Thousands of police were deployed in Paris yesterday for the annual May Day march, which turned into a violent riot. 250 people were arrested. The authorities estimated that 20,000 people took part in the march, but the national labor union’s estimate was 55,000.
In other news, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has reportedly fired his director of intelligence, and there are rumors that members of the president’s inner circle are in the process of abandoning him.
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The Accelerating Decay of the Middle Class
If we define middle class by the security of household income and what that income can buy rather than by an income level, what do we conclude? We have little choice but to conclude the middle class is decaying, both in the percentage of the workforce that qualifies as “middle class” according to traditional standards and in the quality of life of those who do qualify.
There’s a longstanding way to understand the middle class quality of life: it’s supposed to be superior to the indignities of being poor. If you’ve been poor (and I’ve been down to my last $100), even for short periods, you know the indignities and frictions of being poor (and by poor I don’t mean on welfare, I mean working poor, with unreliable incomes and low wages).
Being middle class meant being able to escape the hassles and indifferent services that await the poor. Fast-forward to today: what day-to-day tasks and interactions are easy and cost-free for the middle class? How many are nightmarish, complicated, frustrating, and costly?
Virtually all of them. Being “middle class” is no longer a buffer to the indignities and friction of a dysfunctional, costly status quo that only serves the wealthy with anything resembling what was once afforded the middle class.
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“The bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint. This is why I wanted to tell the story of how, ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to kill IE6 from inside YouTube and got away with it.”
I doubt many of us will shed a tear for Internet Explorer 6, but this story does illustrate just how much power and influence large technology companies really have. Google has repeatedly been caught using similar tactics to derail Firefox, and tactics like this will only grow more popular the more they see they can get away with it.
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Antifa is Using Twitter and Facebook to Advocate for the Assassination of Trump
While social media companies collude to silence right-of-center influencers, violent far-left extremist groups appear to be given a pass. This NYC based antifa group has been using their “leftist privilege” to freely violate Twitter and Facbook Terms of Service. In another glaring example of “non existent social media bias”, this extremist group is apparently allowed to use their social media account to advocate for murder.
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Baltimore Mayor Resigns as ‘Healthy Holly’ Corruption Scandal Snowballs
Barely a week after FBI and IRS agents raided her two homes, office at city hall and a non-profit belonging to a friend, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh’s lawyer said Thursday that his client would resign, making her the second Baltimore mayor to leave office under a cloud of corruption in the past decade.
Pugh, who has been on a leave of absence since April 1, the same day that Gov. Larry Hogan said he would call for a criminal investigation into allegations of self-dealing, reportedly tried to make a run for it after the raids. Shortly beforehand, members of the city council signed a letter asking her to resign.
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Black Converted to Islam Because of His White Jesus Image
During a round table discussion on Unite America First a Muslim guest said he converted to Islam because he didn’t feel comfortable with the white image of Jesus.
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CNN Poll: Overwhelming Majority Want Investigation Into Obama DOJ Spying on Trump
A new poll from CNN is bad news for Obama and the Democratic Party. With the Mueller report complete and the Russian collusion narrative collapsed, Americans seem ready to move on.
“The American public increasingly feels that Democrats in Congress are going too far in investigating the President,” CNN reports. “44% say Democrats are doing too much on that score, up from 38% saying so in March. That shift stems largely from independents, 46% of whom now say congressional Democrats are going too far.” And that was before Democrats wasted a whole day moaning and groaning about Attorney General William Barr’s memo about the Mueller report, which Robert Mueller told Barr was accurate.
But the most interesting part of the is that “69% think Congress ought to investigate the origins of the Justice Department’s inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election, including 76% of Democrats, 69% of independents and 62% of Republicans.”
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Conservative Ben Shapiro Target of Death Threats … FBI Makes Arrest
9:15 PM PT — We’ve learned 3 agencies — the FBI, Secret Service and Kent PD — teamed up to nab the suspect Wednesday during a traffic stop in Kent, WA.
The man is being held in a federal detention center, and will have his initial court appearance at 2 PM PT Thursday in federal court in Seattle.
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Covington Kid Nick Sandmann Sues NBC/MSNBC for $275 Million
Lawyers for Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against NBCUniversal seeking $275 million for false and defamatory media coverage related to the viral incident that happened in Washington, D.C., following the March for Life in January.
“Today, Nicholas Sandmann sued NBC & MSNBC for defamation in federal court in Kentucky seeking accountability for false accusations,” Sandmann’s attorney L. Lin Wood announced on Twitter. “Nicholas did not instigate a hate crime or engage in racist conduct.”
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Democratic Presidential Contenders Hiding Their Positions
For those interested in what policies the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders stand for, the most obvious source of information is often the most mysterious. Several of the candidates’ websites make their positions difficult to identify, leaving the public to scrutinize their records and public statements instead.
Candidates may be trying to avoid alienating part of the Democratic voter base while also protecting themselves from potential right-wing attacks on far-left policies.
“They are fully aware that the Trump team is keeping tabs on this insane policy race to the left,” Republican strategist and political analyst Ford O’Connell told the Washington Examiner. “They are literally trying to kowtow to the Democratic base any way possible while trying to keep their powder dry should they eventually face off against Trump.”
[Comment: Typical Communist behaviour. It is the only way Communists could get elected in the USA.]
