Two rival gangs came into conflict early this morning at the twelfth annual “Art All Night” Festival in Trenton, New Jersey. A pair of gunmen started shooting at each other, and wounded 22 people, one of them a 13-year-old boy. One of the gunmen was shot dead, reportedly by a police officer, and the other is in police custody.
In other news, the migrant rescue ship Aquarius finally reached Spain, to the cheers of a welcoming crowd of migrant-caregivers. Meanwhile, the latest polls indicate that almost 70% of Italians support Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s policy of stopping the migrant ferry operations run by NGOs.
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BLM Agents Open Fire on Innocent Couple, Shoot Woman Because ATV Drove Near Restricted Area
Pedro and Denise Mejia feel lucky to be alive after they were nearly murdered when their all-terrain vehicle broke down and they said they were confronted by federal officers from the Bureau of Land Management who opened fire with on them with no warning.
The couple was exploring the deserts of Joshua Tree National Park when their ATV got a flat tire. They said that because they did not have a spare, they were traveling much slower than they would if they had four properly inflated tires. At around 11:00 p.m. on June 10, they came face to face with federal agents whom the Mejias said immediately opened fire on them. In a hail of bullets, Denise was struck in the head and hand before BLM agents ceased fire. Predictably, police are telling a different story.
A press release issued by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office, who is investigating the shooting, claimed that the Mejias were in a restricted area and failed to heed BLM officer commands to stop:
(A) Bureau of Land Management officer attempted to stop an off-road vehicle and an officer involved shooting occurred.
Incredulously, a detective with the department who is investigating the officer-involved shooting actually blamed the nearly murdered victims for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. RSO Investigator Armado Munoz reportedly told KMIR News:…
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Gunfire Erupts at New Jersey Arts Festival; 22 Wounded
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gunmen opened fire at an all-night arts and music festival early Sunday morning, sending people running over each other in the scramble to safety, authorities said. One suspect was killed and 22 people, including two suspects, were injured.
Of 17 people treated for gunshot wounds, four of them, including a 13-year-old boy, were critically injured but three had been upgraded to stable by evening, leaving only one man believed to be a suspect in critical condition, Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri.
The shots rang out around 2:45 a.m. Sunday as an estimated 1,000 or more people were attending the Art All Night Trenton festival that showcases local art, music, food and films.
Onofri said numerous fights inside and outside had prompted police to tell organizers that the event needed to be shut down because “there was a report that the mood inside the venue had been changing.” Organizers were in the process of doing that when the shooting started, he said.
Authorities believe several neighborhood gangs had a dispute at the venue, and multiple suspects began shooting at each other, with police returning fire, Onofri said.
Tahaij Wells, 33, the suspect who was killed, had recently been released from prison and was on parole since February on homicide-related charges, Onofri said. Amir Armstrong, 23, listed in stable condition, was charged with a weapons offense. It was not immediately known if he had an attorney who could comment.
Multiple weapons were confiscated, including a handgun with an extended capacity magazine containing more ammunition than is allowed under New Jersey law, Onofri said…
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High School Won’t Recognize Valedictorian…so Dad of 5.3 GPA Student Does Something Extraordinary
In a world where everyone gets a participation trophy, something amazing happened on a highway in Wake County, North Carolina, where a father refused to let his son’s amazing accomplishments go unnoticed, for fear they might offend those who didn’t acheive the same level of greatness…
A dad in North Carolina brought his recently graduated son a billboard recognizing him as valedictorian even though the school refused to do so.
Garry Allmon purchased the large digital sign for his son, Joshua, on U.S. Highway 264 in Wake County, North Carolina to celebrate his four years of hard work.
Joshua’s school recently did away with naming a valedictorian and replaced it with the Latin honors ranking system as a “better way to recognize students who may have barely missed being named valedictorian or salutatorian by several decimal places,” according to News and Observer.
