Former Prime Minister Tony Blair said that Labour’s chances of forming a government after next month’s general election are negligible. Mr. Blair lamented the fact that his party has been taken over by left-wing populism.
In other news, during a visit to Japan, Pope Francis urged his hosts to open their arms and their hearts to migrants.
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ADL Calls for Arrest of Mark Zuckerberg & Planetary Purge of Free Speech
Acting as a mouthpiece for the deep state, the ADL has issued a list of terrorist demands to Big Tech: surrender or be destroyed!
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ADL Launches Hostile Takeover Against Silicon Valley’s Big 6
The war against the First Amendment has entered a new nightmarish phase.
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued a fiery defense of free speech Monday morning as the high court announced it would not hear an appeal from the conservative magazine National Review in a defamation case against it by liberal climate scienceprofessor Michael Mann.
Mann’s case against the magazine stems from his creation of the infamous “hockey stick graph” and a central role in the “Climategate” scandal — in which his employer, Penn StateUniversity, eventually cleared him of wrongdoing.
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This didn’t surprise me, but I wanted to know the source.
It turns out that it’s from America’s White Saviors | White liberals are leading a ‘woke’ revolution that is transforming American politics and making Democrats increasingly uneasy with Jewish political power, by Zach Goldberg, TabletMag, June 5, 2019.
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Breaking: Twitter Suspends Journalist Andy Ngo
Prominent journalist Andy Ngo, who is the Editor-at-large at The Post Millennial, has been temporarily suspended from Twitter following a response tweet to human rights campaigner, Clinton Foundation operator, and political heir Chelsea Clinton regarding trans murder rates.
The tweet by Clinton highlights the deaths of more than 150 trans people who “have been murdered in the U.S.” since 2013, “the majority black transgender women.”
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CNN Contributor Says Trump’s Praise for ISIS-Killing Conan the Dog Was “Terrifying”
A CNN contributor reacted to Conan the dog, the canine who helped kill ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, being presented to the media by President Trump by claiming that the whole experience was “terrifying.”
Yes, really.
“This is terrifying. Trump and Melania exude coldness to Conan the hero dog. Melania, whose coat is slightly macabre (to me, but others may find it lovely), moves away from Conan multiple times,” tweeted CNN political contributor Joan Walsh, who is also the author of a book called What’s the Matter With White People?
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CNN: Trump is Leader of ‘Destructive Cult’; Using ‘Mind Control’ On Americans
Stelter and guest say Trump supporters need ‘deprogramming’
CNN’s resident lunatic Brian Stelter went above and beyond his regular whackery Sunday, wheeling out a ‘cult expert’ on his “Reliable Sources“ show, who claimed that President Trump is a “destructive cult” leader, a la Jim Jones, and that he is using “mind control” to direct supporters.
Stelter introduced Steven Hassan, author of a book titled The Cult of Trump, claiming that many prominent figures (read ‘CNN talking heads’) have been suggesting recently that Trump’s America first movement is ‘cultish’.
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The Washington Post reported over the weekend that a former FBI attorney altered information that supported a FISA warrant that was used to spy on candidate and President Trump. Now Deep State actors are trying to minimize the actions of the the Mueller gang lovers who attempted a coup on President Trump’s Administration.
The WaPo reported this weekend and it was quickly uncovered that former Mueller gang members Kevin Clinesmith and his reported lover, Sally Moyer, were involved in altering documents used to obtain a FISA warrant to legitimize spying on candidate and President Trump. The WaPo claims that this will be coming out in the upcoming IG report in December.
Now the Deep State is attempting to downplay the actions that Clinesmith and Moyer took to end the Trump Administration —…
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Dem-Controlled School District Adopts SJW-Backed Busing Plan Despite Widespread Opposition
This is what happens when voters allow unaccountable Democrats to run wild with radical policies focused at building ‘equity’ and attacking ‘privilege’.
In deep-blue Howard County, Maryland, a local school board voted last week to impose a massive, 1970s-style busing and redistricting plan on the affluent suburban county, despite the fact that the plan is vehemently opposed by an overwhelming majority of residents.