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Digital Purge: Facebook Unpersons Alex Jones, Farrakhan and Others With Draconian Full-Content Ban
Facebook has unilaterally banned a handful controversial figures from its platform — while lumping conservative pundit Alex Jones, who has been criticized by white nationalists for not “naming the Jew” — in with documented anti-Semite Democrat ally, Louis Farrakhan.
On Thursday, the social media giant announced total bans on Farrakhan and Jones, along with Paul Joseph Watson, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Paul Nehlen, and Louis Farrakhan — labeling them “extremists” and “dangerous.”
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Doctor Tells Snowflake Leftist: “Bulls**t — I Was in Vietnam — You Do Not Have PTSD”
“I began to cry”
A doctor allegedly told a leftist who claimed to have PTSD as a result of his anti-fascist activism, “Bulls**t — I was in Vietnam — you do not have PTSD.”
In a lengthy Facebook post, Jason Charter said he visited Shady Grove Orthopaedics for a consultation about a sprain.
During a conversation with Dr. Jeffrey F. Witte, Charter claimed that he had developed post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of his “anti-fascist activism and the events surrounding Charlottesville.”
Charter claims that the doctor responded by telling him, “Bulls**t — I was in Vietnam — you do not have PTSD,” prompting Charter to assert that Witte was “in no position to diagnose PTSD.”
After he was denied access to speak to a supervisor, Charter then claims that the doctor expressed a wish that he had been murdered by white supremacists at Charlottesville.
“At this point my partner, who I love more than anything in the world, began to scold Dr. Witte while I began to cry because of my PTSD,” writes Charter.
Charter then listed phone numbers for Shady Grove Orthopaedics and Dr. Witte’s personal number in an apparent attempt to whip up mob outrage against him.
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FDA: Big Pharma Drugs Are Making People Kill Themselves While They Sleep
Sleeping drugs such as Ambien have been making people kill themselves in their sleep, says the Food and Drug Administration. Drugs that supposedly help people sleep are linked to falls, burns, poisoning, limb loss, drowning, and even suicide.
According to The New York Times, this could all be solved by adding warning labels to the bottles of the pills instead of people trying to get off Big Pharma’s drugs.
Incidents related to sleeping pills have included “accidental overdoses, falls, burns, near drowning, exposure to extreme cold temperatures leading to loss of limb, carbon monoxide poisoning, drowning, hypothermia, motor vehicle collisions with the patient driving, and self-injuries such as gunshot wounds and apparent suicide attempts,” according to the FDA’s own research. But rather than tell people not to use such drugs, the FDA simply wants people to know they could kill themselves after taking the pills.
The FDA announced Tuesday that a prominent warning would be required on all medication guides for Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata, and the generic version of Ambien, which is called zolpidem. The FDA also mandates a separate warning against prescribing the drugs to anyone with a history of sleepwalking. — Futurism.
That’s a lovely side effect…
“Patients usually did not remember these events,” the agency wrote, according to Futurism. Bizarre actions have been widely reported after using sleeping pills, and the FDA has warned about this in the past — 12 years ago, in fact. That means this isn’t exactly new information. Big Pharma’s drugs have been problematic for quite some time now, but it is comforting to see others take note of just how disastrous some of these medications can be to humanity.
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Former CIA Officer Pleads Guilty to Chinese Espionage Conspiracy
Former CIA operations officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy to commit espionage for China in a case linked to the loss of numerous recruited CIA spies in China.
Lee, 54, a naturalized U.S. citizen living in Hong Kong, supplied documents and information to Chinese intelligence officers from April 26, 2010, to Jan. 15, 2018 when he was arrested, according to court papers in the case.
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Hillary Claims She is Living “Rent Free” Inside Donald Trump’s Head
Hillary Clinton claims that she is “living rent-free” inside President Donald Trump’s head, and that “it’s not a very nice place to be.”
During an interview with Rachel Maddow, Clinton discussed the Mueller report revelation that Trump asked former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to begin a Department of Justice investigation into her.
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Hillary Clinton Asks China to Steal Trump’s Tax Returns
The further we get from her historic electoral defeat at the hands of President Trump, the more unhinged Hillary Clinton becomes.
Case it point: it appears the former secretary of state has moved on from endlessly blaming everybody but herself and her campaign staff for the many miscalculations made along the way (many have joked that Clinton probably couldn’t point out Wisconsin on a map), to actively soliciting enemies of the US to interfere on behalf of the Democrats in 2020.
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A third-grade teacher from Louisiana has been arrested on rape charges for allegedly carrying on a months-long sexual relationship with her 10-year-old male student.
Deidre Smith, 34, of Sulphur, was taken into custody on Tuesday on charges of first-degree rape and felony indecent behavior with a juvenile.
Smith’s arrest came just hours after the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office received a complaint from smith’s place of work, Lake Charles Charter Academy, concerning her alleged misconduct involving one of her students.
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Have you heard the Babbel language learning ads on the radio? Maybe you’ve even seen them on TV. Perhaps you saw the Babbel ads while watching the top-rated Tucker Carlson show on Fox News? Well, you won’t be seeing ads for the online language courses on Tucker Carlson’s show anymore. The Babbel USA company made one of the most business killing tweets we’ve seen in a long time. Today, Babbel reached out to a small portion of their audience (they only have 1,800 people who follow them on Twitter) to let them know they will no longer be spending their ad dollars on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson’s show.
