German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that she is stepping down as leader of her party, the CDU. She will remain chancellor, but said she will not seek the position again in the next election, which is more than four years away.
In other news, Stefan Löfven, the former Prime Minister of Sweden and the leader of the Social Democrats, said that he is once again unable to form a government, two months after the Swedish general election.
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Democrats Using Cloward-Piven as Their Midterm Hail Mary Pass
Cloward-Piven is a political strategy first described in 1966, by two Columbia University sociologists, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. This was published appropriately in the far-left The Nation, the oldest continuously published news magazine in the country. Cloward-Piven’s goal was the creation of, “A political crisis would result that could lead to legislation for a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty.”
The objective was chaos and turmoil, or in their words, “A massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls.” This would be followed by, “A federal program of income redistribution has become necessary to elevate the poor en masse from poverty.”
The strategy uses community organizers to mobilize welfare recipients. Then, “As the crisis develops, it will be important to use the mass media to inform the broader liberal community about the inefficiencies and injustices of welfare.” It’s more effective when a community organizer is the leader of the country for eight years assisted with a compliant and nonobjective national media. Or as Rahm Emanuel said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”
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Donald Trump: Democrat Andrew Gillum is a ‘Thief, ‘ Mayor of a ‘Corrupt’ City
President Donald Trump urged Floridians on Monday to vote for the Republican candidate for governor, Ron DeSantis, rather than Democrat candidate Andrew Gillum.
Trump described Gillum as “a thief” and the “mayor of poorly run Tallahassee, said to be one of the most corrupt cities in the Country!”
He added that Rep. DeSantis was educated at Harvard.
Gillum is currently under attack for receiving improper gifts as the mayor of Tallahassee but continues to lead in the polls with a slim margin over DeSantis.
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Father Takes on Gunman Inside Alabama McDonald’s
A dad eating with his kids fatally shot masked gunman at the fast food restaurant.
A brave dad armed with a pistol stopped what could have been a mass shooting Saturday inside an Alabama McDonald’s when he took down a masked gunman who had stormed in and opened fire.
The unidentified father was leaving the establishment with his sons when a masked man walked into the Birmingham fast-food restaurant and started shooting, WBRC-TV reported. The father returned fire and, during the ensuing shootout, the gunman, the father and one of the man’s teenage sons were struck, according to the station.
The gunman, who was not identified, later died of his injuries. The other two injuries were not considered life-threatening…
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Fox Business Pulls ‘Lou Dobbs Tonight’ Episode With ‘Soros-Occupied State Department’ Remark
Comments about Soros NGOs backing migrant caravans not tolerated by globalist masters
Fox Business on Sunday said it pulled an episode of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” that contained what critics said was anti-Semitic sentiment just a day after a gunman killed 11 people in a synagogue in Pittsburgh.
In the segment, Judicial Watch official Chris Farrell claimed a Central American migrant caravan moving towards the U.S. southern border is being funded by the “Soros-occupied State Department.”
Farrell was referencing George Soros, a Jewish billionaire and political activist who routinely funds Democratic candidates and initiatives.
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Free Speech Platform Gab Blacklisted by Web Host, Payment Processors
Free speech social network Gab was blacklisted by its web host, Joyent, and by Big Tech payment processors PayPal and Stripe, Saturday, prompting the social network to announce the possibility of it going offline for several weeks.
“Breaking: @joyent, Gab’s new hosting provider, has just pulled our hosting service. They have given us until 9am on Monday to find a solution,” announced Gab on Saturday. “Gab will likely be down for weeks because of this. Working on solutions. We will never give up on defending free speech for all people.” The email from Joyent posted by Gab alleges “a breach of the Joyent Terms of Service.”
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InfoWars Reporter Accosted in DC for Reporting on Kanye ‘Blexit’ Clothing Line
NPCs triggered by Owen Shroyer pointing out rapper encourages #WalkAway and free thinking through fashion culture
Owen Shroyer is on the ground in Washington, D.C., to discuss rapper Kanye West’s new “Blexit” t-shirt campaign that runs in tandem with Saturday’s #WalkAway March where thousands of people left the Democrat Party en masse over its identity politics, lack of ideas, and vicious rhetoric against political opponents.
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Kanye West: Blacks Should Leave Dem Party
Rap star Kanye West is calling for black Americans to leave the Democratic Party in a campaign he and other supporters are calling a “Blexit.”
The outspoken fan of President Trump is using his fashion and marketing chops to encourage the “Blexit” campaign, said Candace Owens at Turning Point USA’s Young Black Leadership Summit.
“Blexit is a renaissance and I am blessed to say that this logo, these colors, were created by my dear friend and fellow superhero Kanye West,” Ms. Owens told the New York Post about the T-shirt line.
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McDonald’s Employee Hides in Freezer During Restaurant Shooting
BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) — A terrified fast food employee is now thanking an armed customer who shot and killed a masked gunman Saturday night in Birmingham.
The shooting happened at the McDonald’s across from Princeton Hospital.
Markus Washington had to hide in the freezer as this all went down. He said he heard more than 15 shots fired.
Now, he’s owing his life to that armed customer.
“I’m feeling grateful,” he said. “Wrapping my head around it all, I was just wishing someone would come wake me up from this nightmare.”…
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New Study Again Links Fluoride to ADHD in Children
A new study from the University of Toronto is shedding light on the impact that water fluoridation may have on rates of childhood ADHD. According to the study, there is an association between the levels of fluoride found in pregnant mothers and “ADHD-like symptoms” in the Children once they become school-age, around 6-12 years old.
“Our findings are consistent with a growing body of evidence suggesting that the growing fetal nervous system may be negatively affected by higher levels of fluoride exposure.” — Dr. MortezaBashash, Study Author
The study recruited researchers from some a diverse range of institutions, including the University of Toronto, the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico, University of Michigan, Indiana University, the University of Washington and Harvard School of Public Health.
After controlling for a series of variable including birthweight, birth order, sex, maternal marital status, smoking history, age at delivery, education, and socioeconomic status, the team found that the parents who had higher exposure to fluoride still reported higher levels of ADHD in their children compared with other parents who did not h
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Paul Craig Roberts: The Latest Bomb Scare
Stephen Lendman raises the question whether Sayoc is a real culprit or a patsy for an operation orhestrated for political reasons. See: stephenlendman.org/2018/10/harmless-mail-bomb-scare-suspect-arrested/
This seems to me to be, at our present state of information, a legitimate question. If the security agencies and the Democratic National Committee were willing to orchestrate a fake “Russiagate” scheme against Trump for political reasons, why not also a fake bomb attack on Democrats? Just as the presstitutes went along with “Russiagate” despite the absence of any evidence, RT reports that the US media is blaming “Trump’s ‘hateful rhetoric’ for the packages.” www.rt.com/usa/442429-mail-bomber-stripper-pizza/
While driving I listened to a large part of the press conference, and the affair struck me as an orchestration. Every agency involved was present, from the Postal Service to the FBI and Secret Service, the directors of which praised the expert professional performance of their agencies in intercepting the bombs. It seemed to me overdone, especially in view of the FBI’s admission that they could not say that the bombs were functional. Why would a bomber send non-functional bombs?
There are other things to notice and to wonder about.
