A deadly tsunami struck the Indonesian island of Java after an eruption of a remnant the mega-volcano Krakatoa. Hundreds of people were killed, and the death toll is expected to rise. It is thought that an undersea landslide may have triggered the tsunami.
In other news, the couple who were arrested on suspicion of the drone attack on Gatwick Airport have been released without charge, and police say that they are certain the two had no part in the attack. According to some reports, the authorities believe that a drone may not even have been involved in the incident.
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Betsy Devos Eliminates Obama’s Bizarre School Discipline Policy
While people were setting themselves on fire over the directed withdrawal of US forces from Syria, the resignation of Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and the impending government shutdown, some real news was taking place in Department of Education. It wasn’t covered all that much and for that Betsy DeVos is probably grateful.
Unlike many conservatives, the Obama administration recognized the value of the Department of Education, not as a means to improve education but as a means to indoctrinate children into unquestioning compliance with whatever progressive fantasy they were pushing at the moment. They did this with what were known as “Dear Colleague” letters. By way of this means of communication, they effectively condemned young men who were accused of sexual misconduct in colleges and universities to conviction. They were not allowed to question the accuser or to have an advocate or witnesses and, in many cases they weren’t even told what the allegations were. They did this to mainstream transgenerism. And they did this to effectively shut down school discipline.
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Supreme Court Intervenes in Apparent Mystery Mueller Case
Chief Justice John Roberts stayed a contempt order in a case that likely arose from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation in a Sunday night order.
Sunday’s order could mark the first time that the Supreme Court has intervened in the Mueller inquiry.
Very little is known of the case, which reached the high court on Saturday, because the matter has proceeded through the federal courts under seal, meaning strict confidentiality prevails over every detail.
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Trump: Jim Mattis Out as of Jan. 1; Deputy to Take Over as Acting Defense Secretary
Washington — Irritated with the criticism and fallout from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ resignation, President Donald Trump on Sunday pushed the Pentagon chief out the door two months earlier than planned, an acrimonious end to a tense relationship that had been eroding in recent months.
In a series of tweets, Trump appeared to question why he had put Mattis in his Cabinet in the first place, and said deputy defense secretary Patrick Shanahan will take over as acting secretary on Jan. 1 to cover the accelerated departure.
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Why Trump Can’t be Airbrushed Out of the Picture
As the American political elite head for Christmas holidays, the buzz in Washington circles is that 2019 will start with fresh attempts at curtailing the Trump presidency or, failing that, preventing Donald Trump’s re-election in 2020. Amateurs of the conspiracy theory may suggest that the whole thing may be a trap set by the Trump camp to keep the president’s opponents chained to a strategy doomed to failure.
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Darkness Falls in Windsor, Ontario
“Sara Anne Widholm, 76, died at Windsor Regional Hospital on Saturday, Dec. 15,” the Windsor Star reports, but this was not a mere obituary. On October 8, 2017, while out for a walk on the Ganatchio Trail in Windsor, Widholm was the victim of a “vicious” and “unprovoked” attack by Habibullah Ahmadi, 21.
He was originally charged with assault, later upgraded to attempted murder and now second-degree murder with the death of his victim. Little has emerged about Habibullah Ahmadi and his motive in the attack, which was “not just another assault,” according to neurosurgeon Dr. Balraj Jhawar.
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Denmark Charges Man for Plotting Terror Attack
A 31-year-old man has been charged with planning to explode bombs in Copenhagen and stabbing random people with kitchen knives, Danish prosecutors said.
Prosecutor Anders Riisager says the man, who was not identified, “had participated in ordering components that would be used to produce one or more bombs.”
The man was charged with attempting to carry out acts of terrorism and, if found guilty, he faces up to life in prison.
The man worked with an accomplice, Dieab Khadigah, who was sentenced by a German court in July 2017 to six-and-a-half years in prison.
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Disgraced German Journalist Now Suspected of Charity Scam
An award-winning German magazine writer who resigned in disgrace for making up stories is suspected of embezzling cash he collected on behalf of children orphaned by the war in Syria, according to his former employer.
