Poland has decided that it will not accept the latest migrant-distribution plan proposed by the EU. Meanwhile, the Hungarian government announced that the country will remain in the EU, despite its disagreements on migration policy.
In other news, Portland has banned urinals in an effort to promote equality among the city’s innumerable genders.
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Democrat voters surveyed by Reuters fear that impeaching President Trump over the Biden-Ukraine scandal will backfire, giving him a boost into the 2020 US election. In short, Congressional Democrats looking to impeach have major credibility issues after the Mueller report failed to show that Trump ‘colluded’ with Russia, and a transcript of his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky failed to show Trump strongarming him into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden and his coke addict son.
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Alien Research Group Started by Blink-182 Singer Says it’s Found ‘Exotic UFO Material’
Former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge has pulled off an astonishing career change. In 2017, after quitting the band, he co-founded a group called To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences, an organization committed to researching aliens.
And he apparently now has something to show for it. In a recent Q&A with The New York Times, a reporter asked whether the group had obtained “exotic material samples from UFOs.”
The spokesperson’s response: “certainly.”
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Biden Campaign Demands TV News Execs Stop Booking Giuliani
Joe Biden’s presidential campaign made an extraordinary request to executives of top news channels on Sunday, asking them to no longer book Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, on their programs.
In a letter addressed to the heads of the major news and cable networks, as well as top news anchors, two top Biden campaign advisers make the case that by peddling routine falsehoods about the work of Biden and his son Hunter in Ukraine, Giuliani’s presence on the airwaves is editorially untenable.
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A 19-year-old California woman who livestreamed her drunken-driving crash that killed her 14-year-old sister has been released on parole after serving 26 months in prison.
Obdulia Sanchez was sentenced in February 2018 to six years and four months in prison after being convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter, DUI and child endangerment.
She was released on parole on Sept. 21 after receiving credit for completing “approved rehabilitative or educational programs,” a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told the Merced Sun-Star on Saturday.
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FBI, IRS Continue Raids by Targeting 3 Village Offices in Cook County
Authored by Vincent Caruso via IllinoisPolicy.org,
Federal agents raided the offices of three suburban villages, including one governed by a mayor who doubles as a Cook County commissioner. All three are in the district of state Sen. Martin Sandoval, also the subject of a federal raid.
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Hydrogen Cyanide Found in Thc Vaping Cartridges: Report
Bootleg marijuana vaping cartridges sold on the black market have been found to contain hydrogen cyanide, according to a report.
A cannabis testing facility in California analyzed a sampling of 18 cartridges containing THC — the active ingredient in marijuana — from both legal dispensaries and unlicensed dealers, NBC News reports.
No heavy metals, pesticides or solvents such as vitamin E were found in the legal products. But all 10 of the black market cartridges tested positive for pesticides and myclobutanil, a fungicide that can transform into hydrogen cyanide when burned, the analysis found.
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Judge Orders Ocasio-Cortez to Testify in Person Over Twitter Bans
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been ordered by a Brooklyn Federal Judge to appear in person to explain why she has blocked several people over twitter, according to the NY Daily News.
“I think she has to testify here,” said Judge Frederic Block during a Thursday hearing to discuss a case brought by former politician Dov Hikind, who AOC banned from her Twitter feed.
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Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin: Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg is “Remarkably Ill-Informed”
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin touted the reliability of fossil fuels and called teen climate activist Greta Thunberg “remarkably ill-informed” during a conference on energy.
Bevin was asked about the 16-year-old Swedish activist on Tuesday after he gave a keynote address at the annual meeting of the Southern States Energy Board in Louisville. Bevin said Thunberg is “an intelligent woman, young woman, she’s very emotional, she’s very passionate and she’s remarkably ill-informed.”
