German Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a severe electoral setback in her home state, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In state elections today, AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) came in second, ahead of Mrs. Merkel’s CDU. The SPD (Socialists) came in first.
In other news, five Afghan culture-enrichers were arrested in Austria on suspicion of sexually harassing women at a wine festival.
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Alaska School Hid Evidence of Employee Sexually Abusing Disabled Kids — Lawsuit
The family decided to sue after six months
The parents of a special-needs student are suing the Anchorage, Alaska school district, arguing it waited too long to investigate a teacher’s aide over claims of sexual abuse. In a plea deal, the aide served 48 hours of community service.
Begich Middle School teacher’s aide Julianti Clarke, 62, was charged with abuse in October 2014, after surveillance video showed her fondling a disabled male student in the lunchroom. In November 2015, prosecutors agreed to a plea deal that would let Clarke serve 48 hours of community service and dropped the charges…
The district waited for several weeks to investigate Clarke, and did not alert the police or forbid her from contact with the student, says the parents’ civil complaint. Unedited video shown to the family by the Anchorage Police Department revealed Clarke fondling another student while their son watched, attorney Mike Kramer told local news station KTVA.
“At least one other child was receiving similar mistreatment,” Kramer said. “We obviously don’t know the identity of that child or whether his parents were contacted, or whether police were even notified about that, but it’s disturbing that we were given an edited video tape that removed that particularly disturbing section.”
“The whole time she’s doing it to the other kid, he’s pounding himself in the head with his fist,” Kramer added.
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Black Church Gives Trump Standing Ovation
Trump talks economy to hundreds of black leaders
Donald Trump received a standing ovation from the congregation of an African-American church after delivering a speech to the packed crowd.
The GOP nominee spoke with hundreds of black church leaders in attendance at the Great Faith Ministries Church in Detroit, Mich., on Saturday.
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How Feds Confiscate Guns From Law-Abiding Citizens
Feds targeting marijuana card holders
Infowars reporter Ashley Beckford breaks down the hypocrisy of the federal government’s gun ban for marijuana card holders:
[Comment: Another bite on the 2nd amendment by NWO operatives aka politicians.]
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Jacob Wetterling: Remains of Missing Minnesota Boy Found, Authorities Say
(CNN) The remains of Jacob Wetterling, a Minnesota boy abducted from a rural road 27 years ago, have been found, the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday in a news release.
“The Ramsey County Medical Examiner and a forensic odontologist identified the remains as Wetterling’s earlier today,” the release said.
The release didn’t say if anybody has been charged. The sheriff’s office said investigators will evaluate new evidence and “expect to be in a position to provide more detailed information early next week.”
The abduction of the 11-year-old boy led to the 1994 Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act, which requires states to maintain sex offender registries and guidelines.
Unnamed sources told CNN affiliate WCCO and the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper that a suspect in Wetterling’s disappearance led the FBI to remains that are now being tested for DNA.
Patty Wetterling, Jacob’s mother who became an advocate for families of missing children, told CNN in a text, “Our hearts are broken. There are no words.” She declined further comment.
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The Sordid Truth of a Hillary Presidency
Dinesh D’Souza has written a New York Times bestseller, which is the source of the blockbuster documentary Hillary’s America: The Secret Life of the Democratic Party. In both formats, D’Souza reveals the sordid truth about Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. Each provides a brief history of the Democratic Party, followed by a disclosure of the true Hillary Clinton, including her extensive lies and corruption.
In Hillary’s America, D’Souza documents how Democrats transitioned from pro-slavery to pro-enslavement; the longstanding Democratic political war against women; how Hillary Clinton’s political mentor was, literally, a cold-blooded gangster, Saul Alinsky; how the Clintons and other Democrats see foreign policy not in terms of national interest, but in terms of personal profit; and how Democratic-controlled cities have turned into hotbeds of crime and corruption. American Thinker interviewed him about his latest projects.
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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The Sinister Side of a Cashless Society
Maybe it sounds convenient, but it is a one-way ticket to tyranny.
