Indian nationals who have been laid off but remain in Saudi Arabia are facing a food crisis. The recent drop in oil prices has caused the Saudi government to cut back on many projects, leaving foreign workers stranded. The local Indian community in Saudi Arabia, with the help of the Indian government, is working to get donated food to people in desperate need.
In other news, two more “Frenchmen” have been arrested in connection with last week’s halal slaughter of a priest in a church in Normandy.
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Italy Will Destroy EU: Warning as Italian Referendum to Spark Euro Economic Apocalypse
ITALY is on the brink of financial and political meltdown as the leader of the Eurozone’s third-largest economy tinkers on the edge of career suicide, plunging the already beleaguered European Union into fresh chaos. …
Italy’s bank shares plunged on Tuesday, showing signs they are suffocating under a pile of non-performing loans and a growing sense of political instability. The crisis could push Italy back into recession and, in a doomsday scenario, generate a Greek-type meltdown that Europe would find almost impossible to contain.
Francesco Galietti, head of the Policy Sonar risk consultancy and a former finance ministry official, said: “Italy faces a severe crisis that is exponential. This is not gradual and not linear.
“The immediate trigger is the banking crisis.”
In further signs of Italy’s increasing strife in the wake of the Brexit vote, it’s bank sector index FTIT8300 has fallen 30 percent, bringing its losses so far this year to 57 percent since the UK voted to leave the EU on June 2 The euro zone banking stocks index .SX7E plunged by 22 percent and 37 percent respectively.
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‘All Lives Matter’ Gets Texas Student Suspended, Sent to Diversity Workshop
A student government leader at the University of Houston was suspended for 50 days and ordered to attend a diversity seminar after she criticized the Black Lives Matter movement online.
Shortly after the July 7 shooting in Dallas that killed five officers, Rohini Sethi went on Facebook and opined “Forget #BlackLivesMatter; more like AllLivesMatter.” The statement was later deleted, but only after numerous UH students denounced it as incredibly offensive or even hateful.
“Just for her to say, ‘forget Black Lives Matter,’ is a punch in the stomach,” student Nala Hughes told a local press outlet at the time.
Sethi serves as the vice president of UH’s student government association (SGA), and several UH students demanded her immediate removal…
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Deception: The Making of the You Tube Video Hillary and Obama Blamed for Benghazi
a review by Jerry Gordon
Deception: The Making of the You Tube Video Hillary and Obama Blamed for Benghazi
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
Post Hill Press. July 19, 2016
ISBN: 978-1-68261-192-0
Veteran investigative journalist and bestselling author Ken Timmerman has a riveting new book Deception: The Making of the You Tube Video Hillary and Obama Blamed for Benghazi. It is the Kafkaesque ordeal of Cindy Lee Garcia, an aspiring actress and lay preacher from California and her undeserved 53 seconds of infamy in a “cheaply made internet video,” Innocence of Muslims hosted on YouTube on the subject of Islam and Mohammed. The 14-minute trailer for the two hour film that Democratic Presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama suggested spawned the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi on the night of September 11th at the Special Mission Compound and CIA Annex in Benghazi. The four dead in attacks were Ambassador Stevens, security aide Sean Smith, and two CIA security officers, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, both former Navy SEALs. Timmerman makes the case in the book’s afterword that the Benghazi attacks may have been planned and supported by Iranian Quds Force operatives disguised as a seven man Iranian Red Crescent team that included a Hezbollah operative.
Garcia awoke on the morning of Sunday, September 15, 2012 to discover she was being vilified globally via the internet and social media. This was compounded by the Administration which tied the video to death and destruction across the Muslim world in revenge for defaming their god Allah and his messenger, the prophet Mohammed. The destructive episode nearly surpassed the trail of death and destruction of the Danish cartoon incident of 2005 and 2006. All this was due in large measure to the Administration’s campaign suggesting the 14 minutes of the film produced by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a Coptic American, was the cause of death of four Americans that night in Benghazi. Nakoula was subsequently jailed on the pretext of violating his parole. Nakoula had dubbed in the anti-Islamic language during post production with Garcia and other actors.
In this gripping novel-like tale, Timmerman uncovers the story of the making of the film…
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Flour Recall Prompts New Warning: Don’t Eat Dough or Batter
The most basic of baking ingredients, flour, is at the center of a complicated question: How did it become contaminated with bacteria normally found in animal feces?
The E. coli-tainted flour from General Mills has sickened 46 people in 21 states and prompted about 45 million pounds of it to be recalled. And, the Food and Drug Administration is cautioning raw cookie dough and cake batter aficionados not to indulge.
Here’s what federal officials know:…
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Historic Ellicott City, Baltimore Area Hit With Deadly Flash Flooding
BALTIMORE— At least two people have been found dead after severe flooding left a path of devastation across the state on Saturday night, according to Howard County spokesperson Andy Barth.
Barth told CBS Baltimore on Sunday the body of a woman was found dead in Howard County, but could not confirm her identity at this time. Barth said later a man had also been found dead amid the flooding.
Governor Larry Hogan signed an Executive Order declaring a state of emergency in Howard County on Sunday morning, according to a press release from his office.
