The culture-enricher who beaned Rasmus Paludan with a rock will be deported from Denmark after he serves his sentence. Mr. Paludan has often been featured in this space as an unrepentant “Islamophobe”.
In other news, according to recent reports the Swedish security police agency Säpo is now secretly deporting foreign “extremists”.
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Air Force Warns of Angry “Incel” Men Who Can’t Get Laid and Go on Mass Killing Sprees Instead
Joint Base Andrews in Maryland recently issued a threat brief regarding “incels”: members of an online movement that “adopt an ideology of misogyny, mistrust of women, and violence in response to their failed attempts at romantic relationships,” according to Task and Purpose.
The term “incel” is generally defined as: “…members of an online subculture who define themselves as unable to find a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one, a state they describe as inceldom. Self-identified incels are largely white and are almost exclusively male heterosexuals. The term is a portmanteau of “involuntary celibates”.”
Another, simpler definition: men who can’t get laid.
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Bill to Ban Rodenticides Coincides With Rat Infestation and Disease in Los Angeles
While Los Angeles, and other large California cities are experiencing rat infestations within homeless camps, AB 1788, by Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica) will ban Rodenticides — rodent poisons. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Pesticide Regulation already regulate these products for efficacy, human health impacts and impacts to the environment.
Rodenticides have been a critical tool for controlling rodent populations to protect Californians from the spread of disease and illnessRodenticides have been a critical tool for controlling rodent populations to protect Californians from the spread of disease and illness.
California’s largest cities are ground zero of the state’s expanding homeless population. Contrary to most city leaders’ claims that this is a housing problem, it is not that simple. While California’s housing costs are through the roof, many of those living on the streets are not even from California, but come here for the state’s liberal policies on drug use, easy theft opportunities and lack of criminal convictions, generous welfare benefits, as well as the “sanctuary” status — and the weather.
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Black Prof Deletes Essay on Whether to Kick “Homeless White Boy” In Face
State University of New York professor Nicholas Powers published and then deleted an essay with the perfectly normal title “Seeing poor white people makes me happy.”
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CNN Journalist Says No “Real Evidence” Big Tech is “Biased Against Conservatives”
According to CNN journalist Donnie O’Sullivan, there is “no real evidence” that Big Tech platforms are “biased against conservatives”.
Yes, really.
“Putting a disclaimer on one of @realDonaldTrump’s tweets would almost certainly bring a firestorm of criticism down on Twitter’s head,” tweeted O’Sullivan. “Republicans in Washington, including Trump, often claim without real evidence that technology companies are biased against conservatives.”
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E Jean Carroll Says She Has ‘Not Been Raped’ Following Trump Accusation
Columnist E. Jean Carroll said she doesn’t consider herself to be a victim and has “not been raped” after she alleged President Donald Trump had sexually assaulted her in the 1990s.
Carroll, 75, accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was 52 at a Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. The accusation came ahead of her upcoming book “What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal.” An excerpt of that book describing the alleged sexual assault was published in New York Magazine on June 21.
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Ofc. Kevin Preiss, a 24-year veteran assigned to the 50th Precinct in the Bronx who has a wife and several children, shot himself at his home on Long Island, law enforcement sources familar [sic] with the investigation told News 4 Thursday,” according to NBC4.In what is quickly becoming a crisis, NYPD officers are committing suicide at an alarming rate. Preiss reportedly had a shining record of service that included saving a man’s life after the man had a heart attack in a Dunkin’ Donuts shortly before Christmas in 2016.Conservative commentators were quick to note that NYPD officers loathe de Blasio after he used the talking point to bolster his credibility during Wednesday’s debate.
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GOP Congressman Says He Will Press Charges Against Woman Who Threw Drink at Him
Matt Gaetz said Thursday that he intends to press charges against a woman who threw a milkshake at him following a town hall discussion this month.
While leaving the event in Pensacola, Florida, the drink hit the Republican congressman after being hurled at him by his former political opponent in the 2016 congressional election, Democrat Amanda Kondrat’yev. The 35-year-old politician-turned-protester was arrested on site and charged with battery.
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Hate Crime Hoaxes Are More Common Than You Think
A political scientist found that fewer than 1 in 3 of 346 such allegations was genuine.
