The center-right coalition that includes Silvio Berlusconi and the Lega Nord came out on top in today’s parliamentary election in Italy, ahead of the Five Star Movement. Matteo Salvini and the Lega gained more votes than Mr. Berlusconi’s Forza Italia. However, their coalition fell short of the number of seats necessary to form a government.
In other news, members of the Social Democrat Party in Germany voted to support a new Grand Coalition with the Christian Democrats, so that Angela Merkel can finally be sworn in for another term as chancellor.
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Yesterday, a tweet by NBC Universal anchor, Carl Quintanilla caught the eye of the very popular conservative Twitter user, and actor James Woods. After Walmart made the controversial decision to cave to high school activists and left-leaning websites on gun-control, social media users responded, by either applauding their decision or saying they’d never step foot in another Walmart store. Many on the left, including NBC anchor Carl Quintanilla, came to Walmart’s defense. The problem is, many of those who came to Walmart’s defense, including those who report the “news” for a living, didn’t have their facts straight.
James Woods to the rescue…
James Woods responded to Quintanilla’s irresponsible tweet: “Carl, “automatic rifles” are machine guns. They’ve been illegal for decades. Walmart has never sold one — not one — ever. Be a journalist and try to get the simplest facts correct, please.”
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Antifa News Site Sells ‘Hate Cops’ And ‘Hospitalize Your Local Fascist’ Badges
An Antifa news site sells badges saying “hate cops” and “hospitalize your local fascist” along with other memorabilia.
The retailer and news site, It’s Going Down, describes itself as “a digital community center from anarchist, anti-fascist, autonomous anti-capitalist and anti-colonial movements.”
It’s Going Down sells a 24-pack of stickers with slogans such as “This is an Antifa zone. Nazis, cops, and Klan go home” and “Become ungovernable: resist fascism and oppression” for $15.00. Along with the aforementioned “hospitalize your local fascist” badge, the site also sells badges reading “no more presidents” and “not gay as in happy, queer as in f*** you.”
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CNN Pushes YouTube to Ban Alex Jones, Demonetize Video Channel
Right-wing broadcaster Alex Jones announced Saturday evening that YouTube had frozen his video channel and would delete it on Sunday, after CNN pursued the social media giant and its advertisers.
The announcement came just hours after CNN published a story, “Advertisers flee InfoWars founder Alex Jones’ YouTube channel,” in which journalists Paul P. Murphy and Gianluca Mezzofiore approached companies to explain why their ads were showing up on Alex Jones’s channel.
Murphy and Mezzofiore also asked YouTube why it had not filtered out certain advertisers from showing up on the channel due to its “offensive content.”
The CNN article reads less like coverage of news and more like a chronicle of an activist campaign to damage Jones’s channel. “Many of the brands — including Nike, Moen, Expedia, Acer, ClassPass, Honey, Alibaba and OneFamily — have suspended ads on InfoWars’ channels after being contacted by CNN for comment,” the authors noted.
[Comment: Conservatives should “en masse” dump and close their youtube accounts, never use google for search as well as boycotting youtube and google. Frankly I think most sensible people are fed up with such communist tactics — look what is happening to the nosediving NFL. Elites don’t want public to think but to uncritcally absorb the propaganda fed to them. ]
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Donald Trump Threatens Tax on European Cars in Tariff Row
US President Donald Trump has threatened a tax on EU cars, escalating the trade conflict triggered by his plans to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum. Other countries “have taken advantage of us for years,” he tweeted.
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Meet the School Official Who Loves Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam
An Illinois school official sparked outrage online in February over his unapologetic endorsement of Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.
The Waukegan Public School District appointed Chris Blanks to a seat on the district’s discipline committee and allows him to take students on field trips, according to Waukegan Teachers and Parents United, a district advocacy group that contacted The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“LOVE, LIFE AND LIBERATION TO THE HONORABLE MINISTER FARRAKHAN
AND THE NATION OF ISLAM,” said Blanks in response to a post by Waukegan Teachers and Parents United in which the group asserted Blanks refused to withdraw his support for the minister.
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How very progressive…
As part of a month-long “social experiment,” a pop-up restaurant in New Orleans is asking white customers to pay extra for their meal in the name of wealth redistribution.
According to Civil Eats, the pop-up called Saartj gives white customers — and only white customers — the option to pay “$12 for lunch or the suggested price of $30” while black customers are “charged $12 and also given the option to collect the $18 paid by a white patron as a way to redistribute wealth.”
[Comment: Just like S.Africa, first communists ask…then they take…then they kill.]
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Reason Barack Obama Skipped Billy Graham’s Funeral Reminds Everyone of Why We Won’t Miss Him
Following the death of “America’s Pastor” Billy Graham, Barack Obama tweeted: saying he was “a humble servant who prayed for so many — and who, with wisdom and grace, gave hope and guidance to generations of Americans.
While Obama praised Graham in a tweet, he couldn’t be bothered to take the time away from his community organizing to attend Billy Graham’s funeral. Besides former President Jimmy Carter and President HW Bush, who are both 93-years old, and in poor health, Barack Obama was the only former president who was a no-show at Graham’s funeral.
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Schumer Slammed for Citing Skin Color in Vote Against White Judicial Nominee
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer faced a stern rebuke from congressional colleagues for citing skin color in voting against a white federal judge nominee earlier this week.
Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor Wednesday that the nomination of Marvin Quattlebaum, a white lawyer who is a partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough in Greenville, S.C., “speaks to the overall lack of diversity in President Trump’s selections for the federal judiciary.”
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The Truth Behind YouTube’s Purge of Conservatives, Christians & the 2nd Amendment
Big move by tech giants to control free speech underway
Conservatives across the internet — including Christian and pro-Second Amendment groups — are being banned by the anti-free speech authoritarians at Google, YouTube, and Facebook in a concerted effort to shut down points of view they don’t agree with.
If they can shut us down, they can shut everyone down.
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Trump Steps up War of Words on Trade With Threat to Tax EU Cars
US President Donald Trump has stepped up his war of words over trade tariffs, threatening to “apply a tax” on imports of cars from the European Union.
