Nikki Haley, the United States’ ambassador to the UN, said the US will use any means necessary to prevent North Korea from becoming a nuclear power, including possible military force. She also mentioned the possibility of using trade restrictions.
In other news, Amor Ftouhi, the man who stabbed a police officer in the neck last month in a Michigan airport, appeared in court today. He faces a possible 20-year sentence for committing violence in an airport.
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Are You a Domestic Terrorist? That Depends on Who is in Power
Over the past year, Antifa and other similar anti-fascist groups have been caught threatening, intimidating, and inflicting violence against peaceful people on numerous occasions. And in each case, this has been done with the goal of effecting political change in this country. And that has left many of their critics wondering why groups like Antifa haven’t been labeled as terrorist organizations. What these people are doing, literally fits the dictionary definition of terrorism, which is “The unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.”
Well if you can believe it, Homeland Security has finally done what they should have done months ago.
The Department of Homeland Security in New Jersey has officially listed Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization after a rash of violent attacks by the group targeting supporters of Donald Trump.
Under the heading ‘Anarchist Extremists: Antifa’, the njhomelandsecurity.gov website characterizes Antifa under the designation of “domestic terrorism”.
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Assange Accuses CNN of Committing Crime With Trump Wrestling Story (He Might be Right)
Reporters at CNN were mighty proud of themselves for tracking down a Reddit user who was supposedly behind the animated GIF image of President Donald Trump at Wrestlemania, fake fighting with WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, but with McMahon’s head replaced by a CNN logo. Their story even boasted the self-congratulatory headline, “How CNN found the Reddit user behind the Trump wrestling GIF.”
The article talks about how the Reddit user apparently has a history of anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim posts. CNN said they weren’t revealing his identity because he’s a private citizen who said he would stop the offensive behavior. However, the article said, “CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.”
Perhaps looking to take CNN down a peg, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange decided to rain on their parade with a couple of trolling tweets, accusing them of violating federal and state laws by hanging the threat over the person’s head in case CNN thinks he ever steps out of line.
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CNN Blackmails Reddit User Over Trump Wrestling Video, Threatens to Expose Identity
CNN is taking heat for threatening to publish the identity of a private citizen who posted a video lampooning the network.
Redditor ‘HanAssholeSolo’ is credited as the creator of a clip showing President Trump beating up a man with a CNN logo superimposed over his face, which the President then tweeted on Sunday morning.
#FraudNewsCNN #FNN pic.twitter.com/WYUnHjjUjg
— — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 2, 2017
In response, CNN and it’s MSM brethren caught the vapors — with pundits accusing the President of inciting violence against journalists. CNN media reporter Brian Stelter tweeted this screed:
CNN statement responding to the president: “We will keep doing our jobs. He should start doing his.” pic.twitter.com/Gn1YRA2DRG
— — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 2, 2017
While the White House has said the video didn’t come from Reddit, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski went on a deep dive, uncovering now-deleted posts from ‘HanAssholeSolo’ which the network deemed offensive. CNN decided not to publish the the user’s personal details, for now, because HanAssholeSolo has ‘showed his remorse’ for the ‘offending posts’ and ‘ugly behavior’ — effectively threatening to expose a private citizen if he doesn’t stay in line.
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Delingpole: Climate Mafia Caught Tampering With Evidence Again…
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UAH, by the way, refers to University of Alabama, Huntsville — which is the only other satellite temperature gatekeeper (and, as of this week, the only credible one) in the world run by two skeptics John Christy and Roy Spencer. The reason they are skeptics is because the data they maintain gives them good reason to be skeptical: viz, while the (heavily-adjusted) surface temperature data sets show dramatic warming, their (more reliable) satellite data does not.
Marvel for yourself at the divergence: [image]
Now do you understand why the Climate Mafia were so keen to nobble those pesky satellites? They weren’t telling the right lies.
OK. So we’ve established a motive. But that still doesn’t necessarily prove that a crime has been committed. How do we know for certain that the surface temperature datasets aren’t a more accurate gauge of global warming and that — therefore — Carl Mears’s adjustments aren’t a fair representation of reality?
Well, here’s a massive clue:
Here is the December 2016 global climate record according to NOAA based on their surface “measurements”. [image]
Note how one of the places showing unusual warming — “record warmest” no less — is in Central Africa. [image]
Yet, by spooky coincidence, this is also one of the places where there are ZERO thermometer readings.
Can you imagine a more brazen piece of fabrication than that? NOAA — and NASA which uses the same data — are quite literally making up their own climate evidence. …
That’s the bad news.
The good news is that one of the people who does know what it is go on — I don’t know who is briefing him but whoever it is is so on point he could be me — is Donald Trump.
And his administration isn’t going to take any prisoners…
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Did CNN Commit a Crime? Cruz Suggests Warning to Reddit User Poses Legal Problem
CNN faced widespread backlash Wednesday for seeming to imply the network would reveal the identity of the Reddit user who made an anti-CNN, Trump-themed GIF if he reneged on an apology — but some critics suggested the network also could have a legal problem on its hands.
Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz took to Twitter to cite Georgia state law’s prohibition against “theft by extortion.”
“Troubling. I assume CNN’s lawyers are examining GA § 16-8-16 Theft by extortion. If CNN constructively obtained the gif-maker’s IP…it’s a GA crime if they threatened to ‘Disseminate any information tending to subject any person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule….’“ he wrote, citing a portion of the statute.
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange also claimed on Twitter that CNN may have violated various state and federal laws related to “coercion” and the First Amendment.
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Explosion at Eglin Air Force Base
Officials at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida says shortly before 10 a.m., Wednesday, July 5, an explosion occurred at McKinley Climatic Lab.