When I asked Wilfred Reilly about last week’s appointment of a special prosecutor in Chicago to take up the Jussie Smollett case, he was cautiously optimistic. Mr. Reilly is author of a new book, “Hate Crime Hoax,” in which he details how the initial publicity for supposed hate crimes tends all but to disappear if the allegations are exposed as fake.
So does the sustained press coverage of Mr. Smollett—the television actor who was accused of staging an attack on himself back in January, only to have all 16 felony counts against him abruptly dropped for reasons that prosecutors have never made clear—represent progress of sorts?
“It’s the archetype of a hate crime hoax. It’s one of the most flamboyant examples of the genre,” said Mr. Reilly, himself a Second City native. An openly gay black man residing in one of the country’s most liberal and diverse metropolises is set upon by two white Donald Trump supporters who brandish bleach and a noose while shouting racial and antigay slurs? “It was a situation so extreme and bizarre that I think we would have had to look at how much racial progress the U.S. had actually made had it really occurred.” The appointment of a special prosecutor, and the possibility of bringing new charges against Mr. Smollett, is a good sign, Mr. Reilly added, “but will we see the same amount of coverage when the hoax involves a less famous person?”
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Murray State Prof Discovers New Insect Species With Help From Five-Year-Old Daughter
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE/WTPR) — A Murray State University biology professor made an entomological discovery in her back yard thanks to a special research assistant ….her 5-year-old daughter.
Dr. Laura Sullivan-Beckers said her daughter, Sylvie, found a new species of treehoppers while they were planting flowers in their garden back in 2016. According to WAVE 3 News, the discovery was the result of serendipity when her daughter overwatered their garden.
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New Species of Loquat-Killing Beetle Identified
If you live in an area where winter temperatures routinely drop below freezing, you may have never even heard of the evergreen loquat tree and its delicious fruit. But it may be troubling to hear that a new bark beetle pest of loquats has been identified in China by the University of Florida’s Forest Entomology Lab. A new paper describing the beetle has just been published in the journal Insects.
The beetle, newly named Cryphalus eriobotryae, was first observed in April of 2018 in a tree nursery near the city of Suzhou in Jiangsu, a coastal province of China. Loquat treeswere dying for unknown reasons. There are no other insect pests known either to specialize in loquat trees or to kill them. But when the problem spread to other areas during the summer of 2018, it became clear that a real problem had emerged.
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Update: President Trump responded to the Supreme Court’s decision to block the citizenship question, tweeting Thursday afternoon: “Seems totally ridiculous that our government, and indeed Country, cannot ask a basic question of Citizenship in a very expensive, detailed and important Census,” adding that he is asking White House lawyers if the 2020 census can be delayed until the Supreme Court can consider “additional information from which it can make a final and decisive decision.”
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Trump Trolls MSNBC Over Embarrassing Technical Problems During Dem Debate
President Trump continued to troll MSNBC over technical difficulties during last night’s Democratic debate, tweeting a meme showing the lights going off during proceedings.
During last night’s debate, hosts Rachel Maddow and Chuck Todd struggled to get their questions out because there was an open mic in the background.
“We are hearing our colleague’s audio,” Todd said.
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Twitter Lays Groundwork for Potentially Down Ranking Some of Trump’s Tweets
Twitter announced Thursday the company will begin labeling and down ranking politicians’ most vitriolic tweets, a move that could affect how President Donald Trump promotes his message.
The new label applies to all verified political candidates and officials with more than 100,000 followers, Twitter noted in a blog post. Users who want to view flagged content must click on a screen that says Twitter’s rules against abusive behavior apply to the tweet.
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Denmark: Video of Pupils Being Taught to Chant “Allahu Akbar” Causes Controversy
A video showing Danish schoolchildren being trained how to perform a Muslim prayer and chant “Allahu Akbar” has stoked controversy.
The clip shows a boy of African descent in Muslim clothing demonstrating the Islamic prayer to a group of mainly ethnically Danish children.
He is then interrupted by a teacher who instructs the kids to say “Allahu Akbar,” after which the entire class kneels in prayer.
