The Catalonian government announced that it will declare independence from Spain next Monday. Meanwhile, Italy is facing a similar problem, with both Lombardy and Venice planning referendums on independence.
In other news, it has now emerged that Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, the Somali migrant who committed last weekend’s jihad terror attack in Edmonton, was ordered deported from the USA back in 2011.
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Italy: Household Purchasing Power Flat in Second Quarter
Down 0.3% in year-on-year terms due to higher inflation
(ANSA) — Rome, October 3 — Italian households’ purchasing power was flat in the second quarter of 2017 with respect to the previous three months and down 0.3% compared to the same period last year, ISTAT said Tuesday. The statistics agency said a rise in inflation rates led to the year-on-year drop in spending power. Italian households’ propensity to save, the proportion of monthly income that is put aside, dropped to 7.5% in the second quarter of 2017, down 0.2 of a percentage point on the previous three months and 1.5 points on the same period last year, ISTAT said. The agency said this was the lowest level since late 2012.
It said the quarter-on-quarter fall was determined by consumer spending rising more than incomes.
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The public is not being told the truth about what really went down in Las Vegas. As you will see below, the evidence is mounting that there were multiple shooters and that this was an operation that was planned well in advance. But according to the mainstream media, a 64-year-old retired accountant with a flabby physique that had no military training whatsoever and that wasn’t very experienced with guns was able to pull the whole thing off all by himself. We are being told that Paddock was a “lone wolf” that didn’t have any ties to terror groups, and since he is now dead nobody is ever going to be able to interrogate him. But the American people definitely deserve some answers about what took place, and that means that all of us should keep digging.
The following are 16 unanswered questions about the Las Vegas shooting that the mainstream media does not want to talk about…
#1 Photos of Stephen Paddock’s hotel room have been leaked, and one of those photos appears to show a suicide note. Why hasn’t the public been told what is in that note?
#2 Were there additional shooters? A taxi driver clearly captured video of an automatic weapon being fired out of a lower level window. A video from another angle and brief footage captured by Dan Bilzerian also seem to confirm that automatic gunfire was coming from a floor much lower than the 32nd floor room that Stephen Paddock was located on. And if you weren’t convinced by the first three videos, this fourth video should definitely do it.
#3 Why were law enforcement authorities discussing “another suspect on the fourth floor” , and why isn’t the mainstream media talking about this?
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Democrats Politicize Las Vegas Before Blood Even Dry
Before the blood was even dry in Las Vegas, Democrats from coast to coast were pushing gun control. Hillary Clinton led the charge, finding time between fainting spells to tweet “Our grief isn’t enough. We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop this from happening again.” (Translation: “Put your politics aside… and accept my politics! Oh, and my grief is never enough because I don’t feel any.”) But I guess, taking Rahm Emanuel’s counsel, leftists “never let a serious crisis go to waste.”
The waste, though, is that we’re even talking about this in a tragedy’s wake. But since the attacks have been launched, let’s discuss guns.
To use a twist on a Frédéric Bastiat line, the bad social analyst confines himself to the visible effect; the good social analyst considers not just the effects that can be seen, but those largely invisible and those that must be foreseen. Events such as Sunday’s massacre by murderer Stephen Paddock cannot be missed; they’re horrible, headline-making tragedies.
Not easily seen are the results of a study by Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck, a liberal Democrat and lifelong ACLU member: he found that guns are used by good citizens 2.2 to 2.5 million times per year to deter crime.
Some dispute this statistic, but whether it’s 2.5 million, 2 million or 1 million isn’t the point. It’s that an untold number of innocent lives are saved because good citizens own guns. This couldn’t happen were firearms outlawed. But since outlaws don’t follow laws, many of them would still have guns and, perhaps, even more innocents would be lost each year.
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Cori Langdon, a Las Vegas cab driver recorded her harrowing experience as she entered the Mandalay Bay Casino at about the same time gunshots were first being fired into the crowd at the Rt 91 country music festival in Las Vegas.
Langdon was using her phone to videotape, as she was pulling into the Mandalay Bay Casino, when she heard gunshots. She can be heard telling the dispatch operator for her cab service that she hears what “sounds like automatic gunfire.” Cori Langdon hears more gun fire, and tells her dispatch operator that the gun shots sound like they’re coming from a completely different area: “Now it sounds like its coming from farther away.”
After listening to Langdon’s video recording of the event as it unfolded, one can’t help but wonder if it’s possible there was more than one shooter.
