President Trump announced today that Guatemala had agreed to a new deal that would curtail the flow of migrants northwards towards the U.S. border. Guatemala will be designated a “safe country”, and migrants will be required to register for asylum there rather than in the United States.
In other news, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Somalia) has decided to divorce her husband, the father of her children, after marrying him only last year.
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Nissan Announces 12,500 Layoffs as Profits Plunge
Nissan has announced that the company will layoff 12,500 people globally after their profits plunged 98.5%. The Japanese carmaker will cut production capacity by around 10% by the end of 2022 as sales fell in a number of its major markets.
These layoffs will account for 9% of the company’s global workforce. Although Nissan has yet to specify where the layoffs will be most heavily felt, the announcement is on the heels of the first-quarter results. The job cuts were announced on Thursday and Nissan Chief Executive Hiroto Saikawa said most of the jobs cut will be auto plant workers. The company also plans to cut global production and model lineups by 10% by the end of fiscal 2022, according to a report by CBS News.
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Presidential Candidate Tulsi Gabbard Co-Sponsors “Audit the Fed” Bill
Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) told Luke Rudkowski of “We Are Change,” a libertarian media organization, that Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has just signed on as a co-sponsor of Audit the Fed bill, officially known as H.R.24 The Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2019.
The bill authorizes the General Accountability Office to perform a full audit of the Fed’s conduct of monetary policy,including the Fed’s mysterious dealings with Wall Street, central banks and governments.
During the interview, Massie said the latest development in attempting to audit the Federal Reserve is that Gabbard signed on as co-sponsor. He believes the topic will “get some airtime” in the upcoming presidential debates.
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The Economy Slows to 2.1% Growth in the Spring as Businesses Retrench, GDP Shows
The numbers: The economy got a jolt of adrenaline in the spring from the biggest increase in household spending in a year and a half, but falling business investment kept a lid on second-quarter growth and signaled potential trouble ahead.
Gross domestic product, the official report card on the economy, grew at a 2.1% annual pace from the start of April to the end of June, the government said Friday. GDP slowed from a 3.1% gain in the first three months of the year.
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$250 Million Nick Sandmann Lawsuit Against Washington Post for Defamation Dismissed by Federal Judge
83-year-old U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman, a Jimmy Carter appointee dismissed the $250 million lawsuit filed by Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann against the Washington Post.
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‘White Democrats hate that Republicans are freeing black people again’
Black supporters of President Trump chastised singer and actress Bette Midler on social media, after the Hollywood liberal claimed President Trump hired black men to stand behind him at a rally.
In a textbook example of Trump Derangement Syndrome, the unhinged Hocus Pocus star claimed Trump was trying to create a “blackground” during his rally to fool black voters.
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Democrat Representative and anti-Semite Ilhan Omar reportedly split with the father of her three children Ahmed Hirsi just two years after her divorce from her brother.
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Epoch Times: Our Response to NBC News’ Inappropriate Questions
The plain truth is that because The Epoch Times’ coverage of Trump differs from that of NBC, two reporters have sought to hunt for an agenda that would discredit us.
And the story they have in mind is no small undertaking. For weeks, ex-staff members have been contacting us to let us know that NBC had been asking about their work at The Epoch Times. What a great deal of effort has been put into this story.
NBC asked directly about our having an agenda with this question: Much of the Epoch Times’ recent coverage has focused on the promotion of President Trump’s policies, interviews with surrogates, and a “deep state” conspiracy to “spy” on his campaign during the 2016 election. Do you feel like this is a fair characterization and do you consider the Epoch Times to be pro-Trump?
The question substitutes supposition for evidence. The failure to take a factual approach leaves up in the air the characterization of our journalism, and NBC is free to assert their opinions about what we do.
Other questions want to draw conclusions from the private lives of our staff, as in this offering: Is the Epoch Times predominantly staffed by volunteers? Do some Epoch Times interns, volunteers, or employees live in a shared home?
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Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ Pilots Subpoenaed in Sex-Trafficking Investigation
Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime personal pilots have been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, according to the Wall Street Journal. The grand jury subpoenaes were served earlier this month following Epstein’s July 6 arrest at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey on charges of sex-trafficking minors. He has pleaded not guilty to the yearslong scheme in which prosecutors allege the wealthy financier sexually abused dozens of young girls from 2002 to 2005, some of whom recruited other victims.
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Five People Arrested for Leaving Crop Circles in Etowah County Cornfield
ETOWAH COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC) — Five people face felony charges after allegedly leaving crop circles in a cornfield.
It happened last week at a cornfield in the Ballplay community on Crump Road.
Five people in a pickup apparently rode over and tore down multiple cornstalks leaving behind a less intricate version of crop circles.
Sheriff Jonathon Horton says what cracked the case was a neighbor whose security video caught an image of a vehicle leaving the scene.
From that to social media, investigators at the Etowah County Sheriff’s Office were able to track down the car, then the five people in it.
Brandon Allen Whitlock, Noah Michael Brown, Rex Dakota Brown, Jeni Beth Vaughn, and Stephanie Marie Helm are each charged with 3rd degree criminal mischief, a felony. All have bonded out of jail.
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Google Employee Who Revealed Company’s Anti-Trump Bias Gets Put on Administrative Leave [Video]
His name is Greg Coppola. He has and Ph.D. in Computer Science and five years of experience working at Google. He reports directly to Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai. He’s also the latest high-level Google employee to step forward and admit that Google is manipulating its search algorithms in Google Search and Google News to favor the Democratic Party.
Yesterday, the amazing James O’Keefe released a stunning video featuring another yet Google insider, Greg Coppola. Unlike the last Google employee who went undercover to out Google and their left-leaning biases, Coppola bravely appeared in the open on camera to reveal what many of us dreaded was true-Google CEO Sundar Pichai is lying, they are, in fact, manipulating the algorithms to favor the Democratic Party.
