In the wake of yesterday’s school shooting in Florida that killed seventeen people, evidence has emerged indicating that the FBI had known about the killer’s potential for violence, but did not act. Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old who confessed to the atrocity, had made various disturbing posts on social media, about which the FBI had been informed.
In other news, a Swedish bishop says that he is looking forward to hearing the Muslim call to prayer in Sweden.
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Milo Yiannopoulos: “The Left Has Already Started a Civil War”
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,
According to Milo Yiannopoulos, the left-wingers of American society have already ignited a Civil War. With the social engineering and indoctrination already taking place in our schools, it actually doesn’t seem too far-fetched.
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Julian Assange preferred the GOP candidate over Hillary Clinton and encouraged his followers to help him clear his name by becoming ‘the trolls they want to see in the world’, messages reviewed by the Intercept have revealed.
More than 11,000 messages from a private Twitter group that included some of Assange’s biggest supporters show the Wikileaks founder sharing his opinion on a variety of issues, from the 2016 presidential election to his opinion on Chelsea Manning.
The Intercept assumes the messages sent by the Wikileaks page are from Assange, as it is widely understood that he controls the page himself. Wikileaks has not commented on the accuracy of the messages.
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Shock, Anger After Florida Teen Charged With 17 Counts of Murder; FBI Was Warned
Meanwhile, in what may emerge as the latest black spot on the FBI’s reptuation, BuzzFeed reported that the FBI had been warned about Cruz’ homicidal tendencies:
Last fall, a Mississippi bail bondsman and frequent YouTube vlogger noticed an alarming comment left on one of his videos. “I’m going to be a professional school shooter,” said a user named Nikolas Cruz.
The YouTuber, 36-year-old Ben Bennight, alerted the FBI, emailing a screenshot of the comment to the bureau’s tips account. He also flagged the comment to YouTube, which removed it from the video.
Agents with the bureau’s Mississippi field office got back to him “immediately,” Bennight said, and conducted an in-person interview the following day, on Sept. 25.
“They came to my office the next morning and asked me if I knew anything about the person,” Bennight told BuzzFeed News. “I didn’t. They took a copy of the screenshot and that was the last I heard from them.”
FBI agents contacted Bennight again Wednesday, after a 19-year-old named Nikolas Cruz allegedly opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida, killing at least 17 people…
Though his name matches the YouTube user flagged in September, FBI officials would not say whether they have confirmed that the account belonged to Cruz.
But around 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday — about 30 minutes after Cruz was taken into custody by police in Broward County — Special Agent Ryan Furr with the FBI’s Miami field office called Bennight and left him a voicemail.
When contacted by BuzzFeed News, FBI special agent Furr declined to comment on the call, and directed questions about the shooting to the FBI’s public affairs office. The office did did not respond to multiple calls or emails Wednesday night.
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Solar Storm Will Strike Earth Tonight, ‘Weak Power Grid Fluctuations’ Possible
The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center forecasts an aurora could light up the sky above areas in the United State including Michigan and Maine. A solar storm, which occurred Monday, is expected to strike Earth tonight.
On Monday, the sun spit out a slew of charged particles in a moderate solar flare. These particles are now making their way towards Earth. The planet’s magnetic field will block most of the particles, but some will make it into Earth’s atmosphere. The particles collect at the north and south poles and interact with atmospheric gases to create the aurora borealis or the Northern Lights. And some say this show could be quite spectacular.
Solar flares have been known to cause power grid failures, but it looks like we’ll only get the light show this time. Although a grid failure is possible, it is unlikely.
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Suspected Vandal Replaces American Flag With ISIS Flag at Hurricane High School
On the morning after a mass shooting at a Florida high school, one Southern Utah school was vandalized with ISIS messages.
According to the Hurricane City Police Department, a suspect reportedly replaced the American flag that was displayed outside of Hurricane High School with an ISIS flag.
One of the school’s walls on the east side was also spray painted with graffiti that read: “ISIS is comi — .”
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The FBI Keeps Missing Mass Shooters Before it’s Too Late
Revelations that the FBI had been warned about Florida high school shooter Nikolaus Cruz fit an all-too-familiar pattern, in which apparent law enforcement errors have preceded mass murders.
