Thousands of people in two groups called the “Red Scarves” and “Blue Vests” staged demonstrations in Paris in opposition to the “Yellow Vest” movement. Some reports say the demonstrators were bussed to the capital by the French government.
In other news, British immigration officers say that lorries crossing from Calais are still the transport preferred by migrants trying to get into the UK, despite the recent surge of boats crossing the Channel.
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5 Killed in 2 Separate Louisiana Shootings
New Orleans — Authorities in Louisiana said a 21-year-old accused of killing his parents and three others in two separate but related shootings Saturday has been arrested in Virginia after an overnight manhunt. Dakota Theriot, who faces charges of first-degree-murder, illegal use of weapons and home invasion, was captured Sunday in Richmond County, Virginia.
The Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office announced Theriot’s arrest in a Facebook post Sunday morning and said he will be brought back to Louisiana to face charges.
Authorities say Theriot first shot and killed three people — the woman believed to be his girlfriend, her brother and father — in Livingston Parish before taking her father’s truck and driving to neighboring Ascension Parish where he shot and killed his parents…
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Chicago Thieves Are Stealing Thousand-Dollar Canada Goose Coats in Below Zero Weather
Chicago police are on an official Canada Goose chase.
In the last two weeks, as weather has dipped as low as —30 degrees with wind chill, the Chicago Tribune reports that the city has fallen victim to a Canada Goose coat stealing spree. There have been multiple accounts of thieves specifically targeting and stripping people of their $495 to $1695 power parkas—and, according to the Tribune, at least one fake—during which a 54-year-old man was punched in the face and a 23-year-old male victim was robbed at gunpoint.
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Covington Kids Lawyer Announces Who They’re Going to Sue for Defamation
Robert Barnes, the lawyer for the Covington Catholic High students, has announced lawsuits for those that continue to slander these innocent children.
Barnes gave media and celebrities 48 hours to retract their statements before he proceeded to press charges.
Speaking to Alex Jones Thursday, Barnes listed a number of journalists, celebrities and social media personalities who will be sued as they’ve yet to retract false statements made about the boys.
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Did You Know All Smartphones Have Radio FM? Its Just Disabled, Here’s How to Turn it on
In fact it turns out that they ALL DO have Radio FM built-in, even Iphones but both carriers and OS manufactures impose them to disable RADIO FM because they want the people to use their precious internet data and pay up for traffic and Google Play Music and Apple iTunes want you to BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY music from their stores…
The good news is that there’s an app which enables RADIO FM for US phones only. For some strange dumb reason, they won’t support any other country aside from USA. Anyway if you live in the US, the app is called NextRadio.
According to their Supported Devices list, even older phones should work with their app but again, only for US users.
However if you live in the EU and you necessarily want RADIO FM at any cost then OK OK OK! There’s a trick for you too, calm down!
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Doomsday “Experts” Warn of Civilization-Ending Information Wars
Where does this lurking threat lie according to said experts? “The manipulation of facts, fake news and information overload — along with global warming and flirting with nuclear war — are all factors that have brought humans as close to destroying the planet as ever, said the non-profit Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.”…
So — the “velocity of information” and fake news has generated “rage” and “polarization” across the globe — not decades of jobs lost to outsourcing, the erosion of purchasing power, supercharged nanny states, and a steady march towards globalization as cultural identities are erased in the name of “progress.”
[Comment: they sound more like buffoons, and not “experts”. Unless you count their expertise in buffoonery in which case they would be “expert buffoons”.]
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Former Top FBI Deputy Director Labels FBI ‘Corrupt’
Former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Terry Turchie appeared alongside Tucker Carlson of an interview that surely shook up Fox as well as the nation, as he ended up demonstrating just why the FBI should not exist. I’m not surprised as the Constitution neither mandates nor allows for the FBI to be funded or exist, as well as other alphabet agencies.
Turchie’s statement below let the cat out of the bag.
“And I think we can expect more of this, because quite honestly the electorate in some places is putting more and more progressives and self-described socialists in positions. And ironically, years ago, when I first got into the FBI, one of the missions of the FBI in its counterintelligence efforts was to try and keep these people out of government. Why? Because we would end up with massive dysfunction and massive disinformation and massive misinformation, and it seems to me that’s where we’re at today.”
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Home Depot Co-Founder: Socialism ‘Comes Right Out of the Universities.’ He’s Not Wrong. (Video)
Home Depot billionaire co-founder Bernie Marcus said Friday that the growing appeal to socialism in America comes out of the universities.
