Mail bombs were sent to George Soros, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and CNN’s headquarters in New York. The devices were intercepted and rendered harmless before they could do any damage.
There was also a report that a suspicious package sent to Senator Elizabeth Warren’s office contained smallpox-contaminated blankets, but this turned out to be a hoax.
In other news, three men were arrested in Kuwait for allegedly raping a policeman.
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Student Loan Default Problem Worse Than Thought (No Kidding!)
Student loan debt is around $1.5 trillion. Theoretically, the size of a loan isn’t nearly as important as the ability to pay back the loan. Alas, most of this loan debt was for fake education; when I first started this blog I covered in detail how fraudulent much of the education in higher education is, by publishing everything in my book on the subject (this basically the first two years of my blog posts). For the bulk of students with student loans, it is mathematically impossible to pay off their debts, because they were given bogus educations of no value.
When students default, things get worse: the debts simply get larger. You can’t escape student debt through bankruptcy. So, if you default, the debt increases, and obviously you can’t pay the larger debt either…it’s a death spiral.
I’ve maintained the true default rate is far higher than what is claimed (“around 2%”). The reason for the deception is the vast array of programs which cover up the defaults, as well as schools using accounting tricks. I’ve been saying this obvious fact for years, but a recent article concedes that, yeah, something is very wrong with student debt:…
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Brad Parscale: Big Tech is Meddling With Free Speech… and Elections
The biggest of the Big Tech companies are quickly positioning themselves as the internet’s thought police, threatening to stamp out one of America’s most cherished freedoms — the right to free speech.
The internet has clearly evolved into the public square of the 21st century. Over the last couple of election cycles, it’s become the number one source for sharing and discussing political and social ideas.
Unfortunately, Big Tech monsters like Google and Facebook have become nothing less than incubators for far-left liberal ideologies and are doing everything they can to eradicate conservative ideas and their proponents from the internet.
Without any sort of public mandate beyond its own ideological predisposition, the Big Tech leviathan is silencing the silent majority. A leaked internal Google brief with the Orwellian title “The Good Censor” proves this point by laying out the search giant’s plan for controlling the internet.
Google begins the report by echoing the liberal contention that free speech is a “social, economic, and political weapon,” calling it a “utopian” idea that’s no longer practical because internet users are “behaving badly.”
The report portrays President Trump as one of those free speech offenders and labels him as a conspiracy theorist for pointing out — correctly — that Google manipulated search results to favor Hillary Clinton in 2016.
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Explosive Devices Mailed to Obama, Hillary Clinton, Others Prompt Security Scare
Packages containing suspected explosive devices were intercepted en route to some of the most prominent political figures in the country — including former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — putting law enforcement on high alert Wednesday and prompting evacuations and sweeps of several facilities.
CNN’s New York office was among those evacuated due to the discovery of an apparent explosive device. Law enforcement officers said the incidents appear related, and the devices appear to be pipe bombs. A law enforcement official directly involved in the investigation tells Fox News that the devices have similar packaging, labelling and postage — leading investigators to believe that one person or group is responsible.
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Feds Investigating Suspicious Packages Sent to Clintons and Barack Obama
The Times reported that the device was similar to one found at the home of George Soros
A law enforcement official told The New York Times that the “explosive device” sent to the Clintons’ home in Chappaqua, New York, was found by a technician who screens mail for the former president and his family.
The Secret Service said in a statement that the package addressed to Obama was intercepted by agency personnel in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday morning.
“The Secret Service has initiated a full scope criminal investigation that will leverage all available federal, state, and local resources to determine the source of the packages and identify those responsible,” Assistant Special Agent Mason Brayman said in the statement.
[Comment: Likely a leftist attempt to paint conservatives in bad light.]
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ISIS Flag on Mail Bomb Sent to CNN
A Daily Beast journalist has pointed out a clue to the motive behind the mail bombings that was hiding in plain sight — what appears to be an ISIS flag on the package addressed to John Brennan and CNN.
“This looks like an ISIS flag on the pipebomb sent to CNN/Brennan,” tweeted Lachlan Markay.
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More Than Half a Million People: America’s Homelessness Crisis is Rapidly Exploding on Both Coasts
The homelessness crisis in the United States is getting a lot worse, and it is happening at a pace that is absolutely frightening. Did you realize that more than half a million Americans are homeless right now? One out of every four homeless Americans actually has a job, but thanks to rapidly rising housing prices they are not able to afford a place to live. So every night in this country, hundreds of thousands of people are sleeping in shelters, in their vehicles or on the streets. It is a national crisis that isn’t going away, and during the next economic downturn it is only going to intensify. I have written about our exploding homelessness crisis on numerous occasions, but I had no idea that the numbers had gotten so large until I came across this article…
Recent estimates indicate that more than 550,000 people experience homelessness in the US on any given night, with about two-thirds ending up in emergency shelters or transitional housing programs, and one-third finding their way to unsheltered locations like parks, vehicles, and metro stations. According to the Urban Institute, about 25% of homeless people have jobs.
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Obama Follows Trump Around Like Sad Shadow on Campaign Trail…
Organizers Use Tricks To Hide Empty Seats At Tiny Rally
Two days ago, President Trump traveled to Elko, Nevada to support Republican candidates running for office in close races. Like every rally for the past couple of years, Trump was met with a massive crowd of supporters. The rally was held outdoors in order to accommodate the large numbers of supporters who came to hear President Trump speak.
Last night, former Democrat President Barack Obama, who’s following the massively popular President Trump around on the campaign trail, like a sad shadow, appeared at a rally at the small Cox Pavillion in Las Vegas, in a show of support for Democrat candidates in Nevada. He was greeted by a tiny crowd of approximately 2,000, according to Fox News’ Peter Doocy.