[Comment: Link to youtube video in article.]
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Flemington Business Owner Pulls TV Ads Over NFL PR
RARITAN TWP. — In response to the ongoing controversy surrounding NFL players kneeling during the national anthem, the owner of Flemington Car and Truck Country has pulled the dealership’s ads from broadcasts of games for the remainder of the 2017 season.
“The National Football League and its owners have shown their fans and marketing partners that they do not have a comprehensive policy to ensure that players stand and show respect for America and our flag during the playing of the national anthem,” Steve Kalafer said in a statement. “We have cancelled all of our NFL advertising on the Optimum and Infinity (cable) networks.”
Kalafer is also part of the Somerset Patriots’ ownership group, an independent professional baseball team based in Somerset County.
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Multiple Shooters in Vegas: The Standard Progression of Events in a Staged Attack
by Jon Rappoport
October 4, 2017
In case anyone doesn’t get the point, multiple shooters in Las Vegas would imply much planning and coordination for a given political purpose. Not a crazy lone act of a crazy man. The whole scene would change in an instant. Everything the public knows would be wrong.
In a minute, I’ll get to an expert report about the now-famous taxi cab video, which contains much audio of shots fired at the Mandalay Hotel. The driver was parked at the hotel when the shooting began and stayed there for several minutes. But first, I want to describe the standard progression in false flags.
In several articles (archive here), I’ve established enough probability of multiple shooters, in the Vegas-concert attack, to warrant a serious and honest investigation by law-enforcement.
But of course, that’s not happening.
There is a standard sequence that is usually followed in these events.
As soon as the attacks occur, reports begin coming in from the press. There is conflicting information. There were multiple shooters-no, there was just one shooter. The purported Sandy Hook shooter, Adam Lanza? His father was killed in New Jersey-no, his mother was killed in Connecticut.
These discrepancies and bizarre contradictions are pruned away and discarded by the press as quickly as possible, as the official line is brought front and center. The contradictions are buried as if they never existed.
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One City Saw 10 Percent of Mass Shootings
Chicago accounted for approximately 10 percent of mass shootings during a 17-month period in the U.S., according to data analyzed by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
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Soros, Kellogg, Ford Foundations Gave Millions to Anti-Trump Resistance Group
Major left-wing foundations have given millions of dollars to a leading anti-Trump “resistance” group, a new report reveals.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, The Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundation have channeled millions of dollars to the Center for Community Change, according to 2015 tax documents obtained by The Washington Free Beacon.
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CAQ Wins Upset Landslide Win Over Liberals in Louis Hebert Riding
Quebec: This past Monday, there was an election held in the PLQ (Liberal) stronghold riding of Louis Hébert to replace Liberal Sam Haddad who had previously won five straight terms.
The PLQ is in choc. Their candidate, a female, Ihssane El Ghernati, won only 18% of the vote. This riding is the most important Liberal riding in the province, a riding they’ve held since 2003.
The winner: CAQ (Coalition Avenir Québec) with 51% of the vote.
A massive defeat for the PLQ.
REASON for this crushing result: The Liberals’ proposed consultation process on Systemic Racism and Xenophobia. People are fed up with being labeled racists and xenophobic. Anglo media isn’t mentioning this but it’s everywhere in French media. Couillard is now contemplating the possible cancellation of the consultation or changing its intent (too late, people no longer trust him).
NOTE: Provincial elections will be held in less than one year from now.
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Psychiatrist Says Serial Rapist Sofyan Boalag High Risk to Re-Offend Without Treatment
He was convicted for sexual assaults on two women and a teenager in 2012
A forensic psychiatrist said she believes convicted criminal Sofyan Boalag is a high risk to re-offend if he was released now.
Dr. Jasbir Gill provided that opinion in provincial court in St. John’s Monday — at a hearing to determine if Boalag should be declared a dangerous offender.
Boalag, 38, was convicted of sexually assaulting two women and a 15-year-old girl in St. John’s in the summer and fall of 2012 in St. John’s.
Gill had previously assessed Boalag at the Waterford Hospital and, in court Monday, said Boalag told her that Canadian women don’t respect men, and that he doesn’t like the fact that women in this country drink, do drugs, and have friendships with men.
Gill said Boalag also said he wouldn’t have committed the sexual assaults if he wasn’t drinking and doing cocaine.
Boalag only accepts responsibility for what he did “in so far as he was found guilty,” according to Gill.
