The Czech Republic responded to the EU’s crackdown on guns by passing a constitutional change that includes the right to bear arms. One of the purposes of the new gun rights is to give ordinary citizens the ability to respond quickly in the event of a terrorist attack.
In other news, the European Union is concerned about President Donald Trump’s plan to visit Poland ahead of the G20 meeting. The mandarins of Brussels are worried that Mr. Trump’s visit will enhance the status of the nationalist government in Warsaw.
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Artificial Intelligence Will Add $15.7 Trillion to the Global Economy: PwC
Machines capable of carrying out tasks normally reserved for humans will boost global GDP by as much as 14 percent by 2030, according to PwC.
In a report, the global auditing and consulting firm argued that the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) can contribute $15.7 million to the world economy over the next decade, the equivalent of the current combined output of China and India, as it would vastly increase productivity and spur shoppers to spend more.
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Brandon Smith: “Next Phase of Collapse Will Include the End of the Dollar as We Know It”
The Federal Reserve Is A Saboteur — And The “Experts” Are Oblivious
I have written on the subject of the Federal Reserve’s deliberate sabotage of the U.S. economy many times in the past. In fact, I even once referred to the Fed as an “economic suicide bomber.” I still believe the label fits perfectly, and the Fed’s recent actions I think directly confirm my accusations.
Back in 2015, when I predicted that the central bankers would shift gears dramatically into a program of consistent interest rate hikes and that they would begin cutting off stimulus to the U.S. financial sector and more specifically stock markets, almost no one wanted to hear it. The crowd-think at that time was that the Fed would inevitably move to negative interest rates, and that raising rates was simply “impossible.”
Many analysts, even in the liberty movement, quickly adopted this theory without question. Why? Because of a core assumption that is simply false; the assumption that the Federal Reserve’s goal is to maintain the U.S. economy at all costs or at least maintain the illusion that the economy is stable. They assume that the U.S. economy is indispensable to the globalists and that the U.S. dollar is an unassailable tool in their arsenal. Therefore, the Fed would never deliberately undermine the American fiscal structure because without it “they lose their golden goose.”
This is, of course, foolish nonsense.
Since its initial inception from 1913-1916, the Federal Reserve has been responsible for the loss of 98% of the dollar’s buying power. Idiot analysts in the mainstream argue that this statistic is not as bad as it seems because “people have been collecting interest” on their cash while the dollar’s value has been dropping, and this somehow negates or outweighs any losses in purchasing power. These guys are so dumb they don’t even realize the underlying black hole in their own argument.
IF someone put their savings into an account or into treasury bonds and earned interest from the moment the Fed began quickly undermining dollar value way back in 1959, then yes, they MIGHT have offset the loss by collecting interest. However, this argument, insanely, forgets to take into account the many millions of people who were born long after the Fed began its devaluation program. What about the “savers” born in 1980, or 1990? They didn’t have the opportunity to collect interest to offset the losses already created by the Fed. They were born into an economy where saving is inherently more difficult because a person must work much harder to save the same amount of capital that their parents saved, not to mention purchase the same items their parents enjoyed, such as a home or a car.
Over the decades, the Fed has made it nearly impossible for households with one wage earner to support a family. Today, men and women who should be in the prime of their careers and starting families are for the first time in 130 years more likely to be living at home with their parents than any other living arrangement…
What does the Fed gain from this sabotage? Total centralization. For example, before the Great Depression there used to be thousands of smaller private and localized banks in America. After the Great Depression most of those banks were either destroyed or absorbed by elite banking conglomerates. Banking in the U.S. immediately became a fully centralized monopoly by the majors. In a decade, they were able to remove all local competition and redundancy, making communities utterly beholden to their credit system.
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A Man That Died and Walked Arm-in-Arm With Jesus in Heaven is Now Telling His Remarkable Story
There really are people that have experienced what is on the other side of death, and some of them have actually had personal encounters with the Lord Jesus Christ. In the legal world, eyewitness testimony is one of the most powerful forms of evidence, and over the years I have spent a good deal of time researching eyewitnesses from all over the planet that have literally been to heaven and have come back to tell us about it. But until this week, I had never come across Steven Musick’ s amazing story before.
While serving in the U.S. Navy, Musick had an extremely negative reaction to a swine flu vaccine that he was given. He was very ill for months afterward, and it was ultimately decided that he should be given an antidote for the vaccine. He had an even worse reaction to the antidote, and he went into a coma for five weeks.
During that period of time, he actually died and went to heaven at one point. While in heaven, Musick says that he had the opportunity to walk arm-in-arm with Jesus…
But supernatural encounters such as these are not just happening in the western world. In fact, countless numbers of Muslims have personally interacted with Jesus in dreams and visions all over the Middle East, and this has resulted in multitudes turning away from Islam and embracing Christianity.
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Are 770 Earthquakes at Yellowstone in Past Two Weeks a Prelude to the Big One?
769 earthquakes were recorded at Yellowstone over the last two weeks, raising concerns among seismologists that a catastrophic eruption may be brewing, and could hit sooner rather than later.
One quake measured over four on the Richter scale, five measured in the magnitude three range, 64 in the magnitude two range, and the other 699 have been measured at magnitude one or less.
Researchers from the University of Utah at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO), said to the Star Valley Independent, “This is the highest number of earthquakes at Yellowstone within a single week in the past five years,” adding, “Seismic activity at volcanoes can signal an eruption is due to take place, although predicting exactly when a volcano will erupt is, at present, impossible.”
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Astronomers Close in on Planet X That Could be Responsible for Cataclysms on Earth
NASA thinks there may be another planet far beyond Neptune, and it could pose a threat to life on Earth. Long known as Planet X, it has been dubbed “Nemesis” by some astronomers.
For decades, evidence has accumulated to suggest a planet, or perhaps a failed star, lurks in the outer regions of our solar system. The best evidence has been compiled by NASA, which says the orbits of distant objects can only be explained by the presence of something large.
According to astronomers, planet X orbits about 20 times farther out then Neptune, and it could take between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make one orbit around the Sun. The orbit would be elliptical, and it is so far out we haven’t seen it.
There is no direct evidence of the planet yet, but the hunt is on.
The discovery of Planet X, or Planet Nine, or Nemesis, as different people refer to it matters. If it exists, it could explain why the inner solar system is routinely bombarded with comets and asteroids. The idea is that as Planet X sweeps around in its orbit, it disturbs ancient space debris on the edge of the solar system. Some of these debris begin a long fall towards the Sun. But anything that approaches the Sun must also cross Earth’s orbit. And if it intersects with Earth’s orbit, then it becomes a collision hazard. Given enough time, some bit of debris is going to impact the planet and that has grave consequences.
Locating the planet could help astronomers explain past impacts and extinctions, and it could help us to predict when the next wave of debris could be incoming.
