An explosion in a military hospital in Bangkok injured at least twenty people. The blast occurred on the third anniversary of the military coup that put the current government into power. Police say they don’t know who was responsible for the bombing.
In other news, Romania detained six migrants near the Hungarian border, who appeared to be en route to the Schengen Area.
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German Foreign Minister Calls for Greek Debt Relief
As eurozone finance ministers meet to discuss the Greek debt crisis, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has demanded a firm commitment to debt relief. The move could cause friction in Berlin in an election year.
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California Democratic Party Leader Leads ‘F*** Donald Trump’ Chant at Convention
Outgoing California Democratic Party chairman John Burton left his post of eight years on Saturday by waving his middle fingers in the air and rallying his party’s annual convention to chant “F*** Donald Trump!”
Outgoing @ca_dem chair @Johnburton gets standing O w final words to his party, finger upraised: “F@ck Donald Trump!” pic.twitter.com/VIqNQlhDJc
– Carla Marinucci (@cmarinucci) May 20, 2017
Video was posted online.
Cameras also captured House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi laughing as Burton flipped off the president. Former Obama administration Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis was also spotted relishing in the event.
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California Democrat Plots Trump’s Overthrow at Berkeley Town Hall
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) devoted an entire town hall meeting in Berkeley on Sunday to the question of whether, and how, President Donald Trump can be removed from office…
Dean and Nance disappointed the audience, according to the Chronicle, by telling them that Trump was not likely to be impeached quickly, nor was he likely to be removed from office by being declared mentally unfit to serve under section 4 of the 25th Amendment. They apparently pleased the audience, however, by bashing Trump and the Republican Party.
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If America is going to survive, it is time for this generation of Americans to take a stand. Edmund Burke once said that “all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”, and if we sit back and do nothing now the radical left is going to win in America. In a new documentary entitled “Revelation: Dawn Of Global Government”, country music legend Charlie Daniels is calling for “1000 Paul Reveres” to rise up and sound the alarm in this country. Our constitutional republic is under serious attack from forces that are intent on transforming the United States into a fundamentally different nation than our forefathers intended. Today we know them as “progressives”, “liberals” and “Democrats”, but in the old days they were known as “socialists”, “communists” and “Marxists”. In the film, Charlie simply refers to them as “scumbags”. So many brave Americans before us have bled and died for the cause of freedom and liberty, and there is no way that we are going to allow the radical left to take it away from us now. And make no mistake — the leftists clearly view this struggle for our country as a war. Their street protests have become increasingly violent in recent years, and it has gotten to the point where Republican members of Congress are actually fearing for their physical safety when they go back to their districts…
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Deplorables Versus Effete Snobs
With the solid support of news media and the entertainment field, elites think that they can reorder our society without the backing of the public.
In the late 1960s, Vice President Spiro Agnew used the phrase “effete snobs” to characterize establishment elites who considered themselves so superior that others should kowtow to their demands and opinions. Agnew was roundly criticized for this unfavorable description of the self-anointed powers inside the Beltway. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton was not criticized when she sarcastically dismissed Trump supporters, those residents of America’s heartland, as a “basket of deplorables.” Today, many of us believe “effete snobs” is an apt description of Washington insiders, and we also believe that those insiders concur with Mrs. Clinton’s put down of heartland Americans. With the solid support of news media and the entertainment field, elites think that they can reorder our society without the backing of the public
With the solid support of news media and the entertainment field, elites think that they can reorder our society without the backing of the public. Admittedly, they’ve had considerable success because there is a reluctance to criticize their efforts. Media intimidation has Americans cowering in fear and not speaking up. But over the years the public has lost respect for news media. Average Americans, Hillary Clinton’s deplorables, are now standing up for their rights. Opinion polls indicate that almost 80% believe the country is headed in the wrong direction and changing the country’s direction is so crucial that voters were willing to overlook Donald Trump’s personal flaws and put him in the White House.
The Left fears the Trump’s presidency will impede their attempt to implement “social justice”, which essentially means the redistribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges to make everyone “equal.
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Enemies Within Re-Writing American History
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” €• George Orwell, 1984
America, they are re-writing your American history incrementally, little by little until it all fades away.
Today, in New Orleans a statue of Jefferson Davis is removed to appease those in government that do not want you to learn from people like Jefferson Davis, who set the example of pushing back against a tyrannical federal government. On the other hand, the same government, antithetical to American government, approved a statue of Vladimir Lenin, a Russian communist revolutionist from the early twentieth century.
It does not get any plainer than that, does it? It’s not hard to believe when 80 members of government in the USA are self-proclaimed communists (Psalm 94:20).
That should come as no surprise when we see that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is also a communist organization, which has been given a free hand at attacking American Law and our Christian heritage, as well as anyone and everyone it wills because of the ignorance of those who should know better.
The founder of the ACLU, Roger Baldwin, stated, “I am for socialism, disarmament, for abolishing the state itself…I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.”
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FBI Investigating if Bowie State Univ. Student’s Killing is Hate Crime
A 22-year-old University of Maryland student has been charged in the student’s death
The FBI is helping to investigate the fatal stabbing on the University of Maryland campus to determine whether it was a hate crime.
