Coalition talks in Italy between the leftist Partito Democratico and the populist 5-Star Movement have reportedly been “constructive”. The PD insists that Matteo Salvini’s ban on migrant-ferry vessels must be reversed if it is to join coalition. Some analysts believe that any PD/M5S coalition will be very short-lived.
In other news, the Norwegian government announced that it will not accept the resettlement of any migrants from the migrant-ferry NGO Open Arms.
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Antifa Vandalizes Austin, Praise China & Communism
Socialist vandals deface public property in the name of ‘fighting fascists!’
Protesters in Hong Kong are waving American Flags and singing the Star Spangled Banner, celebrating America’s independent spirit — meanwhile, we have Commies in America trying to call for a Revolution.
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Biden, Once the Clear Favorite, Plummets to Third Place in National Poll
Once the clear favorite and leading contender for the Democratic Party presidential candidate nomination, former Vice President Joe Biden’s seemingly never-ending gaffes have led to him falling to third place in a national poll.
Biden is now polling at 19 percent behind Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who are both at 20 percent, in the Monmouth University Poll.
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David Steinberg released his latest report on controversial Rep. Ilhan Omar in July at PowerLineblog.com.
According to Steinberg there is credible evidence that Ilhan Omar and her family changed their name to illegally enter the United States back in 1995.
And since that time Ilhan Omar as an adult continued to defy US law. According to Steinberg Rep. Omar committed at least eight instances of perjury going back to 2009. The charges could carry up to 40 years of prison time or deportation.
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In 2018 Google helped the Chinese Communists develop a social credit scoring system. The scoring system, first announced in 2014, rates China’s one billion citizens based on their behavior and associations. Already, nine million people with low scores have been blocked from buying tickets for domestic flights and trains.
As horrible as this sounds the Silicon Valley tech giants are already using a similar system here in the United States.
And Facebook is using offline behavior to factor into their scoring system.
In June, Breitbart’s Allum Bokhari revealed that Facebook is using a similar social credit scoring system on Americans.
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Chamber of Commerce Begs Trump to Surrender to China: ‘Nobody Wins a Trade War’
As President Trump orders American businesses to move production out of China in the wake of Chinese officials hiking tariffs on U.S. goods, the Chamber of Commerce is pleading with the president to surrender in the trade dispute…
Last year, Chamber of Commerce executives vowed to fight Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, which have spurred a surge in American manufacturing.
For decades, free trade has helped gut working and middle-class jobs and stripped whole middle American towns of their industries and livelihoods. Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed and China was allowed to enter the World Trade Organization (WTO), nearly five million American manufacturing jobs and 50,000 manufacturing facilities have been eliminated from the U.S. economy. This mass elimination of working and middle-class jobs due to free trade has coincided with a nearly 600 percent increase in trade deficits.
The most recent study by economists at the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) finds that permanent 25 percent tariffs on all Chinese imports to the U.S. would create more than a million American jobs by 2024, Breitbart News reported.
[comment: Chamber of Commerce is a globalist and anti-American group. The only thing that concerns them is profit. Even if the lifeblood of the USA is drained.]
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Climate Alarmists Foiled: No U.S. Warming Since 2005
When American climate alarmists claim to have witnessed the effects of global warming, they must be referring to a time beyond 14 years ago. That is because there has been no warming in the United States since at least 2005, according to updated data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
In January 2005, NOAA began recording temperatures at its newly built U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN). USCRN includes 114 pristinely maintained temperature stations spaced relatively uniformly across the lower 48 states. NOAA selected locations that were far away from urban and land-development impacts that might artificially taint temperature readings.
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Couldn’t he have just called Trump “crazy” and let it go at that?
Apparently, no. The former chairman of the Psychiatry Department at Duke University, Dr. Alan Frances, said on CNN it was an insult to the mentally ill to call Trump crazy.
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Feds in Final Stages of Possible Prosecution Decision for McCabe: ‘Target on His Back’
Federal prosecutors appear to be close to a decision on whether to charge former FBI official Andrew McCabe over the circumstances that led to his firing from the bureau last year, Fox News has learned.
A source close to the process said that McCabe has had a “target on his back” because of the Justice Department inspector general findings against him over actions during the Hillary Clinton email investigation, as well as his role in the surveillance warrants against Trump campaign associates during the Russia investigation. McCabe is a former deputy and acting director of the FBI.
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Former Antifa College Professor: Kill Christians, Clock Trump With a Bat
Jeff Klinzman is a former adjunct Antifa College Professor at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “Former” because he turned in his resignation after his online comments garnered a considerable backlash.
“I am Antifa” Jeff Klinzman
When President Trump tweeted about Antifa being “Radical left wack jobs that go around hitting people over the head with baseball bats,” the former Antifa college professor responded with “Yeah, I know who I’d clock with a bat.” The Secret Service is aware of the post but did not comment to KCRG when asked if an investigation was launched.
