A former high school teacher of James Fields — the accused murderer who drove a car into pedestrians yesterday in Charlottesville — said that his former pupil was interested in the Nazis and greatly admired Hitler. The former teacher also said that Mr. Fields had been diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was a teenager and put on anti-psychotic medication.
In other news, fifteen teenage boys in Morocco contracted rabies after having carnal relations with a donkey infected with the disease. The boys were hospitalized and given the standard treatment for rabies, and are now recovering.
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Charlottesville Rally Organizer Chased From Press Conference by Protesters
White nationalist blogger Jason Kessler, who organized Saturday’s “Unite the Right” in Charlottesville, Va., was suddenly chased out of a press conference he was holding Sunday afternoon.
Footage on social media showed Kessler being escorted by law enforcement away from the area, with protesters shouting the name of Heather Heyer, the woman who was killed after a car plowed into a crowd of people at yesterday’s rally.
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Claim: Trump’s Real Enemy is Not of This World
Pastor warns: ‘It’s spiritual and it’s demonic’
Since Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States, the American left seems to have lost its mind.
Violent protests in the streets and attacks on Trump supporters.
The attempted assassination of a Republican congressman.
Threats to murder the president, including calls by well-known left-wing activists for “jihad” and gory depictions of Trump’s severed head.
Conspiracy theories about Russian plots.
And hysterical rhetoric about a “resistance” dedicated to overthrowing the duly elected commander in chief.
The bottom line is Trump is facing not merely conventional political opposition.
One talk-show host, former law-enforcement officer and current pastor believes President Trump is facing nothing less than full-fledged spiritual warfare. Pastor Carl Gallups was one of President Trump’s earliest and most vocal Christian backers. And he contends the opposition to Trump is demonic.
In his new book “When the Lion Roars,” Gallups analyzes the signs of the times, showing how harbingers of the last days can be seen in the daily headlines. And in recent media appearances, he’s contending the depraved opposition to the president was predicted in the Scriptures.
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Crash Suspect’s Ex-Teacher Says He Idolized Hitler, Nazism
The young man accused of plowing a car into a crowd of people protesting a white supremacist rally was fascinated with Nazism, idolized Adolf Hitler, and had been singled out by school officials in the 9th grade for his “deeply held, radical” convictions on race, a former high school teacher said Sunday.
James Alex Fields Jr. also confided that he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was younger and had been prescribed an anti-psychotic medication, Derek Weimer said in an interview with The Associated Press.
In high school, Fields was an “average” student, but with a keen interest in military history, Hitler, and Nazi Germany, said Weimer, who said he was Fields’ social studies teacher at Randall K. Cooper high school in Union, Kentucky, in Fields’ junior and senior years…
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‘Final Warning’ To ‘White People’ Goes Viral on Twitter After Charlottesville Rally
Threatening to “burn their neighborhoods down.”
One of the top responses on Twitter to Saturday’s violence in Charlottesville is a “final warning” to “white people” threatening to “burn their neighborhoods down.”
Nineteen-year-old YouTuber “Jay Versace” is seen holding a knife and threatening to destroy “white people” as a race because there’s “way more black people than white people in this motherf**king country, world, and existence.”
“Ya’ll n***as want to burn candles? B*tch, we’ll burn neighborhoods down,” Versace says. “We’ll go all the way to wherever ya’ll motherf**kin’ live and light that whole sh*t up!”
“I’m telling you know, cut it the f**k out. The black person you see right now, is not the same black person you saw in 1923. We a whole new breed, b*tch. And we crazy as f**k, try it b*tch, I f**king dare you, do something, try it,” Versace says ominously.
The threatening video got over 7,000 retweets on Twitter and over 15,000 likes in only four hours.
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Yee-hah! A new state holiday
The governor and legislature of Illinois have proclaimed August 4 “Barack Obama Day”. And believe it or not, there was not a single vote against it in the legislature. So no one can be accused of being a hater.
It does seem fitting that The Worst President Ever be honored by what appears to be the most grossly mismanaged state in the union-of all 57 states, as Mr. Obama might say. The whole state is going bankrupt. The Chicago Public School District is on the hook for $850 million in interest on a $500 million loan. How did they do that? Ah, the miracle of Blue State finances…
Obama is being honored, says the proclamation, because he has “dedicated his life to going on vacation”-no, no, it should read “protecting the rights of Americans” and, oh, boy, “building bridges across communities.” What kind of bridges? The kind looters have to cross to get to the stores during a riot.
[Comment: Great Now the pubic is reminded of this purtz each year…]
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Radical leftists pepper spray reporter in Virginia
Infowars Reporter Gavin was attacked at the “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville, demonstrating once again the tolerance of the left.
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Professor: Here is Why Eco-Friendly Light Bulbs Are Causing Headaches
Your LED lamps could be making your brain work too hard
A professor of psychiatry at the University of Essex in the U.K. claims LED light bulbs, which have become commonplace since the federal government began to steer buyers away from incandescent bulbs in 2007, are causing headaches, pain, and dizziness.
Arnold Wilkins says LED lights dim by 100%, which means they turn on and off hundreds of times a second. Most people don’t notice the constant flickering, but in some people, it can cause nasty symptoms within just 20 minutes of turning them on.
Wilkins says:
“We know from earlier work on fluorescent lighting that even though the flicker is too fast to be visible, it remains a likely health hazard. In 1989, my colleagues and I compared fluorescent lighting that flickered 100 times a second with lights that appeared the same but didn’t flicker. We found that office workers were half as likely on average to experience headaches under the non-flickering lights.