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The Full Dhimmi: Toronto District School Board Chair Defends Controversial Islamic Guidebook
A letter written by the chair of the Toronto District School Board concerning their controversial Islamic Heritage Month guidebook chastises a national Jewish group and reveals the board was not as eager to tone the guide down as previously thought.
On Monday, I reported that the TDSB was temporarily recalling and revising their Islamic Heritage Month guidebook following a complaint from advocacy group B’nai Brith Canada.
Editor’s note: As I noted yesterday, our public institutions must be regarded as latter day versions of Vichy France. The TDSB, thanks to their overwhelming featherbedding greed needs the tax dollars the province provides. The TDSB needs Muslim students, lots of them, to hold on to that funding hence the sharia-creep in our schools. That money does not go to the children, or for anything as silly as teaching, it provides them gold plated pensions and benefits. They have sold you and your children out to line their pockets. They have allowed a violent supremacist cult to infiltrate and influence our allegedly secular school system. And now comes the Islam inspired Jew hatred, it’s all part of the bargain.
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Toronto Public School Guide Pushes Muslim Greeting During Morning Announcements
While public school students all across Canada typically learn about the world’s major religions at some point during their studies, one school board’s guidebook on Islam is edging close to religious instruction and indoctrination.
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Catalonia Moves to Declare Independence From Spain on Monday
BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) — Catalonia will move on Monday to declare independence from Spain after holding a banned referendum, pushing the European Union nation toward a rupture that threatens the foundations of its young democracy.
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Denmark: Copenhagen Gets Power Back After Major Blackout
A power cut affected large areas of Copenhagen on Wednesday morning.
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EU Executive Steps Up Action Against Hungary Over NGO Law
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The European Commission on Wednesday stepped up legal action against Hungary over restrictions on foreign funding likely to affect civil society groups funded by the billionaire investor George Soros.
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Former AfD Leader Petry Charged on Suspicion of Perjury
The public prosecutor’s office in Dresden, Saxony, has filed charges against former Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician Frauke Petry on suspicion of false oath.
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Germany: How Foreigners in Berlin Are Turning to a Black Market in Mental Health for Treatment
Life in Germany’s hedonistic capital city can take its toll on the psyche. Faced with long waiting lists and local therapists who can’t relate to their experiences, Berlin expats are turning to less conventional sources.
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Italy: Undersecretary Rossi Quits Over Son Job ‘Scam’
After Le Iene report
(ANSA) — Rome, October 3 — Defence Undersecretary Domenico Rossi on Tuesday quit after a TV show showed MP Mario Caruso formally hired his son as a favour but the young man doesn’t have to turn up to work. The show, Le Iene (Reservoir Dogs), which regularly performs stings on politicians, allegedly also showed that the son’s salary came out of his father’s pocket.
Rossi called the show’s claims “unfounded charges, harmful to my reputation”.
Lower House Speaker laura Boldrini said “I will weigh action over Le Iene’s claims”.
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Italy: Priest Convicted of Molesting Altar Boy
Near padua
(ANSA) — Padua, October 3 — A northern Italian priest was sentenced to two yeard and eight months in jail Tuesday for molesting a 15-year-old altar boy.
Father Nicola De Rossi committed the abuse in July 2016 at Monselicense near Padua, the court found.
The priest was moved to another parish before the probe was opened. After it was opened he was suspended.
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Italy: ‘Fascist Beach’ Case Asked to be Shelved
Lack of evidence say prosecutors
(ANSA) — Venice, October 4 — Venice prosecutors on Wednesday asked that a case against a so-called ‘Fascist beach’ near the lagoon city be dropped, citing lack of evidence.
The prosecutors said they thought the various pro-Fascist elements on the beach were just a manifestation of the owner’s “thinking” and not a full-blown apology of Fascism which is punishable under a postwar law.
In July Venice investigators began probing the owner of a beach establishment at the nearby resort of Chioggia over pro-Fascism signs. Rightwing populist Northern League (LN) leader Matteo Salvini condemned the move, saying “people should be allowed to carry on with their daily work”.
The probe came after reports of images sympathetic to Fascism and Benito Mussolini at Chioggia’s Playa Punta Canna establishment caused a furore.
The establishment’s owner, Gianni Scarpa, was ordered to “abstain from the further release of messages against democracy”.
Partisans association ANPI was among those calling for the licence of 64-year-old Scarpa, who allegedly gave Fascist-like speeches at the venue, to be revoked.
