The Italian resort town of Rimini on the Adriatic coast has become the “crime capital of Italy”, due to a flourishing drug-trafficking business run by migrants. Rimini is the place where a Polish woman was gang-raped and her husband badly beaten over the weekend.
In other news, the first boatload of asylum seekers in more than 1,000 days has managed to reach the coast of Australia.
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This is the Single Most Important Chart in the World
Yesterday we talked about the US Dollar ($USD) dropping below critical support.
By quick way of review, here’s the key chart. As you can see, the $USD staged a large bull market run in 2014 as the Fed wound down its QE program. The greenback was then range bound for three years until this month when it broke down in a big way.
US Dollar is Collapsing
Today I want to talk about the long-term chart of the $USD, as well as the implications of this chart on other asset classes.
Here’s the $USD’s chart running back 40 years. I call this the “single most important chart in the world,” because how the $USD moves has a massive impact on all other asset classes.
US Dollar is Collapsing
As you can see the $USD broke out of a massive 40 year falling wedge pattern. This initial breakout has failed to reach its ultimate target (120) and is now rolling over for a retest of the upper trendline in the mid-to low-80s.
Put simply, this chart is telling us that the $USD is going to be collapsing in the coming months.
[Comment: This is by design. Banksters and their puppet media have been fanning Trump hatred. When the dollar collapses all fakemadia will point at Trump. Amercians should not get played — keep inmind the bankster owned FED and globalists caused this collapse…]
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The country is committing suicide as we speak. The push for revision and redaction in all the history books has been on for some time. Now we’re seeing actual mobs of demonstrators surrounding these historical statues. The push is on. On August 19, demonstrators in Detroit gathered to protest and demand removal of a statue of Christopher Columbus. In all the major cities, the push to remove these statues along with protests continues.
It’s not going to stop here. Now that Bannon is gone, a letter was sent to the President by more than a dozen conservative groups asking for him to not move toward a more moderate stance. Indeed, over the weekend he “Tweeted” the Boston Police Department commending them on the way they handled the protests there. The President has also adopted this “wishy-washy” stance of “we all need to heal the wounds” in the U.S., as if any of these protests had any relevance to any injustices happening today.
Seriously, this is all out of Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.” Go back and review the Glenn Beck programs of 2012-2014…when he presented some very good information on the Weather Underground (particularly Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers), as well as Cloward and Piven, and all the “outstanding” work by Van Jones to topple the system. I’m not a personal fan of Beck’s, but back then he used to have very comprehensive layouts that were easily referenced and noted that concerned these Marxists and Communists marching under the banner and guise of “social justice.” All that stuff that Van Jones had planned back then, with funding from Acorn and George Soros…it is manifesting itself here and now.
There is a civil war coming, as it is the domestic initiative that must be pursued to bring the United States down to the canvas…rendering her ineffective when the foreign initiative…an attack comes…to give the final count. In both battles, nobody will be able to retreat to a neutral corner. If the U.S. stays intact, then the NWO loses, and vice-versa. These protestors (paid and genuine) are but a sampling of the platter to be served…a buffet right out of Pandora’s box.
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Air Force Vet Slams Paul Ryan for Defending Antifa
“How can you call them anything but what they are — domestic terrorists?”
An Air Force veteran has slammed Speaker of the House Paul Ryan for defending Antifa, the violent Alt-Left group that has been responsible for innumerable violent assaults on Trump supporters.
Two days after the violence in Charlottesville, Ryan posted a Facebook update in which he lashed out at Donald Trump for saying that both sides were responsible for violent unrest.
“There are no sides,” wrote Ryan. “There is no other argument. We will not tolerate this hateful ideology in our society.”
Ryan has failed to condemn Antifa despite the group’s many violent attacks on Trump supporters, the vast majority of whom are not neo-nazis or white supremacists.
An anonymous Air Force veteran has responded with a powerful letter which warned Ryan that Trump supporters were perfectly willing to vote him out of office.
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Antifa Have Passed the Point of No Return — It’s Time to Take Action
The top trending subject for all news sites right now is Antifa. They have turned out at almost every major (and minor) rally or protest and waded in with violence first and threats second. They are not just going after White Supremacists, but quite literally anyone who is not them.
The majority of people who turn up to Antifa attacks are just kids who think they are part of something “rebellious,” but this in no way excuses them from the fact that the leaders and organizers are in fact attempting to destroy American society. And they are NOT cultural idealists “fighting for what they believe in,” they are well-funded, well-trained and directed by Globalist organizations who have their own agenda ready to replace the fallen one.
Antifa are not a “loose-knit” operation. They exist in many countries and coordinate in actions all over the world. At present they are co-opting other groups under the “Anti-Fascist” banner as part of their number, which is not only wrong, but purposely designed to enforce the idea that anyone who is not with them is thereby actually “Pro-Fascist.”
The violence is not random nor a reaction, it is designed and executed to appear out of nowhere and to turn a tense situation into a chaotic and dangerous one. These are professionals who know how to cause violence through using other people. They are trained to inflame a situation so that a random nobody ends up getting charged with the assault whilst they fade back into the shadows.
The petition to have Antifa designated a Terrorist Organisation is a good thing for three reasons and a bad idea for one.
First the benefits:…
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Artificial Intelligence is Writing the Next ‘Game of Thrones’ Book
Winter is kind of here.
