An Italian NGO called Mediterranea Saving Humans has launched a migrant-ferry vessel into the Mediterranean in defiance of Italian law. The vessel, dubbed the Alex, is prowling the coastline of Libya looking for “refugees”.
In other news, Austria has set September 29 as the date of its new parliamentary elections.
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ADP: U.S. Adds Modest 102,000 Private-Sector Jobs in June
The numbers: The U.S. created a seasonally adjusted 102,000 private-sector jobs in June, payrolls processor ADP said Wednesday, up from a revised 41,000 in May.
Economists polled by Econoday expected 140,000 new jobs. May’s numbers were revised higher by 14,000.
The gain was well below the average of average 211,000 jobs created in the three months ending in April.
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Breaking: Dow Reaches New High — 104th Since Trump Election — Markets up 47% Since November 2016
The DOW hit another new closing all time high today!
The stock markets are major indications of an economy’s strength. They include valuations based on past and current financial data and company and market data. The markets also include expectations for the future.
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France’s Richest People Have Seen Their Net Worth Rocket 35% This Year
Despite the civil unrest in France to start the year, the country’s richest citizens still had a fantastic start to 2019, according to Bloomberg.
Amidst protesters taking to the streets to demand higher wages and better pensions, the 14 people from France on the Bloomberg Billionaire’s Index added a combined $78 billion to their collective net worth since the beginning of 2019. That is an astounding 35% increase. The figures will likely serve as additional fuel for protests over income inequality in the country.
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“They’re Terrorists: “ Portlanders Tell Their Antifa Stories
Journalist Andy Ngo was brutally assaulted over the weekend in Portland. Multiple blunt-force impacts to his head from Antifa assailants have caused brain hemorrhaging.
So far, no one has been arrested in connection with this assault.
The City of Portland has had a string of unfortunate events recently. Within the last several days there were Antifa riots in the streets, a bomb threat at City Hall, and to top it off: a literal tornado. All the while, Mayor Ted Wheeler has been on vacation.
Since I am not able to ask the mayor himself to see if he condemns Antifa, I took to the streets to ask everyday Portlanders if they think Antifa should be labeled domestic terrorists. What they had to say might surprise you.
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17-Year-Old Mows American Flag Into Lawn to Honor Fallen Army Friend
A Texas teen mowed an American flag design into the lawn of his family’s home to honor his Army friend who was killed while on duty at the border.
17-year-old Cameron James decided to combine the 4th of July with remembering his buddy by creating the pattern at his home in Haslet, North Texas.
James’ friend Kevin Christian, whom he met through the Boy Scouts, died last week in Arizona during a Border Patrol operation.
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40,000 Whiskey Barrels Ablaze as Fire Rages Through Jim Beam’s Kentucky Warehouses
In news that nobody wants to hear heading into an American holiday, a Jim Beam warehouse caught fire late on Tuesday, with alcohol fueling the flames and 40,000 barrels of whiskey possibly lost, according to CNN.
The warehouse was in Versailles, Kentucky and caught fire around 11:30 PM Tuesday night. 40 firefighters from five counties responded and a second warehouse also caught fire, but was later contained.
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News2Share infiltrated the Antifa planning session for violence and chaos this coming weekend.
The group posted the entire planning session video online today.
The Antifa terrorist group is plotting to disrupt and shutdown the Demand Free Speech Rally on July 6th in Washington DC.
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Bill Aims to Tackle Rampant Child Porn Sharing on Pentagon Computers
Congress aware DoD apparently crawling with pedophiles
Congress is weighing up a bipartisan bill to crack down on the sharing of child porn on Defense Department computers after a watchdog group found the Pentagon’s network ranked among the top US ISPs for sharing the vile content.
“The notion that the Department of Defense’s network and Pentagon-issued computers may be used to view, create, or circulate such horrifying images is a shameful disgrace, and one we must fight head on,” Abigail Spanberger (D-Virginia) said in a statement on Tuesday as she and co-sponsor Mark Meadows (R-N. Carolina) introduced the End National Defense Network Abuse (END Network Abuse) Act in the House.
The Defense Criminal Investigative Services (DCIS) will receive training in how to root out and successfully prosecute those using Defense Department equipment to access and trade child porn under the new legislation.
[Comment: Many, if not all, will turn out to be globalist deep state plants. Appartchiks who pretend to work for the USA but really work for globalist elite.]
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California Town Wants to Become Sanctuary City — For Guns
A California town near the borders of Arizona and Nevada has declared itself a “2nd Amendment Sanctuary City,” according to AP.
The City Council for the Old West desert town of Needles unanimously passed the declaration, which has no immediate impact on local gun laws for the city’s 5,000 or so residents. Instead, the city attorney was directed to draft a resolution requesting that the California Legislature allow licensed gun owners from other states to carry their firearms in town.
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CDC Warns of Dangerous ‘Crypto’ Intestinal Parasite
Federal public health officials have issued a warning to summer swimmers regarding a trend of increasing outbreaks of cryptosporidium.
On Sunday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a report on the increase in “crypto” outbreaks over the course of the last decade. Hundreds of outbreaks resulted in over 7,400 confirmed cases, tied predominantly to public swimming pools and water playgrounds.
Crypto are hardy parasites, which protect themselves with a shell that “allows it to survive outside the body for long periods of time and makes it very tolerant to chlorine disinfection,” according to information on the CDC website. Crypto parasites bring cryptosporidiosis, a disease that causes watery diarrhea that can last for weeks at a time.
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In addition to the infamous ‘Baby Trump’ blimp, leftist activists are now also planning to bring a large robot of President Donald Trump tweeting from the toilet to DC’s “Salute to America” Fourth of July celebrations.
The robot, called “Dumping Trump,” was first used at protests in London and is a creation of Don Lessem, the founder of the Jurassic Foundation.
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DOJ “Re-Evaluating All Available Options” on Census Citizenship Question
Earlier today, President Trump sparked a leftist meltdown by tweeting that reports of the demise of the citizenship question on the census were “fake”…
Questions immediately arose as to what legal strategy the administration would employ, given the Supreme Court’s ruling.
