The billionaire philanthropist George Soros has donated $1.45 million to the primary campaign of a candidate for District Attorney in Philadelphia. Philly is a Democrat shop, so the result of the primary will effectively seal the result of the general election. The recipient of Mr. Soros’ largesse is a civil rights lawyer named Larry Krasner.
In other news, a trove of emails from Emmanuel Macron, the “centrist” candidate in the French presidential election, has been leaked on the Internet. Mr. Macron said that he had been hacked, and acknowledged that some of the emails were genuine. However, he insisted that some of them are fakes.
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Labor Department’s April Jobs Report Strong and Getting Stronger
The headline numbers from the Labor Department’s latest employment report for April were encouraging: 211,000 jobs were added last month (compared to economists’ expectations of less than 190,000), pushing the unemployment rate to 4.4 percent, the lowest seen in 10 years, while average wages grew, year-over-year, by 2.5 percent.
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Navy Seal Taking Heat for Shining Light on Pedophile Darkness
The pedophile elite are running scared
Craig Sawyer, former Navy SEAL, is stepping up to protect victims of child sex trafficking.
After having his crowdsource funding shut down immediately after appearing on Alex Jones’ radio show, Craig updates us on recent progress.
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New Evidence Bolsters Probability That Hillary Clinton Was Hacked
I believe Judicial Watch may have unearthed the “smoking gun” revealing just such a compromise, or at least an attempt to hack Mrs. Clinton’s system. At the very least, I believe this finding should have been investigated by federal authorities if they were aware of it. If they were not aware of it, or were aware, but have not investigated it to date, they should do so now.
The discovery of this information and its possible significance requires some explanation.
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A report from Politico cites Obama insiders describing how the former president feels about watching Donald Trump conduct affairs in from the White House — and it will make satisfying reading for Trump supporters.
The article states that Obama has displayed a range of emotions with regards to Trump, including “stoicism, fear, and sad frustration.”
One source cited within the report describes Obama’s feelings about Trump presidency as “like watching a business he’d built for eight years being slowly ripped down.”
[Comment: Backwards. Obama ripped it down, Trump is trying to rebuild it. Real Americans don’t want Obama’s communist garbage.]
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Report: Congress Holding “Secret Conversations” About Removing Trump
Critics pushing impeachment or removal under 25th Amendment
Members of Congress are holding “secret conversations” about removing President Donald Trump from office following a “difficult first 100 days,” according to a report from The New Yorker magazine.
“Nobody occupies the White House without criticism, but Trump is besieged by doubts of a different order, centering on the overt, specific, and, at times, bipartisan discussion of whether he will be engulfed by any one of myriad problems before he has completed even one term in office — and, if he is, how he might be removed,” wrote Evan Osnos.
Osnos claims to have “interviewed several dozen people about the prospects of cutting short Trump’s Presidency,” including “his friends and advisers; to lawmakers and attorneys who have conducted impeachments; to physicians and historians; and to current members of the Senate, the House, and the intelligence services.”
[Comment: Congress members who are globalists and communists are holding secret meetings.]
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Soros Dumps $1.4 Million Into Philly DA Primary
Billionaire George Soros, with a check for $1.45 million last week, upended the money race in the Democratic primary campaign for district attorney in Philadelphia.
On April 28, Soros poured that cash into Philadelphia Justice and Public Safety, an independent political action committee running television ads in support of civil rights lawyer Larry Krasner, according to a campaign finance report filed Friday.
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Tectonic Explosion Soon to Spark Civil Unrest
America is on the brink of a civil war
Matt Bracken explains how America is ripe for societal collapse with only a little push needed to spark a major upheaval.
Matt Bracken: False Flags Work But Who Benefits/Civil Unrest Is Coming
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Belgian PM: Turkey Bid to Join EU at a ‘Dead End’
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium’s prime minister said Friday the time has come for the European Union to make a final decision about Turkey’s “dead end” bid for membership, saying that after months of provocations from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, “masochism must have its limits.”
“Here and now, I have impression that the membership process is not the right framework to have a successful dialogue with Turkey,” Michel said in an interview with the Associated Press.
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Catalonia Getting Ready to Buy the Ballot Boxes for the Independence Referendum
Barcelona (ACN).- The Catalan Government is taking the first steps to buying the ballot boxes for the independence referendum, CNA has learned. The executive is about to publish an announcement in the Catalan Government Official Journal that invites companies to bid to supply the ballot boxes. Catalonia is expected to need 8,000 ballot boxes for its independence referendum, which the government wants to celebrate in the autumn with or without permission from the Spanish State.
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Former Ukip MP Douglas Carswell declared ‘it’s over’ for the party today after it was obliterated at the ballot box in local elections.