No similar study has yet been performed for LED lights. But because LED flickering is even more pronounced, with the light dimming by 100% rather than the roughly 35% of fluorescent lamps, there’s a chance that LEDs could be even more likely to cause headaches. At best, it’s likely to put some people off using LED bulbs because of the annoying, distracting effect of the flickering, which we know can be detected during saccades.”
The flickering can cause headaches, pain, and dizziness by disrupting movement control of the eyes, which forces the brain to work harder. Previous research suggested that flickering LED bulbs may double a person’s chances of developing a headache.
Wilkins says that many people have started avoiding purchasing the lights because of the side effects.
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Trump Condemns ‘White Supremacists, ‘ Other Extremists Behind Deadly Virginia Rallies
President Trump specifically condemns “white supremacists” and other extremist groups as forces behind the deadly protests and counter-protests this weekend in Virginia, a White House spokesperson said Sunday.
“The president said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred. Of course that includes white supremacists, KKK Neo-Nazi and all extremist groups. He called for national unity and bringing all Americans together,” the spokesperson said from Trump’s private golf club in Bedminster, N.J.
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Vatican-Reviewed Magazine Accuses Catholics of ‘Hate’ For Supporting Trump
Conservative Catholics in the United States have formed an “ecumenism of hate” with Evangelical Protestants in their united support for President Trump and his policies, claimed an Italian Jesuit magazine that is reviewed by the Vatican prior to publication.
The article published July 13 in La Civiltà Cattolica claims that some U.S. Catholic conservatives have built ties with fundamentalist Evangelicals for political purposes that evince “enormous differences” with Pope Francis.
“Appealing to the values of fundamentalism, a strange form of surprising ecumenism is developing between Evangelical fundamentalists and Catholic Integralists brought together by the same desire for religious influence in the political sphere,” the article states…
The authors of the report are two of Pope Francis’ close confidantes, editor-in-chief Jesuit Fr. Antonio Spadaro and Marcelo Figueroa, an Argentine Presbyterian pastor who was appointed by the pope to head up his country’s edition of the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.
Spadaro and Figueroa state that the “most dangerous prospect for this strange ecumenism” is an “xenophobic and Islamophobic vision that wants walls and purifying deportations.”
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Ever since Donald Trump won the election we have seen an unprecedented attack on the free speech of the right. For some reason liberals believe that any opinions, ideas or even simple comments from conservatives has become the enemy of the state. We have seen this at multiple places of so-called ‘higher education’ across the country. We had one of our ‘prestigious’ universities allow Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak on their campus, even though his country is an enemy of the United States, and the college president even defended it on the grounds of ‘free speech and academic freedom’. Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger defended the university’s decision to invite Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at the campus today on “Good Morning America,” citing free speech and academic freedom…
“The MSM, along with university professors, have created such a vitriolic narrative in this country that I think many students have become genuinely scared of diversity of thought, which has led rise to groups like Antifa,” declared Wintrich to Breitbart News. “Adding humor to the entire ordeal, we invited a liberal to debate us on panel. Mic’s Gabe Gonzalez and HuffPo’s James Michael Nicholas both refused. It’s hilarious how liberals in media are so used to simply copy and pasting Media Matters’ narrative that they are fully incapable of speaking off the cuff or engaging in an actual debate.”[2] The disgusting thing about this is our colleges can’t seem to teach that everybody has the right to free speech, liberals and conservatives alike. This college along with UC Berkeley and several others have failed miserably at teaching that all have the right to their opinion and have the right to express it. Liberals say this but are appalled when they actually hear a different opinion. They have to run off to a safe space, play with playdough, color and whatever else they feel the need to do because someone stated an opposing opinion. This is complete and total failure of our education system.
Colleges and universities used to be a place where different ideas and points of view could be intelligently discussed. But today with mostly rabid liberal professors students are flunked if they hold a conservative point of view. A humanities professor gave a 16-year-old girl four consecutive “zero” grades on assignments at Polk State College in Lakeland, Florida, for refusing to conform to his anti-Christian worldview.
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What Lawyers Are Practicing Today (Hint: It’s Not Law)
This week I witnessed an astonishing statement of tyranny in our land. That testimony was given by Jared DeMarinis, the Director of Candidacy and Campaign Finance for the Maryland State Board of Elections. He is one of the highest authorities on so-called election law in Maryland. He is responsible for the implementation of electoral policy as well as the interpretation of state candidacy and campaign finance laws.
His testimony, essentially, was that the First Amendment is dead when it comes to any form of political speech — as the State Board of Elections define political speech.
So if you email five friends with your opinion regarding a candidate or sitting politician, the State Board of Elections claims that you must attach a tag line to that message which they approve of. In essence, they own and control that speech. A candidate emails a message to his circle of friends — “I pray you have a great day” — and even though you may ask, What is political about that?, they claim to own that as well. Make a post on social media regarding any political issue, and again, they claim to own and control that speech.
What are political issues? Abortion, the definition of marriage, what constitutes justice in society, what taxing powers are legitimate, and on and on the list goes. Wait a minute, doesn’t the Word of God address each and every one of these issues? So, a tyrannical, out-of-control institution called Maryland State Board of Elections claims to own and control any expression of God’s Word on issues which it deems political. If you were to tweet Leviticus 18:22, without even quoting the verse which states that sodomy is an abomination, it sounds like they would own that too; now that sodomy is a political issue. Satan has made them political issues, but they are moral issues above all. By the way, most important political issues were and are moral issues. It is a tragedy of enormous importance that we-the-people have allowed our servants, the civil government, to attack and strip away our God-given right to freedom of speech.