Marcus, during an interview with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto, discussed the deterioration of socialist Venezuela and Cuba, comparing the situations in those countries today with the realities there decades ago, pre-socialist rule. Marcus called the economic downturns in each of those countries, Cuba, in particular, a “perfect example of socialism gone wrong.”
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How Hollywood Social Engineers Turned 2018’s “The Predator” Into a Big Budget Flop
I had the misfortune of watching the recently released stinker from The Predator franchise on DVD. Based on word-of-mouth and scathing reviews, I knew enough to stay away from it in the theatres but I was a fan of the 1987 original, so it was tough to shun.
Unfortunately, the lousy ratings were warranted and even the low 28 per cent viewer rating on Rotten Tomatoes was generous!
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The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) has a Religion Commission, where socialist pastors, religious academics, and laypeople network to spread Marxist ideas through their churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques. The United States is a deeply religious country. Very early on, the CPUSA realized that if the United States was ever to be brought to socialism, religion would have to be harnessed to the task.
As the United States is primarily a Christian country, the communists began to infiltrate churches, seminaries, and theological colleges even before the Bolshevik revolution of 1917.
In Congressional testimony in July 1953, former CPUSA Chairman Ben Gitlow described how Harry Ward, later a secret party member, established the first communist front in America:
“The Methodist Federation for Social Action … was first organized by a group of Socialist, Marxist clergymen of the Methodist church headed by Dr. Harry F. Ward. … Its objective was to transform the Methodist Church and Christianity into an instrument for the achievement of socialism. It was established in 1907, 12 years before the organization of the Communist Party in the United States in 1919.”
A few days later, another high-ranking communist defector exposed Dr. Ward as a card-carrying communist, and a powerful “agent of influence” for the communist cause:…
According to Johnson, the CPUSA set about infiltrating American Christianity at every level:
“In the early 1930s the Communists instructed thousands of their members to rejoin their ancestral religious groups and to operate in cells designed to take control of churches for Communist purposes. This method was not only propounded but was executed with great success among large elements of American church life. Communists operating a double-pronged infiltration, both through elements of Communist-controlled clergy and Communist-controlled laymen, managed to pervert and weaken entire strata of religious life in the United States.”
All over the United States, CPUSA members went back to their childhood churches. Over time, many gained positions of influence. Much of this activity ramped up during the Vietnam era…
Today’s CPUSA is still very active in the church. Here are some examples:
Edward Carson is chairman of the Boston Communist Party and was also an editor for The Christian Century “Then and Now” blog.
Michael Adam Reale served on the CPUSA Religious Commission in 2004—2005. Reale told the CPUSA newspaper People’s Weekly World (later changed to People’s World) in 2004:
“I personally felt led to bring into the Communist Party three friends who are active in their faiths, one a Quaker, another who is the pastor of the United Church of Christ, and the third a Jehovah’s Witness—all three had expressed an interest in the party. We all need to confront the myth that communism is anti-religion. Communism is not anti-religion—it is anti-opulence. … “I came to the Communist Party because of my deep Quaker faith. I have become convinced (a Quaker expression) of the ‘rightness’ of Marxism.”
In 2010, Pierre Williams was secretary of the Religion Commission of the CPUSA. He received his Master of Divinity Degree from Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia. He also completed pastoral residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and served as staff chaplain at Harbor Hospital, Baltimore. He is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and has been a member of the Florida Interfaith Commission on Children and Youth.
[Comment: these communists posing as christians are the drivers behind the “interfaith” scam.]
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Although she has only been in Congress for less than a month, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is getting more attention than any other member of the U.S. House of Representatives. She has been setting social media ablaze with her posts about the inner workings of Congress, the mainstream media is constantly gushing about her, and now she has been tapped to teach her fellow Democrats “how to be good at Twitter” . She is getting rave reviews for taking on the corrupt establishment in both political parties, but the bad news is that she literally doesn’t know what she is talking about on virtually every single important issue. She is like a five-year-old kid that has been set free to run wild in a toy store, and her misdirected enthusiasm is bound to get her into all sorts of trouble.
It is a good thing to be idealistic, as long as you have the right ideals.
Unfortunately for Ocasio-Cortez, her head has been filled with all sorts of socialist nonsense. During a recent interview with 60 Minutes, she proposed raising the top income tax rate to “as high as 60 or 70 percent” …
Even though virtually everything that she believes is wrong, at least Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has enough passion to stand up for what she believes. That is more than can be said for the soy latte drinking wimps on the right that never want to offend anyone so that they can extend their political careers for as long as possible.
