Police in Houston now believe that the murderer of George H.W. Bush’s former cardiologist is a man named Joseph James Pappas. Mr. Pappas’ mother reportedly died during heart surgery performed by Dr. Mark Hausknecht, who was murdered last week. Mr. Pappas is now missing, and may have committed suicide.
In other news, Swedish police are searching for thieves who stole two 17th-century royal crowns from a display case in a cathedral.
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U.S. Companies Create 219,000 New Jobs in July, ADP Says
The numbers: Companies in the private sector added 219,000 new employees to their payrolls in July, a payrolls processor estimated, showing that firms are managing to fill a record number of job openings despite growing shortages of skilled labor.
The increase in hiring was the strongest since February. Economists polled by Econoday had forecast a 173,000 increase, with estimates ranging from 150,000 to 220,000.
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The case of the missing 20-year old college student, is in and of itself, horrifying, but alarm bells should be going off for every American, now that we know 48 young people have vanished in the same state this month. Parents in the state of Iowa should be paying attention and might want to consider keeping closer tabs on their kids for a while.
The New York Post is reporting that the 20-year-old college student who is missing in Iowa is one of 48 young people who have vanished in the state this month, according to reports.
The seemingly alarming number of missing persons cases has sparked widespread panic on social media and a flood of conspiracy theories as the search intensifies for Mollie Tibbetts, who was last seen July 19.
“40 people have gone missing in Iowa in 10 days. 40. People. How is this possible ?!!!!!!!!!!!?!” posted one person on Facebook, adding: “keep tabs on your friends and family, be aware of everything and everyone around you.”
Here’s a close up look at the list of missing people in Iowa posted by Heather Loshaw:
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CNN Pads Payroll With Former Obama Officials
CNN personalities have repeatedly attacked Fox News for allegedly being a mouthpiece for President Donald Trump, pointing to the number of Fox anchors and pundits who have joined the administration over the past year and a half.
However, CNN has its own extensive history of being a revolving door for the Obama administration and even masquerading former Obama officials as impartial journalists.
CNN’s current chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto served in the Obama administration as the senior adviser to the U.S. ambassador to China. (RELATED: MSNBC And CNN Employees Dominate White House Press Briefings)
Despite having an obvious conflict of interest in foreign policy reporting — particularly on issues relating to China — Sciutto is often presented on the network as an objective reporter. He has reported on the Iran Deal, the United States’ deal to save China’s ZTE, and other international stories without CNN ever indicating that he served in the Obama administration.
Sciutto’s bias has made its way into his reporting before.
In 2017, Sciutto claimed that the Obama administration cared more about “civilian casualties” than the Trump administration.
n February of 2018, Sciutto falsely claimed that the Steele dossier was first funded by Republicans and refused to issue a retraction or correction after TheDC pointed out his mistake. In May, he made sure to point out in that the “closest US allies” opposed Trump leaving the Iran Deal.
John Kirby, who served as a State Department spokesperson and Pentagon press secretary during the Obama administration, appears on CNN as a military and diplomatic analyst.
Kirby is always identified by his former titles while appearing on the network, but CNN often fails to identify his connection to Obama.
Kirby was never identified as an Obama official during a July 11 appearance as he slammed President Donald Trump for not denouncing Russia strongly enough and for attacking NATO allies.
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While Kirby’s role is to provide political commentary and not objective reporting, it is odd that he is afforded free rein to attack the president without viewers ever being informed about his political associations.
CNN justice reporter Laura Jarrett boasts a familial connection to the Obama administration — her mother is Valerie Jarrett, former senior adviser to Obama. Jarrett’s biography indicates she had no reporting experience prior to joining CNN yet the network tasked her with covering Trump’s Department of Justice.
According to the Media Research Center, CNN has conducted at least seven interviews with Valerie Jarrett wherein the host never disclosed that her daughter works for the network.
