Eight people in France have been charged with terrorism offenses for their alleged plans for right-wing violence, including attacks on mosques. Three of those charged are minors, and seven are currently in custody.
In other news, the World Health Organization has revoked the appointment of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as its good-will ambassador.
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Though the mainstream would prefer to keep the public’s eyes closed to the reality of not only history, but where we find ourselves today and why, Future Money Trends featured Marc Faber in an exclusive interview, where among his latest economic and financial outlooks, he responds directly to his accusers with the candor for which he is so affectionately known.
It’s an interview that many people, especially in America, should take the time to watch because if you support the wrong political candidate, certain immigration or health care policies, traditional morals or even standing for the National Anthem, you too have been, directly or indirectly, accused of spreading hate and racism just as has been the case with Dr. Faber.
I’ve been labeled by the mainstream media as a racist… I don’t think that corresponds at all to the reality.
I wrote a report and I wrote about capitalism, socialism, private property and property rights… and I also wrote about the tendency nowadays to want to erase history… in other words, in the U.S. they’re trying to tear down statues of people who 150 years ago had a slightly different view than other people had at the time… they also tried to tear down statues of Columbus, which historically is one of the great…one of the most important personalities…
[…] I believe if you have civilization and if you have culture you should remember your past… Our past, the white man, has certainly not been glorious… it’s been very cruel… and we abused the system… but the fact is that the white man… the Europeans… they brought a lot of skills and knowledge and built a very prosperous society… that is, until recently.
I think to try to deny that the Western white man made America great is just not right.
And for that I was attacked very badly.
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Hillary Clinton continued her overseas trashing of our president with her latest claim that former President Bush said some rude things about the ceremony. She’s so bitter that it’s embarrassing. She’s the poster child for what a liberal elitist pig looks like. Check out this video of Clinton describing how she tried to get out of going to the inauguration:
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Actor Corey Feldman Arrested After Speaking Out About Hollywood Pedophiles
Arrest comes after tweeting he was “working on a plan” to expose pedophiles
Actor/musician Corey Feldman was arrested Saturday night on ‘unspecified’ drug charges, according to the Richland Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana.
“The Goonies” star and his band were scheduled to play that night at the Live Oaks Bar and Ballroom, but was arrested before the show started.
Sheriff Gary Gilley says more information about the arrest is forthcoming, and Feldman will be booked at the county’s detention center in the meantime.
The timing of Feldman’s arrest is interesting considering his recent remarks about Hollywood pedophiles following the epic fall from grace of film producer Harvey Weinstein.
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During an appearance at the Ali Forney Center gal in New York City, Congresswoman and “impeachment minstrel” Maxine Waters promised a roaring crowd that she would “take out” the president that very night — a statement that has left many wondering if this was a direct threat on President Trump’s life or whether it was some sort of sick joke. (especially in the wake of Rep. Steve Scalise being shot by a liberal).
Waters made the promise to the group, which benefits homeless LGBTQ youth, amid the backdrop of violence against conservatives and the mainstream media literally picking apart every single thing Trump says or does for any hint of something to attack him over. Its safe to assume they won’t be doing the same after Waters disgusting remarks.
“I’m sitting here listening, watching, absorbing, thinking about Ali even though I never met him. And with this kind of inspiration, I will go and take out Trump tonight,” Waters stunningly said.
Amazingly, according to a report in The American Mirror, YouTube quickly deleted the original video showing Waters remarks. The above video was uploaded as a replacement and could be deleted by the left-wing company at any time.
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Democrat Attacks ‘Very Private’ Wedding of Pence’s Marine Son
An extremely private and intimate wedding ceremony at an Indiana state park Saturday for Vice President Mike Pence’s son has come under attack by a state Democrat who on Facebook identified the venue and wrongly warned that the whole area would be shut down.
The post from Sue Wanzer, a Democratic activist and local school board member, drew many angry responses like this: “Pence ruins everything!”
Her October 18 post read, “Heads up: If you’re planning a trip to Nashville (Ind.) this weekend, you should probably scrap that. Pence’s kid is getting married in Brown County State Park. It’s going to be an utter mess and a lot of areas (like the state park) will be shut down in large portions. This is unpublished, but reports from state park staff and things like flight restrictions over Nashville seem to confirm.”
Actually, the park has said that the park will remain open except for the wedding area. “The fact that the vice president will be here will not impact our regular visitors,” property manager Doug Baird told the Bloomington, Ind., Herald-Times.
The wedding is to be the ceremonial celebration for Marine Corps. Second Lt. Michael Pence and Sarah Whiteside.
Because of travel involved in the Marine’s duty and the presidential campaign, the two held a legal ceremony in the Indiana governor’s mansion in December, when Pence was still governor before his inauguration as vice president a month later.
The Saturday ceremony is expected to be very small and drew no big entourage from Washington.
The vice president’s office offered no comment.
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Deserter Bergdahl Says Taliban More ‘Honest’ Than US Army
Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. Army sergeant who pleaded guilty Monday to deserting his post in Afghanistan in 2009, says his Taliban captors were more “honest” with him than the Army has been since his release three years ago.
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Gunman in Quadruple Shooting Fired From Elevated Position, Police Say
CHESTER, Pa. — Police are investigating after multiple people were shot at a basketball court in Chester Saturday evening, CBS Philly reports.
According to police, four people were injured and the shooter is believed to have been a “good distance” away from the scene. The gunman fired from an elevated position just before 6 p.m., police say.
Police say both AR and handgun rounds have been found.
Multiple transports were called to the scene as officials say all of the victims were shot in the lower extremities.
There was no immediate word on the condition of the victims, or the motive behind the shooting.
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How the State Department is Undermining Trump’s Agenda
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has isolated himself from his own department and allowed subordinates to fill a handful of top positions with people who actively opposed Donald Trump’s election, according to current and former State Department officials and national security experts with specific knowledge of the situation.
News reports often depict a White House “in chaos.” But the real chaos, according to three State Department employees who spoke with American Greatness on the condition of anonymity, is at Foggy Bottom.
Rumors have circulated for months that Tillerson either plans to resign or is waiting for the president to fire him. The staffers describe an amateur secretary of state who has “checked out” and effectively removed himself from major decision making.
Hundreds of Empty Desks
About 200 State Department jobs require Senate confirmation. But the Senate cannot confirm nominees it does not have. More than nine months into the new administration, most of the senior State Department positions—assistant and deputy assistant secretary posts—remain unfilled.
What’s more, the United States currently has no ambassador to the European Union, or to key allies such as France, Germany, Australia, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia. Meantime, Obama Administration holdovers remain ensconced in the department and stationed at embassies in the Balkans, Africa, and the Middle East.
The leadership vacuum has been filled by a small group opposed to the president’s “America First” agenda.
At the heart of the problem, these officials say, are the two people closest to Tillerson: chief of staff Margaret Peterlin and senior policy advisor Brian Hook, who runs the State Department’s in-house think tank.
Peterlin and Hook are longtime personal friends who current staffers say are running the department like a private fiefdom for their benefit and in opposition to the president and his stated policies.
