The Vatican is blocking an online petition that accuses Pope Francis of heresy over various moral positions he took in a document issued last year. Internet users in Vatican City can access the page with the petition, but they are prevented from signing it.
In other news, the latest polls indicate that Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) is far ahead of other parties. It has almost twice as much support as the opposition party Civic Platform.
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5 Stupid Arguments in Favor of the NFL Protests of the National Anthem
President Donald Trump called out former 49ers quarterback Colin Kapernick and other NFL players on Friday for protesting the national anthem, expressing what millions of football fans have already registered by tuning out.
But NFL officialdom, Hollywood, the mainstream media, and left-wingers in all quarters have distorted what he said, to the point where entire teams felt obligated to protest — something.
Here are five bad arguments driving the hysteria.
1. Trump attacked freedom of speech. The First Amendment does not generally extend into a private workplace, any more than it gives me the right to come into your house and hector you with my opinions. No one has ever told Colin Kapernick or anyone else not to march in protest, attend a demonstration, or hold a sign on a sidewalk. What fans object to is that he is protesting on the clock. He has no right to do that, and Trump is correct that NFL owners — if they had any spine — ought to tell the protesting players to get lost. If you doubt that, try a thought experiment: what would happen to a player who wore a Nazi armband to opening lineups? What about his freedom of speech?
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Apple Does Right by Its Users… And Advertisers Are Displeased
With the new Safari 11 update, Apple takes an important step to protect your privacy, specifically how your browsing habits are tracked and shared with parties other than the sites you visit.
In response, Apple is getting criticized by the advertising industry for “destroying the Internet’s economic model.” While the advertising industry is trying to shift the conversation to what they call the economic model of the Internet, the conversation must instead focus on the indiscriminate tracking of users and the violation of their privacy.
When you browse the web, you might think that your information only lives in the service you choose to visit. However, many sites load elements that share your data with third parties. First-party cookies are set by the domain you are visiting, allowing sites to recognize you from your previous visits but not to track you across other sites. For example, if you visit first examplemedia.com and then socialmedia.com, your visit would only be known to each site. In contrast, third-party cookies are those set by any other domains than the one you are visiting, and were created to circumvent the original design of cookies. In this case, when you would visit examplemedia.com and loads tracker.socialmedia.com as well, socialmedia.com would be able to track you an all sites that you visit where its tracker is loaded.
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Church Shooting Spree Stopped by Usher With Gun
Armed church-goer neutralized, held killer before police arrived
Police spokesman Don Aaron said the usher of the church — identified as 22-year-old Robert Engle — confronted the gunman and was pistol-whipped, receiving a “significant injury to his head.” At some point during the confrontation, authorities say the gunman then shot himself, but it’s unclear if it was intentional.
Aaron said the church usher, who has a valid carry permit, then went out to his car and retrieved his own gun, holding it on the gunman until police arrived. Police described him as a “extraordinarily brave.”
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This is going to backfire on the left in a major way. On Sunday, more than a hundred NFL players knelt during the playing of the national anthem. It was obviously an attempt to make some sort of public statement about President Trump, but it was an exceedingly poor way to go about doing that. Because our young people are not even taught about the importance of our national anthem and our national flag in school, most of these players didn’t even understand what they were doing. Our anthem is sung and our flag is proudly displayed prior to major sporting events for a reason. The truth is that our national anthem and our national flag are both symbols that directly represent our nation. In other words, when you show disrespect to the anthem or to the flag you are literally showing disrespect to the United States of America. So what these players did on Sunday was essentially to spit in the face of every single American citizen.
This is not just an American thing. All over the world it is well understood that respect for the national flag and other national symbols is not optional. What transpired at NFL games on Sunday will be broadcast all over the planet, and the rest of the world will be laughing at our national disgrace.
The very first NFL game scheduled on Sunday was held in London, and “dozens of players from both teams” knelt while the national anthem was being played…
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Exposing Differences on the “Deep State”
by Diana West
On September 15, I participated in a panel on “Exposing the Deep State,” hosted by Judicial Watch. Former Trump White House official Sebastian Gorka, the Washington Examiner’s Todd Shepherd, JW’s James Peterson, and I all delivered approximately 7-minute statements after which JW’s lead investigator, Chris Farrell, moderated a discussion. My written statement is here.