The FBI is helping authorities determine whether the killing of a visiting student by a University of Maryland student was a hate crime, authorities say.
University of Maryland student Sean Christopher Urbanski, 22, has been charged with first- and second-degree murder as well as first-degree assault in the death of Richard Collins III.
University of Maryland Police Chief David Mitchell said at a press conference Sunday that he sought the FBI’s help after finding that Urbanski is a member of a Facebook group called “Alt Reich: Nation,” where members post racially charged material. Urbanski is white and Collins was black.
“Suffice it to say that it’s despicable. It shows extreme bias against women, Latinos, members of the Jewish faith and especially African Americans,” Mitchell said…
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Flynn Invokes Fifth Amendment, Rebuffs Senate Panel Subpoena
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Monday invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, rebuffing a subpoena for documents from a Senate panel probing Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.
Flynn’s attorneys said the “escalating public frenzy against him” and the Justice Department’s recent appointment of a special counsel have created a legal minefield for him.
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Hawaii Lawyer: Trump Exec Order Violates 1st Amendment Because Honor Killings Are Islamic
Katyal is right: honor killings are Islamic. Islamic law specifies no penalty for a parent who kills a child. And it’s not just Muslim migrants: for years we have suspected the cover-up of Islamic honor killings in America. I have tried for years to determine how many young Muslim girls died in the US, and under what circumstances. There is no central data bank with that sort of information. We know the media refuses to call it what it is; do we believe that law enforcement would? The Pentagon can’t even say jihad. Well, maybe now… under Trump, unless Neal Katyal and his leftist henchmen get their way.
The higher-ups in law enforcement and government are scrubbing the horrific crime of honor killing. Fatima Abudallah was honor murdered in Florida. We worked furiously to get justice for Fatima. Sharia ruled. This points to the continued diminishment of women in the West by the introduction of Islamic cultural mores and practices.
Covering up what should be a capital crime demands a special investigation — stealth sharia enforcement.
“Hawaii Lawyer: Trump Exec Order Violates 1st Amendment Because Honor Killings Are Islamic,” by Raheem Kassam, Breitbart, May 15, 2017:
The lawyer representing the State of Hawaii in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today has stated the collection of data with regards honor killings should be removed from President Trump’s Executive Order in order to “pass constitutional muster”.
In his arguments, Neal Katyal stated today that the collection of such data as outlined by the Executive Order 13780 contravenes the Establishment Clause, in the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…”.
In doing so, Katyal appears to be making the case that honor killings — murder committed in the name of restoring a family’s dignity following discouraged behaviour within fundamentalist homes — is in itself Islamic.
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No matter how tarred and feathered, the Deep State will still try to open a fake peacock tail in “we still rule” statements. The shadowy underground will resort to various forms of sabotage and repression to de-legitimize the true government and to discourage both the nation and foreign allies from supporting the new President.
In line with the most disgusting of Alinsky´s “Rules for Radicals”: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it” the cryptocrats will use every left-over vestige of power to “go after people and not institutions” because “people hurt faster than institutions”. If citizens are left unprotected, political repression unpunished and allies isolated on the political scene the new administration will be “polarized” too.
“How can one man get away with so much evil for so long?” is the comment reverberating all over the world in reference to George Soros´ meddling in politics and his “ social experiments”. Soros fed his hubris for years — scavenging on taxpayers’ money and playing God wherever corruption opened borders for his “operations”.
Lack of accountability fortified his delusions to the point, where he is openly bragging about “imperium in imperio”, and declaring his intention to “stop” a duly elected President from governing.
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Notre Dame Students Walk Out of Mike Pence Commencement Address
Over 100 students at the University of Notre Dame walked out of a commencement address given by Vice President Mike Pence, according to local reports.
“It’s deeply humbling for me to participate in the 172nd commencement in Notre Dame’s 175th year,” Pence said, as students booed, turned their backs, and walked out of the ceremony.
The walkout was organized by the left-wing student group WeStaNDFor, who began planning the protest after Pence was announced as the speaker in March. In a statement, the group said they opposed Pence’s positions on gay rights, his opposition to the Syrian refugee program, and the administration’s crack down on sanctuary cities.
One of the persons involved was Bryan Ricketts, the former president of Notre Dame’s student body. Talking to the Indy Star, Ricketts said he was “upset and hurt” by the school’s decision to invite Pence, who was formally the state’s governor, as the Trump administration’s “policies have impacted the humanity of certain graduates.”
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Republicans Fearing for Their Safety as Anger, Threats Mount
In the last few weeks alone, numerous Republicans have had their lives threatened
A growing number of House Republicans are facing physical threats from angry constituents in their districts, leading many to fear for their safety.
In the last few weeks alone, the FBI arrested a man threatening Rep. Martha McSally’s (R-Ariz.) life, a woman pursued Rep. David Kustoff (R-Tenn.) in her car, and Rep. Tom Garrett (R-Va.) heightened security at a town hall event in response to death threats.
Other Republicans still holding town halls say they haven’t felt physically threatened by protesters, but they worry about the depth of anger from some constituents in the polarized environment and what it means for political civility.
Scores of GOP lawmakers have experienced going viral this year with videos of constituents shouting their disagreement on support for President Trump and policies such as the GOP’s healthcare bill.