‘Boxing Out’ Trump Supporters
The lack of staffing gives the duo unprecedented power over State Department policy. Since joining Tillerson’s team, Peterlin and Hook have created a tight bottleneck, separating the 75,000 State Department staffers—true experts in international relations—from the secretary. As the New York Times reported in August, “all decisions, no matter how trivial, must be sent to Mr. Tillerson or his top aides: Margaret Peterlin, his chief of staff, and Brian Hook, the director of policy planning.” In practice, however, that has meant Peterlin and Hook make the decisions.
More important, sources who spoke with American Greatness say, Peterlin and Hook have stymied every effort by pro-Trump policy officials to get jobs at the State Department.
“Peterlin is literally sitting on stacks of résume’s,” one national security expert told American Greatness. Together, Peterlin and Hook are “boxing out anyone who supports Trump’s foreign policy agenda,” he added.
Peterlin, an attorney and former Commerce Department official in the George W. Bush Administration, was hired to help guide political appointments through the vetting and confirmation process. She reportedly bonded with Tillerson during his confirmation hearings, and he hired her as his chief of staff.
Peterlin then brought in Hook, who co-founded the John Hay Initiative, a group of former Mitt Romney foreign-policy advisors who publicly refused to support Trump because he would “act in ways that make America less safe.” In a May 2016 profile of NeverTrump Republicans, Hook told Politico, “Even if you say you support him as the nominee, you go down the list of his positions and you see you disagree on every one.”
Hook now directs the department’s Office of Policy Planning, responsible for churning out policy briefs and helping to shape the nation’s long-term strategic agenda.
NeverTrumpers on Parade
In September, Peterlin and Hook hired David Feith, a former Wall Street Journal editorial writer and the son of Douglas J. Feith, one of the architects of the Iraq War. Feith shares with Peterlin and Hook a deep dislike for President Trump. Feith, according to one State Department employee with knowledge of the hire, had been rejected by the White House precisely because of his opposition to the president and his policies. Peterlin and Hook forced him through anyway…
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Judge Jeanine: Obama and Clintons ‘Sold US Out’ With Russia Uranium ‘Racketeering Operation’
Judge Jeanine Pirro slammed the Obama administration’s sale of uranium to Russia at a time when the FBI was monitoring racketeering in the deal.
“Obama and the Clintons sold us out— our uranium and with it the security of our nation,” Pirro said on “Justice” Saturday.
This week a report broke that the FBI and Justice Department were investigating extortion, money laundering, bribery, and kickback schemes between Russia and the U.S. aimed at growing Russia’s nuclear industry in America.
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Man Allegedly Inspired by ISIS Arrested in Plot to Bomb Miami Shopping Center
A Miami-area man has been arrested for allegedly plotting to plant a bomb at a Miami shopping mall, two people familiar with the matter told ABC News today.
The man, Vicente Solano, was allegedly inspired by ISIS, as first reported by the Miami Herald
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Pirro: Obama, Clintons ‘Sold us Out, Our Uranium and With it, The Security of Our Nation’
Saturday on Fox News Channel’s “Justice,” host Jeanine Pirro used her “Opening Statement” to discuss Russian interests in acquiring Uranium One.
“Obama and the Clintons sold us out our uranium and with it, the security of our nation,” Pirro began.
“Folks, context is everything,” she added. “The backdrop of the sale of 20 percent of America’s uranium to the Russians was Putin’s ongoing racketeering enterprise that the Obama inner circle knew about. And the FBI and our Department of Justice was actually monitoring and investigating and yet, subsequently allowed the transfer to Russia.”
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In a recent BBC interview, when asked if she was proud of America, Jane Fonda answered, “no.” She was proud of the “resistance,” but not of America. Select NFL players upon hearing the National Anthem “take a knee” by which they mean to protest in the face of the very symbol of America, the American flag. The legacy of America is one of freedom, a freedom that Fonda and the NFL players very much depend upon and exploit to protest the country of liberty that has given them so much. It is one thing to express an opinion, it is quite another to condemn the country that protects your right to voice that opinion. The former may make sense, the latter is illogical and absurd. Charitably we may say that Fonda and the NFL players who take a knee are confused, woefully inarticulate, and misguided, conditions that are painfully apparent because their expressions of dissent are so obtuse and contrary to the proof extant in the lavish lives they lead in the U.S. More accurately we may say that they are examples of a spoiled generation that still does not comprehend that the spoils they enjoy are proof that far from harming them this bounteous land of freedom has enabled them to succeed in ways not possible anywhere else in the world.
Without this land of freedom, they are nothing. But ingratitude of the sort they express is not new, just repulsive, unremarkable and foolhardy. Theirs is the rant and romp of a juvenile, excusable but for the fact that they are adults if by age only. In stark contrast to their incomprehensible expression, the First Amendment rises above, far above the pedestrian level, confirming that even those like Fonda and Kaepernick who communicate ignorant or ill-conceived sentiments are free to do so in America, just as those who hear the words that offend have their right to call out their expression as folly. Were Fonda and Kaepernick the children of North Koreans, they would understand all too well what it means to live in a country where fundamental rights have no protection from the greatest threat to individual liberty, the monopoly of the state.
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Prof: Punishing Protesters Promotes ‘White Supremacy’
Also warned that students shouldn’t ‘conflate hate speech and free speech’
A University of Southern California professor recently argued that punishing protesters who disrupt conservative speakers can reinforce “white supremacy.”
Charles H.F. Davis, a professor of education at USC, argued in an essay for Inside Higher Ed that punishing protesters contributes to white supremacy because it can unfairly “suppress and criminalize” students, especially in light of protesters’ valiant goals.
For example, Davis argues against punishing students who shouted down a recent Ben Shapiro talk at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, since students were fighting against “racist rhetoric advanced by Shapiro.”
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Rep. Maxine Waters Says She Wants to ‘Take Out’ Trump
Rep. Maxine Waters, a leader in the resist-Trump movement, recently told a New York audience that she will “take out” the president, a video posted online last week shows.
“Wow, what a moving evening this is,” Waters is heard saying in the video of an Oct. 13 event at the Ali Forney Center in New York City.
“I’m sitting here listening, watching, absorbing, thinking about Ali even though I never met him. And with this kind of inspiration, I will go and take Trump out tonight,” the California Democrat said as the crowd cheered.
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The Obama Administration’s Uranium One Scandal
by Andrew C. McCarthy
Not only the Clintons are implicated in a uranium deal with the Russians that compromised national-security interests.
Let’s put the Uranium One scandal in perspective: The cool half-million bucks the Putin regime funneled to Bill Clinton was five times the amount it spent on those Facebook ads — the ones the media-Democrat complex ludicrously suggests swung the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump.
The Facebook-ad buy, which started in June 2015 — before Donald Trump entered the race — was more left-wing agitprop (ads pushing hysteria on racism, immigration, guns, etc.) than electioneering. The Clintons’ own long-time political strategist Mark Penn estimates that just $6,500 went to actual electioneering. (You read that right: 65 hundred dollars.) By contrast, the staggering $500,000 payday from a Kremlin-tied Russian bank for a single speech was part of a multi-million-dollar influence-peddling scheme to enrich the former president and his wife, then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton. At the time, Russia was plotting — successfully — to secure U.S. government approval for its acquisition of Uranium One, and with it, tens of billions of dollars in U.S. uranium reserves.
Here’s the kicker: The Uranium One scandal is not only, or even principally, a Clinton scandal. It is an Obama-administration scandal.
