The CSU — the Bavarian sister party of Angela Merkel’s CDU — has seen a precipitous drop in the polls ahead of Bavarian state elections. The AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) is polling at almost 50% now in Bavaria, well ahead of the CSU.
In other news, female priests in Britain demanded that the Church of England stop referring to God as “He”.
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Italy: Inflation Rate 1.6% in August — ISTAT
Up from 1.5% in July, but flash estimate of 1.7% revised down
(ANSA) — Rome, September 14 — ISTAT said Friday that Italy’s annual inflation rate was 1.6% in August, up from 1.5% in July, but lower than the initial flash estimate of 1.7% that it had given for last month. The national statistics agency said its consumer-price index was up 0.4% in August in month-on-month terms.
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#EnemiesWithin: Trevor Loudon Releases Mini-Doc on Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy
This week Trevor Loudon exposes Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, a threat to America’s national security. Chris Murphy serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which develops and influences foreign policy.
See Video Below!
In 2016, New Zealand author and film-maker Trevor Loudon released his full-length documentary The Enemies Within, which exposed a shocking number of United States Senators and Congress members who pose a security risk to America. These elected officials were all tied to hostile foreign powers, anti-American Marxist groups or fronts for the pro-terrorist Muslim Brotherhood.
Trevor Loudon
Trevor has made a “short list” of 59 Congress members and 19 Senators who likely could not pass a basic security background check.
Unfortunately, there are no security checks for Congress members, so the United States is now suffering the consequences of highly untrustworthy people serving on sensitive Congressional Committees, including Armed Services, Homeland Security, and Intelligence.
These are the “Enemies Within.”
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CNN Ratings Collapse, Losing to Nickelodeon and Fox News
Trump’s “fake news” nemesis, CNN, experienced a dramatic collapse in ratings last week compared to 2017.According to AdWeek, CNN viewership tumbled 41% in daytime TV ratings and tumbled 36% in primetime versus the same week last year.
“CNN ranked No. 6 across basic cable in total primetime viewers, and No. 5 in total day this past week. Despite the top 10 finishes, the network was —36 percent in primetime viewers, and —41 percent in total day viewers vs. the same week last year”, AdWeek wrote.
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Former NASA Scientist: No, Climate Change is Not Making Hurricanes Worse
Roy Spencer actually knows what he’s talking about. Nye, DeGrasse Tyson and Gore do not
“Why does the Washington Post say such stupid things?” asks Dr. Roy Spencer, who is an actual atmospheric scientist.
Part of the answer is obviously that they don’t know what they’re talking about, but another part is that they don’t really care what’s right, true or accurate. They only care what advances their political agenda, and if blaming Donald Trump for a hurricane advances that agenda and they think they can plausibly sell it, they will.
The truth, of course, is that global warming or “climate change” or whatever you want to call it is not resulting in an increase in the number of hurricanes, nor is it resulting in greater severity in hurricanes, because neither of those two things has actually happened. All you need is to do a little simple research to find that out, but Dr. Spencer has done it for you so just go ahead and listen to him:
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Kavanaugh Accuser is an Anti-Trump Leftist Who Attended Women’s March, Donated to DNC
Attempt to derail nomination is a blatant political ploy
Judge Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford is an anti-Trump leftist who participated in the Women’s March and donated to the DNC, revelations that make the attempt to delay Kavanaugh’s nomination look increasingly like a desperate political ploy.
Ford, now a professor at Palo Alto University in California, accused Kavanaugh of holding her down on a bed and groping her at a house party in Maryland in the early 80’s when Kavanaugh was 17 and Ford was 15.
Ford asserts that the attack was so severe, she thought Kavanaugh was going to “inadvertently” kill her, claiming, “He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing.”
The professor says that the assault only came to a stop when a third person, Mark Judge, intervened and jumped on top of them.
However, Judge has completely denied that the incident ever took place. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California was also first made aware of the allegations back in July but concealed all information relating to them for weeks.
It has since emerged that Ford has a history of left-wing political activism;
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May the Farce be With You: Han Solo Preaches Climate Doom
By Trevor Thomas
And you thought the Death Star was dangerous. Speaking at the Global Climate Action Summit recently, a frothy and furry Harrison Ford — resembling Chewbacca more than Han Solo — growled and cussed at a like-minded gathering of the anthropogenic climate change faithful. Like a fiery guru pitching a worn-out self-help scam, Ford reminded his congregation of something we’ve all heard countless times before: because of so-called man-made climate change, the “future of humanity is at stake!”
No doubt implying that America needs to elect more democrats, Ford passionately implored the crowd to “stop giving power to people who don’t believe in science.” I agree! Anyone who can’t tell the American public what is the definition of a male and a female, or denies the unmistakable — but, for liberals, “inconvenient” — science of life in the womb has no business holding elected office.
Though their meteorologists often get the five-day forecast wrong, the same fools who tell us that women are just as good in combat as men want us to take their 100-year climate forecasts as the gospel truth, because, you know, “SCIENCE!” With the same ignorant passion of Harrison Ford, for decades now the dogmatic adherents of “the [not-so] new religion of First World urban elites” have claimed that the burning of fossil fuels is destroying the planet.
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Meteorologists Expect Florence to Stall and Hammer the East Coast “For Days”
“I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This”
The bizarre story of Hurricane Florence just keeps becoming even more strange. The good news is that meteorologists are telling us that the storm is expected to lose intensity as it approaches the east coast, but the really, really bad news is that it is now being projected that Florence will slow down and finally stall just off the coastline. In a worst-case scenario, the Carolinas and Georgia could be pounded with wind and rain “for days”, and some areas of North Carolina could end up being buried under nine feet of water. And even though the peak wind speed of Florence has diminished some, the storm just continues to expand in size. That means that it will ultimately hit a larger portion of the east coast than originally anticipated, and the overall economic cost will also ultimately be worse than the experts were forecasting.
The word “unprecedented” is being used a lot in conjunction with this storm. It is behaving in ways that it shouldn’t be, and this “strange stall” along the east coast is absolutely baffling the experts.
[Comment: HAARP. ]
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Mysterious ‘Security Issue’ Closes Sunspot Observatory in New Mexico
A strange and mysterious issue is being blamed for the closure of a sunspot observatory in New Mexico. The timing of the “security issue” which caused the closure is odd as well, considering the sun’s current activity as it heads into its solar minimum cycle.
The Sunspot Solar Observatory that was closed is located atop Sacramento Peak and overlooks Tularosa Basin, which includes the city of Alamogordo, Holloman Air Force Base, White Sands Missile Range, and White Sands National Monument. Authorities had evacuated all employees from the site, including four from New Mexico State University. About a dozen residents around the site were evacuated and the U.S. Postal Service decided to evacuate employees, too, according to a report by the Alamogordo Daily News.
According to Fox News, the observatory is set to reopen after the temporary closure due to an undisclosed “security issue.” But that hasn’t stopped people from asking questions about this odd event which has been shrouded in mystery and secrecy. Theories have surfaced as is always the case when people believe secrets are being kept from them.
