hide everywhere, you cannot do anything. They do not care about the cameras in the store.”
When asked if they had confronted the dealers they claimed they had, but said: “They get angry and threaten us.”
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Switzerland: Afghan Man Held After Bomb Threat Near Bern Station
A young Afghan man was arrested in Bern on Friday following a bomb threat near the city’s train station and the discovery of “suspicious objects” in a nearby church, local police said.
Shortly after 1:30pm Bern police were informed of a bomb alert at the nearby Holy Spirit church, a police statement said.
Officers were sent to the scene and noticed a man behaving strangely.
“Initial information has identified him as an Afghan man,” police spokesman Ramona Mock told AFP.
The young man was arrested and all those inside the church were allowed to leave, but the area remained closed for several hours, police said.
Two suspicious objects found in the man’s possession were rendered harmless, the police statement added. There was no explosion or any injuries or damage.
Rail traffic was not affected but passengers were required to use an alternative entrance to the station.
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Switzerland: Bern Bomb Alert Operation Ends With One Arrest
A young Afghan man threatened to detonate a bomb on Friday afternoon in the Swiss capital’s Church of the Holy Spirit, prompting a five-hour police operation that disrupted traffic around Bern’s main train station, according to a police spokeswoman.
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Three Times the Mainstream Media Has Denied the Existence of No-Go Zones in Europe
For many years, the mainstream media has denied the existence of No Go Zones across various European countries. This is despite heavily migrant populated neighbourhoods turning into areas of high crime and danger for police and public alike.
This week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel shocked the world by admitting that even Germany, which has taken in well over a million migrants since the 2015 migrant crisis, has no-go zones.
Merkel, who was described as the “leader of the free world” by left-wing publication the Independent after the election of U.S. President Donald Trump, is only the latest European leader to recognize the problems within migrant enclaves.
[Comment: She’s just trying to get ahead of the blame, since she is the one that is pushing for open borders.]
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UK: Imams Will Condemn Yet Deep Down They Will Feel Happy, Says Thwarted London Bomber
A RADICAL Islamist convicted of recruiting child terrorists to bomb London left a damning paper trail with a string of chilling claims including “the Imams will condemn us but deep down they will be happy”.
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UK: Lloyd Gunton Locked Up for Bieber Terror Plot
A 17-year-old boy who was “hours away from committing an act of atrocity” in Cardiff has been detained indefinitely and must serve at least 11 years.
Lloyd Gunton was arrested after researching the security arrangements of a Justin Bieber concert, Birmingham Crown Court heard.
The jury was told he plotted to commit mass murder in an Islamic State-inspired vehicle attack.
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UK: Three Charged Over Leicester Shop Blast That Left Five Dead
Three men have been charged with manslaughter and arson over an explosion in Leicester that left five people dead, say police.
Three members of the same family died when the shop and flat were destroyed last Sunday.
Five people were also taken to hospital after the blast, one of whom suffered critical injuries.
Aram Kurd, of Leicester, Hawkar Hassan, of Coventry, and Arkan Ali, of Oldham, are due in court on Monday.
Two other men, both from East Anglia and who were arrested on Friday, remain in custody and are continuing to be questioned by detectives.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin: If the US Attacks Russia, He Will Use Nukes
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the United States is planning to deploy five cruisers and 30 destroyers near the Russian border. Should the US make the mistake of attacking Russia, however small the attack may be, Putin will launch nuclear weapons.
Putin’ s warning came during a state of the nation address delivered by the Russian president on Thursday, in which he presented a number of new advanced strategic weapon systems. He said he would render all anti-missile capabilities that the US currently has powerless with his new and advanced weapon systems.
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Wilders: I Criticize Putin’s Policies, But Applaud the Way He Stands for Russian People
Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician and leader of the anti-immigration Party for Freedom, says European nations lack the kind of leadership he sees in the US and Russia, where the interests of their own people are prioritized.
