Six asylum seekers were arrested in the Italian town of Savona for selling drugs in front of a school while posing as school-age children. Meanwhile, the Italian government has announced plans to make the country’s citizenship test tougher, hoping to ensure that new citizens are ready to integrate into Italian society.
In other migration news, the number of migrants arriving in Greece has increased by 50% since last year.
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Unemployment Rate Drops to 3.7%, Lowest in Nearly Half a Century
The unemployment rate dropped to a half-century low in September, the Labor Department reported Friday. However, there was an increase in the number of people working part-time who want full-time work.
The unemployment rate is now at 3.7 percent, the lowest rate since December 1969, when the jobless rate was 3.5 percent. That’s despite September hiring being slower than expected. “The fall in the unemployment rate is largely due to the ‘right’ reasons: people finding work (i.e. not because people gave up looking),” wrote Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
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Deputies Were Serving a Warrant for Sexual Assault of a Child When They Were Ambushed
Florence, South Carolina (CNN) Deputies were executing a search warrant in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a foster child when a gunman opened fire on them Wednesday in Florence, South Carolina, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.
The ensuing two-hour standoff left one officer dead and six others wounded.
It was not immediately clear whom the search warrant was for, and the source did not provide additional details about it.
The shooting suspect surrendered Wednesday evening after talking with a negotiator, Chief Deputy Glenn Kirby of the Florence County Sheriff’s Office told CNN affiliate WBTW. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.
The suspect is 74-year-old Fred Hopkins, another source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN…
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ISIS Warns of Knife Attack ‘Surprises’ At Concerts
Shortly after the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting that targeted an outdoor concert on the Las Vegas Strip, a pro-ISIS media group is circulating an online poster warning of knife attacks at musical events.
Previous releases from Remah Media Production included a January poster showing a jihadist standing in front of a cityscape vowing to “sink America” and another showing jihadists standing in front of a nondescript legislative building vowing that “soon you will taste agony.” The group has also released video nasheeds, or songs to inspire terrorists.
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While mob rule and street justice have been evident throughout the Third World, we in America prided ourselves on a judicial system of law and order. We were a country of laws and not of men. As multiculturalism within the last few decades became a celebrated ideology, a demographic shift caused by third-world immigrants and aliens began to uproot our cultural heritage rooted in Western civilization. Saul Alinsky’s Marxist playbook encouraged the left to take to the streets in the name of social justice, and suddenly, the left had new arrivals whose political framework was derived and shaped in countries without the rule of law.
For the last few decades, we have witnessed them taking to the streets to demand equality and racial and social justice throughout cities such as Los Angeles, New York, and Baltimore along with violent rallies at Berkeley and dozens of college campuses. Since the election of President Trump, whom they view as illegitimate, they have united together under what they term “The Resistance” to destroy not only the president, but his agenda and all who support him. Whether it be immigration, executive orders, foreign policy, our economy, or judicial nominations, they block his every move to prevent him from governing.
For the first time in history, we have a populace who will not abide by the results of our election process, and its effort to obstruct and destroy is damaging the fabric of our society and the foundation on which this country rests. We have a lawful process in place to address the will of the people, and currently we see the Democrats destroying the institutions we have relied on since our founding to carry out the will of the people. Whether it is the unlawful plots at the FBI and the Justice Department to frame an innocent President Trump, the weaponization of the IRS to silence conservatives, or the theater of the absurd at the confirmation hearings for Judge Kavanaugh, the left’s dirty tactics are now a threat to our liberty and democracy. There is not an institution that has not been impacted. Many of us are asking what institutions we can still trust and rely on…
It is not enough to denounce the thugs. George Soros, the billionaire funding the assaults and attacks, must be brought to justice for not only inciting violence, not to mention investigated for sedition, a crime we need to begin to take seriously. He and his minions are obstructing the agenda we voted on and one we won. It is imperative that Republicans in office begin to use the term “sedition” in public.
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The conjoined Democratic Party and mainstream media’s despicable character assassination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh combined with the two-year single-minded determination to destroy the Trump presidency by any means possible has irretrievably awakened a preponderance of the citizenry. In a recent poll, 70% of all Americans and 90% of Republicans have lost faith in the self-styled mainstream media. They are imploding due to the self-inflicted destruction of their credibility and integrity, which has exposed the fraud this cabal has carried out over the past 85 years. The damage done to this nation and its citizenry is incalculable.
There have many frauds perpetrated on the American people. Perhaps the most notable, and consequential, was the media persuading an overwhelming majority of citizens that journalism is not only a noble profession, but one that always strived to be fair and balanced. Journalism, in this or any nation, has never been fair and balanced. Nor has it been afforded the exalted status of a profession, as the definition of a profession is an occupation that involves prolonged training and formal qualifications. Journalism encompasses neither.
