During a monthly meeting of imams in eastern Turkey, an employee of the mufti’s office entered and began shooting. Two imams were killed, and four others were wounded and sent to the hospital. The gunman is said to have had “psychological problems”.
In other news, an explosion at a coffee shop in Homerville, Georgia sent three employees to the hospital with serious injuries. The blast destroyed the building; the cause is not yet known.
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Venezuela’s Hyperinflation Solution? Drop Zeros From the Currency
Having already inflated its currency into practical worthlessness, the Venezuelan government is now trying to mask the inflation by lopping zeros off the currency, reported the New York Times.
President Nicolas Maduro announced that the new currency, known as the “sovereign bolivar,” will be introduced Monday to replace the existing bolivar, which is currently experiencing a 32,714-percent inflation rate. The sovereign bolivar will officially be worth 100,000 times the bolivar. In Caracas, a cup of coffee costs 2 million bolivars; it will cost only 20 sovereign bolivars at the time of the new currency’s introduction.
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“Lynchpin” Bruce Ohr and Nellie Ohr Are at the Heart of Phony Trump Dossier [Video]
Judicial Watch’s Chris Farrell joined Lou Dobbs to discuss the corrupt Mr. and Mrs. Ohr:
“Bruce Ohr is the lynchpin in all of this. His wife worked for Fusion GPS. Then he took that information and funneled it back to the DOJ. He was abusing his position in office”
Chris Farrell was referring to Catherine Herridge of Fox News: Herridge connects the dots and explains how Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson are all connected.
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‘Ancient Aliens’ on the History Channel Outperforms CNN at Primetime Now
CNN faced a shock horror moment over August 6 to 12 when they were beaten in the cable ratings by numerous competitors including the History channels Ancient Aliens.
This proves that people are more interested in alien news than they are in what is currently happening in the world. Good for Disclose.tv though.
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Brennan Goes Nuclear After Losing Security Clearance, Pens Furious Screed in Nyt
Former CIA Director John Brennan has written an op-ed in the New York Times following the Wednesday loss of his security clearance, claiming that President Trump is trying to silence him.
Trump revoked Brennan’s clearance for what he called “unfounded and outrageous allegations” against his administration, while also announcing that the White House is evaluating whether to strip clearances from other former top officials.
Trump later told the Wall Street Journal his decision was connected to the ongoing federal probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election and allegedly collusion by his presidential campaign.
“I call it the rigged witch hunt, (it) is a sham,” Trump said in an interview with the newspaper on Wednesday. “And these people led it.”
“It’s something that had to be done,” Trump added. —Reuters
Writing in the New York Times, Brennan — who led the CIA under President Obama, called Trump’s denials of collusion with Russia “Hogwash,” and vowed not to be silenced…
And in an op-ed for The Hill, former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka wrote that “No one has a right to a top secret clearance,” adding:
The argument that some are making that the president’s decision in some way infringes John Brennan’s free speech rights is, in fact, absurd…
In the last few months, from his position as a paid commentator on MSNBC, John Brennan has repeatedly stated that the duly elected president of the United States is beholden to Vladimir Putin, potentially being blackmailed by him, and has gone as far as to call the president’s actions treasonous. This is a devastating charge to make, one that no other former cabinet-level political appointee has made about a sitting president. Ever. Yet, he does this without providing any evidence at all of his charge. —Sebastian Gorka
[Comment: PDSTT = Psychopathic Deep State Temper Tantrum. This communist should have been tossed out of the CIA long ago. All Obama appointees that no longer work for this administration should have their security clearances pulled.]
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Bruce Ohr Texts, Emails Reveal Steele’s Deep Ties to Obama DOJ, FBI
A trove of emails and handwritten notes from Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr exposes the continuous contact and communication between the DOJ attorney and anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele, according to notes and documents obtained by SaraACarter.com. The emails and notes were written between 2016 and 2017.
The notes and emails also reveal that Ohr was in communication with Glenn Simpson, the founder of the embattled research firm Fusion GPS, which was paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC to hire Steele.