Now this particular civil servant is a lawyer. Not just any lawyer; Mr. DeMarinis was adjunct professor of law at American University-Washington School of Law, where he taught a class on political and election law.
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Arson Suspected in Fires Raging on Greek Island
Greek authorities think arson could be behind a series of fires fire raging on several fronts on the western Greek island of Zakynthos.
The country’s fire service says there are “well-founded suspicions of foul play” after five fires broke out late Saturday and early Sunday, followed by another three on Sunday morning.
Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis, who is also the local Parliament member, said of the multiple blazes while visiting the island: “This is planned.”
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by Soeren Kern
Those in favor of the burkini argue that women should be allowed to wear whatever they choose. Critics of the garment say it is an Islamic religious and political symbol which impedes integration and is incompatible with the liberal principles of secularism and gender equality. In recent months, the debate has added another dimension: public health and hygiene.
“Secularism and religion are irrelevant here. The burkini is not a Koranic prescription, but another manifestation of political Islam, militant, destructive, seeking to question our way of life, our culture, our civilization.” — French commentator Yves Thréard in Le Figaro.
Europe’s burkini debate has now spread to the Middle East. In Algeria, thousands of women have joined a “bikini revolt” to reclaim the public space from Islamists who oppose the bikini as a symbol of Western values.
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Dying MI5 Agent Admits to Killing Princess Diana in Deathbed Confession
Retired hitman confesses to murder of The People’s Princess
A dying British Intelligence agent has made a series of stunning confessions after being told that he only has a matter of weeks to live by doctors, including that he was tasked with the murder of Princess Diana…
Mr. Hopkins claims that Princess Diana was the only women he ever killed, adding that;
“She was the only target where the order came directly from the Royal family.”
When asked about how he felt about taking the life of The People’s Princess, he said he felt “ambivalent” about her death, describing her as “a beautiful, kind-hearted women” who had her life cut tragically short but that “she was also placing the British Crown at risk”, saying:
“The Royal Family had evidence that she was planning to divorce Charles.”
“She knew too many Royal secrets. She had a huge grudge and she was going to go public with all sorts of wild claims.”
“My boss told me she had to die — he’d received orders directly from Prince Philip — and we had to make it look like an accident.”
“I’d never killed a woman before, much less a princess, but I obeyed orders. I did it for Queen and country.”
He claims the operation was run under strict control from Buckingham Palace in direct cooperation with the mainstream media…
After being told that he only has a short time left to live from his doctors, Hopkins said he will spend his final weeks at home, but admitted that he expects to be arrested after his admissions, or even silenced, saying:
“I can’t say that I care an awful lot.”
“If they try to take me out, they’ll be doing me a favor now.”
He explained that he would be “long-gone” should an investigation be opened as it would “take forever” and be “very complicated” due to the limited records on the operations, adding that “most of my colleagues are already dead”.
Hopkins claims that the main conspirator in the murder of Princess Diana was Prince Philip, but said that he “will never be charged with anything, of course”.
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Eggs Containing Fipronil Found in 15 EU Countries and Hong Kong
Fifteen EU countries as well as Hong Kong and Switzerland have received eggs contaminated with the insecticide fipronil, the European Commission says.
A row has erupted over how long Belgian and Dutch authorities have known about the contamination.
Eggs, coming mainly from the Netherlands, have been found to contain fipronil, a substance used to kill lice and ticks on animals that is banned by the EU for use in the food industry.
It is thought it was used to combat lice in some chicken farms, affecting the eggs of laying hens.
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Germany Remembers Rise of the Berlin Wall 56 Years on
Politicians gathered in Germany’s capital, Berlin, to remember the initial laying of the foundations of the Berlin Wall. On this day 56 years ago, East Germany’s communist regime started dividing Berlin in two.
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Go Home Brits! Spanish War Against Tourists Hots up as Angry Gangs Storm Beaches
GANGS of anti-tourist protesters have descended on a Barcelona beach used by UK tourists as part of efforts to ‘reclaim’ the city from drunken holidaymakers.
Tensions have been on the rise in the Catalan capital, following a campaign against mass tourism across Spain. Multiple groups in Barcelona have merged together in a campaign against tourism in the city, with numerous incidents of violence, vandalism and severe public disorder.
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Kim Wall: Danish Submarine Was ‘Deliberately Sunk’
Danish police believe that a submarine at the centre of an investigation into a missing Swedish journalist was deliberately sunk.
Kim Wall, 30, was last seen on Thursday evening on board the vessel with the owner, 46-year-old Peter Madsen.
The submarine later sank and Mr Madsen was rescued before being arrested and charged with manslaughter.
The stricken vessel, the Nautilus, has been raised but no body was found and the search for Ms Wall goes on.
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Merkel Rival Slams Car Bosses in Bid to Revive Campaign
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief challenger in a September election, Martin Schulz, on Sunday launched a stinging attack on the country’s dieselgate-tainted car industry as he sought to turn around a flagging campaign.
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Merkel Embarks on Germany’s ‘Strangest’ Campaign
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has returned from a three-week Alpine holiday to embark Saturday on what may be the most bizarre election campaign in the country’s post-war history.