Mr Trump said other countries had taken advantage of the US for years because of its “very stupid” trade deals.
The trade wrangle began on Thursday when Mr Trump vowed to impose hefty tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.
EU trade chiefs have reportedly been considering slapping 25% tariffs on around $3.5bn (£2.5bn) of imports from the US, following Mr Trump’s proposal of a 25% tariff on imported steel and 10% on aluminium.
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Trump Threatens Europe: “We Will Tax Your Cars”
“We will soon be starting RECIPROCAL TAXES so that we will charge the same thing as they charge us. $800 Billion Trade Deficit-have no choice!” Trump said in the tweet.
This is how trade wars escalate: Trump hasn’t even officially announced the steel and aluminum import tariffs, expected to be formally unveiled this coming week, and the rhetoric is already one of World Trade War I doom and gloom.
Hours after Trump tweeted on Friday morning that “trade wars are good, and easy to win,” European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said the bloc is prepared to respond quickly and forcefully by targeting imports of Harley-Davidson motorbikes, Levi Strauss & Co. jeans and bourbon whiskey from the U.S.
According to some, the preliminary EU retaliation was targeted in a way that would maximize political pressure on American leaders: Harley-Davidson is based in House Speaker Paul Ryan’s home state of Wisconsin, while bourbon whiskey hails from the state of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. San Francisco-based Levi Strauss is headquartered in House Minority Leader’s Nancy Pelosi’s district.
As Bloomberg noted, Juncker’s threat heightened the prospects of a global free-for-all, as the World Trade Organization said the potential of escalating tensions “is real” and the International Monetary Fund warned the restrictions would likely damage the U.S. and global economy. It also prompted speculation that in light of the widespread condemnation by US trading partners and allies, that Trump might step back and reconsider the sanctions. This in turn led to a late-day burst in the stock market.
That however appears unlikely: first, in a tweet Friday morning, Trump doubled-down and warned of more trade actions ahead, casting them as reciprocal taxes, a term he has used for imposing levies on imports from countries that charge higher duties on U.S. goods than the U.S. currently charges.
“We will soon be starting RECIPROCAL TAXES so that we will charge the same thing as they charge us. $800 Billion Trade Deficit-have no choice!” Trump said in the tweet…
More importantly, Trump followed that tweet with an explicit threat aimed at Europe, saying that “If the E.U. wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on U.S. companies doing business there, we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S. They make it impossible for our cars (and more) to sell there. Big trade imbalance!”…
One look at the record US trade deficit, with both the entire world, and with just Europe, and one could make the case that he is correct.
[Comment: Trump is right. Germany (aka EU) protects their car industry with large tariffs on US cars.]
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Watch: March for Trump in Austin Texas
Rally to support president at Texas State Capitol a success despite Antifa presence
Owen Shroyer reports from the Texas State Capitol for the March For Trump rally.
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Watch: CNN Now Attacking Infowars Sponsors in Free Speech Crackdown
MSM demonization of Infowars in overdrive
CNN and SPLC are now demonizing Infowars sponsors, most of which aren’t even monetized on our channel.
The globalists’ efforts to censor Infowars has accelerated to warp speed. Spread these links and videos!
Paul Joseph Watson@PrisonPlanet
CNN is now chasing down advertisers it found on our videos.
We’re 90% demonetized anyway, it doesn’t even matter.
But this again shows how a news network is lobbying to shut down its competition.
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YouTube Hits Infowars With Third Strike as Free Speech Purge Goes Nuclear
The purge intensifies
Alex Jones explains the real agenda behind the censorship after Infowars was hit with a third strike on its YouTube channel and faces deletion.
After one strike was removed earlier in the week, YouTube hit the Alex Jones Channel with a third strike for a video that had already been appealed and restored.
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Canadian Who Admitted to Plotting Terrorist Attacks Asks for ‘Second Chance’
A Canadian who admitted to plotting a terrorist attack on New York City is pleading for “a second chance” in a letter submitted to the court ahead of his upcoming sentencing.
In the letter filed to a New York court on Friday, Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy of Mississauga, Ont., outlined his personal history with addiction and mental illness, and explained that he felt American airstrikes against the Middle East drove him to jihadism.
[Comment: This is an example of what Fjordman wrote in his recent book review: “This is how aggressive emotions are perceived in Muslim culture: It is other people’s fault if you feel emotionally distraught. If what happens is always someone else’s fault, then you are without responsibility for your own situation. You are a victim who has been belittled, oppressed or persecuted. This perceived victimhood leads to a sense of entitlement to retribution and revenge.”
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Justin Who? Canadians May be Prouder of Jordy
Apart from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada has another famous export who may be a more important source of national pride. Jordan Peterson (Jordy) is a clinical psychologist who treated 20 people per week for about 20 years. He is also a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. He wrote what may be at this moment the best-selling book on the planet.
Perhaps you remember news of the Tiananmen Square massacre in China in 1989. There was a picture of a lone man with a briefcase standing up to a huge war tank.
In September 2016, the Canadian government proposed Bill C-16 to legally force Canadians to refer to transsexuals by the pronouns zie/hir, ey/em/eir and so on (instead of pronouns like him, her, he, she, etc). Jordy publicly refused to use what he called “compelled speech”. He said if he was charged and fined he wouldn’t pay, and if he was sent to jail for non-payment he would go on a hunger strike. In normally mild-mannered Canada, this was like the Chinese man standing up to the massive powers of the state.
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Trudeau Trails Tories for First Time in Polls After India Trip
For the first time since Justin Trudeau became Canadian prime minister in the 2015, his Liberal Party is trailing the opposition Conservatives.
An Ipsos poll commissioned by Global News released Friday shows the Conservatives with 38 percent of the vote and the Liberals with 33 percent.
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Austrians Could Stop Paying Taxes for Leftist Public Broadcaster ‘That Spreads Propaganda’
Millions of Europeans are obliged to pay taxes for public broadcasters with a mostly left-wing bias. Examples are the BBC in the UK, the ZDF in Germany and the NOS in the Netherlands.
