Earlier tonight a white van plowed into a crowd of worshippers outside the Finsbury Park mosque in North London, killing one person and injuring an undetermined number of people. Up to three people were in the van, and at least one was said to have emerged with a knife and stabbed bystanders. The driver, who is reported to be a “white man”, was captured and is in custody.
In other news, mujahideen staged a terrorist attack at a resort near Bamako in Mali, killing two people and taking a number of others hostage.
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Illinois State Official: “We Are in Massive Crisis Mode, This is Not a False Alarm”
Last week we reported that as Illinois, a state which now faces over $15 billion in backlogged bills, struggles over the next two weeks to somehow come up with its first budget in three years ahead of a June 30 fiscal year end, and faces an imminent ratings downgrade to junk — the first ever in US state history — traders finally puked, sending the yield on its bonds surging after a judge ruled at the start of the month that the state is violating consent decrees and previous orders, and instructed the state to achieve “substantial compliance with consent decrees”, further pressuring its financial situation.
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US Casting Nervous Eye at China’s ‘Phenomenal’ Debt Levels, Says Former Obama Pick for the Fed
The United States is paying close attention to China’s fast rising level of debt, housing bubble and the build-up of risk in the financial system as any stumble by the world’s second largest economy would bring a chain reaction globally, according to Kathryn Dominguez, an economics professor at the University of Michigan nominated by former president Barack Obama to be a governor in the Federal Reserve two years ago.
China’s overall debt has risen to about 261 per cent of the nation’s gross domestic product, compared to about 150 per cent in 2008.
The rise in debt within the economy, the result of years of investment stimulus, was one factor cited by the rating agency Moody’s in downgrading China’s credit rating last month.
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“Someone’s Going to Jail” Gingrich Warns Mueller’s Russia ‘Witch Hunt’too Big to Fail Now
After the Washington Post-New York Times-CNN axis got the public worked into a lather by effectively trying President Donald Trump and his administration in the court of public opinion, Americans are desperate to see somebody held accountable for…wait…what is it again? Collusion? Obstruction? The narrative changes so quickly, it’s difficult keeping track.
Enter Former Speaker Newt Gingrich, who told Fox’s Sean Hannity on Friday that the investigators who’ve been hired by Special Counsel Robert Mueller won’t quit until they’ve found their own Scooter Libby-type figure to play the role of political pariah.
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A New Wave of Left-Wing Militants is Ready to Rumble in Portland — And Beyond
One week after two men were stabbed to death while defending two girls from a racist and Islamophobic diatribe on a commuter train, Portland, Oregon, is bracing for more violence. On Sunday, over the mayor’s objection, a right-wing group will hold a pro-Trump “free speech rally,” while anti-fascist activists are preparing to protest the gathering.
It’s a pattern that has played out across the country since the election: Pro-Trump events from Pikeville, Kentucky, to Berkeley, California, attract white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and Klansmen along with other provocateurs from the so-called “alt-right.” And, predictably, “antifa” counterprotesters mask up to oppose them-often physically.
Yet joining up with the well-established networks of antifascists and anarchists is a new generation of militant organizers. In Portland, Rose City Antifa’s coalition at this weekend’s pro-Trump rally will include the local chapter of Redneck Revolt, a national network whose outreach has targeted right-wing militia members.
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Alex Jones Leaks Megyn Kelly’s Interview Pitch: ‘it’s Not Gonna be Some Gotcha Hit Piece, I Promise’
Alex Jones leaked the audio of a phone conversation Thursday night revealing Megyn Kelly promising him a fair, non-”gotcha” interview as she invited him to appear on her new NBC News program.
“I don’t double cross,” Kelly tells Jones, repeatedly assuring him that her interview would not dwell on “conspiracy theories” or familiar left-wing attacks against the independent broadcast host. Rather, Kelly says that the focus of the news profile would be to humanize Jones and explore his personal life.
Jones himself appears in the video, revealing the private phone conversation on his website InfoWars in advance of Kelly’s Sunday broadcast. He annotates the audio clips with his own commentary, NBC’s preview snippet of the now-filmed interview, and news clips about the ensuing uproar — where a besieged Kelly has denounced Jones’ coverage of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting as “revolting.”
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America: They’re Coming to Take Down Your President
America: They’re coming to take down your president. They’re calling it the noble mission of an impeccably honest and above-board ‘special’ investigation, mounted by the Robert Mueller ‘Dream Team’, without anyone saying that the fix was in long before the Big Hunt got underway.
It’s an initiative whose narrative is being written by the full-of-hate Democrats in defeat, disseminated, world-wide by the mainstream media.
Find your situational awareness and be prepared to take cover because Mueller’s handpicked Dream Team is the nightmare from which it will be impossible to shake yourself awake.
The mainstream media-out to get Donald Trump since the 2016 election campaign-is cavalierly passing Mueller’s assignment off as a perfumed package, completely missing the stench of the bungled anthrax letters case under his watch as FBI director.
It defies belief that the “special counsel” leading the Dream Team is the same man who let Islamists rewrite FBI training manuals during his tenure as FBI chief. (AIM, June 17, 2017)
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Facebook Suspends Catholic Priest for Criticizing Islam
Facebook temporarily suspended the account of Catholic priest Fr. John Higgins in response to a post he made about the history of Islam.
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Golden Girl Megyn Kelly vs. The Most Hated Man in American Media
This was not how it was supposed to be. The most hated man in American media has dealt a serious and potentially knockout blow to the career of the woman who thought she was all set to take him on and proceed unimpeded on the fast track to maybe becoming the next Oprah.
The battle pitting the two well-known personalities commenced two weeks ago when Megyn Kelly, the golden girl of 21st century TV infotainment, started pursuing controversial talk show host and Infowars founder Alex Jones as the next big interview “get” for her new prime time NBC television network news magazine show, Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly.
Over the past two decades, Jones, 43, starting out as the host of an obscure program on a public access TV channel in Austin, Texas, rose to prominence as an anti-globalist libertarian commentator and activist with a daily nationally-syndicated terrestrial radio show, currently carried by around 90 AM and FM stations, a simulcasted Internet program, a variety of documentary films, and two popular Web sites devoted to politically incorrect reporting. In many ways, with his expanding audience, Jones became a magnet for a constituency of angry, disenfranchised Americans, much like the Donald Trump Presidential campaign.
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Huckabee: Trump Supporters Being Subjected to ‘Terrorism’ For Their Vote
Mike Huckabee said President Trump’s supporters are being subjected to “terrorism” for the simple fact they clicked the Republican lever in 2016.
“A lot of people are getting the heck beat out of them because they are wearing a Trump shirt,” he said.
“Sometimes it’s more subtle,” he added, pointing to the case of a Monmouth County, N.J. student who had the “Trump” logo on his T-shirt photoshopped out of his yearbook picture.
“Think about what this is doing,” he said. “This is bullying, it’s terrorism.”
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I agree with Huckabee, and have seen the democratic party spiral into the mist’s of madness. The Clinton failure has left them disorganized and the radical elements are gathering up the strings of power with the assistance of the patronage media to basically engineer an administrative coup de tat. But it is also beginning to spill into the population and if it doesn’t stop there could be a lot more armed violence. This is all a media / leftist assault on the constitutional democracy and will get much worse.
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Friday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative host Mark Levin reacted to Fox Sports 1’s Jason Whitlock accusing members of the far left of wanting to “overthrow everything” after ESPN’s Max Kellerman criticized the NFL for playing the national anthem before games.
Levin echoed Whitlock’s comments, adding that the far left perpetuates “self-hate, balkanization, tribalization [and] the evisceration for the American culture.”