The beach club has signs describing toilets as gas chambers and saying they were “for him, for her, for lesbians and gays”.
It also features images of Mussolini and quotes from some of his speeches.
Scarpa used a trademark Fascist remark, “Me ne frego” (I don’t give a damn) to describe the row.
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Italy: CasaPound March for Closure of Rome Islamic Centre
After Mali man attacked kissing couple
(ANSA) — Rome, October 4 — The far-right extraparliamentary CasaPound group staged a torchlit march in Rome Wednesday to demand the closure of a Rome mosque outside which an Italian kissing couple were attacked by a Mali man last month.
“We want the immediate closure of the illegal mosque in Via San Vito after this umpteenth episode of intolerance,” CasaPound said, adding that the road was “the most degraded one in the Esquilino district” which is home to many immigrants.
The Malian was released earlier Wednesday after receiving a five-month suspended sentence for the attack.
The 24-year-old Mali national was arrested Sunday night for allegedly attacking a couple who were walking hand-in-hand and kissing near the Islamic centre.
The man reportedly told them “you can’t kiss in front of the mosque” before pushing the young woman and punching and kicking the young man. The assailant also allegedly attacked police who came to the scene. A Carabiniere was slightly hurt.
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Italy: Campari Sells LemonSoda to Royal Unibrew
Italian drinks groups sells unit to Danish-based beverage co
(ANSA) — Milan, October 4 -Gruppo Campari announced today that it has reached an agreement to sell ITS Lemonsoda business to Danish-based beverage company Royal Unibrew A/S.
The enterprise value is € 80.0 million on a cash free/debt free basis for 100% of the issued share capital of a wholly owned subsidiary of Davide Campari-Milano S.p.A.’s, and it is subject to the customary price adjustment mechanisms. The sold business includes the alcohol free fruit-flavoured carbonated variants Lemonsoda, Oransoda, Pelmosoda and Mojito Soda, grouped under the Freedea brand name, as well as the Crodo brands (with the exception of the brand Crodino). Besides the trademarks, the perimeter includes the manufacturing and bottling facility, located in Crodo, Northern Italy, and the attached water springs as well as the inventories.
In the fiscal year ended 31 December 2016 the brands perimeter sold achieved total net sales of € 32.8 million and CAAP (Contribution after A&P), before allocated costs and depreciation, of € 6.3 million. The total net sales relating to the brands sold represented approximately 2% of Gruppo Campari’s net sales in FY2016. Italy is the brands’ core market, accounting for 84.3% of the overall net sales in FY2016. The overall deal consideration corresponds to a multiple of approximately 13 times the CAAP (Contribution after A&P), before allocated costs and depreciation, relating to the brands sold.
The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of 2017.
As part of the transaction and effective from closing, Gruppo Campari and Royal Unibrew will enter into a multi-year manufacturing agreement, under which Royal Unibrew will continue to manufacture certain Gruppo Campari’s owned products which are currently produced at the bottling facility located in Crodo.
The entire business sold entered Gruppo Campari in 1995 via the Group’s first acquisition. The range was part of a larger brand portfolio acquired including also the non-alcoholic aperitif Crodino, which is excluded from the announced disposal and remains today a key owned brand of Gruppo Campari. Over the years, Gruppo Campari has successfully introduced various line extensions, further augmenting the established Lemonsoda business, the undisputed market leader in the lemon-flavoured soda segment in Italy.
This transaction fits Gruppo Campari’s efforts to streamline its brand portfolio and focus on its core spirits business.
Since the beginning of 2017 Gruppo Campari has divested several non-strategic assets for a total value of approximately € 310 million.
Royal Unibrew A/S, a Danish limited liability company listed on the Nasdaq Nordic Stock Exchange, is a major beverage player within beer, soft drinks, waters, ciders, energy drinks and non-alcoholic malt drinks, holding leading positions primarily in Northern Europe, Italy and in the international malt beverage markets.
Bob Kunze-Concewitz, Chief Executive Officer-Gruppo Campari said: ‘The sale of the Lemonsoda and Crodo business marks a further key step in our strategy of streamlining our non-core activities. In particular, with this transaction we exit the soft drinks business, while retaining our core Crodino brand, to further focus on our key aperitif business in Italy. We are very pleased to sign this transaction with Royal Unibrew, a focused player and brand developer in the soft drinks and mineral water segments, and a perfect fit for the Lemonsoda business.
