North Korea launched another missile today, this one passing over Japan. The missile reportedly travelled over the northern part of the island of Hokkaido before breaking into three pieces and landing in the sea. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe described the launch as a “grave threat”.
In other news, a gunman entered a public library in Clovis, New Mexico, and opened fire, killing two people and wounding at least four others. The suspect was captured and arrested by police.
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After a surprisingly brutal showdown in Las Vegas last night between Mixed Martial Arts fighter Conor McGregor and undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, McGregor was quoted as saying that he turned Floyd Mayweather “ into a Mexican.”
As you might have expected, the social justice crowd immediately pounced into action across the internet.
Words like racism, bigot and stereotype started flying.
But for those that know anything about boxing, the word “compliment” is more appropriate.
The Mexican style of boxing is one that is often overly aggressive and involves a lot of punches being thrown. Mayweather, though undefeated with a record of 50-0, has long been criticized for his defensive style and low punch volume during fights.
What McGregor actually meant, though completely misconstrued by those looking for some sort of racism to grasp onto, is that the usually reserved Mayweather was forced to fight more aggressively because the Irishmen just kept coming at him.
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Berkeley Police Allowed Antifa to Jump Barricades, Assault Demonstrators
Berkeley police deliberately allowed masked “Antifa” anarchists to jump a barricade and attack a demonstration by a peaceful right-wing group on Sunday, leading to five assaults, including on Patriot Prayer group leader Joey Gibson.
The counter-demonstration had reportedly been “largely peaceful” until that point.
The police later defended their decision by arguing that keeping the anarchists out would have led to greater violence. There was “no need for a confrontation over a grass patch,” Berkeley police chief Andrew Greenwood said, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
The original “No to Marxism” protest had been denied a permit by the city, but a small group of protesters showed up anyway, as did 2,000 “largely peaceful” counter-demonstrators, the Mercury News reported. SFGate.com reported that there were 400 police on hand to prevent violence. But they stepped aside, the Mercury News reported, when over 100 masked anarchists “busted through police lines, avoiding security checks by officers to take away possible weapons.”
The result was several severe beatings of those who had gathered to protest against Marxism. Thirteen of the anarchists were arrested, the Chronicle reported.
The Los Angeles Times reported the violence as if it had simply been spontaneous, and involved both sides: “Violence breaks out at Berkeley protest,” its headline read.
But the Mercury News report, citing Berkeley law enforcement authorities directly, made it clear that police knew that “Antifa” intended to cause violence, and allowed it to happen:
Berkeley police chief Andrew Greenwood defended how police handled the protest, saying they made a strategic decision to let the anarchists enter to avoid more violence. [Comment: If this kind of globalist puppet police chief continues acting this way, then they have no right to arrest anybody who uses deadly force to avoid being beaten to death by Antifa goons.]
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Extreme weather expert Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. issued this statement: “There is no reason to be debating Harvey and climate change in the context of an unfolding disaster, other than political opportunism and attention seeking. It’s not a good look for scientists or journalists who are promoting this issue. The IPCC and other assessments are quite clear on this subject and one storm doesn’t change that. A better focus in the short term is on those with expertise in disaster response and recovery. The politicized debate over climate change can wait.”
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Hamas-Linked Council on American-Islamic Relations Welcomes Resignation of Dr. Seb Gorka
The controversy-ridden Council on American-Islamic Relations has welcomed the resignation of Dr. Sebastian Gorka from the White House.
The group — which has campaigned for the dismissal of Dr. Gorka from the beginning of the Trump administration — stated:
“We welcome the resignation of Sebastian Gorka as a presidential adviser… His extremist and Islamophobic views, and his reported past and current associations with racist and anti-Semitic groups, should have disqualified him from any government position.” The “anti-Semitic” talking point has been widely circulated since Dr. Gorka first took the job as Deputy Assistant to the President in January, but has been widely debunked, with even CNN being forced to concede the network “has found no evidence Gorka holds anti-Semitic views”.
Meanwhile, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) was name as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial and Hamas financing case that resulted in the FBI discontinuing its working relationship with the organization. In 2009, a federal judge concluded that the government had found “ample evidence” to link CAIR with Hamas.
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Houston: The “Surreal” Before and After Photo
Courtesy of Weather Channel weather producer, Matthew Sitkowski, here is a photo of what Houston’s East Loop at Market Street on the I-610 looks like right now. As Sitkowski says, “this image and the forecast of what is still to fall… This is surreal.” He is right: we added a photo of the same location from February 2016 to show the “before and after.” Here is the result:
And another before and after photo, courtesy of Twitter user Chris Tycksen, showing downtown Houston:…
Unfortunately, there is no relief in sight, as over 20 inches of rain have already fallen on the Lone Star State. With streets flooded and strewn with power lines and debris, authorities warned the storm’s most destructive powers were just beginning. Rainfall that will continue for days could dump more than five feet of water and inundate many communities, including dangerously flood-prone Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city. The latest summary of rainfall in the past 24 hours can be found here. Another 20 to 30 inches of rain is expected through to Wednesday.
Meanwhile, a just issued bulletin from the NWS Houston warns that “rivers are on the rise and MAJOR to RECORD flooding is forecast.”