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Philly Archbishop: Final Text From Vatican Synod ‘Frankly Inadequate’ On Sex Abuse
Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput said the final document of the concluded Vatican synod of bishops on youth is “frankly inadequate and disappointing on the abuse matter,” an assessment shared by a number of synod fathers.
While there was some good discussion of the issue among the synod fathers, it was “not enough,” Chaput said in his final reflections, and “Church leaders outside the United States and a few other countries dealing with the problem clearly don’t understand its scope and gravity.”
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President Trump Signs 5-Year Lobbying Ban for Administration Officials
President Donald Trump signed a lifetime foreign-lobbying ban for members of his administration Saturday, as well as a five-year ban for all other lobbying.
The lobbying ban was a central component of Trump’s campaign pledge to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C., though his commitment to the slogan has wavered. Trump has hired top donors to his campaign for administration jobs, while relying on industry lobbyists for both his transition and administration staff.
“This was something, the five year ban, that I was talking a lot about on the campaign trail and we will now put it into effect,” Trump said as he signed the order in the Oval Office.
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Shots Fired Into GOP Campaign Office in South Daytona Beach
In what some in the media are calling an act of “vandalism,” a Republican office in South Daytona Beach, Florida, was damaged overnight Sunday when someone shot at least four bullets into the windows, shattering glass and toppling campaign posters. Luckily, no one was in the office during the attack.
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Tony Ledbetter, the chairman of Volusia County’s Republican Party, blamed Democrats for the political terrorism.
“There’s four bullet holes in our windows and there’s four bullet holes inside the building,” Ledbetter said. “You’ve got some sick person, and I’ll call them out, they’re Democrats. No Republican has any reason to come attack our location.”
Ledbetter suggested that the culprit probably decided to express his or her anger at the GOP with violence.
“We’re manning early voting locations, passing out Republican voter guides, we’re encouraging people to vote Republican and there are some Democrats who just have a problem with that,” he said….
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Stephen Bannon Will be Keynote Speaker at Conference in Missoula, Website Shows
An upcoming conference in Missoula identifies Stephen Bannon as a keynote speaker, although the organizer has not responded as to whether the former chief strategist for the White House will appear in person.
Called ACE 2018, the 15th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology notes it will take place at the University of Montana.
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Trevor Loudon Releases Mini-Doc on Florida’s Andrew Gillum #EnemiesWithin
This week, Trevor Loudon presents Part Two (See Part One) of a series exposing the radical ties of Florida Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum. Gillum, the current mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, has a long history with hard-core socialist activists.
Andrew Gillum is a threat to national security.
WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW!!
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President Trump called out the establishment media on Sunday, saying “their fake & dishonest reporting” is “causing problems far greater than they understand.”
“The Fake News is doing everything in their power to blame Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division and hatred that has been going on for so long in our Country. Actually, it is their Fake & Dishonest reporting which is causing problems far greater than they understand!” Trump said on Twitter.
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Weak Eight: NFL Stadiums Still Showing Thousands of Empty Seats
With half the NFL season behind us, fan attendance still has not ticked upward for the most part. And at least one fan thinks that the empty seats problem has gotten worse over last year.
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On Saturday morning, a lone gunman entered a Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and began shooting. He murdered eleven Jews at prayer, and injured more, including police who responded. The murderer was captured alive; he is reported to have said, “All these Jews need to die.”
It was an anti-Semitic attack by someone who, according to his social media posts, thought that Donald Trump was too pro-Jewish, too pro-Israel.
But of course that’s not enough for the Media Party, especially just a week or so away from the U.S. mid-term elections.
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Who is the “They” Obama Keeps Mentioning Over and Over [Video]
The video below should be seen by everyone! It exposes the former president for doing what he claims others do. The claims using the word “they” are doing exactly what he’s claiming the other side is doing. See what he did there? He’s saying “they” are fearful…WHO ARE THE “THEY” HE SPEAKS OF?
The tactics used by the former president have been the same since the beginning. It’s the politics of identity and division the Democrats would love to keep alive. It’s how they keep their base voting out of fear. Obama is doing exactly what he claims the other side is doing…See what he did in the video?
Saul Alinsky: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.”
Hillary Clinton is also a student of Alinsky. She wrote her college thesis on Alinsky:
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Is Canada’s Government Funding Terrorism?
Canadian taxpayers have unwittingly been funding terrorism for more than two decades, often through federally registered charities, many of which have since been banned in other countries and subsequently by Ottawa as well. The International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy, which has sent tens of millions of dollars in goods and services to the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, is one example. Another is the Islamic Society of North America’s Development Foundation, which was discovered to be funding the Pakistani Islamist movement Jamaat-e-Islami. A third was Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s “Jihad Fund,” which was operating in Canada through a charity registered as the World Islamic Call Society.
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“Zero Tolerance Against Anti-Semitism in Hungary” — Foreign Minister
Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has sent a letter of “solidarity and support” to his US counterpart over a shooting on Saturday that claimed eleven lives in a Pittsburgh synagogue.
In his letter to Mike Pompeo, Szijjarto called the lone terrorist’s act “unbelievably evil and shocking”. He expressed sympathy with the families of the victims and wished a speedy recovery to all those injured.
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Angela Merkel to Step Down as German Chancellor in 2021
Germany’s Angela Merkel has said she will step down as chancellor in 2021, following recent election setbacks.
“I will not be seeking any political post after my term ends,” she told a news conference in Berlin.
She also said she would not seek re-election as leader of the centre-right CDU party in December. She has held the post since 2000.
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Arabs Try to Derail German High-Speed Train With Steel Wire Across Railroad
It’s being reported in Germany on Sunday that Bavarian officials are investigating a possible terror attack on a high-speed train, Nord Bayern reports.
Police have found wire pulled across a stretch of train tracks in Bavaria the national media report. The train conductor at the time mistook the sound for a shorted circuit.
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Belgian Christmas Market is Named Winter Market, Because it ‘Could Offend Other Beliefs’
Organisers of the Christmas Market in the Belgian city of Brugge changed its name to Winter Market. The decision was made to not ‘offend other beliefs’, Belgian newspaper HLN reports.
The newspaper says that the Christmas lights on the market will be replaced by neutral winter lights. People and politicians are not amused about the changes.
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Czechia: Three Charged in Drowning of Two Vietnamese Kids
Three people in the Czech Republic have been charged with “negligence resulting in death” after two Vietnamese boys drowned at a bathing resort in August.
The two seven-year-olds drowned at the Lhota Lake resort in the Central Bohemian region two months ago. Previous media reports indicated the mothers of the boys tried to get help from resort employees but the staff were impolite and denied any help. An unnamed witness said staff members spoke to the mothers with disrespect, calling them “scum.”
The incident raised concerns of racism as the boys’ parents said the employees refused to help because of their ethnicity.
Last week, police arrested three employees of the resort on suspicion of negligence resulting in death, Radio Prague reported.
If found guilty, the three suspects could face one to six years in jail.
Official statistics show that around 65,000 Vietnamese people live in the Czech Republic, making them the European country’s third-largest ethnic minority.
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Dozens of ISIS Jihad Brides Returning to Britain ‘Imminently’
Up to 80 jihad brides and their children are reportedly heading back to Britain from Kurdish custody in the Middle East.
