The Swedish city of Gothenburg is running low on supplies of blood for transfusions. The shortage is said to be caused by the epidemic of knife crime which has plagued the city in recent months.
In other news, at least 65 mourners at a funeral in a village in northern Nigeria were killed by gunman of the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram.
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If the U.S. economy really was “booming”, then corporate earnings would be rising. But that isn’t happening. In fact, we haven’t seen corporate earnings fall like this since the last recession. They fell during the first quarter of this year, and based on the results we have so far, it appears that corporate earnings will be down substantially once again in the second quarter. When corporate earnings drop for two quarters in a row, that is officially considered to be an “earnings recession”, and that normally occurs just before the overall economy plunges into recession territory. As things get tighter for our corporate giants, we should expect a lot more layoffs in the months ahead, and the unemployment rate should rise quite briskly. In other words, it looks like our economic problems are about to accelerate substantially.
This week, some of the largest companies in the entire country reported results for the second quarter, and we witnessed disappointment after disappointment.
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“California is Being Overrun by Rodents” — and in This Case We Aren’t Talking About the Politicians
California is being hit by a “plague of rats” , and some commentators are suggesting that this is exactly what they deserve. In fact, some have even gone so far as to suggest that the name of Los Angeles should be formally changed to “Los Ratas” because the rat problem is so severe there. From Crescent City in the north all the way down to Chula Vista in the south, the rats are seemingly everywhere. There are millions of them, and the more poison that people put out the more they seem to multiply. The state of California has never seen anything like this before, and it is getting worse with each passing month.
At this point, things are already so bad that many are calling for Governor Newsom “to declare a public health emergency” .
Pest control and public health experts are calling on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a public health emergency over what
[Comment: Birds of a feather flock together.]
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Baltimore Ambush: Trump Forces Democrats to Defend the Indefensible, Again
President Trump has done it again.
Just as he forced Democrats to defend the far-left ‘Squad’ in his unexpected ambush on Rep. Ilhan Omar and her pals, he’s now forcing Democrats to own the urban shambles and filth that characterize one-party blue-city rule, putting all Democrats on their backfoot. That’s what’s behind his surprise Twitter assault that began with Rep. Elijah Cummings and his rat-infested Baltimore district, which pretty much came out of the blue.
Here’s his unusually long string of street-fighting tweets, all of them calculated to hit Democrats where it hurts.
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Lately, the news has been flooded with horrifying updates about the case of registered sex offender and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Singer R. Kelly, 52, is being held without bond in Chicago on charges that include producing child pornography and coercing minors to engage in sex. He faces similar federal charges in New York.
Unfortunately, Epstein and R. Kelly are not the only alleged sexual predators in the news.
Reader discretion is advised. This article contains information that may be upsetting for some people.
Here are various reports of recent sexual abuse cases in the US.
Colorado
More than three dozen suspected online child sex offenders were arrested in Aurora, Colorado, during Operation Broken Heart. The nationwide operation was led by the US Department of Justice and resulted in nearly 1,700 arrests during April and May. On June 11, 2019, the DOJ announced that its “task forces identified 308 offenders who either produced child pornography or committed child sexual abuse, and 357 children who suffered recent, ongoing or historical sexual abuse or were exploited in the production of child pornography.”
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FNC’s Wallace: Trump is Calling People of Color ‘Vermin’ — ‘It Sounds Subhuman’
On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” anchor Chris Wallace questioned White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on President Donald Trump’s attacks on Rep Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and the city of Baltimore.
[Comment: More lies from fake news. Trump was referring to actual rats which are currently exploding in numbers in the city. But fake news lies and said he was referring to black people. Repeat ad nauseum to make it seem true. These fake news people have no ethics, just like any good communist.]
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How to Make an Affordable & Effective Mosquito Trap
Now that summer is in full swing, most of us already know that obnoxious feeling of getting bitten by a mosquito. But, making a homemade mosquito trap could help keep you from getting bitten by the pesky and annoying bugs, and it’s easy! Because a trap will prevent bites, it will help keep you safer from contracting some of the diseases carried by mosquitos, such as West Nile virus, Zika, or Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus.
You can easily reduce the number of mosquitoes on your property with a simple do-it-yourself plastic bottle trap that will attract and kill the mosquitos. The liquid in each trap will last about two weeks, and then, it can be easily replaced! You could also make more than one to increase the effectiveness of the traps and drastically reduce the number of mosquito bites you get. The best part is that all of the items needed can be found at your local hardware store. Many people will already have everything on hand though!
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How the Democrat Party Has Become a Domestic Terror Group
The Squad’s far-left rhetoric radicalizing Democrat base to violence
The Democrat party has fallen to resorting to violence as their lies and propaganda fail to hypnotize an ever-growing aware populace.
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The ‘Communist Gang of Four’ Are Some Of The Biggest Bigots And Racists America Has Ever Known
The “Squad” has denigrated our country in ways that would have been considered reprehensible just a few years ago. Because of the sycophantic hard work done by the media, these four have been uplifted to a position of power totally undeserved by anything they have done either in the past of the present.