[Comment: Read it all — an excellent summary of what happened.]
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Trump Right to Oppose “Bipartisan” Healthcare Proposal
Bipartisan = conservatives get hosed
Well, the “bipartisan” health care deal is pretty much what you would expect when the Republican involved is Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee). Democrats get to spend more money and keep Obamacare intact while Republicans get something only if they fool themselves into thinking they get something. President Trump initially said he would support the deal, but now appears to have changed his mind after learning the details.
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Vegas Bombshell: Video Shows 17 Ambulances Pulling Bodies Out of Hooters
Video captured night of the Oct. 1 massacre reveals LVMPD and FBI are withholding key details about what actually transpired
LAS VEGAS (INTELLIHUB) — On the night of October 1, Youtuber Benjamin Franks and his friend had just grabbed some tacos and were heading back to their hotel room at the MGM when they noticed a separate disturbance at the corner of Las Vegas Blvd and Tropicana Ave.
15-minutes later, from the leisure of his hotel room, Franks managed to capture bombshell video footage which shows a total of 17 ambulances removing human bodies from Hooters, contradicting the official story told by Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo.
“They are just pulling so many bodies out of that Hooters,” a man’s voice can be heard saying at the 24-second mark. “I don’t know if people are dead — I don’t know if people are just injured — they just keep pullin’ them out though […] something definitely happened at Hooters though.”
“It must have happened at Hooters dude because they are all showing up there,” he said. “It looks like most of them are at Hooters.”
Hooters Casino and Hotel is located at 115 E. Tropicana Ave. which is just northeast of the venue where the Route 91 Music Festival was being hosted.
Franks’s footage is absolute proof that the Los Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI are lying to the general public and have not been forthcoming about all of the events that occurred that night…
Astonishingly, this all dovetails with an Oct. 14 Intellihub report which documents how an eyewitness explained in a radio interview that one of his girlfriend’s friends witnessed a ‘solo SWAT guy’ enter the back door of Hooters.
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Video: Second Shooter Captured Firing From Rooftop of Mandalay Convention Center?
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A second shooter fires from an elevated position at 10:04 p.m., before Paddock fires his first fully-automatic volley, video appears to show (INTELLIHUB) — The purpose of this article is to open a real-time discussion and investigation into the very real possibility that a ‘second shooter’ may have been firing from an elevated position on the northeast corner of the rooftop of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center from behind a raised parapet short wall.
At 3:08-1/2 into the video you can see what appears to be a single flash coming from above and beyond the rooftop of the Desert Oasis Motel just to the left of the most eastward Ferris wheel support post. Then approx. 2.26 +/— seconds later (at nearly 3:11) the sound of the shot can be heard.
It’s actually rather loud and appears to have caught the attention of a few people.
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Yellowstone Supervolcano Could Blow Faster Than Initially Thought
Arizona State University researchers have analyzed minerals around the supervolcano at Yellowstone National Park and have come to a startling conclusion. It could blow much faster than previously expected, though any talk of it potentially wiping out life as we know it is incorrect.
According to National Geographic, the researchers, Hannah Shamloo and Christy Till, analyzed minerals in fossilized ash from the most recent eruption. What they discovered surprised them — the changes in temperature and composition only took a few decades, much faster than the centuries previously thought.
Despite some sensationalist claims seen in the media, the supervolcano is not expected to erupt anytime soon and if it did, the events would not be catastrophic. “There’s no reason to think it could impact mass transport the way the Iceland eruption did nor would it have any effect on crops,” Till told Fox News. “There is no evidence to suggest it could destroy mankind.”
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Antifa Militants Try to Stop Anti-Trudeau Tax Protest
A rally designed to protest the tax policies of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was interrupted by a counter-demonstration in Toronto on Saturday.
“There’s many people, many Canadians that oppose Justin Trudeau and what he’s doing right now, and I wanted give people an opportunity to come together, voice their opinion, meet other like-minded Canadians,” said Ronny Cameron, chief organizer of the “Let Trudeau Know He Has To Go!”
Cameron told Toronto’s CP24 that the rally had no secret agenda.
“As soon as we turned a corner, Antifa rushed us, they started getting into our face, they just started throwing punches, they started kicking,” Cameron told CP24.
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How Facebook Will Protect the ‘Integrity’ Of Canada’s Next Election
“We don’t want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy.”
There are nearly as many Canadians who use Facebook daily as there are people in this country who are registered to vote-which is why the federal government is working with Facebook to protect its next federal election from fake news, filter bubbles, and cyber meddling.
The Canadian Election Integrity Initiative, which was designed ahead of the 2019 federal election, was spurred by a cyber-threat assessment conducted by the government’s Communications Security Establishment. The report, titled “Cyber Threats to Canada’s Democratic Process,” comes in the wake of revelations about cyber meddling in recent elections-namely in the US, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Elements of Facebook’s new focus on election integrity were on display last month, when Facebook said it took down thousands of fake accounts in Germany ahead of that country’s election.
Facebook is now facing perhaps its biggest test as it looks to curb foreign electoral interference and the rampant disinformation on its platform, both of which undermine the nature of democracy.
[Comment: Translation: Leftist governments don’t like people using facebook to lift up the rocks and show the public all the worms.]
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Liberals Under Fire for ‘Cooking’ Ontario’s Books
The government of Ontario.
Ontario’s Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk revealed this week that Kathleen Wynne’s government hid the cost of its “Fair Hydro Plan” from taxpayers.
The way they did it has raised concerns that other governments across the country could follow suit and bury deficits.
Although ratepayers will get a temporary, 25% break over four years on their hydro bills, the plan will cost “up to $4 billion more than necessary” in interest, Lysyk said.
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“Czech Donald Trump” Wins Landslide Victory
“I am ready to fight for our national interests.”
by Soeren Kern
Populist tycoon Andrej Babis and his Eurosceptic political party have won the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election — by a landslide — making the “politically incorrect” billionaire businessman the main contender to become prime minister after coalition negotiations.
With all of the votes counted, Babis’s anti-establishment party ANO (which stands for “Action of Dissatisfied Citizens” and is also the Czech word for “yes”) won nearly 30% — almost three times its closest rival — in elections held on October 20. The Eurosceptic Civic Democratic Party (ODS), the anti-establishment Czech Pirates Party and the anti-EU Freedom and Direct Democracy party (SPD) came second, third and fourth, with around 11% each.
The Communists came in fifth with 7.8%. The Social Democrats, the center-left establishment party that finished first in the previous election, came in sixth with just 7.2%. The Christian Democrats, the center-right establishment party, won 5.8%, just enough to qualify for seats in parliament. In all, nine parties competed in the election.
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“Muslim Martin Luther” Tariq Ramadan Accused of Rape, Slapping Victim, Threatening Her Family
French author Henda Ayari accused on Friday philosopher and Islamic theoretician Tariq Ramadan of rape. Ayari, 40, said that the influential academic had sexually assaulted her in a hotel room in Paris in 2012.
“I decided to file a complaint against Tariq Ramadan for what he did to me,” she said on Facebook. Ramadan has not yet responded to the allegations….
Ayari said she was raped by the UK-based academic on the sidelines of the congress of the Union of Islamic Organisations of France when he allegedly invited her to join him in a hotel room.
She also claims that Ramadan threatened her family to prevent her reporting the alleged rape.
