The journalist Andy Ngo was set upon by Antifa demonstrators in Portland and severely beaten. City police stood down during the incident and did nothing to prevent the beating. Mr. Ngo was hospitalized overnight with bleeding on the brain. Sen. Ted Cruz has called on federal law enforcement to initiate an investigation of the mayor of Portland for the failure of the police to act.
In other news, for the first time in history a sitting US president has entered the territory of North Korea. Donald Trump walked across the DMZ into North Korea and conducted talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un for almost an hour.
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Draghi’s Gift to Italy. In the End Everyone Will Buy Italian Government Bonds
Laura Naka Antonelli on FOL highlighted the issue of German Bunds assessed 850 billion dollars, which could offer zero returns.
This is the result of the zero-interest rate era, caused by the expansive monetary policy of the ECB, which increasingly characterizes the market for government bonds of Eurozone countries considered virtuous.
Monetary policy of the ECB that “paradoxically”, or strategically will help Italy. A gift from the outgoing president of the ECB, the Mario Draghi Nazionale. Apparently, everyone will now run to buy “Italian government bonds”…
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Red Hen owner Stephanie Wilkinson says maybe Trump’s people deserve to be spit on.
In June 28 White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family were kicked out of a rural Virginia restaurant where they stopped to have dinner.
Sanders and her family were told to leave the little liberal Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington, Virginia because they are Trump supporters.
It wasn’t enough for restaurateur of The Red Hen, Stephanie Wilkinson to humiliate and kick Sarah Sanders and her family out of the establishment.
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Allum Bohkari: Silicon Valley Tech Competitors Work Together Against the Right
On the latest episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Breitbart senior tech correspondent Allum Bohkari joined me to talk about the trend in Silicon Valley for business competitors to work together toward the same goal of silencing Trump supporters.
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On Saturday afternoon Quillette gay Asian journalist Andy Ngo was beaten and robbed by several Antifa attackers at a Portland protest march.
Ngo was later hospitalized Saturday night with a brain bleed following the brutal Antifa attack as he covered dueling left-right demonstrations in Portland, Oregon, Ngo’s attorney Harmeet K. Dhillon said.
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GoFundMe Raises Over $35k for Reporter Beaten by Antifa Thugs in Portland
A couple of hours ago, we reported about Andy Ngo, a top-notch independent journalist who was brutally beaten by the far-left, violent Antifa animals in Portland, Oregon who’ve been roaming through the streets of Portland, threatening anyone who doesn’t agree with them for over a year, as police chase them around on bicycles.
Today, a massive group of leftist Antifa thugs protested on the streets of Portland, Oregon. As they marched through the streets with masks and bandanas covering their faces, they chanted, “All cops are bastards!”
The Antifa animals also were protesting the Proud Boys, a group of men who came together to defend Trump supporters who were being violently attacked and beaten for their political views. The media managed to label the Proud Boys as “racists” and “white supremacists” and the labels stuck. The violent, masked crowd of about 200 can be heard chanting, “No hate, no fear, Proud Boys are not welcome here!” Of course, they’re not welcome, because they’re the only group of people who had the courage to stand up to this group of violent, masked cowards. Independent reporter, Andy Ngo, who has been chronicling the Antifa protests for the past two years by following them around and capturing their violent acts on film, became the victim of these animals today, when they caught him off guard, and like a pack of wolves, surrounded the unarmed journalist and began beating him. They stole his camera and left him lying in the street.
***Warning*** the video below is very disturbing to watch:…
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Media Slam Trump for Not Taking (Nonexistent) Russian Election Meddling Seriously
Big lies repeated enough drown out hard truths, especially when major media don’t refute them, sticking to the official narrative, abandoning journalism the same it’s supposed to be.
No evidence suggests the Russian Federation interfered in the political process of the US or any other countries — what Washington did and continues doing scores of times in the post-WW II era, wanting client states everywhere, targeting democratic governments for elimination.
House and Senate Intelligence Committee probes found no evidence of Russian US election meddling.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes earlier said:
“After more than a year, the committee has finished its Russia investigation and will now work on completing our report.”
“We’re dealing in facts, and we found no evidence of collusion.” Senate findings were similar.
US intelligence community (the DNI, CIA and FBI) claims otherwise presented no evidence backing them because none exists.
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Microsoft Explains the Lack of Registry Backups in Windows 10
Martin Brinkmann at ghacks.net:
We noticed back in October 2018 that Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system was not creating Registry backups anymore.
The scheduled task to create the backups was still running and the run result indicated that the operation completed successfully, but Registry backups were not created anymore.
It turns out that this is a feature, not a bug, as Microsoft has posted a support document explaining the new behaviour and the reasoning behind it.
Starting in Windows 10, version 1803, Windows no longer automatically backs up the system registry to the RegBack folder. If you browse to to the \Windows\System32\config\RegBack folder in Windows Explorer, you will still see each registry hive, but each file is 0kb in size.
This change is by design, and is intended to help reduce the overall disk footprint size of Windows. To recover a system with a corrupt registry hive, Microsoft recommends that you use a system restore point.
This might come as a surprise to some, hence it seems prudent to highlight this change. In the support article, Microsoft lists methods to reenable registry backups.
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‘Milkshake Them All’: Does This Statement Violate Twitter Policy?
Journalist Carlos Maza’s May tweet encouraging people to throw milkshakes at figures with certain political beliefs do not violate Twitter policies, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Maza, a journalist at Vox, tweeted that people should “milkshake them all, humiliate them at every turn” May 21 with a photo describing milkshaking “far-right figures” and a link to an article about a conservative politician in Britain being milkshaked.
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Many officials in Western nations, including the United States, have regarded the Muslim Brotherhood as a relatively moderate movement that has eschewed violence.
But an official statement made it clear this week that as far as the Brotherhood is concerned, there will be no peace in the Middle East as long as Israel exists.
And in a revealing video report, Muslim Brotherhood leaders in the United States and abroad made it clear that their ultimate objective remains the replacement of every governmental system on earth with Islamic law.
[Comment: Who is funding MB? Follow the money trail.]
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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Under Fire for Not Stopping Antifa Protests
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s hands-off policy when it comes to Antifa protestors came under scrutiny on Saturday after journalist Andy Ngo was assaulted by masked Antifa assailants.
Wheeler, who is also police commissioner, said nothing on Saturday, as hundreds of Antifa protestors gathered on the streets, with some throwing milkshakes — potentially mixed with quick-drying cement — and assaulting Ngo.
Ngo, shaken and bloodied, began livestreaming on his phone after his assault, and could be heard asking a police officer, “Where the hell were all of you?”
