The latest twist to Hillary Clinton’s email scandal continues to dominate the news headlines, with a reported 650,000 State Department emails having been discovered on Anthony “Bulgey” Weiner’s laptop. Mrs. Clinton told the press that she had not spoken to Huma Abedin, Mr. Weiner’s estranged wife, since the latest crisis blew up three days ago.
In other news, a 16-year-old child refugee admitted to the UK turns out to have been a precocious scholar, finishing university in Afghanistan before coming to Britain.
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Italy: INPS Says 6.4 Mn Pensioners on Under 1,000 Euros a Month
Pension spending up 1.2% to 280 bn — INPS
(ANSA) — Rome, October 28 — Pensions and social security agency INPS said Friday that 6.4 million people claiming State pensions in Italy, 39.6% of the total, were on less than 1,000 euros a month. This percentage is down from 40.3% in 2014. The percentage on under 1,000 euros is much higher among women, 48.3%, than for men, 29.8%.
Italy spent 280.2 billion euros on State pensions and benefits for the disabled in 2015, an increase of 1.2% with respect to 2014, INPS said Friday. It said the average amount of the pension or benefit was 12,136 euros a year. It said that 16.2 million people benefited.
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Italy: Mediobanca Reports 11% 3Q Rise in Net Profit to 271 Ml
Consolidated revenues rise 4% over same period
(ANSA) — Milan, October 28 — Mediobanca closed the third quarter of 2016 with a 11% rise in net profit to 270.7 million euros, according to a company statement released on Friday. This was the best quarterly result since 2008, the credit institute said.
The increase in net profit reflected a 16% growth in gross operating profit driven by the increase in revenues from banking operations and the lower cost of risk in all business lines, the statement said. Consolidated revenues rose by 4% in the three months to September to reach 526 million euros.
Gains on disposals totalled 112 million euros and referred mainly to the disposal of approximately half the stake in Atlantia.
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“The Terrorists R Us”: Hillary Admits Clinton Foundation Donors Fund ISIS-Daesh
Hillary Clinton is now on record saying Saudi Arabia and Qatar fund and support ISIS. So what did she do about it? She took their money, and sent them arms. Mainstream media won’ t touch this with a 10-foot pole.
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Campaign Says Clinton Still Hasn’t Talked to Abedin About New Emails
The Hillary Clinton campaign on Sunday again urged the FBI to explain why it was revisiting the Clinton email investigation and said the Democratic presidential candidate has not talked to top aide Huma Abedin, on whose laptop the new emails were purportedly found — nearly three full days after the department announced the new probe.
“She hasn’t,” campaign manager Robby Mook said on “Fox News Sunday.”
FBI Director James Comey on Friday notified lawmakers about a new batch of emails possibly “pertinent” to its Clinton email investigation, while working on a case related to Abedin’s husband, former New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, “sexting” a teenage girl on a laptop he purportedly shared with his wife.
Clinton, hours later, in a hastily called news conference, declined to answer a reporter’s question about whether she had spoken directly to Abedin, a close, long-time aide.
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Can Trump Pull Off a Brexit-Style Upset?
Republican nominee Donald Trump has vowed to pull off “Brexit times five” in the US presidential elections. Could he do it?
Millions of Britons switched off their TVs and went to bed late on Thursday 23 June in the fairly confident belief that, for better or worse, nothing was going to change.
They awoke to pictures of UKIP leader Nigel Farage telling ecstatic supporters that the “dawn is breaking on an independent United Kingdom”.
Could America be in for a similar dawn surprise on the morning of 9 November?
Nate Silver, of the FiveThirtyEight blog, who famously predicted the correct result in all 50 states at the 2012 US election, is more bullish about Trump’s prospects than most number-crunchers.
He suggests, in a recent post, that many pollsters have not factored enough uncertainty into their models, particularly given the popularity of third-party candidates and the high number of undecideds.
He still believes Clinton is “probably” going to be the next President of the United States, but adds: “You shouldn’t give up if you’re a Trump supporter, or assume you have it in the bag if you’re voting for Clinton.”
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Clinton “Lead” Shrinks to 1 Point as New York Times Sees 4-Point Trump Advantage in Florida
Yesterday we revealed that the ABC / Wapo poll is a complete farce after even their own pollsters admitted that the recent 10-point convergence between Clinton and Trump, in a matter of just a couple of days, was “not mainly about people shifting in their candidate preference, but about changes in who’s intending to vote”…so it wasn’t about voter preference but about how ABC / Wapo chose their “oversamples.”
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Comey was no stranger to Hillary’s machinations. He was part of the team that investigated Whitewater only to recommend that no charges be filed. Confronted with Hillary Clinton’s email corruption, Comey tried to be too clever by half. He accompanied his legally and bureaucratically inappropriate exoneration of Clinton in July with a public tongue-lashing intended to preserve his Boy Scout image while letting Clinton, himself, and his agency off a sharp political hook. He rather spectacularly failed.
Comey’s letter to the Senate last Friday announcing that the FBI was reopening the email investigation that he closed so confidently in July has placed the nation into a constitutional crisis regardless of what the emails actually say, or the outcome of any further investigation or criminal proceedings. The mere fact that FBI agents found problematic emails on at least one computer owned by Huma Abedin (Hillary’s closest aide) and her estranged pederast husband, former Democrat New York congressman Anthony Weiner, after voting in the election has begun, ensures that regardless of outcome, the result will not be accepted as legitimate by a significant portion of the American public.
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Comey’s Review of Emails Related to Clinton Server Triggered by NY Agents, Source Says
FBI Director James Comey’s decision to revisit the Hillary Clinton email-private server case was purportedly trigged by New York agents working on the unrelated case of former New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner allegedly “sexting” an underage female.
A law enforcement source told Fox News on Sunday that the New York team told agents involved in the investigation into Clinton using a private server system while secretary of state: “We think we’ve come across some documents pertinent to your investigation.”
Weiner is married to top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, and a laptop connected to the sexting case was purportedly shared by the couple.
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Democrats Should Ask Clinton to Step Aside
by John Kass
Has America become so numb by the decades of lies and cynicism oozing from Clinton Inc. that it could elect Hillary Clinton as president, even after Friday’s FBI announcement that it had reopened an investigation of her emails while secretary of state?
We’ll find out soon enough.
It’s obvious the American political system is breaking down. It’s been crumbling for some time now, and the establishment elite know it and they’re properly frightened. Donald Trump, the vulgarian at their gates, is a symptom, not a cause. Hillary Clinton and husband Bill are both cause and effect.
FBI director James Comey’s announcement about the renewed Clinton email investigation is the bombshell in the presidential campaign. That he announced this so close to Election Day should tell every thinking person that what the FBI is looking at is extremely serious.
