A 77-year-old man at a high-rise senior living facility in Long Beach, California caused some sort of explosion in the building that started a fire. When firemen arrived, he shot two of them, killing one of them, and also critically wounded an elderly fellow resident. He was arrested, and is being held in jail on $2 million bond.
In other news, EU foreign minister Federica Mogherini is calling for member states to put more money into a rescue-Africa trust fund. Meanwhile, the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee voted to punish Hungary for its migration policies.
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Legendary Global Investor Warns of Frightening Recession: “We Don’t Have Any Stabilizers Left”
Key asset markets in the United States have reached extremely overbought levels, including everything from stocks to real estate. And while most Americans are feeling positive about economic growth in the near-term, legendary global investor Paul Tudor Jones cautions that the long-term outlook for America is very bleak.
You look at prices of stocks, real estate, anything… We’re going to have to mean revert to a normal real rate of interest with a normal term premium that’s existed for 250 years. We’re going to have to get back to that. We’re going to have to get back to a sustainable fiscal policy and that probably means the price of assets goes down in the very long run.
The next recession is really frightening because we don’t have any stabilizers… We’ll have monetary policy, which will exhaust really quickly, but we don’t have any fiscal stabilizers.
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Anti-Gun Protester David Hogg — Protected by Armed Guards?
David Hogg is a VIP now.
The 18-year-old attended the Parkland, Florida school where a student murdered 17 people in February, then made himself famous with relentless calls for gun control in the wake of the tragedy.
Now he’s got a book deal, and publicists — and armed guards.
Sean Di Somma snapped some pictures of Hogg strolling the streets of New York City recently with his new entourage in tow.
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Many people have been led to believe Hillary had two separate email accounts. One was a traditional, secure, State Department address, where she received most of her classified information; the other was her personal, sloppily run, wide open, unsecured email, where she received some classified information. But wait.
Paul Sperry (NY Post) has the explosive story. Or, rather, he had it on January 31, 2016. That’s when it was published. What happened to it?
Sperry/2016: “The State Department is lying when it says it didn’t know until it was too late that Hillary Clinton was improperly using personal emails and a private server to conduct official business — because it never set up an agency email address for her in the first place, the department’s former top watchdog says.”
“‘This was all planned in advance’ to skirt rules governing federal records management, said Howard J. Krongard, who served as the agency’s [State Department] inspector general from 2005 to 2008.”
“The Harvard-educated lawyer points out that, from Day One, Clinton was never assigned and never used a state.gov email address like previous secretaries.”
“‘That’s a change in the standard. It tells me that this was premeditated. And this eliminates claims by the State Department that they were unaware of her private email server until later,’ Krongard said in an exclusive interview. ‘How else was she supposed to do business without [an official State Department] email?’“
[Comment: Naturally, this is the best way to run a “pay for play” operation, while selling out your country security to the highest bidder.]
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On Tuesday of last week Democratic Pennsylvania State Representative, Brian Sims posted a picture of himself on Facebook giving Mike Pence “the finger”, as his way to welcome him to Pennsylvania.
Sims posted the image with this message:
“OFFICIAL WELCOME: @MikePenceVP let me be the first to officially welcome you to the City of Brotherly Love and to my District!” Sims’ social media posts on Facebook and Twitter read. “We’re a City of soaring diversity. We believe in the power of all people: Black, Brown, Queer, Trans, Atheist, & Immigrant. So … get bent, then get out!”
The gay, 39-year-old Democrat used his Facebook page to garner support from fellow Democrats who have been struggling to find their way out of the gutter since President Trump’s inauguration over 18 months ago.
Many of his followers applauded his vulgar message, but not everyone who visited Sims’ Facebook page found him to be clever or funny. In fact, many Facebook users from Philly, and other parts of America admonished his classless act with comments under his photo.
Here are just a few samples of those who let him know how they felt about his classless act and how it reflected poorly on the citizens of Philadelphia:…
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Florida AG Pam Bondi Attacked by Screaming Liberals at Movie Screening With Family [Video]
Civility and polite discussion is dead to the left. The latest person to be screamed out of a venue is Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi…Pam Bondi attempted to attend a screening of the Mister Rogers documentary and was forced to leave:…
No longer is it considered out of bounds to scream and yell at someone you disagree with. The left has changed the game and gone in the gutter. It’s now “a thing” to pick out a conservative and blast them with hate-filled language until you run them from whatever space they’re in…a movie, a restaurant…anywhere.
In fact, a twitter comment below the Bondi video proudly states that this is happening in their town:…
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The former owner of a Portland halal market who, with his brother, traded $1.4 million in federal food benefits for cash was sentenced Monday afternoon in U.S. District Court to three years in prison.
The federal prosecutor called the case “one of the largest, if not the largest, fraud cases involving [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] benefits in [Maine].”
