Tariq Ramadan, the renowned Swiss philosopher, has been given a leave of absence from Oxford University. Administrators at Oxford said they wanted Dr. Ramadan to have the time and energy to concentrate on the serious charges of sexual misconduct that have been leveled against him.
In other news, Virginia Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam, a Democrat, defeated the Republican candidate Ed Gillespie in today’s gubernatorial election.
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Newly released audio from the Clark Country Fire Department has provided even more proof that were multiple shooters during The Las Vegas Massacre, further debunking the official narrative of a lone gunman on the 32nd floor and once again calling into question almost every aspect of what actually happened during the worst mass shooting in American history.
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Northam Wins Virginia Governor Election
Democratic Lt. Gov Ralph Northam defeated Republican Ed Gillespie Tuesday to become Virginia’s next governor.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Northam has 53.6 percent of the vote and Gillespie has 45.2 percent.
Northam consistently led in the polls throughout the election and Virginia has not elected a Republican to state-wide office since 2009. The election took national importance as President Donald Trump backed Gillespie. However, Virginia was the only Southern state that Hillary Clinton won in 2016.
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Phoenixville Police Respond to Domestic Incident Where Wife Stabbed Husband
According to Phoenixville Police, on Sunday shortly after 8 p.m., police responded to the report of a domestic disturbance inside a residence in the unit block of Franklin Avenue. A 50-year-old man met the officers at the door and told them that his wife had stabbed him in the abdomen with a knife. The officers entered the residence, and the man’s wife was still holding the knife. The 41-year-old woman was arrested for aggravated assault and sent to Chester County Prison after failing to post 10 percent of $50,000 bail. The man’s condition was not immediately released.
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NEW BRAUNFELS, Tex. — The gunman who opened fire in a church outside San Antonio, killing at least 26 people, escaped from a mental health facility in 2012 after he was caught sneaking guns onto an Air Force base and “attempting to carry out death threats” made against military superiors, according to a police report.
The report said officers with the El Paso, Tex., police were dispatched to a bus terminal after Devin P. Kelley ‘s escape from a behavioral facility about seven miles away in New Mexico. Officers wrote they were told Kelley, who intended to take a bus out of the state, “was a danger to himself and others” at the time and noted that he “was also facing military criminal charges.”
This incident occurred the same year that Kelley was court-martialed. He was charged with abusing his wife and her son between April 2011 and April 2012 and then sentenced in November 2012, according to Air Force documents…
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Tuberculosis Outbreak of a Multi -Drug Resistant Strain in Minnesota is Hard to Fight
An outbreak of tuberculosis has surfaced in Minnesota, and medical officials are concerned. Normally, the disease is treated with antibiotics. But this new strain is resistant to multiple drugs, making it difficult to control.
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Arrests Made in French, Swiss Anti-Terrorism Raids
Ten people suspected of using encrypted social networks to prepare a possible attack were arrested Tuesday in counterterrorism operations in France and Switzerland, according to French officials.
Among those arrested were a 23-year-old Colombian woman and 27-year-old Swiss man, both targets of a Swiss investigation into banned Islamic extremist groups.
Searches are still underway in the Paris suburbs and in southeastern France.
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Catalonia Latest: Fury as EU Refuses to Intervene in Independence Crisis
FURIOUS Catalan separatists have turned on the European Union, blaming Brussels for the bitter stand-off region’s stand-off with Spain.
Separatists assumed EU chiefs would put pressure on Madrid to get round the negotiating table with Carles Puigdemont and his cabinet.
However, they have been met with silence as Catalan leaders have been jailed and direct rule imposed on the region.
The Mayor of Girona, one of the centres of the pro-independence movement, fumed at the EU’s apathy towards Catalonia.
Mayor Marta Madrenas told the Financial Times: “What surprises me is that Europe doesn’t give a damn.”