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Engineer Faces 219 Years in Prison for Smuggling US Military Chips to China
An electrical engineer faces up to 219 years in federal prison after being found guilty of conspiring to smuggle military-grade semiconductor chips to China.
On Tuesday, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said that Yi-Chi Shih, a part-time Los Angeles resident, attempted to secure semiconductor chips used in US military applications in order to transfer them to Chinese associates.
The 64-year-old was subject to a six-week trial in a Los Angeles, California federal court.
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Facebook Vows More Censorship Leading Up the 2020 Election
Facebook has promised to crack down on “misinformation” (opinions they don’t like or posts that violate their agenda) in the months leading up to the 2020 election. For those who haven’t been paying attention to social media giants and tech giants silencing of dissent, this means even more censorship is coming for the internet.
In a blog post, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg stated that the social media giant will be introducing a new policy which will protect against “misinformation” related to the census. Sandberg also stated that the company would be partnering with “non-partisan groups” to encourage participation in the census, according to a report by Breitbart.
Axios further reported that social media giant Facebook has issued a civil rights report which boasts of the company’s progress and promises to crack down on misinformation ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
Sandberg also stated that Facebook would be creating a “civil rights task force” comprised of senior leaders across key areas of the company in order to make sure information they dislike will be cast as “misinformation” and silenced.
[comment: Facebook is not the internet, no matter how much facebook tries to convince you otherwise. Dump your useage of facebook. Much better to use an RSS feed reader and get news directly from censored websites.]
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Firefox Fixes Error That Crashed HTTPS Pages
The issue was caused by a conflict between Firefox and antivirus software.
Mozilla has made changes to its Firefox browser that helps sysadmins fix TLS errors due to HTTPS. These errors are triggered by antivirus software that try to intercept secure connections over HTTPS.
The cause of the problem was the fact that Firefox trusts only those Certificate Authorities (CAs) that are listed in its own store, whereas antivirus software systems use their own CAs. “The antivirus products relying on other trusted CAs provided by the operating system (OS) are not allowed to intercept HTTPS connections on Firefox,” said Hacker News.
This conflict between Firefox and antivirus software lead to users experiencing crashed HTTPS pages showing errors like “SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER.”
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Fmr. Antifa Member Reacts to Group’s Attack on Conservative Writer Andy Ngo (Video)
Former Antifa member Gabriel Nadales joined Fox & Friends First Tuesday to discuss the group’s recent attack on conservative Andy Ngo, saying that the only way to deal with the extremist group is to “go into the college campuses.”
Ngo, a writer for Quillette, was injured Saturday in Portland, Oregon by members of Antifa. Nadales, a former member of the group and current employee of Campus Reform’s parent organization, the Leadership Institute, reacted to that news and more on Tuesday morning.
Asked to bring viewers into the mindset of Antifa members, Nadales said that while they say they fight fascists, they do the opposite.
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Gallup: Pride in Being an American Reaches Modern Low — Thanks to Rock-Bottom Numbers From Democrats
In 2001, before the 9/11 attacks, the share of Americans who said they were “extremely” or “very” proud of their country was 87 percent. That number held relatively steady for the next 15 years, through 9/11, the Iraq war, Katrina, and the duration of the Obama presidency, never dropping below 80 percent.
Then, in 2017, it fell to 75 percent.
And now, in 2019, it’s fallen to 70 percent, with the share who describe themselves as “extremely” proud at 45 percent — the first time that number’s been less than a majority during this century.
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Hephzibah Woman Accused of Helping ISIS Waives Indictment; Judge Will Decide if Woman Goes to Trial
HEPHZIBAH, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) — A Hephzibah woman accused of helping ISIS waives her indictment on several federal charges.
This means that a judge instead of a jury will decide if 20-year-old Kim Vo will go to trial.
News 12 learned she was a cyber student and she was taking hacking courses at Augusta Tech. Her friends and classmates did not think she was doing anything criminal let alone a crime against the country.
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Leftists Will Fly Baby Trump Blimp on 4th of July in DC During US Military Parade
The National Park Service gave the far left commie-front group Code Pink permission to fly a Baby Trump Blimp near the location where President Trump will deliver remarks celebrating Independence Day.
[Comment All the protestors should also drees up and parade around in diapers. That would be fitting.]
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‘Mini AOC’ Deletes Twitter Account After Far-Left Doxxing & Death Threats
Even children aren’t safe from leftist intolerance.
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MiniAOC Deletes All Social Media Accounts After Death Threats and Harassment of Family
Sadly, MiniAOC is gone.
Ava Martinez, the 8-year-old girl who perfectly impersonated Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was forced to delete all of her social media accounts after she and her family were harassed by liberals.
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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow’s Ratings Plummet to Yearly Low
MSNBC primetime host Rachel Maddow brought in her worst weekly ratings of the year last week.
Her show last week averaged 2,324,000 viewers, with an average audience of 337,000 in the 25-54 age demographic, both of which mark yearly lows for the liberal television host, according to Nielsen Media Research.
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Mystery of Fish Caught With Wedding Ring Attached Solved
In one of the more bizarre fishing stories to surface, a fisherman reeled in a steelhead with a wedding ring attached to its tail, leaving a group of anglers fishing in a tournament on Lake Michigan on Friday scratching their heads.
“It was crazy,” Jim Nelligan told USA Today/For The Win Outdoors. “We started wondering who did this, and why?”
The answer didn’t take long to emerge.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported Monday that Capt. Jason Rose used a zip tie to attach his wedding band to a steelhead he caught and released on May 4 across the lake near the port of Whitehall, Mich. Rose had been married for nearly a decade when he and his spouse decided to go their separate ways.
