British Prime Minister Theresa May will bring her Brexit deal to a vote in the House of Commons for the fourth time. Mrs. May is reportedly in a hurry to arrange a withdrawal from the EU, because members of her party (the “Conservatives”) are expected to defect to the Brexit Party in droves during the European parliamentary elections. If Brexit occurs before May 23, the defectors will never be seated in the EP.
In other news, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill that allows teachers to carry firearms on school grounds.
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Bitcoin Hackers Steal Over $40m in ‘Well-Orchestrated’ Cyber Breach
Hackers stole more than $40 million worth of bitcoins in a single transaction on one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, the company has admitted.
The head of Binance said the “large scale security breach” was accomplished through “a variety of techniques, including phishing, viruses and other attacks.”
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America 2019: Vaccine Mandates, Quarantines, Fines & Jail
What will the future of the country be like if we continue down this road?
What will be the consequences if the media, Big Pharma & government succeed in pushing a vaccine mandate?
Matt Agorist, TheFreeThoughtProject.com, joins to look at what’s NOT being discussed in the measles panic: risks, safety, freedom, choice, and profits.
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This really is stunning.
Twitter, Facebook and Google continue to work daily to eliminate conservative voices online.
Last week Facebook and Instagram banned several conservatives including Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, the personal account of Alex Jones and others, categorizing some as “dangerous.”
But far left accounts that threaten armed conflict and regularly dox conservatives and ICE officials are approved by these far left tech giants.
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Big Tech Officially Deploys Mark of the Beast System
Big Tech censorship against conservatives and Christians has reached unprecedented levels with many parallels to the “one-world government” described in the book of Revelation. Alex breaks down how the left appears eager to obtain global control of the population.
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Boston Diversifies Its Corruption
by Don Surber
Massachusetts is a racketeer influenced corrupt commonwealth whose history includes John Hancock, a notorious smuggler, and Joseph Kennedy, a notorious bootlegger. Gangster White Bulger not only used the FBI to take out his competition, but got his brother elected speaker of the Massachusetts House.
Four years ago, Boston promoted Haseeb Hosein as its first Muslim police captain. In 2018, he was the city’s highest paid employee, raking in nearly $400,000 that year.
This week, Hosein became the first Muslim police captain to be placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into police corruption.
Police Commissioner William Gross told reporters, “It’s an active investigation, it’s an open investigation, and it’s an anti-corruption investigation.”
Daniel Greeenfield wrote, “Hossein’s profile appears on ‘Boston stands with immigrants’ where he claims that, ‘As an immigrant I am a living example of the greatness of this country.’“
His paid vacation — administrative leave — will cut into his pay because much of it is based on overtime.
But it is Boston, so it is possible he will collect overtime while on administrative leave.
(In the private sector there is no such thing as paid overtime for managers, but then again, businesses cannot force the public to give them money.)
Getting appointed police captain was tokenism.
But being accepted into the inner circle where the money is made and nobody asks questions is a sign that Muslims finally have arrived in America.
[See original post for links]
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Breaking: Former Intelligence Analyst Arrested for Leaking Classified Information to News Outlet
Former Intel analyst Daniel Everette Hale, 31, of Nashville, Tennessee was arrested Thursday morning and charged with leaking classified information to a news outlet.
Hale, who was enlisted in the US Air Force from July ‘09 to July ‘13, has been charged with leaking classified documents about a military campaign against al-Qaeda to a reporter for The Intercept back in 2013 to 2014.
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Colorado Students Walk Out of School Shooting Vigil After it Turns Political
Colorado students walked out of an event billed as a vigil for Kendrick Castillo, an 18-year-old killed in a shooting at his school on Tuesday, when prominent speakers attempted to turn it into a rally for gun control. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colorado) and Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colorado) each took a turn calling for gun control at the Douglas County event before students streamed out in protest.
Two students at STEM Highlands Ranch, a K-12 charter school focused on science, technology, engineering, and math, shot nine students, one fatally. The accused students, who were arrested, are an adult male and a juvenile female who identifies as male. The accused male had written anti-Christian social media messages. He drove a car with a pentagram spray-painted on the hood, as well as other graffiti.
In response to the shooting, a public vigil was announced at another local public high school: Highlands Ranch High School. It was sponsored by the gun control groups Brady’s Team Enough and March for Our Lives and featured Democratic politicians who seek limits on Second Amendment gun rights, but was billed instead as an event to remember and honor Castillo and other victims. As the politicians called for gun control, students left in protest over the politicization of the deaths and injuries.
Students then returned to the gymnasium, taking over the event, complaining about adults politicizing what they hoped would be a remembrance of their friend Castillo, a young man with an interest in robotics who had heroically rushed a shooter. Students also gave Bennet a piece of their mind, telling him to focus on “mental health” issues. […]
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Colorado Students Storm Out When Anti-Gun Activist Speaks…what They Shout is Perfect
Colorado students were just trying to have a peaceful vigil after two teens shot up their school injuring several students and killing Kendrick Castillo. When an anti-gun activist and two anti-gun Democrats started spewing anti-gun propaganda, the students got up and walked out en masse:
The Highlands Ranch students walked out of the vigil because they didn’t want the vigil to be politicized.
One student tweeted: I was there. It was a TOTAL ANTI-GUN political rally run by adults. And a free political speech for Jason Crow and Michael Bennett. STEM students walked out in protest & then they came back in and took the microphone from the activists. They were righteous and they were awesome!…
The students went outside because they knew the activist was lying and they refused to listen to her propaganda:
These students wanted to talk about their classmates so they went back and took over the gym to make the vigil what they wanted it to be! They shouted “to the gym” because they wanted to go back to the gym and take over the vigil.
And then they went back inside and reclaimed the gym. Students ran the mic, and they took turns. Some lamented how the event was a political stunt, some said they just wanted to remember Kendrick Castillo. This was supposed to be for them.
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Guest post by Bright Start News
The Cubs announced yesterday that they are permanently banning a fan who made the mistake of goofing off on camera, playing “the circle game” or OK sign on national television.
For those who were never teenage boys, the circle game is described as follows by the Urban Dictionary:
The Circle Game
A game of peripheral vision, trickery and motor skills.
The game starts out when the Offensive Player creates a circle with their thumb and forefinger, not unlike an “A-Okay” signal, somewhere below his waist.
His goal is to trick another person into looking at his hand. If the Victim looks at the hand, he has lost the game, and is subsequently hit on the bicep with a closed fist, by the offensive player.
The guy at the Cubs game played the circle game like a pro, In one shot, he got the entire home viewing audience. Apparently the Cubs didn’t see it that way. They labeled him a racist and banned him from Wrigley Field.
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Denver Becomes First City in the U.S. To Decriminalize ‘Magic Mushrooms’
The city of Denver has become the first city in the country to decriminalize the possession and use of psilocybin mushrooms for adults who are at least 21 years old. While this does not legalize the use of magic mushrooms, it does make it the last priority for Denver Police.
