Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called for the deportation of 600,000 migrants from Italy, describing them as a “social bomb”. Mr. Berlusconi’s ally Matteo Salvini is being blamed for inspiring the shooting attack on migrants in Macerata by a skinhead affiliated with the Lega Nord.
In other Italian news, two people were arrested and another injured during a clash in Rome between police and demonstrators who were protesting a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the Vatican.
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After Fatal Amtrak Crashes, White House Blames Senate Democrats for Blocking Trump Railroad Nominee
The White House said Monday that obstruction by Senate Democrats is hindering the federal government’s investigations of two deadly Amtrak accidents in the past week.
White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah said the nomination of Ronald Batory as head of the Federal Railroad Administration has been held up by Senate Democrats for more than eight months.
Noting that the Department of Transportation is investigating the causes of fatal train crashes in South Carolina and in central Virginia, Mr. Shah said “unfortunately they’ll be doing it without an administrator in place at the federal railroad administration because Senate Democrats led by Chuck Schumer have been holding up the nomination of Ron Battery, a highly qualified rail safety expert.”
He said federal investigators must “determine what went so horribly wrong and they’ll determine what needs to be done so it doesn’t happen again.”
An Amtrak passenger train was accidentally diverted to a side track and crashed into an unmanned freight train in South Carolina, killing two Amtrak employees and injuring 116 people early Sunday, federal officials said.
Last week, an Amtrak train carrying Republican lawmakers to a retreat hit a trash truck on the tracks near Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one man on the truck and seriously injuring another.
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FBI Has Been Going After the Clintons’ Enemies for Years
To this malicious end, they did the following:
Hired British spy Christopher Steele (who admitted in writing that he “hated” candidate Trump) to create a phony story about the Republican candidate being in a Russian hotel engaging is raunchy acts with a prostitute;
Hired the political opposition-research group Fusion GPS to distribute the phony info.
Paid for this sham scenario with multi-millions of dollars from both Hillary’s campaign coffers and the Democratic National Committee’s monies;
Went to the judges of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to apply for a search warrant without informing the judges about (1) the Trump-loathing spy’s bias, and (2) who paid for the warrant. By the way, who are these judges and exactly who appointed them???
Obtained the warrant which allowed the partisan hacks from Obama’s DOJ and FBI to conduct a more than year-long collusion investigation which produced NOTHING!
Oops…make that something. It produced hard, cold, concrete, irrefutable, and to my mind indictable evidence that the people who were in collusion were — — ta da — — the corrupt upper echelon of the DOJ and FBI who lied to the FISA judges, as well as Hillary Clinton who as Sec. of State gave 20 percent of U.S. uranium to the Russians (similar to her husband Bill giving nukes to North Korea and their ideological clone Barack Obama giving nukes to Iran!)…
Daniel Greenfield, in an article entitled The Memo Reveals the Coup against America, writes that “the Democrats and the media spent a week lying to the American people about the ‘memo’“…claiming its release would be damaging to America’s spying and even treasonous. But “they didn’t mean American spying methods — — they meant Obama’s spying methods.”
“The memo isn’t treasonous,” Greenfield continues. “It reveals a treasonous effort by the Democrats to use our intelligence agencies to rig an election and overturn the will of the voters. Today, the media and Dems switched from claiming that the memo was full of ‘classified information’ that might get CIA agents killed to insisting that it was a dud and didn’t matter. Oh what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive.”
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Man With Concealed Pistol Saves Cop in Yet Another Case of That Thing Liberals Say ‘Never Happens’
If you’ve paid any attention to the gun control debate, you know the argument. Conservatives say the 2nd Amendment guarantees your right to bear arms so that you can defend yourself, your property, your family and other innocents against attacks from criminals or your own government. Democrats look at them like they’re idiots and say something along the lines of “well, then why aren’t there any examples of ‘good guys with guns’ stopping crimes?”
The conservative then points out that there are thousands of examples, and the Democrat changes the subject or moves the goal posts. In an apparent post-60’s about face, they argue that only their former boogeymen — police officers and military members — should have firearms.
So, in case you need an example that covers precisely that point, allow us to present Derek Meyer. He’s a “good guy with a gun” who rescued a police officer with, you guessed it, his concealed pistol. It seems a guy named Paul Douglas Anderson was spotted climbing into a charity’s donation bin and was trying to steal whatever was inside. A police officer ordered him to climb out, and that’s when things got ugly.
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Militant Muslims Launch New Attack on Trump
The left-leaning American media, unable to understand that voters elected President Trump to reform the federal government, repeatedly have asserted his mental capabilities are lacking because he is changing the way things are done in Washington, explains a new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
For example, despite the fact a recent annual physical for the president included a voluntary cognitive test in which he achieved a perfect 30 out of 30 score, media, including Time, CNN, BBC, Salon and Newsweek, have continued to question his fitness.
“Is Trump mentally fit?” asked Politico. “Doctors want President Trump’s head examined,” claimed CNN.