In one of Ohr’s handwritten notes listed as “Law enforcement Sensitive” from May 10, 2017, he writes “Call with Chris,” referencing Steele. He notes that Steele is “very concerned about Comey’s firing, afraid they will be exposed.” This call occurred months after FBI Director James Comey testified before the House Intelligence Committee and revealed for the first time that the FBI had an open counterintelligence investigation into President Donald Trump’s campaign and alleged collusion with Russia.
Steele is also extremely concerned about a letter sent from the Senate Judiciary Committee asking Comey for information on his involvement with Steele. Grassley sent 12 questions to Comey regarding the bureau and Steele’s relationship and wanted all information on any agreements they had during the investigation into alleged Russia-Trump collusion. Grassley also wanted to know if the FBI ever verified any of the information in Steele’s reports.
In Ohr’s notes from May 10, 2017, he goes onto write that Steele is concerned about a letter from the Senate Intelligence Committee, writing:
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Explosion at Homerville Coffee Shop Sends 3 Employees to the Hospital
HOMERVILLE, Ga. — Authorities are investigating a case of possible arson after an explosion at a Georgia coffee shop sent three people to the hospital.
The Georgia Department of Insurance said it happened Friday, Aug. 17 at the Coffee Corner shop in Homerville.
The intensity of blast collapsed several exterior walls of the business, and three employees had to be life-flighted to the hospital.
Investigators are still trying to determine the source of the explosion.
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Federal Court Rejects Campus Carry Challenge
A federal court upheld a prior dismissal of a challenge to Texas’s campus carry law Thursday, providing individuals with a concealed carry permit the ability to carry a firearm on public university property.
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected to revive the lawsuit by three University of Texas at Austin professors, upholding a 2015 law that the trio challenged in July 2016, yet was ultimately dismissed.
The professors claimed that the aforementioned law would violate an individual’s constitutional rights of free speech, due process and equal protection and would “have a substantial chilling effect on class discussion.”
The three-judge panel rejected the assertion, arguing that there is not proof of any impending harm to rationalize such fears.
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For the Real Collusion Story, Look at Hillary Clinton
So evidence continues to mount that the Trump—Russian collusion narrative is actually a hoax—a massive political dirty trick that was hatched by the Clinton campaign, paid for with DNC cash, and laundered through Perkins Coie, all to create a fake dossier that was used to justify an FBI investigation as well as to spawn a strategic leaking campaign to the media.
And all of this led directly to the Mueller investigation.
Bruce Ohr is just the next domino to fall in this chain reaction of evidence that is exposing this entire sordid plot.
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House Committee Considers Subpoena for Twitter CEO for Shadow Banning Conservatives
A House committee is reportedly considering issuing Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey a subpoena for the social media’s allegations of shadow banning conservatives.
An unnamed staffer on the House Energy and Commerce Committee told Politico that it is considering issuing Dorsey a subpoena to testify before the panel after a “tense” meeting with representatives Thursday, Politico reported.
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Louisiana Bans BofA, Citi From Bond Sale Over “Restrictive Gun Policies”
The blowback against bank virtue signaling has begun.
Louisiana’s state’s bond commission voted 7 to 6 Thursday to ban Bank of America and Citigroup from working on its upcoming debt sale because of the banks’ “restrictive gun policies,” the state treasury said in a statement, according to Bloomberg.
As states begin using the bond market in retaliation against Wall Street and to stick up for the Second Amendment, Bank of America and Citigroup — the two top-ranked underwriters of long-term municipal debt — stand to lose millions in muni revenue.
“I personally believe the policies of these banks are an infringement on the rights of Louisiana citizens,” Treasurer John Schroder said in a statement. “As a veteran and former member of law enforcement, I take the Second Amendment very seriously.”
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Manafort’s Judge is Under Federal Protection After Wave of Threats
Judge T.S. Ellis III revealed in open court Friday that he has received death threats relating to his presiding over Paul Manafort’s trial for bank and tax fraud at a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.
The judge has since retained the protection of the U.S. Marshals Service.
