In a first for Sweden, Social Democrat Prime Minister Stefan Löfven was removed from his position by a no-confidence vote in parliament.
In other Swedish news, unknown arsonists set fire to the house of a Stockholm municipal politician for the Sweden Democrats.
In other news, police in the Maldives used pickaxes to destroy a group of statues that were deemed un-Islamic. A British sculptor had created the life-sized human figures.
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Czech Republic Ranks 30th on Economic Freedom of the World Index
The Czech Republic has placed 30th on the Economic Freedom of the World Index published by the Canadian Fraser institute, up by seven spots compared to last year.
The index compares data from 162 countries, assessing a number of indicators, including the size of the public score, the quality of legislation, foreign trade and overall regulation. Monetary issues and inflation are also taken into consideration.
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France: Macron Offers €6bn Tax Cut to Halt Slump
President Macron promised French households a €6 billion tax cut as he launched plans designed to reinvigorate his flagging presidency. The tax cut, earmarked for next year, would be paid for in part by cutting more than 4,000 public-sector jobs as well as reducing pensions and benefits. Mr Macron said that it would help to usher France towards a new era of prosperity and shore up his credibility within the European Union.
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James O’Keefe just dropped the fourth installment in his series exposing the corruption and bias in the ‘deep state’. This report features two Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials who candidly discuss the IRS’s unfair treatment of conservative non-profit groups.
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Another Socialist DOJ Employee Fired After Veritas Expose
Project Veritas collects another deep state scalp
Department of Justice paralegal Allison Hrabar has been fired by the department following bombshell undercover footage released by Project Veritas (PV) last week showing her using her job to push socialism and defy Trump administration policies.
“She is no longer an employee,” DOJ Director of Public Affairs Sarah Isgur told PV on Monday.
In the video, Hrabar admitted to being a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DC Metro DSA), and abusing DoJ resources to dox individuals with whom she disagrees politically.
This is the second Deep State crony so far to be fired as a result of Project Veritas’ undercover work.
The Government of Accountability office fired auditor and DSA member Natarajan Subramanian last week after PV footage caught him bragging that he “breaks rules every day” by carrying out DSA activities while at work.
The DSA responded to the firings, calling PV founder James O’Keefe “wildly unethical.”
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Founder of Group That Harassed Ted Cruz Tweeted About Dead Cops, Assassinating Mike Pence
The founder of the ‘Smash Racism DC’ group that harassed Senator Ted Cruz and his wife in a restaurant last night is Antifa professor Mike Isaacson, who previously tweeted about teaching “future dead cops” and assassinating Mike Pence.
A mob of angry leftists forced Cruz and his wife to leave the restaurant in DC last night before the video of their confrontation went viral.
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Google Staffers Claim Rigging Was Not Implemented
by Robert Spencer
It wasn’t implemented? Really? On July 26, 2017, I posted this at Jihad Watch: “Google bows to Muslim pressure, changes search results to conceal criticism of Islam and jihad.” In it, I recounted Texas imam Omar Suleiman’s successful effort to compel Google to drop search results about Islam-related terms and topics that reflected negatively upon Islam. Turkey’s Anadolu Agency reported happily:
“Google’s first page results for searches of terms such as ‘jihad’, ‘shariah’ and ‘taqiyya’ now return mostly reputable explanations of the Islamic concepts. Taqiyya, which describes the circumstances under which a Muslim can conceal their belief in the face of persecution, is the sole term to feature a questionable website on the first page of results.”
“Reputable”: i.e., acceptable under the Sharia prohibition on criticism of Islam. “Questionable website”: i.e., one that tells hard truths about Islam and jihad.
So this has been going on for quite some time, as it is virtually certain that Google wasn’t skewering the results only about Islam and jihad in July 2017. Only now is it being discovered by the general public. President Trump is right to call the social media giants out. Let’s hope he can stop them before the make the First Amendment an entirely dead letter.
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I watch Yellowstone very closely, because an eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano could end life as we know it in America in a single moment. A full-blown eruption of Yellowstone could potentially dump a suffocating layer of volcanic ash that is at least 10 feet deep on almost the entire country, and it would instantly render about two-thirds of this nation completely uninhabitable. So yes, when Yellowstone starts rumbling there is a reason to pay attention, and right now Yellowstone is starting to rumble in ways that are unprecedented. That doesn’t mean that an eruption is imminent, but without a doubt what is currently taking place is more than just a little bit alarming.
Let’s start with what happened on Saturday. An eruption of Ear Spring sent “plumes of water up to 30 feet in the air”, and it was being reported that “debris and rocks flew into the sky”…
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Leftist Group That Harassed Ted Cruz Vows: “You Are Not Safe — We Will Find You”
UPDATE: Krassenstein claims that he created a fake video in which he made it clear that he was joking about being paid for tweets. It is not clear why Krassenstein allowed an edited version of this fake video to circulate for hours before he then pointed the finger at everyone else for spreading “fake news”.
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Man Arrested With Shrapnel-Covered Explosive Devices Near Los Angeles
Police in Southern California arrested 47-year-old Saleh Ali last week after two active Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were discovered in his vehicle that would “readily explode when exposed to flame.” They were found during a routine traffic stop for an expired registration, according to Brea Police Lt. Adam Hawley.
