Marine Le Pen and Matteo Salvini met in Paris to discuss holding a joint rally for their respective parties. They are planning the event to coincide with the close of the campaign for the European parliamentary elections.
In other news, a Swedish hospital has defended its decision to perform breast-removal surgery on a 14-year-old girl diagnosed with “gender dysphoria”.
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Economy Added Solid 196,000 Jobs in March, Unemployment Stays at 3.8%
Hiring rebounded strongly in March as employers added 196,000 jobs, easing fears that payroll growth is slowing sharply amid a cooling economy.
The unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.8%, the Labor Department said Friday.
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AG Barr: Stop States’ Attempts to Skirt the Constitution
America is not and never has been a democracy. Democracy is MOB RULE and that’s exactly the agenda for the Democratic/Communist Party USA.
Art. II, Section 1, Clauses 2 & 3 of the U.S. Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land
Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves. And they shall make a list of all the persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each; which list they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for President; and if no person have a majority, then from the five highest on the list the said House shall in like manner choose the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by States, the representation from each state having one vote; A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the President, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the Senate shall choose from them by ballot the Vice President.
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America Will Either Thrive Via Liberty or Die Under Socialism/Tyranny
Every gruesome step our republic has lurched toward a dark immoral existence, can be attributed to the seeds of evil planted by ACLU attorneys and government school indoctrination. The American people have been increasingly indirectly dominated by the American Civil Liberties Union. That organization has been successfully carrying out the wicked mission of its Communist founder, Roger Baldwin. In my opinion it does not take a genius to understand that the ACLU and all leftists slithering throughout society hell bent on killing America. Their legions of lawyers number in the thousands. The primary duty of ACLU attorneys is to sue anyone breathing who dares to uphold the standards that were at onetime considered bedrocks of society.
I am still amazed at the high level of ignorance amongst many Americans concerning the loathsome mission of the ACLU to demolish the USA via the leftist legal system. Even more devastating is learning how many others defend the ACLU, as if it was an organization of well-meaning soldiers of Liberty. In actuality, the ACLU not only wants to wipe out your Liberties, but even the functioning norms between men and women and parents and their children. I believe the ACLU presents a bigger threat to the United States than Russia and China combined. For there is nothing more dangerous than an enemy seeking to destroy you that was formed in your midst, knows your history better than you do.
Sadly, most Americans are ill equipped to intellectually duel with the ACLU. The main reason being the systematic practice of government school educators to indoctrinate students to make them void of understanding of or caring for our republic. ACLU founder Roger Baldwin stated, “I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the state, itself an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.”
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Biden After Hugging Boy: “He Gave Me Permission to Touch Him”
After putting his arm around a boy during a speech earlier today, Joe Biden told the audience, “he gave me permission to touch him.”
During an an electrical workers union conference in Washington, D.C., Biden first said he had been given “permission to hug” union president Lonnie Stephenson, who introduced him.
He then made the same joke after hugging a boy on stage.
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Destroying America From Within, Part 5
The next phase is the exploitation of our laws. In America we have the freedom of religion and muslims take full advantage of that. One of the things about the Islamic culture is their women must be covered, Some times it’s just a head scarf sometimes their whole body must be covered with only slits for eye holes. I’m sorry but there are times when their demand to be covered cannot and should not be allowed. Three Muslim women have each reached a $60,000 settlement with New York City after they were forced to remove their hijabs to be photographed while in police custody, according to a city official and court documents obtained on Wednesday.
Documents outlining the settlements were filed in Brooklyn federal court on Monday and reported by the The New York Daily News on Tuesday. Asked about the report, Kimberly Joyce, a spokeswoman for the city’s law department, said in an emailed statement, “The resolution of these matters were in the best interest of all parties involved.”
The settlements involved separate cases claiming that the women’s religious rights had been violated.
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Embarrasing: AOC Puts on Fake Black Accent While Giving Speech to African-American Audience
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put on a fake African-American accent while talking to a room full of black people earlier today.
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Ex-Bronx Man Who Talked About Joining ISIS Busted in Montana
A former Bronx man who allegedly talked to an FBI informant about joining ISIS and avenging the Christchurch mosques shooting in New Zealand has been busted in Montana, where he moved last month.
Fabjan Alameti, 21, was arrested at a gun range — where he’d rented an M1A rifle for target practice — and faces gun possession and drug charges; he was also charged with making false statements involving international and domestic terrorism.
Alameti told an informant in January that he wanted to fight with ISIS in Iraq and Syria and to carry out an attack in the US against a military facility, recruitment center, government building, “gay club” or Jewish temple, the charges allege.
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Forecasting Model That Predicted Trump Win in 2016 Shows the President in Good Shape for 2020
Alan Abramowitz, the respected political scientist from Emory University, has a forecast model he calls “time for change.” In 2016, he predicted a Trump victory in the popular vote — one of the few professional political analysts to do so.
While he missed on the Electoral College tally, the model presented an early indication that Trump was more than capable of winning the 2016 election.
His first forecast for the 2020 race featuring Donald Trump as an incumbent is out and, given the massive media campaign against him for the last two years, Trump appears to be in pretty good shape.
