A “Palestinian” career criminal named Akram Joudeh was in Manhattan to fight a deportation order when he ran amok with a meat cleaver, attacking three police officers and seriously injuring one of them. He was shot six times by other police officers, and is now in the hospital in critical condition. Mr. Joudeh is said to have been furious because police put a boot on his illegally parked car.
In other news, Turkish police have arrested four people in connection with threats that prompted the closing of the British and German embassies in Ankara.
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10 Things That Every American Should Know About Donald Trump’s Plan to Save the U.S. Economy
Can Donald Trump turn the U.S. economy around? This week Trump unveiled details of his new economic plan, and the mainstream media is having a field day criticizing it. But the truth is that we simply cannot afford to stay on the same path that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the Democrats have us on right now. Millions of jobs are being shipped out of the country, the middle class is dying, poverty is exploding, millions of children in America don’t have enough food, and our reckless spending has created the biggest debt bubble in the history of the planet. Something must be done or else we will continue to steamroll toward economic oblivion. So is Donald Trump the man for the hour?
If you would like to read his full economic plan, you can find it on his official campaign website. His plan starts off by pointing out that this has been the weakest “economic recovery” since the Great Depression…
Last week’s GDP report showed that the economy grew a mere 1.2% in the second quarter and 1.2% over the last year. It’s the weakest recovery since the Great Depression — the predictable consequence of massive taxation, regulation, one-side trade deals and onerous energy restrictions.
And Trump is exactly right about how weak this economic recovery has been.
So how would he fix things?
The following are 10 things that every American should know about Donald Trump’s plan to save the U.S. economy…
#1 Donald Trump would lower taxes on the middle class
The tax savings under Trump’s plan would actually be quite substantial for middle class families. The following numbers come from a recent Charisma article…
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Greece Raids Home of Central Bank Head
While the US the media lashes out at Trump every time he dares to tell the truth that the central bank is a biased, engaged, political member of the decision-making landscape, other “developed” countries are happily willing to demonstrate just how apolitical the central bank truly is. Take Greece, for example, where today the chief prosecutor ordered a raid of the home of the governor of the Greek central bank, Yannis Stournaras and the company office of his wife, Lina.
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Harvard Crushes the “Obama Recovery” Farce With 9 Simple Charts
A couple of months back we posted 9 charts that, at least in our minds, debunked the myth of the “Obama Recovery” despite suggestions from the administration that any such efforts were just a futile attempt at “peddling fiction” (our original post: “These Are The 9 Zero Hedge Charts Showing “Obama’s Recovery” That Angered The Washington Post”).
Turns out that Harvard likes to dabble in “fiction peddling” as well:
In a recent study entitled “Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided” (study can be viewed in its entirety at the end of this post), Harvard University points out that, despite claims of an “Obama Recovery,” in fact, the U.S. economy has continued to deteriorate in the aftermath of the “great recession.” Among other things, Harvard attributes the economic deterioration to a “lack of economic strategy, especially at the federal level” and a “political system was once the envy of many nations” but has now “become our greatest liability.” Below are a couple of the key conclusions:
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Caroline Glick: Twilight of American Jewry
This week marked the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on America. Most of us didn’t realize it at the time, but those attacks also marked the beginning of the end of the golden age of American Jewry — on both sides of the ideological divide.
Most American Jews make their home on the political Left, and together with black Americans they comprise the most loyal Democratic voting bloc. American Jews have clung to the Democratic Party despite the fact that over the past decade and a half, their position in the party has become increasingly precarious.
After the September 11 attacks, the American anti-war movement rose as a force in the party. The movement was quick to conflate its anti-Americanism with hostility for Israel. Jewish anti-war activists were forced to choose between Zionism and pacifism.
And the situation has only grown worse over time…
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Colin Powell in Hacked Email: We Need a Revolution Starting With GOP Crashing and Burning
[…] The correspondence was contained in an email from Powell’s Gmail account, which was hacked by DCLeaks and accessed by Breitbart News via a password provided to this reporter by the hacking group.
Powell’s June 11, 2016 email, written to a British diplomat and friend, stated:
We all need to start voting for America and not our parties. Trump is taking on water. He doesn’t have a GOP philosophy or even a Conservative philosophy. We need a revolution and it will begin with the GOP crashing and burning up its current form.
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Detroit: Black Radio Host Pulled From Air Over Being Trump Supporter
Trump’s visit to Detroit is what set off the network to pull him from the air
A Detroit, Michigan radio host has been pulled from local airwaves for supporting GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump after the New York business mogul visited the area on the campaign trail.
Wayne Bradley, a black Trump supporter, took to Facebook to say that he was put on “hiatus” after Trump visited Detroit, saying he has “not been allowed back on the air since.”
“Essentially, I feel like it’s because of Donald Trump,” Bradley told The American Mirror in an exclusive interview. “I’ve never been allowed back in the studio.”
“I was never told of anything, other than it was a ‘hiatus,’“ Wayne said.
