A young video-gaming enthusiast named David Katz went on a rampage with a semi-automatic handgun at a video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, killing two people and wounding nine others before killing himself. Mr. Katz, who journeyed from Baltimore to participate in the Jacksonville tournament, is said to have been enraged by losing one of the games.
In other news, a 15-year-old Italian girl was raped on a beach near Venice by an assailant described as “a foreigner”.
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“Terrorist Attack” Manual Targeting Atlanta Hospital Found at New Mexico Jihad Compound
A handwritten document titled “Phases of a Terrorist Attack“ was found at a New Mexico encampment where the son of a famous New York Imam allegedly murdered his three-year-old son and trained several children to commit acts of terrorism, reports CNN.
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A Robot is Making $6 Burgers for Broke Millennials in San Francisco
Creator, a culinary robotics company designed around a transparent 14-foot-long “culinary instrument” that cooks and assembles burgers to order in under 5 minutes, is set to open in San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood in September.
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Censorship Purge Points to Imminent False Flag Violence Before Mid-Term Elections… Bigger Than 9/11?
This report was originally published by Mike Adams at NaturalNews.com
For the last two months, I’ve been warning about the rising risk of a major false flag attack taking place before the mid-term elections. The aggressive, unprecedented PURGE of Alex Jones / InfoWars underscores the desperation of the totalitarian deep state that’s about to make a move to eliminate President Trump and / or steal the elections.
Anyone who believes that the sudden de-platforming of Alex Jones across over a dozen online services and platforms isn’t coordinated collusion is delusional. The coordinated de-platforming effort is clearly directed by the deep state to eliminate a prominent, dissenting voice in preparation for unleashing a history-shaping false flag attack that’s likely going to be bigger than 9/11.
The radical Left is escalating its violence across America, and the tech giants are dramatically escalating their censorship actions to silence all independent voices that might question any “official” narrative. It all points to something big about to come down— something so big that only the official narrative can be allowed to be heard or spoken.
We are living under an Orwellian totalitarian regime beyond any horrific imagination. Google, Apple, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other tech giants are engaged in the most criminal, malicious racketeering and tyranny imaginable. This is not sheer coincidence. They’ve all been ordered to censor the independent media in preparation for what’s coming next. As I explain in this video, the most likely false flag assault to be staged by the Left might be a “mass shooting” at CNN or another media giant, all staged with impressive theatrics to augment the real violence with a false narrative. Watch my entire warning, below:
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David and Goliath in the Court of Public Opinion
Today the deep state giant Goliath has waged war against America and the only American with the courage to stand against this behemoth to preserve and protect the nation is unlikely combatant President Donald J. Trump.
Since announcing himself as a presidential candidate on June 15, 2016, President Trump has been the target of the well-defended, smug, seemingly indestructible deep state Goliath. The deep state and the colluding mainstream media have maligned him, criticized him, insulted him, threatened him, laughed at him, lied about him, lied to him, and now are desperately relying on philistine swamp-denizen Robert Mueller to provide a damning report — just before the midterm elections — that will finally succeed in destroying him.
Mueller’s “investigation” has lasted 18 months, cost taxpayers $20 million dollars, and has not yielded a solitary shred of evidence that President Trump colluded with Russians or obstructed justice. In fact, Mueller’s investigation has boomeranged and is now exposing the staggering illegal soft coup waged against POTUS by deep state ex-president Obama and his politicized administration to first delegitimize candidate Trump and then to overthrow him as a president.
Why would the Deep State risk prolonging the Mueller investigation? Why does the “investigation” still exist?
Its entire reason for being is…
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As time progresses we are seeing the left, i.e. Democrats, completely devolve. For the first time Democrats favor socialism more than capitalism. According to a recent Gallup poll 57% of Democrats favor socialism over capitalism. When broken down though— the older Democrats are only at 28% but the obviously uneducated and uninformed millennials, 18-29 years old are at 51%.
This is why we are seeing the riots and hatred in the streets. It can be assured that these aren’t young Republicans rioting. They don’t have time, they have jobs. All this is being done by the group Antifa, a Soros funded terror group. They have no regard for person or property. They are willing to do anything that stop the implementation of Trump’s agenda even though they have failed miserably in all of their attempts. They have destroyed private and public property, destroyed some people’s way to make a living.
We are living under an Orwellian totalitarian regime beyond any horrific imagination. Google, Apple, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other tech giants are engaged in the most criminal, malicious racketeering and tyranny imaginable. This is not sheer coincidence. They’ve all been ordered to censor the independent media in preparation for what’s coming next.
If you are paying attention, you’ll notice that all of the big tech companies lean heavily towards the left. FaceBook only shuts down conservative sites. They’ll shut down pro-Israel sites but leave up the racist, anti-white, anti-American scum Louis Farrakhan. Twitter does the same thing. Instgram has pulled several of my posts, ALL dealing with the truth about islam, stating that it violated company standards. Truth be damned! CNN’s Chris Cuomo is a defender of Antifa fantasizing that it is an anti-hate group. How a group that spreads hate and violence can be anti-hate is beyond me, but that is his stand.