The issue was inflamed by the recent book “Fire and Fury” by Michael Wolff.
Now, Palestinians, who have been enraged by the president’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, have joined the campaign.
Palestinian Media Watch reports the branch of the Palestinian Authority’s leading party, Fatah, in Lebanon posted a cartoon, questioning the “mental fitness” of Trump.
PMW pointed out “some material in Wolff’s book is unverifiable or lacking a source, and many people quoted in it have denied the quotes attributed to them. Wolff has been previously accused of fabricating material and unreliability in his writing.”
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Super Bowl Anti-Terrorism Documents Left on Plane
(CNN) The Department of Homeland Security documents critiquing the response to a simulated anthrax attack on Super Bowl Sunday were marked “For Official Use Only” and “important for national security.”
Recipients of the draft “after-action” reports were told to keep them locked up after business hours and to shred them prior to discarding. They were admonished not to share their contents with anyone who lacked “an operational need-to-know.” But security surrounding the December 2017 reports suffered an embarrassing breach: A CNN employee discovered copies of them, along with other sensitive DHS material, in the seat-back pocket of a commercial plane. The reports were accompanied by the travel itinerary and boarding pass of the government scientist in charge of BioWatch, the DHS program that conducted the anthrax drills in preparation for Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis. The reports were based on exercises designed to evaluate the ability of public health, law enforcement and emergency management officials to engage in a coordinated response were a biological attack to be carried out in Minneapolis on Super Bowl Sunday.
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Super Bowl Mayhem: Philadelphia Celebrates With Fires, Looting and Shooting
Last night, after underdog Eagles defeated Tom Brady and the Pats to win the Superbowl, we predicted that “Philly GDP was set for a major Keynesian boost tonight”…
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The DNC is Reportedly ‘Dead Broke.’ the RNC Has Nearly $40 Million.
The Democratic National Committee had a rough 2017, plagued by leadership troubles, internal squabbling, and unflattering reports. To top it off, the party ended the year “dead broke,” says The Intercept’s Ryan Grim.
The Democratic Party is carrying more than $6 million in debt, according to year-end filings — and has just $6.5 million in the bank. Do the math, and the party is working with just over $400,000 overall. Meanwhile, the Republicans are swimming in pools of money. The Republican National Committee had raised $132 million by the end of 2017 — about twice as much as the DNC — and entered 2018 with almost $40 million to spare, with not a penny of debt.
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Trey Gowdy: No FISA Authorization Without the Steele Memo
The worst news of the week is that Trey Gowdy is retiring. Apparently he had his “f*** this s*** moment” and decided politics wasn’t for him anymore.
Which sucks, because we need more serious-minded people like him in Congress. Especially when it comes to making sense of the memo (see Trump Administration Officially Releases the Nunes Memo to the Public… and MSNBC’s Excuse to Downplay Memo: ‘Everyone is Biased’…).
Gowdy tried to do so this Sunday, and his key point is going to trigger the left. The big question coming from MemoGhaziPalooza is if there would even be an investigation without the Steele Dossier. Yes, the partisan opposition research paid for by Democrats.
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Trumpocalypse, FBI and the Globalist Coup Against Donald Trump
The clear majority of the mainstream media in true Orwellian form is attempting to change the consciousness of the American people regarding the truth of the FBI memo by using the Alice in Wonderland logic of the Mad Hatter…
The first question that must be asked is why do the globalist elite, many of the highest-level leaders at the FBI and in the intelligence community, along with the mass media and the DNC and RNC establishments, hate Trump. The answer is never mentioned in the media, but the reality is that many members of the globalist elite consider Trump the greatest threat to globalism, and as such also to themselves, many people high up in the intelligence communities, the mass media, and elite Republicans and Democrats.
After all, Trump is anti-globalist and believes in nationalism, patriotism, Christian values, making America great again, Jerusalem, and many of things the globalists hate. The elite globalists believe in a one-world government secretly ruled by what Brave New World author Aldous Huxley called “the scientific elite.”
For decades, Democratic and Republican presidents have been carrying out the will of their globalist controllers by passing numerous trade treaties, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership. These globalist trade treaties destroyed the American working and middle class by causing over 80,000 manufacturing plants to leave America. As a result, hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs were outsourced to Third World nations.
Naturally, the globalist elite got richer than in any time in human history. Today, just 1 percent of the population owns and controls 99 percent of the world’s wealth. Their goal is to destroy an economically-sustainable working and middle class and create just two classes — the globalist elite who will be the ruling class and the rest of the population who will be their slave class. None of these facts are ever revealed by the mass media.
In our book, Trumpocalypse, written by myself and Pulitzer Prize-nominated investigative journalist and former Los Angeles Daily News reporter Troy Anderson, we trace the origins of the Deep State to the Fabian socialists and super-globalists such as the late David Rockefeller, former chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, who created the CIA after WWII by installing his man, Allen Dulles, as the first director of the CIA.