“[Whitlock] is exactly right,” Levin said. “The destruction of everything good, undermining the values and beliefs and traditions and customs of the country — we’ve got this contradiction going on here. We have people from all over the world, every single background and culture and color and height and sex and the rest fighting to get here, to get into America legally and illegally. And yet, we have a force within our borders, a force in our country that is perpetuating self-hate, balkanization, tribalization [and] the evisceration for the American culture that rejects the notion of a melting pot — quite the opposite.”
“[T]hese voices are not only in the streets, these voices are in Washington at the highest levels of the Democrat party, these voices are in Hollywood, these voices are in the media, these voices come from tenured professors and tenured teachers in our high schools,” he continued.
[Comment: Should have listened to McCarthy.]
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5 Years in a Saudi Prison: Blogger Raif Badawi’s Supporters Call on Trudeau to Do More
There was a renewed show of support Friday afternoon for Canadian blogger Raif Badawi at Mont-Royal metro.
On the month of his five-year anniversary of imprisonment in a Saudi-Arabian jail for allegedly insulting Islam, dozens of Badawi’s supporters chanted together:
“1,2,3,4, Trudeau do more.”
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“There is a Serious Chance There Will be No Brexit at All”
The former EU Commissioner Karel De Gucht (Flemish liberal) estimates there is “a serious chance” Britain will eventually remain in the European Union. De Gucht said this in the 1 o’clock news on the commercial TV station VTM. “Negotiators may never get passed the first stage of the talks.”
Talks on the divorce procedure are starting tomorrow, but the U.K. does not seem ready. It is unclear which strategy the British PM Theresa May will adopt after her disappointing result in the recent British elections.
“There is no majority any longer, nor for a hard Brexit, nor for a soft exit. And you know, there is nothing in between”, De Gucht says. The Flemish liberal, a former Trade Commissioner for the EU, believes it will be “impossible to finish the Brexit talks in a span of two years”, as stated by European rules.
“When they start the talks, they will first have to discuss the hefty bill of 60 billion euros, the status of Brits in the EU and the status of EU citizens in Britain. I’m afraid negotiators will never get passed this stage. So, the general idea of “we’ll start negotiating and something will come out of it”… I think this is very uncertain.”
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53 Years Later, Australia Leaves Cyprus Peacekeeping Force
NICOSIA, Cyprus — With its flag lowered one final time, Australia on Friday ended 53 years of helping to keep the peace on ethnically divided Cyprus by pulling out its last three police officers serving with a United Nations peacekeeping force.
Some 1,600 Australian police officers have served in Cyprus since 1964 following the outbreak of violence between the island’s Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities. Three Australians were killed in the line of duty in what was their country’s first policing contribution to a peacekeeping mission.
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59% of Brits Agree With Marxist Corbyn: Empty Luxury Flats Should be Used for Homeless
A blatant disregard for private property rights
Jeremy Corbyn’s solution for those made homeless by the fire seems to confirm his pro-Marxian perspective on life — government will seize the empty homes of rich people in Kensington to rehouse residents.
What is perhaps even more stunning about this blatant disregard for private property rights is that 59% of Brits support it…
This survey further confirms polls seen in the US that show Millennials supporting socialism over capitalism.
And of course, anyone opposing this plan by Corbyn should be tarred-and-feathered as a heartless, racist, bigot who is only out for themselves and hates ‘the little people’. One wonders how long it will be before ‘59%’ of Brits realize they also do not drive an Aston Martin or drink 1982 Chateau Lafite Rothschild — after all, everyone is equal, right (just some politicians are more equal than others).
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Cardinal Sarah Has the Pope on His Side. But His Name is Benedict
In French, Cardinal Robert Sarah has published his latest bestseller without the preface by Benedict XVI. Nor does it appear in the subsequent English version.
But now here it is in the German edition, which has just started arriving in bookstores. And it will soon be in the Italian edition that Cantagalli will begin to sell at the end of June. While the French and English editions will publish it in their future reprints.
“With Cardinal Sarah, a master of silence and of interior prayer, the liturgy is in good hands,” Benedict XVI concludes in his text, composed in his diminutive handwriting during Easter Week.
The original title of the book is “La force du silence,” and last October www.chiesa put some of its most incisive passages online in four languages.
Now Benedict XVI writes:…
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Conservatives Prepare “Secret Plot” To Oust UK’s May if She Backs Off “Hard Brexit”
Any attempt to keep Britain in the EU will trigger an “overnight” coup
The walls are closing in on UK’s embattled prime minister Theresa May, who after the disastrous outcome in the general election, and following a torrid week in which she faced fierce criticism for her handling of the Grenfell Tower catastrophe, in which 58 people are now presumed dead, is reportedly facing what the Telegraph calls a “secret plot” — well, not so secret any more — involving a “stalking horse” challenge to remove her as prime minister if she caves to Labour demands, and waters down the “Hard Brexit.”
With the NYT reporting that “‘Soft Brexit’ Forces Rise in Britain on the Eve of Talks” scheduled for Monday, (despite 70% of Britons still supporting Brexit according to a Thursday YouGov poll), the Telegraph reports that according to leading Eurosceptic MPs they are prepared to mount an immediate leadership challenge if Mrs May deviates from her original plan. The British publication adds that “conservative MPs — including Cabinet ministers — have concluded that Mrs May cannot lead them into the next election and they are now discussing when she could go.
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Finland: World’s First and Only Moomin Museum Opens in Tampere
The exhibition boasts classic pieces by Moomin creator Tove Jansson, and rare gems on display for the first time.
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France Polls: Macron’s Party Set for Parliamentary Majority
French President Emmanuel Macron’s party is on track for a parliamentary majority, exit polls suggest, weeks after his presidential victory.
Polls have his La République en Marche, alongside its MoDem allies, winning at least 355 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly.
The winning margin is lower than some expected with turnout down from 2012.
The party was formed just over a year ago, and half of its candidates have little or no political experience.
The result, if confirmed, sweeps all of the mainstream parties aside, and gives the 39-year-old president a strong mandate in parliament to pursue his pro-EU, business-friendly reform plans.
The far-right National Front (FN) party looks set to get at least six seats, although it was aiming for 15. FN leader Marine Le Pen, 48, has won a seat in parliament for the first time, representing Henin-Beaumont, a depressed former mining town in the north. But two of her top aides, including her deputy leader, were eliminated.
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French President Emmanuel Macron’s Lrem Party Wins Majority in Parliament
President Macron’s LREM party has won a landslide victory in the French parliamentary election that saw much lower than expected voter turnout. The majority in parliament will enable Macron to push through reforms.
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Germany: Police Powerless Against Middle Eastern Crime Gangs (2)
“The clans simply have no respect for the authorities.”
A court in Hanover has handed suspended sentences to six members of a Kurdish clan who seriously wounded two dozen police officers during a violent rampage in Hameln. The court’s ruling was greeted with anger and derision by police who said it is yet another example of the laxity of Germany’s politically correct judicial system.
The case goes back to January 2014, when a 26-year-old clan member, arrested for robbery, tried to escape from the magistrate’s office by jumping out of a seventh-floor courtroom window. The suspect was taken to the hospital, where he died. Members of his clan subsequently ransacked the hospital, as well as the court, and attacked police with rocks and other projectiles; 24 police officers and six paramedics were injured.
The judge said he was lenient because the defendants witnessed the death of the 26-year-old and were traumatized. The judge also revealed that he had reached a deal with the clan, which among other effects prevented police from testifying in court.
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Germany: Police Powerless Against Middle Eastern Crime Gangs (1)
by Soeren Kern
“The clans simply have no respect for the authorities.”
