The Austrian foreign minister says that Austria supports the repatriation of Syrian “refugees”, since the situation is stable enough for them to go home. Meanwhile, several asylum centers in Austria will be closed, since the need for them has dropped under the new government’s strict migration policies.
In other migration news, the Afghan asylum seeker who stabbed three people a few days ago in the German town of Ravensburg has been sent to a psychiatric facility rather than jail.
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Italy’s Bonds Fall Further on Budget Concerns
Italian government debt continued to tumble Monday amid concerns that the country’s populist government is on a collision course with the European Union over budget targets.
Yields on the country’s 10-year bonds rose almost 0.164 percentage point to 3.312%, while the two-year bond yield jumped to 1.322%, its highest level in a month. Bond yields move inversely to prices.
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Tria Seeks to Reassure Europe Over Budget Plans
Commission says 2.4% deficit wouldn’t respect rules
(ANSA) — Luxembourg, October 1 — Economy Minister Giovanni Tria said Monday that the European Union should not worry about Italy’s commitment to bringing down its big public debt after the government said last week it intends to let the deficit rise to 2.4% of GDP. “Now I’ll try to explain what is happening and how the budget is formulated,” Tria told reporters on the way into a Eurogroup meeting, adding that Italy’s European partners should be “tranquil”.
“The debt-to-GDP ratio will come down (in 2019),” he said.
After the meeting, Eurogroup President Mario Centeno said the Italian government must show it has a “credible” budget.
“The situation of Italy was not on the agenda,” he said, but the 2.4% deficit-to-GDP ratio unveiled by the government “aroused concerns that must be faced immediately”.
He said had “given explanations, we had a good exchange.
“We all agree what is at stake.
“It’s up to the government to show it has a credible and sustainable budget”.
The Eurogroup is “concerned” about Italy’s 2019 budget bill and has asked Tria for details, Centeno said.
The budget numbers “present concerns, and the Eurogroup members expressed these concerns to Minister Tria,” he said.
To make an “overall” assessment of the budget, he said, “we’ll have to wait until Italy presents all the figures.
“But the mathematics isn’t hard, that’s why I mentioned concerns”.
Earlier, European Commission Vice President for the Euro Valdis Dombrovskis said that “at first sight” Italy’s budget plans “do not appear compatible with the rules of the (Stability and Growth) Pact”. The planned budget sets a 2.4% deficit to GDP ratio for the next three years, up from a previous target of 0.8% for next year. “For the moment what I know is that the deficit of 2.4% not only for next year but for three years, represents a very, very significant deviation with respect to agreements made” by Italy, European Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici told reporters on his way into the Eurogroup meeting. French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire also expressed concern, even though Paris is set to have an even bigger deficit. “The rules are there and they are the same for everyone because the futures (of the eurozone countries) are linked,” Le Maire said. “We are reducing our debt, respecting the rules, and we are under the 3% (deficit-to-GDP threshold) to satisfy the European Commission because we believe reducing public debt and introducing reforms is good for the French people”. Italian Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero, on the other hand, stressed that it was necessary to stimulate economic growth to make it possible to bring down Italy’s public debt of over two trillion euros. “The burden of public debt that Italy has been carrying for years should be reduced,” Moavero said at the presentation of a report by construction association ANCE at the foreign ministry in Rome. “We must do this out of respect for the new generations.
“Italy must grow and improve its gross domestic product to reduce it”. Premier Giuseppe Conte, who had talks with President Sergio Mattarelal Monday, said that his government’s budget plans will foster growth while keeping the State accounts in order.
“We have laid down the foundation for a serious, courageous budget, which looks towards growth within a framework of stability in the public accounts,” Conte said on Facebook. “(It is) a budget that aims to offer responses to widespread poverty, to pensioners, to families, to savers harmed by the bank crises, which does not take one euro away from social services or health. “A budget that starts to lower taxes and sets its sights on the biggest investment plan in the history of the Italian republic.
“A budget that will be a turning point for the revival of the country and for social development”.
The Milan bourse shed 0.49% and the Italian-German 10-year bond spread rose to 282 points after the EU officials took a dim view of Italy’s budget plans.
The yield on the Italian BTP shot up to 3.29%. Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio, leader of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) said “there are some European institutions which, with their statements, are playing at terrorism on the markets”.
Di Maio, who is also labour and industry minister, said “someone this morning didn’t like the fact that the spread had not rocketed. “Moscovici, who isn’t Italian, woke up and decided to make a statement against Italy, against the Italian (economic blueprint) DEF, and create tension on the markets”.
Di Maio added that “Luckily the bourse is about to close.
From tomorrow we will continue to explain that 2.4% is a measure very far off what others did.” He said “it’s only that if the M5S and the League does it it’s not OK”.
Di Maio stressed “there’s no reason to call into question” the planned 2.4% budget deficit-to-GDP ratio for the next three years contained in Italy’s budget plan.
“We’re all convinced, the government is united,” he said.
The government will “engage in dialogue” with the EU over its 2019 budget, Di Maio said, voicing confidence the EU would “say yes”.
“My idea is that we must dialogue to the maximum with the EU and I’m sure the EU will say yes to us,” when the government explains the budget, he said.
“I don’t want to clash (with the EU),” said Di Maio, who is also labour and industry minister.
“In any case in May today’s Commission will not be there any more, the European elections will be another earthquake like the one that happened in Italy”.
