Populist parties scored a decisive electoral victory in the central Italian province of Umbria, gaining solid a majority of the vote. The Lega (Matteo Salvini’s party) rose from 14% to 36.9%, while Fratelli d’Italia (Giorgia Meloni’s party) increased from 6.2% to 10.4%.
In other news, thousands of protesters gathered outside Trump Tower in Chicago during President Trump’s visit to the city.
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S&P 500 Closes at Record as Corporate Earnings Beat Expectations
Investors waded into another busy week of earnings and a Federal Reserve policy meeting that’s expected to deliver another cut to interest rates.
What did the major indexes do?
The S&P 500 index SPX, rose 16.87 points, or 0.6%, to end at 3,039.42, closing above its previous record of 3,027.98, set on July 26. The index also set a record intraday high of 3,044.08.
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The Mueller Witchhunt and Lying Adam Schiff’s impeachment hearings of President Trump held in the basement of the Capital are very similar in numerous ways.
Ultimately the Democrats, their Deep State and elites behind these events are destroying the country and the US Constitution. This past weekend attorney David Rivkin and professor Elizabeth Price Foley wrote an eloquent piece in the Wall Street Journal outlining how the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry is unconstitutional. They wrote —
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AOC Blames California Wildfires on ‘Climate Change’, Twitter Explodes
There’s a pattern with New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
A natural event happens — it doesn’t matter much what kind of event it is — and her immediate reaction is to blame it on “climate change.”
It’s a knee-jerk reaction that was, frankly, worn to death by climate alarmists before her like Al Gore and Bill Nye.
On Monday, AOC sent out a tweet blaming the wildfires ravaging parts of California right now on “climate change,” stating that this is what “climate change” looks like and even throwing in a hit on the un-scientific nature of the Republicans for good measure.
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Graphic footage posted on social media shows aftermath of incident
A major manhunt is underway after a mass shooting at a homecoming party in Greenville, Texas, has left at least two people dead and multiple others injured.
A gunman armed with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire at The Party Venue in Greenville, near Dallas, during an unofficial homecoming party for Texas A&M Commerce College students. Officials found two bodies at the scene along with 14 other people who had suffered injuries of varying severity.
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Dave Chappelle Gets Mark Twain Prize, Says Comedy Career ‘Saved My Life’
WASHINGTON — While smoking, Dave Chappelle began his acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at The Kennedy Center. Sunday night was a celebration of the comic, which presumably will keep the censors busy when it airs on Jan. 7 air on PBS (9 p.m. EST).
Several stars were on hand to honor Chappelle, like Bradley Cooper, Tiffany Haddish, John Legend, Common and more.
“I want everyone in America right now to look at me. Look at me smoking indoors,” the guest of honor bragged. “I didn’t ask anybody… What are they gonna do? Kick me out before I get the prize?”
He added: “It’s called leverage.”
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Dearborn Public Schools Spark Protest by Adopting All Halal Meat Policy
In the long run, the superintendent will find it far, far costlier to have capitulated to Islamic supremacism and set this precedent.
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Deep State Attacks Trump for Killing ISIS Leader as Criminal Indictments Loom
The most banned transmission in the world — so watch it and share it far and wide…
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FBI Releases Information on the ‘Finders,’ a Secretive Group Accused of Child Sex Abuse
The FBI released documents on Friday detailing a probe into the “Finders,” a secretive group that was allegedly connected to the U.S. government.
Allegations concerning child abuse committed by the group were brought to the attention of FBI agents after tips were relayed to the Department of Justice from people including U.S. Congressman Charlie Rose, according to a declassified document dated Oct. 27, 1993.
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House to Vote on Formalizing Impeachment Thursday
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to fellow House Democrats Monday afternoon outlining a plan to formalize the impeachment inquiry into President Trump with a vote on Thursday, marking the first move towards a public impeachment.
“This resolution establishes the procedure for hearings that are open to the American people, authorizes the disclosure of deposition transcripts, outlines procedures to transfer evidence to the Judiciary Committee as it considers potential articles of impeachment, and sets forth due process rights for the President and his Counsel,” Pelosi’s letter reads.
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CHICAGO — Illinois State Rep. LUIS ARROYO has been charged in federal court with offering a bribe to a fellow state lawmaker in an effort to influence and reward the lawmaker for supporting legislation that would benefit Arroyo’s private lobbying client.
Arroyo, 65, of Chicago, is charged with one count of federal program bribery, according to a criminal complaint and affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Arroyo made an initial court appearance this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria Valdez and was ordered released on a personal recognizance bond. The next court date was not immediately set.
