The firestorm continues to rage over the State Department emails discovered on the laptop of Anthony “Studly” Weiner, the estranged husband of Hillary Clinton’s closest aide Huma Abedin. Mr. Weiner has not yet negotiated a final, definite plea deal with prosecutors, according to his lawyer. Ms. Abedin is still missing, although reports have surfaced saying that she made an appearance at Clinton campaign headquarters. The first Democrat pro-Hillary TV talking head has broken ranks, saying that he can no longer support Frau Clinton. And Donna Brazile, the chairbabe of the DNC, has been let go by CNN after it was revealed that she had handed over advance debate questions to Ms. Rodham’s campaign.
In other news, the bodies of a Syrian refugee and her two children were discovered in a freezer in her apartment in Denmark. Danish police are now searching for the woman’s husband.
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With the proliferation of electronic voting machines across the country, many are nervous about the integrity of our election. Our government has assured us that there’s no problem (oh, now I feel better). They promise there’’s no voter fraud — just more crazy, conspiracy talk. Of course, they’ve been proven wrong again and again with the voting dead, absentee ballots, and yes, machines switching votes.
Voting irregularities don’t always point to fraud, but rigged voting machines are in-our-face vote theft. Unless we’ve reached the age of the Terminator, where machines have a life of their own, machines have to be programmed by people to steal votes. And no, it’s not Russia — it’s companies like Dominion Voting, who donate big to the Clinton Foundation. Or Smartmatic, with ties to George Soros, who has consistently fought voter rights.
Donald Trump’s enemies (government) will do anything to stop him, so I doubt they’d refrain from tampering with the voting machine’s code. Nah! As sure as Hillary’s taking a nap right now, they’ve got their evil, corrupt fingerprints all over these machines.
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Biggest Election Fraud in History Discovered in the United States: Breaking Now
Shocking video reveals secret software designed to rig elections.
Bev Harris, the country’s leading vote fraud expert, joined the Alex Jones Show Monday to reveal the results of a bombshell investigation into “vote shaving” software.
Used in precincts all across the country, the software — deemed “the most devastating election theft mechanism yet found” — allows votes to be fractured and rounded up or down to sway the results for any candidate.
According to Harris, a member of the non-partisan Black Box Voting investigative team, this latest discovery constitutes the “missing piece” that blows the lid off of wide-scale voter fraud.
“It was put in the system in 2001 but it came into wide use in 2006,” Harris said. “It took someone with a special set of skills to know what to look for.”
A mini-documentary by Black Box Voting on the discovery shows real-time demonstrations with the secretive software.
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Clinton Campaign Imploding, Abedin in Hot Water
The new documents reveal that in April 2009, controversial Clinton Foundation official, Doug Band, pushed for a job for an associate. In the email, Band tells Hillary Clinton’s former aides at the State Department, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, that it is “important to take care of [Redacted]. Band is reassured by Abedin that, “Personnel has been sending him options.” Band is co-founder of Teneo Strategy with Bill Clinton, and a top official of the Clinton Foundation, including its Clinton Global Initiative.
Remember that Doug Band was originally Bill Clinton’s close aide, and John Podesta, Hillary’s campaign manager, whose WikiLeaks emails are of great interest, was Bill Clinton’s Chief of Staff.
Doug Band actually directed Abedin and Cheryl Mills to put Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire and Clinton Foundation donor, Gilbert Chagoury, in touch with the person at the State Dept. on Lebanon. He insisted to Huma and Cheryl that Chagoury is a key guy. Of course he is, because he’s a close friend of Bill Clinton’s and a top donor to his Foundation. According to foundation documents, he’s a top donor of between $1 and $5 million. And…get this, he pledged $1 billion to the Clinton Global Initiative. But there’s even more…Chagoury was convicted in Switzerland in 2000 for laundering money from Nigeria and had to repay $66 million to the Nigerian government. The corruption runs deep.
What they were doing was a clear violation of the ethics agreements Hillary had to sign before becoming Secretary of State. She promised she would not participate personally and substantially in any particular matter involving specific parties in which The William J. Clinton Foundation (or the Clinton Global Initiative) were involved.
“No wonder Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin hid emails from the American people, the courts and Congress,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “They show the Clinton Foundation, Clinton donors, and operatives worked with Hillary Clinton in potential violation of the law.”
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Clinton: Chicago Tribune Says “Step Aside”
The Chicago Tribune has broken ranks with the controlled media to demand that Democratic Party nominee Hilary Clinton be forced to step down following the FBI’s announcement that they have reopened their criminal investigation against her. FBI director James Comey’s announcement “so close to Election Day should tell every thinking person that what the FBI is looking at is extremely serious.”
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CNN Fires Donna Brazile for Allegedly Giving Debate Questions to Hillary Clinton in Advance
CNN has dropped a political commentator following accusations that she sent Hillary Clinton two questions ahead of time during the primary season.
Donna Brazile announced her departure on 31 October on twitter although she resigned two weeks ago.
Leaked emails from WikiLeaks belonging to Clinton campaign chair John Podesta showed that Ms Brazile funneled two questions to Ms Clinton, a longtime political ally, before a CNN-sponsored debate and voter town hall event against Vermont senator Bernie Sanders.
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Democrat Doug Schoen First to Flee Hillary’s Sinking Ship as FBI Probe Relaunched
Former Clinton pollster Doug Schoen told FOX News on Sunday the FBI’s renewed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails is forcing him to “reassess” his support for Hillary as he fears her election could trigger a “constitutional crisis.”
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Deputy: Courthouse Guard Shoot and Kill Knife-Wielding Man as He Stabbed Wife
A couple’s dispute outside a courthouse in Chatsworth Monday ended after a deputy and security officer shot and killed the knife-wielding husband in the act of stabbing his estranged wife, authorities said.
The couple, whose names remained undisclosed, had driven together to the courthouse, where the woman was tending to a traffic ticket, officials said.