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Kunstler: Democrats “Set a Dumpster Fire on Their Own Garbage Barge”
Did Director of National Intelligence Joseph McGuire know that when he testified that the whistleblower’s complaint was “credible” and made in “good faith.” Did ICIG Michael Horowitz know that when he sent the whistleblower complaint to Admiral McGuire? Did House Intel Committee Chair Adam Schiff know that when he led a grandstanding exercise in his committee on Thursday?
Others have pointed out that the whistleblower’s complaint was composed as a legal brief, leading to the inference that it was constructed by lawyers and perhaps a team of lawyers. The whistleblower’s lawyer is Andrew Bakaj, a former CIA employee who got his start interning for Senator Chuck Schumer and then Hillary Clinton. The Washingtonian said Bakaj “actually wrote the CIA’s internal rules on whistleblowing.” Is that so? Did he write Form 401 then? His client’s complaint states: “I was not a direct witness to most of the events described. However, I found my colleagues’ accounts of these events to be credible because, in almost all cases, multiple officials recounted fact patterns that were consistent with one another.” In other words, second-hand information. Dismissed.
Everyone and his uncle remembers the infamous threat issued to Mr. Trump by Senator Schumer during the transition period in January, 2017: “Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”
Perhaps Senator Schumer should have kept his pie-hole shut on that. He made it official that the Intel Community would act as an adversary and antagonist to the President, and that appears to be exactly what has happened. One suspects that this rogue agency has captured The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, and several TV cable news networks as well. And now they are metamorphosing into an enemy of the people.
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The 50 Most Miserable Cities in America
Not the worst, just the most miserable.
We’ve identified the 50 most miserable cities in the US, using census data from 1,000 cities across the country, taking into consideration population change (because if people are leaving it’s usually for a good reason), the percentage of people working, median household incomes, the percentage of people without healthcare, median commute times, and the number of people living in poverty.
Often, these cities have been devastated by natural disasters. They’ve had to deal with blight, and with high crime rates. Economies have struggled after industry has collapsed. These cities also tend to have high rates of addiction.
The state with the most miserable cities was California, with 10 in the top 50. New Jersey was second with nine, and Florida had six.
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Austria: Election Exit Polls Suggest Crushing Victory for Sebastian Kurz
Exit polls released following the Austrian national snap election pont to a decisive victory for Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) leader Sebastian Kurz and huge losses for the populist Freedom Party.
Several exit polls show the centre-right ÖVP with as much as 37.2 per cent of the vote, an increase from the party’s 31.5 per cent at the last national election in 2017.
The populist Freedom Party saw the largest loss, according to the polls, netting just 16 per cent of the vote compared to their 26 per cent in 2017, and well behind the Social Democrats who won 22 per cent of the vote.
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Bad Loans No Longer Threat to Italy’s BOI
But central bank stresses that problem hasn’t been resolved
(ANSA) — Rome, September 27 — Bruna Szego, the Bank of Italy’s Head of Regulation and Macroprudential Analysis, said Friday that non-performing loans were no longer a threat to the stability of the Italian banking system. “As supervisors, we must maintain a high level of attention and continue to monitor the banks’ capacity to offload NPLs because the NPL ratio (of Italian banks) remains high by international standards,” Szego said.
“The supervision of NPLs is bearing fruit but the problem is not totally resolved.
“What can be said is that the issue of NPLs is no longer a problem of financial stability”.
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Boys Aged Seven and 12 Wanted by UK Police for Knife-Point Carjacking
Suffolk police are seeking the families of two boys aged seven and 12 who held a woman at knifepoint before stealing her car.
The incident happened when a woman in her sixties was threatened with a knife in Ipswich in the east of England at around 6:25 p.m. on Saturday, according to The Telegraph.
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Hungary Will Remain Part of the European Union, PM Orban Says
BUDAPEST (REUTERS) — Hungary has no plans to leave the European Union, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Sunday, adding however that eastern and western members of the bloc must find a compromise over the bloc’s future.
Orban, in power for nearly a decade, has often been at loggerheads with Brussels, for example over his refusal to take in migrants under an EU quota scheme and his efforts to tighten control over the media, the judiciary and academic institutions.