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Ilhan Omar Presses for Release of Muslim Brotherhood Leader
Already known for her anti-Semitic sentiments, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is appealing for the release of a senior member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, the organization seeking to establish a global caliphate that has spawned groups such as al-Qaida and Hamas.
On Twitter, she called on Trump to help bring about the release of Hoda Abdelmonem, a senior member of the Brotherhood’s women’s affiliate who is imprisoned in Egypt.
The Brotherhood advocates not only for an Islamic takeover of Egypt but for the global rule of Islam.
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New Mexico Signs on With Popular Vote Presidential Election Group
New Mexico is the 14th state to move away from the traditional use of the electoral college in presidential elections. Yesterday, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed House Bill 55 for her state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. By so doing, the Governor agrees with New Mexico Democrat Party lawmakers to give all the state’s electoral college votes to the winner of the national popular vote. There were no New Mexico Republican lawmakers on board with the decision. The will of New Mexico voters would not be honored if they were to select a different candidate than the winner of the aggregated popular vote in the other NPVIC states. So far the NPVIC laws won’t go into effect.
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On the Liberal/Leftist Mantra: “Our Common Humanity”
There is an overabundance of the use of the words “we,” “us,” and “our” in the following polemic. Whites in America have been discouraged from describing themselves with these terms in discussions about race, because we have been discouraged from having a collective identity. In defiance of that convention, I have used the terms often in this essay.
I will begin by stating that America’s Europeans — Europeans everywhere — are experiencing massive displacement by swelling non-White populations, a shift that threatens to make our political and cultural landscapes unrecognizable in the near future. As this happens, public discourse has been reinvented to accommodate the visible changes in our societies. Let us start by examining just a few examples:
Demands for redistributions of wealth are now increasingly presented as being reasonable and inevitable; the imported poor must be fed and subsidized. The historical narratives of Western nations are increasingly rewritten to include non-Whites, even if the rewrites are historically inaccurate. The rare acts of violence committed by Whites against non-Whites are extensively examined for any hints that they are “hate crimes,” while vastly more numerous incidences of violence by non-Whites against Whites are generally dismissed being merely criminal in intent. Institutional discrimination against non-Whites is intensely denounced as being unthinkable, while the legalized discrimination routinely directed at Whites in job hires, promotions, and college placements is either ignored or applauded as necessary.
Ironically, all of these things, and similar convolutions of logic and justice, now occur while great to-do is made about a need for “colorblindness,” or the need for “equality under the law,” or “understanding.” As our societies are enthusiastically deconstructed and reinvented, one of the most perpetual refrains that we now hear is the insistence that Whites search within themselves for tolerance by tapping into their sense of the common humanity that they share with all other human beings, and especially human beings of color.
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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Poll: Americans Give Social Media a Clear Thumbs-Down
WASHINGTON — The American public holds negative views of social-media giants like Facebook and Twitter, with sizable majorities saying these sites do more to divide the country than unite it and spread falsehoods rather than news, according to results from the latest national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
What’s more, six in 10 Americans say they don’t trust Facebook at all to protect their personal information, the poll finds.
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Three Reasons Hispanic Support for Trump is Exploding… And Why the Left Can’t Compete
Latinos are not only supporting Trump, much to the dismay of the left, they’re also openly praising him. Such is the case with Angelo Ray Gomez, who’s considering a run for political office.
Angelo Ray Gomez is gay and he’s Hispanic, he’s also exploring a run for public office. In a tweet from March 9th, Gomez talks about his desire to stand with President Trump and to be a voice for the residents of Henderson, Nevada, a coveted state in the 2020 election.
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‘View’ Thrilled by ‘Moderate’ 2020 Democrat Pushing for $40/HR Minimum Wage
For some reason ABC’s The View has been a favorite stop for Democrats to announce their presidential runs for 2020. That happened again on Thursday’s show, when Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) officially announced that he was the Democrat to beat President Trump in the next election.
After announcing his bid, the hosts didn’t press him on why he flip-flopped on important issues like guns and abortion. Instead, they framed their questions as if he was too “moderate” to win over Democrats:…
Tim Ryan denied that Democrats were on the wrong track. “We need transparency,” he urged. But he added that his party needed to “get back to an economic message” which included raising the minimum wage to “$30 and 40$ an hour,” (what?!):
[I] think as Democrats I’m for the fight for 15. I believe we do need to raise the minimum wage. But we can’t be saying we’re for 15. We need $30 an hour jobs, $40 an hour jobs. We need to get back to that message. And when we talk about the new technologies, that’s what those jobs pay. So let’s get busy putting that together.
The audience and hosts loved that suggestion. Joy Behar praised, “I’ve got to say, I’m very impressed with you. Aren’t we all? He’s wonderful! We like you!”
[Comment: Better is to make it $250/hr for minimum wage — that will surely stimulate the economy. /sarcasm]
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Jordan Peterson: Young People’s Ignorance of Socialism Risks “Absolute Catastrophe”
Canadian academic Jordan Peterson warns that socialism is so appealing to young people because they are “unbelievably ignorant” about the history of the 20th century.
During an event hosted by The Heritage Foundation this week, the clinical psychologist and best-selling author said that millennials are embracing far-left ideology because they weren’t taught about its disastrous outcomes at school.