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First, at present, leftists want to create a state of political cultural chaos in the U.S. for a specific reason. They need chaos as a smokescreen to defend their current leaders — that is to say, Obama, Hillary & Co. — from prosecution. Make no mistake: Obama, Hillary, and their cohorts committed some serious crimes of an unprecedented nature for people at their level. We executed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for far less. Their degree of culpability is suggested in an October 2016 email from Hilary Clinton to then DNC Chair Donna Brazile, revealed by WikiLeaks, in which Hillary shrieked to the effect that “if that f****** b****** wins, we’re all going to hang from nooses. You better fix this s***!”
Consider the metaphor of a dogfight between two fighter planes. One is firmly camped on the six o’clock of the other, ready to deliver the deathblow. The other, facing imminent destruction, engages in all manner of crazy maneuvers in order to prevent his adversary from achieving a firing solution. That is what the Left is doing with all this “chaos.” For if Trump gets enough political breathing space to lock on for the kill and hold them accountable, they are through. Their whole program is derailed, and many principals will indeed wind up in jail.
What is the agenda of the Left, if it is not simply chaos?
Leftists rationalize what they are doing as being in the service of what will ultimately be a Star Trek—like “United Earth,” a one-world community ruled by the bureaucrats of the U.N., where there will be no more war, all resources will be shared, all conflicts will be “managed,” and the “masses” will be doled out whatever the elites decree the latter “needs” in return for World Peace Forevermore. In real day-to-day terms, this enables an unaccountable, parasitic globalist elite class to decide what is best for everybody. Ultimately, the progressive left elites of the West are busy selling out their own countries in order to appease the other major actors on the world stage, especially China and political Islam, to get the latter to cooperate in this globalist fantasy.
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Why are top officials in both the United States and Russia suddenly being pulled into emergency meetings? At this moment rumors are flying all over the Internet, and we have very little solid information about what is really going on. In this article I will share what we know so far, but as we learn more the picture will inevitably become a lot clearer. On Tuesday President Trump didn’t have any public events scheduled, and that was a bit strange, but Vice President Mike Pence was supposed to appear at an event in New Hampshire. Unfortunately, that trip was suddenly canceled after Pence had already boarded the plane, and Pence was ordered to return to the White House…
DEBKA is claiming that their military sources are reporting that there was a confrontation between a U.S. submarine and a Russian submarine, and that it resulted in the U.S. submarine being hit by a torpedo…
At this point, we have zero confirmation of DEBKA’s report.
Could it be possible that DEBKA got this completely wrong?
We shall see.
Meanwhile, we do know that Israel has continued to strike Iranian targets inside Syria, and DEBKA is reporting that the Israelis hit a total of 10 targets early on Monday…
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The Brains Behind AOC Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The group (funded by Soros) that held a casting call for a good communist.
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The Communist Overthrow of the United States is Now Live
Tune in to find out what you can do to save America
The communist overthrow of American independence looms on the horizon as more brainwashed masses are calling for the overthrow of our republic.
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The Earth Strikes Back — 10 Signs That Nature Has Turned Against Humanity
The following are 10 signs that nature has turned against humanity…
#1 In the middle of the country, farmers are freaking out because giant black vultures are literally eating their farm animals alive. And since the vultures are “federally-protected”, the farmers can’t do anything about it…
They’ll devour slimy newborn calves, full-grown ewes and lambs alive by pecking them to death.
First the eyes, then the tongue, then every last shred of flesh.
And there isn’t much defense against black vultures and turkey vultures, both of which are federally protected and cannot be killed without a permit.
#2 All up and down the east coast, Americans are becoming the victims of “flesh-eating bacteria” when they go into the water. Here is one recent example from Florida…
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Mayor Pete Buttigieg went on national TV last week and accused his police officers in South Bend, Indiana of being packed with racists.
Buttigieg is under fire in South Bend after a black man and felon threatened a police officer with a large knife and was shot dead.
On Tuesday night Tucker Carlson invited Harvey Mills, the South Bend Fraternal Order of Police President, on to discuss Mayor Buttigieg’s vicious comments.
Tucker blasted Mayor Pete: So what does it do to see a reckless, slimeball mayor to impugn the moral character of cops without offering any evidence at all?
[Comment: Good little globalist tool, obedienty obeying his globalist master’s desire to trigger a race war in the USA.]
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Verdict in the Trial of US Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher Accused of Murdering ISIS Terrorist
How about some great news today!
US Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher has been proven innocent of murdering an ISIS terrorist.
He’s been cleared of all charges and will walk out of court a free man!
Chief Eddie Gallagher found NOT guilty for pre-meditated murder charges.
Guilty on one count of wrongfully posing with a body. 4 month sentence but has already been credited with 201 days served.
He should be able to go home tonight.
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Arctic Fox Walks More Than 2,700 Miles From Norway to Canada
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — An arctic fox walked more than 4,415 kilometers (2,737 miles) to go from northern Norway to Canada’s far north in four months, Norwegian researchers said.
The Norwegian Polar Institute reported the young female fox left her birth place on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago on March 1, 2018 and reached Canada’s Ellesmere Island by way of Greenland on July 1, 2018.
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Austria Sets September 29 as Date of Next Parliamentary Election
VIENNA (REUTERS) — Austria’s cabinet has set Sept. 29 as the date of the next parliamentary election, a spokesman for the head of the provisional government, Brigitte Bierlein, said on Wednesday.
That was the first date on which the vote could have been held after parliament passed a bill last month ending the current legislative period.
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Brexit Party MEP Slams EU Lawmakers Pushing for a ‘United States of Europe’
Brexit Party MEP for North East England Brian Monteith criticised the federalist dreams of European parliamentarians who wish to “remove the nation-state”.
Speaking on BBC’s Newsnight on Tuesday, Mr Monteith explained that he joined his Brexit Party colleagues in turning his back on the European Union’s ‘national’ anthem earlier that day to voice his rejection of a “European Superstate”.
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Father Defends Family Against Mob of 400 ‘Youths’ At German Pool
German police were called to a public pool in Dusseldorf to mitigate a crowd of several hundred ‘mostly young males’ who had surrounded a family of four during a dispute.