Here is their business-killing tweet:
If you saw our ad on Tucker Carlson’s show, you’re right to be upset. We are too. While we did place our ad with Fox, we did not know it would air on a show so repugnant and at odds with our mission and values. We are blacklisting the show going forward. We are deeply sorry.
Babbel was immediately blasted for their ignorant pandering to liberals on social media.
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Ted Nugent Releases Firestorm on the Alex Jones Show
The legendary guitar player and American patriot talks Trump, The Second Amendment and more
Ted Nugent, the Motor City Madman, joins Alex Jones live via Skype to discuss the communist/socialist celebration commonly known today as “May Day” and to reassure listeners that liberty-loving, patriotic Americans are everywhere across this country and they aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
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There Was Spying: NYT Admits Obama Admin Used ‘Honeypot’ To Spy Against Trump Campaign in 2016
A mysterious Turkish woman who “assisted” FBI spy Stefan Halper in a London operation targeting Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos has been revealed as yet another FBI operative sent to spy on the Trump campaign during the 2016 US election, according to the New York Times.
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Video: Even College Students Call Millionaire Bernie Sanders a ‘Hypocrite’
Tax returns from 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders revealed that he is a millionaire.
The fact that Sanders is a member of the top “one percent”, which he has maligned for decades, came as a shock to some.
Wanting to know if college students would find Sen. Sanders’ millionaire status, something he once called ‘immoral’, to be hypocritical, Campus Reform‘s Cabot Phillips headed to the University of New Hampshire.
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Fake Hate: Jewish Family ‘Staged’ Antisemitic Attack Against Themselves, Vandalized Own Business
The Jewish owners of a kosher cafe in Winnipeg have been charged by police for staging a violent attack against themselves and spray-painting their own business with antisemitic graffiti.
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Blue Lives Matter? French Teen Viciously Beaten for Being Policeman’s Son
A French teen and his friends were brutally attacked by several men in the commune of Fécamp after the young man was recognized as being the son of a local police officer by one of the attackers.
The incident started when a man asked the teen and his friends, aged between 16 and 17, for a cigarette at around midnight on Saturday, and then after the man realised one of the young men was the son of a local police officer, he returned with four more men who violently attacked the group of teens, Actu 17 reports.
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During First Extradition Hearing, Assange Vows to Fight Charges
During the first hearing in what’s expected to be a protracted legal battle over the US’s extradition request, Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange told a British judge that he wished to fight extradition, and the hearing was concluded with the next court date set for May 30.
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Estonia Sparks Fury After Removing EU Flags From Parliament ‘Symbolic Meaning’
ESTONIA has been urged to replace European Union flags in its parliament after the Brussels symbol was scrapped by the country’s controversial new government.
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European Elections: “The Battle for Europe Has Begun”
“We are fighting for Europe to remain European, with European values…” — Tomio Okamura, President, Czech Freedom and Direct Democracy party (SPD) and Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies.
“My friends, we are gathered here today to stand up for our freedom and our sovereignty. The most precious things we have. Because without a strong nation state, there is no democracy. And without democracy there are no liberties… My friends, our countries are strong nations. Based on a Jewish-Christian and humanistic civilization. That should never change. So, we want to control our own borders again. We do not want mass immigration. And we do not want to be invaded by a tyrannical ideology.” — Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV).
“However, my friends, it isn’t easy to leave the EU, as the British have found out. Despite a majority voting for Brexit, the establishment and the EU have colluded to stop us.” — Janice Atkinson, British MEP, who is also Vice Chair of the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) political group in the European Parliament.
“Immigration must be stopped, and the Islamist ideology must be eradicated… Islamization and globalism are new totalitarianisms that threaten European countries.” — Marine Le Pen, Prague Press Conference.
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Eurosceptic Candidate for Top EU Job Reveals Honest Truth About European Commission
EUROPEAN Commission president hopeful Jan Zahradil delivered an astonishing pitch for his candidacy for the top EU position as he debated against europhiles in Maastricht on Monday night.
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EU’s Juncker Admits Brits ‘Don’t Feel at Home in Eu’, Brexit Party Topping Polls
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has admitted that Britain has never felt “at home in the EU” while a poll has put Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party in first place ahead of the European Parliament elections.
Mr Juncker lamented Thursday that the British “political elite” are not “passionate about Europe,” telling Hungarian media on Thursday in comments reported by POLITICO, “Over decades of meeting British politicians, my impression has always been that they don’t feel at home in the EU.”
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France: 250 Held in Paris After Violence Mars May 1 Protests
Thousands of police deployed following calls on social media to make Paris the ‘capital of rioting’ — while hundreds of marches elsewhere in France passed off peacefully
Nearly 300 marchers were arrested across France during the traditional May 1 protests, with the majority of that number detained during violence in Paris.
Of the total 288 arrests nationally, 250 were in the capital — where, according to the Interior Ministry figures, 20,000 took part in the protests. The CGT union said the figure was around 55,000.
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A psychological understanding of the “extremist mindset” is essential to combat violence.
