A man with a knife assaulted two police officers outside Buckingham Palace today, lightly injuring them before they subdued him. He is under arrest, and will be charged with grievous bodily harm. There’s no word yet on whether “Allahu Akhbar” was heard at the scene.
In other news, Sebastian Gorka, an advisor to President Trump, has resigned his position. As he resigned, Mr. Gorka criticized the president’s new policy on Afghanistan, lamenting the fact that there is no mention of Islam in the assessment of the threat we face.
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This is How Trump is Going to be Blamed for the Next Financial Crash
On Wednesday there were a lot of Trump fans who were celebrating the latest progress in the stock market. For the first time in over 100 years, the DOW gained 4,000 points over the course of 200 working days. That’s 4,000 points since Trump was elected, so it’s easy to draw a connection between the stock market’s dizzying new heights and Trump’s ascent to the White House.
But Trump’s supporters shouldn’t really celebrate that, because there’s no way that this can last. It’s been pointed out many times before that Trump is being set up for the inevitable crash of our economy. The elites simply can’t wait to pull the plug on the many financial bubbles that are haunting our economy. If they do it now, they’ll walk away with a lot of money while Trump is left with all the blame, since he took so much credit for the stock market’s remarkable performance.
Of course, a financial crash won’t look so bad for Trump if it comes out of nowhere. What the elites really need is a financial crash that can be easily pinned on the President, and it appears that they may finally have it. You may recall that Trump recently said that he will veto the next spending bill that’s due in September, if the Senate and Congress don’t include funding for his border wall. He basically threatened to cause a government shutdown if the Democrats don’t cooperate with him.
Coincidentally, the House will likely need to raise the federal debt ceiling next month. That effort could be seriously hindered if our representatives and president can’t agree on a new spending bill. And if the federal debt ceiling isn’t raised, all hell could break loose.
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MSNBC host Chris Matthews said on Thursday that if he were President Donald Trump, he would fire Chief of Staff John Kelly for putting him in a cage and trying control the White House’s paper flow.
On Hardball, Matthews, during a conversation with Ron Reagan about Reagan’s father’s Chief of Staff Jim Baker who let Reagan be Reagan while just keeping the discipline, said “this guy” Kelly’s job “is to make sure nobody gets to see” Trump “unless they go through me.”
“And now no paper moves to [Trump] like he’s controlling the cage,” Matthews continued. “Like nothing gets into the cage without me … if I were Trump, I’d fire him just for saying that.”
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Dallas Resident Now Needs Surgery After TSA Agent Gave Him a Pat Down
There’s a reason why the classic story of the frog and the boiling water is such an enduring parable. Time and time again, it’s proven to be a very honest reflection of human nature. You can get almost anyone to put up with absolutely awful conditions, if those conditions are introduced over a long period of time.
The TSA is a perfect example of that. That agency does things now that absolutely no one would put up with before 9/11. Even up until a few years ago, there was a widespread movement to boycott the agency’s body scanners. But these days, stories of airplane passengers challenging the TSA are few and far between. Over time their behavior has been normalized, and the average person has finally accepted them as an unfortunate, but unavoidable fact of life.
And it’s certainly not because the TSA’s behaviour stopped being disgusting and authoritarian. Their employees are just as abusive as they’ve always been. In fact, a man from Dallas recently filed a lawsuit against the TSA, after an agent injured him during a pat down last March.
In a federal complaint filed Wednesday, Stavropolous detailed how he was stopped after stepping out of a full body scanner by an agent who asked if he had anything in his pockets.
“I pulled out a dollar bill,” he said. “I asked if I should go through the scanner one more time and he said no, we’ll do a full body patdown.”
It was during that patdown, he said, that the agent drove a hand into his groin so hard, twice, that he was immediately hit by waves of pain.
“I turned around and said, you injured me,” he said. “I’d like to talk to your supervisor!”
Stavropolous claims that he still experiences pain and bleeding from the incident, and has to visit a urologist twice a month. His injury is so bad that he’s scheduled to have surgery in October to repair the damage. And unsurprisingly, he’s pretty hesitant to go back to the airport.