The devices were “containers covered in shrapnel” which “contained explosive material.”
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Project Veritas: IRS Employee Says ‘Evidence, ‘ Emails Deleted in Coverup
In the fourth installment of Project Veritas’ investigative video series into the “Deep State,” two subjects identified as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials appear to condone the agency’s “unjust treatment” of conservative non-profit organizations — and one seems to affirm allegations that the former IRS commissioner appointed by Barack Obama deleted evidence to cover up that scandal.
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This is a National Emergency Special Report
As the documents cited here clearly show, President Trump is planning to carry out mass arrests of deep state traitors, including Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, James Comey and even Barack Obama. This is fully covered, with accompanying documentation from the U.S. Federal Register, in the links and video below. (This author is fully supportive of this effort to save America and arrest the traitors.)
The confirmation of Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court is the key to getting this done in a timely manner, which explains why the deranged Left is going to such outrageous extremes to fabricate false allegations against Kavanaugh and stage coordinated, well-funded protests to try to block the U.S. Senate from confirming him.
Once Kavanaugh is on the court, it will add the necessary support for constitutional “emergency powers” that concentrate power in the executive branch of government (currently headed by President Trump) during times of war and national emergencies.
FACT: The United States has been operating under a state of declared war since September, 2001, following the 9/11 attacks.
FACT: The United States has been operating under a declared national emergency, signed by President Trump, since December 20, 2017 (see proof document, below).
In this detailed video analysis, I lay out the evidence for President Trump’s plan to issue mass arrests of deep state traitors, then try them for treason under military tribunals. This is justified and lawful because the acts being committed against the United States of America by deep state traitors are acts of treason during a time of declared war. It is no coincidence that President Trump has deliberately funded the U.S. Pentagon with its most massive budgets ever conceived. This is because the Pentagon has agreed to run the military arrests of deep state traitors, under the direction of the Commander-In-Chief, President Trump.
President Trump, I believe, has decided to go to bat for America and utterly destroy the anti-American deep state crime ring that has been working for years to destroy this nation and end its national sovereignty. This will be Trump’s legacy. He may not even run for re-election after 2020, since his entire plan to arrest the traitors and restore the rule of law in America will require him to step aside once certain goals are accomplished (see detailed explanation below).
Note that in order to accomplish this, President Trump will need to declare temporary martial law. (UPDATE: See clarification about “martial law” in the video appended to the end of this article.) He will need our support during this time to maintain order and civility across the nation as the arrests and trials of deep state traitors are under way. We should all expect mass violence and chaos from the Left, which is following the “Rules for Radicals,” a blueprint for communist revolts and violent overthrow attempts of governments. See the documents for yourself… this is all posted on the U.S. Federal Register government website
Here are the links to the documents cited in this comprehensive video:…
For the record, I wholly support this effort to arrest and prosecute the thousands of deep state traitors who have become a cancer upon America. Were you aware that James Comey was a communist? John Brennan, of course, has remained a communist for his entire adult life, and Barack Obama was a radical Muslim who despised America and worked every day to undermine it through a variety of nefarious means (including allowing U.S. military encryption technology to be captured by Iran via the U.S. drone “GPS spoofing” incident).
For starters, Barack Obama personally authorized the illegal “spygate” spying on Trump campaign officials. Barack Obama also allowed China to hack 21 million U.S. military personnel records, effectively dumping the entire U.S. Pentagon database into the hands of Communist China.
For a full, detailed explanation of Obama’s treasonous crimes against America, watch this extremely important video from REAL.video (it has been banned from YouTube for obvious reasons):…
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Brennan, Andrew McCabe, Loretta Lynch, Peter Strzok and a long list of other traitors have been conspiring for years to destroy America from within and see it replaced with a communist regime run by authoritarian globalists. Tech giants like Apple, Google and Facebook are all part of the plan, which is exactly why you’ve seen every one of them working closely with China to roll out authoritarian techno-tyranny infrastructure systems that plan to enslave every citizen of the world, making them powerless and obedient to a globalist technocracy that runs the “one world government.”
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Socialist Activist Caught in Project Veritas Exposé Has Left Justice Department
Socialist activist Allison Hrabar no longer works for the Justice Department (DOJ), just days after she was caught on a Project Veritas undercover video talking about resisting the Trump administration from within and describing what may be an illegal use of government resources.
“I can confirm she no longer works here,” a DOJ spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email, without being more specific. Hrabar, a member and organizer of the D.C. chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), gained notoriety when she and other members harassed Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in public, chasing her out of a Washington restaurant. …
Two other DSA members told undercover reporters that Hrabar uses her government access to the paid LexisNexis database on her work computer to do research on people targeted by DSA.
The use of government resources for political purposes may be a violation of the Hatch Act, which, among other things, prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activities while on duty. It could also be a violation of a statute in the Code of Federal Regulations, which states that federal employees “shall act impartially and not give preferential treatment to any private organization or individual.” …
Project Veritas videos commonly lead to swift consequences for its targets, such as resignations, terminations, and investigations.
Three videos were released from Sept. 18 to 20, featuring other DSA members such as State Department employee Stuart Karaffa, who said that he routinely conducts political work for DSA during his work hours. The State Department says that it’s probing the matter.
