Nearly 400 migrants were rescued off the coast of Spain over the weekend by the Spanish maritime rescue service. Meanwhile, demonstrators gathered in the French city of Nantes to protest the eviction of migrants from their squatters’ camps.
In other news, dozens of people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, and at least four of them died of their wounds.
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Nearly One Quarter of All Jobs Added in the US This Century Have Now Occurred Under President Trump
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced its July jobs report on Friday. Unemployment is down to 3.9%, while more people are employed in the US than at any time in history. But the big news is that this century, since the year 2000, nearly 25% of all job increases have occurred during the Trump years.
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New Arizona Law Moves State One Step Closer to Sound Money
As of midnight on August 3, a new law went into effect in Arizona that that the state another leap forward toward recognizing gold and silver as money. The new statute does not replace the Federal Reserve notes, but it does put gold and silver on equal footing.
Introduced as House Bill 2013, the measure redefines the terms “legal tender” and “liquid capital” so as to allow trust companies in the Grand Canyon State to use either in calculating liquid capital.
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Black Chicagoans Blast “Con Man” Mayor Emanuel Amid Record Shooting Spree, Ask Trump for Help
77 people were shot last week in Chicago, 9 fatally, but the rate of shootings has accelerated aggressively today as ‘HeyJackass’ reports “30 shot in 3 hours is the most shot in the least amount of time we’ve recorded in 5+ years. The previous record was July 4-5, 2016 w/ 29 shot in 6 hours.”
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Dianne Feinstein Had a Chinese Spy at Her Side for Almost 2 Decades
…what happened with Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) in 2013, when a trusted staffer who had been with her in California for almost 20 years was revealed to have been a Chinese spy[?] As both Politico and CBS’s local San Francisco affiliate reported, this was quietly handled at the time with no publicity whatsoever, with Feinstein forcing the spy into retirement.
No media outlet will publish this Chinese spy’s name or his current employment or location, which is most curious. And there’s no mention of his ever having been arrested for spying on a member of Congress who held a key intelligence post in the Senate for much of this time, including having held the Chair of the Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence [SSCI] at the time he was finally caught.
Maybe I’m old fashioned but I remember when getting caught spying for a foreign power on U.S. soil got you arrested or at least expelled from the country. All that happened to this guy from the news reports I’ve looked at is that…he was forced out of a job.
Oh? Is that how this is supposed to work? You get caught spying on a U.S. Senator for a foreign power like the Russians or the Chinese, and, look out, you’ll lose your job on that Senator’s staff?
This revelation of how Sen. Feinstein was compromised…while she was holding one of the most sensitive U.S. intelligence jobs in the country raises a whole host of important questions that I don’t see anyone addressing thus far.
CBS & Politico report that the spy who was on Feinstein’s CA staff for almost 20 years was only interested in local California political information and that after he was discovered it was determined that he never accessed or stole anything of any real value. How do they know this? Because the same people who hid this stuff from the public for five years told them?
“Investigators reportedly concluded the driver hadn’t leaked anything of substance and Feinstein forced him to retire.” is how CBS News affiliate KPIX put it in it’s online report. Well who reported that to KPIX? Were these sources on the record or were they anonymous? The Chinese had a key spy at Senator Feinstein’s elbow for 20 years and they were content with him leaking exactly NOTHING of any substance to them?
Who was supposed to vet her staff? The claim is advanced in the CBS News story that Senator Feinstein’s California staff is completely separate from her Washington staff, so her California staff did not need to be vetted for security clearances, but this doesn’t answer the point. Anybody getting this close to a Senator with such an important job gets vetting. How’d they miss this guy?
[Note: See the difference between how the MSM handles Democrat breaches and scandals and how it goes after bad news from the right? How the MSM helped Trump win.]
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Dozens Shot Over Weekend, Five Dead
A total of 34 people were shot — five of whom died — during a 24-hour stretch from Saturday morning into Sunday morning that was one of the most violent in recent city memory, according to Chicago police.
The shootings, concentrated on the West and South sides, took place between 10 a.m. Saturday to 10 a.m. Sunday.
The heaviest amount of violence took place between midnight and 3 a.m., when 30 people were shot. Five mass shootings, in which three or more people were shot, accounted for 25 of the shooting victims during the three-hour span.
