A lot of stuff came in for the news feed during our Internet outage; I didn’t have time to gather it all.
Based on MSM headlines, the most important news stories during our absence seem to concern Donald Trump. He did some bad things or has bad characteristics that frighten people, including racism, xenophobia, fascist tendencies, and taking inconsistent policy positions. I didn’t read the details, but it sounds very alarming.
Also: there have been Islamic terror attacks and police raids in Russia, Germany, and Belgium. A woman was gang-raped by migrants in Austria. More and more cars are being torched every night in Sweden. And Anjem Choudary was convicted.
But watch out for that dangerous Donald Trump!
At least there’s some good news: the mayor of Sisco in Corsica has banned the burkini.
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Four Ways to Use Fear and Deceit to Destroy Our Culture
Our nation is being attacked and torn apart from four very specific directions. Americans are desperate to find answers and strategies to stop it. Before we can do that we must first understand how it is being done and by whom.
I have just released a new book that, through a fictional thriller approach, gives great insight to such questions. The book is titled ERASE and features a four pronged story line. It details how we are being divided, manipulated and dumbed -down to prepare us to participate in our own demise.
Of course the most obvious attack is seen through government policy. The federal government, through the EPA, HUD, the Department of Transportation, and many more agencies are openly attacking the very concepts of free enterprise and private property rights. The American dream of owing a home, driving a car and planning for ones own future have become direct targets of such agency policy. Moreover, the legal structure of locally elected representatives deciding the future for our communities based on the wishes of those who elected them, is being destroyed through the establishment of non-elected boards and regional governments that do not answer to the people. Hordes of private, non-elected, non-governmental organizations and planning groups apply pressure for policies that many times overrule the will of the people. It’s all being funded through government grants that now give federal agents almost complete control over local decisions.
Second, that same federal control over the nation’s education system has seen the near destruction of knowledge. This will result in the creation of basically ignorant, unaware children good for little more than job training and the preparation of global citizenship. The new “citizens” come out of the public schools with nearly zero knowledge of the nation’s history, its philosophy or economic system. They are taught that there are no right or wrong answers and whatever works for them is ok. The concept of a fully rounded education that allows students to prepare for any eventuality has been replaced with little more than job training. Moreover, days in the classroom have become a drudgery of non-stop propaganda and behavior modification to impose a “proper” thought process called “Globally Acceptable Truth.” This concept advocates that the reason for wars and poverty is too much knowledge, confusing students, making life more difficult. Obedience and conformity are the true purpose of the curriculum in today’s American public education system.
Third, Public/Private Partnerships (PPPs) between government and business are becoming the new business model. There is one major problem with it. It’s not free enterprise; rather it is right out of the Mussolini fascist model.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Hillary Will Turn America Into Venezuela, Count on it!
Want extreme poverty? Then by all means, vote for Hillary Clinton. There is an old saying that the proud citizens of Michigan have said to me many times. “As Detroit goes, so goes the nation.” That proclamation is an old holdover from the days when Detroit was the undisputed motor capital of the world. There was a time when Detroit automaker General Motors was the largest and most influential company of any kind on earth. Detroit’s other manufacturing heavyweights included Ford, Chrysler, Dodge and the largest network of auto supplier companies in the world.
Until the end of the year 1966, Detroit was the wealthiest city in America and perhaps the world on a per capita basis. After a lengthy history of successful republican mayors, in the year of 1962 Detroit voters took a political left turn and elected progressive democrat Jerome Cavanagh. After only five years of a preponderance of socialist leaning policies and the negatives outcomes that accompany them, Detroit experienced the largest urban riot in American history in 1967.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
A 21-year-old man was arrested Sunday for allegedly stabbing his own father during a morning church service in Kentucky.
Ethan A Buckley has been charged with assault after witnesses said the scene at Hillvue Heights Baptist Church in Bowling Green was bloody and chaotic, WBKO reported.
Buckley’s father was taken to Bowling Green Medical Center, but his condition is unclear. His name has not been released.
In a strange twist, Buckley was reportedly punched in the face at work and wrote a Facebook post on Saturday that read: ‘What’s the world coming to where a man can’t even go to work and feel safe!’
Fellow church-goers said Buckley and his father filled out first-time visitor cards before the sermon started, WBKO reported.