When Denver Elections finished counting another 40,000 votes for Initiative 301 on Wednesday afternoon, it had passed with 50.6%. Of 176,661 votes, it passed 89,320 to 87,341. That margin is outside the automatic recount margin of .5%. More than 8,400 people turned in their ballots without voting on the issue.
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Donald Trump Jr. Rebuffs Senate GOP Subpoena for More Russia Hoax Testimony
Donald Trump, Jr., President Donald Trump’s eldest son, is rebuffing a subpoena from the Senate Intelligence Committee attempting to compel him to testify again before Congress on the Russia hoax scandal, setting off a major internal battle inside the Republican Party.
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Exclusive: College Students Voluntarily Pay Reparations to Black Trump Supporter
Watch the leftist white guilt programming in real time
College students suffering from white guilt voluntarily hand over cash money to a black man asking for reparations, in the latest viral video from Infowars’ Kaitlin Bennett. Tune in to War Room LIVE Mon-Fri, 3-6PM CT.
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Facebook’s “Click-Gap” System Favors Establishment Media Over Alternative Media
Facebook has introduced a new system that will further suppress independent media outlets in yet another effort to censor information deemed “unreliable” by the platform.
The Click-Gap system will penalize websites that have not established enough “authority” outside of Facebook. This system measures authority by the number of clicks received from sources outside the platform, such as mainstream media sources.
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Facebook Responds to Bounding Into Comics 250k+ Fan Page Being Deleted and Restored
A representative for Facebook has responded to Bounding Into Comics 250k+ fan page being deleted and then subsequently restored to the social media platform.
The Facebook page was deleted and removed on Monday, May 6th around 10:20 a.m. ET. As I previously recounted, Facebook logged me out of my personal Facebook account, which I use to manage the Bounding Into Comics page. Upon logging back in I received a number of alerts from Facebook.
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Facebook recently banned Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, the personal account of Alex Jones and others, categorizing some as “dangerous.” Yet they have taken no action against Vic Berger, a far-left personality who repeatedly harasses, smears, and engages in overtly threatening behavior against people he disagrees with politically.
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Florida Governor DeSantis Signs Bill Allowing Armed Teachers
Proving once again why he is one of the most proactive and effective elected officials in the nation, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis just signed legislation sent to him by state lawmakers that will allow for armed teachers on school grounds in the Sunshine State.
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Garage Explosions Lead to Fire That Destroys Ringgold Home
RINGGOLD, Georgia (WDEF) — A Ringgold home has been destroyed by fire after the family vehicles exploded this morning in the garage.
It happened in the 200 block of Meadow Green Drive before 8 AM.
Two people escaped from the house.
Neighbors tell us they felt and heard the explosions, before the fire.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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GM Plans to Sell Ohio Plant to Electric Automaker After Pressure From Trump
General Motors (GM) CEO Mary Barra is planning to sell the Lordstown, Ohio assembly plant to an electric automaker after laying off about 1,600 American workers this year at the factory.
On Wednesday, President Trump said he had been working with Barra to get GM to sell the Lordstown plant to another company in order to prevent economic and social destruction in the area and for the community.
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Last week Facebook and Instagram banned several prominent conservatives including fearless journalist Laura Loomer.
Laura Loomer was first banned from Twitter for exposing Democrat Ilhan Omar as an anti-Semite. Laura was correct, as we all know today, but she got banned anyway. Laura seeks out and confronts Democrats on the topics of the day. She was banned for this.
On Wednesday Laura Loomer broke down in tears during a live TV interview.
Laura Loomer made an emotional plea for Republicans to take action against social media censorship.
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IBM: Use AI to Identify Vaccine-Hesitant Parents
Growing skepticism toward vaccines has sparked a flareup of measles outbreaks affecting New York City neighborhoods, cruise ships, international airports and even Google’s Mountain View headquarters. To help family physicians reach out to vaccine-hesitant parents, data scientists have shown how computer models can predict the likelihood that an individual child’s parents will not get him or her vaccinated.
Since 2016, the world has witnessed a resurgence in measles cases and deaths as more people choose not to vaccinate their children—a decision that is often influenced by misinformation spread online through social media platforms such as Facebook and YouTube. By identifying families at greatest risk of not getting vaccinated, computer models could enable health officials and physicians to talk with parents at the stage when they remain undecided about vaccines.
“The reason why this could be useful is that, while it’s very hard to persuade someone once they’ve made up their mind, it might be easier if we know early enough and approach them in a friendly manner explaining why it’s important that their children be vaccinated,” says Tin Oreskovic, a data scientist at IBM’s Chief Analytics Office.
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Is the Electoral College Worth Keeping?
In their infinite wisdom, the United States’ Founders created the Electoral College to ensure the STATES were fairly represented. Why should one or two densely populated areas speak for the whole of the nation?
Consider the following statistics:
There are roughly 3,100 counties in the United States. Trump won approximately 2,600 of them. Clinton won just under 500. Trump’s county win covered about 84% of the geographic United States. Clinton won 88 of the 100 largest counties. Without these counties, she would have lost by 11.5 million votes. Even so, Clinton only garnered about 2.8 million popular votes than Trump.
In other words, Clinton’s votes were very concentrated in only a few states whereas Trump’s votes came from a wide enough geographic area to win the Electoral College. Trump had 304 Electoral votes; Clinton had 227.
Here is a very quick civics lesson:
Article 4, Section 4, of the United States Constitution states, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” Nowhere in the Constitution does the word “DEMOCRACY” appear. It also appears nowhere in the Declaration of Independence.
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Twitter suspended David Horowitz from the Freedom Center on Tuesday.
Horowitz was the latest conservative banned or suspended by the far left media giant.
We are witnessing the elimination of conservatism from the public square.
And Republicans do NOTHING!
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Kevin McCarthy Rips Senate GOP Intel for Subpoena of Don Jr.: ‘Time to Move on’
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is criticizing a move by Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) to issue a subpoena of President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump, Jr.
McCarthy says that Burr’s move serves no purpose other than continuing “endless investigations” and that it is time for all of Congress—especially Republicans—to “move on”:
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Muslim Representative Ilhan Omar “Warmly Welcomed” Into an American Public School
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. —Sir Winston Churchill
It is almost surreal what is happening in America today in so many different ways. I think that if much of what is happening in this country today was happening in a third world country, Americans would ask their government to intervene on their behalf. Yet, that country that I am speaking about is America, and its government is, in fact, alluring these people into this country in a treasonous process (Deuteronomy 28:63; Article 3, Section 3, US Constitution).
Ever since September 11, 2001, we have been told by the mainstream media that we have been under attack by the Muslims, only to find that these same media outlets are giving cover to the same people that are now moving in and setting themselves up into government positions only to usurp and attack (John 8:44).