A single shooting in the Gresham neighborhood wounded eight people, including four teenage girls.
“I promise this city that we won’t be defeated,” Chicago Police Chief of Patrol Fred Waller said during a news conference held Sunday afternoon at police headquarters. “We won’t be overrun by that small element that’s committing these reckless acts.”
Waller said much of the violence is being traced back to gangs.
“It’s one of our most violent weekends, there’s no question about that,” police spokesman Tom Ahern said.
Waller said the uptick in violence cannot be attributed to police resources being diverted to the Lollapalooza music festival.
Officers working Lollapalooza were on their regular days off and received overtime pay, he said. “So they’re not people who would have been on the street anyway, so we’re not losing any resources to Lollapalooza,” Waller said.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was downtown Sunday to announce plans for improvements to the Riverwalk, was not at the news conference. Police Supt. Eddie Johnson also was not in attendance.
The aftermath of many of the shootings played out inside and outside the emergency room at Stroger Hospital where extended members and friends were prevented from entering as the staff dealt with the influx of trauma patients.
Visitation was limited to immediate family members, leaving dozens of people to mill about the parking lot outside the emergency room, where the sounds of crying, wailing and yelling could be heard every few minutes. Tempers occasionally flared. Nearly two dozen police officers huddled near the entrance to the hospital.
“This is the worst I’ve ever seen it,” said one law enforcement officer stationed outside the hospital who’s seen similar scenes play out over two decades.
“It’s hot right now. There’s a lot of tension,” said the officer, who asked not to be named. “And it might get worse because you can hear people talking about revenge, saying on their cellphones ‘I know know who did it. You get him.’ “ […]
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Las Vegas Shooting Investigation Closed. No Motive Found
Police investigating the October 2017 deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas said they’ve been able to answer the “who, what, when, where and how” of the massacre, but as the end of the probe was announced on Friday, officials still could not explain the “why.”
“The goal of our investigation all along was to provide the public with the clearest picture possible of the events leading up to Oct. 1, as well as motive,” Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo told reporters at news conference. “What we have not been able to definitively answer is the ‘Why Stephen Paddock committed this act?’“ he said.
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Man Arrested for Threatening Steve Scalise Had Ammo, Materials and Guides to Build Bombs
The man who threatened Rep. Steve Scalise and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers last week allegedly had different types of ammunition, materials and instructions on how to build bombs.
The man, Carlos Bayon, 63, was charged by criminal complaint with interstate communication of a threat. Bayon left Scalise a message on June 30 claiming he would make the congressman “pay,” promising to feed him and the people that sent him to Washington “lead.”
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Records of Twitter’s top executives, board members and major shareholders reveal they have all donated overwhelmingly to Democrat candidates including Obama and Hillary Clinton.
According to Paul Sperry, the records show Twitter sought to influence Congress and various federal agencies on behalf of far left causes while simultaneously working against Trump’s policies.
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Trump Expected to Sign Bill Blocking Money for Chinese Communist Propaganda in College
Waiver must be necessary for national security
So-called Confucius Institutes hosted by American colleges and universities have long drawn concern from both lawmakers and academic groups for promoting Chinese Communist propaganda and squelching academic freedom.
Since few colleges have acted against this source of free and easy money, the U.S. government is playing its own part.
Under a massive defense authorization bill expected to be signed by President Trump, authorized funding would be blocked from supporting Chinese-language programs at colleges that host the Chinese government-operated institutes. It also blocks funding for programs at Confucius Institutes outside colleges.
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In response to the New York Times’ decision to stand by their most recent hire — open bigot Sarah Jeong, who really hates white people, men (especially white men), and cops — black conservative Candace Owens carried out a thought experiment we mentioned last week in which we replaced the word “white” with “black” to illustrate Jeong’s animus.
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Britain Fails to Protect Its Children: Indian and Pakistani Girls Speak Out on Telford Sex Abuse
The girls are speaking out against the horrific abuse that has occurred in Telford. One girl who is the daughter of Pakistani immigrants told the Sunday Mirror: “The first time I was raped, I was only 11. I didn’t even know what sex was. I went from being an angel child to staying in bed, wanting to die. I’ve still never told my family. If I did, my dad wouldn’t be able to show his face in the mosque.”
