Poland’s Deputy Justice Minister Patryk Jaki announced that Warsaw wants the extradition of the suspects in the gang rape of a Polish woman and the beating of her husband in the Italian resort town of Rimini. Meanwhile, the Polish foreign minister called for talks with Germany on WW2 reparations, using a proposed initial figure of one trillion dollars.
In other news, an Iraqi asylum seeker was arrested after attempting to rape a woman who was hiking in the Alps in southern Germany.
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30 Shootings in Chicago Over Labor Day
The city of Chicago saw 30 people shot between Friday and Monday morning, with four fatalities and 26 casualties in hospitals around the city.
Chicago’s notorious gun violence has brought the city at least 435 deaths in 2017, ABC 7 Chicago reported Monday. Disturbing violence has marred several other holiday weekends this year, including Independence Day, Memorial Day, and Father’s Day, which each saw more than 50 shootings.
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Antifa is Playing Right Into the Hands of a Burgeoning Police State
Personally, I try to keep things simple and think it’d be wise if others did did the same for the sake of our future. I believe offensive violence is almost never justified, while self-defense almost always is. The purported objective of any group is irrelevant. The worst tyrants in the world always claim to be working for “the people” as they lock people up in gulags or concentration camps to torture and kill them. Ends don’t justify the means. The means are everything.
The reason I’m writing this post is to demonstrate that antifa is playing right into the hands of those who wish to further the objectives of a burgeoning police state. They provide fuel for unconscious people on the other side of the political spectrum who see their thuggishness and then squeal to the government to “do something about it.” If I didn’t know better, I’d assume antifa were probably a bunch of deep state operatives trying to convince the groveling public to cry out for a strong hand government solution. Since I have no evidence to back this up, I’ll just go ahead and call them useful idiots.
Importantly, it’s not just those dressing up like ninjas punching people for wearing polo shirts who are the only useful idiots. Those on the “right” begging the government to call them terrorists are just as foolish. As I tweeted yesterday:
Don’t use words the government wants you to use.
The government wants us to start calling each other terrorists.
Don’t do it.
-— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) August 31, 2017
For more on that angle, see my recent article titled: Stop Asking the Federal Government to Label Groups You Dislike ‘Terrorists.’
Unfortunately, it seems this train has already left the station. The results for those of us who love freedom might not be pretty.
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California: Catholic School Removes Statues to Avoid Offending Muslim Students
Removal of a number of statues and other smaller Catholic icons from the campus of San Domenico School in San Anselmo has raised concerns among some parents.
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Expert: Here’s How Antifa is ‘Terrorism’
WASHINGTON — An expert on terrorism says there’s really no surprise that Antifa’s campaigns should be described by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI as terrorism.
Joseph Giacalone, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and a retired NYPD sergeant, explained to WND how multiple dimensions of Antifa actions qualify.
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Obama’s the Most Expensive Ex-President for Taxpayers
Ex-President Barack Obama will be the costliest former commander-in-chief, with taxpayers shelling out $1,153,000 for his expenses in 2018, according to the Congressional Research Service.
His budget request is more than $100,000 higher than George W. Bush’s for next year and nearly $200,000 more than Bill Clinton’s expected budget.
George H.W. Bush is slated to get $942,000, while Jimmy Carter will get less than half that, at just $456,000, according to a memo prepared by the service, which was first reported by the Washington Times.
All living former presidents get an office, expenses and, in some cases, an annual pension payment, because of a 1950s-era law enacted after President Harry Truman turned out to be broke after leaving the White House.
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Petition of White House to Declare Soros Terrorist Tops Threshold
More than 100,000 US citizens have signed a petition requesting the White House to declare a currency rogue, George Soros as a domestic terrorist.
The Washington Post reported that the petition had been published in the We The People section of the country’s administrative center on August 20 which required more than 100,000 signatures within 30 days for official feedback.
However, early Saturday afternoon, the petition was digitally signed over 110,000 times.
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by Robert Gore
If you strike the king but do not kill him, by definition your position is weak.
There has never have been a deeper deep state than the Soviet Union’s. It controlled everything: the military, intelligence, the judicial system, the rest of the government, the press, and the economy. It operated in shadows and darkness; there was no loyal opposition or media to shine the occasional light. Yet at 7:32 p.m., December 26, 1991, the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin and replaced with the Russian flag. The Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union’s declaration number 142-H recognized the independence of the Soviet republics. Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned, handing power to Boris Yeltsin. The Soviet Union and its deep state were no more.
There are still lessons to be generally recognized from the fall of the Soviet Union. First and foremost: command and control doesn’t work. That’s a lesson US commanders and controllers and their media and academic fellow travelers ignore at their peril. They cling to their cherished vision of American life directed from above, with the infamous Deep State at the apex of the power pyramid, the ultimate string pullers. Recent maneuvers, however, suggest a Deep State so tangled in its own strings that any attempt to free itself will only make the situation worse.
A deep state operates submerged from public view. The US deep state had to emerge in its effort to topple Trump, an emergence that screams weakness (see “Plot Holes”). The ineptitude of the effort made the weakness that much more apparent. A claim that Russia had hacked the Democratic Nation Committee (DNC) last summer and then used Wikileaks to disseminate what it had hacked, all in collusion with Donald Trump’s campaign, was the cornerstone of this maladroit coup. It should have raised more eyebrows than it did that the DNC refused to turn over its servers to the FBI for analysis, and that the only confirmation of the hacking claim came from a contractor, Crowdstrike, which had numerous conflicts of interest, including that it was paid by the DNC…
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‘Apartments in Containers’ For Danish Students Set for Approval
Permission for converted containers to be used as cheap accommodation for students is expected to be granted as Copenhagen Municipality begins its budget negotiations.
