The Saatchi art gallery in London has complied with Muslim demands and covered up works of art that Muslims consider blasphemous. The works in question showed texts from the Koran, including the shahada, superimposed over photos of naked women.
In other news, the latest statistics show that crime in Italy has decreased by 15% since Matteo Salvini became interior minister.
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Forget Facebook, They Want to Revoke Your Access to Banking
Social media deplatforming is only the beginning; The ultimate social credit score nightmare is coming
The biggest threat that social media censorship poses is not you being unable to access Facebook or Twitter, it’s you not being able to get a mortgage or have a bank account.
The end result of Big Tech silencing conservative voices is banks and corporations removing your access to the marketplace and severely restricting your basic right to buy and sell.
We have already seen numerous instances of people being deplatformed by BANKS for the political opinions, from Mastercard telling Patreon to remove Robert Spencer’s account, to Martina Markota and Enrique Tarrio having services terminated by Chase Bank over their support for Trump.
Mastercard also recently indicated that it would hold a vote on whether to cut off payments to “global far-right political leaders”. But this will extend to everyone. Mastercard will ‘monitor’ your financial activity for indications of dissident behavior. That’s chilling.
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“Dystopian Approach”: SEC Blesses MasterCard’s Idea of Cutting Off Customers With Right-Wing Views
Blocking payments to individuals or groups by financial service firms impedes freedom of speech in a free society, journalist Ben Swann has told RT, following reports that MasterCard is allegedly on course to censor the far-right.
The New York-based firm is reportedly being forced by left-leaning liberal activists to set up an internal “human rights committee” that would monitor payments to “white supremacist groups and anti-Islam activists.”
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“The Art of Expensing”: NYTimes Leaks Trump’s Billion-Dollar Tax Loss From 1985-1994 Decade
Every year from 1985 through 1994, according to leaked tax returns obtained by The New York Times, Donald J. Trump reported a negative adjusted gross income on his tax returns. That number grew as new losses were combined with those from prior years. The New York Times previously found that Mr. Trump declared an adjusted gross income in 1995 of negative $915.7 million.
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5G — Is This Wireless Technology Even Safe?
When it comes to accessing faster wireless, it seems like a no-brainer. The faster, the better, right? And with Verizon already having 5G live in some locations with plans to launch 5G radio specifications in 30 U.S. cities in 2019, it seems the lighting-fast data speeds are within reach.
But here’s the thing. We aren’t quite sure of 5G health effects.
In fact, we’re still trying to figure out how electromagnetic radiation involved with current forms of wireless technology are impacting human health. Some scientists and public health experts worry we’re rushing toward lightning-fast 5G without fully understanding 5G health effects…
A 2018 study published in the journal Health Physics that the extremely fast bursts of data transfer on a device as the result of 5G technology may lead to the heating of skin tissue in exposed people under current safety guidelines. The researchers conclude,
The results also show that the peak-to-average ratio of 1,000 tolerated by the International Council on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection guidelines may lead to permanent tissue damage after even short exposures, highlighting the importance of revisiting existing exposure guidelines.
A scientific article also published in 2018 points out how the high frequency millimeter waves (MMW) that power 5G have been linked to significant health implications:
Preliminary observations showed that MMW increase skin temperature, alter gene expression, promote cellular proliferation and synthesis of proteins linked with oxidative stress, inflammatory and metabolic processes, could generate ocular damages, affect neuromuscular dynamics.
Are we willing to expose millions of Americans to even higher levels of electromagnetic radiation through wireless technologies when we don’t even know what the true 5G health effects really are?
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Alexa Has Been Eavesdropping on You This Whole Time
Would you let a stranger eavesdrop in your home and keep the recordings? For most people, the answer is, “Are you crazy?”
Yet that’s essentially what Amazon has been doing to millions of us with its assistant Alexa in microphone-equipped Echo speakers. And it’s hardly alone: Bugging our homes is Silicon Valley’s next frontier.
Many smart-speaker owners don’t realize it, but Amazon keeps a copy of everything Alexa records after it hears its name. Apple’s Siri, and until recently Google’s Assistant, by default also keep recordings to help train their artificial intelligences.
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Biden Takes 32-Point Lead Over Sanders in New 2020 Poll
Former Vice President Joe Biden has a 32-point lead in the Democratic presidential race in a Hill-HarrisX poll released Monday.
Biden won 46 percent in the poll compared to 14 percent for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who came in a distant second place.
Former South Bend, Ind. mayor Pete Buttigieg was in third place with 8 percent, followed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) with 7 percent.
[Comment: Yeah, sure. This is how the “choice” is made for the public.]
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Biden Mistakenly Claims Margaret Thatcher, Who Died in 2013, Is Worried About Trump
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden reportedly had to correct himself over the weekend after telling donors Margaret Thatcher is concerned about the United States under President Trump.
Thatcher, the former prime minister of Britain, died in 2013 — nearly two years before Trump launched his first campaign for president.
According to Bloomberg News, Biden eventually corrected himself, explaining to the donors he meant to say British Prime Minister Theresa May instead of Thatcher, blaming the mix-up on a “Freudian slip.”
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Big Tech to Ban Trump Next? CNN Labels President ‘Dangerous’
MSM attacks Trump more than Alex Jones
Not long after labelling Alex Jones ‘dangerous’ prior to his Facebook ban, CNN has similarly called President Trump ‘dangerous,’ which suggests the Big Tech/MSM cartel wants to ban Trump from social media as well.
CNN’s Brian Stelter called Trump the “Infowars president” after he retweeted videos from Paul Joseph Watson and Millie Weaver over the weekend, as reported on Sunday.
But later on in an email newsletter, Stelter called the president’s tweets “dangerous,” according to the Washington Free Beacon.
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Boeing Hushed Info About Safety Alert Problems With 737 Max for Year — Reports
The US-based company came under scrutiny after two of its best-selling jets crashed within five months, killing 346 people. After media leaks pointed to Boeing’s dodgy behaviour after the Lion Air disaster last October, new reports have suggested that the aviation giant was not forthcoming about its new plane’s faulty alert system with airlines.