Hitler’s SS — The Bushes — The Muslim Alliance — UnThinkable!
They have even going so far as to give their speeches in Arabic! All of this is going on in America today (Leviticus 26:16).
The Media Attempting to Divert Muslim Primary Victories— Victory Speeches in Arabic! (Video)
What is more alarming is that the number of mosques in the United States have jumped up to 74% since September 11, 2001. The US survey 2011 counted a total of 2,106 as compared to 1,209 in the year 2000.
As of 2016, there are as many as 3,000 mosques in America, with a total number of 3.3 million Muslims residing in this country (Deuteronomy 28:44).
The Muslims are Bringing Their Culture with Them — A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
The same media, as well as the present administrations and agencies that have been created since September 11, 2001, have been silent on the fact that there now over 35 jihadi training camps right here on American soil.
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In 2016 conservative publishers helped push candidate Trump across the finish line with their massive presence on social media.
But that did not happen in 2018.
On the November 2018 election, after the votes were counted and harvested, Democrats took control of the US House of Representatives.
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Nancy Pelosi: Donald Trump ‘Correct in Asserting What We Have to Do With China’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the highest-ranking elected Democrat in American politics at the moment, in an interview with the Washington Post on Wednesday, backed up Republican President Donald Trump’s stance on China.
“The President is correct in asserting what we have to do with China,” Pelosi said when asked by the Post’s Robert Costa if the president should hold the line against the Chinese in trade negotiations.
While Pelosi praised Trump for being “correct” in saying what the United States has to do to stand up to the Chinese Communists in Beijing, she said doing so helps the Chinese hurt Americans. “How he’s doing it, though, is empowering them to hurt our people,” Pelosi added.
When Costa asked her to more deeply explain that point, she said that Trump should engage the Europeans more in standing up to the Chinese.
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Proof Every Single Dem Candidate is a Danger to the Second Amendment
Quotes from each individual show their hatred for the Constitution and American rights
Gun control talking points from 2020 Democrat candidates are filled with vague statements and non-specific terminology used to confuse voters who are uneducated when it comes to firearms and gun culture.
For example, “high-capacity magazines,” “assault weapons” and “common sense” gun control are buzzwords frequently thrown out by Democrat politicians to demonize firearms.
Remember, when a Democrat says “assault weapons” or “weapons of war,” they mean semiautomatic weapons which include everything from AR-15s to hunting rifles and handguns.
These politicians ignore the reality that a ban on semiautomatic weapons would be unsuccessful and inevitably result in a civil war.
“Nobody’s coming to take your guns” has never sounded more stupid.
Joe Biden:
The former Vice President told a voter the hero who shot a mass murderer in Sutherland Springs, Texas shouldn’t have been able to carry his AR-15 used to stop the criminal…
Bernie Sanders:
The Democratic Socialist from Vermont also wants to ban semiautomatic weapons and magazines that hold over 10 rounds.
He has an “F” rating from the NRA and calls for “a federal ban on assault weapons” on his FeelTheBern website…
Eric Swalwell:
Before entering the 2020 presidential race, Swalwell threatened to use nuclear weapons against gun owners who refuse to turn in their guns.
In a hypothetical discussion about the inevitable civil war that would break out if the government were to attempt to seize firearms from citizens, Swalwell said, “And it would be a short war my friend. The government has nukes. Too many of them. But they’re legit…”
Now, Swalwell’s website brags, “I’m the only candidate calling for a mandatory national ban and buyback of military-style semiautomatic assault weapons.”
[Comment: Communists, one and all.]
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Repeat Felon and Women’s March Organizer Indicted on Felony Theft Charges After Donations Go Missing
The organizer of the Portland “Womens March” organization has been indicted on a total of five counts of theft.
The trans activist is a repeat felon with a long record.
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The Injustice of the Left’s Fury Against Barr
by Victor Davis Hanson
Democrats have grown infuriated by Attorney General William Barr’s indifference to their hysteria over the Trump-Russia collusion narrative.
Barr recently released a brief summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s conclusions that President Donald Trump did not collude with the Russians to warp the 2016 election.
Barr added that Mueller had not found enough evidence to recommend that Trump be indicted for obstruction of justice for the non-crime of collusion.
Progressives, who for 22 months had insisted that Trump was a Russian asset, were stunned—but only for a few hours.
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Almost immediately, they redirected their fury toward Barr’s summation of the Mueller report. Yet few rational people contested Barr’s synopses about collusion and obstruction.
Both the Mueller report and Barr’s summation can be found on the internet. Anyone can read them to see whether Barr misrepresented Mueller’s conclusions.
Again, there have been few criticisms that Barr was wrong on his interpretation that there was no collusion and not enough evidence to indict on obstruction of justice.
But now Democrats are calling for Barr to resign or be impeached for not regurgitating the unproven allegations against Trump.
In other words, Barr acted too much like a federal prosecutor, rather than a tabloid reporter trafficking in allegations that did not amount to criminal conduct.
The besmirching of Barr’s conduct is surreal. He certainly has not done anything even remotely approximating the conduct of former President Barack Obama’s two attorneys general.
Has Barr dubbed himself the president’s “wingman or called America a “nation of cowards,” as former Attorney General Eric Holder did?
Has Barr’s Department of Justice monitored reporters’ communications or ordered surveillance of a television journalist? Has Barr used a government jet to take his family to the Belmont Stakes horse race, as Holder did?
Has Barr met secretly on an airport tarmac with the spouse of a person his Justice Department was investigating, as did former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who had such a meeting with Bill Clinton? […]
[Read the rest…]
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Video: Police Arrest Johns Hopkins Protesters Upset Over ICE, School Police
Police in Baltimore arrested at least seven individuals after protesters upset with the school’s contract with ICE and private police force took over a Johns Hopkins University building.
Some of the people arrested were students, but others were community members, according to The Daily Caller News Foundation. Sit-ins at JHU’s main administration building had occurred for a month beforehand, but protesters obscured security cameras and bound doors shut in May.
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Persecuted Christian Finds Refuge in Canada
Asia Bibi, a Christian Pakistani woman at the center of a decade-long blasphemy row that ignited violent unrest and drew international attention to religious extremism, is now believed to be in Canada after fleeing her home country on Wednesday.
The Pakistani government made no formal statement and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused to confirm her arrival, citing privacy and security issues.
Bibi’s lawyer Saif ul Mulook and multiple security sources in Pakistan speaking on condition of anonymity told AFP that Bibi had gone to Canada, with another government source adding she had left “of her own free will.” […]
A laborer from central Punjab province and minority Christian, Bibi was convicted of blasphemy in 2010 and sentenced to death but was acquitted on appeal last year.
Her case swiftly became the most infamous in Pakistan, drawing worldwide attention to religious extremism in the country and raising eyebrows among Pakistan’s allies.
