The Fitch ratings agency has downgraded Venezuela from CCC to CC. The new rating means that a default on the country’s debt is now considered “probable”.
In other news, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is planning to ask the European Union to finance half the cost of his country’s border fence.
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Fitch Says Venezuela Default is Probable
The rating agency cut the crisis stricken Latin American sovereign from CCC to CC, saying that a default is now ‘probable.’
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100+ Dartmouth Faculty Defend Prof Who Called Antifa Violence ‘Legitimate Response’
C’mon, people, it’s just “self-defense!”
Over 100 faculty members at Dartmouth College are standing behind a professor who called the violence perpetrated by Antifa a “legitimate response,” Fox News reports.
Mark Bray is a professor of gender research (you can’t make this up) and author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook. Apparently, he has conducted multiple television interviews since Charlottesville giving a full-throated defense of the terrorist group and it didn’t sit well with his employer.
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Alert: A Massive Chemical Plant in Houston is About to Explode and Officials Can’t Stop it
Though natural disasters are inherently chaotic and unpredictable, there’s one thing about them you can always rely on. Whenever disaster strikes, you know it’s going to spawn more disasters. Hurricane Harvey is no exception. The storm hasn’t just flooded homes and business. It has caused fuel and food shortages, lootings, and will likely soon cause disease breakouts from people coming into contact with the toxic flood waters.
But that’s not all. Apparently the storm could lead to a massive industrial explosion. Since Monday a chemical plant in the town of Crosby (which is just outside of Houston), has been struggling to deal with the flood. The substances within the facility are unstable, and according to the CEO of the company that owns the building, they could burst into flames in the very near future.
“We have an unprecedented 6 feet of water at the plant,” Arkema President and CEO Rich Rowe said in comments made Wednesday. “We have lost primary power and two sources of emergency backup power.
“As a result, we have lost critical refrigeration of the materials on site that could now explode and cause a subsequent intense fire. The high water and lack of power leave us with no way to prevent it,” he said.
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Antifa: “No Trump, No Wall, No USA at All”
Masked terrorists are finally condemned by some Democrats
Even Democrat Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi & the liberal Berkley Mayor have done an about face on Antifa.
But Paul Ryan, McCain & Trump’s cabinet (Tillerson, Cohn, etc) still hold a grudge against Trump for criticizing leftist terrorism.
[Comment if they hate the USA so much, why don’t they emigrate?]
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CIA’s Plan for Corporate Censorship
The deep state is using social media to control the narrative
During the Clinton administration a plan was created to fight an “information war” and maintain “information superiority.”
That secret war, that Cold War against free speech, has now gone hot with corporate censorship.
David Knight looks at the origins of the omniscient, omnipresent surveillance state.
Will it become omnipotent?
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Houston Flooding: Two Explosions Take Place at Texas Chemical Plant
Fires and two explosions occurred early on Thursday at a chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, that lost power due to flooding caused by tropical storm Harvey.
Arkema, the industrial chemical manufacturer that runs the plant, later said eight more tanks at the facility could yet burn and explode.
“We believe that the safest thing to do is to allow the other eight containers to degrade and burn,” said Rich Rennard, an Arkema executive, at a press conference on Thursday morning. “These things can burn very quickly and very violently and it would not be unusual for them to explode.”
Arkema said it was notified at approximately 2am by the Harris County emergency operations center of two explosions and black smoke. A sheriff’s deputy was taken to hospital after inhaling smoke, and nine others drove themselves to hospital as a precaution. Harris County ordered the evacuation of residents within a 1.5-mile (2.4km) radius.
The plant makes organic peroxides used in the production of plastic resins, polystyrene, paints and other products. An Arkema statement said: “Organic peroxides are extremely flammable and, as agreed with public officials, the best course of action is to let the fire burn itself out. We want local residents to be aware that product is stored in multiple locations on the site, and a threat of additional explosion remains. Please do not return to the area within the evacuation zone.”
