A 29ft-long balloon of London Mayor Sadiq Khan was launched today in Parliament Square, at the same spot where a balloon representing Donald Trump was launched in July. The simulacrum of Mayor Khan took was depicted wearing a yellow bikini. Supporters of the event raised more than £58,000 to pay for the blimp.
In other news, German citizens held a “March of Silence” in Chemnitz today to commemorate two men who were murdered recently by migrants.
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Fitch Lowers Italy’s Rating Outlook on Fiscal Plans of New Government
Italy’s rating outlook was lowered by Fitch Ratings, which said the fiscal plans of the new government risk a degree of fiscal loosening.
Fitch changed the nation’s credit outlook to negative from stable. The rating company, however, maintained its foreign long-term credit rating at BBB, a decision applauded by the Italian government and cited as proof of the credibility of its economic program.
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Illinois Breaks Pension-Debt Record for US States
Authored by Adam Schuster via IllinoisPolicy.org
According to a new report by Moody’s Investors Service, Illinois’ unfunded pension liabilities equaled 601 percent of state revenues in 2017, a U.S. record.
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Italy: GDP, Inflation Up, Unemployment Down
Govt unhappy with economic trend says Giorgetti
(ANSA) — Rome, August 31 — GDP and inflation have risen in Italy while unemployment has dropped, statistics agency ISTAT said Friday, prompting Cabinet Secretary Giancarlo Giorgetti to say the government was unhappy with the way the economy is going.
ISTAT on Friday upped its annual growth forecast for the Italian economy to 1.2% in the second quarter.
This was higher than the 1.1% forecast on July 31.
Italy’s gross domestic product grew 0.2% in the second quarter of the year, ISTAT said Friday.
The statistics agency published the definitive data for the April-June period.
In the first quarter GDP had risen 0.3%.
Italy’s GDP is 5.8% lower than it was at the start of the financial crisis in 2008, ISTAT said Friday.
The comparison is with the first quarter of 2008, when a record high was recorded.
But despite a quarterly slowdown, ISTAT said, the Italian economy’s expansion has continued for 16 straight quarters.
Italian inflation rose to 1.7% in August from 1.5% in July, ISTAT said Friday.
On a monthly basis prices rose 0.5%, the statistics agency said.
The rise was mostly due to transport prices, up from 1.7% to 2.9%, ISTAT said.
Prices of the most frequently bought items in Italy’s inflation ‘trolley’ rose by 2.8% in August, the same as July, ISTAT said Friday.
Italian unemployment fell 0.4 percentage points to 10.4% in July, ISTAT said Friday.
It thus returned to the level it was in March 2012, the statistics agency said.
Youth unemployment fell 1.0 points to 30.8%, its lowest since October 2011.
Italian employment fell by 28,000 units or 0.1% in July over June, ISTAT said Friday.
In June there had been a 41,000 unit fall, the statistics agency said.
The fall is wholly in the women’s sector, ISTAT said, and concentrated among people aged 15-49.
Long-term steady job holders were down 44,000 while temps and self-employed workers were both up 8,000.
The number of inactive people in Italy rose 0.7% or by 89,000 in the month between June and July, ISTAT said Friday.
The rise regarded both women, up 73,000, and men, up 16,000, the statistics agency said.
The inactivity rate rose 0.3 percentage points to 34.3%, ISTAT said.
But inactivity fell over the year to “just above the all-time low recorded in June,” it said.
The government is “absolutely” not happy with how the economy is going, Cabinet Secretary Giorgetti said Friday.
“We have the ambition, some would say the temerity, to bring Italy to a rate of growth above 2-3%”,” he said.
The government may breach the EU’s 3% budget deficit-to-GDP ratio if it is “necessary to put the country into safety”, referring to essential infrastructure work, Giorgetti said.
