British Prime Minister Theresa May said that a second Brexit referendum would break faith with the British people. Meanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tabled a vote of no confidence against Mrs. May.
In other news, the German Social Democrat Party has begun its third attempt to expel Thilo Sarrazin, the best-selling anti-immigration author.
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Australia will have its lowest budget deficit in more than a decade in the 2018/19 financial year, a major budget statement is expected to show.Treasurer…
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CFOs Predict a 2020 Market Crash and Recession in 2019
A vast majority of chief financial officers in the United States say that the economy will sink into a recession by the end of President Donald Trump’s first term in 2020, and about half say it will happen next year. Many are predicting a recession in 2019 and an all-out market crash in 2020.
[Comment: Banksters seek to create a crash, via th eprivately owned Federal Reserve, and then pin the blame on Trump. Nothing will change in western countries until nation states stop using private banks to cerate the nations money supply.]
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Global Economic Woes: Jaguar Land Rover Will ‘Axe Up to 5,000 Jobs’ As Demand Drops
As the demand for diesel cars drops in the United Kindom, and falling sales in China, Jaguar Land Rover will cut up to 5,000 jobs in order to keep the company afloat. The carmaker is also allegedly fearing the Brexit.
As part of a £2.5 billion savings plan, the British carmaker will be cutting 5,000 jobs of the 40,000 they currently employ in the United Kingdom. According to The Guardian, the company has already cut 1,000 temporary contract workers at its plant in Solihull, which builds Range Rovers and the Land Rover Discovery SUV. Jaguar Land Rover has also reduced working hours for some workers, including at its Wolverhampton factory in the run-up to Christmas.
The job cuts come amidst a £90 million loss in the three months leading up to September. The loss was spurred by falling sales in China and Europe.
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Somebody out there apparently does not want President Trump to make a trade deal with China. Just after U.S. and Chinese officials agreed to suspend the implementation of new tariffs for 90 days, one of China’s most important tech executives was literally kidnapped as she was changing planes in Canada. Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was simply on her way to Mexico, but at the urging of U.S. authorities the Canadians grabbed her and are refusing to let her go. Reportedly, the plan is to extradite her to the United States where she will apparently face charges relating to Huawei’s evasion of U.S. sanctions against Iran. When Trump was negotiating face to face with the Chinese, he was not aware that this was taking place. So now all of Trump’s hard work is out the window, and our relations with the Chinese are probably the worst that they have been since the Korean War.
If U.S. authorities wanted to punish Huawei, they should have just slapped a big fine on them and have been done with it.
The Chinese would have been annoyed, but not that much damage would have been done.
But kidnapping a high profile member of Chinese tech loyalty and throwing her in prison is something that the Chinese will not forgive.
The Chinese are a deeply nationalistic people, and the kidnapping of Meng Wanzhou is being treated as a grave national insult in China. If the goal of the Deep State was to really upset the Chinese, they picked a perfect target. The following comes from Robert Wenzel…
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Amazon’s Creepy Facial Recog Doorbell, Facebook Open Sources Machine Learning Code and Much More
The American Civil Liberties Union is clashing with Amazon again. And this time it’s over a patent filing that pairs facial recognition technology with a doorbell.
The New York based nonprofit has been investigating Amazon’s Rekognition technology for a while. It called out Jeff Bezos’ biz for working with the police and the Department of Homeland Security, and even proved how inaccurate facial recognition could be.
Now, it’s tutting [PDF] at Amazon’s proposal to put a camera running Rekognition with doorbells. Amazon recently acquired Ring, a startup that specializes in combining the two, for over $1bn early this year.
That’s not all, however, the ACLU claims. The patent also lays out plans to analyse “fingerprints, skin-texture analysis, DNA, palm-vein analysis, hand geometry, iris recognition, odor/scent recognition, and even behavioral characteristics, like typing rhythm, gait, and voice recognition.”
“It’s rare for patent applications to lay out, in such nightmarish detail, the world a company wants to bring about” said Jacob Snow, a Technology & Civil Liberties Attorney for ACLU of Northern California.
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Berkeley Scientists Developing Artificial Intelligence Tool to Combat ‘Hate Speech’ On Social Media
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are developing a tool that uses artificial intelligence to identify “hate speech” on social media, a program that researchers hope will out-perform human beings in identifying bigoted comments on Twitter, Reddit and other online platforms.
Scientists at Berkeley’s D-Lab “are working in cooperation with the [Anti-Defamation League] on a ‘scalable detection’ system—the Online Hate Index (OHI)—to identify hate speech,” the Cal Alumni Association reports.
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Disney Channel Fires ‘Andi Mack’ Actor Accused of Trying to Meet Minor for Sex
A Disney Channel actor was fired after he was arrested in Utah for allegedly attempting to meet up with a person he believed to be a 13-year-old for sex, a company representative said.
Stoney Westmoreland, 48, who plays the main character’s grandfather in the Disney Channel show “Andi Mack,” was arrested last week and charged with enticing a minor by internet along with other counts involving disseminating harmful materials.