This can’t be about pervert Anthony Weiner and his reported desire for a teenage girl. But it can be about the laptop of Weiner’s wife, Clinton aide Huma Abedin, and emails between her and Hillary.
The Clintons weren’t skilled merchants. They weren’t traders or manufacturers. The Clintons never produced anything tangible. They had no science, patents or devices to make them millions upon millions of dollars.
All they had to sell, really, was influence. And they used our federal government to leverage it.
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Donald Trump’s Secret Life Finally Exposed
Trump Does the Unthinkable
As an entertainment journalist, I’ve had the opportunity to cover Trump for over a decade, and in all my years covering him I’ve never heard anything negative about the man until he announced he was running for president…
Since the media has failed so miserably at reporting the truth about Trump, I decided to put together some of the acts of kindness he’s committed over three decades which has gone virtually unnoticed or fallen on deaf ears.
In 1986, Trump prevented the foreclosure of Annabell Hill’s family farm after her husband committed suicide. Trump personally phoned down to the auction to stop the sale of her home and offered the widow money. Trump decided to take action after he saw Hill’s pleas for help in news reports.
In 1988, a commercial airline refused to fly Andrew Ten, a sick Orthodox Jewish child with a rare illness, across the country to get medical care because he had to travel with an elaborate life-support system. His grief-stricken parents contacted Trump for help and he didn’t hesitate to send his own plane to take the child from Los Angeles to New York so he could get his treatment.
In 1991, 200 Marines who served in Operation Desert Storm spent time at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina before they were scheduled to return home to their families. However, the Marines were told that a mistake had been made and an aircraft would not be able to take them home on their scheduled departure date. When Trump got wind of this, he sent his plane to make two trips from North Carolina to Miami to safely return the Gulf War Marines to their loved ones.
In 1995, a motorist stopped to help Trump after the limo he was traveling in got a flat tire. Trump asked the Good Samaritan how he could repay him for his help. All the man asked for was a bouquet of flowers for his wife. A few weeks later Trump sent the flowers with a note that read: “We’ve paid off your mortgage.”
In 1996, Trump filed a lawsuit against the city of Palm Beach, Florida accusing the town of discriminating against his Mar-a-Lago resort club because it allowed Jews and blacks. Abraham Foxman, who was the Anti-Defamation League Director at the time, said Trump “put the light on Palm Beach — not on the beauty and the glitter, but on its seamier side of discrimination.” Foxman also noted that Trump’s charge had a trickle-down effect because other clubs followed his lead and began admitting Jews and blacks.
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Donald Trump — an American American?
Trump wants fair trade deals. The Giant Sucking sound of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) killed (as was predicted) millions of U.S. Jobs and thousands of U.S. Factories. It was backed by George HW Bush and passed and signed into law by William J Clinton, bipartisanship at its naked worst.
Today the Democrats (including Hillary, until Trump started gaining on her) and the RINOs and the globalists all support TPP and TTIP.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership are international takeovers of U.S. Sovereignty and U.S. Independence. These partnerships, crafted in absolute secrecy, create tribunals of unelected foreign bureaucrats who can change the agreements after they are approved and overrule the Constitution of the United States.
U.S. Trade is guaranteed to suffer under these. So are U.S. Jobs. NAFTA stands as a grim beacon from 1993 warning us of the dire but predictable results of terrible trade agreements.
Trump steadfastly opposes these trade deals. The U.S. already has a trade deficit with every major nation we trade with. Trump wants to renegotiate the old trade deals, make them work for America.
Remember? America First. If manufacturers decide to take jobs out of this country for cheaper labor (as Ford and Carrier are doing) then let them face a tariff on the products and parts they reintroduce into the America that they turned their backs on.
Just so you know, other Mexico-bound companies include Daimler/Nissan, GM, Audi, Kia, VW, Toyota, and BMW with a proposed investment of approximately 15.8 billion dollars resulting in approximately 30,000 Mexican jobs. NAFTA lives on.
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Doug Band to John Podesta: “if This Story Gets Out, We Are Screwed”
Until the Friday blockbuster news that the FBI was reopening its probe into the Hillary email server, the biggest overhang facing the Clinton Campaign was the escalating scandal involving the Clinton Foundation, Doug Band’s consultancy firm Teneo, and Bill Clinton who as a result of a leaked memo emerged was generously compensated for potential political favors by prominent corporate clients using Teneo as a passthru vehicle for purchasing influence.
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Hillary Clinton White House a National Security Risk
When people have secrets, they can be manipulated. Intimidated. Extorted. Blackmailed.
The more we learn about Hillary Clinton, her emails, and the Clinton Foundation, the more we realize she is hiding a lot.
With the recent Anthony Weiner revelation that has encouraged the FBI to reexamine the Clinton email scandal, we must realize that the very fact that Hillary Clinton has so much to hide makes her a national security risk should she attain a new position of power. . . especially if she becomes President of the United States. Never mind whether or not she can be bought — it turns out she can be blackmailed.
Hillary Clinton couldn’t even pass a basic background check if she wanted to be a janitor in a government building, yet we have voters willing to make the most crooked, corrupt and untrustworthy politician in this country’s history a return resident to the White House. For the intelligence community, the fact that she has so much to hide, and that it can be used to intimidate the United States and blackmail her, creates an intelligence nightmare.
She had access to highly classified information, and purposely used her private email server (among other things) to sell that information for favors, or future contributions to her and her husband, often in the form of exorbitant speaking fees and donations to the Clinton Foundation.
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How Voting Really Works: An Eyewitness Account
Obviously, this election cycle has evolved into a circus of corruption. The mud-slinging is interminable, filled with duck and run operations, outright fraud, and lawlessness. In a little over a week, by hook or crook, we will know the winner of the presidential election. The question is, will it be fair, or is the voting rigged? In the State of Washington, it is hard to tell. There are so many avenues for potential dishonesty.
This week, I took the time to personally carry my “mail-in ballot” to the local voting office in King County, Washington. The state instituted its slick new balloting system several years ago. However, the way they handle ballots is extraordinarily disturbing. Here’s what happened.
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Huma Abedin Swore Under Oath She Gave Up ‘All the Devices’ With State Dept. Emails
The FBI found emails pertinent to its Clinton investigation, reportedly on a computer from her aide’s home. That doesn’t jibe with she told lawyers this summer
In a normal election year, a normal candidate’s close aide who caused even minor embarrassment to a campaign so near to Election Day would be whisked away as quickly as possible to avoid becoming a distraction.
But Huma Abedin is not simply a close aide, she’s a critical member of Hillary Clinton’s tiny inner circle that protects and — at times — enables the deeply flawed and secretive Democratic nominee.
So despite FBI Director James Comey’s announcement that the bureau is reviewing emails from Abedin’s time at the State Department reportedly found on a laptop she shared with her soon-to-be ex-husband Anthony Weiner (confiscated as a part of the FBI’s investigation into allegations he sexted with a 15-year-old North Carolina girl), the campaign made clear on Saturday that she’s not going anywhere.