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Video: Students Hate Trump SOTU Quotes, But They’re Obama’s
President Trump delivered his State of the Union address earlier this week, which was favorably received by 75 percent of those who watched it. Campus Reform went to John Jay College in New York City to find out what students thought of some choice Trump quotes…which were actually from Barack Obama’s State of the Union addresses.
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump gave his first State of the Union address. While the speech was received favorably by 75 percent of those who watched, according to a CBS poll, there were still those who disapproved.
Campus Reform headed to John Jay College in NYC to talk to students who disapproved of the speech by asking them to react to a few select quotations. Almost unanimously, the students found each of the quotes to be “warmongering”, “aggressive,” and “immature.”
“[Trump] should, like, you know, mind his own business and, like, just focus on America because he’s the President of the United States, not the whole world.” Tweet This
What the students didn’t know was that all the quotes given to them were taken from President Obama’s State of the Union addresses.
How would they react when they found out it was President Obama, not Trump, who had spoken each of the quotes they disapproved of?
Watch the full video below video to find out!
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Canadian Public Broadcaster Claims Quebec Public Sector Employees ‘Too White’
According to an investigation by the French language version of the publicly-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the public sector workforce of the province of Quebec is “too white”.
The investigation claims that white Canadians are overrepresented in the public sector workforce in comparison to their overall population in Quebec.
White Quebecois are increasingly becoming a smaller segment of the overall population of the province, with visible minorities almost doubling from 7 per cent to 13 per cent of the population between 2001 and 2016.
The author of the report, Thomas Gerbet, lists several publicly-owned companies and lists the number of minority employees, such as Quebec’s public liquor corporation Société des alcools du Québec, which has minorities as only two per cent of its overall workforce.
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Trudeau Compares ISIS Fighters to Greek, Italian, Portuguese Immigrants
Trudeau’s stupidity can excuse a lot of things he does and says but he should not be let off the hook for this one
On Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held one of his town hall meetings. The PM is currently crisscrossing the country in an attempt to bolster his sinking popularity. While many things coming out of the mouth of the most unqualified prime minister in history are bad, this comment was particularly disgusting.
Towards the end of last year, Trudeau made it very clear he welcomes the return to Canada of Canadians who went to the Middle East to fight for the Islamic State. Gone is the law stripping dual citizens who have taken part in terrorist activities of their Canadian citizenship. Of course these people are never referred to as “terrorists” by the Liberal government. Those who have returned to Canada have been given the cutesy label of “returning foreign fighters.” Gee, they sound just like Canadian vets returning to Canada except the terrorists get much more respect and better treatment from the government than do members of the military.
In what passes for his mind, Trudeau believes these returning foreign fighters can be rehabilitated by being given hugs and hot chocolate, and he actually believes these fighters can de-radicalize others who wish to join the cause. Trudeau is incapable of understanding these “travellers” are returning to Canada not because they have seen the error of their ways but because since the election of Donald Trump, ISIS has been pretty well wiped out in Syria and Iraq. And even Trudeau’s Public Safety Minister said the chances these terrorists can be rehabilitated is “remote.” But nothing will destroy Justin’s love for these savage head choppers.
At the town hall in Edmonton, a man asked the PM a question. Whoever he is, he obviously didn’t get the memo that the purpose of these town halls is to lob softball questions at Trudeau to make him look good. The man wanted the PM to explain his views on ISIS; “how you’re going to protect future Canadians like my young daughter 10, 15 or 20 years from now, when you’re letting in people with an ideology that just does not conform to what we’re doing here.” Trudeau then went into his rambling answer about how Canada is a welcoming country that takes in people from all over the world who are fleeing persecution and poverty. He then made reference to other groups of people who came to Canada in large numbers, specifically Greek, Italian and Portuguese immigrants.
In other words, ISIS fighters are no different than the immigrants who came to Canada in years gone by from Western European countries.
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West Edmonton Mall Water Park Assault Suspect Under Close Surveillance, Trial Hears
A supervisor at the West Edmonton Mall water park testified Friday that a sexual assault suspect was closely watched by staff from the moment a group of girls raised the alarm about him.
Erika Bevan told court that a suspect wearing blue trunks in the wave pool was under close surveillance following the girls’ complaints.
“We always made sure we had eyes on him,” Bevan said in Edmonton provincial court.
The Crown closed its case on Friday against Soleiman Hajj Soleiman, 40, who is charged with six counts of sexual assault and six counts of sexual contact with a child.
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Bombshell: UK Government Review Into Sharia
A controversial review into the state of Sharia law in the United Kingdom and the bodies administering it has revealed the British government to be unaware of exactly how many of the Islamic law councils are operating in the country, an admission of systemic discrimination against women, including the victim of forced marriage being asked to appear alongside her family, with an “inappropriate” adoption of civil legal terms used.
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Danish Minister: We Have Lost and Have Been Silenced by Islam and Its Fundamentalist Followers
Inger Støjberg, the Danish minister of immigration and integration, said in an article for newspaper BT and in a Facebook post, that the Danes have “lost” and have been “silenced” by Islam and its fundamentalist followers.