Near the end of the service at 10.47am, Buckley allegedly stabbed his father before an associate pastor tackled him, the local news channel reported…
| — Hat tip: LP | [Return to headlines] |
Mars Space Station Could Pave Way for 1st Footsteps on Red Planet
Humanity may camp out for a year or so in Mars orbit to get ready for its epic first trek to the Red Planet’s surface. The aerospace company Lockheed Martin recently proposed that NASA work with its international partners and private industry to set up a space station in Mars orbit by 2028. The astronauts working and living aboard this “Mars Base Camp” could help collect information that any future Red Planet explorer would need to know, the project’s developers say.
| — Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
Memo: Soros Group Funded ‘Opposition Research’ on Critics of Radical Islam
A non-profit group controlled by billionaire financier George Soros set out to conduct opposition research on a handful of critics of radical Islam, a newly released internal memo shows.
The 2011 document, entitled “Extreme Polarization and Breakdown in Civil Discourse,” is one of more than 2,500 files stolen from Soros’ Open Society Foundations and published online on Saturday.
It names prominent critics of radical Islam, such as Pamela Geller, Frank Gaffney, and Robert Spencer as targets for opposition researchers working on a project operated by the Center for American Progress (CAP), a liberal think tank that has received millions of dollars in grants from Soros’ groups.
| — Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
Several weeks ago the mainstream media began to paint a narrative of Donald Trump having mental issues and being unfit for the Presidency. Curiously, within a matter of days, stories began to emerge of bizarre behavior from Democrat Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. As it turns out it may be Clinton that is unfit for the Presidency.
From falls and difficulty climbing stairs to stage panic in the face of protest chants and nonsensical statements to her audience, something appears to be wrong with the former Secretary of State. In fact, even Hillary’s closest aide, Huma Abedin, noted in an email to a State Department employee that Hillary is “often confused.”
Now, according to Kit Daniels of Infowars, inside sources within the Secret Service are leaking information that appears to confirm what many already know:
Hillary Clinton apparently suffers from Parkinson’s or a similar disease and experiences seizures from flashing lights, such as camera flashes at press conferences, the Secret Service told Infowars.
Additionally, the federal government has reportedly spent nearly a quarter-million dollars to add handicap steps on government vehicles because Hillary struggles with balance, a fact already established by a Reuters photo showing two men helping Hillary up stairs.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Restaurant Selling ‘Black Olives Matter’ T-Shirts
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An Italian restaurant in New Mexico is drawing criticism on social media for making merchandise with a slogan mimicking the Black Lives Matter movement.
News station KOAT-TV in Albuquerque reports that Paisano’s in Albuquerque is selling “black olives matter” shirts and hats after making national headlines for putting the phrase on a sign outside the restaurant.
Owner Rick Camuglia says he emblazoned the phrase on the restaurant’s main sign to sell a new recipe: a tuna dish with black olive tapenade.
Camuglia posted pictures of the dish and the sign on Facebook, drawing complaints he was being insensitive and trivializing a movement aimed at trying to stop police shootings of black residents.
Camuglia says he’s not trying to stir racial tensions and was only trying to sell food.
| — Hat tip: JLH | [Return to headlines] |
Soros Gave $500,000 to Group Doing “Opposition Research” On Foes of Jihad Terror
by Robert Spencer
Ironically, much of the Center for American Progress’ libelous and inaccurate “research” on the alleged purveyors of “Islamophobia” focused on the money we were all supposedly raking in, in an attempt to portray us as cynical profiteers only in it for the money. The CAP reports wildly exaggerated, misrepresented, and distorted the financial data, and meanwhile were making huge sums themselves to do it. Jihad Watch has never received a single grant as large as these that CAP received from Soros: the real cynical profiteers were Soros’ paid operatives.
Meanwhile, if Soros really wants to combat “anti-Muslim xenophobia and to promote tolerance,” he should spend his money on a little research of people such as Omar Mateen, Syed Rizwan Farouk, Tashfeen Malik, Nidal Malik Hasan, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and other jihad terrorists. They have done far more to promote “anti-Muslim xenophobia” and diminish tolerance than anyone in the so-called “Islamophobia network” could ever possibly do.
| — Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
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Wake up… watch what’s happening in Venezuela… you need to get your beans, bullets and band aids squared away… Those tangible items are going to be what pulls your family through the hard times ahead. And regardless of what happens to currencies, if you have a honest one year supply of food, preferably two years, and a good core position in physical precious metals that you hold at home… hidden… not in a bank because banks are vulnerable to banking holidays where they would limit or eliminate access to your safe deposit box…
If you have those tangibles… food, silver and my other favorite is common caliber ammunition… that’s the other thing you should really stock up on heavily.
I have a feeling that as we get closer to the election and if it looks like the poll numbers are leaning to Hillary winning there’s going to be a massive run on firearms… bigger than anything we’ve ever seen before… and along with that people are going to be rushing to buy any ammunition they can, reloading components and full capacity magazines.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Suspected Queens Shooter of Imam and Friend Nabbed by Cops
The killer who crept up behind an imam and his friend near a Queens mosque and shot both men in the head may have been settling a score in a feud between Muslims and Hispanics, police sources said early Monday.
