A priest in a town in northern Italy has decided not to set up a Christmas crèche this year in his town’s cemetery. Fr. Sante Braggie said that he decided to break with tradition to avoid offending Muslims, who might be visiting the graves of their loved ones in the Muslim section of the cemetery.
In other news, the Tunisian captain of a ship that capsized and drowned 900 illegal migrants has been sentenced to eighteen years in prison by an Italian court.
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25 Cities on the Brink of Disaster: “Don’t be Here When Things Get Violent, Unsafe and Fragile”
The 21st Century is inching ever closer towards chaos… and the time to get out of the big city is upon us.
With economic conditions, growing crises, desperate populations looking to scratch by, and more hatred and division than at any previous point in American history, the city has become a dangerous and unruly setting — and finding yourseld in one that is falling apart could be the worst mistake you ever make.
People are living in bigger urban zones than ever before… these megacities are the hotspots of global activity. But many are also proving to be the most dangerous place to be in a collapse. Crime is rampant, order is shaken and many people become willing to take advantage of the situation. Many areas are vulnerable to natural disasters, and have already lost control during past emergencies.
In other places, widespread unemployment is simply taking its toll through increases in theft and violence. Whatever the reason, there are many places where things are falling apart, badly.
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Are You “Living in a Death Spiral”? These 6 States Will Collapse During the Next Recession
Being on the hook is not going to be pretty when interest rates are raised back up, and debts come due. At a personal level, it will mean more stress and juggling to make ends meet. For the larger economy, it will mean cities and states unable to meet obligations or balance their budgets — ending in bankruptcy, and bailouts. Meanwhile, millions of people are relying on that money to keep coming in order to survive. Something is going to go very wrong.
Relying upon government to function and send you money is not a secure plan.
The mathematics are terrifying and dismal, and so is being caught up in these collapsing states.
In the next phase of the financial crisis, the debt supercycle will become the most defining feature of the big hurt that will fall on nearly everyone.
That’s the dire warning that Goldman Sachs issued about what they termed the Third Wave of the global collapse. But it hasn’t come, at least not yet:…
Right now, the biggest risks for a bankruptcy or collapse is in the these states, based upon the ratio between what Baldwin terms “makers” and “takers.” Basically, the socialist state is enveloping all prosperity:
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Climate Scare Over: Top Experts Expose Scam at Freedom Confab
PHOENIX — Call off the doomsday bunkers and carbon taxes! The “climate” scare is officially over. The time for hysteria over alleged man-made global warming and CO2 has passed. The theory is toast — it is totally and completely debunked. At least it will be, once a soon-to-be-released “Weapon of Mass Instruction” exposing the climate fraudsters and their fraud is dropped on the world.
In early December, various prestigious scientists and a wide range of experts in various disciplines converged here, in Phoenix, Arizona, to forever demolish the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) alarmism and the deadly policies the alarmism underpins. After seeing the evidence, it will be impossible for the intellectually honest to go on believing the CAGW fantasy — or “cult,” as some top scientists have referred to the alarmist movement. But of course, it is not the first time that top scientists have debunked the climate hysteria.
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Eisenhower Promised to Drain the Swamp — Let’s Hope History Doesn’t Repeat
President Dwight D. Eisenhower once gave a monumental speech about the military industrial complex that controlled every facet of American life. The speech was stirring, but only for a moment: one day of good words doesn’t make up for 8 years of heinous actions. Eisenhower was elected in 1952, promising “peace with honor” in Korea, and he won in a landslide. He had a great slogan to run on:
“Let’s Clean Up the Mess in Washington.”
And then he went about making even more of a mess. On July 26, 1953, he and his administration negotiated the truce/cease fire with North Korea and still managed to leave 400 U.S. soldiers in Chinese prison camps. By the time Eisenhower was “done” with the U.S. and left office, he had given Communist nations such as Poland and Yugoslavia, as well as “neutrals” then, such as Indonesia and Congo more than $7 billion.
As described by Eisenhower’s biographer, Robert J. Donovan, Eisenhower wanted to reform the Republican party and invigorate it with more “progressive” leaders and “positive” Republicans. “Negative” Republicans were those who took a hardline, anti-Communist stance. In his two terms, Eisenhower was rid of them. Senator Robert Taft and Senator Joseph McCarthy died, and 80 Congressional seats and 15 Senatorial seats were lost by the Republicans in Eisenhower’s eight years.
Eisenhower also appointed Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Under Warren, from 1956 — 1958, the Supreme Court rendered verdicts on 52 cases involving communist subversion and espionage in the U.S. Most of those decisions came down to a 5-4 vote with Warren’s being the deciding factor. The communist-defendants’ positions were upheld 41 times as opposed to only 11 verdicts which were anti-communist.
Warren’s actions negated the sedition laws of 42 states. The government was not allowed to terminate employment of a federal employee even when it had been proved that they provided money and service to communist organizations. Under the shield of “protecting citizens from intrusion,” the courts nullified Congress’ ability to question individual citizens regarding espionage and pro-communist activities. Schools and colleges were unable to fire teachers and instructors who did not give information regarding their pro-communist activities.
Just in case this doesn’t sink in? This period gave rise to the infiltration of communist ideology in our schools and universities…just prior to the 1960’s…the “formative” period of people such as the Weather Underground (Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, to name a couple), and their colleagues, such as Hillary Clinton and Al “Al-Jazeera” Gore.
