Tonight’s news feed is really for two days, because there was no feed last night, due to the site migration.
The big news story of the day — which is not actually among tonight’s items — is that FBI Director James Comey was abruptly fired by President Donald Trump.
In other news, Brigitte Trogneux, the wife of President Emmanuel “Boy Toy” Macron, will reportedly have a significant role in the new French government.
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74% of American Plan to Work Past Retirement Age
For those wondering about the true strength of the US economy, look no further than Americans’ post-”retirement” plans revealed in the latest Gallup survey, according to why only 25% of Americans plan to stop working past retirement age. Meanwhile, nearly two in three employed U.S. adults, or 63%, responded they plan to work past retirement age on a part-time basis, while an additional 11% said they will work full time once they hit retirement age.
These results come from Gallup’s Economy and Personal Finance survey, conducted April 5-9.
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Paul Ryan’s Continues [Redacted] The American Workers
‘94 MILLION Americans are still out of work’
“He, therefore, who is now against domestic manufacture, must be for reducing us either to dependence on that foreign nation, or to be clothed in skins, and to live like wild beasts in dens and caverns. I am not one of these; experience has taught me that manufactures are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort; and if those who quote me as of a different opinion, will keep pace with me in purchasing nothing foreign where an equivalent of domestic fabric can be obtained, without regard to difference of price, it will not be our fault if we do not soon have a supply at home equal to our demand, and wrest that weapon of distress from the hand which has wielded it.” The Letters of Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826 to Benjamin Austin Monticello, January 9, 1816
To listen to talking heads on the Internet and the unconstitutional ‘Federal’ Reserve mouthpieces one gets the impression that millions of new jobs are being created and we’re back on track to ‘happy days are here again’.
Manufacturing Adds 6,000 Jobs-Reaching New 8-Year High; Government Adds 17,000
Nothing could be further from the truth as I wrote in a column last month, NOW Is The Time To Make Your Move On This before It’s Too Late. The unemployment rate was again pushed down this past week while 94 MILLION Americans are still out of work. […]
“No one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations that require bachelor’s degrees or higher,” Teitelbaum concluded. The Rand study cited by authors also found “no evidence that such shortages have existed at least since 1990, nor that they are on the horizon.” Steve Goodman of Bright Media, whom the authors also cite, is one of the few people in the tech-industry who conceded that the numbers disprove Silicon Valley’s conventional wisdom about the shortage of high-tech workers.”
President Trump PROMISED to pull US out of NAFTA — an unconstitutional agreement that has sent millions of jobs overseas or to Mexico. So far, all I can see is flip-flopping by Trump and this NONSENSE
‘I was all set to terminate’: Inside Trump’s sudden shift on NAFTA. Trump’s ‘team’ talked him out of it convincing him it would cost jobs, hurt his supporters and hurt farmers. You have the wrong team working for you, President Trump. Cost jobs? For Mexico and India but not for Americans. Who the hell do you think came out of the shadows to vote for you in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and others decimated by NAFTA, CAFTA, GATT & the WTO?
Trump’s threats to pull out of NAFTA: Crazy like a fox? — We shall see.
President Trump did take one small baby step in the right direction on April 18, 2017: Presidential Executive Order on Buy American and Hire American
Before NAFTA 97% of all shoes sold in this country were made in this country. Now it’s about 4%. After serial adulterer and rapist, Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into ‘law’, within a few years THOUSANDS of plants closed and went south of the border or overseas laying off hundreds of thousands of Americans faster than bean counters could count. I know. Besides being on top of this issue back then, following NAFTA and my trips across the country, I saw for myself small towns and cities that used to provide thousands of jobs with our factories humming turned into ghost towns with a gas station and a few local businesses. The destruction was heart breaking.
Prior to NAFTA and then all the subsequent and destructive “free” trade treaties, almost everything in our homes, the clothes on our back and the food we ate was produced and grown HERE by Americans. The jobs and the $$ stayed HERE in OUR country. And yet, tens of millions of Americans continued to reelect the same incumbents in the U.S. CON-gress who voted for the destruction we have lived through and continue to live in a real time nightmare created by them and past presidents.
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Texas Takes Big Step Toward Freedom From Fed’s Money Monopoly
Lawmakers in the Texas House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill approving the establishment of a bullion depository, preparing the Lone Stare state’s bypass of the Federal Reserve’s exclusive control of currency.
House Bill 3169 was introduced in March by State Representative Giovanni Capriglione. Passed by the House May 4, it makes a multi-faceted assault on the Fed’s mismanaged money monopoly, including provisions for overseeing the depositing of “state money” and the setting of rates of exchange between precious metals stored in the facility and other currencies, including U.S. dollars
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What’s Killing the Middle Class?
A household may have an income of $150,000 and appear well-off by that metric, but if they are mired in debt and own virtually no productive assets or wealth that can be passed on to future generations, they aren’t middle class — they’re well-paid proletariats.
So what’s killing the middle class? If you read the dozens of articles on the decline of the middle class in the mainstream (corporate) media, you soon discover there’s a short list of the usual suspects:
1. Globalization / outsourcing
2. Technological changes / automation
3. “Winner take all” asymmetry in rewards for specialized skills
Clearly, each of these has squeezed the incomes of all those between the jobless poor and the wealthy reaping the lion’s share of the rewards from globalization and technological change.
A worker at a steel mill who earned $28/hour plus benefits could, with frugality and long-term planning, eventually own a home free and clear and acquire a nest-egg of assets.
When that worker’s job was outsourced, and his next job paid $9.25/hour, the opportunities to amass capital fell precipitously.
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“Boomerang Kids”: Adult Millennials Returning Home is Crushing Baby Boomer Budgets
We’ve noted several times in recent months that, despite the ‘economic recovery’, a record number of young ‘adults’ are moving back home with mom and dad after college and staying there well into their 30’s.
Now, as confirmed by a recent study conducted by Fidelity and the Stanford Center on Longevity, the added stress of caring for all those ‘adult’ children is putting a severe emotional and financial strain on Baby Boomers with over 75% saying their adult children are cutting into their budgets and over 50% saying they’re generally less happy about life.
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Air Force’s X-37B Space Plane Lands in Florida After Record-Breaking Secret Mission
The record-shattering mission of the U.S. Air Force’s robotic X-37B space plane is finally over. After circling Earth for an unprecedented 718 days, the X-37B touched down Sunday (May 7) at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida — the first landing at the SLF since the final space shuttle mission came back to Earth in July 2011.
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California Lawmakers Seek to Repeal Ban on Communists Taking Government Jobs
This is probably a good time to remind people California was a conservative Republican state just three decades ago.
California lawmakers are working to repeal a law from the 1950’s which banned communists from working for the state government and its public agencies.
