A pro-multicultural group on the Greek island of Lesvos pulled down a monument in the form of a cross, saying that it might offend non-Christian migrants on the island. However, local Greek residents on the island collaborated to restore the cross.
In other news, former secretary of state and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has lost her security clearance because of her inattentive handling of her private email server, which inadvertently allowed foreign intelligence services access to thousands of official State Department emails.
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Real News: Crazy Fed Looking to Burst Bubble and Crash American Economy
What can POTUS do to stop an economic collapse?
President Trump slammed the Federal Reserve’s rising interest rates after stocks plunged Wednesday, saying, “the Fed has gone crazy.”
[Comment: Not crazy. Intentional. Globalists seek to take down America economically. Read a comment recently — “Use marines to raid every FED office, seize everything, arrest all top officers of Fed for fraud”. Sounds about right.]
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Bogus Homeopathy Data Published in Top Journal Sparks Outcry, Facepalms
Editors at a respected scientific journal are reconsidering their decision to publish a study, which claims that a homeopathic dilution of poison oak can reduce pain in rats, after online critics pointed out that the study is rife with bogus, sloppy, and low-quality data.
The study—titled “Ultra-diluted Toxicodendron pubescens attenuates pro-inflammatory cytokines and ROS-mediated neuropathic pain in rats”—was published September 10 in Scientific Reports, an open-access journal run by the Nature Publishing Group.
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In an interview with Big League Politics Thursday, a former CIA Chief of Station and the President of Americans for Intelligence Reform discussed a bombshell revelation buried within the police final report regarding a premeditated conversation about the shooting, which occurred at the venue 30 minutes before Stephen Paddock rained bullets on the crowd.
“This is actually out of the [final] police report,” said Brad Johnson.
“So there was a young woman — I’ve exchanged phone calls with her, she doesn’t want me to use her name so I’ll respect that wish of hers — but she is a Department of Homeland Security TSA employee, so she’s trained in security and observing and so on.”
“Almost exactly a half hour before the shooting takes place, she’s at the back of the concert and looking forward towards the stage with all of the people with their backs towards her,” Johnson said. “At the back there had been a previous concert — there were some bails of hay and some things being put away — but it was a pretty big stack and on top of that stack there were two young women.”
After relaying the in-depth description of the two women provided by the TSA agent, Johnson dropped the bombshell:
“The first woman says, ‘Those stupid f****** white people, they’re going to know how it feels. They deserve this. Wait until later,’“ according to Johnson and the report.
“The second woman, who’s the rambunctious one, says ‘YO, like shooting fish in a barrel! Are you getting this, baby? I love you!’“ he said.
According to Johnson and the TSA agent, the women were live-streaming the occasion. Police have never followed up with the women described by the TSA employee.
WATCH the bombshell interview:…
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Campaign staffers for Tennessee Democrat Senate nominee Phil Bredesen were caught on tape admitting that the supposedly moderate candidate was lying through his teeth when he said last Friday that he would have voted to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
The staffers, surreptitiously recorded by Project Veritas in a video released Wednesday night, said Bredesen lied to hoodwink moderate Republicans into voting for him. Most polling shows Bredesen behind in a race against conservative Tennessee congresswoman Marsha Blackburn.
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CNN Called Out for ‘Genuinely Dangerous’ Rhetoric on Kanye West
The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald slammed CNN for its commentators’ rhetoric in a recent segment where rapper Kanye West was attacked over his support for President Trump. Greenwald tweeted Thursday that the comments made about West were “genuinely dangerous.”
During a Tuesday night segment on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, CNN commentators Bakari Sellers and Tara Setmayer went after Kanye West, insulting his intelligence and repeatedly referring to him as a “negro.”
Setmayer called West an “attention whore” and a “token negro,” while Sellers said “Kanye West is what happens when negroes don’t read.” Many Twitter users reacted by calling the segment racist.
As Glenn Greenwald points out, the panel also used West’s mental health as a weapon against him—all because he had the wrong opinion.
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Disgruntled Amazon Workers About to be Replaced by Fleet of Robots
Amazon, which announced a $15 minimum wage bump for 250,000 employees last week, is developing a fleet of “picking” robots to staff its warehouses, known as fulfillment centers, according to The Information, citing three people with knowledge of the work. Robot picker designed by Kindred Systems
Warehouse pickers grab items from shelves and put them into bins before they are prepped and shipped. The new robots will be able to visually identify items as they speed down a conveyor belt, then pick them up with a compressed-air vacuum gripper before moving them onto a table or shelf — said an employee who witnessed the robot in action.
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Eric Holder, Former Obama AG, Tells Crowd to Kick Republicans
Eric Holder, attorney general under President Barack Obama, told a crowd that they should not be civil to Republicans but instead kick them.
After noting Michelle Obama’s saying, “When they go low, we go high,” Holder said, “No. When they go low, we kick them.”
“That’s what this new Democratic Party is about,” he added. …
Violence and threats have become more common in the Democratic party and their supporters, with a number of incidents happening recently.
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Facebook Cleans House — Purges Several Top Conservative Pages Four Weeks Before Election
On Thursday Facbeook announced the company took action on 559 Pages and 251 accounts that violated their “spam” and coordinated “inauthentic behavior” policies.
Facebook said most of those affected were political pages.
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FBI Steals Treasure Hunters’ Civil War Gold Worth Up to $250 Million
Dennis and Kem Parada have spent years prospecting for a legendary stash of Civil War gold in Dents Run, Pennsylvania.
They aren’t the first to search for the cache. Generations of treasure hunters have tried to find the gold, which is believed to have been lost or stolen around the time of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, when the Union Army was attempting to transport it from West Virginia to Philadelphia.
The Paradas spent five years digging in a cave on state land and two more years drilling atop the cave before going to the FBI in January with their evidence.
Last March, feeling quite certain they had found the treasure’s hiding place, the Paradas led the FBI to the spot.
They showed agents how their sophisticated metal detector went crazy when aimed at the spot where they believed the gold was hidden.
Within a month, the FBI had hired an outside firm to conduct an underground scan using a device called a gravimeter. The scan identified a large metallic mass with the density of gold, according to the Paradas and Warren Getler, an author and journalist who’s been working with them, reports the Associated Press.
The Paradas and Getler said the FBI agreed to let them observe the excavation, but then confined them to their car so they were unable to watch the digging.
At the end of the excavation, the FBI led the father-son duo to an empty hole, writes the AP:
They gazed at the pit. Not so much as a glimmer of gold dust, let alone the tons of precious metal they said an FBI contractor’s instruments had detected.
“We were embarrassed,” Dennis Parada told The Associated Press in his first interview since the well-publicized dig last winter. “They walk us in, and they make us look like dummies. Like we messed up.”
But is the FBI being truthful?
Local residents reported seeing late-night excavation work and FBI convoys, leading to suspicions the agency is hiding something.
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Google Relies on Soros as an ‘Expert’ In Good Censor Report
Google wants to cite only the best experts in their fields in order to justify its position. Who better than liberal billionaire George Soros?
In the Google presentation, “The Good Censor,” leaked to Breitbart, the search media company cited 27 so-called “experts” for different aspects of digital freedom and online censorship. Among those experts were George Soros, a ProPublica article, New York Times editorial board member Sarah Jeong, former New Republic editor Franklin Foer, and Slate writer April Glaser. (ProPublica is one of many news entities funded by Soros. His Open Society Foundation gave at least $737,411 to the non-profit journalism group.)
Google quoted Soros in the section about transparency regarding global positions, writing: “US-based IT monopolies are already tempted to compromise themselves in order to gain entrance to these vast and fast growing markets. The dictatorial leaders in these countries may be only too happy to collaborate with them since they want to improve their methods of control over their own populations and expand their power and influence in the United States and the rest of the world.”
Soros-funded Propublica was also quoted complaining that while white supremacists and racists were not censored on the internet, feminists and anti-fascists were. The irony in this article is astounding, given that conservatives have been censored online while the left has managed to get away with most statements without repercussions.
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Government Report: “An Entire Generation” of American Weapons is Wide Open to Hackers
A NEW REPORT from the U.S. Government Accountability Office brings both good and bad news. For governments around the world that might like to sabotage America’s military technology, the good news is that this would be all too easy to do: Testers at the Department of Defense “routinely found mission-critical cyber vulnerabilities in nearly all weapon systems that were under development” over a five-year period, the report said. For Americans, the bad news is that up until very recently, no one seemed to care enough to fix these security holes.
In 1991, the report noted, the U.S. National Research Council warned that “system disruptions will increase” as the use of computers and networks grows and as adversaries attack them. The Pentagon more or less ignored this and at least five subsequent warnings on the subject, according to the GAO, and hasn’t made a serious effort to safeguard the vast patchwork of software that controls planes, ships, missiles, and other advanced ordnance against hackers.