The blasts sent up a 30-40ft flame and a plume that the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), Brock Long, told reporters in Washington was hazardous. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality urged people in the area to stay indoors with their windows closed and air conditioners running, and to restrict physical activity.
In the largely rural area surrounding the exclusion zone, officials said they went door to door to explain the situation and called on residents to evacuate, but leaving was not mandatory. At the morning press conference, local fire officials said the explosions were small and produced no toxins…
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Journalist Mike Cernovich Says a ‘Coup is Underway’ In the White House
Journalist Mike Cernovich (above) says that a coup is underway and that president Donald Trump is being held on “house arrest.” Chernovich says he discovered this information after spending a week in Washington DC and talking to over 100 people.
“House arrest,” is how Trump’s life can be described now that Chief of Staff John Kelly had been introduced. According to Vanity Fair, it means Trump is “losing control of his West Wing.” But Chernovich claims it’s more about controlling the president and he said that it has been repeatedly described to him as a coup. “They keep the door to the Oval Office closed and Kelly doesn’t let any articles go through Trump until he’s reviewed them,” as Adrian Carrasquillo and Charlie reported at BuzzFeed.
Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow spoke to journalist Mike Cernovich on Breitbart News Daily and they discussed the Trump presidency. Cernovich says that Donald Trump is on “White House arrest” and a “coup is underway” as they speak. Cernovich has a running series of posts called ‘ Dispatches from Trumpland’that were at the heart of their discussion, and all about the coup.
The interview can be listened to below.
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Linda Sarsour Solicits Donations for Leftist Group Under Pretense of ‘Hurricane Relief’
Jihadist uses Harvey to funnel money to radical leftist group
On Monday, leftist icon Linda Sarsour used the tragedy of Hurricane Harvey to funnel money to a leftist political group with no obvious connection to the victims who were traumatized by the hurricane.
The site for Sarsour’s chosen charity [is] the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund, which is a project of the Texas Organizing Project Education Fund. The Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund is supported by the left-wing groups SEIU and MoveOn.org, among other groups. The Texas Organizing Project Education Fund’s parent organization, the Texas Organizing Project, was an organization morphed into by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the radical group that was allegedly implicated in voter-registration fraud, vote-rigging, voter intimidation, and vote-for-pay scams.
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Man Arrested in Villa Park, Charged With Fundraising for ISIS Fighters
A 31-year-old truck driver living in west suburban Villa Park was arrested by the FBIon Thursday on charges out of New York that alleged he raised money in 2015 to help send fighters from the U.S. to ISIS fronts in Syria.
At a hearing in federal court in Chicago, prosecutors asked that Dilshod Khusanov, a native of Uzbekistan, be detained as a flight risk and danger to the community.
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Nearly Half a Million Pacemakers Vulnerable to Hacking
Successful exploitation may allow a nearby attacker to control a pacemaker’s settings
Nearly half a million pacemakers are vulnerable to hacks that could be fatal for the device’s user, the Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) said Tuesday.
The exploits, which affect several pacemakers built by Abbott Laboratories, allow an attacker to issue commands to the device after compromising its authentication algorithm.
“Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow a nearby attacker to gain unauthorized access to a pacemaker and issue commands, change settings, or otherwise interfere with the intended function of the pacemaker,” an ICS-CERT advisory said.
Although the hack would require a highly-skilled attacker using radio frequency (RF) communications within inches of a victim, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Tuesday issued a security update for the more than 465,000 devices currently in use inside the United States.
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Southern Poverty Law Center Transfers Millions in Cash to Offshore Entities
Left-wing nonprofit pays lucrative six-figure salaries to top management
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a liberal, Alabama-based 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization that has gained prominence on the left for its “hate group” designations, pushes millions of dollars to offshore entities as part of its business dealings, records show.
