According to a recent survey, 50% of French women have changed the way they dress in an attempt to avoid sexual harassment and assault on public transport. For example, they may wear pants instead of a skirt to reduce the likelihood of being groped.
In other news, a known Bosnian terrorist loyal to the Islamic State was able to fly into Sweden and obtain residence by claiming asylum. He brought his four children with him, and his wife was already in the country.
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15 Facts About the Imploding U.S. Economy That the Mainstream Media Doesn’t Want You to See
And it is vital that we focus on the facts, because all over the Internet you are going to find lots and lots of people that have opinions about what is going on with the economy.
You are about to see undeniable evidence that the U.S. economy has been slowing down for quite some time.
And it is vital that we focus on the facts, because all over the Internet you are going to find lots and lots of people that have opinions about what is going on with the economy. And of course the mainstream media is always trying to spin things to make Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton look good, because those that work in the mainstream media are far more liberal than the American population as a whole. It is true that I also have my own opinions, but as an attorney I learned that opinions are not any good unless you have facts to back them up. So please allow me a few moments to share with you evidence that clearly demonstrates that we have already entered a major economic slowdown. The following are 15 facts about the imploding U.S. economy that the mainstream media doesn’t want you to see…
1. Industrial production has now declined for nine months in a row. We have never seen this happen outside of a recession in all of U.S. history.
2. U.S. commercial bankruptcies have risen on a year over year basis for seven months in a row and are now up 51 percent since September.
3. The delinquency rate on commercial and industrial loans has been rising since January 2015.
4. Total business sales in the United States have been steadily dropping since the middle of 2014. No, I did not say 2015. Total business sales have been in decline for nearly two years now, and we just found out that they dropped again…
[Comment: This is the reason banksters appointed Obama. HE is doing a good job for them in the economic take-down of America.]
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The Chancellor faced the unprecedented backlash from more than 60 of his own colleagues as he warned against opting for ‘austerity’ with dramatic hikes on income tax and fuel duty.
He insisted the poorest would ‘pay the price’ if we decide to take a ‘leap in the dark’ — and also risked further inflaming public anger over immigration by dismissing the prospect of curbs on free movement from the bloc.
But in the most vicious Blue-on-Blue clashes of the campaign so far, Conservative Brexit supporters immediately responded that they would not allow him to impose the ‘emergency’ Budget. They said his position would be ‘untenable’ if he tried to impose it.
And even his Remain allies Labour disowned the drastic measures, saying they would be the ‘wrong thing to do’.
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California Democrats Use Orlando Massacre to Pass More Gun Control Legislation
Using the Orlando massacre as an excuse to pass more gun control bills, California lawmakers wasted no time, and spared no arrogance in passing new and old bills in legislative committees Tuesday. Some legislators even dragged out old gun control bills to be reheard; bills which couldn’t pass in previous legislative sessions, and wouldn’t have made a bit of difference in the latest terror case.
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LIGO Discovers New Gravitational Wave — and New Era of Astronomy
THEY’VE done it again. On 26 December, 2015, for the second time, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) caught the ripples in space-time shaken off by the death spiral of a pair of black holes. In other words, we are officially in the era of gravitational wave astronomy.
“This gives us confidence,” says Salvatore Vitale at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the LIGO team. “It was not just a lucky accident. Seeing a second one tells us clearly that there is a population of black holes there, and we will see a lot of them in the coming science run.”
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by Srdja Trifkovic
President Barack Obama’s tirade on June 14 was filled with angry passion. His rhetoric was not directed against the perpetrator of the Orlando attack and his ilk, however, but against the (unnamed) GOP nominee and others who do not subscribe to Obama’s fundamental views on the nature of Islam and his “strategy” of confronting the threat.
With great passion Obama lashed at those who have called him soft on terrorism, alleging that “loose talk” about Muslims has been detrimental to the U.S. action against militant groups in the Middle East and elsewhere. It is clear that Obama’s understanding of “loose talk” covers all attempts at critical scrutiny of what he, Hillary Clinton, and countless others in the Duopoly still insist is a peaceful and tolerant religion which should not be tainted by the violent actions of a tiny, aberrant and unrepresentative minority.
It should be noted that the original meaning of “loose talk”—as the term was extensively used in both world wars—is disclosing accurate and operationally useful information to unreliable persons who may pass it on to the enemy. If Obama and his speechwriters knew English and history, they’d realize that the meaning of his “loose talk” remark is not exactly what he had in mind: yes, we know the ugly truth, but we should not talk about it openly, because we don’t want them to know that we do know what they are all about.
Obama derided the demand by his critics that he call acts of terrorism the result of “radical Islam”: “We can’t get ISIL unless we call them ‘radical Islamists.’ What exactly would using this label accomplish? What exactly would it change? Would it make ISIL less committed to trying to kill Americans? Would it bring in more allies? Is there a military strategy that is served by this? The answer is, none of the above . . . “ Obama is spectacularly wrong. Calling a threat by its right name—which he dismisses as a mere “label”—is the key prerequisite to developing a meaningful strategy. His mandated label of long standing—”violent extremism”—he did not use in his address, however, thus implicitly acknowledging its irritating and politically damaging absurdity.