When President Trump called them out, declaring they should go back to where they came from, and fix the challenges that are being faced there and then come back and show us how it is done, the shrill cries of “Racism” immediately shut out any reason or discussion about the void that these four have brought to the Congress. The rest of the progressive socialists that are now the Democrat party ignore all this. They are more interested in continue to push the collusion hoax to get the revenge they seek on President Trump.
That allows these four freshman representatives to say whatever they want, knowing they will be protected by the progressive socialists and the media. When one of these four is called out on the ideologies and policies, they toss out. The first step is to whine about racism or sexism and play the victim. They claim they are receiving death threats, a statement debunked by Capitol Hill police statistics that show a decrease in the number of credible threats that include both conservatives and progressive socialists.
So let’s look at the past actions and statements that these four socialist have made in the past and see where they fit in to the fabric of the forum of Congress.
All four along with the rest of the progressive socialists want to abolish ICE and leave our borders open. Working in coordination with globalists like George Soros they feel that borders must be abolished, our way of life destroyed, and the laws and regulations that make our country the exceptional country that it is are to be ignored. Immigration is in shambles because there is no enforcement of laws that are already on the books. Combined with national and international corporations in conjunction with the National Chamber of Commerce have lawmakers convinced that we need more unskilled illegal aliens to keep costs of doing business down.
As a newly elected member of the House of Representatives, Ocasio-Cortez has called the country Garbage. Has anyone asked if this was a major point when she was a candidate? Did she feel that our country needed to bow down to socialism to improve our culture fundamentally? She has called President Trump a “fascist” and accused the United States as running concentration camps. She even went so far as to include “Never Again” in her statement, a clear relationship to the Holocaust.
But what can we expect? She has never learned history. The high point of our country according to America’s best-known bartender is the moon landing. Does she know any history before that? Or do her handlers find her talking points for her? The New Green Deal, a total non-starter for any intelligent discussion of the climate had Ocasio-Cortez claiming the world will end in 12 years unless we destroy the economy and move back our culture and way of life back to the 1800s. Even her puppet master chief of staff said that the Green New Deal is not about the climate, but the destruction of our economy.
She caused Amazon to decide to build elsewhere because of her financial illiteracy. She made it sound as if Amazon was getting $3 million from New York State, not understanding that Amazon was in line to get tax credits based on the number of jobs created. With Amazon going to more welcoming areas, Occasion-Cortez cost the area where Amazon was going to build up to $30 billion in new tax revenues and 25,000 jobs. It is no wonder that with such moves against the people in her constituency they hold her in low regard with only 9% with a favorable view of Ocasio-Cortez.
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Warnings Globalists Will Use ‘5G Killing Fields’ To Carry Out Genocide
According to this July 22nd story over at Medium written by Dr. Devra Davis titled “The Miseducation of America on 5G: The New York Times Gets It Spectacularly Wrong”, when a Pulitzer-Prize winning New York Times science writer strangely mangles information on the dangers of 5G, this plays right into the hands of those determined to advance this never-tested technology without serious examination of its long-term impact on human health and the environment.
Dr. Davis is the Founder and President of the Environmental Health Trust and has authored more than 200 publications in books and journals ranging from the Lancet and Journal of the American Medical Association to Scientific American and the New York Times and has written blogs in Freakonomics, Huffington Post, Physicians for Social Responsibility, MomsRising, Oxford University Press and elsewhere. An award-winning scientist and writer, Davis’ work has appeared in more than a dozen languages.
Dr. Davis’s story at Medium absolutely rips apart the NY Times story, finding 10 different mistakes that the Times story actually published and while we’re not the least bit surprised that the MSM is pushing more ‘fake news’, the fact that they’re doing it now about a topic that could have profound health implications upon all of us is concerning. From Dr. Davis’s story at Medium.:
The recent headline of the NYTimes trumpeted 5G as the “health hazard that isn’t.” Not so fast. A close examination of claims in that article indicates that it is time for a reset on the march to the latest wireless technology as the consequences could not be more monumental.
1. First of all, contrary to Broad’s claim, Dr. Curry’s report and graph on wireless radiation risks to children in schools in 2000 were not the central foundation for scientific concerns regarding wireless radiation. Long before 2000, scientists had investigated and confirmed numerous health impacts of electromagnetic (EMF) radiation.
For over two decades, the US EPA had a robust research program on electromagnetic fields (EMF) that was expressly defunded by Congress in 1995, shortly after the EPA briefed the FCC about plans for developing EMF safety standards.
2. In fact, in contradiction to Broad’s assertion, Curry’s graph showing greater absorption with higher frequency of wireless radiation up to 3G was correct and directly applicable to schools.
Curry’s graph showing brain tissue absorption of RF came directly from laboratory research commissioned by the U.S. Air Force and was not a manipulation of data — as Broad claims.