In Austria the people are already increasingly opposing this model. Especially after broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) has turned into “a political playground for leftist propagandists”, Austrian news outlet Wochenblick reports.
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Berlusconi’s Right-Wing Coalition Ahead, But Short of Majority in Italian Election: Exit Polls
Media mogul Silvio Berlusconi’s right-wing coalition was set to win the most votes but may fall short of a majority in Italy’s election on Sunday, with far-right and populist parties surging ahead, according to exit polls.
Berlusconi’s grouping was expected to win between 31 and 41 percent of the vote, followed by the anti-establishment Five Star Movement with 29-32 percent, according to an exit poll by Rai public television.
The ruling centre-left Democratic Party, which struggled to get across its message of steady economic handling, was left in third place, according to the exit polls.
Anger at the hundreds of thousands of migrant arrivals in Italy in recent years fired up a campaign, along with frustration about Italy’s slow economic recovery.
The boost for far-right and populist parties has drawn comparisons to Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and the rise of US President Donald Trump.
“The European Union is going to have a bad night,” Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s National Front, tweeted.
The Five Star Movement and the far-right League party, a member of Berlusconi’s coalition, are both eurosceptic.
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Catalonia Spain: Pro-Unity Marchers Parody Secessionists
Thousands of opponents of Catalan secession from Spain have attended a demonstration in Barcelona, in support of a fictional state called Tabarnia.
They say Tabarnia would itself split from Catalonia in order to stay part of Spain, were Catalonia to become independent.
The concept, established as a parody, has spread online.
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Crisis Averted: Merkel Set for 4th Term After SPD Backs Grand Coalition
One of this weekend’s two major geopolitical unknowns was just resolved in favor of more continuity, and another 4 years of Angela Merkel.
On Sunday morning, in a much anticipated referendum, two-thirds of rank-and-file members of Germany’s Social Democratic party voted in favor of a grand coalition with the veteran leader’s conservative, or CDU, bloc, giving Angela Merkel backing for her fourth term as chancellor of Germany, and ending a five month political stalemate in Berlin, which, as the FT recaps, “could help restore Germany’s leadership role in Europe at a time of mounting political challenges, including a looming trade war with the US, rising tension over Brexit and French demands for an overhaul of the eurozone.”
The final result of the SPD referendum, which was announced early on Sunday, saw exactly two-thirds, or 239,604 members, voting in support of a new alliance with the centre-right, while a third, or 123,329 voted against. The turnout was 78%.
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EU to Tax Tech Giants at ‘Two to Six Percent’: France
The EU will soon unveil a plan for taxing major internet companies like Amazon and Facebook by imposing a levy of two to six percent on revenues in every country where they operate, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday.
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Europe’s Bruised ‘Queen’ Merkel Lives Another Day
Long dubbed the “Queen of Europe”, Germany’s veteran Chancellor Angela Merkel emerges as the bruised survivor of her deepest crisis to govern for what many expect will be her final term.
After 12 years at the helm of Europe’s top economy, the pastor’s daughter often called the world’s most powerful woman goes on to live another day after post-war Germany’s longest stretch of coalition haggling.
If she indeed serves out her fourth four-year term, the 63-year-old could match or surpass the marathon tenure of her late mentor, Germany’s “reunification chancellor” Helmut Kohl.
But a growing band of observers doubt she will stay in power that long as many voters have grown wary of “Mutti” (mummy) and talk is rife of the “twilight” of her reign.
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Far-Right: Populist Surge Spells Hung Parliament in Italy
Rome (AFP) — A surge for populist and far-right parties in Italy’s elections could result in a hung parliament with a major right-wing alliance likely to win the most votes, according to projections on Monday, after a campaign dominated by anger against immigration.
The predictions also showed that the far-right League party could beat media mogul Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia (Go Italy) party within the right-wing coalition.
That raises the prospect of League leader Matteo Salvini, who has promised to shut down Roma camps, deport hundreds of thousands of migrants and tackle the “danger” of Islam, becoming Italy’s next prime minister.
The eurosceptic, anti-establishment Five Star Movement, which has drawn support from Italians fed up with traditional parties, was predicted to come second to the coalition.
The ruling centre-left Democratic Party, which has struggled to get across its pro-European message of gradual economic recovery, was left trailing.
The boost for far-right and populist parties has drawn comparisons to Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and the rise of US President Donald Trump.
“The European Union is going to have a bad night,” Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s National Front, tweeted…
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German Economy Minister Wants Tougher Foreign Investment Rules
Germany’s economy minister on Saturday suggested tightening the rules on foreign investment, following concern over Chinese influence on European firms.
Last month it emerged that Chinese billionaire Li Shufu had quietly bought a near 10-percent stake worth around €7.2 billion ($8.9 billion) in German car giant Daimler — making him the group’s largest shareholder.
“We must always adapt our law on the external economy according to new developments, including the threshold at which (the government) can become involved,” Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries told the weekly Der Spiegel.
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Germany: Social Democrats Clear Path for Merkel Fourth Term
The members of Germany’s second biggest party have approved a plan to join Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition, German media reported on Sunday.
The vote clears the last hurdle in the way of a fourth term for the veteran German leader.
But the chancellor, in power for 12 years, will go into her fourth term with far weaker cards than before, as she had to pay a high price to coax the reluctant Social Democratic Party (SPD) back into another loveless “grand coalition”.
Two in three of the SPD’s rank and file backed a new partnership with Merkel’s conservatives, heralding an end to the political stalemate that has plagued Europe’s biggest economy since September’s inconclusive elections.
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Germany’s SPD Members Approve Coalition With Angela Merkel’s Conservatives
Germany’s chancellor will get a fourth term after her junior partners, the SPD, voted for a coalition deal. The new government could be in place in less than two weeks’ time, ending months of uncertainty.
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Germany and YouTube Try to Censor Increasing Anti-Merkel Protests in the Country
A large demonstration of ordinary Germans in the town of Kandel took place on Saturday. Even Germany’s state controlled media can no longer hide the number of people taking to the streets to protest against Merkel and her destructive open border policies. Kandel is a symbolic location, as it is the place where a 15-year-old German girl was murdered by an Afghan refugee.