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Pakistan’s Catholic and Protestant Churches Condemn the Torture of a Young Christian (Video)
Sajid Masih jumped from a window in the Punjab police headquarters to escape police abuse. After days of waiting at the hospital, he was operated on his legs yesterday. Christian leaders call for an independent inquiry, demanding justice. His cousin Patras is still in custody for alleged blasphemy.
Lahore (AsiaNews) — Pakistan’s Catholic and Protestant leaders have condemned the torture inflicted on Sajid Masih, a 24-year-old Punjab Christian who jumped from the fourth floor of a police station during interrogation in the presence of his cousin Patras, 17, who is accused of blasphemy.
Christian leaders want the Supreme Court drop the case of attempted suicide and investigate what really happened, including the abuse and torture suffered by the two young men at the hands of the police.
Yesterday, the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Pakistan (CBCP) issued a statement signed by its president, Mgr Joseph Arshad; national director, Fr Emmanuel Yousaf (Mani); and executive director, Cecil S. Chaudhry.
In light of the evidence available, the letter says “The Supreme Court should take immediate Suo Motu action to withdraw the FIR* against Sajid Masih for attempted suicide because in the light of evidence he was attempting to escape from the physical and psychological torture while also being forced to sexually abuse his minor cousin. The state should conduct an independent inquiry, ensuring a fair trial and access to justice for the accused.”
The letter goes on to lament that “even in hospital he [Sajid Masih] is being discriminated against and doctors are not operating on him, making excuses and using delaying tactics”.
What is more, “security should be provided to the accused and their family in order to prevent the real and present threat of violence and take strict action against the perpetrators.”
Sajid Masih is currently in hospital in stable conditions. Yesterday he finally underwent surgery on his fractured legs. The family reports that the four-hour operation went well.
Now the major concern is a second delicate operation to the jaw. It should last eight hours, and take place some time over the next four to five days.
Sajid’s brother is grateful to Christians for showing their support and has asked them to continue to pray for the young man’s recovery.
Meanwhile, his cousin Patras is still under arrest, charged with posting blasphemous comments on Facebook.
According to the NCJP, 18 cases of blasphemy were recorded in 2017; 1.505 since 1985, often with mob attacks against religious minorities.
Pakistan’s Protestant Churches have also expressed concern, including Rev Amjat Niamat, the moderator at the Lahore Presbyterian Church of Pakistan. In a video released last Sunday, he spoke of growing insecurity among Christians.
“Our main complaint,” he says, “is that Christians accused of blasphemy are killed extra judicially, their family members are troubled and their settlements are burnt.”
Addressing Muslims, he adds: “Do you think Christians are to be cut like vegetables? We eat the same food you eat and share the same problems every peaceful patriot Pakistani faces. We do not want to push our country into a civil war or a religious war. We are deeply concerned about the misuse of this law” on blasphemy.
“We appeal to the chief justice of Pakistan, to the army chief and to the FIA director to investigate the suicide attempt case as per Sajid statement and punish those responsible,” he pleads in the video.
“Stand with us and stop the misuse of this law. I question the silence of media and big anchors. Why can’t they become our voices? We serve this country in education and healthcare but are treated as second class citizens.”
Finally, “Where are the political parties? I ask the entire Christian community to use their power of vote and unite in this difficult hour. Come out to fight for your dignity and rights or time will not forgive you. God supports those who are left helpless.”
* FIR means First Information Report, which police prepare when they receive information about a cognisable offence.
(Shafique Khokhar contributed to this article)
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China Announces ‘National Campaign to Clean Up’ Internet
The Chinese government newspaper Global Times announced a “national campaign to clean up the online environment” in an article on Friday outlining new restrictions on the content of internet advertising.
Under communist ruler Xi Jinping, Beijing has significantly expanded its censorship of online content. The Chinese Communist Party can force social media networks to take down any language they consider inappropriate and has targeted thousands of websites publishing content it deems incompatible with “socialism with Chinese characteristics.”
