The Greens and the AfD were the big winners in today’s local elections in the German state of Hesse. The AfD gained almost 10% to win more than 13% of the vote. The “center” parties — the SPD and the CDU — were the big losers.
In other news, the “Tropical Trump” Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil with more than 50% of the popular vote in a runoff election.
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Italy: No Bank Will Go Bust Says Salvini
Won’t budge even half a millimetre on budget says deputy PM
(ANSA) — Milan, October 26 — No Italian bank will go bust because of the rising bond spread due to Italy-EU budget ructions, Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini said Friday.
“No bank will go to the wall. If someone is thinking of speculating at the expense of savers and Italians, let him know that there is a government and a country ready to defend its businesses, banks and economy, at whatever cost”, he said.
European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi said Thursday a consistently elevated spread, a gauge of investor confidence in Italy’s ability to pay down its debt, would impact banks.
He voiced the hope that budget talks with the European Commission would lead to a smaller deficit than 2.4% next year and spark a fall in the spread.
Salvini also said Friday that “we will not go back even half a millimetre” on the budget.
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Italy’s Salvini Defies EU Budget and Marks End of EU — Nigel Farage
The “ultimate nightmare” for the EU warns Nigel Farage as Italy battle with Brussels over their rejected budget.
Deputy prime ministers Matteo Salvini and Luigi di Maio have refused to budge from their proposal after Economic Commissioner Pierre Moscovici rejected their deficit target of 2.4% of their GDP.
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Notably, the man said he didn’t vote for President Trump.
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A Vote for Trump America is a Vote for Economic Growth, Security and Freedom
The plan to gain and rule the HOUSE and SENATE by the DEMS is to roll out the classic and age old lies about the GOP running, but also suck dry the motivation to vote by the GOP and Independents by yelling from the liberal Pollsters and media roof tops that it is all over. The polls show that there is an 86% chance the DEMOCRATS will retake the HOUSE. Other polls say less and others say more but most declarations imply a sold-out win by the DEMOCRATS.
With these shrill voices shouting across the Internet, national media machine and Polls, the plan is for GOP, Independents and confused DEMS to stay home discouraged, thinking their vote doesn’t matter. We see from most the Polls and from most media that the DEMS will likely win. Then there is the growing fear of violence and threats from mobs all across the country. Will we be attacked or have our tires slashed if we go vote?
We know that liberal wackoids are attacking conservative politicians running for office, attacking any known Trump supporters, stopping and disrupting traffic, and throwing GOP and Trump supporters out of restaurants, gas stations and related events. So, that is the point — shut the Trump voters down and stop the flow of voters to the precincts.
Now is the time to remind yourselves of the way the DEMS now play ball. The ball has spikes and it draws real blood. They will obviously do almost anything to regain power and try and destroy Trump. Make yourself somehow ignore 99% of the media hype, fake conspiracy news rubbish flying around like an F5 Tornado. Polls are jumping all over like Mexican Jumping Beans and vote for the real conservative GOP in your area. Do not forget for a minute that 99% of the polls were all wrong up to the last minute with Trump and Hillary.
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America Destructing From Inside Out, Part 2
Years ago, William F. Buckley, Jr commented: “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” We are seeing the physical manifestation of their being shocked and offended. For some reason they believe that their opinions are the only ones that are allowed. One thing they fail to see is that their ideology, which is socialism at its worst, has never succeeded anywhere it has been implemented. Anywhere. The most recent example is Venezuela. Zoos are being raided for food by the masses while their dictator, Muduro, stuffs his face with 15 course meals. We ought to make these millennials that think socialism is so great actually live is a socialist country for a year before they are allowed to vote. I’m sure they would change their minds.
Big money is behind the pushing of this socialist agenda. In the last installment I brought up George Soros. He has been funding these uprisings and riots for years and he funds liberal organizations by the hundreds. His main organization is the Open Society Institute which is the main funding are for Black Lives Matters. Soros is a big funder for MoveOn.org that worked to oppose Trump in 2016: Billionaire globalist and messianic financier George Soros’ MoveOn.org has been revealed to be a driving force behind the organizing of nationwide protests against the election of Donald Trump. He appears to be driving a wedge among Americans to foment a Socialist political revolution. The hard left has successfully made it racist and hateful to want borders, just as they’ve made it cruel to not grow the welfare system. They play identity politics, a very dangerous tactic.
MoveOn emails go out to members to tell them where to go for their fake “organic” protest. They have busses for them in many cases, they pay a number of them.
Anti-Trump protestors in Austin today are not as organic as they seem. Here are the busses they came in. #fakeprotests #trump2016 #austin pic.twitter.com/VxhP7t6OUI
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Crazy Haters and the Twisted Press
The meme about toning down political speech is one the press likes as a means of silencing the critics of its own partisan, slipshod work and the policies and character of its darlings on the left.
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Democrats Use Mass Shooting at Pittsburgh Synagogue to Demand Gun Control
Congressional Democrats immediately pushed for gun control measures following the mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday that left at least 10 people dead.
The suspect, identified as Robert Bowers, was reportedly armed with a rifle and several handguns. Bowers’ social media accounts were filled with anti-Semitic rhetoric and is said to have yelled “All Jews must die!” during the shooting.
It’s unclear at this point how Bowers acquired his weapons, whether he passed a background check and whether any proposed legislation could have prevented the shooting. Even so, prominent Democrats took to social media to advocate for more restrictive gun legislation in response to the mass murder.
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Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media “Just the Beginning, “ Warns Top Neocon Insider
“We are just starting to push back.”
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GOP Patsy Arrested for Democrat-Staged Fake Bombs
He only registered Republican in 2016. He is likely a Democrat plant who developed a two-years-long “conservative” track record to establish credibility.
Unlike Republicans, who have to scramble for campaign dollars, the Left base is comprised of numerous billionaires, like George Soros and Tom Steyer, willing to shower money on leftwing candidates and causes, and who have shown themselves to be completely free of any ethical constraints. Some of these same individuals and groups were behind the Caravan financing and the Kavanaugh protests.
Here is what happened. The highly-organized, paid, Democrat opposition to the appointment of Justice Kavanaugh backfired, mobilizing the GOP base. The next effort was the Honduran Caravan, organized by Central and South American leftists (who collude with the American Left regularly), and financed by Soros and other big-dollar leftists. That has backfired too, and now many in the caravan are heading home, according to a Fox News report this morning.
This latest effort is the Democrats’ “October Surprise.” It has likely been long-planned but held in reserve as a last-minute Hail Mary pass if other efforts failed. They have found a patsy and offered him huge dollars to do this, knowing he would be caught because that was the point. He only registered Republican in 2016. He is likely a Democrat plant who developed a two-years-long “conservative” track record to establish credibility. This is how undercover operatives work, and they exist on both sides of the aisle, although the Left has a lot more of them because the Left can afford to. Either way, this person knew going in that he would be arrested and possibly face a long-term jail sentence. He also knew he would receive ample compensation.