The origin of the disagreement is currently unknown, but a father was forced to stand his ground at Dusseldorf Rheinbad amid a mob of an estimated 400 antagonists, described as primarily ‘North African’ in some reports, according to German media.
A force of roughly 70 police officers from the region were called to the scene as it spiraled beyond the control of local patrols.
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France: The Real Emmanuel Macron
June 6, 2019. Normandy, France. The remains of 9,387 American military deadare buried at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial; 9238 Latin crosses for Christians and 149 Stars of David for Jews are aligned on the bluff overlooking Omaha Beach, one of five sectors on the Normandy coast where 132,000 soldiers of the Western allies landed on June 6, 1944. US President Donald J. Trump delivers a speech praising heroism, duty, honor and freedom, and pays tribute to the young Americans who gave their lives; he also speaks of the other soldiers who fought in the Normandy landings: Canadians, British, French. He behaves as a great statesman.
Just before he spoke, French President Emmanuel Macron also paid tribute to those brave soldiers. He added some remarks — that immediately were seen as a way to lecture the American President:
“America is never as great as when it fights for the freedom of others. It is never as great as when it is faithful to the universal values defended by its founding fathers when two and a half centuries ago, France came to support its independence”.
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French Police Station Besieged With Projectiles by Group Yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’
A local police station in the department of Eure in northern France was attacked by a group of 15 young hooded muslims who launched projectiles and fireworks while shouting the two words ‘Allahu Akbar’.
According to the French newspaper Le Figaro, the attack happened around 2 AM last Friday at the Val-de-Reuil-Louviers police station with the 15 hooded ‘youths’ firing and hurling projectiles at officers, screaming obscenities, and even trying to break into the police building.
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Germans Display ‘F*** You Greta’ Bumper Stickers to Protest Being Lectured About Global Warming
German drivers have begun displaying ‘f*** you Greta’ bumper stickers to protest against being lectured about global warming by a 16-year-old child.
Greta Thunberg is a Swedish teen climate activist who has been heavily promoted by the establishment and was placed on the front cover of Time Magazine back in May.
Ingmar Rentzhog, founder of the non-profit We Don’t Have Time Foundation, claimed to have ‘discovered’ Thunberg and used her to push climate change messaging.
This has prompted accusations that the teen is being exploited given her Asperger’s, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and selective mutism.
Now some German motorists have had enough of being lectured about their lifestyles by a child.
Over the past few weeks, numerous images of cars adorned with a bumper sticker that reads ‘f*ck you Greta’ have been posted to social media.
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Italian Socialist Elected President of Europe’s Parliament
A vote in the European Parliament, which began its new five-year term on Tuesday, has elevated the Italian socialist politician David Sassoli to the position of president of the EU Parliament, Reuters reports.
Of course, the anointing of a socialist to lead the European Union’s biggest body of lawmakers won’t exactly assuage the concerns of everybody who has worried that the EU Is beginning to too closely resemble another nominally Democratic ‘union’ of supposedly independent republics.
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Italy: Rome Waste to be Sent Around Lazio Plants
AMA ordered to clean up city, pay suppliers, use mobile plants
(ANSA) — Rome, July 3 — The Lazio regional government, in collaboration with the the environment ministry, said Wednesday that Rome waste the capital’s disposal plants are struggling to deal with will be sent to other plants all around the Lazio region.
An ordinance was issued “for reasons of urgent necessity to safeguard the environment”.
The Lazio government also instructed waste collection company AMA to immediately clean up the city, pay suppliers, and use mobile waste disposal plants.
Rome’s trash collection and processing problems have been heading towards an emergency for some time.
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Italy: Naples Judge Arrested for Corruption
Ischia GIP held along with 4 other people
(ANSA) — Rome, July 3 — A Naples judge was arrested on suspicion of corruption on Wednesday.
He was arrested with four other people, police said.
They are variously accused of corruption in performing their duties, corruption against their duties and in judicial acts, influence peddling, claiming undue influence, attempted extortion and personal favouring, judicial sources said.
Rome flying squad officers are carrying out a series of raids and searches.
The arrested judge was named as Alberto Capuano, a preliminary investigations judge (GIP) working on the island of Ischia.
The magistrate, 60, was taken into custody along with Bagnoli councillor Antonio di Dio, businessman Valentino Cassini and known criminal Giuseppe Liccardo, believed to be close to a Camorra mafia clan, the Mallardos of Giugliano.
A Naples lawyer, Elio Bonaiuto, was placed under house arrest.
Rome preliminary investigations judge (GIP) Costantino De Robbio said in the arrest warrant that “there is a group at the Naples court that rigs trials”.
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New EU President Nominations a ‘Franco-German Stitch-Up’, Says Farage
Brexit Party leader and MEP Nigel Farage has called the nominations for the new heads of European Union institutions a “Franco-German” set-up.
While Eurocrats lauded the “perfect gender balance” after EU leaders agreed nominations for the bloc’s top jobs, the roles will likely remain dominated by Germany, France, and the Benelux countries: the French International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde is tipped to run the European Central Bank (ECB); German defence minister and Angela Merkel ally Ursula von der Leyen is the favoured candidate for top job as European Commission president; and Belgium’s prime minister, Charles Michel, could be appointed to lead the European Council.
Speaking to Sky News on the bloc’s nominations, Mr Farage said: “It’s a classic Franco-German stitch-up. The French and Germans have all the top jobs, with one lobbed in for Belgium, so nothing really changes.”
“The south of Europe has been completely shut out of everything, so what they’ve done is decide that an Italian socialist [David-Maria] Sassoli will be the next president of the European Parliament.
“In theory, behind me, we’re voting at the moment, but it’s already been decided. That’s how it works. It’s a sop to the south because the old Franco-German pact is still dominating the whole thing.”
