Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visited Austria to coordinate with the new Austrian government on migration and protecting the borders of both countries. Mr. Orbán met with both Chancellor Sebastian “Boy” Kurz and Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache.
In other news, the Oslo metro was closed for a period today after an elk fell off a bridge and landed on the track.
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Alabama Bill Would Encourage Use of Gold and Silver in Trade
Legislation making its way through the Alabama legislature would exempt gold and silver from state taxes, thereby facilitating the use of precious metals in commerce while ending what supporters of the legislation say is unfair treatment of dealers and investors. The implications — even if unintended — could be huge, supporters say.
Similar bills in various states across America were specifically intended to gradually sideline the debt-based Federal Reserve Notes and to instead stimulate trade in metals, long viewed as “real money.” But while lawmakers and citizens involved in the Alabama legislation said that might be a “collateral benefit” of this particular legislation, it was not the original intent. Still, advocates of a sound monetary system celebrated the bill as a positive development.
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Bill Clinton and the Deadly Arkansas Tainted Blood Scandal
I actually had to sue the state agency just to get access to its files that by law are supposed to be a matter of public record. When I went to the Arkansas State Police Headquarters key documents had disappeared. — Kelly Duda — Producer of Factor 8 documentary
This I know. Without the governor’s (Bill Clinton) support and protection, this disease-ridden system would have been shut down by 1982. — Mike Galster, author of Blood Trail
In early 1999, a group of Canadian hemophiliacs infected with HIV and hepatitis C descended on Washington DC. They wanted an inquiry into why the United States, particularly the Food and Drug Administration, allowed the export of tainted prison plasma from Arkansas and Louisiana to Canada in the 1980s. At the time, Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas, and the FDA had already ruled that prison plasma was too unsafe to be used for the manufacture of blood products inside the USA.
Clinton Scandals
The Clinton scandals are numerous, from Whitewater to Uranium One. Vince Foster’s death, Travelgate, Troopergate, Filegate, Cattle Futures, Paula Jones, Jennifer Flowers, Monika Lewinsky, Chinagate, Pardongate, Benghazi, the Clinton Foundation, Humagate, Anthony Weiner, Haiti, and Hillary’s likely treason via her private email server are just a few.
Then there’s all the strange deaths surrounding this pair that are referred to as the “Clinton body count,” but perhaps the most heinous and lethal actions were those allowed by Governor Bill Clinton in Arkansas prisons.
Rarely do you hear about the horrific Arkansas prison plasma program that led from the Arkansas Governor’s mansion to the White House. The whole story is in a fast-paced thriller written as fiction to protect the author. Michael Sullivan’s book, Blood Trail is the true story of the Arkansas prison tainted blood scandal that has infected thousands of Canadians with either hepatitis C or AIDS through blood transfusions. Michael Galster, writing under the pen name Michael Sullivan, was a prosthetic/orthotic practitioner in Arkansas.
For more than two decades, the Arkansas prison system sold blood plasma from inmates infected with viral hepatitis and AIDS. Blood from prisons was 69 times more contaminated than that of the general population of donors. Thousands of unwitting victims died as a result from receiving transfusions from a product called Factor 8 made from this blood. Factor 8 is a clotting protein to stop or prevent bleeding in people with hemophilia.
[Comment: This was really evil — knowingly selling blood that had a high risk of being infected. Youtube has a documentary about this — link in article 3/4 way down.]
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Mall of America Slasher Cites ISIS for ‘Jihad’ Inspiration
The man responsible for stabbing two victims inside Minnesota’s Mall of America last year cited the Islamic State as his inspiration during a guilty plea.
Mahad Abdirahman, 20, told a Hennepin County District Court last week that he answered “the call to jihad” in November when he stabbed two men inside Macy’s with an 8-inch bladed knife. Abdirahman, who will serve time for two counts of first-degree assault, issued a statement reaffirming his allegiance to the terrorist organization, also known as ISIS.
