A mechanic at an airport in Seattle commandeered a turboprop plane and took off with it. The Air Force scrambled fighter jets to pursue the plane, which eventually crashed on a small island in Puget Sound. After his death the employee was identified as Richard Russell. The incident had no connection with terrorism.
In other news, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini ordered the designations “Parent 1” and “Parent 2” to be removed from birth certificates and replaced with the more traditional “mother” and “father”.
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EU Ready to Buckle to Italy as it Backs Down on Austerity to Allow £7bn Spending
THE European Union is ready to buckle under intense pressure from Italy on demands from austerity that will allow the debt-ridden country to spend £7 billion more than EU rules stipulate.
It is finally prepared to give the Italian Government some financial leeway in the escalating row.
In return, the EU wants a commitment from Italy to reduce its structural deficit, which is adjusted for economic growth fluctuations.
Italy’s populist coalition wants enough flexibility to introduce a flat tax and a citizen’s income in next year’s budget without running foul of EU budget restrictions.
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Remarkable Wage Rises Seen in All Sectors Across Hungary
Average wages in Hungary rose by more than 10 percent year-on-year in May, it has been revealed.
Based on the latest figures released by Hungary’s Central Statistics Office (KSH), the highest increases are attributed to the state during that period. In several areas, the increase is at least 15 percent. What’s more, salaries increased in spite of the rising number of employees.
In the healthcare sector, gross average monthly wages increased from 270 to 323 thousand HUF in just one year. This 19.4 percent rise is unprecedented in the health system.
Apart from the rise of the minimum wage and the guaranteed wage minimum, all workers experienced a 10 percent increase on average. Nevertheless, the numbers vary by sector.
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20 Shot Overnight in Chicago: “I’m Scared to Walk to the Corner Store”
Chicago gun violence erupted to start this weekend, leaving two people dead and at least 18 others severely wounded, including a woman killed in a brutal domestic dispute. It follows last weekend’s record for violent crime, when 12 people were killed and 74 shot.
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BREAKING: Authorities identify man who stole Horizon Air plane from Seattle airport and crashed it into an island.
The Horizon Air employee who commandeered an empty turboprop passenger plane at Seattle’s main airport Friday night, flying it over Puget Sound before crashing it into a small island, has been identified as Richard Russell, authorities said.
A Horizon Air employee described as “suicidal” commandeered an empty turboprop passenger plane at Seattle’s main airport Friday night and roared low over Puget Sound — with a pair of Air Force F-15s in pursuit — before crashing it into a small island, authorities said.
The FBI’s Seattle field office on Friday said early signs do not point toward terrorism. Pierce County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Ed Troyer described the suspect as an unnamed suicidal 29-year-old man from the county “doing stunts in the air” before the crash.
The man, referred to as “Rich” and “Richard” by air traffic controllers in tense recordings, said he was “just a broken guy” as authorities tried to divert the 76-seat Bombardier Q400 away from populated areas.
He took off with the stolen aircraft at about 8 p.m. Friday from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and was an employee of Horizon Air, the Alaska Air Group said in a statement…
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California Wildfires Caused by Radical Environmentalists, Not Climate Change
The United States Forest Service was originally founded to protect forests from the ravages of fire to preserve it for future generations. That thinking was abandoned in favor of the flawed “no-use movement,” or the “rewilding” theory, which blames humans for the “degradation of our planet.” “Rewilding the land can repair damage we’ve caused and reconnect us to the natural world,” National Geographic claims.
For decades, traditional forest management was scientific and successful — that is until ideological, preservationist zealots wormed their way into government and began the 40-year overhaul of sound federal forest management through abuse of the Endangered Species Act and the no-use movement.
Traditional forest management had simple guidelines: thin the forest when it becomes too difficult to walk through; too many trees in the woods will compete with one another, because the best trees will grow at a slower rate.
The U.S. Forest Service used to be a profitable federal agency, McClintock said. “Up until the mid-1970s, we managed our National Forests according to well-established and time-tested forest management practices.”
“But 40 years ago, we replaced these sound management practices with what can only be described as a doctrine of benign neglect,” McClintock said. “Ponderous, Byzantine laws and regulations administered by a growing cadre of ideological zealots in our land management agencies promised to “save the environment.” The advocates of this doctrine have dominated our law, our policies, our courts and our federal agencies ever since.”
Today, only privately managed forests are maintained through the traditional forest management practices: thinning, cutting, clearing, prescribed burns, and the disposal of the resulting woody waste.
[Comment: Article is exactly right. All the wood detrious is allowed to remain due to enviro-wackp policies. Essentially creating a tinder box, jsut waiting for the match.]
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Celebrities Trash Ohio Voters After Democrat Loss: ‘This is an Embarrassment’
Hollywood-backed Democratic candidates didn’t fare as well as politically engaged celebrities had hoped in Tuesday’s elections, which sparked Russian meddling conspiracy theorizing and celebs bashing Green Party voters in Ohio.
[Comment: Makes voting easier. Voting for the someone other than whomever these clowns support is a sound strategy.]
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CNN Plants ‘Regretful’ Trump Voter; Turns Out He’s a Socialist Who Hates Trump
This is why they’re called ‘fake news’
This is incredible.
CNN plants “regretful” Trump voter in panel.
Turns out he’s a socialist who hates Trump and never voted for Trump.
This is why they call CNN ‘fake news’.
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Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Who Led Assault on Confederate Monuments Pleads Guilty to Corruption
On Thursday, August 9, 2018, the member of the Dallas City Council who, second only to Mayor Mike Rawlings, promoted the effort to remove the statue of General Robert E. Lee from a city park pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy, wire fraud and tax evasion. According to Dallas News:
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DNC Serves WikiLeaks With Lawsuit Through Twitter for 2016 Email Leaks
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) served WikiLeaks, accused of illegally obtaining its emails, a lawsuit via Twitter on Friday.
“@wikileaks By Court order, you are being served with the following legal documents,” the DNC’s lawyer’s official Twitter account wrote in a tweet Friday, linking to several legal documents.
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Donald Trump Jr.: Big Tech and Democrats Want to Kill News Outlets Like Breitbart News
Donald Trump Jr. warned conservatives on Tuesday that Democrat activists together with Silicon Vally tech companies would move against news websites like Breitbart News.
President Donald Trump’s oldest son commented on the issue after Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut advocated for Facebook and YouTube to take down the “iceberg of hate and lies” like Alex Jones’s news outlet Infowars.
