Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump visited flood-stricken areas of Louisiana, declaring his support for the locals in their resolve to rebuild. President Barack Obama, despite the legacy of opprobrium heaped on his predecessor George W. Bush for neglecting flood-stricken areas of Louisiana, stayed away from the state and remained on vacation at Martha’s Vineyard. Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s whereabouts were not reported, but she is thought to be resting on pillows while being supported by several aides at an undisclosed location.
OK, I admit it: I made that last part up.
In other news, with an eye on the Muslim tourist trade, New Zealand’s official tourist board has released a halal food guide for travelers.
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As Zika Crisis Grows in Florida, Congress Still Deadlocked on Funding
As Florida state and local officials scramble to contain a Zika virus outbreak in Miami Beach — a serious threat to the region’s $24 billion-a-year tourism industry — congressional lawmakers from both parties continue to be locked in battle over a billion dollars in vital funding that experts say is needed to keep the virus from breaking out across America.
But Miami isn’t the only hard-hit area.
Puerto Rico officials have warned that as many as 270 babies may be born with the severe birth defect known as microcephaly caused by Zika infections in their mothers during pregnancy. As of August 12, Puerto Rico had 10,690 laboratory-confirmed cases of Zika, including 1,035 pregnant women.
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Insane: State Department Blames Media for Its Own Lies and Deception Over $400 Million Iran Deal
Spokesman grilled for half hour about cover up
In a remarkable exchange with the press corps, a State Department spokesman was berated and questioned for half an hour over blatantly obvious lies and deception concerning the Obama administration’s $400 million payment to Iran.
For the first time in seven months, State Department spokesman John Kirby admitted Thursday that it was a key part of the deal with Iran for American prisoners to be released, and without that provision, the Iranian government would not have received the money.
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Must Watch: Donald Trump Delivers the Best Speech of His Life
The establishment which has worked so hard to destroy him is in absolute in panic mode right now
Donald Trump just knocked it out of the park.
The establishment which has worked so hard to destroy him is in absolute in panic mode right now. On CNN, Anderson Cooper asked his Democrat panel if they were “scared” after watching this Trump speech and they were visibly shaken and didn’t even know how to react!
Just one day after switching up his campaign, Donald Trump has delivered the best speech of his life…
Exactly as I predicted yesterday, his message was to clearly explain how he wants to put Americans first, as opposed to Hillary Clinton who puts special interests first and Americans last.
While emphasizing that he’s “not a politician,” Trump opened by saying he regrets at times not picking the “right words” and sometimes saying the “wrong thing” — especially if it caused people “personal pain” — but promised the American people he’s committed to always telling them the truth.
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Radiologist: Hillary Clinton Has a “Serious Underlying Disease”
And her campaign is hiding it from the American people
Board-certified diagnostic radiologist Dr. Milton R. Wolf says that Hillary Clinton has a “serious underlying disease” that her campaign is hiding from the American people.
Wolf, a practicing physician in Kansas City, reached out to Infowars to question why Hillary is being given the blood thinner Coumadin, a drug used to prevent heart attacks, strokes, and blood clots in veins and arteries.
According to Wolf, “Hillary’s doctors know you would NEVER, NEVER give Coumadin to normal, healthy patients. It’s too dangerous,” and that this must mean, “her risk of morbidity/mortality from blood clots without Coumadin must be substantial.”
In his experience, patients who take Coumadin are at risk of “intracranial hemorrhage” and suffer falls “on a regular basis”.
Wolf asserts that Hillary’s diagnosis of sinus thrombosis is only possible if she suffered “massive injuries” as a result of her fall in 2012.
“Her dural sinus thrombosis was absolutely NOT caused by a simple concussion. Not a chance. That was a lie,” he notes, adding that, “Sinus thrombosis is almost always due to serious underlying disease.”
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Seattle Offers Classes on ‘White Fragility’ To Explain Roots of Guilt
A city-run cultural program in Seattle is offering residents classes on “white fragility” so white folks understand why they can’t seem to handle matters involving race, and tickets have sold out.
