During his visit to Hiroshima — the first by an American president — Barack Hussein Obama expressed remorse for the death toll in World War Two. Mr. Obama also spoke of his hope for a world without nuclear weapons.
In other news, Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico said in an interview that Islam has no place in Slovakia.
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Trump Turns to Reagan-Era Economic Advisers to Bring American Economy Back to Life
For those who remember the record-breaking era of economic prosperity that was the Reagan years, you will be happy to learn that the Team Trump is at this very moment receiving advice from some of the most influential economic policy advisers who helped shape that Reagan-era success.
Names like Laffer, Moore, and Kudlow were once synonymous with an America that saw itself push back from the deep doldrums of the Carter economic morass, and Team Trump, with the encouragement of Trump campaign supervisor Paul Manafort, is now working to bring a version of that 1980’s success to 2017 and beyond.
“American jobs for American workers.” So goes the mantra inside the still-developing Trump economic platform. Job creation is rivaled only by the subject of national security as priorty #1 for the New York billionaire — and now Arthur Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Larry Kudlow are all on board helping to see that job creation goal go from the realm of hopeful to reality and doing so by eliminating top tier tax deductions and most importantly, expanding the tax-payer base while delivering much-needed tax relief to the long-embattled American Middle Class.
“This is really for the economy and the future of our country, and the most important election since Reagan’s election in 1980,” Moore said. “Every conversation that we have with either Mr. Trump or the Trump campaign staff, we say, ‘This is the JFK-Reagan, supply-side, tax-cutting agenda that worked to cause a big economic boom in the ‘60s and ‘80s, and we can do it again.’ “
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Arms for Adversarial Nations But Not Us
President Barack Husein Obama has wiped out a multi decade ban on selling arms to Vietnam. Part of his reasoning for lifting the ban has been his effort to place Vietnam at the center of his crappy foreign policy legacy. Mr. Obama announced that he has vowed to leave behind the troubled history between the former war adversaries and embrace a new era with increasingly prosperous nation.
Of course as is his custom with all brutal dictator nations, Muslim terrorists and others, Obama steered clear of correct condemnation of what observers see as Vietnam’s horrendous treatment of those who may disagree with government cruelties. Instead, the president praised Vietnam’s meager progress on rights in the one party state. Some rights activists have declared that his decision to lift the embargo destroyed the best United States leverage for pushing Vietnam toward correcting her abusive ways…
However, 57,000 American soldiers lost their lives in that epic battle, while over two million Vietnam fighters and others lost their lives at the hands of American military might. In fact I will venture to say that on the battle field, the U.S. was cleaning Vietnam’s clock rather severely. That is until, dumb, or unscrupulous American government officials agreed to join Hanoi negotiators at the Paris peace talks, where the U.S. was convinced to place our military at a disadvantage through horrendous rules of engagement that basically stopped our military from fighting to win…
I find it ironic that Barack Husein Obama is lifting the arms embargo against Vietnam so she can defend herself. Yet at the same time he thinks “We the People” of the United States are going to sit by and allow him to disarm our own military and abolish the second amendment. Oops, He’s already dismantled America’s military prowess.
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California Kidnapping Suspect Believed Killed in Shootout
SOLVANG, Calif. — A young man driving a car linked to the disappearance of a Northern California girl was killed Thursday after leading sheriff’s deputies on a high-speed chase and engaging in a shootout, a law enforcement official said.
Solano County Sheriff Thomas Ferrara told reporters that authorities believe the person who exchanged gunfire with officers at a Santa Barbara County mobile home park was “probably” Fernando Castro, 19, a suspect in the girl’s kidnapping.
The missing girl, 15-year-old Pearl Pinson of Vallejo, has not been located, Ferrara said. Authorities have been frantically searching for Pinson since a witness reported hearing a girl screaming for help as a man dragged her across a freeway overpass in Vallejo on Wednesday morning.
“We continue our search, and we hope to find her alive,” Ferrara said.
Authorities described the two teens as acquaintances, but emphasized that they believe Pinson was taken unwillingly…
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Edible Bug Industry Hopes Crickets and Kin Are the Next Sushi
Just like raw tuna is a favorite of foodies everywhere, Robert Nathan Allen foresees a day when crickets will make their way onto consumers’ plates.
A growing need for more food sources as well as a desire to treat animals more humanely have proponents predicting entomophagy, or eating insects, will eventually spread more heavily to western and developed countries. They envision pancakes made with cricket flour or falafel chocked full of mealworm goodness will be just as desirable as sushi.