“A Democrat Senator openly admitting that Big Tech’s censorship campaign is really about purging all conservative media,” Trump Jr. wrote. “How long before Big Tech and their Democrat friends move to censor and purge Breitbart News, Daily Caller and other conservatives voices from their platforms?”
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Florida Double Votes Cast in 2016 ‘Nearly 4X Margin of Victory’ In 2000 Election
The number of double votes allegedly cast in the 2016 presidential election is “nearly four times the margin of victory” in the 2000 presidential election, Government Accountability Insititute (GAI) research director Eric Eggers reveals.
Eggers appeared on Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs Tonight to discuss his new book, Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election, which details how in the 2016 election, there were allegedly 2,100 examples of double voting.
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How the Press Lies About Itself
Ever notice how the press smushes stuff together? If you say something about illegal immigration, like how you don’t want it, the media say you’re against immigration in general, which is to say “brown people,” which is to say, aha, you have been exposed for what you are: a racist, a bad person, probably a Republican, and quite possibly a World Wrestling Entertainment habitué. All this for pointing out something no more complicated than that when you decide to have laws, they ought to be obeyed, and when they’re not obeyed, they should be enforced. You want to say no, no, no, it’s only illegal immigration I want to have a look at, but they blur the lines, pretending you’re saying something you’re not, something broader than that, so you can be vilified and ridiculed for the stupid, racist thing you’re not saying.
In the same way, you can be very much in favor of the free press but against dishonest, agenda-driven reporting — i.e., “fake news.” In each set, one of these things — legal immigration and the free press — is not like the other one — illegal immigration and fake news — and that’s true no matter how much somebody scruple-challenged might bleat otherwise in order to gain purchase on a fraudulent, dishonest position.
Make no mistake: all this smushing together of things does not flow from sloppiness or lack of discipline — it is purposeful. It’s how they get away with flat-out lying about things, smearing those they disagree with and whom, therefore, they wish to invalidate, and it’s why claiming there is no such thing as fake news is itself fake news. How’s that for a hall of mirrors?
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Monsanto Slammed With $289 Million Verdict in Historic ‘Roundup’ Cancer Lawsuit
A San Francisco Jury awarded $289 million in damages to a former school groundskeeper, Dewayne Johnson, who said Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller gave him terminal cancer. The award consists of $40 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages.
Johnson’s trial was fast-tracked due to the severe state of his non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph system he says was triggered by Roundup and Ranger Pro, a similar glyphosate herbicide that he applied up to 30 times per year. His doctors didn’t think he’d live to live to see the verdict.
Johnson testified that he had been involved in two accidents during his work in which he was doused with the product, the first of which happened in 2012. Two years later, the 46-year-old father of two was diagnosed with lymphoma — which has covered as much as 80% of his body in lesions…
As the New York Times noted last year, new internal emails, among other things, reveal ethical objections from former employees to “ghost writing” research studies that were pawned off as ‘independent’ analyses.
The documents underscore the lengths to which the agrochemical company goes to protect its image. Documents show that Henry I. Miller, an academic and a vocal proponent of genetically modified crops, asked Monsanto to draft an article for him that largely mirrored one that appeared under his name on Forbes’s website in 2015. Mr. Miller could not be reached for comment.
A similar issue appeared in academic research. An academic involved in writing research funded by Monsanto, John Acquavella, a former Monsanto employee, appeared to express discomfort with the process, writing in a 2015 email to a Monsanto executive, “I can’t be part of deceptive authorship on a presentation or publication.” He also said of the way the company was trying to present the authorship: “We call that ghost writing and it is unethical.”
The newly disclosed emails also reveal internal discussions which cast some doubt over whether internal scientists actually believed in the company’s external messaging that Roundup was, in fact, safe.
“If somebody came to me and said they wanted to test Roundup I know how I would react — with serious concern.”
And, here’s more:
The documents also show that a debate outside Monsanto about the relative safety of glyphosate and Roundup, which contains other chemicals, was also taking place within the company.
In a 2002 email, a Monsanto executive said, “What I’ve been hearing from you is that this continues to be the case with these studies — Glyphosate is O.K. but the formulated product (and thus the surfactant) does the damage.”
In a 2003 email, a different Monsanto executive tells others, “You cannot say that Roundup is not a carcinogen … we have not done the necessary testing on the formulation to make that statement.”
Not surprisingly, Monsanto’s lawyers have argued that the comments above have simply been taken out of context…
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NFL Players, Media Rip President Trump for Tweet Criticizing Anthem Protests
Millionaire NFL players are once again furious that President Trump has spoken out against the protests of players who either kneel, or raise a fist during the playing of the national anthem.
Even as the NFL’s ratings continue to crash, several members of the Miami Dolphins took a knee during the national anthem, and one raised a militant black power fist during this week’s pre-season game. Dolphins wide receiver Kenny Stills and receiver Albert Wilson took a knee during the anthem, while defensive end Robert Quinn raised his fist as the nation’s theme played.
The league quickly put out a statement insisting that “all player and non-player personnel on the field at that time are expected to stand,” but clearly the players don’t agree and the rule seems totally toothless.
Meanwhile, President Trump spoke out about the renewed NFL protests delivering two tweets saying:
[Comment: If these clowns continue to urinate on patriotic American viewers the NFL is sure to tank even more. Then they will be kneeling in the unemployment line.]
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Prosecutors: Son of Prominent Imam Was Training Children to Commit School Shootings
The son of a prominent Brooklyn-based imam was training children at a New Mexico compound to commit schools shootings, prosecutors said in court documents released Wednesday.
Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 39, was training 11 children at a compound north of Taos, New Mexico, according to The Associated Press. Authorities raided the compound Friday and arrested Wahhaj, two of his siblings and two other men during a search for Wahhaj’s son, who had been abducted from Georgia late in 2017.
A 3-year-old boy was found buried near the compound, but has not been identified. Wahhaj’s son was not among the children rescued.
Residents in Amalia, New Mexico, near the Colorado border, had complained for months about the squalid conditions of the makeshift compound before Friday’s raid, according to news reports. Authorities recovered multiple firearms as well as an AR-15.
Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said Tuesday that authorities initially did not have enough evidence to search the compound. Wahhaj and his son were not spotted on the property. A breakthrough came last week when authorities received a tip that a starving child might be living at the compound.