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AT&T Has CNN’s Zucker in Crosshairs Ahead of Time Warner Acquisition
Following the revelation that CNN published fake news about the Trump administration and its alleged ties to Russia after an investigation by Breitbart News, the next head to roll at the embattled media company may be President Jeff Zucker.
“AT&T will look to ‘neutralize’ CNN President Jeff Zucker after it buys Time Warner,” the New York Post reported on Wednesday.
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Robert Barnes, attorney and contributor to LawNewz.com, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday regarding the defamation suit former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin filed against the New York Times.
Barnes said, “Legally, her case is very strong. She should be able to reach a jury, and if she got a fair jury, she should prevail. In terms of whether they settle or not, I think the New York Times will not want to settle because they don’t want to set any precedence to open the door” for additional suits.
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Indiana College Fires Three White Employees for Posing on Parody Rap Album Cover
Indiana’s Grace College and Seminary has fired three employees after they dressed up as rappers for a spoof album cover.
On June 2, the college’s marketing department held a weekly theme day for its employees, dubbed “wrap day”. People were encouraged to wear rapper clothing.
Getting into the spirit of things, five employees posed for the parody rap album cover.
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Kepler Has Taught US That Rocky Planets Are Common
Rocky planets are probably a whole lot more common in our galaxy than astronomers previously believed — according to the latest release of Kepler Space Telescope data last week — a scenario that enhances the prospects for extraterrestrial life in nearby solar systems.
Kepler’s final tally of exoplanets in the Cygnus constellation — the most comprehensive and detailed catalogue of exoplanets to date — indicates 4,034 possible planets, of which 50 are Earth-sized and reside in the habitable zone of their stars.
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Left Sends Death Threats to California Speaker for Dropping Single-Payer Health Care
Some leftists are so angry at California State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) for blocking a vote on a single-payer, government-run health care plan that they have been sending him death threats for days.
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NASA’s New Assignments: Find Aliens, Prove Evolution
And while the agency is at it, officials should ‘search for life’s origin’
The National Space and Aeronautics Administration has done some amazing things for the United States over the years: the initial short flights into space, then the longer orbiting missions, the moon visits, the space station and even unmanned trips to every sidewalk in the solar system.
But now it has some new goals: Find aliens.
And prove evolution.
And while the agency is at it, its staff members should identify the origins of life.
That’s according to the new — and very religious — marching orders the agency was given just weeks ago.
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Piers Morgan: CNN Cut Corners to Advance ‘Obsessive’ Trump-Bashing Narrative on Russian Collusion
Piers Morgan, editor-at-large at dailymail.com and former anchor at CNN, told TMZ on Tuesday that what CNN did in publishing fake news about President Donald Trump, his allies, and the alleged ties to Russia is “dangerous” and that the media outlet “cut corners” to advance its “obsessive” anti-Trump narrative.
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Quora Warns Its Users to be Nice to Islam
According to Wikipedia, “Quora is a question-and-answer site where questions are asked, answered, edited and organized by its community of users.” It was founded in 2009. In early 2017, Quora was reported to have received Series D funding and given a valuation of $1.8 billion. This website “community” has about “100 million monthly unique visitors”; of whom about half are from the U.S. and 15% are from India.
A few of days ago I received this email from Quora:…
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Report: University of Florida Students Asked to Predict ‘Emotional Risk’ of Guest Speaker Events
Students at the University of Flordia are being asked to predict the “emotional risk” level of guest speaker events they wish to organize.
Students are now required to submit an “emotional risk” level for guest speaker events that they wish to host on campus. The options on the university’s online portal, Gatorhub, include “Sensitive Subject Matter,” “Reaction of Participants,” and “Potential Controversy.”
The new policy likely comes in response to the increased efforts by college students across the country to censor guest speakers, which have overwhelmingly been of conservative and libertarian ideological persuasion
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Sharyl Attkisson: ‘Well-Funded Actors’ Manipulate News and the Way We Think
Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson slammed what she called “transactional journalism,” calling it “wholly inappropriate.”
“Transactional journalism” refers to inappropriate dealings behind the scenes some journalists have with political actors, the television host and author of the new book The Smear said.
“Virtually every image you run across, whether it is in the news or on social media or elsewhere, even on comedy shows is being put there, [the players I interviewed in the ‘smear universe’] say, for a purpose by somebody who wants you to think something that may not necessarily be a consensus at all, or may not even be true,” Attkisson told host Shannon Bream.
“Well-funded actors” with “fake accounts” on social media and “a ton of money” use them to manipulate how we think, Attkisson said.
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Shocking Study Shows Mere Presence of Smartphone Reduces Brain Power — Even When it’s Off
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin recently completed a comprehensive study illustrating the effects of smartphones on the human brain. What they found was that ‘smart’ phones actually make us dumb.
According to the study, Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity, having a smartphone around is a definitive way to lower our cognitive ability.
According to the study’s authors, Adrian F. Ward, Kristen Duke, Ayelet Gneezy, and Maarten W. Bos, results from two experiments indicate that even when people are successful at maintaining sustained attention — as when avoiding the temptation to check their phones — the mere presence of these devices reduces available cognitive capacity. Moreover, these cognitive costs are highest for those highest in smartphone dependence. We conclude by discussing the practical implications of this smartphone-induced brain drain for consumer decision-making and consumer welfare.
The study points out the fact that smartphones are a revolutionary way for people across the world to access information and stay connected with the simple tap. They note that this state of constant connection would not have even been possible, just ten years ago. They also note the massive contribution to humanity that smartphones have brought us.
However, according to the study, the ease of completing simple tasks in the presence of our smartphones is hindered — even if our phones are off.
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Waxhaw Man Accused of Lying to FBI About Plans to Help ISIS
A 29-year-old Waxhaw man is accused of lying to the FBI when he denied telling someone he planned to fly to Syria and help others travel there to support ISIS.
Alexander Samuel Smith is charged with two counts of making a false statement to an agency of the United States, according to a bill of indictment unsealed on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Charlotte.
In July 2014, Smith initiated contact with someone who told him he was an ISIS representative, but really was an FBI confidential source, according to the indictment. Over the next several months, Smith told the source he wanted to fight with ISIS in Syria, the indictment said.
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What Really Made the iPhone So Transformative?
When the iPhone emerged in 2007, it came with all the promise and pomp of a major Steve Jobs announcement, highlighting its user interface and slick design as key selling points. We know now that the iPhone transformed the mobile phone business, the internet economy and, in many ways, society as a whole. But technically speaking, the iPhone was not very innovative.
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American Commerce Chief Cut Off Mid-Speech in Berlin
Organizers faded out video feed of US commerce secretary’s speech
The U.S. commerce secretary was cut off in mid-speech during a video feed to an event hosted by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, underscoring how German patience with attacks on the country’s trade surplus is fraying.
