A Muslim immigrant to Australia named Aladdin Sisalem is unhappy about a headline that appeared in a newspaper, so he is taking the paper to court. The offending headline in The Herald Sun read “Islam Must Change”, and Mr. Sisalem insists that these words violate Victoria’s Racial and Religious Tolerance Act. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal will hear the case.
In other news, in the town of Lawrenceville, Georgia, a woman wearing a burka (name: Aisha Ibrahim) was arrested after she allegedly assaulted a homeowner and members of his family using an American flag pulled off the family’s mailbox.
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The Startling Truth About How Working Families Are Truly Faring in This Economy
Our politicians stood idly by as millions of good paying jobs were shipped overseas, our economic infrastructure was absolutely gutted and multitudes of small businesses were choked to death by miles of red tape.
Now, we are reaping the consequences. In America today, nobody has a job in one out of every five families, and there are more than 100 million working age Americans that are currency not working. And thanks to our transition to a “service economy”, many of those that are actually working are deeply struggling too. According to the Social Security Administration, 51 percent of all American workers make less than $30,000 a year. And the Federal Reserve says that 47 percent of all Americans could not pay an unexpected $400 emergency room bill without borrowing the money from somewhere or selling something. That means that about half the country is flat broke, and things get even more precarious for working families with each passing day.
Of course the plight of working families is not something that is new. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, wages and salaries earned by workers accounted for around half of all gross domestic income. But since 1970 there has been a precipitous decline, and during the Obama administration we hit an all-time low. In other words, the share of the pie being enjoyed by working families just keeps getting smaller and smaller and smaller.
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Inverted Jenny Stamp Stolen in 1955 is Returned to Owner
A rare 1918 U.S. postage stamp featuring an upside-down plane that was stolen six decades ago and ended up in Northern Ireland was returned to its American owner on Thursday.
But the mystery surrounding the Inverted Jenny remains: Who stole it and three other such stamps at a 1955 convention in Virginia?
On Thursday at the World Stamp Show, the young man from Northern Ireland who inherited America’s most famous stamp from his grandfather watched as it was handed to the Bellefonte, Pennsylvania-based American Philatelic Research Library, which holds the rights to the four. Two of the other stamps were recovered years ago, and the fourth is missing.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was an avid stamp collector as a boy, helped set up the legal restitution process.
“It’s particularly great to have this accident of timing, the resurfacing of one of the world’s most famous stamps just in time for one of the world’s rarest events, the World Stamp Show,” Bharara said at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, the show venue.
A hundred Inverted Jenny stamps were printed in 1918, until someone noticed the error. The misprint comes from a design that marked the launch of U.S. air mail, featuring a Curtiss JN-4H biplane, nicknamed the Jenny.
The upside-down, century-old aircraft made those stamps much more valuable and intriguing, with counterfeits created as the collection was scattered. With a postage of 24 cents, one stamp from the batch of 100 was auctioned for $1.3 million this week in New York…
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Obama Blames ‘Right-Wing Radio’ For Making ‘People Think Big Government is the Problem’
“It’s pumped into cars and bars and VFW halls all across America.”
President Obama visited Elkhart, Indiana on Wednesday and during a town hall meeting blamed “right-wing radio” for distorting his economic record and for making “people think big government is the problem.”
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Secret Apocalypse Bunker ‘Buried Beneath Denver Airport as US Government Prepares for End of Days’
Some believe that the airport is hiding a series of tunnels and secret bases that will be used in the event of the end of the world
Conspiracy theorists claim a secret bunker has been buried beneath Denver International Airport as the US government prepare for the apocalypse.
And, they say there’s plenty of evidence to back up their incredible claim.
One video examines several theories, from murals and artwork to secret blueprints, as they seek to prove something suspicious is occurring under the Colorado site.
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The New York Catholic Church Paid Lobbyists $2.1 Million to Block Child Sex-Abuse Law Reform
From 2007 to the end of 2015, the New York Daily News reports, the New York Catholic Conference, led by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, paid top Albany lobbyists more than $2.1 million to help block legislation, including the Child Victims Act, that would make it easier for victims of child sex abuse to seek justice. If passed, the bill-a version of which is still pending-would change New York state law to allow a one-year window in which victims older than 23 could bring lawsuits against their abusers. (Such victims are restricted from suing under the current law.)