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‘Brexit Will Rip a Hole in EU Budget’, German States Terrified of Cuts
Delegates from the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (MWP) are in Brussels for a series of talks and cash is high on the agenda.
MWP Social Democrat spokesman Thomas Krüger said: “We delegates want to hear where cuts will have to be made in future, and what possible reductions in the structural aid could mean for the north-east.”
Mr Kruger said Brexit would “rip a hole of around €10billion (£9.2bn) into the EU budget” and that a total of €28billion (£26bn) had been reserved for structural support in the German states until 2021.
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Brexit — EU Would be ‘Stupid’ To Punish UK and Risk Bloc Break Up, Says Geert Wilders
The founder and leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) hailed Britain’s decision to leave the Brussels bloc and warned negotiators to give Britain a “fair deal” or risk the breaking up the EU.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend, the politician said things would get “even worse” for the European Union if it sought to “punish the British for Brexit”.
He said: “What I tell my friends here is that the European Union would be very stupid to make it too tough [to agree a] deal for the British.
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Dutch Police Struggle to Catch ATM Bombers: Report
The Dutch police struggle to catch ATM bombers, newspaper AD reports based on its own investigation. Last year there were 79 ATM bombings in the Netherlands, but only two perpetrators were convicted, according to the newspaper. Two court cases against groups suspected of 11 ATM bombings, are still ongoing.
The number of ATM bombings rose from 56 in 2015 to 79 in 2016. Last year a total of 40 suspects were arrested. Many of them were connected to ATM bombings in Germany, where ATMs are less well protected. Germany saw 61 ATM bombings in the first half of this year, according to AD.
The National Police acknowledged that the majority of ATM bombings go unsolved.
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Four Arrested Over Gang Rapes in Italian Seaside Town
Italian police arrested a man on Sunday suspected of involvement in two rapes last week.
The man, a 20-year-old, was the last of the gang of four to be arrested and the only adult among the suspects.
“The last of the suspected Rimini rapists has been located and arrested,” said police in a statement on Monday morning. “The man was captured by police officers on a train to Milan from Pesaro.”
Two other members of the gang, who are brothers aged 15 and 17, handed themselves into police in connection with the rapes on Saturday.
The 20-year-old arrested on Sunday has been identified as a Congolese national who arrived in Italy as an asylum seeker in 2015. Following the rejection of his request for asylum, he was granted permission to stay in Italy until 2018 on humanitarian grounds, according to Italian media reports.
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France: Irate Customer Shoots up Marseille Kehab Shop Because Service Too Slow
A customer who got into an arguement with the owner of a kebab shop in Marseille after complaining of slow service returned a short time later and sprayed the restaurant with bullets, injuring one worker.
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Greece: Makeshift Mosques on Police Radar
A confidential report drafted by the Greek Police (ELAS) and seen by Kathimerini reveals that more than 80 makeshift mosques in the broader Athens area have come under surveillance.
The report goes on to suggest that particular attention is being paid to several of these mosques, due to evidence that certain imams and followers have expressed views applauding the so-called Islamic State for the terrorist attacks it has orchestrated in different parts of Europe.
ELAS has been monitoring spaces used by the country’s Muslims for worship since the start of the refugee crisis in 2015, when evidence emerged that Islamic militants were making their way into Europe after training in ISIS camps in the Middle East by posing as asylum seekers.
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Italy: Top Court Rules Electricity Not ‘Essential for Life’
Illegal connections punishable, not justified by poverty
(ANSA) — Rome, September 4 — Italy’s supreme Cassation Court ruled Monday that electricity is not considered “essential for life” and thus illegal connections are punishable even if those who steal energy claim they are doing so because they are in a “state of need” and can’t afford to pay. The court upheld the conviction of a woman in Puglia for stealing energy. The woman was unemployed, with a pregnant daughter, and had been evicted. The court ruled that lack of electricity doesn’t endanger life. “The lack of electricity did not pose any current danger of serious damage to the person, since it is a good that is not essential for life,” the Court said.
The woman’s original sentence had been slightly reduced by the Lecce Court of Appeals in 2016.
The Cassation Court sentenced the woman to pay a 2,000-euro fine for the “pretextuality” of her appeal.
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Italy: We’ll Seek Regeni Truth in Cambridge Too — Alfano
Cantini will cooperate with British ambassador to Cairo on case
(ANSA) — Rome, September 4 — Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano told parliament Monday that the search for the truth about the murder of Giulio Regeni will include “the British institution for which Giulio was conducting his research” — Cambridge University. Alfano told a joint session of the Lower House and Senate foreign affairs committees that the ambassador to Cairo, Giampaolo Cantini, “will have a relationship of cooperation with his British colleague in the Egyptian capital” over the Regeni case when he takes up the role later this month.
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Italy: Right Can Win With Mattarellum — Salvini Tells Berlusconi
LN warns of chaos with proportional representation
(ANSA) — Rome, September 4 — Northern League (LN) leader Matteo Salvini said Monday that the centre right can win next year’s general election if Forza Italia (FI) chief Silvio Berlusconi pushes for a return of the Mattarellum election law.
“Berlusconi says that he wants to win and believes in the unity of the centre right. I make an appeal to him — go from words to deeds and support a majoritarian model like the Mattarellum and convince (Democratic Party leader Matteo) Renzi that it will be chaos with proportional representation,” Salvini told ANSA. There are fears the next Italian general election may be inconclusive with the current systems for the Lower House and the Senate.
The Mattarellum was approved in 1993 and was in force until it was abolished in 2005.
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Italy: M5S Senator Airola Attacked in Turin
Reportedly assaulted, robbed by two North Africans
(ANSA) — Turin, September 4 — Alberto Airola, a Senator for the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), was attacked in Turin overnight, sources said Monday.
Airola received medication at the northern city’s San Giovanni Bosco for a fractured jaw and other injuries.