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Incoming Space and Missile Defense Command General Commits Suicide
FILE — In this Nov. 7, 2009 file photo, then-Col. John Rossi speaks at a news conference at Fort Hood headquarters in Killeen, Texas. The Army says the death of a two-star general on a military base in Alabama has been ruled a suicide. Rossi was found dead July 31, 2106, in his home on Redstone Arsenal, and an investigation was undertaken. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
The Army says the death of a two-star general on a military base in Alabama has been ruled a suicide. Rossi was found dead July 31, 2106, in his home on Redstone Arsenal, and an investigation was undertaken. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
WASHINGTON — The Army said Friday it has determined that suicide was the cause of death of a two-star general who was found dead in his home on a military base in Alabama.
Maj. Gen. John Rossi was found dead July 31 at Redstone Arsenal, two days before he was to assume command of Army Space and Missile Defense Command.
[Comment: Defence command…Was he “suicided” to allow a globalist puppet to take control of this critical position? Perhaps the new person would be slow in the reaction time orders as per globalist desires? ]
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John Adams Had a Few Things to Say About Schools
In 1819, John Adams wrote to Jefferson: “Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation thoroughly corrupted that was afterwards restored to virtue? … And without virtue, there can be no political liberty. … Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly? … No effort in favor of virtue is lost.”
In Paris, John Adams wrote in his diary, June 2, 1778: “In vain are schools, academies, and universities instituted, if loose principles and licentious habits are impressed upon children in their earliest years. … The vices and examples of the parents cannot be concealed from the children. How is it possible that children can have any just sense of the sacred obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest infancy … their fathers (are) in as constant infidelity to their mothers?”
In “Novanglus: A History of the Dispute with America, from its Origin, in 1754, to the Present Time,” John Adams wrote: “It is the duty of the clergy to accommodate their discourses to the times, to preach against such sins as are most prevalent, and recommend such virtues as are most wanted. … If exorbitant ambition and venality are predominant, ought they not to warn their hearers against those vices? If public spirit is much wanted, should they not inculcate this great virtue? If the rights and duties of Christian magistrates and subjects are disputed, should they not explain them, show their nature, ends, limitations, and restrictions, how much soever it may move the gall of Massachusetts.”
On June 21, 1776, John Adams wrote: “Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our people in a greater measure, than they have it now, they may change their rulers and the forms of government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty.”
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John Fund: If Hillary Wins, We’ll Have a Potential Blackmail Target in the White House
The revival of the Clinton email scandal reminds them of just how exposed Clinton left highly classified information.
Last September, an FBI report noted the bureau couldn’t find proof her private email server was hacked into by adversaries. But it noted that the private server had to be shut down repeatedly because of hacker attacks and a successful attack wasn’t likely to have left fingerprints. Also, some “hostile foreign actors” were able to break into the personal email accounts of Clinton’s close aides, obtaining a treasure trove of emails exchanged with her personal account.
Note that so far none of the WikiLeaks revelations have come from Hillary’s personal account. That could mean it wasn’t hacked, or it could mean that “hostile” actors are waiting to make use of them.
In short, we have to acknowledge the danger that Hillary Clinton could be the target of international blackmail in the White House.
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Kowtowing to Kaepernick May Have Permanently Damaged the NFL
There’ s a price to be paid for everything- even for being politically correct in a “ politically correct time.” A new poll shows that the main cause of the National Football League’ s much discussed ratings drop is, in fact, the National Anthem Protests sparked by the very ignorant and callow Colin Kaepernick.
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Mystery of Paralyzed and Dying Children Discovered
Hundreds of children showing up to hospitals “unable to move their arms or legs.”
Alex Jones breaks down how vaccines are paralyzing and killing tens of thousands of children across the globe.
An article in the Los Angeles Times recently admitted that “hundreds of children across the country have shown up at hospitals unable to move their arms or legs” with dozens more paralyzed in the last few months alone.
The symptoms and ages of the victims are nearly identical to incidents in countries such as India where children given the polio vaccine experienced horrific adverse reactions.
“India’s health ministry, celebrating a year of freedom from wild polio, now faces a dilemma that public health experts had predicted years ago: the very vaccine it is using to fight polio is causing more polio paralysis than the wild poliovirus,” The Telegraph India wrote in 2012.
A nurse speaking with Infowars just last year described a similar situation after she says hospitals began forcing them to vaccinate premature babies — which almost immediately caused them to stop breathing.
Despite seeing the horrific outcome of forcing premature newborns to adhere to the vaccine schedule, doctors continue to blindly follow the vaccine industry’s demands
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New Poll: 34 Percent ‘Less Likely’ To Vote for Clinton After New Email Revelations
A poll released Sunday shows more than 30 percent of likely voters say they are less inclined to support Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton after revelations Friday about the FBI reviewing newly-discovered emails potentially related to Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.
The ABC/Washington Post tracking poll was conducted from Tuesday to Friday, which means the survey’s 1,781 respondents could only be asked on the final day about the revelations regarding the new emails.
Still, the poll found 34 percent of the respondents were “less likely” to vote for Clinton and that she now leads Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump by just a single percentage point, 46-to-45 percent, in a four-way White House race, with Election Day on Nov. 8.
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Resignations Letters Piling up at FBI
James Comey’s decision to revive the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server and her handling of classified material came after he could no longer resist mounting pressure by mutinous agents in the FBI, including some of his top deputies, according to a source close to the embattled FBI director.
‘The atmosphere at the FBI has been toxic ever since Jim announced last July that he wouldn’t recommend an indictment against Hillary,’said the source, a close friend who has known Comey for nearly two decades, shares family outings with him, and accompanies him to Catholic mass every week.
‘Some people, including department heads, stopped talking to Jim, and even ignored his greetings when they passed him in the hall,’said the source. ‘They felt that he betrayed them and brought disgrace on the bureau by letting Hillary off with a slap on the wrist.’
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Samsung Are Amateurs — NASA Shows How You Really Do a Battery Fire
RoboSimian up in smoke after engineering error
Samsung might think it’s the king of exploding kit, what with smartphones and washing machines going up in flames, but in June NASA engineers schooled the firm on how to really make a bang.
The space agency was repairing a RoboSimian, a four-legged robot designed by the Jet Propulsion Lab for the DARPA Robotics Challenge, but the device suffered a fairly explosive disassembly.
“On June 14, 2016 there was a fire involving a Li-ion battery. The fire was the result of thermal runaway (rapid uncontrolled increase in temperature) of a large Li-ion battery,” the NASA report states.
The robot was being charged up for use but the intern responsible didn’t set up the battery management system properly.
As a result, the protection put in place to control the temperature, voltage, and current being fed into the battery didn’t work — the whole unit went up in smoke.
