On Thursday in the Swedish city of Trollhattan a mob of at least a hundred “youths” attacked police and slashed the tires of police cars. The mischievous youngsters used bats and sticks in their attack. One young person was arrested.
In other news, the USS Fitzgerald, a destroyer for the U.S. Navy, was struck by a Filipino container ship in an accident off the coast of Japan. Several crewmembers of the Fitzgerald, including the commander, were injured, and seven were missing after the accident. The bodies of several of the missing have now been recovered. No one on the container ship was injured.
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Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years
Home routers from 10 manufacturers, including Linksys, DLink, and Belkin, can be turned into covert listening posts that allow the Central Intelligence Agency to monitor and manipulate incoming and outgoing traffic and infect connected devices. That’s according to secret documents posted Thursday by WikiLeaks.
CherryBlossom, as the implant is code-named, can be especially effective against targets using some D-Link-made DIR-130 and Linksys-manufactured WRT300N models because they can be remotely infected even when they use a strong administrative password. An exploit code-named Tomato can extract their passwords as long as a default feature known as universal plug and play remains on. Routers that are protected by a default or easily-guessed administrative password are, of course, trivial to infect. In all, documents say CherryBlossom runs on 25 router models, although it’s likely modifications would allow the implant to run on at least 100 more.
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Amazon Buying Whole Foods in $14 Billion Deal
The online retail giant announced Friday that is buying organic grocery chain Whole Foods (WFM) for $13.7 billion in cash. The deal values Whole Foods at $42 a share, 27% higher than where the stock was trading Thursday.
Amazon said Whole Foods stores will continue operating under that name as a separate unit of the company. Whole Foods CEO John Mackey will stay on to lead Whole Foods, which will keep its headquarters in Austin, Texas.
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Americans Learning to Live With Treason
By Peggy Ryan
We are watching, in real-time, a palace revolution, an overt effort to remove the president of the United States. Just as James Comey proudly admitted he leaked privileged communication to the press, so these insurgents brazenly brag that they want to harm the president, to impeach him, to overthrow our government. The American people seem shockingly oblivious to the looming danger.
How did we get here? Well, let’s give credit where credit’s due: the left has its ducks in a row. Leftists are carrying out a carefully planned, well executed plot to take control of our government.
Oh, it’s not soldiers bursting through the White House gates to forcefully remove the president, or, as the left says, not yet. No, they’re using a form of behavior therapy, systematic desensitization, to numb the American people to their insurgence.
Systematic desensitization is a technique used to treat phobias. The patient, while relaxed, is exposed to progressively more frightening aspects of his phobia. For instance, treatment for arachnophobia, fear of spiders, might start by showing the phobic an image of a spider. The patient employs relaxation techniques while exposed to the image until he overcomes his anxiety. Next, a real spider may be introduced, far away, in a cage. After the person accepts that exposure, the spider is taken out of the cage and moved closer and closer until the patient is able to hold a live spider in his hand.
Congress, corporate and social media, activist courts, and a contingent in our intelligence community unite to form a cabal (a conspiratorial group of plotters). This cabal uses this desensitization technique to condition us to overcome our fear of losing our freedom, of a disappearing democracy.
Using this technique, the cabal does something wrong, illegal, or unconstitutional — behavior that’s a threat to our republic.
Benghazi — Obama and his administration to the American people that a video caused the horrific massacre. President and allies openly engage in cover-up.
FBI investigation on Hillary Clinton — Comey announces Hillary’s guilty on all counts, then the judgment, and she walks. A two-tier justice system; Hillary’s above the law.
CNN caught giving to Hillary Clinton. Democrats rig debates. Democrats cheat Bernie Sanders out of the nomination. Democrats rig elections.
These are just a few of the unacceptable transgressions by our corrupt leaders. Each time, outraged conservatives demand that the perpetrators be brought to justice. Each time, the press gaslights the American people with a media blackout, acts as though the incident never happened. Each time, the cabal rides out the news cycle until the story fades, and everyone’s home free.
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Breaking: Congress Baseball Shooter Used SSKS, 9mm Handgun
Gun wouldn’t be classified as “assault rifle” under any current or proposed “assault weapons ban” legislation
Original reports coming out of the shooting of GOP congress members at a Virginia baseball field reported that the attacker used a firearm “similar to an M4” in the attack. Reports are now emerging (confirmed by multiple sources) that the firearm in use was actually an SKS and a 9mm handgun.
The SKS is a semi-automatic rifle which pre-dates the AK-47 by about four years as a potential battle rifle for the Soviet Red Army. Designed as a top loading stripper clip fed gas operated rifle, the gun has since often been modified to use detachable magazines as well. SKS firearms imported into the United States are predominantly Yugoslavian manufactured, and while Russian and Chinese models are available they remain rare and sought after by collectors.
