The IMF official responsible for European affairs says that his fund will probably not help Greece out yet another time. Other European financial institutions are currently meeting to try to arrange an emergency fund that Greece can tap into in order to weather its latest fiscal crisis.
In other news, two suicide bombers blew themselves up near Ankara when they were approached by policemen.
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Clinton Backs ‘Open Trade, Open Borders’ In Speech to Globalist Bankers
Wikileaks releases excerpts from transcripts of paid speeches.
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Spain May Grow More Than 3.1 Percent in 2016; Will Miss 2017 Deficit Goal
Oct 8 Spain’s economy may grow by more than 3.1 percent in 2016, up from the current official target of 2.9 percent, despite political deadlock, acting Economy Minister Luis de Guindos told reporters in Washington on Saturday.
[Comment: Perhaps the economic growth is *because* of political deadlock]
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Thomsen Signals IMF’s Reluctance to Support Financing for Greece
International Monetary Fund (IMF) European department chief Poul Thomsen said that the fund is unlikely to rejoin Europe in more financing of Greece in the near future. He said that the IMF’s EU department would be in Athens soon to restart stalled talks over a new emergency-financing facility.
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Commuter-in-Chief: Obama Cuts Sentences of Some More Drug Dealers
Yesterday, President Obama commuted the sentences of another 102 inmates, most of whom were serving time for drug-related offenses. According to The Hill, the additional 102 commutations brings Obama’s total to 744 over the course of his presidency, more than the past 11 presidents combined, and brings his 2016 total to 590, more than any single year in U.S. history.
And, of course, the White House continued to brag about the record-breaking commutations on twitter.
[Comment: Releasing criminals into society is part of the communist agenda of destabilization.]
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FBI Agents Are Ready to Revolt Over the Cozy Clinton Probe
Veteran FBI agents say FBI Director James Comey has permanently damaged the bureau’s reputation for uncompromising investigations with his “cowardly” whitewash of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information using an unauthorized private email server.
Feeling the heat from congressional critics, Comey last week argued that the case was investigated by career FBI agents, “So if I blew it, they blew it, too.”
But agents say Comey tied investigators’ hands by agreeing to unheard-of ground rules and other demands by the lawyers for Clinton and her aides that limited their investigation.
“In my 25 years with the bureau, I never had any ground rules in my interviews,” said retired agent Dennis V. Hughes, the first chief of the FBI’s computer investigations unit.
Instead of going to prosecutors and insisting on using grand jury leverage to compel testimony and seize evidence, Comey allowed immunity for several key witnesses, including potential targets.
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Judges Back Students Who Refused Probe of Private Parts
Judges at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have sided with college students who complained that they were ordered to undergo invasive ultrasounds for a training course, and if they declined to be subjected to the medical procedure, school officials would “browbeat them and threaten their academic standing as well as their future careers.”
The decision comes in a case that developed last winter when students at Florida’s Valencia College sonography course complained they were being publicly pressured to undergo transvaginal ultrasound tests at the hands of their classmates, who included men.
“Students don’t surrender their bodily privacy rights when they walk into a public college classroom,” said David Hacker, senior counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the students.
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Kaine and Hillary — A Perfect Treacherous Match
Embracing Radical Islam
Senator Kaine has a long history of embracing radical Islam. He appointed a Hamas supporter to a state immigration commission, spoke at a dinner honoring a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist suspect, and has received many donations from well-known Islamist groups. In exchange for these campaign contributions, he appointed a radical jihadi to the Virginia Immigration Commission.
In 2007, Kaine, as Governor of Virginia, chose Muslim American Society (MAS) President, Esam Omeish, to the state’s Immigration Commission. Even a Muslim organization against Islamism criticized the appointment and reckless lack of vetting.
Esam Omeish runs a group described by Federal prosecutors in a 2008 court filing as “the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.” Omeish is the V.P. of a radical mosque that had the al-Qaeda operative Anwar Al-Awlaki as its imam and two of the 9/11 hijackers, and Nidal Hasan, the perpetrator of the Fort Hood shooting, in the congregation. Omeish is still a board member, even as he serves on the Virginia Immigration Commission. A Chicago Tribune investigation confirmed this in 2004.