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Does the Left Know Something’s Coming Involving Guns?
Have you noticed the multiple calls recently for increased gun control, despite the fact that all of the harm being done presently at leftist riots does not (yet) involve guns? A car was used in Charlottesville, as vehicles have been used before, yet, as if unaware of the public facts, leftist politicians and activists have increased their calls for greater gun control. A car was used in Spain, and in Britain before that, and in Paris before that, and each time, American leftists called for greater gun control in the United States. Paul Ryan mentioned increased gun control at a public forum recently in response to a question asked of him by someone he knew. Despite the utter lack of a connection with guns in anything to do with Charlottesville, he linked the event to gun ownership in the U.S. and concurred that more control is needed. Weird, right?
What if they know something we don’t? This sounds a little “out there,” but we live in a time when what is going on beneath the surface dwarfs what we see as the end result of someone’s planning. So what if the discordant calls for gun control are because those politicians, anarchists, and activists (though I repeat myself) have foreknowledge of some kind of planned escalation of their brand of “protest” and are setting the stage for disingenuous “I told you sos’? What if they have something of a timeline along which they either believe that things will happen or will make things happen, to escalate the blitzkrieg of media and hysteria by which they effect “change” — meaning a coup?
What if they and the media are in bed together on this, too, and have prepared their stories and narratives ahead of time? In Charlottesville, Trump was caught flat-footed but still gave an accurate response regarding hate on many sides, but Terry McAuliffe had a complete speech ready to go, condemning the left’s shadowy enemies while omitting any mention of the Marxist combatants who came to do actual, physical harm. No one in the media batted an eye.
Indeed, Charlottesville itself has more than a whiff of this. Because the KKK types obeyed the law and obtained a permit, the officials in Charlottesville and Richmond, Democrats all, knew precisely where the protesters would gather and when. Magically, an army of radical Marxist activists materialized, sans permit, many from out of state, as has been confirmed, to confront those who were obeying the law, even if they were saying or believed objectionable things. When the two factions had been allowed within striking distance of each other by local authorities, who ensured they were not more safely separated, a state of emergency was declared. The park had to be vacated, the KKK side and the Antifa side were somehow pushed together by police despite other means of egress from the park, a mêlée ensued, and the police who herded them together suddenly were far away, watching what they had facilitated.
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FBI Acting Chief Andrew McCabe Probed by Government Watchdog
Judicial Watch recently issued an announcement that its attorneys filed three separate Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits against the Department of Justice seeking all of the records regarding the FBI’s Acting Director Andrew McCabe’s political activities, travel vouchers, and employment status.
One of those named by Judicial Watch in one of their lawsuits is none other than Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, who has been exposed as a liar by his own state police department following the violent riot in Charlottesville.
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George Soros Floods Local DA Races With $1.7 Million in Philadelphia
Liberal billionaire George Soros gave nearly $1.7 million to a political action committee run by his longtime treasurer to aid a Democrat who is running for the district attorney position in Philadelphia, Pa., the latest in a series of such expenditures.
Soros has generously funded a number of district attorney races throughout the United States in recent years via political action committees that tend to shut down after each election.
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Globalist Strategy: Use Crazy Leftists and Provocateurs to Enrage/Demonize Conservatives
Globalists do not carry any ideological love for any particular nation or culture. They are more than happy to sacrifice and sabotage a country if the action will gain them greater power or centralization in return. A globalist is only “Democrat” or “Republican,” or American or Russian or Chinese or European, etc., insofar as the label gets them something that they want.
The reason globalists and the people that work for them adopt certain labels is because through this they can act as gatekeepers and better manipulate the masses. The hot button issue of the week provides us with a case in point…
The organizer of the “Unite The Right” group during the Charlottesville circus, which ended in one death and numerous injured, happened to be an ideological playmate of the extreme left only a year ago. Jason Kessler seemed to come out of nowhere as a leading figure in the white identity or “white nationalist” movement in 2017, but in 2016, he was an avid supporter of Barack Obama, and before that, an active champion of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
I suppose anyone can change their ideological worldview over time, but I’m certainly not stupid enough to believe that Jason Kessler went from hardcore leftist to white nationalist in less than a year…
In order to justify the madness and violence of the left in recent months, it is more important than ever for the establishment to maintain the lie that conservatives are also all violent racists and “fascists” that need to be destroyed. Propaganda alone is rarely enough to make such notions stick in the public consciousness. Sometimes, provocateurs are needed to “stir the pot.”
