Dymphna and I went to visit her son today, the one who had a major heart attack a few days ago. He is home now, and doing pretty well, considering what he’s been through. Our trip kept us out most of the day, which is why posting was light, and why your comments went so long before they were approved.
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28 Shot — 3 Fatally — in Chicago Over Weekend
At least 28 people were shot in Chicago — three of them fatally — over the weekend.
The most violent period was Friday night, when three were killed and seven others were wounded between 5 p.m. and midnight. Shootings on Saturday wounded five people; nine were wounded Sunday; and four were wounded early Monday before 5 a.m.
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A Snapshot of YouTube’s New Search Algorithm
With YouTube’s new search algorithm, if you search the exact title of Ann Coulter’s recent appearance on C-SPAN you have to scroll through 22 unrelated results from establishment news organizations before you can find it.
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Could it be possible that NBC was attempting to mock McCain?
Some are claiming that NBC made a “mistake”, while others are claiming that NBC had ulterior motives for a very strange incident that happened on Saturday night.
After reporting the breaking news that John McCain had died, NBC immediately cut to a scene in a previously-aired episode of America’s Got Talent that involved two men in strange dolphin masks performing an extremely bizarre erotic dance as they moved in “for a passionate kiss”. What made this even more jarring was the fact that there was absolutely no transition between the McCain report and the erotic dolphins.
Could it be possible that NBC was attempting to mock McCain or to send the rest of us some sort of “hidden message”? If you have not seen video of this yet, you can find it right here…
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Alex Jones Responds to John McCain’s Death & Lays Out His True History
While the establishment lauds him as a hero, history and facts tell a different tale
Alex Jones explains the true character of the late John McCain, a notorious Deep State neocon who sold out the U.S. to ISIS, the ChiComs, and the big banks.
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America’s Two Parties: Traitors and Patriots
Oh, the horror! Former CIA director John Brennan lost his security clearance. Media decry the president’s intimidation tactics, his enemies list. Famous lawyer Alan Dershowitz posits that Brennan’s First Amendment rights may have been violated.
It’s all vapors, transparent attempts to deflect from Brennan’s real threat: his role of traitor. (Cue audible gasps.) How dare I call Brennan a traitor?
Treason is narrowly defined in the Constitution, restricted to wartime.
U.S. Constitution, Article 3, Section 3: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”
True, but I contend we are at war, a bloodless war against a globalist tribe. Hillary Clinton’s not a singular threat to our democracy; she’s part of a cabal that’s been working for decades to end democracy, to subjugate Americans to global rule.
Fact is, we shouldn’t be arguing Brennan’s right to a security clearance; we should be advising him of his right to remain silent. James Brennan was and is a lead player in the attempt to overthrow the United States government.
A palace coup is “the non-violent overthrow of a sovereign or government by senior officials within the ruling group.”
The coup has been obvious since 2016, when the cabal, confident of victory, dropped their façade. They flaunted the FBI’s two-tier justice system, accepted the Democrats’ rigged primaries, gaslighted voters with fake polls, and the list goes on — an occupied government that no longer cares who sees its machinations.
The big reveal, a true glimpse into the insurgency, came during the 2016 campaign, when Matt Lauer went off script in the “Commander-in-Chief Forum” and asked Hillary Clinton about her private server:
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Battle Print: Document Emerges Detailing Democrat Plans to Crush Trump Should GOP Fail to Hold House
A document detailing what Democrats intend to do to try to take out President Donald Trump should they take the House majority in November 2018 has emerged.
Under the headline “Scoop: Republicans secretly study their coming hell,” Axios’s Jonathan Swan on Sunday evening revealed the existence of the document that lists exactly the line of attack the Democrats plan to pursue should they win control of the House in the midterm elections. The document specifically focuses on certain investigatory pathways and lines of inquiry they have already sought.
The document, prepared by House GOP officials, walks through document and interview requests Democrats have already sent to the Trump administration, the president’s business The Trump Organization, and the president’s campaign in 2016.
“Congressional Republicans are getting ready for hell. Axios has obtained a spreadsheet that’s circulated through Republican circles on and off Capitol Hill — including at least one leadership office — that meticulously previews the investigations Democrats will likely launch if they flip the House,” Swan writes.
