A German newspaper reported that the violent culture-enricher who stabbed seven people in Turku had originally entered Germany illegally. Finnish judicial authorities have named the murdering mujahid as Abderrahan Mechkah, a Moroccan.
In other news, police in Spain confirmed that the driver of the van that committed vehicular jihad in Barcelona has been shot dead. Meanwhile, in an attempt to avoid a Barcelona-style attack, Italy has placed concrete barriers around its landmark tourist attractions.
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Ray Dalio’s Gravest Warning Yet: “I Am Tactically Reducing Risk… This is Broadly Similar to 1937”
Two weeks after Ray Dalio warned in his latest letter to Bridgewater clients that the right trade in the current environment is to buy gold in case “things go badly”, the head of the world’s biggest hedge fund is out with his gravest warning yet, saying that he is “concerned about growing internal and external conflict leading to impaired government efficiency.” In his LinkedIn post, he writes that he “continues to closely watch how conflict is being handled a guide, and I’m not encouraged.”
Echoing a similar warning issued just days ago from perhaps the most prominent name in all of finance, Lord Jacob Rothschild, the head of the world’s biggest hedge fund says that “conflicts have now intensified to the point that fighting to the death is probably more likely than reconciliation” and in a stark comparison to the days prior to World War II, observes that “politics will probably play a greater role in affecting markets than we have experienced any time before in our lifetimes but in a manner that is broadly similar to 1937.”
Basically, Ray Dalio just compared the current political environment to the days just prior to the outbreak of World War II. That is probably not a coincidence.
His full LinkedIn note:…
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A Warning to Trump and the Nation
Suffice it to say that removal of Trump without sufficient cause would likely have dramatic and lasting repercussions. At a minimum, the power brokers involved in a successful coup would feel entitled to a big role in reordering the nation. At the other end of the spectrum, a more dramatic maximum type response could come in the form of a civil uprising of armed constituencies that voted for Trump, who might well feel there is no other recourse from the fundamental betrayal of the ballot box and disenfranchisement by their government.
Among the power brokers, first there are the globalists and open borders advocates that understandably fear President Trump, who is serious about the integrity of U.S. borders, limitations on immigration, the strengthening of national sovereignty. This is a disparate group that includes the sanctuary city movement operating in most major cities nationwide; George Soros and his Open Society Institute and his Soros Foundation network of more than two dozen organizations that include MoveOn.org and Democracy Alliance; radical nativist and Latin American immigration activist groups like La Raza; and establishment corporate business executives such as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his open borders organization FWD.us, Disney CEO Bob Iger, who, in late 2014 fired and replaced 250 American IT engineers with lower-paid IT workers from India, and many other corporate executives, like Iger, who are affiliated with the immigration-expansionist group, Partnership for a New American Economy.
The second group of power brokers in the coup attempt are those in the political establishment — liberal politicians, bureaucrats, and deep state operatives in Washington, as well as media professionals who carry the former’s water and promote their views. Because these are the people who are in essence “the swamp in Washington,” they are directly threatened by Donald Trump. People in this second group are largely corrupted by power, access to power and status in the nation’s capital, and they don’t want any disruption of the privileges that the Washington swamp bestows. These are the people in the forefront cheering on the fishing expedition of Robert Mueller and his stable of more than a dozen heavyweight Washington insider lawyers in their open-ended investigation and the unspoken but implied mandate to impale Donald Trump and set the stage for his impeachment.
The third group of power brokers are the myriad radical neo-Marxist special interest groups, driven by separate causes such as the environment, climate change, race and gender, anti-imperialism, anti-militarism, human rights and refugee resettlement. These groups tend to attract a lot of youthful idealists — the foot soldiers whom Lenin referred to as “useful idiots” who are absolutely essential in revolutionary mass movements, and who will quickly and easily mobilize through social media to specific demonstration sites — ready-made for TV media coverage. Most of the people in this third group are intolerant of diverse opinion and have no use for the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights, which is to say they want to see America collapse or be “fundamentally transformed” — a phrase from Obama’s lexicon.
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Actor James Woods Threatened on Twitter
‘If I see you in the street I will hit you over the head with a 2×4’
It was just one of those nights for actor James Woods — minding his own business, fighting the good fight for conservative ideals on the Twitter front.
Then it came — a full-frontal threat of violence from a guy named Matthew E. Jacob of Manhasset, Long Island.
“If I see you in the street I will hit you over the head with a 2 x 4,” he threatened.
But Jacob picked a fight with the wrong actor.
