The late Faisal Hussein, the man who shot more than a dozen people at a Toronto café, killing two of them, reportedly spent time on ISIS websites and may have visited the Middle East and Pakistan. The Islamic State has claimed the mentally ill young man as one of their own.
In other news, an Al Qaeda mujahid named Ali Charaf Damache has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by an American court for plotting to kill the Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
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Unemployment Falls in Poland: Stats Office
Poland’s jobless rate fell to 5.9 percent in June, the country”s statistical office said on Tuesday, confirming the labour minister’s estimate earlier this month.
Unemployment was 0.2 percentage points higher in May. Early in July, Labour Minister Elzbieta Rafalska said the June unemployment rate was the lowest in 28 years.
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Secretary of State Brian Kemp, endorsed by President Donald Trump, has won against Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle in the Republican runoff for Georgia governor.
Kemp captured a whopping 69 percent, while Cage notched just 32 percent with 36 percent of the vote reported. The Georgia Secretary of States will now face off against Democrat nominee Stacey Abrams, vying to be the first black woman governor ever elected.
Cagle, whose campaign was badly hurt after secret recordings emerged in which he admitted to helping ram through “bad public-policy,” told supporters one hour after polls closed that “Tonight did not turn out quite the way we anticipated.”
President Trump on Tuesday urged Georgia voters to support for Kemp. “Will be great for Georgia, full Endorsement!” the president tweeted.
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Commentary: Why Trump is Right to Revoke Security Clearances of Former Officials
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Former FBI Director James Comey, for example, has proven to be a leaker of secret government information.
He admitted as much under oath before Congress in June last year when he admitted giving memos recalling conversations with President Trump to a friend with the intention of leaking them to the media.
Many of those memos were later proven to have been marked SECRET/NOFORN and CONFIDENTIAL/NOFORN.
The memos were leaked by Comey’s friend to The New York Times, which in turn used it to attack Trump.
Leaking of classified information is punishable by up to ten years in prison. …
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper also appears to have lied to Congressional investigators about having leaked information to CNN, who he now works for as a contributor.
“Former DNI Clapper flatly denied “discuss[ing] the dossier [compiled by Steele] or any other intelligence related to Russia hacking of the 2016 elections with journalists,” a report by the House Intelligence Committee reads.
“Clapper subsequently acknowledged discussing the “dossier with CNN journalist Jake Tapper,” and admitted that he might have spoken with other journalists about the same topic,” the report reads.”
The conversations between Clapper and Tapper took place in early January 2017. On Jan. 10, 2017, CNN published a story citing U.S. officials that President Trump had been briefed about the contents of the dossier.
That news-hook, which likely came from Clapper, was what news-organizations around the world used to report on the unverified dossier.
Comey admitted in one of his memos, which have since been declassified and made public, that CNN needed “a news hook” to be able to report on the dossier.
Media could not report on the dossier without a credible news hook as the dossier’s contents were outrageous, unverified, and potentially libelous.
After leaving office, Clapper was hired by CNN as an analyst.
[Really? They do not automatically revoke clearance when the “need to know” is over?]
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by Diana West
Good thing I got back from vacation in time for the really important news, the story Drudge, Breitbart, WaPo and NYT are all on the same page about this morning — or, at least, are all putting forth the same Page One about. The Michael Cohen tape. Big Story. Stop the whatever they’re called.
I have a question. It’s the same question I had last week about Trump and Putin in Helsinki. This question is one of the most important ones to ask about any such “news” blasted out by the news media, those special operators of the psychological battlefield, which they drive into every particle of collective American brain with exploding headlines and siren soundbytes. The Michael Cohen tape is the single most important thing for all of us to think about right now …. Compared to nothing, which is the media m.o. Last month is was all Stormy Daniels, all the time. (Who?) Last week, it was “treason!” “impeachable offenses!!” “crimes!!!” committed by Trump at his press conference with Putin in Helsinki. I don’t ask the question lightly. The truly brilliant anti-communist writer Josef Mackiewicz was a biologist by training. (By the way, so is Bukovsky.) “One of my professors,” he wrote in his 1962 book, The Triumph of Provocation, reissued by Yale University Press in 2009, “used to say that only a comparitive science is an exact science; only by comparisons can objective knowledge be gained. All my life I have tried to use this maxim as a guide, since it seems to me to be the only correct method in the assessment of all the truth that is accessible to man.”
We postmoderns feed on a poor diet of “all the news that’s fit to print.” Imagine, instead, assessing all the truth that is accessible to man.
This begins, pace Mackeiwicz, with comparisons…
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Dearborn Man Charged With Supporting ISIS in Syria, Sister Says He Was Kidnapped
A Dearborn man was arraigned Wednesday in federal court on Wednesday on charges that he was fighting in support of ISIS in Syria.
Ibraheem Izzy Musaibli, 28, was charged with providing and attempting to provide material in support of ISIS.
Musaibli, a natural-born U.S. citizen, was detained by Syrian forces and recently transferred into U.S. custody when the charges were filed. According to the indictment, from April 2015 through June 2018, he provided personnel and services to ISIS.
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Donald Trump to Supporters: ‘Stick With Us’ And Ignore ‘Crap’ From ‘Fake News’ And ‘Lobbyists’
President Donald Trump urged supporters not to lose faith with his administration on tariffs on Tuesday, criticizing the news coverage of his efforts to fight for fair trade policies.
“Folks, stick with us, stick with us,” Trump said during a speech during the VFW convention in St. Louis, Missouri.
Trump appeared frustrated by the news coverage of his attempts to get a better deal with foreign countries on trade, blaming it on lobbyists.
“Remember that they have the biggest, best, strongest lobbyists and they’re doing a number,” Trump said. “Just stick with us, don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news.”
The audience cheered Trump and booed the news media in response.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation: Banks, Payment Processors Are Becoming ‘De Facto Internet Censors’
Payment processors like PayPal and Stripe are becoming “de facto internet censors”, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the leading liberal nonprofit claiming to defend free expression and privacy online.
The EFF thinks that the behavior of services like Stripe and PayPal — which Breitbart News covered extensively in an article today — constitute a major threat to free expression on the web. …
“I’m deeply concerned that we’re letting banks and payment processors turn into de facto Internet censors.”
Online financial services have clamped down on right-wingers and supporters of free speech in recent years. As reported by Breitbart News, it has become increasingly difficult for individuals engaged in controversial yet lawful speech to fund their activities online. Right-wing YouTubers Brittany Pettibone and Lauren Southern have both been kicked off Patreon, while attempts to create a free-speech friendly alternative to the fundraising platform have failed due to the refusal of payment processors like Stripe and PayPal to do business with them.
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Facebook Eliminates 93% of Traffic to Top Conservative Sites — Stocks Plunge 24%
Facebook stock slid 24% Wednesday after disappointing quarterly results.
The controversial social media giant is losing new users.