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Photos and Video: Numbers at Trump Rally Dwarf That of Obama Event 50-1
The optics hint toward a red wave come midterms.
MSM continues to push the narrative that a blue wave is coming in the midterms similar to the lead up to the 2016 presidential election.
Alex exposes the fake news propaganda that is obvious when comparing pictures of Trump’s rally versus Obama’s.
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Ricky Berwick Hammers Away at Internet Censorship
Epic interview brings together two internet favorites
Social media personality and entertainer, Ricky Berwick, joins Alex Jones to discuss Big Tech censorship, free speech, memes, and SJW’s.
Ricky explains that the left is exposing itself as humorless by banning people for speech that is nothing more than joking.
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Silicon Valley is Spending Millions of Dollars to Elect Democrats
It’s become apparent that tech companies are using censorship as a way to interfere with the midterm elections, but they also have money on their side. They are spending billions of dollars to help Democrats win.
In July, President Donald Trump accused Twitter of “shadow banning” prominent Republicans. “Not good,” he tweeted. He also accused Google in a series of tweets in August of playing up negative articles about him in search results.
James Woods SLAMS Twitter CEO: ‘If You Want To Kill My Free Speech, Man Up And Slit My Throat’
According to Federal Election Commission filings, employees of Silicon Valley’s Masters of the Universe have donated millions to Democrat House and Senate candidates ahead of the midterm elections. Breitbart reported that although this is nothing new, employees from these company’s have donated a total of $2.4 million to House and Senate candidates and a mere $179,000 has gone to Republicans. The money going to Republicans accounts for only 8% of the total amount donated.
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‘The Creepy Line’ Director: Google Resembles a ‘Totalitarian Government’ Without Accountability
Breitbart Tech Senior Reporter Allum Bokhari interviewed M.A. Taylor, the director of The Creepy Line — a documentary which reveals “the stunning degree to which society is manipulated by Google and Facebook.” During the interview, Taylor explained how Google resembles a “totalitarian government” more than a private company.
According to M.A. Taylor, the director of The Creepy Line, “If there are lines, technology breaks them. They break barriers, that’s part of what innovation is. So if you’re going to break, and break, and break, and you have the power to do these things, how do you not use that power? Who wouldn’t? If you had a perspective, and you had the ability to change the course of something … you wouldn’t use that power?”
“We all have our own values. We live in a free society. What gives a private company the right to push their values on us, to force their values on us? That sounds like a totalitarian government to me” said Taylor. “That’s more terrifying than any other kind of anti-trust scenario in the last hundred years [like] Standard Oil, and those guys. This is pushing us as a society and humanity in certain directions.”
“Every aspect of your life is under control of Google. And Facebook, we obviously think Facebook is in this category. But … you can not use Facebook. There’s no way to not use Google. There’s no way to separate yourself from that digital entanglement. And there’s no way to get your data back either.”
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When Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012, it seemed like a big gamble for an unproven little app.
Six years later, that little app — along with Messenger and WhatsApp — are serving as Facebook’s safety net for a future that could find its flagship service on the sidelines.
Sure, Facebook reigns in social media today, and this is not likely to change soon.
Still, amid the company’s seemingly endless troubles over elections meddling, misinformation, privacy lapses, hacking and hate speech, the idea that Facebook may not always be on top has begun to take hold.
‘Facebook could collapse,’ said David Kirkpatrick, who wrote a 2010 book on Facebook’s early history.
In an interview, he said the elections manipulations issue ‘could get so terrifying that advertisers could start to back away.
That’s nowhere near happening now, but it could happen.’
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“Beto” O’Rourk, that Irish guy pretending to be Hispanic, is proud of his “F” rating from the NRA — in Texas! That is only one strike against this man; there are many more. Krysten Simena regularly insults her state and its residents. She has called Arizona the “meth laboratory of democracy.” She believes “stay-at-home Moms are leeches.” That only Joe Manchin voted to confirm Judge Kavanaugh is proof that all-but-one Democrat in the Senate no longer believe in due process or the doctrine of innocent until proven guilty. Each of them embraces the politics of personal destruction writ large. No lie is too outrageous if it might work to ruin an opponent.
Why do they believe their unscrupulous tactics will work? Because they believe we are all mind-numbed, uninformed imbeciles who can be cajoled by their nonsense. Obviously, there are radicals among us who do buy the left’s blather, those who show up at women’s marches wearing pussy hats sporting signs on which only the profanity is spelled correctly. Those people are not a majority anywhere; they are the disordered among us. The left has psychologized politics; their party has become a refuge for the deranged persons who seem to think they live in the worst nation on earth when, in fact, they live in the greatest country ever created. Everyone should read Arthur Chrenkoff’s column.
Piling hysteria on top of moonbattery, then, we have the media and the left’s crazed reaction to the murder of Jamal Khoshoggi, the sometime opinion columnist for the Washington Post. He was not actually a journalist, he was an advocate for the Muslim Brotherhood. Had he changed? Who knows? The mainstream media is convinced that he was some kind of hero and that Trump is somehow responsible for his murder at the hands of a Saudi kill squad. And who expects to get any truth from the Turks? It is in their interest to pit the US against Saudi Arabia. It is in the media’s interest to use the murder to indict Trump’s very necessary alliance with Saudi Arabia.
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University of Utah Student Athlete Shot and Killed on Campus
A University of Utah student athlete was allegedly shot dead on campus Monday evening by her ex-boyfriend before he shot himself.
Authorities found Lauren McCluskey, 21, of Pullman, Washington, dead in the backseat of a car parked in her dorm’s parking lot at the University of Utah after she allegedly got into a dispute with Melvin Rowland, a 37-year-old sex offender who lied about his age, name, and criminal history.
