A pipe bomb exploded in front of an Air Force recruiting center in Tulsa, Oklahoma late last night. The blast did some property damage, but no one was injured. A suspect named Benjamin Roden is currently in custody, and is being questioned by the FBI.
In other news, a three-year-old boy named Omar Omran was stabbed to death in Dublin, and his mother is in the hospital undergoing surgery after suffering slash wounds. The mother and father immigrated to Ireland seven years ago, but are now said to be “living apart”.
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Death of the Middle Class: The Suburbs Have Absorbed Half of America’s Poverty Growth
For decades suburbia was home to the highest concentration of wealth in America, and perhaps even the entire world. It was the seat of our nation’s thriving middle class and a beacon of economic mobility. The streets were clean and safe, the schools were highly regarded, and there were plenty of middle class jobs to be had.
But something has changed in suburbia. While offshoring and automation have destroyed millions of jobs across the country, the decimation of brick and mortar stores by online retailers has pounded the wealth base of suburbia. So much so, that there are more people living in poverty in suburbia than any other place in America…
The truth is this is emblematic of a much wider trend. The middle class in America is clearly dying, and the suburbs are where the middle class used to be concentrated. But like I said, it’s happening all over the place.
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European Union — EU Veteran Warns Brussels Trouble Brewing in ‘Stagnating’ Italy
PORTUGAL’S former EU minister warned Brussels that Italy’s stagnating economy is proving to be fertile ground for anger at the European Union.
Bruno Maçães, who was Portugal’s EU minister between July 2013 and November 2015 told the Express.co.uk that Italians were increasingly drawing the link between the country’s economic woes and its EU membership.
Mr Maçães said: ‘The big problem is that Italy has not grown since the start of the euro, its been basically stagnant for 16 or 17 years.
“This is not sustainable, and of course more and more people are making the connection and asking, publicly, whether the euro is to blame for Italian stagnation.
“Italy is not a country that is used to this. It was for decades a fast growing, fast industrialising, high tech economy. You have to make an effort to think back to those years in the 70s and the 60s.”
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Moody’s May Cut State of Illinois, Chicago Board of Education Credit
Moody’s Investors Service has placed the general obligation rating of the State of Illinois and the Chicago Board of Education under review for possible downgrade, the credit rating company said.
The state currently has a rating of Baa3, which is the lowest investment-grade rating on Moody’s credit rating scale. And any move lower would place the state’s credit status in subprime territory.
Moody’s said the possible downgrade for the state came after it failed to fully enact a timely budget for the fiscal year, which began July 1. It also cited the state’s failure to achieve broad political consensus on how to move toward balanced financial operations.
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Buchanan: Alone Perhaps, But is Trump Right?
Has Trump read the crisis of the West correctly?
At the G-20 in Hamburg, it is said, President Trump was isolated, without support from the other G-20 members, especially on climate change and trade.
Perhaps so. But the crucial question is not whether Trump is alone, but whether he is right. Has Trump read the crisis of the West correctly? Are his warnings valid? Is not the Obama-Merkel vision of a New World Order a utopian fantasy?
At the monument to the patriots of the Warsaw Uprising, Trump cited Poland as exemplar of how a great people behaves in a true national crisis.
Calling the Polish people “the soul of Europe,” he related how, in the Miracle of the Vistula in 1920, Poland, reborn after 12 decades of subjugation, drove back the invading Red Army of Leon Trotsky.
[Comment: Yes to both questions. ]
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‘Civilizational Jihad’ Underway at 3,000 U.S. Mosques
Islamization expert blames both parties for crisis
WASHINGTON — Even as President Trump’s administration tries to crack down on Muslim terrorism, public officials from both sides of the aisle remain blind to the threat of Islam, contends the man who infiltrated a top Muslim organization in the U.S.
Carl Gallups, host of the radio show “Freedom Friday,” recently interviewed Chris Gaubatz, vice president of Understanding the Threat, to discuss the Islamization of America by organizations such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
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Clint Eastwood Hires Real-Life Heroes for Upcoming Movie ‘15:17 to Paris’
Clint Eastwood has cast three real-life heroes in his upcoming film “15:17 to Paris,” Variety reports.
Eastwood is bringing on Anthony Sadler, Alek Skariatos and Spencer Stone to play themselves in the film that is based on Sadler’s book by the same name. “15:17 to Paris” tells the story of the soldiers who prevented a terrorist attack on a Paris-bound train in 2015.
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FBI: Explosion Not Being Called Act of Domestic Terrorism
BIXBY, Okla. — Federal authorities said Tuesday that they are no longer investigating a pipe bomb explosion that damaged a northeast Oklahoma recruiting station as a possible act of domestic terrorism, adding that the blast could be the work of a disgruntled employee or a prank.