Another target was Jessica Schubel, former senior policy adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), who said her former colleagues were providing her with insider information, including confidential documents.
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Three Phases of Surveillance to Totalitarianism: It is Happening Now
Over the past year and a half, I’ve written many pieces on the surveillance state and how we are one step away from the inculcation of technological “omniscience” pertaining to control. The objective is not simply “control,” as they have already obtained that for the most part: limiting cash withdrawals from the bank, restricting your movements and business outside of the country, and new laws being created by the day. This latter part is akin to a “tag team” event of WWF: what the feds can’t or won’t do, they “tag” off for the states to accomplish, with local governments following suit.
The objective is total control: over everything you read, hear, and watch in the (so-called) media, and an eyeball on you in every facet of your life.
Mac Slavo released an article on SHTFplan entitled Apple is now giving people trust scores based on their calls and emails on 9/21/18. This is an example of how tech firms in the U.S., in conjunction with one another and other American business entities are instituting social engineering by controlling our communications via social media.
The big picture is much more frightening, as this article comes on the heels of another, more insidious occurrence: a nationwide “scoring system” instituted in the largest surveillance state in the world…communist China.
On 9/20/18, an article written by Peter Dockrill was released that will really open your eyes when you read it. The piece is entitled China’s Chilling ‘Social Credit System’ is straight out of Dystopian Sci-Fi, and it’s Already Switched On. Here is an excerpt:
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Top ‘Resistance’ Member Admits He Gets Paid by “Higher Ups” To “Sow the Division”
Brian Krassenstein’s stunning admission caught on camera
A top member of the anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ has been caught on camera admitting that he gets paid for his tweets by “higher ups” to “sow the division”.
Brian Krassenstein bills himself as “the co-founder of multiple tech-related news websites and blogs. He also is an investor, writer and social media personality.”
Along with his brother Ed, Krassenstein is a notorious anti-Trump troll, using his platform of 540,000 Twitter followers to bash the president on a daily basis.
Much mystery surrounds the brothers, with even far-left website Think Progress speculating whether they were “scam artists,” having once been subjected to a federal raid.
Krassenstein’s resistance activism might not be as grass roots as it appears on the surface.
In a secret recording, Krassenstein admits that he is being paid for his tweets.
“Of course there are higher ups that are paying us. They want us to help sow the division and to take over Trump’s Twitter feed. When [Trump] makes a post they want our tweets to be up there,” says Krassenstein.
It is unknown when or where the recording took place.
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French Emergency Workers Don Bulletproof Vests Due to ‘Growing Violence’
French emergency medical staff in Toulon are now putting on bulletproof vests to protect themselves after a rise in violence has seen multiple homicides and attempted murders in the city.
The decision to allow paramedics, doctors, and nurses to wear bulletproof vests comes after years of deliberation on how to protect hospital staff from mentally unstable patients and armed attackers on the streets, Le Parisien reports.
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Hungary Resists EU Assault on Sovereignty, Christianity (Exclusive Video Interview)
In this exclusive interview with The New American magazine, Hungarian Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Relations Zoltan Kovacs outlined his nation’s resistance to the European Union’s assault on freedom and Christianity. He explained the reason why the internationalists in Brussels are working to flood Europe with illegal immigrants. And he noted that centralized control was already tried in Europe under communism, and it failed miserably. Kovacs touted great relations with the United States and vowed that Hungary would continue defending its people and Christian civilization.
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Italy: Woman, 21, Beaten and Raped in Florence Street
Asian student pulled by hair
(ANSA) — Florence, September 24 — A 21-year-old Asian woman was beaten and raped in a street on the southern outskirts of Florence on Sunday night, police sources said Monday.
A man came up the woman, who is in the Tuscan capital for study purposes, punched her to the ground and pulled her by the hair for a few metres behind a tree before raping her, the sources said.
The incident took place in via di Varlungo, near the Marco Polo viaduct, police said.
A 25-year-old homeless man of Romanian origin, Arnaut Mustafa, was arrested in connection with the incident later Monday.
The man, who has a criminal record, left a pouch with his documents at the place of the alleged rape.
Police found him in a nearby abandoned building.
Police said Mustafa’s attack was interrupted when a passerby came by, and he fled leaving his pouch with his documents and cellphone.
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Italy: Dario Argento Retracts ‘Weinstein Paid Bennett’ Claim
‘Never meant to accuse mogul’ says horror director
(ANSA) — Rome, September 24 — Dario Argento on Monday night retracted a statement earlier in the day that claimed Harvey Weinstein paid Jimmy Bennett to say he was raped by Asia Argento.
The cult horror director, 78, said: “I replied without thinking enough about it, but I don’t really think it and I have no news or information as to whether Weinstein really paid Bennett to get his revenge” on the #MeToo figurehead, who in October claimed the mogul raped her 20 years ago when she was 22.
“And above all I had no intention to launch accusations against him,” said the Profondo Rosso and Suspiria director.
Argento said he had merely said the first thing that came into his head when asked by an interviewer on a radio comedy show. On the show, Un Giorno da Pecora, Argento said: “Weinstein is getting his revenge and so he has unleashed all his possibilities, he had this news from this boy and by paying him he launched him against Asia”.