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Federal Court Declares New York Ban on Nunchucks Unconstitutional
NEW YORK — A federal court says New York’s ban on nunchucks, the martial arts weapon made famous by Bruce Lee but prohibited in the state for decades, is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.
Judge Pamela Chen issued her ruling Friday in federal court in Brooklyn.
The plaintiff, James Maloney, started his legal quest after being charged with possession of nunchucks in his home in 2000.
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Google Search ‘Filter Bubbles’ Politically Divide Americans, Study Warns
Google’s personalized search results are isolating people in bubbles of their own political preferences, making it harder for voters to make informed decisions on contentious issues, according to a study by DuckDuckGo, a company that runs the privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo.com.
The company had 87 volunteers across the country conduct the same series of searches on Google within about one hour. As expected, nearly all were shown significantly different results.
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How the FBI Set Up an American Patriot for the Kill
As set forth in the defense sentencing memorandum, the FBI knew the “exact words” spoken by Flynn to the ambassador. In short, Comey and McCabe had no real investigative purpose in having Flynn questioned about his entirely legal, legitimate, and proper conversations with the ambassador. But law enforcement and national security formed no part of their agenda. They were on a mission to undermine Trump’s new administration by any means necessary, and the intercepts gave them a way to set a trap for the president’s National Security Adviser.
The following is taken verbatim from the defense sentencing memorandum which quotes from documents produced by the special counsel’s office pursuant to court order:…
Got that? Flynn was “relaxed and jocular” and the FBI wanted to keep him that way. McCabe sent Strzok to set a trap which, once sprung, would destroy Flynn’s life. But they didn’t want to warn Flynn that he was facing danger, that he had better choose his words carefully and think long and hard before he answered their questions. It was contrived to be just a friendly, low-key, unguarded, and relaxed chat among “allies.”
Uncle Al and La Cosa Nostra couldn’t have set it up better. This was right out of their playbook. The FBI went to Flynn as friends and then — BAM! — they figuratively blew his brains out.
Now it’s one thing for mob hitmen to use this kind of soulless, underhanded treachery, but is it too much to ask that our FBI adhere to a slightly higher standard of conduct? You know, something ethical and old-fashioned like letting Flynn know that his life and liberty were on the line if he happened not to answer Strzok’s questions to McCabe or Comey’s satisfaction? Maybe even letting him know that they already knew the exact contents of the conversation about which he was being questioned?
But none of that happened. Instead, concealing the real reason for the interview and posing as colleagues and allies, the McCabe and Strzok lulled Flynn into a false sense of security and led him down the primrose path to his destruction.
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Judge Postpones Sentencing of Oakland Man Convicted of Attempting to Aid ISIS
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The sentencing of an Oakland man who pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization was continued until Jan. 8, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer began hearing evidence Monday morning in connection with the sentencing of Amer Alhaggagi, 23, but has now scheduled another hearing to continue the proceeding on Jan. 8, spokesman Abraham Simmons said.
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New Horned Dinosaur Species Discovered in Arizona Wows Paleontologists
A team of paleontologists recently announced the discovery of a new horned dinosaur — a “cousin” of the Triceratops — in southern Arizona.
The new species, Crittendenceratops krzyzanowskii, was named after the rock formation the fossils were buried under (Fort Crittenden Formation) as well as the late amateur scientist Stan Krzyzanowski, who first found the fossils.
The bones of the dinosaur were uncovered underneath 73-million-year-old rocks about 20 years ago southeast of Tucson, but a team from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (NMMNH) recently studied the specimen and determined it was a new species. Their findings were published in NMMNH’s bulletin.
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Patreon Allows Armed Antifa Group to Raise Money for “Revolution”
We recently published a report that detailed the “Manifest Observable Behavior” of a few different far-left Patreon users. Shorty after it was published, we received a tip alerting us that the Red Guards Austin, an armed Antifa cell that openly calls for “revolutionary violence”, is also raising funds on the platform.
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South Florida Man Accused of Sympathizing With ISIS, Posting Bomb Making Videos
PEMBROKE PINES, FLA. (WSVN) — A South Florida man is behind bars, suspected of distributing information on how to build a bomb and sympathizing with ISIS.
FBI agents took 33-year-old Tayyab Tahir Ismail into custody after they raided his parents’ Pembroke Pines home along Southwest 64th Street and 191st Avenue, Friday afternoon.
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Top Republican Predicts Flynn Guilty Plea Will be Thrown Out, Citing FBI ‘Misconduct’
A day before fired FBI Director James Comey is set to again testify behind closed doors with House Republicans, a party leader is predicting that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s case against ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn will soon be thrown out of court.
California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that the FBI had “tricked” Flynn into not having a lawyer and had improperly “post-dated” documents to “morph” them into critical evidence against him. He promised Comey would face tough questioning about the episode.
“Tomorrow is going to be a very different day for Comey, particularly in light of what we’ve learned — the misconduct during the Flynn investigation was all about, thanks to a judge that demanded to understand what had happened,” Issa told host Maria Bartiromo, referring to U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan’s order last week that led Mueller to turn over key documents in the case.