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Four More Arrested in Case Against Alleged Sex Cult NXIVM
Federal agents arrested and charged four more people on Tuesday for their roles in the alleged sex cult NXIVM, according to the Albany Times Union.
In addition to the high-profile indictments of NXIVM’s founder Keith Raniere and former “Smallville” actress Allison Mack (pictured above) in April, charges have now been brought against the group’s co-founder Nancy Salzman, her daughter Lauren, and Kathy Russell, the group’s longtime bookkeeper, the Times Union reported.
NXIVM’s operations director, Clare Bronfman, was arrested and charged on Tuesday as well. Bronfman is also the heir to part of the Seagram’s liquor empire.
The charges were part of a superseding indictment that was unsealed on Tuesday and obtained by the Times Union.
The indictment charges the six arrested with extortion, forced labor, sex trafficking, wire fraud, obstruction of justice, identity theft and harboring of aliens for financial gain.
It also alleges the parties used “harassment, coercion and abusive litigation to intimidate and attack perceived enemies and critics of Raniere,” the Times Union reported.
NXIVM is described in the indictment as a “pyramid-structured organization” and the unsealing of the indictment is a massive development in the case against Raniere’s organization.
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GOP Lawmakers Introduced Articles of Impeachment Against Rod Rosenstein
Republican lawmakers introduced articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the top official in the Department of Justice’s oversight of Robert Mueller’s investigation into collusion between Russia and Trump’s campaign on Wednesday.
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Mom Who Said She Followed Husband to ISIS in Syria Accused of Lying to FBI in Indiana
A mother who told a national news outlet that she followed her late husband to Syria where he was an ISIS sniper is accused of lying to the FBI in Indiana.
Samantha Elhassani, also known as Samantha Sally, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Hammond’s federal court after she was indicted in March.
The indictment, which was unsealed this week, accuses Elhassani of lying to the FBI on March 19, 2015, in the Northern District of Indiana. Public court records did not specify what the lies were about or where specifically they occurred.
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Ninth Circuit Rules Openly Carrying Firearm in Public is Constitutional
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Ninth Circuit Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain wrote, “We do not take lightly the problem of gun violence. But, for better or for worse, the Second Amendment does protect a right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense.”
The ruling for the constitutionality of openly carrying a firearm in public comes a week to the day after a Ninth Circuit panel upheld the ruling which blocked California’s “high capacity” magazine ban.
Both rulings can be appealed for the Ninth Circuit to hear en banc. After that, the next stop for either ruling would be the Supreme Court of the United States.
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After being served notices to vacate the premises by midnight or face arrest, most of the protesters at the the Occupy/Abolish ICE encampment near the ICE facility in Portland were finally evicted Tuesday night.
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Radical Sentenced to 15 Years for Plot to Kill Swedish Mohammed Cartoon Artist
Al-Qaeda operative Ali Charaf Damache was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment by a U.S. court for his role in recruiting other radicals in a plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
The 53-year-old radical Islamist was found guilty after a drawn-out process that spanned nearly a decade for attempting to recruit like-minded jihadists from the United States and Europe to kill Vilks, who became famous as one of the artists involved in the 2007 Mohammed cartoons controversy, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
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Santa Barbara Imposes Fines, Jail Time for Serving Plastic Straw
The city of Santa Barbara, California, is taking the anti-plastic straw crusade to new heights of absurdity, mandating hefty fines and even jail time for restaurant and bar owners who dare to supply plastic straws to their customers.
On July 17, the city council passed an ordinance prohibiting restaurants, bars, and other purveyors of prepared foods and beverages, including supermarkets, from giving plastic straws to their customers, even upon request. Such establishments may still provide customers with plastic stirrers and utensils, but only if the server asks if they want these items and customers reply in the affirmative.
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Stripe, PayPal, Patreon: The Right is Being Banned From Online Fundraising
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Patreon’s bias can also be seen in its approach to Antifa, a far-left organization that, much like Stuchbery and Culliman, supports the use of violence against people they determine to be “fascists.” As you might expect, those are frequently just ordinary Trump supporters and conservatives. Antifa’s rampages at pro-Trump events, where random acts of violence are accompanied by widespread looting and damage to private property, have in the past caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. Last year, an Antifa member pled guilty to plotting an acid attack on Trump supporters during the Presidential inauguration.
The U.S. government isn’t keen on these self-appointed fascist-fighters, and has categorized Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. Yet it’s a domestic terrorist organization that is still allowed on Patreon. A cursory search of Patreon reveals at least six [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] pages, some of them boasting dozens of regular contributors, which are affiliated with Antifa, express their support for Antifa, or display the movement’s symbol, the red-and-white anarcho-communist flag.
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Trump’s Job Approval Rating Proves the Establishment Media’s Influence is Dead
Over the past two weeks, as the establishment media have accused him of being both a “Nazi” and a “traitor,” President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has held steady — and even improved a tad.
Below is a screenshot of the Real Clear Politics poll of polls graph that shows Trump’s approval rating over the last 14 days. The red line is Trump’s disapproval rating, the black is his approval rating. The two almost perfectly flat lines are superb symbols of the death of the media’s influence on public opinion…
Most of all, as poll after poll proves, the public have (for good reason) lost faith in the media’s credibility. Voters accurately see the media as the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. A huge majority of Americans (an incredible 72 percent) have caught on to the fact that the establishment media are so hysterically biased against Trump and Republicans, they invent fake news, which of course, is true.
Voters are also sticking with Trump because his critics in the media and elsewhere are so over-the-top in their fevered hate, in their unhinged hyperbole, that by comparison, despite his mistakes and shortcomings, Trump remains the preferred alternative.
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Delingpole: The ‘Mental Illness’ Terror Excuse is Starting to Wear Thin…
So now we know: it was mental illness that caused the Danforth Shooter to gun down 15 people in Toronto, Canada, on Sunday night, killing two of them.
That’s a relief. For one nasty moment, it looked like it might be another atrocity committed in the name of the Religion of Peace — especially when the shooter was grudgingly, belatedly revealed by the authorities to be in possession of the not obviously Hindu, Jewish or Christian name Faisal Hussain.
But no, thank heavens, it was mental illness all along. At least according to the killer’s family and the progressive media. And I for one believe them. When I look around I see an epidemic of mental illness going round — not just among all those young men with coincidental Muslim names going postal everywhere from Orlando to Nice and now Toronto but also at the highest levels in politics.
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ISIS claimed responsibility Wednesday for the deadly Toronto shooting and investigators are reportedly digging into the gunman’s past and Internet history — but Canadian officials continue to insist the killings aren’t related to terrorism, clouding the possible motive for the attack that killed two and wounded 13.
The terror group’s AMAQ propaganda agency, citing a “security source,” said Toronto shooter Faisal Hussain, 29, was a “soldier of the Islamic State and carried out the attack in response to calls to target the citizens of the coalition countries.” Based on language used in previous claims by ISIS, it appeared the shrinking Islamist group looked at Hussain as having been merely inspired by ISIS, rather than having been directed.