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Frank Gaffney: CAIR Launches ‘Stealth Jihad’ Against Minor League Baseball Team Owner
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) “demands” to be the “arbiter” who decides if a Center for Security Policy (CSP) official is allowed to continue to own a minor league baseball team in Connecticut, Frank Gaffney revealed this week.
Gaffney, the executive chairman of the CSP think tank, convened a Facebook Live panel discussion to discuss the issue on Thursday.
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Man in Montana Who Discussed Joining ISIS Set to Plead Guilty
The 21-year-old New York man who spoke of joining a terrorist organization while his social media was under surveillance of the FBI has filed a motion to plead guilty in the federal case.
Fabjan Alameti, who moved to Bozeman from New York in March, will plead guilty in federal court in Missoula to two counts of making a false statement to federal law enforcement in a matter involving terrorism, a charge that carries a maximum penalty of eight years in federal prison.
The change of plea hearing for Alameti, an Albanian national with U.S. citizenship, has been set for Wednesday at the Russell Smith Federal Courthouse.
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‘Monopoly: Socialism’ Game Disappears From Target’s Website
Earlier this year, Hasbro released a parody version of the classic board game “Monopoly.” The parody “Monopoly: Socialism” pokes fun at the flaws of command-and-control economies and also mocks health food and veganism. The game was released with little fanfare, but last week a college professor tweeted his displeasure at the game, creating a firestorm of controversy. Amid this controversy, “Monopoly: Socialism” disappeared from the Target website, and the company did not respond to multiple requests for comment on the game’s availability.
Target had clearly been selling the game online, and it had been available at this link. As late as August 22, “Monopoly: Socialism” was available for purchase.
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Former Congressman and Trump-basher Joe Walsh announced his candidacy for president today on ABC with former Clinton adviser George Stephanopoulos.
Walsh served one term in Congress.
What a joke.
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg looked very frail on Monday in her first public appearance since her radiation treatment for a “malignant” tumor found on her pancreas.
Ginsburg on Monday accepted an honorary law degree from the University of Buffalo where she briefly acknowledged her recent cancer scare.
The 86-year-old justice walked very slowly as she was escorted to her seat.
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Speaker Says the Bible, Constitution Promote Socialism… Dems Give Standing Ovation
When Reverend William Barber told Democrats at the DNC Summer Meeting that the Bible and Constitution promote socialism, they gave him a standing ovation… At least Americans know where they stand and can vote accordingly.
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The Dangers of 5G and the Elite’s Plan to Escape It
Find out the true agenda of the global elite
Alex Jones breaks down the dangers of ramping up harmful technologies like 5G being tested on the public.
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Vox Day joins Zach Vorhies and Alex Jones to explain how to combat an ever more authoritarian pursuit of “social justice.”
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Michael Mann Refuses to Produce Data, Loses Case
Some years ago, Dr. Tim Ball wrote that climate scientist Michael Mann “belongs in the state pen, not Penn State.” At issue was Mann’s famous “hockey stick” graph that purported to show a sudden and unprecedented 20th century warming trend. The hockey stick featured prominently in the IPCC’s Third Assessment Report (2001), but has since been shown to be wrong. The question, in my view, is whether it was an innocent mistake or deliberate fraud on Mann’s part. (Mann, I believe, continues to assert the accuracy of his debunked graph.) Mann sued Ball for libel in 2011. Principia Scientific now reports that the court in British Columbia has dismissed Mann’s lawsuit with prejudice, and assessed costs against him.
What happened was that Dr. Ball asserted a truth defense. He argued that the hockey stick was a deliberate fraud, something that could be proved if one had access to the data and calculations, in particular the R2 regression analysis, underlying it. Mann refused to produce these documents. He was ordered to produce them by the court and given a deadline. He still refused to produce them, so the court dismissed his case.
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50% Italy Antibiotics Consumed in Animal Farms
SOS resistance, infections pass from animals to humans
(ANSA) — Rome, August 23 — Some 50% of the antibiotics consumed in Italy are used on chicken, turkey and pig farms, according to the national plan on antibiotic resistance issued Friday.
The plan’s authors issued an alarm saying resistance to antibiotics was passed from animals to humans.
This can happen either via direct contact or via eating meat, they said.
“This abuse has spread the probelm of antibiotic resistance among animals,” they said.
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Muslims are being detained at airports for up to six hours by law enforcement using controversial counter-terrorism powers so disproportionately that the practice has become Islamophobic, according to human rights group Cage.
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Austria to Bring Back Two Sons of Dead ISIS Jihadist
The Austrian government is getting ready to repatriate the two sons of an ISIS supporter who is believed to have died in Syria after moving there sometime in 2014, the Associated Press reports.