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France: Daesh is Not Alone in Justifying Sexual Slavery, There is Al Azhar Too (II)
The “intellectual” leaders of the Islamic State continue to justify the enslavement of non-Muslim women as part of the “spoils of war”. In doing so, they go along with many of today’s Muslim scholars. Conservative circles have put up a resistance to an historical and contextual re-examination of Islam’s sacred texts. This is the second part (out of three) of an analysis by Imam Hocine Drouiche. The first part was published yesterday.
Nimes (AsiaNews) — We publish the second part (out of three) of the analysis by Imam Hocine Drouiche on the urgency of reform in Islamic law, especially on the issue of rape and enslavement of non-Muslims. The first part is available here.
Scrapping religious opinions about sexual slavery has been the struggle of many Muslim thinkers, people like Abdelouhaeb Maadeb, Mohamed Arkoune, Mohammed Chahrour and Nasr Hamed Abu Zeyd. They and others have not stopped calling for the historicisation and contextualisation of the interpretations of these texts, to free Islam and Muslims from the weight of the “sacred past” that is holding back the evolution of the Muslim world.
Because of this heavy legacy, the Muslim world is in conflict with the whole world, in the West, in China, in India and in several African countries. It is this hateful and bloody legacy that has pitted Sunnis against Shias, Salafists against Sufis, etc. . . .
What has made reform more complicated is the refusal by conservatives of any contextualisation or historicisation of the texts, which end up authorising all sorts of violence. In general, all interpretations are linked to the so-called “reasons of revelation” (Asbaab ennuzul), and the repeal of these opinions does not yet seem feasible in the face of the great resistance by conservative and Salafi schools. In their view, any reform represents a modification of God’s law, a fundamental questioning of the bases of Islam, and a capitulation before its enemies!
In the opaque legal climate that reigns in the great ship of Islam, which is not led by any unitary clergy, terrorist organisations like Daesh are not an exception. They continue to apply to the letter Sharia, which is still recognised and taught in various Muslim organisations throughout the world, in institutes, as well as in many official universities in the Muslim world.
Al Monjid, one of the Salafist references in contemporary Islam, answered clearly a question regarding the spoils of war, including women, on his website: “To have sexual slaves represents [follows] the example of the prophet, his companions and all our Muslim predecessors. Nobody can forbid it. Those who forbid it commit a great sin because it goes against the consensus of the scholars of Islam.”
The issue of the permanent jihad within Islam complicates the idea that Muslim law and contemporary international humanitarian law share the same fundamental values with respect to the protection of civilian populations in armed conflicts.
Suad Salih (pictured), director of Higher Studies at al Azhar University, should officially apologise to all non-Muslim women (Yazidis and others) for her inhuman statements on the treatment to be meted out to non-Muslim women, irrespective of whether they are seen or not as “spoils of war” in armed conflicts.
By continuing to disseminate these religious opinions in Muslim communities authorising the enslavement of the “spoils of war” and the legalisation of sexual slavery, Muslim authorities and universities, both public and private, could be probed and judged on this point, as well as on their role and direct and indirect responsibility in legalising such crimes against humanity.
Islamic law contains a number of Muslim legal rules that protect civilians, including women, in the event of armed conflict, but many Muslims view jihad as a sword in a perpetual duel against the infidels, the unbelievers and the enemies of Allah.
Muslims who defend this binary vision of the world do nothing but stigmatise the religion they purport to defend by giving it a false image. One can legitimately ask how jihad can Islamise people since in religious terms no one has a binding authority over others. How can jihad be invoked in order to place the whole universe under Islam’s jurisdiction when, in Quranic terms, God created the various peoples and nations so that that they may know each other. It is clear that Jihad is the most manipulated concept in the whole of Muslim history. Such manipulation has led the concept to become, at certain moment, synonymous with savagery and aggression.
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German Politicians ‘Alarmed’ At Scale of Anti-Christian Hate Attacks
Hate crime figures leaked by police in Germany have caused alarm, as they revealed murder, assault, and arson numbering among almost 100 attacks which targeted Christians in 2017.
Published by the Funke media group several months before annual crime statistics are due to be officially released, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) data showed attacks on churches and Christian symbols accounted for a quarter of the 97 cases.
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‘I Am Not Afraid of You’, Sole Surviving Paris Attack Suspect Tells Belgian Court
THE ONLY SURVIVING suspect in the 2015 Paris attacks has accused a Belgian court of bias against Muslims, saying he put his “trust in Allah” as he went on trial for a deadly shootout with police.
Salah Abdeslam, 28, cut a defiant figure at the court while refusing to stand for the judge or to answer questions about the bloody gun battle in Brussels that led to his capture in 2016.
The Belgian-born French national of Moroccan descent was transferred to Brussels under police escort from a jail near Paris to answer charges of attempted terrorist murder of police officers.
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Italy: CasaPound Restores DUX Forest
Semi-destroyed by summer wildfire
(ANSA) — Rieti, February 5 — The far-right CasaPound group has restored Benito Mussolini’s Latin handle, DUX, spelled out by trees in a pine forest that was semi-destroyed by a wildfire last summer.