FBI Special Agent Jessi Rice said the explosion in the Tulsa suburb of Bixby is not being called domestic terrorism because investigators have not determined a motive and have not identified a suspect. Rice said the blast currently is a criminal investigation into the use of an explosive device.
A device was set off around 10:30 p.m. Monday in front of the recruiting center, which was closed, federal authorities said. No one was hurt.
Earlier Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said the blast was being treated as a possible act of domestic terrorism out of “an abundance of caution,” because of its proximity to the recruiting office.
The door of the recruiting station was blown off in the explosion and landed in a parking space in front of the storefront and soot-covered windows. The center is in a commercial area that also houses small businesses, restaurants and financial planning firms. There is a movie theater nearby.
Rice said agents were still scouring the area for surveillance cameras that might show someone putting the device in place or a vehicle containing suspects. A witness said a motorcycle was seen in the area around the time of the blast…
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From Duty to be Armed to Permission to Carry
Our federal Constitution doesn’t delegate to the federal government any power over the Country at Large to restrict our arms.
“If the central government has the authority to tell a state it must accept permits from all the other states, then it also has the authority to tell a state it may not accept a concealed permit from any other states. If the central government can do these things it can set up a national concealed carry permit scheme and in essence bring into existence a national arms registry. That is exactly where this is headed.” Attorney Richard D. Fry
Some are touting the federal Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 (HR 38) as a bill which would expand our right to carry. But if you will walk with me for a few minutes, I’ll show you a better path to take.
Let us look at the applicable First Principles, to which I propose we return.
1— Gun control is not an enumerated power delegated to the federal government
Our federal Constitution doesn’t delegate to the federal government any power over the Country at Large to restrict our arms. Accordingly, all pretended federal laws, regulations, orders, opinions, or treaties which purport to do so are unconstitutional as outside the scope of powers delegated. They are also unconstitutional as in violation of the Second Amendment.
The only power the federal government has over the Country at Large respecting arms is set forth at Article I, §8, clause 16 with respect to providing for the “organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia”. Pursuant to this clause, Congress passed the Militia Act of 1792 which required every able-bodied male citizen (with a few exceptions) between the ages of 18 and 45 to acquire a rifle, bayonet, ammo, ammo pouch, and report to his local Militia Unit for training.
2— What does your State Constitution say about the right to keep and bear arms?
Each State has its own Constitution which addresses its State Militia and the right to be armed.
Now listen: No State may lawfully make any law which contradicts its State Constitution or which interferes with Congress’ power to “organize, arm, and discipline, the Militia”.
Accordingly, any State Statute which purports to require a permit before one may carry a gun is probably unconstitutional under that State’s Constitution; and is certainly unconstitutional under the federal Constitution because Congress may lawfully require able-bodied male Citizens to acquire firearms and ammo and report to their local Militia Unit for training!
Do you see?
Now let’s look at Title 18, US Code, Part I, Chapter 44, which HR 38 proposes to amend.
[Comment: Highly recommended readed.]
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Hackers Breached a Dozen Power Plants in May — Could be a Dry Run for Something Bigger
It may only be a matter of time before the power grid in the United States, which is far more vulnerable to hacking than most people realize, suffers from a catastrophic cyber attack. We know this, because there is already evidence that unknown hackers have been targeting companies that run power plants throughout the country. According to the FBI and Homeland Security, in May hackers made their way into computer systems related to a dozen power plants, including the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant in Kansas.
However, it doesn’t appear that any damage was done, and the hackers didn’t gain access to the controls for the power plants. They only infiltrated systems that were “limited to administrative and business networks.” So what were these hackers going after? According to the experts, these cyber attacks may have been a dry run for a future attack that could have a far more devastating effect.
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Limbaugh: The Left Has Developed ‘Genuine Hatred’ For America
Radical left has shed its liberal disguise
The left has developed a genuine “hatred” for America, and nothing triggers it so quickly as reminders about how great the nation is, talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh says.
Such as President Trump’s speech last week in Poland in which he praised Western civilization and said the key to its future is its regard for family and values.
Liberals, Limbaugh said, have gone too far.
“And I’ve always known they’re extreme, and I’ve always known they’re hateful. But I continually — and I shouldn’t be, I guess — but I continue to be surprised over just how far gone they are. There is now a genuine — we have to just call it what it is. There is a genuine hatred for this country and its great traditions and institutions. And it appears at first glance to me like it happened overnight. It hasn’t happened overnight; that’s the point.”…
Limbaugh took up the issue on Monday, too.
He noted the left’s “singular focus on nothing” and Trump’s question whether America “has the will … the desire to defend Western values, which is who we are and what we are.”
