Authorities in France and Britain have agreed to increase surveillance and the frequency of joint patrols in an effort to halt the surge of illegal immigration across the English Channel. Meanwhile, some are calling for the British government to deploy the Royal Navy against the migrants.
In other migration news, 69 migrants were rescued by the Maltese navy today off the coast of Malta.
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5 Times Colleges Canceled Classes, Events for Political Reasons in 2018
In recent years, and especially in 2018, politics seeped into various aspects of everyday life. From sports to entertainment to comedy, it seems as though any medium nowadays touches politics. College courses and campus events are no exception. But, what are the implications of colleges altogether canceling classes for political reasons?
Campus Reform reported on several of these instances this year. Here are the top 5 examples.
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Did the Saudi Consulate Help Suspect in Fatal Portland Hit-and-Run Escape the U.S.?
Abdulrahman Sameer Noorah, a Saudi national who was in the U.S. on a student visa attending Portland Community College, was under house arrest in June 2017 after being charged in the hit-and-run death of 15-year-old high school sophomore Fallon Smart. But just nine days prior to his trial and despite wearing a U.S. Marshals Service GPS ankle monitor, Noorah vanished.
Saudi authorities now admit that Noorah is back home, having arrived a week after his disappearance from Portland.
Local news outlets are reporting that the Saudi consulate may have aided in his escape by providing transportation and a false passport.
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Family Says They Sought Help for Massachusetts Man Who Stabbed Tinder Date
AP,10:15 AMCOHASSET, Mass. (AP) — The family of a Massachusetts man who stabbed a woman repeatedly before he died in police custody says they tried to get him help for mental health issues.
An attorney for Erich Stelzer’s family says Stelzer had been experiencing delusions and paranoia.
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FrontPage Magazine’s Person of the Year: Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Recognizing the woman fighting on the front lines of the media war.
The struggle for the future of this country is being fought in the hearts and minds of its citizens. The media is the enemy and Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the warrior who takes them on day after day.
The huge media sector easily outnumbers the Ouachita Baptist University grad taking them on.
CNN alone has 4,000 employees. The New York Times has nearly as many. And when she singlehandedly faces off against 49 people in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room and the less than 30 people on her staff take on a mainstream media machine of tens of thousands, it’s a true underdog story.
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Tucker Vape Store Employee Fired After Confrontation With Trump Supporter
TUCKER, Ga. (FOX 5 Atlanta) — A clerk at a Tucker vape store has been fired after a heated confrontation with a Trump supporter inside the store.
Ian Fergeson is a big supporter of President Donald Trump. He wears a Trump hat and a Make America Great Again T-shirt.
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“Flag of Shame”: Video of French Protesters Tearing Down EU Flag Goes Viral
During the seventh consecutive weekend of yellow vest protests in Paris, a group of protesters can be seen taking down the EU flag.
The sources of the video, which surfaced yesterday, say it took place during Act VII (the seventh protest weekend).
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EU Prez Candidate: ‘EU Should Have Interfered During Brexit Campaign’
Merkel ally and candidate for president of the European Commission Manfred Weber has said that the EU should have “interfered” during the Brexit campaign.
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Europe’s Patriots on Course to Win European Elections as Globalist Macron Has Lost Control
The European Parliamentary elections are in May 2019. This year, more than previous MEP elections is likely to be profoundly consequential with a turnout that has not been previously seen.
According to the Financial Times, it will be a showdown between the beleaguered French President Emmanuel Macron and the man voted by his own people as the most trusted and popular politician in history, Italy’s Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. A battle between Globalists and Populists.
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Farage: UK Must ‘Stand Up to EU and France’ To End Channel Migrant Crisis
Brexit campaign leader Nigel Farage has demanded the Government “stands up to the EU and to France” to bring the Channel migrant crisis under control
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French Media ‘Spreads Fake News’ About Number of Yellow Vest Protesters, Portraying Them as Fewer
French yellow vest protesters have turned against mainstream media in the country accusing them of spreading fake news about the size of the movement.
While protesting for the seventh Saturday in a row, this time the yellow vests also targeted mainstream media headquarters.
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French Magazine Publishes With ‘Hitler Like’ Cover of President Macron
Saturday’s M magazine of French newspaper Le Monde had a rather peculiar cover. It contains an ‘old-style’ image of President Macron, which some compared with an image of former German dictator Adolf Hitler.
The magazine apologised after some readers were shocked by the parallels between the cover and the magazine’s 2017 collage of Hitler.