Wahhaj’s father, also named Siraj, is a controversial cleric with close ties to Muslim rights groups like the Islamic Circle of North American, the Muslim American Society and the Center for American Islamic Relations. The elder Wahhaj was also an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing case. He was a character witness for Omar Abdel Rahman, the so-called “Blind Sheikh.”
A spokesman for the imam told CNN that he is “devastated” that the remains of the child at the compound could be his grandson.
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Public University Pays Radical 89-Yr-Old Linguist Who Supports Hezbollah $750k to Teach Politics
A public university is paying a radical 89-year-old linguist hundreds of thousands of dollars to teach his famously leftist brand of politics, according to records obtained by Judicial after a months-long battle with the taxpayer-funded institution.
Judicial Watch launched an investigation after the University of Arizona (UA), located in Tucson with an enrollment of about 40,000, announced that it hired Noam Chomsky to teach a general education course for undergraduates titled “What is Politics? In the announcement UA describes Chomsky as a “world-renowned linguist and one of the “most cited scholars in modern history.
The reality is that Chomsky is an extreme leftwing propagandist who defends communist regimes—including those in Vietnam and Cuba—and openly supports the anti-Israel and anti-U.S. terrorist organization Hezbollah. In fact, Chomsky met with Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon even though the State Department lists the group as a terrorist organization and the elderly professor has publicly supported the militant group’s right to be armed.
At the time Chomsky was a professor of linguistics at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a private institution that can hire whoever it wants with no public accountability. However, UA is funded with taxpayer dollars and must comply with public-records laws meant to keep government transparent. It still took UA four months to provide Judicial Watch with the records of Chomsky’s outrageous deal.
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Seventy-Two Percent of Americans Say it’s ‘Essential’ For US to be World Space Exploration Leader
Seventy-two percent of U.S. adults say it is “essential” for the U.S. to lead the world in space exploration, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted from March 27 to April 9.
Space exploration is on many Americans’ minds after President Donald Trump proposed creating a sixth branch of the military called the Space Force in March. Vice President Mike Pence delivered a speech Thursday outlining a Pentagon report about how Space Force can become reality.
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‘The Elite’ Freaks Out When Trump Puts Americans First
Of all Donald Trump’s many sins against the Great Church of the Transnational Leftist Establishment, his greatest may be his stubborn refusal to subordinate the needs of the normal citizens of the United States to the dogmas of our alleged betters. He rejects the secular civic religion of our betters, one that urges the sacrifice of regular folk’s interests on the altar of their self-regard and cheesy self-interest.
Trump is a heretic, a blasphemer, and it’s no surprise they want to burn him at the stake.
Horrors!
He demands that the Europeans fund their own defense at levels that come to about half of what America spends!
Oh well, I never!
He refuses to hobble the American economy as a tribute to the false god of the weird weather religion and he dumped the Paris Climate Grift!
Vapors!
He rejects the notion that free trade is a one-way street into America’s markets and thinks that we ought to get the same deal on stuff we sell to outsiders as they get selling to us.
The bizarre part is that Trump isn’t even seeking an advantage over these foreigners who have been getting over on us. He seeks only reciprocity in our relations, and as a result the foreign policy elite is collectively wetting itself.
The mostly unspoken truth — which I speak loudly and profanely in my upcoming book Militant Normals: How Regular Americans Are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy — is that the postwar international order which arose in the wake of our victory in World War II was based upon America doing the heavy lifting.
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Trump to Sign Confucius Institute Funding Ban
President Trump is about to sign the new National Defense Authorization Act, which will prohibit funding to Chinese-run Confucius Institutes on American campuses.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz added the key amendment to “The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019,” which also restricts funding to universities that host Confucius Institutes and requires them to provide a public record of any agreements or contracts they have with the program, which has deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
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Twitter Bans Conservative Commentator Gavin McInnes
Twitter banned the account of conservative commentator and CRTV host Gavin McInnes without warning earlier today, as well as the official account of the Proud Boys, a conservative-libertarian activist group McInnes founded.
A Twitter spokewoman said that the accounts had been banned for violating Twitter’s policies on “violent extremist groups.” Yet both the Proud Boys and McInnes advocate mainstream conservative and libertarian positions.
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US College Rejects Student Applicant for Following Alex Jones on Twitter
Bradley Shear, an attorney who specializes in social-media cases, reported that he has a 17-year old client who was interviewing for admission to a top US college but, instead of being asked about his grades, extracurricular activities, or volunteer work, he was asked why he followed Infowars host Alex Jones on Twitter.
Shear says universities are attempting to reshape society by discriminating against students based on political ideologies and by marginalizing conservative viewpoints. He warned teens to audit their digital profiles and lock down their social-media accounts during the college-application process, in addition to preventing their web-surfing history from being collected by an admissions committee. [This is happening in the United States of America, land of the free! So, what do we do about it? A good place to begin is Red Pill University.]
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Using a Public Records Request to Learn More About Brett Kavanaugh
In the case of Mr. Kavanaugh, The Times requested records under Maryland’s public records law from Chevy Chase Section 5, where the nominee’s wife, Ashley, serves as town manager.
We sought email records involving Judge Kavanaugh and communications that referenced hot-button topics. We believed that the records, if they existed, could provide a unique and personalized view into the nominee. We worked with the town to minimize the time and cost involved in responding to our request. (The Associated Press submitted its own request, and The Times and others have filed separate requests with the National Archives pertaining to Mr. Kavanaugh.)
Ultimately, our request yielded 85 pages of emails, none of which provided any substantive insights into Mr. Kavanaugh’s judicial philosophy. Instead, the records were largely what you would expect from a town manager’s email account — mundane dispatches about town business, from snow removals to local newsletters. Not surprisingly, a number of people, neighbors and strangers alike, sent Ashley Kavanaugh congratulations on her husband’s nomination.
In other words, it was hardly front-page news.
And yet, we recognized before submitting the request that this was a possible outcome. We often file public records requests that yield no newsworthy information.
But when it comes to reporting on a potential Supreme Court justice, we had to try.
[That’s why they’re called The New York Slimes]
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White Republican Michigan Voters Chose a Black Guy
White Republican voters chose a black conservative over a white billionaire in Michigan. How can that be? Democrat Andre Carson of the Congressional Black Caucus said the Tea Party (conservatives and Republicans) is racist and wants to see blacks “hanging on a tree.”