Peter Guschelbauer, Austria’s foreign ministry spokesman, told the Austrian public radio broadcaster ORF’s Oe1 on Saturday that there is a positive DNA test and so the children are clearly identified.” Guschelbauer also commented that an Austrian court had made a decision on custody “and so the conditions for repatriation are fulfilled.”
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Boris Throws Down Gauntlet to EU at G7: Brexit on Oct 31st ‘Whatever the Circumstances’
British prime minister Boris Johnson has reiterated his determination that Brexit takes place on October 31st at a G7 meeting with Donald Tusk, President of the European Council.
President Tusk is at the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Biarritz, France, despite the fact he does not represent a G7 country, and holds his unelected position as a European Union functionary despite the opposition of the government in his native Poland.
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British Anti-Fraud Investigator Says He Was “Fired for Being White and Probing Crimes by Asians”
A British anti-fraud investigator claims that he was fired by London’s Tower Hamlets council because he’s white and the subjects of his recent investigation were ‘Asians’.
Mark Edmunds, 55, is now seeking damages of £529,000 for racial and sexual discrimination against the London’s Tower Hamlets council — an organization long-plagued by scandals and allegations of corruption, the Daily Mail reports.
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France: Extreme-Left Anarchists Fined 180,000 Euros for Arson Attack on Train
A pair of far-left extremists from the French anarchist milieu have been found guilty and sentenced to pay 180,000 euro fine for setting fire to a train which caused over a million euros in damage.
According to the French news site Actu, the two men, aged 20 and 34, are reported to have caused at least 1,267,000 euros of damage after they broke into and set a locomotive in the rail yard ablaze in Yvelines last November.
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Identitet Svea Banned From YouTube: Fitness, Training & Motivation Verboten
Eric from Identitet Svea joins Henrik to discuss his recent ban from YouTube, Facebook & Instagram, all within the span of 24 hours. Identitet Svea primarily produces videos and posts about fitness, training, martial arts and motivation. Eric is especially targeting young Swedish men to help build physique and confidence. No reason were given why YouTube terminated the channel. Eric and Henrik discuss the censorship issue and move on to discuss the purpose of Identitet Svea and how Eric is rebooting and setting up a new channel. We also discuss the situation in cucked multicult Sweden and how to find positivity in a situation that — on the surface — seems hopeless.
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Italy: Animal-Experiment Professor Gets Letter With Bullet Inside
Threatens to ‘hit you and your family’, police investigating
(ANSA) — Turin, August 23 — Professor Marco Tamietto, a researcher with the University of Turin who has a project experimenting on macaques to assist blind people in regaining sight, received a threatening letter with a bullet inside, said Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Friday.
Police are investigating to determine who sent the letter, which was opened by Tamietto’s colleagues and called the professor a murderer, threatening to “hit you and your family”.
Last summer Tamietto was attacked while walking to the university rector’s office, and the Italian health ministry has received a petition with 350,000 signatures calling on the government to ban the professor from experimenting on the monkeys.
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Italy’s Odd Allies PD, 5-Stars in “Constructive” Talks to End Government Crisis
The anti-establishment and center-left parties are trying to find common ground on budget, immigration, and legislative reforms to avoid a snap election. League’s Salvini vows to stop the alliance
Signs of progress emerged from the first round of formal negotiations between Italy’s main political force, the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, and the opposition Democratic Party to form a new coalition government that replaces the far-right League and brings stability in the eurozone’s third-largest economy.
Leaders of both parties, who have been at odds for years, described the talks as positive and constructive. PD House whip Graziano Delrio spoke of an “ample convergence on the social and environmental agenda.” M5S Senate whip Stefano Patuanelli said there are no “insurmountable hurdles on the table.”
Among the preconditions for a deal, the Five Star Movement has demanded that the PD back the legislation that cuts the number of lawmakers to 600 from 945, something the center-left has so far opposed. The PD has opened to support the bill but has asked for “constitutional guarantees” and broader reform of the electoral law…
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Italy: Salvini Plays Brinkmanship With Power
Current Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has ended his governing alliance with the Five Star Party (MS5) in the hope of forcing a new election which would likely propel him to the Premiership—but his enemies are working furiously behind closed doors to prevent this from happening, and might succeed.
Opinion polls suggest the Lega would win a new vote, taking 38 percent of the vote. Together with its obvious electoral partners, the Fratellie D’Italia (8 percent) and the Forzia Italia party (6.5%), this would give Salvini an absolute majority in the Italian parliament, opening the way for him to become Prime Minister and completely crack down on the nonwhite invasion of Italy.
It is this possibility, however, which has the far left and communists in a panic, and it is likely that they will do whatever they can to prevent a new election.
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Italy Crisis: Anti-Salvini Coalition Set to be ‘Short-Lived’ As Rival Left Parties Crumble
AN anti-Matteo Salvini plot between his former coalition partners Five Star Movement and the centre-left Democratic Party would be “short-lived” as “rival” leaders would be fighting for the same support base at the next Italian general election, claimed a senior political economist.
