Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and his party, the Lega, are now polling at 36.5% in advance of a possible general election next month. This is an even higher figure than the percentage of votes cast for the Lega in last month’s European parliamentary elections.
In other news, the Maltese navy rescued 370 migrants in the Mediterranean today, from four separate vessels.
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ADP: Job Creation Drops to 9-Year Low in May
- Private sector companies added just 27,000 new jobs in April, according to ADP’s latest monthly report.
- The payroll processor said small businesses and goods-producing companies cut workers.
- The May report is a big drop from April’s revised gains of 271,000 new jobs.
- The federal government’s May jobs report will be released Friday.
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Illinois Turns to Gambling and Weed Amid Hopeless Financial Picture
Democratic Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker thinks that the solution to fixing Chicago’s struggling, blood-soaked streets is legalizing marijuana state-wide and opening a giant casino in Chi-Town, according to Bloomberg.
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Italian Stocks, Bonds Slide After EU Triggers Disciplinary Process Over Public Debt
It’s not just the trade war of 2018 that is back: as of moments ago, the feud between Italy and EU over the Mediterranean country’s soaring debt (and spending) which sent Italian bond yields soaring last year, only to fade away as Brussels conceded to vague promises from Rome, is now officially back and moments ago Italian stocks, bonds and the Euro all slumped after the EU’s executive arm formally took the first step toward “disciplining” Italy over its failure to rein in its debt, setting up a clash with the government in Rome and paving the way for an initial penalty of as much as €3.5 billion.
In a report published Wednesday, the European Commission said Italy hasn’t made sufficient progress in reducing its mountain of debt in line with the bloc’s fiscal rules, and now expects Italy’s debt ratio to rise in both 2019 and 2020, up to over 135%, due to a large debt-increasing “snowball” effect, and that a disciplinary process is “warranted”.
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Biden Campaign Caught Plagiarizing Parts of His 2020 Climate Plan, Says it Forgot Citations
Democratic US presidential candidate Joe Biden, whose first campaign was sunk by plagiarism, has been caught plagiarizing bits of his 2020 climate plan. The campaign claims it merely “left out” the citations.
At least three passages from the climate plan Biden’s campaign released on Tuesday were copied directly from environmental organizations, CREDO activist Josh Nelson tweeted, posting original text from the Carbon Capture Coalition and the Blue Green Alliance alongside text from Biden’s campaign website.
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Compounding the gaffe, the Carbon Capture Coalition’s membership includes the country’s largest fossil fuel companies — not such strange bedfellows for Biden, who received a D- grade from Greenpeace last week largely due to his lack of environmental policy, but less than ideal for a candidate trying to reinvent himself as “green.”
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Biden’s campaign waited the better part of a day to address the charges as the news spread, buoyed by anger at the candidate over news he’d lied about marching in the civil rights movement, finally telling Business Insider that while they had “inadvertently left out” “several citations” from the final version of the document posted to the website, it had been updated to include references.
Biden’s habit of plagiarism dates back to his first presidential campaign in 1988, when he lifted a popular speech from a UK politician that mischaracterized his own family background, implying he was descended from coal miners and the first in his family to attend university. Caught in a pile of lies, the campaign responded with a strikingly similar excuse: “To the degree it wasn’t attributed, it was an oversight or inadvertent,” Biden’s 1988 campaign aide told the New York Times.
[Yeah, Yeah. Biden breathes, he lies…]
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Just two days ago Steven Crowder posted a video on how VOX was trying to ban his channel.
And he wasn’t exaggerating the attempts by VOX to silence him, either.
VOX contributor Carlos Maza led a campaign to have Stephen Crowder banned and silenced by Google-YouTube.
Steve Crowder has 3.8 million followers on YouTube — an enormous number.
On Wednesday Google-YouTube demonetized Steven Crowder. Steven is the latest victim in the left’s silencing campaign.
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Broward Deputy Arrested for Inaction at School Massacre
Did ‘nothing’to stop school shooting that left 17 dead
The former school resource officer widely branded as a coward for failing to intervene during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting has been arrested for failing to act during the massacre.
Scot Peterson, 56, was arrested Tuesday and charged with seven counts of neglect of a child, three counts of culpable negligence, and one count of perjury, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Rick Swearingen said Peterson did “absolutely nothing” to stop the shooting, which killed 17 and injured 17 others.
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CNN Panel Slams ‘Arrogant, Lazy Biden’ Over Latest Example of Plagiarism
Joe Biden has a plagiarism problem dating back to law school, and was just busted again after his campaign was caught lifting language for his environmental plan word-for-word from environmental nonprofits without attribution.
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‘Conservative Answer’ to Facebook Launches
www.USA.Life restores freedom and privacy to the Internet
Describing itself as the “answer to Facebook and Twitter censoring Christians, conservatives and liberty,” a new social-media platform called USA.Life launched. Many users are signing up.
Founder and CEO Steven Andrew said he decided to use his Silicon Valley tech leadership experience to launch USA.Life after he saw Facebook block millions of people from getting his posts.
Andrew believes Facebook lied to Congress about being “a platform for all ideas,” since they restrict supporters of President Trump, Christians and conservatives.
“Facebook blocks 99 percent of my reach, which means 5 million people are missing per month from my account alone,” he said.
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Democrats Try to Block Trump’s U.S. Exit From UN Paris Scheme
Democrats are trying to stop the use of U.S. tax dollars to exit from the Paris Climate Accord and, at the same time, slash U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions.
After years of playing defense, the “climate cult,” as numerous scientists have described man-made warming theorists, is striking back. Evidently hoping to destroy the U.S. economy and further build up Communist China’s under the guise of stopping “climate change,” Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on May 2 to ban the use of tax dollars by the Trump administration to withdraw from the United Nations Paris Agreement. In addition to keeping the United States shackled to the UN global-warming scheme, the Climate Action Now Act, known as H.R. 9, would force the White House to develop a plan to massively restrict freedom and prosperity by slashing CO2 emissions. It is widely expected to die in the U.S. Senate. But Republicans In Name Only (RINOs) such as Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are working to persuade others in the GOP to drink the dangerous climate Kool-Aid and jump on the alarmist bandwagon.
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Democrats Plan Capitol Hill Event to Put Trump’s Mental Health Under Fire
by Kimberly Leonard
Democrats are planning to host a Capitol Hill event featuring psychiatrists who will warn that President Trump is unfit for office based on his mental health.
The event will be led by Dr. Bandy Lee, a Yale School of Medicine psychiatrist and editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, a book that argues psychiatrists have a responsibility to warn the public when a president is dangerous. The position is controversial because psychiatric associations urge members never to diagnose patients they haven’t personally evaluated, saying it undermines the scientific rigor of the profession.
But Lee and others who agree with her stance say that their description of the president’s behavior, of his showing mental instability and dangerousness, shouldn’t be interpreted as issuing a diagnosis.
“The president’s condition has been visibly deteriorating to the point where there’s a lot of talk right now about his mental state beyond mental health professionals,” Lee said. “It no longer takes a mental health professional to recognize the seriousness of the current presidency.”
The date for the town hall hasn’t been set but would be held “imminently soon within the next couple of weeks,” said Lee, who said the event was meant to be bipartisan. Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth, D-Ky., who has called for Trump’s impeachment, confirmed the event was in the works, but said it would be more likely to occur in July because lawmakers have a full plate in June with spending bills.
“We’re planning to put together an event,” Yarmuth said. “She’s calling it a town hall. We haven’t actually determined the format, but it’s going to be an event where she is going to present her findings, and media will be invited.”
Yarmuth said every House member would be invited but that he hadn’t yet gauged who would be interested because not many people knew about it. Lee said the group would reconsider the event if no Republicans planned to show up.
The White House did not immediately return a request for comment.
According to Lee, attendees at the town hall would watch a condensed video that was recorded at a Washington, D.C., event held at the National Press Club in March that featured 13 experts discussing how they didn’t think Trump was fit for office. The experts, who came from the fields of mental health, philosophy, history, and journalism, said they were worried about the president’s access to nuclear weapons and the impact his administration would have on climate change.
Lee said the event is to allow members of Congress to ask her and other experts questions, but planners hope the town hall will be broadcast live so that people who aren’t in D.C. also would be able to watch and submit questions.
Lee said the experts won’t make specific recommendations about whether Congress should consider invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office or whether they should do so by impeachment. The political process should be determined by members of Congress, she said.
Yarmuth said that, to him, the event was a separate question from impeachment. “I don’t think an assessment of someone’s mental health is an impeachable issue,” he said.
He decided to hold the event “for the same fears she has,” he said, referring to Lee. “That the president is manifesting dangerous behavior and the American people need to be alert to it.”
“Their position is that as professionals, when they see patterns of behavior that are endangering people, that they have a professional obligation to go public and alert the people who are threatened, and in this case it’s the American people,” Yarmuth said. “I think the American people deserve to have wider dissemination of that perspective.” […]
[I think these guys need professional help.]
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Dems Revise History Regarding the 19th Amendment
by David Catron
It was introduced by the GOP in 1878 and the Dems fought it for 40 years.