Seeing as how communists and cultural Marxists have taken over the state of California, the law is rather inconvenient.
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Going Back to Pluto? Scientists to Push for Orbiter Mission
Humanity’s first up-close look at Pluto was so intriguing that some researchers want to go back and spend a lot more time studying the icy world.
Late last month, 35 scientists met for 7 hours in Houston to discuss the basic blueprint and science goals of a potential Pluto orbiter mission. Such an effort would build upon the knowledge gained during the epic Pluto flyby performed in July 2015 by NASA’s New Horizons probe.
Participants came away from the April 24 workshop fired up and committed to doing their best to make such a project happen, said New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern, who was there.
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Mysterious Military Spacecraft Lands in Florida Causing Sonic Boom
U.S. military officials say an unmanned spacecraft orbiting Earth since May 2015 has landed in Florida.
The Air Force posted tweets that the X37B spacecraft landed Sunday morning at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral after 718 days in orbit.
Multiple media outlets reported that the 29-foot-long spacecraft’s return caused a sonic boom that rattled central Florida and could be heard as far away as Tampa and Fort Myers.
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An elderly white woman was slammed to the ground and then thrown into a pool along with her dogs on Saturday after she politely asked a mob of party-goers in South Florida to lower their music. According to MTONews, the woman “suffered serious head trauma” and almost drowned…
While some are trying to justify the attack saying the man “slipped,” he never should have laid his hands on her in the first place. The fact is after slamming her to the ground incredibly violently, the thug then chose to pick her up and throw her into a pool. This elderly woman could have easily been killed.
While the media is currently trying to act like this never happened, imagine for a moment the outrage if an elderly black woman went to a frat boy pool party and asked them to turn down the music, then a white frat boy picked her up, slammed her to the ground to the cheers of his frat boy buddies, and then threw her in a pool leaving her for dead.
That would get 24/7 coverage and be characterized as a hate crime and an indictment on all white people. Instead, as the races are reversed, it’s being completely ignored.
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Suspect Charged in South Boston Slaying of Two Doctors
The man accused of killing two doctors in their South Boston penthouse condo is expected to appear before a judge Monday to face two counts of murder, according to Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s office.
The suspect, 30-year-old Bampumim Teixeira, was wounded when confronted by Boston police inside 141 Dorchester Ave. where he allegedly murdered the two doctors, identified by authorities as Lina Bolaños, 38, and Richard Field, 49.
A motive for the attack on the two widely-respected medical professionals remained unclear, the Globe reported.
Friends, colleagues, and family of the victims said they knew of no association with Teixiera, although officials have said they were known to each other, but gave no details. Police have also not explained how Teixeira got into the building with heavy security or how he reached the 11th floor of the building last Friday night…
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The Horror! The Horror! (Part Three)
In Part One and Part Two of this article I detailed the decades of propaganda, false flags, and misinformation campaigns used by the Deep State to gain power and control over the U.S. government. When war or a financial crisis is necessary to keep the profits flowing, events will be steered to such an outcome. With the latest financial plundering operation running out of steam, the Deep State is pushing the world toward global conflict.
If at first you don’t succeed with a false flag gas attack, try try again. Knowing a vast swath of the American populace is incapable of critical thinking or able to discern between fake news and factual events, the Deep State and their media lackeys unquestioningly promoted the story of children being killed by a sarin gas attack by Assad. The photos of rescue workers helping victims without gloves immediately invalidated the narrative, as the rescue workers would be dead if they handled sarin gas victims without protective gear.
The faux journalists, pretending to be neutral observers, did not question this blatant lie. They did not ponder why Assad would commit such an idiotic atrocity when he was clearly in control of the battlefield and on the verge of defeating his American funded rebel enemies.
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The Suppression of Expression on Campus Needs to Stop
By Robert Spencer
As I have noted many times, and experienced firsthand in the last few weeks at the University at Buffalo, Truman State University, and Gettysburg College, colleges and universities today are not institutions of higher learning, but factories of hard-Left and pro-jihad indoctrination, propagandizing and brainwashing students into becoming ugly little fascist shock troops for twenty-first century totalitarians. Administrators, as I have also experienced firsthand, not just at the University at Buffalo but also in the past at Temple University, Saint Anselm College and DePaul University, actively aid and abet all this.
Public universities and colleges must cease to be indoctrination centers for the hard-Left, and ensure that dissent from the Leftist line is not censored and the dissenters brutalized, or they should receive no taxpayer funding of any kind, and required to include in all promotional literature a statement to the effect that they don’t receive any public funding because of their intolerance of all intellectual dissent.
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Did you know that the number of murders increased by almost 60 percent in the city of Chicago last year? And as you will see below, this year gang violence in the Windy City has risen to a new level of viciousness. A staggering 9.5 million people live in the Chicago metropolitan area, and it was once known primarily for great pizza, bitter cold and some of the best sports fans on the entire planet. But now the number one thing that comes to mind for many when they think about the city of Chicago is gang violence. As it becomes clear that things are not going to turn around any time soon, thousands of residents are leaving the city for safer areas of the nation. In fact, Cook County lost more people than any other county in America last year by a very wide margin.
When your murder rate goes up by double digits in a single year, you have got a problem.
But when it goes up by close to 60 percent, you have got a catastrophe on your hands…
In 2016, the number of murders in the city jumped nearly 60 percent to over 760, more than New York and Los Angeles combined. There were more than 4,300 shooting victims in the city last year, according to police.
Of course we aren’t supposed to talk about the fact that this is quietly happening in communities all over America. This is one of the reasons why there is such a disparity in real estate prices these days. The wealthy are willing to pay a substantial premium to live with other wealthy people in areas that are far away from all the violence.
And the gang violence in Chicago continues to escalate. For example, check out what happened just yesterday…
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Top Soros Henchman Calls for Government-Run Social Media in Order to Stop Infowars & Breitbart
The globalists aren’t even hiding it anymore. They want Big Brother and they want it now
Ethan Zuckerman is a name you might not be all that familiar with. I wasn’t either, until my friend and TRR associate Seattle4Truth informed me about some digging he did on this George Soros henchman who seems to be everywhere in the media. He’s not really a flamboyant presence, though. A quote here and there, an op-ed on CNN or The Atlantic, Zuckerman is content with injecting his globalist ideas into the body politic without actually becoming well-known.
I guess that makes it easier for him to operate as the bridge between progressive academia, the media, and their elected leaders.
His latest gambit is pretty much exactly what Seattle and I talked about earlier this year when we had an in-depth discussion about his BLACKPILL documentary. Zuckerman, one of Soros’ top thugs, literally wants to startup government-run social media so that the conservative blogosphere and their associated entities will lose political power.
The globalists aren’t even hiding it anymore. They want Big Brother and they want it now.