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Duncan Hunter’s Opponent in California District Race
Duncan Hunter, who is running for reelection in California’s 50th District, has a descendant of a Munich terrorist as his opponent. Ammar Campa-Najjar is the grandson of Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar, a Palestinian accused of being a member of the Black September terrorist group that killed 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Al-Najjaf was assassinated in Beirut in 1973 by Israeli commandos.
Campa-Najjar was born in America. His father is Palestinian and his mother is Mexican-American. He lived for a short time in Gaza with his family as a child, but they returned when he was 12 because it was too dangerous. Campa-Najjar worked on Obama’s 2012 campaign, held a White House job and a Department of Labor job. He is only 29.
Duncan Hunter has his own problems far beyond running for reelection. He was indicted on campaign finance violations along with his wife. California law prohibits new names from being added to the ballot at this date. What a strange choice Californians are faced with in this race: a person charged with crimes or a family member of the Munich terrorists?…
[More at the URL including video]
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A former top Vatican diplomat to the U.S. released a letter accusing Pope Francis of covering up Cardinal McCarrick’s abuses while also taking his counsel on appointing bishops.
The letter names and accuses scores of past and present Vatican officials of perpetrating and covering up abuses, including through homosexual networks of predatory priests.
The former Vatican diplomat demands that Pope Francis resign from the papacy.
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Gunman in Jacksonville Mass Shooting That Left 4 Dead Has Been Identified
Update: The gunman who opened fire during a Madden 19 video game tournament in Jacksonville, leading four dead including the suspect, has been identified as 24-year-old David Katz, the Inquisitr reports.
According to Fox News’ Rick Leventhal, Katz was described as a “disgruntled gamer reacted to losing with violence”, killed self. 3wks shy of 21st bday.
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Iranian Spies Arrested on US Soil Were Plotting Attacks
The two alleged Iranian spies arrested in the U.S. on August 9, 2018 were not just gathering intelligence on Americans and Iranians who oppose the regime. That intelligence was apparently to be used for attacks.
Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar, an Iranian with dual U.S. citizenship, and Majid Ghorbani, an Iranian national with permanent U.S. residency, were charged with acting as agents on behalf of the Iranian government in federal court on August 20, 2018. According to the FBI affidavit, Doostdar and Ghorbani were preparing alleged “target packages” on individuals who posed a threat to the Iranian regime on American soil.
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Jacksonville Mass Shooting: ‘Multiple Fatalities’ Reported at Madden NFL Gaming Tournament
At least four people were reported dead and eleven injured in a “mass shooting” at a pizza restaurant in Florida.
Police warned public and media to stay away from Jacksonville Landing, a waterfront entertainment complex in the state capital, after at least one gunman opened fire on Sunday afternoon.
Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office tweeted: “Mass shooting at the Jacksonville Landing. Stay far away from the area. The area is not safe at this time. STAY AWAY.
“Multiple fatalities at the scene, many transported. #TheLandingMassShooting.”
Police said one suspect was dead at the scene. It was not immediately clear whether the shooting was the work of a single or lone gunman and police asked members of the public to remain inside while SWAT teams searched the area.
Early reports suggest the gunman opened fire inside a pizza restaurant, where a sports video game tournament was taking place.
C hicago Pizza was live-streaming the tournament for the Madden NFL football video game when at least twelve shots rang out, according to video of the stream shared on social media.
In the video, players can be seen reacting to the gunfire and cries can be heard before the footage cuts off.
Just before the shots were heard , a red laser dot appeared on the chest of one of the players, who was wearing white headphones and a red sweatshirt…
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Multiple ANTIFA Protesters Arrested After Clash With Philly Police During Blue Lives Matter March
Sixteen Antifa protesters were arrested after clashing with officers during a Blue Lives Matter march in the Center City district of Philadephia, WPHT-TV reported.
Organizers of the left wing counterprotest recruited dozens of people to meet at city hall in opposition of the Blue Lives Matter March held by a popular group called Sports Beer & Politics II.
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Police ID ‘Madden 19’ Tournament Shooter as Gamer David Katz
Katz, 24, is a competitive gamer who won previous ‘Madden’ tournaments
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — News4Jax is learning more about the gunman suspected of carrying out Sunday’s mass shooting targeting a Madden NFL 19 tournament at the Jacksonville Landing.
Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams said the shooter is David Katz, 24, of Baltimore, who appears to have acted alone in the rampage that killed two people and wounded several others.
Here’s how commentators commentators at a previous gaming tournament described Katz:
“Man, David Katz keeps to himself. He’s a man of business. Here’s not here for the experience. … He’s not here to make friends. He’s all business, he’s focused. To even get him to open up to you to talk about anything is like pulling teeth.”
Katz, who was found dead at the scene Sunday, took his own life with a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside the downtown Jacksonville venue, Williams said.
Williams said Katz used at least one gun, which multiple law enforcement sources said was a semiautomatic handgun, in Sunday’s shooting.