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Are They Telling Us What is Coming? The Mainstream Media Boldly Declares “You Will be Microchipped”
At one time, the notion that the general population would be microchipped someday was a “conspiracy theory”, but now the mainstream media is coming right out and telling us that we will all get chipped. It is almost as if they are trying to mentally condition us to accept what is coming. Of course it is being portrayed as “cool” and “trendy”, and a lot of people will be fooled by that. But if someday “identity chips” are required for the entire population, the potential for tyranny would be off the charts. Unfortunately, some sort of permanent digital identification is increasingly being pushed as the solution to problems such as identity theft, tax evasion, illegal immigration and money laundering. And tech companies would love to have a universal way to confirm the identities of individuals on the Internet. But very few people are talking about the dark side of this technology, and that is a very frightening thing.
Earlier this month, USA Today published an article entitled “You will get chipped — eventually”. The following is a short excerpt…
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Beautiful: Trump Calls Watergate Self-Legend Carl Bernstein a ‘Degenerate Fool, ‘ Slams CNN Lies
The basis of this was a report by CNN and Bernstein that claimed Michael Cohen lawyer Lanny Davis was running around implicating Trump for having prior knowledge of his son’s meeting with that screwball Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in 2016. CNN can stand by its story all it wants, but Lanny Davis himself has come out and said it’s not true, and that neither he nor Cohen had any such knowledge.
When media run with falsehoods like this, refuse to cop to the mistake, hide behind their reputations based on a story from 45 years ago, they deserve to be called out as sloppy degenerate fools.
The rise of Donald Trump has ripped apart so many norms, and one of them is the heretofore deification of Beltway icons who are nowhere near the legends they and everyone else pretend that they are. Every president, regardless of party, has felt the need to genuflect to these people and their supposed legendary status — regardless of what total hacks some of these people may be.
Donald Trump has no interest in this nonsense, and fortunately for those of us who like to be entertained, this manifests in some very colorful ways. So, Carl Bernstein of Woodward and Bernstein fame? You sir, are a degenerate fool. The president of the United States says so:
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For most of this summer, much of the U.S. has been hit by historic heatwaves, crippling drought and unprecedented wildfires. But if the long-term forecasts that I am about to share with you are accurate, this winter could be bitterly, bitterly cold. The sun appears to be entering into a period of early hibernation, and that is a very troubling sign. The primary driver of climate conditions is the giant ball of fire that our planet revolves around, and that ball of fire is beginning to behave in irregular ways. Sunspot activity is way, way below what was expected for this year, and that is one of the reasons why so many are calling for a “big freeze” this winter. And if we experience an extended “solar minimum”, that could mean significantly reduced temperatures and crop failures all over the planet. At other times in history, such a scenario has meant global famine.
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Forensic Criminologist Weighs in on Evidence Collected at the ‘Muslim Extremist’ Compound
Forensic Criminologist Dr. Ron Martinelli weighed in on the alleged “Muslim extremist” compound found in New Mexico.
Martinelli explains why some of the items and the design of the compound matter. He also discusses what he thinks the next steps should be when it comes to bringing charges against those involved.
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MAGA Hat Suspect Faces Charges in Yet Another Anti-Trump Attack
The unhinged, cursing thug who assaulted a young man and stole his Make American Great Again (MAGA) hat at a Whataburger in San Antonio,Texas won’t get away with it. At least unless a equally unhinged jury acquits him.
The man pictured in a viral video, Kino Jiminez, will indeed face a theft charge.
But that unprovoked assault is part of a larger, unpleasant narrative: the open hostility toward, and verbal and physical attacks upon, supporters of President Trump.
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Meet Google’s Deep State Policy Manipulator
In the recent months, we have seen many concerns of Big Tech companies attacking voices that go against the MSM accepted Narrative. Companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google/YouTube making it very obvious that any expression of thought, discussion, post, tweet, blog or video that challenges, debunks or goes against Main Stream Media or left narrative are “dangerous”.
Many say, it’s because they are left leaning which is impossible to disagree with but are they simply leaning or actually run by deep state and former Obama operatives?
This investigative series will show you exactly WHO is in charge of “Public Policy” for these giants and we begin with Google/YouTube on the heels of the massive blatant attack on our First Amendment and their shameless, arrogant position against Alex Jones and Infowars.