Oh, and like always, these scumbags can’t even make their case honestly. They have to resort to lies…
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USA Today Calls the FBI After Half of Its 15m Facebook Likes Turn Out to be Bogus
You’d think the FBI has enough on its plate with the threat of terrorism, political investigations, and attempts to nobble end-to-end encryption.
Now USA Today has called in the Feds after spammers bombarded its Facebook page with bogus likes.
On Monday, Gannett, the publisher of the newspaper that so frequently gets stepped on outside US hotel rooms, said it asked special agents to probe the source of millions of fake likes on its title’s profile.
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Warner Bros. Unveils First Full Trailer for ‘Blade Runner 2049’
Warner Bros. released the first full trailer Monday for Blade Runner 2049, the long-awaited sequel to the hit 1982 sci-fi action film.
The trailer centers on new Los Angeles Police Department Officer K (Ryan Gosling), who attempts to track down original Replicant-hunter Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) to ask him about a troubling discovery he has made.
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but Agent K’s discovery threatens to “plunge what’s left of society into chaos,” according to the studio’s synopsis.
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Sold to the Highest Foreign Bidder
After taking over the leadership of the country, Trudeau not only withdrew Canada’s participation from the U.S.-led bombing of ISIS strongholds in Iraq and Syria, but months later — a day after the March 22, 2016 Brussels suicide bombings that left 32 innocent people dead — he announced that Canada was “not at war with ISIS.”
This April, Trudeau said that ISIS supporters have the right to defend their freedom, and was reported to have referred to Evangelical Christians as the “worst part of Canadian society.” These remarks came despite the country’s imams regularly call for the annihilation of Jews. Trudeau, in March, slammed a video posted to YouTube that offered a $1,000 reward for recordings of Muslim students at schools in a district of Ontario that were “spewing hate speech” during Friday prayer. “Canadians have understood that our differences are a source of strength, not a source of weakness,” Trudeau said at a press conference, after the release of the video. Prime Minister Trudeau has been supportive of Muslim prayers in the secular school board, where prayers and students preaching and will be unsupervised.
Prime Minister Trudeau has also been trying to change the rules of the Commons to fit his schedule and strip the opposition of its power to hold him accountable, interim leader Rona Ambrose charged. Apparently he has been trying to limit the ability of the opposition to debate him in Parliament prior to the passage of proposed bills.
Even more disturbing is a technical loophole in the Canada Elections Act, now being brought to the fore by Trudeau’s camp. The law allows foreign entities to make contributions to Canadian candidates. This means that players such as Iran or Saudi Arabia will be able to further their agendas through a particular politician, as long as they pump him with funds for six months and a day prior to his official bid for office.
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Brains of Two-Sided Stone-Tool Makers Scanned
The Yorkshire Post reports that Shelby Putt of the Stone Age Institute and her team scanned the brains of volunteers with functional near-infrared spectroscopy while they produced two-sided stone weapons, such as hand axes and cleavers. It had been thought that such stone tool production, first undertaken some 1.75 million years ago, would be linked to the evolution of language.
But the scientists instead found that the same areas of the brain were activated in the tool makers as in those who play the piano in a rock-and-roll style. Both skills require a combination of visual memory, hearing, movement awareness, and action planning. “We think this marked a turning point in the evolution of the human brain, leading to the evolution of a new species of human,” Putt said.
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British Woman Attacked With ‘2 Litres of Acid’ In Algarve
A British woman is in a serious condition in hospital after being attacked with acid in a popular Algarve holiday resort.
The 29-year-old suffered second and third degree burns to more than 30 per cent of her body after her attacker threw a corrosive liquid over her on a street in Alvor near Portimao on Saturday night.
She was taken to hospital in Portimao after being found screaming on the pavement and was then transferred to a specialist hospital in Lisbon.
Police are understood to be trying to track down an ex-boyfriend of the victim.
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Denmark: Man Remanded After Two Killed in Copenhagen Jetski Tragedy
A 24-year-old man has been remanded in custody until June 1st after a jetski accident Saturday in Copenhagen that left two American exchange students dead.
The man and seven others, including one woman, attended preliminary hearings at Copenhagen City Court Sunday following the jetski accident Saturday evening.
He is charged with double manslaughter, exposing others to life-threatening danger through recklessness and for failing to stop at the scene of an accident, reports broadcaster DR.
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Facebook Must Delete Hate Postings, Austria Court Rules
A court in Austria has ordered that Facebook must remove postings seen as hate speech, in a ruling that is set to have international implications.
The case was brought by the country’s Green Party after its leader was targeted by a false account.
The court said postings not just in Austria but worldwide must be deleted. Facebook has not yet commented.
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France: Emmanuel Macron, Useful Idiot of Islamism
by Yves Mamou
Emmanuel Macron, a “Useful Infidel,” is not a supporter of terrorism or Islamism. It is worse: he does not even see the threat.
Is Macron an open promoter of Islamism in France? It is more politically correct to say that he is a “globalist” and an “open promoter of multiculturalism”. As such, he does not consider Islamism a national threat because the French nation, or, as he has said, French culture, does not really exist.
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France: Macron’s Wife Gets Government Role After Election Win
Brigitte Trogneux, 64, who is more than 24 years older than her husband, is expected to play a key role in the new administration and is keen to become involved in education issues.
[Comment: They met at Macron’s high school. He was 15, she was Macron’s drama teacher at high school. Macron’s parents tried to break them up without success.]
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‘Front National is Not Finished’ Experts Warn France Has Not Seen the Back of Le Pen
EMMANUEL MACRON could still face problems from Marine Le Pen despite a heavy defeat at the Presidential elections on Sunday.
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Ireland: Two Men Arrested in Dublin Over Terrorist Related Activity
Gardai have arrested two men over terrorist-related activity in the capital.
Members of the Garda’s anti-terrorism unit arrested an Algerian national and a Moroccan national in their 30s and 40s over under The Terrorist Offences Act 2015.
It is understood that the counter-terrorism operation targeted the men in relation to suspected fundraising for the Islamic State group.
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Italy: No More Kebabs: Venice Cracks Down on Takeaway Food
Venice’s council has banned takeaway food shops in an effort to preserve the ancient city’s “decorum and traditions”.
City authorities have banned any new takeaway food shops from opening in the historic centre, after new legislation ruled such businesses were “incompatible” with the city’s cultural heritage.
That includes kebab shops, fast food outlets, and kiosks selling pizza by the slice. In fact, only artisanal gelaterias will be allowed to set up shop. .
When contacted by The Local, Venice councillor Francesca Da Villa, who proposed the measures, was unable to comment, but she said in a statement that the growing number of takeaway food spots had led to “a lowering of the food’s quality, and a negative perception of the city”.