If you know the history of the 19th Amendment, you will notice a peculiar omission from the statements issued by various Democrats celebrating the 100th anniversary of its passage by Congress. Elizabeth Warren, for example, tweeted: “People always say that big change is impossible. That’s what they told the suffragettes — but they got organized, persisted, & 100 years ago today, the Senate passed the 19th Amendment to give women the right to vote.” What Warren conveniently forgets is that the people who said it was “impossible” were Democrats. Her party blocked passage of the amendment from 1878, when it was introduced by the Republicans, until the latter won such huge majorities in the 1918 midterms that the Democrats were no longer able to deny women justice.
Warren and the rest of today’s Democrats, knowing that our government education system has long since given up teaching history have little fear that the public will realize that the GOP’s support of women’s suffrage goes back to its founding in 1854. Nor are they worried that the “news” media or the various organizations purporting to support women’s rights will let the cat out of the bag. Indeed, much of the media has tried to reframe the fight for women’s suffrage in terms of racism. The Washington Post, for example, ran an article titled: “How racism almost killed women’s right to vote.” The piece all too predictably attempts to blame Democratic resistance on the southern members of their party.
The reality is that most Democrats were against the 19th Amendment, including President Woodrow Wilson — who was so reviled by the suffragists that they routinely referred to him as “Kaiser Wilson.” What really delayed Congress from passing the amendment was a forty-year legislative war in which the Democrats did their level best to keep women out of the voting booth. That war began in 1878, when a California Republican named A.A. Sargent introduced the 19th Amendment only to see it voted down by a Democrat-controlled Congress. It finally ended four decades later, when the GOP won landslide victories in the House and the Senate, giving them what we now call a “super-majority.”
One of the weirdest events in the long congressional war over women’s suffrage involved Utah. In 1870, 50 years before the 19th Amendment was ratified, Utah passed a suffrage bill recognizing a woman’s right to vote. This was celebrated by congressional opponents of polygamy, which was practiced by some wealthy Mormons. The assumption was that Utah’s women would deploy their votes to end “the abomination of bigamy.” Ironically, they voted overwhelmingly in favor of polygamy. Congress then passed the Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1882, which disfranchised Utah’s women while also violating the First Amendment by outlawing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Meanwhile, the Republicans continued to introduce the 19th Amendment in Congress every year, but the Democrats were able to keep it bottled up in various committees for another decade before allowing either chamber to vote on it. In 1887 it finally reached the floor of the Senate. Once again, however, it was defeated by the Democratic majority. After this setback, advocates of women’s suffrage opted to put pressure on Congress by convincing various state legislatures to pass bills giving women the vote. This met with some success. By the turn of the century a variety of Republican-controlled states, including Wyoming, Colorado, and Idaho, had granted women suffrage. During the first 10 years of the new century, several other states gave women the vote, including Washington and California.
Congress, however, didn’t deign to vote on the issue again until 1914, when it was once again defeated by Senate Democrats. It was subsequently brought up for a vote in January of 1915 in the House, where it also went down. Nonetheless, the Republicans continued to push. The big break for 19th Amendment came when President Wilson, being a typical Democrat, violated his most solemn campaign promise. Having fervently pledged to keep the United States out of the European conflict that had been raging since 1914, he nonetheless decided to enter the war. This set the stage for the 1918 midterm elections in which voter outrage swept the Republicans into power. This finally placed the GOP in a position to pass the 19th Amendment without the votes of the still intransigent Democratic opposition.
In May of 1919, Republican James R. Mann reintroduced the 19th Amendment in the House and it finally passed. The Republicans voted in favor of the amendment 200-14. These 200 GOP votes constituted a majority, so some Democrats reluctantly faced reality. Nonetheless, 40 percent of the much-diminished Democratic caucus still voted, “Nay.” Shortly thereafter a now Republican-controlled Senate also passed it, clearing the way for ratification by the states. But the Democratic resistance was by no means dead. They did their level best to prevent the amendment from being ratified but failed: “When the Amendment was submitted to the states, 26 of the 36 states that ratified it had Republican legislatures. Of the nine states that voted against ratification, eight were Democratic.”
By this point, President Wilson had finally faced the reality that women would inevitably get the vote and reversed his opposition. Indeed, he staged a signing ceremony despite the inconvenient fact that the amendment required no presidential signature. Obviously, today’s Democrats desperately hope that most women voters don’t know this story, and are counting on the media and our government education system to prevent it from being told.
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FBI Unveils Documents Related to 1970s Bigfoot Investigation
The FBI made public 22 documents from it records archive on Wednesday, revealing that it once opened an investigation into the possible existence of Bigfoot in the 1970s.
Federal investigators opened the probe in response to a request from Peter Byrne, an Oregon Bigfoot hunter who spent decades trying to prove that the hairy mythical creature was real, according to the newly released records.
“Will you kindly, to set the record straight, once and for all, inform us if the FBI has examined hair which might be that of a Bigfoot; when this took place, if it did take place; what the results of the analysis were,” Byrne wrote in a letter dated Aug. 26, 1976. “Please understand that our research here is serious. That this is a serious question that needs answering … “
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Geoengineering: Waging Weather Warfare on World Populations
Humanity’s attempt to manipulate Earth’s climate and life support systems is the absolute epitome of unbridled hubris. The ongoing global geoengineering assault has placed our planet under a state of siege. The thriving world we have formerly known is no more, we are accelerating at blinding speed toward a completely new and unimaginably challenging reality. What can we do to expose and halt the weather warfare assault? The ongoing criminal climate engineering operations are exposed in the PowerPoint presentation below. It was given at the Northern California event titled “Climate Engineering, Government Criminality, And Vaccine Dangers”.
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Google Fires Republican Engineer Who Spoke Out Against ‘Outrage Mobs’
The Republican Google engineer who penned an open letter about the company’s “outrage mobs” and “witch hunts” was fired on Friday, The Daily Caller has learned.
Last Wednesday, Mike Wacker was put on paid administrative leave and fired two days later.
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Grandpa of Teen Killed in Home Invasion Says AR-15 Gave Homeowner “Unfair Advantage”
Last week, a 21-year-old Elizabeth Rodriguez allegedly waited in a vehicle outside, while three Oklahoma teenagers, 17-year old Jacob Redfearn, 19-year old Maxwell Cook and 16-year old Jake Woodruff, broke into a Wagoner County house. Investigators say the 21-year-old Rodriguez planned the home invasion. All three teens were shot and killed by the homeowner’s son.
Now the grandfather of one of the teenagers is speaking out about his grandson’s death.
Leroy Schumacher, the grandfather of 17-year-old Jacob Redfearn told KTUL-TV that he believes the death of his 17-year-old son could have been prevented, and blames the homeowner’s AR-15, saying it gave him “an unfair advantage” over the three teens.
The grandfather says he’s a proponent of the Second Amendment but believes the homeowner’s son didn’t have to kill all three boys. Schumacher admits, “What these three boys did was stupid,” adding, “They knew they could be punished for it but they did not deserve to die.”
[Comment: Stupid grandpa.]
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Hannity: Barr May Have FISA Abuse Report
Review may have pinpointed source of ‘dossier’ claims
Fox News host Sean Hannity said Attorney General William Barr may already have the Justice Department inspector general report on the investigation into alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses.
“Sources are telling me it may now have already been handed to the attorney general,” Hannity said on his Monday evening show.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz has not made any public statements about the investigation in months, but Barr said he expected Horowitz to complete the inquiry in late May or early June.
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More Americans Worried About ‘Fake News’ Than Terrorism, Racism and Climate Change: Poll
A new survey from Pew Research Center has found that Americans view fake news as a bigger threat than terrorism, violent crime, climate change, racism and illegal immigration.
The survey also found that 68% of US adults say that made-up news and information “greatly impacts Americans’ confidence in government institutions,” while 54% say it’s having a major impact on confidence between fellow Americans, and 51% say it impacts the ability of political leaders to get work done.
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New Class of CPU Flaws Affect Almost Every Intel Processor Since 2011
Researchers have released info on a new class of flaws in Intel CPUs that affects every processor made since 2011.
“ZombieLoad attack affects a wide range of desktops, laptops, and cloud computers with Intel processor generations released from 2011 onwards. It can be used to read data that is recently accessed or accessed in parallel on the same processor core,” wrote the Hacker News.
“Dubbed Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS attacks), the newest class of vulnerabilities consist of four different flaws, which, unlike existing attacks that leak data stored in CPU caches, can leak arbitrary in-flight data from CPU-internal buffers, such as Line Fill Buffers, Load Ports, or Store Buffers,” wrote the Hacker News.
[Comment: Go back to fast single cores.]
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Our Secret Deep State Government in Action
William “Bill” Binney, a former highly placed intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency (NSA) turned whistleblower who retired on October 31, 2001, after more than 30 years with the agency, engages in an exclusive interview with Harley Schlanger and SGT Report host Shawn about the treasonous debacle to “get” President Donald J. Trump.
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Study: Common Core Had “Significant Negative Effect” On Students
A barely noticed study on the Obama-backed Common Core scheme revealed that the controversial national “education” standards caused a “significant” decline in student achievement.
Basically, if the Common Core scheme had never existed, students would have been much better off, according to researchers at the federally funded Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction and Learning (C-SAIL).
Results show that student performance declined in both reading and math as a result of Common Core, the researchers noted.
“Contrary to our expectation, we found that [Common Core] had significant negative effects on 4th graders’ reading achievement during the 7 years after the adoption of the new standards,” the study found.