Around 150 jihad brides with British citizenship are thought to have travelled to the Middle East to join the Islamic State, mostly with male partners or to become brides to jihadists already in theatre.
Many have now become widows in the custody of Kurdish fighters as the Islamic State’s physical caliphate — which once stretched across Syria and Iraq, with exclaves in places like Misrata, Libya — collapses in the face of sustained assaults by the Russian-backed Syrian government and Western-backed forces such as the Kurdish YPG.
Kurdish leader Abdul Karim Omar now says he wants to “hand over” the foreign extremists who once flocked to the region, according to The Times, vowing: “We will not let them stay here.”
The French government recently said they would accept children being repatriated, but not their adult parents — but Theresa May’s government appears to be a softer touch, with a relative of one ‘British’ bride claiming she had been issued with a new passport and travel documents for her children, and that she and around 80 women like her are likely to return imminently. More may follow.
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European Human Rights Court Backs Sharia Blasphemy Law
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that criticism of Mohammed, the founder of Islam, constitutes incitement to hatred and therefore is not protected free speech.
With its unprecedented decision, the Strasbourg-based court — which has jurisdiction over 47 European countries, and whose rulings are legally binding on all 28 member states of the European Union — has effectively legitimized an Islamic blasphemy code in the interests of “preserving religious peace” in Europe.
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With the Council of Ministers n. 25 the Government has appointed thenew Chief of Defense Staff, General Enzo Vecciarelli that will be replaced at the summit of the Italian Air Force, thenext 31 October,by the General of the Air Team Alberto Rosso.
The General Alberto Rossohe leaves the position of Chief of Staff of the Minister of Defense, Elisabetta Trenta.
The next November 6 the Chief of Staff of the Ceding Defense, General Claudio Graziano will assume the position of President of the Military Committee of the European Union (Chairman of the European Union Military Committee — CEUMC)
The Chief of Defense Staff is appointed by the Council of Ministers on the proposal of the Minister of Defense, after hearing the head of the Armed Forces, the President of the Republic.
General Vecciarelli arrived at the congratulations from Minister Trenta: “The most sincere wishes for the new prestigious appointment, which I am sure will carry on with commitment, determination, professionalism and sense of institutions”.
The new Chief of SMD, General Enzo Vecciarelli, so in a statement:
“I am honored with the appointment as Chief of Defense Staff and I feel a strong duty to serve the country by making unconditionally available all my energy” -said General Vecciarelli learned the news.”It will be a great responsibility and a pride -has continued- guide and represent all the military and civil defense who with dignity, daily at home and abroad, carry the name of Italy high operating with great courage and professionalism always at the service of the country.
With deep and unchanged spirit of service I renew my oath of loyalty to the Constitution and to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, guardian of the founding values of the Republic and of the Constitution and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.
I express my gratitude to the Government, in particular to the Minister of Defense, Elisabetta Trenta, for the trust granted to me.
I thank the current Chief of Staff of Defense, General Claudio Graziano, for the support received in my mandate as Chief of Staff of the Air Force that I will continue to perform with the utmost concentration and absolute dedication until the last day.
To the women and men of the Arma Azzurra, I address my most sincere statement of esteem and admiration for having shared and supported my vision for the change towards an aeronautics projected into the future and increasingly useful for the country “.
biography
TheEnzo Vecciarelli Team General, “Hunting Interceptor” pilot, spent many years of his career at the 4 ° Stormo of Grosseto, where he held all the operational positions, including that of Group Leader in 1991 and Storm’s Commander from 1999 to 2002, achieving a total of over 2600 flight hours, including more than 2000 on the F104 Starfighter aircraft.
From the 1993 to the 1999 it was employed at the I Department of the Air Force Staff, first as Head of the Employees Personnel and then as Head of the Sorting Department. He also carried out management activities at the General Staff of the Logistic Command, where he held, between 2002 and 2004, the positions of Head of General Planning, Head of Operations and Deputy Chief of Staff.
In 2003 he commanded the first air force contingent in Iraq at the Tallil Air Base (Nassiriya). Subsequently, General Vecciarelli held the position of Deputy Head of the III Department — Armaments Policy — at the General Secretariat of Defense and, at the same time, as National Representative to the most important European organizations such as EDA (European Defense Agency), the OCCAR (Joint Armaments Co-operation Organization) and the LOI (Letter of Intent) in charge of the reorganization and development of a common arms policy in Europe.
From 2007 to 2010 Gen.SA Vecciarelli was Defense and Aeronautics Officer at the Italian Embassy in Berlin with secondary accreditation for the Netherlands and Denmark.
Commander of the Combat Forces based in Milan in the 2010 and Chief of Staff of the Air Squadron Command in the 2011, from the 2012 to the 2015 he served as Director of the IV Armament Programs Coordination Department at the General Secretariat of Defense /DNA.
From 26 February 2015 to 29 March 2016 held the position of Deputy Chief of Staff of Defense.
The 30 March 2016 has assumed the post of Chief of Staff of the Air Force.
The Gen. SA Vecciarelli comes from the Rostro 2 Course of the Aeronautical Academy. He obtained a pilot’s license at Laughlin Air Base (Texas) and a Fighter Pilot qualification at the Holloman Air Base (New Mexico). He also attended the Normal and Superior Courses of the Air War School of Florence, theAir War Collegeat theAir University of Maxwell(Alabama), theDefense Resource Management CourseatNaval Postgraduate College of Monterey(California) and the SERA(Session Européenne des Responsables d’Armement)at the Center des Hautes Etudes de l’Armement — Ecole Militaire in Paris.
Gen. SA Vecciarelli holds a degree in Aeronautical Sciences at the Federico II University of Naples and in International and Diplomatic Sciences at the University of Trieste. He is awarded the Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, of the Mauritian Medal, of the NATO Medals for Operations in the Former Yugoslavia andUnified Protectorfor operations in Libya, the commemorative medal for peace operations in Iraq, the honor of an officer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Medal “Merit Santos-Dumont” of the Ministry of Defense of Brazil.
Married to Mrs. Amelia, he has two sons, Claudio and Federica.
The Alberto Red Team General, born in Genoa on 29 September 1959, he enlisted in the Air Force in 1978, with the Uranus Course 3 °, of which he is “saber of honor”.
Patented US military pilot in the 1983, he spent most of his operations as an Air Defense pilot.
In May 1984 is assigned to the 4 ° Stormo, where the IX Hunting Group commands from 1994 to 1995 on F 104 aircraft.
In 1996 it is assigned to the Air Force Staff where it remains until 2002 holding various positions in the fields of operations, military policy, general planning and financial.
In June of the 2002 he assumes the role of Commander of the 4 ° Stormo, which maintains 2004 until July, together with the position of Director of the 4 ° RMV.
Assigned to the Defense General Staff — 3 ° Reparto holds between 2004 and 2007 the position of Head of Political Office of the Covenants and subsequently that of Deputy Head of Department, until March 2010.
Subsequently, he was transferred to the AM Logistic Command where he assumed the position of Chief of Staff.
In the period 2011-SEPTEMBER 2013 held the position of Head of the 4 ° Department of the General Staff of the Air Force and was promoted to General of the Air Division the 30 April 2013.