That makes CNN’s statement about the SKS (“a Chinese-made variant of the popular AK rifle”) almost entirely incorrect. And as for the other news outlets like CBS which “confirmed” the weapon was an AR-15 that’s just fake news.
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Buchanan: A Long History of Leftist Hatred
Leftists promoting violence cannot evade moral culpability
James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Illinois, who aspired to end his life as a mass murderer of Republican Congressmen, was a Donald Trump hater and a Bernie Sanders backer.
Like many before him, Hodgkinson was a malevolent man of the hating and hard left.
His planned atrocity failed because two Capitol Hill cops were at that Alexandria baseball field, providing security for House Whip Steve Scalise. Had those cops not been there, a massacre would have ensued with many more dead than the gunman.
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D.C. Shooter a Fan of the Southern Poverty Law Center
ALEXANDRIA, VA — The D.C. shooter was a Facebook fan of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a reckless organization that falsely labels people and organizations as “haters” or “hate groups.” The SPLC has now admitted James Hodgkinson “liked” the SPLC on Facebook. The SPLC continues to ignore warnings about its dangerous and false labeling, even though two separate mass murder attempts have been perpetrated by followers of the SPLC. Yesterday was the most recent attempted mass murder by someone who followed the SPLC. The first mass murder attempt was in 2012, when Floyd Corkins confessed he was motivated by the SPLC “Hate Map.”
Yesterday, James Hodgkinson gunned down Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), Zach Barth, a staff member for Congressman Roger Williams, former Congressional staff member Matt Mika and two U.S. Capitol Police officers yesterday at a practice for a charity baseball game for members of Congress.
In 2015, the SPLC wrote an article promoting the idea that Rep. Scalise promoted white supremacy and supported a “hate group” founded by former KKK member David Duke. The SPLC article clearly tries to infer that Rep. Scalise is a so-called “hater” and supporter of a “hate group.”…
The SPLC”s caustic and false rhetoric is dangerous because it creates a “Hate Map” listing so-called “hate groups.” Mark Potock, with the SPLC admitted in an interview: “Our criteria for a “hate group,” first of all, have nothing to do with criminality, or violence, or any kind of guess we”re making about “this group could be dangerous.” It”s strictly ideological.” Mark Potok is on video in a public meeting stating: “Sometimes the press will describe us as monitoring hate crimes and so on. I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, to completely destroy them…”
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by Servando Gonzalez
A few months ago an American sitting President died. Surprisingly, no state funeral was held. No flags flew at half-mast, the White House was not draped in black, no official ceremonies were arranged, and no mourning period was declared. His body did not lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda and no funeral procession from the Capitol to Arlington National Cemetery occurred.
No guard of honor provided a ceremonial presence at his burial, a nine-person team did not carry the casket, and no military chaplain escorted his family. No military caisson carried the casket and no American flag draped it. No riderless horse with a pair of boots reversed in the stirrups and an empty saddle followed it. No rifle salute was fired over his grave.
Even stranger, we still don’t know who will pick up the torch of the American power he held for more than half a century.
I am not talking about any of the puppets the American sheeple elect every four years to live in the White House, who, not surprisingly, seamlessly continue the policy of destruction of the American economy, its culture and its people carried out by his predecessor. No. I am talking about the true American President, the one who elected himself to the highest office of the land in 1949, when he appointed himself director of the Council on Foreign Relations and thus became the President of the Invisible Government of the United States and thus became the de facto President of the United States.
I am talking about David Rockefeller, the man who, like the Wizard of Oz, was the true power behind the U.S. Presidential throne. Of course, if you are an average American citizen who gets your information from the mainstream press, watches the TV news and reads history books written by “serious” scholars, you will most likely ignore the death of President David Rockefeller because neither the politicians in Washington D.C. nor the mainstream media want you to know about it.
How did David Rockefeller become the President of the Invisible Government? It is a long, long story, but I’ll give you the short version.
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Elon Musk Wants to Link Computers to Our Brains to Prevent an Existential Threat to Humanity
Elon Musk is a busy guy.
He’s developing electric vehicles, self-driving cars, tunnel-boring infrastructure technology, and re-usable rockets (with the goal of getting humans to Mars).
Given Musk’s ambitiousness, it’s not totally surprising that he is also launching a company that will look into ways to link human brains to computers. Musk reportedly plans to spend 3-5% of his work time on Neuralink, which will develop technology to integrate brains and computers as a way to fix medical problems and eventually supercharge human cognition.
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Exclusive: Assassination List Found on James Hodgkinson’s Body
James T. Hodgkinson, the shooter who opened fire on dozens of Republican congressmen and staffers at a baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, on Wednesday, had a list of Republican names in his pocket that was recovered by the FBI, The Daily Caller has learned.
The news that the shooter had a list of names suggests the shooting was not a random outburst, but instead appears to be a premeditated political assassination.