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German Police Arrest Syrian for Terror Plot in the Netherlands
Police in Mainz have arrested a 26-year-old Syrian suspected of planning a terror attack in the Netherlands.
The arrest followed an extradition request by Dutch authorities. The man is under strong suspicion of being involved in planning a terror attack.
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Polish People Are Strongly Positive About 2018
A survey by pollster CBOS reveals that only 10 per cent of Poles considered 2018 negative for them, personally.
With 69 per cent describing 2018 of being a good year for themselves. Six per cent felt the year has been bad for their families.
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Swiss Community to Serve Halal Only Sausages at Carnival to be More Inclusive to Muslims
Instead of pork sausages, Wohlen AG will only be serving halal sausages made out of poultry, to be more inclusive to Muslims, Swiss tabloid Blick reports.
Since the 1960s Wohlen AG has given away free sausages at the carnival. Not everyone is happy about the change from pork to only poultry.
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UK Welcomes Extremists, Bans Critics of Extremists
The British government’s idea of who is — and who is not — a legitimate asylum seeker becomes stranger by the month.
In November it was reported that the Pakistani Christian mother of five, Asia Bibi, was unlikely to be offered asylum by the British government due to concerns about “community” relations in the UK. What this means is that the UK government was worried that Muslims of Pakistani origin in Britain may object to the presence in the UK of a Christian woman who has spent most of the last decade on death row in Pakistan, before being officially declared innocent of a trumped-up charge of “blasphemy”.
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UK: Counter-Terrorism Police Brought in to Protect Butchers From Militant Vegans
British counter-terror police have been engaged in protecting meat industry workers as action by vegan activists has become move violent.
Workers at abattoirs, farms, and meat-producing factories have been under increasing threat by far-left animal rights campaigners, with the British Poultry Council and the National Pig Association being just two of the bodies seeking support from the counter-terrorism force, reports the Mail on Sunday.
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UK: Clergy Members Warn Anti-Christian Hate Crime on Rise
“Anti-Christian sentiment” is on the rise in Britain, Church of England priests told a survey which has revealed that more than two thirds of members of the clergy have been verbally abused in the past two years.
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UK: Parliament Remainers Working to Cancel 29th March 2019 Brexit Date
Members of Parliament opposed to the United Kingdom leaving the European Union are using the pretext of Prime Minister Theresa May’s negotiations with the European Union going badly to suspend the legal date for the nation’s withdrawal from the political power bloc.
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“Send in the Navy” UK Government Urged to Stop English Channel Migrant Crossings
After an increasing number of migrant boats were intercepted on the English Channel, calls have been sounded to call in the Royal Navy.
Thursday nine people were intercepted on a beach in Sandgate, Kent and on Christmas day more than 40 migrants from Iraq, Iran and Afghan attempted to cross the Channel.
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Bangladesh Election: Sheikh Hasina Wins New Term as Prime Minister
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has secured her third consecutive term with a landslide victory, Bangladesh’s Election Commission said on Monday.
Ms Hasina’s ruling party has so far won 281 of the 350 parliamentary seats, surpassing its previous election wins.
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Insurgents Suspected in Fourth Day of South Thailand Attacks
Violence presumed to have been carried out by Muslim separatists has hit southern Thailand for the fourth day in a row, with three paramilitary soldiers wounded and a female civilian shot dead Saturday.
The soldiers in Narathiwat province were hurt in an ambush of their pickup truck, while the woman was killed in Pattani province.
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Pakistan: Girl Killed, Two Injured in Gas Leak Explosion
NOWSHERA: A 14-year-old girl was killed while her father and brother suffered burns injuries in an explosion caused by a gas leakage at Watar village in the district.
The family of one Rifaqat left the gas heater on while they fell asleep. Gas accumulated in the room which caused the explosion. As a result, the roof of the room collapsed. Rifaqat and his son Abbas were injured while his daughter Maryam died in the incident. After the explosion, the local people rushed to the site and pulled out the victims.
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Ebola Breakout: 24 Patients Flee Treatment Centre Sparking Emergency Search
The patients, some of whom had not yet been tested, broke out of the treatment centre in the Congolese city of Beni.
Officials have tracked three of them, but the rest remain at large, sparking a fear of the deadly disease spreading.
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69 Migrants Rescued Off Malta: Navy
A group of 69 migrants on a rickety wooden boat were rescued Sunday off Malta, the navy said, while 49 more were still at sea waiting for a country to allow them to dock.