In September 2013 holds the post of Head of the 4 ° Department of Defense Staff, in July 2015 is appointed Deputy Head of Cabinet of the Minister of Defense. Promoted General of the Air Squad the 4 February 2016, in June of the same year he assumes the position of Head of Cabinet in the vacant seat, and then the 9 January 2017 be appointed Head of Cabinet of the Minister of Defense.
He is awarded the following honors: OMRI Commander, Gold Cross of Service Length, Gold Medal for Long Air Navigation, NATO Medal for Operations on the Former Yugoslavia, NATO Medal for Operations in Kosovo, Cavalry of the Equestrian Order of the Vatican of St. Gregory the Great, Medal for merit of service of the Republic of Albania, Officer of the National Order of Merit of the French Republic, Mauritian Medal of merit for ten years of military career.
It has around 3000 hours of flight, mainly on single-seat fighter aircraft and of these over 2000 on FXXUMX, enabled on aircraft: EF 104, F2000 (all versions), SIAI 104, SIAI 260, T 208, T 37 , MB 38, MB 326, Fiat G 339, AB 91 (helicopter), Twin Astir (glider).
Gen. Rosso holds a Master’s Degree in Aeronautical Military Sciences at the Federico II University of Naples, is married to Mrs. Flavia and has two children, Federica and Enrico.
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Hitler Standing for Peruvian Mayor After Lenin Objection Dismissed
LIMA (AFP) — Hitler will stand in Peru’s municipal elections on October 7 after authorities rejected a bid from Lenin to have him barred.
It may sound like some sort of spoof about the historical battle between fascism and communism, but Germany’s Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Soviet Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin are nowhere to be seen.
Representing the center-right Somos Peru (we are Peru) party, Hitler Alba Sanchez is running for mayor of Yungar, a remote district in central Peru.
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I Can’t Wait to Meet New President Bolsonaro — Italian Interior Minister
Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini ready to go to Brazil and get former leftist terrorist Cesare Battisti if the newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro agrees to extradite him to Italy as promised.
“I can’t wait to meet new president Bolsonaro,” Salvini said, and “I will be happy to got personally to Brazil also to go and get leftist terrorist Cesare Battisti and bring him back to Italian jails”.
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German authorities are taking “very seriously” an apparently failed attempt to damage and derail a high-speed ICE intercity train after Arabic messages threatening attacks were discovered nearby.
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(by Massimiliano D’Elia) Italian President of the Council Giuseppe Conte has collected the support of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin with a single blow. At the summit of Palermo the next 12 and 13 November, for the Libya dossier, the rank of the participants is rising. Russia has confirmed the participation of Russian Prime Minister Medvedev, or the powerful and influential Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the Germany of Chancellor Angela Merkel and even General Kalifa Haftar, according to the Libyan newspaper Al Wasat, could be present at the summit. The United States would stand up for the Head of State Department Mike Pompeo, much depends on the level of the Kremlin representative.
On the other hand, as far as concerns the European Commission’s concerns about Italian public debt, even in this case, the United States and Russia did not rule out the possibility of buying Italian government bonds. In short, Italy is at the center of something bigger. Much depends on its geographical location. Italy is the largest US aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean. Italy is fundamental for the fate of Euroland. Italy is the grimardello of Russia to enter the EU and US mechanisms to mitigate the effect of economic sanctions and is an excellent bridge to transport Russian gas.
The geopolitical importance of Italy is emerging, but it was already known at the time of the Cold War, where the Bel Paese was at the center of the conflict of force of the two opposing blocs.
The EU countries have no doubts about the importance of Italy but do not want to admit it publicly. Despite the “heavy” veto to the Italian economic maneuver, they try to soften the tone.
From Berlin, the federal government spokesman Steffen Seibert was a diplomat, urging constructive dialogue
“We support the Commission in its work, this is its role. The maintenance of the rules of the Stability Pact, and solid public finances: these are important prerequisites for what we all want, and that is a positive and sustainable development of the economy for the citizens “.
In Der Spiegel, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced, “in the next few days we will ask other questions about the budget law when I meet Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in the coming weeks”.
The next steps are: the November 5 the publication of the economic document, the November 8, the likely new economic estimates from Brussels, in view then of the expected budgetary views for the November 21. This last passage could be preparatory, writes Il Sole 24 Ore, at the opening of a procedure for excessive debt, in the absence of changes to the Budget. Moreover, the College of Commissioners already meeting in Strasbourg has considered whether to open the same procedure this day which would prove, however, at the media level as an external interference hardly acceptable by public opinion and which would give rise to uncertain developments in European sovereign movements. , of which Italy, the former Donal Trump strategist Steve Bannon, is its leader.
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Italy: Gang Lied to Teen on Fatal Drug Mix to Rape Her — GIP
Salvini says government will clear occupied buildings
(ANSA) — Rome, October 29 — Three men accused of raping and killing 16-year-old Desiree Mariottini in Rome this month lied to her on a fatal mixture of drugs they gave her, claiming it was methadone rather than substances including tranquillizers to gang rape her, a preliminary investigations judge (GIP) has said, ruling that the suspects must remain in jail.
The men, two Senegalese and a Nigerian, are accused of voluntary homicide, group sexual violence and distributing narcotics.
Investigators, who are seeking a fourth man for the rape and murder, suspect that three or four additional people could have been present during or after the rape and did not call for help although the teen was extremely sick, according to investigative sources.
Desiree did not return home on the night of October 17 after saying she had missed the last bus home from Rome to Cisterna di Latina.
Her body was found on October 19 in the San Lorenzo district, known for its lively street scene.
The teen was raped and killed in an occupied building in San Lorenzo’s Via dei Lucani, known as a “drugs supermarket” where pushers sell a wide range of drugs, investigators said.
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has said abandoned buildings in the area will be cleared.
“We will progressively clear all occupied buildings”, Salvini told private broadcaster La7 on Sunday, when asked how the government would respond to the murder.
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Italy: Lotti Risks Trial in CONSIP Case
Prosecutors ask to shelve case against Renzi’s father
(ANSA) — Rome, October 29 — Rome prosecutors on Monday said they have closed a sweeping investigation into alleged wrongdoing related to civil-service procurement agency CONSIP.
Seven people, including former Sports Minister Luca Lotti, former Carabinieri General Commander Tullio Del Sete, Carabinieri General Emanuele Saltalamacchia and entrepreneur Carlo Russo risk going on trial.
Ex-minister Lotti is suspected of allegedly aiding and abetting and violating judicial secrecy. He is accused in particular of tipping off former CONSIP CEO Luigi Marroni about a probe into alleged corruption regarding agency contracts.
Del Sette is accused of violating judicial secrecy, Saltamacchia of aiding and abetting the operation, Russo of illicitly lobbying in exchange for money, ex-government advisor Filippo Vannoni of aiding and abetting and a former high-ranking official with Carabinieri NOE environmental police, Gian Paolo Scafarto, of revealing classified information.
Scafarto, together with a former Carabinieri colleague, Alessandro Sessa, is also accused of attempting to throw the investigation off track.
Rome prosecutors also asked to shelve the case against the father of ex-premier and center-left Democratic Party (PD) leader Matteo Renzi, Tiziano, who was accused of alleged influence-peddling in the case.
