Climate protests featuring the group Extinction Rebellion continued across the globe today, notably in London. In one incident, a climate activist glued himself to the top of a passenger plane that was preparing for takeoff at a London airport.
In other news, a new law in Florida permits teachers to carry handguns to school, and seven school districts have now changed their policies to implement concealed carry for teachers.
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California Utility Company Cuts Off Electricity to Nearly 1 Million People to ‘Prevent Wildfires’
Gavin Newsom, the Communist Governor of California this week defended utility companies such as Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and SoCal Edison for cutting off electricity to hundreds of thousands of people in order to ‘prevent dangerous wildfires.’
But it’s for the common good and is meant to keep people safe, so the peasants need to shut up and live without electricity for an indefinite amount of time just like they do in Venezuela or North Korea.
“The reality is that we want to protect people. We want to make sure people are safe. This is what PG&E thinks is in the best interest of their customers and ultimately for this region and the state,” the governor said.
“It is a massive inconvenience,” he added. “No one wants to see this happen. But it is a public safety issue.”
Nearly 1 million people in 3 dozen counties in Northern California were cut off from electricity Wednesday for their own safety.
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In short, a registered Democrat on the CIA payroll went to Adam Schiff’s committee, who referred him to a Democratic operative attorney, who helped him file a whistleblower complaint on a form that was altered to allow second-hand information.
Not only is this whistleblower tied to a democrat running against Trump in 2020, but former State Department official Peter Van Buren told Tucker Carlson on Monday that the second ‘whistleblower’ is simply the source for the original ‘second-hand’ complaint.
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Trump Attorney Rudy Giuliani joined Sean Hannity on Wednesdy night to discuss the ongoing coup attempt by the Democrat Party to remove President Trump from office.
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Elizabeth Warren Wants to Give $1 Trillion in Climate Reparations to Black Families
Elizabeth Warren’s “climate justice” plan calls for handing over $1 trillion in environmental reparations to black families.
Because in case you didn’t know — pollution is racist.
The plan, called Fighting For Justice As We Combat The Climate Crisis, asserts that “black families are more likely to live in neighborhoods with higher concentrations of air pollution than white families — even when they have the same or more income.”
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Extinction Rebellion Delays Flights in London and Snarls Traffic in New York
Solving climate change requires drastic action, and the activist group Extinction Rebellion is here for it.
The group has exploded on the climate scene in the past year. This week, it’s leading a coordinated series of actions around the globe that kicked off with them dousing Wall Street in fake blood in New York, blocked roads in Mumbai, and staged various roadway takeovers in London.
Now they’re back at it again on Thursday. The group, which uses civil disobedience to ring the alarm on the climate crisis, shut down the London City Airport Thursday with James Brown, a Paralympian who climbed atop a British Airways plane before takeoff. Another man made it onto an airplane and refused to sit in his seat, delaying the flight for two hours. Meanwhile in New York, protesters dropped a boat in the middle of Times Square, snarling traffic in one of the city’s busiest hubs.
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Feds Now Storing Secret Data in Amazon Cloud
The corporatocracy continues to grow.
[Comment: Storing top secret information on a private company’s computer. What could possibly go wrong?]
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Florida Begins Arming Teachers as Large School Districts Rebuff Controversial Program
OKEECHOBEE, Fla. — Teachers in seven Florida county school districts will soon be locked and loaded thanks to a state law enacted this month that provides schools with the option to allow teachers to carry concealed guns.
The law expands on a safety measure known as the “guardian” program. The program was created in response to the February 2018 Parkland massacre but did not allow teachers to carry guns, in part due to the recommendation of former Gov. Rick Scott. Under the original law, guardians were either non-instructional personnel who volunteered, or employees — such as school resource officers — hired specifically to protect students.
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Live Updates: Magasota: Trump Holds Minneapolis Rally
President Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Thursday evening. This will be Trump’s first rally since the House started its impeachment inquiry.
Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates. All times eastern.
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9:45 PM: Trump reminiscing about 2016. Says “that was our victory” and he was the “messenger.” He says that night was “one of hte greatest nights in the history of television” and the “history of the country.”