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by Srdja Trifkovic
At a press conference at the G-7 summit in Japan on May 26, President Barack Obama declared that world leaders are “rattled” by Donald Trump, “and for good reason. Because a lot of the proposals that he’s made display either ignorance of world affairs or a cavalier attitude or an interest in getting tweets and headlines instead of actually thinking through what is required to keep America safe.”
This statement is remarkable not only for its eccentric syntax and convoluted logic. Obama assumes that 226 million Americans eligible to vote this year should take note of the fact that his G-7 colleagues—Messrs. Hollande, Trudeau, Abe et al—are unnerved, shocked, or put off by the Republican candidate, and that this should influence their decision next November. It should not: the election is an American affair, and it is offensive to suggest otherwise. Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Jimmy Carter in 1980 could have made the same argument, yet for all their faults they sensed how impertinent it would have been to do so . . . but those were different times.
Obama’s statement is additionally irritating in view of the fact that three of his eight fellow-summiteers are unelected. Socialist Matteo Renzi is the third successive prime minister of Italy to be appointed through backroom deals in the country’s parliament; the last real “leader” to be elected to that post was Silvio Berlusconi, back in 2008. Luxemburger Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, was nominated by the European Council in 2014 and duly confirmed by the “European Parliament,” an institution chronically devoid of democratic legitimacy. In that same year, former Polish prime minister Donald Tusk was appointed president of the European Council by the Council itself.
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Harry Reid Given the Retirement Salute He So Richly Deserves, Courtesy of Sen. Tom Cotton
Senator Tom Cotton on Senator Harry Reid: “As a junior Senator I preside over the Senate, I usually do it in the morning, which means I am forced to listen to the bitter vulgar incoherent ramblings of the Minority Leader. Normally, like every other American, I ignore them. I can’t ignore them today, however.” He also says, ““The happy byproduct of fewer days in session in the Senate is that this institution will be cursed less with his cancerous leadership.”
[Comment: Watch this video.]
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Hillary Clinton Admits U.S. Created Al Qaeda, ISIS
Why isn’t the Mainstream Media (MSM) in America reporting the fact that Hillary Clinton admitted in public that the U.S. government created Al Qaeda, ISIS, Al Nusra, etc.? Why does the MSM refuse to tell the American people that the United States has not ever actually fought ISIS but instead has surreptitiously and very actively supported ISIS and the other radical Muslim terrorists in the Middle East? Why has the media refused to reveal the fact that ever since Russia started to fight a true offensive war against ISIS the terrorist organization has been reduced to almost half?
I’ll tell you why: the MSM is nothing more than a propaganda machine for the U.S. government—no matter which party is in power. The MSM doesn’t work for the U.S. citizenry. It doesn’t even work for its corporate sponsors. It works for the Washington Power Elite permanently ensconced in D.C. (and yes, those same Power Elite control most of those media corporate sponsors).
It is a sad reality that if one wants to get accurate news reporting, one must mostly bypass the U.S. propaganda media and look to sources outside the U.S. Here is a Canadian publication that covered the Hillary admission:
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Think it through, folks: the U.S. government creates the radical Islamic terror networks that justify America’s “Global War On Terror” which directly results in millions of refugees (and no doubt plants terrorists among them) flooding Europe. At the same time, it purposely refuses to protect our own borders and even forces states and local communities to accept hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees (but the government is not sending any Christian refugees to America, even though a sizable percentage of the refugees include Christians also) and pushes NATO to the doorstep of Russia, which to any objective observer could only be regarded as an overt incitement to war.
[Comment: There are two USA’s. One constitutional, the other controlled by banksters whose organization overlays and infiltrates the first. The 2nd USA agenda is secretly implemented using the resources and people of the first USA. In Hollywood terms, the USA government has been infiltrated by a group of elites akin to SPECTRE.]
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Link Between Cell Phones and Cancer is Real, According to Major Government Study
Rats developed brain tumors
(WSJ) A major U.S. government study on rats has found a link between cellphones and cancer, an explosive finding in the long-running debate about whether mobile phones cause health effects.
The multiyear, peer-reviewed study, by the National Toxicology Program, found “low incidences” of two types of tumors in male rats that were exposed to the type of radio frequencies that are commonly emitted by cellphones. The tumors were gliomas, which are in the glial cells of the brain, and schwannomas of the heart.
“Given the widespread global usage of mobile communications among users of all ages, even a very small increase in the incidence of disease resulting from exposure to [radio-frequency radiation] could have broad implications for public health,” according to a report of partial findings from the study, which was released late Thursday.