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NY Senate Candidate John Liu Endorsed by Far-Left Radicals and Socialist Islamists
Disgraced former New York City mayoral candidate John Liu is attempting a political comeback, with the support of hard-left radical activists and a progressive organization called the Muslim Democratic Club of New York, founded by socialist Islamist Linda Sarsour.
Liu previously declared himself as a candidate in the 2013 New York City mayoral election but was dogged by a scandal from his 2011 comptroller election campaign.
Liu served as the 43rd New York City Comptroller from Jan. 1, 2010, to Dec. 31, 2013. While Liu quickly raised more than $1 million dollars in campaign donations in the first half of 2011, suspicions grew as to some of its origin. In an Oct. 11, 2011, front-page story, the New York Times reported that its investigation of Liu’s donors had uncovered some “irregularities.”
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Obama Repeatedly Stutters, Talks About Himself 79 Times While Campaigning for Candidates
There were times during a Thursday rally Barack Obama couldn’t help but talk about himself, even though he was supposed to be talking about other people.
There were other times he could barely talk at all.
During the Cleveland rally for Rich Cordray and Betty Sutton, Obama repeatedly talked about himself, despite the candidates sitting behind him. Several times, he stuttered as he attempted to attack President Trump and the success of recent Republican initiatives.
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PETA Demands University Ban Football Game Balloons
The University of Nebraska at Lincoln releases thousands of balloons after the first touchdowns of home football games.
PETA is petitioning the school to put an end to the practice, which it claims is hazardous to wildlife.
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Philadelphia Archbishop: Religion in America is ‘Bleeding Out’
The latest generation of Americans is the “least religious” in the nation’s history, said Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput over the weekend in a dour assessment of the present state of affairs.
The United States is becoming secularized at an unprecedented rate, the archbishop asserted in an address Friday evening at the Faith and Reason Institute at Gonzaga University, as studies show “American religious affiliation and practice bleeding out, especially among the young.”
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Trump Campaign Manager: Twitter’s Liberal Bias Warrants Action
In his recent attempts to disprove Twitter’s ideological bias, CEO Jack Dorsey actually confirmed it.
Appearing at the Senate Intelligence Committee this month, Dorsey claimed Twitter doesn’t treat conservative content and users on its site unfairly.
Twitter doesn’t “use political ideology to make any decisions … related to ranking content on our service or how we enforce our rules,” Dorsey said. “We believe … in being impartial, and we strive to enforce our rules impartially.”
The facts suggest the complete opposite.
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Watch Joe Biden Refer to Trump Supporters as the “Dregs of Society” [Video]
Former Vice President Joe Biden has been known to stick his foot in his mouth but he outdid himself this time! Taking a page out of the Hillary Clinton handbook, Gropin’ Joe referred to Trump supporters as the “dregs of society”. Yes, Joe just had his deplorables moment…This is so in line with the attitude of the liberal elites…
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What the Media Didn’t Tell You About the Retired Navy Admiral That’s Anti-Trump #DeepState
When you see a narrative being pushed out that’s almost one month old, it’s time to ask what’s going on. Several news sources have blasted a story out about how Former Navy Admiral McRaven has left his position with the Defense Innovation Board after coming out against Trump’s revocation of Brennan’s security clearance. Americans seeing this headline might think this is something to be concerned about, right? What they don’t know is that this man is a pro-Obama political hack who changed the rules of engagement from fighting to trying to “win the hearts and minds” of the enemy (see below)!
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Ford Strikes a Blow Finally Against Unelected Elitist Lawmaking Liberal Judges
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s decision to invoke section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, (Charter) the “notwithstanding clause”, is a declaration of war on out of control, unelected, unaccountable, rogue liberal activist judges who have misused, misapplied and distorted the Charter to make law on the fly, for their own ideological+ partisan personal purposes. This is Ford’s first shot across the bow of these liberal judicial pirates who have high-jacked our democratically elected (by the people) legislatures. But it will not be his last during his term of office.
Exhibit 1: Dangerous decision of Justice Edward P. Belobaba…
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Alliance of the Likeminded: Germany’s Anti-Trump Strategy Begins to Take Shape
During an official visit to Japan, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas unveiled the first hints of Berlin’s new plan for countering Donald Trump’s nationalist policies: a network of countries with a shared belief in the rules of the postwar order.
By Christoph Schult
On the day European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker reached a surprise deal on trade with Donald Trump, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas was standing in front of a wood-paneled government building 11,000 kilometers (6,800 miles) to the east. Maas was in Japan on his first trip to Asia as foreign minister, and expectations were high. “We share the same values,” said Maas, who is a member of the center-left Social Democrats, as his host, Japanese President Shinzo Abe, nodded. “In the current geopolitical situation, it is good to clearly emphasize this once again.”
But the guest from Germany brought more with him in his suitcase than just friendly words. In Tokyo, Maas presented the Japanese leader with his idea for a new alliance between states. It could fill the geopolitical vacuum created by Trump. In the coming months, a network of globally oriented states is to be created that closely coordinates its foreign, trade and climate policies. “We need an alliance of the multilateralists,” says Maas — which is to say, an alliance that stands for the global rules and structures of the postwar order that Trump rejects. “It’s better to bend than break” would be the wrong maxim in these times,” Maas argues…
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‘EU Not Europe’: Le Pen Wants to Break Away From EU and Move Towards Union of European Nations
France’s Marine Le Pen wants to break away from the European Union and move towards a union of individual nations, saying that the current bloc is “an ideological structure” and not “real Europe.”
“The European Union is not Europe… it is not the real Europe that we want,” the president of France’s National Rally (formerly Front National) told her supporters in the southern town of Frejus on Sunday.
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Ex-Pow Killby Dies at 102, Set Up Trust for Italian Students
British wartime medical orderly protected by Italian family
(ANSA) — Servigliano (Fermo), September 12 — The British warrant officer James Keith Killby has died this week in London at age 102.
He was one of the last survivors of the Servigliano POW camp in the Marche region and known around the world for his cultural relations activities. He had received telegrams from both Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Queen Elizabeth II on his 100th birthday. When serving as a medical orderly, he was captured in Libya and taken to Servigliano, from which he fled with 2,000 other Allied soldiers in September 1943.
He was given refuge by a family in the town of Monte San Martino near Macerata.
After the war he founded the Monte San Martino Trust, a foundation funded by veterans and then by their descendants that gives scholarships to students in the Macerata and Fermo areas.
The fund was meant as a sign of gratitude for courageous families that had protected Allied soldiers when they were fleeing.
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Farmers Weekly: No Need for Farmers to Fear Life After Brexit
Criticising anti-Brexit figureheads like Maastricht Treaty enabler John Major and Iraq war architect Tony Blair, government adviser and agricultural businessman Michael Seals MBE has said farmers have nothing to fear over Brexit.