Not sure how much “Deep State” we were able to expose in one hour, although one thing that opened up was a bright shaft of daylight between my own and Sebastian Gorka’s approaches to the whole concept. To wit, Sebastian began his discussion seemingly negating the effort, “Exposing the Deep State,” by warning against “belief” in “conspiracy theories,” which “undermines clear-sighted analysis” — something he might like to pass along, for example, to those who prosecute organized crime on RICO conspiracy charges.
Here’s how he began:…
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How Barack Obama is Funding the “Resistance” Movement Against President Trump
Has there ever been a President in the history of the United States who worked as hard as Barack Obama to divide our nation, and to intentionally create chaos and hate amongst American citizens?
Wall Street might be shocked to learn it is helping bankroll the anti-Trump “resistance” movement that’s aggressively fighting policies it favors — including corporate tax cuts and the repeal of Obama-era banking and health-care regulations.
The Obama administration’s massive shakedown of Big Banks over the mortgage crisis included unprecedented back-door funding for dozens of Democratic activist groups who were not even victims of the crisis.
At least three liberal nonprofit organizations the Justice Department approved to receive funds from multibillion-dollar mortgage settlements were instrumental in killing the ObamaCare repeal bill and are now lobbying against GOP tax reform, as well as efforts to rein in illegal immigration.
An estimated $640 million has been diverted into what critics say is an improper, if not unconstitutional, “slush fund” fed from government settlements with JPMorgan Chase and Co., Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp., according to congressional sources.
The payola is potentially earmarked for third-party interest groups approved by the Justice Department and HUD without requiring any proof of how the funds will be spent. Many of the recipients so far are radical leftist organizations who solicited the settlement cash from the administration even though they were not parties to the lawsuits, records show.
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Scientist: ‘Catastrophic’ Lack of Sleep in Modern Society Killing Us
Linked to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, says expert
A “catastrophic sleep-loss epidemic” is causing a host of potentially fatal diseases, a leading expert has said.
In an interview with the Guardian, Professor Matthew Walker, director of the Centre for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley, said that sleep deprivation affected “every aspect of our biology” and was widespread in modern society.
And yet the problem was not being taken seriously by politicians and employers, with a desire to get a decent night’s sleep often stigmatised as a sign of laziness, he said.
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Spoiled Crony Capitalist NFL Ratings Plummet as Players Protest the Flag
NFL Commissioner says Trump disrespected the league… What about the flag?
David Knight gets to the bottom of the NFL kneeling controversy and a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition joins the show to discuss the failed War on Drugs. Also, a Hollywood actress will describe how she was ostracized for being a conservative in Tinseltown.
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Steelers Coach Didn’t Want Army Vet to Stand for Anthem
Villanueva, a former Army Ranger who served three tours in Afghanistan, was the only Steelers player to stand for the anthem
Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin indicated Sunday night that he did not want offensive tackle Alejandro Villanueva to stand for the national anthem, instead of sitting it out with the rest of his teammates.
Villanueva, a former Army Ranger who served three tours in Afghanistan, was the only Steelers player to stand for the anthem. While Villanueva stood in the tunnel, hand over his heart, the rest of the team remained in the locker room in protest of President Trump’s comments that players who kneel during the national anthem should be fired.
Tomlin said in a post-game press conference that he was looking for “100 percent participation” in whatever course of action the team took during the national anthem.
When asked by a reporter about Villanueva coming out for the anthem, Tomlin said, “Like I said, I was looking for 100 percent participation, we were gonna be respectful of our football team.”
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This Hulking Usher Stopped a Church Shooter From Killing More
This 6-foot-5 usher who tackled a church shooter may look like a superhero — but is instead crediting first responders and calling for prayers.
Robert Engle, 22, was injured after he “physically engaged” bodybuilder Emanuel Kidega Samson, 25, who shot seven worshippers, killing one, in a Tennessee church, police said.
Samson was shot in the chest during his struggle with Engle at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ, said Metro Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson, The Tennessean reported.