Additionally, the nonprofit pays lucrative six-figure salaries to its top directors and key employees while spending little on legal services despite its stated intent of “fighting hate and bigotry” using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is perhaps best known for its “hate map,” a collection of organizations the nonprofit deems “domestic hate groups” that lists mainstream conservative organizations alongside racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and is often referenced in the media. A gunman opened fire at the Washington, D.C., offices of the conservative Family Research Council in 2012 after seeing it listed as an “anti-gay” group on SPLC’s website.
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Teen Accused of Fatally Stabbing Man in NYC Charged With Murder — NY Daily News
Gary Correa, 19, was identified as the prime suspect in the slaying two weeks before he was captured.
A teenager was busted Thursday for knifing a man to death outside a Brooklyn park, authorities said.
Gary Correa, 19, was hauled into the 94th Precinct stationhouse in Greenpoint and later charged with murder, police said.
Correa was fingered two weeks ago as the man who plunged a blade into George Carroll on Monitor St. by McGolrick Park on Aug. 18, cops said…
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Trump to Discuss Assange and DNC Hack in Rohrabacher ‘Rendevous’
Republican Rep Dana Rohrabacher has claimed he and President Donald Trump will “rendezvous” so he can relay information he received from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on the Democratic National Committee hack last year.
“It is my understanding from other parties who are trying to arrange a rendezvous with myself and the president, it’s being arranged for me to give him the firsthand information,” Rohrabacher told Sean Hannity on his radio show Monday.
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Twitter Caught Censoring Drudge Report Again
Tweet about Charlie Hebdo cover marked “sensitive”.
Twitter has been caught censoring tweets from an account that sends out news headlines from the Drudge Report yet again.
A tweet about the cover of Charlie Hebdo sent out earlier today was censored, with the words, “The following may contain sensitive material.”
Although the tweets were not censored in all regions, numerous individuals in America reported that they were blocked.
Back in March, Twitter censored virtually every tweet the Drudge Report account was sending out at one point, with some reporting that “hardly any tweets were visible”.
Earlier this month, Eric Trump accused Twitter of censoring his tweets about positive economic news.
“Why are my tweets about jobs and the economy being censored?” tweeted the son of the president.
The tweets were marked with the words, “This tweet is not available because it includes potentially sensitive content.”
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Update: Car Nearly Collides With Presidential Motorcade
Driver claims brakes failed in incident that prompted assassination fears
According to a report from a local outlet, no arrests were made, and the driver told police her brakes failed as she was exiting a nearby business.
“Springfield police said the woman’s brakes malfunctioned as she was coming out of the Bass Pro call center and warehouse on Kearney St.” reports Ozarks First. “Spokesperson Lisa Cox says the woman went over the embankment and ended up on the road.”
[Comment: At that exact instant…yeah, sure…perhaps a dry run… remember that close call in Russia when a car went “out of control” and was travelling head on to the Russian diplomats car.]
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War is Coming to the Streets of America
I remember it well. My first contact with my DHS “whistleblower” source was a middle-of-the-night conversation on May 25, 2012, some five-and-a-half years ago and well documented on this site and other sites, including Canada Free Press.
On that occasion, this source stated that “DHS is actively preparing for massive social unrest inside the United States. He then corrected himself, stating that ‘a civil war’ is the more appropriate term. Certain elements of the government are not only expecting and preparing for it, they are actually facilitating it.”
That was several months before the re-election of Barack Hussein Obama, the man of questionable origins, dubious bona-fides and an inherent, visceral hatred for everything that made America a once-great nation. Obama had to win re-election to complete his task of destroying our Representative Republic. He was handily re-elected without much viable opposition, giving him additional time to complete his duties as the front man for his Globalist puppet masters.
As my insider source informed me in the many additional contacts we had, “plans, tactics and timetables change, but the objectives of these Globalists don’t.”
Now, let’s fast forward to the present. In an upset the Globalists did not see coming, President Donald J. Trump was elected by the people of America in a fair and free election. This, however, was not supposed to happen. After her coronation, Hillary Clinton was supposed to continue the unfinished tasks of Obama, transforming the U.S. into a fully Communist society that would better integrate with a Global collective. Bernie Sanders, a socialist, was simply not radical enough for the Globalist puppet masters of the Progressive base, which is really a Communist platform.
