The Generation Identitaire operation on the French border in the Alps has had an effect. GI used a helicopter, vehicles, and a barrier to symbolically close the border and demonstrate that the government was failing to do its job. The government has now moved to increase border security in the area.
In other news, a British diplomat on a visit to India was forced to apologize after he referred to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, a holy shrine for the Sikhs, as a “mosque”.
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by Srdja Trifkovic
French President Emanuel Macron’s three-day visit to Washington started on an awkward notewhen he kissed an obviously uncomfortable President Donald Trump. The scene was a symbolic reminder that the two leaders do not enjoy an “intense, close relationship” invented by the media. In reality Macron is, both ideologically and temperamentally, the polar opposite of Trump. The latter was admittedly impressed by the welcome he received for the Bastille Day celebration in Paris last year, and Macron has the distinction of being the first foreign leader to come for a state visit to Trump’s Washington, but there is less than meets the eye to their alleged “chemistry.”
To start with the basics, Trump and Macron are not “two alpha males,” and I have this sneaky suspicion that the leftist-liberal media machine is keen to award the French president Trump’s indubitable “alpha” status in order to neutralize suspicions about Macron’s sexual orientation. In reality, while Trump is a heterosexual who evidently likes pretty women younger than himself, Macron is most likely a bisexual who was fond of older women as a teenager—his wife is 24 years his senior—but now prefers handsome younger men, like the former Radio France president Mathieu Gallet.
Trump is an eccentric in many ways, to be sure, but for all his faults he is genuine and honest, a true albeit diminishing American type. Macron is the poster-boy of Europe’s postmodern transnational elite, a former international banker and fanatical Euro-integralist. He is also an Islamophile (“No religion is a problem in France today . . . What poses a problem is not Islam, but certain behaviors that are said to be religious and then imposed on persons who practice that religion”) and an open-borders enthusiast (by allowing over a million migrants in, “[Chancellor] Merkel and German society as a whole exemplified our common European values. They saved our collective dignity”). In February 2017 he lampooned Trump’s promise to protect America’s southern border by pledging never to build a wall of any kind…
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Remarks by President Trump and President Macron of France in Joint Press Conference
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much. Thank you. Melania and I are truly honored to welcome French President Macron and Mrs. Macron to the White House. Thank you very much. It’s a great honor.
We’re thrilled that the first official state visit of my presidency is not only with a great friend, but with a leader of America’s oldest ally, the Republic of France. Today, in our nation’s capital, the Stars and Stripes proudly fly alongside the Tricolor flag, a symbol of the world, and to the world, of unity, fraternity, and friendship that forever links our nations together.
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A Profile of the Toronto Van Killer Emerges
Just hours before Toronto van attack suspect Alek Minassian was set to arrive in court at 100 Finch Ave. W at 10 am in Toronto, Reuters published a profile of the perpetrator of the worst mass killing in Canada in nearly 30 years.
The Richmond Hill man, who was described by acquaintances as withdrawn and was said to have attended a high school program for students with special needs, is accused of murdering 10 and injuring another 15 when a rented van he was driving jumped a curb and rammed into pedestrians along a 2.2 kilometer stretch of Yonge St. between Sheppard Ave. and Finch Ave. Monday afternoon.
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Bavaria Orders Crosses on All Government Buildings, Asserts ‘Cultural Identity’
BERLIN (AP) — Bavaria’s conservative government is ordering Christian crosses to be placed at the entrance of all state administrative buildings.
The regional government says the crosses shouldn’t be seen as religious symbols, but are meant to reflect the southern German state’s “cultural identity and Christian-western influence.”
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British Woman ‘Held as a Sex Slave for Two Weeks in Italy’
A British woman allegedly held as a sex slave in Italy and raped repeatedly by three men managed to escape after calling her family for help, police say.
The woman, from the north of England, originally met Mamadou Jallow, a migrant from Burkina Faso, on Facebook and travelled with him to Rosarno, south-west Italy.
But when she arrived, she was allegedly held her against her will, raped repeatedly and had her mobile phone taken away. Two more men, from Mali, also abused her at the house, it has been claimed.
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Finland Abandons Universal Basic Income Experiment After Two Years
“I felt a great disturbance in the farce, as if millions of socialist voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something rational has happened.”
With high-profile champions such as Richard Branson, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, backing the idea of governments giving non-working people money (from working people) to do nothing — what could go wrong?
Well, two years after enthusiastically beginning its experiment with a universal basic income — in which people are paid an unconditional salary by the state instead of benefits — Finland is abandoning the project as government enthusiasm wanes and additional funding requests are rejected.
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German Business Confidence Falls Amid US-EU Trade Tensions
BERLIN (AP) — A closely watched survey showed a bigger-than-expected drop in German business confidence amid worries about international trade tensions, but Tuesday’s report doesn’t necessarily signal any serious problems for Europe’s biggest economy.
