Updates on the terror attack in Stockholm:
- An undetonated explosive device was found in the truck that killed four pedestrians before it crashed.
- An 11-year-old girl was among those killed. One of her legs was completely smashed and the other ripped from her body by the truck. Swedish media suppressed photos of her corpse.
- Authorities confirm that the suspected driver of the truck, an Uzbek national, has been arrested. According to leaks, his name is Rustam Akhmedov.
In other news, the Italian government announced that it will close the Mestre Mosque in Venice after investigators determined that the three Kosovars who plotted to blow up the Rialto Bridge attended prayers there.
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Border Agents Upset by Trump Pick of Obama Holdover
(BREITBART) — The Trump Administration rewarded Border Patrol agents for their support of Trump as president by picking an Obama holdover whom they despise to be their boss.
Trump chose the Obama-hired Customs and Border deputy who was tasked with enacting Obama’s open border vision to lead the parent agency of Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection (CBP). All of the Border Patrol agents who spoke with Breitbart Texas Managing Director Brandon Darby from all nine Southwest border sectors expressed feeling betrayed or otherwise hurt by Trump choosing a man who did so much damage to them to be their new boss. Many expressed regret for having supported Trump in the first place and for having believed he would actually listen to them and care about what they experienced while risking their lives for other Americans.
The feelings of betrayal come just days after the announcement of Obama-hire Kevin McAleenan as the next Commissioner of CBP. While the organization that represents the agents, the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) has not spoken about the nomination, Darby spoke about how the line agents feel let down. His comments were made on the Texas radio show The Pursuit of Happiness.
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Chuck Schumer Forces the Question: What to Do With Insane Liberals?
The initial case for housing progressives in internment camps was floated shortly after Trump’s victory by feverish leftist minds convinced that his first presidential act would be to imprison or even kill anyone who stood in the way of his hellacious agenda. Although President-Elect Trump dismissed the notion, perhaps hopeful that the fire of progressive insanity his election had unleashed would eventually burn itself out, he might be wise to reconsider the idea, as liberal lunacy has gone from flickering to supernova.
The latest blast of Democrat dementia came courtesy of Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, whose descent into madness bottomed out in a New York City restaurant after he spied longtime Democratic Party power couple Joseph Califano and his wife Hilary.
Despite Hilary Califano’s liberal pedigree, she had openly admitted to voting for Trump, an act of progressive heresy so great that the sight of the apostate was enough to prompt the erratic Schumer to go over and loudly berate her, in a scene so unpleasant that it forced the couple to cut short their meal and head for the exit.
Schumer’s harangue was incomplete, so naturally he followed the Califanos onto the sidewalk and began yelling repeatedly, “She voted for Trump! How could you vote for Trump? He’s a liar!”
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Fighting Fire With Federalism: Gorka’s Visionary Plan for the Islamic World
On April 1st, Ruth Sherlock interviewed White House counterterrorism strategist and Deputy Assistant to the President, Dr. Seb Gorka, in a refreshingly positive article in the London Telegraph (“Exclusive: The most powerful Briton in America on what it’s really like in Donald Trump’s White House.”)
Sherlock’s article chronicles Dr. Gorka’s meteoric rise from the studious classrooms at Fort McNair where he has taught America’s warfighters for many years all the way to the White House — evidence of the new meritocracy that has arisen from the ashes of Swampland’s pre-existing condition of idiocracy.
As made abundantly clear in her article, on this April 1st — known to many as April Fool’s Day — the only real April fools are those Obama partisans still taking aim at Dr. Gorka and other brave members of the Trump national security team brought to Washington on a long-needed wave of American renewal, and committed to draining the swamp of its bloated, self-serving incompetence.
As Dr. Gorka told The Telegraph: “Look, our struggle, our war — I’m going to use the word war, is with what I call the global jihadi movement. It’s rooted in the politicized version of Islam.” Dr. Gorka added, thoughtfully: “Killing terrorists is great. If you can’t capture them, you kill them. But at the end of the day you have to stop people wanting to become terrorists.”
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Search engine Google will begin warning users that claims made in search results and news articles are disputed by fact-checking sites, the latest effort to combat so-called “fake news.”
In a blog post Friday, the search giant announced changes which they claim are intended to help users discern fact from fiction.
“With thousands of new articles published online every minute of every day, the amount of content confronting people online can be overwhelming. And unfortunately, not all of it is factual or true, making it hard for people to distinguish fact from fiction,” the company wrote.
