Angry Pakistanis have taken to the streets to demonstrate against Geert Wilders’ “Draw Mohammed” contest, which will be held in the Dutch parliament next month. The Senate in Pakistan passed a resolution condemning the contest. Meanwhile, the Dutch justice minister said that the videotape made by a Pakistani threatening Geert Wilders’ life was “revolting”. The would-be assassin was arrested by Dutch police after he arrived in the Netherlands.
In other news, the Libyan coast guard rescued more than 400 migrants off the country’s coast. There’s no word about where those migrants will be off-loaded.
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Economy Booming: Could We See Trump’s Claimed 5% GDP Growth?
Forecasters watching the economy expected that the blowout number in the second quarter for the country’s Gross Domestic Product would have to be revised downward on Wednesday. Once again, their expectations failed to reflect the real economy: That blowout number of 4.1 percent growth, instead of being revised lower to a predicted 4.0 percent, was revised upward to 4.2 percent GDP growth.
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Hungary Jobless Rate 3.6% — KSH
Hungary’s rolling average three-month jobless rate stood at 3.6 percent in May-July, the same as the previous period and down from 4.2 percent in the same period a year earlier, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Wednesday.
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Chicago Cardinal Says Allegations Against Pope ‘Because He is a Latino’
Cardinal Blase Cupich suggested that allegations that Pope Francis knowingly rehabilitated an abusive American cardinal proceed from racism in a television interview with NBC News Tuesday.
In the interview, the Archbishop of Chicago responded to a recent 11-page statement by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former papal nuncio to the United States, that alleges a series of misdeeds by high-ranking Catholic prelates, including Pope Francis himself.
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China Hacked Clinton’s Private Email Server: Daily Caller
A Chinese-owned firm with operations in Washington D.C. hacked Hillary Clinton’s private server “throughout her term as secretary of state and obtained nearly all her emails,” reports the Daily Caller’s Richard Pollock.
The Chinese firm obtained Clinton’s emails in real time as she sent and received communications and documents through her personal server, according to the sources, who said the hacking was conducted as part of an intelligence operation.
The Chinese wrote code that was embedded in the server, which was kept in Clinton’s residence in upstate New York. The code generated an instant “courtesy copy” for nearly all of her emails and forwarded them to the Chinese company, according to the sources. —Daily Caller
During a July 12 House Committee on the Judiciary hearing, Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert (R) disclosed that the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) found that virtually all of Clinton’s emails from her homebrew server were funneled to a “foreign entity.” Gohmert did not reveal the entity’s identity — however he said it wasn’t Russia.
A government staff official briefed on the ICIG’s findings told the Daily Caller that the Chinese firm which hacked Clinton’s emails operates in Washington’s northern Virginia suburbs, and that it was not a technology firm — but a “front group” for the Chinese government.
Warnings ignored
Two ICIG officials, investigator Frank Ruckner and attorney Janette McMillan, repeatedly warned FBI officials of the Chinese intrusion during several meetings, according to the Daily Caller, citing a “former intelligence officer with expertise in cybersecurity issues who was briefed on the matter.”
Among the FBI officials warned was Peter Strzok — who was fired earlier this month from the agency over anti-Trump text messages he sent while spearheading an investigation of Trump’s 2016 campaign. Strzok did not act on the ICIG’s warning according to Gohmert — who added that Strzok and three other top FBI officials knew about an “anomaly” on Clinton’s server.
In other words; Strzok, while investigating Clinton’s email server, completely ignored the fact that most of Clinton’s emails were sent to a foreign entity — while IG Horowitz simply didn’t want to know about it.
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CNN Analyst Says it’s Racist to Criticize ANTIFA Because They’re an “African-American” Group
CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin reacted to President Trump’s warning that Antifa was planning violence after the mid-terms by asserting it was racist to criticize Antifa because they’re “widely perceived as an African-American organization.”
Yes, really.
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Donald Trump Taunts Florida Democrats for Nominating Socialist Andrew Gillum
President Donald Trump celebrated Wednesday that the Republican nominee for Florida governor was facing a radical socialist in the election.
“Not only did Congressman Ron DeSantis easily win the Republican Primary, but his opponent in November is his biggest dream,” Trump marveled on Twitter. “A failed Socialist Mayor named Andrew Gillum who has allowed crime & many other problems to flourish in his city.”
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Former United States Nuncio on the McCarrick Scandal: “Francis Knew. He Should Resign”
During the night between August 25 and 26, while Pope Francis was resting in Dublin, the newspaper “La Verita “ in Italian, “The National Catholic Register” and “Lifesite News” in English, and “InfoVaticana” in Spanish published — respectively introduced by Marco Tosatti, Edward Pentin, Diane Montagna, and Gabriel Ariza — the stunning accusation by the former apostolic nuncio in the United States, Carlo Maria Vigano, against those at the highest levels of the Church, starting with the pope himself, who knew for some time about the scandalous homosexual activity of the no-longer-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, but in spite of this did nothing about it.