“I have the marshal’s protection,” Ellis said. “I don’t even go to the hotel alone. I won’t even reveal the name of the hotel.”
“I had no idea this case excited this emotion in the public,” he added.
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Paul Manafort is Being Prosecuted Because of Who He Knows. I Hope He Walks.
The jury ended its first day of deliberations in the prosecution of Paul Manafort in the Eastern District of Virginia. When this trial is over, Manafort faces a second trial on other charges in federal court in D.C.
The jury asked the judge for help understanding “reasonable doubt.” As is usual in these situations, the judge didn’t give much help, explaining that reasonable doubt was “doubt based on reason” but did not require “guilt beyond all possible doubt.”
That the jury would ask such a question probably heartened Manafort’s team, but I wouldn’t read too much into it.
Paul Manafort is a shady character. He may even be a criminal character.
But he undoubtedly is someone who is being prosecuted because of who he knew. That would be one Donald Trump.
Had Manafort not made the decision to join the Trump campaign, tasked with managing the delegate floor fight at the Republican National Convention, Manafort would be leading his prior life of flim flam and influence peddling.
Had Manafort not been associated with the Trump campaign, he would not have been prosecuted. The feds had looked him over and then looked away years earlier.
Manafort’s team made that argument in closing argument coming close to if not exceeding the judge’s prior order barring a defense of selective prosecution:
It was “not until the special counsel showed up and started asking questions” that anyone seemed concerned about Manafort’s dealings with banks, Westling said, noting that none of the banks involved reported the alleged frauds to the authorities.
As a legal defense, selective prosecution may not hold much water. But in reality, this case is all about selective prosecution, and then some.
The prosecution of Manafort is one cog in a big wheel seeking to nullify the 2016 election.
The case against Manafort was resurrected by Special Counsel Robert Muller and his team to put pressure on Manafort, in the words of presiding Judge Ellis earlier in the case, to sing or to compose against Trump.
“You don’t really care about Mr. Manafort’s bank fraud,” Judge T.S. Ellis III said during a morning hearing. “You really care about getting information Mr. Manafort can give you that would reflect on Mr. Trump and lead to his prosecution or impeachment.”
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Even though the investigation was really done by the Justice Department, handed to you, and then you’re now using it, as I indicated before, as a means of persuading Mr. Manafort to provide information.
It’s vernacular by the way. I’ve been here a long time. The vernacular is to sing. That’s what prosecutors use, but what you’ve got to be careful of is they may not just sing. They may also compose. I can see a few veteran defense counsel here, and they have spent a good deal of time in this courtroom trying to persuade a jury that there wasn’t singing, there was composing going on.
Manafort hasn’t sung. Maybe he doesn’t have anything to sing about when it comes to Trump. Or maybe he figures he’ll be pardoned.
I hope he walks. I hope he walks and then dances on the courthouse steps.
And if, as is likely, he gets convicted of something, I hope Trump pardons him.
The prosecution of Manafort is everything that is wrong with the Mueller investigation and team. They found a man, and then they set out to find the crime, in order to get to another man they found and as to whom they are seeking a crime.
That’s not how it’s supposed to happen in a civil society.
The jury has the power to stop this abuse. And so does Donald Trump.
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Police Raid Anti-Pipeline Site, Destroy Their Camp and Send Them Straight to Jail
Law enforcement ended a lingering standoff with an anti-pipeline camp site, arresting five protesters and destroying all the makeshift homes that were built.
Intense opposition has centered around the Trans Mountain pipeline project, an expansion proposal that will ultimately stretch from Alberta to British Columbia’s west coast. Construction workers for Kinder Morgan, North America’s largest infrastructure company, have been subjected to numerous environmental protests as they continue to work on the $7.4 billion-dollar crude oil pipeline.
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‘Proving Trump Right’: Twitter Abuzz Over Media Campaign Targeting US President
The campaign united both small local media and huge news conglomerates, from the US and abroad. Among the media outlets joining the campaign were The New York Times, The Guardian, Chicago Sun Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald and others, many of them championing the Democratic Party’s agenda.