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Social Media Blackout? FBI Emails Are Not ‘Trending’ on Twitter, Facebook, Buzzfeed, Or Snapchat
In the 24 hours since FBI Director Comey dropped perhaps the biggest bombshell of the entire Presidential campaign, sending Democrats (and media) scrambling headless-chicken-like for answers (and blame-scaping), does anyone else find it odd that ‘FBI Emails’ does not appear to be a hot topic, trending, big deal on any social media?
[Comment: Social media sites are another means of controlling how much truth gets to the public.]
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An Uber driver is facing kidnapping and assault charges after taking an unconscious female passenger to a motel instead of dropping her off at home, police said.
Westagne Pierre picked up a passenger on October 18 who had blacked out after her friend ordered an Uber to drive her from a bar in Washington DC to her home in Fairfax County, Virginia, charging records state.
Pierre took her home before he drove to the Budget Inn in College Park, Maryland, where surveillance footage showed him carrying the passenger into a room, the Washington Post reported…
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We Risk Being Collateral Damage in the Neocon Lust for War
The blackballing of Putin and Russia started years ago, in 2013, when Putin managed to convince then-president of Ukraine Yanukovych to back out of the agreement intended to bring Ukraine into the EU fold as the final NATO brick in the wall.
That set-back enraged the neocons in Washington DC mightily and they’ve been rapidly anti-Putin ever since. This neocon grudge has found help and support ever since from the UK, US, and EU press which were also willing partners in selling the fraudulent “evidence” that led to the Iraq war — and Libya, too, and now Yemen and Syria.
As examples, these cartoonish magazine covers (both from 2014) look like they were designed by Intro to Psychology 101 students asked to create a propaganda hit piece:…
So the demonization began a long time ago, well before it’s reasonable to suspect HRCs advance team could start scheming about how to use an anti-Putin stance against Trump, or any other opponent.
But the media has continued to beat the Putin=bad drums, and with increasingly volume. Here are a few more recent examples:…
I just know propaganda when I see it. And I see it in the examples above, and in the media pervasively today. So where does this lead us?
Well, given the fact that Russia has just undertaken the largest nuclear readiness drill in its history involving its citizens, maybe we should think that Putin and Russia are no longer amused by all this antagonism and are taking it as something more sinister than simple politicking.
Or we should pay attention that Russia recently announced the arrival of its latest nuclear ICBM (nicknamed Satan-2) capable of delivering 15 warheads each.
And let’s not forget the even more recent announcement that a hypersonic glider warhead had been successfully tested, against which our military currently has no defense.
None of those Russian moves are being made in a vacuum of course. They’ve come only after many repeated provocations by the West, including assembling the largest gathering of military brigade forces on Russia’s borders since WW II. These are the kind of threats, mind you, that would have caused the US to go into an absolute snit long ago were the situation reversed.
The real question is: Why? What’s the plan here, if any exists? Who’s behind all this and why? If we can answer any of these, then perhaps we can assess the risks regular people like us and our loved ones may be facing as potential “collateral damage” of this warmongering.
[Comment: Outlines the propaganda being foisted upon public (part of the demonization of Oceania, prior to WWIII), but no mention of who exactly are the globalists and elites. Hint: who owns the central banks? Letting a privately owned bank control a nation’s currency is very bad.]
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Extremism ‘Motivated by Jihadist Beliefs’ Top Source of Canadian Terrorism Since 2010, Study Says
TORONTO—Religious extremism has become the top motive for Canadian terrorism, replacing environmentalism, according to an academic study prepared for Public Safety Canada.
[Comment: I know that sounds like stating the obvious, but I think the details reported in the article are interesting.]
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What is Really the Matter With the EU-Canada CETA Trade Agreement?
All free trade agreements since the U.S.-Canada FTA (over which the 1988 Canadian election was fought, with the Liberal Party then strongly opposing the deal) have created the illusion that they have primarily been about reneging on the old political economy of tariff protectionism. But this was already accomplished by the progressive reduction in tariffs that took place in the post-war decades under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and in Europe itself by the Treaty of Rome and the Common Market it spawned. The so-called free trade agreements kicked off by the FTA have been much more about dismantling so-called ‘non-tariff barriers’ which establish rights for multinational corporations, deploying the talent and resources of the foremost international law firms, to escape and undermine domestic economic regulation.
What is especially worrying to a great many Europeans, now that they believe they have managed to render TTIP a dead letter, is that CETA will bring it in via the back door
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“It’s as if the Whole City Fell Down” — Towns Collapse After Strongest Quake in 35 Years Hits Italy
On Wednesday, when we reported on the latest set of powerful, shallow quakes to strike central Italy, which themselves were aftershocks of the deadly August 24 earthquake which killed 300 people and injured many more, we quoted Salvatore Mazza, the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology who said that “The earthquake today has further disrupted the tectonic plates, and in the coming hours we may see aftershocks of today’s earthquake on top of those from August 24”, and concluded that it is likely that more quakes are coming.
We didn’t have long to wait, and overnight central Italy was hit by another powerful earthquake Sunday, toppling buildings that had recently withstood other major quakes and sending panicked residents back into the streets, but luckily causing no immediate loss of life. That there were no reports of deaths was largely due to the fact that thousands of residents left their homes after two strong jolts last week shook the same mountainous area.
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Charlie Hebdo Jihad Massacre Survivor: “We Need to Stop Saying Islam is a Religion of Peace”
She leads a clandestine existence, on the move and under 24-hour guard as France’s most protected woman. Yet Zineb El Rhazoui, the Charlie Hebdo journalist who happened to be in Casablanca on January 7 last year, the day terrorists “avenging the Prophet” massacred nine people at the satirical magazine in Paris, believes she has a duty to defy Islamists desperate to silence her.
Shaken but undeterred by the fatwas and relentless, precise death threats issued via social media to “kill the bitch” since she helped produce the publication’s first survivors’ issue following the attack — and spoke about it in Arabic for the Arab press — the Moroccan-French writer refuses to assume an anonymous identity.
The Prophet Mohammed and his companions, whose violent exploits are contained in “bellicose texts from a barbaric 7th-century Bedouin tribal context,” exhibited codes of behavior El Rhazoui insists have no place in the modern world and can be directly connected to terrorism. “The most abject crimes of Islamic State are but a 21st-century remake of what the first Muslims accomplished under the guidance of the Prophet,” she writes, noting that sexual and domestic slavery, the massacre of non-Muslims (notably Jews), pedophilia, pillage, polygamy and summary executions were all adopted from pre-Islamic societies.
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France: Preparing for Civil War
Writer Guillaume Faye has frequently predicted the catastrophic consequences of massive State-sponsored immigration.