He was reportedly beaten by two North Africans who stole his mobile phone.
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Macron’s Approval Rating Nosedives to 30% in Latest Poll
Fewer than one in three French voters are satisfied with the performance of Emmanuel Macron, whose popularity has rapidly collapsed following overwhelming presidential and parliamentary wins earlier in the year.
Only 30 percent of those surveyed by YouGov in a poll commissioned by Huffpost and CNEWS said that they were content with the performance of the 39-year-old president, while 54 said they were not. A mere 5 percent stated that they were “very happy” with Macron’s first 100 days in office, while 28 percent said they were “very unhappy.”
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Netherlands: Anti-Islam Protesters Removed From Amsterdam School’s Roof, Arrested
The police removed two balaclava-wearing men from the roof of the new Islamic high school in Amsterdam Nieuw-West. The two men were protesting against the school by hanging banners from its facade and shouting anti-Islam slogans like “salafism, terrorism”. Boh were arrested, NOS reports.
A banner hanging from the school’s facade read: “Who sows Islam, will harvest Sharia”. Another that was removed read: “Salafism is not welcome”. According to the banners, the men are from a group that calls itself Het Indetitair Verzet.
A handful of pupils were at the Cornelius Haga Lyceum for an introductory day on Monday, according to Het Parool. Various Amsterdam politicians were furious about the action. GroenLinks faction chairman Rutger Groot Wassink condemned the action on Twitter. “Get those dangerous madmen away from there quickly”, he tweeted. And: “Demonstrate, do, occupy. My best to you. But leave children out of it. School must be a safe, nice place. Identitair idiots.” PvdA city councilor Sofyan Mbarki also responded on Twitter. “Those balaclavas must get off the roof quickly.”
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Norwegian Farmers Suspect Sheep Thieves After Unexplained Disappearances
Farmers in Norway’s Aust-Agder region suspect sheep thieves are on the loose after several of the animals disappeared without any natural cause.
The sheep farmers fear the sheep have been shot and then stolen, reports broadcaster NRK.
Farmer Sivert Svane, who has lost three of his flock, told the broadcaster that he had reported the suspected thefts.
Farmers on Aust-Agder’s archipelago have seen their sheep ‘fished’ away using fishing equipment, the farmer told NRK.
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Opinion Poll for Norwegian Election Points in Favor of Conservative Government
A survey, conducted by Kantar TNS, showing an extension of Høyre’s lead means there could potentially be a majority for the centre-right parliamentary bloc after the election on 11 September.
The four parties in the Conservative bloc would get 87 seats in parliament, if the poll is correct.
The left-wing parties would get 78 seat.
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Poland Calls for WWII Reparations Talks With Germany, Mooting Trillion Dollar Payment
Poland and Germany should hold “serious talks” about World War II reparations, the Polish foreign minister said Monday, after his colleague said the figure could be as high as one trillion dollars.
“We should sit down to serious talks with the Germans and together think about how to deal with the issue” of reparations, Witold Waszczykowski told the local commercial RMF radio station.
“How can we deal with the fact that Germany’s 1939 attack (on Poland) and unresolved post-war issues still cast a shadow on Polish-German relations?” he said.
Warsaw was “preparing” its formal position on WWII reparations, Waszczykowski said, without specifying when it would be made public.
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Poland to Seek Extradition of Gang-Rape Suspects
Polish woman raped on Rimini beach, partner beaten
(ANSA) — Rome, September 4 — Poland’s Deputy Justice Minister Patryk Jaki said Monday that Warsaw will seek the extradition from Italy of four people arrested for the gang rape of a Polish woman on a beach in the Italian seaside resort of Rimini. On Sunday Italian police arrested a 20-year-old Congelese asylum seeker suspected of being the head of gang that conducted rapes in the Italian seaside resort of Rimini. Guerlin Butungu, 20, is suspected of heading the group that raped a Polish tourist on a beach last month after brutally beating her partner and then raping a Peruvian woman a little later. Three other members of the gang, all minors, have also been arrested in relation to a case that has shocked the nation.
Butungu, who arrived in Italy in 2015 after being rescued at sea, denied involvement when questioned by investigators He was captured on a train on Sunday and a judge is set to rule whether to validate the arrest on Monday.
A Bologna prosecutor will request jail for the three minors suspected of being part of the gang at a separate hearing on Tuesday, sources said. The suspects, two Moroccan brothers aged 15 and 17 and a 16-year-old Nigerian, are currently being detained at a reception centre.
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Poland to Seek Extradition From Italy of Gang Rape Suspects
WARSAW, Poland — Poland will seek the extradition from Italy of the four suspects in the gang rape of a Polish tourist on a beach, Poland’s deputy justice minister said Monday.
Patryk Jaki said the country was planning to open negotiations with the Italian side over extraditing the four, who are also alleged to have attacked the victim’s partner at the Italian resort of Rimini.
The four are also alleged to have raped a Peruvian woman on the same night in a separate incident.
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Populist Hopeful Shunned by Italian Elite on Shore of Lake Como
Populist would-be premier Luigi Di Maio had an awkward introduction to the Italian elite.
The Five Star Movement’s most likely candidate for next year’s election was ignored by Italy’s business and financial establishment when he arrived at an exclusive networking event by Lake Como on Sunday. Di Maio, 31, was reduced to posing for photographers, while a passing banking executive muttered that he hoped the populist might learn something from his visit.
His group, which wants a referendum on Italy’s euro membership, is virtually tied in opinion polls with the Democratic party of ex-premier Matteo Renzi, and with a possible center-right alliance including the Forza Italia party of Silvio Berlusconi. Di Maio sought to reassure.
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Swedish Police Fired Warning Shot at Man Armed With Sword: Report
Police in Örebo fired warning shots at a man armed with a sword who was behaving threatening towards people in the centre of the city, according to local media reports.