Vigano was the Holy See’s ambassador in Washington from 2011 to 2016, after having been from 1998 to 2009 a delegate in Rome for the pontifical embassies, with the faculty of overseeing the personal dossiers of candidates for the episcopacy. And he had proof that as of 2000 the Vatican authorities had been informed by the nunciature in the United States of McCarrick’s immoral conduct, without this hindering his promotion as archbishop of Washington and as cardinal.
In 2006, it was Vigano himself who sent the secretary of state at the time, Tarcisio Bertone, a dossier against McCarrick compiled over the previous years by the nuncios in the United States at the time, Gabriel Montalvo and Pietro Sambi. And he did the same in 2008, forwarding to the highest Vatican authorities a report redacted by one of the most assiduous investigators of sexual abuse in the States, Richard Sipe.
In both cases, he received no reply. But when the information reached, by means unknown, Benedict XVI himself, there was an effect. Between 2009 and 2010 McCarrick was subjected — Vigano writes — to the following sanctions:…
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Google Responds to Trump, Says “Doesn’t Bias Search Results”
Following an accusation by president Trump that Google was “rigging” search results against him, providing as evidence a “Trump News” search which showed predominantly “left” media publications popping up in the search results…
[…] Google has responded.
As a reminder, first thing this morning, Trump tweeted that “Google search results for ‘Trump News’shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake New Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD, Fake CNN is prominent. Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out. Illegal,” Trump said in his latest claim of bias by the media. 96% of results on “Trump News” are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous.”
[Comment: It is not bias to block out or low rank what google classifies as fake news…that’s the mindset of google people.]
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Illinois Bishop: Pope’s Silence on McCarrick Case is ‘Not Adequate’
The bishop of Springfield, IL, has joined the growing band of prelates calling for a full investigation into the serious allegations brought by the former papal nuncio to the United States against high ranking churchmen, including Pope Francis.
In a statement Tuesday, Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki said that the former nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, has “revealed a set of facts and circumstances that are deeply troubling as they relate to the awareness, actions, and inactions at the very highest levels of the Church” regarding the serial sexual abuse by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
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Revoke Hillary’s Security Clearance
We are beginning to get a sense of the full magnitude of not only Hillary Clinton’s breach of her sworn commitments to safeguard American secrets during her disastrous stint as Secretary of State, but also of her betrayal of her country, as well.
Hillary’s conscious decision to violate secure communications protocols — enabled by, among others, her Muslim Brotherhood-tied top aide, Huma Abedin — was reportedly and predictably exploited by Communist China, and probably other hostile nations.
Evidently, every one of her official and personal emails was obtained in real time by a Chinese intelligence front operating out of Northern Virginia. That means that the highly classified information she received and transmitted, as well as other sensitive correspondence, was certainly compromised and probably exploited.
At a minimum, none of those implicated, including Hillary Clinton herself, should ever have access again to state secrets.
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The Social Media Purge of Conservatives is a Giant Election Meddling Scheme
It can no longer be denied that there is a coordinated, sustained agenda to censor and silence conservatives by social media Silicon Valley giants as part of a giant election meddling scheme.
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Trump Renews Google Attack, Says it Promoted Obama ‘State of Unions’, But Not His
Update: Google has responded, saying that it did publicize Trump’s 2018 State of the Union address, and adds that Trump’s 2017 address was not a SOTU, it was an address to Congress, so they didn’t publicize it (just as they didn’t publicize Obama’s address to Congress in 2009.)
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President Trump on Wednesday renewed his attacks on technology companies and platforms, including Twitter, Facebook Inc and Google, saying they were “trying to silence” people and suggesting that their activities — i.e., shadowbanning, censorship and bias — may be illegal.
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Twitter Suspends More Accounts for ‘Engaging in Coordinated Manipulation’
Twitter has announced that following their suspension of 284 accounts for engaging in “coordinated manipulation,” the site has banned a further 486 accounts for sharing “divisive commentary,” including many based in the United States.
Last week, Twitter suspended 284 accounts on their platform for engaging in “coordinated manipulation.” Today Twitter announced that a further 486 accounts have been banned, making a total of 770 accounts banned from the platform in the past two weeks specifically for what Twitter alleges is manipulation.
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US Soldier Pleads Guilty to Trying to Help ISIS
A soldier based in Hawaii pleaded guilty Wednesday to trying to help the Islamic State group — admitting he provided secret military information, a drone meant to track U.S. troops and other support to undercover agents he believed were members of the terrorist organization.
Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang, handcuffed and wearing beige prison jumpsuit, spoke in a clear and confident voice when he told a U.S. magistrate judge in Honolulu he’s guilty of all four counts charged in an indictment filed last year.
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Delingpole: #FakeNews Guardian Issues Fatwa on Climate ‘Deniers’
Climate change ‘deniers’ should no longer have a voice in public debate because basically they are the same as flat-earthers and people who don’t believe that smoking causes cancer.
Or so declares a group of semi-famous green writers, politicians, and scientists in an open letter to The Guardian.
The letter begins:
“We are no longer willing to lend our credibility to debates over whether or not climate change is real.”
This is unintentionally funny: none of the signatories of the letter actually has any credibility.
They used to be quite well known once.
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Populist Rassemblement National (RN) member of the European Parliament Nicolas Bay has praised the migration policies of Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and slammed growing anti-Semitism as a result of mass immigration and rising Islamic extremism.
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Four Writers Shortlisted for ‘The New Nobel Literature Prize’
Haruki Murakami, Japan; Vietnamese-born Canadian writer Kim Thúy; Maryse Condé, Guadeloupe; and British author Neil Gaiman, based in the US, have been nominated for what has been dubbed “the new Nobel Prize”.
Journalist Alexandra Pascalidou created the prize earlier this year after the Swedish Academy announced that it would not award a Nobel Literature Prize in 2018, following a scandal sparked by several sexual violence and harassment accusations towards well-known cultural figure Jean-Claude Arnault.
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Italy: Man Nabbed for Raping Danish Tourist in Rimini
Already cited three times for sexual violence
(ANSA) — Rimini, August 29 — A 37-year-old Bangladeshi street rose seller was arrested Wednesday for allegedly raping a 26-year-old Danish tourist in Rimini at dawn on Sunday, police said.
The man has a criminal record, police said.
He had been reported three times for sexual violence, they said: twice against women and once against a girl.
He has been chargrd with sexual violence.
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Italy: Man Nabbed for Abusing Girl
In Milan
(ANSA) — Milan, August 29 — A 40-year-old Sri Lankan man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly sexually abusing a Congolese girl who had fled a children’s home, police said.
The alleged attack took place in Milan’s Navigli area, they said.
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- More than £58,000 has been raised to pay for the bikini-clad blimp of Mr Khan
- Organiser Yanny Bruere, 28, began campaign in response to the Trump baby
- The inflatable Mr Khan will be flown above Parliament Square on Saturday
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Macron: Orban and Salvini Are Right to ‘See Me as Their Main Opponent’
French President Emmanuel Macron hit back against Hungary and Italy, saying the countries are “right to consider him a threat” after he was portrayed as a common enemy and blamed for Europe’s migration woes.
Reacting to accusations from Hungarian leader Viktor Orban and Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini — who met Tuesday in Milan — the French president said he would not “cede any ground to nationalists and those who advocate hate speech.”
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The Public Prosecution Service in Holland is investigating whether the incident, which took place near a supermarket in Naaldwijk, 10km from the Hague, was terror related.
[Comment: I did a Google search for “Allahu Akbar” per the suggestion made by Elena.]
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Netherlands: Justice Minister Calls Threat Against Wilders “Revolting”
“We have a free democracy, this video is revolting”, Minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus of Justice and Security said to NOS about a man threatening to kill PVV leader Geert Wilders in a video on Facebook. The 26-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday.
The Minister saw the video. He was at a working visit to the police in Apeldoorn when the video was reported. The Apeldoorn police analyzes posts on social media for threats, according to the broadcaster. “Police and judiciary are very alert, we are on top of this”, Grapperhaus said. “I stand for personal safety. In a free democracy we do not allow people to seriously threaten other people. We will simply not allow it.”
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Penalty if Italy Doesn’t Pay Budget Share Says Oettinger
Di Maio repeats threat, Salvini clashes with Macron
(ANSA) — Berlin, August 29 — Italy will incur a penalty if it doesn’t pay its EU budget quota in a row over migrants, European Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger told Die Welt Wednesday.
“All EU States have assumed the obligation of paying their contributions within the established time,” he said.
“All the rest would be a violation of the treaties which would entail penalties”.
He said “Italy has won our support in tackling the migrant crisis and its consequences, I can only warn Rome about mixing the migrant issue with the EU budget”.
Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio was undeterred by Oettinger’s statement, reiterating Wednesday that Italy will veto the EU budget unless it gets more help in dealing with migrants.
Oettinger, Di Maio said, “continues to make statements every day ever since we told him we’re not going to give them the money.” “We never heard from them when we asked them for a hand on migration.