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Boeing Admits ‘Mistakes Were Made’ During Development of 737 Max 8
Following a series of conflicting reports claiming that Boeing didn’t inform the FAA or Southwest, the largest buyer of its 737 MAX 8 planes, that a safety alert warning pilots that an ‘angle-of-attack’sensor on the planes might be feeding the system erroneous data, risking a misfire of the plane’s anti-stall software, had been made an ‘optional’safety feature, Boeing has admitted that it wasn’t aware that the alerts had been disabled when it initially delivered the planes, and that it waited more than 13 months, until after the Oct. 29 crash of a 737 MAX 8 owned by Indonesia’s Lion Air, to inform its regulator that it had inadvertently disabled the alerts.
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CNN is Violating 18 US Code 2385 Facebook’s Zuckerberg Could Also Face Jail Time if Trump Enforces
18 U.S. Code §2385. Advocating overthrow of Government reads:
Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or
Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or
Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction. As used in this section, the terms “organizes” and “organize”, with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons.
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Cory Booker Pushes Licensing Requirement for Would-be Gun Buyers
Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) is pushing a licensing requirement for all would-be gun buyers.
The New York Times reports that Booker’s plan means “a person seeking to buy a gun would need to apply for a license in much the same way one applies for a passport.” This means the person seeking a license to buy a gun would have to submit a photograph and fingerprints and would be required to have a face-to-face interview with licensing authorities.
The license applicants would also “undergo a federal background check.”
Booker is also pushing an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, and a ban on bump stocks, which are already illegal to own. He is advocating for limits on the number of firearms a person may buy at once and wants to add the no-fly list to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System’s prohibited buyer’s list, among other restrictions.
In total, Booker is pushing 14 gun controls.
[Comment: First comment to the article is the best — “Each and every legal US citizen already has a “license” to buy and own guns,… it’s called The United States Constitution.” ]
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Crushed by the Leftist Juggernaut: One Lawyer’s Story
I went from almost a judge to being fired within the space of forty-eight hours. Why? Because it came out that I was a conservative.
I had read stories about conservatives being blacklisted, fired, having their careers and reputations destroyed because of their political views. Never once did I dream it could happen to me, an insignificant lawyer in an insignificant part of the country. But just this past week the nightmare happened, and I learned firsthand the consequences of running against the leftist hive that dominates our world…
As a Republican precinct committeeman with a Republican governor, my chances were good. Or so I thought. You see, I had a deep, dark secret: I was open about my conservative views. In college fifteen years ago I expressed them in a column for the campus newspaper. And until my son was born three years ago I expressed them on social media. I toned things down as I settled down, but my views became more conservative the more I experienced.
Then it happened. Someone had printed and saved my social media posts from three years ago and more. There were nine of them, most of them links to publications like the National Review, Breitbart, and the Blaze: two were pro-life, one criticized illegal immigration, others made fun of radical feminism and warned about radical Islam, and several were critical of overreach by federal judges. They were strident, but fairly innocuous for social media. By no stretch of the imagination were they racist, sexist, or bigoted.
Whoever printed these mailed them anonymously to three of the nine members of the Judicial Nominating Commission, but the commission would not consider anonymous materials, and my name was among the three submitted to the governor.
Identical anonymous mailings went to a local Democratic attorney and the governor’s staff, but still no controversy materialized. Finally, several mailings went out — to the Urban League of Gary, the Indiana Chapter of the NAACP, Mayor Freeman-Wilson of Gary, the local Hispanic Bar Association, and the local black Bar Association. The Urban League complained to the local paper, which took up the story. As a judicial candidate, I was limited as to what I could say, and I tried to play things safe. Let the process work out. How naïve I was.
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Deep State Smear Machine SPLC Imploding — Behind the Deep State
In this episode of Behind The Deep State, host Alex Newman exposes the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The anti-Christian hate group, which serves as the Deep State’s attack dog against conservatives, is facing huge lawsuits and mega-scandals like never before. Now, government agencies and even Big Tech companies are distancing themselves, as whistleblowers expose the racism and misogyny of the SPLC’s leadership.
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Delingpole: Then Facebook Came for Paul Joseph Watson…
What’s particularly insidious about Silicon Valley censorship is that it makes all those other threats more pressing and real by making it impossible to speak out against them.
How, after all, are we going to address the issues of rape gangs and church desecrations and terror plots and homecoming Islamic State terrorists if every time anyone tries to discuss them on social media, Silicon Valley decides to close them down for being racist or Islamophobic?
How are we going to face up to the growing menace of hard left outfits like Antifa and Hope Not Hate and Black Lives Matter when Silicon Valley gives them a free pass to spew out their hate while banning all their opponents?…
President Trump urgently needs to get on top of this because the people being silenced are his base. And because social media is often the only place left where they are free — or rather, where they were free — to exchange the kind of conservative thoughts, jokes, ideas, and memes the world so badly needs if it is to counter the creeping menace of identity politics, post-modernism, and Cultural Marxism.
Let’s call out what Facebook is doing for what it is: fascism. It is abusing its extraordinary global power as a publishing platform used by more than 2 billion people in order to impose on all of us its totalitarian leftist new world order.
It justifies its fascistic behaviour by pretending it is protecting the world from “hate.”
A Facebook spokesperson has claimed:…
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Democrat Booker Agrees Americans Should be Jailed if They Refuse to Give Up Guns
Presidential candidate pushing ‘the most sweeping gun control plan ever’
After announcing a radical gun control proposal as part of his Presidential campaign, Democrat Cory Booker expressed agreement with the notion that lawful gun owners should be ‘thrown in prison’ if they refuse to comply with “an assault weapons ban.”
Booker appeared on CNN to discuss his proposed national gun licensing program, which would require every gun owner to have a 5-year license issued at the federal level…
When asked by CNN host Poppy Harlow if he also supports Congressman Eric Swalwell’s proposed ‘assault weapons’ ban, Booker intimated that he would not have a problem with Americans being jailed if they refused to comply.
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DOJ’s Upcoming Bombshell Report on Comey’s Illegal Activities Has Obama Freaking Out
Probe into FISA abuses, Clinton exoneration and leaks have Obama team spooked
The DOJ is about to release a bombshell report on James Comey involving the illegal use of the FISA court to illegally spy on the Trump administration.
It is said to include criminal referrals, and is expected to open the investigation up to several other bad actors.
Will James Comey be the first domino to fall in the takedown of the Deep State?
[Comment: Finally some good news for today.]
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Facebook Says it Will Still Allow Holocaust Denial, Just Not InfoWars Links
After announcing that it will remove Infowars links, Facebook has said that holocaust denial is still acceptable on the platform.
Let that sink in.