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How Deep is the Deep State, Part 1
This study will only scratch the surface of this subject. There is so much to this subject as well as the people involved that it would take an encyclopedia to disseminate all that is involved. The disgusting thing, in my opinion, is that the so-called Americans that are involved keep silent about their involvement with these anti-American groups. This has been referred to as the Deep State. MSM talks very little of it because they are part of it. One of their purposes is to control what you hear in the media, television, radio and the printed media. They also want to control your buying and selling habits. And as we have seen over the last few years they are doing what they can to control what we can say in the public arena i.e. Hate Speech laws that have attempted to silence primarily the conservative voice. In Colorado in 2008 our Governor, Bill Ritter, signed a SB 200 which did many things to the freedoms of Coloradoans. It forced businesses to open bathrooms to both sexes penalizing anyone who complained about a male in the women’s bathroom, shower or locker room. It gave transgendered people special rights by making it illegal to print anything that was offensive to the LBGT community. In reality, this would include printing a Bible in Colorado as the verses in it that refer to homosexuality as an abomination is offensive to them. In the quadrennial marathon to see who can be the nation’s worst governor, Colorado’s Bill Ritter is in a full sprint. On Thursday, Ritter signed Senate Bill 200 which expands “anti-discrimination” law to cover sexual orientation, meaning not only homosexuality or bisexuality, but also “transgender status or another person’s perception thereof.”…
In a report that came out in report that came out in 2013 the government listed 72 types of people and organizations that they considered possible terrorists. I reported on this when it happened because of all the people and organizations listed no Islamic terrorist organization was listed. I will list a few but I would advise you to go to the website and read them all keeping in mind that this list was put together by the Obama government we elected: 1. Those that talk about “individual liberties”; 5. Those that are interested in “defeating the Communists”; 6. Those that believe “that the interests of one’s own nation are separate from the interests of other nations or the common interest of all nations”; 12. “Anti-Muslim”; 15. Members of the Family Research Council; 16. Members of the American Family Association; 22. Anyone that is “opposed to the New World Order”; 45. Those that are “anti-global”; 59. “Returning veterans”; 65. Those that are against illegal immigration and 72. Evangelical Christians. [2] Keep in mind that this list was compiled by our government who is supposed to protect our rights they just listed as possible terrorist activities. Also keep in mind that this was done the second year into Obama’s second term which tells us what direction he was taking America.
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Shooting at Tumwater Walmart, Authorities Say
Shots were reportedly fired at the Walmart in Tumwater about 5 p.m. Sunday, a Thurston County dispatcher said.
The dispatcher said there were 911 reports of shots being fired both inside and outside the store on Littlerock Road.
Multiple law enforcement units were en route to the store, the dispatcher said.
Darren Gossler of Elma was in the store when the shooting started. He tweeted: “I was in the dairy section. Heard about 5 or 6 pops. Ran out a side emergency exit and attempted to run to my car in the parking lot but heard 4 more pops in the lot. Caught a quick glimpse of a male with what appeared to be a handgun. Ducked under some cars and ran to Costco…
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Educated people can reflect on what is being done to them. Ignorant people do not know enough to reflect on much of anything. More and more, American students lack basic skills and fundamental knowledge. How can they understand proposals made by politicians, media, and government?
Igor Shafarevich, a famous Russian mathematician, wrote a 1980 book called “The Socialist Phenomenon.” Shafarevich explained that enforced equality was a constant obsession of socialists. To achieve it, they were willing to adopt extreme and indeed murderous measures. Shafarevich “argues that socialism is essentially nihilistic, unconsciously motivated by a death instinct. He concludes that we have the choice of either pursuing death or life.” Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn comments in his Foreword: “[Shafarevich] provides us with a rare opportunity of receiving a systematic analysis of the theory and practice of socialism from the pen of an outstanding mathematical thinker versed in the rigorous methodology of his science. (One can attach particular weight, for instance, to his judgment that Marxism lacks even the climate of scientific inquiry.)”