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‘Disaster’ For the Establishment: Merkel Government Coalition Talks in Disarray, Snap Election Looms
Failing coalition talks are worrying many around German Chancellor Angela Merkel, including a senior figure in Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party who warned that a snap election could be a “disaster” for the establishment.
Senior CDU politician and current Schleswig-Holstein Minister President Daniel Günther is sounding the alarm to other members of his party saying that a coalition deal between the CDU/CSU, the libertarian Free Democrats, and the Green Party must be agreed on soon.
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EU Doom: Austria Could Turn Tide on Brussels by Joining Powerful Visegrad Group
Sebastian Kurz is set to become the continent’s youngest leader after topping the polls in Austria’s election last month.
His Austrian People’s Party is expected to form a coalition with the far-right Freedom Party (FPO), who have long campaigned to shun the EU and instead turn to the Visegrad group — a four-nation alliance of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
Now with Austria soon to take over the presidency of the EU council, experts have claimed joining the group of anti-immigration states could give Austria a chance to influence decisions in a way it currently cannot in the bloc.
Political scientist Paul Luif has warned Europhiles that Austria’s lack of “close cooperation partners in the EU” makes it all the more necessary for the nation to “broaden its point of view”.
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How Catalonia’s Independence Efforts Raise Tension in Belgium
Catalonia’s effort to separate from Spain became more complex Sunday when the former president of the region, Carles Puigdemont, surrendered to police in Belgium. Puigdemont had fled to Brussels from Spain last week.
Spain ordered the arrest of Puigdemont and other Catalan leaders. They are accused of rebellion.
As Madrid seeks to stop the drive toward Catalan independence, similar movements, such as in Scotland, are watching with interest.
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Oxford Puts Islamic Scholar on Leave Over Rape Charges
Oxford University placed a prominent Islamic scholar on leave Tuesday after multiple women accused him of sexual assault and rape.
The university released a statement Tuesday explaining that Tariq Ramadan, a major research fellow at St. Anthony’s college and professor of Islamic Studies, would take a mutually agreed upon leave of absence effective immediately to allow Ramadan to address the allegations against him, according to the Guardian.
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A mother-of-five who encouraged terror attacks on Facebook has been spared jail after a judge told her, “the sooner you get back to your children the better”.
Farhana Ahmed, 40, from north-west London, had been in custody since being charged over the 2015 social media posts while her home-schooled children, aged between six and 16, were cared for by relatives.
Judge Christopher Moss QC sentenced her to a suspended term of two years after she pleaded guilty to encouraging terrorism and three counts of disseminating documents.
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The 52-year-old driver Maha Al-Shennag was holed up inside a house in Sydney on Wednesday after being charged with two counts of dangerous driving occasioning death.
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A boy who was killed alongside his eight-year-old friend after a car slammed through their classroom in western Sydney on Tuesday pleaded ‘I want my mum’ as he lay trapped beneath the wreckage.
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A nine-year-old primary school student has described the moment a car crashed into her classroom in Sydney’s south-west on Tuesday morning and killed two children.
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Former Labor leader Mark Latham wants welfare recipients to lose their social security after 12 months if they don’t bother learning basic English. He made the call outside a Sydney Centrelink.
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National Assembly: Venezuela’s January-October Inflation 826 Percent
CARACAS — Inflation in Venezuela’s crisis-hit economy was 826 percent in the 10 months to October and may end 2017 above 1,400 percent, the opposition-controlled National Assembly said Friday.
The government stopped releasing price data more than a year ago but congress has published its own figures since January and they have been close to private economists’ estimates.
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Germany: Whistleblower Schoolteacher: Mass Migration, Radical Islam Making Education Impossible
An experienced teacher from a heavily migrant-occupied neighbourhood in a German city has said the spread of radical Islamism is creating divisions in society and turning young children against education.
The claim that educational attainment, as well as attitudes towards work and school, have all suffered recently because of a “gigantic integration problem” and radical Islam comes just days after a new report revealed the number of teachers being forced to report their elementary-aged pupils to the authorities for radical Salafist views is rising.