Just after noon, they got into an argument. He stabbed her once in the car, which she was driving. She ran from the car to the front of the courthouse, said sheriff’s Lt. Mike Rosson. The man pursued her to the steps of the courthouse, where he stabbed her several times with a large kitchen knife, Rosson said.
A deputy ordered the man to drop the knife before shooting, Rosson said. The sheriff and security guard fired.
“She was still being actively stabbed,” at the time of the shooting, Rosson said, adding that the blade alone was about 12 inches.
Rosson said the gunfire saved the woman, who remained in critical but stable condition at a nearby hospital with stab wounds to her upper torso and defensive wounds to her hands and wrists. Her husband died at a local hospital…
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DOJ Tried Repeatedly to Kill FBI’s Clinton Foundation Investigation
A bombshell report from The Wall Street Journal
Senior-level Justice Department officials pushed back heavily on an ongoing FBI investigation of the Clinton Foundation, according to a bombshell report from The Wall Street Journal.
The newspaper laid out numerous examples, based on law enforcement sources, of senior DOJ officials intervening to quash the probe.
Prosecutors with the U.S. attorneys office in the Eastern District of New York — which Loretta Lynch led before taking over as attorney general last year — refused to allow FBI investigators probing the Clinton family charity to review emails found on devices turned over this year by two of Clinton’s lawyers during the separate investigation into the mishandling of classified information on Clinton’s private email system.
The rationale, according to The Journal, was that the devices were covered by partial immunity and limited-use agreements that the Clinton lawyers — Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson — agreed to with the DOJ. Information recovered from the laptops could only be used in the email investigation and not in others.
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As the election is only days away, one could say this is “The Final Countdown” not only for the country, but for the Republican Party. A popular 1980s song by the same name, now featured in a Geico commercial, warned, “We’re leaving together, but still it’s farewell. And maybe we’ll come back, to earth, who can tell?” Indeed, prophetic lyrics, especially for the Republican Party, enjoying its last gasp of relevancy.
But who is leaving whom? And are they leaving together? Paul Ryan and his merry band of #NeverTrumpers hope the Republican Party is leaving all of the “deplorables” behind. Those racist, knuckle-dragging Trump supporters, Tea Partiers, and constitutionalists who actually believe in fiscal responsibility, rule of law, a secure border, restrained foreign policy, and pride in America.
Or is it the opposite? Tens of millions of Trump supporters fed up enough with the Republican establishment to leave the Grand Old Party. Not to become Democrats. Maybe libertarians but more likely independent or unaffiliated voters, now the largest party affiliation according to Pew Research Center. And increasing.
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Gun Owners Want Hillary Clinton to Gut Second Amendment
What? How can you say that?
On April 7, 2012, I wrote a column titled, Americans Love the IRS and the Income Tax. Oh, boy. I got email from people — how can Devvy say that? Well, once they read the column they understood the title.
Obviously not all gun owners in this country support career criminal Hillary Clinton. But, back in 2008 I was floored reading election breakdowns on the staggering number of gun owners who voted for both the criminal impostor in the White House and Hillary.
It is estimated there are about 85 million gun owners in this country. How many actually voted in 2008 is a mystery as I was unable to find any credible numbers on that. However, it is beyond comprehension why ANY gun owner would have voted for Second Amendment haters Obama and Hillary the Hun…
I’m not going to rehash what I’ve already written about the Second Amendment and the constitutional militia. You can read Dr. Vieira’s outstanding and fully researched columns and help educate others so they become knowledgeable about the Second Amendment and why if it weren’t for that amendment we’d all be in chains by now.
Christmas is coming and while I hope you purchase a copy of my book, Taking Politics Out of Solutions, I also hope you purchase a copy of Dr. Vieira’s short book that is an outstanding primer if you will, on the Second Amendment and what it really means: Thirteen Words.
Gun owners who are going to vote between now and November 8th need to wake up about Clinton and their guns. ANY gun owner who votes for Hillary Clinton must want her to gut the Second Amendment because that’s exactly what she will do:
Four ways Hillary Clinton will work to end gun ownership as president by John Lott, June 06, 2016: “From changing the Supreme Court to make it possible to again ban guns in the United States to making it more costly to own guns, I predict that a President Hillary Clinton will do four things to either ban guns or at least reduce gun ownership, especially for poor people.”
Democrat exposes Hillary’s executive orders for guns — Twitter shuts down O’Keefe as he releases new undercover video revealing 2nd Amendment plans
Wikileaks Release: Hillary Clinton Press Sec Says Gun Control to Be Implemented by Executive Order, October 7, 2016 — Like that pig she’s married to when Billy the serial adulterer and rapist was president, Hillary thinks she can just make an end run around the Constitution.
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Huma Abedin’s lawyers are set to meet with the Justice Department and FBI to discuss the emails found on her sexting husband Anthony Weiner’s laptop — two days after the FBI dramatically announced it had reopened the investigation into Hillary’s handling of classified material.
Questions are mounting over right-hand woman Abedin’s future on the Clinton campaign as she was pictured in New York today at campaign HQ while her boss was in Florida.
She has reportedly pleaded ignorance about how the emails ended up on her husband Weiner’s laptop — and were subsequently found by FBI agents after DailyMail.com exposed him sexting a 15-year-old girl.
[Comment: 650,0000 emails. She probably used his laptop to backup the emails. Her husband probably didn’t know anything.]
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Huma’s Email Testimony Could Haunt Her as FBI Renews Probe
Scrutiny of top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin intensified Monday amid speculation that claims she made in her FBI interview and a separate sworn deposition could come back to haunt her as the bureau gains access to emails on her estranged husband’s computer.
Abedin, one of Clinton’s most trusted advisers, is married to disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner. An unrelated investigation into allegations Weiner sexted with a 15-year-old North Carolina girl purportedly led investigators to a new email cache that have since kicked the Clinton email server probe back to life.
While Abedin has stepped off the campaign trail since the FBI’s stunning announcement on Friday, her emails are now at the center of attention.
“Thank you, Huma!” Donald Trump declared at a Michigan rally on Monday afternoon.
