Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has resigned, and President Sergio Mattarella has tasked Giuseppe Conte with the formation of a new government. In order to take office, Mr. Conte and the 5-Star Movement will have to form a coalition with the leftist Partito Democratico, which at one time was their bitter enemy.
In other news, former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell said that she hopes Hurricane Dorian scores a direct hit on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club when it makes landfall in Florida.
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Case Against Jeffrey Epstein Dismissed Following His Death
NEW YORK, Aug 29 (Reuters) — A federal judge on Thursday formally dismissed the criminal sex trafficking case against financier Jeffrey Epstein in light of his death in jail earlier this month.
U.S. District Judge Richard Berman had said at a hearing on Tuesday that he was legally bound to dismiss the case. Prosecutors said at that hearing that an investigation into Epstein’s alleged crimes would continue, and that the dismissal would not prevent them from charging possible co-conspirators in the future.
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Dave Chappelle Goes After Jussie Smollett
Dave Chappelle says some needful things about the Jussie Smollett hoax in one of the best segments of his new Netflix special Sticks & Stones. One comedy writer has ruled the subject out of bounds. Except for a Saturday Night Live sketch last winter, the subject has largely escaped the notice of comics. Why? Smollett’s story is hilarious.
Chappelle derisively refers to the disgraced actor, in a French accent, as “Juicy Smoo-yay”: “You see, Juicy Smoo-yay is gay and he is black. Not just French. Oh, it was a crazy story. . . . Two white men came out of the shadows with MAGA hats on and beat him up.”
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DOJ Inspector General Releases Scathing Comey Report (Full Report Included)
The Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his report on former FBI Director James Comey (embedded below) covering his handling of his of the memos he wrote after each meeting he had with President Trump. The report skewers Comey saying he violated bureau policies and his employment agreement by drafting, leaking and retaining memos documenting discussions with President Trump. It also slams his leadership because his actions for setting a dangerous example for the “over 35,000 current FBI employees—and the many thousands more former FBI employees—who similarly have access to or knowledge of non-public information.”
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Enough: Trump Fights Fake News With Lawyers
MSNBC Weasel O’Donnell admits Russia loan backing story was bulls***
President Trump is cracking down on fake news put out by MSNBC, with his attorneys demanding a retraction regarding a story claiming that Trump had “Russian oligarchs” as co-signers on loans.
The claims were broadcast by MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday evening.
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FBI Studies Two Broken Cameras Outside Cell Where Epstein Died: Source
(Reuters) — Two cameras that malfunctioned outside the jail cell where financier Jeffrey Epstein died as he awaited trial on sex-trafficking charges have been sent to an FBI crime lab for examination, a law enforcement source told Reuters.
Epstein’s lawyers Reid Weingarten and Martin Weinberg told U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan on Tuesday they had doubts about the New York City chief medical examiner’s conclusion that their client killed himself.
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Former Canadian PM Says She’s ‘Rooting for a Direct Hit’ Of Hurricane Dorian on Mar-a-Lago
Former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell said Thursday that she wished for Hurricane Dorian to make a “direct hit” on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
The strengthening storm churned over the warm, open waters of the Atlantic on Thursday as forecasts showed Dorian tracking toward Florida’s east coast — prompting Trump to warn Dorian “will be BIG!”
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Greta Thunberg Arrives in NYC: ‘Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground, ‘ ‘Stop War on Nature’
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swede and face of the youth climate change movement, arrived in New York City on Wednesday after setting sail two weeks on a solar-powered racing yacht from England. A substantial crowd greeted her after she was escorted into New York harbor by 17 sailboats — one for each of the U.N.’s “sustainable development” goal.
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Hurricane Dorian Danger Increasing. But Where Will it Hit?
A catastrophic Category 4 Hurricane Dorian could still strike anywhere along Florida’s east coast between the Keys and Georgia, forecasters said.
Where it makes landfall — this long Labor Day Weekend or early next week — all depends on where and when the storm makes a left turn.