It is well known that MAS is not at all moderate. Convicted terrorist, Abdurrahman Alamoudi, has stated that everyone knows MAS is the Muslim Brotherhood. Obviously, Kaine chose to ignore this. The Clarion Society has a fully documented profile on MAS.
According to Omeish’s website, he was also President of the National Muslim Students Association and served for two years on the national board of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which the Justice Department also labeled as a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity and unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-financing trial.
Back in late 2011, Kaine spoke at a “Candidates Night” dinner organized by the New Dominion PAC that presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for Jamal Barzinji, a described “founding father of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood,” according to the Global Muslim Brotherhood Watch. FBI’s radar in 1987-1988 when an informant inside the Brotherhood identified Barzinji and his associated groups as being part of a network of Brotherhood fronts to “institute the Islamic Revolution in the United States.”
Clinton VP Pick Tim Kaine’s Islamic Ties, by Breitbart, stated, In 2003, U.S. Customs Service Senior Special Agent David Kane said in a sworn affidavit that Barzinji and the network of entities he led were investigated because he “is not only closed associated with PIJ (Palestinian Islamic Jihad)…but also with Hamas.” Counter-terrorism reporter Patrick Poole broke the story that Barzinji was nearly prosecuted but the Obama Justice Department dropped plans for indictment.
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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“Data driven political, marketing, and communication solutions” for the democratic party, also a Clinton donor.
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Note to Obama: ISIS Chief Makes List of Top Muslims
While President Obama and his administration continue to insist that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam, a prominent Islamic institute headquartered in Jordan puts ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on its annual list of the world’ s 500 most influential Muslims along with Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, Council on American-Islamic Relations Executive Director Nihad Awad and U.S. Reps. Andre Carson, D-Ind., and Keith Ellison, D-Minn.
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The psychopaths in Washington and in the pentagon is preparing for a nuclear confrontation with Russia with recent tests of two fake 700-pound nuclear bombs in the Nevada desert. Defense One, a U.S. Military website for the defense industry published an article by Marcus Weisgerber titled ‘The US Air Force Just Dropped Two Fake Nukes’ on October 6th and stated “A pair of U.S. Air Force B-2 bombers dropped two 700-pound faux nuclear bombs in the middle of the Nevada desert within the past few days. Now the Pentagon wants to tell you about it.”
The Pentagon not only wants the public to know about these tests but also to warn Russia that it is testing its old version of the B61 nuclear bombs to pinpoint the accuracy and reliability in case of a real world war III scenario were to take place.
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Study Finds Inflatable Bike Helmets Incredibly Effective
Inflatable bike helmets are excellent at preventing concussions
New inflatable bike helmets may be safer than the one you’re wearing, but if you live in the US you might not get to wear one until crash-test regulations catch up to the new design.
To figure out how inflatable helmets stack up against their dorkier, hardened-foam counterparts, Stanford scientists dropped a dummy on its head repeatedly. The faux-head was protected against the risk of injury up to eight times better when it was wearing an inflatable bike helmet made by Swedish company Hövding Sweden AB than when it was wearing a regular one. The researchers, led by bioengineer David Camarillo, recently published their results in the journal Annals of Biomedical Engineering.
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The Elite is Accelerating Earth Changing Events in a Rush to Implant Hillary in Power
As we move into the final month prior to this year’s presidential election, the tempo of dramatic world events and developments that are breaking daily is mind-boggling. Every single day we are seeing more outrageously desperate actions on the part of the globalists and their US government minions. Among the latest unfolding developments this week all fast tracking towards world war against Russia is NATO’s violation of international law deploying AWACS (Airborne Radar Warning and Control system) in Syria despite only Syria and Russia possessing the legal right to control the embattled country’s airspace. With both US and Turkish boots on the ground in northern Syria and US-led coalition airstrikes regularly invading the sovereign nation’s airspace, recently targeting Syrian soldiers and plans to kill more, along with former acting CIA director Mike Morell’s recent call to begin killing Russian soldiers, the latest warpath rant comes from Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley who is now threatening Russia (as well as China and Iran) with nuclear war. Spoken just like a true grade school bully on a playground, he boasts, “We will beat you harder than you have ever been beaten before!” This is the kind of moronic leadership that rises to the top of the Empire food chain? I’m afraid so.
