Jair Bolsonaro, the “Tropical Trump” who was just elected president of Brazil, has reportedly carried a number of governors into office on his coattails. 12 out of 27 governors elected in Brazil are said to be Mr. Bolsonaro’s allies.
In other news, the UN refugee agency says that the United States must allow the migrant caravan from Honduras into the country.
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Italians Saving More Due to Uncertainty — ACRI
18% rise in overall household savings
(ANSA) — Rome, October 30 — Italians continue to have the tendency to save as much as they can, due in part to perceptions of an uncertain atmosphere, a recent study says.
The study, by the Association for Savings Banks and Foundations (ACRI) and IPSOS as part of the 94th Savings Day, found that the tendency to save was at 86%, in line with the previous year. However, some 38% of those surveyed “do not feel at peace if they do not manage to save anything”, 1% more than in 2017.
A total of 39% of households say that they are actually able to save money, 2% more than in 2017.
The rise in overall savings of households, at 18%, was confirmed by Italian national statistics institute ISTAT as well.
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Trump is Right: The Fed is a Big Problem
The president’s latest criticism of the Fed’s interest rate policy no doubt points in the right direction
President Donald J. Trump has taken on the Federal Reserve (Fed), saying that Fed chairman Jerome H. Powell is threatening US economic growth by further raising interest rates.
Mainstream economists, the financial press and even some politicians react with indignation: the president’s comments undermine the Fed’s political independence, potentially endangering the confidence in the US dollar.
Such a public reaction is, at first glance, understandable — as mainstream economists have declared the political independence of the central bank a “golden calf” issue.
Monetary theorists argue that a politically independent central bank is best for the currency and the economy.
As a result, most central banks around the world, including the Fed, have been made politically independent. But is this so?
Well, if the economy thrives, politicians leave the Fed alone.
If the economy stumbles, or if the Fed pursues unpopular measures, it runs the risk that Congress or the president may revise the Federal Reserve At of 1913, stripping it of its power.
In fact, the Fed’s monetary policy cannot deviate too much from the Congress’ and the president’s political agenda.
Granted: In good times, the Fed is more or less protected from the demands of political parties.
But what about the influence from ‘special interest groups’ such as the banking industry on Fed policymaking?
There should hardly be any doubt that the Fed caters, first and foremost, to the needs of commercial and investment banks.
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“He’s My Hero”: Armed Father Stops Shooting at Alabama McDonald’s
“He’s my hero. Because I can only imagine how it would’ve went if he wasn’t armed. We might not be here having this interview,” Markus Washington told 6WBRC.
Washington was working at a Birmingham McDonald’s when he heard gunfire.
“I was making two quarter-pounders and heard three shots ring, and then exchange of gunfire two more,” he said.
The incident occurred at the McDonald’s on Lomb Avenue around 10:45 Saturday night — just as the restaurant was closing.
When an employee unlocked the door to let customers — a father and his two sons — out, a masked man barged in and began shooting.
The father shot back.
Washington said he hid in the freezer, and from there, heard more than 15 shots fired.
Police said both the father and the masked man were shot, along with one of the hero’s sons. The gunman later died from his injuries. The father and his son are expected to recover.
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Boston Mob Boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger Killed in Prison
Blood thirsty Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, who ran lucrative criminal rackets for decades under the protection of crooked FBI agents, was killed shortly after his transfer to a West Virginia prison late Monday, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
Bulger, 89, was found unresponsive inside the maximum-security Hazelton federal penitentiary in Bruceton Mills, the Bureau of Prisons said Tuesday.
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CNN Host Tries to Bait Tree of Life Rabbi Into Blaming Trump for Synagogue Shooting; Fails Miserably
Rabbi says Trump is welcome at synagogue
CNN host Alisyn Camerota repeatedly tried to pressure Tree of Life Rabbi Jeffrey Myers into blaming President Trump for Saturday’s deadly massacre but ended up failing miserably.
Camerota first tried to bait Myers by asking him if he blamed anyone “beyond the gunman” for the shooting, which claimed the lives of 11 congregants.
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CNN’s Subtitles Tell a Different Story When Anchor Says, “No One’s Blaming the President.”
Is this the weapon of our biased mainstream media(see our previous report below)? Watch CNN or MSNBC and notice the subtitle at the bottom of the screen. See what they’re doing in the photos below? Devious and wrong…Also known as the “chyron”, the electronically generated subtitle you see on news shows. Watch for them…
We previously reported on this sneaky way to insert fake news into a report.
John King of CNN said, “No one is blaming the President.” but look at the subtitle screenshots from CNN:
THIS is a huge problem and it’s something most people probably don’t notice but it’s deceitful.
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Dad at McDonald’s With Kids Shoots and Kills Masked Gunman Who Opened Fire
An father dining with his children at McDonald’s in Birmingham, Alabama, fatally shot a masked man who entered the fast food restaurant and opened fire, CBS affiliate WIAT reports.
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Democrat Menendez Supporter Hurls Racial Slurs at African-American, Latino Republicans
A supporter of Democrat Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was caught on camera spewing racist insults at African-American and Latino Republicans at a New Jersey Senate debate last Wednesday in Newark, NJ.
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Democrat Congressional Candidate Elissa Slotkin Tells Detroit Audience…
[…]Barack Obama “Knows What We All Know…That It Must Be Party Before Country… Always…Always”
During Barack Obama’s campaign visit to Detroit last week, Democrat candidate for Congress, Elissa Slotkin had a chance to address the crowd. When it comes to one of the most bizarre campaign stories in Michigan politics, Slotkin’s story takes the cake. Elissa Slotkin, a former CIA analyst who worked under Obama, recently moved into a Holly, MI farm owned by her wealthy family, heirs to the Hygrade Foods Company. The unknown Democrat appears to have been hand-selected by Democrat leadership and funded by mostly out-of-state leftist groups, in hopes of defeating the popular, conservative Congressman Mike Bishop (R). Bishop is a lifetime Michigan resident, who represents the 8th district of Michigan. Slotkin has never paid taxes in Michigan and has never voted in the state where she’s asking for voters to support her…until she voted for herself in the August primary elections.
Slotkin, who was slammed by Senator John McCain for her involvement with the Obama regime’s decision to pull our US troops from Iraq, that allowed ISIS to grow and flourish, was also allegedly involved in Obama’s shady Iran deal that secretly sent over $1 billion in taxpayer dollars to Iranian officials on pallets. The money was later used to fund terrorism.
It wasn’t Slotkin’s failure as a CIA analyst that was in the spotlight this weekend, however, it was something that she said to the Democrat crowd in Detroit that was so revealing, even the Democrats in the audience couldn’t believe she said it, as they shouted repeatedly asking her to correct her statement about Barack Obama.
Watch, as Slotkin explains to the crowd at the Detroit rally that Barack Obama kept her on as a CIA analyst because “He knows what we all know…that it must be Party before country…always…always!”
[Comment: Spoken like a true communist and CIA operative.]
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Facebook Exodus: Nearly Half of Young Users Have Deleted the App From Their Phone in the Last Year
Facebook’s year of scandals is driving young users away from the platform, according to a Pew survey.
Pew surveyed more than 3,400 U.S. Facebook users in May and June, and found that a whopping 44 percent of those ages 18 to 29 say they’ve deleted the app from their phone in the last year. Some of them may have reinstalled it later.
Overall, 26 percent of survey respondents say they deleted the app, while 42 percent have “taken a break” for several weeks or more, and 54 percent have adjusted their privacy settings.