[Comment: In this globalist run world. Up is down and down is up. So to understand what Google is really doing just reverse the words in the headline. Doing this, the headline now becomes “Google Fights ‘Fact News’ With ‘Fake Check’ in Search Results”]
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Jared Kushner is Sabotaging the Trump Administration
Jared Kushner Is Sabotaging the Trump Administration This is both unbelievable and yet so predictable. What is Jared Kushner even doing anywhere near the White House? No one voted for Jared Kushner. No one believed that he would have any role in the administration. When Trump was on the campaign trail, he went out of his to portray his opponents as “puppets” of Goldman Sachs. After he won the election, he picked Gary Cohn, the president of Goldman Sachs, to be his topic economic adviser because he is Jared Kushner’s friend and was able to worm his way into the administration…
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Mizzou Shutters Dorms, Enrollment Plummets
(College Fix) The public university that gave us Melissa “Muscle” Click — and announced open season on student journalists that try to cover social justice warriors — continues to suffer fallout from the November 2015 melee.
The University of Missouri is shutting down three dorms next year because of low freshman enrollment, The Maneater reports.
Technically they are being taken “offline” to see if enrollment bumps back up, and “most or all” staff will keep their jobs, Residential Life Director Frankie Minor said in an email obtained by the paper:
[Comment: Parents don’t want to pay for their kinds to be transformed into professional wingnuts.]
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The Real Russiagate: Obama’s Stasi State
Wall Street Journal editorialist Kimberley A. Strassel poses the real question: Why hasn’t the Trump administration had the Secret Service to arrest Comey, Brennan, Schiff, the DNC and Hillary for trying to overthrow the President of the United States? “Mr. Nunes has said he has seen proof that the Obama White House surveilled the incoming administration-on subjects that had nothing to do with Russia-and that it further unmasked (identified by name) transition officials. This goes far beyond a mere scandal. It’s a potential crime.” www.wsj.com/articles/what-devin-nunes-knows-1490914396
What we are watching is turning out to be traces of a plot against a government elected by the American people. Attempts to get at the truth by House national security committee Chairman Devin Nunes have been countered with demands by Democrats to recuse himself so as to stop his exposé of how “Team Obama was spying broadly on the incoming administration.”…
We are now in a position to see the real story behind “Russiagate.” It’s not about Russia. The real news is the Obama regime’s abuse of the government’s surveillance powers to spy on Donald Trump and other Republicans in order to build a dossier for the DNC to leak to the press in an attempt to slander or compromise Trump and throw the election to Hillary.
They’ve been caught, but we can now see that they took steps to protect themselves against this. They prepared a cover story. They pretend they were not spying on Trump, but on Russians — which only by fortuitous happenchance turned up alleged incriminating smoke against Trump.
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The series — which wrapped production in March — will follow the legendarily quick-witted insult comic as he dines out with and interviews Hollywood celebrities at his favorite Los Angeles restaurants.
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Scotland Could Leave U.K. … and Join Canada
(BBC News) As Scotland pushes for a second referendum on independence, one man is asking the previously unthinkable — if you’re going to quit the UK, why not join Canada?
Canadian writer Ken McGoogan says the unorthodox alliance makes sense.
“I think it would be terrific for both Scotland and Canada,” he says.
McGoogan first laid out his proposal in an opinion piece published in Canadian newspaper the Globe and Mail, where he argued that advancements in telecommunication technology and transatlantic travel have rendered pesky things like geographical boundaries “irrelevant” .
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Czech Republic to Hold Parliamentary Election on October 20-21
PRAGUE (Sputnik) — In a Thursday speech, broadcast by the local Barrandov television channel, Zeman explained the choice of the date by the need to provide people with time for examining the platforms of parties and candidates.
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Italy: Tunisian Who Wanted to Join ISIS Deported
Resident at Recanati
(ANSA) — Rome, April 7 — Italy bon Friday deported a Tunisian man who allegedly wanted to join Islamic State (ISIS) The 34-year-old, resident at Recanati near Macerata in the Marche region, was placed on a Casablanca-bound flight.
The man, Younef Faraoussi, was taken into custody at 07:00 yesterday atthe house he shared with his parents in the Marche town .
Faraoussi was very active on social networks, especially Facebook, where he had frequently approved “the extremist positions of certain individuals supporting Islamic State, and radical ideologies of a jihadist nature,” police said.
He is the 31st person deported for terror reasons this year, Interior Minister Marco Minniti said.
Since January 2015, 163 individuals gravitating in extremist religious circles have been deported, he said. The Tunisian, who had a record of petty crime, was flagged by police in a probe into two co-nationals who flew tothe Syrian-Iraqi area to fight for ISIS in January 2015, judicial sources said.