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Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden’s Middle Class
But gang-related assaults and shootings are becoming more frequent, and the number of neighborhoods categorized by the police as “marred by crime, social unrest and insecurity” is rising. Crime and immigration are certain to be key issues in September’s general election, alongside the traditional debates over education and health care.
Part of the reason is that Sweden’s gang violence, long contained within low-income suburbs, has begun to spill out. In large cities, hospitals report armed confrontations in emergency rooms, and school administrators say threats and weapons have become commonplace. Last week two men from Uppsala, both in their 20s, were arrested on charges of throwing grenades at the home of a bank employee who investigates fraud cases.
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Hungary’s FM: Visegrad Group Important Alliance for Protecting Europe’s Christian Values
The Visegrad Group (V4) is the closest and most effective alliance in the European Union, Peter Szijjarto, Hungary’s foreign minister, told a V4 conference on Friday.
The V4 has a voice that is heard across Europe and beyond, and it has become an important player in shaping European political affairs, Szijjarto told the conference of V4 house speakers held in Parliament.
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Italian Youth Risks Being Left Out of Sunday’s Election
Most young voters traditionally skip the polls as they feel neglected by major political parties
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Italian youth will likely stay away from the polls on Sunday as political parties fail to connect with a generation calling for more investment in technology, an improved school system and job safety.
Only 30-35% of Italian voters aged between 18 and 20 traditionally go to the polls, according to Antonio Noto, director at IPR Marketing. The share goes up to a mere 40% among those aged 25.
The presence in the upcoming general election of young leaders of anti-establishment forces such as Five Star Movement’s Luigi Di Maio and League’s Matteo Salvini may boost participation among the young, pollsters say. But they don’t expect a radical shift in a long-term trend of dismal turnout.
The disconnect between the generation born in 1999 and major political parties is reflected in the electoral programs. From the left to the right, there’s little evidence of comprehensive and concrete proposals for the new generations. The most recurrent ideas include deductions for families with children, ending precarious teaching jobs, and no tuition fees, according to #Checkpolitiche2018, a fact-checking project published in collaboration with Master Giornalismo Torino and DPCS-UniTo.
While the Five Star Movement promises to abolish precarious education jobs, it doesn’t specify how the plan would be funded. Left-wing alliance Liberi e Uguali (Free and Equal, editor’s note), led by Senate President and former anti-mafia prosecutor Pietro Grasso, promises to abolish tuition fees. The 1.6 billion euro proposal does not include additional costs from the overhaul of the university system.
Matteo Renzi, the leader of center-left Democratic Party, has generically proposed “alternative forms of governance” to encourage stronger relations between the youth and public administration. Distrust and skepticism were common among students of the Polytechnic University in Turin interviewed by La Stampa. They called for job security, concrete answers to eternal problems.
The post-vote analysis will help understand more about the degree of participation of younger voters. Finding an answer to their requests will take much longer.
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Italian Election 2018: Nigel Farage Congratulates Five Star Movement Amid Anti-EU Surge
His words have come as the latest exit polls show that the eurosceptic Five Star Movement is now the single largest party in the election.
Mr Farage tweeted: “Congratulations to my colleagues in the European Parliament Five Star Movement for topping the poll tonight.”
He also retweeted a video posted by the Five Star Movement of its party representatives celebrating a results projection.
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Italian Election 2018 Results: ‘Italy is Over!’ Twitter Meltdown After ‘Populist’ Success
The exit polls in Italy are showing that the Eurosceptic 5-Star Movement party set to win the most votes and the anti-immigration party Lega are due to win more votes than Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza.
The front page headline on the first edition of La Stampa newspaper says: “Di Maio wins, Italy ungovernable.”
People took to Twitter to vent their outrage at the projected results, not just for the prospect of difficult negotiations, but also because of the politics of the leading parties.
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Italian Election 2018: Marine Le Pen Taunts EU and Celebrates ‘Terrible Evening’ For Bloc
MARINE Le Pen has taken to Twitter to taunt the EU ahead of the what she says will be a “terrible evening” for the crumbling Brussels bloc as eurosceptic parties surge in the 2018 Italian election polls.
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Italy: 4 Priests Cited in ‘Gay Network’ Expose’
Naples archbishop sends dossier to Vatican
(ANSA) — Naples, March 1 — Some 34 priests and four seminarians have been cited in an exposé of an alleged gay clerics’ network put together by a Naples male escort.
Naples Archbishop Crescenzio Sepe said he would send the dossier, compiled by escort Francesco Mangiacapra, to the competent Vatican authorities.
“Those who have done wrong must pay and must be helped to repent for what they have done,” Sepe said in a statement.
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Brussels hopes that the center-right coalition will divorce from Salvini’s League
In Italy there is a double populist drive which nobody speaks openly of, but of which the establishment knows the poll numbers, with the Northern part of the Country marked by the League’s prevalence and the South conquered by the 5SM. Italy’s current Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni reveals, “In recent weeks, in my talks I have not perceived fear over Italy’s economic-financial issues, but instead a political alarm, for a possible alliance between the moderate right and the anti-Europeans”.
Since the beginning of the year, the President of the Council has had a number of discussions on the European front: in Rome with French President Emmanuel Macron, in Berlin with Angela Merkel and in Brussels with the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and, of course, everyone is curious about the imminent Italian elections, which fall on 4 March, the same day when the outcome of the SPD internal referendum on whether or not to have a great coalition government in Germany, will also be known. Everyone is interested in knowing beforehand what the voters are saying…
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Italy Election: Early Exit Polls Point to Hung Parliament
Italy is on course for a hung parliament after voters backed right-leaning and populist parties, exit polls suggest.
Initial projections say ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right coalition is set to win the most seats in the lower house of parliament.
It is expected to get between 225-265 seats, polls say — below the 316 needed for an absolute majority.
Exit polls put the anti-establishment Five Star Movement in second place.
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Italy Election Gives Big Lift to Far Right and Populists
ROME — Italians registered their dismay with the European political establishment on Sunday, handing a majority of votes in a national election to hard-right and populist forces that ran a campaign fueled by anti-immigrant anger.