Lecturer Robin DiAngelo, who coined the term, is teaching the taxpayer-funded class for the city Officeof Arts and Culture. She defines white fragility as “a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.”
Critics say it is just the latest attempt at spreading white guilt, following in the footsteps of concepts such as “white privilege.”
DiAngelo, who is white, has made a career out of studying whiteness. She earned her doctorate in Multicultural Education from the University of Washington in 2004. Ten years later she became a tenured professor in whiteness studies at Westfield State University. Now she is back in Seattle working as a lecturer at the University of Washington. She’s also director of equity for Sound Generations, Seattle/King County and was recently appointed to co-design Seattle’s Race and Social Justice Anti-Racism Training program.
Seattle is not alone in spending tax dollars on educating white people about their purported fragility.
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Seth Rich Disappeared for Almost Two Hours Before He Was Murdered
Missing time between him leaving bar and being shot “unaccounted for”
The mystery behind the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich has deepened after it was revealed that there was around an hour and a half of “unaccounted for” time between him leaving a bar and being shot dead.
Rich was shot in the back in Washington D.C. on July 10, the apparent victim of an attempted “robbery” despite the fact that no possessions were taken. Last week, Wikileaks’ Julian Assange appeared on Dutch television and implied that Rich was one of the sources of the DNC email leak.
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Soros’ “Islamophobia” Plot Against David Horowitz Revealed
Radical left-wing billionaire George Soros developed a strategy five years ago to publicly disparage, delegitimize, and marginalize conservatives like David Horowitz who go to great pains to warn Americans about the threat posed by political Islam and the ongoing Islamization of the U.S.
It is part of the Left’s push to create an alternate reality in which world temperatures claimed to be rising at an imperceptibly slow rate pose more of a threat to mankind than militants flying commercial jetliners into skyscrapers.
Soros is a foreign-born atheist who as a 14-year-old collaborated with the Nazis in occupied Hungary, describing that time as “probably the happiest year of my life” and “a very positive experience.” He has described himself as “some kind of god, the creator of everything,” and has said his “goal” was “to become the conscience of the world.”
He is an enabler of Islam which has been expanding by conquest and deception for 1,400 years. To put things in Islamic terms, Soros’s proposed mass importation of Muslims would expand the ummah, or community of Muslims, by means of what Muslims call hijrah, or jihad through emigration, from the Islamic world, the Dar al-Islam (house of peace), to the Dar al-Harb (house of war).
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CNN admits they left out a Milwaukee protesters calls to violence in order to make it appear as if she was peaceful.
“Propaganda” is information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicise a particular political cause or point of view. Propaganda is often associated with the psychological mechanisms of influencing and altering the attitude of a population toward a specific cause, position or political agenda in an effort to form a consensus to a standard set of belief patterns.
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Trump Tours Louisiana Flood Damage, Draws Cheers as He Says Region Will Rebuild
Donald Trump landed Friday in flood-ravaged Louisiana Friday, where he consoled homeowners and toured devastated communities, telling one homeowner he is “going to rebuild.”
The Republican presidential nominee, with running mate Mike Pence at his side, stopped at the home of Jimmy and Olive Gordan in Denham Springs, where the couple was still sweeping out floodwaters from their home. A ruined couch, chair and bedroom furniture were piled on their lawn, and Jimmy Gordan told Trump he spent his 79th birthday on the roof of his house.
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Trump Says He Regrets Remarks That ‘Caused Personal Pain’
For the first time since declaring his presidential run, Republican Donald Trump acknowledged that his caustic comments may have caused people pain, saying that he regrets some of what he’s said “in the heat of debate.”
A day after announcing a campaign shake-up and as he trails in the polls, the GOP nominee said that he recognized that his comments — which have angered minorities and alienated large swaths of the general election electorate — may have been ill-advised.
“Sometimes in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don’t choose the right words or you say the wrong thing. I have done that,” the GOP nominee, reading from prepared text, said at a rally in Charlotte, N.C. “And believe it or not, I regret it — and I do regret it — particularly where it may have caused personal pain.”