The group did not provide further details or any evidence, such as a videotaped pledge of allegiance, for its claim. Hussain, who killed 10-year-old Julianna Kozis and 18-year-old Reese Fallon during the mass shooting, died after a gun battle with police late Sunday.
On Wednesday, Canadian officials stressed there was no national security risk despite authorities’ continued investigation into what prompted the deadly rampage in the bustling Greektown neighborhood.
“These are the early stages of an active investigation being led by the Toronto Police Service,” a spokesperson from Canada’s Office of the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness told Fox News. “At this time, there is no national security nexus.”
But while officials are publicly pushing back on any ties to terror for now, reports have emerged that investigators are questioning Hussain’s past…
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Toronto Shooting: What They’re Not Telling You
The left after every mass shooting by a white guy; “This is terrorism! Not ‘mental illness’!”
Muslim son of Pakistani migrants shoots up Christian area of Toronto having visited ISIS websites. ISIS claims responsibility.
The left: MENTAL ILLNESS!
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62% of Brits Back Potential Death Penalty for Jihadists, Only 20% Disagree
In yet another example of lefty politicians in Westminster being completely out of touch with the rest of the country, just 20% of people oppose Home Secretary Sajid Javid’s decision not to seek assurances that ISIS jihadists won’t receive the death penalty in America.
Despite the outrage from the likes of Diane Abbott, Tory Ministers and much of the media, a whopping 62% of Brits told YouGov that they back the decision for the jihadis to be prosecuted somewhere they may receive the death penalty.
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Austria Double Passport ‘Curious Act’ — Moavero
‘Fudge of citizenship and words’
(ANSA) — Berlin, July 23 — Austrian future plan to give ethnic Austrians in Italy’s South Tyrol region a double passport is a “curious act”, Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi said Monday. “Before being a hostile act it is a frankly curious act, the suitability of which we are wondering about,” he said.
Moavero said “granting citizenship of a State to the citizens of another State with which they already share European citizenship seems to us a big fudge of citizenship and words”.
He was speaking after talks in Berlin with his Herman counterpart, Heiko Maas.
Vienna said earlier the idea would not be put into practice until next year or the one after that.
“Any solution will be elaborated in a dialogue with Rome and in agreement with Bolzano (Bozen),” a spokesman said.
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Britain’s Second City: Moped ‘Acid Attack’ Follows Weekend of ‘Unprecedented Violence’
A 47-year-old woman suffered an ‘acid attack’ by a passing bike rider in Ladywood, Birmingham, on Tuesday after Britain’s diverse second city saw “unprecedented violence” over the weekend.
West Midlands Police say an individual riding a moped or pushbike threw a corrosive substance on the woman at 10 am and then fled.
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Donald Trump ‘Deal’ With EU Boss Jean-Claude Juncker Averts Trade War
Donald Trump has hailed a “very big day for free and fair trade” after reaching a deal to avert a full-blown trade war with the EU.
Following talks with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at the White House, Mr Trump said the US and EU had agreed to work to resolve their current dispute.
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Germany’s Slap on the Wrist for Muslim Anti-Semitism
On April 25th, thousands in Berlin rallied for the “Berlin Tragt Kippa” or “Berlin Wears a Kippah” march. The march had been called after an Israeli Arab Christian had worn a Kippah, a Jewish religious head covering, to test the level of anti-Semitism only to be violently attacked by a Syrian Muslim refugee screaming anti-Semitic slurs. The video of the attack went viral and the march went viral too.
People of good will wore kippahs, took selfies and no one was assaulted by a Syrian refugee.
In June, the perpetrator, Knaan al-Sebai, pled guilty to the attack. He claimed that despite screaming “Jew” in Arabic at his victim, often used as a slur in the Muslim world, he wasn’t anti-Semitic. Instead he blamed hashish and exhaustion. Despite being 19-years-old, Al-Sebai was sentenced to 4 weeks in juvie.
In Germany, if you’re under 20, you too can be treated as a juvenile after a violent anti-Semitic attack.
The Syrian-Palestinian migrant “fell out of the nest too early and had not yet learned to properly fly,” Judge Günter Räcke tenderly summed up the violent assault by the adult man.
Judge Räcke diagnosed the violent criminal with a bad case of frustration. Jews were just an outlet for his “bad mood”. The job center had cut off his support. When he attacked the man he thought was a Jew, he “felt that he was in the right. That’s a powerful thing.” Indeed it is. Just ask any Nazi.
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Girl at Swedish School Threatened With Rape and Called Slut Because She Wasn’t Dressed Like a Muslim
A girl will receive around 2,000 euros in damages after being exposed to gross harassment by other students at the Johannes school in Malmö, Swedish news outlet Fria Tider reports.
Other incidents included having her trousers pulled down and threatened with rape because she was not “Muslim enough”, the girl’s father said.
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Greece Wildfires: Terror Police Investigate After ‘Armageddon’ Blazes Near Athens
At least 80 people are now confirmed to have died in wildfires that have ripped though Greece, as anti-terror police investigate whether one blaze may have been started deliberately.
Close to 200 people — including 23 children — have also been injured as a result of the devastation, which Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has labelled a “national tragedy”.
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Hungary: We Will Not Accept Political Blackmail by EU
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has completed “a record-breaking diplomatic schedule” in the past month and met some of the most important world leaders, the state secretary for communications said on Wednesday.
Orban’s recent meeting partners included the German chancellor, the prime ministers of China and Israel, the presidents of Russia and Turkey and he had a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump, with whom he also exchanged a few words personally during a NATO summit, Tamas Menczer told a press conference.
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Italy: Man Wrecks Home After Accusing Sister of Being Too Western
Near Modena
(ANSA) — Modena, July 24 — A 28-year-old Moroccan origin man was arrested Monday for wrecking the family home near Modena after accusing his sister of being “too Western” in her ways, police said Tueday.
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Italy: ECHR Suspends Clearing of Roma Camp in Rome
Urges alternative accommodation to be found by Friday
(ANSA) — Rome, July 24 — The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday suspended the clearing of a Roma camp in Rome.
The Camping River camp is being closed down.
The ECHR suspended the closure until Friday July 27, asking institutions to indicate alternative lodging solutions for the residents.
Rome city council said it was already producing all the documentation “in which the numerous and reiterated accommodation offers are certified, of housing and working inclusion, made to all the residents.” Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who has frequently threatened to raze Roma camps, reacted by tweeting “all we needed were the do-gooders of the European Court for Rom Rights.
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Italy: 3 Pakistanis Nabbed for Abducting, Torturing Co-National
At Città di Castello
(ANSA) — Perugia, July 23 — Italian police on Monday arrested three Pakistani men for allegedly abducting and torturing a co-national for so-far unknown reasons in the pretty Umbrian town of Città di Castello, local sources said.