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The Tantrums of Senate Democrats Will Never End But Soon No One Will be Listening
The Democrats in the Senate have shown themselves through this Kavanaugh witch hunt to care zero about due process of law and commitment to any kind of truth. We were forced again and again to listen to the sanctimonious lies and arrogance of Democrat after Democrat assaulting Judge Kavanaugh and America. I watched the whole thing and nearly tossed my cookies several times. I was especially inspired by Democrat Senator Blumenthal (D— Conn) who lectured Kavanaugh about how telling one lie means all you say is a lie, using fancy language from on high. The only problem with that is that Blumenthal is a serial liar himself. During a huge chunk of his political career, he talked of his brave military service in Vietnam, storming up hills in fire fights, which never happened. He didn’t go to Vietnam, but who cares about that small little detail.
Then there is Senator Feinstein who held back the letter from Dr. Ford for two months, instead of having the Senate do their duty and investigate whether the accusation had any merit or not. She never cared about merit or whether Dr. Ford was telling the truth. She only saw a plan to smear and stall the Trump nomination until after midterm elections.
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Minutes after being convicted of murder, Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dykerose in the packed Cook County courtroom to be taken into custody. He had already said his goodbyes to his wife and family.
Looking fatigued but calm, the veteran patrol officer put his hands behind his back as his attorney, Daniel Herbert, clapped him on the back of his shoulder. As sheriff’s deputies escorted Van Dyke out of the courtroom, Herbert flashed him a thumbs-up.
With that, one of the most closely watched trials in Chicago’s history came to an abrupt conclusion.
A jury Friday convicted Van Dyke of second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm in the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, marking a stunning end to a racially tinged case that roiled the city when the now-infamous police dashboard camera video of the shooting was released three years ago by court order.
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Canadian Public School Assignment Says it’s Racist to be Right Wing
The school in Kamloops, which assigned this homework to grade 10 students, profiles right-wingers as racist, wiretapping, warmongering, women haters.
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Kris Austin: What the People’s Alliance of New Brunswick Stands For
On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Kris Austin, Leader of the People’s Alliance of New Brunswick, joined me to discuss the policies of his party and how they were able to upset the political establishment.
Kris explained that his party supports the elimination of corporate welfare, reducing taxes and spending, and is willing to tackle the hot-button issues ignored by the establishment Progressive Conservatives and Liberals.
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Malcolm: CRA-Sanctioned Islamic Charity Got Jobs Grant
A recently sanctioned Islamic organization was awarded a Canada Summer Jobs grant by the Trudeau government, the Sun has learned.
The Islamic Society of North America — Canada (ISNA-Canada) was fined and its charity status suspended last month after an audit by the Canada Revenue Agency raised concerns over financial links to armed militias and terrorists in Pakistan.
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15-Year-Old ‘Given Detention for Saying He Would Vote UKIP’
A father has said his 15-year-old son was given a detention simply for saying he would vote for UKIP.
Paul, who called LBC to tell about the shocking treatment of his son said: “One boy said he’d vote for UKIP and the teacher said that ‘all UKIP voters are racist’ so my boy came in and said ‘I’d vote for UKIP and I’m not racist’“.
He continued: “He was given a detention, the three boys that said it, and when he come home and told me I didn’t believe him.”
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Boris Welcomes Tusk’s Brexit Offer
Boris Johnson has responded to Donald Tusk’s Brexit offer of a ‘Canada+++’ Free Trade Deal by saying it can work for the country.
Theresa May claims such a deal would break up the UK economically, with Northern Ireland being forced to stay in the EU’s Customs Union. However, Johnson dismissed these concerns saying this “is a superb way forward that can solve the Irish border problem”.
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British Residents Told to Release Detained Burglars as Not Enough Police
The lack of officers leading to some Birmingham residents, having detained burglars in their homes, being advised to release them as no officers were available to attend.
West Midlands Police are failing to attend half of the highest priority 999 emergencies within the 15-minute deadline. The astonishing statistics reveal that response times to the most serious emergencies have significantly dropped over the last two years, as a result of harsh budget cuts, at the same time, public demand has sky rocketed.
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Czechs Vote in Municipal, Senate Elections
Czechs go to the polls on Friday and Saturday to cast their ballots in municipal elections and elections to one third of the Senate, the upper house of Parliament.
A second round of voting in the Senate elections will take place next weekend, for contestants who fail to win 50 percent of the vote.
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Dog Saves German Woman From Being Raped by Two Foreign Men
A 37-year-old woman, who was attacked in a German park, was saved by her dog, newspaper the Augsburger Allgemeine reports.
The woman was walking her dog at 1:30am on the road in the Schlösslepark in Augsburg, when two unknown men pushed her to the ground, according to the police “with an alleged sexual intention”.