U.S. Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell tweeted, “Where is Mayor @tedwheeler?”
Wheeler was silent on his Twitter account and issued no statement to media.
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Cruz called on federal law enforcement to investigate and bring legal action against Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler who reportedly called on police officers to stand down on Saturday.
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Shock Video: Antifa Violently Attacks & Robs Journalist — Portland Police Stand Down
Far-left group openly engages in terrorism while police do nothing
Portland Antifa has been caught on video violently attacking Quillette editor Andy Ngo while police look on and do nothing.
Ngo explained Antifa’s coordinated attack in a livestream Saturday following the incident, which independent video confirmed.
Ngo also said Antifa stole his camera equipment during the assault, where he seen being beaten, maced, and doused in milkshakes laced with quick-dry cement.
Rose City Antifa’s website specifically mentions Ngo as a target in an article promoting their event.
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On Saturday afternoon Quillette gay Asian journalist Andy Ngo was beaten and robbed by several Antifa attackers at a Portland protest march.
Ngo was later hospitalized Saturday night with a brain bleed following the brutal Antifa attack as he covered dueling left-right demonstrations in Portland, Oregon, Ngo’s attorney Harmeet K. Dhillon said.
Following the attack Michelle Malkin set up a GoFund me account for Ngo, who was also robbed during the attack. So far $77,000 has been raised for Andy Ngo.
But not everyone felt outrage for the brutal unprovoked attacks on Andy Ngo.
Zakir Khan, the leader of the Portland Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) mocked Andy Ngo as a journalist.
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The 10 Most Memorable Quotes From Thursday Night’s Bizarre Democratic Presidential Debate
The truth is that most of them are more qualified for prison than they are for the White House.
Unlike Wednesday night, the mud was definitely flying when 10 more Democratic presidential candidates took the stage for a nationally televised debate on Thursday night. The most frequent target was former Vice President Joe Biden, and it is going to be very interesting to see how he bounces back from this. Senator Kamala Harris attempted to portray Biden as someone that is racially insensitive, and she delivered the remarks that her team had obviously prepared well in advance with brutal efficiency. But the more the Democrats fight with one another, the better it is going to be for President Trump. And without a doubt, President Trump has got to be encouraged by the incredibly weak lineup of candidates that he saw on Thursday night. The truth is that most of them are more qualified for prison than they are for the White House. The Democrats desperately need to find a champion that can inspire the kind of passion on the left that Barack Obama once did, but right now they don’t have one. They may have more than 20 candidates, but all of them are seriously flawed in one way or another.
Of course with so many candidates in the race, at least the debates should be entertaining. The following are the 10 most memorable quotes from Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate…
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The Whole Truth and the Real Hazard Facing the People of Oregon
If you read the whole Oregon Constitution and access just some public information, which is a matter of record, the question arises as to just “Who is the lawful governor the OSP is supposed to be serving?”
If we just look at Article II, Section 22 of the Oregon Constitution which covers “Political Campaign Contribution Limitations”, we can see plainly that “candidate may use or direct only contributions which originate from individuals who at the time of their donation were residents of the electoral district of the public office sought by the candidate”.
If we then go to Vote Smart.org’s website, they provide factual, unbiased information on candidates and politicians to ALL Americans. In the record for Kate Brown we can see that she received $20,297,458.95 in donations and only $12,703,984.53 of that was from within the state. That would mean that Kate is in violation of Article 2 Section 22, which according to paragraph (2) of that section, means she must “forfeit the office” of governor and “shall not hold a subsequent elected public office for a period equal to twice the tenure of the office.” Also, according to paragraph (4), she is guilty of a “felony” and should be charged and arrested for a “felony”.
So, if Kate is not the lawful governor of Oregon because of her violation of Article 2 Section 22, then the OSP should not be doing what she says. They could be arresting her for trespass and impersonating the Governor of Oregon instead of vacating the office she now holds hostage.
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It’s the silly season when political lightweights think because they have a constitutional right to run for political office, they seem to think that makes them qualified to run for office. This political cycle we are seeing a host of Democrats running for President when they should be running for the hills—or the state line. To break away from the crowd of demons, some have espoused socialist, scandalous, and silly programs only to become more ridiculous.
Reparations or paying huge sums of money to living Blacks for slavery of deceased Blacks is one promise that meets all three criteria: socialist, scandalous, and silly. Even the European Union demanded its members pay reparations to fight “structural racism” in the EU.
Professor Walter Williams asked, “What moral principle justifies punishing a White of today to compensate a Black of today for what a White of yesterday did to a Black of yesterday?” No one seems to want to answer to that question. Asked by a black man, by the way.
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The major problem with anti-piracy DRM, part 1024
If you bought an ebook through Microsoft’s online store, now’s the time to give it a read, or reread, because it will stop working early July.
That’s right, the books you paid for will be literally removed from your electronic bookshelf because, um, Microsoft decided in April it no longer wanted to sell books. It will turn off the servers that check whether your copy was bought legitimately — using the usual anti-piracy digital-rights-management (DRM) tech — and that means your book can’t be verified as being in the hands of its purchaser, and so won’t be displayed.
Even the free-to-download ebooks will fail. According to Redmond, “You can continue to read free books you’ve downloaded until July 2019 when they will no longer be accessible.” And the paid-for ones? “You can continue to read books you’ve purchased until July 2019 when they will no longer be available, and you will receive a full refund of the original purchase price.”
Why has Microsoft done this? We don’t know. All the Windows giant said was that it was “streamlining the strategic focus” of its store. But how much can a DRM server possibly cost? And why is that cost too high for an American corporation with $110bn in annual revenue that makes $16.5bn in profit?
What’s all the more remarkable is that Microsoft doesn’t appear to have considered the impact of its decision on how people will view DRM as a whole.
While a technologically savvy person will have considered the fact that buying an ebook with DRM means that it might stop working at some point in the future, you don’t really expect it to happen, especially with a household name like Microsoft. But here we are.
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The most concerning thing is that this promotes the lies that keep popping up on social media and spreads the lie that our president is illegitimate.
The leftist media like CNN, NPR, and VOX, picked up on the comments and reported.
WaPo warned of the dangers of calling Trump an illegitimate president and HuffPost also covered Carter’s remarks.
President Trump Hits Back:
“He’s a nice man. He was a terrible president. He’s a Democrat, and it’s a typical talking point. He’s loyal to the Democrats, and I guess you should be. As everybody now understands, I won not because of Russia, not because of anybody but myself.”