By Simon Copland
Over the past few years there have been increasing fears about the growth of far right, neo-Nazi and fascist organisations. Events such as those in Charlottesville in the United States 2017, in Chemnitz in Germany in 2018 and the recent terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, have led many to ask the question: what can we do to stop the spread of these extremist ideologies?
A small number of organisations are now gaining traction in this area. They are doing so by focusing in particular on the root social causes of why some people become attracted to extreme and violent right-wing organisations — and the ways you can guide them on a different path. Their insights are often counter-intuitive, but appear to closely match findings from other forms of extremism, including Islamist terrorism.
Some insights come from Exit Norway, a project established in 1997 by two researchers at the Norwegian Police Academy College. The project had three primary objectives: “To establish local networks to support the parents of children embedded in racist or violent groups; to enable young people to disengage from these groups; and to develop and disseminate methodological knowledge to professionals working with youths associated with violent groups”.
Exit provides a peer-to-peer approach designed to examine the social causes behind attraction to far-right organisations, and to use this to help people get out. The organisation has now spread across Europe.
Exit works exclusively with people who are already motivated to leave, with most clients of the organisation making first contact with Exit to begin the process. Fabian Wichmann, a case manager at Exit Germany, describes it like this: “The base of all our work is volunteerness. The people have to come to us, they have to call us or to write an e-mail or something like that, and we have to check how motivated the person is.
“It’s not enough for them to be looking for a way to cover up their past — they have to show remorse and dedication to changing their ways.”
After initial interviews, Exit works with individuals to identify how they can help them leave the far right. They work through the array of barriers — social, psychological, emotional, and legal — for someone to get out of the particular organisation. Exit works in a confidential, non-judgemental, and non-confrontational manner to find solutions for people to these issues. The process is normally led by “formers” — previous members of far-right organisations — who can act as role models for new clients…
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Incredible ‘Armageddon’ Photos: Violent May Day Protests Rock Paris
Paris a war zone after violent agitators hijack May Day protests
Violent agitators battled riot police in the streets of Paris Wednesday, as May Day and Labor Day protests took place around the world.
[Comment: Likely many of those were professional agitators and/or undercover state operatives fomenting violence so Macron can justify crackdown on yellow vests.]
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Interview With Istvan Markó, For Breitbart News Network — Unabridged Version
Grégoire Canlorbe: Climate activism is thought of as Marxism’s Trojan horse, a way for its followers to proceed with their face masked, in the never-ending holy war that Marxism claims will be necessary to establish communist totalitarianism. Yet it was actually Margaret Thatcher, the muse of conservative libertarianism, who kick-started the IPCC. How do you make sense of this?
Istvan Markó: More precisely, Margaret Thatcher, although a trained chemist and therefore aware of the mendacious character of such an allegation about carbon dioxide (CO2), was the first proponent to use the excuse of climate implications posed by CO2 to achieve her political ends. At the time, that is, in the mid-1980s, Thatcher was waging war with the almighty coal union. In those days, the UK coal unions were remunerating themselves with public monies and by lobbying via the Labour Party had managed to pass an enormous number of laws and subsidies to keep an industry afloat that was no longer profitable on its own.
While facing a strike by the British miners, chaired by Arthur Scargill, (nick-named “Arthur the Red”) who was later to found and lead the Socialist Labor Party, Thatcher thought it worthwhile to enshrine the thesis of warming linked to CO2 emissions to wind up the trade unionists holding her country hostage. But she was not really the initiator of the IPCC. The “kick-off,” as you call it, came more from personalities who were involved in hard ecologism, such as Norwegian Gro Harlem Brundtland, who chaired the UN Commission responsible for the famous 1987’s report “Our Common Future,” or Canadian Maurice Strong, who ranks among the founding members of the IPCC.
The belief in a catastrophic greenhouse effect due to CO2 emissions provided Thatcher with an additional asset, in her arm wrestling with the union, to set up the United Kingdom to get out of coal and to transition to nuclear energy. It was a belief she knew to be unfounded, but one she largely helped to entrench and popularize. One can, admittedly, deplore Thatcher’s strategy based on a perversion of science. The fact remains that, at that time, the electric power generation industries, notably that from coal, did not do so under very clean conditions. Even though CO2 has absolutely nothing to do with a poison, there existed then a real pollution associated with coal burning due to a lack of modern emission control technology.
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While the political and media class in Ireland double down on their support for open borders, a new survey has revealed a majority of the country’s citizens feel uneasy about the globalist transformation taking place.
The Irish Times brimmed with optimism reporting the results of its 2019 Sign of the Times survey at the weekend, declaring that the research showed “a seismic shift in the country’s social and moral mores in a very short period of time”.
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Orban Labels Salvini ‘Most Important Person in Europe’ Ahead of Visit
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban has again praised Italian populist Matteo Salvini, calling him the most important person in Europe ahead of Salvini’s visit to Hungary this week.
Salvini, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior in Italy’s League/Five Star coalition government, is set to meet the Hungarian leader in Budapest on Thursday, which will mark the latest meeting between the two populist politicians who have become closer allies over the last year.
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Pro-EU Criminal MP Ousted by Recall Petition, Brexit Party to Run for Seat
Fiona Onasanya has been removed from her Peterborough constituency seat in a recall petition, and Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party will be contesting the upcoming by-election.
Ms Onasanya was expelled from the Labour Party after being convicted of perverting the course of justice for lying about a speeding offence in December.