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Gab Banned by Godaddy, Shopify, Medium; AG Plans Investigation; Founder Inundated With Death Threats
The media is going after Torba’s friends and family
The free speech social network Gab has been taken offline after being banned by web domain registrar GoDaddy, shopping cart service Shopify, PayPal, payment processor Stripe, web host service Joylent and even blog site Medium since being blamed by the media for the mass shooting in Pittsburgh.
Though heinous crimes are regularly livestreamed by criminal users of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without the owners of those sites being held personally responsible, Gab is being held to a completely different standard and its founder Andrew Torba is being targeted for personal destruction.
Gab’s website now shows only this statement:…
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Jewish Gun Advocate: ‘Learn to Shoot or Get Out of the Way of Those Who Do’
Doris Wise, the founder of “Jews Can Shoot,” an offshoot of the former Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors organization, told Breitbart News on Monday that the best response to Saturday’s synagogue shooting is for Jews to arm themselves.
“My reaction was horror and sadness — horror was the first thing … I don’t think this is going to pass that quickly,’ she said, speaking from her home in Arizona.
“I got very angry when I saw the candlelight and the vigils and all of that — I mean, it’s good, and people need a chance to heal — but the only thing that’s going to stop these people is a gun, is shooting them back.”
She rejected the idea that President Donald Trump bore any blame for the attack, adding that she believed the country’s divisions began in earnest during the Obama presidency.
She added that her own family’s experience in the Holocaust had taught her the importance of firearms ownership as a protection against tyranny.
“I go back to the same thing I’ve always said. We’ve been persecuted since the time of the Holocaust. I definitely believe that had we been armed, there would not have been a Holocaust, or the Holocaust would have been very much minimized.”
The solution, Wise said, is gun ownership and firearms training — which her organization provides to members of the Jewish community.
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The fight to defend the First Amendment has never been more important
On this Monday edition of Infowars’ banned midterm election coverage, Rob Dew hosts a two-hour broadcast diving into the details behind the current internet crackdown on free speech, extreme anti-Trump rhetoric from the left leading up to midterms and much more.
Share this link to join the battle and tell the technocrats they will not silence the truth!
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McAfee Says Cloud Security Not as Bad as We Feared… It’s Much Worse
The average business has around 14 improperly configured IaaS instances running at any given time and roughly one in every 20 AWS S3 buckets are left wide open to the public internet.
These are among the grim figures rolled out Monday by researchers with McAfee, who say that security practice has not kept up with the rapid adoption of cloud services.
The security giant conducted a study using around 30 million events logged by its own business services and found that companies are not keeping proper track of the cloud services they use and, as a consequence, are not properly securing them.
According to McAfee, the average business uses around 1,900 cloud instances, but most of the companies they surveyed only thought they used around 30. It is no surprise, then, that many IaaS and PaaS accounts are not properly configured to limit what data can be accessed.
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Padded Résumé, Big Govt Socialist, Jessica Morse is Unserious House Candidate
It is too bad there is no referee calling fouls and issuing penalties to politicians and candidates who lie. Even today’s political fact checkers aren’t always reliable. So it’s up to voters to sort through the noise.
Particularly noisy is Democrat Jessica Morse, who is running against Republican Rep. Tom McClintock for the U.S. House of Representatives. Morse’s campaign has been fatuous and unserious. Jessica Morse is a study in running a callow campaign, with her troubled relationship with the truth when it comes to her past, her credentials, and an embellished résumé.
The contrast is especially blatant given that McClintock is known for being such a straight-up guy, and one of the very few in Congress who hasn’t become a millionaire while serving his district. He’s sober and thoughtful, and has never lied about his public service or his résumé.
While Rep. Tom McClintock has a lengthy record of tackling the many serious issues of concern in California and national issues, Jessica Morse is a ludicrous caricature of a serious statesman. Her socialistic statements on universal healthcare, sanctuary cities and increasing taxes on Californians show her to be just another flippant leftist, and willing tool of the DNC.
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Shadow Banning is Just the Tip of the Iceberg: We’re All Digital Ghosts Now
If you do a search of shadow banning, you’ll find sites that claim to help you identify whether Twitter or Instagram has shadow banned your account. The basic idea of shadow banning is to spoof the shadow-banned user into believing their public posts are visible to all while in reality the posts are visible only to the user or in some cases to the users’ followers.
Shadow banning and outright banning are only the tip of the iceberg: everyone who posts content on the web or social media is subject to much more subtle and completely opaque controls on how much of your digital presence has been ghosted—not just in social media communities but in searches and how links to your site/content and re-posts of your content are handled by the tech cartel that controls what’s visible and “found” on the web and social media.
This cartel is dominated by Google and Facebook. Google controls over 90% of all search: what search results are displayed, the weight given to links (the page-rank assigned to websites) and a variety of other factors that can be depreciated, removed, omitted or blocked by algorithms and/or human censors (a.k.a. administrators) without recourse and without the site or user being informed.
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Thousands of Americans Walk Away From the Unhinged Democratic Left
Disgruntled Dems leaving in hordes
Owen Shroyer delivered a speech at the #WalkAway march in Washington D.C. on Sunday to fire up young liberals who are ready to get behind Trump and help Keep America Great!
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Trump Slams ‘Sick’ CNN Guest Who Said He Has ‘Radicalized More People Than ISIS’
Correspondent previously claimed Trump was “f***ing his daughter.
President Trump has slammed a CNN panelist who declared Monday that the President has ‘radicalized more people than ISIS.’
Appearing on a CNN broadcast anchored by Jake Tapper, GQ magazine correspondent Julia Ioffe claimed “I think this president, one of the things that he really launched his presidential run on is talking about Islamic radicalization. And this president has radicalized so many more people than ISIS ever did. I mean, the way he talks, the way he — the way he —.”
Trump’s response, during an interview with Laura Ingraham, was swift and to the point.
“Well, that must be some kind of a sick woman.” The President said.
[Comment: What a stupid woman.]
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“Despite all of the lies and propaganda, black Americans are waking up,” said Owens. “Black Americans are realizing that this person you’ve painted as a monster seems to be bringing results that you’ve promised for decades and never delivered.”
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Trump Wants $342,000 in Attorneys’ Fees From Stormy Daniels
President Donald Trump wants Stormy Daniels to pay $342,000 for his attorney fees after defeating her defamation lawsuit.
The adult-movie star whose real name is Stephanie Clifford “filed this action, not because it had any merit, but instead for the ulterior purposes of raising her media profile, engaging in political attacks against the president by herself and her attorney, who has appeared on more than 150 national television news interviews attacking the President and now is exploring a run for the presidency himself in 2020,” Trump said in a filing Monday in Los Angeles federal court.
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US Spatula: Secret Orbit But Not So Much
The newspaper “La Libertà” wrote that a group of amateur astronomers spotted it, as it sped past star Arturo, the ‘top secret’ orbit of the experimental spacecraft X-37B Otv, the miniature version of the Space Shuttle that aeronautics US military launched the Earth last September 7 aboard the Falcon 9 rocket of the Space × party from Cape Canaveral.
One of the last of the telltale sightings bears the signature of Canadian astronomer Kevin Fetter, who picked up the vehicle as it sped past the bright star Arturo: the video is posted on Spaceweather.com.
“The spacecraft was as bright as a fourth-magnitude star, absolutely visible to the naked eye,” says Fetter.
“Last April I had seen him pass in front of the Moon: a real show!”. The X-37B Otv vehicle is a privileged platform for conducting orbital tests with which to develop new technologies for American defense, with potential applications in the field of reconnaissance and surveillance.
Its orbit around the Planet has never been made public by the US government and its mission is considered ‘reserved’.
The secret, however, has lasted very little, since amateur astronomers and satellite observers began to spot the vehicle, allowing it to calculate the orbit. Who wants to look for the spaceplan in the sky, where to do nothing but read the predictions of its steps published on the site heavens-above.com, under the name Otv5 (Use 277).