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Video: Two Teens Stomp on Victim’s Head on NYC Subway Platform
A horrifying video released by the New York Police Department (NYPD) on Thursday showed two teenagers allegedly stomping on a victim’s head while on a New York City subway platform.
The video shows one suspect holding onto the victim while the other suspect allegedly strikes him, knocking the victim to the ground inside the Woodhaven Boulevard Subway station in the Richmond Hill section of Queens around 10:41 p.m. Sunday.
NYPD officers responded to the scene to find that both suspects fled after the brutal beat down. They took the 29-year-old victim to Jamaica Hospital for a fractured nose, and the victim is reportedly in stable condition, Newsweek reported.
Police describe the first suspect as a 15 to 20-year-old Hispanic male wearing beige pants, a red hooded sweater, and dark-colored sneakers. Authorities describe the second suspect as a 15 to-20 year-old black male wearing light-colored pants and a black jacket.
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Canada’s Barack Obama Gets Huge Snub by Brazil’s Conservative President at G20 Summit [Video]
Canada’s Prime Minister and Barack Obama bestie, Justin Trudeau, had a humiliating moment today, while ‘representing’ Canada on the world stage at the G20 Summit.
Avowed “feminist,” Justin Trudeau, who was clearly being ignored by Chinese President Xi Jinping, turned to the conservative president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, who was on the other side of Trudeau to initiate a conversation with him.
President Bolsonaro, who has also been dubbed the “Trump of the Tropics,” appeared to snub the far-left Trudeau who attempted to shake the hand of Bolsonaro. The Brazilian president quickly spun around in his chair and began to engage in conversation
With tensions between Canada and China at an all-time high, Trudeau was loath to interact with Xi, and quickly turned away while sitting next to him.
Watch the uncomfortable exchange here:
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Taxpayers Federation Backs Ontario’s Next Steps in Court Battle Against Carbon Tax
TORONTO, ON: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is committed to continuing the fight despite the Ontario Court of Appeal’s disappointing decision in favour of the federally imposed carbon tax.
“As interveners in Ontario’s court battle, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation is disappointed that the court didn’t end the carbon tax in Ontario,” said Jasmine Pickel, the CTF’s Interim Ontario Director. “Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax is costly and hurts the most vulnerable Ontarians—yet it won’t succeed in fighting climate change. We applaud Premier Doug Ford for fighting the carbon tax and urge him to continue this battle at the Supreme Court.” .
The CTF’s lawyers argued that the carbon tax is unconstitutional. For example, it allows the prime minister to impose or raise the carbon tax without a parliamentary vote which violates the constitutionally enshrined principle of “no taxation without representation.” Additionally, the CTF lawyers that the federally imposed carbon tax is unlikely to meet its stated objective, and instead, will just be another tax placed on the taxpayers of Ontario.
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Britain Has Highest Rate of ‘Exceptionally Dangerous’ Returning Jihadists in EU
Nearly half of British citizens who travelled to Iraq and Syria to fight with Islamic State have returned to the United Kingdom, with Europol warning that their training in the Middle East means they are “exceptionally dangerous”.
According to Europol’s annual report, 45 per cent of Britain’s Islamist foreign fighters have returned, the largest proportion of returned jihadists out of the whole of the EU. Germany came second with 33 per cent of its citizens who travelled to the Middle East having returned, followed by Spain and the Netherlands, both on 18 per cent.
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Danger Money: Sweden to Pay Teachers Extra to Work in ‘No Go Zones’
The Swedish government has passed new measures to increase pay for teachers working in “vulnerable areas” to attract them to areas often referred to as “no-go zones”.
Teachers working in these “vulnerable areas” will receive a monthly increase of 10,000 Swedish krona (£848/$1,077) per month, doubling the previous amount of 5,000 SEK, Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Radio reports.
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EU Leaders at Loggerheads Over Top Appointments
EU leaders are meeting to decide who will get the bloc’s most prestigious jobs. Jean-Claude Juncker’s successor as European Commission president is among the positions to be filled before the first parliamentary session.
EU leaders were on Sunday preparing for one of the first tasks of the new European Parliament: nominating candidates for the bloc’s top jobs. Member states and MEPs have been deadlocked over deciding who should fill the positions after May’s elections, in which major parties saw their power shrink, and populists and Greens made huge gains.
The leaders will nominate the successor to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, along with names to fill top diplomat posts, including heads of the European Parliament, European Council and European Central Bank.
Arriving at the extraordinary summit in Brussels, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that negotiations to choose a new president “will not be very easy.”
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France’s Fake Record: Weather Agencies Can Alter Datasets, But Can’t Rewrite the Newspapers
When it was made public Friday that France had recorded its “highest-ever temperature”, the media went into a frenzy. But once again we are learning that it’s more fake than fact.
Last Friday the mercury soared to 45.9°C (114.6°F) in Gallargues-le-Montueux in southern France according to French national weather service Météo-France. Media outlets not only blared the news, but sounded the global warming climate crisis alarms. That of course is very hot, but has it happened before?
Indeed once again it turns out that Friday’s “all-time record high” is likely far more fake than real. It is now being exposed that major heat waves with even higher temperatures in fact had occurred in France in August, 1930.
Worst heat wave since 1870
With the prevalence of fake climate news being what it is today, readers began digging in the archives to check the claims and found old newspaper articles from 1930. These articles reported how Paris had seen its mercury hit 38°C (100°F) “in the shade” in what was called the worst heat wave since 1870 — meaning that heat was around in 1870 as well and even stronger. The temperature also climbed to 34°C (94°F) in London.
4°C higher than Friday’s reported 45.9°C “all-time record”
Yet those readings from London and Paris pale in comparison to what happened in southern France. In the Loire region, the temperature in fact skyrocketed to a Death Valley-like 50°C (122°F), some 4°C over the just reported all-time 45.9°C record.
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French Volunteer Emergency Workers Attacked With Acid
Volunteers of a French civil defence group were attacked twice last weekend, with one of the attacks seeing the volunteers sprayed with acid.
The volunteers, who were working for the Fédération Nationale de Protection Civile (FNPC), were attacked with an acid substance in the commune of Ygos-Saint-Saturnin in south-western France, a report from France Bleu has claimed.
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German ‘Prepper’ Network Accused of Ordering Body Bags for Assassinations
A network of mostly police and military have been accused of ordering body bags and quicklime to dispose of political opponents following the “collapse” of Germany.
The Mecklenburg-Vorpommern based far-right group, named “Nordkreuz”, are accused of ordering around 200 body bags along with quicklime, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung reports.