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Dutch Mayor Shuts Down Anti-Muslim Demonstration
The mayor of Utrecht city in the Netherlands shut down an anti-Muslim demonstration late Friday by the far-right Pegida political movement in front of Ulu Mosque.
During the demonstration, members of Pegida, or the Patriotic Europeans Against Islamization of the West, made speeches insulting Islam.
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EU Declares Intention to End “National Sovereignty, “ “Kill Off Populist Politics”
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The European Union (EU) must bring an end to national sovereignty over finance with the creation of a “eurozone budget” in order to kill off populist politics within the euro region, according to the Commission.
Economic affairs chief of the EU’s unelected executive arm, Pierre Moscovici, said that “more progress in European integration” is required to head off populism, which he described as “a major threat for our democracies, for liberal democracies, for the rule of law and for European values”.
“Having a eurozone budget is absolutely decisive if we want to address the populist challenge, the burning question of inequalities,” he told an interview with Euractiv.
Speaking after a talk at New York’s European American Chamber of Commerce, Moscovici said: “The European crisis is no more an economic crisis. It is an inequality crisis. It is a political crisis. It is a crisis of delivery. We need to deliver more. That is what eurozone reform is about. It is not technical. It is highly political.”
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Far Left Minister Admits a Civil War Could be Near in France as He Fears the Future
Gerard Collomb, France’s leaving Minister of the Interior, warned in his farewell speech of the critical situation in the country’s suburbs.
“I went to all difficult suburbs, the situation there is very degraded […] today, we live next to each other, and I’ve always said it, I fear that tomorrow we’ll have to live face to face,” the leaving minister said.
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France: Breaking: Marine Le Pen’s Daughter Violently Assaulted, Hit in the Head
The National Rally leader’s daughter was physically assaulted when she was out with her cousin, newspaper le Parisien reports.
One of Marine le Pen’s daughters was assaulted in the early hours of Friday morning in Nanterre while out in a bowling bar in the Nelson-Mandela Place.
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Italy: Conte Rejects Moscovici ‘Xenophobic’ Tag
PM refuses to comment on statements
(ANSA) — Assisi, October 4 — Premier Giuseppe Conte on Thursday rejected European Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici’s description of the Italian government as “Euroskeptic and xenophobic”.
Asked about the alleged xenophobia, Conte told reporters in Assisi “I read those and other statements but I won’t even comment on xenophobia”.
“I won’t comment on the xenophobia charge and I return it to sender.
“I won’t agree to talk about xenophobia in Italy with this government. The premises are not there”.
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Italy: Dad Gets 13 Years for Trying to Sell Daughter Into Marriage
Girl locked up in house from 2013 to 2016
(ANSA) — Florence, October 4 — A 50-year-old Serbian Roma man got 13 years in jail Thursday for keeping his underage daughter locked up at home from 2013 until 2016 and trying to sell her into marriage.
The girl was kept indoors because the man had promised her to a fellow Roma relative living in France.
The case emerged after she asked a Sicilian boy for help via a smartphone game chat room.
She had also started eating a lot in the hope that she would get so fat her planned spouse would not want her any more.
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Juncker, Moscovici Have Ruined EU and Italy — Salvini
‘We’ll keep going’ says deputy premier
(ANSA) — Rome, October 5 — Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Friday blasted European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici after they criticised the Italian government’s budget plans. “The EU said yes to (past) budgets that impoverished Italy and made its situation precarious,” Salvini told a fair staged by agriculture association Coldiretti in Rome. “So I don’t get up in the morning thinking about the judgement that people like Juncker and Moscovici, who have ruined Europe and Italy, have of the government and of Italy.
“They can say what they want. We’ll keep going straight on with peace of mind”.
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Kicked Out of Hungary, Soros’s Open Society Foundations Re-Opens in Berlin
George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) has completed its move from Budapest to Berlin, where the international grantmaking network is reportedly set to boost staff numbers from 80 to 150.
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London: Imam Convicted of Sexually Abusing Children Sent to Him for Qu’ran Lessons
An imam has been convicted of abusing two young girls assigned to him for Qu’ran lessons in Newham, London.
76-year-old Hafiz Azizur Rehman Pirzada, of Laughton Road, Northolt, was found guilty eight counts of sexual assault against a female under 13, and two counts of causing a child to engage in sexual activity, according to a Metropolitan Police statement.
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Mum, Child Dead, Another Kid Missing, As Extreme Weather Batters Southern Italy
The bodies of a woman and one of her children were found near Lamezia Terme on Friday after a storm that is part of a wave of bad weather that is battering southern Italy.