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Actress Flees Italy as “Sophisticated” Europeans Side With Harvey Weinstein
Italian movie actress and director Asia Argento is facing pushback in her home country after speaking out about an alleged rape at the hands of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. While Argento’s courage in speaking about what happened to her was praised in Hollywood, and helped encourage at least 40 women to speak out about their own experiences of assault at the hands of Weinstein, public opinion in Italy has sided more with Weinstein than with Argento, according to Quartz’s Annalisa Merelli.
Merelli points out that the opinion writers have been remarkably bold in their condemnation of Argento and other actresses speaking out against sexual assault — former journalist and MP Renato Farina, for instance, has suggested that the assaults described by actresses are “prostitution, not rape.” Vittorio Feltri, editor in chief of Libero, a right-wing populist newspaper, said that since Weinstein didn’t physically harm Argento that the sex must have been consensual — and that, if anything, Argento should be thankful to Weinstein for forcibly performing oral sex on her. Politician Vittorio Sgarbi went still further, arguing that Weinstein “was actually assaulted by her.”
Prominent Italian women have targeted Argento as well, questioning why she didn’t speak out earlier about the rape or claiming that she deserved what happened to her since she willingly visited Weinstein in his hotel room. In wake of the public outcry against her, Argento has said that she is leaving Italy for Germany to escape the “climate of tension” and “victim blaming.”
“Italy,” Argento said, “is far behind the rest of the world in its view of women.”
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Christian Group Intervenes to ‘Protect’ Europe From Sharia Law
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights is set to rule on an inheritance case concerning the application of sharia law to dispute between Greek citizens who are Muslims.
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Czech Election Worries Brussels as Babis Heads for Coalition With Anti-EU Freedom Party
THE Czech election could threaten the Brussels consensus as new Prime Minister Andrej Babis is set to enter coalition with the far-right anti-EU Freedom Party.
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Daphne Caruana Galizia: Thousands Demand Justice in Malta
Thousands of people have rallied in Malta to demand justice following the death of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Ms Caruana Galizia died in a car bomb on Monday.
She was known for a blog where she accused top politicians of corruption.
Some politicians stayed away from the rally, including the prime minister, who said her family did not want him to come, and the leader of the opposition. But others were among the protesters.
“I know where I should be and where I should not be,” Prime Minister Joseph Muscat told a radio interviewer a few hours before the event. “I am not a hypocrite.”
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EU Parliament Chief ‘Fears’ Spread of Small Nations as Italy Votes
European Parliament chief Antonio Tajani said Europe should “fear” the spread of small nations as Spain struggled Sunday with the Catalonia crisis and the Italian regions of Lombardy and Veneto voted in referendums on greater autonomy.
In an interview with the Rome daily Il Messaggero, the Italian politician said Europe must “of course fear” the proliferation of small nations.
“That’s why nobody in Europe intends to recognise Catalonia,” he said.
“Even (British Prime Minister) Theresa May, in the full throes of Brexit, said the United Kingdom would never recognise Catalonia.”
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Europe’s Next World War Begins in France
Posted by Daniel Greenfield
France is in the middle of a civil war. The civil war is based on religious differences. As the religious divide between the Islamic colonists and the militantly secular French government increases, the violence will worsen. The outcome of the war will determine whether France will be a secular republic or an Islamic state. The Jihadists have a plan for winning the war. The French authorities don’t.
And what goes for France also goes for Western Europe. And for the West.
The French combination of social appeasement and police state enforcement isn’t working. The same model ultimately fails wherever it’s applied. Breaking up terror cells and stopping attacks is far better than the alternative, but the scale of the problem will always continue increasing because of demographic growth and a globalized terror infrastructure.
Demographics dictate that France’s terror problem will only keep growing. And the French authorities understand this. That’s why its governments increasingly talk about Islamic terrorism as a lasting threat.
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And How to Protect France, Europe, the West
by Giulio Meotti
Under the assault of radical Islam, French civilization is eroding from within. And there are now large parts of French culture which are openly adding water to the mill of Islam. These have been just called by Le Figaro, “agents of influence of Islam”. Intellectuals, journalists, politicians, those who consider the Muslims “the new oppressed”.
The French essayist Michel Onfray recently called them “the new collaborators”, like the French who stood with the Nazis:
“They are those who believe that Islam is a religion of peace, tolerance and love and do not want to hear about an Islam of war, intolerance and hatred… The collaborator wants to see only the first [type of] Islam by believing that the second has nothing to do with Islam. These collaborators are the Islamo-leftists”.
And they are winning the cultural war.
How can France prevent an Islamic takeover of parts of the country with fatal metastases for the entire European continent? “In order to disarm terrorists, we must disarm consciences”, Damien Le Guay just wrote in a new book, entitled La guerre civile qui vient est déjà là (“The Coming Civil War Is Here Already”).
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France: 8 Charged in Probe of Alleged Far-Right Terror Plot
Eight people suspected of belonging to a far-right extremist group in France and plotting attacks on mosques, politicians and migrants ihave been charged with criminal terrorist association, authorities said. Three of the eight charged are minors. Seven are in custody.
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Germany: Full Censorship Now Official
Courts Rewrite History
by Judith Bergman
A new German law introducing state censorship on social media platforms came into effect on October 1, 2017. The new law requires social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, to censor their users on behalf of the German state. Social media companies are obliged to delete or block any online “criminal offenses” such as libel, slander, defamation or incitement, within 24 hours of receipt of a user complaint — regardless of whether or the content is accurate or not. Social media companies receive seven days for more complicated cases. If they fail to do so, the German government can fine them up to 50 million euros for failing to comply with the law.
This state censorship makes free speech subject to the arbitrary decisions of corporate entities that are likely to censor more than absolutely necessary, rather than risk a crushing fine. When employees of social media companies are appointed as the state’s private thought police and given the power to shape the form of current political and cultural discourse by deciding who shall be allowed to speak and what to say, and who shall be shut down, free speech becomes nothing more than a fairy tale. Or is that perhaps the point?
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Germany’s Domestic Intelligence Agency Warns of ‘IS’ Sympathizers
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency says ‘IS’ sympathizers returning to the country could pose a security risk. The agency’s head also warned of the increasing threat of cyberwarfare.
One would think that Germany’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), the country’s domestic intelligence agency, would be relieved by news of the fall of the “Islamic State” (IS) terror group’s Syrian capital in Raqqa and its subsequent retreat. Heavy IS losses could dampen the morale of potential attackers in Europe and Germany.
One might assume that the more influence IS loses in the region, the less appealing its ideology might become. But Germany’s domestic intelligence agency contends that things are not that simple.
“We see the threat of children, socialized by Islamists, and thus accordingly indoctrinated, returning to Germany from a war zone,” BfV President Hans-Georg Maassen said in Berlin on Wednesday.
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Germany: University of Hamburg Publishes ‘Religious Expression’ Code
The University of Hamburg has become Germany’s first institute of higher education to set forth guidelines for religious practice on campus. A 10-member interdisciplinary commission drafted the guidelines.
The University of Hamburg has become Germany’s first higher education institute to write a code of conduct that defines how students can live their religions on campus. The “Code of Conduct for Religious Expression at Universität Hamburg” will “govern the respectful and peaceful coexistence of different religious beliefs,” Dieter Lenzen, the university’s president, said while presenting the 10-point paper last week.