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10 Ways Big Tech Can Shift Millions of Votes in the November Elections — Without Anyone Knowing
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1. Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME)
Ongoing research I began in January 2013 has shown repeatedly that when one candidate is favored over another in search results, voting preferences among undecided voters shift dramatically—by 20 percent or more overall, and by up to 80 percent in some demographic groups. This is partly because people place inordinate trust in algorithmically generated output, thinking, mistakenly, that algorithms are inherently objective and impartial. …
5. Answer Bot Effect (ABE)
More and more these days, people don’t want lists of thousands of search results, they just want the answer, which is being supplied by personal assistants like Google Home devices, the Google Assistant on Android devices, Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google’s featured snippets—those answer boxes at the top of Google search results. I call the opinion shift produced by such mechanisms the Answer Bot Effect (ABE). …
10. The Digital Customization Effect (DCE)
Any marketer can tell you how important it is to know your customer. Now, think about that simple idea in a world in which Google has likely collected the equivalent of millions of Word pages of information about you. If you randomly display a banner ad on a web page, out of 10,000 people, only five are likely to click on it; that’s the CTR—the “clickthrough rate” (0.05 percent). But if you target your ad, displaying it only to people whose interests it matches, you can boost your CTR a hundredfold.
That’s why Google, Facebook, and others have become increasingly obsessed with customizing the information they show you: They want you to be happily and mindlessly clicking away on their content. …
I don’t believe we are completely helpless, however. I think that one way to turn Facebook, Google, and the innovative technology companies that will succeed them, into responsible citizens is to set up sophisticated monitoring systems that detect, analyze, and archive what they’re showing people—in effect, to fight technology with technology.
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Allentown Car Explosion: Father and Toddler Son Killed Are Identified; 3rd Victim Knew Father
An Allentown man, his toddler son and the man’s friend were the three people killed when a thunderous explosion tore apart a car in Allentown on Saturday night, authorities said.
Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim on Monday identified the dead as Jacob G. Schmoyer, 26, of Allentown; his 2-year-old son, Jonathan; and David Hallman, 66, also of Allentown.
Grim said the three died of traumatic injuries. He has not yet ruled on the manner of death.
The explosion on the 700 block of Turner Street shook Center City around 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Fragments of the car and body parts littered the street. The area has been sealed off since, with residents forced to stay elsewhere…
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Bannon Event is Still on, Maybe
Steve Bannon, former advisor to President Donald Trump, plans to speak at the University of Chicago in the “near future,” according to Bannon spokesperson Alexandra Preate.
Preate said in an e-mail to Crain’s Chicago Business that Bannon “looks forward to speaking at the University of Chicago in the near future,” but has to schedule around promotion for his new movie, Trump @ War, and ongoing trips to Europe.
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Democratic Candidate Opens the Door to Congress for Hamas
Democratic Central Committee opens the door to Congress for Hamas by running Ammar Campa-Najjar for 50th Congressional District
It’s amazing what one can learn by translating what Palestinian irredentists say in Arabic on the Internet and how that compares with English translations. Sadly, too few Americans are inclined to make the effort to find out. I am going to try to help that a bit here.
Not long go I wrote an expose’ on Ammar Campa-Najjar (not his real name), a 29 year-old Palestinian-American who is running for Congress in California’s 50th Congressional District.
Ammar’s grandfather was one of the terrorists who staged the attack at the Munich Olympics in 1972 where Black September Palestinian terrorists murdered eleven Israeli athletes, even castrating some of them, as well as a German policeman. Ammar’s grandfather was killed a year later by Israeli commandos in Beirut. Ammar was spared by the Israelis because he was considered too young.
The grandfather, according to a Fatah website, was involved in a botched attempt to assassinate then Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir due to an equipment failure before the Israelis caught up with him in Beirut…
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Facebook’s ‘Fake News’ Crusade is a Fraud: Now Partners in Propaganda With U.S. Government
They tell us we’re facing a ‘crisis of democracy’ and that it’s all to do with plague of fake news. There is a crisis, but it’s not ‘fake news’ — it’s a crisis of authoritarianism. If left unchecked, it will introduce some disturbing implications for western democracies, but also for humanity in general, because when Silicon Valley firm impose their rigid regimes of censorship, it’s not only content for the American market which is being disappeared — it’s being wiped globally.
This is a level of control and corruption which the world has never experienced before. Corporate technocrats and their automated algorithms are making arbitrary decisions on which users and lines of communications are allowed to exist, and which of ones cannot. Invisible technocrats curating your news feeds, and deleting accounts on a whim, or worse — deleting them at the direction of governments. This is Kafka going global.
The Establishment’s ‘fake news’ crisis has now entered its third year, and there seems to be no sign that they are letting up their Orwellian contrivance. Instead they are doubling down, and doing so by fast-tracking an aggressive policy of information suppression and censorship, as well as actively targeting independent journalists and content producers across the internet. Make no mistake: they want to rewind the clock back to a time when they enjoyed total command and control over media, all the while practicing the dark arts propaganda and social engineering with near impunity. How did we get here? How to fight back against this hostile takeover our information space?
It’s now become abundantly clear that Silicon Valley firms are colluding with Big Government in order to regulate content and speech which they deem to be outside of the Establishment’s narrow band of acceptability.
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Fans Fume After NFL Packers Roll Out ‘Unamerican’ Flag for National Anthem
That was a bridge too far even for the social justice sports network.
“Not sure what country today’s Packers-Bills game is being played in, but that’s not my flag,” ESPN reporter Rob Demovsky tweeted.
The team unfurled a red, white and blue banner at one end of the field that resembles the American flag, but is clearly different.
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Fund Led by Steyer and Soros Rolling Out State-Focused Donations, Strategy
A 527 political organization funded primarily by a trio of liberal mega-donors—Tom Steyer, George Soros, and S. Donald Sussman—is attempting to impact local and state-level political campaigns by donating to committees funded primarily by leftwing pressure groups.