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Judge Reopens Nicholas Sandmann Lawsuit Against Washington Post
Despite prior dismissal of entire case, Court now will allow discovery on three of the alleged defamatory statements, as well as the filing of a First Amended Complaint.
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Missouri Man Charged With Starting 13 California Forest Fires
A man found himself in handcuffs while trying to fly home to Missouri after allegedly setting 13 forest fires in California.
Freddie Graham, 68, was apprehended before boarding a plane in San Jose and charged with starting forest fires in the Milpitas foothills.
Graham had flown to California on Sept. 19 and spent two days in the state before attempting to fly back to Kansas City.
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None is So Blind as He Who Will Not See
Americans have been warned for almost 100 years about the evil creeping into our Republic. The vast majority have ignored the warnings for a variety of reasons with the list growing over time: apathy, blind loyalty to their political party, self-absorption, addiction to drugs, sports, pornography; sexual perversions being sold as alternative lifestyles, a good economy, offerings from “Pretendland” (Hollywood), and those can’t live without cell phones, Iphones, smart phones while remaining in their false comfort zones.
Perhaps a few words from the past will shake some of the dust out of people’s brain cavities long enough to think about the words below. And for those who think communism and fascism are dead, I’m sorry to inform you that they are alive and well, they’re just being sold under a different name with “new and improved” packaging.
Congressional Record. House of Representatives January 15, 1962 Page 215
Mr. Utt: Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the House for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks…
For the past 74 years We the People have been raped for trillions of borrowed dollars for dues to the United Nothing. We’ve been sending our freedom fighters (active and reserve), to die in foreign lands, to fight tribal wars for other countries who destroy their own, because one group doesn’t like the other’s religion — all orchestrated by the international bankers running the show. No?
Do your homework and then try to say, no. Listen to the stable of socalists (first step towards communism) and outright Marixists running for president under the Democratic/Communist Party USA banner while dumbed down Americans cheer them on. A slap in the face of every warrior who died during the Revolutionary War to bring us a new, free country.
A slap in the face to every veteran who died fighting communism and scum like documented liar, Elizabeth Warrn, wants to shove it down our throats disguised as being progressive. Today our beloved constitutional republic is hanging by a threat while America snoozes on, their loyalty placed blindly in the hands of globalist Republicans and Democrats who are allowing this to happen because so many of them want it to happen…
These statements plainly render Art. 2, subparagraph 7, of the Charter meaningless. John Foster Dulles, a former Secretary of State, in a speech before the American Bar Association in Louiseville, KY, April 12, 1952, said:
“Treaty law can override the Constitution. They (treaties) can cut across the rights given the people by the constitutional Bill of Rights.”
This conversion of our limited republic to an unlimited democracy is a death blow to this nation.
The realization of this tragedy was the reason for the proposal of the Bricker Amendment nearly a decade ago. The Bricker Amendment simply provided that when there was a conflict between the Constitution of the United States and a treaty, that conflict must be resolved in favor of the Constitution, and yet the Bricker Amendment was defeated by a narrow margin under strong propaganda pressure from the Council on Foreign Relations and politicians who glories in the unlimited power conveyed upon them by the United Nations Charter. There were just too many politicians and too few statesmen.
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Obama Photographer Accuses Trump of Staging ISIS Raid Photo
Spreads fake news and conspiracy theories instead of congratulations
A photographer who has worked extensively with Barack Obama spread conspiracy theories Sunday regarding a photograph released by the White House of President Trump and numerous officials watching the US Special Operations forces raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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President Trump: Adam Schiff Went Before Congress and Made up My Words… It’s a Fraud…
That’s a Criminal Act. What He Did is a Criminal Act (VIDEO)
The barbaric leader of ISIS Abu Al-Baghdadi was killed Saturday night near the Syrian—Turkish border.
This comes after every Democrat and NeverTrumper on the right exploded over the President’s recent policy to remove US soldiers from Syria.
On Sunday morning Trump told the press that Congressional leaders were not notified during the attack due to their constant leaks — including Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
On Monday morning President Trump stopped to speak with reporters on his way to Chicago. The president was asked if he could trust Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. This gave President Trump the opportunity to go after liar and leaker Adam Schiff.
President Trump: Adam Schiff went before Congress and made up my words. And Adam Schiff went before Congress. And Adam Schiff what he did should never be forgotten. He made up a conversation that was a phony fabrication, it was a fraud. And people shouldn’t be allowed to get away with… They say he has immunity because he’s a member of Congress. People shouldn’t be allowed to do that. That’s a criminal act. What he did is a criminal act.
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Rats Flee Sinking Ship — Deep Staters Flip Against Obama and Hillary
James Baker and others to testify against Anti-Trump coup plotters.
