The EU has rejected UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s final offer of a Brexit deal. Meanwhile, a court in Scotland will rule on whether Mr. Johnson can be imprisoned for refusing to agree to another extension of Brexit.
In other news, the European Court of Human Rights ordered the demolition of a Serbian Orthodox Church in Bosnia-Herzegovina, saying that its construction in 1998 was not properly authorized.
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A U.S. Economic Slowdown Has Been Confirmed, And We Are Being Warned That “More Damage” Is Ahead
We just witnessed the worst month for U.S. manufacturers in more than 10 years, and nobody seems optimistic that things are going to get much better any time soon. In fact, one expert is warning that “more damage” is coming if the trade war is not resolved, and unfortunately it does not appear that a resolution will be possible for the foreseeable future. As I have been detailing for months, the entire global economy has been steadily slowing down, but some shocking new numbers that we just got indicate that our economic problems are really starting to accelerate. So hold on to your hats, because it looks like things are about to get really crazy. According to CNBC, September was the worst month for U.S. factories in more than a decade…
The U.S. manufacturing purchasing managers’ index from the Institute for Supply Management came in at 47.8% in September, the lowest since June 2009, marking the second consecutive month of contraction. Any figure below 50% signals a contraction.
The new export orders index was only 41%, the lowest level since March 2009, down from the August reading of 43.3%, ISM data showed.
Those numbers are absolutely abysmal, and they were far worse than analysts were expecting.
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Italy: Milan Bourse Plunges After WTO Okays US Tariffs
Other European markets slump too
(ANSA) — Milan, October 2 — The Milan stock exchange’s FTSE Mib index shed 1.7% on Wednesday after the World Trade Organization ruled that the United States can impose 7.5 billion dollars of tariffs on European goods in compensation for aid granted to Airbus. Other European markets suffered big losses too.
London was down 2.6%, France lost 2.2% and Frankfurt shed 1.8%.
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16 Indiana Students Hospitalized After Getting Shot With Insulin by Mistake
Sixteen students at an Indiana career center were hospitalized after they were accidentally injected with shots of insulin during what was meant to be a tuberculosis skin test, the school district said.
The error happened Monday at the McKenzie Center for Innovation and Technology in Indianapolis, according to a statement from the Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township.
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America’s Domestic Enemies Are the Democratic Party and Its Allies
Today, the domestic enemies of the U.S. Constitution live in our midst as the Democratic Party and its allies. They put on a clown show, but we had better take them seriously. For they are not joking.
Today, the leading domestic enemies of the U.S. Constitution are not dispatched to America from foreign shores. They were born in the USA. English is their first language.
They include Government Service employees in the U.S. “intelligence community”— a soft moniker for a hard bunch. Not all of them, of course. But enough to matter…
Some act openly, others are clandestine operators. They designed and staffed the Trump-Russian Hoax operation. We know the field leaders, many of them, but we can’t yet prove who authorized their mission. And we may never be able to document who gave the “go,” and when.
The field trade craft doesn’t appear to have relied on the standard pedestrian techniques like dead drops, brush passes, or one-time pads.
They used other espionage tools against the Executive Branch of their own government: black propaganda, cut-outs, even a swallow—many of the standard tools were used one time or another during the Trump-Russian Hoax by GS-rated personnel and a few agency stringers, operating under the guise of the “intelligence community”. A harmless sounding label conveying the image of block parties, pot-luck suppers and book clubs. A family affair.
In their efforts to overthrow a President, the “intelligence community” solidly earned the designation of a domestic enemy of the U.S. Constitution.
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Americans Spent More on Taxes in 2018 Than on Food, Clothing and Health Care Combined
Americans on average spent more on taxes in 2018 than they did on the basic necessities of food, clothing and health care combined, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey.
The survey’s recently published Table R-1 for 2018 lists the average “detailed expenditures” of what the BLS calls “consumer units.”
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The New York Times has published a bombshell report about a new complaint filed against Boeing by a senior engineer, alleging the aircraft maker concentrated on prioritizing profits over the safety of the 737 Max airliner.
The Times learned about the new development from a source who requested anonymity, said the Boeing engineer filed the complaint after the two crashes (Lion Air accident in October 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines accident in March 2019).
Curtis Ewbank, the senior Boeing engineer who filed the complaint, called out top executives for publicly misrepresenting the safety of the plane…
By prioritizing profits, Boeing executives certainly seemed to rush the 737 Max from development into production, at the expense of safety, not just to contend with the Airbus A320neo, but to unlock billions of dollars in stock buybacks that were tied to significant milestones relating to plane’s sales. This enabled Boeing’s stock to rise nearly 300% in 36 months, while executives used the opportunity to dump company stock.
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(Fox News) As Democrats ramp up their impeachment efforts against President Trump, Fox News contributor Dan Bongino said the party is starting to panic at the possibility of being linked to illegal spying, as the Department of Justice inspector general prepares to release his report on the matter.
“It’s never going to stop. I mean, the republic is dying a slow death,” he said Monday on “Fox & Friends.” “We’re on life support here… They’re panicking because the IG report’s about to come out, which is about to expose a massive government spying operation against Donald Trump.