A 1,000-foot cordon has been established, and the surrounding area has been evacuated. The smoke visible does not pose a health hazard to the general public.
The source of the smoke has been identified as methyl chloride.
Avoid contact with the smoke if possible. No injuries to any base employees as a result of this incident…
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Huntsville Terrorism Suspect Pledged Allegiance to ISIS, Wanted to Bomb Police, Prosector Says
Huntsville terrorism suspect Aziz Sayyed pledged allegiance to ISIS and planned to bomb a law enforcement building in Madison County, a prosecutor told a judge this afternoon.
Sayyed, 22, “wanted to participate in the beheading of infidels,” Madison County Assistant District Attorney Jay Town told District Judge Schuyler Richardson. New details of the case were made public during a bond hearing this afternoon. Sayyed’s lawyer Bruce Gardner argued why his client, who has been held in the Madison County Jail since his June 15 arrest, should have bail set in the case
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Man Accused in Flint Airport Stabbing to Appear in Court
The man accused of stabbing an airport police officer last month will appear in court this afternoon after being indicted by a federal grand jury, a court spokesman said.
Amor Ftouhi faces a charge of charge of committing a violent act in an airport, which carries a maximum punishment of 20 years in prison. He is behind bars without bond.
The incident is being investigated as an act of terror.
Ftouhi is believed to have acted alone in the attack that injured Lt. Jeff Neville at the Bishop International Airport on June 21.
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Police Officer is Shot and Killed in ‘Unprovoked Attack’ In the Bronx
A two-time convict who has voiced anger at law enforcement officers in the past shot and killed a New York City officer through a police vehicle window in the Bronx early Wednesday, in what the police commissioner called an “unprovoked attack.” The gunman was killed by other officers, the police said.
The officer, Miosotis Familia, 48, was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where she was pronounced dead about three hours after the shooting.
The gunman, identified by the police as Alexander Bonds, 34, was paroled in May 2013 after serving seven years in one of New York State’s most notorious prisons for a robbery in the Syracuse area.
In a video he posted to Facebook in September of last year, he railed against prison conditions and warned people of officers raping or killing inmates. But he also hinted that he would not back down in any future confrontations with police officers on the streets…
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Report: Steve Bannon’s Star Rising in the Trump White House
Steve Bannon, White House chief strategist and one of the architects of President Trump’s longshot populist victory in November, reportedly has his mojo back after a period of “hibernation” and is now one of the top voices in the Trump White House — just as Trump looks to take the initiative and push back against those in Congress and the media looking to stifle his agenda.
Bannon, Breitbart News’s former executive chairman, was widely reported to have been on the out in Trump’s inner circle as he disagreed with Gary Cohn, Dina Powell, and other more globalist-minded members of the Trump White House, often putting him at odds with Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner. But it seems those reports may have been overblown or premature.
Axios reported Wednesday that Bannon is back and called him the “happiest person” in Trump’s West Wing.
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Soros-Funded Group Astroturfing Travel Ban Protests
The organization behind a protest in New York City against President Donald Trump’s travel ban is funded by left-wing financier George Soros.
After the United States Supreme Court reinstated Trump’s travel ban, as Breitbart News reported, the New York Immigration Coalition organized a protest against the measure at Union Square in New York City.
The well-orchestrated protest drew about 200 anti-Trump activists like Sharia Linda Sarsour, along with social justice advocate Letitia James, as NY1 reported. Protesters held glossy signs, reading “No ban, no walls, no raids,” demanding an open borders approach to national security issues.
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Trump Trying to Dump Amtrak’s $298 Subsidy for Long-Haul Trips
The Trump administration plans to dump about half of Amtrak’s $1.4 billion annual taxpayer subsidy by ending long-haul passenger services that cost taxpayers about $298 per round-trip and whose on-time performance is as low as 6 percent.
Amtrak carried a record 31.3 million passengers in 2016, the San Francisco Chronicle notes. But the subsidy to carry about 85 percent of those passengers on short-haul commuter runs, such as the Capitol Corridor — which runs from Sacramento to Oakland and San Jose — was $700 million, or $50.98 per round-trip. The taxpayer subsidy to carry the other 15 percent of Amtrak passengers on long-haul trips was also $700 million, or a stunning $298.19 per round-trip.
Amtrak was founded in 1971 to take over longer-haul U.S. passenger rail services, with a supposedly for-profit business model that would operate 200 trains to pic —up passengers at 500 stations to service 46 of the 48 continental states (except Wyoming and South Dakota).
Amtrak promised that for about $4 billion in taxpayer subsidies over its first 5 years, the company could become self-sufficient and profitable. But after 46 years and almost $60 billion in subsidies, Amtrak operates 300 trains and continues to lose more money each year, according to the Mercatus Center.
Amtrak’s main competitors for intermediate and long-haul trips are commercial airlines, which have an average cruising speed of about 550 miles per hour, according to MIT. But federal regulators limit most Amtrak long-haul passenger trains to a maximum speed of 80 miles per hour. The exceptions are Northeast Corridor commuter trains, which are allowed a top speed of 125 miles per hour, and the Acela express train, which are allowed to travel up to 150 miles per hour.
The Amtrak’s massive disadvantage in speed is compounded by its abysmal 60 percent average on-time arrival performance. Commuter runs average about 75 percent on-time arrival, but long hauls only average about 50 percent on-time performance. Northern California’s Capitol Corridor is Amtrak’s best performer, with 90.9 percent on-time arrival. But the worst performer is the Amtrak Crescent, which runs from New York to New Orleans and averages just 6.5 percent on-time arrival.