In the wake of the loss, the Communist operatives immediately went to work to cast doubt on the legitimacy of our elections. Much like the signature Benghazi video, the Russian-Collusion narrative was birthed out of desperation and necessity. It relentlessly continues today as the Shadow Government is using the mechanisms of our institutions in the form of an “Independent” Counsel to further delegitimize our President and his office. The intended result here is to provoke a Constitutional crisis that will send our nation into a deliberate state of chaos.
[Comment: Highly recommended reading.]
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Canadastan: City Denies Permit for Anti-Sharia Rally; Parade Bans Float Protesting Sharia Law.
A free-speech rally did not take place in Grande Prairie on Saturday because the city cancelled its permit.
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Ezra Levant: I’m Being Blackmailed
Setting the record straight
Something else happened to me, for the first time in my life. And I don’t really know how to say it, other than to just say it. And I can’t believe it, but here goes.
I’m being blackmailed. I’m being extorted.
I’ve always known the rule that if you’re ever being blackmailed, don’t pay. I mean, even if you think you can pay a blackmailer, they’ll just ask for more a second time. But you’re scared. So you pay. I thought I could make the problem go away, so I actually paid. And then I paid again. But then they threatened again. Last night actually. So I haven’t slept.
So I called my lawyers this morning. And I’ve decided I’m done. I’m going to do what I should have done a few weeks ago, and just pull the trigger on myself, on my own terms. That’s the only thing that takes the power away from an extortionist.
It’s a pretty bad choice, isn’t it?
So I’m going to take the power away from them, and I’m going to tell you what happened, myself.
It happened in the UK. Just a bit of background — as you know, we’ve got this great guy on our team — Tommy Robinson! Smart, brave, tough. He used to be the head of the English Defence League, a rough group of guys, he even went to prison for a bit on a trumped up charge, just so police could take him off the streets. But Tommy actually quit the EDL, the organization that he founded, when it started to become racist. Tommy hates racism — I’ve gotten to know Tommy, and his best friend since childhood, Andre, who just happens to be black, for heaven’s sake.
Tommy has an important story to tell — about how Islam has changed his country; raped young girls, including his own cousin. He’s ringing the alarm — not just about Islam, but about politically correct police and media and politicians.
So we hired Tommy to do little videos for us — they were good, because he’s a natural. But boy were they crummy looking: bad lighting, bad webcam.
And then one day, a new video came in and looked amazing.
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AfD Set to Win First Far-Right Seat in Germany Since WW2
GERMANY is set to have its first far-right party elected to Parliament since the end of World War 2, if polls for the upcoming state elections are correct.
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‘Charlie Hebdo’ Cover Depicts Texas Harvey Victims as Drowning Nazis
“God Exists!”
The French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, has a cover praising God for sending a hurricane to Texas, and depicting victims of the flooding there as Nazis.
Here is the cover:…
The caption “Dieu Existe! Il A Noye Tous Les Neo Nazis Du Texas!” translates as “God Exists! He Drowned All Neo Nazis of Texas!
The magazine previously hit headlines in 2015, after its HQ in Paris was attacked by Islamic extremists following the publication of images depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
The artist who drew the latest cover, Laurent “Riss” Sourisseau, was injured in the attack.
The magazine was also recently criticized for publishing a magazine cover depicting the victims of the Barcelona attack, with a caption ‘Islam, religion of peace’
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Croatia: €145 Mn From the EU for Northern Railway
Strategic link, both at the regional and European level
(ANSA) — ZAGREB — EC confirmed today that the modernization and expansion of Krizevci-Dugo Selo railway line, in northern Croatia, will be financed by the European Union’s cohesion funds, media in Zagreb reported, citing the EU Commissioner for Regional policy Corina Cretu.
