Three men have been charged with murder and aggravated robbery in connection with a shooting last year at a gender reveal party in Ohio that killed one person and wounded eight others. Police say the reason it took so long to charge the suspects is that some witnesses, including the families of the victims, resisted cooperating with the investigation.
In other news, the German supreme court has rejected an anti-child marriage law as unconstitutional.
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The Hungarian Economy is ‘Shock-Proof’ — Prime Minister Orban
In response to a question about the possibility of an economic crisis, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said “You mustn’t bury your head in the sand.”
It is a genuine question to ask whether the success of the Hungarian economy can be maintained during a European or global economic crisis, he added.
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U.S. Stocks Surge in Best Rally Since March 2009: Markets Wrap
(Bloomberg) — U.S. stocks staged one of the biggest rallies of the 9 1/2 year bull market after coming within points of seeing it end, with major indexes surging at least 4.9 percent. Crude jumped almost 10 percent.
All but one member of the S&P 500 finished in the green, the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped more than 1,050 points for its biggest-ever point gain and the Nasdaq 100 rallied 6 percent in a surge last seen in March 2009. Small caps joined the rally with a 5 percent advance.
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3 Men Charged in Mass Shooting at Fake Gender Reveal Party
CINCINNATI — Three men were charged Wednesday in a 2017 shooting that left one woman dead and eight wounded at a gender reveal party in Ohio, authorities said.
A grand jury indicted 28-year-old Roshawn Bishop, 23-year-old James Echols and 21-year-old Michael Sanon on 22 counts of various charges including murder, aggravated robbery and cruelty to animals. The gunfire at a home in Colerain Township, about 20 miles northwest of Cincinnati, killed 22-year-old Autum Garrett, of Andrews, Indiana.
Three children and a dog were among the wounded. Police determined the shooting in July 2017 was targeted and drug-related after connecting multiple witnesses to drug rings.
Court records don’t show whether the three men in custody have attorneys…
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Downloads of 3D-Printed Firearms Increase After Judge Tries to Stop Them
A federal judge’s ruling to limit the transfer of files allowing citizens to print their own guns using 3-D technology has resulted in exactly the opposite: The number of downloads of those files has exploded since his ruling in August.
It was Western Washington’s District Court Judge Robert Lasnik who ordered the settlement between the Justice Department and Cody Wilson’s company Defense Distributed to be suspended. He should have known better. He and other gun-grabbers such as New Jersey Governor Chris Murphy and Massachusetts Democrat Edward Markey are trying to play catch-up and instead are falling farther and farther behind.
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More Than 3,000 Patients Possibly Exposed to HIV, Hepatitis
The New Jersey Department of Health says more than 3,000 patients at a surgery center may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.
Officials say patients who had procedures done at the HealthPlus Surgery Center in Saddle Brook between January 2018 and Sept. 7, 2018 may have been exposed.
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Pew: Two-Thirds of Americans Believe Jesus Was Born to a Virgin
A remarkable 66 percent of U.S. adults believe that Jesus was miraculously born to the Virgin Mary, the Pew Research Center announced Tuesday.
In its Christmas day Tweet, Pew underscored the declining percentage of Americans who believe in the biblical account of the birth of Jesus Christ at Bethlehem, but perhaps more astonishing is the very large share of U.S. citizens who still believe in these events, even among the religiously unaffiliated.
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Tepid Government Slowdown Hasn’t Slowed Shoppers
Holiday shoppers apparently couldn’t care less about any government shutdown or slowdown: U.S. retailers notched one of the busiest holiday seasons in years, meeting and in some cases exceeding forecasters’ already rosy outlooks.
Total retail sales, according to Mastercard’s SpendingPulse indicator, rose 5.2 percent from November 1 through December 19 compared to last year, with five more shopping days left before Christmas. And ever-lower gas prices are adding nearly five billion dollars to families’ budgets every month, which bodes well for the economy into next year.
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UNL Professor Names 3 New Species of Beetles After Dragons From ‘Game of Thrones’
Brett Ratcliffe has named more than 200 species of scarab beetles, but none as cool as his newest trio.
Ratcliffe, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln entomologist, named three of his eight newest discoveries after the dragons from the HBO series “Game of Thrones” and George R.R. Martin book series “A Song of Ice and Fire.”
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The famous apocryphal saying goes, “America is great because America is good, and if she ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.” For sure, we can’t MAGA unless we MAMA—Make America Moral Again.
[Comment: The Left essentially does want a new foundation of morality — just not based on Christian morals. Islamic morality seems to be rising in popularity with the Left.]