By circumventing and destroying our existing laws and procedures, Eisenhower managed to create the current generation that is hell-bent on destroying the United States completely.
[Comment: Highly recommended. Read it all. Too bad Patton did not survive instead.]
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Fire’s ‘Spotlight on Speech Codes 2017’
FIRE released its Spotlight on Speech Codes 2017 report yesterday after The Wall Street Journal ran an exclusive first look at its eye-opening findings over the weekend. Now other publications are taking notice and weighing in.
The Chronicle of Higher Education was among the first to highlight the report’s most significant findings: a drop of nearly 10 percentage points in campuses maintaining severely restrictive, “red light” speech codes and a bump in schools receiving FIRE’s highest, “green light” rating.
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Gingrich: ‘Russian Hacking’ Only Exposes Obama & Hillary’s Utter Incompetence
The left was not too worried about 5 foreign intel agencies hacking Hillary’s top secret email
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich says that the ‘Russian hacking’ story only exposes the fact that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were completely incompetent at cybersecurity.
“Barack Obama is now saying that his administration was so incompetent, that they stood around sucking their thumb, while the Russians snuck in and hacked an American election because of the utter incompetence of the Obama defense system,” Gingrich told Sean Hannity, expressing amazement as to why the White House would want to draw attention to such a situation.
“We’re now supposed to believe the guys who failed…because they were too stupid to protect the system,” he added, noting that the whole farce would be comedy if it was a movie.
Hannity pointed out that the media was less interested in the innumerable examples of Democrats engaging in underhanded and illegal behavior to impact an election.
- The DNC organizing violence at Trump rallies, as exposed by Project Veritas.
- The media being exposed by Wikileaks as having colluded with the Clinton campaign.
- Individuals such as Donna Brazile helping Hillary cheat by handing her debate questions.
Leftists are also less concerned about the assessment that five foreign intelligence agencies almost certainly hacked Hillary Clinton’s home brew email server, said Hannity.
[Comment: Re: The propagand of supposed Russian interference (absolutely ZERO evidence) — as Twain said (para-phrasing) “A lie can travel half way round the world before truth has put his boots on” ]
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Gun Control Movie ‘Miss Sloane’ Is a Total Box Office Flop
This past weekend, “Miss Sloane” — starring Jessica Chastain — was released in theaters across the country.
According to Fox News, the film — which premiered in select cities on Thanksgiving — casts Chastain as a no-nonsense D.C. lobbyist who is willing to do whatever it takes to roll back the Second Amendment.
Unfortunately — for both producers and gun control advocates — practically no one showed up to see Chastian’s Golden Globes-nominated performance.
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Hey Barry: If Anything Happens to Trump, Part 2
Move on, Barry I’m sure the pro-Jihadi UN could use another person like you
I feel a need to cover this, again.
– From Breitbart.com:
“In his final address to America’s armed forces, President Barack Obama reminded troops that once Donald J. Trump becomes president, soldiers have a duty to question his authority and criticize him. Obama also said the Second Amendment and global warming can be blamed for terrorism.”
What?
Obama tells US soldiers that they don’t have to obey or even listen to President Trump?
Is he going to say the same thing to American police, FBI, special agents, first responders, EMTs, and the gangs of Chicago, New York, LA, Philadelphia, and New Mexico?
Is he going to call upon BLM, MS-13, Michael Moore, Code Pink, the Old Singing retread (you know who I mean), Precious Snowflakes, Muslim Jihadists, Shariah ISIS, and the Mexican drug cartels to “keep America safe from Trump?”
Will Barry Soetoro (who calls himself by three Arab names)-start arming BLM, and anti-Second Amendment freaks, and the gangs of Chicago?
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In essence, the U.S. lawmakers are looking to close down any website that is perceived by them to counter government narrative on any matter whatsoever whilst producing propaganda and fake news stories on an industrial scale.
In America, the story surrounding President elect Donald Trump and Russian propaganda is reaching fever pitch. Before it got there six months ago, Congressmen Adam Kinzinger and Ted Lieu, proposed H.R. 5181 which sought a “whole-government approach without the bureaucratic restrictions” to counter “foreign disinformation and manipulation,” which they believe threaten the world’s “security and stability”. They quietly proposed and got through the “Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016”. To all intents and purposes as ZeroHedge puts it; this is the
“U.S. version of its very own de facto Ministry of Truth and marks a further curtailment of press freedom and another avenue to stultify avenues of accurate information.”
In the same report — “the Senate will pass (and president will sign) Bill “H.R. 6393, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017”, which was passed by the House at the end of November with an overwhelming majority and which seeks to crack down on websites suspected of conducting Russian propaganda and calling for the US government to “counter active measures by Russia to exert covert influence … carried out in coordination with, or at the behest of, political leaders or the security services of the Russian Federation and the role of the Russian Federation,” another, perhaps even more dangerous and limiting to civil rights and freedom of speech bill passed on December 8.”
In essence, the U.S. lawmakers are looking to close down any website that is perceived by them to counter government narrative on any matter whatsoever whilst producing propaganda and fake news stories on an industrial scale.
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More Evidence Pizzagate Shooting is a Psyop: The Shooter Has an IMDb Page, He’s Literally an Actor
UPDATE: The man who shot an assault rifle at Comet Ping Pong has been identified. Turns out he’s an actor.
Earlier today, just after a video surfaced about how Pizzagate might involve a government run psy-op to shut down free speech -including a prediction that some type of false flag event might be coming to Comet Ping Pong Pizza — a man walked into Comet Ping Pong armed with an AR15 and, silently, walked to the back where the ping pong tables are and shot off one round into the floor.
