The French Minister of the Interior announced that he had ordered the closure of four mosques that had been promoting radical ideology. Meanwhile, French President François Hollande’s approval rating has fallen to 4%, considerably lower than the unemployment rate, but higher than the inflation rate.
In other news, local councils in Britain are being forced to spend millions of pounds on caring for migrants, due to the inadequate funds being provided by the Home Office.
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Greece Shows Highest Unemployment Rate Across Eurozone in September
Greece showed the highest rate of unemployment in the eurozone with 23.2 percent in September, the European Union’s statistical authority Eurostat reported on Thursday.
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Harper Right About Trudeau’s Deficits
So as it turns out, Stephen Harper nailed it.
During last year’s federal election he predicted Justin Trudeau’s financial promises were a work of fiction that would prove to be a fantasy if Trudeau won power.
Subsequent events have proven the former Conservative prime minister correct.
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FBI Investigators “99% Sure” Foreign Entities Hacked Clinton’s Server
These new developments will be another boon to an already horrible week for the Clinton camp.
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New Discovery May Solve Mysterious Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
OXFORD, Pa., Nov. 2 (UPI) — New evidence suggests that Amelia Earhart died as a castaway on an uninhabited island rather than in a plane crash
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery reported it found similarities between Earhart, the first woman to complete a solo transatlantic flight in 1932, and the partial skeleton found on an uninhabited Pacific island in 1940.
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Senator on Hillary Server, Hacks: ‘It’s Treason’
(WASHINGTON TIMES) Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, on Thursday said Hillary Clinton’s exposing sensitive information to potentially multiple hacks from foreign actors amounts to treason.
“This is why you have security protocols — to protect classified information,” Mr. McCaul said on “Fox and Friends.” “She exposed it to our enemies, and now … our adversaries have this very sensitive information that not only jeopardizes her and national security at home, but the men and women serving overseas.”
“In my opinion, quite frankly, it’s treason,” said Mr. McCaul, Texas Republican.
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Spy Scandals, Globalism and the Betrayal of America
Our top educators like to think that worthwhile social movements only come from the left, such as Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. But the movement backing Donald J. Trump for president rejects most of what the left is preaching. These people see America losing its greatness, unique identity and national sovereignty. Hillary Clinton uses the campaign slogan “Stronger Together,” which has a patriotic appeal. But she also termed half of Trump’s supporters “deplorable” and “irredeemable.” She prefers the artificial George Soros-funded “social movements” that back her campaign.
By any objective measure, it can be argued that the stench of globalism is starting to affect everything, even perceptions of our founding documents. It may also invite foreign penetration into the highest levels of our government.
Visitors to Independence Hall in Philadelphia are surprised to learn that the site of the adoption of our Declaration of Independence is now a World Heritage Site designated by the United Nations. A big plaque with the designation faces you after you get a lecture from the U.S. Park Service and prepare to enter the historic building. Referring to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, the United Nations declares, “The universal principles of freedom and democracy set forth in these documents are of fundamental importance to American history and have also had a profound impact on law-makers around the world.” These are nice thoughts. But the U.N. is hardly a tribute to freedom and democracy. Ordinary patriotic Americans don’t like the idea of the corrupt United Nations claiming some form of jurisdiction over Independence Hall.
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France: Four Radical Mosques Closed
Four mosques suspected of promoting a radical ideology in France were subject to administrative closure on the basis of the emergency law, announced the Ministry of Interior.
“Under the guise of ritual purposes, these places were home meetings to promote a radical ideology, contrary to the values of the Republic and may constitute a serious risk to security and public order,” he wrote in a statement. The targeted mosques are located in Yvelines, in Seine-Saint-Denis and in the Val-de-Marne. Article 8 of the law on state of emergency allows the closure of places of worship in which are required for constituting about a provocation to hatred or violence or incitement to the commission of acts of terrorism.
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Germany: ‘Highly Dangerous’ Terror Suspect Arrested in Berlin is Alleged ISIS Member — Prosecutors
A 27-year-old Syrian man arrested by Berlin police, who has been described as a “highly dangerous” terror suspect in the German media, is suspected of being a member of Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL), the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office says.