The FBI was warned about Cruz after he posted on YouTube saying he was going to become a “professional school shooter.” The agency said they couldn’t identify the user who made the threat, despite Cruz posting under his own name. Five months later, Cruz pulled the fire alarm at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and began shooting his former classmates with his AR-15.
Other mass shooters and terrorists were similarly on the FBI’s radar — or should have been — before they carried out their deadly attacks.
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#MeToo: Over 100 Known Complaints at Norwegian Colleges and Universities
Over 100 cases of sexual harassment in some way connected to the #MeToo movement are known to have been reported and registered at Norwegian colleges and universities.
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Belgium: Muslim Couple Beat Up Their Four Children Because They Are “Too Western”
Police in the Belgian city of Waregem arrested a Tunisian couple for battering their four children.
The reason for this ill-treatment is that the children are “too Western” according to their parents. During a dispute the 16-year-old daughter was hit with a belt in the face and was seriously injured.
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Billionaire Richard Branson Joins Soros in Latest Bid to Stop Brexit
Globalists frantic to subvert will of the people
Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin Group, said he hopes MPs will change their mind at the last minute and revert Brexit.
Other billionaires have also tried to stop Britain exiting from the EU. The founder of Open Society, George Soros, donated a total of £500,000 to anti-Brexit group Best for Britain in an attempt to thwart Brexit.
Speaking to Bloomberg, Sir Richard said he is concerned Brexit will be a disaster for both the UK and Europe.
[Comment: It would only be a disaster to the globalists and their wet dream of a tyrannical NWO.]
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Budget Airline Norwegian Says Profits Grounded by Fuel, Expansion Costs
Low-cost airline Norwegian Air Shuttle said on Thursday that rising fuel prices and the cost of replacing aircraft and opening up new routes pushed it into the red last year.
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European Officials: Apologists for Arab-Islamic Repression, Terrorism
European officials have been not only mute about the Iranian regime’s attacks on its own people. They have also been missing “a robust defense of Western values”, now under attack in Iran: freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, separation of religion and state, judicial due process.
The European Union these days is alarmed about political reforms in Poland, but totally quiet about Erdogan’s “coup against civilians” in Turkey.
How is it possible that Pope Francis, the world’s highest Catholic authority, does not feel any urgency to denounce the avalanche of anti-Semitism and hate coming from the Islamic authorities, but pleased them by sending a letter of support?
As these last few years of terror attacks should have proven to them, they delude themselves if they think that this deadly ideology will be kept confined to Tehran, Ramallah or Ankara.
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French Court Convicts Two in Paris Attack Terror Trial
PARIS (AP) — A French court on Wednesday acquitted a man charged with harboring Islamic extremists after they carried out the 2015 Paris attacks, bringing a surprising end to the first criminal trial linked to the country’s deadliest extremist violence since World War II.
The presiding judge said the Paris court found Jawad Bendaoud, a 31-year-old street criminal, not guilty of providing lodging to two of the attackers and helping them hide from police when they were the most-wanted criminals in France.
The court also convicted and sentenced two co-defendants in the case to prison terms Wednesday.
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Homeless Paris Pizza Maker Appeals to Macron to Help France’s Rough Sleepers
A homeless pizza maker in Paris has appealed to President Emmanuel Macron to help those sleeping rough in France just as the capital gets ready to count the number of people living on the streets.
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Paedophile England Football Youth Coach Convicted of 43 Child Sex Charges
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — A former English youth soccer coach was convicted of 43 charges of sex abuse against 11 young players in a trial that detailed how he shattered the trust of boys who dreamed of becoming professionals.
Barry Bennell was found guilty by a jury on Thursday of seven charges of sexual abuse, adding to 36 from Tuesday at Liverpool Crown Court.
The abuse occurred during his time working for northwest clubs Manchester City and Crewe Alexandra, among others, from 1979 to 1990.
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Pictures: Massive Sinkhole Opens in Rome, Swallowing Seven Cars
Over 20 families were evacuated after a huge sinkhole opened up in a northwestern neighbourhood of Rome, swallowing several cars.