“The only thing this EU understands is when you start to cut their money.
“Our position on the budget veto remains the same. If over the coming days they start to rediscover the spirit of solidarity with which the EU was founded, then we’ll talk about it”.
Italy’s new hardline stance on migrants has been criticised by French President Emmanuel Macron, who has said he is the adversary of European populists and nationalists.
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who agreed on migrants with Hungarian Premier Viktor Orban in Milan Tuesday, said Wednesday “the main adversary of Macron, looking at the polls, is the French people”.
He said “instead of giving lectures to other governments he should throw open his own borders, starting from the one at Ventimiglia (with Italy).
“And he should stop destabilising Libya for economic interests”.
Macron said on a visit to Denmark Wednesday that he was an adversary of Salvini and Orban, who criticised him when they met in Milan Tuesday — where Orban called Salvini “my hero” for trying to stop sea-borne migrants.
The French president said the pair “are right” to see him as their “main adversary” in Europe on the migrant issue.
“I will not give in to the nationalists and those who preach hatred,” Macron said.
“If they wanted to see me as their main adversary they are right”.
Some 100 migrants who landed from the coast guard ship Diciotti after a 10-day standoff with the EU arrived Wednesday at a Catholic-run reception centre in Rocca di Papa south of Rome.
The migrants were met by a crowd split between those welcoming them and those saying they were not welcome there — despite the fact that they will soon be sent around Italy.
The Democratic Party (PD) former mayor of the Lazio town, Pasquale Boccia, said ahead of their arrival: “it can’t be done, there is rancour on the part of the residents, which is turning into hatred, we’re already hosting enough of them”.
The head of the cooperative that runs the migrant centre in Rocca di Papa, Domenico Alagia, said “they will remain a few days in the centre and then will be welcomed by the diocese which said they were prepared to take them around Italy”.
Another 39 have remained in the hotspot in Messina, waiting to be transferred to Albania and Ireland, the only two nations who have said they will take some of the Diciotti migrants.
The Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) has said the 100 will be shortly transferred to the many dioceses who have given their availability: Turin, Brescia, Bologna, Agrigento, Cassano all’Jonio, Rossano Calabro, among others.
The stand-off came after Interior Minister Matteo Salvini kept the migrants aboard saying they would not land until the EU agreed to take them.
Salvini is under investigation by an Agrigento prosecutor for alleged kidnapping, illegal arrest and abuse of office.
Albanian Premier Edi Rama said Tuesday Italy had been left alone by the EU to cope with the migrant emergency.
Speaking in Genoa after agreeing to take in 20 Eritrean migrants from the Diciotti after the standoff, Rama said “Italy has been the most welcoming country in Europe in the last 30 years, but it has been left alone and nerves are no longer so solid, we intervened hoping that Europe would do something concrete to resolve the problem”.
“We (Albanians) were once the Eritreans. Italy was our promised land and the Italians did not ever leave us in the middle of the sea”. Migrants “should be drowned in the open sea”, a doctor at Spoleto hospital said on her Facebook page recently, sources said Tuesday.
The doctor works in the ER ward at the Umbrian hospital.
Il Messaggero newspaper said she called migrants “n**gers with Nike shoes and full bellies” and said they had scabies because of the “violence they perpetrated”.
The local health authority told ANSA it had started disciplinary proceedings against her.
The doctor made her remarks in a Facebook group with some 38,000 doctors on it.
Her profile had been deleted Tuesday morning.
Also on Wednesday, a European Commission spokesperson said migrants must consent when resettlement involves a transfer from an EU member like Italy to a third country like Albania.
Commenting on Rome’s deal with Tirana to take 20 migrants from the Diciotti ship, the spokesperson said: “When it is a question of bilateral accords between a member State and a third country”, the spokesperson said, “you have to ask them (the migrants) for details…there are several elements to take into consideration in assessing their legality”.
“In particular there is the consent of the people” to making asylum claims in countries other than those they arrived in, the spokesperson said.
Defence Minister Elisabetta Trenta will on Thursday propose to her EU colleagues a rotation of landing ports for the Sophia anti-human-trafficking mission so that not all migrants land in Italy, sources said Wednesday.
“Italy should not still be the only country to take on the problem, but also other member States,” she will put to them. The Libyan coast guard says it has intercepted some 400 migrants heading for Europe in the last week, including dozens of women and children, off its coast.
Coast guard spokesman Ayoub Gassim explained that the migrants received humanitarian aid and medical care and were taken to refugee camps in the cities of Zawiya e Tajoura.