And he may have left behind another victim who unwittingly held the clue that solved the crime, the sources said.
The suspected killer was taken into custody Sunday night but had not been charged or identified, according to the sources. Police officials would not confirm whether a suspect was nabbed.
Video of the horrific Saturday afternoon murders of mosque leader Maulama Akonjee, 55, and Thara Uddin, 65, at Liberty Ave. and 79th St. in Ozone Park showed the brazen crime to be a planned execution.
But the killer may have gotten sloppy in his haste after pulling the trigger and hit a bicyclist with his car, sources said…
| — Hat tip: Dean | [Return to headlines] |
Town Orders American Flags Removed From Fire Trucks
American flags were removed from three Arlington Fire District trucks Tuesday, sparking heated discussion on social media and disappointment from union members.
Fire Chief Tory Gallante was directed by the Board of Fire Commissioners to remove the flags from the backs of the trucks during Monday’s meeting. He declined to comment on specifics of why the decision was made but said he is “very disappointed with their direction.”
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Trump is Right, Election Can be Rigged and Vote Fraud is Real
I think we all know, that in this day and age, a computer can do anything. These voter machines are essentially a computer. Who is to say they could not be rigged?” asked Roger Stone on the topic of voter fraud.
“There’s a mathematician called Richard Charnin, a very eccentric fellow. Last time I met him he was wearing a ski jacket in 90-degree weather, he’s one of those. He’s also brilliant.”
“He’s a retired mathematician and he’s a genius. He’s written an extensive monograph on how every election in the state of Wisconsin (think Nehlen v. Ryan) in the last decade has been stolen, and you figure this out by comparing the polling, on a district by district basis, to the results, and then you’ll find a swing that is mathematically impossible,” Stone claimed. “In other words, you were losing a given precinct by four points, and then you’ll win it by twelve. Such a swing is unlikely to say the least.”
“The elections are rigged for one entity or another. So, who are the perpetrators? The perpetrators are the people who manufacture and sell these machines. The most common electronic voting machine, which is really just a computer, is a company called Diebold,” Stone replied.
“Diebold’s top executives and owners of the company are major donors to the Bush’s. Is this a major factor on how George W. Bush quite improbably beat John Kerry?”
“I think we have widespread voter fraud, but the first thing that Trump needs to do is begin talking about it constantly,” Stone said. “He needs to say for example, ‘I am leading in Florida. The polls all show it. If I lose Florida, we will know that there’s voter fraud. If there’s voter fraud, this election will be illegitimate, the election of the winner will be illegitimate, we will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience, and the government will no longer be the government.’“
“If you can’t have an honest election, nothing else counts,” he continued. “I think he’s gotta put them on notice that their inauguration will be a rhetorical, and when I mean civil disobedience, not violence, but it will be a bloodbath. The government will be shut down if they attempt to steal this and swear Hillary in. No, we will not stand for it. We will not stand for it.”
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Trump Still Holds the Aces Against Hillary Clinton
Despite the negative publicity, his campaign has been highly effective and he ought to win.
| — Hat tip: Nick | [Return to headlines] |
Trump Changes Tone on NATO, Vows to Work With Alliance to Defeat ISIS
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, in what was billed as a major foreign policy address, on Monday backed off past threats to withdraw from the NATO alliance — saying that if he’s elected, the U.S. will work with the 28-member bloc to defeat the Islamic State.
During his speech in Youngstown, Ohio, Trump called for working “very closely with NATO,” describing radical Islamic terrorism as the dominant global threat and one that must be confronted at all levels.
In doing so, Trump acknowledged having previously described NATO as “obsolete” for not dealing adequately with terrorism.
“Since my comments, they have changed their policy,” Trump said, calling this apparent development “very, very good.”
Trump’s latest NATO comments indeed mark a turnaround from warnings that if he’s president, the U.S. might not come to the aid of alliance members if they are attacked by Russia or another country. Those remarks, made earlier this summer, drew heavy criticism from not only from Democrats and Republicans but also from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
| — Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
Video: Hillary’s Weird Behavior — The Cover-Up
Establishment terrified of more revelations about Clinton’s health
Since my video went viral and catapulted Hillary’s health back into the national spotlight, we’ve seen more examples of Clinton behaving bizarrely.
The establishment is also terrified and desperate to keep a lid on the scandal by dismissing it as a “conspiracy theory”.
More revelations are coming. Will the dam break, or will the cover up continue?
We’ve made this a national news story. Keep up the pressure by sharing this video — www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifIAlft47bM
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Belgian Police Shoot Gunman in Downtown Ghent
Belgian media reports say police have shot an armed man who refused to hand over a gun he was carrying in the city of Ghent, with the country still on high alert in the wake of suicide attacks in Brussels in March.