The Washington Free Beacon previously reported that the group, State Victory Action, donated $500,000 to an independent expenditure committee in Colorado in support of the Democratic gubernatorial nominee. However, a state-by-state review of other records shows SVA is also active in Minnesota, Maine, New Mexico, and Nevada, totaling about $1.7 million in disclosed funding thus far in state campaign finance reports.
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Harvard Study: 20% of College Students Consider Suicide; 9% Attempt it
Inside Higher Ed, Study: 1 in 5 College Students Has Weighed Suicide:
One in five college students reported thoughts of suicide in the previous year, according to a study from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which is associated with Harvard Medical School.
The report, published in the journal Depression and Anxiety (The Prevalence and Predictors of Mental Health Diagnoses and Suicide Among U.S. College Students: Implications for Addressing Disparities in Service Use), includes responses from 67,000 college students from more than 100 American institutions. Racial, sexual and gender minorities are particularly vulnerable to suicidal thoughts, the study found. It relied on data from the annual survey conducted by the American College Health Association.
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Harvard University Will Fight Discrimination Lawsuit in Court
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A lawsuit alleging that Harvard University’s admissions practice discriminates against Asian Americans is officially headed to trial.
The judge overseeing the case rejected motions from both sides Friday asking to rule on their behalf. The judge says there’s still too much in dispute.
The group Students For Fair Admissions filed the suit in 2014. It says Asian American applicants have the best academic records but the lowest admission rate among any race.
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NASA Sees Climate Cooling Trend Thanks to Low Sun Activity
The climate alarmists just can’t catch a break. NASA is reporting that the sun is entering one of the deepest Solar Minima of the Space Age; and Earth’s atmosphere is responding in kind.
So, start pumping out that CO2, everyone. We’re going to need all the greenhouse gases we can get.
“We see a cooling trend,” said Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center. “High above Earth’s surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy. If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold.”
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Theologian: God Will ‘Raise Up Others’ If Church Leadership Cannot Fix Sex Abuse
A prominent Catholic priest and theologian has published a sobering essay, insisting that if Pope Francis and the Church’s bishops are unwilling or unable to tackle the clerical sex abuse crisis, God will intervene in another way.
“As we see again various news reports about sexual abuse and cover-ups, high Church leaders seem adamant about holding on to power, disguising their neglect, and retaining a deafening silence bordering on apostasy of goodness,” said Father Jeffrey F. Kirby, a Theology professor as well as pastor of Our Lady of Grace parish in South Carolina.
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Unhinged Left Planning “Kill Team” Home Invasions to Execute You & Your Families
The hysterical, deceitful fake news reporting by the left-wing media is driving left-wing activists to violence and bloodshed. Never forget the rifle assault by a deranged leftist that targeted conservative U.S. lawmakers on a softball field, injuring Rep. Steve Scalise (and nearly killing him). Also do not forget the violent physical assault on Sen. Rand Paul by his unhinged Democrat neighbor.
We are now learning that left-wing domestic terrorism groups are openly discussing “kill team” tactics on Twitter and Facebook, discussing methods of carrying SBRs (short-barreled rifles) under their clothing, blending in with crowds, then popping out of the crowds to assassinate prominent conservatives such as U.S. Senators, Supreme Court justices and prominent conservative radio personalities. All this was first reported by PJ Media…
I have recorded and published a warning to all Americans, detailing the plans of unhinged, deranged Leftists who continue to be driven to insanity by a lying, dishonest left-wing media which “feeds the frenzy” on a daily basis. With USA Today now printing columns that essentially declare Brett Kavanaugh to be a pedophile who should never be allowed near children, the so-called “media” in America has jumped the shark, abandoning anything resembling the First Amendment role of reporting the news and now resorting to smearing innocent people while encouraging mass hysteria and violence among left-wing lunatics.
The media is deliberately driving America into a bloody civil war in a desperate attempt to destabilize the nation, invoke shooting in the streets and ultimately call in United Nations “peacekeeping” troops that will depose President Trump and attempt to disarm the entire U.S. civilian population.
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Weak 4: NFL Stadiums Remain Full of Empty Seats
With the NFL’s Week Four kicking off after three weeks of suffering TV ratings, it appears that the disinterest in the game continues to be seen in the stands as tens of thousands of seats remain empty for a 13-game, Week Four schedule.
With TV ratings still dwindling year over year, the teams seem to be finding nearly as little enthusiasm in the stands.
[Comment: Anything, even in the sports and entertainment world, that unites Americans is being polarized by globalists and their minions and useful idiots. The goal is foment a civil war 2.0 with UN troop invasion.]
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Why You Need New Conservative Social Media & Search
Have you been a victim of censorship? If you are a conservative, it is almost certain Facebook, Google, Twitter or another high tech company put some type of restriction on the information you need. Your posts may be blocked or shadowbanned. Perhaps, important news is hidden from you. It is a matter of freedom or tyranny. Many people are asking, what is the solution?
USA.Life social network and 1776Free.com search engine are the answer to Facebook, Google and Twitter censoring Christians, conservatives and liberty.
These new sites are being built by Steven Andrew, a Silicon Valley technology and Christian leader. He set up a crowdfunding page to launch the sites and people are chipping in to save our freedoms. Already, they have exceeded $200,000.
When Andrew saw Facebook block tens of millions of his posts from followers, he decided to use his Internet business and leadership skills to make these pro-America alternatives.
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Woman Who Ambushed Flake in Elevator is Director of Soros-Funded Group
At least one of the women who cornered Arizona senator Jeff Flake in an elevator last Friday, screaming in his face for several excruciating minutes, works for the Soros-funded Center for Popular Democracy, the left-wing organization spearheading the effort to stop Kavanaugh.
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Breaking: Four Found Dead After ‘Shooting Incident’ In Amsterdam Home
Dutch police have found four bodies in an Amsterdam home. According to newspaper De Telegraaf two women, a five-year-old-girl and a man have been found dead.