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Woman Held Hostage in Waynesboro
WAYNESBORO — A woman was held hostage early Wednesday morning in Waynesboro.
The woman was held by her husband, Alex Benjamin Potter, 35, of Waynesboro. He was armed with multiple firearms and had tried to shoot her, the Waynesboro Police Department press release said.
The department responded to the 1200 block of S. Jackson Avenue at about 2:30 a.m. The victim, 34, was able to call 911.
“Dispatchers kept the victim on the phone and did an excellent job of keeping her calm and relaying real time information to officers, who had arrived on the scene and were talking on the phone with her husband,” the WPD press release said.
Officers tried to get the victim released. After this was unsuccessful, department’s crisis negotiations and SWAT teams were called to the scene.
The Staunton Police Department’s robot unit was present along with members of the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office.
Augusta County Sheriff Donald Smith said the department’s crisis negotiation team and SWAT team assisted in the incident.
Smith said he called SWAT team members from home. At a certain point, Smith said there were 15 to 20 deputies assisting the Waynesboro Police Department.
Negotiators talked with Potter for more than three hours. The female was released at about 6:30 a.m.
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Man Charged in Vaughan Café Explosion
York Region police have charged one man and are seeking another suspect in last week’s explosion at a a café in Vaughan.
A blast that demolished the exterior cement wall of Caffé Corretto on Winges Rd., near Highway 7 on June 29 before 5:30 a.m., was called “suspicious” by police.
Nearby, police found a 33-year-old man suffering from injuries that weren’t life-threatening. He was arrested and taken to hospital.
Juan Eduardo Munoz has been charged with arson and public mischief. He’s also charged with possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, accused of stealing a black BMW sedan parked next to the café and covered in debris from the explosion.
Police are seeking a second suspect they believe was also involved in this incident…
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Toronto Man Charged in Explosion That Destroyed Vaughan, Ont., Cafe
VAUGHAN, Ont. — Police say one man is facing charges and another suspect is being sought in connection with an explosion that destroyed a cafe north of Toronto last week.
York regional police say a 33-year-old Toronto man is charged with arson, public mischief and possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000.
When officers arrived at the scene of the June 29 blast they found the cafe was in a state of partial collapse.
Officers also located the 33-year-old, who was suffering from non-life threatening injuries, nearby.
Investigators say they believe a second suspect was involved in the incident.
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Austrian Emergency Services Chase 7,000 Chickens Blocking the Motorway
Emergency workers in Austria were called out to remove an estimated 7,000 chickens which were blocking a busy motorway on Tuesday.
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Brexit Boom: Oxford Economics Predicts UK Will Outperform France, Germany, Entire Eurozone
Dire prophecies of an economy in freefall after Brexit have suffered another blow with the publication of a report which indicates that Britain will outperform Germany, France and the entire Eurozone over the coming years.
Oxford Economics, which employs around 200 professional economists, industry experts and business editors, predict that the British economy will grow by 1.8 per cent between 2017-2021.
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Erdogan Brands Germany’s Rally Refusal ‘Political Suicide’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has railed against a refusal to let him address Turks at a rally in Germany. Just ahead of talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel, he said Germany was committing “political suicide.”
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Impossible to Move Charlie to Rome, Johnson to Alfano
Legal reasons prevent UK from meeting request
(ANSA) — Rome, July 5 — It is impossible to meet Rome’s request to move 10-month-old terminally ill Charlie Gard to the Bambino Gesù Hospital, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano Wednesday. Over the phone, Alfano raised the case and reiterated the Vatican kids’ hospital’s offer, the foreign ministry said. Johnson expressed gratitude and appreciation for the Italian offer but explained that legal reasons prevent Britain from meeting it.
Rare-disease specialists at Vatican-owned Rome children’s hospital Bambino Gesù are working with other international experts to map out an experimental treatment protocol for Charlie, hospital chief Mariella Enoc said. She said the team was also in touch with US experts. Charlie’s mother Connie Yates spoke this morning with the Rome hospital doctors.
Enoc said London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital would agree to a transfer if the Bambino Gesù agreed to implement a British supreme court ruling that Charlie should be taken off life support, but the Rome hospital was unwilling to do this. Yates on Tuesday phoned the Bambino Gesu’ and was “very determined” to see if there was a chance of treating the boy, Enoc said — but Great Ormond Street said it could not move the boy from London to Rome for legal reasons. Enoc said this was “sad” but “our doctors and scientists are still looking into the possibility”. Enoc said Yates “appears set to stop at nothing” after a British court ordered her son’s treatment to be stopped. The Bambino Gesu’ offered to help Yates and her husband Chris Gard after Pope Francis said treatment should be provided “until the end”.
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin on Tuesday said the pope had “full confidence” in the Bambino Gesu’ management.
Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin said at the presentation of the hospital’s annual report Tuesday that its “willingness to welcome Charlie is a mark of your vocation and what you are.
It’s certainly good news for those parents”.
US President Donald Trump has also offered to help and on Tuesday the Sun reported an unnamed US hospital was ready to treat him free of charge despite UK and European court’s rulings against useless treatment.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said that Great Ormond Street will “always consider any offers on new information” about his welfare.
Charlie’s parents want Charlie, who has a form of mitochondrial disease, a genetic condition that causes progressive muscle weakness and brain damage, to have treatment in the US. But the hospital’s doctors said that, given Charlie’s condition, the therapy was unlikely to have a beneficial outcome.
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Macron: ‘I Will Govern Like a Roman God’
French president Emmanuel Macron has declared he will govern France like Jupiter, the Roman king of the gods.