“I went to Mall of America to answer the call for Jihad by the Chief of the Believers, Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi — may Allah protect him — and by the Mujahiden of the Islamic State,” the defendant said, the Star Tribune reported Monday. “I am here reaffirming that it was indeed an act of Jihad in the way of Allah.”
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Man Shot by Officer After Hitting Pedestrian Identified
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police have released the name of a driver shot and killed by an off-duty Philadelphia police officer after hitting a pedestrian and struggling with the officer.
Investigators said 31-year-old Khalil Lawal of Arlington, Virginia apparently tried to hit a person who had just gotten out of a car in south Philadelphia during Monday’s morning rush hour.
Police said the man then chased another driver who had blocked him in, charged at the off-duty officer after he approached and was shot after a struggle. He died at a hospital. The officer and the man struck by the car were treated at hospitals.
Commissioner Richard Ross has said there are unanswered questions about the case, including the reason for the man’s erratic behavior and the number of shots fired by the officer.
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Would the Political Class be Trying So Hard to Discredit the Nunes Memo if it Didn’t Terrify Them?
We know that in 2016, during the Obama Administration, the FBI applied for a FISA warrant to wiretap Carter Page, who was an official of the Trump presidential campaign. There are multiple indications that the primary evidence presented as probable cause in this application was a dossier prepared by Christopher Steele, who was working for an outfit called Fusion GPS, which was being paid — albeit indirectly — by the Clinton campaign. It also appears that almost all the information in this dossier was unverified, and that much of it was false, and that the FBI made no attempt to verify any of it before using it in the FISA application.
If all this is true, I believe that is worse than Watergate for this reason: While the Nixon campaign used private citizens to commit a crime, and that’s a very bad thing, the scenario laid out above would mean that the Obama Administration, via the Justice Department and specifically the FBI, abused a law enforcement mechanism of the federal government — feeding it false information to obtain legal cover for the act of spying on a political opponent. That’s not just breaking the law. That’s corrupting the institutions of the law itself to accomplish the same thing.
That’s what makes it worse.
[Comment: Memo proves the Democrats are subversive communists.]
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Catalonia: Session to Re-Elect Carles Puidgemont Postponed
Catalonia’s parliamentary speaker has postponed fugitive ex-president Carles Puigdemont’s re-election, prompting anger among Puigdemont’s allies. Some of his supporters scuffled with police in front of the parliament.
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Czech PM Issues Dire Warning to EU: ‘Euroscepticism Will Rise’
THE prime minister of the Czech Republic warned Euroscepticism will be fuelled by the Brussels’ openness to impose migrant quotas on member states despite mounting opposition.
Andrej Babis railed against the EU for not taking into account the opposition to policies such as the quotas, which Prague and other Central European capitals have rejected.
A controversial relocation system for mainly Syrian refugees — introduced in 2015 — shared out 120,000 asylum seekers from Greece and Italy in summer of the same year — with Hungary taking no action to pledge their relocation.
Eastern-European states have seen a larger rise of Euroscepticism since the continent’s migration crisis in 2015, sparking long-running battles between far-right populist movements and the bloc.
The Czech Republic, along with Poland and Hungary, is set to be sued by the European commission in the bloc’s European Court of Justice for their refusal to host asylum seekers.
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Czech Extremist Party Joins Regional Push to Curb Soros NGOs
A Czech anti-immigrant party accused financier George Soros of imposing “supranational governance” on the country, joining a surge of politicians calling for a crackdown on non-governmental organizations in ex-communist Europe.
Freedom and Direct Democracy, which holds more than a 10th of the 200 seats in parliament, said it will support steps limiting the influence of such entities in Czech politics and media, according to a statement on Tuesday. Known as SPD, it’s calling for the country to follow Britain out of the European Union and said it will emulate measures taken by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has based his April election campaign on attack ads against Hungarian-born Soros and passed Russian-style laws to stigmatize groups funded from abroad.