The blame for the incident is not mostly falling on the guy with the gun. It’s mostly falling on the “alt right” and alternative media “conspiracy theorists” for spreading “fake news” surrounding Pizzagate which “influenced” the guy with the gun…
What makes more sense after looking into this is that a very carefully constructed psyop has taken place with the goal of targeting and shutting down so-called “fake news” alternative media sites to coincide with a media campaign against “fake news” as a bastion of hate speech and cyberbullying that can have “real life victims,” while at the same time sending a large portion of the independent and alternative media down a conspiracy rabbit hole filled with speculation, allegations, and, while disturbing, what is offered comes with little real proof… unlike some of the obviously much more damaging Wikileaks which are proof of hardcore corruption on the part of the Clinton campaign which have been dumped or overlooked because of Pizzagate.
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New York Times CEO Calls on Social Media Giants to Subsidize Mainstream Media
Print media in the United States is now largely a failed business model that has been in secular decline for years. While print media’s failure is largely attributed to technological shifts that have changed consumers’ media consumption behaviors, we would argue that biased reporting and a complete lack of journalistic integrity at many “real news” outlets facilitated the decline. The American population has rejected the notion of paying for “journalistic integrity” only to get hyper-partisan, leftist, manufactured narratives in return.
That said, Mark Thompson, the President and CEO of the New York Times, is convinced that Silicon Valley’s social media and search giants are to blame for failing print newspapers around the country. And, like any good liberal, Thompson’s first reflex to fix failing businesses is to provide subsidies…and apparently he thinks the tech titans should pay those subsidies.
[Comment: If the papers were not just propaganda tools of the globalists and printed real investigative journalism of these same globalists they would not be in financial trouble. ]
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Cast your minds back to a few weeks before the US election.
Republican nominee Donald Trump repeatedly stated to anyone who would listen that the system was ‘rigged’ against him so he would lose and therefore, he might challenge the result.
The response from Democrats, and much of the media, was instant and furious as they raced to denounce this ‘unprecedented’ attack on democracy.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign went even further, branding Trump ‘un-American’.
Of course, at that stage, the Clinton camp all assumed their candidate was going to win.
It never crossed their elitist, arrogant, superior minds that Trump, a man they perceived to be an ignorant, unelectable Neanderthal, had a cat-in-hell’s chance of beating the woman dubbed ‘the most qualified candidate in history’ by President Obama.
Then Trump sensationally triumphed, sparking weeks of Biblical scale weeping and wailing from those who opposed him.
Their deluded, defiant, sore loser fury has known no bounds.
Indeed, it has now escalated in its intensity and desperation.
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Soros-Funded Group Does Hit Piece on Ben Carson
When the Southern Poverty Law Center infamously labeled retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson, at the time a candidate in the GOP primary for president and one of the most respected men in America, a “hater” for his traditional Christian values, the public outrage prompted a quick retreat.
Now another organization, Right Wing Watch, funded by leftist billionaire George Soros, has gone down the same path.
But it wasn’t the “hater” label applied to Carson; it was “grifter.”
The report from Brian Tashman was headlined “Trump picks fellow unqualified grifter and conspiracy theorist Ben Carson for HUD.”
Dictionaries define the word as someone who runs a side show at a circus, or “a swindler, dishonest gambler, or the like.”
That was just the start.
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Student Arrested After Bringing Weapons Into Trump Tower
A 19-year-old college student was arrested after entering Trump Tower with weapons and fireworks, police sources said Tuesday.
Alexander Wang was busted after strolling into the heavily guarded building at 721 Fifth Ave. at about 6:35 p.m Monday, the sources said.
When Secret Service agents checked his backpack, they found a large knife, handcuffs, water pistol, M100 firecracker and a garrote, the sources said. It wasn’t clear what the garrote, a weapon used to strangle a person, was made of.
“I always walk with them,” he said when asked why he had the items, the sources said.
[Comment: a university “educated” (re-educated?) Clinton supporter?]
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Tech Breakthrough Could Trigger the Next US Oil Boom
For all those oil sands skeptics out there: This isn’t Canada, where production is presently prohibitively expensive, and oil sands are equated with toxic trailing ponds that make environmental issues a major hurdle.
This is Utah, and more precisely, it’s Asphalt Ridge, in the heart of the western Green River Formation, where MCW Energy has been cleaning Utah’s oil sands and selling it off since the beginning of this year, with plant capacity now being augmented to 500bbl/day. And it’s all being done with zero water and zero trailing ponds.
But there is an even bigger play going on behind the scenes here-beyond the revolutionary oil sands developments: MCW’s proprietary technologies can boost production and reserve values and unlock the potential of sizable assets, not only from their estimated 89 million barrels in Utah, but also from an estimated 168 million barrels they’ve recently scooped up in Texas’ prolific Permian Basin-just for starters. This is where top producers such as Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:APC), Apache Corp. (NYSE:APA), BHP Billiton (NYSE:BHP) and Chevron Corp. (NYSE:CVX) are gathering in full force to tap America’s oldest and most prolific basin whose best days are still ahead of it.
Nor does it stop there: This proprietary technology can also be licensed out for potentially millions in sales because it not only improves the filtration of a pay zone, but it’s also poised to be the hottest new thing in global remediation-from Alberta’s trailing ponds and far beyond.