He added that, “Too much is at stake for us to be consumed with these issues.” As the crowd cheered, Trump pledged to “always tell you the truth.”
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What a 1917 School Lesson Can Teach America
“I give my head my heart and my life to my God and one nation indivisible with justice for all.” — Uncovered classroom chalkboard from 1917
Contractors at a high school in Oklahoma got more than they bargained for when they unearthed lessons on a chalkboard dating back to 1917.
The lessons are a poignant reminder of a bygone era, before activists sought to remove all semblance of God, a love for America, and accurate history from schools. Over time, Americans — perhaps weary of the radical left or ignorant to their own rights — have allowed this usurpation to take place.
In the last 100 years, a deliberate and sustained indoctrination effort has been successfully made by card-carrying communists such as Howard Zinn, likely communist members such as Curtis D. MacDougall, or prominent Ku Klux Klan members and their allies such as FDR-appointed Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black to name a few.
“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence.” — Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.” — Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, November 4, 1775
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Yes, It’s Possible to Hack the Election
By Richard Clarke
I have had three jobs that, together, taught me at least one thing: If it’s a computer, it can be hacked. For Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, I served as the White House senior cybersecurity policy adviser. For President Barack Obama, I served on his five-person post—Edward Snowden investigative group on the National Security Agency, intelligence and technology. And for over a decade I have advised American corporations on cybersecurity.
Those experiences confirm my belief that if sophisticated hackers want to get into any computer or electronic device, even one that is not connected to the internet, they can do so.
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Fatal Plane Crash in Peterborough, Ont., Not a National Security Issue: RCMP
PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — The RCMP has clarified its role in the ongoing investigation into the fatal crash of a stolen plane in Peterborough last Friday after a broadcast report linked its investigation to national security concerns.
“The RCMP is providing assistance to local police to determine circumstance of the crash. We don’t have any information to indicate any link with national security at this point,” reads a statement issued to Postmedia Network Thursday evening.
York Regional police told The Canadian Press the Mounties are part of the investigation into the crash — which claimed the life of 20-year-old Mohammad Hassan Chaudhary of Markham — “from an aviation point of view” as part of an ongoing probe into the incident.
Staff Sgt. David Mitchell would not comment on reports that Chaudhary had previously faced criminal charges, saying only that the man has “a bit of a history.”
Mitchell said police would examine the background of anyone involved in such an unusual crime, noting that plane theft is “very rare.”
“We know (Chaudhary) has a bit of a history, and how did he get his hands on this plane or why did he take the plane?” he said.
He said someone with little piloting experience could likely still handle flying a small aircraft such as the one that crashed.
“If you’ve got some flight computer skills, flight simulation and stuff like that on the computer, you can get a pretty good handle on it,” he said. “Landing is where you need all the practice.”
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The level of local police involvement will be determined as the investigation continues, city police stated Tuesday.
The crash occurred at about 1:20 a.m. Friday when a two-seat Piper Tomahawk with the designation C-FSYH stolen from a Markham airfield crashed at Lansdowne and High streets near Lansdowne Place Mall in what’s believed was an attempted emergency landing.
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10 Things We Know About the Mock Human Sacrifice That Was Just Conducted at CERN
Have you seen the video of the “mock human sacrifice” that was conducted right outside the entrance of CERN? A spokeswoman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (more commonly known as CERN) has told the public that this ritual happened without their permission and that they are looking into the matter. If this “occult ritual” was indeed some kind of “sick joke”, what was the motivation? This new video continues a long string of bizarre events related to CERN and the Large Hadron Collider that is housed there. Last month, I wrote about strange “portal-shaped clouds” that formed over CERN during recent experiments. And the the director of research at CERN, physicist Sergio Bertolucci, has publicly admitted in the past that the Large Hadron Collider could potentially open up a “door” to “an extra dimension”. There has been so much speculation about what is really going on there, and that makes this latest video that much more creepy. If you have not seen it yet, you can view it on YouTube right here…
There are so many unanswered questions about this video, but here are ten things that we do know at this point…
#1 There were eight people in black robes and one woman involved in this mock human sacrifice. The fact that the eight shrouded individuals were wearing black robes means that someone definitely wanted this to look like an occult ritual.