“People are unbelievably ignorant of history,” said Peterson. “What young people know about 20th-century history is nonexistent, especially about the history of the radical left. How would you know? They are never taught about it so why would they be concerned about it?”
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Brexit: “The People Have Spoken — the B*stards”
The whole brouhaha around Brexit has amply demonstrated the under-hand tactics used by the losing side post-2016 referendum. There seems no dirty trick that the PTB and their useful idiots will not employ in their ongoing campaign to keep the UK in the prison of the EU and keep the sinking ship of the EU afloat.
The counter-revolution campaign contained of 4 discrete but interconnected segments. Project fear: This was successfully used in the Scottish Independence Referendum and has been rolled out again in an attempt to reverse the Leave vote in UK’s EU referendum campaign. After the Leave vote result, media immediately went into (hysterical) overdrive with its tales of woe and chaos regarding the ‘inevitable’ collapse of the UK economy. Visions were conjured up of empty super-market shelves, mass unemployment, capital flight, food riots etcetera. The end of civilization as we know it. A notable example of conjecture and scare-mongering being presented as hard ‘facts.’
Disinformation: The ‘experts’ from the political and media class assured us that life in the EU was wonderful and full of promise and if we only gave it a little more time it would become a veritable Shangri la. Enter stage left: the great and the good from the pseudo-left, social-democratic establishment, overwhelmingly in the case of the Labour party, who have assured us that the EU could be transformed — when all the evidence pointed to the contrary — and become an instrument of progress, prosperity and enlightenment. This policy was given broader exposure with Diem2025 the brainchild of one Yanis Varoufakis. According to the theory, nation states no longer existed, and reforms should start at the supra-national level. But as a matter of fact, the nation-state is precisely the arena which meaningful politics can and does take place. According to the Remain and Reform school, we apparently need a Europe-wide supra-national strategy — based upon what policies exactly? We must assume, according to the party line, that the nation-state is either dead or dying, this being an article of faith of the globalist left and the Washington Consensus. Strange bedfellows? Confusion: When the population has been softened-up and generally addled by the non-stop propaganda offensive waged by the media — private and state — they will tend to opt for the status quo. Clinging on to the wet-nurse in fear of something new and untested. A second vote is to now been mooted by the PTB, spuriously designated the ‘peoples’vote, as if the first Referendum somehow wasn’t — and this has been massively endorsed by the Labour party membership and pretty much universally by the PLP. Ergo, the policy the ‘left internationalists’ is one of inter alia ‘strengthening democracy’ — all very noble.
However, the crucially important issue of the neo-liberal policy tripod: the three freedoms of movement — capital, labour, commodities — remains in place, political change will not take place. And provided the institutional infrastructure of globalized capitalism — the IMF, WTO, World Bank, the EU — are overseeing and enabling the EU’s neoliberal project, economic and political change will not take place.
It is not the shackles of nationalism that give rise to the bureaucratic monstrosity which is the EU but precisely the opposite. The neo-liberal imperatives of open borders, liberalized commodity markets, liberalized capital accounts, abandonment of exchange rate controls, flexible labour markets and freedom of movement of labour, provide the theoretical and political under-pinning of the whole structure. Unless these political/ideological roadblocks are addressed the status quo will continue and continue to deteriorate.
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British Homeschoolers to be Monitored for 1st Time
Education secretary warns ‘home education’ now a ‘catch-all phrase’ open to abuse
(TELEGRAPH UK) — hildren taught at home will be placed on a register and monitored for the first time amid fears that thousands are being educated at illegal schools, Damian Hinds has announced.
The Education Secretary has warned that while many home-schooled children benefit from parental supervision, others are being exposed to “dangerous influences” at unregistered centres or not “getting an education at all.”
Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Mr Hinds said the Government could no longer standby whilst “vulnerable children vanish under the radar”, warning that doing so would see many being “drawn into a spiral of underachievement or worse”.
The register will create a safety net to “catch” children at risk of falling “through the cracks”, he added, and provide an “immediate picture” of where they are being educated.
It will be overseen by councils and will enable them to identify children receiving a “solely religious education” at unregistered faith schools such as Jewish Orthdox yeshivas or Islamic madrasas.
[Comment: State brainwashing or “education”, must supercede all. Next step is to ban homeschooling as in Germany, which follows Adolf’s law.]
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British Govt Gives More Away in Foreign Aid Than it Spends on Police
The British government is giving away more money through the foreign aid budget than it is spending on police forces, despite the violent crime wave gripping the country.
Crime in the capital city of London, under the mayoralty of Labour’s Sadiq Khan, appears to be particularly out of hand, with homicides at a 10-year high and particularly striking issues with knife crime and moped-enabled crime, as well as once rare and shocking incidents such as acid and machete attacks.
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Churches in France Face Rise in Attacks
(National Catholic Reporter) Paris — Sometimes it’s a cross of human excrement smeared on a church wall, with stolen Communion hosts stuck at the four corners. Other times, a statue of the Virgin Mary lies shattered on the floor.
Now and then, a fire breaks out in a house of prayer.
Roman Catholic churches have increasingly come under attack in France, a country so long identified with Christianity that it used to be called “the eldest daughter of the church.”
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These powerful images show the dedicated counter-terror police around the globe, including the US SWAT teams, French RAID agents and Israel’s elite Yamam force.