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Maryland Man Accused of Plotting ISIS-Inspired Terror Attack Near DC is Indicted
A Maryland man accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired terror attack at a tourist site near Washington, D.C., was indicted Wednesday on a terrorism-related charge, the Justice Department announced.
Rondell Henry, 28, of Germantown was indicted on federal charges of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State and interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle, the DOJ said.
Henry moved to the U.S. from Trinidad and Tobago 11 years ago and is a naturalized citizen.
He is accused of stealing a U-Haul van in Alexandria, Va., and driving it to Maryland, where he intended to use it as a weapon at the National Harbor complex on the Potomac River, according to previously filed court documents.
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Only One-Third of Americans Believe Jeffrey Epstein Committed Suicide
Only one-third of Americans believe Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide behind bars, according to a new poll by Emerson College.
Voters were asked to weigh in on the convicted pedophile’s Aug. 10 death at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center — and they were split in even thirds.
Thirty-four percent believe Epstein was murdered, 33 percent believe the city medical examiner’s ruling that he hanged himself and 32 percent are unsure.
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Tulsi Gabbard Critical of DNC Debate Criteria: Process ‘Lacks Transparency’
Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Wednesday and took on the Democratic National Committee for a “lack of transparency” on qualifying for the next round of debates.
“I think the bigger problem is that the whole process really lacks transparency,” Gabbard told Carlson. “People deserve having that transparency because ultimately it’s the people who will decide who our Democratic nominee will be.
“When you see that lack of transparency,” she said, it creates “a lack of faith and trust in the process.”
Representative Gabbard, D-Hawaii, has hit the donor threshold but in terms of poll thresholds, she fell two short of making the cut for next month’s nationally televised primary debates and likely won’t make the stage.
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Video From Raid on Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach Mansion Showed Nude Images of Young Women
Video of a 2005 police raid of Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach, Fla., mansion reveals a home partially decorated with illicit photos and imagery of young women.
Inside the home, the video shows a wall covered in artsy nude photos of men and women, a painting of a nude woman lying on her back and a photo of a naked woman — reportedly Epstein’s ex-girlfriend and alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell — lying on a sandy beach.
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Watch: Biden Forgets Obama’s Name During Town Hall — and it’s Awkward
Former Vice President Joe Biden received flak from Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) during CNN’s Democratic presidential debate earlier this month for continually interjecting President Barack Obama’s name whenever possible.
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Young ISIS Wannabe Busted in Queens Knife Attack Terror Plot
FBI agents busted a 19-year-old ISIS wannabe on charges he planned a terrorist knife attack in Queens, law enforcement sources told the Daily News.
Awais Chudhary of East Elmhurst boasted in an online chat room that he wanted to carry out an attack in the name of ISIS, and tried to buy a “tactical knife” through an undercover agent, law enforcement sources said.
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Complacent No More it’s Time for Germany to Step Up
The days in which Germany can afford to be complacent are over. Europe’s largest economy needs to finally accept that it’s too big and important to simply sit on the sidelines. It needs to invest, innovate — and above all, lead.
A DER SPIEGEL Editorial by Mathieu von Rohr
The days of German complacency were nice, but they’re over. They lasted nearly as long as Angela Merkel’s chancellorship and were defined by a feeling of seemingly endless economic success and a sense of pride over Germany’s role in the world. Indeed, at the World Economic Forum in Davos three years ago, Germany was designated as the “best country in the world.” In Europe, there was talk of the “German model” as something for other countries to emulate. When Donald Trump became president in the U.S., some expected Angela Merkel to take up the torch as leader of the free world. Germany’s economy seemed unshakable, as did Merkel’s role in the world.
Neither is true today. And like everyone else who has had the wool pulled from their eyes, the Germans, too, must confront the truth that they should have seen this coming. The country has become a victim of its own complacency and it has begun to reap what it was sowing all along when it opted to merely coast through an historical anomaly rather than actively shape the future.