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Ex-US Diplomat Warns Hillary Will Start Nuclear War With Russia & China
“Hillary is the candidate of an endless war”
Former U.S. diplomat James Jatras warns that Hillary Clinton will start numerous “regional wars” if she elected, including a potential nuclear confrontation with Russia, China or both.
“Hillary has never met a war she does not like. She is a true believer in the idea that the US can, as this vanguard of all progressive humanity, use military force to transform the world. We are looking at numerous regional wars and very possible at nuclear war with Russia or China, or both,” Jatras told Sputnik Radio.
Jatras, who worked for 18 years as a foreign policy advisor to Senate lawmakers, said that Hillary is the candidate of “endless war” and has surrounded herself with like-minded hawks.
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Meat Cleaver Madman Was in Midtown to Appeal Deportation Notice
The meat cleaver maniac who hacked an off-duty cop is a Palestinian national busted two months ago while screaming in Arabic outside a Brooklyn synagogue.
Suspect Akram Joudeh was only in New York for Thursday’s Midtown rampage because he was appealing a deportation notice — with a hearing set for Oct. 14, a high-ranking NYPD source told the Daily News.
Cops found two knives inside Joudeh’s car after answering the July report of an erratic man on Shore Parkway in Brooklyn shout “Allahu Akbar!” — or “God is great” in Arabic.
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Missouri Lawmakers Override Veto of ‘Stand Your Ground’
New law also allows conceal-carry without permit
(Washington Times) Missouri’s Republican-led legislature has significantly expanded gun rights in the state, establishing a public “stand your ground” right and allowing gun owners to carry concealed firearms without a permit.
Lawmakers overrode Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of the sweeping gun rights law late Wednesday.
The legislation does away with training and permit requirements for concealed carry in Missouri and expands provisions that allow individuals to stand and fight back against perceived threats.
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Muslim Designer Unveils All-Hijab Collection at New York Fashion Week
A Muslim fashion designer made history this week by debuting the first fashion collection to feature traditional Muslim hijabs in every look during New York Fashion Week.
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A man arrested at a house where two bodies were found was charged Thursday with two counts of murder and one count of kidnapping.
Christopher Grate is charged with killing Stacey Stanley and a second unidentified woman whose body was found in the home. Ashland County Prosecutor Christopher Tunnell has said officials are working to identify a third body found in a house in neighboring Richland County.
Additional charges could be filed, Tunnell said. It’s unclear whether Grate, 40, has an attorney or when his first court appearance will be held.
“I’ve been abducted,” the woman said in the 911 call. “Please hurry.”
The woman said the man had a stun gun, and she was afraid of waking him. She had known him for about a month and a half, she told the dispatcher. The kidnapping charge includes a specification that Grate had allegedly abducted her “to engage in sexual activity.”
Ashland police said officers found the kidnap victim and Grate at a home that was supposed to be unoccupied. Investigators also found the remains of two bodies there, Chief David Marcelli said.
Police confirmed Wednesday that one of the bodies was that of the 43-year-old Stanley, who lived in Greenwich and was reported missing from Huron County. Stanley’s son said she had been missing since Sept. 8 after telling him she had gotten a flat tire…
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Strategic Lessons of Clinton’s Health Crisis
by Srdja Trifkovic
According to Hillary Clinton’s campaign talking points, she wanted to “power through” her pneumonia; but after that “overheating episode” on September 11 it “seemed like the smart thing to do” to take some downtime. According to Politico.com, which obtained the document, “those phrases, projecting strength, prudence, and vigor, were among the six bullet-pointed talking points about Clinton’s health the campaign distributed to its army of outside surrogates Tuesday morning.” They were part of the “Daily Message Guidance” from her Brooklyn headquarters:…
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The Man Who Discovered CTE Thinks Hillary Clinton May Have Been Poisoned
By Cindy Boren
Bennet Omalu, the forensic pathologist who has made the NFL so uncomfortable with his discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the brains of deceased players, suggests that Hillary Clinton’s campaign be checked for possible poisons after her collapse Sunday in New York.
Omalu, whose story was famously told in the movie “Concussion,” made the suggestion on Twitter, writing that he advised campaign officials to “perform toxicologic analysis of Ms. Clinton’s blood.”
He wasn’t giving up on Twitter, adding that his reasoning is that he does not trust Russian President Vladimir Putin or Donald Trump.
Omalu, famously played by Will Smith in “Concussion,” has studied and obtained a number of degrees. Born in Nigeria, he became a U.S. citizen in 2015. He became known for the tenacity with which he pursued the deaths of several former Pittsburgh Steelers during his time in the city’s medical examiner’s office. Eventually, he convinced skeptics that players were suffering brain damage as the result of taking a number of blows to the head.
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The Moment Hijabs Dazzled the New York Fashion Week Catwalk
A collection presented at New York Fashion Week is the first time every model walked the event’s runway wearing a hijab.
Muslim designer Anniesa Hasibuan’s show was also one of the first by an Indonesian at the prestigious annual event.