What does a Director of Public Policy do?
Trending: WATCH: BLP Reporter Assaulted, Detained By Police at UNC Antifa Riot
This is a position in all major companies in all markets including tech because communications between private sector and public Sector are imperative for any business to thrive.
“It’s important that for a company to thrive in a polar political environment that private companies stay centered to and that is the job of the Director of Public Policy” said the CEO of JUMBO enterprises in a recent conference in Europe discussing political influence on Chinese trade and Europe.
Last week BLP published CASE LAW: Big Tech Companies Are Government Contractors, So Suppressing Free Speech Is Illegal which demonstrates just how blurred the lines of suppressing speech and in actuality, being discriminatory against certain speech. Conservatives, patriots, supporters of the President and anyone who supports the America First policies being implemented by the President are silence.
Meet Caroline Atkinson, Global Public Affairs Director at Google:
Caroline Atkinson joined Google in March 2016, which happened to coincide with search functions of Google came into question suppressing any searches about failed Presidential candidate Clinton’s questionable email scandals, history and statements. It was during that time that people began to notice considerable changes happened with Google and their search results. Now in 2018 it is VERY apparent that their search engine doesn’t auto populate suggestions by popular search but specific bias statements.
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Poof He’s Gone! MSNBC and ABC Crop Out Louis Farrakhan From Aretha Franklin Funeral Photo
By now you’ve probably seen this photo from Aretha Franklin’s funeral with Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Bill Clinton…
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Pope Francis ignored allegations that he covered up Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s abuse allegations, choosing instead to highlight the “emergency” of plastic in the ocean Saturday.
Francis urged Christian faithful and others to commit to action to save God’s “impressive and marvelous” gift of the “great waters and all they contain” by cleansing them of the plastic garbage that litters them. His call to save the oceans came days after Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago said addressing allegations that Francis ignored claims that McCarrick abused male seminarians and boys was beneath Francis’ agenda, as he had to confront environmental concerns.
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Trump Warns Congress Not to ‘Interfere’ In His Revised NAFTA Deal
President Trump told Congress Saturday not to “interfere” with his NAFTA negotiations or he’ll cancel outright the revised free-trade deal with Mexico, an agreement that could leave out Canada.
“Congress should not interfere w/ these negotiations or I will simply terminate NAFTA entirely & we will be far better off,” Mr. Trump tweeted. “There is no political necessity to keep Canada in the new NAFTA deal. If we don’t make a fair deal for the U.S. after decades of abuse, Canada will be out.”
Mr. Trump notified Congress Friday that he was moving ahead with a U.S.-Mexico deal to replace NAFTA, possibly without Canada, signaling that talks with Ottawa had bogged down. Congress will be asked to ratify the deal after 90 days.
The president said Saturday that the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada “was one of the WORST Trade Deals ever made.”
“The U.S. lost thousands of businesses and millions of jobs,” Mr. Trump tweeted. “We were far better off before NAFTA — should never have been signed. Even the Vat Tax was not accounted for. We make new deal or go back to pre-NAFTA!” […]
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Vermont Gun Owners and Retailers Seek to Nullify New State Weapons Regulations
Gun owners in Vermont refuse to allow government on any level to infringe on their right to keep and bear arms, as protected by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
In pleadings filed last week, the Gun Owners of Vermont, joined by several gun and ammunition retailers, are challenging a state law requiring a Federal Firearms License (FFL) for all transfers of weapons, including “privately and legally owned firearms.”
Additionally, the complaint seeks a judicial ruling declaring a statute unconstitutional for its prohibition on the sale and possession of so-called “bump-fire” stocks.
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Oil Industry Deals Trudeau’s Climate Agenda Crippling Blow After Court Nixes Pipeline
One of Canada’s most economically powerful provinces is bailing on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax scheme after a court nixed an oil pipeline that would have delivered crude to Asian markets.