He continued: “I would not be surprised a bit if the conviction of Flynn is overturned, because of the Justice Department and FBI’s misconduct — and that in fact, we go potentially all the way to the Supreme Court, with new protections — when the FBI and the Department of Justice lies to someone and tricks them into making statements, and then charges them with a lie they entrapped them in. … This kind of conduct we haven’t seen in a long time.”
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Trump Announces Help for “US Military Hero” Charged With Killing Terrorist #MattGolsteyn
President Trump just announced on Twitter that he will review the case of Major Matt Golsteyn who is charged with murder in the case of a terrorist bomb maker.
This case should be tossed because this man is a hero for stopping the murder of many by tracking down and killing this bomb maker.
Isn’t that what we’re over in the Middle East to do? Killing Taliban bomb makers is a good thing, right?
[Comment: Those who pursued this asinine charge should be tried for treason.]
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Video: Why Generation Z Will Save US From Millennials
Generation Z is captivated by edgy, offensive humor.
Gen Z trolling culture is the backlash to millennial outrage culture.
They’re the antibody to the coddled, safe space millennial pathogen that has infected our culture.
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Woman Accused of Supporting ISIS Seeks Release for Mental Health Treatment
A former Elkhart woman accused of supporting Islamic State fighters wants to be released before trial to receive treatment for trauma that “continues to torment her,” court records show.
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New Polls Show the Only Canadians Who Love Justin Trudeau Are the Media
I’ve got a flicker of good news today, in the form of two new public opinion polls.
First, here’s a story from the front page of the left-leaning Hill Times newspaper from Ottawa, a real insiders newspaper, really made for just MPs, Senators, their staff and lobbyists.
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A Report From Hell: Seine Saint-Denis (Part Five)
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In this now-deleted Report From Hell, realism briefly broke through, and left Andrew Malone, a veteran journalist, thoroughly alarmed about what he experienced in Saint-Denis and what he fears is still to come. What’s to come is even more, and even bigger, Muslim ghettos in France, though these “ghettos” are not forced on Muslims, but rather created by them, as their violent behavior drives out Christians and Jews from whatever area Muslims settle in, in numbers sufficient to make that area their own. It is in those areas that they create an economy based on government benefits and crime, including the drug trade, and — carried out in “French” areas of Paris — street robberies and house burglaries. And it is in Seine-Saint-Denis that jihadis have planned attacks, and after carrying them out, hidden from the police, as did those who were responsible for the mass murders at the Bataclan nightclub.
This report from Saint-Denis is a cautionary tale. The French need to make up for their own earlier optimistic misunderstandings of Islam, that some still cling to, with their dreams of “national reconciliation,” and to understand that a silent invasion has taken place in their country, as in much of the rest of Europe. There is still time, using laws now on the books and laws not yet on the books, to reduce the threat in France to manageable proportions. But first you have to recognize, rather than deny, that threat.
Andrew Malone’s forthright observations on the Muslim “ghetto” of Seine Saint-Denis are a good place to start. But it is not at all a good sign that the Daily Mail deleted his report under pressure, with promises to restore it that never came to fruition. That incident in itself is an indication that the crisis in France, as well as in Britain and Europe as a whole, may be too far advanced now to address adequately.
[See also: https://www.jihadwatch.org/author/laszlo ]
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Alleged Islamist Terror Recruiter Allowed to Settle in England
An alleged Islamist terror recruiter and extremist preacher from Germany has been allowed to settle in Leicester, England, according to reports.
Brahim Belkaid, 41, was given leave to remain in the United Kingdom by the authorities after returning to Europe from Syria, according to The Times, and has been in preaching his brand of radical Islam on street stalls in the East Midlands city.
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BoJo: Britain Must Prepare for Clean Break From EU
Brexiteer Boris Johnson has said talk of a second referendum “undermines our negotiating credibility further” with the EU, and that the UK should prepare for a clean break from the bloc.
Writing that no-one who voted Leave in June 2016 voted to be in a “half-way house” where the United Kingdom would “abandon control of our own laws and trade policy to Brussels,” the former foreign secretary weighed in on reports that Prime Minister Theresa May’s closest allies were plotting a second referendum.
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FBI Helps Italian Authorities Thwart ISIS Terror Bombing Plot Targeting Vatican
Italian police authorities today acknowledged the role of the FBI in helping stop an ISIS plot to attack the Vatican and other Christian places of worship after the arrest of a Somali national affiliated with ISIS last week.
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France to Tax Tech Giants From 2019 as EU Fails to Act
In early December, Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said France would give the EU until March to come up with a deal on taxing US internet giants. But ten days later he announced the tax would be introduced on January 1.
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French Generals Accuse Macron of ‘Treason’
Say U.N. Migration Pact gives French citizens have another reason to ‘revolt’
(Infowars) A group of French military generals have written an open letter to Emmanuel Macron accusing the French President of committing “treason” by signing the UN migration pact.
The pact, which was signed by 164 nations on Monday, including France, is not legally binding but greases the skids for unlimited migration to be treated as a human right and criticism of mass migration to be treated as hate speech.