The Baltimore Police Department raided Katz’s home, which is located in the city’s Federal Hill neighborhood, Sunday evening. Investigators are interviewing the suspect’s family.
Katz, a competitive gamer who goes by the nickname Bread, won the Madden NFL 17 Bills Championship tournament. He was registered to play in this weekend’s Jacksonville event…
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Shooting at Video Game Tournament: 3 Dead Including Suspect
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A gunman opened fire Sunday at an online video game tournament as it was being livestreamed from a Florida mall, killing two people and then fatally shooting himself in an attack that sent several others to hospitals, authorities said.
Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams said authorities believe 24-year-old David Katz of Baltimore carried out the attack using at least one handgun at the Jacksonville Landing, a collection of restaurants and shops along the St. Johns River. He said the man died from a self-inflicted gunshot, adding authorities were still making final confirmation of his identity with the FBI assisting them in Baltimore.
Nine other people were wounded by gunfire and all were in stable condition Sunday evening after going to hospitals, Williams said. He added that two others were hurt as people sought to flee the gunfire in the panic and chaos that ensued.
Katz was in Jacksonville for the “Madden NFL 19” video game tournament, authorities said. The games maker, EA Sports, lists a David Katz as a 2017 championship winner.
Thee competition was held in a gaming bar that shares space with a pizzeria. Viewers could watch the games online and see the players.
Investigators were looking into online video that appeared to capture the scene right before the shooting began, Williams said. A red dot that appears to be a laser pointer is visible on the chest of a player seconds before the first of about a dozen gunshots rings out…
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Soros’ Role in Social Media Censorship Exposed in Leaked Document
Authored by Isaac DAVIS via WakingTimes.com
Social media censorship is here and out in the open, and it has become clear that the major tech companies are working together to shut down and silence members of the free press for political reasons.
Of course, this has everything to do with Donald Trump being in office, and whether you support him or not, what is being lost in the effort to depose him will eventually affect everyone.
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The Pathway to Solving the Social Media Censorhip Plague
(Article by J. Burns republished from TheGatewayPundit.com)
Remove Protections from Suit for Speech Tyrants
Twitter and Facebook are not simply private businesses immune to the First Amendment, because CDA Section 230(c)(2) transforms them into public actors, deputized by Congress to censor speech.
Twitter is almost certainly a public actor in line with a number of key “state actor” / “joint participation” SCOTUS cases. See, e.g., Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948); Burton v. Wilmington Park Authority, 365 U.S. 715 (1961) (financial relationship between a state agency and private restaurant transforms the restaurant into government actor). Adickes v. S.H. Kress Co., 398 U.S. 144 (1970); Sniadach v. Family Finance Corp., 395 U.S. 337 (1969); Fuentes v. Shevin, 407 U.S. 67 (1972); Mitchell v. W.T. Grant Co., 416 U.S. 600 (1974); Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co., 457 U.S. 922 (1982); Wyatt v. Cole, 504 U.S. 158 (1992) (judge’s ministerial issuance of an attachment order renders a seizure subject to Due Process); Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association, 531 U.S. 288 (2001) (public institution’s and officials’ “pervasive entwinement” converted a private athletic regulatory body into a state actor); Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946) (company town is the equivalent of a municipality and is engaged in a public function); Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co., 500 U.S. 614 (1991) (jury selection is a “traditional function of government” and that private attorneys are thus prohibited from using race-based peremptory challenges).
Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946) is an excellent comparison point. In that case, a Jehovah’s Witness was handing out religious materials on the streets of a town entirely owned by a shipping company. The shipping company told her she needed a permit to hand out the magazine, and had her removed by a deputy sheriff for trespassing. The US Supreme Court held in favor of the Jehovah’s Witness, reasoning that the more a property owner opens his property up to the public in general, the more his rights are circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who are invited in.
The Social Media situation is similar to Marsh v. Alabama. Just as the shipping company controlled the streets and sidewalks of the company town, Social Media giants hold monopolies on the electronic public speech common areas. Over 90% of online Americans are on Facebook. Almost 30% are on Twitter. Because they are monopolies, where is the public supposed to go? The Court can’t say you have free speech only in the town park where no one goes. The common area where people are discussing politics is online, often on these platforms.
The usual remark here is that conservatives and other disfavored internet minorities should simply “make their own competitor” to Facebook/Twitter and the rest. This is absurd. So what, if Apple and Samsung and the others don’t want Alex Jones speaking on a smart phone, is Jones supposed to invent a “Jones” Phone? Should he have to invent his own internet? Is free speech only available to those with a billion dollars at their disposal? Sure seems like Kommissar Zuckerberg thinks so.
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Two Interim Judges Named as Scandal Brings Down the Entire West Virginia Supreme Court
Gov. Jim Justice appointed U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins and former House of Delegates Speaker Tim Armstead to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
The state Supreme Court is in the grips of a sprawling public corruption scandal, as three justices on the five-member panel have been impeached, while the other two resigned.
Jenkins and Armstead will both serve interim terms, and seek a full term on the court in the November elections.
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Vatican Bombshell: McCarrick Conspiracy Uncovered!