After months of studiously ignoring the race for the September 24th election, Merkel will kick off a series of rallies across the country with an hour-long speech to supporters in the western city of Dortmund.
But just six weeks out from the European Union’s top economic power and most populous nation going to the polls, Germans are barely taking notice of the election.
Even after 12 years in power, Merkel, frequently called the world’s most powerful woman and Europe’s de facto leader, looks set for a fourth term.
Gone are the warnings of her political demise heard at the height of the 2015 refugee influx, when nearly 900,000 asylum seekers entered the country.
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No Body in Sunken Danish Sub, Reporter Still Missing: Police
Danish police hunting for a missing journalist said on Sunday they searched a huge homemade submarine that sank last week, but no body was found.
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Pedophile Priest With HIV Who Raped 30 Children Forgiven by Church
Catholic Church absolved priest after who faces no criminal charges for raping young girls under 10
A Catholic Priest has been acquitted by the church after he admitted to raping almost 30 young girls aged between 5 and 10-years-old.
The priest, Jose Garcia Ataulfo, was cleared of any wrong-doing and won’t face any criminal charges, despite the fact that he knew he was infected with HIV when he sexually abused all the children he admitted to raping.
The mother of one of the priest’s victims wrote a letter to The Pope asking to meet with him in Rome to discuss the case, but was shunned by the Vatican who declared that “the matter is closed”.
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People From Across Europe Protest Logging in Polish Forest
Hundreds of people have gathered in an ancient forest in Poland to protest the widespread logging the government has ordered there.
The Bialowieza Forest, one of Europe’s last primeval woodlands and a UNESCO World Heritage site, is the subject of a heated political dispute over the logging ordered by Poland’s conservative ruling Law and Justice party.
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Spain: Socialists and Muslim Actvists Trying to Seize Cathedral of Cordoba
The Cathedral of Córdoba, officially titled the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption and also commonly known as the Mosque-Cathedral, has been the ecclesiastical heart of the Diocese of Córdoba since 1236.
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Sweden: Two Men Suffer Life-Threatened Injuries in Malmö Shooting
Two men in their twenties suffered life-threatened injuries in a shooting at a Malmö community centre on Sunday morning.
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Switzerland: Winterthur Imam Charged With Incitement to Murder
An Ethiopian imam of the now closed An’Nur mosque in Winterthur has been charged with inciting people to commit murder.
The Winterthur public prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Friday that the imam was charged on August 2nd with inciting the murder of non-practising Muslims.
He is also accused of having posted violent images of murders on Facebook and giving them to other people.
In addition he faces a charge of violating the Aliens Act by working without a permit.
The public prosecutor is demanding a suspended prison sentence and the man’s expulsion from Switzerland with a 15-year ban on returning.
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by Douglas Murray
What excuse is there in a country which has now seen and suffered the effects of Islamist terror so many times, a country that the Prime Minister has claimed has had “enough” of this terror, for precisely the same two clerics to return to the UK for another tour?
On their visit to the UK last summer, the two clerics were allowed to talk at mosques up and down the UK, including in Prime Minister Theresa May’s own constituency. By way of explanation, as the imam of the Madina Mosque and Islamic Centre in Oldham, Zahoor Chishti, said of the two clerics, “They have got hundreds of thousands of followers in the UK.” For his part, the son of the murdered Punjab Province Governor Salman Taseer, Shahbaz Taseer, criticised the UK authorities for letting people who praised the murderer of his father into the UK.
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US Tourist Beaten for Giving Hitler Salute in Dresden, Germany
A tourist from the United States was punched in Dresden after he mimicked the Nazi salute multiple times. The incident came a week after two Chinese tourists were taken into custody for the same reason.
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Will Poland Bring Down the EU? Conflict Between Brussels and Warsaw Rages On
POLAND’s future in the European Union was looking increasingly uncertain today as the conflict between Warsaw and Brussels continued to escalate. But is Poland determined enough to destabilise the economic bloc?
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15 Teenagers Treated for Rabies After Engaging in Bestiality With Donkey
Fifteen minors who sexually assaulted a donkey in the small rural town of Sidi Kamel in the communal providence of Sidi Kacem have been treated for rabies infections received from the animal.
The sexually frustrated children and teenagers stayed at the Mechraa Belksiri Hospital for one week to receive rabies vaccinations after the animal transmitted the disease to them, explained Moroccan daily Al Akhbar in its August 10 edition.
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The Porters Trapped on the Wrong Side of the Spanish-Moroccan Border
Aziza has spent the last 36 hours sleeping rough and hasn’t eaten or drunk anything. One of the 3,000 or so Moroccan porters — mostly women — who make around €5 euros a day transporting huge bundles of duty free goods from Spain into Morocco, she is trapped in the Spanish exclave city of Ceuta, in North Africa.
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Hezbollah Leader Says Syrian Government ‘Will Stay on’
The head of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah says it is time for political leaders to accept the survival of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government. Hassan Nasrallah, addressing a rally on Sunday, advised the Lebanese government to normalize ties with its war-torn neighbor.
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Iran Increases Missile Spending to Counter US Sanctions
Iran’s parliament has voted to boost spending on ballistic missiles and the armed forces in response to recent US sanctions. The Trump administration, while sticking to Iran nuclear deal, is piling up pressure on Tehran.
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UN: ‘Islamic State’ Remains a Threat Despite Military Setbacks
UN experts say the “Islamic State” is still capable of sending funds to supporters and motivating global attacks. “Europe remained a priority region” for IS attacks, they said, despite developments in Iraq and Syria.
