A mentally disturbed man went on a knife-wielding rampage on a bridge in the French city of Tours. The unfortunate youth shouted “Allahu Akhbar” as he attempted to stab passersby and struggled to throw a man off the bridge. The alleged perpetrator was subdued by police and taken into custody without causing any serious injuries.
In other news, Tommy Robinson’s new lawyer said that he has lodged an appeal against his client’s sentence, and has applied for bail.
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Danish Employment Levels Still Rising: 3,400 More in Work in Latest Figures
Employment levels in Denmark have continued an upward trend, with a new high point reached in April.
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Germany Has Made Over 3 Billion Profit From Greece’s Crisis Since 2010
Germany has earned around 2.9 billion euros in profit from interest since the first bailout for Greece in 2010.
As KeepTalkingGreece reports, this is the official response of the Federal Government to a request submitted by the Green party in Berlin.
The profit was transmitted to the central Bundesbank and from there to the federal budget.
The revenues came mainly due to purchases of Greek government bonds under the so-called Securities Markets Program (SMP) of the European Central Bank (ECB).
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“The Whole Thing is a Scam”: Trump Unloads on “Deep State” Enemies During Fiery Speech
President Trump went way off script during a Tuesday speech at the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) — lashing out against everything from the “deep state” to the intense immigration debate, which he calls a distraction from Congressional hearings on the recently released Inspector General’s (OIG) report on FBI bias during the 2016 US election.
Trump then says that the MSM is trying to distract with the immigration issue.
“You ought to see the hearings that are on right now on television,” Trump said, in reference to Inspector General Horowitz’s testimony before Congress (which can be viewed here).
“They want to focus on immigration because they want to keep the cameras away from the hearings,” Trump added.
[Comment: Trump is 100% correct. Legacy media seeks to push the hearing out of the news cycle.]
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Bridge: US Liberals Are Clinically Insane and Care Nothing for the American People
The mass hysteria that swept across Liberal America, like one giant tear tsunami, following Hillary Clinton’s ‘surprise’ loss in the 2016 presidential election has reached a new level of madness and can now be described as a deep-seated psychosis.
[Comment: An accurate assessment. An entire generation functioning purely on emotion — no logical thinking. The product of a Tavistock planned “education” system. This is desired by globalists since such people are more easily manipulated into cheer-leading for a globalist agenda.]
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Charles Krauthammer, Conservative Commentator and Pulitzer Prize Winner, Dead at 68
Charles Krauthammer, a longtime Fox News contributor, Pulitzer Prize winner, Harvard-trained psychiatrist and best-selling author who came to be known as the dean of conservative commentators, died Thursday. He was 68.
His death had been expected after he wrote a heartbreaking letter to colleagues, friends and viewers on June 8 that said in part “I have been uncharacteristically silent these past ten months. I had thought that silence would soon be coming to an end, but I’m afraid I must tell you now that fate has decided on a different course for me…
“Recent tests have revealed that the cancer has returned. There was no sign of it as recently as a month ago, which means it is aggressive and spreading rapidly. My doctors tell me their best estimate is that I have only a few weeks left to live. This is the final verdict. My fight is over.” The letter continued, “I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life — full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living.”
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Sharyl Attkisson: The Left Invented Fake News
Sharyl Attkisson is a New York Times bestselling author and host of the weekly Sunday public affairs program, Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson. An investigative journalist, Sharyl has worked for CBS News and also as a foreign correspondent for CNN. She is a multi-award winning writer.
In 2017, she published The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote. Which dissected the origins of the now infamous fake news term. In an exclusive interview she explains how fake news is a propaganda phrase invented by the left that was eventually co — opted by Donald Trump.
According to Attkisson, the research that she carried out for her book to source the provenance of the term fake news led her to a non — profit organisation funded by Google whose parent company; Alphabet, was at the time chaired by Eric Schmidt. Schmidt was one of Hillary Clinton’s top campaign strategists and donors during Clinton’s 2016 presidential run.
“A smear artist told me that nearly every image that crosses your path on a daily basis whether it’s on the news, on a billboard or on a late night comedy show. All of it was put there for a reason, often by someone who paid a lot of money for it to be there.”