The anti-Trump media campaign has ignited a controversy online. Many netizens slammed it, stressing that it is “fake news media” that they are the real “enemy of the people,” not just any outlet.
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US Bars Pentagon From Funding China-Backed Confucius Institutes
The Department of Defense has been barred from funding Chinese Communist Party-backed Confucius Institutes located at universities across the United States.
When President Donald Trump on Aug. 13 signed the defense budget bill for the next fiscal year, the measure included a provision added by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) that bars the Pentagon from using any funds on Chinese-language programs offered by Confucius Institutes. …
“I would just say that the use of nontraditional collectors [of intelligence], especially in the academic setting —whether it’s professors, scientists, students—we see in almost every field office that the FBI has around the country,” Wray said. “It’s not just in major cities; it’s in small ones, as well. It’s across basically every discipline.”
“I think the level of naivete on the part of the academic sector about this creates its own issues.
“[The CI is] exploiting the very open research and development environment that we have and which we all revere. But they’re taking advantage of it.”
An agency of China’s Education Ministry called Hanban provides teachers, textbooks, and funding for the Confucius Institutes. China’s propaganda chief, Li Changchun, said in 2009 that the institutes are “an important part of China’s overseas propaganda setup.”
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Although the massive influx of Muslims into Europe is leading to the Islamization of huge swaths of the continent, there is also growing resistance to the cultural sea change that is occurring there.
Six countries have banned the Muslim face coverings, striking a blow against a key weapon of Islam’s aggressive cultural colonization, and some cities and towns have enacted local bans.
The bans seem to declare that Europeans will not watch the continued imposition of Islam’s 7th-century fashion hegemony.
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UK: Barnabas Fund Founder Dr Patrick Sookhdeo in Unanimous “Not Guilty” Verdict: We Reveal the Facts
from Barnabas Fund:
Barnabas Fund is pleased to announce that Dr Patrick Sookhdeo has been found not guilty of an indecent assault alleged to have taken place in 1977. The jury of twelve at Snaresbrook Crown Court, after deliberating for less than two hours, unanimously found Dr Sookhdeo not guilty on Tuesday 31 July 2018. Dr Sookhdeo is the founder of Barnabas Fund, and we are thankful for the zeal, vision and integrity with which he has served the persecuted Church for more than quarter of a century. Although Patrick resigned as a trustee in 2015, he is well known as a founding member of Barnabas Fund and many of our supporters have asked for further details. Dr Sookhdeo and his family ask for our prayers as they continue to challenge an earlier verdict in which Patrick Sookhdeo was convicted. He is seeking leave to appeal and has always maintained his innocence.
The Snaresbrook trial, which of course took place in a secular court, took an unexpected turn. Seemingly due to a lack of evidence, the prosecution appeared to put Patrick’s faith and church practises on trial. Sadly, as has been the case in many recent trials, the police documents that might have helped the defence, either were disclosed during the trial or never disclosed (as the file had been “misplaced”). Furthermore, the prosecution witnesses contradicted themselves and one another, even though they are husband and wife, begging the question of whether this historic allegation from over 40 years ago should have been brought before the courts.
The prosecution sought to attack Patrick’s faith, and theological themes emerged throughout that should never have been raised in a secular court. We consider it is fair to describe the complainant as a liberal Christian. Her husband is a senior Anglican clergyman. Both implicitly criticised the attitude of evangelicals to Islam and Muslim people, and to that end produced as evidence for the prosecution a leaflet released by Patrick and his ministry in the 1970s.
[see URL for a link to more information]
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UK: Manchester Mosque Denies ‘Military Jihad’ Support
A mosque where the Manchester Arena bomber worshipped denies encouraging people to “fight in any military struggle” following a BBC report.
A sermon by Imam Mustafa Graf at Didsbury Mosque in 2016 called for the support of fighters in Syria, according to two Muslim scholars.
It was delivered six months before Salman Abedi killed 22 people after an Ariana Grande concert.