The 21-year-old student athlete broke up with Rowland one month into dating him on October 9 after she reportedly figured out his real identity and criminal history. McClusky reported Rowland, who had served jail time for attempted sexual abuse of a minor, to campus police for harassing her.
But the ex-boyfriend did not take kindly to being shunned. While McClusky was speaking on the phone with her mother Monday night after class, her bitter ex allegedly shot and killed her.
McCluskey’s mother said she heard her daughter yell, “No, no, no!” before the phone went dead.
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Watch Live: Twitter Erases InfoWars Accounts With No Explanation — InfoWars Midterm Broadcast
NPC-in-Chief Jack Dorsey accelerates purge of liberty-minded content from platform
Infowars’ Banned Live Midterm Election coverage features breaking news and updates every weeknight 8-10 PM CST until the midterm election on Nov. 6th.
Tonight, host Owen Shroyer discusses Twitter’s accelerated purge of Infowars-related accounts amid President Trump’s biggest rally to date in Houston, Texas, as censorship by Big Tech goes into overdrive ahead of the midterms. He’ll also take your calls on this special midterm transmission.
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West Virginia Democratic Candidate Was Pagan Witchcraft Cult Leader
“For a number of years, she has studied Chaos and other magical techniques privately.”
A Democratic candidate for the West Virginia House of Delegates was an active leader in pagan witchcraft, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
Lissa Lucas rose through the ranks of a Wiccan cult to its third level — the highest stage for most Wiccan cults — and instructed lower-level Wiccans in occult practices, TheDCNF’s investigation found.
Lucas’s campaign has raised more than five times as much money as her Republican opponent, thanks in part to national media attention that has left out Lucas’s witchcraft.
She authored two books on casting pagan spells, writing under the name Llysse Smith Wylle.
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Canadian Taxpayers Federation Slams Trudeau’s Plan to Impose Carbon Tax on Ontario
Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) Ontario Director Christine Van Geyn released the following statement in response to the announcement this morning that Prime Minister Trudeau would be imposing a federal carbon tax on Ontarians:
“In the June 2018 provincial election, Ontario voters made it very clear that they do not want a carbon tax. They elected Premier Ford with a mandate to repeal the cap-and-trade carbon tax, and to challenge the federal carbon tax. Premier Trudeau is now shoving it down the throats of Ontario taxpayers who clearly said ‘no’.
The Prime Minister is promising that he will rebate Ontarians the cost of the carbon tax with their income tax returns, so his carbon tax is ‘revenue neutral.’ But we know that today’s revenue neutral carbon tax is tomorrow’s tax grab. Look at British Columbia where the ruse of revenue neutrality has now been abandoned all together. We simply can’t trust politicians with new taxes and more of our money, because it will never be enough. That’s why we support Premier Ford’s continued effort to challenge the Trudeau carbon tax.”
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Quebec Wants to Expand Religious Symbol Ban, Blocking Muslim Garments in Civil Service
Quebec’s new government is planning to block Muslim women who work in the civil service from wearing the chador, a shawl-like piece of clothing that covers the head and body, and the niqab, which also covers the face.
Coalition Avenir Québec Premier François Legault has already made clear his intention to prohibit those who hold positions of authority including teachers from wearing religious symbols, such as the hijab, a Muslim headscarf.
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Bishop: ‘Europe is Being Islamized’ Because the Church is Asleep
An African bishop in Rome for the synod of bishops has decried the lethargy of European Christianity, saying that it opens the door to an “Islamic invasion.”
In an interview Tuesday with the U.S.-based National Catholic Register, Andrew Nkea Fuanya, the bishop of Mamfe, Cameroon, said that the synod has been ignoring Europe’s low birth rates to its own peril.
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Blind Veteran Kicked Out of London Restaurant Because He Supported Tommy Robinson
Wetherspoons landlady kicks BLIND veteran out of restaurant ‘because he supported Tommy Robinson’, Manager rectifies the situation but public still dissatisfied.
Just outside The Knights Templar on Chancery Lane in the City of London the local branch of Wetherspoons was caught by eyewitnesses kicking a BLIND VETERAN out of their establishment.
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Conte Invites Putin to Italy, Says Sanctions ‘Not an End’
Italian PM in Moscow to boost business
(ANSA) — Moscow, October 24 — Visiting Premier Giuseppe Conte on Wednesday invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to Italy, saying he hadn’t been there for too long.
“I hope that you can come to Italy as soon as possible, you’ve not been there for too long: I wouldn’t like the Italian people to think you aren’t paying attention to them,” said Conte, who is on an official visit to Russia.
Conte said it was right to support Italy’s economic relations with Russia and that sanctions are a tool to be “overcome as soon as possible” after meeting with Putin.
“It is right to support economic relations between Italy and Russia, in the reciprocal interest of the two countries”, Conte said.
“Sanctions are never an end for Italy but a tool to be overcome as soon as possible, through dialogue”.
Speaking about the Ukrainian dossier, the Italian premier said “there is no alternative perspective to the respect of the Minsk agreements”.
Conte said that “I’m not here to ask Putin to buy Italian bonds via the sovereign fund”. He added, however, that “the fundamentals of the Italian economy are solid” and if the fund were to do so, it would get a “bargain”.
Putin said he would have no “qualms” about buying Italian bonds.
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EP to Ban Single-Use Plastic by 2021
Strasbourg clamps down
(ANSA) — Strasbourg, October 24 — The European Parliament on Wednesday voted to ban throwaway plastic by 2021.
The ban covers single-use products like cutlery, cotton buds, plates, straws, drink mixers and balloon sticks, which make up 70% of marine refuse.