People call such nonsense “conspiracy theories,” and “tin hat” stuff. That is because most people are unfamiliar with the deeply subversive nature of today’s Democrat Party. At its heart, it is nothing short of a domestic enemy fifth column, dedicated to overthrowing and destroying the nation we know and love. Consider what we endured during the eight years of President Obama’s reign:
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Kanye West Designs “Blexit” Apparel Urging Black People to Leave Democratic Party
With black unemployment the lowest its been since records began nearly 50 years ago, and black support for President Trump jumping to 36% vs 19% last year, Trump-supporting rapper Kanye West has designed T-shirts urging blacks to leave the Democratic party in a “Blexit,” reports the New York Post’s Page Six.
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Marxist Kyrsten Sinema Has Endorsement Revoked by the Arizona State Troopers Association
What’s a bi-sexual, brazen commie like Kyrsten Sinema to do when she loses the support of a union? Specifically, the Arizona State Troopers Association who represents state public safety employees. For the life of me, I don’t understand why they endorsed her in the first place. The woman is 100% Marxist and a dishonest one at that.
Evidently, the executive board went rogue and endorsed Kyrsten Sinema (D) without the input of their members. Bad union execs… bad. Troopers by and large believe in the rule of law, not socialism and ‘progressive’ politics.
Members of the association hotly objected to the endorsement made by the board, so the Arizona State Troopers Association polled its members in an email Monday, asking whether they wanted to endorse Sinema or stay neutral, the Arizona Republic reported. One wonders why endorsing McSally wasn’t an option, but I digress.
The poll clearly indicated “the membership has indicated a preference to stay neutral.” “All members are encouraged to vote for the candidate they personally support,” the email said. “AZ Troopers will refrain from any political statements concerning the race until the conclusion of the election.”
Dave McDowell, who is an association member and a retired lieutenant, said that members weren’t consulted before the endorsement. “That displeased a number of members, including myself,” McDowell said. I bet that’s an understatement of some magnitude.
[Comment: Communists always gravitate to take over leadership positions in unions. They do this by fooling workers into thinking they are fighting for their rights, so the workers vote for these “diligent” representatives. Once in charge they begin advancing communist causes.]
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In August 2018, the Associated Press reported that 90 Muslim Americans had jumped into races for everything from school board to Congress since the start of the election cycle. While only about 50 candidates remain since the recent primaries, the number is still higher than it has been since before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Comparatively, only about one dozen Muslims ran for office in 2016. That’s a 650% increase in Muslims running for political office in the US in only one year.
In 2016, Ilhan Ilhan Omar’s website attributed her win to immigrant Somalis: “More than 250 volunteers and 450 individual donors supported Ilhan’s campaign. ‘I am so proud that the majority of contributions to my campaign are from members of the Somali community who believe in my leadership,’“ the site said. Somalis in other states supported her, including Washington state and Ohio.
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Netflix Employees Donate to Democrats Over Republicans 141 to 1
Netflix employees have donated to Democrats over Republicans in a ratio of 141 to 1, according to a report.
The report indicates that Netflix employees donated $190,592 to Democrats, while only $1,350 was donated to Republicans.
Apple also had a huge difference in donations, with employees donating $737,003 to Democrats and just $27,005 to Republicans.
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Nolte: Media Again Exploit Tragedy to Strip Trump Supporters’ Self-Defense Right
Two unrelated terror attacks over the past ten days have revealed an establishment media rabidly desperate to strip President Trump and his supporters of our right to defend ourselves.
Even before we knew the identity or motive of the man behind a dozen or so pipe bombs mailed to prominent left-wingers — CNN, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, George Soros, Cory Booker, Maxine Waters, Robert De Niro, etc. — the media were already speculating and exploiting this appalling crime into a weapon to strip us of our First Amendment rights — and not just us, but the free speech rights of our own President Trump.
As the media blasted away at anyone who dared speculate about the bomber’s motive, even as they themselves speculated that it could only be a Trump supporter (or Russian interference on behalf of Trump), this speculation was used as a weapon to chill our free speech…
Trump must stop criticizing the media! Trump must stop defending himself from fake news! Trump supporters must stop chanting, “CNN sucks!” Trump and his supporters must agree to roll over and play dead even as they are smeared as “Nazis” and “racists.”
And my personal favorite…
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PayPal Bans Social Network Gab.Com After Synagogue Attacker Revealed as User
PayPal severed all ties with the platform with no explanation.
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Pollak: We Jews Have the Second Amendment; We Should Use it
The Torah also commands us to use deadly force to stop someone who intends to kill others and cannot be stopped any other way. Thankfully, we have the Second Amendment. We should use it.
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Pope Condemns Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting as ‘Inhuman Act of Violence’
Pope Francis has offered his condolences and prayers for the victims of Saturday’s synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh and their families, calling the attack an “inhuman act of violence.”
“I express my closeness to the city of Pittsburgh, in the United States of America, and in particular to the Jewish community, struck yesterday by a terrible attack in the synagogue,” the pope said Sunday before a crowd of some 25,000 pilgrims in Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican.
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Smart Money is on Republicans Keeping Control of House, Betting Site Odds Say
Think a blue wave is coming in the midterm election that will sweep out Republicans and usher in a Democratically-controlled Congress?
Don’t bet on it, gamblers on at least one online betting site are saying.
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What Must the Church Do to Restore Trust?
On October 12, Pope Francis officially accepted the resignation of Washington’s archbishop, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, from the high-profile post Wuerl had occupied for 12 years. Wuerl’s resignation was the latest and most direct casualty of the sex-abuse scandal that for years has been rocking the Catholic Church. More specifically, Wuerl — a close ally of Pope Francis — stepped down as a result of a nearly 900-page Pennsylvania grand jury report from 2018, which detailed the extent of the rampant sexual abuse of priests against children and of the systemic cover-up of the crimes.
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Understanding the Socialist Delusion
Democrats are nuts, and their violence will get worse — but to help them back to sanity we must understand what’s going on with them.
We can observe the left’s behavior without understanding or judging it. In general that behavior can be summarized as a collective response to two conflicting imperatives: shout allegiance to basic Christian, and thus American, values; act at every opportunity in opposition to those values. That’s insane, but it is happening all around us, every day — ask any of the screaming harridans who protested the Kavanaugh confirmation and they’ll tell you they’re committed to the ideals of freedom, human rights, truth, and the rule of law — and yet their actions showed them spitting in the face of all they believe in, all that’s good about the American judicial and political system.