Attkisson is scathing of PR and law firms for “forwarding one narrative or one idea” which are rooted in political causes and often undisclosed.
She told Newsvoice that “the smear industry” is a multi-billion industry, that looks to target personalities or those with dissenting voices that the establishment wishes to shut down.
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Soros Steams That Trump’s “Revolution in World Affairs” Is Succeeding
Authored by Andrew Korybko via Oriental Review
Soros is lamenting that his desired world order is under threat because of Trump.
Expressing frustration that “everything that could go wrong has gone wrong”, the billionaire financier of countless Color Revolutions all across the world told the Washington Post that he was “living in [his] own bubble” because he failed to foresee Trump’s meteoric rise. Fearful that Trump “is willing to destroy the world”, as he put it, he vowed to “redouble [his] efforts” in pouring millions of dollars into opposing everything that the President stands for all across the world.
While the Hungarian-American might come off as full of doom and gloom in his interview, he actually has a reason to feel that way because Trump has single-handedly presided over the dismantlement of the Liberal-Globalist world order that Soros has worked for decades to build, destroying the old paradigm of Trans-Atlantic relations in a simple spree of tweets and presiding over the return of Christian morals, ethics, and values in American society, ideas that are absolutely anathema to the atheist billionaire.
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Thirty Years on, How Well Do Global Warming Predictions Stand Up?
The short answer, is not all that well.
On June 23, 1988, NASA scientist James E. Hansen testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, where he expressed his “high degree of confidence” in “a cause-and-effect relationship between the claimed CO2 induced “greenhouse effect and observed warming.”
The 30th anniversary of Mr. Hansen’s predictions affords an opportunity to see how well his forecasts have turned out.
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Trump Withdrawal From UN Human Rights Council is Business as Usual for US
Unlike other decisions taken by Donald Trump the announcement that the US is leaving the UN Human Rights Council has a lot of background in the policies adopted by previous administrations, many of which also despised the body.
Trump has gone a little further than his predecessors but his attitude is not fundamentally different from theirs.
Not only has the US had a long-running dispute with the UN in general, over its budget contribution and the body’s alleged hostility towards Israel, it has also sought to undermine the role of the Human Rights Council in particular, long before Trump was elected. A former US representative to the UN founded the NGO UN Watch in 1993 to campaign against the UN’s perceived anti-Israeli bias.
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Court Ruling a Victory for Opponents of Hate Speech
When Mohamad Fakih opened his restaurant’s doors to a Liberal Party fundraiser last July, some uninvited guests showed up: Kevin Johnston and Ranendra “Ron” Banerjee, two men who have become fixtures at anti-Islam rallies across the GTA. In videos posted online, they stood outside Fakih’s restaurant Paramount Fine Foods and suggested it was a “nefarious” business that only served customers who are “jihadist” or “raped your wife at least a few times.”
Fakih sued for defamation; Johnston and Banerjee wrote in their defence statements that they were exercising their freedom of expression and raising issues of public interest — namely, their objection to the federal government’s $10.5 million settlement paid to Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr.
But before the case has even gone to trial, a Superior Court of Justice judge has already delivered a preliminary victory for Fakih, ruling Banerjee’s videotaped comments “involve hallmarks of hate” and do not relate to a matter of public interest.
This also means his statements are unprotected by a 2015 Ontario law designed to stop nuisance lawsuits aimed at silencing free expression over matters of public interest. Banerjee invoked the law to try to quash the suit but the judge ruled that allowing him to justify his comments by claiming public interest would be “trivializing” the law’s objectives…
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Ontario Premier-Elect Doug Ford Ditches Cap and Trade
Political “solutions” to climate change, even if desirable, are simply impractical. Voters don’t like high energy prices, and climate policies are literally designed to make energy more expensive as a way to alter behavior.
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Quebec Police Arrest 7 Individuals for Sexually Exploiting Minors
Seven men suspected of sexually exploiting minors have been arrested by Laval police in a “targeted operation”
The suspects range from 25 — 66 years of age and have been released after signing a promissory note.