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If Hillary Clinton is Charged With Obstruction of Justice She Could Go to Prison for 20 Years
Clinton’s cover-up of her email scandal could send her to prison for a very, very long time
In the world of politics, the cover-up is often worse than the original crime.
It was his role in the Watergate cover-up that took down Richard Nixon, and now Hillary Clinton’s cover-up of her email scandal could send her to prison for a very, very long time. When news broke that the FBI has renewed its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, it sent shockwaves throughout the political world. But this time around, we aren’t just talking about an investigation into the mishandling of classified documents. I haven’t heard anyone talking about this, but if the FBI discovers that Hillary Clinton altered, destroyed or concealed any emails that should have been turned over to the FBI during the original investigation, she could be charged with obstruction of justice. That would immediately end her political career, and if she was found guilty it could send her to prison for the rest of her life.
I have not seen a single news report mention the phrase “obstruction of justice” yet, but I am convinced that there is a very good chance that this is where this scandal is heading. The following is the relevant part of the federal statute that deals with obstruction of justice…
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NYT Florida Poll Showcases Pending Trump Landslide Victory
However, the real story, reflecting the full scope of what’s happening, is marginally buried in the poll
The New York Times presents a Florida poll today that has author Nate Cohen trying desperately to frame hope for Hillary Clinton where no hope exists.
Overall the poll presentation shows Donald Trump with a 4 point advantage. However, the real story, reflecting the full scope of what’s happening, is marginally buried in the poll internals:… [ Trump’s ] so strong that Mrs. Clinton has just 55 percent of the vote among white registered Democrats without a degree, compared with Mr. Trump’s 32 percent.
Yes, that is correct. Donald Trump is winning 32% of the largest Florida Democrat constituency, registered white Democrats without a college degree.
But wait, it gets better:…
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Orlando Nightclub Shooter’s Disturbing 911 Calls During Gun Massacre
Omar Mateen made the disturbing call shortly before he gunned down 49 people in gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida, on June 12.
The 29-year-old spoke of his support for the grotesque terror network as he spent 50 minutes talking to police negotiators during three separate phone calls in between his murderous shooting sprees.
The terrorist was eventually shot dead by police attending to America’s worst-ever mass shooting at the nightclub in June, which left 49 dead and 68 injured.
Written transcripts of Mateen’s calls were released in September but after a ruling from a Circuit Judge Margaret Schreiber the full audio clips were made available…
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Schoen: I’m a Democrat, And I Worked for Bill Clinton, But I Can’t Vote for Hillary
I say this because regardless of what Secretary Clinton did or didn’t do or what her aide, Huma Abedin, did or didn’t do or even what Anthony Weiner did or didn’t do, I am now convinced that we will be facing the very real possibility of a constitutional crisis with many dimensions and deleterious consequences should Secretary Clinton win the election.
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Sen. Reid Says Comey May Have Violated Law and Withheld Information About Trump’s Ties With Russia
“You possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government.”
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid on Sunday accused FBI Director James Comey of partisanship in the presidential election campaign — “tarring Secretary [Hillary] Clinton with innuendo” while refusing to make public information about “close ties and coordination” between Donald Trump and the Kremlin.
The attack came two days after Comey in a letter to Congress said the FBI was working to establish whether or not a newly-emerged batch of emails were pertinent to the bureau’s investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state.
[Comment: The poster child for congressional term limits. Remember the BLM assault on Bundy ranch? That was to get the land for the Chinese solar plan so Reid could profit. ]
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Space Telescope Duo Will Showcase the Solar System in 3D
Coming in 2019: The Solar System in 3D. A pair of telescopes could soon bring sights like comets, Saturn’s rings and Jupiter’s Great Red Spot to life in full, three-dimensional images and movies for the first time.
When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) begins science operations in 2019, it will join the veteran Hubble Space Telescope, which has been orbiting for 26 years already and is scheduled to retire in 2021.
While they are in space together, the two can act as a giant pair of eyes, seeing space in a new light: with depth perception.
“This was never possible before because we never had two telescopes with this kind of resolution in space at the same time,” says Joel Green at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
The effect will be possible because Hubble is in near-Earth orbit and the JWST will reside 1.5 million kilometres away, in a spot opposite Earth and the sun called the L2 point. Such a wide separation means that pointing them at the same object in the solar system will provide sufficient difference in viewing angle to create a sense of depth perceptible to the human eye.
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The Emasculation of America: A Michael Savage Analysis
“There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world,” Savage writes. “The United States has, at last count, a population of 320 million people… There are roughly four times as many Muslims as Americans. They keep adding to their ranks, and we keep importing illegals because our people eliminate their own babies.
“At this rate we will go the way of Europistan. Italy has had a declining birthrate in recent years. Europe is finished. Its citizens refuse to reproduce while Islamist women keep churning out the next generation of radical Islamists.”
The data back up Savage’s contention. In the first quarter of this year, the U.S. birthrate fell to its lowest point since the government started keeping track in 1909. There were 59.8 births per 1,000 women age 15 to 44.
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Hillary Clinton is a collectivist; a believer in strong central powers. Today she wants this centralization exercised on a hemispheric scale, later on a global scale. Wars, multinational trade, and a dishonest monetary system are prerequisites for implementing her program. Her plan is the plan of both parties’ establishment; to make America an outpost under a system of global governance.
Donald Trump is unlikely to become a war hawk. He is opposed to multinational trade deals. But, if elected, he is likely to see massive monetary manipulation by the banking oligarchs, as they too seek the globalization of America. The election of Trump may result in the salvage of American ideals, but the election of Clinton will guarantee the loss of America.
Recent leaks have shown that Clinton’s goal is globalization. She wants “open trade and open borders”, meaning the controlled (managed, not free) movement of people and goods across borders. This would be the end of sovereign countries. With that comes the centralization of power on a global basis.
‘Banana Republics’ arise when politicians pursue criminal activities on the theory that they are above the law. There is little doubt that Clinton has engaged in criminal activities, including the wanton mishandling of her State Department emails and the co-mingling of State Department business activity and the Clinton Foundation’s domestic and foreign contributors.
