According to the latest government statistics, almost one third of the crimes committed in Italy are committed by migrants. In the first six months of this year foreigners made up 31.9% of criminal suspects, but they comprised only about 8% of the population.
In other news, Arizona Senator John McCain has died, after a long battle with brain cancer.
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Breaking: US Republican Senator John McCain Dies of Brain Cancer Age 81
On Friday his family said in an announcement that Mr McCain had decided to stop treatment for the brain cancer he had been battling for over a year.
A statement from the Senator’s office reads: “Senator John Sidney McCain III died at 4:28pm on August 25, 2018.
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Children Made Up Story About White Man Urinating on Black Child: Police
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A story about a white man urinating on a 5-year-old black child and calling her a racial slur was fabricated, police said.
Grand Rapids police and prosecutors late Friday, Aug. 24 said they determined the story was not valid and said no charges would be issued against a 60-year-old man arrested following the initial report on Wednesday.
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Chinese Communist Party Funds Washington Think Tanks
China’s Communist Party is intensifying covert influence operations in the United States that include funding Washington think tanks and coercing Chinese Americans, according to a congressional commission report.
The influence operations are conducted by the United Front Work Department, a Central Committee organ that employs tens of thousands of operatives who seek to use both overt and covert operations to promote Communist Party policies.
The Party’s United Front strategy includes paying several Washington think tanks with the goal influencing their actions and adopting positions that support Beijing’s policies.
The report said the Johns Hopkins School of Advance[d] International Studies, a major foreign policy education and analysis institute, has received funding from Tung Chee-hwa, a vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the party group that directs the United Front Work Department and includes a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the collective dictatorship that rules China.
The funding for Johns Hopkins came from Tung’s non-profit group in Hong Kong, the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, which is a registered Chinese agent.
In addition to Johns Hopkins, other think tanks linked to China and influential in American policy circles include the Brookings Institution, Atlantic Council, Center for American Progress, EastWest Institute, Carter Center, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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China Commission member Larry Wortzel, a former military intelligence officer once posted to China, said the report is important for exposing the activities of the United Front Work Department and the China People’s Political Consultative Conference.
“Most Americans and many members of Congress have no idea of the range of activities undertaken by this Chinese Communist Party web,” Wortzel said. “It is a form of activity by Communist parties that dates back to the days of Lenin.”
Wortzel said now that Congress has been alerted to the Chinese influence operations, “Congress should consider legislation requiring anyone associated with the China People’s Political Consultative Conference, CUSEF, or the United Front Work Department to register as a foreign agent,” he said.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) has said the collusion between American groups and United Front Work Department operatives is the Chinese party using Americans to “unwittingly promote CCP ideology” in a “countering voice” in debates over China…
[See news report for Chinese student groups affiliated with China]
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Deranged Left’s Take-No-Prisoners Strategy for Midterms
Never before in our lives have we seen such corrupt calumny and hatred on spittle-flecked display
Americans and their freedom-loving friends worldwide won’t be sleeping well between now and November 6 Midterms.
While far too many already asleep at the switch see these Midterms as just another election, millions of patriots tossing restlessly in their sleep, see these Midterms for what they really are: a chance for Democrats in exile to regain power by getting even with the 63 million-plus people who cast their votes for Donald Trump—and not Hillary Clinton.
It should go without saying that their unabated high-pitched hatred knows no bounds and that there will be no restraint.
With cheerleader help from the mainstream media, the social media and Entertainment Industry heavyweights, the Democrat Progressive-Left have squandered the last year and a half demonstrating how much they hate President Donald Trump.
They’ve now turned hurling hatred over to the media while they to out to campaign.
But the biggest difference to the masses is that they can now clearly see the deep pit into which they will force President Donald Trump with counted on compliance from a rogue Deep State.
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DNC Chair Tom Perez Runs Away Whens Asked if He Believes Keith Ellison Assault Allegations
As you’re probably aware, former DNC Deputy Chair and soon-to-be former U.S. Representative Keith Ellison has been accused of both physically and emotionally abusing his ex-girlfriend. According to the accuser, there are video and audio recordings (as well as text messages) that will substantiate the claim, though they’ve refused to produce the evidence. Ellison has flatly denied the charge.