According to the Daily Caller’s Luke Rosiak, after the first vote for the plan failed, members of the county school board retreated into their back room. When they came out, the one Democratic member who had voted “No” was visibly upset. When the board held another vote a few minutes later, she acquiesced.
Here’s more from the DC:
Board member Kirsten Coombs voted “no” after board member Jennifer Mallo motioned to move a swath of children out of their schools to try to balance poverty rates. It failed 4-3, and people clapped. “I move that we go into recess to consider the impact of the failure of that last motion,” Mallo said.
Coombs appeared to be crying when they came out of the back room and said the board should vote again “because otherwise the entire plan falls apart.”
Across suburban America — and especially along the eastern seaboard — there are few local policy experiments as reviled as “busing”, as the Washington Post reminds us.
Of the community members who oppose the plan — dozens showed up at the Thursday-night school board meeting to protest the vote — several individuals hailing from the former Soviet Union and mainland China said in a Facebook group that the board members’ bullying tactics reminded them of the totalitarian regimes from which they fled.
What’s more, the board received nearly 7,000 pieces of mail opposing the policy, and just 150 in support of it.
The police will dislodge thousands of children from their schools to try and balance out poverty rates in an attempt to equalize performance, drop-out rates and other metrics that measure ‘equality’. Tellingly, many residents in the communities that this plan is supposed to help also oppose it, since it could involve sending their children to schools far from home.
Adding insult to injury, after the vote passed, Jennifer Mallo, the board member who helped convince Coombs to change her vote, had the temerity to lecture her audience about the importance of equality, and neglected to mention the fact that nobody asked for this policy — and few support it, even among those the policy is purportedly designed to ‘help’. Mallo also lamented the open-government laws that allowed her audience to be present, and even complained about the low pay received by board members.
Unfortunately, this issue isn’t isolated to Howard County: A loose alliance of activist groups (many of the groups are backed by billionaire investor George Soros) are pushing “equity” plans that rely on what some economists have called “junk science”.
[Comment: Soros again.]
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Diana West on #ImpeachTrump: Doomsdays of the Endgame, Part 1
by Diana West
This week, the towering anti-communist dissident Vladimir Bukovsky was laid to rest in a London cemetery. In Washington, American democracy threw dirt on itself.
Impervious to the irony, the Democrats of the House of Representatives staged another fake impeachment “show trial” in its coup like no other to thwart the anti-communist will of the American electorate that sent Donald Trump to the White House.
The battle is not drawn in such terms; they have been taken from us. But to understand the desperate, unceasing efforts to unseat President Trump requires a longer lens on recents events, one that can focus on over a century of what Whittaker Chambers described as “the forces of that great socialist revolution, which, in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly, but always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the nation.” Chambers was writing in the 1950s, when the socialist “New Deal” was only two decades old. In 2016, six decades past Chambers, as the socialist ice cap had all but completely smothered our democratic republic, Donald Trump won the presidency. With his agenda to save America by restoring the nation-state, President Trump became a one-man counter-revolutionary army.
The revolutionaries within — leading figures in what is known as “the Swamp” — responded as true Marxists do: by any means necessary. And why not? Their ideological roots in varieties of Marxism are documented in my short book, The Red Thread. The dangers they pose in these end-stages of our democratic republic cannot be overstated. That makes Election 2020 our D-Day for re-taking our Swamp-occupied continent. Maybe the second time around, a wiser, battle-tested counter-revolutionary Trump will call in reserves who actually support him. This is precisely what our deeply embedded and powerful communistic enemies, confronting this unexpected American “insurgency,” fear more than anything.
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Epstein’s Ex Ghislaine Maxwell Coming Out of Hiding Soon: Report
Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, is finally set to come out of hiding and possibly talk to the FBI, according to a report Monday.
The British socialite is expected to emerge within days and defend her close friend Prince Andrew in the wake of his disastrous interview over his ties to the dead pedophile, a source close to Maxwell’s lawyers told the Sun.