CNN’s cozy relationship with the Obama White House has worked in the opposite direction as well. In 2009, Sasha Johnson, a senior political producer for the network, left to join the administration as a press secretary for the Department of Transportation. During her time at CNN, Johnson covered the 2008 Obama campaign extensively.
“After 10 1/2 years at CNN, which included three presidential campaigns, I am ready for a new challenge and ready to fulfill another career goal — the opportunity to work in public policy,” Johnson said in an email to colleagues at the time of her departure.
Similarly, former CNN war correspondent Aneesh Raman quit his job and became an intern for the Obama campaign in 2008, eventually serving as Obama’s domestic policy speechwriter.
“To bear witness, up close to that kind of historic campaign and to be a part of it, even in a small way, was something singular,” Raman said in an interview with AsAmNews.
In addition to serving as “objective” reporters and analysts, other Obama officials joined CNN to provide partisan political commentary. Former senior adviser for strategy and communications Dan Pfeiffer, former press secretary Jay Carney, former national security adviser Samantha Vinograd, and former deputy national security adviser Tony Blinken have all served as CNN contributors or analysts at one time or another.
CNN also recently hired former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper after he was suspected of leaking classified information to its journalists.
According to a House Intelligence report released in April, Clapper acknowledged speaking with CNN reporter Jake Tapper about the infamous Steele dossier while he was serving as DNI. This contradicted earlier claims about whether or not he had spoken to media about the topic. (RELATED: James Clapper Discussed Dossier With CNN, According To House Intel Report)
Clapper was present at a meeting with President Donald Trump wherein then-FBI director James Comey briefed the soon-to-be president about the existence of the dossier. The fact that Trump was briefed on the dossier was later leaked to CNN. (RELATED: James Clapper Provided ‘Inconsistent Testimony’ About Media Contacts, Report Claims)
Clapper’s quick pick-up by CNN gave the appearance that he was being rewarded for allegedly handing CNN a scoop on a hot news item.
Former FBI agent Josh Campbell similarly raised eyebrows when he joined CNN after very publicly leaving the FBI and blaming his resignation on President Donald Trump. Campbell served at the FBI from 2008 to 2018.
Campbell’s closeness with former director Comey and his relative inexperience in the field raised questions as to whether CNN hired him to provide real expertise or to give the network more ammo against President Trump. Those questions were not assuaged by Campbell’s FBI goodbye flyer, which said his role at CNN was to “defend the bureau.” (RELATED: Why Did CNN Hire Comey’s Former Assistant Josh Campbell?)
CNN only describes Campbell as a “law enforcement analyst.”
In case the heavy mix of reporters and commentators affiliated with Obama weren’t enough, CNN also hosts former Obama senior adviser David Axelrod’s podcast, “The Axe Files.”
CNN employs a few former Trump aides, such as Jason Miller, a Trump transition team member, and Marc Short, the former director of legislative affairs. They also have their fair share of “Never Trumpers” in Ana Navarro, a Republican who voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, and Amanda Carpenter, a former aide to Sen. Ted Cruz.
CNN does not currently have an updated, full list of contributors to the network, but it seems no administration past or present has as much representation at CNN — who claims to be an impartial, unbiased network — than the Obama White House.
CNN did not respond to a request for comment…
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CNN Struggling to Maintain Its Failing Russia Narrative
“The crooked press.” “They are so dishonest.” “Fake news.” “Bad people.” Those were recent comments made by President Trump during a recent rally in Montana. In response, CNN is claiming victim status, as their reporter Abby Phillip shrieked, “So there’s your answer to the question of whether Trump’s rhetoric would change after 5 journalists were gunned down in Annapolis.”
It’s no secret that Trump is at war with CNN, and that CNN is functioning as the deep state’s vanguard in stoking a war, or at least permanent international tension — with Russia. Occasionally however, CNN gets a dose of bad medicine it most surely needs.