Their behavior has to change, but we can’t help them make that happen without first understanding it, and understanding starts with honest description. Although many highly visible leftists are so politically focused they’re intolerable, most ordinary democrats seem like sane, sensible, superficially educated (i.e.they present as literate, but have little or no factual knowledge of science, history, or western culture), and reasonably intelligent people you’d be glad to have as friends or neighbors — until the conversation touches on politics and you realize they’ve placed themselves beyond the reach of reason in this one area of their lives. You get together for a nice dinner: their oldest is in university but won’t study, yours drives too fast, their dog isn’t quite as gassy as yours, and everyone agrees the Twins will make it to the playoffs this year — but then someone brings up politics and it turns out they voted for Clintons every time; think Kavanaugh a rapist, see Trump as a Hitler wannabe, adore John Kerry and Jane Fonda, and think Cuba a successful democracy with great medical care for everyone.
That behavioral dichotomy demonstrates a limited, but very real, form of insanity in which the person’s actions in the political context absolutely contradict their own values and most deeply held beliefs.
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Senator Lindsey Graham brought down the house during an appearance for Senator Dean Heller in Las Vegas, Nevada.
“If you’re the radical left who is trying to destroy the country, you can kiss my ass.” Best quote of the day from @LindseyGrahamSC at the GOTV rally today in Las Vegas in support of @SenDeanHeller for Nevada
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Whoops! Air Force Drops Humvee Onto Neighborhood in North Carolina
The U.S. Air Force was testing a new release system near Fort Bragg in North Carolina this week and made a heavy blunder when they dropped a 2.5 ton+ HMMWV a mile too early, sending it down 1500 feet onto a civilian neighborhood.
The Air Force C-17 was conducting a test of a new “heavy load platform,” said a spokesman from the Army base, but the platform “deployed prematurely” and the Humvee drifted down into a tree.
It landed in a tree.
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World Exclusive: Gab Founder Responds to Synagogue Massacre & Lashes Out at the Lying MSM
In an exclusive interview with Infowars, Gab founder Andrew Torba lashed out at the media’s attempt to blame him and the free speech platform he created for yesterday’s horrific Synagogue shooting.
Prior to the the deadly attack, gunman Robert Bowers posted on Gab, “I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics. I’m going in.”
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Canada is Running Out of Marijuana
Just more than a week after Canada became the first G-7 nation to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use, provincial sellers are reporting supply shortages and other difficulties getting the product to consumers.
Federal government officials and executives at major marijuana producers around the country warned MarketWatch in past interviews that the first weeks — even months — would not run like clockwork following Oct. 17 legalization. The dearth of bricks-and-mortar retail locations in some of the country’s largest provinces, a rotating national postal strike which has hampered online orders and a backlog in federal licensing have all worked together to exacerbate what was already a challenging undertaking.
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What Canada’s Laws Say About Pretending to Practise Witchcraft
Pretending to practice witchcraft is currently illegal in Canada. People are actually charged under this section more often than one might think.
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£400m Brexit Boost: Macron Fumes as Belgium Chooses British-American F-35s Over Euro Jets
French president Emmanuel Macron was left fuming after the Belgian government announced it would replace its ageing fleet of F-16s with British-American F-35s rather than Eurofighters or French Rafales.
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Another Nail-Biter for Merkel as Hessians Go to Polls
FRANKFURT AM MAIN (AFP) — Shifting tectonic plates in German politics are set to mark a second regional election in as many weeks Sunday, threatening fresh aftershocks for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s battered Berlin coalition.
The capital’s government quarter has held its breath since Bavarians punished Merkel’s allies — the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) and centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) — in a state poll earlier this month.
Aiming to damp down infighting that has driven voters from the traditional big parties, leaders urged discipline and no heads rolled before polls opened at 8:00 am (0700 GMT) for 4.4 million voters in Hesse state — just seven percent of the national electorate.
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Catholic Church Split Over Abuse Scandal Gravity
VATICAN CITY (AFP) — Pope Francis has vowed to end clerical sexual abuse, but bishops from Asia and Africa have shown a mixed response to a scandal some have termed a “Western problem”.
Church leaders from around the world attended the closing mass Sunday of a month-long meeting, or synod, which many had hoped would take the global struggle against paedophile priests up a notch.
As the talks began, Francis warned again that abuse and cover ups would not be tolerated.
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EU Parliament Passes Resolution Demanding Ban of ‘Neo-Fascist’ Groups, Lists Identitarian Movement
The European Union Parliament passed a motion this week to demand member-states ban ‘neo-fascist’ parties and groups and have intelligence agencies fully co-operate with ‘anti-racism’ NGOs.
The motion, which was introduced at the request of Italian MEP Eleonora Forenza, was passed by a vote of 355 MEPs. Many MEPs were not present in the 751-seat chamber for the vote.
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A state election was held in Hesse on 28 October 2018.
It followed the vote in Bavaria two weeks earlier. Like in Bavaria, the parties of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s federal government coalition — CDU and SPD — lost more than 20 percentage points combined (CDU —11.3%, SPD —10.9%), while the Hessian CDU’s coalition partner The Greens and the opposition party Alternative for Germany(AfD) won the biggest increases in votes compared to the last election in 2013. The AfD’s gains (+9%) were slightly larger than those of The Greens (+8.7%), making it the greatest net winner by additional votes and seats. In addition, smaller parties saw little gains. Turn-out decreased by 5.9 points to 67.3%.[2]
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Innumerable French Neighbourhoods Are Islamised and Ruled by Sharia Law — Journalist
In an interview with Sud Radio, French journalist and political commentator Eric Zemmour describes the Islamisation of modern day France.
Zemmour talks about how the Islamisation of neighbourhoods seems to be the main problem.
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In an Austrian talk show German top author Thilo Sarrazin discussed his new best selling book “Hostile takeover: how Islam hinders progress and threatens society”. Sarrazin is a guest together with an Austrian teacher and a suspected Salafist preacher.
The author is worried as Muslims don’t seem to accept our liberal values and therefore don’t integrate well.
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Italy: ENI Posts 9-Mt Adjusted Net Profit of 3.1 Bn
1.38 bn in Q3
(ANSA) — Rome, October 26 — Fuels giant ENI on Friday posted adjusted nine-month net profit of 3.133 billion euros, 118% up on the same period last year.
The oil group announced the profit after a board meeting Friday.
In the third quarter, it said, adjusted net profit was 1.3888 billion euros, against 229 million in the third quarter of last year.
Net profit was 181% up at 3.7 billion over the nine months and 1.52 billion euros in the quarter.
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Italy: Tito Boeri Sued Maurizio Belpietro and Giacomo Amadori
In a statement the INPS informs that the President Boeri has filed a lawsuit against the editor of the newspaper “La Verità” Maurizio Belpietro and the journalist Giacomo Amadori, which, on 7 October 2018 in the article “Boeri uses pensions against the government: he wants to cut them all except his”, he accused the President of using INPS for his own personal ends and, in particular, to guarantee a personal economic advantage.