“The United States welcomes the news that Asia Bibi has safely reunited with her family,” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement.
“The United States uniformly opposes blasphemy laws anywhere in the world, as they jeopardize the exercise of fundamental freedoms.”
British Prime Minister Theresa May appeared to confirm that Canada was Bibi’s destination.
“Canada made this offer and we thought it was right and appropriate that we supported the offer that Canada had made,” May said. […]
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Altaforte’s Turin Book Fair Ban is Censorship — Salvini
Like burning books says deputy premier
(ANSA) — Pesaro, May 9 — Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said the Turin book fair’s decision to exclude Altaforte, a rightwing publishing house linked to Neofascist party CasaPound, amounted to censorship. “We are in 2019 and we have the censorship of books on the basis of ideas, the burning of books, which never did any good in the past,” Salvini, who recently published a book of interviews with Altaforte, told a rally in Pesaro.
“He went on to criticise “the left-wing minority that claims the right to decide who can make music, who can stage theatre shows, who can publish books.
“You should respond to ideas with other ideas, not censorship”. The Altaforte stand at the Turin book fair was completely dismantled on Thursday. Altaforte founder Francesco Polacchi has said earlier on Thursday that he intended to defy the ban. “If freedom of liberty are dear to you, I’ll be waiting to greet you,” Polacchi said on Facebook. He added that he would present Salvini’s book on Saturday.
The fair excluded Altaforte after the city council and the Piedmont regional government, which are both stakeholders, requested that the contract for its participation be terminated.
Prosecutors opened a criminal probe for apology of fascism after the city and the regional government filed a complaint against Polacchi on Tuesday.
Piedmont Governor Sergio Chiamparino said there had been “no censorship or book burning as evoked by Matteo Salvini”.
“Perhaps the interior minister would have preferred to side with the fascist publisher of his interviews and would have left out the Auschwitz victim.
“But the interior minister of a serious government should above all apply the Scelba and Mancino laws that enact the Constitution (against Fascism)”.
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Banned From Facebook? A Polish Court May Help
Facebook is often criticized for not doing enough to police its platform for hate speech. But the opposite has also been a problem: Mark Zuckerberg’s company uses rather vague “community standards” as the basis for decision to remove users and posts. It doesn’t feel compelled to explain exactly how it applies them, either. Now, a Polish court may decide it should.
When Facebook banned Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Louis Farrakhan, Laura Loomer and others last week, all it said was that “the process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and it is what led us to our decision.” The prominent right-wingers with huge audiences on the Facebook-owned platforms didn’t, in other words, get much in the way of explanation.
Those banned from Facebook and Instagram last week might take a look at Poland, where a local non-governmental organization is suing Facebook for removing its page. The Polish nonprofit, called the Civil Society Drug Policy Initiative and known by the Polish abbreviation SIN for short, filed suit against Facebook’s European arm in the Warsaw District Court this week. At least in Europe, the case may help set up more transparent procedures for banning content and its creators from social networks.
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Italian Secret Agent Found Dead in Paris Hotel; Had Encrypted Key, Classified Docs
Reportedly found with a serious wound on chin
French authorities are investigating the suspicious death of an Italian intelligence agent after he was found lying in a pool of his own blood and vomit with a serious wound to his chin.
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Italy: Man Arrested for Slitting Wife’s Throat
Near Piacenza
(ANSA) — Piacenza, May 9 — A man was arrested Thursday for slitting his wife’s throat near Piacenza on Wednesday.
Abdelkrim Foukahi, a 41-year-old Moroccan stopped at a motorway service station in Veneto Wednesday afternoon, is accused of murdering his wife, Damia El Essali. She was found in a pool of blood in their home at Borgonovo near Piacenza on Wednesday morning.
The man, who was missing with their two children aged two and four for several hours, was tracked down thanks to his car number plate which showed up at an A4 motorway entry point. The man has been taken to a prison in Venice.
Carabinieri carried out the arrest on a warrant from Piacenza prosecutors.
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Italy: ‘Satanic’ Fountain Daubed With Dung Near Bologna
Faun with erect penis irked conservatives
(ANSA) — Bologna, May 9 — A fountain featuring a horned faun with an erect penis was daubed with dung by conservative protesters near Bologna overnight.
The fountain has caused a row in the mountains near Bologna with detractors calling it Satanic and admirers saying it is a prime example of public art.
The work, sculpted by artist Luigi Ontani at Vergato, has been slammed by conservative League Senator Luigi Pillon among others.
Pillon, on his Facebook page, said it was “an imposing statue of a devil with huge horns and a glaringly erect penis, carrying on his back a boy with butterfly wings” and said it should be “buried in a stream of cement”.
Mayor Massimo Gnudi, of the centre-left Democratic Party, explained that the faun represents the river Reno, carrying on its back the Vergatello stream, while a triton at the base is the Apennines.
“It’s a work that recounts the local territory, in the artist’s typical style,” he said.
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Hollywood celebrity Viggo Mortensen has expressed his displeasure after Spanish populist party VOX created a meme using his portrayal of Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings films.
The image, which is based on a scene from the trilogy of films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s landmark fantasy novels, shows Mortensen as Aragorn with the VOX logo over his face, facing down far-left extremist groups like Antifa, feminists, Communists, and anarchists, Spanish newspaper El Pais reports.
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Portuguese Gun Rights Group Joins Growing International Coalition Against Gun Control
The United States just withdrew from the U. N. Arms Trade Treaty with was never ratified by the United States Senate
The International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights (IAPCAR) announced today that Portuguse gun rights group Associação Nacional da Arma de Portugal (ANARMA) have joined the international coalition of 33 associations in 23 countries dedicated to defending civilian firearms rights.
ANARMA’s membership in the civilian arms rights coalition expands the European membership to twelve groups from ten different EU and non-EU countries.
“We’re on the side of everyday people in all countries that wish to exercise their right to use firearms for legitimate purposes, including self-defense,” The Second Amendment Foundation’s founder Alan Gottlieb who serves as IAPCAR’s President said. “We’re very pleased to have ANARMA as our newest ally in the fight against extremist groups and individuals attempting to diminish firearms and self-defense rights.”
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Swedish Prosecutors to Announce Decision on Julian Assange Rape Case Next Week
Swedish prosecutors will announce next week whether they will reopen an investigation into a rape allegation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
The deputy director of public prosecutions Eva-Marie Persson is to hold a press conference in Stockholm on Monday to announce her decision on Assange — sentenced to 50 weeks in prison in the UK earlier this month for a bail violation.
Prosecutors dropped the rape investigation in 2017 because they were unable to proceed while he remained living in the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
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UK: Brexit Leader Farage Says EU Elections First Step to Changing Politics for Good
Nigel Farage has called on pro-Brexit voters to not just cast their ballots in protest at the forthcoming European Union elections, but to be part of a peaceful revolution in British politics that would see Parliament better represent the actual views and interests in voters.