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“I knew there was objection to it at the time, but it’s singularly instructive to note the literal cow that the left is having over the assertion of greatness of Western values. Places in mainstream media, mainstream media, which is indicative of just how far out to the left the mainstream of the American left or Democrat Party has become. The nonsense, the paranoia, the fear, the hate, the unbridled hate over the expression of Western civilization, Western values,” he said.
[Comment: The idiots in the picture would not last 5 seconds should Islamists take over.]
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Pope: America Has ‘Distorted Vision of the World’
Pope Francis told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica on Thursday that the United States of America-and Russia, China, North Korea and Bashar al Assad’s Syria-have “a distorted vision of the world”…
In the same interview, according to La Repubblica, Pope Francis said that Europe must take on a “federal structure.”
“I also thought many times to this problem and came to the conclusion that, not only but also for this reason, Europe must take as soon as possible a federal structure,” the pope said, according to the Google translation of the La Repubblica article.
[Comment: A Federal structure. There you have it. It seems every time he opens his mouth recently, he proves he is a commie globalist first and foremost. ]
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Progressive Media Out Themselves as Opponents of West
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s speech Thursday in Poland elicited a frenzied reaction from many progressives, demonstrating their opposition to Western civilization.
The focus of outrage was a passage detailing how the West will survive in the 21st century.
“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive,” Trump said. “Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost? Do we have enough respect for our citizens to protect our borders? Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and destroy it?”
Trump continued, “We can have the largest economies and the most lethal weapons anywhere on Earth, but if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive.”
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Stunning Claim: ‘Seth Rich is Russia’
WASHINGTON — Americans will be holding silent vigils across the nation July 10, marking the one-year anniversary of the murder of Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee voter-expansion data director whom some suspect handed over thousands of DNC emails to WikiLeaks during the 2016 election.
All Americans should be concerned about the investigation of Rich’s murder, a woman who has been at the forefront of organizing the vigil in Washington, D.C., told WND, because “Seth Rich is Russia.”
“The ‘ Russia-Trump [election] rigging’story was a complete lie and fabricated — probably to deflect in part from the murder of Seth Rich,” she said, insisting Rich was the DNC email leaker, not Russia.
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Tulsa Man Jailed in Connection With Explosion at Bixby Air Force Recruiting Center
Update: A 28-year-old Tulsa man has been booked into the Tulsa Jail on a U.S. Marshals hold in connection with the Monday night’s explosion at an Air Force recruitment office in Bixby.
U.S. Deputy Marshal Jeff Johnston confirmed Benjamin Roden is the person jailed in connection with the explosion. The U.S. Marshals handle federal prisoners. The FBI is leading the investigation of the case.
Roden is being held without bond on a federal hold, according to online jail records.
A person of interest in the case was taken into custody earlier, according to an FBI spokeswoman.
Tulsa police and FBI agents were at the Sand Dollar apartments, near 61st Street and Riverside Drive, where the man was taken into custody.
Authorities searched the area and found no explosive devices.
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Watch: Clueless Anti-Trump Protesters Applaud Speech That Consists of Nothing But Hitler Quotes
Everyone in the so called “resistance” movement against Donald Trump thinks that they’re fighting a rising tide of fascism in America. What they don’t realize however, is that they are the biggest authoritarians of all. They’re the ones who love big government, and have a habit of shutting down everyone they disagree with. They’re the ones who have been responsible for the most political violence over the past year. Inside their social echo chambers it’s easy for them to view themselves as heroes, but it’s obvious to everyone else that the far-left is the most tyrannical force in America today.
In fact, Leftists are so unaware of how authoritarian they are that they’ll applaud the words of history’s most famous dictator, because his rhetoric is shockingly similar to theirs. We know this, because last week a Trump supporter managed to infiltrate a leftist protest in Chicago, where he was given an opportunity to speak to the crowd. He proceeded to read off several quotes from Adolph Hitler that were derived from his speeches and Mein Kampf. All he did, was replace words like “jews” or “bankers” with “Donald Trump,” among other words that made the quotes relevant to modern ears.
At the end of the speech the crowd applauded him, and one of the organizers was so impressed that he tried to recruit the Trump supporter.
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When I Found Out How Members of Congress Really Spend Their Time, I Just About Threw Up
Our system is deeply broken and it needs to be fixed
Did you know that many members of Congress spend three or four hours a day “dialing for dollars” in cramped call centers that both parties have set up in Washington?