Rescuers are searching for the woman’s other child, who is missing, with Calabria set to request for a state of emergency to be declared. The victims’ bodies were found by firefighters on a river bed in the towns of San Pietro a Maida and San Pietro Lametino.
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Poland Set to Surpass Portugal in GDP Per Capita: Prime Minister
Propelled by robust economic growth, Poland is set to surpass fellow EU member Portugal in terms of GDP per capita next year, the Polish prime minister has said.
Speaking during a visit to New York, Mateusz Morawiecki said that Poland was swiftly increasing its prosperity and improving its position in the 28-nation European Union of which it has been a member since 2004.
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UK: Leaked Emails Claim London Mayor Khan Lied About Trump Balloon Decision
Leaked emails appear to show the London Mayor Sadiq Khan may have backed and pushed to reverse a decision to block a caricature balloon of U.S. President Donald J. Trump from flying over Westminster.
The emails, seen by the Guido Fawkes Westminster political gossip blog, claim three of Mr Khan’s Mayoral Directors and closest advisers intervened to “make it happen” after the Greater London Authority (GLA) turned down the request in a “final” decision.
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Shocking CCTV shows the moment a former Eurotunnel boss was shoved onto the tracks of the London Underground seconds before a train hurtles into the station.
Sir Robert Malpas, 91, said he felt himself ‘flying’ on to the rails from the platform at Marble Arch after Paul Crossley, 46, shoved him from behind with both hands.
Crossley, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when he was 17, was today found guilty of attempted murder and as the footage was played in the Old Bailey for the first time it drew gasps from the public gallery.
Sir Robert, who was knighted by the Queen in 1998 was Crossley’s second victim, after he earlier attempted to push another victim in front of a train at Tottenham Court Road…
Hero passer-by Riyad El Hussani, leapt from the platform to save Sir Robert as he lay sprawled on the racks as the electronic arrivals board showed just one minute until the next train.
‘I was scared that when I was on the tracks I could have been electrocuted and also could have then been hit by a train.’
Mr El Hussani suffered burns to his right hand after touching the electrified rail…
The judge said: ‘Mr El Hussani showed extraordinary bravery with a complete disregard for his own safety in saving Sir Robert and he is obviously to be commended for that.’
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UK: Video: Birmingham Child Grooming Drug Dealer Zakaria Mohammed Jailed
A drug dealer has been sentenced to 14 years behind bars for trafficking children across the country to make sales in other towns in the first conviction of its kind in the UK.
Zakaria Mohammed, 21, from Aston in Birmingham, admitted running a ‘County Line’ drugs supply chain and trafficking two boys and a girl to sell class A drugs for him to addicts in Lincoln, police said.
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From Egypt: A List of Recently Reported Assaults on Coptic Christians
On August 22, in the village of Al Zenika located in the Province of Luxor (Upper Egypt), Islamists demanded the stoppage of prayer in the church of the Virgin Mary. To satisfy the Islamists, the church doors were bolted shut after police evacuated the parishioners. Furthermore, five Copts were arrested.
On August 24, in the village of Ezbet el Sultan in Al Minya province (Upper Egypt), a group of Islamists stood next to the village church screaming “we do not want a church here,” protesting Copts praying and demanding the Church be shut down.
The same church was the theater of Islamic protests in the mid-June and July. During this period, the presence of this tiny church of 900 square feet provoked Islamists to harass Copts and uproot their agriculture. No authorities intervened to arrest the aggressors.
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The Importance of Delivery of S300 Air Defence Systems Explained
The accidental downing of a Russian military plane by the Syrian air defence system is no longer accidental because of the fact the Russian authorities believe that the incident occurred due to the activity of a third party, Israel.
The incident itself notwithstanding, the developments following it have also confirmed how Russia sees this incident as a spoiler activity, aimed at inciting military confrontation, not with the Russians necessarily, but with the Syrians, or may be its purpose was just to frighten the Iranians and the Hezbollah…
The purpose of this deployment has not been diplomatically couched as just modernization of Syrian defence. As the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said without mincing words, “We are convinced that these measures will cool down the ‘hot heads’ and keep them from ill-conceived actions threatening our troops.”
The reaction from the US and Israel to this supply has equally shown that the US-Israel nexus, although they understand that the ground situation has dramatically changed, knows the danger involved in launching strikes at this stage. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Putin in a telephone call that supplying advanced weapon systems to “irresponsible hands will increase the dangers in the region,” and John Bolton advised Russia to reconsider the decision, saying the new missile system would be a “significant escalation” to already high tensions in the region.
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Yemen Cholera Outbreak Increases to 10K Cases Per Week
The cholera outbreak in Yemen seems to be accelerating at an alarming rate with about 10,000 reported cases showing up each week.