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Recover spirit of founding fathers, nationalism spurs conflict
(ANSA) — Rome, July 3 — Centre-left Democratic Party (PD) MEP David Sassoli was elected president of the European Parliament on the second ballot Wednesday, garnering 345 votes, outgoing President Antonio Tajani said.
The required majority was 334.
“It’s a great emotion, and I thank Tajani” he said.
Europe must recover the spirit of its founding fathers, Sassoli said in his maiden address.
It must “combine growth, social protection and a respect for the environment”, he said.
The EU must also “relaunch sustainable investments”, he said.
The centre-left Democratic Party (PD) MEP underscored his commitment towards boosting gender parity and encouraging “a great role of women at the top of the economy, politics and society”.
Nationalism produces destructive conflicts, Sassoli went on.
“We are not an accident of history but the children and grandchildren of those who succeeded in finding the antidote to the nationalist degeneration that poisoned our history,” he said.
“If we are European it is also because we are in love with our countries.
“But nationalism that becomes an ideology and idolatry produces viruses that spur instincts of superiority and produce destructive conflicts”.
The European Council has the “moral duty” to discuss the European Parliament’s proposed reform of the Dublin Rule on migrants because “you know how much tension is created around the non-management of the migratory issue,” Sassoli said.
“Citizens are asking where the EU is” on the issue, he said.
“Europe must equip itself and the governments must transfer a little power to Europe, they must collaborate more”.
The EP’s doors would be “ever more open” to NGOs, he added.
“I hope Italy is happy today,” he said about his election.
President Sergio Mattarella sent a message to Sassoli saying “the high responsibility which has been entrusted in you by the parliamentarians of the countries of the Union represents a mark of the broad confidence resting in your person and a recognition for your constant and fruitful work in European institutions”.
Euroskeptic and anti-migrant League party leader Matteo Salvini, the deputy premier and interior minister, said “I hope he’s balanced even though Sassoli spoke of a health cordon against the League and the populists, which doesn’t exactly seem to be the most democratic approach for a president”.
Sassoli, 63, a former RAI State broadcaster journalist, was one of the Strasbourg assembly’s vice presidents.
“I’m standing because I believe that Europe will be stronger only with a European Parliament able to play a more important role,” he told the assembly ahead of the vote on the new president to replace centre-right Forza Italia (FI) President Tajani.
“We must all, whatever our views, be committed to building the home of European democracy and this parliament must be the home of European democracy”.
Sassoli was backed by the European Socialist caucus.
The other candidates were Ska Keller (Greens), Jan Zahradil (Conservatives ECR) and Sira Rego (Left GUE).
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Swedish Party Leader: Gun Violence ‘Extreme for a Country Not at War’
Swedish Moderate party leader Ulf Kristersson has slammed the surge of gun violence across the country as Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has vowed new measures to tackle gang crime.
Mr Kristersson made his comments in reaction to three shootings over the weekend in the Swedish capital of Stockholm saying the current situation in the country is “extreme for a country that is not at war”, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
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This is What EU ‘Democracy’ Looks Like
Remoaner Twitter lost it again yesterday, after Brexit Party MEPs turned their backs in the European Parliament as musicians performed Ode to Joy, the EU’s not-quite-national anthem, to mark the beginning of the new parliamentary session. Some prominent Remainers were literally crying, decrying the BP’s protest as an affront to Western civilisation itself. Others were busy making demented Nazi comparisons.
But so far we’ve heard nothing from these staunch defenders of EU ‘democracy’ about the behind-closed-doors appointment of the EU’s top jobs. After weeks of wrangling, the European Council appointed new EU leaders yesterday. Belgian PM Charles Michel will be president of the European Council. Ursula von der Leyen, of Germany’s CDU, has been put forward to be president of the European Commission, subject to parliamentary approval. And the International Monetary Fund’s Christine Lagarde looks set to take the reins of the European Central Bank.
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Tommy Robinson is Being Retried This Week — and the Rebel Will be There
Believe it or not, Tommy Robinson is back on trial in London tomorrow, July 4.
And I have been reliably informed that it’s the real deal. If he’s found in contempt, he could well be sent back to prison — possibly even for the duration of his 13 month sentence given in Leeds.
By the way, if that happens, I do believe he’ll be killed in there.
I’m on my way to London once again, to cover this trial because, as we all know by now, the UK “Media Party” can’t be trusted to tell the truth.
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Two Catholic Statues Decapitated in Ireland
Desecrations part of trend sweeping Europe.
Two more Catholic statues have been decapitated, this time in Ireland, as part of a trend that is seemingly spreading across Europe.
The marble statue of Catholic Archbishop Patrick Leahy situated outside Thurles Cathedral of the Assumption in County Tipperary was decapitated and the head stolen.
The beheading was described as a “needless act of vandalism” by authorities.
“I have been moved by the reaction of the people of the town of Thurles, and throughout the diocese, arising from this act of vandalism,” said Archbishop O’Reilly. “It is my hope that the statue can be restored as soon as possible.”
Another statue located in a rural location was also beheaded.
[Comment: This is very mysterious. Who could possibly be behind this!?]
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UK: London: Baby Son of Pregnant Fatal Stabbing Victim Dies
The child born after pregnant 26-year-old Kelly Mary Fauvrelle was fatally stabbed in Croydon, south London, has died.
Eight-months’ pregnant Ms Fauvrelle was found with stab wounds at her home in Raymead Avenue, Thornton Heath, in the early hours of Saturday morning and despite the efforts of emergency services, died at the scene.
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Watch Brexit MEP: Single Euro Currency ‘Financial Dictatorship’ Faces Collapse Without British Money
STRASBOURG, France — Britain leaving the European Union will force a realignment of the bloc which would be akin to a dam bursting, potentially releasing member states from “financial dictatorship”, a Brexit Party MEP has said.
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Watch — Nigel Farage Responds to Andy NGO Attack: ‘Very Dangerous, Damaging Democracy’
STRASBOURG, France — Brexit leader Nigel Farage, who had a milkshake thrown in his face during the 2019 UK elections, told Breitbart the increasingly violent attacks by the left on Andy Ngo and others are damaging democracy.