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Norwegian MP Tipped for U.N. Top Security Council Anti-Terror Post
A 33-year-old Norwegian MP who has supported headscarf restrictions in Norway, but once also backed the breaking of the Israeli blockade of Gaza, could soon fill a top anti-terror post at the United Nations Security Council.
High-level U.N. officials tell Breitbart News that Hadia Tajik, a top Norwegian Party MP and the country’s first Muslim cabinet member, is one of the main contenders for the role of Executive Director of the U.N.’s Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), replacing Frenchman Jean-Paul Laborde.
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Sardinian Independence Man Dies After Hunger Strike
‘Doddore’ in jail since April 28, dies in Cagliari hospital
(ANSA) — Oristano, July 5 — A 74-year-old Sardinian independence campaigner, Salvatore “Doddore” Meloni, died in a Cagliari hospital Wednesday after a two-month-long hunger strike. Meloni was put in jail April 28 to serve time for tax offences. He was one of the best-known leaders of Sardinia’s independence fight.
Meloni was a former truck driver who attempted to create a ‘micro-nation’ called the Republic of Maluentu after seizing the small barren islet of Mal Di Ventre off Oristano in 2008.
Maluentu is Sardinian for Mal di Ventre, which has impressive Roman ruins.
Meloni and his followers, claiming inspiration from secessionist movements in Kosovo, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, declared it to be an independent state as part of broader efforts by larger groups to win the independence of Sardinia.
He declared himself president and set up an official residence in a blue plastic tent, saying the isle was tax-free.
Meloni claimed over 300 had people expressed interest in moving to Maluentu, which was previously a meeting place for the Sardinian Independence Party.
In the summer of 2012 Salvatore Meloni and five others were convicted of the illegal seizure of land.
Mal di Ventre was owned at the time by British entrepreneur John Miller, who had owned the island since 1972. In July 2014 the island was put up for sale, with an asking price of £1,200,000.
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Sweden: Malmö Travel Warning Debate a ‘Storm in a Teacup’: Travel Agency
A “storm in a teacup” has been made about a warning a travel company sent out to customers travelling to southern Swedish city Malmö, according to the CEO of the agency.
Business travel agency Egencia sent out an e-mail to customers who were due to travel to Malmö on July 2nd and 3rd informing them that “reports indicate there is an ongoing security operation in response to a shooting incident that has resulted in at least three people being wounded in Holma district, in southern Malmö, on 2 July”.
“Persons in Malmö should avoid the affected area until the situation is resolved. Clients in the city are advised to exercise heightened situational awareness and monitor local media for information on current and related security operations,” it added.
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Sweden: Volvo Reveals Plans to Go All Electric… and it’s Going to Happen Sooner Than You Think
All new Volvo cars will be equipped with an electric motor from 2019, making it the first of the world’s traditional car makers to pull the plug on cars powered only by a combustion engine.
Volvo said it would launch five fully electric cars between 2019 and 2021, as well as petrol and diesel plug-in hybrids and so-called “mild-hybrid cars”, cars with a small petrol engine and large battery.
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Trump in Poland: Five Reasons Why He is Going There
Donald Trump is travelling to the German city of Hamburg to attend a gathering of world leaders. But before he arrives, the US president will stop in Poland, to the delight of its conservative, nationalist government.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who leads the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), has said others in Europe are envious of the visit, mentioning Britain in particular.
Later this month, Mr Trump will also make a presidential visit to France.
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A 14-year-old arsonist is accused of sparking a £12million blaze at Europe’s biggest before wandering outside to film the chaos.
The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, sneaked into a kitchen cupboard to play with a gas barbecue lighter at Baitul Futuh Mosque in Morden, London…
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Terminal 3 in Manchester Airport was evacuated for more than three hours after the discovery of a suspicious package.
Police were called shortly before 9am on Wednesday morning after reports of a suspect package.
The bomb disposal team were called and later carried out a series of controlled explosions.
Greater Manchester Police said the package was not a viable device and was not believed to be terror related…
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UK: Manchester Airport’s Terminal 3 to Reopen After Controlled Explosion
LONDON (Reuters) — Manchester Airport’s Terminal 3 is set to reopen after a police bomb team carried out a controlled explosion on a suspicious bag that led to the evacuation of passengers and staff.
“Following further inspections, the package is not believed to be a viable device and there is not believed to be any threat at this time,” Greater Manchester Police said in a statement.
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India and Israel Pledge to Combat Terrorism
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu have signed agreements, including on agriculture and space.
The two leaders, who made a joint statement in Jerusalem, also referred to the “suffering” of both countries from terror.
Mr Modi said they would work together to combat growing radicalisation and terrorism, including in cyberspace.
He is the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel.
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Jordan Concerned About is Attacks After Mosul, Raqqa
Zero tolerance for illegal border crossing
(by Mohammed Ben Hussein)
AMMAN- Jordan is increasingly concerned about flow of IS fighters near its territories following recent losses that the extremist group faced in Syria and Iraq, prompting security forces to boost border control and impose strict measures on key facilities, observers said today.
Recent loss of Mosul and an inevitable capture of IS capital in Syria, Raqqa is likely to herald a new twist in the regional turmoil, including flow of fighters from northern Syria to the south, near the Jordanian borders.
The army has announced zero tolerance for illegal border crossing, employing strict rules of engagement with any party attempting to enter the kingdom from Syria. Meanwhile, the US has provided Jordan with state of the art surveillance system to protect the 227 km borders, which helped stop several attempts of illegal border crossing.
Refugees are no longer permitted to enter the country, while authorities have helped set up refugee camps along the Syrian borders, but refugees in these camps complain against lack of proper services, water and basic food items.
“Jordan refuses to allow any refugees in its territories. We are subject to threats by IS and other groups while the international community is watching,” Abu Mohanad, an activist from Rakban refugee camp for Syrian refugees told ANSA by phone.
