A house in Brisbane blew up early this morning, killing a man and two women. Neighbors said they heard yelling before the explosions, and then screams. Brisbane police are investigating the incident as “suspicious”.
In other news, on Saturday more than 200 people demonstrated in Vienna to protest the level of migrant violence in Austria.
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Democrat Operative Leading Teacher Protests in Arizona
A man with experience as a Democrat operative, campaign manager and far-left sympathizer is organizing and leading teacher protests in Arizona.
Noah Karvelis is a teacher and spokesman of Arizona Educators United, the group organizing Arizona’s Red for Ed campaign to fight for larger teacher salaries. Karvelis’s group is planning a teacher walk-out but has not set a date.
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A hysterical female activist tries to provoke police during Saturday’s anti-government protest by shouting: “Grab my hand” (so that I can run to the corporate media reporting the incident as police violence ed.)
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Hungarian Government: George Soros Mobilised More Than Hundred Thousand People
An anti-government protest was held in Budapest on Saturday. The protesters — according to most assessments more than 100.000 people — demonstrated for new and fair elections, democracy, press freedom, a Hungary against corruption and intimidation. The organisers drew attention to the need for a new opposition force instead of the fragmented opposition which was unable to cooperate in the elections. According to the Hungarian government, the demonstration was organised by the “Soros network”.
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Italy’s Salvini Says a Centre-Right Coalition Should be at the Heart of the Next Government
Italy’s political stalemate following last month’s inconclusive general election has continued with the lead players, the League and the 5-Star-Movement (M5S), still looking distant from reaching an agreement to form a new government.
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London: Two Killed in 30 Minutes Overnight, U.S. Visitors Fearful of ‘Crazy’ Violent City
A young father and a woman were stabbed in London within 30 minutes last night, as the number murdered in the capital this year hits 59.
The killings come as News Yorkers living in London said they fear the “crazy” violent crime wave overtaking the city. “It’s like home but without the breakdancing,” one said.
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Pictures: Enormous Turnout at Pro-Democracy Protest in Catalonia
THE streets of Barcelona were turned yellow yesterday as hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through Catalonia’s capital in solidarity with political prisoners and exiled politicians.
The Space, Democracy and Coexistence demonstration was the biggest of the political crisis yet — with estimates of 750,000 from organisers, and 350,000 from police.
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Probably the most misused country in Western and Central Europe has been Poland. It is difficult to find another country in the region that has been as abused by not only the communists, but by its supposed allies, as that nation.
Poland at one time was a very powerful country, perhaps the most powerful around the 1600s. In fact, if it were not for the Polish army lifting the siege against Vienna and defeating the Islamic hordes of the Ottoman Empire, Europe would have become a Muslim region.
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‘Respect the Results’’ Slovakian PM Blasts EU Calls to Sanction Hungary for Orban Victory
SLOVAKIAN PM Peter Pellegrini called out the European Union after it was suggested the bloc seeks to impose voting sanctions on Hungary following the victory of eurosceptic Viktor Orbàn at the polls.
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Swiss Woman Files Rape Accusation Against Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan
The prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who is in French detention over several rape allegations, is facing a new accusation of rape, this time in Switzerland, a Swiss daily has reported.
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Tariq Ramadan’s Rape Trial: Blame the Victim
If defending Tariq Ramadan is regrettable, Western silence is worse.
There are also those who blame Ramadan’s alleged victims. According to The New Yorker, “[Ayeri] is something of a heroine in the extreme-right circles of the fachosphère, where Islamophobia is a ticket of admission”. So, the “real” problem is “Islamophobia,” not the Muslim subjugation of women.
The three women who accused Ramadan of rape have been the subjects of intimidation, violence and threats.
“The blindness of the Anglo-Saxons on political Islam is frightening”. — Pascal Bruckner, French philosopher.
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YouTube, Twitter, Newspapers Participate in Swedish Government Meeting to Combat ‘Illegal Speech’
Social media giant Facebook declined to participate in a meeting with two Swedish ministers that addressed the government’s desire for online publishers to combat hate speech and other forms of illegal speech online.
While Facebook declined to participate in the meeting, several other major social media companies like YouTube, Twitter and the Swedish Newspaper Publishers Association (TU) did attend the meeting with Minister of Justice Morgan Johansson and Minister of Digitalization Peter Eriksson Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
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By Robert Vincent
This past Friday, April 13, I attended a small gathering at the University of Toledo campus entitled “Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State?” sponsored by the local chapter of the notorious Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The guest speaker was Josh Ruebner, policy director for the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights. It proved to be an educational experience.
The audience of around 30 people included primarily SJP members, with a few other curious, if sympathetic, students and non-students. Also present was Mike Galbraith, who is running as a Democrat for the 5th Congressional District (my district). When I arrived before the meeting began, Mr. Galbraith was engaged in a friendly and animated discussion with Mr. Ruebner.