Mr Graf declined to be interviewed but denied preaching Islamic extremism.
Didsbury Mosque said it had “launched an investigation into the sermon to identify any issues raised by the BBC report” as part of its regulations.
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Shaykh Rehan Ahmed Raza, who is a Muslim scholar, said there were “no ifs and no buts” that Mr Graf was referring to “being on the battlefield”.
Usama Hasan, head of Islamic studies at the Quilliam think tank that focuses on counter-extremism, said the sermon was “clearly referring to military jihad, to armed jihad”.
Didsbury Mosque said: “The term jihad was used in its wider meaning; ‘to strive and struggle’ and in this case aid to those being oppressed. There was no call for any military Jihad (qital).
“Nor was there any comment which could in anyway be construed to suggest that Britain or British people should be targeted or attacked. The focus was on the behaviour of the Syrian regime and its victims.
“Didsbury Mosque does not encourage anyone to go and fight in any military struggle.”
Mr Graf denied he had called for armed jihad.
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Turkey Becoming More Belligerent by the Day as the Economy Fizzles
Millions of people could pour into the European Union from Turkey in “another wave of migration” if the country’s economic crisis escalates into a full-blown collapse, some observers have claimed.
Mainstream media periodical Newsweek suggests such a scenario “could have major political consequences” for globalist leaders such as Germany’s Angela Merkel, who effectively opened the EU’s borders unilaterally in 2015 but has been under pressure since the onset of the subsequent migrant crisis and a historically poor performance in the 2017 federal elections.
Turkey’s foreign policy is becoming increasingly erratic Islamist leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has eroded the secular order imposed by the country’s modern founder Kemal Atatürk, greatly increased his personal power, and purged some 106,000 public officials, 21,000 teachers, and 4,400 judges and prosecutors since mid-2016, according to monitors.
The pitch of Erdogan’s bombastic rhetoric has only increased with the imposition of economic sanctions by the Trump administration in the United States over the detention of Christian pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been incarcerated for two years without actually being convicted of anything.
The Turkish government has shown absolutely no qualms about threatening to open the floodgates to Europe in the past, with foreign minister Süleyman Soylu warning they could send “15,000 refugees to you… each month and blow your mind” to pressure Brussels into paying the multi-billion deal.
As recently as April 2018 the Greek government — regularly menaced with the prospect of an actual military invasion by its Islamic neighbour — accused Turkey of allowing a sudden surge of migrants across the Aegean, in order to ensure EU payments to Ankara were approved.[…]
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Two Clerics Killed in Eastern Turkey in Armed Attack Amid Imams’ Debate
At least two clerics have been killed after an argument between imams at a town hall ended with an armed assault in eastern Turkey.
Demirören News Agency reported that the local administration of the Erzincan province’s Tercan district convened for an ordinary monthly meeting on Aug. 17.
An employee of the mufti’s office, identified only as Fatih A., stormed the meeting with a gun amid a heated debate.
Imam Rasim Kiliç and preacher Ersin Kagan were killed, while four imams who were wounded in the attack were hospitalized.
Erzincan Deputy Governor Musa Bastürk told the agency the gunman had “psychological problems” and two of the people he had wounded are in critical condition…
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Three Hindu Monks Killed by Jihadi Elements for Opposing Cow Slaughter in Up’s Auraiya
3 Sadhus killed in temple premises at late-night in a very Jihadi style for opposing cow slaughter in UP’s Auraiya. Local Hindus protest.
(Extreme graphics of murder are below. Discretion of viewers important)
Upendra Bharti | HENB | Auraiya and Kanpur | Aug 16, 2018:: Killing of three Hindu sadhus in Uttar Pradesh’s Auraiya has triggered protests and tension in the district, PTI reported on Wednesday. The two sadhus were stabbed to death at the Bhayanaknath temple in Kudarkot area of Bidhoona on the intervening night of Tuesday-Wednesday and another was died on the very next day while under treatment in a hospital. With this brutal murder of Hindu monks acting as temple priests, in a very ISIS style of throat slitting, angry people took to the streets and staged demonstrations on highways.