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Rep. Katie Hill to Fight Revenge Porn Upon Leaving Congress
Over the weekend, Rep. Katie Hill, a first-term Democrat from California, announced that she will leave Congress by the end of the week after nude images of herself were published online without her consent. Hill has admitted to having a consensual relationship with a campaign staffer. In a letter announcing her resignation on Sunday, she said she will focus on fighting “revenge porn” after she leaves Congress.
“Those of you who know me personally know that I’m a fighter,” Hill wrote. “Now, my fight is going to be to defeat this type of exploitation that so many women are victims to and which will keep countless women and girls from running for office or entering public light.”
Earlier last week, Politico reported that the House Ethics Committee launched an investigation into Hill over the allegations of improper sexual relationships. That investigation will end as soon as Hill formally leaves office, but those nude images, originally published by the right-wing outlet RedState and the Daily Mail, will follow her around the internet for much longer.
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The Mysterious Maltese Mifsud — Where is He and Who Was Signing His Checks?
Deep State Spy Joseph Mifsud is connected to George Papadopoulos and General Flynn after setting them up in London. He also was close to Hillary Clinton and even dined with her in 2016.
But today Mifsud has gone missing and it is still unknown which entity or country he was working for when he spied on the Trump team. As we noted in February 2019, candidate Trump’s unpaid volunteer George Papadopoulos was spied on by the Deep State through an individual named Joseph Mifsud.
Mifsud’s purpose was to plant information with Papadopoulos (namely that the Russians had Hillary’s emails) so that the same information could be retrieved from Papadopoulos and the Deep State could say that the Trump campaign knew Russia had Hillary’s emails.
Papadopoulos explained this in an interview with former Secret Agent and author Dan Bongino when he shared this —
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Thousands of Protesters Gather at Trump Tower Amid President’s Visit
Thousands of protesters gathered outside Chicago’s Trump Tower Monday amid the president’s first visit to the city since his inauguration.
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No passwords, banking details, but enough info to convincingly phish someone
Adobe has pulled offline a public-facing poorly secured Elasticsearch database containing information on 7.5 million Creative Cloud customers.
The cloud-based silo was uncovered by infosec detective Bob Diachenko, who reported it to Adobe last week.
The exposed records include email addresses, account creation dates, details of products purchased, Creative Cloud subscription statuses, member IDs, countries of origin, subscription payment statuses, whether the user is an Adobe employee, and other bits of metadata.
For those out of the loop, Creative Cloud is the online successor to Adobe’s software suite of things like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere. Users pay a monthly fee to access the various apps rather than buy them on CD.
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Trump Hater Tom Arnold Falsely Accuses Jack Posobiec of Trafficking Child Porn
Trump-hating actor Tom Arnold falsely accused Jack Posobiec of trafficking child porn, opening up clear grounds for a lawsuit.
Arnold was responding to a tweet in which Posobiec invited his followers to send Arnold a copy of his Agent Poso comic book.
“If Jack Posociec’s involved I assume it’s kiddie porn so DO NOT BUY,” tweeted Arnold. “Sounds like a set up. Posociec is a well known to everyone around him as being a digital bully of sexual assault survivors & an amoral cowardly narc.”
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Bad Idea: Blackface Trudeau Halloween Costume Shows Up on Social Media
Viral Instagram account @sixbuzz has shared a photo of a Canadian dressed up as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the infamous Aladdin costume with his whole body painted black.
The photo of the unidentified man in the ill-advised costume has already been shared over 10,000 times on the social media platform.
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Watch: 27 Climate Change Protesters Arrested for Occupying Parliament
27 young Canadians were arrested following an attempt made to urge federal leaders to take a stand for a Green New Deal.
The protesters were protesting in the Parliament premises when they were dragged and arrested by the police.
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Blair Fears Next Negotiations Will End in No Deal, EU Doesn’t Want UK as ‘Off-Shore Competitor’
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is concerned that the next round of negotiations with the EU will end in a ‘no deal’ because London wants more freedom and Brussels demands regulatory control over the region.
The withdrawal agreement has recently passed its first hurdle in the House of Commons and the EU27 granted on Monday a short extension of Article 50 to allow Parliament to pass the legislation fully.
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Brexit Likely Delayed to 2020 as Macron Backs Three-Month Extension
It appears that Brexit will be delayed until 2020, as France’s Emmanuel Macron has swung behind a three-month extension to the departure deadline.
The French president had reportedly been pushing for a much shorter extension, pushing back the October 31st deadline just a few weeks to mid-November to give British prime minister Boris Johnson enough time to get his revised version of Theresa May’s withdrawal treaty with the European Union through the Houses of Parliament.