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FBI ‘Know Where Ghislaine Maxwell is’ And Are ‘Building Case Against’ Her’
SHE’S been living undercover between the UK and the US since the Prince Andrew sex abuse storm erupted in August — but now cops know exactly where ‘pimp’ Ghislaine Maxwell is, an expert claims.
Spencer Kuvin, who represents three of the dead paedophile’s accusers, told Sun Online he believes that the FBI are building a strong case against the Brit socialite before they arrest her — and that they are following her every move.
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First Look at Jeffrey Epstein Inside His ‘Pedophile Island’ Lair
Here is the first look at the monster in his lair.
Newly surfaced photos obtained by The Post reveal for the first time how Jeffrey Epstein — and a horde of girls — spent time at his now-notorious Caribbean hideaway, nicknamed “Pedophile Island’’ by locals.
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I Just Have One Simple Question for @AdamSchiff
The Media-Democrats are willing to destroy the Executive Branch with an unprecedented abuse of subpoenas, filibusters, Bills of Attainder and endless investigations in search of crimes. As Attorney General William Barr describes it, “the resistance” — a term normally used to describe violent internal conflicts — is doing vast and untold damage to the Constitution.
The actions of Pelosi and Schiff are disgraceful and their names will be forever stains on American history. Irrespective of criminal, civil or political inquiries, never in all of American history has a “defendent” been:
- Prohibited from mounting a defense
- Prevented from calling witnesses
- Prevented from cross-examining witnesses
- Prohibited from even attending the depositions and hearings
- Subjected to an inquiry where the prosecutor is witness-tampering (e.g., alleged “whistleblower” Eric Ciamarella colluding with Adam Schiff prior to his filing any “whistleblower” complaint)
- Prevented from asking questions that relate directly to the complaint (e.g., Joe and Hunter Biden’s various lies about their knowledge of Burisma, corruption, etc.)
- Subjected to endless leaks by career bureaucrats and politicians who have somehow made millions as “public servants”
Anyone who defends this process is just as disgraceful as the leadership of the Democrat Party, which has become a river of swamp filth.
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Jane Fonda Goes After Climate Criminal Trump, Centrist Obama in CNN Rant
Actress-turned full-time climate change activist Jane Fonda appeared on CNN on Saturday and accused President Donald Trump of committing criminal actions against the world.
“I don’t hate him. I feel sad for him,” Fonda said on CNN’s The Van Jones Show. “And what he’s doing to the world … is just criminal. It’s just criminal. It’s terrible. But there’s more of us, and we can make a difference.”
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Navy Secretary Fired Over Seal Controversy
Firing sparked over poor handling of Eddie Gallagher case.
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New Amazon Show Features White People Wearing Red MAGA-Style Hats Being Hunted as ‘Nazis’
A new Amazon Prime show starring Al Pacino features a group of “diverse” vigilantes who hunt down and kill “Nazis,” some of whom are depicted wearing red MAGA-style hats.
Called Hunters, the trailer for the show, which is set in New York in 1977, is dominated by Pacino’s character, a Nazi-hunting Jewish ringleader named Meyer Offerman who justifies the killings by asserting, “This is not murder, This is mitzvah.”
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Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Subpoena Seeking Trump’s Financial Records
The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked enforcement of a congressional subpoena seeking President Trump’s financial records from an accounting firm, a brief victory for Trump, who has contended that a president cannot be investigated or prosecuted for a crime while in office.
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The Fishy Death of Jeffrey Epstein
Wood comments that Epstein was definitely NOT like “the typical member” of the Trilateral Commission (TC) or Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). “He had no compelling outward qualifications as far as I can tell, but if you think about the TC and CFR as being potentially useful for nefarious purposes, then Epstein was the blackmailer and his secret and real profession was sex trafficking and pedophilia,” Wood adds, “It has been alleged that every room in his mansions had hidden cameras that filmed everything and everyone and that the videos taken were stored offsite in a still-undisclosed location. These will never be released because they implicate so many of the global elite.”
These are serious concerns, and there is no guilt by association. But Epstein’s mysterious death, at this juncture in history, is extremely significant. Attorney General William Barr tells AP that Epstein’s “suicide” was the result of “a perfect storm of screw-ups.” But in the same way that then-candidate Donald J. Trump had brought up the case of the mysterious death of former Clinton aide Vincent Foster, calling it “fishy,” there are too many outstanding questions about the Epstein death. Like Foster, he is a man who knew too much.