God help us when his most likely next commander-in-chief is the warmongering bulldog herself Hillary Clinton who’s not any more civilized nor humane. She’s already made it very clear that any real or perceived cyberspace attack on America coming from anywhere in the world constitutes an act of war and a military response against the cyber-perpetrators’ country. After already vowing to bomb Iran and with her constant accusations blaming Putin for everything gone wrong in her miserable life, including exposing her DNC corruption scandal responsible for rigging her presidential election, she is also all but promising to launch World War III against nuclear powered Russia. Incisive insider Paul Craig Roberts and even Putin have both said so.
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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University of Alabama Caves, Drops ‘Security’ Fee for Tuscaloosa Milo Event
The University of Alabama has backed off of a nearly $7,000 fee that it was set to charge the university’s chapter of the College Republicans for an event set to feature Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos scheduled for Monday.
Initially the university was going to charge the group $6,955 in security fees. But late Friday, Chris Bryant, the interim director of the University of Alabama’s Office of Media Relations, released a statement saying the group “will not incur any expense” for University of Alabama Police Department security for the event.
“Several UA staff members held a preliminary meeting on September 19 with the organizers of the Milo Yiannopoulos event, and one of the topics discussed was security,” Bryant’s statement said. “Staff have been trying to meet with the College Republicans for the last week to finalize details, but they have not responded to repeated requests. The goal all along has been to make sure they have a successful event. To that end, the College Republicans will not incur any expense for UAPD security. The University of Alabama supports free speech and welcomes diverse speakers to our campus. As with all speakers, the views of Mr. Yiannopoulos do not necessarily reflect the views of the university.”
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IS ‘Loses More Than a Quarter of Its Territory’ In Syria and Iraq
So-called Islamic State (IS) has lost more than a quarter of the territory it once controlled, new data shows.
Security and defence analysts IHS say the group’s control has shrunk by 28% since its height in January 2015.
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Rival Syria Resolutions by West and Russia Defeated at UN
Rival resolutions on Syria backed by the West and Russia were defeated in the U.N. Security Council on Saturday, offering no relief to the besieged city of Aleppo and leaving the key powers even more divided over a course of action in the war-ravaged country.
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Russia, U.S. On Brink of Nuclear War
Russia declares no-fly zone in Syria, moves missiles to Europe.
[Comment: Russsia doesn’t want any more US planes “accidentally” dropping bombs on forces that are fighting the US backed terrorists. the lAst time it happened US were dropping bombs for an hour — “accidentally”.]
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Turkey Suicide Bombers Killed Near Ankara After Police ‘Tip Off’
Two suicide bombers have blown themselves up near the Turkish capital, Ankara, after they were approached by police.
[Comment: Well, that ended for the best.]
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Who’s Calling Whose Bluff in Syria? Moscow, Washington and the Art of Deception
Russia and the US know that a conventional engagement between their militaries would instantly throw the world into its worst-ever crisis, immediately spiking the prospects that an apocalyptic nuclear exchange could soon follow if the security dilemma between them is perceived as being insurmountable by that point in time. This is very dangerous and shouldn’t be taken lightly at all, which makes it all the more crazier that the US might seriously be entertaining whether or not it feels “lucky” enough to try and call what it believes to be Russia’s bluff. The way that the Pentagon is analyzing the situation right now is that Russia could halt the threatened escalation that the US is blackmailing it with so long as it stops assisting the SAA with anti-terrorist bombing assistance around Aleppo. The liberation of Aleppo would irreversibly move the War on Syria to its final stage, putting the Syrian people and their democratically elected and legitimate government on the path to victory in dealing the US its worst-ever and most publicly embarrassing defeat in history. This is the reason why the US is so frenziedly invoking the unmistakable specter of nuclear war, since Syria and Russia have never been closer to liberating Aleppo than they are now, and ironically only because the Pentagon sabotaged the ‘ceasefire’ and inadvertently unshackled Damascus and Moscow from its restrictive military conditions.