Flemish Broadcaster VTM said the incident occurred in Ghent around 10 p.m. (2000 GMT) on Sunday after bystanders warned police that an armed man was running down a street in the city center.
Prosecutors’ spokeswoman Julie Van Hoorebeke was quoted as saying that the incident probably wasn’t linked to terrorism.
| — Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
British Tourist Killed by ‘Foreign Nationals’ After Defending Woman From Molesting Gang
“I keep thinking I’m going to wake up out of this nightmare and I’d have my boy back”
A British tourist has been killed in a knife attack in Cyprus after stepping in to defend a fellow British girl who was being harassed. The assailants have been described as “foreign nationals”. A second victim was injured in the attack.
George Low, 22, was enjoying a night out at the end of a week’s holiday in the Cypriot town of Ayia Napa when he allegedly stepped in to stop a group of men who were “disrespecting and harassing” an English girl.
Mr Low is said to have told them “that’s enough.” Two of the men disappeared, only to return twenty minutes later with a knife, the Guardian has reported.
Mr Low was stabbed in the neck as he walked down Grigori Afxentiou Street, a busy main road, severing an artery. His friend Ben Parker, also 22, was stabbed four times in the back but is expected to make a full recovery.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
France Corsica Brawl: Mayor Bans Burkinis Amid Tensions
A village mayor in Corsica has banned full-body swimsuits known as “burkinis” after a beach brawl between families of North African descent and local youths.
The ban was imposed at a special council session on Sunday in Sisco amid tensions over the brawl, in which five people were hurt.
Authorities in Cannes and Villeneuve-Loubet, on the French Riviera, also banned Islamic burkinis this month.
Witnesses say hatchets and harpoons were used in the Sisco beach brawl.
The five injured on Saturday were later discharged from hospital, but tensions are simmering in the area.
Tension has grown this summer between local communities and Muslims of North African origin in the south of France, especially following the massacre of 85 people by a lorry driver on the seafront at Nice on 14 July.
| — Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
Germany: Police Break up BBQ Because “Openly Right-Leaning People” Were Eating Sausages.
Far right in uproar after police break up ‘political’ BBQ
Local officials say the group hid their political reasons for meeting from the city in order to rent out a space to grill.
Police reported on Saturday that officers had called an end to a grillside gathering of around 50 “openly right-leaning people” in Ebersburg near Fulda, Hesse.
After consulting with local authorities who said the gathering should not be permitted, “strong police forces” then arrived to put an end to the event.
| — Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
Germans Find No Evidence Suspect Planning Attack, No Bomb
German police on Wednesday searched the home of a 27-year-old man on suspicion he had explosives stored there but found only firecrackers and no indications he was planning an attack, they said.
Police told local broadcaster RBB that the suspicion the German man from the eastern city of Eisenhuettenstadt might have been planning an attack “hadn’t solidified.”
The man was arrested earlier Wednesday when Brandenburg state governor Dietmar Woidke said he was suspected of “planning an act of terrorism.”
| — Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
Germans Should Have to Work Until 69, Says Bundesbank
Elderly Germans may have to keep working until the age of 69 if a Bundesbank proposal is adopted.
It says Berlin should consider raising the retirement age to that level by 2060, from around 65 at the moment.
The central bank says that otherwise the country may struggle to honour its pension commitments.
It points out that the state pension system is in good financial health at present, but will come under pressure in coming decades.
The Bundesbank says that as baby-boomers — those born in the post-World War Two period — retire, there will be fewer younger workers to replace them.
| — Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
How Sweden Hopes to Stop Car Burnings
Sweden’s government has vowed to clamp down on criminals who set fire to cars after nine consecutive nights of car fires in Malmö and other parts of the country.
| — Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
‘It is Important for Norway That Hillary Clinton is Elected’
Norway’s foreign minister and the head of parliament’s foreign affairs committee have taking the unusual step of speaking out against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Foreign Minister Børge Brende told broadcaster NRK on Monday that he has serious concerns about what Trump’s possible election could mean for Norway and the rest of the world.
Brende condemned the brash businessman for making statements that “do not belong in the 21st century” and said he is continually flabbergasted by the controversial statements made by the Republican presidential candidate.
“Many of the comments that Donald Trump has made create unrest,” Brende said. “It’s almost like you can’t even believe what you are hearing.”
| — Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
Jean-Claude Juncker Warned He Could Spark European Civil War With Arrogant Brexit Stance
JEAN-CLAUDE Juncker has been warned he risks being responsible for causing a bloody civil war in Europe if he persists with his arrogant approach towards Britain.