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Johnson: UK is a ‘Great Country’ And Can ‘Easily Cope’ With No Deal Brexit
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that the United Kingdom would “easily cope” with a clean, no-deal Brexit.
Mr Johnson made the comments during the three-day Group of Seven (G7) summit, the meeting of the leaders of seven of the world’s largest advanced economies: the UK, USA, Canada, France, Japan, Germany, and Italy.
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Macron Backlash: Two-Thirds of French People Are Unhappy With President — Poll
Two-thirds of French people are still unhappy with the way President Emmanuel Macron and his government are running the country, a poll showed on Sunday. The young centrist swept to power on a promise to reboot the economy and clean up politics. But he has repeatedly been criticised for seeming aloof to people’s daily struggles.
Only 34 percent of people surveyed by pollster Ifop for the conservative weekly Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) said they were “satisfied” with Mr Macron’s actions as president, compared with 66 percent who said they were “dissatisfied”. However, the poll of 988 people, carried out on August 21 and 22, showed that the young centrist’s popularity rating is slowly creeping back up to pre-crisis levels. Mr Macron’s approval rating plummeted to 23 percent in December 2018, when the country’s citizen-led yellow vest rebellion reached its peak.
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Marc Morano: Who’s Funding Greta Thunberg’s Sailboat Scam?
On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Marc Morano of Climate Depot called in to talk about the trans-Atlantic journey of Greta Thunberg, the teenaged climate alarmist underwritten by massive corporations looking to make a green buck.
Since Greta is a young girl with autism, any real criticism of the misinformation she repeats to the United Nations and to the world isbeyond the pale.
It’s sexist, it’s ableist, it’s mean, and as Marc says, you’ll only been seen as a bully.
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Niqab Woman Removed From Dutch Bus Says She Feels Discriminated “Like a Black Person in the USA”
36-year-old Angela Kempeners is the first niqab-wearing woman to be put off public transport since the Netherlands implemented its burka ban on August 1st.
Earlier this week an Arriva bus driver in Stein asked her to get off the bus. She refused and the bus driver called the police. Twenty minutes later, a police officer arrived and asked her to go. Which she did.
Arriva said the incident was “not in accordance with the guidelines” — Arriva instructed its employees not to enforce the ban.
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Sky News Mocked for Brexit Scare Story Focused on Shortage of Foreign Au Pairs
Sky News has been mocked mercilessly for a report on the threat which Brexit supposedly poses to the “key childcare option” of importing foreign au pairs to look after children.
Sky cited figures from the British Au Pair Agencies Association — which appears to be oddly lacking in British au pairs — which indicate European Union recruits have “plummetted” by around 70 per cent since the vote to Leave the European Union in 2016, which may finally be delivered on at the end of October 2019.
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UK Parliament Committee Wants to Ban All Private Cars and Trucks by 2050
If you’re any kind of a car enthusiast, or you just think the personal automobile is a terrific transportation device, this news has got to be chilling. The cross-party Science and Technology Select Committee of Parliament has issued a report that says that if the United Kingdom is to reach its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050, private automobile and truck ownership must end.
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UK: Gone in 30 Seconds: Watch as a $90k Tesla is Hacked and Stolen in Under a Minute
Tesla owners will be relieved to know that while parked idly and not spontaneously combusting, their “safe” vehicles can be stolen in less than a minute. There’s even video evidence to prove it.
Footage was posted from a security camera at home in the United Kingdom showing two hooded thieves stealing a locked Tesla in about 30 seconds by “hacking” the car’s computer and fooling it into thinking that its key was nearby, according to the Mail.
A doorbell camera caught the security footage that showed two people using what looks to be a relay wire system to relay the key’s signal from the house to the car. Because wireless keys emit a short signal that extends about 2 meters, thieves can easily amplify the signal and relay it to the car from outside of the house.
The car’s owner said: “It was absolutely shocking how quickly it went.” You can view the video here:…
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UK: Meet the Woman in Prison for 9 Months for Exposing Islamic Rape (Video)
Jayda Fransen joins The Alex Jones Show to speak out against the injustices of system that arrests those who expose terrorism with words, yet coddles violent fundamentalist Muslim extremists.
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UK: PM Boris Still Considering Shutting Down Parliament to Safeguard Brexit
Boris Johnson has said his optimism over getting an agreement for Brexit signed between the United Kingdom and the European Union has grown but stands by earlier remarks that suspending Parliament would be an acceptable option to make sure Brexit is delivered.
Brexit was a major recurring theme at the G7 leaders’ meeting over the weekend, which saw Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson meeting with Germany’s Angela Merkel, France’s Emmanuel Macron, and President Donald Trump. Coming out of the meetings, Johnson said of the prospect of a Brexit deal with the European Union: “I am marginally more optimistic”, reports the Daily Telegraph.