The EP will begin negotiations with the European Council on the issue.
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Farage Calls Eurocrat’s Claim EU Brought Down Nazism ‘Laughable’
UKIP MEP Nigel Farage has mocked and criticised President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani for claiming that the European Union brought down Nazism and Soviet Communism, regimes which fell years before the Maastricht Treaty founded the bloc.
“I don’t think there are any people here nostalgic for Nazism or the Communist dictatorship of the Soviet bloc — two ghastly devastating political system which caused terrible wounds for Europe.
“Thank God these two dictatorships have vanished thanks to the European Union,” Mr Tajani said in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday.
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French Teens Will be Forced to Live Together for 15 Days to Promote “Social Mixity”
As of 2019, a new government measure called “Universal National Service” will be introduced consisting of forcing all 16-year-old French teens to live together for one month, including a 15 day period of “collective housing”, Le Telegramme reports.
“It’s a fundamental structural reform for society.” said Gabriel Attal, Minister of Education’s Secretary, who’s in charge of the UNS project.
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Govt: No Evidence Russia Meddled in UK Democratic Process
The Government has told the House of the Commons that it has not seen evidence of “successful use of disinformation” by Russia to influence the democratic process.
The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s July 2018 interim report”Disinformation and ‘fake news’“ recommended to the Government that “plans of action” be issued in a White Paper this autumn to deal with Russia “weaponis[ing] information”.
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Italian MEP Slams Shoe on EU Document and Shouts “Italy Deserves Respect!”
On Tuesday, after the EU in an aberrant move rejected Italy’s budget, Italian MEP Angelo Ciocca, who represents the League, slammed his shoe on his notes and shouted “Italy deserves respect!” to the European Commissioner for finance.
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Italy: Govt to Vote Against EU Budget if Cuts — Salvini
No to new EU taxes too says deputy PM
(ANSA) — Rome, October 24 — Italy will vote against the next European Union budget if there are key cuts, Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini said Wednesday.
“Careful analysis of the next European budget, clear position of the Italian government: no vote in favour by us if there are cuts to investments, jobs, agriculture, security and immigration,” he said. “No to new European taxes that weigh on citizens and businesses,” he added.
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Last Words of French Minister: Our Biggest Fear is That Salafists Win the Next Elections
Patricia Balme, an ex-journalist, revealed on CNEWS what Gerard Collomb, France’s ex-Interior Minister, said to her during a private breakfast, three weeks before he left his job.
In a TV debate about the Islamisation of the Seine-Saint-Denis department, Ms Balme dropped a bombshell which basically turns Houellebecque’s fiction “Submission” (in which Mohammed Ben Abbes, an Islamist candidate, wins the French Presidential election) into real life.
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Poll: Strong Majority of Brits Shrug Off Second Brexit Referendum, Say Unlikely
Around two-thirds of Brits do not think a second Brexit referendum, or so-called “People’s Vote”, is likely.
Support for a re-run of the 2016 referendum is only marginally higher among ‘Remain’ voters compared with ‘Leave’ voters, the YouGov poll published Tuesday also revealed.
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Sabotage! Farage Says British Civil Service ‘Take Their Orders From Brussels… The Enemy Within’
Top deep state Civil Servants who are happy to take orders from the European Union are working to sabotage Brexit and are leading both the Prime Minister and the country to a “humiliating sellout”, Brexit leader Nigel Farage said Wednesday.
Addressing the European Parliament, the elected advisory chamber which exists purely to nod through legislation created by the unelected European Commission, former UKIP leader Nigel Farage honed in on Britain’s Europhile Civil Service.
In comments that come just days after the Civil Service revealed it was ‘wargaming’ a second referendum under the pretext of having to be prepared for all eventualities — despite having consistently failed to prepare for Brexit outcomes during the referendum campaign and since — Mr Farage called out both the Conservative Party and Britain’s own deep state.
Namechecking Oliver Robbins, the senior Civil Servant responsible for Brexit who is widely seen as having the Prime Minister’s ear, has just this week been revealed to have been offered a million-pound paycheque by city firms to help them with the Brexit process, and who has even been accused of “having Europe flowing through his veins” by a Tory MP, Farage said:
“The problem I’m afraid is there is a rogue element in these negotiations. A group of people who do not wish to see a solution, who put up an immovable brick wall to stop us from breaking free. I regret to say it isn’t your chief negotiator Monsieur Barnier, it is actually the British civil service, Olly Robbins’ team.
“They signed up years ago to the European dream, they have been happy to take their orders from Brussels, they are now out to sabotage Brexit. They are indeed the enemy within.”
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In July, 31-year-old Hamsa Jamal Jbar Al-Jizani was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison for repeated rape of her 10-year-old daughter and child pornography crimes.
The supreme court now softens the sentence to three years in prison. According to the judgment, the woman abused her daughter while photographing and filming the assaults.
The girl has testified that the mother did “disgusting things” to her, and took “disgusting photos”. She is now placed in a foster home.
The woman has denied the crimes, despite films and photos documenting the abuse.
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Swedish Criminologist Warns Jihadis May Have Entered Sweden Without Government’s Knowledge
Swedish criminologist Ardavan Khoshnood has warned that an unknown number of jihadists may have entered Sweden thanks to the ineffective border control recently revealed in a leaked EU report.
Khoshnood, a criminologist at Malmö University, said that the recent leaked European Union report on Sweden’s border deficiencies could have led to jihadists sneaking into the country saying: “The most serious thing is that so-called jihadists can enter the country without anyone knowing about it.”
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Swedish Border Police Head Says Problems in Leaked EU Report Could Take Five Years to Fix
The head of Sweden’s border police has claimed that the damning border problems outlined in a leaked European Union report could take up to five years to fully address.