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Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Allies ‘Untouchable’ In White House
A new Vanity Fair article explores Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner and the couple’s role in Washington D.C. and the White House.
The article details that while they are still not respected by the Washington D.C. elite, the couple has pushed their enemies out of the White House.
“If you are hitched to them, you are untouchable,” a former Trump adviser explains.
“While Kushner’s own politics are difficult to discern, he seems to excel at waging war against certain colleagues, whom he views as detrimental to his father-in-law,” writes Sarah Ellison in the magazine.
Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, Sebastion Gorka, Kellyanne Conway, Rex Tillerson, and Jeff Sessions have faced criticism while allies like Gary Cohn, H. R. McMaster, and Dina Powell remain unchallenged.
[Comment: The American public did not vote for policies from these two putzes — — they voted for Trump MAGA vision. Trump should toss his daughter and her husband out of the inner circle. They have nothing in common with his MAGA vision.]
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New Mexico Library Shooting Kills at Least 2, Wounds 4
Two people are dead and at least four others were rushed to a hospital after a shooting at a public library in New Mexico Monday afternoon, investigators said.
Clovis Fire Chief Michael Nolen told Fox News that the male suspect was captured fairly quickly, and he now is in state policy custody.
Vanessa Aguirre told The Eastern New Mexico News she was in the Clovis-Carver Public Library with her son when a man came in and “started to shoot” into the air.
“It all happened so fast,” she said. “We took off fast. My purse is still in there.”
Aguirre said she thought the shooter had a handgun.
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People Who Chose to Not Evacuate for Hurricane Told to Put SSN on Arms
Tens of thousands of Texans have evacuated their homes fearing Hurricane Harvey. Now, one local leader in a coastal Texas community had told residents who chose to stay home during the hurricane, to write their names and Social Security numbers on their arms.
Rockport Mayor Pro Tem Patrick Rios said at a news conference, “We’re suggesting if people are going to stay here, mark their arm with a Sharpie pen with their name and Social Security number.” He went on to say, “We hate to talk about things like that. It’s not something we like to do but it’s the reality, people don’t listen.” But if people don’t listen to evacuation orders, what makes the mayor assume people will willingly mark themselves?
Rios wants people marked to make things easier for the government in the event of deaths. He also claims that that grim step is necessary to prepare for the worst in case scenario of numerous deaths among the people who freely chose to remain in the area. If you think this sounds a little bit like Nazis forcing the Jews to wear yellow stars on their clothing for a quick government identification, you aren’t the only one.
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President Trump: Don’t Slap us in the Face
Like millions of Trump supporters I have and continue to receive vulgar emails and the ‘I told you so’ about Donald Trump being an establishment puppet ad nauseum. Perhaps you would rather have career criminal Hillary Clinton in the White House today?
As many have said and written, we didn’t elect a saint but rather a street fighter who I still believe has the best of intentions and his heart is in the right place: America and Americans first. Of course, President Trump: You can’t drain the swamp if you keep bringing alligators into the White House, the Pentagon and all the alphabet soup agencies.
Actually, I’m delighted that Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka are gone from the WH. They can do more to help President Trump from the outside than inside that political cesspool working against Trump.
Two things President Trump had damn well better make a change if he is going to keep getting the support of We the People who put him in the White House:…
“The top recipients in the 2016-17 budget were Afghanistan $4.7bn; Israel $3.1bn; Egypt $1.4 bn; Iraq $1.1 bn; Jordan $1bn and Pakistan $742m. Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Ethiopia each received more than $500m.”
OUR purse is over drawn $20 TRILLION dollars and yet, the criminal syndicate out in DC called Congress continue to steal from us to unconstitutionally give to counties that we KNOW harbor and encourage terrorists to kill Americans in Iraq, Afghanistan and any other place they can find them. Remember: the U.S. House of Representatives controls the people’s purse, not the president…
Second: President Trump ran on border security, stopping the hordes coming across our southern border, building the wall. No amnesty. He promised us and that’s one of the reasons I voted for him. Is Trump about to renege on another campaign promise?
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Based on the number of people affected, amount of water involved, and other factors, meteorologists have warned, there may be no parallel available to any other rainstorm in U.S. history as Mashable’s Andrew Freeman reports Tropical Storm Harvey has dropped more than 11 trillion gallons of water on Texas, triggering catastrophic, unprecedented flooding in the Houston area.
The rains have broken all-time records, exceeding the rainfall totals seen during Tropical Storm Allison in 2001… and it could be about to get a lot worse as forecasters are expecting the storm to turn back and drench what is left of Houston once again midweek.
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Statue of Slain American Hero, George Washington Confidant, Beheaded in Ohio Courtyard
The statue of a Revolutionary War hero standing guard at the Ohio Crawford County Courthouse in Bucyrus, Ohio, was beheaded some time last week, and a reward is being offered to help find the vandals who destroyed the likeness of William Crawford.
“According to Crawford County Prosecutor Matt Crall, the vandalism happened sometime this past week,” the local Fox affiliate reported. “He said that whoever vandalized the statue faces felony charges.”