Indeed, Common Core is packed with quackery such as the “sight-word” method that was first exposed as a dangerous failure over 150 years ago when it was tried in Boston. Even contributors to the Common Core reading section are blowing the whistle!
The controversial standards also “had a significant negative effect on 8th graders’ math achievement 7 years after adoption based on analyses of [National Assessment of Educational Progress] composite scores,” according to the analysis.
[comment: Commie core was designed by globalists appartchiks to ensure children are put off learning for life.]
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The New Mexican War, Revisited
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Is there foreign interference in our elections? You bet.
The biggest offender? Not Russia, but Mexico. Mexican officials publicly called on Mexicans in the US to oppose Trump; Mexico’s over fifty — yes, fifty — consulates in the US (here) are hot beds of political activity and activism. Millions of illegal and legal aliens largely from Mexico and Central America vote, yes vote. We need to have an in-depth investigation into Mexico’s interference in our elections, an interference that goes well beyond revealing embarrassing DNC texts.
There. That’s an investigation the GOP should endorse, and the new SecState should take up the issue of Mexican interference in our elections.
The two biggest foreign national security threats to the United States are China and Mexico. Each poses a different kind of threat, but both could prove deadly.
I have recently written another post about China , so let me turn for a second to Mexico, again.
The essence of Mexico’s foreign and domestic policy is virulent opposition to the United States. Mexico’s intellectuals, universities, press, and political parties are overwhelming anti-US (much like the Democratic party here at home). They put out a constant tattoo of victimhood and of entitlement to what is in the USA. As a now departed Foreign Service friend of mine used to say, “They view the US treasury as the common inheritance of all mankind.”
I was heartened to see President Trump begin to hit back at the Mexican government’s aiding and abetting of the violation of our border. I had long ago recommended hitting Mexico with “border fees” and taxes on the billions of dollars in remittances sent from the USA as a way to build the wall. The President has gone a slightly different way by imposing tariffs on Mexican goods until such time as we see serious action by the Mexican authorities to stop promoting illegal migration and to get the border under control. We also need, as stated before, to start shutting down some of Mexico’s 52 consular and diplomatic missions in the US. They are centers of political activism and blatant interference in our domestic affairs.
I hope the President hangs tough on this and doesn’t accept mere words from Mexico as a substitute for action.
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We Are Being Poisoned: Leaked FDA Report Finds “Forever Chemicals” In U.S. Food Supply
In a leaked report that we are guessing the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) didn’t want to get out, is data showing that there are “forever chemicals” in meat, poultry, milk, and chocolate cake. The toxic carcinogenic chemicals are called “forever chemicals” because of the time they take to break down.
PFAS (perfluoroalky and polyfluoroalkyl substances) include chemicals known as PFOS, PFOA, and GenX. They are all synthetic and all contain fluorine and carbon bonds that are extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the human body to break down. PFAS are often referred to as “forever chemicals” because it takes them “forever” to finally break down. “It would take approximately 1.5 years to eliminate PFOS from the cow after a 30-day exposure period,” the study noted, using an abbreviation for another form of PFAS.
PFAS chemicals have been known to be toxic and cancer-causing, and they are in our food supply. The FDA now plans to release the report after it was leaked in its entirety to The Hill and several other media outlets, however, it is clear the government agency didn’t want this information released.
The FDA has also confirmed the finding of the leaked report: we are being poisoned by toxic and carcinogenic chemicals found in our food. “I’m not sure why they released it there and not in the U.S., but I’m just glad it’s out,” said Tom Neltner, chemicals policy director with the Environmental Defense Fund, one of the groups that released the information, according to The Hill.
[Comment: Part of the globalist elite slow kill agenda. Bonus for them — they get to make money selling pharmaceuticals to treat illnesses which are really just symptoms of poisoning.]
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Maxime Bernier: Free Speech is for Confrontations, Not Just Agreements
Exclusive! Rebel Media interviews PPC Leader Maxime Bernier about the potential resurrection of the anti-free speech provision, Section 13, to the Canadian Human Rights Act.
Bernier expresses shock that those same Conservative Party that killed Section 13 six years ago don’t seem to care about the return of this pro-censorship provision today.
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by Mark Steyn
The War on Free Speech
On Tuesday Lindsay Shepherd, John Robson and I gave evidence to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. The overall vibe of the event was summed up by this headline:
Official records expunged, video feed cut and witnesses maligned: MPs bent on censoring internet show true colours
To deal with that first point: As noted on Monday, Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer yanked vice-chair Michael Cooper from the committee for his unacceptable “insensitivity” to a Muslim witness. In a further outbreak of sensitivity enforcement, on Tuesday morning the committee voted to erase not just Mr Cooper but the entirety of his “insensitive” testimony. Simply as a point of law, it strikes me as a bit iffy to edit live testimony for essentially political reasons: out of solidarity among Her Majesty’s Dominions, Mr Trudeau’s ministry has agreed with Ms Ardern’s in New Zealand that the name of the killer should not be mentioned. Why that should be binding on Opposition members hearing evidence I do not know. Our pal Andrew Lawton notes further inconsistencies.
Still, at the beginning of my opening statement, I put in a word for the “defenestrated” Cooper. There really isn’t much point in chaps like me fighting to get Section 13 repealed if you don’t have a broader culture of free speech — and, with respect to that, conservative leaders who rush to toss you overboard at the hint of anything allegedly “controversial” are a big part of the problem.
Given the fate of Michael Cooper, every other Tory on the committee was on notice. Thus, the next order of business was one of semi-erasure: The Steyn-Shepherd-Robson hearing was scheduled to be televised, but the committee voted instead to make us audio only — and every Conservative went along with it. From the CBC:
Tuesday’s meeting, which heard from free speech activists Mark Steyn, John Robson and Lindsay Shepherd, was initially to be televised, but MPs voted to have it recorded for audio only.
Here’s how that happened:
Once we got on to the witnesses here’s how it was reported (not wholly accurately, in my view) by the Canadian Press:
At one point, Steyn shouted over Toronto Liberal MP Ali Ehsassi, who was asking if Steyn regretted some of the things he’s said publicly about Muslims and Islam.
Steyn admitted that he had made “obnoxious” statements in the past, but refused to discuss controversies that had already been dealt with by human-rights tribunals.
“That’s been adjudicated and I’m in the clear, I beat the rap,” Steyn said.
“I don’t think you were adjudicated as to whether you were obnoxious or you were hurtful,” Ehsassi countered. Steyn again conceded his statements had been hurtful.
During his testimony, Steyn argued against the potential reinstatement of Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which governed online hate speech and was repealed through a Conservative MP’s private member’s bill in 2013. He contended that the issues of online hate should be discussed in a space where people regulate themselves, rather than one restricted by laws.
“Free speech is hate speech, and hate speech is free speech,” Steyn said, calling the alternative to free speech “approved speech.”
Indeed. A little more on that from the Catholic press:
“Ultimately free speech is hate speech, and hate speech is free speech,” bestselling author and radio and TV personality Mark Steyn told the committee June 4. “Free speech is for speech you revile. The alternative to free speech is approved speech.”
The question becomes “approved by whom,” Steyn told the committee. “Once it becomes speech approved by the state, approved by formal bodies, it becomes speech approved by the powerful.”
The biggest threat to free speech is “the malign alliance between government and high-tech,” warned Steyn. He described as chilling a recent meeting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participated in with French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Theresa May sitting opposite the heads of Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple — “six woke billionaires” who “regulate the opinion” of billions of people.
“This is far more of a threat than some “pimply-faced neo-Nazi” writing on the Internet “from his mother’s basement in the prairies,” said Steyn, who faced hate speech complaints under Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act in 2007 and under similar legislation in two provinces for articles he wrote for Maclean’s magazine about Islam. Steyn and the magazine won, but their legal costs were well over $1 million and $100,000 for Steyn personally. A Conservative private member’s bill repealed Section 13 in 2013 under the Harper government.
Ah, happy days — when my legal bills were a mere six figures. After my American adventures, I’d welcome a new Canadian suit.
And finally the Pajama Boys at Vice:
The event ended with Mark Steyn refusing to apologize for his past statements on Islam and biovating about freedom of speech.
I don’t know what biovating is, but we need more of it.
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‘I Love Your Country’: President Trump Praises Queen, Remembers His British Roots
U.S. President Donald J Trump has expressed his “love” for the United Kingdom and his “respect” for the Queen in an interview where he discussed his ties to Britain and his Scottish born mother who loved the Royal Family.
Speaking to ITV’s Piers Morgan in an interview aired Wednesday morning, the most pro-British U.S. president since Ronald Reagan said that despite the protests — which were notably smaller than had been billed to be — he feels he has a “very good relationship with the people of the United Kingdom”.
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Italy: Arcelormittal Unveils 1,400 Taranto Lay-Offs
Temporary measure says steel group
(ANSA) — Taranto, June 5 — ArcelorMittal Italia on Wednesday announced lay-offs of 1,400 workers at the former ILVA steel plant at Taranto for 13 weeks.
The consortium which took over ILVA last year said the move was temporary.
“It’s a difficult decision, but market conditions are critical all over Europe,” said ArcelorMittal Italia CEO Matthieu Jehl.
“I am keen to stress that they are temporary measures and that steel is a cyclical market”.