Some on the left are proposing the elimination of currency bills larger than $10. This may seem like an insignificant matter, but if adopted, the proposal would be a giant step in the direction of totalitarianism.
By forcing Americans to use an electronic means of payment, government would gain the power to monitor and manipulate every aspect of one’s finances. Washington would know what you buy, where and when you buy it, where you travel and eat, and whom you associate with. Granting government this kind of power is madness unless you’re one of the political elite. They seem to be lining up in favor of a cashless society.
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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Angela Merkel’s CDU ‘Suffers Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Poll Blow’
Angela Merkel’s ruling CDU party has been beaten into third place by an anti-immigrant and anti-Islam party in elections in a north-eastern German state, partial results have shown. The Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) party took about 21% of the vote behind the centre-left SPD’s 30%.
The vote was seen as a key test before German parliamentary elections in 2017.
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Deported Moroccans Plotted Major Terror Attacks in France, Report
Two Moroccan nationals deported by France last month were planning major terror attacks in the eastern French city of Metz, according to a Moroccan paper. They were in contact with the Islamic State (IS) armed group and planned to attack a restaurant and a gay nightclub and use vehicles to run down pedestrians, as in the Bastille Day attack in Nice, the Arab-language daily Assabah reports.
The two men, Redouane Dahbi and Ayyoub Sadki, planned to attack the Place de la République in the heart of Metz, Assabah claims without naming any sources.
IS had promised to provide them with weapons to commit the attacks, in particular against nightclubs frequented by young people, it says, adding that Dahbi was planning to attack a big restaurant in the town centre and L’Endroit, a gay nightclub.
That attack would have been an attempt to emulate June’s attack that killed 50 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
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By Christopher J. Green
“Here we go again” I thought as I read through media reports about the latest atrocity committed by a fanatic shouting “Allahu Akbar.” This particular act of murderous jihad claimed two more young innocent lives in the name of Islam, British travellers Mia Ayliffe-Chung and Thomas Jackson. Their only crime was to be in a hostel in Queensland, Australia at the wrong time.
Despite the fact that the perpetrator, named as Sami Ayad, a “Frenchman” apparently, shouted what the media incorrectly call “an Arabic phrase meaning God is greatest,” police insist there’s no evidence showing he’d been radicalized or motivated by politics. They didn’t go as far to say he’s suffering from a mental illness this time.
True to form, the media is downplaying any connection to Islam. Instead of accurately describing Ayad as a “French Muslim”, he’s portrayed as a “Frenchman.” Furthermore, the exclamation “Allahu Akbar” is not an Arabic phrase nor does it mean “God is greatest” as the duplicitous media reports state. It’s an Arabic phrase specific to Islam — not all Arabs are Muslims for goodness sake — and it means “Allah is greater.” Meaning Allah is greater than your Gods and greater than your man-made governments and laws.
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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France: Chinese Parisians March for Greater Security
Several thousand ethnic Chinese staged a protest march in Paris on Sunday over the fatal mugging of a Chinese tailor last month, as crime against community members has spiralled
The protesters, almost all wearing white T-shirts reading “Security for All” and many waving French flags, rallied at the Place de la Republique in central Paris.
Zhang Chaolin, who was 49, was set upon on August 7 by three thieves who tried to snatch a bag belonging to a friend of his. He died a few days later from his injuries.
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French Women Returning From Syria ‘A Danger’
Women who have joined Islamic State group fighters in Syria are facing closer scrutiny when they return to France as the potential danger they represent was underestimated, the country’s top prosecutor said Friday.
Francois Molins told the daily Le Monde that “hundreds” of women would return from Syria in the next few months.
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German Jewish Leader: AfD Rise is ‘Frightening’
The head of the German Jewish community said the rise of the right-wing populist and anti-migrant AfD party was “frightening”, ahead of a key state election Sunday.
“The voters aren’t realising they are voting for a party that doesn’t want to distance itself from the far-right spectrum,” president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Josef Schuster told AFP Friday.
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Mother Teresa Declared a Saint by Catholic Church
Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, praising the tiny nun for having taken in society’s most unwanted and for having shamed world leaders for the “crimes of poverty they themselves created.”