Writing in the Farmers Weekly, Seals — who is the chairman of the Animal Health and Welfare Board for England — notes the anti-democratic attitudes of pro-EU leaders like Tony Blair, before slamming the EU itself for seeking to punish Britain for voting against them.
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Ferretti Group Looking for New Production Sites
Investments already underway in Ancona and La Spezia
(ANSA) — Cannes, September 12 — Ferretti Group is expanding and investing to increase its production sites, according to the company’s CEO, the lawyer Alberto Galassi, at the Cannes Yachting Festival. The nautical group is headquartered in Forlì and holds the brands Ferretti Yachts, Custom Line, Riva, Pershing, Itama, CRN and Mochi Craft.
Galassi confirmed the Group’s interest in purchasing the Wally brand.
“Our production capacity is at its limit,” Galassi said.
“We are expanding the Ancona shipyard and investing in La Spezia, but it’s not enough. We are also searching for a site to start eventual new production for Wally, but it’s not easy,” he said.
Ferretti Group’s business director Stefano De Vivo also said the company needs new shipyards because the current ones are no longer enough.
The company has production sites in Ancona, La Spezia, Sarnico (Bergamo), Cattolica, Forlì, and Mondolfo, with a technical base in Fano.
It was founded in 1968 by the Ferretti brothers, is currently held by a Chinese group based in Tan Xuguang, and is led by the lawyer Alberto Galassi.
Piero Ferrari holds a 13% stake in the Group.
Ferretti Group production centres are spread throughout Italy, with more than 1,500 direct employees and 10,000 indirect employees.
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France and Germany Make Contingency Plans for No-Deal Brexit
France and Germany are making contingency plans for a no-deal Brexit, with Paris looking at residency issues and Berlin examining medical supply chains with the UK.
Prime Minister Édouard Philippe said on Monday that France hopes Britain will reach a deal with the European Union on its exit from the bloc, but that Paris will be ready in the event of a so-called “cliff edge” departure…
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France: Macron Under Fire for Telling Jobseeker ‘Cross the Street’ To Get Work
French President Emmanuel Macron was facing fresh criticism Sunday after telling an aspiring gardener that he could easily find a job if he would simply start looking in high-demand sectors like restaurants or construction.
In a video doing the rounds on social media, Macron is seen talking with the young man during a public open house at the Elysee Palace on Saturday, part of the country’s Heritage Days.
“I’m 25 years old, I send resumes and cover letters, they don’t lead to anything,” he tells the president…
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France Considers Requiring That All Local Police Carry Guns
With terrorism and related violence on the rise in France, a parliamentary commission is considering a mandate that officers in all municipalities carry guns.
Quartz reports that police in France are “overwhelmed” and that French interior minister Gérard Collomb is seeking a way to alleviate some of the officers’ burden. To that end, Collomb “launched a parliamentary commission to find ways to support security forces and municipal police.”
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Germany Election Shock: Merkel’s Party Hits Record Low Just Weeks Ahead of Vote — New Poll
The fears mean Angela Merkel’s sister party could be overruled in the vital Bavarian election, as anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) gains consensus with nearly half voters citing refugees as their main worry, polls show.
The ruling Christian Social Union (CSU) looked unrivalled following the 2013 election in Bavaria, when it won an absolute majority.
But the most recent poll from pollster Bayertrend reveals the party hit a record low this month, just weeks ahead of the vote, scheduled for October 14.
The survey, which analysed the voting intention of 1,000 people in Bavaria between September 5-10, shows voters fleeing the centre-right and increasingly supporting populist AfD.
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German City Cancels Traditional NYE Party at Castle Square Over Security Fears
Stuttgart is the latest city which felt the need to cancel an event. The beautiful New Year’s Eve Party at the castle square had to be cancelled due to safety concerns.
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How Much Does Italy Really Pay to the EU Budget?
Are 20 the billions that Italy pays every year in favor of the EU budget, or are they three, how does the EU Commissioner strongly support the Oettinger budget? We try to understand something because apparently everyone is right, but just as the truth lies at the center of the debate.
The EU commissioner on the budget, Guenther Oettinger in an interview with the politician spoke about the contribution that Italy pays to the EU, “the figures on Italy’s contribution to the EU must be corrected because those announced so far are caricatural. The billions that Italy pays to Brussels are not 20 but 3. Italy pays according to the years between the 14 and 16 billion but also receives equally substantial figures from the EU budget: subtracting how much it receives from what is obtained that Italy’s actual disbursement for the European budget is three billion. EU funds go to cohesion programs, research and infrastructures because member states are the beneficiaries of European budgetary policy “.Too bad that Italy is not able to use them and promptly sends them back. “Regarding the veto threat to the EU budget, Oettinger,” we take note, but we are not going to react “. In this regard, the Commissioner states that “until two years ago Europe gave too little support to Italy on migrants, but since then, “the Commission is doing what is in its power to help Italy”…
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IMF Predicts the Sky Will Fall Post-Brexit
The International Monetary Fund is at it again, predicting the sky will fall and Britain’s economy will incur “substantial costs” in the event of a No Deal Brexit. The IMF has said that all Brexit scenarios — even soft Brexit that essentially changes nothing — would “entail costs.” They believe, however, that a No Deal Brexit would be a “significantly worse outcome.”
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Italy: British Priest, 73, Nabbed for Molesting Woman on Rome Metro
Victim pursued him and had him arrested
(ANSA) — Rome, September 17 — A 73-year-old British priest was arrested Monday for molesting a woman on the Rome metro after she pursued him and called police in.
The man resisted arrest and denied the woman’s account, saying he was a priest.
He was arrested on suspicion of sexual violence, bodily harm and resisting arrest. The incident took place at the Termini rail station stop.
Investigations established that the man is in fact a priest in a parish in England.
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Italy: Moroccan Dad Probed for Abusing ‘Too Western’ Teen
Girl had bruises on face, investigative sources
(ANSA) — Cremona, September 17 — Carabinieri police in Cremona have placed a 58-year-old Moroccan citizen who lives and works in nearby Solesina under investigation for allegedly hitting and abusing his teen daughter for becoming ‘too Westernized’, investigative sources said Monday.
The man’s 16-year-old daughter, who had bruises on her face, told police that she was hit and thrown against the wall by her father who did not want her to be integrated in the local community nor to dress with typical Western attire, the sources said.
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Knife-Wielding Attacker Injures Police Officer in Brussels
A knife-wielding man has attacked and wounded an officer in Brussels, police said, adding that they had shot and injured the assailant.
The attack took place in Maximilian Park in the northern neighborhood of the capital on Monday morning, police spokeswoman Ilse Van De Keere said.
The police officer who was attacked received minor injuries, she added. The suspect was shot by another police officer, and is “in a serious condition.”
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Kurz Doesn’t Want to be Linked to Italy-Hungary — France
French presidential sources tell media
(ANSA) — Paris, September — Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, the EU duty president, “does not want to be linked to the policies carried out in Hungary and, for certain milieux, in Italy”, French presidential sources said Monday.