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UK: Sex Assault Doctor Who Blamed Attack on Pakistani ‘Cultural Norms’ Allowed to Return to Work
A Pakistani doctor who blamed his sexual assault on a student nurse on the different “cultural norms” of his home country has been allowed to return to work.
Dr Imran Qureshi, a married Pakistani migrant in his forties, ambushed a 21-year-old student nurse in a ward kitchen at Trafford General Hospital in Greater Manchester, England, backing her into a corner and demanding a hug after touching her neck and chest.
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UK: Video — This is How Gratitude Looks Like…
“This is wrong”, the ungrateful Muslim woman says about her free, paid for by British taxpayers, 2 bedroom apt in what used to be a shipping container.
“It is a prison, it is mental torture. This is a place for animals, not for human beings. This is just ridiculous, seriously.”
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WikiLeaks Death: Dutch Hacking Expert ‘Had Kayaking Accident’
Norwegian police said on Friday they have ended a year-long probe into the disappearance of a Dutch cybersecurity expert, concluding he “most likely” died in an accident.
Arjen Kamphuis was last seen on August 20, 2018, when checking out from a hotel in Bodoe, just north of the Arctic Circle. A few days later, a kayak with a hole in the hull and an oar were found on the shore of the fjord, as well as some other personal items.
Those circumstances and his work, which involved advising governments, firms, journalists and activists groups on how to prevent hacking attacks, fueled speculation of possible foul play.
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Woman Shot Dead After Masked Gunmen Open Fire on Swedish Beach
Several masked gunmen opened fire on a man and woman carrying a child near the popular beach resort of Ribersborg, Sweden. The woman has died and police are hunting for the perpetrators, RT.comreports.
At approximately 10am local time, a gang of several masked attackers fired off between eight and ten shots, reportedly from multiple weapons, before fleeing the scene through the grounds of a nearby apartment building.
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Vatican Pushes Controversial Text on Interreligious Dialogue
ROME — The Vatican has created a special committee to draw out the principles contained in the controversial Abu Dhabi document, signed last February by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of al-Azhar.
The text was subsequently criticized by prominent theologians for “devaluing the person of Jesus” and “undermining the gospel itself” since it seemed to propose that God willed the existence of a plurality of religions just as he wills a plurality of sexes, races, and languages, rather than willing that all people find their salvation in Jesus Christ.
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Chaos in Hong Kong as Protesters Rally Against Surveillance
Chaos again hit Hong Kong today as demonstrators marched against surveillance cameras and the possible introduction of China’s social credit system.
Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters upset at facial recogniction and other forms of monitoring that they believe is being imposed by the Chinese government.
Hong Kongers fear the social credit score — which has been used to ban dissidents from buying plane and train tickets — will be introduced there soon.
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Mayhem in Hong Kong as Police Fire Warning Shots, Roll Out Water Cannons
Hong Kong was hit by a series of violent protests as police responded by firing warning shots and rolling out water cannons for the first time.
Following a peaceful Sunday afternoon march towards the Tsuen Wan district, more radical elements arrived to spark violent clashes with police.
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Melbourne Archbishop Still Believes Cardinal Pell is Innocent of Abuse
The Catholic archbishop of Melbourne still believes Cardinal George Pell is innocent of abuse charges brought against him, despite an Australian court’s split decision to deny the cardinal an appeal.
“I believe in what he said to me, on many occasions, that he’s innocent and I continue to be really quite shocked with all of how things are developed,” Archbishop Peter Comensoli told Melbourne’s 3AW radio station on Thursday.
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“There is No Christian Anymore in This Town”: Persecution of Christians, June 2019
Mali: On June 9, Islamic Fulani gunmen massacred at least 95 Christians — including women and children. During their rampage in a Christian village, they set it ablaze before leaving; several of the slain were burned alive. “About 50 heavily armed men arrived on motorbikes and pickups,” a survivor recalled. “They first surrounded the village and then attacked — anyone who tried to escape was killed… No one was spared — women, children, elderly people.” Security sources confirmed that the raiders also randomly killed domestic animals in the village. It was “virtually wiped out.”
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Nigerian Gunmen Kidnap Wife of Anglican Bishop
Armed kidnappers abducted the wife of Anglican Bishop Emmanuel Maduwuike in the southwest of Nigeria Thursday, according to local reports.
The victim, Mrs. Anuri Maduwuike, was accosted at gunpoint Thursday while returning home from Owerri, Imo State, according to an unnamed eyewitness, and kidnappers took her to an unknown destination.
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Sudan’s Persecuted Christians See Hope in New Government
Sudanese Christians are cautiously hopeful that their new civilian government will allow them the freedom long denied under the oppressive Islamist dictatorship of General Omar al-Bashir.
After a 1989 military coup, Bashir governed the country by strict Islamic rule for decades but was ousted last April after massive protests erupted over the country’s devastating economic crisis.