[Comment: The title of the article is not mine, but Bloomberg’s. ]
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Denmark in a Wedge After Breaking EU Cheese Rules
Danish companies have broken EU law by selling cheese marked as feta to countries outside of the European Single Market, says the European Commission.
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Destination Slovakia: In Protection of Religious Freedom
As I prepared to depart for Guatemala last week, FRC’s own religious liberty advocate, Travis Weber, was in Slovakia advancing FRC’s issues in Central Europe. Travis was invited there to speak by Christian Fellowship, a non-denominational church with affiliates all around Slovakia and the Czech Republic. He addressed pastors and representatives of those churches from around the two countries, discussing trends like the religious freedom troubles developing in the U.S. due to the advancement of the LGBT movement — and how such trends could come to Central and Eastern Europe soon. Travis encouraged the pastors to be informed and engaged — the very things we are encouraging pastors to do here! It is heartening to see so many fellow Christians from diverse backgrounds engaged in similar work around the world. Though our cultural upbringing may be different, we are united in our worldview and in the body of Christ.
Along with Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary make up what are known as the Visegrad Four, an alliance which took the name of the Hungarian town in which these nations met shortly after the fall of Communism to discuss their shared values and how to work together moving forward. In contrast to Western Europe, which in many ways has wholesale bought into secular liberalism and progressivism (and the freewheeling sexual ethics that come with it), the Visegrad nations still hold more strongly to family values rooted in a historically Christian culture. It is these values which are now being threatened by elitist forces within international institutions like the European Union and United Nations, along with governments from Western Europe and (under the Obama administration) the United States.
The Obama administration saw to it that these nations would have no help — indeed they would be opposed — in trying to hold onto their historic cultures and pro-family values. Abusing the offices of foreign ambassadors to export a radical sexual ethic hardly representative of the American people as a whole, Barack Obama offended the sensibilities of not only some of the Visigrad Four, but many nations around the world. His ambassadors and diplomats in Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary pushed and prodded their local hosts to accept the Americans’ LGBT agenda.
Yet this simply confused the people of these countries. Under communism, President Reagan had been their champion and defender, which had given them a high view of the United States. Yet when President Obama began pushing offensive ideas at odds with their countries, they wondered whose side the U.S. was on. At the same time, Vladimir Putin began to woo the Visigrad countries as the “protector” of family values, portraying the U.S. as betraying that role. This is the context in which we find ourselves, and made it all the more important that Travis communicated to these Central European Christians that contrary to how it may seem in some of the news, there are many Christians in the United States who share their values and their faith. We now hope that President Trump will swiftly appoint ambassadors to these countries who reflect the new administration’s values instead of foisting upon them the radical ideology of political elitists…
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Hunt Goes on for Quiksilver CEO After His Boat Washes Up on French Beach
A search was under way on Tuesday for the chief executive of surfing brand Quiksilver after his boat was found empty, washed up on a beach in southwest France, officials said.
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Oslo Metro Closed After Elk Falls From Bridge
A line on Oslo’s T-Bane metro was temporarily closed on Tuesday after an elk fell from a bridge onto the track near Gjønnes station.
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Pro-Sovereignty Populists on Course to Dominate European 2018 Elections
After the victory of pro-sovereignty and anti-mass migration Czech President Miloš Zeman at the weekend, many are looking to the three big national elections coming in Europe this year in which populists and pro-sovereignty parties look to dominate in Italy and Hungary and place strongly in Sweden.
While 2017 saw major elections in France and Germany, which saw strong showings from the populist French Front National and the Alternative for Germany (AfD), neither managed to enter government. In Austria, the Freedom Party (FPÖ) became the first populist party in Western Europe to enter government and polls show that in 2018 this trend could continue.
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Shock as Merkel’s Business Leaders Rally Against Macron and Juncker’s EU Integration Plans
ANGELA Merkel’s ongoing attempts to reform a so-called “Grand Coalition” with the Social Democrats (SPD) will ultimately result in a more bureaucratic and less stable European Union, business leaders in Germany have warned.