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Hospital Starving Disabled Man to Death Against Parent’s Wishes
(LifeNews) After the family of a French disabled man lost another battle to try to stop a hospital from removing his food and water, doctors have begun starving Vincent Lambert to death.
Lambert’s family has been battling in court for years over his medical care. Medical experts say he breathes on his own and his organs are functioning normally. His mother, Viviane Lambert, said Vincent also “looks at me” and attempts to “vocalize at length.” But courts have ruled that University Hospital of Reims may remove his food and water against his parents’ wishes.
In 2008, Lambert was in a motorcycle accident that caused brain damage. In 2015, his wife petitioned the court to have all treatment and care ceased including food and water. His parents urged that their son be transferred to a rehabilitation center. Though his parents are fighting for his life, his wife and some other family members believe he has no quality of life and should be taken off food and water.
Now, pro-life attorneys from Life Legal Foundation tell LifeNews he’s being starved to death again.
France’s highest civil court today ruled that Vincent Lambert must die by starvation and dehydration. Vincent was nearly made dead last month, but at the eleventh hour, an appellate court ordered that his food and water be restored. Today’s order appears to be final, as Vincent’s parents have exhausted all of their legal remedies to keep their son alive.
As this goes to press, Vincent is being heavily sedated. Why? Because they know that death by starvation and dehydration is excruciating. Advocates for euthanizing Vincent say they want him to die with “dignity.” But there is nothing dignified about withholding food and water from a disabled person.
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In Romania Lowest Food Price Levels in the EU
Tobacco products cheaper in Bulgaria, Poland and Croatia
20 June, 16:04
(ANSA) — BELGRADE, 20 JUN — Romania recorded the lowest price levels for food and non-alcoholic beverages in the European Union in 2018, data published by Eurostat today show. Last year, the lowest price levels were observed in Romania (66%), followed by Poland (69%), Bulgaria (76%), Lithuania (82%), Czechia (84%) and Hungary (85%). At the opposite end of the range, Denmark (130% of the EU average), followed by Luxembourg and Austria (both 125%).
Eurostat said that Romania had also the lowest price levels for bread and cereals (54% of the EU average) and for meat, together with Poland (63% of the average), country that registered the lowest price levels for milk, cheese and eggs (71% of the average). The lowest price levels for alcoholic beverages were registered in in Bulgaria and Romania (both 74% of the EU average) and Hungary (77%), while for tobacco the lowest price levels were observed in Bulgaria (49% of the EU average), Poland (60%) and Croatia (62%).
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Italy: Catania University Dean, Professors Probed
Investigation into alleged rigging of recruitment procedures
(ANSA) — Catania, June 28 — Nine Catania University professors and the institute’s dean, Francesco Basile, were suspended by a preliminary investigations judge on Friday.
The move relates to probe into the alleged rigging of selection competitions for recruitment. The suspects are accused of charges including criminal association and corruption. In total 40 professors from the universities of Bologna, Cagliari, Catania, Catanzaro, Chieti-Pescara, Florence, Messina, Milan, Naples, Padua, Rome, Trieste, Venice and Verona are under investigation.
The probe regards 21 professorships and six posts for researchers.
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Italy: Govt Can’t Forget Genoa Disaster, Conte Says on Atlantia Row
Di Maio had said company was ‘bankrupt’ without concession
(see related story on Morandi bridge) (ANSA) — Rome, June 28 — Premier Giuseppe Conte on Friday intervened in a row about the future of Atlantia, the parent company of highways company Autostrade per l’Italia that is controlled by the Benetton family.
The government has said the company is responsible for the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa last year because it failed to take the necessary action to prevent the disaster that claimed 43 lives.
The row blew up on Thursday when Deputy Premier and 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Luigi Di Maio ruled out the hypothesis that Atlantia could acquire a stake in troubled airline Alitalia.
Di Maio, who is also labour and industry minister, said that it was not a good idea because Atlantia is effectively “bankrupt” because the government intends to strip it of its highway concessions after the Morandi Bridge disaster.
Those comments were criticised by business groups, opposition parties and even by fellow Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini for the negative effects they could have on Atlantia employees and shareholders.
But, speaking on the fringes of the G20 summit in Osaka, Conte seemed to side with Di Maio.
“This government publicly assumed a position (to take away the concessions) when faced with such a big tragedy,” Conte said.
“It’s a tragedy that can’t be blocked out. “We cannot pretend nothing happened.
“This led us to launch a procedure to challenge the concessionary company for what happened”.
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Italy: Urbino Museum Director ‘Doesn’t Feel Useful’, Leaves
Many in Italy prefer Italians, Aufreiter tells ANSA
(ANSA) — Rome, June 24 — The director of the National Gallery of the Marche region, in Urbino, Peter Aufreiter, will be leaving the position in November when his term ends.
He will be going to Vienna where, from January 1, 2020, he will be directing the Technischen Museums.
Aufreiter told ANSA the news and said that “here, with the new reform, nothing is known for certain. And I feel I am no longer very useful or appreciated”.
He added that “many people here in Italy think that the museums should be managed by Italians”.
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Over 90 Percent of Swedes Think Islam is Incompatible With Human Rights
The University of Gävle in Sweden every year releases a “Diverity barometer” where people in Sweden are asked about their attitudes towards diversity. In the latest barometer they conclude that Swedes’ attitudes towards giving immigrants their cultural rights have become more negative, at the same time more people have positive experiences of having an immigrant colleague at work.
In the question about which religions have negative values that clash with for instance human rights, 95% think Islam, 35% think Judaism, 31% think Hinduism, 26% think Buddhism and 26% think Christianity. Islam once again stands out in the yearly survey.
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Pope Francis Puts Austria Abuse Diocese Into Administration
Gurk hit by scandal involving woman, financial affairs
(ANSA) — Vatican City, June 28 — Pope Francis on Friday put an Austrian diocese hit in recent years by sex abuse and financial scandals into administration.
The pope appointed Mons. Werner Freistetter, a military bishop, as apostolic administrator of the diocese of Gurk.
Announcing the move, Vatican Press Office Director Alessandro Gisotti said “the Holy See’s examination of the complex affair which emerged from the Apostolic Visit to the diocese of Gurk is still in course”. Financia disarray and alleged corruption emerged at Gurk in 2018, a few months after Bishop Alois Schwarz was moved to another diocese after 17 years at Gurk.
In a report, Msgr Engelbert Guggemberger said Schwarz had allowed a woman to “damage the reputation of the episcopal office and the Church in Carinthia.” He said “he was thus open to blackmail by his priests in the context of the obligation of living in celibacy”.