The kingdom currently plays a significant role in the fight against IS in Syria and sponsors several militant groups in southern Syria. Informed sources told ANSA that Jordan has in fact deployed intelligence and military experts across southern Syria in order to prevent infiltrations. Military expert Fares Kreishan said that recent developments in Syria indicate that IS would be forced to seek space in southern Syria, particularly near al Yarmouk valley, near the Jordanian-Israeli borders.
“IS allies near Jordan border has managed to attract numbers of young Syrians to its ranks due to the divisions within the Free Syria Army,” said Kreishan.
Jordan has sent warnings to IS and other groups to stay away from the border line or face retaliation.
Meanwhile, Syria foreign ministry has accused Jordan of “sponsoring terrorist” groups in southern Syria, in light of attacks on Deraa city and bombings in Damascus that claimed lives of dozens.
The Syrian government lodged a complaint to the UN over perceived Jordanian role in its territories, but Amman denies such allegations.
“Jordan has genuine concerns about impact of recent losses for IS in Syria. The group could send fighters to the kingdom or possible escalation of fighting near its borders,” said Kreishan. Last year, IS carried out several attacks on key military and touristic locations amid concern that number of sympathizers with the group is on the rise.
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Report: Saudi Arabia Funding Extremism, PM May Accused of ‘Kowtowing’
An extensive new report has drawn a link between recent terror attacks and the foreign funding of UK mosques, mainly coming from Saudi Arabia, which “is heavily involved in exporting an illiberal, bigoted Wahhabi ideology.”
The document also slams the Prime Minister Theresa May, who visited Saudi Arabia earlier this year, for “kowtowing” to Saudi Arabia by “suppressing” a government report into the funding of extremism in the UK. Last month she was accused of a “cover-up”
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Saudi-Led Bloc to Continue Qatar Boycott After ‘Negative’ Response to Demands
Riyadh and its allies have lamented the “negative” response to their demands from Qatar. The four Arab nations who cut off ties with Qatar met in Cairo on Wednesday.
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The Case Against Blair: Former PM May Still Face Trial for Waging Iraq War
The most senior judge in the UK will hear arguments for overturning a ban on prosecuting Tony Blair over the Iraq war, it has been revealed. If successful, the former prime minister — and ministers in his goevrnment — could well be put on trial for waging a war of aggression.
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Turkish Cypriot Leader: Greek Cypriot Proposals Nothing New
New proposals aimed at overcoming a stalemate hampering talks to reunify Cyprus are insufficient, the ethnically divided island’s Turkish Cypriot leader declared Wednesday. Hopes for a breakthrough now appear to rest with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who will join the talks Thursday for the second time in eight days.
Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said the proposals presented by the island’s Greek Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades offered nothing substantial and served only to score “points with the public.”
“Regarding the proposals, I’m sorry to say, but it seems that they are designed (as a) charm offensive,” Akinci told reporters.
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After North Korea Missile Test, Trump Tweets: ‘So Much for China Working With US’
President Trump on Wednesday seemed to cast aside the idea that the U.S. could work with China to bring an end to the North Korea crisis after the regime’s test of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Despite suggesting a day earlier that China could “put a heavy move” on Pyongyang to “end this nonsense,” the president on Wednesday highlighted trade between North Korea and China in suggesting the two countries are too close.
“Trade between China and North Korea grew almost 40 percent in the first quarter. So much for China working with us — but we had to give it a try!” Trump tweeted.
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While the world watches in jest as Japanese residents prepare for the possibility of a confrontation with North Korea by panic buying nuclear shelters and air purifiers, we may soon realize that their efforts to desperately acquire protective gear and equipment for nuclear disaster were quite prescient.
Yesterday, North Korea successfully tested what is reportedly an ICBM (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile) capable of striking Alaska from the Korean peninsula. Coupled with their purported advancements in nuclear technology, North Korea may now have the ability to launch devastating attacks on their southern neighbor, Japan and even the United States. And if they have not yet achieved the ability to fit a nuclear warhead on an ICBM and deliver it effectively to its target, they are inching closer by the day.
So close, in fact, that Chinese Ambassador Liu Jieyi’s recent remarks on the matter suggest that we are nearing a dangerous breaking point:
“Currently tensions are high and we certainly would like to see a de-escalation,” Liu told a news conference at UN headquarters as China takes over the Security Council presidency in July.
“If tension only goes up … then sooner or later it will get out of control and the consequences would be disastrous,” he said.
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China’s Xi Jinping in Berlin to Talk Pandas, Missiles, Trade Ahead of G20
China’s President Xi Jinping was greeted with full military honors when he arrived in Berlin. Talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel focused on cooperation ahead of a visit to the zoo to welcome two pandas sent from China.
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Frank Gaffney: North Korea Could Take Out Entire U.S. Electrical Power Grid
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“As we’ve discussed before, one of the things that worries me the most about the North Koreans is they have been beavering away at, it appears, a technique called electromagnetic pulse attacks.”
Gaffney explained that such attacks do not require precision targeting, miniaturized nuclear warheads, or reentry shielding, which seem to be areas where North Korean technology remains lacking. Instead, an EMP attack could be carried out with “a single nuclear weapon, perhaps not even a very sophisticated one” detonated in orbit somewhere over North America.
“They could conceivably take down the electric grid of the United States, and with it our country,” he warned. “That’s the worrying threat to me, irrespective of the length of the missile’s range.
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North Korea Missile: US Says it Will Use Military Force ‘If We Must’
The US has said that it will use its “considerable military forces” on North Korea “if we must”.