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In Principle Vestager-Padoan MPS Deal
Restructuring in line with EU rules
(ANSA) — Brussels, June 1 — European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager on Thursday reached an in-principle deal with Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan on a restructuring plan for struggling Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) bank, to permit a precautionary recapitalisation of the Tuscan lender in line with EU rules, the European Commission said.
Also in line with EU rules, some of the costs of restructuring MPS will be borne by shareholders and junior bondholders, the EC said.
Retail bondholders may request compensation in case of misselling, it said, while deposit holder are protected.
Monte dei Paschi di Siena will have its entire portfolio of non-performing loans at market conditions, reducing risks to finances, the Commission said. At the same time, MPS will take a series of measures to substantially boost its efficiency including a ceiling on managers’ salaries, equal to 10 times the average salary of MPS staff, the EC said. The in-principle deal reached on MPS between the EU and the Italian Treasury depends on the European Central Bank’s (ECB) confirmation that MPS is a solvent bank which respects capital requisites, as well as Italy’s obtaining a formal confirmation from private investors that they will take on its portfolio of non-performing loans, the Commission said. Now the EC and the Italian authorities must define the details of MPS’s final restructuring plan, including Italy’s commitments on implementing the plan. ON this basis, Brussels will adopt a formal decision in line with EU rules on State aid, the EC said.
The EC said the preliminary and provisional deal was reached thanks to “constructive talks with Italy”.
Sources in Brussels said that “the financial projections and cost control were the two main talking points” but “all the chapters” in the negotiations “have been closed”. As for selling the non-performing loans, the sources said there is already a “high level of tranquility” on the prospect of private investors buying the NPL portfolio, but that in any case the EU prefers to wait for the formalisation of that purchase.
The sources added that a merger with troubled Veneto banks Popolare di Vicenza and Veneto Banca would be “impossible”.
“A bank going through restructuring cannot buy other banks or engage in mergers,” the sources said.
The provisional deal “will give further confidence to the solutions for banking problems which have very often been exaggerated, and which with today’s results will be further taken into consideration and put in perspective,” Padoan said. Another “positive consequence” of the in-principal accord, he said, is that “it will put on the credit market a strong, stable and sustainable bank which will give a hand to Italian development over the coming years”.
The accord has “resolved all the issues” of the troubled Tuscan lender, Padoan said. “Over time it will require an adjustment on the costs side but it will be able to count on a very strong capital base because at this point MPS is a bank cleaned of its NPLCs, with a capital well over requirements”, he said, adding that the Italian State will “remain in the capital for the duration of the restructuring plan but the goal is to remain the least time possible, even less than five years”.
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Italy: Tuscan Mayor Nabbed for Embezzlement
Accused of pocketing 570,000 euors
(ANSA) — Florence, June 1 — A Tuscan mayor was arrested on suspicion of embezzlement Thursday.
Oreste Giurlani, mayor of Pescia near Pistoia, is accused of having embezzled some 570,000 euros between 2012 and 2016 from the Tuscan branch of Italy’s mountain community association, UNCEM Toscana, which he chaired from 2005 to 2016.
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Italy: Centre Left Made us Kneel to Corruption — Davigo
Centre right, centre left both hindered probes
(ANSA) — Rome, May 31 — Top prosecutor Piercamillo Davigo on Wednesday said “the centre right and the centre left have always worked not to fight corruption but to fight probes against corruption”. Speaking at a parliamentary convention organised by the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, Davigo said there was one “fundamental difference: the centre right did things so big and so badly that usually they didn’t work, while the centre left did targeted things and if they didn’t bring us to our knees they at least made us genuflect”. Davigo, who last month ended his term as head of magistrates union ANM, has frequently been critical of government action allegedly penalising the judiciary.
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London Fire: Sadiq Khan Says Tragedy Caused by Years of Neglect
The Grenfell Tower fire was a “preventable accident” caused by “years of neglect” by the local council and successive governments, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has said.
After attending a service for victims, Mr Khan said the fire was a national disaster requiring a national response.
At least 58 people are believed to have died after the fire ripped through the 24-storey block in North Kensington in the early hours of Wednesday.
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Muslim Groups Campaign to Turn Catholic Cathedral in Spain Into ‘Shared Worship Space’
Muslim groups in Spain are campaigning to turn a Catholic cathedral which has operated for more than 800 years into a “shared worship space”.
Campaigners in Cordoba, southern Spain, argue that the religious site should be shared between Islam and Christianity — and have been backed up by local authorities.
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Portugal Forest Fires: Three Days of Mourning for 61 Victims
Portugal has declared three days of mourning for the 61 victims of one of the country’s deadliest forest fires.
Four children are among the victims, many of whom were found dead inside their cars as they tried to flee the central forested region of Pedrógão Grande.
Hundreds of firefighters are continuing to tackle the blaze on several fronts.
Prime Minister Antonio Costa called it “the greatest tragedy we have seen in recent years in terms of forest fires”.
He said it was thought to have been sparked by a lightning strike.
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Sweden to Send SMS Warnings by Location During Dangerous Incidents
Sweden’s SOS Alarm emergency control centre is to introduce SMS warnings to people in areas that it considers to be in danger.
The text messages will be sent to warn of incidents such as fires, gas leaks and terrorist attacks.
Publically-owned SOS Alarm, which operates Sweden’s 112 emergency telephone number, is working with all of Sweden’s mobile phone operators to set up the SMS warning system, reports P4 Västernorrland.
The operator has previously issued warnings known as VMAs (viktigt meddelande till allmänheten, important messages to the public) via SMS. But the messages only reached mobile users with specific subscriptions and registered addresses, according to the report.
But now anyone carrying a mobile phone in the area relevant to the warning will be able to receive the SMS.
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Swedish Soldier Fired for Hateful Social Media Posts
A soldier with the Swedish army’s Skaraborg Regiment has been discharged from duty after writing inappropriate messages on social media.
The soldier wrote hateful posts on Facebook and other media on several occasions, reports the Skaraborgs Allehanda newspaper.
Messages written by the soldier expressed views “directly in violation of the basic values the military stands for”, the military’s personnel review board (Försvarsmaktens personalansvarsnämnd) wrote in its review of the soldier’s conduct.
The posts are reported to have been written by the soldier after he performed civilian work as a security guard at refugee accommodation.
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Switzerland’s Carbon Capture Plant is a Giant Waste of Money
First of all, given the quantity of carbon Climework’s plant is able to filter from the atmosphere, it would take some 250,000 such facilities to meet even the relatively modest carbon sequestration goals recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — that is 1% of total emissions by 2025. Presumably building these would cost a lot of money (although in fairness, Climeworks had not disclosed the cost of its project).
Also, in order for the company to be profitable, the carbon must be sold to greenhouses and pop manufacturers. Has it occurred to any of these “environmentalists” that the moment the lettuce is shipped out of the greenhouse, or the can of Sprite is opened that the carbon dioxide simply returns to the atmosphere. This plant will mostly just move carbon around, and is therefore useless.
The only way this facility actually removes carbon from the atmosphere is via sequestration, which is clearly not profitable. This means taxpayers will inevitably be on the hook for this “business” venture. Of course, carbon is used in oil wells, but more than enough of that is harvested locally from exhaust — no one needs Swiss atmospheric carbon.
Finally, Climeworks, and the entire green technology industry for that matter, appears to have forgotten that trees exist. Yes, trees. Trees naturally remove carbon from the atmosphere, and give us beautiful breathable oxygen. They basically do exactly what Climeworks does, except they are free — or dirt-cheap at the very least.
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Tim Price: “The UK Today Feels Like a Very Strange & Disturbing Place”
If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
— Economist Thomas Sowell
It is difficult to know where to begin.