Alberta’s premier announced Thursday that the province is pulling out of Trudeau’s climate change initiative to protest a court decision dinging the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline. Trudeau had previously approved the extension, but the three-judge panel ruled Canada did not consult with American Indians before making the move.
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Arrest Made After Bus Containing Sweden Democrat Politician Shot at
A 25-year-old man in the Swedish municipality of Töreboda has been arrested in connection with the shooting of a bus that contained a populist Sweden Democrat politician, but police say they are unsure if it was politically motivated.
The shooting occurred late on Saturday night but the suspect was not taken into custody until Wednesday evening. Police say that the suspect is known to them and had been arrested for less serious crimes in the past, Expressen reports.
Aboard the bus was Sweden Democrat politician Sara-Lena Bjälkö who spoke out shortly after the shooting saying: “I thought we would be killed.”
“It was so shocking. I’m just so glad my daughter was not with me. I’m fighting for a safer and safer society because people should not have to experience shootings and killings,” she added.
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Polish MP Dominik Tarczynski has slammed the left-wing government of Vienna after they cancelled the erection of a statue to commemorate the Polish King who saved the city, claiming the statue might offend Turks.
Mr Tarczynski, who made headlines in July after a combative interview with Channel 4 presenter Cathy Newman, spoke with Breitbart London following reports that the leftist coalition running the Austrian capital had cancelled the proposed statue of Polish king Jan III Sobieski, who broke the Turkish Siege of Vienna in 1683, claiming it may offend Turkish residents.
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Italy: Autostrade’s Claim of Fulfillment of Duty ‘Indecent’
Says minister, ‘after 43 deaths and hundreds displaced’
(ANSA) — Rome, August 31 — Italy’s Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Danilo Toninelli said Friday that Autostrade per l’Italia’s claim to having fulfilled its obligations in a timely manner as concerns a bridge that collapsed on a toll highway on August 14 was “indecent”.
“It is incredible to hear Autostrade speak about ‘timely fulfillment of its obligations’ after a tragedy with 43 deaths, 9 injured, hundreds displaced and businesses brought to their knees. This is indecent. We make things right again and we will give citizens who travel security and services again,” the minister said on Twitter.
The comment came after the board of the Italian toll-road operator, Autostrade per l’Italia, said that it had complied with its obligations.
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Italy: Chinese Gang Nabbed for Robbing, Beating Co-Nationals
In five Italian regions
(ANSA) — Gorizia, August 31 — Italian police on Friday bust a Chinese gang that allegedly robbed and beat co-nationals across five Italian regions.
The five gang members acted with guns and machetes, police said.
The arrests were made in Naples, Mestre near Venice, Padua, Poggio a Caiano near Prato, Campi Bisenzio near Florence and Reggio Emilia. Two gang members were on the run in Reggio Emilia and Naples, police said.
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Italy: 2 Men Nabbed for Sexual Assault
Near Modena
(ANSA) — Modena, August 31 — Italian police on Friday arrested two Tunisians aged 33 and 35 for robbery and sexual assault against a 41-year-old Tunisian woman at Carpi near Modena last night.
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Sweden Election 2018: How This Election is the Most Important in Swedish History
EXCLUSIVE: Sweden will hold a general election on September 9 and the polls prior to the election have shown eurosceptic Sweden Democrats (SD) almost doubling its support since 2014. With three parties now holding about 20 percent of the votes each Sweden is seeing a whole new political agenda on the rise.
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Two Americans Stabbed by 19 Year Old Afghan Man in Netherlands
Two people stabbed in a knife attack at the Dutch capital’s main railway station on Friday are both American citizens who were visiting the Netherlands, the U.S. ambassador said Saturday as police investigated possible motives, including the possibility it was an extremist act.
Police shot and wounded a 19-year-old Afghan man with a German residence permit immediately after the attack and are questioning him as a suspect.
A dramatic photo captured by a passerby shows two police officers pointing their pistols at a man wearing jeans and sneakers lying on the ground inside a tunnel in the station.