Lenzen said an accumulation of incidents had led the university to draft the code. A preacher had publicly called for prayers in the corridors of the university. Male Muslims reportedly pressured some women to wear headscarves. A young man often prayed very loudly and called to Jesus Christ for help.
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Germany Privatizes Visa Application Services
German consulates are contracting out more and more visa application services, the Foreign Ministry has confirmed. Critics fear that the practice could increase the risk of data leaks — and the temptation to corruption.
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Germany: Record for Biggest Kebab in the World Set in Berlin
The world record for the biggest doner kebab has been broken in Berlin. It is a fitting title for the city where the sandwich was invented.
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George Soros will use his organisation, now the second largest political activist charity in the world, to “influence” Hungary’s 2018 general election, a Hungarian member of parliament has claimed.
István Hollik MP fears that Soros would use his Open Society Foundations (OSF) to remove Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party from power, tear down the border fence, and implement the “Soros Plan” to flood Europe with one million third-world migrants annually, reports the Hungarian Times.
The politician, whose Christian Democratic People’s Party (KDNP) is in coalition with the conservative Fidesz, also said that the OSF-backed refugee human rights group Hungarian Helsinki Committee’s legal challenge to the government’s national consultation on the Soros Plan could be “the first step in the campaign”.
Hollik pointed out that Soros’s foundation, which recently received a cash injection after the Hungarian-American speculator transferred $18 billion into the NGO, has been a “generous and intensive” source of money for those “Soros organisations and politicians” who “regularly intervene in Hungarian public life and who try to put pressure on the Hungarian cabinet”, alleges Hollik.
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Italy Referendums: Lombardy and Veneto ‘Back Greater Autonomy’
Two of Italy’s richest northern regions have voted for more autonomy, according to their leaders.
More than 90% of voters in Lombardy, home to Italy’s financial capital Milan, and the Veneto region around Venice, voted yes in the non-binding referendum, their presidents claimed.
Both men are members of the Northern League, which has long argued that the north is subsidising the poorer south.
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Italy on Brink of Becoming ‘Ungovernable’, Matteo Renzi Warns
ITALY is on the brink of becoming “ungovernable” due to the rise of Eurosceptic parties, ex-Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said.
The Democratic Party (PD) secretary yesterday blasted the growth of right-wing populism in Italy, branding it “very dangerous”.
Mr Renzi, who quit as PM last year after losing a referendum on constitutional reform, admitted: “Ungovernability in Italy is a great risk.
“That is why I am so disgusted to have lost the referendum. We would have ended this situation.”
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‘Merkel Understood Nothing’: AfD’s Gains Greatest in Eastern Germany
Chancellor Angela Merkel hails from Germany’s ex-communist East, yet it is here where the anger against her runs deepest and the far-right protest party AfD has celebrated its strongest gains.
The electoral success of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany, which scored 12.6 percent in September 24th elections, stunned much of the country.
But in Cottbus, located in the Lusatia coal mining region near the Polish border, many cheered the strong result for the party whose battle cry is “Merkel must go”.
In the city of 100,000 people that is dominated by drab Soviet-style tower blocks, the AfD even beat the chancellor’s conservatives, more than doubling its national result by attracting 26.8 percent of the vote.
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Pics: Thousands in Berlin Protest ‘Hate and Racism’ as AfD Enter Parliament
Several thousand people have marched past Berlin’s Reichstag building to protest “hate and racism in parliament” as newly elected lawmakers from the nationalist, anti-migration Alternative for Germany party prepare to take their seats.
The new parliament holds its first session Tuesday. Its 709 lawmakers include 92 from Alternative for Germany, or AfD, which won 12.6 percent of the vote in last month’s election. The party is entering the national parliament for the first time.
Sunday’s demonstration saw protesters march from the capital’s Brandenburg Gate past the domed Reichstag building, home to the national parliament.
Participants carried signs reading “Humanity First,” ?Stop AfD” and “My heart beats for diversity.”
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Spain Catalonia: Foreign Minister Denies ‘Coup’ By Madrid
The Spanish Foreign Minister, Alfonso Dastis, has denied that his government’s move to reassert control over Catalonia amounts to a “coup”.
The speaker of the Catalan parliament, Carme Forcadell, called measures announced by the government on Saturday a “de facto coup d’état”.
“If anyone has attempted a coup, it is the Catalan regional government,” Mr Dastis told the BBC.
Madrid acted after regional leaders refused to halt an independence drive.
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Spain: Taking Control of Catalonia Means Big Power Transfer
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy left the nation breathless when he announced the steps he wants to use to crush the separatist movement in the prosperous Catalonia region.
Rajoy called on Spain’s Senate to trigger a previously untapped section of the Spain Constitution that allows the central government to temporarily intervene in the running of a region if its leaders have broken the law.
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Spain Won’t Arrest Separatist Leaders, Blames ‘Fake News’ For Catalan Crisis
Following Catalan President Puigdemont’s address yesterday accusing Madrid of “the worst attack since Franco,” the Spanish government has urged Catalonians to accept direct control from Madrid and ignore seditious instructions from the pro-independence leaders.
Spanish Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis responded on Sunday with the call to obey Madrid.
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Sweden: Politicians Want to Deploy Army to No-Go Zones
Twenty members of the Moderate Party in Sweden have proposed the government deploys the armed forces in some of the country’s most dangerous no-go zones to combat “gang violence”.
Moderate Party politician Mikael Cederbratt made the proposal this week saying: “The situation in our areas of exclusion has deteriorated. The gangs have taken over and the police have had to retreat. Swedish law no longer applies there.”
Cederbratt was backed up by 19 other Moderate party members who signed a motion to deploy members of the Swedish armed forces in the heavily migrant populated Stockholm suburbs of Hallunda-Norsborg, Tensta, Rinkeby, and Husby Botkyrka Direct reports.
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Sweden: Two Carjacking Incidents in Different Areas of Stockholm
Two carjacking incidents took place within a short space of time in different areas of Stockholm on Saturday morning.
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Swedish Police Arrest Man for Fire Bomb Attack Against Bar
A 21-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after throwing fire bombs through the window of a bar in the town of Ängleholm in the early hours of Sunday.
According to information provided by people present at the bar, the man was wearing what looked like a bomb belt, reports news agency TT.
According to Skåne Police, two objects were thrown through the window of the bar, while the establishment’s website states that “several” fire bombs were thrown through the window.
Fire did not set and the man who threw the fire bombs was apprehended by security staff and guests at the bar, reports TT.
“The man was carrying a large kitchen knife and was wearing something resembling a bomb belt with electronics. He said he was going the activate [the belt] when we overpowered him,” the bar writes on its website.
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The Fork in the Road of the Climate Change Debate
By Edwin Berry, PhD, Atmospheric Physics
The IPCC has something it calls the Bern model. The Bern model is a seven-parameter curve fit to the output of IPCC climate models. To satisfy the intended curve fit, the Bern model must have the same mathematical form as the climate models. Therefore, the Bern model tells us a lot about what is in the climate models.
Specifically, the IPCC claims the Bern model simulates how our atmosphere treats human carbon dioxide emissions. The Bern model says a one-year “pulse” of human carbon dioxide inflow that sets the carbon dioxide level to 100 ppm, will cause the level to still be 29 ppm after 100 years and have a permanent level of 15 ppm forever. This is for only one year of emissions.