This is one of the most important railway links in Croatia, between the town of Krizevci and Zagreb, as part of the Mediterranean European corridor. At a regional level, this corridor links Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia, while on a continental scale, the railway starts in Spain and ends at Hungary’s external borders, thus connecting the Mediterranean Sea to Eastern Europe. The Commission has earmarked € 145 million, 85% of the entire investment, for the 38 km long railway, including six bridges.
This is currently the largest investment in infrastructure in Croatia, whose construction is already underway.
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Federalist EU on Move as Verhofstadt Pushes for ‘Transnational Vote’
EUROPEAN federalists have seized Brexit to push for ever greater integration, with France now backing “transnational” voting in a bid to create a Europe-wide constituency.
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Italy: Fresh Rimini Rape, Moroccan Arrested
Stopped before he cd complete attack
(ANSA) — Rimini, August 31 — There was a fresh attempted rape on a Rimini beach last night and a 34-year-old Moroccan national has been arrested, police said Thursday. Last week a Polish tourist and a Peruvian transsexual were raped by a suspected North African four-man gang. Police on this occasion manage to stop the naked man completing his attack, sources said. The man allegedly stole the woman’s cellphone and demanded sex in exchange for returning it. The woman’s partner then phoned the police. The couple was from Parma.
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Make Austria Great Again: The Rapid Rise of Sebastian Kurz
The conservative party that 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz has reshaped in his own image is polling in first place ahead of Austria’s national vote in October. A look at the country’s unprecedented election.
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Norway’s Right-Wing Government Ahead in Poll: Aftenposten
OSLO (Reuters) — Support for Norway’s right-wing government and its two centrist backers rose on Thursday in an opinion poll published by daily Aftenposten, indicating the coalition may be able to stay in power after the Sept. 11 election.
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Stockholm on Lockdown as Police Officer Stabbed in Neck in City Square
Major manhunt after second attack on police in matter of hours
A man was arrested for attempted murder in central Stockholm, the capital of Sweden Thursday morning after a police officer was stabbed in the neck while on patrol, the second attack against police in the city in a matter of hours.
The incident took place on the Medborgarplatsen on Södermalm, one of the Islands that makes up the historic center of the city and is known for containing a large number of older buildings.
A number of police patrols have been deployed to the city center, reports Swedish newspaper Expressen, and the city center including a local school was locked down.
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UK Top Anti-Terrorism Official: UK Home to 35,000 Extremists
The European Union’s top anti-terrorism official said Thursday that the UK is home to more Islamic extremists than any other country in Europe.
Giles de Kerchove, the EU’s counter-terrorism coordinator, said the UK is home to up to 35,000 Islamic extremists of which 3,000 are worrying MI5 — the UK’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, the Daily Express reported.
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The man who London authorities said deliberately drove into police officers near Buckingham Palace last week while carrying a 4-foot sword and reportedly yelling “Allahu Akbar” was charged with terrorism offenses Thursday.
Mohiussunnath Choudhury, 26, of Luton was charged with “engaging in conduct in preparation for giving effect to his intention to commit an act or acts of terrorism,” London police announced.
London police arrest man with four-foot sword near Buckingham Palace yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’
Police arrest 2nd man in Buckingham Palace terror incident
He is set to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court later Thursday.
Choudhury was detained Friday night after he allegedly drove at a police van near Queen Elizabeth II’s London residence, one of the city’s top tourist attractions. After he was stopped, the man reached for a 4-foot sword, officials said.
Police said the man repeatedly yelled “Allahu Akbar,” which means “God is Great” in Arabic…
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A terror suspect arrested outside Buckingham Palace armed with a 4ft sword is an Uber driver.
Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, 26, had planned to head to Windsor Castle, Berkshire, police believe.
It is thought his satnav sent him to a pub of that name in central London instead.
He was in court yesterday after allegedly driving at police outside the Palace.
They claim he reached for a 4ft sword, yelling “Allahu Akbar” when tackled by officers.