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Pope Francis Prays for Quick End to Amazon Fires
ROME — Pope Francis invoked prayers for firefighting efforts in the Brazilian Amazon on Sunday, saying the region is “vital” for the future of the earth.
“We are all worried about the vast fires that have developed in the Amazon,” the pontiff told pilgrims gathered in the Vatican’s Saint Peter’s Square for his weekly Angelus prayer.
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356 Migrants Onboard the Ocean Viking to be Taken in by Six EU Countries
Six European Union member states have agreed to take in hundreds of illegal migrants from North Africa who are currently on board the migrant ferry operated by the NGO Doctors Without Borders and SOS Méditerrané.
The French NGO migrant ferry the Ocean Viking was previously not allowed to dock in Malta and Italy.
Last Friday, the Maltese government announced that all 356 illegal migrants who are currently aboard the ship will be distributed among six EU member states.
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A business owner in Amsterdam came back from holiday to find his property occupied by 40 asylum seekers who refused to leave when he told them it was his property. In fact, they told the man it was he who should leave.
Last week, Dutch entrepreneur Salih Ozcan had just come back from vacation when he discovered squatters living in his business’s location in Westpoort, Amsterdam’s TV station AT5 reports.
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Britain Incapable of Ending Free Movement Migration After Brexit, Experts Say
The British government cannot put an end to the Free Movement migration regime after Brexit because it will have no means of telling which EU nationals have a right to be in the country and which do not, experts say.
The EU requires its member-states to open themselves to unlimited and effectively unvetted intra-bloc migration, which has seen millions of people shift from relatively low-pay economies in central, eastern, and southern Europe to relatively high-pay welfare states such as the United Kingdom.
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Disturbing: Fourth Illegal Alien Arrested for Rape This Month in Maryland Sanctuary County (Video)
Another criminal illegal alien has been arrested for rape in Montgomery County, Maryland.
This is the 4th illegal alien who has been arrested for rape in Montgomery County in the past month.
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier this month that two illegal aliens were arrested in Montgomery County for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl.
Montgomery County became a sanctuary county for criminal illegal aliens last month.
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The German government is handing out residence permits to foreign family members of “refugees” like candy while homelessness among Germans skyrockets.
In 2019, approximately 9,000 residence permits have been given to foreign family members of so-called ‘refugees’ by German authorities, even though a new report has suggested that homelessness in the country has increased by as much as 20 percent.
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Greek Police Say 6 Migrants Killed, 10 Hurt in Road Crash
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek police say six migrants have been killed and another 10 injured when a smuggling jeep carrying them through northern Greece crashed into an irrigation ditch…
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Italy: Democrat Party Wants Borders Re-Opened as Price of Replacing Salvini Party in Coalition Govt
Italy’s left-liberal Democratic Party has demanded the scrapping of populist leader Matteo Salvini’s anti-illegal immigration decrees as part of a potential coalition deal to keep the Five Star Movement in government without elections.
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Jesuit Chief: No Country Has the Right to Turn Away Migrants
ROME — The superior general of the Jesuits declared this week that no country has the right to turn away migrants, claiming the land belongs to everyone.
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Maltese Politician Praises Salvini for Halting ‘Organized Crime’ of Mass Migration
ROME — Maltese local councilor Justin Schembri has praised Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini for standing up to the European Union (EU) on the migration issue, not “letting his country be accomplices” in the “wave of organized crime” occurring on the Mediterranean Sea.
In reference to Salvini’s reiterated promise that as long as he is in office no one will enter Italy without permission, Schembri said he wished leaders of his own country would emulate the Italian.
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Norway Refuses to Take Migrants Ferried to Europe by ‘Rescue’ NGO
The Norwegian government has confirmed it will not be taking in any migrants rescued by NGO Proactiva Open Arms in the Mediterranean, despite a French request.
Norwegian Justice and Immigration Minister Jøran Kallmyr confirmed that the government rejected the French offer, saying that Norway would also reject taking any migrants from the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) vessel the Ocean Viking, NRK reports.
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Norway Says it Won’t be Taking in Any Migrants From NGO Ship Open Arms
Despite a request from France to do so, the Norwegian government said that it would not be taking in any migrants which have been picked up by the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms ship.
Jøran Kallmyr, Norway’s Justice and Immigration Minister has reiterated that his government has declined France’s offer, stating that Norway would not accept any migrants from the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) migrant transport ferry the Ocean Viking either, NKR reports.
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Slovenia to Construct a Border Fence Along Its Southern Border
According to new reports, Slovenia is constructing a new border fence as illegal immigration into Europe’s Schengen zone continues to be a problem for security forces.
Work on the fence has already begun along the River Kolpa — a natural barrier separating Slovenia from its Balkan neighbor Croatia.