The Taranto plant, now being cleaned up and revamped to save jobs and ease cancer-linked pollution, is the biggest in Europe.
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Italy: Gela Kebab Seller Gas Tank Explodes, 7 Hurt
2 seriously
(ANSA) — Gela, June 5 — At least seven people were injured, two seriously, when a gas tank exploded in a chicken kebab seller’s shop in the central Sicilian city of Gela on Wednesday.
The kebab stand had been set up in a van in the weekly central market, near the central rail station. Three people including a woman were directly hit by the blast.
Several kebab buyers were hurt too.
Two of those injured were ‘coptered to hospital.
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Italy: Don’t Take the P**s Out of State Di Maio — Whirlpool
‘Grave case’ says industry and labour minister
(ANSA) — Rome, June 4 — Labour and Industry Minister Luigi Di Maio told Whirlpool bosses on threatened job losses reneging on a previous deal Tuesday that “you don’t take the p**s out of the Italian State, not with me, not with this government.” “The State will make itself respected, this is a grave case,” said Di Maio, the 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader and deputy premier.
He stressed that Whirlpool had got 27 million euros in public funds for its Italian plant since 2014.
“Let’s not waste time, we need responses now,” the minister told the executives.
Di Maio set a seven day deadline for a solution or government funding would stop.
Naples Mayor Luigi de Magistris earlier appealed to Di Maio to find a solution to the case in the talks at the industry ministry.
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Italy: Parents Beat Disabled Daughter, 3
Egyptian couple planned to kill ‘monkey’
(ANSA) — Milan, June 4 — Two Egyptian parents were arrested Friday on suspicion of beating their three-year-old disabled daughter and planning to kill her, judicial sources said Tuesday.
“I hate my daughter, I put poison in her food, the monkey is a big problem,” local police intercepted the pair as saying.
In a number of conversations, they allegedly plan to suffocate her, drown her or poison her.
The parents are both from Egypt and both 29 years old.
They were arrested along with their other four children, aged one and a half to eight, after boarding a bus to Milan’s Malpensa Airport for a flight to Egypt.
The pair have been in Italy since 2010 and live in an illegal squat in the north east of Milan.
The man is a labourer while the woman is a housewife.
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Italy: Poll Puts Populist Salvini’s Support Even Higher Than Record EU Election Result
In the face of possible early national elections, Italian populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s League is still dominating polls, with new figures putting the party even higher than their recent European Parliament election victory.
Polling firm SWG’s new numbers put Salvini’s party at 36.5 per cent, 2.2 per cent higher than their election result a week beforehand, Italian newspaper Il Giornale reports.
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MEP Janice Atkinson: “Cultural Marxism Has to be Stopped and Reversed”
There is a new book out that seeks to make sense of what is happening politically in our name. The book is called ‘What Women Want’.
Although I’ll give a spoiler alert now — it’s what men want too. We are being denied our natural instincts and order, as nature and society intended, as men or women, whether it’s in the workplace, in our education system or our right to free speech, governments and supra national bodies are diluting our rights and denying us our sexual identity.
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Reports: Dutch Girl Chose Suicide, Not Euthanized
Reports on Wednesday corrected a widespread story that a 17-year-old Dutch girl who died at her home Sunday had been euthanized, noting that she committed suicide.
Noa Pothoven of Arnhem had requested to be put to death because the suffering of having been molested and raped as a child was “unbearable,” but her request was denied.
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Swedish Bishop Claims to Have ‘More in Common With Muslims’ Than ‘Right-Wing Christians’
Controversial Bishop of Stockholm Eva Brunne revealed that she not only has a distaste for right-wing Christians, but claims to have more in common with Muslims.
The Church of Sweden bishop made her comments this week on the People and Faith programme broadcast on Sveriges Radio, stating that she believes that the subject of Christian values has been largely taken over by right-wing populists.
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Teen Girl Euthanized for ‘Insufferable’ Life
‘After years of battling and fighting, I am drained’
Explaining that the pain of a childhood rape was “insufferable,” a 17-year-old Dutch girl took advantage of the Netherlands’ assisted suicide law and was euthanized on Sunday.
In her autobiography, “Winning or Learning,” Noa Pothoven recounted her battles with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anorexia after being molested and raped as a young child, reported News.com.au.
She wrote in an Instagram post the day before she died that “after years of battling and fighting, I am drained.”
“After I have quit eating and drinking for a while now, and after many discussions and evaluations, it was decided to let me go because my suffering is unbearable,” Pothoven wrote.
Second thoughts
WND reported in 2017 a Dutch psychiatrist whose lawsuit opened the door to allowing assisted suicide in the Netherlands for people suffering depression was having second thoughts.
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UK: Brave Pro-Trump Woman Pops “Baby Trump” Blimp at London Protest: “I’m Going in!” [Video]
The video below is of a brave woman called “Based Amy” approaching the “baby Trump” blimp.
All of a sudden, you hear air rushing out of the blimp and people’s shocked reactions.
The woman has been identified as Amy Dalla Mura. She was live streaming on the streets of London when she filmed herself walking up to the blimp and saying, “I’m going in”. She used scissors to pop the blimp.
After she popped the blimp, she yelled at the protesters: “That’s a disgrace! It’s a national disgrace! The President of the United States is the best president ever. Shame on you!”
She walks away from the crowd and says, “I’ve done it, guys! Yeah, baby!” to her viewers.
She then live-streamed being arrested by British police.
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UK: By-Election: Brexit Candidate Tells Breitbart the Establishment is ‘Backtracking’ On Brexit
Mike Greene, the Brexit Party candidate in Thursday’s special election, has told Breitbart London the political elite is backtracking on taking Britain out of the European Union, but that a new era of straight-talking politics is dawning on the United Kingdom.
Local businessman and charity benefactor Greene, who may be the Brexit Party’s first Member of Parliament by the end of this week if recent political betting odds prove accurate, spoke to Breitbart London’s James Delingpole during a day of campaigning in the English town of Peterborough, where he is hoping to be elected.
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UK: Brexit Party on Brink of History: Farage Set for Sensational Peterborough by-Election Win
NIGEL FARAGE’s Brexit Party is on the brink of making history tonight with another sensational election victory that would secure its first ever MP.
Voters in Peterborough go to the polls today in a crunch by-election just two weeks after the European elections saw the fledgling political movement scoring twice as many votes as Labour. Brexit Party candidate Mike Greene is tipped to triumph in the marginal constituency, where 61 percent of voters opted to quit the EU in the 2016 referendum. The ballot was triggered by the ousting of Labour MP Fiona Onasanya, who won the seat in 2017 but was later jailed after lying over a speeding offence. The Tories held the constituency for 12 years from 2005 when Labour reclaimed it by just 607 votes. But the Conservatives have lost support since failing to deliver EU withdrawal on March 29, making the seat a straight fight between the Brexit Party and Labour.
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UK: Dominic Raab Prepared to Break Up Parliament to Force No Deal Brexit — ‘Out by October’
TORY leadership hopeful Dominic Raab has vowed he is will to do whatever it takes to ensure the UK leaves the EU by the end of October — including breaking up Parliament until after the Halloween deadline.
At present, the House of Commons is due to break for summer recess in July, but the former Brexit Secretary has said he would be willing to block MPs returning to Westminster in order to deliver on the 2016 EU referendum result. A majority of MPs vehemently oppose leaving the Brussels trade bloc without a deal and could sabotage a future Prime Minister’s efforts to do so by holding a vote of no-confidence in the Government. However, Mr Raab has said would be willing to take drastic action by breaking up Parliament early to prevent such measures.
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage believes the Tories will be “obliterated” if they continue to resist delivering Brexit and treating their own base with “contempt”.
In an exclusive interview with James Delingpole for Breitbart News, the veteran MEP said he did not believe new leadership after Theresa May finally leaves the stage will be a panacea.
“Just changing the leader is not enough,” he asserted, describing a “fundamental breakdown of trust between conservative voters and the Conservative Party” much worse than anything the party experienced even in 1997, when Labour’s Tony Blair swept them out of office in a landslide.
“What I’ve been getting for six months on LBC is people saying I’ll never vote for them again as long as I live,” he explained.
“One half of the party hates the other half of the party, they treat their own grassroots with contempt, they still treat Brexiteers as if they’re the lower orders, basically,” he suggested.
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The third and final day of President Trump’s State Visit to the United Kingdom kicked off Wednesday morning in Portsmouth, the home of the Royal Navy, for a day of commemorations of the D-Day landings of 1944.
Leaders of allied nations including President Trump, UK Prime Minister Theresa May, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid tribute to veterans by reading letters, prayers, and poems written to those who fought in 1944.
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President Donald J Trump has mocked the “organized flops” that have been the recent anti-Trump protests during his three-day State Visit to the United Kingdom.
The President remarked on Wednesday morning: “I kept hearing that there would be ‘massive’ rallies against me in the UK, but it was quite the opposite.
“The big crowds, which the Corrupt Media hates to show, were those that gathered in support of the USA and me. They were big & enthusiastic as opposed to the organized flops!”
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Siobhan Prigent and a mob of violent leftists attacked an elderly pro-Trump grandfather at the protests Tuesday against President Donald Trump in London.
