A Dearborn man who is allegedly an ISIS supporter is being held without bail. Ibraheem Izzy Musaibli has been charged with providing material support to the Islamic State.
In other news, a Syrian Orthodox Church in the Swedish town of Norrköping was torched by an as yet unknown arsonist.
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15 Years in Prison for Would-be ISIS Terrorist From Modesto Who Plotted Pier 39 Bombing
FRESNO — A Modesto man was sentenced Monday to 15 years in federal prison for plotting a Christmas terrorist attack at San Francisco’s popular Pier 39 on behalf of ISIS, although the FBI thwarted the plan last year before it could happen.
Everitt Aaron Jameson, 27, a former U.S. Marine, had pleaded guilty June 4 to attempting to provide support and resources to ISIS. He was arrested Dec. 20.
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ANTIFA Behind Several Assaults at Patriot Prayer Rally in Portland
Antifa radicals were behind several violent assaults that resulted in injuries in Portland, Oregon, during a right-wing free speech rally on Saturday. The assaults included a journalist who was hit in the head with a water bottle, a counter-protester who was clubbed in the head with a modified trench club, and Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson, who was attacked while he walked through the antifa crowd. There were only four arrests.
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As Illinois Celebrates ‘Barack Obama Day,’ 73 Wounded in Chicago Gun Violence
President Barack Obama celebrated his birthday on Saturday, August 4, and for the first time, Illinois marked the date to honor the former president. This weekend, however, also marked a surge of gun violence in Obama’s adopted hometown of Chicago.
Eleven people have died and 73 have been wounded, but most of the violence occurred on Sunday, according to NBC Chicago. In a span of seven hours starting around midnight on Saturday, at least 40 people were shot — four fatally.
ABC 7 Chicago has been updating its story on the violence throughout the weekend, and previously reported, according to The Daily Wire, that 63 people had been shot since Friday at 5 p.m.
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As the Press Turns: Democracy Dies in Dimwittedness
Since nobody else takes The Washington Post seriously anymore, the newspaper of record for The Swamp has had to pick up the slack and take itself even more seriously.
The (com) Post has become consumed by hatred of President Trump, its reporting having turned so distorted and delusional that the paper can no longer separate just the facts from “fake news.”
No longer pretending to be fair or unbiased, the (com) Post has lustily joined the zany campaign to destroy the president and portray his administration as some kind of criminal enterprise. The (com) Post should change its name to “The Gaslight Gazette.” Instead, the paper came up with a new slogan for their rabidly anti-Trump coverage.
“Democracy Dies in Darkness.” It is not clear where the “darkness” comes since the Trump administration is nothing short of a constant supernova of news.
Perhaps, “darkness” is a funny reference to their own deluded stupidity. “Democracy Dies in Dimwittedness” would be a better slogan.
But still, the (com) Post is giving itself far too much credit. Honestly, Democracy does not really give a crap what the (com) Post has to say about anything. Democracy canceled its subscription to the (com) Post long ago.
President Trump, meanwhile, cannot help himself but to tangle with the dimwits.
“Enemy of the People!” he declares. This, of course, draws unbridled hysterics from the media, clinging wildly to their own delusions of grandeur.
Nobody has come to pieces more spectacularly than Jim Acosta of CNN, the formerly admired global news network now presidentially derided as “fake news.”
Mr. Acosta, formerly an adult reporter who now plays a clueless whiney child on daytime television, got flipped off and yelled at during a recent Trump rally and came unglued. The next day Mr. Acosta turned the globally televised White House press briefing into his own personal therapy session.
After White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivered a poised, thoughtful and balanced critique of the press, Mr. Acosta went into full-blown therapy meltdown.
“I think it would be a good thing if you were to say right here at this briefing that the press, the people who are gathered in this room right now, are doing their jobs every day,” he squealed with overwrought (and ridiculously undeserved) righteous indignation. “I — I — I think we deserve that!”
With kindness, yet the understandable firmness of Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Mrs. Sanders replied calmly: “I appreciate your passion.”
Oh, As the Press Turns!