The 24-page report, prepared by a panel of experts for the Security Council, noted that the self-styled Islamic State (IS) was often remitting funds in small sums to avoid detection.
But the group of experts concluded that the military pressure against the group had led to a decline in the number of foreign fighters traveling to Iraq and Syria and a worsening of the financial situation of the core IS.
The would-be “Caliphate” has faced several military reversals in the past few months, most recently losing control of Iraq’s second largest city Mosul to Iraqi and allied forces in July.
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Independence: Do Indians Care About the British Any More?
Seventy years since India gained its independence from the British Empire, the UK is seeking a closer trading relationship. But what do modern Indians think about the British?
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Malaysia: Muslim Government Minister Says Atheists Should be “Hunted” And Their Faith “Fixed”
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Shahidan Kassim urged religious authorities to “hunt” Muslims involved in atheist groups. Shahidan said he will make the proposal to the relevant authorities including the mufti offices, which he said is in the interest of Islam.
“I would like to propose that we go all out to hunt them… help us to identify these groups. “Secondly, we need to bring them back and fix their faith if they are Muslims,” he told a press conference in Parliament today.
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Taliban Seized Northern Faryab Province in Afghanistan
Afghan official says that Taliban insurgents have seized control of a district headquarters in northern Faryab province.
Nasratullah Jamshidi, an army corps spokesman for the northern region, said Sunday that Afghan security forces withdrew from the Ghormach district to avoid civilian casualties and confirmed that the Taliban has seized control of the district.
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About 20 Indonesian Domestic Workers on Hong Kong Police Watch List Over Islamic State Links
Hong Kong police are monitoring about 20 Indonesian domestic workers in the city out of a list of 43 that a think tank said were linked to terror group Islamic State, the Post has learned.
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China and India on Brink of Armed Conflict as Hopes of Resolution to Border Dispute Fade
Chinese military primed for battle, military sources say; Indian troops ‘prepared for any eventuality’
Chinese and Indian troops are readying themselves for a possible armed conflict in the event they fail in their efforts to achieve a peaceful resolution to their border dispute on the Doklam plateau in the Himalayas, observers said.
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CIA’s Pompeo Says No ‘Imminent’ Threat of Nuclear War
CIA Director Mike Pompeo on Sunday defended President Trump’s tough rhetoric toward North Korea and praised the administration for “uniting the world” in trying to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula while making clear there is no intelligence that shows a nuclear war is “imminent.”
“There’s nothing imminent,” Pompeo told “Fox News Sunday.” “There’s no intelligence indicating we’re on the cusp of a nuclear war.”
Pompeo praised the efforts of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in getting China and Russia to join in a unanimous U.N. vote recently to impose tougher sanctions on North Korea, amid the country’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
Trump last week said North Korea would be met with “fire and fury” if leader Kim Jung Un followed through on a threat to execute a missile strike on nearby Guam, a U.S. territory with an American military base.
Despite calls for Trump to tone down the rhetoric and end the back-and-forth with Kim, the president continued to make his point, saying Friday that the United States military is “locked and loaded.”
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Merkel Condemns ‘Verbal Escalation’ With North Korea After Trump Tweets
Chancellor Angela Merkel said that she opposed any use of force to resolve the conflict with North Korea, after President Donald Trump said the US military was “locked and loaded”. “I don’t envision a military solution to this conflict but rather consistent work as we’ve observed at the United Nations Security Council,” Merkel told reporters.
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N. Korea ‘On Standby to Launch, ‘ State-Run Paper Says in Response to Trump’s Latest Warnings
North Korea took its turn Saturday in the country’s escalating, back-and-fourth with President Trump, with the state-run newspaper saying leader Kim Jung Un’s revolutionary army is “capable of fighting any war the U.S. wants.”
The assertion was made in an editorial that also states the Paektusan army is now “on the standby to launch fire into its mainland, waiting for an order of final attack.
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Putin: North Korea Doesn’t Have Nuclear Weapons, It Has Trillions in Minerals
“[North Korea] don’t have any nuclear weapons. This is a lie being forced on the people by the corporate-owned Western media”, said Putin during an emotionally charged Q&A session in Sochi.
“They know they can easily provoke the North Koreans and they will react, but the story that they are a threat is false.”
“I will tell you the facts about North Korea: They don’t have nuclear bombs. They don’t have Western-controlled banks. They don’t depend on the US dollar. What they do have is a land full of wealth in unmined minerals.”
According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, President Putin has “had some time away to reflect” on the US-North Korean conflict and believes that the situation has “gone too far”.
Putin went on to say that Kim Jong-un “would never launch a real attack, it’d be suicidal. Pyongyang knows this and so does Washington”…
According to Quartz, below the nation’s mostly mountainous surface are vast mineral reserves, including iron, gold, magnesite, zinc, copper, limestone, molybdenum, graphite, and more-all told about 200 kinds of minerals.
Also present are large amounts of rare earth metals, which factories in nearby countries need to make smartphones and other high-tech products…
According to one estimate from a South Korean state-owned mining company, they’re worth over $6 trillion.
Another from a South Korean research institute puts the amount closer to $10 trillion.
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Australia’s most wanted terrorist Neil Prakash has revealed he has two young children to a Dutch woman, who we married while fighting for ISIS, where his kids could gain Australian citizenship.