The election, the first in five years, was widely seen as a bellwether of the strength of populists on the continent and how far they might advance into the mainstream. The answer was far, very far.
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Merkel Clings on as Left-Wing Social Democratic Party Votes for ‘Grand Coalition’
BERLIN (AP) — Angela Merkel has welcomed the decision by members of Germany’s Social Democratic Party to support a coalition government with the long-time chancellor.
In a statement Sunday, Merkel said: “this is a good decision for the SPD and especially for our country.”
She added: “The new government has a lot of work ahead of it that needs to be started soon.”
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Notre-Dame: Cracks in the Cathedral
The Catholic Church in France has launched an urgent appeal for funds, to save Notre Dame cathedral.
Parts of the 850-year-old Gothic masterpiece are starting to crumble, because of pollution eating the stone, and there are fears the structure could become unstable.
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Slovakia’s Leaders Clash Over Journalist’s Killing
Slovakia’s President Andrej Kiska has called for a radical government reshuffle or new elections to rebuild public trust after the murder of a journalist and his fiancée.
But Prime Minister Robert Fico disagreed, accusing the president of “dancing on the graves” of the victims.
The killing of Jan Kuciak and Martina Kusnirova sparked protests in Slovakia.
Kuciak, 27, had been investigating alleged political corruption linked to Italian organised crime.
He was shot dead before he had finished the article, but it was published posthumously.
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Swedish Woman Who Made Online Jokes About Islam Could be Jailed for 2 Years
A 32-year-old woman from Gothenburg could be locked up for 2 years after making some Facebook jokes about Islam, Swedish newspaper Friatider reports. According to police reports, the woman is charged with “talking in a negative or threatening way about a group of people” after she posted cartoons about Islam on Facebook.
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Topless Activists Protest Berlusconi’s Vote in Italian Election
In anticipation of the Italian election results, which is due later on Sunday and overnight, activist fireworks erupted when former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi arrived to cast his vote in today’s Italian election, at which point a topless FEMEN protester jumped on a table shouting “Berlusconi, you’ve expired.”
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A RADICAL Islamist convicted of recruiting child terrorists to bomb London left a damning paper trail with a string of chilling claims including “the Imams will condemn us but deep down they will be happy”.
ISIS-obsessed Umar Haque used an Islamic madrasa school to recruit 110 children to his Islamic State child army which he hoped would unleash carnage on the streets of London.
The 25-year-old with no qualifications showed beheading videos to children as young as 11 and made them reenact the Westminster terror attack in which a policeman was stabbed to death.
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UK: ‘I Prayed to Die’ After FGM Aged Six, Says Victim
A victim of female genital mutilation (FGM) says she “prayed to die” after the procedure was carried out on her aged six.
Ahead of an international conference in Bristol aimed to promote zero tolerance of the practice, Hibo Wadere said she wouldn’t wish it “on her worst enemy”.
Some 137,000 girls and women are currently affected by FGM in England and Wales, the NSPCC says.
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UK: Far-Right Extremists Preparing for ‘War Against Islam’, Report Warns After Terror Plots Exposed
Hope Not Hate says UK ‘must be prepared for more terrorist plots and use of extreme violence’
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Detention of Soldiers by Turkey Fuels Greek Concerns
The trial on Monday of the two Greek servicemen who were arrested in Turkey on Thursday after accidentally crossing the border has placed a further strain on the already tense relations between the two countries.
Athens is concerned that the issue which would under other circumstances take a few hours to resolve could drag on for weeks.
Despite the fact that the warrant the two soldiers were arrested on does not provide any premise for the court in the Turkish city of Edirne to charge them with espionage, the Greek government fears that Ankara may resort to all the legal tools at its disposal to delay a final ruling in order to prolong their detention in the neighboring country.
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Kuwait: Homegrown Priest Celebrates Bible, Bedouin Culture
Dressed in a traditional white Gulf headdress and with two red crosses embroidered on his black clerical robe, Kuwait’s first homegrown priest cuts a unique figure in the predominantly Muslim state. Father Emmanuel Benjamin Jacob Gharib, 68, celebrates both the Bible and Gulf Arab culture with his Christian congregation in Kuwait City. In an interview with AFP ahead of the 20th anniversary of his ordination, he stressed the level of acceptance he has felt from fellow Kuwaitis. “Everyone welcomes me wherever I go,” said Father Emmanuel.
Born in the Qibla district of Kuwait City, Gharib was raised in a devout Christian family and surrounded by mostly Muslim neighbors. Like many Christian Kuwaitis, his roots lie elsewhere in the Middle East. The priest’s father was born to an Assyrian family in southeast Turkey but forced to flee Ottoman massacres against the Armenian and Assyrian Christian minorities. The Red Cross took his father to Iraq, where he would eventually wed Gharib’s mother — a fellow Assyrian — in the northern city of Mosul in 1945.
With the former Ottoman cities reeling from the upheaval of World War I, the couple decided to build their future in Kuwait. They raised four girls and three boys — the eldest Emmanuel — in a religious environment, taking them to Sunday School each week. They always felt close to their Muslim neighbors.
Emmanuel Gharib was not always destined for the priesthood. He graduated from engineering school with a degree in geology in 1971 and soon found a job at the Kuwaiti oil ministry. Ten years into his career, Emmanuel Gharib and his wife took part in a religious conference in Kuwait. “That was the turning point,” he said. “That was where the Lord changed my life… where I was born again and began my journey with Jesus Christ.”
He quit his job and embarked in 1989 on a theology degree at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo. He was ordained as a priest in 1999 and subsequently elected to head the National Evangelical Church of Kuwait, becoming the first and only Gulf Arab priest. Father Emmanuel also serves as vice president of the Islamic-Christian Relations Council in Kuwait, which he co-founded in 2009.
Father Emmanuel’s own landmark next year will coincide with the 85th anniversary of the Evangelical Church in Kuwait. But the presence of Christians in Kuwait dates back even further, to the arrival of American Evangelical missionaries and the founding of the American Mission Hospital in the early 1900s, he said. Kuwaiti “society began to have a positive view of the missionaries during the Battle of Jahra because the Mission Hospital played a big role in treating the wounded”, Gharib said, referring to Kuwait’s 1920 battle against Saudi-backed Wahhabi militants.