Leader Paul Nuttall tried to put a brave faced on the dismal results and claimed Ukip was a ‘victim of our own success’.
The party has so far won just a solitary seat — a gain from Labour in Lancashire. It has lost every seat it was defending in the declared results — currently 145 of the 147 seats it won last time around.
Much of the Ukip vote appears to have transferred straight to the Tories and in a statement Mr Nuttall admitted it had been a ‘difficult night’.
Mr Nuttall claimed the prize of defeat was knowing Ukip ‘forced’ the Tories to embrace Brexit.
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Eiffel Tower Stunt Exposes Security Concern on Eve of French Election
PARIS, May 5 (Reuters) — Security was stepped up at the Eiffel Tower on Friday ahead of Sunday’s presidential election in France after Greenpeace activists scaled the Paris landmark and hung out a big political banner.
The early morning escapade in which activists used mountaineering helmets, ropes and shackles prompted the Paris police chief to call an emergency meeting where the new security measures were decided.
Separately, police officers arrested a “radicalised” former soldier near a military airbase near the town of Evreux northwest of the French capital in an incident that judicial sources said was related to a counter-terrorist inquiry.
A shotgun was found in nearby undergrowth, in addition to a cartridge and a Koran in the car he had left at the edge of the airbase, where he was arrested in the early morning on returning to the spot, the sources said.
Security chiefs, after attacks by Islamist militants, have already announced extra police for patrolling key areas on voting day on Sunday when a centrist politician meets a veteran from the far-right after a turbulent and at times angry campaign.
More than 230 people have been killed in such attacks in Paris and other parts of France in the past two-and-a-half years…
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Police in Germany are reportedly searching for an Islamic State bombmaker believed to be at large in the country.
Intelligence services have intercepted phone calls from the wanted man in which he speaks of explosives being ready, but have been unable to identify him, according to Bild newspaper.
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Local Polls Boost May Five Weeks Before UK National Election
Britain’s Conservative Party made strong gains in local elections on Friday, suggesting Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit strategy is winning over voters who should hand her an easy victory in a parliamentary poll next month.
Partial results from the local elections, which voters often use to punish the ruling party, showed May’s Conservatives had instead gained more than 500 council seats.
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Macron Stretches Lead as French Presidential Campaign Enters Final Day
Centrist French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron extended his lead in the polls over his far-right rival Marine Le Pen on Friday, the final day of a tumultuous election campaign that has turned the country’s politics upside down.
[Comment: Two words. Poll fraud. Globalists will stoop to any level to ensure their puppet is chosen. ]
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Macron Campaign Leak Hits Internet
A leak of documents and emails allegedly from individuals working for or associated with French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron hit the internet Friday afternoon.
The Macron campaign confirmed that they had been hacked and said the leak contains real documents. The statement went on to say that fake ones are being spread on social media in an effort to “sow doubt and disinformation.”
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Caroline Glick: Trump’s Tragic Mistake
It is due to Trump’s heartfelt support for Israel and the US-Israel alliance that his meeting Wednesday with PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas at the White House is most discouraging.
By meeting with Abbas, and committing himself to working toward achieving a peace deal between Abbas and his PLO and Israel, Trump undermines Israel.
He also undermines himself and his nation.
Israel is the most immediate casualty of Trump’s decision to embrace Abbas and the PLO, because the PLO is Israel’s enemy.
Abbas is an antisemite. His doctoral dissertation, which he later published as a book, is a Holocaust denying screed.
Abbas engages in antisemitic incitement on a daily basis, both directly and indirectly. It was Abbas who called for his people to kill Jews claiming that we pollute Judaism’s most sacred site, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, with our “filthy feet.” The Palestinian media and school system which he controls with an iron fist both regularly portray Jews as evil monsters, deserving of physical annihilation.
Abbas’s PLO and his Palestinian Authority engage as a general practice in glorifying terrorist murderers. As has been widely reported in recent weeks, his PA and PLO also incentivize and underwrite terrorism to the tune of $300 million a year, which is paid, in accordance with PA law, to convicted terrorists sitting in Israeli prisons and their families.
And that’s just the money we know about.
In welcoming Abbas to the White House, Trump chose to ignore all of this in the interest of fostering a peace deal between Israel and the PLO.
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Al-Jazeera Films False Flag Fake Chemical Attack Against Civilians in Syria
Source claims around 30 fire engines, ambulances, as well as 70 local residents with children transported from refugee camp used in filming across three locations…
A false flag fake chemical attack against civilians has recently been filmed by al-Jazeera stringers in Syria, and it was ordered from a European country, a military and diplomatic source revealed on Thursday.