Trump’s demand that Clinton be treated equally under the law does not make for a ‘Banana Republic’. It is her actions as a politician and her unaccountability to the law that evidences the lawlessness that makes for labeling the U.S. a ‘Banana Republic’. Should she be above the law? This is the real question faced by Americans. America has little experience with the depth of corruption that exists today.
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Trump Predicted Huma-Weiner-Clinton Scandal in Hilarious Fashion Back in 2015
As usual, Trump was 100% correct
Video shows Donald Trump predict exactly that Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin would share “classified secrets” with her “perv” husband Anthony Weiner.
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Two Killed in Shooting at Halloween Party in Newburgh
NEWBURGH, N.Y. — A high school senior who was among two people killed at a Halloween party where gunfire broke out had made a last-minute decision to go with a friend, her mother said.
Omani Free, who was 18 years old, decided to go to the party, about five blocks from her home in Newburgh, when a friend became available on Saturday night and otherwise would have been due home around the time the gunfire broke out, said her mother, Rhonda Valentine-Free.
Police in Newburgh, 70 miles north of New York City, said the shooting took place just before 1 a.m. Sunday inside an apartment building, killing Free and 20-year-old Tabitha Cruz. Five people were wounded, but none of the injuries was considered life-threatening. Authorities were looking for a suspect or suspects, who fled the scene…
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US Election 2016: Trump Hopes Clinton Email ‘Motherlode’ Found
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he believes the FBI may have found the “motherlode” of Hillary Clinton’s emails.
At a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he said he hoped the Democratic candidate’s 33,000 deleted messages could now be recovered.
The FBI is investigating new emails that may be linked to its probe into Mrs Clinton’s private email server.
Mrs Clinton later told a rally she had nothing to hide.
It emerged in March 2015 that Mrs Clinton had been breaking federal rules by operating a private email server while she was secretary of state from 2009-13.
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What’s Wrong With Hillary’s Face? Huma Abedin!
It should hit voters like a glass of ice water in the face knowing that Saudi Arabia having run the State Department through Secretary Hillary Clinton, is now going after the White House.
‘President Saudi Arabia’ seeks to become America’s 45th.
How is it that the FBI failed to identify Huma Abedin until one week before election?
Huma Abedin was only in the U.S. for two years when at age 20 she became an intern to then First Lady Hillary Clinton.
Peculiar indeed that no one ever asked how this was possible, not any of the senator’s opponents, not the mainstream media and certainly not the FBI, which is now claiming only days ahead of Election 2016, their investigators found some 650,000 emails on a laptop used by both Mata Hari Huma and her estranged husband former Rep. Anthony Weiner.
The FBI, NSA, CIA or any others paid to protect America’s national security never had to go far to find Mata Hari Huma. The websites of the Saudi Arabian organizations of which she is a member do not even try to hide it.
Available to anyone who wants to find out for themselves via Google, this is Huma Abedin’s resumé:
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WikiLeaks: When All the Info is Out, “Hillary is Done”
“The only way she can get out of this mess is by pardoning herself”
Wikileaks pre-empted “phase 3” of its election coverage by vowing that “Hillary is done” once all the information about her is released.
The whistleblower organization still has thousands of unreleased Podesta emails ready to drop over the next nine days, with some speculating that the best (or worst depending on your perspective) is being saved for last.
“When all information is out — Hillary is done. The only way she can get out of this mess is by winning this election and pardoning herself,” Wikileaks tweeted last night.
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I realize that this headline must sound extremely bizarre, but in this article I will explain why this could actually happen. We have just learned that the FBI has obtained a search warrant that will enable the agency to examine approximately 650,000 emails that are sitting on electronic devices owned by Huma Abedin and her estranged husband Anthony Weiner. Now that the FBI is going through these emails, it is unlikely but still possible that a decision about whether or not to charge Hillary Clinton with a crime could be made by November 8th. Of course the most likely scenario is that Hillary Clinton will not be indicted before election day and that Americans will be voting with this scandal hanging ominously over the Clinton campaign. But if the FBI does quickly take action, it is possible that Hillary Clinton could be forced from the race before election day, and that would require the Democrats to come up with a new candidate.
In fact, there are already calls in the mainstream media for Clinton to willingly remove herself from the race. For example, the following comes from a Chicago Tribune article entitled “ Democrats should ask Clinton to step aside” …
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‘3,000 Potentially Violent Extremists’ Are Living in the UK, Warns MI5 Chief
There are about 3,000 potentially violent extremists in the UK, and most of them are British, the head of MI5 has warned.
Andrew Parker, who has been director general of the UK security service for nine years, said in an interview with The Guardian that there was a “large homegrown problem of potentially violent extremists in the UK,” estimating there were “about 3,000 in number”.
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Austria: Female Terror Suspect ‘Planned Suicide Attack’
Police have arrested the wife of a Chechen terror suspect who was himself arrested in September, after they found evidence that the pair were planning a suicide bomb attack in Austria’s Ministry of Defence.
After the 25-year-old man, named only as Adam A., was arrested for shoplifting last month police examined his mobile phone and found Islamic State (Isis) propaganda, videos of Isis beheadings, and instructions for making Molotov cocktail bombs.
The Russian national, who has Belgian connections, is suspected of having set up support operations for Isis, of downloading instructions for how to make a bomb, and of sending large sums of money abroad.
When detectives examined the computer belonging to Adam A. and his wife what they found was even more concerning. Investigators were able to read conversations the couple had had online, when Adam A. was living in Belgium.
The pair met online and began communicating almost exclusively via Skype. At some point the Chechen said that he wanted to plan a suicide attack in Austria, and suggested detonating a suicide belt at the Ministry of Defence.
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Austria: Call for FPÖ Chief’s Facebook Page to be Shut
The Austrian lawyer who filed a criminal case against the leader of the Freedom Party (FPÖ), Heinz-Christian Strache, for inciting hatred has called for Strache’s Facebook page to be shut down.