Of course, no one knows whether Germany — as many economists fear — will actually soon slide into a recession after 10 years of steady growth. But growth is sputtering and Germany does suddenly look vulnerable. Things don’t look much better on the foreign policy front, either. Germany has become the punching bag of choice for the most powerful person in the world and Donald Trump will likely slap the EU with auto tariffs, which would hurt Germany in particular. In Trump’s eyes, Germany is a selfish country because it has a high export surplus and doesn’t spend enough on defense…
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Conte Vows a More ‘Inclusive’ Italy Under Left-Wing Govt After Populists Pull Plug on Coalition
Italy’s caretaker Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has accepted a mandate to form a new coalition with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) and the left-wing Democratic Party after former deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini pulled out of the governing partnership with the M5S.
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Dutch Minister of Justice: “The Netherlands is Becoming a Narco-State”
Following the release of a report on organized crime in Amsterdam, Ferd Grapperhaus, the country’s Minister of Justice and Security said that drug-related crime must be dealt with or the Netherlands risks becoming a “narco-state”.
According to a report from Algemeen Dagblad, the drug economy in Amsterdam, which serves as the center for the multi billionaire euro cocaine trade, has become utterly unmanageable. Police officers worry that the battle against the world of organized drug crime has been lost.
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Francois: Brexiteer Tories Will Reject Johnson’s Amended EU Treaty
Mark Francois has said the European Research Group (ERG) will reject the EU-approved Brexit treaty for a fourth time if the prime minister only manages to remove the controversial Irish backstop.
The deputy chairman of the ERG told ITV on Wednesday: “I’m not voting for the withdrawal agreement, and I suspect neither will many of my colleagues.”
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Italy: Govt Born in Brussels to Get Rid of Me — Salvini
Announces day of pride demo Oct 19
(ANSA) — Rome, August 29 — Nationalist League party leader Matteo Salvini said Thursday the likely new government of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) and the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) had been “born in Brussels to get rid of that pain in the neck Salvini”.
He added: “Today, coincidentally, the German ex-commissioner Oettinger speaks and says that Brussels is ready to do anything to help this government be born and reward it.
“Those who always called us to order on the Fornero (pension reform) law and the other stuff”. Salvini added that premier-designate Giuseppe Conte “is the first member of the PD”, that “if they change the security and migrant decrees they’ll do Italians wrong”, and that the new government was “one of seats and posts, and I’m not giving up”.
The League will hold a demonstration against the M5S-PD government on October 19, a national “day of pride”, Salvini announced.
“Let’s get ready to be there on October 19. On October 19 I’m thinking of a great day of Italian pride.
“Saturday October 19 will be the day of pride of the hard-working majority, that doesn’t raise hell but which wants a government that isn’t born at night in Paris or Brussels and is rewarded for that”.
There will also be a demo on September 15 at the League’s spiritual home at Pontida, Salvini said.
Salvini added that “the right to vote exists, we’ll start on October 27 (at local elections) in Umbria”.
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Italy’s Bitter Political Foes Unite in Bid to Foil Salvini
ROME (AP) — Days after stepping down, Italy’s ex-premier accepted the role of premier-designate on Thursday in a bid to cobble together a new coalition of long-time political foes aimed at blocking a power grab by Matteo Salvini, the right-wing leader whose anti-migrant crackdowns and euroskeptic provocations have dominated Italian politics for more than a year.
But even if Giuseppe Conte, a 55-year-old law professor whose political career spans 14 months at the helm of a mostly squabbling populist coalition, succeeds in building a new majority between the grass-roots 5-Star Movement and the center-left Democratic Party, political analysts warn it may not last.
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Italy: M5S and PD Reach Coalition Deal to Oust Salvini From Government
The populist Five Star Movement (M5S) and the establishment Democratic Party (PD) — two parties with pretty much nothing in common — have joined hands to take down their arch political opponent — Matteo Salvini.
Yesterday, the BBC reported that the two unlikely partners were able to strike a coalition deal to take down right-wing populist Matteo Salvini and his League Party, which has surged in popularity in the last months.