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Mississippi: Whites Ordered to “Integrate”
Two Cleveland, Mississippi, schools which are only 40 percent white have been ordered to forcibly mix with neighboring 99 percent black schools-because the US Department of Justice still thinks they are too white.
A judge ruled that the town must merge its two high and middle schools to provide the “constitutionally guaranteed right of an integrated education.”
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Obama Calls for Reduction of Nuclear Stockpiles in Historic Hiroshima Visit
President Barack Obama called on nations to “escape the logic of fear” and reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons as he became the first sitting U.S. President to visit Hiroshima, Japan Friday.
Obama did not apologize for or second-guess President Harry Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, accelerating the end of World War II.
But speaking in the place where the nuclear age began, Obama said the memory of the 140,000 people killed on Aug. 6, 1945, “must never fade … We stand here in the middle of this city and force ourselves to imagine the moment the bomb fell … we listen to a silent cry.”
“Death fell from the sky and the world was changed,” Obama said, adding that the destruction of Hiroshima “demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself.”
During his remarks, Obama included both South Koreans and American prisoners of war in recounting the death toll at Hiroshima — a nod to advocates for both groups that publicly warned the president not to forget their dead.
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Obama Calls for World Without Nuclear Bombs in Hiroshima Speech
Nearly 71 years after U.S. forces dropped a devastating nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, President Barack Obama used the backdrop of the city’s memorial peace park to call for a world without such weapons.
“That is a future we can choose,” Obama said in a speech on Friday after laying a wreath at the site, with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by his side. “A future in which Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known not as the dawn of atomic warfare but as the start of our own moral awakening.”
While not apologizing for America’s use of atomic weapons during World War II, Obama expressed remorse for the human toll of that war, and others throughout human history. He said the souls of the innocents who died “speak to us” and call for introspection about how to restrict the use of defense technology.
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Secret Text in Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access to Email Records
A provision snuck into the still-secret text of the Senate’s annual intelligence authorization would give the FBI the ability to demand individuals’ email data and possibly web-surfing history from their service providers without a warrant and in complete secrecy.
If passed, the change would expand the reach of the FBI’s already highly controversial national security letters. The FBI is currently allowed to get certain types of information with NSLs — most commonly, information about the name, address, and call data associated with a phone number or details about a bank account.
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These are the amazing scenes as special forces operatives fast-rope down from a Blackhawk helicopter to rescue a Florida mayor as part of a dramatic training exercise.
The heavily armed troops threw coiled ropes from the helicopter before sliding down to the ground in an impressive show of military force.
The event was part of the International Special Operations Forces Week 2016 in Tampa, Florida…
Troops from 15 nations, including the United States took part in the event.
As part of the exercise, Mayor of Tampa Bob Buckhorn was rescued from ‘pirates’ and allowed to celebrate by firing a .50 caliber machine gun towards the crowd — although the weapon was only loaded with blanks.
[Comment: Training to rescue traitorous elites from “dissidents” armed with pitchforks. All this BS about “pirates or zombies … guess what.they mean you…the patriotic citizen. Note how the mayor “celebrates” by pointing a .50 cal gun at the crown and firing. Incredibly, audience doesn’t realize they’ll be the target someday as they are declared enemies of the USSA.]
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Study: Cell Phone Radiation Can Damage Eyes Cause Early Cataracts
While scientists across the globe are still debating whether cell phone radiation exposure results in brain tumors, a new study carried out by scientists at Charotar University of Science and Technology (CHARUSAT) has revealed that cell phones also affect eyes.
“The wavelength of wireless signals (which is about 2 to 2.5 cm) used for cell phones and other wireless terminals matches with that received by the human eye. The dielectric constant (absorption capacity) of eye tissues is around 70 which is greater than unity (above 50). This means that the eye can absorb electromagnetic energy very quickly,” explains Dwivedi.
These scientists have also recommended that a mobile handset should be kept as far as possible from the eye. “It should not be used more than is necessary. A user should avoid use of mobile in rural areas or a car where the cell phone uses more power and the SAR value can be ten or hundred times higher than the normal,” they suggest.
“The problem is not that the eye absorbs the energy, but that the heat absorbed by the eye does not get transmitted or radiated out of the body,” says Dwivedi, adding that prolonged usage of cell phones can affect retina, sclera, lens, cornea as well as vitreous humour which are parts of the human eye.
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The Communists Protesting Trump; Update on Albuquerque’s Police Horses
Six police officers were injured and a horse was knocked over during a “protest” against Donald Trump in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Spokeswoman Celina Espinoza said “every APD officer who responded was hit by rocks or debris.”
The horses are doing fine (see below).