“Meanwhile, Powell lawyer Joel Spitzer says he, along with other community members, are offering a $1,300 reward for information leading to an arrest,” Fox reported, and noted that the “reward is growing.”
Republican State Representative Wes Goodman tweeted on Friday: “Revolutionary War hero Colonel Crawford statue decapitated at the Courthouse. The lawless attacks on our history must end!”
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The Irrationality of Destroying Civil War Monuments
Across the nation people driven by a mistaken sense of righteousness tear down monuments that remind us of American history, that depict Americans who sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War. The desire to bring the monuments down arises from an immaturity and political correctness that compels adherence to suppression over a robust exchange of ideas and information. Those who favor destruction of the monuments generally lack a sophisticated understanding of the underlying history and operate without a clear distinguishing principle. To them, any statue of a slave owner or apologist for slavery that exists should be destroyed, or at least, removed from public view. Theirs is an irrational hatred that superficially removes reminders of history, as if we ought to suppress the errors of our past rather than be reminded of them so as not to repeat them.
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The men whom the people ought to choose to represent them are too busy to take the jobs. But the politician is waiting for it. He’s the pestilence of modern times. What we should try to do is make politics as local as possible. Keep the politicians near enough to kick them. The villagers who met under the village tree could also hang their politicians to the tree. It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. —G. K. Chesterton
Loyalty is a noble trait and one that is coveted by leaders, but our 45th President has not seen many faithful and devoted Republicans, either in Congress or in his administration. The establishment sewer rats are doing everything they can to stop our President from destroying their globalist goals.
Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, Mike Dubke, Michael Short, Preet Bharara, James Comey, and Sally Yates are gone. Several were known leakers and others were Obama holdovers. There are many people in our President’s administration, even close advisors who I highly doubt are loyal to our 45th President.
Others who were very loyal to our President and his policies who are no longer in the administration, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and his entire NSC staff are gone, along with Steve Bannon, and now Sebastian Gorka. Monica Crowley was torpedoed before she even made it into the administration.
And yet, we still have leaks…
Can we call Pence a hypocrite? Truly, if he had any principles, he wouldn’t have even accepted the nomination of VP, because he couldn’t be a part of our President’s campaign promises in good conscience. His congressional voting record is the opposite of our President’s policies.
The former Governor has close ties to the party establishment, and so does his lawyer. Note that James Comey worked for McGuire Woods law firm from 1993-1996, and Pence’s office confirmed that he retained Richard Cullen, chairman of McGuire Woods LLP, to assist him in responding to inquiries by special counsel Robert Mueller. Cullen and Comey used to work together at McGuire Woods, and Richard Cullen is the Godfather to one of Comey’s daughters.
Recently, Mike Pence joined with Ivanka and Jared and cheered Trump for not undoing Obama’s LBGT Executive Order for Christian evangelicals. Many are upset with this stance, and even more upset that Pence, who claims to be a fundamentalist Christian would go along with it. Link Christians are accusing Pence of hypocrisy since he has flip-flopped on this issue…
Circa News reported that Vice President Mike Pence filed to create a new political action committee called the Great America Committee, ahead of the 2018 and 2020 elections. This is the first time a sitting Vice President has filed to create a separate political PAC. Allegedly it is done to cover the costs of his support for Republican GOP members in both the 2018 and 2020 elections. The new PAC will accept individual donations up to $5K.
Pence is holding private dinners with big donors and corporate interests at his DC home. Link Despite his protestations to the contrary, the vice president looks to be preparing for his own political future. Is he betting everything will come crashing down on Trump and he can take over? Link
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Your Bitcoin is Not Anonymous: IRS Moves to Track Bitcoiners With New Chain Analysis Tools
Last month Alt-Market.com founder Brandon Smith warned that Bitcoin may not be all that it’s cracked up to be in terms of its purported anonymity:
For years, one of the major original selling points of bitcoin was that it was “anonymous.” It always surprised me that so many people in the liberty movement bought into this scam. Surely after the revelations exposed by Edward Snowden and organizations like Wikileaks, it is utterly foolish to believe that anything in the digital world is truly “anonymous.” The feds have been proving there is no anonymity, even in bitcoin, for some time, as multiple arrests using bitcoin tracking have indeed occurred when the FBI decided it was in their interest. Meaning, when the feds want to track bitcoin transactions, they can, and it does not matter how well the people involved covered their actions.
Because every transaction exists on a public blockchain ledger, an enterprising organization — say like the NSA or IRS — could conceivably implement blockchain analysis tools to track down Bitcoin fund transfers around the globe. These days most bitcoin transactions are originated on “trusted” exchanges that exist in Western nations, where governments have always found new and innovative ways to ensure citizens have no privacy whatsoever, especially when it comes to personal finances. This means that there is more than likely a record of your original Bitcoin transaction, perhaps involving a credit card or bank transfer, and if regulators ask an exchange to turn over the information you can bet they’ll do so in order to avoid unwanted government scrutiny. Moreover, most exchanges now require a driver’s license, passport and even a phone number in order to approve your account for trading.
The point is, for government investigators with a bone to pick, your crypto currency activities online may not be as anonymous and private as you may think.