Watch as Stephen Cohen, Professor Emeritus from Princeton (see some of his work here) puts bitter and flippant russophobe Max Boot in his place, and exposing CNN’s Anderson Cooper’s lack of journalism skills in the process:
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Facebook Claims They Removed Fake Accounts Tied to Misinformation Campaign…
…So Why Is This MASSIVE ANTI-TRUMP TROLL Network Still Allowed To Operate On Facebook?
Our 100 Percent FED UP Facebook page has almost 1.7 million followers, most of them are Trump supporters.
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Houston Police Say Suspect in Shooting of Renowned Cardiologist Held a 20-Year-Old Grudge
(CNN) A man whose mother died during surgery 20 years ago is the suspect in the fatal shooting of a prominent Houston cardiologist who performed the operation, police said Wednesday.
Chief Art Acevedo said the mother of Joseph James Pappas, 62, was a patient of Dr. Mark Hausknecht, who was fatally shot as he rode his bicycle to work at Houston Methodist Hospital on July 20. Police earlier said Pappas was born in 1953.
Houston Police released a photo of Joseph James Pappas, who is a suspect in the death of Dr. Mark Hausknecht.
“It appears a 20-year-old grudge and sadly someone died,” Acevedo told reporters.
Acevedo said a tip came in Tuesday after surveillance video released a day before showed the suspect, whom someone said they recognized. Police got a search warrant and went to Pappas’ home, but he was not there.
Acevedo said Pappas had made phone calls indicating he was considering suicide. The suspect has not been seen in almost two days…
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Police: Houston Doctor Killed by Man Whose Mother Died During Surgery
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police are searching for a man now charged with murdering a prominent Houston doctor.
Dr. Mark Hausknecht was gunned down as he rode his bicycle to work in the Texas Medical Center on Friday, July 20.
Houston police say tips that came in on Tuesday afternoon led them to Joseph James Pappas. Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo says Pappas’ mother died during surgery more than 20 years ago, and they believe that is the motive in the murder of Dr. Hausknecht.
At 4 a.m. today, police performed a search warrant. Pappas, 62, was not in the home at the time of the police search and cannot be located. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
Anyone with information on Pappas’ whereabouts is asked to call 911. He is considered armed and dangerous, and police believe he may be suicidal.
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Tampa Trump Rally Crowd Drowns Out Jim Acosta’s Live Feed Chanting “CNN Sucks!” [Video]
This is awesome!
[Comment: People are realizing legacy media is the propaganda arm of globlist elite.]
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‘Anonymous’ Greece Takes Down Government Website Over Athens Fire Disaster Response
Cyber group Anonymous Greece have brought down the website of Greek government over the dozens of victims in the Athens wildfires. Access to the website “government.gr” was denied for a period of time and showed “Forbidden.”
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European Countries ‘Suddenly’ Need New Laws to Protect Women Against Sexual Violence
A new law about to be voted this week in the French parliament is making harassing a woman illegal. The law is called “Law against sexual and sexist violence” and, if passed, will be incorporated into France’s laws.
“Making commentary on physical appearances, making sexist remarks, staring, whistling at women or following a person who doesn’t respond” are behaviours that would be sanctioned by a 90 euros fine and could go to 750 euros or even 3000 euros for repeated offences.
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Heatwave Warnings Issued Across Spain as Mercury Tips 42C — AEMET
Spain’s meteorological agency has issued weather alerts in 30 provinces across Spain warning that temperatures will reach above 42C in the shade as the first heatwave of the summer kicks in.
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How a Moroccan Bodyguard Could Bring Down French President Macron
Since 18 July, in France, there is not a day that goes by without hearing or reading about what is now called “Benalla gate”, the scandal that took Macron by surprise and may politically kill him.
Alexandre Benalla or Lahcene Benalla his true name, is a 26 year old bodyguard, who worked for ex-French President Francois Hollande and now protects Macron.
What has angered members of the public, was the publication of two videos where we can see Benalla violently putting protestors on the ground and placing them in custody without having the legal authority to do so.