“Here’s the key takeaway — in collusion with foreign governments,” Bongino continued. “That’s why they’re panicking. And they’re panicking because… what the Obama administration did is 1,000 times worse than what they’re alleging Donald Trump did.”
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Dem Leaders Call for Trump’s Imprisonment, Torture and Execution
Because Trump is following the Constitution as to what a president does!
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“When government takes away its citizens’ right to bear arms it becomes the citizens’ duty to take away governments’ right to govern.” —credited to President George Washington
Here is how it is played out: On one side of the divide and conquer aisle (Mark 3:25) we have Donald Trump, sold to you as the Republican, who calls for illegal “red flag laws,” which are not law. In the end, they will be aimed at their political opposition.
On the other hand, we have those who are sold to you as the Democrats, who are calling for the removal of AR-15s and other semi-automatic weapons.
Which do you prefer? Do you prefer small infringements through the good guy Donald Trump, or complete disarmament by the bad guy? Either way, you are being disarmed and tyranny wins out.
I would advise everyone to take heed to President George Washington, who is responsible for arming the citizenry that we are to “guard ourselves against impostures of pretended patriotism” (Matthew 24:5-8; 2 Corinthians 11:14).
If you are paying attention, this is not only leading through “created” opposition, but it’s also happening through what is called the Hegelian dialectic (John 8:44).
Hegelian dialectic is defined as “a framework for guiding thoughts and actions into conflicts that lead to synthetic solutions (of a proposition— having truth or falsity determinable by recourse to experience) which can only be introduced once those being manipulated take a side that will produce the predetermined agenda (Outcome).”…
Friends, look to history. George Mason warned us that those who mean to disarm, mean to enslave.
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Hillary Clinton Says Not Getting a Divorce Was the ‘Gutsiest’ Thing She’s Ever Done
On Tuesday morning, former First Lady Hillary Clinton said not getting a divorce from former President Bill Clinton was the “gustiest thing” she’s ever done, personally. Publicly and politically, she said the gutsiest thing she’s done is run for president.
“I think the gutsiest thing I’ve ever done … Personally, make the decision to stay in my marriage. Publicly, politically, run for president,” Clinton said at an event for her latest book. She co-wrote The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience with her daughter, Chelsea.
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Hillary Clinton Has a Message for Anyone Concerned About Biden’s Treatment of Women: ‘Get Over it’
I have to admit, I don’t understand the rules of this whole #MeToo thing. We’re supposed to believe the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, even though there’s not a shred of evidence to support any of it. But we’re not supposed to believe the allegations against Al Franken, even with photographic evidence to back them up. And we’re especially not supposed to think there’s anything wrong with the way Joe Biden treats women, at least until we’re absolutely sure he’s not getting the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in 2020.
#Biden2020 is still a distinct possibility, so one of his former co-workers is speaking up for him. And his latest defender has plenty of experience running interference for problematic men. She’s a staunch advocate of women… who haven’t run afoul of the Democrats.
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Hillary Will Not Endorse Any Dem Candidate, Fueling Speculation She Will Run
Hillary Clinton announced last night that she will not endorse any of the Democratic candidates, fueling speculation that she may yet enter the race.
During an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Hillary was asked if she had endorsed anyone.
“No,” she responded, “no I’m not going to.”
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How Media Watchdogs Became Industry Lapdogs
The press plays an enormously important role in our society. It informs us about important events and reveals problems we might not have been aware of before. At least that’s the theory. Sadly, while the free press of the past indeed served the role of watchdog and independent informer, the press we have today is far from free and unbiased.
In fact, it’s hard to look at today’s press corps as champions for the free-flow of information. Most reporters simply aren’t, anymore. They do shape society, though — just not in the way you might think. Evidence reveals a deep trend of manipulation occurring in many fields, but it appears particularly prevalent in science and medicine.
One way by which industry and even government are shaping and manipulating the press is by way of press embargoes, and the so-called “close-hold embargo” in particular. Another way is through the creation of front groups, and there are now many dozens of industry front groups masquerading as independent information organizations.
Virtually every major industry employs front groups to give the appearance of independent thinking and reporting on industry affairs when, in reality, they’re simply spouting industry PR. As such, they are an integral part of an industry propaganda machine.
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Jeff Sessions Applauds Trump on Trade, Immigration, Foreign Policy
‘Republican Leadership Needs to Get Their Back Up’
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — It was a speech that could best be described as “vintage Jeff Sessions.”
Six miles and 1,312 days removed from where the former U.S. Senator gave GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump his first major endorsement of the 2016 presidential campaign, Sessions spoke to attendees at the Madison County, AL Republican Party’s Freedom Celebration gala. There he pledged his unwavering support for the current commander-in-chief and the policy positions that got Trump elected.
After acknowledging things could have gone better during his tenure as U.S. Attorney General and offering attendees a brief history of the rise of the GOP in Alabama, Sessions turned his focus on three critical areas of policy — trade and China, immigration and foreign policy…
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Jussie Smollett put himself back in the spotlight by blasting a social media post that compared the former “Empire” actor to a black girl who admitted Monday to lying about white boys attacking her and cutting off her dreadlocks.