The US could bow out of the war and let history rightly run its course, but the zealous neoconservative ideologues that have captured control of the American Armed Forces seem intent on staging one last grand stand before the US’ epic retreat from the conflict. This is why they carried out the “deep state” coup in going against Figurehead Obama and bombing the SAA in Deir ez Zor, all with the now-debunked expectation that this would somehow intimidate Russia and Syria and thus compel them into game-changing concessions. To the rational observer, such a scheme was doomed to fail from the get-go, but one must understand that the personalities behind this plot see the world in a completely different light than most people do, largely because of the self-deluding groupthink that pervades their faction. The point isn’t to argue about just how absurd this gambit is, but to demonstrate to the reader how the plotters conceive of the world and provide insight into predicting their next possible course of action in the War on Syria.
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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Moscow Says U.S. Cyber Attack Claims Fan ‘Anti-Russian Hysteria’
U.S. accusations that Russia was responsible for cyber attacks against Democratic Party organizations lack any proof and are an attempt by Washington to fan “unprecedented anti-Russian hysteria”, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said.
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Chemnitz: Refugee-Terrorist Attack Foiled
German police have foiled yet another nonwhite refugee-terrorist attack, this time on an airport near Chemnitz, in the state of Saxony. Police are looking for an invader named Jabir A., who came to Germany last year pretending to be a Syrian refugee — and who was given “asylum” by the Merkel regime.
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French Towns Protest Plan to Relocate Calais Migrants
French villagers are protesting the arrival of migrants who are being dispersed around the country as the government shuts down the slum-like camp in Calais that has become a flashpoint in Europe’s migrant crisis.
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German Police Seek 280,000 “Foreigners”
The German police seek more than 280,000 foreigners for violating immigration laws — but they all have “vanished.” The number has risen 140 percent over the last year, spurred on by nonwhite invaders denied “refugee” status but have evaded deportation.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary — Speaking to Breitbart London, Hungarian government spokesman Zoltán Kovács discussed the rise of anti-mass migration populist parties in Europe in reaction to the migrant crisis and blames the establishment for not talking about the reality of modern Europe.
The migrant crisis in Europe has led to the rise of what Geert Wilders in the Netherlands refers to as the “Patriotic Spring” a group of populist anti-mass migration parties who are growing daily in polls across Europe.
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Migrant Destroys Priceless Artwork in Rome Churches
A Ghanian man was arrested in Rome after a crime spree over several days, where he attacked four places of worship.
The 39-year-old vandalised artefacts dating back to the ninth century in the Basilica of Santa Prassede, and other pieces which are more than 300 years old.
The remaining churches on the hit-list included San Martino ai Monti, the Basilicas of San Giovanni de’ Fiorentini and the San Vitale.
Police were called around 7.30pm last week by the distraught parish priest of San Martino ai Monti, who reported a man had damaged a statue of the Madonna and baby Jesus.
Later that same evening, the parish priest of the Basilica of Santa Prassede also phoned the police to report a man had been in that church and proceeded to vandalise two statues.
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The 39-year-old vandalised artefacts dating back to the ninth century
The suspect is being held at Regina Coeli prison.
Police said his motive was “unclear” and refused to disclose his religious beliefs, if any.
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Pope Francis: Traitor to Western Civilization?
There has been no greater advocate of mass Muslim migration into Europe than the purported head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis. At a recent conference, he urged that “asylum seekers” be accepted, “through the acts of mercy that promote their integration into the European context and beyond.”*
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And, since his promotion and support of mass Muslim migration is leading to not only the destruction of what is left of Western Civilization and the species which largely created that civilization — white, gentile, heterosexual men — Bergoglio and the organization which he represents, must be stopped. If Pope Francis and his New World Order cohorts are not countered, whites, and the cultures which they built, will vanish…
If Western Civilization is to be salvaged, those who seek its destruction must be removed from their positions of authority and influence. Whether through political means, armed revolt, or de-legitimization, those who hold such power must be toppled. Exposing “Pope Francis” for what he is, or is not, will go a long way in that most vital and necessary task.
[Comment: Marxists and Islamists unite. What else can you expect from a liberation theologist (aka marxism for Catholics)? How did this communist become the Pope?]
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Even though they are officially “ineligible,” thousands of illegal immigrants are fully registered to vote in the state of Virginia, thanks to their Moter Voter program.
Apparently, Virginia isn’t just for lovers… It’s also for voter fraud!
This bombshell study from the Public Interest Legal Foundation shows that in 9 counties alone, 1,046 non-alien citizens were registered to vote thanks to the program and the National Voter Registration Act of 1983.