Asked if Weinstein paid Bennett to tell the story, he replied “Yes, yes”.
Asked if had seen an Italian TV interview with Bennett Sunday night, Argento said “ I decided not to watch it, friends told me about it.
“There is a tide of lies, vulgarities, nonsense”.
In the interview, Bennett reiterated he was raped at 17 by Argento five years ago.
Argento, now 43, who was one of the first accusers of Harvey Weinstein, lost her spot as an X Factor Italy judge because of the Bennett case.
Bennett reiterated his claims Argento raped him on Italian TV Sunday night.
“Yes, Asia raped me, it was complete intercourse,” said the Californian musician and actor on a La7 talk show.
“Asia is the same as Weinstein to me,” he said.
Bennett said he felt betrayed by the woman who had been a mother figure to him ever since he played her son in one other films.
“I used to call her mother,” he said.
Meanwhile Asia broke her silence about the suicide of her two-year partner Anthony Bourdain in June.
She told DailMailTV that his death left her with a “ void that nothing can manage to fill”.
Her first reaction, she said, was “anger”.
“Now anger keeps me alive because otherwise this desperation would have no end”.
The celebrity chef and food-travel journalist was 62 when he killed himself in a French hotel.
In Bennett’s interview with Massimo Giletti, he reiterated he was raped at 17 by Argento five years ago.
On September 5 Argento’s lawyer said she has stopped paying Bennett to settle his sex-abuse lawsuit.
She also reiterated she had not had sex with the former child actor when he was 17.
Lawyer Mark Jay Heller said the #MeToo figurehead had halted the payments to Bennett agreed with her late partner Anthony Bourdain, the celebrity chef, to buy Bennett’s silence.
“The relationship with Bennett was never sexual, and in the end it will be discovered that it was she who was attacked by Bennette,” said Heller.
“Now that Bourdain is dead and can’t comment on the desire to averta potential scandal, Asia won’t let any more installments of the agreed $380,000 be paid to Bennett who has already received $250,000”.
The case has shaken Argento’s role as a leader of the #MeToo campaign.
On August 28 fellow figurehead Rose McGowan told Argento to “do the right thing” by fessing up to having had sex with Bennett in a California hotel in 2013.
“Do the right thing. Be honest. Let justice run its course.
Become the person you would have liked Harvey Weinstein to be,” said McGowan of the Italian actress and director, one of the first to accuse the mogul of rape in October.
Bennet’s lawyer has said that Argento’s denial that the two had allegedly non-consensual sex five years ago was false.
The 22-year-old’s lawyer, Gordon K. Sattro, said he was sexually assaulted by his hitherto mother figure when he was 17.
Argento allegedly agreed to pay him $380,000 to settle a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault, the NYT reported last month.
The actress denied this, saying the money was aimed at ending “persecution”.
The pair met in 2004 when Bennett played Argento’s son in a film she made about a drug-using mother.
Argento admitted agreeing to pay Bennett $380,000 to settle the abuse lawsuit but said she had done it to avert blackmail, saying she had never had sex with the former child actor.
Saying she was “shocked and wounded” by what she called “fake news”, she said her late partner Bourdain, who committed suicide on June 8, had advised her to make the payout to stop Bennett keeping asking her for money.
The TMZ website recently published a selfie of the pair lying in bed and said it was one of four snaps taken in a Marina del Rey hotel in 2013.
TMZ also published a text message allegedly from Argento to a friend saying “I had sex with him, I didn’t know he was under age until the blackmail letter arrived”.
She also allegedly said “that horny kid jumped on me”.
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Italy: Salvini Hails EU Lack of Prejudice on Security Decree
They have understood says interior minister
(ANSA) — Rome, September 25 — Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Tuesday hailed a lack of “prejudice” from the EU on his security and migrants decree which the EU earlier said was “not a bad move”.
“Every so often in Brussels instead of saying No with prejudice to something that comes from Italy, Poland, Austria or Hungary, evidently they have read and understood that it’s a matter of greater security,” he said.
“I’m happy that those who read it liked it”, he said.
Among the decree’s provisions is the revocation of citizenship for people convicted of terrorism felonies.
EU sources earlier welcomed as “positive points” the extension of the period of detention, the shortening of the procedural time and the fact that the refusal of the asylum request is issued at the same time as the expulsion order.
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Italy: Illegal Taxi Driver Arrested Over Milan Rape
Moroccan national allegedly abducted, attacked young woman
(ANSA) — Milan, September 25 — A Moroccan national who was allegedly providing taxi services without a legal permit in Milan has been arrested over the rape of a young woman in the northern city, sources said Tuesday. The man allegedly picked the woman up from a night club but, instead of taking her home, he forced her to come to his apartment and raped her there.
He was subsequently tracked down by Carabinieri police and arrested on charges of rape, robbery and abduction.
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Italy: Roma Teens Who Hit Woman ‘Like Hardened Criminals’ — Salvini
Come from crime-ridden camp says interior min
(ANSA) — Rome, September 24 — Two Roma boys aged 14 and 16 who stole a car in Frascati, ran over a woman and hit a police car at the weekend are “like hardened criminals”, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Monday.