Italy has a deal with Libyan coast guards to pull back migrants heading for Italy. Two Ukrainian people traffickers have been arrested for bringing 44 Afghan migrants including 12 children to Italy on board a sailboat from Turkey, police said Wednesday.
The boat landed near Noto in Sicily on Monday, they said.
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Pope Bitter Over Viganò Case But Not Considering Resignation
ANSA told by close collaborators
(ANSA) — Vatican City, August 29 — Pope Francis is “embittered” by a letter written by Carlo Maria Viganò, the former top Vatican diplomat in the United States, which said Francis should step down for allegedly covering up a top US bishop’s sex abuse, his close collaborators told ANSA. The former Vatican diplomat said in the document that Pope Francis had protected the former Washington DC archbishop, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who is accused of sexually abusing young seminarians.
The pope is not considering resigning, however, the sources said. Viganò said he told Francis about McCarrick in 2013, saying he had been sanctioned by former pope Benedict XVI, but Francis did nothing about it.
Francis has said he will not dignify Viganò’s allegations with a reply.
The case has pitted conservative critics of Francis against progressive supporters who say the traditionalists are “weaponising” child abuse to attack the pope’s mercy-over-morals approach.
Viganò also claimed there was a powerful gay lobby in the Church he blamed for the abuse cover-ups, naming names.
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Pope Remains Silent on Sex Abuse Allegations, Announces Environmental Event
Pope Francis offered a generic apology Wednesday for “ecclesiastical authorities in the past” who have not always been able to deal appropriately with crimes of sexual abuse, while maintaining his silence regarding recent allegations that the he is personally compromised by rehabilitating a known abuser.
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Search for 18-Foot Python That Escaped Transfixes Poland
WARSAW, Poland — The summer snake scare began with an act of oversharing.
A fisherman posted to Facebook a picture of an 18-foot-long python’s freshly shed skin that he had found in a suburban park.
From there it took off, bringing internet panic. It was the peak of July, and a heat wave had brought weather more suitable for pythons than Poles.
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‘Surprised if EU Exists in 10 Years!’ Farage Issues Damning Forecast on Future of the Bloc
NIGEL Farage said he could not foresee the European Union’s project surviving another 10 years amid the growing dissent from member states like Italy and the Visegrad countries.
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Swedish Social Democrat Caught Spreading Lies About Opposition Parties in Arabic Social Media Posts
A Swedish Social Democrat candidate has been slammed by the Moderate Party and the populist Sweden Democrats for posting lies about their policies to migrants in Arabic-language social media posts.
The unnamed individual behind the posts is said to have been a candidate for the Social Democrats in the municipality of Sävsjö in the county of Jönköping. He posted a message in Arabic aimed at newly arrived Muslim migrants telling them the Moderates and Sweden Democrats planned to ship large numbers of migrants back to their homelands, Expressen reports.
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UK: Firearm Discharged Up to Every Six Hours in Gun-Free London
A think tank has called for an increase in police ‘stop and search’ in London to tackle the crime epidemic after it revealed that a gun is shot in the capital up to every six hours — despite the UK having some of the strictest personal firearms ownership laws in the world.
The report, It Can Be Stopped, published by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) on Monday, examined the average number of days between a gun being fired across London and found that the “figures equate to a reported gun discharge almost every day (every 27 hours)”.
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‘We Will Resist European United States!’ Hungary Ready to Fight Macron’s Double Standards
HUNGARY is gearing up to oppose Emmanuel Macron’s “double standards” on EU policy and plans from Brussels to create a “European United States”, Victor Orban’s spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said.
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Family Resident in Friuli Killed in Macedonia
Father, mother and daughter had returned for wedding
(ANSA) — Trieste, August 29 — A Macedonian family of Albanian origin resident in Friuli was gunned down in their sleep in Macedonia when they went back for a wedding, sources said Wednesday.
The father, mother and teen daughter were killed at Debar, a small town on the border with Albania, sources said.
The family had for a long time been resident at Sacile near Pordenone.
The massacre happened on August 27, the Messaggero Veneto newspaper said.
The family has at least one other daughter, who is older and stayed in Italy, the paper said.
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ISI, Naxal, Christian and Secular Joint Conspiracy to Break India and Kill Hindu Leadership
After analysing 25,000 GB data and raiding urban naxals, police unearth ‘Break India conspiracy.’
Vicky Nanjappa | OneIndia Online | New Delhi | Aug 28, 2018::The nation wide raids conducted at the homes of prominent activists who allegedly have naxalite links is probably one of the biggest exercises. The raids at Delhi, Hyderabad, Ranchi, Goa and Mumbai were conducted after the police went through 25,000 GB of data seized from five arrested persons.