Francis held up Mother Teresa as the model for a Catholic Church that goes to the peripheries to find poor, wounded souls during a canonization Mass that drew an estimated 120,000 people — rich and poor, powerful and homeless — to a sun-filled St. Peter’s Square.
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Nationalists Strong, Merkel’s Party Weak, German Exit Polls Show
A nationalist, anti-immigration party performed strongly in a German state election Sunday in the region where Chancellor Angela Merkel has her political base, overtaking her conservatives to take second place amid discontent with her migrant policies, projections indicated.
The three-year-old Alternative for Germany, or AfD, won 21 to 22 percent of votes in the election for the state legislature in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, according to projections for ARD and ZDF television based on exit polls and partial counting. They put support for Merkel’s Christian Democrats between 19 and 20 percent, their worst result yet in the state.
The center-left Social Democrats, who led the outgoing state government, were the strongest party with about 30-percent support.
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Sweden: Two New Shootings Rock Gothenburg on Sunday
A man was shot in the leg in central Gothenburg early on Sunday morning, after which an apartment block was strafed with bullets, as gang fighting intensifies in Sweden’s second city.
Lippens said it was “too early to say” if the shootings were connected to the recent spike in rivalry between the city’s gangs, which saw a man shot dead on Friday night, and a grenade attack on a apartment last month that left an eight-year-old boy dead.
Police in the city believe they have identified the man shot on Friday night at the city’s Frölunda Torg, but would not confirm media claims that he was the leader of one of the city’s most notorious gangs.
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This is big news. This is the first large scale demonstration that the “Terrorism Tax” I speculated about back in 2004, actually works.
Liz Alderman at the NYTimes reported that terrorism is squashing Europe’s first glimmer of recovery since the financial crash. EU economic growth has been halved since spring, with France now at zero.
[Comment: This is an opinion piece rather than a news article. But I think that the author makes an interesting point about the negative economic effects of terrorism.]
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Labour MP Keith Vaz is facing a demand for a parliamentary sleaze investigation after being exposed paying young men for sex.
The married father-of-two was caught meeting two Eastern European male prostitutes, believed to be Poles, for sex eight days ago and boasting about having unprotected sex, according to a newspaper.
Mr Vaz, 59, has stood aside from his long-standing role as chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee — which monitors crime, immigration and drugs policy — in the wake of the revelations. He has previously said he is ‘not convinced’ men who pay for sex should be prosecuted.
The MP reportedly told the men, ‘We need to get this party started’ as talk ranged from unprotected sex to pets, according to the Sunday Mirror…
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UK: Yorkshire Ripper Converts to Islam to Get Protection, Favorable Treatment in Prison
By Robert Spencer
Not only will Peter Sutcliffe get protection from Muslim prison gangs, but “changing faith will also allow him access to a special diet. In addition, he will get more time out of his cell and the right to refuse certain types of prison work.” Why do British officials give preferential treatment to Muslims in prison? Do they want even more jihadis?
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Watch: Anti-Brexit Protesters March in London Demanding Democracy be Overturned
Demonstrators called on the government to overturn the referendum result, and expressed their love for the European Union, to a background of pop music
LONDON, United Kingdom — Anti-Brexit demonstrators took to the streets of London once again today to protest against the British public’s decision to leave the European Union (EU).
The protest, which was much smaller than previous anti-Brexit demonstrations, was led by comedian Eddie Izzard and included people dressed in a wide variety of costumes, often with unusual messages.
Demonstrators called on the government to overturn the referendum result, and expressed their love for the European Union, to a background of pop music.
[Comment: Communists and useful idiots. Don’t forget those paid by Soros NGOs. All products of the emotion driven reeducation system.]
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The collapse of ISIS in Iraq and Syria could end up increasing the risk of terror attacks on the West, the country’s anti-terror prosecutor has warned.
ISIS has suffered a series of military setbacks after losing territory in Iraq in recent months while one of its most prominent leaders, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, was killed in an air strike in Syria in August.