“I didn’t need Beyonce and Jay-Z,” Trump says. “And I didn’t need little Bruce Springsteen.”
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Meet Kyle Frese: Trump Hater, Federal Employee, Arrested for Leaking National Security Secrets
Federal employee Henry Kyle Frese was arrested today for allegedly leaking national security secrets to reporters at CNBC and NBC. One of the reporters was his girlfriend. Read the indictment here.
Frese was a federal employee at the Defense Intelligence Agency. It comes as no surprise that Frese — like so many other federal employees in Washington, D.C. — is full of hatred toward Donald Trump and willing to use his personal power and government job to attack the president and conservatives. Let’s peruse his Twitter feed before it disappears.
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Pelosi Faces Tough Decision on Formal Impeachment Vote as Case Against Trump Comes Under Pressure
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is in a tough spot. After caving in to pressure from her party to launch an impeachment inquiry based on a CIA ‘whistleblower’ report that Trump abused his office to pressure Ukraine into investigating 2020 rival Joe Biden, Pelosi must now decide on whether to proceed with a formal vote amid mounting evidence that Trump did nothing wrong.
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Prep Your Tech: How to Defend Your Accounts From Hacking
Prepping isn’t always about survival when the SHTF. There are times when we need to prepare for the bad things that could happen tomorrow. Because of that, here are a few ways to protect your online accounts from hacking.
The improvements in technology have brought us instantaneous communication with people around the globe as well as faster and easier ways to pay bills, start businesses, and complete tasks. But with this, comes the problem of security. There are some ways that you can protect yourself, and prepare in advance for a possible hacking of your accounts.
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Rep. Omar to Commemorate Cuban Spy at Far-Left DC ‘Think Tank’
Controversial Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is about to associate herself with one of the most subversive organizations in this country.
On Oct. 3, Omar will present the annual Letelier-Moffitt Awards at the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). The IPS is a center of both far-left policy formation and support for the Palestinian socialist cause. The Letelier-Moffitt Award is named after the late Orlando Letelier, a paid Cuban intelligence agent.
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Teens Suing State to Impose Their Climate Agenda
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska law promoting fossil fuel development infringes on the constitutional rights of young residents to a healthy environment, a lawyer told Alaska Supreme Court justices on Wednesday.
A lawsuit filed by 16 Alaska youths claimed long-term effects of climate change will devastate the country’s northernmost state and interfere with their constitutional rights to life, liberty and public trust resources that sustain them.
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There Are No Whistleblowers, Just Deep State Operatives Trying to Pull Off a Coup
There are no real whistleblowers, just deep state operatives trying to pull off a coup before the Brennan / Comey / Clinton crimes explode onto the scene
The lawless, desperate deep state is rolling out a series of so-called “whistleblowers” now, a scheme that appears to have no end in sight since none of these “whistleblowers” need to be named. In the same way that Leftists claim there are 5,000 genders, they can also claim there are 5,000 whistleblowers, even if none of them are real.
The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that the same Clinton-linked legal team that has been scheming with Rep. Adam Schiff’s office to push the deep state lies of the first whistleblower is now claiming to have “multiple whistleblowers.” With Democrats and the left-wing media now fabricating literally everything in a last-ditch effort to eliminate Trump from power, this claim carries about as much weight as a five-year-old child saying she has multiple imaginary friends.
Why the sudden panic? Because under the direction of AG Barr, the DOJ is set to release a damning report on criminal FISA abuse (by Comey, Brenna, Obama, Strock and others) within the next two weeks.
Once this report drops, it’s going to cause a cascade of deep staters turning on each other to try to save themselves from going to prison. It risks opening up the entire criminal coup attempt masterminded by Brennan and authorized by Obama with a giddy nod from Clinton. Once this report hits, watch for lots of high-level deep state individuals to magically disappear (i.e. get “Arkancided”) before they can testify. If you thought Jeffrey Epstein was the only one they would knock off to protect deep state secrets, you’ve got a whole slew of surprises coming.