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Top Bangladesh Sci-Fi Writer Stabbed in Head at Seminar Because He’s an ‘Enemy of Islam’
Bangladeshi investigators said Sunday that a young man accused of stabbing a bestselling science fiction writer at a seminar had targeted him as “an enemy of Islam”.
Saturday’s attack on Zafar Iqbal in the northern city of Sylhet was just the latest in a series of stabbings of secular or atheist authors and bloggers in Muslim-majority Bangladesh.
Iqbal, a long-standing champion of free speech and secularism, remains in stable condition in hospital where he is being treated for stab wounds to his head.
Police detained 21-year-old Faizul Hasan, a former Islamic seminary student, and were investigating any ties to radical groups.
Colonel Ali Haider Azad Ahmed from the Rapid Action Battalion police unit said Hasan told investigators it was “his duty as a Muslim to resist those who work against Islam”.
“He has said Dr Zafar Iqbal was an enemy of Islam,” Ahmed said.
Police said Hasan, whose father was a teacher at an Islamic seminary, may have had links to extremists blamed for attacks on secular and atheist writers in the last four years.
Suspected Islamist radicals have killed around a dozen such writers and bloggers, including an American atheist blogger of Bangladeshi origin.
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Change is Coming: China is Accelerating Its Plan for a Military Base in Pakistan
On January 1, 2018, The Daily Caller published information — later confirmed in two separate reports, here and here — about a plan for a Chinese military base on the Jiwani peninsula in Pakistan, near Gwadar, a sea port critical to the success of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
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Vietnam: Catholics Attacked by ‘Red Flags’ For Seeking Explanation Over School Fees
Several people injured during “the sudden and violent” attack. Catholics are often victims of pro-government militants. Users of social media and human rights groups: “It is abuse sponsored by the Communist Party”.
Hanoi (AsiaNews / RFA) — The militants of “Há”(tm)i Cá” Äá”” (Red Flags) attacked the parents of Catholic children excluded from a school in the Dien Doai municipality (Nghᔇ An province), after the families refused to pay what they have called “exorbitant fees”. On February 23rd, the thugs of the pro-government group attacked the Catholics outside the institute’s gates (photo), while the latter asked for a meeting with the school administrators. Several people were injured during “the sudden and violent” attack.
“The municipal authorities sent their private security force, armed with sticks, to the school — says Chu Trong Son, one of the parents assaulted — I told them that I had only come to ask for the children to be removed, but suddenly they started to hit me really hard, hitting my head. There are bruises on my whole body “. One of the students banned from school said his teacher had asked him once in class if he was not ashamed of not paying school fees, while his classmates had to pay. “I was not expelled that day, but my friends were,” he says. “Afterwards, my parents went to school and were beaten”.
Fr Dang Van Minh, parish priest of the church to which the children and their parents belong, reports that lately the thugs are more frequently making public appearances. “They are called ‘Red Flags’ because when they come into action they always wear a red shirt with a gold star, like the flag of the government of Hanoi,” says the priest, adding that in the past he tried to mediate in the problem of school fees between parents and school, but has always been ignored. “Now I will raise this problem with the higher authorities — continues Fr. Dang Van Minh — because it cannot be managed by the local government. I am sure that the higher level authorities will want to tackle this problem in a fairer and more transparent way “.
Red Flag militants frequently mobilize to attack Catholic priests and parish priests in the province, in what social media users and human rights groups describe as an abuse sponsored by the Communist Party. Since its foundation in May, the group has used targeted attacks to prevent protests and petitions against Formosa, the company responsible for the most serious environmental disaster in the history of Vietnam. The organization even reported the priests who provided legal assistance to the victims.
On October 30th 2017, Fr. Dominic Pham Xuan Ke and Fr. Joseph Nguyen Ngoc Ngu, two priests who had gone to the Diem My People’s Committee to denounce some attacks, were surrounded by 300 thugs. On September 4th, about 20 Red Flags militants, dressed in civilian clothes and armed with pistols, sticks and pepper spray broke into the parish of Thá” Hòa, in the district of Xuan Loc. They wanted to initimidate parish priest Fr. Nguyá”…n NhÆ° Tn for a post on Facebook in which he called for political reform in the country. In the same month, the thugs gathered in the municipality of Diá”…n Mᔹ and beat up the faithful of the parish of Äông Kiá”u. Previously, the squads had already attacked the Catholic community of Văn Thai in April.
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DNA Sheds Light on Settlement of Pacific
A study of ancient DNA has shed light on the epic journeys that led to the settlement of the Pacific by humans.
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They drank beers in the street and danced in parks while others made their merry way home after a long night on the tiles. Hundreds of thousands of revellers flocked to Sydney.
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South African parliament has voted to remove White South African farmers from their land without any compensation and give it to Black South Africans.
The country’s constitution is now likely to be amended to allow for the confiscation of white-owned land without compensation, following a motion brought by radical Marxist opposition leader Julius Malema.
It passed by 241 votes for to 83 against after a vote on Tuesday, and the policy was a key factor in new president Cyril Ramaphosa’s platform after he took over from Jacob Zuma in February.
Mr. Malema said the time for ‘reconciliation is over’. ‘Now is the time for justice,’ News24 reported.
‘We must ensure that we restore the dignity of our people without compensating the criminals who stole our land.’
This motion is based on a distorted image of the past,’ Ernst Roets said.
‘The term “expropriation without compensation” is a form of semantic fraud. It is nothing more than racist theft.’
The ANC is increasingly under pressure to speed up land redistribution to help shore up its support among poorer black voters ahead of the election next year.
Mr. Malema has a long-standing commitment to land confiscation without compensation. In 2016 he told his supporters he was ‘not calling for the slaughter of white people — at least for now’. — Daily Mail
[Comment: There is no future for whites in Communist S. Africa.]