The alleged terrorist, who has reportedly lived in Germany since 2015, was arrested in Berlin’s Schöneberg district, police wrote on Twitter…
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German Police Arrest Syrian in Berlin on Suspicion of Terrorist Links
German police have arrested a Syrian man in Berlin on suspicion of being a member of a foreign terrorist organization. The man was reportedly monitored for months alongside a German accomplice.
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Historic Terror Recruitment Trial Begins in Norway
Ubaydullah Hussain, an Islamist who has had numerous run-ins with the law, is the first person in Norwegian history to stand trial for recruiting terrorists.
The 31-year-old denied the charges against him as his trial got underway in Oslo on Thursday.
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Nigel Farage has warned fellow politicians that any attempt to block or delay Britain’s exit from the European Union will be met with untold anger from the public.
In a statement released after the historic High Court ruling on Article 50 the interim Ukip leader said he fears a Brexit “betrayal” is on the horizon.
The judges ruled that the government doesn’t have the power to trigger two-year exit process Article 50 without a vote by MPs.
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Sacre Bleu! French President Hollande’s Approval Ratings Drop to Four Percent
FRANCOIS Hollande’s approval ratings have plummeted to four per cent in a dramatic turn against the world leader — making him less popular among French voters than both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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Swiss Imam Arrested After Calling for Death of Moderate Muslims
The capital of Islamic radicalism in Switzerland has been struck a blow after authorities arrested a prominent imam for inciting violence toward moderate Muslims.
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UK: Government Must Ask Parliament to Trigger Article 50, High Court Rules
The court ruled that Prime Minister Theresa May does not have the authority to use the Royal Prerogative to invoke the EU divorce process.
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White, Asian and black children should be bussed into less diverse schools to tackle growing segregation in towns and cities, a landmark report has suggested.
Academics have called on the Government to intervene after they found white British populations are dwindling at record levels and in extreme cases have halved in a decade.
Consequently communities are becoming more segregated with one area of Blackburn, Lancashire, now 95 per cent Asian.
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White Populations Decreasing in British Towns Across the UK
The white population in towns and cities is falling, it was revealed
In some areas such as Newham in London it has collapsed by as much as half over the last decade.
Supporters of open borders like to portray Britain as a multicultural wonderland where people of every creed and colour live happily side by side.
It was this vision that underpinned Tony Blair’s disastrous decision to throw open the floodgates….
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Europe’s Forgotten ‘Hitler’ Killed Over 10 Million Africans — But the West Erased it From History
Most people have no idea of who is pictured above, but you should. The sight of this man should cause a similar revulsion to that of seeing Mussolini, Mao, Stalin or Hitler, as he committed an African genocide that resulted in the killing of over 10 million people in the Congo.
His name is King Leopold II of Belgium.
Most of people never learned about him in school, and have also most likely never heard about him in the media either. This is because he’s not included in the popular narrative of oppression (which includes things like U.S. slavery and the Holocaust).
King Leopold II is part of an ongoing history of colonialism, imperialism, slavery, and genocide in Africa that would clash with the popular social narratives taught in our school system today. It doesn’t fit neatly into school curriculums where, paradoxically, it is looked down upon to make overtly racist statements. However, it’s quite fine not to talk about a genocide perpetrated by European capitalist monarchs that killed over 10 million Congolese.
Belgium’s King Leopold II ran a personal empire so vast and cruel, it rivaled — – — – — and even exceeded — the crimes of even some of the worst dictators of the 20th century.
[Comment: This issue was in the new Tarzan movie.]
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Venezuela Opposition Gives Maduro Until Nov 11 to Meet Demands
Venezuela’s opposition exhorted President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday to set an election and start releasing jailed activists within days, while students opposed to Vatican-led talks protested in the streets.
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After Calais, France Prepares to Clear Migrant Camp in Paris
(REUTERS) — French authorities prepared on Thursday to dismantle a makeshift migrant camp in central Paris, its numbers swelled by refugees from a larger settlement in Calais that was meanwhile shut down for good.
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Austria: Teenage Migrant Arrested After Breaking Into Hospital to Sexually Assault Female Patient
The attempted sex attack is alleged to have happened in the psychiatric department of the University Hospital of Innsbruck, Austria.
State police said the 18-year-old migrant targeted a 29-year-old female patient but she was able to press an emergency button next to her bed to alert nursing staff who pulled him off.