In fact, so exposed is the blockchain to Big Brother monitoring and interference, that the Internal Revenue Service has now implemented blockchain analysis tools to help them track down individuals who are profiting off the crypto currency and not declaring these profits on their tax returns…
Prepare for a full-out onslaught against the government’s newest enemy: crypto terrorists.
That means YOU, if you happen to own any Bitcoin.
Because as we highlighted in 2014, under new directives passed by the Obama Administration, concrete facts are not necessary for you to be put on any number of government watch lists:
[Comment: Cash is freedom. Globalists want to eliminate cash to spy on everyone and to more easily punish those who do not “toe the line”.]
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The Left is Alienating Its Allies by Shutting Down Free Speech
Earlier this month, in an ironic but somehow all too predictable turn of events, Ryerson University announced that it would be cancelling its event called “The Stifling of Free Speech on University Campuses.”
The event was to be held last Tuesday and panel members included Jordan Peterson, the University of Toronto professor who opposes Bill C-16’s mandate for gender-neutral pronouns, Gad Saad, an evolutionary behavioural scientist at Concordia University, Oren Amitay, a clinical psychologist and Ryerson University sessional lecturer and Faith Goldy, formerly of Canada’s Rebel Media.
Warning… CBC link ahead…
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Austrian Conservatives Target Multinationals and QE in Economic Draft
VIENNA (Reuters) — The front-runner in Austria’s parliamentary election, the conservative People’s Party, wants to fight tax avoidance by multinationals and backs a swift end to the European Central Bank’s bond purchases, a draft of its economic program shows.
The People’s Party has been leading in opinion polls since 31-year-old Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz took over as its leader in May. Kurz has until now provided few specific policies ahead of the Oct. 15 parliamentary election.
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Catalonia Vows to Hold Independence Referendum Against Rajoy’s Wishes
Pro-separatist parties, which control the regional assembly in Catalonia, are planning to hold an independence referendum on October 1.
They have already outlined the legal framework for the transition to an independent republic if voters support their bid to split from Spain.
The row over the proposed vote, which is opposed by Spain’s central government, briefly faded after this month’s ISIS attacks in the region.
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First came the giant house spiders. Now brace yourself for the daddy long legs.
With families across Britain warned last week about huge arachnids creeping indoors, there’s a new alert today of a plague of almost 200 billion bugs that will flap about your face and get tangled in your hair.
Just as with the spiders, this summer’s unpredictable weather has proved ideal for crane flies, sometimes known as daddy long legs.
Though they don’t sting or bite and are totally harmless, they can cause a nuisance when they fly indoors, attracted as dusk falls by the glare from house lights and TV and computer screens.
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Italy: Christian Girl Fostered by Muslim Family Unacceptable — Moige
‘State must put kids into families with similar values’
(ANSA) — Rome, August 28 — The Italian parents’ association MOIGE said Monday it was “unacceptable” that a white British Christian five-year-old girl had been put into foster care with a niqab-wearing Muslim family where she was allegedly forced to learn Arabic.
“Every child is entitled to live in the family that bore it but if conditions do not let the parents take care of it, it is the State’s duty to entrust it to a family with similar value characteristics, also on a religious level,” MOIGE said.
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Italy: Moroccan Who Hailed Bardo Terror Attack Deported
Said it wd be easy to stage attacks in Vatican, Rome
(ANSA) — Rome, August 28 — Italy on Monday deported a 37-year-old Moroccan who exulted in jail after Tunis’s Bardo Museum terror attacks and said it would be easy for him to carry out attacks in the Vatican and poison Rome’s drinking water. The man was in jail for petty crimes. The Moroccan has already been flagged as a “high” security risk. The ISIS-claimed attack took place on 18 March 2015, when three militants attacked the Bardo National Museum in the Tunisian capital city of Tunis, and took hostages. Twenty-one people, mostly European tourists, were killed at the scene, while an additional victim died ten days later.
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Labour Accused of Plotting to Keep UK in the EU
Jeremy Corbyn was last night accused of plotting to keep Britain in the EU ‘in all but name’ after Labour performed a staggering U-turn over Brexit.
Sir Keir Starmer yesterday claimed the party was now committed to staying in both the single market and the customs union for years after Brexit.
The party’s Brexit spokesman said Labour policy was to remain in both for the duration of a ‘transition period’ after Britain formally leaves the EU in March 2019 — which he said could be as long as four years.
That would mean Britain having to continue hefty payments to Brussels, as well as accepting open borders.
Last night, Labour leader Mr Corbyn admitted he had no clue how long such a transition period might last.
[Comment: Communist labour party wants to stay within the EU communist fold. Globalist communist puppet politicians never do what the people want, only what the globalists want.]
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Poland Tells EU Its Overhaul of Judiciary in Line With EU Standards
WARSAW (Reuters) — Poland said on Monday that the legislative process overhauling its judiciary is in line with European standards and called the European Commission’s concerns about rule of law in the country groundless.
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A Polish tourist was repeatedly raped in front of her boyfriend who was beaten and robbed by the same group of men on Italy’s popular Rimini beach, police say.
Italian news reports say that the 26-year-old Polish woman was raped by four men early Saturday on a secluded stretch of beach in the Adriatic town on Italy’s eastern coast.