At this point the left is rapidly taking control of the national conversation, and Rasmussen just released a national survey that shows that if Ocasio-Cortez ran for president in 2020 she would almost have as much support as Trump…
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The Mother of All Government Data Breaches is Happening Right Now
It’s been more than a month since the federal government shut down.
We all know the familiar story of the 800,000+ workers, and the millions of contractors, who are not receiving paychecks.
(Plus there are millions of other workers and small businesses in the private sector whose incomes depend at least partially on the government— and they’re all suffering as well.)
But now the shutdown is starting to affect cybersecurity.
Because it turns out that there are now at least 200 federal websites whose SSL certificates have expired ever since government employees were furloughed.
If you’re not familiar, SSL (and its updated version TLS) are standard encryption technologies that ensure information passed between Internet users and the websites they visit is secure.
Without SSL and TLS, your data (including credit card or other personal information) could easily be intercepted by hackers.
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The Shocking Anatomy of an Internet Witch Hunt
The recent internet witch hunt shows us that humanity is heading into dangerous territory.
This week, we explained how the mainstream media twisted the story about the “MAGA Kids” from Covington Catholic high school and their “confrontation” with Native Elder Nathan Phillips in D.C. last Friday.
A short video clip and an image of an alleged confrontation between the students and a small group of Native Americans spread like wildfire over the weekend, resulting in widespread condemnation of the boys on social media.
The story is still up front in the news and on social media, and even though all evidence presented so far supports the kids’side of the story, many are still trying to find reasons to vilify the boys.
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Trump: In Third Year With Three Charges
Theoretically, we have another year before the next American presidential campaign gets underway. And yet those who follow US policies more closely know that the 2020 presidential campaign has already started. In a sense, at least as far as the two main political parties are concerned, the campaign started the day Donald Trump took the oath of office.
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The United States Defence Intelligence Agency has one great fear: that someone, somewhere, has an unknown advantage … a secret weapon that could topple the world’s sole superpower from its perch. So when it hears talk of UFOs, stargates and warp drives — it takes it seriously.
Seriously enough to spend some serious money on.
Documents released under a freedom of information request confirm the DIA went full “X-Files” and established teams to examine almost every seemingly outlandish idea it encountered.
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U-Wisc Course Syllabus Calls Trump ‘Catastrophically Unfit Egomaniac’
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is offering a course this winter on the American Presidency that describes Donald Trump as a “spectacularly unqualified” president who “poses an overt threat to the Republic.”
In his 10-page syllabus, leaked by a student in the class and shared by the attentive folks at the College Fix, Professor Kenneth Mayer describes Mr. Trump as both divisive and amateurish…
According to UW-Madison spokesperson Meredith McGlone, however, the professor is above partisan politics and analyzes the political situation in an unbiased fashion.
[Comment: This is “Higher Education”? More like Communist indoctrination.]
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‘Disgusting’ — Anti-Brexiteers Put Berlin-Style Wall Manned by Armed ‘Soldiers’ On Irish Border
Pro-EU activists erected a Berlin-style wall manned by menacing armed “soldiers” on the border between Ireland and British Ulster to scare people about the supposed consequences of a No Deal Brexit.
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EU Moves Against Austria for Changing Benefit Payments for Children Living Abroad
The European Union (EU) has launched infringement proceedings that could lead to sanctions against Austria over a controversial new reform to benefit payments for children living abroad.
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France, Germany Fooling us on UN Seat — Conte
Has been goal for some time says Berlin
(ANSA) — Rome, January 25 — France and Germany are “taking the mickey” out of Italy on assigning France’s United Nations Security Council seat to the European Union, Premier Giuseppe Conte told Corriere della Sera Friday.
The recent Franco-German Aachen Treaty said Germany had a priority interest in getting a seat, he said.
Germany said Friday a UN seat had been “our goal for some time” and this should not come as a surprise.
The Aachen Treaty is not against any other members but in favour of the EU,” said Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert.
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France: Pro-Macron “Red Scarf” Activists Bussed Into Paris to Counter Yellow Vests
Thousands of pro-Macron climate activists materialized in Paris on Sunday to counter the Yellow Vest movement during the 11th straight week of protests against the French government.
Marching under slogans such as “Enough!” and “End the violence,” the Red Scarves and now “Blue Vest” movements have teamed up for their first “anti-Yellow Vest” protest in Paris on Sunday.
[Comment: So now globalist elites bus in the brownshirts, communists, socialists, global warming fanatics, and assorted useful idiots to counter the working class yellow shirts.]
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France: ‘Yellow Vest’ Leader ‘Handicapped for Life’ By Protest Injury: Lawyer
Paris (AFP) — A prominent French anti-government “yellow vest” activist, badly injured in the eye at a protest, was struck with one of the controversial rubber bullets used by police, his lawyer said Sunday.