Scafarto allegedly wrongly attributing a wiretap in the CONSIP probe concerning Tiziano Renzi.
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Italy: Centre-Left Barred From Turin Council in Pro-TAV Move
Di Maio says renegotiating project in govt contract
(ANSA) — Turin, October 29 — Centre-left councillors were expelled from the Turin council room after protesting in favour of a high-speed rail (TAV) line from Turin to Lyon on Monday.
The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) majority is set to vote against the TAV line.
Among those expelled was former Turin mayor and Democratic Party (PD) bigwig Piero Fassino who said it was the first time he had been expelled.
M5S national leader, Deputy Premier and Industry and Labour Minister Luigi Di Maio, said earlier that “renegotiating” the link was in the government contract with the anti-migrant Euroskeptic League, which is however in favour of completing the project.
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Petition: Break All Ties With EU Institutions and Policies Completely
Leaving the EU must mean leaving the Single Market, Customs Union, the jurisdiction of the ECJ, the Common Agricultural Policy and the Common Fishing Policy.
There must be a clean break from the EU so Britain can take back control of its laws, borders, trade and money.
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Sweden Fails Again to Form New Government
Swedish Social Democrat leader Stefan Löfven said Monday he has failed to form a new government, leaving no clear candidate for prime minister nearly two months after an inconclusive election.
“In light of the responses I have had so far, in the current situation, the possibility does not exist for me to build a government that can be accepted by parliament,” Löfven told a press conference after meeting parliament speaker Andreas Norlén.
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Swedish Children Attacked Daily and Don’t Dare Go Outside in ‘No-Go Area’ Near Stockholm
Swedish children in Björkhagen, about 10 minutes from Stockholm City, dare not go out or report extortion, offences, assaults, robberies and threats to the police in fear of retaliation.
However, police reports have decreased, because neither children nor parents dare report crimes, even though knives are often involved. Previous contact with the police and social service centre has only resulted in more harassment.
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UK Cashes in on Brexit: Commemorative Coin to Mark Withdrawal Announced
A 50 pence coin designed to commemorate the UK’s historic exit from the European Union (EU) and retaking of national sovereignty will be issued next year.
The announcement came in Monday’s budget, with the news welcomed by Brexit-supporting MPs and campaigners.
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UK: Boris: Collecting Customs Duties for EU After Brexit ‘An Absolute Humiliation’
Leading Brexiteer Boris Johnson has again weighed in on Theresa May’s Chequers plan for Brexit, describing proposals for Britain to collect customs duties on the EU’s behalf as “an absolute humiliation”.
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UK: Freed Terror Convict Anjem Choudary Must Take ‘Deradicalisation’ Lessons
Terror convict Anjem Choudary must complete a compulsory de-radicalisation programme as part of his probation following early release from prison.
The notorious Islamist hate preacher, 51, has been released after serving less than half of a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence for encouraging support for the Islamic State terror group.
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UK: Remainer Phil’s Project Fear 2.0: No Deal Brexit Means More Govt Austerity
The Remain-supporting Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, has threatened that a no-deal Brexit would result in more austerity, putting pressure on Tory Eurosceptics to back the Prime Minister’s unpopular soft Brexit Chequers plan.
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UK: Seven Pakistani Men Found Guilty of Grooming and Raping Five Underage Girls
The seven men have all been found guilty of abusing and grooming young girls. Charges include rape, indecent assault, and false imprisonment.
The men are all aged between 35 and 39 and the men raped, assaulted and imprisoned five girls aged under 16 between 1998 and 2005 in Rotherham.
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Around one-quarter of Brits want to abandon Brexit while the majority want to see it take place in some form, a new poll has found, despite a large proportion also saying the Prime Minister is not handling the divorce well.
Many seemed more optimistic about Brexit than is often supposed, with over half — 53 percent — saying life after Brexit would be the same or better. Just 26 percent said it would get worse.
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Libya: Media: ‘ISIS Attack in Al Jafra, 4 Dead, 10 Wounded’
Police station was the target
(ANSAmed) — TUNIS, OCTOBER 29 — A reported four people were killed and 10 wounded in an attack carried out in the area of Al Fuqaha at a police station in Al Jafra, in central Libya, the city’s mayor, Osman Hassouna, was quoted as saying by local media.
The mayor blamed ISIS for the attack in statements to a number of Libyan media outlets.
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Woman Suicide Bomber Wounds 9 in Tunis: Ministry
TUNIS (AFP) — A woman suicide bomber blew herself up Monday near police vehicles in the centre of the Tunisian capital, injuring nine people, the interior ministry said.
Ministry spokesman Sofiene Zaag told AFP that all but one of the casualties were police, after a strong explosion Monday rattled the main Avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunis.
Ambulances arrived swiftly at the scene, which was cordoned off by security forces.
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IDF Strikes 80 Gaza Terror Targets After Massive Rocket Attack on Israel’s South
On Saturday, the IDF said fighter jets, attack helicopters and UAVs had hit targets including two advanced weapons manufacturing facilities in al-Attara and the Netzarim area; five military compounds in Khan Younes, Dir al-Balah, Tel Za’atar and Jabliyah; a training compound in Rafah, a terror tunnel in Khan Younes and an anti-aircraft observation post in Beit Lahiya.
The rocket attacks began at around 10 p.m Friday, with barrages launched against the town of Sderot and the Sha’ar Ha’Negev Regional Council. No injuries were reported, although several people were treated for shock.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad issued a statement saying fire would be met with fire and blood with blood. The rocket fire came after a day in which five Palestinians were killed during the weekly violent demonstrations along the Gaza border.
IDF attack helicopters and drones struck three Hamas targets after fire bombs and grenades were thrown at Israeli forces along the border.
In its statement Saturday morning, the IDF said the rocket fire from Gaza was being carried out “in a climate that enabled terror that is being led by the terrorist organization Hamas.”
The statement added that the IDF views Hamas as “responsible for all events in Gaza and emanating from Gaza” and that Hamas “will pay the price for all acts of terror against Israeli citizens.
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Palestinian President Vows to Thwart Trump Peace Plan
RAMALLAH (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) (AFP) — Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Sunday again vowed to oppose any peace proposal by US President Donald Trump as PLO officials met to consider their next moves.
Speaking at the opening of a rare meeting of the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s central council, Abbas said Palestinians were facing perhaps the “most dangerous stage” in their history, highlighting a series of controversial measures taken by Trump including recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Abbas has boycotted Trump’s administration since that December decision, though the US president’s team is still expected to release a peace plan in the coming months.
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Kuwait: MP Urges Govt to Tax Expats for the ‘Air They Breathe’
Just back from an International Parliamentary Conference where she was elected as a deputy committee chairman, MP Safa Al-Hashem didn’t waste much time in calling again for taxing expatriates for the air they breathe in the country. Hashem, the only female member in the 50-seat Assembly, said that “expatriates must be charged for everything, for medical services, infrastructure and again I say for the air they breathe here”.
The lawmaker was objecting to a proposal by the government to study a taxation law as part of the government development plan. “It will be applied on Kuwaitis only on my dead body” screamed Hashem at a press conference in the National Assembly after attending a meeting for the committee entrusted to find jobs for Kuwaitis by replacing expatriate jobs.