In our election last week, 262 British parliamentary seats fell to a party led by Jeremy Corbyn, a self-confessed Socialist.
Corbyn has also publicly supported the IRA, Hizbollah and Hamas.
Yet his message attracted 12.9 million votes while the United Kingdom is under attack by terrorists. It simply beggars belief.
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UK: Finsbury Park: Casualties as Van Crashes Into Pedestrians Near London Mosque
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A second man has told Sky News that there were three men in the van. He said one was held by members of the public until police arrived but the other two ran away.
“There were three of them and two of them ran off. One of them was held here by worshippers until police came, but I’m worried because the other two must be somewhere around Finsbury Park.
The man said the van swerved into the crowd just as prayers ended.
“I saw six or seven people on the floor, most of them were male.”
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UK: Van Slams Into Pedestrians Near London Mosque Leaving “Number of Casualties”, Driver Arrested
A van plowed into pedestrians on Seven Sisters road in the Finsbury Park area in north London just after 12:20am London Time, in what the police has described a “major incident.” There are “a number of casualties being worked on at the scene,” London police said in a statement, with at least 10 people injured according to press reports.
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More than ten pedestrians were hit by a white van driver who veered onto a pavement near a renowned north London mosque, according to reports.
Several people were reportedly hurt after the van ploughed into a crowd outside Finsbury Park Mosque, where hate cleric Abu Hamza once preached, as they finished Ramadan evening prayers called taraweeh.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing bystanders wrestle the suspect to the floor and pin him down until officers arrived.
A Metropolitan Police helicopter was seen circling overhead as photographs posted on social media showed a huge response from the emergency services.
Dozens of police cars and vans cordoned off a large area of the normally bustling thoroughfare as stunned locals gathered at the scene.
Images on Twitter appeared to show a clean-shaven white man with black hair being detained by police officers behind a van, surrounded by a group of shouting onlookers…
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WTF Chart of the Day — Mapping Jihadi Arrests Across Europe
According to a new report from Europol, the EU saw a total of 1,002 arrests for terrorism offences in 2016. The number of people arrested on suspicion of Islamist terrorism offences rose for the third year in a row.
There were 395 such arrests in 2014, 687 in 2015 and 718 last year.
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Jesuit Scholar Rips Pope for Concessions to Islam
A Jesuit scholar with expertise in Islam is explaining why Muslims are terroristic and is warning members of his faith not to be taken in by the “ liberal-left ideology” that advocates “tolerance” and “concessions.”
The verdict and warning comes from Egyptian Greek Melkite Jesuit Father Henri Boulad, who was interviewed by the National Catholic Register.
First, the reason for the terrorism is simple, said Boulad, 85, whose relative, Father Samir Khalil Samir, also is a Jesuit scholar of Islam.
The Quran orders Muslims to inflict “terror.”
He cites specific instructions from Islam’s holy book, such as Quran 8:12, which instructs, “Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Quran” and Quran 8:60, which states, “Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels.”
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Israel Goodwill Ramadan Efforts Cut After Palestinian Attack
Israel revoked on Sunday the permits of 200,000 Palestinians to enter Israel that were approved for the holy month of Ramadan following two near simultaneous Palestinian attacks on police that killed a young female officer near Jerusalem’s Old City.
Israeli defense body COGAT, posted the announcement on its Arabic language Facebook page. Earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that preparations are underway to destroy the homes of the Palestinian attackers and tighten security at the entrance to the Old City, home to sensitive holy sites sacred to Jews, Muslims and Christians.
Three Palestinian attackers armed with an automatic weapon and knives assaulted officers on duty near the Old City in two locations Friday evening.
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731 Turkish Soldiers Hospitalized With Food Poisoning
A Turkish prosecutor says 731 soldiers at a western base were sent to the hospital with food poisoning and 21 people from the company that provided the food have been detained.
Akif Celattin Simsek, the lead prosecutor in Manisa province, said Sunday an investigation was launched with samples taken from the affected soldiers, the food and the water. None of those hospitalized late Saturday was in critical condition.
Defense Minister Fikri Isik, who went to Manisa, said the ministry had cancelled the contract with the food company. The governor’s office said 24 soldiers remain hospitalized Sunday afternoon.
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Iran Launches Strikes Against ISIS in Syria in Response to Tehran Attacks
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said Sunday it launched missiles into eastern Syria targeting Islamic State (ISIS) militants in response to an attack on Iran’s parliament and a shrine in Tehran, warning that it would similarly retaliate on anyone else carrying out attacks in Iran.
Sunday’s assault marked an extremely rare direct attack from the Islamic Republic amid its support for embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a hard-line paramilitary force, has seen advisers and fighters killed in the conflict.
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Mosul Battle: Iraqi Troops Move Into Last ISIS Stronghold in City
U.S.-backed Iraqi troops pushed into the last Islamic State stronghold in Mosul on Sunday, an Iraqi commander said, formally launching the final major battle of an eight-month campaign to drive the militants from Iraq’s second largest city.
The IS group captured Mosul when it swept across northern and central Iraq in the summer of 2014. Iraq launched a massive operation to retake the city last October, and has driven the militants from all but a handful of neighborhoods.
The extremists are expected to make their last stand in the Old City, a densely populated quarter with narrow, winding alleys.
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Turkish ‘Walk for Justice’ Continues Despite Erdogan Threat
President Erdogan has warned Turkey’s opposition leader his long march for justice could land him in trouble. Tensions in Turkey have accelerated over the past two months when a referendum gave Erdogan enhanced powers.
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Afghan Officials: Foreign Citizen Kidnapped in Kabul
A foreign contract worker was kidnapped in the Afghan capital Kabul early Sunday, said an official.
Last month a Finnish woman was kidnapped from a Kabul guest house in an attack that killed a German woman and an Afghan security guard.
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Taliban Storm Police Headquarter in Eastern Afghanistan
Taliban gunmen and a suicide bomber have attacked a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least five officers and injuring 22. The assault comes as the US is preparing to send more troops to the country.
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‘Islamic State’ Killings: China’s Censored Social Media is in Uproar, So What’s Beijing Thinking?
The deaths of two Chinese prompt widespread calls for retribution. Beijing, seeking favour in the region with its Belt and Road Initiative, remains curiously silent.
As Beijing scrambles to befriend neighbouring countries and ease anxieties over its rising military power, social media users are demanding their government send troops to Pakistan to seek payback for the killing of two Chinese nationals.
Calls for action were stoked after Islamic State (IS), a terrorist group active in Iraq and Syria, claimed responsibility for executing a young man and woman last week in Pakistan. Chinese officials have yet to directly confirm the deaths, but a spokesman from the Chinese foreign affairs ministry said on Wednesday that Beijing was investigating whether the pair — described in some reports as Chinese language teachers — were illegally preaching in Pakistan before they were abducted. In an earlier press conference, the ministry said it had been told by Pakistan that the pair had “probably died”.
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Otto Warmbier: How Did North Korea Holiday End in Jail, And a Coma?
Otto is now back in the US after 15 months of captivity in North Korea. But he is in a coma, cannot understand language and has severe brain damage.
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US Navy Calls Off Search for 7 Missing Sailors; Several Bodies Found Inside the Destroyer
The search for seven missing U.S. Navy sailors was called off Sunday after several bodies were recovered from the flooded compartments of the destroyer.
Commander of the Navy’s 7th Fleet told the grim news to reporters at a Navy base in Yokosuka, just south of Tokyo. Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin wouldn’t say how many bodies were found but said the identities of the sailors would be released following notification of the families.
The bodies were found in previously flooded compartments, including sleeping quarters.