He points out that the hypothesis of a civil war, first in France, and then by contagion in England, Belgium and Germany, is more of a hot topic than ever, even though he first predicted it in 2000 in an essay entitled La Colonisation de l’Europe. He cites books by Eric Zemmour, Ivan Rioufol, Philippe de Villiers, and Laurent Obertone that warn of war. He adds that official leftist intellectuals, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and Régis Debray, who consider themselves geniuses even though they have been wrong about everything, reject the hypothesis of a war.
There are three hypotheses. The first, the worst one, is submission. It takes two to wage war. If, faced with invaders and aggressors, the French and Europeans don’t defend themselves there won’t be a war. It will be a “tepid death” to use the expression of Konrad Lorenz. A rotting, a collapse, with no real combat. It’s a possibility.
The second hypothesis is the eruption of an ethnic civil war with the defeat of the French, and other Europeans, since they have against them their own collaborating State. A possibility that Jean Raspail had evoked.
The third hypothesis, is a victorious civil war, with incalculable historic consequences, including the collapse of all our political paradigms. Whatever happens, it will be impossible, in the coming years, to escape major disorders. Western Europe will soon be the theater of an ethnic earthquake. Inevitable.
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French Citizens Killed in Malta Plane Crash Were Intelligence Officers
Despite initial denials, it appears that at least three of the five French citizens who were killed in an airplane crash in Malta earlier this week were employees of the country’s external intelligence agency. The crash happened in the early hours of Monday near the village of Luqa in southern Malta. Early reports identified that the plane as a light aircraft and was carrying five French citizens when it crashed, shortly after taking off from the nearby Malta International Airport. Initial statements from Maltese and French government officials said the plane was on a local flight route and had not been scheduled to land outside of the Mediterranean island. The five passengers were identified in press statements as “customs officers” who were conducting a joint project with their Maltese counterparts.
Subsequent reports in the French media, however, said that at least three of the five French passengers who perished in the crash were officers of the General Directorate for External Security, France’s external intelligence agency, which goes by the initials DGSE. It is also believed that the airplane was registered in the United States and was operated by a Luxembourg-based company. Reports from Libya state that the plane’s mission is “shrouded in mystery”. Some articles suggest that it was heading to the city of Misrata in northern Libya, or that it may have been conducting a reconnaissance operation over the Mediterranean, aimed at gathering intelligence on smuggling activities originating from Libya.
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Iceland Election: Pirate Party Triples Seats
Iceland’s Pirate Party has tripled its seats in the 63-seat parliament, election results show.
It is in joint second place with the Left-Greens — with 10 seats each. But their centre-left coalition fell short of a majority to form a government.
The governing Progressive Party lost more than half of its seats in the poll triggered by the resignation of Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson.
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Italy: Seen as Troublemaker if Demand EU Rules Respected — Renzi
Premier says wants to open debate about EU rules
(ANSA) — Padua, October 28 — Premier Matteo Renzi said Friday that you risk being portrayed as a troublemaker if you demand that EU rules are respected. “It seems to us that if you go to Europe to ask for the rules to be respected, it’s as if you were a trouble maker, rather than someone who wants to open a political debate about them,” Renzi said at Padua University.
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Italy Quake: Norcia Tremor Destroys Ancient Buildings
Towns and villages in central Italy have been hit by an earthquake for the fourth time in three months.
The 6.6-magnitude quake — Italy’s strongest in decades — struck close to the region where nearly 300 people were killed by a quake in August.
This time no-one appears to have died, but about 20 people were injured.
The medieval basilica of St Benedict in Norcia, the town closest to the epicentre, was among buildings destroyed.
An evacuation of buildings in the region deemed vulnerable to seismic activity last week, following strong aftershocks from August’s quake, may have saved lives.
Tremors from this latest earthquake were felt in the capital Rome, where the Metro system was shut down, and as far away as Venice in the north.
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Poland Rejects EU Recommendations
Remarks regarding the rule of law. Brussels will evaluate
(ANSA) — WARSAW — OCT. 28 — The government in Warsaw has rejected the European Union recommendations on the protection of the rule of law in Poland because it “sees no legal possibility to implement them”. Polish news agency PAP reported that the response to the EC letter dating back to July 27 was sent to Brussels yesterday, exactly when the 3-month time allowed by the EU rules expired.
The document argues that the Commission’s recommendations “are based on the ill thesis” that the “Constitutional Court has a prominent role in “ensuring the rule of law”.
Poland is the first country to undergo the Eu’s monitoring procedure on the rule of law. The measure was taken after the president of the republic and the government, both members of the populist party “Law and Justice” (Pis), elected a year ago, did not recognize the judges of the Constitutional Court elected by the previous parliament.
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A Swiss mother and her boyfriend were arrested after two child prisoners were found in their home where they were held hostage for seven years.
The couple are thought to have arrived in Alicante, Costa Blanca, in March of 2009 but the girl and boy, now aged 17 and 15, never went out.
They were only saved when the girl managed to send a desperate email calling for help.
Police attended but were about to leave after the mother persuaded them nothing was wrong when the girl cried out for help.
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The Mundane Origins of Germany’s Huge Turkish Population
by Daniel Pipes
In 1961, the German post-war “economic miracle” (Wirtschaftswunder) was in full bloom, with a seemingly insatiable thirst for unskilled workers. After signing government-to-government bilateral agreements with Italy (in 1955), Greece (1960), and Spain (1960), Bonn turned to Ankara and on this day, Oct. 30, in 1961 signed a “Recruitment Agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Turkey” (Anwerbeabkommen zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Türkei). Little did either side realize the implications of this seemingly minor accord.
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U.K. Banks May Gain $14.6 Billion Yearly Leaving EU, Says Lobby
The U.K.’s biggest banks and financial firms could gain an additional 12 billion pounds ($14.6 billion) a year in revenue from Britain leaving the European Union, according to a report from a pro-Brexit lobby group.
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UK: Apple Refused to Give Customer Hussain Refund for iPhone Unless He Could Prove He Wasn’t Saddam
Sharakat Hussain, 26, was miffed when he received an email from the tech giant claiming that he was on the Government’s Denied Parties list, which made it illegal for him to be sold an iPhone.
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UK: Brave Cheshire Grandmother Chases Machete-Wielding Raiders Out of Her Shop With a Chair
The pair burst into her store in Winsford, Cheshire, wearing balaclavas, but Hamalata Patel ‘lost the plot’ when one of them banged his weapon on the counter.
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UK: Birmingham Children Killed When Father Torched Their Family Home
The children were pulled from the house in Hamstead, Birmingham, yesterday. They have been named locally as Leanor and Saros. Their father is said to be Endris Mohammed.
Two ‘lovely’ children who died after their father allegedly torched their family home in a murder-suicide attempt have been pictured for the first time.
The six-year-old girl and her eight-year-old brother were pulled from the house in Hamstead, Birmingham, yesterday.