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EU Will Lose: Brussels Forcing UK Towards No Deal Brexit at Huge Economic Cost to EU
THE “LOSER” EU is on the verge of causing itself huge economic damage by forcing a “no deal” over Brexit which in turn could see Britain thrive. International trade secretary Liam Fox has said that a so-called “no deal” where Britain goes on to World Trade Organisation (WTO) terms instead is now the most likely outcome.
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Gang of Youths in Belgium Kick Kittens and Use Them as Footballs, One Dies
A disgusting game using kittens was played in the Belgian town of Leuven. Two kittens were used as footballs by a gang of youths, one of them died, Belgian newspaper HLNreports.
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Germans Debate Return of Military Conscription and Service for Men and Women
Germany’s ruling CDU party has launched a debate on reinstating military conscription and offering young men and women a chance to serve their country in other ways. A recent poll shows Germans are in favor of the idea.
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Greece Sacks Police and Fire Services Chiefs After Deadly Wildfires
The firing comes amid a public outcry over the government’s handling of the wildfires that killed 90 people near Athens. The minister responsible for the country’s police has already put in his papers.
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How More EU Damages Political Parties
The traditional parties like the Christian Democrats and Social democrats in most continental countries, and Labour and Conservative in the UK, have a history of changing leaders and changing policies whenever their popularity falls or their electoral success is threatened. That is the nature of democratic politics. Parties that want to govern have to please enough people enough of the time.
So what is bizarre is the way the EU holds them in thrall, in the case of the continental parties to the point of self destruction. Undue support for the austerity policies of the Euro has swept aside the traditional parties of Greece, Italy and France, throwing up new parties that have taken over government. In both Spain and Germany the two old giant parties have been deeply wounded by the their adherence to the EU/Euro scheme.
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Hungarian Foreign Ministry Sponsors Trip for Ukrainian Children From War-Torn Regions
A group of children affected by the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine were greeted at the border town of (Chop) Csap before travelling to Hungary for a summer vacation sponsored by the Hungarian foreign ministry on Sunday.
The 35 children will spend a week at Lake Velence in central Hungary, Laszlo Kuti, the consul-general at Hungary’s consular mission in Uzhhorod (Ungvar), told reporters prior to the event.
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Italian Woman Defends Herself From Rape by Illegal Migrant With Pepper Spray
Newly released footage shows how a Nigerian man assaulted and attempted to rape a 25-year-old woman on 20 July this year. Fortunately she was able to defend herself with pepper spray, Italian newspaper Milano Corriere reports.
When the young woman got off work, she went to Milan’s Porta Garibaldi train station and was followed by the 31-year-old Nigerian migrant.
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Out of Control Wildfires Threaten Portuguese Town of Monchique
Despite more than 800 fire fighters, a plethora of fire engines and a dozen aircraft, the fire in the hillsides across the Monchique council area threatens the town and to cut off the Council capital.
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Polish President Andrzej Duda Invites Tourists for Tea
Polish President Andrzej Duda invited four randomly-selected foreign tourists into Warsaw’s presidential palace for tea, the head of state’s office said on Friday on a new Twitter account.
The profile aims to foster a more relaxed image of the president and promises to “display presidential life behind the scenes”.
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- Peter Duffy, 56, won £102,000 payout for an unfair dismissal at his NHS job
- He was falsely accused of racism and that minority doctors were ‘in fear of him’
- It was claimed one of the doctors vowed Mr Duffy would be ‘taught a lesson’
- Mr Duffy resigned from University Hospitals Morecambe Bay NHS Trust in 2016
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UK: Farage: I Have No MP Plans
Nigel Farage last night dismissed claims that he wants to become an MP as “utter rubbish”.
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UK: London Bloodbath Continues Following Stabbing in Enfield, With Gun Found at the Scene
A STABBING has taken place in an attack on Upsdell Avenue near Green Lanes in Palmers Green, Enfield, with police also responding to reports of a gunman
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UK: London Knife Crime Epidemic: Murder Investigation Launched After Man Stabbed to Death
A murder investigation has been launched after a man in his 20s was stabbed multiple times and died in south-west London in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Emergency services were called to Cambridge Gardens, Kingston Upon Thames, at 2:16 am after passersby found him bleeding out on the street, suffering from multiple stab wounds.