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International Hunt on for Stolen Swedish Royal Crowns
Swedish police are to register the theft of two 1600s royal crowns with Interpol as the robbers remain at large 24 hours after the goods were stolen from a cathedral.
The two crowns — worn by King Charles IX and his wife Queen Christina — as well as an orb and cross were stolen from a display cabinet in Strängnäs Cathedral on Tuesday. The thieves escaped on a boat moored in the nearby lake Mälaren and have not yet been traced.
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Italian Populists Reign: Conte and Salvini’s Government at All-Time High Poll Rating
The aggressive policies aimed at curbing immigration and loosening links to the European Union announced by the Italian government are succeeding with the electoriate, according to a new survey.
The Cabinet led by Mr Conte is producing a consensus never seen in the last 12 years, hitting an approval rating of 68 percent among the people interviewed by pollster Ipsos.
The government has been gathering momentum since it was sworn in on June 1, after three months of nerve-wracking coalition talks between the parties elected on March 4.
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One of the Most Watched Hungarian News Channels Shifts to the Pro-Govt Side
Three years after businessman Lajos Simicska — who among other things owns a media empire — had an argument with his former ally and friend, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a pro-government shift took place at one of the most watched news channels, Hir TV.
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Shocking Brawl Between French Rappers Hits Flights at Paris Airport
A mass-brawl between two French rappers and their clans in front of shocked holidaymakers at Orly airport in Paris on Wednesday led to flights being delayed and forced police to close part of the terminal.
The fight took place at at around 3pm in the shopping area of Hall 1 between rappers Booba and rival Kaaris and their members of their two entourage
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Swedish Crown Jewels Are Stolen From Strängnäs Cathedral
Crown jewels belonging to the Swedish Royal Family were stolen yesterday by thieves who sped away on a speedboat.
Police were seen chasing the two suspects on a motorboat after the ‘priceless’ items were taken from Strängnäs Cathedral in southeastern Sweden.
Two royal crowns — one belonging to King Karl IX, the other to Queen Kristina — were taken, as well as a royal orb.
[Comment: By any chance were those chased shouting Alhoa Snackbar?]
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UK: ‘Major Incident’ At Bradford Children’s Play Centre — Several Hurt
EIGHT people — including four children — were hurt at a play centre in Bradford in what is being described as a “major incident”.
Police rushed to the Alphabet Zoo after a man jumped over secured doors and grabbed a woman by the neck before crashing from a balcony onto tables where children were playing.
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UK: Banks Passes Lie Detector Test on Remoaner Russian Conspiracy Theory
Leave.EU and Westmonster’s Arron Banks today passed a lie detector test, carried out by British Polygraph Testing, that should put to bed the insane conspiracy theories being peddled by some Fake News journos and assorted anti-Brexit obsessives.
The report of the test makes clear that Banks had requested the examination and that the entirety of it would be recorded electronically.
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- Former EDL leader Tommy Robinson has successfully appealed against his 13-month jail term for contempt
- Ruling allows MailOnline to report he was arrested during protest outside grooming trial involving Asian men
- He was locked up in May after he filmed people involved in a criminal trial and broadcast it live on Facebook
- His legal team argued that his court case was rushed and that his prison sentence was ‘excessive’
- Today Court of Appeal judges have freed him on bail but say his contempt case should be heard again
- Judge who jailed him criticised for sending Robinson prison in ‘muddled’ hearing 5 hours after his arrest
- Free Tommy Robinson group says he will be going on holiday with his wife and children after today’s release
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Warsaw, Poland’s Capital, Marks Anniversary of 1944 Uprising
Warsaw on Wednesday marked 74 years since the outbreak of an uprising aiming to wrest the Polish capital from Nazi German occupation during World War II.
At exactly 5pm on August 1, 1944, insurgents started what would be a 63-day rebellion eventually quashed by the better-armed Germans.