The abolition of private property, which was widely pursued in the Soviet Union and China, caused the deaths of tens of millions of people. (One horrific example: 7 million Ukrainians were starved to death in 1932-33.) These ruthless ideologues were not playing around. Do you think they would hesitate to use any practice whatever that could help them transform the schools?
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By Itu Laze
“False Identity” — the second and more explosive of two documentaries. (first part here) — unmasks ‘soft Jihad’ in America. In it, Arabic-speaking Israeli Channel 10 journalist, Zvi Yehezkeli courageously concealed his identity to expose Islam’s somewhat shocking “quiet conquest” of the U.S.
Since the August 2004 discovery of the Muslim Brotherhood’s 1991 Explanatory Memorandum and The Investigative Project’s 2012 film, Grand Deception, these documentaries have further revealed the extent of societal penetration sought or achieved by a large and growing, but secret, Islamic soft jihad army that seeks to subvert the U.S. and enfold it within a global Islamic empire.
The success of supremacist Muslims has gone unchallenged primarily since U.S. political decision-makers and media outlets refuse to publicly discuss this immense threat, let alone stop this terrifying reality.
“Da’wa is the Number 1 Weapon!” asserts an American Muslim in Belle Dale, Florida — a convert renamed Abu Bakar, and author of the book, 2064 — Islamic America. Formerly a successful U.S. corporate strategic consultant, he now levers his profession to propagate Islam.
“Why wouldn’t I take the knowledge and experience that Allah has blessed me with to advance Islam in America,” asks Abu Bakar, rhetorically. He labors together with Belle Dale Muslim Yusuf al-Muslet to transform that locale into a model Islamic town for the rest of America to follow.
In this new documentary, al-Muslet expounds on the Jihad stages that also coincide with the classic Ikhwan (Muslim Brotherhood) scheme. “The first Jihad is an internal [political] Jihad, and then comes Jihad of war (sword).”
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Back in May a mob of Somali youths beat park goers with sticks and fists in Kennedy Park in Lewiston, Maine.
The mob of at least 20 youths laughed as they beat two men in the park.
At least one man required medical attention.
Now this…
This past week a Somali mob drove past Lewiston park and shot pellets and BBs at a group gathered there.
Several people pursued the car from the park.
A fight broke out on the street and one father of two was killed.
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Strzok to Testify Before Congress; No Immunity, Will Not Invoke 5th Amendment
Peter Strzok, the FBI counterintelligence agent removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, says he will voluntarily testify to Congressional investigators in the House Judiciary Committee and any other Congressional committee that asks, his attorney said in a letter released on Sunday after Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) threatened to Subpoena Strzok.
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Suspect Killed: 22 Injured in Shooting at New Jersey Arts Festival, Authorities Say
At least two gunmen opened fire at an arts and music festival in Trenton, N.J., early Sunday, injuring at least 22 people, authorities said.
Shortly before 3 a.m., police received a call about multiple shots being fired during Art All Night, a 24-hour event that draws thousands. Investigators believe that one of the suspects, a 33-year-old man, was fatally shot by a police officer, while the other has been arrested, Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri told reporters.
Onofri said “multiple individuals opened fire within the venue,” a historic building near downtown Trenton, and suspects also fired weapons outside. At least 17 of those injured were hit by gunfire, including a 13-year-old boy who is in “extremely critical condition” and three others who are in critical condition, he said. The rest suffered other injuries during the chaos.
Onofri said the shooting appears to be related to a dispute among people at the event, and police confiscated several weapons. The prosecutor remained tight-lipped about other details of the shooting, including what the dispute was about, who the suspects are and what types of guns were seized…
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A new study by the Washington Times shows that 90% of the broadcast coverage of President Trump remains negative, even after the accomplishments of his first 500 days. Certainly, the so-called intelligentsia hate Donald Trump, but they hate Trump not just as an individual — they hate him because he sides with us.