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Italy: Court Orders Uber Black Stop
Upholds taxi drivers’ suit for unfair competition
(ANSA) — Milan, April 7 — A Rome court on Friday ordered the suspension within 10 days of the Uber Black app, or chauffeur-driven black saloon services operating in the capital and Milan. It also ordered Uber to stop the Uber-Lux, Uber-SUV, Uber-X, Uber-XL, UberSelect and Uber-Van services. The court upheld a suit by taxi drivers claiming the apps constituted unfair competition. Italy’s taxi drivers have staged a series of strikes, some violent, against the multinational’s ride-hailing apps.
Uber Italia said it would appeal the decision, which was based “on a 25-year-old law that no longer reflects the times, so thousands of professional drivers can continue to work thanks to the Uber app and enables people to have greater choice”.
It said “now the government cannot waste more time but must decide whether it wants to remains anchored in the past, safeguarding rentier positions, or to allow Italians to benefit from new technologies like Uber”.
The US multinational said it was “stunned” at a ruling that “goes against the recent Milleproroghe decree and European Union norms”.
In its ruling, the court found that Uber had claimed an “undue advantage” over taxi drivers.
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Italy: 15 Sent to Trial for Mineo Cara Graft
Odevaine plea-bargained 10 mths
(ANSA) — Catania, April 7 — A Catania judge on Friday sent 15 people to trial for alleged bid-rigging on services for the asylum seekers’ centre (CARA) at Mineo near Catania.
The head of the committee that handed out the contracts, Luca Odevaine,has already plea-bargained 10 months as part of the sprawling Capital Mafia case in Rome.
That plea-bargain, however, has been ruled invalid and Odevaine may be sent to trial unless a fresh bargain is accepted, judicial sources said.
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Italy: Parish Worker ‘Abused Choirboys for Over a Year’
Factory worker arrested near Caserta Thursday
(ANSA) — Caserta, April 7 — A parish worker sexually abused three choirboysnear Caserta for over a year, police said Friday.
The man, a 35-year-old factory worker in charge of choirboys, had become a catechist at the parish.
He was sacked by the parish priest when the abuse came to light some weeks ago.
A 14-year-old victim exposed the abuse when he reported the worker’s groping to his father, judicial sources said.
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Italy: Mestre Mosque Ordered to Shut Down
Frequented by three Kosovar jihadists in Rialto Bridge bomb plot
(ANSA) — Venice, April 7 — A Mestre mosque frequented by three Kosovars allegedly planning to bomb Venice’s Rialto Bridge has been given three days toclose, sources said Friday.
The order was handed to the Bangladeshi clerics who run the mosque, informing them that its activity did not comply with its official use.
The Kosovar jihadists, who lived in central Venice, were arrested last month after a probe in which they were taped allegedly saying it would be easy to find paradise by bombing Venice “because of all the Christians here”.
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Italy: Alfano Met Julian-Dalmatian Exiles, ‘They Keep Memory Alive’
And strengthen bilateral relations with Slovenia and Croatia
(ANSA) — ROME — “Federesuli is a set of associations of extraordinary importance because of the positive role they play both domestically and internationally, while spreading awareness of the tragedy Julian-Dalmatian exodus.At the same time, thanks to its constructive approach, the Federation remains a key factor in strengthening bilateral relations with Slovenia and Croatia “. Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano has welcomed with these words in Rome a delegation of the Federation of Exiles from Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia headed by the chairman, Antonio Ballarin, the Foreign Ministry reported.”I am convinced that the relations of the Julian-Dalmatian Associations with their native lands will also be strengthened in terms of economic growth and enhancement of a multicultural area, consistent with the common EU membership”, said Alfano, who also reassured president Ballarin that “our Embassies in Ljubljana and Zagreb pay a lot of attention to the Exiles’ interest”. The Foreign Minister has therefore welcomed the recent meeting at Palazzo Chigi of the Government-Exiles Coordination Committee and, with regard to the sums of money that Slovenia and Croatia owe to Italy according tothe 1983 Agreement signed in Rome, he added that “ they should be aimed at supporting the Exiles’ initiatives, including the establishment of a Foundation”.
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Report: Young People in Poland ‘Predominantly Support Radical Right’
“Anti-establishment” parties which lie on the ‘radical right’ of the political spectrum enjoy the most support amongst young people in Poland, new research has found.
Conducted by the Institute of Public Affairs and pollster Kantar Public, the survey found Polish youths are significantly more likely to describe themselves as right wing than left wing. According to the data, 68 per cent of 15-24-year-olds described their political views as conservative while 30 per cent said they were on the left.
According to the survey, young Poles are increasingly rejecting mainstream parties with the Eurosceptic, anti-mass migration parties like Kukiz’15 and Freedom attracting by far the most support from respondents.