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Britain’s Foreign Secretary Hunt Prompts Anger by Comparing European Union to USSR
Jeremy Hunt, the British minister responsible for foreign affairs, has ruffled feathers by pointing out the punitive negotiations tactics increasingly employed by the European Union bear striking resemblances to another imperialistic power that at one time aspired to govern European nations, and punished harshly those who wished to leave.
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British Prisons Need a “Military Grade Intervention”
In the absence of government action, another six officers have taken the hit. Following an outbreak of violence at HMP Long Lartin Prison, which began Sunday morning, six officers have been seriously injured. Three have sustained head injuries, two have fractured jaws and one has a broken arm.
Long Lartin is a dangerous place. In the prison community it’s known as “Paranoia City”. A supermax segregation unit (the biggest in Europe) at Long Lartin is designed to hold the most violent and dangerous types of offenders.
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David Davis: Merkel and Macron Trying to Make Britain Suffer
During the interview, former Brexit Secretary Davis also said that Emmanuel Macron, French President, is the only one who wants Britain to fail more than Merkel does.
He explained:
“Other than Macron, Merkel is the most emphatic in Europe about us not being seen to succeed.”
He also made a point that myself and others have been saying for a while — and that is how we won’t experience easy times with the EU any time soon. …
If Merkel and Macron have it in for us now, imagine how nasty and spiteful they’ll be once we’ve actually left. They’ll be the spiteful ex-girlfriend following every step we make, looking at every future trade deal we make, and doing everything they can do to destroy our new relationships. They’ll continue failing and blaming everyone else for their failures. …
The fact that the leaders of France and Germany want our country to fail is significant. It’s even more significant when one considers the fact that our leaders are weak. If we had a Trump-esque leader who would stand up to these bullies, like the US president did at the United Nation the other day, then things might be different.
If you didn’t see the United Nations speech, then you must. Trump stood up in front of the world’s leaders, calling out Iran’s corrupt regime, and China’s attempt to meddle in America’s mid-term elections.
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Disgusting: Italian University Calls for the Assassination of Interior Minister Matteo Salvini
This week at an event in Bologna, the far left Autonomous University Collective (CUA) debuted posters calling for the assassination of Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini, newspaper Il Giornale reports.
The posters read the caption “Assassins. Take aim at this”. With a photograph of Salvini in the crosshairs.
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French Education Minister: Kids Must Learn Arabic
My countrymates are somewhat obsessed with watching the collapse of the politically Western civilization in the geographically Western Europe — we really need to distinguish these two types of the adjective “Western”. One of the most recent shocking developments has something to do with France and the languages.
The French minister of education Mr Jean-Michel Blanquer has brought an ingenious new idea: French kids should learn Arabic (RT, Google News, original).
Why would he do such a thing? To prove that we have always been right and under these horror politicians, France is being Islamized and Arabized? Well, partly.
What explanations are being given to support this utter insanity? There is a think tank that has released a 600-page-long document “Islamist Factory”. Hakim El Karoui, the “auteur”, makes a point that makes some sense: ancestrally Arab kids are often attracted to Islamist schools and mosques because those can teach them Arabic.
They often teach them radical Islam and methods to blow yourself up, too.
You could call it an argument to increase the teaching of Arabic at schools. In fact, Arabic at French schools has dropped by 50% in recent two decades — but it jumped by more than an order of magnitude in Islamic schools and mosques. Amazingly enough, the brain-dead minister didn’t actually need such an explanation. He wants to do all the suicidal insanities deliberately:
He insisted that Arabic, along with Chinese and Russian, is one of the “great languages of civilization” and should be learned “not only by people of Maghrebi origin or Arabic-speaking countries.”
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Italy: Lavazza Reaches Deal to Buy Mars Drinks
Part of expansion strategy
(ANSA) — Turin, October 1 — Italian coffee group Lavazza has reached an agreement to buy Mars Drinks, Flavia and Klix drink machine systems, which generated revenue of approximately 350 million dollars in 2017, with about 900 employees. The move is part of Lavazza’s expansion strategy in key markets such as North America, Germany, the UK and France. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2018.
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Italy: No League Endorsement by Confindustria — Boccia
Said his comments were a ‘provocation’
(ANSA) — Rome, October 1 — Vincenzo Boccia, the head of Italian industrial employers federation Confindustria, on Monday said his comments Saturday at a Confindustria assembly, which included “we strongly believe in the League”, were not an endorsement of Matteo Salvini’s right-wing party. Boccia said the comments were actually a “provocation” on his part to highlight “inconsistencies” in the League’s stance, and said suggestions of an endorsement were due to “exploitation through some tweets”. Former industry minister Carlo Calenda had tweeted on Saturday that Boccia’s comment constituted an endorsement.
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Italy: Won’t Sacrifice Workers on Altar of Spread — Di Maio
‘Music has changed’ says deputy PM
(ANSA) — Rome, October 1 — The Italian government “won’t sacrifice workers on the altar of the spread”, Deputy Premier and Labour and Industry Minister Luigi Di Maio said Monday.
“The government will never choose decimals and will never sacrifice workers on the altar of the spread and the crazy rules that have been imposed on us,” he said.
“This government will not commit social butchery, the music has changed,” said Di Maio, leader of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement.
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Macron Defends West Indian Youth After Rude Gesture
The French far right has expressed outrage at a photograph showing President Emmanuel Macron with his arm around a shirtless West Indian youth while the young man “gives the finger” to the camera. Mr Macron and his entourage minimised what they called “a silly gesture”.
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May Loyalists Circle Wagons as Remainer Phil Attacks BoJo’s Call to Chuck Chequers
Theresa May loyalists have attacked Boris Johnson during Tory Party conference after he criticised the Prime Minister’s soft Brexit plan as “deranged” and “preposterous”.