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Insurrection is Here; How Long Do We Have Until Civil War 2.0 Starts?
Organized lawlessness is spreading to cities across the United States but the news is almost totally ignored and blacked out by the mainstream media.
These ominous uprisings are taking various forms but the most visible and aggressive ones involve Antifa-style “occupy” socialist and anarchist street mobs dedicated to taking down ICE — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal government policing agency that is part of the Department of Homeland Security. The impetus for these actions has been the anti-President Trump Fake News psy-op meme that claims minor children of illegal immigrants arrested for crashing the U.S./Mexico border are being separated from their parents, sent to “Nazi”-like “concentration camps,” and systematically mistreated.
Far left groups whose rag tag appearance belies their sophisticated networking skills, including Direct Action Network and Democratic Socialists of America, are behind the actions. The Hill analyzed the radicals’ agendas after a group of DSA activists loudly confronted DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen while she was having dinner at a restaurant in Washington, D.C.
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Leftist Thugs Guarantee Another Scalise Tragedy
Someone is going to get killed. We have gone beyond the severed presidential head help by the unfunny and untalented Kathy Griffin to mob action, including the physical harassment of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen who just days before was drummed out of a Mexican restaurant by left-wing activists protesting the separation of children from parents caught crossing the border illegally.
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Maxine just went nuts on a local street corner in Los Angeles today…
Let’s face it, Maxine is really great at whipping up a crowd and spewing rhetoric straight from the Democrat playbook. It’s always Trump/Russia, the Wall and then the illegal kids mantra…but this speech took a dark and disturbing turn.
The thing that’s most disturbing is what she says at the end of her rant. She calls for “staying the course” by harassing Trump’s Cabinet members anywhere they are…gas station, restaurant…the mob went wild! This is insane and very disturbing behavior that could hurt someone. Can you imagine if you were a Cabinet member for President Trump?
[Comment: This is straight from the communist playbook.]
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More Than 2300 Alleged Pedophiles Arrested Nationwide; MSM (And Peter Fonda) Silent
Last week, the Department of Justice released a statement detailing the arrests of an thousands of pedophiles in a nationwide sweep that lasted for three months.
“The Department of Justice today announced the arrest of more than 2,300 suspected online child sex offenders during a three-month, nationwide, operation conducted by Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces,” the release says. “The task forces identified 195 offenders who either produced child pornography or committed child sexual abuse, and 383 children who suffered recent, ongoing, or historical sexual abuse or production of child pornography.”
Despite the massively successful operation, press coverage has been noticeably thin. A search for the generic term “pedophile” on the websites for CNN, NBC, and CBS turns up a grand total of zero results on the story, despite the fact that it has been nearly a week since DOJ’s announcement.
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NSA Launches Amazon-Backed Cloud-Computing Service for Sharing “Top Secret” Info
Four years after handing Amazon a $600 million contract to develop a cloud-storage service for the US intelligence community that can store information across the full range of data classifications — including Unclassified, Sensitive, Secret, and Top Secret — the NSA announced on Thursday that it has moved most of its mission data to a front-end cloud computing system developed by the agency that’s supported by — you guessed it — Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezos.
According to NextGov.com, the IC GovCloud, which was created by the NSA but is supported by Amazon’s web services, will offer similar hosting services to the other 16 members of the US intelligence community. The advantage of having all of these intelligence agencies using the same system, according to NSA Chief Information Officer Greg Smithberger, is that it will allow analysts from across agencies to share information and “connect the dots” more quickly. But even before the other agencies sign on, the NSA will use the platform to “collect, analyze and store” classified information in a “classified cloud computing environment.”
The goal of the platform is to gather all of the signals intelligence that the NSA gathers on foreign targets (and, of course, its myriad spying on the American public) into one centralized location that’s easily accessible by its analysts.
[Comment: This is insane. One giant honeypot filled with real top secret information. What could possibly go wrong? It’s almost as if those who pushed for this (globalist plants?) want America’s security to be compromised.]
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Resident of Long Beach Care Facility Held in Fatal Shooting of Firefighter
Emergency responders across Southern California were mourning the loss of one of their own Monday, after a gunman killed a Long Beach firefighter who was investigating a fire alarm at a high-rise senior living facility.
Fire Capt. Dave Rosa, 45, was fatally shot while investigating reports of an explosion and the smell of gasoline inside the Covenant Manor senior care facility about 4 a.m., Long Beach Fire Chief Mike DuRee said.
Thomas Kim, a 77-year-old resident of the building, was arrested on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and arson, police Chief Robert Luna said. He is being held on $2-million bail.
Authorities found a revolver at the scene, along with two suspicious devices that the Los Angeles County sheriff’s bomb squad rendered safe. Investigators are working to determine a motive.