She insisted that no taxation or charges will be imposed on Kuwaitis before the government amends the highly demographic structure which is highly in favor of expatriates, saying there are just under 1.4 million Kuwaitis for as many as 3.2 million expatriates. She said that the government must first find jobs for the 14,000 unemployed Kuwaitis and tackle the problem of over 110,000 illiterate expatriates in the country, asking “why are they here in the first place”.
In the meantime, the National Assembly Legal and Legislative Committee voted yesterday to maintain the membership of two lawmakers despite receiving final jail sentences triggering a constitutional and political controversy. The Cassation Court in July sentenced MPs Waleed Al-Tabtabai and Jamaan Al-Harbash to jail along with 13 former MPs and opposition activists for entering the National Assembly building during a protest in November 2011.
MP Mohammad Al-Dallal said the committee’s decision, taken by five votes against two, was based on articles in the constitution, the election law and the internal charter of the National Assembly. He said these articles clearly give the National Assembly the right to debate whether to revoke the membership of lawmakers or not, adding that the Assembly used the same articles to keep the membership of MP Khalaf Dumaither after he was convicted in a final court order…
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The White Helmet Global Franchise to Serve the “Humanitarian” Regime Change Network Worldwide
The White Helmets are the flagship of the Western-manufactured “human rights” industry working to destabilize Syria and to criminalize the Syrian government and its allies. They became an official entity inside Syria in early 2013 as news of “rebel” use of chemical weapons in Khan Al Assal, Aleppo began to surface.
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Lion Air Crash: Jakarta Boeing 737 ‘Had Prior Instrument Error’
The Indonesian jet which crashed shortly after take-off had suffered instrument problems the day before, according to a technical log obtained by the BBC.
A technical log from a flight from Bali to Jakarta on Sunday said an instrument was “unreliable” and the pilot had to hand over to the first officer.
The Boeing 737 airliner crashed into the sea with 189 people on board.
It went down after taking off from Jakarta. There is no sign of survivors.
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China’s President Orders Military to “Prepare for War”
China’s President Xi Jinping ordered the military region responsible for monitoring the South China Sea and Taiwan to “assess the situation it is facing and boost its capabilities so it can handle any emergency” as tensions continue to mount over the future of the South China Sea and Taiwan, while diplomatic relations between Washington and Beijing hit rock bottom.
The Southern Theatre Command has had to bear a “heavy military responsibility” in recent years, state broadcaster CCTV quoted Xi as saying during an inspection tour made on Thursday as part of his visit to Guangdong province.
“It’s necessary to strengthen the mission … and concentrate preparations for fighting a war,” Xi said. “We need to take all complex situations into consideration and make emergency plans accordingly. “We have to step up combat readiness exercises, joint exercises and confrontational exercises to enhance servicemen’s capabilities and preparation for war” the president-for-life added.
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Russia and China Are Apparently Both Under the Impression That War With the United States is Coming…
We truly are living in apocalyptic times, and our world seems to be getting more unstable with each passing day.
Could it be possible that the U.S. is heading for a major war?
If you ask most Americans that question, they will look at you like you are crazy. For most people in this country, war with either Russia or China is not something to even be remotely concerned about. But the Russians and the Chinese both see things very differently. As you will see below, Russia and China both seem to be under the impression that war with the United States is coming, and they are both rapidly preparing for such a conflict.
Let’s start with Russia. After repeatedly slapping them with sanctions, endlessly demonizing their leaders and blaming them for just about every problem that you can imagine, our relationship with Russia is about the worst that it has ever been.
And when the Trump administration announced that it was withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, that pushed things to a new low. In the aftermath of that announcement, Russian official Andrei Belousov boldly declared that “Russia is preparing for war”…
Of course we didn’t get to this point overnight. Tensions with Russia and China have been simmering for quite a while, and both of those nations have been rapidly modernizing their military forces. For much more on this, please see my recent article entitled “Russia And China Are Developing Impressive New Weapons Systems As They Prepare For War Against The United States”.
Sadly, the vast majority of the U.S. population is utterly clueless about these things.
But those that are serving in the military have a much better understanding, and one recent survey found that about half of them expect the U.S. to be “drawn into a new war within the next year”…
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WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Euan Fraser, 30, from Dundee, Scotland, said the cabbie beat him unconscious on his doorstep, leaving him with a bleed on the brain.
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James Gargasoulas is Fit to Stand Trial for Bourke St Killings, Melbourne Jury Finds
Accused Bourke Street driver James Gargasoulas has been found fit to stand trial despite suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and delusions.
A jury deliberated for just a few hours before returning the verdict, which means Mr Gargasoulas will go on trial next Wednesday, accused of murdering pedestrians by running them down in Melbourne’s CBD in January, 2017.
He has pleaded not guilty to six counts of murder and 28 counts of attempted murder.
Two psychiatrists and a psychologist gave evidence at a week-long Supreme Court hearing to determine Mr Gargasoulas’ current mental state and his fitness to stand trial.
The experts were split in their opinions on whether Mr Gargasoulas met the criteria to be fit to stand trial, but all agreed he was not faking his mental illness and he believed he was the messiah.
Forensic psychiatrists Andrew Carroll and Lester Walton argued Mr Gargasoulas could not enter a plea, give instructions to his lawyers or understand the substantial effect of the evidence.
Michael Daffern, a psychologist engaged by the prosecution, assessed him as fit.
In closing the prosecution’s case, Director of Public Prosecutions Kerri Judd QC told the jury that a phone call Mr Gargasoulas made from prison to a welfare worker about his children illustrated he could think sensibly and make decisions…
[Just how much his actions were actual jihad and merely inspired by the European vehicular jihadis remains an open question (he claimed to be Jesus Christ before a magistrate, as I recall), the fact that he is clearly a nutter still doesn’t excuse him from pleading and standing trial. The highlight of the recent hearing was where it came out that he’d had phone calls to his parents in which he had said that if he were to plead guilty, he’d get life in gaol, but if he was found unfit to plead, he’d get about 5 years in a forensic medical facility (the new word for institution for the criminally insane). He was probably wrong about the 5 years, but at least the criminally insane will be spared his company.]
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The people rallied behind him. A pro-family, pro-gun, pro-tradition, law and order nationalist is now the president of Brazil!
Jair Bolsonaro just pulled off the impossible.
The establishment was against him. The media was against him.
Facebook and Big Tech banned tons of his supporters and censored them.
A leftist assassin put a dagger in him.
He survived.
The people rallied behind him. A pro-family, pro-gun, pro-tradition, law and order nationalist is now the president of Brazil!
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Battisti Gift Coming, Bolsonaro’s Son Tells Salvini
Eduardo Bolsonaro thanks Italian deputy premier for support
(ANSA) — Rome, October 29 — The son of new Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday suggested that the government is set to keep a promise to extradite of Italian former leftist terrorist Cesare Battisti. “The gift is coming! Thanks for the support, the right is becoming stronger,” Eduardo Bolsonaro, a federal deputy, said in response to a tweet by Italian Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini congratulating Bolsonaro senior on his election victory. Battisti, whose extradition was halted by former president Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva, is wanted to serve out several life sentences for murders in the so-called ‘Years of Lead’ of leftist and rightist terrorism.