This has resulted in an odd he said/she said situation, where everyone in Washington is doing their best to stay quiet while they wait for the other shoe to — possibly — drop…
Essentially, Republicans don’t want to jump the gun, so they’re not saying anything. Democrats don’t want to believe this is true, so they’re not saying anything, either. That’s a bit awkward, since the left just spent a solid three years telling everyone that the accuser must always be believed.
That last point leads us to the following video, obtained first by the Daily Caller. In it, DNC Chairman Tom Perez is asked — over and over again — if he believes the accuser. Not only does he refuse to answer; he can’t get away fast enough.
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Executives From the Major Social Media Companies Gather to Plot “Strategy” for the 2018 Election
Is the social media crackdown on conservatives about to get even worse? On Friday, representatives from Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Snapchat and other major social media companies gathered to discuss “strategy” for the 2018 election. Supposedly they were going to discuss how to combat the flow of “misinformation”, but we know what that means. Every time the social media giants pledge to do more to crack down on “fake news”, more conservatives get censored. In recent months we have witnessed the greatest purge of conservative voices in the history of the Internet, and as you will see below, even more prominent voices have been hit with bans in recent days. Of course the social media companies are pledging that their censorship efforts are being implemented in an even-handed manner, but obviously all of their meddling has greatly enhanced the probability that Democrats will emerge victorious in November.
According to Breitbart, this gathering of social media executives was initiated by Facebook, and it was held at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco…
We are seeing the rise of a tyrannical Big Brother technocracy, and it is getting worse with each passing month. Just check out some of the big name conservatives that have been censored by social media in recent days…
- The Hagmann Report was just slapped with a 90 day ban by YouTube.
- Verity Baptist Church was just completely banned by YouTube.
- The David Horowitz Freedom Center just had the processing of their donations blocked by Visa and Mastercard.
- “Activist Mommy” Elizabeth Johnston was recently banned by Facebook.
In addition, Facebook’s censorship of PragerU has resulted in a drop of engagement of more than 99 percent…
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Far-Left Group to Host Conference on ‘How to Topple a Statue’ In N. Carolina
Veteran left-wing vandals in North Carolina are holding a conference this weekend in Durham to teach young, up-and-coming vandals how to topple statues.
The two-day conference, titled “How to Topple a Statue, How to Tear Down a Wall,” was organized by a far-left group called “Defend Durham.”
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Google Search Results Show Pervasive Anti-Trump, Anti-Conservative Bias
Is Google manipulating its algorithm to prioritize left-leaning news outlets in their coverage of President Trump? It sure looks that way based on recent search results for news on the president.
Conservatives and Trump supporters have for the last several years questioned whether Google was deprioritizing conservative news sites, hiding them from users who utilize their search engine. Google has maintained that all outlets are treated fairly, but nevertheless, conservative sites have reported reduced search traffic and, in the case of Google-owned YouTube, content creators have been banned and demonetized. Google’s high-profile firing of conservative James Damore, purportedly over his conservative political views, only reinforces the idea that Google is picking winners and losers.
To test the premise, I performed a Google search for “Trump” using the search engine’s “News” tab and analyzed the results using Sharyl Attkisson’s media bias chart.
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Jim Brown Backs Trump in 2020, Claims Support Will ‘Make Me Very Unpopular in the Black Community’
NFL legend Jim Brown has endorsed President Donald Trump’s re-election in 2020, but he admits that the endorsement will make him unpopular among liberal black activists.
Brown made his endorsement during an appearance on the JT The Brick Show on Fox Sports Radio this week, but, the Hall of Fame running back did so despite knowing that the left would attack him, according to Daily Wire.
“I should be criticizing Trump on every level because he does certain things that call for criticism,” Brown said, “but when I look at television I see all these announcers become experts, and they’re pointing the fingers, and they’re not doing a doggone thing but pointing their fingers, I find myself really pulling for the president.
“Now, that would make me very unpopular in the black community, very unpopular with a lot of Americans,” Brown continued, “but I think that there are certain good things that are coming out of this presidency because we’ve never seen anything like it.”
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John McCain Has Died of Brain Cancer, Vietnam War Hero and Senator Was 81
Many people have disproved F. Scott Fitzgerald’s axiom that there are no second acts in Americans lives. But Sen. John McCain proved there can be third and even fourth acts.