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Italy: Obama Stands Up for Paris Climate Agreement in Milan
Former president confident US will keep going in right direction
(ANSA) — Milan, May 9 — Former United States president Barack Obama stresse d the importance of the Paris agreement on combatting climate change during a speech in Milan on Tuesday.
“With (Italian ex-premier) Matteo (Renzi) we helped give the world a ve ry significant agreement on the climate,” said Obama, who is on the second day of a two-day visit to Italy’s business capital. Incoming French Preside nt Emmanuel Macron asked Obama’s successor President Donald Trump not to ab andon the Paris agreement during the phone call the tycoon made to congratu late the former on his election, CNN reported a Macron spokesperson as sayi ng.
A crunch White House meeting on whether the Trump administration should dump the deal was set to take place on Tuesday, but has been postponed.
Obama, in Milan to address the Seeds and Chips fair, said he was confid ent that “the United States will continue to move in the right direction” o n the Paris agreement.
He added that the fact the Trump administration had differences of opin ion with him was “part of democracy”. Obama said his work after leaving the White House is to “train the next generation of leaders” in the world. He said he had talked to Renzi on “setting up an efficient network of global a ctivists”.
He also spoke about terrorism in Milan, arguing a shortage of jobs was a factor. “Technology is creating high capital intensity in many economic s ectors and less demand for labour and this will become a problem in the adv anced world,” he said. “This is one of the things that worries me most. I a m certain that this is part of the problem that instigates radicalization a nd terrorism in many countries of the Middle East and south Asia. “If many young people are unemployed they will channel their energies in an unhealth y way”.
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Italy: Six Probed in Florence Waste Management Case
Trash collection firm offices searched
(ANSA) — Florence, May 9 — Six people were placed under investigation Tuesd ay in a probe into suspected abuse of office and illicit waste trafficking in Florence.
Police searched the offices of Alia, formerly known as Quadrifoglio, th e Florence municipal rubbish collection company.
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Italy: New CONSIP Probe Opened, Into External Consultants
Documents seized at civil-service procurement agency
(ANSA) — Rome, May 9 — A fresh probe into civil-service procurement agency CONSIP was opened Tuesday, into external consultants, judicial sources said as police seized documents from the agency. An existing probe into suspect ed graft has seen the arrest of Campania businessman Alfredo Romeo on suspi cion of bribing ex-CONSIP executive Marco Gasparri.
Judicial sources said the second probe has nothing to do with the first one.
In the second one, investigators suspect that “excessive” consultancies were given out, both regarding the number of posts and the value of the co ntracts. In the first probe, the father of ex-premier Matteo Renzi, Tiziano , has been placed under investigation for suspected influence-peddling and Sports Minister Luca Lotti is being probed for allegedly revealing judicial secrets.
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Italy Sends EU Pasta: Rice Ingredients Decrees
Compulsory indication of raw materials
Italy on Monday sent the European Commission decrees introducing compulsory labelling of raw materials for rice and pasta wheat, ANSA sources said. Th e decrees by Farm Minister Maurizio Martina and Industry Minister Carlo Cal enda must now be assessed by the EU executive. For rice and durum wheat, th e decrees say the sites of cultivation, processing and packaging must be in dicated.
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Italy: Grillo Says Macron’s Will be ‘Govt of Banks’
Abstention and vote for far right ‘real news’
(ANSA) — Rome, May 8 — Anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Bepp e Grillo on Monday said new French President Emmanuel Macron would oversee “a government of the banks” and the “real news” from the French election wa s the high rate of abstention and the highest score ever for a far-right ca ndidate.
“Considering that in France the euro, globalisation and the banks haven ‘t been able to cause disasters comparable to those perpetrated against cit izens in Italy, it should be clear how heavy that 34% (for Front National c andidate Marine Le Pen) is,” said Grillo on his blog.
In a post entitled “Macros and the French: will it be true love”, Grill o said “Europe will see another government that has come out of the banks”.
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Italy: Grillo’s Blog Calls on Boschi to Quit
M5S ready to take legal action over Etruria case
(ANSA) — Rome, May 9 — The blog of anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Beppe Grillo on Tuesday called on Cabinet Secretary Maria Elena Bos chi to quit over reports that she asked UniCredit CEO Federico Ghizzoni to consider buying a troubled bank that subsequently went insolvent. “Boschi m ust get packing or we’ll go everything to send her back home,” read the pos t.
“And we will evaluate possible actions on the judicial front”.
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Le Pen Will Become France’s President in 2022, Ex-UKIP Leader Farage Says
Far-left candidate Marine Le Pen might not have won the French presidential election on Sunday, but in 2022 she will likely become president, former UKIP leader Nigel Farage told Fox News on Monday.
“She got 35 percent of the votes this time, and in 2022, I believe [Le Pen] will win,” Farage told Shannon Bream on “America’s Newsroom.”
Farage defended his bold prediction by citing voting statistics that showed the older generation supporting France’s president-elect Emmanuel Macron over Le Pen in this election.
“Eighty percent of the over 65’s voted for Macron. So generationally, it’s the older people that are sticking to the older European model and the younger people that are rejecting it,” Farage added.
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Lowest Turnout Since 1974 as France Decides the “Future of the EU”
Update: as of 5pm, the French voter participation was 65.3%, which is the lowest in presidential elections going back at least all the way to 1988:
2017 : 65.30% 2012 : 71.96% 2007 : 75.11% 2002 : 67.62% 1995 : 66.07% 1988 : 70.63% And according to a separate accounts, the voter turnout was the lowest going back all the way to 1974.
#Presidentielle2017 : participation à 65,3% à 17:00. (71,96 % en 2012 et 75,11 % en 2007)./Ministère pic.twitter.com/YYAHgjEBrz
– — LesNews (@LesNews) May 7, 2017
An estimate by elabe/BFMTV estimates the final voter turnout at just 74%, which would make it the lowest since 1969.
[Comment: French natives sat out the vote and muslim block voting got Macron elected.]
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‘Macron Needs Britain’ Migrant Crisis May Lead to Le Pen Victory in the Future, Hague Says
The former Tory leader claimed the EU may cease to exist if the crisis is not resolved, and that the UK will play a key role as “the future migration crisis is the one that will break the Schengen zone, the EU, and the mainstream leadership of Europe” if it is left to develop.
With the population across the Middle East and Africa expected to double over the course of 30 years — an increase of one billion people according to Sir William, he warned the crisis could overwhelm Europe and may lead to Ms Le Pen coming to power in years to come.
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Marine Le Pen May Have Lost This Time But the French Far Right is on the Move
Marine Le Pen might have had little chance of winning this year’s French election, but that might not be the case in 2022. Her far-right party, like the new president, is “on the move”.
Le Pen pulled in 10.6 million votes, double the number her father Jean-Marie gained in the second round of the 2002 presidential election.
