A Somali migrant in Canada was convicted of five counts of attempted murder for an incident in which he ran down a policeman with a truck, and injured four bystanders while attempting to flee. The offenses occurred in Edmonton in 2017. The policeman, who was also stabbed by the angry refugee, survived the attack.
In other news, a professor at Arizona State University said that grading and good grammar are examples of white supremacy.
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S&P 500, Dow End Near Record Territory on Trade, Earnings Optimism
The S&P 500 clinched its second-highest close in history Friday, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished less than 1.5% below its record close following encouraging signs in corporate earnings and reports that the U.S. and China were close to completing some sections of a recently agreed trade deal.
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Ben Carson’s Warning: Political Correctness Will Destroy the U.S. [Video]
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson took aim at “political correctness” in a warning to Americans at a contentious committee hearing. Carson is cautioning against the impulse to control speech and expression saying that it would “destroy” the country.
During Tuesday’s House Financial Services hearing, a leftist and advocate of squashing free speech, Representative Jennifer Wexton (D-Virginia) raised concerns over previous comments Carson had made about “big, hairy men.” These comments were widely understood to be directed at transgender women, but democrats are famous for taking statements out of context, so it really could have been nothing. Wexton asked Carson to apologize for his comments, but the secretary was having none of it.
“I think this whole concept of political correctness — you can say this, you can’t say that, you can’t repeat what someone said — is total foolishness and it’s going to destroy our nation,” Carson shot back, adding: “We need to be more mature than that.” Unfortunately, this too was taken as “hate speech,” as you can see in Wexton’s comments posted to Twitter:
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FBI Agents Manipulated Flynn File, As Clapper Allegedly Urged ‘Kill Shot’: Court Filing
An explosive new court filing from Michael Flynn’s legal team alleges that FBI agents manipulated official records of the former national security adviser’s 2017 interview that led to him being charged with lying to investigators. It’s Flynn’s lawyers’ latest attempt to get the case thrown out.
Sidney Powell, Flynn’s attorney, filed a 37-page motion on Thursday, outlining several big allegations, once again requesting the government produce all evidence as it relates to Flynn — urging the court to “dismiss the entire prosecution for outrageous government misconduct” and hold the prosecutors in contempt.
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Florida Man Friday: Molesting Olaf Doll is Right on Target
You may never have seen a Florida Man Friday quite like this one.
As regular readers know, I keep a set of browser tabs open at all times, just for collecting Florida Man & Woman stories, then collect the best of the bunch and present them in a totally non-judgmental way. This week, the browser tabs are so full that I had to split them up into three browser windows just to have a chance at trying to get them organized into something slightly more coherent than a naked Florida Man, dancing down I-4, eating bath salts, and carrying a drunk alligator.
I have tried. I may have failed.
In any case, this week’s adventures include a bikini-clad vape thief, insane tractor violence, and what not to do with your extra bees.
So slip out of your work shoes and into a pair of beat-up flip-flops and join me on another disjointed…
Florida Man Friday!
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Former San Diego Man Accused of Supporting ISIS Appears in Court
SAN DIEGO — A former San Diego man accused of conspiring to provide material support to ISIS made his initial court appearance Friday.
Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi, 34, currently of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is charged with providing support to ISIS, which allegedly involved him providing personnel and money to those engaged in terrorist activities in Syria.
Abdullahi is accused of facilitating the travel of at least three Canadians and two Americans to Syria to fight for ISIS, all of whom were later killed fighting for the terrorist group, including Douglas McCain, a former San Diego man who was killed in Syria in 2014. McCain is believed to be the first U.S. citizen to die while fighting for the terrorist organization.
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Gabbard Ends Congressional Reelection Campaign to Focus on Presidential Bid
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) announced Friday that she will no longer seek reelection to Congress next year so that she can concentrate all her energy on her campaign for the presidency.
Gabbard, a major in the Army National Guard who served two tours in the Middle East, has made a noninterventionist foreign policy the centerpiece of her campaign, and she continued to do so in her Friday announcement.