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Former Labour MP Criticises Party for ‘Absurd Enthusiasm’ For EU ‘Draining’ UK
A former Labour MP has criticised his party’s “absurd enthusiasm” for the anti-democratic European Union, a position he says conflicts with Labour’s traditional working-class agenda.
Austen Mitchell, who was the Labour MP for Great Grimsby between 1977 and 2015, wrotefor BrexitCentral on Sunday that the party’s “euro-enthusiasm” is a sign of the “Blairite” rejection of the party’s left-wing roots, saying that “EU membership will stop Jeremy Corbyn doing much of what he wants (and needs) to do”.
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Germany: Populist AfD Surpasses Merkel’s Party in Thuringia’s State Election
The populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) saw its share of the vote more than double in yesterday’s state elections in Thuringia. The party surpassed Angela Merkel’s CDU, and is now the second-largest party in the state.
The far-left Die Linke (The Left) party became the strongest political force in the state, while support for Angela Merkel’s center-right CDU fell dramatically. The center-left SPD also lost votes and dropped down to single digits.
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Italy: No Conflict of Interest-Conte on FT Vatican-Probe Report
Premier only gave legal opinion, govt says in a statement
(ANSA) — Rome, October 28 — The Italian government said Monday that Premier Giuseppe Conte has done nothing wrong after the Financial Times reported on a link between him and an investment fund at the centre of a financial corruption investigation in the Vatican. “As regards the reports by the Financial Times, it should be pointed out that Conte only gave a legal opinion and was not aware, nor was he expected to know, that some investors referred to a Vatican-supported investment fund that is today at the centre of an investigation,” the premier’s office said in a statement.
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Italy: Stunning Centre-Right Win in Umbria Sparks M5S-PD Turmoil
Govt’s days are numbered says Salvini
(ANSA) — Perugia, October 28 — Centre-right candidate Donatella Tesei won Sunday’s regional election in Umbria in a landslide, claiming 57.55% of the vote, while Vincenzo Bianconi, the candidate backed by the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) and the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), got only 37.48%.
The M5S and the PD, who were fierce rivals until recently, teamed up in a bid to end a long series of victories in regional elections by the League-led centre right.
They had formed a pact at the national level for a new government in August after League leader Matteo Salvini pulled the plug on the first government led by Premier Giuseppe Conte, which was based on an alliance between the M5S and the League.
But the PD-M5S ‘experiment’ was given the thumbs down by Umbrian voters.
Salvini’s League was again the driving force of the centre-right’s triumph, winning 36.9%, compared to 14% in the last round of elections in the central region.
It was the eighth straight regional election win for the Salvini-led alliance.
Salvini said Conte’s new government will not be around for much longer. “You voted and you chose freedom in the name of 60 million Italians,” Salvini said.
“The days are numbered for Mr Conte, (Foreign Minister and M5S chief Luigi) Di Maio, (centrist Italia Viva leader Matteo) Renzi and (PD head Nicola) Zingaretti, who are momentarily, illegally occupying national government. “This election had national significance too. “Conte continues with his arrogant destruction of Umbria.
Every day there is a new problem. “Those who sow betrayal, harvest betrayal”. Di Maio said that an election pact between his 5-Star Movement and the PD is now ‘unfeasible’. He added, however, that he wants Conte’s government to continue. “Umbria was an experiment. The experiment didn’t work,” Di Maio told Sky Tg24.
“All the theory that said we would be an alternative if we formed an alliance with another party did not work. He added that being in government with allies, whether they be the PD or, as in the first Conte government, with the League, “hurt” the M5S. “We are in an alliance because we don’t have 51% (of the seats) in parliament and we are obtaining results in this way,” he said. “The government should be improved and renewed”.
PD leader Nicola Zingaretti said that the government partners might have to question the executive’s future. Zingaretti said the members of the government coalition must either “feel the same” or “else its existence is useless and it will be better to face the consequences”. The PD leader said the ruling majority, which also includes Renzi’s IV, cannot exist just “for fear of Salvini, to avoid the citizens’ vote or wait for the appointments to government agencies just to cling to posts”. “A vision for the future and a reformist profile of renewal of the government must be relaunched in a hurry. “It must be done together. “The alliance makes sense only and exclusively if it lives in this common feeling of the political forces that compose it, otherwise it’s useless.” The ruling national alliance also includes the small leftwing Free and Equal (LeU) party, which was also part of the unsuccessful Umbria alliance. IV, meanwhile, did not join the M5S-PD-LeU alliance in the central Italian region.
“The defeat was born of an agreement that was a mistake both in the timeframe and the method,” ex-premier Renzi told RAI journalist Bruno Vespa for Vespa’s new book. “We said this privately to all those concerned. “It is no coincidence that Italia Viva stayed out of it. “It was a mistake to form an alliance in a rush in Umbria, without an agreed idea”.