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Man Arrested for Raping Piacenza Bartender
Romanian caught in Milan
(ANSA) — Piacenza, July 20 — A 34-year-old Romanian man was arrested in Milan Friday and charged with raping a female Chinese barista in Piacenza the other night.
The man, who was fleeing, was identified by Piacenza Carabinieri while he was walking in the Forlanini area of the Lombard capital.
The man has a criminal record and was serving a sentence for other crimes under house arrest with a permit to work by day but not by night.
The man allegedly raped the cafe worker on the night between Wednesday and Thursday. The victim told the Carabinieri that her attacker had arrived in the cafe shortly before it closed and then raped her after tying her up and gagging her.
The screams of the victim were heard by neighbors who called for help. The victim was hospitalized for shock.
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said the man should be chemically castrated.
Italy’s privacy watchdog warned the media Friday not to publish details that could lead to the identification of the victim. It said it would assess news items and news services to see if they comply with the order.
Sanctions would be meted out against those who break the order, it said.
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Number of Radical Islamic Salafists Tops 10,000 in Germany for the First Time
The number of known radical Islamic Salafists has exceeded the 10,000 mark, according to a new report by the German domestic intelligence agency
The report by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), which was released this week, shows that the number of radical Islamists now totals 10,800, up from 9,700 the year before and shows a more than doubling of the number from five years ago, Die Welt reports.
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Police Search French Presidential Palace as Scandal Around Macron’s Violent Aide Unfolds
French police have searched the office of Alexandre Benalla at the Elysee Palace, local media report. Benalla, a senior aide to France’s president, was filmed beating protesters during a May Day rally, sparking full-blown scandal.
The office, which was placed on lockdown since Benalla’s detention, was searched late on Wednesday. Benalla has reportedly been present at his office during the search, at the court’s request. On Saturday, the investigators searched through the private residence of the rogue aide.
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Polish Road Closed After Lorry Spills Hundreds of Pints of Beer
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Police in Poland say a truck carrying hundreds of bottles of Czech beer overturned on a road in the southwest of the country, causing people to take to social media to lament the loss.
Andrej Spyrka, a police spokesman in Prudnik, said Wednesday the load of Holba and Litovel beer was poorly fastened and caused the Polish truck transporting it to overturn on a roundabout Tuesday afternoon. No one was hurt and traffic returned to normal after about five hours.
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Puigdemont to Return to Belgium From Germany
Catalonia’s deposed president Carles Puigdemont, who has been in Germany for four months, said Wednesday he will return to Belgium after a Spanish judge dropped a European arrest warrant for him.
“This weekend I will return to Belgium,” the separatist leader told a news conference in Berlin, adding his “political activity will be based in Belgium”.
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Study: 5,904 Travelled From Western Europe to Join ISIS, 1,765 Have Returned
Thousands of men, women and children have travelled from the UK and Western Europe to join forces with ISIS…and a shocking number have returned home as well, according to a new report.
The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation released a report entitled “From Daesh to ‘Diaspora’: Tracing the Women and Minors of Islamic State”.
Westmonster spoke to the people behind the report, and they confirmed 5,904 people travelled to Iraq or Syria to join ISIS, 1,023 of those were women and 1,502 were minors.
Of those, 1,765 have returned — 138 women and 834 children.
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Swedish Police Attacked After Responding to Arson in ‘Vulnerable’ Area
Swedish police officers in the city of Uppsala claim they were attacked by “youths” with stones after responding to cars being set on fire.
The officers were responding to a call that cars had been set on fire in the Valsätra district in the south-west of the city at around 9:40 pm on Sunday. When they arrived on the scene, locals began throwing stones and rocks at them, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
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UK: 1,230 Sex Offenders, Including Paedophiles, Removed From Register After Appeals
More than 1,200 sex offenders no longer have to sign a register or keep police informed of where they are and what they’re doing — this includes paedophiles.
An investigation by Good Morning Britain revealed 1,230 sex offenders, including 632 paedophiles, won an appeal to have themselves taken off the sex offender’s register.
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UK: Acid Attacks Menace Set to Cost Britain £500m by 2020
ACID attacks have trebled in three years and threaten to cost Britain £500million by 2020, research revealed yesterday. As victims suffer the long-term physical and psychological impact from appalling injuries, taxpayers are facing a mounting bill for increased spending on medical, police, prison and legal services.
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UK: Public Faith in May to Deliver on Brexit Has Collapsed, Poll Shows
The British public’s faith in Theresa May to deliver on Brexit is absolutely collapsing, as confirmed by yet another poll.
In May 2017, ICM found that 47% of people trusted May to do the best job of negotiating Brexit.
That number has now nosedived to 26% as the backlash against her Chequers plan continues.
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UK: Police Officer Majud Hussain Jailed for Sex Attack on Teen
An off-duty police officer who sexually assaulted a teenager while claiming to be a fireman named Matt has been given a seven-year jail sentence.
Majud Hussain, who denied the charges — claiming that one of his accusers ‘tried to have sex but he turned her down, according to local media — was found guilty of four sexual offences at Nottingham Crown Court.
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UK: Rotherham MP Receives Death Threats, Needs Extra Security After Speaking Out on Grooming Gangs
Sarah Champion MP has been given increased security from police after fears that some nutters in Rotherham and far-left advocates are attempting to force her from office and replace her with a local Muslim Councillor.
According to The Times, ‘terror police’ have boosted the Labour MP’s security because of abuse. She has also apparently received death threats.
Champion has been accused of “industrial-scale racism” for campaigning for the over 1,500 victims of sexual abuse in Rotherham. 80% of the perpetrators of the horrific crime are from a Pakistani background.
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Italian Defence Minister Criticizes French Plans for Libya
Italy’s Defence Minister Elisabetta Trenta on Tuesday appeared to take a swipe at a French push for Libya to hold elections this year, insisting a vote should not be rushed after visiting Tripoli.
“Italy is close to Libya, not out ahead of it, and will help it to resist foreign interference,” Trenta told journalists after returning to Italy from Libya.
“We do not believe that an acceleration of the electoral process can bring stability,” she said, adding that the north African nation also needed “reconciliation, the return of security and political work”.
The statement appears at odds with French efforts to get conflict-wracked Libya to hold elections in December.
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No to Libya Vote Before Reconciliation — Trenta-Serraj
Otherwise we’d find same problems defence minister tells PM
(ANSA) — Rome, July 24 — Defence Minister Elisabetta Trenta told Libyan Premier Fayez al-Serraj Tuesday that there should not be fresh elections in the country before reconciliation among various warring parties.
“I believe the process of reconciliation in Libya must be inclusive” and so “speaking of fresh elections before completing this process is a mistake,” she said.
“Afterwards we would find ourselves with the same problems, we as Italy and you as Libya. And we must make this understood to other countries too”.
Human trafficking must be stopped, Trenta said on her surprise visit to Libya.
“We must stop human trafficking and irregular immigration,” she told her Libyan counterpart Najim Owida.
