The now-deceased “Frenchman” who attempted a terrorist attack against police yesterday on the Champs Elysees had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and was on a terrorism watch list. Nevertheless, he had a gun permit, and was able to own weapons legally.
In other French news, migrants dragged tree trunks onto the highway near the entrance to the Chunnel in Calais, forcing transport vehicles to stop. The Polish driver of a tractor trailer was killed in the resulting pileup.
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Autopsies Begin Today for Three ‘Pretty Badly Decomposed’ Bodies Found Outside Caldwell Home
CALDWELL — Canyon County Coroner Vicki DeGeus-Morris said autopsies on three “pretty badly decomposed” bodies began Tuesday morning and determining a cause of death could take longer than a day.
The three partially decomposed bodies were discovered outside the residence by Canyon County Sheriff’s deputies at 11 a.m. Monday, Canyon County Chief Deputy Marv Dashiell confirmed.
Dashiell said all three bodies appeared to have been hidden and the incident is being investigated as a triple homicide….
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Bernie Sanders Urges Supporters to ‘Act in Unprecedented Way’ To Stop Republicans
Apparently not learning any lessons from a near-fatal attack by one of his supporters on Republican congressmen and staffers, Bernie Sanders is urging Democrats to fight the GOP by any means necessary.
During a Facebook live Q & A with fellow progressive crank Elizabeth Warren on Monday, Sanders told a supporter named “Mary” that liberals need to take “unprecedented” action to stop Republicans.
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Breaking: Deep State Wants War With Russia to Stop Trump
Global elite plan on causing worldwide mayhem defeat Trump
The deep state is pushing war with Russia seeing it as their only option to keep Donald Trump from reviving America.
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Deep State Operatives Attempt a Coup d’état of Donald Trump
Presidential historian and author Doug Wead claims that the deep state, which has successfully overthrown the governments of foreign countries, is going to continue to actively seek a coup d’etat of the dually elected president of the United States.
If there was ever a time in history to be concerned about another rise in communism, now is that time. Wead says that the deep state is determined to overthrow Donald Trump. The presidential historian refused to mince words, saying:
We have very skilled, talented professionals. They’ve overthrown governments in Vietnam and the Philippines, in Iraq and Iran, in Egypt, in the Ukraine. Duly elected democratic governments. They created what they called “popular uprisings.”
Of course, we should expect nothing less from shadow governments. The very same people who work in the State Department, some of them in intelligence, and some of them in the media, have successfully caused uprisings in several other countries. They’ve worked together to overthrow foreign governments, and Wead believes Trump is a thorn in their side preventing a global takeover.
The deep state has become somewhat of a mainstream topic of discussion since Trump’s election. Before, it was more of a “conspiracy theory.” But the goals of the deep state are simple: the complete enslavement of mankind by political elites.
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If a Trump Supporter Had Shot a Democratic Congressman
If Democrats had been shot by a Trump supporter, all you would be hearing and reading about is how much hate the Trump election has unleashed in America, how his election is threatening our democracy and how he is unleashing fascism.
But it was a not a Trump supporter who attempted to murder a Democratic congressman, Capitol Police officers, a House GOP aide and a lobbyist; it was a Trump-hating leftist who attempted to murder a Republican congressman and other Republican officials. And, for that reason, what would have been the dominant issue in America today is already a nonissue. The shooting took place on Wednesday. On Friday, the only article about it on The New York Times front page was about the “harmony” engulfing Democrats and Republicans in the wake of the shooting. By Saturday, there was nothing about the shooting on the front page.
The “harmony” issue is worth noting. As sure as the sun rises in the east, had a Trump-supporting fanatic shot Democratic officials, the Democrats would not have said a word about the need for “harmony,” or the need to lower the temperature in American political discourse. On the contrary, they would have greatly raised the temperature of their already blistering rhetoric. They would have attributed the shooting entirely to Trump’s “hateful” rhetoric having permeated conservative and Republican America.
But it was a leftist who attempted to slaughter Republicans, so it was Republicans who had to respond. And they did so by calling for harmony and lowering the temperature of political differences.
In other words, Republicans reacted with complete conciliation, whereas, the Democrats and their media would have gone ballistic against the right.
Now, why is that?
One reason is that Republicans have accepted the post-shooting narrative of there being some sort of moral equivalence between right-wing and left-wing hate. That they have reinforces my belief that the great majority of Republicans and conservatives, whether in politics or in the media, do not appreciate how rotten the left is (the left — not traditional liberals). Many really believe that calls for “harmony” and “unity” with Democrats and the left are meaningful.
But the only reason Democrats talked about harmony for a few days after the shooting was one of theirs was the shooter.
Even during the three-day “harmony” period, the left was busy furthering the falsehood that there is quantitative and qualitative equivalence between right-wing and left-wing hate.
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Propane Tank Explosion in Jackson County Felt Almost a Mile Away
JACKSON COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — Quick thinking by firefighters and staff is being credited with saving lives during an explosion and fire that destroyed about half a local country club.
“It actually, you could feel the concussion of it, and we’re probably almost a mile away by the way the crow flies,” club member and nearby resident Don Ritzhaupt said.