Reports released from the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday indicated there have been over 150,000 suspected cholera cases in the first eight months of this year, which is double the average rate.
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The Bolshevik Revolution 1917-1923 Vol-II in PDF Form
From archive.org. pdf and text version of the book.
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Bihar: 18-Year-Old Muslim Girl Tied to Tree, Thrashed for Being in Love With Hindu Boy
Nawada, Oct 5: A 18-year-old Muslim girl was tied to tree and was thrashed in Bihar’s Nawada district for eloping with a Hindu boy.
The incident happened on Wednesday (October 3) in Jogiya Maran village falling under Rajauli police station in Nawada. She remained tied to the tree for around five hours.
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A forthcoming Pentagon study will focus on how China has sought to monopolize access to certain natural resources critical to the U.S. military in an effort to undermine U.S. defense.
The study, ordered by President Donald Trump, is expected to be released in the coming weeks and seeks to identify areas where the U.S. military has over-relied on foreign suppliers.
Reuters, citing anonymous U.S. officials, reported on Oct. 2 that the study will emphasize how China has become the main supplier of many rare earth minerals used by the United States. Such reliance on China could be a national security risk, as Pentagon officials worry that China could hobble the U.S. military by cutting off supplies of materials or by sabotaging technology that it exports.
Rare earth minerals are used in magnets, missile systems, and consumer electronics.
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Interpol President Disappears on Trip to China
Meng Hongwei, the president of Interpol, was reported missing Friday morning after his wife told authorities in France she had not heard from him since he left for a family visit to China in late September.
The South China Morning Post reported Friday that an unnamed source told them Chinese “discipline” authorities apprehended Meng for unspecified questioning as soon as he landed in the country. Prior to being elected to lead Interpol in 2016, Meng was a senior law enforcement and Coast Guard officials in the Chinese government.
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Interpol’s President is Reported Missing in China, Prompting Inquiry
Interpol President Meng Hongwei has been reported missing after leaving France for a trip to his native China, triggering a police investigation and search for the official, who hasn’t been seen since Sept. 29.
Meng’s whereabouts are unknown. But the South China Morning Post, citing an anonymous source, reports that he was “taken away” by Chinese authorities immediately after he arrived in China. No reason was given for any potential investigation into the official.
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South Koreans: Chinese Regime the Biggest Threat to Peace on Korean Peninsula
Almost half of the respondents to a recent survey conducted by South Korea’s Seoul National University said that China was the biggest to threat to peace between the two Koreas.
The survey, published Oct. 2 by the university’s Institute for Peace and Unification Studies (IPUS), shows 46 percent of respondents regard China as “the most threatening country to peace on the Korean Peninsula,” almost tripling last year’s 17 percent.
Only 33 percent view North Korea as the most threatening country, dropping by almost half from last year’s 64 percent. It’s also the first time that respondents perceive China as a greater threat than North Korea
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Taiwan’s Education Sector is Under Siege by Beijing’s ‘United Front’
Unidentified officials from Taiwan’s National Security Bureau said that Beijing’s “united front” work has infiltrated schools at all levels, targeting students, teachers, and school headmasters, according to an Oct. 4 report by Taiwanese newspaper the Liberty Times.
In an attempt to influence Taiwanese politics and society, Beijing has for a long time resorted to subversion campaigns carried out by the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as well as other Party agencies, to persuade organizations or individuals to spread the Party’s propaganda.
China’s “united front” efforts date to the 1920s, according to Russell Hsiao, executive director of the U.S.-based think tank Global Taiwan Initiative, in testimony before the U.S.—China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) in April. Beijing has directed such tactics against Taiwan, since the island nation transitioned to a democratic system from a dictatorship under martial law
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The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
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Nested on the servers’ motherboards, the testers found a tiny microchip, not much bigger than a grain of rice, that wasn’t part of the boards’ original design. Amazon reported the discovery to U.S. authorities, sending a shudder through the intelligence community. Elemental’s servers could be found in Department of Defense data centers, the CIA’s drone operations, and the onboard networks of Navy warships. And Elemental was just one of hundreds of Supermicro customers. …
When in 2016 the Chinese government was about to pass a new cybersecurity law—seen by many outside the country as a pretext to give authorities wider access to sensitive data—Amazon decided to act, the person familiar with the company’s probe says. In August it transferred operational control of its Beijing data center to its local partner, Beijing Sinnet, a move the companies said was needed to comply with the incoming law. The following November, Amazon sold the entire infrastructure to Beijing Sinnet for about $300 million. The person familiar with Amazon’s probe casts the sale as a choice to “hack off the diseased limb.”