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Last night was historic. The news coming out on four fronts indicates that the Deep State should be very worried. Those of us uncovering the many corrupt actions taken by President Obama’s Deep State have been looking forward to this day for some time! Last night it was as if the planets aligned against the Deep State. On four different fronts it’s now clear that the crooks in the Obama Administration should be very worried.
1. The FISA Report The first event reported is that the DOJ IG’s FISA report is about to be released. FOX News reported yesterday the following —
2. AG Barr and John Durham’s Investigation into Deep State crimes Last night we also received word that AG Barr’s Justice Department’s review into the actions of Deep State players before and after the 2016 election by DA John Durham has turned into a criminal investigation. The far-left New York Times broke the story —
3. Sidney Powell’s filing Regarding General Flynn’s case We also found out late last night that Sidney Powell is aware of numerous documents and actions by Obama’s Deep State that have been withheld from General Flynn that are damning to the government’s case. These are so damning that she is asking the court to dismiss the case against General Flynn.
4. Recent Reports regarding Obama VP Biden’s pay-for-play scandals We also learned last night that Joe Biden during the time he was Obama’s VP, partook in actions resulting in payments to him and his son Hunter. These payments go beyond the Ukraine and China. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani claimed previously that Biden was suspect of a pay-for-plan scandal in Romania. NBC News last night posted this piece —
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Lebron James Screams, Walks Off Court During National Anthem
LeBron James disrespected the national anthem and walked off the court shouting at the crowd as the song played during Tuesday’s season-opener.
As the anthem played ahead of the Lakers’ opener against the Clippers, James was seen leaving the court as the rest of his team stood at attention. Stomping off the court, James crowed “let’s goooo” as he unzipped his sweat jacket before taking a seat on the sidelines as everyone else observed the anthem.
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‘Moral Stain’: Ilhan Omar Vows to Enact Law to ‘Guarantee a Home for Everyone’
Rep. Ilhan Omar said she plans to introduce a “Homes For All” bill that she hopes will guarantee a home for every person in the U.S.
“It is a moral stain on our country that we have half-a-million or more people facing homelessness,” the Minnesota Democrat said Thursday at a congressional town hall for women of color. “In a few weeks, we are going to introduce our ‘Homes For All’ legislation, which will, hopefully, guarantee a home for everyone.”
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Professor Says Grading, Good Grammar Are Examples of White Supremacy
MUNCIE, Ind. — Ball State University recently hosted a presentation to “engage with the question of how English language practices in college classrooms contribute to white supremacy.”
“Freeing Our Minds and Innovating Our Pedagogy from White Language Supremacy” was the title of the 75-minute guest lecture given on October 14 by Asao Inoue, a professor and the associate dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University.
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Rep. Katie Hill is threatening to sue the Daily Mail tabloid news site after it published nude pictures of her with a campaign aide with whom she had a relationship.
Her attorneys accused the outlet, a sister publication of Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper, of breaching revenge-porn laws in California that prohibit the unauthorized sharing of explicit photos.
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Rich Libs in Silicon Valley to Host ‘Poverty Simulation’
Residents of Cupertino, Calif., and the surrounding enclaves populated by wealthy liberals will soon have the opportunity to attend a government-sponsored “poverty simulation” designed to educate participants on “the reality of a Silicon Valley that grows in disparity as much as prosperity.”
The event will take place on Nov. 2 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Cupertino Senior Center. During the two-hour simulation, participants will “work to overcome barriers to social services, live off insufficient income, and encounter unforeseen economic obstacles along the way,” according to the City of Cupertino website.
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Sex Offenders Sue Sheriff Over ‘No Trick-or-Treat’ Signs
A group of registered sex offenders in Georgia is suing a county sheriff’s office for placing signs in their front yards warning residents not to trick-or-treat at their homes on Halloween.
Butts County Sheriff Gary Long’s office placed the large white signs in the offenders’ yards last Halloween and had plans to do it again this year, but the federal class-action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Macon, Georgia, hopes to stop it.