Jerome Rodrigues’ lawyer fears he will be “handicapped for life” after he was injured in clashes with police in Paris on Saturday during an 11th straight weekend of protests against President Emmanuel Macron.
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France: ‘Red Scarves’ And ‘Blue Vests’ Launch Counter-Protest Against Yellow Vests
Hundreds marched through Paris wearing red scarves on Sunday to protest the unrest that sometimes plagued the Yellow Vest movement as the “Red Scarves” and “Blue Vests” launched a joint counter-demonstration.
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A fearfully worded new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today noting the cuts of foreign debt to a decade low and the massive boost of national reserves, states that these economic protection measures are needed as “Something Wicked This Way Comes” warnings are being issued around the world as “Yellow Vest” protests against leftist-socialist governments continue to ignite — the latest occurring in Canada where “Yellow Vest” protesters continue to shut down vital roads, and in Mexico where tens-of-thousands of “Yellow Vest” protesting strikers are now causing auto plants to shutter all across America — a global wave of protests now being said is unstoppable and sending elites into spasms of fear — a fear best evidenced in France where President Macron assembled his nation’s top business leaders at the Versailles palace of King Louis XVI, who was guillotined on 21 January 1793, exactly 226 years yesterday, to warn them: “a lot of people thought that it was not a good date to gather here…but when you look at French history, if at the end they ended up like that, it’s because a lot of leaders decided not to reform”. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
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Gloves Off as Italy’s Populists Mount Assault on ‘Coloniser’ France
A barrage of vitriolic comments levelled at France and its president have pushed Franco-Italian relations to the brink as Italy’s ruling populist parties kick off their European election campaign with no holds barred.
The last time Emmanuel Macron paid a visit to the Italian government in Rome, in January 2018, it was all smiles, hugs and warm words between the French president and Italy’s then-prime minister, Paolo Gentiloni. The announcement of a treaty cementing Franco-Italian friendship, to be signed by the end of the year, provided the cherry on the cake.
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Italy: Eternit Ex-CEO Indicted in Asbestos-Linked Deaths
At Bagnoli
(ANSA) — Naples, January 25 — Swiss entrepreneur Stephan Schmidheiny, ex-CEO of asbestos company Eternit, was indicted Friday on charges of voluntary manslaughter in the death of six workers and two of their relatives of cancer due to exposure to asbestos in the plant at Bagnoli in Naples.
The trial will start April 12.
Schmidheiny’s layer described the charges as “grotesque”.
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Macron’s Dream is Europe’s Nightmare
Why do Macron and Merkel want a European army? Who are they afraid of? Judging by their commercial actions and NATO defense spending, it can’t be the Russians. Germany is fine with being dependent on Russia for much of its energy needs and with being dependent on the U.S. for its defense. In addition, the Russians are not a great worry. They are economically anemic, and their demographic profile is so poor that it’s a threat to the unity of the Russian Federation itself. China? China is half a world away. And besides, the Americans will deal with them.
No, the enemies that Merkel and Macron see are the populists within Europe, the people who chaff under globalism and dogmatic rule from Brussels, the people who love their country and culture. These include not just the ‘ingrates’ of Eastern Europe like the Hungarians and the Poles but also the unruly Yellow Vest protestors in France and the Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) in Germany. Those are the ones who any European army under French-German control will be designed to subdue.
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Meanwhile in France: Government at War Against Yellow Vests
One of the leaders of the yellow vests in France, Jérôme Rodrigues, was blinded with a rubber bullet.
The bullets are much less harmless than suggested by the police.
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On Holocaust Remembrance Day: 5 Percent of Britons Deny the Holocaust Happened
Frightening numbers on International Holocaust Remembrance Day: one in twenty British adults denies the Holocaust happened. And one in five said fewer than two million Jews were killed, instead of the more than six million that really died.
That’s the outcome of a poll commissioned by the UK-founded Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.
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UK Grooming Gang Gets £1 Million Taxpayer Money to Fight Deportation
A grooming gang in Britain has received over 1 million pounds in taxpayer funds to fight their deportation.
The Rochdale grooming gang, so loving referred to as “Asian” by the British government, has been charged with grooming and raping girls as young as 13 years old. All four men come from Pakistan.
Since Britain is still a part of the EU, the “Asian” gang gets to use Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Article 8 is used to protect families against traumatic experiences such as separation.