By Rod Dreher
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, who served at the papal nuncio (that is, Vatican ambassador) to the United States from 2011-2016, has dropped an atomic bomb on Francis’s papacy, charging that “corruption has reached the very top of the Church’s hierarchy.”
In a lengthy statement, Vigano says that Francis has known for years about Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s sexual abuse, but brought him into the pontifical inner circle anyway, and sent him around the world on papal missions.
In fact, says Vigano, the Roman curia has known about McCarrick since the year 2000, but McCarrick was protected by gay supporters honeycombed throughout the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI ordered McCarrick out of public ministry in 2009 or 2010, but McCarrick, abetted by powerful gay allies in the Curia, defied Benedict.
Vigano demands the resignation of Pope Francis, writing:
At the Angelus on Sunday, August 12, 2018 Pope Francis said these words: “Everyone is guilty for the good he could have done and did not do … If we do not oppose evil, we tacitly feed it. We need to intervene where evil is spreading; for evil spreads where daring Christians who oppose evil with good are lacking.”
If this is rightly to be considered a serious moral responsibility for every believer, how much graver is it for the Church’s supreme pastor, who in the case of McCarrick not only did not oppose evil but associated himself in doing evil with someone he knew to be deeply corrupt. He followed the advice of someone he knew well to be a pervert, thus multiplying exponentially with his supreme authority the evil done by McCarrick. And how many other evil pastors is Francis still continuing to prop up in their active destruction of the Church! Francis is abdicating the mandate which Christ gave to Peter to confirm the brethren. Indeed, by his action he has divided them, led them into error, and encouraged the wolves to continue to tear apart the sheep of Christ’s flock.
In this extremely dramatic moment for the universal Church, he must acknowledge his mistakes and, in keeping with the proclaimed principle of zero tolerance, Pope Francis must be the first to set a good example for cardinals and bishops who covered up McCarrick’s abuses and resign along with all of them.
I have posted the entire text below. I’ve read it twice now, and I’m telling you, this story is as big as it gets.
Vigano worked in the Curia before being moved to Washington by then Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone over his own objections. Vigano believed he was being punished by Bertone for informing Pope Benedict of rampant corruption in the Curia. With this statement today, Vigano declares open warfare at the highest levels of the Roman Catholic Church.
[Read FULL statement at URL]
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Trudeau Just Killed the Quebec Liberals’ 2018 Election
During a recent speech in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Prime Minister Trudeau publicly verbally bashed an elderly female Quebec senior. This brave woman had the temerity to ask Trudeau, when will his government pay back the $146 million dollars of Quebec taxpayer money that have been incurred to support Trudeau’s illegal immigrants who have entered Quebec illegally across the Quebec border from the United States.
Trudeau’s public shaming of this French Canadian woman and the physical manhandling of this senior citizen by Trudeau’s security detail ( see RCMP plainclothes goons), were all captured on video, distributed on Twitter and covered extensively by the Quebec mainstream press. The result. Trudeau’s actions have driven the final nail in the Quebec Liberals’ chances for re-election in this upcoming October 1 provincial election.
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Denmark Silent on Alleged Turkish-Organised Political Assassination Plot
The Danish government has remained tight-lipped after allegations that the Turkish government may have plotted the assassination of political opponents living in Denmark.
The alleged plot against supporters of Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, who has been accused of being behind the failed coup attempt in summer of 2016 by Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, was discovered by broadcasters Sveriges Radio and Denmark Radio in June.
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Italy: Girl, 15, Raped on Beach Near Venice
By ‘foreigner’
(ANSA) — Venice, August 24 — A 15-year-old girl was raped by “a foreigner” on a beach at Jesolo near Venice Thursday, her family told police.
The girl was on holiday in the popular tourist resort. A local minors’ court has opened a probe on the basis of the family’s complaint.
Jesolo Mayor Valerio Zoggia voiced “shock and dismay” at the incident.
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UK: Khan’s London: Police Install Knife Arches, Residents Board up Homes for Notting Hill Carnival
London police have secured extra stop and search powers and deployed knife detection arches and extra armed officers equipped with acid attack kits for the Notting Hill Carnival, as homes and shops in the area board up fearing damage.
Just days before a million people turn out for the annual event, the capital’s violent crime wave hit the grim milestone of 100 homicide probes for 2018, with robberies, sexual assaults, and acid attacks also up.
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UK: Leicester Hospital Knife Rampage Man Jailed
A man who stabbed a bystander outside a hospital and then went on a rampage inside has been jailed for five years.
Yusuf Aka stabbed the man with a large knife outside the Leicester Royal Infirmary early on 16 January.
Inside he began throwing monitors across the reception, including one at a wheelchair user trying to flee.
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This is What ‘Land Reform’ Looks Like in South Africa
[…]Here is how taking land legally currently works in South Africa, a place the U.S. State Department has only just lauded as “a strong democracy with resilient institutions. …,” a country merely “grappling with the difficult issue of land reform.” “Land reform,” of course, is a euphemism for land distribution in the Robert Mugabe mold.