As sad a spectacle as Mr. Acosta has become, perhaps no one in the press is as harebrained and hyperventilating as Bret Stephens, who left a legitimate paper to join The New York Times so that he could become part of the unflinching Never Trump media.
Mr. Stephens recently wrote a column making the spectacular leap from Mr. Trump’s legitimate criticisms of the press — to all-out bloodshed in the streets.
The column is subtly titled: “Trump Will Have Blood on His Hands.”
Seriously? How does a loser like this live with himself? He is literally begging for someone to get killed so that he can blame Mr. Trump for murder, which is about the only thing they haven’t already blamed him for.
It would be more shocking except that Mr. Stephens works for the same racist outfit that just last week hired an openly bigoted writer to help Mr. Stephens think through the issues of the day and write editorials about them for the paper.
“Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins?” opined Sarah Jeong before The New York Times snapped her up.
Other gems of insight from Ms. Jeong: “Oh man it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.” “White people have stopped breeding. You’ll all go extinct soon. This was my plan all along.”…
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Backlash: YouTubers Defend Alex Jones After Platform Bans All Content
Numerous YouTubers created videos Monday defending Infowars founder Alex Jones after Big Tech coordinated an all-out censorship effort against his social media accounts.
Check out videos from YouTube producers who see the writing on the wall.
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Caroline Glick: Never Trump’s Insane Foreign Policy
George Orwell once quipped, referring to a conspiracy theory that American soldiers had been brought to England in World War II to put down a working-class rebellion rather than to fight Nazi Germany: “One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.”
His insight is certainly valid in connection to the “Never Trump” intellectuals today.
Case in point is a recent article published by Never Trump super-intellectual, the Brookings Institute’s Robert Kagan.
Earlier in the summer, Kagan wrote an oped in the Washington Post where he laid out his best case against President Donald Trump’s foreign policy.
Not to put too sharp a point on things: It was unhinged.
Titled “Trump’s America does not care,” Kagan made a contention that was wrong and then made two additional assertions which were also wrong — and which, even worse, contradicted one another.
Kagan’s basic contention was that Trump has transformed the United States from a moral actor and a great power into an immoral actor and a “rogue power.”
Trump did this, apparently, by committing the unpardonable offense of basing his foreign policy on U.S. interests.
It used to be that outside the confines of a marginal groups of Communists and their fellow travelers, no one in Washington would ever argue that it is immoral for the United States to use its foreign policy to advance its national interests.
But at a time when Trump Derangement Syndrome spreads like the plague through intellectual circles, Kagan wrote that under Trump, the “United States [behaves like a] rogue superpower, neither isolationist nor internationalist, neither withdrawing nor in decline, but active, powerful and entirely out for itself.”…
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Censorship: Alex Jones Removed From Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify
On Monday, tech giant Apple joined in on the censorship fun by removing five of six podcasts of Alex Jones and Infowars from their iTunes and Podcasts apps. Apple’s move was draconian, completely removing all of the shows on those five podcasts instead of singling out the more “offensive” ones.
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Dearborn Man Charged With Supporting ISIS Held Without Bail
The family of a 28-year-old Dearborn man who has been charged with being an ISIS fighter said it’s all a misunderstanding.
He was recently remanded to jail pending a trial on a single charge.
Ibraheem Izzy Musaibli was indicted by a grand jury with a single count of providing material support or resources to the organization. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison. The indictment was unsealed July 24.
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The three Muslim mothers who were found on a New Mexico compound on Friday with 11 starving children have been pictured in their mugshots after being charged with child abuse.
Sisters Hujrah Wahhaj, 38, and Subhanah Wahhaj, 35, were charged along with their sister-in-law Jany Leveille, 35 on Sunday, two days after police first said they had been ‘brainwashed’ by the men at the compound.
The men are Siraj Wahhaj, 39. He is a brother two of the women and is married to Leveille. Also arrested was Lucas Morton, Subhanah’s husband.
Siraj has been missing since December when he vanished from Georgia with his three-year-old disabled son, AG.
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Soros-Backed Media Matters Pushes Facebook to Eliminate Global Warming Deniers
Scratch a liberal — Find a fascist
Global warming fanatics have been wrong on EVERY MAJOR PREDICTION of devastation since 2008.