But with their forces under pressure, more French jihadis and their families could chose to return home, according to Paris prosecutor Francois Molins.
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In First Post-Coup Attempt Meeting With Erdogan, Obama Signals Efforts to Bring Culprits to Justice
President Obama on Sunday met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the first time since a midsummer coup by dissidents failed to topple Ankara’s government and strained already-troubled U.S.-Turkish relations.
Erdogan believes the effort to topple the Turkish government was orchestrated by an exiled cleric who lives in the United States.
Obama, speaking at the G20 summit in China, praised the Turkish people who resisted the coup attempt, saying they “affirmed their commitment to democracy” and that they are “the strength and brilliance of democratic institutions.”
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Merkel Hopes for End to Turkish Airbase Ban
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that she hoped Ankara would soon lift a ban on German lawmakers visiting a Turkish airbase that was imposed amid a row over the Armenian genocide.
Turkey last month stopped German MPs from visiting their troops stationed at the Incirlik base in southern Turkey, which is used to launch coalition raids against Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria.
After meeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the G20 summit in China, Merkel said she was hopeful of progress on the issue.
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Popular Support for Suicide Terrorism in Bangladesh: Worse Than You Think
Editor’s Note: Bangladesh, one of the world’s largest Muslim countries, is usually considered a success story: slowly but steadily, this secular democracy is climbing out of poverty. This perceived success, however, ignores the country’s many problems. Christine Fair, Ali Hamza, and Rebecca Heller — all of Georgetown — paint a far darker picture. They note high degrees of support for militancy and growing violence, arguing that ignoring Bangladesh’s problems could prove disastrous.
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Barack Obama ‘Deliberately Snubbed’ By Chinese in Chaotic Arrival at G20
China’s leaders have been accused of delivering a calculated diplomatic snub to Barack Obama after the US president was not provided with a staircase to leave his plane during his chaotic arrival in Hangzhou before the start of the G20.
Chinese authorities have rolled out the red carpet for leaders including India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, the South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, Brazil’s president, Michel Temer, and the British prime minister, Theresa May, who touched down on Sunday morning.
But the leader of the world’s largest economy, who is on his final tour of Asia, was forced to disembark from Air Force One through a little-used exit in the plane’s belly after no rolling staircase was provided when he landed in the eastern Chinese city on Saturday afternoon.
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Giant Pandas Rebound Off Endangered List
The giant panda is no longer an endangered species, following decades of work by conservationists to save it.
The official status of the much-loved animal has been changed from “endangered” to “vulnerable” because of a population rebound in China.
The change was announced as part of an update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List.
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The Left’s Odd Definition of Democracy
Authoritarian leftists don’t want decisions left to the people
In the wake of the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, the international left has been calling her impeachment “undemocratic.”
A typical example comes from the left-wing think tank called the Council on Hemispheric Affairs:
[Comment: Communists papers around the world swing into action to defend and whitewash their fellow traveller.]
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5 Afghan Refugees Detained in Austria Following Sexual Assaults
Police in northern Austria have detained five migrants from Afghanistan over accusations of sexually harassing women during a wine festival in the city of Wels. The mayor demanded “zero tolerance” in the wake of the alleged assaults.
According to various Austrian media outlets, police said five Afghan asylum seekers were detained Sunday over links to the sexual assaults, which were said to have happened early Saturday.
Four of the alleged perpetrators appeared to be unaccompanied teenage refugees, aged between 15 and 16, while the fifth is 22 years old. “An assailant aged 15 was identified by one of the victims and accused of” sexually harassing her, DiePresse reports.
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At Least Four Women ‘Are Sexually Assaulted by Immigrant Men During a Rampage at a Party in Germany’
Police said the people who filed complaints could be ‘the tip of the iceberg’
Immigrant men have groped and sexually assaulted a number of women in a German city in copycat attacks of the New Year’s eve sex frenzy in Cologne.
Police said the four women who filed complaints after the incidents in Essen late on Friday could be ‘only the tip of the iceberg.’