Their father, aged in his 30s, was found in the wreckage of a Vauxhall in Newcastle-under-Lyme at 7.15am on Friday, four hours after the building was set alight.
The children have been named locally as Leanor and Saros. Their father is understood to be Endris Mohammed.
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UK: CCTV Shows Pardeep Kaur, Whose Body Was Found Dumped Under Hayes Flyover in London
Pardeep Kaur, 30, disappeared on October 17 after she had set off for work at around 6.10am. Her remains were found in waste ground underneath a flyover in Hayes, west London.
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UK: Leicester Mother Amina Seedat Punched Teen Girl and Slapped a Teaching Assistant
Amina Seedat, 39, lost her temper as she returned to her car after collecting her son from his primary school in Leicester. A court heard she became angry when her child was ‘barged’ out of the way.
[Comment: College students barged over her small child. This was a one-off mother’s instinctive reaction. This could have been avoided if those students apologized instead of giving a smart a*s answer and telling her to lodge a complaint with college administration. No punishment for the college students? ]
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Two decades before Jack the Ripper became Victorian London’s most feared serial killer, a seemingly harmless County Durham housewife had already poisoned her way into the annals of British crime history with a horrific crime spree.
Experts are divided on how many bodies Mary Ann Cotton left in her wake as she posed as a kind and caring wife, mother, and sometimes widow.
Between 1860 and 1872 she is believed to have put an end to three husbands, a lover, and up to 11 of her children.
She was sent to the gallows in 1843 at the age of 40.
Some historians think the death toll she caused may be as high as 21 — all of them victims of a cruel and scheming temptress who killed with impunity using arsenic to make it look they had died from fever.
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UK: Warning Paedophiles Could Dress Up as ‘Killer Clowns’ For Halloween to Molest Children
The craze of people wearing clown masks to terrify children has reached epidemic proportions with Childline reporting that it had received 462 calls relating to ‘creepy clowns’.
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Why France’s Aristocracy Hasn’t Gone Away
Despite officially not existing, the French nobility continues to endure and often thrive in the 21st Century.
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Bosnia-Iran: Signed MOU of Economic Cooperation
Izetbegovic met Khamenei, Rafsanjani and Larijani
(ANSA) — TEHRAN, 26 OTT — Iran and Bosnia and Herzegovina have signed a memorandum of understanding on the promotion of economic cooperation and mutual investment. The document was signed in the presence of Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, and the chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bakir Izetbegovic. The MoU aims at promoting trade and investment cooperation among small and medium-size companies and industrial parks.
Rohani said that a joint commission to be held in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo in December is to examine and finalize the list of the areas of cooperation between the two countries.
During the visit in Tehran, Izetbegovic met Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and the Majlis Speaker, Ali Larijani.
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Erdogan Says Greek Islands ‘Used to be Ours’
In what was widely seen as a fresh dig at Greece, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday reiterated that several Greek islands in the eastern Aegean “used to be ours.”
The Turkish leader made waves recently in Greece when he said that the Treaty of Lausanne, which set the borders between Greece and Turkey in 1923, was unfair on his country.
He returned to the subject on Saturday, saying he didn’t understand why his remarks had raised so many objections.
“I said Lausanne and they got annoyed. Why are you annoyed?” he said, adding that “these islands were ours.”
“We have our monuments and our mosques there [on the islands],” he said.
“Whoever signed [for their passing to Greece] bears the responsibility.”
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Fall of ISIS in Mosul May Push Terrorists to Launch Attacks in Europe — German Spy Chief
The defeat of Islamic State militants in their Iraqi stronghold Mosul may spark terrorist attacks across Europe, the head of the German Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Hans-Georg Maassen, has said.
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ISIS Jhadis Torture Civilians to Death With Electrocution as Mosul Battle Rages on
BARBARIC ISIS fighters killed civilians by electrocution as the battle for Mosul rages on.
The bloodthirsty jihadis tortured the 22 people using electricity, as they were suspected of conspiring with the Iraqi government forces, working to free the town.
Local news reported the victims had been held captive in a prison by the militants for four months prior to their horrific deaths.
The Islamic State (ISIS) butchers have been sending wave after wave of armoured suicide trucks towards the advancing army.
Alongside the Iraqis are the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters who are attempting to reclaim the city from the self-proclaimed Caliphate.
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ISIS Orders Fighters to Shoot Women and Children Feeling [Fleeing] Mosul
Former fighter Abu Ahmed, now prisoner of Kurdish forces, has told how he was ordered to kill women and children to deter other from escaping areas under ISIS control.
Ahmed said: “People tried to flee, because of the conditions in Mosul, to Kurdistan or Baghdad but they would be blown up by IEDs and if they weren’t they’d be shot at even if they were kids.”
“The thing people care about the most is their children. The hardest thing for anybody to see is their child being hurt, even if it’s not with a weapon, but Isis are going to use guns on children.”
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Kurds, Iraqis Benefits From Vast Network of Spies Within ISIS’ Ranks
As a powerful coalition of forces converges on Mosul in what promises to be a fierce battle to retake ISIS’ Iraqi stronghold, some players inside the black-clad jihadist army are delivering many of the most damaging blows.
Beleaguered and disenfranchised ISIS fighters, cultivated for months by the Kurds, are secretly working with their adversaries, supplying key intelligence on the terror group’s positioning inside Iraq’s second-largest city and its battle strategy for the surrounding region.
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Saudi Arabia Foils ‘ISIS’ Plot to Bomb Stadium
Saudi Arabia foiled a plot to bomb a stadium during a World Cup qualifying match after arresting members of cells linked to ISIS.
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Syria: Heavily Armed Al Qaeda Terrorists Attempt to Break Aleppo Siege by Government Forces
On October 28, the joint militant forces launched a full-scale offensive in order to break the siege of militant-controlled neighborhoods of Aleppo city that had been set by the Syrian government forces…
In total, about 3,000 fighters, up to 30 artillery units and unspecified number of heavy military equipment were involved in the operation. The pro-government forces responded with massive artillery fire and air strikes. Air raids were also reported in the area of Khan Tuman, serving the rear base of attack.
Considering the sides’ military capabilities and the terrain features, SF forecasts that the terrorists will not be able to break the siege of Aleppo in case of the effective operations by the Syrian military staff.
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Turkey Sacks 10,000 More Civil Servants, Shuts More Media in Post-Coup Crackdown
Turkish authorities have dismissed more than 10,000 civil servants over their suspected links with U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for orchestrating the failed coup in July.
Thousands of academics, teachers and health workers were among those removed through a new emergency rule decree published on the Official Gazette late on Saturday while 15 media outlets, almost all of which reported from the largely Kurdish southeast, were shut down.
Through the decrees, elections to choose a rector at the universities have also been abolished. President Tayyip Erdogan will directly appoint the rectors from the candidates nominated by the High Educational Board (YOK).