It all started after a golf cart, driven by an employee, hit a propane tank causing a leak. Investigators said when the cart hit the propane tank, the value kicked off, releasing the propane gas. The fumes were ignited by a nearby fireplace, causing workers to flee the building…
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Soros: Clinton-Linked Teneo Among Donors to McCain Institute
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain in 2012 turned over nearly $9 million in unspent funds from his failed 2008 presidential campaign to a new foundation bearing his name, the McCain Institute for International Leadership.
The institute is intended to serve as a “legacy” for McCain and “is dedicated to advancing human rights, dignity, democracy and freedom.” It is a tax-exempt non-profit foundation with assets valued at $8.1 million and associated with Arizona State University.
Conservative and liberal critics, however, believe the institute constitutes a major conflict of interest for McCain, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned.
McCain, a former Navy pilot who was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967 and was then a prisoner of war in the infamous Hanoi Hilton until 1973, is a major political force in Washington, D.C. He is presently chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services.
Critics worry that the institute’s donors and McCain’s personal leadership in the organization’s exclusive “Sedona Forum” bear an uncanny resemblance to the glitzy Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) that annually co-mingled special interests and powerful political players in alleged pay-to-play schemes.
The institute has accepted contributions of as much as $100,000 from billionaire liberal activist-funder George Soros and from Teneo, a for-profit company co-founded by Doug Band, former President Bill Clinton’s “bag man.” Teneo has long helped enrich Clinton through lucrative speaking and business deals.
And Bloomberg reported in 2016 on a $1 million Saudi Arabian donation to the institute, a contribution the McCain group has refused to explain publicly…
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The “Extremism Experts” Who Used to Fear the Right Are Now Worried About the Left
For most of the past 30 years, violent extremism has been most closely associated with the far-right in America. The media, the government, and watchdog groups like the SPLC and the Anti-Defamation league have railed against the far-right for a generation, and used scaremongering to convince the masses that conservative rhetoric was becoming more violent, and that right-wing groups pose a serious and growing threat to our society.
Of course, they often neglected to mention that the far-left has a long history of violence, especially when you consider the wave of domestic terror attacks that occurred throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s. Perhaps these institutions should have been paying more attention to the Left, because while they were screaming about right-wing groups all these years, far-left radical groups like BAMN and ANTIFA have been riding under the radar.
However, “extremism experts” are finally starting to take note. Vice News recently interviewed Brian Levin, a former member of the NYPD who studies domestic extremism. He started focusing his efforts on the Left when he attended a public KKK rally last year to study the group, but found himself protecting one of the Klansman from a violent member of ANTIFA. “At that point,” he revealed “I said we have something coalescing on the hard left.”
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The Russians Do it Again: Democrats Get Crushed in Georgia Election Despite 7x Spending Advantage
After months of Democrats boasting that Georgia’s special election in the 6th district would be a startling referendum on Trump’s agenda, they just got served up another stunning defeat, as most networks have now called the race for Republican Karen Handel. In fact, rather than losing ground since Trump moved into the White House, Republicans actually performed better.
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Following the methodically planned San Bernadino massacre in December of 2015 we warned that more attacks were coming and that terrorists have more than likely already already infiltrated the United States in an effort to identify potential targets and execute future strikes on American citizens.
This month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Attorney’s Office and other federal and local agencies have confirmed our suspicions.
According to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice, in early June the FBI arrested two individuals connected to the Lebanese-based Hezbollah terrorist organization. While the group considers itself a political party, the United States, the Arab league and scores of others have designated it a dangerous terrorist organization. The paramilitary wing of Hezbollah is referred to as the Jihad Council and is believed to be behind numerous terrorist actions across the globe.
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Two Hurt After Underground Steam Explosion Near Camden Yards
Two people have been hurt after an underground steam explosion occurred underneath a roadway near Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
Fire officials said a steam pipe exploded around 6:15 p.m. Tuesday on Eutaw Street between West Lombard and Pratt streets outside the Holiday Inn. Police said no criminal actions are suspected.
Two people were being treated at the scene. There were no serious injuries, fire officials said…
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U.S. Trying to Criminalize Free Speech — Again
On April 4, 2017, the US Senate passed Senate Resolution 118, “Condemning hate crime and any other form of racism, religious or ethnic bias, discrimination, incitement to violence, or animus targeting a minority in the United States”. The resolution was drafted by a Muslim organization, EmgageUSA (formerly EmergeUSA) and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). On April 6, 2017, EmgageUSA wrote the following on their Facebook page:
“Thanks to the hard work of Senator Marco Rubio, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Senator Susan Collins and Senator Kamala Harris we have achieved the approval of Senate Resolution 118, an anti-hate crimes bill drafted by Emerge-USA. It is days like this that Americans are reminded of this country’s founding principles: equal opportunity, freedom, justice. We are proud to help support the protection of these rights #amoreperfectunion #theamericandream”.
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Watch: How to Take Down a Mass Shooter When You Don’t Have a Gun (According to the Mainstream Media)
Gun owners are often accused of engaging in wild, action movie fantasies when it comes to mass shootings and terrorist attacks. People who support more gun control say that it’s silly to think that anyone other than a highly trained soldier or police officer is equipped to deal with these situations, and that armed civilians are more likely to hurt themselves or bystanders, than take down an active shooter.