Attendees at the Christian Democratic Union’s business conference in Berlin laughed and clapped when organizers faded out Wilbur Ross after about 20 minutes for overstepping his time limit. Merkel, who had been craning her neck on the podium to watch Ross speak on a screen behind her, then took the floor to close out the evening.
“That was the U.S. secretary of commerce, who had promised us a 10-minute statement,” Werner M. Bahlsen, head of the CDU Economic Council, told the audience Tuesday evening. “As you saw, he spoke a bit slowly, so it took a bit longer. Now we look forward to the chancellor’s speech.”
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Banking Giant Tells Clients to Prepare for UK Government Collapse, Third Election
Citigroup believes May’s premiership is unsustainable
Citigroup has warned clients that Theresa May’s position as prime minister is “unsustainable,” warning them to prepare for the government to collapse within a matter of months.
The multinational banking corporation believes the parliamentary majority which the prime minister secured through her deal with Ulster’s Democratic Unionist Party is “not comfortable enough for crunch votes,” according to a report in The Times.
“In our view, May’s premiership is not sustainable beyond a few months, perhaps a year at most, and will be under pressure in the face of contentious parliamentary votes from the very beginning,” they said.
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Czech Republic Parliament Passes Constitutional Right to Bear Arms
Czech lawmakers have passed legislation in the lower parliament that would see the right to bear firearms enshrined in the country’s constitution in a move directed against tighter regulations from the European Union.
The legislation was passed with 139 deputies agreeing to the amendment to the constitution with only nine deputies voting against. The amendment will now be considered by the Czech Senate where it will require a supermajority of three-fifths of the members in order to pass into law, Die Presse reports.
Similar to the U.S. second amendment to the Constitution, which gives Americans the right to keep and bear arms, the Czech legislation reads: “Citizens of the Czech Republic have the right to acquire, retain and bear arms and ammunition.”
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Czech Republic Plans to Combat Terrorism by Arming Its Citizens
The lower house of the Czech parliament voted to put gun owners’ rights in the constitution Wednesday, arguing it protects citizens from Islamist terrorists.
The European Commission passed stricter gun laws in December in response to a growing terror threat. The Czech Republic was one of three countries to oppose the changes, and it is now about to make it legal for citizens to use firearms to protect the security of the country.
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Denmark: Cyberattack Blocks Maersk Terminals, New Orders
Danish shipping mammoth Maersk said Wednesday it had shut down some of its computer systems after a global cyberattack disrupted operations at its terminals and hindered it from taking new orders.
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Driver Arrested for Trying to Hit French Mosque; No One Hurt
Paris police say a driver has been arrested after unsuccessfully trying to drive a car into barriers around a suburban mosque. The police department said in a statement that no one was hurt in the Thursday incident in Creteil south of Paris.
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Former Swedish Captive Speaks Out First Time Since Release
Speaking for the first time since being kidnapped five and a half years ago, Johan Gustafsson thanked his family, supporters, and Sweden.
Gustafsson was kidnapped by a group claiming allegiance to the terror group Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Mali in 2011, while on a motorbike trip between Sweden and South Africa.
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Colonel Richard Kemp is a former senior UK intelligence official and former chairman of the Cobra Intelligence Group who briefed the British government on secret intelligence. Speaking with BBC Newsnight this week, Kemp said that the 23,000 jihadists MI5 officials have publicly admitted are living in the UK “may be the tip of the iceberg”.
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An app has been launched in Paris warning people if they are in a so-called no-go zone and giving live alerts of sexual assaults.
Dozens of people have already downloaded No-Go Zone, which is available on Google Play, and it currently has a rating of 4.3 out of 5.
Its designers say the app is meant to let people know if they are in a dangerous area and allow them to avoid places in the French capital where they might be at risk of violence or crime.
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France: Paris Gets No-Go Zone App
It was inevitable. The new practical No-go zone app that warns you of what’s happening of less pleasant things right now if you are in Paris has become available. Users can upload incidents such as thefts, sexual assaults, violence and general discomfort, so that others can stay away from the places where it happens.
The app’s description online reads: ‘Whether you are staying in an unknown location, looking for a safe place to live, on your way to a specific location then No-Go Zone allows you to reduce any risk of aggression, theft, harassment or incivility.’
[Also on Breitbart: www.breitbart.com/london/2017/06/29/paris-app-warning-no-go-zone]
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‘Help us, Help us’: Sweden National Police Commissioner Begs as Number of No-Go Zones Rises
Swedish National Police Commissioner Dan Eliasson has begged the government for help as the number of no-go zones has risen from 55 to 61 in only one year.
“Help us, help us,” Eliasson said at a press conference on the subject of the rising levels of crime and criminal networks in Sweden. Eliasson said there were at least 5,000 criminals divided into around 200 networks in Sweden operating in the now 61 no-go zones, many of which are heavily migrant-populated, Göteborgs-Posten reports.
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Hidden Square Formation Found Within Avebury Stones
AVEBURY, ENGLAND—Archaeologists working at Avebury, the Neolithic stone circle in Wiltshire thought to be the world’s largest, have uncovered a mysterious square formation at the site’s center, according to a report in The Guardian. Using radar technology, a team led by University of Leicester’s Mark Gillings uncovered hidden stones marking the footprint of what they believe was a wooden building dating to around 3500 B.C. Gillings and his colleagues have concluded that the square, which measures nearly 100 feet on each side, formed a monument to what must have been a very important structure.
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How (And Where) Did Hannibal Cross the Alps?
He pulled off one of the greatest military feats ever. Now new scientific evidence points to Hannibal’s legendary route to Rome
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Hungarian PM: Soros Threatens the Peace in Europe With His ‘Mafia Network’
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban slammed billionaire George Soros Wednesday for running a “mafia network” of NGOs that threatens Europe’s future.
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In the 1950s the CIA Sprayed a French Town With LSD, Here’s What Happened
In 1951, a French village suddenly became plagued with hallucinations and mass insanity. For decades, it was assumed that local bread had been poisoned with psychedelic mold, however, it has recently been discovered that instead, the CIA had contaminated the village’s food with LSD.
The discovery was found by writer H.P Albarelli Jr., who published a book on the incident. According to him, the incident was a part of the CIA’s secret mind-control experiments that were conducted by use of drug-grade LSD. The village had long referred to the incident as the mystery of Le Pain Maudit (Cursed Bread) and it has continued to haunt the village for quite some time. Beginning on August 16, 1951, villagers suddenly began to have strange and horrific hallucinations of snakes, dragons, and fire. Dozens were placed in asylums and hundreds of others were left with various signs and symptoms of madness. One man, Leon Armunier, who was working that day explained that, “It was terrible. I had the sensation of shrinking and shrinking, and the fire and the serpents coiling around my arms,” he remembers. It was then that he fell off of his bike and was escorted quickly to a hospital in Avignon. Once he arrived, they placed him in a straight jacket and put him into a room with teenagers that were chained down to their beds. “Some of my friends tried to get out of the window. They were thrashing wildly… screaming, and the sound of the metal beds and the jumping up and down… the noise was terrible. I’d prefer to die rather than go through that again.” Another man attempted to drown himself, due to his beliefs that he was being eaten by snakes. A young adolescent boy tried to murder his grandmother, while another man who believed that he was a plane jumped off a building leading his legs to be broken.