“Last month the government signed a contract with a Serbian firm Legi-SGS to put up 40 kilometers (25 miles) of fence on the border with Croatia. Once that section is completed, the total length of fence will be 219 kilometers and cover almost a third of the Slovenian border with Croatia,” Reuters reports.
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Winning: Feds Releases Drone Footage of New 60-Mile Section of 18-Foot High Border Wall
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) has released new drone footage of a “new border wall system” being installed near San Luis, Arizona, a site where foreigners have been seen pouring into America.
“CBP has constructed over 60 miles of new border wall system along the SW border since 2017 and expects to complete 450 miles by the end of 2020,” the Border Patrol said in a post on Twitter.
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7 Incredibly Shocking Quotes From the Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger
Below is a compilation of seven shocking quotes from Sanger, whose legacy birthed the corporation that became America’s largest abortion chain.
1) “We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.”
2) “I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan.”
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Red Flag Gun Laws: Connecticut Man’s Firearms Seized Because His Son Shared a Meme on Facebook
Before I write anything else, let me be clear. Wagshol is not some squeaky-clean, innocent angel. He wrote some vile racist and transphobic tweets. He also seemed to taunt the FBI in his tweets, which certainly isn’t the smartest thing in the world to do. That being said, holding bigoted views is not the same things as acting on those views. Voicing his bigoted opinions, while disgusting, is not a criminal act. The First Amendment protects his right to voice his hate in the same way that it protects flag burning. No one has to like it, but it’s not a criminal act.
Wagshol may also have been caught in a few lies made on Facebook. According to Norwalk police Lt. Terry Blake:
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Religious Freedom Win for Christians Who Refuse to Create Same-Sex Wedding Videos
On Friday, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a lower court had wrongly dismissed a case involving free speech and religious freedom. Minnesota filmmakers Carl and Angel Larsen, owners of Telescope Media Group, gladly serve all people but desire to make wedding videos that only include opposite-sex couples. Minnesota’s Department of Human Rights ruled that this would constitute discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Penalties for violating the law include a civil penalty, triple compensatory damages, punitive damages of up to $25,000, a criminal penalty of up to $1,000, and up to 90 days in jail.
The Larsens sued and requested a preliminary injunction to prevent Minnesota from enforcing the law against them until their case could be decided. A lower court rejected the lawsuit and the request for an injunction, but the 8th Circuit remanded the case, insisting that the Larsens have a strong free speech and religious freedom claim and that they likely deserve an injunction.
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Shock Video! MSM Promotes Pedophilia
Rob Dew joins The Alex Jones Show to expose the mainstream media acclimating the public to pedophilia.
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Study: 78 Per Cent of Trans and ‘Non-Binary’ Students Meet Criteria for Mental Health Disorders
78 per cent of students who identify as trans, non-binary, or “genderqueer” meet the criteria for at least one mental disorder, according to Boston University research.
In an interview with the Reuters news agency, Sarah Ketchen Lipson of Boston University’s School of Public Health revealed that analysis of 2015-2017 Healthy Minds Study data showed “gender minority” students are four times as likely to suffer mental health disorders as their so-called “cisgender” counterparts — “cisgender” being the fashionable term for people whose gender identity matches their biological sex.
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The Agenda Behind Bruce Jenner’s Transformation
Bruce Jenner is now known as Caitlyn Jenner and, for some reason, all media outlets have converged to turn this personal transformation into a massive, all-encompassing media event. Why is that? Because Jenner’s transformation was not personal, it is a planned event meant to support an ongoing agenda.
Before I go further (and because some people like to put words in my mouth), I need to emphasize that I do not think that all transgenders are “evil” nor that they are part of a sinister Agenda. If one feels more comfortable and happier living as the opposite sex, well that’s their business and not mine. As a staunch proponent of true freedom, I will never judge a person who took a personal decision to live a better life. Bruce Jenner’s sex change, however, was everything but personal. It was an orchestrated media event, blown-up to proportions so large that it has been turned into a grand ritual, a staged ceremony meant to push an agenda.
After his divorce, Bruce Jenner could have silently stepped out of the spotlight and lived his new life in relative privacy. But the exact opposite happened. Caitlyn saturated all major media outlets in a carefully orchestrated media storm. Here’s what happened in the span of a few weeks.
As stated above, Jenner’s transformation was not intimate nor personal. It was a grand, ceremonial, ritualistic event that symbolizes a change in society as a whole. An important part of the elite’s agenda is to debase, confuse and mix up the natural, harmonious order of things. It is about steering away from what is real, pure and authentic to move towards to the fake, artificial and the constructed. For this reason, there one aspect of the Agenda that is becoming increasingly apparent: The feminization of the male and the masculinization of the female. Under the guise of “empowerment”, men who act like females and females who act like men are not only accepted but celebrated. I personally do not have a problem with that. I DO have a problem with the other side of this agenda: Men who act like traditional men (and do not feel the need to apologize for it) are now portrayed as evil and wrong. And, all of a sudden, portraying a stay-at-home mom who takes pride in cooking for her family is considered “sexist”.