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Cassie Jaye (pictured), an American documentary maker who interviewed men’s rights activists and questioned her own views as a feminist, says The Project heavily edited their interview with her.
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Mali Resort Hit by Terror Attack, At Least 2 People Killed
Suspected jihadists in the West African country of Mali attacked a luxury resort popular with foreigners on the outskirts of the country’s capital Sunday, killing at least two people.
The assault continued into the evening and there were believed to be hostages in the luxury Campement de Kangaba resort area near Bamako Sunday.
Residents living near the resort said that shots were fired and smoke could be seen in the air.
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“I heard gunfire coming from the camp and I saw people running out of the tourist site,” said Modibo Diarra, who lives nearby. “I learned that it was a terrorist attack.”
Malian soldiers succeeded in entering the site, according to Commandant Modibo Traore, a spokesman for the Malian special forces in the former French colony.
“The operation is ongoing and we estimate that there are between three and four assailants,” he said.
As night fell, witnesses saw smoke rising from the resort, which features three swimming pools and is a popular escape from the Malian heat. It was not immediately clear what was burning, although jihadists in other attacks have set cars ablaze…
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Mali: Two Dead as Jihadi Terrorists Storm Luxury Hotel Popular With Westerners
Attackers charged a tourist lodge outside the capital city of Bamako, Mali, which was said to be popular with Western holidaymakers.
The gunman assaulted the Le Campement resort in Dougourakoro, Mali’s security ministry have said.
Hostages were taken as soliders have been deployed to the site.
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Deadly Bomb Blast Strikes Upscale Bogota Shopping Mall
A bomb blast at a mall in the Colombian capital Bogota has killed at least three and wounded nine more. Officials described it as a “terrorist attack” but no one has yet claimed responsibility for the explosion.
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Mexican Beer Label Shows Trump Wearing Swastika
Mexican and American brewers have launched a new beer that depicts US President Donald Trump wearing a Nazi swastika symbol.
The label of the new Amigous Cerveza craft beer shows Trump dressed in traditional mariachi band attire, wearing a sombrero hat and a swastika belt buckle, Reuters first reported.
“We knew that a Trump label was going to be controversial, but it’s been selling extremely fast,” said Luis Enrique de la Reguera, chief executive of brewery Casa Cervecera Cru Cru.
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Germany Says 100 Million African Refugees Could Head North
German Development Minister Gerd Muller warned Sunday that up to 100 million Africans could head north as economic and climate refugees.
Germany is making a push to promote peace and investment in Africa at the G20 summit in Hamburg in July. Muller believes unprecedented migrant populations could head for Europe if climate goals aren’t met and the economic outlook in Africa remains the same.
“If we continue as before, people in many parts of Africa have no other chance than to get to us,” Muller, a member of the Christian Social Union, told German tabloid Bild am Sonntag. “If we do not manage to limit global warming to two degrees, up to 100 million people will move north in the future.”
Muller suggests a large-scale investment Marshall Plan in Africa and higher wages for workers.
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Germany: Anti-Migrant ‘Identitarians, ‘ Counter-Protesters March in Berlin
Hundreds of members of the self-proclaimed “Identitarian Movement” have marched through the streets of Berlin. They were met by a larger number of counter-demonstrators who disputed the group’s anti-migrant stance.
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Italians Rejoice as Soros Ally Mayor Awarded UN Prize for Welcoming Migrants Kicked Out of Office
Italians this week cheered the electoral defeat of a mayor who signed a deal with George Soros to turn the tiny island of Lampedusa into a gateway to Europe for migrants travelling from Africa.
“Thank you, you have eradicated the Lampedusa cancer,” read graffiti sprayed across walls on several streets of the small island with just 6,000 residents after voters ousted Mayor Giusi Nicolini.
The Lampedusa native was kicked into third place at local elections Sunday, locals electing businessman Salvatore “Totò” Martello, who said during the campaign that he “cannot stand seeing migrants swarming everywhere”.
Since taking office in 2012 the outgoing mayor transformed the island into a gateway to Europe, streamlining migrant processing to enable Lampedusa’s reception centre to process and give shelter to 700 asylum seekers at a time, moving most of them on to Sicily or the Italian mainland.
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Italy and Spain Rescue More Than 1,000 Stranded Migrants in Two Days
The Italian coastguard has rescued around 800 migrants after six operations in the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday.
Several migrants were seen jumping onto an Italian rescue vessel as it drew alongside a rubber boat carrying dozens of migrants headed for European shores.
The operation followed the interception of 906 migrants off the western Libyan city of Sabratha on Friday by Libyan crews.
The Spanish aid organisation, Proactive Open Arms, also saved some 600 migrants who had left Libya bound for southern Sicily.
Libya has been in turmoil for years and is the most common departure point for migrants trying to reach Europe by sea. More than 60,000 migrants have crossed the central Mediterranean route from Libya to Italy so far this year.
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Man in Car Emblazoned With Nazi Symbol Plows Into Refugee Demo in Sweden
A man suspected of having neo-Nazi links has confessed to driving his car into a crowd of rejected Iraqi asylum seekers who were protesting against their deportation in the Swedish city of Malmo. Police have opened a hate crime investigation. The man, 22, whose identity has not been revealed, admitted that he had driven his car into the crowd of asylum seekers, who rallied outside the Swedish Migration Agency office in Malmo on two occasions last weekend.
The perpetrator’s car had a Nazi symbol on it, police confirmed to local media. A video obtained by Swedish national public broadcaster SVT Nyheter shows the car with a Nazi eagle and swastika on its front.
[Comment: Watch for fingerprints of leftist intelligence state apparatus. Gladio 2.0. Serves two functions. Take public eye off muslim dominated vehicular mass homicides while simultaneously demonizing those against mass migration by portraying them as Nazis.]
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Numbers Tell Staggering Story of EU Migrant Crisis
New legal action by the EU against eastern member states for refusing to take their share of refugees shows how the worst migration crisis since World War II still divides the continent.
Since 2014, more than 1.6 million people have arrived by sea while 13,500 have died on the way.
Italy meanwhile has seen arrivals continue apace, hitting a new record in 2016 with 181,436.
Those arrivals were mainly Nigerians (20.7 percent), Eritreans (11.4 percent) and Guineans (7.4 percent), according to the IOM. Most are not considered potential refugees, but economic migrants who must be returned to their countries of origin.
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Poland Says it Will Not Accept Migrants if There is No Verification Process
“Until we have a mechanism to verify people who can settle in Poland, we will not accept them,” deputy Defence Minister Michal Dworczyk has said.
On Wednesday, the European Commission formally launched a procedure against Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary in connection with the “failure” of these countries to resettle refugees.
“Determining the identity of people when it is not known where they have come from is not a simple matter,” Dworczyk said.
“In some cases, we are unable to verify who these people are and what their intentions are. And if there is a shadow of a doubt, it is the duty of every state, including Poland, to ensure the safety of its citizens,” he added.
Poland has not accepted any refugees as part of an EU programme to relocate asylum seekers residing in camps in Italy and Greece.
Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party has voiced opposition to the EU redistribution plans.
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Poll: Europeans Want National Governments, Not EU, To Decide Migration Policies
People in Europe overwhelmingly oppose the European Union’s (EU) handling of the migrant crisis, and want national governments to have final say over their countries’ migration policies, according to a new survey.
U.S. pollster the Pew Research Centre found three quarters of respondents said they want their own governments to make decisions on migration of non-EU citizens into their countries.
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Soros-Linked Groups Behind California Ban on Detaining Illegal Immigrants
A plan to ban local and county jails in California from detaining illegal immigrants with immigration detainers is being pushed by open borders organizations. The groups have ties to globalist billionaire George Soros.