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Police will soon adopt a raft of “enhanced inclusivity” measures including celebrating “culturally-focused events like Black History Month” as forces across Britain are ordered to treat minority representation like a “critical incident”.
According to Police Oracle, a plan set to be launched next week will see every force create a “gold group at chief officer level focused on diversity”, with identity politics to be made a major priority.
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The father of two fighters who died in Syria, has been jailed after threatening to have his wife shot if she gave evidence against him.
Abubaker Deghayes, 50, a former leader of the al-Quds Mosque in Brighton and the brother of Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes, was found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice at Blackfriars Crown Court in London.
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UK: Pictures: ‘Beach Body Ready’ Sadiq Khan Flies Over London at Pro-Trump Event
A giant balloon depicting London mayor Sadiq Khan dressed in a yellow bikini has been launched over Parliament Square.
A group of supporters watched the inflatable take to the skies. The crowd cheered and shouted, “higher, higher, higher” as the balloon was launched Saturday.
Some wore t-shirts saying “Make London Safe Again”.
Organisers had raised more than £58,000 ($75,000) to create the blimp in a protest against Khan’s policies.
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UK: Watch: Moment 29-Foot Sadiq Khan Bikini Balloon Takes Flight in Parliament Square — Video
WATCH the moment the massive 29-foot blimp of the Mayor of London was inflated as it started its journey of being flown over Parliament Square.
The enormous inflatable of Sadiq Khan is being flown over London in the exact same spot protesters flew the Donald Trump baby blimp in July.
In the footage the blimp of the London Mayor takes flight, depicting Mr Khan laying on his side wearing a yellow triangle bikini.
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Trump Cuts Millions From ‘Refugee’ Funding
U.N. agency perpetuating Palestinian problem called ‘irredeemably flawed operation’
The Trump administration on Friday canceled scheduled payments of hundreds of millions of dollars to an “irredeemably flawed” United Nations agency that was making payments to convicted terrorists and their families in the Middle East.
According to Israel National News, the U.S. State Department said it no longer is funding UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
The American Center for Law and Justice explained that Trump had promised to cut funding “to the terrorist affiliated Palestinian Authority as long as they continued to reward the families of terrorists.”
“Now the president’s administration has gone a step further, cutting off even more funding by withholding a significant sum of money — roughly $200 million — that had been previously earmarked to go to the PA,” the organization said.
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Yemeni Forces Hit Saudi Frigate in Red Sea
According to Yemen’s al-Masirah TV, the Yemeni forces have attacked the Saudi frigate in Red Sea waters off the coasts of Jizan, inflicting casualties on invaders.
A source in Yemen’s Navy said Saudi Arabia has transferred the injured from the frigate to hospitals in Jizan.
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Imran Khan Assassination Threat: Taliban ‘Plot to Assassinate’ New Pakistan Prime Minister
A TALIBAN terror group has been contacted about plans to assassinate newly-elected Prime Minster Imran Khan, shock claims have emerged.
The terrifying threat against the former cricket star was announced by Pakistani journalist and TV anchor Sadia Afzaal on Friday night.
She claimed that Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) local groups were contacted by a famous religious-political personality of Pakistan to order the execution of Mr Khan.
Speaking on Public News, Ms Afzaal, who assured the news was confirmed by ‘very reliable sources’, said: “I cannot reveal the name of that person but it has been stated in a Military-Intelligence (MI) reports.”
And News One TV anchor Jasmeen Manzoor made a similar claim alerting to the severe security threats faced by Imran Khan…
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Pentagon Cancels $300 Million Aid to Pakistan
The US military said it has made a final decision to cancel $300 million in aid to Pakistan that had been suspended over Islamabad’s perceived failure to take decisive action against militants, in a new blow to deteriorating ties.
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A Sri Lankan man with alleged links to ISIS who was charged with terrorism-related offences allegedly planned to assassinate former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.
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Gun Grab in South Africa Coming?
The possible gun grab comes as white South Africans grapple with the government’s attempt to seize their land.