The Bern model then adds these permanent levels for all successive years. This invalid idea follows the initial assumption that nature does not balance human emissions. It is the reason alarmists claim human carbon dioxide emissions cause permanent and long-range damage. This is why James Hansen claimed in 2008 that we must shut down all coal-electric power plants by 2012 in order to save the planet. Alarmists believe and preach their irrational feelings rather than logical physics.
These alarmist claims derive from the invalid idea that the atmosphere is a garbage dump rather than a reservoir the processes inflows and outflows. The IPCC built these claims into all its climate models. The built-in false claims are why all IPCC climate models are pieces of junk.
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A Europe We Can Believe In
Philippe Bénéton (France)
Rémi Brague (France)
Chantal Delsol (France)
Roman Joch (Cesko)
Lánczi András (Magyarország)
Ryszard Legutko (Polska)
Pierre Manent (France)
Dalmacio Negro Pavon (España)
Roger Scruton (United Kingdom)
Robert Spaemann (Deutschland)
Bart Jan Spruyt (Nederland)
Matthias Storme (Belgie)
In this moment, we ask all Europeans to join us in rejecting the utopian fantasy of a multicultural world without borders. We rightly love our homelands, and we seek to hand on to our children every noble thing that we have ourselves received as our patrimony. As Europeans, we also share a common heritage, and this heritage asks us to live together in peace as a Europe of nations. Let us renew national sovereignty, and recover the dignity of a shared political responsibility for Europe’s future.
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Tommy Robinson Interview: ‘The Elite Are Clearly in the Process of Islamizing the West.’
Tommy Robinson is a journalist for The Rebel Media and the author of an autobiography, called “Enemy of the State”. We interview him about his new book: “Mohammed’s Koran: Why Muslims Kill For Islam”, co-authored by Peter McLoughlin.
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UK Police Slammed for ‘Propaganda’ Video Promoting Islam
Under fire for using taxpayer dollars to make pro-Islamic video
British police have been slammed for using public resources to produce a 12-minute video promoting Islam in the UK.
“Muslims have a long, shared history with Britain. It stretches back over a thousand years,” claims Hafez Abdusammad Mulla of the Al-Imdaad Foundation at the opening of the “educational” film.
Released by Lincolnshire Police on YouTube for Hate Crime Awareness Week, the video is ostensibly designed to fight “hate crime” and seeks to show Islam and Islamic culture in an attractive light.
“Islam is all about virtues and values of charity, doing noble deeds, helping those less fortunate than you,” claims Mac Chishty, a police commander for “community engagement” with London’s Metropolitan Police.
[Comment: You have to work really hard to be so stupid.]
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A social media backlash has been launched at Lincolnshire Police after they posted a video on better understanding British Muslims.
The 12-minute long film touches on the history of Islam, its values, its followers’ journey to British shores and reminded people of hate crime laws.
But a barrage of negative online comments have been posted in response, with some accusing the police of producing a “propaganda” video and telling people what to think.
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Engraved burial costumes from Viking boat graves that supposedly provided evidence of contact between Nordic tribes and ancient Islam contain ‘no Arabic at all’, according to an expert who has slammed the initial research.
The Viking textile found in 9th and 10th century graves did not include the word ‘Allah’ as was widely reported, according to a professor of Medieval Islamic art and archaeology.
Dr Stephennie Mulder of the University of Texas in Austin claimed the error stems from a ‘serious problem of dating’, claiming Kufic script did not occur until 500 years after the Vikings.
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Women Take Top Three Spots in Norway Government
Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg on Friday announced a cabinet reshuffle putting women in “the top three spots” of government.
Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide was named the country’s new foreign minister to replace her male colleague Børge Brende, who is stepping down to take over as president of the World Economic Forum.
Søreide, 41, is the first woman to become the top diplomat in NATO member Norway.
She joins Solberg and Finance Minister Siv Jensen in holding “the top three spots” in the right-wing government.
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Briton Jailed in Dubai for Touching Man’s Hip in Bar and ‘Dreads What Happens Next’
A SCOT has been sentenced to three months in jail for touching a man’s hip in a Dubai bar.
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Dubai Scot Jailed for Three Months for Public Indecency
A Scottish man has been sentenced to three months in jail for touching a man’s hip in a Dubai bar.
Jamie Harron, from Stirling, was arrested in July and charged with public indecency.
He claimed he had simply been trying to avoid spilling his drink when he touched the man.
The 27-year-old electrician had already been sentenced to a month in jail for drinking beer and still faces further court proceedings.
The businessman who made the complaint against Mr Harron later withdrew it, but prosecutors in Dubai continued with the case.
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Raqqa: US Coalition ‘Wiped City Off Earth’, Russia Says
Russia has accused the US-led coalition of bombing the Syrian city of Raqqa “off the face of the earth” during the fight against so-called Islamic State.
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) took Raqqa last week and on Sunday said they had taken Syria’s largest oilfield.
Pictures suggest much of Raqqa is in ruins, and Moscow compared it to the Allied destruction of the German city of Dresden in World War Two.
The US-led coalition says it tried to minimise risks to civilians.
Russia has itself been accused of committing war crimes for its bombardment of Aleppo last year.
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Syria’s Largest Oil Field Seized From ISIS by US-Backed Forces
Syria’s largest oil field was seized from the Islamic State terror group on Sunday by the U.S.-led coalition, dealing another blow to the extremist group after the loss of its de-facto capital last week.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forced, with air support from the U.S.-led coalition, said it captured the Al-Omar field in a “swift and wide military operation,” adding that some militants have taken cover in oil company houses nearby, where clashes are underway.
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British Isil fighters should be killed in Syria rather than be allowed to return to UK, a Government minister has said. Rory Stewart said converts who leave Britain to fight for the terror group are guilty of horrific acts and the only way of dealing with them is to kill them “in almost every case”.
His remarks come just days after the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation Max Hill QC said young people who travelled to Syria after being “brainwashed” should be allowed to come home and rejoin society.
Mr Hill told the BBC that it was not worth losing a generation of young people who “naively” went to join Isil before attempting to come back to the UK.
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Muslim Women Body Demands Ban on Darul Uloom Deoband for Its Anti-Women and Pro Jihad
Muslim Women Organisation demands closure of Darul Uloom Deoband for issuing hateful and ridiculous Fatwas misguiding Muslim youth.
Upendra Bharti | HENB | Varanasi | Oct 22, 2017:: A day after asking Muslims ridiculously not to post any pictures on social media, Darul Uloom Deoband has now issued a new fatwa against a group of Muslim women who performed ‘aarti’ on Diwali in front of the picture of Lord Ram in Varanasi, pronouncing that they can no longer be considered in “Muslim-Umma” if they worship other gods except Allah.
Mufti Mohammad Arshad Farooqui, chairman of the online fatwa department, told TOI, “Islam is a monotheistic religion and there is no room for worshiping plural gods and goddesses. So any Muslim man or woman who worships any other god is not allowed in Islam. And those women have definitely done something wrong that they should repent by all means.”