A letter written by General Antoine Martinez and signed by ten other generals, an admiral and a colonel, as well as former French Minister of Defense Charles Millon, warns Macron that the move strips France of more sovereignty and provides an additional reason for “an already battered people” to “revolt”.
The letter accuses Macron of being “guilty of a denial of democracy or treason against the nation” for signing the pact without putting it to the people.
“The French state is late in coming to realize the impossibility of integrating too many people, in addition to totally different cultures, who have regrouped in the last forty years in areas that no longer submit to the laws of the Republic,” states the letter, adding that mass immigration is erasing France’s “civilizational landmarks”.
According to British MEP Janice Atkinson, the UN pact would lead to Europe being flooded with 59 million new migrants within the next 6 years.
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French Yellow Vest Protest for Fifth Consecutive Weekend as Movement Spreads to Other Countries
On Saturday the French yellow vests still gathered to protest for the fifth consecutive weekend, defying the government call to suspend the protests in light of the shooting near Strasbourg’s Christmas Market.
The Yellow Vests movement was originated in response to a rise in fuel taxes, however, it has grown to include even students protesting such issues as education reforms.
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German School Rejects Child as His Father is a Right-Wing Politician
A Berlin school has refused to accept a new pupil because his father is a politician of the right-wing Alternative for Germany party.
The Berlin Waldorf school rejected the child after it already had visited the day care centre and its parents talked about enrolling the child with teachers.
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Left-Liberal Parties of the European Parliament Want to Meddle in Hungary’s Affairs — Austrian MEP
The status quo is going to change after the European elections in May 2019, MEP of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), Georg Mayer told Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap.
The Austrian politician rejected both the Sargentini report and the proposal about the humanitarian visa.
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May: Second Brexit Referendum Would ‘Break Faith’ With British People
Prime Minister Theresa May is due to tell the House of Commons that a second referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU would “break faith with the British people.”
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No Confidence Vote Back on: Corbyn Tables Motion Against PM After All
Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn has tabled a motion of no confidence in Theresa May’s premiership, after she pushed a vote on her Brexit deal beyond Christmas.
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‘Outrageous’ — Spanish Ship Tails British Submarine on Secret Mission
Spain has sparked outrage by tailing Royal Navy nuclear submarine HMS Talent as it left Gibraltar on a secret mission.
The submarine was being shadowed by a Spanish ship after pulling away from its moorings on Friday in an action that may be in breach of maritime law, The Sun reports.
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‘People Have Lost Their Trust in the Political Class and the Media’ — Philosopher
French philosopher Alain de Benoist talks to Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap about the origins of the yellow vest protests in his country.
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Philosopher: Yellow Vest Movement is “Historic, “ Unlike Any Other Protest
People from both left and right have lost faith in the political elite and the media
French philosopher Alain de Benoist says that the yellow vest movement that started in France and is now spreading to other European countries is “historic” and unlike any other protest.
Speaking to Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap, Benoist noted how protesters are driven by two factors — cultural insecurity which is driven by mass migration and social insecurity which is driven by the soaring cost of living. He notes that when these two factors blend, a “rebellion” is inevitable.
“Immigration has become an increasingly unbearable problem in recent years and people know that more people are coming. In addition, social tension is growing as rich people are richer and the poor are poorer,” said Benoist.
The philosopher notes that the movement is unlike any other because it unites people with shared grievances from both sides of the political spectrum.
“This is a historic event because it is different from any other protest we have seen in recent years. It was launched from the bottom, completely independent of the parties and trade unions, and it can not be categorized either clearly right or left,” said Benoist.
He added that the huge support from the French population, 70 per cent in some polls, is a telling factor and a sign that people have completely lost faith in the political elite and the media.
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SPD Begins Third Bid to Expel Anti-Islam Author Thilo Sarrazin
Anti-Islam author Thilo Sarrazin again faces possible explusion from the Social Democrats. The center-left party has sought to ban the economist since his first of two critical bestsellers on Islam in Germany.
He’s a longstanding Social Democrat and former board member of Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank, but nowadays Thilo Sarrazin is better known as Germany’s bestselling author of a pair of books fiercely criticizing Muslim migration into Germany. The first, “Germany Abolishes Itself” (“Deutschland schafft sich ab”), topped the charts in 2010, while the second, “Hostile Takeover” (“Feindliche Übernahme”), was released this year.
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French philosopher Alain de Benoist, who attended the “A new world order was born” international conference in Budapest, talked about European politics to Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap.
Former Czech President Vaclav Klaus, who received the Petofi Prize in the House of Terror Museum on Monday, also stressed the importance of national sovereignty in an interview.
Benoist reminded that the euro and the economic crisis created a North-South division, and the migration crisis created an East-West division.
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Normally, this time of the year, the Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris has a festive air with Christmas decorations and happy shoppers looking for last minute presents. This season, however, what the French like to boast about as “the most beautiful avenue in the world” looks more like a war zone. The reason is the phenomenon labeled “les gilets jaunes” or “yellow vests”, a movement that started as a protest against an increase in the price of diesel and quickly galumphed towards an all-out attack on the French political system.
At first glance one might say: we have been there, done that and bought the T-shirt!