Turkey has formally arrested more than 37,000 people and has already sacked or suspended 100,000 civil servants, judges, prosecutors, police and others in an unprecedented crackdown the government says is necessary to root out all supporters of Gulen from the state apparatus and key positions.
The total number of media outlets shut down since the start of the state of emergency has now exceeded 160.
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‘Russia Will Invade Lithuania’ Leaders Tell People to Prepare for Guerrilla War on Streets
LITHUANIA is preparing for an imminent all out attack by Russia.
The Lithuanian government is so alarmed it has printed a mass-circulation pamphlet advising citizens on how best to strike back at a Russian occupying force with lightning guerrilla war tactics.
The 75-page guide, which has been distributed to 30,000 people, explains how to become an insurgent if Putin’s forces attack the country from the East.
Tiny Lithuania would offer almost no battlefield resistance to Putin aggression — the only way for citizens to react would be a long drawn-out insurgency.
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Russian Scientist: ‘The New Little Ice Age Has Started’
Astrophysicist Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov, Head of Space Research Laboratory at the Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia in new book:
“Since 1990, the Sun has been in the declining phase of the quasi-bicentennial variation in total solar irradiance (TSI). The decrease in the portion of TSI absorbed by the Earth since 1990 has remained uncompensated by the Earth’s long-wave radiation into space at the previous high level because of the thermal inertia of the world’s oceans. As a result, the Earth has, and will continue to have, a negative average annual energy balance and a long-term adverse thermal condition.
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Only Regime Change Can Stop Sudan’s Genocide
an interview with Lt. Gen. Abakar Mahamat Abdallah of the Sudan United Movement
The UN estimates that more than 300,000 have been killed during the 13-year genocide in the Darfur region of the Sudan and more than 2.5 million have been displaced. The notorious Janjaweed Islamist militia and National Army of the Arab Republic of the Sudan have conducted a deliberate program of “ethnic cleansing.” They have been recruiting terrorists and Arab settlers from surrounding states to conduct rampages against indigenous African tribes and occupy the region. That record of crimes against humanity does not include the toll from rampages in other conflict areas of the Blue Nile, Nuba Hills and Kordofan…
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Could Venezuela Become the Next Syria?
Speaking of poor policymaking, hyperinflation and violence — Venezuela is sliding closer and closer to the brink of collapse, with some sobering consequences…
It’s such a travesty that a nation as resource-rich as Venezuela could allow itself to rot from within. Its descent into chaos should serve as just the latest cautionary tale to other countries that are willing to risk stability and prosperity for even more socialism.
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Australia Asylum: Arrivals by Boat Face Lifetime Visa Ban
Australia has unveiled tough new plans to bar any asylum seekers who try to reach the country by boat from ever being able to enter.
The lifetime ban on visas would apply even to those travelling as tourists, for business, or who married an Australian.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the move would send “the strongest possible signal” to people-smugglers.
The proposed ban is to be put to parliament later this week.
Australia transports asylum seekers who arrive by boat to off-shore processing centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island.
Even if found to be genuine refugees, they are already blocked from being resettled in Australia. They can either return home, be resettled on Manus or Nauru, or go to a third country.
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Australia to Ban Illegal Migrants Forever
Asylum seekers who attempt to illegally enter Australia by boat will never be allowed back into the country, even if they legally apply for refugee status or come as a tourist decades later.
The tough new laws will be introduced by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton when Parliament returns, The Sydney Morning Herald reports
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Calais Jungle Migrants Are ‘Hell Bent’ On Escaping France for Britain
Some 6,000 migrants were dispersed when the Calais Jungle was demolished. Young men (pictured) were taken to rural areas of the French countryside. They say they hate France and want to get to the UK.
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Child Refugee Allowed Into UK Had Spent Three Years at University
More questions have been raised over the Government’s child refugee scheme after it was alleged that one youth who claimed to be 16 had spent three years studying at university in Afghanistan before coming to Europe.
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French authorities are preparing to remove up to 2,500 migrants from the streets of Paris within days after camps in the capital swelled following the clearance of the Calais “Jungle” last week.
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Greece: Migrants Clash at Chios Camp
Three migrants were taken to hospital on the eastern Aegean island of Chios late Saturday after clashes broke out between Afghans and Iraqis of Kurdish origin at Souda camp.
Authorities said the victims had been injured by a sharp object.
Police were sent in to stop the violence. One person was detained.
Meanwhile, also on Saturday, an unidentified number of migrants on the island of Lesvos staged a rally to protest delays in processing their asylum applications.
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Hundrends of Migrants Pitch Tents on Paris Streets as Calais Camp Shuts
(REUTERS) — The number of migrants sleeping rough on the streets of Paris has risen by at least a third since the start of the week when the “Jungle” shanty town in Calais was evacuated, officials said on Friday.
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Inside the Squalid New Migrant ‘Jungles’ of Paris
Step out of Stalingrad or Jaure’s metro stations in Paris and you step into squalor. A few feet from one exit, Tulu, an Ethiopian, sits at the door of an igloo tent pitched on the footpath under the elevated rail line.
She keeps a close eye on her two-year-old son and three-year-old daughter, making sure they stay back from the busy road where cars zoom past.
The French government triumphantly announced the demise of the “Jungle” shantytown in Calais this week, saying the thousands of migrants who flocked there in the hope of getting into Britain were now decently housed in new refugee centres across the country.
But the migrant misery continues unabated in Paris, where up to 2,500 people live on the streets in the north of the city as they wait for their asylum applications to be processed or work on their plans to try to enter Britain.
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Integrate Into Migrant Cultures to Make Newcomers Welcome, Germans Told
A sociologist in Germany has blamed Germans for the lack of progress in integrating new migrants to the country claiming that the Germans themselves need to integrate into migrant cultures.
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Migrant Father Who Put His Baby Up for Sale on eBay in Germany is Banned From Unsupervised Contact
The newborn baby was listed for ‚¬5,000 with the caption: ‘Child, 40 days old named Maria…for sale,’ prompting German police to investigate before the father, 28 handed himself in.
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Huffington Post: Muhammad Was a Feminist, “Explicitly Taught the Radical Equality of Women and Men”
“Muhammad Was A Feminist,” by Jim Garrison, Huffington Post
The prophet Muhammad would be appalled by how current Islamic Fundamentalists are treating women under their control. This suppression is done in the name of Islamic Law, known as Sharia. But the current suppression of women is shaped by cultural and history. It has little basis in the Quran and it is certainly not consistent with anything we know about what Muhammad taught or how he treated women. Of all the founders of the great religions — Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Islam and Judaism — Muhammad was easily the most radical and empowering in his treatment of women. Arguably he was history’s first feminist….
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NYU Prof Says He Was Suspended for Bashing PC Culture
A professor at New York University says he’s been suspended from teaching after colleagues denounced his “incivility” in publicly attacking trigger warning, safe spaces, and other aspects of political correctness on American campuses.