The mainstream media has completely hidden the fact that the vast majority of anti-Trump protesters were “organized” by radical communist groups.
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Donald Trump has hit out at ‘thugs’ and ‘criminals’ who protested a rally in Albuquerque last night which turned violent when demonstrators trying to disrupt his speech clashed with riot police, set fire to flags and sent people running in fear over the sound of a ‘gunshot’.
Around 100 protesters broke through a barricade outside the building shortly after Trump took to the stage, trying to throw rocks through a window and at police, and setting fires on the street outside.
One officer said that a shot was fired from a pellet gun, and a second officer said it was a bullet — though subsequent reports have cast doubts over the ‘gunfire’.
Smoke canisters erupted through the streets as police tried to surround the protesters, while multiple officers are being treated for injuries and one protester has been arrested, police told Daily Mail Online. Protesters were also reportedly chanting ‘Viva Mexico’ while setting fire to pro-Trump flags.
Trump took to his Twitter account on Wednesday morning to say: ‘The protesters in New Mexico were thugs who were flying the Mexican flag. The rally inside was big and beautiful, but outside, criminals!’
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Two US Navy F-18s Crash in the Atlantic Off North Carolina’s Outer Banks
Officials claim they were involved in an “in-flight mishap”
Two of the US Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets have crashed off the coast of North Carolina on Thursday, the US Coast Guard confirmed. Their crews have been recovered and taken to a hospital.
Four people have been recovered and taken to the Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, the Virginian-Pilot reported citing Coast Guard Petty Officer Fagal Nifin.
Nifin said the extent of the crew members’ injuries is “unknown.” One of the crew had a leg injury, reported WCTI.
[Comment: Bill Clinton allowed China to build the computers for the FA18.]
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University Admins Surrender to Violent Protesters, Shutter Event
If you know a good constitutional law professor, please introduce me to her. I’m confused about the First Amendment, and I need answers.
Until yesterday, for example, I never realized that forcibly shutting down a private speaking event was considered free speech. I was also surprised to learn that assaulting a police officer is now a form of protest. It certainly never occurred to me that making violent threats towards a speaker was a constitutionally protected right. In fact, I was pretty confident all three of these acts were illegal…highly illegal.
Yet, yesterday I saw radical protestors do all three of these things, without consequence.
While an invited speaker was harassed and harangued by protesters, DePaul administrators cowered indecisively in a corner. Faced with a serious challenge to first-amendment rights on their campus, they were visibly frightened of confronting the protesters, who tied themselves to the “Black Lives Matter” movement.
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Video: Anti-Trump Protester Spits on Asian-American Trump Supporter
Hispanic woman was wearing “Make America Mexico Again” hat
A newly uncovered video out of Anaheim, California shows a Hispanic woman wearing a “Make America Mexico Again” hat spitting on an Asian-American Trump supporter after he asserts that he loves his country.
The clip shows a group of Asian-American Trump supporters wearing American flag regalia walking to the convention center to hear Trump’s speech. They are pursued and harassed by a Hispanic woman who is also recording them on her cellphone.
“Just ‘cause I love my country doesn’t mean I’m ignorant,” says one of the Asian-Americans.
“Spitting on someone is considered battery in California, it’s punishable by up to a $2,000 fine and six months in prison,” points out Chris Menahan. “There’s no indication the woman faced any repercussions for her criminal act.”
The video once again illustrates how vile and unhinged the anti-Trump crowd really is. Imagine if a Trump supporter had spat at an African-American Hillary supporter — it would be a national news story — and yet this passes with barely a whimper of attention.
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Video: Cop Snaps, Almost Hits Pedestrian in Crosswalk, Then Attacks Him in a Fit of Road Rage
An infuriating video was uploaded to Facebook this week showing an off-duty Boston cop tackling a small older man in a fit of road rage. According to multiple witnesses, the cop nearly hit the older gentlemen as he drove through a crosswalk. After almost being run over by the incompetent cop, the older man, who was on foot, simply tapped the cop’s window with his umbrella to alert him to the fact that he nearly hit him. This tapping on the window set the cop off into a fit of rage, leading to him chasing down, tackling, and assaulting the innocent man. When the older gentleman saw the raging lunatic jump out of his vehicle and chase him, he naturally ran. This set the cop off even more, and when he finally caught up to the man, he tackled him, shoved his face into the pavement, and put his knee in his back.
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Water and the Climate Change Industry
The climate change industry is growing exponentially, shaped and driven by U.N.’s Agenda 2030, relentlessly introduced, reintroduced, renamed, and first signed by 178 nations in 1992 as Agenda 21. This agenda is driven not by the “saving the planet” narrative, but by global social engineering control and redistribution of wealth to third world nations.