“He’s the hero. He’s the person who stopped this madness,” Anderson said during a news conference about the bloodshed at 11 a.m. Sunday.
The Sudanese immigrant entered the rear sanctuary doors and began “indiscriminately” shooting, killing Melanie Crow, 39, police said.
After being pistol-whipped, Engle went to his car to get his own weapon and held Samson — who had shot himself, apparently accidentally — at gunpoint until cops arrived, police said.
“I ask everyone to pray for the victims, family members of the victims, our church community. Please pray for healing. Also, please pray for the shooter, the shooter’s family and friends. They are hurting as well,” Engle said in a statement.
“The real heroes are the police, first responders and medical staff and doctors who have helped me and everyone affected, he added…
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Trump’s Regulatory Rollback Already Being Felt
The latest report from the American Action Forum (AAF), which has been tracking President Trump’s promise to deregulate American businesses, continues to be upbeat. In April it had found that the repeal or delay of regulations imposed during the Obama administration could lead to $86 billion “in net fiscal effects” for taxpayers as a result. The latest from AAF said that the trend downward in regulations and upward in freedom from them continues apace.
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Bergoglio, Politician. The Myth of the Chosen People
The pope of mercy is also the one of the anti-capitalist and anti-globalization “popular movements.” Castro dies, Trump wins, the South American populist regimes crumble, but he isn’t giving up. He is certain that the future of humanity is in the people of the excluded
by Sandro Magister
ROME, December 11, 2016 — It is evident by now that the pontificate of Francis has two linchpins, religious and political. The religious one is the shower of mercy that purifies everyone and everything. The political one is the battle on a worldwide scale against “the economy that kills,” which the pope wants to fight together with those “popular movements,” his definition, in which he sees the future of humanity shining.
One has to go back to Paul VI to find another pope wedded to an organic political framework, in his case that of the European Catholic parties of the twentieth century, in Italy the DC of Alcide De Gasperi and in Germany the CDU of Konrad Adenauer. To this European political tradition, which moreover has faded away, Jorge Mario Bergoglio is an outsider. As an Argentine, his seedling ground is another one altogether. And it has a name that has a negative connotation in Europe, but not in the pope’s native land: populism….
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Countdown Begins to Catalonia Independence Bid
MADRID — Barring an unexpected development, Spanish and Catalan authorities are headed for a head-on clash Sunday, when the regional government vows to stage a binding referendum on separating from Spain. The Spanish government insists the referendum is illegal and promises it won’t take place.
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French Conservatives Retain Senate Majority as Macron’s Party Suffers Setback
French President Emmanuel Macron’s La République en marche (LREM) party suffered a setback in Senate elections on Sunday as the conservative Les Républicains strengthened their hold on the upper house of parliament.
Initial results from the vote to renew 171 of 348 Senate seats were expected to leave the French president’s LREM party with only 20-30 senators, a severe blow to Macron’s hopes to increase the party’s seats in the upper house from the 29 it currently controls.
The LREM lawmakers currently serving switched over to the party when it was formed in April 2016.
French senators are elected by 76,000 local and national lawmakers, not the general public, which put LREM at a significant disadvantage because the party is not yet present nationwide. Moreover, many of the local officials voting on Sunday are unhappy with Macron’s plans to cut subsidies to regional governments — the new president has proposed some €300 million in funding cuts for local and regional authorities…
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Garment is ‘Compulsory’ For Girls in 59 Schools Across the UK
Islamic schools including those funded by the British government and private institutions are forcing children — some of whom are very young — to wear the Islamic Hijab as part of their uniform code.
The garment, which is designed to shield women from the lust of men, is heavily associated with conservative interpretations of the Islamic faith.
The revelations over children being forced to wear the shroud at school comes just weeks after a Transport for London road safety campaign featuring a child girl in a hijab was criticised and ultimately scrapped for “sexualising four-year-olds”.
The revelation comes from research by the National Secular Society, which has told the education minister that the hijab head covering is a compulsory item of school uniform for girls in 59 schools they are aware of across the United Kingdom, reports The Sunday Times.