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UK: London: One Dead After Night of Stabbings, Khan’s Popularity at Lowest Level
London has faced another night of violence resulting in the killing of one teenager and another left in a critical condition in a double stabbing, while a third man was taken to hospital with a life-threatening condition after being stabbed in a separate attack.
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A parking warden has lost her job after being caught on CCTV appearing to remove a pub landlord’s valid ticket so she could issue a £50 fine.
Kevin Gillespie, 58, had parked his vehicle overnight in a council car park near his pub in Folkestone, Kent, where it is free from 6pm until 8am.
But at 2.30am the following morning, he paid £3 for a ticket and put it under the windscreen wiper of his car so that it could be safely parked until 10.30am.
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Yellow Vests Take Bus to London to Protest Assange Extradition Hearing
French protesters, many donning yellow vests, took a bus across the English Channel to protest outside of Julian Assange’s Thursday extradition hearing in London, according to Bloomberg.
Arriving just one day after chaotic May Day clashes with Paris police, the protesters highlighted the growing movement of activists who voicing concern as UK courts gear up to consider a US extradition request for the WikiLeaks founder.
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Trial in ISIS-Inspired Morocco Double Murder Delayed
The trial for two dozen suspects charged with butchering two Scandinavian hikers was abruptly adjourned on Thursday.
The trial was postponed minutes before opening statements were set to begin so the defense could have more time to prepare, Agence France-Presse reported.
The two women, Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, of Denmark, and Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway, had their throats slits and were beheaded in December in an isolated area of the Atlas Mountains, about 50 miles from Marrakesh.
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45 Million Indians in Path of Dangerous Cyclone Fani, Landfall Friday
Cyclone Fani is crossing over the Indian Ocean with speeds above 200 km/h (127 mph), is expected to make landfall on Friday in the state of Orissa, an eastern Indian state on the Bay of Bengal that has a population of roughly 45 million, reported CNN.
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Analysis: Sri Lanka Attacks May Indicate ISIS is Moving East, Say Experts
The April 21 suicide attacks in Sri Lanka, which were claimed by the Islamic State, may indicate that the militant group is moving east in search of fertile recruiting ground, according to some observers. In the words of The New York Times’ Rukmini Callimachi and Eric Schmitt, the attacks “reminded the world in dramatic fashion that [the Islamic State] does not need to control territory to be a major threat”. In fact, as the loss of its Middle Eastern territory has forced the Islamic State to decentralize, the group has begun to turn to its peripheral affiliates further afield. These “will become more dangerous” as the core of the Islamic State weakens, according to Callimachi and Schmitt.
But the Sri Lanka attacks may also demonstrate that the Islamic State is moving further east in search of either territory to conquer or new groups of committed fighters to incorporate into its ranks. It follows that Sri Lanka is one of several East Asian countries that face major threats by the group, as the latter tries “to ignite creating fear in societies already battling so much division”, says Ash Gallagher, an American war correspondent based in East Asia. Writing for the British newspaper The Independent, Gallagher notes that not only is the Islamic State already established in Afghanistan (where it has “swallowed whole units of Taliban fighters”, according to The Times), but it is becoming increasingly powerful in the Philippines.
Experts have been warning for a while that the number of foreign Islamic State fighters entering the Philippines has been growing, and the momentum they generate among local Islamist groups may prompt them to declare a new caliphate in the near future. In fact, a caliphate was declared there in May 2017 by local Islamist leaders who had previously declared their allegiance to the Islamic State. By October, government forces had defeated the so-called “East Asia Wilayah”, a self-declared overseas province of the Islamic State, by retaking Marawi, the capital city of Mindanao’s Lanao del Sur province, from Islamic State rebels. The military operation became known as “the battle of Marawi” and is thought to have been the longest urban battle in the postwar history of the Philippines. More than 1,200 people died in the five-month battle, most of them civilians. Hundreds of thousands remain displaced to this day as a result of the fighting.
But the Islamic State is now making its appearance in Bangladesh, where nearly a million Rohingya refugees are living in camps, having fled there as a result of a genocidal war launched against them by Buddhist paramilitaries and the government of Myanmar. Gallagher warns that the sense of injustice that permeates the predominantly Muslim Rohingya refugee communities makes them prime candidates for recruitment by the Islamic State[…]
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‘On the advice of the security forces, we have decided not to have Sunday masses in any of the churches,’ a spokesman for Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith (pictured) said Thursday in Colombo.
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Holiday Massacres of Christians: A New Fact of Life
Although the Islamic terrorist bombings that rocked Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday — killing more than 250 people, most in churches — have shocked many, spectacular terrorist attacks on Easter are far more common than supposed.
Jihadi logic is simple: not only do attacks on Christians during their greatest holidays make a symbolic point; but because churches are often packed then — especially Easter, or Resurrection Sunday — they also potentially offer the greatest harvest in casualties.
Therefore, on April 9, 2017 — Palm Sunday, which starts the holy week of Easter — two Christian churches in Egypt were bombed during mass; at least 50 worshippers were murdered and 130 wounded (graphic images/video of aftermath here). Two days later, another terror attack, targeting a Coptic Christian monastery, was thwarted. On April 12, 2015, Easter Sunday, two explosions targeting two separate churches also took place in Egypt. Although no casualties were reported, large numbers could have resulted.