The edict comes days after a group of Muslim women performed aarti and dedicated prayers to Lord Rama on the eve of Diwali in Varanasi. The event was organised by Muslim Mahila Foundation and Vishal Bharat Sansthan to promote communal harmony…
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China’s Xi Jinping Consolidates Power With New Ideology
China’s President Xi Jinping has created his own political ideology, in a step towards entrenching his position at the top of the Communist Party.
Top officials have made multiple mentions of “Xi Jinping Thought” at the Communist Party Congress.
The party is widely expected to rewrite its constitution to enshrine this theory before congress ends next week.
The move would elevate him to the level of previous leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.
Correspondents say it would signal Mr Xi’s enormous authority within the party, and make it virtually impossible for others to challenge him.
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YouTube Suspends Account of Popular Chinese Dissident
YouTube has suspended the video account of popular Chinese dissident Guo Wengui amid a mounting pressure from the Beijing government to silence one of its critics. According to a person familiar with the action, YouTube issued what the company calls a ‘strike’ against Guo, who since the beginning of the year has created an online sensation by posting lengthy videos in which he reveals details of corruption by senior Chinese officials.
The suspension involves a 90-day block on any new live-stream postings of videos and was the result of a complaint made against a recent Guo video for alleged harassment. The identity of the person or institution who issued the complaint could not be learned… Other videos by Guo posted prior to the suspension remain accessible.
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WHO Cancels Robert Mugabe Goodwill Ambassador Role
The World Health Organization has revoked the appointment of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador following a widespread outcry.
“I have listened carefully to all who have expressed their concerns,” WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.
He had previously praised Zimbabwe for its commitment to public health.
But critics pointed out that Zimbabwe’s healthcare system had collapsed in recent years.
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Number of Bitcoin Miners in Venezuela Swells to 100,000
Venezuela’s worsening economic collapse has created something of a social experiment in the use of a digital currency as a de facto currency — a phenomenon that’s also playing out in troubled Zimbabwe.
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Belgium: Man of “North African Origin” Assaults Bystander Who Asks Him to Stop Harassing Two Girls
On Sunday 8 October a young man from the Belgian town of Ghent posted on Facebook about a fight he got into:
“On Friday night 6 October, at 03:00 I was beaten up in front of a store while trying to break up an ‘argument’. A young man of ‘North African’ origin was harassing two girls when they tried to leave on their bike. They screamed for him to stop, but he continued. I made it very clear to him he should stop, but unlike dozens of other times, this time it did not end well.
If someone has advice/camera images/… or knows who those girls were: please contact me. The chances that this civil engineer can be caught is next to zero, but I do want to give it a go.
He was alone (oddly enough), between 170 and 180 cm, not really broadly build, with frizzy hair (not shaved, although on the sides it might have been), with Arab roots and I have a sneaking suspicion he can be found in a kickbox-club with some regularity.
I have been stitched and might be looking at scarring in my face. I believe he has used a key or other sharp object.
This clearly wasn’t his first time.
Girls on the bike: if you read this… Thanks for driving off and not calling the police while I was being beaten up. Much appreciated.”
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Denmark Rejected Asylum Seekers Hunger Strike Against ‘Intolerable’ Circumstances
A group of 28 Kurdish and Iranian asylum seekers who are residents at a deportation centre in Denmark have been on hunger strike for the last eight days.
The hunger strikers hope to call attention to what they feel is an intolerable situation with no clear solution, a resident at Departure Centre Kærshovedgård, where the hunger strike is taking place, told The Local.
“When we were moved [to the centre], we didn’t know what it would be like. After a few months we lost hope. Everything is just getting worse and worse,” Iranian resident Kamran Mohammadi said.
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Mass Islamic Immigration is Destroying Sweden
In the past Sweden was well known for its beauty, its tolerance and its excellent social welfare systems. But things have changed and since recent years something’s happening in Sweden, something not right to put it mildly.
Last week five bombings rocked the country: Three in Malmö one in Norrköping and a police station’s entrance was destroyed by a bomb in Helsingborg. This could be a ‘normal’ week for a war-torn country like Afghanistan, but not for a European liberal democracy like Sweden.
But unfortunately there’s more. The number of deadly shootings in Sweden is surging according to Stockholm’s police. Since the nineties the numbers have gone up from eight shootings to thirty a year. Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet even called it “bloody summer” this year, after 31 people were killed by shootings during the summer months.
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Muslim Refugee in Obama ‘Welcoming City’ Busted for Pedophilia
4 girls, as young as 7, allegedly victimized by resettled Rohingya man
A Muslim refugee from Burma, also called Myanmar, is facing multiple sexual assault charges after he allegedly tried to kiss and fondled four girls between the ages of 7 and 12 in a New Hampshire town that just over a year ago became one of President Obama’s “Welcoming Cities.”
Police said the incidents allegedly occurred at some kind of gathering but were not more specific.
Mohammod Rafique, 27, a member of the Rohingya Muslim minority that is fleeing Burma, has been living in Nashua, New Hampshire, for almost two years but speaks no English.
Police cracked the case open after a 10-year-old Nashua girl told her family, then police, and then child-welfare advocates that a man “drank too much, (became) ‘touchy-touchy,’ rubbed her upper thigh and touched her buttocks,” according to the Telegraph, Nashua’s local newspaper.
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Sweden’s First Tax Funded Harem for Muslim Migrant With 3 Wives and 16 Children Costing Millions
The reason is not, as it is sometimes said, that other countries intentionally try to blackmail Sweden, but in many cases the country’s policy differs from the norm — both in comparison with other countries and with Sweden’s history.
Norwegian media also recently reported on an exotic property case in Nacka, a rich municipality in the county of Stockholm. The municipality bought three rental apartments to receive a newly moved refugee family consisting of a 57-year-old Syrian man, his three wives and 16 children. Since the apartments are located in one of Sweden’s most exclusive residential areas, the purchase price totaled 14 million Swedish kroner. The unusual family constellation gets about $ 100,000 a month in total contributions and benefits
It has become much more common for Swedish municipalities to buy private apartments to accommodate refugees. Only Nacka has spent 305 million Swedish kroner since last year. The municipalities own and usually stand for the rent. This is a temporary solution, but in practice the regulations mean that tenants can in many cases continue to live in the apartments for as long as they wish. For the majority of refugees who do not soon find a well-paid job that allows them to buy their own, the municipalities must nevertheless provide a similar residence.
Nacka municipality defends these expensive solutions with the government forcing them to accept refugees and there is housing shortage. However, the justice of many people is provoked by the municipalities bidding their citizens with their own taxpayers, and that a polygamous man is awarded apartments in luxury areas that people can only dream about.
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Invasion of Leftist Body Snatchers
In truth, us everyday Americans are the real victims. We’re the ones minding our own business, daily attacked by Leftist hit squads. Everyday Leftists seek to undermine or tear down another of our principles, values, traditions and institutions.
Leftists have launched wars on Christmas, Easter, Christianity, patriotism, our founding fathers, marriage, having babies, the Constitution, pro-football, traditional families, masculinity, femininity and gender distinction. Leftists use their fake news media bullies and political homeys to force their agenda down our throats, while portraying themselves as victims of aggression from us mean intolerant everyday Americans.
The Catholic order of nuns, Little Sisters of the Poor, were minding their own business, serving the sick and dying for 100 years. Obama pounded on their door demanding that the nuns fund abortions against their religious convictions. Leftist infiltrators are Trojan Horses seeking entry to destroy or transform our institutions into ungodly cesspools of debauchery.