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‘We’re No Longer the Suckers’: Trump to US Troops During First Visit to Combat Zone
President Donald Trump went to Al Asad Air Base in Iraq on Wednesday to meet with American troops, an unannounced visit and his first to an active combat zone since taking office in 2016, the White House said.
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Canadian Imam Says ‘Wishing Christians a Merry Christmas is Worse Than Murder’
A Canadian imam has said Muslims who congratulate Christians for the Christmas holiday are committing crimes worse than adultery and murder.
During a sermon in British Columbia, Sheikh Younus Kathrada said he viewed with “great sadness” his fellow Muslims’ casual treatment of the “false holiday.”
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Around 30 Injured as Earthquake Hits Sicily (Photos)
According to officials, a 4.8 magnitude earthquake has hit an area north of Catania near Mount Etna on Sicily. Some 30 people suffered minor injuries as they fled their houses.
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Brexit: Project Fear’s Best ‘No Deal’ Scare Stories of 2018
The Remain campaign’s outlandish prophecies of recession and world war following a Leave vote became infamous during the EU referendum — and have been revived stronger than ever as EU loyalists attempt to derail or water down Brexit.
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Despite Differences, People Should Continue to Work Together, Dutch King in Christmas Speech
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands urged people to work together in his annual Christmas speech. According to the Dutch King people are “less powerless” than they think.
“The vast majority of Dutch people feel at home in an environment where contradictions are not at the forefront and conflicts are resolved as well as possible together,” he said.
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Paris Charles de Gaulle airport has been evacuated after two people with airsoft guns caused panic among passengers. They were promptly arrested.
Two people brandishing airsoft guns sparked panic at Terminal 2 of Paris’ main Charles de Gaulle airport on Wednesday. The pair didn’t speak French, according to media reports.
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France: More Trouble for Macron as His Wife Brings Another Controversy Home
The beleaguered President of France already has enough trouble with Yellow Vest protests throughout all of France calling for his resignation.
Now, his wife, Brigitte, is at the centre of a public controversy, doing her best to alienate yet more of his voter base.
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German Supreme Court Rejects Anti-Child Marriage Law as Unconstitutional
The German Federal Supreme Court has made a new ruling on a child marriage case which could have implications on the way child marriages conducted legally overseas are treated in the country.
The ruling comes from a case involving a Syrian man who was separated from his underage “wife” when the pair arrived in Germany as asylum seekers in August 2015, Die Welt reports.
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German Police Find ‘Islamic State’ Flag After Suspected Attack on Berlin Railway Track
German police said on Tuesday they had recovered a flag of the “Islamic State” (IS) group and a text in Arabic close to a railway track in Berlin where an overhead power cable was found to be damaged on Sunday.
Investigators are trying to ascertain if the propaganda objects were linked to the damage caused to the overhead contact wire. They are also examining if the perpetrators had any political motives.
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Italy: Matteo Salvini Cites Pope John Paul — Not Francis — in Christmas Card
Italy’s minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, chose to cite Pope John Paul II rather than Pope Francis in his annual Christmas greeting, as a growing divide over immigration opens between the two leaders.
In his wishes for a “merry and holy Christmas and a happy new year 2019,” Mr. Salvini added a quote from sainted Polish Pope John Paul: “The future begins today, not tomorrow”.
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The EU Had One of Its Worst Years Ever and Must Change Now, Experts Say
Experts have told UK newspaper Express that the bloc must change immediately as 2018 was one of its worst years ever.
“This year was punctuated by the rise of many anti-European sovereignist governments with the most iconic coming to power could be in Italy with Matteo Salvini’s victory,” Arnaud Touati, co-founder of Paris-based law firm Alto Avocats, told the Express.
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U.K. Orders Review of Anti-Christian Violence Around the World
Britain has commissioned an independent review into the persecution of Christiansto find practical steps to support followers of a religion that it said has been subject to a dramatic rise in violence worldwide.
Some 215 million Christians worldwide faced persecution for their faith last year, it said, with Christian women and children particularly vulnerable and often subject to sexual violence as a result of their beliefs.
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Home Secretary Sajid Javid today defended his right to highlight the Pakistani Asian background of a grooming gangs.
In an interview on Radio 4 he insisted he was right to speak out about ‘sick Asian paedophiles’, arguing that ignoring their ethnicity would give a boost to extremists.
He also defended the Government’s decision to strip some members of the gang of their British citizenship.
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I can see how American “journalists” would regard this as the normal state of affairs and not really that different from a plain ol’ “journalist.”
Many journalists in the US are paid by Fusion GPS to plant Fusion stories, which in turn were funded by interested parties including foreign governments.