The sweeping report drew on nearly 30 years of published research, including recent assessments of the cybersecurity of specific weapon systems, as well as interviews with personnel from the Department of Defense, the National Security Agency, and weapons-testing bodies. It covered a broad span of American weapons, examining systems at all of the service branches and in space.
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Hillary Clinton Loses Security Clearance After Server Scandal
Hillary Clinton has given up her security clearance in the wake of the scandal over her handling of secret information on her email server, the Senate Judiciary Committee revealed Friday.
Chairman Charles E. Grassley also revealed top Clinton aide Cheryl Mills and four others no longer have clearance.
Mrs. Clinton’s clearance expired at the end of August. The others lost their access privileges in September.
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Major Hollywood Studio in Upheaval After Putting Out Leftist Bomb After Leftist Bomb
Billionaire heiress Megan Ellison, daughter of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, is reportedly getting stiffed on her father’s cash flow after her film studio, Annapurna Pictures, lost a significant amount of money by producing bomb after bomb in leftist propaganda films.
According to The Wrap, Annapurna Pictures has run into financial difficulties as of late, culminating in the “jettisoning of two upcoming films with marquee talent” and the exit of its film division head.
In the past 18 months, Annapurna has released a slate of hardcore leftist films that stoked racial divisions between black and white Americans, from Kathryn Bigelow’s “Detroit” to the Lakeith Stanfield vehicle “Sorry to Bother You.”
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New Study Shows Vast Majority of Non-White Americans Reject Political Correctness
A huge new study by a left-wing organization has slayed a sacred cow of the left by proving that the vast majority of non-white Americans reject political correctness.
The study was undertaken by scholars Stephen Hawkins, Daniel Yudkin, Miriam Juan-Torres, and Tim Dixon on behalf of leftist group More in Common.
As the Atlantic explains, “It is based on a nationally representative poll with 8,000 respondents, 30 one-hour interviews, and six focus groups conducted from December 2017 to September 2018.”
The survey found that a full 80% of Americans across the nation believe “political correctness is a problem in our country,” including 74 percent of young people aged 24 to 29, and 79 percent under age 24.
However, it’s when the responses are broken down by race when the results become even more intriguing.
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Not Guilty Plea Entered in GE Aviation Espionage Case
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Chinese national pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of trying to steal trade secrets from multiple U.S. aviation and aerospace companies, including GE Aviation.
Defendant Yanjun Xu was also ordered by a magistrate judge to be detained before trial over the objections of Xu’s attorneys, who say he’s not at risk of fleeing.
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The left is becoming increasingly violent as they prepare for a midterm temper tantrum
Liberal social engineers are mobilizing violent leftist groups ahead of midterms.
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The latest sting video from journalist James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas exposes Tennessee Democratic candidate Phil Bredesen’s dishonest campaign for U.S. Senate, indicating that he lied about his support for Justice Brett Kavanaugh to win the election.
Captured on video by an undercover reporter, a staffer for Bredesen’s campaign explained that the candidate’s public support for Kavanaugh was a “political move” to boost his support with some moderate Republicans.
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‘Our Goal is to Horrify’: Another ISIS Concert Threat Depicts Jihadist With Grenade
Just days before one ISIS-allied media group released a propaganda poster threatening to attack concerts with a knife, another prolific ISIS media group threatened grenade attacks at music venues.
The group behind the latter threat has issued a number of slick videos and posters this year, including one warning of knife-wielding terrorists on commercial flights.
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Pew: Catholicism Suffers Highest Net Losses Due to Religious Switching
ROME — The Catholic Church has experienced greater net losses due to religious conversion than any other religion in the U.S., the Pew Research Center reported Wednesday.
While there are some 51 million Catholic adults in the U.S. — just over one-fifth of the total adult population — a remarkable 13 percent of all U.S. adults are former Catholics who now identify as Protestants, religious “nones,” or some other religion.
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Pope Francis Accepts Resignation of D.C. Cardinal Donald Wuerl
ROME — Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Washington, DC, Cardinal Donald Wuerl on Friday but asked him to stay on as “Apostolic Administrator” of the archdiocese until a permanent successor is appointed.
In his October 12 letter, Pope Francis thanked the cardinal for his service and praised the way he has dealt with accusations of having mishandled the sex abuse crisis.
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Post Hurricane Florence: Giant Mosquitoes Emerge in North Carolina
Giant mosquitoes have emerged in North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. The floodwaters that followed the strong hurricane, which made landfall in North Carolina on September 14, have spawned thousands of mega-mosquitoes across the state, according to entomologists.
According to CNN, these new giant mosquitoes have zebra-striped legs and are two to three times as big as the normal bloodsuckers encountered during summer. Michael H. Reiskind, an assistant professor in the Department of Entomology at North Carolina State University said the mosquitoes’size is noticeable. “Definitely noticeably bigger,” he said. “If you see mosquitoes often, then you’re going to say, ‘Wow, that’s a big mosquito.’“
There is some good news though. This particular species of mosquito, called Psorophora, but commonly known as “gallinippers,” is not likely to sicken any humans. The species is native throughout the eastern United States, all the way up to southern Ontario but pretty harmless as far as spreading diseases go, according to Reiskind. “They can carry dog heartworm, but in general, they don’t actually carry human diseases,” Reiskind reiterated. But he also warned that the bites are quite a bit worse than those of a standard size mosquito.
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Samuel L. Jackson Endorses Democrat Candidates in Ads for George Soros Funded Group
Avengers star Samuel L. Jackson cut two advertisements for left-wing advocacy group Swing Left, endorsing Minnesota and Texas Democrat candidates for Congress.
In one of the ads Samuel L. Jackson tweeted, he urged fans to support Democrat Angie Craig who is running for Minnesota’s Second Congressional District.
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Silicon Valley’s Attack on Conservatives Now in Congressional Record
An organization that favors legal immigration while opposing illegal immigration is warning social media giants that their suppression of conservative voices has been entered into the Congressional Record.
William Gheen, the president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, also is dispatching letters to Google, Facebook and Twitter charging their blocking of his organization’s access to constituents, censorship of its video library and manipulation of search rankings has damaged the group.
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Siren: Facebook Just Shut Down the ‘Right Wing News’ Page With Its 3.1 Million Followers
The New York Times is reporting that Facebook shut down a number of American-run pages today, including “Right Wing News” which has over 3 million subscribers.
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Truck Owner’s Vehicle Set on Fire Because of Pro-Trump Stickers
A truck owner who stopped for a drink in Vancouver, Washington says that his truck was set on fire because he put some pro-Trump stickers on it. “If you say anything that someone doesn’t like, you are ultimately a target,” Johnny MacKay told KOIN-TV of Portland, Oregon.
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UNC Asheville Professor Amanda Wray Arrested for Allegedly Stealing Conservative Political Signs
A Professor at the University of North Carolina Asheville was arrested on Sunday and charged with a misdemeanor for stealing conservative political signs.
Dr. Amanda Wray, an associate professor who holds a Ph.D., turned herself into the local police on Sunday morning after she and another unidentified woman were allegedly spotted stealing conservative political signs, according to WLOS-TV.
The signs, which belong to the local Political Action Committee (PAC) Angry Buncombe Taxpayers, have been defaced throughout the county by unknown vandals.
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Vandals Hit NYC GOP Headquarters: ‘Attack is Merely a Beginning’
The Metropolitan Republican Club on Manhattan’s Upper East Side was vandalized Thursday night with broken windows, spray-painted anarchy signs, and a threatening message that the “attack is merely a beginning.”
The building is the headquarters of the Manhattan Republican Party and the New York City regional office for the New York Republican Party.
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WalMart Has an Incredibly Creepy Cart Patent to Monitor Your Biometric Data
Walmart has a totally creepy idea to monitor your biometric data, pulse, and location from the sensors on a shopping cart handle, Motherboard reported.
Walmart recently applied for a patent that details biometric shopping handles that can track a customer’s heart rate, palm temperature, grip, and how fast the cart is being pushed.
The patent titled “System And Method For A Biometric Feedback Cart Handle” published August 23rd, details a cart with sensors in it that would then send data to a server. That server would then notify store employees to check on individual customers.
The company has yet to clarify the use-cases of such a patented cart besides creepy privacy-invasive technology. However, it can be assumed that some of these cart features would be for customer safety and anti-theft measures.
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One thing’s for sure about the mainstream media: They’re predictable.
Take the recent blockbuster story that singer Taylor Swift prefers Democrats over Republicans. Yes, the 28-year-old who dropped out of high school and later earned a GED, on Sunday declared that she opposes Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican.
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Something just doesn’t feel right about the emergence of three virtually unknown Democrat woman, with similar intelligence backgrounds, who are all being given massive amounts of funding to take on three conservative US Congressmen in the upcoming elections.