One of the areas hardest hit was Historic Ellicott City, where floodwaters left a trail of devastation, damaging buildings, vehicles and roads. First responders there made “numerous water rescues,” according to fire officials.
County officials urged many residents to relocate to higher ground in case an upstream dam should fail…
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Koch Brothers Donor Network to Focus on Senate, Not Presidential Race
The political donation network backed by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch will essentially sit out this year’s presidential election and focus on keeping the Senate in Republican hands.
When Charles Koch addressed hundreds of the nation’s most powerful polical donors at a weekend retreat in Colorado Springs Saturday, he lamented the choice in the race for the Oval Office between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.
“We don’t really, in some cases, don’t really have good options,” Koch said in describing the “current political situation.”
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See Something; Say Nothing: An Interview With DHS Whistleblower, Phillip Haney
by Jerry Gordon, Lisa Benson, Richard Cutting and Jeffrey Epstein (August 2016)
Recent testimony before the US Senate Judiciary Committee revealed “willful blindness” by federal law enforcement and immigration agencies to the threat posed by Islamic supremacist homicidal attacks in America. We recently had the opportunity to interview Phillip Haney who testified as a panel member at the breakthrough Senate Judiciary Hearing on “Radical Islam” and terrorism. Haney is the co-author of best-selling expose, See Something; Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad.
Haney is a classic whistleblower with a difference. He morphed from a USDA entomologist (he has a Master’s and an ABD) to become one of the first members of the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Custom and Border Protection (CBP) service. He half-jokingly said that his training with insects enabled him to follow the ants and other insects back to their nests, identifying their networks. Besides his professional education, he was also linguistically and culturally equipped by dint of episodes in the Middle East and Africa to become conversant in Arabic and Qur’anic Islamic doctrine and sharia law. That enabled Haney as a new DHS officer to ultimate interview and spot Jihadist visa waiver violators at the Port of Atlanta. His natural intellectual curiosity enabled him to spot and intercept more than 300 potential terrorist threats.
His self education also led to writing monographs on the network of jihadist threats in a 2006 Front Page Magazine (FPM) article, Green Tide Rising. It was about the globally designated terrorist group Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the US. He has noted in both his book and interviews that his information was two years before the federal Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas. That trial resulted in multiple convictions for funneling more than $35 million via this Muslim charity to Hamas. It also identified co-conspirators, the Muslim Brotherhood front groups, Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and the Saudi-financed North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) which funds the creation of 80 percent of mosques in the US. Others identified by federal prosecutors included the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Muslim Students Association (MSA)…
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Video and Photos: Horrific Flooding in ‘Ruined’ Ellicott City, Md.
Ellicott City’s Main Street was transformed into a raging river that swept away cars and inundated homes and businesses. Howard County first responders assisted 120 people in swift-water rescues.
Video shot from the second floor of Portalli’s Restaurant on Main Street at the height of the flooding is shocking. Diners huddle near the window watching in disbelief. “Oh, my God!” is the most frequent reaction as cars float down the street, some with people inside (watch especially from 3:55 on)…
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Article 50 Was Designed ‘Never to be Used’ — Says the Man Who Wrote the EU Divorce Clause
THE MAN who wrote Article 50 has admitted it was NEVER supposed to be used as Britain gets set to divorce the European Union.
Giuliano Amato, a former Italian Prime Minister, claimed Britain must “lose” when it comes to finances — so they are forced to stay in the single market.
Mr Amato told a conference in Rome, he had inserted the get-out clause specifically to prevent the British from complaining that there was no clear cut, official way for them to bail out of the Union.
He said: “I wrote Article 50, so I know it well.
“My intention was that it should be a classic safety valve that was there, but never used. It is like having a fire extinguisher that should never have to be used. Instead, the fire happened.
“When it comes to the economy they have to lose.”
The Italian believes if it is hard for the British to trade away from the arrangement set by the bloc, they may consider abandoning the world’s biggest trading zone.
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Brussels Fury: Massive Wave of Anti-EU Sentiment in Nations Including France and Germany
GERMANY and France were more pessimistic about the future of the European Union than Britain was in the run up to the Brexit vote, a study shows.
The Eurobarometer poll found that more than half — 51 per cent — of French and Germans were “totally pessimistic” about the EU’s future.
This compared to 46 per cent of Britons, who voted to leave the European Union on June 23, three weeks after the study, which was conducted between May 21 and May 31.
More than half of respondents in Greece (70 per cent), Cyprus (54 per cent) and Hungary (52 per cent) were also totally pessimistic about the future of the EU.
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Fearing Reprisal From Muslims, French Publisher Reverses Decision to Publish Book Critical of Islam
A Paris-based publishing house has revised its decision to publish a French version of the German bestseller “Der Islamische Faschismus” (The Islamic Fascism). Written by German-Egyptian author Hamed Abdel-Samad, the book was due to hit the French bookstores in September. Piranha Edition reportedly changed its mind after this month’s ISIS-inspired terror attack in Nice that killed 84 people and injured more than 300.
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France Church Attack: Two Arrested Over Priest’s Killing
Two men have been placed under formal investigation over the murder of a priest in a Normandy church, including a cousin of one of the killers.