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Off With Her Head? Soros-Funded ‘Best for Britain’ Group Threatens Queen Over Brexit
The EU loyalist Best for Britain group appeared to invoke the fate of the beheaded King Charles I after Queen Elizabeth II agreed to prorogue (temporarily suspend) Parliament for a few weeks before the Brexit deadline.
Following news that the Queen rubber-stamped Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s request to suspend the parliamentary session — the longest-running for almost 400 years — so that his government can bring forward a new legislative programme on October 14th, the George Soros-funded group tweeted that it would “make no sense for the Queen to back this deeply undemocratic, unconstitutional and fundamentally political manoeuvre from the government,” in comments later attributed to its CEO, Naomi Smith.
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Poland’s Ruling Party Holds Ground Before October Vote
WARSAW (REUTERS) — Poland’s ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party would still win the largest number of seats in parliamentary elections scheduled for October, according to a poll released on Tuesday.
A poll showed PiS with 41% support, just down from 42% on Jul. 26-27, while its main rival, the centrist Civic Platform (PO), was unchanged at 25%. The leftist coalition Lewica rose 3 percentage points to 13%.
[Comment: Article dated Aug 27, 2019.]
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Poland to Sign 5G Agreement With US to Counter Huawei Tech
The Polish government said that it plans to sign an agreement with the United States over cooperation and security in the sphere of 5G telecommunication technology when the two countries leaders meet this coming weekend, a senior government official told Reuters.
The planned agreement follows months of lobbying by the US for Poland and other European governments to halt business dealings with China’s Huawei, the globe’s largest telecommunications equipment maker and key play in next-generation 5G mobile networks, due to security concerns.
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UK: ‘His Dark Materials’ Author Suggested Boris Should be Hanged From ‘Nearest Lamp-Post’
His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman appeared to suggest that Prime Minister Boris Johnson should be publicly lynched shortly after writing that the country must “get rid of him” as “finally as possible”.
The left-liberal atheist, noted for his hatred of C. S. Lewis’s children’s books — “blatantly racist”, “monumentally disparaging of women”, and “propaganda in the cause of the [Christian] religion”, in his estimation — wrote in a now-deleted Tweet: “When I hear the name ‘Boris Johnson’, for some reason the words ‘rope’ and ‘nearest lamp-post’ come to mind as well.”
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UK: Claim: Boris’s Secret Prorogation Plan Leaked From Downing Street
Boris Johnson’s plan to suspend Parliament was leaked to the press hours before it was meant to take place, despite the trip only being known to a small handful of senior cabinet ministers and civil servants, a British newspaper has claimed.
The delegation of Privy Councillors including Brexit star Jacob Rees-Mogg dispatched to Scotland to meet with the Queen to get her assent to Parliament being Prorogued— a constitutional formality under the British system — travelled separately to reduce the possibility of the group of four politicians being spotted together at the airport, alerting the press.
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UK: Jessica Visits Tommy: Female Muslim Visitor Gets Special Treatment by Belmarsh Prison Security
There seem to be double standards when it comes to security at Belmarsh Prison, where Tommy Robinson is still being held for “contempt of court.”
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UK: London is ‘Acid Attack Hotspot in Western World’
The number of acid attacks in the capital is at record levels, having increased over tenfold in six years, with young children among the victims.
The figures were obtained by the Evening Standard following a freedom of information request to London’s Metropolitan Police Service and revealed that in 2012 there were 66 acid attacks, with that figure rising to 752 in 2018.
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Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg has criticised Remainer MPs for accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of triggering a constitutional crisis by suspending Parliament before Brexit day, asserting, “no harm ever came from respecting the will of the voters”.
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UK: Update: Tommy Robinson “In Good Spirits” Despite Upcoming “Football Ban” Court Date
I had a two hour visit with Tommy Robinson in Belmarsh Prison today, and I’m happy to report that things seem to be going well.
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Biden: ‘Xenophobia’ Keeps Japanese Women in Workforce
Joe Biden suggested during a campaign speech that “xenophobia” is keeping Japanese women in the job market.