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France: Criminal Damage Ruled Out in Notre Dame Blaze, Prosecutors Investigate Possible Negligence
French prosecutors have ruled out deliberate criminal action in the April fire that destroyed the roof and spire of Notre Dame cathedral, but are investigating possible negligence.
After two months of preliminary investigation, the Paris public prosecutor’s office announced on Wednesday that the initial inquiry into the fire at the Notre-Dame-de-Paris has been completed, and that “no element” of their investigation backs the hypothesis that the blaze was of criminal origin.
The two-month preliminary investigation was conducted by the Criminal Brigade of the Regional Directorate of Judicial Police, which undertook about 100 witness hearings and assessed numerous findings, resulting in a file of 1,125 documents.
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From Islam’s Shahada to Communism’s Credo: Shared Totalitarian “Religious” Visions
A century ago, in April, 1918, the Burlington Vermont Daily News, captured, unintentionally, the quintessential, shared ideological roots of Neo-Marxist Bernie Sanders’ Red [Communism]- Green [Islam] Alliance, foreshadowing the ugly consequences of this nexus:
“[M]any of the Protestant churches in Germany are no more than empty shells. This lack of horizon, spiritually speaking, has led to the growth of socialism to a marked degree in Germany. Karl Marx was its founder and its slogan is ‘There is no God, and Karl Marx is his prophet.’“
Even earlier, five years before the October, 1917 Bolshevik Revolution would begin to impose Communist totalitarianism on Russia, Henry C. Vedder, observed in his 1912 study of Socialism, that the Marxist Social Labor Federation of Britain had adopted Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital” [Capital] as their infallible authority, “an article of faith from which they will permit no dissent, on pain of excommunication.” Vedder, a Professor of Church History at the Upland, Pennsylvania Crozer Theological Seminary, added that this British Marxist organization rejected the orthodoxy of its own votaries unless they too professed as their credo, “There is no God, and Karl Marx is his prophet.”— mirroring the Islamic declaration of faith (p.730), or “shahada,”—”There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet.”…
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Italy: Nutkao: Nutella’s Rival, Expands Govone Plant
Located a few kilometres from the Nutella factory, Nutkao announced plans to expand its plant in Govone where it will produce the “Pan di Stelle” spreadable cream for Barilla. The expansion on the outskirts of Alba was two years in the making and cost 30 million euros
It takes guts to open a production facility for a hazelnut cocoa spread just a few kilometers from Nutella’s parent company. But that’s exactly what Giuseppe Braida, founder of Nutkao, did 38 years ago. A successful bet—the Italian holding company White Bridge Investments Spa bought 80 percent of Nutkao last year—as Nutkao today holds a leading position in the global private label industry and in the production of semi-finished products for the confectionery industry with two production plants in Canove di Govone, not far from Alba, and in Battleboro, in North Carolina, USA.
Nutkao announced it will expand its Govone plant on 21 June—the result of two years of intense work and a 30 million euro investment. “It will be an inauguration behind closed doors, dedicated mainly to our customers and shareholders,” a company statement issued from Govone said. One of these customers include Barilla, the Italian food company headquartered in Parma. They’ve chosen Nutkao as collaborator in the production of their “Pan di Stelle” chocolate spread, which entered the market at the end of 2018, in an effort to challenge the Nutella Ferrero giant.
“The last few months have been a remarkable change of pace for us,” Nutkao officials said. they “The expansion of production sites was necessary to satisfy a constantly growing demand for labor. We have important objectives and we have equipped ourselves to achieve them successfully.” More than 250 workers are currently employed in the renovated factory in Govone, and the expansion will bring in an additional 8,000 square meters (from 12,000 to 20,000) of capacity. It will take a few months for the new production lines to operate at full capacity. In addition to the site created in the United States in 2015, last year the company also acquired a company in Ghana, in Accra, for the processing of cocoa beans. In 2018, the group made a turnover of 140 million euros, up 8 percent compared to the previous year…
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Italy: Probe Into Scam to Give Foster Kids to ‘Acquaintances’
Kids were allegedly brainwashed to be taken from family homes
(ANSA) — Reggio Emilia, June 27 — Carabinieri police said on Thursday that they were executing judicial warrants on 18 people accused of felonies related to the way in which some children were taken from their family homes and put into foster care.