Der Spiegel said Sunday it had uncovered information that Claas Relotius allegedly solicited contributions after writing an article about Syrian urchins living on the streets of Turkey — but directed donations to his own bank account.
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France: The Movement Continues: Sixth Consecutive Weekend of Yellow Vest Protests in Paris
The protests on Saturday were calm and respectable but as the day progressed things began to disintegrate as police officers began using force against the Yellow Vest protesters near the Montmartre district.
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France Shuts Down ‘Secret’ Islamic Preschool in Marseille
Rabat — The French Ministry of Education decided to close an Islamic preschool in Marseille for not complying with France’s academic rules.
In an interview with the French channel RMC Minister of Education Jean Jacques Bourdin said that the school, which relies on fundamentalist Salafi teachings based on physical jihadism, was closed on Monday, December 17.
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Gatwick Airport Drone May Never Have Existed: British Police
London: Police in Britain say it’s possible the reported drones, which grounded flights at Gatwick Airport for one and a half days and caused chaos for more than 100,000 travellers, may have never existed.
The mind-boggling admission came as police released without charge a man and woman they had arrested on Friday night, and said they were no longer suspects.
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High Alert: Brits Warned of ‘ISIS’ Plot to Bomb Christmas Shoppers
RITS have been warned of a potential ‘ISIS’ Christmas terror plot that could target last-minute Christmas shoppers.
Retail staff across Britain have been put on ‘alert’ to help foil any potential terror attacks from ISIS.
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Italians First Party Adds Massive Support and Picks Up Lead in European Elections
Italy’s Lega party slays the polls again. Since the 2018 election in March they have gone only one direction, up.
In the latest Demetra poll, surveying from 10 December through 19 December, Lega have gone up another 14 points and are now at 31 per cent.
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Next Year’s European Elections Will be Crucial Both for Hungary and the EU — Gov’t Official
The ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrat alliance has selected Justice Minister Laszlo Trocsanyi to head their list for next year’s European Parliamentary elections, Fidesz announced on Thursday.
Trocsanyi will also be nominated for European commissioner, Balazs Hidveghi, the party’s communications director said.
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Pope’s Astronomer Says No Conflict Between Faith and Science
The belief that science and religion are opposed to one another is based on false premises, according to the director of the Vatican Observatory, one of the world’s foremost astronomical research institutions.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Guy Consolmagno, an American Jesuit brother with a PhD in planetary science, said that the public perception of a war between science and religion is fundamentally false, since there is no inherent disagreement between the two realms.
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Rape Gangs Are Still Ravaging Britain and “It’s Worse Now Than Ever Before”
There’s a world outside your window and it’s a world of dread and fear. The only thing that is growing is the bitter rape of young vulnerable British girls, as you read those words this festive season, thank god it’s them, instead of you.
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Resurgent Al Qaeda Plotting Attacks on Airports, Planes, UK Minister Warns
The UK’s security minister has warned that a resurgent al Qaeda is seeking to carrying out fresh terror attacks on airplanes, using drone technology and jihadist sleeper agents working at airports.
Ben Wallace MP told The Sunday Times that with Islamic State on the decline, al Qaeda was regrouping and had already made grounds in Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Libya under the organisaton’s spiritual leader and Osama bin Laden’s inheritor Ayman al Zawahiri.
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Channel 4 journalist Martin Williams on December 18 published a damning report on the way the EU aims to combat the phenomenon of ‘fake news’. A closer inspection of the highlighted documents shows the following:
The European Commission (the EU’s legislative branch), Google, Facebook, Twitter, Mozilla and advertising industry signed a Code of Practice to “dilute the visibility“ of websites the EU claims are hosting fake news and to “deprive themof advertising revenues“. It also states the need to “prioritise“ websites the EU deems “authoritative“ in “search, feeds, or other automatically ranked distribution channels“. The Code will come into force “ahead of the EU elections in May 2019.“
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Sweden: Female Left-Wing Politician Sentenced for Having Sex With a Refugee Child
A 45-year-old female Social Democrat politician in Alingsås has been sentenced to six months in prison for sexual exploitation of a dependent person.