Her partner, also 26, passed out after being beaten on the head and robbed, reports said.
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Polish Prosecutors Open Probe Into Italy Gang Rape Case
Polish prosecutors have opened an investigation after a Polish woman was raped and her husband beaten unconscious by a group of four attackers at a beach in Rimini, Italy early on Saturday.
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Swedish Businesses Helpless as Security Firms Refuse to Work in No-Go Zone
Swedish businesses in the Stockholm no-go zone suburb of Husby have been left feeling helpless to vandalism and robbery as no security firm will accept a contract to patrol the town centre.
The local government promised that by April there would be security guards in the centre of Husby in order to mitigate the violence and vandalism that is common in the area.
At the end of 2016, shopkeepers in the area kept their shops closed to protest the ongoing chaos but now it looks increasingly unlikely the promised security guards will ever come, Stockholm paper Mitt i Stockholm reports.
“Nobody dares to watch Husby centre. The businessmen are left in the ditch,” said Salam Kurda, local grocer and chairman of the corporate association in Husby. Whilst there have been CCTV cameras set up in the area, the local business owners say it is not enough.
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‘There is No Reason for Anyone Bathing in Arab Clothes’: Czech President Defends Burkini Ban
Czech Republic President Milos Zeman has defended the policy of banning the Islamic swimwear known as a the Burkini saying that it is both unhygienic and does not belong in his country.
The Czech president, who has a history of speaking his mind on issues of Islamisation and mass migration and gave his opinion on the controversial Islamic swimwear over the weekend. President Zeman said that he saw no reason for anyone in the Czech Republic to wear the Burkini or tolerate its use Kronen Zeitung reports.
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UK: Buckingham Palace Attack: Second Man Arrested on Suspicion of Terrorism
A second man has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after an attack on police officers near Buckingham Palace.
The 30-year-old from west London has been arrested on suspicion of being involved in the commission, preparation or instigation of terrorism, the Metropolitan Police said.
The arrest was carried out by officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, who are investigating the terrorist attack in Constitution Hill on Friday evening, which resulted in three officers receiving minor injuries.
Officers have also been granted a warrant for the further detention of a 26-year-old man who was arrested at the scene after reaching for a 4ft sword while shouting “Allahu Akbar,” Scotland Yard said.
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A white five-year-old girl told her mother Christmas and Easter are ‘stupid’ and European women are alcoholics after being fostered to two Muslim families, it was claimed today.
The child, who is a native English speaker, also refused to take back her favourite meal — spaghetti carbonara — because it contained bacon — which Muslims do not eat.
The child, who is a native English speaker, spent the past six months in two Muslim households after being placed into foster care in Tower Hamlets, east London.
She was forced to live in Muslim foster homes where nobody spoke English and her carers took away her Christian cross and encouraged her to learn Arabic, according to The Times.
Local authority reports describe how the little girl sobbed and begged not to be returned to her niqab-wearing carer’s home, telling a social worker: ‘They don’t speak English.’…
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UK: Now Winchester and Charterhouse Are Dragged Into Exam Cheating Scandal…
Two more schools have been dragged into a cheating scandal amid allegations that students were leaked information about exam questions.
Winchester College suspended head of art history Laurence Wolff after it was alleged that he gave students tips on what would feature in two exam papers.
The school confirmed results from the exams sat by 13 students had since been nullified and based on coursework and previous grades, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Charterhouse School in Surrey has also been investigated by the exam board after it reported concerns that students were given advance warning about questions on the papers.
But exam board Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) said that there was no evidence of wrongdoing by Charterhouse or its students.
Tim Hands, headmaster at £30,000-a-year Winchester College, said the school had treated the matter ‘very seriously’.
‘No boy was to blame for the exam irregularity, and the Board used standard procedures to award final grades,’ he said.
‘One teacher was suspended and has now retired from the school, and all those boys holding university offers dependent on a grade in Art History have now had those offers confirmed by their first or second choice university…’
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UK: University Accuses Student of “Islamophobia” For Mocking ISIS
Making fun of Islamic State makes Muslim students feel “unsafe”
A law student at Edinburgh University claims he is under investigation for “Islamophobia” because he mocked the Islamic State.
Robbie Travers, who is also a commentator with the Gatestone Institute, posted on Facebook that another individual at the college reported him to campus authorities for making fun of the terror group.
“Afraid I’ve been a little more quiet as I have been accused of Islamophobia because I mocked ISIS, and I’m being investigated on such a ground by my University. Mocking ISIS allegedly made Islamic and minority students feel “threatened” and “unsafe,” so goes the complainant’s ramblings. Have engaged legal advice to dismiss this nonsense. Wish me luck,” wrote Travers…
The irony of course is that by assuming Muslims would be offended by someone making fun of ISIS, it’s the University which is responsible for engaging in Islamophobia by implicitly suggesting all Muslims support ISIS.
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Drunk Australian tourists are terrorising Croatian towns swimming naked, partying all night, having sex in public, and climbing balconies after arriving on party boats blasting loud music, locals claim.