Battisti, who fled to Brazil from France where he had become a crime writer, after the end of the Mitterand Doctrine, has always denied committing murder.
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Ecuador Judge Rules Against Assange Over Embassy Changes
QUITO, Ecuador — A judge ruled against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday, rejecting his request to loosen new requirements that he says are meant to push him into leaving his asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
Judge Karina Martinez decided stricter rules recently imposed by the South American nation’s embassy — such as requiring Assange to pay for his internet and clean up after his cat — do not violate his asylum rights because authorities have the right to decide what is and isn’t allowed inside the building.
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Lopez Obrador to Scrap Mexico Airport Project
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Mexico’s incoming leftist president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday he will halt construction of a new airport for the capital after it was rejected in a referendum.
“The decision is to obey the mandate of the citizens,” Lopez Obrador told reporters, adding that the money would be used instead to improve existing facilities.
The president-elect has been a staunch critic of the environmental impact of the project — the estimated cost of which exceeds $13 billion — and said it is marred by corruption.
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The Latest: UN Chief Congratulates Brazil on Election
SAO PAULO (AP) — The Latest on Brazil’s presidential election (all times local):
4:05 p.m.
The White House is rejecting comparisons between President Donald Trump and the far-right President-elect of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro.
The two leaders share a history of controversial statements and bombastic comments.
Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters at the White House on Monday: “There’s only one Donald Trump in my opinion.”
The White House says Trump phoned Bolsonaro Sunday evening after his election victory.
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‘Tropical Trump’ Bolsonaro Threatens to Upend Brazil’s Foreign Policy
Jair Bolsonaro, the winner of Sunday’s Brazilian presidential election run-off, endorses an array of foreign policy positions akin to those of US President Donald Trump, on issues from the Israel-Palestine conflict to trade with China.
“Trump wants to make America great again and I want to do the same for Brazil,” Bolsonaro said on the campaign trail. Having earned himself the moniker ‘the tropical Trump’ for his lurid far-right statements, Jair Bolsonaro threatens to radically change the direction of his country’s foreign policy.
“There is an obvious closeness between Bolsonaro and Trump, not just in terms of political discourse but also in terms of personality and style,” said Alvaro Sierra, the director of FRANCE 24’s Spanish channel in Bogota, Colombia.
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5,000 Troops to be Deployed to Southern Border; Military Actively Moving Equipment
The US military will deploy 5,000 troops to the southern border — up from initial estimates of 800, according to the Wall street Journal, citing US officials. The troops will be sent to Texas, Arizona and California as Central American migrant caravan makes its way north through Mexico.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters Sunday that the military has already started to deploy countermeasures to the southern border, following weekend reports that Mexican police had abandoned their own blockades as a massive Central American migrant caravan continues their march north, reports AP.
Mattis’s comments come amid a vow by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen that the caravan “is not getting in.”
“My general message to this caravan is: Do not come,” Nielsen said. “You will not be allowed in. … There is a right way to immigrate to the United States,” she continued, “and this is not it.”
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70,000 Migrants From the Balkans Are Heading for Western Europe — Hungarian Government
The Hungarian government has stepped up the alert along Hungary’s southern border in the wake of a recent incident involving illegal migrants on the Bosnian-Croatian border, Lajos Kosa, head of parliament’s defence and law enforcement committee, said in Mohacs, in southern Hungary, on Saturday.
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Algerian Migrant Arrested for Stealing Mobile Phones From Greek Fishermen
One Algerian migrant was arrested by Greek citizens in Mytilene for stealing mobile phones from fishermen.
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Caravan Migrants: ‘What Are We Supposed to Do in Honduras if There’s No Work?’
Migrants traveling with the 7,000-strong caravan headed to the U.S.-Mexico border to overwhelm the country’s asylum and immigration system are admitting that they are merely foreign workers looking for jobs.
Migrants with the caravan — many of whom are previously deported illegal aliens — recently admitted to the Washington Post in interviews that they are economic migrants, not asylum-seekers.
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DHS Chief Warns Caravan: “Do Not Come. You Will Not be Allowed in.” [Video]
Will our rogue judges keep the doors open for this caravan?
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen just sent a clear message to the 14,000 strong caravan from Central America swiftly moving towards us:
.@SecNielsen on #Caravan: “This caravan is not getting in. There is a legal way to enter this country. Those who choose to enter illegally will be stopped…My general message to this caravan is: ‘Do not come. You will not be allowed in.’“
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Not Everyone Knows That in Niger …
Insider published a report by Euronews journalist Valerie Guriat on irregular immigration, with a focus on Niger.
Niger is acting today as the policeman in Europe regarding migration. The idea is simple: enlist police and army to prevent migrants from leaving Niger, choose the lucky few who are entitled to asylum in Europe and keep them in transit centers until further relocations.
In exchange for this effort to reduce illegal immigration, Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, receives EU funds, including money to help traffickers find new legal jobs.
The number of migrants passing by Niger has decreased dramatically after EU intervention. For Niger, less, according to what the journalist found on the ground. Europe’s money is not reaching enough people and can not compensate for the losses of an economy largely dependent on the migration business.
Niger must also face the flow of thousands of African migrants returning from Libya after having suffered all sorts of abuses, and waiting to return to their countries of origin. Migrants, refugees and returnees, including children, are about 300 thousand.
“Certainly the European Union in Niger has not achieved its goals”, explains Valerie Guriat. “There are some reasons for this. First of all the funds dedicated to the fight against migration are destined to different projects. One is reforming and reinforcing internal security, managing borders and helping Niger fight the trafficking of human beings. The so-called reconversion package that aims to help people find new economic activities is a small part of it all. Secondly, many people told us that these funds are often managed by development agencies that do not always know how to do so, so there is a lot of red tape and there are a lot of delays “.
Valerie Guriat then met one of the former passers, Abdouramane, who interrupted his activity and benefited from a European Union program for reconversion. To start a new business, Abdouramane received chairs and speakers, which he rented for the holidays.
“Before I made a lot more money, even 800 euro a week. Now only 30 euro a week “, he explains.
“We have complied with the law, we are no longer working, we have stopped, and now the state of Niger and the European Union have abandoned us. People are here, they have families and children, and they have nothing. We eat with our savings, with the money we have made before. It is very hard for us, “said Bachir Amma, president of a group called the Association of former migrant workers.
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See the Censored Lou Dobbs/Judicial Watch Report on Who’s Funding the Migrant Caravan
Can’t have the truth getting out.
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US Sending 5,200 Troops to Border With Mexico
The Pentagon is sending over 5,200 troops to the border with Mexico as thousands of Central American migrants head north through Mexico.
General Terrence O’Shaughnessy said Operation Faithful Patriot would focus on Texas, Arizona and California.
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Watch Live: Globalist Plan Collapsing as Soros Pushes for Migrant Entrance
The migrant caravans approaching America’s southern border are totally manufactured
America will not fall victim to an illegal invasion despite the attempts by the global elite.
[Comment: that’s “globalist elite and assorted communist traitors within the USA.”]
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“Antifa Witches”: A Glimpse Into the Source of the Demonic Rage Surging About US
From Marx and Bakunin to Saul Alinsky and Antifa, the radical Left has always had a fixation with Lucifer.