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UK Lawmakers Urge ‘Extreme Caution’ As Huawei Invests in Top British Universities
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Annual trips to China in association with the British Council are funded by Huawei, as well as research projects into the latest cell phone and audio technology.
Examples include a 5G Innovation Center at the University of Surrey, to which Huawei has promised $6.3 million, as well as 4G research at the University of York, and a computer lab at Cambridge University, which has so far cost more than $1 million.
But following the detention in Canada of the company’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, British lawmakers have been speaking out about their concerns on the company’s level of investment in British academia. …
In addition to its funding at British universities, Huawei is a major supplier of broadband gear and mobile networks in the country, meaning its products are used in critical national infrastructure. The company has supplied broadband equipment to BT, the UK’s largest telecom provider, and mobile networks for Vodafone.
Huawei is so embedded in British communications that a special monitoring board was set up to scrutinize whether the company posed a threat.
[See also: Huawei Exclusive Coverage https://www.theepochtimes.com/whats-trending ]
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Facebook Bans Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Son for Criticizing Islamic Terrorists
In another example of Silicon Valley Sharia, Facebook has banned Yair Netanyahu, the son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a post critical of radical Islam.
Yair’s post, which was in response to the death of the two IDF soldiers killed by Palestinian terrorists in Givat Assaf, was removed by Facebook, and he was issued a 24 hour ban on his account.
Facebook deleted Yair’s post in which he said he’d “prefer” if “All the Muslims leave the land of Israel.”
Because Facebook has apparently decided alongside Twitter and Google to be Sharia compliant, Yair was punished for a post that adequately expresses the sentiments shared by the many people who live in Israel and are subject.
Yair has been the focus of many Left wing media attacks as a result of his frequent social media posts that have been critical of Islam, HAMAS, and globalist onetime Nazi collaborator George Soros.
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Palestinians: Shooting a Pregnant Woman and Lying
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Abbas is obviously afraid of condemning his rivals in Hamas for waging the latest wave of terrorist attacks in the West Bank. He knows that the day he condemns the shooting of a pregnant Israeli woman, his people will rise up against him and charge him with collaborating with Israel. But Abbas has only himself to blame: his ongoing incitement and lies against Israel have made it too dangerous for him to utter a word against Palestinian terrorists.
Finally, we might mention an important detail about which Abbas and his representatives are keeping their mouths shut tight: the Israeli crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank actually serves the interests of the Palestinian Authority. Without this ongoing crackdown, Hamas would have long ago overthrown Abbas’s regime and seized control of the West Bank. It is the Israeli soldiers stationed some hundreds of meters from Abbas’s office and residence that is keeping him safe and sound. As inconvenient a truth as this is for Abbas and his spin doctors in Ramallah, it is the truth, nonetheless.
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Iranian General Accidentally Kills Himself
General in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards kills himself while cleaning a gun.
A general in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards who fought in Syria and Iraq accidentally killed himself on Sunday while cleaning a gun, The Associated Press reported.
The Guards’ website said Gen. Ghodratollah Mansouri has accidentally shot himself in the head while cleaning his pistol.
The report said Mansouri was veteran of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war and a “defender of the shrine,” a reference to Iranians who fight the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group in Syria and Iraq…
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New Clam Species From Backwaters
Research team reassigns species under three existing genera to a new Indian genus, Indosphenia
Named after the habitat from where it was found, Indosphenia kayalum is a new species of softshell clam discovered from Kochi’s kayal or backwaters.
The discovery, published in ZooKeys (an international, peer-reviewed scientific journal) last month, was made by a team which included scientists from the Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat).
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Pakistan Sentences Two Christians to Death for Blasphemy
A Pakistani court has sentenced two Christians in Punjab to death for the crime of blasphemy, following their arrest in 2015.
The two brothers, Qaisar and Amoon Ayub, were accused in 2011 of posting material offensive to Islam on their website, and subsequently sent to the Jhelum prison in Lahore in 2015. Qaisar testified that he had shut down the offending website in 2009 but that a Muslim acquaintance of his, Shahryar Gill, had resurrected the site keeping the copyright in Qaisar’s name.
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Chinese Cars at Shanghai Motor Show: Cheap Replicas Galore
The Chinese automotive market has been known to replicate almost every car one can see on the globe. The interest of such manufacturers lies not just in expensive cars made by popular brands such as Porche, Jaguar, but smaller carmakers such as Volkswagen and Kia also often become a victim to their ‘errands’. Here are some of the cheap replicas being showcased at the Shanghai Motor Show that scream copycat from afar.
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A hardline Muslim morals crusader from western Sydney has declared female singers cause earthquakes and that musical instruments are sinful because they are linked with premarital sex.
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Were an election held now, the Coalition would lose 18 seats, leaving it with just 56 seats in the House of Representatives marking its worst Australian election loss in more than 35 years.