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Spain: Orange Thieves Caught Red Handed With Car Full of Stolen Fruit
Police in Seville discovered thieves attempting to get away with four tonnes of stolen oranges after pulling their vehicles over at the side of the road.
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Sweden Charges Uzbek Man With Terrorism in Deadly Truck Attack
The Uzbek man who rammed a stolen truck into a pedestrian in downtown Stockholm last spring — an attack that killed five and injured 14 — was officially charged Tuesday with terrorism.
Rakhmat Akilov was arrested several hours after he drove a stolen beer truck into a crowd of shoppers on a busy pedestrian street on April 7. A British man, a Belgian woman and three Swedes were killed.
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Swedish Government Gives Iraqi Child Rapist Custody of Children
Alicia — whose identity is protected and therefore uses a pseudonym — was only 12 years old when she was married off, raped and thereafter became a mother. Now, her husband and rapist has reportedly been granted custody of their two children
The girl, who comes from an immigrant family living in Gothenburg, Sweden, was made pregnant with twins by the man at the age of thirteen. After a ruling by the Stockholm District Court, the state has chosen to give the rapist custody.
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Watch: Video Contradicts Aspects of Paris ‘Police Abuse’ Claim That Caused Major Riots in 2017
A newly released CCTV video of Paris police arresting a young man named Theo Luhaka contradicts the testimony of the youth, whose claim that police had purposely inserted a baton in his rectum caused large-scale riots.
The brief video shows police approaching a group of youths including Theo on February 2nd of last year in the Paris suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois and shows the officers rapidly lose control over what was initially an identification check.
During the arrest of Theo, his loosely fitted trousers canbe shown to have fallen down of their own accord, going against a statement by Theo who said the officer “lowered my pants and he stuck the baton in my buttocks,” shortly after the incident, Europe1 reports.
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The ex-PM says he is ‘flabbergasted’ at the decision by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to sponsor the ‘modest fashion’ industry in Australia.
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Sales of bollards and hi-tech security systems costing up to $10,000 have soared recently as residents in Melbourne take precautions against youth gangs.
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The 60 second ad was released this week to convince people that not all Sudanese children were members of African gangs terrorising Melbourne.
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Convicted Perpetrators of Terrorism Offenses Listed as Foreign-Born
In what appears to be the first ever report, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reveals that three out of every four (75%), or 402, individuals convicted of international terrorism-related charges within the U.S. federal court system between September 11, 2001, and December 31, 2016 were listed as being foreign-born.
During the study period, DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement directorate removed 1,716 aliens who were thought to be risks to U.S. national security.
The report states that in 2017 alone DHS had as many as 2,554 encounters with individuals on the terrorist watch list (a/k/a FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database) traveling to the United States.
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Europe’s Hope: Austria ‘Joins’ Eastern European Anti-Immigration Bloc
Almost since the start of the migrant crisis, the Visegrad Group opposed the EU’s migration policies. The Eastern European bloc consists of four countries: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Today, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, had a meeting with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Austria’s capital. Kurz said he agrees with the Visegrad members “that a quota system for migrants doesn’t work”.
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Hungary’s PM Visits Austria and Wants to Cooperate on Immigration and Safety
Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, said he would like to make agreements with Austria on migration and on protection of both countries.
Orban will meet Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Vice-Chancellor Heinz Christian Strache on Tuesday. The meeting will take place in Austria’s capital Vienna.
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Merkel Caves to Save Coalition: Germany to Allow 1,000 Migrants a Month Into Country
ANGELA Merkel has done a dramatic U-turn on her migrant polices and caved in to demands by her coalition partners to allow by 1,000 migrants a month into the country.
The Chancellor made the move in a bid to satisfy her coalition partner on the divisive question of family reunions for migrants, clearing a major hurdle in talks on a ruling partnership.
But, it appears that The Social Democrat Party (SPD) put pressure on Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union Party to have clear regulations that allow migrants to bring their families.
Under the agreement, up to 1,000 family members a month will be allowed to join people who are allowed to stay in Germany on less than full refugee status.