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Switzerland-EU Partnership Row Facing Deadline
Easy trading in Swiss shares from within the EU could crumble at midnight Sunday in a row over a new partnership deal. For months, Bern has refused to sign the long-negotiated treaty text on multiple links with the bloc.
Relations between non-EU Switzerland and its 28 EU neighbors were strained Sunday, with the European Union threatening from midnight to terminate its preferential treatment of Swiss stock exchanges. From July 1, the EU would no longer recognize Swiss stock-exchange regulations as being equivalent to its own.
Switzerland, last week announced a “protective” plan — set to take effect on Monday — that would bar EU exchanges from trading in certain Swiss shares.
EU-based brokers and banks usually generate more than half of the turnover on Swiss stock markets, including holdings in heavyweights such as Nestle, Roche and Novartis.
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UK: Farage’s Brexit Party Unveils Key Policies and MP Candidates at ‘Big Vision’ Rally
After winning the European Parliament elections, Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party has unveiled its candidates for the next Westminster election at its “Big Vision” rally.
Annunziata Rees-Mogg, party MEP and sister to Tory Brexit supporter Jacob Rees-Mogg, served as hypewoman as the candidates were introduced to attendees, joking “I’m now old news” and that the slate of Westminster parliamentary candidates were the future.
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UK: Khan’s London: Unborn Baby ‘Critical’ After Delivery at Pregnant Mother’s Murder Scene
The unborn baby of a pregnant woman stabbed to death at her home in Croydon, south London, is in critical condition after being delivered by emergency services at the murder scene.
Kelly Mary Fauvrelle, 26, was around eight months pregnant when she was attacked in Raymead Avenue, Thornton Heath, on Saturday morning, according to the BBC.
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UK: London Crimewave: Shocking Video Shows Dozens of Police Attacked as Mass Brawl Erupts
A SHOCKING video captures the sheer scale of violence across the capital as dozens of riot police are attacked while entering into an estate in north London following reports of a stabbing.
Riot police were “attacked with numerous missiles” as they attempted to enter into an estate following reports of both a stabbing and disorder in Woodberry Down in north London on Saturday night, according to the Metropolitan Police taskforce. In shocking video footage, dozens of riot police can be seen walking through the Woodberry Down Estate when they are pelted with various “missiles”. Another section of the video appears to show several officers attending to someone who had collapsed.
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Brit Family of 12 Who Fled to Join ISIS All Dead
(London Daily Mail) A British family of 12 who made headlines around the world when they fled to Syria to fight for ISIS have all died, MailOnline can reveal.
Three of the grown-up sons from the Mannan family were killed fighting for Islamic State, while seven more relatives, including three children between the ages of one and 11, were all wiped out in an airstrike.
The elderly parents, Muhammed Mannan and his wife Minera, both died in the terror group’s former capital from natural causes.
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Boeing’s 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers From Indian Software Developer
Boeing Company had its best-selling 737 Max grounded in March following two fatal crashes in less than five months in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
The company does not expect to submit a new software fix to the US Federal Aviation Administration for testing until September.
This weekend news broke that Boeing contracted software work out to cheap contract employees with Indian Software Developer HCL Technologies.
The coders were not as efficient as Boeing engineers.
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Muslim Youth under voyeurism arrested for photographing Hindu homemaker’s curves inside a moving bus in Kolkata.
Shraboni Dutta | HENB | Kolkata | June 30, 2019:: Though the uncivilized Sharia schools and insane Muslim scholars shout against the use of image, photography, videography etc, the Muslim guys and even elders can’t resist themselves to photo-shoot of the busty ladies and if they get smell of Kaffir women anyway by chance. Voyeurism is highly placed in Islam… hence, the Muslim society advocates the use of Burka for women all around!
A 35-year-old Hindu homemaker, traveling in a bus with her husband and daughter, caught hold of a Muslim guy sitting on the opposite seat videographing her, called the cops by dialing 100 and handed him over to the police on Sunday morning.
The 25-year-old youth was accused of voyeurism and was arrested by Muchipara police station after he was manhandled by some of the bus passengers and sought mercy from the victim by falling on her feet when cops came to pull him out of the bus.
The incident happened in a private bus of route Dhulagarh (in Howrah) to Sealdah around 10am on Sunday. The woman, clad in a pair of jeans and top, was sitting with her daughter and two youths were sitting on the opposite seats while one of them, was allegedly photographing her.
The bus was travelling past Wellington crossing on Lenin Sarani when the woman made the call and gave the details of the bus and the incident to the traffic control room. An officer from the control room immediately asked the officer-in-charge of Sealdah Traffic guard under whose jurisdiction the bus was passing and asked him to intercept the bus and look into the matter.
But even before the cops could intercept, passengers inside the bus had started manhandling the Muslim man after the passengers found compromising photos and videos of several other women in public apart from the victim who was photographed on Sunday. Learning that cops were about to intervene, the youth fell on the feet of the woman inside the bus but the woman said she was resolved to teach him a lesson.
Officers of Sealdah traffic guard intercepted the bus from in front of NRS Hospital within seven minutes of the distress call made by the woman at 10.08 am and pulled up the accused Muslim youth.
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New Species of Cyornis Flycatcher Spotted in Himalayas
A research team from the Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya has claimed to have discovered a new species of the Cyornis flycatcher bird in the Himalayas. Himalayas are well-known for their rich bio-diversity and are considered as a mega hot-spot for bio-diversity. The varied habitat and topography here proves to be a breeding ground for uncountable species. Recently, a new species of the flycatcher bird Dialilaenus/Hainanus has been discovered in the Himalayas by scientists of the Haridwar-based university, in collaboration with other institutions. The findings of this study have been published in a renowned British journal as well. It took three years for the research team to complete the work.
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Pakistan Plays Down Accusations of Christian Persecution
‘You can’t say this is a trend, no. Individual incidents can be quoted anywhere’
(London Guardian) Pakistan’s foreign minister has sought to dismiss accusations of Christian persecution, claiming there were “individual incidents” comparable to knife crime in the UK.
Shah Mahmood Qureshi, speaking during a visit to Brussels, said reports of religious minorities being targeted in Pakistan did not constitute a trend and the recent claims of Christian persecution were an example of “western interests” that “want to paint Pakistan in a particular way”.
His comments follow the international outcry sparked by the case of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row on a charge of blasphemy, which was later overturned, before being allowed to leave for Canada.