The Global Times notes that this censorship will soon include all advertising content.
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Delhi Tells Officials to Avoid Events With the Dalai Lama
A circular letter from the foreign secretary. The 60th anniversary of the Lhasa uprising is commemorated at the end of March. “Delicate moment in relations between India and China”. A second note clarifies that the leader of Tibetan Buddhism is “free to conduct religious activities in India”.
New Delhi (AsiaNews / Agencies) — An internal circular letter from the Indian foreign secretary to all of its government officials and political leaders has been leaked in which it asks them to “avoid participation in any event that may require the presence of the Dalai Lama”. Not only that, the same note emphasizes that it is “a very delicate period in the context of relations between India and China”.
Celebrations are planned at the end of March, in many parts of the Indian territory, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Lhasa uprising in Tibet, which forced the leader of Tibetan Buddhism into exile. However, Beijing has always accused the Dalai Lama of being a “dangerous separatist” and a “wolf dressed as a monk”.
The directive that has caused a stir was written on 22 February by Vijay Gokhale, secretary for Foreign Affairs, and addressed to P K Sinha, Union Cabinet Secretary. In turn, Sinha has issued provisions for all government officials. In the latter he affirms that “participation in events involving Buddhists in exile is not desirable”. Gokhale then wrote that such participation “must be discouraged”.
Last year a territorial dispute on the Doklam plateau in Bhutan threatened relations between the two Asian Giants which, albeit slowly improving, are always at tipping point. In particular, Beijing has never forgiven New Delhi the fact that it welcomed the Tibetan government in exile, which resides in Dharamshala, in Himachal Pradesh.
In an attempt to stem the wave of criticism, yesterday the Foreign Ministry issued another note specifying that the Tibetan spiritual leader is “granted every freedom to bring his religious activities to India”. The dicastery statement states that “India’s position on His Holiness the Dalai Lama is clear and coherent. He is an illustrious religious leader and is deeply respected by the people of India. There is no change on this position”.
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Digital Dictatorship: China Leads the Way
Is it too late for the Chinese people to escape their totalitarian technocracy?
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A mother who watched her family torn apart because of her $800-a-day ice habit has revealed her battle with the drug — as Australian towns in every state are caught up in the meth epidemic.
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Aniek Aardoom, 16, was taken out of school and into home schooling after she was brutally attacked at her high school in Queensland.
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Doctors in Kenya Performed a Brain Surgery on the Wrong Patient
A neurosurgeon has been suspended for opening up the head of the wrong patient in one of the worst cases of medical malpractice to become public at Kenyatta National Hospital.
Two men had been wheeled into KNH unconscious last Sunday.
One needed head surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain while the other only required nursing and medication to heal a trauma swelling in his head, medically known as closed head injury.
However, a horror mix-up of identification tags saw the wrong man wheeled into theatre and his skull opened.
Doctors did not realise the mistake until hours into the surgery, when they discovered there was no blood clot in the brain of the man sprawled on the operating table.
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More than 12,000 people have signed a petition asking President Donald Trump to let white people in South Africa emigrate to the U.S. amid a vote by the country’s parliament favoring a motion that could see South Africa’s constitution amended to allow for land to be stripped from owners without any compensation.
The motion, which will still need the approval of the South African Parliament’s Constitutional Review Committee before an amendment can even be drafted, has once again stoked fears among the country’s white farmers of a violent and disastrous land redistribution akin to that which crippled Zimbabwe in the 2000s. The online petition calls on Trump to “take the steps necessary to initiate an emergency immigration plan allowing white Boers to come to the United States.” Boer is the term used to describe South Africans of Dutch, German or Huguenot descent, who are also commonly referred to as Afrikaners.
The petition suggests that Trump should stop admitting refugees from Somalia and the Middle East, claiming they “cannot be properly vetted,” and allow white South Africans into the country instead.