I promised that I would keep all of you updated on what I am learning as I run for Congress, and what I learned the other day just about had me losing my lunch. I always imagined members of Congress spending long hours in their offices working on legislation and other important matters, but the truth is that most members of Congress are little more than glorified telemarketers at this point. Winning the next election is everything for most of these Congress critters, and so they spend far more time making cold calls to potential donors than doing anything else.
Have you ever had a politician call you up in the middle of the day begging for money? It is an absolutely disgraceful thing to do, but the truth is that money is the number one factor in determining election outcomes, and so our professional politicians have an endless appetite for it.
Every two years, more than a billion dollars is spent on congressional elections, and those that are masters at raising money just keep winning over and over again. Something desperately needs to be done to fix our fundamentally flawed system, but neither party seems to have any desire to take the money out of politics.
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Christian Slapped With $12,000 ‘Shariah Fine’ For Not Removing Shoes
John Alabi of Ontario, Canada, fined for offending his Muslim tenants by not removing his shoes when he walked into their apartment.
Canada is now fining its citizens for offending people of the Islamic faith.
John Alabi, 53, is a Christian and a landlord who lives in the Toronto area and is being ordered to pay a fine of $12,000 by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal because he failed to remove his shoes when he entered the apartment he was renting to a Muslim couple.
His crime? Religious discrimination, according to the tribunal…
The Muslim tenants waited eight months before filing their grievance with the human rights tribunal, where they receive free representation, the Toronto Sun reported. The couple even searched his Facebook page and found a joke they considered offensive and used to bolster their case. The tribunal agreed he harassed them and failed in his duty to accommodate their religious needs — — and awarded them $6,000 each — plus interest.
Alabi says he does not have the money to pay the fine and doesn’t know what he’s going to do.
“What about my rights?” asks the father of three, who has since sold the house. “What about my rights to show my place so I could rent it and put food on the table for my family?”
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‘Competing Canadian Values’: Awarding Khadr’s Settlement to U.S. Widow a Challenge for Ont. Court
The family of a slain U.S. soldier who won a $134 million lawsuit against Omar Khadr in a Utah court could face some significant legal hurdles in collecting any money recently awarded to the former Guantanamo Bay inmate.
With such a complex case, legal analysts say it’s too difficult to predict whether that lawsuit will be upheld in a Canadian court.
“There are a lot of question marks about whether they will ultimately be successful in the claim of the foreign judgement,” said Stephen Pitel, a law professor at Western University in London, Ont.
Competing Canadian values? What horsesh*t. Funding a Muslim terrorist murderer is not a “Canadian” value except perhaps in PM Useful Idiot’s world.
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Brutal Muslim Religious Police Now Patrol Europe
Saudi Arabia is known for its notorious religious police, the Mutaween, but now a German newspaper is reporting public enforcers of Islamic law are active in the heart of Europe.
Muslim immigrant women who have adopted a Western lifestyle are particular targets of gangs of Muslim men in certain parts of Germany who have emigrated in the past three years from the Muslim-majority Russian state of Chechnya, including Berlin, reports Der Taggespiegel.
A video of an armed man in a hood began circulating in the Chechen community in March.
“Here, in Europe, certain Chechen women and men who look like women do unspeakable things. You know it; I know it; everybody knows it,” he declared, according to the Latvia-based Russian language news aggregator Meduza.
He said Chechen women “who flirt with men of other ethnic groups and marry them, Chechen women who have chosen the wrong path and those [creatures] who call themselves Chechen men — given half a chance, we will set all of them straight.”
“Having sworn on the Quran, we go out onto the streets. This is our declaration of intent; do not say that you were not warned; do not say that you did not know.”
[Comment: Merkel should be in the front, proudly barking “We did it, we did it.” ]
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Geert Wilders Introduces Legislation to Arrest Jihadis Before They Kill
Thousands of known Islamic radicals roaming free in Europe
Dutch politician Geert Wilders has introduced legislation to empower security services in the Netherlands to arrest and detain potential terrorists before they commit violent acts of jihad.
The avid anti-Islam watchdog delivered a statement accompanying his proposal during a parliamentary debate on ‘combating terrorism’ with Prime Minister Mark Rutte, whose majority party lost ground to Wilders’ Party For Freedom (PVV) in recent elections, likely due in part to Rutte’s weak stance on the crisis of Islamic migration and terrorism facing much of Europe.
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(London Daily Mail) Violent scenes continued into the night at the G20 summit in Hamburg as hardcore anti-capitalist protesters set fires after earlier being hit with water cannons and pepper spray by German riot police.
Dramatic photos showed helmeted officers battling to keep order after 100,000 protesters poured into the city for their ‘ Welcome To Hell’ protest against the meeting of world leaders.
Police say they repeatedly asked a group of demonstrators to remove their masks and hoods but instead officers were hit with bottles and bricks — breaking the window of a riot van.