They were speaking on the day Kurz flew to Paris to meet President Emmanuel Macron.
This came a day after the Austrian chancellor met in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, three days from the informal EU summit in Salzburg.
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Matteo Salvini and the “Perfect Storm”
The Minister of the Interior and Vice Premier Matteo Salvini was at Arcore for dinner by Silvio Berlusconi. A dinner without any end, according to him, only to go and see the president Berlusconi. The reality is different, since the government feels small squeaks. The goal of the League leader is the appointment of Foa Rai and political alliances on the territory, in view of the next elections.
Naturally Matteo Salvini is aware that one can not go back completely with the old alliance because he would lose his image of “Captain without ifs and buts”, and he would be seen as a turncoat and risk being punished at the polls. The idea of a new coalition is not a priority and after the Europeans and especially after the results we can think of a possible new coalition…
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“I heard some colleagues before me — Salvini explains calmly in the conference — saying that we need immigration because the European population is aging, I have a completely different perspective. I think I’m in the government and being paid by my citizens to see young people go back to making those children who did a few years ago, and not to extricate the best of young Africans and replace Europeans who for economic reasons no longer have children. They are two completely different visions. Maybe in Luxembourg they have this need, in Italy we have the need to make children not to have new slaves to supplant the children we do not do anymore.
These are the words of the Italian Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini who sent the Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, Jean Asselborn, to a rage at the Migration conference in Vienna, which held the microphone, making the verse to Salvini: “bla, bla , blah … “ “I calmly reply to your point of view that it is not mine. I did not interrupt, let me finish, “says Salvini. But Asselborn loses his patience, takes on the attitude of believing he can give lessons to Italy and says: “In Luxembourg, dear sir, we had thousands of Italians who came to work with us, migrants, so that you in Italy could have the money for your children. “ And then he concludes with a colorful expression: “Merde, alors.
Salvini, in reference to the Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, “was vulgar”, IL Luxembourg is a tax haven and claims to give lessons to Italy “…
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Norway Police Find Missing WikiLeaks Associate’s Kayak
Norwegian police on Thursday said they have found a kayak they believe belonged to a missing WikiLeaks associate who disappeared in mysterious circumstances three weeks ago.
The police released a photo of a white foldable kayak they believe Dutch cyber security expert Arjen Kamphuis bought just before going on a holiday in Norway. Kamphuis, 47, has not been seen since leaving his hotel in the northern Norwegian town of Bodø on August 20th.
His disappearance has triggered a wave of conspiracy theories on social media, ranging from CIA and Russian involvement to a mission to carry out a secret project for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. However police said they were examining three theories: a voluntary disappearance including a possible suicide, an accident or a crime.
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Poland Suspended From EU Judicial Organization
Poland was suspended from the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary on Monday because the body that nominates the country’s judges is no longer seen as being independent of political control.
The Polish Judicial Council (KRS) was stripped of its voting rights and excluded from participation in ENCJ activities after a fact-finding trip by the organization, which unites EU countries’ judicial systems.
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Pope Francis Calls for a ‘Christian Populism’ That Hears and Serves the People
Leaving aside his frequent criticisms of populism, Pope Francis called for a “Christian populism” during a visit to Sicily this weekend, insisting that true populism must listen to and serve the people.
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Pope’s Appointments to Rome Summit Reveal Rift in American Church
The Vatican has released the full list of participants for the upcoming synod on young people underscoring a growing rift within the Catholic Church in the United States.
On the one hand, the U.S. bishops elected four staunchly conservative bishops to represent the Catholic Church in America, while Pope Francis appointed two progressive bishops named in recent allegations of serious mishandling of the clerical sex abuse crisis in the country.
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Robbers Who Try to Rob French Supermarket in Migrant Dominated Area Get Robbed Themselves
On Saturday night, a robbery went wrong in the immigrant district of Marseille, where the crowd of people robbed the robbers, French newspaper Le Parisien reports.
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Salvini Tells Vice President of the European Commission to Shut Up and Apologise to Italy
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini is pushing back against the bombardment of criticism over his strong stance against illegal immigration.
The unelected Vice President of the European Commission, Maros Sefcovic, has said regarding the rise of anti-migration, anti-EU politicians to government in Italy that “we are all worried”.
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Swiss Prosecutors Open Rape Case Against Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan
Prosecutors in Geneva have opened a rape and sexual misconduct investigation against Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who has been detained in France since February on separate rape charges, Swiss media reported Sunday.
The Tribune de Geneve newspaper quoted justice ministry spokesman Henri Della Casa as saying that authorities had decided to open a formal criminal inquiry into allegations that Ramadan raped a woman in a Geneva hotel in 2008.
“I confirm the opening of an inquiry,” the paper quoted Della Casa as saying, a key step that indicated the authorities believed the allegations merit further investigation…
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The EU is Too White — and Brexit Likely to Make it Worse, MEPs and Staff Say
All 28 European commissioners are white and only three of the 751 MEPs are black
Some believe the lack of diversity in the European parliament will worsen after the UK exits the EU Photograph: Isopix/Rex/Shutterstock
It was just another meeting in the European parliament, says Ida Scott*. “There were five people in the room and the speaker turned to me and said, ‘ahh Serena Williams has decided to join us.’“ It didn’t matter that the law graduate looks nothing like the grand slam champion. “People laughed, a little bit uncomfortably, but no one said, ‘she looks nothing like Serena Williams and that’s ridiculous.’“
Like most people working in the EU, Scott speaks a few languages and has a policy specialism. Unlike most, she is black. That’s still unusual, even for an organisation that takes pride in the slogan “united in diversity”…
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German Security Chief a Thorn in Merkel’s Side
The president of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency cast doubt on whether foreigners were attacked by right-wing extremists in Chemnitz recently. And now he has become a significant problem for Chancellor Angela Merkel. By DER SPIEGEL Staff
Back in May, Hans-Georg Maassen warned of the dangers of disinformation. He is in a position to know: As president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), he heads up Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, which — together with the 16 state offices — is responsible for monitoring Islamist extremism in Germany in addition to political extremism on both the far left and far right.
At the May symposium for BfV officials in Berlin, he said that Western democracies were under threat from Russian campaigns. “Open societies,” he said, “can tolerate many different opinions, but not many different truths.”…
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UK: Pastor: Muslim Prisoners Storm Christian Prayer, Praise Terrorists
A Christian chaplain at a south London prison had his gatherings stormed by pro-terrorist Muslims and was hounded out his job by an Islamic imam accusing him of extremism.
Pastor Paul Song has now been reinstated at Brixton prison after a review into the allegations, which led to the prison ordering him to leave the voluntary job, the Mail on Sunday reports.
He also said he was racially abused because of his Korean origins and prisoners were often forced to convert to Islam. The Muslim chaplain, appointed in 2015, was “physically intimidating” and complained about his resources.