Describing the North’s latest missile test as a sharp military escalation, the US ambassador to the United Nations said the US will table a new resolution against Pyongyang.
Ambassador Nikki Haley also threatened to use trade restrictions.
The missile launch, the latest in a series of tests, was in defiance of a ban by the UN Security Council.
North Korea’s test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Tuesday was “quickly closing off the possibility of a diplomatic solution,” Ms Haley said.
“The United States is prepared to use the full range of our capabilities to defend ourselves, and our allies,” the US ambassador told the UN Security Council, meeting for an emergency session to discuss the test.
“One of our capabilities lies with our considerable military forces. We will use them, if we must, but we prefer not to have to go in that direction”.
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North Korea ICBM Test: Alaska, Hawaii Pols Demand Better Missile Defense
Lawmakers in Alaska and Hawaii are doubling down on calls for improved U.S. defenses after North Korea test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that experts say could hit Alaska.
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Philippines Kidnap: Abu Sayyaf Islamists Behead Vietnamese
Two Vietnamese men have been beheaded by Philippine Islamist group Abu Sayyaf, the country’s military said.
Their bodies were found on Basilan island in the country’s south, a stronghold of the group.
The two victims were part of six Vietnamese sailors kidnapped by the militants last year.
The southern Philippines have seen a surge in Islamist militancy with recent fighting in the city of Marawi claiming more than 400 lives since May.
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US Watched North Korea Prepare for ICBM Launch
U.S. officials watched North Korea prepare for the Tuesday launch of its first successful intercontinental ballistic missile, a well-placed senior U.S. official told Fox News — however, no anti-missile defense systems appear to have been activated to shoot down the rocket.
The U.S. had watched North Korea fueling the rocket prior to launch, the official said.
“Clearly we watch North Korea very closely,” Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said.
The missile fired on Tuesday is a new type of North Korean ICBM, which has yet to be named. It uses liquid fuel — meaning the rocket takes more time to move and is less mobile than a missile that operates on solid fuel.
“Not one we have seen before,” Davis said, adding the missile lifted off from an aircraft plant near Panghyon —— a location North Korea hadn’t previously used for a launch.
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Australia: The Madness Continues
During the month of Ramadan alone, the world witnessed 160 Islamic attacks in 29 countries, in which 1627 people were murdered and 1824 injured. Nevertheless, the dual efforts to deny any links between Islamic terrorism and Islam on the one hand, and the efforts to accommodate Islam to the greatest extent possible on the other, seem to continue unaffected by the realities of Islamic terrorism —— in Australia, as well, which is experiencing its own share of sharia and jihad.
At the end of May, the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) called on the Australian Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade to:
“…include a recommendation in its report that disavows the notion that there is any inherent link between Islam and terrorism… The Committee should condemn any politician who refers divisively (expressly or implied) to any religious or ethnic group for the purpose of political gain.”
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A teenager found out she had been gang raped at a house party when police uncovered footage of the assaults on a GoPro camera six weeks later, a Sydney jury has been told.
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Controversial Imam Mohammad Tawhidi was seen breaking down as he said only Islam could be to blame for the radicalisation of Australian pediatrician Tareq Kamleh.
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AFL Diversity manager Ali Fahour has stood down from his executive position after receiving a lifetime ban from the sport at a tribunal hearing on Wednesday, and declared he will ‘seek help’.
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Alo-Bridget Namoa (pictured, right)) and Sameh Bayda, both 20, spent a year and a half behind bars before they were reunited in Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court on Wednesday.
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Sheikh Who Angered Muslims by Denouncing Sharia Law Needs Full Time Security
The controversial sheikh who angered hardline Muslims by denouncing Sharia law has asked his supporters for $30,000 to pay for security guards and steel-barred windows at his home because he fears for his life.
Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi, who has previously called for Islamic schools in Australia to be shut down and criticised extreme Islamic group Hizb-ut Tahrir, said abuse he received from radical Muslims grew so bad he was forced to abandon his home and seek refuge.
‘I’ve been assaulted by Muslim leaders, ambushed and spat on in the streets,’ he told Daily Mail Australia on Wednesday.
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At Least 14 Reported Dead in Gunbattle Between Mexican Gangs
A series of raging gunbattles between two drug gangs left at least 14 people dead Wednesday in the mountains of the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua. Authorities said the number of dead could rise. Initial reports from the relatively isolated region had put the death toll as high as 26 but officials said later that only 14 bodies had been recovered.
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Mexico’s Most-Wanted: A Guide to the Drug Cartels
More than 200,000 people have been killed or have disappeared since Mexico’s government declared war on organised crime in December 2006.
The military offensive has led to the destruction of some drug gangs, splits within others and the emergence of new groups.
With widespread corruption and impunity exacerbating Mexico’s problems, there is no end in sight to the violence.
Founded in the late 1980s, the Sinaloa cartel headed by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has long been considered Mexico’s most powerful criminal organisation.
However, the cartel’s future is uncertain after Guzmán was recaptured in 2016 following two daring prison breaks. He was extradited to the US in January and now awaits trial in New York.
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Venezuela National Assembly Stormed by Maduro Supporters
About 100 government supporters have burst into Venezuela’s opposition-controlled National Assembly, where they beat up several lawmakers.
Witnesses said the confrontation came after an assembly session to mark the country’s Independence Day.
Military police guarding the site stood by as intruders brandishing sticks and pipes broke through the gate, AFP said. The government vowed to investigate.
Hours later, 350 people were still besieged, the assembly’s speaker said.
Julio Borges said on Twitter that there were 108 journalists, as well as students and visitors, among those inside.
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AfD Leader Calls for Migrant Boats to be Turned Back
THE Deputy Leader of the far-right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party has called for migrant’s crossing the Mediterranean on death trap boats to be turned around and returned to their own country to save lives.
