Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte says that Italy is satisfied after a grueling all-night session at the emergency EU summit on migration. The agreement hammered out includes no assigned migrant quotas for member states, and Greece and Spain agreed to accept the return of asylum-seekers who registered in their countries. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the migration-resisting states had “fended off Brussels”.
In other news, the Massachusetts media reporter who falsely wrote that the Annapolis shooter wore a MAGA hat has been forced to resign from his job.
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Trade War Provides Perfect Cover for the Elitist Engineered Global Reset
Now that acceptance of the trade war as a reality is setting in, the Trump bandwagon is doubling down and embracing blind enthusiasm for what they assume will be a victorious outcome, no matter how long it takes. Though the team-geopolitics mentality is enticing in some ways, I don’t find much in the facts and evidence department to support the notion of America winning a global trade war. As I outlined in my article America’s Debt Dependence Makes It An Easy Economic Target, as long as the U.S. retains historic levels of debt on a government, corporate and consumer level, and as long as we remain addicted to foreign investment in that debt, trade war opponents have all the ammunition they need…
I would suggest that readers look into the International Monetary Fund’s concept of the “global economic reset” for more insight into why this is happening. I would also suggest that people pay close attention to the “predictions” of George Soros back in 2009 on the future of the U.S. economy.
The plan for this global reset seems to revolve around the diminishing of the U.S. as a major economic power. This does not necessarily mean the U.S. will be replaced directly. Instead, as Soros suggests, nations like China will fill the void as “smaller economic engines”. This is often referred to as “harmonization,” but what it really means is that the standard of living for ALL but a highly select minority will be deliberately reduced to a common denominator, and what is more common today than poverty?
For many nations, a lower standard of living is the norm. For Americans, harmonization means we have a long way to fall yet. For the reset to take hold effectively in the US, globalists will have to misdirect various groups within the population in different ways in order to avoid revolt…
But more that simply providing cover for the Fed’s controlled demolition of equities, the trade war may also provide cover for the controlled demolition of the dollar as multiple foreign creditors and trading partners turn America’s greatest strength into its greatest weakness.
[Comment: Elite globalists seek to crash the US dollar and put the blame on Trump and conservatives…then enter the communist wing nut brigade with promises of a glorious new future under their despotic rule.]
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24 MS-13 Gang Members Facing Federal Indictment for Several Crimes and Conspiracies
Twenty-four alleged MS-13 gang members are facing federal indictment for several crimes, according to a press release by the Department of Justice on Friday.
The gang members and their apprentices were allegedly involved with five murders, drug trafficking, kidnapping, extortion, and also allegedly planned to murder eight people between 2015 to 2017, according to a report by the Justice Department. Currently, 21 of the 24 members are known while the other six names, both members and associates, have not been revealed.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Spreads Hoax Stats on U.S. Mass Shootings
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Candidate for U.S. Congress (D-NY), reacted to the lives lost in Annapolis by claiming the attack marked the 195th mass shooting this year.
The heinous attack on Capital Gazette headquarters in Annapolis was a mass shooting, but it was simply nowhere close to the 195th such shooting this year.
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Dem Candidate Caught on Camera Comparing GOP to Nazis: “That’s Like Nazi, Germany” [Video]
Comparisons between Republicans and those who committed atrocities during the Holocaust continue with the unhinged politicians on the left…A Democratic gubernatorial nominee in Ohio spoke to supporters during a campaign stop on June 15 with the Licking County Democrats in Newark, Ohio and likened Republicans to Nazis:
[Comment: right from the national socialist playbook — demonize the opponents prior to mass killings.]
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Dem Senator: Calls for Ban on “Assault Weapons”… Maryland Shooter Didn’t Use One [Video]
In response to the Annapolis shooting, Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says that assault weapons, bump stocks, and high capacity magazines need to be banned. The shooter used a shotgun:
Gillibrand also followed the radical premise that ICE should be abolished. Not a winner as far as Americans are concerned. Polls say that most Americans want secure borders and want illegals deported.
[Comment: As per the communist playbook — never let a crisis go to waste.]
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The head of a charity that campaigns against sexual violence has been arrested in New York for child pornography and allegedly trying to meet with children as young as two for sex.
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Hysteria: Hate, And Histrionics Defines the Left
Why do Democrats and their socialist ilk hate patriotic Americans who love their country and want the best for its citizens, including border protection and sovereignty?
Because Democrats have been successfully brainwashed and indoctrinated in public schools and have become strident and militant proponents of the new world order, of global communism, and of open borders. Anybody else who believes differently is a threat that must be marginalized and eliminated. And the money coffers are full; there is enough to go around for many years of social unrest and societal disruption in the style of their socialist guru, Saul Alinsky, the author of Rules for Radicals.
Every day another famous or infamous Democrat celebrity is taking to the stage to vilify, misrepresent, and threaten the opposition with disrupting their lives, their peaceful access to grocery stores, gas stations, movies, restaurants, or just walking down the street.
Public officials of the Trump administration are being stopped and harassed in public places by unhinged liberals triggered by speeches of Representative Maxine Waters, who claims that she has a right to peaceful activism. Calling for violence publicly is not peaceful. When you restrict someone’s civil liberties in this manner, it is not peaceful activism.
It is a mass hysteria, hate, and histrionics stoked by the MSM, reading their marching notes from the Democrat Party. The western world is shaking its collective head as to what is happening to our country.
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‘I Will Find and Kill Your Children’: Feds Arrest Man Who Threatened FCC Chairman Ajit Pai
Federal authorities have reportedly arrested a man who threatened Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and his children.
Scott MacFarlane, an investigative reporter for NBC 4, tweeted on Friday that a man was arrested after sending an email to Pai threatening to find and kill his children. The email included the addresses of preschools in Arlington, Virginia, where Pai lives.
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Journalists Escalate Trump Hatred With False Blame for Annapolis Shooting
After Thursday’s news broke of the horrific shooting deaths of five journalists in Annapolis, Maryland, the only thing we learned from the establishment media is that this is an institution populated with people so vile, so dishonest, and so depraved they could not wait to exploit the mass murder of their own colleagues for political purposes.
Five journalists are gunned down, and the first reaction from the establishment media is to spread hate against Trump using fake news.