“Game of Thrones” fans have grown so impatient for George R.R. Martin to finish the next “A Song of Ice And Fire” book — the series that the HBO show is based on — that an artificial intelligence system just wrote the beginning of the sixth book.
Zack Thoutt, a “GoT” fan and software engineer, created a type of AI, known as a recurrent neural network. Thoutt fed the machine all 5,376 pages of the five current books and it generated predictions on what will happen next.
While the AI’s effort is definitely not a Martin novel, the sentences are mostly easy to understand and the predictions reportedly align with some popular fan theories. The machine also started each chapter with a character’s name, just as Martin does.
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Did Democrats Sabotage Houston Evacuation to Blame Trump?
Why did Houston officials tell citizens not to evacuate?
The Democrats have become more and more desperate to blame Donald Trump for everything. Would they go so far as to sabotage the evacuation of Houston to have another thing to blame on Donald Trump?
[Comment: Would not be surprised if they did. They “Never let a crisis go to waste”.]
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Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures host Maria Bartiromo had former Utah representative Jason Chaffetz on her show to discuss several issues including the arrest of former DNC char, Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s “IT consultant” Imran Awan.
Chaffetz made the stunning claim that federal agents were watching Imran Awan for months before his arrest, which means that this scandal is much bigger and deeper than the bank fraud charges for which Awan is currently charged with.
The Duran reported…
Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s IT specialist could very well bring down the entire fake news Russia story that Hillary Clinton and her campaign staff put together in the run up to their election defeat to Donald Trump. This would explain why this Pakistani “hacker”, who is now under arrest for bank fraud charges while attempting to flee the United States, has been curiously blessed with high powered Clinton attorneys.
The rapidly growing scandal is seeing zero airtime on mainstream media.
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Fullbright Scholar Confirms Muslims Took Leading Roles in (Violent) BLM Protests Across U.S.
After a dozen interviews and years of work, Fullbright Scholar Iman AbdoulKarim was finally ready to share with her findings with her Muslim community.
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Green Beret: A Full-Blown Civil War is Materializing
Nobody will be able to retreat to a neutral corner
At the rate things are going, a full-blown civil war appears to be materializing.
The country is committing suicide as we speak. The push for revision and redaction in all the history books has been on for some time. Now we’re seeing actual mobs of demonstrators surrounding these historical statues. The push is on.
On August 19, demonstrators in Detroit gathered to protest and demand removal of a statue of Christopher Columbus. In all the major cities, the push to remove these statues along with protests continues.
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Houston Officials Downplayed Flood Warnings as “Fake News”
City faces potential lawsuit for publicly shaming resident who blew whistle
A Houston-area woman set off a firestorm in the hours leading up to Hurricane Harvey’s landfall when she wrote on social media that local officials and the mainstream media were misleading the public about the severity of the incoming storm.
Resident Rebecca Reisig said the Houston City Council knew Hurricane Harvey was expected to do far greater damage than was being reported to the public.
Hey guys, I’m not trying to start a panic, but as some of you know, I work for a law firm here downtown. One of the lawyers I work with has a friend on the Houston City Council. The news is not telling the whole truth. The storm is expected to be three times worse than what the news is saying because they don’t want a panic on the freeways like Hurricane Rita. The City Council and Harris County Flood Control had an emergency meeting this morning. Evertything sound of Katy is predicted to be devastated. They’re predicting 50 inches of rain, not 24 like the news is saying, and 100,000 homes destroyed. Theyre expecting all of Houston to be without power for three days. If you guys live in a flood zone, you need to get out of Houston or try to stay with someone further north of Houston. I hope they’re wrong, but that is the latest I’ve heard from what the news isn’t telling you. Stay safe everyone. Ms. Reisig’s post went viral and generated so much controversy that high-ranking Houston politicians and regional media outlets were forced to address it, ordering citizens to ignore it as ‘fake news’ and directing them to only pay attention to government warnings and ‘reputable’ media outlets.
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How the Deep State Ties Down Trump
America’s Deep State players have tied down President Trump on Russian sanctions and other foreign and economic policies but that doesn’t mean the struggle is over…
President Trump has had his foreign policy hands and feet tied by the Russia (and Iran) Sanctions Act.
He now has been rendered “helpless”: in respect to détente with Russia — gulliverized, spitefully, by his own party, working with the Democrats, to empty Trump’s constitutional prerogatives in foreign policy — and to seize them for Congress.
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INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain ‘information superiority.’
The origins of this ingenious strategy trace back to a secret Pentagon-sponsored group, that for the last two decades has functioned as a bridge between the US government and elites across the business, industry, finance, corporate, and media sectors. The group has allowed some of the most powerful special interests in corporate America to systematically circumvent democratic accountability and the rule of law to influence government policies, as well as public opinion in the US and around the world. The results have been catastrophic: NSA mass surveillance, a permanent state of global war, and a new initiative to transform the US military into Skynet.
This exclusive is being released for free in the public interest, and was enabled by crowdfunding. I’d like to thank my amazing community of patrons for their support, which gave me the opportunity to work on this in-depth investigation. Please support independent, investigative journalism for the global commons…
As our governments push to increase their powers, INSURGE INTELLIGENCE can now reveal the vast extent to which the US intelligence community is implicated in nurturing the web platforms we know today, for the precise purpose of utilizing the technology as a mechanism to fight global ‘information war’?-?a war to legitimize the power of the few over the rest of us. The lynchpin of this story is the corporation that in many ways defines the 21st century with its unobtrusive omnipresence: Google.