Beatrix von Storch, who serves as an MEP for the eurosceptic party, claimed non-governmental organisations (NGOs) who retrieve migrants from the waters of the Mediterranean before helping them reach Italian shores should instead return the migrants to the nations they travelled from.
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Ann Coulter: Immigrant of the Week: Henry Bello (Obotetukudo)
Last Friday, Nigerian immigrant Henry Williams Obotetukudo, aka Henry Bello, opened fire with an AM-15 rifle at the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, killing one doctor and injuring a half-dozen others. I would prefer to leap right in and offer my ideas for stopping these immigrant shooting rampages, but first I’ll have to tell you the facts the media won’t.
The New York Times, still unaware there’s an internet, is trying to pass off the Nigerian as a Californian, the non-doctor as a doctor, and Mr. Obotetukudo as “Dr. Bello.”
In the Times’ major biographical profile of Bello the next day, he was described as a “sharp dresser from California.” The only other reference to the shooter’s provenance came several paragraphs later: “Dr. Bello lived in California off and on from 1991 until 2006.”
ABC News had reported on the day of the shooting that Bello was a “Nigerian national” —— so the cat was already out of the bag, New York Times. Local New York station PIX11 also reported that he was a Nigerian. Even newspapers in Ohio knew that Bello was a Nigerian.
But as we go to print, the Times still has not identified Bello as a Nigerian immigrant. It issued a “correction,” but only to clarify the exact street of a homeless shelter where Bello had lived. No correction to the “California” bit.
Sadly, the Times didn’t allow any comments to the online version of its story, but CBS did. There were four comments, two about the incident (“rot in hell”) and two about CBS’s report:
“Where was Bello born?”
and:
“Where is he from? Where did he receive his medical degree? Worthless reporting.”
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Austria Backtracks on Threat to Send Troops to Italian Border, Introduce Controls
Vienna has scrambled to dampen a row with neighboring Italy. Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil had told media he was ready to send some 750 troops to the Brenner Pass to “protect” Austria from any migrant influx.
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Italy Asylum Applications up 47% — EASO
Migrant crossings in central Med up 18% in 2016
(ANSA) — Brussels, July 5 — Italy received almost 123,000 asylum applications in 2016, a 47% gain on 2015, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) said in its annual report Wednesday. The 122,960 applications make up 9.5% of the European Union total. Most, 22%, of asylum seekers in Italy are Nigerian, EASO said. Germany topped the rankings again with 745,155 applications, a 58% rise on the previous year and accounting for 58% of all European asylum requests. EASO also said 2016 was a record year for migrant crossings on the central Mediterranean route, up 18% to 181,459 migrants. It was the main access route to Europe and Italy was the “main point of entry”, EASO said.
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Migrant Crisis: Italian MP’s Furious Rant at EU Chiefs Over Refugees
A FURIOUS Italian politician has declared “Europe is dying” over Brussels’ handing of the migrant crisis.
Luigi Di Maio, MP for the Five Star Movement, made the staggering claim as refugees continue to arrive in Italy in large numbers.
He declared his nation was “alone” as the biggest migrant crisis since the 1940s continues to grip the continent.
Italy has taken in more than 85,000 refugees and migrants so far this year, making it the main point of entry into Europe.
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Prepare Migrant NGO Code of Conduct, EU Tells Italy
In action plan to ease migratory pressure on Italy
(ANSAmed) — BRUSSELS, JULY 4 — Italy should prepare a code of conduct for NGO ships carrying out search and rescue operations in the central Mediterranean, the European Commission said in its action plan to ease migratory pressure on Italy. The plan should be drafted in consultation with the EC, and on the basis of dialogue with the NGOs, it said.
Italy has said it will instruct NGO rescue ships not to enter Libyan territorial waters. It has also mooted barring non-Italian NGO ships from Italian ports, a threat that will be a key issue at an informal meeting of EU interior ministers in Tallinn on Thursday and Friday.
France and Spain have already said they will not open their ports to such ships.
EU member States should also mobilise to support migrant repatriations from Italy, the EC said in its action plan Tuesday. They should also: contribute more to the Fund for Africa, to complete a 2.6-billion-euro contribution; accelerate relocations from Italy; and press ahead with reforming the Dublin regulation. The EC vowed to support the “organisation of a centre of coordination for sea rescues fully operational in Libya”. It also urged Tunisia and Libya to name respective areas of search and rescue (SAR) for migrants and set up an official coordinating office for sea rescues. The two countries have never set up their SAR areas, which serve to map out the areas of sea they are competent for.
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Spain Brings 3 Migrants to Europe, Searches for 49
VIENNA (AP) — Spain’s maritime rescue service says it has rescued three migrants from a deflated rubber boat that is believed to have set sail from Morocco with 52 people aboard.
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UN Study: Libyan Migration to Europe is up, Mainly Young Men and Economic Migrants
Migration from Libya to Europe has increased in the last year, is expected to increase further, and consists overwhelmingly of young men, who are mostly economic migrants, a new United Nations study has found.
The study, commissioned by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, found that the Central Mediterranean (Libya to Italy) route was the most popular route for migrants and refugees looking to get into Europe.
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Dangerous Excerpt: Milo Explains ‘Why Muslims Hate Me’
The following excerpts of DANGEROUS by MILO Yiannopoulos come from Chapter 9: “Why Muslims Hate Me.” DANGEROUS by MILO is available for direct order or on Amazon.
Why Muslims Hate Me
“I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad.”
-Alexis de Toqueville
Islam and the Left
During my college talks, I’m often asked what arguments to use when debating with the regressive Left. I always have the same answer: Islam.