Broad alleges that Curry’s graph was “wrong” because higher and faster 5G millimeter waves don’t penetrate the skin. In fact, Curry’s chart had nothing to do with the frequencies of 5G, but solely with the lower and slower wireless frequencies in use at that time about which there is no debate that Wi-Fi penetrates the body and brain as does Wi-Max.
Wireless radiation frequencies get faster and higher, the depth of penetration goes down but the rate of absorption goes up.
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Papadopoulos to Head to Greece to Retrieve $10G Payment, Says it Was Intended to Entrap Him
Former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo in an exclusive interview that he is heading back to Greece to retrieve $10,000 that he suspects was dropped in his lap as part of an entrapment scheme by the CIA or FBI — and federal investigators want to see the marked bills, which he said are now stored in a safe.
Papadopoulos said on “Sunday Morning Futures” he was “very happy” to see Devin Nunes, R-Calif., grill former Special Counsel Robert Mueller about the summer 2017 payment during last week’s hearings — even though Mueller maintained, without explanation, that the matter was outside the scope of his investigation.
“I was very happy to see that Devin Nunes brought that up,” Papadopoulos said. “A man named Charles Tawil gave me this money [in Israel] under very suspicious circumstances. A simple Google search about this individual will reveal he was a CIA or State Department asset in South Africa during the ‘90s and 2000s. I think around the time when Bob Mueller was the director of the FBI.
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Pelosi Confirms Leftist Takeover: Says She and Ocasio-Cortez Don’t Have ‘That Many Differences’
If you don’t have that many differences from a socialist, that’s a problem.
Via NRO:
House speaker Nancy Pelosi downplayed her differences with progressive freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after a private meeting Friday.
“It went very well,” Pelosi said. “I don’t think we have that many differences.”
[Comment: Misprint. That should be communist, not socialist.]
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The Miseducation of America on 5G: The New York Times Gets it Spectacularly Wrong
When William J. Broad, a Pulitzer-Prize winning New York Times science writer, strangely mangles information on the dangers of 5G, this plays right into the hands of those determined to advance this never-tested technology without serious examination of its long-term impact on human health and the environment.
The recent headline of the NYTimes trumpeted 5G as the “health hazard that isn’t.” Not so fast. A close examination of claims in that article indicates that it is time for a reset on the march to the latest wireless technology as the consequences could not be more monumental.
Ten Corrections to William J. Broad’s “The 5G Health Hazard That Isn’t” New York Times July 16, 2019
Issued by Devra Davis, PhD, MPH, President, Theodora Scarato, MSW, Executive Director, Environmental Health Trust.
5G’s faster mmWave frequencies between 30 and 300 GHz are absorbed into and just below the surface of the skin, and such exposure is biologically impactful. That is why the U.S. Defense Department developed weapons with high-powered millimeter waves as seen here. The Active Denial System (ADS), also known as the Pain-Ray, was deployed to Afghanistan, tested in prisons and considered as a pirate deterrent in Somalia.
Researchers investigating the impact to the skin from 5G’s higher millimeter frequencies are “raising the warning flag” on the safety of 5G after finding that human sweat ducts absorb these frequencies at much higher rates than in surrounding skin structures — acting as tiny helical EMF antennas to magnify these signals.
The video below shows one of those researchers, Paul Ben-Ishai, PhD, lecturer in the Department of Physics, Ariel University, Israel explaining how 5G millimeter waves interact with the skin. Ben-Ishai also wrote a letter to California Governor Brown on 5G.
The video below shows one of those researchers, Paul Ben-Ishai, PhD, lecturer in the Department of Physics, Ariel University, Israel explaining how 5G millimeter waves interact with the skin. Ben-Ishai also wrote a letter to California Governor Brown on 5G.
Several of the experts quoted in this article have in fact published research directly funded by the wireless industry or by NYU Wireless, “an R&D arm” of NYU’s industry affiliates, which include AT&T, Sprint and Crown Castle — the very companies spearheading the rollout of 5G.
The word “safe” means different things depending who you talk to. Industry reports define ‘safe” as compliance with outdated FCC government limits despite the fact that these limits are based on thirty year old science. “Safe” is also conflated with “less penetration” into the body— another erroneous assumption based on no scientific research. When independent scientists state electromagnetic fields are not “safe” because biological effects are replicated and proven (a fact), the industry connected scientist response is often that these biological effects “are not the same as health effects.” This is no better exemplified in this presentation where “consistent evidence” of physiological changes during sleep are found, yet “these effects do not translate into any measure we can use to describe disturbances.” When brain tumors, tumor promotion, genetic damage, memory problems, oxidative stress,brain wave changes, behavior issues in children, miscarriage, sperm damage, efflux of calcium ions and blood brain barrier permeability studies are replicated, the response is that it is “unclear,” “difficult to draw conclusions,” “the functional significance cannot be determined” and “more studies need to be done.” When asked why authorities do not issue clear protections for children, they say the exposure is “low” and “society as a whole should decide” and it’s difficult to prove safety.”
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The Swamp is Fixing to Get Drained by Trump Administration
The Democrat demi-god Robert Mueller fell flat on his face during the congressional hearing about his Special Council investigation into allegations President Trump colluded with the Russians to win the 2016 election.