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UK: Migrant Rapist Who Branded Women ‘Lesser Beings’ Jailed for 12 Years
A FORMER illegal migrant who raped a woman days after he won permission to stay in the UK and then called Britain a “bitch country” was jailed for 12 years yesterday.
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Srdja Trifkovic
That Europe is in mortal danger from the ongoing, overwhelmingly Muslim immigrant deluge and from its ruling elites’ spiritual degeneracy is beyond dispute. This phenomenon of world-historical significance has several causes, but the most important one is in the divorce of reason from faith. As a result, post-Christian Europe is rapidly sinking into self-destruction.
The nature of the problem is illustrated by the European Union’s Media Against Hate campaign, conducted under its Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme. Its sponsor, the E.U. Commission, pledges that its lawyers “will address the worrying increase of hate crime and hate speech by allocating funding to actions aiming at preventing and combating racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance.” In the same vein, in his “State of the Union” address last September, E.U. Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker declared that the E.U. will keep accepting migrants regardless of what ordinary people want: “Europe is and must remain the continent of solidarity where those fleeing persecution can find refuge.”
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With 650 Yazidis Now in Canada, Immigration Officials Say Target of 1,200 in Sight
OTTAWA—A promise to resettle 1,200 people who escaped torture and persecution at the hands of Islamic militants is within reach by the end of the year, immigration officials said Tuesday.
A total of 807 people had arrived in Canada by the end of October and another 1,383 files are in process, officials told the House of Commons immigration committee.
Of those already here, 81 per cent are Yazidi, a minority sect from Iraq specifically targeted by Islamic militants over the course of the conflict in Iraq…
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Controversial alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has slammed an Australian school programme that teaches youngsters about gay sex.
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‘Controversial alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has slammed an Australian school programme that teaches youngsters about gay sex.’
There were times when reading/writing, mathematics, geometry, rhetoric, music, and gymnastics were considered important subjects to teach the children. What’s up with teaching them sex nowadays? True post-modernism…
They are recruiting for the LGBTQAI+ movement, despite their protests otherwise.
so it makes you wonder who is Really paying the teachers
The cultural Marxists that have taken over every Western government.
The federal government removed this ‘education’ from the Australian curriculum, but the Marxist state of Victoria called out state rights and introduced this very psychologically damaging program to all state public schools.
There have been many protests, but to no avail. So, many parents have now removed their children from attending state schools and enrolled them in to other non-state schools.
Deepest condolences to all those in Virginia, which saw the election of multiple cultural Marxists last night.
So Virginia has turned blue now. Very sad. It is now being driven by Richmond rather than the bulk of the state.
Not Richmond, but the Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy in Northern Virginia.
If we could excise the counties of Fairfax, Loudoun, Arlington, and Prince William, and the cities of Alexandria and Virginia Beach, and possibly Norfolk, Virginia would be a red state like Tennessee. Charlottesville is a socialist stronghold, but it’s small enough not to force our district into the blue.
Richmond is kind of purple — a lot of unreconstructed Southern whites still live there. The same goes for Roanoke.
More winning from Donna Brazile, who either wants to pump her book and get Arkancided with a clear(er) conscience:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-08/donna-brazile-exposes-cult-clinton-she-lost-due-arrogance
Bravo to Corey Feldman, who has apparently given an interview to LA Robbery-Homicide, convincing them to launch a full investigation of Hollyweird:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-08/lapd-launches-investigation-hollywood-pedophile-ring-after-corey-feldman-files-forma
This is great news, because LA Robbery-Homicide are the best of the best, and will not be intimidated by anyone in Hollyweird.
Also, anyone else hoping Trump leaves the 3 idiot UCLA basketball players caught shoplifting to rot in a Chinese prison for 20 years, pour encourager les autres?