Jean-Claude Juncker has been warned he risks sparking civil war over Brexit A political expert branded the Brussels chief’s actions “stupid and short-sighted” and said his Brexit negotiating stance makes him akin to “some latter day Nicolae Ceausescu”.
In a blistering attack academic Sean Swan said the EU Commission boss is “doomed” because he is behaving like a “frustrated child” and not a statesman.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Post-UK European Union Heaps New Regulations on Internet
Online messaging companies like WhatsApp and Skype might be severely restrained soon, as the European Union is expected to implement a regulatory crackdown on such services in the coming weeks.
This comes after the U.K.voted to exit the EU. Britain was a consistent critic of enforcing regulations that could inconvenience companies like WhatsApp and Skype, according to the Financial Times.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Sweden’s Summer Spate of Car Fires Continues
Dozens of vehicles were set alight overnight in towns across Sweden.
Cars were torched in Malmö for the ninth consecutive night. Emergency services were called out to put out two fires within nine minutes, with one alarm raised at 1.28am and the other at 1.37am.
“There were two incidents close to each other in time in Malmö, but we had no problems handling both incidents,” emergency control room officer Gustaf Sandell told the TT newswire.
A resident in the area was able to use fire extinguisher to stop the first fire in the Fosie district from spreading. Another three cars were gutted in Rosengård in the second incident.
More than 70 cars have been torched in Malmö since early July. Police figures put out earlier this month show that the number of car burnings in the city halved between 2009 and 2015.
| — Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
Hacked Soros E-Mails Reveal Plans to Fight Israel’s ‘Racist’ Policies
Hacked emails show that the Open Society Foundations, led by George Soros, has as an objective “challenging Israel’s racist and anti-democratic policies” in international forums, in part by questioning Israel’s reputation as a democracy.
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15 Guantanamo Detainees Sent to UAE in Major Transfer
Fifteen prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have been released to the United Arab Emirates in the single largest transfer of detainees during the Obama administration.
The release of 12 Yemeni nationals and three Afghans comes amid a renewed push to whittle down the number of detainees held at the U.S. base in Cuba. The men have been cleared for transfer by U.S. government departments and agencies.
The Pentagon says 61 detainees remain at Guantanamo.
President Barack Obama has been seeking to close the detention center amid opposition from Congress.
| — Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
Airstrike Hits Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Yemen
An airstrike hit a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders in northern Yemen on Monday, the international aid group said, killing and wounding an unknown number of people.
The group, known by the French acronym MSF, said the strike hit near the Houthi rebel stronghold of Saada, where teams were still attending to the wounded. Yemeni security and medical officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to brief the media, say the strike killed and wounded some 20 of the hospital’s staff and patients.
The conflict in Yemen pits an internationally-recognized government backed by a Saudi-led coalition against the Shiite rebels, who captured the capital, Sanaa, in September 2014. The Saudi-led coalition has been carrying out airstrikes in Yemen since March 2015.
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Deadly Car Bomb Rocks Turkey’s Southeast
Three people have died and several others have been injured following a car bomb explosion, close to the city of Diyarbakir. Security forces said they suspected Kurdish militants were behind the attack.
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Russia St Petersburg: ‘Militants’ Killed in Counter-Terrorism Raid
Four suspected militants have been killed in a shoot-out with Russian special forces during a raid on an apartment block in St Petersburg.
Russia’s counter-terrorism committee said at least three of the men had been wanted for links to a series of terror attacks and attempted assassinations.
The men were ordered to surrender but killed when they opened fire, according to an official statement.
Russia has long been battling extremism in the North Caucasus.
But the BBC’s Moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford says it is rare that raids against suspected Islamist militants are carried out in St Petersburg.
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Indian Independence Day Marred by Gun Battles in Kashmir
One police officer has died and 10 police and paramilitary troops have been injured after gunmen attacked a police station in Srinagar. The attack coincides with the seventieth anniversary of Indian independence.
| — Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
China Launches World’s First Quantum Communication Satellite “Micius”
Will explore quantum teleportation for the first time in the world
The world’s first quantum communication satellite, which China is preparing to launch, has been given the moniker “Micius,” after a fifth century B.C. Chinese scientist, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced Monday.
According to CAS, the quantum satellite will conduct experiments on high-speed quantum key distribution between the satellite and ground stations, as well as explore quantum teleportation for the first time in the world.
[Comment: Meanwhile in the west, university students get social justice warrior indoctrination.]
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
ISIS Asian Expansion: Southeast Asia to Become Next Jihadi Base as Terrorists Expands East
SOUTHEAST Asia is being targeted by Islamic State (ISIS) commanders after suffering heavy losses in their Middle Eastern heartlands, experts have warned.