However, it was later decided that a local baker had unfortunately contaminated his bread flour with ergot, which is a hallucinogenic mold that could cause similar symptoms. Now, over five decades later, H.P Albarelli Jr., has investigated the matter for his book. According to him, the incident had little to do with contaminated bread and more to do with a top-secret mind control experiment conducted by the CIA. His findings are based on a CIA document entitled “Re: Pont-Saint-Esprit and F. Olson Files. So Span/France Operation file, inclusion Olson. Intel files. Hand carries to Belin-tell him to see to it that these are buried.”
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New Turkey Row Brews, As Berlin Bans Erdogan From Speaking in Germany
Germany said Thursday it had rejected a request by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to address ethnic Turks in Germany next week on the sidelines of a G20 summit.
Berlin-Ankara relations have badly deteriorated amid disputes over Turkey’s mass arrests of alleged state enemies since a failed coup last year and a host of other rights issues.
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said Berlin had received a request for Erdogan to be able to address members of the three-million-strong Turkish diaspora in the EU country.
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Number of Sweden’s No-Go Zones Rises
Swedish National Police Commissioner Dan Eliasson has begged the government for help as the number of no-go zones has risen from 55 to 61 in only one year.
“Help us, help us,” Eliasson said at a press conference on the subject of the rising levels of crime and criminal networks in Sweden. Eliasson said there were at least 5,000 criminals divided into around 200 networks in Sweden operating in the now 61 no-go zones, many of which are heavily migrant-populated, Göteborgs-Posten reports.
Police have said that they are monitoring 61 “no-go zones” but say that 23 of them are particularly vulnerable. Tynnered, a suburb in Gothenburg, is a new addition to the list after cases of car burnings and shootings, the most recent of which occurred earlier this month.
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Only Pope Francis Can End the ‘Apostasy’ His Words Have Caused: Italian Monsignor
ope Francis could stem the “confusion and apostasy” now rampant in the Church among priests and bishops by “correcting” his own “ambiguous and erroneous words and acts,” said an Italian monsignor and former consultor to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith in an explosive interview.
Respected theologian Monsignor Nicola Bux, a professor at the Theological Faculty of Puglia, defined “apostasy” as the “abandonment of Catholic thought” that has been believed everywhere, always, and by all.
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Paris to Build a ‘Wall’ Around Eiffel Tower as Terrorism Becomes Mundane in Europe
Americans are still waiting for a border wall, but France is set to get a wall of their own by the end of the year.
Unlike the American iteration, this barrier won’t be erected on the French border. It’s set to surround the Eiffel Tower to shield it from terrorist attacks.
Last month, the Paris city council approved a $20 million bulletproof glass wall, just over 8 feet high, that will surround the iconic tower.
In a country proudly obsessed with art and beauty, this will be an obnoxious eyesore and a reminder that war and violence is just a breath away in the seemingly pacific city of romance.
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People With Higher IQs Are More Likely to Live to Their 80s
People with higher IQs are less likely to die before the age of 79. That’s according to a study of over 65,000 people born in Scotland in 1936.
Each of the people in the study took an intelligence test at the age of 11, and their health was then followed for 68 years, until the end of 2015. When Ian Deary, of the University of Edinburgh, UK, and his team analysed data from the study, they found that a higher test score in childhood was linked to a 28 per cent lower risk of death from respiratory disease, a 25 per cent reduced risk of coronary heart disease, and a 24 per cent lower risk of death from stroke.
These people were also less likely to die from injuries, digestive diseases, and dementia — even when factors like socio-economic status were taken into account.
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Sharia Northern Ireland: Three Men Arrested for “Anti-Islamic Material”
Three men have been arrested in relation to suspected hate crime in Armagh and Coalisland. Police conducted searches and arrested three men age 31, 38 and 47. They have been arrested as a result of an investigation following reports of anti-Islamic material being displayed in the Armagh area, which was reported to Police on June 21, and the discovery of material in Newry on June 21.
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Sweden Democrat MP Kent Ekeroth Fined Over Stockholm Brawl
The first paragraph of the online article is:”Senior Sweden Democrat politician Kent Ekeroth has been found guilty of minor assault for striking another man in the face in the queue to a Stockholm nightclub last year.”.
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Sweden: Cyber Attack ‘Worst Possible Timing’ For Gothenburg Port
Trouble-hit Gothenburg harbour is still struggling to get its services up and running after shipping mammoth Maersk was hit by a cyber attack.
“We still can’t get any containers out,” Joachim Steivik at freight transport company Swedebridge told Swedish news agency TT before noon.
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Sweden: Police Union: Gangs Have Created a “Parallel Society”
A survey released on Thursday suggests that police officers are facing increased threats and violence. The Swedish Police Union told Radio Sweden that criminal gangs have created a “parallel society”.
Anna Nelberg Dennis, the vice chair of the Swedish Police Union that commissioned the survey, said that it has become more and more common for gangs of young people attack police officers in certain areas.
“I think it’s part of a change in society, where in socially vulnerable areas, gangs have created parallel societies where they take the law into their own hands,” she said. “[The gangs] believe that police shouldn’t be there because they rule the area. This is something that the police can’t solve themselves.”
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Swiss Border Police to Get Reinforcements for Busy Summer Months
Border forces in Switzerland will get reinforcements for the summer months, according to a police statement on Thursday.
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The Changing Face of Jihadism in Switzerland
A Swiss terror expert has warned that the jihadist threat is evolving, with more ‘homegrown’ terrorists and a total of around 1000 people in Switzerland thought to be linked in some way to terrorist organizations.
“We are beginning to realize that key players in Swiss jihadism are native, and they have connections with other countries,” Jean-Paul Rouiller, the director of the Geneva Centre for Training and Analysis of Terrorism, told the Tribune de Geneve in an interview published on Wednesday.
“The novelty is that we’re no longer seeing imported jihadism. A hotbed of Swiss jihadists is being created […] made up of people who grew up in Switzerland,” said Rouiller, who created the Swiss Federal Police’s first counter-terrorism unit in 2010.
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UK: Jeremy Corbyn Sacks Three Frontbenchers Over Single Market Vote
Three Labour frontbenchers have been sacked for defying Jeremy Corbyn and backing a call for the UK to stay in the single market after Brexit. Ruth Cadbury, Catherine West and Andy Slaughter had supported Chuka Umunna’s amendment to the Queen’s Speech.