Fortunately, no injuries have been reported, but the area remained closed off on Thursday morning after a large part of the ground collapsed shortly before 6pm on Wednesday.
The sinkhole, measuring around ten metres deep, appeared in the Balduina district, a residential area northwest of Vatican City.
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Swedish Bishop Claims He is ‘Looking Forward’ To Hearing Muslim Call to Prayer in Sweden
Church of Sweden Bishop Fredrik Modeus has announced his support for Muslims in the city of Växjö being able to publicly broadcast a call to prayer saying he looked forward to hearing it along with church bells.
Bishop Modeus took to Twitter to say he approved of the application by Muslims in the city publicly broadcast their call to prayer on Fridays writing: “I welcome the application and look forward to hearing both church bells and prayer announcements in our city.”
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The Left Betrayed the People and Did Nothing Against Colonisation of French Town by Islamists
Trappes is a French town in Paris’s backyard. Although it is located in France it isn’t very French: There are no women in its cafes, the only bookstore is Islamic, and the town only has halal butchers.
The French town became known as an ISIS hotbed as 67 of its inhabitants joined ISIS in Syria. Two journalists, of the French newspaper Le Monde, did a one-year research in Trappes and came to some shocking conclusions.
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Today in Italian Politics: Candidate Chatter, A Roman Ransom and Half of Five Stars
In the run-up to the Italian general election on March 4th, The Local is bringing you a daily round up of who’s done what and why in the fast-moving world of Italian politics.
Days to go until Italy votes: 17
Catch up on yesterday’s recap here, or have a look through all our election coverage so far here. Go on, do it.
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Tommy Robinson Meets AfD Saxony Leader, Jorg Urban
During our recent trip to Germany, where we covered the PEGIDA demonstration in Dresden, and the Zukunft Heimat march in Cottbus, we also attended an Alternative for Deutschland conference in Saxony. We were honoured to be allowed to attend the event, where they elected and announced the new leader for AFD Saxony — Jorg Urban.
Mr Urban agreed to speak to The Tommy Robinson Show before any other media, so I asked him what kind of challenges his country is facing, and what his party plans to do.
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UK: Government Too ‘Politically Correct’ to Back Schools Banning Islamic Hijab
The government is too politically correct to help schools attempting to ban Islamic hijabs, leaving teachers “alone, isolated and vulnerable”, the former head of Ofsted has said.
Schools are allowed to set their own policies for Islamic veiling, but Sir Michael Wilshaw said the Department for Education’s refusal to issue a formal policy had led to schools facing pressure from hardline Muslims.
He also claimed that there are some 150 schools in the country where young children are forced to wear the religious garments, which campaigners say sexualise young girls.
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UK: Lawless London: Moped Gang Crime Surges
Moped gangs in London are operating with total impunity — some shopping hotspots have seen crimes committed by the bike riding criminals shoot up by 30 times the normal amount.
Oxford Street recorded 291 offences in one year — up from 13 in 2014-15. Thefts on Regent Street jumped from 3 to 91 between 2015 and 2017, and Bond Street went from 1 to 14.
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UK: London Man Jailed for Spreading ‘Poisonous’ Islamic State Propaganda
An East London man has been jailed after using social media to promote Islamic State and Islamic extremist terror.
Shafi Mohammed Saleem, 28, used more than 20 Twitter and Instagram accounts to distribute “poisonous” Islamic State messages.
The terror-supporter, from Newham, was arrested last April and sent the messages between 2016 and 2017, London’s Metropolitan Police revealed in a statement.
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A thug shattered the rear window of a woman’s Audi because she refused to move from a space he and a friend were saving for someone.
The row erupted when Charlottle Lincroft, 27, reversed into an empty parking space in Preston Street, Brighton.
Ms Lincroft, a dog groomer from Hove, claims two men approached her to say they were reserving the space for one of their friends.
But they said the acquaintance was ‘stuck in traffic 20 minutes away’ and Ms Lincroft responded: ‘Sorry, this isn’t how it works, it’s a public road, you don’t reserve parking spots.
‘It was holding up the traffic and everyone was beeping.
‘An argument then started, and my friends walked down the road and one of them got so irate.’