However, I’ d argue that it’s the gun grabbers who are the most guilty of engaging in fantasies. Rather than let ordinary civilians be armed in public, they cling to the belief that it’s better to run or hide from crazed killers. Or worse, they think it’s acceptable to force civilians into situations, where they’ d have to fend of an armed attacker without a gun.
To give you an idea of what a world where law abiding citizens can’t carry guns would look like, check out this video that was made by ABC7, shortly after Representative Steve Scalise was shot last week. The news agency sent out one of their reporters to a gym where a black belt (they don’t say which martial art this woman has mastered) is teaching people how to fight mass shooters. If this video doesn’t convince you that a gun is the best tool for dealing with an active shooter situation, then nothing will.
Yep. I’ m sure that would go smoothly in real life. According to the video, here is what you, an unarmed civilian, should do when faced with a mass shooter:…
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Bank of England Nemesis George Soros Warns Brexit is ‘Lose-Lose’ Scenario
Billionaire investor George Soros says Brexit is a “lose-lose proposition” for the United Kingdom and the European Union. Soros is best known for bringing the Bank of England to its knees by short-selling the pound.
“We are fast approaching the tipping point that characterizes all unsustainable economic developments,” Soros wrote in an op-ed published Monday on the website of the Project Syndicate news organization.
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Brussels Station ‘Blast’: Suspect ‘Wearing Explosive Belt’ Has Been ‘Neutralised’ By Police
Brussels anti-terror police last night “neutralised” a suspect wearing an explosives belt who had set off a small explosion inside the city’s central train station.
The station and the adjacent historic downtown area, packed with tourists, was evacuated as police set up a security cordon at around 9pm local time, witnesses said.
“There was an accident at Central Station. There was an explosion around a person. That person was neutralised by the soldiers that were on the scene,” a police spokesman said.
“At the moment, the police are in numbers at the station and everything is under control.”
Passengers at the train station fled in panic after the incident.
It was unclear whether the suspect was killed in the operation and there were no other casualties reported. Local reports said the man had been “seriously injured”…
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Car Fires, Stone Throwing Have Spread to Norway
After years of car fires in Sweden, the trend has now reached Norway as well. Also the trend of throwing stones against police, firemen and security guards has emerged. However, the Norwegian police have a different approach to the problem than their colleagues in Sweden.
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European MEPs Want to Ban States From Backdooring Encryption
The European parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) has put forward a proposal that would amend the EU’s charter of fundamental rights to extend privacy rights to the digital realm and prevent governments of EU Member States from backdooring end-to-end encrypted services.
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Finsbury Mosque Terror: What They’re Not Telling You
Rampant liberal hypocrisy EXPOSED.
To equate the sporadic threat of ‘right wing terror’ with the mechanized, industrial level bloodshed carried out in the name of Islam is intellectually dishonest and crass.
Yet more leftists are calling for Paul Joseph Watson and Tommy Robinson to be arrested than have ever called for actual terrorists to be deported.
Let that sink in.
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France: Terrorist Rams Into Police Car in Botched Attack
Suspect was previously flagged for terrorism
A suspected radical Islamist rammed a car filled with explosives into a police van in the Champs-Élysées shopping district in Paris on Monday.
The attacker died after the incident when his car exploded, but no other casualties or injuries have been reported. The 31-year old man, whose name has not yet been released, has been previously flagged for Islamic extremism by investigators, according to the French police.
Authorities discovered an AK-47 rifle, handguns, numerous ammo cartridges and gas canisters inside the car.
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France: Paris Attacker ‘Swore Allegiance to ISIS’, Was on Terrorism Watch List & Had Gun Permit
The man who rammed a car into police officers in Paris had a gun permit, despite being on a terrorist watch list. He is said to have been raised in a Salafist family and had sworn allegiance to Islamic State. Four of his relatives have been detained.
The perpetrator, who died in the attack on the Champs-Elysees on Monday, has been identified as 31-year-old Adam Djaziri from the Paris suburb of Argenteuil. An assault rifle, two handguns, ammunition, as well as two gas canisters were found in his car after the attack.
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Paradoxical Alliance: An Anglo-American Analysis of the Left’s Love Affair With Islam
In 2012, Jack Buckby emailed me, (as the author of the book Culturism: A Word, A Value, Our Future), to inform me he had started a group called The National Culturists at The University of Liverpool, where he was studying Political Science. I was elated. I had long thought that the meme ‘culturist’ could help us retake universities, and it was happening.
Buckby continued organizing the National Culturists even as the university’s ‘anti-fascists’ literally chased him, harassed and threatened him. He hired a bodyguard. But, things got very serious when, rather than defend him from physical threats, the university decided to prosecute a case against him for holding ‘racist,’ ‘offensive’ views.