As The New American reported last week, citing the Daily Mail, the government has besieged white farmers, forcing them to either sell at fire-sale prices or simply let the regime steal it:
Union bosses say a record number of properties are for sale but nobody is buying, making the properties effectively worthless.
Agri SA union, which represents mainly white commercial farmers, has warned that such seizures will deter investment, cause job losses, and may rob South Africa of the ability to feed itself.
[Comment: In America, the globalists, assorted communists, traitors and useful idiots will be watching this gun grab closely to see how successful it is prior to trying to do the same thing in the USA.]
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Is There a Plan in South Africa to Take White Farms and Kill White Farmers?
“We have not called for the killing of white people. At least for now. I can’t guarantee the future.”
President Trump was not wrong about the South African land-grab, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR), a liberal think tank. SAIRR said that the Trump had exposed the “damage” the policy was doing.
He did not, however, expose the extent of the damage. Nor the intent.
The current President of South Africa wrote an article for London’s Financial Times just two weeks ago defending the acquisition of land from white farmers by black South Africans without compensation:
“This is no land grab; nor is it an assault on the private ownership of property. The ANC has been clear that its land reform programme should not undermine future investment in the economy or damage agricultural production and food security.”
It seems in this era of words not having any valid meaning that bad is good, war is peace, weakness is strength, and up is down. But thievery is still thievery even if done by government…
The nation’s leading politicians are involved in this genocide of Whites as their words and actions clearly prove.
President Zuma in 2012 was caught on tape singing,
“We are going to shoot them with the machine gun, they are going to run/You are a Boer, we are going to hit them, and you are going to run/shoot the Boer.”
His followers may be stupid and Communist, but their protest signs scream the same message: “Kill the Boer! Kill the Farmers!”…
In an interview with TRT World News, Julius Malema said, “We have not called for the killing of white people. At least for now. I can’t guarantee the future.” When the reporter mentioned that some people might view these remarks as a call to genocide, Malema responded, “Crybabies. Crybabies,” but later warned white South Africans that “the masses are on board” for “an un-led revolution and anarchy.”
[Comment: The glorious method implemented by comrade Mugabe is Communist S.Africa’s model.]
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South Africa Farm Seizures: White Farmers Warn of ‘Next Zimbabwe’ And ‘Economic Suicide’
WHITE farmers in South Africa warn the country could become the “next Zimbabwe” as land expropriation plans threaten the country. Tommie Estherhuyse is a white South African farmer in the Free State province and brands the expropriation plans as “economic suicide”.
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Argentinian Bishops Decry ‘Ruthless Attack’ Against Pope Francis
The Argentinian Bishops Conference has closed ranks around Pope Francis, calling recent allegations that the pontiff covered up a cardinal’s serial sexual abuse a “ruthless attack.”
The leaders of the Argentine Episcopal Conference (CEA) sent a letter to Pope Francis expressing their “fraternal and filial closeness” at a time in which he is “suffering a ruthless attack motivated by various petty-minded worldly interests.”
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Brazilian Guilty of Killing Ragusa Woman at Brazil Resort
Strangled Pamela Canzonieri after she refused his advances
(ANSA) — Ragusa, August 31 — A Brazilian man was sentenced to 17 and a half years in jail Friday for strangling a Ragusa-born tourist in her holiday apartment at Morro de Sao Paulo south of Bahia in November 2016.
Patricio Dos Santos, aka Fabrizio, murdered his 39-year-old and barista Pamela Canzonieri after she refused his advances, a court found.
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Venezuela — An Economic Catastrophe in Images
Authored by Pater Tenebrarum via Acting-Man.com
The Final Stage of a Crack-Up Boom
For economists the dire downward spiral of Venezuela’s economy holds the same fascination black holes hold for physicists. Both illustrate what happens amid the most extreme conditions imaginable. It is thought that this may potentially provide clues of a more general nature. The remnants of massive imploded stars are inanimate and many light years distant; regardless of how violent conditions in their vicinity are, they cannot touch us. Unfortunately, extreme economic conditions definitely involve a great deal of human suffering.