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UK: Wimbledon Ramps Up Security With Barriers to Prevent London Bridge-Style Attack
BARRIERS to foil vehicle attacks will be installed for this year’s Wimbledon tennis championships, police announced today.
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Vatican’s 3rd Most Powerful Figure, Cardinal Pell, Charged With Sex Assaults on Minors
Global pedophilia rings continue to be exposed
Australia’s highest-ranking Roman Catholic clergyman, Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell, has been charged by Australian police over sex allegations from “multiple complainants.”
The Vatican has released a statement of support for Pell, citing his “honesty.”
“Cardinal Pell is facing multiple charges in respect of historic sexual offences,” Victoria state police deputy commissioner Shane Patton told the media in Melbourne on Thursday.
The extent of the charges the senior Vatican cardinal is facing has not been revealed by police. However, according to Patton, “there are multiple complainants relating to those charges.”
There might be up to 10 alleged victims, Australian news website News.com.au reports, adding that they were minors at the time of the alleged assaults and are now aged from their late 20s to their early 50s.
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Why the European Union is Failing
Representation to the EU management team is not elected, but is appointed by the several governments, and the leadership remains more or less anonymous. The management team is an elite cadre in top management, and mid-level and lower level management who are essentially white collar employees, all of whom are not “representatives of the people.” Also, there are vast numbers of clerical workers to carry out the extensive paperwork tasks.
In addition to the existence of the rapid reaction forces mentioned above, the security of Europe is primarily managed by NATO forces and written treaty guarantees, by special help from the U.S., and by the individual armed forces of individual member states. However, Turkey, with most of its land mass in Asia, is a member of NATO which may prove to be a weak link under various threat scenarios.
The vast numbers of rules and regulations generated by and enforced by the EU and its predecessor the EEC (European Economic Commission) become a kind of administrative state, a non-government, yet acting as a quasi-government, deriving its authority from the member states, yet not being a government in the firm sense that each of the member states is a government. It is at this point that we see a disjunction, and that the federalism of the EU, unlike that of the U.S., is a kind of bogus or pseudo-federalism.
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Europe’s Backyard Tensions Rising in Balkans as Hopes for EU Future Fade
Fourteen years after being told they had a future in the European Union, countries in the Western Balkans are losing hope. Meanwhile, Turkish and Russian influence in the region is on the rise. So too is the nationalist rhetoric of old
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A big oil deposit has been found in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, with enough reserves to last Israel for decades, according to the country’s media. The Israeli presence in the Golan Heights is in dispute. The region is internationally recognized Syrian territory that has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War between Israel and several Arab states. UN Resolution 242 (1967) demands the withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from the territories occupied in the conflict. Israel disagrees with the wording of the resolution, saying the territories are disputable.
Reportedly, the potential production may reach billions of barrels, while Israel consumes 270,000 barrels per day. Israel currently imports up to three quarters of its oil from the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq, the Financial Times reported in August.
“We are talking about a strata which is 350 meters thick and what is important is the thickness and the porosity. On average in the world strata are 20-30 meters thick, so this is ten times as large as that, so we are talking about significant quantities.
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UN Colluding With Terrorist Backers at UN Forum on Israeli Occupation, Critics Say
In a month when the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, announced a new office of counterterrorism, Fox News has learned that two organizations who are taking part in a UN meeting Thursday and Friday have been accused by Israel as partnering with terrorist groups.
The meeting is a “United Nations forum to mark 50 years of occupation.”
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem — when Israeli troops, against all the odds, liberated the historic city from Jordanian control during the Six Day War in June 1967. While Israel celebrates the historic accomplishment, the Palestinians call it an occupation.
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How American Rescued Iraqi Girl From ISIS
The heart of ISIS toward children — exemplified by its systematic murder, torture and rape of the young and its propaganda video released Monday showing an 8-year-old executing a prisoner — contrasts sharply with a breathtaking act of selflessness by an American aid worker witnessed worldwide.
Video of 56-year-old David Eubank running amid a hail of ISIS bullets to snatch a 6-year-old girl hiding in a pile of dead bodies in Mosul earlier this month has been featured by CNN, “CBS Evening News,” the Washington Post and many other news outlets in the U.S. and around the world in recent days.
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In Turkey, Hope for ‘Justice is Fading Away Just Like My Muscles’
As for thousands in Turkey, a government decree ended Nuriye Gulmen and Semih Ozakca’s careers. In protest, the pair started a hunger strike 113 days ago — they have languished in prison since their arrests on day 75.
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ISIS ‘Caliphate’ Crumbles as Iraq Tightens Noose on Mosul
It was three years ago that a lightning advance by about 800 jihadist fighters in northern Iraq morphed into a global threat. Having taken over Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, the extremists proclaimed the birth of their so-called “Islamic State”.
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Russian Senator Warns U.S. Preparing “Provocation” To Attack Syria
Trump admin could launch false flag blamed on Assad
Russian Senator Alexei Pushkov warns that the United States is preparing a false flag “provocation” as a pretext to launch a military assault on Syria.
Responding to a CNN report that the U.S. “has ships and aircraft in place to strike Syria,” if ordered to do so by the President, Pushkov cautioned that this could be the precursor to a staged incident.
“The United States put its Navy and Air Force on alert, and is just waiting for an excuse to strike Syria. Assad will not give them one.” This, Pushkov wrote, makes it “the perfect time for a provocation.”
[Comment: Already a number of false flags have been exposed yet this tactic by globalists to trigger WWIII still goes on…]
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Turkey’s Erdogan Wants Twitter to Silence American Critic
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s authoritarian president, is pressuring Twitter to shut down the account of an American think tank critic over critical comments he’s made on the social media platform.
The Washington Post reports that Erdogan is going after Michael Rubin, an American Enterprise Institute scholar and former Pentagon official.
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Turkish Dictator ‘Removes Mask’ In Seizure of 50 Churches
The government of Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan has seized at least 50 Syriac Christian churches and monasteries, according to press reports in Turkey.
Turkey’s Mardin Governorate has established a special Commission for Liquidation & Sharing of the properties owned by the Syriac community.
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The Turkish-Armenian daily Agos reports that in 2012 the province of Mardin established a “liquidation committee,” which started to expropriate and redistribute the property of churches and other Christian institutions whose legal charters had expired. The seizures and liquidations are ongoing, and the Syriac community has been especially targeted.
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U.S. Syria Policy: Incoherent, Reckless
by Srdja Trifkovic
The United States is in danger of descending into the Syrian quagmire. There are clear signs of mission creep devoid of logic or strategic rationale. It is not too late yet to step away from the brink. This would require swift action by President Donald Trump to rein in the war party before it takes America into yet another unwinnable and costly Middle Eastern war. And yet the President is said to have displayed relative indifference to the subject of Syria as the crisis escalated, focusing his attention instead on various domestic issues.