The 76-year-old Biden, drawing on his time working with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe while vice president, said that because Japan doesn’t allow many foreign workers to come in, women in the country must remain in the workforce.
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It’s Not Enough to be Pro-Freedom; We Must Also be Actively Anti-Communist
A recent NBC report criticizing The Epoch Times repeatedly emphasized that the publication is anti-communism, with the clear implication that this stance is anachronistic, paranoid, or unwarranted. Unfortunately, such views are commonplace in today’s West, certainly on the left, but also on much of what is considered the “right.” …
Multiple reputable sources, including the famous “Black Book on Communism,” written mainly by academic ex-communists, assert that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been responsible for at least 65 million deaths during its 70 years of bloody reign. This adds to the full death toll of communism, which the authors show was at least 100 million.
In the first chapter, titled “Introduction: The Crimes of Communism,” academic Stéphane Courtois states that “communist regimes turned mass crime into a full-blown system of government.” By comparison, Nazism, while its crimes were also reprehensible, was “distinctly less murderous than Communism,” with a death toll of 25 million innocents. …
Like all crime, communism is parasitic. It produces nothing of value itself; it must rely on force, propaganda, torture, intimidation, threats, and espionage to survive. Like cancer, communism consumes its host. Except that in communism’s case, it will only die when the whole planet is consumed.
Must we let things get to that point? …
In the 1980s, Reagan avoided war by pushing the Soviet Union into full retreat through massive economic pressure. Had that pressure been maintained until the KGB was completely removed from power, we might now be friends with a free Russia instead of facing the nuclear weapons of a superior neo-Soviet regime now confronting us.
The United States has a similar choice with China. We can make billions trading with China (while gutting our own industrial base), then spend trillions defending ourselves from the monster we created when the inevitable war comes—not to mention the millions of casualties and the very real possibility of defeat and communist occupation of the lower 48 and Hawaii. …
President Richard Nixon and communist China’s “best friend in America,” former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, opened up U.S.—China trade in the 1970s in a grossly misguided attempt to play communist-ruled Beijing against communist-ruled Moscow. That is the moral and practical equivalent of the FBI allying with the Italian Mafia to defeat the Russian mob.
Had the United States and the West economically blockaded Soviet Russia and communist China from the very beginning, both criminal regimes would have collapsed in a relatively short time. Millions of lives would have been saved, and the West could have spent trillions less on defending itself from the monsters they were economically supporting.
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Joshua Wong Arrested: Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activist
Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been arrested in Hong Kong, according to a statement by the political party he co-founded.
The Demosisto party said he had been “forcefully pushed into a private minivan on the street” while walking to a train station at around 07:30 local time (23:30 GMT Thursday).
He was then taken to police headquarters in Wan Chai, his party said.
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The Truth About the Hong Kong Protests
Whiny leftists “protest” for rights they already have.
Hong Kongers go up against one of the most fearsome military regimes on the planet to defend their existential freedoms.
And no, they’re not “far-right”.
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The University of Technology Sydney have announced the plan which is set to take place next year, in the hopes it will boost the number of women in the degree.
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Mohammad Hassan Al Bayati, 30, touched the victim’s underwear and exposed himself in a stairwell away from cameras at DFO Homebush in Sydney’s west in December 2016.
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Germany: Gambian “Asylum Seeker” Smashes Over 20 Parked Cars
Police in Lauffen, Germany have reported that a Gambian ‘asylum seeker’ has smashed more than twenty cars parked at a train station, causing over 50,000 euros in damage.
According to fellow migrants who live at the same housing facility as the suspect, the Gambian man used an iron bar to smash dozens of vehicles and even alerted police to his intentions just a day before committing the act of brazen vandalism.
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Ilhan Omar Demands UN Take Control of US Borders in Mirror of European Migrant Crisis
Rep. Ilhan Omar is demanding that the United Nations take control of the U.S. border with Mexico in a mirror of how Europe was inundated with migrants following lobbying from international bodies.
“We should do what any other country does by dealing with this situation in a serious way,” Omar said during an immigration forum in south Minneapolis.