Swan then lists some of the more than 100 items contained in the lengthy GOP document. Here is a direct quote of the bullet point list from Swan’s piece in Axios:
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Breaking: A Major Blow to ISIS & the Deep State, John McCain Dies
Top globalist a key player in destroying the Middle East
Globalist warmonger John McCain passed away over the weekend and establishment politicians on both sides of the aisle came out to praise him.
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Chicago Cardinal ‘Astonished’ by Allegations His Career Aided by McCarrick
Cardinal Blase Cupich released a statement Sunday expressing “astonishment” over recent allegations that former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was behind his appointment as archbishop of Chicago.
In an 11-page affidavit accusing Pope Francis of rehabilitating Cardinal McCarrick despite knowing of his record of homosexual abuse of priests and seminarians, the former papal nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, also named Cardinal Cupich as someone who had benefited personally from the patronage of Cardinal McCarrick.
In his statement released Saturday, Archbishop Viganò refers to Cardinal Cupich as a man “blinded by his pro-gay ideology” who was appointed as archbishop outside of normal Church protocols because of the powerful backing of three influential cardinals, including McCarrick.
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Credit Card Companies Restore Donations to Conservative Group After Backlash
Last week, The Daily Wire reported that the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC) had been stripped of receiving donations from both Visa and Mastercard under pressure from the left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center, which had previously labeled the conservative think tank a hate group. After intense backlash from several media outlets, the two credit card companies have retracted their ban on the DHFC.
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Former Vatican Official Corroborates Allegations Against Pope Francis
A monsignor who worked at the apostolic nunciature to the United States has corroborated an explosive report accusing Pope Francis of rehabilitating Cardinal Theodore McCarrick despite knowing of his record of homosexual abuse of priests and seminarians.
Contacted by the Catholic News Agency (CNA), Monsignor Jean-François Lantheaume, the former first counselor at the apostolic nunciature in Washington D.C., declined to give an interview, but affirmed the veracity of the report by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò.
“Viganò said the truth. That’s all,” he wrote to CNA.
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Jacksonville Madden Shooter Criticized ‘Trumptards’ On Reddit
Jacksonville mass shooter David Katz, 24, was a Redditor who hated Trump supporters and mocked “mericans” as “retarded.”
“You trumptards seriously can never stop amazing everyone with how mentally challenged you guys are,” Katz wrote late last year on the Pro-Donald Trump r/The_Donald subreddit under the name “ravenchamps.”
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Multiple Pincers Against Trump
In his latest interview for Serbia Today, the country’s most poplar news and current affairs site, Srdja Trifkovic outlines the likely grand strategy of President Donald Trump’s enemies to remove him from office. [Excerpts, translated from Serbian.]
The “deep state,” which is solidly against Trump, includes all key editorial boards of the leading daily newspapers and TV networks which control the approved discourse; the “brain trusts” (Brookings, Heritage, etc.) which produce quasi-analyses to order, but always in defense of the continuing global hegemony; plus the military-industrial complex, the Congressional duopoly, and the massive lobbying industry. All of them oppose, above all, Trump’s evident desire for détente with Russia, because visceral Russophobia is the alpha and omega of the establishmentarian world outlook. This is not at all impacted by the fact that China will be America’s key global-strategic rival in the long run.
Trump has dared challenge three holy cows of the establishment. One is the so-called free trade, which is nothing of the kind, but an oligarchic racket. Another is the global empire: behind his slogan “America first” is a view of the United States as a normal power which pursues its own interests in a world populated by other powers, and not as the only legitimate power and the one that counts. The third is immigration control, which is contrary to the ideology of the liberal establishment—but is also opposed to the financial interests of a significant segment of the corporate America, which wants to keep the price of labor as low as possible, regardless of the cultural, financial, and security costs of such suicidal policy…
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Online Bettors Can Sniff Out Weak Psychology Studies
Psychologists are in the midst of an ongoing, difficult reckoning. Many believe that their field is experiencing a “reproducibility crisis,” because they’ve tried and failed to repeat experiments done by their peers. Even classic results—the stuff of textbooks and TED talks—have proven surprisingly hard to replicate, perhaps because they’re the results of poor methods and statistical tomfoolery. These problems have spawned a community of researchers dedicated to improving the practices of their field and forging a more reliable way of doing science.
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Pope Francis’ Pedophile Scandal Resignation Tied to Trump’s War on Deep State
Part of reason why globalists are making move against president
Alex Jones breaks down the ongoing pedophiles scandal unfolding within the Catholic Church, and how it’s tied to the Deep State and globalist combine.