Rosa and another firefighter, Ernesto Torres, 35, were struck by gunfire inside the 11-story building as they helped to trace what had triggered the building’s sprinkler system and forced residents to shelter in place, said Jake Heflin, a spokesman for the Long Beach Fire Department. A third person, an elderly man who lives in the building, was also shot and is in stable but critical condition, Luna said…
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The Best Places to Live in All 50 U.S. States
If you do a Google search, you will find that most lists of “best places to live” focus on major cities, but often the best place to live within a certain geographic area is far away from a major population center. And obviously my choices have a lot more to do with quality of life and sustainability during the coming crisis years than with things like “employment opportunities” or “entertainment options”.
With all that being said, here are my choices for the best places to live in all 50 U.S. states…
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UH Engineering Student Who Tried to Join ISIS in Syria Sentenced to 18 Months in Federal Prison
A college student from Spring who got cold feet en route to joining ISIS fighters in Syria was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison by a federal judge who warned him against following “impulses” in a search for “easy answers.”
In a sharp departure from the federal sentencing guidelines, U.S. District Judge Lynn N. Hughes ordered Asher Abid Khan, 23, a mechanical engineering student at the University of Houston, to prison followed by five years of supervision after deciding he had shown potential for rehabilitation.
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UN Continues Fight to Disarm All Americans
The United Nations is gearing up for round two in the fight to disarm the American public. Last month, the United Nations’ International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) held a week-long conference geared towards making gun control an international priority.
Wanting world domination, the global elites are seeking to prevent Americans from being able to escape the slavery they have planned for everyone by enacting “global gun control.” According to Townhall’s Beth Baumann, during RevCon3, the conference on the program of action on small arms and light weapons, the UN’s Secretary-General, Guterres had a message delivered on his behalf. It reads, in part:…
When the UN says that over a half a million have been killed by guns worldwide, they conveniently leave out the number of people killed in wars and by governments pretending to act on the behalf of people (democide-death by your OWN government). The democide numbers are not even close when compared to private citizens acting on their own. As Baumann wrote: “The reason they have to use “grassroots organizations” they’re meaning gun control groups, like Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action. They’re utilizing Americans to fulfill their desire to push gun control. Their reason? It looks better if Americans are demanding we abolish the Second Amendment instead of other countries trying to pressure us.”
But just how many people were killed by their own governments (democide)? Well, it’s hard to say because according to Glenn Floyd, the stats are deliberately concealed by State Coroners. The leading cause of non-natural death around the globe today, other than natural causes, is democide. It far outpaces private murderers and suicides.
[Comment: Read it all. Amercians, never relinquish your 2nd amendment right. It is what stand between you and tyranny — not just for America, but for the world.]
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The future is coming, and it is going to look very strange. In the past, many authors had raised the possibility of tyrannical governments forcibly microchipping their own populations someday, but what if most of humanity actually embraces this new technology enthusiastically? Today, thousands of people in Sweden are eagerly having microchips inserted into their own hands, and it is rapidly becoming a natural part of society. Even in the United States, at one time there was great resistance to the idea of microchipping our pets, but now it is almost universally accepted. Personal microchips are being promoted as a way to make routine tasks faster, easier and more convenient, and Swedish “biohackers” are quite thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this new trend…
[Comment: Morons and useful idiots. Globalist goal is to monitor and control humanity. ]
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40-Year-Old Migrant Arrested for Murdering His 16-Year-Old Teen Bride in Sweden
An Afghan migrant was arrested in Iran for murdering his teen bride in Sweden. There was an international arrest warrant against the man. He was taken back to Sweden and will face trial for the murder committed in 2016, SVT Nyheter reports.
The 40-year-old man should have been married to the 16-year-old girl, Swedish media say. In March 2016 the teen was murdered and her husband was wanted since June that year.
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Birmingham is Named as the UK’s Worst Areas for Food Hygiene — for the Second Year Running
Going out for dinner? After reading this you may not have the stomach for it — especially if your destination is Birmingham or Hyndburn in Lancashire.
Both have been named as the UK’s worst areas for food hygiene — for the second year running — after a study by consumer group Which?
Birmingham City Council had a poor record for carrying out inspections, with 16 per cent of the city’s more than 8,000 food businesses yet to be rated, according to the study. It also found that 43 per cent of Birmingham’s high and medium-risk food businesses did not meet food compliance standards…
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Costa Proposes Ban on Plastic Bottles in Public Offices
Water is common good says environment minister
(ANSA) — Luxembourg, June 25 — Italian Environment Minister Sergio Costa on Monday proposed banning plastic bottles and packaging in public buildings.
He made the proposal during a meeting of EU environment ministers in Luxembourg. He also said that it is “essential that the EU guarantees the right to drinking water and access to water for everyone,” stressing that it was a “common good”.
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Eurostat: Finland 8th Most Expensive Country in Europe
Finns pay more for alcohol and restaurant visits than other Europeans but less for electricity and communications services.