However, this is only half the equation of the American civil war being engineered before our eyes.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
H.R. McMaster Endorsed Book That Advocates Quran-Kissing Apology Ceremonies
The book’s author further demanded that any American soldier who “desecrates” the Quran be ejected from the foreign country of deployment, relieved of duty and turned over to a military judge for “punishment.”
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Largest-Ever Asteroid is About to Fly by Earth
Near-Earth objects make passes by our planet on a fairly regular basis, but the space rock that’s going to cruise by on September 1st is a real goliath. Named Florence, the massive asteroid is thought to be the largest object to make such a close approach to Earth since NASA decided to start keeping records for that sort of thing. The good news is that scientists don’t believe it poses much of a threat — at least this time around.
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Psychiatrists Tell Congress Donald Trump is ‘A Clear and Present Danger’ To the World
‘It no longer takes a psychiatrist to recognise the alarming patterns of impulsive, reckless, and narcissistic behaviour,’ group claims
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RCP’s Rebecca Berg: Ivanka’s Advice ‘Could be Detrimental’ To POTUS
Ivanka Trump’s “special status” in Chief of Staff John Kelly’s White House could lead to President Donald Trump receiving some bad advice, according to RealClearPolitics reporter Rebecca Berg.
Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, have never understood Trump’s voters or his economic nationalist movement. But since Ivanka is now the only West Wing staffer who can reportedly enter the Oval Office without an appointment, Javanka’s political suggestions will be more influential.
Appearing on CNN’s The Situation Room, Berg told host Wolf Blitzer on Thursday that though Kushner and Ivanka Trump are “senior advisers,” they are “never going to be totally separate from their roles as members of his family.”
“And that gives them a special status,” she continued. “And it also potentially gives their advice a special status, which could be detrimental to the president, potentially, when maybe they’re not giving the best advice.”
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Sebastian Gorka Quits White House, Slams Trump in Resignation Letter
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Gorka went on to say he did not believe Trump’s “Make America Great Again” agenda could be carried out.
“Regrettably, outside of yourself, the individuals who most embodied and represented the policies that will ‘Make America Great Again,’ have been internally countered, systematically removed, or undermined in recent months. This was made patently obvious as I read the text of your speech on Afghanistan this week…” Gorka wrote. “The fact that those who drafted and approved the speech removed any mention of Radical Islam or radical Islamic terrorism proves that a crucial element of your presidential campaign has been lost.
“Just as worrying, when discussing our future actions in the region, the speech listed operational objectives without ever defining the strategic victory conditions we are fighting for. This omission should seriously disturb any national security professional, and any American who is unsatisfied with the last 16 years of disastrous policy decisions which have led to thousands of Americans killed and trillions of taxpayer dollars spent in ways that have not brought security or victory,” Gorka added.
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Study: ‘Bannon Wing’ Represents ‘Major Part of Modern’ GOP
Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon’s economic-nationalist, non-interventionist, and pro-assimilation agenda is on the ascent, and what FiveThirtyEight dubbed the “Bannon Wing” represents a “major part of the modern Republican Party.”
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This is What a Civil War in America Would Actually Look Like…
The division in America has become so dramatic over the past year that many people can only foresee it heading one place: Civil War.
There’s a pronounced uptick in violence and protests (often going hand in hand.) Free speech is being crushed by the opposition with the mere threat of violent responses. Statues and memorials are being vandalized or defended. Protesters show up armed and armored, ready for battle. The media throws gasoline on these flames with reports solely laying the blame on one side. Some groups are openly planning sedition and no one is trying to stop them.
Our country has reached a point of such division that it’s hard to imagine how we could once again become united. The events are snowballing.