Google styles itself as a friendly, funky, user-friendly tech firm that rose to prominence through a combination of skill, luck, and genuine innovation. This is true. But it is a mere fragment of the story. In reality, Google is a smokescreen behind which lurks the US military-industrial complex.
The inside story of Google’s rise, revealed here for the first time, opens a can of worms that goes far beyond Google, unexpectedly shining a light on the existence of a parasitical network driving the evolution of the US national security apparatus, and profiting obscenely from its operation.
[Comment: That was the goal of these “portals”. Get the poublic addicted to these portals and then when the user base is large control the flow of information and disseminate globalists agenda as virtuous instead of tyrannical. Rememmber when you had competing web search engines and no major portals?]
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Michael Moore: America Will be a “Better Country” When Whites Are a Minority
“I can’t wait for that day to happen”
Michael Moore is celebrating the fact that white men are “dying out” because he thinks America’s demographic shift will make it easier for Democrats to win future presidential elections.
“Nearly 70% of the country is either female, people of color, or young adults between 18 and 35, or a combination of the three,” Moore told Fast Company.
“The angry white guy is dying out, and the Census Bureau has already told us that by 2050, white people are going to be the minority, and I’m not sad to say I can’t wait for that day to happen. I hope I live long enough to see it because it will be a better country,” he added.
The Bowling for Columbine star also insinuated that all Trump supporters were racists who hate minorities.
[Comment: Jabba spews more venom…]
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Michigan: Terror Investigation Nabs Muslim With Cache of Unregistered Weapons in Ypsilanti
Source: Did FBI thwart Michigan-based terror threat?
The FBI’s counterterrorism team blocked an Ypsilanti man from flying to the Middle East and arrested him Friday after discovering a weapons arsenal in a storage unit, the latest national security-related case in Metro Detroit.
Yousef Mohammad Ramadan, 28, has not been charged with a terror-related crime and an FBI spokesman declined to comment, leaving it unclear why the FBI’s counterterrorism team and the head of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s national security unit are involved in the case, whether investigators had thwarted a terror attack or stopped a man from traveling overseas to commit terror.
The case is shrouded in secrecy. The U.S. Attorney’s Office quietly brought Ramadan into federal court Saturday for a rare weekend arraignment that happened when federal court was closed to the public. The arraignment, which was not posted on the court’s calendar, ended with a federal magistrate judge ordering Ramadan be held temporarily without bond.
Ramadan has been charged with knowingly possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number, a five-year felony…
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Poll Shock: #NeverTrump Senator Jeff Flake Trailing Challenger Kelli Ward by 26%
Anti-Trump GOP pols could face severe backlash in 2018
Incumbent Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) is underwater badly in his home state, with just 21 percent of Arizona Republicans supporting him for reelection against challenger Dr. Kelli Ward-who gets 47 percent support-per a new poll from JMC Analytics.
The poll, provided to Breitbart News ahead of its public release by JMC Analytics’ John Couvillon, shows Flake in almost irreparable shape ahead of his reelection bid in 2018.
That an incumbent U.S. Senator like Flake could be polling as low as 21 percent in his own primary, while a challenger like Ward has pulled 26 points ahead of him at 47 percent, is almost unthinkable with nearly a full year to go until the August 2018 primary.
[Comment: Good news.]
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President Trump Retweets Dinesh D’Souza and Truth of Antifa Violence in Berkeley
FOR OVER A YEAR conservatives, Trump supporters and American patriots have been assaulted, spit on, beaten, cold-cocked, egged, chased, tackled and bloodied for attending Trump rallies and conservative events. On Sunday the Washington Post stunned the nation by posting on the Berkeley alt-left violence on Sunday.
Dinesh D’Souza tweeted out this stunning report:…
The Washington Post not only admitted that Alt-left Antifa violence actually exists but that they are beating peaceful Trump supporters. This is a historic moment in American journalism!
We saved a screengrab just in case the editors take this post down.
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Queens Man Busted for Trying to Join ISIS
A 22-year-old Queens man has been busted trying to join ISIS, authorities said Tuesday.
Parveg Ahmed was deported back to the US from Saudia Arabia on Monday as he attempted to cross into Syria to joint the militant group, according to a newly unsealed indictment.
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Rohrabacher Suggests He Will Give Trump Info Absolving Russia of DNC Hacking
Comments made by Republican California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher in a Tuesday radio interview suggest he has information that would absolve Russia of allegations that it hacked the Democratic National Committee.
Rohrabacher met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange two weeks ago in the Ecuadorian embassy in London where Assange took asylum after facing now-dropped sexual assault charges in Sweden.
Rohrabacher told The Daily Caller recently that Assange promised him information about who was behind the DNC hack that the American intelligence community has said Russia was involved with.
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Shock Video: Antifa Mob Spits All Over Trump Supporter
Disturbing video from Sunday’s anti-Marxism rally at Berkeley shows a mob of antifa spit all over an innocent supporter of President Trump.