They’ve hated us — those heartland Americans clinging to our guns and religion — long before Trump came along and will do so long after he is gone. The Justice Department’s I.G. report has confirmed widespread prejudice among top Justice and FBI officials, but it’s a mistake to think this bias is directed against Trump per se. Officials like Peter Strzok were intent on “stopping” Trump, but stopping him from doing what? Stopping him from restoring the right of ordinary Americans to govern their country?
There exists among progressives a widespread culture of intolerance and hatred directed at the middle class. I’m not the only one, I’m sure, who finds the behavior of Robert De Niro, Jimmy Kimmell, Joy Behar, and the rest of them repellant.
With the Trump presidency, everyday citizens have gained a voice in Washington. At exactly the same time, media attacks on these Americans have exploded. The inference is clear: Hollywood, the mainstream media, and academe believe that ordinary Americans must be silenced. Only the “smart” ones, as leftists consider themselves, have a right to be heard. The left is attempting to silence the opposition and has been doing so for a long time…
It’s important for conservatives to understand just how extreme the left’s position has become. Americans have always lived under the fiction that “it can’t happen here.” Our constitution and democratic traditions are supposed to protect us from totalitarianism. But progressives don’t care about democracy. In 2012, Ruth Bader Ginsburg famously told Egyptian revolutionaries she “would not look to the U. S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.” “I might look at the constitution of South Africa,” she added. The year after she spoke, there were 17,068 murders in South Africa. For the same year, there were 12,253 murders in the entire U.S. — a country more than six times as populous as South Africa.
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Doug Ford Keeping Carbon-Tax Promise to Canadian Taxpayers Federation
Today Premier-designate Doug Ford announced he is keeping his promise to taxpayers by making the first act of his new cabinet to cancel cap-and-trade and challenging the federal carbon tax.
On February 10, Mr. Ford signed a pledge with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) committing him to both these policy moves.
[Comment: Carbon Tax was responsible for increasing electricity bills by 70% in Ontario.]
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Manitoba Liberal Calls Crash That Paralyzed Fellow Legislator a “Gift”
His car hit a moose in a collision that very nearly left him dead.
Steven Fletcher, a Conservative MP from 2004-2015, became a quadriplegic from a car accident in 1996.
His car hit a moose in a collision that very nearly left him dead.
He was elected to the Manitoba Legislature as a PC but now sits as an independent.
Earlier this week, he was debating a bill on moose hunting, when he said that he would not mind if moose were wiped out completely.
An understandable position for someone in his position.
Judy Klassen the MLA for Kewatinook and the former interim leader of the Liberal party in Manitoba, showing the level of class we have come to expect from Liberal legislators, said that Fletcher’s 1996 accident was a “gift”, saying that the moose gave him the ability to become an advocate for people living with disabilities.
Editors Note: She later apologized for her comment.
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Only in Canada Would We Pay $4.5 Billion for Something That Could Have Been Free
The federal government’s decision to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline project should be met with cautious optimism.
The federal government announced today that they would spend $4.5 billion to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline project from Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd. The move ends months of uncertainty for the beleaguered oil and gas industry in Alberta. Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s bold move heads off a potential constitutional crisis over the contentious pipeline project. Interesting Political Calculus by the Liberals
The investment is a bold move by the federal Liberals. The decision will be wildly popular in Alberta. The Liberals are unlikely to improve upon the four seats they won in Alberta in 2015. However, this investment may prevent the Liberals from being wiped off the electoral map in Alberta next year.
The response to the purchase will be much more mixed in British Columbia. Greenpeace’s Mike Hudema has already gone on record about the purchase.
“Trudeau is gambling billions of Canadian taxpayer dollars on an oil project that will never be built — a project that Kinder Morgan itself has indicated is ‘untenable’ and that faces more than a dozen lawsuits, crumbling economics, and a growing resistance movement that is spreading around the world.”