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FBI Offered Russian Cyber Criminal Bribes to Say He Hacked the DNC Emails
While the Democrats and the news media continue to pursue their criminal case against President Donald Trump over the alleged collaboration by candidate Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, there are two cases that they are ignoring: a news story in Europe that alleges corrupt FBI agents tried to frame a Russian; and a news story about a Democratic Party staff member who was murdered on a Washington, D.C. street.
Russian Hacker Blows Whistle on Alleged Corruption in FBI
A Russian citizen, who is a known hacker in his country, claims the FBI offered him bribes to take the blame for hacking John Podesta’s email server and stealing thousands of pages, according to a Conservative Base source, John C. Reilly, serving in a federal law enforcement agency.
Yevgeniy Nikulin was arrested in Prague, Czech Republic, on October 5, 2016. The arrest warrant cited allegations of stealing information from Linkedin, Dropbox, and other Internet web sites. He remains in custody while officials decide on whether to extradite him to the United States or to Russia.
Days after the suspected hacker’s arrest, some within the U.S Intelligence community announced they had evidence that alleged Russian officials were responsible for hacking into the DNC email system, stealing documents and turning them over to the owner of the whistleblowing web site Wikileaks, Julian Assange.
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Huntsville Man Charged With Supporting Act of Terrorism, Law Enforcement Says Threat is Over
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The Huntsville Police Department has charged a man with Soliciting or Providing Support for an Act of Terrorism.
22-year-old Aziz Sayyed, of Huntsville, was taken into custody Thursday afternoon. The arrest is the result of a tip from a citizen. Sayyed was stopped and taken into custody in the area of Church Street and Clinton Avenue. Investigators say Sayyed is a U.S. citizen, born in North Carolina.
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Journalist Shuts Down Trump Assassination Play
“Stop liberal violence!” Journalist screams
A conservative journalist interrupted the Trump assassination play in Central Park, N.Y., on Friday, only two days after the politically-motivated shooting of Republican lawmakers.
Laura Loomer of Rebel Media was arrested after rushing the stage, yelling that the production promoted violence against President Trump and his supporters.
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Man Arrested for Aiding in Terrorism Worked at IHOP
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — WHNT News 19 has learned that Aziz Sayyed, the 22-year-old charged with supporting an act of terrorism, worked at the IHOP on Highway 72.
The owner of the franchise, Tayseer Zuaiter, released a statement confirming that the franchise did not know about Sayyed’s charges and is fully cooperating with authorities.
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Media have crowned the misnamed Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as the arbiter of what’s good and right in America today
This is a time in the history of our nation when an honest group or congressional panel with integrity could name and ostracize extremists on both the right and left. Unfortunately, the media have crowned the misnamed Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as the arbiter of what’s good and right in America today. Ironically, it was the SPLC that inspired an act of terrorism on American soil, when a gay militant opened fire on the Washington office of the Family Research Council. He saw the group listed on an SPLC “hate map.”
Now we learn that James Hodgkinson, the gunman who shot House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) and three other people on Wednesday, had “liked” the Southern Poverty Law Center on Facebook.
Isn’t it fascinating how a group that is regularly portrayed by the media as an expert on “extremists” is at the center of two terrorist incidents in the Washington, D.C. area?
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Multiple Shots Fired at Truck Displaying ‘Make America Great Again’ Flag
State police investigating whether politically motivated, or isolated road rage
Police in Indiana are investigating whether the shooting of a truck displaying a “Make America Great Again” flag was politically motivated.
On Tuesday a blue Dodge pickup truck flying a MAGA and an American flag was fired at multiple times on I-465 in Indianapolis, leaving a bullet hole in the vehicle.
The driver of the truck and a witness described the suspect, who drove a newer 4-door white Chevy Malibu with Louisiana plates, as a “black male around the age of 23,” according to Fox 59.
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Pamela Anderson Pens Love Letter to ‘Sexy’ Assange, Asks for Audience With ‘Macron’
Actress, philanthropist and activist Pamela Anderson has penned an online love letter to Julian Assange in which she decried his current situation and called on world leaders (and the nation of China) to petition for his immediate release.
“Thinking of Julian makes me wonder, what is the sexiest quality in a man? Surely the sexiest qualities in a man are bravery and courage,” Anderson wrote in the letter, entitled, ‘Why my heart stands with Julian.’
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Politico Columnist: No One Cares About Gun Victims, Unless They’re Republican
Tell us more, oh, wise one
Roger Simon, a columnist for Politico, made a heartless statement in a piece written for the Chicago Sun-Times. Though there are many victims of gun violence every day, Simon says people only care when the victims are Republican:
Getting shot is no big deal in America. About 309 people get shot every day in this country, and most get little attention from the media. Unless they happen to be a member of Congress. And wearing a bright red baseball uniform with the word “Republican” in big, flowing white letters on the front. In that case, getting shot becomes a very big deal.
How does Simon have time to watch all the news reports from all over America and still have time to write? Amazing!