[Comment: …asked them? ]
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Officers in Dublin have described the death of Omar Omran as a ‘personal tragedy’ and said they are treating it with ‘sensitivity’
A three-year-old boy stabbed to death in an apartment yesterday has been named as Omar Omran.
Police in Dublin are waiting to talk to the tot’s mum, Maha Al-Adheem, 42, who underwent surgery in hospital for slash wounds.
Officers have described the death as a “personal tragedy” and said they are treating it with “sensitivity”, the Irish Mirror reports.
Omar was fatally injured with a kitchen knife, while his mum, a doctor in her 40s, was rushed to hospital with stab and slash wounds.
Emergency services rushed to the Riverside Apartment complex in the Poddle Park area of Kimmage in south Dublin at 7pm and the boy was pronounced dead at the scene.
It is understood there were at least four emergency calls from the apartment complex because of what locals described as ‘shouting, banging and screaming’…
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New Low: CNN Claims G20 Riots Did Not Happen
The MSM continues reporting outright lies to the American people
As world leaders convened in Germany for the G20 Summit rioters took to the street, burning property, smashing buildings and provoking the police to respond, however, CNN calls the mayhem ‘peaceful protests.’
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UK: Derbyshire Man is Jailed for Preparing Acts of Terrorism
A Derbyshire man whose family had raised concerns about his welfare has been jailed after pleading guilty to preparing for acts of terrorism.
Mudassir Hussain has today, Tuesday, July 11, appeared at Sheffield Crown Court where he admitted preparing for acts of terrorism.
The 31-year-old has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison and will then serve one year on licence.
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UK: Holiday Terrorism: What to Do if Terrorists Strike While You’re Abroad
Run, hide and tell.
The above video has just been released by counter-terrorism police in an effort to advise holiday-makers on what to do in the unlikely event they are struck while on holiday.
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UK: Woman Convicted for Fake Rape Claims Against 15 Innocent Men
‘They are serious as they undermine the credibility of genuine victims’ (Fox News) A British woman who repeatedly claimed of being sexually assaulted and raped by 15 different men — leading one to be wrongly imprisoned — is now facing jail time of her own after she was convicted Thursday of lying about her claims.
“Jemma Beale was a determined liar who repeatedly went to great lengths to fabricate evidence in an attempt to see innocent men convicted, including telling deliberate lies under oath,” London Crown Prosecution Service Lawyer Samuel Mainsaid. Beale was convicted of perjury and perverting the course of justice.
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Why Keep EU? Parliamentarian Says Votes Don’t Mean Anything
A new video series produced by filmmaker Geoffrey Botkin in conjunction with WND TV — shot in Brussels at the very heart of the power structure of the increasingly reviled European Union — reveals both a growing revolt and widespread patriotism that could sink the EU.
After all, Britain voted for Brexit last year, which sent shock waves into all of the progressive, globalist enclaves around the world.
Interviewed by Botkin was Ray Finch, a U.K. member of the European Parliament, who proceeds to blast the international organization as a dictatorial machine in which elected representatives have no power.
He points out members cannot introduce or change legislation.
“We sit there, wave our hands, make speeches. We never change things,” he confirms.
And he describes how the EU originally was sold to voters as a bill if goods: It was represented as a trading bloc when, in fact, it was intended all along to create an “empire,” “run by and for the needs of the mega-businesses.”
Melanie Phillips, journalist and author of “Londonistan,” told Botkin the EU is “power without accountability,” and Simon Heffer, another author and journalist, confirmed the farce, saying elected representatives to the EU are “fundamentally pointless.”
But even without that representation, the EU has generated 40,000 laws, 15,000 court verdicts and 62,000 international standards.
Botkin documents the post-Brexit vote struggle of British voters — indeed of tens of millions of Europeans — to throw off what they see as the outright tyranny of the European Union.
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Israel Backs Hungary’s Campaign Against Financier George Soros
ISRAEL has voiced its support for the Hungary poster campaign targetting financier George Soros claiming he “undermines” the nation’s government.
Mr Soros has spent large amounts of money funding pro-democracy and human rights groups and has been a target for Hungary’s government, largely because of his support for open immigration.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has backed a campaign claiming Soros is a threat, which features posters with the words “Let’s not allow Soros to have the last laugh”.
Israel’s ambassador to Hungary initially issued a statement denouncing the campaign.
However, hours after, the Middle East nation’s foreign ministry issued a clarification claiming Mr Soros was a legitimate target for criticism.
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Iraqi Prime Minister celebrates victory in liberated city
The Iraqi Prime Minister has celebrated victory in Mosul with his ‘brave forces’ as details of ISIS atrocities in the final hours of its brutal rule continue to emerge.