[Comment: Globalist ranks are infested with pedophiles, which Trump is fighting against.]
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Report: Jacksonville Shooter Was Hospitalized for Mental Illness
The video gamer who allegedly shot up a Madden tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, was previously hospitalized for mental illness.
David Katz, 24, of Baltimore, Maryland, killed two people and wounded nine others before turning the gun on himself on Sunday.
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Shannon Watts Pushes Gun Control Before Details of Jacksonville Attack Known
Shannon Watts used the Jacksonville shooting as a springboard for a new gun control push and she did so before the details of the Jacksonville shooting had been released.
Watts is the founder of Michael Bloomberg-funded Moms Demand Action.
Earlier Sunday Breitbart News reported on a shooting at a video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida.
[Comment: Following the script of the globalists. This woman is a useful idiot.]
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The thin veneer of civilization that we all depend upon on a daily basis is disappearing at a staggering pace. On Sunday, the young men that gathered to participate in the Madden Championship Series tournament in Jacksonville probably never imagined that they would be in any sort of danger, but then gunfire erupted around 1 PM. Approximately 20 rounds were fired before the shooter killed himself, and it is being reported that 11 gamers were injured and 2 were killed. One of the victims that was killed was Taylor ‘SpotMePlzzz’ Robertson. He was a good man with a wife and a very small son, and now his son won’t have a father for the rest of his life. There have been many other mass shootings in recent years, but this one was just so senseless. Personally, I have just been really shaken up all day. Why would anyone ever want to kill somebody over a video game?
According to authorities, it has been confirmed that the shooter was 24-year-old David Katz…
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The Deep State State vs. The American People
The media and deep state cabal want you to believe their war is against Donald Trump. Don’t believe this for a minute. They do indeed hate Mr. Trump for taking what they feel only they are entitled to, but he is merely a passing phenomenon. If they succeed in their criminal effort to take down the president, the jig will be up and the country will be in the hands of its permanent government, with elections just the window dressing.
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Tiger Woods Defends President Trump, Won’t Talk About Race Relations
The sports media attempted to draw Tiger Woods into the ongoing feud between NFL and NBA players on Sunday, after Woods wrapped up his final round at the US PGA Northern Trust tournament, in New Jersey.
However, the 14-time major winner declined to get involved.
Woods was first asked about his personal relationship with President Trump, and whether he would describe it as “personal or professional.”
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Tulsa Bishop: Allegations Against Pope a ‘Good Place to Begin’ Sex Abuse Investigations
The bishop of Tulsa stated Sunday that allegations by the former papal nuncio to the United States that Pope Francis knew of Cardinal McCarrick’s sexual predation and yet reinstated him to a position of influence are a “good place” to start investigations into clerical sex abuse and cover-up.
On Saturday, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò released an 11-page affidavit claiming Pope Benedict had imposed “canonical sanctions” on Cardinal McCarrick, forbidding him from traveling, celebrating Mass in public, or participating in public meetings, but that Pope Francis later lifted these sanctions and made McCarrick his close personal adviser.
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Asia Argento Dropped by X-Factor Italy — Variety
After sex-assault claims by Bennett
(ANSA) — New York, August 27 — Asia Argento has been dropped by X-Factor Italy after the sexual assault charges levelled at the #MeToo figurehead by young US actor Jimmy Bennett, Variety said Monday.
Variety’s report has not yet been confirmed by Sky Italia and Fremantlemedia, which produce the show.
Argento will not appear in live shows but will however be seen in the first seven sets of auditions recorded starting in March, the entertainment weekly said.
Bennet’s lawyer said last week that the Italian actress and director’s denial that the two had allegedly non-consensual sex five years ago was false.
The 22-year-old’s lawyer, Gordon K. Sattro, said he was sexually assaulted by his hitherto mother figure when he was 17.
Argento allegedly agreed to pay him $380,000 to settle a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault, the NYT reported last Monday.
The actress denied this, saying the money was aimed at ending “persecution”.
The pair met in 2004 when Bennett played Argento’s son in a film she made about a drug-using mother.
Argento admitted paying Bennett $380,000 to settle the abuse lawsuit but said she had done it to avert blackmail, saying she had never had sex with the former child actor.