Some of the photos document training exercises, while others show the reality of operations in Boston following the marathon bombing in 2013 and in Paris after the Charlie Hebdo massacre in 2015.
The stunning images from a new book Fighting the War on Terror by Judith Grohmann show the innovative tactics being used to combat new terror threats and the advanced weapons technologies being deployed.
Grohmann was given insider access to the specialist counter-terrorism units of 16 countries across the world, including Russia, Britain, Italy, Slovakia and many more.
The men are trained to rescue hostages, incapacitate barricaded suspects, engage with heavily-armed criminals and in joining combined counter-terrorism operations.
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‘Fight Back’: Brexiteers Vow to Sabotage Brussels if Pulled Into EU Elections
Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nigel Farage will declare war on the globalists’ beloved European Project if Brexit is delayed to the point where the UK is pulled into European Parliament elections in May.
On Friday morning, Prime Minister Theresa May wrote to European Council President Donald Tusk requesting a further extension of Article 50 to June 30th, admitting that the UK would have to take part in European Parliament elections next month — nearly three years after the country voted to leave the bloc.
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Flashback: UK Deep State Set Aside Cash for EU Elections in May 2018
Remain-supporting Commons speaker John Bercow had the Electoral Commission set aside hundreds of thousands of pounds to fight the EU’s May 2019 elections all the way back in May 2018, when it was still the official policy that Britain would be leaving the bloc on March 29th.
The story, broken by The Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph last year, takes on new relevance as Prime Minister Theresa May announces she is seeking another Brexit delay, which will necessitate Britain’s participation in elections to the European Parliament — despite telling Parliament, “I think people would ask what on earth we were doing if, having voted nearly three years ago to leave the European Union, they were then asked to elect Members to the European Parliament” as recently as March 25th.
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Germany: School Tells Parents if Daughter Wears Hijab, Her Bullying Problem Might Go Away
Two German parents say were shocked when a school headmaster suggested they make their daughter wear an Islamic headscarf to solve her issues with bullying.
The young fifth-grade girl was the target of alleged bullying by Muslim girls in a Frankfurt school where she was singled out because she has a German-Hebrew name, blonde hair, and does not wear an Islamic headscarf, Bild reports.
The girls’ mother claimed that the girl began developing a fear of going to school and that she had been both verbally and physically attacked by other students.
She added that when she approached the headmaster about the bullying, he told her, “Your daughter does not have to say that she is German. Besides, you can give her a headscarf.”
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Italy: Working on Crewless Ships Says Fincantieri
‘At advanced stage’ says Bono
(ANSA) — Trieste, April 5 — Italian shipbuilding giant Fincantieri said Friday it was working on crewless ships.
“We are working on ships, not of great dimensions, without crew on board, and we are already at an advanced stage,” CEO Giuseppe Bono told shareholders.
He added that the group is also building electrically powered ferries to be used “on brief trips, where there are nearby islands”.
He said they weer working on the batteries which would be replaced at the destination, and they already had one order, from the MSC Yacht Club.
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Italy: Alessandra Mussolini Condemns Jim Carrey’s Duce Death Post
She can flip cartoon round replies actor turned cartoonist
(ANSA) — Rome, April 5 — Rightist MEP Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, has condemned a cartoon shared on Twitter by actor-turned-political-cartoonist Jim Carrey showing her grandfather and his lover Claretta Petacci strung up in Milan’s Piazza Loreto after their execution by Italian partisans in 1945 and captioned “this is where fascism leads”.
Mussolini, formerly a neo-Fascist and then centre-right Forza Italia MP who is now a self-described “independent in the League area” in the European Parliament, called Carrey a “bastard” in a swiftly cancelled comment when he posted the cartoon on Sunday.
In reply, she then posted an atom-bomb cloud, Native Americans, a slave being whipped, Rosa Parks and the Vietnamese girl fleeing a napalm attack in 1972, telling Carrey to “draw these instead”.
She then told Donald Trump not to worry about Carrey’s attacks, saying his “drawings are just rubbish”.
On Friday Carrey responded by telling Variety: “It’s a little disconcerting that she’s in government, not because she’s in government, but because she’s obviously still embracing evil” .
Carrey said, “She can always flip the cartoon upside down.
And it looks like her grandfather is jumping for joy because he just got the head count. There’s her solve right there. Just turn it upside down. Turn that frown upside down.”
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Life at the Sharp End: Britain’s Knife Crime Crisis
Steve Narvaez Jara hoped to be a pilot one day. Instead, he was stabbed to death outside an East London flat. He had been studying physics and aerospace and, at just 20-years-old, had everything to look forward to . Jara was one of four young London men knifed within 15 hours of each other, and with only 206 minutes on the clock, the first victim of 2018. It was the heartbreaking start of a blood-soaked year in the British capital.
Homicides accounted for 134 deaths in London in 2018, the highest recorded in a decade. For the first time in history, London outstripped the turbulent streets of New York in the murder stakes. A lethal combination of knife ownership and youth culture seemed to drive the frenzy — at least half the killings involved a blade, with a third of victims under the age of 24. The city’s mayor Sadiq Khan blamed police cuts, branding the violence a “scourge that left families and communities devastated”.