Smollett — who denied he orchestrated a racist, anti-gay attack against himself in January despite Chicago police arresting him and charging him with felony disorderly conduct for filing a false police report — responded to an Instagram post Monday from celebrity gossip outfit “The Shade Room.”
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Republican congressional leaders accused Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Democrats of rigging the impeachment scheme after news broke that Schiff was in contact with the whistleblower before the complaint against President Donald Trump was filed.
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Remember a couple weeks ago when Joe Biden got enraged after Fox News’ Steve Doocy asked him if he’s ever discussed his son’s overseas business dealings with him? Part of Biden’s answer has made its way into a video President Trump tweeted today.
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McConnell Recognizes Millions Lost to Communism on 70th Anniversary of People’s Republic
Criticizes nation’s surveillance, censorship and totalitarian practices.
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Mechanic Charged With Sabotaging Flight May Have ISIS Ties
This article, Mechanic charged with sabotaging flight may have ISIS ties, originally appeared on CBSNews.com
Arlington, Virginia — An American Airlines mechanic charged with sabotaging a plane is now accused of having ties to terrorists. According to prosecutors, shared videos stored on his phone of ISIS murders.
Family of Alani were in court as a federal judge deemed him a danger and a flight risk, citing new evidence of potential terrorist sympathies in denying the 60-year-old mechanic bail.
On July 17th, Alani allegedly super glued styrofoam inside the nose of an American Airlines 737, interfering with the plane’s navigation system, prompting an alert stopping pilots from taking off. At the time, 150 people were on board but no one was hurt. Alani said he was upset about stalled contract talks which had affected him financially.
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New Lawsuit Alleges State of California Violated National Voter Registration Act
California is violating federal law by failing to verify citizenship before placing voters on the voter rolls, according to attorneys Harmeet Dhillon and Mark Meuser. They say this compromises the integrity of our election system.
Calling this “Judicial Watch 2.0,” Dhillon and Meuser filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Plaintiffs Roxanne Beckford Hoge, Ali Mazarei, and Corrin Rankin against Alex Padilla, California Secretary of State, and Steve Gordon, Director of California Department of Motor Vehicles for violations of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
The lawsuit alleges that the state is neglecting two of its three duties as outlined by the voter act. Judicial Watch already filed a federal lawsuit against Los Angeles County and the State of California over their failure to clean their voter rolls and to produce election-related records as required by the federal National Voter Registration Act. “Eleven of California’s 58 counties have registration rates exceeding 100% of the age-eligible citizenry,” Judicial Watch said. “California has the highest rate of inactive registrations of any state in the country. Los Angeles County has the highest number of inactive registrations of any single county in the country.”
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Police Charity Event on Hold After Chief Withdraws Because Republicans Were Invited: Report
A charity event planned in honor of an officer killed in a 2018 mass shooting at a country music bar in in Southern California has been postponed indefinitely — reportedly because a police chief didn’t want Republicans invited.
The Blue Bowl, a charity flag football game, was intended to raise money for the family of fallen Ventura County Sgt. Ron Helus as well as other officers killed in the line of duty, FOX 11 of Los Angeles reported.
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Pop Icon Morrissey Had a Left-Wing Protester Kicked Out of His Gig in Portland
The demonstrator held up signs showing a ‘For Britain’ party logo with a red cross through it and another that read “Bigmouth indeed.”
“Let’s be quite frank, when you with the sign are removed, I will continue, otherwise, get out now — go, go, go, go, go!” Said Morrissey. “We don’t need you!” he repeated over and over again.
“Goodbye! Goodbye! Goodbye!” he added as the protester was escorted out.
Over recent years, Morrissey has become increasingly vocal about his disgust with the leftist establishment and Islam.
“British mainstream media is now so politically correct that basic truth is actually impossible, and although it is obsessed with promoting social diversity they will not accept diverse opinion,” he asserted last year.
Back in June, the former Smiths singer said that, “Diversity can’t possibly be a strength if everyone has ideas that will never correspond.”
“If you try to make everything multicultural, you end up with no culture at all,” the performer also claimed.
He has also repeatedly taken jabs at the state of the press, commenting, “De-platforming and destroying lives is the principle motivation of modern journalism.”
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Sanders Has Heart Procedure, Cancels Campaign Events for Now
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders’ campaign said Wednesday that the Democratic presidential candidate had a heart procedure for a blocked artery and was canceling events and appearances “until further notice.”
The 78-year-old Vermont senator experienced chest discomfort during a campaign event Tuesday and sought medical evaluation. Two stents were “successfully inserted,” and Sanders “is conversing and in good spirits,” according to the campaign. He’s recovering at a Las Vegas hospital.
Sanders tweeted on Wednesday afternoon that he was “feeling good. I’m fortunate to have good health care and great doctors and nurses helping me to recover.”
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Trump and RNC Raise $125 Million in 3rd Quarter
Over the past three months, President Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee raised a staggering $125 million, according to the Associated Press. They’ve raised a total of $308 million in 2019, and have over $156 million on hand.
These numbers represent a fundraising record that breaks even that of Barack Obama, who raise just over $70 million in the third quarter of 2011.
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Trump: “We’re at War, These People Are Sick”
President Trump has accused Democrats of conducting a “coup” to remove him from office, commenting, “We’re at war, these people are sick.”