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Why Do the Postal Service, USDA, EPA, And Department of Agriculture Need SWAT Teams?
All throughout the United States there are government agencies who have no association with national security acquiring military-like equipment, according to news talk KFLD. Many agencies are receiving SWAT teams including the Department of Agriculture, the Railroad Retirement Board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Office of Personnel Management, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Education Department. In almost prophetic fashion, Ron Paul in a 1997 warned about the militarization of federal bureaucrats; including the BLM, which was not yet armed.
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Woman in Burka Allegedly Attacks Georgia Homeowner With American Flag
A Georgia homeowner was attacked Tuesday by a woman dressed in a burka armed with the American flag that was in the homeowner’s yard, The Smoking Gun reported.
Aisha Ibrahim, 30, allegedly pulled Old Glory out of a mailbox in Lawrenceville, which is outside Atlanta, and “in a threatening manner” swung the flag at the homeowner, the report said. A fight ensued until a neighbor was reportedly able to hold Ibrahim, whose eyes were only visible, until police arrived.
Authorities told FoxNews.com that the fight appeared to be unprovoked.
The alleged victim was identified as Dami Arno, who reportedly called for hate-crime charges against Ibrahim.
“A Muslim women tore my flag pole down this morning and attacked me and my daughter with it. After the fight she was charged with simple battery 2 counts, nothing else. No hate crime, no destruction of property, no criminal trespassing — nothing,” Arno reportedly posted on Facebook.
Capt. Tim Wallis, from the Lawerenceville Police Department, said he is going to look into a hate crime charge…
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EU Proposes Government ID to Use Internet
Proposal sparks Mark of the Beast comparisons
The European Union is proposing a government ID for using the Internet which will eradicate both on-line privacy and free speech.
Spearheaded by former communist official Andrus Ansip, the European Commission published a draft document outlining its proposed electronic ID that would not only allow the EU to track what you say on-line, but also what you buy.
According to the document:…
To sum it up, the EU wants to monitor everything Europeans do on-line by having all their Internet activities linked to a government ID which will annihilate on-line anonymity.
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Europe to Send Conspiracy Theorists to ‘Reeducation Camps’
Citizens in Europe who break new “hate speech” rules on the internet, including those who spread conspiracy theories online, will be forced to attend ‘reeducation camps’. According to section 7 of the European Framework National Statute For The Promotion Of Tolerance: Juveniles convicted of committing crimes listed in paragraph (a) will be required to undergo a rehabilitation programme designed to instill in them a culture of tolerance.
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German Parliament Labels Turkey’s Killing of Armenians a Genocide
Armenian activists wave flags outside the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament, after law makers voted to recognize the Armenian genocide in Berlin on June 2, 2016.
Armenian activists wave flags outside the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament, after law makers voted to recognize the Armenian genocide in Berlin on June 2, 2016.
The German Parliament overwhelmingly approved a motion labeling the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a century ago as genocide, a decision that Turkey’s prime minister said would “test” relations between the two countries at a sensitive time.
The resolution, which was put forward by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governing coalition of right and left and the opposition Greens, passed Thursday with support from all the parties in Parliament. In a show of hands, there was one abstention and one vote against.
Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said this week his country would not nix a deal with the European Union on curbing the flow of migrants to Europe over the motion, but said in Ankara earlier Thursday that the vote was a “true test of friendship.” Armenia’s foreign minister welcomed the vote…
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Four suspected Isis members have been arrested on accusations of planning a terror attack in Germany.
Three of the Syrian men were directly “commissioned” by the so-called Islamic State to launch suicide bombings in the city of Düsseldorf, prosecutors said.
After travelling back into Europe following the refugee route through Turkey and Greece they convinced the fourth suspect to join the plot.
They allegedly planned to attack Heinrich-Heine-Allee street in Düsseldorf (Getty )
A statement from the German federal prosecutor’s office said suspects named as Hamza C, 27, Mahood B, 25 and Abd Arahman AK, 31, had been detained in three different states and their homes were being searched.
| — Hat tip: Vlad Tepes | [Return to headlines] |
UK: Arrests for ‘Offensive’ Twitter and Facebook Messages up by a Third
Said something naughty in London? You could be cuffed
Two-and-a-half thousand Londoners have been arrested over the past five years for allegedly sending “offensive” messages via social media, statistics have revealed.