David Spencer of the Crime Prevention Think Tank weighed in on the matter: “These men have been convicted of some truly shocking offenses, and it beggars belief that they are now able to run up even bigger taxpayer-funded bills making spurious appeals to extend their stay in the UK.”
The four men have run up a bill on the taxpayer dime, estimated to be 1,009,645 pounds.
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UK: ‘Large Majority of MPs Are Remainers in Their Hearts and Souls, ‘ Warns Labour MP
Labour’s John Mann has warned that the House of Commons is dominated by Remain-supporting MPs looking for excuses to delay or outright cancel Brexit.
Writing for The Sun on Sunday, the MP for Bassetlaw observed that “a large majority of MPs are Remainers in their hearts and souls and are struggling to bring themselves to recognise the reality of the situation” as exit day, currently scheduled for March 29th 2019, closes in.
“It was us MPs who voted to give you, the people, the say on leaving or remaining in the European Union,” he observed.
“And you voted, in higher numbers than you have ever bothered voting for any of us.
“Yet the same MPs who gave you a say are coming up with every excuse for why your views should not be listened to.”
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King Tut’s DNA is Western European
Despite the refusal of the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, to release any DNA results which might indicate the racial ancestry of Pharaoh Tutankhamen, the leaked results reveal that King Tut’s DNA is a 99.6 percent match with Western European Y chromosomes.
The DNA test results were inadvertently revealed on a Discovery Channel TV documentary filmed with Hawass’s permission — but it seems as if the Egyptian failed to spot the giveaway part of the documentary which revealed the test results.
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The Moscow District Military Court has sentenced 11 Central Asian members of the Daesh militant group to prison terms ranging from six to 18 years.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) told TASS news agency that “the specified persons in two terrorist cells were simultaneously detained by FSB employees on November 12 2016, in Moscow and St. Petersburg”.
FSB explained that “the terrorists, one of whom came from Syria, planned to carry out terror attacks, as well as mass murders of citizens in crowded places. They were going to capture all attacks on video for further release on Internet.”
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Duterte: Communism is a ‘Rotten Ideology’ Leading to ‘Mass Insanity’
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte condemned the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) as violent, hopeless, and insane during a speech Thursday, and urged members of the U.S.-designated terrorist organization to turn away from their “rotten ideology.”
Since becoming president in 2016, Duterte has repeatedly attempted to reach a peace deal with the CPP, issuing several ceasefires intended as a gesture of goodwill. The communists have rejected his advances, leading to an announcement last year that he would instead create a special police unit appointed to find, disarm, and kill violent communist terrorists.
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Filipino Muslims Approve New Autonomous Region in Referendum
Muslims in the southern Philippines overwhelmingly approved in a referendum the creation of a new autonomous region in hopes of ending nearly half a century of unrest, election officials said.
The Commission on Elections announced late Friday that the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao is deemed ratified following a referendum on Monday. It says 1.5 million people voted in favor.
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Auckland Mayor Phil Goff made the comments to a local radio station after they were caught dumping rubbish on Takapuna Beach and allegedly threatened to mow down a witness.
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The question of whether the nation should change the date of Australia Day has become one of the country’s most contentious political issues.
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Mohammed Skaf is seen trying to help lift a girl from the sand and Tayyab Sheik is pictured leaning over the other girl on the right on Sydney’s most popular beach in a covert police surveillance.
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Melbourne was fraught as 5,000 indigenous people and their supporters clashed with around 100 alt-right nationalists holding a counter demonstration.
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The Newtown Hotel in Sydney’s hipster-crammed inner-west displayed a sign out the front telling customers they’d be turned away if the flag was displayed.
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The 1998 Winter Olympics bronze medal winner announced on Saturday she will challenge Tony Abbott in May’s Federal Election.
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Siobhan Brown says it was ‘an absolute kick in the guts’ when police told her Mohamed Naddaf was appealing against the severity of his sentence for the manslaughter of her daughter Ashlee.
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Waleed Aly is under fire after his satirical segment on The Project where he pushed for the date of Australia Day to be changed.
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Australia Day, on January 26, marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet to Sydney Cove but for many indigenous Australians, it is ‘Invasion Day’.
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Exclusive: Kremlin-Linked Contractors Help Guard Venezuela’s Maduro — Sources
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Private military contractors who do secret missions for Russia flew into Venezuela in the past few days to beef up security for President Nicolas Maduro in the face of U.S.-backed opposition protests, according to two people close to them.
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Macron Meddling in Venezuela Says M5S Undersecretary
Ignoring principle of non-interference says Di Stefano
(ANSA) — Rome, January 24 — Ruling anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) Foreign Undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano on Thursday accused French President Emmanule Macron of allegedly breaking with the EU line and “meddling” in Venezuela by recognising opposition leader and self-proclaimed new president Juan Guaidò as head of state over President Nicolas Maduro.