Lately, though, Republicans have observed some furious constituents who appear to be going even further.
[Comment: A result of all of Soros money funding agitators, propaganda, communists, socialists, thugs…etc.]
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Schlichter Warns “This is a Coup Against Our Right to Govern Ourselves”
The blizzard of lies and distraction blowing through Washington is not just any routine stuffstorm, but a calculated attempt to bring down a president — our president, not the establishment’s president. And more than that, it’s an attempt to ensure that we never again have the ability to disrupt the bipartisan D.C. cabal’s permanent supremacy by inserting a chief executive who refuses to kiss their collective Reid.
This is a coup against us. It’s a coordinated campaign by liberals and their allies in the bureaucracy and media to once and for all ensure their perpetual rule over us. We need to fight it, here and now, so we don’t have to fight it down at the bottom of this slippery slope.
It’s brazen. It’s bold. It’s insulting to our intelligence. They aren’t even trying to hide their lies anymore. Truth is irrelevant; this is a choreographed dance routine and everyone has his moves. Call it Breakin’ 2: Electric Leakaroo, except instead of trying to save the community center they’re trying to save their power and prestige.
To buy the media narrative on this latest Russian nonsense, you must believe:
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Shocking Video: Times Square Attacker’s Vicious, Deliberate Rampage: What They Aren’t Telling US
Despite the sameness of the recent vehicular jihad attacks in Nice, Berlin, Ohio, etc., and the Islamic State urging Muslims across the West to wage jihad using their cars, I did not jump to any conclusions when a vicious murderer ran down scores of people in Times Square this week, killing an 18-year-old girl, Alyssa Elsman, and injuring dozens.
Law enforcement immediately said that it was not terror, which is what they always say when it is terror. Remember Mayor “Red” Bill de Blasio went to the scene of Chelsea jihad bombing in NYC and emphatically declared that it wasn’t Islamic terror when it was?
In the case of this week’s Time Square car attack, they immediately said the driver was drunk. Then they said he wasn’t drunk.
News reports said the driver was fleeing a robbery and ran down pedestrians in his mad rush to escape. But if you watch the video, and I strongly recommend you watch it, this is clearly not the case.
Now the NY Times is saying the driver is “mentally ill.” Where have we heard that before?
The driver is slowly, methodically driving the car in the left hand lane when suddenly, violently, he swerves and makes a radical turn right, deliberately plowing into scores of human beings.
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States Will Regret Not Reconstituting the Constitutional Militia
Last year during the presidential race America saw the most reprehensible behavior by some police departments when it came to Trump supporters:
CA Judge Allows Trump Supporters’ Lawsuit Against City of San Jose to Continue, March 17, 2017
“The City of San Jose asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit charging that the city’s police had put a group of Donald Trump supporters in danger last year. Instead, the Trump supporters’ lawsuit was given the green light to go ahead. The lawsuit filed by fourteen Trump supporters in July centers on claims that the San Jose police led them straight into a mob of violent anti-Trump protesters following a Trump rally in June of 2016. The lawsuit also charges that police stood by and did nothing as the liberal mob physically attacked the Trump supporters.
“We’ve seen video appearing on international local and national media that shows the police standing by as people were getting gruesomely attacked,” said California Log Cabin Republicans representative Charles Moran.
“As Breitbart News reported last year, a 14-year-old girl was reportedly assaulted by two people and was then allegedly denied assistance by the San Jose Fire Department. In another case, a 71-year-old woman is described as having had her glasses ripped off and crushed. The suit alleges that police who witnessed the incident refused to arrest the culprit. Despite dismissing claims against San Jose Police Chief Eddie Garcia, on March 15 federal Judge Lucy Koh refused to toss the lawsuit against the city and several individual police officers, KCBS reported…
Those of us who do the hard research know big money is behind the violence we’ve been seeing in this country since the Trayvon Martin circus. The bulk of that money comes from one of the most vile, evil men still breathing: George Soros. I have written for a long time if we had a real Department of Justice, Soros would have long ago been indicted by a federal grand jury for sedition at the very least. He’s been using his billions for decades to destroy countries, people lives and since becoming a U.S. citizen for purely financial reasons, is hell bent on destroying our republic and turning this country into a nation of dumbed down cattle led around by his money prod.
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Ancient-Genome Study Finds Bronze Age ‘Beaker Culture’ Invaded Britain
Famous bell-shaped pots associated with group of immigrants who may have displaced Neolithic farmers.
Around 4,500 years ago, a mysterious craze for bell-shaped pottery swept across prehistoric Europe. Archaeologists have debated the significance of the pots — artefacts that define the ‘Bell Beaker’ culture — for more than a century. Some argue that they were the Bronze Age’s hottest fashion, shared across different groups of people. But others see them as evidence for an immense migration of ‘Beaker folk’ across the continent.
Now, one of the biggest ever ancient-genome studies suggests both ideas are true. The study, posted on bioRxiv on 9 May, analysed the genomes of 170 ancient Europeans and compared them to hundreds of other ancient and modern genomes. In Iberia and central Europe, skeletons found near Bell Beaker artefacts share few genetic ties — suggesting that they were not one migrating population. But in Britain, individuals connected to Beaker pots seem to be a distinct, genetically related group that almost wholly replaced the island’s earlier inhabitants (see ‘Bell Beaker fashion’).