The full number of arrests made by the Metropolitan Police for alleged breaches of Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 increased by 37 per cent over the last five years.
The statistics will fuel the debate over the limits of freedom of expression over social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
A total of 625 arrests were made for alleged section 127 offences in 2010 — a number which had ballooned to 857 by 2015.
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The BBC’s head of religion has said although it is ‘uncomfortable’ to accept, the ideology behind ISIS is based on Islamic doctrine.
Aaqil Ahmed, the first Muslim to hold the post, said it was untrue to suggest that ISIS had nothing to do with Islam, despite the fact that the majority of Muslims do not agree with the extremist group.
He was speaking at an event at Huddersfield University, when he was asked to explain the BBC’s controversial policy on referring to the group as ‘so-called Islamic State’.
Prime Minister David Cameron has been among those who have called for the corporation not to use the phrase when referring to the terror group operating in Iraq and Syria, saying Muslims would ‘recoil’ at the phrase being used to justify the ‘perversion of a great religion’.
Mr Ahmed was asked at the event organised by Lapido, the centre for religious literacy in journalism, to defend the term by barrister Neil Addison on the grounds that he wouldn’t have said ‘so-called Huddersfield University’.
According to a report by Lapido, he responded by saying: ‘I hear so many people say ISIS has nothing to do with Islam — of course it has.
‘They are not preaching Judaism. It might be wrong but what they are saying is an ideology based on some form of Islamic doctrine. They are Muslims.
‘That is a fact and we have to get our head around some very uncomfortable things. That is where the difficulty comes in for many journalists because the vast majority of Muslims won’t agree with them [ISIS].’
Clarifying his comments, he told The Times that he had not been referring explicitly to the name of the group, but that ‘it [was] a reflection of the complexity of how you describe them and the religious belief structure.’…
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Refugee Takes David and Goliath Fight to News Corp
“ISLAM MUST CHANGE”, screamed the Herald Sun headline, and Muslim refugee Aladdin Sisalem — no stranger to conflict with News Corp Australia — took action.
On Thursday, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal held a special hearing to consider Mr Sisalem’s charge that the Herald Sun, and by extension the Herald and Weekly Times, had breached Victoria’s Racial and Religious Tolerance Act by publishing the story.
Mr Sisalem was previously known as the “forgotten man”, after he spent 10 months as the only detainee on Manus Island in 2003 and 2004, with only a cat called Honey and guards and staff for company, as John Howard’s Pacific Solution withered.
He represented himself with the assistance of translator Laurice Erian and argued that Herald Sun political editor Ellen Whinnett’s front-page story had incited hatred of Muslims and Islam itself.
“When I saw this article I thought: ‘Isn’t there a law in Australia that stops this happening?’,” Mr Sisalem told the tribunal.
“Accusation, after accusation, after accusation, on the front page.”
Ms Whinnett’s story, the tribunal was told, had been sparked by a Sky News political panel interview of Coalition front bencher Josh Frydenberg in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks in November 2015.
Mr Frydenberg had told Sky News that: “I would say there is a problem within Islam.”
The next day, Ms Whinnett’s report expanded on the theme, quoting “war hero” MP Andrew Hastie as saying Islam must “reform”.
“Modern Islam needs to cohere with the Australian way of life, our values and institutions. In so far as it doesn’t, it needs reform,” Mr Hastie said.
Victorian MP Michael Sukkar was quoted as saying Islam contained “medieval teachings and practices”.
Ms Whinnett gave evidence to the tribunal that her story was a “significant and legitimate piece of political reporting” about “the tensions between the views of various members of the government”.
Mr Sisalem disagreed, saying the story would “turn people against each other”.
“This is not about personal feelings, this is about personal safety,” he said. “[It’s] creating war against Islam.”
Mr Sisalem argued that by attacking Islam, the organisation was attacking all Muslims…
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South Africa: Govt. To “Legally” Seize Land
The South African parliament has finally passed the law which will allow the ANC government to legally seize white-owned land and hand it over to nonwhites. The new “Appropriation Act” does away with the previous “willing seller, willing buyer” arrangement which was supposed to prevent a Zimbabwe-style land grab.
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Another Reason to Vote Brexit: UK Taxpayers Biggest Funders of ‘Failed’ Juncker “Immigration” Plan
British citizens seeking yet another reason to vote Brexit, have one in spades.