#2 This ritual was conducted directly next to the statue of the Hindu god Shiva that stands at the entrance to CERN. In Hindu lore, Shiva is the “god of destruction”, and this spot was obviously purposely chosen.
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BBC Says Opposing Shariah Law is ‘Islamophobic’
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) — a public broadcaster funded by a “TV licence” fee forced on UK television owners — has declared that resistance to Shariah law is “Islamophobic”.
According to a news clip, BBC online coverage, and the comments of its reporter Catrin Nye, a man called “Paul” approached a BBC film crew while recording an interview with Islam campaigner Ruqaiya Haris.
Ms. Haris, a Muslim activist and student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, is told by Paul, “There’s no Sharia law here”.
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Beach Brawl Blamed on Burkini Ban Now Blamed on Muslim Men Trying to Claim Beach
Residents of Sisco, in the French island of Corsica, claimed that three men of Moroccan descent tried to ‘privatise’ the beach they were on by lobbing stones and vile insults at anyone trying to enter.
Three brothers of Moroccan origin and two villagers were arrested yesterday in connection with what some French media are calling a ‘burkini brawl’ after local authorities revealed that the group of tourists taking pictures of burkini-clad Muslim women did not trigger the violent scuffles.
The two Corsicans have since been released, but the three Muslim brothers remain in custody.
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Brexit unlikely before 2019 When Theresa May launched her campaign in Birmingham last month (11 July) to become the next leader of the UK’s Conservative party, she made the now famous promise that “Brexit means Brexit”, adding that she would “make a success of it”. However, she never said when it would actually happen. UK ministers have now privately warned senior figures in the City of London that Britain could remain in the EU until late 2019, UK weekly The Sunday Times and other British media reported over the weekend. The government was set to trigger article 50 — which starts the formal process for quitting the Brussels club — at the beginning of 2017, the media reports said. This would mean leaving the EU could follow early 2019 after two years of negotiations.
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CERN Denies Staging Mock Human Sacrifice
Reps blame prankster scientists who “let their sense of humor go too far”
A video emerging from the particle research center, situated in Geneva, Switzerland, shows eight figures outfitted in black robes standing in the shadows around a statue of the Hindu goddess Shiva.
A woman walks into the middle of the group and lies on the ground, as one of the robed men approaches and appears to stab her…
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The CERN spokeswoman also confirmed that ID badges are required at all locations within the research facility, and that “those responsible for the prank had access badges,” according to The Guardian.
“CERN IDs are checked systematically at each entry to the CERN site whether it is night or day,” she stated.
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Ending National Sovereignty One Industry at a Time
“In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.”-Strobe Talbot, Bill Clinton’s Deputy Secretary of State, Time, July 20th, 1992.
Despite the recent Brexit vote on the British Isles, the European Union still maintains its stranglehold on most of the old continent, and this über-nation has overridden the wishes of the member state’s public to varying degrees on different issues. Immigration is perhaps the most obvious, where European countries are being forced into accepting Islamic invaders as the price of European citizenship. The E.U. dominates so many aspects of life within its sphere, be it the prices of commonplace goods, the way things are made, bought, sold, etc. Even items like bananas must have a specific curve to them, one imposed by Brussels. While the national governments still exist, they have voluntarily subsumed their authority into the collective, and eventually, if the plan continues, the member nations will cease to exist as anything but provinces. An empire is being backdoored through the guise of a trade association.
This was by design.
In 1951, the European Coal and Steel Association was established. The idea behind this was simple; the French, weary of the animosity between themselves and their German neighbors and fearful of remilitarization, came up with the bold idea of making war impossible by linking their economies together in an anaconda like embrace. One member wouldn’t dare attack the other if it wrecked both of their economies.