THREE DEMOCRAT, SOROS FUNDED, former intelligence agents are fighting to defeat popular conservative Republican US Congressmen. Before massive amounts of ActBlue money started to pour into their campaigns, at least two of the three seats were considered “safe” seats for the popular Republicans…
ActBlue’s top donors include radical leftist billionaire, George Soros, and Adam Freed, a Director at Google. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, one of the largest labor unions in the U.S., gave $100,000. The Democratic National Committee gave $40,000.The AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education gave $100,000 as well. The AFL-CIO is a national trade union center, the largest collection of unions in the U.S. representing 11 million members. The AFL-CIO is consistently against charter schools and voucher programs.
In May 2018, Jimmy Dore of the Jimmy Dore Show did an in-depth study on the intelligence agents running for office as Dems, using research from the World Socialist Web. What he found is stunning: video “CIA Agents Running As Democrats In 2018 Elections “
[Comment: Soros again.]
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Instead of spending our tax dollars in our own country to help Canadians, Trudeau gives it to a UN organization that has spread vile and hateful messages.
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“Entitled” British Child-Killer Sues State for “Unfair” Jail Sentence
A child-killer in Britain is suing the Ministry of Justice for 1 million pounds, claiming it’s unfair that he must languish in prison for so long.
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Alternative for Germany Launches Jewish Caucus in Wiesbaden
The conservative opposition party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), organised a meeting for its Jewish members in the town of Wiesbaden.
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Bavaria Election 2018 Polls: What Time Do Polling Stations Open? When Do They Close?
The CSU has fallen below the 40 percent mark in public opinion surveys and it is almost certain to lose its majority.
The Greens have been the main winner in recent polls, with 18 percent of the intended vote on average in the last three polls.
Support for the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), which are contesting the election in Bavaria for the first time, has remained stable recently at around 12 percent and the social Democrats are at 11.8 percent.
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Bavaria Elections 2018: Bosses Meddle With Memo Warning Voters Against Populism
The regional elections, which take place on Sunday, are seen as a bell-weather for the national political picture and could further weaken Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 13-year grip on power.
Munich-based aircraft engine maker MTU Aero Engines and consultants EY have both sent out memos which highlight corporate fears about growing support for the far right in the region and perceived threats to German political stability.
Neither company mentioned the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) by name in the internal memos but their message is clear.
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The presidents of four regional neighbours meeting in Slovakia accused EU institutions of over-interfering in the internal policies of the bloc’s member states, a top aide to the Polish head of state said on Thursday.
“One of the shortcomings that everyone emphasised is the excessive interference of European Union institutions in the internal policies of member states,” said Krzysztof Szczerski, chief of staff to Polish President Andrzej Duda.
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Denmark Extends Controls on German Border Due to Terrorism Threat
The Danish government is extending temporary controls on its border with Germany for six months to help counter the threat of terrorism, it said on Friday.
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Fewer Polish Children at Risk of Poverty: Eurostat
The proportion of children at risk of poverty or social exclusion in Poland fell by 6.3 percentage points in 2017, the EU’s statistics agency has said, according to a report.
The plunge marks the biggest drop in the rate for Poland since the country entered the European Union in 2004, the Dziennik daily reported, citing Eurostat.
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Former UK Ambassador to EU Says May’s Brexit Plan a ‘Pipe Dream’
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s former ambassador to the European Union says Prime Minister Theresa May’s blueprint for Brexit is a “pipe dream” that has no chance of being accepted by the bloc.
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French Justice Forces Mayor to Provide Pork-Free Meals in Comprehensive Schools
Nîmes’ administrative court decided to cancel the decision of a local mayor to remove “substitution meals” in comprehensive school cafeterias.
“Substitution meals” are the politically correct words for meals without pork and are served in all comprehensive school cafeterias with a Muslim population.
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Greece: Majority Rejects Institutions of the Far-Left
Greece is a deeply divided country. It has two camps. One is the “institutional camp,” which is presented to the global community and the international press. The other is what can be called the “people’s camp,” which considers the existing political regime a “Corpus Separatum” — a separate entity.
The institutional camp consists of the corrupt political system, the oligarchs, the academic community and the media — all soldiers in an army of globalization and multiculturalism. It is a system that feeds on the Greek populace, and, for its political and economic survival, depends on a strategic alliance with the Islamic countries of the Persian Gulf. …
One key area that highlights the dichotomy between Greece’s institutional camp and its people’s camp is the country’s attitude towards Israel. After being subjected to decades of anti-Semitic brainwashing — fostered chiefly by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and its tentacles — Greeks have begun to view Israel as a role-model state. A recent controversy surrounding a conference held in Sparta on September 2-3 is a perfect example.
The conference — “Sparta-Israel: Renewing an Ancient Friendship” — was organized by the Municipality of Sparta, B’nai B’rith Greece and the Greek-Israeli Cooperation Institute. Distinguished participants from Greece and abroad, including the chief of staff of the Greek Army, presented archeological findings supporting the friendship between ancient Sparta and the Jewish people, and discussed contemporary issues, such as geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean and cooperation towards development and growth between the two nations. …
The KKE’s political activism and alliance with the Palestinian Authority raises a very serious geopolitical question: Who benefits from the KKE’s war against the Greek-Israeli friendship and from a defamation of the EastMed pipeline? The answer is Turkey, of course, but also Qatar, Russia and Iran. The KKE’s behavior illustrates one way in which the far-left and radical Islamists are bedfellows.
It is crucial for people outside Greece to understand that the Communist Party of Greece is not a fringe party; it is the backbone of the political system. The good news — as the World Values Survey indicated — is that more and more Greeks are losing their faith in that system, and are striving to become a society that is more like Israel.
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Islam Belongs to Merkel, But Merkel No Longer Belongs to Germany — AfD
The German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD), a party known for its tough stance on third world immigration, has been calling for an end to the country’s open-door policy since 2015 when it was first started.
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Italy Should Respect EU Rules— IMF’s Lagarde
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde called on Italy to respect the EU budget rules during a news conference at the agency’s annual meeting on Thursday.
“Our position concerning Italy is quite well known,” Lagarde said when asked about concern over the Italian government’s budget plans and the risk of contagion following recent market turbulence.
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Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini said Friday European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker should “shut up” and “stop insulting Italians and their legitimate government”.
He said the Luxembourg politician “should think about his tax haven Luxembourg”. Juncker earlier said that “Italy has not kept its word” when asked about the government’s budget in an interview published in Friday’s edition of Le Monde.
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London: Car Carrying Gun Shot Victim Ploughs Into Pedestrians
A man has been arrested for dangerous driving after a Mercedes carrying a gunshot victim crashed into pedestrians and parked cars in West London.
Police were called to Uxbridge Road, Hillingdon, at 2:45pm Thursday after a silver Mercedes Benz, driving at speed, spun out of control hitting the parked cars and people.
Though no pedestrians suffered serious injury, the passenger, in his 20s and suffering from gunshot wounds, was pronounced dead at the scene by air ambulance.
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Major British Retailer ‘Adopts Sharia Law’ And Sells Hijabs for Children as Young as 3-Years-Old
The former bastion of all that is British, M&S, no longer represents traditional Britain. Instead, Marks & Spencer have seemingly sold out to become Mohammad & Sharia.
The high street chain has caused a storm by offering a hijab for young children in their shops and online in their school-wear category.
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Mother of Belgian Jihadi May Have Helped Finance Paris Terror Attack
Véronique Loute, mother of Belgian radical Islamist Sammy Djedou, is under investigation on suspicion that the 65,000 euros she sent to her son between 2013 and 2016 may have helped finance the Paris Bataclan massacre.
The investigation into Ms Loute is part of a broader investigation into her son who was a senior member of the Islamic State terror group after travelling from Belgium to Syria but was allegedly killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2016, RTBF reports.
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Norway Accuses Foreign Nationals of 1993 ‘Satanic Verses’ Attack
Norwegian police have formally accused several foreign nationals over a 1993 attack on the Norwegian publisher of “The Satanic Verses”, thus preventing the statute of limitations from closing the case.
The National Criminal Investigation Service said Tuesday “foreign nationals who are not in Norway” were suspected of “attempted murder” in the attack on William Nygaard.
But the agency did not specify their number, identity or nationality.
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One of Emmanuel Macron’s former advisors warned the French President that the day will come that French citizens will be strangers in their own country, BFMTV reports.
There are people, that when the day will come, will make us understand that we are the strangers, Philippe de Villiers said in a TV interview with French broadcaster BFMTV on Thursday.
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Organised Gangs Rent Out ‘Intimate’ Spaces for Migrants in Brussels Park
Belgian police believe that organised criminal gangs in Brussels are capitalising on the migrant crisis by renting out spaces around a city park for migrants to have “intimate time” with prostitutes.