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What is Blexit? Why Black Americans Are Leaving the Democratic Party in Droves
Turning Point USA Director of Communications, Candace Owens, is leading a movement in the US aimed at showing black Americans they don’t have to be democrats.
In the USA, black Americans historically vote upwards of 90 per cent for democrats. Candace Owens wants to change that. With the star power of Kanye West and President Trump and the infrastructure of Charlie Kirks organisation, Turning Point USA, she’s making some progress.
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What a Deal! San Jose to Pay Homeless to Clean Up Their Mess
San Francisco’s homeless problem has become legendary in recent years, with residents complaining and worries over the impact it has on tourism. This applies to other cities and communities in the region, including the city of San Jose. Various proposals have been offered, ranging from sending out the police to round them up, constructing more affordable housing and, most recently, some cities have considered imposing a new tax on their residents just to pay for solutions. San Jose could probably use some of that money because their next plan involves going around and paying the homeless $15 per hour to clean up the mess that they created.(San Francisco Gate)
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Trudeau Strips Nazi of Canadian Citizenship — But Not ISIS Members
On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, security expert T. Lee Humphrey joined me to discuss the Trudeau government stripping a Nazi of their citizenship, after the prime minister refused to do the same thing to Canadians who joined ISIS.
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“Foolish Form of Tolerance”: Belgian ‘Christmas Market’ Changes Name to ‘Winter Market’
Some claim change was made so as not to offend Muslims
Organizers of a Christmas market in the Belgian city of Bruges have changed its name to ‘Winter Market’, with some claiming the switch was made so as not to offend Muslims.
According to a report by HLN, instead of Christmas-themed lighting, the market will be lit up with “winter lighting”.
Senator Pol Van Den Driessche of the country’s opposition party called the change “unbelievable and incomprehensible.”
“From now on we can no longer speak of the ‘Christmas market’ in Bruges, but of the ‘winter market’,” he added. “This is not only a ridiculous decision, it also goes against our individuality. Bruges has a very beautiful and old tradition in terms of Christmas. Whether you are religious or not, it is part of our culture. I do not want to give in to this foolish form of ‘tolerance’.”
Some respondents to the article asserted that the change was made to avoid offending Muslims.
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Extreme Weather Sweeping Italy, Death Toll Rises to 11
Gale-force winds and torrential rain claimed the lives of six on Monday and another four victims early on Tuesday. Another found near Belluno bringing the number since Sunday to 11.
Falling trees are the cause of many of the deaths and causing major disruption. Schools in many cities are closed again Tuesday. One of the dead is believe to be an immigrant of about 50-years-old, the body found on the beach at Bacoli near Naples Tuesday.
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Hypocrite Angela Merkel Prefers to Deport Turkish Journalist Instead of Terrorists
Adil Yigit a 60-year-old Turkish journalist, who by his own account has lived in Germany for over 36 years, made the mistake of criticising Erdogan at a press conference with Merkel by wearing a T-shirt calling for press freedom in Turkey.
One month after his removal from the press conference he received a letter telling him he had until the 22nd of January to leave the country or he would be deported at his own expense. Official reasons for his expulsion are his lack of employment and a living community with his German children no longer exists.
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Italian Locals Call for Closure of ‘Ethnic Clubs’ Linked to Drugs, Prostitution, And Violence
Locals in the Italian city of Perugia have called for the government to close “ethnic clubs” in their neighbourhood after claims that they were linked to violence, drugs, and prostitution.
Residents of Fontivegge and other nearby neighbourhoods have accused the clubs of being hubs for criminal activity, newspaper Il Giornale reports.
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Italy and France: An Infinite Competition That Comes From Afar
Issue of migrants on the borders, Libya dossier and Palermo summit of 12 and 13 November, Italian economic maneuver, these are the hot topics that razor relations between Italy and France.
The competition and tensions, however, start from afar as the Corriere della Sera writes, from the case of Telecom, Mediaset, Mediobanca, Generali to the Fincantieri affair in the controversial merger with Naval Group.
Greater evidence of the strange relations between Italy and France (often we speak of the French cousins), it took place during a recent meeting organized by the Aspen Institute Italia in Rome.
An interesting meeting between Italian and French politicians, entrepreneurs and academics, guest and exceptional speaker, Moscovici.
The most impressive note of the debate came when there was talk of direct investments. According to Istat data, the French acquisitions in Italy record a value equal to 71,9 billion, followed by the British with 53,6 billion, the Germans with 40,1 billion and the US with 12,2 billion.
On the other hand, Italian direct investments abroad show the value of 33,5 billion in France, 44,7 billion in Germany, 33,4 billion in the United States and 28 billion in Great Britain.
According to the Ministry of Economic Development, Italian companies in France control 1.500 companies for a total of 67 thousand transalpine employees. French entrepreneurs show no complaints about Italian ownership, unlike what happens in Italy.
In the Aspen Institute conference it emerged that Italian entrepreneurs are cautious in having to integrate with the French while they are more inclined towards German companies that, objective elements in hand, would seem to appreciate Made in Italy with much more confidence.
In short, it seems that the competition between the two of the eurozone’s strongest economies will never end, but it will tend more and more to grow, in light of the new challenges in foreign policy
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Italy: Govt Must Respond on TAV — Chiamparino
‘Ready for referendum otherwise’
(ANSA) — Turin, October 30 — Piedmont president Sergio Chiamparino said Tuesday before the regional council that the government must respond on whether the Turin-Lyon high speed train (TAV) would be built or not.
“Let’s be done with the willful ambiguity of this government, seasoned with an unbearable pantomime,” he said. “The government should have the courage to say that it does not want to do it or — as I hope — that the basic tunnel must be made because that is what all modern countries do. I say yes to the TAV, without any ifs or buts, because that tunnel is what connects us to Europe.” He added that “I suggest that a roundtable discussion be held with the government to discuss the national part of the tunnel.
If the government accepts, great, otherwise I will ask the council to find a way to call for a referendum.”
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Italy: Crowds Flock to Desirée Funeral
(ANSA) — Rome, October 30- Crowds flocked on Tuesday to the funeral at Cisterna di Latina of Desirée Mariottini, a 16-year-old girl drugged up, gang-raped and murdered in an abandoned building in Rome’s San Lorenzo district earlier this month.
Hundreds of people including many youngsters turned out for the funeral at the San Valentino church in the part of the town south of Rome where she lived, while pink and white balloons were tied to lamp posts and signs.
Among the wreaths was one from the Lazio regional government.
Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi has called a day of civic mourning Tuesday.
Four African men including two Senegalese drug pushers, a Nigerian and a Ghanian have been arrested in the case.
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Italy: League Slams Raggi for ‘Immobilism’
Citizens said ‘enough is enough’ says council whip
(ANSA) — Rome, October 30 — The anti-migrant Euroskeptic League on Tuesday slammed one of the top members of their government partner, the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S): Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi.
League council whip said Raggi’s city government was “one of the worst administrations of Rome”.
He said “they promised legality but they have only brought immobilism”.
Talking about a citizens’ protest against the city’s decay under Raggi Saturday, Politi said “they took to the streets to say enough is enough”.
He also said “this administration os more Marxist than the (opposition centre-left) Democratic Party).
Saturday’s rally protested the degraded state of the Italian capital, with rubbish piled high on pothole-filled streets where wild boars roam and where buses regularly catch fire.
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Italy: Populists Block Muslim Group’s Bid to Turn Chapel Into Mosque
Lombardy’s populist League-led local government has blocked plans to turn an old chapel into a mosque after an Islamic group outbid Christians at the auction of a church in Bergamo, northern Italy.