Health Minister Roberto Speranza of the LeU group, on the other hand, said he thought a M5S-centre-left alliance was the way forward. The rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party made double figures with 10.4% in Umbria, up from 6.2% last time and almost twice the level of Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia (FI) on 5.5%.
The PD got 22.3%, down from 35.8% last time, while the M5S slumped from 14.6% to 7.41%.
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Italy Election: Salvini Wins Landslide Victory — Threatens to Bring Down Fragile Coalition
ITALY’S volatile political situation took another surprise turn with a right-wing coalition candidate winning local elections in the traditionally centre-left stronghold of Umbria to give a fresh boost for Matteo Salvini’s League party.
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New Species of Beetle Named in Honor of Greta Thunberg
A new species of beetle has been named after the Swedish teen. The beetle belongs to the family of Ptiliidae, and is not well known because of its miniature size, the Natural History Museum said in a statement.
In this undated photo issued by Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, showing the new species of beetle Nelloptodes gretae, named after Swedish environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg.
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UK: Always a Remainer? Theresa May Was in Tears After Brexit Referendum Result Confirmed
THERESA MAY, who led Brexit negotiations for three years, was “in tears” after she heard about the 2016 EU referendum result, according to a new book about her time as Prime Minister.
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UK: Boris Formally Accepts Brexit Delay, Begs EU Not to Delay Again in 2020
Boris Johnson has written to Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, to formally accept a third Brexit delay, and to beg the bloc not to delay it again next year.
“As you are well aware, I have no discretion under the UK’s European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act, which was imposed on this Government against its will, to do anything other than confirm the UK’s formal agreement to this extension,” Johnson wrote bitterly, in reference to the “Surrender Act” which anti-Brexit MPs rammed through the Houses of Parliament to force the British prime minister to ask for a three-month Brexit delay — but which he did not quite resist to the full, having failed to advise the Queen against withholding the Royal Assent from it, as was his right.
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‘Charred Corpse’: Second ISIS Leader Killed in US Airstrike Following Baghdadi Raid
American and Syrian Kurdish forces killed the Islamic State terrorist group’s spokesman on Sunday morning, hours after the group’s leader blew himself up during a raid by U.S. special operations forces, a Kurdish official announced.
Abu Hassan al Muhajir died in an airstrike in Ain al Baydah, a village in northern Syria controlled by Turkish-backed Syrian rebels, while riding in the back of a tanker truck, the official claimed. Videos and pictures reportedly taken at the scene of the attack show corpses and a tanker truck on fire, but U.S. officials have yet to confirm Muhajir’s death.
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Four Killed in Iraq as Protests Persist
BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Iraq declared a curfew in Baghdad on Monday as four people were killed and 277 injured in the fourth day of anti-government protests, and the coalition government’s most powerful erstwhile supporter called for early elections.
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Mother of Kayla Mueller: My Daughter Might Still be Alive “If Obama Had Been as Decisive as Trump”
US ISIS hostage Kayla Mueller was tortured and repeatedly raped by ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi before her death in 2015.
Kayla was held by ISIS for 18 months before she was killed.
Other Western hostages were released by ISIS.
Kayla was never released and died as an ISIS prisoner.
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President Trump Says He May Release Al-Baghdadi Raid Video
On Monday morning President Trump stopped to speak with reporters on his way to speak with law enforcement officials in Chicago.
During the interview President Trump said he might release video footage of the raid that killed ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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US Merely Killed its “Own Creature”: Iran Reacts to Trump’s Baghdadi Speech
Just after President Trump’s major Sunday announcement of ISIS terror chief Abu Bakr Baghdadi’s death as a result of a successful and complicated special forces raid in northwest Syria, Iran’s first reaction was to dismiss it as “not a big deal”.
In perhaps the most interesting reaction of an enemy of Washington moments after the news broke Sunday, Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi declared that Baghdadi’s elimination was not “a big deal” and that Washington had simply destroyed its own “creature.”
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The Washington Post changed the headline of its obituary of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Sunday after facing backlash for calling him an “austere religious scholar.” Vice President of Communications at Washington Post Kristine Coratti Kelly said in a tweet that “the headline should never have read that way and we changed it quickly.” The first version of the article described Baghdadi as the “Islamic State’s terrorist-in-chief,” before it was changed to “austere religious scholar.” It’s unclear why the newspaper initially changed the headline, but it was changed for a third time to its current headline: “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, extremist leader of Islamic State, dies at 48.” President Trump confirmed Sunday that U.S. forces killed Baghdadi during a raid in northern Syria the day before.