At a time when what Muslim women choose to wear is causing intense debate, many are calling Hasibuan’s move a historic moment in bringing the hijab into the mainstream.
Inspired by her hometown Jakarta, Hasibuan presented trousers, flowing tunic and gowns, in luxurious fabrics and detailed embroidery, all worn with hijabs.
A relative newcomer, 30-year-old Hasibuan received a standing ovation at the end of her show earlier this week.
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Three NYPD Officers Injured in Confrontation With Man Wielding Meat Cleaver
A man wielding an 11-inch meat cleaver gashed an off-duty NYPD detective Thursday evening before he was shot by other officers following a foot chase through midtown Manhattan.
Incoming NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill told a press conference that two other officers were injured in the incident, but did not disclose how those injuries occurred. The detective was in serious condition after reciving a six-inch cut from his temple to his jaw. The suspect was in critical but stable condition at a local hospital.
[…]
A law enforcement official told Fox News special agents from the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force responded to the scene. However, the attack was found to have no ties to terrorism.
The shooting at Broadway and 32nd Street, just a block from Macy’s department store and Madison Square Garden, closed down several busy streets at the height of the evening rush hour.
The drama began shortly before 5 p.m. when two officers confronted the suspect, 32-year-old Akram Joudah of Queens, as he was attempting to remove a boot from his car. O’Neill said Joudah drew the cleaver from his waistband and fled.
Other officers joined the pursuit, including the off-duty detective. Outgoing NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said that the detective was en route to Penn Station to catch a train home when he spotted the chase.
“He did what we would want any New York City police officer to do,” Bratton said, “self-engage.”
After officers unsuccessfully deployed a Taser, the suspect climbed on top of a police car and slashed at the detective, who had attempted to tackle him.
“They grabbed his arm to put handcuffs on him, he swung his arm, pushed away from them and then opened his car and pulled out this butcher knife and started swinging,” witness Khadim Hanne told Fox News.
In response, three officers fired 18 shots at the suspect. Bratton, who is retiring Friday, said he believed officers acted appropriately.
“We have a character running down the street, waving a cleaver,” he said.
“They shot until the threat was stopped,” said O’Neill, who is succeeding Bratton as commissioner…
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Trump’s New Deal: “Hillary Offers a Welfare Check, I Will Produce Paychecks”
In terms of rhetoric, which has historically made major departures from actions, this campaign boils down the economic uncertainty that is enveloping this nation.
With millions of people out of work, worried about finding employment or facing grave doubts about a future transformed by technological labor, Trump is honing in on the most psychologically pressing issues on the minds of the real Americans in flyover country. They are the ones who are feeling the hurt financially, not Wall Street.
It is they who must be convinced to support the government again.
The politics of Obama and Hillary have left large portions of the country feeling alienation, and angry at their government. That growing sense of dissatisfaction has been fueled by the unethical tactics of those in power. Lying and corruption has gone way too far.
It has affected them personally.
And whether Donald Trump will prove himself in hindsight or not, he is masterfully tapping into that sentiment in a way that Hillary Clinton cannot even pretend to attempt.
Trump’s speech in front of the Economic Club of New York highlighted the choice between a declining welfare state and an economy that is booming and providing good paychecks. How does that sound to Ford workers who just lost another factory to Mexico? Or to the thousands of other rust belt Americans who face a similar predicament?
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Trump Says Obama Born in US, ‘Period’ — After New ‘Birther’ Dust-Up
Donald Trump tried to tamp down a newly revived campaign dust-up Friday over his views on President Obama’s birthplace, declaring the president was born in the United States — “period” — after declining to make that statement earlier this week.
The Republican presidential nominee also tried to blame Hillary Clinton for starting the controversy back in 2008, which her team denies. He cast his remarks as a bid to put the issue to rest once and for all, at a time when his poll numbers are rising.
“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it,” Trump said in Washington, D.C. “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period. Now we all want to get back to making America strong and great again.”
He spoke at his new Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., a visit that began with lengthy remarks from military supporters and veterans. He briefly addressed the “birther” issue at the end.
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Walmart Pulls Shirt Showing Beheaded Trump
Shirt from Mexican-American band also features the phrase “Make America Hate Again”
A T-shirt featuring the image of a beheaded Donald Trump was pulled from Walmart’s website Thursday.
The image, a play on a 1993 album cover by Mexican-American metal band Brujeria, depicts the Republican nominee’s head being held near the words “Matando Güeros” or “killing whites.”
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‘Make America Great Again’ Branded as Hate Speech on Canadian Campus
A fight over safe spaces and free speech erupted recently on a college campus in Canada, when a student weaing a red “Make America Great Again” hats was immediately attacked by a female student who called the hat “hate speech.”
The incident, captured on video, occurred at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Student Matt Linder came to school wearing the cap emblazoned with Donald Trump’s slogan. Fellow student Zoe Slusar accosted Linder and told him to remove it.
“You’re not allowed to share hate language at a University,” Slusar shouted at Linder. “Make America Great Again means Make America all for white people, no immigrants, no people of different sexual orientations.