Nigel Farage, who warned at the time of the assault against him that the normalisation of low-level intimidation and violence against public figures would inevitably lead to worse attacks told Breitbart London the assault on U.S. publication Quilette journalist Andy Ngo was “really, really seriously bad.”
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Won’t Bow to Lagarde at ECB — Di Maio
Hope she and von der Leyen don’t become austerity queens
(ANSA) — Rome, July 3 — Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio said Wednesday that Italy would not bow its head after Christine Lagarde was named new head of the European Central Bank.
“If they think they can make us bow our head by appointing Lagarde to the ECB, they’re wrong,” he said.
“We’ll continue along our path”.
Di Maio also spoke about the appointment of ex German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen as new European Commission president.
“As for the appointment to the top EU jobs of two trusted allies of Merkel and Macron, I’m not crazy about the fact that Germany and France have won out yet again and I hope that they don’t become two queens of austerity”.
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Does Iran Already Have Nuclear Weapons?
What if what you have been told over and over again is not really the truth? For weeks, the mainstream media has been telling us that Iran is getting dangerously close to having nuclear weapons. And now that the Iranians have publicly admitted that their uranium stockpile has exceeded the limit set by the nuclear deal, there is a lot of buzz that either the United States or Israel may soon strike Iran in order to prevent their nuclear program from proceeding even further. But of course once the missiles start flying, it is going to be just about impossible to stop a major war from erupting in the Middle East. Before we get involved in such a war, we better make absolutely certain that Iran does not already have nuclear weapons, because a war with a nuclear-armed Iran could be absolutely cataclysmic. If the Iranians felt that the survival of their regime was on the line, they would not hesitate to throw everything that they have at Israel and at U.S. forces in the region. Unfortunately, very few people are talking about the well known evidence that Iran has had their hands on nukes for a long time.
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China Uses a Surveillance App to Search the Phones of Tourists Entering the Country
A joint investigation by several news organizations has uncovered another sign of China’s use of technology to expand its authoritarian control over the western province of Xinjiang. People coming across the border from Kyrgyzstan (see map below), including western tourists, are having their phones confiscated and searched.
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Two New Species of Parasitic Wasps Described From an Altitude of Over 3,400 M in Tibet
Specimens kept in the collection of the Institute of Beneficial Insects at the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (FAFU, China) revealed the existence of two previously unknown species of endoparasitoid wasps. Originally collected in 2013, the insects are known to inhabit prairies and bushes at above 3,400 m, which is quite an unusual altitude for this group of wasps.
The new to science wasps are described and illustrated in a paper published in the open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal ZooKeys by the team of Dr Wangzhen Zhang (FAFU and Fuzhou Airport Inspection and Quarantine Bureau) and his colleagues at FAFU: Dr Dongbao Song and Prof Jiahua Chen.
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Horrible Death for Man Who Ate Critter on a Dare
‘Rotted from inside’
An Australian family is still grieving over the unexpected loss of their father, who fell gravely ill allegedly after eating a gecko on a dare.
David Dowell was reportedly challenged to eat the small lizard at a Christmas party last year, and was rushed to the hospital two days later in “absolute agony.”
A day after he arrived at the hospital, doctors diagnosed him with salmonella. She said that the family initially suspected it was related to chicken, but then Bricknell remembered the dare and shared it with doctors.
Dowell’s symptoms had rapidly progressed to include vomiting, massive abdominal swelling and fluid in his lungs. His family reportedly told News.com.au that doctors said he “basically rotted from the inside out.”
Dowell died on Dec. 11, less than two weeks after allegedly accepting the challenge.
Reptiles can be a cause of human salmonella despite appearing healthy and clean. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not recommend keeping reptiles around children younger than 5, or those with weakened immune systems and older adults. It also advises keeping reptiles and their equipment out of the kitchen or any place where food is prepared, served or consumed.
“Don’t kiss or snuggle with reptiles and amphibians because this can increase your risk of getting sick,” the CDC said. “Persons who think they might have become ill from contact with reptiles should talk to a health care provider.”
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Afghan Asylum Seeker Asked Shoppers if They Were English, Before Attacking Them With 10-Inch Knife
A man at a south London supermarket was motivated by a desire to “kill members of the public” if they were English, a court at the Old Bailey has heard. RT.com reports.
Samiulahaq Akbari, 32, allegedly stalked potential victims at a Tesco Extra in Thornton Heath on January 8 while holding a 10-inch blade.
Footage shows the Afghan asylum seeker tapping shopper Nicholas Speight on the shoulder before asking his nationality. When Speight revealed that he was from the UK, Akbari lunged at the victim with a large knife, the court was told.
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Afghan Migrant Attempts to Kill French Police Officer
A homeless migrant from Afghanistan was arrested over the weekend after attempting to kill a Paris police officer with a shard of glass following a brawl.
The incident took place on Sunday evening in the 18th arrondissement of Paris and saw around ten people, some armed with wooden weapons, brawl with each other before plainclothes police officers attempted to break up the fighting, Le Parisien reports.
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American Rapper, Crew Brawl With Migrants in Sweden
Rapper A$AP Rocky rejects cultural enrichment
American rapper A$AP Rocky and his crew were confronted by two migrants in Sweden who they later fought, according to videos posted to social media.
Videos uploaded Monday show a pair of migrants going up to Rocky’s entourage and refusing to go away.
One of the migrants appears to take a pair of earphones and smash it over Rocky’s security guard, who does not proceed to retaliate.
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America is Being Euthanized by a Judge
Remember when a probate judge stopped food & water for Terri Schiavo, rejected pleas from her parents, arrested those who would feed her? The Bushes, Jeb & “W”, were Governor & President & did nothing. Is America being euthanized today by a couple of judges who forbid protecting the border while the President & Governors do nothing?