The Italian minister reiterated that Italy “will continue to be at Libya’s side” and is “ready to step up its effort according to the needs and demands of the Libyan people”.
More must be done to help stabilise the country, she said.
After meeting al-Serraj, Trenta visited a military hospital at Misrata.
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The Great British Foreign Office Fantasy
by Douglas Murray
The armies of ISIS came right up to the villages on the Syrian side along the borders of the Golan. There, they were able to bring that form of peace-through-barbarism which the world has come to know well. If ISIS had triumphed in the Syrian conflict rather than suffering repeated set-backs, would the UK Foreign Office have handed them the territory by way of reparational justice, or victor’s prize?
The painful irony of this situation should be clear to all observers. If the Israelis did not lay claim to the Golan, there would have been no means to have got the White Helmets and their families out of Syria. Had Israel not made the Golan the peaceful and thriving area it is, it would simply be another part of Syria in which different sectarian groups were slaughtering other sectarian groups.
The British Foreign Office will have to back out of its self-imposed corner regarding the Golan at some point and accept the reality on the ground. How much better it would be if it did so now in a spirit of goodwill and reciprocity, rather than later on in a spirit of inevitable and grudging defeat.
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Russian Nuclear Weapons Can Wipe Out an Area the Size of France!
Russia has tested a new nuclear weapon that can hit anywhere on the globe and wipe out an area the size of Texas or France. The military footage shows the weapon of mass destruction in action during the latest round of testing.
According to The Daily Mail, Russia has claimed that the RS-28 Sarmat missiles are capable of striking targets via both the North and South poles and can carry more nuclear warheads than any other missile on the planet. Additionally, the RS-28 Sarmat missiles are able to deliver up to 24 of Russia’s new Avangard hypersonic gliders, each of which can carry its own nuclear payload.
The Avangard missiles currently travel at speeds of Mach 20 (20 times the speed of sound) and there is no defense system on earth that is capable of stopping them. Once launched, the new weapon uses aerodynamics to sail on top of the atmosphere. It is capable of making sharp twists and turns on its way to targets, making it “absolutely invulnerable to any missile defense system,” reported the Daily Mail.
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Russian TV Debate: Trump Could Face Same Fate as JFK Because He is ‘Ruining the Elites’
During a Russian TV debate about the recent Trump-Putin meeting, one of the participants spoke at length about how Trump could face the same consequences as JFK because he is “ruining” the “military-financial elites”.
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Chinese ‘Belt and Road’ Loans Cause Debt Crisis in Pakistan
The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that Pakistan is facing a debt crisis due to the enormous loans it has taken out for the Orange Line, an elevated railway in Lahore that is only the first installment in China’s $62 billion plan to bring its “Belt and Road” infrastructure initiative to Pakistan.
The Orange Line is not quite as absurd as the Belt and Road projects in Montenegro and Kenya, but it is yet another example of an incredibly expensive project that required a government to take on more Chinese debt than it can handle, much of it spent to buy Chinese goods so that Chinese engineers can build up the local infrastructure. As with other controversial Belt and Road projects, few analysts who are not working directly for either Beijing or Islamabad think the Orange Line could ever turn a profit, much less repay the gigantic loans taken out to finance it.
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Officials repeatedly pressured Portugal not to grant rights to Macau residents to prevent Hongkongers from asking for similar treatment
Britain repeatedly put pressure on Portugal not to grant nationality to its colonial residents in Macau to prevent Hongkongers asking for the same treatment ahead of the two cities’ return to Chinese rule, recently declassified documents have revealed.
Tensions between the countries in 1985 — as Portugal prepared to join the European Community, now the European Union — came to light via British cabinet files from the National Archives in London, which were made available in July.
Activists in Hong Kong said the documents once again highlighted how “disgraceful” Britain had been in its treatment of the colony’s citizens in the period leading up to the 1997 handover.
London had refused to confer residency rights on all but 50,000 Hongkongers and their families, granting others only the British National (Overseas) passport, which did not come with the right of abode.
BN(O) passport holders have the right to land in Britain and enjoy a six-month stay as a visitor. They may be qualified to register to vote in parliamentary and local government elections if they fulfil certain requirements and can receive consular assistance from Britain outside Hong Kong.
Files studied by the Post revealed that then British home secretary Douglas Hurd had urged his colleagues to persuade Lisbon to tighten its criteria for granting Portuguese nationality to Macau residents…
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Hundreds Sign Petition to Give Julian Assange Asylum in New Zealand
More than 1300 people have signed a petition asking the Government to give WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum in New Zealand.
Assange sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012, fearing he would be extradited to the US if he was forced to answer questions from Swedish authorities investigating rape complaints against him.
The charges were dropped last year, but Assange remains in the embassy — UK police have said they still plan to arrest him, since he breached his bail by hiding the embassy.
Motueka man Greg Rzesniowiecki thinks Assange is right to fear extradition, and is calling on the New Zealand Government to provide him “with permanent political asylum in New Zealand, including a guarantee of safe passage from the United Kingdom to New Zealand”.
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Major General Robert Brieger, Austria’s new Chief of Staff of the Federal Army, calls mass migration the greatest threat to the country’s security, tabloid Wochenblick reports.
“The migration problem has developed in a way that now all member states of the European Union are affected. As long as external border protection is not fully guaranteed, there is a need to act at the national level,” Brieger says in an interview with Austria’s Ö1 Morgenjournal.
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Egyptian Migrant Sexually Assaults Thirteen German Women Because ‘Nobody Told Him it Was Wrong’
Egyptian migrant Aly E. sexually assaulted at least 13 women between April 2015 and February 2018, German tabloid BILD reports.
The 29-year-old Aly E. was 14 years old when he left his homeland and came to Germany. Years later, more than a dozen women in Berlin subways and stations have become his victims.
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Fury as EU Ready to Spend Your Money on Multi-Million Pound Migrant Scheme
THE EUROPEAN Union plans to tackle the migrant crisis using hundreds of millions of pounds of YOUR money.
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Human Smugglers Target Northern Border After Canada Gives Mexicans No-Visa Access
Sophisticated human smugglers now work at the United States’ northern border, bringing in a growing number of illegal aliens, after Canada canceled visa requirements for Mexicans.
While the number of illegal border crossings still appears to be small, it has increased dramatically this year, especially in the East Coast states of New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire. Along the 300-mile stretch of forests and fields, Border Patrol agents apprehended 324 illegal crossers this fiscal year (starting in October) compared to 165 in the whole fiscal year 2017. In June, agents caught 85 people, while only 17 the June before and 19 in the June 2016, according to Customs and Border Protection statistics.
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Italian Bishop: I Would ‘Turn All Churches Into Mosques’ To Save Migrants
ROME — An Italian bishop has said that he would be willing to see an end to Christianity and the dominion of Islam if it meant saving migrants’ lives, Italian media reported Monday.