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What We Know About the Military Dog Injured in the Al-Baghdadi Raid
It played one of the most crucial roles in a top-secret U.S. military operation in Syria on Sunday, racing through an underground tunnel and cornering one of the world’s most sought-after terrorists faster than any human or robot could.
It’s a dog — a Belgian Malinois, to be exact — and although top brass is withholding its name, it’s being hailed as a hero in the operation that ultimately resulted in the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death.
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Hong Kong Enters Recession, Official Says, As Protests Again Erupt in Flames
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong has fallen into recession, hit by five months of anti-government protests that erupted in flames at the weekend, and is unlikely to achieve any growth this year, the city’s Financial Secretary said.
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New Species Found in Whale Shark Mouth
A whale shark’s mouth might not seem like the most hospitable environment for a home, but Japanese researchers have found there’s no place like it for a newly-discovered shrimp-like creature.
The tiny inhabitants—dubbed podocerus jinbe—are a variety of gammaridea, a species known for their hardy ability to live in environments ranging from high mountains to the deep sea.
But lead researcher Ko Tomikawa, an associate professor at Hiroshima University, said he was “surprised” to find them living in the mouth of an animal.
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UK: Hong Kong Students Forced to Remove Democracy Protests Stall to Appease Mainland Chinese
Hong Kong students were forced to take down material from a freshers’ stall supporting the former British Crown Colony’s democracy protests at the University of York, following complaints by mainland Chinese students.
Security under the control of the students’ union claimed that freshers’ fair stalls “should not contain politics”, according to reports — a claim which seems ridiculous on its face, given stalls belonging to party political and campaigning societies are ubiquitous at such fairs, including York’s — and told the Hong Kongers to remove anything written in Cantonese or Mandarin from their “Lennon wall” about the protests.
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The surprise arrival of Chinese warships in Sydney Harbour remains a mystery — after senators from both major parties failed to ask Defence and Foreign Affairs officials about it.
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Hundreds of shocked bystanders watched on while the 26-year-old made his way through Hindley Street in Adelaide on Saturday night.
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Two Injured, 20 Arrested as Climate Activists and Police Clash Violently at Melbourne Mining Event
Violent clashes erupted between protesters and riot police outside a mining conference in Melbourne, where one demonstrator repeatedly spat on a delegate as crowds tried to block entrances to the venue. At least two people have been injured and 20 people arrested.
Hundreds of activists from 11 different groups tried to block off the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from about 6am to stop the three-day International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC).
Police arrested protesters for allegedly obstructing the disabled and wheelchair access into the building.
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African Swine Fever is killing millions upon millions of pigs all over the world, and this threatens to create a crippling global shortage of protein as we head into 2020. This epidemic began in China last year, and it is now also running wild in North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and the Philippines. But this crisis is certainly not limited to Asia. According to the Washington Post, so far in 2019 there have also been outbreaks “in Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine.” Overall, cases of African Swine Fever have been documented “in nearly 50 nations”, and U.S. pork producers are extremely concerned that it could start spreading here too.
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Fresh Protests, Looting Erupt in Chile Despite New Cabinet
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Fresh protests and attacks on businesses erupted in Chile Monday despite President Sebastian Piñera’s replacement of eight key Cabinet ministers with more centrist figures and his attempts to assure the country he has heard calls for greater equality and improved social services.
Thousands of protesters crowded again into central Santiago, and one group set fire to a building that houses a fast-food restaurant and stores. Firefighters were battling the blaze.
Other looters attacked a pharmacy, and there was an attempt to set a subway station on fire. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people attempted to get home from work on free buses sent to replace trains out of service due to the burning of dozens of stations over the last week in Latin America’s most modern public transportation system.
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Pope Francis Takes on Conservative Critics With Defiant Jibe, Vatican Infighting Escalates
POPE FRANCIS is defying his conservative critics once again as he prepares to allow married men in the Amazon become priests in a move that contradicts centuries of tradition and continues to anger his Vatican opponents.
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107 Migrants Arrested in Malta for Torching Cars and Injuring a Police Officer
107 migrants have been arrested after five staff cars and buildings were set ablaze at a holding center in Malta. The fires left sections of the buildings which migrants stay in destroyed and one policeman injured.
Witnesses say that on Sunday night, violent migrants took control of part the Hal Far reception center, a former British army barracks close to the Malta International Airport, setting fire to several rooms as well as cars belonging to staff, Reuters reports.
A police spokesperson has said the situation was brought back under control in the early hours of Monday morning.
Although it isn’t exactly clear why the violence erupted, some witnesses have said that the riots began after police barred some migrants from entering the center. Other reports indicate that the migrants became violent after not being allowed to leave the center.