No one who’s watched the media devolve into hysterics over the last few years can doubt they were hoping the Annapolis shooter would be captured in a Make America Great Again hat. But so eager are these deeply frustrated and dangerous neurotics to enjoy that narrative, they launched it without knowing if it was true.
For half the day and into the night, on cable news and social media, countless “journalists” once again exposed themselves as mercenary monsters desperate to mislead the country; as angry, entitled and spoiled babies lashing out at Daddy Trump.
Take a gander at the breathtaking indecency on display below, at the pornographic abuse of dead human beings. And as you do, keep this in mind: if the media are willing to exploit their own in such an obscene way to serve an agenda, imagine what they are willing to do to us:…
With 72 percent of the American people woke to the fact the media deliberately spread fake news, the media are hoping to use this mass murder as emotional blackmail, to bully their critics into silence.
Simply put, the media want Trump and his supporters to shut up, to stop defending ourselves, to roll over and die like “good” Republicans are supposed to — and most of all, they want us to stop telling the truth about just how dishonest and dangerous they are.
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Liberal Website Warns Americans: “This is Just the Beginning… This is All Going to Get More Extreme”
Liberals are ramping up their fight against America and American values.
The Gateway Pundit is reporting that the popular liberal website, Splinter is warning America that “This is just the beginning…When you aggressively f*ck with people’s lives, you should not be surprised when they decide to f*ck with yours.”
For anyone who foolishly believes that liberals will never get away with harming Americans simply because they have opposing political views or a different set of values, you don’t have to go back too far into history to see that Bill Ayers, the founder of the violent Weather Underground group, the same man who launched Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in his Chicago home actually did exactly what the article by Splinter suggests. Not only were Bill Ayers and his associate Ronald Fliegelman (the bomb builder) successful with their domestic bombing campaign, they went on to become educators, filling the minds of our youth with hate and radical leftist beliefs.
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Liberal States Are the Most Psychopathic, Study Shows
First there was a study showing that liberals are more likely than conservatives to exhibit “psychotic” traits. Now there’s more research that may indicate the Left has left sanity, with a new study of nationwide psychoticism finding that liberal states top the list.
The study is titled “Psychopathy by U.S. State,” by Professor Ryan H. Murphy at Southern Methodist University. It’s worth noting, mind you, “that Murphy’s research is not politically motivated, like Rossiter’s book The Liberal Mind,” writes American Thinker, which reported on the professor’s findings.
The site continues, “Without going into the details of Professor Murphy’s research methodology, we note that Connecticut is at the top of the psychopathic pyramid in America. It is followed by the states of California, New Jersey, New York, Wyoming, Maine, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Illinois. Virginia closes the top ten most ‘psychopathic states,’ whose populations show personality characteristics of antisocial behavior.”
Strikingly, eight of these 10 states voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
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NSA Quietly Deletes Years of Illegally Collected Wiretap Data
The National Security Agency (NSA) is scrubbing several years worth of call records swept up in foreign intelligence surveillance wiretaps that it was never authorized to collect — claiming that “technical irregularities” caused the oversight, according to the agency.
The agency issued a statement Thursday notifying the public that in May it began to delete all so-called “call detail records” (CDRs) collected since 2015.
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NYC Elects Socialist for Congress Whose Platform Catered to Non-Whites, Wants ICE Abolished
The future of the Democratic Party is suddenly more clear.
On Tuesday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old first-time candidate for office and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, defeated the incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley, a powerful Queens Democrat and one of his party’s most senior members in Washington. Ocasio-Cortez didn’t just defeat Crowley — she stomped him. With 88 percent of the vote counted, she led by nearly 4,000 votes out of 26,000 cast.
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Obama Mocks Trump and His Supporters: “They’re Mad Even When They Win.”
“Reality has an interesting way of coming up and biting you, and the other side has been peddling a lot of stuff that is so patently untrue that you can get away with it for a while, but at a certain point, you confront reality. The Democrats’ job is not to exaggerate; the Democrats’ job is not to simply mimic the tactics of the other side. All we have to do is work hard on behalf of that truth. And if we do, we’ll get better outcomes.”
Obama forgets all of the “patently untrue” things he told the American people while in office. “You can keep your doctor” is a big lie…There are so many other lies that it’s hard to pick from them.
There’s a huge difference between getting a statistic wrong in a speech and outright lying over and over to the American people about HUGE things like their healthcare!
The best part of this ridiculous speech by Obama is that he told the audience he so desperately wanted to keep Obamacare that he even told Trump he could rename it after himself….LOL!
[Comment: Typical communist tactic — “Accuse other of that which you do.”]
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The suspect in Thursday’s deadly newsroom shooting had been reported to the police on at least two occasions by journalists at the paper, and that a restraining order had been taken out against him, according to a former Capital Gazette employee.
Jarrod Ramos, 38, sued The Gazette and two of its journalists in 2012 for defamation over a July 2011 article about Ramos harassing and threatening a former High School classmate on Facebook.
“He seems to think there’s some sort of relationship here that does not exist,” said the woman in a harassment case she filed against Ramos. “I tried to back away from it, and he just started getting angry and vulgar to the point I had to tell him to stop.”
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Reporter Who Falsely Claimed Annapolis Shooter Wore MAGA Hat Resigns
A reporter at a Massachusetts-based newspaper resigned Friday after falsely claiming in a tweet Thursday that the man who killed five employees at the Capital Gazzete newspaper left a “Make America Great Again” hat at the crime scene.
“Shooter who killed 4 people at Annapolis newspaper dropped his #MAGA hat on newsroom floor before opening fire,” Conor Berry, a reporter at The Republican in Springfield, Mass., wrote in a now-deleted tweet.
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Sessions Announces Charges for 601 People in Largest Health Care Fraud Bust in History
Federal officials are charging 601 people, including more than 100 medical workers, for fueling opioid addiction in the largest bust of health care fraud in U.S. history.
The Department of Justice revealed the charges Thursday, which were brought as part of an annual effort to dismantle schemes across the country involved in scamming health care programs. The takedown included the arrest of 76 doctors, 23 pharmacists, 19 nurses and several hundred others involved in prescribing and distributing massive quantities of opioid medications, resulting in more than $2 billion in fraudulent costs to federal health care programs and insurers, reports NBC News.