There is nothing else which better exposes the modern Left’s rank hypocrisy, their disregard for the facts, and their hatred for the West and all it stands for than their attitude to Islam. Every noble principle the Left claims to uphold, from rights for women to gay liberation, even diversity itself, dies on the altar of its sycophantic defense of Islam.
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Milo Yiannopoulos’ Self Published Book ‘Dangerous’ Hits No. 1 at Amazon
Author, gadfly and gay provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos self-published his new book “Dangerous” on Independence Day. It is now the No. 1 best-seller on Amazon, for now besting such popular books as Mark Levin’s “Rediscovering Americanism” and J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy.”
Mr. Yiannopoulos lost a major book contract with Simon & Schuster earlier this year after making a controversial sexual remark, but vowed to get “the most controversial book of the decade” into print. The 288-page work addressees that controversy, and also contains such chapters as “Why the Progressive Left Hates Me,” “Why Feminists Hate Me” and “Why the Media Hates Me.” Some of the media responded immediately.
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Orwell’s Doublespeak: The Language of the Left
George Orwell introduced the language of doublespeak in his dystopian novel “1984” published in 1949. Doublespeak is the language of opposites. Up is down and down is up.
The word doublespeak derives from two Orwellian words “doublethink” and “newspeak.” Doublethink is when a person accepts two mutually contradictory thoughts as correct without being aware or troubled by the glaring contradiction between them. Doublethink statements like “war is peace” “freedom is slavery” “ignorance is strength” are made without discomfort. Newspeak is a method of controlling thought through language — it is the language of fake news. Doublespeak combines doublethink and newspeak in language that deliberately obscures, distorts, disguises, or reverses the meaning of words to manipulate public opinion in a mass social engineering effort.
Orwellian doublespeak is the language of the hard Left leading a coup against Western democracies and their national sovereignty. Barack Obama spoke doublespeak when he promised hope and change. Obama deliberately obscured and disguised his hope for changing American democracy into socialism. Most Americans understood hope and change to mean a better life and the realization of the American dream — a hope to improve our democracy not to destroy it.
The left-wing liberal agenda seeks to destroy the socio-political infrastructure of American democracy and transform it into a dependent socialist state with cradle to grave control by the government. Their strategy of destruction is to target the traditional American institutions of family, religion, and education that promote independence, adulthood, individualism, and ego strength — the qualities that made America great and support American democracy and sovereignty.
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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The word “doublespeak” does not exist in Orwell’s 1984.
The sacred principles of Ingsoc are: Newspeak, doublethink, and the mutability of the past.
“It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink’. ‘Stand easy!’ barked the instructress, a little more genially.
Winston sank his arms to his sides and slowly refilled his lungs with air. His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.”
The war against North Korea seemed inevitable for at least a year by now. In a way I’m all for it, because the people there (well 99% of the regular citizen, and especially the children) deserve better. Recently I watched several undercover documentaries and it’s just terrible. A three year old simply shouldn’t be left alone or face the decision whether to stay with his or hers mother or not, neither should an eight years old work or be missing an arm due to bad conditions. The good news is the people themselves are getting fed up. Ten years ago, even five years ago, I remember videos where people from the West planted apple trees and the citizens were so brainwashed, they picked the apples and brought them to the military, thinking the soldiers need them more. Nowadays, at least from what I can find online, they speak up against officers and even fight them in some cases. I guess there’s only this much a person can endure before fighting back (guess it’s the “cat in a corner” thing). Again, five or so years ago, maybe even less than that, China and Russia would’ve intervened, but now they themselves are asking the US to settle the situation in North Korea.
On the other hand a combat situation in North Korea/East Asia would get all the attention and what’s happening in South Africa, Europe and partially in Australia and the US would grow into an ugly form before it gets any attention again.
Of course someone might argue everyone would be able to find this kind of information, just like nowadays we’re able to find specific information on who certain perpetrators were etc., but let’s be honest here, only a severe minority of us does that. I guesstimate 1% of all readers online are the ones who actually go and actively search for specifics on this or that news report. Some others may have a clear image of who does certain kinds of things, but won’t search for proof and the majority of readers will still believe what they’re fed or not care enough to do something actively.
Btw to the admins of this site: I admire what you’re doing and especially the fact that you’ve been doing it for so long! I’ve been following this side (not regularly, but still) for good a decade. However, there’d still be one minor thing of complain: I very rarely see any information of South Africa here. While I’m sure I might’ve missed some, I think the issue is grave enough to pay more attention to. As much as I understand Europe and the US is the main focus of this website, it’s painfull to see the issue, that many refer to as the “trial test run before Europe”, mostly ignored. There are many great videos from Southerners on Youtube, there’s the website http://www.suidlanders.org, I’m sure many of those people would be willing to give you more specific information on the topic. If not, I’d be willing to write the one or other article about it (just drop me a reply on this post, since I don’t really use the email adress I put under my comments). I’m no expert, but again, I’ve been vaguely following the situation down there for years and recently it’s really terrible. The aforementioned website, btw, should be a must-read for every European/Westerner, because I find their plans extraordinarily well thought out and, most importantly, it shows you the HUGE difference in mentality (flooding Europe on purpose aside) between fleeing one’s homeland and ensuring safety for the weak and preserving safe spaces (as much as that term has been twistes by social justice warriors) in accordance with international law, so that manpower is readily avaiable once the situation calms down and the country can start to get build up again.
I refrain from a personal point of view on this topic as much as I can, because it would possible end up exceptionally racist, though it’s hard not to make race-based comments especially when it comes to South Africa.
Thanks for considering this topic and please keep up the great job! 😀