The posters include images of two stop signs, the “no” symbol plastered across a Halloween bag and the message: “WARNING! NO TRICK-OR-TREAT AT THIS ADDRESS!!”
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Soros Says Tide Turning Back to Globalists
Self-proclaimed globalist George Soros is bragging to the New York Times that the tide is turning for the global elite.
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Soros Group Eclipses $70 Million Spent on Lobbying Since Trump Took Office
he Open Society Policy Center (OSPC), an advocacy group funded by billionaire George Soros, has now pushed more than $70 million into lobbying efforts since Donald Trump took office.
Soros’s policy group, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that focuses on domestic and international advocacy, pushed $72 million into lobbying since January 2017. The amount that OSPC has put toward advocacy efforts over the last two-and-a-half years is a drastic uptick over what the group had spent in the prior 14 years combined.
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Ted Danson, Jane Fonda Arrested at Climate Crisis Protest
For the third consecutive week, Jane Fonda was taken away in ziptie handcuffs during a climate crisis protest at the US Capitol, but this time she was joined by fellow actor Ted Danson.
The pair were arrested by US Capitol Police during what Fonda has coined “Fire Drill Fridays” following weeks of climate crisis demonstrations at the Capitol.
A USCP spokesperson told CNN that 32 people were arrested for “unlawfully demonstrating in the intersection of East Capitol and First Streets” and were charged with crowding, obstructing or incommoding.
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Trump Cancelling Government Subscriptions to ‘Fake News’ NYT and Wa. Post
“We don’t even want it in the White House anymore”
President Trump has proposed a plan to cancel all government subscriptions to the New York Times and the Washington Post, saying that it will save hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“Not renewing subscriptions across all federal agencies will be a significant cost saving—hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars will be saved,” White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in an email to the Wall Street Journal‘s Andrew Restuccia.
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You’re going down, Clapper!
Sean Hannity opened his show on Thursday tonight with breaking news — Attorney General Bill Barr says Prosecutor John Durham’s investigation is now a CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION!
The New York Times reported that DOJ Durham probe has “shifted” from an administrative review of the Russia investigation “to a criminal inquiry.”
Also last night Attorney Sidney Powell dropped the General Flynn court documents.
The news was devastating for Obama’s former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper who is connected to the felony leak of General Flynn’s discussion with Russian Kislyak before President Trump’s 2017 Inauguration!
Clapper looked a bit nervous and confused when he went on CNN, where he is a contributor, to discuss this latest development in the attempted coup of President Donald Trump.
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Breaking: Justin Trudeau is Taking US Back to Federal Court
Moments ago — at 5 p.m. Eastern Time today, on a Friday night, just before the weekend — I received an urgent e-mail from our free speech lawyers.
Justin Trudeau just served us with a notice of appeal to our Federal Court win,which allowed us to report on the leaders’ debates during the election.
He’s sending lawyers to the Federal Court of Appeal to overturn our free speech victory in the campaign, the one that got us into the election debates.
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Man Who Attacked Canada Police Officer With Truck Guilty of Attempted Murder
(Reuters) — A Somali immigrant who ran down a Canadian police officer with a truck and then stabbed him repeatedly was found guilty on Friday of attempted murder, the Crown prosecutor’s office said.
Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, 32, had denied the charges in connection with the incident in Edmonton, Alberta, on Sept. 30, 2017, when authorities say he attacked the officer then struck four pedestrians while trying to flee in a U-Haul truck.
Police said they found a flag of the Islamic State militant group in the truck driven by Sharif, but no charges of terrorism were filed. He is due to be sentenced on 11 offenses, including five counts of attempted murder, on Dec. 12-13.
All his victims suffered broken bones and head injuries, while the policeman — Constable Mike Chernyk — was also stabbed in the chest and neck, authorities said.
According to U.S. officials, Sharif spent several months in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement before being deported from the United States in 2011.
The Canadian government said Sharif was given refugee status the following year after he made a claim at the border…
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Nova Scotia Paints Over Pro-Military Tribute on Veteran’s Memorial Highway
Artwork honoring veterans was painted over by the Nova Scotia government.