Arthur Schaper was first attacked with mace early on Sunday, then chased by a mob of antifa who stole his Trump hat and his glasses and then spat all over him.
An “anti-hate” protester told CBS SF Bay Area the violence is justified because “white supremacists” make her “feel unsafe.”
“You know, I’m OK with people making white supremacists feel unwelcome,” the woman says. “You’re making me feel unsafe in my own country because I’m a Jew, and I’m like, what does this mean for our society?”
Arthur Schaper is not a white supremacist. Schaper told the Guardian, “The main reason we are here is free speech.”
He attended the event with his friend Marco Gutierrez of Latinos For Trump.
The real question we should be asking is what does it mean for our society that people can no longer hold rallies without police standing down and letting violent antifa mobs attack them?
What does it mean for our society that leftists no longer believe in free speech and want to repeal the First Amendment?
What does it mean for our society that everyone to the right of Karl Marx is labeled a “Nazi” who deserves to be “punched”?
[Comment: Those running Antifa need to be prosecuted for sedition, along with the one funding it — that toad Soros.]
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Shot at and Overrun: Volunteer Rescue Workers Have Been Attacked in Houston
If you look at the situation in Houston right now, it appears that things can’t get any worse. Much of the city is flooded, people are stranded in or on their homes, relief efforts are spread thin, and an unknown number of people have died. But you can believe it, the Hurricane Harvey isn’t finished yet.
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Social Justice Warriors Want Universities to ‘Ban Veterans’
Flyer declares “in order to protect our academic institutions we must ban veterans from four-year universities.”
A flyer recently appeared at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs (UCCS) declaring that “in order to protect our academic institutions we must ban veterans from four-year universities.”
The flyer is part of a new “Social Justice Collective Weekly” newsletter, which is not affiliated with the school, and is aimed at “promoting justice in our society.” The first issue of the newsletter includes an article titled “Should Veterans Be Banned From UCCS and Other Universities?”
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There is “Eight Feet of Water” On Houston Roads, And it’s About to Get Much Worse
Amid desperate efforts to save stranded citizens — police report over 3,000 rescues alone — and the arrival of the so-called ‘cajun navy’to assist, Harvey continues to pummel Texas, paralyzing Houston as the region braces for yet more rain after the Tropical Storm recharged over warm waters and heading back in-land.
“This is, if not the largest, it has to be categorized as one of the largest disasters America has ever faced,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared at a press conference Monday afternoon.
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Watch: Teenager Shot Seconds After He Tries to Steal Gun From an Old Man
Most gun owners are aware of the old saying, “God made men, and Sam Colt made them equal.” It’s a saying that has stood them test of time because it’ s inherently true. Before the invention of the firearm, the strong could easily prey on the weak. However, whenever firearms are involved in a fight, the playing field is always fairly level.
It’s safe to say that most criminals aren’t aware of this fact. If they were, they probably wouldn’t be dumb enough to victimize people who are clearly armed. That’s a mistake that one teenager from Detroit made earlier this month. He saw a 61-year-old man in a convenience store who was legally carrying a pistol, and had the bright idea of trying to take it from him. He must have thought that the older man would be an easy target, and he quickly paid for that mistake when he was shot in the gut. He was charged while recovering at a hospital not long after.
And if you can believe it, the older man was a “mild mannered musician” who had only recently received his concealed pistol permit, and had never fired a gun before. And that thug was no match for him. Guns really do have the ability to make us all equal.
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Weasels at MTV Play “F*** Donald Trump” Song During Commercial Break at VMAs
What’s their problem anyway?
Imagine yourself, a good citizen of America attending one of these events with your Make America Great Again hat, and then this song pops off during the commercial break.
The VMAs, and all of the other award ceremonies, are now beset upon by political activists talking into an echo chamber of like minded malcontents. None of these people protested the grave sins of Obama. Zero confederate statues were attacked during his reign and the anti-war faction was surprisingly silent.
Ever since the Orange Gorilla God has taken residency inside the White House, these people on the fringe left have lost their shit — spearheaded by the drug addled degenerates on Hollywood — all of whom lack grace, dignity, and decorum to call themselves ‘upstanding citizens’ of this fine country.
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Why the Establishment GOP Won’t Help Trump
GOP, Dems ran by the same globalists
he Republicans failed on health care, but now they are offering a new plan for tax and spending cuts, with a promise of smaller government.
But the GOP, with few exceptions, seems about as credible as the Democrats and their flawed, small-business killer, Obamacare. Many of the Democrats are people who subscribe to a socialism without doctrines; a kind of backdoor collectivism. So now, as they expect the Republicans to fail and lose control of Congress, naturally many of them are waiting for their chance to ram a single payer health care system down the throats of already overtaxed Americans.
Many Americans thought they were voting for less government in 2016, but they have been disappointed again and again by a party that doesn’t seem interested in rolling back government.
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Why Trump Should Pardon Bundys & Their Supporters
Federal land grab was completely illegal
Last week a Nevada jury dealt another blow this week to the government’s case against participants in an armed uprising against federal agents three years ago involving the family of rancher Cliven Bundy and his supporters.
The jury acquitted two men, Richard Lovelien and Steven Stewart, of all 10 charges against them, and two others, Eric Parker and O. Scott Drexler, on most counts. The jury deadlocked on the remaining charges against Parker and Drexler, and then Judge Gloria Navarro an appointee of President Obama hand— picked by Harry Reid, declared a mistrial.