Specifically, in the article, the journalist, with reference to the proposed reform of the so-called ‘gold pensions’, states that “in the new version […] the cumulative pensions are excluded from the cuts and therefore also those that Boeri will receive for the his work at the OECD “. This sentence is strongly defamatory, as it is easy to verify that the prof. Boeri does not receive or receive any pension payments from the OECD in the future, having redeemed the contributions paid during this working relationship. It is also known that the President expressed his support for the inclusion of pensions in aggregate in the draft law on the recalculation of “gold pensions”, as is also documented by the recent hearings he carried out in the Labor Commission in the Chamber.
Also in subsequent articles, and in particular in an article dated 14 October 2018, the journalist returns to insinuate that the prof. Boeri would have abused his role to pursue private interests.
Given these repeated statements from the obvious defamatory content, it was therefore necessary for the President to take legal action.
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Italy: Geostrategic Interest in the TAP to Avoid Dependence on Russian Gas
The ownership of the Tap (Trans Adriatic Pipeline) is divided between the Italians of Snam, the British of British Petroleum, the Azeris, the Belgians of Fluxys, the Spaniards of Enagas up to the Swiss of Axpo.
The environmental impact of the gas pipeline on the beach of San Foca and Marina di Melendugno, which according to the “no Tap” front, would ruin the natural habitat, the landscape, the tourist attraction and the agricultural crops of the area. The gas pipeline project, declared legitimate on the technical level and authorization procedures by the current Minister of the Environment Costa, provides, instead, the passage below the Salento coast through a microtunnel of about 45 km while an underground pipeline, along other 8,2 km, will allow you to bypass the bathing area.
In Italy the well has been realized so far, while the start of the work of the microtunnel has been postponed several times, even though in 2017 the Constitutional Court had deemed inadmissible the conflict raised by the Puglia Region against the State for the authorization of the pipeline.
At the geopolitical level there is a lot of interest in implementation, for example the United States has always supported the need to build the pipeline because it would allow them to increase their exports of liquid gas to Europe. It will bring natural gas from the Caspian Sea deposits in Azerbaijan to Italy via Greece and Albania. It is one of the 248 projects of Community interest that will bring up to 10 billion cubic meters of gas a year in Europe. Capital, almost entirely private, with loans granted by the major European financial institutions, by the Investment Bank (Bei) to the Development Bank (BERS).
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Italy: Undersecretary Volpi Recalls the Heroes of El Alamein
It occurs in these days the 76 anniversary of the battle of El Alamein where the Italian military engaged in the North African campaign perished in the fulfillment of their duty.
“ Our Soldiers they remained to fight, despite the numerical inferiority of men and of means, up to the extreme sacrifice demonstrating the anchorage that has always characterized the Italian Armed Forces. “- recalls the Hon. Raffaele Volpi.
We must treasure what history has taught us, in this as in other situations, where il value and the spirit of sacrifice does not they were enough and the only human factor was an example but not sufficient. They serve today to ours soldiers, equipment, instruments and weapons systems that are adequate for the missions to be completed.
La complexity of today’s scenarios and increasing attention to security of the country impose the continuous search for technological solutions aimed at the protection of our soldiers placed to safeguard the common good.
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Leicester City Football Club Owner’s Helicopter Crashes in Flames
LEICESTER, England (AP) — A helicopter belonging to Leicester City’s owner — Thai billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha —crashed in flames in a carpark next to the soccer club’s stadium shortly after it took off from the field following a Premier League game on Saturday night.
The central England team said it was assisting authorities with “a major incident” at the stadium, after eyewitnesses reported seeing the helicopter plummet to the ground soon after takeoff, about an hour after Leicester’s match against West Ham.
While there was no official statement immediately forthcoming about who was on board, or their condition, the BBC reported a source close to the Srivaddhanaprabha family as saying the club’s 60-year-old chairman was on the helicopter.
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Merkel and Allies Hammered in German Regional Election
Exit polls for regional elections in Hesse, Germany, suggest Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and her Social Democratic Party (SPD) partners have been hammered at the ballot box.
Chancellor Merkel’s party is projected to be down around 10 percent, as are the left-liberal SPD — traditionally the rivals of the supposedly ‘centre-right’ CDU but currently working with them in a so-called ‘grand coalition’ after both parties haemorrhaged support in the first federal election since the onset of the migrant crisis in 2015.
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Probable Cash Boost of £500 Million for British Armed Forces
There is talk that there is going to be a ‘cash boost’ for the British military in the Chancellor’s budget next week.
Secretary Gavin Williamson seems to have convinced Philip Hammond to put £500 million into the Armed Forces, where it is desperately needed.
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Faced with Chinese competition, in shipbuilding, we need to team up. This was the common reason that he approached two giants of the sea. The Italian Fincantieri and the French Naval Group.
About a year ago Emmanuel Macron and Paolo Gentiloni signed an agreement that provided for an Airbus of the seas with the consequent control, by the Italian public giant, of the shipyards of SaintNa2aire, specialized in the construction of cruise ships.
Naval Group and Fincantieri to finalize the agreement should have joined and formed a joint venture with an exchange of shares, between 5 and 10% of the capital.
The problems, however, were on the horizon because Naval Group is controlled at 35% by Thales and the rest by the French government. As known, Thales is Leonardo’s number one competitor and has not frowned upon the recent joint venture between Fincantieri and Leonardo for “Horizons naval systems”, the subsidiary of Leonardo which produces naval combat systems. This joint venture has launched a clear signal to the French, that Fincantieri will not leave out of the partnership Leonardo, which with Horizons naval systems is fully placed in the new international industrial reality. Prelude probably of a future common European defense industry.
However, at the Euronaval, the most impressive boat show in the world, held today in Bourget, near Paris, the managing directors of Fincatieri and Naval Group, Giuseppe Bono and Hervé Guillou, started with the facts the collaboration with a joint venture venture for the production of four ships for the French navy. Logistic and supply support units, deriving from a Fincantieri project, “Nave Vulcano”. In this regard, the French Defense Minister Florence Parly told the press that “thanks to the collaboration with the Italians, we will save six months and 40 million for each ship”.
Subsequently, together with the Minister of Defense, Elisabetta Trenta, they endorsed the signing for the launch of a joint venture between Fincantieri and Naval Group, which will be active in some sectors, such as research, the use of common suppliers and the opportunity to present together on some foreign markets. No share exchange has yet been discussed. Strong would be the resistance of President Macron to tighten an alliance with a rolling government Matteo Salvini.
Sources close to Naval Group, La Stampa reports, have admitted that “the political problem is the crucial problem that needs to be discounted at the moment, however the governments pass, the enterprises remain”.
Instead, sources close to Leonardo underline that “Orizzonti Sistemi Navali is an added value for the project which aims to consolidate the Italian component. With Thales there should not be competition: with the alliance there will be more work for everyone, the real enemies are elsewhere “the reference is clearly addressed to the Chinese.
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Spain: Huge Crime Rise in Barcelona as Leftist Mayor Ignores the Problem
Barcelona has seen a sharp rise in crime. According to figures provided by the Catalan police force, Mossos de Esquadra, the number of crimes reported in the city so far this year has increased by 19%, with petty theft making up the majority.