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PA ‘Psychologist’ Explains Women’s Role in Terror
Palestinian Authority psychologist praises women’s role in terror, says hijackings are ‘wonderful acts of heroism.’
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US: No Reason to Freeze Building in Judea, Samaria
Jared Kushner tells PA Chairman Abbas there’s ‘no reason’ to freeze building, Israel has compromised enough.
The US delegation headed by White House adviser Jared Kushner told Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that there is no reason to freeze building in Judea and Samaria.
According to al-Hayat, Abbas requested the US pressure Israel to freeze Jewish building in Judea and Samaria either fully or partially. This, Abbas said, is one of the preconditions necessary for peace talks.
Kushner, together with US Special Middle East Envoy Jason Greenblatt, told Abbas they have no intention of requesting Israel freeze building. This, they explained is for two reasons: First, the talks must be held without preconditions. Second, Israel has compromised much for the sake of the PA, but the PA has not taken steps to build confidence and has, in fact, acted in the opposite manner.
They also told Abbas that even though they believe the two-state solution is ideal, talks must be held without preconditions and the exact borders should be negotiated between the two sides…
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Another 1,000 Purged for ‘Ties to Gulen’ In Turkey
Soldiers and academics fired, 57 workers reintegrated
(ANSAmed) — ROME, AUGUST 25 — The Turkish government issued two new state of emergency decrees on Friday that saw the firing of 928 civil servants for suspected ties to terrorist organisations, as part of continuing purges due to the failed coup attempt in July 2016.
The majority of those who lost their jobs in this latest round of purges worked at the country’s interior ministry and related offices (212 people total) and the armed forces (205), but there were also 120 academics on the list.
Friday’s decrees also provided for the closure of six associations as well as the reintegration of 57 workers who had been previously suspended under similar accusations.
Since the failed coup attempt last year, more than 50,000 people have been arrested in Turkey and about 120,000 fired or suspended.
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How to Get Out of the Iran Nuclear Deal
by John R. Bolton
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II. Campaign Plan Components
There are four basic elements to the development and implementation of the campaign plan to decertify and abrogate the Iran nuclear deal:
1. Early, quiet consultations with key players such as the U.K., France, Germany, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, to tell them we are going to abrogate the deal based on outright violations and other unacceptable Iranian behavior, and seek their input.
2. Prepare the documented strategic case for withdrawal through a detailed white paper (including declassified intelligence as appropriate) explaining why the deal is harmful to U.S. national interests, how Iran has violated it, and why Iran’s behavior more broadly has only worsened since the deal was agreed.
3. A greatly expanded diplomatic campaign should immediately follow the announcement, especially in Europe and the Middle East, and we should ensure continued emphasis on the Iran threat as a top diplomatic and strategic priority.
4. Develop and execute Congressional and public diplomacy efforts to build domestic and foreign support.
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ISIS in Russia: Extremists Claim Two Knife Attacks in One Month
Extremist group Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed a second knife attack on Russian police this month, after one policeman in the region of Dagestan was reported dead, and another injured.
Both of the attackers were shot dead after confronting police in the city of Kaspiysk on Monday morning, state news agencies reported; the identities of the assailants have not been revealed. Shortly after, SITE Intelligence confirmed that ISIS news outlets claimed the group was behind the stabbing.
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Violence Between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar/Burma Escalates Dramatically
Violence between Burma’s (Myanmar’s) mostly Buddhist army and Muslim ethnic Rohingyas in Rakhine State has sharply escalated in the last four days, to the point where it is feared that it may have reached a dangerous turning point.
Starting in 2011, Buddhists have been attacking Muslims in villages across Burma, particularly the 1.1 million ethnic Rohingyas in Rakhine State. Mobs of Buddhists have attacked Muslims, conducting atrocities including torture and rape, killing hundreds and forcing hundreds of thousands to leave their homes to flee from the attacks. In some cases, the Buddhists have burned entire Rohingya villages to the ground.
The current round of violence was triggered on Friday when Rohingya insurgents carried out a series of coordinated attacks against 30 Burma police outposts and an army base. Using knives, some guns and homemade explosives they killed at least a dozen security force members.
[Comment: After decades of agitation, even Buddhists have reached their limit — — now they are fighting back. Looks like they want to push all muslims out of the country. Sad that many honestly peaceful lapsed muslims will suffer as a result of the zealotry of some.]
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Woman Jailed for Suicide Bomb Try in Indonesia
An Indonesian woman has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years jail for her involvement in an Islamic State-inspired plot to carry out a suicide bomb attack on the presidential palace in Jakarta, her lawyer said Monday.
Dian Yulia Novi was arrested at her boarding house with a three-kilogram bomb encased in a pressure cooker the night before the planned attack on the palace in December.
Novi, a 28-year-old former migrant worker who is nine months pregnant, was found guilty of committing an act of terrorism by the East Jakarta District Court on Friday, her lawyer confirmed to AFP.
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Hidden in plain sight is an intimidating Chinese weapon that allows it to hold a quarter of the world’s population hostage without firing a single shot. While much attention has been given to the nation’s fearsome new military hardware, a formidable component in its arsenal has largely escaped notice: dams.