As this introduction indicates, I cannot provide an objective review of Buckby’s new book: A Paradoxical Alliance: An Anglo-American Analysis of the Left’s Love Affair with Islam, (co-authored with Matt Palumbo). I admire Jack for not backing down from threats. And, the book’s advocating culturist philosophy, policy and rhetoric further undermine my objectivity…
Buckby explains how culturist rhetoric and policy can help save the West, while Palumbo, using charts and survey results, counters the Left’s excuses for Islam, point by point. Providing further tools, Buckby contrasts the Koran and the Magna Carta, while Palumbo compares it to the U.S. Constitution. And, the book has an impressive 188 citations in 199 pages. This book’s angles and stats can help us demoralize leftists who support jihad.
But, the book’s overall focus is its greatest strength. Supporting both gay rights and those who throw gays off of buildings cannot be sustained. Female genital mutilation humiliates cultural relativists. So, by focusing on this paradoxical nature of the Left’s alliance with Islam, this book helps us anti-jihad folks hit the Left in their weakest rhetorical point. Along with the book’s content, spreading the catchy meme, ‘paradoxical alliance,’ is a powerful tool.
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Report: Anti-Semitic Views Backed by Half of Austria’s Muslim Youth
Almost 50 per cent of newly-arrived young Austrian Muslim migrants hold anti-Semitic views, a new study published by the University of Teacher Education in Vienna reveals.
Der Standard newspaper reports that a recent poll asked Austrian Muslim students if they felt that “Jews have too much influence in Austria.” Almost 48 per cent answered in the affirmative. Those surveyed had migrant backgrounds representing a diverse set of Muslim-majority countries such as Syria as well as Muslim-minority countries including Bosnia, Albania, and Bulgaria.
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Suspected Suicide Bomber Shot at Brussels Railway Station
Belgian soldiers have shot a man suspected of being a would-be suicide bomber at Brussels Central Station, officials say.
He was shot after reportedly setting off a small explosion and no-one else is believed to have been injured.
Prosecutors later said the man had died. They are treating the incident as a terrorist attack.
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Switzerland: Paranoid Man Causes Terror Fears in Lausanne Metro
“A man who shouted “Allahu Akbar” in a Lausanne metro station last Friday was suffering from paranoia at the time, according to the prosecutor who has charged him with ‘threats causing public alarm’.
The 30-year-old Swiss resident, of west African origin, was arrested after he shouted the phrase — meaning ‘God is greatest’ — at the Bessières metro stop at around 1.30pm, causing panic among people using the M2 metro line.
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Terror Experts: Mosque Attack Not Motivated by ‘Islamophobia’
“As I said here two weeks ago, there has been far too much tolerance of extremism in our country over many years — and that means extremism of any kind, including Islamophobia,” the prime minister said.
But counter-terrorism expert Andrew McCarthy contends 47-year-old Darren Osborne is not an “Islamophobe.”
“Islamophobia,” writes McCarthy for National Review, is “a smear label dreamed up by the Muslim Brotherhood, designed to demagogue any legitimate concern about Islamic doctrine as irrational fear and, of course, as racism.”
Osborne, he said, “is a vile specimen of anti-Muslim hatred.”
“His hatred does not render Islamophobia real. It does not convert into hysteria our worries that a sizable percentage of Muslims — for reasons that are easily knowable if one simply reads scripture and listens to renowned sharia jurists — construes Islam to endorse violence against non-Muslims and to command the imposition of oppressive sharia,” said McCarthy, who as an assistant U.S. attorney led the terrorism prosecution against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 others for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
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UK Terror: Knifeman Attempts to Run Over Crowd of Children With Car
Attack mirrors recent jihadist massacres, targeting of kids
Armed police raced to an army barracks in Canterbury after a man armed with a knife reportedly drove at children as they played in the street. Officers rushed to the housing estate on the former Howe Barracks site in Canterbury after terrified locals raised the alarm last night.Around 15 police vehicles swooped on the military base after witnesses claimed to have spotted a man driving up and down the street waving a knife.
One onlooker claims the man drove up and down the street holding the knife out of the window before driving at a man he is believed to have had an altercation with.
The suspect then drove directly at a group of around 20 children, who scattered screaming as the Honda Civic hurtled towards them.
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The Finsbury Park terror suspect tried to kill himself six weeks ago by jumping into a river and begged to be sectioned, according to his sister.
Darren Osborne, 47, is accused of ploughing into worshippers in North London in the early hours of Monday morning before jumping out and shouting: ‘I’m going to kill all Muslims — I did my bit’.
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, his sister Nicola, 50, said Osborne was a deeply troubled individual who apparently tried to steal from his blind 90-year-old great-grandfather.
When he was as young as ten he was reported to police by his own mother who was outraged when she discovered her son had tried to steal his family member’s wallet.
Father-of-four Darren Osborne from Cardiff (left) has today been named as the suspect behind the Finsbury Park terror attack (right) — his family say they are ‘broken’ and said ‘sorry’ to people hurt
Today, police were seen standing guard outside a house in Cardiff home, which Osborne is believed to have previously shared with his partner Sarah and their four children
His sister Nicola, 50, left today said their mother, Christine Osborne, (centre) will be ‘broken for life’ and described the attack as an ‘atrocity’. It was also revealed he split from his partner Sarah Andrews six months ago (right)
Neighbours hanve claimed the jobless mechanic would enjoy drinking cans of lager in his hot tub (pictured) and camping in nearby woodland
Speaking after their mother said she was not ‘going to defend’ her son when she described the incident as an ‘atrocity’, his sister said her brother was ‘never normal’.