“The “effectiveness” of the White Helmets’ TV-spectacle of accusing Syrian authorities of attacking civilians in Khan Shaykhun with sarin inspired terrorists to continue filming the fake ‘series’. According to info confirmed via several channels, al-Jazeera television channel stringers have recently filmed a staged, fake scene of an alleged chemical attack against civilians by the Syrian Army,” the source told Sputnik.
The source said around 30 fire engines and ambulances, as well as 70 local residents with children transported from a refugee camp were used in the filming across three locations in Idlib province, including Jisr Shughur.
“A multiple simultaneous uploading of filmed fake footage with ‘screaming’ social media comments was due to take place in the next few days (by Sunday) at the separate command of a mastermind and sponsor of the film in one of the European countries,” he added.
This filming appears to be ordered from a European country, the source said.
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Russian No-Fly Zone Plan for Syria Would Apply to U.S. Planes — But Only if We Send Them
Meeting in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, on May 4, Russian, Iranian, and Turkish delegates agreed to a Russian plan establish “de-escalation zones” in Syria. The plan would bar military aircraft from all countries — including President Bashar Assad’s air force, Russian and Turkish planes, and also military aircraft from the U.S.-led coalition — from flying over the designated “safe” or “no-fly” zones in Syria.
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The day before Farhad Jabar murdered Curtis Cheng outside Parramatta police headquarters, his sister Shadi fled Australia to Syria where she married an ISIS fighter and eventually died.
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SF Special: South African Farmers Meet Tough Challenges
“South African farming is not for sissies.” When I first heard that line from a farmer in Delmas, Gauteng, a northern province in South Africa, I chuckled at the bluntness of the line as well as the subtle insinuation that farmers in other parts of the world are sissies.
It wasn’t until I heard several farmers repeat the exact same phrase that I realized this wasn’t just a quip from one sharp-tongued farmer. It was a mantra, a way farmers there face the realities of the lifestyle and profession they love.
While farming is never an easy line of work, South African farmers do face an extraordinary combination of challenges. Land reform laws continue to be tweaked, working to right the wrongs of the past by returning ground or providing compensation to families who lost their land. However, in a country where political uncertainty is one of the only certainties, this creates instability for farmers and potential agriculture investors. With unemployment rates as high as 25%, theft and violence continue to be an endemic problem for farmers. Growing crops in South Africa’s sandy soils with little rainfall has always been a challenge, but it’s one that climate change has compounded. And when rain doesn’t fall, as farmers in the North experienced last year and those in the Western Cape are dealing with today, there are no subsidies available to help farmers make it through drought years…
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Brazil Sentences Eight for Planning Terrorist Activities During Olympics
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — Eight men accused of being part of a terrorist organization and threatening the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro were convicted on Thursday in Curitiba, Brazil on the charges of promoting a criminal organization, recruitment for the practice of acts of terrorism and criminal association.
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The Number Killed in Venezuela Amid Mounting Political Unrest Reaches 38
The number killed in Venezuela amid mounting political unrest rose to 38 on Friday, as opposition leaders reported that dozens of officers had been detained for refusing to repress protesters.
Former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles said 85 officers, a majority from the military, had been detained for “expressing discontent” with the actions of the nation’s national guard.
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Christian Refugee Converts in Germany Face Violent Attacks
Recently, an Afghan woman who converted to Christianity was murdered. More and more refugees in Germany are being targeted for turning away from Islam. Are these only isolated cases?
[Comment: Not a bad article from a mainstream news source.]
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Europe: More Migrants Coming: “Eight to Ten Million Are Still on the Way”
- “In terms of public order and internal security, I simply need to know who is coming to our country.” — Austrian Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka.
- Turkey appears determined to flood Europe with migrants either way: with Europe’s permission by means of visa-free travel, or without Europe’s permission, as retribution for failing to provide visa-free travel.
- The migrants arriving in Italy are overwhelmingly economic migrants seeking a better life in Europe. Only a very small number appear to be legitimate asylum seekers or refugees fleeing warzones.
- The director of the UN office in Geneva, Michael Møller, has warned that Europe must prepare for the arrival of millions more migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
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Prosecutors Drop Rape Charges Against Two Illegals Accused of Sodomizing 14-Year-Old Girl in School
Defense attorneys have maintained the bathroom encounter on March 16 was consensual
Maryland prosecutors have dropped charges against two undocumented teenage boys accused of raping and sodomizing a classmate in a high school bathroom.
Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy told a judge Friday that after an investigation, authorities are dropping rape and sex offense counts against 17-year-old Jose Montano, who was charged as an adult.
He and 18-year-old Henry Sanchez-Milian, both of whom were in the US illegally, were charged in the alleged assault the girl at Rockville High School in March.
McCarthy said at a news conference this morning that the same charges against Sanchez-Milian also are being dropped due to lack of evidence.
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