The EU report, entitled “Evaluation of Sweden in the field of management of external borders,” was leaked last month with several Swedish outlets publishing snippets of the document that harshly criticised the state of Sweden’s border protection.
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Yesterday was the scheduled hearing for Tommy Robinson’s retrial. The main stream media, as they are likely to not be known as for much longer, were there en masse.
There were discussions overheard of reporters trying to choose how many ‘hundreds’ of Tommy supporters they would agree to say turned up to the STAGED area, where Tommy spoke to the estimated at 2,400 strong crowd of Tommy supporters, who showed up at 9am on a Tuesday morning.
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EU-backed copyright rules could force YouTube to ‘bank account’ holders from uploading their videos, according to Susan Wojcicki of YouTube.
In a message to account holders Susan warned that Article 13 “threatens to shut down the ability of millions of people — from creators like you to everyday users — to upload content to platforms like YouTube”.
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UK: ‘Not Going Anywhere’: May Survives Showdown With 1922 Committee
The Prime Minister has survived a showdown with the influential backbench 1922 Committee Wednesday evening with one MP saying Theresa May was “not going anywhere”.
The Prime Minister met with critics, who oppose her handling of Brexit, in hopes of averting a leadership challenge.
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UK: Public Confidence in Theresa May to Deliver Good Brexit Deal Collapses
Just 19 percent of the British public have faith in the Prime Minister’s ability to deliver a good Brexit, opinion polling suggests, in news that will inevitably pile further pressure on Theresa May’s leadership at a time where she is facing a potential leadership challenge from members of her own Conservative Party.
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UK: Rebellion: Appeaser Theresa Vote of No Confidence May be Triggered ‘This Week’
A Tory Brexiteer MP has said a vote to oust the Prime Minister could be close, with nearly the required number of MPs submitting letters of no confidence, as 50 Tories join a campaign to stop Theresa May’s Brexit plan.
Andrew Bridgen, the representative of North West Leicestershire, also claimed Number 10 could have been behind “violent” quotes appearing in the media over the weekend, calling for May to “bring her own noose” and to be “knifed”.
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Kuwait: Sexual Assault on a Policeman
Ahmadi prosecutor ordered the arrest of three men who sexually assaulted a policeman working at the border department of the interior ministry, then threatened to kill him if he complained about what happened. The victim said the attack may be due to old differences with the suspects, but did not say anything about the nature of the problems. A police source said the victim told police he was with a friend, then they went to another friend’s house. After that, they went in a car owned by a third friend who was accompanied by a person he could not identify. He said that he was taken to an isolated area where one of the suspects beat him while the other raped him. The third suspect made the threats to kill him if he told about what happened.
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What’s in a Name? Indian City Changes Name From Muslim to Hindu to Fix ‘Mistake’ Of Occupiers
A city in one of India’s most populated states is having its Muslim name changed to a Hindu one as its nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government seeks to ‘correct the mistake’ made by Muslim Mughal rulers in the 1500s.
Allahabad, a city in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, will now be called Prayagraj, a source from the area’s ruling BJP party told reporters on Tuesday.
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Italian Wine Exports to China Up 21%
Valpolicella DOC wines more well-known than Barolo and Chianti
(ANSA) — Rome, October 24 — Italian wine exports to China over the last year have surged 14.2% in quantity and 21.76% in value for a turnover totaling 140 million dollars, according to the newly released report China Vinitrac of Wine Intelligence on behalf of the Valpolicella Wine Consortium.
The success is reportedly also due to an increase in the population’s high-income bracket, including “wine collectors” (9%) and “premium wine consumers” (18%), two segments of the market interested in Valpolicella wines.
According to the report, the denominations Valpolicella and Amarone are well-known to about 18% of consumers of imported wines, a higher percentage than that registered by other Italian labels including Barolo and Chianti.
Both Valpolicella and Amarone originate in the same region of the Veneto, north of Verona, and are made from the same grapes.
Overall, Valpolicella wines are known to about 30% of consumers who drink imported wines and attract as consumers some 49% of those recognizing one or both denominations.
In terms of consumption, the generic denomination of Valpolicella is slightly more well-known than its sibling Amarone della Valpolicella — respectively 6% and 5%.
The city of Shanghai, in particular, has 22% of Valpolicella wine consumers in China, followed by the capital Beijing.
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The West Needs to Come to Terms With the Disaster of China’s Entry Into the WTO: Expert
WASHINGTON—To allow China to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) was a big mistake caused by miscalculation by the West. It hasn’t induced political changes as expected, but has cemented the Communist Party in power. It set the backdrop for the 2008 financial crisis, and leaves the West with a superpower global rival antithetical to its values.
These are some of the arguments of Stewart Paterson, who came to Washington to launch his newly published book, “China, Trade and Power: Why the West’s Economic Engagement Has Failed,” on Oct. 23 at the National Press Club.
The Failure of Economic Engagement
Paterson said that while economic engagement was supposed to induce political change in China, the reality is that it is threatening the West’s political system. …
hina’s WTO accession allowed 750 million workers, whose wages were only 10 percent of the “first world” workforce, to enter the global trade system.
Paterson said the policy response of Western central banks to deflationary pressure was to keep interest rates low. This eroded the benefits to Western populations of trade and exacerbated the situation.
It also set the backdrop for the 2008 financial crisis as the Fed tried to fight deflation with low rates.
And the legacy of all this, Paterson said, is “debt, financial fragility, inequality, low participation, and disillusionment. “ …
“But WTO was not set up to try to manage trade between market economies and economies that were planned by totalitarians who were antithetical to the idea of market forces.”
“WTO is proven not fit for the purpose, in terms of the role it is asked to do. But that was not the role for which it was set up.”