“As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!” tweeted Trump.
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Video: Home Invaders Run From AR-15 Pointed at Them
Video shows what preparations to make when dealing with a potential home invasion
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WTO Sides With US, Says Trump Can Retaliate for Billions in Illegal Airbus Subsidies
Just as the US-China trade talks are set to resume at the highest level, the WTO has made a second front in the global trade war far more likely, when moments ago the World Trade Organization gave President Trump a green light to impose tariffs on as much as $7.5 billion worth of European exports annually in retaliation for illegal government aid to Airbus SE.
WTO ON WEDNESDAY ISSUED RULING ON 15-YEAR-LONG U.S. TRADE CASE VS. AIRBUS WTO SAYS U.S. CAN RETALIATE AGAINST $7.5B IN EU GOODS A YEAR U.S. EXPECTED TO IMPOSE TARIFFS ON EU BEFORE NEGOTIATING SETTLEMENT U.S. HAS RIGHT TO RETALIATE FOR ILLEGAL EU SUBSIDIES TO AIRBUS —WTO
The decision represents one of the last hurdles before the U.S. can announce which products from the European Union it will target with tariffs selected from an initial list that includes:
Airbus planes and parts Wine and spirits produced by LVMH, Remy Cointreau SA, Pernod Ricard SA and Diageo PLC Leather goods manufactured by Christian Dior SE and Hermes International
The new tariffs can take effect after the WTO adopts the report, which is expected to happen at a meeting in Geneva this month. According to Bloomberg, the award is the largest in WTO history, and is nearly twice as large as the previous record of $4.04 billion set in 2002.
More importantly, the long-awaited ruling marks a milestone in the WTO’s longest-running dispute that will further test transatlantic relations which have deteriorated under Trump’s “America First” approach to international ties, with tariffs now virtually assured. It’s also an example of Trump getting a favorable ruling from an organization he has threatened to pull out of.
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“There is No Climate Emergency”: Scientists Call for Reasoned Debate
With those five simple words, a global network of scientists and professionals attempted to inject reasonableness and decorum into what should be a robust discussion about a complex scientific and public policy issue, but has instead degenerated into an ever more intense mud-slinging contest over the years.
People on one side of the argument dismiss their opponents as wild-eyed socialists attempting to leverage public fear and ignorance to further their political agenda. On the opposite side, people dismiss those who disagree with their supposedly settled scientific conclusions as nothing more than knowing shills or ignorant dupes of evil energy interests.
In between those extremes that are so popular with armies of public relations professionals, who shape the messages of public interest groups and professional politicians to maximum effect, are a not-so-quiet silent majority of scientists and professionals who take a more measured, reasoned view of the science when considering the supposed climate emergency some say we’re facing.
A group of 500-some scientists and professionals signed on to the “European Climate Declaration” that was released last week. This simple, short, and understandable statement proposed how analysis of any public policy issue involving complex science should be approached from a reasoned, fact-based perspective.
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Dutch Farmers Revolt, Paralyzing Roads With Mass Protests Against Environmental Directives
The Netherlands saw massive traffic jams over 1,000km long on the roads toward the Hague on Tuesday as thousands of farmers descended on the city to stage mass demonstrations on their tractors.
The mass demonstration was triggered by a recent proposal by the D66 party, a member of the governing coalition, which suggested that livestock farming should be reduced considerably to reduce nitrogen emissions.
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Europeans Reject Boris’s Politically ‘Unacceptable’ Final Brexit Offer
Europeans have provisionally rejected Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “take it or leave it” final Brexit deal.
The UK’s chief Brexit negotiator David Frost arrived in Brussels on Wednesday afternoon to deliver to the EU Brexit proposals that aim to remove the Irish backstop.
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Five Vatican Officials Suspended Over Finance Probe
AIF Director Di Ruzza among suspended managers
(ANSA) — Vatican City, October 2 — Five senior Vatican officials have been preventively suspended in relation to a probe into alleged financial irregularities, news magazine L’Espresso reported on Wednesday. The news comes after the Vatican said on Tuesday that prosecutors had seized documents from the offices of the city state’s Financial Information Authority (AIF) and its Secretariat of State. The seizure was made after complaints by Vatican Bank IOR and the Vatican auditor’s office, a statement said.
AIF Director Tommaso Di Ruzza is reportedly among the suspended officials.
The Secretariat of State is the department in charge of the Vatican’s administration while the AIF is a financial oversight body.
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Over cemetery services debt
(ANSA) — Rome, October 1 — The board of Rome trash company AMA resigned on Tuesday, sources said.
The decision was made just 100 days after it took over due to a dispute with the city council, the sources said.
President Luisa Melara, Managing Director Paolo Longoni and director Massimo Ranieri, plus the others, resigned over a clash with Rome city council over 18 million euros owed for cemetery services. This issue also caused the resignation of the previous board, chaired by Lorenzo Bagnacani. The placement of the 18 million in a risk fund failed to avert the board’s resignation.
On Saturday the city council said it had no intention of approving “a balance sheet drawn up in an incorrect way containing assessments of accounting already previously not approved by the council”.
Rome is going through the latest of its trash emergencies.