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Algerian Women Campaign for Bikinis on Beaches
Thousands of Algerian women are campaigning for bikinis to become socially acceptable on the beaches of the north African country, defying those who argue that the swimwear is incompatible with local customs.
Sara, 27, the founder of a closed Facebook group militating in favour of the bikini, told Algeria’s Provincial newspaper: “Swimming in beachwear at the beach shouldn’t be an exploit or shocking.”
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Caroline Glick: Israel’s Holographic Nation State Law
There is no connection between the substance of Israel’s newly passed Nation State of the Jewish People law, and the debate its passage unleashed.
On the one hand, supporters of the law led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insist that the law is a vital step in entrenching and protecting Israel’s Jewish identity. After the law passed last Thursday night, Netanyahu declared, “This is a pivotal moment in the annals of Zionism and the annals of the State of Israel. 122 years after [Theodore] Herzl published his vision [of a Jewish state] we affixed in law the founding principle of our existence.”
On the other hand, Arab members of Knesset theatrically condemned the law and claimed that with its passage, Israel had officially embraced “apartheid.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Israel is the heir of Nazi Germany. PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas and his deputies said the UN should reinstitute its definition of defined Zionism, the Jewish national liberation movement as a form of racism.
Israeli leftists, including members of Knesset, the supposedly center-left Zionist Union Party, backed by Haaretz, parroted the Arab-Turkish talking points with Hebrew accents. The American-Jewish leadership, like the New York Times, argued that the passage of the law is proof that Israel is on the verge of rejecting democracy.
Given the unreconcilable claims of the Right on the one hand and the Arabs, the Left and American-Jewish leadership on the other, it is imperative to read the text of the law itself. In reading you discover something remarkable.
This a nothingburger without a bun, or a patty, a plate or a pickle…
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Is Israel Rejecting Right-Wing European Support it Can Ill Afford to Lose?
Many in Israel are against dealing with Europe’s right-wing parties, arguing that they haven’t really abandoned their anti-Semitic past, and that Israel’s acceptance will only legitimize them.
By David Isaac
Many in Israel are against dealing with Europe’s right-wing parties even if Europe’s right does have the wind in its sails. They argue that these parties haven’t really abandoned their anti-Semitic past, and Israel’s acceptance will only legitimize them. This was the main reason given at two conferences in Israel to combat anti-Semitism, in February and March, where there was near unanimity against any dealings whatsoever with Austria’s Freedom Party (FPO).
Michael Kleiner, a former Knesset Member and currently president of Likud’s Supreme Court—the Likud’s highest judicial body, which decides all intraparty matters—has worked to build bridges between Israel and European right-wing politicians. He says “today, the more malignant, the more dangerous, the more effective anti-Semitism is from the left.”
He cites as examples the ruling Social Democratic Party of Sweden, which recognized Palestine as a state, and Britain’s Labour Party leadership, which recently jettisoned parts of a widely accepted definition of anti-Semitism to allow for attacks on Israel—i.e., claiming that Israel is a “racist endeavor” and likening it to Nazi Germany.
In comparison, Europe’s right-wing parties are strongly pro-Israel, Kleiner says, rattling off a number of them, including Holland’s Party for Freedom, Poland’s Law and Justice Party, Italy’s Northern League, Austria’s FPO and Orbán’s Fidesz Party (all but one are part of ruling coalitions).
“Orbán is a friend,” says Kleiner, noting the Hungarian leader’s support for Israel in the United Nations and European Union. (A commentary on Israel’s peril in these forums is that Hungary is considered supportive for merely abstaining in U.N. votes against Israel.) More substantively, Hungary did block an E.U. resolution condemning the United States for relocating its embassy to Jerusalem…
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Caroline Glick: Trump’s Offer to Meet With Iran Was a Shrewd Move
President Donald Trump’s offer Monday to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani caught senior administration officials as well as U.S. allies off guard. Many wondered what Trump could possibly be thinking.