The roots of this reason go back to last year when European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker hatched a 3-year plan to leverage €20 billion in seed capital to produce a €300 billion gain in Eurozone investment.
As one might expected, the results are nonexistent even though Juncker has already used up the €20 billion in seed capital.
Juncker now wants to up the seed capital, make the plan permanent, and extend the plan outside the EU to immigration zones such as Syria and Africa!
Here’s the kicker. The UK ponied up the biggest share of this monstrous boondoggle so far.
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Invader Sex Attacks Spur “Rape Protector”
The ongoing mass sex attacks on white women by the hordes of criminal nonwhite invaders pouring into Europe has spurred the invention of a modern steel belt “rape protector.”
The device-an inconspicuous steel cable belt sealed by a special locking system-prevents a victim’s pants being pulled down.
[Comment: A fully loaded colt 45 automatic would be better.]
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Invader Center Burns in Upper Austria
Austrian patriots have completely destroyed a new invader center in Altenfelden, Upper Austria, in an arson attack on the building just days before it was due to open. The attack, which took place early on Wednesday morning, caused €300,000 worth of damage and completely destroyed the timber-framed building.
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Muslim Immigrant Attacks Flag-Waving American Family
A family in Lawrenceville, a suburb of Atlanta, said they were attacked by an unknown Muslim woman wearing a full burqa simply because they were flying an American flag for Memorial Day.
Amina Ahra, 30, was arrested on two counts of simple battery after being accused of attacking a mother and daughter at their home, reported Fox 5 News in Atlanta.
Dami Arno told police she was in the garage talking with her daughter when Ahra emerged from the woods wearing a burqa, grabbed the flag from off the mailbox and charged at them.
She told Fox 5 she still can’t believe it all happened on American soil.
The alleged attacker told police she is “from Africa,” but would give them no other information about her identity, not even a local address.
The U.S. government has imported more than 132,000 Somali refugees, and thousands more from Sudan, over the past 25 years. Atlanta has a large Somali refugee community.
The Muslim woman was at least 6-foot-2 in stature and very strong, Arno said.
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Three More Refugee-Terrorists Arrested
Three more nonwhite invaders from Syria who entered Europe through the Balkans route in 2015, while pretending to be refugees, have been arrested and charged with planning mass murder suicide attacks in the Germany city of Düsseldorf. According to a statement released by German federal prosecutors, three Syrian nationals-and “refugees”-have been arrested.
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UK: Watch: Vigilantes Tackle, Cable-Tie Abusive Migrant Shoplifter
A viral video showing members of a “people’s militia” tackling an abusive Iraqi shoplifter has been watched over a quarter of a million times in just 24 hours since it was uploaded.
A refugee doesn’t want to pay in a supermarket and doesn’t want to give back 2 bottles (of wine?) to one of the supermarket employees. Instead he argues and argues and argues in his native language and holds tight to the 2 bottles.
The supermarket employees tell the refugee thief multiple times to hand over the 2 bottles. He refuses.
Someone tells the employees to call the police and the female one answers that the police was already at the store 2 times that day.
Then a couple of germans of a local neighborhood watch group enter the store and take away the bottles from the refugee thief and try to throw the refugee out of the store until the refugee gets physical and catches some well-deserved punches.
One of the germans or more yell: “Huh?! What do you want from me? Huh! What do you want from me?! Pigs! Get out of here! Pigs! Piss off.”
The woman at the end says: “It’s sad that we need to rely on a neighborhood watch group”.
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8 Reasons Why it is So Hard to Find Someone Decent to Marry
It is not easy to be single in America today. If you are a man, it can be exceedingly difficult to find a good woman to marry.
If you are a woman, it is literally a miracle if you can find a good man to marry. So is it just our imaginations, or has the process of finding a mate become much more challenging in recent years? Well, it is a fact that fewer people are getting married these days. For the first time in our history, there are more single adults in our country than married adults, and Time Magazinesays that 25 percent of Millennials will never get married even once in their entire lifetimes. And of course those that do get married are taking far longer to do so than previous generations. Just recently, I wrote about how the average American woman is getting married 7.0 years later than she did in 1956, and the average American man is getting married 6.7 years later than he did back at that time.
So why is this happening?
Why has finding love become so challenging?
Below, I would like to share 8 reasons why it has become so hard to find someone decent to marry…
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Threat to Freedom: Feminist Goons Wage War on Free Speech
First amendment now attacked as much as the Second!