But the UK’s knife problem reaches well beyond the capital. With 285 recorded in the year to March 2018, fatal stabbings across England and Wales have now hit their highest ever level. Birmingham, the country’s second largest city, suffered three teenage knife crime fatalities in just twelve days in February 2019. In the East Midlands, trauma centres recorded a fifty percent increase in child resuscitation between 2017 and 2018. Each of the 28 youngsters had been stabbed…
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Muslim Taxi Driver Refuses to Pick Up Jews, Gets Dumped by Uber
A Muslim taxi driver in London was dumped by Uber after he refused to pick up two Jewish men because they were wearing kippahs.
The incident began when the taxi driver, named Ahmed, dropped off another passenger before he was about to pick up the two men.
After seeing their kippahs, the driver said, “I don’t take Jews” and drove off before canceling the booking, Sam Adler, one of the men, told the Jewish Chronicle.
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Nordic Countries Have “Disturbingly High Levels of Rape”, Says Amnesty
Amnesty International has produced a damning report in which it claims that the four Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) still have “disturbingly high levels of rape” despite gender equality initiatives, RT.com writes.
Citing “flawed legislation and widespread harmful myths and gender stereotypes,” the shocking report, titled ‘Time for Change: Justice for Rape Survivors in the Nordic Countries,’ decries “endemic impunity for rapists across the region.”
Laws in Finland, Norway and Denmark do not define rape on the basis of lack of consent, as agreed under the Istanbul Convention, but instead focus on physical violence, threat, coercion or state of consciousness or intoxication.
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Salvini, Le Pen Considering Joint Rally
Paris meeting between pair was cordial say sources
(ANSA) — Rome, April 5 — Deputy Premier, Interior Minister and League leader Matteo Salvini had a “cordial meeting” with French National Rally party chief Marine Le Pen in Paris, sources said in Friday. The pair, whose parties are allied at the EU level, talked about the political situation and May’s European elections, the sources said. The leaders are thinking about holding a joint rally to close the campaign for the European elections and “announce the start of a new Europe”, according to the sources.
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Salvini to Hold Conference to Unite Up to 20 Different European Populist Parties
Populist Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is set to host a conference in Milan next week aimed at uniting the European populist parties and movements ahead of the European Parliament elections.
The conference is expected to see around 20 different populist and conservative parties and movements gather under the slogan “Towards a Europe of Reason.” Salvini’s League party says that they expect many to join them in an alliance ahead of May’s elections, Austria’s Kronen Zeitung newspaper reports.
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Suspected ISIS Terrorist Arrested in Hungary Held Prepaid EU Debit Card
A Syrian man arrested by Hungarian authorities under suspicion of terrorist activities was in possession of a prepaid debit card issued by the E.U., according to a government spokesman.
F. Hassan was recently detained in Budapest by officers of the Hungarian Counterterrorism Centre (TEK), suspected of being a high-ranking ISIS operative who had carried out attacks and executions in his homeland.
Reports now indicate that Hassan was holding one of the many “anonymous” debit cards issued to migrants by the E.U. and U.N. — a scheme that was recently unearthed and confirmed by the European Commission following a public information campaign initiated by the Hungarian government…
In November, 2018, Infowars Europe helped bring to light revelations that migrants were using preloaded MasterCard debit cards bearing insignias of the E.U. and U.N. to pay for goods and services along their journeys.
There is also evidence that the project is traceable to infamous Hungarian billionaire George Soros.
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Swedes Imprisoned After Going AWOL From Compulsory Military Service
Since Sweden reinstated universal national military service, three people have been sent to prison for attempting to shirk from their assigned duty.
In two cases, the young men involved dropped out of military service, while in the third case, the young man simply did not show up for it, Sveriges Radio reports.
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Twitter Blocks French Government With Its Own Fake News Law
A social media campaign from the French government has been blocked by Twitter — because of the government’s own anti-fake-news law.
Since December, France requires online political campaigns to declare who paid for them, and how much was spent.
But now Twitter has rejected a government voter registration campaign.
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UK: ‘Get on With it!’ No Deal Brexit is Now Best Option as May and Corbyn Talks Break Down
THERESA May has been urged to consider taking the UK out of the EU with no deal as her talks with Jeremy Corbyn “made no progress”.
The Prime Minister turned to Labour for help this week after suffering three defeats with her Brexit deal. She asked Mr Corbyn to negotiate with her on a deal that might work for them both, which he accepted. But Labour said the Government “has not offered real change or compromise” in three days of talks.
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UK: Police Stationed Outside Ecuador Embassy in London Amid WikiLeaks Tweets on Julian Assange
British police stationed armed officers outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Friday after tweets from WikiLeaks quoted what it said were high-level sources saying Julian Assange could be kicked out of the building within “hours to days.” The red-brick embassy building with white window frames and balconies was quiet, though a few protesters gathered outside.
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UK: Rolls Royce Branch Introduces “Squat Toilet” To Fulfil “Diversity” Goal
A Rolls Royce branch in the UK has introduced “squat toilets” on its premises as part of its drive for “diversity and inclusion”.
In an email exclusively obtained by Summit News which was sent out to staff at a Rolls Royce branch in Derby, bosses write, “As part of Rolls Royce’s ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion, we are pleased to announce that there is now a cultural toilet available.”