Woods, best know for his bad-guy roles, took a screenshot of the threat and tweeted it to Twitter Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey, while wondering out loud if “Twitter will actually do anything if a conservative is threatened.”
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The week before Charlottesville, Liz Warren, the newest and biggest fraud from the left, came out against a more centrist Democratic Party. The N.Y. Times op-ed page had actually allowed some Democrat moderates to publish a piece pleading for moderation on the left, and Liz instantly struck back. She thereby outsmarted Hillary, and a lot of what is happening today is a fight between left and lefter in the party.
Charlottesville followed a week later, and Liz earned Antifa brownie points for pushing back against moderation.
But the trouble with turning hard left too many times is that you end up in the same place you started, as in the classical French observation that “les extrêmes se touchent” — roughly, “the extremes meet each other.”
The left works hand in hand with the Ikhwan (the Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in Hitler’s time), and it’s no surprise at all that CAIR (the U.S. front for the Brothers) immediately endorsed the leftist mob response to the murderous provocation battle in Charlottesville.
The Swastika is the perfect symbol for Antifa, because anyone with only a smidgen of history will recognize Antifa as another neurotic repetition of the worst moments in history. The people who pay for, recruit, and organize ruckus-makers teach radical street theater, and hey, if somebody gets killed, you just blame the innocent.
This is the whole purpose. Innocent people getting killed are a small price to pay for the glorious revolution, as Obama taught in his ACORN Alinsky trainings.
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Destruction/Removal National Monuments: America’s New ISIS
Another sad and sickening week for our beloved republic. Following the predictable violence at Charlottesville, VA., hysterical, ignorant lemmings, victims of what’s called ‘group think’ began trying to erase our history.
One black female scaled a ladder to topple a statue of Robert E. Lee having absolutely zero knowledge whatsoever about Lee: “There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil,” Lee wrote back in 1856, in a letter written in response to a speech given by then-President Franklin Pierce.” That poor misguided woman bought herself a load of legal problems which she probably can’t afford not to mention she might be a mom; who will care for her children if she gets jail time? And for what? Lies promulgated over and over by evil people with an agenda.
I have been to the beautiful Robert E. Lee plantation/memorial in Arlington, VA; , Andrew Jackson’s home, The Hermitage outside Nashville, TN. Thomas Jefferson’s gorgeous Monticello (Charlottesville, VA) George Washington’s planation estate, Mt. Vernon in Mt. Vernon, VA. On May 15, 2008, I stood at the homestead of Nathan Hale outside of Mansfield, Connecticut. Just off Church Circle in Annapolis, MD, I had a cold beer at the 1747 Pub aka Reynold’s Tavern. I have been blessed to have had the opportunity to see so many places that are part of our history — even our bad history. Even though the aforementioned, except Nathan Hale, owned slaves which I could never have been a part of if alive back then, I believe most knew it was wrong and that slavery would in the short term finally be abolished.
“Despite having been an active slave holder for 56 years, George Washington struggled with the institution of slavery and spoke frequently of his desire to end the practice. At the end of his life Washington made the bold step to free his slaves in his 1799 will — the only slave-holding Founding Father to do so.”
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Destroying History: The Race Baiting Politically Correct Anarchists
Charlottesville police have now come forward and said, “We were told to stand down to ignite a race war.”
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Marcus Garvey
When a scholar, an academic, or a journalist is more concerned with presenting a desired conclusion rather than the conclusion arising from facts and truth, he is no longer a scholar, an academic or a journalist. He is a demagogue and a liar. And that is what we have today, both in higher education and in the media. Charlottesville is the prime example. They are about destruction, just like Communists and Islamists.
Communism and Islam Destroy Historical Sites
The truth of the Russian Revolution is not taught in schools today. If it were, Americans would understand that when the Russian Revolution ushered in communism via Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin, the historic landmarks of the country and Romanovs were destroyed, along with libraries and books. Over 1,000 Russian Orthodox priests were sent to Siberia where they were worked to death. Lenin spent time in prison before coming to power, just as did Hitler and Mandela, Communists and National Socialist fascists alike.
Wherever Islam is in control, historical shrines are destroyed. ISIS has actually bulldozed and blown up archeological sites. [Link] One need only read Oriana Fallaci’s book, The Rage and the Pride to understand the depths of Islamic destruction of historic monuments of every religion.