The region’s president, Attilio Fontana, announced at the weekend that the council had utilised a 2004 law which allows regional government to halt a sale in the name of safeguarding cultural sites.
[Comment: Note how old churches are ALWAYS targetted for conversion into mosques. This is no accident. It is intentional to show that Islam is triumphant over Christianity.]
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Juncker Has Proven That He is Unfit to Lead the European Commission — Hungarian Foreign Minister
“Over the past four and a half years, Jean-Claude Juncker has proven that he is unfit to head the European Commission”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.
The minister was reacting to the fact that the Romanian MFA welcomed Jean-Claude Juncker’s opinion with relation to celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the unification of Transylvania and Romania on 1 December, but voiced his concern about the “rhetoric of the Budapest authorities”.
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Merkel’s Move Poses Problems for the EU, Analysts Say
BRUSSELS (AFP) — As Europe’s most powerful leader, Angela Merkel’s decision to quit as German chancellor in 2021 spells uncertainty and possibly paralysis for the EU as populists rally, diplomats and analysts warn.
After her announcement on Monday, the European Union is even less likely to bridge divisions on key topics like migration or eurozone reform in the coming months, they say.
“Nobody is going to listen to her anymore in Europe. She has taken herself immediately out of the game,” said Sebastian Maillard, director of the Jacques Delors Institute think tank.
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Nigel Farage: Time to Get Tough in Brexit Negotiations
As the Article 50 deadline approaches, Nigel Farage had strong words for the government’s handling of Brexit negotiations.
“We are not on the point of surrender. Yet the Prime Minister is behaving as if we are. It’s pathetic”. Nigel said speaking to the Daily Express.
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Norwegian PM Slaps Down Brexit ‘Norway Option’ Inside Single Market
The Norwegian Prime Minister has slapped down the “Norway option” for Brexit, with the UK staying inside the wider European Economic Area, which some anti-Brexit campaigners are demanding.
The plan would keep the UK locked in the European Union’s (EU) Single Market and Customs Union, and subject to many of its rules, including open borders and free movement of people.
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Old Allies: Americans to Get Access to Quicker Airport Lines After Brexit
Citizens from some of the UK’s closest global partners will be able to use fast-track airport entry points previously only reserved for European Union citizens, signalling that Britain is moving forward with strengthening old alliances and building new relationships post-Brexit.
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Populism Hasn’t Started! Farage Warns Brexit Was First in Global Movement That Will Spread
The prominent Brexit campaigner shut down claims populism was “dangerous” and said the world is in the “early phases” as the movement continues to spread as a result of the 2016 Brexit referendum.
Speaking to Express.co.uk, Nigel Farage said: “I don’t think populism has even started. I think in historical terms we are in the early phases of this.
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Rape Capital of the World? Four Rapes in Sweden Reported in Just One Weekend
Over the weekend, four rapes have been reported in Värmland, three of which occurred near or inside a nightspot in Karlstad.
To one of the rapes — which took place outdoors — the police are looking for witnesses and have therefore released a description of the raped woman.
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Sweden Wants to Keep Large Anti-Immigration Party Out of New Government
After two failed attempts to form a government, Speaker Andreas Norlén announced that he will not ask a third candidate at the present time.
Instead he will suggest several possible government constellations. Norlén said on Monday that the political situation in Sweden is now the most obscure that has existed in the last fifty years.
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Sweden Still Without Working Govt as Former Leftist PM Fails to Build Coalition, Snap Election Looms
Sweden has still not formed a government following September’s national election, with former Prime Minister and Social Democrat leader Stefan Löfven giving up his attempt at building a new coalition.
Migrant crisis era leader Mr Löfven gave up his attempt to continue as the leader of the Swedish government Monday, bringing the prospect of a snap election closer as no other parties have been able to come to an agreement either, Sveriges Radio reports.
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Swedish Children Attacked Daily, Fear “No-Go Area”
Locals dread criminal network on rise
Swedish children in Björkhagen, about 10 minutes from Stockholm City, dare not go out or report extortion, offenses, 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 center has only resulted in more harassment.
One parent describes a daily life where they drive their children everywhere for fear of them being attacked. A life in constant anxiety when their children are not at home, and an existence where the only solution to the problem seems to be to move elsewhere.
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Swedish Public Service Intensifies Its Promotion of Islam and Normalises Oppression of Young Girls
The Swedish TV-channel SVT recently stated that: “Right-wing populist sites want to spread the idea that Swedish values are threatened by Islam and Muslims”.
According to SVT there’s no basis whatsoever for that — it’s fake news and there’s an agenda behind it. A few days later a young child in a hijab appeared in one of their children’s programmes.
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The Next Merkel? Macron’s Disapproval Rating is Disastrous
Emmanuel Macron’s approval ratings have not bounced back. In fact, he’s sinking nearly as quickly as Angela Merkel.
The new poll by Ifop-Fiducial shows the President beset with problems having a 71 per cent DISAPPROVAL rating. That means that less than one-third — 29 per cent — think he’s doing a good job.
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Tommy Robinson Could Earn £1m From U.S. Speaking Tour, Whines Soros-Backed Antifa Group
An ‘anti-fascist’ group which has received funding from billionaire open borders campaigner George Soros has complained that Tommy Robinson may earn up to £1 million from a U.S. speaking tour.
[Comment: Tommy is a political dissident being continually targeted by the state apparatus for speaking the truth.]
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UK Police Proudly Display Poppy for Great War Centenary
UK police forces and units up and down the country have plastered their cars with poppies to commemorate the enormous sacrafices made by Commonwealth and Allied armed forces on the centenary of World War One.
Officers and forces shared images on social media of the decorated cars, as well as photos showing them collecting money for the Royal British Legion’s annual appeal.
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UK: Fright Night: London Bike Gangs Plan Massive Halloween ‘Ride Outs’ To Terrorise Public
London Police have warned of dangerous motorbike and quad bike gangs setting off on huge Halloween “ride outs” to terrorise the capital’s population.
In recent years, massive convoys of scooters, bikes, and quads have taken to the streets on October 31st, mounting pavements, performing wheelies, and setting off fireworks.
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UK: Police Dealing With Less Than 20% of Rotherham’s 1,523 Grooming Gang Victims
Less than 20 percent of the identified 1,523 known victims of historic grooming and rape in Rotherham have been engaged by police.
After a jury at Sheffield Crown Court found seven men, six Pakistani-heritage, one of Yemeni-heritage, guilting of the historic sexual abuse of five vulnerable underaged girls in the Yorkshire town, the National Crime Agency, likened to the U.S.’s FBI, also announced that Operation Stovewood has resulted in just 14 successful prosecutions.
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UK: Underage Victim “Passed Around, “ Raped by 100 Men
Seven charged in massive Rotherham abuse scandal
Seven men have been found guilty of child sex abuse in the largest trial so far following the Rotherham abuse inquiry.
One underage victim was “passed around” and raped by 100 men by the time she was 16 years old, Sheffield Crown Court heard.
Another young victim became pregnant and had to have an abortion.
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5 Freed From Gitmo in Exchange for Bergdahl Join Taliban’s Political Office in Qatar
KABUL, Afghanistan — Five members of the Afghan Taliban who were freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for captured American Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl have joined the insurgent group’s political office in Qatar, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Tuesday.
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Former CIA analyst, Elissa Slotkin is running for US Congress in a state where she only recently dropped in to occupy a family farm that is owned by her wealthy family, heirs to the Hygrade Foods fortune.