The lynchpin of the now globally-adopted Agenda 2030 is sustainability everything disguised as smart growth/green growth. Everything we do in the civilized world has been declared unsustainable by the global elites who control this climate change industry scam worth trillions of dollars.
To please elitist billionaires and environmentalists around the world, we must fundamentally change according to their plans of de-developing society and regressing to a more primitive lifestyle. They are now regulators of water use, electricity production and use, fossil fuel exploration and use, mining, agriculture, education, medical care, and land use, which will enable them to control the weather and the climate by taxing us into oblivion.
U.N. declared 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation. They celebrated The World Water Day on March 22, 2014, and the world toilet day on November 19 to remind us that 2.5 billion people have no sanitation and 780 million people do not have access to clean water.
U.N. alleges that our civilization and standard of living pollute river basins and eating meat and dairy places undue stress on water because those industries use more water to operate.
Some African countries cannot provide clean water to their population yet they are discouraged to produce electricity with “dirty” fossil fuels. Without fossil fuels and electricity, clean water cannot be supplied in sufficient quantities thus water-borne diseases are rampant…
As Tom DeWeese wrote in his report, “Sustainablists work to keep these nations from developing or increasing energy use, thereby keeping them poor. Green regulations stop the building of infrastructure. They panic at the idea of increased energy use in developing nations. Instead of working to solve the real problems — the root of poverty — they exploit the excuse of over population and advocate enforcing polices to drastically reduce populations. China’s brutal one child policy of forced abortions and sterilization has become their model.”
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Austrian Govt. Investigates “Vote Irregularities”
The Austrian Ministry of the Interior has announced an investigation into “voting irregularities” in four towns during the recent presidential election. In all cases, the FPÖ’s candidate Norbert Hofer won the “live” votes, but lost when the postal votes were counted.
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Brussels Fears Brexit Will be ‘The End’ of EU Due to Devastating Domino Effect
EUROPEAN leaders are scrambling to avoid a total collapse of the EU amid fears Brexit will inspire other countries to quit the union.
Senior officials are terrified a ‘Leave’ vote in next month’s referendum will cause a domino effect in the 28-state bloc — with one official revealing Brexit will be a “historical disaster.”
High-ranking Eurocrats have held a series of meetings in recent weeks to thrash out how the union will exist without Britain and how to stop other countries from following suit.
One senior French official told the Financial Times: “Playing down or minimising the consequences would put Europe at risk. The principle of consequences is very important — to protect Europe.”
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Denmark: Royal Theater in Copenhagen Cancels “Satanic Verses” Play to Avoid Offending Muslims
After six months of deliberations, the Royal Theater in Copenhagen has decided against a play based on the Indian-British author Salman Rushdie’s controversial novel “The Satanic Verses”. For many, this reflects how Denmark is pandering to its growing Muslim population, and it is a painful reminder of Rushdie’s troubled relationship with Denmark.
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G7 Warns Brexit Could Hurt Global Growth
World leaders gathering in Japan have warned that a vote by the UK to leave the European Union would pose a “serious threat to global growth”.
In their final statement, G7 leaders have said that “a UK exit from the EU would reverse the trend towards greater global trade and investment, and the jobs they create, and is a further serious risk to growth.”
The also said that “escalated geopolitical conflicts, terrorism and refugee flows, are complicating factors in the global economic environment.”
The G7 warning comes as the campaign ahead of the vote on the UK’s membership in the EU on 23 June heats up.
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker’s chief-of-staff, Martin Selmayr tweeted from Japan about the “horror scenario” of a G7 with populist leaders.
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Geert Wilders for Breitbart: The West is Sick of Politics, But it Isn’t Sick of Democracy
Ronald Reagan used to say that “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” Last November, Pew Research revealed that only 19% of Americans still trust the government. And 55% are convinced that “ordinary Americans” would do a better job of solving national problems than the elected politicians.
Elsewhere in the West, the situation isn’t much different. Research by the Social and Cultural Planning Bureau (SCP) in the Netherlands indicates similar distrust towards the government, with people complaining that politicians do not listen to ordinary citizens. 55% state that they want to have a bigger say.
The SCP-study also reveals, however, that, while trust in politicians is dwindling, trust in democracy is rising. People want more direct democracy. It is only normal that citizens want to become more involved when they are convinced that they would do a better job at tackling the nation’s problems than the present leadership.