But that wasn’t all he had to say in his piece. It was really an attack on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, even though he couldn’t resist the jab at guns and Republicans. His piece was titled “Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III champions a lost cause — Trump.” The middle name is in there so Simon could make a Confederacy reference via the namesake and remind us how the South fought for “lost causes,” too — a leftist tactic of always keeping “racism” at the front and center.
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Report: 760,000 Tuned Out Mainstream TV News in the First Quarter Alone
“Conventional sources of television programming lost 760,000 in the first quarter.” — Leichtman Research Group
Although this statistic is not overwhelming, it shows the trend that people are sick and tired of all the negative coverage of President Trump.
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Most of the anger and frustration that we are currently witnessing is being fueled by the left
Things will never be the same in America from this moment forward.
When 66-year-old James Hodgkinson attempted to gun down as many Republican members of Congress as possible at a baseball field in Virginia, he permanently shattered the notion that we could go back to the way that things used to be in this country. At one time, Republicans and Democrats may have strongly disagreed with one another over the issues, but there was always a certain code of civility that everyone understood and respected. But now that is long gone, and if our politicians and the big media outlets continue to fuel the rising hatred in this country, it won’t be too long before we are dealing with widespread chaos and civil unrest from coast to coast.
Most of the anger and frustration that we are currently witnessing is being fueled by the left. On his radio show yesterday, Rush Limbaugh accused the left of openly promoting violence…
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Shareholder: CNN Acting Like Part of ‘Anti-Trump Resistance’
A Time Warner shareholder accused CNN of acting like it was the part the “resistance” movement against President Donald Trump.
“I’m inquiring about CNN’s bias and our return on investment,” shareholder David Almasi reportedly told Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes during Thursday’s annual shareholders meeting. “Half the American public-which includes potential and current CNN viewers-voted for Trump last November and supports his agenda. CNN acts as if it is part of the anti-Trump resistance.”
According to the Hollywood Reporter, “about half of the 300 people” at the annual shareholders meeting “applauded” Almasi while “several others later approached” him to “thank him for his questions.”
[Comment: Fire the top 2-3 management levels who are in “editorial” positions.]
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By Paul Austin Murphy
In the words of the “political pundit” Matt Welch (writing in 2003), George Soros “has a long and storied track record of being all villains to all people”. This same writer also finds something that’s a little worrying and self-contradictory about many of these portrayals of the billionaire “villain”. For example, he concludes by saying the following:
“Thus we now have the spectacle of one of the world’s most active and influential anti-communists (not to mention one of its most successful capitalists) being tarred as a particularly dangerous friend of Marx and Lenin.”
On the surface it seems that it is indeed a contradiction to portray someone as being both an “anti-communist” and a “particularly dangerous friend of Marx and Lenin”. (Or it would be if the same person said it.) Surely Soros can’t be both. Yet it’s George Soros we’re talking about here! Thus, as a billionaire villain, surely he can be both a communist and an anti-communist! Or at least he can play both characters at different times to different people. This kind of thing has happened many times before with other people. So why not with George Soros? What’s to stop Soros from being an anti-communist on Monday and a friend of Marx and Lenin on Friday? After all, it will be seen in the following that not only does Soros contradict himself in terms of his own deeds (which has often been commentated upon), he also contradicts himself in terms of his own words…
George Soros is deeply anti-American. Of course, he would strongly deny that he is. In fact, he does deny it in his writings and interviews. Though this is because his personal America — America as he wants it to be — isn’t what he’s against. What he’s against is America as it is and has been.
For example, Soros (as everyone knows) is very anti-Trump. He was also anti-George W. Bush. Soros (as everyone also knows) wasn’t anti-Obama. Why? Because Obama’s America squared fairly well with Soros’s own America. Then again, Soros still believed that Obama didn’t go far enough. He’d have needed more terms in office to go far enough.
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There is No Moral Equivalence Between Behavior of the Progressive Left and the Patriotic Right
The savage shooting Wednesday of Republicans in Virginia by a leftist Democrat supporter of Senator Bernie Sanders should end the ridiculous notion of moral equivalence between progressive left and conservative right in this country.
What grates on the nerves of so many conservatives is having to listen to spineless politicians and media types, afraid of being politically incorrect, criticize a leftist murderer or some other despicable leftist character by quickly making the claim we need a toning down of the rhetoric on “both sides.”
No, the rhetoric and the violence is coming primarily from the Left. Everyone who isn’t comatose is aware of this fact…
I found it difficult to listen to the media types on all the news channels today (including Fox News) braying about the need for us to come together for our “shared purposes.”
There are no shared purposes in the nation anymore. The progressive Left hates this nation; they do not share anything in common with patriotic Americans. That time when the vast majority of us believed in one nation under law (the Constitution) is long gone. The socialist progressive Left have polluted the minds of a couple of generations of young Americans, feeding them the lie that socialism works. These young people are ignorant of all real examples of the disastrous results of practiced socialism. They are not taught history (ours or anybody else’s). They are not taught the Constitution. And they can be and have been easily manipulated by malevolent adults in our midst.