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UK: May to Bring Brexit Deal for Fourth Vote, Tories Fear EU Election Carnage
Prime Minister Theresa May is reportedly planning to bring her Withdrawal Agreement Bill to the House of Commons for a fourth vote in the next two weeks.
Downing Street sources speaking to The Times have indicated that a motivation to bring the vote forward so soon is in reaction to the May 23rd European Parliament elections, where the Tories are set to perform badly. The deal has to be passed this month if the prime minister wants to stop newly-elected MEPs from taking their seats in the EU parliament, with the Brexit Party likely to win over Conservative voters in droves.
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Figures released by the UK’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority found over half of IVF attempts by single women are for those aged 40 and over, with almost one in 10 given to women over 44.
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The leader of the hardline pro-Remain Liberal Democrats, Vince Cable, has revealed the party’s European Parliament elections campaign slogan as “Bollocks to Brexit.”
The special edition manifesto bearing the profanity was revealed by the left-wing Guardian, with a picture of Mr Cable looking coyly over a couple of the booklets, grasped in his hand like a geisha behind a fan.
The other version of the manifesto set to be delivered to voters during campaigning simply reads, “Stop Brexit.”
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UK: Tory MP: ‘Nigel Farage is Doing a Better Job Than Theresa May in Leading’
A Conservative Party MP has openly expressed his approval of Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, saying he “is certainly doing a better job than Theresa May in leading.”
Henry Smith, Member of Parliament for Crawley, told local media that he cannot “believe a word she [Prime Minister May] says” and lamented Britons having to take part in European Parliament elections at the end of this month.
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Young Demand Action on Climate Change
A second international student strike for the climate is set to take place on May 24 — two days before the European elections.
It comes after President Macron and his government have been heavily criticised for the lack of action on climate change, especially following his press conference at the end of the Grand Débat — a big national debate.
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Yes, The Muslim Brotherhood is a Terrorist Organization
The White House is preparing to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, a measure that would impose economic and travel sanctions against the group. “The president has consulted with his national security team and leaders in the region who share his concern, and this designation is working its way through the internal process,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in an emailed statement on April 30.
The move seems to be entirely logical and fair, since the Brotherhood is the religious foundation of Islamic terrorist groups, such as al-Qaeda, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and ISIS. It not only serves as their ideological wellspring, but also cooperates with them on multiple levels, including financing and providing material support for their operations. It is a fact that before ascending to the highest positions of ISIS and al-Qaeda, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Osama bin Laden, and Ayman al-Zawahiri belonged to a common ideological precursor: the Muslim Brotherhood. All these groups are bound by the common ideological belief in a global caliphate governed by Islamic law. The Brotherhood’s longstanding motto is “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. [Allah is greater!]” The Brotherhood has provided the platform used to indoctrinate young men into Islamism and a bridge for recruits to graduate into the more violent Islamism. Factions within the groups have also supported each other based on shared goals, common enemies, and support for a united Islamist front.
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KUFOS Researchers Discover New Snakehead Fish Species in Kerala’s Subterranean Waters
Snakehead fishes of the family Channidae are predatory freshwater fishes comprising 50 valid species, many of which are important food fishes
Researchers at Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS) have discovered a new species of “snakehead fish” lurking in the subterranean waters of Kerala.
The bizarre fish has been scientifically named Aenigmachanna Gollum (Gollum Snakehead— common name) after ‘Gollum’, a character from the ‘The Lord of the Rings’, a creature that went underground and during its subterranean life changed its morphological features.
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Meet the New Species of Venomous Pit Viper Described From India
When Rohan Pandit and Wangchu Phiang accidentally stumbled upon a brown snake on a steep slope of a forest in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh in India, little did they know that the reptile had never been formally described before. Now, in a new paper, researchers have described this snake as a new-to-science species of pit viper named Trimeresurus arunachalensis, or Arunachal pit viper.
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Heart-breaking footage shows the children kneeling in a circle and praying at Zion church before main mass at 9am. Azar detonated the device outside the church when he was refused entry.
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Human Brains Re-Wired in Tech Age, Big Tech Capitalizes on “Hypersensitized” Dopamine Systems
Depression and suicide are at record rates in the west. While there are many driving factors behind this trend, one of them appears to be worsening addictions to tech.
Human development has this far driven us toward interaction with others. We needed to connect with and learn from each other. We need to reproduce.
What happens when our technology becomes more “rewarding” than anything else?
In Japan, where cultural norms allow for rapid adoption of new technology, a population crisis is emerging as young people are no longer having relationships.
[Comment: Stage one of globalist wet dream to turn humanity into the BORG.]
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Mystery Surrounds Kidnapped Panchen Lama
it is nearly 24 years since the Chinese government kidnapped the Panchen Lama — and groups around the world are calling for Beijing to reveal what has happened to the boy, who would now be 30 years old and the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism. If he is still alive.
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“Despite China’s sporadic claims that he was attending school and leading a normal life, no one has seen or heard from the 11th Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, since May 17, 1995, the day Beijing took him away as a six-year-old boy and rendered him disappeared ever since,” the Tibetan Bulletin said recently. The bulletin is published by Tibet’s government-in-exile, which is based in India and also represents the Dalai Lama.
Mr Nyima was born in Chinese-controlled Tibet on April 25, 1989. But Beijing does not recognize him as the Panchen Lama.
“The Panchen Lamas and the Dalai Lamas play a significant role in the recognition of each other’s reincarnation when they are in a position to do so, although it is neither mandatory nor indispensable,” a report by the Central Tibetan Administration said.
Buddha of Boundless Light
Both Tibetan men are believed to be incarnations of Buddha in different versions. The Buddha of Compassion is said to be reincarnated as the Dalai Lama, while the Buddha of Boundless Light becomes the Panchen Lama.
The 10th Panchen Lama died in mysterious circumstances in 1989, and on May 14, 1995, the Dalai Lama announced his recognition of the six-year-old son of a doctor and nurse in Tibet as the Panchen Lama’s 11th reincarnation.
Three days later, China took the child and his family into custody and manipulated cooperative Tibetan Buddhist clergy to declare another Tibetan boy, Gyaltsen Norbu, as the genuine reincarnation.
The Dalai Lama fled the lavish Potala Palace in Tibet in 1959 during a communist Chinese assault with help from the US Central Intelligence Agency. He has lived in self-exile in northern India since then and has consistently demanded greater autonomy for his former homeland.
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Pakistani Christian Girls Lured to China and Sold as Brides
Chinese men looking for foreign brides are now hiring brokers to find them Christian girls in Pakistan and paying off families for their daughters, according to a new report.