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“United Nations, Your Silence is Getting Worse”: Extremist Persecution of Christians, September 2018
Central African Republic: As many as 42 people — mostly Christian women — “were hacked to death … after suspected Islamist rebels attacked a group of civilians in the central town of Bria” between September 4-5. Some died by machete, others by gunshot. At least one of the butchered women was pregnant. “They [Seleka militants] don’t want to see any Christians here,” one church leader said. “Christians never go to town… They have barricaded all roads, and if you venture out, you are at your own peril. We Christians have nothing else to do, no food to eat, no place to go. We rely only on prayers. Please pray for us!” …
Philippines: On September 2, Muslim militants bombed a café in the town of Insulan. Jun Mark Luda, an 18-year-old catechist who taught Christian principles in public schools during his free time, and his 15-year-old cousin, Marialyn Luda were killed in the blast; 14 others were injured. Jun Mark Luda “was smart and talented. His jolliness was contagious. We are saddened by his death,” said a church acquaintance before adding that such ongoing attacks “destroy the harmony between Muslims and Christians.” Army commander Maj. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana “blamed the attack on the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), which has pledged allegiance to Islamic State.” The same group was accused of bombing St Anthony’s Catholic Cathedral on April 29, 2018. …
Egypt: Because they “objected to the presence of a church in the area,” hundreds of Muslims rioted and attacked Christian homes and knifed two Christians, one in the head the other in the face. According to one report:
“Four [Christian] homes were ransacked, looted and partially set on fire by a Muslim mob during the three-hour-long attack, which was reportedly in protest of one of the properties being used as a home church. A local source … said the small Coptic community had been warned about the attack on August 31 a few days before it took place. Despite reporting the threat to police, officers did not respond until the attack had nearly finished…”
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Black South African Politician: ‘Kill Whites’
‘We will kill their children and their women’
The leader of a South African political party has called for the killing of white women and children in a row over the taxi industry.
Andile Mngxitama, president of Black First Land First (BLF), was speaking at a rally on the weekend in Potchefstroom near Johannesburg when he made the violent comments.
He tells the cheering crowd: ‘ For each one person that is being killed by the taxi industry, we will kill five white people.
‘ For every one black person we will kill five white people.
[Comment: There is no future for whites in Communist South Africa.]
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Bolton: China and Russia ‘Interfere With U.S. Military’ In Africa
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Beijing’s “predatory actions are sub-components of broader Chinese strategic initiatives, including ‘One Belt, One Road’—a plan to develop a series of trade routes leading to and from China with the ultimate goal of advancing China’s global dominance,” Bolton explained, stressing that China is actively seeking to “obtain more political, economic, and military power.”
Djibouti, which is located in the Horn of Africa, houses China’s first overseas military base, which experts like Judd Devermont from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) believe may hinder U.S. military access and operations. The base is located a few miles from America’s Camp Lemonnier
“The balance of power in the Horn of Africa, a major artery of maritime trade between Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia,” is at risk of shifting “in favor of China. And, our U.S. military personnel at Camp Lemonnier [Djibouti], could face even further challenges in their efforts to protect the American people,” Bolton said, citing Djibouti’s intent to give a Chinese state-owned company control of a port on the Red Sea.
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“March Against Marrakesh” In Belgium on the Weekend Finds 90 People Detained
On Sunday 5,500 people were in Brussels to protest the controversial and disastrous UN Global Migration Pact, according to police.
Some protesters chanted “We are tired, close the borders” whilst others shouted, “No jihad in our country”, as well, calling for the Prime Ministers’ resignation.
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The government has spent more than a billion dollars on housing asylum seekers who have been flown to Australia for medical treatment in luxury hotels.
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Brussels Protest: Helpless Protester Collapses After Being Pepper-Sprayed by Police
A PROTESTOR was left struggling to see and crumpled on the floor after being pepper-sprayed during a protest about the Belgium government signing up to the United Nations migration pact.
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Mexico is Fed Up… Shuts Down Their Own Border
Mexico’s new president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and his administration aren’t sitting around waiting for their country to be invaded from the south, they’re taking bold action that’s likely to turn a few heads. Their plan to shut down their southern border with neighboring Guatemala is likely going to harm the illegal alien movement into the United States.
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Mom of German Girl Killed by Iraqi Refugee Blames Merkel’s Policy for Her Death
The killing of 14-year-old Susanna from Mainz shocked Germany this June. The 21-year-old suspected murderer and rapist, who came to Europe to seek asylum, fled to Iraq with his family, but was returned and is awaiting trial. The victim’s mother has opened up about her fight for his punishment and against Angela Merkel’s refugee policy.
Diana Feldmann, who lost her daughter in a brutal murder, confessed to by 21-year-old Ali Bashar from Iraq, revealed to The Jerusalem Post that the murderer received a “fan page” on Instagram as some celebrated her daughter’s murder. Although she refuted the speculations that the killing had anti-Semitic motives, she said that some people had praised the Iraqi for killing a Jewish “slut” on this “hater” account, now deleted, and posted collages with Susanna and a burning Israeli flag.
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No Borders: Weaponized Migration Being Used to Destroy National Sovereignty
EU headquarters under siege as people reject globalist plan for Europe
The UN Migration Pact was signed by 164 governments last week, in a globalist push to usher in millions of third world migrants against the will of the general population. UN Chief Antonio Guterres hailed the move as a roadmap to “prevent suffering and chaos” — more doublespeak by the globalist overlords.