Haider al-Abadi proclaimed the liberation of the city as a ‘victory over darkness, brutality and terrorism’ as he shared the moment with his troops and local people.
He said: ‘I announce to the whole world today the end, failure and collapse of the mythical terrorist state. ‘We joined the people of Mosul in their celebration of the city’s liberation, brought about through the sacrifices of our brave forces.’
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Blogger Discredits Claim Amelia Earhart Was Taken Prisoner by Japanese
Claims made in a US documentary that the pioneering aviator Amelia Earhartcrash-landed on the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean and was taken prisoner by the Japanese appear to have been proved false by a photograph unearthed in a travel book.
The History Channel documentary, Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence, which aired in the US on Sunday, made the claim that the American and her navigator, Fred Noonan, ended up in Japanese custody based on a photograph discovered in the US national archives that purported to show them standing at a harbour on one of the islands.
[Comment: I had submitted to the newsfeed an article about Amelia Earhart taken prisoner by Japan. In the interest of truth, I submit this article which challenges that claim.]
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Conrad Craig, 26, has been arrested and charged over the murder of 15-year-old Brayden Dillon (pictured).
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Ms Abdel-Magied, 26, who caused outrage over a now infamous Anzac Day tweet, was joined on the posters by Waleed Aly, Sarah Hanson-Young and the ‘Apex gang’.
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The Project’s Peter Helliar has teased Waleed Aly about his rumoured future in politics, claiming it’s a ‘matter of time’ before he becomes Australian Prime Minister.
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A Month of Islam and Multiculturalism in Germany, June 2017
by Soeren Kern
A 10-year-old girl from a former republic of the Soviet Union was raped by an asylum seeker from Ghana, but police and the local government allegedly suppressed information about the crime for more than two weeks.
A student sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl and punched another boy in the face, breaking his glasses. At least six other students have been beaten bloody. The school’s leadership has refused to discipline the child, apparently because of his migrant background, and instead has lashed out at the parents for demanding a safe environment for their children.
Police in Lübeck suspect that refugees are taking over illegal drug trade in the city.
June 1. A Syrian migrant was stabbed to death in Oldenburg by another Syrian because he was eating ice cream during Ramadan. The murder, which occurred in broad daylight in a busy pedestrian shopping area, was just the latest example of Islamic law, Sharia, being enforced on German streets.
June 2. Around one million non-Europeans living in Germany are now on welfare, an increase of 124% in just one year, according to new statistics from the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit). The top welfare beneficiaries are from: Syria (509,696); Turkey (276,399); Iraq (110,529) and Afghanistan (65,443).
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EU President: Millions More Migrants Could Come to Europe Within 5 Years
“Today we are trying to solve a problem of a few thousand people, but we need to have a strategy for millions of people.”
Antonio Tajani, President of the European Parliament, has said Europe is underestimating the scale of the migrant crisis, and that we could face migration of ‘biblical proportions’ if the problem isn’t dealt with properly now.
Speaking to the Il Messagero newspaper, Tajani said: “If we don’t confront this soon, we will find ourselves with millions of people on our doorstep within five years.
“Today we are trying to solve a problem of a few thousand people, but we need to have a strategy for millions of people.”
[Comment: Seize every Soros NGO boat. Banning every Soros NGO and boot out or imprison the agitator communists traitors that work for these NGOS.]
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EU’s Bid to Stop Migrants Crossing Mediterranean Branded a ‘Failure’
THE EU’s naval mission to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean from Libya was yesterday branded a “failure”.
Peers said Operation Sophia, which has rescued 33,000 people since it was launched in 2015, should not be renewed.
Members of the House of Lords EU External Affairs Sub-Committee said the mission — which has included Royal Navy warships such as HMS Bulwark — was the “wrong tool” to tackle ruthless gangs exploiting migrants desperate to get out of North Africa.
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Human Trafficiking: Polish Truck Driver Smuggled 22 Migrants Into UK
A POLISH truck driver smuggled 22 migrants, including five children, into Britain hidden behind electrical goods inside his cramped truck.
Tomasz Cierniak, 32, was stopped moments after entering the country with the Afghan refugees crammed behind washing machines and tumble dryers.
The Polish national told Border Force officers he was carrying electronic goods but when the lorry’s rear doors were opened, the people were found inside.
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Islam’s Onslaught of America: To Seed Host Countries to Gain Numbers
Marco Polo, a Venetian merchant whose travels appeared in the Book of the Marvels of the World, left a detailed chronicle of his travel experience through Central Asia and China. His insight into Islam from eight centuries ago remains relevant today.