Saying she was “shocked and wounded” by what she called “fake news”, she said her late partner, chef Anthony Bourdain, who committed suicide on June 8, had advised her to make the payout to stop Bennett keeping asking her for money.
The TMZ website last week published a selfie of the pair lying in bed and said it was one of four snaps taken in a Marina del Rey hotel in 2013.
TMZ also published a text message allegedly from Argento to a friend saying “I had sex with him, I didn’t know he was under age until the blackmail letter arrived”.
She also allegedly said “that horny kid jumped on me”.
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Italian PM Threatens to Shut Down EU’s Ten-Year Budget — Plunging Bloc Into Crisis
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has threatened to pull the plug on European budget plans after confirming last night that Italy is ready to use its veto on the EU’s ten-year funding draft following a standoff between the two powers.
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Italy: Priest Removed for Sexual Advances
Sent explicit texts to married men in parish
(ANSA) — Avellino, August 27 — A young parish priest near Avellino was removed by the local bishop for sending explicit text messages and sexual advances to married men in his parish, sources said Monday. The cleric was officially removed “for health reasons”, Church source said.
Avellino Bishop monsignor Arturo Aiello acted after a probe that took several months, the sources said.
The procedure has also started to defrock the priest who took over a parish on the outskirts of Avellino five years ago, local source said.
The priest has also been removed because he posted leaflets listing the names of many priests he accused of having relationships with married women or making money from their pastoral activities, the sources said.
He allegedly did this to get his revenge after finding out he was going to be replaced, sources said.
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London: Teen Stabbed to Death Next to Anti-Knife Poster
A man has been stabbed to death in front of an anti-knife crime poster in South London as the capital’s violent crime wave rolls on.
The murder victim, thought to be 22, was found with stab wounds in a street in Deptford in south-east London at about 11:45 p.m. on Saturday. He was rushed to hospital but died a short time later, according to a police statement.
A taped off police cordon at the crime scene spread around a bus stop displaying a poster of a young man on a bicycle from the government’s #knifefree campaign, which is aimed at curbing the rise of violence.
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Macron ‘Weakened’ President Drops to Record Low in Polls for ‘Acting Like King of France’
EMMANUEL Macron heads back to work “weakened” after his clumsy handling of a scandal involving his top bodyguard pushed his approval ratings to a record low in August.
Ifop’s deputy chief Frédéric Dabi said public perception of the French President has turned, with voters frustrated at his cuts to welfare and employment reforms.
Mr Macron was described as acting like a “monarch” with no connection with his voters, by Mr Dabi.
Mr Dabi told France’s Europe 1 radio: “He is entering the new political year undeniably weakened.”
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Police at Loss for Explanation After Copenhagen Car Fires
Cars were set on fire in several parts of Copenhagen late on Saturday and during the early hours of Sunday.
Police received reports of car fires in the Nørrebro, Nordvest and Hellerup areas of the capital, Copenhagen Police duty officer Henrik Svejstrup confirmed.
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Pope Francis Dodges Questions of Misconduct in the McCarrick Case
Pope Francis deflected questions from reporters about his alleged lifting of sanctions imposed on Cardinal Theodore McCarrick for sexual abuse, telling reporters Sunday to read the accusations and make their own assessment of their credibility.
On the papal plane returning from Ireland Sunday night, a journalist asked the pope point blank whether allegations were true that the papal nuncio to the United States had explicitly informed him in 2013 of sexual abuse perpetrated by Cardinal McCarrick and subsequent sanctions imposed on him by Pope Benedict XVI, including restrictions on his travel and appearances in public.
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Swedish Anti-Migration, Anti-EU Party Poised to Make Big Gains in Coming Election
Having orchestrated an invasion of your nation doesn’t generally help on the campaign trail. Nor is it beneficial when one of your leaders says that “the Swedes must be integrated into the new Sweden; the old Sweden is never coming back.” Thus is it no surprise that the Social Democrats, long the dominant party in Sweden, are now losing ground — and that some of this ground is being taken by a pro-Swedish, anti-(im)migration alternative: the Sweden Democrats.
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Switzerland: Activists at Geneva Conference Urge Ban on ‘Killer Robots’
Countries should quickly agree a treaty banning the use of so-called killer robots “before it is too late”, activists said on Monday as talks on the issue resumed at the UN in Geneva.