“The principle of non-interference is sacred,” said Di Stefano.
“Whatever our vision of things is, of Maduro, of Chavism and the political relations in South America, any change in Venezuela must happen in a political, democratic and non-violent context.
“Macron is ignoring these obvious points, it taking a discordant position from the EU, which asked for a political process and not the recognition of a self-proclaimed president”.
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Thousands More Leave Venezuela Amid New Crisis
Venezuela’s political crisis has deepened. Opposition leader Juan Guaidó has declared himself interim president following large protests, galvanising opponents of current socialist President Nicolas Maduro.
The US and other Latin American countries have backed Mr Guaidó but Mr Maduro has accused him of starting a coup.
Meanwhile the humanitarian crisis continues and thousands more people have been forced to leave the country, many crossing into neighbouring Colombia.
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Venezuela Crisis: White House ‘Will Respond to Threats Against Diplomats’
The US has warned Venezuela that any threats against American diplomats or opposition leader Juan Guaidó will be met with “a significant response”.
National Security Adviser John Bolton said any such “intimidation” would be “a grave assault on the rule of law”.
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Finnish Police Ordered Not to Speak of Asylum Seeker Crime
Häme Police Department personnel received internal communications instructions on police information related to the current situation of asylum seekers.
The six-page guidance signed by the Police Chief and the Communications Officer of the Department has raised a lively discussion among staff in the facility. Many experienced police consider it exceptional.
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Germany: Girl Fleeing Migrant Attackers Run Over by Bus
A 17-year-old girl was run over by a bus in Minden, Germany, as she attempted to flee migrant attackers, according to police and media reports.
The victim and her 14-year-old companion were being harassed by two migrant men who were both under the influence of alcohol.
The teens attempted to jump aboard a slow-moving bus with the assistance of a driver who had noticed their plight, but a pursuing assailant reportedly wrenched the girl back into the street by her hair.
“The driver noticed that the teenagers were in trouble, opened the doors of the bus and let them on the vehicle — but one of the men also jumped on board,” HLN reports. “The Afghan dragged the girl out of the moving vehicle.”
The girl’s legs were run over by the front wheel of the bus before the driver managed to stop.
[Comment: Picture traitor Angela — “we can do it” — Merkel while reading this article.]
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‘I’m Scared for My Life’: Residents Vexed by Surge of Migrants in Tiny Town Near Border
HACHITA, N.M. — If you live in this tiny town at the entrance to New Mexico’s Bootheel region, population 34 (or 70, depending on the source), it’s easy to have a siege mentality. You have dogs. You erect a fence around your property.
You call the Border Patrol when you hear people rustling around in the abandoned double-wide next door.
This unincorporated community is the last populated place on the highway to the Antelope Wells port of entry, which has seen a surge in migrants apprehended after they cross the border illegally in recent months. Hachita is 45 miles north of the border.
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Italy: ‘Evidence’ Of NGO-Trafficker Contacts — Salvini
Will pass on info to judicial authorities
(ANSA) — Rome, January 23 — Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Wednesday there was “evidence” of telephone contacts between people aboard migrant rescue NGO ships and “some traffickers on land”.
“We will pass the information on to the judicial authorities,” he said.
“These are issues that will concern the judicial authorities, not the interior minister,” Salvini said.
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Italy’s Salvini Considers Legal Case Against Migrant Rescue Ship
Rome (AFP) — Italy’s interior minister Matteo Salvini said Sunday he was considering legal action against the crew of a Dutch-flagged rescue ship as calls grew for 47 migrants to be allowed to land.
“We have concrete elements to declare that the captain and crew of the Sea Watch 3 have put the lives of those on board at risk by disobeying precise directions days ago to disembark them in the nearest port, not Italy!” he said.
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Immediately following the 2016 presidential election, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton warned Americans about the danger of allowing illegal aliens to vote in our elections.
In his November 2016, speech to a crowd at a Remembrance Project event, an advocacy group raising awareness about deaths of American citizens at the hands of illegal aliens, Fitton claimed that illegal aliens are voting in enough numbers to “change the outcome of elections.” Fitton talked about the work his group is doing to end the lawless sanctuary cities across America, warning that a wall won’t work if every state has a “Welcome Wall” saying, “You will find sanctuary here,” it won’t matter.