[Comment: Watch for BLM comrades of S. Africa’s Marist government vocie their opposition.]
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93 Per Cent of Irish Locals Vote Against Plan to Dump 115 Migrants in Small Historic Town
More than nine in ten residents have voted against plans to plant 115 migrants in the small town of Lisdoonvarna, local media reports.
The Irish government says there can be “no delay” in beginning to transfer the first batch of asylum seekers it intends to accommodate in a hotel in the town of just 300 people.
But in a secret ballot held at a meeting in the County Clare town on Wednesday, 197 locals voted against the plan, compared to just 15 who voted in favour, the Irish Times reports.
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A Town That Expels Migrants and Celebrates With Cake Wants to be a Model for Italy
SESTO SAN GIOVANNI, Italy — The leaders of this blue-collar town marked an anti-migrant milestone with a pistachio layer cake this week. To commemorate what they said was the 200th migrant expelled from their town, they wrote the number on top with green frosting.
[Comment: I generally don’t like to link to The Washington Compost. But this is not a bad article about an interesting celebration.]
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Former Minister: Italy Must be Guided in Its ‘Change of Population’ Due to Immigration
Prior to Italian national elections, the country’s first black cabinet minister told Swiss radio that due to massive immigration, Italy needs to be guided in “the change in the composition of the population” that is the fruit of immigration.
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Italy’s Trump is Serious About Sending Half a Million Migrants Home After the Elections
Political campaigns in Italy are nearing the end as elections start tomorrow. Matteo Salvini of the populist Lega Party, is an outsider set to become the country’s Prime Minister.
Salvini’s programme is clear: He wants to stop Islamisation and wants he wants to put Italians first. During his campaign Salvini said several times that he wants to deport 500,000 illegal immigrants from the country.
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I guess it’s not enough for Democrats to tell their local police officers they can’t assist with the enforcement of federal law. Now Democrat mayors feel the need to actually warn criminals that federal law enforcement is coming to get them, so they’ll have a chance to get away.
Astonishing.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf did just that in recent days, giving illegal aliens in her city a heads-up that an ICE rade was probably coming. The illegals made good use of the warning. While the feds were able to nab around 150 people — many of whom had been identified as public safety threats — more than 800 remaining public safety threats remain at large thanks to Mayor Schaaf.
And the feds are calling her out for her recklessly irresponsible actions to help criminals escape the law:…
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Newcomer Euroskeptic, Anti-Migrant Party Jumps to 2nd Spot in Dutch Polls
The support for the Forum for Democracy (FVD) has increased more than 8 percent since last year’s election in the Netherlands, with the new party that wants an EU membership referendum now sharing second spot in the polls.
The FVD was founded in 2016 and received just 1.8 percent or two parliament seats in the general election last March. However, its popularity has been on the rise since then, according to a fresh survey by Dutch pollster, Peil.nl.
[Comment: The article is dated Feb 20, 2018. Nevertheless, I think its interesting.]
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Syrian Man in Germany Appears on Air With Blood on His Face After Killing Wife.
A Syrian refugee residing in Germany took to Facebook Live immediately after killing his wife on Friday, reported German newspapers.
The incident took place in the town of Mühlacker, Baden-Württemberg.
The man, who refers to himself as Abu Marwan, 41, killed his wife, 37, by stabbing her four to five times in the neck, then ran away with one of his children.
Murder is a message to all women
Abu Marwan appeared on his Facebook stream panting and bleeding due to a cut sustained in his hand. Next to him, appeared his son.
Police and public prosecutors in Karlsruhe arrested the killer shortly after he escaped the crime scene.
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Ex-Google Recruiter: I Was Fired for Opposing Hiring Caps on White, Asian Male Nerds
YouTube wanted ‘only’ women and other underrepresented groups in coding roles
A former recruiter for Google and YouTube has sued the search ad beast, claiming he was fired for objecting to hiring policies that discriminated against white and Asian men.