The talk initially centered on recent events in Gaza. Mr. Ruebner went on in great detail about gross violations of human rights allegedly carried out by Israeli forces in response to the “march of return” currently being organized by Hamas and Israeli oppression and discrimination against Palestinians in general. I have only once before experienced such an unending stream of undiluted vitriol directed at Israel, and that was during the U.T. student government BDS vote meeting I attended there two years ago.
One striking aspect of Mr. Ruebner’s diatribe was that he never made a single reference to any Palestinian leadership organization. The Palestinians were simply referred to as just that, a seemingly hapless collection of victims being targeted by Israel, with no leadership or representation of any kind — simply persecuted and deprived of their rights.
There was no reference made to the P.A. or the PLO, and certainly not to Hamas (I could not even get him to say the word — more on this in a moment). Of course, he also did not make any reference to the severe denial of Palestinian rights in other neighboring countries, at least until I forced him to address this during the Q&A portion, which brings us to the most revealing part of the event…
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Bangladesh: Man Killed in Clash Over Distribution of Sweets in Habiganj Mosque
A heated argument quickly turned into a brawl on the mosque premises, leaving one man mortally wounded
A man has been killed during a clash between two groups at a mosque in Habiganj district over the distribution of sweets.
The deceased is Helal Mia, 35, a resident of Baghasura Village under Madhabpur upazila.
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Australia: Iman Who Forced 14-Year Old Girl to Marry Loses Appeal, But Still No Jail Time
A former Muslim cleric who wed a teenage girl to a 34-year-old man in Melbourne has failed in a bid to clear his name.
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The frightening flesh-eating Buruli ulcer epidemic in Victoria is so serious health experts are calling for an urgent scientific response if the massive spike in infections is to be prevented.
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Three Dead in Brisbane House Fire
NEIGHBOURS have reported smelling fuel and hearing an explosion that “rumbled the ground” before fire tore through a Brisbane home this morning, killing three people.
The bodies of two women and a man were found after the fire broke out at a home at about 5.30am on Pavonia St, Everton Hills.
Police are treating the fire as suspicious.
Neighbours reported hearing what sounded like an explosion at about 5.30am. Neighbours also reported hearing screams for help.
Neighbour Lindsay Ostrofski said: “It was like a bomb, like an explosion. It rumbled the ground and my wife heard … screaming.”
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California Rejects Federal Plan for National Guard Duties at the Border
California has rejected a preliminary federal plan for the state’s National Guard troops deployed to the border because it entails too much support for immigration enforcement, according to U.S. officials.
Gov. Jerry Brown surprised many in California April 11 when he authorized 400 National Guard troops to join the 250 already assigned to an ongoing anti-transnational crime program. The additional staffing would allow the Guard to support statewide law enforcement operations, Brown said but emphasized the guardsmen would not detain border jumpers or other illegal aliens.
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Crime Wave: Afghan Migrant Says UK ‘Just as Bad’ As Homeland After ‘Unknown Substance’ Attack
After witnessing people being sprayed with an ‘unknown substance’ as part of a suspected acid attack, a fast food worker has questioned why he bothered leaving Afghanistan to be more secure when the UK “is getting just as bad”.
Police and ambulance workers were called to a pizza vendor in Harlow, Essex, on Friday evening following reports that two teenagers had been sprayed in the face with an unknown substance after a verbal confrontation with two men.
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‘France Can’t Take in All the Misery’ Defiant Macron Vows to Tighten Asylum Rules
MMANUEL Macron warned France cannot take in “all the misery in the world” as he defended the country’s tough new immigration and asylum laws. The French President stressed France could not offer sanctuary to all those seeking to escape unemployment and extreme poverty.
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France’s New Migration Policy is Weak and ‘Will Lead to Massive Arrival of Young Illegals’
The newly introduced French migration policy isn’t tough, but is more of the same, French TV broadcaster TVLiberte’s reports.
According to TVLiberte’s, the law on asylum and immigration that was introduced by the by the socialist minister of internal affairs Gérard Collomb, will lead to the increase in family reunification:
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French NF Party Leader Marine Le Pen Proposes Alternative Tough Immigration Bill
PARIS (Sputnik) — French right-wing National Front (FN) party leader Marine Le Pen has presented an immigration bill, which is alternative to the one introduced by the French government, proposing tough measures to counter immigration.
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Germany’s Women’s March Against Migrant Violence Spreads to Austria
On Saturday afternoon numerous women gathered in Austria’s capital to protest against the rapidly increasing migrant violence in the country, news outlet Wochenblick reports.