As left-wing blog Mother Jones reported, the initiative to protect illegal immigrants would be included in the California state budget. The proposal makes it illegal for local or county jails from entering into agreements with federal immigration authorities to protect Americans from illegal immigrant crime.
Coincidentally, the two organizations pushing the plan behind the scenes have links to Soros and his infamous Open Society Foundation, which serves as a slush-fund to enrich left-wing social justice and open borders groups.
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Sweden Democrats Leader Åkesson: ‘I Support Immigration’
Jimmie Åkesson, leader of the populist Sweden Democrats (SD) party, was interrupted twice as he spoke to a hostile crowd at the Järvaveckan cross-party political forum on Saturday.
Åkesson, who claimed in his speech to support immigration, also said that immigrants must understand how Swedish society works, reports news agency TT.
The SD party leader was initially interrupted shortly after beginning his speech by people in the crowd shouting “Jimmie, racist” and other slogans, according to the report.
“I think one theme is democracy and an important part of democracy is dialogue. To be able to talk to each other without using ugly words and yelling and instead showing respect for each other’s opinions,” Åkesson said after resuming his speech.
He was interrupted a second time a few minutes later.
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Thousands Protest for More Refugees in Madrid
For the second time in a matter of months, thousands of Spaniards have demanded their government do its part for refugees. Spain has resettled fewer than ten percent of the refugees it promised to take in by September.
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by Jack Engelhard
Can we agree that depravity is a specialty of the left?
Following every attack by Palestinian Arab terrorists against Israeli civilians, world leaders immediately jump in call for “calm” from “both sides.”
For some reason, Dafna Meir comes to mind. She was a young Israeli mother and nurse who answered the doorbell to her home in the southern Mount Hebron region of Judea. Most likely she answered with a smile. It was that kind of neighborhood and she was that kind of woman.
She was not prepared for a knife-slashing Arab murderer who, for no known reason, had come to kill her and her six children. Apparently he wanted the children. He would only need to get past the mother. But she stood her ground. She took the blows and was knifed to death.
The screams from the home alerted the town’s security squad. The assailant ran off. The kids were safe. Their mother was dead.
Immediately world leaders responded. Were they horrified? Of course. Did they call it Islamic terrorism?
Did they say Palestinian Arab attacks against Jews must cease?
Did they say the incitement must stop?
No, no and no to all the above.
Instead the Obama administration, the US State Department, the UN, the EU, The New York Times, Liberals both in Israel and throughout America — all called for calm and restraint, from BOTH SIDES. That’s how moral equivalency gets its ugly name and that’s how the Left operates.
The victims (multiply Dafna Meir by the thousands) get no chance to properly mourn, to express singular pain, to shout indignation, to weep injustice.
All that’s been taken from them, and from those of us for whom there’s a world of difference between good and evil.
Not so from the Left who put the same price between murderer and victim and put the same value on all customs and cultures…no matter how depraved.
Both Sides, they say, share the blame — even when it’s one side that does nearly all the stabbing, the car ramming, the beheading, the bombing and the shooting.
Which brings us to the United States where a man who hated Donald Trump went on a shooting rampage against Republicans practicing baseball in Virginia, injuring several and badly wounding GOP House Majority Whip Steve Scalise. Doctors say he has a long road to recovery.
But immediately Leftists took the upper hand. They called for tolerance. They asked for Both Sides to behave, both political parties to quit the hate talk.
Don’t look at us, they say. Don’t believe what your eyes can see and what your ears can hear…and never mind Donald Trump being allegorically stabbed to death in New York’s Central Park. Forget the thousands who come to cheer the mock assassination of our Caesar.
Who are these people who thrill to that spectacle?
No, Both Sides did not murder Dafna Meir and both sides do not riot threaten on campus whenever a Conservative or Israeli speaker manages an invitation.
That’s the Left and only the Left who commit crimes of intolerance, and they do it nearly every day from the pavements to the headlines. Jewish and Christian speakers have no shot from NYU to Berkeley. Israel and Trump have no chance from The New York Times or the networks.
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Ukraine LGBT Community Marches Through Kyiv for Gay Pride Parade
Some 2,500 people have taken part in the “March of Equality” in downtown Kiyv, with the authorities deploying thousands of security forces to ensure safety. A group of ultranationalists attempted to disrupt the event.
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But, but …. I thought RamaVan was over 😱
Nope, not till next weekend.
“59% of Brits Agree With Marxist Corbyn: Empty Luxury Flats Should be Used for Homeless”
This is a very dangerous road. Czechoslovakia been there, done that, and there is a large body of evidence what happens when you disregard property rights: Buildings stop being renovated, companies stop developing competitive products, and economy will suffer damage for decades to come.
In the late 1940’s Czechoslovakia took away the properties of some 3 million Germans, and the German areas went from economic powerhouse into a state of desolation which kind of lasts until today.
Then – they took the properties of the rich…
In 1948, Czechoslovakia was one of the richest nations in Europe, with advanced technology in cars and aircraft and turbines and guns… But – in 1990, Czechoslovakia was a desolate place producing outdated products. Technological development under communism got stuck somewhere in the 1960’s. The regime then slowly rotted away, because everybody could see that western capitalism, with guaranteed property rights, is simly better.
The people, who will be given the stolen property of the rich, will never take good care of it.
In Cuba you can’t help but notice that everyone has a ‘home’, either an apartment or a house that’s assigned to them by the government. No matter how well-off a resident is there’s no attempt ever to paint and fix up the residence. Why? Because it’s not really yours, it’s the government’s, which has just assigned it to you. It could be taken away tomorrow, and you can’t pass it on to the next generation. Essentially you’re just ‘squatting’. That affects people profoundly. No one takes any pride in where they live, what the neighborhood is like, what the house looks like.
It won’t take long for the aura of pride people take in their hard-won home to be diluted, and then die away completely. In such places ‘pride of ownership’ is usually transferred to gaining the means to leave the country and go somewhere that respects an individual’s right to own a home. Statism and socialism always destroy.
The Finsbury Park attack was clearly an act of retaliation – long overdue. My only other comment is to quote St Paul’s epistle to the Galatians, Chapter 6 verse 7: – “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap”
“Overdue”, Peter? Violent reprisals get us nowhere, and give ammuniton to the “islamophobia” merchants.
Someday, violent reprisals get us somewhere, not nowhere. Islamophobia already have too many ammunition. They don’t get more because of this.
In reply to both Mark H and Bret, I agree that it is surprising that the streets have not yet boiled over with primitive rage owing entirely to the blithe, impenetrable and culpable stupidity of our leaders, who have failed in the first and foremost responsibility of any government: To maintain the Peace of the Realm.
And, yes, of course the violence begat of violence brings only greater tragedy – in this the Christian intuition is sound. The trouble is – to refer once more to the incredible stupidity and wickedness of our leaders in deliberately allowing the destabilisation of their own societies – that we are seeing the inevitability of malign historical factors issuing in the expected disaster, which is now long past remedy.
Commentary, whether enraged or saddened, is of course also perfectly redundant at such a juncture. In historical terms, a deadly earthquake, tsunami and apocalyptic explosion of the Plutonic regions has already been set off. Even running away won’t do us any good.
Mark, so we should just ‘turn the other cheek?’
For many years now, on all the blogs I’ve visited, people have been saying: “We must not descend to their level”. Look where that’s getting us, nowhere, moslems are playing the guileless west like a violin–and laughing at us!
Never forget, that the Allies realized very quickly in WW2 we HAD to descend to their level–or lose!
No Peter, but random attacks on civilians, some of whom must be decent people (unless you believe no muslims are) do bring us down to the level of our foes.