When I saw the videos of destruction of a Southern statue in Durham NC, the several placards and signs all had a web site address on the bottom in red letters. The same www.workers.org was on almost all of them. This is one of the sites of the Communist Party USA…
In Ann Coulter’s recent article, When Liberals Club People, It’s With Love in Their Hearts, she is totally right when she says that liberals have Republicans over a barrel when they use the word “racist.” The word is kryptonite, and it turns the entire GOP and most rightwing media into sniveling cowards. The dumbed down American people don’t even understand that the first black politicians in Congress were all Republicans!
Journalist Lee Stranahan says both sides were paid by Soros, and the police decision to stand down and let these two groups go at it was made MONTHS ago, not the day of the event. Why? They WANTED a violent confrontation so they could attach it to Trump and by extension his followers since the Russian thing has evaporated other than Mueller and his leftist lawyers.
‘Unite the Right’ organizer Jason Kessler was reportedly an Obama supporter involved in the Occupy movement as recently as November 2016, before establishing his white supremacist group “Unity & Security for America” in January, 2017. Nothing smells right about any of this. In fact, Lee Stranahan has connected the “Unite the Right” rally to an identical Neo-Nazi movement in Ukraine supported by John McCain and Hillary Clinton. [Link]
The Mayor of Charlottesville, Michael Signer worked for John Podesta and was in Obama’s State Department Transition Team. Think Obama and Soros aren’t working together to destroy our legally elected President?
Charlottesville police have now come forward and said, “We were told to stand down to ignite a race war.”
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D’Souza Traces Roots of Democratic Party to Hitler’s Nazi Party
Author ties Soros-funded Antifa anarchists to Hitler Brownshirts of 1930s
Once again, D’Souza succeeds, proving now that the Democratic Party is the ideological descendant not only of slavery, the Reconstruction Era, and racial segregation, but also of fascism, understood properly as a movement on the political left.
In achieving this feat, D’Souza joins Jacob Goldberg’s 2008 classic, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, in establishing correctly that fascism arose not as a right-wing movement in the 1930s, but as a leftist ideology that sought to compete on the left with communism.
Where both fascism and communism are leftist cousins, as Goldberg and D’Souza correctly argue, the Nazis embraced the idea government should control international global business conglomerates in the production of their social welfare utopia, while the communists rejected all private property, arguing the means of business should be collectively owned, managed, and operated.
Thus, while the mainstream media portrays the Soros-funded Antifa disrupters as “heroic resisters trying to block the rise of Nazism in America,” D’Souza points out that George Soros funds Antifa precisely because the Antifa movement is an anarchist Brownshirt-like violent hard-left group the Nazis in the 1930 would have understood to be one of their own.
Still, D’Souza acknowledges the mainstream media in the United States is uncritical of the Democratic Party’s insistence that Antifa anarchists view themselves with waging an anti-fascist struggle, with the standard Antifa radicals’ depiction of President Trump is to portray him with a Hitler mustache.
D’Souza identifies the “big lie” as the decision after World War II to portray Mussolini and Hitler as “right-wingers” and the people who supposedly brought them to power as “conservatives” — a reversal of the truth that allowed the political left in post-World War II America to portray themselves as “the glorious resisters of fascism and Nazism.”
D’Souza warns that we are experiencing “a fascist coup” in the Democratic Party’s refusal to accept the legitimacy of the Trump presidency.
“By a fascist coup I mean the exertion of power by the unelected arms of the Left-mainly the media Left-to overturn the outcome and the mandate of a free election,” D’Souza writes.
“If the coup succeeds, America will effectively cease to be a democracy,” he warns.
“The fascists-dressed in anti-fascist garb-will have proved that they are fully capable of canceling the will of the electorate,” D’Souza explains. “In a sense, there will be no point in even holding elections anymore because the Left would have established veto power over the results.”
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FBI Admits Federal Informants Linked to Deadly Charlottesville Riots; Unlikely to Face Charges
FBI insiders said it is unlikely leaders of the radical groups that clashed in demonstrations turned deadly in Charlottesville, VA will face prosecution.
Why?
FBI said they have already identified several federal informants who participated in the mob-like riots over the weekend in Virginia. The FBI is also now working those sources to piece together the events from Charlottesville, sources said.
But FBI agents have deemed the newly-minted investigation dicey, having to navigate separate agreements with embedded intelligence assets while trying to pinpoint responsibility for the violence.
Late Saturday, the Justice Department announced the federal probe. The investigation, spearheaded by the Richmond, VA FBI field office, was launched after an Ohio man drove his car through a crowd of demonstrators killing one woman and injuring dozens.
The FBI has Intel assets implanted in several white supremacy sects, as well as the radical ANTIFA group, according to federal law enforcement sources who spoke to True Pundit.