On June 27, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley tweeted that “[a]ny further attacks done to the people of Syria will be blamed on Assad, but also on Russia & Iran who support him killing his own people.” A day earlier the White House issued an ominous warning to Syria’s president against launching another chemical assault (“A heavy price will be paid”), and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson presented a similar message to Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov…
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Unprecedented Carved Skulls Discovered at a Stone Age Temple in Turkey
Three carved skull fragments from Gobekli Tepe offer tantalizing hints about the lives of Neolithic people
Archeologists at a Stone Age temple in Turkey called Göbekli Tepe have discovered something straight out of Indiana Jones: carved skulls. The deeply chiseled human craniums are the first of their kind in the region. Taken together with statues and carvings depicting headless people and skulls being carried, researchers suggest the ancient people of Göbekli Tepe may have belonged to a “skull cult,” reports Andrew Curry at Science.
When researchers first began excavations at the 12,000-year-old temple, they expected to find human burials. Instead, they unearthed thousands of animal bones as well as 700 fragments of human bone, more than half of which came from skulls, Curry reports. But only three fragments were modified with incisions.
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Bangladesh Attack Cafe Thrives a Year on, But Fears Persis
As the chatter of customers and the smell of warm bread fill the Holey Artisan Bakery it is easy to forget the scenes of horror that unfolded at the upscale Dhaka cafe. But a year on the impact of the deadly siege is still being felt.
Five young men armed with guns and knives stormed the cafe on July 1, taking dozens hostage and killing 22 people. Most of the victims were foreigners, and many were brutally hacked to death.
A year later the bakery, which has reopened in a new location, throngs with customers hungry for its famous breads, cookies and pastries.
“It’s great to have this place back. Reopening the cafe was a great act of courage,” said Laura Jenkins, a US citizen who has lived in Bangladesh for five years, as she picked at a freshly baked croissant.
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India: Water Scarce for Millions in Delhi
In Delhi, millions of people have no water supply. Slum dwellers have to rely on deliveries from tankers, which often charge a high price for a resource that is supposed to be freely available.
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India PM Narendra Modi Condemns Murder in Cow’s Name
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said murder in the name of cow protection is “not acceptable”.
Many Hindus consider the cow a sacred animal and cow slaughter is banned in several states.
The comments come just days after a Muslim teenager was brutally killed on a train by a group of Hindu men.
On Wednesday, thousands of Indians took part in protests against rising attacks on Muslims and Dalits (formerly untouchables) by vigilante groups.
Similar protests under the banner #NotInMyName were held in several Indian cities, including Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Lucknow and Allahabad, as well as in London. Gatherings are also planned for later in the week in Chennai city as well as in Toronto in Canada, Boston in the US, and Karachi in Pakistan.
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US, NATO Allies Wrangle Over Troop Levels in Afghanistan
More than 16 years into the Afghanistan war, the United States and its NATO allies wrangled anew on Thursday over how to meet the need for more troops to counter a resurgent Taliban and help Afghan forces break a stalemate in the fight.
At a meeting in Brussels, NATO agreed to send more forces in response to commanders’ requests for as many as 3,000 troops to train and work alongside Afghan security forces. That number does not include an expected contribution of almost 4,000 American forces, divided between the NATO mission and America’s counterterrorism operations against Taliban, al-Qaida and Islamic State militants in Afghanistan.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said 15 countries “have already pledged additional contributions.” He expected more commitments to come, but confusion about America’s plans may have held back some countries.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said at a news conference after the meeting that he was pleased by allies’ willingness to contribute more.
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China Liu Xiaobo: Ill Laureate ‘Wants Treatment Abroad’
Terminally ill Chinese Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has asked to be allowed to go abroad for liver cancer treatment, his friends say.
His wife has formally requested to leave China but it is not clear if the authorities will approve it, they add.
Mr Liu, 61, has been in hospital after gaining medical parole.
He was jailed in 2009 for “inciting subversion” after calling for multi-party democracy and respect for human rights in China.
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Duterte Thanks ‘Good Friend’ China as it Donates Weapons for Philippine Islamist Fight
China has donated thousands of guns to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to help Manila in its battle against Islamist gunmen who are holed up in a southern city.
The small shipment of assault and sniper rifles and ammunition is the first example of Chinese military aid since Duterte threatened to move away from Manila’s traditional ally America and seek Beijing’s support.
The weapons shipment, worth some 50 million yuan (US$7.35 million) “highlights the dawn of a new era in Philippine-Chinese relations”, Duterte said.
China has also donated 15 million pesos (US $300,000) in relief assistance to help Marawi recover.
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Sony to Make Vinyl Records Again After 30-Year Hiatus
The Japanese tech giant stopped making vinyl records in 1989, with cassettes and compact discs dominating the market at that time. But the format’s renaissance has led Sony to return it to the market.
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Vietnam Blogger ‘Mother Mushroom’ Jailed for 10 Years
A prominent Vietnamese blogger known as ‘Mother Mushroom’ was jailed for 10 years on Thursday, her lawyer said, during a brief trial rights groups decried as “outrageous”.
Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, whose pen name derives from her daughter’s nickname “mushroom”, was arrested in October 2016 and later charged with anti-state propaganda over critical Facebook posts about politics and the environment.
Vietnam’s one-party state keeps a tight clamp on dissent and routinely jails activists, bloggers and lawyers who speak out against the communist regime.
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Police have arrested a 24-year-old man over the alleged gangland execution of hitman Hamad Assaad in Sydney’s south-west last year.
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Muslim extremists behind bars are trying to forcibly convert fellow inmates to Islam, often with threats of violence. A fight broke out in a New South Wales jail when non-Muslim prisoners objected.
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Iraq war veteran Bernard Gaynor says a push to recruit Muslims could see Australian soldiers killed on defence bases. ‘This politically-correct push for Islamic recruitment is very dangerous,’ he said.
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No Such Thing as White Monopoly Capital — ANC Gauteng
The ANC in Gauteng has rubbished the concept of white monopoly capital, which is often bandied about by some structures of the party as the number one enemy to radical economic transformation in South Africa.
The party held its own provincial policy conference over the weekend, where it discussed a range of issues including organisational renewal, social cohesion and reviewed whether or not its policies were still viable or even being implemented properly.
“Monopoly capital remains the enemy of the national democratic revolution. In this regard the conference has made it clear that there is no such thing as white monopoly capital in our vocabulary,” said Gauteng ANC chairperson Paul Mashatile during his closing address.
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John Bolton: Instability From Venezuela Could Spread Throughout the Region
Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton appeared on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about the Supreme Court’s opinion on President Trump’s immigration order, the White House warning to Syria on chemical weapons, North Korea’s claim that President Trump’s “American First” platform is “a version of Nazism,” and the collapse of Venezuela. …
“Those opinions I found utterly illegitimate,” he declared. “If you want to determine whether an executive order is valid, read the executive order and measure it against the Constitution, not against political statements made in campaigns. That’s not what courts are for.”