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Many Chakmas and Hindus Are Being Killed by Rohingya Islamist Outfit in Myanmar
Reflection of ISIS brutality surfaced in Rakhine…
Dhana Kumar | The aPolitical OnLine | New Delhi | Aug 31, 2017:: Very disturbing reports came in from Rakhine province of Myanmar that non-Muslim Chakmas are Hindus are being targeted by the Islamist Rohingya Millitants in a very brutal manner. Many of the ethnic people are killed by the Islamist Rogingya outfits and many of them are still missing.
As per the report of The aPolitical (27-08-2017)), at least six Hindus and three Chakmas were killed in Rakhine province in the attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), previously known as Harakat al-Yaqin, terrorists yesterday. The attacks on the Hindu family clearly show that the ARSA is Jihadi militant organisation.
The Chakmas (known as Daignet) were fleeing from their village, Aungthapyi, to Rangarzeti village when they were attacked by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army terrorists in northern Maungdaw Township. At least 20 Chakmas including women and children are still missing. Aungthapyi village is a small village with only 8 families. Fearing attacks from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, they were fleeing and attacked on the way.
The Irrawaddy has also reported in the incident: “In a separate attack, 20 ethnic Daignet—a sub-ethnicity of Rakhine—were besieged by around 100 Muslim insurgents with knives as they evacuated to Aung Zan village in Maungdaw on Saturday afternoon, according to a statement from the Office of the Commander-in-Chief’s Facebook page on Sunday. One man evaded the violence but the fate of the rest of the villagers is unknown, according to the statement.”…
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1 Chinese Coal Company, More Than 4X All US Coal Workers
The globalists don’t really care about the environment and this is proof
China was given exemptions & preferential treatment in the Paris Climate Agreement, but just 1 Chinese coal company employs more than the entire US workforce.
If we’re concerned about GLOBAL warming, shouldn’t we be concerned about the massive fossil fuel use of China?
Obviously it’s NOT about emissions, but about shutting down Western economies.
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U.S. Deploys B-1Bs, F-35s to Korea in “Unprecedented” Show of Force
A day after President Donald Trump finally broke his silence on North Korea after the isolated nation twice provoked its geopolitical adversaries in the span of just four days, Yonhap is reporting that the US sent four F-35B stealth jets and two nuclear-capable B-1B strategic bombers to train with South Korea’s F-15K fighter jets over the Korean Peninsula on Thursday in what it described as an “unprecedented” escalation of the allies’ military response to N.Korea’s provocations.
Thursday’s air-to-ground precision-strike drills were conducted a mock bombing drill, which simulated a surgical strike of key enemy facilities, over the Pilsung Range in the eastern province of Gangwon.
The “unprecedented” combined maneuver involved the F-35Bs from Japan and the long-range bombers based in Guam as well as a squadron of four F-15Ks, Yonhap said.
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New Film Exposes Takeover of South Africa by Communist Terrorists
A new documentary by the South African civil rights group AfriForum exposes uncomfortable truths about revolutionary Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC), including the fact that much of the Soviet-backed party’s violence was directed at black people who refused to fall in line. The film, Tainted Heroes, also shows the unfathomable brutality employed by the ANC, its terrorist wing, and the South African Communist Party that controlled it behind the scenes in the effort to seize political and economic power over South Africa. Especially noteworthy is the ANC’s brutal war against black organizations and individuals viewed as rivals.
As the United Nations-supported and Soviet-directed chaos and horror was unfolding — mass-murder of dissident blacks, savage torture of political enemies, the deliberate targeting of innocent women and children, and more — establishment media organs in the United States and across the Western world concealed the truth. And so, much of the real history of the ANC and its bloody “struggle” has remained carefully hidden from the public to this day. But now, with the new film, and the emergence of the Internet, the untold history of the ANC is finally coming out.
That myths about the ANC persist even today is obvious — many ignorant and uninformed people have little to no knowledge of the group’s real history aside from bogus platitudes and mythology. For instance, the ANC and its revisionist allies around the world like to pretend that the organization was merely involved in a “freedom struggle” against the apartheid system and the former white-led government. Mandela is often inaccurately characterized as a “political prisoner” who was jailed merely for his belief in “democracy” and his peaceful opposition to apartheid, a system of government-enforced segregation that was already being dismantled even before whites voted to surrender power in 1992.