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Total Sells Norwegian Assets to Kuwait
French oil giant Total said Monday it has agreed to sell its remaining stake in a Norwegian oil field to Kuwait so that it can focus on its recent acquisition of Denmark’s Maersk Oil.
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Sarah Champion was dismissed from the shadow front bench last month for saying that Britain has a ‘problem’ with British Pakistani men exploiting white girls.
In her first interview since then, the former shadow women and equalities secretary said the ‘floppy left’ was failing vulnerable children with its silence.
In a newspaper piece last month, the MP said: ‘Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls.’
She quit her role after the piece caused an outcry among her Labour colleagues.
After her resignation Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn — an MP in Islington, north London — said his party would not ‘blame’ or ‘demonise any particular group’.
He accused the paper of inciting Islamophobia and stigmatising ‘entire communities’. But Labour was accused of stifling free speech.
The Rotherham MP used an interview with The Times yesterday to highlight differences in attitudes between the capital and Labour’s northern heartlands.
She said a liberal fear of being branded racist was preventing those on the Left from speaking out.
She said: ‘If I’m on the floppy left, to be accused of racism is probably the worst thing you can call me. That fear will motivate me to step away from a lot of topics I’d maybe tackle head on if I didn’t have that phobia.’
Her constituency Rotherham was home to one of the most high-profile grooming scandals.
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UK: Former Muslim, Anti-FGM Campaigner Shazia Hobbs Suspended From Twitter
A Muslim apostate and high profile campaigner against both female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage has been suspended from micro-blogging platform Twitter, amidst a wider crackdown on right wing voices on the website, and other online platforms like Facebook.
Twitter users noticed the prolific writer and campaigner had vanished from the platform Friday. Hobbs had previously spoken at the Unite Against Hate ‘Gays Against Sharia’ march in Manchester, where she spoke out against Muslim rape gangs preying on young white girls.
Hobbs turned away from Islam after escaping an arranged marriage with a physically abusive husband she had been forced into aged 18.
Speaking to Breitbart London, Ms. Hobbs confirmed she has been suspended indefinitely.
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UK: Muslims Condemn as “Islamophobic” Posters Warning About Muslim Rape Gangs
A FAR-right group has claimed responsibility for putting up “hate crime” posters in the city, linking Muslims with child grooming gangs.
Police are treating the posters as a hate crime and the Worcester Muslim Welfare Association has condemned the posters.
They say the ‘mischievous’ posters are aimed at dividing a peaceful community in Worcester.
The association says the posters have been plastered across the city centre over the last two weeks.
The posters say: Protect Children … Fight Grooming Gangs (which is written in Arabic typography).
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XFEL: Brilliant X-Ray Laser Comes Online
One of the most powerful X-ray machines ever built has officially opened in the German city of Hamburg.
The facility, which has cost more than a billion euros to build, will be used to study the detailed structure of matter, atom by atom.
It is called the European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL).
Scientists say the way it shines light on targets will permit, for example, chemical bonds to be filmed in the instant that they are made or broken.
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Australian ISIS fighter Khaled Sharrouf may have ruined his children’s last chance at making it out of Syria last year when he insisted on coming with them.
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Factbox: Turkey’s Collapsing EU Membership Bid
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday she would seek an end to Turkey’s membership talks with the European Union.
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Syrian Army Breaks Siege of ISIS and Deir Ezzor
Jihadist militias suffering from a serious of defeats. For the governor the army will enter the city “within a few hours”. Part of the population has already taken to the streets to celebrate the defeat of the “Caliphate”. Civilians managed to survive thanks to aid (about 300 launches in a year) dropped from planes.
Damascus (AsiaNews / Agencies) — The government and allied militias have accelerated the advance toward Deir Ezzor, an enclave on the Euphrates River in the east of the country loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, under siege by the Islamic State (IS, formerly Isis). In recent days, the military has repeatedly defeated the jihadists, whose defenses seem to have collapsed suddenly and unexpectedly.
Over the past few weeks, the Syrian army, backed by raids and ground operations by Russian forces, has gained ground on several fronts. According to the London-based NGO Syrian Human Rights Observatory, and a dense network of observers on the ground, soldiers are struggling to regain a strategic base (Brigade 137) on the periphery of the city.
Governor of Deir Ezzor Province, Mohammed Ibrahim Samra, said in a telephone interview with Reuters that “within a few hours” the army should arrive in the city. Meanwhile a part of the population has already taken to the streets (in the picture) to celebrate the arrival of the soldiers and the possible defeat of the jihadists.
The province is rich in oil and natural gas and army soldiers have already taken over the control of the Al-Kharata oil field. United Nations estimates that there are at least 93,000 people in the undercover government enclave, which includes much of the city, the Brigade 137 military base and the airport.
For years ISIS militaries have controlled a large part of the province and its capital, Deir Ezzor. Government forces have won back some sectors in 2015, but have since been besieged by jihadists. The civilian population has survived thanks to the aid dropped by government aircraft; in the last year there were about 300 food drops.
Intense fighting is also consuming taking place around the city. Analysts and experts believe that the government’s victory is likely to take place within the next few days, demonstrating Assad’s growing military successes backed by Russian raids and Shiite militias (including Hezbollah) on the battlefield.
In Syria, as in neighboring Iraq, the Islamic State is losing ground, and even the same Syrian stronghold, Raqqa, is being taken by the US-led international coalition. Syrian state television reports that Daesh’s troops [Arabic acronym for IS] are on the verge of “collapse” in the face of the government’s advance on several fronts.
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Turkey Slams German ‘Populism’ After Merkel Shift on EU Talks
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman Monday accused German politicians of surrendering to populism after Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would seek to end talks on Turkey’s accession to the European Union.