This was closely followed by the European Atomic Energy Community.
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F*ck Yourself: German Vice-Chancellor ‘Flips Bird’ To Right-Wing Youths Who Call Him Traitor
A handful of noisy far-right youngsters tried to disrupt an event of German Social Democrats in a town of Salzgitter, shouting insults at the party leader, Sigmar Gabriel. But the political heavyweight did not get flustered and fired back.
A video that emerged online on Tuesday, shows a group of young men in black jackets shouting “People’s traitors!” at the vice-chancellor and his aides while holding placards reading “Who betrayed us? Social Democrats!”
Gabriel then tries to bring his angry staff to reason, smiles and all of a sudden gives his middle finger to the far-right protesters.
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France: Muslim Stabs Chabad Jew
A Chabad hassid was stabbed on Friday afternoon by a Muslim man in Strasbourg, France.
Hatzalah volunteers called to the scene treated the wounded man, who was reportedly stabbed in the stomach, then transferred him to the hospital in moderate condition.
Police believe the stabbing was an anti-Semitic attack. Police have arrested the stabber, and brought him in for questioning.[…]
Reports indicate the Muslim screamed “Allahu Akhbar” when he committed the attack.
French police indicate the knifeman has a history of psychiatric problems, though his identity has not been released.
[another mad muslim…]
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Italians Protest Over Plans to Build a Mosque Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Almost 1,800 signatures have been collected on a petition to stop the construction of a mosque next to the famous tourist attraction in the city of Pisa, meaning a vote will have to approve the plans.
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Merkel: Islam Belongs in Germany
NEUSTRELITZ, Germany (Reuters) — Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday refugees had not brought terrorism to Germany, adding that Islam belonged in the country as long as it was practised in a way that respected the constitution.
More than a million people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere arrived in Germany last year. The mood towards them has soured after a spate of attacks on civilians last month, including three carried out by migrants.
Two of those attacks were claimed by the Islamic State militant group.
“The phenomenon of Islamist terrorism, of IS, is not a phenomenon that came to us with the refugees,” Merkel said at an election campaign event for her Christian Democrats in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ahead of a regional vote on Sept. 4.
Merkel said many people had travelled from Germany to Syria for training with Islamist militants. In June Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said a total of more than 800 were believed to have gone to Syria and Iraq.
“This group has worried us for several years,” she said at the event in Neustrelitz, a town 100 km (60 miles) north of Berlin.
Merkel’s popularity has suffered in the wake of the attacks and 52 percent of Germans think her migrant policy is bad, a poll published last week showed.
The influx of migrants, many of whom are Muslim, has boosted support for the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD), which is expected to perform well in elections in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin.
“We have said clearly that an Islam that works and lives on the basis of the constitution … belongs to Germany,” Merkel said.
She added that a type of Islam that did not stick to the constitution or accept equal rights for women had no place in the country.
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‘Muslim Attackers Pretend They Are Victims’ Le Pen Blasts Corsica Beach Clashes Coverage
Violent clashes between Muslims and locals in the town of Sisco on the French island were initially blamed on youths taking photos of women in burkinis.
The clash, which left five people injured, got so out of hand that 100 police officers rushed to the scene to break up the fight.
One of three Muslim brothers told French television that he was having a picnic when the fight broke out.
However, other sources now claim Muslim men had spent the day attacking tourists and local youths.
On Twitter, the Front National MP said: “The Muslim attackers try to pretend that they are the victims but the truth comes out.”
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A small urban district in the Netherlands has been coated in threatening graffiti, declaring allegiance to Islamic State terrorists and promising Jews and right-wing politicians will be killed.
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Number of Car Arsons in Berlin Explodes in 2016
Politically related car arsons in Berlin have dramatically increased in 2016 and have already overtaken last year’s numbers.
Berlin has seen a dramatic increase in car arsons so far in 2016, with both politically related arson and non-political arson on the rise.