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Chemnitz Holds ‘March of Silence’ To Remember German Slain by Alleged Migrants
Participants of a march that started at 5:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. GMT) are dressed in black, but holding white roses in memory of local resident Daniel Hillig killed a week ago, allegedly by migrants.
About 800 people gathered on Saturday an anti-immigrant demonstration in Saxony Chemnitz, Bild reported. The participants chant “We are the people”, holding posters against the German migration policy.
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German Protest Erupts: Demonstrators Clash at March Called After Man Killed ‘By Migrants’
RIOT police have arrested German protestors who swarmed the streets of Chemnitz along with 6,000 demonstrators to protest Angela Merkel’s migrant policy after a citizen was stabbed to death by two migrants.
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Italy and Hungary Create ‘Anti-Immigration Axis’
“We are close to a historic turning point at the continental level. I am astonished at the stupor of a political left that now exists only to challenge others and believes that Milan should not host the president of a European country, as if the left has the authority to decide who has the right to speak and who does not — and then they wonder why no one votes for them anymore.” — Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.
“This is the first of a long series of meetings to change destinies, not only of Italy and of Hungary, but of the whole European continent.” — Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.
“We need a new European Commission that is committed to the defense of Europe’s borders. We need a Commission after the European elections that does not punish those countries — like Hungary — that protect their borders.” — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
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Italy: Danish Tourist Allegedly Raped by Migrant Street Vendor With Three Prior Rape Allegations
A 37-year-old migrant street vendor with a history of sex assault accusations was arrested in the Italian city of Rimini earlier this week after being accused of raping a 26-year-old Danish tourist.
The migrant, who comes originally from Bangladesh, was taken into custody after being accused of raping the Danish woman last Sunday at a seaside resort in the eastern Italian city, Il Messaggero reports.
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Migrants Forge New Path to EU: Police Step Up Patrols as £225 Smuggler Route Emerges
MIGRANTS from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan are carving out a new route to EU territory costing just £225.
Bosnian police are stepping up patrols as thousands of migrants have already made the journey into the country via the Serbian border.
From there, they head to the border with Croatia, which is a member of the EU.
Up to 50 migrants were stopped by Bosnian police yesterday after they were found in a cargo train headed for Serbia.
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UK Fishermen Discover Iranian Migrants in Dinghy Off Kent Coast After Two Days at Sea
Three men and a woman, aged 27, 30, 35 and 37 were spotted by the crew of the Royal Charlotte, a charter fishing boat, at approximately 10am on Saturday.
The four migrants, thought to be from Iran, were drifting on Goodwin Sands, a 10-mile sandbank off the town of Deal, not far from Dover.
The man who led the rescue mission, Royal Charlotte skipper Matt Coker, recalled the moments he first approached the dinghy.
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16 States Ask SCOTUS for Protection Against “Transgender” Tyranny
You’re certainly free to fire an employee if he insists on coming to work in a thong bikini. But if he’s a man dressing as a woman, then your freedom of association and business’s well being are expected to take a back seat to the transgender agenda. This double standard has worsened in recent times, but not everyone is taking it lying down. As the Christian Post reports:
A group of 16 states have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to protect a Christian-owned funeral home that has been sued for firing a transgender worker for wearing women’s clothing.
Three Republican governors have joined 13 Republican state attorneys general in signing an amicus brief calling on the nation’s highest court to hear the case of R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes.
More specifically, the government leaders are calling on the court to rule that the federal Title VII civil rights law does not extend sex discrimination protections to cover gender identity.
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NYT: The “Religion of Whiteness” Threatens World Peace
The New York Times, has become the home for spiteful attacks on whites. On August 2, the paper defended elevating Sarah Jeong to its editorial board despite her tweets about “dumbass fu**ing white people” and looking forward to their extinction. Today, not even one month later, the Times has published yet another Asian who warns that whiteness is “a suicide cult” and a horrifying threat to world peace.