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Trudeau Earmarks Billions Overseas While Canadians Plead for His Help
It started as an angry response to the latest giveaway from Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Just a few days ago, our prime minister earmarked $3.8 billion of Canadian taxpayers’ money to fund girls’ education overseas.
I wrote a comment on Facebook’s Help Canadians First page when someone posted the story at the The Hill Times.
“And 30,000 of our people are without a place to sleep every night in this country. Disgusting!” I wrote.
Several hours later, I received a response that floored me.
“Like Me,” a homeless Canadian wrote.
The story suddenly hit home.
Think about this for a moment.
Trudeau just used $3.8 billion of Canadian taxpayers’ money for a cause — his own feminist cause — halfway around the world.
And he still hasn’t found a way to bring some 30,000 Canadians in from the cold.
It just can’t be allowed to go on.
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“Allahu Akbar!” Jihadi Woman Injures Two Shoppers at Supermarket in France
A Muslima screaming, “Allahu Akbar!” (Allah is good) knifed two shoppers at a supermarket in southern France on Sunday.
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Britain Can Thrive With ‘No Deal’ Say Experts
A NO-DEAL Brexit which avoids economic disaster is still possible — despite the bungled negotiations, according to a report of leading economists. The notion of the UK “crashing out” without a deal could be dodged by creating a new “zero tariff” transition period which would avoid the threat of disruption at customs posts.
The new proposal, in which neither side levies tariffs on the other’s goods, is contained in a paper produced by the pro-Brexit Economists for Free Trade (EFT).
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British Muslim Bomb-Maker Triggered Laptop Ban on Flights
A British Muslim terrorist known as a “master bomb-maker” for the Islamic State triggered the U.S. laptop ban on flights last year, a former MI6 spy has revealed in a new autobiography.
41-year-old Hamayun Tariq plotted to smuggle bombs “disguised as laptop batteries” claims Aimen Dean, a former al-Qaeda explosives expert recruited by secret services to infiltrate UK jihadist circles, The Sunday Times reports.
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German MEP Reveals ‘Bavarian Revolt’ Could Stop EU’s Brexit Bullying Amid Threat to Merkel
A conflict between two sister parties in Germany — the CSU and Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) — has placed the Government on the brink of collapse.
The German rupture rests on migration, with the Interior Minister Horst Seehofer advocating laws that would turn back refugees at the border — something Mrs Merkel has ruled out.
Monika Hohlmeier, a German MEP who is a member of the CSU, said that Mrs Merkel’s fall was not her party’s end goal but refused to say whether the party would be willing to oust the leader to achieve their policy.
However, in an unlikely turn, the threat to Mrs Merkel’s future and the current migration row could have a huge impact on the future of Brexit talks.
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German School Buys Burkinis for Muslim Girls to ‘Support’ Integration
The Pestalozzi Gymnasium in Herne bought 20 burkinis to ensure that Muslim students participate in swimming lessons and to support integration, headmaster Volker Gößling confirms.
“Now nobody has an excuse anymore for not taking part in swimming lessons,” Gößling says. According to him swimming lessons are part of integration and German culture.
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German Interior Minister About Merkel: “I Can’t Work With the Woman Anymore”
The position of Angela Merkel is becoming increasingly problematic in Germany. Especially the cooling relationship between Merkel’s CDU and its coalition partner CSU, which is now below zero, according to new information given by newspaper ‘Die Welt’.
German Interior Minister and leader of the CSU, Horst Seehofer, allegedly said to fellow legislators: “I can’t work with the woman anymore.”
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Greece: Thousands Protest FYROM Deal Leaving Government Facing No Confidence Vote
Yesterday afternoon, the Greek government faced a no-confidence vote in parliament over a deal to rename neighbouring FYROM. Thousands protested outside parliament against the highly controversial proposal that was announced under UN and EU pressure.
A government majority “allowed the neighbouring country to retain the key part of its name … and become the Republic of Northern Macedonia,” says Greek Reporter.