“The come from a camp that is a place of degradation an crime,” he said.
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Jesuit Priest Tells Pope Francis: ‘Be a Man’ And Answer Accusations
Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio, Editor-in-Chief of Ignatius Press, said this week that Pope Francis needs to “be a man” and answer allegations that he seriously mishandled the case of serial homosexual abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
The former papal nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, released a report last month declaring that the pope was aware of McCarrick’s misdeeds at least as early as 2013 and yet lifted sanctions against McCarrick that Pope Benedict had imposed and reinstated him to a position of prominence in the Vatican.
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Large Support for Geert Wilders’ Proposal to Ban Islamic Expressions in Dutch Public Spaces
Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders has remarkable support from the Dutch people for his proposal to ban all forms of Islamic expression in the Netherlands.
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Models Show Off Three Breasts in Dystopian Fashion Show
Fashion now used to warp culture and corrupt decency
Models in neon tops and see-through dresses strutted their stuff at a cyberpunk-inspired fashion show in Milan, Italy, over the weekend, with a bizarre twist — they were sporting three breasts.
The GCDS Spring/Summer 2019 show gave a nod to the Three-Breasted Woman from the dystopian movie Total Recall by strapping a third prosthetic breast to several fashion models for the show.
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Polish Prime Minister Blasts Brussels in Row Over Legal Changes
Poland’s prime minister on Tuesday suggested Brussels has broken off dialogue “perhaps to a large degree” over contested changes to the country’s Supreme Court.
Mateusz Morawiecki told reporters that an ongoing row between Warsaw and the European Commission was fuelled by a lack of understanding of reforms carried out by Poland’s ruling conservatives.
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Polish President Andrzej Duda Tops Survey of Trusted Politicians
President Andrzej Duda remains Poland’s most trusted politician, with 68 per cent of respondents to a new survey saying they have confidence in him.
At the same time, 22 per cent of respondents said they did not trust Duda, who hails from the governing conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party. Poland’s second most-trusted politician is Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, with 57 per cent of those surveyed saying they have confidence in him, the CBOS poll found.
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Pope Francis: Young People ‘Outraged’ Over Church Scandals
Pope Francis told young people in Estonia Tuesday that he understands their frustration over financial and sexual scandals in the Church, while promising them “transparency.”
“Young people are outraged over sexual and financial scandals for which they see no clear condemnation,” the pope said in an ecumenical meeting with young people.
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Just days after a scandal involving Germany’s top spy threatened to tear apart Angela Merkel coalition, moments ago Germany’s chancellor suffered another major blow to her reputation, when her ally, and preferred candidate for Bundestag Caucus Leader, Volker Kauder was unexpectedly voted out of office as the influential head of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group after 13 years on the job.
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Seven Arrested After Escalation in Copenhagen Gang Violence
Copenhagen Police arrested seven people in a coordinated action on Sunday, in reaction to an escalation in gang violence in the city.
The seven people who were arrested Sunday are suspected of being involved in a violent assault connected to a new gang conflict. The conflict was also cited as being behind shootings in the Nørrebro area last week. The seven were remanded in custody for 24 days following preliminary court proceedings on Monday.
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Sweden’s Prime Minister Ousted From the Government After Losing Confidence Vote
Parliamentary majority removes Social Democrat leader Stefan Löfven as prime minister — the first Swedish prime minister to be ousted in such a vote.
A total of 204 of Sweden’s 349 members of parliament voted to remove to Social Democrat leader Stefan Löfven as prime minister on Tuesday morning. 3 MPs were not present in the chamber for voting, and from the remaining 145 MPs, there were 0 abstentions and 142 votes in favour of Löfven.
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Swedish Media Wait 24 Hours to Report on a Car That Ploughed Into a Crowd of 100 Children
The story is still developing and police are appealing to members of the public to come forward with any information they may have which could help in their attempts to apprehend the suspect.
At around 1pm yesterday in Karlshamn (12pm BST) a black or dark blue Saab, driving at roughly 25mph (40km), ploughed into the crowd of children and their teachers.
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Swedish Populist Politician’s Home Targeted in Arson Attack
A Stockholm municipal politician and member of the Sweden Democrats was targetted in a deliberate arson attack on her home in the latest assault on the populist party and its members.
The unnamed municipal politician’s home was targeted in the early morning of Sunday while she and her partner were up late drinking wine. The woman said that both she and her partner smelled burning and upon examination saw the corner of their wooden home was on fire, Aftonbladet reports.
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UK Brexit Minister Slams Macron, Says Anti-Democratic EU Fuelling Populism
The UK’s Brexit minister has said the European Union (EU) “has a habit of spurning democratic votes” and claimed the bloc is fuelling the populist spring across the continent.
Dominic Raab’s remarks were a direct response to driving EU federalist Emmanuel Macron, the French President, who said last week that MPs who have been positive about Brexit and have spoken of benefits are “liars” and that other nations who decide to leave will suffer.
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Maldives Police Use Pickaxes to Destroy Artwork Deemed Un-Islamic
It took British artist Jason deCaires Taylor nine months to develop his latest work: a 20-foot-tall stainless steel cube decorated with life-size human statues and semi-submerged in a coral lagoon in crystal blue waters off the Maldives islands.