Georg Zanger wants the FPÖ boss and several other people who left comments on his popular Facebook page to be charged with inciting hatred. The Vienna Prosecutor’s Office is currently investigating the case and will make a decision on whether Strache may have broken Austria’s speech laws against minorities and refugees.
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A top sharia court has been accused of using its position to ‘sabotage’ criminal charges brought against men accused of domestic violence.
The Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (Mat), based in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, was set up in 2007 to help resolve civil and family disputes in accordance with Islamic law.
According to the Mat website, the body cannot deal with criminal offences, but ‘where there are criminal charges such as assault within the context of domestic violence, the parties can ask Mat to assist in reaching reconciliation.
‘The terms of such a reconciliation can then be passed on to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) through the local Police Domestic Violence Liaison Officers with a view to reconsidering the criminal charges.’
But Southall Black Sisters, a women’s rights group, argues that Mat is effectively ‘sabotaging criminal proceedings’ against men accused of domestic violence by asking the CPS to ‘reconsider’ any charges.
[comment: Quelle surprise! ]
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Debunking Myths About Martin Luther
Martin Luther launched the Reformation of the Church 499 years ago. Many legends surrounding the iconic figure were spread since. Author Andreas Malessa tells DW why he decided to double-check them.
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France: Muezzins, Not Church Bells
A new book is shaking France. Les cloches sonneront-elles encore demain? (“Will the Church Bells Ring Tomorrow?”), by Philippe de Villiers, is shattering the nation. France, the “eldest daughter” of the Catholic Church, is instead turning into “the eldest daughter of Islam”. “With arrogance, they [Muslim extremists] urge us to rewrite the history of France in the light of the ‘contribution of the Islamic civilization’“, de Villiers states.
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Frankfurt Attack: Four People Injured in Stabbing at Rail Station
German police say four people have been injured in a stabbing attack at a commuter rail and subway station in downtown Frankfurt. Frankfurt police spokeswoman Chantal Ench said the attack took place Saturday afternoon inside the Hauptwache station. Ench says four people were taken to the hospital with stab wounds, but she didn’t have details beyond that. She says police are investigating to find out how many people were involved. She also didn’t have any details on the ages and genders of the injured.
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Geert Wilders, Dutch Politician, Distracts From Hate-Speech Trial With More Vitriol
AMSTERDAM — The Dutch government’s prosecution of a far-right lawmaker for hate speech was upstaged by his continued racial vitriol on Monday before the trial could get underway.
The lawmaker, Geert Wilders, whose tirades against Islam, immigration and the European Union have made him one of the most divisive figures in Dutch politics, refused to attend the trial. Instead, he issued a series of inflammatory posts on Twitter, saying the Netherlands has a “ huge problem with Moroccans “ — an echo of the denunciations he made in 2014 that are at the center of the hate-speech charges.
NL has huge problem with Moroccans.To be silent about it is cowardly.43% of Dutch want fewer Moroccans.No verdict will change that.
— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) October 31, 2016
“To be silent about it is cowardly,” Mr. Wilders wrote, distracting the news media and the public from the prosecution’s opening of the case in court. Referring to a 2014 poll by his Freedom Party, he added in his Twitter post: “43% of Dutch want fewer Moroccans. No verdict will change that.”
The trial has exposed deep fissures in Dutch society, which is known for its religious tolerance but has a more troubled recent past: More than three-quarters of Dutch Jews were deported and killed during the Nazi occupation in World War II…
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Germany: Muslim Children Stone Priests in Frankfurt
The Ethiopian vicar was visiting the town of Raunheim on the outskirts of Frankfurt when the pre-teens started throwing stones at him.
Dressed in traditional priest’s gear and wearing a cross around his neck, the 47-year-old was walking to the Russian Orthodox chapel in Frankfurter Strasse with a local priest, who wished to remain anonymous, when he was attacked.
The three children, aged between 10 and 12-years-old, shouted “Allahu Akhbar” as they threw the stones, the other priest who was visiting from a nearby church said.
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Italy Quakes Leave 15,000 Homeless, ‘Soul of the Country’ Damaged
Italian authorities said on Monday they were taking care of more than 15,000 people left homeless by the country’s most powerful earthquake in nearly 40 years.
Although Sunday’s 6.6-magnitude tremor did not result in any deaths, the third powerful quake in just over two months has left thousands of homes in ruins or structurally unsafe and emptied a string of villages and small towns across the country’s mountainous central regions.
The majority of residents of the devastated villages and towns have taken refuge with friends and family as they anxiously await a green light to return to their homes.
But the national civil protection agency said on Monday it was providing assistance to 15,000 people affected by Sunday’s quake, which was so powerful it caused cracks in buildings in Rome, some 120 kilometres (75 miles) away from the epicentre near the Umbrian town of Norcia.
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Looking for the Roots of Halloween in Ireland’s Boyne Valley
It is the night of October 31, and hundreds of people have gathered at the Hill of Ward, once known as Tlachtga, in County Meath, Ireland. Some wear robes and masks and carry torches and banners emblazoned with spiritual symbols. It is all part of a revival of the ancient Celtic festival called Samhain (pronounced “SAH-win”) that includes processions, chanting, and storytelling. “Let’s raise our voices together and call back Tlachtga from the mist of time,” proclaims Deborah Snowwolf Conlon, one of the festival’s organizers. It is a contemporary celebration repeated annually, of a piece with countless other seasonal celebrations across the world that have roots both modern and ancient.
In this case, neither the choice of site nor date is incidental: The Hill of Ward was one of the main spiritual centers for the ancient Celts, and Samhain was first celebrated at the same time of year millennia ago. New archaeological work is looking closely at the history of the Hill of Ward, which until recently had been overlooked in Ireland’s archaeologically rich Boyne Valley. Researchers are hoping to discover how its use and value evolved over the centuries—along with the traditional rites and celebrations that eventually led to the modern festival of Halloween.