Moreover, we are glad to transfer the Crodo facility to a Group investing in the soft drinks segment with ambitious growth plans for the manufacturing site.’ Hans Savonije, CEO Royal Unibrew, said: ‘Today’s acquisition cements our commitment to the Italian market and expands our position. In Ceres Strong Ale, we have one must-stock product, and now we’re adding Lemonsoda as number two to our portfolio.
Lemonsoda is the Italian market leader within citrus-based soft drinks products and is almost as widely distributed as Ceres Strong Ale. This is one of the reasons why we consider the new business a good match. We believe that our extensive multi-beverage experience will enable us to generate growth in the acquired business.’.
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Italy Facing Its Own Catalonia: Referendums in Lombardy and Venice Could Topple EU
ITALY could face its own Catalonia-style break-up with controversial referendums scheduled for both Lombardy and Venice.
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Orlandi Case: About Father Lombardi’s Investigation
In February 2012, an investigative news TV programme disclosed parts of a personal note from the director of the Vatican Press Office, who in the following weeks made a personal “inquiry” into the case whose results were published on April 14th of that year
On February 22nd, 2012, Pietro Orlandi (Emanuela’s brother) was at “Chi l’ha visto?” an investigative news TV programme aired in Italy, where families ask the watching TV public for any information on missing relatives — to disclose the content of a note that Father Federico Lombardi, then-director of the Vatican Press Office, had sent to his superior or, either way, to someone important. It is a confidential note in which the Jesuit responsible for the Vatican media summarizes certain data and unanswered questions regarding the case of young Emanuela’s kidnapping. That note was written a few weeks earlier, on 9 January. We are the beginning of the Vatileaks scandal, the first great leak of confidential documents photocopied from the Pope’s desk by his butler Paolo Gabriele, who was arrested immediately after the release of the book “Sua Santita” “His Holiness” by Gianluigi Nuzzi.
That 22nd February, however, Nuzzi’s book had not yet been published and among the documents that were already beginning to filter through some newspapers, there was no trace of Lombardi’s note. It is not difficult to imagine that this document — an email sent from the Vatican spokesman to Georg Gänswein, Benedict XVI’s personal secretary — had been given to Pietro Orlandi by Paolo Gabriele himself, since the two knew each other and met regularly. At the time, the text of the document had not been published in full…
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Spain ‘Neutral’ On Atlantia-Abertis — De Guindos
Authority will judge says Spain industry minister
(ANSA) — Rome, October 2 — The Spanish government is “neutral” on Italian group Atlantia’s takeover bid for Spain’s Abertis, Economy and Industry Minister Luis de Guindos said on the sidelines of an Italy-Spain forum in Rome Monday, stressing “there is a specific authority that will deal with the issue”. The Benetton family’s Atlantia SpA is bidding to buy Abertis Infraestructuras SA in a 16.3 billion-euro ($18 billion) offer that would create the world’s biggest operator of toll roads, without the formal backing of its top investor, Criteria Caixa SA.
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Watching streamed extremist material online will be a criminal offence under plans to crackdown on terrorist propaganda.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd will say those found guilty of repeatedly viewing terrorist material could face up to 15 years in jail.
The new law will extend an existing ban on downloading and possessing the content on a PC to repeatedly watching it through sites like YouTube.
Ms Rudd said: “I want to make sure those who view despicable terrorist content online including jihadi websites, far-right propaganda and bomb-making instructions face the full force of the law.
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Wipes Israel Off the Map
Israel — a UN member state — was erased from the map and replaced with “ Palestine” at a seminar held at UN Headquarters on October 3, 2017. The event was “ organized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights,” and entitled: “ Introducing the Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions and its Role in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Arab Region.” The UN used its extraordinary facilities to webcast the event — and the map — around the world.
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ISIS Wants to Create ‘New Global Terrorist Network’ — Russia’s FSB Chief
The leftovers of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) could try to form a new terrorist network after its eventual defeat in the Middle East, Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Aleksandr Bortnikov warns.
The terrorists have been “almost defeated while attempting to build their caliphate in Iraq and Syria,” he noted.
Yet, “the leaders of IS and other international terrorist groups have defined their global strategic objective as the creation of a new, worldwide terrorist network,” Bortnikov stated at a meeting of security services and law enforcement agencies from Russia and 73 other countries in the Russian city of Krasnodar.
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Persecuted Staying in Mideast Real Christians — Pope
May St Francis boost attention for environment
(ANSA) — Vatican City, October 4 — The persecuted people who are staying in the Middle East are real Christians, pope Francis said at his weekly general audience Wednesday.