Going forward, Peterson believes that “there will be very limited level of economic engagement between China and Western countries in the future, and it will become more limited, because I failed to see how the CCP is going to agree to something that would be acceptable to us.”
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The teenager was just one of dozens of victims found in a probe of child sex abuse in Roebourne, a tiny town in northwest WA, where child sex abuse is ‘normalised’ among young men and teens.
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South African White Farms After the ANC Black Government Has Stolen Them
A once flourishing grape and citrus farm of 480 hectare in Limpopo has been reduced to ruins, and chopped orange trees which were used for firewood.
This is the sad reality Solidarity yesterday encountered during a visit to the dilapidated Sunningdale farm, which is located between Mokopane and Polokwane. In 2010, the farm was transferred to the Sunningdale Workers’ Trust by means of a land reform process.
Solidarity visited the farm after it successfully represented its member, Mr Hannes Korff, the former farm manager of 13 years, at the CCMA. The Trust unfairly dismissed him and never paid back a loan he granted the Trust. The Trust owes Mr Korff approximately R400 000.
According to Anton van der Bijl, Head of Solidarity’s Labour Law Division, this is a significant victory for the trade union, but the reality of the decay on the farm is a tragedy for all. He said the farm had once employed approximately 158 workers. Therefore, 158 families — in total approximately 600 people — are not fed because of a disastrous land reform transaction in favour of incompetent beneficiaries.
One often hears about the disastrous consequences of ill-considered land reform transactions, but the reality hits you between the eyes when you stand amidst the dilapidated buildings and see the many irrigation pipes ripped out of the earth rotting in the sun, Van der Bijl added.
According to Mr Korff, the farm will now be auctioned to pay off the debt, but it will cost approximately R50 million to restore the farm to its former glory. This will include the warehouses, farm houses, irrigation system, vineyards and orchards, shading nets, border fences, and 37 boreholes which have been looted and covered with rocks.
Van der Bijl concluded by saying it is important to remember that this tragic demise of a once profitable farm does not only influence the farm manager, the workers and the surrounding area. The farm mainly exported its products and therefore the economy is also hit by this decay.
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Crime Suspect Aid Organisation Starts New Smuggling Route From Morocco, Swedish News Site Reveals
The Swedish news site Samhällsnytt has investigated the position history of the Open Arms vessel, which is owned and operated by the notorious aid organisation Proactive Open Arms, between 1 and 15 October 2018.
The positions show that the vessel waited at the Moroccan sea border to pick up migrants.
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France Sends Back 2 Minors to Italy — Migrant Centre
Eritrean, 16, and Afghan, 17, pushed back
(ANSA) — Ventimiglia, October 24 — Frabce sent back a 16-year-old Eritrean migrant and a 17-year-old Afghan migrant to Italy, the Parco Roja migrant centre in Ventimiglia said Wednesday.
Parco Roja director Insa Moussa Ba Sanè said the pushbacks occurred recently.
The two migrant boys were welcomed at Parco Roja.
The Red Cross said Tuesday France had sent back 21 minors this year.
Italy and France are at loggerheads over French migrant drop-offs at Claviere near the French border.
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German Intelligence: African Migrants ‘Guaranteed Passage to Europe’ For Just €2,000
Reporting that Morocco has replaced Libya as the primary migration transit point to Europe, internal German intelligence documents have revealed African migrants can secure ‘guaranteed’ passage to Europe for just 2,000 euros.
Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has learned that a well-established smuggling network in the North African country offers migrants options beginning at 1,000 euros to reach European Union (EU) nations, according to the tabloid Bild.
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Italian Girl Dies After Being Raped by ‘Africans and Arabs’ In Rome
Last Saturday the body of the 16-year-old Desiree Mariottini was found in an abandoned building in Rome, Italy. According to an autopsy the girl was drugged and raped, Italian media report.
A Senegalese boy, who was a witness, told the police:
“They drugged and raped her… A girl was screaming… I looked at the woman screaming and there was another girl in bed: they had put a blanket up to her head, but her head could be seen.
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Rare Highly Contagious Measles Virus Diagnosed in Sweden — Is Mostly Seen in Asia and Africa
One person has been diagnosed with a contagious measles virus in the Swedish county of Skåne, news outlet Fria Tider reports.
The case was discovered in Malmö, a city in which the majority of people have a migration background. A person asked for care at a health centre in Malmö a few weeks ago as the first measles case was diagnosed.
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More than 3,300 asylum seekers travelling on 33 boats have been prevented from coming to Australia in the last five years. Nearly 80 people-smuggling operations have been prevented.
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The Pope Urges We Embrace Migration Whilst He Lives Behind Walls and We Are in the ‘Front Line’
One has to go back many centuries to find a Pope who is doing more damage to the Catholic Church, both its image and its followers, than the current Pope Francis.
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African Bishop Fears Church Leaders Will Cave to LGBT Lobby
One of the bishops representing the African continent at the Vatican synod on young people said the meeting risks being hijacked by Western concerns about LGBT issues, which is “not why the synod was called.”
The question of homosexuality “has been raised quite a lot, and I think it’s a hot issue of the synod,” said Bishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Mamfe, Cameroon, but the African bishops “are resisting it very strongly.”
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Follow the Money on Climate Caterwauling
Following the money is a means of finding motivation behind political actions or movements. Organizations pushing unlimited abortion profit handsomely from payment for such services and the sale of baby parts for stem cell research. Those protesting racial injustice seek contributions to their organizations in exchange for a pass on any accusations of racism.
Global warming alarmism is much the same. Government funding favors research promoting the theme that man-made global warming is real, preventable, and apocalyptic. This is “federal funding induced bias,” as described by the Cato Institute.