That number represented a new record, beating the 7.6 million the far-right leader picked up in the first round on April 23rd.
All the charts tell the same story: The National Front are on an upward trajectory, and who knows where it will take them in five year’s time.
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Merkel’s Conservative Party Does Well in German Local Vote
A blow to her main national challenger Schulz
(ANSA) — FRANKFURT — German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives came i n first Sunday in a local election seen as a warm-up for her bid for a four th term in a national election in the fall, AP reports.
The results in the small northern state of Schleswig-Holstein were a blow t o her main national challenger, Social Democrat Martin Schulz, whose party’ s governing coalition was ejected from office there.
The Social Democrats had governed the region of 2.8 million people since 20 12 in coalition with the Greens and the small SSW party of the region’s Dan ish majority.
Exit polls and early returns broadcast by ARD television showed Merkel’s Ch ristian Democrats, headed by local candidate Daniel Guenther, were in the l ead with 32.8 percent of the vote, ahead of the second-place Social Democra ts who had 26.7 percent.
Defeated Social Democratic governor Torsten Albig called it “a bitter day.” Preliminary estimates indicated the Christian Democrats could form a 42-se at majority in the region’s 69-seat parliament with the Greens and the pro- business Free Democrats.
Or they could form a left-right coalition with the Social Democrats.
The Social Democrats would in theory have enough seats in a coalition with the Free Democrats and the Greens. Local Free Democrat leader Wolfgang Kubi cki called that outcome “unlikely,” however.
The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party barely cleared the 5 per cent hurdle to get into parliament and thus now has seats in 12 of Germany’ s 16 legislatures. But it won’t play a direct role in forming the local gov ernment because other parties refuse to work with it.
Regardless of the outcome of local coalition talks, the result was a damper on the mood among Social Democrats and unexpected good news for Merkel. Po lls had suggested a neck-and-neck race.
The Social Democrats surged in national polls after Schulz, a former Europe an Parliament president, was nominated as Merkel’s challenger in January, b ut the party’s ratings have since sagged. The latest polls show them traili ng Merkel’s conservatives by about eight points.
Nationally the Social Democrats play second fiddle in a governing coalition headed by Merkel, who became chancellor in 2005.
Schulz could take over as chancellor if the Social Democrats come in ahead of Merkel in the national vote on Sept. 24.
The Schleswig-Holstein vote comes a week before an election for the regiona l parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s largest region and home t o Schulz, although he is not on the ballot.
The two local elections are the last ballots before the national contest.
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Newly Elected French President is a Complete Tool of Globalism
Once more proving his globalist intentions, Emmanuel Macron walked out to the EU anthem instead of France’s national anthem.
[Comment: Right in the public’s face now — globalists are not even trying to hide anymore. Those who voted for Macron are fools.]
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Researchers: Hidden Signals in TV Ads Direct Smartphones to Spy on Owners
Ad companies can even track people’s porn habits with spy software
Secret messages embedded in television adverts can direct smartphones to spy on their owners using listening software, according to German researchers.
There’s been a huge growth in Android apps using software that’s designed to search for inaudible “ultrasonic” signals, and these signals can contain code which orders apps to begin tracking people’s location, what they’re watching on television and even collect personal information such as political affiliation and pornography habits, the researchers warn.
The software, called Silverpush, is designed to listen to “audio beacons” which humans can’t hear, and has allegedly been used by corporations such as McDonald’s and Krispy Kreme.
Apps that use this software can “precisely link the watching of even sensitive content such as adult movies or political documentations to a single individual — even at varying locations,” the researchers said. “Advertisers can deduce what and how long an individual is watching and obtain a detailed user profile to deliver highly customized advertisements.”
“The monitoring functionality is already deployed in mobile applications and might become a serious privacy threat in the near future,” the researchers added.
The researchers from Braunschweig University of Technology visited dozens of stores in two unnamed European cities and found four stores broadcasting these beacons.
They also noted a surge in the number of Android apps which searched for these audio beacons, from 39 in 2015 to 234 presently.
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Swiss Guards, Loyal Soldiers of the Pope, Take the Oath
Forty new Swiss Guards were sworn in at the Vatican on Saturday, the latest halberd-clutching soldiers of the pope to serve a tradition stretching back 500 years.
A tourist magnet for centuries at the Vatican, the spectacularly dressed Swiss Guards swear to sacrifice themselves if necessary for the pope.
The halberds — a traditional steel axe-like weapon — are purely for show in this age of global terrorism where the Vatican is a huge target and the pope is under round-the-clock protection.
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Three Detained in Catalonia and Tangier Accused of Being Part of Daesh Cell
CNA (Barcelona).- The Spanish police has detained three suspected jihadists this Monday morning accused of being part of a DAESH cell in Badalona, Salou, and Tangier. In Catalonia the arrested are two men aged 21 and 32 of Moroccan nationality. In addition, with the collaboration of Morocco’s General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance (DGST) a member of the same cell has also been detained in Tangier. The two arrested in Badalona and Salou were in regular contact with other members in Spain now arrested for belonging to DAESH, and also with important members of this terrorist organization in Syria and Iraq, where, according to Spanish police, they were supposed to go to fight in “jihad” and die as martyrs.
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UK Set to Deploy Attack Dogs to Guard Parliament Against Terrorism
The UK is set to deploy attack dogs to defend Parliament in new plans to protect Westminster from terrorism following the deadly attack in March.
The dogs would be stationed with police handlers at the gates through which Muslim convert Khalid Masood tried to storm after killing four pedestrians, PC Keith Palmer, and injuring more than 50 with his car.
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UK: Tories Open Up 22 Point Lead Over Labour With Election Less Than a Month Away
Labour’s woeful polling come after Theresa May launched a verbal assault of Eurocrats, where she claimed they were determined to interfere in the upcoming election.
The huge 22-point gap between the two major parties represents the biggest found by ICM in more than three decades.
The Prime Minister’s support has hit 49 per cent, up one point on last week following the local election results which saw crushing blows dealt to both Labour and Ukip.
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Wanna be Just Like France? Read on
Exclusive: Pat McLene warns U.S. following same path
Today, the progressive world is dancing a victory jig over France because a left-centrist won the presidential election while defeating a right-centrist by roughly 25 percent (65/35). CNN declared, Macron defeats populism in France, apparently dismissing the concept that populism means “the will of the populace.” What CNN leaves out is that Macron won because a whole lot of über-leftists held their noses and became “never-Le Pensters” after their own candidates went down in flames.
But since the left can be defined as “those who not only never learn from history, but skipped history classes altogether,” let’s take a quick look at the failed “über-right” French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen.
Wikipedia says Le Pen expelled members of her party who were accused of “racism, anti-Semitism, or pétainism … including her own father.” She also supported civil unions for same-sex couples, legal recognition of same-sex partnerships, unconditional abortion and she withdrew support for the death penalty from her own party platform. Sounds pretty lib to me.