Navarro’s conduct in the case and her efforts to cook the results of the next trial by denying the defendants any real defense. Navarro knows that no matter how outrageous her conduct the X circuit, the most politically activist liberal would be unable to overturn her rulings and all the Bundy defendants will have died in prison before the US Supreme Court could hear this case.
This recent result was despite a concerted effort by Judge Gloria Navarro to deny the due-process rights of the defendants. Navarro has refused to release the Bundy’s and their supporters including journalist Pete Santilli under pre-trial release even none have prior criminal records, leaving them to languish in a squalid Nevada for 18 months and has ordered that they remain shackled during their trial. Navarro has denied the Bundy’s attorneys the right to mount a First, Second or Fourth Amendment defense. She also refused to let jurors hear a BLM radio transmission which features the order to attack the Bundy ranch and refused to allow final arguments by the defendant’s attorneys.
This was the second trial for the four men, who had been accused of conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer, among other charges. A jury in April deadlocked on all charges against them.
Now, incredibly the Government has announced its intention to try Parker and Drexler a third time! Thirty days after the third “re-trial” of Parker & Drexler the next set of Bundy Ranch Defendants will have their trial, including Cliven Bundy, his sons, and journalist Pete Santilli whose only crime seems to be his coverage of the dispute as a news story. Six other accused, which include two other sons of Clive Bundy, are awaiting trial sometime in 2018…
To understand this case and why the Department of Justice is determined to deny the Bundys and their supporters their right to a fair and speedy trial it is necessary to dig deeper into the situation and the involvement of Sen. Harry Reid
The Bundy Family has been on their family land in the Gold Butte area of Nevada since 1877. This is long before the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ever existed. When the BLM started changing laws by fiat, many, including the Bundy Family, accused the Feds of overtaking state sovereignty…
The simple fact is the feds were using the Bureau of Land Management to bully and intimidate ranchers like Bundy, pushing them off public land in order to pave the way for lucrative “green energy” projects backed by the Communist Chinese government and linked to Nevada Senator Harry Reid.
[Comment: Highly recommended reading. ]
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Canada: Muslim Hospital Worker Sexually Assaulted 90-Year-Old Woman, Gets Probation
A Richmond Hill family is sharing their story and say they hope it will lead to a public outcry and justice for their loved one.
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EU Has No ‘Instruments’ To Impose Sanction on Poland: MEP
The politician, who hails from Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, told Polish Radio that seven EU member states opposed a potential move to slap sanctions on Poland when “polled tentatively” on the matter during a European Council meeting a few months ago.
“Some other countries perfectly understand that it may be Poland today, and it could be them tomorrow,” Czarnecki added.
That is why there is no possibility of sanctions being imposed on Poland, he told Polish Radio.
Czarnecki also argued that Brussels is attacking Poland for its refusal to accept immigrants.
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France’s Macron Sets Fighting ‘Islamist Terrorism’ As Main Policy Goal
PARIS (Reuters) — French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that ensuring national security would be at the heart of France’s diplomatic activity and he set eradicating “Islamist terrorism” as his core foreign policy goal.
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Germany: Outrage as AfD Leader Suggests ‘Dumping’ Political Rival in Turkey
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Monday sharply condemned a leader of the right-wing populist AfD party who called for an official with Turkish roots to be “dumped” in Anatolia, saying such comments recall Germany’s “worst memories”.
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Meeting Between Swedish and Norwegian Ministers Scrapped Following ‘No-Go Zones’ Claims
Sweden’s Migration Minister cancelled a meeting with her Norwegian counterpart at the last minute after judging that the trip was part of campaigning for Norway’s forthcoming election.
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Mystery ‘Chemical Mist’ Forces Evacuation of Popular UK Tourist Beach
Hundreds rushed to hospital with injuries, breathing difficulties
Packed tourist hotspot Beachy Head was evacuated and 238 people “decontaminated” in hospital after a mystery “chemical mist” blew in from the sea.
Hundreds more beachgoers were left suffering stinging eyes and breathing difficulties after fleeing the East Sussex coast this afternoon.
Dramatic pictures show the unusual smog lingering above the sea before moving inland towards revellers enjoying the Bank Holiday weekend weather at about 5pm on Sunday.
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No End in Sight for Counter-Terror Military Deployments to Streets of Europe
The deployment of thousands of troops to the streets of major European cities is to continue with no near end in sight, as the Belgian army admits their own homeland defence mission will run at least until 2020.
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Sweden’s Government Wants Newspaper to Pay Less Tax in an Effort to Combat Fake News
A new proposal from the Swedish government would bring an end to the tax print publications pay on advertising revenue in what is being pitched as an effort to fight fake news.
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UK: Christian Parents Begged Council to House Child With Grandparents Instead of Hardline Muslims
The parents of a five-year-old Christian girl forced to live with a fundamentalist Muslim family begged the council to allow her to stay with her grandmother as she became increasingly distressed.
The foster family, selected by the London borough of Tower Hamlets, removed the child’s crucifix necklace, wore full-face veils around her, spoken in Arabic which she did not understand, and banned her from consuming bacon, an investigation by The Times found.