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Pakistan: In the Abyss of Heroin
This is the abyss: absolute, equaliser, inhumane and stigmatised. An abyss that exists in humans, in humans who are all the same, without any pathway or any hope.It’s sewn to their own bodies, visible in their eyes, they walk it, dragging it unconsciously on the pavement, lying under bridges while begging, as in a paradox, when this seems to all run away.
To get into heroin, in the world of its consumers, to immerse in that abyss of drug addiction in Pakistan, a preliminary abandonment of certainties and a prior assimilation of certain concepts is necessary, it is necessary to unveil the cataloging that marks such weakness and despair, it is necessary to be devoid of every stigma and every accusation: only after having set aside all of this, one can understand the reality of those who left for the war, but who have a conscious awareness of being defeated…
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Opposition Leader Bill Shorten was asked, several times, on the ABC’s 7.30 program about his plan to cut carbon emissions by 45 per cent by 2030.
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A man has been found guilty of committing an Islamic State inspired terrorist attack when he stabbed a man with a hunting knife during a south Sydney rampage.
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Ueta Vea, 45, on Wednesday pleaded guilty in Auckland’s High Court to killing Laulimu Liuasi, 62, on January 13.
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NSW Police has been ordered to apologise for dressing in headscarves two officers who were pretending to be terrorists during a training exercise because it ‘racially vilified Palestinians and Arabs’.
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Shocking footage of a wild brawl involving up to 30 teens in front of shocked bystanders at a busy Perth shopping centre has been described as confronting and distressing by police.
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Hamid Aghaei faced Downing Centre Local Court on Wednesday charged with two counts of aggravated animal cruelty and failing to provide veterinary treatment.
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“Mass Sterilization”: Kenyan Doctors Find Anti-Fertility Agent in UN Tetanus Vaccine
According to LifeSiteNews, a Catholic publication, the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association is charging UNICEF and WHO with sterilizing millions of girls and women under cover of an anti-tetanus vaccination program sponsored by the Kenyan government.
The Kenyan government denies there is anything wrong with the vaccine, and says it is perfectly safe.
The Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, however, saw evidence to the contrary, and had six different samples of the tetanus vaccine from various locations around Kenya sent to an independent laboratory in South Africa for testing.
The results confirmed their worst fears: all six samples tested positive for the HCG antigen. The HCG antigen is used in anti-fertility vaccines, but was found present in tetanus vaccines targeted to young girls and women of childbearing age. Dr. Ngare, spokesman for the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, stated in a bulletin released November 4:
“This proved right our worst fears; that this WHO campaign is not about eradicating neonatal tetanus but a well-coordinated forceful population control mass sterilization exercise using a proven fertility regulating vaccine. This evidence was presented to the Ministry of Health before the third round of immunization but was ignored.” (Source.)
Dr. Ngare brought up several points about the mass tetanus vaccination program in Kenya that caused the Catholic doctors to become suspicious:…
It should be noted that UNICEF and WHO distribute these vaccines for free, and that there are financial incentives for the Kenyan government to participate in these programs. When funds from the UN are not enough to purchase yearly allotments of vaccines, an organization started and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, GAVI, provides extra funding for many of these vaccination programs in poor countries.
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Maduro Fires Intelligence Chief Amidst Reports of Inner Circle Defections
The embattled President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has reportedly fired his intelligence director, as news emerged early on Thursday that members of his inner circle were considering removing him from power. These reports circulated shortly after Juan Guaidó, President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, openly called on the country’s Armed Forces to remove Maduro from power. Guaidó has been recognized by over 50 countries —including the United States and much of the European Union— as the legitimate president of Venezuela. But Maduro continues to be supported by a number of powerful allies, including China and Russia, which sent troops there last month.
On Wednesday, Maduro dismissed General Christopher Figuera from the post of director of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN). SEBIN is Venezuela’s foremost primary intelligence agency and has a dual domestic and international role. Much of its domestic mission is to protect and defend the Bolivarian Revolution, which forms the ideological framework of the country’s socialist government. Critics accuse SEBIN of operating as the Venezuelan government’s political police, and of committing scores of human rights abuses against supporters of the opposition. But it appears that Figuera responded faborably to Guaidó’s call on April 30 for an uprising against Maduro. Speaking at a rally on Tuesday, Guaidó said that the Venezuelan military “no longer back […] Maduro […]. They are backing the constitution and are for a change of government”, he said. He went on describe the movement against Maduro as “a usurpation”.
The Wall Street Journal claimed that Venezuelan opposition forces had been holding “secret talks” with members of Maduro’s inner circle, aimed at removing Maduro from power[…]
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MSNBC Reporter’s Remarks Illustrate Need for Right to Keep and Bear Arms
A segment on left-leaning MSNBC provided, perhaps unwittingly, a powerful lesson in why we need to keep the Second Amendment and protect the right to keep and bear arms.
Liberal anchor Andrea Mitchell expressed surprise that socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro is still clinging to power. MSNBC reporter Kerry Sanders offered an explanation: “Not only hanging on, but he appears to still control the military. You have to understand in Venezuela, gun ownership is not something that is open to everybody. So if the military have the guns, they have the power.”
Sanders then added, “So long as Nicolas Maduro controls the military, he controls the country.”