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‘Merkel is the Past, Salvini the Future’ Farage Hails Italian Populists Amid Deep EU Jam
NIGEL Farage took a brilliant swipe at Angela Merkel as he hailed Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, praising the die-hard eurosceptic for his position against EU migration policies.
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Norway Youth Now ‘Too Lazy’ To Take Swedes’ Café Jobs: Lobby Group
Young Norwegians are so spoilt that most no longer consider jobs in cafe’s or restaurants now staffed largely by Swedes, the head of Norway’s national business lobby group has complained.
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Outrage as a Thousand Muslims Pray in French Street Following End of Ramadan
A thousand Muslims in the southern French city of Nice took to the street to pray on Friday following the end of the Islamic month of Ramadan, in defiance of the country’s laws.
The open-air prayer, which took place at around 6 a.m. at the Ariane quarter of Nice, was condemned by Mayor Christian Estrosi of the conservative Republicans who took to Twitter to post a picture of the incident.
[Comment: This looks like a vacant parking lot, not a “street”.]
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Less than one in 20 street robberies and burglaries are being solved in the UK, shocking new figures have revealed.
Official police data shows that just four per cent of robberies and three per cent of burglaries were solved in England and Wales in 2017.
The figures will fuel concerns that there is a crisis in the nation’s policing, with one MP describing London as ‘the Wild West’.
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UK: Muslim Protester Who Hit Police Officer at Tommy Robinson Rally Spared Jail
A Muslim activist who hit a police officer with his walking stick at a Tommy Robinson rally in Hyde Park has escaped with a suspended sentence. Omar Mohamad, 62, scuffled with Sergeant Guy Rooney and left him with a severely bruised face at a counter protest in Hyde Park in March 2018.
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Woman Yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’ Slashes Two With Blade in France
Marseille (AFP) — Two people were hurt in a town in southern France on Sunday when a woman shouting “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest) attacked them in a supermarket with a boxcutter knife, prosecutors said.
A customer was struck in the chest during the late-morning assault in La Seyne-sur-Mer, outside the Mediterranean port of Toulon, but the wound is not life-threatening, prosecutor Bernard Marchal told AFP.
A woman working at a checkout counter was also cut over her eye. Both casualties were taken to hospital.
“It appears to be an isolated case by a person with known psychological problems,” Marchal said, “though that doesn’t exclude the possibility that she may have been radicalised.”
“Several witnesses have quoted her as saying it was Allah who told her to do it, that they were all miscreants and that she wanted the police to kill her,” the prosecutor said.
He added that “contrary to what was said at the start, she was not wearing a veil, but a black tunic over black trousers and black glasses.”
[…]
The 24-year-old assailant, who did not have a police record, was overpowered by a customer and two supermarket employees and taken into custody.
“I grabbed her wrists to get hold of the cutter,” said the customer, an electrician who gave only his first name, Sebastien.
“I asked her ‘Why did you do it.’ She did not answer.”
The woman “was in a panic, she was afraid, she did not understand what was happening to her, she had no strength left,” Sebastien said.
Police later searched her home to determine if she had any links to the Islamic State group, but Marchal said they found only an old Koran and an Algerian flag. A computer was seized from the studio where she lived a few kilometres (miles) from the shop.
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Protests will be taking place across the globe on Tuesday as supporters of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange call for his freedom on the sixth anniversary of his entering the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
There are confirmed rallies in the USA, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, India, Sri Lanka, and the UK.
In the United States, protesters will be hitting the streets outside the White House as well as in New York City, Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco.