The spaces, all around Brussels’ Maximilien Park, include local apartment storage rooms, toilets, and even tents that have been set up which are rented to the migrants for as little as 10 euros, Sudinfo reports.
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Poland, Hungary Veto EU Human Rights Report Which Ignores Christian and Jewish Persecution
The European Union’s annual report on civil rights will not be officially adopted because it will be vetoed by member states Poland and Hungary, which complain that while it describes protecting LGBT people and immigrants, the growing persecution of Christians and Jews is not mentioned.
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Salvini’s Italy Pushes Brussels Closer to Disintegration — Former Greek Minister
Italy’s deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini is accelerating the “disintegration of the European Union” with his decision to stick with his proposal for the 2019 budget, former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis claimed.
Italy put forward plans to run a 2.4 percent of GDP deficit as part of the country’s 2019 budget, triggering an immediate crackdown from the European Union.
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Scottish Anti-’Hate’ Posters Blasted for Promoting Hate
A Scottish government campaign of anti-”hate” posters that describes Christians and other religious believers as “bigots” is being condemned for generating hate.
One pastor called the campaign’s anti-” hate” line to report the posters.
The international Christian ministry the Barnabas Fund has called on Scotland to withdraw the posters because they “promote anti-Christian prejudice.”
The posters by the One Scotland campaign are addressed “Dear Bigots.”
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FORMER EDL leader Tommy Robinson was confronted by anti-fascist protesters in Glasgow tonight.
The far-right activist was spotted drinking in Weatherspoons pub The Counting House in the city centre.
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Signal Festival Kicks Off in Prague on Thursday Night
The Signal Festival, now in its 6th year, kicks off in Prague on Thursday night. The three day light festival offers visitors over two dozen artistic light installations and video-mappings on three routes in Prague, at indoor and outdoor locations.
I asked Jose Pinto, head of Signal’s operations and marketing, to tell me about this year’s highlights.
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Spain: Islamic State Recruiting in Prisons
more than a dozen Spanish prisons. The network, allegedly linked to the Islamic State, was established and operated by one of the most implacable jihadis in the Spanish prison system — apparently under the noses of prison authorities.
The network’s existence has called into question not only the effectiveness of security procedures in Spanish prisons, but also of Spanish “deradicalization” programs, which are aimed at “rehabilitating” Islamic militants for eventual “reinsertion” into society.
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Stop the Media Lies About Poland!
Three years ago, when Law and Justice political party took control of the Polish government, Western media began a smear campaign against Poland.
The new media narrative is that the party and its supporters were embracing the far right and leading Poland down a racist, nationalistic path.
There is a story in Poland to tell — but it’s not the story the mainstream media is telling you.
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Students Protest Italy’s Populist Government, Burn Salvini Effigy
MILAN (AP) — Students across Italy demonstrated against the government’s education funding plans, in the first widespread show of dissidence against the new populist government.
Students demonstrated in 50 cities, including some 3,000 who ended their protest outside the Education Ministry in Rome. Hundreds gathered in the northern city of Turin, where protesters burned effigies of deputy premiers Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio.
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Swedish Left-Wing Woman Accuses Teenage Girls of Racism and Stabs One
The girls sat waiting for a bus to arrive and joked about a Facebook video. Then a woman suddenly appeared, screaming and accused the girls of being “racists” and cut one of them in the ear with a knife.
The bizarre event took place on the evening of 28 December 2017 in central Gothenburg. The three girls sat quietly on a bench and waited for a bus while joking about a known immigrant on Facebook.
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Swedish Left Party: Any Coalition Deal With Populists is ‘Declaration of War’
Sweden’s Left Party leader Jonas Sjöstedt has declared that he and his party would see any potential coalition deal between the Moderates and the populist Sweden Democrats (SD) as a “declaration of war”.
Mr Sjöstedt, who has been chairman of the Left Party since 2012, made the comments to warn Moderate party leader Ulf Kristersson who is seen as the most likely to be able to form a new government, Nyheter Idag reports.
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David Cornstein, the US Ambassador to Hungary stressed the importance of the Central European University (CEU) at an event held in the university on Wednesday afternoon, according to Hungarian news website Index.
He said that during the first 100 days of his work in Budapest, the issue of CEU was the most frequently discussed question.
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UK: ‘Diversity Not a Choice’: May to Force Firms to Publish ‘Ethnicity Pay Gap’
Theresa May is ramping up her efforts to portray the UK as institutionally racist, and show she is solving the alleged problem by forcing private companies and public sector employers to reveal their “ethnicity pay gap”.
According to the proposals, bosses must reveal how much different ethnic minority employees earn compared to white people, with difference likely to be blamed on racism and discrimination.
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UK: Baroness Warsi: Muslims Who ‘Made Mistakes’ And Spread Extremism Should be Forgiven
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has said the UK must not “become a country that polices thought” and speech, and Muslims who say potentially “extreme” things should be forgiven.
The Tory peer — who has called for a crackdown on “Islamophobia” and last year demanded an investigation into and sanctions for supposed anti-Muslim “hate speech” in newspapers — gave the speech Tuesday defending Muslims who may insult women, homosexuals, and minorities, as they “make mistakes”.
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UK: Blair Says 50/50 Chance of Second Brexit Vote, Urges Labour to Block Deal
Tony Blair believes Britons would welcome a second referendum on European Union (EU) membership that could block Brexit, claiming there is a 50 percent chance of it happening.
The Former Labour Prime Minister also said Theresa May is unlikely to get her Chequers Brexit plan through parliament, urging Labour MPs to vote against it. Up to 80 Tories are also reportedly considering voting it down.
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Cambridge University students have rejected a proposal to honour British veterans on the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One, with activists claiming it was “imperialist propaganda” that “valourised” war.
The original motion put to the student union by the Cambridge University Conservative Association (CUCA) called for the university to be “more proactive in promoting the cause of Remembrance” and to “ensure that Remembrance Day becomes a well-established and well-marked event across the university”.
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UK: Ethnic Breakdown of Grooming Suspects ‘Should be Addressed’
“If we don’t ask these questions, Tommy Robinson will”
A COUNCILLOR has asked what is being done to address the fact that a “shocking” amount of suspects in grooming cases in Bradford were of Pakistani origin.
Councillor David Ward (Lib Dem/Independent, Bolton and Undercliffe ) was referring to recently released figures that show that around 63 per cent of child sexual exploitation suspects identified in the past year were classed as Asian/Pakistani.
He was told that the high proportion was due to a specific ongoing police investigation into historic grooming offences in the district, which had identified a large number of Asian suspects.
The question was asked during a meeting of Bradford Council’s Children’s Services Scrutiny Committee last night, when members were discussing an annual report into CSE in the district.
The report reveals that from April 2017 to the end of March this year, there have been 317 CSE flagged offences recorded on Police systems.
People of Pakistani descent made up around 63 per cent of the suspects identified in that period, with white British suspects making up around 20 per cent.
During the meeting, which was attended by members of the police, Bradford Council officers and children’s charity Barnardos, Cllr Ward said: “These charts show a disproportionate number of perpetrators that are Asian, and it is something we need to address.
“If we don’t ask these questions, Tommy Robinson will next time he is down in Bradford.
“There is nothing in this report that really refers to this statistic. It is a shocking statistic — 63 per cent of perpetrators. This has an enormous impact on community cohesion, but we have to ask these questions, if we don’t others will.”…
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Hundreds of children are being exploited by dozens of criminal gangs for sex, drug trafficking, and other criminal activity in multicultural Bradford.
A new report produced by the local council suggests 471 youngsters have been brought into or are connected with some 51 organised criminal organisations operating in the northern English city, according to the BBC.
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UK: Infamous Islamic State Recruiter Anjem Choudary to Walk Free Next Week
Infamous Islamist terror-supporter Anjem Choudary will walk free next week, after finishing around half his jail term for recruiting for Islamic State.
He could be out as soon as Wednesday, The Sun has learnt, with the extremist expected to be given a “safe house” and allowed to claim benefits from the taxpayer when he is free.
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When Tommy Robinson goes anywhere, he is met with people who thank him, ask for selfies, genuinely love and appreciate all he is doing to fight for our women and children in this country.
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UK: Met Boss Who Hid in Car During Westminster Attack ‘Guilty of Cowardice’, Say Police Colleagues
Met boss Sir Craig Mackey is receiving a massive backlash from police veterans and serving officers for his decision to stay locked in his car and watch while PC Keith Palmer was murdered by a radical Islamic terrorist during the Westminster attack in 2017.
Sir Craig, who was Acting Commissioner for London’s Metropolitan Police when Khalid Masood mowed down several pedestrians outside Parliament before attacking the unarmed police officer with two carving knives at the gates, is currently Deputy Commissioner under Cressida Dick — but is set to retire with a substantial pension under his belt in December 2018.