Polo said (paraphrased for modern English), “The militant Muslim is the one who beheads the infidel, while the average Muslim holds the feet of the victim.”
We Americans sit in front of our TV sets thinking the carnage in Paris, France or Berlin, Germany cannot occur within America. We think we’re immune to Islam’s onslaught. We prove ourselves fools on a fool’s watch. Just look at this video from a week in Sweden, formerly the most successful and peaceful country in the world. Muslim immigrants turn Sweden into a firebomb weekly:
In his sobering book Slavery, Terrorism, and Islam, Peter Hammond wrote a detailed analysis on the proportion of Muslims to the overall population and increased violence and adherence to Sharia law. Read this and weep for America:
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Italians Say Government Committing ‘Ethnic Replacement’ — Poll
The majority of Italians want to see migrant arrivals stopped completely, and believe the ‘ius soli’ law being pushed by Italy’s globalist government is “ethnic replacement”, enacted to boost the proportion of left wing voters in the nation.
The ruling Democratic Party (PD) say that passing the long-awaited ius soli (meaning ‘law of the soil’ in Latin) bill, which would make it much easier for second generation immigrants to gain citizenship, would send an important message that “migrants are an integrated part of society”.
But the law, which experts say would grant citizenship to around 800,000 people overnight and a further 60,000 each year, has the support of only a third of Italians, most of whom are strongly opposed to policies of mass migration
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Trudeau Plays Dangerous Game of Identity Politics
Here is our Prime Minister’s latest unscripted verbal eruption:
“Anytime I meet people who got to make the deliberate choice, whose parents chose Canada, I’m jealous. Because I think being able to choose it, rather than being Canadian by default, is an amazing statement of attachment to Canada … This is your country more than it is for others because we take it for granted.”
Justin Trudeau’s defenders may claim he was merely extending a compliment to immigrants on our 150th anniversary.
But it is impossible to ignore his plain words, especially because they are part of a pattern.
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UK: Refugees to Get Seven-Bed Home While 1,132 Wait on Council List
SYRIAN refugees will be given a seven-bedroom home in one of the most desirable parts of Britain, it was revealed last night.
The spacious property — worth an estimated £400,000 — is in Home Secretary Amber Rudd’s constituency of historic Rye, East Sussex.
The furnished end-of-terrace home has been empty for two years but is now reserved for “imminent arrivals” by Rother Council, which has 1,132 people waiting for social housing.
It is part of the Government’s plans to speed up the resettlement of people fleeing the war-torn country.
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Army Training Urges Soldiers: Befriend Trannies
Transgender soldiers asked not to “modify or adjust behavior” in any way
The US Army is moving forward with mandatory training sessions for male soldiers despite a decision by Secretary of Defense James Mattis to impose a six-month delay on an Obama era order integrating transgender soldiers into the military.
A copy of the PowerPoint presentation and accompanying lesson plan were revealed to The Federalist by an active duty Army officer who completed the training session, along with 40 other soldiers, instead of their regularly scheduled morning physical training.
The new guidelines call for male soldiers to ensure an “inclusive environment” by “developing friendships” with “transgender soldiers.”
“Social interactions and developing friendships with peers are what contribute to a positive work environment,” the presentation indicated. “Maintain an inclusive environment and do not gossip. In accordance with good order and discipline, do not ask a colleague or subordinate for their personal information unless it is mission related.”
“This includes information about a Soldier’s gender identity, sexuality, medical challenges, and/or gender transition.”
Under the new guidelines, a soldier is only required to obtain a letter from a medical doctor stipulating they have achieved “stability in their preferred gender” to officially change their “gender marker” in the Army’s personnel database (DEERS).
[Comment: Another step in the globalist goal to weaken US military.]
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Barbarians at the School House Door
Printed books can be dangerous as they can’t be changed. If allowed to remain they can be discovered by future generations.
The barbarians have finally broken down the school doors and are now plundering knowledge. Books are their target. Banning them is the goal.
In New York City, administrators at the Life Sciences Secondary School have ordered all textbooks rounded up and removed. Books, they say, are antiquated. Instead, technology is to be the new god of learning…
Do you think these changes are just happenstance? No, they are the result of a carefully orchestrated takeover of the public education system with the specific purpose of creating a new kind of citizen for the future. One that doesn’t challenge authority and official dictates. How do you create such a product? Keep them ignorant of history, philosophy and contrary ideas. If you don’t know there is even a question then you will never ask it.
Printed books can be dangerous as they can’t be changed. If allowed to remain they can be discovered by future generations. In printed version, their message remains intact, ready to spark questions to a hungry mind… Behavior modification, social justice and an all out assault on attitudes, values and beliefs have replaced academics in the public education system as it churns out the perfect global village idiots. Leaving old books and their anti-revolutionary ideas lying around is a danger to their revolution. Soon, books with contrary ideas will not be available in your favorite E-book. Google will not provide the answers in a search. Facebook will censure contrary postings. Oh, wait, all of that is already happening.