The ‘back of the envelope’ upside here is fantastic, and the future looks lucratively clean.
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Too Many Votes in 37% of Detroit’s Precincts
Voting machines in more than one-third of all Detroit precincts registered more votes than they should have during last month’s presidential election, according to Wayne County records prepared at the request of The Detroit News.
Detailed reports from the office of Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garrett show optical scanners at 248 of the city’s 662 precincts, or 37 percent, tabulated more ballots than the number of voters tallied by workers in the poll books. Voting irregularities in Detroit have spurred plans for an audit by Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson’s office, Elections Director Chris Thomas said Monday.
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U.S. Justice Department Sues Virginia County for Blocking Mosque
Complaint alleges county violated federal law when it refused to grant Islamic center permit application for sewage system
A Virginia county has discriminated against a Muslim congregation on religious grounds by halting the group’s plans to build a small mosque on its land, the U.S. Justice Department said in a lawsuit filed on Monday.
The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, alleges Culpeper County violated federal law when it refused in April to grant the Islamic Center of Culpeper’s permit application for a sewage system on its land.
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University Police Departments Use “Secret” Cell Phone Detectors to Spy on Students and Faculty
A recent article in the News Gazette, reveals how the University of Illinois police tracked a stolen cell phone to a specific classroom.
How did the police, track a stolen cell phone to a specific classroom, you ask?
Police across the country are using cell phone detectors, like the “Wolfhound-PRO” or the “PocketHound” that can track cell phones from 150 feet away indoors and up to one mile outdoors (line-of-sight).
“Wolfhound” and “PocketHound” are so secret, police don’t want you to know about them…
“We can’t disclose any legal requirements associated with the use of this equipment,” Elise Armacost, Baltimore County Police spokeswoman told the Wall Street Journal. (Source)
An article in the Daily Texan describes how the University of Texas Police use “advanced tracking tactics” to track cell phones but declined to reveal what they are. They also claimed, to have the ability to locate a cell phone even if it’s dead. (Click here to find out more.)
As you’ll see, “advanced tracking tactics” is just a euphemism for cell phone detectors. And police across the country will go to great lengths, to keep their usage a secret. Keep in mind, cell phone detectors track everyone’s cell phone signal.
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Djemila Benhabib Not Guilty of Slander, Quebec Superior Court Finds
Comments made by a secular feminist about a Montreal private Islamic school ruled to be legal by Quebec judge
A feminist, secular author did not slander a Montreal private Muslim school when she likened it to military training camps, a Quebec Superior court has found.
Author and activist Djemila Benhabib told 98.5 radio host Benoît Dutrizac the Muslim Schools in Montreal “resembles the kind of indoctrination similar to what goes on in a military camp in Afghanistan or Pakistan.”
Djemila Benhabib plagiarized columns, ruling finds
Slander trial looms for Quebec author who criticized Muslim school
In the same interview, she also said the school’s religious teachings were a form of indoctrination that conveyed sexist values. She used the example of Quranic verses which made reference to the importance of young women remaining pure.
The school accused her of “greatly tarnishing” its reputation and sued her for $95,000. It was represented by human rights lawyer Julius Grey, who argued that comparing a local school to terrorism was a dangerous tactic.
Shortly before her trial began in September, Benhabib showed little remorse.
“I regret nothing,” she said in a separate radio interview.
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Austria: ‘Their Phones Play Allahu Akbar’ Muslim Boys ‘Enforce Sharia Law… on the Playground’
SHARIA law is being enforced in the playground by Muslim schoolboys who are telling girls what is allowed, even though they know little about the faith themselves, a report has revealed.
The trend has become so common that the word Haram — referring to what is banned by Sharia law — is now regularly being heard in playgrounds throughout Austria, spawning the so-called ‘generation haram’.
The shocking claim follows an investigation carried out by Austrian magazine Biber that said Muslim schoolboys are increasingly taking it upon themselves to tell girls how to behave.
The report found the boys were ruling on what was allowed (halal) and what was a sin (haram).
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Brussels Plot to Muzzle Eurosceptics: EU Chiefs Move to Starve Right-Wing Parties of Cash
BRUSSELS has brutally cracked down on dissenting eurosceptic parties including Ukip as it hatches a plot to starve its critics of cash.
Officials at the European Union parliament passed a draconian new measure restricting funding of right-wing movements, while socialist groups will continue to rake in cash unchecked.
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‘Dark Room’: Major Western Media Remove Norway Pedophile Ring Story
In late November 2016, Norwegian police made public the arrests of a number of individuals involved in an international pedophile ring, including law enforcement officials, politicians and businesspeople. Major Western media outlets quickly published stories on the arrests — but they have since been removed.
[Comment: The Norway pedophile ring story was one of my news tips to Gates of Vienna. Since then, I’ve wondered how come I’ve haven’t come across further developments in the story.]
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Desperate French Politicians Nervous of Le Pen Victory Warn of Upheaval if She Wins Power
FRENCH politicians are getting twitchy about a win for Marine Le Pen’s National Front in next year’s elections and have warned of constitutional upheaval if she takes power and presses ahead with an EU referendum.
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Deutsche Bank Turns Over Proof of Metals Price Rigging
Some say there is honor among thieves. Perhaps, but apparently not among the banking class of criminals when they are under serious legal and regulatory pressure.
German behemoth Deutsche Bank agreed last spring to assist plaintiffs and regulators by ratting out their co-conspirator banks in a wide-ranging scheme to rig prices and cheat clients.