Last week, Facebook not only removed a group of people it claimed (with no evidence) to be “dangerous people”, it announced that mere positive discussion of Alex Jones or Infowars would be verboten.
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‘Game of Thrones’ Author George R.R. Martin Backs Biden to ‘Beat Trump’
Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin backed former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign launch in a blog in which he also attacked President Donald Trump.
Martin said the most important aspects of a candidate was to beat President Donald Trump and have the ability to serve as a good president.
[Comment: He was a hollywood screeenwriter for many years, so this should surprise no one.]
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Huge: Facebook Hired Former Hillary Press Director to Inform Media of Alex Jones Ban
When Big League Politics contacted Facebook to clarify why Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, and Milo Yiannopoulos were banned by Facebook and Instagram, we discovered the Facebook employee assigned to handle these communications is the former Press Director of Hillary For America.
Sarah Pollack is the Policy Communications Manager for Facebook who responded to Big League Politics when we sought comment on why Jones, Watson, Loomer, and Yiannopoulos were banned. She explained that users are no longer allowed to share videos or links including videos of Jones, and explained that this decision was made, in part, because Jones interviewed Gavin McInnes on his radio and TV program.
According to her LinkedIn history, Pollack was hired by Facebook in October of 2017 as a Policy Communications Associate Manager, and was promoted to her current role in February of this year.
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Instagram to “Fact Check” & Remove Memes
Instagram has announced that it will begin “fact checking” and removing memes.
The social media giant, which is owned by Facebook, will use its 52 global “fact checking partners” to censor “false photos and memes on its platform,” according to Poynter.
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It’s Like Deja-Vu All Over Again
The late baseball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra was known for his “Yogi-isms.” I thought of him the other day as I was contemplating the political insanity that has gripped America. Honestly, haven’t we seen this play before? In fact, we have seen this before from the now notorious Saul Alinsky.
Alinsky became a “community organizer” before the term for what he did even existed. He was a favorite of union and communist leaders because his confrontational approach to protests appeared to bear fruit in concessions from those he considered the “bourgeois.” Surprisingly, he proudly acknowledged the mastermind behind his methods in the text that the Progressive Marxist Democrat Party and those aligned with them utilizes to this day. In his acknowledgement to the book Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, Alinsky wrote this:
“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgement to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”
So, what “rules” did Alinsky develop through his efforts at organizing people into action? Here are Alinsky’s rules:
- “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”Power is derived from 2 main sources — money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.
- “Never go outside the expertise of your people.”It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.
- “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.”Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.
- “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
- “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
- “A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones.
- “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”Don’t become old news.
- “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.”Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.
- “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.
- “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.”It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.
- “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.”Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.
- “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem.
- “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
Many politicians, special interest operatives, and America-haters are following Alinsky’s game plan to the letter. They are of course aided and abetted by the internationalists in the Council on Foreign Relations, the United Nations, and the too big to fail multi-national banksters, to name just a few.
Much of the Church has succumbed to a belief that these Luciferians have more power than they really do (see rule #1 above). The truth is if the Church ever realizes the authority that it has been given and presently possesses, it is game over for the imbeciles running roughshod over Americans.
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Man Released After 30-Year Rape Charge Dropped is Charged With Another Rape
A man who was released from prison in 2016 after having his 1987 rape conviction overturned and who quickly became the poster boy for the criminal justice reform movement has now been charged with raping a woman in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
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Nolte: Embattled CNN Axes More Than 100 Jobs
Far-left CNN announced Monday that more than 100 jobs have been axed at the ratings-challenged cable network.
These job cuts are being spun by Brian Stelter, CNN’s left-wing media reporter (who regularly spreads fake news and conspiracy theories), as “no layoffs” but rather “voluntary buyouts throughout the organization, and about 100 people opted for it.”
The only problem with that spin is that buyouts are layoffs with some compensation attached. In other words, “voluntary buyout” is corporatespeak for “layoff.”
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NXIVM Whistleblower Reveals Human Trafficking From Mexico, Satanism, Democrat Involvement
NXIVM whistleblower Frank Parlato appeared exclusively on The Campaign Show with Patrick Howley on Patriots Soapbox (Sunday nights, 6-PM Eastern) to discuss Keith Raniere’s trial, which begins Tuesday.
Raniere’s sex slaves are poised to testify against him, as prosecutors prepare to submit evidence that NXIVM illegally bundled money for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. Parlato made it clear that Clinton was happy to accept the money. (COURT DOCS Confirm Prosecutors Attempting To Introduce Clinton Evidence).
Parlato described how NXIVM imported teenage girls from Mexico, how the cult viewed Chuck Schumer as a “friendly” Democrat ally, and many other bombshells. WATCH.
I reported:
Democrat senator and presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand’s family ties to the NXIVM sex cult are coming to light, raising serious questions about her relationship with the cult that she once denied knowing about.
Gillibrand’s father and stepmother, who are second cousins, were both heavily involved in the cult in the period shortly before they got married, according to eyewitness accounts from ex-NXIVM employees who spoke on the record to Big League Politics, and according to court documents proving that Gillibrand’s father Doug Rutnik was employed by NXIVM.
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Paul Craig Roberts: America Needs a Debt Jubilee
A time so long ago that it predates the Old Testament by 2,000 years is probably imagined as a brutal and politically incorrect time of inhumanity and human sacrifice. In short, a script for a horror fantasy movie or a video game.
In actual fact, these civilizations were more advanced and more humanitarian than our own. They were more advanced because the rulers were focused on ensuring the society’s longevity by maintaining a livable balance between debtors and creditors. It has all been downhill ever since.
The rulers maintained social balance and, thereby, the life of the society by periodically cancelling debts. The rulers understood that compound interest resulted in debt growing faster than the economy. The consequence would be foreclosures on agricultural land, which would shift riches and power into a small oligarchy of creditors. The ruler and the society would be deprived of a self-supporting population on the land which provided tax revenues, soldiers for the military, and corvee labor to maintain public infrastructure. Disaster would follow. A grasping oligarchy could overthrow the ruler or the dispossessed population could flee to a potential invader offering their military services in exchange for debt foregiveness.
To protect their societies from dissolution by unpayable debts, rulers periodically cancelled agrarian debts owed by the citizenry at large, but not mercantile debts among businessmen.
The reason for debt forgiveness was stability, not egalitarianism.
[Comment: Don’t expect banksters to do this. That was the sole reason for their creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve. To place the USA in an inescapable debt spiral.]