Last year, Finland was the eighth most expensive country in Europe, according to a Eurostat study published by Statistics Finland this week.
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FIFA Could Punish the FA if England Fans Sing About Brexit
FIFA has threatened to fine the FA if England fans chant about Brexit during their clash against Belgium.
They reportedly said that the FA it would be sanctioned if England fans breached its rules on “displaying insulting or political slogans in any form” and “uttering insulting words or sounds” during Thursday’s match in Kaliningrad.
A FIFA Spokesman told The Telegraph: “Of course, there is a risk of some kind of punishment to the FA.”
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France Should Stop Giving Italy Lessons — Salvini
Pre-written drafts written by others not our style says minister
(ANSA) — Rome, June 22 — Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has told Spiegel that France should stop “giving lessons” to Italy.
In excerpts published in an advance of an interview going out on Saturday, Salvini also comments on a document reported cleared by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron in view of next weeks European Council summit.
“It’s not our working style for there to be drafts written in other countries and then sent via mail,” he said.
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Germany Detains Former Bin Laden Aide for Deportation
BERLIN (AP) — German officials say a former aide to Osama bin Laden has been detained and they plan to deport him to his native Tunisia.
The dpa news agency confirmed a report that Sami A., whose full name wasn’t released due to privacy rules, was detained Monday. The agency quoted a spokesman for Bochum, the western city where A. lives, saying a valid order for his deportation has been issued.
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Hungarian Prime Minister: They’re Attacking us Because We’re Successful
Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Slovak commercial television TA3 on Sunday that the reason why he was being targeted by Brussels was that he stands firmly by the policies of the Hungarian government and the Visegrad Group, which he said were more successful than those of western Europe.
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Italy: ISIS-Linked Terror Suspect Held in Naples
Gambian national was allegedly meant to carry out attack
(ANSA) — Naples, June 25 — Naples prosecutors said Monday that a 34-year-old Gambian national suspected of being linked to ISIS has been detained in an operation by State and Carabinieri police. The investigators said the terror suspect, named as Sillah Osman, underwent tough training in an area of the Libyan desert.
They said he was meant to carry out a terrorist attack in France or Spain together with Alagie Touray, a 21-year-old who was detained outside a mosque in the province of Naples town of Licola on April 20. Touray allegedly published a video of himself pledging loyalty to ISIS and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi via the Telegram online service.
He allegedly received an order via the same service to drive a car into a crowd.
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Italy: Wouldn’t Want to Renegotiate EU Contribution — Salvini
Italian interior minister says time to move from chat to deeds
(ANSA) — Rome, June 21 — Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Thursday suggested Italy could demand a re-negotiation of its European Union contribution if it does not get satisfactory responses from the bloc on addressing migration. “I’m optimistic about reaching a satisfactory agreement,” Salvini told State broadcaster RAI.
“Everyone agrees about the protection of the external borders.
“We’ll see whether, after years of chatter, we move to deeds.
“We cannot pay six billion euros a year to the EU and get a poke in the eye in return.
“I would not want to be forced to renegotiate this contribution”.
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Italy: PD Suffers Another Debacle in Local Election Runoffs
League-led centre right makes more gains,M5S wins Avellino,Imola
(ANSA) — Rome, June 25 — The Democratic Party (PD) is again reflecting on how to turn around its fortunes after suffering another debacle in a round of runoff ballots for local elections in many Italian cities on Sunday. The centre-left lost traditional strongholds such as Massa, Pisa, Siena and Terni, as well as Ivrea, near Turin, which it had governed continuously since the Second World War. The PD slumped to its worst-ever showing in March’s general election.
The big winner on Sunday was the centre right, with hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s League again the driving force.
The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), which is in government at the national level with the League but ran alone in the local elections, won the runoffs in Avellino and Imola, but lost control of Ragusa.
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Lives at Steak: French Butchers Warn About Vegan Violence
Paris (AFP) — Butchers in France have written to the interior minister to ask for protection against violence and intimidation from vegan campaigners who “want to impose their lifestyle on the immense majority of people”.
The letter from the head of the CFBCT butchers’ confederation, which represents 18,000 businesses across the country, was sent to Interior Minister Gerard Collomb last week and seen by AFP on Monday.
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Netherlands: Two Arrested in Rotterdam for Preparing Terrorist Act
On Sunday evening the police arrested two men, age 22 and 27 years, in the Bloemhof district of Rotterdam. They are suspected of preparing for a terrorist crime and participating in a terrorist organization, the Public Prosecutor announced after their arraignment on Thursday.
The arrests were made based on information from intelligence and security service AIVD. The suspects’ home was searched and phones and data carriers were seized. No weapons or explosives were found.
Another man was arrested in the vicinity of the home. He turned out to be in the Netherlands illegally and was transferred to the immigration service.