The police while going through the data stumbled upon the names of several persons, whose homes were raided today. It was found that these persons living in the cities were either directly or closely associated with the naxalites. Very strong links have emerged, said an official part of the exercise to OneIndia.
The data that was analysed in connection with the Elgaar Parishad case revealed that these persons were closely associated with the banned CPI (Maoist). They were allegedly involved in conspiring and taking part in movements with an intention of creating violence, officials also said…
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Pakistanis Protest Geert Wilders’ Prophet Mohammad Cartoon Contest
Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders’ plan to hold a Prophet Mohammad cartoon contest has sparked protests in Pakistan. It comes after a man was arrested in Belgium for threatening to attack Wilders over the competition.
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Pakistan Senate Passes Resolution Condemning Geert Wilders’ Mohammed Cartoon Contest
The Senate of Pakistan has passed a resolution this week to condemn a cartoon contest of the Islamic prophet Mohammed organised by Dutch firebrand and anti-Islamisation campaigner Geert Wilders.
The resolution, which was signed by leaders of Pakistan’s political parties, accuses Wilders of “inciting hatred, racial prejudice, unrest, conflict and insecurity in a world that has already seen much bloodshed, racism, extremism, intolerance and Islamophobia”, Pakistani English-language newspaper The News International reports.
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Removal of Janmastami Posters by Fanatic Muslim in Bangladesh
Islam can’t tolerate the faith of others….
Atul Brahmachari | HENB | Dhaka | Aug 29, 2018:: A video posted in social media platform, ‘facebook’ shows that an old Muslim man with Islamic attires was removing posters of Janmsatami festival of Hindus in Dhaka.
The incident took place near Gana Bhavan (Public Administrative Building) in Bangladesh capital in broad day light at about 11.30 am.
Many passers by just looked at the craziness of the bearded man, but nobody could protest the matter.
The posters were mounted in the street and road side walls to highlight the festival of Janmastami as scheduled on 2nd September this year.
Hindus observe the birthday of Lord Krishna on Janmastami as their major festival.
In Islamic Bangladesh, the rights of observing the Hindu festivals are under severe suppression due to threat perception of fundamental Jihadi groups who do not allow such un-Islamic festivity in an Islamic country. Hindu persecution is all time high in Bangladesh and the Hindu population is decreasing rapidly there due to Islamic repression.
However, Hindus try to maintain their festivals unitedly in Bangladesh to keep the culture alive…
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Human Rights Groups: Google’s China Censorship an ‘Alarming Capitulation’
More than a dozen human rights groups have urged Google in an open letter not to censor its search function as it expands into the China market, calling the Silicon Valley giant’s plans “an alarming capitulation.”
More than a dozen groups signed a letter on Tuesday urging Google to challenge the Chinese government’s censorship and surveillance policies as it gets set to launch its search app in the country. The letter called the company’s working with the government on a censored search app “an alarming capitulation by Google on human rights.”
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Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied has ignited controversy over another post relating to Anzac Day. The Sudanese-born writer was slammed in 2017 for using the day to tweet about refugee camps.
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Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Uthman Badar told ex-Muslim Harris Sultan he deserves the death penalty during a fiery debate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney last week.
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As South African President Ramaphosa’s ‘land reform’ plans begin to confiscate white farmer-owned lands with no compensation, the rhetoric on both sides of the policy are beginning to signal little hope of avoiding direct inter-racial conflict, or another civil war.
Ramaphosa insists:
“This is no land grab. Nor is it an assault on the private ownership of property… Land reform in South Africa is a moral, social and economic imperative.
“By bringing more land into productive use, by giving more South Africans assets and opportunities, the country is creating conditions for greater, more inclusive and more meaningful growth”
But a number of black South Africans appear to see things a little differently to their president: “Let us kill the white man, the white man must die”
“Let us kill the white man, the white man must die” #SouthAfricanfarmers pic.twitter.com/mDnduvCoyH
— Imam of Peace (@Imamofpeace) August 26, 2018
Echoing Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says they’re prepared to die if it means South Africa will achieve land expropriation without compensation…
Finally, here is Lauren Southern’s controversial ‘Farmlands’ documentary, investigating the ‘white genocide’: “not only are the farm murders real, the genuine numbers are far higher than anyone imagined.”
[Comment: Watch Lauren Southern’s video. The communists in S.Africa and western media are covering up the sheer scale of the killings. If you can stomach a leftist “review” of this movie, check this out — www.accredited-times.com/2018/06/27/review-lauren-southerns-new-documentary-farmlands/ — the reviewer stopped watching after 5 minutes and fell into the programmed lie “so what, whitey deserves this” mentality. A graduate of indoctrination that Yuri Bezmenov warned against. No matter how much evidence is place before them they will deny it and never waver from their programming.]