“So, we have to bring in the United Nations high commissioner on refugees, an agency that has the expertise and the training to handle massive flows of refugees humanely.”
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Spain Urges EU Help With Migrants as More Rescued at Sea
Spain’s maritime rescue service said Thursday it had rescued 208 migrants from the Mediterranean Sea in 24 hours, as a senior Spanish official renewed a plea for European Union countries to set aside their differences on the divisive migration issue.
Carmen Calvo, the government’s deputy prime minister, told the Spanish parliament that EU countries with no maritime border must share the burden of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to the continent from North Africa.
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(Watch) DC Shorts: Dave Chappelle vs the Outrage Mob
Dave Chappelle’s newest stand-up special on Netflix is causing some grief with his impression of an outraged mob, clipped here by DC Shorts.
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The sign was installed at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet’s office in Canberra.
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“Biden: ‘Xenophobia’ Keeps Japanese Women in Workforce” I don’t understand? The US, UK, Germany, Australia, all have plenty of foreign workers but somehow all their women are kept in the workforce as well. What exactly was Mr. Biden trying to say? Is he slowly suffering from dementia or something?
No, dementia would probably only improve his diarrhea of the mouth and random brain droppings.
Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity – but don’t rule out malice.
Thanks for the ironic chuckle, Baron!
“…we might now be friends with a free Russia instead of facing the nuclear weapons of a superior neo-Soviet regime now confronting us.” This sounds so propagandish it makes me laugh. The US doesn’t exactly have a history of making friends, but instead has a long history of invading countries for natural resources and Russia has plenty of those. For better or worse Russia is indeed the only counterbalance to America forcing itself all over the world.
“Had the United States and the West economically blockaded Soviet Russia and communist China from the very beginning, both criminal regimes would have collapsed in a relatively short time. Millions of lives would have been saved, and the West could have spent trillions less on defending itself from the monsters they were economically supporting.” I agree it would’ve been better to step on China’s neck right away, but unfortunately you are either missing or ignoring the origin of the people who initially infiltrated Russia to establish the soviet paradise (and aligning other countries like China), otherwise you would’ve known history had no choice but to go down the route it did.
Which people, AK-47?
At least part of the reason why the communist revolutions succeeded in Russia and China, rather than industrialised nations such as Germany and Britain (as Marx expected), was because the peasants in the first two were more oppressed than the industrial workers in the others.
From Der Spiegel: “In the era of Merkel, there hasn’t been a single significant project pursued with passion and conviction over the long-term….”
Go ahead, pull the other one. Frau Merkel has pursued her immigration project since at least 2013, with, it would seem, nothing but passion and conviction, and next to no sense of responsibility for the resulting, counterproductive consequences. Max Weber would have a field day with this dysfunctional politician.
Pelosi’s “squad”, together with Joe Biden’s disdain for the White Man and the burdens he carries, proves the Democrat party belongs in an asylum.
Very sad to hear that Salvini has resigned. How the hell did that happen?
Not sure what exactly it means, but I pray that he will still have some role in Italian politics.
The invasion of the savage migrant hordes continues un-abated.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7410383/Europes-migrant-crisis-continues-100-arrive-Spanish-enclave-500-Greek-beach.html
It was engineered from Brussels, bribing Salvini’s partner party (far left party) to withdraw it’s support from Salvini’s coalition government. Salvini had no choice but to resign. It’s perverse that the EU has any support at all.
Salvini’s HUGE popularity showed up the EU for what it truly is. This is actually good for the longer term. This will hopefully peal away support for EU-compliant leftist parties. Eventually national governments may refuse to deal with the EU at all.
Plus! In Italy Salvini will win the next election in a landslide.
Seneca the Elder: Sure seemed to me that Salvani was the right guy for the job. The EU Mafia must have ordered a hit.
Europe is finished, heartbreaking..
Not all of it. There is hope in places like Poland and Hungary.
50 years of communist brainwashing attempts have proven to be a good vaccine against the current round.