The FBI sources said it is unlikely an asset would be charged for stoking violence in Virginia if for instance that asset had or was providing valuable information on another domestic terrorism case.
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Michigan: Muslim Doctor Prescribed More Than 500,000 Opioid Pills Since January, Arrested
DEARBON — About 8 a.m. on Thursday, Michigan State Police raided the Dearbon Medical Clinic, where a doctor is accused of prescribing opiates.
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Petition to Declare Antifa a Terrorist Organisation Nears 150,000 Signatures
Stunning rebuke of the MSM’s effort to embrace violent, alt-left group
A petition to formally recognise Antifa as a terrorist organisation is surging towards 150,000 signatures in a stunning rebuke of how the mainstream media has embraced the far-left group since the violence in Charlottesville.
Entitled Formally recognize AntiFa as a terrorist organization, the petition was created just four days ago and has already amassed over 144,000 signatures.
It reads;
Terrorism is defined as “the use of violence and intimidation in pursuit of political aims”. This definition is the same definition used to declare ISIS and other groups, as terrorist organizations. AntiFa has earned this title due to its violent actions in multiple cities and their influence in the killings of multiple police officers throughout the United States. It is time for the Pentagon to be consistent in its actions — and just as they rightfully declared ISIS a terror group, they must declare AntiFa a terror group — on the grounds of principle, integrity, morality, and safety.
The petition has now obtained enough signatures to warrant an official response from the White House.
The political class and the media slammed President Trump after he accused both sides of being responsible for violence during the disturbances in Charlottesville last week.
Elements of the mainstream media have since embraced Antifa despite its vulgar history of using violence to censor free speech.
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Ridiculing Climate Predictions, Scientist Offers Bet to EPA
Betting that their predictions on supposed “climate change”-related wildfires over the coming years are wrong, a scientist and leading expert in the field is offering top officials at the Environmental Protection Agency a simple wager. If their fire forecasts from 2017 to 2020 are all wrong, Professor David South wins $1,000. But if their predictions for even one year turn out to be accurate or exceeded, South will send the EPA scientists a check for $1,000. So far, though, not a single EPA scientist or official has even responded to the offer, much less put their own money on the line in support of their forecasts.
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Save America: Repeal and Replace Congress 2018
In the 2018 mid-term elections, all 435 U.S. House members are up for reelection and in the U.S. Senate, 25 democrats and 9 republicans are running for reelection. Not one of them has kept their oath of office to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, “so help me God.”
The 2016 election was a landmark shift away from liberal concepts to American concepts, as demonstrated by voters crossing party lines to support long-shot outsider Donald J. Trump for President with a common concern in mind…
Trump stepped into much worse than any “swamp.” He stepped squarely between the global power structure hell-bent on reducing the United States to a 3rd world level partner in a global commune —and— American voters from all party affiliations who want no part of it.
The “never-Trump” operation involves foreign governments, the United Nations, the Democratic Party, many members of the Republican Party in congress and state governments, 97% of all Federal Employees, the “fake news” media, Hollywood, DOJ Officials, the FBI, CIA, NSA, the DNI, George Soros and his more than 200 NGOs, the Communist Party USA, Socialist Party USA and Democratic Socialists of America, Islamists, illegal alien invaders, ANTIFA and BLM, giant international corporations, the education system and K-College kids… On and on and on…
It’s not just a “swamp.” Trump stepped into the middle of a velvet global war to destroy America and took a stand with the dying breed of Americans who still believe our foundations can make America great again. Trump and his voters are at war… and the sooner they realize it, the better.
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Trump’s Unintended Consequences: The Republican Party Reveals Itself
I think that the Sermon on the Mount applies to the vast majority of Republican Party officialdom right now.
“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.”
The Republican Party once was the party of conservatives. It still is the only place any conservative can be elected in today’s political world. So far. Unfortunately, the party of Reagan has disappeared. Trump did not make them disappear, but his improbable run, and win, has revealed who the party really is.
And it ain’t pretty.
It’s been apparent for a while that they are the stupid party. But I never thought they were this stupid.
It’s been apparent for a long time they had Stockholm Syndrome. Captured by the left, they have been cowed into being spineless mushes afraid to be called names. But I never thought it was this bad.
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Video: NBC Again Promotes Antifa Violence
Chuck Todd provides platform for extremism on Meet the Press
After allowing a far-left pundit to promote Antifa violence on his midweek show last week, NBC’s Chuck Todd invited Dartmouth Professor Mark Bray back on to Meet The Press, where he once again advocated extremism.