Only 30 miles north of Dublin, the Boyne Valley is the location of one of the world’s most important arrays of prehistoric sites. It includes the well-known “passage tombs” of Newgrange, Knowth, and Dowth, which at around 5,500 years old predate even the pyramids of Egypt. The Hill of Tara, the traditional seat of the ancient High Kings of Ireland, is also nearby.
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Romania: Lidl to Open 100 New Stores
German retailer operative since 2011 with 200+ discount shops
(ANSA) — TRIESTE — German retailer Lidl plans to open 100 new discount stores in Romania over the next five years, Bucharest-based media reported. The company has been active in Romania since 2011 and has since opened more than 200 stores.
The company reportedly aims to open at least 10-15 new shops per year in Romania until 2021. In terms of turnover, Lidl is the third retailer in Romania, following Kaufland and Carrefour.
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Sweden Declares Holocaust Hero Raoul Wallenberg Officially Dead
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who helped thousands of Hungarian Jews to escape Nazi mass murder in World War Two, has been formally pronounced dead by Sweden’s Tax Agency.
He was arrested by Soviet forces in Hungary in 1945 and disappeared. He is thought to have died in a Soviet prison, but his fate remains a mystery.
Thousands of Jews escaped deportation to Auschwitz because Wallenberg gave them Swedish protective passes.
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Warning as Hundreds of Jailed Terrorists Back on UK Streets
The vast majority of convicted terrorists jailed over the past 15 years are now back on Britain’s streets, a Sky News investigation has discovered.
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ISIS Defeat in Mosul May Lead to More Terrorist Attacks in Europe
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.
Speaking to German media outlet Deutschlandfunk, Maassen acknowledged that the jihadists “possibly stand with their backs to the wall” and can “effectively face defeat” in the Iraqi city, adding that the BfV is “closely watching the situation in Mosul.”
[Comment: The losers (ISIS) will be admitted to EU by traitor Merkel since they are now “refugees”. All part of the globalist destabilization agenda of western nations.]
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Kuwait: Two Citizens Arrested With Weapons, Explosives
IS-linked suspect arrested in raid on Andalus house
KUWAIT: Security forces raided a house in Andalus yesterday, where a citizen was arrested with a large cache of weapons, grenades and explosives. The man, suspected to be affiliated with the so-called Islamic State group, was identified by his initials N. H. He works for the army’s explosives department at the ministry of defense.
The weapons and explosives were stashed in hard-to-find concrete recesses in the house. Police also found bomb-making guides, directions to prepare car bombs, highly-inflammable chemicals, gas cylinders and a satellite phone, along with images of executions carried out by the terrorist group.
Case papers indicate that investigations by weapons detectives confirmed that the suspect was storing weapons in the house. The place was then raided, which resembled an “explosives and weapons factory”, according to security sources. Further investigations are in progress.
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Proposed pipeline routes through the Middle East to gas markets in Europe. The purple line is the Western-supported Qatar-Turkey pipeline. All of the nations it passes through — Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey (all highlighted in red) — have agreed to it … except Syria. The red line is the “Islamic Pipeline” from Iran through Iraq into Syria. See text below for further explanation. (Source: MintPress News; click to enlarge)
Summary first: We have been at war in Syria over pipelines since 1949. This is just the next mad phase.
I’m not sure most Americans have figured out what’s happening in Syria, because so much of what we hear is confusing to us, and really, we know so little of the context for it. Is it an insurgency against a brutal ruler? Is it a group of insurgencies struggling for power in a nearly failed state? Is it a proxy war expressing the territorial and ideological interests of the U.S., Russia, Turkey and Iran?
Or something else?
According to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. it is something else — a war between competing national interests to build, or not build, a pipeline to the Mediterranean so natural gas can be exported to Europe. Inconveniently for Syria, that nation lies along an obvious pipeline route.
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Paleolithic Jewellery: Still Eye-Catching After 50,000 Years
Beads made from ostrich eggs buried in the Siberian cave around 2,000 generations ago reveal amazing artistic (and drilling) skills of our long-ago ancestors.
A fascinating collection of jewellery made of ostrich eggshells is being assembled by archeologists working in the world famous Denisova cave in Altai region. Ostriches in Siberia? 50,000 years ago?
Yes, it seems so. Or, at least, their eggshells made it here somehow.
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Islamists Vandalize Hindu Temples in Bangladesh Over Facebook Post
Muslim fanatics have vandalized at least five Hindu temples in Bangladesh over a Facebook post that allegedly mocked Islam. Activists say that Islamists are increasingly monitoring the Internet to attack minorities.
Hindus make up nearly 10 percent of the 160 million people living in Bangladesh. Many members of the community have left the country in the past four decades, seeking asylum in neighboring India.
Irrespective of the latest social media controversy, the attacks on Hindus and other religious minorities are rampant in the South Asian country.
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Atul Brahmachari | HENB | Dhaka | Oct 30, 2016:: Islamic hooligans vandalised and looted dozen of Hindu temples in Brahmanbaria’s Nasirnagar Sunday afternoon along with hundreds of houses of the Hindu community while celebrating Kali Puja and Diwali.
Nasirnagar Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Chowdhury Muazzam Ahmed told HENB that the rampage began around 12:30 pm after a Facebook post on Islam a few days ago making satire of the Masjid al-Haram, the holy site of Muslims. In that FB posting a picture Hindu deity Lord Shiva was juxtaposed with Masjid al-Haram, the largest Mosque of Mecca encompassing Kaba.
Protesting the Facebook post, Radical Muslim people staged two separate demonstrations at the upazila headquarters today, during the festivities of Diwali.
Several hundred Muslim locals staged demonstration at Sarail-Nasirnagar-Lakhai highway on Friday noon demanding hanging of one Rasraj Das who allegedly was behind the FB post. The Jamaat-Shibir, Hefajat-e-Islam and Ahale Sunnatwal Jamat, three radical groups in Bangladesh were believed to incite the Muslim people for this agitation and attacking Hindu minorities.