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While 14 Million Brits Live in Poverty, Britain Spends £13billion on Foreign Aid
A new study reveals that there are 14 million Brits living in poverty, at the same time, Britain is spending £13BILLION on Foreign Aid.
More than 14 million Brits are trapped in poverty, and have been for years, the study shows. Yet Theresa May is throwing billions in Foreign Aid to other countries.
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Bosnia: From Today: Electoral Campaign for Oct. 7 Election
Voters will elect new local and central authorities
07 September, 21:41
(ANSA) — SARAJEVO, SEPTEMBER 7- In Bosnia-Herzegovina the electoral campaign for general election scheduled for October 7 began today. The forthcoming election — through which new central and local authorities will be elected — is the eighth one in a row since the end of the war (1992-95) and the third one taking place without changes to the Constitution and the electoral law. These changes had been requested by a ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in 2009, in order to abolish discrimination against minorities and give everyone — not only to Serbs, Croats and Muslims — the right to run for the state’s high offices. The Central Electoral Commission announced that 53 political parties, 36 coalitions and 34 independent candidates will run for 518 public offices. Over 3.2 million citizens will vote for the tripartite presidency(a Serb, a Croat and a Muslim) and for Members of the parliament (42, out of which 28 elected in the BH Federation, a Muslim-Croat-majority entity, and 14 elected in Republika Srpska, Rs, a Serb-majority entity). In addition, about 2 million eligible voters will vote in the Federation to elect the new parliament of the entity and the councils of 10 cantons, whereas 1.2 million voters in the RS will elect the new local parliament, the president and two deputy presidents of the RS. Transparent ballot boxes will be used for the first time and the election is going to cost 4.3 million euros.
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As Clashes Rage in Libya’s Tripoli, Italy Takes Swipe at France
Italy has blamed French interference for the latest bout of violence in the Libyan capital, where deadly clashes between rival militias have cast further doubt on planned December elections brokered by Paris.
A week of fighting in Tripoli’s southern suburbs has killed more than 50 people and wounded scores more, most of them civilians, according to a toll published by the Libyan health ministry on Tuesday, with the violence showing no sign of ebbing…
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Caroline Glick: Moroccan FM — We Support Trump’s Iran Policies
Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita told Breitbart News last Wednesday that the Kingdom of Morocco supports the Trump administration’s policies towards Iran.
Comparing the Trump administration favorably to its predecessor, Bourita said, “We have an opportunity with this administration. We need to make things happen. We have an opportunity also because they are clear in their position about Iran.”
The exclusive interview, held at the Moroccan Embassy in Bucharest, Romania, focused on Morocco’s concerns regarding Iran’s multifaceted operations in North Africa; the threat these operations pose to Morocco and North and West Africa more generally; and Morocco’s hope to cooperate with the Trump administration in blocking Iran’s rise in the region.
Morocco has a history of poor relations with Iran. Rabat cut off ties with Tehran in 2009, and only renewed them in December 2016. The Kingdom cut relations off once again on May 1, 2018. Since then, Bourita has been avidly seeking U.S. support for the Kingdom’s efforts to confront and defeat the threat Iran now poses to North and West Africa.
The Kingdom’s stance suggests that former Obama administration officials — like former Secretary of State John Kerry, who has continued meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif — are wrong to claim that America’s allies stand opposed to President Donald Trump’s decision to abandon the nuclear deal with Iran.
In fact, the U.S. has many allies who are deeply supportive and encouraged by the Trump administration’s strategy for blocking Iran’s path to a nuclear arsenal and stopping its regional and global terror operations.
The Kingdom of Morocco, for one, clearly views the Trump administration’s determination to halt Iran’s efforts to become a hegemonic power in the Middle East, and over the Muslim world more broadly, with great enthusiasm and hope…
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Russian Plane Disappears From Radars During Israeli Attack on Syria’s Latakia
A Russian military Il-20 aircraft with 14 service members on board went off the radars during an attack by four Israeli jets on Syria’s Latakia province, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Air traffic controllers at the Khmeimim Air Base “lost contact” with the aircraft on Monday evening, during the attack of Israeli F-16 fighters on Latakia, said the MOD. The plane was 35 kilometers off the coast of Syria when it vanished.
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Russia Detects Missile Launches From French Frigate Off Syria’s Coast in Mediterranean — MoD
Russian airspace control systems have registered missile launches from a French frigate in the Mediterranean on Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
The French Navy’s newest frigate, FS Auvergne, fired rockets around 8pm GMT Monday, the Russian military said. “Airspace control has recorded rocket launches from the French frigate Auvergne,” the ministry’s statement read. The Auvergne is deployed in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Syria.
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White Helmets Stealing Children for ‘Chemical Attack’ Theater in Idlib
“Leave our children in peace. Let our children play, stop ‘playing’ with our children.” These are the words of a mother whose child was stolen and is being imprisoned in Idlib by terrorist groups and the White Helmets.
I met Wafaa at her home with her husband Mohammed Ibrahim and her two sons Hamza, 9, and Lotfe, 14. Both Wafaa and Mohammed are lawyers, they met while studying at the same university. Wafaa is strong, her expression is defiantly hopeful and optimistic despite fears for her kidnapped son, Ahmed, who is now 11.
“Ahmed was born mute, he couldn’t speak,” she told me. “I believe this is why he was taken from us, because he cannot protest or resist.”
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Julian Assange Sought Russian Visa in 2010, Leaked Documents Show
Julian Assange had just pulled off one of the biggest scoops in journalistic history, splaying the innards of U.S. diplomacy across the web. But technology firms were cutting ties to his WikiLeaks website, cable news pundits were calling for his head, and a Swedish sex crime case was threatening to put him behind bars.
Caught in a vise, the silver-haired Australian wrote to the Russian Consulate in London.
“I, Julian Assange, hereby grant full authority to my friend, Israel Shamir, to both drop off and collect my passport, in order to get a visa,” said the letter, which was obtained exclusively by The Associated Press.
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Sri Lanka President Tells Diplomats: Pick Up Phone or Pack Up
COLOMBO (AFP) — Sri Lanka’s president on Monday justified his decision to sack six diplomats — including an ambassador — for not answering his phone calls, saying more would follow if the foreign service did not shape up.
Maithripala Sirisena was criticised for the shock dismissal last week of his top envoy to Austria and five other Vienna-based staff after his office tried unsuccessfully for hours to reach them by phone.
“I am being attacked ferociously over social media for recalling the entire embassy staff. Yes, I did that to send a powerful message to other embassies,” Sirisena told a public meeting in Colombo.
He said he ordered the sacking of ambassador Priyanee Wijesekera and five other staff to set an example.
Sirisena did not say why he needed to contact the embassy urgently, or why other avenues were not explored to reach the staffers.
The Sri Lankan embassy in Austria is accredited to UN bodies in Vienna, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia.
It was the second time in days that Sirisena has raised eyebrows.
Last week, he flew into a rage over nuts served aboard SriLankan Airlines, the island’s national carrier, saying they were unfit for animals.