Mayor Virgina Raggi on Tuesday night named Stefano Zaghis the new AMA chief.
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Italy: EU Should Offset Tariffs — Bellanova
‘Italy can’t pay for Trump tariffs after losing 1bn on Russia’
(ANSA) — Rome, October 1 — The EU should think of “instruments of compensation” to safeguard the incomes of Italian agricultural producers and the agri-food sector, Farm Minister Teresa Bellanova said Tuesday.
“‘Made in Italy’ cannot pay for Trump’s tariffs, after already losing a billion euros because of the Russian embargo”, she sid.
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Nationalists Win 53% in Austria, Sebastian Kurz to Become Chancellor
Wow, so nationalists won back Austria. That’s fantastic news! OVP won 37% + FPO’s 16%, now they finally get a clear majority of 53%
Exit polls released following Austria’s parliamentary elections have shown a clear victory for Sebastian Kurz’s Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), strong gains for the Greens, and significant losses for the right-wing populist Freedom Party.
According to Sunday’s exit polls, the ÖVP garnered 37.2 percent of the vote, marking an increase of 5.7 percentage points compared to elections in 2017. The Social Democrat Party of Austria saw sizable losses, receiving 22.0 of the vote, marking a decrease of 4.9 percentage from 2017. This is the worst the SPÖ has ever fared in a National Council Election. The Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) hemorrhaged the most support of any party, sliding down to 16.0 percent from 26.0 in the previous election.
The Green Party saw the largest gains with the exit polls showing a 14.3 percent result, marking a 10.5 percent increase from the last national election.
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Netherlands: Mosque-Run Salafist Schools Are Indoctrinating Children With Radical Islamic Worldviews
A joint investigation by Nieuwsuur and the newspaper NRC has revealed that children who attend mosque-run fundamentalist Muslim schools across the Netherlands are being taught to esteem Sharia law over Dutch law.
According to the report, these mosque-run schools are indoctrinating their young students to turn their backs on Dutch values, and that individuals with different faiths deserve the death penalty, Dutch News reports.
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One Dead, Ten Injured in Brutal Sword Attack at Finnish College
One person has been killed and another ten have been wounded after a student brought a sword to a local college in Kuopio, Finland and began attacking people, police say.
According to police, when they arrived at the crime scene at around 12:39 pm, the suspect, who is said to be ‘native-born Finnish citizen’, was carrying a ‘saber-like weapon’ and a firearm. Police then used firearms to subdue the dangerous assailant.
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Swedes are on the move. Problems in many municipalities are prompting Swedes to leave for other areas with fewer socioeconomic problems. The issue has recently gained the attention of the Swedish mainstream media.
Take the small, picturesque town of Filipstad (population 10,000), for example. Swedish television recently made a documentary about the town, which finds itself in both a financial and an existential crisis. “We are experiencing a population exchange. You can think of that what you want… But it is simply a statement of fact that this is actually what we are going through and we have to deal with it”, Jim Frölander, integration manager in the Filipstad municipality, says in the documentary. Between 2012 and 2018, 640 native Swedes left the town, and 963 foreign-born people moved into the town. Those leaving are people of working age (20-64), which means that the municipality’s tax revenues are shrinking, exacerbating town’s financial crisis.
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Sweden: Migrant Who Impregnated an 11-Year-Old Twice Sentenced to Only Three Years
A military-aged migrant has been sentenced to just three years in prison for repeatedly raping an 11-year-old and getting her pregnant twice. In addition to the three-year prison sentence, the Swedish court also ruled that the migrant would be able to return to Sweden after 10 years.
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Tommy Robinson on Exposing the BBC’s John Sweeney
The BBC’s John Sweeney retired yesterday — but not before taking a swipe at Tommy Robinson, who was the subject of a would-be take-down episode of the show Panorama.
Tommy turned that fiasco into a documentary of his own, called Panodrama.
On last night’s show, Tommy Robinson joined me to talk about Sweeney’s resignation, his statements about him and more.
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UK: Black Gang of 16 Knife Wielders Single Out White Victims in London
A gang of sixteen knife-wielding thugs robbed a group of young athletes in London’s Finsbury Park, threatening to kill the three white people if they didn’t hand over their phones, but telling the black people who were with them “you’re good.”
The six victims, reportedly the ‘biggest athletes’ from the sports academy, were walking home through the park last Monday at around 8:00 pm when they discovered they were being pursued by a group of 16 males, the Islington Gazette reports.
“They were being tailed by one of them on a bike. Then there were 16 of them. They circled them and picked one off to the side and said: ‘Give me your phone or I will stab you — put in your Apple Pay password,” Adrian Klemens, a coach of the Dynamic Sports Academy recalled.
“Out of our group three were white and three were black and they said to the black guys: ‘You’re good,’ and just attacked the white guys,” Klemens continued.
After the victim put his password in wrong several times since the account wasn’t his own, one of the assailants told him: “If you get this wrong again you’re dead.”
Thanks to his athleticism and his nerve, the victim grabbed his phone and made a mad dash out of the situation. The two other white victims in the group — aged 17 and 22 — weren’t so lucky and had their phones stolen.
The victim who had to run for his life is now fearful to go back to the academy.