Now the George Soros-funded Media Matters activist group is pushing Facebook to eliminate platforms that question global warming.
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74-Year-Old British Woman Raped by 25-Year-Old Moroccan in Spain
A young Moroccan man has been arrested for raping and robbing a 74-year-old British citizen in Arona last May, ABC Spain reports.
On 13 May, in the tourist area of Arona, police were called to a sexual assault and robbery of a 74-year-old British woman. It was detailed in a press release by Spain’s National police.
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Anti-Independence Protest Sees Spanish Flags Fly on Catalan Beach
A group angry at Catalonia’s independence movement set up parasols and beach towels in the colours of the Spanish national flag in the resort of Arenys de Mar at the weekend.
A group of around 15 people from anti-independence campaign groups set up parasols and laid out beach towels on the sand in Arenys de Mar, just outside Barcelona early on Sunday.
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Brexit Britain is Booming Despite Mark Carney’s Doomful Projections
UK trade exports are surging to record highs of £616 billion in 2017. Overall export of goods rose by 13 per cent to £339 billion and services increased by 7 per cent.
America is Britain’s top export market, they bought more than £112 billion worth of goods and services, an 8 per cent increase from the previous year.
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Brexit Game Plan: Five Tactics Theresa May Can Use to Save Brexit — Including One EU Fears
THERESA May has found herself with three months to conclude the Brexit withdrawal agreement with her European Union counterparts. With fears of a no deal scenario growing, the Prime Minister has to pick her next move wisely to secure the best deal possible for the UK.
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Britain 2018: Record Knife Crime Rates Straining NHS, Depleting Blood Supplies
Trauma surgeons have warned that Britain’s knife crime “epidemic” is putting the National Health Service (NHS) under strain, as figures revealed the number of incidents reached a record high of more than 40,000 last year.
The Daily Telegraph reported the 40,147 knife offences recorded in England and Wales — the highest figure since records began in 2011 — marked a 57 per cent increase from the figure for 2014.
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Christian Orthodox Church in Sweden Torched Sunday Night
The Syrian Orthodox Church in the Swedish town of Norrköping was set alight, news outlet Fria Tider reports.
At 2 am Monday morning, emergency services were called to St Mary’s Syrian Orthodox Church in Norrköping.
According to officials the wind sent the flames upwards and as a result the complete front of the church was ablaze.
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Continental Drift: As Europe Wanes, The Distance Between it and America Grows
By Victor Davis Hanson
According to Pew International polls, Trump is now intensely disliked in Europe. His endless spats over European trade, the costs of NATO, and differing approaches to Vladimir Putin’s Russia acerbated already tense U.S.—European relations. But Trump neither created European or transatlantic crises nor can be of much help in solving them. In part, they are Western in origin and to a degree shared by all Western allies, but mostly they are innate to Europe and self-induced.
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EU Judges Can “Interpret” Withdrawal Bill However They Like
So this is a story I’ve been sitting on for a few days, but I’ve just not gotten around to talking about it. It’s another serious blow to Brexit.
The Express reported several days ago that UK officials are planning on giving EU judges the final say on crucial Brexit decisions — and this isn’t overhyped fearmongering. It’s literally the case.
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Islamist Children Under the Age of 14 Pose a Serious Threat to Germany — Security Chief
Germany’s domestic intelligence chief is warning that children raised in Islamist families in Germany may post a risk to society. Conservative politicians want the age allowed to monitor kids lower than 14.
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Murdoch Owned Times Removes Vile Tommy Smears After Robinson Threatened Legal Action
THE TIMES has removed a false quote that branded Tommy Robinson a ‘Girlfriend Beater’
The Murdoch owned Times Newspaper spread has been shared on social networks thousands of time and viewed by millions.
The article was written by Fake News reporter Janice Turner (Twitter handle @VictoriaPeckham) called our Tommy “Thick and Arrogant” and said: “It would be great never to see again the veneered smile of Robinson: The girlfriend beating football thug.”