Folks, as a black Tea Party activist since 2008, I can tell you this is the evil slander of salt-of-the-earth patriotic white voters I have been fighting. Black conservative John James won Michigan’s U.S. Senate Republican primary because he shares the values of most Americans. James boldly expresses his desire to help Trump Make America Great Again. Voters chose James because of the content of his character rather than the color of his skin, fulfilling the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
John James is a combat veteran endorsed by President Trump. But wait a minute. According to fake news media and Democrats, Trump hates blacks. That’s another hate-generating evil lie promoted by the American left.
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Ottawa Mosque Loses Charity Status for Promoting ‘Hate and Intolerance’
The federal government has stripped one of Ottawa’s largest mosques of its charity status over “activities that promote hate and intolerance,” Global News has learned.
The Canada Revenue Agency took action against the Ottawa Islamic Centre and Assalam Mosque following audits that raised concerns about its roster of guest speakers.
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Ad of Clothing Brand Featuring Little Girl in Islamic Veil Shocks France
The latest Gap ad campaign, “Back to school” features a little girl in a hijab, CNEWSFrance reports.
On 24 July, Gap Kids launched the “Back to school” ad campaign and on 31 July, the brand tweeted an ad which features a little girl in an Islamic veil.
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Dare Speak the Truth and Arrogant UK Authorities Want Your Flesh
The release on bail of Tommy Robinson, the man who was swiftly arrested, sentenced and jailed for 13 months, for reporting on rape gangs which had been freely operating for many years across the UK, see my article from June, bought a very welcome sigh of relief for the many people who had been supporting his cause against an unfair trial and imprisonment.
However, the exposure of the totalitarian manner in which he was treated, whilst reporting on a case which had already been reported in the public domain, and now the apparent consequences of him being locked in solitary confinement in the second prison to where he was moved, HMP Onley Prison, Rugby, appears to reveal a cruelty which seems to outweigh the consequences of his misdemeanour and his conviction. What exactly is going on?
In the following days of his arrest; after the deed had been done, and the reporting restrictions lifted; not only the mainstream media, but legal professionals from ever corner of the globe appeared to come out of the woodwork and take great pleasure and a deep sense of superiority in pointing out and justifying the ‘real’ reasons why Robinson had been locked up.
Justice, they believed, was rightly being served up upon a man who they considered a ‘trouble maker’ a ‘bigot’, a ‘thug’ a ‘nazi’ and a whole list of abbreviated adjectives which you would normally attach to a crook who had possibly raped and passed around your daughter. There was indignation towards a man, who albeit slightly irresponsible at times that displayed a hatred which surpassed normal rationality. Why was that? [Tommy Robinson bailed after Court of Appeal win]
If you have been watching the shift from mutually trusting and respecting another’s views to the outright violence and intolerance now being displayed by mainly liberal minded people towards those who see things differently, you will notice that there is very little tolerance being shown towards their fellow human beings, even if that person is presenting some very obvious facts.
Now they live under the premise that if they are offended by your difference of opinion, you are often sued, arrested and made to suffer unmercifully.
Aside from Tommy Robinson who voluntarily reports primarily on Islam, the UK is awash with ordinary people, who living upon the principles of their own conscience and conviction, and are not physically hurting anyone else, are being dragged often intentionally into law cases because the accuser’s feelings have been offended.
Consider just a few of these cases:…
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EU to Ban Halogen Lightbulbs Within Weeks Doubling Cost of Lighting Home
THE EU will ban the sale of halogen lightbulbs in a matter of weeks in a move that will double the cost of lighting a home.
The ban takes effect at the end of the month, meaning households will be forced to buy more expensive LED lights from September.
The controversial measure aims to reduce energy use. But LED lightbulbs cost twice the amount of halogen bulbs.
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Europe: Prayer in Public Spaces
A few months ago, a global media tempest erupted after Polish Catholics held a mass public prayer event across the country. The BBC deemed it “controversial”, due to “concerns it could be seen as endorsing the state’s refusal to let in Muslim migrants”.
The same controversy, however, did not erupt in Britain when 140,000 Muslims prayed in Birmingham’s Small Heath Park, in an event organized by the Green Lane Mosque to mark the end of Ramadan.
France is debating whether or not to block prayer on the street. “They will not have prayers on the street, we will prevent street praying” Interior Minister Gerard Collomb announced.
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‘Hyperactive French Russophiles’ Study Lands Soros-Backed DisinfoLab in Twitter Data Abuse Scandal
Once a leader in philosophy and fashion, France has now been reduced to falling for tricks recycled from US con artists by Brussels-based grifters, with a little help from Twitter’s ‘mea culpa’ cash and even Uncle George Soros.
It all began when EU DisinfoLab, a non-governmental organization based in Belgium, published a report on Wednesday about how some 55,000 “hyperactive” twitter accounts spread the news of the Benalla affair, and accused a portion of those accounts of being “Russophiles.”
Within a day, French media were printing headlines screaming about “Russian bots,” prompting the NGO to issue a “clarification” of their findings. Not all of the accounts were “Russophiles,” the outfit said, and the report said nothing about “bots” — but the French public was already outraged.
Politicians Jean-Luc Melenchon of La France Insoumise and Marine Le Pen from the National Rally (NR) —previously known as Le Front National— who both ended up on the NGO’s list, tweeted derisively about the report, with Melenchon calling the outfit “stupid spooks.”
[Comment: It seems what’s going on in France is this: it has been claimed that Russian meddling is in part behind the criticisms of French President Macron. I find that sort of claim is tiresome.]
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Imam in Austrian Mosque Calls on Youth to Establish Islamic State and Wage Jihad
A mobile phone video, taken inside the Viennese Taiseer mosque, shows how imams call on youths to create an Islamic State, Austrian newspaper Krone reports.
While one imam calls youth to establish an Islamic state as “they have the most important roles in jihad and proselytising”, another preaches against so-called unbelievers.
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Polish MPs to Probe European Council Head Donald Tusk in October?
European Council head Donald Tusk is likely to be questioned in Warsaw in early October by a special Polish parliamentary commission probing a notorious pyramid scheme, the commission’s head, Malgorzata Wassermann, said on Friday.
The Amber Gold pyramid scheme saw thousands of Poles cheated out of their savings from 2009 to 2012, at a time when Tusk was Poland’s prime minister.
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Romanians Protest Government Corruption for 2nd Straight Day
Tens of thousands of Romanians held another anti-government protest Saturday a day after a previous demonstration turned violent, leaving 455 people in need of medical treatment.