Remember the biblical account of the sodomites banging on Lot’s door demanding that he send out the angels to be raped by them? (Genesis 19: 1-16) Homosexual activists are banging on the doors of churches, Christian businesses, public schools and Christian organizations like the Boy Scouts of America. They are not simply seeking entry, they have been in these places for decades. Homosexuals are stealthily demanding enthusiastic approval of their lifestyle.
What sticks in my craw is homosexual activists being allowed to blatantly deceive and bully the American people. They say they only desire tolerance. They are lying. I don’t know about you, but I have loved and tolerated homosexual family and friends all my life. But that is no longer good enough. The homosexual movement is demanding that we approve of their lifestyle against the Bible.
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Julian Assange Shared a ‘Male Secret’ on Twitter, So Men Have Responded With Some of Their Own
A “male secret” shared by Julian Assange has received a novel response from men on Twitter.
The WikiLeaks founder, using Twitter’s extended 280 character limit, wrote that men who claim to be feminists are “often predatory sleaze bags” and “intensely disliked by other men” due to being “manipulative”.
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So much hate. So much anger. So much time on their hands. But oh yeah…Trump’s the one the left just doesn’t “get”…
A trans artist has turned 200 gallons of her urine into an art exhibit to protest against President Trump.
A Vice News video shows artist Cassils, who goes by the pronoun “they,” preparing for “their” “Monumental” art exhibit that allegedly takes aim at President Trump rescinding former President Obama’s rule on trans bathrooms. The Obama administration rule had mandated schools allow trans students to choose the bathroom they prefer to use instead of using one based on their anatomy. Under the Trump administration’s new guidance, the states can choose their own bathroom policies.
According to Cassils’ website, the “PISSED” sculpture of the “Monumental” exhibit involves all of the urine Cassils has passed since the Trump administration rescinded the Obama-era policy. Audio from the Gavin Grimm case is also played in the background.
***WARNING***This video can’t be unseen.
[Comment: Artist? Another example of the garbage that is “modern art”.]
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The UK government says the term “pregnant woman” should not be used in a UN treaty because it “excludes” transgender people.
Feminists reacted with outrage to what they said was the latest example of “making women unmentionable” in the name of transgender equality.
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Plasma Technology Could Hold Key to Creating Oxygen Supply on Mars
A study published in the journal Plasma Sources Science and Technology argues that Mars, with its 96% carbon dioxide (CO2) atmosphere, has nearly ideal conditions for CO2 decomposition by non-thermal (non-equilibrium) plasmas.
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There is a Life and Death Battle on for the Future of the Internet
Governments across the world are battling with technology companies to decide the future of the internet. And it is a matter of life and death.
The UK Government is currently leading a fight to force technology companies to delete content at will, a power they claim is necessary for counter-extremism projects but which experts say will enable censorship and could even put people at great risk of attack.
And the result of that fight is likely to be profound: countries across the world are following the UK in attempting to decide what’s published online.
[Comment: Globalist elites seek to prevent real news of their machinations from reaching the public.]
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Re: “Viking Textile Which Suggested Nordic Tribes Were Influenced by Islam Did Not Feature the Word ‘Allah’, Claims Expert”
Of course not. This video https://youtu.be/2e1upb30t-Y also shows the funding of the “study” which has the goal of using Viking culture to promote migrants:
“The exhibition questions – by using fashion and clothes – old myths, surrounding gender, social status, aesthetic and national identity, during the Viking age. The Scandinavian Viking textiles originate from the same parts of the world where today’s refugees come from – namely the Middle East. This project is important as it raises the awareness around complex historical facts that showcase the diversity of influences in historical cultures and counteracts xenophobic ideologies.”
10th Century Islamised vikings?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_funeral
I think not… (by account of Ibn Fadlan in the link).
Using an historic example of cultural exchange to promote hordes of foreigners from a similar source coming into a country is akin to saying that anyone who lives in a country that once traded with nazi Germany should be fine with hordes of nazis moving into their communities today.
I don’t think the left would support that somehow.
I think those people have seen and read “The 13th Warrior” far too many times.
61 years ago today the Hungarian people rose up against the Communist totalitarian regime. Remember the heroes!
Thank you, Cross Ware. Long before the “Czech Spring”, Hungary rose up against the evils of Communism. Long live Viktor Orban!
“Venezuela’s worsening economic collapse has created something of a social experiment in the use of a digital currency as a de facto currency.”
This seems to be the plan all along: The way things are going Euros and Dollars will be worth nothing in just a few years, and the population will be forced into digital currencies like a rat through a maze…
They don’t let you make real independent money out of gold or silver, but they let you bitcoin. Hmm, what could be the plan?
“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
Sad to see Youtube following Zuckerberg and folding to the communists in Red China.
Of course, many Western businesses offer research findings to strengthen this tyranny in exchange for more quarterly profits. I well remember Theodore White, another HaRvarD fiend, lionizing Mao 75 years ago, too.
Folding? Zuckerberg? I bet the Chinese begging him not to apply all Communist rules…
Throw open the borders everyone, there are mobs of doctors and engineers from Malawi just waiting to contribute to European society:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5009691/Doctors-accused-vampires-attacked-Malawi.html
Switzerland from a libertarian perspective for any that wish to understand more on how the country works.
http://www.acting-man.com/?p=51661
Recall also Mak Chisty’s advice to the ‘community’ after a jihadist attack: “If you suspect something, no matter how small, tell us.”
He also gave advice on second-guessing a stranger’s glance:
“….no matter how small, report it. No matter how small, even if they look at you differently and you perceive it because they are thinking you are a Muslim, report it,” he said. “The problem we have it’s under-reported……”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2017/mar/24/london-attack-police-terrorist-khalid-masood-live?page=with:block-58d52fb4e4b01ea2330bba43
Leaving aside how can he know it’s under-reported, if ‘it’ whatever that is, hasn’t been reported in the first place?
When calls can be anonymous, need no evidence or corroboration to be recorded as ‘hate-crime’ it seems self-fulfilling.
Meanwhile Oxford Uni issued advice, avoiding eye-contact could be a sign of racism, a “racial microaggression”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/04/22/students-avoid-making-eye-contact-could-guiltyof-racism-oxford/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw
In a rare outbreak of common-sense, Oxford rescinded this advice but had already revealed just how convoluted and absurd things have become.
Look and you could be racist, avoid looking and you could be racist too. If you’re a white non-Muslim in the UK that is.
Apologies, that should of course be ‘Mac’ Chishty not ‘Mak’.
What happens among Hollywood “progressives” couldn’t worry me less.
The interesting part of the cited article is actually the comments section, highlighting the fact that Weinstein is a sleaze taking advantage of his power, but also that those who now denounce him were quite willing “victims”.
Asia Argento is the typical rich (her dad’s money, of course) hard-left sympathizer, while Feltri is one of the few sane journalists who dares to publicly speak his mind, and as such ostracized by the mainstream media.
Just for the record…
Germany: Record for Biggest Kebab in the World Set in Berlin
Golly gee! I thought Vlad III, the Impaler, made the biggest kebabs.
Who knew?
[Hat Tip: Eeyore]