They say time is running out before weapons are deployed that use lethal force without a human making the final kill-order and have criticised the UN body hosting the talks — the Convention of Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) — for moving too slowly.
“Killer robots are no longer the stuff of science fiction,” Rasha Abdul Rahim, Amnesty International’s advisor on artificial intelligence and human rights, said in a statement.
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The Attack on Western Civilization — Waking Up Too Late
Part 9: Waking Up Too Late: Cultural displacement
Lamm continued, “Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits—make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult of ‘diversity’. I would find a word similar to ‘heretic’ in the 16th century—that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like ‘racist’ or ‘xenophobe’ halt discussion and debate.”
History records fallen countries by the dozens because their leaders and citizens didn’t wake up to an invasion until too late. As it stands right now, Europe grows more hopeless by the day.
Bromwell Ault states:
The missing link between Europe’s non-reaction to attacks upon WCIV and our disturbingly similar attitude may not be missing at all. It may just be unrecognizable to both because, in addition to allowing ourselves to be deceived by others, we have deceived ourselves. In the game of history, long or short, such lapses are marked with a very high price tag.
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The EU is ‘Unprecedented Filth That Doesn’t Deserve Our Money’ Italian Minister Fumes
THE ITALIAN interior minister has labelled the EU as “unprecedented filth that doesn’t deserve our money” as Emmanuel Macron has warned against the EU going too soft on the UK in Brexit negotiations.
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- Historian says modern insults are nothing compared to those in ancient Rome
- Prof Martin Jehne is based at the Technische Universität Dresden, in Germany
- Withstanding and overcoming insults can have a politically stabilising effect
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LEAVE campaigners will take on businessman George Soros’ over his plans to derail Brexit.
Leading Eurosceptics want to raise a £5 million war chest to tackle the billionaire’s bid to hold a second EU vote.
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UK: Men Arrested After Two Women Stabbed in East London
A suspect was arrested Monday morning after a woman in her sixties was stabbed as she walked past a children’s playground and a woman in her fifties was stabbed, in two incidents in East London.
Police arrested a 51-year-old man Sunday evening, who was later released pending further enquiries, and a 36-year-old suspect was arrested Monday morning, who has been charged with attempted murder.
Police said the two stabbings, which both targeted older women in the Bow area of east London, were “possibly linked”.
The first victim was stabbed in the leg on Friday evening. At the time of the attack, the perpetrator was described by police as a “black male, aged in his 40s, of chubby build and wearing grey clothing”. He fled on foot.
[Comment: “How dare these infidels walk in our area…”]
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UK: Murder Suspect Named After Deaths of Mum and Daughter in Solihull
Police have issued a photo of a man they are searching for following the alleged murders of a mother and daughter.
Janbaz Tarin, 21, is being sought over the killings of his former partner, Raneem Oudeh, and her mother, Khaola Saleem.
The women, aged 22 and 49, were discovered with serious stab wounds in Northdown Road in Solihull, West Midlands, at 12.30am.
They were treated by emergency services but confirmed dead at the scene.
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A man was stabbed this evening as crowds dispersed from the second day of London’s Notting Hill Carnival
Police made nearly 400 arrests over weekend, compared to 313 last year, and seized around 70 weapons
Comes as Iain Duncan Smith demanded police should dramatically increase the use of stop and search to combat spiralling gang crime in the capital
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UK: Theresa May ‘Could be Booed at Tory Conference’, Says One of Her Own MPs
Theresa May could face a slow hand clap or even booing at the Conservative Party Conference due to her handling of Brexit negotiations, according to one of her own MPs.
Brexiteer MP Andrew Bridgen said: “Her standing has now plummeted even further.
“It’s becoming increasingly obvious to Conservative supporters that we need a new PM to rescue Brexit, and rescue our country and our party.
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Wilders’ Mohammed Cartoon Contest is About Provocation, Dutch PM Says
Prime minister Mark Rutte has described the Mohammed cartoon competition organised by anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders as ‘not respectful’ and ‘provocative’ but said that he supports free speech. ‘The aim is to provoke rather than to force a debate about Islam,’ Rutte said at his weekly press conference. ‘Wilders is a politician who provokes and he is free to do that.’
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Chinese Collusion: China Looking to Dominate U.S. From Without — And From Within
China’s de facto fascist regime already has its “Confucius Institutes” in our schools, its censors influencing our movies, and its government stealing our technology. Now comes word that Beijing is funding Washington think tanks and pressuring Chinese-descent Americans into doing its bidding. Add to this news that China’s military is joining Russia for war games involving simulated nuclear attacks, and painted is a clear picture of what China actually is: our primary and most dangerous geopolitical foe.