“You’ve got to take the hat off or I am going to write the president of the University,” she continues. “It’s not allowed. It’s hate language on campus.”
In a later post on Facebook, Slusar said she was just trying to make sure the University lives up to its safe-space credentials. “Wearing a hat in support of a movement grown on the seeds of racism, bigotry and exclusion of diversity (sexual and cultural) could make some people afraid,” she wrote.
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Belgium Detains Two People Suspected of Militant Links
Two people were detained in Belgium on Friday, both suspected of links to Islamist militants, federal prosecutors said.
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Bitter Juncker’s Brexit Threat: UK Cannot Have Single Market Access Without Free Movement
BRUSSELS has wheeled out its big guns to tell Britain it will not be granted access to the EU single market unless it accepts freedom of movement. …
The chairman of the EU summit Donald Tusk said Brexit negotiations should be held only after a notification from London and should be run in the interest of the remaining 27 countries of the bloc, rather than Britain’s.
He said: “It’s absolutely clear that our procedures, our rules, described very precisely in our treaties, are to protect our interests, of the 27 countries, not the leaving country.”
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Bratislava EU Meeting: Merkel Says Bloc in ‘Critical Situation’
The European Union is in a “critical situation”, the German chancellor has said, as leaders meet in Slovakia to discuss ways to regain trust after the UK’s vote to leave the bloc.
Angela Merkel said they needed to show they could improve on security, defence co-operation and the economy.
But EU countries are deeply divided over how to bolster growth and respond to the influx of migrants.
Meeting in Bratislava without the UK, they will not discuss Brexit talks.
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Bratislava 2016: ‘Show Some Respect’ Hungary Blasts EU for Deceiving Nations With ‘Tricks’
Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban ordered eurocrats to “show some respect” for democracy in a blistering attack at a meeting of EU leaders today.
The firebrand leader, who has repeatedly clashed with Brussels over his tough stance on immigration, accused bureaucrats of “deceiving the will of sovereign nations” with reams of barely intelligible laws and directives.
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Britain’s Lucky Escape: Tusk Backs Federal EU Dream With Another European Superstate Plan
DONALD Tusk has revealed plans for a European superstate in the wake of Brexit, just hours after his colleague Jean-Claude Juncker released his own proposals.
The President of the European Council unveiled a five-point plan to tackle the migrant crisis, fight terrorism and ensure the future economic security of the bloc.
Mr Tusk said the summit in Bratislava, which did not include Britain, is just “the beginning” of a new EU.
The remaining 27 member states have vowed to come together and devised a plan named ‘the Bratislava roadmap’. …
Hardline Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban said the summit had failed to change EU immigration policies that he called “self-destructive and naive”. He planned a new push for change at meeting of Balkan states on September 24.
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Corsica ‘Burkini Rioters’ Sentenced by Court
A criminal trial in Corsica has concluded over a beach brawl that reportedly erupted over Muslim women clad in burkini swimwear. The ensuing melee prompted the local mayor to controversially ban the modest swimsuit.
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Diane James Becomes UKIP Leader
Diane James has been elected as the UK Independence Party’s new leader and has told Prime Minster Theresa May to “get on with” getting the UK out of the EU.
Ms James had been regarded as the favourite to succeed Nigel Farage, who quit as leader following the UK’s vote to leave the EU.
The MEP won with 8,451 votes. ahead of Lisa Duffy, who received 4,591.
She said UKIP was “the opposition party in waiting” and said the Tories “cannot be trusted with true Brexit”.
“The threats to the referendum outcome are increasing by the day,” she said, adding she would reject “Brexit-lite”.
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Gaia’s New Star Map Will Also Reveal Asteroids and Dark Matter
Gaia is on a mission. The space-based observatory just released its first map of the positions and distances of stars in our galaxy, and will chart a whopping billion stars before it is through.
Gaia will transform our understanding of the universe from the solar system out to the edges of the cosmos. “It’s an experiment that has a tremendous potential to break through a lot of different areas,” Spergel says.
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How Did George Soros “Break the Bank of England”?
In Britain, Black Wednesday (September 16, 1992) is known as the day that speculators broke the pound. They didn’t actually break it, but they forced the British government to pull it from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM). Joining the ERM was part of Britain’s effort to help along the unification of the European economies. However, in the imperialistic style of old, she had tried to stack the deck.
Although it stood apart from European currencies, the British pound had shadowed the German mark in the period leading up to the 1990s. Unfortunately, the desire to “keep up with the Joneses” left Britain with low interest rates and high inflation. Britain entered the ERM with the express desire to keep its currency above 2.7 marks to the pound. This was fundamentally unsound because Britain’s inflation rate was many times that of Germany’s. (Keep reading about this in Stop Keeping Up With The Joneses — They’re Broke.)
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Le Pen Returns to French Campaign With Sarkozy Making Her Case
National Front leader Marine Le Pen will make her biggest political statement so far this year with a major rally at the weekend in her southern heartlands, after months of near silence when she let the news do the talking.