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12 European States Revolt Against Merkel, Macron Plan to Reform Europe
Two days ago, when we laid out the components of Merkel and Macron’s blueprint to reform the EU, we said that while “Macron suggested the proposal will be presented to other countries, with specifics to be worked out later this year and the plans to take effect from 2021, it was unclear how he plans to get “other countries” to vote for a proposal which has already led to the alienation of Central and Eastern Europe, Brexit and an openly populist government in Italy.”
We did not have to wait long for confirmation, because just two days later, Europe’s two self-proclaimed leaders were facing an unexpected backlash from most other European governments against the German and French plans for a common eurozone budget, dealing a blow to the two countries’ ambitions for a big overhaul of the single currency area.
As the FT reports, the rest of Europe’s “core”, including the Netherlands, Austria and Finland are among 12 governments questioning the need for any joint eurozone “fiscal capacity”, challenging a central tenet of French President Emmanuel Macron’s vision for the eurozone that he has successfully pressed Berlin to endorse.
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Almost Half of Germans Want Merkel to Resign, Poll Shows
A survey carried out by YouGov and published on Friday shows that 43 per cent of Germans want Merkel to leave office.
The survey also revealed that 42 per cent of respondents wanted the veteran Chancellor to stay on as head of government, while 15 per cent did not give a response either way.
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BBC: No More “White Blokes” Shows Like Monty Python Allowed
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has announced that it will in future not commission shows which only have white actors — and that a show like the comedy “Monty Python” would be shunned because it was made up of “white blokes.”
BBC head of comedy Shane Allen told media in Britain that program featuring “six Oxbridge white blokes” were no longer of interest to viewers who “crave sketch shows and sitcoms with a sense of place”.
“Oxbridge” is a UK reference to graduates from Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Speaking as the BBC unveiled a “raft” of new comedies starring female and nonwhite leads, Allen claimed audiences had seen enough of the “metropolitan, educated experience.”
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EU Introduces Tariffs on U.S. Peanuts, Motorcycles, Whiskey
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union started enforcing tariffs Friday on American imports like bourbon, peanut butter and orange juice, part of a growing global trade rift that’s likely to intensify over the next few weeks.
The EU tariffs on $3.4 billion worth of U.S. products are in retaliation for duties the Trump administration has imposed on European steel and aluminum.
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EU Votes for Memes Ban and Censorship Machines — What Now?
The European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs just voted ‘yes’ on highly controversial parts of the EU’s new Copyright Reform. The controversial articles — 11 and 13 — effectively establish link tax, censorship machines, and ban memes.
There was heavy resistance to the contested articles from internet activists, lobbyists, and members of European Parliament (MEPs), but all was for nought and the articles passed with a 13:12 and 15:10 majority.
Opposers of the link tax and censorship machines argued that it threatened the openness of the internet and made it less free. You can read TNW’s detailed dive into the viewpoints of the articles’ lovers and haters, but the opposition can be shortly summed up like this:
Article 11 (a.k.a. link tax) would force anyone using snippets of journalistic online content to get a license from the publisher first — essentially outlawing current business models of most aggregators and news apps. This can also possibly threaten the hyperlink and give power to publishers at the cost of public good.
Article 13 (a.k.a. censorship machines) will make platforms responsible for monitoring user behavior to stop copyright infringements, but basically means only huge platforms will have the resources to let users comment or share content. People opposed to the proposal worry that this could lead to broader censorship, threatening free speech via parody, satire, and even protest videos.
[Comment: End goal of globalists — prevent public from waking up and organizing against the tyrannical goals of globalists.]
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Farage Slams ‘Political Project’ Airbus for Pushing Project Fear
Brexit leader Nigel Farge has said Airbus’ intervention in the Brexit debate is politically motivated after the aviation giant threatened to pull out of the UK unless business ties with the European Union (EU) are maintained.
The European multinational corporation released a “risk assessment” this Friday, threatening close it’s British factories if the government allows a “no deal” Brexit or leaves the bloc without a long “transition period.”