The Slotkin family farm is located in Holly, MI, and just happens to be located on the edge of the 8th district in Michigan, where Elissa Slotkin, a Jewish female, is backed by the J-Street PAC, a group which has been accused of being anti-Israel. In addition to her funding from the anti-Israel group, Slotkin’s also received an enormous amount of campaign cash from ACT Blue, a George Soros funded group.
The Democrat Party and Elissa Slotkin, a DC outsider, who’s spent the last several months attempting to convince Michigan voters she cares about them, after voting for the first time ever in Michigan, when she voted for herself in the Democrat primary election in August, is hoping to unseat the popular, conservative, pro-Israel, Congressman Mike Bishop (R).
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Low-Cost Airlines to Revive Jordan Tourism
Petra fully booked as airlines launch new flights
(by Mohammad Ben Hussein) (ANSAmed) AMMAN, OCTOBER 26 — Jordan’s ailing tourism sector is hoping to get a new lease on life following the launch of low-cost flights from Europe.
Tourism authorities are seeking to place the country on the list of top destinations in the region.
Tour operators and hospitality industry executives hope revenue will be generated and jobs created, officials said.
Ryanair, Norwegian Air, EasyJet and Russian airlines will lead an influx of tourists to visit the kingdom’s main attractions.
Some of its main attractions include the unique rock engraved city of Petra, the port city of Aqaba and the famous Wadi Rum rocky desert as well as a plethora of Roman and Islamic era ruins across the eastern desert and northern region.
Officials from the Jordan Tourism Board (JTB) believe the arrival of low-budget flights will mark a new era in the history of the country’s tourism industry.
“These flights will place Jordan at a budge price for all European travelers. We are expecting an influx of tourists from all around Europe,” said Ala al Hindi, digital marketing director at JTB.
“Jordan is currently working on improving the variety of options available to tourists to meet the demands of various types of travelers,” he told ANSA.
As of November 1st, the eagerly awaited flights of Ryanair will be in full swing between Amman and major European destinations, with 26 flights from Italy, Poland, Cyprus, Lithuania, Belgium, Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic to Amman. The carrier will also fly to the Red Sea city of Aqaba, with eight flights per week from Greece, Italy, Bulgaria and Germany to Aqaba. Meanwhile, EasyJet is scheduled to start operating two flights per week from London and Berlin to Aqaba and Amman, while Norwegian Airlines currently operates two flights per week to Amman and will bring in an additional flight to Aqaba from Copenhagen.
However, JTB officials said high-quality services must be implemented by tourism operators, while prices must remain within reach of middle class tourists.
“The government needs to implement a robust monitoring system on hotels and restaurants in order to build a good reputation among tourists and travel operators,” Hourani added.
According to official estimates, price of a round-trip ticket from Amman to most of European destinations will drop from equivalent of USD 600 to USD 150 for the round trip.
Following years of struggle, the tourism sector could be facing a new lease on life, as the kingdom is expected to serve as gateway to European and international travelers to the region.
Meanwhile, the rock-engraved city of Petra has seen number of tourists jump to all-time record, with most hotels full capacity, said Hourani.
“Currently, some people are renting caves to tourists to stay after all hotels became fully booked, with at least 2,000 tourists having booked in the ‘Rose city’,” said Hourani.
The cash-strapped kingdom depends on tourism as one of its main sources of income, as official figures show it accounts for 14 percent of GDP.
The development comes against the backdrop of listing Jordan by Lonely Planet as one of the 10 most attractive tourism destinations in the world. The renowned tourism platform took note of recent improvement in tourism infrastructure and services including Jordan trail and bike trail, which allow visitors to travel from north to south on foot or bikes while passing through breathtaking views.
“There is a new Bike Trail complementing the Jordan Trail — a continuous route, offering 650 kilometers of beautiful hiking through myriad landscapes and terrains — as well as desert safaris at Shaumari Wildlife Reserve, and off-road routes snaking across the desolate Badia. There’s never been a better time to visit,” said Tom Hall, Lonely Planet’s Editorial Director in a statement.
The past five years have seen dozens of tour operators and hotels shut down as a result of the regional security situation.
However, a recent improvement in the situation in Syria could help put the sector back on its feet.
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A Glimpse of the Dystopian Future Our Big Tech Overlords Desire
Why are we allowing these authoritarians to spy on us and control our data?
This Orwellian clip a visitor to China recorded while on the Beijing-Shanghai bullet train gives a solid picture of the type of future society our Big Tech overlords want to create in America.
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Chinese Intelligence Officers Charged With Espionage Over U.S. Aviation Hacks
(LOS ANGELES) — Chinese intelligence officers and hackers working for them have been charged with commercial espionage that included trying to steal information on commercial jet engines, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
The indictments named two officers working for the Nanjing-based foreign intelligence arm of China’s Ministry of State Security and six other defendants who allegedly conspired from 2010 to 2015 to steal sensitive turbofan engine technology used in commercial aviation.
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Indigenous actress Nakkiah Lui has suggested English playwright William Shakespeare was the product of ‘white supremacy’ during a Q&A theatre special in Sydney.
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New Species of Swallowtail Butterfly Discovered in Fiji
A spectacular new butterfly species has been discovered on the Pacific Island of Vanua Levu in Fiji. The species, named last week as Papilio natewa after the Natewa Peninsula where it was found, is a remarkable discovery in a location where butterfly wildlife was thought to be well known.
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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson (pictured) and former Labor senator Sam Dastyari have accused each other of being liars during a TV grudge match about whether the c-word was used in Canberra.
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A 39-year-old woman was walking along Little Lonsdale Street in Melbourne’s CBD on Sunday morning when the frightening attack occurred, police said.
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New Crocodile Species Discovered by Researchers
A new species of crocodile has been discovered by researchers in Central Africa.
Scientists from Florida International University’s (FIU) Tropical Conservation Institute and George Amato of the American Museum of Natural History in New York discovered a new species of the African crocodile that they have named the Central African slender-snouted crocodile.
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Brazil’s ‘Bolsonaro Wave’ Sweeps 12 Governors to Office
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) — Besides electing far-right congressman Jair Bolsonaro as their next president on Sunday, Brazilians also elected his allies in 12 of the country’s 27 governor’s races.
Several of the candidates were virtual unknowns until they publicly aligned themselves with the former army captain, who has been dubbed a “Tropical Trump” for his vitriolic rhetoric and anti-establishment populism.
The states swept up in the “Bolsonaro wave” include the three most populous in the country: Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro.
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Globalists Freak as “Tropical Trump” Bolsonaro Wins in Brazil
Brazilian Congressman Jair Bolsonaro’s platform was everything the establishment despises, all wrapped up in one campaign: pro-God, pro-free market, anti-globalist, pro-family, anti-corruption, pro-gun rights, anti-establishment, pro-life, anti-communist, pro-Western Christian civilization, anti-cultural Marxism, and pro-Brazil. And now, thanks to evangelicals and conservative Catholics uniting in an election that shocked the globalist political class worldwide, the so-called Tropical Trump, or Trump of the Tropics, is Brazil’s next president. It is likely that U.S. President Donald Trump and Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro (shown) will have a lot in common. And assuming Bolsonaro keeps his campaign pledges — a likely prospect considering his decades of walking the talk — Brazil is set to see a counter-revolution that could set the powerful communist and globalist movements in Latin America back by decades or more.
What happened in Brazil over the weekend represents a political earthquake of immense proportions. After two back-to-back communist-controlled administrations nearly drove Brazil into the abyss of totalitarianism over a period of about a dozen years, a fierce anti-communist opposed to globalism has come to “rescue Brazil,” as Bolsonaro put it. Former President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva — a close ally of the Castro regime, Marxist narco-terror movements, and other murderers and criminals — is behind bars for flagrant corruption in the “Operation Car Wash” (Lava Jato) scandal. His handpicked successor, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached and removed from office by Congress amid massive anti-communist demonstrations. Lula’s next minion, Fernando Haddad, meanwhile, went down in flames in Sunday’s election, with Bolsonaro winning by a margin of around 12 percentage points. Haddad’s campaign slogan was simple yet obviously ineffective: “Haddad is Lula.”