In a civil lawsuit filed in January in San Mateo Superior Court, plaintiff Arne Wilberg contended that he was an exemplary employee who received positive performance evaluations “until he began opposing illegal hiring and recruiting practices at Google.”
The lawsuit follows in the wake of a similar claim in January by former Google engineer James Damore, fired for penning a memo against diversity…
It claimed the manager of YouTube’s tech staffing management team, Allison Alogna, sent an email in March 2017 indicating that new level-three software engineering candidates — specifically, geeks with five years of experience or less — must be from “historically underrepresented groups.” Google sign outside Mountain View headquarters.
When presented with orders to cancel level-three software engineering interviews with anyone not either female, black, or Hispanic, and to purge applications from non-diverse employees in the hiring pipeline, Wilberg refused and faced retaliation as a result, it is claimed.
Wilberg, according to the lawsuit, “repeatedly told [his managers] that it was illegal to have such hiring quotas favoring certain groups based on race and gender, that it violated state and federal law, and that Google must immediately cease and desist from engaging, in such illegal hiring practices.”
The complaint contends that in response to Wilberg’s efforts to challenge the diversity scheme, Google “on occasion would circulate emails instructing its employees purge any and all references to the race/ gender quotas from its e-mail database in a transparent effort to wipe out any paper trail of Google’s illegal practices.”
[Comment: A company that is run like this will go downhill in the long run. Not hiring the best just to meet an artifical racial quota is stupid.]
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In most schools, the subject of logic has been lost. Therefore, the ability to analyze written and spoken material has faded into obscurity.
During my 30 years as a reporter, I’ve run into hundreds and hundreds of claims in which evidence has been lacking. I’m talking about vague, partial, and fragmentary evidence being accepted as complete.
To put it another way, people argue for a particular position, and in support of that position, they offer proof which isn’t really proof.
When you understand and can apply logic, you see through this false proof quickly.
Once upon a time, there were textbooks which listed 15 or 20 traditional logical fallacies, and students were taught how to spot those fallacies in any argument or presentation. Such students became very confident in their own analytical skills.
However, as public education descended into a stagnant pool of political correctness, fraudulent graduation rates, and “new values,” logic was diluted and discarded. It was considered an enemy of preferred group-think.
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TERF-ed Out: Radical Feminists Could be Barred From Bristol Uni Events Over Transgender Exclusion
Feminists who refuse to recognize transgender women as women could be banned from speaking at a UK university. Bristol students’ union wants to ‘no-platform’ so-called Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs).
The ‘TERF’ speakers denounce trans women as not “real,” and claim they have no authority to speak on women’s issues because they were born a different gender. Some TERFs refer to themselves “gender-critical feminists.”
The animosity between trans people and TERFs has often resulted in violent and abusive scenes. Late last year, the rival groups brawled in a central London park, resulting in injuries and a police investigation.
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What happened to those White House petitions? We must start one for White South Africans there.
Power in Russia was seized by narcocracy. The whole Kremlin uses cocaine. They even gave cocaine to Geert Wilders, once he decided that Putin defends the interests of the Russian people.
I would invite everyone to look at the Paul Joseph Watson article and go to the linked article and view the conversation between PJW and Sargon of Akkad about YouTube. It gives some major reasons why websites such as this are important because they (for now) can act independently of the SJW filters imposed at YouTube. Don’t for minute take your 1st (or 2nd) amendment rights for granted.
Please look at the Paul Joseph Watson article above and go to the linked article and view the PJW video with Sargon of Akkad
https://www.infowars.com/paul-joseph-watson-youtube-censors-conservatives-because-the-left-cant-compete-with-us/
I am sure all of you are familiar with what is happening with erosions on the 1st amendment already, but let this reinforce what exactly is being imposed on you at a national level at YouTube.