Her sins?
Le Pen has an irrational distrust of the unelected multinational bureaucrats that run the EU (into the ground) and a jihadi-phobic fear of peaceful-as-the-grave immigrants who only want a slice of the “dream de la France” — and, of course, all the women.
Those “sins” seem entirely reasonable to me, but what do I know? I’m just an American nationalist. However I do read history. In her 2012 election bid, Le Pen only got 18 percent of the vote. And President-elect Emmanuel Macron beat Le Pen last Sunday by running as the “If it ain’t fixed, don’t break it” candidate, which means five more years of more of the same. The uptick in Le Pen’s popularity as a candidate over the past five years suggests that in the next election she might have a real chance … but probably not — for a couple of reasons.
People like Geert Wilders, Frauke Petry, Roberto Maroni, Matteo Salvini, Nigel Farage and many other leaders of nationalist European movements are gaining support, while the failing left is beginning to flail. And that flailing only increases the danger.
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Watch Live: French Activists, Unions Clash With Riot Police in First Anti-Macron Protest
Macron won the French presidential elections against Marine Le Pen. Now comes the hard part.
Emmanuel Macron may have won Sunday’s presidential election by a comfortable margin, but even his supporters’ enthusiasm is tempered by the scale of the challenge that the inexperienced politician faces in tackling France’s deep-seated economic, social and security problems, Reuters notes. Macron, the former economy minister of the Francois Hollande — whose regime led to a dramatic deterioration in the French economy — and who had never previously stood for elected office, is facing his first major protest less than 24 hours after being elected, with activists and unions holding a protest on Monday against Macron’s proposed labour reforms plans.
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By Bruce Bawer
How could Marine Le Pen have lost in a landslide?
Why, after the Brits chose Brexit, and Americans chose Trump, did the Dutch fail Wilders, and the French fail Le Pen?
How could a country that has been hit by several major terrorist attacks in recent years, and that has undergone a more profound social transformation owing to Islamic immigration, vote for business as usual?
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With Macron Win Secured, Germany Looks to Stronger EU Future
Germany heaved a sigh of relief after liberal candidate Emmanuel Macron won France’s presidential election comfortably on Sunday, but the two staunch allies face tough challenges over Europe’s future.
Chancellor Angela Merkel had emphatically thrown her support behind Macron against his far-right, anti-EU challenger Marine Le Pen, aware that the very existence of the European Union was at stake in the vote.
Macron shares Merkel’s commitment to the bloc, which has been deeply shaken by Britain’s decision to quit.
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Three-Man Jihadist Cell Arrested in Spain and Morocco
The authorities in Morocco and Spain have dismantled a “terrorist cell” of three Islamic State group supporters, authorities in Rabat and Madrid said on Monday.
Morocco’s interior ministry said one of the jihadist suspects was arrested in the northern Moroccan port of Tangier, and the other two were detained in Spain.
The ministry said the three-man cell had been in “close contact” with IS in Iraq and Syria and was recruiting volunteers to join the jihadist ranks.
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Turkey Slams ‘Occupation’ of Jerusalem, Draws Israel’s Ire
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on Muslims to stand up for the Palestinian cause, saying each day that Jerusalem remains under “occupation” is an insult to them. His words drew strong criticism from Israel.
Speaking in Istanbul on Monday, Erdogan also compared Israeli actions against Palestinians to those of South Africa under Apartheid and said the United States must drop plans to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
They were Erdogan’s harshest words against Israel since the two countries reconciled last year and restored diplomatic ties to ambassadorial level.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry accused Erdogan of “systematically” violating human rights and said he “should not preach morality.”
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Experts: War Rise of ISIS in Jordan Could Topple Abdullah Regime
As the Jordanian army and U.S. Forces began their annual joint drill called “Eager Lion” on Sunday, Middle East Media Research Institute published an alarming report about increasing support for the Islamic State among the Jordanian population.
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Without a doubt, ISIS has changed the terrorism game. They’ve leveraged technology to initiate attacks in places that they cannot physically reach. In the past, a terrorist organization in the Middle East would have to recruit, indoctrinate, and train members in the their locale, and then try to sneak them into whatever country they wished to target.
Now with social media and the internet, they can provide propaganda and training materials to millions of people who are already living in Western nations, and convince at least some of them to conduct attacks on their behalf. This way is much safer, easier, and more efficient for terrorist organizations.
And it’s opened the door to a wide variety of terrorist attacks that no one would have considered 20 years ago. Where once terrorist organizations were focused on grand gestures, like hijacking airplanes and blowing up buildings, now they can simply brainwash some dupe over the internet, and he’ll go out and shoot up a nightclub. But that’s just the beginning. The kinds of attacks that these people are pushing now look a lot less like 9/11, and more like the behaviour of a serial killer.
For instance, the latest issue of Rumiyah, an online magazine published by ISIS, is urging Muslims in Western nations to target civilians in a way that has never been discussed before. ISIS is telling them to lure and kill unsuspecting people through false advertisements for jobs and apartments. Several chilling quotes from Rumiyah were recently brought to light by the Middle East Media Research Institute:
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Gulag Letters: Translated Text Reveals Life Inside Stalin’s Labor Camps
In June 1940, the Soviet Union had forcibly annexed Latvia. Like thousands of other Latvian citizens, Formakov was accused of harboring anti-Soviet views and sentenced to corrective labor in Siberia. He joined a population of prisoners that, by January 1941, numbered 2.9 million, and were held in a vast network of prisons, labor camps and colonies across the Soviet Union.
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Putin Urges Macron to Bridge Rifts and Join Forces to Fight Terrorism
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday urged French election winner Emmanuel Macron to bridge deep rifts and work together in the face of the “growing threat of terrorism and violent extremism”.
“The citizens of France entrusted you to lead the country in a difficult period for Europe and for the entire world community. The growing threat of terrorism and violent extremism is accompanied by an escalation of local conflicts and the destabilisation of entire regions,” Putin said in a congratulatory telegram released by the Kremlin.
“In these conditions it is especially important to overcome mutual distrust and join forces to ensure international stability and security,” it said.
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Singapore to Enforce Death Penalty for Nuclear Terrorism Acts
SINGAPORE: A person who commits a fatal act of terrorism using radioactive material or nuclear explosive devices will face the mandatory death penalty under new laws passed in Parliament on Monday (May 8).
The legislation paves the way for Singapore’s ratification of the United Nations’ (UN) International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT).
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Chinese Supercomputer Newbs Smash Student Cluster-Building Record
New top speed set by Weifang proto-boffins
HPC Blog Yet another record has fallen at the Asia Supercomputer Community Student Cluster Competition. This time, it’s the HPCG (High Performance Conjugate Gradients) mark.