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Germany’s Angela Merkel Has Less Support Than President Trump in U.S…
Headlines you won’t see in the U.S. media. According to the latest media report Angela Merkel has won reelection but only garnered 32.9% of the vote (2013 election was 41.5%).
This means in victory Angela Merkel has less support in Germany than Donald Trump has in the U.S. However, don’t expect that reality to stop the global leftist media from selling a narrative of optical success surrounding Merkel’s election. Too funny.
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Italy: Police Close in on Spanish Erasmus Student’s Rapist
‘Foreigner’ suspected in Rimini case
(ANSA) — Rimini, September 25 — Italian police said Monday they were closing in on the alleged rapist of a Spanish Erasmus exchange student in Rimini Friday night.
They said the man, who allegedly raped the student in a van near a nightspot, was a foreigner.
It was initially reported the alleged rape was committed by two Italians.
There has been a spate of rapes across Italy recently, several allegedly committed by migrants.
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Italy: Kissing Couple Attacked Outside Rome Mosque
Malaysian arrested
(ANSA) — Rome, September 25 — A 24-year-old Malaysian national was arrested Sunday night for allegedly attacking a couple who were walking hand-in-hand and kissing near an Islamic centre in Rome’s Esquilino quarter. The man reportedly told them “you can’t kiss in front of the mosque” before pushing the young woman and punching and kicking the young man. The assailant also allegedly attacked police who came to the scene. A Carabiniere was slightly hurt.
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Italy: Seven University Teachers Arrested Over ‘Rigged Exams’
Another 22 barred from academic posts, Fantozzi among 59 probed
(ANSA) — Florence, September 25 — Seven university teachers were arrested by Florence finance police on Monday in relation to a probe into the alleged rigging of exams, sources said Monday. Another 22 people have been barred from holding academic positions for 12 months in relation to the probe and 59 people are under investigation in total, including two-time cabinet minister Augusto Fantozzi, the sources said.
The probe was triggered by an alleged attempt by some teachers to persuade a researcher who was a candidate in an exam to qualify as a tax-law teacher to withdraw the bid in favour of a less qualified candidate.
The first researcher was allegedly promised a pass in the next exam.
Fantozzi, 77, served as economy and finance minister in the 1995-’96 Lamberto Dini government.
He went on to serve as foreign-trade minister for Romano Prodi’s 1996-98 administration.
The seven arrested teachers were placed under house arrest.
They are: Fabrizio Amatucci, of Naples’ Federico II University; Giuseppe Maria Cipolla, of the University of Cassino; Adriano di Pietro of Bologna University; Alessandro Giovannini of the University of Siena; Valerio Ficari of the University of Rome 2; Giuseppe Zizzo of the Carlo Cattaneo University of Castellanza in Varese; and Guglielmo Fransoni of the University of Foggia.
Education, University and Research Minister Valeria Fedeli said she wanted to “get to the bottom” of the case.
She said a sort of code of conduct to combat nepotism and corruption in Italy’s universities would be launched by the end of October.
Fedeli said her ministry had been working on it for months with Italy’s anti-corruption authority, ANAC, led by former top anti-mafia prosecutor Raffaele Cantone, one of the targets on a hit list of the notorious Casalesi clan of the Neapolitan Camorra mafia.
“The draft has been ready since the start of July,” Fedeli told reporters.
“It’s now at the consultation stage and we absolutely want to wind it up by the end of October”.
Fedeli added that this latest instance of corruption was related to university lecturing qualification procedures in 2012 and 2013.
Several probes over the years have highlighted high levels of nepotism and corruption in Italian university departments, whose powerful heads are known as ‘baroni’ (barons).
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Poland’s Ruling Conservatives Far Ahead of Opposition: Survey
Poland’s ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party is backed by 40.4 percent of voters, according to a new survey by pollster Estymator.
The opposition Civic Platform (PO) party is way behind, on 22.6 percent, the survey found.
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Sweden: Tourist Stuck in Supermarket After Toilet Visit
Police in Uppsala were called after a tourist accidentally got locked inside a supermarket on Sunday evening.