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Romania: PM Meets Exxonmobil and Omv Petrom Representatives
“We will support hydrocarbons offshore production”
(ANSA) — TRIESTE — Romanian Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu met the representatives of the consortium made up by ExxonMobil and Omv Petrom, assuring them that the government will support the investment projects to develop new sources of offshore hydrocarbons, Ibna said. Bucharest wants “to ensure Romania’s energy security, as well as to harness the energy resources, in a competitive and lasting way”, a government release informs. On March 2, the government established an inter-ministerial committee for technical support to the projects aiming the Black Sea.
Grindeanu said that “the government is firmly committed to ensure the necessary regulation framework to attract and develop such projects in Romania. These projects ensure the access to updated technologies, know-how transfer, support Romania’s energy security and meet the need to promote investments in the oil and gas sector”.
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Sweden: How a Country Labelled the ‘Safest Place on Earth’ Became a Terror Target
[Y]esterday’s killings come two months after US President Donald Trump was ridiculed around the world for making reference to a non-existent terror attack in the country.
His outspoken remarks, in which he also said Sweden was ‘having problems like they never thought possible’, drew a wave of international criticism.
But it prompted renewed debate over Sweden’s refugee policy, which has seen it described as ‘the most welcoming country in the world’.
[Comment: Globalist political class have betrayed their country…Sweden is the test tube of the globalist plan to disintegrate nation states. Be sure to read the comments to the article.]
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A homemade bomb has reportedly been found in the lorry used to kill at least four people in Stockholm.
Police sources told public broadcaster SVT the device was found in a bag, and had not been detonated, adding that the attacker had “burned himself”.
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Sweden Terror: Eleven-Year-Old Girl Killed in Stockholm Truck Attack
AN 11-YEAR-OLD girl was one of four people brutally murdered on Friday after a suspected jihadi terrorist ploughed a beer delivery truck into a crowded shopping street in Stockholm.
The girl was on her way home from school when the murderer deliberately drove the hijacked truck into a crowd of people before crashing into a department store.
Relatives of the youngster confirmed to local media she had been killed in the attack.
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Sweden: Police Confirm Suspect is an Uzbek National
A man who was arrested on Friday is thought to be the driver of the truck that crashed into the Åhléns department store, killing four people. He is held by the police suspected of terrorist crime by murder.
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Westminster Bridge Attack Victim Andreea Cristea Dies
A Romanian woman who fell into the Thames during the Westminster terror attack has died, police have said.
Andreea Cristea is the fifth victim of the attack on 22 March, in which Khalid Masood drove into crowds on Westminster Bridge then stabbed a policeman to death, before being shot dead himself.
Ms Cristea, 31, who was on holiday with boyfriend Andrei Burnaz, had been in hospital since the attack.
It has emerged that Mr Burnaz had been planning to propose during the day out.
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Ronald Reagan must be grimacing in heaven as he witnesses America fund the very forces in Europe he labored to defeat. In Macedonia, a beacon of conservatism in a heavily liberal Europe, U.S. taxpayer dollars are bankrolling a multitude of George Soros’ chaos-creating leftist organizations to oppose and ultimately defeat the pro-American, center-right government there, known by the acronym VMRO-DPMNE (pronounced “VOOM-row”). We have Barack Obama and his ambassadorial minion, Jess Baily, to thank for this turn of events. We should pay careful attention to Soros’s activities in Macedonia, for they serve as a useful case study in the methods he uses to sow discord throughout the world, including in the United States.
Through a U.S. Agency for International Development program called the Civil Society Project, the U.S. government funneled nearly $5 million to Soros-backed groups in Macedonia between 2012 and 2016. Just prior to the U.S. presidential election in 2016, the CSP program in Macedonia was extended from 2017 to 2021 and its funding increased to $9.5 million.
A little recent history on Macedonia reveals how remarkable is the shift in direction that has occurred in the diminutive country during the Obama years. Macedonia had been part of the formerly Communist Yugoslavia. Following the Reagan-promoted dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, its ally, Yugoslavia, completely unraveled. In its wake, Macedonia, Yugoslavia’s southernmost republic, achieved peaceful independence.
[Comment: Why are US taxpayers funding this malignant toad’s destability operations?]
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Thousands Rally Against Leader Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade
Also policemen and soldiers manifestation
(ANSA) — BELGRADE, Serbia — Thousands of people are blowing whistles and banging pots outside the Serbian government headquarters to protest the election of powerful Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic as the country’s new president, as reported by press agency AP.
The protest on Saturday was the sixth in a row against Vucic’s election triumph last weekend. The demonstrators joined hundreds of policemen and soldiers who were holding a separate rally over low wages and poor living standards.