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I have never been nearer to il papa then today. Cirka 2000 meters.
Security has never before been higher.
His holyness will even sleep toight in the vicnity
https://morklaggning.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/house.jpg
https://twitter.com/hectormorenco
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/35489
Hillary got an implant, maybe to regulate Parkinson, and cannot go through a metal detector. The Dems are in on it, because they are too deep together in the mud, and thus they protect her. They staged this fake primary, where nobody but her could win. Wikileaks shows that Sanders got sidelined, with help of the DNC. They need her in the WH, with a puppet VP (picked two years ago, Wikileaks) to not go to jail. Hillary’s campaign is an empty vessel where everyone who pays can buy a space. Dressed up in feminism, ‘social justice’, ‘anti-bigotism’, blablabla. She isn’t healthy but they would have gotten her in state of a cyborg into the WH, if they had gotten away with it.
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/792819573233889280
http://johnpilger.com/articles/inside-the-invisible-government-war-propaganda-clinton-trump
” Mrs. Clinton told the press that she had not spoken to Huma Abedin, Mr. Weiner’s estranged wife, since the latest crisis blew up three days ago.”
Perhaps not “spoken to”, but shouted at, seems highly likely. Meantime Trump is appearing more and more like some sort of political Freddy Kruger, you think he is dead, but he keeps coming back.
To say the least, yours is an inadequate characterization of Trump.
Baucent, in what way is HRC not the real Freddy?
Hillary keeps rising from the flames like a fire-proofed, wilted phoenix after each and every disaster she inflicts on herself and others.
For thirty years she’s proved repeatedly that she learns nothing from her mistakes. From the get-go, even before going to Arkansas, her behavior as a young, ignorant staffer on her first Congressional committee (behavior that caused them to ask her to leave) right down to the present moment, she’s been a vituperative scofflaw suffering from a serious case of hubristic ambition.
If you think Trump is worse, you haven’t been paying attention.
Hillary Clinton is saying “let’s see what you’ve got” to the FBI, knowing full well they could never conclude (maybe not even re-commence) an investigation in the time
leading up to the US Elections. The smart money is saying she is using this gambit
to exhibit a (faux) transparency and become the victim of the meanie FBI etc.
When the news first broke she gave a four minute presser to say that it was all “just rumors”! What in the world are we all being exposed to via this crazy woman and her satellites?
Papa, Papa – sharpshooters on all roofs – it was more peaceful here in 2009 when Baron Bodissey visited the town of Lund on the now Northern Arabic Peninsula.
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=83&artikel=6552631
complement
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=83&artikel=6551424
Hil n Bill say it’s a right Saudi conspiracy and a huma set up. No wait……, Eurot should start to crumble soon.
Good morning folks, just wanted to let you know the link to
How Voting Really Works: An Eyewitness Account
is not working.
The link to the American Thinker above still does not work.
Sorry, I don’t have enough times to verify news feed links. People send them to me. If they work, they work. If they don’t, they don’t.
Other posts I check & fix.
Here is the correct link: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/10/how_voting_really_works_an_eyewitness_account.html
It was double-linked thus generating the 404 error.
About the nonsense regarding Mohamed’s treatment of women: I just got into an argument with a guy who was pushing the same argument regarding the treatment of slaves. Oh sure, there was slavery, but Mohamed’s treatment of slaves was much better than his pagan neighbors! It was a massive improvement!
It relies on most pople’s ignorance of local history. There are no written sources from the 7th century Arabia. Zip, zilch, nada. There is one coin with the inscription of “prophet mohamed” many years after his death. Probably from the early 8th century.
So how would this person know how his neighbors treated slaves, or whether they practiced widespread infanticide, or any of the things claimed? And there is no reason to think that Mohamed would have been impartial in reporting on the “polytheists” for whom his god reserved extra hate.
Is the Koran a written source from 7th century Arabia? No, the oldest extant manuscript would be the source. I am not sure what the oldest manuscript is, but the Hadith were collected some 200 years later. It may be the oldest Koran on record dates from that period as well, or later. Does anyone know?
They rely on ignorance and intimidation with false scholarship (i.e. lies)!
A German scholar has written a book that deals with your questions:
What the Modern Martyr Should Know: Seventy-Two Grapes and Not a Single Virgin: The New Picture of Islam
http://amzn.to/2dVm6U8
It’s on our sidebar and somewhere in our archives is an excellent review.
When I complained about the jejune title of the book, the author told me the publisher had chosen it and he had no say in the matter. Much to his disgust.
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Then there is Bill Warner’s book:
The Sources of Islam: An Abridged Reprint
http://amzn.to/2f9ORZo
Sooo…Dr. Warner’s 80-page book is a good summation and that “72 grapes” is a much more detailed look at the Syriac origins.
I’ll try to find a review of the latter in our archives.
Voila! I found the review, from 2013:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2013/10/what-the-modern-martyr-should-know/
An excellent job, done by one of our readers. I am afraid he may no longer be among us. His health wasn’t good back then and I don’t think it improved.
Personally, I think it’s sick how many people out there on the Internet will post unsourced claims about how much better Islam is than all other religions.
It is even more distressing to see how many people will simply accept these claims at face value and assign superior morality to a creed wholly undeserving of it.
And of course, the HuffPo tripe spews the tired lie there is nothing in the Islamic texts regarding veiling women.
I guess HuffPo should go tell the Muslims they are reading their own texts incorrectly:
https://www.al-islam.org/hijab-muslim-womens-dress-islamic-or-cultural-sayyid-muhammad-rizvi/quran-and-hijab
There is too much other insanity in this news feed for me to cover tonight.
Hoffpo needs to start its own madhhab, and tell all those mufassir they don’t know what they’re taking about.
** French authorities are preparing to remove up to 2,500 migrants from the streets of Paris **
The authorities will move these invaders to one or more new locations where they will cause the same problems. More invaders will arrive requiring further relocation.
In this manner the obvious solutions will not be implemented.
French politicians are revealed as the cowardly weaklings that they are. Even this manifestation of apparent cowardice and weakness cannot obscure the treason and malevolence that actually motivate French leaders.
If Huma has not been seen since the story broke about the emails on the laptop she shared with her husband then she is either:
1. Laying low hoping it will blow over as to not further damage HRC.
2. Has met with a sudden “accident” that will no doubt be revealed at the appropriate time.
3. Will surface in some Muslim Brotherhood-friendly country after the election and out of reach of extradition.
You left out #4: Has turned state’s evidence and is in an undisclosed location with a protective guard.
Good point, as this type of narcissistic personality will always consider personal survival over altruism.
http://archive.is/jrugc
How to get around Chinese, uh, I mean American elitist, censorship:
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5ahrmy/twitter_censored_hillaryforprison_we_outsmarted/