Farid K, 30, a cousin of attacker Abdel Malik Petitjean, was arrested on suspicion of “terrorist association”.
The other man, Jean-Philippe Steven J, 20, was put under formal investigation for allegedly attempting to travel to Syria in June with Petitjean.
Petitjean and accomplice Adel Kermiche, both 19, were shot dead by police.
They had interrupted a church service in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, near Rouen, last Tuesday, taken hostages and slit the throat of Father Jacques Hamel, 86.
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Muslims Go to Catholic Mass Across France to Show Solidarity
In a gesture of solidarity following the gruesome killing of a French priest, Muslims on Sunday attended Catholic Mass in churches and cathedrals across France and beyond.
Reporters on the scene said that between 100 and 200 Muslims gathered at the towering Gothic cathedral in Rouen, only a few miles from Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, where the 85-year-old Rev. Jacques Hamel was killed by two teenage attackers on Tuesday.
“We’re very touched,” Archbishop Dominique Lebrun told broadcaster BFMTV. “It’s an important gesture of fraternity . They’ve told us, and I think they’re sincere, that it’s not Islam which killed Jacques Hamel.”
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Thousands March in Germany in Support of Turkey’s President Erdogan
Tens of thousands of people in Germany have turned out in support of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a rally that raised diplomatic tensions.
Mr Erdogan had planned to address the rally in the city of Cologne, held to denounce an attempted coup two weeks ago, by video link.
But on Saturday, Germany’s Constitutional Court banned the speech from being broadcast.
German media said at least 35,000 people turned out.
An estimated three million people of Turkish origin live in Germany, the majority of whom voted for Mr Erdogan’s AKP party in the last Turkish election, according to the Turkish Communities in Germany organisation.
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Turkey Condemns Germany’s Decision to Ban Erdogan’s Video Address at Cologne Rally
Ankara has criticized a German court decision to prohibit the broadcast of Turkish President Erdogan’s speech at a Cologne rally. Around 20,000 members of the Turkish community gathered to protest the failed coup.
Omer Celik, Turkey’s EU affairs minister tweeted earlier on Sunday that the German constitutional court’s decision ran counter to democratic values and free speech.
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Armed police have been seen patrolling the beaches in St Tropez as security is ramped up in the light of the latest terror attacks to hit France.
Patrols of officers carrying rifles were seeing walking between sun-worshippers at the popular southern French resort just days after Cannes had banned all bags big enough to conceal a weapon.
French authorities are taking the extreme measures amid fears that the nation could be hit with further terror attacks.
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‘Food Crisis’ Hits 10,000 Laid-Off Indians in Saudi Arabia
More than 10,000 Indian nationals laid off in Saudi Arabia are facing a “food crisis”, India’s foreign minister says.
Sushma Swaraj said “large numbers” of Indians had lost their jobs in the kingdom, leaving them with not enough money to buy food.
The Indian community in Jeddah, with the government’s help, has distributed food to those in need at the weekend.
Growth has slowed in Saudi Arabia as the country suffers the effect of lower oil prices.
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ISIS Release Vile Report on Western Society Describing in Detail ‘Why We Hate You!’
[…] Their advice to wannabe jihadis states: “As for a final word of advice to you regarding your operation, do not make intricate plans, but instead, keep it simple and effective.
“If you can obtain a weapon, do so and use it, as soon as possible and in a place that will cause the most damage and panic, bringing death and injury to the enemy of Allah, the disbelievers.
“Just as they terrify the Muslims in the lands of Islam, so should you terrify the disbelievers in their homelands.”
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Greek Islands Overflowing With Migrants Amid EU Fears Turkey Will Abandon Refugee Deal
Refugees and migrants wait to be registered at the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, November 5, 2015. (c) Alkis Konstantinidis / Reuters
Greek authorities on several islands in the Aegean Sea are raising the alarm over an increasing influx of refugees from Turkey, which has soared since the failed coup, while the EU fears Turkey will not keep to its promises regarding the refugee deal.
The number of migrants risking the hazardous journey to the islands by water only increased since the 15 June failed coup. Lesbos and other islands that have seen large influxes of refugees, are housing 9,240 migrants as of Saturday, according to Greek government figures cited by the Guardian.
According to the governor of North Aegean, Christiana Kalogirou, there is a “constant and apparently increasing flow” to the islands. Some working with migrants compare the situation now to what it had been before a deal with Turkey had been struck.
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Dude, I have no idea how to post here. But there were news on Brazil`s second largest newspaper, O Globo, that Muslim refugees in Germany were converting in hundreds of thousands to Christianity. Details here http://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/conversao-em-massa-na-alemanha-apos-ataques-19818821?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=mundo&utm_campaign=newsdiaria
That’s because if they convert they cannot be sent back – since Christians are killed in many Muslim countries. Many immigrants want the welfare, not the culture of the West.
Of course they are. “Risking” a sea crossing for cash and other bennies’ is one thing. Conversion is another. When I see Imams and Burkabi hijab rubbish running for their lives from Islam’s many barracks then I will watch very closely.