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Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS
SUFFOLK, Va. — A Virginia man has pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to the barbaric Islamic group known as ISIS, which identifies itself as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
Lionel Nelson Williams, 27, of Suffolk, entered the guilty plea on Wednesday after accepting a deal that would put him behind bars for 20 years. He still will appear for a sentencing hearing on Dec. 20.
As previously reported, according to an affidavit posted online by the U.S. Department of Justice, Williams had posted material favorable of ISIS to Facebook and ordered an AK-47 the day after the Dec. 2015 San Bernardino massacre.
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Women in Ismaili Muslim Sect Say They Have Had FGM in Canada
Women from a small Muslim sect called the Dawoodi Bohras have reported that female genital mutilation has been performed on them in Canada, a study given to the federal government reveals.
The first research of its kind to probe the practice within this tightly knit South Asian community, the study found that 80 per cent of Bohra women surveyed have undergone FGM and two of the study’s 18 Canadian participants said it happened within Canada’s borders.
In Canada, FGM was added to the Criminal Code under aggravated assault in 1997. The study does not provide additional information on the two cases it uncovered.
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Barcelona: An Italian Among the Victims. Bruno Gulotta Was on a Trip With His Family
The 35-year-old man was hit by the van in front of his children and wife
Bruno Gulotta was walking on Las Ramblas yesterday evening, holding his seven-year-old son by the hand next to his wife Martina, who had their baby girl in her arms. When the white van was rushing in their direction, Martina only had time to grab her son and take him away, but it was too late for her husband, who is one of the victim of the terrorist attack.
“Bruno is dead”. That’s the phone call Andrea Ferrario, director of Tom’s Hardware in Legnano — where Bruno Gulotta had been working as a marketing director for years — got yesterday evening. “We knew Bruno was in Barcelona but he published something on Facebook a little before the attack so we weren’t concerned,” Ferrario said. Bruno and his family lived a few hundred meters from his office, where he was suppose to go back after his trip. “He left for the weekend, and was supposed to stay for a few more days .You can’t be prepared to a thing like this one, it’s terrible. Bruno was a hard-working man and a great father, a good, average man. There’s nothing else to say.”…
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Finland Names Turku Knife Attack Suspect as Abderrahan Mechkah
A Finnish court has named the main suspect in a knife attack in the southwestern city of Turku that killed two women and wounded eight others.
Police shot and arrested 18-year-old Moroccan Abderrahman Mechkah after the incident on Friday afternoon, which authorities are treating as a terrorist attack.
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How the Elites Are Divorcing From Reality: The Economist’s
The Western globalist elites have not digested Trump’s victory or Brexit yet. They are having a hard time dealing with their ideological failures, and when the reality dares not to comply with their day dreaming, they go online and create a parallel world, where their “expert” predictions always turn right and their failures cannot be questioned.
The Economist’s portal named “what if”, a neo-liberal, wishful thinking echo chamber, is the point in case.
Its latest piece attributes magical powers to the new hero of the elites, Emmanuel Macron, who soundly defeated “evil” Marine Le Pen in May. For The Economist, Macron is nothing short of Jesus as he was correspondingly depicted on the monthly’s cover walking on water:
The hypothetical scenario of Macron’s success is based on magical reforms that will somehow create enormous numbers of jobs after an initial friction and fix the out-of-control state budget. The text provides no answer how exactly all this is going to be done. The happy predictions do not stop there. Macron’s miracle, would turn France into another Silicon Valley, a paradise for start-ups. Does it not make us think back to the internet bubble of the 90s? After “making France great again” and defeating Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, Marine’s niece (who for the record has already retired from politics, but don’t tell The Economist, it’d break their narrative, they need an evil antagonist), Macron’s magic would next make Europe great again. Academic papers on the “French Renaissance” are beginning to appear, says the article’s author, an intellectual liberal himself and Macron’s flunky. He speaks of “EU-funded military operations in the Sahel”, because clearly that’s what Europe needs most. Why, destabilizing surrounding countries has worked very well so far, hasn’t it? Islamic terrorism isn’t even touched in the article, so we gather it will magically disappear as will the problems of the banlieu which do not deserve much mention either. Here, too, no solution is offered, just pure magic.
Another article,”If borders were open”, tackles immigration.2)According to the article, the world would suddenly become richer by 78$ trillion because “Mexicans in the US could make 150% more, Nigerians 1000% more”. Never mind the fact that basic economic logic says the infinite increase in labour supply sends wages crashing down to zero.