Mueller’s answers to questions indicated that the Attorney General and Inspector General are not only investigating Mueller and others involved in creating the Russia Collusion hoax but that it is all catching up to them fast. We should expect everything to start coming out by Labor Day!
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Trump Attorney Rudy Giuliani Discusses Mueller’s Dementia and Deep State’s Abuse (Video)
It was very clear from Mueller’s testimony that he is suffering from severe dementia.
Rosenstein and Weissman knew this.
That’s why Mueller was NEVER at the meeting with Trump lawyers.
Rosenstein and Andrew Weissmann knew Robert Mueller was suffering from severe dementia. They used him anyway to con the American public that their nefarious plot to remove the president was legitimate.
On Saturday Trump Attorney Rudy Giuliani joined Judge Jeanine Pirro to discuss Mueller’s testimony before Congress.
Rudy was obviously outraged with Mueller’s mental state and the Deep State using this man as a front for their investigation.
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Trump: May Declare ‘Gutless Whack Jobs’ Antifa as ‘Major Organization of Terror’
‘Would make it easier for police to do their job!’ says president
President Trump announced that his administration is considering labeling far-left group Antifa as a “major terror organization” following a string of attacks by the group over the last several weeks.
“Consideration is being given to declaring ANTIFA, the gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting (only non-fighters) people over the heads with baseball bats, a major Organization of Terror (along with MS-13 & others). Would make it easier for police to do their job!” Trump tweeted Saturday.
[Comment: Stop talking about it and do it already. Arrest traitor mayors like the one in Portland that encourages Antifa.]
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Trump Was Right: Orkin Lists Baltimore as One of Most Rat-Infested US Cities
Earlier in the day Republican Kimberly Klacik was on FOX and Friends to talk about her video of rat-infested neighborhoods in Baltimore.
Trump was watching — And tweeted out about it.
Democrats were outraged at President Trump for daring to call Baltimore a rat-infested city. Of course, they said it was racist.
But is Orkin racist?
According to the pest control company Baltimore, Maryland is one of the “rattiest cities” in the United States.
Patch.com reported:…
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Anti-French Algerian Football Fans Tear Down Statue of France’s Historic Leader Charles De Gaulle
After their national football team had been crowned as the champion of the African Cup of Nations, hundreds of rowdy, anti-French Algerian fans made their way to the city center of Paris to celebrate their team’s success.
Although the final match took place in Egypt between Senegal and Algeria, it prompted unruly celebrations by Algerians in the streets of Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Strasbourg, and Toulouse. France was not represented in the competition.
But celebrations started to look more like riots when the anti-French Algerian migrants began tearing down a historic statue of French General Charles de Gaulle while cheering gleefully. At one point, one of the Algerians tries to drop-kick the statue before it’s finally torn down to the cheers of onlookers.
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Are Romanian Police Ignoring a Serial Killer?
Thousands take to the streets to accuse ‘corrupt’ cops of turning a blind eye to emergency phone calls pleading for help from ‘murdered’ 15-year-old girl
The abduction of a Romanian schoolgirl who is feared dead has sparked furious protests against the government after police took 19 hours to respond to her cry for help.
Alexandra Macesanu, 15, rang European emergency number 112 to say she had been snatched by a man while hitchhiking to her home village from the nearby southern town of Caracal.
After authorities finally located the premises where the girl had been dragged to, they found what appeared to be human remains and traces of her jewellery.
The painfully slow response time has whipped up locals into disgust and yesterday saw 2,000 Romanians demonstrate on the streets of Bucharest.
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Catholic Bishops Accuse UK Gov’t of Abetting Climate Change
The Catholic bishops’ conference of England and Wales has accused the British government of funding fossil fuel industries in developing nations rather than focusing on low-carbon, renewable energy.
In a report released this week titled “UK support for energy 2010-2017: Protecting the climate and lifting people out of poverty?”, CAFOD, the bishops’ overseas development agency, argues that despite its promises to fight climate change, the UK is still spending “billions” in its support of fossil fuel exports, which aggravates climate change.
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Europe Weather Chaos: Heatwave Turns Deadly as Continent Braces for More Severe Weather
EUROPE has been struck by torrential rain and storms as the heatwave that blasted the continent until the beginning of the week has now turned into deadly severe weather conditions.
Italy, Poland, Spain, France and Austria have seen the worst of the severe weather that hit the continent this week with extreme flooding, strong winds and deadly tornadoes. Homes and businesses in Italy have been severely damaged and many areas remain on high alert. Barcelona, Spain, saw more than 40 litres of rain per squared metre fall in just 30 minutes. Italian media has reported the deaths of three people so far caused by tornadoes and heavy showers.
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Every Home in Britain Will Get a Leaflet to Prepare for No Deal
Boris Johnson is preparing a No Deal information blitz to make sure Britain is ready to leave the EU — with or without a deal — on October 31.