If a scientist publishes research findings contrary to the left-wing climate dogma, their funding dries up. A young climate scientist, eager to climb the academic ladder, earn tenure, and have a successful career, quickly learns how to promote an agenda rather than perform objective scientific research.
There are also carbon credits, for sale to assuage liberal guilt, while making millions for those selling the credits, as former Vice President Al Gore has done with great success.
Another way to follow the money is to look at the free market. This economic system is, “based on supply and demand with little or no government control.” It represents, “Voluntary exchanges…characterized by a spontaneous and decentralized order of arrangements through which individuals make economic decisions.”
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Parents Outraged After Drag Queen Speaks to Students During Career Day
It was a shock because no one was notified, says parent
Several parents are outraged after a drag queen spoke to their children during Rocky Top Middle School’s career day. Now the principal is apologizing for not notifying parents ahead of time.
A police officer, an architect and a drag queen — a broad range of jobs on career day, but parents say one of them has no business inside a school.
“I was pretty appalled. I was pretty surprised. It was a shock because no one was notified,” parent Jen Payer said.
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Aliens Could be Hiding on Mars Living in Briny Water Under Planet’s Surface, New Study Says
Sponge-like creatures could be lurking beneath the surface of Mars, according to new research.
Salty subterranean lakes on the Red Planet are capable of providing enough oxygen to support even simple animals, scientists believe.
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“The British Government Treat Tommy Robinson as a Bigger Threat Than the 20 Child Rapists He Talked About” of course they do! For them he IS a much bigger threat, because they either don’t have children or have them safely locked away from the public and thus at no risk of being in any way harmed by muslim migrants, much less gang-raped on a regular basis and Tommy might be able to eventually force Brits into moving, causing the government to lose their warm seats.
Explosive Devices Mailed to Obama, Hillary Clinton, Others Prompt Security Scare
This is refined madness all round. It appears a ‘bomb’ was sent to Maxine Waters and my immediate thought was what sort of anti DNC nut would send it to one of the GOP’s greatest assets. Anyway, everything about this stinks, and it looks as if there was no intention of ever blowing anyone up – it is however providing an anti-Trump/GOP feeding frenzy for the DNC and its tame media pukes.
I’ve seen an X-ray of one of these bombs with a sulphur and broken glass filling. Generally (Sulphur) dust needs to be less than 250 microns in diameter in order to explode without adulteration. Research has shown that particles up to 500 microns diameter will explode under the right conditions such as when chlorates, nitrates or other oxidizing agents are added in the right proportions.
Furthermore, they were all too obviously ‘bombs’ and they were sent/delivered to places known to have mail security checking systems. It wouldn’t surprise me if they have the perps in chains within a matter of days. Every batch of Sulphur produced carries with it its own chemical signature and leaves microscopic traces wherever it is handled.
Apparently the office of Senator Warren also received a suspicious package believed to contain 1/1024th of a smallpox infected blanket.
Moon- LOVE your post. Pretty funny!
There’s a good meme pic of that joke floating around.
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The stamps also weren’t even cancelled so it didn’t go through the post.
The stamps werent even enough for the package – $3 for 6 stamps doesn’t even cover minimum rate for 1-4 ounces.
The “alarm clock” doesn’t even have an alarm and couldn’t have triggered anything.
There was no battery to detonate any kind of blasting cap, which was also not present in any capacity to trigger anything anyways.
None of the ‘bombs’ were mailed to anyone who was currently running, just people that happened to have been targeted by Trump and were wanting to garner sympathy.
It wasn’t even 24 hours before the whining articles about Democrats blaming Trump’s rhetoric and demanding he take responsibility for somehow causing it. The first was already published in the New York Times today, apparently. (I never read the rag so I wouldn’t know)
Not one of the ‘bombs’ worked because none of them were bombs, they were just crafted to look scary to idiots who don’t know anything. They were sent to people that even if hit, wouldn’t change anything for the outcome but would garner sympathy and let them grandstand. None of the people sent to open their own mail. None of the people were home at the times of the attack. All of them in multiple states somehow get the devices at exactly the same time.
Most interestingly, none of the devices could credibly be called anything but a blatant prop because they’re not explosive, so even if caught mailing them to themselves, it’s unlikely anyone would get in trouble with the most remotely competent lawyer.
Can this possibly be any more asinine?
Gosh, maybe they were built by the Clock Boy??
I found a then-current essay on this kid, the one Obama said we need more of. Right.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/clock-boy-family-loses-racism-lawsuit-against-city-school-and-police/
French Teens Will be Forced to Live Together for 15 Days to Promote “Social Mixity”
France – first and last bastion of insanity and the front line of white ethnic cleansing.
Some important updates from 4chan:
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=59252
Here’s a thoughtful essay on these ‘bombs’:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/10/about-those-apparent-explosive-devices.php
Seneca:
Those photos from 4chan made me laugh until I cried.
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That’s quite enough beers for one day, SIII!
Wimp!
What is the rate of alcoholism now in the UK soviet? As Russia has long proved, where there is repression, alcoholism follows.
I recall speakers from outside the UK who participated in demos there were amazed at the levels of inebriation. Amazed and sometimes scared.
Rightly so. Charles 1st was spot on when he said, “Close all the Ale Houses, they are hotbeds if sedition!”
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I from reading this news fell into a severe depression.
https://www.dailysabah.com/europe/2018/10/25/insulting-prophet-muhammad-not-free-speech-ecthr-rules
On the Facebook account of the Chechen TV channel, an “inspirational” inscription appeared: the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decided that the insults of the Prophet Muhammad are not part of the freedom of speech.
My depression has become even worse. I began to look at information about political asylum in China. Found nothing.