Relations between the two countries have been strained since last year’s failed coup in Turkey and Berlin’s strong condemnation of Erdogan following a subsequent crackdown that has seen more than 50,000 people arrested.
“Attacking Turkey-Erdogan and ignoring Germany’s and Europe’s fundamental and urgent problems are a reflection of a lack of vision,” Ibrahim Kalin said in a tirade on Twitter.
Kalin said this was a “surrender to populism and marginalisation/hostility (which) only fuels discrimination and racism”.
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Vladimir Putin Says the Leader in Artificial Intelligence ‘Will be the Ruler of the World’
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that whoever reaches a breakthrough in developing artificial intelligence will come to dominate the world. Putin, speaking Friday at a meeting with students, said the development of AI raises “colossal opportunities and threats that are difficult to predict now.”
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Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh: Why India Rapist Guru Remains ‘God’ For Followers
In amongst all the coverage of the spectacular downfall of the self-styled Indian “godman”, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, one voice has been absent: that of his many hundreds of thousands of devoted followers.
His claim to have 60 million devotees around the world is probably an exaggeration, but there is no doubt that a huge number of people draw inspiration from this man who claimed to be a divine being.
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Myanmar Conflict: Aung San Suu Kyi ‘Must Step in’
The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar has criticised the country’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, for failing to protect the Rohingya Muslim minority.
Yanghee Lee said the situation in Rakhine was “really grave” and it was time for Ms Suu Kyi to “step in”.
Her comments came as the number of Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh reached 87,000, according to UN estimates.
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A Crude Plan: Chinese Oil Demand Could See Saudi Give America the Slip
As Saudi Aramco prepares to float on international capital markets, Beijing may have the perfect opportunity to buy the loyalties of the world’s largest oil exporter
Signs are beginning to emerge that the current king, Salman, son of Ibn Saud, may transfer his country’s primary strategic alliance away from the US and towards the rising power of China.
China’s oil demand has more than doubled. As a result, earlier this year China surpassed the US as the world’s largest crude importer, buying more than 9 million barrels a day. By far China’s biggest suppliers were Russia and Saudi. As China’s demand continues to grow, its dependence on Saudi oil shipments is only going to increase.
That means Beijing now has a bigger stake than Washington in Saudi’s future stability and security. As a result, both Beijing and Riyadh are working on strengthening their bilateral relationship. King Salman visited China in March, signing trade and investment deals worth US$60 billion. And last month, Chinese vice-premier Zhang Gaoli made a return trip, signing a further round of deals, including one to set up a joint US$20 billion fund to invest in new projects in both countries.
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China Turns on Trump After ‘Unacceptable’ Trade Threat as North Korea Issue Splits Allies
CHINA has branded Donald Trump’s threat to cut off trade ties with countries that deal with North Korea as “unacceptable” and unfair.
President Trump took to Twitter in the wake of North Korea’s sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sunday, condemning Pyongyang’s actions and outlining some of the options under consideration to rein in the despotic nation.
He tweeted: “North Korea has conducted a major Nuclear Test. Their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States.
“South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!
“North Korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help but with little success.”
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China Pledges US$80 Million Cash Injection to Strengthen BRICS Ties
China will inject nearly US$80 million into the operations of a bloc of emerging economies as it seeks to patch over differences and give the group a bigger say in global governance.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday that most of the money — about 500 million yuan, or US$76 million — would be earmarked for “economic and technological cooperation” between the five member countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The rest would be used to top up lending by BRICS’ New Development Bank.
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China Says Trump’s Trade Threat Over N. Korea ‘Unacceptable’
Geng Shuang, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, told reporters at a briefing in Beijing on Monday that China regarded as “unacceptable a situation in which on the one hand we work to resolve this issue peacefully but on the other hand our own interests are subject to sanctions and jeopardized.”
Geng said: “This is neither objective nor fair.”
China is the North’s closest ally and commercial partner.
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Haley Says North Korea is ‘Begging for War, ‘ Calls for Strongest Possible UN Sanctions
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Monday asked the body’s Security Council to impose the strongest possible sanctions against North Korea in response to the rogue nation’s most recent nuclear test, saying “the time for half measures … is over.”
Haley spoke at U.N. headquarters in New York a day after North Korea claimed to have conducted an underground test on a hydrogen bomb.
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A riot is said to have taken place at a Chinese toll station after an Islamic cleric reportedly got beaten by the staff during a row.
Angry Muslim residents in Tangshan, northern China’s Hebei Province, apparently gathered at Pingwali Toll Station after hearing about the incident and wanted to demand justice.
The protesters also demanded the armed SWAT officers, who were sent to control the situation, kneel in front of during the riot, according to a YouTube video shared by Radio Free Asia.
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Risky Road: China’s Missionaries Follow Beijing West
When so-called Islamic State announced on 8 June that it had killed a Chinese man and woman in their mid-twenties in Pakistan’s most volatile province, many would have assumed they were two of the thousands of workers that Beijing has sent to the country in the last few years.
China is investing more than $55bn (£43bn) in Pakistan, a key beneficiary of its grand plan to connect Asia and Europe with a new Silk Road paid for by Beijing.
Such an ambitious project involves risk, and China is building major infrastructure projects in Balochistan, a Pakistani province home to a long-running separatist insurgency and an array of militant and jihadist groups.
But Meng Lisi and Li Xinheng were not there to work on Chinese-funded projects.
They were in the provincial capital, Quetta, on a clandestine mission: to spread the word of Christianity in the unlikeliest and most dangerous of places in conservative Muslim Pakistan.
Their story draws attention to an unintended and often overlooked by-product of China’s aggressive drive to develop new trading routes and carve out influence across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
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South Korea Holds Live-Fire Drill Simulating Attack on Nuclear Site to ‘Strongly Warn’ North Korea
South Korea’s military conducted a live-fire exercise simulating an attack on a nuclear site, to “strongly warn” North Korea in response to the rogue nation’s apparent nuclear test, South Korean officials said early Monday.