She told MailOnline: ‘The white guy has been sent over the edge and he started smashing the bodywork of my car.
‘I was sat in the car and I was so in shock. He smashed out the back window with his fist. I was in complete shock.
‘I was really upset about the car. The white guy ran away. For some reason, the Asian guy lingered.
‘My initial thought is I need to get his face on camera. No-one else thought to do it.
In the shocking footage, the man says ‘if you put that phone in my face, it is gone’ before knocking it out of her hand.
Miss Lincroft added: ‘I think he was trying to get my phone but but he nearly got my face.
‘I literally ducked away from the punch.’…
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How the SHTF in Bosnia: Selco Asks Americans, “Does This Sound Familiar?”
I was recently emailing back and forth with Selco and we were discussing the situation in the US right now, with the political polarization, the rage, and the general cognitive dissonance. I asked him if he saw any similarities between our situation and the one in Bosnia when the SHTF there during the war. When he replied I knew I had to share this information with you.
While we might like to think it could never happen here, the current events here are eerily similar to what happened there in the 1990s.
When you read this, think about recent events. The anger about immigration. The destruction of Civil War monuments. The unease between the races. The deep rage about the recent presidential election. The scorn and derision for neighbors who think differently. The way the media fans the flames of dissent between our fellow Americans.
You’ll realize that it definitely CAN happen to us…and there’s not one darn thing we can do except to be prepared.
What parallels do you see with events in the US and Bosnia before the SHTF?
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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Iraqi Refugee Ran ‘Factory’ Producing Hundreds of Fake Claims Against British Troops
An Iraqi refugee has revealed how he helped run a “factory” of false and fictitious complaints and claims for compensation against British servicemen who fought in the country.
Whistleblower Basim Al-Sadoon, 37, had an office in Basra, Iraq, and is thought to have helped arrange hundreds of fake abuse claims against the UK forces.
He told The Sun the scam was a “racket”, adding: “It was like a claims factory and it didn’t matter if the claims were true or false.”
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Islam Could Have Died With Muhammad
Al-’Abbas had apparently taken to heart Muhammad’s claims about Muslims ruling over non-Muslims. But al-’Abbas probably suggested attacking the non-Muslims of Mina the next day, instead of immediately, because he was the only one who was carrying a sword that night.[10] Nevertheless, instead of admonishing ‘Abbas against killing the people of Mina, Muhammad simply said that they had not been commanded to do this.
Shortly after the “Second Pledge of al-’Aqabah” Muhammad said that Allah had given the Meccan Muslims permission to emigrate to Medina. The small group of Muslims left Mecca and settled with the Ansar in Medina. Muhammad followed soon afterwards.[11] In less than eight years, Muhammad and his Muslim army would return in triumph to Mecca.
The promise of Muslim superiority over non-Muslims had been preached by Muhammad since the early days of Islam. But this message had been generally rejected by the Meccans and visiting Arab tribes. It was the hostility in Medina between the Jews and the Khazraj tribe, and the associated threat made by those Jews that made Muhammad’s message appealing to the six men of the Khazraj. Had these six joined the others in rejecting Muhammad’s message there would have been no Hijrah, and the religion of Islam could have ended in Mecca with the death of Muhammad.
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Turkey still occupies 38% of the territory of the Republic of Cyprus, after it ethnically cleansed the Greek Cypriot population. The occupied territory has thus been transformed into a Turkish province in all but name.
In their 2009 article, “Gender and Genocide: Armenian and Greek Women Finding Positive Meaning in the Horror,” scholars Artemis Pippinelli and Ani Kalayjian write:
“40,000 Turkish troops remain in Cyprus as a presence that prevents securing the human rights of Greek Cypriots. Turkey has been found guilty of mass violations of human rights by the European Commission and the Court of Human Rights, including the right to life, the right to property, liberty, and security of person, freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, and the prohibition of discrimination.”
Turkey nevertheless continues to refer to the events of 1974 — which included mass murder, torture, abduction and rape, and which turned tens of thousands of Cypriots into refugees in their own homeland — as a “peace operation.” It also continues to try to silence anyone who dares to criticize the invasion and its crimes.