Little-known Weifang University in Shandong Province, which also set a new student LINPACK record, notched a score of 992.333 GFLOP/s, handily topping the rest of the field.
Only China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University came close to Weifant’s score, with the whiz kids from traditional student clustering powers Tsinghua and NTHU farther back in the pack.
Semi-newcomer Hong Kong Baptist and veteran team Shanghai Jiao Tong grab honorable mention status due to their scores being so far above average.
HPCG is a challenging application both to man and machine. It’s much more complex than LINPACK and does a much better job of simulating today’s HPC workloads.
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Prisoner of North Korea: An American Safe at Home Shares His Ordeal
Jeffrey Fowle lost his job, feared for his life and wondered if he would ever see his family while being held prisoner by North Korea, yet the Ohio man considers himself lucky.
A devout Christian and father of three, Fowle, 58, traveled to the secretive dictatorship in 2014, driven by a long-abiding curiosity about the Hermit Kingdom and a desire to spread the Gospel to its people. In May, in the northern port city of Chongjinin, he made a mistake that cost him his freedom: He left a Bible under a trash can in the men’s room at a nightclub. In a nation where visitors are under constant watch, he was arrested immediately.
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The burqa-wearing second wife of a former Islamic State recruiter will appear in court next month for refusing to stand for a Sydney judge on nine separate occasions within a week.
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An Islamist extremist group campaigning for sharia law has questioned whether Muslims have a future in Australia. Hizb ut-Tahrir has released a video for a conference on ‘the hostile West’.
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An estimated 710,000 people from countries which Australia has no social security agreement with, including Britain and China, are claiming about $17,500 in welfare benefits annually.
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The six-year-old son of Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf is being used in more ISIS propaganda, posing with a sign attached to a body of a man strung up on a cross.
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Moonee Ponds West primary school, in Melbourne’s inner city, announced it would ‘not be holding a Mother’s Day’ in a newsletter sent out to parents last Friday.
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Somalia Explosion: Car Bomb Rocks Mogadishu, At Least 8 Killed Outside Cafe
At least eight people — including a Somali general — were killed Monday when a car bomb exploded at a cafe in Mogadishu, the nation’s capital, officials said. Al Shabab, Somalia’s homegrown Islamic extremist rebels who are linked to Al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack.
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In parts of southern Africa, people with albinism are killed or sold by traffickers.
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Economic Crisis, Infidelity Keep Witchcraft Practices Alive in Mexico
The economic crisis and marital infidelity are keeping witchcraft practices such as Santeria, shamanism and spiritualism alive and well in Mexico, as shown by the sale of articles said to have infalible powers.
A good example is the Sonora Market in Mexico City, which has been a pioneer in the sale of mystical products for almost 60 years.
Dozens of stands here are full of amulets, incense and saintly candle holders whose scent and colors are sought daily by the lost and lonely who’ve lost faith in traditional religion. They are now willing to invest in magic items to fix problems that range from an empty bank account to a broken heart.
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The Inflection Point: Venezuela’s Military Begins to Defect, March With Protesters
One month ago, when discussing the latest “explosive” turn in Venezuela’s political situation, we predicted that the worst case for president Nicolas Maduro who has so far managed to keep the army on his side even as Venezuela faces now daily violent and in some cases deadly protests, would be the start of the local army turning on the regime, and defecting to join the protesters. Overnight, according to Thor Halvorsen of the Human Rights Foundation, this “inflection point” appears to have arrived when he observed in a Tweet that “the military in parts of Venezuela has begun to defect. They are now marching *with* the protesters. Dozens of soldiers are under arrest.”
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Eleven Dead, 200 Missing After Mediterranean Boat Sinkings
Eleven migrants have died and nearly 200 are missing after two boats sank off the coast of Libya, UN agencies said on Monday citing survivors, in the latest such tragedy.
The first involved an inflatable craft which left Libya early on Friday with 132 people on board, only to start deflating a few hours later, before overturning.
Some 50 survivors were picked up by a Danish container ship, the Alexander Maersk, which was alerted to divert by Italian coastguards and dropped them off on Sunday in Pozzallo, southern Sicily.
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EU Blames Chinese Boats, Not Own Open Borders Policies for Migrant Invasion
The European Union (EU) has slammed China for allowing the production of inflatable dinghies used by smugglers to bring migrants to Europe.
Brussels urged the East Asian superpower to clamp down on the sale of the rubber boats, as figures estimate 1.4 million migrants have made their way to Europe since 2015 in a crisis that shows no sign of slowing. Since the beginning of 2017 alone, 38,000 migrants have arrived in Italy from Libya — an increase of 43 per cent from the same period in 2016.
Speaking at a press conference, EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said: “China can help and support the EU in its fight against migrant smugglers.
“The rubber boats used by smuggler networks in the Mediterranean are fabricated somewhere in China.”
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Immigrant Who ‘Killed Boston Doctors’ Has Bank-Robbing Rapsheet
‘Why wasn’t this guy deported?’ Outrage after convicted criminal allowed to stay in U.S.
A West African immigrant who is accused of slashing the throats of two well-respected doctors in South Boston on Friday has a history of bank robberies and was just released from prison in April.
Police found Bampumim Teixeira, who is a legal permanent resident, inside a $1.9 million condo belonging to anesthesiologists Lina Bolanos, 38, and Richard Field, 49.
Bolanos and Field, who were engaged to be married, were dead inside the 11th-floor luxury penthouse. Their hands were bound, their throats slashed and the walls smeared with blood and a “message of retribution.”
“These are two well-respected people killed in their penthouse apartment,” said the Boston police commissioner.
Teixeira, 30, who worked as a security guard, engaged in a firefight with police. The suspect was shot in his stomach, hand and leg, but he did not die. Authorities found a backpack full of jewelry belonging to Bolanos at the scene.
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Had Teixeira been deported after the two bank robberies, Bolanos and Field might still be alive today.
On Monday, Jeffrey Kuhner, host of “The Kuhner Report” on WRKO AM 680, blasted the judge who allowed Teixeira to escape deportation.
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Italy: Migrant Probes Show Interest of Mafias — Zuccaro
Reception funds attract organised crime
(ANSA) — Rome, May 9 — Catania prosecutor Carmelo Zuccaro told the parliame ntary anti-mafia commission Tuesday that “there is a mass of money destined for migrant reception that attracts the interests of mafia organisations a nd I say that on the basis of some investigative evidence”. He added that i t was “wrong to think the mafia operates everywhere, because that way we ri sk increasing its aura of omnipotence”. Zuccaro sparked a row last month by saying he had heard that migrant traffickers were funding some NGOs that r escue migrants to destabilise the Italian economy, although he had no hard evidence of this.