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The Pitiful Roots of Anti-Americanism
Anti-Americanism is anti-Semitism’s first cousin, but with an important difference. A person afflicted with this terrible condition is also a crank and a bore, but because anti-Americanism is so widespread both in America and abroad, it is all too easy for the sufferers never to realize they are cranks.
After all, anti-Americanism is the norm among the globalist elites. In his book Anti-Americanism, Jean-François Revel writes that he had “formed [his] opinion about the United States through the filter of the European press, which means my judgment was unfavorable.” But Revel wants us to understand that he has learned that anti-Americanism is more than simply a widespread climate of opinion. Instead, he labels it a “psychopathology” and an “obsession.”
For Revel, the source of this malady is obvious. America has supplanted Europe, and the elites of Europe resent it. Europe once dominated the world. It no longer does, and the European elites blame America instead of themselves.
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Tories 4 Points Ahead of Labour With UKIP Up to 7% in YouGov Poll
The Conservatives are 4 points clear of Labour in the latest YouGov poll — and that’s with UKIP up to 7%.
In a sign of what could happen if the Brexiteer vote was combined, the Tories are on 39% even with UKIP steadily rising back up in the polls.
10% of 2017 Tory voters are currently planning to vote UKIP, including 13% of all Leave voters.
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UK: Cafe Shuts Down After Being Accused of Racism for Adorning Sandwiches With Union Jack Flags
Station 164 in Hornchurch, east London, had inserted tiny British flags in sandwiches and English breakfasts since they opened in 2016. They started using England flags during the World Cup to show support for the England team.
Owner, Candy Merrett, replied in a Facebook post to the accusation explaining that it was the first time in two years any customers had said anything negative about the flags, with many tourists taking the flags home as a memento, saying up to four people had.
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A devastated man whose mother and sister were murdered by his father in a car park has revealed how he never realised how dangerous his father was.
Lance Hart, 57, murdered Claire Hart, 50, and Charlotte Hart, 19, in the car park of The Castle Leisure Centre in Spalding, Lincolnshire in July 2016.
Claire had suffered years of abuse from her husband and her two sons had finally had enough and plotted to get her out.
Her sons, Luke and Ryan, hired a van and drove to get her and their sister to take them to a new rental home on a Friday afternoon.
The following Tuesday, Lance Hart waited for his wife of 26-years in a car park before shooting her, his daughter and himself dead…
Luke Hart and brother Ryan, both university educated engineers, have since learned about coercive control — a pattern of threats and intimidation which is not physical — and realised their family was abused, he told GMB.
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A courageous mother who helped her daughter escape a troubled arranged marriage was found stabbed to death in her kitchen, a court has heard.
Rahman Begum, 46, from Rochdale, Manchester, was found in a pool of blood at her home in Rochdale, hours after she ordered her daughter to ‘go live’ and not ruin her life in an unhappy home.
Her daughter Aysha, 25, had been unhappily married to Muhammad Tafham, 31, who is accused of the murder, a court has been told.
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Former pupils gave chilling first-hand accounts of how they were beaten, ritually humiliated and raped at their boarding schools.
Ampleforth College was likened to a Nazi prisoner of war camp by one victim, who said: ‘It felt like Colditz.’
One priest got sadistic sexual pleasure by beating boys for reading Marvel comics or climbing a tree.
Other pupils were raped over the bonnet of a monk’s car for not sprinting fast enough during night time ‘punishment runs’ around the school grounds.
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Why the EU Won’t Comply With Trump
Two of the main points of contention between the European Union and President Trump are trade and military spending. Scrap away the rhetoric presented in the mainstream media, most of it reflexively anti-Trump, the fact is that what the president is demanding is nothing but what’s fair and reasonable. As regards trade, Europe currently has significantly more barriers to our exports than America does to theirs. As for military spending on NATO, it is universally recognized that the United States carries the bulk of defending Europe…
As wealthy as Europe may be, its budgets are stretch tight to support the welfare state it has created for itself since the end of WWII. Already, the Mediterranean countries of the EU are drowning in debt. The percent of debt to the GDP for Italy, Greece, Portugal, and Spain are 132, 180, 130, and 99 percent, respectively. And since these countries are yoked to the Euro, there’s no way out for them.
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A mother has told of her terrifying ordeal of being locked up in a filthy Dubai jail for three days with her four-year-old daughter for drinking a glass of wine on a flight from London.
Ellie Holman, 44, was arrested after being asked by an immigration official at Dubai International Airport if she had consumed alcohol on the eight-hour flight.
The mother-of-three, a dentist, from Sevenoaks, Kent, says she was held in a ‘baking hot and foul smelling’ airport detention centre — and not allowed to call her husband, Gary.
Now Dr Holman faces spending up to a year in the strict Arab state for her case to be settled…
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, she said: ‘My little girl had to go to the toilet on the cell floor. I have never heard her cry in the same way as she did in that cell.
‘My passport remains confiscated until the case is settled, which I have been told will take at least a year,’ she said.
‘So far this situation has cost me around £30,000 in legal fees, expenses and missed work. My practice is closed. All our savings have gone.’
Her nightmare began after she stepped off an Emirates Airlines flight from London to Dubai on July 13th. During the flight she was served a glass of red wine with her meal. Alcohol is served as standard practice on Emirates Airlines on flights from the UK to Dubai…
Radha Stirling, CEO of Detained In Dubai, the British human rights NGO representing Ellie said in a statement: ‘The UAE maintains a deliberately misleading façade that alcohol consumption is perfectly legal for visitors.
‘This is exampled by bars at the airport, by hotels, restaurants and clubs serving drinks. Tourists cannot be blamed for believing that the Emirates are tolerant of Western drinking habits but this is far from reality.
‘It is wholly illegal for any tourist to have any level of alcohol in their blood. It is illegal to consume alcohol at a bar, a hotel and a restaurant and if breathalysed, that person will be jailed.
[Comment: A form of jihad against the kafir tourist.]
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EU Seeks Details From Saudis in Row With Canada
BRUSSELS — The European Union has asked Saudi Arabia to shed light on the arrests of and charges facing female human rights activists, saying that the detainees should be granted due process to defend themselves.
Saudi Arabia has in recent months detained several women’s rights activists, some of whom had campaigned for the right to drive and an end to the kingdom’s male guardianship system.