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Sally Faulkner may never see her children again as her ex-husband Ali Elamine says he has no interest in bring them back to Australia, as the mother claims she has not heard from them in a year.
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Kenya Election: Raila Odinga Urges Supporters to Strike
Kenya’s opposition leader has urged people to stay away from work on Monday over the disputed election result.
Raila Odinga said it would be a “day of mourning for the fallen patriots” after a rally in Kibera, the largest slum in the capital Nairobi.
The international community has urged calm following the election, which Mr Odinga alleges was fixed.
AFP is reporting at least 16 people were killed between Friday evening and Saturday night. The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights said on Saturday 24 people had been shot dead during protests since election day on 8 August.
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Sudan President Bashir’s ‘Disarmament’ Plan in Darfur is Cover for Genocide
by Lt. Gen. Abakar M. Abdallah, Jerry Gordon and Deborah Martin
The Second Vice-President of Sudan Hasabo Mohamed Abderhaman met with the five Governors of Darfur and the so-called Higher Commission for the Collection of Unlicensed Firearms and Vehicles on August 7, 2017 in El Fashir, the capital city of North Darfur. He stated that he was carrying out a campaign of disarmament to establish government authority in the region. The Vice-President also visited four other Darfur regions — Central, Southern, Western and Eastern Darfur pushing his campaign of disarming civilians. Hasabo said on Radio Dabanga, “As of today, we will not allow arms to be in the hands of civilians under any pretext, other than the regular forces”. He gave firm instructions to security forces comprised of Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Border Guards, Popular Defense Forces, Desert Shield (Janjaweed) and Sudanese Armed Forces to disarm Darfur civilians.
This campaign contradicts the fact that Darfurian civilians have no arms that the Vice-President’s Security forces could disarm. Abderhaman should ask himself why he falsely accuses innocent and helpless Darfur civilians of possessing arms. How long do President Bashir and his regime think they can continually deceive the public and the international community?…
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Why Do Buhari, Dos Santos and Mugabe Go to Hospital Abroad?
The presidents of Nigeria, Angola, Zimbabwe, Benin and Algeria all have something in common — an apparent lack of faith in the health systems at home.
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This is the moment a lorry driver was forced to wrestle a desperate migrant trying to reach the UK before being spat at and pelted with rocks in Calais.
The violence broke out after the car transporter driver noticed the man attempting to hide underneath a coat on the back seat of one of the vehicles he was towing.
He managed to drag the migrant, who suffered a bloodied lip, out by the feet before witnesses told of how things turned nasty.
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German NGO Halts Migrant Rescue Operations Off Libya
The German aid group Sea Eye on Sunday said it was suspending its migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean, citing security concerns after Libya barred foreign vessels from a stretch of water off its coast.
The announcement comes a day after Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said it was halting the use of its largest boat in the area because of an “increasingly hostile environment for lifesaving rescue operations”.
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Italy Applauds Libya’s Decision on Migrant ‘Search and Rescue’ Zone
The Italian government on Sunday welcomed Libya’s decision to bar foreign vessels from a stretch of water off its coast, as both countries struggle with a migrant crisis that has engulfed Europe in recent years.
The comments from Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano came as a second non-governmental organisation announced it was suspending operations in the area in response to the Libyan move.
The Libyan government “is ready to put in place a search and rescue zone in its waters, work with Europe and invest in its coastguards,” Alfano told La Stampa daily on Sunday.
“This sends a signal that the balance is being restored in the Mediterranean.”
Libya’s navy last week ordered foreign vessels to stay out of a coastal “search and rescue zone” for migrants headed for Europe, saying the measure was aimed at non-governmental organisations it accuses of facilitating illegal migration.
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Major NGOs Halt Refugee Rescue Operations Off Libyan Coast
German aid group Sea-Eye has announced it will suspend migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean. The announcement comes a day after Doctors Without Borders (MSF) took a similar decision citing security concerns.
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Migrant Crisis: Spain Arrivals Triple Compared With 2016
Three times as many migrants have arrived in Spain so far this year compared to the same period in 2016, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.
It means the number of sea arrivals in Spain — at 8,385 — could overtake Greece, which has had 11,713 people.
The shift may be because migrants are finding the Spanish route safer.
Earlier this week, footage showed migrants arriving by dinghy on a beach in Cádiz to the surprise of beachgoers.
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Muslim Migrants Want Ban on Jokes About Islam — Survey
THE majority of Muslim migrants in Austria want jokes about Islam to be banned, according to a new university survey.
The study, conducted by the Danube University of Krems, revealed a major contrast between typical Austrian values and those of migrants from countries like Somalia and Chechnya, who have fare more religious views.
The researchers found that 60 per cent of those interviewed believed jokes about Islam should be banned, while a quarter said Islam should influence the country’s laws.
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Syrian People Traffickers Jailed in Germany
A German court has jailed two Syrian people traffickers over the deaths of 13 migrants in the Mediterranean in 2015. Two children are still missing after the inflatable dinghy hit a freighter off the Greek island of Lesbos.
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Google is Guilty of Ideological Suppression, Confirmation Bias, And Ritual Defamation
A top-tier Google employee created a memo in which he described exactly what every single Christian and conservative is undergoing from the technology giant. Upon discovery of the employee-written memo, Google fired said employee.
The Google employee, software engineer James Damore, wrote a piece entitled; Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber. In which the engineer describes how conservative voices are actually silenced and suppressed, in addition, anyone with an opposing view of the technology giant is systemically practically marginalized for their ideology.