Obama’s deliberate attempt to create logical and semantic confusion about the nature of the threat is not immediately apparent to the unwary, and it is so dishonest as to bring into question his basic motives. He implicitly suggested that “the threat” is already clearly defined in all its key aspects, and that any debate over “the label” is therefore a mere “political distraction.” To understand the pernicious nature of Obama’s argument we need to revisit his address announcing his phony anti-ISIS campaign two years ago.
“ISIL is not Islamic,” Obama told the nation in September 2014. “No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL’s victims have been Muslim.” Since making this surreal statement Obama has learnt nothing and forgotten nothing. Three weeks earlier earlier, in the aftermath of James Foley’s beheading by the Islamic State, he declared—also in the context of absolving Islam of any connection with the IS—that “no just God would stand for what they did yesterday and what they do every single day.” Since they did murder Foley, this meant that—in Obama’s world—there is no God, or that God is not just.
Contrary to Obama’s assurances, Islam does condone the killing of infidels (Christians and other non-Muslims) and apostates (Shiites): they are not “innocents” by definition. And of course Muslims have been killing other Muslims—often on a massive scale—ever since three of the four early caliphs, Muhammad’s immediate successors, were murdered by their Muslim foes. It is immaterial whether ISIS is true to “Islam” as Obama chooses to define it. It is undeniable that it is true to the principles and practices of historical Islam.
Back in September 2014 Obama either did not know what he was talking about, or else he was practicing a variety of taqiyya. A related falsehood was Obama’s 2014 assertion that “in a region that has known so much bloodshed, these terrorists are unique in their brutality”: “They execute captured prisoners. They kill children. They enslave, rape, and force women into marriage. They threatened a religious minority with genocide.” There is absolutely nothing “unique” in any of the above. By acting in such manner, the jihadists belonging to the IS are only following the example of their prophet. Muhammad executed Meccan prisoners after the battle of Badr in 624AD. He condoned the killing of women and children besieged in Ta’if in 630. He and his followers enslaved, raped and forced into marriage Jewish women after he massacred the men of the Jewish tribes of Banu Qurayza in 627 and Banu Nadir in 629. He even “married” one of the captured Banu Nadir women, Safiyya bint Huyayy, who was captured after the men Banu Nadir were massacred. He did not “threaten” the Jews of the Arabian peninsula with genocide, he carried that genocide so thoroughly that not a trace of them remains today…
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Orlando Shooting: Obama Consoles Bereaved
The US president is meeting survivors and bereaved families in Orlando, Florida, four days after the worst mass shooting in modern US history.
Hundreds of people gathered outside the Amway Center in the city centre as the president consoled relatives inside.
The aim of the visit, the White House has said, was to show that “the country stands with the LGBT community in Orlando as they grieve”.
A gunman claimed 49 lives on Sunday morning at a gay nightclub in the city.
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Panetta: Trump ‘Aiding and Abetting’ Terrorists With Rhetoric
Leon Panetta on Thursday suggested that Donald Trump’s plan to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. and to revive surveillance of mosques “is basically aiding and abetting the enemy.”
“I have to tell you in 50 years of public life, I have never experienced a major party candidate making the accusations and raising the innuendos that Donald Trump raised, particularly at this moment of crisis,” the former defense secretary and CIA director remarked on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” in discussing Trump’s response to the Orlando, Florida, terrorist attack on Sunday morning that killed 49 people.
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Professor Rejects Marxism After Traveling the Globe: ‘Socialism Doesn’t Work’
“Academia has developed its own culture, a subset of the wider elite culture.”
At least one professor in America does not feel the Bern.
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Professor Jack Stauder says his political and ideological conversion away from socialism and Marxism occurred when he actually witnessed these systems in action.
After traveling to more than 110 countries to pursue various forms of research, notably cultural anthropology, Stauder described his conversion from Marxism as a process of disillusionment.
“I gradually became disenchanted with Marxism by visiting many of the countries that had tried to shape their societies to conform to its doctrines. I was disillusioned by the realities I saw in … socialist countries — the USSR, Eastern Europe, China, Cuba, etc,” Stauder told The College Fix via email.
“I came to recognize that socialism doesn’t work, and that its ‘revolutionary’ imposition inevitably leads to cruelty, injustice and the loss of freedom,” the professor continued.
“I could see the same pattern in the many failed left-wing revolutions of Latin America and elsewhere. By combining actual travel with the historical study of socialism and revolution, I succeeded in disabusing myself of the utopian notions that fatally attract people to leftist ideas.”
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Radical Islam is a Threat to All Civilisation
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says the United States and Israel have a common enemy — “radical Islam.”
“Radical Islam is a threat to all civilization,” Huckabee, who ran for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008 and 2016, said at the Herzliya Conference of global policy leaders in Israel.
“It wants to deny and suppress things that we tend to take for granted, things like art and architecture, music and even our individual sense of who we are …
“The fact is we have a common enemy. That common enemy is radical Islam that wishes to destroy civilization itself and turn the clock back to centuries ago.”
Huckabee also said it was not Republicans who are waging a war on women, as Democrats insist, but radical Muslims.