The detentions have triggered a major diplomatic row with Canada after the Canadians demanded the immediate release of the jailed activists.
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Turkey’s Agony Explodes as Trump Doubles Steel, Aluminum Tariffs
ust when you thought Turkey’s moment of agony couldn’t get any worse, it did moments ago when watching the collapse of the Turkish Lira and sensing perhaps that Erdogan’s end is near, President Donald Trump blindsided the NATO member state with a tweet, announcing that he is doubling Turkey’s steel and aluminum tariffs to 50% and 20%, respectively. Why? Because as he said “Our relations with Turkey are not good at this time!”
I have just authorized a doubling of Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum with respect to Turkey as their currency, the Turkish Lira, slides rapidly downward against our very strong Dollar! Aluminum will now be 20% and Steel 50%. Our relations with Turkey are not good at this time!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 10, 2018
Trump’s ask: the release of Pastor Brunson, which Erdogan has so far staunchly refused to agree to.
In response, the Turkish Lira which already had its worst day ever, just plunged even more with the USDTRY surging as high as 6.3839, an all time high.
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Chinese Government Removes Underground Priests for Holding Summer Youth Camp
Communist officials have replaced two underground Gansu province parish priests who were accused of holding a summer camp for a youth group at their church.
Father Wang Yiqin of Hui county and Father Li Shidong of Leling in Shandong province had been serving at Maijiqu Ganquan Church in Tianshui Diocese, which had allegedly become a base for underground clergy.
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Mysterious ‘Sea Creature’ With Squirming Tentacles Washes Up on a Beach in Vietnam
A strange-looking sea creature has baffled locals with its unusual appearance after it washed up on a beach in southern Vietnam.
The footage shows the mysterious black brown coloured sea-dweller wriggling it’s hundreds of tentacles after being captured by an intrigued tour guide in Kien Giang province last month.
Du Nam Du, the man who spotted it, put it on a green table to get a closer look with other beachgoers who were equally intrigued by its strange alien-like shape and movements.
[Comment: Check the video — creepy looking movements. It is called a “basket starfish”. www.realmonstrosities.com/2012/04/basket-star.html]
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Australian nurses are pushing back against a new requirement that they must “acknowledge white privilege” before treating patients. This is a new code of conduct that was passed by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.
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A Sudanese community leader has spoken out in defence of his community’s youth after they were accused of terrorising the Melbourne suburb of Taylors Hill earlier this week.
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Obama Ignores Genocide in South Africa
Recently, Obama romped on to the Third World stage “bigly.”
He delivered an address in this writer’s birthplace of Johannesburg, South Africa. The occasion: the centennial commemoration of Nelson Mandela’s birth.
On that occasion, Obama praised “the liberal international order,” which is founded on inverted morality: Good is bad and bad is good.
Small wonder, then, that nobody—broadcaster Tucker Carlson excepted—was willing to shame Obama for lauding genial thug Cyril Ramaphosa as an inspiration for “new hope in [his] great country.”
President hope-and-change Ramaphosa has gone where his four peer predecessors had not dared to go. He led a wildly fruitful effort to tweak the already watered-down property-rights provision in the South-African Constitution. Theft of land owned by whites will now be permitted.
Other than their modern-day-messiah status, BHO and his hero Mandela share something else. Both were silent about the systematic ethnic cleansing and extermination, in ways that beggar belief, of South-African farmers, in particular, and whites in general.
Does the barefaced Barack care that white men, women and children are being butchered like animals, their bodies often displayed like trophies by their proud black assassins?
[Comment: He probably danced with the leaders of S.Africa at the private party while chanting “KIll the Boer.”]
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“A Devastating Scenario”: Brazil Breaks Own Record for Number of Murders, Ahead of Election
The total number of people killed in a single year in Brazil has hit a record, the economically collapsed, South American country saw 63,880 homicides in 2017, according to a Brazilian think-tank, which indicated much of the violent crime is concentrated in the impoverished northeastern states.
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Afghan Whose Deportation Was Blocked by Crying Swedish Girl Whipped His Wife and Daughters
On 23 July the deportation of an Afghan migrant to his home country was temporarily blocked by Swedish social justice activist Elin Ersson. The girl refused to sit down until the man was removed from the flight.
Via a group of activists, Ersson was involved in trying to stop deportations before but never on a plane. She heard that an Afghan man in his 50s was among the passengers to be deported, but she didn’t know anything about him.
The footage of Ersson’s protest was watched by millions of people and was seen by the left as a brave act and one of the highlights of protests for human rights in Europe.
Screenshots of Ersson in the plane
But now it appears that the Afghan man in his 50s is actually an aggressive wife beater, Swedish news outlet Fria Tider reports.
He had beaten his daughters and his wife, and among other things, “whipped” them with a long charging cord.
The man is convicted of assault in Sweden, the police confirmed to Fria Tider. However, that was not why he was deported.
Now, newspaper Nyheter Idag reveals that the man was sentenced to nine months in jail for three cases of assault of his own wife and their two children.
[Comment: This stupid girl should have been removed from the plane in handcuffs.]
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Big Business Demands Continuation of Mass Migration
The Confederation of British Industry has released a report calling for an end to targets to limit immigration after Brexit.
The business group also called for immigration to be back on the table in the Brexit talks, avoiding visas for EU citizens in a trade for greater access to the Single Market for British companies.
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Exclusive — GOP Rep. Yoder Rejected Jeff Sessions’ Plea to Vote Against Catch-and-Release Plan
Kansas Rep. Kevin Yoder rejected a personal plea July 25 from Attorney General Jeff Sessions before Yoder voted to revive former President Barack Obama’s catch-and-release policy for economic migrants, sources tell Breitbart News.
Sessions’ telephone plea was delivered during the markup session for the 2019 homeland defense budget, where Yoder — who chairs the House homeland-defense appropriations committee — ensured passage of a Democratic amendment to revive Obama’s catch-and-release policies.
Yoder’s surprise vote and rebuff of Sessions came one day after Yoder flew with President Donald Trump in Air Force One down to a July 24 Kansas rally. Sessions is Trump’s main ally in fighting illegal migration, which is playing a large role in the November midterm elections…
Any revival of the Obama’s catch-and-release would give most of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras — 32 million Central Americans — the practical ability to migrate to the United States by claiming they are fleeing gangs or domestic violence.