As brutal communist tyrant Mao Tse-tung is quoted as having said, “Power comes out of the barrel of a gun.”
Advocates of private gun ownership are often ridiculed when they make this very argument — the right to keep and bear arms is critical, because it is the last line of defense against a tyrannical government — but in Venezuela we have a textbook example of why this is true.
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Austrian Vice-Chancellor: We Fight Against ‘Population Exchange’
In a recent interview with Austrian media, populist Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache alluded to the impact of mass migration and demographic changes on the country, saying his party would fight against “population exchange.”
The Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader spoke on a wide array of topics leading into the European Parliament elections set to take place later this month, and among them was his party’s long-standing anti-mass migration policy, Kronen Zeitung reports.
“We are continuing our journey of our home country of Austria, the fight against population exchange, as our people expect,” Strache said, alluding to what French writer Renaud Camus has referred to as the “The Great Replacement” — a theory of the replaceability of goods, services, and people themselves for economic and other purposes.
When pushed by the interviewer about the term, which is often negatively associated with right-wing and populist thinkers by the media, Strache said, “That is a concept of reality. We do not want to become a minority in our own homeland. That is legitimate and honest and deeply democratic. Those who are not left today are automatically defamed as right-wing extremists.”
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Cambridge Academic Noah Carl Sacked Over Politically Incorrect Studies Deemed ‘Problematic’
Scientific inquiry cannot be tolerated if the results upset prog-globalist narratives
Social scientist Noah Carl, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, was sacked on Tuesday night and stripped of his fellowship for conducting research deemed “problematic” and “racist.”
Another one of his “problematic” papers looked at what’s driving terrorism in the West.
Noah Carl Nuffield College, New Road, Oxford, OX11NF, United Kingdom. 2016
Abstract
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the British government reports a terrorism threat level for every country. This paper analyses variation in terrorism threat level across Western countries on 22nd March 2016, the day of the airport and metro station bombings in Brussels. It finds that percentage of Muslims in the population and military intervention in the Middle East are independently associated with terrorism threat level. In other words, Western countries which have a higher percentage of Muslims, and which have intervened militarily in the Middle East, tend to exhibit higher terrorism threat levels in March 2016. Despite a small sample size, these results are fairly robust across different specifications.
Another “problematic” study looked at the relationship between immigrants’ nation of origin and their crime rates:
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Guy Verhofstadt, the former Prime Minister of Belgium and the European Parliament’s chosen representative in the Brexit talks, has demanded a “common European migration policy” and a “Blue Card” for economic migrants.
“I cannot accept that there are still thousands and thousands of people dying in the Mediterranean Sea at our door, because of the lack of a European migration policy,” the MEP for the left-liberal ALDE group railed at a debate in the Dutch city of Maastricht, where the Treaty on European Union was signed.
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House Republican Asks Catholic Bishop Why Vatican Has a Wall if Pope Opposes One at US Border
Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., on Tuesday asked a Catholic bishop during a House subcommittee hearing about the Roman Catholic Church’s wall around its Vatican headquarters in light of Pope Francis’ recently voiced opposition to additional physical barriers on the United States’ southern border.
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Swedish Doctor Says Deadly Parasitic Disease Has Doubled Since ‘Refugee’ Wave
An infectious diseases doctor has warned that the number of cases in Sweden of Leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease which can lead to death, has doubled since the 2015 migrant wave.
“Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by an intracellular protozoan parasite (genus Leishmania) transmitted by the bite of a female phlebotomine sandfly,” according to Medscape.
The parasites that spread the disease are common in the Middle East, Africa and in Mediterranean countries, however it is not normally present in northern Europe.
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The political sign, authorised by Binary, an organisation promoting the idea of traditional gender roles, shows Shorten’s image next to a drag queen reading stories to schoolchildren.
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Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America (DVD)
Produced by James Jaeger, the documentary shows how a group of Marxist theoreticians, calling themselves The Frankfurt School, plotted the corruption and overthrow of non-Communist nations by systematically undermining their cultures. Called Cultural Marxism, its goal is the use of art, music, education, and media to condition people to accept the essential elements of Marxism without identifying them as such. After a few generations of this conditioning, Marxism becomes the new reality without a violent revolution and even without awareness that a revolution has occurred.
If you want to know how the nations of the world became increasingly Marxist in form, if not in name, here is the strategy.
The film’s opening statement by Pat Buchanan prepares the viewer for what is to follow: “The United States has undergone a cultural, moral, and religious revolution. … We are two countries now. We are two countries morally, culturally, socially, and theologically. Cultural wars do not lend themselves to peaceful co-existence. One side prevails, or the other prevails. The truth is that, while we won the Cold War with political and economic Communism, we lost the war with cultural Marxism, which now is dominant. Those of us who are traditionalists, we are the counterculture.”
Includes testimony from G. Edward Griffin, Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan, Edwin Vieira, and Ted Baehr.
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Democrat: “Some Kids Are Unwanted, So You Kill Them Now or You Kill Them Later”
Rep. John Rogers in alarming abortion rant
Alabama State Rep. John Rogers went on an unhinged abortion rant yesterday, insisting, “Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or you kill them later.”
The statement was made while lawmakers were debating a bill that would ban most abortions in the state.
“Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or you kill them later,” said Rogers. “You bring them in the world unwanted, unloved, you send them to the electric chair. So, you kill them now or you kill them later.”
[Comment: Margaret Sanger would be proud of this man.]
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High School Mulls Removing George Washington Murals Because They ‘Traumatize’ Students
A high school in Northern California — George Washington High School, to be specific — is mulling over a push to remove two 83-year-old murals from its hallways. Critics advocating for their removal say they are offensive to Native Americans and African-Americans. They say the pair of panels “traumatizes students and community members.”
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LGBT Mom Fine With Son, 9, Dancing in Drag at Bar
A lawmaker in Ohio introduce a bill banning children from performing in drag at bars after a 9-year-old boy performed a sexually explicit dance routine at a bar with the consent of his mother.
Republican state Sen. Tim Schaffer said the performance of the child, who was paid by patrons, amounted to sexual exploitation, the Toledo Blade reported, noted ToddStarnes.com.
The paper said the boy, identified only as Jake, performs in drag under the name “Miss Mae Hem.” He appeared in December at JD Hendersons bar in Lancaster, Ohio.
The Blade said the proposed legislation would expand the definition of child endangerment to include “a performance that suggests a minor is participating in, or simulating, sexual activity that ‘ taken as a whole by the average person applying contemporary standards, appeals to the prurient interest.’“
But the child’s mother is furious, insisting there was nothing wrong with her son dressing in drag and nothing sexual about his performance.
“Ninety-five percent of our friends are in the LGBTQ community and are drag queens, and are in some type of theater performance,” she said.
Commenting on the bill, a member of the LGBT community said it sounds good on its face, “but the intent and where the proposal came from was done in bad faith.”
“There is nothing wrong with what [he] is doing. Nothing sexual, nothing inappropriate,” said Harvey House board president Kristen Angelo.
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Some years ago, back in the 1990s, I was substitute teaching at a local high school—U.S. History, Advanced Placement class: smart kids. Their teacher had left an assignment for them to do in class, so I didn’t have much to do. They also had to hand in essays. I asked them if they’d mind if I read the essays while they did their classwork. Since I wouldn’t be marking the essays, they were cool with that.
The subject was the Mexican War. They were short essays, so I read them all: all 22 of them.
Each and every one of those essays stated the opinion that the United States was absolutely morally wrong to go to war with Mexico, that the war was totally unjust, and that it was a bad thing that America won it. Et cetera—a wholesale, unanimous condemnation of that chapter of our country’s history.
I just had to say something. Couldn’t let it pass. So I asked for their attention and I spoke my piece.
“I think I’m seeing something here today that hasn’t been seen before,” I said. “For the first time that I know of, the vast resources of the state—in this case, this school building, with its teachers and administrators and their salaries, maintenance costs, textbooks, insurance, and all the rest—is being used to teach a whole generation that the state is not worthy of their loyalty. And I wonder what that bodes for this country’s future—teaching young people that it’s a bad country, that it doesn’t deserve their support.
“Every one of you voiced the same opinion in this essay, as if there could only be one side to the question: Mexico’s side. Not America’s. As if our country didn’t even have a side. And that’s not history. It’s not an education. And it’s not honest.”
Fast-forward to the present: a new U.S. History textbook for Advanced Placement high school students, “By the People,” published by Pearson Education and scheduled to be used in many schools next year, states—as a history lesson—that Donald Trump shows signs of mental illness, is obviously a racist, and was elected by “angry racists.”
Those angry racists are tens of millions of American voters, including quite a few of you. All bad naughty people, for not electing Hillary Clinton, the most corrupt woman in the Northern Hemisphere. For not wanting any more Far Left government. For saving our country from open borders, Obamacare, and the weird Climate Cult inhabited by citizens of the world.
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The True Origins of Islamophobia
Greg Reece on the history of Islam and hence the true origins of Islamophobia.
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https://gloria.tv/video/DQLmnf6mwLM64DjHPCebVY99n
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STASI GENOSSIN MERKEL IM ERIKA
https://youtu.be/_upLCqwmD4c
Angela Merkel und die DDR | Politik direkt
https://youtu.be/d0yLF3jMljQ
HENRYK M. BRODER – “Was Merkel treibt, grenzt an Untreue im
https://youtu.be/NNg-VFd3M0A
https://michael-mannheimer.net/2018/11/16/merkel-war-in-der-drr-keinesfalls-das-kleine-licht-als-das-sie-uns-gegenueber-geschildert-wird-interessante-infos-zur-vergangenheit-einer-bolschewistischen-voelkermoederin/
https://deutscherdemokratischerepublik.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/wer-ist-frau-merkel-kennen-wir-angela-merkel-wirklich/
Man arrested for marrying 10-year-old in Shikarpur
https://arynews.tv/en/man-marrying-10-year-old-shikarpur/
Ach ja, Deutschland.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/topics/subjects/islam.html
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Is this a muslima?
Hell no means Mohammad. – fake & false,
Head off!
El Masrar – emanzipierte Muslime für einen deutschen Islam
Sineb El Masrar pleads in her books for an open and critical interpretation of Islam and takes a close look at Muslim gender stereotypes. The journalist was born in Hannover as the daughter of Moroccan immigrants – and sees the Islamic associations in Germany critically.
https://p.dw.com/p/395j4?maca=de-