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Vietnamese Community Has Warning About Communist China
The Melbourne Vietnamese community held a rally in Federation Square on Sept. 30 to protest against the invasion of Vietnam by the Chinese Communist Party through its “One Belt, One Road” project. …
In June, the Vietnamese Communist government drafted a bill to create three SEZs in northern, central, and southern Vietnam, and Phu Quoc Island, which will allow foreign investors to lease land in these areas for up to 99 years.
According to the Central News Agency, the draft triggered the Vietnamese people to question whether their government was “selling land and country to China.” Large-scale protests broke out in several cities across Vietnam. …
Former head of China analysis at Australia’s Defense Intelligence Organisation, Paul Monk, said that he is deeply alarmed by the CCP’s systematic program of subversion and censorship in Australia.
“I would have thought, given the clear nature of that regime, that we in Australia should collectively be saying, ‘We do want trade with China, we do want to see China continue to prosper, but we don’t accept that its way of governing China is in any way attractive or appropriate,’“ Monk said.
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While Christianity’s popularity has plummeted, down from 96.9 per cent of the population in 1921 to just 52 per cent, Sikhism and Hinduism have steadily risen across Australia.
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An alleged creep accused of raping a 13-year old schoolboy in Blacktown and freed on bail may have been safer behind bars with fears he may face vigilante justice.
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Self-Described ‘Islamic Bonnie and Clyde’ Guilty of Plot to Attack ‘Non-Believers’
A couple who described themselves as an “Islamic Bonnie and Clyde” have been found guilty in an Australian court of planning a New Year’s Eve terrorist stabbing attack on non-Muslims.
Sameh Bayda and Alo-Bridget Namoa, both 21, were charged last year with the offences, which prosecutors allege had been plotted in late 2015 to early 2016.
They had already been in custody accused of collecting documents likely to facilitate terrorist acts and denied conspiring to do an act in preparation for a terrorist act.
But after more than three days of deliberations, a NSW Supreme Court jury on Friday found them guilty of the plot. Police evidence showed it involved detonating an improvised device, an incendiary device or using a bladed weapon.
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Yazidi Rape Victim and Congolese Doctor Win 2018 Nobel Peace Prize
The 2018 Nobel peace prize was awarded to Denis Mukwege and Yazidi rape victim Nadia Murad on Friday for their work in fighting sexual violence in conflicts around the world.
The pair won the award for their “efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war,” Nobel committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen said in unveiling the winners in Oslo.
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Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry Reaffirms Asylum for WikiLeaks Founder Assange
MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) — Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Jose Valencia Amores on Friday reaffirmed the country’s decision to grant asylum to the WikiLeaks whistleblowing website’s founder, Julian Assange.
“His status of the person who is seeking asylum still remains in force,” the foreign minister told the Universo newspaper.
Valencia added that the issue of Assange must be settled through the direct dialogue between the whistleblower’s lawyers and the authorities of the United Kingdom, where he is currently residing in the Ecuadorian embassy.
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CNN vs. Hungary: Leftist Network Clashes With Foreign Minister on Multiculturalism, Migrants, Soros
CNN has clashed with Péter Szijjartó, foreign minister to Hungary’s conservative-populist leader Viktor Orban, on topics including multiculturalism, mass migration, and George Soros, over a wide-ranging interview.
Christiane Amanpour, the left-liberal network’s British-Iranian chief international anchor, introduced the segment by referring to the Hungarian government’s alleged “clampdown on democratic institutions” and “draconian” immigration controls — characterisations which the Hungarians reject.
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German Father Charged for Protecting His Daughter Against Sexual Assault by Migrant
A man protecting his 21-year-old daughter against a bottom groping African will be charged with causing bodily harm.
At the Munich Hackerbrücke train station, a drunk 28-year-old migrant from Eritrea grabbed a German woman under her skirt on Tuesday.
When her father saw the sexual assault, he punched the African man in the face to make him stop.
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During a Poetry Slam in Speyer, Ida-Marie Müller a 14-year-old girl dared to ridicule the welcome culture of the left and denounce refugee rapists all in one.
Not only did she receive the most applause for her poem but would have won the competition because the winner was determined this way.
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Italian Populists to Draft ‘Difficult’ Italian Citizenship Test
The populist anti-mass migration League party has proposed creating a “difficult” citizenship test for prospective Italian citizens so that migrants can demonstrate their integration into society along with Italian language proficiency.
The test would be the latest in a long battle against the concept of Jus Soli, or birthright citizenship, which the party has long opposed. The new values exam would also make it harder to gain citizenship and qualify for the proposed basic income programme that has been a major pillar of policy of the League’s coalition partner, the Five Star Movement, Il Giornale reports.
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Italian Journalist Union Demands Writers Stop Using Term ‘Illegal Immigrant’
A newly released charter for Italian journalists has demanded that writers stop using terms like “clandestine migrant” and use a replacement such as “irregular migrant” instead.