In the video Siobhan is seen harassing the Trump supporting grandpa, screaming “nazi scum!” over and over in his face and then LAUGH after the man was physically covered in a milkshake and kicked on the ground.
Prigent can be seen laughing and slip away after the man was knocked to the ground.
Now the abusive leftist is fighting to keep her job as a clinical trials coordinator at the University College Hospital.
She never expected to get caught for taking part in the violent leftist mob.
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Vogue Contends Queen Was ‘Trolling’ Trump With Gifts, Remarks on His UK Visit
Few media outlets can match Vogue in terms of frustration at the president’s so-far successful trip to the U.K.
In “Was Queen Elizabeth Really Trolling Trump?” reporter Michelle Ruiz takes a number of shots at the president.
“There was something distinctly queasy about the feeling of watching the British royals fraternize with the Trump administration — as well as, um, the entire Trump family — during Donald Trump’s state banquet Monday night at Buckingham Palace,” Ruiz began her piece. “Duty call (sic) and all, but as Labour shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry astutely pointed out, ‘I don’t think that this president … deserves the honor’ of a state visit, given his displays of racism and misogyny, among other objectionable behaviors.”
Ruiz suggested that “perhaps as a coping tactic in the face of this uncomfortable visit (notwithstanding Britain’s own problematic colonial history, Kate Middleton should not have to talk to Steve Mnuchin in any setting), Internet theories swiftly emerged that Queen Elizabeth II was actually trolling Trump through her accessories, gift choices and words.”
The Burmese Ruby Tiara the queen wore is believed by the people of Burma to possess “prophylactic properties guarding the wearer not only against illness but also against evil.”
The queen’s other noted gift, a first-edition copy of “The Second World War” by Winston Churchill, “registered as a potential dig both because it’s a book, and Trump has been accused of not liking to read, and because it’s a book about a noted anti-fascist.”
Trump reads at least three newspapers per day and skims a fourth, according to Axios.
Ruiz further found condemnation of President Trump in the queen’s remarks at Monday night’s banquet. The queen said: “As we face the new challenges of the 21st century, the anniversary of D-Day reminds us of all that our countries have achieved together.”
Ruiz wrote: “Some wishful thinkers, like political scientists David Rothkopf, interpreted the queen’s words as ‘an extraordinary reproach,” saying on Twitter that she was ‘trolling Trump hard here, with remarks underscoring the importance of the alliances and the international institutions Trump is working so hard to undermine and dismantle.’“
Ruiz doesn’t say what alliances and international institutions Trump is working so hard to undermine and dismantle, but we can assume one is NATO. What Trump has done there, of course, is not undermine the organization but, as even Theresa May acknowledged, strengthen it by calling on leaders of other member nations to meet their defense spending commitments.
Even the prayer said for both governments at the banquet on Monday sparked speculation the queen was being mean to Trump. “Grant them as symbols of loyalty and unity for all their people; inspire their governments with vision, understanding and integrity,” the Very Reverend Dr. John Hall said in the prayer.
Ruiz seems to know the queen is not out to troll Trump even as she writes that she may well have. “The elaborate revenge fantasy is satisfying,” Ruiz wrote. “But the likelihood of Queen Elizabeth II actually savagely clapping back at the president of the United States through her tiara rubies while elaborately receiving him at her palace is probably quite slim. It is not, in fact, time to welcome her to the resistance, no matter how hard one wishes to try.”
She then quotes Jessica Morgan of Gofugyourself, a sassy British woman-oriented website, saying the tiara probably was chosen because it matched her outfit and the book was appropriate given the impetus for the visit was commemoration of the D-Day attack 75 years ago.
“‘I totally understand why people want the queen to be trolling Trump,’“ Ruiz quoted Morgan as saying. “‘But I also think there is a tendency to read more into these things than perhaps is truly there.’“
Few media outlets can match Vogue in terms of frustration at the president’s so-far successful trip to the U.K.
In “Was Queen Elizabeth Really Trolling Trump?” reporter Michelle Ruiz takes a number of shots at the president.
“There was something distinctly queasy about the feeling of watching the British royals fraternize with the Trump administration — as well as, um, the entire Trump family — during Donald Trump’s state banquet Monday night at Buckingham Palace,” Ruiz began her piece. “Duty call and all, but as Labour shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry astutely pointed out, ‘I don’t think that this president … deserves the honor’ of a state visit, given his displays of racism and misogyny, among other objectionable behaviors.”
Ruiz suggested that “perhaps as a coping tactic in the face of this uncomfortable visit (notwithstanding Britain’s own problematic colonial history, Kate Middleton should not have to talk to Steve Mnuchin in any setting), Internet theories swiftly emerged that Queen Elizabeth II was actually trolling Trump through her accessories, gift choices and words.”
The Burmese Ruby Tiara the queen wore is believed by the people of Burma to possess “‘prophylactic properties guarding the wearer not only against illness but also against evil.’“
The queen’s other noted gift, a first-edition copy of “The Second World War” by Winston Churchill, “registered as a potential dig both because it’s a book, and Trump has been accused of not liking to read, and because it’s a book about a noted anti-fascist.”
Trump reads at least three newspapers per day and skims a fourth, according to Axios.
Ruiz further found condemnation of President Trump in the queen’s remarks at Monday night’s banquet. The queen said: “As we face the new challenges of the 21st century, the anniversary of D-Day reminds us of all that our countries have achieved together.”
Ruiz wrote: “Some wishful thinkers, like political scientists David Rothkopf, interpreted the queen’s words as ‘an extraordinary reproach,” saying on Twitter that she was ‘trolling Trump hard here, with remarks underscoring the importance of the alliances and the international institutions Trump is working so hard to undermine and dismantle.’“
Ruiz doesn’t say what alliances and international institutions Trump is working so hard to undermine and dismantle, but we can assume one is NATO. What Trump has done there, of course, is not undermine the organization but, as even Theresa May acknowledged, strengthen it by calling on leaders of other member nations to meet their defense spending commitments.
Even the prayer said for both governments at the banquet on Monday sparked speculation the queen was being mean to Trump. “Grant them as symbols of loyalty and unity for all their people; inspire their governments with vision, understanding and integrity,” the Very Reverend Dr. John Hall said in the prayer.
Ruiz seems to know the queen is not out to troll Trump even as she writes that she may well have. “The elaborate revenge fantasy is satisfying,” Ruiz wrote. “But the likelihood of Queen Elizabeth II actually savagely clapping back at the president of the United States through her tiara rubies while elaborately receiving him at her palace is probably quite slim. It is not, in fact, time to welcome her to the resistance, no matter how hard one wishes to try.”
She then quotes Jessica Morgan of Gofugyourself, a sassy British woman-oriented website, saying the tiara probably was chosen because it matched her outfit and the book was appropriate given the impetus for the visit was commemoration of the D-Day attack 75 years ago.
“‘I totally understand why people want the queen to be trolling Trump,’“ Ruiz quoted Morgan as saying. “‘But I also think there is a tendency to read more into these things than perhaps is truly there.’“
Few media outlets can match Vogue in terms of frustration at the president’s so-far successful trip to the U.K.
In “Was Queen Elizabeth Really Trolling Trump?” reporter Michelle Ruiz takes a number of shots at the president.
“There was something distinctly queasy about the feeling of watching the British royals fraternize with the Trump administration — as well as, um, the entire Trump family — during Donald Trump’s state banquet Monday night at Buckingham Palace,” Ruiz began her piece. “Duty call and all, but as Labour shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry astutely pointed out, ‘I don’t think that this president … deserves the honor’ of a state visit, given his displays of racism and misogyny, among other objectionable behaviors.”
Ruiz suggested that “perhaps as a coping tactic in the face of this uncomfortable visit (notwithstanding Britain’s own problematic colonial history, Kate Middleton should not have to talk to Steve Mnuchin in any setting), Internet theories swiftly emerged that Queen Elizabeth II was actually trolling Trump through her accessories, gift choices and words.”
The Burmese Ruby Tiara the queen wore is believed by the people of Burma to possess “‘prophylactic properties guarding the wearer not only against illness but also against evil.’“
The queen’s other noted gift, a first-edition copy of “The Second World War” by Winston Churchill, “registered as a potential dig both because it’s a book, and Trump has been accused of not liking to read, and because it’s a book about a noted anti-fascist.”
Trump reads at least three newspapers per day and skims a fourth, according to Axios.
Ruiz further found condemnation of President Trump in the queen’s remarks at Monday night’s banquet. The queen said: “As we face the new challenges of the 21st century, the anniversary of D-Day reminds us of all that our countries have achieved together.”
Ruiz wrote: “Some wishful thinkers, like political scientists David Rothkopf, interpreted the queen’s words as ‘an extraordinary reproach,” saying on Twitter that she was ‘trolling Trump hard here, with remarks underscoring the importance of the alliances and the international institutions Trump is working so hard to undermine and dismantle.’“
Ruiz doesn’t say what alliances and international institutions Trump is working so hard to undermine and dismantle, but we can assume one is NATO. What Trump has done there, of course, is not undermine the organization but, as even Theresa May acknowledged, strengthen it by calling on leaders of other member nations to meet their defense spending commitments.
Even the prayer said for both governments at the banquet on Monday sparked speculation the queen was being mean to Trump. “Grant them as symbols of loyalty and unity for all their people; inspire their governments with vision, understanding and integrity,” the Very Reverend Dr. John Hall said in the prayer.