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Ramadan Again: White Flags: Big Lies, Dead Bodies
by Diana West
In essence, my 2007 book, The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization, was an extended rumination on the cultural factors that made Americans unable to talk about, study, teach, debate, let alone face and ward off Islam like “grown-ups” — honestly, logically, fearlessly. It is a cultural history of how Americans and other Western peoples evolved into the perfect dhimmi.
Today, the taboo against telling the truth about our Islamic crisis, just like the Islamic crisis itself, is far worse because it has been institutionalized, deeply rooted, selected for, and otherwise set in the postmodern equivalent of stone.
After Orlando, after Trump’s response, unique in the annals of national politics for its discussion of protecting the nation from mass Muslim immigration, and after the predictable anger directed at Trump (not the Orlando jihadist and this latest cycle of Islamic conquest that spat him out), I thought it might be interesting to look back not at the beginning, of course, but at a beginning. The first post-9/11 Western counterattack — on the West.
Chapter 8 of The Death of the Grown-Up includes the question:…
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Reddit Bans Users That Say Orlando Terrorist Was Muslim
Reddit moderators are actively banning users posting articles discussing Orlando nightclub terrorist Omar Mateen’s religion.
User “moonsprite” shared a screenshot of an article he posted titled, “Orlando shooting suspect may have ‘leanings’ to Islamic extremism,” to the r/news subreddit.
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Reddit Will Adjust Algorithm to Censor Trump Supporters Following Orlando Shootings
Reddit has announced a change to its algorithm on /r/all, the page that is meant to rank the most popular posts trending across the site’s user-run communities. According to Reddit, the algorithm will be changed to promote more “diversity” on the subreddit.
The change is an explicit response to the Islamic terrorist attacks in Orlando, Florida. In their aftermath, /r/all was dominated by posts from /r/The_Donald, the primary community for Trump supporters on the site. …
As with Facebook, Reddit’s move to exercise more control what appears at the top of /r/all has significant implications for political discourse on the web and beyond. Millions of readers, including journalists, visit /r/all every day to find out what’s popular on Reddit. Right now, it’s Donald Trump’s subreddit. After the algorithm change, it might still be Donald Trump’s subreddit — but visitors to /r/all might not be able to tell.
Reddit did not respond to a request for comment.
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Report: Academy Sports Creating Database for Ammo Purchases, Pulls Rifles — From Shelves
Outdoor retailer snooping for the feds?
Academy Sports and Outdoors is gathering personal data on customers who buy more than 10 boxes of so-called “assault rifle caliber” ammunition and is pulling rifles from store shelves in support of the Obama administration agenda.
An anonymous employee said the new policies were outlined in a recent conference call in which corporate HQ told employees they will soon require buyers to furnish personal information the company will keep on file, likely for the federal government if requested.
Additionally, Academy is pulling anything resembling sporting rifles, including rifle-shaped BBQ lighters and airsoft rifles, from store displays although another employee revealed semi-automatic rifles will still be sold upon request.
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Sessions: More Than 570 Charged, Convicted or Connected to Terror Since 9/11; Almost All Muslims
(CNSNews.com) — Sen. Jeff Sessions warned Sunday that more attacks like the one on an Orlando nightclub were likely, and disclosed that more than 570 people have been “convicted or charged or connected to terrorism” since 9/11.
The Alabama Republican, who chairs the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on immigration and the national interest, told Fox News Sunday that data it had obtained so far indicated that “about two-thirds of those people that were charged were foreign born, almost all Islamic individuals.”
“We see apparently today more of these attacks are coming,” Sessions said in reference to the killing early Sunday of 50 people at the Pulse nightclub. In a 911 call shortly beforehand the Muslim shooter pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL). Omar Mateen was reported to be a New York-born U.S. citizen, the son of Afghan parents.
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Southern Poverty Law Center in Bed With Extremists
Why is the FBI missing the extremists in our midst? Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the organization consulted by the Department of Justice for information on extremists is in bed with them. Evelyn Schlatter, the deputy director of research of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), was listed as a participant in the recent Left Forum conference, which featured an assortment of communists, 9/11 truthers, pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel activists, and other extremists. Schlatter was described as an expert on “right-wing political and social movements, gender, and sexuality.”
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Supreme Court Declines to Rule on What Makes a U.S. Citizen
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to decide who becomes a US citizen at birth, in a case brought by a group of American Samoans. Since 1900, American Samoa has been a territory of the United States. But unlike residents of other US territories, including Puerto Rico and Guam, its residents are declared by Congress to be “non-citizen nationals.”
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Watchdog: Countries in Visa-Free Travel Program Not Sharing Terror Info
More than a dozen countries participating in a program that allows visitors into the U.S. without a visa are not sharing terrorists’ identities and other vital information as required by law, according to a watchdog report raising concerns on Capitol Hill about yet another major security gap.
“This is very dangerous because for the most part, these are allies, some of which have pockets of Islamic radicalism,” Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., chairman of the House national security subcommittee, told FoxNews.com.
The Visa Waiver Program lets business travelers and tourists with passports from 38 countries fill out a basic online form to enter the U.S. The biographical questionnaire can be filled out at the airport.