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University of Wisconsin Anti-Capitalism Professor Earns $170,000 Annually
Recently published information reveals that Erik Olin Wright, a professor who teaches a course bashing capitalism at the University of Wisconsin, earns an annual salary of $170,000.
A syllabus for Professor Wright’s class, entitled “Class, State, and Ideology: An Introduction to Social Science in the Marxist Tradition,” was published only by the free market-focused MacIver Institute.
The syllabus claims that the course covers the Marxist tradition and its “radical critics of capitalism as an economic system and social order.” Wright argues that a study of the Marxist tradition gives students the tools to understand the “radical egalitarian project of social change.”
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The F-35 was billed as a fighter jet that could do almost everything the U.S. military desired, serving the Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy — and even Britain’s Royal Air Force and Royal Navy — all in one aircraft design.
It’s supposed to replace and improve upon several current — and aging — aircraft types with widely different missions.
It’s marketed as a cost-effective, powerful multi-role fighter airplane significantly better than anything potential adversaries could build in the next two decades.
But it’s turned out to be none of those things.
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Corbyn’s Call for Government to Seize Private Property is Terrifying
Chilling insight what the authoritarian rule of Venezuela-loving Labour leader would look like
Jeremy Corbyn has demanded that the UK government forcibly seize private property in order to house poor people, a terrifying insight into what his authoritarian Socialist rule could look like.
The Labour leader wasted no time in hijacking the Grenfell Tower tragedy, which could eventually claim dozens of lives, to push his authoritarian lunacy. Some families have been left homeless after a raging inferno gutted the building, which was occupied mostly by people on welfare and migrants.
“Properties must be found, requisitioned if necessary, to make sure those residents do get rehoused locally,” Corbyn told a parliamentary debate.
“It cannot be acceptable that in London you have luxury buildings and flats kept as land banking for the future while the homeless and the poor look for somewhere to live.”
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Geert Wilders: Let’s Stop the Cowardice, And Tell the Truth About Islam
This week, a documentary called “Wilders” premiered at DocFest, a film festival for documentaries in the British town of Sheffield.
The documentary is made by American film director Stephen Robert Morse. Although he does not agree with my political views, he at least tried to bring a balanced story, which is more than I can say of many Dutch journalists.
I allowed Morse and his team to follow me around for a few months. The documentary shows how, due to Islamic death threats, I have to live under 24/7 police protection, am being driven around in armoured cars, am obliged to wear a bulletproof vest whenever I have to speak in public, etc.
Some live in almost similar situations, such as Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and his Swedish colleague Lars Vilks, British author Salman Rushie, Danish historian Lars Hedegaard, and others. In that sense, this documentary is also a tribute to them. What we all have in common is that we are on Islam’s death list. But what always strikes me is that I am the only elected politician on the list…
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London Fire: Tower Victims ‘May Never be Identified’
Nothing to suggest that the fire was started deliberately…
Protesters demanding help for those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire have stormed Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall with a list of demands.
Between 50 and 60 people broke off from a protest outside to go into the council building.
One member of the public said people made homeless needed help “right now”.
Earlier, the Queen and Prince William visited a relief centre for the victims, while the missing could number around 70, the BBC understands.
Police say at least 30 people died as a result of the west London blaze and are likely to be among the 70. Three of those who died have been identified.
[Comment: Not deliberate…a “work accident” then?]
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Marine Le Pen, Bars, Polling Stations Were Targets of Foiled French Terror Attack
Sources close to the investigation into the foiled terror plot during the French presidential race have revealed the Islamic radicals involved targeted Marine Le Pen, local bars and polling stations.
During the first round of the French presidential election in April, police in Marseilles foiled a terror attack aimed at disrupting the election.
New reports show Islamists were targeting anti-mass migration Front National leader Marine Le Pen and polling stations themselves L’Express reports.
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Muslim ‘Peace March’ Held in Germany But Turnout Disappoints
A Muslim “peace march” against terrorism has been held in the German city of Cologne but has drawn fewer participants than organizers had hoped for.
The dpa news agency reported that a few hundred people gathered for the demonstration Saturday, with placards such as “Together against terror” and “Hatred makes the earth hell,” and the crowd later grew to over 1,000.
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UK Parliament on Lockdown After Police Arrest Man Suspected of Wielding Knife
Suspect reportedly charged gates while shouting with knife
British police have arrested a man suspected of carrying a knife outside the Palace of Westminster after he ran, shouting, towards one of the gates on Friday afternoon.
A member of public reportedly shouted “knife, knife, knife,” according to one Sun reporter.
Witnesses say the man, who is in his 30s, was shouting and running towards one of the main gates to parliament.