The protests have been held every day since Sunday’s election, in which Vucic polled 55 percent of the votes and avoided a runoff election.
Government officials claim the demonstrations are organized by opposition leaders. They deny it. The opposition alleges the vote was marred by irregularities, including muzzling of the media during the campaign, as well as voter intimidation and bribes on election day.
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We are closer to the start of World War III than we have been in decades. In part 3 of this series of articles, I discussed the fact that President Trump’ s team was preparing a “ military response” in Syria and that a “ coalition” is being formed to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power. Well, as I am writing this article the missiles have started flying. Cruise missiles from a U.S. Navy vessel in the Mediterranean Sea have hit multiple targets inside Syria, and many fear that what we have just witnessed could be the beginning of a broader conflict.
Trump should not have done this, because according to the U.S. Constitution the president needs the approval of Congress to go to war. Fortunately there are still a few members of Congress that still care about the Constitution and that are bold enough to point out this fact. One of those members of Congress is U.S. Senator Rand Paul…
Earlier on Thursday, Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) announced he would oppose any military action without a vote in Congress.
“The President, if he decides to do something in Syria, he would come to Congress and ask for a declaration of war. Short of Congress voting on it, I’ m opposed to illegal and unconstitutional wars,” Paul told Fox News radio show ‘Kilmeade and Friends’.
Now that the missiles have started flying, it may be too late to stop this war from happening.
But that does not mean that we shouldn’ t try to stop it. Now is the time to raise our voices and to let Donald Trump know that we do not want this war.
And what is especially tragic about all of this is that Donald Trump is taking us to war because of a misunderstanding. Rand Paul’ s father, former presidential candidate Ron Paul, is among many that believe that there was “ zero chance” that Assad would have deliberately used chemical weapons against those innocent people…
Pointing out that the prospect of peace in Syria was moving closer before the attack, with ISIS and Al-Qaeda on the run, Paul said the attack made no sense.
“It looks like maybe somebody didn’t like that so there had to be an episode,” said Paul, asking, “who benefits?”
“It doesn’t make any sense for Assad under these conditions to all of a sudden use poison gases — I think there’s zero chance he would have done this deliberately,” said Paul.
As I discussed in part 1 of this series, the incident in Syria’s Idlib province on Tuesday was almost certainly a false flag attack that was designed to pull the United States and other western powers into the war.
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Pentagon Trained Syria’s Al Qaeda “Rebels” in the Use of Chemical Weapons
The Western media refutes their own lies.
Not only do they confirm that the Pentagon has been training the terrorists in the use of chemical weapons, they also acknowledge the existence of a not so secret “US-backed plan to launch a chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad’s regime”
London’s Daily Mail in a 2013 article confirmed the existence of an Anglo-American project endorsed by the White House (with the assistance of Qatar) to wage a chemical weapons attack on Syria and place the blame of Bashar Al Assad.
The following Mail Online article was published and subsequently removed. Note the contradictory discourse: “Obama issued warning to Syrian president Bashar al Assad”, “White House gave green light to chemical weapons attack”.
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Russian Warship Heads Toward US Destroyers Responsible for Syria Strikes
A Russian warship entered the eastern Mediterranean Friday and was heading toward the area where two U.S. Navy destroyers launched missile strikes into Syria, Fox News has learned. The Russian frigate, Admiral Grigorovich RFS-494, crossed through the Bosphorus Strait “a few hours ago” from the Black Sea, according to a U.S. defense official. The Russian warship is now in the eastern Mediterranean steaming in the direction of the U.S. warships. The Admiral Grigorovich is armed with advanced Kalibr cruise missiles. Also Friday, one of the American destroyers that launched the missiles into Syria started heading to an undisclosed location to rearm…
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The U.S. Entered World War I on April 6, 1917 — Did Trump Just Start World War III on April 6, 2017?
Did World War III begin on April 6th, 2017? After Donald Trump fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Syria on Thursday night, millions of Americans were cheering, but the cheering isn’ t going to last for long if a new world war erupts. What is amazing to me is that this happened on the 100th anniversary of the United States entry into World War I. The U.S. officially entered that war on April 6th, 1917, and now 100 years later to the day Donald Trump has essentially declared war on Syria.
If you think using the term “ World War III” is alarmist, you might want to tell that to the vast numbers of people that are buzzing about a new world war all over social media. If you don’ t yet understand why a strike on Syria could be so dangerous, go back and read my article from yesterday. If we continue striking Syria, we could very easily find ourselves in a direct military conflict with Russia, Iran and Hezbollah.
Hopefully last night will be the full extent of U.S. military action. If Donald Trump and his national security advisers pat themselves on the back for “ looking tough” and decide that was enough, we probably won’ t see a major regional war break out.