She said: ‘He never learned not to react. He stabbed a car and cut the nerves on two of his fingers. And he never got that treated so his fingers are a bit strange. He broke both of his ankles so he walks a bit funny.
‘He tried to steal ten quid from our Grandpy when he was only little. And it was our mum who called the police.
‘It was temptation. Grandpy was old, about 90 and blind. We used to come to Weston-super-Mare to see him and he had this wallet full of bank notes.
‘Darren was tempted to take a ten pound note out. But he did not have time to put back the wallet and he was caught.’…
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UK: Piers Morgan Makes an Ass of Himself in Extraordinary Row With Ex-EDL Leader Tommy Robinson
Piers Morgan has accused Tommy Robinson, the former English Defence League leader, of “sounding like a bigoted lunatic”.
He was interviewing Robinson on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday morning in the wake of the of the Finsbury Park attack.
As Robinson held up a copy of the Koran, Morgan told him: “Show some damn respect for people’s religious beliefs.
“You’re sounding like a complete lunatic. You’re sounding like a bigoted lunatic. You’re stirring up hatred.”
However, Robinson said: “This book is the reason we are in such a mess.”
Morgan had nothing beyond the usual lib-left grenade of bigotry.
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Iran, China Hold Joint Military Drills in Persian Gulf
State sponsor of terror Iran and communist China began holding a joint military exercise in the Persian Gulf this week, where provocative clashes between the U.S. Navy and ships from the Islamic Republic have escalated in recent years.
Soon after taking office, President Donald Trump slapped sanctions against individuals and corporate entities in both countries for assisting Tehran’s ballistic missile program.
In November 2016, the Islamic Republic announced that it had signed a military cooperation agreement with China, vowing to hold drills and “create a collective movement to confront” the threat of terrorism.
The U.S. Navy has experienced provocative interactions with both countries.
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Israel Secretly Paying Salaries of Syrian Rebels on Golan Heights Border: Report
Israel is secretly supporting Syrian rebels operating near its occupied Golan Heights territory, providing money, food, fuel and medical supplies, according to fighters who claim to receive the aid.
Israel has previously treated wounded Syrian rebels in its hospitals but interviews with rebels conducted by the Wall Street Journal suggest that Israel is directly supporting opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the six-year-long civil war.
Israel is opposed to the rule of Assad and his forces. It also sees militants belonging to Lebanese militia Hezbollah who support Assad’s regime forces as posing a threat to its security on the Golan Heights border.
The payments are aimed at creating a buffer of friendly forces on the Golan Heights border, the Journal reports, to keep their foes at a distance.
It says the Israeli military has direct communication with rebel commanders and is providing funds to them that pay for their salaries, ammunition and weapons. The payments began in 2013 under former Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and continue.
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Qatar Exposes the Heart of ISIS Terror Funding
The epicenter of Islamic radicalization revealed
Qatar has been dubbed “Club Med for terrorists” and the most “Two faced country in the world”.
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Washington Ignores Saudi “Involvement in Supporting Terrorism and Terrorist Groups”
A new investigative report reveals that hundreds of Saudi and Kuwaiti nationals residing in the United States — many of them students with dual citizenship and receiving government scholarships — have joined ISIS and other terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq during the past three years.
Titled “From American Campuses to ISIS Camps: How Hundreds of Saudis Joined ISIS in the U.S.,” the report — released June 1 by the Washington-D.C.-based think tank the Institute for Gulf Affairs (IGA) — provides details of the flow of students leaving American institutions of higher learning to fight in the Middle East.
According to a 2016 working paper produced by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Saudi Arabia is the second largest source of ISIS fighters from Muslim-majority countries, with an estimated 2,500. If the IGA report is accurate, a whopping 16% of these fighters were in the U.S. when they joined ISIS.
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World on the Precipice as Russia Threatens to Shoot Down U.S. Jets, U.S. Refuses to Back Down
The world is now perhaps closer to World War Three than it has been in five decades as the situation in Syria is heating up yet again. In less than 24 hours, the United States has attacked the Syrian military, Iran has launched missiles into Syria, Russia is threatening to shoot down American planes, and the United States is digging in its heels and threatening to continue to provoke both the Russians and the Syrians.
While that about sums up the current micro-version of the situation, it’s important to get a rundown of just what led up to the precipice we are all standing on.
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Bangladesh Turning More Radical
The government of Bangladesh, led by historically known secular political party Awami League, has completely surrendered to the country’s radical forces regarding the demands, made by Hefazat-e-Islam and some other Islamic political and religious organizations, including the removal of the sculpture that was designed with the theme of the Greek goddess of justice. The statue was installed in last December following a decision taken by the Chief Justice. On May 26, at night, Bangladeshi authorities, in the name of the “consent of the chief justice”, removed the sculpture from the front side of the Supreme Court. The current chief justice, incidentally, is the ever first non-Muslim to hold the constitutional post.