Since last October, an estimated 750 to 1,000 Pakistani girls have been married off to Chinese men in a trafficking scheme that often leaves the girls in precarious or abusive situations, the Associated Press (AP) reported this week.
The traffickers have targeted Pakistan’s small minority Christian population, centered in Punjab province, a deeply impoverished community with little political or social support. Their prospective husbands often profess to be Christian converts themselves, which is normally not the case.
The brokers look for especially poor or indebted families and promise large sums for their daughters, an offer that many find difficult to turn down.
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Ahmed Dawood Seedat, 37, beat and strangled his wife Fahima Yusuf at their home in Carlisle, Perth last August. Seedat had been planning to kill the 32-year-old for six weeks.
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Eight Chinese nationals flew into Melbourne Airport on Monday where Australian Border Force agents found the massive tobacco haul packed in suitcases.
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The star fullback is reportedly being considered to play in Global Rapid Rugby — a tournament in the Asia-Pacific region set up by Australian billionaire Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest.
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Jazzmin Fry used one of her shoes to attack stranger Kyle Johns, 19, in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley during celebrations for her 21st birthday.
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Red Roses Family Day Care purported to look after dozens of children in homes across Sydney, but police claim not a single one was actually in its care.
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Planners and other elites threaten the long-established pleasures of life in Australia.
Few places on earth are better suited for middle-class prosperity than Australia. From early in its history, when it was a refuge for British convicts, the vast, resource-rich country has provided an ideal environment for upward mobility, from the pioneering ranches of the nineteenth century to the middle-class suburbs of the late twentieth. Journalist Donald Horne described Australia in 1964 as “a lucky country run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck.”
Over the last decade, though, Australia’s luck has changed, as the country develops many of the pathologies of crowded, socially divided societies like the United Kingdom or the United States. Despite being highly dependent on resource sales to China—largely coal, gas, oil, and iron ore—Australia has embraced green domestic politics more associated with Manhattan liberals or Silicon Valley oligarchs than the prototypical unpretentious Aussie, often someone dependent on resource-based industries. The result: a dramatic reversal of the middle-class uplift that so long defined Australian society.
In Australia, according to the OECD, the portion of households considered middle class—that is, earning between three-quarters and double the average income—has been dropping by more than a percentage point per decade since the 1980s. The size of the country’s middle class now ranks below the OECD average, and Australia’s middle-class millennials are likelier to sink into poverty than are those of all other advanced nations, except Greece and Latvia.
Historically, the Australian Labor Party, like its counterpart in Britain, was a party of the working class. After World War II, Prime Minister John Curtin helped push through reforms—including financial support for homeowners—that accelerated middle-class prosperity. His approach was later adopted, and enhanced, by his liberal (in the classical sense) rival Robert Menzies, who recognized the family as “the cornerstone of Australian life.”
These views seem almost quaint today, particularly for a Labor Party increasingly dominated by those operating outside the tangible economy, as part of the professional class—media, finance, public service—and concentrated in the largely family-free urban cores. These information-economy elites may benefit from the flow of natural resources to East Asia, through tax policies or financing deals, or by pushing climate-change mitigation programs, but they have little stake in domestic production that makes use of Australia’s mineral wealth.
The gradual deindustrialization of Australia stems directly from policies imposed by local governments in New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland, the home states of Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. The country’s financial and cultural capital, Sydney has steadily deindustrialized, with manufacturing as a percentage of employment down 50 percent in the last two decades, as new apartments and luxury developments have replaced what was once called Australia’s Birmingham. Australia’s commitment to renewable energy dwarfs that of even the most committed green-leaning countries. Per capita, Australia has installed roughly five times as many renewable-energy installations as the E.U., the U.S., or China, and even two-and-a-half times more than climate-obsessed Germany. Not surprisingly, its energy costs are now among the highest in the world; energy prices rose 130 percent between 2015 and 2017. The Labor Party wants to boost renewables from 20 percent to 50 percent by 2030, though for greens, that’s not good enough—they demand a 100 percent renewable-energy grid by then.
Ironically, just as Australia is poised to replace Qatar as the world’s largest producer of natural gas, industrial enterprises in Australia are under enormous pressure from sky-high energy prices. Many are closing, and imports from China, India, and the Philippines are replacing what was once made domestically. These same countries are being powered by Australian coal and gas.
New Liberal Party leader Scott Morrison can’t help seeing the Left’s planning policies as an opportunity to shift working-class voters away from their traditional Labor allegiance. After all, plans by both Labor and Greens to block future coal plants or new offshore gas wells can’t be appealing to miners or people dependent on fossil fuels. New City coeditor John Muscat, a longtime social democrat, contends that the Labor Party and its putative green allies have been transformed into an instrument of the bureaucracy and “progressive” gentry, including academics, green activists, media stars, and business interests well-positioned to flourish in a hyper-regulated state. “Green planners,” Muscat says, “engage in a form of class discrimination. The costs of climate change are heaped on outer-suburban working people, who lose jobs, mobility and housing amenities, while the affluent emerge unscathed.”[…]
[See the full essay for links]
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A malnourished toddler grossly neglected by her vegan parents is now obese and ‘immediately stands out as different from other children.’
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In Venezuela, the Arrests of the Coup Leaders Have Begun
Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro is sending out the goon squad this week to quietly begin rounding up the people who participated in the attempted coup last week. While he’s not yet going after the person who actually sent out the call to revolt, his secret police force started with someone very close to the top. National Assembly Vice President Edgar Zambrano was picked up last night after leaving his office. (Associated Press)
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America Gets Huge Win! Appeals Court Rules Trump Can Send Asylum Seekers Back to Mexico
In November 2018, liberal attorney Jami Floyd appeared on PBS News Hour, where she mocked President Trump, saying he has “no legal authority to make asylum seekers stay in Mexico.” Floyd arrogantly admonished Trump, telling the host that the decision was not his to make, that it was ultimately up to the appeals court to make the decision.
Well, President Trump and American citizens just got some very good news, while Ms. Floyd just got some very bad news. “Asylum seekers” are no longer getting a free ticket to anywhere in America where they might have a connection, while they wait to find out their fate. Thanks to ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, they’re going to have to go back to Mexico and wait.
The Daily Caller reports— The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump has the authority to send asylum seekers to Mexico as they wait for the United States to adjudicate their claims, handing the president a big win on immigration policy.
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DHS Releases 7.4k Illegal Aliens Into U.S. In Six Days; 1.2k Released Every Day
President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released about 7,400 border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the United States over the last six days, federal data confirms.
The latest catch and release totals obtained by Breitbart News reveal that, between April 29 and May 5, DHS released about 7,400 border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the U.S. — or about 1,200 a day — with only the promise that they will return in months, or years, for their immigration hearings.
The catch and release process often entails federal immigration officials busing border crossers into nearby border cities and dropping them off with the hope that they show up for their immigration and asylum hearings. The overwhelming majority of border crossers and illegal aliens are never deported from the country once they are released into the U.S.