If true, this suggests that Britain’s Neolithic farmers (who left behind massive rock relics, including Stonehenge) were elbowed out by Beaker invaders. “To me, that’s definitely surprising,” says Pontus Skoglund, a population geneticist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the research. “The people who built Stonehenge probably didn’t contribute any ancestry to later people, or if they did, it was very little.”
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At Least 20 Killed in Possible Suicide Blast at Manchester Concert Featuring Ariana Grande
At least 20 people were killed and possibly “hundreds” of others were injured after one or more loud bangs were heard Monday night at an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena in England, multiple law enforcement told NBC News.
U.K. authorities suspect the incident was conducted by a suicide bomber, according to multiple U.S. officials briefed on the investigation.
Preliminary reports indicated that a single explosion took place outside the arena on the southwest side opposite the Manchester Victoria transit station, which is part of the greater arena complex, the U.S. officials said.
The explosion occurred as the concert ended, catching people as they exited.
Law enforcement sources in both Britain and the United States stressed that the information was preliminary and subject to change.
Greater Manchester Police said only that there were “a number of confirmed fatalities and injuries” as hundreds of fans fled the arena. Emergency crews rushed to the scene after the possible blasts, which were first reported about 10:40 p.m. (5:40 p.m. ET).
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Belgium: “it’s Still Perfectly Possible to Hide in Brussels”
Police officers are staging more checks in the Brussels area around the Molenbeek Canal, and more thorough checks. However, the information thus collected, needs to be processed at a faster pace. That’s according to the national police trades union NSPV. “Now, it’s still possible for someone to seek a hide-out and to vanish completely”, the NSPV is quoted by Het Laatste Nieuws. The administration says things are to improve soon.
Nicolas Beckers of the NSPV says that “if police see that someone has given up his/her place of residence, it takes up to 8 or 9 months for that dossier to be treated by the municipal authorities, sometimes even a year. This would allow someone to disappear completely and seek a hide-out.”
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Four real estate developers are seizing the opportunity of Donald Trump’s visit to Belgium this week to unveil their plans for Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. Together, they are investing in the construction of 450 new houses, apartments, schools, kindergartens, offices and stores. Their slogan? “Molenbeek is not a hellhole, but a heaven for investors.”
Real estate players made their announcement in the week marked by the visit of the American President Donald Trump who called Molenbeek a hellhole in the past, a deliberate choice. “Molenbeek is battling an image problem. But those willing to look through this, will see that Molenbeek has potential. People are being misled by the negative publicity, but we want to adjust this image. We really believe this neighbourhood has a nice future”, says Nicolas Bearelle, CEO of the real estate company Re-Vive.
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Catalonia Wants to Declare Independence From Spain Without Referendum
CATALONIA’s government has reportedly drafted a secret independence bill to break away from Spain, regardless of whether or not the country holds a referendum.
The pro-independence Catalan government, known as the Generalitat, is currently locked in a battle with Madrid over its demands for an independence vote.
According to reports in Spain’s El Pais, the Generalitat’s bill indicates its intention to move towards independence even if the Spanish government forbids it from holding a referendum.
Catalan’s ruling coalition promised a vote on the matter would be held no later than September this year.
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European Union ‘To Force Every Member State to Adopt Euro by 2025’
BRUSSELS officials want every European Union country to be using the euro by 2025, a bombshell new report has claimed.
Nine of the 28 member state in the EU are currently not part of the single currency.
The UK and Denmark are exempt, but the remaining seven nations all agreed to adopt the euro when they joined the bloc.
And now the European Commission has now demanded they them all start using the crisis-hit currency within eight years, according to insiders.
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Far-Left Parties Teeter on Irrelevance in Europe
Die-hard, left-wing candidates are not winning elections
The decline of left-wing political parties in Europe must now be fully recognized. The French Socialist Party came in fifth place in April’s presidential election, the Dutch Labour Party came in seventh place in March’s parliamentary election, both with around 5-6 percent of the popular vote.
We should not be under any illusion that the British Labour Party will be saved from a colossal defeat in the upcoming U.K. general election, as Jeremy Corbyn and his colleagues drag the party, kicking and screaming, to the far left of the political spectrum.
The Labour Party has been an incredibly influential political force in British politics for almost a century, with the exception of the dark days of the 1980s under the leadership of Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock.
That being said, the party has been in slow decline since peaking in its glory days under Tony Blair. The Labour Party thrived when it seized the center ground, moving away from its infatuation with socialism and focusing instead on pragmatic issues and pro-growth economics.
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Germany and France Vow to Speed up Eurozone Integration
Core EU powers France and Germany vowed Monday to accelerate eurozone integration, with a new bilateral panel to work out ways to kickstart the reform process.
“We’ve been talking about progress in eurozone integration for years, but things are not moving fast enough,” said France’s new Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire in Berlin after talks with his German counterpart Wolfgang Schäuble.
“We have now decided to get things going more quickly and further in a very concrete manner,” he said.
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Germany: Right-Wing Protesters Try to Storm Justice Ministry Over ‘Hate Speech Law’
Members of the right-wing Identitarian movement attempted to storm the German justice ministry in Berlin on Friday over a proposed law to fight hate speech on social media.