The West’s angry voters may be sick of politics, but they are not sick of democracy. Their anger is a sign of hope. It gets them moving. It inspires them. All over the West — from America to Europe to Australia — we are currently witnessing a big democratic awakening. Spring is in the air. The West awakes! The angry voters are not extremists, they are the new mainstream.
The anger of the people is caused by the failure of the present ruling classes to address the problems of the people. Our governments are failing in their most basic obligation to keep country and people safe…
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MPs Warn Voters Being ‘Conned’ As Brussels Keeps Plans for EU Army Secret Until After Referendum
British voters are being “conned” by Brussels officials who are keeping plans for a European army secret until after the referendum, leading Tories have claimed.
Liam Fox, the former defence secretary who served under David Cameron, told The Telegraph that the ambitions showed the EU is wedded to the “dangerous fantasy” of creating a single defence force.
Another eurosceptic Tory MP said voters were being “deceived” and “hoodwinked” about the true scale of the EU’s drive to create a single army.
The backlash came as it emerged plans to move towards the creation of a European army are being kept secret from British voters until the day after next month’s referendum.
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Slovak PM Says His Country is No Place for Muslims
Slovak prime minister Robert Fico told local press agency TASR that “Islam has no place in Slovakia”. He feared a Muslim community would change the country’s traditions. Last December, Slovakia sued the European Commission over its proposal to redistribute refugees in the European Union.
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Soldier in France Stabbed Over Syria
Manhunt to catch the attackers is under way.
A soldier in France is in a serious condition after being stabbed by two men who reportedly criticised the country’s airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria.
The victim, from the 8th Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment, is being treated in hospital following the attack in the southern town of Saint Julien du Puy, which lies around 70 miles to the east of Toulouse.
He had been alone in uniform on a training march when he was set upon by the pair armed with a knife, on Thursday at 8.40pm local time.
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UK: ISIS Jihadist Allowed to Spew Hate on Twitter for 6 Months Without Being Banned
‘Trust and Safety Council’ more concerned about conservatives
A notorious British ISIS jihadist has been allowed to spew violent hatred on Twitter for 6 MONTHS without being banned while the social media giant censors conservatives for their political opinions.
“Jihadi bride” Sally Jones, also known as “Mrs. Terror” was back in the news again today after threatening ISIS attacks in London, Glasgow and other UK cities this summer.
“To be honest I wouldn’t go into Central London through June … or even July well to be honest I wouldn’t go there at all especially by Tube,” tweeted Jones, following another tweet that simply said “ENGLAND — -BOOM”.
Despite the fact that the tweets were made yesterday, Jones is still active on Twitter. In fact, she has been active since November 2015 despite a number of overt threats.
Jones keeps deleting her tweets and de-activating her account to avoid being banned, but she remains active over three weeks after tweeting support for ISIS.
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Caroline Glick: Liberman’s First Challenge
Last week, a mob of 300 Muslim men in southern Egypt stripped a 70-year-old Christian woman naked and paraded her through the streets.
This Islamist atrocity came a few days before an EgyptAir flight from Paris exploded in the skies near Alexandria. It was the second passenger jet bombed by jihadists in Egypt in recent months.
Egypt is hanging on by a thread. Like the attack that downed a Russian passenger jet over Sinai last October, this week’s attack is likely the work of an Egyptian airport employee. It is yet more proof that nearly three years after the military deposed the Muslim Brotherhood’s jihadist government, the Brotherhood’s supporters remain seeded throughout the country and are capable of threatening the regime and the very survival of the Egyptian state.
It isn’t in the least surprising that Islamists have this power. Most Egyptians support them.
In the parliamentary elections four-and-a-half years ago, Islamists won more than 65 percent of the vote. Those were the most open elections in Egyptian history…
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Terrorist or Pedophile? This Start-up Says it Can Out Secrets by Analyzing Faces
An Israeli start-up says it can take one look at a person’s face and realize character traits that are undetectable to the human eye.
Faception said it’s already signed a contract with a homeland security agency to help identify terrorists. The company said its technology also can be used to identify everything from great poker players to extroverts, pedophiles, geniuses and white collar-criminals.
“We understand the human much better than other humans understand each other,” said Faception chief executive Shai Gilboa. “Our personality is determined by our DNA and reflected in our face. It’s a kind of signal.”
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Threat of Terrorism Hits Turkish Tourism
The number of foreigners traveling to Turkey in April dropped massively as a series of terrorist attacks in Istanbul and elsewhere keeps chasing away tourists, hitting a main money spinner for the country.
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Paedophiles can now be executed or castrated by Indonesian authorites as the government cracks down on abuse following the horrific rape and murder of a girl, 14.