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A crazed 30-year-old man was arrested in the French city of Tours after he attempted to stab random people with a knife on a bridge while yelling “Allahu Akbar”.
On Wednesday, a shirtless man had attempted to stab several random passersby crossing the pont de Fil, a pedestrian bridge that crosses the Loire river, as well as try to throw a man in his 60s off the bridge before police intervened, French broadcaster France Bleu reports.
When police arrived on the scene, following panic from the pedestrians in the area, the man demanded that the officers shoot him while he yelled “Allahu akbar”.
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German SPD Said Preparing for New Elections, Euro Slides
With just over a week left on Angela Merkel’s CSU ultimatum to resolve the German “refugee” problem in a manner that is satisfactory to her populist coalition partner Horst Seehofer (and who famously said recently that he “can’t work with that woman anymore”) and that sees an EU agreement that sends migrants back to their originating European nations, something which in light of recent Italian populist developments is impossible and effectively guarantees that Merkel will be unsuccessful, on Friday morning Spiegel reported that the next step for Chancellor Merkel now seems inevitable, and that Germany’s SPD party is preparing for new elections, one assumes on the belief that the Merkel coalition government will collapse.
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Italian Prosecutors Want Trial Against Turin Officials After Champions League Inferno
On 3 June, 2017, Italian Football club Juventus played the Champions League final. Thousands of people watched the match on a public screen in Turin. The evening would result in a tragedy with one killed and 1,500 injured.
Italian prosecutors are holding Turin mayor, Chiara Appendino, and 14 others accountable for the tragedy. They will be charged for what happened that evening at Turin’s Piazza San Carlo.
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Marine Le Pen’s Niece Opens Finishing School for Would-be Far-Right Leaders
LYON, France (Reuters) — The niece of far-right leader Marine Le Pen launched a political academy on Friday that she hopes will serve as a “finishing school” for would-be luminaries on France’s right wing, but denied she was plotting a political comeback.
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Sweden: Almost All Malmö Shooting Victims Members of Criminal Gangs
Victims of the mass drive-by shooting in multicultural Malmö earlier this week were all known to police and many of them were gang members, new evidence has confirmed.
Three men were shot dead and another three injured outside of an internet cafe in the heavily migrant-populated city on Monday at around 8 pm.
Initial speculation surrounded the motive for the attack, but the newly released information has confirmed suspicions that the shooting was part of the growing amount of criminal gang violence plaguing Sweden, SVT reports.
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Swedish Police Make Arrests After Another Deadly Shooting in Malmö
A 24-year-old man was shot dead in Malmö’s Lindängen district on Thursday evening, three days after a shooting resulted in three deaths in the centre of the city.
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Swedish Farmer Called Racist After Displaying National Flag to Support Cancer Foundation
Swedish farmers using “hay balls” in national yellow and blue made a Swedish flag in support of their national team during the FIFA World Cup, Sputnik reports.
Johan Andersson and his wife Katrine, natives of Torphsammar, created the image of the national flag out of hay stacks and posted the photo on facebook.
Thousands of Swedish fans welcomed the photo and joined into the tribute, which was also a support initiative against childhood cancer.
But triggered leftists and self proclaimed ‘anti-racists’ filled the comment section with hatred towards the farmer and his wife.
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UK: Woman Who Let Friend Practice ISIS-Style Terror Attack at Her Home is Jailed
A woman who helped a friend train for a knife attack at her house has been jailed for failing to alert police to the terror plot.
Khawla Barghouthi is one of four members of Britain’s first known all-female Isis cell, which planned an atrocity in Westminster before being thwarted by security services.
She was sentenced to two years and four months imprisonment by a judge who said she “failed to disclose information about an imminent attack in which a knife would be used to endanger the life of multiple individuals”.
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Update: Tommy Robinson’s Lawyer Lodges Appeal, Applies for Bail
I have a small update on Tommy Robinson’s case.
On Friday, June 22. I received an e-mail from John Carson, the new lawyer retained by Tommy to fight for his freedom.