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Imam Accused of Helping Smuggle Migrants Into Britain
An imam working in the French city of Rouen was arrested along with another individual on suspicion of aiding the illegal migration of individuals across the English Channel.
The imam, who came to France seeking asylum as a political refugee, and one other who is also reported to be of the Muslim faith, were arrested in Normandy on April 30th after investigators alleged that the two men, aged 39 and 29, had been helping migrants cross the English Channel since December 2018, French newspaper La Voix du Nord reports.
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Laura Ingraham Delivers Stunning Report From the Border: “Politicians Are Lying to You!” [Video]
Finally, someone produced a mainstream media report on the reality of the border and just how American taxpayers are being scr*wed because of inactivity from our politicians in D.C. This is a “complete and total travesty” according to Laura Ingraham and she is right! She says that any politician who doesn’t think there is an emergency at our border needs to retire or be retired from office.
The video is stunning because it shows in a small amount of time how insane it is at our border and how we’re enriching the cartels by bringing in illegals who then go to town all over America to wait for their asylum hearing.
Watch below as illegals jump into the Rio Grande to be rescued by border agents in order to be ferried to the other side.
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Muslim Migrant Who Threw Milkshake on Tommy Robinson Plays the Victim After Alleged Death Threats
Danyaal Mahmud, 23, says he’s worried about his family after his protest against the right-wing candidate went viral. He also claims he was targeted by Robinson and his entourage.
Speaking to the Observer on video call from his home, where he lives with his mum, dad, and four siblings, Mahmud, 23, says he is still in shock.
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Not Here Legally? UMN Has a Scholarship for That
The University of Minnesota is offering scholarships to illegal immigrants.
On its website, the school talks about the scholarship program for illegal immigrants, as well as a program for so-called “Dreamers,” the name ascribed to individuals who came to the U.S. illegally with their parents as children, many of whom former President Barack Obama granted temporary legal status. President Donald Trump discontinued that program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.
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Ohio: 11-Year-Old Raped, Pregnant by Juan Leon-Gomez From Guatemala
The rape of a child in Ohio was 100% preventable…
Are sanctuary cities endangering our citizens in the name of cheap labor? This town had a big ICE bust of 100 illegals in 2018 at a local meat supplier.
Yet another illegal alien is accused of raping a child. The 11-year-old girl is now pregnant.
The young girl’s mother reported her missing last Wednesday. The local police went to Juan Leon-Gomez’s house and when they arrived the lights were suddenly turned off. The man’s roommate let the police search the house because he didn’t want to be involved. The 11-year-old girl was eventually found in an upstairs bedroom closet.
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Orban Urges Europeans to Vote for Anti-Migration Leaders
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Facebook on Thursday that voters should tick the boxes of anti-migration leaders on European Parliament ballot papers so that the bloc can protect itself “and the future of our children”.
In a video recorded in Sibiu, central Romania, on the sidelines of an informal summit of European Union leaders, Orban said discussions had been focused on Europe’s future, but absent of the opinions of ordinary people, it would be impossible to draw any meaningful conclusions.
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UK: BBC Report on Overworked Doctors Blames Pensioners, Ignores Migration-Fuelled Population Growth
In a report lamenting a fall in general practitioner (GP) numbers per capita, Britain’s state broadcaster the BBC failed to mention immigration-driven population growth and instead blamed an “ageing” society for the decline.
A study by the Nuffield Trust said the drop in UK doctor numbers from 65 per 100,000 UK residents in 2014 to 60 last year, marked the first sustained fall in the figure since the 1960s.
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After Alexis DeToqueville toured America in the early 19th century, he predicted that the United States would be a great, successful nation. America will be great, he said, because America is good; and the thing that made it good, he said, was the nation’s strong attachment to the Christian religion.
I wonder what he would have said if he’d been able, last week, to observe the annual Met Gala.
The gala is a fund-raiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art—a gathering of celebrities a lot of us have never heard of, all competing to see who can show off the silliest clothes and waste the most money on it. In fact, it’s a top-of-the-line freak show.
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The Labor party will post a photo of Gurpal Singh starting Friday, as part of a social media campaign to bring attention to the candidate for the Scullin seat in north Melbourne.
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Microsoft to Release Version of Word That Makes Your Grammar ‘Politically Correct’
New features will screen out ‘offensive’ language
Microsoft is set to release a new version of Word that uses artificial intelligence to make your writing ‘politically correct’.
[Comment: Initial version only, a “woke” syntax checker is the end goal. ]
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Parents Sue Elementary School After Forced Transgender Education and Transition Encouragement
The parents of an 8-year-old boy in Woodburn, Oregon, are suing the school district for $999,999 after they say their son was taken away from recess and forced to sit through transgender re-education as school officials thought the boy wanted to “transition” and encouraged him seek gender reassignment.
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Report: STEM School Shooting Suspect Identified as Female to Male Transgender
Local news reports shooter accomplice experienced gender dysphoria
One of the alleged shooters suspected of opening fire at a STEM school in Colorado identified as a transgender male, according to a local report.
Police identified Trump-hating leftist Devon Erickson, 18, as one of the suspects in the Highlands Ranch incident, but little else was revealed about his juvenile accomplice, other than a statement from The Denver Channel commenting on the underage suspect’s gender dysphoria.
“Multiple sources close to the investigation told Denver7 late Tuesday night that the second suspect, who is a minor, is a transgender male who was in the midst of transitioning from female to male,” Denver7 reported Tuesday.
In a follow-up story, Denver7 explained the confusion as to the underage suspect’s gender, publishing a statement from Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock, who claimed police initially believed the suspect was a male.
“Spurlock adjusted what he said Tuesday and said the juvenile suspect in the shooting, whose name and age has not been released, was a female. He originally said the suspect was male on Tuesday, but said Wednesday that officials originally thought the suspect was male by their ‘appearance,’“ Denver7 reported Wednesday.
The shooting left one student dead and eight others injured, three critically.
[Comment: Perhaps thats why the attack on Christians — they refuse to bow down to the delusion of “gender fluidity”.]
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The Democrats Officially Adopt Satanism as Their Religion
The democratic party has aligned itself with “values” that contradict the traditional American and Christian values that once made America a moral country. Alex explains how the soul of the democratic party has already sold out to evil.
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The devil has managed to make the Democrat Party his private headquarters
The devil (playing Hooky from Hell) has a tendency of throwing spittle-flecked hissy fits whenever confronted with religious symbols. Ditto for Democrat Pennsylvania state rep. Brian Sims, who went ballistic all for spotting an elderly lady quietly praying The Rosary in front of a Planned Parenthood facility.