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Tucker Blasts ‘First Step Act’ After Freed Gang Member ‘Joey Crack’ Allegedly Stabs Man to Death
“Jared Kushner was the one that masterminded and pushed this legislation through,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, who vehemently opposed the bill from the start, told Carlson.
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Canada’s Justin Trudeau Describes Brexit Supporters as ‘Alt-Right’
Canadian Liberal leader Justin Trudeau has labelled those who support the UK leaving the EU as “alt-right” in a new attack against his Conservative Party rival.
Mr Trudeau wrote that the Conservative Party of Canada leader Andrew Scheer was bringing “far-right” rhetoric into the ongoing Canadian election campaign. The Canadian prime minister listed several topics he claimed were supported or opposed by both the Tories and the “alt-right”.
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Amazon Synod to Mull Women Deacons
‘To valorise their ecclesiastic vocation’
(ANSA) — Vatican City, October 8 — The special synod on the Amazon that has just opened in the Vatican will also consider the possibility of making women deacons, Vatican News said Tuesday.
This would “valorise their ecclesiastic vocation,” according to a summary of Tuesday’s morning session.
Pope Francis on Monday opened the Catholic Church’s Synod of Bishops on the Amazon urging the synod fathers “to approach Amazon peoples on tip-toes, respecting their history, their culture, and their style of good living”.
Francis urged the bishops to respect the “reality of people, which is sovereign”.
He remarked, among other things, that it was “sad” to hear remarks about the hair plumes of the indigenous people.
The session will pay for the reforestation of 50 hectares of Amazon forest, he said.
The rapporteur of the synod, Cardinal Claudio Hummes, said the Amazon was threatened by political interests.
He also said local Catholics had responded to a shortage of priests by requesting the ordination of married men in their communities.
A local nun said that it was nuns who carried out most of the baptisms in the region.
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Church of England: The UK Must Ban “Pointy Knives”
The Church of England is demanding that the United Kingdom use force and violence to ban pointy knives. A religious organization is now insisting that crime be reduced by further enslaving the population.
Last year, London’s murder rate briefly overtook that of New York City, a feat likely to be repeated as crime continues its decline in the U.S. while the latest U.K. figures show an increase in violent crimes committed with both guns and knives. In spite of all the laws restricting ownership of anything that could constitute a weapon, violent crimes are getting much worse. Instead of giving people more freedom and the human dignity of being able to defend themselves against these attacks, religious organizations and the government want to take steps to make sure only those committing violent acts have the means to do so.
“We the undersigned are professionals and community leaders from across the UK who call on Government to see the sale of pointed domestic kitchen knives as a thing of the past,” reads the not-a-parody open letter from the Diocese of Rochester, signed by church leaders, lawmakers, psychiatrists, academics, and the like. “Historically we needed a point on the end of our knife to pick up food because forks weren’t invented. Now we only need the point to open packets when we can’t be bothered to find the scissors.”
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EU Incites Remainers to Act by Saying Brexit Delay Can Only be for Second Referendum or Election
The European Union is giving the appearance of inciting Remain MPs to act against the British government by suggesting it will only allow the Brexit extension they desire if it is used to re-run the 2016 referendum or hold another general election.
President of the European Parliament David Sassoli, whose left-establishment Democratic Party (PD) lost almost half of its previous support in the recent EU elections, revealed that he had said as much in controversial direct talks with anti-Brexit Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow.
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Eurocrat Verhofstadt Calls Johnson and Brexiteers ‘Traitors’
Progressive-liberal MEP Guy Verhofstadt has accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson and fellow Tory Brexiteers of being the “real traitors”.
The European Parliament’s Brexit negotiator made the comments after Conservative Eurosceptics and the DUP rejected the EU’s counter-offer to Prime Minister Johnson’s Brexit proposal.
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French Police Afraid to Report Suspicious Colleagues Due to ‘Islamophobia’ Label
French police are said to be reluctant to report the suspicious activity of Muslim colleagues over fears of being branded Islamophobic.