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‘Pothole Vigilantes’ Are Covertly Fixing Oakland Roads in the Middle of the Night
We don’t need to remind Oakland drivers their streets are some of the worst in the country, costing locals an extra $1,049 a year in car maintenance on average.
The problem has prompted two Oakland residents to go rogue, pulling off covert missions to patch potholes in the middle of the night. They’ve dubbed themselves the “Pothole Vigilantes” and show off their work on an Instagram page by the same name.
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President Pardons Soldier Who Shot Al-Qaida Operative
President Trump has pardoned an American soldier who shot and killed an Iraqi prisoner in what he always has maintained was self-defense.
WND long has reported on the case involving Army Ranger Michael Behenna, including several years ago when he was released on parole from his sentence for killing an al-Qaida terrorist in Iraq.
Behenna had been given a 15-year sentence for the death of al-Qaida operative Ali Mansur in Iraq in 2008, and was paroled after serving five years.
The Daily Mail reported White House press secretary Sarah Sanders revealed Trump had signed an executive grant of clemency for Behenna, now 35, of Oklahoma.
Behenna had been scheduled to remain on parole until 2024.
During his trial, Behenna confirmed he took the Iraqi prisoner to a remote area, stripped him and questioned him at gunpoint about a bombing that had killed members of Behenna’s platoon.
Behenna testified that the suspect suddenly moved toward him and was trying to grab his gun, so he fired at him.
The move for a pardon had attracted wide support in the military and Oklahoma’s attorney general asked for the parson in February 2018, then again last month.
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Rumors Swirl About Huge Layoffs at CNN; Brian Stelter Denies
After the network lost 26 per cent of its audience, there are now rumors swirling that huge layoffs are about to hit CNN.
According to a report by FTV Live, “CNN will cut as many as 300 employees, many being older employees with years at the network.”
200 people will be given a pink slip and 100 more will be offered a buyout, according to the report.
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The Latest: Sheriff Says Student Killed in Colorado Shooting
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — The Latest on a school shooting in suburban Denver (all times local):
7 p.m.
Authorities say an 18-year-old male student was killed in a shooting at a suburban Denver school.
The Douglas County sheriff’s office confirmed the death in a tweet Tuesday but didn’t identify the student killed in the shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch.
The death appears to be separate from the eight people who were treated at hospitals.
Two students are listed in serious condition, two are listed as stable with injuries that are not life-threatening, one is in good condition and three have been released.
Authorities have taken two students into custody after the shooting in the affluent community of Highlands Ranch near where two students shot and killed 13 people at Columbine High School 20 years ago.
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6:20 p.m.
The White House says its prayers are with those affected by a shooting at a suburban Denver school.
Eight people were injured in Tuesday’s shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch, and two students were taken into custody.
White House spokesman Judd Deere says President Donald Trump has been briefed on the shooting and that the White House has been in touch with state and local officials.
The White House also thanked law enforcement officials and first responders for their “heroism.”
Deere noted that the shooting took place not far from Columbine High School, which recently marked the 20th anniversary of a shooting that killed 13 people…
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Twitter Bans Jewish Trump Supporter Over AOC Parody Account
Making fun of Democrats is verboten
Twitter has permanently banned Jewish Trump supporter Mike Morrison for running a parody account that made fun of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The account, @AOCPress, was banned despite it complying with all Twitter’s rules on parody accounts, including having the word “parody” in both its account name and biography.
The parody account was an embarrassment to AOC because it mainly posted gibberish that was almost identical to her actual statements.
Morrison also had his own Twitter account with over 50,000 followers permanently removed.
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US Muslim Children Are Taught Islamic Jew-Hatred
It’s not just in Philly. The virulent antisemitism intrinsic to Islam is being taught to Muslim children all over the USA. The failure of Jewish “leadership” to even identify Islam’s sacralized Jew-hatred will lead to disaster.
Dr. Andrew G. Bostom
Chilling videos surfaced this past week (here; here) from an April 17, 2019 event sponsored by the mainstream, traditionalist Muslim American Society (MAS)—”one of the nation’s major Islamic groups”—at their Islamic Center in Philadelphia. Dubbed “Ummah [Global Muslim Community] Day,” the celebrations featured Muslim children intoning “you need force and the Koran,” then paying tribute to jihad murder martyrdom—sacrificing their “bodies and souls…without hesitation”—to kill “Zionists”, i.e., Jews. These “liberating” murderous actions—beheadings [Koran 8:12; 47:4]—would further cause their Jewish victims eternal Koranic [4:54-55, and 98:5-6; glossed, 4:54-55 and 98:5-6] damnation:
We will chop off their heads, and we will liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mosque. We will lead the army of Allah fulfilling His promise, and we will subject them to eternal torture.
Only on May 3rd, after exposure of these videos in the national press did the MAS provide a statement, transparent in its mendacity. The songs and declarations recorded for posterity and placed triumphantly on the MAS Philadelphia affiliate’s Facebook page, in all their ugliness, were “not properly vetted.”…
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Watch: Cop Tells Tiny Elderly Man to ‘Slap Me’ And Then Beats and Arrests Him for Doing it
Houston, TX — As our regular readers know, police officers acting inappropriately is more common than most of the public believes. From crashing cruisers into schools while snorting xanax to pulling people over to ask them on a date, cops have made some incredibly poor decisions. One of these poor decisions was captured on video recently and shows a deputy with the Harris County Sheriff’s department encouraging an elderly man to slap him.
According to police, they were responding to a disturbance outside an IHOP on Sept. 30, 2018 when one of the deputies became engaged with an innocent 61-year-old man unrelated to the call. While they were talking, the deputy randomly challenged the man to “slap the s**t of me.”
“Get it off your chest. Slap the s**t out of me and get it off your chest,” the deputy is heard saying. “I’m giving you permission to slap the s**t out of me and get it off your chest and see what happens.”
The man obliges the deputy’s request and lightly slaps him on the face. However, without permission from the 61-year-old, the deputy then wallops the elderly man who was half his size sending him falling to the ground.
“Get up. That was stupid,” the deputy says. “That was f**king stupid.”
If it was so stupid, then why did the deputy ask him to do it multiple times?
Despite giving the man permission to slap him, the deputy—likely feeling the sting in his pride—then arrested the man. The deputy and his fellow cronies took him to jail, charging him with interfering with duties of a public servant.