Instead of electing another Marxist masquerading as a “moderate,” conservative Catholics and increasingly influential evangelical Christians teamed up in the world’s largest Catholic country to not only stop the march of communism, but to root it out completely. Ranchers and the agricultural community played a large role, too. And so did everyday Brazilians sick and tired of corruption, oppression, high taxes, out-of-control crime, massive unemployment, and other hallmarks of socialist and communist nations everywhere. Some analysts are calling the historic Bolsonaro election a “revolution” in Brazilian politics. However, much more accurate would be to describe it as a peaceful counter-revolution, with the Lula-backed revolution in Brazil and across the region now shattered. Indeed, the Foro de São Paulo, a communist network founded by Lula, Castro, the Sandinistas, the communist terror group known as the FARC, and other forces, was on the cusp of conquering all of Latin America. Now, they are on the run practically everywhere, with many of the top leaders dead or in prison.
In typical fashion, though, the establishment media around the world was not interested in the real story. Instead, they chose to reveal just how far to the left they have gone, blasting the obviously mainstream candidate as a “far-right” extremist. The media continuously lied about Bolsonaro in other ways, too, seeking to portray him as some sort of monster on the verge of killing everyone.
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Almost 700 refugees have been quietly resettled in Australia including 132 in just the last two weeks, according to a refugee advocates.
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President Trump will sign an executive order to put an end to our ridiculous anchor baby policy. It has only incentivized people from all over the world to come to America while pregnant o give birth here so the baby will be an American. It’s insane! Think of the billions of dollars spent on this dumb policy! President Trump said he would put Americans first and he’s doing just that!
In an interview with Axios yesterday, the president revealed he plans an executive order on ending the policy of ‘anchor babies’:…
The ‘birth tourism’ aka ‘anchor baby’ industry is HUGE! Ringleaders pocket up to $80,000 per pregnant mom. Women from all over the world come to America to deliver an “anchor baby” that receives American citizenship. The women are only charged with committing visa fraud if caught. This needs to end. The anchor baby policy has become a global magnet for expectant moms who want a ticket to become an American citizen. Enough!
[Comment: Under Mexican law, even if Mexican citizens give birth in the USA, their baby is Mexican. International law obliges that the US honour this. So it is illegal to say that baby is a US citizen. This is little known fact. Naturally globalist traitors ensured this was not enforced.]
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Czech Republic May Not Sign Marrakesh Declaration on Migration — Prime Minister
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said he hasn’t ruled out that his government will not sign the Marrakesh declaration on migration.
The declaration, also called the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) is an agreement that is meant to be signed in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh in December this year.
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Democrat Running in Mollie Tibbetts District Voted to Keep Sanctuary Cities
Democrat Abby Finkenauer, running against Rep. Rod Blum in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, voted to keep sanctuary cities in the state to protect criminal illegal aliens from deportation from the United States.
While Blum has opposed sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, and supports President Trump’s proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, Finkenauer joined her Democrat colleagues in Iowa’s state House by voting to keep sanctuary jurisdictions in the state that gave protection to criminal illegal aliens. A recent attack ad noted Finkenauer’s support for sanctuary cities.
The Democrat’s vote against the state’s sanctuary city ban, which Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law in April, is particularly noteworthy as the district Finkenauer is seeking to represent includes Brooklyn, Iowa — the home of Mollie Tibbetts, who was allegedly murdered by an illegal alien from Mexico.
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Exclusive: Trump Targeting Birthright Citizenship With Executive Order
President Trump plans to sign an executive order that would remove the right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on U.S. soil, he said yesterday in an exclusive interview for “Axios on HBO,” a new four-part documentary news series debuting on HBO this Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET/PT.
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Hungary: 70,000 Migrants Marching to Europe Part of “Soros Network”
Network blamed for trying to make migration a human right
The 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 defense and law enforcement committee, said in Mohacs, in southern Hungary, on Saturday.
“What happened on the Bosnian-Croatian border, at Bihac, cannot be allowed to happen here,” Kosa told journalists after visiting the point where the borders of Hungary, Serbia and Croatia meet. Bihac was a repeat of the clash in Roszke, on the Hungarian-Serbian border, in 2015, he said, adding that NGOs organizing illegal migration and financed in no small part by US billionaire George Soros paved the way for the illegal entry of migrants into the EU on the Bosnian-Croatian border.
[Comment: Enough is enough. When will This toad Soros be thrown in jail and his assets frozen? He is clearly working to destabilize all western nations using mass migration as a hammer. This is asymmetrical warfare.]
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Italy: Tension Within Ruling Majority Over Security Decree
Conte calls on M5S lawmakers to be responsible
(ANSA) — Rome, October 30 — The 5-Star Movement-League ruling coalition has been hit by tension over Interior Minister and Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini’s security-migration decree.
Some members of the M5S have been critical of the legislation drafted by League leader Salvini which, among other things, makes it easier for the authorities to deport asylum seekers found guilty of felonies.
Among the issues of contention is the possibility for the authorities to strip people convicted of some extremely serious crimes in a definitive ruling of Italian citizenship. “This legislation was badly conceived, I want to vote against,” said M5S Senator Paola Nugnes.
Premier Giuseppe Conte called for “awareness and responsibility” from the M5S, while refusing to comment on the hypothesis that the movement could eject parliamentarians who rebel over this issue.
“If a measure is rooted in what is in the contract of government (between the M5S and the League), at a certain point it is necessary to close ranks,” Conte said. Deputy Premier, Labour and Industry Minister and M5S leader Luigi Di Maio will take part in a meeting of the movement’s lawmakers to discuss the decree rebels later on Tuesday, sources said. “The ruling majority is united,” commented Salvini.
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Judicial Watch Docs Prove Migrant Caravan Funded by Soros & Other International Organizations
Globalists restricting Lou Dobbs for accurately reporting caravan origins — funding must be cut off now!
Billionaire globalist George Soros used State Department resources and taxpayer funds to advance his leftist political activities, including influencing migration policy, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch earlier this year.
The 32 pages of records show the Obama administration sent U.S. taxpayer money to Soros-backed groups in Albania to fund his subversive political activity, and that he assisted the State Department in deciding how to allocate taxpayer funds for certain grants.
The documents obtained through Judicial Watch’s FOIA lawsuit reveal the mechanism by which Soros-backed groups are able to organize efforts like the migrant caravans through groups like Pueblos Sin Fronteras, and the leftist coalition known as CARA.
Additionally, leaked 2016 documents from Soros’ Open Society Foundation, titled “Migration Governance and Enforcement Portfolio Review,” show close ties between his NGO and the United Nations’ migration representative Peter Sutherland related to facilitating mass migration, including shaping international migration policy.
“IMI’s [Open Society International Migration Initiative] access to the Sutherland team’s discussions has allowed us to keep civil society partners up-to-date on the latest developments, in order to inform advocacy and campaigning strategies prior to the events and to plan follow up actions,” the leaked document states.
The Soros document goes on to claim the cozy relationship with Sutherland has “set the stage for institutional reforms to global migration governance, and to break new ground on protections for migrants outside the asylum system,” meaning unfettered protection for migrants regardless of asylum criteria.
Together, these documents paint a picture of how Soros-backed NGOs and the UN are quarterbacking the migrant caravans funneling their way to the U.S. southern border, such as logistics-planning, food and water distribution, and media outreach.