Mr. McCain, veteran of the Vietnam war, more than 35 years in Washington, two presidential campaigns and countless personal and political revivals, died Saturday after a year-long bout with brain cancer, leaving a legislative legacy unmatched by any Republican of his generation…
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‘Left-Leaning’ Man Threatened to ‘Blow Up’ Conservative Student Conference
A Chicago man was arrested for allegedly threatening to “shoot” and “blow up” a conference of conservative high school students.
Last month’s High School Leadership Summit at Washington D.C.’s George Washington University made waves in the mainstream media due to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ repeat of the phrase “lock her up” in response to students’ chants of same.
According to ABC News, Micah Cohen apparently took offense to this (and more), and posted on Twitter that he was “on his way […] to greet the nice conservative teenagers.” He followed this up with “I’m riding through D.C. [to] go and shoot GWU up … We gon’ come and blow GWU up.”
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New York Governor Pardons Sex Offenders So They Can Vote
The Governor of New York has conditionally pardoned dozens of sex offenders, among other paroled felonious criminals, in order to allow them to vote in November. “Dozens of convicted sexual predators deemed too dangerous to be returned to the community after their release from prison are among the thousands who received conditional pardons from Gov. [Andrew] Cuomo, giving them the right to vote,” according to the New York Daily News.
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Roger Stone Predicts Mueller Will Indict Donald Trump Jr. on Process Crime
Veteran Republican operative Roger Stone predicts special counsel Robert Mueller will soon indict Donald Trump Jr. on a process crime.
Following the indictments of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and longtime Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, the Office of the Special Counsel is now reportedly zeroing in on Trump Jr., whom Stone alleges will imminently face charges for making false statements to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents.
“The special counsel is going to charge Donald Trump Jr. with lying to the FBI. Notice they’re not charging him for having an illegal meeting with a Russian at Trump Tower because there’s nothing illegal about that meeting,” Stone told James Miller of The Political Insider. “[P]ut more precisely, the only thing illegal about that meeting was how the woman got in the country, how she got a visa from the Obama State Department, and why she was meeting with an official from Fusion GPS before and after the Trump Tower meeting.”
[Comment: This is the deep state controlled FBI’s favourite tactic.]
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Scott Adams on Time Mag ‘Drowning Trump’ Cover: Critics See Things That Don’t Exist
Dilbert creator pushes back on Fake News smears
Fox News invited Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip series, to break down the latest Time Magazine cover.
Time unveiled their latest cover on Friday showing President Trump drowning inside the Oval Office, a reference to the multitude of fake news scandals facing his presidency.
Appearing on Fox & Friends Friday, Adams explained how he applies his “Bigfoot test” to fake news in order to determine its veracity.
“You notice we’re in two different realities now. In one reality, the President keeps violating all these things which are not actual laws,” Adams notes, going on to list issues Trump haters are mad about, including alleged Russia collusion, obstruction, the Trump tower meeting and payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
“So part of the country believes he’s a serial lawbreaker. The other side sees absolutely nothing happening,” Adams says.
“And I usually apply what I call the ‘Bigfoot test’ to those two realities, which is: two hunters go into the forest and they come back and one of them says, ‘We talked to BigFoot,’ and the other hunter says, ‘I was with you the whole time. I didn’t see Bigfoot.’ Which one of them is crazy? Well it’s usually the one who’s seeing things that isn’t there.”
Addressing how fake news tends to over-sensationalize Trump stories in order to make them worse than they really are, Adams also said he takes cues from veteran Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein, who constantly says Trump’s scandals are “worse than Watergate.”
“Every time the president is accused of something that sounds bad when you first hear it, I get worried until Carl comes on and says it’s worse than Watergate, and I go, ‘Oh, whew it’s nothing,’ [laughs] because that’s sort of your signal.”
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Steyer: We Need to Get Rid of ‘Dramatically Reckless, Dangerous and Lawless’ Trump
Friday on MSNBC’s “Live,” billionaire liberal activist Tom Steyer, who has led an impeachment campaign against President Donald Trump in recent months, said Americans needed to “get rid of a dramatically reckless, dangerous and lawless president.”