They cut a deal to avoid even larger monetary damages and criminal prosecution. Executives there agreed to pay nearly $100 million to settle their legal troubles and share information. In return the bank gets to deny wrongdoing and keep its license to trade in markets. The other alleged cheaters, including the Bank of Nova Scotia, UBS, Barclays, HSBC, Fortis, Standard Chartered, and Bank of America, may not get off as easy.
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End of Euro? Nigel Farage Says Italy is ‘Vital Swing State’ In Destruction of Doomed Eurozone
NIGEL FARAGE has said rising euroscepticism in Italy could be the key to the euro crumbling.
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by Srdja Trifkovic
On December 9, Geert Wilders was found guilty by a Dutch court of “incitement to anti-minority discrimination.” His crime was asking a crowd in The Hague in 2014, “Do you want more or fewer Moroccans in this city and in the Netherlands?” “Fewer, fewer!” came the reply, to which he responded: “I’ll take care of that!” That was enough to get Wilders arrested and put on trial nine months ago, and convicted last Friday.
Wilders called the verdict “madness” and promised to fight back, but other Europeans accused of deviant thoughts are not as sanguine. In late 2015, Christoph Biro, editor-in-chief of Austria’s top-circulation daily, the Kronen Zeitung, was charged with “hate speech” for writing that “young men, testosterone-fueled Syrians, carry out extremely aggressive sexual attacks.” Only weeks later, the New Year’s Eve orgy of rape and sexual assaults by Muslim immigrants in Germany and elsewhere in Europe provided ample empirical evidence of Biro’s assertions. He nevertheless had to take a month-long leave of absence, and was subsequently pressurized into confessing, Moscow-1936-style, that he had “lost a sense of proportion.” That will not save him from standing trial in Graz next year.
The writing on Europe’s wall was clear a decade ago, when the late Oriana Fallaci—for decades Italy’s best-known journalist—was indicted in the Italian city of Bergamo for “hate crimes” and “defaming Islam.” Fallaci, a self-described “Christian atheist” and a leftist, in the aftermath of 9/11 had become an outspoken foe of Europe’s Islamization. Her 2002 book The Rage and the Pride caused a sensation. It is not just the Western culture and way of life that the jihadist hates, she wrote. Blinded as they are by cultural myopia, the Westerners should understand that a war of religion was in progress, a war that the enemy calls Jihad, which seeks the disappearance of our freedom and our civilization. It wants to annihilate, she wrote…
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Filmmaker Ami Horowitz Attacked by Muslim Gang in Swedish No-Go Zone
Documentary filmmaker Ami Horowitz, whose work has been featured often on TruthRevolt, traveled recently to a ‘no-go’ zone in Stockholm, Sweden, and ended up getting punched, kicked and choked by five Muslim migrants who didn’t want to be filmed.
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Italian Priest Nixes Nativity Scene to Avoid Offending Muslims
An Italian priest has decided to break with tradition and not set up a Nativity scene in his town’s cemetery this Christmas — in order to avoid offending Muslims, Milan’s Corriere della Sera reported on Friday.
Father Sante Braggie, chaplain of the Municipal Cemetery of Cremona and curate of the local parish in Northern Italy, said the display was typically set up within eyesight of a “small corner of the cemetery” that was “reserved for Muslim graves.”
“A crib positioned within sight of them could be seen as a lack of respect for followers of other faiths, hurt the sensibilities of Muslims, as well as Indians and even atheists,” Braggie said, according to a translation published in Express. “In short, it would be a mess.”
Braggie’s predecessor, Father Oreste Mori, was incredulous.
“Seriously? I can’t believe it,” Mori said. “We cannot renounce our culture and traditions. That would be an unpardonable weakness.”…
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Italy: Top Court Nixes Tax Breaks for Religious Hotels
Unless they offer ‘significantly below-market’ rates
(supersedes previous)(ANSA) — Rome, December 13 — Hotels and pensions run by religious bodies and non-profits must offer “significantly” below-market rates if they want to enjoy tax breaks, Italy’s supreme Court of Cassation ruled Tuesday.
Not doing so undermines free competition by giving those facilities an unfair advantage tantamount to undeserved State aid to the detriment of the private sector, the court found.
The ruling upheld an Internal Revenue Agency appeal against IRES business tax breaks for a lay Catholic women’s boarding house in Turin, called the Istituto delle Rosine.
The Cassation Court judges found that the boarding house is “de facto” being operated as a hotel, that it is open to the public, with facilities being rented out at market prices, and that it might have been managed by any private entrepreneur.
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Italy: Factbox: New PM Gentiloni Keeps Most of Renzi’s Cabinet
Adds new ministry tasked with southern regions
(ANSA) — Rome, December 12 — Italy’s newly appointed Premier Paolo Gentiloni has kept on most of the same ministers seen in the last government under Matteo Renzi. Some 12 ministers will be continuing in the same role, while one will switch roles (Angelino Alfano) and two others had been undersecretaries. Anna Finocchiaro and Valeria Fedeli will be new.
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Italy: ENI to Hit Record Output Next Year
1.84 million barrels a day
(ANSA) — New York, December 13 — Oil and gas giant ENI will reach a record output of 1.84 million barrels a day next year, CEO Claudio Descalzi said Tuesday in illustrating the results and forecasts from a transformation that began in 2014. “In less than three years,” he said, “we have achieved the highest organic growth in the industry with an increase in production of over 15%, or more than 250,000 barrels a day,” he said. Descalzi said ENI had managed to “halve the breakeven of our projects and freed up inactive capital via the productive launch of major projects and an extremely reduced time to market”. He said ENI would continue to expand.