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South Africa to Change Constitution to Legalize Taking Away White Farmers’ Land
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has said the ruling African National Congress must initiate a parliamentary process to enshrine in the constitution a proposed amendment, paving the way for land grabs without compensation.
Ramaphosa, who vowed to return the lands owned by the white farmers since the 1600s to the country’s black population after he assumed office in February this year, said on Tuesday that the ANC would introduce a constitutional amendment in parliament.
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“I’m Confused”: Dem Senator Has No Clue That Illegals Break the Law When Crossing the Border [Video]
On Capitol Hill, ICE official Matthew Albence has to explain to Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) that illegal immigrants break the law when crossing the border…This woman is a Senator???
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Appeals Court Tosses Nationwide Injunction Against Sanctuary City Defunding
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 on Wednesday that a San Francisco Judge went too far last April with a nationwide injunction against President Trump’s January Executive Order, which would withhold funding from “sanctuary” cities and counties. The panel, however, agreed that Trump may not withhold funding from San Francisco or Santa Clara County for limiting their cooperation with immigration enforcement officials.
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Boat Migrants Down 80 Percent in Populist Italy, Up 350 Percent in Socialist Spain
The number of migrant sea arrivals in populist Italy, so far in 2018, is down 80 percent compared to last year, whilst surging by over 350 percent in the same period in socialist Spain.
Over 57,500 illegal migrants and asylum seekers have arrived in Europe by sea so far this year, compared to 112,375 over the same period last year, the UN Migration Agency said in a paper Tuesday.
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Breaking Ranks, Italian Bishop Blasts ‘Collective’ Trashing of Matteo Salvini
The bishop of Chioggia has criticized Catholic attacks on Interior Minister Matteo Salvini for his efforts to curb illegal immigration, noting that people’s frustration with Italy’s immigration situation “is not irrational.”
Addressing a recent cover story in Famiglia Cristiana, Italy’s largest Catholic publication, which compared Mr. Salvini with the devil, Bishop Adriano Tessarollo said he thinks it is “stupid” to identify the magazine with all Catholic priests.
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Canada: Exclusive: Docs Reveal Shocking Damage to Hotels Used to House Syrian Migrants
The 800 migrants, mostly illegal border crossers who have self-deported from the United States, are currently residing in empty dorm rooms at Toronto area universities, however, as the summer ends, the dorms need to be vacated to make room for tuition paying students.
I have a stack of access to information documents that detail what happened when Syrian migrants were put up in hotels as a stopgap measure when Justin Trudeau flooded Canada’s refugee system with 50,000 Syrian migrants.
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Diseased Refugees Obtaining SSN and Passport Upon Arrival
Refugees are flown in at night and given SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS and PASSPORTS completely non-vetted.
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EU Crisis: Juncker Tries to Calm Spanish PM as Spain Overtakes Italy for Migrant Arrivals
SPAIN’S Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has received assurances from Jean-Claude Juncker the European Union will help to ease the country’s migrant crisis including “full support” to develop an appropriate and effective response to address increasing pressures.
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EU to Grant Spain Emergency Aid to Cope With Migrants
The European Commission will allocate tens of millions of euros to Spain to help it manage a rising flow of migrants arriving there illegally from Morocco, a European source said on Wednesday.
The socialist government of by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Sunday requested €30 million ($35 million) from a European fund especially earmarked for asylum and migration, the source told AFP.
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First Asylum-Seeker Transit Center Opens in Germany
The first “Anker” (“Arrival,” “Return”) center has just opened in the southern German state of Bavaria to process migrants accruing in the country through the Austrian border, Deutsche Welle reported.
The idea behind the centers, which are part of the “migration master plan” proposed by German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, is that asylum seekers will be kept there until their right to stay is determined.
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France: Macron’s Government Passes Controversial Asylum and Immigration Law
France’s parliament Wednesday signed into law a controversial asylum and immigration bill — despite opposition on the left which decried an effort to limit arrivals while the far right saw the measure as not going far enough.
The bill is designed to accelerate asylum procedures by cutting the maximum processing time to 90 days after entering France from 120 currently.