Trump’s offer needs to be seen in the context of events in Iran. Iran is in the throes ofrapidly growing, country-wide protests which may be the largest it has seen since the 1979 revolution. And worse is yet to come.
Beginning next week, U.S. will begin reimposing sanctions suspended by the Obama administration. Iran’s economy, already in a tailspin, stands a good chance of collapsing.
Trump made his offer in the context of an overall U.S. policy towards the Iranian regime. That policy was set out explicitly by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a speech in Mayand in another last month.
In May, Pompeo told an audience at the Heritage Institute that the U.S. sanctions against Iran would remain in place until the regime abided by twelve U.S. demands. The major demands require Iran to end all of its nuclear activities and come clean about its past nuclear operations; end its sponsorship of terrorism regionally and worldwide; respect the human and civil rights of the Iranian people; and end the aggression it is carrying out against its neighbors both directly and through its terror proxies.
In July, Pompeo spoke explicitly in favor of the Iranian people now protesting against the regime. He signaled clearly that the U.S. supports efforts by the Iranian people to overthrow the regime in Tehran.
So when Trump offered to meet with Rouhani without preconditions, it did not mean that he does not expect Iran to change its behavior. It meant that he was willing to meet with Rouhani while leading a policy whose goal is the fundamental transformation of Iran (to borrow a phrase from Barack Obama).
Trump would be happy if that transformation comes in the framework of a massive change in regime behavior. He would also be happy if it comes through a revolution that overthrows the regime.
As for the Iranians, their behavior in recent days probably gave Trump reason to believe they may be desperate enough to at least consider the former option…
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Trump and Erdogan Square up for a Fight
The United States imposed sanctions on two top Turkish officials Aug. 1 in a new attempt to secure the release of an American pastor detained in Turkey. (Reuters)
The sanctions move was eye-catching, given the historic nature of the U.S.-Turkish relationship. The two countries are NATO allies, after all, and Turkey hosts American troops and aircraft at a strategic air base in the country’s south. Although the sanctions are mostly symbolic — they target the U.S. assets of just two officials — the news still sent jitters through Turkey’s stock market and caused the already enfeebled Turkish lira to plummet to new lows.
But it wasn’t altogether surprising. Brunson, who has lived and proselytized in Turkey for more than two decades, is a pawn in a much wider geopolitical game and is seen as a “hostage” by U.S. officials. He was arrested amid the vast purge in Turkey that followed a failed attempt to topple Erdogan’s government in 2016. Turkish authorities accuse Brunson of complicity in the botched putsch — tens of thousands of Turks face similar charges — which he denies.
Various accounts of recent rounds of diplomacy between Ankara and Washington suggest Erdogan and his lieutenants hoped to use Brunson as a negotiating chip in a legal battle over the evasion of U.S. sanctions on Iran by a state-run Turkish lender, Halkbank.
“As of last week, the Americans thought they had a deal that would bring Brunson home,” reported Bloomberg News. “In return for the release of evangelical pastor .?.?. the U.S. administration would recommend a lenient fine on Halkbank. The U.S. also offered to send Mehmet Hakan Atilla, a former executive at the bank who’s been jailed in the U.S., back to Turkey to serve out the rest of his term.”
The White House had also compelled the Israeli government to release a Turkish citizen, Ebru Ozkan, arrested on suspicion of collaborating with the Islamist group Hamas. “Trump believed he had made a deal with the Turkish leader that included releasing Brunson in exchange for a Turkish woman being held in Israel on terrorism charges,” my colleagues Karen DeYoung and Felicia Sonmez reported.
But, according to Bloomberg News, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu upended the deal when he insisted that the Halkbank probe “be dropped” altogether. “Although [Ozkan] was released and deported to Istanbul, the Turkish court hearing Brunson’s case agreed last week only to allow him to leave prison for house arrest while his trial continued,” my colleagues reported.
The White House has reason to feel aggrieved, but so do the Turks, who see themselves as once more victimized by an unreliable partner in Washington. Anti-American rhetoric has been a fixture of the recent years of Erdogan’s presidency, animated by the United States’ support for Kurdish factions in Syria and its accommodation of Fethullah Gulen, an aging cleric living in Pennsylvania who Ankara says was behind the 2016 coup attempt…
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Putin Appoints Steven Seagal to Strengthen US-Russia Ties
The Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Saturday that Hollywood action star Steven Seagal would be the country’s new representative for Russian-US humanitarian ties, according to Reuters.