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Italy Installs Concrete Barriers at Famous Landmarks After Barcelona Attack
Concrete barriers have been installed at famous landmarks across Italy following the terror attack in Barcelona last Thursday.
Major tourist sites in Milan, Rome, Bologna and Turin are all stepping up security in pedestrianised areas. Although Italy has not suffered any attacks on its territory there have been repeated warnings by Isis that the country is on its hit list.
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Spain: Muslim Terror Cell Planned to Bomb Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia Cathedral
When Muslims aren’t plotting to takeover iconic Christian places of worship (read here and here), they are plotting to destroy them. The goal is the same. Source: Spanish terror cell ‘planned to attack Barcelona church’ — Daily Mail Online
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Spain: Barcelona Terror Attack Driver ‘Shot Dead’ After Europe-Wide Hunt
THE main suspect in the Barcelona terror attack has been shot dead by police after being spotted with an explosive belt strapped to him, Spanish authorities have confirmed
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Video Emerges of US Allowing ISIS Fighters to Escape Safely in Syria
With numerous distractions unfolding on the newly released reality TV show that is “Keeping Up with the Trump Administration,” it may surprise readers to learn that the U.S. is using the terror group ISIS as a pawn in its depraved foreign policy.
Video footage obtained by Al-Masdar appears to show convoys of ISIS fighters fleeing the Syrian city of Raqqa untouched by the U.S. military, which is currently bombing that exact location. As Al-Masdar notes, despite having Kurdish and American drones hovering around the city of Raqqa, U.S. bombs are nowhere to be seen as hundreds of fighters pass safely. The release of this footage comes on the heels of accusations from both Russia and Iran that the U.S. is colluding with ISIS to allow the group’s safe passage into areas controlled by the Syrian government.
[Comment: “US Deep State” allowing ISIS a backdoor out, likely to Europe.]
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A burqa-wearing Muslim convert teacher from western Sydney says it is sinful for Islamic women to pluck their eyebrows. Umm Jamaal ud-Din’s fiery, two-hour sermon covered obeying Allah.
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One of Australia’s highest security jails was thrown into turmoil when an Islamic State sympathiser allegedly started a massive blaze in his cell.
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Ashmore State School on the Gold Coast was placed on lockdown after staff discovered graffiti on a classroom window threatening to ‘take one child hostage every day until they disappear’.
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Muslim family members and supporters of four men accused of planning to bomb Melbourne landmarks on Christmas Day have left court wearing full-body burqas.
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Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young has accused Pauline Hanson of putting Australia’s security at risk with her burqa stunt, warning the next attack will be ‘on her head’.
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Armed Force Led by ‘Former Mafia Boss’ Causing Drastic Reductions of Migrants to Italy
A “FORMER Mafia boss” is conducting a “very strong” campaign to stop migrant boats from leaving Libya, causing a sudden drop in numbers over the past month, sources in the area revealed.
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German News Channel: The Suspect in Turku Had Arrived Earlier in Germany
The German news channel, Deutsche Welle, said today that the suspect in Turku had arrived illegally in Germany at the end of 2015
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In a 2007 diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks, US State Department officials noted that heavy immigration from Morocco, Pakistan and Bangladesh has made Spain’s Catalonia “a magnet for terrorist recruiters”. Yet, when its neighbour France saw a spate of Islamic terror attacks, Spain remained seemingly unaffected … until last Thursday
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Beware the “The Cultural Civil War” Narrative: You’re Being Played
Remember the “Russians hacked our election!” hysteria — or have you already forgotten? That entire narrative collapsed under a deluge of factual evidence that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) data release was an insider job, and a compelling lack of evidence of any other Russian hacking.
That failed narrative has now been replaced with a new mass hysteria: “a new cultural Civil War is inevitable.” In this narrative, America has succumbed to us-versus-them divisions divided by all-or-nothing ideological bright lines.
Snap out of it, America: you’re being played, just as you were played by the absurd “Russia hacked the election” mania.
The core strategy here is the destruction of any common ground: once the delusion that there is no common ground left has been cemented by relentless mainstream and social media hysteria/ propaganda, the populace fragments into echo-chamber fiefdoms of ideological conformity that are easily manipulated by the political-financial power structure.
Once the populace has been fragmented into ideologically divisive camps, controlling the resulting mass of warring mobs is easy. Rather than recognize the commonality of their powerlessness and impoverishment, the fragmented fiefdoms are easily turned on each other:
— From the point of view of each fragmented fiefdom, , the problem isn’t structural, i.e. the dominance of extreme concentrations of wealth and power; the “problem” is the other cultural-ideological fiefdoms.