The United Nations has issued an “early warning” about civil conflict in America. Many people believe these extremist “sides” are made up of professional provocateurs and do not reflect the true feelings of Americans. (Brandon Smith makes an incredibly compelling case for this.) California wants to secede and a lot of folks would be happy to see them go. Some black people want outrageous “reparations” from white people while others call them out for being easily manipulated.
It seems like no one wants peace in America except us average folks, who are happy to get along with our neighbors, regardless of their race, religion, or sexual proclivities. But at the rate things are escalating, our wishes could be irrelevant.
Historian and strategist Gregory Copley wrote:
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Truth About Race-Based Nationalism
Any political movement based upon ethnic race alone is a “racist” movement. Only those who benefit from our endless list of engineered divisions, political beasts, are well served by the divisions they create and perpetuate. Everyone else loses…
If it is wrong for someone to be a “White Nationalist,” then it is equally wrong for someone to be a “Black Nationalist.” If it’s wrong to have a Congressional White Caucus, then it is equally wrong to have a Congressional Black Caucus, or Hispanic Caucus, or any other race-based caucus.
Nationalism is an honorable thing. Pride in and allegiance to our home country is what all American are supposed to possess. True nationalism has no race, no ethnicity, no divisive characteristics and no room for social separations that threaten the country. It is “patriotism.”
But the ongoing academic word-war has once again blurred these lines of clear distinction. One of the most common and powerful weapons in the global Marxist arsenal is “words.”
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
German Supermarket Empties Shelves of Foreign-Made Goods to Make a Point About Racism
The Edeka store in Hamburg removed foreign-made products from its stock, replacing them with sign bearing anti-xenophobia slogans.
[Comment: next step, forced dosages of oxycontin to combat “xenophobia”.]
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Germany Bans Far-Left Website for ‘Legitimizing Violence’
Germany shut down a left-wing website for “legitimizing violence” against police officers at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg last month, German authorities said Friday.
The shutdown of the site, linksunten.indymedia, is the first such move by the German government against left-wing extremists in the country, according to the New York Times.
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Machete-Wielding Man Shot Dead in Brussels Terror Attack After Attacking Soldiers
A knife-wielding man was shot dead on Friday after wounding a soldier in Brussels, in what authorities called a “terrorist attack”.
The man, who prosecutors said yelled ‘Allahu akbar’ (God is greatest) during the violence, was shot by soldiers on a street in the city centre.
“We believe that it is a terrorist attack,” said a prosecutors’ office spokeswoman, who added the attacker “is dead.”
The incident comes after attacks claimed by the Islamic State group in Spain last week killed 15 people and a knifeman’s stabbing spree in Finland left two dead and eight wounded.
One of the two soldiers targeted was “slightly” wounded, according to federal prosecutors, who have opened a terror probe of that attack launched around 8:00 pm (1800 GMT).
The mayor of Brussels, Philippe Close, told reporters the incident was the work of a “lone individual”.
Soldiers have been deployed at railway stations and landmark buildings since the Paris terror attacks in 2015, when a link to Brussels was first established.
Freddie Martyn, 25, told the Telegraph: “Just picked up my brother from the train station. We saw two to three ambulances, three army dogs, 10 police officers and the same amount of soldiers.
“Apparently a guy with a machete attacked one soldier and apparently it all went very quickly. They thought he had a bomb on him. They fired two shots directly at him and took him out.”
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Man Killed After Brussels Machete Attack
Soldiers in Brussels shot and killed a man on Friday who attacked them with a machete in what appears to be an Islamic terrorist attack.
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Poland Row With France Escalates as Bulgaria Wades In
Emmanuel Macron had warned the European Union (EU) would “crumble” if countries did not support his controversial overhaul, sparking furious protests from Poland.
Warsaw’s foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski has hit out at France this lunchtime, accusing the country of failing to understand the country.
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Buckingham Palace is reported to be on lockdown after witnesses said a man attacked a police officer with a knife.
Images posted on social media showed a heavy police presence at the scene and a cordon around an area of The Mall in front of the palace.