The forest on Mt Giano near Rieti was planted by forestry students in honour of Il Duce in 1939 and later declared a natural monument.
About 200 CasaPound volunteers took part in the reforestation Sunday.
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Italy: Clashes at Erdogan Protest in Rome, Protester Hurt
Two arrested
(ANSA) — Rome, February 5 — A protester was hurt and two were arrested when police clashed with demonstrators protesting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Rome Monday. A group of demonstrators, carrying a banner saying ‘Erdogan Killer’, tried to stage an unauthorised march towards the Vatican, where Erdogan was being received by Pope Francis. The police, in riot gear, baton-charged them and stopped them.
The demonstrators were protesting human rights conditions in Turkey, where Erdogan has repeatedly cracked down on opponents.
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Italy: Alarming Solidarity for Macerata Shooter — Lawyer
Gives measure of what’s happening says lawyer Giulianelli
(ANSA) — Ancona, February 5 — The lawyer representing Luca Traini, the man accused of going in a racist shooting spree in Macerata on Saturday, said Monday that he was alarmed about the level of support for the attacker. “Politically there is a problem,” lawyer Giancarlo Giulianelli said after meeting the 28-year-old in Montacuto prison. “People stop me to give messages of solidarity for Luca. It’s alarming, but it gives us a measure of what’s happening”.
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Norway: Police Search for Gunman After Shots Fired at Bar in Oslo
Several shots were fired at a bar near the Youngstorget square in Oslo in the early hours of Monday. No injuries have been reported.
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Swedish Police in Malmö Now Armed With Machine Guns to Take Back Control
As an antidote to the rampant criminality and attacks against law enforcement, at least two police stations in the city has chosen to ramp up security with officers armed with Heckler & Koch MP5 machine guns.
“The police in Malmö are currently doing quite a lot of operations against professional criminals,” said Calle Persson, press officer for the police in southern Sweden. “We know from prior work of this kind that some criminals tend to carry out vengeance attacks. It’s also a statement in some way: we want to show who’s in charge.”
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The Coming EU Privacy Regulation Will End Up Remaking the World’s Web
Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation kicks in this May, and it enforces a user-first, privacy-centric set of rules for the internet that is totally incompatible with the adtech industry and the ad-supported web in general (though much rides on a potentially humungous loophole).
But these rules won’t just affect Europe, but all the companies that want to trade with the world’s largest, richest trading block: to sell products and services in Europe, these businesses will have to adhere to European rules. The compliance is going to be expensive for some of these companies — especially those from the poor world — but the changes mean that people in all countries, not just the EU, may inherit a future web that rebalances the deal between surveillance capitalism and the people who function under it.
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UK: Decaying, Degenerate London
Dalrymple writes of a visit to the English capital:
I stayed on the border between a rich and a poor part: on one side houses costing millions, on the other social housing for the drawers of social security.
Dalrymple’s hotel faced the poor quarter. Two huge liquid crystal screens, one of them relaying a trailer for the latest violent film, ensured that no one had to rely on the resources of his own mind for stimulation.
The paving stones were mottled with trodden-in chewing-gum. A guitar-strumming beggar, probably a drug addict, sought the attention of hurrying pedestrians.
The hotel was noisy. In England, Dalrymple points out, the sound of people enjoying themselves is indistinguishable from the sound of someone being kicked to death (the two are often the same), and this noise filtered into our bedroom. From time to time, including at 4am, police cars with a variety of ear-splitting sirens passed by, giving notice from afar to malefactors of their approach.
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UK: Islamic London: “Run, Hide, Tell”
by Daniel Pipes
Muslim-majority areas typically consist of poor, unattractive housing projects remote from the city center that long ago were abandoned by their original indigenous, working-class populations. They often feature men sitting around cafes and women cooped up at home. They suffer from a range of social pathologies, including unemployment, criminal gangs, and drug-trafficking.
London too has such areas, and they are very large; but what makes the English capital unique is the intense Muslim presence in the very most central and expensive parts of the city, where Muslims do not constitute a majority. This presence takes two main forms.
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Serbia and Montenegro Have a Chance to Enter EU by 2025
The European Commission intends to speed up the process of EU accession to the Western Balkan countries, according to Die Welt, quoted by BGNES.
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Blowback: How a CIA-Backed Coup Led to the Rise of Iran’s Ayatollahs
Why can’t Iran have a secular, democratic government? It’s a question Americans often ask of their longstanding Middle East adversary — especially when they see images of anti-regime protesters taking to the streets of major Iranian cities and towns to demand greater freedom.
Unlike citizens of the Islamic Republic, however, citizens of the United States tend to have short memories. The historical reality is that Iran did have a secular, democratic government, led by Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh between 1951 and 1953 — but Mossadegh was removed from power in a coup organized and funded by the CIA and Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6.