Miss Jeong’s appointment memorialized the double standard: Disrespect for protected classes is vile but contempt for whites is fine. Today’s article, by a sub-continental Indian named Pankaj Mishra, sets forth another Times-approved principle: Any measure whites take to preserve their nations or their traditions menaces the entire world.
Mr. Mishra’s article, called “The Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult,” pours particular scorn on the whites who live in what he calls “the Anglosphere:” Britain, Canada, Australia, and the United States. This is an ungrateful choice: Mr. Mishra is a novelist and essayist in the language of the Anglosphere, and is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize from Yale, worth $150,000 and perhaps the richest prize of its kind in the world.
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Socialists Urge Infiltration of Government Schools
America’s most prominent socialist organization is urging socialists to infiltrate government schools so they can brainwash impressionable young children, sparking national alarm over the totalitarian ideologues’ tactics and agenda. But despite the rantings of the dangerous organization, it is at least a century late to the party, with the government “education” sector having been dominated by socialists for generations.
In a pamphlet by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) titled “Why Socialists Should Become Teachers,” the totalitarian group’s youth branch urges socialists to infiltrate schools so they can exploit the “political, economic, and social potential the industry holds.” Among the reasons for the sector being seen as “strategic” is that it will allow socialists to further radicalize the labor unions.
Also, the controversial document, which has now sparked headlines nationwide, outlines a plot for teachers to weaponize their position for politicizing students and their families to advance tyranny. For instance, the document says socialist “teachers” can exploit their access to students and their families to get them all involved in “campaigns around police brutality, immigrant rights, and environmental justice.”
[Comment: They already have, calling for more means communist indoctrination becomes more rabid and even more overt.]
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The Permeation of Propaganda in the College Student Brain
In 1937, an editorial in The New York Times declared that “what is truly vicious is not propaganda but a monopoly of it.” Thus begins an article titled “Propaganda Techniques of German Fascism,” written by Clyde R. Miller and reprinted in the fifth edition of Modern English Readings (1946). This text was used by college students. There is nothing dealing with gender, white privilege, social justice, the religion of peace, or alleged microaggressions.
When pundits discuss the culture wars, it is essential to see how so many present-day textbooks have contributed to generations of young people who have, for the most part, never been exposed to how America’s ideals have shaped the country. Instead, students are indoctrinated by public school teachers with connections to Antifa. More chilling is that these same teachers publicly acknowledge they would not protect the rights of students who disagree with them.
Thus, the article by Miller is quite apropos at a time when the education establishment, as well as the hi-tech companies’ “monoculture,” seeks to monopolize the information highway. As Jeremy Carl writes:
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Article about the monument to Jan Sobieski from the Austrian media:
https://www.tagesstimme.com/2018/08/31/wien-offenbar-doch-kein-sobieski-denkmal-auf-kahlenberg/
Australia Sydney’s West
https://au.news.yahoo.com/man-dies-mob-attacks-paramedics-union-082000618–spt.html
Certainly quite a turn out. It seems that pararmedics need a platoon or a even a battalion of police to safely do their work.
There must have been a number of well trained organized young men who figured they could have done a better job at saving that life. If only they were not looked down upon and were allowed to use the defibrillator and drugs. 🙂
Can sniping at the Whiteness Cult change hearts and minds?
I’m not sure that is the strategy… THEY, meaning the darker people breeding like bot flies across the planet, can only pick us off at the margins… and the ploy seems to be to enrage young white males by baiting them into violence.
Violence against whites is a given, so stories of white on black or brown ‘innocents’ are at a premium. The NYT is trolling for incidents of white on black ‘crime’.
Hi GatesofVienna and readers of GatesofVienna,
Billboard in Dallas Targets ‘Black Women’ With the Message: ‘Abortion Is Self-Care’
https://pjmedia.com/trending/billboard-in-dallas-targets-black-women-with-the-message-abortion-is-self-care/
Thank You.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfuXseuHyko
why this ex-Muslim woman was not allowed into Starbucks?