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This Man is Leaving the Democrat Party and He’s Not Looking Back
A YouTube channel called The Unsilent Minority has put out a powerful video in which one man speaks about walking away from the oppression of the democratic party. The video has a whopping 101,000 so far and once you see it, it’s easy to see why.
The man in the video, whose name is unknown, speaks with a passion. It is undeniable that he’s experienced the horrific side effects of participating in the cult called “liberalism” for so long. But he’s breaking free, and walking away and he’s asking all other Democrats to do the same.
The Unsilent Minority’s caption for this YouTube video reads:
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Following the arrest of ten far-right militants in France earlier this week, new information has been released about the extremists including a claim that one member of the group had lost a daughter in the 2015 Bataclan terror attack.
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French Nuclear Reactor Was Main Target of ISIS, Not Brussels Airport, Ex-Jihadist Says
Jonathan Geffroy is an ex-ISIS soldier and is now cooperating with French authorities. Newspaper L’express obtained and published some of the frightening transcripts of his conversations with them.
Jonathan G. spent two years in the Iraqi-Syrian zone before he was captured in the beginning of 2017 by the Free Syrian Army. He was then transferred to French authorities and is fully cooperating with them.
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Indian Group Interested in ArcelorMittal’s Plant in Romania
JSW Steel will submit offer for taking over Galati’s plant
(ANSA) — BUCHAREST — JSW Steel, the biggest steel producer in India, will submit an offer for taking over ArcelorMittal’s steel plant at Galati in Romania, as Romania-Insider.com reports. JSW will compete with Ukrainian group Metinvest and Italian group Marcegaglia for this asset.
ArcelorMittal, the biggest steel producer in the world, has put its plant at Galati on sale together with five other assets, to get the European Commission’s clearance to take over the Ilva steel plant in Italy, the biggest in Europe. ArcelorMittal Galati has an annual production capacity of 3.4 million tons of steel and some 5,600 employees. In 2017, the plant had a turnover of over EUR 1 billion and EUR 33 million in losses.
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Italy: Gave Money to All Parties — Parnasi
Construction businessman at centre of Roma stadium probe
(ANSA) — Rome, June 28 — Construction businessman Luca Parnasi, one of the main suspects in a probe into alleged corruption linked to AS Roma’s project to build a new stadium, said that he had made donations to all of Italy’s main political parties, sources said Thursday. “I paid all the parties,” Parnasi said during almost 11 hours of questioning. The jailed businessman said the money was given in order to gain credit and foster relations among the parties, according to the sources.
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No Jealousy, Palace Intrigue, Pope Tells New Cardinals
Creates 14 cardinals at consistory
(ANSA) — Vatican City, June 28 — Pope Francis told 14 new cardinals Thursday that they should avoid “jealousy and palace intrigue”. Speaking at the consistory that named them, Francis warned them against “seeking top jobs, jealousy, envy, intrigue, jockeying for position and shady deals”.
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Sardinia: A Whole Other Sardinia With AirBnB Experiences
New sector kicks off, with young entrepreneurs, old traditions
(ANSA) — Oristano, June 27 — The island of Sardinia has much to offer tourists, from its postcard-perfect azure sea to its luxury summer locales, which are full for three months every year.
However, this island of the Nuraghe and of myrtle-scented sunsets has much more to offer, and the discovery of its endless flavors and culture can be enjoyed 365 days a year with the people who live in its small towns.
This is where a small inland farming business can become a unique tourist experience, thanks to the spirit of young entrepreneurs such as Mario, a 21st-century winegrower.
He is the fifth generation of his family to work among the vines, and now the family is looking to international markets.
In Sorso, in the island’s north, Marco is one of the first Sardinian hosts in the Airbnb Experiences programme, a new sector that the online lodging giant is launching across Italy.
The programme is dedicated to activities that tourists can share with people who live on the island.
It’s an opportunity to travel in a new way, discovering cities, small towns, and the countryside, choosing from over 1,500 proposals involving nature, sport, art, entertainment, artisan handicrafts, and food.
In fact, food is one of the “musts” in Italy, with 57% of bookings in the sector tied to food and wine experiences.
Mario, who has a long hipster beard and his clippers always at the ready along with his ever-connected smartphone, told ANSA he began working full-time in his family’s business in 2015, after he graduated university.
“I chose to work here, despite the difficulties, because I believe that this place deserves to be shared through a different point of view, a younger one, one that’s open to the future and has a different economic outlet,” he said.
The first big change was moving from just cultivating grapes to bottling wine.
“My father, Leonardo, is 60, and at his age he likely would have liked to avoid a new challenge,” Mario said, smiling.
“But results came right away. We produce 20,000 bottles a year between Vermentino and Cannonau, which they love as far away as England,” he said.
“The second step is towards innovation, the Airbnb Experiences, to bring tourists here to see in person what it means to grow grapes and produce our wine”.
Getting to know this corner of Italy hasn’t always been so easy, but now all it takes is a click from a smartphone or tablet to book Mario’s Airbnb Experience “Sorso Dopo Sorso”, a play on words on the town’s name which also translates aptly to “Sip By Sip”.
Another choice is available in Paulilatino, a tiny little town in the countryside of Oristano, where centuries-old traditions are still alive and well.
Chiara was one of the first Airbnb hosts there.
“I was working as a flight attendant until a year ago, but I decided to change my life and come back to my hometown, which I’m very attached to,” Chiara said.
“I wanted to find a way to manage to come back at any cost,” she said.
Chiara is now also offering an Airbnb Experience, which lets her live out her dream of sharing with others the world she grew up in.
She does this on her grandfather’s farm, now managed by her Uncle Giuseppe, who raises Sardo-Bruna cattle and runs a small family-owned dairy.
“I think it’s important for my guests to get to know the area and see that Sardinia isn’t just the sea,” Chiara said.
In Chiara’s Airbnb Experience, guests first go to the pasture and then make (and taste) two of the house specialty cheeses: Casizolu del Montiferru, which is a Slow Food Presidium, and Sa Fresa. “I was the one who proposed the Experience, because my uncle is 70 years old and he just bought his first smartphone a few months ago,” Chiara said, smiling.