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Pope Francis Lauds U.N. ‘Global Compact’ For Immigration
Pope Francis took advantage of his Angelus message Sunday to praise the U.N.’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) approved in Marrakesh last week.
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Prof Who Co-Founded Black Lives Matter: ‘I.C.E. = Gestapo’
An Arizona professor tweeted recently that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is equivalent to the Gestapo.
Prescott College adjunct professor Patrisse Cullors, who is also a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, made the statement on Twitter. The Gestapo, otherwise known as the Nazi secret police, was formed in 1933 and lasted until the end of World War II. The Gestapo played a key role in Nazi Germany’s plan to exterminate European Jews.
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He ‘wanted to attack St. Peter’s at Christmas’ in Rome. Using wiretap recordings, DIGOS special security police in Bari, make arrest of a 20-year-old Somali national on terrorism charges.
The Somali wanted to stage an attack at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome at Christmas. Mohsin Ibrahim Omar, a.k.a. Anas Khalil, is believed to be linked and in contact with the Islamic State (ISIS) in Somalia.
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Trudeau Says Conservatives Putting Canada’s Future at Risk With Immigration ‘Misinformation’
OTTAWA — Warning against the “dangers of populism,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says using immigration as a wedge political issue puts Canada’s future at risk.
During a wide-ranging interview with The Canadian Press, Trudeau said he believes a broad Canadian consensus holds that immigration is good for the country, in the face of growing opposition to it in other places.
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UK Drops Deportation of Iranian Rapist Who Pretended to be Christian on Twitter
An Iranian illegal alien, who had served a jail term for sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl, claims that he cannot be deported to his native country because he has left Islam to follow Jesus. The judge took his side, saying that even though his conversion to Christianity was fabricated, he would still be targeted after being flown back to Iran.
A UK judge has tossed the deportation case of an Iranian asylum-seeker, who had raped a teenage girl, over concerns that his conversion from Islam to Christianity — which the judge found to be faked — could expose him to danger in the Islamic Republic.
The court looked through his 850 Twitter posts, which quoted verses from the Bible and religious images, as well as retweets that were likely to invoke the wrath of Iranian authorities.
The judge accepted that the Iranian falsely claimed that he had converted to Christianity as a pretext to avoid deportation. However, the judge ruled the man still cannot be deported to Iran because he would be “viewed as someone involved in anti-Islamic conduct”, even if Tehran also accepts that his alleged faith in Christ was a lie.
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UK: Judge Blocks Deportation of Rapist Who Faked Christian ‘Conversion’
A judge has blocked an illegal immigrant’s deportation on the basis of “human rights” concerns despite conceding that the man — said to pose a “serious threat” to the public after raping a 17-year-old girl — only pretended to become Christian as a ploy to stay in Britain.
Lord Justice Simon said he accepted that the Iranian rapist had fabricated a claim to be a Christian convert in order to stay in the United Kingdom, but argued that the man could still be at risk of ill-treatment in Iran as a result of a Twitter account from which he posted Bible verses.
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Watch: 300 Migrants Storm French Theatre… to Demand Legal Status
Between 200 and 300 illegal migrants attempted to storm the Comédie-Française in Paris on Sunday, demanding to speak to the theatre’s deputy director so he could arrange a meeting between them and France’s interior minister Christophe Castaner.
It was at around 9 p.m. that a small group of men tried to enter the theatre, considered one of the oldest active theatres in the world and only a few steps from the famous Louvre galley on the Avenue de l’Opéra.
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Women in Sweden Sick of Migrant Violence: “Don’t Mess With the Sons and Daughters of the Vikings”
Not all Swedish women are pro-mass migration. Quite the opposite — many, if not most of the country’s most popular political debaters are female.
On Sunday the Swedes gathered outside Parliament to protest against the UN migration agreement yet again.
And this time, the three main speakers were women.
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PC Brigade: British Army Ditches ‘Gender Specific’ Titles Like Rifleman
The British Army is to scrap role titles like “rifleman” and “infantryman” for the more gender-neutral “infantry soldier” and “infanteer”.
The briefing document, seen by the Mail on Sunday, also said that any training manuals with “gender specific” language will have to be thrown out to not be exclusionary to women recruits.
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Pope Francis: The Death Penalty is ‘Inhuman’, ‘Contrary to the Gospel’
Pope Francis has continued his crusade against capital punishment with a strongly worded address Monday, calling it a vestige of an age that ignored “the primacy of mercy over justice” while adding that life imprisonment should also be abolished.
“In past centuries, when measures available to us for the protection of society were lacking and the current level of development of human rights had not yet been achieved, recourse to the death penalty was sometimes presented as a logical and just consequence,” the pope told a delegation from the International Commission against the Death Penalty. “Even in the Papal States, this inhuman form of punishment has been resorted to, ignoring the primacy of mercy over justice.”
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Primary School Kids in Britain Will be Told ‘Boys Can Have Periods’
Primary school kids are set to be told that ‘boys can have periods too’ in new Sex Ed plans.