Even George Orwell might be shocked at the level of Turkey’s “doublethink” and “newspeak.”
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Western Feminists: Hijab Hypocrisy
No one in the Women’s March called out the Iranian government for imprisoning, torturing and killing women trying to break free of their shackles. Instead, they chanted “Me Too” and “Time’s Up,” as they paraded with activists such as Palestinian-American Linda Sarsour, who calls for jihad and apparently also denigrated one of her employees who was a victim of sexual assault in the workplace.
The same day as activists, fighting tyrannical regimes, were burning hijabs in solidarity with Iranian and other suppressed women across the world, the spineless British Foreign Office was handing out hijabs, trying to sell them as a symbol of “Liberation”, “Respect” and “Security”.
These women — who are trapped in despotic Middle Eastern dictatorships, who face possible prosecution and having their lives ruined — were given no attention by the same women marchers in the U.S. Evidently, feminists in the West were too busy wearing hijabs in solidarity with Sarsour and other promoters of Islamic law (sharia), which advises husbands to beat their wives; that in court, a woman’s testimony is worth only half a man’s testimony; that daughters can receive only half the inheritance of a son, and that if a woman is raped, she will need four male Muslim witnesses, supposedly at the scene, to prove that she was not committing adultery.
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Controversial London-based Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied has confirmed a complaint has been lodged about her to the Australian Human Rights Commission.
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Iran, Russia, And China’s Central Role in the Venezuela Crisis
Prior to any discussion on what to do about Venezuela, a consensus about what led to this crisis needs to be reached. The role of Iran is critical in such a conversation.
As in the Syria conflict, Iran’s primary role is preparing the Venezuelan battlefield through a range of operations in irregular warfare, using non-state actors and surrogates to gain influence over the population.
Strong evidence suggest that Venezuela used its immigration agency to provide Venezuelan identities and documents to several hundred, if not thousands, of Middle Easterners. Without proper vetting and verification measures in place, and a high degree of counterintelligence support, our regional allies will not know if Venezuelan refugees spilling across borders are legitimate refugees or members of a transregional clandestine network between Latin America and the Middle East.
Any intervention in Venezuela — military, humanitarian or otherwise — will not work unless it is aimed at removing the external influences, especially Iran, Russia and China, that have turned Venezuela into the Syria of the Western Hemisphere. …
Of these, Russia and China are perhaps the two most visible. As in Syria, and historically in Central America, Russia is the primary supplier of lethal military aid, along with financial and technical support to the Venezuelan armed forces. Totaling more than $11 billion in military goods thanks to Russian arms sales, Venezuela represents 75% of Russia’s total foreign military sales in the region. Additionally, the Russian state-owned energy firm, Rosneft, has provided Venezuela with an estimated $17 billion in financing since 2006. Moscow has leveraged its collateral deals to acquire expanded stakes in Venezuela’s oilfields, namely the heavy-crude Orinoco belt, which gives Russia more control of Venezuela’s strategic energy assets.
Russia is not alone in leveraging debt for greater control of strategic assets in Venezuela. According to the International Institute of Finance, China holds more than $23 billion in Venezuela’s foreign debt, making it the country’s largest creditor. Through these credits and loans, Beijing is the primary benefactor and principal banker to the South American nation, and China has enormous leverage over outcomes in Venezuela.
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EU Chief: We Need Open Borders to Stop Populism
Globalist enforcer demands Austria accept migrant quotas
Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, delivered remarks in Vienna in which he warned against the “destructive emotions” of those who oppose the on-going migrant invasion and denounced the rise of populism in Europe.
Following a meeting with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, whose coalition government has been implementing a series of new policies to tighten border controls and begin purging the country of undesirable illegal immigrants, Tusk issued loosely-veiled threats clearly aimed at Austrian leadership and their ideological allies in other European governments, such as Hungary and Poland, where Tusk recently served as prime minister.
“When it comes to managing illegal migration, Chancellor Kurz and I have discussed it many times already, and we have similar views,” Tusk said. “Migration will remain a challenge for many years to come, which is why we want to find a solution that makes sure that the EU — together with national states — can manage future migration flows efficiently and without creating new divisions in Europe.”