“There’s no way he would have been able to create an Experience by himself!” she said.
Chiara also offers another Experience, held under the shade of a fig tree, in which guests can learn about traditional Sardinian recipes.
“I teach my guests ‘wedding bread’,” she said.
“It’s a traditional decorated bread, that you make to wish for happiness and prosperity. I learned to make it as a child from my mother’s aunt, who is 92 years old now,” she said.
She transforms the bread dough into shapes such as birds, flowers, and leaves, and in so doing, produces new economic opportunities, and more.
“For me, bread is a magical food. And I really want people who aren’t from here to experience its magic,” she said.
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The Netherlands Approves Burqa Ban
“People’s faces should not be hidden in society, for it is our faces that give us our identity and our fundamental means of communication with others.” — Geert Wilders, Party for Freedom (PVV).
Dutch Interior Minister Kajsa Ollongren said the new law represents “a fair balance” between “the freedom to dress as one wishes” and “the general interest of communication and security.” She also said that far from violating fundamental rights, the ban will enable Muslim women “to have access to a wider social life” because if they do not cover the face “they will have more possibilities for contact, communication and opportunities to enter the job market.”
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) twice has ruled that burqa bans are legal, making it unlikely that the Dutch ban could be overturned in court.
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Trump Told Macron That France Should Quit EU: Report
When they met in April at the White House, President Donald Trump suggested to his French counterpart that France should quit the European Union and sign a bilateral trade deal with the US, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
“Why don’t you leave the EU?” he reportedly asked visiting President Emmanuel Macron, who was elected last year on a resolutely pro-European platform, the Post said, citing two European officials.
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Sadiq Khan faced a furious backlash from a mother who told him communities in London ‘do not feel safe’ as the capital remains in the grip of a violent crime wave.
The audience member grilled the Mayor at the State of London Debate last night, telling him she cannot ‘let her son out in the streets of London’.
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UK: Mother Heckles Mayor Khan on Knife Crime at Public Event, ‘We Don’t Feel Safe’
London’s Labour Mayor has been shouted down at a public event, with a mother explaining she and her son do not “feel safe” in his city.
Sadiq Khan refused to take responsibility for the massive violent crime wave sweeping London, once again blaming the Conservatives and calling the Government “anti-London”.
The crowd did not accept his excuses and the Mayor was “booed by the audience as he finish[ed] his speech” as the people were “very angry at the level of crime in London”, LBC editor Theo Usherwood reported.
“There are no bobbies on our street, Londoners don’t feel safe, our communities don’t feel safe,” the unidentified woman shouted at the LBC State of London event, to loud cheers from the crowd.
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Three judges are among nine lawyers arrested over an alleged plot to scam £12.6million from the legal aid system.
Part-time immigration judges Kareena Maciel and Rasib Ghaffar have been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud, along with part-time civil judge Razi Shah.
They will stand in the dock of a court, along with four solicitors, a barrister and a legal clerk who have also been charged over the plot.
‘In these cases, claims in excess of £12.6 million were made. A total of £1.4 million of public funds was paid out and it is alleged the majority of this money was fraudulently obtained,’ a spokesman for Scotland Yard said…
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UK: White Brits Set to Become Minority in Birmingham, Report Reveals
Birmingham is on track to become the UK’s most multicultural city, with more than half of the population from an ethnic minority by 2021. It’s predicted white Brits will soon be outnumbered in the Midlands city.
Nearly 50,000 people in the city cannot speak English and there are thought to be residents from nearly 200 countries living in the city, according to the Community Cohesion Strategy for Birmingham green paper. It describes the city as “super diverse”.
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‘Vandals’ Smash 70 Bus Stops in Swedish City in a Single Night
In one night alone “vandals” destroyed 185 glass panes at 70 different bus stops across the city of Gothenburg and the nearby municipality of Mölndal.
The attacks occurred the weekend before Midsummer day in Sweden and no arrests have been made, according to police, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
The vandals have become known as “shelter breakers”, according to the public transport company, who say the incidents are not uncommon.
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Germany Arrests Suspect for Planning Terror Attacks in Kosovo
Police in Kosovo and Germany on Friday, in simultaneous raids, arrested four Kosovans suspected of plotting terrorist attacks in the Balkan country, officials said.
It was not immediately clear whether the three suspects arrested in Kosovo and the fourth in Germany were linked with any Islamist group, a prosecutor in charge of the case said.
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For Some Tunisian Imams, Riyadh is Using Hajj Money to Finance Islamic Terrorism
The Hajj or pilgrimage to Makkah, the fifth pillar of the Islamic faith, will take place from Sunday 19 to Friday 24 August. Last year, some two million people took part in the celebration. For some Tunisian imams, Riyadh of using the revenues generated by the pilgrimage (about US$ 10 billion) to finance terrorism. They want to see “the obligation of this year’s pilgrimage” cancelled.
Paris (AsiaNews) — Hajj is the sacred pilgrimage to Makkah that Muslims must perform at least once in their lifetime. It is the fifth pillar of Islam. But the billions of dollars the event generates is controlled Riyadh.
Saudi Arabia has been accused of funding Islamic terrorism and the war in Yemen, in part through the revenues generated by the Hajj. For this and other reasons, some Tunisian imams have called for a suspension of the pilgrimage obligation for this year. What follows are the thoughts of one of our contributors, a Muslim student.
Some brave and alert imams were born in Tunisia. They are not like some found in Algeria, Morocco, Egypt and elsewhere in the Muslim world. Through their union, they have called on the Grand Mufti of Tunisia “to cancel the obligation of this year’s pilgrimage”, given the economic benefits to the population that such a decision would bring. This could not be wrong given the cost of the hajj, which has gone “higher and higher” in the recent past. For example, in France, it is between 4,500 euros and 6,500 euros (US$ 5,200 and US$ 7,500).
The courage of these imams has pushed them not to beat around the bush. These imams make another argument I fully share. They evoke a very serious and very delicate question which unfortunately is not mentioned in other predominantly Muslim countries, namely the ideological and security question. These imams say that the money raised “is used to finance the attacks in other Muslim countries”. Thus, for them it would be more appropriate to use this money “to improve the socio-economic situation of Tunisians”.