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Greek Woman Hires Egyptian Migrant to Work for Her — Gets Nearly Raped Instead
A 35-year-old migrant from Egypt tried to rape a 34-year-old Greek woman that hired him, news outlet Thebes Radio reports.
According to the local news the Egyptian migrant was arrested yesterday after attempting to rape the Greek woman in a store in the town of Thebes.
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Merkel, Spain’s Socialist Leader Agree to Push ‘Fair Distribution’ of Migrants Across EU
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The leaders of Germany and Spain on Saturday promoted a shared approach to immigration into the European Union amid growing populist opposition in other EU nations to taking in more asylum-seekers.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, meeting at a country estate in the southern region of Andalusia, advocated a “fair distribution” of migrants for EU nations. They said they will share their common vision at an EU summit next month in Austria
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Merkel Party Member Tells Germans Not to be Worried About Becoming a Minority
A member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has penned a column telling Germans they should not be worried about becoming minorities in their cities.
CDU politician Barbara John has claimed “it is only a matter of time before people with a migration background make up the majority of the population in larger cities,” and that Germans should not be worried, in a column the 80-year-old penned for German paper Tagesspiegel this week.
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NGO Ship Aquarius Resumes Transporting Migrants to Europe After Italy Crackdown on Illegal Migration
Pro-mass migration civil society groups have confirmed that the Aquarius ship has resumed picking up migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, but has not yet attempted to disembark the illegals on European soil.
The ship, operated by the Franco-German SOS Méditerranée and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders/MSF), had picked up 141 migrants in boats in international waters off the coast of Libya on Friday in its first mission since early June after it was denied docking by Malta and Italy, reports Reuters.
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Swedish Party Wants to Send Back All Migrants Who Refuse to Work or Contribute to Society
The right-wing Alternative for Sweden (AfS) party launched their nationwide election tour on Saturday with two rallies in Stockholm, Fria Tider reports.
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A refugee who hurled boiling water over his gay roommate and told him ‘in my country we do not allow you’ was jailed for 17 months today.
Rafaat Mohamed, 54, originally from Sudan, had a ‘difficult’ relationship with Kez Phillips before he threw the contents of a boiled kettle over him on April 28 this year.
The pair lived in the same hostel in Chelsea, west London, for six months.
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The city’s censoring of Camp Constitution’s Christian Flag is the ultimate insult to the First Amendment and Boston’s rich heritage as a focal point of liberty and free speech at America’s founding
Today, Liberty Counsel presented oral argument in its federal lawsuit against the city of Boston and one of its officials for censoring the Christian flag that Boston resident Hal Shurtleff and his Christian civic organization, Camp Constitution, requested to fly on the city’s public forum. The city regularly extends to other civic and cultural organizations the freedom to raise their flags on the city hall flagpoles to commemorate whatever events are important to the organizations. The city’s application policy refers to the flagpoles as a public forum.
However, when Camp Constitution asked the city in 2017 for a permit to raise the Christian flag on Boston City Hall flagpoles to commemorate Constitution Day (September 17) and the civic and cultural contributions of the Christian community to the city of Boston, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, religious tolerance, the Rule of Law, and the U.S. Constitution, city officials denied the permit based on a secret, unwritten and unconstitutional “policy” of refusing religious flags. In the lawsuit, Shurtleff and Camp Constitution seek an injunction requiring the city to allow the Christian flag-raising event, that it denied in 2017, to coincide with the 2018 observance of Constitution Day. This event will include historical and contemporary presentations, such as the need for racial reconciliation through Jesus Christ.
At today’s oral argument, Liberty Counsel’s Assistant Vice President of Legal Affairs, Roger Gannam, showed the court that the city’s denial and secret “policy” are unconstitutional because the city’s written permit guidelines promise the public “to accommodate all applicants seeking to take advantage of the city of Boston’s public forums,” but the city admitted in a court filing that its official policy actually makes permit decisions based on whether the city approves the “message” of the applicant. This admission by the city confirms that the city approves of the “message” communicated by Boston Pride and the pink and blue “transgender” flag, and even the flags of Communist China and Cuba, but does not approve of the civic and historical Christian message of Camp Constitution.
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Many of the nation’s colleges have become a force for evil and a focal point for the destruction of traditional American values. The threat to our future lies in the fact that today’s college students are tomorrow’s teachers, professors, judges, attorneys, legislators and policymakers. A recent Brookings Institution poll suggests that nearly half of college students believe that hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment.
Of course, it is. Fifty-one percent of students think that it’s acceptable to shout down a speaker with whom they disagree. About 20 percent of students hold that it’s acceptable to use violence to prevent a speaker from speaking, over 50 percent say colleges should prohibit speech and viewpoints that might offend certain people. Contempt for the First Amendment and other constitutional guarantees is probably shared by the students’ high school teachers, as well as many college professors.
Brainwashing and indoctrination of young people has produced some predictable results, as shown by a recent Gallup Poll. For the past 18 years, Gallup has asked adults how proud they are to be Americans. This year, only 47 percent say they are “extremely proud,” well below the peak of 70 percent in 2003. The least proud to be Americans are nonwhites, young adults and college graduates. The proudest Americans are those older than 50 and those who did not graduate from college. The latter might be explained by their limited exposure to America’s academic elite.
Johnetta Benton, a teacher at Hampton Middle School near Atlanta, was recorded telling her sixth-grade students, “America has never been great for minorities.”
In a tirade, she told her class: “Because Europeans came from Europe … you are an immigrant. You are an illegal immigrant because you came and just took it. … You are an immigrant. This is not your country.”
To exploit young, immature young people this way represents an act of supreme cowardice. The teacher should be fired, but I’m guessing that her colleagues share her sympathies. At the same school, students were given a homework assignment that required them to write a letter asking lawmakers for stricter gun control laws.
One might be tempted to argue that the growing contempt for liberty and the lack of civility stem from the election of Donald Trump. That’s entirely wrong. The lack of civility and indoctrination of our young people have been going on for decades.
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Gender Pronoun Obsessed School Loses Students (Shock!)
A weird identity politics madness has been steadily taking over our campuses for a few decades now. Individual faculty who stood up against the madness were dogpiled by rabid admin, and eventually removed; I’ve seen it with my own eyes enough times.
Last January, I covered such a dogpile at Laurier University. In this case, a teacher decided to have an open discussion of the “23 gender pronouns” symptom of the madness, and was called into the palace of the Diversity Fiefdom, for re-education: use of these pronouns was not a topic open to discussion. While I maintain these types of “conversations” between faculty and identity politics admin are commonplace, what made this particular incident remarkable was the teacher actually recorded the conversation, so that later all could hear with their own ears just how pathological the commissars on our campuses are.