Indonesia is a hotspot for Australian paedophiles, with more than 100 sex criminals caught travelling to the country since 2014.
On Wednesday Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced the new laws, which come into place straight away, reported WA Today.
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Five Years Later, TEPCO Still Can’t Locate 600 Tons of Melted Radioactive Fuel
Five years after the Fukushima tragedy, TEPCO’s chief of decommissioning Naohiro Masuda admits that the company still has no idea exactly where 600 tons of melted radioactive fuel from three nuclear reactors is located.
As we discussed when we profiled the status of Fukushima on its five year anniversary, the radiation at the plant is still so powerful that it is impossible to get deep enough into the area to find and remove the melted fuel rods. The situation is so severe that even the robots that were sent in to find the highly radioactive fuel have died.
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South Africa Furore Over Flashy Cars for Jacob Zuma’s Wives
South Africans are wondering how serious President Jacob Zuma is about austerity after it emerged this week that the state had spent about 8.6m rand ($550,000; £374,000) on new cars for his wives over the past three years.
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Drug Lord ‘El Chapo’ Threatens to Sue Netflix Over Biographical Series
Nexflix and Univision have announced a new series based on the notorious leader of the Sinaloa cartel. But his lawyers said he would sue if the producers didn’t receive permission — adding they’re open to negotiations.
Lawyers representing Joaquin Guzman, commonly known as “El Chapo,” on Thursday threatened to sue online streaming site Netflix and Spanish-language broadcaster Univision if they air a planned series based on the Mexican drug lord’s life.
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Dozens Injured at Fight at Calais ‘Jungle’ Migrant Camp
A massive brawl in France’s “Jungle” migrant camp has left at least 40 people with injuries. One person was seriously hurt after a fight broke out between migrants from Afghanistan and Sudan.
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Feds Pouring Muslim Migrants Into Rand Paul’s Hometown
The same resettlement agency that is funneling Syrian Muslims into Sen. Bernie Sanders’ state of Vermont and also into Nevada is now delivering them to Sen. Rand Paul’s hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
WND reported last week on the plans to seed the small town of Rutland, Vermont, with 100 Syrian Muslims while another 75 are being sent to Reno, Nevada, and dozens more in Missoula, Montana. WND has previously reported on plans to bring up to 5,000 Syrians to Michigan and hundreds more to Idaho.
The feds have been scouting for new places to bring the Syrians including in northwest Arkansas and in Ithaca, New York.
Now the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, or USCRI — the same volunteer agency that is working in Rutland and Reno — has called a surprise meeting for 5 p.m. Friday to announce plans to bring 40 Syrians to Bowling Green, Kentucky, in October.
“That’s very little notice for a public meeting to be held on a Friday evening,” said Ann Corcoran, who follows the refugee movement at Refugee Resettlement Watch.
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First Migrants Make it From Denmark to Sweden on Foot
A group of five asylum seekers have for the first time successfully crossed the Öresund bridge on foot. But a police spokesperson has told The Local that the total figure may well be higher.
It was revealed on Friday that five migrants, who the News Öresund news agency reported were aged under 18, made it into the road tunnel section of the bridge from Copenhagen Airport’s train station on May 12th. From there, they continued onwards on foot into Sweden.
The attempts follow Sweden’s decision in January to demand photo identification from all travellers from Denmark as part of efforts to more closely monitor the flow of asylum seekers between the two countries.
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Germany: 50% Failed Asylum Seekers Stay
About half of all failed “asylum seekers” in Germany stay on in defiance of their deportation orders, and all Eritreans are given “asylum” even though that country is not at war.
In addition, almost all “asylum seekers” who claim to be Syrians or who are “stateless” are also being given refuge in Germany.
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Invaders: Permanent Residence in 3 Years
A new draft law approved by the German parliament today will give permanent residence to nonwhite invader “refugees” after just three years in that country. The law is confirmation that the Merkel-regime actively seeks to keep the millions of invaders in Germany, rather than making them go home, as she initially told the German people.
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Syrian Refugees Sue Denmark Over Immigration Law
Five Syrians have sued Denmark over its recent law that extended the waiting period before refugees can apply for family members to join them from one year to three. Their lawyer Christian Dahl Ager says the law breaches the European Convention on Human Rights, which gives right to family life.
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A Brexit-backer rowed with MPs and other audience members during the first EU referendum debate last night after claiming immigrants are jumping the housing queue.
Emily Wood, from Poole, said her disabled mother could not get the council house she needs because immigrants are given priority.