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Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Brings the Linux Kernel Into Windows
Build The biggest news of Microsoft’s annual developer get-together, Build, this year was the arrival of the Linux kernel as part of Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. Oh, and a new tab-happy Windows Terminal? It’s in GitHub. Windows Subsystem for Linux 2
The Windows Subsystem Linux (WSL), which lets you run Linux programs on a Windows box, has seen some serious love from Microsoft as its engineers attempt to demonstrate their commitment to open source and Linux.
As such, the next version of WSL, version 2.0, will, fingers crossed, contains a Linux 4.19 kernel within a so-called utility virtual machine, which will run Linux programs. This is due to arrive “later this year,” via Insider builds in June, and the Windows store.
Just stop and think about that for a second. It means when you come to run a program, the Windows kernel will either interface with it directly if it’s a Windows application, or allow the Linux kernel to manage it if it’s a Linux application. Now you can run Linux software truly natively on the world’s largest desktop OS platform, developed by a company that once declared Linux “a cancer.”
Using the 4.19 kernel, held within a lightweight virtual machine, rather than relying on a Windows-Linux translation layer of earlier incarnations of WSL, should in theory bring about a jump in file I/O performance, improve software compatibility, and allow Docker to run natively. In other words, rather than the Windows 10 kernel emulating the Linux kernel and its software interfaces, the open-source kernel code, and its programs, run fully natively.
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CNN Headline Asks: “How Black Will the Royal Baby Be?”
CNN ran a headline asking, “how black will the royal baby be?”
Yes, really.
It was announced yesterday that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry had had their first baby. Markle has a black mother and is mixed race.
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EU-Funded Org Gives Top European Leadership Award… to European Union President
EU President Jean-Claude Juncker was handed the European leader of the year prize at the European Leadership Awards gala ceremony on Monday.
Juncker beat chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier and the Commission’s trade chief Cecilia Malmström to the award, which was bestowed upon the unelected Eurocrat by EU-funded Euronews and the European Business Summit (EBS).
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European Elections 2019: Macron Plea as He Faces EU Vote Nightmare ‘He’s Not the Focus!’
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron’s former spokesman Benjamin Griveaux accused opposition politicians of turning the upcoming European parliament elections into an anti-Macron referendum, saying domestic issues had to be set aside for now.
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France: Voters Face Choice of 33 EU Election Lists
Voters at the European Parliament elections in France on May 26 will have a record choice of 33 different party lists.
This comes as France has moved to a system of single national lists, not regional ones, and with the addition of various newcomers such as lists for gilet jaunes protestors.
This does not however mean you necessarily have to collect 33 different voting bulletins to take into the booth with you when you go to vote at the polling station.
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Gunman Takes 4 Hostages Inside French Convenience Store
Multiple local news organizations are reporting that a gunman equipped with helmet and a GoPro camera has taken five people hostage inside a convenience store in Toulouse, France not far from the airport.
Early reports suggested that the gunman had taken five hostages. But the Telegraph reports that this figure has recently been revised to four.
According to one local newspaper, all the hostages are women. Police aren’t treating the incident as a terrorist attack; they said they believe the gunman took hostages following an armed robbery gone awry.
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Islamist Terror Attack in Ireland ‘A Question of When, Not if’, Claims Security Specialist
Authorities in Ireland are nowhere near prepared to deal with an Islamist attack against its people, an expert has warned after national police recently launched efforts to stop radicalisation through increasing ‘diversity’.
Former chief petty officer in the Irish navy Eamon Dolan, who now works training three and four-man teams to protect ships against attacks from Somali pirates and other threats, said the population of Ireland is a “target for extremists”.
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Italy: Nine-Year Term Requested for Ex Minister Mannino
Former Christian Democrat bigwig on trial over State-Mafia talks
(ANSA) — Palermo, May 6 — Prosecutors on Monday requested that Calogero Mannino, a former minister with the now-defunct Christian Democrat (DC) party, be sentenced to nine years in jail in a case regarding alleged State-Mafia negotiations.
Mannino is accused of threatening a political body of the State in relation to alleged talks with the Sicilian Mafia in a bid to stop a bloody bombing campaign that claimed the lives of crusading anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992 and killed 10 people and damaged art sites in Rome, Florence and Milan in 1993.
The former minister was acquitted at the first-instance trial into the case.
He chose a fast-track procedure and his case has being heard separately from those of other defendants.
Mannino described the prosecutors’ request as “groundless”.
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Italy’s Berlusconi Calls for European Army as He Targets Seat in European Elections
ITALY’s controversial former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has emphasised his wish for the EU to become a world power on a military level as he signalled his intention to campaign in the European Parliamentary elections.
Following his discharge from hospital Mr Berlusconi echoed calls by French President Emmanuel Macron for a European army and immediately sounded a warning about his country’s gloomy economic prospects. The 82-year-old has been banned from taking public office until this year as a result of a tax fraud conviction — but is a candidate in the forthcoming poll for Forza Italia, the party he founded 25 years ago. Speaking to journalists as he left San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, where he underwent intestinal surgery, he said: “I am fine. I was afraid.”
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Italy: Demon Battlers Descend on Rome for Exorcism Course
Would-be expellers of demons have flocked to Rome in droves this week for a course on “exorcism and deliverance prayer,” an interdisciplinary program aimed at battling Satanic forces.
One of the goals of the course is to change the outlook on spiritual healing, which is often viewed with “an attitude of superstition and sensationalism,” according to Father Luis Ramirez, L.C., one of the organizers of the program.
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Italy: Crime Down 15 Percent Under Salvini Interior Ministry
Following criticism from his coalition partners, the Five Star Movement, that he should focus less on migrants and more on the Mafia, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini revealed that crime has reduced by 15 per cent between 2018 and 2019.
The populist Lega leader, who heads the police as Interior Minister, revealed that according to police statistics, crime had decreased by 15 per cent with murders down by 12.2 per cent and attempted murders down 16.2 per cent, Il Giornale reports.
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Mohammed is Taking Over Europe: Name Most Popular in Berlin, Elsewhere
The Islamic conquest of Europe through mass migration continues without opposition. One sign?
Mohammed is the most popular name for baby boys in Berlin.
That chilling news, which Breitbart.com picked up from Bild, reprises repeated reports through the years that Mohammed is often the most popular name in a European city or country.
So the Prophet’s name is appearing on as many birth certificates as names such as Louis and Emil, which came in second and third.
Bild Report Bild, a German newspaper, reported data from the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (GfdS), or German Language Society.