“This is basically Antifa witches,” Dakota Bracciale said in an interview with Newsweek. “We’re coming for these people’s throats, and we will never stop, we will never be silenced… There are a lot of angry people who are righteously filled with rage that are going to take back our country.”
Dakota Bracciale, who identifies herself as a witch, was talking to Newsweek about the highly publicized October 20 event she was organizing, in which a coven of Brooklyn witches would cast a hex “to make Kavanaugh suffer.” She was referring, of course, to the newly confirmed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh…
Here’s a clue: Much of the political rage that passes for “craziness” today is not merely the result of psychological disorder, but also of spiritual disorder. Most communists, Marxists, Maoists, Stalinists, Leninists, etc., publicly claim to be atheist materialists. They insist that God doesn’t exist, that the idea of “God” is a rancid myth, and religion is the “opiate of the people.” However, throughout the history of revolutionary communism, we see over and over again words and behavior from leading theorists and practitioners of the revolutionary cause that belie this disbelief. In fact, many of these professional atheists do believe in God; they just choose to oppose, defy, and hate Him. And they hate not only God and those who believe in Him, but also hate the moral, social, and political order they associate with God. Like Lucifer, they wish to be gods and to refashion the world according to their own utopian whims and desires.
From Marx and Bakunin to Saul Alinsky and Antifa, we see many examples of leaders of the radical Left expressing a disturbing fixation with Lucifer, along with their nihilistic rage for destruction. If this is news to you, it most likely is as well to many leftist “scholars,” since it is a side of the revolution that is largely hidden in plain sight.
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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Essence Magazine, who targets a primarily black audience, is asking their readers to vote for future lawmakers because of how much melanin they have in their skin, but that’s not all, they’d also like you to make the genitalia of the candidate you vote for in the midterm elections a priority. Why bother with a candidate’s qualifications? According to Essence, a candidate’s ability to lead our nation and make critical decisions that affect the lives of Americans can now be determined at birth.
Speaking of birth, every day, 900 black babies are killed via abortion in America. Isn’t it odd, that Essence Magazine is asking their readers to support 59 black female candidates, most of whom support the genocide of innocent black babies in America? Essence would also like their readers to overlook a host of abhorrent behaviors from a list of 59 black, female candidates. From calling on supporters to threaten members of President Trump supporters, to burning their state’s flag, to voting against making the Muslim religious practice of FGM or Female Genital Mutilation, a felony in their state, voters should “Trust Black Women”, because according to Essence Magazine, they’re ready to “demand that this nation reckon with white supremacist capitalist patriarchy that this nation was founded upon”, in its place.
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Italy: Feminists Protest ‘All Men’ After 16-Year-Old Girl Raped & Murdered by Migrants
Feminists responded to the sickening gang rape and murder of a 16-year-old Italian girl by three illegal African migrants by protesting against all men.
Earlier this month, the body of Desirée Mariottini was found in a derelict building in Rome notorious for drug trafficking. The girl was fed a cocktail of drugs and sexually abused before she died. Three migrants from Senegal and Nigeria were subsequently arrested by police.
Similar to how feminists reacted after the mass sexual assault of women by Muslim migrants on New Year’s Eve 2015 in Cologne, Germany, feminists responded to the murder by demonstrating against “the patriarchy,” while saying nothing about the threat to women’s safety posed by mass immigration.
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Police chiefs in London are to spend almost £1 million extra a year hiring 200 anti-racist “community assessors” who will make sure recruits in the crime-hit capital hold positive views of minority ethnic groups.
“The skills you possess are highly prized,” the Metropolitan Police tells potential candidates for the role, which requires no qualifications nor job history besides “life experience”, “an appreciation of diversity issues”, and that applicants have lived in London for three years.
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A New York University professor is facing backlash for inviting former Breitbart editor and right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos to speak Wednesday about the politics of Halloween.
Students, faculty and social media users quickly criticized the decision of Michael Rectenwald, a liberal studies professor, to invite Yiannopoulos to campus.
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With Medically-Assisted Reproduction, Macron Enters Hot Yet Manageable Waters
Emmanuel Macron’s government will soon present a bill granting medically-assisted reproduction rights to single and lesbian women. The French president aims to avoid replicating his predecessor’s strategic errors with same-sex marriage.
When the French government presents its bioethics bill to Parliament at the end of November they will be delivering on one of Macron’s most symbolic campaign pledges, the “hot topic” of medically-assisted procreation (PMA).The bill, which would legalise PMA for lesbian couples and single women, is likely to spark a nationwide debate.
Five years after then socialist president François Hollande faced an ever-increasing and well-organised conservative opposition to the legalisation of same-sex marriage, his successor Emmanuel Macron is bent on a more conciliatory approach. “We have to accept the notion that some people oppose such measures,” majority MP Matthieu Orphelin, a staunch supporter of the bill, told FRANCE 24. One of the reasons the government is treading on egg shells is the growing rift within the French population on issues related to sexuality and gender, as well as the added effect of the president’s dwindling popularity.
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The next German Federal Election will be held no later that 24th October 2021, just a little under 3 years
Thank you. I thought it was 2022.
“Germany’s Angela Merkel has said she will step down as chancellor in 2021, following recent election setbacks.”
Three years in power at a minimum for the most destructive ruler in European history, outside of Hitler and not counting Russia as Europe. It’s difficult to see this announcement as anything but an attempt by Merkel to give herself some slack to pursue her policies with Bundestgag support. I hope the Germans are smart enough to see through this fog, and continue to obstruct her at every turn, until she is forced from office as soon as possible.
I will refrain from using this as an occasion to comment on the character of the Germans themselves, who continue to give plurality support to a Terminator government. The European totalitarian states have achieved technologies of communication control and thought control only dreamed of in the days of the German Reich and the USSR. You can’t really blame the people. The totalitarian state is implicit in the development of socialism, which after all, is a philosophy of complete centralization of power and wealth. But, the argument is subtle and easy to miss.
Re the last item, three lines up from the foot: I enjoyed “treading on eggshells” in this context!
Frau Merkel managed to bring the Germans to brutality.
Magdeburg: Larger group attacks two asylum seekers
http://www.tellerreport.com/life/–magdeburg–larger-group-attacks-two-asylum-seekers-.rJjPcvNnX.html
Czechia: Three Charged in Drowning of Two Vietnamese Kids
The incident raised concerns of racism as the boys’ parents said the employees refused to help because of their ethnicity. Last week, police arrested three employees of the resort on suspicion of negligence resulting in death, Radio Prague reported.
– That is not what our Czech media reported, because official Czech media said that it is two women and one man charged for negligence, and that it is probably the two vietnamese mothers of the boys and one employee of the lake resort.
Swiming at this lake is ‘at your own risk’ and they don’t have baywatch like in California…
https://www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/lhota-u-prahy-smrt-chlapci_1810221246_pj
Putin stated the need for separate content convicted for terrorism
Is it really?
Russian President Vladimir Putin stated the need to think about the separate content of persons serving sentences for ordinary crimes from those convicted of terrorism.
RIA Novosti https://ria.ru/society/20181030/1531800187.html
I think Putin does not want terrorists locked up with regular prisoners in order to prevent them from becoming radicalized.