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Gunmen Abduct People From Mexican Resort City Restaurant
Mexican authorities say armed men have abducted multiple people from an upscale restaurant in the popular beach resort city of Puerto Vallarta.
Prosecutors in the western state of Jalisco say two SUVs carrying an unknown number of gunmen arrived around 1 a.m. at the restaurant on the city’s main boulevard, which runs through the hotel zone.
Mexican media reports say as many as 16 people were abducted, but authorities did not immediately confirm the number.
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Spanish Marxist Professor Alfredo Serrano is the Man Behind Venezuela’s Economic Mess
The main culprits of the most radical measures taken by the Venezuelan government come from Spanish politician Alfredo Serrano Mancilla, according to Spanish Adviser to President Nicolás Maduro Deputy Carlos Valero.
Valero told the newspaper ABC in Spain that Serrano “is the author of the latest and most radical economic measures undertaken by the Chavistas, who have only managed to impoverish the country.”
Expropriations, the seizure of businesses, “urban agriculture” on balconies, the soviet supply system and forced employment in the public agriculture sector are all a result of Serrano’s influence.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Venezuelan President’s Approval Rating Falls to Nine-Month Low
– Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s approval rating fell to a nine-month low of 21.2 percent in July amid calls from government critics for a recall referendum next year, according to a local pollster Datanalisis.
The poll of 1,000 people, conducted July 13-21, also showed more than three-quarters of those surveyed disapproved of Maduro’s tenure, while 93.6 percent saw the country’s situation negatively. Only 22.1 percent believed that Maduro should finish his term. Maduro’s three-year tenure has been marked by a severe deterioration in the country’s economy, with daily lootings and food riots due to shortages of the most basic goods. Triple-digit inflation, a collapse of the local currency on the black market and severe recession have added to the country’s woes.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Asylum Seeker Who Bristol People Helped to Stay in UK Sexually Assaulted Woman in the City
An asylum seeker, who remained in Bristol after help from a public campaign calling for him not to be deported, went on to sexually assault a woman in the city.
In 2011 the Bristol Post reported how supporters of Sivarajah Suganthan thanked Lib Dem MP Stephen Williams for his help after the Sri Lankan was released from spending 37 days in a detention centre.
Suganthan, who was still under threat of deportation, went to live with friends in Bristol.
His supporters lobbied immigration minister Damian Green to grant him asylum and Mr Williams presented an 800-name petition to the House of Commons to call for threats of deportation to be stopped.
| — Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
Donald Trump Calls for ‘Extreme Vetting’ of Immigrants to US
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said that he would enact “extreme vetting” of immigrants.
In a speech in Ohio, the candidate outlined his plans to combat Islamic extremism, including a new screening test for arrivals to the US.
Applicants will be tested to determine if they share Western liberal values, such as religious tolerance.
Citizens from some countries will not be issued visas but it is not clear which nations will be banned.
In the speech, he did not repeat his controversial claim that his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton “founded” the so-called Islamic State.
| — Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
Immigration Propels Swedish Population Close to Ten Million
Sweden’s population is racing towards the ten million mark, new figures from Statistics Sweden show.
In the first half of this year Sweden’s population grew by 55,300, an increase of 9,500 compared to the same period last year.
Immigration accounted for much of the increase, with 62,200 people moving to Sweden in the first six months of the year.
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Leaked Soros Docs Confirm Migrant Crisis a Tool of ‘Global Governance’
“We deliberately avoided the term ‘global governance,’“ report states
Various international groups are working to normalize the migrant crisis currently overtaking Europe, leaked memos from a George Soros organization reveal.
Produced by a group called DCLeaks.com, hacked documents taken from the billionaire’s Open Society Foundation International Migration Initiative Thursday illustrate the extent to which the group has been working to make nations accept the current migrant crisis as the “new normal.”
A nine-page memo entitled, “Migration Governance and Enforcement,” provides insight into how the NGO has influenced immigration policy on a global scale.
“The current refugee crisis is creating space to reconsider the governance of migration and the international refugee regime,” states the report, adding that the group’s ambitions include to “strengthen norm-setting” of immigration and to “more effectively protect the rights of migrants.”
“We aimed to prevent the violation of migrants’ rights by minimizing harsh border controls and decreasing the widespread use of detention and deportation,” the OSF report admits.
“We deliberately avoided the term ‘global governance’ because there is no single system at the global level for managing migration,” states the report prepared by Soros operatives Anna Crowley and Kate Rosin.
The leaked memo also makes it clear the NGO views the migrant crisis as an opportunity to expand its globalist agenda.
[Comment: West should follow Russia’s example and ban and boot out all Soros funded NGOs — which are really mechanisms for destabilization and implementing a globalist agenda.]