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Italy: Fini Brother-in-Law, Dad-in-Law in Money Laundering Probe
Ex-AN Monte Carlo house involved
(ANSA) — Rome, December 13 — Sergio and Giancarlo Tulliani, father-in-law and brother-in-law of former House Speaker Gianfranco Fini, are among those probed in a Rome investigation into a money-laundering ring that saw the arrest of former MP Amedeo Laboccetta of Silvio Berlusconi’s now-defunct People of Freedom (PdL) party among others, sources said Tuesday. Giancarlo Tulliani was linked to Fini’s fall from grace after being Berlusconi’s one-time heir-apparent, over a Monte Carlo house belonging to Fini’s former post-Fascist party that was sold to Tulliani, and was the centre of a 2010 probe.
According to prosecutors, Giancarlo Tulliani put at the disposal of one of those arrested, Rudolf Baetsen, linked to arrested businessman Franco Corallo, two offshore companies to launder money through the Antilles.
Baetsen is accused of funding, via three offshore companies linked to Tulliani, the purchase of the Monte Carlo house that had been owned by Fini’s now-defunct hard right National Alliance (AN) party.
The ring allegedly laundered around the world taxes dodged from video lotteries and online betting.
More than 200 agents of Italy’s finance police conducted 80 searches of individuals and companies as part of the money-laundering probe by the Rome prosecutor’s office in which 20 people are under investigation.
The searches were conducted across Italy in connection with money laundering of more than 60 million euros by shell companies that allegedly issued false invoices.
Additional companies are still being investigated and the total figure of money laundered may rise, investigators said.
The organisation was based in Rome, police said.
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See Undercover Video of ‘No-Go Zones’ For Women in France
Should be ‘wake-up call’ for U.S. cities importing Muslim migrants
An undercover video report shows women openly barred from entering pubs and cafe’s in Muslim-majority areas of France, and a civil-rights group says it has launched a crusade to reclaim the areas for French women.
Two undercover French women tried to enter a café in Sevran, a suburb of Paris, and were told to stay outside and wait for their male family member. They were not allowed to enter alone.
“In this café, there is no mixing,” someone can be heard telling them on the undercover video.
“Is this normal?” one of them asks.
“We are in Sevran. Not in Paris. It’s a different mentality,” the man tells her, adding, “It is like back home [in the Middle East].”
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Terrorist Plan to Bomb British Christmas Shoppers Foiled — Six Arrested
British police say they prevented a major terrorist plot to bomb Christmas shoppers from being carried out by raiding properties in London and the Midlands and arresting six suspected Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) sympathizers.
In the early hours of Monday, armed forces conducting a raid on a suspected bomb-making property seized four men from Derby, as well as a man from Burton and a woman from London, all aged 22 to 36, after army bomb squads had cordoned off the streets.
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UK: Amir Khan’s Parents Slam His Wife Faryal for UN-Islamic Clothes, As They Deny ‘Abuse’ Claims.
AMIR KHAN’S wife Faryal Makhdoom previously hit out at his family claiming they tried to destroy her marriage, and now his parents have responded to her accusations.
The boxer’s spouse, 25, went on a lengthy Snapchat rant last week, in which she stated that she was “bullied physically and mentally” by his family.
However, his mother Falak and father Shah have now revealed how they fell out with the model over her clothing but slammed her suggestion that she had been mistreated by them.
Shah, 54, commented: “Faryal was adopting a dress code which in the Islamic faith was not acceptable.”
Amir’s dad continued: “I am a father to two daughters whom I have treated exactly the same way as I have treated Farya.”
[So it’s not abuse. It’s just Islam.]
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UK: Exclusive: ‘Public Services Still Not Dealing Properly With Child Grooming’
Healthcare systems are even now lagging behind in their ability to respond adequately to child sexual exploitation, a senior Bradford politician has claimed. A catalogue of mistakes and missed opportunities has been acknowledged at both Bradford Council and West Yorkshire Police in their protection of a young girl in the district in 2011 and 2012. The teenager, known only as Autumn, was just 13 and 14 when she was repeatedly sexually abused by a gang of Asian men.
In a Serious Case Review into her care, it emerged she was sent home by her GP with contraceptives and literature after telling them she had been raped at the age of just 13. This “inadequate” response failed to meet child protection responsibilities to safeguard Autumn, the report published last week found.
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Unicredit to Raise 13 Billion Euros in Italy’s Biggest Share Issue
Italy’s largest bank, UniCredit (CRDI.MI), plans to raise 13 billion euros ($13.8 billion) in the country’s biggest-ever share issue to shore up its balance sheet and shield itself from a broader banking crisis.
The plans announced on Tuesday also include 14,000 job cuts and more than 900 branch closures. They come at a turbulent time for Italian banks and the economy — with Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS.MI) at risk of failure, a new government just installed in Rome and early elections expected next year.
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What Was Behind the Trial of Geert Wilders?
Much has been made of the 2016 populist revolt in the West, beginning with Britain’s June 23 decision to leave the European Union, and culminating with the victory of president-elect Donald Trump on November 8. The narrative of change is understandably seductive, but has recently been dealt successive blows by the domestic circumstances that so characterize European politics.
Despite traditions of liberty being placed at the heart of the successful Trump campaign, the promise of a new economic approach also enabled him to cross the line on election day.