In 2015, the police reported 179 cases of car being set on fire in the capital, 38 of which were political. But police figures seen by DPA last Friday show 213 cases recorded so far this year, 64 of which are suspected to have been politically motivated.
Authorities believe that the far-left scene are culpable for a large number of the acts, after an ongoing conflict with police started when officers raided an occupied house in the Friedrichshain district in January.
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Sweden’s Summer Spate of Car Fires Continues
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.
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Why Hasn’t ISIS Blown Up Rome?
At lunch the other day, a smart man asked me how come there hadn’t been terrorism in Italy, even though Islamic State keeps promising to attack the Vatican.
You’ve undoubtedly been asking yourself the same question, so I’m going to give you the answers. Answers, plural, because hardly anything happens for a simple reason, especially in a country as tricky and complicated as Italy. So there are several reasons.
First, Italian intelligence, especially domestic intelligence, is a lot better than you might imagine. They are exceptionally good snoopers, since the state knows that the citizens don’t much like the powers-that-be, and so the agents of the state are forever peeking and listening. Sometimes I have believed that the snoopers listen in on every telephone conversation and even face-to-face chats. I’ve spent a lot of time reading Italian court records, in which I’ve found transcripts of conversations in bars, in restaurants, and even in taxi cabs.
Keep in mind that the Italian word for “privacy” is “privacy.” They lifted ours because the concept isn’t in the native language. Wittgenstein, along with Bill Clinton, will tell you if there is no word for it, it doesn’t exist…
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Pentagon Issues Implicit Threat to Shoot Down Syrian Warplanes
The Pentagon issued a terse warning Friday that the U.S. would act to defend its troops after a close call in Northern Syria in which a pair of Syrian warplanes bombed dangerously close to U.S. special operations forces and the U.S. military scrambled fighter jets.
“We will ensure their safety and the Syrian regime would be well advised not to do things that would place them at risk,” said Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis.
Asked specifically if that meant the U.S. would shoot down Syrian warplanes that threated U.S. forces, Davis said, “We have the inherent right to self defense. When anybody is striking against U.S. forces, and U.S. forces are at risk, we have the right to take action.”
The incident Thursday involved a “small number” of U.S. special operations advisers who are working with Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State in Northern Syria in an area the Pentagon says was “well-known to everybody to include the regime, that the coalition is actively engaged in operations against ISIL.”
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Photos Show IS Militants Fleeing Manbij With ‘Human Shields’
Aerial photos have been released showing Islamic State (IS) militants using civilians as shields to escape the northern Syrian town of Manbij.
The Syrian Democratic Forces said the pictures, showing a convoy of hundreds of vehicles, were taken on Friday.
The US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters did not attack as there were civilians in each of the vehicles and it wanted to avoid casualties.
The militants were thought to have gone north, towards the Turkish border.
SDF fighters took full control of Manbij after a 10-week offensive backed by US-led coalition air strikes and special forces personnel.
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New Zealand Eyes Muslim Travelers, Releases Halal Food Guide
Muslims traveling to New Zealand will have less to worry about as the country’s tourism board has released a halal food guide.
Curated by Kiwi Muslim Directory and the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand (FIANZ), the guide consists of general information about New Zealand, halal outlets that have been certified by FIANZ, halal outlets that are owned by Muslims and places to enjoy vegetarian dishes. The list itself is divided into bakeries/snack foods, meat stores/grocery stores and restaurants/takeaway.
New Zealand foods are more than just fish and chips. For instance, in the country’s largest city Auckland, travelers can expect to try Indian cuisine and a wide selection of kebabs. Meanwhile, ‘The Garden City’ Christchurch is home to Middle Eastern and vegetarian Chinese foods.
“The purpose of this guide is to give memorable experiences to Muslim travelers who visit New Zealand and to ensure that they will get the best experience in enjoying high quality foods in this country,” said Tourism New Zealand regional manager for South and Southeast Asia, Steven Dixon, in a press release on Thursday…
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South Sudan Government Accused of Recruiting Child Soldiers
South Sudan’s government has recruited child soldiers in the past week to prepare for a renewed conflict, according to an internal United Nations document obtained by The Associated Press.