“Alice the Goon” and her fellow feminists want to eradicate the First Amendment because free speech hurts their feelings:
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan warned us about this during a recent interview:…
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** a new invader center in Altenfelden, Upper Austria, in an arson attack on the building **
Look out Altenfelden! 5,000 police and half the Spezialeinsatzkräfte will arrive to investigate this crime for the next five years. Expect no mercy.
I expect waterboarding of all old and very suspicious grandmas.
It should be painfully obvious islam must change, since as the “religion” stands it is totally at odds with all other religions, and it’s adherents cannot live side by side, peacefully, with any non-moslems.
How much more money and time must be wasted before the entire western world gets the message and wakes up to the ‘scam-cult’ of islam?
Instead of taking this moslem trouble-maker seriously, the Australians need to deport him back to the Islamic paradise of his choice–NOW!
Powerful American legal minds have focused on when life begins or whether late-term abortion encompasses children in kindergarten, but they cannot seem to come up with a workable definition of what a religion is.
The Communist Party of the U.S.A. had to adopt the fiction that they do not advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Overnight they were for peaceful change. A miracle.
Islam’s tip top text, however, still has incitement to murder in it and a Muslim who swears an oath of allegiance to an infidel nation is, by definition, committing perjury as one cannot be an Muslim and agree that infidel law is superior to shariah law. But under our sappy Western inability to deal with the most basic of political realities, we countenance, where Islam is concerned, the advocacy of murder and perjury because it’s a “religion.”
Similarly, U.S. courts approve the strewing of chicken guts outside courthouses as part of Santeria, a Cuban “religion,” and its advocacy of animal sacrifice.
Why subscribe to the “Comedy Channel” on cable TV when you can, for free, read about Western boobs wrestling with doctrines straight out of the Arabian desert and Central American jungles. Voodoo sacrifice of goats in the National Cathedral are simply just around the corner.
I like your opinion. Here in Australia, we all have a full belly, plenty of sport,to occupy our minds, a nice bed to sleep in , and alls well with the world. Never mind that our western (Christian) culture is being eroded by these cultural enhansers. Just so long as the Government keeps sending us all a cheque, she’ll be right .
How Muslims use democracy to undermine it.
Who was it who is quoted as saying: “Democracy is like a tram (streetcar). You ride it until you get to your stop and then you get off.”?
Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“ISLAM MUST CHANGE”, screamed the Herald Sun headline, and Muslim refugee Aladdin Sisalem — no stranger to conflict with News Corp Australia — took action.
Aladdin could do us all a favour and rub that magic lamp of his, perhaps Islam will disappear.
The Australian state of Victoria is the most politically correct in the entire politically correct nation. Victoria’s religious vilification laws were set up to protect Muslims and used against two Christian evangelical church ministers simply for quoting the Koran (imagine the disappointment of the media when it transpired the ministers weren’t white but a Sri Lankan and a Pakistani, and further that the case against them was overturned). Australian federal hate speech laws have been used to silence a newspaper columnist, Andrew Bolt, who is (laughably) promoted as ‘Australia’s most conservative commentator’). I say laughably because he is actually a centre-right liberal. He was found to have contravened Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act for suggesting some aboriginals seek professional advantage from the colour of their skin or by claiming aboriginality (which confers preferential public service hiring status) due to having distant aboriginal ancestry.
Victoria has often been quoted as the [nether orifice] of Australia, and with it’s current governmets promotion of anal, oral sex and masturbation to eight year olds in school, one is inclined to agree.
If Victoria is the nether orifice, what does that make poor old Tasmania?
Statutes of Limitation serve no purpose. Get rid of all of them so Catholics won’t be the only targets of bigotry.
Re: South Africa
It would appear the politics of racial revenge are going full-steam ahead. SA will be the next Zimbabwe. Shame, since the Western Cape is beautiful. Perhaps they could secede and form their own free state, run along modern parliamentary lines with strong border controls.
Re: Memorial Day Flag Assault
1) Why is the assaulter continuing to steal our valuable oxygen?
2) Why is the assaulter still within US borders?
I’m still intrigued by the “she came out of the woods” part. Mighty hot in the Georgia woods this time of the year, particularly if you’re wearing a burker. Hiking, and she was triggered by the hateful flag, or is their a “hive” nearby?