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Nine Refugees Accused of Austria Gang Rape, Stoking Election Fears
Nine Iraqi refugees have been arrested in Austria on suspicion of gang-raping a 28-year-old German woman in a case that could ignite debate of immigration and crime ahead of this Autumn’s presidential election re-run.
The arrest of the nine Iraqis, all either asylum seekers or recently granted asylum, comes as Austria’s anti-immigrant Freedom Party seeks to over-turn the result of June’s presidential election after mounting a successful legal challenge to pave the way for a re-run on October 2.
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Nine Iraqi Migrants Arrested After Woman ‘Drugged and Gang Raped’ In Austria
POLICE have arrested nine Iraqi migrants on suspicion of gang raping a 28-year-old German woman, who was subjected to a horrifying four hour assault.
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Norwegian Police Chief Says ‘Xenophobia is Highly Rational and Justified, ‘ Cites Crime Stats
The term “xenophobia” is comically stupid when used against civilized Europeans who have some of the low crime rates in the world
A police chief in Norway has done the unthinkable: he pointed out it’s perfectly reasonable to be “xenophobic” towards people who commit hugely disproportionate amounts of crime.
From Breitbart:
A Norwegian police chief has spectacularly broken ranks to express his professional opinion that high and sustained levels of crime committed by migrants more than justifies concern about foreigners, and that increasing immigration “leads to more rapes”…Police Inspector [Thomas Utne] Pettersen said: “People’s xenophobia in relation to this group is highly rational and justified”.
Validating his point, the senior officer said on his force in any given week in 2016 they might witness in the low-crime country “three Middle Eastern men in police custody” for drug offences, “foreigners” arrested for other drugs offences, stabbings, and robberies.
Pettersen said that in the year of 2015 he personally signed off 2,600 days of custody for detainees in his area — 2,200 of which were for “foreign men”. In one Norwegian prison — Ullersmo — he said half of all prisoners were foreigners, up from 30-per-cent in 2014. The officer also blasted the number of Norwegian children who had been raped by migrants, including an “Afghan asylum seeker convicted of rape of a Norwegian child” and “three Syrian asylum seekers charged with the rape of two Norwegian children”. Reinforcing the point, he cited a study in Oslo, the Norwegian capital, which found that “9 out of 10 who are convicted of violence against children have an immigrant background”.
Perhaps coming in for officer Pettersen’s most stinging criticism were the politicians who opened the doors to mass migration. Remarking that “Women and children are sacrificed on Asylum and Refugee Department’s altar”, he said politicians last summer had sought to “outbid each other” on how many asylum seekers the country could accept. He said if the politicians had been more rooted in “reality”, they would have seen long before that allowing more migrants would “lead to more rapes and other serious violations”. On the coverup of migrant crime seen across Europe — notably in Germany, where local government in Cologne ordered reports be changed to hide the migrant nature of hundreds of attackers who molested and raped woman on New Year’s Eve and in Sweden where police no longer report the identities of criminal to avoid accusations of racism — the officer was scathing. He said: “The secrecy is in my opinion a betrayal of [the public]. The public has a right to know the challenges the police face — not to mention who commits most of the crime”.
Concluding, the Police Inspector said his primary concern isn’t xenophobia in Norway, but rather that “more people aren’t worried” about migrant crime and asylum seekers.
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Saudi Arabia Intercepts Illegal Africans in Red Sea
Saudi Arabia has intercepted a boat carrying 31 illegal migrants, most of them Sudanese, that was trying to reach the kingdom, the Border Guards force said on Monday.
The guards have reported repeated interceptions of migrants in the Red Sea over the past two months.
In the latest case, a patrol “foiled an attempt by a group of 31 people from different nationalities to enter Saudi waters on a wooden boat”, Border Guards spokesman Colonel Sahir al-Harbi said.
The vast majority have been Sudanese, whose impoverished homeland lies less than 300 kilometers from oil-rich Saudi Arabia.
According to the United Nations, since 2014 more than 10,000 people have died crossing the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe, which is experiencing its worst migrant crisis since World War II.
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Soros’ Investments Led to Senate Passage of ‘Gang of Eight’ Immigration Bill
The Soros group believes that its $7.7 million investment in groups pushing for immigration reform was responsible for the passage of the Senate’s 2013 comprehensive immigration reform bill
Left-wing billionaire George Soros’ non-profit network, the Open Society Foundations (OSF), is confident about the future success of its work in the field of immigration activism and may embark on a massive campaign on immigration issues in the near future.
That’s according to a candid 62-page document reviewing OSF’s work on immigration reform discussed in May at the group’s board meeting in Montgomery, Ala.