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Case for CPP Expansion Rests on Five Common Myths
TORONTO-Proponents of an expanded Canada Pension Plan rely on incorrect assumptions and flat out mistakes, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank. Canada’s finance ministers will meet next week in Vancouver to discuss expanding the Canada Pension Plan (CPP)-a move that would increase mandatory contributions on working Canadians.
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Austria: Left-Wing Extremists Leave ‘Identitarian’ Populist Activist in Coma
Over 800 Identitarians demonstrated in Vienna and were met by left-wing extremists who attacked them, and police, leaving one man hospitalised in a coma.
Over the weekend the hipster-right wing Identitarian youth movement held one of their largest demonstrations so far in the Austrian capital of Vienna.
Die Presse reports that Saturday’s demonstration saw an estimated 800 to 1,000 members of the movement carry banners and wave flags as they marched toward the Westbahnhof train station to protest mass migration, Islamic terrorism and Islamisation. The train station has significance as being the main transit hub for migrants who made their way across Austria toward Germany last year.
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Germany and France to Fight Post-Brexit ‘Disintegration’
Germany and France have warned that the EU could “disintegrate” if the UK votes to leave next week, but the two founding members have pledged to fight for the bloc’s unity.
“If Britons decide to leave, we cannot continue the day after at 28 minus one,” German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told journalists after a meeting with his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault.
“That would be a shock for the EU, and we would have to watch out that a decades-long process of integration doesn’t in the end turn into disintegration.”
Ayrault said: “Europe would be lacking a lot if Great Britain decided to leave.”
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German Interior Minister Calls for More Video Surveillance to Combat Burglaries
In a bid to reduce Germany’s rising burglary rate, the country’s interior minister has called for more CCTV cameras and special surveillance officers. More than 160,000 burglaries were recorded last year.
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‘Half of French Women’ Alter Clothes to Avoid Harassment
Women in France are choosing trousers over skirts when they take public transport to avoid being the victims of sexual harassment.
One in two women in France will choose trousers over a skirt to avoid becoming the victim of sexual harassment on public transport, a new survey has revealed.
Not only that but nearly 90 percent of respondents say they have experienced harassment in some shape or form when on public transport.
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Hundreds March for Murdered French Police Couple
Some 2,500 people marched in silence on Thursday in honour of a policeman and his partner who were knifed to death by an extremist pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group.
Many in the crowd of police, gendarmes, firefighters and locals wept as they walked from the police station where the couple worked in the Paris suburb of Mantes-la-Jolie to their home in Magnanville where they were killed on Monday.
The attack came in the midst of the Euro football championship — already dogged by terror fears — and is the first since Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers struck Paris in November, killing 130.
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A Labour MP has died after she was shot three times and repeatedly stabbed in a shocking attack as she arrived at her constituency surgery.
Mother-of-two Jo Cox, 41, was rushed to hospital after a gunman opened fire on her in Birstall near Leeds.
Witnesses said the man was at the office before she arrived and shot her three times, once in the head, before stabbing her as she lay on the ground.
Her husband Brendon simply tweeted a photo of his wife after she was rushed to hospital with catastrophic injuries.
A 53-year-old — named locally as Tommy Mair from Batley — has been arrested by police and his house is currently being searched by police forensics experts.
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Aamir Tahir, of The Dry Clean Centre, said the gunman was heard shouting ‘Britain first’.
He said: ‘The lady I work with heard two loud bangs. I wish I was there because I would have tried to stop him.
‘Apparently the guy who did it shouted ‘Britain first’ and if I had been there I would have tackled him.’…
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Labour MP Jo Cox ‘Shot and Stabbed’ In Dewsbury
A British member of parliament has succumbed to her injuries after being “stabbed and shot” in an attack in her constituency in Yorkshire.
Helen ‘Jo’ Cox was pronounced dead at 1:48pm this afternoon, shortly after being “stabbed and shot” outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, near Leeds. A 52 year old male has been arrested in relation to the killing, and police said this afternoon that they are not seeking any more suspects.
Update — Suspected killer may have had “mental health problems”, in receipt of “psychotherapy and medication”
The suspected killer of MP Jo Cox has been named locally as Thomas Mair, who has featured in a number of local news reports in recent years as a mentally ill man who claimed to be benefitting from local voluntary opportunities.
An archived 2010 article about a country park which welcomed Mr. Mair from the Pathways Day Centre for adults with mental health problems to volunteer in building a “faith garden” reported Mr. Mair as saying: “I can honestly say it has done me more good than all the psychotherapy and medication in the world.
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Update 1845 — Local: Suspected killer had no political views
Thomas Mair, who has been named locally as the man arrested on suspicion of killing Labour MP Jo Cox was not politically minded, according to locals who knew him reported by the Daily Telegraph. A neighbour said he wasn’t a member of a political party and had never expressed interest in the EU referendum.
62-year-old Kathleen Cooke told the paper: “I am really shocked. He walked past my house this morning and said hello like he always does… He is just a quiet bloke who keeps himself to himself.
“He is very helpful and he helps local people with their gardens. There is one neighbour who is a bit frail and he keeps her garden tidy. He has helped me cut my hedge a couple of times.