Coppola says Google’s bias in undeniable. He told O’Keefe, “I’m very concerned to see big tech and big media to merge essentially with a party-with the Democrat Party.” Coppola told Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe. “I don’t have a smoking gun. I’ve been coding since I was 10, I have a Ph.D. I have five years with Google, and I just know how algorithms are. They don’t write themselves, we write them to do what we want them to do. And.you can use machine learning, but you can get the results of machine learning to get them to come out the way they want them to. It’s just a tool that we control. You know, I look at Search, I look at Google News and I see Google exec’s go to Congress and say it’s not manipulated, it’s not political, and I’m just so sure that’s not true.”
“Are we going to continue to have elections that mean anything? Are we going to continue to think for ourselves, or are we going to allow the tech companies to decide who wins the elections from now on?” Coppola asks.
Coppola tells O’Keefe, “You know, I look at search and I look at Google News and I see what it’s doing and I see Google executives go to Congress and say that it’s not manipulated. It’s not political. And I’m just so sure that’s not true.”
“I think the big problem we have today is there is an ambiguity about whether tech is neutral or whether it’s biased. I think, as someone with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and five years of working at one of the world’s top computer science companies, I don’t see any doubt that it’s very politically biased,” says the Google senior software engineer who reports directly to their CEO.
Coppola told O’Keefe that anyone who supports “anything other than the Democrats” or “anyone who’s pro-Trump” or “anyone who deviates from what CNN and the New York Times pushes, notices how bad it is.” He continued with his stunning testimony, saying, “You know, Google News is really an aggregator of just a handful of sites, and all of those sites, you know, really are vitriolically against Donald Trump, which I would consider to be, you know, interference in the election.”
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Google ‘Insider’s’ Bombshell Revelation: Big Tech ‘Basically Merges With Democratic Party’ — Report
A whistle-blower, reportedly from Google’s corporate ranks, has shared that the company’s policies have drastically changed since 2014, when he first joined the US tech company.
A Google whistle-blower, Greg Coppola has recounted to Project Veritas the company’s “biased” algorithms and insisted that the tech giant is politically motivated, although it has claimed otherwise. While he underscored his “respect” for his superior in the firm, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, he admitted the chief’s comments on the company’s neutrality are way too far-fetched.
The whistle-blower, who claimed to be based in New York and have worked for Google since 2014, said that there were “a small number of people” who were responsible for promoting certain news websites, primarily left-leaning ones like CNN and The New York Times, over others — the fact that makes it “ridiculous to say that there’s no bias”, Coppola summed up.
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House Dems Authorize Subpoenas for Ivanka, Jared’s Emails, Text Messages
Dems on war path to destroy entire Trump family
The House Oversight Committee voted on Thursday to authorize subpoenas for business-related personal emails and text messages as part of a wide-ranging investigation into whether senior administration officials broke federal records laws by using private accounts for official purposes.
Among the top targets of the straight party-line vote — President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump, son-in-law Jared Kushner and former senior adviser Steve Bannon, among other officials.
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A Fox News poll was released today showing Donald Trump losing to virtually every top Democrat opponent. The left was celebrating on social media. The Fox News poll also showed that President Trump’s approval ratings on the economy is the best it’s ever been. President Trump, of course, thought his approval rating on the economy should be at 100%…
The moral to the story here is.ignore the polls. Get out and vote, because with all of the shenanigans that are sure to go on leading up to the and on the day of the 2020 general election, every vote will count.
Don’t let the Democrat Party mainstream media convince you to stay home because your vote doesn’t matter.
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It Can’t be Friday Without Florida Man
“It Can’t Be Friday Without Florida Man” isn’t actually a ‘70s commercial jingle, but doesn’t it sound like it should be?
So in the carefree spirit of America’s ugliest decade, join me now as we chronicle another week of thrills, spills, and non-judgmental thrills on yet another…
[…]Florida Man Friday!
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Jewish Model Says She Received Rape & Death Threats for Supporting Trump
Jewish model Elizabeth Pipko says she has received numerous rape and death threats over her support for President Trump.
Pipko is the face of the Jexodus Movement, which attempts to lure away Jewish voters who traditionally vote Democrat.
However, she has received a violent backlash for her political activism.
“I get a lot of death threats, rape threats and other things I never thought I’d receive,” Pipko told The Times of Israel. “I’m doing this for my people — not to sound cliché — for my parents and grandparents, who escaped to come to America so they wouldn’t have to worry about their children being faced with anti-Semitism”, she opened up.”
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Joe diGenova: Mueller is “Incompetent”. “Weissmann Did it All”
Joe diGenova has the best statement of all regarding Mueller’s parting shot to President Trump. He cuts through all of the bs and tells it like it is.
It’s worth the time to listen to his comments to Laura Ingraham regarding the “petty” and “vindictive” statement by Mueller. His comments are stunning. This is a wake-up call to anyone who hasn’t been paying attention.
“Where in the world have we come in the Department of Justice?” — Joe diGenova
diGenova believes this is all because of one man. Rod Rosenstein is the one man who is responsible for this.
“This isn’t about the law anymore.” diGenova believes this is part of an ongoing Civil War in America. He continued to say that the people will reject this impeachment and says things will get ugly.
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Kirsten Gillibrand Unveils $10 Trillion Climate Change Plan
Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) announced Friday a climate change plan that would cost taxpayers an estimated $10 trillion if she is elected.
As part of her proposal, named the “Climate Change Moonshot Plan,” Kirsten Gillibrand aims to achieve net-zero carbon and greenhouse emissions by the year 2050, phase out fossil fuels, and “hold polluters accountable.”
To achieve her goal, Gillibrand has called for “100% clean, renewable, and zero-carbon electricity in a decade.”
[Comment: She is not stupid — she is a puppet following the globalist playbook to use “climate change” lie to deindustrialize the USA and destroy its economy. ]
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Man Killed by Rare Brain-Eating Amoeba
A North Carolina man visited a water park and left with a deadly brain-eating amoeba.