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Italy Grants Citizenship to Terminally Ill British Boy Alfie Evans
Italy granted citizenship to terminally ill British toddler Alfie Evans on Monday, in a bid to facilitate his transfer to a hospital in Rome after the UK Supreme Court upheld a ruling to turn off his life support.
The 23-month-old child, has been in a coma for over a year and needs a ventilator to keep him breathing due to a rare degenerative neurological condition.
His parents want to take their son to be treated at the paediatric Bambino Gesu hospital in Rome, which is administered by the Vatican.
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Leukaemia Patient With Medical Mask Stopped by Austrian Police Under ‘Burqa Ban’
A leukaemia patient wearing a medical face mask in Vienna was stopped under a ban on the full Islamic veil and other face-coverings brought in last year, police admitted on Monday.
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Soft Brexit Warning: Iceland’s Independence ‘Nuisance’ To Expansionist EU
Iceland’s independence is viewed as a “nuisance” by the European Union (EU) as it pushes to become an integrated superstate and pressures the Nordic nation to accept more and more of the bloc’s rules and regulations.
The comments were made by Bjarni Benediktsson, Iceland’s finance minister, who explained how they are battling to protect their national interests from “deeper integration” and the EU’s push to force them to bow to additional rules on energy and food standards.
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UK: Parliament to Consider Petition on Abolishing House of Lords After Anti-Brexit Vote
A petition calling for a referendum on the abolition of the House of Lords will be considered for a debate in Parliament after receiving more than 100,000 signatures.
[Comment: It shouldn’t be a surprise that members of a non-democratic institution are globalists.]
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UK: Parliament Offers ‘Islamist’ Group Opportunity to Create Official ‘Islamophobia’ Definition
MPs are to write a report on identifying a “working definition of Islamophobia”, appealing to hard-line Islamist and far left, Soros-funded groups to contribute.
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims launched their “appeal for evidence” Monday, describing “Islamophobia” as a form of “group based hatred or hostility” comparable to racism.
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The Saudi Monarch and Crown Prince Have Also Congratulated Viktor Orban
King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud have both congratulated Viktor Orban on his recent election victory, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief, Bertalan Havasi informed Hungarian news agency MTI.
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India: Top UK Diplomat Apologises After Calling Sikh Temple a Mosque
LONDON (AP) — The top civil servant in Britain’s Foreign Office has apologized for calling one of India’s holiest Sikh temples a mosque.
Simon McDonald referred to the Golden Temple in Amritsar as the “Golden Mosque” in a tweet. On Tuesday he tweeted: “I was wrong: I am sorry. I should of course have said the Golden Temple or, better, Sri Harmandir Sahib.”
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In a disrespectful post on the eve of Anzac Day, the stand-up comedian and former TV joke writer from Melbourne suggested diggers didn’t deserve to be saluted for their sacrifice on the frontline.
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A teenage girl has been shot multiple times during an apparent drive-by shooting. The girl was shot late on Tuesday night about 11pm in Guildford, western Sydney according to reports.
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Judge Liz Gaynor said Akon Mawien’s case was ‘exceptional’ as he was sentenced to a three-and-a-half year Community Corrections Order at the County Court in Victoria on Tuesday.
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The Victorian high school students were filmed attacking fellow classmates during recess on Tuesday after one student threw a hair accessory at another girl.
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“This is Mushrooming” — Nicaragua Teeters on the Brink of Revolution as US Pulls Diplomats
For the first time since the late 1970s, Nicaragua is on the brink of a revolution as tens of thousands of protesters throng the streets of the capitol Managua and a host of other towns to demand the resignation of President Daniel Ortega, a former left-wing dictator-turned-democrat who led the Sandinistas to during the Nicaraguan Revolution.
Ortega, who gave up power after losing an election in 1990 but remained a popular opposition figure and was elected president in 2006, has been criticized for his autocratic rule, political repressions and — most recently — for proposing social security reforms that would involve Nicaraguans paying more into the system while reducing payouts by 5%, according to Al Jazeera.
Ortega has aligned his government with the governments of Cuba and Venezuela, though Nicaragua’s economy achieved 5% GDP growth last year. Still, it remains the poorest country in Central America.
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In late March, Ecuador’s Lenin Moreno disconnected Julian Assange’s internet access. The reasoning behind this decision involved tensions with Spain and the United Kingdom regarding Assange’s social media messages. Spain objected to Assange’s support for the independence campaign in Catalonia. The United Kingdom complained about a factual tweet regarding its expulsion of Russian diplomats.
A United Nations panel has criticized Sweden and the United Kingdom. The panel says Assange has been “arbitrarily detained” and deserves “freedom of movement” and other rights.
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Brussels is set to divert tens of billions of euros in EU cash away from patriotic eastern and central states under budget reform plans that would link funding to the bloc’s ‘values’ which include mass migration.
According to proposals seen by the Financial Times, the European Commission is planning to shift the criteria for distributing cohesion programme funds away from GDP per capita towards so-called ‘EU values’.