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UK: Burger King ‘Condoned Antisocial Behaviour’ With Milkshake Ad, Says Watchdog
Britain’s advertising watchdog has reprimanded Burger King for writing they were “selling milkshakes all weekend” after a string of milkshake attacks on right-wing politicians.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld complaints against the fast-food outlet of condoning anti-social behaviour and encouraging further assaults.
Far-left activists had thrown milkshakes at right-wing political candidates Tommy Robinson and Carl Benjamin on the campaign trail during May’s European Parliament elections. A similar incident had occurred against a Social Democratic Party (SDP) stall in Peterborough.
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UK: Court to Rule if Boris Can be Jailed for Refusing to Delay Brexit
A Scottish judge could force Prime Minister Boris Johnson to request a Brexit extension or face a fine or imprisonment.
The legal bid has been launched by anti-Brexit campaigner Jolyon Maugham QC and member of the leftist Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) Joanna Cherry. Both were involved in the successful Supreme Court challenge against the government over the suspension of parliament last week. The case is being funded by millionaire green energy industrialist Dale Vince.
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Police are seeking new legal powers against protesters after Extinction Rebellion demonstrators brought parts of London to a standstill.
The environmental campaign group is planning to shut down much of Westminster with rallies outside key buildings over two weeks of action starting on Monday.
The Metropolitan Police vowed to arrest an unlimited number of demonstrators if they break protest conditions, despite the “cost” to wider policing in the capital.
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UK: First Known Case of Brexit-Triggered Psychosis Confirmed in Remain Voter
A 40-year-old Remain voter was confirmed as the first person medically recognised to have suffered from mental illness brought on by Brexit.
The man was admitted to an accident and emergency ward three weeks after the June 2016 vote to leave the European Union in “an acute psychotic state” and was detained under the Mental Health Act. He was reported to have been suffering from insomnia and paranoia and was hearing voices, according to an article written in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
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European Court Orders Bosnia to Remove a Serbian Orthodox Church
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Monday that Bosnia and Herzegovina must take “all necessary measures” to remove a Serbian Orthodox church that was built in the courtyard of a Muslim woman expelled from her village during the country’s 1992-95 war.
The court ruled that the 1998 church construction had been illegal and constituted a violation of the right to property, stipulating a three-month deadline to carry out the verdict and remove the church.
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Exclusive: Twitter Executive for Middle East is British Army ‘Psyops’ Soldier
The senior Twitter executive with editorial responsibility for the Middle East is also a part-time officer in the British Army’s psychological warfare unit, Middle East Eye has established.
Gordon MacMillan, who joined the social media company’s UK office six years ago, has for several years also served with the 77th Brigade, a unit formed in 2015 in order to develop “non-lethal” ways of waging war.
The 77th Brigade uses social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, as well as podcasts, data analysis and audience research to wage what the head of the UK military, General Nick Carter, describes as “information warfare”.
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Putin Shames Greta Thunberg and Her Handlers Over Environmental Agenda
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday chided Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg and her adult handlers, after the 16-year-old gave an emotional speech at the UN late last month.
“Sure, Greta is kind, but emotions should not control this issue,” said Putin.
“Go and explain to developing countries why they should continue living in poverty and not be like Sweden,” he added, before saying that it was deplorable how some groups are using Thunberg to achieve their own goals.
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Indian Minor Girl Begs on Video 3 Muslims in Allah’s Name Not to Rape Her, But They Do it Anyway
All over the world, non-Muslim, including those who are in positions of power, assume that if Muslims would only adhere to the true teachings of Islam, then there would be peace and harmony between Muslim and non-Muslim communities, and behavior such as what is described in this story would disappear.
Unfortunately, that is an unrealistic assumption. The behavior here of Mohammed Chotka, Mohammed Badka, and Mohammed Nazim has solid Qur’anic sanction, and at least some Muslim rapists know this: one survivor of a Muslim rape gang in the UK said that her rapists would quote Quran to her, and believed their actions justified by Islam.
The Qur’an teaches that Infidel women can be lawfully taken for sexual use (cf. its allowance for a man to take “captives of the right hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.” (33:59) The implication there is that if women do not cover themselves adequately with their outer garments, they may be abused, and that such abuse would be justified.
“‘Brother, please leave me for your Allah’s sake’ pleaded the minor Dalit Hindu girl to her rapists,” HinduPost, September 23, 2019:
A 16-year-old Hindu Dalit girl was gang-raped by 3 Muslims in UP’s Kaushambi district on Saturday. Villagers in Sarai Aquil area caught hold of one of the accused while the other two managed to flee. Later angry villagers surrounded the police station of the area, alleging police misbehaviour with the girl’s family.
The girl had gone to cut grass near the Eidgah (open-air gathering place used for Muslim festival of Eid) of a neighboring village, when the 3 Muslim men abducted her and took her to an isolated spot where they raped her one by one. They also shot a video of the incident and uploaded it on social media. After raping her, the accused also threatened to kill the girl.
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China Unveils ‘Doomsday Bomb’ While U.S. Military Concentrates on “Diversity”
Good luck with that.