This after the woman repeatedly had sex with a 16-year-old Afghan at the refugee centre she worked in.
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Swedish Doctor of Theology: Islamism is Evil and it’s Time We Change Our Attitude
Theologist Ann Heberlein warns in Swedish newspaper Nyheter Idag for the dangers of Islamism.
“Evil,” wrote Hannah Arendt in “Responsibility and Judgement”, are things that make us think “this should not have happened”.
In the midst of Christmas preparations, evil is making itself known — first an act of terror at a Christmas market in Strasbourg. A man shoots irrationally straight into a group of people who drink Glühwein and buy Christmas gifts. Five people die and ten are injured. This should not have happened.
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UK: No Justice: Campaigners Outraged as Killer of Three Boys Has Sentence Cut
Jaynesh Chudasama, who ploughed into and killed instantly Harry Louis Rice, 17, George Toby Wilkinson, 16, and Josh McGuinness, 16 on Shepiston Lane in Hayes on January 28, had his sentence reduced on Friday by 2.5 years from the 13 years originally imposed to 10.5 years.
The judge presiding over the appeal blamed a “error” made by the judge in the original hearing in the sentencing discount Chudasama received for entering a guilty plea. He said it was calculated incorrectly as it was based on a maximum sentence of potentially 20 years for the crime of causing death by dangerous driving which is what Chudasama was convicted of rather than the actual maximum which is 14 years.
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UK: Nativity Scene Destroyed in Ilford, Baby Jesus Found Decapitated
A nativity scene in Ilford has been “destroyed by idiots”.The British Pakistani Christian Association (BCPA) paid for and installed the statues to remind people in the High Road of the real meaning of Christmas.
Yet, in an attack on Christianity, the Virgin Mary and Joseph have been smashed and the infant Jesus was decapitated.
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UK: Project Fear Returns: Gov’t and NHS Health Chiefs Announce “War Room” For No Deal Brexit
The UK Government and NHS health chiefs quietly announced a new Operations Response Centre or “war room” set to deal with a No Deal Brexit. Crisis plans and warning doctors could have to cancel holiday for fear expats could have to return to the UK.
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UK: Remainers Can’t Stop No Deal Brexit if May’s Deal Voted Down, Says Leadsom
Brexiteer and leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom has said the legal default position is the UK leaving the bloc without a deal if Prime Minister Theresa May’s agreement is voted down in the House of Commons next month.
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Watch: Boyband ‘The Breunion Boys’ Launched to Stop Brexit
A boyband called “The Breunion Boys” has launched in the Netherlands in a last-ditch effort to stop Brexit.
Creator Julia Veldmann said she “cried… really cried my heart out” when she learned the UK had voted to leave the EU.
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Those European Refugees in Israel
The number of European languages ??heard in Tel Aviv, Netanya or Jerusalem does not go unnoticed to any visitor in Israel.
by Giulio Meotti
“Europe is over”, Mark Lewis told Israeli Channel 10 after landing with his partner Mandy Blumenthal at Tel Aviv airport. “People killed in museums in Belgium, people killed in schools in France, people attacked in England. There is only one place where Jews can go”, added Lewis. And that place is Israel.
Lewis, 54, is one of the UK’s leading lawyers. A few days later, another Labor Party official was suspended for comments on social media in which he accused the Jews of orchestrating world conflicts. Mohammed Yasin, head of Corbyn’s Labor in the West Midlands, had written that “Jews are responsible for all wars in the world”.
A few hours later, in Sarcelles, in the French Val-d’Oise, a Jewish woman was assaulted, beaten up, her nose broken.
A year ago, a fourteen-year-old Jewish student from Berlin had been the victim of assaults by his classmates at a Berlin-based institute, Friedenau, which was part of the “School against racism” network. Many of the students have Turkish or Arab roots. “The Jews are all murderers”, said a student to the boy. The school in Berlin forbade him to change classes in the school in order not to establish a severe precedent.