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Indonesia Quake Kills 82, Leaves Hundreds Wounded
A powerful quake which struck the Indonesian holiday island of Lombok has killed 82 people and wounded hundreds, national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said early Monday, with thousands of buildings left damaged.
The 6.9 magnitude tremor, which triggered panic among tourists and locals on Sunday evening, was also felt on the neighbouring island of Bali, one of Southeast Asia’s leading tourist destinations.
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Update: Speaking on state TV a day after the alleged assassination attempt on Maduro, Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said that six people have been taken into custody and more arrests are possible in the coming hours. He also said that two drones carrying 1 kg each of C-4 explosive were “disoriented” by govt. signal blockers.
He added that the government has raided several Caracas hotels in search for evidence, and noted that one suspect linked to a 2017 attack on Carabobo military base, another to last year’s anti-government protests.
Meanwhile speculation that this was just another false flag attack to build popular support for Maduro’s crumbling regime, continues to grow.
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Afghan Migrant Who Sexually Abused Seven Children in Germany Released After Only 7 Months
An Afghan migrant who sexually abused at least seven children in Germany is released after only seven months in prison, the newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine reports.
The man was sentenced for exposing himself to the children in streetcars in the city of Augsburg. On tram lines he sat down with girls as young as ten and exposed his genitals while masturbating.
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Almost 400 Migrants Rescued Off Spanish Coast This Weekend
(Reuters) — Almost 400 migrants were rescued in the Mediterranean this weekend as they attempted to make the crossing from Morocco to Spain, Spanish rescue services said.
[Comment: Article dated August 5, 2018.]
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Finnish-Iraqi Sham Marriages on the Rise, Says Migri
Marriages of convenience aimed at obtaining residence permits are on the increase, according to a report by Sunnuntaisuomalainen, a Sunday supplement published by four regional papers.
Suspected sham marriages are the most common reason why Iraqi asylum seekers’ applications based on family relationships are rejected, the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) told reporters.
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France: Protesters Oppose Migrant Evictions in Nantes
About 500 people demonstrated in the western French city of Nantes on Saturday to oppose the eviction of migrants from a city park and a disused school.
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French City Welcomes 42 Aquarius Migrants
The northern French city of Lille on Friday welcomed 42 Sudanese refugees who were rescued by the Aquarius humanitarian boat in a ceremony conducted by its Socialist mayor, Martine Aubry. France has agreed to take in 78 of the 630 migrants who were on board the ship, which was denied entry to Malta and Italy in Jun
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Germany: Three Streets in Berlin Shut Off as Fighting Migrants Turn Area Into ‘Battlefield’
A dispute between two migrant women escalated out of control in Berlin, Der Tagesspiegel reports.
The conflict took place in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen, an area that is already seen as ‘dangerous’.
After two women in their twenties started fighting, around 50 people chose sides and a massive street battle ensued.
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German City Orders 128 Bulletproof Vests for Deportation Officers
The German city of Essen has ordered 128 custom bulletproof vests for immigration officers to keep them safe whilst carrying out deportations.
Left-wingers in North-Rhine Westphalia have slammed the creation of the Central Immigration Officer (ZAB) with far-left Die Linke politician Marion Wegscheider saying, “such an authority is incompatible with the image that we have of our Essen”, Focus reports.
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Germany Considers Tough Response to Spain Migration ‘Surge’
A German official has warned that Berlin may impose fresh controls on the borders with France and Switzerland. With a surge in migrant arrivals to Spain, Germany is hoping to avoid a repeat of the 2015 migration crisis.
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Hangar in Munich Airport May Become Migrant Transit Center — Reports
The authorities of the German southern federal state of Bavaria are planning to transform a Munich Airport’s hangar into a migrant transit center, local media reported Friday.
According to Der Spiegel, the authorities may use the hangar of the bankrupt Air Berlin airline. They are planning to place there migrants who have applied for asylum in another EU country and who must return there.