Mohammed in all its variants was the most popular name in Berlin, and the second most popular in Bremen, ahead of Ben but behind Elias.
[Comment: “Hey, Mohammed, have you seen Muhammed?”, “No I have not, Mahmood. Did you ask Muhamed?” ]
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Sweden’s Civil Contingencies Agency has issued guidance to every household telling residents to stockpile ‘cash in small denominations’ for use in emergencies.
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Sweden Creates ‘Hate Speech Robot’ To Combat Hate Online
The Swedish Defence Research Institute (FOI), along with other partners, have created a “hate speech robot” online and are asking members of the public to give it examples to form an algorithm to fight against “hate” on social media platforms.
The robot, named “Hatometen” is a collaboration between the FOI, a part of the Defence Ministry, as well as the Swedish national police and the University of Uppsala. According to a press release from the FOI, the aim of the site is to, “investigate the possibilities of recognizing hateful texts in Swedish with technology.”
As part of the project, the website Hatomaten.com was created and allows users to input examples of what they consider to be hatred in order to allow the algorithm to learn to recognize hateful terms and phrases automatically…
Nazar Akrami, a researcher at Uppsala University commented on the need for the project saying, “An internet characterized by hate makes meaningful communication difficult and also threatens free speech by intimidating individuals to silence.”
The project is funded by the Swedish government agency Vinnova, who provide funds for research and development and comes after the agency granted 13.5 million krona (£1.2 million) in 2017 to various mainstream media outlets combat “fake news” in the run-up to the 2018 national elections.
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The first summit between the European Union (EU) and the Arab League, formally known as the League of Arab States (LAS), took place on February 24-25. “Europeans and Arabs have a long and rich history of cultural, economic, commercial and political exchanges. This, together with the geographical proximity and interdependence, has contributed to institutionalise a strong relationship between the EU and the League of Arab States (LAS). Within this framework, the common aim is to develop closer cooperation to realise their shared aspirations to ensure peace, security and prosperity in both regions,” the website of the European Union announced.
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UK: Gallery Covers Artworks After Muslims Complain They Are ‘Blasphemous’
The Saatchi Gallery has covered up two pieces of artwork after complaints from Muslims that they were “blasphemous” because they contained text from the Quran.
The pictures depict Islamic script including the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, on top of nude images. The work, by an artist known as SKU, aimed to highlight the distinctions between Islamic extremism and the United States.
The paintings were part of an exhibition entitled Rainbow Scenes that finished on Friday, and offended Muslim visitors called for the pieces to be taken down, according to The Times.
Usama Hasan, head of Islamic Studies at the think tank Quilliam, claimed the pieces of art were “really dangerous,” alleging, “It’s The Satanic Verses all over again.”
[Comment: Strange, galleries never seem to take down “art” such as “Piss Christ” “sculpture”(which was a cross submerged in the “artists” urine). ]
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The deaths of eight people killed in the London Bridge terror attack are to be examined by an inquest.
Three women and five men died when three Isis supporters ploughed into crowds in a hired van, before going on a knife rampage in Borough Market on 3 June 2017.
Families will want answers over how the ringleader was able to plan the attack while under investigation by MI5, and why London Bridge did not have barriers months after another Isis-inspired attack on Westminster Bridge.
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London — Former “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson visited her friend Julian Assange in a London prison on Tuesday. After the visit, she told journalists outside the facility that the WikiLeaks founder “does not deserve to be in a supermax prison.”
Assange is in London’s Belmarsh Prison serving a 50-week sentence for jumping bail in 2012. He is also being held pending an extradition request by the United States, where government prosecutors want to try him for allegedly hacking into a Pentagon computer.
The actress, who has defended Assange before and visited him multiple times while he holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, told reporters Tuesday that he was innocent and being treated unfairly.
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UK: Report: Tories to Topple May This Week if She Agrees Brexit Deal With Corbyn
Senior Tories plan to topple Theresa May from the party leadership if she agrees a Brexit deal subjecting Britain to the European Union’s customs regime, according to reports.
Sources have told the right-leaning Telegraph newspaper that, if the Prime Minister agrees to a form of Brexit even weaker than the one envisaged in her current, thrice-rejected deal with the European Union in order to win over enough Labour MPs to pass it, she will be “gone very quickly”.
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UK: Saatchi Gallery Covers Up SKU Artworks After Complaints by Muslims
A top art gallery was forced to cover two paintings last week after complaints from Muslims that they were “blasphemous”. One expert described them as “The Satanic Verses all over again”.
Exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery by an artist known as SKU, the works overlaid Arabic script on nude images, and were meant to represent the conflict between America and Islamic extremists.
However, the inclusion of the Islamic declaration of faith, known as the shahada, in the painting prompted complaints from Muslim visitors, who asked for them to be removed from the west London gallery’s exhibition, Rainbow Scenes, which finished on Friday.
Usama Hasan, head of Islamic studies at the think tank Quilliam, said the paintings were not only offensive but blasphemous and sacrilegious…
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UK: Theresa May Could Take Her Own MPs to Court to Stop Her Removal
Prime Minister Theresa May’s allies are said to be considering legal action to prevent the 1922 committee of Tory MPs from changing their rules in order to remove her from office.
Mrs May has, at least until now, been praised from some quarters for her “resilience” in refusing to step down despite repeated setbacks — for example, losing the Tory majority in the House of Commons in the 2017 general election, losing multiple Brexit secretaries and other senior ministers over her negotiating strategy with the EU and the proposed deal which it produced, losing three votes on that deal in the House of Commons, having her government found in contempt of parliament for the first time in recorded history, and losing the support of more than half her backbenchers in a parliamentary party in a parliamentary party confidence vote.
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UK: Tony Blair Attacks ‘Poison’ of Anti-Semitism in Swipe at Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour
The British left remains at war with itself over the massive anti-Semitism scandal dogging the official opposition party, as former Labour prime minister Tony Blair once again appeared to direct his fire at hard-left successor Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
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U.N. Scolds U.S. For Not Giving Terror Group Weapons
‘Human rights’ commissioner claims actions could be considered war crimes
The United Nations slammed Israel for possibly committing war crimes in its fight against Hamas — and then backed that accusation by suggesting the Jewish nation ought to be sharing its Iron Dome defensive technology with the very terror group it’s fighting.