Russia is going to leave the ECHR. I changed my mind about this decision, it does not seem so bad to me.
Oh, I’m confused. I drank brandy from grief and wrote it wrong. Russia is actually leaving the PACE. I remember once in the 90s and 00s PACE acted on the side of Chechen militants. Lord Judd – hands in the blood.
My husband said about this story with the ECHR: why did you have to bring Mohammad’s followers, then to worry about their feelings?
Because we have become an irrational people. It’s all about “feelings”.
Some reporter asked Melania Trump if she had “made friends” in Washington, D.C. To which Mrs. Trump replied with the old ‘joke’, “if you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog”.
Depression and drunk brandy played a cruel joke with me. Yesterday I left a note on the account of the local mosque. I quoted a Muslim site in which it was written, in which cases it is impossible to kill the infidels. One of the points was the conclusion of a non-aggression pact. I wondered if I could conclude it for a period of three years so that Muslims would not kill me. I wrote about jizya that I will not pay it yet, because this taxation is not legally regulated and the amount is not stipulated. It is enough that Putin pays Kadyrov.
Then we had a rather curious correspondence with the mufti, in which he invited me to the mosque. To which I replied that I would come with a dog and a package of bacon.
But then caution came on and I deleted my comments. And he will also write to the prosecutor’s office for insulting the feelings of believers (article 148).
But now the mufti knows that among the complacent “Russian felt boots” there are staunch Islamophobes in the city.
So Islamic sources for more than 1300 years can say that Muhammad had sex with Aisha by age 9, then in the last century or so the idea becomes offensive so saying what was true for 1300 years is no longer acceptable.
This is exactly what Stephen Coughlin talked about, how Islamic infiltration into western government agencies is literally turning the west into shariah-compliant, one step at a time. Starting with something “most people wouldn’t defend” (even if it’s because they are ignorant that it is true so they find it offensive to say or hear because it sounds like a slander or libel, even if it is not) then ever shifting the line back to demand more and more ‘respect’ for something that gives absolutely no respect to any culture it steps and stomps over.
Unfortunately, the same nonsense is trying to be pushed in the US, and if it’s allowed to take a toehold it’s just going to expand from there the way it has elsewhere. Hate speech laws are already trying to push for ‘religious protection’, which only really means protection for Islamic nonsense, and with the Saudis already on the UN Human Rights Council there isn’t going to be any global movement to stop it; the global movements will be to enable it beyond the EU.
It’s not going to be stopped with the rapidly growing Muslim population here in the US, who will just grow more violent over time, when 1% becomes 2% then 4% then 8% like the mathematical certainty of every other demographic bomb that has ever been injected by a hostile force bent on takeover.
Trump is facing a very big test with the “migrant” caravan of MS-13 garbage and pockets of Islamists between the 80% male and under 35 mass of 14,000 humans heading north seemingly at 100mph (to travel 2000 miles in just a few days, those are fast feet) no doubt looking for unlimited freebies and anchor baby status and all the other rewards that come for breaking into the country and robbing it. Hopefully, he has a strategy beyond sending a handful of totally disarmed national guardsmen with no specific rules to repel anything hopelessly outnumbered by the caravan though, because if he won’t stop that invasion force, I don’t have a lot of hope for him expelling the already present Islamic invasion forces already present in the country.
“A University of Utah student athlete was allegedly shot dead on campus Monday evening by her ex-boyfriend before he shot himself.”
This is truly tragic. It is so hard for white girls to understand how devastating it is to a black man to be rejected by a young beautiful white girl.
Think of it from his perspective. He tells his friends, family, and co-workers how he scored some hot young blond white chick, a girl young enough to be his daughter. He tells them how she eats out of his hand, how she loves him and does whatever he wants. He snatched the golden ring.
And then she breaks it off.
Think of the laughter and ridicule he gets from every black person he has been talking to when they find out he was dumped. Think of the “face” he loses.
He first feels like an idiot. Then he starts simmering inside, enraged at how she “destroyed his life” and “made him a fool”, how she was “just playing with him”.
If only white girls understood this they would be much more careful.
Forewarned is forearmed.
I was brutalized for many years by my (former) husband, who was white and blond. He told me he’d hunt me down and kill our kids if I left with them.
Cut out the racist stuff.
My dad was a judge. He had granted many divorces. He used to say that women should go to the shooting range once in awhile and target practice and that they needed to have two bank accounts: their own and a joint one with the husband. With these two marital aids, peace reigns.
We lived in one of *those* states. A blue one.
My life would have been over if I had a separate bank account. What one therapist strongly urged was that I begin to have a Knipple, telling me every woman needed them:
https://canyourelate.org/2010/09/07/everybody-needs-a-little-knipple/
Your dad sounds sane. This man wasn’t — due to a worsening mental condition and alcohol abuse.
Crime statistics aren’t racist.
All these mail bombs…don’t the words “false flag”
and “agent provacateur “ come to mind? It’s Oct; its a perfect time. Dem: “If we scare just a few independents, we’ll win the House.””No one will get hurt.”
The ‘pipe bombs’ are a patently obvious Dem false flag operation. The guy will be caught, exposed as a leftie and the press will promptly bury. But nobody with any grey matter here Stateside thinks it’s anything but more Dim Ops.
Just like when 7000 Hondurans decided after breakfast to trek 2000 miles flip flops to El Paso and arrive right around the mid terms.
As with the Kavanagh Hearings they are just so stupid they can’t help themselves.
Not that I’m complaining – typically the party in power loses seats in the mid term, but I’m pretty confident now after all these painfully obvious George Soros led 3 dimensional double blind phy ops with the equally moric 5th estate doing the cheer leading that we’ll get a cracking majority in the Senate and probably hold at par in the House.