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‘Criminals and Jihadists’: Australian Liberal Party Members Call for Blanket Immigration Ban
A Sydney division of the Liberal Party [in Australia liberal does not mean left wing- ed] will debate whether Australia should end all immigration and ban all refugees, after an incendiary motion was put forward calling migrants “criminals” and “bastards”. The president of the Carlingford branch, George Popowski, will use a party conference on Thursday to call on the Turnbull government to halt “all immigration and refugee intakes” until an investigation can establish the “risks and benefits” for Australia. In a rambling preamble attached to the motion, Mr Popowski accused migrants of a litany of sins including forging documents, faking degrees, rorting the visa system, slacking on welfare and also taking jobs from locals.
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Denmark: Asylum Centre Worker Allegedly Filmed Sex Acts With Underage Migrants
A female asylum centre worker in Denmark is alleged to have engaged sexually with underage male migrants and filmed the acts, and the staff may have known for months.
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‘EU Has No Future’ Putin Blasts Europe’s Handling of Migrant Crisis After Child Rape
The Russian President has mostly remained deathly silent on the refugee crisis blighting Europe, but has now spoken out of his disbelief over how badly things have been handled so far.
He cited the case of a 10-year-old boy who was raped by an Iraqi migrant in a “sexual emergency” at a swimming pool in Vienna, Austria, earlier this year.
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EU Migrant Chaos: Troops Forced to Amass as Refugee Deal on Brink of Collapse
AUSTRIA has deployed troops to the border between Hungary and Serbia amid fears the fragile migrant deal signed between the EU and Turkey is close to collapse.
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Number of Muslims in Italy Rockets From 2,000 to 2 Million 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.
Islam is the second biggest religion in Italy behind Catholicism.
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Sweden’s Medical Board Finds Only 16% of Migrant Doctors Are Qualified
Only 16 per cent of migrant doctors were approved to practice in Sweden following the National Board’s first trial test for doctors from outside Europe.
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Three Afghan Migrants Arrested Over Gang Rape of Mother-of-Two in Calais Jungle Camp
The men, who were apprehended in a centre for foreign workers in Rungis, a suburb in the south of the French capital, on Wednesday and face charges for the attack on a 38-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, on October, 18.
The woman, also from Afghanistan, was working as an interpreter for the France 5 TV channel. She lives in Paris with her husband and two children.
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UK: Exclusive: Councils Foot Massive Bill for More Than 5,000 Migrant Children
CASH-STRAPPED councils are being forced to plug million-pound black holes left by the gap between what child migrants cost and what the Home Office provides.
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BBC’s Children Show ‘Just a Girl’ Is About a Transgender Child Taking Hormone Blocking Drugs
The BBC series aimed at children as young a six describe how Ben became Amy by taking hormones to halt puberty. It is yet another example of the agenda promoting the blurring of the genders. And they are now aiming children.
Last year, I published an article entitled The Agenda Behind Bruce Jenner’s Transformation where I explained how Jenner’s sex change was intentionally publicized and celebrated because it was part of a larger agenda promoting the blurring of the genders. This agenda is even more obvious and insidious this year because there’s a conscious effort to reach children.
CBBC’s series Just a Girl is the latest baffling attempt at normalizing, trivializing and even celebrating the completely unnecessary process that is childhood sex change. Freely available online on CBBC’s website, the series even teaches children about taking hormones and puberty-halting drugs. Do we truly know the effects of such drugs on one’s developing body and brain chemistry. Of course not. Why is this radical and aberrant process promoted to children?
In my humble opinion, parents who subject their children to radical treatments such as hormone blockers and sex change surgery should be trialed for child abuse. Instead, these things are actually encouraged in shows aimed at children and society is following suit.
Some NHS clinics (such as the Tavistock Centre in North London) have been prescribing hypothalamic blockers to children as young as nine.
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‘Dogs Are Also Victims of Gender Violence, ‘ Says Doctor
Animals are as victimised by gender violence as women are, a doctor has claimed.
Refusing to make a distinction between “human animals” and “non-human animals”, Dr Núria Querol said woman and pets were both equally victims of male aggression.
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Nigel Farage has every reason to be fearful that the ‘establishment’ looks set to undermine the will of the British people by just three judges.
My understanding of Brexit was that the elected by the people government of Britain initiated a referendum for the people to decide to leave or remain within the European Union.