Le Pen’s anti-immigrant, anti-euro party will kick off her bid for the French presidency next year with a two-day summer festival in Frejus, a Riviera coastal town close to Cannes, culminating in a one-hour speech by its figurehead on Sunday afternoon.
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Letter From President Donald Tusk Before the Bratislava Summit
[…] The migration crisis was the tipping point. Last year’s chaos on our borders, new images every day of hundreds of thousands of people moving across our continent without any control, created a feeling of threat among many Europeans. They had to wait too long for action to bring the situation under control, such as the closure of the Western Balkan route and the EU-Turkey deal. Instead, all too often they heard politically correct statements that Europe cannot become a fortress, that it must remain open. The lack of rapid action and of a uniform European strategy have weakened citizens’ trust in their governments, the institutions and in the wider establishment, already undermined since the financial crisis. Rebuilding this trust has become an urgent necessity, which Brexit has demonstrated very clearly.
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London Mayor to Outlaw Use of Term ‘Radical Islam’
Free speech under attack in the capital of England
London Mayor, Sadiq Kahn, appointed this week a deputy “Integration” Mayor, Matthew Ryder, who has been aligned with radical group CAGE, once calling ISIS executioner Jihadi John a “beautiful man”.
The new deputy, Matthew Ryder,a controversial new deputy, spoke at a CAGE event called “Travelling While Muslim” in 2013.
His social policies are aimed to tame “anti muslim rhetoric,” and policing free speech in the UK.
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Norway Says No to Burqa Ban in Nation’s Schools
Norway’s integration minister, Sylvi Listhaug, said on Friday that the government will not pursue a national ban on niqabs and other face-covering garments.
Listhaug’s statement was in response to an inquiry from the Labour Party’s Jan Bøhler on whether the government intends to follow the integration recommendations from a committee of leading politicians, who among other things proposed a national ban on the niqab and burqa in schools and other learning institutions.
Before joining the government coalition, Listhaug’s anti-immigration Progress Party (FRP) had called for a total ban on the face-covering garments worn by some Muslim women…
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Spain: Just Who Are the Basques Anyway?
Five years of peace are blurring the lines that once separated people in this northern region
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TV Ad Encourages German Women to Wear Hijabs
Country gives up on integrating Muslim migrants, chooses to submit to Islam instead
Germany appears to have given up on integrating the millions of Muslim migrants pouring into the country and is instead encouraging German citizens to submit to Islam.
A television ad currently airing in Germany invites blonde-haired, blue-eyed women to embrace “tolerance” by wearing the Muslim hijab head dress.
The commercial begins with the text “Turkish women wear the hijab,” as a veiled woman is seen with her back to the camera.
However, when she turns around it immediately becomes clear that the woman is a white, blonde-haired German, before she states, “Me too! It’s beautiful!”
“Enjoy difference — start tolerance,” states the woman.
The campaign is funded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, as well as German taxpayers, who are forced to obtain a state television license or face prison time.
[Comment: Somehow I have entered a bizarro world where up is down and down is up.]
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Van Gogh: Painter ‘Suffered Psychosis’ In Final 18 Months
Experts in Amsterdam have concluded that troubled Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh suffered a form of repeated psychosis in his final 18 months.
However, they could not reach a definitive diagnosis on his underlying mental state.
Van Gogh died from a gunshot wound in July 1890, in an apparent suicide.
Popular theories about his mental health have included bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or syphilis.
“One single thing cannot explain the entire picture of what happened to Van Gogh,” medical ethics professor Arko Oderwald told the Telegraph newspaper.
Louis van Tilborgh, a professor of art history at the University of Amsterdam, told the New York Times some of the debate over Van Gogh was “fierce”.
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WikiLeaks: Sweden Appeals Court Upholds Assange Arrest Warrant
A Swedish appeals court has upheld the issuing of an arrest warrant for the Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange.
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You’ve Gone Too Far: Eastern Europe Makes Five Demands to Block EU Superstate
THE European Union appeared more fractured than ever today after a powerful group of eastern states laid down a series of demands over migration and the economy.
Members of the influential Visegrad group, which comprises of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, rejected migrant quotas and blasted the overbearing EU Commission with an incendiary ultimatum.
The group represents a faction of nations which have become increasingly concerned by authoritarian Brussels, with Poland and Hungary both locked in bitter legal battles with the EU.
Their demands come after a separate clique of Mediterranean states, including France, Spain and Italy, formed their own interest group to counter the power wielded by Angela Merkel.
The developments are a sign of the spiralling disintegration of the EU which is seeing the bloc fray into a series of powerful factions, each fighting to impose their own interest on bureaucrats in Brussels.
In their statement the Visegrad group said: “Our ambition is to reassert the vision and principles enshrined in the Treaties and win back the trust of our citizens.”
The countries listed five key areas where they feel the European project has gone astray, and included concrete demands from other nations to fix the issues.
The first ultimatum was over the erosion of democracy by the increasingly authoritarian EU Commission, which is swamping member states in thousands of dictatorial laws.