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Former CEO of Scania Warns Sweden is Heading for Civil War
The former CEO of trucking company Scania has warned that Sweden is heading towards civil war due to uncontrolled mass immigration.
In an interview with Swebbtv, businessman Leif Östling said that the arrival of so many new migrants who have failed to integrate into Swedish society is creating a fertile ground for violent unrest.
“We’ve taken in far too many people from outside. And we have. Those who come from the Middle East and Africa live in a society that we left almost a hundred years ago,” he said.
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France: Police Arrest Two in Calais After Eight Migrants Suffering Hypothermia Found in Lorry
FRENCH police have arrested two Romanian lorry drivers after eight Afghans, including four children, were found suffering from hypothermia in the back of a refrigerated truck in the northern town of Calais, the regional daily La Voix du Nord reported on Sunday. The latest discovery comes after 39 bodies were found in the back of a similar lorry in Essex last week.
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Germany: Tunisian Migrant Hacks Wife to Death With Ax in Broad Daylight
Videos have emerged of a Tunisian migrant hacking his wife to death with an ax in broad daylight in the city center of Limburg, Germany.
The 34-year-old North African migrant first slammed into his 31-year-old wife and mother of two with his Audi before he crashed into a wall, leaped out of the vehicle, and began hacking her to death with an ax as onlookers took video, Bild reports.
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Hundreds of athletes who travelled to Australia to compete in the Commonwealth Games have applied to stay or have simply disappeared.
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Italy: Mass Legalization of Migrants is Suicidal
Describing Italy, Gerard Baker, former editor in chief of the Wall Street Journal, recently wrote:
“In much of the country… depopulation is advancing. Moving into the empty spaces have been waves of immigrants, many from North Africa and the Middle East. The migrants have filled vital gaps in the labor force, but the transformation of Italian towns has left increasing numbers of citizens resentful, fearful for their identity.”
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Vietnamese Migrants Try to Reach UK for €45,000
Vietnamese migrants can obtain a “VIP package” to Britain — including a flight ticket, fake passport, and even a lawyer — for about €45,000, AFP reported. The deals organised by Vietnamese smugglers offer flights to France, Germany or Spain, before the final passage into the UK. However, those who cannot afford the VIP deal take bigger risks during their journeys to the UK, partially on foot or by lorry.
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Viktor Orban: It’s in Hungary’s Interest for Turkey to Release Migrants to Syria
It’s in the interest of Hungary for Turkey to move migrants into Syria rather than letting them flood into Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said during an interview on public radio.
Turkey, which currently hosts close to three and a half million migrants, has threatened several times in the past few months to ‘open the gates’ and ‘flood’ Europe with migrants if the EU fails to assist them in handling the situation.
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When Minorities Become Majorities: The Tyranny of Minorities
Writer John Kaminski said, “If we keep importing minorities, we will irreversibly step down the stairway to our own destruction.”
By 2042, at current legal and illegal immigration rates, Mexicans, Latinos and Hispanics will become the new majority in America. They bring their cultures that have failed them in Mexico and Central America. They bring their language that fails them as to progress, education and functioning governments. They bring their religions, which mandate endless babies. Which, in turn, causes illiteracy from too many children and no way to educate them.
“When minorities rule, nations strangle and die,” said Kaminski. “We see it happening today, all over the world. Worse than that, and something to worry about: when minorities become majorities, they generally kill off the previous owners.”
He continued, “To flood target nations with helpless imbeciles is the reverse of what usually happens. Typically, an invading power such as the East India Company was able to demand subservience because of its superior military might no matter how small its contingent of invaders. And it’s how Jewish strategists can rule countries today despite being a minuscule percentage of the population, because they control all nations’ money supply.”…
“The accelerated invasion of Third Worlders into the white countries of the Northern Hemisphere is obviously a strategy by the moneyed intelligentsia to keep the American public as feeble minded as possible in order to maximize profits from their various exploitation potential.”
One look at Minneapolis, Lewiston, Maine, Miami, LA and Detroit should scare the daylights out of every American. They are NO LONGER American cities. We’ve got 45 million foreign born in our country an tens of millions of them subsist on welfare. That’s your money.
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Exclusive Doc: Leftist UNC Student Arrested Again, This Time for Harassing Pro-Life Demonstrator
University of North Carolina police arrested a leftist student activist after she allegedly ripped papers out of someone’s hands during an anti-abortion protest on campus.
The Genocide Awareness Project, an anti-abortion movement, displayed explicit images depicting abortion as comparable to genocide, as reported by The Daily Tar Heel. Police charged graduate student Maya Little with misdemeanor larceny for her actions at the event, according to a police report obtained by Campus Reform.
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New Study Finds Women Aren’t as Funny as Men
A new study has found that women aren’t as funny as men.