Six of the suspects were put under house arrest, including Andrea Carletti, the (LEFTIST) mayor of the town in Bibbiano, in the province of Reggio Emilia. The probe, nicknamed ‘Angels and Demons’, regards allegations that false reports were drafted to justify taking children away from their families in order to put them into the foster care of friends and acquaintances of people involved in the scam.
Those people then allegedly received public money for having the children in their care. The suspects include local politicians, doctors, social workers and psychologists working for Turin-based non-profit association.
The children were allegedly subjected to hours of “brainwashing” during psychotherapy sessions featuring the use of electric impulses which were called “memory machines”.
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Macron May be About to Become the Most Powerful Man in Europe
by Matt Snape
Emmanuel Macron won the 2017 French Presidential Election because he was portrayed as a sensible alternative to the left and the right. But many French citizens now perceive him as out of touch with the average person. Some have dubbed him as the ‘President of the rich.’ Macron’s image has been tarnished by several political blunders, which include dismissing an unemployed man’s problems in a video that went viral. It was also revealed that he spent around £23,000 on make-up during the first three months of his presidency, as well as ordering 1,200 plates worth hundreds of thousands of euros.
Instead of bridging the gap between the left and the right, the French President has only alienated them. 100,000 protesters took to the streets last October to oppose new economic policies that would see some people suffering cuts to their monthly support. Left-wing leaders accused him of ‘destroying France’s social model’, and labour unions are planning more demonstrations…
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Sweden Police Call for Criminalisation of Possession of Terror Propaganda
The chief of the Swedish Security Police (Säpo) has demanded the government look at tabling laws to criminalise the possession of terrorist propaganda.
Säpo head Klas Friberg argued that not only do police regularly find propaganda in the possession of terror suspects and extremist recruiters but that some of the material also gives instructions on how to carry out terrorist acts, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
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Swedish Police Secretly Arresting and Deporting Foreign Extremists
The Swedish security police (Säpo) have used a recently passed law to secretly arrest and deport a number of foreign extremists, according to a report.
Säpo has allegedly kept foreign extremists from both the radical Islamist scene and the far-right neo-Nazi scene in prison for months before putting them on flights back to their home countries under a veil of secrecy, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reports.
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Syrian to be Deported After Attacking Danish Anti-Islamisation Politician
An asylum seeker from Syria has been sentenced to 60 days in prison followed by a deportation order for hitting anti-Islamisation campaigner Rasmus Paludan in the head with a rock.
The 24-year-old Syrian will be banned from re-entering Denmark for six years following his conviction in the case earlier this week, Danish broadcaster TV2 reports.
The attack which sparked the case occurred on April 19th when Mr Paludan held a demonstration in the city of Viborg.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office sought to calm nerves after she suffered a second bout of uncontrolled trembling in just over a week, saying the veteran leader was en route to Osaka on Thursday as planned for the G20 summit.
Merkel’s latest health scare came just hours before she was due to board the plane for Japan, sparking new questions about her health.
On Thursday, a German government spokesman said Merkel would not cancel any appointments in the next two days — saying ‘The chancellor is well.’
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UK Prime Minister Candidates Squabble Over Who Would Win in a Nude Mud-Wrestle
Conservative Party leadership candidates Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt are squabbling over who would win in a nude mud-wrestling match.
The challenge between the two political heavyweights was sparked after ConservativeHome asked Mr Johnson if felt “compelled” to challenge Mr Hunt to a “nude mud-wrestling contest” and “have it out mano a mano” after the foreign secretary called him a “coward” for avoiding televised debates.
Mr Johnson, who has lost a noticeable amount of weight since positioning himself as prospective party leader, replied: “I would defeat anybody in such a contest, were I obliged to do so, but that’s not how I propose to win this.
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UK: London: Beloved Pet Donkey Stabbed in ‘Gang Initiation Ritual’
Not even the animals are safe from London’s knife crime wave.
Bimbo, a 28-year-old donkey, was stabbed in its side during an attack on Friday and has since taken a “turn for the worse” after the wound became infected.
Owner Lorayne Ahmet says the senseless stabbing was probably part of a gang initiation ritual.