The man, whose identity has not been confirmed, became ill after swimming in a manmade lake at Fantasy Lake Water Park in Hope Mill on July 12. The Centers for Disease Control said that the illness and subsequent death was caused by Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba responsible for killing just 145 people in the U.S. from 1962 to 2018.
The amoeba, found in warm bodies of fresh water and hot springs, enters through the nose while the victim is swimming and travels up into the brain. Once there, people usually start to manifest symptoms within five days and typically die less than week later.
Symptoms include headaches, nausea, confusion, seizures, and hallucinations. The survival rate for people infected is exceedingly low, with about 95% dying after it enters their system.
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New Video Shows Cops Being ‘Water Bombed’ In Atlanta
The disturbing lawless trend of police officers being ‘water bombed’ by large gangs of young people appears to be continuing with a video out of Atlanta showing a cop getting completely doused.
The video shows dozens of people with water guns aimed at a police officer who tries to retreat to his squad car for safety.
The officer is massively outnumbered and visibly agitated as the mob surrounds him.
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Popular Pesticide Linked to Brain Damage
Agriculture industry applies millions of pounds of chemical to least 50 major food crops
Chlorpyrifos-described by some as “the most dangerous pesticide you’ve never heard of”-is an insect-killing organophosphate.
Organophosphates trace their roots back to Nazi-era IG Farben nerve gases; contemporary scientists still describe the compounds as “junior-strength nerve agents” that have a mechanism of action comparable to sarin. Dow Chemical-the company that helped bring the world mustard gas during World War I and napalm and Agent Orange during the Vietnam war-is the manufacturer of chlorpyrifos-containing insecticides.
In the U.S., the agriculture industry applies millions of pounds of chlorpyrifos annually to at least 50 major food crops. Farms around the world also use the chemical “heavily and ubiquitously.” Chlorpyrifos-sprayed crops include some of the foods most likely to be consumed by children, such as corn, soy, apples, oranges, strawberries and nuts. Researchers have linked both prenatal and postnatal chlorpyrifos exposure to brain damage even at the lowest detectable doses. They also note that exposure “is not limited to agricultural environments, as [organophosphates] are ubiquitous in food, dust, and air”-although adults and children who eat an organic diet display significantly reduced levels.
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Puerto Rico’s New Governor Hit With Ethics Probe One Day After Rossello’s Resignation
The hundreds of thousands of protesters who rallied across Puerto Rico (and in Puerto Rican communities across the US) will love this: On her first day as the commonwealth’s governor-in-waiting, Secretary of Justice Wanda Vazquez has become the target of an investigation by the Office of Government Ethics, which announced a “review” of her conduct as the island’s top law-enforcement official.
Many of the Puerto Ricans who rallied against Ricardo Rossello, the island’s deeply unpopular governor, who resigned in disgrace earlier this week, would welcome this investigation. Vasquez has a reputation for being a corrupt official who will carry on Rossello’s policies, and marches had been planned to demand that she also resign, and that the island allow the people to select a new leader.
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Rand Paul: Maybe if Ilhan Omar Visited Somalia She Would ‘Appreciate America More’
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul says Rep. Ilhan Omar should take a trip to the failed state that is Somalia “then maybe she’d come back and appreciate America more.”
Explaining how his area contained a lot of refugees from Somalia and Bosnia, Paul said he had never heard any of them say “America is a terrible place.”
“Most of them are thankful, I’ve met people who have come here from behind the iron curtain that got away from Communism — they’re some of the best Americans we have because they really appreciate how great our country is,” said the Senator.
“And then I hear Representative Omar say ‘oh America’s a terrible I’d love there to be justice and there’s no justice here’ and it’s like she came here and we fed her we clothed her — she got welfare she got school she got healthcare and then she has the honor of actually winning a seat in Congress and she says we’re a terrible country — I think that’s about as ungrateful as you can get,” remarked Paul.
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Senators to Unveil Carbon Tax Bill to Generate $2.5 Trillion in 10 Years
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Two Democratic U.S. senators will unveil a bill on Thursday to curb climate change by slapping a fee on oil, natural gas and coal and delivering most of the revenues to low— and middle-income Americans, one of the lawmakers said.
Senator Chris Coons said on Wednesday he and Senator Dianne Feinstein will introduce the Climate Action Rebate Act, which aims to generate $2.5 trillion in revenues over 10 years starting in 2020. It would rebate about 70 percent of the money to families that make less than $130,000 per year, and use the rest for energy infrastructure, job retraining for fossil fuel workers, and research and development.
President Donald Trump, a Republican, rejects climate science and has slashed regulations on oil and gas drillers and coal miners. That has made climate a big issue in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, although none of the senators running have yet signed onto the Coons carbon tax bill.
[Comment: Carbon tax — globalist wet dream. Note how this is co-ordinated among all western countries. It is basically communism world wide — huge rivers of money will flow from the west to communist countries and third world nations.]
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Trump: ‘This Was Treason’ — ‘This Should Never be Allowed to Happen to Our Country Again’
In an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity, his first since former special counsel Robert Mueller testified before the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees, President Donald Trump decried the Mueller “fake witch hunt.”
Hannity asked Trump about the importance of determining the origins of the special counsel probe, to which Trump argued this should not be allowed to happen to another president and likened it to “treason.”
“This should never happen to another president of the United States again,” Trump said on Thursday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Hannity.” “This is an absolute catastrophe for our country. This was a fake witch hunt, and it should never be allowed to happen to another president again. This was treason. This was high crimes. This was everything as bad a definition as you want to come up with. This should never be allowed to happen to our country again.” [comment: Only way to stop this in the future is to find those guilty of this treason and then execute the penalty toute de suite.]
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US Chamber Gathers Allies to Sell Trump’s NAFTA Overhaul to Congress
Since President Trump negotiated an overhaul of the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its allies have held more than 1,000 meetings with members of Congress urging them to pass it.