[One commenter to he article astutely observed : “The only thing dangerous about Trump is the constant unmasking of corruption at the highest levels of our government that his election has exposed. Dangerous for them, yes. “ ]
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The Bible Warns of End Times Disinformation
by Betty Freauf
My Texas Truth Seeker research friend wanted to call this article REAL EYES REALIZE REAL LIES. She continues to amaze me with her ability to find information on the Internet in our present age of conflict and outrage. Daniel 12 warns us that “the wicked shall do wickedly” during the “time of the end”— but God will send a Comforter saying, “Peace, I Leave with you…let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (John 14:27.) Since the election of President Donald Trump and his continuous referring to “fake news,” and using his Twitter to humiliate media presstitutes who call themselves journalists, more and more people are having their eyes open to what William Casey, CIA Director said at his first staff meeting in 1981: We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” Most Americans actually believe what they are told in the NEWS on teLIEvision. [Link]
[Comment: Google the Supreme Court decision which stated that the media was under no obligation to tell the truth…]
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The Billion Dollar Homeless Scam
New York City will be spending $2.06 billion on its Department of Homeless Services. There are 61,421 homeless people in the city which is spending $33,539 per homeless person.
That’s only a little short of the starting salary of an FDNY firefighter at $39,000.
More money will be spent on the homeless than on the firefighters who save New Yorkers from burning buildings. The FDNY will have to make do with $2.04 billion, and the health department with $1.6 billion.
That’s impressive for DHS, a department that was only created in 1993 by the disgraced Dinkins administration and is now burning through more cash than agencies fulfilling actual vital city functions.
Two years ago, DHS had over 2,600 employees. That’s 1 employee to every 23 homeless people. Meanwhile 234 New Yorkers get only 1 police officer to serve and protect them from criminals.
Has this vast infusion of cash solved homelessness in the city? Nope.
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I started with a list names attached to nefarious activity. The list grew so long that it would take a book or two to lay out their deeds. So, you get the condensed version of the web. Their activity so dangerous at stake is survival of our Constitutional Republic. Relatively speaking, only a few in our vast media world are taking an objective look or searching for truth. The truth of what transpired. When the truth is right before them it’s ignored. Through overt hatred, they root for an outcome placing the greatest nation on earth on the road toward self-destruction. Self-destruction may not be accurate because most Americans, even those cheering for it, do not want the remnants of a country we’ll be left with. They’re simply to ill-educated and over indoctrinated to know any better.
Each time I added names to the list, they pointed me toward other names and other events. As the list grew, the deviousness and connections became more obvious. Different names pointed to different events, but as it came full circle it was clear that it was one group. One goal. One cabal. They’re the ones that walked away from every criminal act while others were blamed or imprisoned. They walked away unscathed from Benghazi, Uranium One, the DNC Server scandal, the Clinton server scandal, unmasking and spying on Americans without cause, and if not stopped they are on their way to walking away from a political scandal of such proportions that it likely involves hundreds.
If President Trump had not won the election, Americans would remain ignorant, sadly many of them by choice, of the truth. And we would remain under the control of a vast criminal cabal. Something the majority of Americans could not envision happening in the land of the free. The cabal is real. It runs deep. For as far back as you care to look with figurehead Presidents and a charade of government by and for the people, it’s ran our country for far too long.
Maybe it was divine intervention that they are now exposed to the light. Evil cannot exist in the light. Even the complicit media will not for much longer be able to keep the growing mountain of evidence from the people. This is a war. It will end. Political persecution has started. Opposing voices are being silenced by major media propaganda and blackout and social media black listing. When it does end either the cabal will be crushed or the Constitutional Republic known as the United States of America will no longer exist. Make no mistake. Whether we are active participants or not, we are in a fight for our existence. If the deep state wins, it will no longer be the deep state. It will be the state and it will be more brutal than any other in the history of nations.
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The News You Didn’t Hear This Week
So, President Trump had a terrible week. CNN, and the rest of the prestige press, told us so. It’s only a matter of time before Trump is brought down. A crisis of the regime is imminent. You can tell things are serious because the stock market . . . hit a record high! Strange how, aside from the Cheerleaders of the Tape at CNBC, we heard so little about this during the Week of Trump’s Doom. What does the market know that the media don’t? Well, of course the answer to that “well, duh” question is—a lot.
Actually the strength of the stock market may not tell us much at all except that the animal spirits of capitalism, which rallied despite Obama’s best attempt to depress the markets, are bigger than our political circus, which is a reassuring thought. Actually a close look—and the data back this up—shows that what is really holding the market back from even bigger gains at the moment is the fear and uncertainty about how the trade tensions Trump has unleashed will play out. The market always rallies hard on news that trade tensions may be resolved, and slumps when tensions ratchet up again. I am reliably informed that this has been brought directly to Trump’s attention, to which he responds, “Just think how big the stock market will boom when we win the trade war.” Gotta like that kind of confidence and moxey. Even if tariffs are stupid.