A surface-to-surface missile and long-range air-to-ground missile “accurately struck” targets in the Sea of Japan, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
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South Korean Newspaper Wants Country to Build Its Own Nuclear Arsenal Amid North Korea Threat
South Korea’s second-largest-newspaper asked that the country begin building its own nuclear weapons amid North Korea’s threats despite an agreement with the United States.
In an editorial, Dong-a Ilbo wrote that many of the country’s citizens want a nuclear arsenal following Sunday’s underground test carried out by North Korea, The Guardian reported.
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Student Face and Voice Scans the New Keys to Chinese University Dorms
Student halls at Beijing Normal University are now using facial and voice recognition technology to allow residents to enter the building.
Facial recognition technology is on the verge of becoming mainstream in China, where it can be used to board planes, access cash machines and verify online payments.
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Sam Dastyari, a Labor senator who describes himself as a ‘non-practising’ Muslim, says his mates would slaughter him if he left a pub without shouting a round of beer.
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Failed Asylum Seekers Use Italy as Back Door to European Union Residency
Thousands of migrants whose asylum applications were rejected in Northern Europe are returning to Italy because it is ‘easier’ to obtain European Union residency documents, according to claims from regional officials and aid workers.
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French Police Clash With Migrants in Calais
Police fired tear gas and three officers were injured on Saturday in clashes with migrants near the French port of Calais who took advantage of a traffic jam to sneak onto trucks, authorities said.
Calais is a magnet for people aiming to reach Britain, a short distance across the Channel.
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Front Runner in Austrian Election Proposes Cuts to Migrant Benefits
VIENNA (Reuters) — Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said on Monday benefits for migrants should be cut and capped, tapping into concerns about immigrants among voters ahead of an Oct. 15 general election he is favorite to win.
The plan would cut payments to refugees to 560 euros a month per person, or around half of the poverty threshold according to a consensus of 40 social groups, while payments per household would be capped at 1,500 euros.
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German Authorities Tipped Off to Over 330 War Criminals Among Asylum Seekers
German authorities have been tipped off to the identities of over 330 war criminals from Syria and Iraq amongst ordinary asylum seekers since 2015, with many of the tips coming from other asylum seekers.
Asylum seekers have identified the war criminals, many of which came to Europe at the height of the migrant crisis, according to information from the German Federal Interior Ministry. Most of the alleged war criminals are said to be former security services agents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but there have also been some Islamic State fighters, Die Welt reports.
German investigators have had their hands full with cases of Islamic State fighters accused of committing atrocities in Syria and Iraq since 2014.
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Hundreds of Migrants Reach Greek Islands Over Weekend
Nearly 500 undocumented migrants landed on the islands of the eastern Aegean over the weekend, according to police figures made public on Monday.
Specifically, a total of 493 migrants arrived on Greek shores from neighboring Turkey between Friday morning and Monday morning.
Of the 493, 305 landed on Lesvos, 29 on Chios and 159 on Samos.
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Iraqi Asylum Seeker Arrested for Trying to Rape Woman in Alpine Resort Town
A 20-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker has been arrested after he tried to rape a woman who was hiking in the German ski town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
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Italy: ‘Rape Worse at Start’ Man Sacked
‘Lai-Momo’ cooperative rejects written justification
(see related story on Rimini rape gang) (ANSA) — Rome, September 4 — A 24-year-old Pakistani cultural mediator for an Italian migrant-reception cooperative was sacked by the Bologna-based organisation Monday after commenting on Rimini rapes by a North African gang by saying that rape is “a worse act, but only at the beginning, when the willy goes in, then the woman becomes calm and you enjoy it like normal intercourse”.
Abid Jee’s Facebook post caused a storm despite being quickly removed.
The Lai-Momo fired the cultural mediator, rejecting a written justification.
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MOAS Suspends Mediterranean Rescue Operations
‘Unclear what is going on in Libya to detriment of vulnerable’
(ANSAmed) — ROME, SEPTEMBER 4 — Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS), which had signed the Italian government’s code of conduct on migrant rescues at sea, said it has decided to suspend its search and rescue operations in the Central Mediterranean.
“At the moment it is unclear what is going on in Libya to the detriment of the most vulnerable people there,” MOAS said. “Their rights should be safeguarded both in line with international law and in order to defend the principle of humanity,” it said.
“MOAS does not want to become part of a mechanism where there is no guarantee of safe harbour or welcome for those being assisted and rescued at sea”.
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Romania Seizes Third Migrant Boat in Black Sea
Romanian coastguards seized another boat containing migrants on Sunday, amid fears that the country is becoming a new migration route to the West.
With the border closed for migrants between Bulgaria and Turkey as well as between Hungary and Serbia and Croatia, officials in Bucharest are concerned that Romania might be becoming part of a new migration route.
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Copenhagen University in Denmark Offers Course on Beyonce, Gender and Race
A university in Denmark is offering a course based on Beyonce’s life.
According to television station TV2, around 75 students have signed up.
There’s reportedly so much interest in the University of Copenhagen course — called Beyonce, Gender and Race — that it’s had to move to a bigger lecture theatre.
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All apologies to the hard-working street-walkers and penthouse prostitutes who, unlike the modern-media harlots and rent-boys, have no illusions and offer no excuses about what they do and why.
For well over 75 years, Americans have naively trusted that the people who bring them the news every night — and today, 24/7 — are highly informed, deeply sincere, remarkably unbiased public servants…
But for a public who still believe the “news” they read and hear and watch is even remotely related to “the truth,” allow me to burst that bubble.
As ace journalist Ashley Lutz scrupulously documented in a Business Insider report last year, in 1983 there were 50 media companies, but today only six organizations are now responsible for 90 percent of all the “news” we read, watch and listen to! They include:
GE (Comcast, NBC, Universal Pictures, Focus Features, et al).