The migrants sent out a distress call 117 nautical miles southwest of Malta and a Maltese navy vessel was sent to their aid, a statement said.
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Adult Migrant Violently Rapes 9-Year-Old Swedish Child ‘Because He Was Looking for Someone to Rape’
The African who raped a Swedish child says he was looking for someone to rape that day, and he didn’t care if it was a child, news outlet Fria Tider reports.
The 30-year-old Libyan who was charged with a brutal rape of a 9-year-old girl in Malmö earlier this year was sentenced by the District Court for aggravated rape of a child on Friday.
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Channel Migrants: UK and France to Step Up Patrols
The UK and France are to step up joint patrols and increase surveillance to tackle a rise in the number of migrants trying to reach Britain in small boats.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid, who has cut short a family holiday, agreed a joint action plan with the French interior minister during a phone call.
Six more Iranian men were found on a beach near Dover on Sunday morning.
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Democrats love to lecture on the morality of walls — But they ALL have big walls around their huge mansions.
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Italian Priest Calls Supporters of Anti-Migration Party ‘Insignificant Christians’
With huge increases of support for Italy’s Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini’s Lega party, is it wise for Italian priest Enrico d’Ambrosio to attack them?
During a homily earlier in the week, Father d’Ambrosio lashed out at Italian’s saying, “Those who are not accepting and vote for that party that closes ports also on Christmas Eve are insignificant Christians,” Il Giornale reports.
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Mollie Tibbetts’ Mother Has Taken in an Immigrant Boy With Ties to Her Daughter’s Alleged Killer
The mother of slain University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts has taken in a teenage Mexican immigrant with ties to her daughter’s alleged murderer.
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Poll: 8-in-10 Call Illegal Immigration a ‘Problem, ‘ 58% Say ‘Serious’
Most Americans believe that illegal immigration is a problem but are split over what to do about it, according to a new survey.
The latest Economist/YouGov.com poll found that 84 percent believe illegal immigration is a “problem” for the United States.
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Google vs. Bing on the Relationship Between Gay Liberation and Aids
Another classic Google vs. Bing dichotomy on the relationship between Gay Liberation and AIDS.
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Google vs. Bing on “Black White Crime Stats”
It’s fun to compare Alphabet’s dominant Google search engine to Microsoft’s Bing search engine for politically relevant results.
I am doing this test in incognito mode so that both search engines give me their generic results rather than ones tailored for me.
For example, say you wanted to look up black versus white crime rates and you start typing “black white cri”.
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Google and Bing Finally Agree: American Murderers Are White
Searching on “American Murderers” finds Google and Bing agreeing that the great majority of famous American murderers were white.
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Newspeak Dictionary: EU Parliament Warns Against Words Like ‘Mankind’, ‘Manpower’
The EU Parliament has issued politically correct guidance against using words like “mankind” and “man-made” in order to infuse its everyday language with social justice.
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Transgender Wrestler Wins Second Straight Texas Girls’ High School Title
CYPRESS, Texas — For the second year in a row, a transgender wrestler has won the Texas girls’ Class 6A 110-pound division.
Mack Beggs, an 18-year-old senior from Euless Trinity High School near Dallas, entered the tournament in Cypress outside of Houston with an undefeated record. He beat Chelsea Sanchez — whom he beat for the title in 2017— in the final match Saturday.
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Meanwhile, some are calling for the British government to deploy the Royal Navy against the migrants. ”
Deploy Navies on both sides of the Channel and make sure you save them, provide them with food , shelter and fine clothes plus some attitudes of dhimmitude to assure them that what they heard about infidels facilitating jihad for them is true.
“The penalty will be imprisonment for six years and expulsion from the country for 15 years. He must also pay €17,000 in damages to the girl.” that’s a laughable price for a life. At the very least making sure he won’t ever be able to do it again should be a part of the sentence. Or, if this wasn’t Sweden, an afternoon with the father of the victim, which would probably result in the same.
I don’t know if anyone else feels the same, but when children are involved I can’t help but imagine how the rape influences their future life. I mean rape has to be a terrible experience regardless, but in my opinion (and I might be wrong) there’s a difference between the rape of a middle aged mother and a child that barely knows something like sex exists. And I probably feel like the biggest difference is physical, without going into any more detail, I’m sure it’s clear what I’m talking about. Then again I really can’t put myself into the shoes of any woman, since it’s always said their feelings towards sex are very different from those of us men. Either way, the sentence shouldn’t be below 20 years the moment it endangers the possibility of the victim eventually having a family of their own (due to trauma).