Though the exact motive for the crime was not immediately clear or anybody arrested from the crime scene, police said adding they suspected the victims’ opposition to cow slaughter could be one reason. Additional DG (Kanpur range) Avinash Chandra said the priests were found lying in a pool of blood with multiple stab wounds on their necks and other body parts and even tongue of one sadhu was chopped off in a very barbaric way. According to officials, two policemen have been suspended for dereliction of duty after the violence.
Police suspect the monks were attacked as they opposed some people who were allegedly into cow slaughter. “They were tied to their charpoy (rope made cot) and attacked…
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Shocking Report Details How CIA Hubris Exposed Agents in China, Resulting in 30 Executions
A bombshell new report in Foreign Policy reveals that up to 30 CIA agents and assets working in China were identified and executed by Chinese counterintelligence over a two year period after the CIA’s encrypted communications system was infiltrated.
The report is based on former and current unnamed CIA officials who were part of the program, which established a network of spies across China. The in-country spies communicated with their CIA handlers via an online system capable of being logged into from any laptop or computer.
But when starting in late 2010 Chinese authorities began to sweep up the network of spies for interrogation and eventual execution, the CIA was “shellshocked” in the words of one former official, and for eight years a joint FBI-NSA-CIA investigation has sought answers as to what went wrong in what is widely considered “one of the CIA’s worst failures in decades”.
For the first time, it appears answers have been made public. Foreign Policy asks, “How were the Chinese able to roll up the network?” and begins by answering:
Now, nearly eight years later, it appears that the agency botched the communication system it used to interact with its sources, according to five current and former intelligence officials. The CIA had imported the system from its Middle East operations, where the online environment was considerably less hazardous, and apparently underestimated China’s ability to penetrate it.
The CIA officials paint a picture of both hubris on the part of American operatives and shockingly sophisticated abilities of the Chinese to gain access to the CIA communications system, which the Americans wrongly thought impenetrable.
One officials is cited as saying, “The attitude was that we’ve got this, we’re untouchable.”
“You could tell the Chinese weren’t guessing. The Ministry of State Security [which handles both foreign intelligence and domestic security] were always pulling in the right people,” one of the officials told Foreign Policy. “When things started going bad, they went bad fast.”
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Specter of Communism: Chapter Eleven: Desecrating the Arts
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For centuries, classical art has been passed down from generation to generation. This tradition continued until the twentieth century, when it came to an abrupt end. The transmission and inheritance of art was replaced by a radical avant-garde and began quickly degenerating. As artist Robert Florczak says, “The profound, the inspiring and the beautiful were replaced by the new, the different, and the ugly. … Standards declined until there were no standards. All that was left was personal expression.” Humanity thus lost its universal sense of the aesthetic. …
The numerous schools of modern art that have appeared and developed share several things in common: They invert conventional aesthetics. They take ugliness as beauty, and they aim to shock, even to the point of being as ghastly as the artist’s imagination allows. …
Those who support modernism have taken to the trend like a duck to water, but painters truly proficient in the technical skill of painting have a tough time. Painters and sculptors who adhere to strict tradition, who master their craft through painstaking practice, have been squeezed out of the art world. John William Godward, the English Victorian neoclassicist painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, felt that he was discriminated against given that his style of realistic classical painting fell out of favor with the rise of Picasso’s modernist works. In 1922, he committed suicide, and was said to have written in his suicide note: “The world is not big enough for myself and a Picasso.” …
Compared to the beauty of traditional arts, modern arts are extremely ugly. Human aesthetic standards have been destroyed. Avant-garde art has become mainstream and commands vast sums of money. Traditional, noble arts have become a laughing stock. Arts have been manipulated into a vehicle for people to indulge in their desires and vent their demon nature. The boundary between beauty and ugliness, grace and vulgarity, kindness and evil, has been blurred or even erased. Grotesqueness, chaos, and darkness have taken the place of universal values. Human society is filled with demonic messages, and human beings are being steered on a path of decadence and destruction.