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AOC’s Over-the-Top Border Histrionics Laid Bare by Men of the Cloth
It’s high time to out AOC for who and what she really is
Now that the media’s biggest spreader of hype, NY Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has been caught up for the histrionics she used to milk publicity for herself out of an El Paso County, Texas migrant detention center visit, she’s trying her utmost to portray the pastors who pointed out her sleazy histrionics as liars.
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California Dems Want to Give Illegals Party Leadership Roles
Lawmakers push bill to allow illegals to gain leadership positions within Democratic Party
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Democrats Heckled and Booed During Press Conference at Southern Border
Native Texans reject migrant invasion perpetrated by left
Democrats who staged another photo-op border after visiting migrant detention centers in Texas were called out by hecklers for their lying and traitorous behavior.
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German Swimming Pool Closes After Gang of 50 North Africans Cause Havoc
A swimming pool in the German town of Kehl had to be shut down early by police after a group of 50 North African French-speaking youths caused havoc among the bathers.
The town, which is located on the German-French border next to Strasbourg, often sees many French visitors according to the manager of the pool, but staff were forced to contact police after the dozens of youths began to cause a disturbance to other bathers, Schwarzwälder Bote reports.
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Hispanic Pastors Slam Back at AOC’s ‘Toilet’ Rant
‘Drastically different’ image after touring facility
After claims by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and others that migrant detainees in El Paso, Texas were forced to drink from toilets and endure inhumane conditions, a Hispanic pastor wanted to see the facility himself. Rev. Samuel Rodriguez said he was “full of indignation” when he heard the reports, according to FoxNews.com. But after touring the facility, he “saw something drastically different from the stories I’ve been hearing in our national discourse.”
“Even as a veteran of immigration advocacy in the U.S., I was shocked at the misinformation of the crisis at the border,” he said.
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Ilhan Omar Calls for “Eliminating Existence” of Border Patrol Officers
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has called for “eliminating” Border Patrol officers because of their views towards black and brown people despite the fact that 51% of CPB agents are Latino.
The comments were made during an appearance on BET’s Black Coffee show.
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Italian NGO Defies Salvini, Launches New Migrant Transport Vessel
Italian migrant transport NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans has launched a new vessel into the Mediterranean following the confiscation of their other ship.
The new ship, the Alex, set sail this week to the area off the coast of Libya known as the SAR (search and rescue) zone with the head of the group declaring that the vessel will pick up illegal immigrants and take them to Italian ports, Il Giornale reports.
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Mexico Deports 33% More Migrants After Deal to Avoid Trump Tariffs
Deportations in Mexico jumped by 33% in one month after the country agreed to take “unprecedented” steps to stop migrants from reaching the United States and avoid tariffs threatened by US President Donald Trump.
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Surprise! Third World Immigrants Net Fiscal Cost to Finland — Like Everywhere Else
If the European Union’s leaders are to be believed, Scandinavia would collapse if weren’t for Third World immigration. Without a constant influx of Iraqis and Somalis, the economy would stagnate. There’d be nobody to clean Helsinki schools at the end of the day, drive the buses and trams of Stockholm, or sweep the littered streets of notoriously filthy Denmark. And how could we survive without all those pizzerias and ethnic food shops that only take payment in cash?
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Amy Coney Barrett Strikes a Blow Against Campus Kangaroo Courts
Whenever I read a court opinion describing a campus sexual-assault proceeding, I routinely find myself shocked at the staggering unfairness and ridiculous bias of campus kangaroo courts. Driven by the need to find more men guilty — and rationalized by a #BelieveWomen ideology — campus administrators have systematically discarded every fundamental notion of due process in American law.
Across the nation, courts on the right and on the left are saying no. They’re blocking biased sexual-assault adjudications, protecting basic fairness, and restoring a degree of sanity to colleges’ procedures. On Friday it was the turn of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to protect the Fourteenth Amendment, and an all-woman panel, led by Judge Amy Coney Barrett, established a precedent that could be used against woke college administrators nationwide.
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Facebook Libra Goal: Global ID
David Knight warned you. Here is Facebook admitting in their Libra white paper that they intend (among other things) to use it as a global ID — for everyone.
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Lawmakers Target Pentagon Pedophiles With Bipartisan Child Porn Bill
Bipartisan legislation introduced by Reps. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) and Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) aim to halt the use of Department of Defense (DoD) computer networks for downloading or distributing child porn.
Hundreds of government employees were implicated as part of ICE’s 2006 “Operation Flicker” — which identified over 5,000 individuals who had used credit cards or PayPal to buy child porn, or subscribe to websites that offered the material. Of those, ICE identified 264 DoD employees or contractors who had purchased child pornography online.
Nine of them had “Top Secret Sensitive Compartmentalized Information” security clearances, while 76 of them held clearances of Secret or higher.
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Nolte: Movie Box Office Bottoms Out to Three-Year Low
Hollywood is so far having a terrible, no good, very bad 2019 with its worst box office performance in three years.
Currently, box office receipts are lagging behind last year by a full ten percent, and around half a percent behind 2017 and 2016.
One more flop and 2019 could easily slip behind 2015.
What should terrify the movie business all the more is that things are even worse than they seem, because…
There is only one studio holding up the year and that’s Disney, which is responsible for 2019’s top four money makers:
[Comment: Too much anti-american, anti-white, anti-male, anti-hetro, anti-father, anti-family storylines in movies. Plus men are getting fed up seeing the BS of toothpick girls tossing around 300lb muscular men in “action” movies. Best comment to the artice by Joey: “Why would I pay $15 to be told my God doesn’t exist, and that I’m a racist old white man who hates women? I can get that for free just by walking through Harvard Square.”]
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Oreo Promotes “Pronoun Packs” To Celebrate Trans Agenda
Oreo cookies announced the release of special edition treats which celebrate the LGBT agenda and ‘trans pronouns.’
“We’re proud to celebrate inclusivity for all gender identities and expressions. In partnership with NCTE, we’re giving away special edition Pronoun Packs and encouraging everybody to share their pronouns with Pride today and every day,” Oreo wrote on its social media accounts.