Her family has spent the past six months pleading with the council — which has previously been accused of corruption and favouring Muslim interests — to allow the girl to be cared for by family or friends.
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UK: Christian Girl, 5, Forced Into Foster Care With Veiled, Arabic-Speaking Muslims
A white Christian child was taken from her family and forced to live with a niqab-wearing foster carer in a home where she was allegedly encouraged to learn Arabic.
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UK: Foreign Terrorists Can Only be Deported to Two Countries at a Time ‘Because of the Cost’
Those who pose a threat to national security cannot be sent to countries including Libya, Syria, Yemen and Russia, even if a guarantee of fair treatment is obtained, according to a probe ordered by Theresa May.
Where assurances can be given, the process is so complicated and costly the Home Office said it was only able to manage negotiations with two nations at a time.
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UK: Oxford Don Resigns in Anti-Trump Protest… Possibly by Mistake
A senior academic at Britain’s top university has quit his job over allegations that a major Oxford sponsor donated funds to Donald Trump’s US presidential campaign.
Swedish Professor Bo Rothstein, who taught at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, resigned from his position over claims that the School’s founder, Soviet-born industrialist Leonard Blavatnik, sponsored Trump’s presidential bid…The spokesman for the industrialist said that neither Blavatnik nor his company, Access Industries, had ever donated any funds to Trump’s presidential campaign, suggesting that Rothstein, who taught Government and Public Policy at Oxford, may have misunderstood the entire issue and resigned by mistake.
[comment: Rolling on the floor laughing…]
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President Donald Trump blasted North Korea as a ‘grave and growing direct threat’ to the world following its latest provocation — a ballistic missile launch over Japan.
In a return to the saber-rattling of the last flare up with North Korea, Trump is warning that ‘all options are on the table’ — an obvious reference to U.S. military might.
‘The world has received North Korea’s latest message loud and clear: this regime has signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the United Nations, and for minimum standards of acceptable international behavior,’ Trump said in a statement released by the White House.
‘Threatening and destabilizing actions only increase the North Korean regime’s isolation in the region and among all nations of the world. All options are on the table,’ he said.
His tough words came as North Korea’s latest launch, this time of a missile over Japan’s northern island, terrified Japanese citizens and caused a sudden drop in financial markets.
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A judge has asked for more detail about the conditions faced by Muslim inmates in Queensland jails after hearing one prisoner was having trouble observing Ramadan.
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Pauline Hanson suggested on Tuesday Muslim women were paid to wear the burqa after a Swiss academic backed her stance on the Islamic garment and said ‘the burqa is not Islamic’.
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Half a dozen Chinese men have managed to sail ashore onto Australian soil rubbishing claims from the Turnbull Government that asylum boats have been stopped.
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Germany’s Merkel Defends Open Door Migrant Policy
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday she did the right thing by allowing large numbers of migrants into Germany two years ago and that Europe hasn’t done enough to develop long-term solutions to the migration crisis since then.
A day after discussing the continuing influx of migrants with leaders from Africa and other European countries, Merkel tackled head-on an issue that once looked as if it would be a liability for her in Germany’s Sept. 24 election.
Recent polls suggest the chancellor’s popularity has returned to levels from before 2015, when the refugee crisis reached its peak. They show Merkel’s conservative bloc leading by 13-17 points over her main challenger, Martin Schulz of the center-left Social Democrats.
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Germany Agrees Migrant Deal With Egypt, Will Open ‘Refugee Reception Centre’ In Africa
Germany and Egypt have agreed on a deal aimed at stemming the number of migrants heading to Europe, including opening a ‘refugee reception’ centre in the African nation.
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Linosa — 100 Migrants Arrive on Island With Just 400 Residents
More than 100 migrants have arrived on the Italian island of Linosa which only has 400 residents.
Locals said they have been “abandoned” by the government with migrants now making up a third of the population.
The group of migrants, from Tunisia and Algeria aged between 18 and 24-years-old arrived in Linosa on two different boats on Sunday morning.
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Polish Official: EU’s Suicidal Migrant Policy is Killing Europe
Open border madness “like looping a rope around Europe’s neck”
Polish Minister of the Interior Mariusz Blaszczak has issued a stinging rebuke to the European Union, asserting that their “suicidal” open border policy is the equivalent of “looping a rope around Europe’s neck.”
The EU is trying to force the country to accept another wave of Muslim migrants and has initiated an infringement procedure against Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary for “non-compliance with their legal obligations on relocation”.
Following the latest terror attacks in Spain and Finland, Poland doubled down on its refusal to accept more migrants, with Pawel Soloch, head of the Polish National Security Office, pointing out the clear connection between a country’s Muslim population and its risk of suffering terrorist attacks.
Mariusz Blaszczak struck an even stronger tone in a letter he sent to the European Commission, accusing the EU of being complicit in the destruction of the continent.
“Paris, Stockholm, Brussels, Berlin, Manchester, Barcelona. How many more European cities must be attacked by terrorists to make the European Union wake up?” asked laszczak. “To make the European Commission finally admit that ‘blindly’ accepting everyone who reaches Europe’s coast is like looping a rope around Europe’s neck,” he added.
Blaszczak’s candid warning did not appear in the English version of his letter, meaning that it has received virtually no press attention.