The process currently in place typically begins with a “tribe” or group of individuals who band together to claim vast tracts of private property.
[…]
If these loosely and conveniently conjoined groups know anything, it’s this: South Africa’s adapted, indigenized law allows coveted land, owned and occupied by another, to be obtained with relative ease.
No sooner does this newly constituted “tribe” (or band of bandits, really) launch a claim with the South African Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, than related squatters — sometimes in the thousands — move to colonize the land.
They defile its grounds and groundwater by using these as one vast toilet; and terrorize, sometimes kill, its occupants and their animals in the hope of “nudging” them off the land.
Dr. Philip du Toit, a farmer (with a doctorate in labor law) and author of “The Great South African Land Scandal,” speaks of recurrent attacks on farm animals that “hark back to the Mau Mau terror campaign which drove whites off Kenyan farms.”
Farmer’s Weekly used to be packed with pitiful accounts of cows poisoned with exotic substances, battered with heavy metal bars, writhing in agony for hours before being found by a distraught farmer.
“Encroachment is the right word,” a farmer told du Toit. “They put their cattle in, then they cut the fences, then they start stealing your crops, forcing you to leave your land. And then they say: ‘Oh well, there’s vacant land, let’s move on to it.’ It’s a very subtle way of stealing land.”
“When there is a farm claim I say ‘Look out!’ because attacks may follow to scare the farmers,” confirmed the regional director of the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU).
Agri SA, an organization representing small and large-scale commercial farmers, reports the annual theft of hundreds of thousands of priceless livestock.
The ANC’s old Soviet-inspired Freedom Charter promised this: “All shall have the right to occupy land wherever they choose.” And so they do today.
Because of legal claims they are powerless to fight, squatters whom they cannot fend off, and cattle, crops and families which they can no longer protect, farmers have already been pushed to abandon hundreds of thousands of hectares of prime commercial farmland.
“Since the end of apartheid in 1994, when multi-racial elections were held,” wrote Dan McDougal of the London Times, millions of “acres of productive farmland have been transferred to black ownership. Much of it is now lying fallow, creating no economic benefit for the nation or its new owners.”
South Africa has become a net importer of food for the first time in its history.
“My visit to Mpumalanga came immediately after crossing the frontier from Zimbabwe,” attests Aidan Hartley, also of the Times, “and what struck me was how similar the landscapes were after redistribution had taken place. Once-productive maize fields now grow only weeds. Citrus orchards are dying, their valuable fruit rotting on the branches. Machinery lies about rusting. Irrigation pipes have been looted and farm sheds are derelict and stripped of roofing. Windbreak trees have been hacked down and roads are potholed.”
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US and Mexico on the Brink of New NAFTA Deal
After negotiating throughout the weekend, U.S. and Mexican trade officials say they are on the brink of reaching new terms for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
“I would say that we’re practically in the final hours of this negotiation,” Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo told reporters Sunday, shortly before entering into talks with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. The discussions have revolved around new rules for the automotive industry, terms President Donald Trump has long argued are unfair for Americans.
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Budget Threat on Migrants Won’t Work Says EU
Legal duty to pay says Moavero, aid agencies say let them off
(ANSA) — Rome, August 24 — Italy’s threat to pull its 20 billion euro contribution to the European Union’s budget unless it takes in 150 migrants aboard the coast guard ship Diciotti won’t work, the EU said Friday as Italy’s foreign ministry recognised the duty to pay, EU sherpas failed to reach agreement, and aid agencies called for the migrants to be let off the vessel in Catania harbour.
Threats on the migrant issue do not lead anywhere, the European Commission said Friday.
A spokesman said “threats in Europe do not lead anywhere”.
“The way in which Europe functions is cooperation and not threats,” he said.
He said the European Commission was “working hard to find a solution” to the migrant emergency.
Italy has a clear duty to fulfill its obligation to contribute to the EU budget, an EC spokesman said after the threat aired by Deputy Premier and Industry Minister Luigi Di Maio’s. “European rules also apply to the budget, member states have always paid their contribution, there is a clear legal obligation (in the Treaties)” said Alexander Winterstein.
He stressed that such a move as Italy has mooted “has never happened before”.
Winterstein said “I don’t want to go into hypothetical scenarios” on what might happen if Italy doesn’t pay its contribution.
Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi said Friday that “paying contributions to the European Union is a legal duty”.
He said “we will talk about this and other issues”.
The threat will not lead to an Italexit but Rome will not be “fooled” on migrants, Di Maio said earlier.
Di Maio’s threat to stop the EU contribution unless the EU agrees to redistribute the Diciotti migrants currently being held and not being allowed to land at Catania “won’t lead to an Italexit,” the minister told Agorà Estate on RAI TV.
“The government is not saying it won’t do its bit but we don’t want to be fooled,” said the leader of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S).
Di Maio said EU states were not respecting a July deal.
“What signal do we send by caving in? It means having them ride roughshod over us. Italian citizens are asking us to make sure Italy is respected”.
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who said he was “waiting to be arrested”, said on a hunger strike by the mostly Eritrean migrants that five million Italians in absolute poverty “are on hunger strike every day”.