The Brexit vote similarly took place under a referendum that allowed Britain’s voting populace to defy the stated preference of the majority of their elected parliamentarians.
The most disturbing recent development on the European continent, however, was Friday’s conviction of Geert Wilders on two charges, “inciting discrimination and insulting a minority group,” for asking supporters whether they wanted “fewer Moroccans” in the Netherlands, at a small public rally in a bar in The Hague, on March 19, 2014.
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Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Cairo Bombing
The militant group said a suicide bomber had detonated his explosive belt inside the church.
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at Cairo’s main Coptic cathedral that killed 25 people, mainly women and children. The group said in a statement that a suicide bomber whom it identified as Abu Abaallah al-Masri had detonated his explosive belt inside the church. It also threatened more attacks against Christians.
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Life Under Islamic State Rule: The Lost Barbers
Khazir Camp, Iraq —
In Mosul, Iraq, under so-called Islamic State, whippings and imprisonment for unacceptable haircuts and clothing are commonplace, say fleeing residents. For special occasions, however, barbers still cut and shave in secret, facing dire consequences if they are caught making modern styles. As Abdullah shaves a client at a camp about 30 kilometers from his home city, the 21-year-old man tells VOA about the dangers of being a barber in Mosul. His account, similar to many, has been edited for clarity.
Before Islamic State, my six brothers and I owned five barber shops; but, when they [IS] took over, I started only shaving beards and cutting men’s hair at home in secret.
Even if we shaved the beards just slightly differently from their requirements, a scruffy beard and hair all of the same length, we could be arrested. For a small infraction, they would take us to the graveyard at night to dig graves and bury bodies.
[Obviously, barbers are evil and Islam is a religion of peace.]
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Austria: Migrant Guilty of Rape Begins Retrial as Defence Claims He Didn’t Know if Boy Gave Consent
The retrial of a migrant accused of raping a boy at a swimming pool has begun today.
The re-opening of the case is forcing the schoolboy back to court to testify after his appeal team won the right to a retrial.
The child is having to testify again after the defence argued not enough was done to find out if the migrant knew the boy did not agree to the assault.
Critics pointed out that the defence objection was pointless as the boy being a minor could never have agreed to the act.
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France’s No Go Zones: Women Fight Back After Being Banned From Streets by Muslim Men
FRENCH women have launched a fightback to reclaim areas of the country turned into no go zones by Muslim men as a shocking report lays bare the state of social segregation caused by mass migration.
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Gang ‘Smuggled Islamists Into UK’ With Fake Passports
Hundreds of illegal Iranian migrants including suspected Islamist terrorists, were smuggled into Britain by a gang selling fake passports for up to £12,500, Greek investigators have said.
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Globalist Business Leaders Pile on Pressure for Open Borders
Businesses should “work together in common cause” to spread a “unified message” of welcome and acceptance to refugees and migrants, an organisation co-founded by Richard Branson has said.
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Italy Court Jails Migrant Shipwreck Captain for 18 Years
An Italian court ruled on Tuesday that the captain of a migrant boat that sank in 2015, killing up to 900 people, was responsible for the Mediterranean’s worst disaster since World War II.
Judges in Catania ordered Mohammed Ali Malek, a Tunisian national, to serve 18 years in jail for multiple manslaughter, human trafficking and causing the tragedy after the packed boat capsized after colliding with a freighter coming to its aid.
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Migrant Sex Attack: Criminal to Leave Germany Now Arrested for Rape
The Moroccan identified as Adil B., aged 34, was told he had to leave the country in May this year after his appeal for residency was rejected.
He had arrived in the town of Holzminden in December and informed in April 2016 that he would not be allowed to stay.
But like many unaccompanied young men, he went underground and vanished off the radar.
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Soros Think Tank Claims Russia Could Engineer Migrant Sex Attacks to Boost Right-Wing Parties
An “expert” from the George Soros-funded and founded European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) claims intelligence agencies in Russia and Syria could set migrant sex mobs on German women in order to swing the country’s federal election.
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UK: Number of Immigrant Kids Going Through School System Doubles in Five Years
The number of children from immigrant backgrounds taking Germany’s university entrance exams has doubled in just five years.
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Major Decision on Gender Mandate for Churches
A strategy that has surfaced in several states to require churches to accommodate transgendered people by calling their buildings “places of public accommodation” has been reversed in Massachusetts after state officials were sued over the alleged constitutional violations.
The Alliance Defending Freedom says four Massachusetts churches and their pastors are voluntarily dismissing their lawsuit after the state changed its “Gender Identity Guidance.”
ADF brought its complaint in October against Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination commissioners Jamie R. Williamson, Sunila T. George and Charlotte G. Richie, and Attorney General Maura Healey.
Massachusetts makes “gender identity” a special class, granting more protections than ordinary citizens.
Under the measure, the attorney general had claimed “houses of worship” are places of “public accommodation,” and members, therefore, cannot even express ideas concerning “religious expression regarding biological sex and gender identity.”
The complaint alleged state officials decided to interpret the law “to force churches to open church changing rooms, shower facilities, restrooms, and other intimate areas [to people] based on their perceived gender identity, and not their biological sex, in violation of the churches’religious beliefs.”
Now the case is being dismissed, because the state has retreated.
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Preschool Teaching Kids ‘Intersex’ And ‘Genderqueer’
Sexual indoctrination of American school children continues
Instead of learning “boys and girls”, kids as young as seven will learn about polyromantics and genderqueers.