Zuccaro added in his testimony to the commission: “Last Saturday a ship with 498 migrants arrived in Catania and if there had been our police unit s on the NGO ship that saved them we would already have caught the traffick ers and we would have them in our jails, the target of the probes are the t raffickers not the NGOs”.
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More Asylum Seekers Detected by Swedish Border Controls After ID Checks End
The number of asylum seekers detected by Sweden’s border controls has increased since the country ended ID checks on crossings with Denmark, but the Swedish Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) thinks it is still too early to make conclusions.
Swedish ID checks on buses, trains and ferries between the country and Denmark were dropped last week for the first time since they were brought in at the start of 2016. At the same time, the Swedish government announced that it would strengthen border control spot checks by police to cover more travellers.
And border police in the south of Sweden say that in the four days since the ID checks stopped on May 4th their controls detected 24 people looking to seek asylum in Sweden, up from an average of five per week earlier in 2017.
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Social Media Coordinator for UC Berkeley Illegal Aliens Urges “Beating … White People”
Let’s suppose for a moment that a white student at Berkeley had tweeted a call for beating Mexicans for Cinco de Mayo. We all know what would happen. The full court press would descend. It would end with his life over and Berkeley adding three diversity deans and two buildings named after Pancho Villa.
But the other way around is fine. Assuming that the authorities and the media are forced to address it, they will, as in the past, call it youthful high spirits and sarcasm. Because they agree with it. That’s the dirty truth lurking under the surface.
“Let’s celebrate 5 de Mayo by going to Dolores Park and beating the # out of white people, in the spirit of La Batalla de Pueblo,” tweeted [Juan] Prieto.
Juan Prieto, an English student at UC Berkeley, made the remark on Twitter two days after receiving Berkeley’s Robert J. and Mary Catherine Birgeneau Recognition Award for Service to Undocumented Students.
“Let’s celebrate 5 de Mayo by going to Dolores Park and beating the # out of white people, in the spirit of La Batalla de Pueblo,” tweeted Prieto, who later locked his Twitter account. The illegal immigrant student referred to a battle in Mexico in which the Mexican army defeated French occupiers.
“It’s Twitter,” said Prieto to The DCNF. “I post dumb # on Twitter all the time. Aha. But I see how this fits into your agenda, and no matter what I say, you’ll write your article so that I continuously get threats for the next two weeks until white supremacist [sic] have another person of color to attempt to silence via virtual bullying.”
Prieto is the social media coordinator at UC Berkeley’s Undocumented Student Program, which provides academic help, legal support, and financial aid info to illegal immigrant students.
Prieto, very predictably, played the victim. Even more predictably Berkeley is ignoring it. And the same media, which ran his self-promoting claims to be living in “fear” will ignore his racism and threats of violence.
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Texas Governor Signs Bill to Fight Sanctuary Cities; Threatens Cops With Prison
Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott has officially signed into law a measure to punish so-called “sanctuary cities,” despite pleas from some of the police departments of cities like Austin to halt the bill they said would hinder their ability to fight crime. Sure, because enforcing laws tends to ‘hinder’ the crime-fighting process.
Per Reuters, the Republican-dominated legislature passed the bill on party-line votes and sent the measure to Abbott earlier this month. The bill is designed to punish local authorities who do not abide by requests to cooperate with federal immigration agents. Police officials found to be in violation of the law could face removal from office, fines and up to a year in prison if convicted.
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UN Defends Migrant Rescue Groups After Italian Accusations of Trafficking Links
The UN refugee agency sprang to the defence Sunday of aid groups that rescue migrants in the Mediterranean, some of which have come under fire in Italy for alleged complicity with Libyan people smugglers.
An Italian prosecutor said last month that charity boats were colluding with traffickers off Libya, in what EU border agency Frontex described as tantamount to providing a “taxi” service to Europe.
But UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi paid tribute to the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), in comments about Mediterranean crossings over the weekend.
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UN Demands UK Take 10,000 More Refugees a Year, Open Family Reunion Floodgates
The UN has demanded the next UK government commit to taking at least 10,000 refugees a year directly from camps on top of the thousands of illegal migrants granted asylum in Britain each year.
Complaining that refugees who are “longing” to see elderly relatives are made to “suffer unnecessarily” by the UK’s family reunification laws, the UN also insisted the country must become “more generous” in this regard.
The intergovernmental body’s refugee agency (UNHCR) urged political party leaders to promise Britain will resettle 10,000 people a year from camps in conflict-affected areas, a demand the organisation claimed is “relatively modest”.
[Comment: UN imposing globalist NWO vision upon nation states — nation states would be implementing their own destruction.]
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West African Migrant Charged in Gruesome Double Murder of Boston Doctor, Fiancée
Killer had already been convicted in attempted bank robberies
A man accused of killing two engaged doctors in their home and writing a ‘message of revenge’ on their wall has been charged before a judge at his hospital bedside.
Bampumim Teixeira, 30, was charged with two counts of murder as it emerged he used to work as a security guard at the luxury complex where his victims lived.
He got access to their $1.9million (£1.5million) apartment in Boston, Massachusetts, and allegedly slit their throats before trying to steal a bag of jewelry, police say.
Dr Richard Field, 49, and Dr Lina Bolanos, 38, were murdered after Teixeira, who is originally from West Africa, burst into their penthouse on Friday evening, police say.
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A new video released by the hacktivist group Anonymous via their official Youtube channel warns of a coming global war that will catch most of the world’s citizens off-guard.
All the signs of a looming war on the Korean Peninsula are surfacing… we’re watching as each country moves strategic pieces into place… but unlike past world wars… although there will be ground troops the battle is likely to be fierce, brutal and quick.
It will also be globally devastating on the environmental and economic levels…
This is a real war with real global consequences… With three super powers drawn into the mix… Other nations will be coerced into choosing sides…
The citizen will be the last to know…
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Family Reunification?
If they get homesick, send them back.
More than two decades ago, I worked with a Peruvian immigrant who bragged, that with the offices of family reunification, he was allowed to sponsor all his siblings, their spouses and their children; twenty people in total, all from admitting a single worker.
I not only want immigration stopped. I want any and every person holding allegiance to a foreign power, and specifically the pious believers, denaturalized and expelled.
Do you need a majority vote and be an illegal or minority voter at the same time to do that. Take a look around its very late. Been to California recently? It was very late in 1992. It’s 2017 now. Remember all those props way back when? Did we not just have eight years of Islam and the risen yes we can ISIS?
Far-left candidate Marine Le Pen might not have won the French presidential election
The truth comes out, did anybody tell the BBC – Far – Left?
I’ve just seen a report that the voting flyers for Le Pen were received damaged by household. According to French law, such cannot be used in the elections. Does anyone have more information on this/knows if it’s credible?