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French ‘Flying Man’ Zapata Fails in Channel Hoverboard Attempt
A French inventor failed in his attempt on Thursday to cross the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard when he missed a refuelling platform mounted on a boat, a member of his technical team said.
Franky Zapata was making his attempt on the 110th anniversary of the first powered flight between Britain and France.
“It is a huge disappointment. He made his rendez-vous with the refuelling boat but he must have missed the platform by just a few centimeters,” a member of his team said on BFM television.
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The Israeli teenagers who were accused of gang-raping a British woman hugged their relieved families this afternoon following their release after their accuser backtracked on her original story.
And in a dramatic development in Ayia Napa, Cyprus, the 19-year-old woman has been arrested for making false allegations about the men.
She had alleged that 12 Israelis had raped her in a hotel room, leading to their arrest.
Five were released on Thursday following extensive DNA testing and the remaining seven have been released today after the woman ‘changed her story’.
The Briton, who has not been named, is expected to appear in court on Monday.
Police sources said she had retracted her statement after being further questioned by detectives over the weekend following the examination of further DNA results.
Doubts about her story began after one of the teens she identified as taking part in the gang rape was able to prove he was in bed with his girlfriend who had taken a selfie.
A police spokesman in Nicosia said: ‘A 19 year old woman has been arrested on suspicion of making false allegations.’
Yaniv Habari, a lawyer for some of the now freed men, told MailOnline: ‘The woman has changed her story. Those in custody will be released and allowed to leave.’
He said the accuser ‘regretted what she said and now she’s being interrogated, and most likely she will be referred to court tomorrow.’
Police sources said the woman is suspected of filing a false complaint against the Israelis because they filmed her during the sex acts without her permission.
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Survey: Both West and East Germans Want Rapprochement With Russia
According to the German daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, a new survey has revealed that the majority of Germans want relations with Russia to normalize.
A recent survey has suggested that about 72 percent of German’s living in the East of the country and 54 percent of West Germans wish for a new rapprochement with Moscow, according to data gathered by the Tagesspiegel.
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Sweden: Gothenburg’s Blood Reserves Running Low Thanks to Rampant Knife Crime
Thanks to a wave of knife crime in Gothenburg — Sweden’s second-largest city — healthcare facilities have reported that their blood reserves are running dangerously low.
Last week, healthcare professionals in Gothenburg sent out SMS texts to city residences imploring them to donate blood to alleviate shortages, which according to Sahlgrenska University Hospital’s Stefan Jakobsson, are due to a recent wave of knife attacks in the city, Sveriges Radio reports.
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Swedish City Running Low on Blood Due to Stabbings
Following a wave of serious knife crime, healthcare centres in the Swedish city of Gothenberg say they are running low on blood reserves.
Earlier this week, healthcare professionals in the city called on residents through SMS texts to donate blood due to the shortages, which Sahlgrenska University Hospital’s Stefan Jakobsson linked to the wave of stabbings in the city, Sveriges Radio reports.
[Comment: Mithril vests are a hot item in Sweden.]
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Four in five paedophiles caught with obscene videos and images of children relating to children were spared prison last year.
A total of 2,967 sick perverts were convicted of having abuse images in 2018 but just 562 were sent to prison.
Instead, 1,106 paedophiles received suspended sentences, 596 were given community punishments, 25 handed fines, and 28 given a conditional discharge.
Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter Sarah was murdered in 2000 by paedophile Roy Whiting, branded the revelations ‘indefensible’.
The figures, which were revealed by The Sun, showed that a further 382 convicted perverts were let off with just a caution, which meant they did not even attend court.
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UK: Police Award Payout to Black Christian Arrested for Preaching
Scotland Yard has agreed to pay a Christian preacher £2,500 ($3,095) for wrongful arrest and humiliating treatment after the Metropolitan Police detained him last February, stripped him of his Bible, handcuffed him, and drove him several miles away where they left him.
The 64-year-old Pentecostal Christian, Oluwole Ilesanmi, said he welcomed the decision as a victory for freedom of speech. Mr Ilesanmi moved to the United Kingdom from Nigeria in 2010 as a Protestant missionary.
Two officers approached the former dentist last February as he was preaching outside Southgate Tube station in North London. Police reportedly had received a call from a passer-by accusing Mr Ilesanmi of hate speech.
A viral video of the arrest that has now been viewed over ten million times stirred up a public outcry and the advocacy group Christian Concern took up the man’s case, which eventually led to the decision to compensate the man for damages.
In their police report, the arresting officers said they had arrested Mr IIesanmi “to prevent a breach of the peace” yet video footage of the event shows no hostile or aggressive conduct by Mr Ilesanmi…
According to Hounslow-based Sergeant Dave Turtle, this sort of heavy-handed approach to Christians is too familiar, adding that police officers need better training to understand the rights of street preachers.
Turtle called for a “fundamental review” of police training for faith issues since “we’ve had a number of situations across the country where street preachers have been arrested and then de-arrested.”
Observers have noted a strange discordance in that Muslims seem able to preach in London without being harassed by police, whereas Christians are often treated with hostility.