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Ceasefire: US, China Trade Talks “Back on Track” After Trump Folds on Huawei
The “worst case” trade war scenario was avoided in Osaka on Saturday when Trump agreed to restart trade talks with Xi, holding off new tariffs on Chinese exports, and signaling a pause in the trade hostilities between the world’s two largest economies; Trump added that while existing tariffs would remain in place the US president eased restrictions on Huawei as part of what is now the second ceasefire between the two superpowers in two months, removing an immediate threat looming over the global economy even as a lasting peace remains elusive.
“We had a very good meeting with President Xi of China, excellent, I would say excellent, as good as it was going to be,” he said. “We discussed a lot of things and we’re right back on track and we’ll see what happens”, Trump told reporters after an 80-minute meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of a summit of leaders of the G-20 major economies in Osaka, western Japan.
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History: President Trump Meets North Korea’s Kim at DMZ!
History in the making: President Trump meets North and South Korea leaders at the DMZ. The President becomes the first US President to enter North Korea.
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Christians in Africa: “You Have Three Days to Go or You Will be Killed!”
Persecution of Christians in the Middle East is now close to “genocide”, a UK-commissioned report just revealed. The same threat has also become critical for Christian communities in Africa.
Some say it began in Algeria in the 1990s, when 19 monks, bishops, nuns and other Catholics were killed during the civil war. Since then, in Nigeria, Christian faithful have been massacred in their churches; in Kenya, Christians have been killed in universities; in Libya, Christians have been beheaded on beaches; in Yemen, nuns have been assassinated and in Egypt, massive anti-Christian violence is prompting an exodus. It is the new African archipelago of persecution.
Distressingly, these Christians have been finding themselves in the blind spot of the West: they are “too Christian” to get the Left’s attention, but too far away for the Right. Africa’s Christians are orphans. They have no “allies”, John O’Sullivan writes.
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The non-profit Sea Watch NGO ship taxis migrants from the African coast and dumps them off in Europe.
According to GEFIRA — there is an extensive network of open borders activists and organizations behind the migrant NGO ships, many of them are directly funded by or cooperated with George Soros’ Open Society. The Open Society groups have denied direct funding of the migrant NGO ships.
Italy started banning the human trafficking ships in 2018 from its ports. In June 2018 Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini refused to accept an NGO taxi ship carrying 629 migrants from Libya to Italy. On Saturday Italian police arrested captain Carola Rackete after nearly colliding with a police ship and docking in Lampedusa without authorization. According to Spanish ABC International Rackete almost caused a collision as she entered the Lamedusa port without authorisation.
[Comment: Finally. She deserves a long prison sentence.]
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Netherlands Says Not Obliged to Take Sea Watch Migrant
(ANSAmed) — BRUSSELS, JUNE 27 — The Netherlands said Thursday it was not obliged to take migrants from the Dutch-flagged German NGO run Sea Watch rescue ship which has been stopped from reaching the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Replying to an assertion by Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, Dutch Migration Minister Ankie Broekers-Knol said “as the Dutch government has stated for some time, we understand Italy’s concerns and we recognise its efforts in curbing uncontrolled migration towards the EU.
“It is also well-known that the government shares the concerns regarding the actions of the Sea-Watch3” but while the Netherlands assumes responsibility for the ship flying a Dutch flag, “that does not mean that we will also take the migrants”…
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NYT Writer Calls for Doxxing of Border Patrol Agents
Compares detaining migrant children to the Holocaust, Rwanda genocide
A New York Times writer has called for the doxxing of Customs & Border Protection agents for their role in detaining illegal migrant children.
In her Saturday op-ed entitled, “The Treatment of Migrants Likely ‘Meets the Definition of a Mass Atrocity’,” writer Kate Cronin-Furman begins by saying that CBP agents must be held accountable for their participation in upholding immigration law.
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Dallas officials in May reported that an illegal alien murdered at least 12 elderly women in a multi-year killing spree in the Dallas area.
Bill Chemirmir was charged with 12 capital murder indictments.
He smothered his victims and then stole their belongings.
Chemirmir is an illegal alien from Kenya.
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‘6 or 5 Genders… No Idea What That Even is’: Putin Says LGBT Should Not Enforce Their Agenda on Kids
There are no high tempers in Russia about LGBT groups, but they shouldn’t instill their views on under-18s, Vladimir Putin said, adding the ever-growing types of genders may somehow be confusing.
Putin’s latest interview with the Financial Times seems to have hit a nerve, as many public figures, among them singer Elton John, rushed to voice unease over some parts of it. Even at the G20 summit in Osaka, the Russian President couldn’t avoid being challenged into explaining his stance on sexual minorities and liberalism.
Russia has “very relaxed attitude towards the LGBT community, we aren’t biased against them,” but the minority must not aggressively disseminate its views among minors who may not be able to decide on their own, he told reporters.
“Let’s give children an opportunity to grow up and decide afterwards who they want to be. Leave them alone,” Putin urged.
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A Licentious Nation of Pretend Christians
Once upon a time, not so long ago, JUNE was known as “Dairy Month” here in Wisconsin. I suppose other states had similar celebrations related to what their states were known for. But in Wisconsin, Dairy Month was celebrated with parades, festivals, Dairy Breakfasts, Farm Tours and other things, to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of our state’s farm families. While, officially, the month of June IS?STILL “Dairy Month” here, (I?THINK), one would be hard pressed to know that, because NOW the month of June marks the official “kickoff” of sodomite “pride” festivities all across the world. And in Wisconsin, SODOMY gets FAR MORE publicity than the dairy industry ever did.
Now, these celebrations actually start well before the month of June and last well into the late fall — and in some places, they never end. The “pride” of sodomy, with it’s rainbow colored flags, debaucherous parades and so-called “family-friendly” festivals seems to never end. And make no mistake: this is not just some passing “fad” acknowledged by a small handful of people on the fringe of society. Today, America — and the WORLD — is fully immersed, 24/7, 365 days a year — so enamored we are, with the act of sodomite sexual activity. It seems this world cannot get enough.
The LGBT movement began adding new letters to their alphabet some time ago, to include the “Q” for “queer,” whatever THAT means. And now, though some will not admit it, the FULL acronym (at least for now) is actually “LGBTQP+” — the “P” standing for “pedophilia” and the “plus” meaning — well… “whatever one would like to add, that’s just fine.” “Love is love,” they tell us. “Love wins,” they say. ?But LOVE has NOTHING to do with it!…
While Columbus, Ohio boasts the 2nd largest of such parades in the nation, these events are taking place in nearly EVERY city and town across the country. If YOUR city doesn’t yet have one, just give it time; it won’t be long… it’s coming to your backyard… soon. How will YOU respond?