“He has lived here for 40 years and has never been in any trouble and has never caused any trouble. He sometimes used to shout at the local kids if they played too near his house but that is fairly normal.
“I don’t think he belonged to any political party and I never heard him express any views about Europe or anything like that. To us, he was just Tommy, a local bloke we all knew.”
Update 1830 — Widely quoted local admits he didn’t hear “Britain First”
Local restaurant owner Hicham Ben Abdallah, widely quoted across the media as having claimed Mr. Mair shouted, “Britain First” has told Breitbart London “No, no. I did not hear that”…
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Man ‘Arrested in France for Planning Attack on Tourists’
A 22-year-old radicalised convert to Islam has been arrested in France over suspicions he was planning to attack American and Russian tourists, legal sources said Thursday.
The suspect had gone to the southwestern city of Carcassone “with a view to carrying out a violent act, in particular targeting Americans and Russians,” a judicial source said.
The suspect comes from the southern French town of Lunel — notorious for the number of residents who have left to wage jihad in Syria — but has been living in the nearby Tarn region.
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Study: Large Number of Turks in Germany Put Islam Above the Law
Germany may be home, but many don’t feel accepted: A new study reveals what ethnic Turks think about religion and integration, with many putting Islam above the law and some even justifying violence to expand Islam.
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Swiss Central Bank Warns of Brexit ‘Turbulence’
The head of Switzerland’s central bank warned on Thursday that the Swiss economy could face turbulence if Britain opts to exit the EU in next week’s referendum, vowing to “take measures if required”.
“As a small open economy, Switzerland is highly exposed to developments abroad,” Thomas Jordan told reporters following the Swiss National Bank’s quarterly policy meeting.
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Switzerland: Time to Change the Mountain Named After a Racist
The Agassizhorn is named after Louis Agassiz, a famous Swiss-American Harvard glaciologist who was also an irrefutable racist. Historian Hans Fässler argues that it’s high time the mountain was renamed, following precedents in the US and Germany. The idea has been rejected by politicians and towns but the Swiss Alpine Club is now considering the issue.
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UK: Police Arrest 15-Year-Old Schoolboy in London Terror Probe
A 15-year-old schoolboy has been arrested in London on suspicion of encouraging terrorism.
The boy was detained at a house in the east of the capital earlier this morning and is now being held at a police station nearby.
Scotland Yard said anti-terror officers are now searching the address where the boy was arrested.
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UK: Revealed: MP Killer Had ‘Psychotherapy and Medication’; Never Spoke About Europe or Politics
The man arrested following the brutal killing of Labour MP Jo Cox has attended mental health services and received “psychotherapy and medication”, Breitbart London can reveal.
A 52-year-old man has been arrested, West Yorkshire Police confirmed. He has been named locally as Thomas Mair and described as a “loner” by neighbours.
They said he had mental health problems, but was kind and helpful and did not belong “to any political party and I never heard him express any views about Europe or anything…”
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UK: Scans Reveal Brains of Delinquents Are ‘Different to Well-Behaved Peers’
The brains of young people with conduct disorder are structurally different — providing evidence it is a real psychiatric disorder, University of Cambridge experts found.
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Despite valid ceasefire opportunities to prevent “bloodshed in Benghazi” at the onset of hostilities, Secretary Clinton intervened and quickly pushed her foreign policy in support of a revolution led by the Muslim Brotherhood and known terrorists in the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. One of the Libyan Rebel Brigade commanders, Ahmed Abu Khattala, would later be involved in the terrorist attack in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. Articulating her indifference to the chaos brought by war, Secretary Clinton stated on May 18, 2013, to the House Oversight Committee and the American public, “Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they’d go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make?”
Secretary Clinton’s war actually did make a difference. It led to a very real and very tragic humanitarian disaster. Her bad judgment and failed policy resulted in the arming of terrorists, months of war and tens of thousands of causalities, the murder of the American ambassador and the deaths of three other brave Americans, continued civil war and the collapse of the Libyan economy, and a failed nation-state contributing to a tragic European migrant crisis. Clearly the Libyan disaster tops Secretary Clinton’s legacy of failure.
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Vatican Ecumenism Forsakes Egypt’s Christian Minorities
Pope Francis, who is “building bridges to build peace” around the world, has naturally reached out to embrace Sunni Muslims. Last month, for the first time after years of Vatican silence, Pope Francis summoned to his private library in Rome grand imam Ahmed El-Tayeb of Cairo’s Al-Ahzar Mosque Institute. Absent a press release before this event, the Pope was quoted as saying, “this meeting is the message” — leading all to dwell on the meaning and purpose of their 25 minutes together. Christians, especially Egyptian Coptic Christians, have observed the Catholic pope give the “sign of peace” to the grand imam who has yet been unwilling to denounce ISIS. Unity existed between the two religious branches previous to former Pope Benedict XVI condemning Islam’s inclination to violence.
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Has a Senior Hamas Commander Defected to Israel?
Reports from Gaza suggest a senior Hamas military commander may have handed himself in to Israel — along with a wealth of intelligence.
A senior commander in Hamas’s elite commando unit has handed himself over to Israel, according to sources inside Gaza.