Ruiz seems to know the queen is not out to troll Trump even as she writes that she may well have. “The elaborate revenge fantasy is satisfying,” Ruiz wrote. “But the likelihood of Queen Elizabeth II actually savagely clapping back at the president of the United States through her tiara rubies while elaborately receiving him at her palace is probably quite slim. It is not, in fact, time to welcome her to the resistance, no matter how hard one wishes to try.”
She then quotes Jessica Morgan of Gofugyourself, a sassy British woman-oriented website, saying the tiara probably was chosen because it matched her outfit and the book was appropriate given the impetus for the visit was commemoration of the D-Day attack 75 years ago.
“‘I totally understand why people want the queen to be trolling Trump,’“ Ruiz quoted Morgan as saying. “‘But I also think there is a tendency to read more into these things than perhaps is truly there.’“
Few media outlets can match Vogue in terms of frustration at the president’s so-far successful trip to the U.K.
In “Was Queen Elizabeth Really Trolling Trump?” reporter Michelle Ruiz takes a number of shots at the president.
“There was something distinctly queasy about the feeling of watching the British royals fraternize with the Trump administration — as well as, um, the entire Trump family — during Donald Trump’s state banquet Monday night at Buckingham Palace,” Ruiz began her piece [1]. “Duty call and all, but as Labour shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry astutely pointed out, ‘I don’t think that this president … deserves the honor’ of a state visit, given his displays of racism and misogyny, among other objectionable behaviors.”
Ruiz suggested that “perhaps as a coping tactic in the face of this uncomfortable visit (notwithstanding Britain’s own problematic colonial history, Kate Middleton should not have to talk to Steve Mnuchin in any setting), Internet theories swiftly emerged that Queen Elizabeth II was actually trolling Trump through her accessories, gift choices and words.”
The Burmese Ruby Tiara the queen wore is believed by the people of Burma to possess ‘prophylactic properties guarding the wearer not only against illness but also against evil.’
The queen’s other noted gift, a first-edition copy of “The Second World War” by Winston Churchill, “registered as a potential dig both because it’s a book, and Trump has been accused of not liking to read, and because it’s a book about a noted anti-fascist.”
Ruiz further found condemnation of President Trump in the queen’s remarks at Monday night’s banquet. The queen said: “As we face the new challenges of the 21st century, the anniversary of D-Day reminds us of all that our countries have achieved together.”
Ruiz wrote: “Some wishful thinkers, like political scientists David Rothkopf, interpreted the queen’s words as ‘an extraordinary reproach,” saying on Twitter that she was ‘trolling Trump hard here, with remarks underscoring the importance of the alliances and the international institutions Trump is working so hard to undermine and dismantle.’“
Ruiz doesn’t say what alliances and international institutions Trump is working so hard to undermine and dismantle, but we can assume one is NATO. What Trump has done there, of course, is not undermine the organization but, as even Theresa May acknowledged, strengthen it by calling on leaders of other member nations to meet their defense spending commitments.
Even the prayer said for both governments at the banquet on Monday sparked speculation the queen was being mean to Trump . “Grant them as symbols of loyalty and unity for all their people; inspire their governments with vision, understanding and integrity,” the Very Reverend Dr. John Hall said in the prayer.
Ruiz seems to know the queen is not out to troll Trump even as she writes that she may well have. “The elaborate revenge fantasy is satisfying,” Ruiz wrote . “But the likelihood of Queen Elizabeth II actually savagely clapping back at the president of the United States through her tiara rubies while elaborately receiving him at her palace is probably quite slim. It is not, in fact, time to welcome her to the resistance, no matter how hard one wishes to try.”
[As if anyone takes Vogue seriously]
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Top Theologian: In Abu Dhabi Statement, Pope ‘Undermines’ The Gospel
The former doctrinal chief of the U.S. bishops’ conference has published an article criticizing the Abu Dhabi statement signed by Pope Francis in February, alleging that the statement undervalues the person of Jesus and undermines the Gospel itself.
In a joint statement with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, Pope Francis asserted in February that God wills a plurality of religions just as He wills a plurality of colors, sexes, races, and languages.
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East Burdwan Police Arrested Muslim Serial Killer of Middle-Aged Women After 8 Murders
After 8 murders of Hindu women, Muslim serial killer held in Burdwan. Another 6 were survived anyway when attempted to kill.
Milita Das Paul | HENB | Kalna | June 5, 2019:: A 42-year-old suspected serial killer in East Burdwan’s Kalna (West Bengal) was arrested on Sunday afternoon. Accused Kamruzzaman Sarkar alias Chain-man has been targeting woman in their 40s to 50s since 2013. Describing him as a cool-headed killer, police said he is accused of killing 5 (five) such women since October 2018 till May 2019 and caused 3 killing of women in 2013, all under Kalna, Monteshwar and Memari Police Station. Kamruzzaman is also involved in another six cases of attempt to murder lonely women aged above 40. One on such victim is struggling for life in Burdwan Medical College who survived anyway from the Kamruzzaman’s murder ploy.
The Muslim serial killer was produced in a Kalna court on Monday to face murder charges and remanded in police custody for 14 days.
A native of Murshidabad, Kamruzzaman is married and has been living in a small house with a tin shed at Nadanghat for two years. He has three children. He drew the attention of locals in the area for always being well-dressed. He was evasive when locals asked him what he did for a living. To those who insisted on an answer, he would say he was in the construction business…
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China: Gruesome Tiananmen Square Truth Revealed
Brutal break down of underreported student massacre.
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Australian Police Raid National Broadcaster Over Leaked Afghan War Crime Stories
Australian federal police officers raided the Sydney headquarters of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) over a series of 2017 reports known as The Afghan Files, which exposed crimes committed by special forces in Afghanistan based on hundreds of pages of leaked defense documents marked AUSTEO (Australian Eyes Only).
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Climate Alarmists: ‘High Likelihood’ Civilization Will End by 2050
A new policy paper by an Australian think tank asserts climate change is an “existential threat to human civilization” that demands an immediate “wartime level” response.
The paper, titled Existential climate-related security risk: A scenario Approach, was published last week by Australia’s National Centre for Climate Restoration and alleges that climate science projections tend to be overly “conservative and reticent” and therefore underestimate the severity of the climate crisis.
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This week’s stopover by three Chinese warships in Sydney Harbour was so top secret that not even NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian knew about the surprise visit.
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A Bangladeshi student, 24, who stabbed her Melbourne homestay host in a terror act has been jailed for 42 years.
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Gruesome South African Farm Murders Continue in 2019
Issue still receiving little media attention.
[Comment: Western communist media will nevr report the truth about communist South Africa.]
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Venezuela Crisis: How Maduro ‘Spent Thousands of State Funds on Cuban Rituals’
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro allegedly spent thousands of state funds on religious rituals in Cuba, according to a former intelligence official.
Hugo Carvajal, former director of the country’s military intelligence, lashed out at Mr Maduro in an open letter. Responding to a claim from the Venezuelan ruler that he was dismissed for gross misconduct, Mr Carvajal made several explosive claims about the President’s religious beliefs and financial conduct. A staunch ally of former President Hugo Chavez, the same reverence was certainly not applied to the new leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
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Border Crisis Explodes: 144,278 Illegals Apprehended in May, Up 32%
The crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border has exploded.
Border agents apprehended 144,278 migrants in May, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Chief (CBP) Operating Officer John P. Sanders told reporters Wednesday. That’s a 32% increase over April, he said.
“We are in a full-blown emergency, and I cannot say this stronger: the system is broken,” Sanders said. The chief said that nearly 700,000 foreigners have been apprehended in the past eight months, which he noted is “more than the population of Miami.”
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California Names School After MTV-Promoted Illegal Alien Jose Antonio Vargas
Illegal alien Jose Antonio Vargas first gained traction with his MTV documentary “White People.”
As a child, Jose was brought across the US border. And now the school district in California responsible for his public education is naming a school for him.
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Denmark Admits Country Has ‘Big Problem’ With Criminal Migrants
Danish Justice Minister Søren Pape Poulsen has admitted that his country has a “big problem” with migrant criminals and has defended new measures from the government designed to make deportations easier.
The minister’s statements come in reaction to a study by Danish media that discovered Somalis were by far the largest foreign nationality in Denmark to be convicted for violence with 916 convictions between 2014 and 2018, Danish tabloid B.T. reports.
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House Passes Mass Amnesty Bill Which Would Give Millions of Illegal Immigrants a Path to Citizenship
The legislation would make it so 2.1 million immigrants “would be eligible under the measures for Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children.”
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Increase on the Balkan Migration Route
Hungarian military personnel will also be taking part in the defence of the southern Hungarian border. This is enabling the reallocation of various police units from the border.
Speaking on Hungarian M1 television’s current affairs program, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister Gyorgy Bakondi said: “Over the next three months a significant number of police units are required in the interior of the country because of the Maccabi European Games, the Formula 1 Grand Prix, and the peak tourist season at Lake Balaton”. “At such times, the presence of police officers is highly important with relation to maintaining public order”, he added.
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Malta Navy Rescues 370 Migrants From Mediterranean
Valletta (AFP) — Malta’s navy said on Wednesday that it had rescued a total of 370 migrants from the Mediterranean in four separate operations.