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Swedish Church and Police Clash Over Migrant Deportations
The Swedish church and police have both criticised one another over the weekend following migrant deportations, with the church attempting to protect migrants whilst authorities raided a church-sponsored migrant camp in Skåne.
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Town Where Polish Couple Were Assaulted ‘Crime Capital of Italy’ Thanks to Migrants
The popular resort of Rimini has become the ‘crime capital’ of Italy, with drug trafficking being run almost entirely by North African asylum seekers, according to reports.
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‘You’ve Left us Alone’ Italian Minister Hits Out at EU Red Tape Threatening Migrant Crisis
EUROPEAN Union (EU) bureaucracy could hamper attempts to solve the migrant crisis, Italy’s Foreign Minister has warned.
Angelino Alfano said he fears new policies agreed at a high-profile summit in Paris yesterday could become “bogged down” in EU red tape.
The politician also condemned the bloc’s leaders, including Jean-Claude Juncker, for leaving Rome to cope with the humanitarian crisis alone.
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New California Bill Would Force Healthcare Workers to Use “Correct” Pronouns or Face Jail Time
In the West the biggest threat to free speech, seems to be the notion that hate speech is never acceptable, and saying hateful things should be punishable with fines or jail time. It’s so dangerous, because what is considered hateful is subjective, and once you let the government punish someone for saying one thing, it sets terrible precedent. If you can be punished for saying something controversial, then you can be punished for saying anything at some point in the future.
We’re already seeing the early stages of this trend play out when it comes to gender pronouns. In New York City, businesses and landlords can be fined up to $250,000 if they repeatedly refuse to call someone by their preferred pronoun. In Canada, you can be fined or even thrown in jail for deliberately using the wrong pronouns (in both cases, these laws are enforced by “human rights commissions”). And now in California, there’s a piece of legislation that would threaten to do the same thing for certain healthcare workers.
The bill, which passed the California state senate in May, has moved into the California state assembly as part of a slew of gender-based “anti-discrimination” laws designed to protect California residents who don’t believe they fall into the gender binary.
Titled the “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Long-Term Care Facility Residents Bill of Rights,” the new law would allow transgender individuals living in care facilities like nursing homes to use bathrooms in line with their preferred gender (not necessarily their biological gender), and would punish any caregiver who “knowingly” uses the wrong gender pronoun to refer to one of their patients.
Use “he” instead of “she” and you could face a $1,000 fine and up to a year in jail for gender-based discrimination and harassment. The law, which says “knowingly,” does not seem to identify a specific standard, leaving interpretation of motive up to authorities.
It also doesn’t even specify how many times someone can use the wrong pronoun before being hauled to court. It’s vague laws like this that will be the death of free speech in America. They don’t even need to threaten all forms of speech to spoil public discourse. These laws just need to make us nervous about saying the wrong thing in front of the wrong person, accidentally or deliberately, before people start to police their own thoughts and words.
This is just the beginning. If we don’t stand up to this trend of governments compelling their citizens to avoid saying offensive things, it won’t be long before we aren’t allowed (or are too afraid) to say anything of substance at all.
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The Weaponization of History and Journalism
Karl Marx said that there were only class truths. Today we have a large variety of truths: truths for feminists, truths for blacks, Muslims, Hispanics, homosexuals, transgendered, truths for the foreign policy community that serves the military/security complex, truths for the neocons, truths for the One Percent that control the economy and the economists who serve them, truths for “white supremacists,” itself a truth term for their opponents. You can add to the list. The “truth” in these “truths” is that they are self-serving of the group that expresses them. Their actual relation to truth is of no consequence to those espousing the “truths.”…
When a country has a population among whom there are no truths except group-specific truths, the country is so divided as to be over and done with. “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” The white liberal/progressive/left leaders of divisive Identity Politics have little, if any, comprehension of where the movement they think they lead is headed. At the moment the hate is focused on the “alt-right,” which has become “white nationalists,” which has become “white supremacists.” These “white supremacists” have become epitomized by statues of Confederate soldiers and generals. All over the South, if local governments are not removing the statues, violent crazed thugs consumed by hate attempt to destroy them. In New Orleans someone with money bused in thugs from outside flying banners that apparently are derived from a communist flag to confront locals protesting the departure of their history down the Orwellian Memory Hole.
What happens when all the monuments are gone? Where does the hate turn next? Once non-whites are taught to hate whites, not even self-hating whites are safe. How do those taught hate tell a good white from a bad white? They can’t and they won’t. By definition by Identity Politics, whites, for now white heterosexual males, are the victimizers and everyone else is their victim. The absurdity of this concept is apparent, yet the concept is unshaken by its absurdity. White heterosexual males are the only ones without the privilege of quotas. They and only they can be put at the back of the bus for university admissions, employment, promotion, and only their speech is regulated. They, and only they, can be fired for using “gender specific terms,” for using race specific terms, for unknowingly offending some preferred group member by using a word that is no longer permissible. They can be called every name in the book, beginning with racist, misogynist, and escalating, and no one is punished for the offense.
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Anyone You Know? A Handy List of Organizations That Take George Soros’ Money
Leftist billionaire George Soros is philosophical about his money. He doles it out to those who share his philosophy. Following is a partial list of beneficiaries of grants from his Open Society Foundations.
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Around 850,000 migrants in Turkey are now receiving cash handouts from the EU, and the programme aims to support 1.3 million migrants by the end of the year.