Speaking to a crowd of about 20,000 in a very sunny St Peter’s Square, the pope said “let’s think about the many pastors who are not abandoning their people”.
Real Christians are mild-mannered but not remissive and never “accommodating” for the sake of it, Francis went on.
He called on the faithful to “open spaces of heaven, because hatred is not invincible”.
Speaking on the feats of St Francis of Assisi, the saint he named himself after, the pontiff also said “may St Francis’s example boost attention for the environment”.
Finally, Francis said that at a synod for youth next March 19-24 “we will listen to youths from the non-Catholic world too”.
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Syrian Children Back to School in Lebanon With Italian NGOs
EU-financed project for 18,500 students
(ANSAmed) — BEIRUT, OCTOBER 3 — A consortium of NGOs from Italy and other countries is managing an EU-funded scholastic project in Lebanon titled “Back to the Future”, which will provide for the opening of 19 educational and community centres for the social and educational integration of Syrian refugee children.
The project is financed by the Madad EU Regional Trust Fund and will allow more than 18,500 children to return to school.
Participating organisations include AVSI, Terre des Hommes Italy, Terre des Hommes Netherlands, and War Child Holland.
It is estimated that there are over 200,000 Syrian refugee children without access to school in Lebanon, a country that hosts more than one million refugees.
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Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied slammed news outlets this week, claiming the Las Vegas gunman would have been portrayed differently if ‘we treated white men like brown Muslims.’
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Indian-Origin Bus Driver Rushed to Hospital After Being Stabbed
An Indian-origin bus driver has been admitted to hospital after being stabbed in Auckland, New Zealand on Wednesday evening.
The driver of Murphys Bus, bus number 361 was stabbed while on duty around 5:45 p.m. on Wednesday evening, stuff.co.nz reports.
The injured bus driver was taken to Middlemore Hospital in a serious condition with injuries to his stomach and neck.
“Some quick work by police staff at the scene helped prevent the injuries becoming more serious,” a police spokeswoman said.
Though the identity of the driver is not yet known, local media reports the injured driver is of Indian origin.
Two men have been arrested in relation to the stabbing in Manurewa, police said.
The 15-year old and a 20-year old were arrested the same evening and are due to appear in the Manukau Youth Court and District Court on Thursday.
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The teacher manual at Islamic school Bellfield College, in southwest Sydney, said to tell students ‘peace, stability and justice can only be achieved through the establishment of Islam’.
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Edmonton Terror Attack: Migrant Charged With Attempted Murder Was to be Deported From US
A SOMALI migrant who is accused of stabbing police and running down four pedestrians was ordered to be deported in 2011 before claiming refugee status in Canada, according to US officials.
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Hungary Can Help Romania to Protect Borders From Migrants
PM Orban,efficient protection at eastern border will be needed
(ANSA) — BUCHAREST — The Hungarian PM Viktor Orban has stated on Wednesday that Budapest would rather help Romania protect its eastern border to stop the migrant flows than build a fence at the Romanian-Hungarian border, MTI reports.
“Sooner or later an efficient protection at Romania’s eastern border will be needed. Should be otherwise, Romania will be overwhelmed by immigrants, and we’ll be forced to build a fence at the border with Romania. Obviously, we want to avoid this and we’ll gladly help Romania protect its eastern border,” Orban stated.
The Hungarian premier pointed out that Romanian and Hungary could have “a successful cooperation” in the upcoming years, adding that he expects Central Europe to cross the best decades in the history. “It’s up to Romania to decide if it will join this success story of the Central Europe, by cooperating with Hungary and involving in the joint economic projects and establishing joint projects with the states in the regions. We can find a cooperation way of the Visegrad Group plus Romania, to contribute to the living standard rise, to the increase of security. We’ll keep our door open,” Orban concluded.
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Man Charged in Edmonton Attacks Was Ordered Deported From U.S. In 2011
Immigration judge ordered Abdulahi Hasan Sharif deported back to Somalia
The Somali refugee accused of stabbing an Edmonton police constable on the weekend and running down four pedestrians was ordered to be deported from the United States in 2011 by a U.S. immigration judge, CBC News has learned.
In July 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection transferred Abdulahi Hasan Sharif into the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, Calif., according to Jennifer D. Elzea, acting press secretary for the ICE office of public affairs.