In the same area, in Friedenau, Rabbi Daniel Alter was beaten on the street before his daughter’s eyes. Klara Kohn, a daughter of Auschwitz survivors, was mocked by the students in a school in Hanover who sang “Jews to the gas”.
A huge problem for Germany, sbecause Heinz-Peter Meidinger, head of the association of German teachers, told the Wall Street Journal “that in the schools of Berlin the children from migrant families are between 70 and 100 percent of the students”.
Writing for Die Welt last week, Henryk Broder, a Jewish-German intellectual, explained that “well-known anti-Semitism researchers say (falsely) that Muslims are today’s Jews and that ‘Islamophobia’ is a ‘structural relative’ of anti-Semitism. The problem are not the anti-Semites, but the sympathizers, those who show understanding”.
What happened to the Berlin student? The weekly Der Spiegel revealed it last week. Liam Rückert, his name, fled to Israel and is now studying at the Mosenson Youth Village, not far from Tel Aviv. “I feel very comfortable in Israel”, says Liam. “I did alyah and I want to stay”. His companions come from Italy, the Netherlands and Germany. “As a Jew it was unbearable to stay in Germany”, Liam told Der Spiegel. “Here in Israel I can be free as a Jew and I am not afraid of anti-Semitism. I do not want to go back”.
The number of European languages ??heard in Tel Aviv, Netanya or Jerusalem certainly does not go unnoticed to any visitor in Israel. They are the European refugees fleeing from the new anti-Semitism. 50 years ago, Europe saw the arrival of the Jews from Islam. Now European Jews are fleeing to Israel after Islam came to Europe. Such a tragic irony!
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Indonesia Tsunami Kills Hundreds After Krakatau Eruption
At least 222 people have been killed and 843 injured after a tsunami hit coastal towns on Indonesia’s Sunda Strait, government officials say.
There was no warning of the giant waves which struck at night, destroying hundreds of buildings, sweeping away cars and uprooting trees.
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Hong Kong Christians Protest Brutal China Crackdown by Wearing Black
Hundreds of Christians dressed completely in black for church services in Hong Kong Sunday to protest the intense crackdown on Christian churches by the Chinese Communist Party under President Xi Jinping.
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License-to-Kill Policing to Get a Trial Run in Rio De Janeiro
Teams of marksmen next year will patrol swaths of Rio de Janeiro with high-powered weapons and a license to kill, said a security adviser to Governor-elect Wilson Witzel.
As many as 120 sharpshooters will accompany police incursions into the slums of Brazil’s postcard city to exterminate gun-toting criminals, according to Flavio Pacca, a longtime associate of Witzel who the governor-elect’s press office said will join the administration. The shooters will work in pairs — one to pull the trigger, one to monitor conditions and videotape deaths.
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Swedish Journalist Gets to Keep Job After People Smuggling Conviction
Swedish journalist Fredrik Önnevall, an employee of public broadcaster SVT, has been convicted of human trafficking after bringing a migrant to Sweden but will still get to keep his job.
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Changing Culture? Increasing Number of People in Germany Don’t Celebrate Christmas
German Christmas markets and Christmas traditions are amongst the most famous in the world, but the country’s culture is changing, a poll shows.
The poll, carried out by statistics agency YouGov, shows that 17 million Germans no longer participate in Christmas festivities.
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Free Speech Advocate: UT Students ‘Self Censor’ Because They Are ‘Terrified’ (Video)
Nicole Neily, president of the free speech nonprofit Speech First, joined Fox News’ Tucker Carlson recently to discuss her organization’s latest lawsuit, a case on which Campus Reform previously reported.
The lawsuit, filed on Dec. 13 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, alleges that the University of Texas engages in “unconstitutional” practices, which Neily outlined in a segment with Carlson.
“Students, out of an abundance of caution, just self-censor because they’re terrified” Tweet This
“We allege that the University of Texas has four unconstitutional policies on the books,” Neily told Carlson. “They have a verbal harassment policy, a campus climate response team, a bias response team, as you said, an acceptable use policy, which governs all internet and digital use on the campus, another residence hall manual, and all of those policies violate students’ First and Fourteenth Amendment rights because students are terrified to express their opinions.”