But the film shatters many of the ANC myths and lies. Some of the most shocking testimony in the film comes from black victims of the ANC, as well as from ANC operatives who participated in the atrocities against both white and black civilians. Others shown in the film describe the brutal and deliberate murder of their families — including young children — by the ANC’s terrorist wing. Indeed, one former ANC operative interviewed and shown in the film describes how the ANC made a conscious decision to target even the wives and children of South African farmers for extermination.
[Comment: Recommended viewing (also oin youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXiuO5Guds4 ]
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Fleeing Through the Black Sea. Refugees Now Disembark in Romania
Syrians and Iraqis, crossing the Balkan Route, in search of new routes to Europe
The Emek 1 fishing boat is moored at the port, under a torrential rain, not far from the Maritimo Lounge Bar. It can carry a maximum of ten people. But on August 11 there were 69 — 30 men, 10 women and 29 children. All were Syrian and Iraqi migrants. That was the moment in which Romania understood that something new was happening.
The Black Sea owes its name to its perilous waters that are prone to sudden storms and surges. Ancient Greeks used to call it the “inhospitable sea.” It has never been an easy passage, and yet, people are still crossing it. From Turkey’s coasts it takes almost two days to reach Romania. The second barge was intercepted on August 20, when the lighter could be seen by the naked eye from the beach shore. There were 70 migrants on broad. Almost all were Syrian. “They were hungry, distressed, overwhelmed by a very hard journey,” said Claudia-Andreea Corbu, reporter of the local newspaper Replica de Constanta. “They were rescued, some were in need of medical care. But we do not know where they were taken. Romania is not a rich country that can care for this situation alone. People have begun to feel frightened.”
Since then, the same happened, except with even smaller boats arriving in the country. Three days ago, a woman from Aleppo pregnant in her eighth month made it to Romania. No one knows the exact number of people disembarking. It is not easy to get information from the Coast Guard. But there have already been seven male traffickers that have been tried before the Constance court in the summer. The last two were called Petros Petridis and Peter Spasov, a Cypriot national and a Bulgarian…
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The German Prosecutor’s Office claims that since the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, they have received 1,000 criminal complaints from around the country accusing German Chancellor Angela Merkel of high treason.
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Australia will be an ‘Asian country’ with a population of 100 million by next century and there’s ‘not a chance in hell’ we can stop it, according to Harvey Norman chief executive Gerald Harvey.
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Hungarian PM Orban to Ask EU to Help Foot Bill for Border Protection
BUDAPEST (Reuters) — Prime Minister Viktor Orban will ask the EU to finance half the cost of Hungary’s border defense measures to keep out migrants, an aide said on Thursday, days before a court ruling on Hungary’s rejection of the bloc’s migrant quotas.
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Italy: Man Shouts Allahu Akhbar at Police
Near Padua’s Scrovegni Chapel
(ANSA) — Padua, August 31 — A 22-year-old Gambian migrant was arrested Wednesday for shouting Allahu Akhbar (God is Great) at police and hailing the Barcelona van attack near Padua’s famed Scrovegni Chapel.
“We will kill you all,” said the migrant, who is under investigation for instigation to terrorism.
The chapel houses famous frescoes by Giotto.
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Muslim ‘Mediator’ Slammed for Remarks
A Muslim “cultural mediator” has weighed in on the recent violent rape of Polish tourists and a transgender woman in Italy with words that have prompted alarm and outrage.
Commenting on the situation, Abid Jee—a 24-year-old Muslim “cultural mediator” for an Italian migrant-reception cooperative — described rape as “a worse act, but only at the beginning, when the willy goes in, then the woman becomes calm and you can enjoy it like normal intercourse.”