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French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb has announced an increase in border officers on the Italian border after the Identitarian “Defend Europe” mission launched a successful symbolic border control action to highlight illegal migration into France.
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Figures released on Tuesday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show overseas migration is responsible for record population growth in Sydney and Melbourne.
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Italy’s High Court Refuses to Release Pro-Migrant Charity Ship
ROME (AP) — Italy’s highest court has rejected a request by a German group to release its migrant rescue boat seized eight months ago by prosecutors investigating allegations that non-governmental organizations colluded with migrant smugglers.
The German group, Jugend Rettet, said Tuesday that it was devastated by the Cassation Court’s ruling and that “we will fight for the right to rescue people in danger at sea.”
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One in Three North Africans Want to Migrate Permanently, Number Rising
The proportion of North Africans who want to permanently migrate has reached a record high, with almost half of young people wanting to move country if they get the chance.
Just under one in three (32 per cent) of 5,030 North African respondents to the Gallup World poll for 2017 said they would like to move abroad — a figure up from 28 per cent the previous year.
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Wolverhampton council is set to give welfare handouts to migrants that are not eligible to claim benefits, including illegals and failed asylum seekers.
The local authority — which is struggling financially and currently looking to slash £15 million from its annual budget — is expected to spend around £500,000 a year on the scheme, the Express & Star reports.
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“a British diplomat on a visit to India was forced to apologize after he referred to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, a holy shrine for the Sikhs, as a “mosque”.”
Well, I’m on the side of the Sikhs here. It is indeed a very, very offensive remark.
Assange is now subjected to unusual punishment for telling the Truth about the West’s corrupt “elites”. He’s a political refugee deserving of basic human rights, while PM May turns the thumb screws on him relentlessly.
Set him FREE Teresa!
I am disturbed by what we are not finding out about the Toronto van killer. The information that has emerged so far seems contrived to me. The individual seems like a rather vulnerable person. Could medication of some sort be a factor, or could he have been seduced into doing this and possibly be a victim of mind control? If we see more oddities like this emerge (oddities in that they look very much like jihadi attacks, but involve vulnerable seeming people, we should be wary and try to find out more.
I suppose many people are capable of perpetrating something crazy like this, but this particular story makes no sense to me. If it were some sort of retaliation for the Armenian genocide (the crime was committed on the anniversary) and done in a Muslim neighborhood) — that would make more sense than the current story regarding sketchy information regarding incel. Canada is often not forthcoming about anything that suggests social unrest involving the immigrant community. News is often suppressed and revised to tell the story they want Canadians to believe. So far we have a story based on speculation about motives. What is the actual perpetrator telling the police about his motive?? Much more needs to be known.
Yes… This “incident” took place not too far from where I live. The environment around that area is very relaxed and decidedly non-political; lots of little stores and restaurants.
Having said all that, I haven’t heard the word “copy-cat” used by anyone discussing the incident. It is almost certain that the murderer got the brilliant idea of mowing down people strolling down the street from previous versions of this mode of murder.
Going further, it wouldn’t surprise me if there had been a charismatic “voice” urging the fellow to please God by killing. Anyone. But as you note, it’s unlikely that the basic motivation – if there is such a thing other than pure lunacy – will ever be disclosed by “The Authorities”. We Torontonians are simply too stupid to understand…
But we should cheer up somewhat, as the folks in Ottawa are about to stifle any more such attempts to kill randomly… by issuing some more gun-control laws…
In these shocking mass murders it is wise to reserve judgement rather than immediately saying it is “this or that”. To me there seems to be three possible suspects in this type of attack ranked in probability, 1) Muslim Jihadists, 2) Insane lunatics listening to voices, 3) Angry/Sad resentful types wanting a form of revenge.
In this Toronto case, I suspect we are dealing with a type 2 or 3, but we need to wait until all the facts emerge. Suggesting it is a conspiracy if our preferred culprit is not implicated seems to be the default reaction to some on the counter jihad side. I’m more interested in the truth.
and we will have to revisit the ” Münster” incident. Very slowly, information dripples that other bullets were found in the RV.
Let me sketch a criminalistic theory: the german driver shot himself, then staged false traces by putting bullets into the back of his seat, then directed the car towards the café and on the way there dropped two hitchhikers of unknown origin in order not to harm them.
Seems logical, doesn’t it?
Alfie Evans and fight against Culture of Dead.
https://wpolityce.pl/spoleczenstwo/391857-polacy-solidaryzuja-sie-z-alfiem-grupa-osob-manifestowala-przed-brytyjska-ambasada-w-obronie-zycia-chlopca
https://wpolityce.pl/swiat/391862-caly-swiat-modli-sie-za-alfiego-evansa-wieczorne-czuwanie-na-pl-swietego-piotra-w-rzymie-zdjecia
https://wpolityce.pl/spoleczenstwo/391595-kolejne-starania-watykanu-o-uratowanie-alfiego-evansa-franciszek-ponawiam-apel-aby-wysluchano-cierpienia-rodzicow