“Morally and as a man of faith I would be willing to turn all churches into mosques if it were useful to the cause and if it helped to save the lives of poor and unhappy men and women, because Christ did not come to earth to build churches but to help men regardless of race, religion, or nationality,” said the former bishop of Caserta, Raffaele Nogaro, earlier this month. …
The more the position of the Church hierarchy seems to lean toward unchecked immigration — despite the lack of grounds for this in Catholic doctrine — the more a substantial portion of the flock is pushing back to retake national sovereignty.
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Italy: Asylum Seeker, 24, Nabbed for Molesting Girl, 9
In Piacenza
(ANSA) — Piacenza, July 24 — A 24-year-old Malian asylum seeker was arrested in Piacenza Tuesday on suspicion of repeatedly molesting a nine-year-old girl, police said.
The alleged molestation took place inside a migrant centre in the city, where the girl was staying with her mother, police said.
The girl is said to have told her parents what happened to her on several occasions.
Minors’ police got an arrest warrant for the man.
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said “An ASYLUM SEEKER, an African from Mali, was arrested by Piacenza police for SEXUAL VIOLENCE on a nine-year-old girl, A nine-year-old girl…How disgusting”.
He said such alleged offenders deserved harsher punishment because they had betrayed Italians’ trust, and said he would do his utmost so that “this gentleman returns to his country as soon as possible!”.
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Italy Doesn’t Need Charity on Migrants — Salvini to EU
Let them give money to someone else says on FT report
(ANSA) — Rome, July 24 — Italy doesn’t need “charity” from the EU on migrants, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Tuesday.
“If they want to give money to someone else let them do so, Italy doesn’t need charity,” he said in reference to a Financial Times report that the EU proposes paying 6,000 euros for every migrants rescued in the Mediterranean and received by one of the EU’s member States.
As well as being interior minister, Salvini is also deputy premier and leader of the anti-migrant Euroskeptic League (L) party. According to a copy of the plan obtained by ANSA, “controlled centres” would be set up “on a voluntary basis” in EU countries to improve asylum procedures and accelerate repatriation of irregular migrants.
The plan, which the EC has sent to European capitals, envisages financial support for States that agree to host the centres.
Further, countries that agree to the transfer of migrants into one of the controlled centres will receive 6,000 euros for each refugee, the plan says.
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Italy: Migrant Caught for Reggio Emilia Rape — Salvini
Interior minister congratulates police
(ANSA) — Rome, July 24 — A Ukrainian asylum seeker has been arrested for the rape of a young woman in Reggio Emilia on Sunday, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Tuesday.
“Girl raped Sunday in Reggio Emilia, 26-year-old Ukrainian ASYLUM SEEKER arrested,” the minister said on Facebook, sending his compliments to the police.
“Fo the left our line (on migrants) is supposedly ‘too harsh’. Wrong., we will toughen too weak laws: clandestine migrant criminals OUT of Italy, OUT all forms of protection for those who commit these disgusting crimes!”
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Lessons From the Past: Why Eastern European Nations Reject Muslim Migrants
(Editor’s note: All quotes and historical facts appearing in the following article are documented in the author’s new book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West.)
What accounts for the stark difference between how Western and Eastern European nations respond to Muslim migrants? The former — including Great Britain, Germany, and Scandinavia — have been welcoming, whereas the latter — including Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia — have not, and vociferously so.
The answer, which may surprise some, revolves around awareness of regional history: Eastern European nations have a long and intimate history with Islam, and thus understand the religion better than Western European nations.
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Positive Italy Approach on Migrants — NATO
Incredible efforts says Chief of Staff Portolano
(ANSA) — Caserta, July 24 — Italy has had a “positive” approach on migrants, NATO Naples Command Chief of Staff General Luciano Portolano said Tuesday.
“The Italian government has approached the phenomenon of immigration in a comprehensive way and that will permit intervention to resolve the various aspects of the problem,” he said.
“The government is making incredible efforts to involve all the subjects taking part in various roles,” he said.
“Coordinated action by NATO in the Mediterranean would be possible but all decisions are up to politics”.
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Sharia-Compliant YouTube Removes Videos Criticizing Islamic Immigration
YouTube has removed four Infowars videos that were critical of Islamic terrorism and mass immigration, and hit the Alex Jones Channel with a community strike.
Three of the videos included President Donald Trump’s famous reading of the Snake, lyrics to an Al Wilson song that Trump repurposed as a warning about mass immigration. Accompanying footage showed clips relating to mass immigration and terror attacks.
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Spain Rescues Nearly 500 Migrants at Sea in a Single Day
Spanish rescue services said Tuesday they had plucked nearly 500 migrants from the Mediterranean in a single day who were trying to reach the country’s coast.
The Spanish Maritime Safety Agency said on Twitter that it had picked up a total of 484 people in 30 makeshift vessels in the Strait of Gibraltar and Alboran Sea, which separate Spain from Morocco.
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Trudeau Government Admits Terrorist Auxiliaries to Canada
Now that the Syrian government has liberated Daraa, where the western-sponsored regime-change operation began in 2011, the “rebels” and their auxiliaries have had to scramble to find places of refuge. Thus, the Trudeau government has felt obliged to admit as refugees to Canada some of their foreign policy assets, namely the White Helmets.
Who are the White Helmets? The White Helmets claim to be a “fiercely independent” organization of volunteer first responders in Syria helping Syrian civilians injured in the war.
In fact, the White Helmets are a fiercely partisan organization of relatively well-paid employees, set up by British and US intelligence services inside of Turkey (a belligerent in the war against Syria) in 2013. A Madison Avenue public relations firm was contracted to develop the concept of the White Helmets as a humanitarian agency for public consumption in the West — to provide a ‘suger-coating’ to an ugly and illegal imperial war. John Lemesurier, a former British military intelligence officer and later “military contractor”, was hired to front the organization, which has been funded to the tune of about 150 million dollars by the governments of the USA, UK, France, Holland, Denmark, Japan, New Zealand, and Canada, among others. In 2016, Canada donated $4.5 million dollars to the White Helmets. Currently, a Freedom of Information request is seeking to determine if the Canadian government has made repeated donations of $4.5 million in 2017 and 2018. On top of the donations, the Canadian government has organized two cross-Canada publicity tours of White Helmet personnel in recent years in various cities. This past March, a delegation of White Helmets was welcomed to speak to the Canadian parliament’s Human Rights Committee. In addition, the New Democratic Party endorsed the White Helmets for the Nobel Peace Prize, which it failed to win.
The White Helmets are embedded in the Al-Qaeda terrorist network and operate exclusively in terrorist-held areas of Syria. Though it also calls itself the Syrian Civil Defence, the government of Syria created the real Syrian Civil Defence in 1953 and was a founding member of the International Civil Defence Organization.