“They have edited the libellous article and removed the ‘girlfriend beater’ line which is an admission that Janice got caught up in her hatred for Tommy and could not control her emotions.”
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Polish PM Praises Firefighters Who Helped Tackling Wildfires in Sweden
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Monday praised Polish firefighters as they returned after two weeks of tackling forest fires in Sweden.
Morawiecki met fire crews as they arrived in the north-western Polish port of Swinoujscie. The prime minister told them: “We are extremely proud of your work, of that fact that you have confirmed our national speciality, which is solidarity — solidarity with others in difficult moments.”
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Security Guard Was Showing Off to Women With Wilders ‘Leaks’
A former security guard involved in protecting far right MP Geert Wilders has gone on trial charged with leaking confidential information.
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The US, Italy, And International Trade
It is not farfetched to think that Italy’s “government of change” will try to break the euro and leave the monetary union. Such a move would likely cause a domino effect on the whole structure of the euro, which could collapse without the presence of its third-largest economy.
Contrary to what the leadership of countries such as Germany seem to believe, there is life outside the EU and the euro, and Italy would be happy to reestablish profitable trade agreements directly with the US. One would hope that Trump realizes this and will take advantage of the opportunity.
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As a conservative news channel we stand for freedom of speech. Facebook has a public task of spreading messages from different sides of the political spectrum, like the agora did once in Greece.
It cannot be that a social medium censors public opinions because it doesn’t like them or rejects them on the basis of a policy that is very inconsistent and completely lacking in transparency.
We had our experiences with Facebook, as well, and were banned for completely non-logical reasons. The network even apologised for making a mistake by removing posts and banning us for 24 hours.
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Blue Tick Saudi Twitter Account Makes Veiled Terror Threat Against Canada
A verified, or “blue tick” Twitter account originating from Saudi Arabia has deleted a tweet in which the user behind the account posted a picture appearing to show an airliner about to crash into Toronto’s CN Tower as tensions between Canada and the kingdom escalate.
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Iraqi Woman Receives 50,000 Euros in Swedish Social Benefits While Living in Iraq
A 40-year-old Iraqi woman has now been caught after she fraudulently received a large amount in Swedish benefits while living in her home country, Kristianstadsbladet reports.
The woman did not report to the authorities that she moved to Iraq and continued to receive Swedish social benefits.
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Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late al-Qaida leader, has married the daughter of Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker in the 9/11 terror attacks, according to his family.
The union was confirmed by Osama bin Laden’s half-brothers . Ahmad and Hassan al-Attas said they believed Hamza had taken a senior position within al-Qaida and was aiming to avenge the death of his father, shot dead during a US military raid in Pakistan .
Hamza bin Laden is the son of one of Osama bin Laden’s three surviving wives, Khairiah Sabar, who was living with her husband in a compound in Abbottabad, near a large Pakistani military base, when he was killed. He has since made public statements urging followers to wage war on Washington, London, Paris and Tel Aviv and is seen as a deputy to the terrorist group’s current leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
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Afghanistan: Three Czech Soldiers Killed by Suicide Bomber During NATO Mission
Three Czech service members were killed in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday by a suicide bomber while conducting a joint foot patrol with U.S. and local soldiers.
Hailed as heroes by Czech military brass and politicians, the soldiers were serving in Nato’s “Resolute Support” mission, a non-combat mission training and advising the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces.
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Rohingyas: The New Emigration Jihad in India
The Numbers of Rohingyas are increasing in India day by day. Liar BJP is talking to deport them from India! But, when?
Upananda Brahmachari | HENB | New Delhi | Aug 6, 2018:: The Numbers of Rohingyas are increasing in India day by day. The BJP led NDA Govt. in the center is giving statements several times to deport all these illegal Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar via Bangladesh, but not a single Rohingya has been deported so far.
In parliament, Kiren Rijiju, a Minister of State level in the Home Ministry stated to deport only 40,000 Rohingyas from India, But, the actual numbers of illegal Rohingyas has crossed the mark of 1 lakh, as the reliable sources refer.