One of the tragedies of our leftists’ fretting and propagandizing over Russia — a land they took no issue with when it was the Marxist Soviet Union — is that it serves as misdirection causing us to take our eye off China. Note that China’s economy is approximately 10 times the size of Russia’s economy, the latter of which is actually $400 billion smaller than that of Texas. This is significant because military power follows economic power.
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Dems Doing This While Conservatives Are Doing …
We all know the saying, actions speak louder than words.
Something many may not realize is just how much action is going on by motivated individuals who call themselves Democrats; liberal or progressive their true politically ideology is socialism and communism. ‘We have to regulate every aspect of people’s lives’ — Lawmaker slips, confirms objective of progressivism, 8.6.2018
Should Democratic Party merge with Communist Party? My column, 8.12.2005
“No doubt such a question will immediately raise the hackles of those who belong to the Democratic Party, but I believe this is a valid question considering the Communist Party USA and the Communist Party of Red China endorsed John Kerry for president in the last pretend election. They wouldn’t endorse him unless they felt he would continue to further the agenda for world communism via the official Democratic Party…
“Back in 1996, I wrote about the 57 members of Congress who belonged to the “Progressive Caucus.” The Democratic Socialists of America highly admire these left-of-the-left members of Congress, i.e., open socialist Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., who should be barred from serving in the U.S. Congress because his goal is the destruction of our constitutional republic (we are not a democracy)…
Today, socialists who belong to the Democratic/Communist Party USA have come out of the wood work. Kamala Harris, a counterfeit U.S. Senator from California is a Red, make no mistake about that. The Democrat Party is trying to mold her into a superstar.
Dozens and dozens of members of Congress still belong to the DSA while useful fools out there causing violence, ANTIFA for one, chant they are against Fascism. The paid anarchists know full well what their doing but the dullard’s who join them wouldn’t know what Fascism means if Mussolini stood in front of them and laid it all out.
We are getting close to the next election for the full U.S. House and 1/3rd of the illegitimate U.S. Senate. Once again, too many GOP incumbents, a whole lot of them RINOs, have won their primaries. Likely most will go on to win in November to go back to the swamp; once again, the lesser of two evils.
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Here’s How the U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal Would Differ From NAFTA
President Donald Trump wants to sign a new trade agreement with Mexico and toss the name “Nafta” into the dustbin of history.
There’s still lots of work to be done — the administration is calling the deal with Mexico a “preliminary agreement in principle,” and the U.S. is still hopeful Canada will sign on.
Below we outline a few main ways the U.S.-Mexico agreement would differ from the more than two-decade-old North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Venezuela’s Tyranny of Bad Ideas
Socialism was a proven failure, but Hugo Chavez got his countrymen to try it
Ideas run the world: good ones create freedom and wealth; bad ones, oppression and poverty. Sure, money is important, but money is but a means to an end. Ideas are the end. You are not what you eat; you are what you think.
Politicians in particular fall under the sway of ideas. As John Maynard Keynes put it, “Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. … it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.”
The story of Venezuela, brought from affluence to misery by its own madman in authority, makes this point with singular clarity. In 1914, the discovery of oil on Venezuelan land brought the country vast revenues and produced a relatively free economy. By 1950, Venezuela enjoyed the fourth-highest per capita income in the world, behind only the U.S., Switzerland, and New Zealand. As late as 1980, it boasted the world’s fastest growing economy in the 20thcentury. In 2001, Venezuela still ranked as Latin America’s wealthiest country.
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Venezuelan Leader Declares Migration Crisis ‘Staged’ By West as Millions Flee
Venezuelan socialist leader and alleged drug lord Diosdado Cabello told a crowd this weekend that the ongoing exodus of Venezuelans is a false flag operation led by right-wing governments, Colombian newspaper El Tiempo noted on Monday.
Cabello, who is head of the regime’s illegal lawmaking body known as the “national constituent assembly,” continued to deny the existence of a humanitarian crisis, claiming that photos taken of large-scale migration are staged.
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African Migrant Suspected of Throwing Female Tourist Off Cliff in Italy
An African migrant is in custody, suspected of throwing a German girl off a cliff in Italy after possibly attempting to rape her, authorities say.