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Merkel Has Lost Control: Germans Start Large Protests Against Migrants and Open Borders
Two large protests against migration have woken up the Germans: On 20 January, at least 2,500 participants were protesting in Cottbus and last Sunday, on 28 January, there was another big protest in Kandel.
The protests started in Cottbus after Syrians attacked several Germans within a matter of days. For example a German man and a German boy were attacked with knives by Syrians. After other incidents, tensions in the town became so high that it stopped the acceptance of new refugees.
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The Human Race Could be Infertile in 50 Years: ‘A Push for Depopulation’ Will be ‘Global Crisis’
Male fertility is dipping, and fast. Humans are on course to be infertile in a mere 50 years. Sperm may prove to be the greatest casualty of modern life.
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The Human Race Could be Infertile in 50 Years: ‘A Push for Depopulation’ Will be ‘Global Crisis’
…and microwave radiation from cellphones and wifis has no side effect
…and chemical compounds used in “modern” agriculture have no side effects
…and decreasing fitness and increasing obesity has no side effect on the sperm count.
I’m just joking. But before we search for cures, I just advise to identify the environmental stressors, that made their appearance in the particular time period…
Feminism, “genderism”, gay privilege, and all the PC circus are much more dangerous to white race survival than oligospermia.
No one is fooled. Infertility is caused by Trump’s immigration proposals.
The pundits who warned us that trump would bring human extinction are being proven right.
Proof? You need proof? Why, the man’s very words cause a pandemic of urinary incontinence, as several hundred Democrats wringing out their Depends after the State of the Union Address demonstrates.
Trust me.
…and plastic in the environment only harms sea life.
And excessive estrogen in the water supply?
From my purely subjective observations, Muslims in general have a terrible diet, yet they have the biggest litters.
Please stop writing Czech Republic and start writing Czechia. Check the Google map!
I don’t write the news article title.
…but, but, we are a republic, Czech Republic, sorry 🙂
Czech the Google map!
Human race cannot become infertile. One man can fertilize them all.
Have you a candidate in mind. At present, I am between binding engagements. Contact me at slaveofcupid@gmail.com.
For this one don’t worry, candidates will come forth. Women have always found a remedy to this problem. Socially speaking, there are more infertile women than men. Somehow women of infertile men make them look fertile.
I do worry about another thing. The quality of men. By the simple fact of restricting the pool, the quality drops actually. It obviously depends on what we mean by quality. We are choosing for motility of sperm rather than, for example, IQ. But there is a correlation.
Right. And the children of women fertilized by this stud would all be too closely related – half-sibs – to safely mate with one another.
Or perhaps you were joking?
There would survive more than one. I was not joking. Everybody worry about their own fertility. The fertility of the mankind is not an issue. I am at large worried about the fertility of women. Now that is a big deal. That matters. You reduce matters to one stud. It will never come to that. There has never been recorded a species that got extinct because of the infertility of its males.
It certainly is an issue, just not as big as they make it. Everybody be busy to be fertile by purifying water, taking micronutrients, taking vitamin K2. K2 helps a lot with ED and fertility.
I recently learned that aspirin causes male infertility. No-no.
More Muslim ‘modesty’ proselytising by the mainstream media in Australia, courtesy of their favourite media Muslim and his convert wife: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5333045/Waleed-Alys-wife-Susan-Carland-poses-tight-leggings.html ‘How are all these women wearing activewear just for fun?’ Waleed Aly’s wife Susan Carland poses in tight leggings and a hijab as she admits she finds gym clothes to be uncomfortable
The Daily Mail’s vile hypocrisy knows no bounds.
“..Russian-style laws to stigmatize groups funded from abroad…” – And what is a “foreign agent” in USA legislation?
Send them all back. Walid Aly, his wife, the Sudanese, send them all back from whence they came, no exceptions.
Also love how the Daily Mail swiftly shut down comments on all the articles above because the lib media cannot permit the truth to disrupt the globalist “narrative”.