Once in place inside the terrorist-occupied enclaves inside of Syria, the true role of the White Helmets emerged. The group specialized in making videos of dramatically-staged rescues of children from among the rubble of part of cities which Al-Qaeda (and sometimes other terrorist groups) had managed to seize and occupy. Two notorious staged videos stand out:
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Video: Swedish Student Blocks Afghan Deportation by Disrupting Fligh
A Swedish activist has blocked the deportation of a failed Afghan asylum seeker by refusing to sit down on a flight, crying, and live-streaming the chaos online.
University student Elin Ersson, 21, had booked a seat on the flight to Turkey Monday and refused to stop the disruption unless the migrant was taken off the plane.
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Golf’s Latest Sacrificial Victim
Brittany Lincicome is the latest sacrificial lamb to be offered on the altar of gender equality. This talented and successful professional golfer on the LPGA tour was thrown last week into the lion’s den of men’s professional golf. The result at the Barbasol Open near Lexington, Kentucky was predictable but will doubtless be spun in the direction gender ideologues insist on.
Lincicome failed to make the cut, finishing five over par after two rounds. The cut (consisting of the top seventy players and ties) was at two under par. ESPN’s stable of P.C. clowns (which now includes the “worst person in the world,” Keith Olbermann) will doubtless note that her second round was under par and that she did better than a dozen male golfers. Omitted from their reportage will be the fact that the leading score after two rounds was fifteen under par (twenty strokes better than Lincicome) and that some of the guys she “beat” actually had lower scores but withdrew from the competition when it was obvious they wouldn’t be around the following rain-delayed day. Two other males she bested (while the top PGA players struggled overseas) were fifty-three and fifty-seven years of age.
No one should doubt that Lincicome is a good golfer and a superb female golfer. I am sure she would beat me by a dozen strokes on almost any course, but then so would almost any good high school golfer. The issue here isn’t whether some female athletes can beat many or even most men. It’s why folks in elite media and corporate ivory towers keep putting female golfers in positions where they are certain to fail — at least by the standards applied to male golfers.
That last clause is critical. No male golfer would be touted for failing to make a cut and finishing near the bottom of his fellow competitors. But whenever a female “accomplishes” this feat, P.C. prima donnas with microphones hail another “shattering of the glass ceiling.” Ignored in all this virtue-signaling is the glass-shattering damage that might be done by throwing good athletes into competition that’s above their heads — an unintended consequence that also applies to many affirmative action placements. More importantly, elites ignore the profound social damage that’s done by pretending males and females are equal in every respect.
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John Money, The Charlatan Godfather of the Transgender Movement
John Money (1921-2006) is one of the chief poster boys and heroes of the transgender movement. Although educated in psychology and not a physician, he somehow wormed his way into the prestigious endocrinology unit at John Hopkins University.
By the mid-1960s, Money’s interest had turned to transsexualism and the possibility of surgical treatment. Between 1964 and 1967, he was part of a research team led by Harry Benjamin and his depraved band of fellow Jews — including Ruth Rae Doorbar, Richard Green, Henry Guze and Herbert Kupperman and Leo Wollman — whose study of transsexualism was funded by the Erickson Educational Foundation. “Sexologist” Wardell Pomeroy was hauled in from quack Albert Kinsey’s crew.
The foundation had been established in 1964 by the wealthy trans man and patient of Benjamin’s, Reed Erickson. From that endowment, the Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic was set up in July 1966, as well as the formation of the Harry Benjamin Foundation in 1967.
Money remained at Johns Hopkins for the duration of his career, supported by numerous grants from organizations, including the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
At his clinic, besides slicing and dicing genitalia, Money chimed in on debates about pedophilia, arguing that there is a clinical distinction to be drawn between “affectional pedophilia” and “sadistic pedophilia” and thus gave ambivalent support to elements of the pro-pedophilia movement.
He wrote lengthy perverse diatribes that gave rise to a whole range of Orwellian newspeak, sophistry, and gibberish that has been adopted by the transgender movement. To give only a sample, there was the “Adam Principle,” the “exigency theory,” “gynemimesis,” “mindbrain,” “neurocognitional,” “normophilia,” “phylism,” “troopbondance” and a whole slew of paraphilias, such as “apotemnophilia,” “autassassinophilia” and “autonepiophilia.”
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In the first hour of his eponymous talk show Monday night, conservative author and host Mark Levin tore into the “totalitarian” liberal media for, among other things, being “historically illiterate” or “ideologically driven” in calling President Trump a Nazi, “mainstream[ing]” Stormy Daniels and “crackpot” Michael Avenatti, and painting themselves as chief defenders of the First Amendment.
Levin concluded his B-Block with a succinct takedown of the liberal media’s self-lionization and worship as if they’re in the Avengers or Justice League or firefighters rushing into a burning building. After all, as Levin would agree, the First Amendment isn’t exclusively about the press and the American people who keep our founding documents alive, not the press.
He explained: “[D]on’t give me this freedom of the press crap. We’re the ones who defend the Bill of Rights, not them. We’re the ones who defend the Constitution, not them. They don’t believe in the freedom of the press. They believe in propaganda of the press.”
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Liquid Water ‘Lake’ Revealed on Mars
Researchers have found evidence of an existing body of liquid water on Mars.
What they believe to be a lake sits under the planet’s south polar ice cap, and is about 20km (12 miles) across.
Previous research found possible signs of intermittent liquid water flowing on the martian surface, but this is the first sign of a persistent body of water on the planet in the present day.
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Rosseti (Russian power company) issued a memo to the company’s employees about the rules of conduct in Dagestan.
“Residents of the Caucasus – especially young people – are quite impulsive and their driving style is appropriate,” the quotation from the booklet cites the TV channel. (in Dagestan, terrible statistics on car accidents)
The booklet also advised men not to wear earrings, shorts, and also have long hair: they “will look unfriendly”. In addition, the memo contains an item on the prohibition of communication and flirting with unfamiliar women, because “this can have unpredictable consequences.”
Women were advised not to wear trousers and short skirts, and also to refrain from smoking
https://www.novayagazeta.ru/news/2018/07/24/143587-rosseti-vydali-sotrudnikam-kompanii-pamyatku-o-pravilah-povedeniya-v-dagestane
Poor Canada can’t handles two Trudeau screwballs any better than the US survived two Bushs.
“French police have searched the office of Alexandre Benalla at the Elysee Palace, local media report. Benalla, a senior aide to France’s president, was filmed beating protesters during a May Day rally, sparking full-blown scandal.”
This story just keeping more bizarre. The Daily Mail reports Macron is now publicly denying Benalla is his boyfriend. Now that might explain why Benalla acted like he was untouchable.
Benalla is Morrocan descent it appears. He finally presented his version to Le Monde, which is not much worth reading I think. Huffpost (not an endorsement) picked up on a comment in that interview, Benalla saying he had pulled the protestor aside just like he had done to M……. when an egg was thrown at him, that M……. had been fine next day
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_8INBcaCn8Y&feature=youtu.be
there’s a pause to read the text mid video but the comparison continues after.