Law student Alena Sudakova, 21, was on holiday in Italy when she was discovered badly injured after a fall of approximately 230 feet from a cliff near the coastal town of Sanremo, according to reports, in an incident that occurred at the end of July but has received little media coverage until recently.
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Czech PM Calls for No Illegal Migrants in Europe Ahead of Visit to Italy
Billionaire Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Monday August 27th that a comprehensive action plan is necessary to stop illegal migration, which he will address on a visit to Italy and Malta this week.
“If Italy and Malta won’t welcome (the migrants), then Spain will. And so we’re sending the message to migrants that it’s possible to come to Europe, from Morocco via Spain,” Babis wrote in an opinion piece in the Czech broadsheet daily DNES.
“This has to stop. Otherwise we’ll never stop the migrant influx,” added the businessman and head of the populist ANO movement. “I plan to discuss this with EU leaders and take part in implementing a comprehensive action plan.”
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EU Must Change or Budget Veto Will be Certain — Di Maio
Funding is not dogma says Di Maio
(ANSA) — Berlin, August 27 — The EU must change its tune on migrants or Italy’s budget veto will be “certain”, Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio said Monday.
Di Maio was speaking after European Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said Monday that Italy doesn’t pay 20 billion euros a year to the EU budget as stated by Di Maio in threatening to cut it unless the EU took in migrants, but 14-16 billion.
“Taking into account what it receives from the EU budget that leaves a net contribution of three billion a year,” Oettinger said.
Di Maio replied that Oettinger’s description of his claim as a “farce” “shows what consideration they have of our country”.
“They’re evidently used to Italian premiers and ministers going cap in hand to Brussels”.
“Funding is not a dogma,” said Di Maio, leader of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, and also industry and labour minister.
“The music in Europe is going to change,” he said, saying that soon there would be talk of “real solidarity and not restrictions that are unsustainable from both the social and economic standpoint”.
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Italy: ‘Go Ahead, Arrest Me!’ Salvini’s Defiant Rebuke of EU ‘Interference’ In Migrant Showdown
MATTEO SALVINI has challenged his critics to “arrest” him over the migrant boat standoff — as he defiantly defended his actions and said that Italy’s EU allies had not kept their promises.
Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini has defiantly pushed back against his critics inside Italy and across the EU over his handling of the Diciotti migrant boat standoff.
This comes as Sicilian prosecutors look set to launch an investigation into the standoff, claiming Mr Salvini was responsible for illegal detention and kidnapping.
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Latin American Invasion of ‘Kissing Bugs’ Spreading Deadly and Dangerous Disease in U.S.
“These blood-sucking parasites spread a dangerous sometimes deadly illness called Chagas disease. The disease, which has spread to the U.S., was previously only found in Central and South America as well as Mexico.” — Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
During the national debate regarding illegal immigration, especially from south of the U.S.-Mexico border, the politically-correct news media, the left-wing politicians and those who favor a limited amount of sovereignty are quick to quash any mention of contagious diseases emanating from Latin American countries.
According to experts on communicable diseases, Chagas disease, a potentially life-threatening disease caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, has become a concern in the United States as a result of mass immigration from Latin America where Chagas disease is endemic.
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Merkel Rejects Call for Conscription to Help Refugees Integrate Into German Society
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel has rejected the controversial suggestion from a close political ally that Germany should reintroduce conscription for both Germans and refugees, in order encourage integration between communities.
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Migrant Suspected of 542 Crimes Can’t be Deported From Germany as He Doesn’t Have Passport
A MIGRANT facing hundreds of criminal investigations cannot be deported from Germany — because officials have no idea where he is from.
He has allegedly been using legal loopholes to stay in Germany despite having a staggering 542 criminal investigations against him.
The migrant has been accused of a string of crimes including assault, theft, robbery and buying drugs, local media said.
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Salvini Hails Australia Arresting Migrants
‘Long live civilised, serious Australia’
(ANSA) — Rome, August 27 — Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Monday hailed Australia’s arresting the first boat people who have managed to get there for four years.
The boat people reached Australia from Vietnam as Australia’s No Way naval blockade against migrants — which Salvini says he wants to emulate — showed its first ‘hole’ since 2014.
The migrants were promptly arrested.
Salvini said “this is the model I want to arrive at! “Long live the civilised and serious Australia”.