The navy rescued 63 migrants in distress after their dinghy started to take in water overnight, a statement said, and 99 in a similar incident on Wednesday.
A patrol boat rescued another 61 migrants after they made a distress call, and then 147 more in a third rescue, the navy said.
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Bolshevik Big Business? Corporations Now Attacking Conservative Customers
Nabisco mocks customers upset about a drag-queen Mother’s Day cookie ad. Burger King subtly encourages people to throw its milk shakes at anti-European Union populists. And a beer company advocates hitting such people “over the head with a brick.” Welcome to the new corporate activism and the principle “The conservative customer is always wrong.”
There was a time, not long ago, when businesses largely adhered to the old advice “Never discuss politics or religion.” And when explaining his lack of 1990s political activism, NBA legend Michael Jordan reportedly said, “Republicans buy shoes, too.” But that was before the advent of “woke” corporate activism.
There are, of course, the recent examples of big business threatening to leave states that enact politically incorrect (but morally correct) laws. For instance, Walt Disney Co., Netflix, and other corporations are claiming they may exit Georgia if the state’s new pro-life “heartbeat” bill goes into effect. Netflix has played this game before, too, having joined other entities in boycotting North Carolina after it enacted a pro-sanity “bathroom bill” in 2016. And the NCAA, NASCAR, and other businesses vowed to leave Indiana after the state passed its Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 2015. Sadly, Indiana and North Carolina both capitulated and watered down their laws to appease the “corporactivists.”
Yet more shocking still is a very recent development. A far cry from “The customer is always right,” Nabisco actually mocked customers who objected to a “drag queen” Chips Ahoy! Mother’s Day advertisement it created.
Of course, that the corporation thought such an ad (below) was a good idea in the first place is shocking itself.
[Comment: Stand up proud and show the public what kind of company you are. That way people can reply with their wallets.]
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CNN Promotes Down Syndrome Drag Queens
Mainstream media exploits individuals with genetic disorder to push trans agenda.
[Comment: Pushing this rubbish onto kids and people with downs syndrome is evil.]
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College Student Says She Wants People Jailed Over “Misgendering” Others…
[…]Left Speechless When Conservative Destroys Her Liberal Logic [VIDEO]
While appearing at a college campus, Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was confronted by a female at one of their information tables.
The student was admonishing Kirk for not agreeing with her that he should be held accountable for failing to refer to someone by their chosen identity.
Kirk, who frequently challenges liberal students on college campuses across America, over their liberal views, caught this female college student by surprise when he exposed her for parroting views she’s heard from others with no substance to back up her radical views.
Kirk explained that in California if you misgender someone, you can go to prison. When he asked her if that was okay with her, she incredibly responded, “yes.” When Kirk explained to her that by suppressing another person’s speech, she was advocating fascism, she appears to be stunned by the reality of her words.
Watch:…
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Condom Races by 10 and 11 Year Olds to “Aroused” Statue in Public Schools
READER ADVISORY: The content in this outrageous story will be disturbing to all but Democrats who believe in destroying all that is good. For those who do have integrity, morality and decency, this shocking story will be a call to action. Remember, we actually outnumber the demoncrats. Warning: Descriptions in this story are explicit.
Unfortunately, what happens in California does not stay in California. On the contrary the sick curriculum taught in their public schools spill out to the whole nation which feels compelled to teach the same courses that only the LGBTQ could understand and appreciate.
First of all, California is peopled by mostly Democrats who have no morals whatsoever and believe in every kind of one-way wild sexual release with anyone, at anytime with or without permission. This is no exaggeration. It is the democrats who are trying to make sex with children legal. They are the original dirty old men.
The LGBTQ course taught in the California Public Schools is a secret course that parents are forbidden to observe, nor can they take their children out of those classes. The parents are blocked from seeing what takes place there. That is for good reason. These classes are elaborate instruction packages to groom children into early sex with others of any age or sex.
The Condom Races, by 10 and 11 year old girls, with boys watching, is unthinkable. There is a metal life-size male statue with an erect penis. Don’t worry, it gets worse. The little girls are given condoms, then race to the statue is to see who can be the first to put a condom on the outermost part of that statue. Again, these are CHILDREN!!
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Google Engineer Goes Public, Spills Beans on ‘Hunt’ For Christians
Says company ‘outrage mobs’ forcing him out
In an open letter distributed Tuesday, a Google software engineer described a company culture of left-wing “outrage mobs” who use the tech giant’s anonymous bias-reporting channels to shut down conservative social and political thought.
Mike Wacker, writing on Medium, warned that if “left unchecked, these outrage mobs will hunt down any conservative, any Christian, and any independent free thinker at Google who does not bow down to their agenda.”
He claimed that in March, the company offered him a severance package to leave, with an implied threat that it would find a pretext to fire him if he refused.
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Italy: M5S Files Euthanasia Bill
Right to death as well as right to life say 17 MPs
(ANSA) — Rome, June 5 — The ruling anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) on Wednesday filed a bill legalising euthanasia.
Seventeen M5S MPs said “in modern secularised societies public opinion is ever more favourable to requesting assisted and dignified death and where possible free from useless suffering.
“There is a right to life but also a right to death.
“The present bill deals with a delicate and complex issue that must necessarily be faced to enable a step forward to be made in the field of civil and freedom rights”.
The populist M5S’s government partner, the nationalist League party, has already said it will oppose the bill.
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Judeo-Christian Group Sues Michigan for ‘Orwellian’ Witch Hunt Based on SPLC Labels
Last Thursday, the Judeo-Christian law firm American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) sued Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Michigan Department of Civil Rights (MDCR) Executive Director Agustin Arbulu for using the arm of the state to quash their First Amendment rights. Nessel and Arbulu had referenced the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) “hate group” labels in launching a new hate-crimes unit “to fight against hate crimes and the many hate groups … in our state.”
“It’s one thing for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is a private organization, to engage in political propaganda and political hyperbole,” Robert Muise, co-founder and senior counsel of AFLC, told PJ Media on Monday. He said it’s a violation of the Constitution “when you have the attorney general who’s relying on that political propaganda to investigate and target us with the power of the state.”
“You now have the government giving its endorsement to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s nonsense — that now triggers our constitutional protections,” Muise insisted.
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School District Faces Grilling for Teacher’s Trans-Activism
Presents video in class so that ‘all of my students will know my truth’
A Wisconsin school district is being called to account for a teacher who promoted his transgenderism to elementary-age children.
In a letter to Supt. Jennifer Cheatham of the Madison, Wisconsin, Metropolitan School District, Liberty Counsel is asking the district to provide public records regarding the stunt by science teacher Mark ‘Vince’ Busenbark (a.k.a. ‘Vica Steel’). Busenbark produced a video at home with his wife and showed it to every K-5th grade child at Allis Elementary School.
On Facebook, Busenbark stated the purpose of the video was “all so [the children] can know who I am and who I am becoming.”
In the video, Liberty Counsel said, Busenbark contends people who disagree with him about the issue of transgenderism are motivated by “fear” and “hate.”
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Tech Giants Pushing Anti-Knowledge to Keep Humanity Dumbed Down & Trapped in Mental Prisons
Far from helping people access knowledge and facts, search engines like Google now push anti-knowledge — the opposite of knowledge — in order to keep people dumbed down.
The evil tech giants are now systematically de-platforming all channels and sources of real human knowledge, awakening, and truth. For the topics that really matter, the only information that’s allowed to be found on Google, Wikipedia, iPhone apps, YouTube or Twitter is anti-knowledge, or “false facts” that defy reality and indoctrinate the masses to believe in delusions rather than see what’s really happening in the world around them.
In other words, on every topic that matters — science, medicine, vaccines, climate, history, politics, biology, culture and more — Big Tech systematically suppresses useful knowledge that might empower humans and replaces it with anti-knowledge that keeps people dumbed-down and trapped in mental prisons.
We are now living in the Age of Anti-Knowledge that’s pretending to be the Age of Information. But the information is controlled, shaped, twisted and engineered to dumb you down and keep you easily controlled with false narratives and fake facts. Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia, Pinterest, and Snapchat are all enemies of human awakening, which makes them enemies of humanity.
Because the truth is treason in an age of deceit.
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Transgenderism vs. Free Speech in BC
The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal (BCHRT) recently decided a case involving a flyer distributed by a street preacher, William Whatcott, challenging the candidacy for provincial office of a man who identified publicly as a woman. Whatcott apparently handed out 1500 flyers on street corners, stuffed them in mailboxes, taped them to doors and even put a copy on the internet, things that many political campaigners do today.
A panel of three concluded, against Whatcott, that the flyer “indicated an intention to discriminate against Ms. Oger and is likely to expose her and other transgender people to hatred or contempt.” Whatcott was ordered to pay Oger $35,000 plus $20,000 in costs. As he is penurious, the likelihood is that neither amount will ever be paid, and he will face jail time.
The panel held that Whatcott discriminated against Oger by stating that transgenderism is “immoral,” and that “[t]o cast a transgender person as immoral purely because of their gender identity is the very essence of discrimination.” It held that the discrimination was “severe,” that it was “intentional and designed to interfere with her participation in the political life of this province.” Drawing on “the most insidious myths about transgender people,” it admonished the electorate to conclude that Oger “was by sole virtue of her gender identity, unsuitable for public office.” Oger claimed “the discrimination was ongoing,” that its effects are “never going to go away,” and that the indignity she suffered “was a direct result of the discrimination.”