The HinduExistence Website warned the Govt many times to deport the Rohingyas as they are posing terror and economic threats to India. Those reports/articles are mentioned below with relevant links…
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The Islamic Treatment of Sikh Minorities in Pakistan
After ‘planned eviction’ from resident, Pakistan’s first Sikh cop sacked for being absent from work as ‘falsely charged’.
Satnam Singh | HENB | Lahore | Aug 4, 2018:: After ‘planned eviction’ from resident, Pakistan’s first Sikh cop sacked for being absent from work. The victim told the reporters that all the allegations against him are ‘falsely charged’ and he is treated like an ‘animal’ by some Muslim officers for being a Sikh Minority in Pakistan.
Pakistan’s first Sikh police officer has been sacked from service for being absent from office for over three months, a traffic police spokesperson said on Friday.
Gulab Singh, 35, has been dismissed from work for staying absent from office for over three months, traffic police spokesperson Ali Nawaz told PTI.
“Superintendent police (traffic) Asif Sadiq, after an inquiry against Gulab Singh for staying absent from office over three months, has dismissed him from service. He could not defend himself before an inquiry committee,” Nawaz said.
He said Singh can file an appeal in the office of the deputy inspector general, traffic police, against his dismissal.
But, the Sikh police officer told, he had valid reasons to take leave under a critical situation like eviction of his family from his resident and he fell ill afterwards and was mentally depressed. “ The respective administration did not take care for a responsible officer and the suspension was made very unreasonably,” Singh told to the media while taking his defense…
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China Tests Its Hypersonic Wave Rider Aircraft
Chinese engineers say they have tested an aircraft based on sonic wave-riding technology and able to carry multiple nuclear warheads, which can elude all anti-missile defense systems now in use world-wide.
China’s new aircraft is loosely based on the first wave-rider, the United State’s B-70 deep-penetration strategic bomber, or Valkyrie, which was grounded for good in the 1960s.
The six-engined, delta-wing US hypersonic aircraft was designed to cruise at Mach 3+, 21,000 meters above ground, meaning it was almost impossible to intercept using aircraft or missiles. However, the ill-fated Valkyrie made a wobbly start and a string of accidents and shifts in the US-Soviet Union arms rivalry led to the program’s cancellation.
Now a Chinese version of the nuclear warhead capable wave-rider aircraft, called Xingkong, or Starry Sky, has been developed by the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics under the state-owned conglomerate China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. It was tested last Friday from an undisclosed launch site in the wilderness of northwestern China.
[Cool one-minute video at the URL]
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South Africa Ruling Party to Strip White Farmers of Land Without Compensation
The ANC, South Africa’s ruling party, led by Cyril Ramaphosa, is considering expropriating land owned by white farmers without compensation, and handing it to black South Africans.
A change to the constitution would be necessary to achieve this, and so far 139 white-owned farms have been targeted for expropriation.
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Pamela Anderson has spoken of her ‘romantic’ connection with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
The Canadian-American actress, 51, said Assange is one of her favorite people in an interview with Harvey Levin that aired on Fox News on Sunday night.
Describing him as ‘imperfect’, the former Baywatch star said: ‘He’s definitely an interesting person and there’s definitely a romantic kind of connection ‘cause it’s a romantic struggle.
‘We have this closeness… he’s not close to people like he is to me.’
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British MEP: ‘If We Import the Third World We Get Third World Problems’
If we import the third world we get third world problems,” British independent MEP Janice Atkinson told Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap, adding that “rapes, gang rape, violent crime have increased exponentially and that our prisons are proportionally overburdened with foreign criminals in comparison to the citizens of our states”.
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EU is More Worried About ‘Populism’ Than About Tens of Thousands of Migrants Reaching Spain
EU officials are more afraid that they may “lose Spain” to populism as a result of the migrant surge, than of the wave of mass migration which the new Socialist Party government has encouraged.
Speaking to El Pais, a senior Brussels bureaucrat said: “Right now we can’t afford to lose Spain,” he described that the rise of anti-migration, pro-sovereignty politicians in countries such as Poland, Hungary, Austria and Italy was already causing problems for the bloc by resisting EU decrees.