But markets should be heeded, and the strength of the market is perhaps a leading indicator of why the Trump Impeachment Processional is unlikely to succeed. As I said yesterday, it seems like we’re doing a re-enactment of the Clinton scandals of the 1990s, which also had its high quotient of bimbos, perjury, and media frenzy. And I can clearly recall that with every new revelation of Clinton perfidy—Whitewater, travelgate, Vince Foster, Rose Law Firm billing records, Kathleen Willey, the MacDougals, Juanita Brodderick, Paula Jones, ad nauseum, ad infinitum—we Clinton haters on the right were sure that this is it!—surely this scandal will prove the tipping point that will get him at last. But by the time Monica Lewinski flashed her thong, Clinton scandal fatigue had set in with the American people. Oh, and don’t forget: the economy was ripping along with robust growth and record highs in the stock market. Sort of like today.
Hmmm. I wonder if any Democrats have pondered this. Historical literacy is not their strong suit.
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Whistleblower: It Was a Failed Coup, Mainstream Media Are Covering up Phony DOJ Dossier
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com
CIA whistleblower Kevin Shipp says that the mainstream media is laser-focused on the recent Cohen plea and the Manafort conviction, both of which have nothing to do with “Russian collusion.” He says this is because the mainstream media are conspirators and have nothing to do with real news.
“We know the mainstream media (MSM) is not interested in the news,” said Kevin Shipp to USA Watchdog’s Greg Hunter.
“They have, from their editors on down and their corporate owners, an objective and, in this case, to remove Donald Trump. He stands against everything that they are, the Left or the ‘Dark Left’ as I call it. Trump is actually confronting the Shadow Government and Deep State, and he has them shaking. He has the news media shaking that pushes these really leftist things. So, they are intentionally and on purpose blocking the news and deleting the news about things like this soft coup, the (phony) dossier.”
This is a very powerful interview. If you have the time, we suggest you watch it in its entirety. It is just over 37 minutes long.
Shipp went on to detail the truth: “The MSM will not tell you the latest revelation and that is Bruce Ohr, who was the fourth highest ranking official in the Obama Justice Department (DOJ), wrote the now infamous phony Trump Dossier which was used to apply for fraudulent federal wiretaps (with the FISA Court) to spy on Trump.”
Shipp says all of this investigating started with Bruse Ohr, and he’ll be the next to lose his security clearance.
“It all started from the fake dossier which led eventually to the appointment of Robert Mueller (Special Prosecutor) and the entire foundation is based on a falsity. . . . I understand the next revocation of security clearance is probably going to be Bruce Ohr because he crafted the fake dossier with Christopher Steele, and he may even have written the thing…
After the FBI supposedly fired Christopher Steele, Bruce Ohr had at least 70 communications (with Steele) back and forth talking about the ‘firewall’ is still there to protect us. Recent accounts show that Bruce Ohr either wrote the dossier with Christopher Steele or he wrote it himself in communication with Christopher Steele.” —Kevin Shipp
When Hunter asked Shipp if the dossier meant to frame Trump came directly from the FBI and the DOJ, Shipp confirmed that it did.
“Yes. Oh, they coordinated it for sure. There are 70 emails back and forth between Ohr and Steele crafting the dossier. So, the FBI and Department of Justice were intimately involved with the creation and publication of that dossier.”
“They even went further than that. The FBI and CIA counter-intelligence even placed an agent inside the Trump campaign.” —Kevin Shipp
Shipp concluded that a Civil War in the making right now. “I think we are at the beginning of a civil war. You’ve got the ‘Dark Left’ and you’ve got the Conservative people, the Constitutionalists. In progressivism, one of its tenets is to change the Constitution, especially the First Amendment, and uproot traditional America. Whatever happens in November is going to intensify that. . . . Their attack is against Christians and the Constitution.”
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MARDOCHE Yembi was like any other eight-year-old boy: he loved football and played in goal for a youth team in Tottenham, North London, and enjoyed spending time with his friends at school.
But he was hiding a secret.
He’d been sent to live with his aunt and uncle from the Democratic Republic of Congo after his mother passed away — but at this new home in Islington his relatives were accusing him of being a witch and seriously abusing him.