“There have been a few stabbings in Eltham of late and I have seen youths messing around with the donkeys,” she said, adding, “I think one of them could have stabbed Bimbo as a gang initiation task.”
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UK: Remain Die-Hards Threaten Government Shutdown if Boris Johnson Attempts Full Brexit in October
After several failed attempts to sabotage the Brexit process from within the House of Commons, die-hard Remain Members of Parliament will now attempt to starve the government of money if a future Prime Minister attempts to take Britain out of the European Union.
In preparation for a U.S. style shutdown proposed to sabotage any attempt by Boris Johnson — the Conservative Member of Parliament thought to be the front-runner to become the new Prime Minister next month — to fulfil his pledge to implement Brexit “do or die”, Remainers will vote next week to empower themselves to plunge the country into crisis to punish it for wanting to leave Europe.
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UK: Rising Crime, Cost of Living Blamed for Record Exodus of Londoners From City
A record number of Londoners fled the capital in 2018, new internal migration figures reveal, with an economist blaming the exodus on violent crime and the cost of living.
An Office for National Statistics study of internal migration — not including figures of migrants coming from outside the UK — published Wednesday found that more than 340,000 residents left London to move to other regions. The rise represents the highest number since the ONS began collecting these statistics seven years ago.
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Israel’s EU Pipedreams Are Becoming a Reality
by Jo Harper
The discovery of a giant gas field, Tamar, off the coast of Israel in 2009 opened up a new era for the Eastern Mediterranean as an energy hot spot, but regional politics stood in the way for some years. This could be about to change. Now, with Israel and the Gulf states finding common cause against Iran, several Arab leaders are breaking longstanding diplomatic taboos on Israel. Meanwhile, Washington supports an opening of Israeli gas exploration that could help Europe diversify away from Russian imports.
Israel’s proven gas reserves are estimated at some 455 billion cubic meters (bcm), where the Eastern Mediterranean in total has about 2100 bcm of gas. The EU’s consumption of gas in 2017 was 410 bcm, meaning that Israel’s reserves are enough to supply the EU for a short-term period.
UK-listed exploration and production company Energean Oil & Gas recently made a “significant” gas discovery in the Karish North of Israel. This area has an estimated 28-42 bcm of recoverable gas. Exxon and Qatar Gas have, since 2009, discovered another giant gas field off the coast of Cyprus. Italy’s Eni has found deposits off the coast of Egypt…
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France Warns Pentagon Chief Not to Drag NATO Into Military Action Against Iran
The US defense secretary is trying to “internationalize” the US stand-off with Iran by convincing NATO allies to help. France reportedly rebuked his advances, saying the alliance shouldn’t be dragged into war in the Gulf, RT.com reports.
Mark Esper is meeting his NATO counterparts in Brussels this week, attempting to bring NATO members onto Washington’s side as its confrontation with Tehran is ratcheting up.
Talking to reporters at NATO HQ on Thursday after a closed-door session, Esper said the other allies need to publicly condemn Iran’s “bad behavior,” claiming this would help push events away from “a military track.”
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Poll: Only 24 Per Cent of Americans Support Military Strike on Iran
Just 24 per cent of Americans are in favor of military action against Iran, a new poll has found.
The survey, conducted by Hill-HarrisX, reveals that just 5% want “war” and a further 19% are in favor of a limited strike.
58% of Americans support a non-military approach, with 48% favoring diplomacy and 9% saying the U.S. should take no action whatsoever.
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Putin Eviscerates Liberalism, Calling it “Obsolete”, in Wide-Ranging Interview Ahead of G-20
In an exclusive interview with FT on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin touted the growth of national populism in Europe and America while saying that liberalism is “spent” as an ideology. He spoke on numerous issues at length, which we have broken down here by topic.
Liberal Governments
On the eve of the G20 summit, Putin said that the “liberal idea” had “outlived its purpose” as the public has turned against immigration and multiculturalism. His push back on liberalism aligns Putin with leaders like US president Donald Trump, Hungary’s Viktor Orban, Matteo Salvini in Italy, and the Brexit insurgency in the UK.