Institutional failures in reporting possible extremist behaviour are in the spotlight in France after a Muslim convert working in a police support role killed four officers in Paris. Senior officers are under pressure to explain how a radicalised individual could continue to work inside the force without being identified, with unions representing rank-and-file officers demanding to know what is being done to tackle the issue of infiltration.
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French Mayor: “Rise in Crime is a Result of Change in Population”
In the French commune of Puget-Théniers, the mayor defended a recently imposed curfew on minors by saying that the commune’s ‘change in the population’ has caused increased levels of delinquency.
In a bid to end growing crime committed mostly by Arab teenagers in the area, Robert Velay, the mayor of Puget-Théniers introduced a municipal decree which banned unaccompanied under-17 minors from being out-and-about in the tiny village from 10 pm to 6 am, regional French newspaper Nice-Matin reports.
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Italy Must Reform Life Terms Says Strasbourg Court
Di Maio slams ruling says can’t safeguard rights of hero killers
(ANSA) — Rome, October 8 — The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday ruled that Italy must reform its law on life imprisonment which states that inmates cannot have time off unless they collaborate with justice.
The court rejected an appeal from Rome for a new judgement after an unfavourable judgment issued on June 13.
In that ruling, the court urged Italy to revise its laws mandating life sentences for certain very serious crimes, and ruling out sentence reductions unless inmates turned informant.
Life terms subject the prisoner to inhuman and degrading treatment, violating their dignity, the ECHR said.
The court ruling regarded Marcello Viola, found guilty of mafia association, multiple murder and robbery, who has been in jail since the start of the 1990s.
The ECHR sentence did not mean that Viola should be released.
But Italy was ordered to pay him 6,000 euros in court costs.
Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said his ruling anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) “does not share in any way the court’s decision”.
“Today the Strasbourg Court says that life imprisonment ‘violates human rights’ and that we should reform it.
“Are we joking? If you go hand in hand with the mafia, if you destroy the lives of whole families and innocent people, you do prison according to certain rules.
“No jail time off, no conditional liberty. You pay, full stop.
“Here we are still grieving for our heroes, our victims, and now we’re supposed to think about safeguarding the rights of their killers?” Justice Minister Alfonso Bonafede, also of the M5S, said “we absolutely do not agree with the court’s ruling”.
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Nigerian Mafia ‘Has Put Down Roots’ In Sardinia
3 arrested on drugs charges
(ANSA) — Cagliari, October 9 — The Nigerian mafia has “put down roots” in Sardinia, police said after arresting three men, two Nigerians and one Italian, on drug-trafficking and weapons charges in Cagliari on Wednesday.
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Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke Win Nobel Prize for Literature for 2018 and 2019
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austria’s Peter Handke have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Two winners were named — one for 2019 and one for 2018 — because the prize was not awarded last year.
The Swedish Academy, which oversees the prestigious award, suspended it in 2018 after a sexual assault scandal.
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Orban: “Rule of Law is a Matter of Honor for Hungary”
For Hungary, the rule of law is not a legal issue, but rather a matter of honor, Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared following last week’s discussions with his Finnish counterpart.
“Whenever someone questions us or the rule of law in Hungary, they’re stepping on our honor and I would advise them to think this over carefully,” Orban stated during a joint press conference with Antti Rinne, Finland’s current Prime Minister.
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Swedish Dystopia: Sex Crimes Triple in Four Years
In just four years, Sweden has seen the number of sex crimes triple, new reports have revealed.
Despite this disturbing trend, the mainstream press in Sweden hailed the minor decrease in sexual assaults from 2017 to 2018 as a positive development while ignoring the massive surge in sex crimes along a four-year timeline.
The figures come from a new National Security Survey — an annual crime report from the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå).
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Top Theologian Says Francis Presides Over ‘Internal Papal Schism’
ROME — The former doctrinal chief of the U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) warned this week that Pope Francis is presiding over an “unprecedented new schism” in the Catholic Church of his own making.