Following Mr Johnson’s criticisms of Mrs May’s commitment to Brexit — the Prime Minister having voted Remain in the June 2016 referendum — and her soft Chequers plan for exiting the bloc in a Sunday Times interview, senior party Remain supporters have come out to attack of the former Vote Leave figurehead. Those speaking out against Boris Johnson included Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond and Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson.
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My Wages Are Paid by Italians Who Want Security — Interior Minister Matteo Salvini
After introducing new measures against illegal migration, Italy’s Interior Minister was attacked by members of the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) on Thursday, news outlet ANSA reports.
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Pro-Independence Protesters in Catalonia Block Roads and Railway Line
Pro-independence protesters obstructed major roads and a high-speed railway line in Spain’s Catalonia region on Monday, one year after a banned referendum on secession that was marred by police violence.
“Everything began on October 1 and everything goes back to October 1st,” the region’s separatist president Quim Torra said in a ceremony in Sant Julia de Ramis in northern Catalonia on a stage next to a large black and white banner that read “No forgetting, no forgiving.”
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Sweden: Jean-Claude Arnault, Photographer in Nobel Prize Scandal, Jailed
A French photographer at the heart of a rape scandal that saw this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature postponed has been handed a two-year prison sentence.
On Monday a Swedish court found Jean-Claude Arnault, 72, guilty of raping a woman in an apartment in Stockholm in 2011.
Arnault, who is well known in Sweden, is married to a former member of the centuries-old Swedish Academy.
The crisis forced the academy to cancel this year’s literature award in May.
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Sweden Says Final Goodbye to Official Country Twitter Account
Sweden’s official Twitter account fell silent on Sunday night after years of a different Swede tweeting from @Sweden each week.
The seven-year-long ‘Curators of Sweden’ project attracted global attention as Sweden became the first country to allow ordinary people to take the helm of the country’s social media account.
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Tommy Robinson has vowed to sue Sky News after releasing footage which he claims proves that recent headlines about him not caring if he incites fear of Muslims are based on misquotes and deceptive editing.
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UK: (Watch) Tommy Robinson Tells Gavin McInnes: They Treated Me Worse Than a Terrorist in Prison
CRTV host Gavin McInnes interviewed Tommy Robinson about his experience being imprisoned for reporting on the trial of an Islamic child-grooming gang.
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UK: Family of Terrorism Death Cop ‘Valued Less Than Terrorist’ By London Police
The family of PC Keith Palmer, who was killed by a man pledging allegiance to Islamic State, say they have been let down by Scotland Yard and “come below” terrorist Khalid Masood.
Masood attacked PC Palmer outside the gates of the Palace of Westminster in March 2017 with two large knives as he stood guard protecting the site.
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UK: Mosque Has Trustee on Board Who Sold Phones Stolen From Teenagers
A controversial new Islamic centre responsible for the care and education of children as young as five has appointed to a key position a convicted criminal who sold mobile phones stolen from teenagers.
The Emaan Islamic Centre in Sheffield includes among its trustees a shopkeeper who was handed an 18 month suspended sentence in 2016 after pleading guilty to five counts of handling stolen goods.
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UK: Not Just Anjem: Dozens of Islamists Being Released From Prison
It’s not just Anjem Choudary being released from prison. There are dozens of others on their way out, too!
There’s his mate Mizanur Rahman, a 35-year-old computer whiz who’s known for operating undercover on extremist networks, and there are dozens of others who will all be released by the end of this year.
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US Special Operations Forces Are Quietly Expanding Their War in Tunisia
Last month, a U.S. Africa Command spokesperson confirmed in a Task & Purpose report that Marine Corps Raiders were involved in a fierce battle in 2017 in an unnamed North African country, where they fought beside partner forces against militants of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). U.S. Africa Command acknowledged that two Marines received citations for valor but withheld certain details, such as the location—undisclosed due to “classification considerations, force protection, and diplomatic sensitivities.” The command also said the Marine Special Operations unit was engaged while on a three-day train, advise and assist operation.
However, subsequent research and analysis strongly suggest U.S. involvement runs much deeper. In fact, the dramatic events described in the award citations obtained by Task & Purpose align with those that took place in Tunisia, which has been combatting a low-level insurgency in its western borderlands for the past seven years. Evidence indicates the battle occurred at Mount Semmama, a mountain range in the Kasserine governorate, near the Algerian border. There, the United States sustained its first casualty in action in Tunisia since World War II.
While not of the same magnitude, the events that AFRICOM confirmed took place on Feb. 28, 2017, echo a disastrous ambush less than seven months later in the village of Tongo Tongo, Niger. In that battle, members of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara killed four Army Special Forces soldiers and four Nigerien partners. U.S. partner forces engaged militants of AQIM’s Tunisian branch, the Uqba ibn Nafaa Battalion (KUBN) in a firefight, which resulted in the killing of one militant. The engagement also necessitated a request for air support to rout the militants. The jihadis then attempted to flank the joint U.S.-Tunisian force from the rear, forcing the Marines to return fire. While engaged on the ground, U.S. forces were also part of the air-support component. When a Tunisian soldier manning an M60 machine gun aboard a helicopter sustained wounds after being shot twice by militants returning accurate fire, a U.S. Marine Raider took control of the machine gun to maintain suppressive fire against the militants and simultaneously treated the wounded Tunisian soldier. The Marine Raider unit and their Tunisian partner force each sustained one casualty in the battle, both of whom recovered from their wounds. At the time, local media reported the incident without alluding to any U.S. participation…
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Israel Forces Russia to Respond Aggressively to Repeated Violations of Syrian Airspace
Russia has decided to send to Syria its S-300 VM system and has started delivering the Krasukha 4 radar systems jammer and other related military equipment. These installations indicate the low level of relations between Moscow and Tel Aviv. Israel’s capacity to destroy the new Russian system in Syria is not at issue. Israel may find a way to do so. Nevertheless, any such move will be a direct challenge to Russia’s superpower status…
Russia’s efforts at a balanced position have met with Israeli abuse. President Assad told his Russian homologue — during their last conversation — that Israel, under the pretext of hitting Hezbollah arms convoys, is destroying the Syrian army’s infrastructure, preventing it from recovering. Prime Minister Netanyahu has been undermining Putin in punishment for the neutral stand the Russian president has been trying to adopt.