Women who may have been attacked at the Essen Original city party have been offered a confidential hotline by officers to contact them.
The police presence at the festival was beefed up over the weekend as a result of the sexual assaults.
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Bulgaria Refuses to Take Invaders Back
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has announced that his country will not take any invaders back from Western Europe without a guarantee that they will be sent on to Turkey. Borissov added that he had informed German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other EU leaders of Bulgaria’s standpoint at a meeting in Berlin last weekend.
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Calais ‘War Zone’: Migrants Build Road Blocks to Get on Trucks
The lawlessness gripping the besieged French port is now so terrifying panicked authorities said it resembled a “war zone” and fear a death unless urgent action is taken.
Refugees desperate to cross the Channel are causing carnage around the ferry terminal by blocking roads with trees.
In a disturbing new tactic those living in the notorious Jungle camp have started hurling missiles at vehicles causing them to abruptly stop before ambushing them.
Last week a group of Britons cheated death when three migrants thew a log at their car forcing it into the path of an articulated lorry.
Xavier Delebarre, boss of France’s northern road network, said there were “between 25 and 30 barricades a night” adding: “They have tools, electric chainsaws that can be bought anywhere for £12.
“There is a strategy in their concerted attacks. They launch simultaneous assaults and also diversions. Migrants build barricades by piling different materials on the road, including branches, as well as mattresses and trash.
“They set it on fire and then put gas cylinders in the fire, which is very worrying. They create traffic jams to storm the trucks, so they can board them.”
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Calais Migrants Erecting 30 Barricades a Night to Stop Lorries Bound for Britain
Migrants are erecting as many as 30 barricades a night with tree branches to force lorries bound for Britain to stop so they can jump aboard, security sources have said.
Increasingly aggressive and ever larger groups of dozens of migrants, often organised by people-smugglers, are systematically blocking the main route to the Channel port, the A16 motorway, sometimes causing vehicles to crash and leaving motorists injured.
About 200 migrants a week succeed in reaching Britain, equivalent to 10,000 a year, according to an estimate by French police and security officials.
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Czechs Refuse to Accept Any More Invaders
The Czech Republic will not accept any invaders coming from Turkey “due to the unclear situation after the coup” in that country, Interior Minister Milan Chovanec (Social Democrats, CSSD) has told the public broadcaster Czech Television (CT). The Czech Republic is also going to start a “tough diplomatic offensive” in order to make Greece fulfill its duties over the displaced persons, Chovanec said.
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Humiliation for Angela: Anti-Migrant Movement Trump Merkel’s Party in German Election
In signs of growing discontent with the Chancellor a year after she announced her open borders policy, Mrs Merkel’s CDU party was beaten into THIRD place by Germany’s Alternative for Deutschland party (AfD) who secured 21 per cent of the vote in her home state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern today.
Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democrat Union (CDU) secured a 19.2 per cent share of the vote as it faces an uphill struggle after already being rejected in favour of the AfD in THREE state elections already in March.
After the AfD win, the party leader Frauke Petry said: “We have made history here today.
“This is a slap in the face for Merkel — not only in Berlin but also in her home state. The voters made a clear statement against Merkel’s disastrous immigration policies. This put her in her place.”
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Merkel’s Party Takes Hit in German Elections Amid Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
BERLIN — A nationalist, anti-immigration party performed strongly in a German state election Sunday in the region where Chancellor Angela Merkel has her political base, overtaking her conservative party to take second place amid discontent with her migrant policies, projections indicated Sunday.
The three-year-old Alternative for Germany, or AfD, won about 21 percent of votes in the election for the state legislature in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, according to projections for ARD and ZDF television based on exit polls and partial counting. They put support for Merkel’s Christian Democrats at between 19 and 20 percent, which would be their worst result yet in the state.
The center-left Social Democrats, who lead the outgoing state government, were expected to be the strongest party with about 30 percent support.
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Mexico Issuing Transit Visas to African Migrants Flocking to U.S.-Mexico Border
Mexican immigration authorities say 424 migrants from African countries arrived at the southern state of Chiapas over two days last week.