About 50 people from the right-wing, anti-immigrant movement gathered before the justice ministry in the afternoon and then tried to force their way into the building, according to police.
But officers were able to prevent them from doing so, arresting one person for violating assembly laws. Police said that the situation was under control by 2pm.
Last August, Identitarians climbed the Brandenburg Gate and unfurled banners reading “secure borders — secure future”.
The group wrote on their Facebook page that the demonstration on Friday was against Justice Minister Heiko Maas and his proposed law to make social media sites more consistently and quickly remove hate speech, which was being discussed on Friday by the German parliament (Bundestag).
Maas has become a figure of hate for the far-right scene because of his tough stance against right-wing extremism.
Maas’ proposal, dubbed the “hate speech law”, would force sites like Facebook and Twitter to delete overtly criminal content within 24 hours of it being flagged.
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TORKSEY, ENGLAND—According to a report in Lincolnshsire Live, a 135-acre Viking camp located along the River Trent in Lincolnshire has been investigated by archaeologists from the University of Sheffield and the University of York. Artisans, traders, women, and children are believed to have lived alongside the invading Viking Great Army, described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, during the winter of A.D. 872-73.
As they prepared to continue their battles against Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, the Vikings are thought to have spent the winter processing their plunder and trading in goods and possibly slaves. Evidence for metalworking includes pieces of chopped up silver and hack-gold ready to be melted down into ingots. More than 100 Arabic silver coins, and 300 gaming pieces used to pass the time, were also recovered, along with iron tools, spindle whorls, needles, and fishing weights.
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Nigel Farage: UK No Safer Than France, Belgium From Terror
Former U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage said the possible terror attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester Arena Monday night has dispelled the notion Britain is safer than the rest of Europe.
“We have been lulled into a slight sense of complacency,” Farage told Fox News host Tucker Carlson Monday night.
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Sweden: 15-Year-Old Charged With Attempted Murder in Malmö
A 15-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after a janitor was shot while clearing snow in central Malmö earlier this year.
The man was shot multiple times in the head and back and received life-threatening injuries while spreading salt on ice and snow-covered paths on Roskildegatan north of Pildammsparken during the early hours of a February morning.
The boy was arrested later that day on suspicion of attempted murder, and has now been charged by Malmö District Court.
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Sweden: Malmö Mega Mosque Defends Qatari Funding
Malmö’s Sydsvenkan newspaper on Monday warned in its main leader editorial that a new giant mosque risked spreading extremist ideology. Radio Sweden went to Friday prayers to find out.
It’s just before one o’clock, and a steady stream of worshippers is arriving at the Umm al-Muminin Khadijah mosque.
There’s a broad spectrum of nationalities: Somalis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Syrians, Bosnians, and more.
But it was only last week, due to a flurry of critical articles about its funding, SEK 30 million of which came from the government of Qatar, that it has been the subject of controversy.
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Trump’s 24 Hours in Belgium: 2,000 Belgian Police Officers Involved
Donald Trump’s short visit to Belgium on 25 May will take place under enormous security measures. A whole lot of Belgian police officers will be deployed, with the American President bringing hundreds of his own security staff at the same time. Trump will have a busy schedule, which is slightly different from that of his spouse Melania.
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UK: ‘Explosion’ Causes a Number of Fatalities at Manchester Arena Pop Concert
Greater Manchester Police have said there have been a “number of confirmed fatalities” following reports of an explosion at Manchester Arena.
Witnesses reported hearing a “huge bang” at the venue during an Ariana Grande gig and police have warned people to stay away from the area.
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UK: Confirmed Fatalities in Manchester Arena ‘Explosion’
A number of people have died during a “serious incident” at the Manchester Arena following reports of a “huge bang”.
A police statement said: “Emergency services are currently responding to reports of an explosion at Manchester Arena.
“There are a number of fatalities and others injured.”
Witnesses reported hearing a “huge bang” at the venue during an Ariana Grande gig. A spokesman for the US singer has confirmed she is okay.
Videos from inside the venue show fans running, while footage from outside captures emergency services arriving at the scene…
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Macedonia: Powder Keg in the Balkans
After armed protesters stormed Macedonia’s parliament, tensions have been running high. Many young Macedonians accuse the dominant nationalist party of corruption and power abuse. They’re organizing an opposition of their own.
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Murderous Hamas Rejects Trump Classifying Them as Terrorists
Ynetnews reports: The Islamist Palestinian group that controls the Gaza Strip on Sunday rejected US President Donald Trump’s linking it to terrorism and said his description of the group showed his “complete bias” towards Israel.
Trump addressed the leaders of 55 Muslim countries in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and said they must take the lead in combating radicalization. “The true toll of ISIS, al-Qaida, Hezbollah, Hamas, and so many others, must be counted not only in the number of dead. It must also be counted in generations of vanished dreams,” the American president said in his speech.
“The statement describing Hamas as a terror group is rejected and is a distortion of our image and shows a complete bias to the Zionist occupation (Israel),” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement.
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Iran President Hassan Rouhani Blasts Trump’s Saudi Summit
Iran’s newly re-elected president has dismissed US President Donald Trump’s calls for the region to isolate Tehran. Peace in the Middle East could only be possible with Iran at the table, Rouhani said.