Israel’s aggressive posture led it into a tactical mistake. It is now faced with a strategic crisis as its condescension pushes Putin to arm Syria further. But the most serious decision is not the long-delayed delivery of the S-300 VM but the decision to close Syrian airspace and prevent any hostile jet from violating it. In this regard Russia may not be able to avoid direct confrontation with the US, whose forces (including the UK and France) are occupying the al-Tanf crossing between Syria and Iraq as well as the province of al-Hasaka and part of Deir-ezzour.
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Syria: Children Flooding Back to School in Areas Liberated From Western-Backed Extremism
Idlib province’s Sinjar had its school shut down by al-Qaeda-linked rebels. Now its children are flooding back to classrooms.
SINJAR — The children of Syria’s Sinjar will remember their return to school this September for the rest of their lives.
Education ceased totally when this traumatised market town in northern Idlib province was overrun by jihadi rebels in 2014. Many families fled. Those who remained found themselves trapped in a nightmare.
Parents had the option of keeping their children hidden at home — or being taken away and indoctrinated by jihadis. Girls were covered up, while their mothers could not walk down the street.
Yet when I arrived at recently liberated Sinjar Elementary School this week, I found the headmaster, Mohamad Hussein, hard at work. He was busy painting a new sign in front of his school. It read in Arabic: “Sinjar Elementary School”.
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The S-300 May Destroy and Expose the F-35
The tragic episode that caused the death of 15 Russian air force personnel has had immediate repercussions on the situation in Syria and the Middle East. On September 24, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu informed allies and opponents that the delivery of the S-300 air-defense systems to the Syrian Arab Republic had been approved by President Vladimir Putin. The delivery had been delayed and then suspended as a result of Israeli pressure back in 2013.
In one sense, the delivery of S-300 batteries to Syria is cause for concern more for Washington than for Tel Aviv. Israel has several F-35 and has claimed to have used them in Syria to strike alleged Iranian weapons transfers to Hezbollah. With the S-300 systems deployed in an updated version and incorporated into the Russian command, control and communications (C3) system, there is a serious risk (for Washington) that Israel, now incapable of changing the course of events in Syria, could attempt a desperate maneuver.
It is no secret that Greece purchased S-300s from Russia years ago, and that NATO and Israel have trained numerous times against the Russian air-defense system. Senior IDF officials have often insisted that they are capable taking out the S-300s, having apparently discovered their weaknesses…
If the Israelis will follow through with their reckless attempts to eliminate the S-300 (if they can find them in the first place, given that they are mobile), they will risk their F-35s being brought down. The US military-industrial complex would suffer irreparable damage. This would also explain why Israel (and probably the US) has for more than five years put enormous pressure on Moscow not to deliver the S-300 to Syria and Iran. The US State Department’s reaction over the future purchase by Turkey and India of the S-400 confirms the anxiety that US senior officials as well as generals are experiencing over the prospect of allies opting for the Russian systems. This would allow for a comparison with weapons these allies purchased from the US, leading to the discovery of vulnerabilities and the realization of the US weapons’ relative inferiority.
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Italy to Cut 100 From Afghan Mission, 50 From Mosul
In upcoming missions decree
(ANSA) — Rome, October 1 — Italy is to cut 100 men from its Afghan mission by the end of the country’s electoral process at the end of this month and 50 from the Praesidium mission protecting the Mosul Dam in Iraq, sources told ANSA Monday.
The Mosul expedition will then be wound up “in the first quarter of 2019,” the sources said.
Defence Minister Elisabetta Trenta will make the necessary moves in a foreign missions decree she will bring to cabinet in the coming days, sources said.
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Blog: Cancer Researchers From US and Japan Awarded Nobel Medicine Prize
The winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine have been revealed in Stockholm.
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine is awarded to James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation”.
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China’s Coastal Economies Struggling Under US Tariffs, Dominant State Sector
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On Sept. 24, the United States introduced a tariff on a further $200 billion worth of Chinese exports that starts at 10 percent and may be increased to 25 percent next year. The Chinese regime responded immediately, placing tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. goods.
In 2017, exports from the three affluent provinces accounted for almost half of the national total, and imported 56 percent of all goods from abroad. China’s trade surplus comes almost entirely from these three provinces and Shanghai.
As a result of the Sino-U.S. trade conflict, however, China’s trade surplus has dipped by almost one third since last year.
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Former Top Taiwan Military Intel Officer Exposes Breadth of Beijing’s Spying Activities
At least three separate Chinese intelligence organizations are collecting information on Taiwan’s military officers, according to a new book by a former Taiwanese military intelligence official that reveals how extensively the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has conducted espionage.
Lieutenant General Weng Yen-ching, a former deputy director of Taiwan’s Military Intelligence Bureau, says in his book, “The Chinese Communist Party’s Intelligence Organizations and Espionage Activities,” published Sept. 25, that one Chinese military department is specifically tasked to monitor phone calls, with equipment that detects keywords and immediately flags any phone conversations containing them.