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8 Years of Media Lies About the Syrian Civil War Exposed
Claas Relotius, a German reporter for Der Spiegel, had written a piece about being embedded with a militia patrolling the Arizona border for illegal migrants. Gullible German leftist readers were regaled with tales of the militia, whose leader called Mexicans “bean eaters” and, at the end of the article, opened fire into the night. It was one of a series of Relotius articles delving into Trump country with novelistic accounts of pro-Trump Americans that confirmed all the stereotypes of Der Spiegel’s readers.
But the residents depicted in the Minnesota town in which ‘Where They Pray for Trump on Sundays’ is set quickly pointed out that much of the article was factually wrong and that Relotius had never even bothered talking to the people he claimed to have been writing about. And a woman doing media relations for the militia contacted Der Spiegel and informed the magazine that he had never been there.
That was the beginning of the end.
But Relotius had not confined his creative journalism to depictions of Trump’s America. He was better known for his writing about the Middle East. As the scandal that was about to demolish his reputation was breaking, Relotius was receiving a Journalist of the Year award for a very different kind of story. (That award and a number of others, including two from CNN, would soon be returned or withdrawn.)
But the exposure of the particular story that Relotius was receiving an award for on that day has been slow in coming because its roots go deep into a fake news matrix that predates the fraud of one German reporter. It’s the story of an eight-year fake news scam used to mythologize the Syrian Civil War.
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The Interfaith Childhoods Project is a four-year study examining six cities across Australia and the UK.
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New Species of Fish Parasite Named After Xena, The Warrior Princess
A study of parasitic crustaceans attaching themselves inside the branchial cavities (the gills) of their fish hosts was recently conducted in order to reveal potentially unrecognised diversity of the genus Elthusa in South Africa.
While there had only been one species known from the country, a new article published in the open-access journal ZooKeys adds another three to the list.
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Austrians Say They’re “Feeling Like Foreigners” Inside of Their Own Country
Hundreds of working-class Austrians — with real roots to the nation’s culture and customs — have expressed to one of the most popular newspapers their opinions on mass migration, with many saying that they’re feeling like outsiders in their own country.
The comments came in reaction to national populist Vice Chancellor and Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) Chairman Heinz-Christian Strache’s remarks on the idea of ‘population replacement, and in response to an opinion piece in Kronen Zeitung that agreed that demographic changes are real but which disparaged Stache’s word choice as a ‘conspiracy theory’
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Austrian Chancellor Kurz Demands Sanctions on Those Who Aid Illegal Migration
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has demanded that the European Union (EU) take new actions to enact economic sanctions on those who aid illegal migration into Europe and across national borders within the union.
Kurz said that he wanted to see the political bloc do more to provide consequences to those who allow and facilitate illegal migration saying, “There are too few sanctions in the European Union, for example against those who run through the debt rules or allow irregular migrants to pass from one state to another,” Il Giornale reports.
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Belgium: Television Crew Attacked While Filming Report on Emerging Migrant No-Go Zone
A television crew working for Belgian broadcaster RTL was attacked by migrants at the Gare du Nord station in Brussels while they were filming an investigation on the refusal of bus drivers in the city to stop at the ‘rapidly deteriorating’ location.
The television crew were attacked on Sunday morning while the crew were trying to interview a bus driver and filming a bus belonging to the De Lijn company following a refusal of drivers to serve the major capital-city transport interchange with their vehicles.
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Four years since launching her dubious open-door migrant policy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was again forced to defend it as she addressed her supporters in Brandenburg, Sputnik News reports.
Merkel said her migrant policy had been Germany’s response to the exceptional situation generated by civil war in Syria and the rampant ISIS terror threat in the Middle East.
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Latest From ICE on Illegal-Alien Gangs Again Shows Trump is Right
Two more stories involving illegal-alien gangs yet again demonstrate that President Trump is right about the border crisis.
Last week, federal prosecutors in Las Vegas indicted three suspected members of MS-13 on murder charges.
Meanwhile, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested an illegal-alien gang associate who was the beneficiary of catch-and-release.
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Officials: More Than 1,500 Migrants Detained in Arizona Over 3 Days
Border Patrol agents in Arizona detained more than 700 undocumented migrants Monday morning, the latest in an ongoing string of incidents involving large groups of migrants found in the state.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, on its Arizona Twitter account, posted a tweet early Tuesday with a video showing Border Patrol officers with numerous migrants.
The agency said more than 1,500 undocumented migrants have been detained in Arizona over the past three days.
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Pope Praises North Macedonia as ‘Secure Haven’ For Migrants
Pope Francis returned to the topic of immigration Tuesday, praising officials in North Macedonia for their warm welcome to migrants.
On the last day of his apostolic visit to the Balkans, the pope told authorities he wanted to recognize the “generous efforts” made by North Macedonia “to welcome and provide assistance to the great number of migrants and refugees coming from different Middle Eastern countries,” a welcome provided both by State authorities as well as various international agencies, including the Red Cross, Caritas, and several NGOs.
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Buttigieg: I Welcome Debate With Trump on Who Has a More Traditional Attitude on Marriage
Saturday on MSNBC, South Bend, IN Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a likely 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, said he would welcome a debate with President Donald Trump over which of them holds a more traditional view of marriage.
Openly gay candidate Buttigieg said, “My emotions about this president is not what’s going to matter most. I’m not interested in expressing my anger about him as much as I am in defeating and ending this presidency. If we want to have a debate or fight over any number of things from the difference between how I approach service and the way he did. The fact that I was packing my bags for Afghanistan, as he was working on the seventh season of Celebrity Apprentice. We could have that fight. Or if somebody who wants to raise the question of which one of us has the more traditional attitude on marriage we can have that fight.”
[Comment: Comments to the article are entertaining.]
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Facebook Takes No Action Against State Rep. Who Threatened to Doxx Teenage Pro-Lifers on Video
But there’s no political bias, honest!
Facebook has taken no action against abortion activist and State Rep. Brian Sims after he brazenly tried to doxx a group of teenage girls on video.
In the clip, which is still live on Facebook, Sims approaches a small group of protesters outside Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania.
“Here’s the deal; I’ve got a hundred dollars for anybody who will identify any of these three.”
Sims then uses “white people” as a slur against the protesters despite the fact that one of the girls is not even white.
Despite the post being reported numerous times after it received attention on Twitter yesterday, neither Twitter nor Facebook has taken any action against Sims.
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Facebook Has an Orwellian Future Just for You
Alex delves into what you can expect in the very near future as the totalitarian tech rollout accelerates. There are already plans to surveil any dissent via text messages and organized digital gulags.