Quotes from the Washington Post below, with commentary added by streiff from RedState.
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Young Vietnamese people are vowing to take action after video of their elders being attacked by thugs went viral.
The shocking footage shows people, believed to be shopkeepers, defending themselves with chairs against a group of men of African appearance.
Screaming, shouting and smashing can be heard as the group of Vietnamese people try to push back against the group, who allegedly attacked them after asking for a cigarette and being rejected.
The clip left many young Vietnamese people in the area furious, and they have vowed to band together and fight back.
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Expert: Collapsing Fertility Rates in the West Should be ‘Celebrated’
A leading expert says declining fertility rates in the west should be a cause for “celebration” because migration from countries in Africa will replace native populations.
According to the University of Oxford’s Sarah Harper, warnings that European countries are at risk of a “depopulation disaster” or a “baby bust” are alarmist in nature because migration and artificial intelligence will eliminate the need for domestic population growth.
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Italy: ‘Proud to Have Brought Migrant Deaths Down’ — Salvini
‘Victims higher with welcoming, leftwing govts’
(ANSA) — Rome, December 24 — Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Monday he was “proud to have brought down the number of migrants who have died” while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Italy.
“I’m proud to have cut the number of deaths. With the welcoming, solidarity and leftwing governments the victims were more with respect to that of the bad Salvini,” said the anti-migrant League party leader.
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Jerry Brown Grants Pardons to Immigrants Facing Deportation Due to Criminal History
California Gov. Jerry Brown’s Christmas granted 143 pardons and 131 commutations for Christmas, including a handful of refugees and immigrants that he hopes to spare from deportation by scrubbing their criminal histories.
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‘Kick Them Out’: Syrian Women Tell Europe to Send Men Home to Rebuild Country
Syrian women are complaining that there are not enough men to rebuild the county, and have told Europe and other Western countries that have absorbed their young men to “kick them out” and send them home.
Journalist at Swedish public broadcaster SVT Johan-Mathias Sommarström travelled to Damascus, Syria, and spoke to some of the students at the University of Damascus, 70 per cent of whom he observed are women.
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Media Falsely Link Migrant Boy’s Death to Trump, Shutdown
The leftist media is pumping out fake news in stories on the death of a migrant child to demonize President Trump, who insists on congressional funding for a border wall before he signs a bill to reopen the government, which is in day four of a partial shutdown.
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Swedish State TV: Virgin Mary Cloned Herself, And Jesus Was Transgender
The birth of Jesus, which is celebrated on Christmas Day, occurred without his having a biological father. State owned SVT, however, has solved the mystery of the virgin birth.
Jesus or Virgin Mary may have been transsexual, they reason. Was Jesus born as a girl? SVT asks and believes they have found support for that theory in science.
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2018’s Privatized Space Race Reached for Asteroids, Mars
Dec. 26 (UPI) — It was a big year for space flight and exploration, as private companies kicked a 21st century space race into full gear. SpaceX launched 21 missions as others watched new vessels undergo testing and some escaped the Earth’s atmosphere for the first time.
NASA celebrated its 60th birthday in October, the same year it announced goals to take humans back to the moon, explored asteroids and landed a new rover on Mars. And in Asia, China launched more rockets than any other country as Japan’s space agency actually landed a probe on an asteroid for the start of a two-year mission.
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“German Supreme Court Rejects Anti-Child Marriage Law as Unconstitutional” this begs the question: if I was German, went to a third world country and bought a small girl somewhere (I’m sure it’s possible), married her there and came back to Germany, would the court still consider it a ok or does that only apply to the New Germans? If it applies only to the New Germans it’s clearly discriminating everyone else. If it applies to everybody, then it opens the door for pedophiles. Morally it’s wrong either way and should be banned completely, even at the risk of the state taking care of the children brides and their possible offspring after the marriage has been dissolved. Everyone either obliges or can go wherever they came from, simple.
I think it will be easier for English readers to find the source
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https://rg.ru/2018/12/26/the-times-napisala-o-voiuiushchem-v-sostave-vs-ukrainy-boevikah-igil.html
The Times wrote about the militants of ISIS as part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
Two battalions of Islamist militants are fighting on the side of Ukraine, and the fighters of one of them were trained in ISIL camps (a terrorist organization, banned in the Russian Federation) in Iraq and Syria, writes The Times British publication.
re: Vietnamese fight back against Sudanese
I am curious to see if such defensiveness will be allowed more freely than if it had been whites defending themselves. It would be a good trend if more non-white, anti-muslim attacks become more common. I don’t think the Left would really understand how to respond to it.