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UK Police: 58 Dead and Presumed Dead in London Blaze
LONDON — Fifty-eight people who were in Grenfell Tower are still missing and are presumed to be dead, London police announced Saturday, raising the death toll in the horrific inferno that turned the public housing block into a charred hulk.
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The victim said he was walking down Kirkgate, Huddersfield after breaking fast for Ramadan when the woman began her unprovoked tirade of abuse. He now says that he does ‘not feel safe.’
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UK: Muslim Van Driver Who Drove Into Men Gets Jailtime
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Lugman Aslam, 26, can be seen mounting the pavement in Leicester city centre before smashing into the group of five men, leaving two ending up on the bonnet.
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One Word Keeps Islam Problem Out of Japan
LONDON -The United States, England and France are hotbeds of Muslim mayhem which includes murder, rape, theft and destruction as well as mooching from the people’s taxes. Yes, the citizens of the countries they invade actually pay for all their expenses which is nuts! Last night a high rise apartment building in London exploded into flames, killing several and sending scores to the hospital. At this moment they are still searching for bodies and the injured.
The media, grasping for any excuse to divert attention from Muslims, stated that the fires started when a refrigerator in a top floor apartment exploded. How’s that again?
In all my years, 83 of them to be exact, I have NEVER heard of a refrigerator exploding and causing a fire. Plus at the same time, flames simultaneously exploded on several floors below. Simple knowledge of science should underscore the improbability of this. (Since the first “reports” the story has changed to the fire starting in a 4th floor apartment. In this version it was not an “exploding refrigerator” that caused the fire-they quickly realized how ridiculous that claim was, so they then claimed it was a material put on the outside of the building that burst into flames. This is why I don’t believe one word published by the Fake News Media.)
This all could have been prevented if these countries, drowning in stupidity, would have employed that ONE WORD (which will be revealed later in this story). And that is the word the one country free of Islamic chaos, Japan, lives by. First of all, the Japanese people respect and keep its traditions and customs. Get that? They do not allow the spread of alien religions or new cultures to take over established models of conduct. Those who visit there are expected to respect their culture and abide by THEIR rules.
Here is how Japan keeps Muslims at bay: We are grateful to journalist Leon Lunsky for gathering these stats for a story he wrote in a conservative publication:
1. A Muslim will never acquire citizenship in Japan. Japan is the only country that does not give citizenship to Muslims. It cannot be argued. Law is the law. 2. Muslims have no right to stay in Japan for a long time. 3. An attempt to spread Islam is a criminal offense. You can go to prison for a long time.
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USS Fitzgerald: Massive Search Underway for 7 Missing Sailors After Collision
The search for seven US sailors lost at sea after a Navy destroyer collided with a container ship four times its size continued off the coast of Japan.
The USS Fitzgerald was back at its home port in Yokosuka Naval Base south of Tokyo by sunset Saturday. The Philippine-flagged container ship was berthed at Tokyo’s Oi wharf, where officials were questioning crew members about the cause of the nighttime crash…
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An Adelaide woman has apologised for going on an alleged shocking racist rant against an Asian woman and her daughter, which was filmed on a public bus in November last year.
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A prisoner who was tortured and had a disturbing ISIS slogan branded onto his forehead by his radical Islamic cellmate at a NSW jail will walk away with $400,000 in compensation.
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A couple who both grew up as Muslims in Pakistan have told why they turned their backs on Islam. Sami Shah and Ishma Alvi became Australian citizens in January.
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More Than 900 Migrants Picked Up by Coastguard Off Libya
(AFP) — The Libyan coastguard has rescued more than 900 African and Asian migrants attempting to reach Europe, a navy spokesman said on Saturday.
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Romania Detains 32 Iraqi Migrants Hiding in Furniture Truck
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian border police have detained 32 Iraqis hidden in a truck transporting furniture who told authorities they were trying to reach a country in Europe’s visa-free Schengen travel zone.
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Swedish Police Attacked by 100 Masked Migrant Youths
Swedish police in the city of Trollhattan were attacked by up to a hundred masked migrant youths armed with sticks and bats during a riot in the Kronogården suburb on Thursday.
The masked migrant youths attacked the officers during the second night of rioting in the area. They also attacked the officer’s vehicles, slashing the tyres of two police cars. Only one man was arrested in connection with the riots, Swedish paper Aftonbladet reports.
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Trudeau Like a ‘Crazy Cat Lady’ When it Comes to Refugees
The aphorism about the road to hell being paved with good intentions is dramatically illustrated today by the Trudeau Liberals’ commitment to aggressive refugee settlement in Canada with no fiduciary forethought.
The direct result is another screwing of taxpayers.
According to a documents obtained by the Canadian Press through Access to Information, the flood of asylum claims — through legal refugee channels and queue-jumping at unmanned border crossings — could eventually create an 11-year wait for claimant processing and almost $3 billion in federal social support.