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In Ireland, Pope Francis Denounces the ‘Grave Scandal’ Of Clerical Sex Abuse
Pope Francis once more condemned clerical sex abuse Saturday, as well as the “failure of ecclesiastical authorities” to adequately address what he called “repellent crimes.”
“I cannot fail to acknowledge the grave scandal caused in Ireland by the abuse of young people by members of the Church charged with responsibility for their protection and education,” the pope said in his opening address at the World Meeting of Families in Dublin.
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The first legislative rider abolished the obligation of religious associations to declare themselves as lobbying groups — a measure that clearly opens the way for entities such as the Muslim Brotherhood to lobby Members of Parliament without leaving a trace.
Is it, however, the business of the secular State of France to organize Muslims and train “republican” imams?
The tradition in France ever since the 1905 secularism law — one accepted by all religions except Islam — is that religion may not to impose its rules on secular society. Now it is France that must adapt to Islam.
The big question is: Who will be heading and managing this new framework? Will it be the Muslim Brotherhood, the most powerful organization, which controls more than 2,000 mosques in France? Or a young guard of Muslim technocrats close to the president but with no ties to mosques, imams and the organized Muslim community in general?
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Record Measles Outbreak in Europe Reaches 41,000 Cases
THE failure of parents to vaccinate their children has contributed to the biggest surge in measles cases Europe has seen in a decade, according to the World Health Organization.
Across the 53 countries in the region, there have been at least 37 deaths and more than 41,000 cases in the first half of this year, already nearly twice the 23,927 cases recorded in the whole of 2016.
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Swedish Radio Broadcaster Launches Election Debates and Seminars… in Arabic
Swedish public radio broadcaster Sveriges Radio has announced a new series of debates and workshops for the Stockholm area which will be exclusively in Arabic to “reach out to new arrivals”.
The project, which began this week, will see the broadcaster invite Arabic-speaking members of Swedish political parties to debate issues ahead of the national election next month, Sveriges Radio reports.
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UK: Khan’s London: Muslims Caught Butchering Animals in Backyard for Eid
Authorities have confirmed that environmental health officials are investigating after they were sent footage of a family chopping up animal carcasses on a tarpaulin outside their house in Dagenham.
Neighbours alerted the council after they saw large quantities of raw meat being hacked in the backyard of a residential address in the London borough, according to The Sun.
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UK: Khan’s London: Short Sentences for Tower Hamlets Crack and Heroin Dealers
Eight men have been imprisoned as part of a massive police operation to smash drugs gangs in east London which has seen 50 suspects charged.
The men were targeted as part of “a long-term crackdown on the supply of drugs, violence, and anti-social behaviour in the Whitechapel area” of East London, which is known as a centre for the Bangladeshi community.
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Geneva Set to Host Talks on Syrian Constitution Next Month
The UN peace envoy for Syria will host Iran, Russia and Turkey for talks on drafting a new Syrian constitution on September 11-12, a United Nations spokeswoman said on Friday August 24th.
Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura has been tasked with setting up a committee to write a new constitution for the war-ravaged country.
The main foreign powers backing the project are Syrian government allies Russia and Iran, as well as Turkey, which supports some opposition groups.
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As the Arctic summer ice melt approaches its peak, we can say with high certainty that this year’s ice melt will extend the trend of a rebounding Arctic ice mass by another year.
Arctic summer sea ice now growing 12 years
Our Japanese skeptic blogger and good friend Kirye reports using the data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) that peak summer Arctic sea ice volume upward growth trend has been extended yet another year — now 12 years.
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Two men were arrested at a controversial men’s march in Melbourne on Saturday. The highly-controversial protest sparked fury from different facets of the community as it kicked off just after 1pm
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Trump Says He’s Told Pompeo to ‘Closely Study’ Land Expropriation, Farm Murders in South Africa
(CNSNews.com) — After a Fox News segment Wednesday night focusing on the controversial issue of land expropriation in South Africa, President Trump tweeted that he has asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to investigate.
Trump said has asked Pompeo “to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers.”
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Mexican Cardinal Says Abuse Victims Should Think About Skeletons in Their Own Closet
DUBLIN-Swimming against the tide of promises to crack down on abuse and cover-up led by Pope Francis, a newly created Mexican cardinal said that some accusers should be “ashamed” to point their finger at clerics because many of them have skeletons in their own closets.