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Mogg: Farage ‘Admirable’, British ‘Like Gulliver, Tied Down by Feeble, Feckless Politicians’
Leading Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg praised Nigel Farage and denounced Jeremy Corbyn in a barnstorming speech in Manchester.
Mr Rees-Mogg, an eccentric but popular Tory MP noted for his old-fashioned mannerisms and turn of phrase, entered Cabinet as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of Her Majesty’s Privy Council when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister.
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Paris Mayor Defends Record After ‘Dirty City’ Report
Anne Hidalgo insists every Parisian has a role to play in making the city gleam again
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo has defended her record on public sanitation after an article in the British press damned the French capital with the title ‘the dirtiest city in Europe’.
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Physicists Are Creating Lasers Powerful Enough to Rip Holes in the Fabric of Reality
New technology could allow a high-velocity laser to pierce “through [the] fabric of the Universe.”
Earlier this month, the physics journal Physical Review Letters published a paper discussing how new technology could allow a high-velocity laser to pierce “through [the] fabric of the Universe.” The trick, according to a researcher at the Université Paris-Saclay, is to anchor and focus the laser using a mirror made of plasma.
In an analysis written for Ars Technica, physicist and writer Chris Lee broke down the logistical hurdles the new technique could overcome. By consolidating a 5-10 petawatt laser for around 5-5000 joules of energy for somewhere between a picosecond or femtosecond, scientists can muster an intensity of 1022W/cm2, which is when a plasma state kicks in and creates a conductive gas of excited particles whose electrons reflect light.
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Poland: CNBC, Google Will Open a Cloud Hub in the Country
To help growth of customers in Central, Eastern Europe
(ANSA) — BELGRADE, 27 SEP — Google will open a new cloud hub in Poland, a move that will help customers in Central and Eastern Europe benefit from Google cloud services, CNBC reported today. Google Cloud already operates 20 cloud regions around the world, with six in Europe, CNBC said. Europe is a “big area of focus” for the business,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said in an interview to CNBC. “We’re actually growing faster in terms of people, customers, revenue here than in any other part of the world,” Kurian added.
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Sweden: Malmö Churches Ring Bells for Greta Thunberg’s Climate Strike
Churches in the multicultural Swedish city of Malmö collectively rang their bells to support the climate strike movement led by Swedish teen Greta Thunberg.
The bells rang out at lunchtime on Friday as part of the global climate strike that saw 150 separate demonstrations across Sweden alone, Aftonbladet reports.
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Sweden: People Treated for Gunshot Wounds Up 20 Per Cent in 2018
The number of people in Sweden treated for gunshot wounds soared 20 per cent in 2018 and has more than doubled compared to 2012.
The statistics from the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare patient register show that in 2018 a total of 148 people were treated with gunshot injuries, 26 more than the previous year, Sveriges Radio reports.
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Swedish Schools to Erase Ancient History From History Class
No more Plato or Aristotle. No Rome, no more teaching of Swedish Great Power era in Swedish upper grade history classes. This is the new move from the Swedish Board of Education, which wants Swedish pupils to focus on Hitler, World War 2 and the following postmodern era in the late 20th century instead.
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UK: Flashback: EU Negotiator Warned Boris, Rees-Mogg Could ‘End Up on Guillotine’
Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s chosen representative in the Brexit negotiations, suggested Boros Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg could end up “on the guillotine” in months before the current furore over claims their use of terms like “surrender” and “betrayal” is “inflammatory” and put the lives of anti-Brexit MPs in danger.
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UK: Lane: Brexit Party Embraces Populism Label With Nod to Ancient Athenian Democracy
While being labelled a populist by the liberal elite is meant as a criticism, Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party appears to be embracing the term with a nod to ancient Greek master statesman Pericles of Athens.
Populism is a dirty word in Westminster, where giving the people what they want is seen as distinctly less noble than giving them what the Civil Service and their enablers in the Labour party think they ought to have.