The lobbying will only intensify during lawmakers’ traditional summer recess, CEO Tom Donohue promised Thursday during a news briefing with trade associations representing the retail, agriculture and manufacturing industries.
Company executives and small-business owners will confer with members of Congress in their districts, hoping to show them in person how individual factories and stores rely on supply chains that cross the boundary lines between the U.S. and its neighbors and need the revised treaty for stability.
The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, as the administration has dubbed it, represents about $4 billion a day in trade — a total $1.4 trillion a year. While the terms of the deal were set in 2018, it wasn’t ratified by Congress before Republicans lost control of the House during mid-term elections, complicating its approval prospects.
[Comment: USMCA is worse than TPP with regards to loss of sovereignity. Note how the focus is on the benefits of “trade”, not the fact that the US will lose massive ammount of sovereignity to unelected trans-national bodies. USCMA is a turd that should be flushed down the toilet to join TPP.]
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US Fertility Rates Plunge to ‘All-Time Low, ‘ CDC Warns
Something isn’t right in the “greatest economy ever,” as the general fertility rate continues to drop in the US, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
“The 2018 general fertility rate fell to another all-time low for the United States,” the report said.
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Why I Am Not Celebrating the Mueller Hearings
by Diana West
I am certainly no stranger to the far end of a limb, but this time, I am really out there. I watched the Mueller hearings and despaired. I saw the Original Sin of Trump Russia — “Russia hacked the DNC,” shaped by time and messaging into “Russian interference in 2016 on behalf on Donald Trump” — enter the record, accepted and even regurgitated by the GOP.
But Mueller gave a foggy performance! He never even read his own report! Impeachment is dead! The response by the estimable Mollie Hemingway typifies conservative satisfaction.
I rubbed my eyes, tried to smile, but it didn’t work. I still felt snookered and betrayed by Republicans who inexplicably failed to take the kill shot and win a victory for the country by exposing the whole rotten Deep State conspiracy, enabled and amplified by the MSM, to concoct a tale of a massive Russian cyber-strike on our democracy supposedly designed to prevent Hillary Clinton from being elected. This Big Lie has not only delegitimized Trump’s presidency now and forever, it simultaneously aligns Trump supporters — American patriots — with our adversaries in the Kremlin. Believe me, this will come back and haunt us all when Commissars Schiff, Tlaib, Brennan and the rest of the Party get real power.
Why did no Republican want to pull the pin on Russian hacking? I went back to a June 2017 op-ed I wrote by the same name: “Pulling the Pin on Russian Hacking.” Change the names around and it could run this morning…
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A$AP Rocky Will Remain in Swedish Jail Until Trial for Assault Charges
Swedish prosecutors have revealed that New York rapper A$AP Rocky, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, will remain in the custody of a Swedish prison until his trial.
His arrest came after a fight between two men and Mayers and his entourage in Stockholm was caught on video. In the captured video, Mayers is seen throwing the young man to the ground.
Public Prosecutor Daniel Suneson, in a statement said: “I have today commenced criminal proceedings against the three individuals suspected of assault causing actual bodily harm, having come to the conclusion that the events in question constitute a crime despite claims of self-defense and provocation.”
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Boris Johnson’s ‘Collision Course’ With the EU
New PM lays down the law to Emmanuel Macron, Jean-Claude Juncker AND Angela Merkel in fiery phone calls warning there will be NO talks until backstop is ditched
Boris Johnson laid down the law to Emmanuel Macron, Jean-Claude Juncker and Angela Merkel in the last 24 hours as he warned the trio there will be no new Brexit talks until the EU agrees to ditch the backstop.
The new PM made clear his position to the French President in a tense late-night phone call and did the same with the president of the European Commission and German Chancellor.
Meanwhile, Dublin voiced alarm over the premier’s ramped up rhetoric, saying Mr Johnson had put the UK on a ‘collision course’ with the EU.
Brussels has dismissed Mr Johnson’s backstop demands as ‘unacceptable’, while French ministers accused the premier of ‘posturing’.
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Boris and Trump to Meet Next Month as They Hail Brexit an ‘Unparalleled Opportunity’
BORIS Johnson will meet US President Donald Trump next month to discuss Brexit, Downing Street has confirmed.
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EU Takes Hungary to Court Over ‘Stop Soros’ Law
Nationalist law bans mandatory settlement of migrants by non-Hungarian authorities
The European Commission has decided to refer Hungary to the Court of Justice of the European Union over its “Stop Soros” package of laws, initiating the third phase of the ongoing infringement procedure in connection with that legislation.
Having deemed that the Hungarian government had not done enough to address its concerns, the EC decided to take the case to the Luxembourg-based court. The infringement procedure was launched in July 2018. In a statement, the EC said the new law and a related constitutional amendment were not compatible with EU law. Criminalizing activities that support asylum and residence applications restrict the right to request asylum, it added…
Commenting on the EC’s decision, the government spokesman said Hungary would continue to stand by its “Stop Soros” laws and the constitutional amendment banning the mandatory settlement of migrants by non-Hungarian authorities in the country. The Hungarian government is ready to defend itself in court, Istvan Hollik said.
The contested measures serve the protection of the Hungarian people, Hollik said. Hungarians have made it very clear at referendums as well as the parliamentary and EP elections that they want nothing to do with migration and want to protect Europe’s Christian culture, he said.
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Eurocrats Tell Johnson They Will Not Renegotiate Brexit Treaty
Outgoing president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has told Boris Johnson that the EU will not be renegotiating the withdrawal treaty, meaning the prime minister will have to make good on delivering a no-deal Brexit on October 31st.
Delivering his first statement to the House of Commons as prime minister on Thursday, Mr Johnson again pledged that the UK will be taken out of the EU on October 31st with or without an exit agreement with Brussels, and that failure to do otherwise “would cause a catastrophic loss of confidence in our political system”.
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France: Weakened Notre Dame at Risk of Collapse in European Heatwave
The chief architect of Notre Dame in Paris said he is concerned that the ongoing heatwave in Europe could risk the structural integrity of the fire-damaged cathedral.