Rape is horrific and traumatizing for any human being of either sex or any age, though you are correct about the particular physical effects on a pre-pubescent child. That said, I’ve read those sickening details about grown women being raped and ending up with irreparable damage to not just their reproductive organs, but also surrounding organs. I cannot even imagine…
To be honest, I believe most rape cases ought to receive the death penalty. Even when the physical effects can be healed, the mind and the heart often never can be.
I am new to Islamophobia, about 1.5 years as an amateur, plus a year already in the semi-professional rank. There is very little literature in Russian. And now armed with two online translators, I was browsing foreign sites. A disaster happened the other day: this resource has disappeared, having a huge archive of articles.
This is a terrible loss.
https://www.islam-watch.org/
Islam Watch is a useful site. If it has now gone out of business, the archives still remain a treasure trove of information.
Keeping up a website is a great deal of work. It may be that the administrators simply ran out of energy for their project and let it go dormant. The current top essay is this one:
https://www.islam-watch.org/index.php/authors/165-jon-mc/1755-an-analysis-of-the-muslim-council-of-britain-s-open-letter-on-islamophobia
Fortunately, the site became available again. I was already upset.
“Transgender Wrestler Wins Second Straight Texas Girls’ High School Title” seems the title is a lot more sensational than the facts here. The article states the person in question is already taking female hormones, meaning the argument that it’s unfair because of male strenght is most likely irrelevant (because yes, the influence of hormones is the only difference it takes to build upper body strenght and without testosterone there’s barely a chance of having it), though it also depends on how long this is going on, if it’s just a few months and puberty was going on normally until then, then there’s probably some residue still.
But most importantly the article says the teen asked to compete in the boy’s section to basically avoid criticism of that sort, like a proper athlete. That it’s impossible due to the state’s rules isn’t really their fault.
What I find much more problematic are female African athletes from certain regions (ethnicities?) that naturally have a testosterone level bordering on male levels, because then it’s literally like racing against men and of course the women in the race won’t win that. And the Olympic comittee has already banned them because of that for a while, but you know the tune, after being called racist (because who cares about facts or the feelings of white women, right?), they dropped the ban again. Because it’s not like it’s in any way possible to take medication that lowers testosterone, lol.
The difference being that that transgender child is one in a million AND in a small competition event, while those African women earn some serious cash and are international stars for basically doping.
The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world. That’s not your white, post-Christian woman. She’s relegated herself to the dustbin of history, eagerly exterminating any conceivable child. 60 million here and perhaps 60 million in Europe starts to add up, ladies. You’ve come up empty, haven’t you?
”Newspeak Dictionary: EU Parliament Warns Against Words Like ‘Mankind’, ‘Manpower’”
I wonder how Mancunians are going to react when they become Ciscunians who live in Peoplechester.
The insanity of the EU, its supporters and the accompanying monstrous horde of deviants and freaks has degenerated to a level that the possibility of such a situation cannot be written off.
Be careful S3, you’ll give them ideas. I long ago remarked — and this is only the second time — that person was surely headed for replacement; but it has not yet.
Sacremento California voted to change the name ‘man-hole’ to ‘maintenance hole ‘.
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-06-22/news/mn-338_1_city-council-meeting
Can’t wait until they try this with the French language and its practice of assigning gender to nouns.
How did we ever come to the conclusion that hair is masculine and a chair is feminine ?
Have at it college girls – the sexist French language needs to be overhauled….
BREAKING NEWS !BREAKING NEWS !BREAKING NEWS !BREAKING NEWS !
The world will not end in 2018….it is already 2019 here in OZ and has been for the last 10 minutes.
HAPPY NEW YEAR to EVERYONE at Gates of Vienna ! And thank you for trying to save (or is it “safe” ? I never know) the world ! xxxx
Cheers to you Down Under!!
The world still exists in 2019?
Has the promised unity and rainbows arrived yet?
re: French protestors
I think I speak for most of us here when I say that although some of us make jokes against the French for ‘cowardice’ and apathy, we actually watch anxiously as they now rebel against the French establishment. We want them to succeed and we recognise that they have not completely lost that fighting spirit they have shown at many crucial periods in their history.
The Yellow Vest protesters are like lions and they inspire us.
May 2019 be the year of the French and the moment they break the back of their oppressive establishment.
Google v. Bing
I tested some phrases with DuckDuckGo, which I use, and it seemed to give similar search suggestions to Bing.
DuckDuckGo claims they don’t track you. I hope it’s true. Time will tell.