“Returning from Kathmandu, I was served some cashews on board a SriLankan flight, but it was so bad even a dog wouldn’t eat it,” he said.
An airline spokesman said it had cleared its stock of cashews — only served in business class — and would change its Dubai-based supplier.
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Korea Talks: Moon Goes North to Push Stalled Nuclear Talks
The leaders of North and South Korean are meeting in the North Korean capital for talks centred on the stalled denuclearisation negotiations.
Since the beginning of the year North Korea has embarked on an unprecedented path of meetings with both the South and the US.
Yet talks with Washington have reached deadlock, with both sides so far agreeing only to very general goals.
South Korea has taken on a key mediating role.
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Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif has been found guilty of membership of the Islamic State terror group in South Australia’s first terrorism trial.
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Anti-Macron Conservative Calls for Europe Ports ‘Blockade’ To Stop Migrant Flow
THE European Union should close its doors to migrants and refugees, Conservative senator Bruno Retailleau said as the vocal critic of French President Emmanuel Macron also claimed Brussels could not house all the misery in the world.
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Denmark Set to Adopt Policies Forcing Immigrants to Integrate Into Society
DANISH politicians from all sides are considering controversial new integration policies to bring immigrant communities into society — by force if necessary — just weeks after the country introduced a burka ban.
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Fire Libya: Even Human Traffickers Want to Sit at the Negotiating Table
Powerful unscrupulous militias, linked to human traffickers, would seem to be in disarray and they would be the directors of the chaos that reigns in Tripoli. Valentino Di Giacomo reports on Il Messaggero which explains, for over a year the agreements between Italy and the Libyan government have allowed a drastic reduction of the departures of migrants from the ports of the North African country and, above all, significantly affected the earnings of those clans which have consolidated transnational links.
A theme that was also addressed in the meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Moavero Milanesi, during the visit to Benghazi with General Haftar. Traffickers over time have created an economy that until last year had become one of the most important items of domestic product. These are armed gangs, with high economic availability thanks to the gold business set up on the routes. “It would be naive — explain sources of the Libyan government — not to consider that these organizations can come into play in the current political process and, obviously, will do everything to hinder the path that has slowly tried to bring the country to a stabilization”…
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Migration is not a partisan matter but a priority for the nation, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told lawmakers on Monday, the first day of parliament’s autumn session.
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Hungary is the only state in Europe to have asked the people’s opinion on illegal migration, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Sunday, responding to a claim by France’s minister for European affairs that Hungary is leaving its citizens out of the debate on the issue.
Nathalie Loiseau, the French minister for European affairs, claimed on Twitter on Saturday that, unlike in France, Hungary and Italy had not organised debates on Europe. “Perhaps the populists are afraid to give the floor to the people?” she said.
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Italy and Austria ‘Awakening’ Europe — Salvini
Italy and Austria are “waking up” Europe on immigration, anti-migrant interior minister Matteo Salvini said Friday on the sidelines of a meeting in Vienna of European Union interior ministers.
“Thank you to the Austrian presidency (of the EU) for the policies and for the change of gear, the new energy and debate on immigration, which is waking up Europe,” Salvini stated.
He was speaking to reporters at a joint press conference with his Austrian counterpart Herbert Kickl.
Austria which currently holds the chair of the EU’s six-month rotating presidency, is pushing for the bloc to get tough on migrants and prevent any repeat of the 2015 migrant crisis when a million people arrived from North Africa and the Middle East….
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Italy: Eurobureaucrats Should Shut Up, Salvini Tells Sefcovic
Deputy premier complains of ‘umpteenth attack on Italy’
(ANSA) — Rome, September 17 — Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini hit back on Monday after European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic expressed concern about the political situation in Italy and the rise of Salvini’s League party. “It is the umpteenth attack by Europe on Italy, on the League and on the government,” Salvini said.
“Now they are taking an interest in us, but for years the Eurobureaucrats ignored our country’s requests for help to stop the arrivals (of asylum seekers) and saddled us with 700,000 immigrants. “It would be better if he apologised and shut up”. Sefcovic, who announced Monday that he is seeking the nomination of the European Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats to be the next Commission president, said that “we are all worried” when asked by ANSA about the political situation in Italy and the League. “I have been to Italy many times and I was always impressed by how this great, important European country was honestly pro-EU,” Sefcovic told ANSA. “It’s truly a new situation for us. “We have to ensure that, in the future, Italy returns to being the great G7 country that is strongly pro-EU again”.
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Leftists Demand Japan “Embrace Multiculturalism” Because a Mixed Race Player Won the US Open
Leftists have begun demanding that Japan, a country with low levels of immigration and a low crime rate, begin accepting “multiculturalism” after a half-Japanese tennis player with a Haitian-American father won the US Open.
Naomi Osaka became the first Japanese tennis player to win a Grand Slam singles tournament when she defeated Serena Williams in the final in New York City last weekend.
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A large increase in the numbers of incoming migrants has been observed during 2018, Greek news outlet Protothema reports.
Statistics of the Hellenic Police of Thessaloniki say that in August 1,138 migrants and refugees were identified while 1,157 were found in Evros during the same month.
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‘My Responsibility is to Our Own Orphans’: Czech PM Rejects Pressure to Import 50 ‘War Children’
Andrej Babis has refused to bow to pressure demanding the Czech Republic resettle “war orphans” living in Greek camps, insisting that his responsibility as Prime Minister was to Czech orphans.
In an interview with Pravo on Saturday, the Slovak-born businessman restated his position that the nation would not accept a single so-called refugee, nor 50 Syrian orphans as demanded by opposition politicians and MEPs, who spent last week campaigning to bring unaccompanied minors over from Greece to the Czech Republic.
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Mystery: Thousands of Migrants Go Missing in Denmark
Nearly 3,000 migrants who have failed the asylum process are completely unaccounted for in Denmark.
The staggering figure is “very worrying,” according to a local judge who understands that any of the migrants could be a threat to national security.
“They could easily be working illegally in Denmark and undermining the Danish labor market, or in the worst case be potential terrorists,” said the judge.
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Nine-Year-Old Migrant Boys Threaten School Kids With Knives Near German School — Parents in Fear
Two children from the Charles Darwin Elementary School in Chemnitz say they have been threatened with knives by 9-year-old migrant boys, German news outlet TAG24 reports.
At the school, in which 54 per cent of the students have a migration background, the incident has caused parents and teachers to fear for their children’s safety.
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Salvini Bans Charity Rescue Ship Before it Reaches Rescue Zone
As the Acquarius2 migrant rescue ship headed for the international search and rescue area off Libya on Monday, Italy’s hardline interior minister Matteo Salvini signalled he won’t allow the vessel to dock at an Italian port.
“The Aquarius2 is sailing south of Sardinia towards the Strait of Sicily. It’s changed name adding a ‘2’ and flag (no longer Gibraltar but Panama). But this won’t change its final destination, NOT in Italy,” Salvini wrote on Facebook.