Two months later, on Sept. 22, 2011, an immigration judge ordered Sharif removed to Somalia. Sharif waived his right to appeal that decision.
But Sharif was released on Nov. 23, 2011, on an ICE order of supervision, “due to a lack of likelihood of his removal in the reasonably foreseeable future,” Elzea said in a statement to CBC News.
Sharif failed to report to the ICE enforcement and removal operations centre on his scheduled date, Jan. 24, 2012.
“Efforts by ERO San Diego to locate him were not successful,” Elzea said…
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Polish MEP Rips Into EU Over Common Immigration Policies
A POLISH euro MP today ripped into Angela Merkel and the EU over the bloc’s common immigration policies, telling them they cannot “ideologically bulldoze” member states.
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Sweden Grants 106-Year-Old Afghan Woman Asylum
Sweden has granted temporary residency to a 106-year-old Afghan woman, overturning an earlier decision to refuse her asylum.
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Swedish Police Struggle to Carry Out Deportation Orders
Swedish police are having an increasingly difficult time carrying out deportation orders handed over to them by the migration authorities.
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The Mass Shooting Problem, Like Organised Terrorism, is a Drug Problem
The United States has the highest rate per capita use of anti-depressant drugs and boasts the highest consumption of opiates in the world. However, according to the World Health Organisation, the United States is not the country with the highest rates of clinical depression, in spite of US doctors tending to over-diagnose mental disorders in comparison with the global average.
Moreover, there is a clear linkage between criminals who engage in mass shooting attacks and their use of psychotropic anti-depressant drugs. This relationship has been ignored for too long. The mass shooting problem in the United States is a drug problem and many in the US remain in denial. As this piece shall also detail, individuals working for international terrorist organisations have something in common with lone-wolf shooters. The point of commonality is not ideology, but psychotropic drug use.
Until governments such as that of the United States, cracks down on big pharmaceutical companies, black-market drug dealers and the deep state’s involvement in narcotics trafficking, things will only get worse. It is no coincidence that the number of mass shootings as well as cruel and usual homicides have increased in-line with the use of psychotropic drugs.
Furthermore, society must work diligently to stigmatise drug use until such a point where being a drug addict is socially derided to the same degree as being a member of a known terrorist organisation.
The following is a list compiled by WND news, detailing the mass shooters and other obviously insane killers, known to be taking psychotropic drugs prior to or during their killing sprees:
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Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Bronwyn Bishop has called on the Australian government to act against Islamic jihadists hiding in our communities.
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An amzing book
Joyce Riley with William Engdahl on his “The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods would destroy”, August 3, 2016
https://youtu.be/nIF9ezKPKGw
UK: Watching ‘Far-Right Propaganda’ Or Accessing Jihadi Websites Could Result in 15-Year Jail Term — Tory Home Secretary
Ok then, dear Brits: Listening to BBC during war time was punishable by death under the Nazis. Listening to western radio was punishable by a prison sentence and/or by disqualifying all your proffessional education degrees under the communists!
By the looks of it, you, dear Brits, are somewhere inbetween the Nazis and the communists, because 15 years in prison for listening to ‘enemy radio’ is somewhat harsh even by the communist standards.
What a shame! I always admired Britain, read all Biggles books when I was young. What the hell happened to you?
Post Modernism happened to Britain. Welcome to 1984
Their government betrayed it’s citizens to Islam.
Not sure it applies to us, but I’ll await developments…
The muslim migrant from Mali (a country 90% muslim, #7 in the list of countries that Christians), who beat up a couple for kissing in front of an illegal mosque and who attacked a policeman, was released on probation? What is wrong with the world…
That immivader would never have gotten away with assaulting a cop in the US, as that generally ends in a one way trip to the morgue.
‘Far Right propaganda’? Who gets to decide what is ‘far right’ and what is ‘propaganda’?
If this tyrannical law is passed then Britain will be in the same league as Nazi Germany and all the Communist states. Last one out please turn off the lights!
You are absolutely correct!
It’s distressing to see the Ford and Kellogg Foundations taken over by vile Leftists who hate the America the founders of these foundations loved so.
Spend your dollars elsewhere!
Henry Ford would puke if he were here to see what his Foundation is spending its money on.
Henry Ford had a photo of Hitler on his desk, so maybe he’s not an ideal role model?
And don’t forget Ford’s utopian workers paradise in a South American country that went belly up.
You of course know the secret to Utopias don’t you Nemesis.