Two male police officers sustained minor injuries while detaining the suspect on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and assaulting a police officer. No one else is reported to have been injured.
| — Hat tip: Dean | [Return to headlines] |
Caroline Glick: Netanyahu’s Empathy for Trump
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was attacked by the media for not jumping on the bandwagon and condemning US President Donald Trump for his response to the far-right and far-left rioters in Charlottesville earlier this month. It may be that he held his tongue because he saw nothing to gain from attacking a friendly president. But it is also reasonable to assume that Netanyahu held his tongue because he empathizes with Trump. More than any leader in the world, Netanyahu understands what Trump is going through. He’s been there himself — and in many ways, is still there. Netanyahu has never enjoyed a day in office when Israel’s unelected elites weren’t at war with him.
From a comparative perspective, Netanyahu’s experiences in his first term in office, from 1996 until 1999, are most similar to Trump’s current position. His 1996 victory over incumbent prime minister Shimon Peres shocked the political class no less than the American political class was stunned by Trump’s victory. And this makes sense. The historical context of Israel’s 1996 election and the US elections last year were strikingly similar.
In 1992, Israel’s elites, the doves who controlled all aspects of the governing apparatuses, including the security services, universities, government bureaucracies, state prosecution, Supreme Court, media and entertainment industry, were seized with collective euphoria when the Labor Party under the leadership of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres won Israel’s Left its first clear-cut political victory since 1974. Rabin and Peres proceeded to form the most dovish governing coalition in Israel’s history.
Then in 1993, after secret negotiations in Oslo, they shocked the public with the announcement that they had decided to cut a deal with Israel’s arch enemy, the PLO, a terrorist organization pledged to Israel’s destruction.
The elites, who fancied themselves the guardians of Israel’s democracy, had no problem with the fact that the most radical policy ever adopted by any government, one fraught with dangers for the nation and the state, was embarked upon with no public debate or deliberation.
To the contrary, they spent the next three years dancing around their campfire celebrating the imminent realization of their greatest dream. Israel would no longer live by its sword. It would be able to join a new, post-national world. In exchange for Jerusalem and a few other things that no one cared about, other than some fanatical religious people, Israel could join the Arab League or the European Union or both.
From 1993 through 1996, and particularly in the aftermath of Rabin’s assassination in November 1995, the media, the courts and every other aspect of Israel’s elite treated the fellow Israelis who rejected their positions as the moral and qualitative equivalent of terrorists. Like the murderers of innocents, these law-abiding Israelis were “enemies of peace.”…
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More Than Half of All Australians Support Pauline Hanson’s Push to Ban the ‘Oppressive’ Burqa
More than half of all Australians support Pauline Hanson’s proposals to ban the burqa in public, a new poll has found a week after the One Nation leader wore the garment to the Senate.
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It’s not surprising that so many people believe the idea that global warming is being cause almost entirely by human activity, given the fact that most scientists seem to believe the same thing. But scientists should probably ask themselves why there is still such a large cohort of “deniers” as they like to call them, who are adamant that anthropogenic climate change is a scam.
The reason why is that the scientific community has been caught many times tampering with climate data and making outlandish claims. The celebrities and politicians who promote this cause have also been caught on many occasions, living in palatial mansions, flying across the world in private jets, and generally just living lives of excess that produce so much more carbon that the average person. Given these facts, how could anyone take the global warming arguments seriously?
What also doesn’t help their cause, is when reputable scientists question climate change dogma. Recently, two Australian scientists published a paper that explains why the shifts in global temperature that we see today, are likely entirely natural.
Jennifer Marohasy, a scientist with a rather long list of impressive credentials, which includes the founding of The Climate Modeling Laboratory, opens her startling climate report with a dose of reality. “Our new technical paper … will likely be ignored,” she writes at The Spectator Australia.
She goes on to explain why, “Because after applying the latest big data technique to six 2,000 year-long proxy-temperature series we cannot confirm that recent warming is anything but natural — what might have occurred anyway, even if there was no industrial revolution.”
At the crux of their argument, is the fact that global temperatures were actually warmer during the middle ages, which used to be considered common knowledge for years, and is often denied by many climate change proponents today. These researchers confirmed that the world was indeed warmer before the industrial revolution. And that of course suggests that human activity doesn’t have nearly as much of an impact on the climate as most environmentalists claim.