Fitton told the crowd that President Trump is right to be outraged about illegal aliens living in America. The Judicial Watch president claimed that he estimates between 43-44 million non-citizens reside in the United States. Fitton then suggested that about 10,12 or even 20 million of those are illegal aliens. Fitton asked how many of those non-citizens vote? Fitton said that while President Trump would say between 5— 6 million vote, the Left claims none of them vote and that his guess, is it’s somewhere in between.
Fitton told the crowd, “Aliens vote and register in large numbers, and in large enough numbers to change the outcome of elections. Now, by my estimation, we had about one and a half million illegal alien votes in the last election, 1.4 million by my guess,” Fitton told the crowd.
Fitton said “about 80% vote for Democrats, 20% for Republicans,” saying that about “1.1 million by that calculation voted for Hillary Clinton.” Fitton then warned about the crisis we are facing with illegal aliens voting in our elections.
“It’s one thing to lose your country because you have no borders, it’s another thing to lose your country because you have no vote,” said Fitton. He warned that policy discussions are a waste of time and “academic if your vote doesn’t count—if elections are stolen through illegal votes.”
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Salvini Says He’s Told Dutch to Deal With Sea-Watch
Interior minister says Rome wrote letter to Netherlands govt
(ANSA) — Rome, January 25 — Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Friday that Rome has sent a letter to the government of the Netherlands telling it to take charge of the case of a ship run by the Sea-Watch NGO with 47 rescued asylum seekers aboard.
The vessel has been allowed to enter Italian territorial waters due to bad weather, Italian coast guard sources said Friday.
“Fifteen minutes ago I sent a letter to the Dutch government in which the it is officially and formally tasked with dealing with this vessel, which flies the Dutch flag, and of the passengers on board,” Salvini said. Earlier on Friday fellow Deputy Premier and Labour and Industry Minister Luigi Di Maio said that he thinks the Dutch ambassador to Italy should be summoned over the ship.
The city of Naples has said it is willing to allow the Sea-Watch ship to dock there.
But League party leader Salvini ruled this out, saying his policy of refusing access to Italy’s ports to NGO-run migrant-rescue ships is not changing. I can’t wait to have them arrive, safe and sound, in another European country,” Salvini said. “There’s no space (for them) in Italy”.
The Netherlands said Friday it would not take in the migrants from NGO rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 as demanded by Italy, De Telegraaf reported.
“Until there are European accords on structural solutions for the migrants on board the (migrant smuggler) boats, the Netherlands will not take part in ad hoc solutions,” said Dutch Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration Mark Harbers, according to De Telegraaf.
He said “the Netherlands has noted the Italian request, but is not responsible for the Sea-Watch 3”.
Salvini said he was collecting evidence to weigh a police complaint against all the members of the crew of Sea-Watch 3 for favouring clandestine immigration, interior ministry sources said.
Salvini faces possible prosecution for allegedly kidnapping migrants aboard migrant rescue ship Diciotti in a stand-off with the European Union last year.
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Strasbourg Concerned at Effects of Salvini Decree
Council of Europe’s GRETA body releases report on Italy
(ANSA) — Strasbourg, January 25 — The Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) on Friday expressed “concern” about the impact of Italy’s new migration-and-security decree. The body said the legislation, drafted by Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, could have a negative impact on the identification of trafficking victims and in providing reception facilities for unaccompanied minors.
GRETA’s second report on Italy, published Friday, examined the country’s situation until December 7, 2018.
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UK Politicians Fight Over Brexit Nonsense, Ignore Non-European Invasion Tsunami
British politicians are continuing their idiotic and pointless bunfight over membership of the European Union—to the point where the government is in a serious crisis and could even collapse—while the real threat to Britain’s existence, mass Third World immigration, which has nothing to do with the EU, continues apace.
According to the latest immigration figures issued by the UK’s official Office for National Statistics, in 2018, some 625,000 people moved to the UK in the 12 months ending June 2018—of which 326,000, or 52 percent, came from outside the EU (that is, the Third World).
At the same time, 351,000 people—mostly white British and white EU nationals leaving the UK in the run up to Brexit—left the country. This fact means that in real terms, almost all immigration into to the UK in the last reported period was made up of nonwhites coming in from outside the European Union.
In spite of this fact, the idiot politicians in Britain, and the so-called “right wing” still maintain that EU membership is a vital issue over which they are prepared to provoke a political crisis. In reality, it is meaningless, as the ongoing Third World immigration tsunami has nothing to do with EU membership, and everything to do with the British parliament’s race-denying immigration laws.
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UK: Channel Migrants: Lorries Still Favoured Route, Border Officers Say
The number of migrants entering the UK in lorries is far greater than those crossing the Channel in dinghies, immigration officers have reported.