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Istanbul’s Reina Nightclub Demolished Five Months After ISIL Attack
Istanbul’s famous Reina nightclub, in which 39 people were killed in an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack on Jan. 1, was demolished on May 22.
In a statement, the Istanbul Municipality said some parts of the nightclub had been built against the law.
“A demolishment decision by the Istanbul Municipality Board has been made for the entertainment venue Reina, located in the Ortaköy neighborhood of the Besiktas district, as some parts of it were built against the law. In accordance with the board decision, the demolition process was completed today for the parts of the building that were breaching the law,” it said on May 22.
A source close to Reina expressed surprise at the demolition.
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Kuwait: Abolish Article 153: Expressive Exhibition at ‘The Hub’ Gallery
Twelve years have passed since Kuwaiti women got the right to participate in the political battle in Kuwait; this date, the 16th of May, coincides with the launching of one of the most important creative exhibitions that show a collection of artistic work and photographs representing women in order to encourage them to obtain their full rights as well as a support and show solidarity with the abolition of Article 153 of the Kuwaiti Penal Code.
This article allows men to get away with killing their mothers, daughters, sisters and wives if they suspect them of sexual impropriety with a light punishment of a prison sentence for a period not exceeding three years or a fine of KD 15 or one of these penalties, and this is contrary to the principles of Islamic law.
Dr Al-Anoud Al-Sharikh, Sheikha Al-Nafisi, Lulu Al-Sabah, Amira Behbehani and Sundus Hussain are the organizers of this exhibition. They are the ones who initiated this idea to demand the cancellation of this article and its negative consequences on human rights in general and women’s rights in particular.
The exhibition will last for a week in the hall of ‘The Hub’ Gallery located on the Arabian Gulf Street — Sharq. It will include paintings, jewelry and sculptures created by a group of young Kuwaiti and Arab artists to promote this awareness campaign in all segments of Kuwaiti society in the hope of achieving justice and equality between men and women and the exclusion of violence in any way.
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Police Use Water Cannon, Tear Gas on Locals Protesting Against Syrian Refugees in Turkey’s Adana
Police intervened against a group of locals who had gathered in the southern province of Adana to demand the removal of Syrian refugees from their neighborhood, Dogan News Agency has reported.
Locals from Adana’s Yüregir district gathered in the Dogankent neighborhood to demand the removal of refugees’ tents, lighting tires on fire and closing the streets with barricades at 10 p.m. on May 21.
Police first demanded that the locals disperse before firing on them with water cannon, as locals responded with rocks.
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President Erdogan Takes Helm at Turkey’s Ruling AKP, Heralds New Era
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has regained the chairmanship of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) after a three-year break, marking a new era for Turkish politics, while announcing an ambitious road map for a “more advanced democracy” and economy in a bid to win 2019 elections.
He was re-elected the party chairmanship by 1,414 votes in the congress after 998 days.
“We parted in this hall nearly three years ago with the motto of ‘every end is a new beginning.’ This separation was a legal obligation, but our hearts have never fell apart. We have lived all our joys and sorrows as one heart. Some 998 days after, and again in this hall, we are together and asking, ‘Where were we?’“ Erdogan told thousands of AKP colleagues in a long address at an extraordinary convention on May 22.
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I really, really do not want to waste a lot of time on Donald Trump’s Saudi Arabian visit; however, for the record, which is still important, it was a nightmare.
The images could not have been more ghastly.
The substance could not have been more repulsive.
The nation-to-nation exchange could not have been more shameful: Yet another American president, a decade and a half after 9/11, lying to himself and the entire world to declare that Islam is wonderful, it’s just extremism that’s a mortal threat, in exchange for hundreds of millions of Saudi petrodollars in arms deals. The $100 million pledged by Saudi Arabia and the UAE to “empower women entrepreneurs” through a World Bank “initiative” (slush fund?) Ivanka Trump is associated with was particularly ugly. It turned the president’s daughter into a pitchwoman for these very nations whose Islamic laws and culture recognize women as chattel. How they must have rolled on the tent floor after the pathetic American delegation was en route to Israel, a nation Saudi Arabia does not recognize….
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Trump Tells Israel Iran Will Never Have Nuclear Weapons
US President Donald Trump has told Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that Iran will never have nuclear weapons.
He suggested the Iranians thought they could “do what they want” since negotiating a nuclear deal with world powers in 2015.
Mr Trump arrived in Israel from Saudi Arabia, where he sought to win Arab states’ support for fighting extremism.
He has called for a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Turkey Summons US Ambassador Over ‘Aggressive’ Acts Against Bodyguards During Erdogan Visit
The U.S. ambassador in Ankara was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey said, over what it called “aggressive and unprofessional actions” by U.S. security personnel against Turkish bodyguards in Washington during President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit last week.
The Monday move appeared to be in retaliation for calls in the United States for strong action against the Turkish security officers. The officers were seen hitting and kicking protesters outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in Washington during Erdogan’s visit.
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Turkey Brings Back Ottoman Sports to Revive Past Glory
Istanbul’s Ethnic Sports Cultural Festival aims to promote the sports practiced by modern Turks’ ancestors — from the nomadic horsemen of Central Asia to the ‘Janissaries,’ the elite troops of the Ottoman empire.