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A Muslim Labor senator says Pauline Hanson is a fascist. Sam Dastyari was applauded as he slammed the One Nation leader on stage with former human rights boss Gillian Triggs.
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Australia’s former human rights commissioner Gillian Triggs (pictured with Labor senator Sam Dastyari) says Sharia law should be allowed in Australia.
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Cuba Acoustic Attack: What is a Covert Sound Weapon?
The US state department says its diplomats in Cuba have been suffering symptoms including hearing loss after suspected sonic attacks, some of which were — according to some reports — inaudible to human ears.
The use of sound as a weapon is not new, but what about unheard sound attacks?
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Austrian Soldiers Start Carrying Out Checks for Refugees and Migrants at Border With Italy
Austrian soldiers have been deployed to the border with Italy for the first time to block illegal migrants.
The measure, which was announced by Vienna last month, is a significant escalation of border security and comes ahead of elections in October in which the government will try to head off a challenge from Right-wing, anti-immigration parties.
Soldiers, acting in conjunction with police, started carrying out checks on vehicles and trains north of the Brenner Pass, the main crossing point between the two countries.
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Exposed: Facebook Hosts People Smuggling Ads and Illegal Migration Groups
Facebook is hosting people smuggling advertisements, with gangs offering to take migrants to Europe and America, make them fake passports, and traffic them across the European Union (EU).
A large number of public posts exist on the platform, often in Arabic, offering to take migrants across the Mediterranean by boat for up to $5,000 per person. Documents and passports go for around $1,000 and flights and road trips can be arranged for just a few hundred dollars.
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Illegal Immigrant Avoided Deportation Six Times Before Murdering Care Worker
An Egyptian who posed as a Syrian asylum seeker and arrived in Britain in the back of a lorry was found to have avoided deportation six times before murdering a “kind and peace-loving” care worker.
Hani Khalaf, 22, was sentenced at The Old Bailey to at least 26 years’ imprisonment for kicking, punching, and stamping to death 62-year-old Jairo Medina before stealing the dead man’s wallet and mobile phone, reports The Times.
The court heard that Khalaf lived on the streets and had been bailed for shoplifting hours before the fatal attack on the carer at London’s Hyde Park.
The Egyptian national had arrived in Kent in the back of a lorry in August 2014.
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SPLC Labels AFA Conference ‘Hate Group’
It’s long past time to expose the SPLC as an arm of the radical left and Democratic National Committee
Following the American Freedom Alliance conference Sunday at which I was a speaker, the vile Southern Poverty Law Center published an article this week, “American Freedom Alliance Event Blames Immigrants for California’s ‘Destruction.’“
The American Freedom Alliance’s Sunday morning Los Angeles conference was titled, “From Gold to Dust: The Destruction of California.” While the 2016 conference was focused on radical Islam, this conference topic was California’s excessive regulations and taxation, with panels on education, environmentalism, one immigration panel, regulations and taxation, and one party state issues.
The SPLC cherry-picks several speakers as “anti-Muslim,” while never providing context for this charge.
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Trudeau Rows Back on “Refugees Welcome’ as Quebec Hands Migrants $2.6 Million a Month in Welfare
Quebec has pledged to hand out welfare cheques to around 4,000 asylum seekers as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau backtracks on his open invitation to migrants.
According to the province’s employment minister, the operation will take a full three days and he has not ruled out asking the Canadian government to help cover some of the welfare costs, reports the National Post.
With the minimum basic monthly payment being $623 (£387), that equates to nearly $2.6 million (Canadian) per month for those 4,000 asylum seekers alone.
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Parents Frightened: Kindergartners ‘Crying, Shaking’ Over Transgender Book Teacher Read
Parents of kindergartners attending a California charter school are frightened after a teacher read her class a book about transgenderism without notifying them.
“My daughter came home crying and shaking so afraid she could turn into a boy,” one parent of a kindergartner at Rocklin Academy said.