Let me tell you what happens at one of these events. First there’s the parade itself. IN?the parade, you will see many so-called “Christian churches” with floats adorned in rainbow colors, near-naked men dancing and gyrating on top of the floats, sometimes simulating sodomite sex, while others walk alongside, holding signs APOLOGIZING for the way “Christians” have treated sodomites. There will also be signs such as “LGBT?families for Jesus,” “God thinks you’re fabulous,” “OUR church LOVES you!” “We embrace diversity.” And of course, “Love over hate.” These churches promise they are “open and affirming” of the sodomite death-style, and “ALL are welcome.” Of course, in their world, “ALL” never means “all.” When REAL Christians bring the message of forgiveness of God through humble repentance (the opposite of perverted PRIDE), these church-goers have no problem whatsoever showing us their middle finger and screaming vulgarities.
Then there are the handful of Christians. Our group, as I?said, consisted of about 100 people, from all over the United States. We are all part of the Salt and Light Brigade and we gather for important opportunities to witness for Christ wherever we have the chance to stand up for God’s natural order and design, and God’s TRUTH. We are peaceful. We are KIND. We are NOT the “Westboro Baptist Church” types.
The local police hate us. The Columbus police chief is an open lesbian; and of course, the city police department also participates in the parade, so you know whose side the cops are on. They rope us off, ostensibly for our “protection.” But it has nothing to do with our protection. They rope us off and surround us, to make sure that WE do not cause any problems — AND, dare I?say, to make us an easy target for those “loving” sodomites to abuse — like shooting fish in a barrel. As we seek to share the Word of God and witness to those watching the parade around us, we are attacked on all sides — to the great AMUSEMENT of the police. You see, since the sodomites have NO valid argument for their lifestyle choices, all they can do is drown us out with noise, so that our message cannot go forth.
On more than one occasion, the signs we hold have been stolen and destroyed. We have been pushed, shoved, spit upon, our personal property destroyed, we’ve been punched, and the foul-mouthed swearing never ends. People blow whistles loudly non-stop. They use air-horns, blasted inches from our ears, STEADILY. They bang on drums and cowbells and blow trumpets to drown out any Godly message we might try to speak. They cover our signs with rainbow flags. They call us every foul name in the book and SCREAM at us through megaphones — again, inches from our ears. ALL of this, mind you, while the police are right there, inches in front of us, smirking and smiling in delight to see us there in our makeshift “cage,” enduring the abuse for more than three hours straight. They try to provoke us to violence. But we do not act in the “flesh,” rather we take their abuse and continue our mission. Make no mistake: if WE were to so much as “bump into” one of our abusers, the police would be right there to wrestle us to the ground, handcuff us and haul us off to jail.
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Thanks to the power of the internet, we have a level of freedom of information never enjoyed before by any previous generation on Earth — and that information is the very life’s blood of democratic ideals, and the necessary ingredient for informed consent and health freedom, our primary advocacies.
But what happens when the gate-keepers of the content that flows through this incredible invention, like Facebook and Pinterest, censor and shadow ban certain of its users or content, or their ability to send you messages via email service provider platforms like Mailchimp, as we’ve recently experienced on GreenMedInfo.com? Where do we go for information then?
Why not skip the social media filtering and email platform censorship and go back to using Google, you might ask. Aren’t they the very archetype and modern-day oracle of fairness, having become synonymous with looking for and finding objective answers.
After all, wouldn’t you expect that if you typed in turmeric research, GreenMedInfo.com would come up on the first page, given we have the world’s largest, open access resource on the topic which curates over 2,700 peer-reviewed studies relevant to over 800 diseases, on the topic? Whereas a few years ago, our search traffic was growing, today it’s as if we don’t exist on the internet any longer (unless you specifically search for us by name).
Instead, today, you find first page google results on turmeric like: “Turmeric May Not Be a Miracle Spice After All” from Time.com, or “Turmeric: Uses, Side Effects, Interactions, Dosage, and Warning” from WebMD.com, which overlook much of the research we have gathered, and make turmeric sounds like it’s just another drug that you have to be very careful to take.
Apparently, this is entirely by design! On June 3rd, in fact, Google rolled out its latest core algorithm change, which obliterated the organic search results for the majority of the top sites in the natural health and health freedom advocating sector of the internet. Sites like DrAxe.com, Kellybroganmd.com (stats depicted in the image below), and Naturalnews.com saw most of their traffic removed overnight.
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A Christian baker in Colorado is being harassed and sued for the third time.
Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado is being sued by a radical left-wing transgender woman.
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Phillips’ favor after he was sued for refusing to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
Wow, the so-called “tolerant left” members of the LGBT community absolutely hate Christians.
WATCH video here for full details:…
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Istanbul Police Use Tear Gas to Disperse Gay Pride March
Police have used tear gas to disperse hundreds of people at a banned gay pride march in Istanbul. Activists had gathered to promote rights for gay and transgender people. They had hoped the ban would be lifted.
Police pushed back crowds celebrating Istanbul’s 17th gay pride march on Sunday, an event Turkish authorities had banned for the fifth year in a row.
The rally, on a side street off Istanbul’s main pedestrian avenue, drew several hundred people who cheered and waved rainbow flags. Chants of “shoulder to shoulder against fascism” and “we will not be quiet” were heard among the crowd.
“There is a massive police presence all around the city to prevent the celebration of Pride, but despite that, activities are still going on,” DW’s Turkey correspondent Dorian Jones reported, noting also that riot police officers were backed up with water cannon.
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Manhattan Chick-Fil-a Vandalized During Pride Event
A Manhattan Chick-fil-A was vandalized during Sunday’s Pride parade, according to photos provided to the Daily Caller.
The photos, taken of the Chick-fil-A location on 46th Street in Manhattan, show the words “F**k haters” scrawled across the windows and an “X” in red duct tape bearing the same words. There was also a small sign reading “LOVE is a terrible thing to waste” propped against the door.
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“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” — C.S. Lewis
It can be hard to find hopeful voices. I found one. Steve Turley started a YouTube channel in 2016. He was encouraged to do so by a friend. Turley had been regaling his friend with analysis about the rise of nationalism and populism all over the world. His friend suggested that he could help many folks if he shared his analysis using the internet.
Turley now produces two ten minute YouTube’s a day. He analyzes current events from his unique hopeful perspective.
So many of us have become glum over the years. That was the biggest reason Maine’s good people faded from the front line of the battle against big sodomy. Thousands of folks worked tirelessly using democratic means to stop the so-called “gay” agenda. Like spoiled teenagers the sodomites and their fellow travelers refused to relent. They are much more dedicated to their “religion” than are Christians. We must shake off our glum stupor and return to the front lines of the culture war.