The five modest paintings on rock faces along Nova Scotia’s Highway 102 were a tribute to the Canadian military and their contributions to the freedom of the entire world, but have now been whitewashed away by highway maintenance workers.
The paintings depicted a Canadian flag, the Red Cross and the branches of our military inside of a maple leaf. The murals went un-accosted by the government since they were done in June.
But they’re gone now.
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Another ‘Asian’ Child Rape Gang Convicted in England
Another tranche of grooming gang rapists operating in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, have been convicted at Leeds Crown Court.
Banaris Hussain, 36, of William Street, Crosland Moor, Huddersfield, was found guilty of one count of rape; Umar Zaman, 31, of William Street, Crosland Moor , was found guilty of two counts of rape; and Samuel Fikru, 31, of HMP Armley, was found guilty of two counts of rape, according to an official police statement.
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EU Ambassadors Delay Decision on Brexit Extension
Ambassadors from the 27 EU member states shelved a decision on how long to extend the Brexit deadline after 31 October during their meeting on Friday. There was agreement on the need for an extension among ambassadors, but its length will be discussed early next week. British MPs are expected to vote on Monday on UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s call for an election on 12 December.
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EU Leaders May Delay Decision on Brexit Extension Amidst Election Uncertainty
The EU is expected to delay a decision on whether to grant an extension of Article 50 amidst recent election uncertainty, whilst France remains an obstacle to a long Brexit delay.
Reports from Thursday morning suggested that European leaders were preparing to announce their decision on Friday following a meeting of ambassadors in Brussels. However, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s challenge to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to back a pre-Christmas general election last night has put that decision on hold until likely early next week.
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France: The Headscarf Debate is Not About Headscarves
France’s Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, has reopened the heated debate on the headscarf.
Since 2004, it is unlawful in France to wear “conspicuously” religious signs or clothing in public schools. The interpretation of the law, as applied by the Ministry of National Education, specifies “the Islamic veil, whatever the name given to it, the [Jewish] kippah or a [Christian] cross of manifestly excessive size” as items that students are prohibited to wear in French state schools.
However, women who are escorting children during school trips are still allowed to wear a hijab. As an increasing number of Muslim women have been doing so, this has disturbed some teachers and parents. They believe that the spirit of the law — that headscarves should be banned from schools — is not being respected.
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John Major Claims ‘Young Ones’ Will Force UK to Rejoin EU Because ‘Elderly’ Voters Will be Dead
John Major has told young people that Brexit was a “colossal mistake” and that he hopes one day they will force the UK to rejoin the EU.
At the One Young World forum on Wednesday, the 76-year-old former Tory prime minister said: “Young people have been let down, they overwhelmingly wished to remain in the EU, whereas many of their elders did not.
“I have been a critic of Brexit, and I remain so. I think it’s bad for the UK, bad for the EU and bad for Europe, and a colossal mistake.”
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Luxembourg Cardinal Says Climate Change is ‘Most Important Problem’ For Amazon Synod
ROME — The archbishop of Luxembourg said this week that climate change is the most important issue faced by the Vatican synod on the Amazon, so its final document “should be very strong” on ecological issues.
“If our planet is destroyed, we can shout as much as we want about married priests or women priests, but there will be no priests needed anymore,” said Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, the president of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) and a vocal ecological activist.
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New Species Named After Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been honoured with a new species of beetle named after her.
The newly described Nelloptodes gretae belongs to a group of some of the smallest known free-living animals.
The new species belongs to family of beetles called Ptiliidae.
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Nigel Farage Says Macron Statue Should be Erected in the UK if He Vetoes Brexit Delay
NIGEL FARAGE has urged the UK to erect a statue of Emmanuel Macron near Nelson’s Column if the French President follows through with his threat to veto a Brexit extension beyond Halloween.
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Three People Stabbed in Hate Crime, Called ‘Dirty French’ By Foreign Attacker
Three people, while sitting near a bar not far from the Maison Carrée area in Nîmes, France, were stabbed by a foreigner who called them ‘dirty French’.