Once the masses accept this false division and the destruction of common ground, their power to reverse the extreme concentrations of wealth and power is shattered. The play is as old as civilization itself: conjure up extremists (paying them when necessary), goad the formation of opposing extremists, then convince the populace that these extremists have been normalized, i.e. your friends and neighbors already belong to one or the other.
This normalization then sets up the relentless demands to choose a side — the classic techniques of misdirection and false choice.
Just as you’re sold a triple-bacon cheeseburger or a hybrid auto, you’re being sold a completely fabricated cultural civil war. There have always been extremists on every edge of the ideological spectrum, just as there have always been religious zealots.
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Conflating Islam and Christianity While Islamic Nations Kill Religious Liberty
Somewhat misleading title as there really is no religious liberty in Islam.
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Elon Musk and AI Experts Urge U.N. To Ban Artificial Intelligence in Weapons
Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk has joined dozens of CEOs of artificial intelligence companies in signing an open letter urging the United Nations to ban the use of AI in weapons before the technology gets out of hand.
The letter was published Monday — the same day the U.N.’s Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems was to discuss ways to protect civilians from the misuse of automated weapons. That meeting, however, has been postponed until November.
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The “game” of dividing the USA into extremist camps seems to be a reality.
Same in Europe.
‘The core strategy here is the destruction of any common ground: once the delusion that there is no common ground left has been cemented by relentless mainstream and social media hysteria/ propaganda, the populace fragments into echo-chamber fiefdoms of ideological conformity that are easily manipulated by the political-financial power structure.’
The author rightly condemns such political strategies of division, which were relentlessly pursued by Obama – but he misses the point. We ARE divided – it’s not a delusion!
On the one side we have the Left’s determination to remake the entire world by destroying the nation state; by population mix, and through that – the imposition of hostile alien ideologies injected into our living space; by the destruction of the formerly accepted notions of ‘human nature’; and by pitting violent ‘victim’ politics against the normal democratic process.
On the other hand we have the stupefaction of the majority who can hardly believe what is happening but at long last is slowly and surely being aroused to a pitch of anger. They voted for Trump.
The issue is why has it taken so long? Ever since 9/11 all this was as clear as sparkling glass. yet it is SINCE 9/11, that the situation has become a thousand times worse!
It goes to show that if iniquity is not nipped in the bud, it spreads rapidly like cancer and the victim is unaware until it is too late. It may already be too late for Europe.
What THEY plan for us has been a long time coming. It’s just that we were not connecting the dots prior to 9/11. My own example of an ‘awakening’ was as those Twin Towers and Building Seven came down and the scene was played like a broken record, over and over again until I said to my wife, who appeared to be hypnotized in watching it repeat itself, to turn it off.
And it has been coming at us since the recording of history – in our time at least – was written to suit those who took to recording it for their own advantage.
“On the one side we have the Left’s determination to remake the entire world by destroying the nation state; by population mix, and through that – the imposition of hostile alien ideologies injected into our living space; by the destruction of the formerly accepted notions of ‘human nature’; and by pitting violent ‘victim’ politics against the normal democratic process.”
But what and who is the Left? As often on this more or less alt-right site, I perceive what I see at Breitbart etc. too: no comprehension of political economy and a certain naive conservative, free marketeer faith in the behaviour of corporations.
Because it is not Antifa in charge of US or Swedish or Australian immigration policy: it was the allegedly conservative and Left-reviled capitalist John Howard of Australia who raised annual immigration to 200,000 from the 70,000 prior. It was not a Left politician who said in 2015 that 50% of all teachers in Germany ought to be Muslim, it was the friend of banksters and Russophobe and enemy of Greece, Angela Merkel.
Realise that for neoliberal economists, economic growth needs ever-more consumers to become mortgage and consumer loan slaves and to buy products so as to keep the income statements and hence shareholder value healthy. If post- baby boomer white indigenous fail to breed adequately, just import Somalis and Afghans etc. from elsewhere.
They will breed profit-beneficial crime, enhancing share prices of the IT surveillance and security sectors domestically; they will form a growing, divide and rule, voting bloc for [leftist] politicians. The latter turn a blind eye to the Marxian reserve army of labour thus formed, which worsens wages and working conditions in a race to the bottom on the Production side.
On the Sales side, marketing products to a population bent on catch-up consumerism for lack of affluence back home in Africa or West Asia or LatAm becomes less costly to make once cultural differences between sub-populations have been destroyed through miscegenation: you need only one ad campaign in 2050.