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Turkey Makes Arrests Over Embassy Threats
Four people were arrested Friday by Turkish police following an investigation into unspecified threats against the German and British diplomatic missions in the capital Ankara.
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Pakistan Mosque Suicide Bomb Attack Kills 23 — Officials
At least 23 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a mosque in north-western Pakistan, officials say.
[Comment: This appears to be a developing story.]
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China Launches a Space Station and Wants an Even Bigger One
China launched its second space station today, with a two-member crew to follow next month, according to China space agency officials. The launch of Tiangong-2 is another step towards China’s goal of a self-sustaining space station by 2022, and a reminder of the nation’s space prowess.
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Black Politician Calls for Whites to Come Back to South Africa
Over the past decade, there has been a mass exodus of White South Africans, who are concerned for their safety and future.
Many anti-White laws have been put in place such a land grabs on White owned farms, and affirmative action laws which keeps a large portion of Whites in poverty.
In addition to this, several high-ranking politicians have been caught singing “shoot the boer”, a song which describes killing White people. Some see this song as a call to action, and now White farmers have a higher rate of being murdered than any other group, despite White people being less than 10% of the population.
Nakedi Mathews Phosa, a Black South African politician has called on the government to end anti-White laws and to welcome White expatriates back to the country to grow the rock-bottom economy.
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ISIS’ Decision to Oust Notorious Boko Haram Leader is Tearing Group Apart, Report Says
The Islamic State’s decision to oust the leader of Boko Haram — who had a penchant for using children as suicide bombers — is fracturing the Nigerian terror group as bloodthirsty militants are divided amid a new push to attack Christian communities.
The self-proclaimed caliphate announced in August that Musab al-Barnawi will be the Nigerian group’s new “governor” after Abubakar Shekau, its notorious former leader, apparently became too much for ISIS leadership in the Middle East, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Barnawi, rumored to be a son of the group’s founder, reportedly told ISIS’ newspaper that jihadists should shift their focus to Nigeria’s Christians, in a bid to win over public support after Shekau spent years attacking Muslim villages that didn’t join Boko Haram’s ranks.
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South Africa’s Brutal Reality: Swedish Journalist Reports
[WARNING: Disturbing Content.]
Reporters from the Swedish weekly newspaper Nya Tider (New Times) travelled to South Africa to investigate whether the “Rainbow Nation” is the success story that Swedish establishment media sometimes say it is — as far as they are at all interested in the land that used to be the media’s focal point until 1994. We met with politicians, farmers and victims. Thousands of farmers have been murdered in the Rainbow Nation, and fear is always present…
Over the past five years, I have travelled to South Africa several times, visiting farms and farmers to document farm attacks. During this latest trip, I spoke with the victims of those attacks, as well as with relatives of people murdered in the most heinous ways. What is remarkable in these stories is that in many cases it is not about robbery. It would have been much easier for perpetrators to clear the home when no-one is home, but still they wait until the owners come back. What happens then in too many cases is that the woman in the house is raped in front of the husband, and that one or more are killed — sometimes the whole family. On a farm I visited in Randfontein outside Johannesburg in mid-March the whole family was killed, and there was still money left on the bloody bed where an elderly man was beaten to death. The only thing taken after the murders was a car, but it was set on fire a few kilometres away. The trend is similar in many of the cases we have examined.
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Eugene Terre’Blanche, leader of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) that seeks the establishment of a homeland for the Afrikaners of South Africa, was alone at his homestead over the Easter period, when two farmhands bludgeoned the sixty-nine-year-old separatist to a pulp with pangas and pipes. Based on hearsay”€ and their abiding sympathy for savages “€ news media across the West are insisting that the motive for the murder was a “labor dispute.”
This, the oleaginous officials of the African National Congress (Mandela’s gang) must just love; they share with their admirers in the West a determination to ignore (and perhaps to encourage) the black onslaught against white South African farmers, or Boers (who happen to feed the Continent). Those of us who’ve been studying the systematic, race-based extermination of farming South Africa know too well the telltale signs of a farm murder. Without exception, Mr. Terre’Blanche and all 3149 farmers murdered since “freedom” were slaughtered in ways that would do Shaka Zulu proud.
The brutality of the racially motivated murders of white farmers in South Africa, and, increasingly, of whites in general, is one aspect of these crimes. Mr. Terre’Blanche was unrecognizable. Two weeks before he was slaughtered, seventeen-year-old Anika Smit was raped, her throat slashed sixteen times and her hands hacked off and removed from the scene.
Both acts of butchery were unremarkable in Mandela’s South Africa.
The dehumanization of the victim “€ Crimen injuria in South African law “€ is another feature of these feral acts. When they were finished with him, Terre’Blanche’s killers pulled down the old man’s pants, exposing his privates. Slain white farmers are often displayed like trophies by their black killers.
Mr. Terre’Blanche was a victim of a farm murder, plain and simple.