On Monday, the security forces said that 146,446 incidents were reported between January and August this year — over 23,000 more than last year.
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Swedish Musical Star on Niqab and Burka: Stone Age Ideas That Don’t Belong Here
When singer Tommy Körberg visited the latest episode of the podcast “Fördomspodden”, he revealed his attitude to garments like niqab and burka.
“Those stone Age ideas they can keep for themselves,” he said. In the podcast, guests get to respond to prejudice about themselves.
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Tavistock Institute Major Tool of the Puppetmasters, Part 2
Throughout the centuries psychological manipulation of society is as old as humanity itself.
“The Tavistock Institute, in Sussex, England, describes itself as a non-profit charity that applies social science to contemporary issues and problems. It grew from a somewhat crude beginning at Wellington House into a sophisticated organization that was to shape the destiny of the entire planet, and in the process, change the paradigm of modern society. It became a textbook for those who favored the combination of eugenics or by force, and mind control through the Nazi’s theoreticians and technicians — the psychiatrists. Since then, the science of the mind has been converted into the craft of mind destruction; legitimate therapeutic approaches have given way to behavior-modifying, pseudo-science in the name of aversion therapy. Quoted from the book, Chapter 1, Page 1 of Tavistock, Institute of Social Engineering of the Masses, 1sted. by Daniel Estulin, published for worldwide release in 2015)…
In Daniel Estulin book “Tavistock Institute,” he provided what amounts to an encyclopedia of details that exposes the coordinated and financial records of institutions, individual organizations and those financial gurus… the international bankers who coordinate secret currency valuations in the United States; at the center, a drugged down populace to give up their former freedoms willingly in exchange for the New World Order at the Hague, where non-elected judges are given precedence in deciding national jurisdictions.
These plans are now in the final, last stages of development to place in the hands of the International Banking system, a wholly cashless society where ATMs won’t issue cash. Instead, the machines will issue debit and credit accounting records, based on what the bankers decide the value of the worth of their pseudo currency is on their secret balance sheets. The worth of value fluctuates in secret and not by any other evaluation by outside monitors. This amounts to magical VOODOO and sleight of hand; in other words, Hokus Pokus government.
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The German Killer Nurse Who Took Himself for God
BERLIN (AFP) — The man accused of being post-war Germany’s most prolific serial killer was known to colleagues as a “nice guy” who did little to raise suspicion until well into his murder spree.
Prosecutors say Niels Hoegel, 41, a heavy-set, second-generation caregiver, was drunk on power over his ailing patients, whom he picked off at random out of “boredom”.
Hoegel has admitted to injecting patients with drugs that cause heart failure or circulatory collapse so he could then try to revive them and, when successful, shine as a saviour before his medical peers and superiors.
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The Quiet Suicide Epidemic Plaguing French Farmers
In France, one farmer commits suicide every two days. Dairy farmer Michou from the Loire-Atlantique region agreed to talk to us about the quiet epidemic that’s affecting his community.
“I’m the one who found him. It was awful. When I phoned him and he didn’t pick up but I saw his car I thought, something has happened to Raymond. Something really bad.”
On June 8, 2011, at around 5.45am, Michou’s friend and business partner for 20 years hanged himself on the wooden beams of the barn on their farm. “He tied his hands together, to make sure it worked,” leaving Michou “abandoned and alone”.
Michou, 56, who asked not to be filmed, lives on his own in a small house in the countryside near Nantes. All over the walls are pictures and souvenirs of the Senegalese capital, Dakar, which he visited during one of his rare holidays. On the kitchen cupboard, there is a photo of Raymond at dinner with friends. It reminds Michou of happier times.
In Michou’s town, no one calls him by his real name: Jean-Michel. But they all know and respect Michou, the dairy farmer who was born without his hands but who took on the family farm despite his physical disability.
‘What did I not do? What did I not say?’
“I asked myself a lot of questions. Was it my fault? What did I not do? What did I not say?”
When someone takes their own life, their friends and families face agonising questions. Why that particular day? What could I have done to prevent it?
For farmers in the Loire Atlantique region, suicide has become an everyday matter. “There are lots of suicides,” Michou told us, wearily. “I have a neighbour who committed suicide, and also my cousin is going through a rough time. The pressure to produce, to earn a living, it’s just crazy. And there’s the alcohol too.”
Raymond’s suicide was not linked to alcohol. Michou believes it was a culmination of exhaustion, stress and the drought. That year, the animals’ fodder had dried out under the harsh sun.
“We’d just worked 365 days non-stop, getting up every morning at 5am. And at night he would be with the cows during calving too. We went from having 120 cows to 180, and that’s not easy. Each animal still demands the same amount of attention. You can see there was a problem! A real problem!”
Every two days, one farmer in France commits suicide
Dairy farmers have a suicide rate that is 50% higher than France’s national average. The problem is most acute in Brittany and the Loire region.
As well as their everyday tasks, farmers also have to care for the animals day and night, all year long. Christmas, wedding celebrations and birthday parties all get cut short, because the milking still needs to be done. The work never lets up.
Years of hard, outdoor labour are marked on the faces and bodies of those who have dedicated their lives to farming. Talking about what is inside, opening up about their feelings, is not something many farmers are comfortable with.
In this tight-lipped community, Michou has tried to break the taboo linked to mental health. “I always told myself I must not end up like that. And I can tell you, I’ve got plenty of reasons to. So from the start, I got help.”
Help is out there
In 2011, the French government delegated the task of developing an action plan to the Mutuelle Sociale Agricole (MSA). A free hotline was introduced in 2011 (09 69 39 29 19). Counsellors specialised in dealing with suicidal situations man the phone 24 hours a day. So far, they’ve fielded 4,000 calls.
In the Nantes office of Solidarité Paysans, a charity set up more than twenty years ago, we met Isabelle Grégoire, a social worker, and Véronique Louazel, a public health researcher. They’re working with eighty farming families in the local area. Most are in financial debt and need advice and support.
“From what farmers tell us, psychological suffering and suicide occur when there’s a feeling of hopelessness, as if there’s no other choice. That could be not being able to pay back a bank loan or pay the vet bill. Why is that happening? Put simply, the price they can sell their produce for is not enough to cover their expenses. And so they work harder, hoping to earn more money. But then they become exhausated. And the debts continue to pile up and they think: ‘what else can I do? I’m working harder but I can’t get out of this.’“
For Grégoire, “the causes are multiple and in addition to the financial reasons, loneliness among farmers also comes into play. The feeling of isolation can lead to suicide.”
Social pressure is also a key factor. “There’s the shame, they struggle to admit when they’re in trouble. They don’t want to fail where previous generations have succeeded. So when they ask for help, it’s often very late down the line.”