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Sikh Shop Owner to Keep England Flag Flying Despite Receiving Abuse
A Sikh shop owner in Ilford has received abuse for flying the St George’s flag outside his shop to show support for England at the World Cup.
The shopkeeper received an anonymous, handwritten letter written in broken English saying he had forgotten his motherland and should be flying a different flag instead — but he says it only makes him want to fly the English flag even more.
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Sweden: Three Men Sentenced Over Attack on Gothenburg Synagogue
A Gothenburg district court has sentenced three men for hate crimes over a Molotov cocktail attack on a synagogue in the western Swedish city in December 2017.
The men, aged between 19 and 24, were sentenced for aggravated unlawful threats and aggravated attempted damage. There was no serious material damage to the building and no-one was injured in the attack, although around 20 people participating in a youth celebration at the synagogue briefly took shelter in a cellar.
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The Rise of Matteo Salvini and of the Italian Right
By Ugo Bardi, originally published by Cassandra’s legacy
During the past few weeks, we have seen a true political revolution in Italy. Matteo Salvini, leader of the Italian League, has successfully exploited his new position of Minister of the Interior to gain personal prominence. The M5s movement had won the elections, this year, but it has been emarginated to a secondary role, while Salvini acts and looks like if he were the real Prime Minister. If new elections were held now in Italy, Salvini and the League would win hands down.
All politics is, after all, about blame shifting. So, political success means simply finding someone to blame. Matteo Salvini was successful by adopting the same style and content that made the political fortune of Donald Trump. Both Trump and Salvini found a good target to blame with immigrants and foreigners in general. Both used harsh language, insults, callousness, and plain racism. Both found that the more shrill and violent their utterances were, the more they were approved by the public. It took a remarkably small effort to convince a large majority of Italians that all their troubles are caused by immigrants and, in particular, by the Roma people (less than the 0.2% of the Italian population). Salvini also capitalized on demonizing the Euro and the European Union, although he can’t afford (so far) to exaggerate with insults and threats in that field. In any case, right now, it seems that 72% of Italians approve Salvini’s actions…
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Turks and Kurds Turn French Street Into War Zone After Erdogan Election
Sunday night, when Erdogan was officially re-elected, a huge fight broke out between Kurds and Turks in Mantes-la-Jolie, French newspaper Le Parisien reports.
“I thought it was a world war” describes a witness of the violent clashes that had some of Mantes-la-Jolie’s Turkish and Kurdish communities in bitter opposition.
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UK: 32,000 Young Kids Now Say They Are in a Gang, Study Shows
There are now more than 30,000 children aged between 10 — 15-years-old in gangs across England and Wales, according to a new study.
Gangs are now spreading out of cities and into the countryside. Police simply can’t cope due to the lack of money, resources and manpower available to them.
Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner, found 73,000 young people were self-defined members of a gang, of whom 32,500 are aged between 10 and 15
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A Muslim businessman who reduced airline passengers to tears with anti-Semitic insults has walked free from court after he blamed his racist remarks on smoking cannabis during Ramadan.
Company director Shamraize Bashir, 34, was travelling back to the UK from Israel with friends when he launched a foul-mouthed five minute rant.
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Erdogan’s Triumph ‘Brings Turkey Closer to Russia Than the EU’
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday prepared to extend his grip on Turkey after winning an election marred by unfair campaigning conditions. FRANCE 24 spoke to the EU’s former ambassador to Turkey to analyse the vote and its implications.
Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics with his Justice and Development Party (AKP) for the past 15 years, scored a comfortable victory in Sunday’s parliamentary and presidential elections, eliminating the threat of a second round of voting. His new mandate ushers in a powerful executive presidency that was narrowly backed in a 2017 referendum — a change the main opposition candidate, Muharrem Ince, has said will bring Turkey under a “one-man rule”…
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Turks in Germany Praise ‘Our Leader’ After Two-Thirds Vote for Erdogan
Support for Erdogan was proportionally higher among the Turkish community in Germany than it was in Turkey. That, alongside celebrations in German cities after Erdogan won the election, has drawn criticism.
Nearly two-thirds of the Turkish community in Germany cast votes for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sunday’s election, far more than the support he averaged in Turkey, according to initial results.
Erdogan supporters waving Turkish flags and chanting slogans reportedly took to the streets in multiple Germany cities to celebrate after the authoritarian ruler claimed victory in the election on Sunday night…
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Crimea Says Wouldd Like to Invite ‘Friend’ Salvini
‘Salvini can lead Europe to collaborate with Moscow’
(ANSA) — Moscow, June 8 — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s representative in Crimea said Friday “we would be happy to have in Crimea our friend” (Matteo Salvini), the Interior Minister and rightwing populist League leader.