“#Diciotti migrants on hunger strike? Let them do what they see fit. In Italy there are five million people in absolute poverty (1.2 million children) that do hunger strikes every day”, the minister said on Twitter.
He said this happened “amid silence from do-gooders, journalists and their various hangers-on”.
Italy expected more collaboration from the EU on the Diciotti coast guard ship carrying 150 migrants who Rome says won’t land until the EU agrees to redistribute them, Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi said Friday.
“Italy saved thousands of human lives for years and the other EU member States amply recognised that, on several occasions” he said.
“We are asking for deeds and concrete acts of real solidarity to follow nice words.
“The Diciotti ship saved almost 200 people,” he said, referring to the 27 migrant children that have been let off the ship in Catania.
“We would have expected an effective and swifter collaboration from the other EU States to arrive, as soon as possible, at the best solution”.
The 150 mainly Eritrean migrants stuck on board the Diciotti at Catania have started a hunger strike, Democratic Party (PD) Senator Davide Faraone said Friday.
“There is tension on board and visits to inspect the migrants’ conditions have been suspended,” he said.
However, he later said the situation on board had returned to normal and visits could resume.
Salvini has said the migrants, who have been at Catania for three days and on the ship for eight days, cannot land until the EU agrees to redistribute them.
The EU must not leave Italy to cope alone with the Dicotti case, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesperson Ulrike Demmer said Friday.
Demmer reiterated Berlin’s general position on migration after Di Maio’s budget contribution threat.
“The countries particularly struck by the migratory phenomenon, and Italy is one of these, cannot be left on their own,” Demmer said.
“All (EU) States must collaborate and we must reach a common solution”.
Italy’s Asylum Table associations on Friday urged the government to let the migrants off the Diciotti.
In a statement, the Tables said it was “urgently asking the Italian government to authorise the disembarkation of the 150 people still aboard the Diciotti ship”.
The associations included: A Buon Diritto, ACLI, ActionAid, Amnesty International Italia, ARCI, ASGI, Caritas Italiana, Casa dei Diritti Sociali, Centro Astalli, CIR, Comunità di S.Egidio, CNCA, Emergency, Médecins du Monde Missione Italia, Mediterranean Hope (FCEI), MEDU, Oxfam Italia, Save The Children, and Senza Confine.
Also on Friday a meeting of sherpas from 12 EU countries failed to reach an agreement on Italy’s request to take in the 150 migrants, diplomatic sources said.
One of the points against the request, the sources said, is that the per capita migrant flow is much lower than that in other member States.
Therefore, the sources said, no need to share responsibility has been established.
Italian interior ministry sources reacted by saying “European countries have not advanced any concrete overture to resolve the case of the the Diciotti ship. “Seeing that Italy, in the last few years, has received 700,000 foreign citizens, the interior ministry line does not change. “No one will get off the Diciotti. The government is compact on this front”.
Salvini meanwhile said he was waiting to be arrested.
“For me Italians come first, then others,” he said on Facebook.
“Some judges want to ARREST ME for this? “No problem, I’m waiting fo them”.
Prosecutors in Catania, Agrigento and Palermo are probing the Diciotti case for possible abduction.
Salvini has been reported by citizens in the northern city of Treviso for instigating race hatred, sources said Friday. Salvini was reported by a group of Italian citizens for statements he made in June and July, legal sources said.
They cited statements including “the happy days for clandestine immigrants are over, get ready to pack your bags, in a well-mannered and tranquil way, but they must go home”.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Thursday rejected a request from Italian counterpart Moavero Milanesi to take some of the 150 migrants, the Italian foreign ministry said Friday. Moavero made his request to his Hungarian opposite number at the Italian foreign ministry in Rome.
Szijjarto said Rome and Budapest saw eye to eye on European migrant policy, the ministry said.
Moavero, for his part, explained how Italy’s vision differed from Hungary’s in some respects, the ministry said.
On Friday Belgium declined to take any of the mostly Eritrean migrants on board the Diciotti.
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EU Migrant Decisions Will Have Consequences — Conte
PM highlights European ‘hypocrisy’
(ANSA) — Rome, August 24 — An angry Premier Giuseppe Conte said Friday that the European Union’s decisions, or lack of them, on 150 mostly Eritrean migrants being held aboard coast guard ship Diciotti in Catania will have “consequences”.
Italy had threatened to withhold its 20 billion euro contribution to the EU budget unless the EU agrees to take in the e migrants.
Conte said “it is known to all that Italy has been handling for days, with the Diciotti ship, an emergency with very complex and delicate aspects. “Yet again we gauge the discrepancy, which tinges into hypocrisy, between words and deeds. “If these are the ‘deeds’ it’ll mean that Italy will act accordingly and from now on will try to eliminate this discrepancy by pursuing a coherent and determined framework of action for all the issues it will be called on to tackle in Europe”. Conte said that in today’s emergency meeting called by the European Commission “no follow-up was given” to the European Council conclusions at the end of June. “On the contrary, on the part of some States a step backwards was proposed, suggesting a sort of disguised Dublin regulation, which would have identified Italy as a country of safe landing, with the willingness of the other States to take part in the redistribution of only those with asylum rights, which are a minimal percentage”. Conte said “Italy is forced to note that Europe today missed a good opportunity: on immigration it did not succeed in making progress towards principles of solidarity and responsibility that are constantly declaimed as fundamental values of the European order”.