First off, Sir Thomas More, when he authored the Novel Utopia he was clear about it because the literal translation is “no place” is where everybody could be happy all at once.
But the secret is discovered when the thinking man asks “if Utopia is where everybody is happy, what is there for practical jokers and misanthropes to be happy about?”
The obvious is answer is that 1) practical jokers are the ones selling the idea that a place where everybody can be happy at once really exists.
Then 2) It’s not until the gullible get locked into the place that they discover that the misanthropes are running the show.
That’s USSR 2.0, also known as the EU.
Henry Ford didn’t know then what we know now, about Hitler and Nazism. Jes’ tryin’ to be properly historical about it …
Don’t forget that an awful lot of decent Germans were, initially, taken in by Hitler in the early years.
Frank, Ford thought he ‘knew’ what he was doing . The problem was, he did not allow for the workers he employed to seek their own pursuit of happiness as he attempted to force his idea of worker happiness onto them.
It was fascist thinking (he thought he knew what was best for everyone) that led Ford into making the biggest mistake of his business life, and regardless of not knowing beforehand the end result of his ‘experiment’ in producing his own supply of rubber products for his motor vehicles, if he had paid a little more attention to the culture of those he wished to give a ‘workers paradise’ to, he would have realized his initial approach was all wrong and corrected his thinking.
Fordlandia didn’t fail because Ford’s business and labor sense were faulty, it failed because he did not take into account the culture of the labor he got to employ and his insistence that they live and work as American workers lived and worked – even to providing American food he insisted that they consume, but his labor force rejected.
Ford’s sense of worker happiness failed to address that every culture has its own idea on what worker happiness, and the pursuit of, is.
No, but on some level Ford believed in the idea of America, whereas Soros wants to see the US disappeared from the pages of history.
Chevy, look up Robert Conquest’s Second Law of Politics
“Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.”
The Progressive movement has been relentless in it infiltration of every formerly worthwhile institution per the only way the Progs have actually been progressive; namely incrementalist. The result is why I now only refer to the
LeftSinister this way.Indeed! Stealthily sinister!
https://soundcloud.com/radiosputnik/daesh-isil-william-engdahl
For what it’s worth, I’ve tried to view that taxi cab driver’s video but all I get is either a flat out :’not available’ (not even ‘not available in your country’ just not available )or has been taken down by owner.
Go to infowars, they used the same video in one of their article. They most likely mirrored the content and still have it there.
Thanks, CrossWare. It was there.
I never thought about it before but these posts must take you hours to assemble. That is a ton of link pasting even if you have a formatting template you use each week. Much respect Mr. BB.
Re: Canada, I think they are doing everything humanly possible to give Sweden a run for their money. Sweden has a significant head start on them of course, but as someone raised within the shadow of the Canadian border it sure saddens me. Mayhaps Mr. Trudeau will be defeated and return to substitute teaching.
Most of the news feed is automated, including all the link tags and formatting. The text, headline, URL, and other info for each item go into the database. Then, just before midnight, the software assembles the body of the news feed from them.
Good to know you’re not doing it all by hand! Some of us were beginning to think that you are Superman.
Ah very good. You are a smarter man than me 🙂 I need to find some systems like that myself.
I didn’t find ’em. I wrote ’em. 🙂
And the fallout from the reign of Comrade Zero….I mean President Obama just keeps on giving:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/05/refugees-resettled-in-u-s-from-detention-centers-known-for-rape-pedophilia/
If the Irishman O’Bama was Comrade Zero, I think he spawned in Justin (‘Shiny Pony,’ ‘Baby Doc’) Trudeau Comrade 0.o5
Try and grab a photo image of Boy Wonder Trudeau and Fidel Castro.
Strikingly similar eh?
re : the Canada item, about the serial rapist Sofyan Boalag :
That s.o.b. Boalag has been playing our provincial justice system like a fiddle. He has repeatedly dismissed his court-appointed attorneys, dragging this process out for years, costing the taxpayers a fortune. Every time there’s some new ‘development’ in the case, it is duly covered by the local media … but I have yet to see any explanation of how this Algerian got into the country in the first place. He’s been here since at least 2012 (original charges against him date from that year, I believe) and that’s well before the 2015 refugee ‘crisis.’
The report said ‘sexual assault’ charges, but serial rape charges have been dropped. (The Crown Prosecutor had been seeking a sentence of 17 years imprisonment – unusual in Canada.) Some day our media might do a ‘re-cap’ of the whole case and explain how he got into Canada in the first place.