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Suspected People Smugglers Arrested Among Migrants Rescued by Italian Authorities
Four people among the 140 ‘migrants’ brought to Italy after a monumental stand-off between the EU, UN and Italian government have been arrested on suspicion of people smuggling.
According to Ansa news agency, the four are accused of criminal association for the purposes of human trafficking, aiding illegal immigration, illegal entry by procurement, and sexual violence.
They are of Egyptian and Bangladeshi origin, according to reports.
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Tom Cotton: Mollie Tibbetts ‘Would be Alive’ If Immigration Laws Were ‘Seriously’ Enforced
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says 20-year-old college student Mollie Tibbetts would still “be alive” if the United States’ immigration laws were “seriously” enforced.
Law enforcement announced on Tuesday that Tibbetts’ body was found in a cornfield in her rural hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa after she was last seen jogging on July 18.
Illegal alien Christian Bahena-Rivera, a 24-year-old from Mexico, has been charged with first-degree murder in her death after police say he admitted to confronting and chasing down Tibbetts.
The illegal alien, charged with first-degree murder, has been living in the U.S. for four to seven years.
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Tourists Shocked as Migrant Boat Speeds to Spanish Beach Before Africans Dash for Cliffs
THIS is the astonishing moment a group of African migrants reach a packed tourist beach in broad daylight and jump off their boat by the shoreline before running to hide behind cliffs.
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Watch: Riot Police in Violent Clashes With Protesters Over Migrant Ship in South of Italy
CLASHES erupted between riot police and protesters as thousands demonstrated in favour of migrants on the Diciotti ship in Catania, Italy, to be disembarked on Saturday.
Thousands of protesters clashed with riot police in Italy on Saturday as 190 migrants were refused to disembark in the port of Catania, Sicily.
The migrants were rescued from an overcrowded boat off the coast of Lampedusa last week.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini refused to give an authorisation for most of the migrants to disembark the boat until Italy received guarantees from other EU countries they would share the burden of asylum seekers.
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Italy: Pope Wrong to Says Shrinks Can Help Gay Kids Says Gay Group
We’re not ill
(ANSA) — Rome, August 27 — Italy’s Gay Center said Monday Pope Francis was wrong to say gay kids could be helped by psychiatry.
“We’re not ill,” said the group’s spokesman Fabrizio Marrazzo.
On his flight back from Ireland Sunday evening, the pope recommended parents seek psychiatric help for children who show homosexual tendencies.
A journalist asked Francis what he would say to parents who observe homosexual traits in their children.
“I would say first of all pray, not to condemn, to dialogue, to understand, to give space to the son or the daughter,” he responded.
Parents must also consider the age of their child, he said.
“When it shows itself from childhood, there is a lot that can be done through psychiatry, to see how things are. It is something else if it shows itself after 20 years.” He emphasised that parents should not respond with “silence”.
“Ignoring a son or daughter who has homosexual tendencies is an error of fatherhood or motherhood.”
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The neologism “Islamophobia” seems to be a quasi-scientific effort to suggest that suspicion of Islam is simultaneously irrational and racist. Even more of a concern is the attempt to employ science in the service of politics.
The Nazis in the last century concocted a scientific theory about the inferiority of the Jews in order to rationalize their plan to annihilate Jewry. Now pseudo-science is used to defend Muslims. The disturbing fact is that in both cases, we deploy social science in the service of a political agenda. While some scholars such as John Denham have drawn parallels between modern Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, their implications are not only illogical, but dangerously deceptive.
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The RCC is in ruin after 25 years of endless sex abuse cover ups.
Wuerl’s falling and anyone connected to McCarrick must be investigated for ties to the massive lavender mafia that rots the fish.
Make that 75 years of endless sexual abuse by priests. It did get worse in the 50s and began to spread, but it has been around a long time. I know some of the sad stories.
The lavender mafia in the Curia and among the American Council of Bishops hasn’t been public, but “everyone” knows about it.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/25/police-children-fabricate-story-of-white-man-urinating-on-black-girl/
I do not remember if this story was in your news.
Yes, we had it in the news feed, but I don’t remember which day it was.
Best wishes for a full recovery to your son, Dymphna.
Thank you. It will be a long haul.
So a young man is stabbed to death next to a poster for anti-knife crime. To the left, there is no problem that can’t be solved by a poster and protest signs.