Philippe Villeneuve said that he was deeply concerned about how the soaring temperatures would affect the already weakened structure of the building, fearing that it would even lead to a possible collapse, France Info reports.
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Swedish Trade Unions Rejects Greta Thunberg’s Call for Climate Strike
Climate activist Greta Thunberg urges Swedish trade unions to strike for the climate. But the union’s message is that they will not announce a strike — instead, they want to hold talks.
“It is the job of the unions to secure workers’ rights and security and a crisis like this one will accompany major economic changes, and problems, if we do not adjust. Therefore, trade unions should urge politicians to act immediately in the climate crisis”, Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future movement write in a debate article in Aftonbladet.
But the unions that TT has talked to will not announce a strike among its members.
It is unusual to strike to influence the more general political issues, which do not specifically concern labor rights.
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U.S. ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson has said that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Donald Trump are going to have a “sensational” relationship, adding that the UK was at the “front of the line” for bilateral free trade talks.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Friday, Ambassador Johnson said: “I think the President is going to try and move the ball forward. The UK is our most important ally both in security and also in prosperity, you are very important and he knows that.
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UK: Boris Johnson Revolution Begins: PM Unveils Major Investment to ‘Turbo-Charge’ Growth
BORIS JOHNSON will today give the go-ahead to a £3billion North of England rail link in his drive to “turbo-charge” regional growth and prosperity with major infrastructure projects.
In a speech in Manchester, the new Prime Minister will confirm his approval for the plan to build a trans-Pennine route between the city and Leeds. He will also stress that spreading economic opportunity around the country far beyond London and the South East will be a key priority for his premiership. Mr Johnson will also use his first regional speech since taking over in Downing Street to emphasise his commitment to investment in education, tackling crime, boosting connectivity, and improving technology across the country.
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UK: Nigel Farage Launches ‘Counterblast’ To George Soros With US Brexit Group
Nigel Farage, Britain’s best-known Brexiteer, is teaming up with Trump supporters to raise money to take on George Soros and promote Britain’s departure from the European Union.
Farage attended the New York launch of the group, World4Brexit, on Thursday night along with Corey Lewandowksi, the former Trump campaign manager, and Phil Bryant, the Republican governor of Mississippi.
Donations will be used to promote the benefits of Brexit to the UK and the world said Farage, pushing back against a global elite intent on stifling the will of the British people who voted to leave the E.U. Money will not be be used to fund political campaigns.
“This is a counterblast to George Soros,” Farage told The Washington Examiner. The billionaire investor’s Open Society Foundation has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into groups such as Best for Britain, which campaign in favor of the E.U.
World4Brexit is set up as a 501(c)(4) group, which means donors can remain anonymous. Farage said there was nothing improper about such an arrangement.
“George Soros funds every single one of the pro-EU groups in the UK and it’s quite legal to do so as long as it is outside of election time,” said Farage. “Why should they be able to do whatever they want and we can’t?”
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UK: The Rebel is Visiting Tommy Robinson in Prison Until He’s Free
Tommy Robinson is in prison for the crime of doing journalism. And The Rebel will be visiting him there to make sure he’s safe.
Last time Tommy was in prison, he was isolated and starved, losing 40 pounds by the end of his stay.
We won’t let it happen again. So we’ll be visiting him in at HMP Belmarsh until he’s free to make sure the whole world knows if he’s being mistreated.
Our first trip was a success, and this video quickly shows that journey from start to finish.
For more in-depth coverage including a 17 minute video on what Tommy told me in prison, please check out PrisonReports.com.
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The sister of two haemophiliac men who were infected with HIV through contaminated blood products says she is determined to get justice for them.
Gareth and Haydn Lewis were both diagnosed with the disease in the 1980s after undergoing blood transfusions from donors in the United States.
The pair, who were brought up in the Llanrumney area of Cardiff, were also found to have hepatitis C years later, and died within six months of one another in 2010.
Their sister Beverley Tumelty, 54, will give evidence as part of a public inquiry into the blood scandal today.
[Comment: Blood from prisons in Arkansas when Clinton was governor.]
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UK’s New Premier Promises Boost for Nuclear Power
Boris Johnson expressed his “passionate” support for nuclear power when he addressed the House of Commons for the first time as UK prime minister yesterday. Seven of the country’s eight existing nuclear plants are set to be retired by 2030, while new-build projects have faced financial uncertainty over the last two years.
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“There’s No End in Sight”: Hong Kong Protests Spark Comparisons to France’s Yellow Vest Movement
Similarities are starting to be drawn between Hong Kong’s mass rallies and France’s Yellow Vest movement: according to Bloomberg, both are “hard to pin down” and both are evolving. It’s a “recipe for trouble” for each country’s respective government.
The Hong Kong protests that started against legislation that would enable extradition back to the mainland have now grown to include cries for Lam’s resignation and investigations into police abuse during the protests themselves.
One anonymous 28 year protester in Hong Kong said:
“We have to continue to protest until our demands are met. There is no end in sight.”
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16 Muslim Countries Endorse China Forcing Muslims to Eat Pork
While Western governments wailed about Muslim human rights in China, the leading Sunni nations of the world signed off on a letter praising “China’s remarkable achievements in the field of human rights.” Mandatory abortions, organ harvesting and the mass murder of millions are remarkable achievements.
No doubt about it.
The world’s top Muslim governments didn’t just settle for abstract praise of China’s human rights. Instead, they explicitly defended China’s crackdown on Muslims in Xinjiang.
“Faced with the grave challenge of terrorism and extremism, China has undertaken a series of counter-terrorism and de-radicalization measures in Xinjiang, including setting up vocational education and training centers,” the letter reads. “The past three consecutive years has seen not a single terrorist attack in Xinjiang and people there enjoy a stronger sense of happiness, fulfillment and security.”