But it took the Maldivian police just a few hours to wreck it.
Acting on a court order, police used pickaxes to smash the statues on Friday. Muslim politicians, including the outgoing Maldivian president, had deemed the artwork un-Islamic because it depicted human figures.
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Beijing’s San Francisco Franchise: The Chinese Progressive Association
By Trevor Loudon
Politically, San Francisco is now an outpost of Chinese Communist Party influence on American soil. Once a bastion of pro-Taiwan Chinese anti-communism, San Francisco’s Chinatown has since been hijacked by activists supportive of the communist People’s Republic of China (PRC). Due to this powerful influence, San Francisco is now led by Supervisors (the local name for City Councilors), who have made their peace with the Beijing regime’s local allies. …
In 1994, SON joined America’s largest pro-China organization: the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). Over time, some CoC members also joined FRSO, as did some from the UOC. Today, FRSO is by far San Francisco’s leading Marxist organization. It has thoroughly infiltrated the local Democratic Party, and many Bay Area “progressive” organizations including the CPA. FRSO incorporates traditional Maoist street protest tactics to pressure the Democratic Party from below, while infiltrating secret members into positions of leadership in government. It’s called the “inside-outside strategy.” …
Influencing Government
While defending the PRC on one front, the CPA has been busily building power in city government.
Two CPA leaders, Mabel Teng and Eric Mar, became San Francisco Supervisors, and Mar’s brother Gordon is standing for San Francisco Supervisor in the 2018 election cycle. Both Eric and Gordon Mar have been close to IWK, League of Revolutionary Struggle, and the FRSO over several decades.
Their older brother Warren Mar was a founder member of the CPA and an open member of both IWK and League of Revolutionary Struggle.
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Many Christians in the western world don’t even realize that the persecution of the end times has already started. All over the world, Christians are being attacked, Bibles are being burned and churches are being shut down. This persecution has been escalating for quite some time, but what prompted me to write this article today was the dramatic change that we have witnessed in China this year. Up to this point, the Chinese government has largely tolerated the booming house church movement, but now that era of toleration is officially over. New religious regulations that went into effect in February are being brutally enforced, and this is causing some to point out the frightening parallels between Communist China and Nazi Germany.
According to Fox News, during this new crackdown Chinese government officials have been “destroying crosses, burning bibles, closing churches and forcing Christian believers to sign papers renouncing their faith”…
Basically, China wants churches to look like something out of a George Orwell novel. The following comes from CBN…
Chinese Christians report authorities have urged church leaders to remove pictures of Jesus from their sanctuaries and replace them with patriotic posters, or posters of President Xi instead. They’ve suggested hymns be replaced with patriotic songs about the “wonderfulness of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Nettleton also said Chinese authorities are using advanced artificial intelligence software to monitor church attendees.
“One pastor in Beijing not long ago was told by the government, ‘pastor we don’t mind if you continue holding your services, we just want to put this camera on your platform looking out at the audience and it’s attached to facial recognition software so that we can tell who comes to church on Sunday and who’s there and what they are doing and how involved they are,’“ he said.
Could you imagine going to a church like that?
[Comment: Communist China is the globalist model of “government”. Globalists aspire to implement the same style of tyranny for the rest of the world.]
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Globalists and Communists Converge at Davos-Sponsored Tech Summit in China
President Donald Trump has initiated a new round of tariffs on China, in response to what he has described as “economic aggression” against the United States by the Beijing regime. Meanwhile top leaders of the U.S. and global business, technology, and banking communities were in China last week celebrating with the communist aggressors. From September 18-20, the World Economic Forum (WEF) held its 12th Annual Meeting of the New Champions, under the theme, “Shaping Innovative Societies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” in Tianjin, China. The WEF has become a leading evangelization chorus for a New World Order, a globalist scheme for world government that has become the shared vision of billionaire elites at Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google, as well as their corporate counterparts in China.
Listed as “partners” for the event were such western corporate giants as Allianz, Bain & Company, Bank of America, Barclays, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BlackRock, BP, Chevron, Cisco, Citi, Credit Suisse, Dell Technologies, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Facebook, GE, Goldman Sachs, Google, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Morgan Stanley, PayPal, PepsiCo, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Thomson Reuters, UPS, Visa, Volkswagen, and Zurich Insurance Group. Joining them in this venture were Chinese titans Alibaba, Dentsu Group, China Minsheng Investment Group, Hanwha Energy Corporation, Huawei Technologies, Tsinghua Holdings Co., and more.
The three-day confab featured dozens of presentations, speeches, and panels on a wide range of topics by some of the world’s notables in science, technology, business, finance, education, culture, and politics. Notably absent from the WEF program, however, were any presentations dealing with China’s religious persecution, imprisonment of political dissenters, torture, genocide, censorship, internet policing, Orwellian surveillance, cyber espionage and sabotage, intellectual property theft, and numerous other totalitarian features of China’s communist dictatorship. That’s not surprising. After all, we wouldn’t want unnecessary mention of such embarrassing, mundane matters to sour the melodic clink of champagne glasses and the ka-ching of cash registers, would we?
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Will North Korea Take Over South Korea?