The Capuchin priest, Father Thomas Weinandy, whom Pope Francis himself named to the Vatican’s International Theological Commission in 2014, writes that it is out of America that Francis receives “his most theologically challenging and pastorally concerned criticism, which centers on a questionable remaking of the faith and of the Church.”
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UK: ‘Patronising Snob!’: Farage Blasts MEP Who Said Leavers ‘Didn’t Know What They Voted For’
Nigel Farage has branded a Liberal Democrat MEP a “patronising, stuck-up snob” after she said Leavers “didn’t know what they were voting on” in the 2016 referendum.
Liberal Democrat MEP Judith Bunting had said during a session of the European Parliament on Wednesday that while the British people voted to leave the EU, “they didn’t know what they were voting on and they were misled”.
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UK: Boris Johnson’s Bold Brexit Proposal
In the turbulent weeks since Boris Johnson became prime minister of the United Kingdom, he has registered his first comparative success with his proposal for a change in Theresa May’s Brexit deal. On the one hand, he has forced the EU negotiators to abandon their adamant refusal hitherto to reopen the wording of that deal; on the other, his proposal — with its firm emphasis upon the UK’s essential interests — has united almost all Conservative MPs behind it.
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UK: Blair Blames Corbyn for Making No Deal Brexit Possible
Tony Blair has blamed weak leadership in the Labour Party for making a clean-break Brexit a possibility.
“To be very frank, if you had a really strong opposition, I don’t think the Government would for a single moment contemplate a no-deal Brexit,” the former Labour prime minister and Remain campaigner said.
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Extinction Rebellion activists have continued their action in the capital with more than 1,000 now arrested.
The new toll comes after protesters descended on London City Airport today, arriving at the airport at 9am.
One activist delayed a flight by boarding a plane while another climbed on top of a plane before lying on its roof.
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UK: Extinction Rebellion: Man Climbs on Top of Plane in Climate Protest
A Paralympic medallist climbed on top of a British Airways plane at London City Airport as part of ongoing protests by Extinction Rebellion.
James Brown, who is visually impaired, filmed himself clinging to the fuselage as he streamed a live message online.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick described the action as “reckless, stupid and dangerous”. About 50 arrests were made at the airport.
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After Nigel Farage expressed renewed optimism in the direction of Brexit and the governing Tory Party, Prime Minister Boris Johnson extinguished hopes of a clean break by ruling out a no-deal election platform.
Veteran pro-sovereignty campaigner and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage had said he was “feeling more optimistic about Brexit than I have for a long time” after Boris Johnson’s efforts to negotiate a watered-down version of Theresa May’s soft withdrawal treaty appeared to peter out, leaving a full, genuine break with the European Union as the only way forward.
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UK: University Bans White Students From Attending Anti-Racism Meeting
The University of Sheffield Student’s Union in the UK has banned white people from attending a meeting about anti-racism.
Yes, really.
The SU announced that it would hold focus groups on “how we can create an anti-racist Students’ Union” as part of an effort to shift from a “non-racist to an actively anti-racist” stance.
However, no white people are allowed to take part.
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Vatican Refutes Pope’s Denial of Christ’s Divinity
ROME — The Vatican issued a statement Wednesday refuting claims Pope Francis had denied the divinity of Jesus Christ, saying the words attributed to the pontiff were a “free interpretation” of what he actually said.
On Wednesday, journalist Eugenio Scalfari published an essay in the Italian daily La Repubblica declaring, among other things, that the pope told him that he believes that Jesus of Nazareth was an exceptional man, but not God incarnate.
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Watch: Extinction Rebellion Spokesperson: ‘Alarmist Language Works’
A spokesperson for the climate change activist organization Extinction Rebellion (XR) said the group makes unsubstantiated predictions of billions of deaths within just a few years because “alarmist language works.”
Grilled by Andrew Neil on the BBC, XR spokesperson Zion Lights found herself admitting there is indeed no scientific basis for claims that billions of people are going to die from climate change.
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British T.V. host Piers Morgan called out a climate activist about her lifestyle choices, which are not helpful for the planet, as protesters are staging demonstrations across the United Kingdom.