I entirely share this last argument with these imams. Each pilgrimage brings to Saudi Arabia between US$ 10 and 12 billion. This is a huge source of economic rent after hydrocarbons and fits in with the kingdom’s plan to boost its tourist sector. But, the question today is where does this money go? Why is this money not shared with the poor of Muslim countries and countries that suffer from famine, especially since the majority of those who go to Makkah are poor who have saved their money for years to make the trip?
Personally, what is the pilgrimage before it is a pillar of Islam? It is one of Saudi Arabia’s commercial pillars. In other words, the Saudi God is a business and worship at the same time. This is why I ask all other Muslim countries to boycott and not contribute to the death of their Yemeni brothers, because this very money is being used to prepare “ the army of Allah “ against the “Yemeni infidels”. Let them also realise that this money is also being used against them through Wahhabi funding of proselytism in their own countries.
Let us all welcome the initiative of Tunisian imams and be at their side against the enemy of peace and the friend of Islamist terrorism: Wahhabism. With this money, we should build hospitals, schools and universities to protect our children from ignorance and an archaic conception of life and religion.
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Caroline Glick: The Grand Bazaar, Amia and Lockerbie
News coverage of the large and growing anti-regime protests in Iran this week has included warnings by Iran “experts” insisting that the vocal support the protesters are receiving on social media from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is counterproductive.
Israeli and US statements of support for the Iranian people and their desire to rid themselves of the regime that oppresses them will only weaken them, experts warn. But several counter-indications make clear that these warnings should be disregarded.
In 2009, when millions of Iranians took to the streets in the Green Revolution, then-US president Barack Obama refused to support them. Like today’s experts, Obama argued that it would be counterproductive for the US to support the protesters as they demanded the overthrow of the regime that had just stolen the presidential election. Obama claimed that the US is so hated that the regime would use its support of the protesters to discredit the demonstrations.
In the event, Obama’s silence demoralized the revolutionaries who asked again and again why he refused to stand with them. Perhaps more importantly, by refusing to stand for the men and women of Iran who risked death to stand up to America’s bitter enemy, Obama gave Iran’s dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his henchmen a green light to brutally repress the revolution. Which is exactly what they proceeded to do with nary a whimper of protest from the Obama White House…
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Pakistan: Punjab Christians Demand the ‘Right to Pray’ In Church
In Nayya Sarabah, a village in Toba Tek Singh district, the community’s place of worship was closed two years ago. The faithful were ordered to remove all religious symbols and to meet in private homes. For a former member of the Punjab Provincial Assembly, “Christians in Pakistan are being treated as criminals in their own homeland”.
Lahore (AsiaNews) — Christians in a small village in Punjab are demanding the right to pray in their own church, two years after district authorities shut it down.
The local community, about 40 families in all, complain that the Full Gospel Assemblies Church in Nayya Sarabah, a village in Toba Tek Singh district, was sealed because of opposition by Muslims.
“Last month the police had us sign a document with which we had to agree to build a new church in a different place,” Rev Samuel Taskeen reports to AsiaNews. “They forced us to remove all religious symbols from the present building and to use the church only as a residence and conduct prayers in our own homes, until the construction [of the new church] is completed.”
At present, they pray at the homes of the faithful or in other locations. But to end the impasse and regain possession of their place of worship, Christians have a filed a writ petition to a higher court.
The last Christmas and Easter services were held in the home of Rafaqat Masih, counsellor of the Christian Union for Minorities. His uncle donated the 177 square metres where the church stands.
Rev Taskeen reports that “the man had no children and now the district commissioner claims that his land had been purchased with a ban on commercial or religious use. This is why we want to present the writ petition to the Lahore High Court because the Toba Tek Singh district administration is biased.”
According to a police document, dated 31 May, “the church was built without a certificate of non-opposition. This has caused tensions between Muslim and Christian communities.”
However, Shahzad Munshi, a Christian and a former member of the Punjab Provincial Assembly, accuses the district commissioner of discrimination.
“He is waiting for church clearance from the police when in fact he has the authority to call the police anytime. Surprisingly, the authorities have no objections to a mosque, a nearby plot reserved for a second mosque and a madrasah (Islamic school) that is under construction.”
“Now they have withdrawn from finding a new place for the only church in the village. Praying is our fundamental right. This is a complete violation of the spirit of the Constitution and of our human rights. Pakistani Christians are being treated as criminals in their own homeland.”
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With the distressed baby in her left arm, the woman holds the beer with her right and appears to finish the 620ml Bintang bottle with one swift gulp at a busy bar on the popular Indonesian island.
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China: Record Devaluation of the Yuan Ahead of Tariff War
For the seventh day in a row, China’s central bank lowers its currency’s value, setting the offshore yuan at 6.6300 per US dollar. Beijing is trying to position itself for the coming economic and trade battles with the US. A weaker yuan helps export by making prices more competitive in foreign markets.
Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) — The offshore yuan traded at a fresh six-month low of 6.6300 per US dollar this morning, down 0.2 per cent from Wednesday and 3.8 per cent from 13 June.
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC), China’s central bank, set the yuan’s midpoint at 6.5960 per dollar on Thursday morning, down 0.6 per cent or 391 points from Wednesday’s 6.5569, which itself was 0.6 per cent lower than Tuesday.
For the past week, the central bank lowered the midpoint by 2.7 per cent, down 3.1 per cent from 14 June.
The yuan’s price depends on a daily fixing rate set by the PBOC every morning, around which it can only trade in a range of 2 per cent either side. The fixing rate is therefore seen by the market as a signal of the central bank’s strategy.
The onshore yuan, traded in Shanghai, also hit a six-month low of 6.6247 against the greenback on Thursday morning, down 0.4 per cent from the previous close.
This morning’s decline comes after the People’s Bank of China lowered the currency’s daily fixing rate for a seventh consecutive day, a strong signal that the central bank wants to see a weaker yuan as it gears up for a possible all-out trade war with the US.
For Lukman Otunuga, a research analyst at ForexTime (FXTM), the PBOC’s tactic of lowering the official fixing of the yuan is part of an effort to cushion the effects of trade tariffs imposed by the United States.