With a handful of exceptions — Madeleine Albright in 2000, Barack Obama in 2009 and 2015 — most mainstream U.S. politicians have little to say about any of this sordid history. In Washington, D.C., Iranian hostility toward the U.S. has long been treated as inexplicable and irrational, while the CIA’s role in the 1953 coup — which set off a chain of events that resulted in the rise of Iran’s ayatollahs and the Islamic Revolution of 1979 — has vanished into a memory hole.
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Criticizing the “hypocrisy” of feminists, an Iranian women’s rights activist says Western media outlets will report on a Barbie doll wearing a headscarf, but avoid devoting coverage to real-life women forced to wear one, for fear of being accused of “Islamophobia.”
Masih Alinejad told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Iranian women have lived in fear since Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, but now the government is starting to fear them.
Alinejad several years ago began an online campaign against the compulsory wearing of Islamic headscarves (hijab), a campaign that now appears to be taking on its own momentum on the streets of Iran.
At least 29 people have reportedly been arrested in Tehran for protesting the forced wearing of the hijab. In recent protests reported on social media, women have removed their headscarves, attached them to sticks, and waved them on public streets. Some men have joined them.
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Man Killed After Being Sucked Into MRI Machine
(International Business Times) An Indian man was killed Saturday after being sucked into an MRI machine at a Mumbai Hospital, according to Indian news broadcaster NDTV.
The man, Rajesh Maru, 32, was helping an elderly relative at BYL Nair Charitable Hospital when he entered the MRI room with a metal oxygen tank. An MRI machine is a powerful tool used to create medical imaging of human anatomies using strong magnetic fields and radio waves. Metal objects are supposed to be removed when an MRI is in use.
A hospital employee described as a “ward boy” told Maru that it was fine to bring the tank inside and that the MRI machine was off. When Maru and his brother-in-law Harish Solanki resisted, citing the danger, the employee, Vitthal Chavan, said: “It’s fine, we do it every day.”
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Community leaders have accused Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton of playing political games in response to the African youth crime in Melbourne.
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Armed officers would be embedded in 10 ‘at risk’ Victorian high schools as part of a state Opposition plan to combat a ‘violent scourge of youth crime’.
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Footage shows New South Wales police officers dancing on the shoulders of wedding guests, after reportedly arriving at the Arab event for a ‘raid’ at the weekend.
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A 22-year-old male has been detained by police after allegedly breaking into the Mile End property.
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Pope Informed of Chile Abuse in 2015 — Report
Francis sent letter from victim of Fernando Karadima
(ANSA) — Vatican City, February 5 — Pope Francis was reportedly informed of allegations of child sex abuse by the clergy in Chile in 2015.
A victim of Father Fernando Karadima, a serial predator whose abuse was covered up by the Chilean church, that year sent the pope an eight-page letter about Bishop Juan Barros, who is accused of witnessing and ignoring the abuse.
Francis recently said he was sending Archbishop Charles Scicluna, a top child-abuse expert, to Chile to investigate the accusations against Barros.
But during his recent trip to Chile and Colombia the pope said there was no evidence against Barros, adding that victims of the abuse had not come forward. The letter sent by victim Juan Carlos Cruz.
The Associated Press reported that members of the Vatican’s Commission for the Protection of Minors told it that they delivered the letter to the pope’s top adviser on sex abuse, Cardinal Sean O’Malley, in April 2015.
“When we gave him (O’Malley) the letter for the Pope, he assured us he would give it to the pope and speak of the concerns,” Marie Collins, a former member of the commission at the time, told AP. “And at a later date, he assured us that that had been done.”
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Afghan Migrants Receive 400 Euros of “Free Money” Every Month in Greece
The EU is supporting Greece with hundreds of millions of euros in emergency aid. How is this money being spent?
One of our reporters did some research and talked with a group of Afghans withdrawing money from a Greek bank. According to them they all receive 400 euros monthly, to use without regulation.
With at least 60,000 asylum seekers stuck in Greece we have an idea of what is happening with the EU’s taxpayer money.
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Afghan Asylum Seeker ‘Rapes Girl in Germany’
An Afghan asylum seeker has been accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in Germany.
The 18-year-old man was arrested on Thursday last week after the girl contacted police to say he had attacked her inside a home in Esslingen, near Stuttgart.
The man previously served a year in juvenile detention for attempted rape and was released in December last year under court supervision.
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BBC and Church Elites Attack British Christians for Wanting Lower Immigration
The BBC has attacked Anglicans after a study revealed that nearly nine out of 10 want immigration levels “reduced”, claiming that Christianity demands support for open borders.
In a segment reporting a University of Bristol study which found 87 per cent of Anglicans think there is too much immigration to Britain, BBC Breakfast featured religious leaders who said Christians should be reeducated so that they back mass migration.
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Edmonton Refugee Group Standing by Man Accused in Water Park Assaults
An Edmonton refugee support group is standing by the man accused of sexually assaulting teenage girls inside the West Edmonton Mall water park.