The outcome of that referendum we already know, but how is now that three judges can rule over the will of the people in that referendum by determining that only the parliament, and not the elected by the people government can determine whether Britain leaves or stays within the EU?
Methinks there is much treachery afoot here and May has every right to appeal that decision.
Don’t retire from British politics just yet Mr. Farage, the people may need you!
Actually, there may be a good reason to require Parliamentary approval.
The exit from the EU was undertaken under a resurrection of the “royal prerogative” connected with the British government. Although the government is far from royalty, they still maintain the fiction of “her Majesty’s government”. Part of the royal prerogative is the conduct of foreign affairs, foreign treaties, and the right to declare war. Thus, by attempting to exit the EU without the approval of parliament, they were also reviving the right of the British government to declare war without the approval of parliament.
I think there’s a good case to be made for requiring parliamentary approval. Apart from the issue of declaring war, which is not trivial, parliament would have a responsibility of supervising the conditions of withdrawal. I suspect that the establishment British are looking for an associate membership in the EU, like Switzerland. This would be a technical withdrawal, but in reality would subject England to EU authority and the abolition of border controls for EU passport holders.
The EU bureaucracy and parliament is likely to get in a tiff and threaten sanctions if England delays its exit process. Well, let them. It’s still a bit early for the EU to show its teeth, and it would be a warning in certain terms to the rest of the EU members to get out while the getting’s good.
Thank you for your insight RonaldB. Isn’t the British Cabinet the entity that all ‘foreign decisions’ emanate from rather than the government or the parliament?
If that is the case then why has not the Cabinet ruled on this instead of the High Court which is solely in existence for advising, not determining, on technicalities of law and not to rule on decisions where the British people have made a choice via a referendum?
Too, seems to me that if the British people can elect a government of their choosing via the electoral process, is it not then the government rather than the parliament that is accountable to the will of the people via lawful referenda? If this is not the case then the British system makes no sense and is a simple mockery of democracy designed to thwart the will of the people.
The British constitution, being unwritten, doesn’t recognise referenda. It has to fit them – and any politicised theorising about them – into rules that are essentially mediaeval. So of course it’s messy.
The High Court doesn’t ‘advise’. Like any other effective judiciary, it’s there to force governments to act within the law. The law as it actually is, however inconvenient for politicians on any side of the argument.
Thank you Dr Adolphus. Then, as I see it, England and Greater Britain need another Oliver Cromwell.
“Nigel Farage has warned fellow politicians that any attempt to block or delay Britain’s exit from the European Union will be met with untold anger from the public.”
This story needs more airing. I believe a private case was taken to the High Court by two people, one of them a hair stylist. The court’s judgement in effect could result in the will of the people who voted in a referendum being frustrated by a vote of parliamentarians.
Farage is right, if the elites try to scuttle Brexit, watch out for electoral revolt.
** Only 16 per cent of migrant doctors were approved to practice in Sweden **
Degrees from Mogadishu Technical Institute under scrutiny as we speak.
I don’t know what to make of some of the latest Wikileaks. Alex Jones is jumping on them and they were on Drudge earlier but they were taken off later. Anyway we get to this temple on Jeffrey Epstein’s island, Little St John Island. It has an owl on it and it look like a little mosque with out minarets. To me it looks like it is almost at the same latitude as Mecca and aligns with it. Seems like a weird coincidence to me.
How can anyone have an approval rating of 4%?
There some number like 8% that it’s not supposed to be possible to get below simply due to the number of morons out there who will always support a politician even under conditions like mass starvation and death attributable directly to their actions.
When normalized to take this into account (maybe it already is, but if not) then this is more like -4% approval.
I think there is far too much reliance on ‘polls’. Polls only sample the thinking based on the questions presented within the poll by the tiniest number of any population that can never truly represent the overall thinking of the majority.
It is unscientific and completely open to manipulation by the ‘pollsters’ who are generally very good at presenting leading or loaded questions on any subject they are paid to present.
A popular prime minister was removed in my country because of these often manipulated and partisan polls.
One only needs to question the number of respondents to these ‘polls’ to realise that there is not even a weak possibility that such a small sample of any population can be indicative in any way of how the 99.99% of the balance of those not canvassed think or will vote.