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The 27-year-old, Sudanese-born Muslim, who was raised in Brisbane, has written newspaper column accusing U.K. airport authorities of discrimination.
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The child’s mother, from Melbourne, was taking a conference call while her daughter watched Pepper Pig, but knew something was wrong when she noticed an absence of the cartoon character’s voice.
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S.Africa — Cop Who Revealed Government Pedophile Ring Found Dead
‘The fact that he shot himself with someone else’s pistol already raises questions’
(BBC News) South Africa has been gripped by the mysterious death of former police officer Mark Minnie, just a week after he revealed horrific details about an alleged paedophile ring in the once-feared white-minority government that portrayed itself as being made up of devout Christian men.
Minnie, 58, was found with a bullet to his head, but many people are refusing to believe the police version — that he took his own life at the farm of a friend near the coastal city of Port Elizabeth.
“The fact that the suicide note was found doesn’t necessarily mean he wrote it willingly. I mean he could’ve written it under duress. The fact that he shot himself with someone else’s pistol already raises questions,” investigative journalist and author Jacques Pauw told South Africa’s radio 702.
[Comment: He was “suicided” — slang for a murder made to look like a suicide. This was to send a “message” to any other cops who seek to expose the evil. ]
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“I’m Not a Racist, But I’m a Nationalist”: Why Sweden Faces a Historic Election Upset
Sweden took in an astounding 600,000 refugees over the past five years
“Trains and hospitals don’t work, but immigration continues,” Roger Mathson, a retired vegetable oil factory worker in Sweden, told Bloomberg on the same day as the violent, coordinated rampage by masked gangs of youths across five Swedish cities.
We noted earlier that Swedish politicians were quick to react with anti-immigrant party ‘Sweden Democrats’seeing a surge in the polls ahead of the September 9th election.
“I’m not a racist, but I’m a nationalist,” Mathson said. “I don’t like seeing the town square full of Niqab-clad ladies and people fighting with each other.”
Is Sweden set to have its own political earthquake in September, where general elections could end a century of Social Democratic dominance and bring to power a little known (on the world stage), but the now hugely popular nationalist party often dubbed far-right and right-wing populist, called Sweden Democrats?
Sweden, a historically largely homogeneous population of 10 million, took in an astounding 600,000 refugees over the past five years, and after Swedes across various cities looked out their windows Tuesday to see cars exploding, smoke filling the skies, and possibly armed masked men hurling explosives around busy parking lots, it appears they’ve had enough.
[Comment: Lifetime jail sentences for treason for those that pushed this invasion in the first place.]
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An illegal immigrant from Ethiopia who lied about his role in brutal human rights abuses in order to obtain U.S. citizenship was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Alexandria, Virginia, on Friday.
Mergia Negussie Habteyes, 58, reportedly lied to U.S. immigration authorities while trying to obtain citizenship, saying he was not involved in any political persecution in Ethiopia. However, Negussie Habteyes never told officials that he served as a civilian interrogator in a high-level prison in Ethiopia in the late 1970s, according to an indictment obtained by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
While he was a civilian interrogator during the “Red Dawn” period in Ethiopia, Negussie Habteyes reportedly participated in persecution, using brutal violence against prisoners based on their political beliefs. Negussie Habteyes also allegedly gave false statements to the U.S. government while trying to obtain his citizenship.
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Border Wall Construction Progresses in New Mexico
New Mexico is progressing on its 20-mile border wall construction west of Santa Teresa, replacing old posts and rail barriers as part of President Donald Trump’s initiative to halt illegal immigration and drug trafficking.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said more than 8,100 panels stretching over 11 miles were built as of Aug. 8, according to the Associated Press Friday.
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Hit Man for ISIS Arrested in California… Refugee Application Riddled With Lies
While Obama flooded America with refugees during his 8 years in office, he promised those foreigners would be extremely vetted…He lied! President Trump is right again! The refugees were not carefully vetted and the latest case is a perfect example:
A hit man for ISIS was arrested in California. He lied over and over to get into the U.S….Why do we trust these people.