Italy’s threat to pull its 20 billion euro contribution to the European Union’s budget unless it takes in 150 migrants aboard the coast guard ship Diciotti won’t work, the EU said Friday as Italy’s foreign ministry recognised the duty to pay and aid agencies called for the migrants to be let off the vessel in Catania harbour.
Threats on the migrant issue do not lead anywhere, the European Commission said Friday.
A spokesman said “threats in Europe do not lead anywhere”.
“The way in which Europe functions is cooperation and not threats,” he said.
He said the European Commission was “working hard to find a solution” to the migrant emergency.
Italy has a clear duty to fulfill its obligation to contribute to the EU budget, an EC spokesman said after the threat aired by Deputy Premier and Industry Minister Luigi Di Maio’s. “European rules also apply to the budget, member states have always paid their contribution, there is a clear legal obligation (in the Treaties)” said Alexander Winterstein.
He stressed that such a move as Italy has mooted “has never happened before”.
Winterstein said “I don’t want to go into hypothetical scenarios” on what might happen if Italy doesn’t pay its contribution.
Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi said Friday that “paying contributions to the European Union is a legal duty”.
He said “we will talk about this and other issues”.
The threat will not lead to an Italexit but Rome will not be “fooled” on migrants, Di Maio said earlier.
Di Maio’s threat to stop the EU contribution unless the EU agrees to redistribute the Diciotti migrants currently being held and not being allowed to land at Catania “won’t lead to an Italexit,” the minister told Agorà Estate on RAI TV.
“The government is not saying it won’t do its bit but we don’t want to be fooled,” said the leader of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S).
Di Maio said EU states were not respecting a July deal.
“What signal do we send by caving in? It means having them ride roughshod over us. Italian citizens are asking us to make sure Italy is respected”.
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who said he was “waiting to be arrested”, said on a hunger strike by the mostly Eritrean migrants that five million Italians in absolute poverty “are on hunger strike every day”.
“#Diciotti migrants on hunger strike? Let them do what they see fit. In Italy there are five million people in absolute poverty (1.2 million children) that do hunger strikes every day”, the minister said on Twitter.
He said this happened “amid silence from do-gooders, journalists and their various hangers-on”.
Italy expected more collaboration from the EU on the Diciotti coast guard ship carrying 150 migrants who Rome says won’t land until the EU agrees to redistribute them, Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi said Friday.
“Italy saved thousands of human lives for years and the other EU member States amply recognised that, on several occasions” he said.
“We are asking for deeds and concrete acts of real solidarity to follow nice words.
“The Diciotti ship saved almost 200 people,” he said, referring to the 27 migrant children that have been let off the ship in Catania.
“We would have expected an effective and swifter collaboration from the other EU States to arrive, as soon as possible, at the best solution”.
The 150 mainly Eritrean migrants stuck on board the Diciotti at Catania have started a hunger strike, Democratic Party (PD) Senator Davide Faraone said Friday.
“There is tension on board and visits to inspect the migrants’ conditions have been suspended,” he said.
However, he later said the situation on board had returned to normal and visits could resume.
Salvini has said the migrants, who have been at Catania for three days and on the ship for eight days, cannot land until the EU agrees to redistribute them.
The EU must not leave Italy to cope alone with the Dicotti case, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesperson Ulrike Demmer said Friday.
Demmer reiterated Berlin’s general position on migration after Di Maio’s budget contribution threat.
“The countries particularly struck by the migratory phenomenon, and Italy is one of these, cannot be left on their own,” Demmer said.
“All (EU) States must collaborate and we must reach a common solution”.
Italy’s Asylum Table associations on Friday urged the government to let the migrants off the Diciotti.
In a statement, the Tables said it was “urgently asking the Italian government to authorise the disembarkation of the 150 people still aboard the Diciotti ship”.
The associations included: A Buon Diritto, ACLI, ActionAid, Amnesty International Italia, ARCI, ASGI, Caritas Italiana, Casa dei Diritti Sociali, Centro Astalli, CIR, Comunità di S.Egidio, CNCA, Emergency, Médecins du Monde Missione Italia, Mediterranean Hope (FCEI), MEDU, Oxfam Italia, Save The Children, and Senza Confine.
Also on Friday a meeting of sherpas from 12 EU countries failed to reach an agreement on Italy’s request to take in the 150 migrants, diplomatic sources said.
One of the points against the request, the sources said, is that the per capita migrant flow is much lower than that in other member States.
Therefore, the sources said, no need to share responsibility has been established.
Salvini meanwhile said he was waiting to be arrested.
“For me Italians come first, then others,” he said on Facebook.
“Some judges want to ARREST ME for this? “No problem, I’m waiting fo them”.