The document, which is one of 2,500 stolen from OSF in a massive hack and released over the weekend, shows that the Soros group believes that its $7.7 million investment in groups pushing for immigration reform was responsible for the passage of the Senate’s 2013 comprehensive immigration reform bill.
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Trump Proposes Test for Visitors to U.S. To Make Sure They Support American Values
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday pledged to administer a values test to foreign nationals seeking admission to the United States.
Saying that the U.S. must do a better job of knowing more about the people it grants visas and permanent residency to, Trump said he would use stricter vetting to block those who are sympathetic to terrorist groups or who embrace values that contradict those that strengthen this country.
A stricter, more elaborate vetting system, the candidate said, would require putting a hold on immigration from certain areas that he described as dangerous.
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Turkey Repeats Ultimatum Over EU Visa Rules
Turkey has repeated an ultimatum to the European Union: visa-free travel or else it will cease cooperation on migrants. The latest salvo was delivered by the foreign minister to Germany’s mass-market “Bild” newspaper.
The EU should grant Turkish citizens visa-free travel by October or the multi-billion euro migrant deal is off, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told “Bild” in an interview published Monday.
Asked whether hundreds of thousands of refugees in Turkey would be allowed to enter the EU if Brussels did not meet Ankara’s deadline, the Turkish foreign minister responded: “I don’t want to talk about the worst case scenario — talks with the EU are continuing but it’s clear that we either apply all treaties at the same time or we put them all aside.”
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Did LIGO’s Black Holes Come From the Dawn of Time?
This is the question currently being pondered by physicists studying the revolutionary first detection of gravitational waves in the Summer of 2015. And, in new research, the answer could be primordial.
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ISIS Has a New Focus: Killing Christians and Bombing Churches Wherever They Can Find Them
If you are a Christian, ISIS wants to kill you. Our politicians keep telling us that our battle with ISIS is not a “religious war”, but to ISIS it most certainly is.
If you are a Christian, ISIS wants to kill you. Our politicians keep telling us that our battle with ISIS is not a “religious war”, but to ISIS it most certainly is.
As you will see below, ISIS has a new focus. They are very clear about the fact that they intend to kill as many “citizens of the cross” as they possibly can, and they plan to bomb churches wherever they can find them. In a previous article, I explained how an entire church in the U.S. ended up on an ISIS kill list, and we just saw in France that they are willing to strike anywhere and at any time. Religious targets now appear to be a top priority for ISIS, and that means that every church and every Christian in the western world needs to start thinking differently about security.
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SWEDISH ‘UNCLE TOMS’ RAIS THEIR VOICES
THE SWEDISH FEMINIST PARTY STANDS WITH ‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’. This is our message to our African-American friends.
Big thank you to all our black activists!
Mikael Wranell, Suhur Salahyusuf, Timbuktu, Adam Tensta, Johanna Hedar, Araia Ghirmai Sebhatu, Samuel Girma, Alle Eriksson, Elisabeth Beach, Ahmed Ali, Elin H A Stenberg, Imenella Araweelo Bashir, Jaja Saine, Rashid Musa, Rachael Mwikali, Juliet Atto, Coura Mbaye, Victoria Kawesa, Vivianne Coly, Marvin Kouassi.
THE SWEDISH FEMINIST PARTY is challenging the national self-image of Sweden as an equal and open country that respects human rights. The same picture also says that anyone who is Swedish is equal, open and tolerant. Mmmm!
Sweden’s National Mantra; everybody’s equal worthy.
Publiced 31 juli 2016
http://www.feministisktinitiativ.se
http://www.facebook.com/feministisktinitiativ@Feministerna
https://youtu.be/T9TzvxXjXPQ
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Black Lives Matter Rapes Sweden
https://youtu.be/1BKO559K5eM
“I didn’t read the details, but it sounds very alarming.”
Wow, Baron. At first I thought you meant that this was alarming because you were believing the main stream media, but then I realized that a true warrior such as yourself would do fact checking and you therefore must have meant that it was the depth of the unproven accusations of the main stream media that was alarming.
For if not Trump, then who?
Don’t forget the possibility of deadpan irony. There’s always that.
I’m coninually practicing the art of deadpan — I figure I will need it badly in the not-so-distant future.
I owe my new-found skill at it to Barack Hussein Obama, the greatest president in American history.
Have you heard about the Cajun navy?
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/its-just-devastating
there are actually better videos of citizens rescuing other citizens plus dogs, cats, goats and chickens.
I saw a photo of this guy in a canoe that was loaded with chickens!
This is a devastating flood while Obama golfs in Martha’s Vineyard
It wasn’t too long ago that Bush was pilloried for the devastation in LA. Obama gets a pass…