With more than 87,000 dams and control of the Tibetan plateau, the source of ten major rivers which 2 billion people depend on, China possesses a weapon of mass destruction. With the flip of a switch, the Middle Kingdom can release hundreds of millions of gallons of water from its mega dams, causing catastrophic floods that would reshape entire ecosystems in countries downstream.
China knows first-hand the destructive power of water. In an attempt to halt advancing Japanese troops during World War II, Chang Kai-Shek, commander of the Chinese Nationalist Army, destroyed a dike along the Yellow River flooding thousands of miles of farmland, killing an estimated 800,000 Chinese, and displacing nearly 4 million.
It is highly unlikely that China would ever deliberately unleash such a destructive act upon its neighbors, but the fact remains that it wields enormous leverage as an upstream nation by its ability to control life’s most essential resource.
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No More Restraint From North Korea; Trio of Missiles Launched
The cooling of tensions between the United States and North Korea appears to be over as things begin heating up again. Kim Jong-un’s regime has now launched a trio of missiles in response to joint US and South Korea military drills.
Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, may have spoken too soon. Just last week, Tillerson attempted to dial down tensions even more by noting that there had been no missile tests or “provocative acts” from North Korea since a United Nations Security Council resolution sanctioning Pyongyang was passed earlier this month. Less than one week after Tillerson praised North Korea for showing “restraint” in its weapons program, the rogue regime launched three missiles. Pyongyang fired three short-range ballistic missiles from the Kangwon province, the US Pacific Command said. US Pacific Command, in its initial assessment of the launch on Saturday, said North Korea’s first and third missiles failed in flight. It later amended its statement to say the missiles flew “approximately 250 kilometers in a northeastern direction.”
The second missile launch appeared to “blow up” immediately after the launch, making it hugely unsuccessful. “We will continue to work with our interagency partners on a more detailed assessment of this latest launch and we will provide a public update if warranted,” command spokesman Commander David Benham said in a statement. But officials continue to claim that North Korea’s missiles are not a threat.
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North Korea Fires Missile Over Japan; Attack Warnings Sounded; Launch an ‘Unprecedented Threat’
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his nation is facing a “serious and grave threat” after North Korea fired a missile over northern Japan this morning.
The missile was launched from near North Korean capital Pyongyang and flew about 2,700 kilometres, reaching an altitude of about 550km.
It flew over Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido before breaking into three pieces and falling into the sea about 1,180 km to the east of Japan.
Air raid warnings sounded in northern Japan as the missile approached, with people being warned to take shelter in basements.
North Korea has conducted dozens of ballistic missile tests under young leader Kim Jong-un, but firing projectiles over mainland Japan is rare…
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Studio 10 hosts gasp as they discover popular American broadcaster CBS has bought their network live on air as the news was announced Monday morning by the US giant.
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Pauline Hanson has angrily blasted a Greens senator for suggesting Australia has to take responsibility for foreign-born criminals who have grown up locally and face deportation.
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The Australian government has booted out 2,800 foreign-born criminals in just three years in an unprecedented crackdown. Almost half of those were violent crooks.
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African, European Leaders Meet to Discuss Migrant Crisis
Seven African and European leaders are meeting in Paris on Monday to discuss ways to stem the flow of migrants into Europe from northern Africa.
French President Emmanuel Macron has invited his counterparts from Niger and Chad as well as the head of the Libyan unity government Fayez al-Sarraj, whose countries lie on the main transit route for migrants heading to Europe.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Spanish and Italian prime ministers Mariano Rajoy and Paulo Gentiloni, and Europe’s top diplomat Federica Mogherini will join the talks
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Angela Merkel Insists She Has No Regrets on Migrant Policy
Angela Merkel (pictured) said her 2015 decision to allow more than a million people from across Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East into Germany in 2015 was right from a ‘humanitarian standpoint’.
[Comment: Hiding the globalist population replacement plan for Europe by using “humanitarian”, compassionate and guilt-tripping language.]
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Finland: Failed Asylum Seeker Who Committed Stabbing Attack Lied About Name, Age
HELSINKI (AP) — A Moroccan man who is facing charges in a stabbing attack that killed two people and wounded eight others in Finland, lied about his name and age, Finnish police said Sunday.
The suspect has been hospitalized since officers shot him in the thigh to stop the Aug. 18 knife attack in the southwestern city of Turku, 170 kilometers (105 miles) west of the Finnish capital, Helsinki.
National Bureau of Investigation Detective Inspector Crista Granroth said the man gave a false name and age when he was first interviewed. International police contacts provided Finnish investigators with his true identity, Granroth said.
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Tens of Thousands of Syrian ‘Refugees’ Temporarily Return Home for Religious Holiday
AFP — Tens of thousands of Syrians who fled their country’s civil war to Turkey are returning home temporarily to Syria to celebrate a major Muslim holiday, Turkish officials said Monday.
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Peter Dutton has blasted as ‘un-Australian’ lawyers acting for asylum seekers trying to stay in the country after receiving medical care. The immigration Minister is stripping 60 people of $200 payments.
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Trudeau Won’t Adopt Scheer’s Plan to Control the Border
Trudeau will keep making nonsensical statements, the media will continue to ignore the practical suggestion made by Scheer and the illegals will just keep coming. There is no end in sight.