Reports of his surrender to Israel have been circulating in Gaza ever since the commander — a member of the elite “Nahba” unit of Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades — went missing several days ago.
The Nahba spearheads Hamas’s tunnel warfare capabilities, and is specifically tasked with capturing IDF soldiers.
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Israel to Construct Underground, Concrete Wall on Gaza Strip Border
Project solution to Hamas terror tunnel network; Barrier to go several meters underground; Senior Hamas member defects to Israel
A report released Thursday announced plans by Israeli defense establishments to construct an underground concrete wall along the Gaza Strip border with Israel as a solution to Hamas’s ongoing terror tunnel network.
According to the report, a concrete wall will be constructed along the 61-kilometer border with the Gaza Strip, the wall to go several meters underground. The project will reportedly cost close to 2.2 billion NIS, much less than previously proposed projects.
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Anonymous Fights Islamic State… With Porn
Elements of the Anonymous hacking collective have switched tactics in a campaign against supporters of the self-style Islamic State by attempting to shame and humiliate jihadists by adding pornographic images to their social media profiles.
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Ataturk’s Ideology Seen Deleted as Turkey Drafts New Charter
Turkey’s leaders plan to remove references in the constitution binding public servants to the ideology of the nation’s secular founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the state, its principles and institutions under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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CIA Director’s Chilling Warning: ISIS to ‘Intensify’ Global Attacks, Not Losing Influence
CIA Director John Brennan, in a chilling warning on the Islamic State’s growing influence, told lawmakers Thursday that U.S.-led efforts to strike at the terror group have not hampered its “terrorism capability and global reach” — a message that stands in stark contrast to President Obama’s more upbeat assessment earlier this week.
Brennan, testifying in a rare open hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, said ISIS likely will “intensify” terror attacks around the world even as its core fighters come under pressure in Iraq and Syria, including by deploying operatives for further attacks on the West.
“The group is probably exploring a variety of means for infiltrating operatives into the West, including in refugee flows, smuggling routes, and legitimate methods of travel,” Brennan said.
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ISIS is Committing Genocide Against the Yazidi Minority and No One is Talking About it
A UN report shows that ISIS aims to exterminate the Yazidi community, while holding their women and children captive as sex slaves and fighters.
The Yazidi community in Iraq and Syria is being rapidly killed off by ISIS in what UN authorities are calling a genocide.
“ISIS has subjected every Yazidi woman, child or man that it has captured to the most horrific of atrocities,” stated the head of the UN’s Commission for Syria, Paulo Pinheiro. “Genocide has occurred and is ongoing.”
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Islamic State Formidable Despite Losses, Says CIA Chief
The efforts of the US-led coalition fighting so-called Islamic State (IS) have failed to reduce its ability to carry out militant attacks, CIA Director John Brennan says.
Mr Brennan told a hearing the group remained “formidable” despite territorial losses.
He estimated that IS now has more fighters than al-Qaeda when that group was at its strongest.
As many as 22,000 IS fighters are operating in Iraq and Syria, he said.
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Memo to Clinton: Obama Admin Aided Group That Became ISIS
The report confirmed that the Syrian opposition was being led by three groups, including Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), which later became ISIS.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration supported the terrorist group that became ISIS as the group struggled to gain control of the Syria-Iraq border where ISIS now claims its caliphate, according to an intelligence report sent to Hillary Clinton.
Breitbart News reported Tuesday on a “Secret” classified intelligence report sent to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other top U.S. officials and agencies in August 2012. The report confirmed that Western and Gulf states were joining with Turkey to “support” the Syrian opposition to dictator Bashar al Assad. The report confirmed that the Syrian opposition was being led by three groups, including Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), which later became ISIS. The report confirmed that AQI was communicating through spokesman Muhammad al Adnani, who is now the chief spokesman for ISIS.
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‘Radical Islam’ Does Matter in Identifying Enemy, Experts Say
Using the phrase “radical Islam” to describe the Islamic State or other jihadist groups will not win the war, but is nonetheless relevant in identifying the ideology—not the religion—that America is fighting, experts said.
“I don’t believe the phrase “Islamist extremism” or “Islamist terrorism” is some sort of incantation that’s going to fix everything,” Walter Lohman, director of the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation, said in an email to The Daily Signal.
“In fact, I don’t even think it’s the most important thing in this whole issue set. What’s most important are the policies that we pursue and the action that we take to defeat it, whatever you want to call it. But it does matter because we—Muslims, as much as other Americans—are engaged in a war of ideas as well as a war on terrorism.”
In a speech Tuesday, President Barack Obama roundly criticized Republicans who have insisted he use the words “radical Islam,” or “Islamist,” to describe the Islamic State.
“What exactly would using this label accomplish? What exactly would it change? Would it make ISIL less committed to try to kill Americans? Would it bring in more allies? Is there a military strategy that is served by this?” Obama said after meeting with his national security team. “The answer is none of the above. Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away. This is a political distraction.”
Lohman, who last December hosted a forum, “Muslim Voices Against the Islamic State and Islamist Extremism,” said the point is to understand the ideology.
[Obama did get one thing right — calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away.]