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War Drums: Europe Readies a Naval Task Force as Iran Threatens to “Secure” The Strait of Hormuz
It is funny — for decades we have never had any problems with commercial ships passing through the Persian Gulf, but all of a sudden it has become a major flashpoint. As you will see below, the Iranians are now warning that they plan to “secure” the Strait of Hormuz, and meanwhile a plan for a European-led naval task force to confront the Iranians is rapidly coming together. The seizure of a British tanker a few days ago really rattled British officials, and they are determined to make sure that it doesn’t happen again. Of course the more the Persian Gulf region becomes saturated with military assets, the more likely it is that a “mistake” will happen, and it sure won’t take much of a spark to start World War 3 at this point.
Today, close to 20 percent of all the oil produced in the entire world passes through the Strait of Hormuz, and that makes it an exceedingly important waterway. U.S. and European officials continue to stress the importance of freedom of navigation through the area, and they appear to be losing patience with the Iranians.
But Iran does not intend to back down one bit. On Tuesday, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said that his country “will use its best efforts” to secure the Strait of Hormuz. The following comes from the Jerusalem Post.
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A chemical supplies executive facing decades in prison for allegedly importing tonnes of methamphetamine ingredients has been refused bail by NSW’s highest court.
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Among the tradies, the rubble, and the work vans across Australia are women who are raking the cash in traffic controllers or ‘lollipop ladies’, earning well over $100,000 a year to hold a sign.
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Dozens of Mourners ‘Killed by Boko Haram’ At a Funeral in North Nigeria
At least 65 people have lost their lives after suspected Boko Haram militants opened fire on a funeral in Nigeria’s north-eastern state of Borno.
Gunmen arrived on motorcycles and in vans at the village near the state capital, Maiduguri, on Saturday, eyewitnesses say.
A number of mourners were reportedly killed straight away, while others died trying to chase off the attackers.
There has been an increase in Islamist attacks across the region.
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Here’s What Happened When a Journalist Exposed a Pedo Sex Ring in Mexico
On July 23, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called for Mexican authorities to protect investigative reporter Lydia Cacho Ribeiro.
Two days prior, unidentified thugs broke into the journalist’s home, killed her two dogs, stole a laptop, audio recorder, three cameras, memory cards, and ten hard drives “containing information about sexual abuse cases the reporter was investigating,” according to the CPJ and Cacho. The attackers also damaged personal belongings including photographs.
This is my personal response to the new attack we recieved at home. Thank you for your solidarity. We must focus on facts and evidence regarding the extent of impunity and how it empowers the mafias. #WeWillNorSurrenderToSilence #JournalismIsAlive pic.twitter.com/aEJoKbITT1
— Lydia Cacho (@lydiacachosi) July 25, 2019
It’s remarkable Cacho is still alive. In 1999, she was beaten and raped in retaliation for her investigations. Despite this, she continued to report on sex rings and the trafficking and murder of Mexican girls.
In 2005, she published Los Demonios de Edén (“The Demons of Eden”), a book exposing a child sex trafficking ring involving politicians, government officials, and businessmen. Cacho was arrested and charged with defamation following the book’s publication.
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21 Migrants Found in North Macedonia Near Serbian Border
Police in North Macedonia say they have discovered 21 migrants from Pakistan, Iraq and Syrialeft in the woods after the driver abandoned the vehicle carrying them near the border with Serbia.
Police said in a statement late Friday that a patrol had tried to stop a jeep near the border crossing of Tabanovce, but the driver had run away. Police are still searching for the driver.
Police then searched the area and discovered the migrants hidden in the woods almost 24 hours later. They have been transferred to a migrants’ transit center and will be deported to Greece. Officially closed since 2015, the so-called Balkan route is still used by migrants traveling from Greece to wealthier European Union countries.
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Border Agents Give Illegals Hand Up Hill, Around Wall — Into America!
A female agent pats a boy on the head as he walks into America
When did Customs and Border Protection become the welcoming committee to America?
Video published by KOLD shows Border agents standing at the top of a hill, waiting for a group of illegal aliens to approach.
The agent crosses past the end of the border wall and extends his hand to assist a woman scaling the hill to enter the country illegally in El Paso, Texas.
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EU Dragging Hungary to Euro Court Over Anti-Illegal Migration ‘Stop Soros’ Laws
The European Commission has begun a process that will see the Hungarian government taken to the Court of Justice of the European Union over its tough laws against illegal immigration.
The “Stop Soros” law, a reference to pro-migration billionaire plutocrat George Soros, was put forth last year and is aimed at punishing NGOs and other non-government actors who engage in facilitating illegal migration.
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Hungary: “Illegal Migration is a Threat to European Culture and Civilization”, Foreign Minister Says
Hungary’s national populist government has cautioned that mass illegal migration into Europe threatens the continent’s future, culture, and its civilization, while it reaffirmed its “sovereign right” to reject multiculturalism.
Péter Szijjartó, the central European country’s foreign minister, also had harsh words for the European Union for its efforts to circumvent Italy’s interior minister Matteo Salvini’s efforts to stop illegal migration coming through the Mediterranean.