Michou has decided to retire before total exhaustion takes hold. He hopes to hand over his farm to his nephew. Not for the money, but so that his long hours of labour will not be lost in a wasteland.
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UK: Labour Has Forced Dozens of Members of Staff to Sign Controversial Gagging Orders
Labour has forced dozens of former members of staff to staff to sign controversial gagging orders which stop them going public with their criticisms, it was today claimed.
Jeremy Corbyn was accused of ‘hypocrisy’ over the revelation as he has vowed to ban the use of non disclosure agreement (NDAs) in harassment and discrimination cases.
It comes days after Sir Philip Green was named in Parliament as the businessman who had taken out an injunction preventing publication of allegations about his harassment of staff.
The billionaire Topshop tycoon strenuously denies the allegations against him.
Many Labour officials who left their jobs after Mr Corbyn swept to power have signed NDAs, the Sunday Times today claimed.
Labour has admitted some former employees have signed NDAs — but insists they are not used to stop the ‘disclosure of discrimination, harassment or victimisation’.
But a Labour source told the newspaper the gagging orders could stop ex staff from lifting the lid on the scale of anti-Semitism and sexual harassment in the party.
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Israel Stands With Hungary, Denouncing George Soros
A strong move against U.S. billionaire George Soros, Israel’s foreign ministry has issued a statement denouncing Mr. Soros. It appears meant to align Israel more closely with Hungary prior to a visit to Budapest by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week.
Soros has spent a large part of his wealth funding far left groups masking themselves as pro-democracy and human rights groups in efforts to undermine legal migration.
[Comment: Some have argued that criticism of Soros is anti-Semitic. So does this now mean that the Israeli government is anti-Semitic too?]
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Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Emmanuel Macron Clash Over Saudi Weapons
Merkel wants to halt all arms exports to Saudi Arabia pending the investigation of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. Macron says such calls are “pure demagoguery.”
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel clashed on Friday over the future of arms exports to Saudi Arabia.
Merkel reiterated that Germany would not supply weapons to the key arms buyer until the facts behind the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey were clear.
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ISIS Repels US-Backed Forces From East Syria Holdout: Monitor
BEIRUT (AFP) — The Islamic State group has ousted a US-backed coalition of Kurdish and Arab forces from its holdout in eastern Syria, killing dozens of fighters, a monitoring group said Sunday.
A Syrian Democratic Forces commander, asking not to be named, confirmed the SDF retreat from the Hajin pocket near the Iraqi border seven weeks into an offensive.
The SDF, who are backed by air strikes of the US-led coalition, launched its campaign to retake the IS holdout on September 10.
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Qatar Easing of Foreign Worker Exit System Comes Into Force
DOHA (AFP) — Long-awaited reform of Qatar’s controversial exit visa system, which requires foreign workers to obtain their bosses’ permission to leave the country, came into force on Sunday, the government said.
“Law No. 13 of 2018… regulating the entry, exit and residency of expatriates is being implemented starting today,” the interior ministry announced on Twitter.
Qatar announced in September it had approved legislation to scrap the visa system — a lynchpin of the country’s “kafala”, or sponsorship, system which many liken to modern-day slavery.
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The Annihilation of Iraq’s Christian Minority
“Another wave of persecution will be the end of Christianity after 2,000 years” in Iraq, an Iraqi Christian leader recently said. In an interview earlier this month, Chaldean Archbishop Habib Nafali of Basra discussed how more than a decade of violent persecution has virtually annihilated Iraq’s Christian minority. Since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the Christian population has dropped from 1.5 million to about 250,000 — a reduction of 85%. During those 15 years, Christians have been abducted, enslaved, raped and slaughtered, sometimes by crucifixion; a church or monastery has been destroyed about every 40 days on average, said the archbishop.
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Turkey Shells US-Backed Kurdish Militia Positions in Syria: Media
ISTANBUL (AFP) — Turkey’s military on Sunday fired artillery shells at a Kurdish militia in Syria that is backed by the United States but deemed a terrorist group by Ankara, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
The shells targeted “shelters” of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) east of the Euphrates River in the Kobane region of northern Syria, Anadolu said.
The strikes come a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted a summit in Istanbul on the Syrian conflict with the leaders of Russia, France and Germany, in which they adopted a joint statement committing to work “together in order to create conditions for peace and stability in Syria”.
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Watch: British Islamic State Woman Claims She Went to Syria by Accident
Two British women who joined Islamic State have been arrested in northern Syria, with one claiming she travelled to the country and joined the terror group unintentionally.
The mothers and their children are in a camp in northern Syria run by Kurdish authorities, with men suspected of being members of Islamic State in a prison nearby.
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Indonesian Lion Air Aircraft Missing Off Jakarta
A Lion Air passenger plane has disappeared shortly after taking off from Jakarta, say Indonesian officials.
Flight JT-610 was on a scheduled flight from the Indonesian capital to Pangkal Pinang, the main city in the Bangka Belitung Islands.
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China: Trump Chooses the Harder But Wiser Path
Many experts are panicking about Trump’s economic punishments against China. They fear an economic downturn, a global depression, or even the worst case of open war. For the libertarians, it’s depriving entrepreneurs of the world’s largest market. For so-called realist and globalist foreign policy experts, it is irrational nationalism that unnecessarily endangers global prosperity and is best dealt with by trying to integrate China into the international system. These cries of panic are crescendoing now that tariffs are coming into effect, CFIUS is being expanded, and Trump is increasing security controls throughout the economy.
Now these pro-China critics are trying to actively undermine President Trump in the name of globalism and alleged free trade. However, the rarely told reality is that President Trump is merely launching the first retaliation in a trade war that China has been waging for several decades. Trump is choosing the difficult correct course of action, which will cause pain to the United States in the short term so that the United States can thrive in the long term…
Here I must disclose a fact: I loathe the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, so I have a bias. No group is more short-term in thought, ambition, or desire. Only immediate gratification of instant profit, even at the cost of long-term financial stability, is the rallying cry of the modern U.S. Chamber of Commerce. As long as they get their quarterly earnings, America be damned, or at least that’s how I see them. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is actively lobbying and campaigning to weaken President Trump’s position — launching media campaigns, appealing to gullible libertarian organizations, or appealing to compassion to guilt people into dropping their guard against the PRC.
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Sudden Drop in Chinese Property Prices Leaves Speculators Reeling
Developers in some Chinese cities have cut prices by up to 30 percent as demand for new housing plummets. Public anger has poured onto the streets despite official figures showing a still-healthy property sector.
For the last two decades, property speculation in China has been a one-way bet. Take 57-year-old Shanghai businessman Tai Pei, for example. Having watched the Chinese real estate market grow for many years, he too was tempted to grab a slice of the incredible profits from the country’s massive construction boom.
Tai bought three downtown apartments in China’s commercial capital and made almost 10 million yuan (€1.27 million, $1.44 million) profit when he sold two of them sometime later.