The document says a senior politician appointed by President Salva Kiir led the recruitment of an entire village of boys using intimidation. Some were as young as 12 years old. It was not clear how many children were involved.
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Mexican Drug Lord’s Kidnapped Son Potential Bargaining Chip
For the ambitious Jalisco New Generation cartel, it must have seemed like a gift: Imprisoned Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s son, partying at a gourmet restaurant deep in their territory.
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Venezuela Destroys Thousands of Guns: “Renewal of Efforts to Disarm” Hungry, Angry Population
This could happen in the United States overnight under a Hillary Clinton presidency
Venezuelan police crushed and chopped up nearly 2,000 shotguns and pistols in a Caracas city square on Wednesday, as the new interior minister relaunched a long-stalled gun control campaign in one of the world’s most crime-ridden countries.
Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the event marked the renewal of efforts to disarm Venezuelans, through a combination of seizures and a voluntary program to swap guns for electrical goods…
Their form of gun control means, of course, that only the police, the military and the criminals will have guns — even though they officially acknowledge that police corruption — with resources and salaries under pressure — is the biggest factor in arming gangs.
Everyone else must hope for the decency and restraint of these privileged groups of people — police, military and criminal gangs — upon whose mercy they must rely during the collapse of their nation.
What happens in a country where food is scarce, and those with guns can get everyone else to do what they want for food? What happens when there is a monopoly on “protection” and self-defense is outlawed?
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Nonwhite invaders pretending to be refugees in the town of Waldenburg, Germany, have refused to take employment, saying they are “Merkel’s guests” and don’t have to work. They also demanded a minimum wage, even though the state is also paying their accommodation, food, clothing, transport, and pocket money.
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Attacks on Invader Centers Triple
Violent attacks against invader centers carried out by patriots resisting the Third World invasion of Germany have tripled in Berlin, and are set to surpass last year’s record nationwide total of 1,005. According to the most recent official figures, there have been at least 563 “serious” attacks up to the end of June 2016, including 51 cases of arson.
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German Asylum Seekers Refuse to Work Insisting ‘We Are Merkel’s Guests’
According to mayor Bernd Pohlers of the eastern town of Saxony Waldenburg, the asylum seekers refused to accept the work that was offered to them after they arrived in the country.
The local council spent £600 arranging for the men to have uniforms but were stunned when they were told they would not complete it because they were “guests of Angela Merkel”.
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Greece Sees New Jump in Migrant Arrivals on Islands
Greek government figures show a spike in migrant arrivals on Aegean islands after a comparative lull in recent months. But many migrants are attempting routes to Europe that are even more dangerous.
Increasing numbers of migrants have turned to alternate and more dangerous ways of getting to Europe following the implementation of the EU-Turkey deal and border closures on the Balkan route used last year by tens thousands of people.
Hundreds have died attempting one such route from the North African coast to Italy, known to be particularly perilous. Five bodies, including those of two Syrian girls aged 8 months and 5 years, were found on Thursday after a small wooden boat capsized off the coast of Libya, according to the aid group Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS).
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Hundreds of Migrants Resisting Deportation From Germany at the Last Minute
Some 35,000 deportations took place in Germany in the last 18 months. More than 600 were abandoned, however. Pro-free movement groups are offering information on how to successfully hinder a deportation.
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Soros Behind Muslim Takeover of West
Soros gave “global grants” to fund Muslim migrants
A leaked internal report from international hedge fund financial manipulator George Soros’s Open Society Foundations and its International Migration Initiative (IMI) describes how Soros bankrolled the opening of global routes for illegal migration.
The report is titled “Migration Governance and Enforcement Portfolio Review” and is dated May 12, 2016.
The use of economic and political refugees as “weapons of mass migration” was described in the editor’s recent book, “Soros: Quantum of Chaos.”