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2014 policy, known as DAPA aimed to help the families of so-called ‘dreamer’ children stay together
The Trump administration announced that it is cancelling an Obama-era policy to allow millions of illegal-immigrant parents of children born in the United States to stay in the country.
The 2014 policy, known as DAPA, for Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, aimed to help the families of so-called ‘dreamer’ children stay together free from the threat of deportation.
It was never implemented after 26 states successfully sued in a Texas federal district court to block it. The US Supreme Court let the lower court ruling stand last year after a four-four tie vote.
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UK: Home Office Estimates 150,000 Illegal Migrants
A damning new report says the true scale of those here unlawfully is being hidden because the Home Office estimates have been held back and warns drastic action is needed to meet Theresa May’s target.
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UK: Migrant Stowaways Hospitalized After Waving for Help From Inside Sweltering Lorry
TWO men were taken to hospital after 16 people, all believed to be Iraqi nationals, were found in the back of a lorry in sweltering heat.
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UK: People Smuggler Jailed — Migrant Hid Inside Suitcase
A PEOPLE trafficker has been jailed after border forces discovered he was trying to smuggle a migrant into Britain — hidden inside a SUITCASE.
Dashti Omar Abdulrahman was stopped in Coquelles, France, on his way back from the Netherlands where he had been visiting family.
He was trying to board the Channel Tunnel train back to Britain when he was stopped and questioned by officials.
Border police demanded a search of his car — when they made a surprising discovery after finding an Iraqi man stuffed inside a suitcase on the back seat.
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Islam is a Grand and Treacherous Hallucination
by Amil Imani
“We are our beliefs,” it is said. Beliefs steer people in life. Some beliefs are harmless, some are the motive force for good, and yet others are delusional, misguided, and even outright dangerous. Every version of the belief called “Islam” ranges from the delusional to the dangerous.
Islam is a Grand Hallucination, birthed by Muhammad’s hallucination he relayed to his first wife and employer, Khadija. Greatly frightened, he told Khadija that he was visited by jinn (devil) in the Hira cave. Khadija comforted the distraught man by assuring him that the episode was Allah’s way of choosing him as his messenger. Muhammad believed his rich wife-employer who was 15 years his senior and the hallucination became a belief — Islam.
Remarkably enough, under the early tutelage of Khadija, Muhammad succeeded in attracting a number of influential followers. Before long, the movement gathered more and more power through violent campaigns and the faith was taken to new people and alien lands. This grand hallucination, Islam, presently has in its stranglehold over a billion humans, posing an existential threat to all non-Muslims.
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Only 1 arrest, Sweden is finished.
I’ve never heard of Trollhattan but I wonder what’s changed there over the past 20 years or so.
The biggest change in Trollhattan is the absence of Saab, the Swedish automaker who went bankrupt several years ago. Despite some attempts to save/revive it the holdings were sold to the Chinese in 2012, who are attempting to build electric-only vehicles to export back to China and are now known as National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS). Many of the design and management staff went to work in Gothenburg for Volvo Cars (also now owned by the Chinese but local Volvo management was wisely given free rein). Sadly, the workforce under NEVS in Trollhattan numbers about 500 now, a fraction of what it used to be under Saab when it was the largest employer in the city.
Islam is a Grand and Treacherous Hallucination
“This grand hallucination, Islam, presently has in its stranglehold over a billion humans, posing an existential threat to all non-Muslims.”
Why do most news outlets persist in neglecting to mention how the vast majority of nuclear weapons are held in non-Islamic hands?
The only serious “existential threat” is to Islam itself. It is merely a matter of political will within the West to determine when the tipping point has been reached. Whether or not that tipping point will be reached is not even in question.
Islam’s lack of upward limit on its barbarity literally assures that such a point will arrive. It is only a matter of time and all that remains to be determined is just how high of a butcher’s bill the West will tolerate. All else is window dressing.
The foregoing is an explicit statement as to why all Islamic countries (including Pakistan) should permanently be denied access to nuclear weapons.
I have long felt the same way. The problem with islam is not islam per se; it is our lack of will to deal with it. And the longer we wait to do so, the worse the cost will be in blood and treasure when we finally have no choice except to deal with it.
What I fear is that the lack of concern of most of the West, and lack of agreement regarding what to do about it even among those of us here on this site who are awake to the danger, means that it will require a truly horrific act of terrorism before there is something approaching consensus on the nature of the threat and the need to take decisive action against it. Most likely it would require multiple cities being nuked, or tens of millions killed in a biological warfare attack before the average westerner demands that islam be wiped out and it’s followers forced to renounce their religion or be put to death. Anything less is just passing the buck to future generations. We are nowhere close to such a consensus.
Moon-
The extreme events you mention may never occur.
This a problem, because on the present trajectory the West will wind up like the frog in the pot of slowly warming water – eventually Westerns will be minorities in our own lands and our goose will be cooked!