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Migrants Attack Italian Police During Drug Dealer Arrest
Two police officers in the city of Genoa were attacked by a group of migrants armed with glass bottles as they were pursuing a drug dealer.
The incident took place at around 2 o’clock in the morning and saw the two officers stop a car on the Via Gramsci to carry out a routine identification check. They encountered a Senegalese migrant who was initially co-operative but fled after being told to get out of his car, Il Giornale reports.
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Pope Francis Laments Migrant Shipwreck in Mediterranean Sea
ROME — Pope Francis has expressed his sorrow over the recent shipwreck off the coast of Libya in which as many as 150 people lost their lives.
“Dear brothers and sisters, I have learned with sorrow the news of the tragic shipwreck, which took place in recent days in the waters of the Mediterranean, in which dozens of migrants, including women and children, lost their lives,” the pope told crowds gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for his Angelus message Sunday.
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Salvini Blocks Own Coastguard From Landing Migrants in Italy
Populist Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini has declared that migrants recently picked by the Italian coastguard can only land once the European Union agrees to relocate them.
The migrants were initially rescued by an Italian fishing boat named the Accursio Giarratano, but the sailors were refused access to a port on the island of Malta and were forced to wait 24 hours until the coastguard transferred the migrants to their vessel the Bruno Gregoretti, Il Giornale reports.
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Housewives: ‘Dependent Creatures’! ‘Parasites’!
In 2013, then-U.S. president Barack Hussein Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to liberal “feminist” Gloria Steinem. This is the highest honor the U.S. bestows on civilians. Freedom for what, you might ask? I’m not sure, considering that Steinem is a champion for abortion. Seems a tad oxymoronic to be for women’s “rights” while ignoring the rights of all of the unborn women in the process.
Steinem had this to say about me and the millions of other women like me: “[Housewives] are dependent creatures who are still children … parasites.” Okay, well, I wasn’t yet born when she said that, but I still find it quite offensive and degrading, especially in today’s culture that’s all about “empowering women.” And this is the woman who was awarded a medal — by the president of the United States!
Carolyn Graglia is a lawyer who left her law practice to stay home and raise her children. In an article she wrote for The Weekly Standard, she discussed Betty Friedan, “feminist” writer and activist, who also had a negative view of homemakers. Graglia wrote:
Friedan described the housewife in The Feminine Mystique as a ‘parasite’ who lives without using adult capabilities or intelligence and lacks a real function when devoting herself to children, husband, and home. Decrying the housewife’s life as a ‘waste of a human self,’ Friedan likened her and her fellow matrons to ‘male patients with portions of their brain shot away and schizophrenics.’ Housewives are ‘less than fully human,’ she said, for they ‘have never known a commitment to an idea,’ ‘risked an exploration of the unknown,’ or ‘attempted … creativity.’ That this could be said of women, who literally create life within their wombs, indicates the degree to which feminism has sought to denature women, to reshape them in man’s image.
I won’t argue that being a stay-at-home, homeschooling mom is intellectually stimulating at every moment, but it is what we make of it. No doubt, these “champions” of feminism want children to be in the control of the government at the earliest ages possible. They push for taxpayer-funded daycare and preschool, in addition to the massive public K-12 education system, so children can be properly indoctrinated for their entire young lives. I suppose it’s too logical that mothers would raise their own children. Many of these so-called “feminists” think that the Earth is overpopulated and that we shouldn’t be having children, anyway.
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In Defense of Penn Law Professor Amy Wax
The hard left doesn’t want to nominate another white male for president in 2020, or in the words of Politico, “a candidate that looks like Bernie or Joe.” In fact, according to most liberals, police departments would be better off with more nonwhites and fewer whites, as would fire departments, school districts, small businesses, Hollywood,Major League Baseball, U.S. Congress, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, to name a few places.
Whether this is ultimately true is debatable. What’s not is the fact that it’s perfectly okay to call for more diversity in America — to publicly state things would be better off with more nonwhites and less whites.
Yet when Penn law professor Amy Wax mentioned the same premise only in reverse — that our country would be better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites — liberals had a complete meltdown; the media vilified her as an intolerant racist, and after hundreds of Penn students signed a petition calling for Wax to be relieved of all teaching duties, Penn Law School issued a statement condemning her words.
Now to be fair to Professor Wax, she doesn’t advocate whites over nonwhites. But this didn’t stop Vox writer Zack Beauchamp, who was covering the National Conservatism conference where Wax was presenting a lecture, from creating this misunderstanding.
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Italian Council to Ban Gender-Altering Drugs for Kids
The regional council of Friuli Venezia Giulia in northern Italy has approved a motion which calls on the national government to prohibit the use of hormone-blocking prescription drugs used in so-called ‘gender reassignment treatment’ for gender-confused children.
These drugs prevent normal sexual development in adolescents.
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Middlebury College Offers Courses on Zombies, Misogyny, Masculinity
A private liberal arts college in Vermont is offering courses such as “American Misogyny” and “Decolonizing Zombies” during the fall 2019 semester.