All ISIS fighter Omar Ameen had to do was deny on UN paperwork and in interviews with US Customs and Immigration Services that he had links to terror groups. That “cut off” all further lines of inquiry, and Voila!, he became a refugee:
Yes, the United Nations chooses our refugees! That needs to change! Please check out Refugee Resettlement Watch and look at the numbers during Obama’s 8 years.shocking!
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Woman Escapes ISIS Sex Slavery Only to Bump Into Former Captor Walking Freely in Germany
A woman who was kidnapped by ISIS as a teenager in her native Iraq in 2014 and held for three months as a sex slave by the terror group eventually managed to escape and later resettled as a refugee in Germany after the harrowing ordeal.
But two years after her escape, she unexpectedly encountered her ISIS kidnapper while walking the streets of Stuttgart, Germany. The man she identified as Abu Hamam was living in Germany as a free man, and the police did nothing.
The Daily Mail reports the following of the Kurdish Yezidi woman Ashwaq Ta’lo’s testimony relating the shock encounter:
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Atheists Demand Removal of Christian AFB Commander
An atheist group with a long history of litigation against religious expression in the military now charges the new commander of Edwards Air Force Base in California should be imprisoned for his declaring his Christian beliefs.
Michael “Mikey” Weinstein and his Military Religious Freedom Foundation filed a formal complaint this week with Defense Secretary James Mattis regarding Brig. Gen. E. John Teichert, reported PJ Media. It alleges he engaged in “intolerance/proselytizing; violations of DoD diversity & civil liberties policies; and Air Force standards violations.”
MMRF complained that Teichert created a public webpage and a blog, along with social media accounts, that “promote his fundamentalist, dominionist ‘ Christian’ beliefs.”
This conduct, the demand letter alleges, is a violation of Air Force policy, “especially the absence of disclaimers and manifested intolerance for religious diversity.”
Weinstein’s group said in a statement Monday that Teichert “should be doing time behind prison bars, not commanding a wing wearing general’s stars.”
Teichert, the atheist group contended, “has denigrated LGBT individuals, slammed American society at large, and, of course, delivered election voting mandate directives wherein he has effusively urged that only HIS type of approved Christian should ever be elected to American public office.”
[Comment: Anyone else fed up with these atheist jackasses who act more like vampires seeing a cross. It’s “freedom of religion” not “freedom from religion”. Any Christian in a position of authority is not “establishment of religion”. Only congress can “establish” a national religion.]
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UK: Two Charged Over Three-Year-Old FGM Victim; Blame “Household Accident”
Today I was at the Thames Magistrates Court in London, where a couple of African heritage were charged with the genital mutilation of a three-year-old in their care.
The story is revolting: It allegedly involves a botched FGM procedure, lying to the authorities about how it happened, emergency surgery… and even child/animal pornography.
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I don’t think that congress can “establish” a national religion, not legally at least…
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
We do need an amendment outlawing Marxism, though.
you mean tenets of marxism like central banking or government run education, or heavy taxation for the purpose of redistributing wealth?
In the U.S., the Communist Party is still illegal. But “cultural” Marxism is a whole ‘nother can of worms.
It’s hard to believe Brenan’s CIA had the same password for all the spies inside Red China. It stinks of a cover up of a traitor(s) inside the CIA.
“ATHEISTS DEMAND REMOVAL OF CHRISTIAN AFB COMMANDER”
I bet if he was a Muslim promoting Islam it would be just fine with the atheist.
There would be no complaints.
At the funeral in Genoa sounds Takbir “Allahu Akbar”
http://www.utusan.com.my/berita/luar-negara/takbir-8216-allahuakbar-8217-iringi-majlis-pengebumian-mangsa-genoa-1.731968
Re: “Barnabus Fund founder Dr Patrick Sookhdeo…”
I had the privilege of hearing Dr Sookhdeo speak, and meeting him, at the suggestion of “Gates” contributor Peter from Thailand. I’ve made a small contribution to Barnabas since, as they do such good work, but it’s good to see him acquitted.