After WW2, and Tokyo, Hiroshima, Hamburg, Dresden etc, the deliberate targeting of civilians was declared a war crime. In point of fact, it was often ineffective, so far as crippling the enemy’s ability to fight was concerned, though it did affect morale in Germany, leading the populace to demand action. The Nazis’ response was to waste resources developing the “V” (“revenge”) weapons- wrong answer! They should have made more defensive fighters, especially jets.
Hope I’m not wandering off topic; my point is that if I were looking to carry out effective retaliation for terrorism (not that I’m advocating this, of course) I’d try to take out the Abu Hamsas, Anjem Choudrys and sundry hate preachers whom the government should be locking up and imprisoning or deporting.
I don’t know much about the Finsbury Park incident and I don’t want to speculate on who did what to whom and why.
That said, this is going to be hugely problematic no matter who the perps. are. Whether indigenous Brits, or some kind of immigrant, this is going to stretch the credibility of government and police who will have to walk a political and ethnic tightrope of their own silly manufacture. For this there is no politically correct solution.
The race skeptics, and there are a huge number of them, will be watching very carefully to see if there is any inequality or double standards, whilst the ‘Tell Mama’ brigade will be looking for blood.
The UK is now a very unhappy country and I am glad I got out when I did.
We knows from countless historical examples precisely what happens when an inadequate social and political narrative fails: Sheer anarchy.
Baron you write and may be correct bnut I have seen no video of it and surely video does exist:
“Earlier tonight a white van plowed into a crowd of worshippers outside the Finsbury Park mosque in North London, killing one person and injuring an undetermined number of people. Up to three people were in the van, and at least one was said to have emerged with a knife and stabbed bystanders. The driver, who is reported to be a “white man”, was captured and is in custody.”
I have no evidence from anywhere reputable that there is ONE word of truth in the above.
This moisque and this road is watched like no other place and nothing moves there that there is not video taken.
The Muslims themselves have video this moment. The police too.
Yet all I have seen with my own eyes is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsQYRppUwgQ
This morning four hours ago I wrote on http://www.facebook.com/felix.quigley as a first response:
“It happened last night in London. There must be video since this Mosque is closely monitored by themselves and the police. So where is the video? And the answer is it is not REPEAT NOT being produced, but the very first thing you would produce IS THE VIDEO from the security cameras. THIS IS MOST LIKELY A NERVOUS DRIVER, A 49 YEAR OLD THEY TELL US, BEING CONFRONTED BY A HORDE OF MUSLIMS EMERGING AND TOTALLY UP TIGHT AFTER AN HOUR OF RAMADAN
Also I disagree with Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer…this happened at least half a day ago and there is not one cheep out of them on their websites, also not on Gates of Vienna though it is a smaller type website THIS IS VERY TELLING.
We need to build my Trotskyist movement because I have never for a moment hesitated to seek to get to the bottom of things and tell the truth.
The headline on Breitbart disgusts me…the headline talks of a van “ploughing into” Muslims at the Mosque.
This is BS Breitbart…YOU DO NOT KNOW THIS AND YOU ARE REPEATING THE ENEMY PROPAGANDA..on this evidence Breitbart is no better than Corbyn
I simply digested the relevant news stories for the intro, as I always do. I have no idea what actually happened, since I wasn’t there. And discerning the truth is further complicated by the fact that almost all the witnesses were Muslims.
Since I wrote my facebook piece I see that you have covered it in your composite piece but I am looking for major work on this to take place especially on my idea of why there is no video produced. The Muslims have video but the fact they do not produce it suggests my explanation may be correct.
Nearly all of the report of the Finsbury Park incident has been revised. Only one man in the van – the police are not looking for anyone else, no stabbing occurred, he appeared to have suddenly turned into a cul de sac and hit a crowd leaving the mosque after late prayers and attending to one of their number in the middle of the road who was having a heart attack. It is not yet clear if the heart attack sufferer was the fatality earlier reported.
Lots of very excitable but apparently unreliable eye-witnesses spread all over the media. Only photographic images on the web at the moment show aftermath with the driver being dragged out of his car held by the crowd and then taken away by the police. He looks beaten and dazed – does not try to say anything.
I think the fathers of some killed children will react. I do think it is normal. I bet there still are parents in the west who love their children more than life.
I also love the speed of Theresa May to specify the fact “white man”.
Interesting, isn’t it: when three muslims run over 10 people on London Bridge, stab and partially behead passers by while shouting “This is for allah”, there is “No connection to islam”.
Can we confidently predict that for this attack there is “No connection to the E.D.L, extreme right wing etc. etc. and that the perpetrators are “insane”?
He was a “lone wolf” who “self-radicalized”! No one knows how or why he did what he did … it’s all a great mystery & just one of those things about city life that happens now and again … like the rain coming on, or snow.
IMDA You seem to have got closer to the truth of what happened and I am amazed at myself and how close I was getting on little info.
IMDA writes “Nearly all of the report of the Finsbury Park incident has been revised. Only one man in the van – the police are not looking for anyone else, no stabbing occurred, he appeared to have suddenly turned into a cul de sac and hit a crowd leaving the mosque after late prayers and attending to one of their number in the middle of the road who was having a heart attack.”
The Muslims crowd like a thunder bolt suddenly materialised right out onto the pavement (I have seen similar) and since this is Ramadan with big crowds thereby maybe onto the road. This guy could be totally innocent of anything.
The Muslim in question he died of a heart attack he was hit by nothing. What you have added to it is that he was being tended I would say on the pavement but milling round him onto the road when this unfortunate driver just by bad luck found himself there.
Given that there has been no attacks on Muslims and that the English are supernaturally forbearing that is at least common sense.
But still this is a very big warning to those who want to smash Islam. It is primarily a war of ideas and it would be very wrong to do a single thing that will offer the enemy free propaganda.
There are big lessons here in how the Muslims responded and they have an innate ability to think conspiracy. This is why David Icke and his friend Alec Jones are so dangerous because they too are conspiracists at heart.
I hope somebody studies this incident very closely and enumerates the lies.
I also want the position of Corbyn studied very carefully and all positions of all politicals studied.
The result of that is that some good will come out of it. Without that happening it will cause us libertarians damage.
My position: If the person arrested is “guilty” I will nevertheless call for his release and defend him although I will oppose the method of individualism, I will argue this is not a good and useful method but remember I am no pacifist…If the person is not guilty I will seek the widest recompense in every way from all of these state leaders like Khan, and from the whole British state system, of such a pecuniary nature that he retires to spend the rest of his life by a Bahamas seashore and well away from nasty old Albion
The Truth has been dealt it’s death blow some time ago: It is no longer possible for the ordinary person in the street to know what is really happening: All appearances are now profoundly misleading. Our very sense of reality is tottering on the verge of a National breakdown. This is what that war of losers, a Civil War, is like: savage, unfotgiving and totally destructive of all civilised values.
No-one’s take on the nightmare unfolding around us gives us any handle on events: They are just so much empty, unverifiable, unpersuasive, unconsoling fragments of the general rage and paranoia, such as howls throughout the savagery of mutually resentful neighbours at war with each other.
The time of reason – even the time of love – is slipping away. As the dead hand of our defunct governing class lets slip the Sword of Justice. A new era dawns, blood-red. Can anything hold it back, now?
The ignorance is terrifying. Have none of our countries’ politicians bothered to find out what the Koran really says?
Corbyn is playing here for political points. What he says is either a deliberate lie or he’s showing how stupid he is.