“American Misogyny” seeks to “explore the place of misogyny in U.S. media and politics,” the course descriptionstates. Students will learn about topics such as “the backlash against second-wave feminism, the rise of “post-feminism,” and the impact of reality TV and social media on feminist and antifeminist expression.”
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Mom Asks Supreme Court to Take Up Appeal Against School for Giving Son Gender Transition Treatments
A mother is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case centered on Minnesota officials providing her son with gender transition treatments without her consent, even though he was a minor at the time.
The Thomas More Society filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon on behalf of Anmarie Calgaro, who is suing St. Louis County officials over their involvement in her child’s gender transition.
Society Special Counsel Erick Kaardal said in a statement emailed out to supporters that the case was “a parent’s worst nightmare.”
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Children’s mental health service providers and school councillors are scared of being labelled transphobic by pro-trans groups, leading them to overlook the interests of the patient, says a gender psychotherapist.
Marcus Evans, psychotherapist and former governor at the NHS’s only trust with a Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), said that pressure from the ‘highly-politicised’ pro-trans groups is having an affect on the way mental health providers treat children.
Fear of being labelled transphobic by pro-trans groups is leading experts providing counselling and transitioning services to lose objectivity when advising children with gender dysphoria, said Mr Evans.
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A group of thugs ranted that ‘gays should be strung up’ before launching a brutal homophobic attack on a train passenger, police said.
Detectives are hunting the group and have issued CCTV images of the suspects following the assault on a train from London Liverpool Street to Shoeburyness, in Essex.
The victim was punched several times in the head and fell to the ground in the ‘unprovoked’ attack as he we went to leave the train at Upminster station, in east London.
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This is the shocking moment a Muslim woman spits homophobic abuse at a reveller on a Pride march in east London.
The niqab-wearing woman was filmed screaming ‘shame on you’ to a man draped in the LGBT rainbow flag during the rally on Hoe Street, Walthamstow, yesterday.
She screeches ‘God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve’ while a marshal in a high-vis jacket moves in to shield the clearly shaken Pride marcher.
The video was shared on Twitter by Yusuf Patel who wrote: ‘Disgusting homophobic abuse at those on Waltham Forest Pride today.
The Walthamstow arm of the Metropolitan Police said officers are investigating and branded the abuse a hate crime.
[Comment: Investigating.what would they look for? A woman in a niqab?]
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YouTube Ad Policy: The Term ‘Christian’ Is Unacceptable But ‘Muslim’ Is Still Acceptable (Video)
Chad Robichaux, the founder of the veterans Christian organization the Mighty Oaks Foundation, has caught YouTube censoring Christian advertisers.
Watch the following video to see how YouTube no longer allows you to target a ‘ Christian’ audience.
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A Russian living in Sweden wrote to me in LiveJournal:
One of the Volvo’s bosses recently stated that the criminogenic situation in Gothenburg does not allow them to attract advanced specialists, because they are simply afraid to live there.
How surprising.
I would have thought the excitement and opportunity of living in a multiculti environment would have native Swedes fighting for the chance to live there.
After all, who doesn’t like the taste of Somali haute cuisine, or enjoyed the pleasures of burkah-clad women with mutilated genitals, tribal warfare, and an almost entirely unemployed male population highly alert and ready to work due to their partaking of khat?
Volvo CEO laments Sweden’s high crime rate, says company might move its HQ abroad’
https://www.rt.com/news/463964-volvo-high-crime-rate-sweden/
The company should stay and develop a bullet&grenade proof vehicle for the Swedish market; they could call it the Volvo ‘Pogress’.
Orc blood must be harder to come by than man-blood; orcs that are free of HIV, tattoos, hepititis, excessive consumption of orc-draughts, and recent travel to or from Mordor are exceedingly rare in the Gothenburg realm. And apparently, inducing them to donate blood without a gift of man-flesh is more difficult than stealing treasure from a dragon.
Instead of trying to locate more mithral vests, or somehow squeeze blood from an orc, a better strategy might be to import and freely distribute amongst the orcs of Gothenburg some more potent Morgul blades than the ones they have hitherto slashed one another with. A reduction in the number of live orcs amongst the men of the West would self-correct the need to keep their vile blood in stock in the apothecary.
re: the Niqab screecher
And how would anyone know what’s under the black sheet .. a high pitched Adam or Steve…
The ‘rainbow’ (as ill fitting as ‘gay’) was spirited away to temporary refuge while the single bedsheet apparition took charge of the street. Yet more ground.
And no arrest.
Swap that for an urban minute: ‘rainbow’ person screaming God’s abomination to the black ‘gin’… The yellow viz police have an elephant on their hands.
And the newly restored 20,000 officers promised by Prime Minister Boris, will mandatorily reflect the vibrant diversity that is London. With few natives resident, the additional force will be overly stuffed with bedsheet’s brethren.
Future ‘Prides’ (another steal) promise to be colourful. But not from any real rainbow.