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To pave the way for unification, Moon’s long-cherished goal, he has also tried to make the South more compatible with Kim’s horrific state. Most fundamentally, his Democratic Party of Korea led an attempt to remove the notion of “liberal” from the concept of “democratic” in the constitution.
Fortunately, the South’s “conservatives” rebuffed the effort, but the Education Ministry in June tried to change the country’s textbooks, proposing to describe the nation’s political system as just “democracy.” The ministry had to relent, permitting the concept of freedom to be included in the materials. …
Now, Moon’s government is going after free expression on social media. Minjoo, as Moon’s party is known, is behind a “broadcast law reform” bill, which if enacted will give the government the right to take down YouTube videos it does not like. “YouTube remains the only open venue for those Koreans who want to safeguard their country as a democratic republic,” writes In-ho Lee, a former South Korean diplomat and once president of the Korea Foundation, in e-mail comments.
Is South Korea becoming North Korea? It is certainly moving in that direction. Its leader, in Peck’s words, “attempts to stifle dissent, both under color of law and by unofficial and more subtle forms of pressure.” A favorite tactic has been, as he explains, “extremely dubious criminal defamation charges against critics.” Moreover, the South Korean government is pressuring North Korean defectors to keep quiet about the North. …
Therefore, Moon’s refusal to insist that the North Koreans fly his country’s flag, something a host country would do as standard diplomatic protocol, is deeply troubling. As David Maxwell of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies notes, the North continually attempts to undermine South Korea with “subversion, coercion, and use of force.”
And now, Kim appears to have recruited a sympathizer, Moon Jae-in.
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A man drove into more than a dozen pedestrians at one of Melbourne CBD’s busiest intersections before saying "Allahu Akbar" as he was arrested by an off-duty policeman, a court has been told.
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Honduras Laments US Aid Cuts, Eyes Role of China
Since 2016, combined US foreign aid for Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador declined by more than one-third to US$195 million, official US data showed.
Adding to the challenges facing the region, the Trump administration earlier this year announced that it would end temporary immigration protection for tens of thousands of Hondurans and Salvadorans living in the US.
Meanwhile, China is strengthening ties with Central America.
Last month, Taiwan broke diplomatic ties with El Salvador after learning of its decision to switch allegience to China, citing economic reasons and following on the heels of Panama last year.
Honduras still has diplomatic ties with Taiwan.
Hernandez said Beijing’s growing diplomatic presence posed a “quandary” for Central America, but also “an opportunity for all,” provided there are “clear rules.”
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The White House Has a Step-by-Step “Program of Escalation” For Venezuela
The White House has prepared an intelligence blueprint for regime change in Venezuela, according to a bombshell Monday evening report in Axios.
According to the report, which follows a New York Times story from early this month that confirmed the administration had previously established a “clandestine channel” involving covert meetings with Venezuelan military coup plotters targeting President Nicolas Maduro, the White House has prepared for multiple scenarios involving dramatic military escalation that could trigger US invasion of the small Latin American country.
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Armed ‘Migrant Gang’ Turns German Club Into Warzone: Eighteen Men Attack Staff With Guns and Batons
After two men were refused entry by bouncers at a club in Germany, all hell broke loose, Die Welt reports. The incident happened at a nightclub in Bad Oeynhausen, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany.
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Brexit: Govt to End Preference for EU Migrants, Open Route for Low-Skilled Workers
Britain’s Cabinet has signed off on plans for a post-Brexit immigration system which would favour skilled migrants from around the world while creating specific routes for low-skilled workers in certain sectors.
A spokesman for Downing Street said: “The Cabinet agreed that, once free movement is brought to an end, the Government will be able to introduce a new system which works in the best interests of the UK — including helping boost productivity.”
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German Parliament President Expresses No Hope in Deportations, Says Migrants Should Integrate
German parliament president Wolfgang Schäuble doubts that failed asylum seekers will be deported and claims that instead, they should stay in Germany and integrate into society.
“We should realise how difficult it is to deport in individual cases,” the former federal finance minister and member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) said, according to Die Welt.
“That’s why we should not foster too much hope that we can send back the majority of these people. Rather, we should all muster the strength to integrate them into our society,” he added.
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In Socialist Spain, Migrants Sleep in Police Stations for Weeks — Welcoming Attitude is a Disaster
Last Sunday the President of the Catalan government, Mr Quim Torra, led an emergency summit with the heads of several ministries to find solutions to the crisis of illegal youths that have been piling up in Catalonia’s police stations over the past several weeks.
The Mossos — the local police force — are fed up and one of the major trade unions has now pressed charges against the regional government.
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Italy Sees Record Drop in Number of Asylum Requests, While Spain Sees Rise
Italy has seen a massive drop in the number of asylum requests in the second quarter of the year, ANSA reports.
Compared with the same period in 2017, there were 20,500 fewer asylum requests in the second quarter of 2018. Looking at the first quarter of 2018 and 2017, there’s a drop of 4,500 requests.
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No Sentence for Migrant Who Committed 23,000 Euros Benefit Fraud Because ‘He Speaks Poor Swedish’
A foreign man has been freed from charges of serious benefit fraud as the court believes he might not have understood what he was doing — because he spoke poor Swedish and needed an interpreter, reports Fria Tider.