While China unveiled a new ‘doomsday’ nuclear bomb that can “strike the US within 30 minutes with ten warheads,” a top US General declared gender and race “diversity” to be a “warfighting necessity” against the homogeneous forces of China and Russia.
We’re truly scr*wed.
Billed as the “ultimate doomsday weapon,” the fearsome super nuke was displayed during China’s 70th anniversary parade in Tiananmen Square.
“The Dongfeng-41 is a 7,672 mph intercontinental ballistic missile that is said to have the furthest range of any nuclear missile and could reach the US in 30 minutes,” reports the Sun.
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China Creates First Cloned Kitten: ‘Meets the Emotional Needs of Young Generations’
A company in China has created the first cloned cat in the country after the original cat died suddenly in January.
Huang Yu reached out to Sinogene, a commercial pet-cloning company that has already cloned more than 40 dogs, after his cat, Garlic, died unexpectedly of a urinary tract infection.
“In my heart, Garlic is irreplaceable,” Huang, 22, said in an interview with The New York Times. “Garlic didn’t leave anything for future generations, so I could only choose to clone.”
[Comment: Article dated September 6, 2019.]
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Hong Kong Protesters Go on Rampage to Denounce Police Shooting of Student
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong anti-government demonstrators clashed with police into the early hours of Thursday, venting their anger over a policeman’s shooting and wounding of a teenager earlier in the week, as months of protests show no sign of letting up.
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Kidnapped Italian Aid Worker Allegedly Forced to Convert to Islam
Italian intelligence officials have claimed that kidnapped aid worker Silvia Romano is alive and was forced to convert to Islam and marry a Somalian man.
The 23-year-old Italian national was kidnapped in Kenya in November of last year and taken prisoner in the village of Chakama, 50 miles from Nairobi.
Intelligence officials said she was then taken to territory in southern Somalia controlled by the radical Islamist organisation al-Shabab. Her captors then forced her to convert to Islam, Il Giornale reports.
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Brazil Pipe Sector Focuses on Knowledge to Beat Uncertainty
International scenario has influenced Brazilian market
(ANSA) — Sao Paulo, September 30 — Brazil is one of the world’s biggest exporters of steel, with products distributed in more than 100 countries across the globe, but the current economic scenario, which is less than encouraging, has led firms in the metallurgy and pipes sector to prick up their ears, in search of ways to overcome the momentary crisis. According to data from the Brazilian Steel Institute (IABr), Brazilian steel production registered a fall of 13.4% in the month of August, reaching 2.52 million tonnes. Furthermore, sales on the domestic market fell 7.2%, for a total of 1.61 million tonnes.
The crisis in the sector worsened at the beginning of the year, after the European Union announced it was setting tariff barriers on Brazilian steel products, within the framework of the ongoing trade war between the United States and China. This decision was a reaction to the tariffs on the international import of steel announced by US President Donald Trump. To that can be added the still slow recovery of the Brazilian economy and the crisis undermining its neighbour Argentina.
“Chinese raw materials have always been a source of concern for us,” says in a conversation with ANSA David Campos, commercial director of Remadi, a firm that specialises in zinc-plated attachments and hydraulic metals, adding that “malleable pig iron can be obtained from iron remains, but we have brass, stainless steel and aluminium products which are more sensitive to these raw material problems”.
The most difficult scenarios, however, can yield opportunities. According to Flávio Paiva, managing director of IPC Brasile, which produces iron connections, this context of uncertainty requires companies to adopt a “strategic and academic approach”.
“We do not believe in luck or chance. When there is no good wave to surf on, knowledge becomes more important to got and navigate directly on the market. Prices, logistics, the dollar, inflation: all these factors are practically identical for all competing firms, but the difference consists in the way in which each stores knowledge, and the use they make of it. For us, knowledge is everything”, Paiva told ANSA. In his opinion, trade tensions at a global level and the exchange rate problems in Brazil are reasons to be concerned, but there are also “signs of optimism, albeit with a certain dose of caution”, in relation to a possible improvement in the economy.
“Knowledge is what allowed us to grow at higher rates than out competitors. If we make a comparison, the sector registers a contraction, and yet IPC Brasile is growing, so I would like to recommend to all firms to invest in the most important thing, knowledge,” Paiva concluded.
Remadi, for example, has bet on a strategy of persuasion to demonstrate the importance of investing in high quality products in fire fighting, which is one of its focal points of action.
“Our products are competitive, but not cheap, because of the technology. We must convince firms that they need good maintenance of fire fighting equipment, because this will serve to protect people. We must present it as a kind of investment to save human lives”, explained the manager, David Campos.
This knowhow and strategies of the firms in sector will be part of what will be exhibited, October 1-3, during the Fair of international pipes, valves, pumps, connections and components (Tubotech), which will take place in Sao Paulo. The 10th edition of the event, organized by the Brazilian Associazione of the Industry of metallic pipes and accessories (Abitam) and Cipa Fiera Milano, is seen by the segment as an opportunity to expand the business and partnerships of the sector. At the same time as Tubotech, there will also be the 4th edition of Wire South America, the international fair of wires and cables.
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After Years of Open Borders, Sweden Unemployment Rate Approaches Highest in EU
Sweden’s unemployment rate is rising and is now one of the highest in the European Union, despite Prime Minister Stefan Löfven promising to reduce it.