“It is possible, but naturally all sides need to compromise. Above all, we must put an end to the destructive emotions surrounding the issue of relocation, as they continue to fuel populism and divide Europe. If this issue is not resolved by ministers within the next months, we will need to find a solution at the June European Council.”
It seems that June could prove a pivotal month for the direction of Europe, and may usher in an escalation in punitive measures taken by globalists and supranational bodies against nations who refuse to bow to the demands of Tusk, Soros, and the rest of their ilk in the internationalist cabal.
[Comment: Out of his own mouth he reveals the goal of destroying nation states. A strong nation state can resist the evil globalist agenda of a world government.]
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Germany: Failed Asylum Seeker With 19 Fake Identities Who Eluded Deportation Four Times Arrested
A 43-year-old Tunisian failed asylum seeker who has used 19 separate fake identities could finally be facing deportation after having escaped four separate attempts to deport him from Germany.
Tunisian Fathi Ben M. was arrested in December for selling drugs on the Warsaw bridge in Berlin but was later let go as police had no warrant to keep him in custody. For years, the 43-year-old has managed to escape police and defy deportation orders, but last weekend he was arrested again with police saying he will definitely be deported this time, Berliner Zeitung reports.
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In Three Months, Enough Fentanyl Was Smuggled Across the Border to Kill 36 Million Americans
Border Patrol agents confiscated more than 36 million lethal doses worth of fentanyl in three months while catching illegal immigrants entering the U.S. along the southern border, according to congressional testimony.
Andrew R. Arthur of the research institute Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) testified in front of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Thursday. Congress invited witnesses to discuss how environmental regulations affect border enforcement.
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Orban Fights Back: Hungary Pushes Anti-Immigration “Stop Soros” Bill
Last month, members of the global financial and political elite listened with rapt attention as George Soros, the famed money manager and purported champion of “open” societies, blasted “mafia states” like Russia and his native Hungary, while also criticizing US President Donald Trump, with Soros admitting that his “goal in the United States” for this year’s midterm election was “to reestablish a functioning two-party system”…
Indeed, octogenarian Soros is showing no signs of dialing back his meddling in the affairs of European nations, and the US as well. And nowhere has his interference been more visible than in Hungary, where his former protege Viktor Orban has sought to close the country’s borders to intruding refugees — a decision that has enraged Soros, who recently dedicated most of his eleven-figure fortune to erasing all national boundaries via his “Open Society” foundations.
After declaring Hungary “a mafia state” last summer and suggesting that he will do everything in his power to remove Orban from power, the country’s ruling party has engaged in a heated propaganda battle against Soros and his agents that has included erecting anti-Soros billboard messages around the country.
Now, that battle is escalating as Orban and his party are gearing up for national elections in April. As Reuters reported Wednesday, the country’s nationalist government introduced legislation to empower the country’s interior minister to ban NGOs — like those funded by Soros — that support policies that might compromise national security — policies like open borders and unrestricted immigration.
The bill would impose a 25% tax on NGOs that back migration that are operating in Hungary…
The bill will also likely intensify Orban’s confrontation with Brussels, as the European Commission said last year it was taking Budapest to the EU’s top court over its NGO laws as well as a higher education law that targets the Central European University in Budapest founded by Soros. Soros has spent $14 billion over the last 30 years on his initiatives promoting far-left causes in the formerly Communist eastern and central Europe.
But should the bill pass — and it’s expected that it will — he could virtually be cut off from supporting Orban’s opponents during an election in a country where Soros has not lived in decades…
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Report: Refugee Resettlement Agencies Preparing to Close US Offices
Trump announced last September that he would set the refugee cap for 2018 at 45,000
More than 20 refugee resettlement offices are slated to close and dozens of others will scale back operations after the Trump administration called for fewer refugees to be admitted to the U.S., Reuters reported Wednesday.
The State Department has informed refugee resettlement agencies that the maximum number of refugees admitted will decrease from 110,000 to 45,000 this year. As a result, there is no longer a need for all of the 324 resettlement offices that were operating at the end of 2017, according to news service.
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Foreign economic and political interest groups led by George Soros would like to see a weak Hungarian government in place that can be blackmailed, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Wednesday.