The war of letters humiliated Western governments which had failed to convince a single Muslim country to sign on to a letter criticizing China’s crackdown on Muslims. And they humiliated the Muslim signatories who demonstrated that China could intimidate them into endorsing a crackdown on Islam.
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World’s Smallest Fossil Monkey Found in Amazon Jungle
A team of Peruvian and American scientists have uncovered the 18-million-year-old remains of the smallest fossil monkey ever found.
A fossilized tooth found in Peru’s Amazon jungle has been identified as belonging to a new species of tiny monkey no heavier than a hamster.
The specimen is important because it helps bridge a 15-million-year gap in the fossil record for New World monkeys, says a team led by Duke University and the National University of Piura in Peru.
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Father Beats Foreign Men Accused of Sexually Assaulting Girls at French Pool
Two foreign men who allegedly sexually assaulted young girls at a French pool were brutally beaten by one victim’s father and other bystanders, according to local media.
A melee broke out at a swimming pool in Draveil, France, after two Moldovan men were reportedly caught in the act of groping girls aged 12 and 15.
The suspects, both around 30 years of age, were set upon by one of the girls’ father and others, who proceeded to deliver a thrashing that inflicted head trauma, cracked ribs, broken nose, and other fractures.
“One of the two individuals managed to escape the crowd and hide in the undergrowth, while the second man was extracted by security guards from the recreational center,” Le Parisien reports.
The men were later taken into police custody after receiving some medical treatment.
[Comment: Feel good story of the day.]
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An ISIS-supporting, Iraqi-Kurdish migrant has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for planning to carry out a terror attack with a remotely-controlled vehicle filled with explosives.
Farad Salah, 24, from Sheffield, had been in the beginning stages of testing small improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in preparation to inflict “terrible suffering” when his house was raided by British counter-terrorism police in December of 2017.
Following the raid, security forces discovered extremist material which included films of murder and torture in the migrant’s house.
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Italy: North African Migrants Caught Dealing Drugs Out of Asylum Center
Italian police forces have raided a migrant reception center and discovered at least six North African migrants using the center as a base to sell drugs to the community.
The raids, named ‘Operation Capolinea’, took place on Wednesday in Licata, a port city in the province of Agrigento.
According to a report from Il Giornale, during the raids police arrested six young men — all with North African backgrounds.
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Salvini to Macron: We Are Not Your Colony!
Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini has challenged France to open up its ports, as ongoing tensions over mass migration between the two countries have once again flared.
The populist interior minister reacted to comments made by French President Emmanuel Macron who slammed Salvini for not attending a conference on migration earlier this week in Paris, Il Giornale reports.
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Sweden: Three Foreigners to be Prosecuted for the Kidnapping and Rape of 14-Year-Old Girl
One man has been charged with rape while three others with foreign citizenship have been charged with the kidnapping of the 14-year-old girl in Sweden. Two of the men will also be prosecuted for aggravated child rape and abetting rape against children.
Falu’s District Court will oversee the trials of the men who abducted the 14-year-old in a van and brought her to a home in Borlänge, where she was then subjected to rape under a gun, Nyheter Idag reports.
One of the men is 28-years-old and is a citizen of both Somalia and Sweden, while the other two are 36 and 54-years-old and are citizens of Lithuania.
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Taxpayers Have Already Paid Over $12K for Illegal Alien’s Translator in Mollie Tibbetts Murder Trial
Iowa taxpayers have been billed more than $12,000 thus far to provide a full-time court translator to illegal alien Cristhian Bahena Rivera, accused of murdering 20-year-old college student Mollie Tibbetts in Brooklyn, Iowa last year.
On March 27, Breitbart News reporter John Binder reported about how the illegal alien charged with brutally murdering an American citizen and Iowa college student, Mollie Tibbetts, was being moved to a more Hispanic populated area. The man on trial for her murder is 25-year-old Bahena Rivera, an illegal alien from Mexico. He was charged with her murder after police said he confessed to the crime.
Rivera led investigators early Tuesday to a body believed to be Tibbetts in a cornfield about 12 miles southeast of Brooklyn, Iowa, where Tibbetts was last seen running, Division of Criminal Investigation special agent Rick Rahn said.
“I can’t speak about the motive. I can just tell you that it seemed that he followed her, seemed to be drawn to her on that particular day, for whatever reason he chose to abduct her,” Rahn told reporters at a news conference outside the sheriff’s office in Montezuma, where Rivera was being jailed.
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Trump Reaches ‘Landmark’ Immigration Deal With Guatemala
President Trump announced Friday that Guatemala would agree to restrict asylum applications to the US from Central America.
The so-called “safe third country” agreement would require migrants, including Salvadorans and Hondurans, who cross into Guatemala on their way to the US to apply for protections in Guatemala instead of at the southern border.
It could potentially ease the crush of illegal immigrants overwhelming the US immigration system and hand Trump a win in his effort to fulfill his campaign promises to restrict illegal entry.
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Trump Touts “Big Victory” After Supreme Court Allows Military Funding for Border Wall
It’s not been a great week for the great-left-hopers.
Having been summarily embarrassed by Mueller’s performance, Democrats just lost another ‘fight’ as Bloomberg reports that the Supreme Court has cleared President Trump’s administration to start using disputed funds to construct more than 100 miles of fencing along the Mexican border.
The decision allows the president to take his biggest step yet toward erecting his long-promised wall.
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U.S. Bishops Slam Expansion of ‘Expedited Removal’ For Undocumented Migrants
The head of the U.S. Bishops Committee on Migration denounced the Trump administration’s expansion of fast-track removal of undocumented immigrants, insisting the move would have “terrible” consequences.
“I call on the Department of Homeland Security to reverse its decision to expand its policy of expedited removal,” said Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of Austin, Texas, in a statement posted Thursday on the U.S. Bishops’ website. “This action is yet another escalation of this Administration’s enforcement-only immigration approach, and it will have terrible human consequences.”