A weaker yuan helps exporters by making their prices more competitive overseas.
“The yuan has weakened to its lowest level this year against the US dollar with prices punching above the 6.6000 level. It is becoming increasingly clear that global trade developments have weighed heavily on the yuan,” Otunuga said.
Nevertheless, for Cheng Shi, chief economist of ICBC International, the central bank should be alert to the yuan’s depreciation.
In early 2015, the currency’s decline triggered a flood of capital outflows that persisted for around two years.
Policymakers should “closely follow changes in expectations of the yuan’s movement,” he said. “It is crucial to prevent the re-appearance of the demon of depreciation”.
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Report: Mike Pompeo to Make Third North Korean Visit Next Week
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will make his third visit to North Korea next week to continue ongoing negotiations over the regime’s plans to denuclearize, according to a report from theFinancial Times on Thursday.
According to four officials who spoke with the Times, Pompeo canceled a meeting with the Indian foreign minister to travel to Pyongyang to hold talks with senior North Korean officials following President Donald Trump’s meeting with Kim Jong-un in Singapore this month.
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One of the Skaf gang rapists who terrorised Sydney in a series of vicious attacks has finally apologised to his victims 18 years after the crimes.
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The man was sentenced to five years and eight months in jail following a trial in the Northern Territory Supreme Court earlier this year where he was found guilty of the rape of the 26-year-old.
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The ‘Art of Safe Sexting’ program has been proposed for schoolgirls as young as 12, despite many parents warning against the practice.
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NSW senator David Leyonhjelm made crude comments directed at Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young during a debate on women’s safety in Parliament telling her to ‘stop shagging men’.
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South Africa: Another Shopping Mall Burned by Black Mob as Infrastructure Continues to Collapse
Yet another South African shopping mall—this time in the Limpopo Province—has been pointlessly burned to the ground by a rampaging black mob “protesting” against unemployment and the collapsing infrastructure in that country.
A report in the South African newspaper the Ridge Times said that the “residents” of the eMbalenhle have “vowed to keep on protesting until President Cyril Ramaphosa himself come down to community level and listen to their plight.”
The newspaper said that those “leading the protest” said they “were done dealing with their local . . . ANC councilors who have decided to refrain from any council work until service delivery issues were addressed.”
The problem, they said, was the “community’s frustrations with recurring power outages and poor service delivery.”
Both these complaints are, of course, the direct result of black rule, and the inability to maintain the previous white administration’s First World infrastructure—an irreparable problem which is steadily bringing all of that country to a grinding halt.
[Comment: Platform of Communist ANC = “Kill the Boer”. How long have ANC been in charge now? And they are still playing “blame whitey”.]
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Analysis: Is One Man About to Collapse German Politics as We Know It?
On Sunday the Christian Social Union (CSU) are set to meet to vote on whether to back Horst Seehofer in his plan to turn asylum seekers back at the German border. If Seehofer follows through, the move will have incalculable consequences for German politics.
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Thwang Za Lian and Kapling Thang Hlawnceu, who are both 22-years-old, were jailed over the brutal rape of a 36-year-old woman under a Werribee foot bridge which left her unconscious.
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‘De-Facto Failure’ EU Summit Derailed by Deep Divisions Between Leaders, Warns Ex-Official
Lorenzo Codogno, former chief economist and director general at the Italian Treasury Department, noted the final agreement reached by the EU leaders on the migrant crisis paves the way for further negotiations over the coming year.
He said: “Divisions were so deep that they turned the summit into a de-facto failure, with the final agreement on migration effectively relying on a complicated implementation process.
“The final language suggests that countries will continue to work on the subject over the coming months with a target to make substantial progress at the year-end summit.”
The economist accused EU diplomats of branding the final conclusion a success, while overlooking the deep divisions which continue to exist.
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EU Leaders Seal Migration Deal After Marathon Talks
EU leaders clinched a hard-won migration deal during all-night talks Friday that Italy’s hardline new premier said meant his country was “no longer alone” in shouldering the responsibility for migrants.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who heads a month-old anti-immigration government, had vetoed joint conclusions for the entire agenda of the summit in Brussels until his demands were finally met before dawn.
Italy has turned away a series of migrant boats in recent weeks, sparking a fresh political row three years after the bloc faced its biggest ever migration crisis.
“Today Italy is no longer alone. We are satisfied,” Conte, a former law professor who until recently was a virtual political unknown, told reporters following nine hours of talks described as “virulent”.
The 28 leaders agreed to consider setting up “disembarkation platforms” outside the bloc, most likely in north Africa, in a bid to discourage migrants boarding EU-bound smuggler boats.
Member countries could also set up migrant processing centres — but only on a voluntary basis — to determine whether they returned home as economic migrants or admitted as refugees in willing states.
[Comment: This agreement doesn’t do much. Mr. Seehofer should call Merkel’s bluff and turn back migrants.]
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France: Police Force Out Migrant University Squatters After Staff Infected With Scabies
Police in Paris forced over 60 migrants squatting in a university building to leave after staff became infected with scabies parasites.
Police removed the group of migrants from the University Paris-8 in Saint-Denis on Tuesday finding that much of the building had been covered with graffiti and some of the building had suffered heavy damage, France24 reports.
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Hardline Eastern EU Members Crow Victory Over Migrant Deal
WARSAW (AFP) — Four eastern EU states which have all taken a tough anti-migrant stance crowed victory on Friday over a controversial deal dropping the bloc’s mandatory quota system in favour of measures designed to stem the influx of asylum seekers.
Hammered out in marathon all-night talks, the deal allows EU members to choose whether they receive migrants, foresees creating secure centres for migrants inside the bloc and “disembarkation platforms” in North Africa.
Hailed as a “big step” by hardline EU members, the deal outraged aid workers saying it would hinder rescue operations at sea…
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Italy Will Close Ports to NGO Migrant Ships ‘All Summer’ Despite Drownings
Italy’s hardline interior minister, Matteo Salvini, announced Friday that Italian ports would be closed “all summer” to NGO ships which rescue migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe.