Lucy Moreton, general secretary of the Immigration Services Union, said preventing “lorry drops” was still the “day-to-day grind” for officers.
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Unpublished Swedish Report Reveals Migrant Costs Far Higher Than Govt Claims
A leaked unpublished document from Sweden’s Justice Ministry has revealed that the costs of mass migration are far higher than figures currently expressed by the government.
The document comes after the new coalition government agreed to relax the rules for chain migration, or “family reunification”, which will likely lead to a larger influx of migrants than previously estimated.
Following the announcement of the policy, the Swedish Migration Board sent the report to the Justice Ministry which calculated the added costs in the millions. Despite the reports, Swedish Social Democrat Justice Minister Morgan Johansson has referred to prior, much less costly, figures throughout the week, Expressen reports.
The previous report, compiled in Septemeber of last year, estimated that chain migration would cost Swedish taxpayers 910 million Swedish kronor (£76.15 million) from 2019 to 2021. The new estimate sees that number increase to 1.365 billion Swedish kronor (£114.2 million) over the same period.
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UK PM Theresa May Says 1 Child Becoming Transgender Every Day is Normal
The United Kingdom is seeing a record number of children, under the age of 16, identifying as transgender — with at least one child making the switch every single day.
Louise Bowers, a senior deed poll officer, told The Sun: “We used to issue a couple every couple of months — but now it’s seven to ten a week.”
According to Bowers, most of the kids are in their teens, aged either 14 or 15, however some are as young as ten.
The number of children, aged between 3 and 18, being referred to gender identity clinics went from 314 in 2011 to 2,016 in 2016.
[Comment: Indoctrination at schools is the reason for the increase. ]
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UK: Curator: Emphasis on Families in History ‘Privileges Heterosexual Lives’
The public programmes curator for the National Trust has said the charity should stop emphasising the importance of families in stately homes as it “privileges heterosexual lives”.
Rachael Lennon said that the traditional narratives about historic estates means that “same-sex desire and gender diversity have generally been given little space,” according to The Telegraph.
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Sweden’s NEW Cultureminister
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Sweden’s OLD Cultureminister
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Mm m m…
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She has the top of her head covered and she appears to be 16 years old.
That’s all the qualifications the Swedes need for the job and just how the moslems like them: young and covered.
Comment: So now globalist elites bus in the brownshirts, communists, socialists, global warming fanatics, and assorted useful idiots to counter the working class yellow shirts.]
My comment… “Bussed in”. Typical Communist practice. They used to do this in Germany when I was in the British Army Reserves. We used to amuse ourselves by tuning into DDR TV and radio across the border. Typical “Peace loving Peoples of Germany (DDR) welcome glorious Red Army anti Fascist allies!” The “welcoming” crowds were all party stooges or there under threat of the gulag, or their families- all bussed in and holding flowers handed out by authorities. Never thought I would see this in Europe. For thirty years I have been part of NATO in some form or other prepared to defend unto death and now we have it here in France. This now confirms my long held belief that we are witnessing the imposition of Communism shifted West. My attitude is the same as it was in the late seventies ad as it is now in my pension years. “Over my dead body!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHr-pPypvNo
Adults aim small brown hands against Tommy. But this is not a hate crime, because it is a child .. an innocent angel.
The YouTube channel on which that video appears is called “Islamic Videos Discovery”.
The militants of the “Islamic State” * are being transferred by unknown helicopters from Pakistan to the border of Tajikistan – in the direction of the southern borders of Russia. This was announced by Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov.
“They are planning, apparently, large-scale provocations in the future with squeezing out a large number of refugees and with all the consequences in the direction of Russia,” the official explained.
https://lenta.ru/news/2019/01/28/opasnost/
Russia generously shares migrants and satellites with Europe.
From the Tajik site:
Dismantling between the natives of Tajikistan and Chechnya in the city of Duisburg in the west of Germany has continued for several days. On January 24, a large group of refugees and migrants from Tajikistan went to deal with Chechens working in the same construction company along with the Tajiks. In the evening of January 27, a group of Chechens came to the apartment where the Tajiks lived. They beat three Tajiks and took their BMW car, in addition, they demanded that they prepare 2500 euros until Monday. According to eyewitnesses, a young native of Dushanbe Muhammad suffered the most in this fight.
http://akhbor-rus.com/-p1702-103.htm
What a horror-horror!
A man came to the mosque in the cap with the logo “infidel” and thus committed a “hate crime”
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/panbpb/far-right-group-called-canadian-infidels-staked-out-edmonton-mosque