The problem of such ranges from company bias to information censorship. Google is the largest search engine on the planet, with over 65% of all searches done on Google, it’s fair to say that Google is responsible for an enormous amount of information processed by the people of the world on a daily basis. With such responsibility it is of the utmost importance that Google maintains fair play on both sides of the ideological spectrum, however, what Google just did to its own employee with an opposing view systematically proves the problem in America’s polarization. Information within Google and controlled by Google is subject to insurmountable bias.
The author of the document pleaded Google to pursue ideological diversity and for doing such the software engineer, who has a masters degree in Systems Biology from Harvard, was systemically assassinated, thus proving the entirety of one of the memo’s points.
As a result, the ex-googler is now planning to sue Alphabet inc. for firing him. As Yale professor Nicholas Christakis states, what Google did to this employee is indeed ‘textbook “ritual defamation.”‘
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Hundreds Pack DC Hall to Discuss Podcast Exploring Harry Potter as a Sacred Text
Hosted by Harvard Divinity School graduates Casper ter Kuile and Vanessa Zoltan, the podcast “Harry Potter and the Sacred Text” became the number-two podcast in America on iTunes soon after it debuted last summer. It has inspired face-to-face Potter text reading groups, akin to Bible study more than book club, in cities across the country. In Harvard Square, ter Kuile and Zoltan host a weekly church-like service for the secular focused on a Potter text’s meaning.
In the episode they taped at Sixth & I, they used one chapter of the third Harry Potter book as a vehicle for discussing the topics of trust, betrayal, love and prejudice (against werewolves).
Touring the country this summer, the podcasters have been met night after night by adoring, mostly millennial crowds who want to soak up their secular meaning-making. For the growing slice of Americans who label themselves “spiritual but not religious,” Casper ter Kuile and Vanessa Zoltan are kind of pop stars.
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The document that sets apart America from many other nation, the Constitution of the United States, delineates parental rights over their children, but what happens when such rights are violated?
Recently in Minnesota, a mother is being forced to appeal a judge’s decision to dismiss her lawsuit against school authorities who gave her teenage son female hormone treatments without her permission.
Not only did the school dismiss her parental legal rights, provided by the Constitution, but so did the judge, so much so, that her son was given treatments to alter his nature, potentially for the remainder of his life.
“The U.S. Constitution says that parental rights of fit parents are fundamental rights, fit parents’ parental rights over unemancipated minors cannot be terminated without due process,” stated Erick Kaardal, special counsel with the Thomas More Society, in a statement released Thursday.
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Shroud of Turin: Setting the Stage for the Antichrist
The Literal Mocking of Jesus Christ and The Attempted Destruction of the Authority of Scripture.
Oxford University geneticist George Busby and biblical scholar Pastor Joe Basile in accordance with the History Channel claimed that the DNA samples from the shroud will be used to search for any living descendants of Jesus Christ’s family.
“They believe that if they can find a strand of Jesus’ DNA it could help identify who among us today are descendants of Jesus and provide us with new insight into the man many consider to be the most important person in history, Jesus,” the History Channel explained about the search at the time.
Descendants of Jesus? According to scripture, there aren’t any. Jesus was not just a man, He was God’s Son and did not have any children or siblings. The search for a genetic bloodline of Jesus proves only one thing, the scientists behind the study are either directly or indirectly, in fact, setting in place the stage for the antichrist.
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Did you know that some of the most God hating organizations in America hold the same symbiotic relationship with the government that most American churches have? Did you know that Planned Parenthood is a 501(c)(3) organization just like your local church? Did you know they are actively involved in politics? See the video below of a former Dallas Planned Parenthood Director speaking out about the “Monthly Abortion Quotas” that has been hidden from the public. It’s truly shocking, and must see.
How about the Southern Poverty Law Center? Did you know that this Christ-hating organization has a similar tax exempt status as your church? How about Right Wing Watch? The Sierra Club? Did you know that the ACLU is not Tax exempt…BUT…the ACLU Foundation is? Can’t you see that these are simply different denominations of the religion of Atheism and Humanism doing all that they can to destroy Christian-America?
Yes, you read that right. God-hating organizations have free speech rights…but Christian churches do not. At least that is what the God-hating government wants you to believe.
Just this week some emails were captured that prove that there is an organized war against President Trump and conservative Christianity. The Left is doing everything they can do to overturn a duly elected Presidency.
Check it out here. It clearly spells out the strategy to undermine America. Oh…did I mention that the lead organization Media Matters is a 501(c)(3) organization…just like your local Christian church? I thought tax exempt organizations were not permitted to get involved in the political process? Only Christian organizations, I guess.
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Transgender Child Returns to Born Gender After Removal From Mother’s Care
High-court places boy in care of father after suffering abuse from being raised as a girl
A high-court has removed a 7-year-old boy from the care of his mother after ruling that the child had suffered “significant emotional harm” from being raised as a girl.
The mother has been accused of abusing the young boy by forcing transgenderism onto him from an early age.
After being placed in the custody of his father, the young boy immediately returned to living in his “born gender” without any prompting.
The judge in the case lashed out at social services who had turned a blind eye to the situation by simply accepting that he should be treated as a girl.
ORDER15 reports: The High Court judge hearing the case, Mr. Justice Hayden, told the court that he believed the mother had been “absolutely convinced” that the boy “perceived himself as a girl” and was, therefore, determined to treat him as a girl, according to reports.