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Scientists Have Finally Engineered More Sustainable Bricks Out Of… Human Urine
The next time you pee, think about this: Your urine could one day create the sustainable building materials of the future.
Dyllon Randall is a research engineer at the University of Cape Town. He’s also the supervisor on a new project in which students harvested urine from urinals so they could transform the waste into building bricks.
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The Somali Army Regains Control of the Strategic Areas in the Medio Scebeli Region
According to a spokesman for the Hirshabelle state, Abdiweli Muhamed Abdi, the Somali National Army, supported by troops of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom), has regained control of several areas “Strategic” in the Middle Scebeli region, on the border with the Hiran region, snatching them from the jihadist militias of al-Shbaab.
Abdi has specified that the reconquest has happened without meeting any resistance from al Shabaab who in turn has claimed responsibility for the killing of an unspecified number of soldiers of Ethiopia and Djibouti in a series of attacks conducted at the border between the cities of Baldwin and Helgan, also in the Hiran region.
Albeit weakened by the offensive of the Somali army and the troops of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom), Shabaab continues to control large areas of Somalia. This is another reason why the UN Security Council decided to postpone the deadline for the Amisom quota reduction to February 2019, arguing that the Somali security forces are not yet sufficiently prepared to guarantee security in the country.
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Bolsonaro: Brazil’s ‘Tropical Trump’ Poised to Win Presidency
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) — Sometimes called a “Tropical Trump” for his politically incorrect vitriol, Brazilian far-right presidential candidate and heavy favorite Jair Bolsonaro has successfully played to an electorate disgusted with politics as usual.
Bolsonaro, 63, has built an image as a political outsider ready to rough up the establishment — no small feat given that, unlike the US president, he is a longtime politician.
The seven-term congressman has few legislative initiatives to his record but, crucially, has not been caught up in the massive corruption scandals that have made Brazilians furious with the political class in recent years.
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Brazilians First! Jair Bolsonaro is Elected the New President of Brazil. What to Expect Now?
With already 97% of the votes counted, Jair Bolsonaro, the former army paratrooper and right-wing candidate to the Brazilian presidency, is elected with 55.7% of the votes.
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Brazilian General Election, 2018
General elections were held in Brazil on 7 October 2018 to elect the President, Vice President and the National Congress. Elections for state governors and vice governors, state legislative assemblies and the Legislative Chamber of the Federal District were held at the same time.
On 7 October 2018, Rio de Janeiro congressman Jair Bolsonaro came first in the first round of the presidential election. A run-off between him and former São Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad[3] was held on 28 October 2018. At 22:06 GMT, with 88% reporting, Bolsonaro was declared the winner with over 50% of the popular vote.[4]
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Fernando Haddad: The Last Hope for Leftists in Brazil’s Election
Fernando Haddad is the last hope for those dreading a far-right win in Brazil’s presidential election, but the measured university professor lacks the charisma of his mentor, ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
In an election that is largely about the one candidate who cannot run — the popular but imprisoned Lula, who is serving 12 years for corruption — Haddad, 55, has struggled to fill the shoes of his one-time boss, who led Brazil through the boom years of 2003 to 2010, before both the country and his left-wing political project went bust.
Brought in late in the game when it became clear the courts would not let the former president run, Haddad spent half the race selling himself as “Lula’s man,” and the other half doing the opposite.
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Europeans Have the Right to Defend Their Borders, Lifestyle and Culture — Czech Prime Minister
Europeans “have the right to defend our borders, our lifestyle, our heritage and our culture,” Czech prime minister Andrej Babis said, striking back at the “divisive” EU plans to impose mass third world migration on the bloc’s eastern states.
Mr. Babis’ remarks came whilst visiting a museum in Prague with France’s globalist President Emanuel Macron.
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Honduran Bishops Decry ‘Human Tragedy’ of Migrant Caravan
The Bishops of Honduras released a statement this week saying they had been “deaf” and “blind” to the needs of their people and calling on the Honduran government to address the “human tragedy” of the migrant caravan.
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Migrants on Bosnian Border Start Hunger Strike as Thousands Want to Move Into the EU
On the Bosnian border with Croatia migrants are launching a hunger strike. Several dozen of the migrants have camped out in the open as they claim Croatia won’t let them cross the border.
There have been clashes with police as they try to push their way through. So, the migrants on Saturday covered their mouth and eyes with tape to protest, with others were walking among small tents or seated on the road. All the morning While Bosnian police sought to convince the group to move to a migrant centre.
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Migrant Caravan Members Reject Offer to Stay in Mexico
ARRIAGA, Mexico — Several thousand Central American migrants turned down a Mexican offer of benefits if they applied for refugee status and stayed in the country’s two southernmost states, vowing to set out before dawn Saturday to continue their long trek toward the U.S. border.
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None Shall Pass: First Section of Donald Trump’s Wall at Mexico Border Unveiled
A 30-foot (9m) metal fence spanning two miles has been constructed at the Mexico-US border. Sporting a plaque that boasted President Donald Trump’s name, it marks the first phase of a wall to block migrants from entering the US.
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Pence: Migrant Caravan ‘Funded From Outside, ‘ Organized by Leftist Forces
Caravan not organic phenomenon, says Vice President.
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Spain Rescues 520 Migrants at Sea — Baby Dies
The maritime rescue service in Spain report that a baby has died despite rescue efforts after a small boat carrying migrants sank in the Mediterranean Sea east of the Strait of Gibraltar.
The tragic death came as more than 500 other migrants were rescued. The bottom of the rubber boat split, according to reports by the Spanish maritime service, with 56 of the migrants being hurled into the water, when the rescue craft reached it on Saturday.
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Augustana College Pleads With Students to ‘Pledge’ Against Cultural Appropriation
Augustana College in Illinois hosted an event at which it asked students to “sign a pledge promising not to appropriate any culture.”
The college’s Office of Student Inclusion and Diversity defines cultural appropriation as “the adoption of elements of a culture that is not their own.”
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Cancellation of ‘Boba Fett’ Movie Reveals a ‘Star Wars’ Franchise in Serious Trouble
LucasFilm chief Kathleen Kennedy finally bit the bullet this week, finally revealed what we all knew to be true — that the Star Wars movie universe is contracting, shrinking, and doing so in a very serious way.
If you recall, the original plan was for Kennedy and Disney to Marvel the Star Wars series, to mine the mythology and wealth of characters in a way that would guarantee a mega-hit for Disney once or twice a year.
After the mind-boggling success of the reboot, 2015’s The Force Awakens, that all seemed possible. The country was crazy for Star Wars. It was 1977 all over again. We could not get enough, our goodwill exploded, and Kennedy was going to keep ‘em coming…
On top of this latest trilogy — in what is known in the Skywalker Saga — there would be spin-off sagas, and these spin-offs would almost certainly result in sequels and franchises of their own. Han Solo, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Boba Fett projects were all announced, with the promise of even more.