Afrikaner farmers are being exterminated at the genocidal annual rate of 313 per 100,000 inhabitants. Or, in the estimation of Dr. Gregory H. Stanton who heads “Genocide Watch,” “four times as high as is for the rest of the population,” making farming in South Africa the most dangerous occupation in the world. (Miners, by comparison, suffer 27.8 fatalities per 100,000 workers.)
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Brazil Files Terrorism Charges Against 8 for IS Support
BRASILIA — Eight Brazilians arrested before the Rio Olympics for belonging to a loosely organized group that supported Islamic State and discussed attacking the games were charged on Friday under Brazil’s anti-terrorism law.
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How Stalin Pressured Mexico for Trotsky’s Deportation
EL PAÍS takes a look inside the archive reflecting fruitless efforts to get the revolutionary deported
While an elderly Leon Trotsky cared for his beloved cactus plants and wrote about politics, Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas kept receiving letters requesting the deportation of the Russian revolutionary.
The exiled legend of the Russian revolution, the roaming scourge of the Kremlin, the man whom Stalin wanted to see dead, very much dead, had to be persecuted and harassed everywhere he went. And Mexico’s Stalinists certainly contributed to the strategy to bring down Trotsky.
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Angela Merkel Blamed for Letting ISIS Terrorists Into Germany Without Identity Checks
Bavarian state interior minister Joachim Hermann hit out at the German leader after three members of a suspected ISIS terror cell were arrested posing as refugees.
Mr Herrmann warned Germany was now facing the consequences of Mrs Merkel’s open-door refugee policy.
He said: “The glaring omissions in controlling the immense flood of asylum seekers, particularly last autumn, are coming back to haunt us.
“We now know that ISIS has used these shortcomings to infiltrate attackers into Europe disguised as refugees.”
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Au Revoir: Majority of French Don’t Want Any More Migrants Says New Poll
Carried out by Ifop, a French market research and polling agency, the survey revealed that 62 per cent of French people want to stem the tide of illegal immigrants coming into their country.
The results of the opinion poll, conducted for French newspaper Atlantico, show that the people are becoming increasingly frustrated by the migrant crisis, and have taken a much tougher stance on the issue compared to last spring.
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Violent clashes between refugees and locals have broken out in Greece — as the number of migrants arriving from Turkey has doubled to 1,000 in just one week.
On Chios, local residents were sprayed with tear gas by police after hundreds marched through the main square demanding the removal of the island’s huge refugee camp.
On Lesbos, migrants have lead two demonstrations through the capital Mytilene demanding the right to leave the island and travel to mainland Greece having been stranded there for months.
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Flint, Michigan: ‘City Leaders Not Informed’ By Feds of Plan to Send 100 Syrian, Iraqi Refugees
“At this point it appears city leaders have not been informed of the details regarding this matter.”
Breitbart News has learned that a resettlement agency funded by the Obama administration plans to send 100 Iraqi and Syrian refugees to Flint, Michigan, in the fiscal year that begins next month on October 1.
But that plan appears to violate a clause in the federal Refugee Act of 1980 which requires the federal government and director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement to consult with local as well as state governments prior to the placement of any refugees within their boundaries.
“At this point it appears city leaders have not been informed of the details regarding this matter,” a spokesperson for Mayor Karen Weaver and the city of Flint tells Breitbart News.
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Germans Fight Back as Invaders Attack
Several dozen nonwhite invaders posing as refugees attacked a crowd of Germans last night in the east German city of Bautzen-but received a thorough beating when the German civilians fought back.
The local authorities have now expelled 34 of the invaders from the town, and banned all alcohol in the local invader center, as it emerged that the nonwhite attacks are regular occurrences.
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Hillary Clinton Vows to ‘Stop the Raids and Roundups’ Of Illegal Immigrants
Hillary Clinton vows she would dramatically reduce the deportation of illegal immigrants if elected president, and expand President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty.
“We’re going to end family detention, close private detention facilities, and stop the raids and roundups,” she said during a speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute in Washington D.C.
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More Migrants Stuck in Balkans as Nations Fortify Borders
For Mohammad Ansar Al Mansouri, reaching the European Union has proved to be an impossible task. In the past two months, the 28-year-old from Pakistan has tried countless times to cross from Serbia into EU members states Hungary or Croatia, but was always chased back by police guarding their borders.
Now, countries across eastern and central Europe — spurred by Hungary’s tough stance against refugees and migrants trying to cross into the country — are teaming up to make it even harder for people like Al Mansouri to come anywhere near the EU.
When the nations along the former Balkan migrant route — leading from Turkey through Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia — closed their borders one after another in March, it reduced the influx of people from thousands to hundreds a day.
But despite this, and an EU-Turkey deal aimed at keeping migrants away from Europe, they have continued pouring in using clandestine routes.
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Refugees and Neo-Nazis Battle it Out on the Streets of Germany
Refugees and neo-Nazis battled it out on the streets of an east German town on Wednesday night with police fighting to save the migrants outnumbered five to one.
But police said the asylum seekers started the confrontation — and later hurled bottles at the police trying to save them from a beating.