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Uninformed savants across the political spectrum have pilloried POTUS Trump for his eminently rational decision to draw down the U.S. troop commitment (initially, only 25, as it turns out!) to the Syrian morass (whose “dynamic” has remained largely unchanged since the late 1940s).
Most of the ire directed at Mr. Trump has to do with handwringing over our “Kurdish allies”, even after the President “warned” Turkey not to engage in its habitual behaviors—since Ataturk created his ethno-racist state—towards the Kurds. Regardless, here are a few salient points one should bear in mind about the Kurds which the handwringers conveniently ignore in their hagiographies:
- Kurdish predatory mass killings of Christians and Yazidis are well-characterized and went on for centuries. Grinding persecution continues to this day, as can be gleaned from detailed reports by both Assyrian and Yazidi organizations (here; here; here)
- Kurdish “region(s)” were ethnically cleansed of Jews by the late 19th/early 20th centuries in a series a pogroms, compounded by constant grinding persecution including enslavement of Jewish families handed over between generations of Kurds as “family property” (p. 658; p. 108)…
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Kuwait: 80% Kuwaitis Refused Private Sector Jobs
Recent government statistics alarmingly showed 59 percent of Kuwaiti youth refused to work in the private sector in 2017, and that the percentage jumped to 80 percent in 2019, Al-Jarida reported yesterday. The statistics, revealed in response to a parliamentary inquiry by MP Abdullah Al-Kandari, showed that the manpower authority had offered Kuwaiti graduates 6,861 job opportunities in the private sector in 2017, but 4,067 of them refused the jobs. “The job opportunities offered in 2018 were 5,778, but only 1,160 nominees accepted them,” the sources added. The manpower authority’s response stressed that as decided by the minister of education’s resolution number 80/2013, it financially supports graduates effective from the date of graduation, professionally guides them and offers them job opportunities in various sectors. — Al-Jarida
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Paul: Neocons “Want to Keep Starting Endless Wars in Conflicts That Go Back Hundreds of Years”
“Trump is the first president in my lifetime to understand what is our national interest and what is not”
Senator Rand Paul once again slammed warmongering neocons Wednesday, expressing disbelief that Republicans are in favor of ‘endless wars’ and delivering high praise for President Trump’s attempts to stop them.
Paul tore apart Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. Liz Cheney, again labeling them the “neocon War Caucus” as they continue their attacks on Trump following Turkey’s assault on Kurdish forces in Syria.
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Thousands Flee, Hundreds Reported Dead in Turkish Attack on U.S.-Allied Kurds in Syria
ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) — Turkey pounded Kurdish militia in northeast Syria for a second day on Thursday, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee and killing at least dozens of people in a cross-border assault on U.S. allies that has turned the Washington establishment against President Donald Trump.
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US Republicans Seek Sanctions on Turkey Over Syria
Republicans in the US House of Representatives have announced plans to introduce a sanctions bill against Turkey for its offensive in Syria.
Congresswoman Liz Cheney said Turkey must face “serious consequences for mercilessly attacking our Kurdish allies” in the region.
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“Global Terrorist” Released in US-Brokered Taliban-India Prisoner-Swap
A designated Global Terrorist and Opium King, Abdul Rashid Baluch has been released in a US-brokered Taliban-India prisoner swap. The Afghan Taliban have confirmed that it has freed at least three Indian hostages in exchange for the release of at least 11 Taliban commanders from a high-security prison in Afghanistan in an apparent deal that included a prominent regional leader caught five years ago personally escorting a shipment of nearly a ton of opium.
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Nearly a third of anti-government protesters arrested over four months of civil unrest in Hong Kong were aged under 18, the city’s No 2 official revealed on Thursday, describing the worrying trend as “shocking” and “heartbreaking”.
Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung also insisted the government was not trying to wipe out protests altogether with its controversial anti-mask law, and no further measures were forthcoming in Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s policy address next Wednesday.
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Senator Josh Hawley Announces Plans to Visit Hong Kong Amid Pro-Democracy Protests
WASHINGTON — Missouri Senator Josh Hawley has announced he plans to visit Hong Kong, as pro-democracy protest continue.