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Australian Student Feared Detained in N. Korea
Fears have been raised for the welfare of an Australian student who vanished in North Korea in mysterious circumstances.Alek Sigley, 29, a student at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang has not been seen or heard from by friends and loved ones for more than 48 hours.He was prolific on social media, regularly posting images and updates about his life in North Korea.His last post was on June 24 where he posted a picture of a hotel that he said was due to open soon.According to media in South Korea, he was taken into custody by North Korean officials.
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The property in the Gold Coast’s Ridgeway Ave had been the place of worship for the Metro Church until it was sold for $3.4 million in April this year.
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Cocaine Found in Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s G20 Plane Entourage
An Air Force sergeant arrested by Spanish police over allegedly trying to smuggle three bags full of cocaine into Spain was part of the Jair Bolsonaro’s G20 plane entourage, Brazilian officials have confirmed.
Spanish police source told Reuters the sergeant was arrested after officers discovered 39 kilograms of cocaine in three pieces of luggage, which police checked on Tuesday while the plane was waiting to continue its journey to Japan for the G20 Summit.
Brazil’s Air Force said the sergeant worked as cabin crew on a support aircraft and was not on Mr Bolsonaro’s presidential plane.
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Crime-Ravaged Mexico City Deploys 140,000 National Guard Troops to Enforce Order
Mexico is deploying its new militarized National Guard police force within Mexico City in an effort to quell a recent surge in violent criminal activity, according to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
“We need a stronger presence of security forces and more protection for residents of the capital,” Lopez Obrador said during his daily news conference on Thursday, pointing to increases in homicides, kidnappings and extortion amid intense cartel turf wars, according to Reuters.
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Mysterious Deaths Lead to Plunge in Dominican Republic Tourism, Bookings Down 75%
Tourism to the Dominican Republic has cratered amid a spate of mysterious tourist deaths — the latest being 46-year-old Denver resident Khalid Adkins, who was removed from a plane “screaming in agony” as his kidneys failed. Adkins is the 12th American to die in the Caribbean nation, while scores of other tourists have reported falling critically ill, including a teenage girl from Argentina who has gone into a coma after she was rushed to a local medical center for dizziness, dehydration and vomiting.
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Two groups of migrants from Congo and Angola easily crossed over from Guatemala into Mexico without any push back from police.
“Just watched 2 groups of Africans from Congo and Angola cross illegally into Mexico from Guatemala across the Suchiate River on tube rafts, Epoch Times reporter Charlotte Cuthbertson tweeted with a video of the Africans rafting across the river.
According to Cuthbertson: “One guy from Angola said he took a boat to Colombia (10 days), walked through jungle for 10 days, and has spent 2 months getting this far (to Mexico). Angolan woman said she flew to Panama first. She has a 2yo with her.”
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The Dalai Lama has warned that Europe could become ‘Muslim or African’ if refugees who have been taken in are not then sent back to their home countries.
The Buddhist spiritual leader, who has been living as a refugee in India since fleeing Tibet in 1959, said only a ‘limited number’ of migrants should be allowed to remain.
During an interview with the BBC, the Dalai Lama added that refugees who have fled to Europe should be given skills before being returned.
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Italy: Migrant NGO Vessel Storms Salvini Blockade
After 14 days of being denied access to Italian ports with over 40 migrants on board, the captain of the Sea Watch-3 has set sail for the island of Lampedusa.
Captain of Sea Watch-3 Carola Rackete made an announcement early on Wednesday that she would break the blockade enacted by populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and attempt to land 42 migrants on the island, Italian newspaper Il Giornale reports.
“Good evening, I inform you that I must enter Italian territorial waters,” Rackete told the Lampedusa Harbour Master’s Office over the radio and added: “I can no longer guarantee the status of people. I have to disembark the 42 people I have on board. I will tack the boat, I will enter the territorial waters.”
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O’Keefe strikes again!
Project Veritas is on a roll exposing Google’s political bias.
First, Veritas revealed that Google was working on preventing a “Trump situation” in 2020.
Now O’Keefe has received s new Google “resist” document showing “internal beginner’s guide to protesting.”
The suggested chants and signs all push the anti-American, globalist agenda of no borders.
Google is also pushing the idea that Muslim refugees must be allowed to flood the West unabated.