Gheorghi Muradov told TASS that “Salvini can lead Europe back to collaborating with Moscow”.
The Five-Star-League government programme calls for sanctions against Russia fro Crime and eastern Ukraine to be dropped and to work with Moscow as a strategic partner against terrorism, in Syria, and other areas.
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Russia’s Elite Alpha Group Kill Team on Red Alert as ISIS Promise Blood at World Cup
Vladimir Putin’s elite special forces are standing by ready to tackle any threats posed by the jihadi group at the footie tournament taking place across Russia.
And it comes as Daily Star Online can reveal ISIS are continuing to threaten the World Cupas crazed jihadis look to hit back against Russia.
Alpha Group are the leading counter-terror strike team at the disposal of the Kremlin, and are operated by Russia’s intelligence service the FSB.
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Dave Thorne (pictured) alleges he was attacked by a gang of African teenagers with a knife at a shopping centre in Melbourne’s south-east.
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“By Securing the Border, Trump is Threatening Money-Flow for Lots of Connected Interests”
President Trump doubled-down on his plan for “immediate” deportation of illegal immigrants this morning, explaining in a tweet that “hiring many thousands of judges, and going through a long and complicated legal process, is not the way to go,” adding that this deterrence approach “is the way to go to stop illegal immigration in its tracks.”
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Aquarius Migrants in Spain Throw Away Towels and Clothes Donated by the Red Cross
On June 24th several Facebook users criticised the fact that many migrants from the Aquarius boat had thrown away clothes and towels donated to them by the Red Cross.
The clothes were found in a dumpster in Cheste’s Educational Complex, where many of the migrants have been housed until they have finalised their asylum applications.
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Disaster for Italy’s Socialists in Local Elections: Anti-Migration Coalition Wins Again
After excellent results in Italy’s national elections, the country’s centre-right coalition booked great results in local elections as well. The socialist Democratic Party, of former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, lost a lot of support in several strongholds. Italy’s Ansa reports:
The Democratic Party (PD) is again reflecting on how to turn around its fortunes after suffering another debacle in a round of runoff ballots for local elections in many Italian cities on Sunday.
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EU Calls on Member States to Cough Up for ‘Africa Trust Fund’
European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini is urging EU member countries to put more money into an Africa trust fund as the bloc looks to set up migrant screening centers outside Europe.
Mogherini said Monday that the fund “has proven to be useful, it has brought results and this is why we are asking for more money from member states.”
EU leaders are set later this week to greenlight plans to screen migrants for eligibility as asylum-seekers at centers in countries including Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Niger and Tunisia.
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EU Migrant Summit: Full List of Migration Proposals Revealed in Leaked Memo
EU LEADERS have drawn up a series of proposals to deal with the migrant crisis in Europe following an emergency mini-summit over the weekend
No formal statement was issued following the mini migration summit and French President Emmanuel Macron admitted they had failed to make a plan to address the ongoing crisis.
However, seven new proposals for the European Council were drawn up and distributed in an email on Sunday night.
The document, seen by Politico, was written ahead of the European Council’s summit later this week as the bloc struggles to unify over migration policies.
The proposals set out by the European Commission, who hosted the summit on Sunday, call for more reform and strengthened borders.
The EU leaders propose creating “reception,” or “welcome,” or “disembarkation” centres outside the EU for processing migrants who are rescued or intercepted at sea.
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EU Votes to Punish Hungary for Migrant Policies
European Union lawmakers have voted for launching action against Hungary over allegations that Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government is breaching the bloc’s fundamental values.
The European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee voted Monday for a report that recommends triggering an “Article 7 procedure” amid concerns about judicial independence, media freedoms and the harsh treatment of migrants in Hungary. The full assembly must still endorse the move for it to happen…
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French-Italian Migrant Row Caps a History of Prickly Relations
PARIS (AFP) — A war of words between France and Italy over migrants has set the scene for a testy European summit this week after the latest spat between neighbours with complicated relations for centuries.
Emmanuel Macron’s rocky relationship with Italy’s ruling populists worsened this weekend when far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini blasted the French president’s “arrogant” stance on immigration.
Salvini further accused Macron of hypocrisy for criticising his hardline approach while France continues to “push back women, children and men” across the border back into Italy…
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German Interior Minister Seehofer Calls Crisis Meeting With Police & Anti-Terror Chiefs
German Interior Minister, Horst Seehofer, has called a meeting with the heads of the country’s police and security services to discuss the consequences of Merkel’s disastrous refugee policy.
Bild reports the President of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), the President of the Federal Police and the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) will all attend the crisis talks, as Seehofer seeks to shore up support against Merkel.
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Islamic Migratory Onslaught in the Balkans
On June 20 Serbia’s foreign minister Ivica Dacic made an interesting remark in connection with the ongoing political and territorial dispute over the status of Kosovo. We are witnessing a new reflection of the desire to create the “green transverse” in the Balkans, which is a “dangerous fantasy” motivated by ambitious Islamic extremism. “This is nothing new,” Dacic went on, “this is an aspiration which has been present for centuries.