She said: ‘My mum is disabled and needs a bungalow, which there are none in my area. Immigrants are bumped up the list. Am I right to want to leave?’
Miss Wood then clashed with other members of the audience and the panel, including ex SNP leader Alex Salmond who insisted: ‘We should build more houses, not kick people out of the country’.
But Miss Wood said: ‘How the heck are we meant to house them when we haven’t got enough houses as it is? Where are you going to put them?’
Yesterday official immigration statistics revealed overall net migration, including those from outside the EU, was 333,000 in the year to December, the second highest annual level on record.
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The Death of Free Speech — School Board Candidate Forcibly Removed From LGBT Meeting
What? Or are they mandating porn in the classrooms now? Dean Paterakis, who is running for the school board in Brevard County, brought up the point that a teacher showed a picture of his erect penis on a monitor in a classroom and how that puts our children at risk. For daring to bring that up, his microphone was cut off, security subdued the guy for using free speech and caring about students, and the police hauled him out. He protested because a pervert teacher did something unspeakable in front of our children and for that he was arrested. They have lost their freaking minds. School board members were voting on whether to schedule a public hearing about a proposed non-discrimination policy for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. That meeting included many outbursts from the audience, including yells, cheers and jeers.
– From Glenn Beck:
School Board candidate Dean Paterakis was charged with disrupting a school function and resisting an officer without violence Tuesday after he was ejected from a school board meeting dealing with LGBT issues.
Paterakis was released on $750 bond before midnight on the two misdemeanor charges.
Paterakis was asked by School Board chairman Andy Ziegler to step away from the speakers’ podium after making what Ziegler said were inappropriate remarks. A school district security officer asked him to leave, and Paterakis refused. Sheriff’s deputies then stepped in to ask Paterakis to leave, according to a statement from sheriff’s spokesman Cpl. Dave Jacobs.
Then the sitting board members threatened to clear out the entire meeting because the audience wouldn’ t shut up as the guy was carted off. Paterakis, 48, was eventually carried from the meeting by several deputies and handcuffed outside the meeting room. Paging Claire Wolfe… paging Claire Wolfe… please pick up the courtesy phone in the lobby: “ America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.” — 101 Things to Do ‘ Til the Revolution (1996). I think the Claire Wolfe clock has just about run out. Paterakis should take this to court and file formal charges against the school board. I’ d take it public all across the US and be the worst PR they ever dreamed of. Who the hell do these people think they are? They work for us and are supposed to have our children’ s best interests at heart. Not work for the gay mafia. This is the silencing of the voice of reason. This is the death of the Constitution we are witnessing.
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Brain Scans Reveal Hidden Consciousness in Patients
Are we just bodies that contain consciousness?
A standard brain scanning technique is showing promise for helping doctors distinguish between patients in a vegetative state and those with hidden signs of consciousness.
A study released Thursday is the latest to investigate using technology to help meet the challenge of making that distinction, which now is generally based on a doctor’s bedside exam.
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The item “Hillary Clinton admits the U.S. created Al Qaeda, ISIS” fails your “relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible” test. In fact, it looks like Russian, Iranian, or MusBro propaganda. Probably Russian, although it would serve MusBro interests very well by promoting the idea that there’s a big distinction between murderous Islam and mere Islam.
“But speaking in the place where the nuclear age began, Obama said the memory of the 140,000 people killed on Aug. 6, 1945, “must never fade … We stand here in the middle of this city and force ourselves to imagine the moment the bomb fell … we listen to a silent cry.”
A few days ago the news story came out of the Gorrilla that was shot dead to save the life of a 4 year boy that fell into it’s enclosure at a Zoo. The Zoo director said they didn’t take the decision lightly, but it was necessary to save the boy. This same awful decision faced Truman and military planners in 1945. The Marines had attacked Iwo Jima island and faced a fanatical suicidal Japanese enemy who fought to the very end, refusing to surrender. There is no doubt, (despite what revisionist historians might say), that an invasion of Japan mainland, would have cost hundreds of thousands of American lives and probably much more in Japanese lives. Hiroshima and Nagasaki was “killing the Gorilla”. It was necessary.
“Mr. Obama also spoke of his hope for a world without nuclear weapons.”
If I whistle through the graveyard in the hopes that the monsters won’t get me, I’m committing at least two errors: that one can be saved by whistling and that monsters exist. When The Current Executive expresses hope of nuclear weapons disappearing, he is making more serious errors than graveyard-whistling.
It was a demacratic president Harry Truman who ordred the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshim and Nagasaki otherwise the japs would have never surrendered Obama is a total Disgrace