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Pelosi Folds: Confirms House Will “Reluctantly” Pass Trump’s Emergency Border Bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced that the Democaratic controlled House will bend the knee, and has agreed to pass the Senate’s $4.6 billion immigration bill to deliver aid to the southern border.
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UK: Farage, Migration Watch Cast Doubt on Boris ‘Points-Based Immigration’ Plan
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has cast doubt on Boris Johnson’s proposed points-based immigration system, with the Migration Watch UK think tank pointing out that it may be a ruse to increase the current influx.
Mr Johnson, the former Vote Leave frontman who is the runaway favourite in the Tory membership run-off vote for party leader and, by extension, Prime Minister — unless Theresa May or anti-Brexit colleagues move to thwart the transfer of power — is touting an “Australian-style points-based system” to bring immigration under control after Brexit.
However, despite public perception of the former Foreign Secretary and Mayor of London as a right-winger on such issues, he is in fact a long-standing proponent of a sweeping amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants — and Nigel Farage and pro-borders advocates fear his “points-based system” may be a ruse to relax the country’s already weak and demonstrably failing immigration controls.
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Bank of America announced it will end its association with businesses that run illegal alien holding centers.
Democrats are outraged that children are being held at the Homestead facility in Florida.
They want open borders.
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Josh Bornstein, who represented three people dismissed for expressing controversial views on Twitter, has spoken out against employers who stifled freedom of speech amid Israel Folau saga.
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WOMEN who identify as male are not being offered vital routine breast screenings and cervical cancer checks in case it offends them.
But men identifying as women will be invited for cervical smear tests — even though they don’t have a cervix.
The advice comes from a 24-page booklet published by Public Health England called “Information for trans people”.
The PHE booklet explains “who we invite for screening”.
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Shock Video Shows Leftists Celebrating Late Term Abortions
One woman described a fetus as a “tapeworm”.
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Video: Young Turks Presenter Gets Angry With His Own ‘Woke’ Audience
A video clip shows Young Turks presenter Hasan Piker getting angry with his own ‘woke’ audience because they can’t tolerate him criticizing a female Democratic candidate without calling him sexist.
“I’m f****** done with all of you,” rants Piker, before explaining how it is only acceptable with his fanbase to criticize straight, white men like Joe Biden.
“You guys are literally turning me into a f****** reactionary,” says Piker, emphasizing that he is allowed to speak bad of “straight white dudes,” but “as soon as I say Amy Klobuchar is a f****** sociopath….everyone’s like ‘I can’t believe you guys are attacking a woman’.”
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“‘The Chancellor is Well’: Angela Merkel’s Team Insists She is Not Ill as German Leader Jets Off to G20 Summit in Japan Hours After Suffering Shaking Attack for Second Time in 10 Days Which Sparked Fresh Health Fears” I wouldn’t call it “fears”. From what I’ve saw, people mostly rejoiced that she might finally leave office or noted that karma got to her (in Czech we say “God’s mills grind slowly” and I have no idea if there’s something similar in English). And since she has no children…
“The clip shows a boy of African descent in Muslim clothing demonstrating the Islamic prayer to a group of mainly ethnically Danish children.” this in itself wouldn’t be a problem if the week before they went through a Christian prayer (since Christianity is the dominant religion in the region) and the next weeks went through Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Paganism. One week could be given to the explanation of Atheism. That way the curriculum would be balanced and hardly anyone could claim it’s indoctrination.
But since that doesn’t seem to be the case, we all know what this is about.
Immigrants breaking rules is good for once then, since it helped other parents see what’s going on in school. Since the school didn’t want the video uploaded it’s clear they are aware that it’s not ok.
I sure hope the parents caused havoc and pushed the thing further, even if the only result would be that it never happens again.
“The culture-enricher who beaned Rasmus Paludan with a rock will be deported from Denmark after he serves his sentence”.
No, he won’t.
So now we have biological males who think they are women getting invited for a Pap smear even though they don’t have a cervix, but biological women who identify as males will not, because they may feel insulted.
Surely The Onion no longer needs to publish.
How will insurance companies handle these non-science based visits to the doctor? I mean, they’re already picky enough about what they’ll cover. And what sort of doctor’s visit is this, a game of “let’s pretend”?