The incident occurred last Thursday after a couple wandering the streets asked the three victims for cigarettes, Midi Libre reports. After the group of three said no to the request, the couple reportedly became quite aggressive and insisted on being given cigarettes.
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UK Rises up Ranks in Top Ten Global Markets to Do Business
The UK has climbed from ninth to eighth in the World Bank’s list of most friendly countries to do business as the nation prepares to leave the EU.
The country overtook Norway in the rankings, according to The Times, with international trade secretary Liz Truss saying the UK “continues to be one of the best places to do business in the world”.
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UK: BoJo Tells Corbyn to ‘Man Up’, Even the ‘Commies’ Want an Election
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is goading Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn into backing a December 12th election, saying even the “Commies” in party-affiliated Momentum want one.
The prime minister made an offer to Labour on Thursday night that in exchange for backing an election in December, he would continue the Commons debate on Brexit until November 6th.
Speaking to Sky News on Friday, Mr Johnson said: “We can have more a debate on Brexit — if that’s what they really want, if they really think that’s necessary — provided they agree to an election on December the 12th.
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Iraq Protests Turn Deadly as Anti-Government Demonstrators Clash With Police
Iraqi police fired live shots into the air as well as rubber bullets and dozens of tear gas canisters Friday to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters, sending young demonstrators running for cover and enveloping a main bridge in the capital Baghdad with thick white smoke.
Twenty-three protesters were killed and dozens were injured, security officials said.
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Hong Kong Activist Joshua Wong Makes Defiant Call for Fair and Free Elections
PROTESTS in Hong Kong have moved away in recent weeks from being about the controversial mainland China extradition bill to being about democracy in the city.
Speaking to express.co.uk, activist Joshua Wong, made this call, which he admitted might look unlikely. Mr Wong, did, however, warn not to underestimate the people power behind the protests. He said: “Free elections is our ultimate goal and it’s a must of ours to elect our own government, instead of [it being] handpicked by Beijing.
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A shocking image of a year seven boy at Melbourne’s Cheltenham Secondary College kissing a classmate’s shoe in a park was reported earlier this month.
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A 36-year-old woman and a 49-year-old man were arrested outside the injection centre on Lennox Street in North Richmond, Melbourne on Thursday.
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South Africa’s Race-Based Socialism
The net effects of the regime’s economic planning is wealth destruction and perpetuation of chronic, widespread poverty
Twenty-five years since the election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa, the country remains home to some of the most market-invasive, race-based economic policies in the world.
At the heart of this system are provisions for Affirmative Action (AA) and unique statutory measures for Black Economic Empowerment (BEE). These laws are suffocating the South African economy.
AA and BEE developed in the context of post-apartheid South Africa. Affirmative Action is mandated by the Employment Equity Act of 1998, which mandates companies to alter their workforces until they reflect the racial composition of the local economically active population.
[Comment: Not Socialism, but Communism.]
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Mexican Cardinal: Climate Change Skeptics Are ‘Black Sheep’ Of Catholic Church
ROME — The archbishop of Mexico City said this week in Rome that climate change skeptics are the “black sheep” of the Catholic Church since environmental “experts” believe we are near a point of no return.
“The human person is the only being that can either care for or damage the ecology,” said Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, as reported by Crux, an online Catholic news outlet. “I would not want for the apocalyptic scenes of the Book of Revelation to begin happening in this century.”
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30 UK-Bound Migrants Intercepted Attempting to Cross the Channel in Flimsy Boats
FRANCE’S border force has intercepted 30 people, including minors, who were trying to cross the English Channel into Britain from the northern French town of Calais, local officials said.
The UK-bound migrants were travelling in two separate inflatable boats when they were stopped by French authorities on Thursday morning. Emergency services were alerted to the first incident at around 6am on Thursday after a boat carrying 11 men sent out a distress signal issued by the migrants themselves, the maritime prefecture said in a statement. The men were then handed over to French border police.