Gulags where groups of people can be overseen in realtime by AI and SPLC trained behavior monitors. Zuckerberg’s future is pure Orwellian control with Facebook’s users as the volunteer guinea pigs.
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Fire ‘Appeared to be Intentionally Set’ To Pro-Life Banner, College Says
A pro-life event banner was vandalized and set on fire at Western Washington University on Saturday. The banner was advertising an upcoming speaking event by Kristan Hawkins, the founder of Students for Life of America, a national pro-life organization.
The event, Lies Feminists Tell, was sponsored by the WWU Students for Life and the Young Americans for Freedom chapters. Hawkins is scheduled to speak on “lies feminists tell about abortion, birth control, and education” followed by taking questions from the audience.
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PA Democrat Rep. Brian Sims Offers Planned Parenthood Donation for Identities of Pro-Life Teens
Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Brian Sims posted a video to Facebook in which he is seen attempting to get the names and addresses of pro-life teens peacefully protesting at a Planned Parenthood facility.
Sims, the first openly gay Pennsylvania lawmaker, posted the video of himself on Facebook on April 18 as he asked for help identifying the pro-life teens in exchange for his $100 donation to Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania:…
Sims posted another video of himself last week as he harassed and berated a woman he called an “old white lady” as she prayed the rosary outside Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania.
[Comment: Why? Because they were peacefully protesting? so now this putz wants the identities of these kids public so they can be harrassed and doxed by lunatic leftists. What a POS.]
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We Are Now Living in the “Bizarro World”
My brother and I were discussing this situation when he told me that he was recently watching a news channel (probably Fox) where this young politician, was on stage proclaiming his run for the presidency in 2020. Of course it was Peter Buttigieg. When he finished his speech he walked over to this gentleman (his husband) standing off a ways and planted a sloppy, wet kiss on the lips. Not fully understanding what he was witnessing my brother had a completely natural and normal reaction of shock, dismay and revulsion. You know, the same one you have when you see two men kissing on some Netflix program they push in your face at every opportunity.
Now I suppose there are some who would claim such a reaction as being Homophobic. Well, let’s examine this further. Webster’s Dictionary says the word “Homophobia” is a condition where one has an: irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals. It’s first known use: 1969 (interesting year indeed). So it seems this condition of Homophobia appears to be a rather new disorder, only 50 years old. Prior to then it apparently didn’t exist. You see my friends, what they’ve done here, is taken the perfectly normal human reaction to homosexuality and turned it upside down and backwards. They’ve tied “irrational fear of” with “an aversion to” along with “discrimination against” and voila, if you do not embrace the Homosexual agenda, you now have a mental disorder. You suffer from Homophobia and you need to get help soon!
People, we are now living in the “Bizzaro World” from the old Superman Comic book series of the 1960’s. It was an alternate world where everything is upside down and reversed. What’s right is wrong and what’s wrong is right. What’s good is bad, what’s bad is good. In popular culture, “Bizarro World” has come to mean a situation or setting which is weirdly inverted or opposite to expectations.
I want to tell you my friends, there is no such affliction as Homophobia. It doesn’t exist. It’s made up to mess with your mind.
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Woman Arrested in Poland for Defacing Icon of Virgin Mary With LGBT Rainbow
Police arrested a 51-year-old woman for profaning Poland’s most revered Catholic icon, the Madonna of Czestochowa, by painting an LGBT rainbow halo around her head and that of the baby Jesus.
On Monday, Plock police detained Elzbieta Podlesna over the alleged offence after investigators found several dozen posters of the Virgin Mary with the rainbow-colored halo in the woman’s home. The woman was later released.
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To some people perhaps, the title of this article sounds Islamophobic. And as is the case, Muslims always rush to defend their religion by stating there is violence in “All religions.” Fortunately, the non-Muslim world has in its possession Islam’s document, the holy book of Islam, the Quran which is filled with many Suras, verses and orders of violence.
“The Quran contains at least 109 verses that speak of war with nonbelievers, usually based on their status as non-Muslims. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may hide. Muslims who do not join the fight are called ‘hypocrites’ and warned that Allah will send them to Hell if they do not join the slaughter.”
Islam is anything but a religion of peace. Violence is at the very core of Islam. Violence is institutionalized in the Muslims’ holy book, the Quran in many Suras.
Right from the start, violence served as the engine of Islam under the command and supervision of Muhammad himself.
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Ramadan 2019: What Time is Iftar During Ramadan This Year?
RAMADAN is the most sacred time of year for Muslims. Members of the Islamic faith take part in a month of fasting from today. But what time is Iftar during Ramadan this year?
Muslims around the world are currently observing four weeks of fasting during Ramadan 2019. Ramadan is always the 9th month in the Islamic calendar but as the calendar is lunar, the dates change every year. According to Islamic belief, Ramadan is the month that God revealed the first verses of the Koran. To mark the sacred month Muslims abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and sexual activity from sunrise to sunset.
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“We have already seen numerous instances of people being deplatformed by BANKS for the political opinions, from Mastercard telling Patreon to remove Robert Spencer’s account, to Martina Markota and Enrique Tarrio having services terminated by Chase Bank over their support for Trump.”
Well, I bet the Jews didn’t have access to all banking services in 1940 Germany either…
Anyone knows how Visa’s doing? I will not use Master Card because I like Robert Spencer… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0CvKCv1Zg4
I thought you may want to know ; not sure where to post this , so here it is anyway : This morning , Steen from “Snaphanen” in Copenhagen,Denmark was picked up by six police-officers and taken in for questioning in handcuffs , and his computers , harddrives etc. seized . Allegedly for linking to links from other links to links eventually leading to a video of a beheading .
Shakespeare was right . There IS something rotten in the state of Denmark .
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Lots of Stupidity: Islam
https://youtu.be/-MAOc0Trtak
as for the covering of the “art” in the Saatchi Art Gallery; Gee! What’s not to like? I thought that this was what I-slam was all about, naked and humiliated women as so many slaves wrapped in the Qur’an. There is the verse about the 72 grape clusters, or was that virgins, that are squeezed by the jihadi who die in battle.
The majority of Leftists are democrats. Some of my rational democrat friends are using the word, “leftist” now, not wanting to label them as democrats because they’re embarrassed by all the censorship and Jew hatred. They need to understand that this neo-marxist group has taken over the party and they are guilty by association and their silence.