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Latin American Bishops Decry ‘Shameful’ Attacks on Pope Francis
The Catholic bishops of Latin America have reacted strongly to allegations that Pope Francis knowingly rehabilitated a cardinal guilty of serial sex abuse, calling the accusations a “shameful” attack on the pope.
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Venezuela Latest News: Brazil to Deploy Army to Safeguard Border
BRAZIL is to it deplot its army to the border in a safeguarding mission as Venezuela’s migrant crisis deepens.
Millions of Venezuelans have fled the country to neighbouring Brazil following shock food and medicine shortages that came in the wake of crippling hyperinflation.
Brazil’s President Michel Temer gave a televised address to the troubled country that saw him call Venezuela’s migrant situation “tragic”.
He said: “The problem of Venezuela is no longer one of internal politics.
“It is a threat to the harmony of the whole continent.”
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Austria to Propose Soldiers to Support Frontex
At defence ministers’ meeting in Vienna Thursday
(ANSA) — Vienna, August 29 — The Austrian duty president of the European Defence Council, Defence Minister Mario Kunasek, will tomorrow present his colleagues with a proposal to deploy EU soldiers in support of Frontex, ANSA has learned from diplomatic sources.
They would this be under a civilian lead, the sources said.
The soldiers would be used for logistics, transport, reconnaissance and in particular cases in border control operations to stem migrant flows, the sources said.
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EU Migrant Crisis: Boat Docks on Busy Spanish Beach — Dozens Run Onto Shore
A BOAT carrying dozens of migrants took holidaymakers by surprise by landing on a popular Spanish beach before dozens of young men ran onto shore — the second similar incident taking place in just two days.
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French Conservative Leader Adopts Anti-Mass Migration ‘Populist’ Stance
The leader of the French conservative Republicans has announced a tough, new stance on mass migration, saying that waves of recently-arrived migrants constitute a “cultural threat” to European civilisation.
Republicans leader Laurent Wauquiez has embraced the anti-mass migration populist policies of other parties surging across Europe at a recent speech saying that French people do not want to become a minority and blasting President Emmanuel Macron and the French establishment for condemning criticism on the subject, L’Obs reports.
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22-year-old Afghan refugee Mahdesa Zafa fell victim to an armed robbery attack on Monday after after working a shift at Logan Hospital in Queensland.
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Iraqi Trafficker Who Was Helping Smuggle Migrants Into the UK — Jailed for 4 Years
A FRENCH court on Tuesday sentenced a human trafficker to four years in prison for aiding the “unlawful entry, movement and stay of foreigners in France,” a local prosecutor said.
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Italy’s Salvini Allies With Hungary on Anti-Migration Manifesto
Hungarian nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Italy’s hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Tuesday launched an anti-migration manifesto aiming at next year’s European parliament elections, and countering their opposing camp led by the French president.
“There are currently two camps in Europe and one is headed by [Emmanuel] Macron,” Orban said at a press conference after holding talks with Salvini in Milan. “He is at the head of the political forces supporting immigration.
“On the other hand, we want to stop illegal immigration.”
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Libyan Coast Guard Picks Up 400 Europe-Bound Illegal Migrants
CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s coast guard says it has intercepted about 400 Europe-bound migrants off the Mediterranean coast.
Spokesman Ayoub Gassim said Wednesday that a rubber boat carrying 84 passengers, including six women and five children, was stopped Monday off the town of al-Maya, 27 kilometers (16 miles) west of Tripoli.
He said that another two boats, carrying 146 passengers, including 26 women and four children, were stopped Monday off the coast of the southwestern town of Abu Kammash.
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Main Macron Adversary the French — Salvini
‘Throw open borders instead of lecturing others’
(ANSA) — Rome, August 29 — Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Wednesday “the main adversary of (French President Emmanuel) Macron, looking at the polls, is the French people”.
He said “instead of giving lectures to other governments he should throw open his own borders, starting from the one at Ventimiglia (with Italy).
“And he should stop destabilising Libya for economic interests”.
Macron said on a visit to Denmark Wednesday that he was an adversary of Salvini and Hungarian Premier Viktor Orban, who criticised him when they met in Milan Tuesday.
He said the pair “are right” to see him as their “main adversary” in Europe on the migrant issue.
“I will not give in to the nationalists and those who preach hatred,” Macron said.
“If they wanted to see me as their main adversary they are right”.
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Orban, Salvini Set to Take on Globalism at EU Elections With Anti-Migration Front
Italy and Hungary announced they will form a populist front ahead of European Parliament elections next year, where they will challenge a bloc aligned with Emmanuel Macron, who this week outlined his vision for a globalised EU superstate which revolves around “human rights”.