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NATO Says it Might Now Have Grounds to Attack Russia
NATP announced on June 14th NATO cyberwar is the same status as physical war
On Tuesday, June 14th, NATO announced that if a NATO member country becomes the victim of a cyber attack by persons in a non-NATO country such as Russia or China, then NATO’s Article V “collective defense” provision requires each NATO member country to join that NATO member country if it decides to strike back against the attacking country. The preliminary decision for this was made two years ago after Crimea abandoned Ukraine and rejoined Russia, of which it had been a part until involuntarily transferred to Ukraine by the Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev in 1954. That NATO decision was made in anticipation of Ukraine’s ultimately becoming a NATO member country, which still hasn’t happened. However, only now is NATO declaring cyber war itself to be included as real “war” under the NATO Treaty’s “collective defense” provision.
NATO is now alleging that because Russian hackers had copied the emails on Hillary Clinton’s home computer, this action of someone in Russia taking advantage of her having privatized her U.S. State Department communications to her unsecured home computer and of such a Russian’s then snooping into the U.S. State Department business that was stored on it, might constitute a Russian attack against the United States of America, and would, if the U.S. President declares it to be a Russian invasion of the U.S., trigger NATO’s mutual-defense clause and so require all NATO nations to join with the U.S. government in going to war against Russia, if the U.S. government so decides.
[Comment: Banksters seeking to trigger WWIII to redce the number of “useless eaters”. They expect their “glorious NWO to rise like a phoenix from the ashes”.]
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Hezbollah Has 100 Sleeper Cells in Latin America
According to an Argentinian publication, Hezbollah has a strong presence in Latin America.
The Hezbollah terrorist group has 100 active “sleeper cells” in Latin America, according to media reports in the continent.
The Iranian-sponsored Shia jihadist group has long maintained close ties with the drugs and illegal weapons trades in Latin America, and has a substantial organizational infrastructure in several central and southern American counties. It’s success has relied in great part on a substantial Lebanese expat community scattered throughout the region.
US intelligence services — and particularly the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) — have long warned of Hezbollah’s major role in the drugs trade, as well as its extensive money-laundering activities, as part of its fund-raising efforts.
According to a recent report in Argentina’s La Nación newspaper, Hezbollah’s presence in Latin America is now the strongest it has ever been, with the terrorist group maintaining a particularly strong presence in the so-called Triple Frontier — the tri-border area along the junction of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil, where some of the region’s most dangerous drug cartels operate. Hezbollah’s presence is also strong along the Venezuelan-Columbian border — another drug-trafficking hotspot.
But the terrorist group’s activities in Latin America are not limited to criminal “fundraising” enterprises. The paper reports that some 100 Hezbollah terrorist sleeper cells are currently stationed in the region, primed and ready to carry out attacks when the orders are given.
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Mexico: Armed Group Loots Home of El Chapo’s Mother in Sinaloa
Something terrible has happened in the dark world of drug trafficking. A group of 150 armed men broke into the recondite community in La Tuna (Sinaloa), according to first accounts of the events, and looted the mansion of the mother of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, El Chapo. The attack on this sacred turf of the most powerful drug dealer in the world left a trail of blood and terror. According to Ríodoce, at least three people died of gunshot wounds while other sources say there were eight casualties.
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Germany: Invaders Have Multiple Wives
German Justice Minister Heiko Maas has confirmed that the nonwhite invaders pouring into that country have “multiple wives”-and that this poses a direct threat to traditional German values and laws.
This follows an earlier admission that more than half of the invaders have child brides.
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Heiko Maas told German newspaper Bild that no one has the ‘right to place their cultural values or religious beliefs above our laws’.
There has been increased concern over polygamous marriages in the wake of a rise in the number of migrants arriving in Germany, many from Muslim countries.
While polygamy is already banned in Germany, many officials ‘turn a blind eye’ to migrants who arrive in the country with more than one wife, the newspaper reports.
This is also true of forced and underage marriages.
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The 20-year-old migrant, who had been taken to the Austrian swimming pool to be taught how to integrate into his new community, was found guilty of serious sexual assault and rape of a minor and was sentenced to six years in jail.
The man, who had fled to Austria through the Balkan refugee route in September last year, hung his head in shame before he was sentenced for the horrific crime which left his victim suffering post-traumatic stress.
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ISIS Jihadist Seeks Asylum in Sweden
A notorious jihadist landed in Malmö airport this week and escaped deportation by promptly applying for asylum.
Police superintendent Leif Fransson was furious at having to keep the 46-year-old Bosnian in the country after his case was handed over to the Migration Agency.
“Sweden has got a reputation as a safe gateway for terrorists. As soon as these people play their trump card and shout ‘asylum’ the pearly gates are opened,” he told newspaper Sydsvenskan.
The 46-year-old arrived with his four children on a direct flight from Tuzla in Bosnia on Monday, the newspaper said.
Border police took him into custody on discovering he was barred from entering Sweden. His wife was already in Malmö visiting a friend and came to pick up the children at the airport.
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More Venezuelans Are Asylum Seekers in Spain Than Syrians
Just under 3,000 people requested asylum in Spain in the first three months of this year, a drop from the previous quarter, according to figures released on Thursday.