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UK: Marks and Spencer Criticised for Selling School Uniform Hijabs for Toddlers
Marks and Spencer has been criticised for selling hijabs as part of its school uniform range, with anti-extremism campaigner Majid Nawaz condemning the leading British department store for “facilitating medievalism”.
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Nigel Farage has joined the chorus of MPs from every side, including Tories, UKIP, DUP and Labour, even former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who are absolutely against PM Theresa May’s Customs Union plan that would imprison the UK in the EU for years to come, describing it as “a betrayal of the Brexit vote”.
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UK: Police Must ‘Reflect’ On Impact and ‘Trauma’ Of Manchester Attack Investigation on Local Muslims
Police have been told to “reflect upon the community impact” on Manchester’s “large Muslim population” caused by their investigation into last year’s attack in the city, where children and their parents were massacred by a local Muslim extremist.
Max Hill QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, revealed that at least one local Muslim woman had been paid compensation and claimed many had been “inconvenienced if not traumatised” by the manhunt for suspects linked to the Manchester arena attack.
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The Chairman of the Sussex Police Federation has called on Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Sir Craig Mackey to resign and be stripped of his knighthood and Queen’s Police Medal.
“The impact of [Sir Craig’s] actions on the rank-and-file police officers will do nothing to dispel the feeling that the bosses don’t care about the troops and don’t understand what they do,” Inspector Matt Webb wrote in The Telegraph.
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UN Human Rights Committee Set to Challenge French Burqa Ban
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has heard complaints from two women in France regarding the country’s ban on Islamic full face veils, with sources claiming they could challenge the law.
The committee, which is comprised of lawyers and other judicial professionals, is expected to present the results of an inquiry into whether or not the French law on banning the burqa and niqab violates religious freedom sometime later this month, La Croix reports.
According to the French newspaper, sources close to the committee claim that the legal experts have determined that the ban violates human rights, and are expected to reveal findings that support repealing the 2010 law.
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War on Choice: UK Government Sets ‘Calorie Cap’ For Pizzas, Burgers… Even Soup
Restaurants and supermarkets have been told to shrink pizzas or remove toppings under “drastic” new government plans to calorie cap thousands of foods sold in the UK.
Draft guidelines unveiled by Public Health England (PHE) would see recommended calorie limits set for regularly consumed items including sandwiches, cooking sauces, pies, soups, and processed meats, the Daily Telegraph reports.
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With 100 Sharia Courts and 423 New Mosques London is More Islamic Than Many Muslim Countries
Mosques are popping up all over Britain, especially in it’s capital city of London. Sharia courts are in full function in London; handing out actual decisions to London’s ever growing Muslim population.
“London is more Islamic than many Muslim countries put together,” Islamic preacher Maulana Syed Raza Rizvi told local media
Churches still outnumber mosques in Britain, but there are many mosques that are becoming overcrowded. Five years ago the Daily Mail published photos of churches and mosques in London. The difference was astonishing.
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Andrew Brunson: Turkey Releases US Pastor After Two Years
A court in Turkey has freed a US pastor from house arrest in a case that badly strained ties between the US and Turkey.
Andrew Brunson was arrested over alleged links to political groups, including the banned Gulenist movement, after a failed coup attempt in 2016.
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Saudi Arabia’s Embarrassing Bid to Join the Francophonie Family
For the past two years, Saudi Arabia has been trying to join the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF). But some member countries believe Riyadh’s bid is at odds with the democratic ideals promoted by the grouping.
The 2018 summit of the Organisation Internationale de la francophonie (OIF) — generally known as la Francophonie — on October 11 and 12 in Armenia promises to throw up some tough discussions and expose fault lines within the grouping. This includes the thorny issue of Saudi Arabia’s bid to gain observer member status in la Francophonie, the French-speaking equivalent of the Commonwealth.
It’s not the first time that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom has submitted its application. At the last Francophonie summit in Madagascar in 2016, Riyadh’s bid was sidestepped following heated closed door discussions between delegates, sources present at the meeting told reporters…
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Turkey ‘Has Recording Proving Saudi Murder’
Turkish officials have audio and video evidence that shows missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, the BBC has been told.
Mr Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi government, has not been seen since he entered the building on 2 October.
Turkish intelligence had “documented evidence” of the murder, a source close to the investigation said.
Saudi Arabia’s interior minister has dismissed the accusations.
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New Call for Moscow to Return Polish Presidential Plane Wreck
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on Friday adopted a resolution calling on Moscow to return the wreckage of a Polish presidential plane that crashed in western Russia in 2010.
Russia has refused to return the wreck to Poland, claiming that it is continuing to investigate the crash.
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China Legalises Xinjiang Internment Camps
China’s far-western Xinjiang region has inserted into its anti-extremism regulations new clauses that prescribe the use of “vocational training centres” to “educate and transform” people influenced by extremist ideology.
Reports of mass detentions and strict surveillance of ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims have sparked a growing international outcry, prompting the United States to consider sanctions against officials and companies linked to allegations of human rights abuses.
Chinese officials have denied enforcing arbitrary detention and political re-education across a network of secret camps, instead saying that some citizens guilty of minor offences were sent to vocational centres to provide future employment opportunities…
China says Xinjiang faces a serious threat from Islamist militants and separatists and has rejected all accusations of mistreatment in an area where hundreds have been killed in recent years in unrest between Uighurs and members of the ethnic
Han Chinese majority.
The three new clauses are the first time the regulations, which first came into effect in April last year, refer to vocational training centres.
“Governments above the county level can set up education and transformation organisations and supervising departments such as vocational training centres, to educate and transform people who have been influenced by extremism,” one of the clauses said.
Separately, the capital of Xinjiang has launched a campaign against halal products to stop Islam penetrating secular life and fuelling “extremism”.
In a meeting on Monday, the Communist Party leaders of Urumqi led cadres to swear an oath to “fight a decisive battle against ‘pan-halalization’,” according to a notice posed on the city’s official WeChat account.
Everyday halal products, like food and toothpaste, must be produced according to Islamic law.
The official Global Times said on Wednesday that the “demand that things be halal which cannot really be halal” was fuelling hostility towards religion and allowing Islam to penetrate secular life.
As part of the anti-halal campaign, Ilshat Osman, Urumqi’s ethnically Uighur head prosecutor, penned an essay entitled: “Friend, you do not need to find a halal restaurant specially for me”.
According to the WeChat post, government employees should not have any diet problems and work canteens would be changed so that officials could try all kinds of cuisine.
The Urumqi Communist Party leaders also said they would require government officials and party members to firmly believe in Marxism-Leninism, and not religion, and to speak standard Mandarin Chinese in public.
Chinese citizens are theoretically free to practise any religion, but they have been subject to increasing levels of surveillance as the government tries to bring religious worship under stricter state control.
The Communist Party in August issued a revised set of regulations governing its members’ behaviour, threatening punishments or expulsion for anyone who clung to religious beliefs.
(REUTERS)
Date created : 2018-10-10
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China Seen Bringing ‘Unprecedented’ Attempts at Interference in US Elections
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“China absolutely is exerting unprecedented effort to influence American opinion,” Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen said at a Senate hearing on national security on Oct. 10, in response to a question about election integrity.
“They are bringing everything they have to bear. They are playing a long game. They are trying to influence us in every way possible.”
FBI Director Christopher Wray, whose agency is responsible for addressing outside influence to American elections, highlighted the threat from China.
“I think China represents the broadest, most complicated, most long-term intelligence threat we face,” Wray told a Senate committee on Oct. 10. “It affects every sector of our economy, every state in the country, and just about every aspect of what we hold dear.”
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Chinese Spy Extradited to US for Attempt to Steal Tech From Leading US Aviation Firms
Xu was arrested in Belgium in April and recently extradited to the United States—the first ever such case for a Chinese MSS official, according to U.S. Attorney Benjamin Glassman. He will face trial in federal court in Cincinnati, Ohio.
According to the court indictment, Xu, who went by aliases, including Qu Hui and Zhang Hui, was assigned by the MSS to obtain technical information, including trade secrets, from U.S. and European aviation and aerospace companies, for the interests of the Chinese government.
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Chinese Regime Wages Campaign Against Dance Company—and Fails
Xiang Dong, who has helped to present Shen Yun in the Washington area for more than 10 years, has seen how far the regime will go in order to try to damage the company.
The regime’s motives for doing so are not hard to understand. Since the CCP came to power in 1949, it has sought to destroy traditional Chinese culture. Shen Yun’s mission is to bring that culture back to life. The regime’s hostility is, Xiang said, “natural” to it. But she believes its attempts to interfere with the performing arts company will not succeed.
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Chinese Intelligence Officer Charged With Economic Espionage, Extradited to U.S.