Bolton said there has been a downward slide into “results-oriented jurisprudence” ever since the Warren court.
“When I was in law school, sometimes they called it ‘outcome determinative,’“ he recalled. “They want to get to the result they want to get to, and they don’t care what the Constitution says. They don’t care what the text of the law says. They’re going to interpret whatever they can to get to the outcome they want.” …
Bolton agreed with Marlow that the same criticism could be leveled at biased journalists.
“That’s been a problem with the mainstream media for a long time,” Bolton said. “They pretend to be neutral, and they haven’t been. That’s why they’re outraged at Breitbart, and Fox, and a lot of talk radio, because they say, ‘My goodness, they’re conservative!’ Well, no kidding! The mainstream media don’t realize they’re biased because all of them are that way. It’s like somebody once said: it’s like a fish in water. You ask a fish what it thinks of the water and it says, ‘What’s water?’ It doesn’t recognize it because it’s all around it. That’s the liberal bias in the media.” …
Marlow moved on to the deteriorating situation in Venezuela, where Bolton said democracy has “failed over a sustained period of time, and particularly in the last 15 years since the coup that brought Hugo Chavez to power.”
“He’s now died, his former foreign minister Maduro is now president,” he noted. “It’s an authoritarian system. Largely the military is in control because the economy has tanked. The oil industry hasn’t had serious capital investment or improvement for a long time, so it’s decreasing revenue.”
“I’m very worried about Venezuela,” Bolton professed. “I’m worried that the instability there will spread as it has to Colombia before, and it’s a source of real potential problems for the United States.”
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Rogue Cop Steals Helicopter and Drops Grenades on Venezuelan Supreme
The people of Venezuela have endured unimaginable horrors over the past few years under their corrupt government. Food shortages, record breaking murder rates, rampant inflation, kidnappings, vigilantism, black markets, and civil unrest have all become the norm. However, nothing could have prepared them for the what happened next.
That’s because the unrest in Venezuela took a rather strange turn today, when a stolen helicopter flew over the nation’s Supreme Court and dropped several grenades, before strafing the Interior Ministry with gunfire. The helicopter could be seen waving a flag that read “350 Freedom,” in reference to Article 350 of the nation’s constitution, which grants citizens the right to resist an undemocratic government.
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Donald Trump Hosts Immigration Crime [Victim] Families, Pushes Immigration Enforcement Bills
Wednesday at the White House President Donald Trump hosted families that have loved ones who were killed by illegal aliens, as Congress prepares to vote on several immigration bills.
Trump touted a series of immigration bills that he said, if enacted, would “close the dangerous loopholes exploited by criminals, gang members, drug dealers, killers, terrorists. MS-13 is a prime target.”
The President acknowledged the several angel families that came out for the roundtable meeting:
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EU Urges Italy Not to Close Ports and Offers More Funds
The EU urged Italy on Thursday to allow more time to discuss its threat to suddenly stop vessels from other countries disembarking migrants in Italian ports, after rescuing them in the Mediterranean.
Brussels said it was ready to give Italy fresh financial support to deal with the crisis but said it had to give due warning of such a drastic step.
Rome issued the threat on Wednesday amid a swelling wave of people rescued from rickety boats on the central Mediterranean route from conflict-hit Libya.
“We support and we understand Italy’s concern and we support their call for a change in the situation,” European Commission spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud told reporters.
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European Union Rattled by Trump’s Visit to Right Wing, Anti-Migrant Poland
European Union (EU) officials are worried U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s visit to Poland will bolster the populist, right wing government there, encouraging their defiance of the EU, and damage “European unity”.
The president’s one-day stop-off — en route to the G20 summit in Hamburg — is for a gathering dubbed the Three Seas project, bringing together leaders from Central Europe, the Baltic States, and the Balkans.
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More than half of residents living in the German city of Frankfurt have a migrant background, according to new statistics.
Figures show 51.2 per cent of people living there are either non-German, German citizens born abroad or Germans who are the children of immigrants.
The city’s secretary of integration Sylvia Weber said: ‘We have minorities with relatively large numbers in Frankfurt but no group with a clear majority.’
Turkish migrants are the largest non-German minority that are settled in Frankfurt, accounting for 13 per cent of the population.
A further 61 per cent of residents who were born abroad have come from other countries within the European Union.
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Historian: Europe Has Learned Nothing From 2015, Next Migrant Crisis Only a Matter of Time
German historian Hans Peter Schwarz claims that European leaders have learnt nothing from the migrant crisis in 2015 and the continent is ill-prepared to deal with the next inevitable crisis.
In his newly released book, The New Migration to Europe, the German historian has analysed the current immigration trends in Germany and the exploding demographic growth in Africa and the Middle East, concluding the next migrant crisis is only a matter of time, Kronen Zeitung reports.
“We are not prepared for migration,” Schwarz said and claimed that the current legislation dealing with asylum seekers in Europe is from “another time”.
He said the legislation, which was meant to be able to deal with small numbers of asylum seekers, is simply inefficient in handling mass waves of thousands of migrants at a time.
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Is it That Easy? London Bridge Terrorist Entered Britain Using False Name and Age
Southwark Coroner’s Court was told Rachid Redouane, who was one of three terrorists responsible for the June 3 slaughter, arrived in the UK using false details.
Authorities could not confirm when he arrived in the country but did say he used the alias Rachid Elkhdar and claimed to be five years younger than his 30 years. Detective Chief Inspector Simon Moring said: “He was initially identified through fingerprints held by the immigration service.Eight people died when Redouane, along with Khuram Shazad Butt and Youssef Zaghba, carried out a brutal attack during the evening of June 3.
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Italy: Mafia and Migrant Gangs Running Heroin and Prostitution Rings Together
Nigerian migrant gangs are collaborating with the Sicilian Mafia in the organisation of prostitution rackets and the heroin trade, according to Italian police sources.
An investigative report by The Times reveals that machete-wielding gangsters calling themselves ‘the Vikings’ have now taken the lead in trafficking of around 8,000 prostitutes a year into Palermo, a port city which has become one of the major landing grounds for hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants.
The Vikings have displaced a rival organisation called the Black Axe, which The Times described as a Europe-wide operation which uses “voodoo rites” to intimidate African women into submission.
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Migrants Here to Stay in Europe, Now Integrate Them, OECD Says
The peak of the migrant crisis in Europe has passed but many of those who came are here to stay and governments must focus on helping them integrate, the OECD said Thursday.
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Trump’s Travel Ban is About to Take Effect
President Donald Trump’s fiercely litigated travel ban will take effect at 8 p.m. EST Thursday.