“The NGOs will only see Italy on a postcard,” quipped Salvini, who is also the new deputy prime minister and head of the far-right League party.
[Comment: Remember folks, I do not write the article headlines.]
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Italy Claims Victory as EU Leaders Agree on Last Minute Reforms on Migration
It took a full night of negotiations but Italy nevertheless scored a victory for its migration policy with a pan-European deal which will see a spate of new measures and a more collaborative approach among Member States.
“Today Italy is no longer alone. We are satisfied,” Conte told reporters after an all-night summit in Brussels during which he had vetoed a joint statement until he won concessions from the other 27 leaders, reports AFP. Italy’s new populist Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte hailed the agreement on Friday June 29th, stating that his country was “no longer alone” after securing a deal with EU leaders for steps to tackle migration.
The agreement will see several major changes to the former policy, whereby migrants arriving in the EU had to be registered in their country of arrival.
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Leftist Protests Against Trump Immigration Policy Intensify
Almost 600 protesters were arrested Thursday morning inside the Hart Senate Office building in Washington, D.C. Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) was among those arrested for demonstrating inside the building — Capitol Police said no one would have been arrested for protesting outside the building — against President Trump’s immigration policies.
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A bleary-eyed Angela Merkel stayed up all night to save her job by clinching an EU migration deal — after pizza was delivered during the marathon talks in Brussels.
The German Chancellor had been given an ultimatum from her hardline coalition partners to find a Europe-wide solution to the migrant crisis.
Merkel’s political allies, Bavaria’s Christian Social Union (CSU), had called for borders to be closed to asylum seekers in a row that threatened to bring down her government.
But the 63-year-old emerged after nine hours of ‘toxic’ negotiations to reveal a ‘joint text’ which included moves to stop migrants registered in Italy and other EU countries from moving on to Germany.
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North African Migrant Stabs Belgian Boy to Death for Protecting a Waitress
The 19-year-old Jean-Francois was murdered by a migrant in the night of June 25th in Mons, Sudinfo reports. The victim’s sin? He tried to protect a waitress who was being harassed by the North African migrant.
Ahmed S was drunk and harassing a waitress in a bar near Capucins street and the Leopold Place. He was asked by the waitress to leave the place. At this point he caught the attention of a the young Jean-François, a 19 year old Belgian native.
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Orban Celebrates Victory Over EU on Migrant Crisis: ‘We Managed to Fend Off Brussels’
VIKTOR Orban has claimed victory in his fight against the European Union’s plans for a bloc-wide migrant policy which would have forced all member states to take in refugees.
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Spain and Greece Accords Help Merkel Ease Migrant Row
Germany sealed deals with Greece and Spain on Friday to take back migrants previously registered in those countries, in a crucial win for Chancellor Angela Merkel as she faced a weekend deadline to heal a deep rift within her fragile ruling coalition.
“Greece and Spain are prepared to accept asylum seekers who are in future identified by German authorities at the German-Austrian border and who have a Eurodac registration in those countries,” the German government said in a statement, referring to the EU asylum fingerprint database.
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Surprise! A Large Majority of Gang Leaders and Dangerous Criminals in Sweden Do Not Look Swedish
An investigation by Swedish newspaper Expressen into the country’s gang leaders and dangerous criminals shows that crime and a migrant background seem to be strongly related.
Expressen took note note of police surveys and has now published a unique review of the more than 400 most dangerouscriminals in capital city Stockholm.
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EU leaders agreed a compromise plan to try to tackle the bloc’s migration crisis yesterday after a marathon nine-hour Brussels summit. In a bad-tempered session that lasted until the early hours of yesterday, they repeatedly clashed over who should take responsibility for migrants arriving from across the Mediterranean.
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UK Immigration Judges Charged With £13 Million Legal Aid Fraud
Three immigration and civil judges are among nine people due to appear in court charged with an alleged £12.6 million bogus legal aid scam.
The charges follow a two-year review by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) into what they called a “big and complex” investigation by a Scotland Yard fraud team.
Part-time immigration judges Kareena Maciel, 46, and Rasib Ghaffar, 48, are charged with conspiracy to commit fraud, along with part-time civil judge Razi Shah, the Law Gazette reports.
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GLAAD President Wants to ‘Amend Constitution’ For LGBTQ Rights
That pesky first amendment is the real problem. It comes with freedom of religion, which is a real evil to the LGBTQ gang.
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Opposing the Transgender Movement
The transgender war on cultural norms is not just about restrooms and pronouns. It’s about denying biological fact and quotidian reality. It’s about an epidemic of irrationality, a cultural contagion, a mass delusion claiming more victims every day. It’s about silencing free thinkers who refuse to bow to the radical “gender” ideology.
Absurd theories that deny scientific fact have been adopted by the mainstream press, the entertainment industry, the medical establishment, public schools, universities, corporate management, and government agencies. People who fear social isolation and charges of bigotry are following along.
How do those of us still grounded in reality fight this insanity? Not with misguided “compassion” or compromise, but with straight talk and tough love. Let’s not waste our time analyzing or answering absurd gender theories with logical rebuttals. Those ideas don’t deserve that respect. And the useful idiots who swallow the trans lies — whether as promoters, allies, or victims — will not listen to reason or science.
Oppose trans activism
Refuse to go along with trans madness that declares:
“Sex is assigned at birth” by doctors. Gender identity is inborn. A three-year-old can know he’s “trapped in the wrong body.” Some girls have penises; some boys have vaginas. Blocking puberty in pre-adolescent children is sound medical practice. A man can gestate and birth a baby. Gender stereotypes are bad (unless you adopt one as your “authentic” trans identity). A person’s choice of new name and pronouns must be respected. A person determines his appropriate restroom, locker room, sports team, etc. “Transgender” persons’ feelings take precedence over everyone else’s.
Recognize only biological sex classifications: male and female.
Avoid using the politically loaded word “gender.”
Point out that there is no biological basis for transgenderism. Someone cannot be “trapped in the wrong body.” We’re all in the bodies we were meant to be in.
Trust medical professional associations that oppose this anti-science ideology. (See here, here, here, here, and here.)
Disseminate reliable research and commentary. (See here, here, here, here, here, and here.)
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“Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the migration-resisting states had “fended off Brussels”.”