The Green Transverse (aka “Green Corridor,” Zelena transverzala, Grüne Transversale, Dorsale verde) is a key geopolitical concept which denotes the long-term goal of Islamist activists, both in the Balkans and in the wider Muslim world, to create a geographically contiguous chain of majority-Muslim or Muslim-dominated polities that will extend from Turkey in the southeast to the northwestern-most point of Bosnia (a mere hundred miles as the crow flies from Austria’s southeastern border). Over the past quarter-century it has resulted in the strengthening of traditionally Muslim communities in the Balkans, expanding the geographic area of their demographic dominance and enhancing their Islamic character…
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Italy’s Refusal of Maersk Migrants ‘Unreasonable’: Denmark’s Immigration Minister
Danish minister for immigration Inger Støjberg says that Italy must accept migrants rescued by shipping company Maersk.
The Italian government has refused to accept migrants rescued from the Mediterranean Sea but reportedly asked a ship belonging to Danish freight company Maersk to rescue 113 people on Saturday.
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THE FUTURE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO… Andre’s Manuel López Obrador aka AMLO:
(From the Daily Caller) […] “And soon, very soon — after the victory of our movement — we will defend all the migrants in the American continent and all the migrants in the world,” Obrador said, adding that immigrants “must leave their towns and find a life in the United States.” He then declared it as “a human right we will defend.”
The Conservative Treehouse warns:
It would take Mexico several decades to achieve a level of wealth even close to the U.S., and they have no structural (political) systems in place to form the foundation of such an approach. So, AMLO’s faster plan is to use migration into the U.S. to break down barriers, collapse the economic dam and allow the natural flood of U.S. wealth to flow into Mexico.
From the Mexican perspective this is a pretty solid economic approach that just might work; and they have open-border comrades within the progressive, democrat, republican and corporate political systems (all over the U.S) who already support such a strategy.
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Most Americans Want Illegal Aliens Either Deported or Detained, CBS Poll Says
Ignore the outrage surrounding the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” border policy: Polls are still showing that most Americans are on the president’s side. The latest proof of that comes from a CBS poll released Monday showing that a slight majority of Americans want to see illegal aliens detained or deported. Furthermore, 51% of respondents said that a border wall would be a good idea, even if it doesn’t cover the entire border.
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NGO to Ask France to Take Lifeline
Ship refused by Germany, Netherlands, Italy says Axel Steier
(ANSA) — Paris, June 25 — A representative for the German NGO that runs the Dutch-flagged migrant-rescue ship the Lifeline said Monday that it will ask France to offer it a port of safety. The ship is in limbo after Italy last week said its rescue of over 200 migrants off the coast of Libya was illegal and Malta refused to allow it to dock there too. “We have been refused by Germany, Holland and Italy,” Axel Steier, a representative of the Mission Lifeline NGO, told France’s RTL radio. “Today we’ll ask France to receive us.
“If we don’t get a response, we’ll head north, to Spain or France”.
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Pics: 600 Migrants Picked Up at Sea by Spain
BRUSSELS (AP) — Spain is reporting that it has rescued at sea more than 600 people, more than half of them in the Strait of Gibraltar.
The Spanish Maritime Rescue Service says it pulled 377 people from 18 boats in the Strait on Monday, and another 236 from three boats in an area further east.
Monday’s rescues bring the number of people Spain has picked up in the western Mediterranean Sea to more than 1,400 in three days.
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Polish Prime Minister Urges ‘New Marshall Plan’ For Africa
Poland’s prime minister on Monday called for a “new Marshall Plan” for Africa to help stem the tide of illegal migration into Europe.
Mateusz Morawiecki was speaking at an academic debate in Warsaw that was also attended by German parliamentary Speaker Wolfgang Schäuble.
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Pope and Macron to Meet Tomorrow to Discuss Migrants
No talks with government
(ANSAmed) — VATICAN CITY, JUNE 25 — Hosting and welcoming migrants will be among the themes on the agenda of talks tomorrow between Pope Francis and French President Emmanuel Macron. The theme, which is dear to the pontiff, is currently the most contentious issue in European politics. Italy and France have recently clashed on the migrant crisis.
And Europe is also divided in Brussels.
However, Macron in Rome will not be meeting with representatives of political institutions or members of the Italian government as the trip to the Vatican, which had been organized a while back, only provides for meetings with members of the clergy.
The pope will meet Macron during a hearing at 10 am. Macron will attend with his wife Brigitte and then met with the Community of Sant’Egidio.