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Sweden Democrats Fend Off Sex Crime Cover-Up Accusations
A Sweden Democrat member of parliament has quit the party in protest after she said she had been silenced by party bosses after raising the alarm over sexual harassment and grouping by colleagues.
[Comment: This is ironic.]
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Vatican Blocks Petition for Pope Heresy Initiative
Petition cannot be signed from Vatican computers
(ANSA) — Vatican City, September 25 — The Secretariat for Communication of the Holy See has blocked access to a petition accusing Pope Francis of heresy in his 2016 document Amoris Laetitia — The Joy of Love, sources said Monday. The website with the petition, www.correctiofilialis.org, can be reached, but it cannot be signed from inside the Vatican.
The petition is linked to a 25-page letter by conservative Catholics delivered to the pope in August issuing him a “filial correction” — a measure they said was being using for the first time since the 14th century — over the document, which opens up the possibility of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics receiving communion.
Among the signatories is Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, the former president of the Vatican bank, the IOR. The letter accuses the pope of seven “heretical positions about marriage, the moral life, and the reception of the sacraments, and has caused these heretical opinions to spread in the Catholic Church”.
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Young Girls ‘Forced’ To Wear Hijab in State-Funded British Schools
Garment is ‘compulsory’ for girls in 59 schools across the UK
Islamic schools including those funded by the British government and private institutions are forcing children — some of whom are very young — to wear the Islamic Hijab as part of their uniform code.
The garment, which is designed to shield women from the lust of men, is heavily associated with conservative interpretations of the Islamic faith.
The revelations over children being forced to wear the shroud at school comes just weeks after a Transport for London road safety campaign featuring a child girl in a hijab was criticised and ultimately scrapped for “sexualising four-year-olds”.
The revelation comes from research by the National Secular Society, which has told the education minister that the hijab head covering is a compulsory item of school uniform for girls in 59 schools they are aware of across the United Kingdom, reports The Sunday Times.
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UN Clash With Son of Hamas Who Calls the PA the Enemy of the Palestinian People
GENEVA, Sept. 25, 2017 — A Hamas member turned humanitarian addressed the U.N. human rights council today and called the Palestinian Authority the “greatest enemy of the Palestinian people.” See full speech below.
“If Israel did not exist, you would have no one to blame; take responsibility for the outcome of your own actions,” said Mosab Hassan Yousef, whose father was a founding member of Hamas.
As recounted in the film The Green Prince, Yousef emerged as one of Israel’s prized informants, who disrupted lethal attacks and uncovered terror cells.
Yousef spoke today on behalf of UN Watch, a Geneva-based human rights organization, taking the floor in a meeting on alleged Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights. By contrast, the council has no special agenda item on Syria, Sudan, Iran, North Korea, or any other region.
“For good reason, Western democracies once again boycotted today’s debate,” said UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer.
“In the dystopian universe of George Orwell’s 1984, everyone was forced to undergo a daily ‘Two Minute of Hate’. In the dystopian universe of the UN Human Rights Council—where Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Cuba and Venezuela are members—the built-in schedule of every session includes one day dedicated solely to spewing hate against the Jewish state.”…
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Kurds Vote on Independence Referendum Despite Washington, Baghdad Threats
Kurds in Iraq went to the polls Monday in a referendum that was all but certain to result in a broad public support for independence from Baghdad, a vote their leaders say will begin the process of forming a new state but which would also force a showdown that could lead to the breakup of Iraq and a wider destabilization of the region.
It remains unclear how the Kurds will act upon the results of the referendum — whether they are ready to create and defend a new nation, by force if necessary as Baghdad has threatened, or whether they believe proceeding with the vote serves as a bargaining chip to exert greater influence over the Iraqi central government and their neighbors.
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A hijab-wearing Muslim stand-up comedienne jokes about suicide bombers to connect with her Australian audiences. Frida Deguise, a Sydney mum, says Australians aren’t ready for her.
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Susan Carland has revealed details about her relationship with television presenter Waleed Aly. She shared how the couple have gone from strength to strength in their 15 years of marriage.
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Australians have been left outraged after it was announced 70 children of ISIS fighters could be returning to the country as the terror organisation begins to disintegrate.