About 100 far-right men and women attacked some 20 asylum seekers in the town of Bautzen after the migrants taunted them. Video footage shows chaotic scenes as fighting breaks out in the German town.
[Comment: Were they really neo-Nazis or just white Germans? This site (as pointed out by a commenter to the article) says the “refugees” were harassing the locals who finally got fed up (Article in German) — www.compact-online.de/buergerkrieg-in-bautzen-was-wirklich-passierte/. ]
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Somali Refugee Demands Swedish Citizenship — To Go on Holiday to Somalia
Somali refugee demands Swedish citizenship — to go on holiday to Somalia Mohamed Husein came to Sweden from Somalia in 2009, along with his wife who claimed she was attacked by terrorists in their homeland. Mohamed is now unhappy that he can not fill in an application for Swedish citizenship yet. He is eager to be able to travel back to the country he claims to have fled, where his life supposedly is in danger — to visit his mother and establish business contacts.
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‘We Must Strengthen Our Borders’ Merkel and Hollande Team Up to Save EU at Crunch Summit
ANGELA MERKEL has admitted the beleaguered European Union (EU) is in a CRITICAL situation after crisis talks at the Bratislava Summit. …
Mrs Merkel said EU leaders agreed that illegal immigration must be stopped as the bloc is gripped by the migrant crisis.
The German Chancellor said the EU must explore more deals with partners like Turkey.
Mr Hollande said the EU’s internal borders “must be strengthened” and said the bloc must “fully play its role” in conflicts in the Middle East.
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Misgendering Bradley, Errrrr, I Mean, Chelsea, Manning
Sometimes the items posted by the George Soros-funded Media Matters for America are too hilarious to ignore.
This is the case with at item posted yesterday by “researcher” Rachel Percelay titled, “Fox News Is In Its Third Year Of Misgendering And Mocking Chelsea Manning[…]”
What is this verb misgender? According to the definition that pops up on Google, to misgender is to refer to (someone, especially a transgender person) using a word, especially a pronoun or form of address, that does not correctly reflect the gender with which they identify. “various media outlets have continued to misgender her”
So let’s play along with this nonsense for a moment.
This invented verb, to misgender, allows an individual to identify with a gender that does not necessarily correspond to that person’s sex at birth. Really, gender and sex are synonymous terms, but the wacky leftists in academia insist gender is different from sex. They have invented this thing they call gender (and gender roles) in order to blur the lines between the sexes. They argue, against overwhelming evidence, that masculinity and femininity are made-up constructs that we need to get beyond in order to move forward as a society.
So when a person chooses to identify with a specific gender (according to Facebook there were 58 genders two years ago-more must have been invented since then) no one is allowed to disagree. If you disagree, you’re a bigot or a terrible, insensitive person.
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Politically correct leftists are at their happiest when condescending to white people. White people don’t understand and need to be told what to think and how to behave.
In this new academic year, new students at Pomona College were welcomed to campus with posters counseling them on “How to be a (Better) White Ally,” reports student newspaper the Claremont Independent. The signs insist that white people should “acknowledge your privilege” and “apologize if you’ve offended someone,” advising them against supposedly offensive language like the words “sassy” and “riot,” which are “racially coded.”
The paper describes the poster further:…
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Social Media Engineering the World Via Censorship
New media platforms making it easier for gov’t to control the narrative
Social media has made it easier and easier for the government to control the narrative by quietly censoring those that don’t agree with them.
[Comment: That’s exactly why these site’s were heavily funded and promoted. To create a portal of approved speech.]
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Another anti-Canadian “news” article on Fox. One GIRL (an immature woman) on a campus of 24,000 has a hissy fit over a hat and that’s what makes the news from the ‘Great White North’ on the Fox page ? No mention that Calgary is in the province of ALBERTA which has a high conservative base and that the majority of students would either approve or not really care what was written on the hat. In this case Fox lowers itself in its stupidity, on par with the three main English networks in Canada – CBC,CTV & Global – all who hate Western Canada (“The Prairies”) because “out here” the majority hates Justin Trudeau !
Interesting. I posted a comment on her facebook page. She was trying to use this incident to get some PR. This page is no longer available 🙂 It seems the bad people made to many sensible comments.
I’d like to tip my hat to:
-The Baron & Baroness, my favorite news aggregator bar none, great job.
-The Chinese space agency, your space station launch looked flawless.
-Indonesian designer Anniesa Hasibuan, your hijab inspired designs almost made the Libtards in the room fall to the floor convalescing in ecstasy, in fact I think some of them had a near religious experience. They where slapping their fins so hard some of them must have broken bones, must have.
Here’s an analysis of Hilary’s neurological damage that’s worth reading and well supported:
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5362p4/hillarys_nerve_damage_3_years_later_its_permanent/
Caroline Glick’s correct, of course. For most Jews, Marx trumps G_d, and has since the 19th century. This is not news. For the neo-con children of these Marxists, power trumps principle. What went wrong? Holy Moses!