Soleiman Hajj Soleiman, 40, is on trial in Edmonton provincial court this week for six counts of sexual assault and six counts of sexual contact with a child.
“We all want to support him and are surprised to hear he is accused of this,” said Dave Trautman from the River City Refugee Project.
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TEL AVIV — Organizations financed by billionaire George Soros, a champion of open border policies, have been leading the opposition here to Israel’s decision to enforce its law by seeking to deport illegal African migrant infiltrators.
Israel on Sunday announced it will begin issuing deportation notices to men without children who arrived illegally from Eritrea and Sudan largely seeking work.
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France: Macron Under Pressure After Five Migrants Shot in Calais Brawl
EMMANUEL MACRON has been condemned for the French government’s response to the migrant crisis in Calais after five people were shot during a giant brawl in the northern port town last week.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/914605/italy-election-2018-eurosceptic-parties-opinion-polls-european-union-brussels
Italy Election Warning: Eurosceptics Seek Gains Among Growing Anger With Brussels
ALL EYES are on Italy with a month to go before crunch elections with Eurosceptic candidates cashing in on the country’s growing resentment at its treatment at the hands of European Union bosses.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-05/turmoil-dow-devastated-bond-yields-flash-crash-bitcoin-bloodbaths
S&P Crashes Most Since US Downgrade As VIX Explodes, Bond Yields Flash-Crash
CNBC Pisani: “This has the feel of a textbook pullback”
This was the biggest drop for the S&P since August 2011.
[Comment: The stock market was long overdue for a correction. Stay calm and when things settle down, it would be a good time to buy.]
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German Journalist: More and More Citizens Wake up and Realize That Something is Totally Wrong Here
This is part two of an interview with German journalist and model Anabel Schunke. Part one, about the effects of migrant crime on Germany’s women can be found here. Anabel studied political science and history and is active on Twitter and Facebook.
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Italy: Migrants Out Says Berlusconi After Macerata Racist Attack
Luca Traini held for wounding six migrants in Marche city
(ANSA) — Rome, February 5 — Centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi called for the expulsion of thousands of migrants after a racist sooting that shocked Italy at the weekend.
Luca Traini, a 28-year-old militant for the anti-migrant league, shot and wounded six migrants in a drive-by shooting spree in the Marche city Macerata days after the discovery there of the body of an 18-year-old Italian woman allegedly killed and dismembered by a Nigerian immigrant.
“600,000 migrants are a social bomb that risks exploding,” said Berlusconi, echoing League leader Matteo Salvini who said “those who fill us with migrants instigate violence” like Traini’s.
Salvini’s critics have accused him with his incessant anti-migrant invective of “morally arming” Traini, who is now being held in the same jail as Innocent Oseghale, the alleged drug pusher who allegedly killed recovering drug addict Pamela Mastropietro before stuffing her hacked-up body into two suitcases and dumping them near Macerata.
Berlusconi said Monday Traini’s action was “madness”. The three-time ex-premier and media magnate said “it’s something incomprehensible: only an unbalanced person could do something like that, I don’t see anything political because politics doesn’t lead to these follies”.
It is a good idea to scrub the term ‘race’ from the Italian Constitution, Berlusconi went on.
“Italians are not racists, we are hospitable,” he said on Italian TV. “There is not a general climate of hatred but some people who are out of their heads, like the gentleman in Macerata, who wallow in this atmosphere”.
Article 3 of the Constitution says all citizens are equal without distinction of gender, race, language, religion, political opinions and personal and social conditions.
Centre-right Lombardy governor candidate Attilio Fontana, of the League, recently defended himself in a row over his assertion that Italy’s “white race is at risk” due to migration, saying that “the Italian Constitution itself speaks about race”.
Meanwhile Salvini said Monday being described as a “bad teacher” for allegedly fomenting Traini’s racist hatred “recalls the (Red Brigades) BR”. “I’m getting a lot of insults,” said Salvini.
“I would be careful about using such words (as bad teachers).
“Evoking that period is not intelligent, it’s better to comment with your head than your mouth”.
Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI) President Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti said Monday “we must say no to xenophobia, social rancour and the ‘entrepreneurs of fear’“ amid migrant fears.
“We must unite Italy, ‘reknit’ our communities,” said the CEI chief. “In the name of God we invoke sobriety, peace and dialogue”, he said.
A copy of Mein Kampf as well as far-right insignia were found at Traini’s home.
He has reportedly confessed to the shooting “in revenge” for Mastropietro’s murder.
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Italy’s Berlusconi: “600,000 Migrants Are a Social Bomb That Risks Exploding”
Italian politician and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi, said migrants should be deported from the country.
According to Berlusconi, the country’s 600,000 migrants “are a social bomb that risks exploding”.
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NFL Colts Linebacker Allegedly Killed by Twice-Deported Illegal Alien Drunk Driver
Colts Linebacker Edwin Jackson and his driver were allegedly killed by a drunk driving, previously deported illegal alien Sunday morning near Indianapolis. The suspect fled the scene on foot after crashing into their vehicle. Indiana State Police officers arrested the reported driver later that morning.