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Muslim Hekim Arrested for Raping Hindu Woman for Three Months Over Treatment of Her Ailing Son
Quack Hekim practitioner, two times Haji, Seikh Abdul Kuddus arrested for raping Hindu woman for last three months over her son’s treatment.
Upendra Bharti and Rimjhim Ranjit | HENB | Uluberia | May 21, 2017:: A Hekimi (traditional Islamic medicine school) practitioner, who had allegedly been raping a Hindu woman for about three months in lieu of her kid’s treatment, has been arrested by Howarh police on Saturday . The accused, Haji Seikh Abdul Kuddus, has been slapped with charges that include rape [Sec 376] and criminal intimidation [Sec 596] under IPC.
The 27-year-old Hindu woman Sanjita Parui (name changed) and her husband Sahadev (name changed) had been running from the pillar to post for the treatment of their only son, a six-year-old boy who is suffering from leukemia. Her husband works as a daily laborer at a factory in Kolkata. The duo had already spent their savings on the boy’s treatment without any significant improvement.
Around four months ago, their neighbor in Howrah’s Joypur area asked them to take the boy to the Muslim Hekim practitioner who had “miracle potions” and ‘Pak Tabiz’ (holy amulet) for different ailment.
At first Kuddus gave an Islamic amulet at a cost of Rs 4,500/- (appx 70 US $) for the treatment of the boy, but it did not work at all. Then, Kuddus kept a condition that shocked her. “Kuddus Hekim assured me that he would cure my son in six months. But, he told me that he could waive the fees if I agreed to have sex with him for the next six months,” the woman alleged in her FIR.
Worried about their son’s pale condition, the couple knocked on the doors of the Muslim practitioner who runs a miracle Islamic treatment center (Kudrati Dwakhana) in Sehagarhi, off National Highway 6.
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Thai Military Hospital Bomb Blast Injures More Than 20
More than 20 people have been injured in a small bomb blast at a military hospital in the Thai capital, Bangkok.
The explosion happened at Phramongkutklao Hospital, which is used by serving and retired members of the military and their families.
It took place on the third anniversary of the 2014 coup which brought the military government to power.
Police said it was not clear who was behind the blast, which happened in a waiting room by a pharmacy.
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UN Calls on Indonesia to Free Christian Governor Jailed on Blasphemy Charges
The family of the jailed Christian governor of Jakarta has withdrawn its appeal to have him released. The announcement came as the UN called on the country to do away with its blasphemy laws.
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China Boasts After News Report it Executed CIA Informant
China reacted to the revelation it had purged a network of CIA informants with a victory lap, boasting that the execution of a dozen spies within the last seven years was a triumph for its “anti-espionage activities.”
The network was terminated between 2010 and 2012, The New York Times reported Saturday, with 12 or more people killed and several more imprisoned. Without providing confirmation, the Global Times newspaper, which is published by the official People’s Daily, said in an editorial smashing the ring with extreme prejudice was a “sweeping victory.”
“If this article is telling the truth, we would like to applaud China’s anti-espionage activities,” read the editorial. “Not only was the CIA’s spy network dismantled, but Washington had no idea what happened and which part of the spy network had gone wrong.
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China Plans New Science Station in Antarctica
White paper promises more research and infrastructure on frozen continent, including fifth research facility
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Chinese Gang on Trial for Abducting 27 Vietnamese Women and Selling Them as Wives in China
The victims, some already married or still at college, were deceived, drugged and brought across border by force, court hears.
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North Korea Insists Latest Missile Launch Proves it Can Hit US Bases, Japan
North Korea said Monday that it is ready to mass produce a new medium-range missile that has the capability of reaching Japan and major U.S. military bases after its latest launch it claimed confirmed the rocket’s combat readiness.
North Korea launched the solid-fuel Pukguksong-2 missile Sunday. It reached a height of 350 miles before splashing into the Pacific Ocean. The isolated country said it is an “answer” to President Trump’s policies.
North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un ordered and watched the launch, according to state media. The report said the test verified technical aspects of the weapon system and examined its “adaptability under various battle conditions” before it is deployed to military units.
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Slave Husbands of Hong Kong: The Men Who Marry Into Servitude
Vulnerable men from India and Pakistan are being tricked into arranged marriages and trafficked to Hong Kong where they work as bonded labourers and indentured servants for their in-laws, too afraid or ashamed to speak out.
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A brave father has protected his young family after confronting and tricking a gang of ‘Sudanese’ hooded youths who were attempting to steal his car.
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Waleed Aly’s wife Susan Carland revealed her desire to live in a society offering equal opportunities, alongside a stunning shoot for InStyle magazine.
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Over 80 convicted rapists, murderers and paedophiles born overseas are being saved from deportation out of Australia despite their lengthy criminal records and a push by the Immigration Minister.
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113 Migrants and Refugees Arrive on Chios and Samos in the Last 48 Hours
One Hundred and thirteen migrants and refugees arrived on the northern Aegean islands in the last 48 hours. Fifty of them were recorded on Chios and 63 on Samos while no arrivals were reported on Lesvos.