“We are the voice of love; one love.” @jeremycorbyn at #FinsburyPark mosque after the #FinsburyParkTerroristAttack
3:51 PM – 19 Jun 2017
You will see all the media reports of TR’s “interview” yesterday with Piers Morgan. They are all asserting that TR himself said that so long as the Koran existed, there would be trouble everywhere … when in fact, as TR made very plain, it was one of Britain’s Prime Ministers – William Gladstone – who apparently uttered those words!
It’s quite funny to see the press give TR credit for something that a Prime Minister of Great Britain has said.
But on a more serious note – this is the usual dishonesty of the media. It’s interesting to see that they can’t deal with the fact that a highly respected person, a PM of this country in fact – apparently said something about Islam that was not “politically correct”.
A sore point then … duly noted!
The different sects of muslims believe that mohammed “married” a 6 year old and raped her when she was 9. They all agree it was superb and awesome and he is the best possible example for all muslims. The only thing they disagree, if the “prophet” were wearing “a red hat or a blue hat” when he was raping the 9-year-old “wife”.
So who knows what caused the attack against a bunch of muslims, in the third world they get attacked in a daily basis as most victims of islamic terror attacks are muslims…
No Islamic sect would believe that Mohammed’s conjugal relations with Aisha could be termed “rape”. These childhood marriages continue today because Islam is utterly ignorant of childhood developmental milestones and what is or is not harmful. That’s why sexual abuse of infants is so common.
Pamela Geller after a long delay (Jihadwatch still hesitating) writes: “We continue to await details of the isolated van incident at the terror-tied Finsbury Park mosque in London that left one man dead. If it was deliberate, I condemn in the the strongest terms the act of violence as a response to jihad terror.”
http://pamelageller.com/2017/06/uk-pm-theresa-may-vows-stamp-islamophobia.html/
I am very opposed to Pamela Geller above. Pamela seems to take a position of no defence of this person if he is “guilty”.
Although I am opposed to the method of “individualism” I will still defend him. But I have written I privately believed from the start he is guilty of nothing. He was unlucky in being at that spot and is suffering only because Muslims lie and lie and lie.
I wrote this a short time ago:
“My position: If the person arrested is “guilty” I will nevertheless call for his release and defend him although I will oppose the method of individualism, I will argue this is not a good and useful method but remember I am no pacifist…If the person is not guilty I will seek the widest recompense in every way from all of these state leaders like Khan, and from the whole British state system, of such a pecuniary nature that he retires to spend the rest of his life by a Bahamas seashore and well away from nasty old Albion”
Finally A Hero at last!
A real man, he looks like a real man, i hope the first of many that are going to have to take the lead in the war against islam and muslims.
Maybe he had relatives butchered in one of the muslim recent atrocitys?
I salute this man, sadly in war people fight back, and eventually millions of british men afe going to have to risk and or sacrifice there lives to anilhate islam from our shores.
Now the traitors look for a scapegoat to blame and fit up, i sat theresa may, you are the traitor, you and your dirty murderers who sit in westminister betraying yiur own country and peoples.
There will be no mercy for any persons who have betrayed Our western nations.
Darren osbourne is a british Hero!
Well I must say that although I do not agree at all with running people down, and it appears this fella in the van was half-crazy & wanted to be “sectioned” just the other day – I did wonder initially if this could have been a case of a Dad who had lost a child in any one of the multiple “jihadi terrorist” attack in the UK, who had seen that, although it is the State’s job to protect its citizens, the State has failed to do this, systematically, over a period of years, and who had simply lost the plot. That would have been an interesting turn of events.
I don’t know which tv stations Felix has been watching, but a young white man (possibly Australian) was interviewed on BBC London today, describing how he went to help others who were lifting the white van off a badly injured victim.
I passed the scene a few hours before the attack, as my lady friend lives north of Finsbury Park; the station is being refurbished, so anyone changing from bus to tube has to walk around it, under the railway bridge seen in the coverage.
Regarding Jeremy Corbyn: he’s well to the left, sometimes flaky, weak on antisemitism etc- but people like him. I’ve seen him speak, and he comes across as genuine and caring. Last week he was at the Grenfell tower after the fire, talking to people and comforting them. The Queen was there too. Our PM, Theresa May, initially only visited first responders, citing security concerns; later she visited victims in hospital, but the damage was done. If there is to be another election soon, the Conservatives will have to dump her first.
You write
“I don’t know which tv stations Felix has been watching”
I hardly watch any tv and what is your point exactly?
You seem to be denying that the incident was a deliberate attack. I almost wish I’d been at the location a few hours later than I was, so I could give you an eyewitness account.
Mark H.
“Regarding Jeremy Corbyn: he’s well to the left, sometimes flaky, weak on antisemitism etc- but people like him. I’ve seen him speak, and he comes across as genuine and caring. Last week he was at the Grenfell tower after the fire, talking to people and comforting them.”
Join the Labour Party then so the question will arise if you join the Labour Party why do you pose as an anti-Jihadist?
The Labour Party has always been in bed with Islam and this is most noticeable in its hatred of Jews and of Israel. Its lowest moment in this was when it passed the 1939 White Paper, much hated by Jews, because they decided that only 15,ooo Jews would be accepted into Palestine each year. This one action did more than anything else to trap the Jews in Europe and from that to the gas chambers. Corbyn carries on in that really vile tradition. Yet you are praising Corbyn. Where do you stand on that horrific history of the Labour Party?
I wasn’t praising him so much as trying to explain how he is perceived, Felix, especially when contrasted with Theresa May.
I have generally supported parties of the Left, and find myself in good company; prominent anti-jihadists such as Pat Condell and Anne Marie Waters were Labour supporters.
Ps People decide how to vote by weighing many issues, not only the one with which Gates of Vienna is mainly concerned. I’m not “posing” as anything!
A word of caution on that van ploughing into assembled Muslims outside that Mosque. Some sources are using the term ‘terrorist attack’ in which to describe this incident of which there is still little information as to the motives of the driver of that van, if indeed this incident was deliberate.
The word ‘terrorist’ is generally reserved for those who commit acts of terror designed to undermine the state and its people for a political cause – if the driver of that van has acted out of vengeance regarding recent events of real terrorism in London, then he cannot be termed a ‘terrorist’, but a murderer who has used a motor vehicle with which to wreak his sense of vengeance.
Muslim Fit up job?
Its most mot a terrorist attack,
But more likely muslims fitting up someone who got lost in the area, took a wrong turn, started getting abused, then attacked by violent muslims, who saw then a oppurtunity to turn this into a attack on muskims by a white british man, wheres the knife? Lies, he was shout kill all muslims? Wheres video? Darren osbourne probably inmocent brit, in wrong place, got caught up in altercation with those [Muslim] savages, then a bunch of muslim [epithets] they made up this story, started shouting out attack, were being attacked, very easy to manipulate the british justice system, it just takes 2 people to lie, and u can be arrested, charged, end up nicked and in jail, all on the words of 2 or more people, they can just makecit up, they probably put a knife on the floor next to darren osbourn after they jumped him,
This is how muslims operate, al taquiya. They know they can get anyone arrested, espevially if a person is alone, they have no witnesses.
This story now STINKS! Darren osbourne looks like a plumber, who was going to work, he got caught up in street prayers, and they attacked him, attacked his van.
Muslims are vile and spawned by Satan.
This ia a fit up job!!! All now Looks very very very fishy…..
Oh dear!
Zhukov writes on Jihadwatch
“This story now STINKS! Darren osbourne looks like a plumber, who was going to work, he got caught up in street prayers, and they attacked him, attacked his van.”
The only thing that really surprises me, because I have said what Zhukov says above from the very first minute, check my facebook page and note the times, is the way that so-called anti-Jihadists have called this man a “lout” and a “murderer”… and on the basis of what? Reports from Muslims connected to this notorious mosque, the police and these politicians.