The text was adopted on a final reading by 100 votes in favour to 25 against with 11 abstentions.
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French NGO Vows Nothing Will Stop Aquarius Migrant Rescues
The French NGO that was at the heart of a major European diplomatic row over migration said Wednesday that nothing would stop it from rescuing migrants from the Mediterranean as its ship prepared to resume its mission off the Libyan coast.
The Aquarius, chartered by French aid group SOS Mediterranee, was due to leave the southern port of Marseille later Wednesday nearly two months after Italy and Malta refused to let it dock with 630 migrants onboard, sparking a bitter international row who would take them in.
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Greece’s Migrant Crisis: European Commission Announces Additional €37.5 Million in Emergency Funding
On Wednesday it was announced by the European Commission that an additional 37.5 million euros will be given to Greece as emergency aid to help with the migrant crisis gripping the country.
The additional funding will be broken down into two main efforts, with the bulk of the money, some 31.1 million euros, going towards provisional services such as healthcare, interpretation and food, as well as improving the conditions at the Fylakio hotspot in Evros.
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On 1 August, a little more than one hundred migrants protested against their living conditions in front of Varennes-sur-Allier’s police centre, La Montagne reports
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One in Every Four German Residents Now Has Migrant Background
Just under a quarter of residents of the Bundesrepublik have foreign roots, up 4.4 percent year-on-year, government statistics show.
The figures released by destatis on Wednesday show that roughly 19.3 million of Germany’s population had a migrant background in 2017. The number was a record high.
Someone is considered to have a migrant background if they or at least one parent was born without German citizenship.
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Pakistani Migrant Arrested in Greece for Sexually Harassing Underaged Girl
Last Friday police in Greece arrested a 23-year-old Pakistani migrant in Thebes, for sexually harassing a 13-year-old Chinese girl.
According to the Greek web page Iefimerida, the girl was at her mother’s shop when the Pakistani migrant entered the shop and started touching the underaged girl.
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Poll: Majority of Austrians Against Muslim Women Wearing Headscarves
A poll in Austria shows that less than half of Austrians are willing to tolerate a cityscape dominated by women wearing headscarves while a vast majority also condemn migrants who refuse to integrate.
The new poll shows that only 42 percent of eligible voters are willing to tolerate women in Islamic headscarves dominating their cities, while 84 percent say they would not tolerate migrants who refuse to integrate into Austrian society, Kronen Zeitung reports.
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Production of Magic Flute Opera Containing Migrant Imagery Booed in Italy
An Italian audience booed a new production of Mozart’s Magic Flute opera which contained references to the bulldozing of migrant squatter camps.
The production, which was the brainchild of British opera director Graham Vick who is known for his experimental takes on classic operas, was met with criticism and negativity at the Macerata Opera Festival as it contained a scene showing an illegal migrant camp during the first scene in which the character Tamino is supposed to be chased by a snake, France Musique reports.
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Spanish Socialist Minister Denies Mass Migration to Spain and Says ‘Europe Needs New Blood’
Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell denies that the 21,000 migrants arriving in Spain this year are part of ‘mass’ migration: “We’re trivialising the word ‘mass’,” he told reporters, “We’re talking about 20,000 (migrants) so far this year for a country of more than 40 million inhabitants, that’s not mass migration.”
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Sweden: Four African Migrants Rape Disabled Woman Vaginally and Anally
Four Eritreans, who claim to be between 17 and 20 years old, have been charged with gang raping a woman in Bromma, Swedish news outlet Fria Tider reports.
The rape took place on 5-6 May 2018. According to the charges, the four Africans violently forced the disabled woman to have anal and vaginal intercourse.
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During his rally in Tampa, Florida, where the President campaigned for his friend Ron DeSantis who is running to become the GOP candidate for governor in Florida.