The National Center For Transgender Equality (NCTE), “advocates to change policies and society to increase understanding and acceptance of transgender people,” according to its website.
“Pronoun Packs” were given away at the New York City Pride Parade on Sunday, along with Oreo cookie pins reading, “Ask Me My Pronouns.”
“Three different packs—’she/her,’ ‘he/him,’ and ‘they/them’—had pronouns written on the cookies themselves, with blue, pink and purple packaging reminiscent of the transgender flag,” Newsweek reports.
The limited run cookies will apparently not be available for sale.
“It appears it wants to get all the cred from LGBT politics without alerting the majority of their customers, who probably won’t see their Facebook post and/or this offensive product in any store to tip them off. In other words, this is a big, blaring anti-virtue signal,” notes Joy Pullman of The Federalist.
[Comment: Oreos are rubbish tasting. There are far better cookies available.]
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Photos Show Kids Laying on Top of Drag Queen at ‘Drag Queen Story Time’ Event
Photos out of Portland, Oregon show young children lying on top of a drag queen during a ‘Drag Queen Story Time’ event.
The images show kids aged 5 and under frolicking on top of drag queen Carla Rossi during an event at St. John’s Library.
[Comment: Portland is a screwed up city.]
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Three Babies in Minnesota Were Born Alive After Failed Abortions in 2018 and Left to Die
Three babies survived botched abortions but later died in 2018 in Minnesota, according to a new state Department of Health report.
The news comes as Democrats in Congress block a federal bill to require that basic medical care be provided to newborns who survive abortions.Democrats have argued that legislation to protect abortion survivors is a waste of time and not necessary.
But data from Minnesota, the Centers for Disease Control and other sources indicate that babies do survive abortions, and laws are needed to protect them.
Minnesota has been keeping track of abortion survivors since 2015 when pro-lifers passed the state Born Alive Infants Protection Act. The law recognizes infants who survive abortions as human persons and requires that they be provided with reasonable medical care.
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Caution Urged as Scientists Look to Create Human-Monkey Chimeras
Some Alzheimer’s researchers are proposing the creation of human-monkey chimeras — part-human beings with entire portions of the brain entirely human derived
The monkeys in Douglas Munoz’s Kingston lab look like other monkeys.
They socialize and move around and eat and drink in the same way. They don’t fall over or stagger around. In fact, the only thing separating the macaques from their unaltered lab mates is the elevated level of a specific human protein implanted inside their brains — proteins that accumulate in the brains of humans with Alzheimer’s disease.
[Comment: What could possibly go wrong? This is like the remake of “Planet of the Apes” movie, but in real life. In the movie, the scientist was also experimenting to create a more intelligent ape to test genetically created alzheimers drugs. Unfortunately, the side effect was a pandemic virus that caused humans to become catatonic zombies. The sickening thing about this remake was the creators of the movie made it seem that the end of humanity this was supposed to be a “good thing”. Garbage movie, just like the two sequels. Much better to watch the original Charlton Heston movie. ]
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Look at This Map — it Shows Devastating Crop Losses Are Literally Happening All Over the Globe
Let me warn you right up front — the information in this article might freak you out. If what some experts are telling us is true, a global food crisis appears to be inevitable. Even during good years we have a really difficult time feeding everyone on the planet, and now a major climate shift appears to be happening. Our sun has become exceedingly quiet, and many experts believe that this is a sign that a solar minimum is now upon us. Of course we have seen solar minimums happen quite regularly in the past, and if this is just a normal solar minimum then conditions should begin to return to normal after a couple of years. Unfortunately, evidence continues to mount that we have entered what is known as a “grand solar minimum”. In fact, Professor Valentina Zharkova says that what we are facing is a “super grand solar minimum”, and if that is true we are going to be facing climate chaos like we have never seen before. During previous “grand solar minimums” the globe was gripped by devastating famines and vast numbers of people died. Could a similar scenario potentially be in our future?
Ice Age Farmer has compiled a “Grand Solar Minimum Crop Loss Map” which you can view right here, and I appreciate our friends at ANP for pointing it out to us. Ice Age Farmer’s map shows that there are literally dozens of locations all over the globe right now that are reporting significant crop losses, and this is really unlike anything we have ever seen before. Some parts of our planet are dealing with horrific drought, but in the middle of the United States it just won’t stop raining. In some areas of the world it is too cold, while others are experiencing record heat. Everywhere we look we see extremes, and the behavior of our sun is the primary reason this is happening.
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French Police Station Besieged With Projectiles by Group Yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’
In the Bowery, they used to call that, “Irish confetti”.
A camp in the Libyan desert (Tagiura) was bombed by an airstrike yesterday (some sources said it was Haftar general offensive against the UN backed Tripoli government of Sarraj).
The good news is that despite the war going on since France started it with an airstrike back in 2011 (promptly followed by UK and US), it seems that no single Lybian person was killed! But what it matters is that the media is reporting that the people killed were migrants (so they are granted full status of innocent victim, with the highest international recognition, even more than civilians and normal citizens). They could have been soldiers as far as I know, but the media is telling they were migrants, so trust them.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48854420
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/03/why-attack-libya-detention-centre-grimly-predictable
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/04/liby-j04.html
There is a war on Lybia, between different armed factions, why killing inoffensive migrants ? Good question the press does not care to even ask…
What all this FAKE news is about: new migrant boats coming through the mediterrean sea (mostly to italy). In fact Sarraj confirmed they are thinking to send the migrants out to europe now.
https://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/mondo/libia-il-governo-sarraj-valuta-il-rilascio-dei-migranti-da-tutti-i-centri-detenzione_3218288-201902a.shtml
also this is channel is talking about the alleged bombing of migrant camp in Tagiura (Libya).
https://www.bitchute.com/video/9kuvE5GPu3o/
It is not known the full story of the bombing, but the result, could be an increase in migration boats across the mediterrean sea and a new wave of fake refugees, so that the scam/show can go on.