The victims of pedophilia who “accuse men of the Church should [be careful] because they have long tails that are easily stepped on,” said Cardinal Sergio Obeso Rivera.
The cardinal, emeritus Archbishop of Xalapa, in Veracruz, Mexico, spoke to journalists before a celebration he led in his former diocese.
Even though he acknowledged that some allegations are true, he went after the victims and avoided referring to the Pennsylvania grand jury report in the United States that found some 300 abusive priests in a span of seven decades in six dioceses.
Obeso Rivera’s words came last week, after the report was made public.
“I’m here happy to talk about nice things, not about problematic things, it’s an accusation that is made, and in some cases it’s true. But the evil of many is the consolation of fools, because sometimes those who accuse men of the Church should [be careful] because they have long tails that are easily stepped on.”
However, he did say that the accusations “make us feel bad and we want to improve.”
Obeso Rivera was made a cardinal by Pope Francis on June 28. As the prelate is over 80, he will not be participating in the eventual conclave to choose the pontiff’s successor.
Mexico is the home of Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legionaries of Christ, who was found guilty by the Vatican of having sexually abused minors and young men. After his death, it was also revealed that he had maintained relationships with at least two women, fathering more than one child.
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Venezuela Migration Nears ‘Mediterranean Crisis Point’
The UN’s migration agency says Venezuela is heading for the same refugee “crisis moment” seen in the Mediterranean in 2015.
The warning comes as its neighbours try to halt the movement of people fleeing Venezuela’s economic crisis.
Peru brought in stricter border regulations on Saturday — a day after a court overturned Ecuador’s attempt to strengthen its own controls.
More than two million Venezuelans have fled their country since 2014.
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CNN Tries to Make Illegal Alien Murder of Mollie Tibbetts About ‘Harassment While Jogging’
CNN responded to the murder of Mollie Tibbetts by an illegal alien by asking whether the larger problem is male harassment of female runners.
20-year-old Tibbetts was killed by illegal immigrant Cristhian Bahena Rivera last month. The Iowa college student suffered “multiple sharp force injuries,” according to a post-mortem examination.
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EU-Italy Crisis Talks Fail: Italian Leader Lashes Out at ‘Hypocrisy’ of European Allies
AN EMERGENCY meeting in Brussels has failed to resolve the erupting row between Italy and the European Union over the migrant boat Diciotti standoff, with the Italian Prime Minister lashing out at EU chiefs after the meeting.
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German President Declares There Are ‘No Native Germans, We Are a Nation of Immigrants’
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has declared Germany “is a nation of immigrants and will remain so”, asserting: “There are no half or whole Germans, no biological or ‘new’ Germans”.
Speaking at Berlin’s Bellevue Palace, where a small group of people with Turkish heritage had been invited to share their views on immigration, integration, and xenophobia in Europe, the German president strongly denounced “exclusion of and discrimination against people with foreign roots”.
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Nearly One in Three Crimes in Italy Committed by Foreigners
Italian figures show a substantial rise in the number of crimes committed by foreigners, who now account for 31.9 percent of criminal suspects despite only making up eight percent of the general population.
The new figures, which were released by the Italian Interior Ministry this week, reveal that in the first six months of 2018 foreigners made up 31.9 percent of criminal suspects, up from 27.4 percent for the same period last year, Il Giornale reports.
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Salvini: Italy Must Follow Australian Model in Stopping Illegal Migration
Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini continues to battle against illegal migration to the country and has insisted that he wants to pursue the Australian model in stopping the boats from coming,
The latest controversy centres around the Dicotti ship that picked up migrants in Maltese waters. Around 150 migrants are now on board, though 27 migrant children have been allowed to disembark.
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by Bill O’Reilly
[…]Mollie would be alive today if America enforced federal immigration law. Her alleged murderer, a Mexican National, lived in her neighborhood for years and had no legal right to be there. Those are facts and should not be subject to spin.
This country designed and passed laws to prevent the entry of foreigners who do not go through the process of obtaining permission to come here. But the laws are not enforced for a variety of political reasons and the Democratic Party […] is fine with that.
Foreign people know they will likely not be punished in any meaningful way if they overstay visas or sneak across borders. Companies know they will not be sanctioned if they hire illegal aliens. So there is anarchy regarding immigration and that acts as a magnet to both law-abiding and criminal migrants alike.