New Eurostat figures reveal that the country is now 24th out of 28 EU member states in unemployment levels, Expressen reports.
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Greek Government to Conduct Mass Deportations While it Tightens Asylum Policy for Migrants
Following Sunday’s deadly fire at Moria migrant facility on Greece’s Lesbos island, the Greek government has announced several new measures designed to manage the surging flow of migrants coming into the country.
Stelios Petsas, a spokesperson for the Greek government, has announced that the Greek Ministerial Council has decided to clamp down on its asylum application system and increase deportations.
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Masked Antifa Radical Who Harassed Elderly Lady is a Syrian Migrant
One of the masked Antifa radicals who harassed an elderly lady with a rolling walker during a protest in Hamilton, Ontario is Syrian migrant Alaa Soufi DaLua.
As we previously highlighted, the old woman was confronted as she tried to cross the road by a group of Antifa members who proceeded to yell “Nazi scum!” in her face.
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Orban Offers to Assist Globalist-Ruled Italy in Controlling Its Borders
Following his re-election as president of Fidesz over the weekend, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban offered to assist globalist-controlled Italy in controlling its borders and deporting illegal migrants.
During his address to the congress of his national populist Fidesz party, Orban extended a helping hand to Italy’s globalist Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in the interest of defending the people of Europe from mass immigration from the 3rd world, About Hungary reports.
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Refugee Arrested in Italy for Raping 11-Year-Old Girl Who Was Returning Home From School
A 20-year-old immigrant was arrested in Bologna for child rape. Near the station of Bazzano, in the Municipality of Valsamoggia in the Bolognese area, he attacked and harassed an 11-year-old girl who, after finishing school, was returning home. Italian children can’ t even return home from school in peace anymore. Worse than the jungle.
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Virginia Police Officer Suspended After Handing Over Suspected Illegal to ICE
A Fairfax County, Va., police officer has been suspended after turning over a suspected illegal alien to ICE following a traffic accident.
The incident occurred on September 21 and the officer has not been identified.
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Director Todd Phillips Says He Made Joker Because “Woke” Hollywood Killed Comedy
Joker director Todd Phillips says that “woke” Hollywood and Twitter mob outrage culture has killed comedy.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Phillips said he turned to other themes because he found it increasingly difficult to make comedies in a new “woke” Hollywood that scrutinizes every joke through the lens of identity politics.
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Latest Victim of Cancel Culture: Gandhi
NPR has dug up the equivalent of Gandhi’s old tweets and denounced him as a racist.
That’s right; Gandhi is cancelled!
“While Gandhi is deeply revered as a spiritual and political leader, people are now scrutinizing his sexual practices and his early writings in South Africa, which many black Africans are calling racist,” NPR tweeted.
According to the article, “many black Africans are calling Gandhi a racist” and “#MeToo activists are questioning his sexual practices.”
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Pope Francis Endorses Homosexuality in the Catholic Church
Jesuit Pope Francis has met privately with an American Jesuit priest (we explained here about Jesuits) who has been attacked by conservative US Catholics for reaching out to gays, the latest evidence of Francis’ willingness to shrug off right-wing criticism for the sake of his Satanic priorities.
In the last two years, a number of Catholic seminaries and universities have canceled lectures and appearances by Martin, often after pressure from conservative groups.
Father James Martin, a Jesuit like the pope, is the author of the 2017 book “Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity”.
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The time for following is over. It’s time to re-commit. It’s time to lead.
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Recently, a serious incident occurred in Balashikha near Moscow – an important German official (35 years old) was raped in the park. So far, no details. But this is a troubled area. The other day, a migrant taxi driver, an ethnic Uzbek, almost raped a 14-year-old girl.
“A 16-year-old Hindu Dalit girl was gang-raped by 3 Muslims in UP’s Kaushambi district on Saturday. Villagers in Sarai Aquil area caught hold of one of the accused while the other two managed to flee.” I sure hope the villagers took care of the problem and at least that one of the three won’t be able to harm anyone ever again.
EU court with the judge Faris …ić (hehe, nomen est omen) orders demolition of a small Orthodox church in Konjević Polje about 20km from Srebrenica, Bosnia: https://insajder.in/novost/644789/vojin-protiv-fate-sprijecicu-rusenje-crkve-u-konjevic-polju
This guy is like how a professor should be, and strips bare what is happening in Sweden and with his own background and experience.
The path of the politics in turning into an islamic state, and how it is harnessing the socialist identity politics, feminist reasoning, the tightening up on ‘freedom of speech’, police issues, immigration, and the escalating emigration flight, increasing immigration, taxes, welfare state etc..
He brings up many points in the symptoms and signs, and how the politics of “double pincer movements” are pushing the speed of this.
This is in Swedish with sub titles but is worth watching. It is a dire warning:
“Sweden is colonized by Islam “Sweden’s tipping point has probably passed recently””
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZGDWgsaDlE&t=1431s
32 mins 43 secs —- Aug 23, 2019
“Sweden is facing a two-front war in Islam’s ambition to establish an Islamic state.
Hans Jensevik goes through all the facts that clearly show that Islam will take over Sweden”