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More than 12,000 people have signed a petition asking President Donald Trump to let white people in South Africa emigrate to the U.S. amid a vote by the country’s parliament favoring a motion that could see South Africa’s constitution amended to allow for land to be stripped from owners without any compensation.
The motion, which will still need the approval of the South African Parliament’s Constitutional Review Committee before an amendment can even be drafted, has once again stoked fears among the country’s white farmers of a violent and disastrous land redistribution akin to that which crippled Zimbabwe in the 2000s.
The online petition calls on Trump to “take the steps necessary to initiate an emergency immigration plan allowing white Boers to come to the United States.” Boer is the term used to describe South Africans of Dutch, German or Huguenot descent, who are also commonly referred to as Afrikaners.
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Mexico Missing Italians: Police Accused of Handing Them to Gang
Mexican authorities have launched criminal proceedings against four police officers over the disappearance of three Italian men.
The missing men — all from Naples — were last seen on 31 January in Tecalitlán, in the western state of Jalisco.
The state’s governor said the officers had confessed to handing the Italians over to a local criminal gang.
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Venezuela: A Journey on a Caravan of Misery
A Reuters reporter and photographer traveled with a group of migrants as they fled Venezuela, a nation in stomach-dropping free fall where fear and want are the new normal. On a bus ride through five South American countries, the Venezuelans dreamed of a better life ahead — but couldn’t forget the broken land they had left behind.
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Berlusconi Advocates ‘Marshall Plan’ For Africa to Stop Mass Migration
Former Italian Prime Minister and leader of the Forza Italia party Silvio Berlusconi has put his support behind a plan to revitalise the economies of Africa in order to prevent mass migration to Europe.
The former Italian Prime Minister said he would support a plan for European Union countries to invest in African countries in a Marshall Plan-style agreement that would stop the economic incentive for mass migration, Il Giornale reports.
He said that the plan would be on the agenda for the European People’s Party parliamentary group in the European Parliament, in which Forza Italia is a member.
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Danish Politicians React to Government’s ‘Ghetto Plan’
Lawmakers from parties across Denmark’s political spectrum have reacted to the government’s announcement on Thursday of a wide-ranging plan to tackle what it calls ‘parallel societies’ in the country’s underprivileged areas.
MPs from non-government parties from both sides of the aisle gave their reactions following the announcement. The anti-immigration Danish People’s Party (DF) and the opposition Social Democrats, the largest party in parliament, both expressed support for the plan, which was presented in Mjølnerparken in Copenhagen on Thursday.
Smaller opposition parties on Denmark’s left wing were more critical.
DF’s immigration spokesperson Martin Henriksen suggested more direct intervention was necessary than that detailed in the plan.
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Geert Wilders: Refugees Prefer to Come to Big Fat Welfare States in Europe
Leader of the Dutch Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, visited Russia and was exclusively interviewed by Russia Today (RT) yesterday.
Wilders says all real refugees deserve shelter, but he is surprised about how rich Middle Eastern countries don’t give it to them.
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German Primary School With 99% Migrants Now Needs Security Guards Against Explosion of Violence
Berlin’s Spreewald primary school has decided to hire guards for its children and personnel, after more than 30 violent incidents took place in the past year.
At the school, that has a 99% migrant population, teachers and children are attacked frequently. The school environment is now so aggressive that security guards need to be present from 7:30 am until 4 pm to maintain order.
“Within the past year, violence has increased so much that we now have to take this measure”, headmistress of the school, Doris Unzeit, told Germany’s Bild newspaper.
She adds: “The security service should ensure that everyday school life for the children can proceed without disruption and violence. That’s very important.”
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German School With 99 Per Cent Migrant Background Pupils Forced to Hire Security
A German elementary school in Berlin, which contains a pupil population who almost all hail from migrant backgrounds, has been forced to hire security guards because of escalating violence.
The school, which teaches children between the ages of six and twelve, has seen a recent increase in violent incidents both among the pupils and directed at the teachers in the classrooms Berliner Zeitung reports.
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Illegal Immigrant From Mexico Used Stolen Identity to Rip Off $300k in Government Benefits
A Mexican national stole the identity of an American citizen and used it to bilk federal and local governments of more than $300,000 worth of disability benefits over more than 30 years, according to a plea entered Thursday in San Diego federal court.
The man — identified as 66-year-old Andres Avelino Anduaga — admitted that he assumed the identity of a Texas resident named Abraham Riojos in 1980, and then used Riojos’ information to apply for a California driver’s license, a Social Security number and a U.S. passport.
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‘Moderate Rebel’ Migrant Gets Life Sentence in Austria for Murder of 20 Syrian Soldiers
One of the problems with western Europe’ s ‘ open door’ police on Syrian migrants is the genuine risk of war criminals taking advantage of the crisis in order to hide in Europe. After receiving such generous support from western governments and media while fighting in Syria, many terrorists feel safe retreating to the homelands of their western benefactors, as well as realising the benefits on offer from EU member state and UK governments.
The following case is bizarre based on the lack of available information about the defendant and the details of his crimes, but this landmark case might lead to similar convictions in Europe, as thousands of ‘ rebel’ terrorists attempt to blend in with bona fide Syrian refugees…
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NYT Gets Around to Reporting on Sweden’s Immigrant Crime Problem, Leaves Out a Few Key Details
The New York Times published a report Sunday on Sweden’s growing problem with immigrant gangs — more than a year after the paper chided President Donald Trump for calling attention to the same worrisome development.
Entitled “Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden’s Middle Class,” the report examines how weapons of war and clan-like violence have accompanied an influx of immigrants from certain parts of Europe and the greater Middle East.
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Harvard Punishes Largest Christian Group on Campus for Taking Christian Thought Seriously
The majority of Americans identify as Christians, so why are they constantly marginalized by the left? Why do Christian Americans continue to allow their faith to be mocked and their right to openly practice their religion to be challenged? Imagine the outrage if a Muslim group at Harvard was being punished for praying too many times throughout the day. But, then again, that would never happen, because…diversity.
Weekly Standard — The club’s transgression? The Crimson reports that the school’s Office of Student Life placed the group Harvard College Faith and Action on “administrative probation” because the group “pressured a female member . . . to resign in September following her decision to date a woman.”