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North and South Korea Begin Removing Mines Along Dmz
SEOUL, South Korea — Seoul said on Monday that the rival Koreas had begun removing mines and other explosives at two sites inside their heavily armed border as part of their recent tension-reduction steps. They will likely end up pulling out a very small portion of an estimated 2 million mines littered inside and near the 155-mile-long, 2.5-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone.
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Religious Freedom Advocates Criticize Vatican-China Deal
A number of religious freedom advocates have stepped forward to criticize the Vatican’s new “provisional agreement” with China on the appointment of bishops, arguing that it betrays naïveté concerning “the evil of communism.”
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Understanding China’s Race-Based Espionage
A discussion with John Jordan, former senior Navy intelligence officer
The Chinese Communist Party heavily focuses on race in its espionage recruitment. That’s so that when issues arise with prosecuting Chinese spies, the “race card” can be played, triggering sensitivity about discrimination, according to a former senior U.S. Navy intelligence officer.
The CCP uses two primary branches to accomplish racial recruitment of spies: the United Front Department and the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office.
The United Front expands the CCP’s systems of control into Chinese communities, often through fraternal organizations known as “tongs.” The Overseas Chinese Affairs Office then manages these systems overseas as if they were Chinese provinces, and also regards second— and third-generation Chinese immigrants as Chinese citizens—again putting its racial recruitment system into practice.
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US Got China Wrong, But Trump is Turning Things Around, Expert Says
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Gertz said the United States misunderstood China back when he published his book “The China Threat” in 2000 and has continued that lack of understanding since. As an example, he recalled how a three-star general, who was the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, insisted to him that China wasn’t a threat “because they said they are not a threat.” …
Gertz said that Henry Kissinger, who served as secretary of state during the Nixon administration, represents the wrong way of thinking about China.
“What’s little known is that he has made tens of millions of dollars in China arranging for American businesses to do business in China.”
According to Gertz, U.S.-China policy progressed throughout the past several decades to the point that during the Bush administration, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, “We want a strong China.” …
Gertz said a lot of things that he reported about in his book “The China Threat” have “exploded” in the past 18 years, which is why he titled his speech, “The China Threat 2.0.” The “exploded” issues include China’s proliferation activities, intelligence activities, and technology theft. …
China’s influence operations are also part of the “China Threat 2.0.” President Donald Trump announced at the U.N. Security Council meeting last week that “China is seeking to influence the U.S. midterm elections.”
Gertz said he had received information from other sources that the Chinese Communist Party is trying to help the Democrats win control of Congress, and, thereby, defeat the Trump administration’s aggressive and tough posture on trade and Chinese technology theft.
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The brother of a Muslim accused of a Christmas Day terror plot to blow up Melbourne ‘believed Australians who refused to comply with Sharia Law should be executed or deported.’
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The release of British hate preacher Anjem Choudary from jail could have an impact in Australia, a former UK police chief has warned CEOs and council leaders at a symposium in Sydney.
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Bomb Hits Italian Convoy in Mogadishu, No One Hurt
Lince armoured vehicle slightly damaged
(ANSA) — Rome, October 1 — A bomb hit a Lince (Lynx) armoured vehicle in Somali capital Mogadishu Monday but no one was hurt, sources said.
The Lince was returning from a training op with Somali forces along with another four armoured vehicles when ti was hit by the roadside bomb.
The Lince, with four men aboard, was slightly damaged and had to return to base.
Islamist terror group Al Shabaab has claimed the attack, the website of the Shabelle Media Network said.
The Qaida-linked group “has claimed responsibility for today’s bomb attack in Mogadishu,” it said, without giving further details.
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A 21-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who stabbed three in Ravensburg town centre has been taken to a psychiatric facility, with officials saying he may not be found culpable for his actions due to mental illness.
The asylum seeker, originally thought to have been 19, was detained on Friday after the knife attack but under a “housing warrant” rather than an arrest warrant, and was taken to a psychiatric facility, Die Welt reports.
Assessors told police the Afghan suffers from what the German daily reported as a “profound psychiatric illness” and has been an in-patient at mental health facilities several times.
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Austrian FM Supports Return of Syrian Refugees
Austria’s foreign minister says the return of refugees, stabilization and reconstruction in Syria must not be rigidly tied to a political process.
Karin Kneissl says Monday during a visit to neighboring Lebanon that the world should seize on “a new dynamic” developing in Syria, which has been mired in civil war for more than seven years.
Kneissl says no Syrian refugee will be forced to return, but that Austria will help those willing to return like it did with Bosnian refugees after the end of the conflict there.
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Austria to Close Several Federal Asylum Centres, Citing Lack of Demand
Policies to discourage and drive down illegal immigration created by Austria’s conservative-populist coalition government are proving so successful the government is reportedly to close seven asylum centres across the country.
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The CEO of yogurt corporation Chobani is pleading with more corporations across the United States to hire and aid foreign refugees, saying U.S. immigration policy should be “humanity first.”
In an interview with CNN, Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya said the U.S. should have an immigration policy centered around “humanity” and whether or not corporations need immigrant labor.
Huffington Post admitted last year that the U.S. dairy industry is the biggest profiteer from illegal immigration and mass legal immigration.
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Hungary will not participate in the approval process of the United Nations’ global migration compact in any form and will not consider it binding at all, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in talks coinciding with the UN General Assembly session in New York on Friday.
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Italy: Fontana Says Lombardy Will Help Migrants Who Want to Return
Presentation of Union of African Communities in Italy
(ANSA) — Milan, October 1 — Lombardy regional governor Attilio Fontana, at the presentation of the Union of African Communities in Italy (UCAI), said uncontrolled migration from Africa causes “serious damage” to those who arrive in Italy and find themselves living in undignified conditions rather than having solved their problems.