But if the U.S. decides that regime change is necessary and continues to conduct more strikes, we will have war. And unfortunately, there are already signs that this may happen. On Friday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley stated that the Trump administration “ is prepared to do more” …
Donald Trump grew up in New York City at a time when the mafia still had a dominant presence, and to put a “ hit” on another rival across town when you are sitting down for a meeting with a top boss from another family sends a very, very powerful message.
The fact that Trump ordered those 59 cruise missiles to rain down on Syria at the exact moment when he was having dinner with the president of China is going to be remembered by the Chinese for a very, very long time. In Asian cultures respect is a very big thing, and the Chinese had to be deeply embarrassed by what just happened last night.
On top of everything else, the truth is that Donald Trump blatantly violated the U.S. Constitution by conducting a military strike against Syria without the approval of Congress. This is something that U.S. Senator Rand Paul pointed out very clearly in an editorial that was released on Friday…
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Turkish Voters in Germany Receiving Election Propaganda
The government in Ankara is doing all it can to reach Turkish voters in Germany. They are now receiving letters urging them to vote “yes” in the country’s upcoming referendum. The legality of the move is questionable.
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Unpacking the Latest Chemical Attack in Syria
So what is the risk-versus-gain analysis on the Khan Sheikhoun attack?
For Assad, dumb. Not to say that people don’t do dumb things, war itself being one of them.
For the rebels, it’s not so dumb.
Syrian opposition member Basma Kodmani insists, “This is a direct consequence of American statements about Assad not being a priority and giving him time and allowing him to stay in power,” amounting to “a blank check for Assad.”
Guess we’d better get right over there and “play al-Qaeda’s air force” again.
We don’t know all the facts, but there are a few that we do know.
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Was Chemical Attack in Syria a “False Flag” To Trigger U.S. War?
While there is no proof yet either way, there are good reasons to at least consider the prospect that the sarin gas attack on civilians in Syria this week could have been a “false flag” operation. The last time Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad supposedly used chemical weapons, the story quickly collapsed under scrutiny. The more likely scenario, according to United Nations investigators and virtually every credible analyst who looked at the 2013 crime, was that globalist-backed jihadist “rebels” used the chemicals in a “false-flag” scheme. The goal: Blame Syrian authorities in a bid to trigger U.S. government intervention against Assad.
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The Pied Putin of Conservative-Land
by Diana West
One day, I looked up from my writerly bunker to discover that it was a really new and awful day: The American right wing was suddenly defending “nationalist” “Christian” “populist” “statesman” Putin, that Chiang Kai-shek and Ataturk, all rolled up into one “freely elected” leader, Vladimir Putin.
When, how did that happen? It was all a bit Rip van Winklian in that I felt I had missed some big connecting step. There we were, say, roundabout 2010, watching that very intriguing sleeper cell of undercover Russian intelligence agents rolled up and Obama-sped out of the country — one of the Russian undercover agents, it was credibly reported, was getting “too close” to Secretary Clinton. In 2012, Obama was telling Medvedev to tell “Vladimir” he would be “more flexible” after his last election … and now this. And this. And lots more besides.
This quite heated “thaw” on the Right — a weird mirror image of historical Kremlin deceptions such as “detente,” and “peaceful coexistence” — seems to have gotten underway a few years ago, back when Putin got himself widely noticed for putting himself forward as a sort of savior of the Western world in his noted Valdai speech of 2013. Well, no one else was doing it — and his efforts, jarringly ersatz as I read them now, received not only notice, but plaudits from conservatives, who perhaps heard the parts of the speech that they wanted to hear and — their Kremlinologist-antennae (prematurely) mothballed in 1991— no more.
For example, when Putin said in 2013 the following, traditionalists across the dying West heard not the sounds of old-fashioned Soviet-style-disinformation mixing lies and truths in a pro-Moscow concoction, but rather the brave, new chords of some sympatico Pied Putin…
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Pair Face Barbaric Indonesia Punishment for Gay Sex After Neighbour Secretly Filmed Them
TWO MEN are facing a horrific punishment after they were filmed having “gay sex” in ultra-conservative Indonesia.
The pair were reported by police by snooping neighbours — who filmed parts of the act.
Police chief Marzuki said the men had since confessed after being confronted with the clip and now face 100 strikes with a cane.
The men, aged 20 and 23, are residents of the country’s conservative Aceh province — the only area in the country to practice Shariah law.
[Comment: So the punishment is not “Indonesian”, it is Islamic, and the people inflicting this “horrific punishment” are not “conservative”, they are Muslims acting in accordance with Islamic law.]