The new guidelines come from the Federazione Nazionale Stampa Italiana (FNSI), a trade union representing Italian journalists, and state that journalists should avoid using terms that may seem discriminatory toward migrants, Il Giornale reports.
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Italy: ‘Extradition of at Least 9 People Possible’ With New Treaty
Under new judicial assistance rules between Italy-UAE
(ANSA) — Rome, October 3 — Italy will be able to ask for the extradition of “at least nine people wanted by the Italian judiciary” on charges including mafia association, drug trafficking, money laundering and tax fraud under a new judicial assistance treaty between Rome and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) approved by the Senate on Wednesday, one of the treaty’s promoters said.
Davide Mattiello, a former MP with the Democratic Left party who sponsored the treaty during the previous legislature as a member of the Lower House’s justice and anti-Mafia commissions said fugitives wanted by Italy who are currently in Dubai and Abu Dhabi include businessman Amedeo Matacena, a former lawmaker for Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party, who has been convicted on charges of external mafia association.
Gianfranco Tulliani, brother-in-law of former rightwing leader Gianfanco Fini, is also wanted on money laundering charges.
“Starting today, Italy will be able to officially ask for their extradition”, said Mattiello.
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Italy: Asylum Seekers Arrested for Selling Drugs in Front of Schools While Posing as Minors
Six asylum seekers in the Italian city of Savona have been arrested for attempting to sell drugs to children outside schools in the city and posing as minors.
The arrests came as part of a crackdown on drug trafficking by police in the northwestern Italian region of Liguria named operation “Piazza Pulita” (“a clean sweep”). In total, 10 asylum seekers, some of which were registered as refugees, were caught in Savona with six arrested and four given orders to leave the country, Il Giornale reports.
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Migrant Arrivals on Greek Islands Up by 50%, Says Vitsas
Migrant arrivals on Greece’s Aegean islands are up by 50 percent compared to last year, Migration Minister Dimitris Vitsas said in Parliament Friday describing conditions on Lesvos and Samos islands as “critical.”
Responding to a question by independent lawmaker Haris Theocharis about conditions on the islands, particularly at the notorious Moria hotspot on Lesvos, Vitsas blamed the situation on increased refugee flows as well as the closure of borders in the Balkan route.
Vitsas added that 3,300 asylum-seekers crossed into Greece through the Evros border in 2016, whereas the number climbed to 5,500 in 2017 and to 12,000 so far in 2018.
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Migrant Cuts Throat of Swedish Student and Stabs Him 13 Times — Brags to Friends About it
Last week the Umeå District Court sentenced Sudanese/Egyptian Suleman Suleman to 17 years in prison for a brutal murder on 27 April this year.
A student was murdered with thirteen stab wounds and also had his throat cut. The m
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UK: Immigration Boom: 25,000 Acres of Green Belt Countryside Sacrificed for Extra Housing
The Government is releasing thousands of acres of green belt land for developers to concrete over, as a population boom driven by mass immigration exacerbates a surging demand for housing.
A record 12,350 acres were carved off the green belt — designed to protect Britain’s countryside from urban sprawl — in the year to March 31st, with around 25,000 acres lost since 2012, according to the Daily Mail.
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Italy: Verona Council OKs Motion Against Abortion
Verona ‘pro-life city’ vote sparks storm
(ANSA) — Verona, October 5 — Verona city council on Thursday night approved a rightwing League motion declaring Verona “a pro-life city” and funding Catholic anti-abortion groups, sparking a storm of reaction.
During the vote, the women’s group Non Una Di Meno (Not One Woman Less) protested wearing dresses from the TV adpatation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale. Verona MP Alessia Rotta of the centre-left opposition Democratic Party (PD) said “in the night Verona and its women citizens were hit by an unacceptable slap in the face”.
She said “the vote took us back to years when women died of widespread backstreet abortions”.
PD deputy chair Barbara Pollastrini said the vote “represents a symbolic and grave step backwards with respect to a serious and important law like the 194 (abortion law of 1975)”. She urged the PD council leader, who voted with the League, to apologise for supporting the motion.
The caucus leader Carla Padovani, who has courted controversy with ultra-Catholic views and demanded to be removed from a video of Verona’s first gay civil union, was unapologetic saying “life is a universal value and not one of a party”.
“I voted my conscience,” she said.
Padovani said “I don’t think the PD has a clear line on the 194 law. I didn’t expect all this controversy”.
PD bigwig and Lazio Governor Nicola Zingaretti said “you don’t respect life if you don’t respect the choices of women, especially when they are difficult like an abortion.
“Italy has a serious law, the 194, which must be applied”.
Zingaretti said the Verona vote “is not on. You can’t proceed with ideological coups de main on such delicate issues”.