Early in the afternoon he will visit the Basilica di San Giovanni where he will be honored with the title ‘Protocanonico d’onore del capitolo lateranense’. Along with migration, the pope and Macron are also scheduled to discuss climate change and major international issues like Myanmar and the Central African Republic. Also on the agenda is aid to development, the situation of Christians in the Middle East after they were chased from Iraq and Syria. After visiting the Community of Sant’Egidio founded by Andrea Riccardi, the president and his wife will meet with members of the French community in Rome.
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President Trump Demands No ‘Judges or Court’ For Illegal Border Crossers
President Donald Trump called for immigrants who “invade” the United States to immediately be sent back to their countries without a court hearing.
President Trump tweeted on Sunday that the U.S. immigration system is “laughed at all over the world” and is “very unfair” to individuals using legal avenues to gain entry.
“We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country,” President Trump tweeted. “When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order”:
[Comment: Take a look at how Mexico deals with illegal immigrants to their country. US should do the same.]
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‘She’s in Deep Trouble’ Merkel Faces ‘Serious’ Revolt Over Migrant Policy Warns Le Pen
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel is in “deep trouble” and faces vehement opposition within her own party over the flashpoint issue of immigration, French far-right chief Marine Le Pen said on Saturday. The German leader is at loggerheads with her conservative interior minister, who has called for tougher border controls and a fairer distribution of refugees around Europe.
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The crisis which could see the toppling of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has heightened after she was unable to secure any consensus or deal at an informal European summit on migration over the weekend.
Chancellor Merkel, along with several prominent European leaders from 15 other countries, met in Brussels over the weekend as part of an informal discussion on migration ahead of a formal summit to take place on Thursday.
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After Time Magazine shamelessly published a photo of a young illegal alien child crying, the Daily Mail reported the truth about the illegal alien mother and his child she took with him to help her get back into the United State.
Here’s the tweet promoting the Time Magazine cover that liberals and their allies in the media used to push a false narrative of President Trump separating families at the border.
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Feminist Bookstore Closes in Oregon, Blames ‘White Supremacy’
An avowedly feminist bookstore in Portland, OR, is closing its doors this week, saying it is unable to disentangle itself from a foundational ideology of “white supremacy.”
In an online letter to its clients and supporters, the “In Other Words” bookstore announced earlier this month that by July 1 it would be shutting down its operation after 25 years in business as “a resource to Portland Feminist communities.”
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Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name is set to be removed from a major children’s book award after concerns were raised about the “Little House on the Prairie” author’s depiction of certain races in the early-to-mid 20th century.
The Association of Library Service to Children’s (ALSC) board voted unanimously on Saturday to rename the “Laura Ingalls Wilder Award” as the “Children’s Literature Legacy Award.”
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“In other news, EU foreign minister Federica Mogherini is calling for member states to put more money into a rescue-Africa trust fund. Meanwhile, the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee voted to punish Hungary for its migration policies.”
Interesting. Do they expect Hungary to pay into the trust fund as well?
Of course they do, the liberals greed and aggression knows no bounds.
“A 77-year-old man at a high-rise senior living facility in Long Beach, California caused some sort of explosion in the building that started a fire. When firemen arrived, he shot two of them, killing one of them, and also critically wounded an elderly fellow resident. He was arrested, and is being held in jail on $2 million bond.”
Curious.
The fire department in some form (usually to verify ambulance) shows up at this one an average of maybe once a week.
“NSA Launches Amazon-Backed Cloud-Computing Service for Sharing “Top Secret” Info”
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“One giant honeypot filled with real top secret information. What could possibly go wrong? It’s almost as if those who pushed for this (globalist plants?) want America’s security to be compromised.”
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They may have used secrecy for some national security in the past, but I am of the opinion that the governments keeping secrets are one big black hole from which many of our current problems grow. Secrecy is a tool from the darkness, and once all will be revealed, people will be astonished how much evil had been done in secret…
I don’t understand how Amazon is being allowed to move into industry after industry and run their new operations at a loss to drive out the competition.
Teddy Roosevelt would have trust-busted Amazon a decade ago. I can’t believe that Trump hasn’t raised the prospect of breaking up Amazon.
“There are now more than 30,000 children aged between 10 — 15-years-old in gangs across England and Wales, according to a new study.”
When “nationalism” fails, children must get their sense of security and belonging somewhere else…
…Obrador said, adding that immigrants must” leave their towns and find a life in the Unites States.” He then declared it as “a human right we will defend.”
I sure do wish he had said something, anything, about Mexicans having rights in Mexico. This is one of the core problems of Mexico, and of all those countries people leave.
He may as well have added and after you leave, send money home so that our elites may steal half of that.
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Paul Weston: Enoch Powell Was Absolutely Right
Publicerades den 26 juni 2018
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On June 24th several Facebook users criticised the fact that many migrants from the Aquarius boat had thrown away clothes and towels donated to them by the Red Cross.
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