The ban prohibits migrants from six countries with high instances of terrorism — Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Iran and Yemen — from entering the country without an established, significant connection to the United States.
The Supreme Court stayed several lower court rulings barring enforcement of the president’s order Monday, but provided an exemption for foreign nationals possessing a “bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.”
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A new survey just released by the Pew Research Center has found that support for gay marriage in the United States is at an all-time record high. According to the survey, 62 percent of all Americans are now in favor of allowing gays and lesbians to get married, and only 32 percent are opposed. These numbers have almost flipped completely upside down from where they were a decade ago. In 2007, 54 percent of all Americans were against gay marriage and only 37 percent were in favor of it. To say that our culture has been transformed over the past ten years would be a major understatement.
One of the biggest shifts that we have seen has been among evangelicals. This brand new survey discovered that support for gay marriage among white evangelicals has more than doubled since 2007…
Support for same-sex marriage has risen across all religious groups in recent years, including among white evangelicals and black Protestants. Support for same sex-marriage among white Evangelicals has more than doubled compared with a decade ago (14% then, 35% now), while the share of black Protestants who favor same-sex marriage has increased from 24% in 2007 to 44% today.
In particular, the shift in favor of gay marriage among evangelicals has been most noticeable among young people. Today, a staggering 47 percent of all white evangelicals born after 1964 favor gay marriage…
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Finnish NGO Debuts New Symbol for Gender-Neutral Bathrooms
A Finnish NGO has launched a new gender-neutral symbol for use on bathroom doors. The organisation says the symbol is meant to indicate that people who identify as either male or female or neither can feel free to use the amenities.
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Slate’s Christina Cauterucci claimed women won’t be equal until they murder more people before branding LGBT conservatives “queer villains” in an article Wednesday.
“These men are more than just bad actors on the national stage: They seek influence and use it for evil means, then show no remorse,” wrote Cauterucci about gay conservatives in her article, Queer Villains Remind Us That Gay Does Not Always Equal Good. “They are comic book-level villains. And they also happen to be two of the most visible gay men in America.”
Cauterucci then claimed in her article that women won’t be equal until they start murdering and raping more people.
“This is a good lesson for straights to learn, too. I have long believed that women will not have achieved full gender equality until we make up half the world’s mass murderers and sex offenders,” she declared, adding, “Not that I would advocate for more mass murderers and sex offenders, but I do wish, kind of, that women made up a greater share.”
[Comment: Horrible woman.]
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In other news, the European Union is concerned about President Donald Trump’s plan to visit Poland ahead of the G20 meeting. The mandarins of Brussels are worried that Mr. Trump’s visit will enhance the status of the nationalist government in Warsaw.
Now that really does sound exactly like the Soviet Union.
No, worse.
I was going to say, at least they’re not standing back and watching the SS wipe out the Poles during the Warsaw uprising …
then I thought, what they’re doing – standing back and watching “jihadi terrorists” wiping out people left, right and centre – is just as bad.
Trump better watch out, or what happened to Sikorski might happen to him en route … I hope he hasn’t got a stopover in Gib, eh …
As much of a bastard the minister, pushing this law the most is, it’s good to have this kind of law enforced.
Btw Czechia is aparently the sixth safest country in the world, partly because it’s not that easy to get and keep a gun.
So far it was impossible to use this gun to protect lives and goods (or rather, you could be possibly charged if you did), this new law makes it possible to injure or kill terrorists without having to worry about possible charges.
NASA (Never A Straight Answer) is now charged with finding Aliens? What a surprise, and after the many decades the agency has been quietly airbrushing out all the evidence of E.Ts existence from its thousands of photos and videos.
The mandarins of Brussels. Hilarious term!
Cauterucci (sp?) sounds like a real a-hole, btw.
Nemesis — your translation of NASA is very amusing. I thank you.
And now I have to return to my rat-killing (aka housework).
Can’t claim credit for that one maria_dee, but thanks all the same. Got that from Richard C. Hoagland – a one time NASA contractor who got tired of pointing out all the unnatural anomalies on the Moon and Mars to no response, so took to book writing and the lecture circuit.
President Trump needs to stop in Warsaw so he can “Polish” up his act before appearing in Brussels.
We’ll stay tuned to see what “sprouts” there in Brussels.
Waxhaw Man Accused of Lying to FBI About Plans to Help ISIS
Not surprisingly, the Charlotte Observer conveniently forgot to mention that Mr. Smith also identifies as Amir Alexander.
@AK-47: It is relatively easy to get and keep gun in the Czech Republic. You need to have clean criminal record and pass through tests. Compared to, say, Germany gun ownership is low but this is because manufactured goods prices are on Western European levels.
The new Czech law (if it passes through upper parliament chamber) may enable creation of state supported self-defense groups. Membership in such group would allow one to have weapons that EU recently restricted. At least this is what politicians promised. We’ll see.
The laws to protect lives and property did not change a bit. Just the EU decision will be de-facto ignored, nothing more.
There are several pieces of transcendental importance.
The piece on the Federal Reserve is one. The piece asserted that the consistent goal of the Federal Reserve has not been the health of the US economy, but the centralization of banking desired by super-wealthy bankers and deal brokers. This is quite consistent with history, where the banking/moneylender class, having reached a certain critical mass, consistently devastated the people and culture of their country in pursuit of profits. There are examples of this from ancient Rome, through modern England.
Murray Rothbard showed very convincingly that the Great Depression was caused solely by the consistent deflation policies of the Fed. Deflation devastates an economy by making it impossible for debtors to pay their debts and they thus forfeit their possessions to the moneylenders. Moneylenders and bankers are enriched by deflation, because their outstanding loans and reserves of money increase in value. Incidentally, a period of deflation stops investments in production because the moneyholders stand to make more by simply holding onto their money than by investing.
The two other items both involve the EU. The EU has legislated to make it even harder, if possible, for real citizens to obtain firearms. The motivation for this is laughably transparent. The objective of the EU leadership is to dissolve the European civilization by bringing in masses of third-worlders. Armed citizens would enable the citizens to at least carve out enclaves of safety from the migrant criminals and street gangs. The EU will have none of it.
Finally, the EU is opposing a plan by Italy to close its ports to boat-people. Again, the EU motivation is transparent. The problem is, Italy is one of the profligate spenders dependent on EU loans and so is not able to resist EU diktats. Hungary and Poland, to the contrary, have exercised some degree of fiscal responsibility and so are able to defy non-military aggression by the EU.
And perhaps the US under the Trump administration really will use its military muscle to prevent the EU and NATO from military enforcement of immigration quotas. The EU is as dangerous to freedom and national identity as the UN. Trump will have more than lived up to expectations if he downgrades NATO, pulls the US out of the UN, and institutes a permanent ban on Muslim (and hopefully all other) immigration.