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Mob Kills Church Elder at Sudan Christian School
(Morningstar News) A church elder on Monday (April 3) died from injuries sustained in a raid on an embattled Christian school by supporters of a Muslim business interest in Omdurman, Sudan, sources said.
Younan Abdullah, an elder with Bahri Evangelical Church, died in a hospital after being stabbed while he and others were defending women at the Evangelical School of Sudan, Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC) sources told Morning Star News.
Christians had staged a protest against the attempted seizure of the school by a Muslim businessman, they said. Police from the Omdurman Central Division along with a group supported by Sudan’s Ministry of Guidance and Religious Endowment arrived at the school first and arrested all the men in an attempt to hand it over to the businessman, they said.
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Venezuela Opposition March Over Henrique Capriles Ban
Thousands of Venezuelans have marched in protest against the banning from politics of opposition leader Henrique Capriles for 15 years.
In Caracas, police used tear gas to prevent demonstrators reaching the offices of the national ombudsman.
Saturday’s protest came after a week of anti-government demonstrations.
They were initially sparked by a Supreme Court ruling to curb the powers of the national assembly, a move which was later overturned.
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DENVER — Federal officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 26 criminal aliens and others throughout Colorado and Wyoming during a four-day enforcement action which ended Monday.
The operation began March 31 and ended April 3. ICE officers made arrests in the following ERO Denver Field Office cities with 21 arrests in Colorado: Arvada (2), Aurora (11), Commerce City (3), Denver (1), Frederick (1), Thornton (2) and Yuma (1); and five arrests in Jackson, Wyoming. The ERO Denver area of responsibility includes the states of Colorado and Wyoming.
All those arrested were men ranging in age between 18 and 56 years old.
All the foreign nationals targeted by ICE officers during this enforcement action had prior criminal convictions. The majority of those arrested — 23 of the 26 — had criminal histories that included convictions for the following crimes: dangerous drugs, domestic violence, driving under the influence (DUI), drug possession, illegal entry, larceny, possession of a controlled substance, selling heroin, sex offenses and sex offense against a child. Eleven of those arrested had DUI convictions.
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Germany: ‘Child Refugees’ Rampage, Damage Housing Over Lack of Game Consoles
Young Somalis in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania have “demolished” their kitchen and living quarters during a violent “rampage” in which they demanded PlayStations and more pocket money. Four teenagers have been separated and sent to other residences for ‘unaccompanied minors’ after their violent rampage forced a staff member of the facility to flee to his office, where the 44-year-old locked himself in and called for police help. The migrants had only been in Germany for two weeks when they became violent, threatening to beat the member of staff tasked with their care unless he fulfilled demands including giving the teens game consoles, more pocket money, and moving them to accommodation in a bigger city. The Somalis, who are reportedly between the ages of 15 and 17, destroyed most of the furniture…
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ICE Arrests 82 Individuals During 5-Day Operation Focused in Va, DC
WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers arrested 82 individuals from 26 different countries during a five-day operation focused in Virginia and the District of Columbia that ran from March 26 to 30.
Of the 82 individuals arrested, 68 had previous criminal convictions for crimes like armed robbery, larceny and drug distribution. Of the remaining 14, two had ties to the MS-13 street gang; two had outstanding final orders of removal; three had overstayed their visas; one was wanted by a foreign law enforcement entity; one was a verified human rights violator and two had pending local charges. The remainder had unlawfully entered the United States in violation of U.S. immigration laws.
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ICE Deports Convicted Russian Spy
CLEVELAND — A former New York-area banker, who was convicted in federal court of conspiring to act in the United States as an agent of the Russian Federation, was removed to Moscow Wednesday, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
Evgeny Buryakov, aka Zhenya, 42, formerly of the New York area, was repatriated on board commercial flights, escorted by Cleveland-based ERO deportation officers and turned over to Russian authorities.
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Idaho: Refugees Admit to Sexually Assaulting Five-Year Old
Three refugees, ages 14, 10 and seven, pled guilty to sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl in Idaho.
The boys, one from Iraq and two from Eritrea, entered their guilty plea last week but the case’s resolution received almost no national attention.
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Terror Attack on Sweden ‘Price of Failed Immigration Policies’
A truck attack on pedestrians in a crowded shopping district of Stockholm, Sweden, shows all the signs of Islamic terrorism, and the Swedish government bears the blame for importing large numbers of potential terrorists, security experts tell WND.
At least four people were reported dead Friday, with 15 injured, as a man hijacked a beer truck and plowed it into a crowd of people before crashing into a department store on Stockholm’s busiest street. An aerial video of the scene shows hundreds of panicked pedestrians running for their lives.