It was all so exciting. The most iconic franchise in the history of movies had returned, and we were off!
There was just one tiny problem…
The movies weren’t very good…
Here we were, laying down our hard-earned money to take a trip into a galaxy far, far away and here was this hideous Kathleen Kennedy woman beating us over the head with her obnoxious feminist agenda, her even more obnoxious identity politics, her intolerable preaching and ham-handed, man-hating Woke-ness, and this movie sucks and, oh, well, that is just great, now they’ve killed off Luke and replaced him the cast of Dawson’s Creek 2.
[Comment: These Disney Star Wars series of movies are garbage because a feminist man hating agenda is foisted upon the viewer at every turn.]
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Exposing “The Lies of the Left” In Canada
Canada’s Liberal Party leader and Obama acolyte, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is corrupting Canada through drugs, sexual perversion, and a Muslim invasion, says Tanya Gaw of the Canadian Coalition for Responsible Government. Former drama teacher Trudeau, an admitted pothead, legalized marijuana nationwide on October 17, opening up Canada to drug cartels, and has facilitated the transgender revolution in Canadian schools. Trudeau, who visits mosques and has abandoned his Catholic faith on abortion and same-sex marriage, has invited foreign Muslims from terror-supporting countries to come to Canada.
Activist Tanya Gaw describes how Canadians of a conservative and Christian persuasion have risen up against “the lies of the left” and Trudeau regime and are working to replace it in elections scheduled for next year. Will Canadian conservatives be allowed the freedom to voice their views and concerns? Can the conservatives in Canada get organized and get enough support from Canadian businesses to make a difference in time to save their nation?
[Comment: Pretty much all Canadian media tows the globalist party line. For truthful and objective news you have to look elsewhere. Recommend Canadians use RSSowl and RSS feeds to get news from the internet.]
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Police and Courts Claim Trans Paedophile’s Pre-Transition Crimes Committed by ‘Woman’
Police in England have raised eyebrows by describing a trans paedophile’s pre-transition crimes as having been committed by a “woman”.
Gary Cooper, who now goes by Carrie Cooper, was already serving a prison sentence when called to stand trial for historic sex abuse between 2007 and 2012, the Mail on Sunday reports.
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Retired Green Beret Warns Mainstream Media is a Tool for Destroying America
Authored by Jeremiah Johnson (nom de plume of a retired Green Beret of the United States Army Special Forces) via SHTFplan.com,
A deliberate attempt is being made by the MSM (Mainstream Media) to destroy the remaining fabric of American society and force the country’s disintegration and absorption into a global government.
They don’t have very far to go: since the 1960s, a family-centered culture that was the “hub” of the greatest nation this world has ever seen…that bastion of the family has been eroded and all but destroyed. The replacement “culture” has been one of drug use, pornography, “sloth” within all the generations… young, middle-aged, and elderly, and a fostered unwillingness to take responsibility for anything of value. The country is an entitlement nation that “asks not what you can do for your country, but what can you take from it.” The family is not even referred to in that manner anymore. I have read the term “consumer units” to refer to households, as well as “household groupings.”
Communities… true communities where individuals and families contribute to the overall welfare of the area and each other… are almost nonexistent. This has been replaced with Communism, currently undergoing its “genesis” from the soft form of socialism and the semi-laissez faire authoritarianism that is exemplified by the surveillance state. The socialism will turn into communism, as Lenin (Ulyanov, if you prefer) pointed out to us. A forced “communal” mindset is being blared at us by every weapon the Media has in its arsenal: the radio, newspapers, television, and the Internet/Social Media monster.
Daily, the paradigm is shifted, and the consciousness of the people is being battered with wave after wave of unrelenting actions. No publication better exemplifies the heinous nature of the Media’s intentions than Time Magazine. A Feminist Agenda is being peddled under the guise of “equality,” but in reality it is a sinister operation carried out by nefarious individuals masquereding as “reporters,” “editors,” and “columnists,” meant to polarize groups and to foster a sense of “blame” or “guilt” with every action…
The Media has blinded the people by showing them what they wish to see: themselves. The Media has purposefully, deliberately lowered the standards. The Media (inclusive of Hollywood, mind you, and the movies and television) have presented aberrant behaviors and actions that denigrated and destroyed the former social fabric. They have enabled others of their ilk (Communists in Politics and in Business) to foster a new “Third World” society, including the abolition of the middle class and the ending of where government is the final answer and solution to all problems.
Read. Read the “Communist Manifesto,” and the Planks of Communism, and you will see in print what was written decades ago, that is happening here and now in the U.S. Read Alexander Sozhenitsyn’s works to see what happens at the “final tipping point” of the full-blown change of a nation into a Communist totalitarian society.
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‘Transgender’ Movement on the Warpath
The Left is having conniptions over a report by The New York Times that the Trump administration is thinking of adopting a narrower interpretation of “gender” in order to enforce Title IX of the federal Civil Rights Act in a manner befitting rational beings.
They’re having a kazoo over it. “Flagrant acts of evil” by “anti-equality extremists,” they call it: a measure that “seeks to erase the identity of transgender Americans.” This new Cherished Minority, they claim, embraces “1.4 million transgender Americans.” I don’t know who counted them. But if 1.4 million people say they’re Napoleon Bonaparte, does that mean we now have 1.4 million Napoleon Americans?
There is no such thing as “transgender.” There are only deluded persons who say they are transgender.
We should have seen this coming. In all my life, I’ve never seen anything like the fervor with which the Left is promoting “transgender.” As if their very lives depended on it.
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“Migrants on Bosnian Border Start Hunger Strike as Thousands Want to Move Into the EU” Great! I hope the local autorities are supportive and ensure no food makes it into their vicinity, so the poor protesters aren’t tempted by it and keep going. I’m sure they can stay strong in their plight until the bitter end!
“Developers in some Chinese cities have cut prices by up to 30 percent as demand for new housing plummets. Public anger has poured onto the streets despite official figures showing a still-healthy property sector.”
China has embraced Capitalism in recent decades as the way to grow the economy and create wealth. It’s been wildly successful but it’s an imperfect system that can come back to bite you. Property speculation bubbles are one dangerous distortion. For China, which has never yet faced a modern era recession, the fall out for a market crash could be devastating for the Chinese Communist Party. They don’t want to see angry citizens storming the stock exchange or protesting on the streets after the loss of life savings. “Social Stability” is their buzz word. And one thing that could push the cart over the cliff is a trade war with the US. Must be nervous times in the Politbureau.
Nice to see fellow Warhammer 40k fans here, but still i don’t think fanfiction should be linked under the french farmer suicides article.
Jews no longer welcome in Sharia Australia!
Synagogues are now being BANNED because ISIS “Refugees” Might Blow them up.
I have covered the anti-Semitism & attacks on Jews across the globe for years. Not only did leftist media ignores my reports, but they attacked me, a Jew!
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