The situation is so out of control that scores of cities actually harbor aliens who have committed serious crimes after entering the USA illegally. This is absolute madness and Kate Steinle is dead because of that. Still, the pro-illegal alien movement will not be moved to embrace sane protections.
President Trump would be wise to reform immigration law in a disciplined way. That issue might help him rally support for his administration. Immigration reform and real protections for Americans is long overdue. He should start with reviving Kate’s Law.
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Trump on Tibbetts Coverage: MSM Lost Interest When They Found Out Illegal Alien Charged With Murder
President Donald Trump on Friday evening accused the mainstream media of not covering Mollie Tibbetts’s murder “the way it should be covered” as soon as the media found out that an illegal alien was charged with her murder.
Speaking at a fundraising dinner for the Ohio Republican Party, Trump said the mainstream media “didn’t want to cover it the way it should be covered” when “they found out that it was this horrible illegal immigrant that viciously killed her.”…
At a West Virginia rally earlier in the week, Trump said Tibbetts’s murder “should’ve never happened.” The White House also released a video in which Trump said Tibbetts “is now permanently separated from her family.”
Legacy media reporters immediately rushed to downplay the illegal immigration issue. Mainstream media reporters like CNN’s Chris Cuomo, outraged more by Trump’s words than the fact that an illegal alien who never should have been in the country was charged with Tibbetts’s murder, said Trump’s words about permanent separation were “offensive.”
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UN Calls on EU Members to Take in Italy Refugees
The UN’s Refugee Agency on Saturday called on EU member states to urgently agree to take in some of the 150 people stranded on an Italian coastguard ship, after a fresh immigration row erupted between the bloc and Italy’s populist government.
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Clemson RAs Freed From Mandated ‘Commitment to Social Justice’
Clemson University has dropped its requirement that Resident Assistants “demonstrate a commitment to social justice” in order to qualify for the position.
This year’s position description does asks RAs to interact with residents “across areas of social identity” and work to build “inclusive residential communities,” but no longer forces RAs to endorse a particular ideology
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Pope Francis Chides Irish Over Abortion Referendum
Pope Francis has rebuked the Irish people over a recent referendum legalizing abortion, suggesting that it is a widespread “throwaway culture” that leads people to deprive the unborn of “the very right to life.”
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Why is the number of earthquakes happening around the world increasing so dramatically? In recent days, we have seen very large earthquakes in Venezuela, Fiji, Italy and elsewhere. Here in North America, significant quakes have rattled Oregon, Alaska and the west coast of Mexico. As I reported on all of these important seismic events, it sure seemed like the number of earthquakes was rising, but I wanted to be sure. I once worked as an attorney, and I was trained to only come to conclusions that were warranted by the facts. So I decided to pull up the numbers, and what I discovered was extremely alarming. I turns out that the number of earthquakes that we have witnessed over the last 30 days is more than 50 percent above normal. Of course the Earth is constantly being pummeled by quakes, but this is a huge deviation from the norm. Could it be possible that we have entered a time when major Earth changes are going to start happening on a regular basis? If so, what does that mean for the future of our society?
If you go to Earthquake Track, you will find the latest data on all earthquakes that have happened all over the planet.
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Very funny article in Spanish (read through online translator).
Beggar refugees from Africa are good and noble.
Drunk rich tourists from Britain – an undeniable evil.
http://twistislamophobia.org/2018/08/25/racismo-doble-rasero-policial-ciudadano/
I speak Spanish. It was hard to understand, does this guy speak seriously, or just a spoof? Nowadays that’s not easy thing.
I do not get tired of being surprised at how impudent these Muslims are:
they blow up people with a cry to Allahu Akbar, and then complain that they are detained for these words.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/08/25/the-perils-of-saying-allahu-akbar-in-public/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5f0f2de8af48
When I was in Milan for six weeks in 2010 for work, there were African beggars all over the Piazza del Duomo at the cathedral. But they must have had an understanding with the police. If you were on the steps to the cathedral they left you alone. I can imagine they are getting more bold now.
Contrast Pope Francis’ comments in Ireland about sex abuse in the church and the cover up by the church with the more recent disclosure of his own complicity in the cover up.
There is nothing wrong with Francis that a massive heart attack wouldn’t cure…
This man is destroying the Catholic church.