Robert Spencer, author of the Jihad Watch blog, said the trend has been building for the past year with vehicles being the weapon of choice by Islamic terrorists. The vehicle attacks by Muslims actually started in Israel, where it continues to happen with almost no coverage by international media.
“We have seen a spate of attacks recently in which jihadists used their cars as weapons. There was a vehicular jihad attack yesterday in Israel,” Spencer noted. “The jihad attack recently in London followed the same pattern.”
The Islamic State, also called ISIS, issued a call in September 2014 for jihadists in the West to use their vehicles to “kill them” wherever possible.
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You can’t say you weren’t warned. It’s almost a decade since Manchester University unveiled Britain’s first ‘transgender-friendly’ toilets. Overnight, the Ladies were reclassified simply as ‘Toilets’ and the Gents became ‘Toilets with Urinals’.
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The Texas Transgender Problem: Defending Sb 6
A storm of big businesses, celebrities, and global investors have come out against Texas Senate Bill 6, which prohibits individuals from using public bathrooms and changing facilities opposite of their biological sex. In reaction to the bill, liberal activists have argued that transgender Texans — that is, Texans who consider themselves members of the sex opposite their own — – have been using bathrooms for years with no reports of them doing anything inappropriate in those spaces. In order to test this claim, a survey of transgender incidents in Texas is reviewed.
One of the shortcomings of pro-transgender cases is that they consider only assault and rape as sex crimes. However, sex crimes comprise not just rape and assault, but also voyeurism, indecent exposure, and violation of reasonable expectation of privacy. In addition, anti-transgender arguments tend to focus on the harm males cause females but don’t consider the ramifications of allowing females into male sex-segregated spaces and what happens to males. The shortcomings of both sides are combined here to establish a stronger case in defense of S.B. 6.
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“Jared Kushner Is Sabotaging the Trump Administration”? REDICE.Tv?
The level of antisemitism is despicable! It would also be comical if it weren’t so dangerous…and dangerous, too, to our common cause of counterjihadism. Including this link is contemptible and not up to the integrity of GoV or your audience!
Hat Tip Q to JD: you visit such sites and read their claptrap? And simultaneously, too, rail against “fake news” and the MSM?
Diana West has a good expose of Vladimir Putin for all those who have still not quite made their minds up on what drives this somewhat enigmatic leader.
I believe she presents a very good analysis.
“While there is no proof yet either way, there are good reasons to at least consider the prospect that the sarin gas attack on civilians in Syria this week could have been a “false flag” operation.”
It may well have been, but Trumps missile surprise on a Russian vassal state has given several intended and unintended wins for Trump.
One result is the Democrat party hysteria to investigate alleged Russian support of the Trump presidential campaign has been knobbled. It now will be increasingly hard for the Democrats to whip up much enthusiasm for that sideshow. Looking very much like a dead horse.
The NCAA(National Collegiate Athletic Association) has strangely led the charge on destroying the economic base of any state that won’t move to transgender. They’ve destroyed Mizzou with the help of Crazy Claire and degraded most of the colleges in America. They are a clear and present danger. Cut off ALL FEDERAL AID, direct and indirect, to this crazed board of maniacs. Skip the games, too. They’re not worth the loss of your soul, you know.
Mizzou doesn’t get it. Its enrollment plummeted because of the insane SJW mob they had occupying that campus. So what do they do? They double down! They announced they were hiring diversity officers, mandating diversity training in staff and students alike, and instituted more race-based quotas (excluding Asians, of course. Their success is too inconvenient to the narrative). And what happened? Enrollment’s dropped more!
Also, on the transgender bathroom thing, not only do they ignore certain crimes, but the “more serious” crimes that take place are ignored, too! In my state, there was a proposed bathroom bill (which legislators refused to enact, so we’re trying to do a ballot initiative now instead) and when I emailed my legislators in support of it, they emailed back and claimed no bathroom attacks ever happened. Then I replied with several internet pages that aggregated links to hundreds of mainstream news reports of arrests (so, backed up by police and court records), including some in our own state, they just replied that it isn’t a real problem. Infuriating.
Ah, academe: where all the women are ugly and all the men are scared. At least the men who show up anymore.
Mizzou will become another paranoid feminist enclave. Men will find somewhere more useful to spend their money. In a way, it’s a good thing they’re doubling down – it will make them zero out that much more quickly.
You can’t reach one of those Bubble legislators until it’s their daughter or wife being attacked. And then you have to wait till every last one of ’em has skin (so to speak) in the game.
It is infuriating to play the game if you include them in your calculus to solve the problem. It’s the parents of potential students (female) you want to find a way to contact. THEY will definitely respond. Consider your potential audience…