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UK: Lane: Boris Johnson Can’t Win the Love of the BBC by Giving Out a Million British Passports
Britain’s new Prime Minister has ditched a decade-long commitment to bring immigration down to manageable levels and is talking up an amnesty for illegal migrants, major policy changes that will likely be near-ignored in preference to the important topic of Brexit.
And while Brexit is without doubt the most important political issue of our generation, the long-overlooked task of finally fixing the United Kingdom’s broken immigration system remains a high priority for voters.
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Res ipsa loquitor.
That’s a Latin phrase that means “the thing speaks for itself.” When you read the recently released report entitled “Blueprint for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice,” you’ll discover that the worst witness of the plan’s assault on traditional morality is the text of the plan itself.
One very important point before launching into an analysis of this document: Readers committed to protecting the life of the unborn and the perpetuation of traditional values and the family must read the entire plan, not just this summary. There is so much that is so destructive and degenerate and friends of faith and family must be prepared for to fight this plan at every level and at every opportunity.
The first exhibit in the mountain of evidence that will prove that the purpose of this plan is to normalize promiscuity and to marginalize morality is the list of organizations endorsing this scheme. Here’s a sufficient sample of the supporters:
- Abortion Care Network
- American Atheists
- Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)
- NARAL Pro-Choice America
- National Abortion Federation
- National LGBTQ Task Force
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America
- Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
- The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health
- URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity
Few readers would fail to recognize the predomination of pro-abortion groups in that list. There are, however, many organizations on that roster that are lesser known, but equally destructive of traditional values and morality.
As the second exhibit, I offer the reader the unedited “About Us” section published on the website of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS):
“SIECUS works every day to advance Comprehensive Sexuality Education.
“Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) is defined as ‘sex education programs that, in school-based settings, start by kindergarten and continue through 12th grade. High-quality CSE programs include age, developmentally, and culturally appropriate, science-based, and medically accurate information on a broad set of topics related to sexuality, including human development, relationships, personal skills, sexual behaviors, including abstinence, sexual health, and society and culture. CSE programs provide students with opportunities for learning information, exploring their attitudes and values, and developing skills.’
“Sex ed is a vehicle for social change. Full stop.”
Full stop. As in, enough said. Make no mistake, the ultimate aim of these groups and the blueprint they’ve designed is to use their influence to force federally funded schools — from kindergarten to senior year — to teach your children that abortion is a right, that abstinence before marriage is antiquated, that gender is fluid, and that their parents’ morality is meaningless.
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Jessica (Jonathan) Yaniv is a biological male who identifies as a female and is best known for his harassment campaign against female estheticians dubbed “wax my balls.”
The trans activist is highly litigious and is suing several business owners in a British Columbia after the salons refused to give him a Brazilian wax.
Because of Yaniv’s lawsuit spree demanding females touch his genitals, many critics called him a sexual predator — and the critics may be right.
Yaniv this week applied for a permit to hold “topless” pool parties for children aged 12+ and he wants to bar parents and guardians from attending so they can be in a “safe and inclusive” environment.
“Registration is open to youth ages 12-24” the flyer said. “For participant privacy and safety, parents and/or caregivers are not permitted in the event.”
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Christianophobia? YouTube Ad Policy Bans Keyword ‘Christian’
Recently, a founder of a Christian veterans group attempted to upload a YouTube ad for his organization only to find that tech giant rejected his add, notifying him that the keyword “Christian” wasn’t acceptable under the site’s ad targeting policy.
Chad Robichaux, the founder of the Mighty Oaks Foundation, a charitable organization which assists war veterans to overcome their post-traumatic stress (PTSD), posted a screenshot of his encounter with YouTube on his twitter account.
“So one of the keywords to boost the ad was the word ‘Christian,’ which we use regularly. The ad was denied specifically because of the use of the word ‘Christian,’ Robichaux said.
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Democrats Denied Transgender Athletes Have Advantages in Women’s Sports. Science Says They’re Wrong
The paper’s findings contradict congressional Democrats’ claim that male athletes who identify as transgender don’t have an inherent advantage over their female competitors
Suppressing testosterone levels in male athletes isn’t enough to eliminate their natural advantages over female athletes, according to a recently published paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
The paper’s findings contradict congressional Democrats’ claim that male athletes who identify as transgender don’t have an inherent advantage over their female competitors.
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Jesuit Magazine Makes ‘Catholic Case for Communism’
The Jesuit flagship publication in the United States, America magazine, has published an article defending Marxism and comparing the murderous, atheist ideology to Christianity.
In “The Catholic Case for Communism,” America writer Dean Dettloff says that the militant atheism of Marxist politics is “understandable” because “Christianity has so often been a force allied to the ruling powers that exploit the poor.”
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Photos of “Drag Queen Story Hour” Event Prompt Criticism, Ire From Concerned Parents
Parents angered by “Drag Queen Story Hour” are even more outraged as photos from an event that took place last October at Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon have emerged revealing young children lying on top of the adult male drag queen.
The Drag Queen Story Hour is a national program wherein drag queens are invited to read stories to children in public libraries, schools, and bookstores. These events are hosted in cities across the country, as well as in Germany, and have already been the subject of significant controversy, but the emergence of the Portland photos has quickly exacerbated the controversy.
The photos feature drag queen Anthony Hudson, known as “Carla Rossi,” sprawled out on the floor as young children buried their faces and touched his body. Life Site News notes that the same album featured toddlers and young boys dressed in feather boas. It’s worth noting that Multnomah County Library markets the series for children ages two to six.
The Daily Wire reports the photos have since been deleted, but not before Life Site News archived them and Facebook users posted and shared them to voice their opposition…
“The goal is to normalize abnormal, sexually deviant homosexual behavior by enticing children to first: question their sexuality,” said pro-family activist Georgia Kijesky. “The more children see men dressing up as women, the more normal it will become.”
In a statement to The Blaze, Multnomah County Library’s marketing and online engagement director Jeremy Graybill said the library “will reflect on the feedback that members of the community have offered” regarding the photos.