Anyone after what some french think of M……. might visit
https://leblogalupus.com/
he tackles many stories from a controversial (for mainstream) viewpoint , doesn’t hesitate posting up parody art. Not a full endorsement of all his views, but at least he ventures to challenge the narrative.
Talking of parody, the “Les Republicains” (old UMP) walked out of the commission on Benalla, calling it a parody where the Elysee blocked investigation.
https://www.boursorama.com/bourse/actualites/l-opposition-deserte-la-commission-d-enquete-benalla-a-l-assemblee-1d1bea6f2cf61d111e840060a37a69e9
Craig Murray on Golan is very amusing. He has gatestone (Israel) publishing his piece that must be written in sarcasm, Onion style. I try not to laugh because the whole show is also tragic.
He says without Golan occupation Syria would not border Israel !
That Golan would be feudal arab like Syria (instead of refuge for opponents of Syria, IS etc. as now, who possibly receive Israeli help) !
He pins UK recognition of Golan as occupied as self imposed isolated obstinate policy, but in fact UN ( i.e. international community vote) recognises it formally as occupied !
Very funny, have to hand it to Craig to be able to so subtly present the polemic.
( One background here to Golan for those interested
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights )
And for those questioning IS in Golan :
Golan Heights cover @ 1800 km2, Israel occupies 1100 km2 , zones on the Syrian side are demilitarised and so provide refuge to a degree.
https://www.newsweek.com/israel-secretly-paying-salaries-syrian-rebels-golan-heights-627155
https://m.jpost.com/Middle-East/Golan-ISIS-threat-looms-large-over-Israel-and-Syrian-rebels-515888
An hour long assault of the fence dividing Spain from Morroco saw 600 refugrants enter Spain , others returned to Morroco. The violence used this time by refugrants is noted, including use of caustic sprays against security.
Video at :
https://elpais.com/politica/2018/07/26/actualidad/1532590163_134194.html
IIRC, these assaults have been going on for more than thirty years. I remember reading the dire predictions in the MSM press back then. No links since it was pre-internet, but they made dire predictions for Spain’s economy back when there was just the European Commonwealth?
I remember wondering about the desperation of those early (as it turned out) adapters…many of them would be old men by now – it was men climbing that border fence, which no one noted at the time. Women and children left behind?
Now Spain is one of the four PIIGS of the EU, but Morrocans (and others) still want in. Why doesn’t EU boost the economies of the countries it owns/controls? We can guess…
I was just remembering a local film from Spain, not famous just cheap production so cannot find now, from early 90s. It started with a scene of future sub Saharan mass migration, a vast crowd moving over the desert, and followed from there.
Up until EU membership the country was still very strict. You could enter but there was nothing waiting, nothing… so cheap unregistered work in the fields, getting given a rough time if ever stepping out of line ( that still goes on btw to a much lesser extent , also Africans now have a semi legal framework of street sales… clothes, watches etc…. long story). So before Spain started with social rights etc. Spain was mostly transit to France, known language and own community there. Often the salary paid for the whole family back home, or family was later brought over legally…France though not Spain, and I don’t think Spain, or the Spanish at least ( except Cataluña or some of Madrid now) are at all pro reunifications etc. The country is still in great economic difficulty, in spite of any headlines, as well.
So this is the setting for the new PSOE relaxation, it really moves towards Spain becoming like France.
Morroco and sub Sahara are a completely different economic setting, there are nouveau riche there, but the rest is very poor by European standards. So even base work in Spain sub minimum wage is a jump forward, plus future residence, nationality and the rest eventually is a big attraction.
Incidentally, even if migrants just claim benefits, it does boost the economy figure wise for total GDP – it is all spending that keeps prices up as well as demand and consumption, hence pays for production. Government economists like figures more than what the neighbours think.
France in particular has ties with Morroco, but they compete at certain levels. How do you boost Morrocan economy? The country is corrupt and disorganised. Tourism, property, both happening but benefit a select few mostly. The rest is agriculture – disputes are a barrier between EU ( read French) farmers and Morrocan agricultural trade; and manufacturing, where for example clothing, an old source of income in north Africa has been shifted to China or other. The only other main source of worth is resources, oil from Libya and I think phosphate from Morroco – those are the usual high level corruption scenes.
So basically Morroco and north Africa cannot easily be brought up to western standards, mostly political and corruption reasons – the countries work differently, plus are also caught in their own financial difficulties with/(maybe sponsored by) the west. Morroco for now is cooperating with Spain at the border though, was not always so, and there are occasional disputes between the two that threaten to end that (fisheries for example).
So basically Morroco and North Africa cannot easily be brought up to western standards, mostly political and corruption reasons…
Corruption is another reason that 1st world financial aid to 3rd world countries is a waste. Not to mention that corruption makes all the world poorer than it might be. The Great Corrosive.
This video is always worth remembering:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE
A related analogy would be turning an ambulance station into a hospital. Eventually the core service would not be viable.
Charity must be kept at arm’s length to ensure the source of the charity can survive. Note the silly people who open their homes up to strangers only to have their children attacked including raped and murdered.
I remember that video with its graphic gumballs.
I want to see how many gumballs are left after the global demographic implosion coming circa 2050. China believes this, thus they ended their one-child rule. The UN believes it, too, but doesn’t talk about it much because it has to hedge its bets with a greatly reduced world population.
Probably one reason we’re seeing a rise in populism and the nation-state is a wide collectively unconscious recognition of this fact no one wants to mention. As Spengler has noted in some of his books and essays, those who are most likely to come out okay are people with a strong culture. And we’re beginning to see the edges of the phenomenon now.
Industry departed North Africa for Asia because labor costs are lower and the quality of the Asian labor pool is far higher in every possible way.
Yes. We are in funny territory here though, because for example the trade between north Africa and Europe was a sort of fabric of understanding. Trade links create a familiarity and mutual appreciation (without necessarily there being migration included), create an incentive to maintain good relations. When the trade links include the work of a large swathe of the poorer local populations even more so. Asia is distant and sort of untouchable, we don’t notice much what goes on there (maybe in the US slightly more), we just notice the prices and availability of goods improving, and maybe resent when the money we spend there ends up being used to buy out around us. So there is a genuine gap of accountability somewhere in that, a bit like trading with another universe. If I am trying to say anything, it is that trading with neighbouring countries (used to) have its particular place, created a sort of natural order of understanding, allowed understandings to be reached. The global market place on the other hand looks at the bottom line, a fierce competition between countries that do not even know each other to outcompete at that scale. Globalisation does not care if it builds up in one country, then a decade later drops that and moves to another. We notice that with the kind of work and income available in our own countries also. I am not the one to say how it should be, competition is just that, but from my perspective I don’t have great confidence in the global direction, and I say that even while I also benefit from it, as most people do, in certain ways.
As Dymphna notes above about the move back to regional/local culture, that it is a strength, there is a feeling that the bigger show as stands is just not sustainable, if not actually damaging to the integrity of our own nations.