“These parents feel betrayed by the school district that they were not notified,” Karen England of the Capitol Resource Institute said at a school board meeting this week, the local CBS affiliate reports. “The kindergartners came home very confused, about whether or not you can pick your gender, whether or not they really were a boy or a girl.”
According to the news report, the book was given to the teacher by a gender-confused child. Parents asserted the same kindergartner “also changed clothes and was revealed as her true gender” during class.
Parents expressed betrayal that they were not notified ahead of time that the kindergarten teacher read two books about transgenderism to her students, including I Am Jazz, which were reportedly given to her by the kindergartner who is in the midst of gender transition. The book was co-authored by Jazz Jennings, a teen who was born a boy but was allowed to transition to a girl.
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Delingpole: Thomas Wictor is the Latest Victim of Google Censorship
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One of his specialties is forensic video analysis. This is how I first came across him, a few years back, when I wrote my first Breitbart News story based on his research. It concerned the four Palestinian boys supposedly blown up on a beach by Israeli artillery during the last Gaza conflict — but really, or so Wictor claimed, murdered by Hamas who then exploited the dead children for propaganda purposes.
More recently he has attracted a big following on Twitter thanks to his epic threads which examine the truth behind various news stories, especially ones relating either to the Middle East or Antifa’s domestic terrorism.
This, he believes, is what got him into trouble with the left’s political correctness sentinels.
He told me:
I was able to prove at least three attempted murders by Antifa at Berkeley on April 15, 2017. In the video above [now deleted by YouTube], the Antifa member used a Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife.
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Seems that the ‘News Feed’ contains pretty much of what one can expect in today’s political and cultural climate, however, a small snippet of ‘News’ that adds further evidence to the ongoing self-destructiveness of the European Union toward member states that no longer share in Brussels insanity on migration, is that of Bulgaria appearing to side with Poland against the attempted impost by Brussels on Poland to accept Muslim immigrants, immigrants that Poland knows only too well will only spell trouble based on the European Union’s own history of Muslim immigration troubles.
Could a V5 Member state now be in the making?
I hope so!
I don’t think it will ever be a state, but a close alliance. All the eastern European cultures are far more rooted in their individual histories than the West, because they were put on ice behind the ‘Iron Curtain’, whilst the West has been busy undermining itself since the 1950s.
Communist hardship honed their loathing of central control and they were not dulled or corrupted by material wealth. They fear the EU and its ambitions.
Also, they have had zero experience of multiculturalism because the main ‘other’ ethnic group – the Jews – were wiped out, and the Germans residing in the old Prussia (today’s Poland) were sent packing. The Roma are not a significant threat to political stability but are considered a welfare and crime problem.
Most people grew up in their cities from the 1950s till the 1990s without ever laying eyes on an African or a Muslim.
I predict there will be an exodus from Western Europe to their lands, which will probably boost their economies – if the ‘refugees’ are well-educated.
Also, if Putin would stop rattling sabers at them, they might turn a friendly eye towards the protection of the Russian bear against the EU Brunhilda.
Vox Day has written and spoken some on Eastern European countries. He has a youtube video with an inflammatory headline that Communism is better than free markets; to grab your attention. He is NOT pro-communist. He means that communism is horrible economically but left the nations standing. Russia is still Russia. China is still China. The globalists will destroy the nations themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgB8qjYI40g
https://www.pscp.tv/voxday/
http://voxday.blogspot.com/
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/05/darkstream-why-communism-is-better-than.html
See also Stefan Molyneux.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6fDHXoGL_k
And Japan is still Japan – they refuse to be diluted.
This also makes for rigidity! There is always room for the addition of new peoples and new ideas – as long as they share the fundamental values of the society they’re joining and are not in plague proportions.
‘Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, have never understood Trump’s voters or his economic nationalist movement. But since Ivanka is now the only West Wing staffer who can reportedly enter the Oval Office without an appointment, Javanka’s political suggestions will be more influential.’
Blood is thicker than water. Trump is under siege from every possible quarter, whilst those speaking for his core supporters have been dismissed.
It’s not unexpected. Water flows downhill and the flood of far Left globalism seems unstoppable.
But we have to remember the parable of the mustard seed and never give up.