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Tony Perkins: Tillerson Helped Make Boy Scouts Go ‘Gay’
Conservative champion appalled by Trump’s pick for secretary of state
Nominee Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil, not only has been supportive of the abortion industry, through his company’s donations to abortionists, but also played a key role in opening the Boy Scouts to homosexuality.
Those accomplishments have left Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council appalled at the idea of Tillerson continuing the pro-abortion, pro-homosexual agenda outlined by Hillary Clinton and followed by John Kerry at the State Department.
“FRC knows Tillerson all too well, having worked for years to put the brakes on his reckless agenda for a scouting organization that was already dealing with staggering numbers of sexual abuse cases,” he wrote in a recent commentary online.
“Unfortunately, [Boy Scouts of America,] under Tillerson, ultimately caved to the pressure of the far-left, irreparably splitting the Scouts and destroying a proud and honorable American tradition,” he said.
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U.N. Claims Plan Will Eliminate Graft — Worldwide
Famed for shady activities, international body boasts of its ‘Convention against Corruption’
Climate change conference at the U.N. in New York in November 2015.
The United Nations, which has what the New York Post called a “long, sordid tale of corrupt” leadership,” has a plant to eliminate graft by 2030, not just within the U.N. but worldwide, reports Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
The U.N. headlines a report on its website “Graft will no longer exist in world transformed by 2030 Agenda, says secretary-general at anti-corruption excellence awards.”
[Comment: In other words, the UN will seek to eliminate their competition worldwide. They desire a monopoly on graft.]
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That Tunisian captain ought to be awarded a medal for the fortune he saved EU taxpayers. Also for the crime he prevented from occuring. Imagine how many women avoided being raped because their would-be rapists wound up drowned in the Mediterranean instead…
Or maybe not all is bad for a poor Mohammad? Instead of doing a dirty and dangerous job for Soros, he will live 18 years in a comfy european all inclusive cell in a big company of his brothers. All courtesy of kuffar taxpayers. He may even get pardoned after couple of years, get state benefits and knife an infidel or two.
Nah, if he’d gone free, he’d just go back to ferrying more and more in. This way, we’ve avoided another 900 reinforcements in the culture wars *and* cut off another point of entry for future ones!
An interesting site in Australia, that takes up the news of the day that pertain to immigration, islam and “antifa”.
Also legal actions and how the State and Federal components react.
https://m.facebook.com/unitedpatriotsfront/?refid=8&_ft_=qid.6363609746775600089%3Amf_story_key.6296034119876029441%3Atop_level_post_id.10206166972692134&__tn__=C
8 mins 16 seconds
To glance though this site brings much more of the news and some of the problems in Australia, and around the world, with this Aussie understanding, that relate to the above topics.
Sorry, I did not realize that the original url would extend out.
This is a tiny url, just to the same facebook site
http://tinyurl.com/j6lvyg9
There you can decide whether to look at any news videos, reports or other tapes, as well as view the articles.
From the Huffington Post
‘United Patriots Front’ Leader Charged With Serious Religious Vilification
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/12/12/united-patriots-front-leader-charged-with-serious-religious-vi/
Unfortunately this guy, Blair Cottrell does seem a bit mixed up, though to give the guy a chance,
Still as I look into him a bit more, there is some ideological baggage.
Just hope he learns, polishes up, and becomes like an Aussie version of Tommy Robinson, and can lead a group out in the clear with out contamination of other ideologies, where he has brushed against.
I now figure it may be a bit early to say as like many, they have a learning curve to go through to understand where they are at.
Time will tell if others can help and guide him, to stay out of pitfalls, so that he can be effective.
Also that others can also grow on, and focus on the problems, become skilled in handling the media, and bring forward factual persuavive reasoning information to inform all.
And great thanks to Baron and Dymphna in guiding us in that too.
I really do appreciate the articles that relate to Constitution of the USA, and other principles that help Democracies and maintain Western Civilization.
You should have put up that Cottrell’s hero is none other than Adolph Hitler. He is way too head strong to convince him otherwise and he grasps at those things that really make no sense to the observer. He needs guidance alright, all the way back to prison!
Oh, Sweden…
https://youtu.be/RqaIgeQXQgI
A good man, this priest.
Let us tear down the churches or at least put a crescent mon on top of it.
So to avoid muslim grievances.
Coming to think about it, let us all get to be muslims.
The best way to get rid of any misunderstandings…
At least then we can finally kill all the false muslims (and munafiq, faseeq) without moral dilemma.
Hey you, do pray 5 times a day, yes I mean you!!!
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Moment documentary maker ‘is punched, kicked and choked by five migrants’ after entering ‘no-go’ zone in Swedish city
US producer Ami Horowitz was examining the effects of immigration in Sweden. He said he was immediately set upon after entering the Husby area of Stockholm. Film-maker says he was beaten and choked after being dragged into a building
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4024854/Moment-documentary-maker-punched-kicked-choked-five-migrants-entering-no-zone-Swedish-city.html#ixzz4SpMLFoq1
Sooner or just drop an the road a major war must be in the offing. Unlesse of course everything is new under the sun. Personally I am betting on the same old – same old.
Auto correct again: “Sooner or later just down the road,”
I’ve just found myself agreeing with the egregious Piers Morgan! Excuse me, I may need to go and lie down for a whle.
I’ve just found myself agreeing with the egregious Piers Morgan! Excuse me, I may need to go and lie down for a while.