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UN General Assembly Approves Another Anti-Israel Resolution
At an emergency meeting held on June 13th, the United Nation General Assembly adopted another one-sided resolution against Israel. The resolution, proposed by Turkey and Algeria, deplored the use of allegedly excessive, disproportionate and indiscriminate force by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and particularly the Gaza Strip…
U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley minced no words in her condemnation of the resolution before the vote:
“This resolution holds Hamas completely unaccountable for most of the recent unrest. It blames everything on Israel. But the facts tell a different story. It is Hamas and its allies that have fired over a hundred rockets into Israel in the past month, hoping to cause death to as many civilians and as much destruction as possible. It is Hamas that has used Palestinian civilians as human shields at the boundary fence, seeking to incite violence and overrun the border. It is Hamas that refuses to cooperate with the Palestinian Authority to unite in the pursuit of peace. It is Hamas that calls for the destruction of the state of Israel within any borders. And yet the resolution before us not only fails to blame Hamas for these actions, it fails to even mention Hamas.”
[Comment: Translation — “Stop defending your country! Just stand still and get exterminated.” This is more proof of the uselessness of the UN.]
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Moscow World Cup Taxi Driver Flees the Scene After “Accident”… You be the Judge! [Video]
BREAKING: Taxi ploughs into several #WorldCup fans in central Moscow, then flees the scene. Eight people were injured. Police say it was an accident. You be the judge…The bystanders ran after the guy who they said din’t appear to be intoxicated.
An accident? The people watching knew exactly what it was and ran after the guy! Eight people were injured when the taxi jumped up on the sidewalk and didn’t stop.
This still photo shows just how out of his way the guy went to make it to the sidewalk:…
Preliminary information indicated that the driver, who had a Kyrgyzstani driving license, lost control of the vehicle. Russia’s Interfax news agency cited a source claiming that the driver was drunk at the time of the incident though a witness said he didn’t appear drunk.
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New Strain of Bird Flu Kills 40% of Those Who Contract, 100s Dead in China
A “new” strain of deadly bird flu dubbed “Disease X” by the World Health Organization (WHO) has killed hundreds of people in China, and is just three mutations away from becoming transmissible between humans, according to experts.
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Colombian Presidential Election, 2018
Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 27 May 2018. As no candidate received a majority of the vote, a second round was held on 17 June. Incumbent President Juan Manuel Santos is ineligible for re-election, having already served two terms. President-elect Ivan Duque Marquez will serve a four-year term from 7 August 2018 to 7 August 2022.
[Comment: Ivan Duque Marguez is right-of-center.]
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Bannon Says Trump “Will Run the Tables” In Midterms if He Does’t Fold on DACA
It has been nearly a year since Steve Bannon was ousted from the White House. And in the time since, Bannon — who played a critical role in getting Trump elected — has kept a low profile. But on Sunday, he made his triumphant return to the Sunday shows — his first appearance since leaving the White House — to talk about DACA, Trump’s “zero-tolerance” border policy, Trump’s recent triumph in North Korea and many other topics with ABC’s Jonathan Karl on “This Week.”
Asked about the Trump administration’s decision to separate children from their parents at the border, Bannon stood his ground and defended the administration’s policy, pointing out that people coming over the border are criminals at that point, and US law doesn’t allow children to be kept with their criminal adults.
“The president has been enforcing a “zero-tolerance” policy along the southern border and I want him to enforce the law…We have a crisis on the Southern border.”
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Child Border Crossers Have Higher Standard of Living Than 13M Impoverished American Children
Migrant children who cross into the United States either alone or with adults have a higher standard of living once they are put into federal care than the more than 13 million American children who are living in poverty across the country.
In Fiscal Year 2017, the federal government referred nearly 41,000 unaccompanied minor border crossers to the Unaccompanied Alien Children program which is facilitated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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First Aquarius Migrants Arrive to Cheers in Spain
The 630 migrants whose rescue sparked a major migration row in Europe began disembarking in Spain on Sunday after a turbulent week that saw Italy turn them away.
The first of three ships transporting the group, an Italian coast guard vessel called the Datillo, pulled into Valencia harbour just before 6:30 am (0430 GMT) with 274 migrants on board, according to the Red Cross.
The Aquarius itself, the rescue ship chartered by a French NGO which has been at the centre of the crisis, pulled into port some four hours later under a clear blue sky at the port in southeastern Spain.