The barmy advice was given to teachers by leftie Brighton Council in a bid to tackle some sort of ‘stigma’ surrounding MALE menstruation.
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Schools Ordered to Teach Eight-Year-Olds That ‘Boys Can Have Periods Too’
Schools in Brighton have been ordered to teach children as young as eight that people “of all genders” can have periods, as well as to install sanitary waste disposal units in every toilet room.
The instructions were included in guidelines published by the local council earlier this month on ‘Taking a Period Positive Approach in Brighton & Hove Schools’, which assert there is “more work to do across all settings to prevent and reduce stigma related to periods and talking about periods”.
Under the subheading ‘key messages’, teachers are told to stress to pupils that “trans boys and men and non-binary people may have periods” as well as that “periods are something to celebrate and we can see this in ceremonies and celebrations across the world”.
[Comment: More child abuse masquerading as “education”]
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The Infiltration of Marxism Into Higher Education (Part 1 of 2)
Langbert found that political registration by doctorate-holding professors in top-tier liberal arts colleges is overwhelmingly Democratic, with 39 percent of the colleges in his study being Republican-free.
Aside from actual political party registration, the study found that political affiliation skewed heavily Democratic, with more than 78 percent of academic departments having no politically conservative representation. While exceptions do exist, among liberal arts institutions they are few.
The skewed figures are “most notable in the humanities and social science fields, where the battle of ideas is most important,” Carson Holloway, an associate professor of political science at the University of Nebraska—Omaha, told The Daily Signal. …
Bernard Shaw, the undisputed leader of the Fabians, showered praise on Benito Mussolini (“the right kind of tyrant”), Josef Stalin (“a Georgian gentleman” with “no malice in him”), and even Adolf Hitler (“a very remarkable man”). His vision was for a worldwide socialist government headed by a Fabian dictator.
Further penetrating into the educational structure of Britain, the Fabians founded the London School of Economics to promote their socialist economic principles. As an educational institution, it became the foundation of the British Labour Party. Against the backdrop of the Great Depression of the 1930s, they also found sympathetic interest from their socialist counterparts in the United States.
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The Infiltration of Marxism Into Higher Education (Part 2 of 2)
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Horkheimer developed a study curriculum labeled “critical theory,” a rambling, philosophical ideology in direct opposition to the tenets of Western civilization, which became the Frankfurt School’s raison d’étre.
Critical theory postulated that anyone living under a capitalist society was, unbeknownst to them, enslaved, oppressed, and vulnerable to fascism. Any topic, therefore, that attacked capitalist institutions, was legitimate fodder for critical study and repudiation. It was only natural that U.S. educational institutions would eventually be in their crosshairs. …
The results that are finally being revealed represent a litany of assaults on not only traditional Western values, but attacks on fundamental free speech. Political correctness has become such a commonly used term that it is easy to overlook its fundamental purpose—namely, the stifling of free speech and opposing viewpoints, amounting to tyranny and suppression on campuses and in the public square.
The continual revolution called for by Marx is alive and thriving in the form of constant agitation and division sown by the left, from the springboard of academia. Marx and Lukacs would be gratified at the carnage they have spawned.
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The Pagan Revival: A Return to Pre-Christian Thought in the West?
Often in contemporary culture, the question of whether we are living in a post-religious society is raised. Similar questions along these lines ask whether traditional religious ideas that once manifested in Christianity, Judaism, and other world religions are being replaced by a gradual shift toward secularism (as influenced by technology, education, and other factors).
Others have argued that it isn’t secularism, per se, that we’re moving toward as a society. John Stonestreet, host of the evangelical radio program The Point recently suggested that what he perceives as being a sort of “occult” revival might be underway, due in part to the sheer availability of different spiritual belief systems which are essentially made accessible to us buffet-style:
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UK: National Lottery Hands Child Sex Change Campaigners £500,000
Britain’s National Lottery is awarding a giant cash sum to a child sex change “charity” accused of using intimidation and blackmail to promote fertility-compromising “treatments” for underage children.
Led by IT consultant Susie Green, who put her son on estrogen at the age of 13 and went to Thailand to give him sex change surgery at the age of 16, Mermaids claims that irreversible medical treatment is “absolutely vital” for children who believe they were “born in the wrong body”.
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Greenland Crater Renewed the Debate Over an Ancient Climate Mystery
For three years, a team of scientists kept a big secret: They had discovered a giant crater-shaped depression buried beneath about a kilometer of ice in northwestern Greenland. In November, the researchers revealed their find to the world.
They hadn’t set out to find a crater. But in 2015, glaciologists studying ice-penetrating radar images of Greenland’s ice sheet, part of an annual survey by NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission, noticed an oddly rounded shape right at the northern edge of Hiawatha Glacier. If the 31-kilometer-wide depression is confirmed to be the remnant of a meteorite impact — and the team has produced a wealth of evidence suggesting that it is (SN: 12/8/18, p. 6) — the discovery is exciting in and of itself. It’s rare to find a new crater, let alone one on land that has retained its perfect bowl shape.
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