Monica Cirinnà, sponsor of last year’s civil unions legislation, said “I’m disgusted” and, referring to the PD caucus leader’s vote, added: “The PD must be leftwing”.
PD leader Maurizio Martina said “hands off the 194, there can be no ambiguity…no return to the Middle Ages”.
The anti-migrant Euroskeptic League is in government with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S).
The League’s family minister, Lorenzo Fontana, is pro-life.
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Romania will hold a referendum on Sunday October 7 that could effectively outlaw gay marriage.
The country’s electorate will vote on a constitutional amendment that would officially define marriage as a union between man and woman, a move angrily opposed by LGBT+ rights campaigners.
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Viktor Orban: Europe is Locked in a War of the Fight for Our Own Culture
Addressing the inauguration of the revamped Budai Vigado cultural centre in Budapest’s first district on Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said it was Europe, not Hungary, that was locked in a culture war.
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Robert Spencer Exposes Islam’s Problematic History
Robert Spencer’s extraordinary new book, The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS (Bombardier Books), tells the little-known yet crucially important story of the victimization of Christians, Jews, Hindus and other non-Muslims in jihadist warfare for 14 centuries. The History of Jihad goes right up to the present day, and is a new and important confirmation of George Santayana’s famous dictum: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” …
Spencer tells this account primarily in the words of eyewitnesses and contemporary historians, which gives this book a particular vividness. The History of Jihad is no dry exposition of names and dates and forgotten incidents drawn out of dusty books. On the contrary, it is a virtual tour of the battlefield, highlighting the heroism and courage of those who tried through the centuries to resist the jihad, the bloodlust of the jihadis, and the cravenness of the non-Muslims who compromised with the jihadis and enabled their advance throughout history for their own short-sighted ends. Parallels can be observed in the modern era which the author himself has experienced in his courageous resistance to the jihad, while confronting attacks by agents of the jihad and their non-Muslim collaborators.
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Some daily news from Russia.
Two Uzbek citizens detained for rape and murder in Petersburg
https://regnum.ru/news/2495361.html
“British Residents Told to Release Detained Burglars as Not Enough Police: The lack of officers leading to some Birmingham residents, having detained burglars in their homes, being advised to release them as no officers were available to attend.”
I recommend to everybody to watch UK Column News: https://www.ukcolumn.org/
They seem to be spot on about the British security services: Their line of reasoning is that from police to the Navy, all British security services are being sabotaged in order to make it impossible to function without outside help from the EU. All this is being done on purpose, like having Aircraft Carriers but no support fleet, while France does have the support fleet but no Aircraft Carriers, and so on…
“Dog Saves German Woman From Being Raped by Two Foreign Men”
Can a dog become German Chancellor? The dog sounds infinitely more qualified than the current occupant of the post, at this point.
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Guy Verhofstadt Calls For US “Intervention” In Hungary | The Authoritarian EU | George Soros
https://youtu.be/7R_tV1t9EyA
Lovely, a man-bites-dog story. Yes, these too should be reported, even though they are rarer than hens teeth.
The Marxist Kulturkampf continues from attacks on Hungary, Poland and Italy, to violent protests against Judge Kavanaugh, similar to earlier attacks on fellow Catholics, Judge Bork and Justice Thomas. Muslim migrants are useful pawns to the EU Marxists while Asians/Africans pour into North America to destroy the heritage of the US and Canada.
Donald “The Hammer” Trump is doing his best but PM May’s government seems to have been co-conspirators in keeping him out of office and in removing him from office over faked fears about Christian Russia, orchestrated by ms Hillary. If the EU breaks up, there’s hope. Of course, Western Woman is the sterile cuckoo driving the Marxist vector as she refuses to produce a replacement population. Vacuums get filled, ladies, even if dusty wombs aren’t.
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The Diversity Delusion | Heather Mac Donald
https://youtu.be/oE-_weLRLK4
Heather Mac Donald is a real journalist. And City Journal is an authentic magazine.
https://www.city-journal.org/
It’s been around since the early 90s; provides crucial information on America’s urban policies. Ms. Mac Donald is their expert on police issues.
“A man protecting his 21-year-old daughter against a bottom groping African will be charged with causing bodily harm.
At the Munich Hackerbrücke train station, a drunk 28-year-old migrant from Eritrea grabbed a German woman under her skirt on Tuesday.
When her father saw the sexual assault, he punched the African man in the face to make him stop.”
This is the way the elites and their State authorities will respond to any citizen who attempts to stop out of control migrants committing offenses. They will prosecute the citizen and not the migrant. The aim is to cower the population to be passive bystanders who won’t take any physical action to resist criminal behaviour.
It is of course an outrage the father was charged, most fair minded people would think he deserved a Police Commendation.