In reaction, the next day, after Friday prayers, Islamists, led by Hefazat-e-Islam, arranged a rally and expressed joy and satisfaction over removal of the sculpture and demanded further removal of all existing idols/statues/sculptures — whatever one might call them — across the country. “Bangladesh is a Muslim country, no culture of statue establishment would be allowed by the people here… all of them must be removed,” said Nur Hossain Quashemi, the president of Dhaka branch of Hefazat-e-Islam, to the media.
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Once Moderate, The Islamic Maldives Turning Radical Putting Tourists in Danger
After the disappearance of one journalist and the murder of a second, government officials of the once moderate Islamic Maldives island chain are worried that radical Islam is growing in strength, putting at risk the lives of millions of western tourists who go there to soak up the tropical paradise.
The murder of blogger Yameen Rasheed, who was stabbed by multiple assailants on April 23, deepened the worry of the central government in the Maldives’ capital of Malé. Rasheed had been tracking the rise of radical Islam in the Maldives and was likely killed for putting a spotlight on the radicalism he found.
Rasheed is the second journalist murdered for exposing the rise of radical Islam in the Maldives. Ahmed Rilwan Abdulla, a reporter from the Maldives Independent, was abducted in August of 2014. He has never been seen again and is presumed murdered.
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Flashback: HuffPo Said ‘Arrogant’ Otto Warmbier Deserved to be Imprisoned Because He’s White
The Huffington Post, Salon and Larry Wilmore all viciously attacked Otto Warmbier last year
The Huffington Post, Salon and Larry Wilmore all viciously attacked Otto Warmbier last year in shocking propaganda pieces which are worth taking a second look at in the wake of Warmbier’s tragic death.
Warmbier, an American college student, was imprisoned in North Korea and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for allegedly stealing a propaganda banner.
Warmbier was released last week after almost a year and a half in prison, but he was in a coma which the North Korea claimed was caused by “botulism” and the consumption of a “sleeping pill.” American doctors found no evidence of botulism and determined he suffered a “severe neurological injury.” His father said he believes Otto was “terrorized and brutalized.” Warmbier passed away on Monday afternoon.
The Huffington Post attacked Warmbier last year and said he deserved to be imprisoned because he’s white:…
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A counterfeit ‘Falcon Commandos’ Lego set, which depicts ISIS terrorists dressed in black battling counter-terror police, is being produced in China and sold online.
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A Muslim-raised psychiatrist says hijabs and long beards are often an Islamic middle finger to Western society. Tanveer Ahmed was born in Bangladesh and counsels disaffected youth.
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A Sydney school principal controversially dumped amid claims he refused to run a deradicalisation program is taking his fight to the NSW Supreme Court.
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Malek Fahd in Sydney’s south-west — which has more than 2,400 students — may close its doors permanently at the end of term two.
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Australian Jew Avi Yemini has criticised the Muslims for condemning the attack on worshippers outside a London Mosque — but stayed silent after attacks involving Islamic extremists.
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In Tanzania, GMOs Enforced by Law, Farmers Face Prison for Traditional Seeds
As the Western establishment continues to try and crush Syria, Venezuela, Iran and the Philippines, the empire is setting its sights on a new target which is receiving itself less attention: Tanzania.
Although not in the form of bombs and sanctions (yet), the G8 is moving to force Tanzania to accept GMOs and patented seeds under the guise of developmental assistance and aid to one of the world’s most impoverished nations. The G8 is doing so through its NAFSN (New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition) which was created in 2012. Its publicly stated goal was to end poverty for 50 million people and it is funded by the EU, U.S., UK, World Bank, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. One of its many partners in Tanzania is of course, Monsanto.
In other words, the same countries who are marching across the world and creating the largest humanitarian disasters of the 21st century are working with a global bank that has slashed, indebted and privatized countries into abject poverty. A foundation has crippled children in India and helped bring back polio and a corporation that has poisoned the food supply and the environment and destroyed the health of hundreds of millions of people. Indeed, the NAFSN is an all-star cast of prime examples of governments and organizations that no one should ever want being involved in their country.
The G8, World Bank and its “partners” has long been known to force GMOs onto hapless countries. But what they are doing to Tanzania is particularly egregious. This is because the NAFSN is not only opening Tanzania up to GMOs, or even forcing Tanzania to accept GMOs, they are forcing Tanzanians to plant and use them.
The NAFSN has forced the Tanzanian government to change its agricultural laws so that non-patented seeds (all the seeds Tanzanian people previously used; non-GMO seeds) are banned. Non-GMO seeds are now forbidden by law from being sold or even given to friends and family. Individuals who violate the law will face minimum of 12 years in prison and a $230,000 fine or both.
The NAFSN claims the decision will benefit small farmers, but it is important to note that local and small farmers and Tanzanian farming organizations were completely kept out of the negotiation process while Big Ag essentially controlled. One of the tenets of the new law much praised is that private investors will be given easier access through a more streamlined process to Tanzanian agricultural land.
What the NAFSN has done is much worse than extortion and it is more than criminal. It is open colonialism in the 21st century. Essentially, the NAFSN has used the poverty in Tanzania as a bargaining chip for its alleged food aid which is actually a bundle of toxic crops, an open police state and a massive boon to Big Ag’s balance sheets.