Nasirnagar Puja Committee’s General Secretary Khailpada Poddar alleged that at least 15 Hindu temples were vandalised and looted. “200 Hindu houses were ransacked and looted.”
Nasirnagar Hindu-Budhist-Christian Oikya Parishad President Adesh Dev, however, claimed to a news portal that in total 15 temples had been looted and destroyed…
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Nepal Drains Dangerous Everest Lake
Nepal’s army says it has finished draining a dangerous glacial lake near Mount Everest to a safe level.
The Imja glacial lake, at nearly 5,000m (16,400ft) high, was in danger of flooding downstream settlements, trekking trails and bridges.
The lake, which was originally 149m deep in places, has had its water levels lowered by 3.4m after months of painstaking work, officials say.
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The Venom of One of World’s Deadliest Snakes Could Relieve Pain, Say Scientists
A snake with the largest venom glands in the world could hold the answer to pain relief, scientists have found.
Dubbed the “killer of killers”, the long-glanded blue coral snake is known to prey on the likes of king cobras.
Venom from the 2m-long (6ft 6in) snake native to South East Asia acts “almost immediately” and causes prey to spasm.
New research published in the journal Toxin found it targets receptors which are critical to pain in humans and could be used as a method of treatment.
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African Migrants Storm Spanish Enclave Ceuta
About 220 African migrants forced their way through a barbed wire fence into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta on Monday, clashing with Spanish police who tried to prevent them from crossing the border with Morocco.
Thirty-two migrants were treated in hospital for minor injuries after pushing their way through two gates just before 0600 GMT, while three Spanish policemen also needed medical attention, the government said.
Spain’s two enclaves in Morocco, Ceuta and Melilla, have been favoured entry points into Europe for African migrants, who either climb over their border fences or swim along their coastlines.
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African Migrants Break Into Spanish Enclave
Over 200 migrants have forced their way through the razor-wire fence separating the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco. Officials say dozens of intruders were injured in the scuffle with Spanish police.
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Arson Attacks Carried Out by Migrants Are Fault of ‘Racist Swedes’ — Says Refugee
In a shocking letter to VLT.se, the youth claimed frustrated migrants were torching vehicles and committing other acts of vandalism because they were frustrated with the way they were being treated.
The confession was made by a migrant living in the city of Västerås, in central Sweden, which has seen more than 88 cars set alight so far this year.
Last year, just under 60 vehicles were burned out, meaning there has been a 54 per cent increase in arson attacks in the area so far this year, and the trend does not appear to be slowing down.
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Australia Plans Lifetime Ban for Refugees Arriving by Boat
A planned law will ban asylum-seekers who arrived in Australia by boat from ever entering the country, even as a tourist, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced on Sunday. The measure will apply not only to the newcomers, but also to people who have been put in detention centers on Nauru or Manus Island since July 19, 2013.
The date was chosen because on that day, then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd proclaimed: “As of today, asylum-seekers who come here by boat without a visa will never be settled in Australia.”
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Chaos in Paris: Calais Migrants Set Up New Tent Camp Hours After Police Demolish It
Fights broke out close to one of the city’s busiest train stations Gare Du Nord as riot police tried to support demolition workers in taking down up a camp full of UK-bound migrants.
Now just hours after police were forced to step in to quash the violent outbreaks a new camp has been set up to house those who were ejected from Calais.
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Danish Police Find Bodies of Syrian Family in Freezer
COPENHAGEN (AFP) — Danish police said Monday they found the bodies of a slain Syrian refugee and her two young daughters in a freezer in their apartment, as they launched a manhunt for the girls’ father.
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EU Tensions: Hungarian Government Attacks Renzi Blasting ‘We Don’t Need Italian Charity’
The Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has repeatedly called on his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orban, to do more to share the burden of the migrant influx.
Italy has demanded tough treatment of Eastern European countries, including Hungary, that refuse to accept migrants under the EU’s relocation scheme.
And now the Hungarian Foreign Minister, Péter Szíjjártó, has said: “Hungary does not need offerings or charity from Italy.”
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German Streets Descend Into Lawlessness
The rape of a ten-year-old girl in Leipzig, the largest city in Saxony, has drawn renewed attention to the spiraling levels of violent crime perpetrated by migrants in cities and towns across Germany — and the lengths to which German officials and the media go to censor information about the perpetrators of those crimes.
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Germany: Intelligence Service Concern After Migrant Camp Built Next to Radical Mosque
A new report from Germany has revealed how an asylum home was built in close proximity to a known Islamist mosque, and it is often now frequented by the residents.
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Liberals to Swamp Canada With Immigrant Influx
The government’s economic growth advisory council has recommended ramping up immigration levels to 450,000 people a year over the next five years, with a focus on skilled, highly educated and business-oriented people. McCallum has suggested that target may be overly ambitious, but said the government will “substantially” raise the number.
There has also been debate among the Canadian public — and among Liberals — about hiking immigration at a time of high unemployment, especially among young Canadians. There are also questions about whether adequate levels of support are in place.
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Man Avoids Jail for Saying ‘Ungrateful’ Refugees Should be Chased From Germany With Whips
The man could have been jailed for three months for hate-mongering with the post on his Facebook page last year.
Instead a judge at the District Court in the city of Ulm fined him the equivalent of £2,200.
The defendant, 50, said he lost his temper when he saw how “ungrateful” refugees appeared to be on a TV news bulletin.
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Number of Muslims in Italy Rockets From 2,000 to 2 Million in Within Five Decades
Academics say the number is expected to continue to rise as migrants from Africa and the Middle East continue to arrive.
Sociologist Massimo Introvigne, director of the Centre for New Religions Studies (Cesnur), branded the number “shocking”.
He said: “This number is shocking also because in 1970 there were only between 2,000 and 3,000.”
Mr Introvigne said the number of Muslims in Italy is growing rapidly.
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Police Plan to Prevent Radicalization of Muslim Migrants in Greece
A plan for the prevention and handling of the phenomenon of radicalization of Muslims in Greece has been undertaken by Hellenic Police (ELAS) in cooperation with pertinent authorities.