The National Immigration Institute said Tuesday that it has issued them 20-day transit visas that will allow the migrants to reach the U.S.-Mexico border, where they plan to request asylum.
Officials call it an unusual surge and say most of the migrants first went to Brazil or Ecuador to start their journey through Latin America.
Most of the Africans presented themselves voluntarily to immigration officials in the Chiapas town of Tapachula. They did not specify their nationalities.
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Trump’s Full Speech on Immigration
Liberals are seething all over the world over Donald Trump’s speech on illegal immigration in Arizona-and almost all the controlled media have presented bite-sized “interpretations” of what he said.
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Looking every bit like an aged matron who flew the convent coop during the aftermath of Vatican II (all Catholic readers of a certain age know exactly what I mean), Ms. Soros looks a bit peaked, though still quite fetching in her charcoal gray pantsuit.
Her His Xyr/Hir/Pers/Vis/Eir appearance is eerily similar to that of Dame Margaret Rutherford, although Soros is considerably the older of the two as pictured.
I know that most people refer to George Soros as “Mr. Soros,” but far be it from me to pigeonhole a public figure’s gender identity, especially hers his xyrs/hirs/pers/vis/eirs.
After all, Soros has contributed millions of dollars to undo the very scientific binary understanding of sex and gender. So one must at least consider the possibility that deep down inside, there is something unseen by the rest of us that drives the man person — some set of unresolved sexual identity issues — and this is no doubt why, now that Soros is well beyond eighty years old, his her xyr/hir/pers/vis/eir outward appearance is likewise becoming increasingly sexually ambiguous.
“Soros” is a rare palindrome, just like 666. It also happens to be a feminine noun found in Greek New Testament manuscripts meaning “an open coffin” or “receptacle for keeping the bones of the dead.” Interesting. Many would agree that this is curiously, queerly fitting and that it explains a lot. A whole lot.
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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How Pope Francis Betrayed His Name
Saint Francis was not some 13th-century hippie — particularly when it came to Islam.
When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the new Catholic pope in 2013, he chose the name of Francis to indicate that his pontificate would be one of mercy and compassion for the poor and needy. Such is the reputation of his eponym, Saint Francis of Assisi: “the man of poverty, the man of peace, the man who loves and protects creation,” said Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, as to why he chose that name.
St. Francis (1182-1226) is indeed known for all those qualities. But he was known for something else his modern-day namesake fails to live up to: unapologetically confronting Islam.
According to St. Francis of Assisi and the Conversion of the Muslims by Frank M. Rega:
Fully aware of the dangers, Francis was determined to go on a mission to the unbelievers of the Muslim nations. The primary sources are in agreement that he was now ready to sacrifice his life and die for Christ, so there can be little doubt that the intent of his journey was to preach the Gospel even at the risk of martyrdom. (p. 43)
Along with saving souls, he sought to save lives as well — to help bring peace to the turbulent world he lived in, where Christians, responding to centuries of Islamic invasions and conquests of Christian lands, had gone to war with Islam in the Crusades:
Converting the Muslims by his preaching was the ultimate goal of Francis’ efforts, and a peaceful end to the war would be a consequence of their conversion. In the words of scholar Christoph Maier, “Francis, like the crusaders, wanted to liberate the holy places in Palestine from Muslim rule. What was different was his strategy. … He wanted their total submission to the Christian faith.” (p. 63)
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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Yorkshire Ripper converts to The Religion of Peace to get preferential treatment in the Can.
Well played Mr. Sutcliffe, well played Sir.
Darn! I guess he really got us there aye fellas.
Something for Americans to write their representatives about:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/17/internet-two-months-left-obama-gives-control-dictators/
“Converting the Muslims by his preaching was the ultimate goal of Francis’ efforts, and a peaceful end to the war would be a consequence of their conversion. In the words of scholar Christoph Maier, “Francis, like the crusaders, wanted to liberate the holy places in Palestine from Muslim rule. What was different was his strategy. … He wanted their total submission to the Christian faith.” (p. 63)
It would appear church leaders today have wandered far from the notion of converting muslims to Christianity. Now they want to understand and affirm some sort of monotheistic brotherhood. But I’m not sure if that was Jesus idea when he said “go preach the gospel.”