Mr. Carson obviously is a professional, and is careful about what he says to the public. His goal is to do the best work possible for Tommy in the court of law, not the court of public opinion. So he is properly tight-lipped about his exact strategy. But I asked him for a statement that I could pass on to Tommy’s supporters around the world, and he sent me this:
“We can confirm that those representing Stephen Lennon have lodged an appeal against sentence, together with an application for bail pending appeal. We are working towards a court hearing at the earliest possible date, and hope for a listing imminently.”
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Why Thousands of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Into Themselves
In an article first published by The Conversation, Lund University Digital Culture lecturer Moa Petersén explains why thousands of Swedes have had microchips inserted under their skin.
Thousands of people in Sweden have inserted microchips, which can function as contactless credit cards, key cards and even rail cards, into their bodies. Once the chip is underneath your skin, there is no longer any need to worry about misplacing a card or carrying a heavy wallet. But for many people, the idea of carrying a microchip in their body feels more dystopian than practica
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With Low Taxes and High Productivity, Slovakia Sets Pace for Europe
The Finance Ministry of Slovakia reported this week that the nation’s economic growth will swell to nearly five percent next year as a result of increased automotive output, in one of Europe’s greatest economic success stories.
A maximum personal income tax rate of just 25 percent has stimulated high domestic demand in the midst of which the Slovak auto industry has boomed. The Finance Ministry attributes next year’s projected GDP boost to this high internal demand.
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Kosovo Moves Decidedly Toward Sovereignty and Independence
The Republic of Kosovo, a partially recognized state in the Balkans, made a move this week to gain broader recognition as sitting President Hashim Thaci announced his decision to continue peace talks with Serbian President Aleksander Vucic in an effort to normalize relations between the two countries.
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Here’s How Erdogan Plans to Steal Sunday’s Election
As Turks prepare to head to the polls Sunday in a snap election called by incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Policy has published what is essentially a summary blueprint outlining the ways Erdogan could steal the election, noting “Sunday’s vote is one he can’t afford to lose.”
As we previously commented, though the man who has dominated the nation’s politics for almost two decades is not expected to lose, a consensus is emerging that the vote should be regarded as a referendum on his person and leadership.
And now, a visible surge in popularity for the rival secularist Republican People’s Party (CHP) candidate has pundits declaring the opposition actually has a chance.
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Former Home and Away actor Omar Baladjam is one of two convicted jihadis who have reportedly lodged last-ditch appeals for freedom or a retrial.
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A New Zealand father-of-seven, James William Ryan (pictured), 35, who held up a Subway store with a replica gun in 2016 has been sentenced in Maroochydore for the horrific armed robbery.
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Aid Workers at Soros-Funded MSF Accused of ‘Trading Medicine for Sex’, Using Prostitutes in Africa
Aid workers at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) traded medicine for sex with vulnerable young women in Africa, former employees of the open borders-backing NGO have alleged.
Whistleblowers told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme Thursday that the use of prostitutes by staff at the George Soros-funded foreign aid NGO was “blatant and widespread”.
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Anti-Trump Media Moves Goal Posts After Executive Order in ‘Shameful’ Display of Bias
The reaction to President Trump’s executive order on Wednesday, which will allow parents who have crossed the U.S. border illegally to remain with their children, served as a microcosm of how he simply cannot win when it comes to the mainstream media.
“It’s nearly impossible for this president to please his critics. In this case, he’s reversing his policy that separates these migrant families, but Democrats and the media immediately move the goal post, saying that what he’s doing isn’t enough,” Mediaite columnist Joseph Wulfsohn told Fox News.
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CNN Tries to Shame Border Patrol Agent, Fails
CNN brought on Chris Cabrera, a spokesperson for the National Border Patrol Council, Tuesday to discuss the Trump administration enforcing America’s border laws.
The Trump administration has enacted a policy of zero tolerance when enforcing America’s border laws. The laws result in separating some families if they cross the border illegally at non-checkpoint locations.
CNN’s Brooke Baldwin brought on Cabrera to grill him over the enforcement of the policy. However, it was Baldwin who got the grilling when Cabrera fact-checked her over the status of immigrants at the border.