We must pray for words and actions that will open the eyes/minds of the good people around us to the imminent threat to civilization.
I know this won’t happen unless Men develop their chests, instead of the organ lower down. The passions will not be enough in this war. We need the masculine virtues more than ever.
Lewis prefaced the thought quoted above with, “In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function.” Virtue and enterprise wither under womanishness — feminism … equality. He concludes his quote, “We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” America is becoming ugly, chaotic and unfruitful as a result of castration. All people must be mentored into the virtues. We must not expect order if we stop teaching, and expecting, the masculine virtues in our boys and men.
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The Disgraceful Condition of American Education, Part 3
We are witnessing the degradation of a once first-class education system because of the implementation of LGBTQ so-called values, which are not values at all but an ideology of filth and debauchery on steroids. I say this be cause too many schools feel that the LBGTQ community needs to be celebrated when in reality it needs to be exposed for what it is, filth!
I will have to say that it is not just the indoctrination of the homosexual lifestyle that is disgusting but the teaching of heterosexuality that has gotten completely out of hand. When I was in the 10th grade in Arizona they had just begun what is called Sex Education. In that class they taught about male and female parts and functions. By that age we already had a good idea about that subject. When I moved back to Colorado that class was not taught until the senior year. It was similar but was taught as if it was the 1930’s. We already had learned on the street more than what they taught in that class.
Jump to 2019 and they have gone completely nuts! They are teaching ten-year-old girls how to put a condom on male genitalia! “It’s shocking,” Rebecca Friedrichs, the founder of For Kids & Country, told The Christian Post.
She said one school had 10— and 11-year-old girls participate in a “condom race” in which they ran, in front of male classmates, to be the first to put a condom on a model of an erect adult male penis.
“I always tell people that the scary thing is, I’ll give radio interviews and I can’t even say on the radio things that are being taught in our elementary and middle school classrooms in mixed company. There’s something very wrong there,” she said…
Josh Stickney, communications manager with Equality California, said he does not believe the curriculum is out of the ordinary.
“We don’t believe any of this will prime students to do anything they wouldn’t normally do,” Stickney said. “It’s important to dispel myths and stigma around sex health for the LGBT community. That starts with awareness and sex education.” Call me old fashioned but ten year old girls do not need this kind of information. Notice that the communications manager, Josh Stickney, does NOT believe “the curriculum is out of the ordinary”. Seriously! Ten-year-olds! Again, this is what you get when we let government control the schools. By the way, there is NO constitutional provision for the federal government to be involved in any way with our education system…
Now we jump to the other coast and another rabidly liberal state, New York, and we see the insanity go to a different level and that is ‘treating’ elementary kids to a drag queen show done by the president of the PTA at a school ‘talent’ show. Parents of students at a public elementary school in East Harlem went to see their kids at a talent show last week and got a full-on drag performance.
Mom Raquel Morales couldn’t believe her eyes as she watched the erotic dance with her 10-year-old son.
“Even as I’m recording, I’m like, ‘This must be déjà vu, I’m dreaming. This is not happening in a school assembly. This can’t be,’“ Morales said.
The performer in drag was none other than the president of the PTA at P.S. 96., Frankie Quinones. Video shot by Morales shows him twirling and gyrating to a song by ‘80s Puerto Rican performer Iris Chacon.
On an event flyer, the drag show was only billed as a “Special Surprise Performance!”
Morales questioned what organizers were thinking.
“He got on all fours on the choir stand, he laid on his back, raised his legs, opened his legs wide open. What made you in your head think that was appropriate for elementary school students?” Morales said.
P.S. 96 had no answers, nor did District 4. However the Dept. of Education said, “The content of the performance was inappropriate and a school administrator has spoken with the parent.”
Other parents at the school didn’t even want to talk about it, but Morales said she’s glad she spoke out. [2]
Now in California it is illegal for a parent to pull your child out of this kind of trash indoctrination but the parent of 700 students in Sacramento, California decided that they weren’t going to put up with that type of totalitarian government BS. Parents objecting to a Rocklin School District Board decision to include a curriculum in the early grades touting the achievements of LGBT people did not allow their children to go to class Friday in protest. They say at least 700 students stayed home in the 12,000 student district.
A heated Board meeting on Wednesday resulted in a 3-2 vote to include a curriculum approved by the state law that seeks to introduce more inclusiveness in school teachings.
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UC Davis Workshop to Address ‘Mobility Justice’ And ‘Bicycle Equity’
A rather interesting workshop is coming to the University of California-Davis this November, one involving “mobility justice” which examines the intersections of so-called “bike equity” and “sustainable transportation futures.”
Sponsored by the campus Feminist Research Institute, the two-day event will include a “deep discussion” regarding the “complexity of equity” associated with making bikes and establishing new “mobilities,” but also will consider power relationships and racism.
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In a country with a rule of law, not only the immediate perpetrators (the “Antifa” thugs who beat the journalist into a life-threatening state) but also the organizers and leaders of so called “Antifa” should respond – not only for this crime, but also for the numerous other brutal assaults that they organized and inspired. Let’s see what happens…
“…Boeing contracted software work out to cheap contract employees with Indian Software Developer HCL Technologies…” – whatever Lenin’s faults, he had some insight when he wrote: in pursue of profit, the imperialists will even sell us the rope on which we will hang them.
“Imperialists” nowadays = “globalists”…
In Chechnya, a suicide bomber at a checkpoint
Two armed men attacked a roadblock in Chechnya. One of the attackers was a suicide bomber who blew himself up during a raid
https://ura.news/news/1052389565
“US, China Trade Talks “Back on Track” After Trump **Folds on Huawei**
That last part is utter crap, from ZeroHedge. What Trump did was to *allow Huawei to buy chips from U.S. manufacturers.* i.e. he’s *allowing* the Chinese firm to buy U.S. products that are NOT vital to our national security.
But note that CNN has pushed exactly the same bull–that Trump “folded” vis the Chinese. Short answer: If CNN says it, it’s a lie 99 percent of the time!
Under the headline: THE MEDIA SLAMS TRUMP FOR NOT TAKING (NON-EXISTENT) RUSSIAN ELECTION SERIOUSLY is this opening sentence:
“Big lies repeated enough drown out hard truths, especially when major media don’t refute them, sticking to the official narrative, abandoning journalism the same it’s supposed to be.”
Would (not “could”) you please rephrase that sentence so that the parts make sense as a whole (esp. after “abandoning”)??