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Germany Hoping for a Breakthrough in Migration Talks With Italy and Greece
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer on Sunday said he hoped for a breakthrough this week in talks with Italy and Greece on taking back asylum-seekers already registered in those countries, as Berlin toughens its migration policies.
“The talks are proceeding in a good climate,” Seehofer told public broadcaster ARD.
“But in the end, the heads of government may have to talk with each other again because of the complexity” of the matter, he added, as well as saying he wanted “clarity” in the coming days about whether an agreement could be struck.
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Migrants Continue to Cause Misery for UK-Bound Truckers
The Road Haulage Association is extremely concerned that migrants at Calais are still causing misery for UK-bound hauliers.
“The latest reports of migrants attacking the French police make us even more afraid for the lives of truckers who just want to do their job,” said RHA chief exec Richard Burnett.
This follows an incident at the Port last week when four police officers were attacked — one being hospitalised after suffering an extremely brutal beating.
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UK: Discrimination Against Christian Refugees
The UN recommended 1,358 Syrian refugees for resettlement in Britain during the first quarter of 2018, of whom only four were Christians. Britain agreed to resettle 1,112 of these refugees, all of whom were Muslims, and refused to accept the Christians.
“As last year’s statistics more than amply demonstrate, this is not a statistical blip. It shows a pattern of discrimination that the Government has a legal duty to take concrete steps to address.” — Lord David Alton of Liverpool, in a letter to UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid.
What specific initiatives, other than empty words, does the UK government aim to take to rectify the damage that has already been done and to prevent it from happening again?
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Employee Sues UGA for Declining to Pay for ‘Transition’ Surgery
Authored by Erin Cooke via Campus Reform
An employee of the University of Georgia (UGA), is suing the state’s university system over what he claims are “discriminatory health insurance policies for transgender employees.”
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French Feminists Launch Campaign Against ‘Degrading’ Postcards as They ‘Contribute to Rape Culture’
French feminists want to ban ‘sexist’ postcards featuring scantily clad women which they say are degrading and contribute to a “culture of rape”.
The Femmes Solidaires (Women’s Solidarity) group feel the cards portray women as “sex objects that can be consumed and thrown away under the pretext of leisure and entertainment”, and have urged their 10,000 members to report where they find the ‘smutty cards’ being sold.
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Police Hunt ‘Asian’ Trio After Man’s Jaw Broken in Homophobic Attack in UK ‘City of Sanctuary’
Police are hunting for three ‘Asian’ men after a man suffered a broken jaw and deep facial cuts in an alleged homophobic attack in Brighton, Britain’s gay capital and a ‘city of sanctuary’.
Sussex Police published CCTV stills of the suspects at the weekend in an appeal for information from the public regarding the assault, which took place at Seaside Kebabs in the early hours of June 7.
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Scotland: Schools to Tell Five-Year-Olds They Can ‘Choose’ Their Gender
Children in Scotland are set to be told that “your gender is what you decide” from their first year at primary school under draft education guidelines.
Drawn up by the left-liberal Scottish National Party (SNP) government, Education Scotland, and regional National Health Service (NHS) boards, the guidelines will be part of a teaching resource to be used in Relationships, Sexual Health, and Parenthood lessons, which schools must provide as a “core” subject from early years alongside literacy and numeracy.
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Something is Amiss in the History Profession
No, this isn’t another post about that horrible Nancy MacLean book, but it is related. As an early, vociferous critic of the book, I wound up in email, blog, and Twitter debates with some of her defenders among fellow historians, especially those who purport to specialize in intellectual history. And what I learned from this was troubling. While I’m sure there are many excellent historians around, I found that the historians I interacted with not only tended to reason backwards from their political priors, but that their standards of how one makes an appropriate inference from existing evidence are such that they would be laughed out of any decent philosophy or law school academic workshop.
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UCLA Makes Students Pay Classmates to Promote “Social Justice”
Authored by Toni Airaksinen via Campus Reform
The University of California-Los Angeles has hired 18 students at $13 per hour to combat “social injustices” and “privilege and oppression” following a semester-long recruitment campaign.