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Saying ‘Husband/Wife’ Violates Christian ‘Dignity, ‘ School Says
A page on the University of Dayton’s website recommends that students avoid using gendered language, including “husband” and “wife.”…
UD sophomore Piran Talkington, however, told Campus Reform that even if it is not official policy, the website is an example of the infantilization of today’s college students.
“While my university is calling this an ‘educational resource’ instead of a ‘guide’ or ‘advisory,’ they are setting a precedent to start this possible, horrible future where words have lost all history and power,” he argued. “Should we be inclusive? Absolutely. Should we change historical words with meaning to PC terms for no real reason? Absolutely not.”
“With today’s world leaning toward over-inclusivity, this language guide does not surprise me at all. Without a doubt, women and men should be equal. There is no question about that, or at least there shouldn’t be,” Talkington added.
“Nobody should treat someone differently due to their gender in today’s world. But, by changing words like ‘husband,’ ‘wife,’ and ‘mankind’ you start to erase the history and significance of the journey that has been undergone in order to get society to the point where it is today.”
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School Forces Children to Dance With Whoever Asks
In this age of #MeToo, a government school in Utah is being criticized for forcing girls to dance with anyone who asks, whether they want to or not. According to school officials, the policy is designed to promote “kindness” and “inclusiveness.” But concerned parents say it sends a dark message.
The controversial policy, which made national news this week, first came to light when a 6th grade girl told her mom that she was not allowed to say “no” if a boy asked her to dance at the Kanesville Elementary’s Valentine’s Day dance. At first, the mother could not believe it.
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The State Weaponizes Education to Create Ignorance
by Jon Rappoport
A hundred fifty years ago, at least some Americans recognized that all serious discourse depended on the use of the faculty called Reason.
Formal debate, science, and law all flowed from that source.
A common bond existed in some schools of the day. The student was expected to learn how Reason operates, and for that he was taught the only subject which could lay out, as on a long table, the visible principles: Logic.
This was accepted.
But now, this bond is gone.
The independence engendered by the disciplined study of logic is no longer a desired quality in students.
The classroom, at best, has taken on the appearance of a fact-memorization factory; and we should express grave doubts about the relevance and truth of many of those facts.
A society filled with people who float in the drift of non-logic is a society that declines.
[Comment: This is being done intentionally. This way the public is more easily manipulated by propaganda.]
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UN “Sex Education” Standards Push LGBT Agenda on 5-Year-Olds
In yet another bid by the United Nations to sexualize and indoctrinate your children at younger and younger ages, the UN Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) just unveiled a new set of “Comprehensive Sexuality Education” standards for humanity. Among other controversies, the UN’s planetary sex-ed scheme advocates masturbation, abortion, gender confusion, homosexuality, homosexual parenting, contraception, fornication, and more. The document, which cites abortion giant Planned Parenthood almost 20 times, represents a full-blown assault on parental rights and traditional morality that critics say could devastate a generation of young people. But the UN wants it to be mandatory for every child on the planet, starting at age five.
[Comment: Pedophile elites implementing “grooming” agenda on the public.]
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Would the Swedish bishop still ‘looking forward to Muslim call to prayer’ when there is nothing to look forward to anymore in Sweden?
I ám looking forward to hear the screaming of that Bishop, when the muslims are hanging him.
Since all cultures are equally good and have equally good answers and outcomes, in the name of inclusiveness, he should just say the shahaadah.
why would anyone say that filth?
Actually he is looking forward to becoming an Imam himself.
astuga: That was funny.
And why not? Pederasty is part of the package, and never having to shave again as long as one lives doesn’t hurt either.
LOL.
I hate shaving, and I love kebab – though I otherwise fit in quite well around here, if I were seen on a “long beard” day eating kebab, I could easily be mistaken for “one of them”. Indeed, I’ve had the experience of being spoken to in Arabic by strangers while being with Arabs (who don’t look very Arab), who were spoken to in other languages by the same people (!). So much for the claims that European-origin Jews don’t come from the Middle East, I say…
I’m all for giving credit where credit is due. Most Muslim cultures make *excellent* meat dishes. (Just like Indian subcontinent peoples make *excellent* vegetarian dishes.) Arabs in general also have a wonderful hospitality tradition. That’s a thing I appreciate. Almost any culture has some nice parts. The trouble is, some of them come with more negatives than positives on the overall. No amount of good food (something sorely lacking in North American “white people”, generally) makes up for honour killings, religious intolerance, or anything of that nature.