Since the beginning of the migrant crisis, there has been a surge of migrants from relatively safe nations, overtaking those from war-torn nations such as Syria. However, 73 per cent of illegal economic migrants crossing the Mediterranean are never sent back.
Does anyone else smell a rat here? Having ‘reception centers’ across the other side of the Mediterranean, or even in migrant-originating nations seems like a rational idea.
It is a foothold of the West in the Third World. Next thing China will be setting up ‘reception centers’, too, followed by Russia. The presence of the West is also a bait for Third World dictators to get a heap of money in bribes from us. ‘If you don’t give us money we’ll unleash the migrant flood.’ which Gaddafi had once threatened.
But more sinister is that over time these benign centers will morph into a web for IMMIGRATION CONTROL of large populations – and they will provide a skeleton structure on which the Globalists can erect their world wide migration flow networks, which may in the end be compulsory (for our own good of course – we’ll be sent ‘free of charge’ to wherever the globalists need workers!)
This is the seed of Globalist power within the nation state over the nation’s greatest resource – its population. Once the integrity of a nation’s population is breached, the nation state becomes a rubber stamp of the Global Cabal!
Recent polls suggest the (German) chancellor’s popularity has returned to levels from before 2015, when the refugee crisis reached its peak.
The chancellor also appeared unworried about voter blowback from eurozone bailouts, another issue that has drawn criticism in recent years but failed to ignite in the campaign.
What does this tell us about German society and German government? German elites are so far up themselves that reality is invisible. Do we recall the plight of the young Lautenberg (?) woman, raped and murdered by a Muslim ‘refugee’ and at her funeral money was collected for Muslim refugees? I wonder how many victims of Muslim and African rape, murder, drug crimes, theft etc will vote for the monster? What alternative universe are they living in?
But this has always been the case. Did the world ever resemble an overblown Wagnerian fantasy, which Hitler thought it was, or at least he was determined to destroy everything in it that didn’t conform to the halls of Valhalla? No! But he was able to convince the German schafe because at heart they have a docile, ‘follow the leader’, herd mentality towards the power of the State – clearly demonstrated by the adulation of Bismark and also evident in their abstract philosophizing about the State being more important than the citizen.
They are not part of the Anglo-democratic tradition. They fawn before authority! They are fawning in front of Battle-axe Brunhilda with her sniffy, sanctimonious airs.
But now we have a new twist to the pathology of the Teutons. Although they lost two world wars, following their defeat, with the aid of the Marshall Plan (ie the American taxpayer), they snuck around the corner, took a short cut trampling down everyone’s else’s economies, sprinted ahead and are now the dominant power in Europe – the one thing our fathers died to prevent!
And today they are the spear-head of globalism, which is set to break down national boundaries, overwhelm nation states with migrant invasions and economic crises – and they have the temerity to be ticked off that everyone doesn’t roll over and give thanks for the German boot – like their own sheep populations do!
The USA will never go against them. Britain just wants to get out from under their boot. Bring on Russia, I say!
“They are not part of the Anglo-democratic tradition. They fawn before authority!”
When I was growing up in Britain it was said that in Britain you could do anything unless it was specifically forbidden by law, whereas in Germany you could do nothing unless it was specifically permitted by law.
You would never see in Britain a bunch of youngsters waiting at a red light to cross the road at one in the morning with streets deserted for miles around, as I saw on a visit to Germany some years ago (and was told by my host that that behaviour was normal: the red light said stop, so they stopped, until it turned green).
I think such blind, unquestioning obedience is rather worrying in a people.
sailor, please come off it. Can you be caught stopping at a red light when there is no traffic around? In your car, I mean.
These cliches keep on being repeated for decades now.And go ask a person doing business with German partners if they appreciate when people stick to the rules, or contracts, at that.
The deployment of thousands of troops to the streets of major European cities is to continue with no near end in sight, as the Belgian army admits their own homeland defence mission will run at least until 2020.
‘THE LAMPS ARE GOING OUT ALL OVER EUROPE. WE SHALL NOT SEE THEM LIT AGAIN IN OUR LIFETIME.
British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, on the eve of Britain’s entry into the First World War. It applies today!
Interesting development ..The UK-Poland bilateral defence treaty to be signed later this year, UK Deputy Defence Minister Mark Lancaster told as he visits Poland
https://twitter.com/JakubKrupa/status/902791121524445184
I am surprised the UK is allowed to do this without its Master’s permission. Or is it jumping the gun on Brexit?
Oh you Brits :-))
You know long before Brexit Referendum what’s cooking in EU under Prussian boots..
It was just mater of time..
Benelux and Med Club..have no chance to survive without Teutons help..accept Dutch all they are bankrupt..
Frogs are already become a Caliphate…Bilateral Treaties are the only solution for economical survival against IV Reich..USA already join White Europe..Moving Headquarters U.S. European Command to Poland from Germany http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/305321,US-Army-planning-to-move-European-division-HQ-to-Poland-report
Nukes will follow….
Prussians are building “european Army” under theirs command http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/22/germany-is-quietly-building-a-european-army-under-its-command/
Guss who is going to be “meet canon” in their “all race Freedom” army ?
“canon meat”..
“meat cannon”
(as in “cannon fodder”).