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Total Number of Americans Hurt in Cuba Sonic Attacks Now at 25
HAVANA, Cuba — According to sources familiar with the investigation, the number of Americans hurt in the alleged “sonic device” attacks has now reached 25, with some cases still pending ongoing testing, which could increase that number.
Sources who want to remain anonymous also revealed new information, telling Local 10 News reporter Hatzel Vela some of the incidents happened inside the embassy itself and at multiple Havana hotels, including the famous Nacional Hotel.
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Backlash at Merkel: Migrants Policy Has Caused Divisions and Rise of AfD, Says Schulz
MARTIN Schulz conceded defeat in the German state elections with an admission that the country’s open-door immigration possibly had divided the nation and led to the success of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
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Hungary Takes EU to Task, Defends Poland
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Poland’s Prime Minister Beata Szydlo met in Warsaw last week. During a joint press conference, they said they remain fully opposed to the European Union’s migrant policies.
“We accept that some countries have become immigrant countries,” said Orban. “But we don’t want to be [like] them and we want them to accept this. But they want us to become like them. We don’t want a mixed population, as has been created in the countries to the west of us. We are looking for different solutions and please respect it.”
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by Srdja Trifkovic
German general elections are usually rather boring affairs, with polite debates, disagreements over minor issues and predictable outcomes. The one last Sunday was an exception. It was interesting not because the incumbent, veteran “center-right” Chancellor Angela Merkel (a nominal Christian Democrat), and the “center-left” opposition leader Martin Schulz (a nominal Social Democrat) differ on any major issue—they don’t—but because the cosy bipartisan idyll is over. The barbarians are inside the gates. The AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) has entered the Bundestag with 12.6 percent of the vote, which will translate into over 90 deputies.
This is an immensely important development. The AfD is the first authentically opposition party to enter the diet since the Federal Republic came into being in 1949. It is the first party which represents millions of Germans who are sick and tired of not being allowed to express their views on the meaning of being German, who no longer want to be told how to think about their culture, identity, history, ancestors . . .
For over seven decades since the Untergang it has been first desirable, then necessary, and ultimately mandatory for a mainstream German to be ashamed of his past. De-nazification of the early occupation years had morphed into de-Germanization. An integral part of the final package is to subscribe to the postmodern liberal orthodoxy in all its aspects. It must include the willingness to welcome a million “migrants” in a year (with millions more to come if the Duopoly so decides — and Merkel and Schulz both agree that there must be no upper limit.) The AfD begs to differ, but when its leaders make a reality-based statement like “Islam does not belong to Germany,” or a common sense one like “We don’t need illiterate immigrants,” they are duly Hitlerized.
The result, on September 24, was a revolt of the deplorables. It did not amount to an uprising yet, but nothing will stay the same. The Social Democrats (SPD), having suffered the worst result in history with twenty percent of the vote, will go into opposition. Merkel’s CDU-CSU lost 8 percentage points to capture under one-third of all votes. She will continue to rule by forming an uneasy coalition with the Free Democrats—who are back from the cold—and the Greens (the “Jamaica coalition,” named after the parties’ colors of CDU’s black, FDP’s yellow and green), but her power and authority are fatally undermined…
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Poland, Hungary Leaders Persist With Anti-Migrant Policies
Szydlo, Orban meeting in Warsaw
(ANSA) — WARSAW — The leaders of Poland and Hungary insisted Friday that they will stick to their anti-migrant policies in defiance of the European Union and warnings of sanctions.
The refusal by either country to back a plan designed to ease the pressure on countries such as Greece and Italy has put them at odds with the EU’s executive Commission, which has opened up infringement procedures against the pair.
Following a meeting with his Polish counterpart in Warsaw, Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, said EU nations have to accept the fact that neither his country nor Poland want to be “immigrant countries.” Poland’s Prime Minister Beata Szydlo echoed Orban’s position and said security issues were the main considerations, and that their policies are “right.”
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Polish Border Guards Catch 120 Illegal Migrants in Macedonia
Polish border guards have caught some 120 illegal migrants in Macedonia, Poland’s interior minister has said, adding that European Union policy was worsening the bloc’s migration problem.