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“Jacob’s New Dress”: ‘ Gender-Expansive’ Agenda Pushed in NC Schools
Young children are being sexualized earlier and earlier
It’s not just California pushing a transgender agenda on kindergarteners. North Carolina has a transgender agenda as well. Do you know WHAT your child is being taught? Do you know WHY they are doing this?
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An unnamed first-grade teacher at McCordsville Elementary School sent a letter home to parents on Aug. 23 saying a group of about five students had mentioned the words “God, Jesus and Devil” during a conversation in class, and that it wasn’t the appropriate place to be holding a theological debate.
“With McCordsville Elementary being a public school, we have many different religions and beliefs, and I do not want to upset a child/parent because of these words being used,” the letter read. “If you go to church or discuss these things at home, please have a talk with your child about there being an appropriate time and place of talking about it.”
[Comment: As long as the kids are not interrupting the teachers lessons it not the schools business to infringe upon the childrens right to talk about whatever they want to on their own time (eg recess, lunch).]
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Confused, Ashamed, Afraid: How Schools Bully Students
Public schools giving students a Brave New World agenda
$84 Million has gone missing in NYC schools. Also, Mary & Jesus have gone missing in a private Catholic school. What is the agenda behind all this waste and fraud?
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I think the EU bureaucrats head will explode about the Hungarian request. But in the meantime they throw billions to African countries….
At least their agenda (EU) will be more clear to their hapless citizens.
South Africa: As the United Nations-supported and Soviet-directed chaos and horror was unfolding — mass-murder of dissident blacks, savage torture of political enemies, the deliberate targeting of innocent women and children, and more — establishment media organs in the United States and across the Western world concealed the truth.
‘In a nutshell, this strategy entails that a revolution stands on two pillars: a political and violence pillar. The ANC learned that the efficient use of propaganda and violence for the purpose of creating terror was a real success element in this warfare strategy. They also learned that political rivals should be identified and destroyed.’
LOOK LONG AND HARD AND READ WHAT IS HAPPENING ON OUR CITY STREETS TODAY, AND WHERE IT WILL END. IT’S THE SAME PARADIGM.
Of course there is a trans agenda – they know how tiny their ‘tribe’ is, thus they are redoubling their recruiting efforts.
A user comment from a 888.hu about the pay the fence ask from Hungary:
This is the catch 22 here.
If they pay, they will make the Hungarian border protection legitimate, including the transit zones, everything, all the Hungarian laws made for this purpose. The conclusion from that, they can not bring any migrants into the country because the Hungarian laws will not allow it.
If they not pay for it, then there is no “solidarity” from their side, but not only that, there is openly no shared border defense either. If there is no such thing as “solidarity”, then why ask for accept migrants? Then there is no shared border control, then it belongs to the nation states. So in this case again, no way they could push migrants here.
To top that, we only asked half the costs, so “solidarity” is out of the game, otherwise we would have asked the whole amount. Now we only asked the EU to contribute their own Schengen border defense. The concept of national soverignty will not damaged from this, but become cheaper.
Because they mixed the border defense with “solidarity”, Brusselistan kicked a huge own goal. They will not able to wash themselves out of this, because both solution for them will be unpleasant either they pay or refuse it.
Excellent analysis, CrossWare.
Once again, Orban is backing the EU into their own self-imposed corner. Pauvre petite!
PS: Please visit VladTepes blog more often. You are much needed.
I will. Right now I am in the process moving back from Canada to my homeland: Hungary.
Australia. Gerry Harvey: ‘As a result, by 100 years from now Australia would have a population of 50 to 100 million people he said…’That’s going to happen regardless of what Dick Smith thinks, I think or you think, it’s just inevitable… Sometimes when you smell the inevitable you’ve got to go along with it,’ he said.’
I’m reminded of the Muslim ‘migrant counselor’ and his comment on rape – ‘then the woman calms down and you can enjoy it like normal’. Gerry Harvey, a multimillionaire who repeatedly complains that international internet shopping hurts the profits he makes from his overpriced stores, suggests when the rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it. No thanks, Gerry.