Hosted by the UCLA Intergroup Relations Program, the Diversity Peer Leaders project is a year-long internship during which students facilitate workshops on social justice issues in exchange for leadership training and compensation from UCLA.
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Astronomers Detect Giant Rogue Planet Floating Near Our Solar System
Using a radio telescope, scientists have detected what could be a huge planet nudging our solar system. About 12 times as massive as Jupiter, this rogue celestial body is floating through space without its own host star.
What’s more, the observations shed light on the object’s powerful magnetic field and the glowing auroras it produces. Scientists reported their research in The Astrophysical Journal.
Astronomers think the mysterious, 200-million-year-old free-floating object is cruising just 20 light-years from Earth. It’s pretty hot, with a surface temperature of more than 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s known as SIMP J01365663+0933473—or SIMP for short.
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‘Using a radio telescope, scientists have detected what could be a huge planet nudging our solar system.
Astronomers think the mysterious, 200-million-year-old free-floating object is cruising just 20 light-years from Earth.’
…So, it’s mysterious, but we already know it is 200 million years old. I think the Earth came into being in September.
If anyone remembers the brutal attack towards a waiter in the center of Prague by a group of “Dutch” tourists, the two brothers leading the attack are now being charged for attempted murder. This actively changes their possible prison time from 6-12 years to 10-18 years.
Afghanistan:
Three Czech Soldiers Killed by Suicide Bomber During …. a joint foot patrol.
All joint foot patrols should be ceased forthwith.
Two insuperable reasons:
“Kill them wherever you find them” is a standing instruction in Islam: Koran 2:191.
Those who “kill and are killed” are GUARANTEED Paradise: Koran 9.111.
………..an attack on a CHRISTIAN Orthodox Church……………………….
(There, fixed it.)
It isn’t only the leftists who seek to silence objectors. Breitbart News has closed my participation in the comments section of their articles, in response to my pointing out the wild tirades of a Breitbart columnist. Seriously, Breitbart is outpacing the leftists regarding the silencing of objections… even when those objections apply only to the ranting, rambling *presentation* of ideas and opinions.
A good point, and one that deserves further elaboration.[If Andrew Breitbart were still at the helm, this kind of “silencing” would not be happening.]
The Right can be as doctrinaire as the Left, and can even co-opt the Left’s meta-rules, not realizing it has become entangled in snares of Korrect Speak.
The problem with current-day discourse is that it is no longer primarily about ideas as it is a polarization, seen by each side as a battle between good and evil. Thus, on the one side we have those whose summum bonum is “tolerance” (for soi-disant “victims” at any rate) and on the other, the great virtue is “free” speech, which can devolve into a sterile liberty without any accompanying responsibility. And over the whole of the battlefield is cast a fuggy stench of decay.
IMHO.
re : ‘Something amiss in the History profession’
Many of us whose first love is History have long known this is the case.
After a time of familiarization, we learned that there were (are) such creatures as the ‘court’ historians.
Even the historians not bought and paid for by patrons reach very different conclusions. A reading of Spanish history written by Spanish historians will read very differently than Spanish history written by English professors. I think everyone recognizes this.
GofV features Diana West’s book on the home page. The ‘court’ historians savaged it. “She is not a professional historian,” they squealed.
Perhaps not … but the best History is often done by non-‘Historians.’ And thank God for that.
As Professor Antony Sutton (British, a professional Historian; of the Hoover Institution; now deceased, I believe) discovered, the American Historical Association has been a creature of the Deep State Swamp since its earliest days.
The phasing-out of the teaching of honest History in our schools, and its substitution by a severely dumbed-down subject called ‘Social Studies,’ was a very deliberate and conscious choice of ‘the Establishment,’ for obvious reasons of social engineering.
… to deprive following generations of their cultural / institutional memory, and make them believe everything began in 1917. Then with the revised date of origin of 1968.
[HIGHLY recommended … (by me!) : ‘The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise,‘ by Prof. Dario Fernandez-Morera. Also not a professional Historian – but a true, honest scholar.]
I listened to an hour podcast with this man a year or so ago and was fascinated! I strongly recommend his book or try to find him on youtube.