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Suspected TN Church Killer a Pro-Islamist, Black Power Sudanese Migrant
Media hiding identity of narrative-shattering mass shooter
The Antioch, Tennessee church shooter is an immigrant from Sudan and black power radical with a history of sharing pro-Islamic and anti-Western posts on social media, a review of his Facebook and Twitter accounts reveals.
Before 25-year-old Emanuel Kidega Samson opened fire on churchgoers in Antioch, Tennessee today, he shared a variety of Black Power and anti-police propaganda on his personal Facebook page. In addition, he shared a number of pro-Islamic posts, including a video in which a Muslim activist defends Sharia law.
Moreover, Samson frequently shared anti-west posts, at least one of which praised Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe’s wealth confiscation efforts.
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Clergy Denounce ‘Satanic’ London Fashion Week Show Held in Church
Several leading UK clerics have condemned a London fashion show featuring models dressed as devils and vampires and held in a historic Christian church, calling the event “blasphemous.”
Heavily made-up models sporting Satanic symbols such as horns or upside-down crosses paraded down the main aisle of St. Andrew Holborn church in Central London last week. The apse of the 1,000-year-old church had been draped with demonic imagery, including pentagrams, goat heads, inverted crosses, all-seeing eyes and other occult symbols.
The former Anglican Bishop of Rochester, the Right Reverend Michael Nazir-Ali, said the demonic theme of the show was “not acceptable” and could lead people “to areas where we don’t want them to go.”
“Christians will be outraged. This was not necessary to do. In the sense that Christ’s name is being dishonoured, it is blasphemous,” he said.
Churches should not do anything that “dishonours Christ or contradicts the Christian faith,” Nazir-Ali said. “That’s the rule of thumb that they should follow. They have to be very discerning about that.”
The bishop also suggested that the church had not exercised proper discretion when it accepted the booking, and called for an investigation into the matter.
In a statement, the Diocese of London apologized for the mistake, noting that it had always supported London Fashion Week.
“We took this booking in good faith and were not aware of the content or design before the show took place,” the statement said. “This was obviously a mistake, and the content of this show does not reflect the Christian faith of the Church.”
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Research Into ‘Non-PC’ Transgender Surgery Regret Blocked by British University
A British University has blocked an academic studying a reported surge in people regretting transgender surgery, claiming a “social media” backlash to the “politically incorrect” research could harm the institution.
Bath Spa University stopped Psychotherapist James Caspian from examining cases of people who had surgery to reverse a “gender reassignment” after finding they regretted the decision.
Mr. Caspian, 58, a councilor of 16 years who has specialized in and worked with transgender issues for years, slammed the institution for failing to respect “the most basic tenets of academic and intellectual freedom of inquiry”.
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On the Vatican blocking the petition of Heresy against the anti-Pope Francis: At some point those in the Vatican will weigh up their options, which are diminishing by the day, as to what to do with that petition – which by all accounts is quite legitimate in all its complaints and outlining grievances.
If they choose to stonewall then the rumbling against this Jesuit of the secret order, the Black Pope, will grow from a rumbling into a crescendo that will in all eventuality bring the Catholic Church and the controlling influence of the Vatican into disrepute.
And there are millions of Catholics who would seek retribution, divine or otherwise!
There is only one course of action that the Vatican can now take to protect itself and its age old secrets that the Vatican has been at great pains in keeping secret for millenia from the rest of us, and that is to offer Francis as a scapegoat for its – the Vatican’s- misadventures as part of the Globalists and their NWO ambitions.
I will never forget the day in the car when I learned on the radio that the Cardinals voted in a Jesuit as Pope. My heart was broken, and I knew he would bring shame on our Church and disappoint me personally, and that is how I have experienced his reign to date.
But not just any Jesuit Gretel. Francis is of the higher order of Jesuits, similar in structure to the Masons and the attainment of the 34th degree and beyond. Look up the Black Pope – that will provide you with what Francis is all about.
Black pope? Ooohhy Gevult! I don’t really want to know what a ” black pope” is– sounds terrible, whatever it is.