The freshman Republican announced plans to visit the region in a tweet posted on Wednesday night.
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Protesters Block Brisbane Bridge, Warning of Traffic Delays, Diversions
Climate change protesters are blocking Brisbane’s William Jolly Bridge in both directions, police say.
Activists gathered at the bridge in the city’s south this morning as part of a city wide protest.
More than 100 activists stepped out onto the bridge and sat on the road, blocking the traffic in both directions.
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Ecuador’s Protesters March; Clashes Break Out in Quito
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Thousands of protesters staged anti-government rallies Wednesday, seeking to intensify pressure on Ecuador’s president after a week of unrest sparked by fuel price hikes.
Stone-throwing demonstrators clashed with police using tear gas to fend off crowds, including around the empty government headquarters in the capital of Quito.
Demonstrators struggled to get close to the headquarters in the colonial-era Carondelet palace, sealed off by police barricades in the narrow surrounding streets.
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“Ethnic Diversity Not a Strength But a Weakness”, Study Says
A new peer-reviewed study by Danish academics published in the Annual Review of Political Science has revealed that ethnic diversity erodes social trust in communities.
The study, conducted by professors at the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University in Denmark, looked to answer the question of whether “continued immigration and corresponding growing ethnic diversity” had a positive impact on social cohesion, unity, and togetherness.
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Erdogan Threatens to Send Millions of Refugees to Europe Over EU’s Opposition to Syria Offensive
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to send 3.6 million refugees to Europe if the EU doesn’t end its opposition to Turkey’s offensive in Syria.
On Wednesday, Erdogan announced the beginning of ‘Operation Peace Spring’ against Kurdish forces and ISIS terrorists in northern Syria.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker responded by demanding Ankara “must cease the ongoing military operation” in the area.
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Flood of Third World Migrants Causing Medieval “Rat Plague” In Cities Across Netherlands
Because the problems caused by the proliferation of rats in the Netherlands will continue to worsen considerably in the coming years, according to Bastiaan Meerburg, a researcher at Wageningen University, a large-scale study into the behavior of these rodents, so that a potential plague can be effectively avoided:.
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Migrant Gang on Trial for Robbing and Assaulting French Prostitutes
A gang of Moroccan migrants face trial in Rennes after being accused of robbing and sexually assaulting prostitutes in several cities across France.
The seven men, aged between 25 and 35, are said to have pretended they were clients of the prostitutes before robbing them and sometimes sexually assaulting and raping them.
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Turkey Flooding Europe With Migrants
The Greek government has said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan personally controls the migration flows to Greece and turns them on and off to extract more money and other political concessions from the European Union.
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Video: Californians Agree With New York Criminalizing Term “Illegal Alien”
Offensive language being outlawed in war on free speech.
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“Science is Settled”: New Study Proves Conclusively That Diversity is Not Our “Strength”
A new study out of Denmark to be published in the Annual Review of Political Science concludes that the mantra ‘diversity is our strength’ is, in fact, the exact opposite of reality, that ethnically diverse societies become weak and atomized:
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Injustice in Small Town America
I apologize for the vulgar nature of this article but there is no other way to make the point.
Can you imagine an assault taking place ANYWHERE in America where a Christian white man called his victim a “black M*********er” after he had punched him in the jaw?
What if it had been done to a Muslim and the white Christian male had called the victim a “Muslim M*********er.”
Or what if a homosexual had been assaulted by a white Christian Trump supporter who called the victim a “gay M*********er” after he punched him.
Better yet, can you imagine the outrage if the white Christian puncher called the punchee a “Jewish M*********er” after bruising his jaw?
Can you imagine the assault being caught on tape and the evidence being presented to the police? Can you imagine the publicity and outrage that such an assault would illicit? Can you imagine the screams of outrage from the always-the-victim race baiters among the ambulance chasing legal predators?