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Why Don’t Qatar and Saudi Arabia Take Muslim Refugees? This Isn’t a European Problem! — Polish MP
Polish MP Dominik Tarczynski, also Vice President of the European Conservatives in the Council of Europe, was interviewed by TRT World, a Turkish international news channel.
In a heated exchange on TRT’s ‘The Newsmakers’, the polish MP asks why neighbouring countries, some of the richest countries in the world, aren’t taking these majority Muslim migrants and why it’s being labelled a ‘European problem’.
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‘Fake News’ Photographer Admits: “We Lost Control of the Narrative”
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,
A National Geographic photographer has admitted that the viral image of a polar bear suffering from climate change is fake news almost a year later. “We had lost control of the narrative,” admitted Cristina Mittermeier, the photographer of the polar bear.
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NYU Professor: We’re on the Verge of “Completely Losing Our Culture”
NYU professor Michael Rectenwald warns that western civilization is under siege from Maoist totalitarians and that we are on the verge of “completely losing our culture.”
In a blistering Facebook post, Rectenwald provided perhaps the most succinct summary of the threat facing the west ever written.
“We’re undergoing a Maoist-like Cultural Revolution — with the power of the corporate mass media, corporate social media, the academy, most of corporate America, the deep state, the shadow government, and most of the legal apparatuses behind it,” wrote the professor, adding that, “Anti-western, anti-individual, anti-Christian, anti-liberty monsters are ravaging our cultural legacies as well as our contemporary arts and letters.”
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Climate Hysteria Aside, 2018 on Pace for Record Low Spending on Weather Disasters
Greece and California are literally burning up due to high temperatures and parched dry land due to drought. Record high temperatures have been recorded in Japan, Africa, Europe and the United States, causing hundreds of deaths. Flooding from sea level rise threatens to submerge more than 300,000 coastal homes in the next thirty years. These are some of the “sure signs” that climate change, formerly known as global warming, is upon us now. It’s happening right before our eyes.
Except, thus far in 2018, extreme weather events have been less numerous and severe than in most other years. Even with all the recently hyped weather events currently occurring, Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. shows us that global weather losses as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) are on pace for record lows in 2018. Of course, being that we’re only seven full months in to the year, those numbers can change. But for now, 2018 is on pace for record low spending on weather disasters.
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It seems to me that the professor exaggerates about the loss of culture.
There is no loss, there is a conspiracy of elites and excessive reproduction of Muslims. I think it will end like in the movie Dogiville.
I’m incredibly intrigued by what the generation of “Mr. Robot” (to which my daughter belongs) will do when the troglodytes gather and go to cut their throats.
Will they resist or obey? In any case, they will live further on this planet.
RIP UK:
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/02/court-recognises-shariah-law-marriage-uk-legal-first/
French culture reaching new heights:
https://www.breitbart.com/news/rap-brawl-delays-flights-at-paris-airport/
What more proof does one need they hate us and want us dead?
https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/08/02/protect-sarah-jeong-journalists-pundits-defend-nytimes-writers-history-of-bigoted-posts/
The court ruling on Shariah actually helped a divorced woman win a reasonable settlement, although her marriage was not recognised under the civil law.
Re the Rising of Warsaw. Thank you Dr. Zawodney. I took a class from him at Pomona College in 1981 on the structure of terrorist organizations that was invaluable. He led a company against the Nazis in the Rising and so provided insight into the internal dynamics of those organizations. He taught me about the challenges of leading a mixed men / women combat unit and how to reduce their casualties. Salut! See Janusz K. Zawodney in Wikipedia
Not so long ago I had a conversation with one young Russian Nazi.
I do not know how to express an extreme degree of horror in English, but in Russian it sounds like this: “my hair stood on end”.
He was really proud of the fact that in the dispersal of the Warsaw Uprising Russian renegades took part along with Azerbaijani Muslim detachments serving the Hitler.
What kind of .. rubbish …. it happens in the brains of some of the youth.
Thank you Dr. Janusz Zawodney – see Wikipefia re the rising of Warsaw