[Comment: Article is from 2015 and correctly predicted what is going on today.]
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Voodoo Priest Sues Bible School, Claiming Discrimination
Zaji Zajradhara applied for a job in the business office of Eucon International University, a Christian Bible school located in the island of Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, which is a U.S. territory. After he did not get the job, Zajradhara initiated a labor complaint and the school felt coerced into agreeing to hire him. Zajradhara did not show up for his first day of work, and when he did appear later in the week, he refused to agree with the school’s faith statement that all other employees sign. He informed them that he is a priest of Houngan, a Haitian form of voodoo. When it became clear that Zajradhara’s beliefs and practices were diametrically opposed to theirs, the school sent him a termination letter detailing the incompatibility of witchcraft with the Christian faith. Eucon is a ministry of a Baptist church led by Dr. Christian Wei. The church also operates a K-12 Christian school at the same location.
Zajradhara, through an attorney, initially demanded the equivalent of several years’ wages from Eucon after he had spent less than a week on the job. The school declined to pay the exorbitant demand.
Zajradhara then obtained a right-to-sue notice from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands. The Complaint was served in late July, and the school filed its Answer this week.
In Saipan, Zajradhara is so well known for filing discrimination suits, some of which have been quickly thrown out of court and others he has been able to settle for thousands of dollars, that the CNMI legislature recently introduced a resolution calling him a “persona non grata.” The resolution states that he has filed dozens of discrimination claims against local businesses.
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Harlem rappist wants to wipe out ‘racist’ Sweden in bomb attack: ‘Swedes are ugly white pigs’
Domestic August 26, 2019
Rapper Azelia Banks from Harlem in the USA is on a Swedish visit. Why she is here is unclear as she has no concerts booked and in the light of her saying she hates Sweden and Swedes who she thinks are racists. Now she hopes that Sweden will be leveled with the ground in a bomb attack .
Banks has spent time in Stockholm writing on Instagram. There she reflects on the country she visits and states that Swedes “are definitely racists”.
According to the rapper, Swedes get disgusted as soon as they see a black person. At the same time, the supposedly anti-racist artist states that she herself is disgusted by white Swedes who she considers to be “ugly pigs”.
Something Banks is also unhappy with is the poor supply of drugs in Sweden. All in all, she believes that Sweden should be leveled with the ground in a bomb attack
“I would have loved to see someone bomb the [poo] out of this place and give everyone the whites something to bully over,” the rapper writes, motivating this with Swedes being “ugly pigs”.
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I cannot understand what purpose the Jesuits and other clerics are following when they welcome mass migration.
Do they not understand that they will be the first to “fly” from church bell towers when the ethno-balance in Europe will be violated?
I think that many are closet Marxists who were convinced to move up those hierarchies. Or they’re getting paid. Or something.
I thought about this topic and came to this conclusion: if the churches teach Europeans to be good dhimmis, then the war is lost, without any military action.
“Jesuit Chief: No Country Has the Right to Turn Away Migrants” Jesuits have always been traitors, so no surprise there.
That’s a rather sweeping statement, AK-47 ! Don’t judge all the Jesuits of the past centuries by this current generation. These modern ones can’t hold a candle to the staunch Jesuits of the past. I don’t think they share the same faith, at all – most of them.
There are still some great Jesuits around, of the ‘old school,’ but they are few and far between, these days.
The Swedish shooting at Ribersborg was not on the beach but on a street.
No mention of ethnicity anywhere in this long SV report, but that is par for the course. Apply Coulter’s Law.
https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2019-08-26/en-person-skjuten-pa-sergels-vag
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It is happening?
Rise of Apostasy
https://youtu.be/_-pYPWc26Gk
Police in western German state to reveal nationality in all crimes
Police in North Rhine-Westphalia will now name every crime suspect’s nationality — and not just in crimes where it’s considered relevant. It’s a sensitive topic against the background of recent immigration to Germany.
https://www.dw.com/en/police-in-western-german-state-to-reveal-nationality-in-all-crimes/a-50177056
Well … Baron ! That was a pretty short break ! I hope you are well refreshed, all the same. Good to have you back.
You are more resilient than I’d be under the same circumstances.
Jesuit chief (Fr. Sosa) also said, just recently, that the Devil is a symbolic abstraction.
Now whether YOU believe in the Devil or not, his statement is a flat contradiction of accepted Catholic teaching. Some Catholic !
He’s not likely to be publicly corrected, either. The Pope is a Jesuit. ( ‘ Come to our aid, O Lord ! ‘ )
The doctors without borders gets donations for medical treatment. Isn’t ferrying people outside their job description? Seems very deceitful.