Blaming two federal prison guards for his “suicide” cannot be accepted at face value.
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The Smallest Vol: Tiny Snail Species Named After University of Tennessee
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A new Vol for Life is coming out of its shell.
A team of researchers — many of whom are UT alumni — found the 2-millimeter cave snail lurking not far from Knoxville. The species’ official new name is Antrorbis tennesseensis!
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Calgary Academic Apologizes, Pays Up After Falsely Calling a Rebel Reporter a “Neo-Nazi”
Are you one of the more than 3 million people who have viewed this response on Twitter from our reporter Sheila Gunn Reid?
David Barrett, the “Aquatic Ecology Lab Coordinator” at the University of Calgary has been required by a court of law to post this apology on his own Twitter account, and keep it pinned in the top spot for the next 30 days. His tweet reads:
“I apologize to Ms. Sheila Gunn Reid for my tweet on June 12, 2019 using the term “Neo-Nazi”. I retract the allegation without reservation and regret any harm I may have caused to Ms. Gunn Reid or her family. I had no basis for making the allegation against her in particular and acknowledge that it is false in regards to her.”
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European Parliament Told: There is No Climate Emergency
(h/t Rúnar) At a press conference on Wednesday (20th November), the European Parliament was told: ‘there is no climate emergency’.
One MEP became emotional and accused the organizers of ‘collective manslaughter’ on future generations.
The press conference was hosted by the European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the European Parliament, who formally received the climate declaration from Professor Guus Berkhout.
Professor Berkhout represents the Climate Intelligence Foundation (Clintel), a Dutch group that has collected signatures from over 700 prominent scientists and professionals in support of the basic statement: there is no climate emergency.
Signatories include Nobel laureate, Professor Ivar Giaever, who made important experimental discoveries regarding superconductors, and the influential mathematician and physicist Professor Freeman Dyson.
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France Says EU Could Agree ‘Unique’ Trade Deal… If UK ‘Plays Fair’
The French trade minister has said that the European Union is ready to offer a “unique” trade deal, but only if the United Kingdom abides by Brussels’ environmental regulations, state aid policies, and labour market laws.
Speaking to the Financial Times, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne said that the deal to be struck by the end of the transition period would not “resemble any other bilateral agreement, any other trade agreement” that the EU has signed.
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Hungary Shines Spotlight on Christian Persecution in Budapest Conference
Hungary is holding its 2nd International Conference on Christian Persecution 2019 in Budapest this week to keep a bright light shining on the plight of Christians around the world.
Conference participants started filing into Budapest Monday, even though the speeches and events do not officially begin until Tuesday morning, and the patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His Holiness Ignatius Aphrem II, led the prayer before lunch in Aramaic.
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Julian Assange is in such poor health he could die in prison, a consortium of 60 doctors said in a joint letter to the UK government.
Assange has been detained inside the UK’s Belmarsh Prison since May. The 48-year-old was in April sentenced to 50 weeks in prisonfor breaching the Bail Act when he spent years hiding from police in Ecuador’s London embassy.
The letter says: “We write this open letter, as medical doctors, to express our serious concerns about the physical and mental health of Julian Assange.” It is addressed to Priti Patel, the UK’s Home Secretary.
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Tony Blair: Chances of Labour Government ‘Negligible’
Fanatic Remainer Tony Blair has admitted there is only a “negligible” chance of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party gaining a majority in the December 12th election.
Speaking at a Reuters Newsmaker event on Monday, the former Labour prime minister said: “I think if the polls are right, there is a negligible chance of a Labour majority.”
Blair also claimed that the Labour Party had been taken over by “left-wing populism”. Later during the event, he said that “if you had a moderate centre-left leader of the Labour Party right now we wouldn’t be in this position” where Conservatives promising to deliver Brexit had a 19-point lead over a party run by a socialist.