[Comment: Recall the hullabaloo over Huckleberry Finn? Now it will be easy to provide a digital politically correct version for students.]
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These Days Young Men in America Are Working a Lot Less and Playing Video Games a Lot More
If you could stay home and play video games all day, would you do it? According to a brand new report that was released by the National Bureau of Economic Research on Monday, American men from the ages of 21 to 30 are working a lot less these days. In fact, on average men in this age group worked 203 fewer hours per year in 2015 than they did in 2000. So what did they do with all of that extra time? According to the study, a large portion of the time that young men used to spend working is now being spent playing video games.
It is certainly no secret that young men like video games. But the study found that in recent years the amount of time young men dedicate to gaming has shot up dramatically…
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Bloodiest Ramadan in Recent History
Ramadan, the month of fasting that forms one of the five “pillars” of Islam, in recent years frequently drew mention from President Obama.
Attacks and threats against Muslims have been reported during the most recent holiday, including a threat of violence at a Manhattan mosque, an assault of a woman on a Boston train, pellet gun vandalism at a New York mosque, hateful phone calls at Denver mosques and harassment of girls wearing hijabs in Chicago.
The Christian ministry Barnabas Fund, however, highlighted another statistic.
It noted 1,629 people were killed by Muslims during their holy month this year.
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Mostly likely the Power Company hackers were looking for billing information for customers using direct debit to pay their monthly bills. Taking a few dollars off of thousands of accounts is much less likely to trigger alarms than large, unscheduled transfers.
As the article body itself points out. Nothing related to the nuclear power plant itself, inside the fence line, was penetrated. The headline is unnecessarily provocative but Clicks = $$$.
Each member of the armed forces should wait for Mad Dog Mattis to step out with a transgendered, a transvestite, and perhaps a Chinese communist spy for Happy Hour. Smile for the cameras, Secretary Mattis!
If prophesy is to be believed, the present Pope could be the last; if his comments are anything to go by, let us fervently hope so.
Canada. Re. Trudeau’s $10 million gift of Canadian taxpayers’ money to moslem terrorist murderer:
The case is only ‘complex’ to money-grubbing lawyers, to whom the valid legal challenge by the American widow is a godsend.
If not so infuriating, it would be amusing to watch Canadian TV channels CBC and CTV in their witch-hunt coverage of President Trump, while almost completely ‘forgetting’ the Khadr gift which is so enraging any and all right-minded Canadians.
I am thinking for the sake of fairness the Canadian government should publish their list, what crime a citizen should commit and how much money he/she will receive for it… After all equal opportunity and all that jazz…
Nice to see the Italians getting it with regard to their gov’ts plan to replace them.
Here is a good column about why Italy has had fewer problems with attacks in recent years:
http://www.isegoria.net/2017/07/why-has-italy-been-spared-mass-terror-attacks-in-recent-years/
OT:
The following is a link to a Youtube of a live event which ended about a half hour ago. The discussion provided an interesting but as yet unverified tidbit of information which may be of interest to GoV readers familiar with Baron’s examination of Jamaat al Fuqra camp in his region.
To hear/view it look for the(-1 22 06 mark) or fast forward about 20 minutes from the start.
Featuring independent investigative journalist, George Webb and tech specialist, Jason Goodman with Trish- all of Crowdsource the Truth – George is discussing a variety of entities tied to human trafficking/drug/weapons rat lines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk-TnTqDVp4
Begin at -1 22 06 (below follows a partial and rough transcript eliminates cross talk )
George Webb:
Consider the following recent details from the Obama administration with a few links to jog memories…
Recall Obama’s call for a civilian national security force?
Obama civilian national security force.
Recall all those alarming stories about massive purchases of ammunition by several federal agencies during Obama’s tenure? Newsmax 2014: US Postal Service Joins in Federal Ammo Purchases
Recall also the distribution of military grade gear to local police depts by the Obama administration – only to have that gear returned? What happened to all that gear?
CBSNews 2014: Obama orders review of giving local police military gear
Does George Webbs revelation about Jamaat al Fuqra camps used as weapons caches now seem to sound more feasible?
Obama and Clinton protected Fetullah Gulan in this country…they never addressed concerns expressed over the number of Jamaat al Fuqra camps in the US either. Perhaps this deserves further investigation and perhaps demands an immediate audit of those ammo/military grade equipment purchases for domestic distribution under Obama/Clinton/Kerry’s tenures.