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House GOP leaders are having serious problems finding the votes for Speaker Paul Ryan’s amnesty plan, the so-called “compromise” legislation that will be voted on alongside a bill from House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) on Thursday.
Their struggle comes after President Donald Trump, while endorsing both pieces of legislation in a winding speech to members Tuesday evening, did not make a hard sell for either bill — just backed both of them — leaving leadership scrambling as House Majority Whip Steve Scalise hit the ground running late Tuesday to gauge support in the conference for the bills.
Trump is walking a tightrope here on immigration policy. If he goes too hard against the amnesty plans, he risks dividing the GOP and losing moderates ahead of an all-important midterm election. If he goes too hard for the amnesty plans, he risks similarly dividing the party by losing his base voters — and as, Fox Business host Lou Dobbs says, losing 50 seats in the midterm elections. Fires like these forge presidencies — or incinerate them — and how Trump handles the next 72 hours could very well determine if he is impeached by a potentially-Democrat-controlled House in the next Congress or if he is re-elected in 2020.
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Enoch Was Right: Raheem Kassam Vindicates Enoch Powell
Raheem Kassam is not your typical Muslim immigrant. The son of Gujaratis who relocated to London from Tanzania, Kassam was reared in a typically pious environment surrounded by other Muslim families. But he rejected Islam and the far-Left politics that are de rigeur for nonwhites in the West.
Kassam, instead, is a conservative, an outspoken supporter and official for UKIP, and, until earlier this month, the editor for Breitbart London. [Breitbart’s Raheem Kassam Is Out, by Rosie Gray, The Atlantic, May 23, 2018] (Kassam apparently left the populist website because of his allegiance to Steve Bannon, the firebrand pushed out at Breitbart after he said some unflattering things about President Trump and his family to the slimy journalist Michael Wolff.
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Ex-CIA Contractor Makes Millions Flying Immigrant Kids to Shelters
The Trump administration has been paying an intelligence contractor millions of dollars to to fly immigrant children to shelters across the United States.
MVM, Inc. has a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to provide “unaccompanied alien children (UAC) transportation services” worth $162 million, according to records reviewed by The Daily Beast.
[Comment: That should be “Illegal Immigrant Kids”, not “Immigrant Kids”.]
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French Mayor Warns: Our Government’s Migration Policy Endangers the Security of Our Compatriots
After the brutal rape of a 67-year-old woman in his municipality, a French mayor spoke out against his government’s migration policy.
In his statement, the mayor intentionally released the perpetrator’s nationality, to show the effects of France’s open borders.
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Germany’s Migrant Policy: Why Trump Was Right
According to the narrative peddled by the mainstream media, after a series of horrendous migrant crimes and string of deadly terrorist attacks perpetrated by newly-arrived Muslim migrants, towns and cities across Germany were reverting to some sort of idyllic harmony.
According to Germany’s 2017 crime statistics, more than 1,100 foreigners were charged with murder or manslaughter, as opposed to around 1,500 suspects holding German passports. Given that Germany was home to roughly 10 million foreigners as opposed to 70 million German nationals, these are staggering numbers.
“The number of homicides rose by 3.2%” and “the number of sexual assaults had risen as well,” the Süddeutsche Zeitung disclosed, while correctly maintaining that the crime report showed an overall drop of 9.6%.
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German “Refugees Welcome” Activist Murdered After Hitching Ride With Moroccan Truck Driver
Sophia Lösche, a 28-year-old German “refugees welcome” activist, was found dead yesterday around 3.20 pm at the Egino gas station in the community of Asparrena in Álava, Spain, Bild reports.
For a week, nothing was known about her whereabouts since she boarded a truck with Moroccan license plates in Schkeuditz, East Germany. She hitchhiked to her hometown Bamberg, about 260 kilometers south.
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House Postpones Vote on Compromise Immigration Bill
House Republican leaders are delaying a vote on a compromise immigration bill until Friday as leaders struggle to secure 218 votes for the measure.
Some Republicans had pressed leadership to push back the Thursday vote on the compromise measure so that they could have more time to review the package, which is the product of weeks of negotiations between centrists and conservatives.