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Migrant Arrested for Sexually Assaulting Three Women and Several Sheep and Goats in Germany
The German police have arrested a 28-year-old man from Eritrea for multiple sexual offences. The man targeted sheep and goats on a farm in Freiburg and sexually assaulted three women, as well.
Forensic investigators noticed that DNA of a sexual assault case from 11 May this year could be linked to several cases of animal sex attacks in spring 2017.
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Report: Mexico Providing Professional Charter Buses for Migrant Caravan
Amidst the news of the swelling migrant caravan heading toward the United States border come disturbing reports of the migrants getting state-funded help from Mexico.
According to Fox News, the migrants are being loaded onto professional charter buses being provided by the Mexican government in order to expedite some of the migrants to the border.
“Something new that’s developing here,” said Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins. “We’ve seen the 5,000 strong caravan walking to the border but now they’re waiting for a ride to the border. This is the first time I have seen an organized bus operation from the state of Oaxaca actually getting volunteer buses to put people … on them and take them to their next location.”
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Please, Fox News…fire this political hack! Who does this guy think he is? There are thousands of people heading our way who are determined to cross our border.
Shepard Smith took a moment yesterday to lecture all of us about our fear of thousands of people just walking across our border. How dare he tell us this is no big deal. Has he seen the video or listened to the interviews of the people who are determined to come into our country the wrong way? Smith is part of the political elite left that looks down on Americans who want our borders.
Shep Smith on the migrant caravan: “There is no invasion. No one is coming to get you. There is nothing at all to worry about.”
[Comment: Another globalist tool.]
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Shock Claim: The Media is Reporting That Some in the 2nd Migrant Caravan Have “Guns” And “Bombs”
This is a very serious claim
A second migrant caravan has been attempting to breach Mexico’s border with Guatemala, and the media is reporting that some migrants in that second caravan are armed with “guns” and “bombs”.
This is a very serious claim, and it needs to either be confirmed or retracted, because it is not helpful to have unconfirmed reports spreading like wildfire on social media. There have been endless discussions about these migrant caravans on all the major news networks in recent weeks, and they are getting so much attention that they are almost overshadowing the midterm elections which are going to happen next week. And if this latest report is true, concern about these caravans is certain to reach a fever pitch…
[Comment: Hard core communists looking to instigate a situation where the optics looks like US military is returning fire on “unarmed people” — This would be a total lie of course — but looks for US media to take this tack. Situation won’t change until globalist elite start getting tossed in jail for sedition and treason.]
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Thousands Protest in Germany Following Suspected Gang Rape by Migrants (Video)
Up to 2,000 demonstrators flooded the streets of the university city of Freiburg in southern Germany following a gang rape-by-migrants-video
Seven Syrians and one German citizen have been arrested; they are suspected of raping an 18-year-old student. The men have been on the police radar long before the arrest for other alleged wrongdoings, which drew criticism on the authorities.
Up to 2,000 demonstrators flooded the streets of the university city of Freiburg in southern Germany following a gang rape, which was allegedly committed by migrants from Syria as well as one German citizen. The right-wing Alternative for Germany party brought around 500 people to protest the crimes committed by refugees and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s migration policy, repeating demands for stricter migrant control following the arrest of the suspects.
This drew nearly 1,500 counter-protesters, who slammed the AfD for inducing hatred.
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United Nations: Trump Must Allow Caravan Migrants Into America
International officials with the United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency say President Trump must allow a caravan of Central Americans into the United States to seek asylum.
As Breitbart News has chronicled, migrants with an at least 7,000-strong caravan have repeatedly admitted that they are traveling to the U.S. to seek jobs, re-enter the U.S. as previously deported illegal aliens, and flee crime. One previously deported illegal alien with the caravan even admitted that he was convicted of attempted murder in the U.S. None of these cases are eligible asylum claims.
The UN Refugee Agency, though, is commanding Trump to accept the caravan of refugees, which some estimates now put at 10,000-strong.
[Comment: Note the UN classifies all migrants as “refugees”. Globalist elite seek to make the UN the supra-national government body.]
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Vatican Says Oceans Threatened by ‘Forced Migration’
The world’s oceans are threatened by “dangerous and forced migration, the scourge of various forms of criminal trafficking and the pollution of the seas,” said a Vatican representative at the international conference “Our Ocean, Our Legacy” Tuesday.
Archbishop Piero Pioppo, papal nuncio in Indonesia and the head of the Holy See’s delegation to the conference, said that the issue of oceans and seas is “important to the Holy See and to the Catholic Church.”
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Watch Live: Migrant Invasion and US Military to Clash at Southern Border
Globalists pushing for chaos before midterms
The migrant caravan approaching the United States will be met with full force as President Trump has vowed to block the invaders from entry.
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Watch: Caravan Migrant Admits to Being Deported From US for Attempted Murder
No telling who is joining the Soros-funded group approaching the border
One of the thousands of South Americans rushing toward America’s southern border in the “migrant caravan” admitted on camera to being previously deported for an attempted murder charge.
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Woman Punched, Raped by Asylum Seeker While Walking to Work in English City
An Eritrean national who was rejected for asylum in Germany has been given a short jail sentence after he violently raped a middle-aged woman who was on her Monday morning walk to work in Leeds.
Filmon Teklay launched his attack near a shut-down pub close to the city centre at 6.15am on September 3rd, when he punched and threatened to kill the woman before sexually assaulting and then raping her, Leeds Crown Court heard.
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How Public Schools Indoctrinate Kids Without Almost Anyone Noticing
Many people have long suspected that governments sometimes attempt to indoctrinate their people to increase the government’s own power and influence. Unfortunately, ambitious governments will not stop at merely controlling what their people can do; they must control their minds.
Indoctrination happens through many channels—entertainment, speeches, and censorship—but its main instrument is the school system. Teachers have a captive audience of malleable young minds for several years. They may not have figured out how to make students smart and productive, but they can at least make them submissive and obedient.
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LGBT Lobby Invades Polish Schools; Gov’t Pushes Back
While Poland’s government has thus far managed to keep unassimilable migrants out of its country, it hasn’t been as successful with another foreign import: the homosexual agenda. In fact, many Polish schools just celebrated an “LGBT tolerance day,” though some canceled the indoctrination event after pressure from the ruling Law and Justice Party.
As the AP reports, “More than 200 schools had planned to take part in ‘Rainbow Friday,’ an anti-discrimination event that a civic rights group, the Campaign Against Homophobia, had promoted in hopes of building greater acceptance for LGBT students.”
Note the subtle propaganda. “Anti-discrimination” would be assumed to reference efforts to eliminate unjust disparate treatment of different groups. But does it here? Or is it a euphemism for diminishing people’s ability to discriminate between good and evil?
One person who is making this distinction is Poland’s education minister, Anna Zalewska. She warned school officials that there could be serious repercussions if they allowed the indoctrination event and requested that parents notify authorities of educators who go forward with it.
The AP reports that, as a result, “several” schools canceled the event, though it states that the exact number is currently unknown…
According to this report, the homosexual agenda in Poland is funded and advanced by billionaire financier George Soros, an Emperor Palapatine-like puppeteer who pushes globalist, sexual devolutionary, anti-Christian social engineering the world over. He’s so malevolent, in fact, that his native country, Hungary, enacted what are known as “Stop Soros” anti-migration laws earlier this year.
Hungary also recently prohibited the teaching of “gender studies” in its universities. Unfortunately, too many nations actually facilitate the sexual-devolutionary agenda, as they’ve fallen victim to a certain devilishly slick con game. I’ll explain.
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A controversial advert asking for white men only to apply to act as Father Christmas in Australian shopping centres has been taken down after backlash online.