Fontana said that when young people leave Africa, it causes an “impoverishment” in the continent, as young people are the continent’s “greatest strengths” and should continue to relaunch it.
He said Lombardy is ready to do its part by supporting training programmes to help those who want to return home with new professional skills and abilities.
UCAI is the brainchild of African-Italian entrepreneur Otto Bitjoka, and it was launched at Palazzo Lombardia, the seat of the regional government.
It aims to promote the voluntary return of migrants to Africa through a programme of professional training developed in Italy in collaboration with and in synergy with African countries of origin.
“Our goal is to allow 1,000 citizens a year to return to Africa by offering training courses that give them the ability to work and create development in their countries of origin,” Bitjoka said.
Fontana praised the programme, and said he is looking at how the regional government can contribute.
“The goal is to help those who want to return home a bit better, perhaps with new professional skills, preparation and the ability to help their nation grow,” he said.
He said migration must be faced “in earnest and without demagogy”.
“Emigration is devastating for everyone, including for those who integrate,” Fontana said.
“That’s why those who want to return to their countries of origin must be given help,” he said.
Fontana said the biggest effort, however, must be made by Europe, which he said needs to invest in the African continent.
The region of Lombardy can do its part by investing in training to better those who have emigrated to Italy, and it can give them professional expertise that can contribute to helping them relaunch their countries of origin, Fontana said.
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https://www.spb.kp.ru/daily/26888.5/3932936/
The article is one of those that have become ordinary in Russia. On the terrorist threat from the “hardworking migrants” (similar to “multicultural enrichers”)
Google should pretty well translate it. If there are difficulties, you can use the additional translator Yandex (https://translate.yandex.ru/). Then the picture will be the most complete.
“that Israel, under the pretext of hitting Hezbollah arms convoys, is destroying the Syrian army’s infrastructure, preventing it from recovering.”
Probably a fair comment. Of course Syria is trying to transfer missiles to Hezbollah, and those missiles would be used one day against Israel if Hezbollah received them. Israel has routinely done what it considers necessary to protect it’s future existence. Unfortunately it is now complicated by the presence of Russian forces in Syria. But don’t expect the Israelis to back down, they won’t. Putin therefore needs to decide, does he really want to be drawn into a war with Israel, that could spiral into some sort of Armageddon show down? That could happen if he’s not careful.
Don’t forget the stashes of cash that were given to Iran while Obama was in charge. Much of the moolah made its way to Hezbollah for use against Israel. That cash transfer really heated up the problems in MENA – Obama’s legacy.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263957/obama-provides-iran-13-billion-where-did-money-go-ari-lieberman
Good news from Italy:
https://pjmedia.com/trending/italian-mayor-arrested-for-aiding-migrant-invasion/
Seneca, I’ve checked out your Wiki entry:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Elder, and there is no evidence that you ever wore a Red Indian headdress. Also you died around 2,000 years ago; I therefore denounce you as an impostor!
(Sorry, I seem to be in a silly frame of mind…)
Likewise, Mark. I am of a mind that he may have reincarnated as Pocahontas and finangled a nice little earner in Congress where sanity is not a requirement for office 😜👌
https://tochkanews.ru/news/5867
“A gang of Tajiks killed a Russian — you can’t write like that.” Journalists were taught tolerance
Forum on ethnic journalism held in the Sverdlovsk region
So what do they say instead?
In the UK, it would seem they have to say “A gang of Asians killed a man”…
In the US, it would likely be “A gang killed a man”… they don’t report the names since it would tell readers the likely ethnicity of the perps. Thus, if DeWann Washington and Tyrone Roosevelt – just to pick two common black names – are mentioned, you know they were black. But unless you have the name of the victim you don’t know if he was also black (most violent crimes are black-on-black or white-on-white).
[Speaking of names, when the B and I joined the Episcopal church, we noticed that most of the ministers had what we called “three-barrelled names”. That is, instead of being John Brown or James Smith or whatever, they’d have three last names, e.g., Worthington Delano Smythe III. In our area, Virginia, it’s because these dudes can trace their lineage back to when it was “The Church of Virginia” – a state church closely affiliated with the national church in England. Anyone being consecrated a bishop had to make the journey by ship to England to be properly invested at the cathedral in Canterbury. I think it was well after the War of Independence that state churches had to give way to the separation of religion and the state. Virginia wasn’t the only one.]
Usually written as: the visitors (from neighboring countries) killed a local resident.
So do citzens of the ‘stans ever become what we call “naturalized” Russian citizens? That is, (in the old days), they’d apply to be admitted, get a job and live here for five years, at which time they became eligible to take the test for becoming full-fledged citizens.
My mother put it off, applying every year at the post office for her green card. She finally decided to study for the test because she wanted to vote. I remember being a teenager and feeling embarrassed when she rattled off to vote, using my out-grown bike. Kids are so afraid of looking un-cool.
[We were grown and gone before she learned to drive at the age of 68. Learning so late, she was a “white-knuckle” driver -never could relax enough to enjoy it though she was most pleased to be able to get her groceries without having to ask someone to drive her. By then, the bus service had declined a lot.]
If a migrant has become a citizen of Russia and has committed a serious crime, then they write “a native of Tajikistan killed …” or in the event of a terrorist attack.
Now the media writes much more about ethnic crime. Even the appearance of this article is a peculiar sign – people who teach students of tolerance are not Russian surnames.
My brother’s (now) ex-wife used to work for Social Security (Department for Work and Pensions) in (mostly rural) Somerset. Even then (1990s) it was difficult to place unemployed people from villages in jobs in the towns; bus services were inadequate or non-existent, and withdrawal of subsidies by the Conservative government has since made them even sparser.
Oh yeah, Syrians going home to rebuild their country….or living off of taxpayers in Europe. Uh….