Lawmakers were frustrated that they didn’t have more time to read the nearly 300-page bill that was released Tuesday, while others complained that Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) didn’t have enough time to build support for the measure.
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Hungarian PM: We Have All the Tools to Protect Hungary From Migration
Hungary’s government and parliament have all the tools they need to protect the country from migration, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday.
In his regular interview to public Kossuth Radio, Orban said that Hungary still needed a well-equipped military irrespective of the migration issue. If Hungary faced an armed threat today, its military would only have a limited capability to counter it, the prime minister argued.
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Hungary: Constitutional Amendment, ‘Stop Soros’ Guarantees Our Sovereignty, Security
The seventh amendment of the constitution and the “Stop Soros” package of laws approved by parliament serve to guarantee Hungary’s sovereignty and security, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office said on Thursday.
The laws passed on Wednesday are aimed at preventing Hungary from becoming a migrant country, Gergely Gulyas told a regular press briefing. The constitutional amendment announces a ban on the forced settlement of foreign populations in Hungary and it reinforces the first safe country of asylum principle.
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Italy Doubles Down on Anti-Migrant Stance Ahead of EU Summit
Italy doubled down on its new tough stance against migrants on Friday, insisting it could not take “one more” refugee and warning the migration crisis could put the bloc’s survival at stake.
Just two days before a mini summit on the issue in Brussels, Italy’s three-week-old populist government is digging its heels in on campaign promises to stop the influx of migrants, threatening to seize rescue ships or barring them from its ports.
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Livid Rep. Mark Meadows Yells at Speaker Paul Ryan on House Floor
The chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus angrily confronted House Speaker Paul Ryan over immigration legislation on the floor of the House of Representatives Wednesday.
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., approached Ryan during a vote and began an animated discussion that lasted roughly half a minute. Both men pointed fingers at each other and reporters in the gallery could hear Meadows say, “I’m done! I’m done!” Meadows then turned and walked away while Ryan resumed chatting with other members.
Sources tell Fox News that the dispute stemmed from confusion over which of two immigration bills the House is expected to consider Thursday
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Majority of American Voters Blame Parents, Not Trump for Family Separation Crisis
Authored by Will Racke via The Daily Caller
A majority of likely voters think illegal immigrant parents are more to blame for the latest immigration crisis than the Trump administration, according to a Rasmussen poll released Thursday.
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Pat Buchanan: “Where Many Americans See Illegal Intruders, Democrats See Future Voters”
The existential question, however, thus remains: How does the West, America included, stop the flood tide of migrants before it alters forever the political and demographic character of our nations and our civilization?
The U.S. Hispanic population, already estimated at nearly 60 million, is predicted to exceed 100 million by 2050, just 32 years away.
And Europe’s southern border is more imperiled than ours.
A week ago, the new populist regime in Rome refused to allow a boat full of migrants from Libya to land in Sicily. Malta also turned them away. After a voyage of almost a week and 1,000 miles, 630 migrants were landed in Valencia, Spain.
Why did Italy reject them? Under EU law, migrants apply for asylum in the country where they first enter Europe. This burdens Italy and Greece where the asylum-seekers have been arriving for years.
Of the landing in Spain, Italy’s interior minister Matteo Salvini, a leader of the populist League party, chortled:
“I thank the Spanish government. I hope they take in the other 66,629 refugees (inside Italy). We will not be offended if the French follow the Spanish, the Portuguese and Maltese, we will be the happiest people on earth.”
If the migrants boats of the Med are redirected to Spanish ports, one suspects that the Spanish people will soon become as unwelcoming as many other peoples in Europe.
And Trump is not backing down. Monday he tweeted:
“The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition. Crime in Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!”
Whatever European leaders may think of him, many Europeans are moving in Trump’s direction, toward more restrictions on immigration.
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Police Break up Gangs That Smuggled Moroccan Minors Into Spain
Police have broken up two gangs suspected of smuggling minors from Morocco into Spain on jet skis, boats or hidden inside trucks, charging thousands of euros for the crossing, Spanish police and Europol said on Friday.