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Surveillance, Economic Turmoil, And Chaos Among All Nations
The actions that are taken are a three-pronged attack in order to foster in global governance, and they are as such:
1. Create ubiquitous electronic surveillance with unlimited police power
2. Throw the entire earth into an economic tailspin
3. Destroy all nationalism, national borders, and create chaos among all nations prior to an “incendiary event” or series of actions that leads to a world war.
The world war is the most important part of it all, in the eyes of the globalists. The Great Depression culminated in a world war, and periods of economic upheaval are always followed by wars. The war is most needed by the globalists because they need to rid the world of about 7 billion people. This is why such experimentation as you see progresses: infecting vectors such as mosquitoes with viruses that are almost immune to antibiotics, the unearthing of ancient viruses in the permafrost and frozen areas of the Arctic, and the insect-sized drones and smaller nanobots touted to bring a cure but in reality capable of delivering disease.
You are seeing the destruction of the nationalism that exists in Europe: globalists such as Merkel are destroying their own countries from within by introducing hostile and ethnically (as well as religiously) diverse elements. The countries are submitting to the “World Court” based in The Hague: a court that (similar to the U.S. Supreme Court) is using its powers to circumvent the nations…the laws of the French, the Italians, the British, the Germans… all of Europe…and inculcate doctrines both globalist and Malthusian in nature.
The oligarchs of all of these nations will have a “seat at the table” to carve up what remains of the earth after they finish with a war that decimates the population, leaves a compliant few remaining who are dependent upon the oligarch-politicos’ whims for life itself, and places the wealth, power, and resources in their hands.
Sound as if it’s science fiction? It is not. You want some evidence of this, look no further than China: the testing ground for the electronic surveillance state that will soon be pervasive all over the globe.
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Five Vampire Traits That Exist in the Natural World
When asked to describe a vampire, most people think of a tall, pale creature, with fangs and a cloak. But were the creatures of folklore inspired by real traits seen in the animal kingdom? From avoiding sunlight to using a cloak, here are five classic vampire characteristics that exist in the natural world.
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New Species of Missing Link Between Dinos and Birds
Known as “the missing link” between dinosaurs and birds, Archaeopteryx lived lived in the Late Jurassic around 150 million years ago. Now, an international team of scientists has identified a new species of Archaeopteryx that they say is closer to modern birds in evolutionary terms and distinctive and different enough to be described as a new species — Archaeopteryx albersdoerferi.
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Western Suicide Via Anti-Semitism
by Giulio Meotti
- Paris 1980
- Vienna 1981
- Rome 1982
- Istanbul 1986
- Buenos Aires 1994
- Djerba 2002
- Mumbai 2008
- Toulouse 2012
- Jerusalem 2014
- Brussels 2014
- Copenhagen 2015
- Paris 2015
- Gotenburg 2017
- Pittsburgh 2018
It is 38 years since synagogues, schools, shops and Jewish centers began being targeted and attacked again. And the West is always surprised: “Oh no, the new anti-Semitism!”. It is like that girl who ‘discovers’ she is expecting a baby at the eighth month of her pregnancy and exclaims: “Oh no, I have been so prudent!”.
We do not realize what is happening and nobody is helping the public to understand the entity: the newspapers have the days counted, the intellectuals are distracting themselves, the politicians send telegrams of condolences, the religious authorities are phony.This is the situation in the four poles of World Jewry: The Jews of France are grappling with a terrible wave of anti-Semitism with dead, wounded and resulting flight; the British Jews for the first time in six centuries think about leaving; the Jews of Israel must defend themselves, at best, in the most chilling silence of the international community and, in the worst, with a world that is greeting the terrorists; the Jews of America for the first time in their history have lived through a mass slaughter.
Most of the Pittsburgh victims were Jews who were able to survive the Second World War and the Holocaust, but not this demented form of Judenhass.
The Shoah was the great requiem of the West because we never really recovered from the massacre of civilization.
With the Shoah, for the first time in the modern age, the edifice of humanism and the idea of ??a rational evolution of history were broken.
All this is reflected in the word “Shoah”, desolation, darkness, death, the abyss between life and death, being and nothingness. In this new wave of anti-Semitism another suicidal impulse of Western civilization is at work.
One day we will know the outcome. I’m afraid I can guess, but I’m also afraid to say it aloud.[…]
[“The massacre of civilization” as we know it, all for the sake of power hungry fantasists ]
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So stand and fight. Even the Exodus, the Jews could have won. Don’t run away, don’t undermine each other.
Israelis will fight, but not the liberal whining Ashkenazis.
Do it yourself.
Asia Bibi has been acquitted. Full judgment text (you really should try to read it–it tells you a lot) here:
http://www.supremecourt.gov.pk/web/user_files/File/Crl.A._39_L_2015.pdf
She is in genuine need of asylum because irrespective of the judgement the Muslim mob, goaded on by the Imams, will butcher her or stone her to death on the street or burn her house to the ground with her and her family in it.
Thanks for that link! I read through a lot of it.
I would recommend that others do as well. It’s in English, typical legalese, but that makes the way that they treat the topic even more fascinating in a morbid way.
I must say, that the judges acquit her for lack of evidence, despite all their protestations about how terrible a crime it would be if it had happened, and how much they love The Prophet, does show some serious courage on their part, knowing what Pakistan is like.
They may well be the targets of the braying mob, next.
I found the admixture, particularly in the first judgment, of English law and Sharia to be frightening. The second judgment either didn’t need to quote so many ahadith, or (since it did contain the Shakespeare quote) didn’t need to, and read more ‘normally’.
The sufferings of Rohigna refugees in Saudi Arabian prisons.
Why is the Umma silent?
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/revealed-hundreds-rohingyas-imprisoned-indefinitely-saudi-years-1365716422
Keith Ellison campaigns in mosque with migrant muslims promising to ‘shape’ Minnesota.
As one listens carefully to the beginning of this video – listen for the word “kuffar” (derogatory characterization of enemy combatants = infidel) during the Arabic introductions..
Then watch as the video focuses on questions from the audience to see the female behind a physical curtain (bagged and tagged) to separate her from the men.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zH80DjPhmE
“International officials with the United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency say President Trump must allow a caravan of Central Americans into the United States to seek asylum.”
Fantastic. What a gift a week before a crucial US election. If a few Republicans use this in their campaign ads, and do well in the elections, it might even lead to a real movement to get the US out of the UN.
I not only want the US to get out of the UN, I want the UN out of New York. Kick them out. They can pack up and move to Tuvalu.
The UN originally operated from London (my father drove staff cars for them in 1945-6 before his belated demobilisation from the RAF). Which is not to say that we’d like them back, thanks.
More seriously, it’s high time for a new UN, consisting only of democracies, though I suspect it might take decades to finalise the details!
At this point, a UN consisting only of democracies would have to exclude the United Kingdom.
Considering that the rest of Europe’s democracies may not be that for very much longer, a UN with the remaining democracies may as well hold their sessions at a McDonalds.
Heh! Not quite yet; we still get to vote- though the alternatives on offer are not inspiring.
Your country also voted to leave the European Union. I’ll be interested to see if that ever really happens.
great idea! Move the UN to, say Kinshasa or Port Moresby( Papua). I bet the third world gentlemen and ladies will not be pleased to be dislocated to places less fancy than NYC, places where all their income will be spent for security, drivers/ body guards/ barbed wire/ watchdogs. No more lunching at the Loeb Boathouse or dinner chez Balthazar, no more ties from fifth avenue but roast monkey and bath towels of polyester.
The UN building seems quite roomy and well maintained. Perhaps His Excellency António Guterres will offer to house these poor refugees there.