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Exclusive: Inside Venezuela: Starved Families Scavenge for Food in Garbage-Covered Streets
CARACAS, Venezuela — Driving through the streets of Caracas, it is impossible not to notice the ubiquitous government propaganda on the sides of buildings and scores of armed police.
Even harder to avoid, however, is the garbage.
On almost every street corner, stacks of waste can be seen piled up, some of it in black bags, but other items in limbo such as water bottles, diapers and occasionally food waste.
Around almost every pile of garbage, a crowd had formed, rifling through it for scraps to eat. From schoolchildren to the elderly, even to those in work uniform, many Venezuelans are resorting to scavaging just to survive. A recent report found that over 15 percent of people scavenge as a means of survival.
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3 Asylum-Seekers in Germany Accused of Violently Raping Woman ‘3 Times Each’
A 28-year-old woman in Muhlhausen, Germany has identified three Ethiopian men who she claims repeatedly raped and beat her during a local carnival. The victim revealed some of the horrifying details in court.
The three suspected attackers, between 23 and 29 years old, were identified by the victim in regional court in the federal state of Thuringia earlier this week.
“Each of them raped me three times,” the woman said during her hours-long statement before the court, German media reported.
The victim claimed she had been lured into a secluded area near the railway station during local carnival celebrations last August. She attempted to flee, but the three suspects allegedly caught her, took her mobile phone, and forced her to engage in unprotected vaginal, anal, and oral sex.
The woman told the court she had also been beaten, kicked, and pulled by the hair by the suspected attackers, with one of them filming some of the violence with her smartphone.
The hearing became so emotional, it had to be interrupted, with the next date set for mid-July, according to media reports.
In the months-long trial, prosecutors have charged the three Ethiopian men with group rape and bodily harm based both on the victim’s testimony and DNA tests, but all of them deny the accusations.
While one of the suspects claims he had consensual sex with the woman during the carnival while “very drunk,” the other two claim they went to bed early that night and had no involvement in the incident.
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Iranian refugee Mohammad Abdullahi was already on bail for trafficking, possession and proceeds of dangerous drugs before the ice and cash were found in his Brisbane home.
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Canada Raises Asylum Seekers Influx With Minnesota Governor
MINNEAPOLIS — Canada’s public safety minister raised concerns on Monday with Minnesota’s state governor about an unauthorized influx of thousands of asylum seekers into Canada this year.
Nearly 3,500 people have walked into Canada from the United States from January through May, according to government data, crossing the border through fields, forests and ditches to avoid official ports of entry where they would be turned back under a bilateral agreement. Once on Canadian soil, asylum seekers, many of whom are of Somali and Ghanaian origin, are each entitled to a hearing.
While Canadians have assisted many stranded or freezing border-crossers, some have also worried about safety, and the fairness of asylum seekers entering Canada without permission.
“The problem has not gone away and we need to fully figure out why this is happening and we need a full effort on both sides to make sure that we’re doing everything we possibly can do for the integrity of the border,” Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said in an interview, after meeting with Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton.
“Because if people broadly begin to have doubts about that, then the reaction will get to be harsher and harsher and harsher and it’s in everyone’s interest here to ensure the integrity of the border,” Goodale said.
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First Driver Death in Calais After Migrants Drag Tree Trunks Onto Motorway
At just before 4am on Tuesday, two trucks were forced to suddenly brake so as to avoid the tree trunks placed by migrants to block the road.
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A tearful woman broke down in court in Germany as she alleged that three asylum seekers raped her a total of nine times when she was ambushed at a town fair.
The alleged attack in August 2016 left the 28-year-old Hungarian victim ‘shattered,’ she told a court in Mühlhausen.
Her mobile phone was stolen and the men used it to film their brutal assault which included kicking and punching her and dragging her by her hair, she claims.
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German Police Accused of Covering up Child Rape in Asylum Home
Police and the local government in Herford, Germany, have been accused of covering up the rape of a child at an asylum home for almost two weeks.
The alleged rape occurred two weeks ago at the former British Harewood Barracks which was recently converted into an asylum shelter. The man accused of the rape, a Ghanian of unknown age, is said to have sexually abused a 10-year-old girl originally from a former Soviet republic, local newspaper Westfalen-Blatt reports.
The 10-year-old is said to have been raped so brutally she had to be taken to a nearby hospital.
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‘Infidels Should Have Throats Cut’: Italy Arrests Iraqi Refugee Over ISIS Support
“The Iraqi — considered violent and inclined toward criminal activity — had celebrated after the recent terrorist attack in Manchester.”
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Migrant Crisis — Hungary PM Viktor Orban Rejects Idea of EU-Wide Asylum Policy
HUNGARY stepped up its war of words with Brussels today as populist prime minister told chief Jean-Claude Juncker there was “no chance” he would agree to an EU-wide migration policy.
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Over 120 Migrants Feared Dead After Their Inflatable Boat Sank
At least 126 migrants were feared dead after their boat sank off the coast of Libya while trying to make the perilous crossing to Europe, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday.
According to four survivors, the migrants left Thursday from Libya but their inflatable boat sank several hours into the journey, IOM spokesman Flavio Di Giacomo said.