The Department of Justice stated in an October 10 news release that a Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) operative, Yanjun Xu, had been arrested and charged with conspiring and attempting to commit economic espionage and steal trade secrets from multiple U.S. aviation and aerospace companies. Xu was extradited to the United States on October 9.
The release stated that Xu is a Deputy Division Director with the MSS’s Jiangsu State Security Department. The MSS, which is China’s intelligence and security agency, is responsible for counter-intelligence, foreign intelligence, and political security. MSS has broad powers in China to conduct espionage both domestically and abroad, the release noted.
The indictment against Xu stated that going back to at least December 2013 and continuing until his arrest, the Chinese national targeted certain companies inside and outside the United States that are recognized as leaders in the aviation field, including GE Aviation, based in Ohio.
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Chinese Authorities Launch ‘Anti-Halal’ Crackdown in Xinjiang
Authorities in Xinjiang have launched a campaign against the “spread of halal”, claiming the growing number of halal products is encouraging religious extremism in the heavily monitored Chinese region.
Party officials in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, which is home to about 12 million people from Muslim minorities, on Monday called on government officers to strengthen the “ideological struggle” and fight “halalification” or the “pan-halal tendency,” a post on the Urumqi People’s ProcuratorateWechat account said.
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Leaked Transcript of Private Meeting Contradicts Google’s Official Story on China
“WE HAVE TO be focused on what we want to enable,” said Ben Gomes, Google’s search engine chief. “And then when the opening happens, we are ready for it.”
It was Wednesday, July 18, and Gomes was addressing a team of Google employees who were working on a secretive project to develop a censored search engine for China, which would blacklist phrases like “human rights,” “student protest,” and “Nobel Prize.”
“You have taken on something extremely important to the company,” Gomes declared, according to a transcript of his comments obtained by The Intercept. “I have to admit it has been a difficult journey. But I do think a very important and worthwhile one. And I wish ourselves the best of luck in actually reaching our destination as soon as possible.”
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South Korea’s Moon Optimistic About End to Korean War
South Korean President Moon Jae-in has told the BBC that it is only a matter of time before the US and North Korea declare an end to their state of war on the Korean peninsula.
The war ended in 1953 with an armistice but a peace treaty was never signed.
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A Chinese property developer has been sentenced to four years in jail, with a non-parole period of two-and-a-half years, for raping a model after attending a billionaire’s Sydney party.
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Western Diets Linked to Depression — Study
Does fast food contribute to depression? Can a healthy diet combat mental illness?
In an unusual experiment, James Cook University researchers in Australia have found that among Torres Strait Islander people the amount of fish and processed food eaten is related to depression.
A JCU research team led by Professors Zoltan Sarnyai and Robyn McDermott looked at the link between depression and diet on a Torres Strait island, where fast food is available, and on a more isolated island, which has no fast food outlets.
Dr. Maximus Berger, the lead author of the study, said the team interviewed about 100 people on both islands.
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South Africa’s Zulu Nation Joins White Farmers to Protest Government Land Seizures
Now, this is what unity looks like. South Africa’s Zulu nation has joined forces with white farmers being subjected to racial land seizures in order to prevent the atrocity.
The largest ethnic group in South Africa, Zulu, has spoken out against the racial expropriation of land without compensation in the country. Zulu is ready to cooperate with the country’s white farmers, known as “Afrikaners” or “Boers” to prevent the seizure of their land, reported RT. Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has said the group will cooperate with South African minority rights group AfriForum because they desire to eat in the future.
“The Zulu nation I’m talking about will not exist if we don’t have food. That’s why I say farmers must come closer so that we discuss what we can do when we talk about agriculture and the availability of enough food in the land. That’s why I’m asking AfriForum of the Boers to come and help us,” Zwelithini said, as quoted by eNews Channel Africa. “Because when government started talking about the appropriation of land, expropriation without compensation, Boers downed tools. There is no food in South Africa,” he added.
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Assange’s Lawyer Plans to Take Legal Action Against Ecuador’s Foreign Minister
On Friday, Ecuador’s top diplomat, Jose Valencia Amores, reiterated the country’s decision to grant asylum to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks’ founder, Julian Assange.
Julian Assange’s legal team is planning to take legal action against the Ecuadorian foreign minister, Jose Valencia Amores, for having publicized confidential information about the whistleblower’s asylum process, Assange’s lawyer Carlos Poveda told Sputnik on Thursday.
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Ecuador Gets UN Praise for ‘Freedom of Expression’ As Assange Remains Gagged in Embassy Limbo
UN official praised Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno for his treatment of journalists despite the fact that the leader is said to be preparing to hand over WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange to the governments persecuting him.
UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye commended Ecuador and Moreno for supposedly promoting freedom of speech — the same Moreno that recently cut off communications to fugitive whistleblower Julian Assange and has been mulling handing him over to the UK and the US to be tried as a spy.
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FBI Warns Drones ‘Will be Used’ By ISIS, MS-13 to Attack U.S.
The FBI has warned that militant groups abroad could use their wartime knowledge to transform commercially available drones into deadly weapons in the United States.
In a written testimony submitted Wednesday to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that the “threat from Unmanned Aircraft Systems [UAS] in the U.S. is steadily escalating.” He highlighted the tendencies of jihadi organizations such as Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), as well as criminal groups like MS-13 and Mexican drug cartels to utilize such technology, something that “may encourage use of this technique in the U.S. to conduct attacks.”
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France Summons Venezuela Ambassador Over ‘Suspicious’ Death
PARIS — France’s Foreign Ministry says it has summoned Venezuela’s ambassador to France over the “suspicious” death earlier this week of an opposition councilor jailed by Venezuelan intelligence police on allegations he plotted to kill President Nicolas Maduro.
In a statement Thursday, the Quai d’Orsay said Hector Michel Mujica Ricardo was summoned earlier in the day. “France hopes light will be shed on this death through an impartial and independent investigation.”
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500,000 Afghan Migrants Are Ready to Enter Europe Via Unprotected Turkish-Greek Border Area
Up to half a million migrants from Afghanistan are waiting for a chance to sneak into Europe, Greek newspaper Kathimerini reports.
The newspaper says that 500,000 Afghans have recently entered Turkey from Iran and Iraq, with the intention of coming to Europe.
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Cross in Lesvos Pulled Down After Coexistence Group on the Island Claims it’s Offensive to Migrants
A huge cement Christian cross, which was built on the rocky shore of Apelli, under the castle of Mytilene in Lesvos, in honour of the people that have died swimming there has been pulled down as a co-existence group based on the island claimed it was offensive to migrants who are not Christian.
According to Lesvos News, the placement of the cross caused negative reactions from aid organisations and a letter was sent to the Harbour Minister of Lesvos and the Mayor of Lesvos, by a coexistence group in Lesvos, stating the Cross was placed there to prevent migrants from swimming. …
A few days after this, the cross was taken down overnight.
The announcement of coexistence has caused strong reactions from locals who believe it goes against the religious beliefs of the majority of the inhabitants on the island.
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Decade of Low-Skilled Migration ‘No Benefit’ To UK Citizens, Cost Taxpayers Money
A decade of mass migration of low-skilled workers from EU nations has provided “no clear benefits” to British citizens, MPs have been told, as corporate interests fight to keep the border wedged open.
Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) chairman Professor Alan Manning said that the influx of migrants in low-wage jobs seen since Labour dismantled the UK’s border with eastern Europe “hasn’t really had positive effects and has had negative effects”.
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France: Far-Left Anarchists Removed From Occupied Church They Used to Help Illegal Migrants
Fifteen far-left anarchists from Italy and France were removed from a church on the French-Italian border where they were believed to have sheltered and helped illegal immigrants.
The anarchists had occupied the church in the Italian border town of Claviere in the Susa valley since April and had been using the building as a shelter for migrants attempting to cross the border illegally from Italy into France, Il Giornale reports.
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Germany: Outrage Over Short Sentences for Migrants Who Gang Raped 13-Year-Old
Weak punishments of as little as one year and eight months, suspended, for a migrant rape gang which targeted a 13-year-old girl have sparked outrage in Germany.
Eight migrants aged 14 to 17 and holding Bulgarian citizenship had sexually harassed the victim at a swimming pool in a Velbert, North Rhine-Westphalia, and dragged her into the woods as she was making her way home in the early evening, reports Der Spiegel.
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Domenico Lucano, Mayor of Riace in Calabria, southern Italy, has been arrested as he is suspected of promoting illegal immigration and helping immigrants illegally stay in the country.
Lucano has won international recognition by other multiculturalists since he filled his small town, Riace in Calabria in southern Italy, with illegal immigrants, or “thousands of refugees”, as Reuters words it.
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The ancient mythical Greek island of Lesbos is today better known as anchorage ground for human traffickers and the problems and conflicts that have arisen in connection with the boat traffic.