Police arrested a man who identified himself as Alex Cabrera Gonsales, a 37-year-old Mexican national, after he allegedly crashed his black Ford F-150 into a car parked along Interstate 70 near Indianapolis, according to a statement obtained from the Indiana State Police. The driver of the car, 54-year-old Jeffrey Monroe, and his passenger, 26-year-old Indianapolis Colts Linebacker Edwin Jackson, were both killed in the crash.
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The Cost of Illegal Immigration
“At the federal, state, and local levels, taxpayers shell out approximately $134.9 billion to cover the costs incurred by the presence of more than 12.5 million illegal aliens, and about 4.2 million citizen children of illegal aliens.” — Matt O’Brien and Spencer Raley.
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Turning America Into a Third World Country: One City at a Time
The 1965 Immigration Reform Act, forced into law by former Senator Teddy Kennedy — continues to work its destructive trickery across the American landscape 53 years later — and counting.
It forced Americans to absorb 1.2 to 1.5 million legal third world immigrants onto this land annually without any understanding of the environmental, sociological, linguistic and cultural impacts upon U.S. citizens. Adding 130,000,000 people to this country since 1965, its environmental, quality of life and standard of living consequences compound annually. The sociological impacts of adding hundreds of different cultures surface in every city across America.
That one Congressional Act, expects to add another 100,000,000 (million) immigrants by 2050 — a scant 32 years from now. Yet, not a single governor, mayor or city council across America’s landscape offers a whisper as to the consequences already being played out in communities across this great land. One U.S. Senator, Tom Cotton from Arkansas sees the final result, and introduced a bill to cut all immigration in half. But his bill languishes in committee like other bills trying to stop chain-migration and diversity visas.
Incredible money and power brokers fight to keep the immigrant flow at full spigot.
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The BBC has attacked Anglicans after a study revealed that nearly nine out of 10 want immigration levels “reduced”, claiming that Christianity demands support for open borders.
Christianity demands support for open borders? Really?
What does the Bible say?
“But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:”
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“The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.”
“Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things:”
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“The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed:
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.”
In other words – according to the Bible – being overtaken by foreigners in your own country is the LORD’s curse, you muppets pretending to be christian bishops!
May I know which verses of Bible are these?
Deuteronomy chapter 28-29 among others.
Just saw on the news that two Czech girls got molested by a “refugee” in a swimming pool in a German town near the border. After complaining to the lifeguard, who then called the police, who detained the “refugee”, a twelve-year-old boy said the”refugee” touched his chest too. The lifeguard said he and his colleague found the “refugee” suspicious in the past, but no complaints ever came. After this the police asked other possible victims to announce themselves. Makes me think the German public has been scared enough into submission that they no longer bother pointing at molesters and possibly other criminals.
Btw there was an interview on our news channel (ČT24) last night with a military expert and he straight out said that a time will come when Europe will be forced to deport all muslims, because if a big terrorist attack succeeds and there will be like a 1000 dead, the public will start demanding it badly enough and the politicians won’t be able to ignore the outrage anymore. Unfortunately, I have no idea how I could make a clip out of the video, nor how to add subs, but here’s the link in case someone wants to take care of it(it starts around 44:40): http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1096898594-udalosti-komentare/218411000370205/
Thank you — I’ve sent the info to Vlad, and we’ll see what we can do.
https://philosophia-perennis.com/2018/01/31/fake-muslima-bei-katjes/
In the continuation of the theme of “vegan” sweets.
A fake Muslim woman.
Oh, the Ummah will accept this fake as long as she publicly follows their rituals and advocates the spread of Islam.
The Rothschild family sold a huge estate in Austria, which it owned from the middle of the 19th century. Do they know something?
Many people write that the situation in the world is similar to the one that was on the eve of World War II.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-31/rothschilds-sell-austrian-hunting-estate-in-a-historic-deal
More proof leftists are at best delusional, at worst psychotically detached from reality:
http://www.unz.com/isteve/seattle-times-polynesian-beat-up-black-because-white-supremacist-ideology/
http://aboutislam.net/muslim-issues/asia/halal-cafeteria-muslim-olympians-pyeongchang-2018/
Halal Cafeteria for Muslim Olympians in PyeongChang 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpVOhmn8yjY&list=UUXONHXQIM5xKrfazskrJQ7A
Unfortunately, halal labelled food is extremely common in Asia and most of the time the only “choice” in many part of south east Asia.
It is either starve or eat their halal labeled food.
And many of them are filthy.
Sorry, I don’t have an English source for the following French link.
The summary is – Feminazi admits she was wrong, understands immivaders are there for the freebies and will never integrate, believes it is too late for Germany, plans a cowardly flight to Poland:
https://www.delitdimages.org/allemagne-militante-pro-immigration-prend-conscience-de-lampleur-drame/
Anyone else terrified that 50% of the US seems A-OK with the FBI waging a coup against a duly elected President? Isn’t this normally known as sedition or high treason?