I know, hard to believe.
The study, published by the Journal of Research in Personality, asked subjects to write a funny caption for a cartoon that was then judged by a panel of judges.
Researchers found that 63 per cent of men were deemed to be funnier than the average woman.
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Clown world strikes again.
A New York Times columnist blamed “whiteness” for an alleged racist attack where two Indian students assaulted an African-American girl at a high school football game in New Jersey.
Yes, really.
The two 17-year-old Indian boys allegedly used racial slurs against a group of African-American girls and urinated on one during the game at Lawrence High School last Friday night.
Who’s to blame for the attack? White people, of course.
That’s according to New York Times columnist Nell Irvin Painter, who says that the Indian boys were “enacting American whiteness through anti-black assault in a very traditional way.”
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The Leftist Cabal’s Most Outrageous Crime Yet
It used to be that the Left was just mildly “out there,” both sides of the political isle could even meet in the middle on occasion and find common ground. Now however, the Left, armed with leaders like, we’re all dead in 12 years Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (The Squad), crazy Bernie Sanders, and gun grabbing America hating Beto O’Rourke among others — has left the middle ground behind, more like they have stomped it into the dirt so far that the “middle ground” can’t even be found anymore…
Words have power; words can end a marriage, or begin to heal it. Words can bring comfort, or intense pain, even life-long pain. Words can inflict more damage than physical abuse. Words can start wars, and words can literally change societies from the ground up.
The word “gay” used to mean happy, having a good time etc. Now it means a homosexual. Partner seems like an innocuous word right? Now it has taken the place of spouse, wife, and husband. This is by design, to further weaken the foundation of marriage and family.
A “rainbow” was known as a colorful display in the sky when it rained, it also signified God’s promise not to flood the earth again (still does). Now however when the word rainbow is used, it is often automatically associated with the LGBTQ movement, again by design.
How about the word love? This word has been perverted in a big way. Pedophiles insist sex with children is “love.” The LGBTQ crowd has also used the word “love” to defend and protect homosexuality, lesbianism, transgenderism etc. Love is love they say — and who are you to judge?
Look at these other gross misuses of words:
If you identify as “white,” you are automatically seen as a racist
“Racist” itself is misconstrued and misused — white milk is now racist. Disagreeing with many Democrat talking points gets you labeled as a racist
“Truth” — there is no such thing as absolute truth anymore. Truth is what and how the individual perceives it
“Jesus” was associated with God and goodness. Now Jesus is associated with hate and intolerance “Abortion” was a word not said out loud in many places not so long ago, it carried dark connotations, and rightfully so. Now it is a badge of honor among women, and a “right” in women’s health care
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Vice Showcases Fetish of “People Who Incorporate Bugs Into Their Sex Lives”
VICE is showcasing the fetish of formicophilia where people “incorporate insects into their sex lives.”
Yes, really.
A video uploaded to the hipster outlet’s YouTube channel features “two different people who enjoy playing with bugs (alone and with a partner) to find out what’s behind the fetish.”
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When Did Halloween Become So Sick, Twisted and Gory?
Virtually all of our current “Halloween traditions” can be traced directly back to ancient pagan religious practices.
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The global backdrop remains of slowing growth, increased financial vulnerability in places, and yet an institutional architecture that is either in denial or has no firm idea of what policy mix to use to stop this happening. And, crucially, global populations that are not content to just sit and wait for something better to turn up eventually.
Indeed, consider that we now have mass public unrest (on and off) in: France, Spain, and that 24% AfD vote in Germany, and Brexit in the UK; Algeria; Iraq: Lebanon; Egypt; Russia; Hong Kong; Venezuela; Chile; Ecuador; and Bolivia. Plus deepening polarisation in the US — and one could add the middle-class disruption of Extinction Rebellion in Australia, Canada, and others.
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“Vietnamese Migrants Try to Reach UK for €45,000” I’m not sure about the costs of living in the UK, Germany or France, but for 45k € you could live pretty comfortably for roughly 3 years in Czechia. Fairly certain that amount would ensure a comfortable life for far longer in Vietnam. I would understand if someone wanted to work for a few months in Europe to earn something that would be a substantial amount back in Vietnam, but wanting to move if you already have 45k € avaiable is beyond me.
VIDEO
White Ethnostate, Orania, is Heaven on Earth Admits The Guardian.
In a country of 58 million, the town of 1,700 whites must be closed because it is not diverse enough.
White Genocide.
Link to 7 Minute video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qvpUW5szTo
I think many people “invest” in sending a person to the west hoping that their work will pay a dividend. Sort of like buying a stock.
At the very least, if they are successful they will be able to legally bring others.