It is now reported that a large cross monument on the Greek Orthodox Christian island has been levelled to the ground. This after a group claiming to promote intercultural coexistence argued that the cross could be perceived as offensive to the predominantly Muslim boat migrants.
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Lesvos: Huge Christian Cross Near Refugee Hot-Spot Destroyed!
A huge cement Christian cross, which was built on the rocky shore of Apelli, under the castle of Mytilene in Lesvos, in honour of the people that drowned during the recent refugee and illegal immigrant flow, was destroyed on Sunday night. The perpetrators have not been known yet.
The cross was built in early September and caused the reactions of particular members of the NGO “Coexistence and Communication in the Aegean”, which called the cross “offensive to the symbol of Christianity, a symbol of love and sacrifice and not of racism and intolerance”! …
Today’s act since it became known, has prompted strong protests from the people of Lesvos, some of whom are preparing to reconstruct the cross.
According to the authorities, the presence of a large number of asylum seekers on the island is a serious factor in creating serious social problems in Lesvos.
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Levy: ‘Irregular’ Migrants Continue to Flock Into Toronto
Ottawa, we have a problem.
It’s not just that Toronto’s shelters are full — with 2,600 or 39.2% of the spaces occupied by refugees, er asylum seekers, irregular migrants (whatever we’re calling them today.)
But according to city spokesman Natasha Hinds Fitzsimmins Tuesday, some 18-20 are arriving in the city per day, mostly from Nigeria.
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Merkel’s Germany to Splurge Billions on Housing, ‘Integration’ For Migrants to 2022
Angela Merkel will distribute €6.85 billion (£5.98 billion) to Germany’s regions to help pay for accommodation, social housing subsidies, and language classes for migrants, according to a Reuters source.
The Chancellor’s electoral power base has been eroded since her unilateral decision to invite migrants into Europe in 2015, resulting in an influx of over a million people from the Middle East, South Asia, and the Global South more generally.
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Migrant Celebrates Swedish Citizenship by Raping Woman and Tells Her: ‘Now I Can Do What I Want’
A 29-year-old migrant has been sentenced to prison for raping a woman at a public bath on the island Ingarö in the archipelago outside Stockholm, Fria Tider reports.
He pushed the woman, who has insufficient swimming skills, into the water off a concrete bathing pier, and then carried out the rape in the water, according to the judgment.
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Poland Will Not Sign UN Migration Treaty: ‘We Want Poles to be Safe in Their Country’
With the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration deal set to be formally adopted at the UN conference in Morocco 10-11 December, many countries have indicated potential problems the compact will cause.
Though not legally binding, the treaty could promote the facilitation of border crossing procedures.
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Poland, Austria to Quit UN Migration Compact: ‘We Want Poles to be Safe in Their Own Country’
Austria may join the U.S. and Hungary in withdrawing from the United Nations (UN) migration pact, Sebastian Kurz has said, following news that Poland is preparing to quit the agreement over security concerns.
At a press conference Wednesday, the Austrian leader cited concern over sovereignty relating to the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, which claims that huge movements of people across borders are “inevitable, necessary, and desirable”.
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Pro-Migration Activist Raped by Moroccan Migrant in France
Last Saturday, a female pro-migration activist accused a Moroccan migrant of raping her; French tabloid La Voix du Nord reports.
The incident allegedly took place on 4 October, when the two people were in a mobile-home in Calais. According to the French tabloid the Moroccan man is a pro-migration activist as well.
Public prosecutor Pascal Marconville confirmed that the woman pressed charges against a man, who describes himself as “Moroccan”, who works in the same charity as her, of having raped her.
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Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini is planning a 9 p.m. curfew for “ethnic shops” which attract drunks, drug dealers, and “people who raise hell” at night.
The populist-nationalist League (Lega) leader, whose popularity has surged since he joined with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) to form a eurosceptic, anti-mass migration coalition, announced the controversial policy in a Facebook address reported by Euronews.
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Study: Italian Children Fleeing Heavily Migrant Populated Schools
A study claims that schools in Milan with high proportions of migrant pupils are seeing “white flight”, while teachers beg the government to help with increasing numbers of children who do not speak Italian.
The study, entitled “White flight in Milan: The social and ethnic segregation in compulsory schools,” examined the major urban areas of Italy’s second largest city and found that up to 56 percent of Milanese families were enrolling their children into non-catchment area schools to avoid schools with high proportions of migrants, Il Giornale reports.
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Switzerland Deported Over 1,000 Migrant Criminals in 2017
While other countries in Europe struggle with deportations, Switzerland’s statistics office has claimed that the country has deported over 1,000 criminal migrants in 2017.
According to the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, 1,039 foreign criminals were ordered to be deported from the country last year, with the largest number, 348, coming from the Balkans, 20 Minutes reports.
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The Greeks Fight Back! Citizens Reinstall Vandalised Cross Monument That ‘Insulted Migrants’
As we recently reported a large cross monument on the Greek Orthodox Christian island of Lesbos was levelled to the ground.
This, after a group claiming to promote intercultural coexistence, argued that the cross could be perceived as ‘offensive’ to the predominantly Muslim boat migrants.
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Turkish Airlines Passengers Help Criminal Migrant as He Resists Being Deported From UK to Somalia
A criminal migrant was meant to be deported from the UK, and brought on to a flight from Heathrow to Istanbul on Tuesday afternoon, the Daily Mail reports.
He screamed until passengers demanded that he be taken off the plane, and after a standoff between passengers and Home Office officials, he was removed.
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Two Italian Policemen Attacked by 50 Migrants
Italian police say more than 50 migrants attacked and wounded two officers attempting to detain a Gambian man who led them on a high speed chase in Cerignola.
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UK: Charities Tell Parliamentarians to Stop Reporting Immigration Crime to Home Office
Pro-open borders charities have demanded that all MPs be forced to cease reporting suspected illegal immigrants and immigration crime in their constituencies after it was revealed lawmakers had made 68 calls to the Home Office last year.
The Home Office disclosed the figures in response to a written question from far-left Labour MP David Lammy, according to the BBC.
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‘You’re Going to Holland’ British Lorry Driver Tells Migrant Stowaways Who Beg Him to Stop
A BRITISH lorry driver filmed himself taunting migrants who were riding on his truck before they quickly realised he wasn’t going in the direction they wanted.
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Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture
On social media, the country seems to divide into two neat camps: Call them the woke and the resentful. Team Resentment is manned—pun very much intended—by people who are predominantly old and almost exclusively white. Team Woke is young, likely to be female, and predominantly black, brown, or Asian (though white “allies” do their dutiful part). These teams are roughly equal in number, and they disagree most vehemently, as well as most routinely, about the catchall known as political correctness.
Reality is nothing like this. As scholars Stephen Hawkins, Daniel Yudkin, Miriam Juan-Torres, and Tim Dixon argue in a report published Wednesday, “Hidden Tribes: A Study of America’s Polarized Landscape,” most Americans don’t fit into either of these camps. They also share more common ground than the daily fights on social media might suggest—including a general aversion to PC culture.
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Australian fertility expert Dr David Molloy said pregnancies will no longer need the input of males in the future thanks to the advancements in fertility technology after baby mice were born to two mothers.
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Student Charged for Allegedly Making False Anti-LGBT Threats Against Herself
A member of student government at Ohio University has been charged with a misdemeanor after she allegedly made false statements to police about receiving threatening messages.
Anna Ayers, who is a member of the OU student senate, was arrested Monday and charged by the Ohio University Police Department with three separate counts of “making false alarms.” It is alleged that Ayers falsely reported multiple threatening messages, including a “death threat,” which she claims was because of her being a member of the LGBTQ community.
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Swedish Football Club Sued for Refusing Girl, Who Identifies as a Boy, To Play for the Boys’ Team
A football club in the south of Sweden is being sued by a family from Malmö. The club excluded the family’s nine-year-old child from the boy’s team, since the child is legally a girl.
The child was born nine years ago as a girl, but, according to the family, has been identifying as a boy for a long time. Among other things, the child has been renamed, from a girl’s name to a boy’s name.
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A “predatory and controlling” biologically male rapist has been jailed for life after attacking vulnerable female inmates in women’s prisons whilst claiming to be transgendered and for the previous rapes of two other women.
Karen White, 52, who was previously known as Stephen Wood, identifies as a woman and was allowed into the female prison. She has now been described as a danger to women and children.
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UK: Equality Institute: Don’t Say ‘Pregnant Women’ As ‘People of All Genders Can Fall Pregnant’
The Equality Institute has deleted a Facebook post advising the public to say “pregnant people” instead of “pregnant women” after attracting thousands of overwhelmingly negative comments.
The self-styled global research and creative agency, whose stated purpose is to “advance gender equality and prevent violence against women and girls”, had advised its over 10,000 followers to “try using the phrase ‘Pregnant people’ because people of all genders can fall pregnant”.