According to police as of Monday 8,905 persons, who remain stranded in hotspots as their request for asylum has not yet been processed, are at hosting facilities on Lesvos (3,148), Chios (3,918) and Samos (1,839).
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Danish People’s Party Calls for Fence to be Built on German Border
A LEADING Danish politician has lashed out at Angela Merkel calling for a Trump-style fence with motion sensors to be built Denmark’s border with Germany.
Anders Vistisen, the group chairperson with the Danish People’s Party (DF) in the EU Parliament, argued the measure was needed to regain complete control over the Scandinavian country’s borders.
The MEP said the party had drawn inspiration from Hungary’s border measures, as he added it should be copied in Denmark.
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Germany Created the Migrant Crisis and Germany Should Pay the Consequences, Says Polish Leader
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, chairman of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), says it was Germany’s decision to open Europe’s borders, not Poland’s, and his countrymen should not have to pay for their neighbour’s mistakes.
“We have not opened Europe for refugees — Ms Merkel has,” the veteran conservative told public broadcaster TVP Info. “And it is Ms Merkel and Germany that have to bear the consequences, not Poland.”
In late 2015, the European Union forced through measures requiring member states to accept a share of 120,000 migrants in southern Europe — later increased to 160,000 — despite strong opposition from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia.
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Romania Detains 6 Syrian Migrants on Way to Schengen Zone
BUCHAREST, Romania — Romanian border police say they have detained and questioned six Syrian migrants who are suspected of illegally trying to leave Romania and head to the Schengen zone.
Police say they discovered the group of four adults and two children early Sunday near the town of Valea lui Mihai about 300 meters (330 yards) from the border with Hungary. Police say the migrants “couldn’t justify their presence in the area.”
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Duke Divinity School Ousts UN-PC Professor for Questioning ‘Racial Equity Training’
Duke Divinity School has forced out a professor who refused to kowtow to the liberal academic zeitgeist in a latest example of the demise of free intellectual inquiry and expression on America’s college campuses.
The crime of Prof. Paul Griffiths, a professor at Duke Divinity School, was openly speaking his mind regarding a racial equity training program offered on campus. When one professor praised the program in a faculty-wide email, Griffiths responded in kind by advising his fellow professors to avoid the workshop as an “anti-intellectual” exercise in political correctness.
The row began in February, when Prof. Anathea Portier-Young, a scholar with expertise in “constructions of identity, gender, and ethnicity, and traditions of violence and nonviolence,” distributed an email to the Divinity School faculty urging her colleagues to participate in the “Racial Equity Institute Phase I Training.”
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Fixing the Tomato: CRISPR Edits Correct Plant-Breeding Snafu
Geneticists harness two mutations — each cherished by breeders, but detrimental when combined — to improve on 10,000 years of tomato domestication.
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The Wooden Skyscrapers That Could Help to Cool the Planet
Large timber buildings are getting safer, stronger and taller. They may also offer a way to slow down global warming.
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Hungary getting ready to build a fence on the Romanian border too if necessary.
The poisonously cancerous sewage that is the peaceful or otherwise Muslim. Sweep this trash away before it costs millions and millions of innocent human lives. I wonder how China or North Korea would deal with these vermin?
It just occurred to me that an authoritarian regime might be superior to democracy in cracking down on terrorism. In Democracies we get wussy virtue signaling after an attack. A strong man leader, instead, will get bust some skulls.
Are you seriously suggesting that “an authoritarian regime” is preferable to a representative democracy? How would you keep your own skull intact while under the authority of a “strong man leader”? How would you protect your children?
Are you so unwilling to expend the energy to defend your right to speak, to move about, to have an unpopular opinion? That’s a short, slippery slope to the gulag, Reader from Corrupt Chicago.
It must be where you live that is affecting your thinking. Illinois, where the governor’s chair is but a short step to prison…
Or perhaps you’re playing devil’s advocate here?
https://onepeterfive.com/italian-geo-strategist-fuels-debate-over-pope-benedicts-resignation/
Italian Geo-Strategist Fuels Debate Over Pope Benedict’s Resignation
Here an Italian expert in geo-strategic studies thus claims that both the Italian government under Berlusconi and the papacy of Benedict XVI were toppled due to financial maneuvers that put both states in jeopardy. Alessandro Rico published, on 17 May, an article entitled “Ratzinger costretto ad abdicare dal ricatto di Obama” (“Ratzinger Forced to Abdicate Due to Obama’s Blackmail”) in the Italian newspaper La Verità – a publication which has no inclination toward traditional Catholicism at all, but, rather, sharply rebukes traditional and conservative Catholics in that same 17 May issue (as Giuseppe Nardi points out). Rico himself puts the Dottori statement in context with the 20 January 2017 Open Letter to President Trump, published by the traditional Catholic newspaper The Remnant, which called for an investigation into a possible U.S. intervention against Pope Benedict XVI. As Rico points out, Pope Benedict at the time stood in opposition to President Obama’s collaboration with the Muslim Brotherhood, especially with the pope’s Regensburg address in which he criticized Islamist fundamentalism. The U.S., as Rico along with Dottori explains, was not in favor of a papal rapprochement with the Patriarch of Moscow which could further support a European rapprochement with Russia. A partial basis for this desired rapprochement could also be a rejection of the moral relativism of the West.