The Aquarius, which is operated by the SOS Mediterranee and Doctors without Borders charities is sailing towards Libya from what its operators described as ‘an extended technical port call in Marseille’ and is expected to arrive back in its usual rescue haunt next week…
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Pauline Hanson has called on migrants to sit for an assimilation test before being granted a permanent visa into Australia.
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The Farnesina Rejects the Accusations Made by the UN
The Farnesina responds to the statements issued by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, which in a note considers Michelle Bachelet’s accusations inappropriate and unfounded, which denounced alleged defaults in Italy regarding respect for the human rights of migrants.
“For years, Italy has been involved in the rescue and rescue of people in the Mediterranean Sea, which have been followed and followed by burdensome and complex initial reception policies in the country. Of these operations, Italy has assumed the prevailing cost, in terms of employment of human resources, means, finances and above all, social impact and perception of the same. Furthermore, Italy has ensured concrete actions to support the countries of origin and transit of migrants, with cooperation and assistance projects in various sectors: from border control to training, education, security and the health emergency. and food, to improve the living conditions in the camps. Vast strata of Italian civil society have been and are engaged in various initiatives, characterized by an approach of aid to migrants and aimed at protecting the rights and interests of those who undertake terrible journeys and remain victims of exploiters and traffickers of human beings with the hope for a better life, far from wars, destruction, poverty and famine “…
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Vast Majority of Brits Says Govt Lies About Migrants, Most Want Numbers Cut
he vast majority of Brits think the government lies about immigration and a significant number say multiculturalism has undermined British culture and migrants do not integrate, research by pro-mass migration groups has found.
The study, one of the broadest conducted in the UK into people’s attitudes to immigration, found just 15 percent of respondents feel ministers have managed it competently and fairly and only 17 percent trust the government to be honest on the topic.
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Watch: 100s of Illegal Migrants Crossing Balkan Mountain Passes
Hundreds of migrants are trying to cross the Croatian border from Una-Sana Canton every day…
GEFIRA points out that, according to the estimates, there are between 3,000 and 3,500 migrants in Bihac, and new groups from many countries of Asia and Africa arrive daily.
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Academy of Pediatrics Urges Respect for Children’s Preferred Gender Identity
The ultra progressive American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued new guidelines Monday urging parents to accept the preferred gender identity of their children regardless of their biological sex.
In a policy statement titled “Ensuring Comprehensive Care and Support for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents,” the group counsels “gender-affirming” health care for minors who do not identify with their birth sex.
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Female Bishops Tell Church to Stop Referring to God as ‘He’
A female bishop has told the Church of England to stop referring to God solely as male, equating gendering the deity to websites only showing white people.
After a YouGov poll found that half of young Christians see God — referred to in the Bible as ‘father’, including in Jesus Christ’s ‘Lord’s Prayer’ — as male, the first female bishop Rt Revd Rachel Treweek, bishop of Gloucester, said that she was concerned that the Church was not being “mindful of language”.
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Romania: Soros-Funded NGO Taking Legal Action to Block Traditional Family, Marriage Referendum
Amnesty International is taking legal action to try and block a ‘traditional family’ referendum on whether to define marriage as a union between a man and woman in Romania.
The referendum has been prompted by a public petition, with the ‘Coalition for Family’ group gathering three million signatures in favour of an amendment to Article 48 of the Romanian constitution, to make it state the foundation of the family is a marriage between “a man and a woman” rather than “spouses”.
Romanian senators voted “overwhelmingly” for the proposals, according to EurActiv, and a public referendum is expected to take place on October 7th — but Amnesty say they intend to take legal action in the Constitutional Court to prevent the Romanian people from having their say on the definition of marriage, saying this could result in a “clear backward step for Romania” and have a “severe impact on the lives of families not based on marriage”.
“The mooted referendum to change the definition of family in Romania’s constitution could lead to a breach of international human rights standards and pander to homophobic discrimination in the country,” claimed an Amnesty International representative in comments to AFP.
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Romania: Soros NGO Blocks Traditional Family, Marriage Referendum
Billionaire George Soros, again, attempts to interfere in the democratic process of yet another country, not his.
Amnesty International, a Soros-funded NGO, is trying to block a ‘traditional family’ referendum in Romania. They are taking legal action against a referendum set to define marriage as between a man and a woman.
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Swedish Professor Slammed for Saying Men, Women Biologically Different
Following accusations from students, a professor at one of Sweden’s leading academic institutions has refused to back down from his confidence in biological differences between men and women, sticking to his belief that gender cannot be viewed as a social construct alone.
Germund Hesslow, a professor of neurophysiology at Lund University, has been asked for an apology over “transphobic” and “anti-feminist” views inconsistent with the so-called “value base,” the Swedish website Academic Rights Watch reported.
Hesslow has for many years held a course on “Heritage and Environment” at Lund University’s medical program. In his course, the professor cites empirical research supporting the notion that differences between men and women are biologically founded and cannot be regarded as “social constructs alone,” which comes in stark contrast to the trend dominant in gender studies.
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A Record 7 Named Storms Are Swirling Across the Globe
Is something extremely unusual happening to our planet? At this moment, Hurricane Florence is just one of seven named storms that are currently circling the globe. That matches the all-time record, and it looks like that record will be broken very shortly as a couple more storms continue to develop. Back in 2004, a Hollywood blockbuster entitled “The Day After Tomorrow” depicted a world in which weather patterns had gone mad. One of the most impressive scenes showed nearly the entire planet covered by hurricane-type storms all at once. Of course things are not nearly as bad as in that film, but during this hurricane season we have definitely seen a very unusual number of hurricanes and typhoons develop. As our planet continues to change, could this become “the new normal”?
As I mentioned above there are currently seven named storms that are active, but an eighth is about to join them, and that would break the all-time record…
And actually there is an additional storm that is also developing in the Pacific which could bring the grand total to nine.
Overall, there have been 9 named storms in the Atlantic and 15 names storms in the Pacific since the official start of the hurricane season.
That is not normal.
In fact, one veteran meteorologist has said that he has “NEVER seen so much activity in the tropics”…
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Islam and the Culling Foot-Bridge
By Amil Imani
Islam operates by two powerful schemes: reward and punishment. It mesmerizes the believer by its encyclopedic descriptions of Allah’s lush paradise that awaits the worthy faithful. For the kefir and a not-so-true Muslim, the destination is Allah’s dreadful hell.
Muslim clergy tirelessly preach about these two locations with great success. Fear of hell, for some, even out-muscles the attractions of paradise and works wonders in keeping the flock servile to the parasitic clergy.
A powerful, well honed scheme involves pol-e As-Sirat (the footbridge of the path). The kefirs, after they die, do not even get a chance to see if they can cross this footbridge; they go directly to Allah’s hell. Yet all Muslims approach the footbridge. The problem is in crossing it. The preachers describe at great length how difficult it is to cross this bridge over the gorge of hell to the other side, where paradise is located.