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Global Internet Could Crash in Next 48 Hours
ICANN changing cryptographic key to Domain Name System
Internet users around the world may experience network connection failures on Thursday as the main domain servers and related infrastructure controlling the web will be powered down for some time.
The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is responsible for maintaining the registry of domain names and IP addresses, will be changing the cryptographic key that helps protect the Domain Name System (DNS) or the internet’s address book.
It’s an important measure to ensure a secure, stable, and resilient DNS, according to the Communications Regulatory Authority (CRA).
“To further clarify, some internet users might be affected if their network operators or Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have not prepared for this change. However, this impact can be avoided by enabling the appropriate system security extensions,” it said.
Analyst from the Mobile Research Group Eldar Murtazin explained that internet users may face some difficulties within 48 hours. There may be problems with access to some resources, and slow loading of internet pages. Some users may have problems with access to the network if they use an outdated provider.
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Needless to say, we’re looking into this. We’ve got everyone’s email addresses and so forth, so if we have to set up our own crowdfunding platform, we will do so. However, in light of the fact that Indiegogo has done this retroactively, we are already looking into the legal aspects of their actions. I am not yet aware of any reason, in fact, I do not even know if the scheduled payment for the campaign was delivered on schedule or not two weeks ago. I assume not, but I won’t be able to confirm that until tomorrow.
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United Nations: A $240 Per Gallon Gas Tax is Needed to Fight Climate Change
The United Nations has declared that a $240 per gallon gasoline tax is “needed” to fight climate change. To limit global warming, the UN’s report says that $27,000 per tonne of gasoline will need to be stolen from the public by the year 2100.
For Americans, that’s the same as a $240 per gallon tax on gasoline in the year 2100, should such a recommendation be adopted. In 2030, which is only 12 years away, the report says that the carbon tax would need to be as high as $5,500, and the equivalent to a $49 per gallon gas tax, reported The Daily Caller.
The constant fear mongering and theft of the public in the name of climate change has not dwindled much in the past ten years, and if anything, it has gotten worse. No amount of money will ever be enough to satisfy the ruling class elitists that expect us to just accept that they will continue to steal from us in the name of any agenda they try to scare us about. This is no longer about climate change, but about the desire to steal from those on the very bottom of the economic ladder by those who believe themselves to be superior with authority over everyone.
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An article in Russian and French about how in French schools students admire jihadists.
https://inosmi.ru/social/20181012/243442092.html
http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/politique/2018/10/10/31001-20181010ARTFIG00267-celine-pina-une-note-pointe-le-communautarisme-a-l-ecole-quel-scoop.php
How quickly the world changed. Sophie Marceau, who played in the movie “La Boum” has not yet had time to grow old. Imagine, this film was played behind the “Iron curtain”. But suddenly the era of the “Iron burqa”
An article in German about a Muslim boxer woman. Google translator to help.
Germans can be congratulated on the normalization of such materials.
https://www.berliner-kurier.de/berlin/kiez—stadt/erste-deutsche-boxerin-mit-kopftuch-sie-glaubt-an-allah-und-ihre-faeuste-31421946
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-45838506
Is the joker sentenced to life imprisonment?
“The report reveals that from April 2017 to the end of March this year, there have been 317 CSE flagged offences recorded on Police systems.
People of Pakistani descent made up around 63 per cent of the suspects identified in that period, with white British suspects making up around 20 per cent.
During the meeting, which was attended by members of the police, Bradford Council officers and children’s charity Barnardos, Cllr Ward said: “These charts show a disproportionate number of perpetrators that are Asian, and it is something we need to address.”
The counciller went on to note there was no comment in the report with regards to 63% of the suspects being of Pakistani ethnicity.
More sweeping under the carpet.
I sent in the original link for this item. Anyone who uses that link will find an excellent pie-chart of the origins of the suspects. I have forwarded the link to many of my friends to use and to forward to others.
“Met boss Sir Craig Mackey is receiving a massive backlash from police veterans and serving officers for his decision to stay locked in his car and watch while PC Keith Palmer was murdered by a radical Islamic terrorist during the Westminster attack in 2017.”
The comparison of negligence might be a Fire Department Chief sitting in his car while a building with trapped people burnt, and the Fire crew had yet to arrive. Mackey should have run into “harm’s way” to assist the PC. But I suspect he is a career political bureaucrat and a coward.
The official explanation, which I heard on BBC Radio 4 a couple of days ago, is that Mackey had two civilians in the car with him, and none were armed.
The Police Federation are not happy with his conduct, and they may have access to contradictory information; let’s await developments?
Imam was probably threatened by the dungeons of Lubyanka.
The head of the Council of Muftis of Russia refuted the information about the oppression of Muslims in China
“I know the Chinese Ummah, I have repeatedly visited the People’s Republic of China, visited regions where our Muslim Brothers live compactly. And according to their data, they give us — in our speeches, in our separate meetings and negotiations, we see that The Chinese Muslim Association, which unites all Muslims, they don’t feel oppressed. They don’t feel that there is any discrimination from the Chinese government, ”said Gainnutdin.
https://ria.ru/amp/religion/20181010/1530365035.html
“A pro-multicultural group on the Greek island of Lesvos pulled down a monument in the form of a cross, saying that it might offend non-Christian migrants on the island. However, local Greek residents on the island collaborated to restore the cross.”
In an established Christian _ social order _ (which is what exists many places around the world, not Christianity itself)….
One attends the primary meetings (aka Christian church services of some kind), pays one’s dues (aka Sunday church collections), pays at least lip service to the system and goes about one’s life well aware of and cautious about what’s expected and thus survives for a while. It is, after all, a social order often claimed to be inspired by an ultimately supreme power.
If one was taught another _ social order _ (example, Judaism), one can skip the primary meetings and often, but not necessarily always, the dues.
Thus taught my grandmother who was born and raised (reared) in the 19th century in a now defunct empire.
Such “multicultural groups” just may be lacking the notion of the “ultimately supreme power” and may be acting purely on a defensive basis, as in “The burglar is or certainly will get in the house and we have to appease him….”
“JD” must be James Delingpole, a ranter of climate-change denial and one of the two main reasons, in my view, why Breitbart News remains unacceptable to millions of people. He surpasses even the leftist MSM in irrational, hyperbolic sensationalism.
Why the Right can’t or won’t reap a huge advantage over the Left, simply by leaving blatant [bloviators] outside its own public image and pointing out the far more numerous ones among the libs, is beyond me. WHO IN THE WORLD could be so foolish as to duplicate the leftists’ favorite tactic of wild exaggeration, in addressing a *conservative* audience?
Gates of Vienna admin be devout climate deniers, for the “science” appended to this subject is nothing but bullied ‘consensus’. A science that dare not admit variation to its scheme is but dogma.
It’s my experience that human induced climate change skeptics tend to be conservative and conversely that promoters tend to be leftwing and socialist.
I’ve been waiting over 20 years for the sea level to rise from the panic mongering my generation were subjected to at school. I remember the ozone layer nonsense too.
Meanwhile global emissions have skyrocketed since then and the only solutions involve western countries paying more taxes while everyone is happy when a new airport is opened.
That’s why Trump’s supporters like him. He walked away from those Paris Accords that other western states signed onto and ignored.
For a useful place to check out climate stories, try “Watts Up With That”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/10/13/president-trump-witholding-money-from-climate-research-thats-where-it-hurts/
There was thinning of the ozone layer, but allegedly caused by CFCs from aerosol cans and refrigeration coolants. Since these were banned, improvement seems to be occurring, but slowly:http://theconversation.com/is-earths-ozone-layer-still-at-risk-5-questions-answered-91470
I believe a “climate change” is a real cyclical thing: The “human induced” is what makes me think that witch hunts are back, because “someone screwed up the weather”.
If you live in one spot long enough and pay attention – e.g., through gardening or simply taking a walk once a week – you become aware of those cycles. Some scientists correlate them with sunspot cycles – about twenty-two years or so.
Yes, indeed, witch hunts are back; they have been since alarmists
found a way to make money scaring everyoneand decided we were going tofreezeboil to death. There would be famines, remember? Back in the last decades of the 20th century, they were predicting the end of us. Yet we are here and still in the way.Human-induced climate change is a logical proposition, but like all propositions, it requires disinterested investigation.
We live in an age where “disinterested investigation” has no room to breathe. We MUST take sides if our betters tell us so. The notion of a ‘logical’ proposition is too cruel to be considered.
“Pro-migration activist raped by Moroccan migrant in France ”
What a joke , and deservedly so . At least she was exposed to that what is to come , and hopefully enlightened , the hard way . ( no puns intended )
None taken. Though you could have said “the difficult way”. But punning is a noble career; however even the best have to keep their day jobs.
“A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged” used to be the line.