Already the left wing media and their pathetic luvvie following are in full flow, traducing the AFD’s stunning electorial result with the usual hackneyed cries of far right,”xenophobic, populist etc.
If this carries on there will be a revolution because like many other Europeans, German citizens have had enough of the ridiculous flood of so called refugees into the EU whilst Saudi Arabia, Qatar and others sit on their hands and do nothing! Merkel is lucky she is not in prison for constitutional incompetence at the very least. The establishment status quo cannot continue.
Here in the UK we have a shambles of an official opposition to a truly right wing, hard nosed Tory Government already reneging on BREXIT.
The Labour party (the party that just keeps giving) with calamity Corbin the Commie ( up to his neck with dubious Arab connections and patently anti Semitic), Keith Vaz the parsimonious creep up to his neck in a squalid rent boy scandal ( hubris is such a wonderful thing), and main (BIG) mouth piece for the party, comedian (?) Eddie Izzard in full cross dressing regalia clattering along a London Street in his best high heels to retrieve his stolen pink beret, which was finally recovered by a gaggle of burly Met policeman pouncing on the miscreant who snatched it! Never around when an old lady is deprived of her hand bag and pension by thugs on mountain bikes though are they? This has got to change though as we the Brits have had just about enough.
Christianity is dead in Western Europe and has been for 0ver half a century. There are no Catholic armies, only corporate interests, to fight endless wars as we slink into communism. Headlines say Frau Merkel lost a local election, but fail to mention the old communist party of Germany, the SPD won. The dialectic of re-distribution (run by multi-millionaires and billionaires) continues, so let’s go shopping?
I fail to see this vote as any kind of a setback for the ruling coalition. The CDU-SPD coaltion is secure from any challenge.
The voters were offered a clear choice between the sellout government parties and an anti-immigration party but still could not trouble themselves to support AfD. Auf wiedersehn, Germany. You chose servility and extinction.
This reminds me of the movie “Top Secret” where the hero is about to be executed by firing squad in E. Germany. A general chooses to stop the execution and phones directly to the execution site. As the soldiers stand with rifles raised and pointed at the hero, you hear the phone ring and the person you see on the screen who goes to answer the phone is an old lady. She must use an aluminum walker and approaches the ringing phone at a snail’s pace.
So in Germany, catastrophe looms but the voters proceed at a glacial pace to support those who clearly will save them from the peril they are in. These things cannot be rushed!
Oops. It’s the CDU-CSU ruling coalition not CDU-SPD. The results thus still represent voter unwillingness to choose a clear anti-immigration alternative but they are not an affirmation of the ruling coalition. It’s also a bigger loss for the CDU than I thought.
Actually, you were right the first time. Merkel heads a CDU/SPD “Grand Coalition”:
(Wikipedia)
The CSU is the Bavarian version of the CDU. Theoretically it is a conjoined twin of the CDU, but the Bavarians are dissatisfied with the Dear Leader, and the CSU is threatening to break away.
Sigh. 🙂
The five Afghans accused of harassing women at that wine festival had gotten bonkers because the ladies in question were wearing dirndls.
One can sympathize.
** “The voters aren’t realising they are voting for a party that doesn’t want to distance itself from the far-right spectrum,” president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Josef Schuster told AFP Friday. **
There is no end to the utility of the “far-right” locution, in particular the preposterous “far-right National Socialist” one. Preservation of the nation and its ethnic composition, as well as patriotism and common sense, thus end up as “far-right” (therefore Nazi) by virtue of this arbitrary designation. Authoritarian practices (rubbery laws, kangaroo courts, police harassment, government use of leftist street thug auxilliaries) so characteristic of the left avoid scrutiny. The real threat is not from the right but from the recrudescence of totalitarian leftism. The color of the police uniforms is different. I grant that.
Schuster joins the ranks of all the liars and traitors who do their utmost to ensure the destruction of Western civilization.