Sadly, Multnomah County Library does not seem to have any intention of discontinuing the story hour. Graybill continues to defend it as an opportunity to “explore ideas of difference, diversity and inclusion through stories, music and costume.”
“The library serves a diverse population with a broad range of interests, preferences and needs,” Graybill explained. “We strive to reflect our communities’ needs in selecting programs, books and other materials.”
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Transition: School Gives Hormones to Minor Against Parent’s Consent
Mother asking Supreme Court to review the case
Political radicalization and sexual manipulation of minors are the curriculum in America’s schools — NOT math, reading or writing.
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For some reason, our media publish details in different sources, so the compilation. Some do not even write that he is a Tajik migrant, but is called exclusively a maniac
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In Moscow, caught a migrant who is accused of rape and murder of a woman in Izmailovsky Park. At first, the man confessed to the crime and spoke in detail about what happened, however, he later refused his testimony.
A monstrous incident occurred a few weeks ago in Izmailovsky Park in Moscow. It was there that the husband and wife decided to ride bikes. At some point, the spouse decided to get off the bike and take a run. The woman told her husband that she would be back soon, after which she ran away and disappeared … For almost a month, they were combing the vast territory of Izmailovo Park, and the body was still found. The most terrible fears of her husband turned out to be a reality, someone attacked a woman during a run, brutally raped and killed her. A used condom was found next to the deceased, whose body was neatly hidden under the bags. It would seem that finding a beast that committed such a terrible act in a huge metropolis is the same as finding a needle in a haystack, but this time the monster betrayed mental retardation. The killer-rapist stole the phone from the victim, which after a long time was still turned on, he took a picture of himself next to the kebabs. According to the billing, the investigators very quickly found and detained the migrant, who confessed to everything.
At the same time, he assures that he did not cause his victim torture during rape and murder.
Colleagues guest workers confirmed the involvement of men to the crime.
https://pikabu.ru/story/v_moskve_zaderzhan_opasnyiy_manyak_6833515
https://news-r.ru/news/moscow/335725/
Catholic bishops want convicted felons who are in the US illegally to get special protections so they can remain?
America, a Jebbie scandal sheet now, praises Marxism?
Man, this Church, where my family has prayed for 1400 years, has left me and betrayed Christ.
@Apostates!
It is some priests who, like the sheep, and fearful, have gone astray in the West. The Church will endure long after they have departed. There are loud orthodox, sensible, vocal clergy unafraid to countenance the storm, such as Cardinal Sarah, who writes that mass migration is a new form of slavery.
“This contemporary desire to globalize the world, ridding it of nations with their distinctive characteristics is sheer madness,” he said.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.breitbart.com/immigration/2019/04/01/vatican-cardinal-encouraging-immigration-misrepresents-gospel/amp/
The Budhist leader, the Dalai Lama, has spoken out also, saying that refugees should be helped & sent home. That for instance, Germany cannot become an Arab land.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dalai-lama-europe-refugee-crisis-immigration-eu-racism-tibet-buddhist-a8537221.html%3famp
Hang in there, persevere & keep the faith. Don’t let them beat you!
I watch what the Orthodox priests say about Islam.
I do not belong to the believers of this denomination. I will say even more – I absolutely do not like her current activities.
Very few of the priests are against Islam. I even know online one such amazing person who leads counter-Islamic propaganda. I am afraid that he will repeat the fate of the priest Daniil Sysoev, who was killed by Islamic radicals.
But if you listen to what the clergy say in plain sight, I think they will prepare their flock for the status of dhimmi. The ROC has always been a structure in the service of the authorities.
I came across a network with one young priest – a Russian from Kazakhstan. He openly declares that Islam is closer to him than Islamophobes. He also leads some joint projects with young Islamic “enlighteners”.
Muslim countries become weak due to wrong interpretation of Islam
https://themalaysianreserve.com/2019/07/26/muslim-countries-become-weak-due-to-wrong-interpretation-of-islam/
If you follow the news from Russia for a bit, you can see how hard any protest activity is being suppressed by the authorities. Whether it is a pension reform, the problem of landfills, unfair elections, the construction of useless temples in places of rest. The authorities explain this cruelty by the reluctance to repeat the “Ukrainian Maidan” in Russia. There is even such a meme – “Victoria Nuland with cookies,” which she handed out to protesters on the Maidan.
Recently on the Gate of Vienna there was an article about the action of Muslim disobedience and how they seize the streets.
Now in Yekaterinburg (the largest metropolis of the Urals) Muslims demand a mosque in the center of the city. The other day, an unauthorized action was carried out (usually it threatens with heavy fines and imprisonment): they fed everyone with pilau and stood raising their [posteriors] upwards – they asked the mosque from Allah.
https://svpressa.ru/society/article/239012/
In this story there is one curious person: the Tatar activist NURZIDA BENSGIER
Here they write that its activities are supervised by the American embassy.
http://myagkayasila.ru/baza-znanij/nurzida-bensgier/
Bensgier is an ethnic Tatar who is actively engaged in public activities to promote Tatar nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism. In 2014, she opened in Yekaterinburg, a women’s school for Muslim women arriving in the Urals from Central Asia.
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These are the global games.
How do you like the narrative in this article?
https://www.ft.com/content/24835626-762a-11e9-be7d-6d846537acab
In a village in the Kosovar countryside, Edona Berisha Demolli’s family have gathered to celebrate her return from Syria where she and her husband fled to six years ago to fight for Islamic militants Isis.
“I am exhausted,” said Ms Demolli, as her relatives served guests slices of celebratory chocolate and vanilla cake and children played in the yard. “I thank God, the Kosovo state, and the US for bringing me home,” she said, referring to the pressure Washington put on countries to take their fighters back from camps across the Middle East and the logistical assistance they provided to that end.
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This is very different from those articles when it comes to returning jihadists to Western countries, isn’t it?
[Muslim] ilhan divorce is attempt to repair damage and deception. It is feeling the heat of indie journalists