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With France dodging another bullet and intelligence agencies foiling a 9/11-style plot, the nation’s interior minister admits that “60 attacks have been foiled since 2013 and every week people are arrested.” It’s yet another reminder why his predecessor warned that within five years France could face an “irreversible” situation that leads to the country’s break-up.
As the Independent reports on the latest plot, “According to French paper Le Parisien, the suspect was looking for a weapon to hijack a plane.”
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African ‘Voodoo Mafia’ Spreading Across Sweden — Police
A West African gang known for running drugs and brainwashing prostitutes using voodoo is spreading its network through Europe and Sweden, police fear.
Black Ax, an international crime syndicate based in Nigeria, has set its sights on the city of Uppsala after putting roots in other Swedish cities such as Stockholm, Malmö, and Gothenburg, according to a new report in SVT Nyheter.
“They are mainly involved in human trafficking,” police spokesman Jale Poljarevius says. “They are holding women hostage, and through voodoo, they are tricking them into believing they will end up badly if they leave the job. But they are also involved in selling cocaine and heroin.”…
A new report released by Swedish police indicates that there are now 50 organized gangs operating in Sweden’s capital city of Stockholm, up from 39 in 2015.
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Belgium: Floating ‘Asylum Center’ To be Reopened to Handle Influx of Migrants
A floating reception center for ‘asylum seekers’ is set to reopen in Ghent, Belgium at the beginning of December to accommodate a new influx of migrants.
Reno, a floating pontoon that previously served as a prison boat, was used as a reception center during the 2015 migrant crisis but was closed about a year later. Now it will be reopened as a reception center to accommodate the needs of migrants in the area, Het Laatste Nieuws reports.
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UK: Police Make Arrests in Migrant Lorry Deaths
Police in the UK on Friday arrested a married couple connected to the deaths of 39 people whose corpses were found in the back of a refrigerated lorry earlier this week outside London. The couple are both from Warrington in the UK. Police initially suspected the 39 were all Chinese nationals, however, the BBC has spoken to the families of three Vietnamese people who think their relatives may be victims.
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‘Violent Predatory Rapist’ Refugee Travelled UK by Train Assaulting Women
A “violent predatory rapist” who came to the United Kingdom from Ethiopia as a refugee has been convicted for roaming the country by train assaulting women.
Temesgen Desta, 32, throttled a 54-year-old woman on a beach in Crosby, Merseyside and attempted to rape her, then took a train to Birmingham and broke into a businesswoman’s city apartment just hours later, according to a report in the left-wing Mirror.
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An Indiana doctor who is believed to have carried out more than 50,000 abortions during his career competed with other doctors at a Chicago clinic in an attempt to perform the most terminations.
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A Swedish newspaper is being ruthlessly mocked after publishing an article lamenting that there is a gender disparity between stuffed animals at a taxidermy museum.
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What You Think is Controlled by What You Watch, And What You Watch is Controlled by the Elite
Why do you believe what you believe? Some people have a really solid answer to that question, but much of the population never thinks much about deeper questions such as this. In fact, for most Americans it is simply easier to let others do their thinking for them. Today, most of us spend multiple hours each day absorbing information through a screen, and most of the content that is fed to us through our televisions, phones, tablets and computers is controlled by the elite. And if you allow anyone to feed information into your mind for several hours every day, it is going to have a dramatic impact on how you view the world.
When I was younger, one of my favorite movies was “The Matrix”, and I think that it is a really good metaphor for what is going on in our society today. In the film, nearly the entire human population was plugged into a system which continuously fed a computer-generated reality into their minds that wasn’t real at all. Later on, I eventually came to realize that we are willingly doing the same thing to ourselves. Our personal interactions with one another are extremely limited, but we willingly “plug in” to the enormous matrix of news, information and entertainment that the elite have constructed for many hours each day.
According to numbers that were released earlier this year, the average American spends more than three hours watching television and more than three hours on mobile devices every single day…
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good grammar is white supremacy? That ain’t no true,methinks!