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Open Waters: Arrests After Illegal Migrant Speedboat Caught on UK Shore
Police have busted an alleged people-smuggling gang after intercepting a speedboat full of illegal migrants in the dead of night on the Dover coast on Friday.
Four Vietnamese nationals were held at Walmer beach on suspicion of immigration offences on the night of the operation, as well as a man, aged 35, from Bedfordshire and another, aged 34, from Oxford, on suspicion of conspiring to assist unlawful immigration.
Three others were arrested later on Friday. The dramatic arrests were part of a joint operation conducted by Eastern Region Special Operations Unit (ERSOU) and the UK Border Force.
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Judge: Medicaid Must Also Cover Race Reassignment
[NOTE: This is satire.]
Just a day after a federal judge ordered Wisconsin to use Medicaid money to fund sex-reassignment surgery for patients suffering “gender dysphoria”, another court said the same about race-reassignment procedures and therapies.
Both decisions aim to force the federal healthcare program for the poor, which is administered by the states, into compliance with the Affordable Care Act — the act formerly known as Obamacare.
Pigment dysphoria is a crippling condition that sets people at odds with their own visual, cultural and historical identification, according to experts. It can make a light-skinned woman who identifies as dark-skinned, for example, feel like a person without a racially-motivated social group. The condition is universal, afflicting all persons without regard to race, sex, or political affiliation.
Victims of pigment dysphoria often face accusations of “ethnic appropriation” for listening to music, styling hair, eating food, dating partners, or employing slang, which should be the sole province of another racial group. In extreme cases, pigment dysphoria patients even vote for the wrong candidates, according to the medical literature.
Under the terms of the court ruling, taxpayers will now provide these traumatized victims with pigment-reversion therapy, to change the skin to the color it should be, as well as with counseling and coaching to ensure the newly tinted or bleached person “doesn’t come off as a caricature,” thus facing rejection from his new pigment peers.
“Our primitive ancestors would have treated pigment dysphoria as a mental illness, or even as a mild annoyance,” the federal judge wrote. “We now know that it’s a legitimate, often dire, condition, which can be treated with government-mediated cash-reassignment therapy.”
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“Be Cursed Forever”: Extremist Persecution of Christians, January 2018
Nigeria security has declared war against Christians in this country.” — Pastor Kallamu Musa Ali Dikwa, executive director of Voice of Northern Christian Movement, Nigeria.
While uncritically taking in and conferring refugee status on countless Muslim migrants, European authorities continued singling out those most in need of sanctuary for deportation.
“Afghanistan is not a safe place for a Christian convert. The Court should ask Switzerland to stop turning a blind eye to the situation of religious minorities in Afghanistan… Sending a refugee back to a country where they face persecution because of their faith is incompatible with the Convention.” — AFD International.
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‘Germany’s ruling CDU party has launched a debate on reinstating military conscription and offering young men and women a chance to serve their country in other ways. A recent poll shows Germans are in favor of the idea’
Yeah great, they make you a slave for the government, isn’t it just great? I mean who wouldn’t want to give a year or two of their life to the government, for free?
Well, it all depends…for example, many young men (and some women) use those years to get a leg up in education. The services are eliminating “grunts” – i.e., the former cannon fodder – because the art of war has become so technological. On the downside, since physical education has been eliminated from the school curriculum, many are physically unfit – and I don’t mean just the obese, which is a whole ‘nother problem brought on by Big Food and its many endocrine disrupting additives. Not to mention the estrogens in public drinking water.
If they just sit around in the barracks doing nothing is a waste of time.
If they get some military training and learn how to use a gun it could be quite useful as long as only Germans with German heritage are required to enroll. Germans will need that training when civil war starts.
In Czechoslovakia, you would spend two years doing a mandatory ‘service to the country’, yet many of these guys would shoot a gun maybe twice a year (some of them never, for political reasons), but they all would spend the rest of the year being indoctrinated while slave labouring for the state.
In Tatarstan they can prohibit the collection of hadith “Sahih al-Bukhari”
https://www.islamnews.ru/news-v-tatarstane-mogut-zapretit-sbornik-hadisov-sahih-al-buhari/