“The toilet (also known as a squat toilet) is open with immediate effect,” states the email.
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Likud Overtakes Gantz Centrists, Poll
Gabbai’s Labour party gains support
(ANSAmed) — TEL AVIV, APRIL 3 — A new survey published just a few days before elections scheduled on April 9 showed that Benyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party would overtake his rival Benny Gantz’s centrist Kahol Lavan.
According to the poll, carried out by broadcaster Channel 13, Likud would get 29 of the Knesset’s 120 seats while the political alliance headed by Gantz would obtain 28. The Labour party of Avi Gabbai would get 14, four more than a previous forecast, according to the survey.
Channel 13 said that, based on the poll, the alliance of center-right parties today would get 62 out of the 120 seats and Netanyahu would therefore be able to form a new coalition government. Meanwhile, in an attempt to boost support for Likud, Netanyahu has decided to give two extensive interviews to conservative newspapers, Israel ha-Yom and Makor Rishon. The interviews will be published on Friday.
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Turkey to US: Choose Between Ally or Kurdish Terrorists
Responding to Pompeo calling for choice between NATO or Russia
ISTANBUL — Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay on Thursday tweeted a response to a comment made by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in which Pompeo called on Turkey to choose between its role in NATO and getting closer to Russia with the purchase of S-400 missiles.
“The United States must choose. Does it want to remain Turkey’s ally or risk our friendship by joining forces with terrorists to undermine its NATO ally’s defense against its enemies?” Oktay tweeted.
Pompeo met on Wednesday in Washington with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
In that meeting, Pompeo “expressed support for ongoing negotiations regarding northeast Syria, while warning of the potentially devastating consequences of unilateral Turkish military action in the region”, according to a statement by the US Department of State.
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Turkey’s Elections: What Do They Mean for Turkey and Erdogan?
The election results in Istanbul, now disputed by the AKP, put the opposition candidate into the lead by a margin of 23,000 votes in a city with 10.5 million voters.
“Though Turkey’s government and many commentators are blaming the Trump administration and foreign speculators for the country’s economic downturn, the reality is that it was already ‘baked into the cake’ many years ago due to the credit bubble that formed.” — Jesse Colombo, Forbes.
Simple religious Islamist conservative and ultra-nationalist populism are still keeping Erdogan in power, but there are signs that, if the economy keeps getting worse, those forces may not be able to save him. There are signs that this is taking place.
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World Government Summit: What You’re Not Supposed to See
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain,” the fearsome electronic image of the Wizard of Oz bellowed at Dorothy. That command, of course, was aimed at directing her attention away from the real “wizard,” who was pulling the levers behind the curtain. Something similar has occurred (again) regarding the recent World Government Summit. Yes, that is the official name of the event, an annual confab of high-powered movers and shakers: “the great and the good” of globalist affairs in national governments, the United Nations, NGOs, media, academia, philanthropy, and entertainment. Since 2013, the World Government Summit (WGS), a three-day event, has drawn dictators, presidents, prime ministers, kings, emirs, sheikhs, central bankers, Nobel laureates, movie stars, corporate CEOs, and more, to Dubai, the gleaming jewel of the United Arab Emirates.
More than 4,000 high-profile notables swarmed to this year’s WGS (February 10-12), among whom were actor Harrison Ford, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, UNICEF boss Henrietta Fore, UN General Assembly President Maria Espinoza, left-wing news maven Arianna Huffington, former Obama official and Big Brother advocate Cass Sunstein, left-wing economist and New York Times opinionator Paul Krugman, motivational guru Tony Robbins, New York University law professor Arthur R. Miller, and Columbia University professor and UN advisor Jeffrey Sachs. Opening the global affair was none other than Pope Francis, who blessed the conferees and their mission in a pre-recorded video message.
The WGS has become the desert version of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) shindigs in Davos, Switzerland, featuring many of the same celebrities, moguls, and “public servant” VIPs, most of whom fly into the ultra-extravagant UAE on private jets (naturally) to lecture humanity on the need to “reduce, reuse, recycle” — all in the interest of reducing carbon footprints, of course. In fact, a keynote speaker at WSG 2019 was Professor Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the WEF, who presides over the Davos gatherings. His lecture this year to his esteemed World Government Summit confreres was “Globilisation 4.0.” These assembled worthies, whom the WSG describes as “world leaders, international organizations’ representatives, thinkers, and experts from over 150 countries,” weighed in on a host of heavy topics, as they discussed “shaping the future of the world.” Indeed, according to the WSG website, the organization sees itself as “a global platform dedicated to shaping the future of governments worldwide.” “Each year,” it says, “the Summit sets the agenda for the next generation of governments.”
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China Pressures Catholic Bishop to Join State-Run Church
Officials of China’s ruling communist government have refused to recognize underground Catholic Bishop Guo Xijin unless he enrolls in the country’s parallel, state-run church.
“The government officials said in clarity that they do not recognize me as a bishop,” Bishop Guo told UCA News this week, which means he probably won’t be able to participate in Holy Week services prior to Easter, Christianity’s most solemn feast.