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UK: Media Pushes ‘Inflammatory Language’ Narrative as Leftists Hang Effigies of Tories From Bridge
As the mainstream media pushes the narrative that anti-Brexit MPs are being endangered by “inflammatory” language concerning their “surrender” to the EU, left-wing activists have hanged effigies of Tories from a bridge.
For days, mainstream media broadcasters such as Sky News and the publicly-funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) have been giving great prominence to the claimsof Remain MPs such as Paula Sherriff and Jess Phillips that Prime Minister Boris Johnson describing parliamentary legislation designed to force him to ask the President of the European Council for another Brexit delay and accept whatever extension he is offered (subject to parliamentary approval) as a “Surrender Act” is putting their lives at risk.
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UK: Sexual Predators Could be in Police, 35,000 Officers ‘Not Properly Vetted’
The Inspectorate of Constabulary has said that some 35,000 police officers in England and Wales were insufficiently vetted and forces must do more to root out sexual predators from within their ranks who abuse their positions of power to assault vulnerable people.
That number is said to be comprised of officers on the beat as well as back-office staff, contractors, and volunteers, with inspector of constabulary Zoë Billingham saying the 35,000 figure was a “best estimate” and admitting the true figure could be higher.
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Chaos Continues in Hong Kong; Undercover Cops Pull Guns Amid ‘Aggressive Clearance Operation’
Violence continued in Hong Kong as anti-government demonstrations entered their 17th week. The police response was described by the Washington Post as “among the most aggressive” since the movement began over a now-withdrawn extradition bill which would have allowed China to forcibly move suspects to the mainland for face trial in communist courts.
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Australian Prime Minister Scolds People Exploiting Fear in Children
Grown-ass adults love exploiting children for their political agenda (see WATCH: Michael Knowles Calls Out the Left for Exploiting Greta Thunberg and If You Support Greta Thunberg’s Exploitation, You’re a Monster), especially leftists. I guess leftists see a child who wasn’t aborted and think “Put that kid to work shoving our agenda down everyone else’s throat.” Maybe throw in a brown shirt and arm band for good measure. Not so keen on this practice of terrifying children into becoming propagandists, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. He spoke to the UN Assembly about climate fears and how parents shouldn’t stoke them in children to advance the climate agenda. You paying attention, Thunbergs?
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Hundreds of ‘Abused’ Captives Freed From Nigeria Islamic School
Kaduna (Nigeria) (AFP) — Police in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna have rescued more than 300 male students being held at an Islamic school where many had been tortured and sexually abused, a police spokesman said Friday.
Officers raided a building in the Rigasa area of the city on Thursday where the victims including adults and minors were kept in “the most debasing and inhuman conditions in the name of teaching them the Koran and reforming them”, Kaduna state police spokesman Yakubu Sabo told AFP.
“We found around 100 students including children as young as nine, in chains stuffed in a small room, all in the name of reforming them and making them responsible persons,” Sabo said.
The school which has been operating for a decade, enrolled students brought by their families to learn the Koran and be rehabilitated from drug abuse and other illnesses, police said.
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40 Migrants Rescued by Danish Tanker Safely Reach Greece
Greek authorities say 40 migrants rescued by a passing merchant ship from a crippled sailboat off western Greece have safely arrived in port.
In a statement, the coast guard said the 34 men, two women and four children disembarked Wednesday in Kalamata, southern Greece.
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Dallas Fed’s Kaplan: U.S. Needs More, Not Less, Immigration for Economic Growth
Proposals to curb immigration will weigh on economic growth in the United States where the existing workforce is growing more slowly as the population ages, Dallas Federal Reserve president Robert Kaplan said on Thursday.
“If you think you are actually going to cut the number of immigrants and grow GDP, those two things do not go together … You need to grow the workforce,” Kaplan said.
[Comment: All globalists are singing from the same songbook. End goal = deconstruction of the USA using mass migration as a weapon.]