However, the boy, who cannot be named and is now living with his father, has naturally reverted to having masculine interests since leaving the care of his mother, the court heard.
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But how is the donkey doing? Probably contracted terrible STDs from the Moroccans.
I’m sure they will qualify for refugee status in Germany based on literacy, work ethic and prosecution in their origin country – I know the donkeys will become ideal New Germans citizens.
And you can’t deport them, because they would face persecution in their countries of origin.
And then there’s the family reunifications…
At least donkeys can kick, if something or someone is annoys them. Can’t say the same about Germans.
Donkeys think Moroccans are impure.
What happened with the donkey? Did it got any vaccination against the diseases from the Moroccans?
Under Islamic law, that poor donkey would have been considered as impure and subject to slaughter.
The donkey was honor killed as the family could not tolerate the disgrace.
“The former teacher also said that Mr. Fields had been diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was a teenager and put on anti-psychotic medication.”
So one should not implicate any wider society given this mentally ill lone-wolf behaviour.
One should only sympathise for his illness.
“The former teacher also said that Mr. Fields had been diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was a teenager and put on anti-psychotic medication.”
A lone wolf, with mental health issues.
So he can have no connection to anyone or anything else – and any reading material he might have been exposed to as a young man is especially irrelevant, eh …
Isn’t that how we’re all supposed to perceive acts of “senseless violence”?
Having spent the greater part of the last 16 years in research as to who or what really controls this world, I believe that Pastor Carl Gallups, has a point in what he states and that is relevant to our current world situation concerning the current President of the United States.
If one can accept that God is the reason for our existence in this world, then it should follow naturally that there would be an anti-God entity that exists to counter God’s benevolence, otherwise, what would be the point to our life on this planet.
Every belief system in this world has a Good and a Bad, a Ying and a Yang or a Light and a Dark in their spiritual thinking, a collective human thinking that should be reinforcing our own spiritual belief that is a belief based more in logic than in faith or the anti -God propaganda of Humanism.
That is the World under the influence of the fruit of knowledge of good and evil. However I would suggest that God is always good, but it’s the man who often wrongfully blame God for evil in this world. So they jump the root cause of evil and make up vain theories how maybe theoretically possibly we could get rid of evil – while systematically ignoring the main point of human existence: Whatever you do, it better be good.
Thomas Aquinas had an interesting idea about evil. Instead of positing a entity like “the devil” he saw evil as the absence of good. Where good had gone astray or been eradicated through our limited human reasoning.
In a fundamental way, neonatal studies have proved him right: it is in the nature of things that with our big humanoid brains we’re born too soon, totally dependent on others for our needs, yet able to communicate in very limited ways what those needs are. For example, an attentive parent can quickly learn to understand a hungry cry from one that says the infant is tired or overstimulated from the one that suggests illness or discomfort.
And from those limits, inherent in the human condition, we develop a kind of tunnel vision that has us believing in one sort of salvation or another rather than learning to live with a certain amount of inevitable discomfort.
I agree. The main realisation in my work-life was that I can’t really expect work to “feel good”. If it felt good, everybody would be working happily. Yet having a work done is good, even though it was a hard day in job.
I guess the main obstacle to our human understanding of good and evil is that good and evil live independent from good and bad feelings – therefore to act “the Good” out, we have to think and act according to reason – not some vain hormonal impulses.
This I believe is kind of echoing “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
The heart is the one organ pumping hormones, alcohol, nicotine, THC – and pretty much every mind altering chemical – around our bodies. That is why it is wicked: it goes around and bypasses reason.
Just on a side-note: This is a major point of contention between me, and my “techno music new age friends”. These new age guys read some knowledgeable things from Alister Crowley and the like, and every time I point out that “the mind must controll the heart, and not the way around – they go ballistics and trart up hour long monologues about how “what I feel in my heart is the most important thing in the world”.
All of them do drugs, mind you. But they seem to unable to grasp the idea that if you have a solid proof that your “feelings” can be altered via drugs – why do you trust your feelings? I guess you understand what I am trying to say: My point is that the New Age people actually attack any notions about “reason”, and good and evil being independent of our bad and good feelings.
What happened with the donkey?
The donkey’s sexual orientation changed.
According to Ayatollah Khomeinis theological works, they can sell it to the next village… 😉
From 2011, 4 Turcs raped a donkey.
http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/4-kisi-esege-tecavuz-etmis-16705751
Donkey, figurative in Arabic also called Abu Iaqsa – Father of Pleasures…
Ewww…
More on the donkey:
God is good. Justice in an instant.
More on the Charlottesville chaos…orchestrated? See images and timeline of cover-up…
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3576895/posts?page=97#97
Why I no longer read National Review too much anymore:
” I have a new column up on the homepage about the murderous assault during this weekend’s horror show in Charlottesville. The thrust is to argue that the vehicular attack by James Alex Field, which killed Heather Heyer and wounded at least 19 others, was obviously a terrorist attack;”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450471/federal-civil-rights-case-can-wait-let-virginia-prosecute-field
You know there are several videos of this sort of thing (yes, really) on youtube and liveleak. Usually night vision jobs, taken from military helicopters. Grown Muslim men doing what comes unnaturally … remember though, all cultures are equal. Angela Merkel says so.
The perp loves Hitler and the Nazis?! I suspected he was a Leftist!
Yes, and many of the fools who support Antifa or the Nazis, don’t even realize that they are working toward the same goal!