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Ukrainian Traffickers Nabbed for Landing 44 Migrants
Sailboat came from Turkey to Noto
(ANSA) — Siracusa, August 29 — Two Ukrainian people traffickers have been arrested for bringing 44 Afghan migrants including 12 children to Italy on board a sailboat from Turkey, police said Wednesday.
The boat landed near Noto in Sicily on Monday, they said.
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‘We Feel Like Foreigners’: Mother in Germany on Son’s Daycare Where ‘2 Out of 25 Speak German’
In a polarizing viral video with almost 2 million views, the mother of a 3-year-old boy complains that her son cannot socialize with other kids in a public nursery, as only two out of 25 can speak German.
In a Facebook video post filmed on August 15, the mother, Leen Kroetsch, takes aim at German politicians for what she claims is a botched immigration policy which is forcing her 3-year-old, who has no immigrant background, to adjust to an alien environment in the daycare center.
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California U: We Must Remove Whites From Campus
After around 20 years in higher ed, and starting to see that I had just reinforced the glass ceiling above my head…I began to ask questions. Admin considered them impertinent and I was punished for asking things like “how do we know that a female will definitely be the best choice for this job?” and “by what metric is a certain minority under-represented?” and “what evidence do we have that diversity in the deans will make a better school?” among other questions.
I doubt I was the only one expressing such concerns, but my worries were all brushed aside in the name of identity politics. Higher ed has been doing this for decades now, and so I’m not as surprised as most when seeing what is only the natural consequence of making higher education more about identity politics than education.
Cal Poly University in California is obsessed with race, and a recent report from them highlights their dementedness:
In 2011, the campus was 63 percent Caucasian; in fall of 2017, it was less than 55 percent. Applications from underrepresented minority students doubled between 2008 and 2018, while overall applications during that time increased by just half that much. Progress is being made — and the university is more diverse now than at any time in its 117-year history — but there is still much work to do.
It doesn’t matter that there’s no evidence that education and research will be improved by more “diversity,” they only want more. Despite their “progress” in that regard, they still only want more. There is no end here, at least no good end for non-Diverse people.
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The bishops are stonewalling to keep the gay mafia in charge at the Vatican.
The head of the fish is rotten and stinks. This boys’ club has to go!
In Germany, three unknown Germans beat a 20-year-old migrant from Syria. A young man was lashed with an iron chain
https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2018-08/wismar-angriff-auf-migranten-eisenkette-mecklenburg-vorpommern-ermittlung
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Muslims in Europe are unhappy with the ban on niqab, and are going to rally their ranks
https://medium.com/@hatibumar/hijab-ban-the-european-union-takes-the-veil-off-secularism-b297145adad3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jmK8Tk9tCM
The British no longer feel the “white man’s burden”
Pakistani painting Dutch flag on street out of protest.
Goes to show what dumb smucks they are.
He’s painting the French flag!
https://tpo.nl/2018/08/29/booslims-pakistan-boos-op-wilders-schuld-van-frankrijk/
Perhaps not the correct topic, but I am confused about how the RC church is handling this latest iteration of abuse. My RC husband just says, along with the public letters to local congregations from local bishop — that all are sinners and we all need to “heal the wound.”.
What is that? If I have an extensive, serious wound, I demand the doc find the cause, treat and excise/destroy that cause, and only then help the wound healing, usually from the inside out, not the other way.
And if the Gospel is the church’s mission? Not reading or hearing that from any but lay folks who won’t address the main evil.
I am praying for all of Christ’s Bride, as all true Church needs to be strong now.
Thanks for letting me present my confusion.
I hope to do a post on the current rot in the Church. I just need enough space to let the subject ripen. It is one I’ve been aware of for a long time, but only informally.
The Gospel isn’t the church’s mission.
The church’s mission is stuff like the works of mercy, i.e. a social order, and if we are to believe Thomas Aquinas, truth and reality from anywhere although the RC church is based heavily on Jewish thought.
The Gospel only gives direction (instruction).
The Gospels are the church’s founding documents, its roadmap, and an account of its early history.
Of course, the church is heavily based on Jewish belief: Jesus was a Jew, so how could it be otherwise?
Various denominations differ in their emphases, dogmas, etc. But all agree on the centrality of the Risen Christ for their belief system.
What a lovely discussion:
Should former terrorists be reintegrated into society?
https://www.debatingeurope.eu/2018/08/29/should-former-terrorists-be-reintegrated-into-society/#.W4gsGPkzbcs
As they say in our country: a humpbacked person will be corrected only by a grave.
It`s always the Muslims themselves who paint the best and most realistic picture of Islam and Muhammed.
Okay, just as long as they don’t paint any pictures of Mohammed.