Nope. A tactical retreat only for public consumption. Merkel and Macron et al will be chuckling over their drinks privately in whatever dark room they decide things ……”Look, the plebs think we’re responsive to their needs”……
My how distrustful I’ve become……
Where Obama is right for the first time in a long time:
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/06/29/enough-moping-obama-tells-democrats-to-quit-whining-about-trump-and-focus-on-issues/
But do we really want them to realize that?
“The Coming Insurrection” A brief summary by wiki, note the last chapter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Insurrection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=176&v=ruGbqEXygJc
5 min. 16 sec.
“Recent DHS assaults taken directly out of radical leftist ‘playbook’ ”
Explaining the connection to The Coming Insurrection.
Sort of had time over the past ten years to infuse into the systems alongside Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals
And many thanks for the inspiration from the dedication, of Baron & Dymphna, and keeping a great civility for greater understanding.
We must ‘keep our heads’ with relentless truth, and understanding with love.
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The Plot to Flood Europe with 200 Million Africans
https://youtu.be/ah39fA6q2zU
I’m so glad I got to see Cape Town and the Western Cape in 2015.
Such a beautiful, nearly First World area that will now sadly be lost to South Africa’s cultural decline.
Deliberate cultural destruction…
I’m very glad you saw it. It was 30 times better 20 years ago but since the new South Africa things have just gone south and still are, this time at maximum velocity.
The ruling party moved 3 million impoverished tribal people into the city, which was formerly mostly of European and mixed descent, in order to up their chances of winning the Western Cape, the only province it has been constantly losing. As a result there is a water shortage, not because of the lack of rain but because the demographics outstrip what the climate can offer.
So the population increased by an additional 350 % from just under a million to over 4 million in a space of just a few years.
They are imposing Nelson Mandela’s Law that due to population percentages, the former mixed and European province must employ all jobs in the ratio of 80% black and the remaining to mixed and Europeans. That means that the unskilled are taking all skilled jobs away and the skilled are unemployable due to their colour. Meanwhile, the former homelands, with the best rainfall and agricultural lands for food production lie fallow. Whites and others may not own land there, only tribal chiefs and kings and their fellow tribesmen. The rest of the country, 60% receives inadequate rainfall and is only good for goats and sheep and solar power, that includes the Kalahari as well as the Namib Deserts and Namaqualand.
It will be a bloodbath soon. People all over are so desperate. 4 days ago 7 farms were attacked and 3 more farmers killed, thus passing the 3000 tally of brutally murdered farmers, the highest murdered profession in the world. Not even the murder of police comes near, though high too.
Interesting to read about the transmigration of 3 million people into Western Cape over a few years. The water shortage was covered in international media reports, casual readers might assume “global warming” was to blame. No where did I notice mention of the population increase and it’s likely effect on resources. MSM keeping us in the dark as usual.
Michael-
Thank you for the update on the situation in the Cape.
I was completely unaware about the government’s importation of 3 million people into the area to change the demographics and ultimately change the election outcomes to something more favorable to the ANC.
It is unsurprising that this is also the driving factor behind the water crisis. But, one must remember that few socialists are very good at forseeing the outcome of their idealized plans.
It is frustrating the international media has done an excellent job covering up any mention of this population shift. They have very successfully brainwashed most into believing that global warming/climate change is the cause of the water crisis.
It is informative to listen to Victor Davis Hanson report on the deliberately inflicted water shortage in inland California whilst the coastals there allow fresh water to flow into the sea. For the moment, this scheme only falls on the backs of the poor; eventually, the reckoning will come to the others, too.
No wonder there’s a push to divide it into three states.
Ironically, I just finished reading the collection of VDH essays titled, “The Decline and Fall of California.”
It was sad to learn that the forefathers of modern California actually had a staged plan that would have led to a water system that could support California’s present population.
It was distressing to learn that the limousine liberals on the coast have managed to shut down the later stages of that plan. Of course, wouldn’t you just know it, the overtaxed water system that exists can support those same liberals just fine.
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White Genocide Explained
https://youtu.be/dcYG6T-WjpY
The Hajj’ is a very smart bit of colonial business.
Conquered peoples are obliged to visit the colonial centre at least once in their lifetime, with ‘points scored’ for repeat visits.
The poor are absolved, meaning only those with cash turn up to circumambulate around a black cube, where they can kiss a piece of meteorite in a strangely feminine silver frame, to remove their sins – all in all, a very nice piece of business- and worth according the article above, an estimated $10 billion a year.
Islam is the bloodiest, most persistent imperialist ideology on the planet and yet it’s not called colonial, despite being based on a racist slave-trade and violent territorial expansion in over 50 countries.
Islam is the bloodiest, most persistent imperialist ideology on the planet and yet it’s not called colonial, despite being based on a racist slave-trade and violent territorial expansion in over 50 countries.
A succinct and apt description of Islam.
Islam’s entire design is terrifyingly brilliant and effective – 1.6 billion adherents around the globe testify to that.
The hypocrisy of the Kaaba is one of the reasons I look down on the faith. You cannot seriously claim to be against idolatry when your faith has one of the gaudiest idols in existence.
As for the Black Stone…it looks like a representation of some part of the anatomy…perhaps part of the human female anatomy…gosh…I just can’t put my finger on it….can you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Stone
Thanks to Carolin Glick for representing the article. I think at this point that regime change in Iran is imminent, it’s important not to allow Left groups take over. Punishing those who have committed crimes against Americans, Argentinians, etc will come naturally after the regime change. But if Left wins this, crimes against West will continue in new forms. That’s why I think Westerners must be concerned about the outcome of this event.
So if someone here does have the power to affect the decision makers in USA, please convince them to select Right. I hear lots of bad news these days. Why Nancy Pelosi and the ilk openly support groups like MEK who have committed crimes against Western civilians and have been recognised as terrorist groups, only pardoned by Obama in 2012? I believe Right should focus on the criminal entity named MEK and don’t let them win. When Right wins, retaliation for crimes of Islamic Republic, which is the main concern of the article by Carolin Glick, will come naturally.
** who should take responsibility for migrants **
Earth to E.U.: Repeat after me – no one has ANY responsibility for migrants.