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Pompeo “Confident” There Will be a Third Summit With North Korea
Despite two failed attempts at brokering a firm agreement to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that he’s confident a third summit will take place between President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
Speaking to “CBS This Morning” on Friday, Pompeo would not provide a clear date or location for this third meeting, but expressed hope that it would take place “soon.” Pompeo acknowledged that while “we didn’t get as far as the world is demanding,” the two leaders left Hanoi with a “deeper understanding of each other.”
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Samurai Slices a 100 Mph Baseball in Half
He only needs a sword.
In the clip, they show how the radar clocks the ball’s speed at 161 km/h (100 mph). Machii cut the ball at 9.22 meters (30 feet) from where the pitching machine fired it.
[Comment: Scroll down for the unedited video.]
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Deposed Australian prime minister Malcome Turnbull said Mao Zedong’s extreme communist writings, which justified the deaths of up to 70 million people, ‘belong to everyone’.
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An article published in the April issue of New Zealand newspaper Fishing and Outdoors called Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ‘dumb as a plank’ and her police minister a ‘lapdog’ after assault rifle ban.
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Four New Queensland Spider Species Discovered Hiding in Elaborate Burrows
Most people may not see cause for celebration in being told there are more spiders in the world than we thought, but a Queensland researcher who has discovered four new species insists we should be excited.
Griffith University PhD student Jeremy Wilson, under the guidance of Queensland Museum arachnologists Dr Robert Raven and Dr Michael Rix, has identified and named the new species of trapdoor spiders.
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Muslims of the World, an American Islamic awareness organisation, advertised its tasteless competition, just three weeks after 50 people were killed in a shooting spree.
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Africa Set to be Global Center of Christianity for Next 50 Years
Continent’s preachers are increasingly taking charge of gospel in England
(Quartz) There are already more Christians in Africa than any other continent—that’s not going to change soon
By 2060 six of the countries with the top ten largest Christian populations will be in Africa, up from three in 2015, according to a new Pew Research Center report. The projections are in line with the gradual shift that has increasingly seen Christian populations live outside the historical cultural centers of the religion.
The size of the Christian population in Nigeria alone—already the largest on the continent—is projected to double by 2060. In addition, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya are projected to join the list of countries with the top ten largest Christian populations, replacing Russia, Germany and China.
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Aid Ship Full of Migrants Stuck in Mediterranean, Italy Says “Go to Germany!”
A humanitarian aid ship with 64 rescued migrants aboard was stuck at sea as Italy and Malta refused it safe harbor, leaving migrants sleeping in cramped conditions on deck as a storm approached.
The governments’ refusal sets the stage for another Mediterranean standoff that can only be resolved if European governments agree to accept the asylum-seekers.
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Athens Migrant Crisis: Trains Grind to Halt as Migrants Protest on Rail Tracks
TRAINS at Larisis Station in Athens have been brought to a standstill due to a sit-down protest by a group of migrants seeking passage to the Greek border.
About 150 migrants have squatted on the tracks of the capital’s main railway station shouting “Germany!” and “Open the borders”, demanding to be transferred to Diavata in northern Greece in order to leave the country.
The group want to join over 500 migrants and refugees who are already gathered in a field at Diavata, following calls on social media to make a break for the border.
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Hundreds of NGOs Beg ‘Mama Merkel’ To Restore EU Open Borders, Migrant Taxi Service
Pro-mass migration NGOs “shocked” at EU policies aimed at deterring illegal immigration have turned to Angela Merkel with a plea to open the bloc’s borders.
In an open letter released Wednesday, activists urged the German chancellor to force EU nations to adopt a three-point “emergency plan”, which would involve assisting third world migrants to reach Europe and then sharing them out across member states.
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Italian Bishops Continue War on Populist Immigration Policies
Italy’s Catholic bishops have continued bashing the populist government’s immigration program, despite its demonstrated success in diminishing migrant deaths at sea.
“Every dead person at sea or in the desert, or because they suffered violence in detention, is an offense against humanity,” Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti of Perugia told reporters Thursday.
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Leftists Label Tucker Carlson a “White Nationalist” For Wanting Immigrants to Assimilate
Apparently, wanting immigrants to assimilate in America now makes you a “white nationalist”.
That’s according to “progressive activist” Jordan Uhl, who was responding to a Tucker Carlson monologue in which the Fox News host explored how many illegal immigrants were living in the United States and how to respond to this.
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Spanish Firefighter Faces Up to 20 Years in Prison for Rescuing Migrants at Sea
Italian authorities have accused Miguel Roldan, a 32-year-old firefighter from the Spanish city of Malaga of aiding human traffickers after he helped save thousands of people from drowning in the Mediterranean.
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Thanks to Democrats and Their Fake News Media, U.S. Is Facing Growing Border Horror
The assessment by Trump, Homeland Security Secretary, Border Patrol chiefs, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) directors have provided irrefutable evidence that there is an enormous, even dangerous, crisis at our southern border despite the Democrats and the news media downplaying the situation.
In fact, the Democrats have moved so far to the left that they are opposing Trump’s declaration of a national emergency just to score political points with their news media fans at CNN, MSNBC, New York Times and other decidedly leftist news organizations.
Trump’s statements just this week have spurred a Beltway debate that is becoming almost comical in its scope of ignorance. “To listen to people such as Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, news media darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff and others, one would think these people had minimal knowledge of even rudimentary security management.