What particularly bothered the BCHRT was not that by publicly distributing the flyer Whatcott created a danger of “imminent lawless action,” or a clear and present danger — only that the flyer’s message was “unacceptable.” Its objections were strictly to the flyer’s substance, especially to its warning to recipients that transgenders and their allies might die a second death in Revelation 2:8’s “fire lake,” and its call to action urging them to tell NDP campaigners that “you won’t vote for them because you believe in God’s definition of gender and marriage.” In point of fact, the Tribunal’s objections were strictly viewpoint-based. If the flyer would have supported transgenderism or urged people to vote for Oger and the NDP, it would obviously have passed muster.
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Vatican Laments Teen’s ‘Euthanasia’ Death
‘Loss for humanity’ says Pontifical Academy for Life
(ANSA) — Vatican City, June 5 — The Vatican on Wednesday lamented the death of Noa Pothoven, a 17-year-old girl from the Netherlands who reportedly ended her life via legal euthanasia on Sunday — although it was subsequently clarified she had not received government permission to end her life.
“Noa’s death is a great loss for any civil society and for humanity,” the Pontifical Academy for Life posted on its Twitter account, @PontAcadLife. “We must always assert the positive reasons for life.
#NoaPothoven”.
The girl struggled with mental illness after being raped as a child and, in accordance with Dutch law, was reportedly granted permission to die with the help of an end-of-life clinic.
She had written a book about her battle with mental illness after being sexually abused. Dutch sources said Wednesday Pothoven had not been euthanised but had died after refusing food and drink.
“This is not a case of euthanasia,” they said.
Italian right-to-die campaigner Marco Cappato said she had not received government permission to kill herself.
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A Dangerous Time to be Christian
Though its incidence is not shared by major media, violence — including torture and murder — against Christians around the world is at historic levels.
This past Easter will live in infamy — as an omen and wake-up call for global Christendom and Western civilization.
At a time when many of the world’s 2.5 billion Christians were celebrating the resurrection of their crucified savior Jesus Christ, two shocking events just days apart sent reverberations around the world.
First, a few days before Easter, the world watched as the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was largely consumed in flames. In an article the following day, nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Dennis Prager captured the tragic irony of the disaster. “The symbolism of the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral, the most renowned building in Western civilization, the iconic symbol of Western Christendom, is hard to miss,” Prager wrote in his column “Notre Dame: An Omen.”
“It is as if God Himself wanted to warn us in the most unmistakable way that Western Christianity is burning — and with it, Western civilization.”
A few days later, on Easter Sunday, over 250 people were killed, including nearly 50 children, when three Christian churches and three luxury hotels in Sri Lanka were targeted in a series of coordinated Islamic terrorist bombings.
“What you have in these kinds of events are people who have a radical agenda who want to attack churches, attack Christians, and destroy the freedom of religious expression of Christians,” David Curry, president and chief executive officer of Open Doors USA, told The New American.
“This attack on these churches, by the way, is not rare. It’s happening regularly in various parts of the world where Christian churches are attacked, not just on Easter, but many times throughout the year. It’s based on this radical idea that they think Christians are infidels and they want to eradicate them.”
This attack on Christians, among the worst in modern history, came amid reports that persecution of Christ’s followers globally is worse today “than at any time in history.”
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“One of the course text books is: The All-You- Need-to-Know-sexuality-Guide to get you through your Teens and Twenties.” oh this is rich. By their late twenties and thirties those women will realize just how bad their cognitive dissonance is because of this course and they will end up on antidepressives. I hope everybody sees and understands the connection, though I wish it would crumble faster.
Too bad they left out the companion textbook “All-You-Need-to-Know-Multi-Cat-and-Antidepressant-Guide to get you through your Thirties, Forties, Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties.”
Women in particular have been dealt a very cruel hand through the supposed freedom bestowed upon them by the Sexual Revolution. Several decades of riding the carousel leaves them unable to form relationships that last, and of little value as wife material to most single men within their age bracket. Childless, lonely old age will be the price many of them pay for their wild and promiscuous youth.
Interesting:
1] A German Blogger has established that the Politician found shot in the head at point blank range had targeted the Mafia. The Mafia has proliferated in the region since Merkel opened the illegal immigration floodgates and removed all border controls.
In Wikipedia, this fact has been deliberately DELETED. See this image in this article.
https://www.danisch.de/blog/2019/06/03/kopfschuss-mit-feiner-ironie/
Employees working for the Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation services (IND) are being pressured by their superiors to not cancel or revoke the residence permits of convicted criminal asylum seekers.
“It is too costly in time and money, so it doesn’t happen. We had to abandon numerous procedures to cancel residence applications by criminals, all because of money.”
97 % of the criminals stayed the Netherlands.
Between January 2017 and February 2019 only 34 residence permits of criminal asylum seekers have been cancelled. this is only 2.4 % of all cases brought to court.
Source :
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/06/05/intrekkingen-kosten-inders-te-veel-tijd-a3962813
https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1148307553/ind-stuurde-criminelen-niet-weg
NOTE :
1) We are being lied to by the government. The findings of the IND’s internal “De Leeuw” committee of inquiry were that “no significant crime or substantial wrongdoing occurs at asylum seeker centres”.
Consider the data for 2018 :
– 79 sex crimes
– 51 assault with serious bodily harm
– 31 cases of manslaughter or (suspected) homicide
All of the crimes listed above were categorized as “miscellaneous”, as if murder and rape is of less importance than “shoplifting”, and “causing noise disturbances”.
While minister Harbers did resign over this particular matter, whether things will change still remains yet to be seen.
NOTE 2)
The cancellation of an asylum seeker’s residence permit (even if convicted criminal) doesn’t automatically mean that the applicants legal options are thereby depleted. They can still take their case to higher courts. They are also not being extradited.
Interesting;
2] A German Vlogger, has investigated the links between the Austrian ÖVP Party (youthful Chancellor Sebastian Kurz) and the German CDU Party (Chancellor Angela Merkel) and the Coudenhove-Kalergi group in Europe.
Coudenhove-Kalergi is famous for introducing in his book (“The fight for Paneuropa”, 1925) the idea of a “Eurasian-Negroid race” worker-class into Europe to serve the needs of the elite.
The Vlogger convincingly links Merkel and Kurz to Kalergis “Eurasian-Negroid race” and documents this in a short video.
The Vlogger suggests, that this deeply-embedded political link is driving government policy behind the illegal, uncontrolled, mass immigration of Asians and Africans onto the European continent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_syuySu5x-M
In his book Praktischer Idealismus (Practical Idealism), written in 1925, he describes the future of Jews in Europe and of European racial composition with the following words:[43]
QUOTE
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The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today’s races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals. […]
Instead of destroying European Jewry, Europe, against its own will, refined and educated this people into a future leader-nation through this artificial selection process.
No wonder that this people, that escaped Ghetto-Prison, developed into a spiritual nobility of Europe. Therefore a gracious Providence provided Europe with a new race of nobility by the Grace of Spirit. This happened at the moment when Europe’s feudal aristocracy became dilapidated, and thanks to Jewish emancipation.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Coudenhove-Kalergi
Not hard to believe Merkel hosts the Kalergi congress in Aachen each year. Only hard to believe that Germans actually vote for her.
Not that hard to believe. Their grandparents and great-grandparents also voted for Adolf, and Chancellor Bismarck who was responsible for the creation of Germany as a nation in the first place was also responsible for the creation of the modern welfare state.
Re: …YouTube demonetizes…Steven Crowder. Pat Condell reports something similar:
https://twitter.com/patcondell?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Handsome and Beauty say that others do not dare.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/aung-san-suu-kyi-viktor-orban-muslim-population-immigration-meeting-budapest-a8946686.html
Aung San Suu Kyi and Viktor Orban agree ‘continuously growing Muslim populations’ is one of greatest challenges
Perhaps this news is somewhere in English.
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In Germany, searches were conducted in the homes of authors inciting discord comments
Among the suspects are members and administrators of online communities on patriotic subjects.
German police searched the homes of people who left threatening comments on migrants and inciting ethnic hatred in the global network. 38 police operations took place simultaneously in the 13 federal states of Germany, reports the German channel n-tv on 6 June.
https://regnum.ru/news/2642829.html
I forgot to mention an important detail from the article:
The General Prosecutor’s Office of Koblenz (Rhineland-Palatinate) searched the houses of twelve defendants aged 45 to 68 years (!!!). They were participants and administrators of the Facebook communities “Our Germany, Patriotic and Free” and “Patriots”.
Recently, I decided to translate my ideas into reality. The first Muslims appeared in our suburb. Most likely these are migrants from Kyrgyzstan. The local population is very peaceful and in the north restrained in the expression of emotions. I think no one could do the same thing as me. (I’m not local, I got married here. I do not look like the blondes who live in this place.)
I approached a Muslim woman (with my two schnauzers), she smiled affably. I told her that I did not like Islam and that I wanted her to be uncomfortable in my city.
Pain hurt her face. I was sad that I said this and I did not feel like a hero.
War is an unpleasant thing.