But despite the Syrian refugee problem dominating headlines, it was in fact Ukranians (795), followed by Venezuelans (405) who made up the largest number of asylum seekers to Spain.
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Here’s Everything I Wanted to Say About Islam Yesterday, But Couldn’t
by Milo
Here are the full remarks I had prepared for today.
Britain Is A Warning
Now, as you all know, I come from Britain. As a country, I believe it should serve as a warning sign for the United States, which must face its Muslim problem before it is too late. I myself am leaving the UK behind, as I no longer recognize much of my beloved London.
A Gallup poll of Muslims in the UK found that not a single one of the 1,001 people polled thought that homosexuality was morally acceptable. That is compared to 58% of the overall British population who think homos are OK. The same poll found that just 35% of French Muslims and 19% of German Muslims thought homosexuals were morally acceptable. …
De Tocqueville
It is a uniquely American trait that your country has relied on foreigners to take the true stock of American culture. Before I was saying America can be Great Again with Trump, it took a Frenchman named Alexis de Tocqueville to document the miracle of American democracy in his 1835 book “Democracy in America.”
I share something else with de Tocqueville: he was also a critic of Islam.
He was right about America, and he was right about Islam when he said “I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad.” …
America Has a Muslim problem
America has a Muslim problem. Notice my wording carefully here. It isn’t a radical Muslim problem. It isn’t an ISIS problem, an Al Qaeda problem, a Taliban problem, or any of the Muslim terror groups that have sprung up in 2016. The terror attack on Saturday is an expression of mainstream Muslim values.
Barack Obama,The “leader of the free world” is too scared to say this. …
The Left won’t blame Islam
Alarmingly, prominent liberals and homosexuals have fallen right in line. They are blaming rifles, the NRA, masculinity, video games — anything but Islam.
Dan Savage blames toxic homophobia and toxic gun culture. Well Dan, I have news for you: toxic homophobia has a name, and the name is Islam. …
Gun Panic
Liberals always wait to determine the race and sex of a shooter before deciding how they will attack gun rights.
Let me give you a clue, liberals — Muslims don’t just use rifles, they use bombs, airplanes and knives, they like did in Paris Monday night. They will use anything to kill the hated “infidels.” …
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Leftists “Not Sad” About 2-Year-Old Boy Killed by Alligator Because He’s White
Social justice warriors inject demented obsession with identity politics into Florida tragedy
Leftists and feminists took to Twitter to express the fact that they were “not sad” about a 2-year-old boy being killed by an alligator at a Disney resort in Florida because he was white.
Instead of recognizing the horrible tragedy for what it was, social justice warriors felt the need to inject their demented obsession with identity politics into the story.
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Video: Abortionist Tells Pro-Life Advocate He Loves Killing Babies: “I Love it! Yeah I Do”
A California pro-lifer captured his disturbing exchange with a notorious San Diego abortionist on video last week.
Abortionist Robert Santella has a bad reputation with his patients, having faced several disciplinary measures from the California Medical Board. He also has been accused of injuring several patients in botched abortions.
Recently, pro-life advocate Zephaniah Mel stood outside Santella’s Family Planning Associates abortion clinic in San Diego and was approached by Santella, California Catholic Daily reports.
The 72-year-old abortionist’s demeanor and remarks are extremely disturbing. At one point, Santella told Mel that he “loves” aborting babies.
Here is part of the exchange that Mel captured on video:…
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The article about Canadian pensions fails to mention that the only premier in the country that is fighting the expansion is Brad Wall, Premier of Saskatchewan.The only one in Canada that has any common sense.He stands up for the people in his province. It is hoping he can persuade some of the fence-sitting provinces like British Columbia (Christie Clark) to join him. That’s : Sa-ska-cha-wun ! by the way 🙂
Panetta: Trump ‘Aiding and Abetting’ Terrorists With Rhetoric what they are doing and how they are treating Trump in the media and how Republicans are sabotaging his chance’s at being elected is criminal. I think when Trump wins it will create a deep psychology Impact among liberals that they’ll move further to the extreme. And I think this will be the moment when mainstream liberalism will begin to go the way of the dinosaurs.
That is an interesting thought.
I happen to think that Trump will lose and a stone cold criminal will win the presidential election.
That is where we are now.
I actually wondered if Vensuala provides food and toilet paper to its inmates?
“For example, they may wear pants instead of a skirt to reduce the likelihood of being groped.” Good luck with that! My bottom was pinched by some jerk in a group of young arab-looking men as I looked at the view from Montmatre, standing right next to my partner. Paris did not feel like a safe place for women (esp on the metro, when we were going to some of the outer suburbs). He had to stand in front of me to protect me from men crowding in too close. I was about 40 at the time, so even age doesn’t protect you!
Europe is becoming hell for women.
Women – as a democratic majority – also share most of the responsibility for making Europe a hell for themselves. The Sacred Heart of Montmartre will soon be a mosque. The building is ideally shaped for the purpose. Paris has long ceased being the romantic place depicted in old Hollywood films and progressive era American literature.
70% of austrian young women voted for left wing van der Bellen in the recent presidential elections. Women votes in the elections transform my country in a hellhole so I have absolutely no regret for such women to be groped or worse.