Prosecutors in Catania, Agrigento and Palermo are probing the Diciotti case for possible abduction.
Salvini has been reported by citizens in the northern city of Treviso for instigating race hatred, sources said Friday. Salvini was reported by a group of Italian citizens for statements he made in June and July, legal sources said.
They cited statements including “the happy days for clandestine immigrants are over, get ready to pack your bags, in a well-mannered and tranquil way, but they must go home”.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Thursday rejected a request from Italian counterpart Moavero Milanesi to take some of the 150 migrants, the Italian foreign ministry said Friday. Moavero made his request to his Hungarian opposite number at the Italian foreign ministry in Rome.
Szijjarto said Rome and Budapest saw eye to eye on European migrant policy, the ministry said.
Moavero, for his part, explained how Italy’s vision differed from Hungary’s in some respects, the ministry said.
On Friday Belgium declined to take any of the mostly Eritrean migrants on board the Diciotti.
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Germany Working on Two-Way Migrant Deal With Italy
ROME (AP) — Germany’s interior minister says he is confident of reaching an agreement with Italy for that country to take back migrants who show up at the German-Austrian border after previously applying for asylum in Italy.
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Italy: Migrants to be Rousted Out of Trieste — Fedriga
Forest rangers to help patrol Slovenia border
(ANSA) — Trieste, August 24 — Migrants illegally camping on the river banks in Trieste will be rousted out of the northeastern Italian city, Friuli Governor Massimo Fedriga said Friday.
He also said the region’s first rangers will be deployed to help police patrol the border with Slovenia starting next week.
Fedriga is a leading member of Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s anti-migrant League party.
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Italy: Salvini Reported for Fomenting Race Hate
(ANSA) — Treviso, August 24 — Interior Minister Matteo Salvini in Treviso has been reported for instigating race hatred, sources said Friday. Salvini, who has taken a hard line on migrants, was reported by a group of Italian citizens for statements he made in June and July, legal sources said.
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Now They’re Coming for Our Children
Last night, I posted an article about “Drag Queen Story Time” — now expanding from public libraries to the public SCHOOLS. I am always amazed that SO MANY Christians are completely UNAWARE that these things are happening. Because this is not “new” news — it’s actually OLD news. It’s been going on for some time. For those who don’t know, “Drag Queen Story Time” is a program which is now taking place nationwide, in which men dress up in full female regalia, loaded with makeup and then they read stories to little pre-school and kindergarten-age children about how being a homosexual is “fun,” a way to “express your individuality,” and that there is “no such thing as “boy” things and “girl” things. “Children,” they say, “should feel free and open to choose whichever gender they would like…” Even if they would like to be a boy one day and a girl the next. And they’re doing this to four and five-year-olds.
This is all part of the LGBTQP+ agenda (note the “P” they have now added at the end, which stands for Pedophilia — the NEXT thing they want us to embrace, normalize and celebrate). In fact, pedophilia has been their ultimate goal all along. If you don’t believe me, you can research a document from 1987 entitled “The Gay Revolutionary,” and specifically, “The Homosexual Agenda.” I will quote the first paragraph of that for you here:
“We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all-male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us.”
Friends, I am more convinced than ever that the current explosion of sexual perversion of all kinds — and now the OPENLY preying upon children and the push for legalizing pedophilia is the greatest threat we are facing as a nation. Look at all the Leftist, Socialist protesters who violently attack Christians and anyone that holds to the idea of traditional marriage and family.
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” In other news, a 15-year-old Italian girl was raped on a beach near Venice by an assailant described as “a foreigner”. ”
Yes, in the morning riot against the gov. for refusing to import more invaders. In the afternoon get raped by them and recover in one week.
Wonder if this 15 yr. old victim has a father at home?
Women in the nations of the West tend to vote for the Liberal-Socialist option; men, not so much. a lot of it has to do with the 50% illegitimacy rate the women enjoy, that brings lot of cash to the young matriarchs…for upwards of 21 years.
The non-sexist position that I’m starting to conclude in favour of is that democracy needs a bit of a tweak:
Everyone gets to vote, BUT if you’re active duty or honourably discharged military, you get one EXTRA vote, on account of being personally at risk to a much higher degree from bad political decisions.
If you’re actively employed by government in any decision-making role, OR on welfare, OR have fit these criteria for more than 5 of the last 6 years, you DON’T get to vote.
That type of small tweak is probably enough to avoid leftist lunacy. At least around here it would be.
Import the third world live in the third world.
*Migrants illegally camping on the river banks in Trieste will be rousted out of the northeastern Italian city, Friuli Governor Massimo Fedriga said Friday.*
I don’t know but I guess at least one enricher was doing this for more than one night. Why then has he/ have they been allowed to stay for longer than that (and have still not been evicted)? The article does say that camping there is illegal.
Some years ago I got a parking ticket in Trieste for overstaying by 40 minutes. Are there now different laws for different people?
“Mr. Katz, who journeyed from Baltimore to participate in the Jacksonville tournament, is said to have been enraged by losing one of the games.”
Hell hath no fury like a gamer pwned.