Here’s the thing: I’d happily give up ever eating kebab again in order to have all the Islamists vanish!
I lived in a Muslim country for four years.
Was not impressed with the food or the hospitality.
I won’t eat halal meat. Ugh. I loathe the mass-meat packers’ products too.
When you say, No amount of good food (something sorely lacking in North American “white people”, generally), I want to know what ghetto you’re in. The variety of ethnic foods in this country is truly amazing. And learning to cook ethnic dishes is fun. I am scheduled to do the foods for coffee at church this week. Am kicking myself for not remembering how easy spanikopita is.
Mike, I think that is not real hospitality when their main intention is to get something in return from Western civilization.
Just as most of them are only interested in making an immense profit from selling so-called good food.
Anyway, good food originated, grown, produced, prepared or evolved from Western culture and Western civilization is still the best.
Five times a day huh/eh..The wall that I’d be driven up would have potholes..
Five times a day huh/eh?..The wall that I’d be driven up would have potholes..And I really hate potholes..
The FBI has been known as Famous But Incompetent for decades. They’re the Amtrak of law enforcement.
Outstanding commentary that calls out Leftists/Liberals/Marxists/Maoists for their culpability in creating the culture that led the conditions that produced the recent tragedy in Florida:
http://malcolmpollack.com/2018/02/16/reaping-the-whirlwind/
Always spot on.
Milo is 100% correct the Left has already begun the Second Civil War. Everyone not on the Left needs to recognize this and act accordingly.
It is unfortunate that Milo burned a lot of his credibility with his ill-phrased comments several months ago.
Everyone not on the Left needs to be extremely careful, maybe even a bit paranoid with regard to what they say and who they say it around. In the current environment no one can afford to leave extra ammunition lying around so it can be turned back on you at a later date!
With Christianity essentially dead in most of Europe, will the Marxists, who are forcing Islam into Europe, or the Muslims ultimately win to rule with an iron fist? Which tyrant would be better for Euro[peans]?
It will be quite amusing when they turn on each other. Oh how the poor lefties will weep and wail LOL
Regarding the spree killer – anyone who has ever had SSRI meds foisted upon them knows how they can alter your brain – and if you ever come off them, your mind is not your own and you can turn violent in seconds. Man, that stuff is absolutely DEADLY.
Funny how so many of these spree killers in Yankeeland are on that stuff, or have been on it. Talk about a common denominator. I repeat – if you’re on that stuff & realise that it’s turning you into a grinning zombie, and you decide you’ve had enough & want to live again, & you come off them – WATCH OUT!
I came off those meds, this was a few years ago now, & I was taking something out of the boot of my car & all of a sudden my brain was on fire & I had thrown the stuff all over the car park & tore the whole boot cover off with my bare hands & was smashing it into the car, I was not in control of myself at all. If anyone had been around at the time, and had so much as looked at me the wrong way, I don’t think I would have been able to stop myself from going for them. I was raging, like a violent beast. Man, that SSRI medication is POWERFUL and DANGEROUS++
I too would like to see more skepticism with regard to SSRIs, but Big Pharma owns so many Senators and Representatives that it will never happen.
I have seen first hand what happens when a person goes through SSRI withdrawal – they wind up in a catatonic/vegetative state for 2 to 3 weeks. Yikes.
Neither, but the Europeans appear to be unaware of anything these days. Too bad and so sad, but what would wake them up? And they have this love affair with socialism, other than Hungary and other countries who have experienced it — we used to call it communism but we have been corrected so now we call it socialism. It’s all the same though. No freedom is what it really means.
Remember what de Tocqueville warned: socialist forms of government work until the powers that be run out of other people’s money.
I think Max Weber made a similar claim about the eternity of bureaucracies.
What is it about Nordic Lutheranism that it’s become suicidal? I would really like to know the answer to that question.