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Italy Demands Migrant NGO Boats Leave Mediterranean, Mocks Leftist Crew Members
Matteo Salvini has demanded the Netherlands recall the Dutch-flagged ‘rescue’ ships of open borders NGOs, declaring that Italy refuses to be complicit in the “illegal immigration business”.
Deputy Prime Minister and interior minister Matteo Salvini hit out at German ‘rescue’ charities operating the Lifeline and the Seefuchs on Saturday morning, noting that the vessels were hanging around the Libyan coast, “waiting to pick up their next load of human” brought to sea by criminal and sometimes terror-linked people-smugglers.
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Merkel Faces “Outrageous” 2-Week Ultimatum as Relations Look “Beyond Repair”
As Chancellor Merkel’s grip on power continues to look more and more fragile, Bild Zeitung reports that Germany’s Christian Social Union party will give her a two-week deadline to meet its demands for overhauling asylum policy.
If true, the reports would would be an unprecedented challenge to Merkel’s authority and risks plunging the nation further into chaos, as Der Spiegel pulls no punches in explaining: “The German question… How do we deal with migrants? Endangers Merkel’s chancellorship.”
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Migrant Crisis Likely to Dominate Macron and Merkel’s Meeting on EU as Tensions Flare
PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron will go to Germany this week for crunch talks with Angela Merkel on eurozone reforms but it is likely that the European Union’s migrant challenges will overshadow the meeting.
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Nearly 70 Per Cent of Italians Back Salvini’s Stand Against EU on Migrant Ferries
Almost 60 percent of Italians say it was right to shut their ports to ships transporting illegal migrants from Africa, and 68 percent say populist interior minister Matteo Salvini was correct to stand up to the EU on the issue.
The poll comes as a convoy of ships carrying more than 600 migrants docks at the Spanish port of Valencia, a week after they were picked up close to Africa for transport to Italy, before Salvini refused to take them.
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Salvini: This is the First Time a Migrant Ship From Libya Was Turned Away From Italy
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said a migrant ship’s arrival in Spain marked the first time Italy turned away such a vessel from Libya, he claimed on Facebook Sunday.
Salvini, who was sworn into office on June 1, said that Italy is no longer Europe’s doormat after denying the migrant ship Aquarius from docking at an Italian port on June 9, according to a video the interior minister posted to Facebook. The vessel carrying 629 migrants from Libya ultimately docked in Valencia, Spain.
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These European Countries Are Refusing to Accept the Unchecked Influx of Migrants
Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper
Much has been written about the unchecked influx of migrants into Europe recently. As the EU promotes the warm, fuzzy, “inclusive” policies that are overwhelming countries with immigrants, some of those countries are bluntly starting to say, “no more.” At the same time, other countries seem to be quietly preparing for…something… without being quite so forthcoming about the event for which they are readying themselves.
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Viktor Orban: There is No Document That Says EU Countries Must Accept Migrants
A compromise cannot be made in the dispute over migration, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Saturday, and added that “there is no need for such a compromise”.
Orban addressed a conference marking the first anniversary of the death of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and said we know of no such document that says “if you join the European Union, you must become a country for migrants”.
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CNN Highlights Breastfeeding Transgender ‘Dad’ For Father’s Day
CNN commemorated Father’s Day weekend with an inside look at a transgender woman’s hardship of being a “father” with breasts.
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Scientist: Advanced Robots May Enslave Humans — Then Wipe US Out
While a new study shows that people are getting dumber, robots are getting smarter. In fact, says one expert, artificially intelligent automatons may reach a point where they will outsmart man, seize control, and then enslave humans before sending us the way of the dodo. Moreover, he says that some of his colleagues will actually welcome this mechanical domination.
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Frau Merkel, the Lutheran Marxist, has to go.
Less than one in 20 street robberies and burglaries are being solved in the UK, shocking new figures have revealed.
Hunting haters on the internetis far more important of course….