NewsCorp (Fox, Wall St. Journal, NY Post, et al).
Disney (ABC, ESPN, Pixar, Miramax, Marvel Studios, et al)
Viacom (MTV, Nick Jr., BET, CMT, Paramount Pictures, et al)
Time Warner (CNN, HBO, TIME, Warner Bros., et al)
CBS (Showtime, Smithsonian Channel, NFL.com, Jeopardy, 60 Minutes, et al)
Make no mistake, the CEOs of these multibillion-dollar businesses are all leftist globalists — not a conservative among them — except perhaps for Rupert Murdoch (Fox, Wall St. Journal, NY Post, et al) who recently gave control of his empire to his leftist sons Lachlan and James, hence the distinctly leftward tilt of Fox and the WSJ.
[Comment: Recommeded reading.]
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Richard di Natale’s Abuse of Pansy Lai Shows Gay-Marriage Push Has Lost the Plot
by Andrew Bolt
Activists have tried to get the AMA to strip Dr Pansy Lai of her right to work as a doctor because she’s against same-sex marriage. Incredibly, Greens leader Richard di Natale refused to criticise their petition — or the death threat Lai has received — and just implied she was a bad doctor. My editorial from The Bolt Report…
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The Gay Couple Who Oppose Same-Sex Marriage
Advocates of same-sex marriage warned that the postal survey could lead to a vitriolic campaign of hate. But now opponents say they are being victimised if they dare express their opposition to same-sex marriage. 7.30 meets people from the No camp, including a gay couple who are committed to preserving traditional marriage…
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Upstate Consolation University Addresses Statue Crisis — the Orthosphere
[Satire]
As the fall semester began in the first week of August at Upstate Consolation University, student radicals and their faculty sponsors, seeking solidarity with their fellow Social Justice Warriors elsewhere in the country, rallied in the Mehar Shandruff-Danpoo Multicultural Center and Cafetorium, formerly the Andrea Dworkin Memorial Housing and Parking Office, to announce their determination to overturn and smash all statues of Confederate Civil-War heroes currently standing on the teaching-college’s architecturally bland lakeside campus. On leaving the rally, however, to go in search of offensive icons to topple and desecrate, the emotionally overheated crowd could find none. There were various commemorative statues scattered about the grounds of UCU, but not only did none of these represent or honor any Confederate Civil-War hero, none represented or honored any Civil-War hero, or, with one exception, any participant in any war. This fact is perhaps unsurprising given that UCU was only founded in 1958, nearly a century after the Southern surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, but the absence of targets provoked the protesters maddeningly, causing them to retreat to designated “safe places,” where volunteers supplied them with pearl necklaces to clutch and offered smelling-salts to redeem the marginalized and oppressed from their debilitating white-privilege-induced vapor-attacks.
Among the persons whom sculpture has immortalized at UCU are three former Governors of New York State, all of whom advocated for the institution’s establishment and contributed to its construction fund in the early 1950s. Represented in bronze and as standing together are Herbert Lehman, a Democrat, who served from 1933 to 1942; Charles Poletti, also a Democrat, whose term from the beginning to the end of December in 1942 remains the shortest of any “Empire State” Chief Executive; and Thomas Dewey, a Republican, who served from 1943 to 1954. Six Lieutenant Governors of New York State also have statues at UCU, the best-known being the all-but-unknown Joe R. Hanley, a veteran of the Spanish-American War. Other statues depict, for no known reason, Tin-Pan Alley- and Blues-singer Leon Redbone (born 1949) and Norwegian engineer Erik Rotheim (1898 — 1938), inventor of the aerosol spray can…
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I suppose while Germany’s guilt is causing the current destruction of Europe, it’s reasonable to continue demanding WW2 reparations as a way of alleviating some of the damage G-guilt causes.
Why not? Deutschland is once again destroying Europe. What is it with these people?
I don’t believe Merkel feels any guilt because I think her pathology is psychopathic in makeup.
You nailed it!
I want all the lands stolen from Christendom by Islam returned with thirteen centuries of reparations.
Excellent notion! Should we start a petition? I’ll sign!
I read this op-ed on http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/20974
Alexander Maistrovoy
“The perfect murder Five stages bring the world to its knees.
Israel has become a testing ground for jihad. The conquest of the West is to be carried out according to the scheme tried out in the Holy Land
It was deja vu. August 2017. Paris. A rocket launcher is found in a Paris No-Go Zone suburb. A few weeks earlier the same launcher is found in Lyon, near the madrasah in the Muslim quarter … The media is silent. Human rights defenders are against Islamophobia.
… Gaza … Hamas … Rocket launchers found in mosques. … The media is silent. Human rights defenders are against occupation.Illusion? Obsession? Maybe…
By coincidence or Divine providence (depending on your preference), Israel has become a testing ground of the lethal alliance of the “jihad” and the lunatic progressives. Here, in the cradle of Judeo-Christian civilization, the most disgusting methods of terror and its laundering, as well as the know-how of legitimized and even sanctified violence were developed. Here the strategy of the “Red-Green” alliance was formed. This is the place where poisonous shoots appeared and spread their spores all over the world……..”
And it was the old Soviet Union which began this.
Israel is the canary in the coal mine. Obama strengthened Iran and now they are arming their proteges in Lebanon, Palestine and Syria to take out Israel. I think Obama knew Saudi Arabia would never do it, so I guess that is why he flooded Iran with money.
Well, the Bible has had much to say on this issue – Armageddon.
Spot on! 🙂
“the Polish foreign minister called for talks with Germany on WW2 reparations, using a proposed initial figure of one trillion dollars.”
Is he secretly Dr Evil?