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Oberlin Scraps ‘Social Justice’ Program
A program at Oberlin College to pay students to fight ‘microaggressions’ and ‘privilege’ no longer appears on the school’s website.
This is the second program to apparently disappear after media scrutiny.
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Paul Craig Roberts: “Is There Enough of America Left to be Saved?”
That corporations believe that they can attack the First Amendment with no adverse consequences to themselves shows the extent to which the United States has eroded.
As many readers of this website have noticed, the United States has lost its character and become a dysfunctional society. In place of a largely homogeneous population once united in veneration of the Constitution, there exists today massive diversity which Identity Politics has used to disunite the population into separate interest groups.
The George W. Bush and Obama regimes destroyed two of the most important protections of civil liberty—habeas corpus and due process…
A third important protection of civil liberty — freedom of speech which is necessary for the discovery of truth and to serve justice — is being destroyed. Apple, Google/Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, university speech codes, legislation against protesting Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians, and the presstitute media that has been turned into a propaganda organ in behalf of vested interests are all actively involved in protecting lies against truth…
The Second Amendment, which was placed in the Constitution as a defense against oppression by government, is under attack by well financed organizations in service to the police state with the intention of disarming the population. Many attentive Americans are convinced that mass shootings are staged or pretended in order to create public support for repealing the Second Amendment. Clearly the amount of effort expended against the Second Amendment is disproportional to the number of shooting deaths as compared to other causes of deaths. Why this one cause of deaths has so many well financed and politically active organizations compared to other causes of deaths is a question that is studiously avoided. We see far more opposition to the Second Amendment than we see against Washington’s destruction in whole or part of seven countries during the past two decades, resulting in the death, maiming, widowing, orphaning and displacement of millions of peoples…
In an Orwellian twist, freedom of religion is now interpreted as a prohibition against celebrating Christianity, the religious basis of the country, in public arenas.
Law faculties and the ACLU have deemphasized the original rights specified in the Constitution, emphasizing instead rights for transgendered, homosexuals, illegal aliens, and those seeking and performing abortions—a horrendous crime only a few decades ago…
The newly invented rights and the speech codes are used as weapons against heterosexual white males and to transfer authority from white male professors and managers to university and corporate “diversity offices” acting in behalf of “oppressed minorities” (women, non-white races except apparently Asians, homosexuals, transgendered). In the August 2018 issue of Chronicles, a magazine of American culture, Jack Trotter relates one of his experiences as an assistant professor “at a major Southern university, one of those SEC football titans.” In a lecture he encouraged his students to “avoid excessive use of abstract, Latinate terms in their writing.” He was accused of committing a racist crime of advocating white superiority by expressing a preference for short words with clear meaning that comprise Anglo-Saxon vocabulary. The absurd charge was placed in Trotter’s university file for internal use in the event he gave further indications of white supremacy by uttering the term Anglo-Saxon.
It gets even more ridiculous than this. A professor I know at a major research university was unaware that “girls” had been made an insensitive word and used it in class. He was called before a diversity dean and told that one more infraction and he would have to attend a class in “diversity training.”
The same thing happened to a graduate student at an English University who was one Friday afternoon sitting talking with three secretaries who were describing the evening out they had planned. He said: “sounds like a fun girls’ night out.” The expression “girls night out” is an old one widely used by women themselves, but the secretaries took offense at the word “girls,” complained, and the graduate student was subjected to sensitivity training.
Any member of an “oppressed minority” can make a complaint against a white male on any basis, and it is in the vested interest of the diversity office, whether university or corporate—remember the Google case—to regard the complaint both as true and as an offense.
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Planned Parenthood Launches Six-Figure Ad Campaign to Block Kavanaugh
Planned Parenthood Action Fund is joining several other left-wing groups in a six-figure ad buy that seeks to block the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.
[Comment: Check the picture. Standing there with raised fists and T-shirts that say “Be A Hero”. PP’s off-shore account is getting low and PP want to ensure the flow of funds from the government is getting low.]
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Salvini to Restore ‘Mother’ And ‘Father’ on ID Forms Scrapping ‘Parent One’ And ‘Parent Two’
In his latest move to defend the traditional family, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has declared that future identification forms will ask for mother and father instead of “parent one” and “parent two”.
The leader of the populist League Party gave the order for the change earlier this week following a number of other measures promoting the concept of the traditional family.
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UK: Refugee Who Threw Kettle of Boiling Water Over His Gay Housemate Saying ‘In My Country We Do Not Allow You’ Leaving Him With Severe Blistering is Jailed for 17 Months
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A little current news from Russia.
In Moscow, Magomed attacked the police.
There are two versions:
1) The attack occurred when checking documents after someone committed a theft in the store. http://ribrus.ru/1971-perestrelka.html
2) Magomed tried to steal beer from the store and was caught on the spot. http://ren.tv/novosti/2018-08-12/opublikovano-foto-napadavshego-na-policeyskih-s-nozhom-grabitelya-v-moskve
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“Student” from the North Caucasus region of Ingushetia, while studying in the Russian city of Penza, threatened to kill 17-year-old girl for insulting his religion. The student is now judged on the article “Extremism”
http://www.penzainform.ru/news/crime/2018/08/10/v_penze_devushke_ugrozhali_ubijstvom_za_oskorblenie_religii.html
Re: “EU to ban halogen bulbs doubling cost of lighting home”.
This is misleading; the preferred LED bulbs cost more, but last several times longer, so save money over time.
Oh, and they use less electricity!
Without guarantee of authenticity!
A video is circulating which allegedly shows a protest rally of Spanish border guards of the Tercio de Duque de Alba (stationed in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta).
Because they are not allowed to defend themselves against violent Africans like the ones who just recently stormed the border using wire cutters, knifes, clubs, home made flame throwers and quicklime.
Following a proposal of the recently elected Socialist government under PM Pedro Sanchez that they wont turn away any illegal migrant.
https://www.journalistenwatch.com/2018/08/10/rebellion-legion-tercio/
In the US there are halogen, incandescent (tungsten), fluorescent, and LED light bulbs. Halogen bulbs are small and hot. Are only the halogen bulbs to be banned?
Baron any chance of an article on Anne Marie Water’s For Britain party?