I agree with both these comments. Certainly, absolutely nothing is being done anywhere in the western world to check islamic agression; in fact it is actually being encouraged by ALL leaders in western Europe and Canada, while Australians are slowly waking up to the fact their country has been made halal, and NZers are saying: “what islamic problem?”
Four sane countries in the western world. And the USA? Prez. Trump has the answers, but is being fought every day by democ-rats determined their country should emulate Europe, OMG!
“…it will require a truly horrific act of terrorism before there is something approaching consensus on the nature of the threat and the need to take decisive action against it.”
At present, this is guaranteed. Not even Trump fully comprehends the Islamic threat and its enormity.
“Most likely it would require multiple cities being nuked, or tens of millions killed in a biological warfare attack before the average westerner demands that islam be wiped out and it’s followers forced to renounce their religion or be put to death.”
Again, as I noted about how it is “merely a matter of political will within the West”. All that remains is a jihadist atrocity of such mind-numbing proportions that no Western leader is willing to be remembered as having let that sort of outrage go unanswered on their watch.
Everything else is just window dressing.
As to having Islam’s “followers forced to renounce their religion or be put to death”, you seem to have neglected adding taqiyya into your equation. When it is recalled that Muslims are religiously sanctioned in terms of lying about anything (even being a Muslim), then the concept of forcible renunciation (an Islamic specialty) pales into insignificance.
Taqiyya irretrievably damns Islam. In a brazen attempt to grant itself every last possible unfair advantage, Islam has made itself the enemy of all other fair-minded people. Anyone who refuses to recognize this fact merely has consigned themselves to being jihadist roadkill.
Those cultures which hope to survive jihad inexorably will find themselves committed to annihilating Islam. It is only a question of time. Pacification or “reformation” of Islam is a fool’s errand and something which only will play into the hands of jihadists that seek sufficient breathing room to cause some other even more horrific atrocity.
Tragically, there is no question of “if”. Only “when”.
How can this be possible…against a US warship…were the crew asleep…How can another vessel be allowed to get so close…
With all modern technology plus the fact ALL ships are required to keep watch, it shouldn’t be possible, yet it happens.
Makes me shudder to think of singlehanders sailing the ocean blue and needing to sleep sometimes–not surprising some are never seen again. Nor is it only ships sailing through the night, where the ‘watch’ settles down with a good book and a coffee, but all the deadly steel containers lost over the years, and which in many cases float just level with the sea; to a sailboat it would be just like hitting a rock.
Indeed, Peter35; there should be an international body tracking and recovering containers, and using the labels to charge the shippers who lost them for the operation, with a fine on top.
I agree Mark. I mentioned the nightmare of the lone sailor, as I’ve been there, done that.
According to Karl Denninger, there were some curious course changes by the container ship.
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=232143
Welcome to the nautical aspect of ‘fourth-generational’ warfare.
This “collision” was certainly an intentional RAMMING, with most of the damage and all loss of life confined to the effects of the containership’s bulbous bow below the water line.
Questions:
Whodunnit? Who directed/paid them?
WHY was ‘our side’ asleep at the switch?
We got ourselves a WAR, boys and girls.
Whether at sea, a rock concert, strolling across a bridge or at a Christmas party–it’s a WAR.
Everywhere and anywhere.
Start behaving like it.
I agree we’re in a war–with islam, but regarding the “intentional ramming” of the US destroyer, I think you’re all at sea.
Container ships are slow, plodding beasts; a US navy destroyer is small, very fast, and has the latest technology–they would/should have had NO difficulty keeping clear.
Back in 1964 the Australian aircraft carrier, HMAS Melbourne, collided with the destroyer, HMAS Voyager – 82 fatalities from the Voyager after it was sliced in two by the Melbourne.
And in June, 1969, off the Vietnam coast, the same Melbourne sliced the USS Frank E Evans destroyer in two – 74 fatalities from the Evans.
Collisions at sea happen alright, but rarely do they involve the same one ship in two separate collisions.
“Witnesses said the vehicle veered off the road into crowds outside Finsbury Park Mosque but it was unclear whether the collision was deliberate”.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/van-pedestrians-hit-run-over-casualties-latest-police-finsbury-park-mosque-muslims-seven-sisters-a7796551.html
This has a part video of possible suspect.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/british-police-seals-off-londons-finsbury-station-after-reported-incident-20170619-gwtrcy.html
Police will control information in the beginning so to soon to speculate.
Still a tragedy for all, and a tragedy for what is coming to the world.
“Still a tragedy for all, and a tragedy for what is coming to the world.”
Please refrain from conflating “tragedy” with righteous (and well-deserved) vengeance. There is a distinct difference twixt the two and it is one that Muslims will likely have to learn in the very hardest way.
Be advised that I have no enthusiasm for this carnage. That said, Islam has been begging for this gruesome outcome over the past dozen centuries.