For over a year, the 40-year-old man received nearly a quarter of a million SEK (around 23,000 euros) in incorrect contributions. When discovered, a criminal investigation was initiated, and this spring he was prosecuted for multiple cases of serious benefit fraud.
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Record Drop in Asylum Requests in Italy — Eurostat
-20,500 Q2, up in Spain and Greece
(ANSA) — Brussels, September 25 — There has been a record drop in the number of asylum requests in Italy in the second quarter of 2018, Eurostat said Tuesday.
There were 20,500 fewer requests with respect to the same period in 2017, and 4,500 fewer than the first quarter — both EU records.
“It is the country with the most marked absolute drop in requests, followed by Germany (-12,000 over the year)”, the European statistics agency said.
In Spain requests rose by 6,600 and in Greece by 5,800, again on an annual basis.
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Salvini Migration Decree Bans Humanitarian Residency Permits, Strips Terrorists of Citizenship
Populist Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has released a sweeping migration decree that will see residency permits granted for humanitarian reasons scrapped and increased funding for deportation centres.
The new migrant decree, which was met with unanimous approval in the Italian cabinet, combines aspects of migration policy along with other security provisions to tackle far-left occupier activists and the Italian mafia, Il Giornale reports.
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‘We Won’t Build Any Fences’: Interview Reveals Merkel’s Reaction to 2015 Migrant Crisis
When authorities told Angela Merkel how the border could be quickly “sealed off” at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, the Chancellor shook her head and vowed to never “build any fences”, a former minister has revealed.
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UK: Girl Guides Expels Leaders Who Opposed Trans Shower-Sharing Policies
Two girl guide leaders say they have been expelled from the organisation after opposing new “equality & diversity” rules which compel units to let transgender-identifying males share showers and other facilities with girls as young as five.
After 12 leaders signed an open letter warning that the new policy raised safeguarding concerns, Girlguiding UK removed two of its signatories, closing down their units, and has launched disciplinary investigations into “at least five Guide leaders”, according to the Sunday Times.
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Hi, GatesofVienna and readers of GatesofVienna,
GERMANY HAS CAPITULATED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms1EZ-liNEw
Thank You.
More news. The government of China is engaged in a major campaign of destruction against Christian churches, Christian worship, and Christian symbols. The government is currently installing cameras to record church services and identify the participants by name.
I’m quite sure Google is lending its expertise to this enterprise.
This was the same Chinese government engaged in replacing US manufacturing with Chinese factories and Chinese-subsidized US imports until Trump imposed tariffs. How dependent do we want to be on a giant country that considers itself at war with Christianity. I’m sure they would be at war with Judaism if there were any Jewish presence in China.
They are destroying “illegal” churches, because they want to administer their own bishops, which the Vatican opposes, not Christianity per se (although even that shouldn’t surprise us from communists).
“Chinese Christians report authorities have urged church leaders to remove pictures of Jesus from their sanctuaries and replace them with patriotic posters, or posters of President Xi instead. They’ve suggested hymns be replaced with patriotic songs about the “wonderfulness of the Chinese Communist Party.”
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/end-times-persecution-is-here-the-largest-country-in-the-world-is-destroying-1000s-of-crosses-and-bibles
Sounds pretty anti-Christian to me.
If the cultural Marxists can make common cause with the Islamists who they know are going to kill them eventually, perhaps freedom-loving atheists can make common cause with Christians, who only want to bore them.
“Parliamentary majority removes Social Democrat leader Stefan Löfven as prime minister — the first Swedish prime minister to be ousted in such a vote.”
Here’s a bit of good news. It must now be fairly hopeful that a “centre right” government will emerge supported by the Sweden Democrats for “confidence & supply”.
“One pastor in Beijing not long ago was told by the government, ‘pastor we don’t mind if you continue holding your services, we just want to put this camera on your platform looking out at the audience and it’s attached to facial recognition software so that we can tell who comes to church on Sunday and who’s there and what they are doing and how involved they are,’“ he said.
China was always a totalitarian state, but now technology is allowing a level of population control never dreamed of, except by George Orwell. And watch the Western technology companies kowtowing and lining up to help the oppressor.
Reminds me of IBM aiding the Nazi party in their endeavours to track and ID all Jews and un-desirables.
And General Electric continues to get around the rule of law in India which made sonography equipment outside of medical clinics illegal. We carried the story in the news feed some years ago and I was gob-smacked at the audacity of GE, putting profits ahead of the well-being of a huge, poor country. As a result of their skullduggery millions of girl fetuses were aborted, leaving a huge cohort of single males who will never marry. Since China has the same problem, look for increasing tensions between the two countries because they have all that cannon fodder to expend.
Lately I’m really failing to see the difference between terrorists and the pope when it comes to harming Christianity…
Many of us see this pope the same way you do.
Danish police investigate officer who hugged niqab-wearing protester
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-denmark-religion-veil/danish-police-investigate-officer-who-hugged-niqab-wearing-protester-idUSKCN1M61CW
Would that western Police look after their own culture in the same way they do in the Maldives. Those statues are ugly and don’t reflect anything other than warped modern art. I wouldn’t want to see them on display in my country though there are surely enough ugly public installments to rival them.