To be clear: Harvard is disciplining a Christian student group for the group’s expectation that its student leadership follows basic Christian ethical teaching on sexuality in accordance with Christianity’s 2,000-year-old doctrine on such matters. This should not be controversial, at all. Christians believe and do as Christians believe and do. Jews believe and do as Jews believe and do. And so on and so forth. Anyone with even a passing familiarity with Christianity should not be shocked by this.
So Harvard has now taken to disciplining a Christian student group — and not some radical fringe group, but the largest Christian group on campus — for the group’s expectation that its student leadership follows Christian ethical teachings on sexuality. So much for diversity.
In Christian theology, homosexual conduct — note “conduct,” not “people” — is considered sinful. (Roman Catholicism refers to homosexual acts as “intrinsically disordered.”) The Bible has taught this, clearly and consistently, for 2,000 years.
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‘It’s Traumatizing … to be in These Spaces: ‘ Black Students Adjust to Whiteness of UNC
At a University where only 38.7 percent of students are people of color, and only 7.8 percent self-identify as Black or African-American only, it is common for Black students to feel uncomfortable or targeted by microaggressions.
Senior Aaron Epps, president of The Black Student Movement, said Black students often struggle to adapt to the environment of predominantly white institutions like UNC, especially if they come from a majority Black community like he did.
“It’s just a different pool at UNC,” he said. “It’s hard to navigate a very, very inherently institutionalized white space.”
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Report: Sperm Counts Are ‘Drastically Dropping’ Across the Western World
The sperm count in men living in developed countries has fallen by a remarkable 50 percent over the past 40 years, according to a new medical study.
A team of scientists from Hebrew University-Hadassah Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine in Jerusalem have made known the results of their research but confessed that the reasons behind the dramatic drop in fertility remain largely unknown.
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SWEDEN PRE MORTEM
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/world/europe/sweden-crime-immigration-hand-grenades.html
Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden’s Middle Class
The country’s murder rate remains low, by American standards, and violent crime is stable or dropping in many places. But gang-related assaults and shootings are becoming more frequent, and the number of neighborhoods categorized by the police as “marred by crime, social unrest and insecurity” is rising. Crime and immigration are certain to be key issues in September’s general election, alongside the traditional debates over education and health care.
Part of the reason is that Sweden’s gang violence, long contained within low-income suburbs, has begun to spill out. In large cities, hospitals report armed confrontations in emergency rooms, and school administrators say threats and weapons have become commonplace. Last week two men from Uppsala, both in their 20s, were arrested on charges of throwing grenades at the home of a bank employee who investigates fraud cases.
“The sperm count in men living in developed countries has fallen by a remarkable 50 percent over the past 40 years, according to a new medical study.”
Tight jeans, as I understand it. Restrictive clothing heats up the gonads which reduces the quality and number of sperm produced. I thought that was common knowledge. Why do these scientists not seem to know of it?
Maybe it is central heating, or insulation, or soft office jobs.
Maybe it’s ingesting plastics?
You are correct, but it’s not just the clothing. It’s using laptons on our laps and having heated car seats. If it was just about the office job, factory workers would be ok, but they’re not, hence it’s a combination of factors.
Btw scientists often do nonsensical research that anyone with common sense already knows the results of, don’t ask me why, it’s probably to get funding.
One of the best arguments about honest political discussions I have yet to hear. The left is once again engaging in dishonest political rhetoric. Can you actually trust such people to have your best interests at heart?
https://100percentfedup.com/articulate-brilliant-dead-right-va-delegates-gun-rights-speech-goes-viral-democrats-walk-video/
The political left is not arguing anything in good faith, because under their definitions most firearms would have to be eventually be classified as “automatic assault weapons” (because that is their function according to them). They might let you keep your black powder or single shot rifles and shotguns, but I would not count on it, because all they want to do is to keep chipping away at your civil rights, giving them total control. The politician in the video sites left leaning news sources regarding the efficacy of gun laws world wide and their absolute failure to do what they intend. I’m all for laws that work, but am totally against ineffective laws that impinge on my civil rights.
Now we are seeing the loss of freedom of speech as sites such as InfoWars and others are being shut out of YouTube. I don’t care if people find what they report to be false or controversial, what is important is that they are allowed to air issues they find significant. As long as people can freely comment on such issues, there should be no problem. If the two above issues don’t bother you, then I would suggest you try to understand what the founding fathers meant by God given rights. There is a reason the Constitution makes such rights so difficult for politicians to change.
This is what makes the loss of God and religion so important and significant in today’s society. Without God, man becomes the self appointed arbitrator of right and wrong. When man assumes such a position, then literally nothing becomes immoral, because ultimately the individual decides for himself what those criteria are. You cannot organize a country, a society, or even oneself on such principles.
” When man assumes such a position, then literally nothing becomes immoral, because ultimately the individual decides for himself what those criteria are. You cannot organize a country, a society, or even oneself on such principles.”
So true. And (wo) man become so arrogant, thinking they “found themselves. But they lose it.” As Billy Graham, bless his soul, always reminded us of this vice : arrogance.
Both Germany and Italy on the brink of reasonableness . Not quite.
Both cannot do the right thing: apply zero to importing invaders.
But why the hurry:
1. It is Nov. my horse is in the stable. Has no supper. The ground is covered with snow. Ok my horse don’t worry. You have only to wait 6 month and in the first week of May you will graze fresh grass.
2. When seconds count the police are only minutes away.
3. When Rome and Berlin were/ are burning the politicians fiddled.
Ok to be more accurate: The Traitors brought more invaders.
Why the hurry! No Decision concerning critical issues is taken immediately. That would be dictatorship. Democracies do not enact effective, forceful laws. We don’t like to be like Russia, Cuba or China. The zoo or sometimes called parliament pretend to legislate laws, which are watered down by the opposition to toothless nothingness.
Not enough Europeans are hurt, maimed, killed, raped, looted, giving jizya, to bring about a real change. No hurry. It will happen after 5 more elections. By then the soldiers of allah will be guarding the polling stations.