A great majority of blindly faithful Muslims are either illiterate or semi-literate. These people tend to take everything the charlatan preachers say as literal truth; many panic with fear and beg the preachers to tell them what they need do to cross that dreadful footbridge. They become ripe for the picking. The preachers, well trained con artists that they are, burden these simpletons with all kinds of well rehearsed fabricated demands to keep the flock in their pen. The preachers say, for instance, that they must do this and they must do that to earn the good graces of Allah. And when they die, Allah will commission two angels to hold them on both sides and safely transport them over the bridge. Wayward Muslims, on the other hand, are all on their own and most likely will fall into the dreadful hell with their very first steps.
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The Myth of the Moderate Muslim
By Amil Imani
Is “Moderate Islam” an illusion? Moderate Islam is a wedge that will jam open the door to Jihad, and “evil will triumph when good Muslims do nothing.” The great majority of Muslims are not adherents of the radical line. Yet, because Islamists wage their war under the name of Islam, they receive immense direct and indirect support from rank-and-file ordinary Muslims. It is this support of moderate Muslims that keeps the Jihadists alive.
Perhaps it is wishful thinking on the part of non-Muslims to believe that one can be a moderate Muslim who does not participate in any shape or form the crimes of the jihadist. Good-hearted Americans, rightfully weary of wars, are voicing their opposition for the use of force in combating Islamic ideology.
“I am already against the next war,” read the bumper sticker on a car ahead of me. I wish I could tell the driver that the next war is already here; Islamists are waging it in every corner of the globe and “moderate Muslims” are either knowingly or not, support them. In our conflict with jihadists, moderate Muslims either fault the West, or simply look the other way. Islam strives to wipe out everything free people cherish, including the right to freedom of expression.
But Islam is a religion of peace and the great majority of Muslims are not a party to any plans or actions of radicals, so claim academic pundits, leftist journalists, and hired Islamic apologists. The incantation of these “authorities” is the lullaby that puts the people into a sleep of complacency.
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” (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) is polling at almost 50% now in Bavaria, well ahead of the CSU.”
What a pity! After all that has happened in Germany the score is 50%. By the time we will have 98% surrender of Germany will be 100%. So much for the master race that is mastered by you guessed it.
According to the article, AfD is polling at 11%, CSU on 35%. (Very low for them in Bavaria). Almost half cite refugees as their main concern. (Which means that for over half, it’s not their main concern).
Ah, Gender Studies. Like Black Studies and Feminism Studies…everyone gets an “A” for being fools. Can’t really blame the fools, but the colleges should know better…unless they’re run by fools?
Any academic endeavors that end in the word “Studies” were created by those in charge. There is the beginning of what will become a huge move to simply #walkaway from so-called “higher education” by the families of the middle and lower middle-class. They are better investing in their sons’ apprenticeships or even a house. [The elites will have their elite schools, but that’s just a return to pre-1945 conditions. They live separate lives. Not more content, just separate.]
The old “adult-kid-in-the-basement” trope will disappear as those families realize the corrupt hand they were dealt. Families will marshall forces to find career paths for these kids. Just try to find a carpenter, a mechanic, a handyman, someone to work on your heating system and you can see where the future lies. Boys who are studying electronics and electronic repairs will have more work than they can handle. Satisfying work, too. Many of these endeavors will be toward self-employment; there is less government paperwork if you’re a sole proprietor. Two-year ‘colleges’ are gearing up to serve this demographic.
Decades ago I read the loud warning that when girls began to be in the majority in higher education, the men would silently slip off or simply not show up. Jordan Peterson may yet find a path for boys-to-men that is robust and honorable. Since he does carpentry and repairs, builds furniture, he knows the value of manual labor. He’d probably say that academics especially need to learn some form of manual work.
These colleges have to attempt to supplement the work of their “graduates” via a network of apprenticeship programs, because in the end nothing beats hands-on experience in your chosen field (or fields).
As a (“graduate”) engineer myself, I can testify that without doubt, the most satisfying life is one where one makes “stuff”. Like Dr. Peterson, I have always created “stuff,” via photography, drawing, painting, ceramics and woodwork, and despite having problems finding places to put all the “stuff” I have made, it’s nice just to bump into it wherever I go in my house.
So you were in a STEM discipline. I should have stipulated that “studying, say, engineering or physics” is NOT the same as “Engineering Studies”. The latter doesn’t exist.
2,00 years ago each Pharisee had to learn a trade in order to support themselves. St. Paul was a tent-maker. The citizens weren’t expected to support the Pharisees as they sat around debating and berating the people. Academic leaders have sure become a privileged and parasitic elite.
“Black Studies”? Do a Somali and a Jamaican have more in common than, say, a Spaniard and a Finn? If not, where is the course on “White Studies”?
Part of me would love to enrol on a gender studies course. (A very brief one) Might make for good entertainment…
They would out you so quickly, G.I. You’d probably not survive…maybe find an example on YouTube and “attend” safely.
Ontario’s Doug Ford trying to control crazed Leftist judges rubbing the noses of Canadians in their poo. Good luck, Doug.
A migrant who raped and killed an elderly woman received 23 years in prison
Although he was facing a life sentence
https://www.spb.kp.ru/daily/26882.5/3926406/
23 years is amazing. Not in Europe.
Chances are he’s gonna serve less and it’s gonna be the last few years of his life, we’re talking about Russia here, after all, and they aren’t too nice to criminals.
Haha, well it would be nice if it were true. However, nearly fifty percent of voters saying that immigration is their number one concern won’t translate to nearly fifty percent of the vote going to AfD. I expect them to garner between ten and twenty percent.
“The AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) is polling at almost 50% now in Bavaria, well ahead of the CSU.”
I don’t know what source told you that, maybe they misunderstood something. If it were true – which it isn’t – it would be a political earthquake in Bavaria where the CSU has for decades been the strongest party, well ahead of everyone else. Probably Markus Söder, the Bavarian Minister President, would already have killed himself and mainstream media would run amok…
Under the link below you’ll find the latest poll for Bavaria with the CSU at 35% (which is indeed pretty bad for them) and the AfD at 11%:
https://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/landtage/bayern.htm
I just repeated what was in one of the news feed items. Yes, it sounded implausible. But it also made a good headline. 🙂
Seehofer is a liar who sold Bavaria in exchange to its seat as minister of Merkel; Merkel is the delegate of the international financial freemasonry, who has opened the gate border in 2015 letting millions of foreigners to come and settle in their “promised land”. This scam shall be halted, and I hope that this time people will wake up and not commit the same mistake voting vor CSU.
According to the Express article, AfD is NOT polling at almost 50% in Bavaria, but 11%. Almost half of voters cite refugees as their main concern.
“The AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) is polling at almost 50% now in Bavaria, well ahead of the CSU.”
What are you talking about? The linked site has it at 11%…
Yeah, my mistake. I was speed-reading. Look at what it says about almost 50% opposing migrants. The rest was hasty conflation.
But I still like it; it makes a good headline. 🙂