One gang allegedly charged about €2,000 ($2,300) to smuggle a minor by boat from Morocco, a price that would rise to up to €8,000 if weather conditions were bad, Spanish police said in a statement.
The group charged €5,000 to bring minors across on a jet ski and €2,500 hidden inside trucks on ferries. It is suspected of having smuggled over 100 migrants into Spain from Morocco.
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Syrian Migrant Accused of Sex Crimes Against 9 Women in Eastern Germany
Dresdner police have detained a 33-year-old Syrian man on Sunday evening. He is suspected of sexual assaults against multiple women, TAG24 reports.
One of the victims recognised him at the local BRN festival. Police detained the offender in the quarter of Neustadt after a victim had spotted him in the Louisenstraße.
According to the police, he is being investigated for no less than nine cases against him. Specifically it is about sex attacks that happened in Dresden during the last months.
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The Fulford File — The Honduran “Child Actor” Who Killed a Pregnant Woman in Michigan
Ann Coulter’s recent column is about lying asylum seekers. There’s a lot of lying. To quote Dan Cadman of CIS, writingin March 2014.
Applicant Credibility. Because in many, perhaps even most, cases, an individual cannot prove with direct evidence that he has been a victim of past persecution or that he will be subject to future persecution sufficient to meet the well-founded fear standard, great weight is given to his testimony, demeanor, factual representations, etc. Unfortunately, the weight given to credibility is so well knownamong aliens, shadowy third parties, and the less-scrupulous practitioners of law, that it has bred a virtual cottage industry of “coaches” who assist in putting together facially credible tales of persecution to be used in the individual’s formal application and face-to-face interview when summoned by the authorities.24
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There’s an Anti-Immigrant Uprising Sweeping Europe… and Threatening to Unseat Teflon Angela
German Chancellor Angela Merkel could be out of a job and her country headed towards elections barely 100 days after the formation of her new government, which took six months to form. It would be a performance worthy of, well, Italy, and all because the stolid, reliable Bavarian conservatives who spent years acting as a doormat for her chancellorship turned into raging populists. They now demand that Berlin bar entry of foreign migrants from other European Union states. A majority of Germans are in agreement.
That makes even less realistic French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed “reforms” that would shift even more power to Brussels. Berlin had already largely demurred from Macron’s plan, offering a basket of half-measures in response. “Solidarity must never lead to a debt union,” Merkel explained. Now Macron, who vanquished the National Front’s Marine Le Pen in last year’s presidential race, will have to adapt to a Europe that is moving sharply away from him.
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Will women actually vote against Frau Merkel and the destruction she has produced inside Germany and Europe?
Probably not the majority of women but some may have come to their senses?
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The War on Internet – How EU kills the net
Henrik Jönsson
Publiced 22 juni 2018
https://youtu.be/Yg1h4gGfJoM
Last Wednesday, the EU Legal Committee voted for an update of the EUCD, the European Copyright Directive. The directive contains, among other things, the severely criticized Articles 11 and 13 – which both threaten to fundamentally change how the Internet is allowed to work in Europe. In this video I summarize the content of the proposals, outline their consequences and take this as a starting point for a discussion of European democracy in general and where it is heading.
“Thousands of people in Sweden have inserted microchips, which can function as contactless credit cards, key cards and even rail cards, into their bodies. Once the chip is underneath your skin, there is no longer any need to worry about misplacing a card or carrying a heavy wallet.”
How convenient! Sounds to me more like a cross between an Orwellian nightmare and Revelation’s Mark of the Beast. Good luck Sweden, you are going to need it.
I like this line from the quoted article:
This myth of the “naive Swede”, who innocently trusts the government and Sweden’s national institutions, is an exaggeration – which has even been noted by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
…because the Naive Swede is all but a myth 🙂
Those Soros employees are using prostitutes in Sub-Saharan Africa? Do they want AIDS? What’s wrong with them?
*”The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has announced that it will in future not commission shows which only have white actors — and that a show like the comedy “Monty Python” would be shunned because it was made up of “white blokes.”*
Britain is doomed. Kaputt. Finished.