What do you mean ‘ Dr Evil?’ I’d say it’s an astute political move in the war between Germany and Poland now taking place over Merkel’s magisterial determination to shove Muslims down Poland’s Slavic throat. They will regurgitate.
The Poles haven’t wiped from memory Hitler’s invasion by any means and they have done their best to destroy all evidence of the 500 year Prussian history within Poland’s present borders. German cemeteries in Poland are in a state of wrack and ruin. German records have been destroyed. And although many Poles and the Catholic Church have had their properties restored to them after the fall of Communism – not so the Germans who lived there and whose homes were confiscated. It is perhaps still the case that Germans are prohibited from owning property in Poland. I remember that was an issue during Poland’s bid to join the EU before 2004.
Hitler hated the Slavs nearly as much as he hated the Jews – and they have not forgotten. Who can blame them? I hope they deal a very severe blow to the imperious Merkel. She deserves to have her sniffy high-handedness rubbed on Polish cobblestones until she begs for mercy!
I think it is an Austin Powers reference. Please be sure to study mid-90s mediocre comedy parodies of 60s spy movies and you’ll get the background
Thank you and yes, I should have perhaps clarified that.
…”Hitler hated the Slavs nearly as much as he hated the Jews”..
I would refraze what you said to : “Germans hate the Slavs nearly as much as they hate the Jews”…
Yet they have no trouble spending their tourist dollars in eastern Europe and many are moving there to escape the Muslims.
No. Modern Germans don’t.
To those who doubt the Donald and what he is now accomplishing, may I recommend the article, So Deep it’s Sunk. A wonderful and informative piece of writing.
It is very interesting indeed. Two questions.
He says Command and Control States don’t work. China is still alive and kicking.
He implies that Trump is nothing but a Machiavellian. However, it is the nature of power itself to encourage those who have it to seek monopoly, as Lord Acton said – ‘Power corrupts and absolutely power has a tendency to corrupt absolutely.’ Which is why we have a Constitution of checks and balances.
As Trump has stated that he means to defend the Constitution, he would immediately lose support if he was seen to dismiss it. Also I think the sheer number of his enemies will keep him on his toes.
It is perhaps more likely that if Trump ‘goes too far’ the Obamaites, like Brennon, will instigate a military coup – which he has ALREADY PUBLICLY threatened! Before that can happen they need Soros-sponsored terror (Antifas etc) to make the US appeaer to be ungovernable.
There is a White House petition against Soros, and I think that is an indication that more and more people are a wake up to this monster – who is a greater danger than Trump, in my view.
Answer 1. China is still alive and kicking because most of the West’s manufacturing base was shifted there, lock, stock and barrel. China now manufactures what the West relies on – one needs the other!
But, China’s days of a manufacturing hegemony to the West is coming to an end under Trump – that partly explains why China has become so aggressive in its expansionist international policies.
Answer 2. Trump may appear Machiavellian to the not so observant and to those who like to pigeon hole personalities. In reality, he is a very smart operator who is adept at keeping his adversaries on their toes while he remains sure footed.
But, we can be absolutely sure of one thing about the Donald, he is on everyone’s assassination list to whom he poses a threat in unmasking their treachery and criminality, and who given the opportunity, would undoubtedly participate in seeing ‘him off’ to protect their own patch and criminal history.
Answer 3. Soros’ days appear to be numbered. His ‘benevolence’ in organizing groups like Antifa will eventually bring him down – that petition as presented won’t go anywhere in a legal sense. Maybe the organizer of that petition would have a better chance of legally taking down Soros if he had become an informant and lodged a criminal complaint about Soros’s activities – activities that at the very least breach the Logan Act.
But, anything put up against Soros has to run the gauntlet of Obama’s State and Justice Depts that are still controlled by Obama holdovers. At this point in time, not a lot of confidence in those depts to uphold criminal proceeding against one of Obama’s biggest financial backers.
Good points. One man against the globalist monopoly capitalist cabal doesn’t seem like a show of strength. Hopefully they will trip over their own arrogance – as they did when they thought they could control Hitler, who undermined them by printing his own money.
Maybe Trump should do likewise and stuff the Fed, the Foreign Relations Committee, Wall Street and the globalists!
UK Sexual Abuse Cover-up. ‘In Rotherham, people’s frustration is that if they all knew what was going on, why didn’t the people who were meant to protect them do anything about it?’
Why indeed? Why is law enforcement stepping down when antifas are breaking people’s heads? Why are Muslims who hate us being encouraged to invade? Why are children being deliberately confused about their identity? Why is the sale of human fetal body parts a thriving industry in the name of women’s reproductive rights? Why does PC over-ride Truth?
There can only be one answer – an answer which a decade ago led a French priest to kill himself and leave a note. (I can no longer find any reference to this, but I remember it vividly!) It is because the political elites, reflecting large segments of the Left and many others, have turned their backs on what used to be known as ‘the Good, the True and the Beautiful’, embodied in Judeo-Christianity and Greek Philosophy.
We now proclaim in every corner of society,’ the Bad, the Lie and the Ugly’.
Is it possible to turn people’s hearts and minds towards the Light?
Sometimes the TRUTH can be a very bitter pill to swallow for those who sit on the sidelines and wonder at the state of this world. Churchill once quipped:
‘When people find out who really controls this world, and after they pick themselves up and dust themselves off, they carry on as normal.’
Until their daughter gets raped and murdered by a Muslim – but look at Maria Ladenburger’s father – collecting money at her funeral for the poor dear refugees! He of course is a high EU official – loyalty to the Illuminati, or whoever they are, comes first. That’s true brainwashing.
The entire Western society (except renegades like us, and Eastern Europeans) has now been brainwashed to accept Political Correctness as the only thinking permissible.
If Germans vote in Merkel again, I’m done with them forever! They can rot.
Ah, but they will make the rest of Western Europe rot with them!