According to organiser “Patriots for Home and Tradition”, about 250 people took part in the first protest against migrant violence in Vienna.
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Swedish Feminists Want to Ban Parties and Organisations That Criticise Migration
Soraya Post, a Member of the European Parliament for Sweden’s Feminist Initiative, suggests that the country ban political parties that criticise migration, Friatider reports.
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Offensive Songs That Wouldn’t be Allowed Now
Loony left wants to BAN hits with politically incorrect lyrics
They want to ban decades old hit songs because the lyrics aren’t politically correct.
Yes, really. This is where we’re at.
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Study: ‘Christian Nationalism’ Played Significant Role in 2016 U.S. Elections
Conservative Christianity played a far greater role in getting Donald Trump elected to the White House than other factors commonly put forward, says a report in the journal Sociology of Religion.
The study, titled “Make America Christian Again: Christian Nationalism and Voting for Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election,” explores the key motivators that accounted for the Trump victory in November 2016.
Contrary to theories alleging racism, “Islamophobia,” sexism, xenophobia, or even economic disadvantage as the driving force behind Trump voters, a team of three researchers found that it was good, old-fashioned patriotism combined with sincere Christian belief that moved voters to reject Hillary Clinton and vote in Donald Trump.
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-future-of-terrorism-what-al-qaida-really-wants-a-369448.html
Offensive Songs That Wouldn’t be Allowed Now
Hell, Stephen Foster’s, “Oh Susannah”, wouldn’t last a new York minute.
This is pure revisionism. The only difference is that they’re not hanging fig leafs on statuary or tearing out pages from history books. This time, they’re going after art (ergo, the fig leaf reference). Delimiting artistic expression is a bedrock-level assault on freedom of expression and general creativity.
It is precisely because of idiocy like this that I have never advocated a ban on (c)rap “music”. I may detest the overall genre, but it still is (for the most part) Constitutionally protected speech. The words “most part” is used to disqualify “kill Whitey” and “off the pigs” themes which are flagrant violations of the law.
Regardless, this new attempt (remember Tipper Gore and her histrionics?) at curtailing Freedom of Speech needs to be strangled in the cradle.
Speaking of Stephen Foster, there’s “Old Black Joe”, and also “Old Uncle Ned”. The latter features the lyric:
“No more hard work for poor old Uncle Ned,
He’s gone where the good darkies go.”
I may not always agree with you, and I’m pretty sure you’re not a “darkie”, but I hope you won’t be going just yet!
Depends on how long I’ve been out in the sun…
“Speaking of Stephen Foster, there’s “Old Black Joe”, and also “Old Uncle Ned”. ”
Although not lyrical in nature, these same folks would have been gunning for Groucho Marx in a heartbeat.
The Headstrongs married the Armstrongs,
The Armstrongs married the Headstrongs,
And that’s where darkies come from!
This point is even more ironically hilarious when we realize the lyrical filth purveyed by Kendrick Lamar just won the Pulitzer for music.
Please, replace the comment – again the complexity of the translation.
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About how different content on the site Russia Today, for the Russian and English-speaking public, I have repeatedly written.
Notice how different it is on the UN website. First I read this news in Russian.
https://news.un.org/ru/story/2018/04/1328112
Despite the fact that the victims of sexual violence of the Islamic state appeared in the headline, you can see how two Muslim women who met in the UN translated the problem into the refugee crisis Rohingya .
I wanted to share this discovery with you and tried to find an article in English. And, oh, a miracle! In the article in English there was a very little note about sexual violence in the Islamic state and Boko Haram. The initiative came from a Hindu (?) woman. So what source can a poor woman (i.e. me) believe?
https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/04/1007362
It’s difficult to know the whole truth about the situation in Myanmar, Elena. Certainly the Muslim Rohingryas are mainly relatively recent arrivals (like the non-Christian “Palestinians”), for which we Brits must take some of the blame. In WW2, the British armed them to resist the Japanese, and they turned the weapons on the Hindus. History seems tobe repeating itself: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12119/hindu-rohingyas
It was in Clive Lewis in the Cosmic Trilogy (literally): “We British gave much to the World, but we are also at fault.”
Like that.
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I tried to say with my post that two Muslim women in the United Nations “moved arrows” (Russian idiom) from the violence of the Islamic State to Myanmar.
I tend to trust officials in Myanmar
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/rohingya-muslim-myanmar-latest-aung-san-suu-kyi-ethnic-cleansing-news-colonel-rape-a7941556.html
If anyone wants to ruin their day there are at least a dozen “part and parcel” type stories on Breitbart.
Even in tiny Binghamton, NY, where the university president claims, “violence is a part of society,” after the second vibrant-committed murder in two weeks.
Luckily, the perp in the first murder self-deported to Nicaragua.