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Leftist Slate Reporter: YouTube ‘Changed Search Results’ For Abortion ‘After I Asked’
Leftist Slate reporter April Glaser said Friday on Twitter that after she wrote to Google complaining that the top search results on YouTube for abortion were anti-abortion videos she deemed “dangerous misinformation” they “changed the results.”
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Senators Attack Judicial Nominee for Catholic Faith
Pro-choice Democrats from the Senate Judiciary Committee harassed U.S. District Court nominee Brian C. Buescher for his membership in the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic charitable organization, suggesting that this affiliation might disqualify him for judgeship.
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Swedish Broadcaster Guest Compares Pro-Life Christians to ISIS, Nazis
Swedish public broadcaster SVT has been criticised for not challenging a guest on one of its programmes who compared pro-life Christians to Islamic State fighters and Nazi Germany.
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Tennis Legend Called Transphobic for Saying “Having a Penis and Competing as a Woman is Not on”
Tennis legend and Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova has sparked a row after saying that “women with a penis” shouldn’t compete against real women.
In the sporting world “having a penis and competing as a woman” is just not acceptable, the 62-year-old Czech tennis legend said.
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http://sheikyermami.com/2018/12/expressions-of-muslimness/
This article is dedicated to the murder of two tourists describes this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFCC0pEKBG0
In Russia, an analogue of this video was also made. “Terror has no nationality”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_166ni10-Ts
It is curious that in both videos both women look like single mothers. But Muslims are shown strong families. Well, about the terrible white men do not even mention.
What videos were filmed in your countries on this topic?
Giant meteorite fell in the Khabarovsk Territory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TDtcK1rvoE
In the Khabarovsk Territory, a meteorite may have fallen. Residents suggest that this is why the top of the hill was demolished, which blocked after the riverbed. The local authorities do not yet have evidence of the fall of the meteorite, although they see no other reason for the incident. Now experts are working at the site, they have to find out what happened. The regional MES says they have no data on seismic activity.
It appears to be a possible crater and the photographer is standing inside it?
Certainly not of the same power as Tunguska.
re: Drones over Gatwick
This may or may not be a news story created by the government to increase public awareness of the issue of drones at airports.
Sometimes, when credible evidence is found that a certain crime may be committed by terrorists (or sometimes actions to be carried out by secret service agents of an enemy country) the government (usually its secret service or similar body) will order that a news item be ‘created’ to expose the intended crime – before it is carried out.
This is fairly common practice in a secret service organisation.
This helps to send a warning to the enemy agents or terrorists that their plans are at least partially known and that steps are being taken to prevent the crime. It shows both the enemy and the public that the government / police have the ability to detect and prevent or minimise such crimes. It also serves to make the public more alert to the possibility of such things occurring and that people must be more observant of such things. It is less alarming to the public to be notified in this manner and helps prevent unnecessary panic.
In Russia – Roma serious problems. In addition to drug trafficking, fraud and other crimes, they are seen in the illegal construction of residential premises and illegal connection to the electricity and gas networks. And the HRC took the initiative …
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Human rights activists offered to legalize the housing occupied by the Roma
The participants of the civil rights committee round table suggested recommending to the President of the Russian Federation on April 8 to adopt a decree on the support of the Roma peoples of Russia, which would provide for “securing households as of January 1, 2018, unless these households were acquired as a result of committing grave or especially grave crimes. ” (it turns out that if the house is built to the rescue of crimes of moderate severity, then it is legal)
It is also proposed to provide for the organization of studies in schools where the Gypsies have a compact Roma language and the creation of an ombudsman for the protection of the rights of Gypsies under the director of the Federal Agency for Nationalities.
Human rights activists recommend Roskomnadzor to pay attention “to the need to suppress publications aimed at inciting hatred towards people of Gypsy nationality.”
https://tass.ru/obschestvo/5947717
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August Publication
Residents of the village of Urazovo in the Belgorod region destroyed several gypsy houses after the murder of a 9-year-old girl.
https://lenta.ru/news/2018/08/02/belgorod/