CPC leader Andrew Scheer has been relatively quiet this summer causing criticism from some conservatives. It seems the newly elected leader preferred to do the barbeque circuit rather than speak out against serious issues facing Canada such as the $10.5 million payment to terrorist Omar Khadr and the erasure by the Trudeau government of the country’s southern border.
It is true Scheer made some comments about these matters but left the bulk of the border crisis to Michelle Rempel, the party’s immigration critic. Rempel’s solution was to simply spend more and more money to hire more immigration officers and Immigration and Refugee board judges and support staff in order to process these illegal border crossers more quickly. The faster they can be processed, the sooner they can be deported back to their countries of origin. Rempel’s solution to simply throw more money at the problem was truly Trudashian. Lo and behold, Scheer came up with a solution last week that was brilliant in its simplicity
Lo and behold, Scheer came up with a solution last week that was brilliant in its simplicity. Scheer suggested the popular illegal crossing points such as Roxton Road in Quebec and Emerson in Manitoba be designated as official ports of entry. It would not be necessary for Parliament to be sitting to pass a law; designation of such areas could be done by regulation that can be enacted by an order-in-council. In practical terms, if the prime minister wants an order-in-council enacted it shall be done.
If these illegal border crossing points were made official, the Third Party Agreement signed in 2002 by the United States and Canada would apply. Those who come into the country seeking asylum from the United States would be forced to go back to the U.S. and make a claim there. If they had made an asylum claim there but been rejected, they will be out of luck. Scheer’s idea would not necessitate an attempt to amend the Third Party Agreement that would require the agreement of the United States. Not only is Scheer’s idea simple, it would not cost much as Canadian authorities are already deployed in these areas.
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Trump’s Pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio Sends a Strong Message
After serving Maricopa County as sheriff for 24 years, Arpaio lost his reelection bid last year to Soros-financed Paul Penzone, who is taking a vastly different approach to the illegal immigration problem. Penzone, who became the new sheriff on the first of the year, said in a January 4 interview on Phoenix TV station ABC 15:
We will need to work with the guests who are here in our nation and are pursuing citizenship and separate that from those who are committing crimes and make sure that we a caring community that is serious about public safety.
Writing about this statement at the time, The New American’s Warren Mass observed:
While it may not be immediately apparent from this quote that Penzone was referring to illegal aliens when he spoke about “guests,” the ABC 15 reporter who interviewed the new sheriff noted that for “24 years, sheriff Joe Arpaio made no bones about it: illegal is illegal. The new sheriff uses different terms for undocumented immigrants. He calls them ‘guests.’“
Even though Arpaio hadn’t been sentenced — that was scheduled to take place in October — he plans to appeal Bolton’s ruling against granting him a trial by jury. At age 85, Arpaio is still a fighter.
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S.C. Governor Cuts All Funding of State Abortion Clinics
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (shown) issued an executive order August 25 directing state agencies to cut off all funding to abortion clinics in the state. The order directs the agencies to cease providing both state and federal dollars via grants, contracts, state-administered federal funds, or “any other form,” to all clinics performing the murderous procedure.
Additionally, McMaster directed South Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services to seek waivers from the federal government allowing the state to exclude abortion clinics from its Medicaid provider network.
“There are a variety of agencies, clinics, and medical entities in South Carolina that receive taxpayer funding to offer important women’s health and family planning services without performing abortions,” Gov. McMaster said in a statement. “Taxpayer dollars must not directly or indirectly subsidize abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.”
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NorKos shooting missiles over Japan? I wonder when our “advanced technology” will shoot them down.
Me thinks the US braggadocio exceeds their expertise which causes me a lot of worry.
In short, you better shoot the missiles down soon or a whole lot of [effluent] will hit the fan…
Are we really headed for a nuclear armed Asia?
Keen observations. Iron Dome works in Israel and the US missile defense has some degree of capability. Why anti-missile missiles are not launch is troubling. Since China and NK have the bomb, Japan and SK must, too….and perhaps Taiwan?
I’ve felt that Japan and SK are de facto nuclear states.
Currently they exist under the US nuclear umbrella, but they have options to get their own nukes.
Option one are secret agreements with the US that allocate a portion of nukes directly to both countries’ chains of command.
Option two are plans for national crash programs that would produce operational nukes in 3-6 months. Both countries have the industrial base and technical know how to do this.
I think these arguments also apply to Germany.
Germany would launch a missile attack on Germany but prefers self-destruction through a deluge of rather useless immigrants!
So, in 2019, Canada will split open like an overstuffed piñata [ windows10 will not accept advanced ascii, so I can’t use an “enya”, the Spanish letter. Wow, Autocomplete just changed it ] spilling unwanted Muslims about like so many jugetes [toys ].
How about one of those White House Petitions demanding that Ivanka and Kushner be banned from the White House?
Won’t happen…Jared is the globalists’ plant in the White House. He will be there as long as Trump is.
OANN: WATCH: McAuliffe Ethics Come Into Question During Charlottesville Fallout
The Left hacks in charge across this land want street violence and order the cops to stand down. That’s a conspiracy in violation of civil rights laws.