Can you image the outrage if the charges were dropped against that white Christian Trump supporter because the actions of the black, Muslim, homosexual, or Jew had “provoked” the white Christian to anger?…
But this really did happen right here in the good ole USA to a couple of buddies of mine. Except they were the one’s assaulted. That’s right. Two white Christian Trump supporting friends of mine were assaulted outside the small town of Fayetteville, West Virginia.
It seems that Alan Hoyle and Mark Trump had the audacity to show up at what used to be known as the BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE and raise awareness of the fact that the once “morally straight” Boy Scouts had been captured by the immoral LEFT. Not only were the scouts no longer morally straight, they weren’t even called boys. SCOUTS was their new name and instead of passing out merit badges they were now handing out condoms. That’s right. Check it out here.
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Instagram to Remove Photos of ‘OK’ Hand Sign as Hate Speech
Instagram will begin removing photos of people displaying the ‘OK’ hand sign and possibly banning users who do so under the company’s new hate speech rules.
“We remove photos of hate speech or symbols, like swastikas or white power hand signs,” states the company’s ‘report’ function.
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Major social media platforms are transforming a huge cross-section of American internet traffic into petty groupthink-driven drama factories.
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Denmark introduces border controls from Sweden to “secure the Danes’ security”
Published October 10, 2019 by Fria Tider
On November 12, Denmark will introduce border checks from Sweden. This is to ensure the security of the country, the Danish government now confirms.
Sweden is now so dangerous that Denmark feels compelled to introduce border controls from the neighboring country.
To be able to ‘secure security’, it is “absolutely crucial” to stop organized crime from Sweden, according to Minister of Justice Nick Hekkerup (S).
Hekkerup mentioned a series of acts of violence in which Swedish citizens were involved, including the blast of the Tax Agency in Copenhagen.
– We have been able to see a worrying development in Sweden in recent years with a large number of explosions and serious crime. That development must not spread to Denmark, Nick Hekkerup (S) said during the press conference.
The border checks, which are part of the Danish government’s “security package”, will be introduced on November 12.
– We will ensure the safety of the Danes, says Hekkerup.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/uppgifter-danmark-kan-infora-granskontroller
The reason diversity is promoted are the findings of the study. Likely a theory to weeken nations tested and proven… or just to lower wages.
Promoted by global companies with their useful left?
Either way, the well-being of test subjects was not the purpose.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/world/europe/shaman-putin-dissent.html
An Exorcism Must Be Done’: An Anti-Putin Shaman Sets Off Unrest
‘Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austria’s Peter Handke have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.’
I haven’t read Peter Handke’s stuff.
This is what Wikipedia says about his play Offending the Audience:
Plot synopsis
In Offending the Audience there is no plot. No story is being told at all. Instead, the audience is made aware that what they see is not a representation of anything else, but is in fact quite literal. The actors continuously repeat the point that this is not a play, and that nothing theatrical will happen.
The first lines of the performance are “You are welcome. This piece is a prologue.”[3] A prologue, that is, to all future theatrical performances.
Plot analysis
Handke used this rejection of traditional play structure to reinforce his anti-theatre intention. His point was to get the audience to consider what exactly theatre does, in particular, the role of language in the theatre.
Kim Iversen talks about the Kurds. She did research for this She self describes as a progressive. I think she is a breath of fresh air compared to the MSM but I do not watch them much.. If you want to learn something about the Kurd situation at least watch the first most recent video link below.She is like a brain cleanse to wash away the MSM.
The more recent Oct 10 video is 22 min long.
https://youtu.be/IWQmjKbJg3A
A previous Oct 9 video is below. 30 min. She goes into Kurd aims and what they want.
https://youtu.be/-CSeXtdZAO4
re : Church of England: The UK Must Ban “Pointy Knives”
from the Synopsis :
“We the undersigned are professionals and community leaders from across the UK …”
No … you are virtue-signalling IDIOTS. And probably cowards.
What’s the problem? Cleared for take-off.
An article about mass psychosis in Chechnya.
“What is the difference between Wahhabis and sorcerers? Some kill immediately, while others for years.”
https://www.kavkazr.com/a/elzhurkaev-interview/30211646.html