The Motor Voter law requires that everyone who receives drivers license applicants must be given the chance to register to vote simply by checking a box on the form.
These illegal voters were only caught by accident… which raises the question: How many more illegal immigrants are also registered? If they wouldn’t have admitted their illegal status, no one would know today.
Voter ID won’t even stop them, because these illegal aliens are given drivers licenses when they register their cars. Clearly, this is just the tip of the iceberg:
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America Pays $300K to Force Liberalism and ‘LGBT Rights’ on Macedonia
Apparently the (former Yugoslav) Republic of Macedonia, a small Balkan nation that emerged from the breakup of Yugoslavia, is insufficiently progressive on LGBT issues. So the American government is spending $300,000 to undermine the traditional Orthodox Christian culture of the country
A reader passes along a government document putting out bids for a contract. Here’s the top of the document:
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Full Text: Milo on How Feminism Hurts Men and Women
Rich people that get cancer will seek out the experts at the Mayo Clinic. You’ve all been referred to the experts on feminism, the MILO clinic. I know you thought it would treat STDs but you’re wrong!
The good news is that everyone in this room and everyone watching online are also the chemotherapy that America needs.
Radical feminism of course started in academia. Some would assume it is a type of brain cancer. But I’ve seen enough of universities to know we can conclusively say feminism is a bowel cancer.
American college campuses have gone to shit.
Smoking can take decades to give smokers lung cancer. But college can give women the cancer of feminism as early as their first semester.
Why aren’t there warning labels on college?
Warning: College may turn you into an extremely unloveable woman.
Warning: College may ensure cats are your only close companions.
Warning: College may quadruple your body piercings and quintuple your BMI.
Speaking of smoking, have you noticed America’s nanny state never controls the really unhealthy behaviors that plague our culture? They will ban large sodas, but not put a waiting period on blue hair dye.
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Milo: Even if You’re Acquitted of Rape, Feminists Can Still Ruin Your Life
“When men are being told that they’ll be labelled “harassers” for making an awkward advance, and “rapists” for bad drunken sex or not getting consent for the fifth make-out session, there’s only one logical course of action: retreat.”
“The rise of feminism has fatally coincided with the rise of video games, internet porn, and, sometime in the near future, sex robots. With all these options available, and the growing perils of real-world relationships, men are simply walking away.”
“Men who retreat aren’t necessarily the biggest victims here. They can function without real-world relationships much better than women. The real catastrophe is what it’s doing to society as a whole. Birth rates are collapsing. If you took away immigrant communities, who tend to have higher birth rates, many western countries would have birth rates approximating those of Japan.”
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Elites Fear Backlash Against Globalization
“The backlash against globalization is manifesting itself in increased nationalistic sentiment, against the outside world and in favor of increasing isolation.” This was the lament of Louis Kuijs, a former official with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), who now leads Asia Economics at Oxford Economics in Hong Kong.
IMF policymakers are plainly worried as they come together October 7-9 in Washington, D.C., for the annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank. Founded in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944, IMF’s stated purpose was the construction of an international payment system based on the American dollar, and the promotion of international trade.
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Experts Said Arctic Sea Ice Would Melt Entirely by September 2016 — They Were Wrong
Dire predictions that the Arctic would be free of sea ice by September of this year have proven to be unfounded after latest satellite images showed there is far more ice now than in 2012.
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So….the Pope told Merkel, Mrs. Clinton, the Leftist EU, Hollande, RINOs, Blair and Barack to open the borders of the dying West? No?
Then, the Pope is supposed to form a Catholic army to fight the Leftists governments on the streets of Paris, London and NYC, inside the dying West, all elected by the people? No?
Easier to blame him carte blanche, eh? YES!
“J’accuse …!”
Two policemen had Molotov cocktails thrown into their car outside Paris
“stationnés à Viry-Châtillon, dans l’Essonne, dans un quartier sensible”
They were each sitting in their two cars parked in Essonne, in a “sensible area”, and the two policemen coming to their rescue were also hit by objects thrown at them. Around 15 “jeunes”, “youths”, were at work to try to chase the police away from – their area .
Police are showing up on weekends to check on this security camera here. And, the youths are trying to destroy the camera.
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