Satan, and his demons, “who roam throughout this world seeking the ruin of souls”, is an evil fixture in the reality of life in the Valley of Tears. Sims, an elected politician who harasses elderly women and teenaged girls, lives in the surrealism of the hatefest world shoved down the throats of the masses by roaming members of the seriously unhinged Democrat Party.
Who for eight minutes long would rant and rave at an elderly woman quietly praying, post a video of it online and go on to brag about it on Twitter?
Calls for Brian Sims to ‘immediately resign’ for harassing pro-lifers are increasing, Fox News reports…
Tucker Carlson called Sims a “frothing extremist” and a “totally mainstream figure in today’s Democrat Party”.
But no one describes Sims better than Deacon Greg Kandra who wrote: “Watching his rage-monkey videos, one wonders, ‘Does he not hear himself?’
“Of course he hears himself. He doesn’t hear anything else.”
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The Left Stole This Nation by Force
Words are powerful. They can make or break an argument, a relationship, or even a judicial system. Our entire nation has been captured and we really have no idea how it happened.
Well, let me help you here. One of the greatest weapons that the Left has used to STEAL this nation is through the power of words. Just stop and consider for a moment the words that we use today that have nothing to do with the meaning of the words 50 years ago.
Some call it evolution. I call it destruction. Devolution is actually a better term. America hasn’t EVOLVED, it has devolved. Despite what the academics, the entertainers, and the talking heads have told you, America is not better off today than it was fifty years ago. We have been lied to. Snookered would be a better term, by the wordsmiths and their effective, decades-long march through the institutions of America.
Think about how the words have changed. Gay, tolerant, accepting, love, judgment, are neutral words that have been weaponized. Heck, masculine, male, man, are all nothing more than identifiers twisted and used for an evil intent. The altering of the words has turned America upside down. Today, the children, and those who act like children, are running the world. How did all this happen?
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The Liberal Hypocrites Who Want to be Our Moral Betters
Watching the recent and laughably hypocritical social media authorities’ crackdown on “hate speech” (which means “speech that we don’t like”), one is reminded strikingly of a confrontation recorded in the Gospels between Jesus Christ and the Pharisees. Christ directed attention to the longstanding Pharisaical pretension to be just and holy men, although He in His omniscience saw them privately indulging in the very vices they publicly condemned:
Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness[…] … So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. (Matt. 11:23—27)
Virtue-signaling liberals would have you believe they are the most conscientious of people, perfectly positioned to lecture the public on matters of morality, but in truth, they defend and promote so many abominable injustices that it is impossible to ignore their rank hypocrisy. The most recent attempts of the left to play the part of public virtue police recalls an almost infinite treasury of liberal hypocrisy:
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University of North Texas Course Teaches Students About ‘Sexual Pleasure’ For Infants
A human sexuality course at the University of North Texas asks enrolled students to observe “sexual interactions” in young children. The class also included a presentation titled “Sexual Pleasure and Response in Infants.”
A report from The College Fix revealed that a course at the University of North Texas is taking a bizarre stance on the sexuality of young children. The course, which is entitled “Psychology and Sexual Behavior,” has been criticized for an alleged lesson on “sexual pleasure” in “infants.” Photos from the classroom show a PowerPoint presentation with the title “Sexual Pleasure and Response in Infants.”
The College Fix highlighted an excerpt from the course’s textbook, which is called Our Sexuality asks students to go to a local elementary school playground or daycare center to observe “sexual interactions” between the children.
[Comment: Sounds like they are trying to “rewire” students minds to normalize pedophilia.]
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Pope Francis Calls for End of Sovereignty and Establishment of Global Government
At a meeting of the Pontifical Academy held recently, Pope Francis advocated a policy of decreased national sovereignty and increased global unity. A shift toward globalism is necessary, he said, in order to fight climate change and other worldwide “threats.”
“When a supranational common good is clearly identified, it is necessary to have a special authority legally and concordantly constituted capable of facilitating its implementation. We think of the great contemporary challenges of climate change, new forms of slavery and peace,” his holiness told those gathered to discuss “Nation, State, and Nation-State,” the conference theme.
Pope Francis put a pretty fine point on his message, claiming that planetary problems are exacerbated by “an excessive demand for sovereignty on the part of States.”
He moved on to immigration, declaring that nationalism is too easily twisted into a doctrine repugnant to the welcoming of immigrants. “The Church observes with concern the reemergence, in many parts of the world, of currents that are aggressive towards foreigners, especially immigrants, as well as a growing nationalism that neglects the common good,” Pope Francis said.
Our only hope for planetary peace and progress is to make room for “international organizations” to develop into governing bodies, supplanting the “state interests” with the will of the United Nations, he stated.
Speaking of the United Nations, Pope Francis announced his ardent support for the sine qua non of all globalists: “sustainable development.”
He declared that if we hope to save the planet we must accept that we are one people and unite to create “a space for dialogue and meeting for all countries in a spirit of mutual respect,” and must stop what “hinders the attainment of the sustainable development goals approved unanimously by the United Nations.”
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Pope Frankie is…..a communist! Throw him out.
re: Pope Wants Globalism
He said “Our only hope for planetary peace and progress is to make room for “international organizations” to develop into governing bodies, supplanting the “state interests” with the will of the United Nations, he stated.”
Let me emphasise his words :…”international organisations to DEVELOP INTO GOVERNING BODIES
This is a clearly stated goal of Agenda 2030 and I believe to be one the most dangerous.
The UN has begun creating a separate body within the UN with voting rights and a prominent place in policy making. This new entity will be comprised mainly of large corporations and NGOs and any entity that can partner with the UN to help achieve the Agenda’s goals of – ‘sustainable development’ (the Pope uses that famous phrase once again which is the cornerstone of Agenda 2030).
Corporate global monopolies and dominating corporations are not discouraged by the UN as they allow the UN to more easily harness the power and resources of such entities, especially if these companies willingly partner with the UN. Such huge and domineering corporations such as Facebook, VISA, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, large Security service providers, Utility providers etc., are generally NOT viewed by the UN as dangerously monopolising their markets or exerting too much influence and control. Alarmingly the power and control these corporations can offer is what Agenda 2030 demands to achieve its goals and silence its opponents. Do not expect UN demands for the breaking up of these monopolies and near monopolies, unless a corporation becomes a rogue and doesn’t keep itself in an agreeable position with the UN.
The UN cunningly understands that it is easier to implement the goals of Agenda 2030 utilising corporations which are global in reach and powerful and wealthy enough to do the necessary work.
If a global system of internet censorship is required, it is easier for the UN to govern or partnership with only a single or a few corporations who can do the work. It is then potentially easier to maintain consistency of the work and to use the power of the monopolisation to attack all opponents of the UN’s goals. The goal of global governance then appears to be to create more a system of partnerships versus the complete UN ownership of all industries necessary to meet its goals. Expect to see more UN, and also EU, protection and support for all large domineering corporations that partner themselves with UN and EU goals.