‘The Next Attack in Australia Will be on Your Head Pauline’: Outrage as Greens Senator Claims Hanson’s Burqa Stunt Will Promote Terrorism and Puts the ‘Entire Country at Risk’
Greens Senator, Sarah Hanson Young – Australia’s dumbest politician, reviled in this song as a ‘flaming maniac’ – well deserved! Her comments have sent voters flocking to Pauline Hanson for her burqa stunt. (There must have been a lot of Hansons migrating to AU in the 19th century!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGe0ML4ZLos
There is only one other aspect to Sarah Hanson-Young that is even worse than her own delusional view of life, and that is from those who cast their vote for her.
How the Elites Are Divorcing From Reality: The Economist’s
A brilliant article! The incomprehensibility of the PC Left elites and their supporters, is epitomized by ‘The Economist’, which used to be considered an intellectual giant of a magazine.
It’s sales have now plummeted, and that goes to prove Abraham Lincoln’s quip: ‘You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.’
The question remains – why have the PC elites taken on the role of ‘the Emperor with no clothes’, where reality is dismissed as merely ‘anecdotal’ and PC theories are given credence as ‘Truth’?
The Marxist professors and their students, who obtain positions of power (like Obama, Hillary etc) live in a self-referential world because they despise the common sense of the public. It is pride, hubris and arrogance which keeps them stuck inside their folly, while all the time looking down on us (the deplorables) with hostile condescension.
One recalls ‘ Let them eat cake’ and we all know what happened after that.
President Trump…you cannot win this war…Pull out your troops and find a way to contain…. Let the Taliban have this [cesspit]… Its not worth the life of us defenders…
We have have lost too blood defending this [cesspit]
Seems the Deep State are winning the White House. Now past time for ‘family’ influence and others to go, otherwise Trump may never recover what he will soon start to lose, the support of those who voted for him.
FBI insiders said it is unlikely leaders of the radical groups that clashed in demonstrations turned deadly in Charlottesville, VA will face prosecution.
One FBI insider said the Bureau is somewhat handcuffed in an investigation like this. How can you charge someone who might be linked, the FBI insider asked, when you’ve been paying them for months or longer?
This is absolutely outrageous! This is the criminalization of the FBI. An informant ought not to be the deliberate perpetrator of crime – and paid with taxpayer money, to boot!
The same mentality has lead to the FBI and CIA being implicated in the narco-mafia and the sale of illegal arms (recall ‘fast and furious’).
So because the FBI informants were breaking the law, no-one breaking the law can be prosecuted. Where the hell does that mentality lead us? We pay people to undermine us so that we can find others who undermine us – but then we can’t touch them, because that would be revealing the truth to the real criminals.
This circular logic is truly dizzying.
What about – if the identity of the FBI informants who had committed crimes was known, then the other nasties would feel betrayed and would in future be more mistrustful of each other and then they might be more cautious about committing crimes in the first place, realizing that their ‘accomplices’ might also be their betrayers.
Well, we can’t have that because if the nasties were behind bars or even desisted from their criminal ways, the FBI would have nothing to do!
[Note from the Baron: Please don’t use all-caps text. It’s like shouting, plus it’s hard to read. It makes people scroll past it — I know I do. I changed your all-caps to “sentence case”, but that’s a lot of work, and I won’t do it next time.]
Trump…big mistake…you should have removed all US troops from [redacted adjective violates comment guidelines) Afganistan…just leave it to them…, and control from outside..
Difficult, Fred. I don’t want to sacrifice the lives of young Americans (and possibly Brits) in a hopeless cause; Afghanistan will never be “civilised”, especially with regard to the abuse of women and children, in the foreseeable future, though the NATO forces could have done more than they did in these respects (and I’m aware that some Americans who tried to do something about the sexual abuse of boys were treated abominably).
However, the original reason for the invasion in 2001 remains; the elimination of a regime which sponsored terrorism. The Taliban is now joined (not always amicably) by Al-Quaida and IS. I’m not a military strategist, but with Trump’s cutting off of aid to Pakistan, maybe something can be achieved?
Mark, the root cause as to what has befallen Afghanistan and other states around the planet, is Islam.
It is as simple as that!
It is impossible to kill an ideology while that ideology is not exposed and then attacked for what it causes.
And the crux of the problem in Afghanistan and why there are now more young men going off to die in that cesspit, is simply because generals and politicians refuse point blank to identify the root cause and tackle it.