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Italy: ‘We Will Do More Than Salvini’ on Migration Says Di Maio
‘I’m sorry it ended like this but he wanted it’ — M5S leader
(ANSA) — Rome, September 24 — Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio on Tuesday said the new government will do more on immigration than the previous cabinet in which he served as deputy premier, labor and industry minister.
Responding to a reporter’s question on criticism from former government ally, ex-interior minister and deputy premier Matteo Salvini, the leader of the anti-immigration and Euroskeptic League Party, Di Maio said “I understand Salvini’s and the League’s nervousness but he decided to isolate himself, to throw everything down”.
Speaking from New York, the 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader said he was sorry “everything ended like this” but “he isolated himself”, referring to Salvini.
“We will do more than him on reallocations and repatriations, perhaps it didn’t take much”.
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Italy: Gang of Algerian Migrants Rob M5S Senator and Judge
A senator from the Five Star Movement (M5S) and a judge have been robbed by a gang of Algerian migrants at Rome’s main Termini railway station.
Senator Gabriel Lanzi and a judge of the Court of Cassation were both robbed by three Algerians, with the judge having his briefcase full of confidential documents stolen not long after he had finished eating lunch at a restaurant close by the station, Italy’s Il Giornale reports.
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Italy: Five Star Senator and Judge Attacked and Robbed by Migrant Gang
A gang of North African youths from Algeria robbed an Italian Senator of the Five Star Movement (M5S) along with a judge at Rome’s central Termini railway station.
Senator Gabriele Lanzi and the judge were robbed by three Algerian men, with the judge having his briefcase stolen, shortly after finishing his lunch at a restaurant near the station, Il Giornale reports.
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Migrants in Greece Set Fires at Camp; At Least 1 Killed
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Migrants protesting at an overcrowded camp on the Greek island of Lesbos set fires and clashed with police Sunday, killing at least one person, authorities said.
A burned body was brought to a local hospital and there is information about an unconfirmed second death, police said. The protesters were demanding to be transferred to the Greek mainland.
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Poland Rejects European Union Migrant Redistribution Plan
The Polish ambassador in Rome has rejected the new European Union migrant redistribution agreement, stating that no migrants will be accepted in Poland.
Ambassador Anna Maria Anders said that the government in Warsaw would only welcome migrants who share linguistic and cultural traditions with the Polish people, Italian newspaper Il Giornale reports.
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Pope Francis Inaugurates Massive Migrant Sculpture in Saint Peter’s Square
ROME — Pope Francis unveiled a massive bronze sculpture depicting 140 migrants in Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican Sunday, the first sculpture to be installed in the piazza in over 400 years.
The 20-foot tall, 3.5-ton bronze sculpture was created by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz at the behest of the Vatican’s office for Migrants and Refugees, after impressing the pope with his sculpture “Homeless Jesus” in November 2013.
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Pope Francis: God Has a ‘Particular Concern for Foreigners’
ROME — Pope Francis celebrated the World Day of Migrants and Refugees in the Vatican Sunday, insisting on the “moral duty” to welcome the stranger with the compassion exhibited by God himself.
The Lord “upholds the stranger as well as the widow and the orphan among his people,” the pope said in his homily at morning Mass in St. Peter’s Square. “The Lord has a particular concern for foreigners, widows and orphans, for they are without rights, excluded and marginalized. This is why God tells the Israelites to give them special care.”
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I’m confused.
I can’t quite make out what’s happening.
First, we were told calling out someone’s gender is wrong — waitress, waiter, etc. Then we were told gender doesn’t exist — it’s a social construct. Then we were told gender is inherent, therefore people can legally change theirs with medical confirmation. Then we were told that gender isn’t really gender at all — despite the antiquated notion of female and male — and despite the fact that the very notion of gender comes from the existence of binary biological sex — there are actually limitless genders.
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Portland has banned urinals in an effort to promote equality among the city’s innumerable genders.
OK. No urinals.
Pee on a toilet seat.
I wonder what gender will get upset?