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UN Report: Number of Global Refugees Hits Record High
More than 10 million people were newly displaced in 2016
The number of people displaced by armed conflict or government persecution reached a seven-decade high at the end of 2016, according to the U.N. division responsible for monitoring global refugees.
[Comment: UN has broad classification for “refugee” — once classified as such, western nations who signed onto the UN refugee resettlement agreement are “obligated” to take in the refugees…]
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Van Driver Dies in Crash in Calais After Migrants Block Road With Tree Trunks
A VAN driver has been killed in Calais after migrants caused a pile-up by blocking the road with tree trunks, French authorities said.
The vehicle, registered in Poland, smashed into other lorries on the A16 early on Tuesday morning and burst into flames, killing the man inside.
Nine Eritreans were found stowed in one of the lorries and were arrested, according to the Prefecture du Pas-de-Calais.
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Delingpole: The Pause in Global Warming is Real, Admits Climategate Scientist
The ‘Pause’ in global warming is real and the computer models predicting dramatically increased temperatures have failed.
This is the shocking admission of a paper published this week in Nature Geoscience. It’s shocking because the paper’s lead author is none other than Ben Santer — one of the more vociferous and energetic alarmists exposed in the Climategate emails.
According to the paper’s abstract:
In the early twenty-first century, satellite-derived tropospheric warming trends were generally smaller than trends estimated from a large multi-model ensemble.
And:
We conclude that model overestimation of tropospheric warming in the early twenty-first century is partly due to systematic deficiencies in some of the post-2000 external forcings used in the model simulations.
Translation: the real-world temperature increases were much smaller than our spiffy, expensive computer models predicted.
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Ramadan Rage 2017: 1,385 Fatalities Already More Than Triple Those Last Year
Welcome to Breitbart News’s running count of worldwide jihadist terrorist attacks during Ramadan 2017. Check back for updates through the end of the Islamic holy month on June 24.
With only days left in this year’s holiest month for Muslims, the fatalities at 1,424 have more than tripled the estimated 421 that took place during the entire Ramadan period last year, considered one of the bloodiest in recent memory.
The 2,781 total number of casualties (1,424 murders and 1,357 injuries) have more than doubled the estimated 1,150 (421 deaths and 729 injuries that took place in 2016.
There have been more than 135 incidents in more than 20 mainly Muslim nations during Ramadan this year, which began on May 27 and expected to end on June 24…
The West has not been immune to the Islamic extremists’ call to massacre during Ramadan.
Breitbart News’ count, gleaned from the Religion of Peace website in coordination with news reports, excludes casualties directly linked to battles between U.S.-led coalition and Iranian- and Russian-backed troops loyal to dictator Bashar al-Assad.
The total number of Ramadan deaths and injuries could be higher.
All the terrorist attacks during Ramadan 2017, as documented by Breitbart News, include: …
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On Bernie Sanders and his seeming incitement; I think the FBI need to question him on exactly what he means by ‘unprecedented means’. The wording used by Sanders would indicate to the reader/viewer/listener, exactly what he/she believes it to mean.
It’s getting worse
1900 – 1909 was one of the coldest decades in more than 11,000 years. Despite a few well-documented examples of scientists egregiously diddling with the data, the evidence that the world has been getting warmer since then is quite strong. The assumption underlying the Paris Accord is that is that carbon emissions arising from increasing human activity are either the one and only cause of this warming, or else that other causes collectively are so trivial in comparison that they can be safely ignored. Therefore, if we reduced global carbon emissions to the levels of 1900 to 1909, the world would eventually cool off to the temperatures experienced in that decade, with blizzards, frost-induced crop failures , and deaths from hypothermia.
The evidence for excluding other causes for climate change besides contemporary human activity is far, far weaker than the evidence that the temperature has been rising for the past 110 years. For example, there have been large and often very rapid changes in global climate that occurred long before the Industrial Revolution or even the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet. If the assumption that anthropogenic carbon is unrivaled as a driver for global climate is not accurate, predicting future climates as a function of carbon become useless as a guide for policy.
The trouble with the Paris Accord, in addition to its unfairness to the United States specifically, is that it consumes global resources and stifles global economic development that could better be used for dams, reservoirs, and breakwaters to manage potential hydrological problems, and to lift families out of poverty so that they can take their own measures voluntarily, including potentiality voluntary relocation from flood-prone real estate to formerly chilly real estate that warming has made more desirable.
The Paris Accord is not even all that good for shifting energy production to renewable and low carbon technologies. China, which is exempt from the provisions of the Accord, has become the world’s largest producer of solar energy technology.
And all designed Thomas, to take only the West back to the stone age because it is the West that has led the way in this world over many centuries that must be destroyed by those whose only ambition, apart from being the most wealthy on this Earth, is ultimate control over the whole planet.
So, 1385 ramadan fatalities so far, and still western authorities , unable to connect the dots, fail to ascertain who the enemy is….
“Well, all religions are responsible for this sort of thing”.
Of course, it’s only in the last 30-40 years that our ‘leaders’ have lost their way–our ancestors knew damned well who the enemy was, and still is–islam.