The ugly truth of the matter is that most Democrats and far too many Republicans view the illegal alien crisis as merely part-of-the-price for doing business nationally and globally.
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There is No Morality to Accepting Extinction
They lie
They lie when they speak in glowing terms of the “enrichment” created for us by America’s burgeoning “diversity.”
In reality, a vast and inexorable destruction is spreading across America, and it is the entirely unnecessary and entirely deliberate dissolution of what we once revered as our nation and culture. Americans had a people to which they belonged, and a cultural identity as distinct as that of any other society on earth. Only the willfully blind can fail to see that both of those things are now vanishing quickly and forever.
It is a tribute to the gullibility of human beings, our acceptance of the lie that our dispossession “enriches” us, even as the waves of people displacing us reach deeper and deeper into our public coffers and polling booths. It is a tribute to our ignorance, that we sit unblinking when our leaders tell us America has always been an experiment in multiculturalism, and the evolving New Babylon is rooted in our historical experience.
At its founding, America was 80 percent European, and undeniably Christian, Western, and European in its character. For 200 years that identity was promoted by our immigration laws, and those laws in time fostered a nation 90 percent European. It was indeed no perfect experiment, and there were definite fault lines involving race or ethnicity, but we knew who we were and with God’s help and great sacrifice we created the most magnificent civilization in human history.
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Vatican Cardinal Warns: “West Will Disappear” Because of Mass Migration
Vatican Cardinal Robert Sarah warns that the “west will disappear” as a result of mass migration, adding that “Islam will invade the world” and “completely change culture, anthropology, and moral vision.”
Sarah’s new book, Evening Draws Near and the Day is Nearly Over, is causing controversy in Europe because it explicitly identifies Muslim migration as a harbinger of the continent’s collapse.
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ACLU Sacrifices Women’s Rights for Trans Rights
The organization’s stance defies common sense
Congress recently reintroduced the Equality Act to add more “protections” for transgender persons.
The ACLU went on a bizarre Twitter rant showing preferential support for the progressive ideology that places trans rights before women’s right.
Infowars reporter Millie Weaver explains why the ACLU’s stance flies in the face of women, nature, anatomy and common sense.
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Bombshell: Another Drag Queen Story Hour Member Exposed as Pedophile, Report Says
Investigators with MassResistance Houston claim they have uncovered the criminal record of yet another Drag Queen Story Hour participant revealing a history of child sex crimes.
According to the investigation by MassResistance, which compiled records, a Houstonian by the name of William Travis Dees was incarcerated and listed as a high risk sex offender in 2004 after he abused multiple children.
Dees is now a member of the Space City Sisters, the group claims, a drag queen organization which conducts Drag Queen Story Hour for children at the Houston Public Library.
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Chick-Fil-a Crisis: Banned From Another Airport Over Anti-LGBTQ Claims
Chick-Fil-A has been banned from opening a location at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport (BNIA) after a New York politician attacked the fast-food chain for discriminating against the LGBTQ community, reported The Daily Signal.
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Exclusive: Meet the Five Google Staffers Who Circulated the Petition to Drop Kay Coles James
Google staffers are in revolt, demanding the removal of Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James from an advisory board the company convened on artificial intelligence. A petition with more than 2,000 signatories from within the company was published on Medium on Monday, with the title “Googlers Against Transphobia and Hate.”
The petition’s signers described the appointment of Coles, a black grandmother, as a “weaponization of the language of diversity.”
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Choose your character!
List of countries that stone or execute gay people;
Afghanistan — 99% Muslim Iran — 99% Muslim Mauritania — 99% Muslim Sudan — 97% Muslim Yemen — 99% Muslim Saudi Arabia — 93% Muslim Somalia — 99.9% Muslim
Some kind of connection here?
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Swedish Hospital Defends Removing Breasts of 14-Year-Old Diagnosed With ‘Gender Dysphoria’
A Swedish university hospital in Stockholm has unapologetically admitted to performing breast removal surgeries on girls as young as 14 who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
The Karolinska University Hospital contains the largest centre for the treatment of gender dysphoria in Sweden and despite doctors elsewhere not performing medical procedures on children under 16, a report has claimed that doctors at the hospital have removed the breasts of at least one 14-year-old girl, SVT reports.
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University of Kansas to Offer ‘Angry White Male’ Course
A congressman is chastising the University of Kansas for offering a course titled “Angry White Male Studies.”
Kansas Republican Rep. Ron Estes was among those turning to social media, lamenting in a tweet that the university has “decided to offer a class that divides the student population.”
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And there is another one; Dysracia, where white kids wish they had been born black to escape all the miseries attached to having been born white.
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Banned From Europe – Jared Taylor
Jared Taylor joins Red Ice Henrik to talk about his ban
from the Schengen area (Europe) by Poland.
– probabely by cowardly, feminist Sweden,
but with Poland as willing cooperating executor!
https://youtu.be/bsCMVw4qvN0
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Scandza Forum Stockholm, 2018 – Jared Taylor
https://youtu.be/4SL7CHrbeyo
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Jared Taylor Banned from Schengen Zone – part two.
https://youtu.be/mcnZWBJf1uA