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Renzi Says Orban Wrong About Italy, Ready to Use Veto
Premier hits back after Hungarian leader calls him ‘irritable’
(ANSA) — Rome, October 28 — Premier Matteo Renzi hit back Friday after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he was irritable because of Italy’s migrant and budget problems. “Orban has an imprecise vision of Italy,” Renzi told Radio Radicale, reiterating that Italy was ready to veto the new EU budget if countries like Hungary keep refusing to do their bit to help with the asylum-seeker crisis. “In other words, it’s not true that the deficit is increasing, it is not true that Italy is in difficulty and it’s not true we are irritable. “Either Europe acknowledges the documents that Europe itself signed and takes charge of the migrants or there will be a wonderful new development — Italy will veto any budget that does not contemplate equal obligations and equal rights”.
Renzi said Italy was no longer willing to be the European Union’s moneybox . “Each year Italy gives 20 billion euros to Europe and it gets back 12,” Renzi said. “The time when Italy was the piggy bank is over”.
He also said that Orban calling him “irritable” showed that his budget veto threat had “made a mark”.
Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Friday that it would be unacceptable if the European Union were excessively strict when it comes to budget rules, while being soft on countries like Hungary that are not respecting obligations to tackle the asylum-seeker crisis.
“Italy cannot accept the idea of a Europe that is strict on (deficit) decimal points and totally tolerant with those who erect walls and don’t join in with the decision on migrants,” he said. “Italy, in the exceptional circumstances in which it finds itself, has every right to decide its budget, naturally in a dialogue with the European Commission. But without diktats from anyone”.
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“The first Democrat pro-Hillary TV talking head has broken ranks, saying that he can no longer support Frau Clinton. And Donna Brazile, the chairbabe of the DNC, has been let go by CNN ”
Enthusiasm for America’s Merkel is flagging? And the DNC may soon need a new chairbabe? Fortunately, the recently underemployed executive assistant Huma has a lot of time on her hands now and is ready to step in as the DNC’s new chairbabe.
“In other news, the bodies of a Syrian refugee and her two children were discovered in a freezer in her apartment in Denmark. Danish police are now searching for the woman’s husband.”
This gives the lie to those who accuse Muslims of not respecting life. You can see the care that husband took to preserve the body of his wife after her murdered her. If he were a savage, he would have simply left the body, rather than ensuring its preservation in a pristine state: except for an insignificant bit of freezer burn.
Regarding the story on a possible Trump landslide in Florida, it could happen. I live in southwest Florida. In every presidential election prior to this one, I have seen yard signs and bumper stickers supporting both the Republican and Democrat candidates. This year I have seen only Trump yard signs. I have seen only Trump bumper stickers, even on cars from out of state.
There is a bohemian (apologies to our friends in the Czech Republic) artist colony near where I live. The people there are those that could fit the stereotype of typical Hillary supporters. I have seen only Trump yard signs there, including some rather artistically hand painted Trump for president signs.
My brother lives 200 miles away in a different part of Florida. He said that he saw one Hillary yard sign, but only one. Nearly everybody in his area is for Trump.
I know a couple of people who tried to attend Trump rallies in Florida, but unfortunately for them the stadium was already filled to capacity, even though they arrived over on hour early. My son knows some seniors in his high school who were able to get into a rally because they arrived very early. The high school (not a public school, of course) let the senior class out early that day so they could attend the rally.
This happened when the polls were showing Hillary to be winning in Florida. It is possible that she is. I don’t know what things are like in some big cities such as Miami and Orlando. In the parts of Florida with which I am familiar, this is the most one-sided election campaign I have seen, and it is all in Trump’s favor.
“In other news, the bodies of a Syrian refugee and her two children were discovered in a freezer in her apartment in Denmark.”
Denmark has three dead refugees to consider. And, Italy and Hungary are at odds?
“Italy has demanded tough treatment of Eastern European countries, including Hungary, that refuse to accept migrants under the EU’s relocation scheme.”
Perspective is important and circumstances tend to color it.
It’s been said there are more Hungarians in Cleveland (Ohio, U.S.A.) than in Budapest. One can go farther with such thoughts. There are more Ohioans in Ohio than Hungarians in Hungary.
Start talking about Denmark, The Netherlands, Slovakia or a few other countries and there are even less people with a language and history unique unto them. (Ohioans do speak a generally understandable form of the rather universal English and share some immediate history with what is technically called the Old Northwest Territories.)
Seems like it would be rather lonesome and scary to live in a tiny little country where almost nobody else in the world knows what you are saying (asking for in commerce as well as in need), and it should be understandable if people are defensive.
Italy may be aware of the fact that the Austro-Hungarian empire is dead, but so is the Roman empire even if the Pope does live (sort of) in Italy, and just because they seem to be stuck with trying to figure out how to be Christian doesn’t mean the rest of the world also needs to do so. …Especially since it seems the issue is not a genuinely Christian matter in regard to either refugees or race.
End of rant for the moment.
Great rant, thank you!
** About 220 African migrants forced their way through a barbed wire fence . . . clashing with Spanish police who tried to prevent them from crossing the border **
We told them we have like guns and stuff but would they listen?! We tried. Honest we did.
** Mr Introvigne said the number of Muslims in Italy is growing rapidly **
Government paralyzed. Braces for more Muslims.
** a camp full of UK-bound migrants **
How about “a camp full of Libya-bound migrants”? Invaders decide or Europeans decide? Answer: Invaders decide!
Don’t large chunks of Umbria need clearing and rebuilding? Of course, the fallen churches will have to be re-aligned to face Mecca before they are rebuilt.
Spanish police tried to keep the invaders out? How ’bout trying to keep them out with a few belt-fed machine guns? Problem solved for good.
Why on earth does Spain still have North African “enclaves”, surely an anachronism as well as an ongoing problem?
Zero doubt remains regarding skewed Google search results:
http://www.allenbwest.com/michaelcantrell/wikileaks-just-revealed-google-explains-everything