The term “weapon of mass migration” was, when it was first proposed, derided by Soros-linked media outlets as “racist.”
However, the Soros report proves that mass illegal migration was advocated by Soros, who profits handsomely from political and financial instability, including that which has arisen from mass illegal migration.
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Soros Cash to Influence Supremes on Amnesty
(DAILY CALLER) Open Society Foundations, Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros’stated vehicle for progressive social change, orchestrated a well-funded attempt to secure a desired outcome in a U.S. Supreme Court case on illegal immigration enforcement, according to a newly discovered memo between the organization’s top U.S. officials and board members.
The February 2016 memo was among thousands of internal OSF documents released to the public by anonymous hackers whose stated goal is to “shed light on one of the most influential networks operating worldwide.” OSF U.S. Programs director Ken Zimmerman and deputy director Andrea Batista Schlesinger co-authored the memo, which is addressed to the 14 advisory board members of the organization’s U.S. operations.
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Soros Personally Lobbied Obama on Refugees
(BREITBART) TEL AVIV — Hacked documents from George Soros’s Open Society Institute state that the billionaire and his foundation helped to successfully press the Obama administration into increasing to 100,000 the total number of refugees taken in by the U.S. annually, Breitbart Jerusalem has found.
The documents reveal that the billionaire personally sent President Obama a letter on the issue of accepting refugees.
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UK: Asylum Seeker and Convicted Sex Offender Tried to Kidnap a Girl From a Bristol Tesco
Amine Husseine (pictured), from Somalia, attempted the abduction of the terrified girl as she looked at shoes in the supermarket in Eastgate, Bristol.
A failed asylum seeker and convicted sex offender tried to kidnap a 10-year-old girl from a Tesco store and threatened to ‘kill every British person he saw’.
Amine Husseine, from Somalia, attempted the abduction of the terrified girl as she looked at shoes in the supermarket in Eastgate, Bristol.
He told her to put the shoes back and go with him and when she told him she was not allowed to go with strangers he snarled ‘just come’ and the girl screamed.
The 35-year-old tried to grab her but she was rescued by her mother and sister and he fled.
While he left the premises, he told security staff: ‘When I get back to Somalia I will kill every British person I see and come back and abduct another child.’
Bristol Crown Court heard that Husseine arrived in the UK in 2009 and has committed 20 offences since then, including three other sexual assaults.
Two involved attacks on people in a hospital and bowling alley and the third was on a child under 13, for which he was jailed for 10 months.
But although his application for asylum has been refused all attempts to deport him have failed as Somalia does not accept forcibly deported people.
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‘Privilege Board’ Gets Prominent Placement at App State
Appalachian State University students must walk past a “privilege board” denouncing their white, male, able-bodied, Christian, or cisgender privilege any time they enter the Student Union.
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Should We be Having Kids in the Age of Climate Change?
By Jennifer Ludden
Standing before several dozen students in a college classroom, Travis Rieder tries to convince them not to have children. Or at least not too many.
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“Standing before several dozen students in a college classroom, Travis Rieder tries to convince them not to have children. Or at least not too many.”
He should tell that to the muslims, much good may it do him.
Hillary can’t campaign, is on rat poison to keep her alive, keeps choking from other meds, and has been a “congenial liar” for decades. Wow, have our Marxist Dems screwed up this time!
What happens when her medical records are handed over and she is declared too ill to be president? Has anything like that ever happened in the system?
I don’t find her at all congenital (sorry babs- couldn’t resist!)
So NZ Govt. puts out a ‘halal food guide’ to attract the enemy!
It would seem my native countrymen and women are no more clued in to islam than anywhere else in the west.
I admit to being sorely disappointed with Australasia, which is proving every bit as naive as western Europe; in fact there are probably more halal certified products on the shelves in Australian supermarkets than anywhere in Eurabia.
Makes me wonder; was history dropped from school curriculum three or four decades ago? moslems were never our friends a thousand years ago, or a hundred years ago; nothing has changed, so why do western leaders insist they are our friends now? (just being a little facetious)