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UK: TV Network Bans Word ‘Uppity’ As Racist After a Single Complaint
A TV network in the UK has banned the word “uppity” after a single viewer complained that the term was racist when used to describe Meghan Markle.
The farce began after ITV host Eamonn Holmes criticized the Duchess of Sussex’s attitude when she refused to pose for photographs with fans during her visit to the Wimbledon tennis tournament in July.
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Iran Tortures Protesters, World Yawns
The hundreds of anti-regime protesters and civil rights activists who have been arrested by Iranian security forces since the eruption of mass demonstrations on November 15 — after the government raised the price of gasoline — are in dangerof torture, forced confessions and even death sentences.
According to the organization Iran Human Rights (IHR):
“The detainees are held in unknown places, and their families are not informed about their whereabouts. Moreover, there has been a total internet blackout imposed by the authorities making information flow very difficult.
“‘Most of the detainees could not call their families. Their relatives have tried to find out where they are held. They even do not know their beloved ones are dead or alive,’ a well-informed source told IHR.”
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Thousands in Georgia Protest to Demand Electoral Reform
TBILISI (Reuters) — Thousands of protesters blocked entrances to parliament in Georgia’s capital on Monday to press for proportional representation and reform to an electoral system they say unfairly favors the ruling party.
Blowing vuvuzuela horns and holding placards, the demonstrators stood in front of entrances, sat on pavements and erected tents outside the parliament building which was guarded by hundreds of police officers.
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Furious Pakistan Summons Norway’s Ambassador After Public Quran Burning & Brawl
Over the weekend Pakistan announced it has summoned Norway’s ambassador to convey the Muslim country’s outrage over a televised Quran burning incident in the southern Norwegian city of Kristiansand.
Similar to the controversial Florida-based pastor Terry Jones attempting to hold a Quran burning rally in 2010, this latest rally put on last week by the Stop Islamization of Norway (SIAN) had attracted a local and international media frenzy in the run-up to the event. Local reports further described that some 500 counter-demonstrators showed up, sending tensions soaring.
The head of the anti-Muslim group, Lars Thorsen, stood in front of a considerable crowd and torched the Islamic holy book, and that’s when chaos ensued, with at least two Muslim men rushing Thorsen after they jumped a police barrier — all of which was captured on film and went viral.
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Hong Kong’s New Politicians Plead With Police at Polyu: Mercy for Last 20 Students
Hong Kong Polytechnic University (#PolyU) is the scene of a pro-democracy demonstration which started last week and may end tomorrow morning if newly elected District Councillors can convince the riot police outside the building to grant mercy to the last 20 students still barricaded inside.
(CONTENT WARNING)
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Melbourne Mansion Among $17.3M Worth of Property Seized in Chinese Money Laundering Probe
A mansion in Melbourne’s east, newly constructed units and more than 3,000 acres of Tasmanian farmland are among the assets seized by Australian Federal Police as part of a two-year investigation into alleged money laundering by Chinese nationals.
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Argentina: Catholic Priests Jailed for Abusing Deaf Children
A court in Argentina has sentenced two Roman Catholic priests to more than 40 years in prison for sexually abusing deaf children at a church school.
Horacio Corbacho and Nicola Corradi, as well as a gardener, were found guilty of rape and abuse at the school in Mendoza province from 2004 to 2016.
Several victims were in court to see sentence passed on Monday.
The case has shocked Argentina, Pope Francis’ homeland, with many accusing the Church of acting too slowly.
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Essex Lorry Deaths: Lorry Driver Pleads Guilty to Assisting Illegal Immigration
A LORRY driver accused over the deaths of 39 migrants has pleaded guilty to plotting to assist illegal immigration.
Maurice Robinson, 25, is charged with the manslaughter of a group of men, women and children found dead in a refrigerated trailer. Appearing by video link from Belmarsh Prison in east London, Mr Robinson was not asked to enter a plea to 41 other charges, including 39 counts of manslaughter. The bodies of eight females and 31 males were discovered in the trailer attached to his Scania cab in an industrial park in Grays, Essex, early on October 23.
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France: Afghan Migrant to be Tried for Sex Crimes Against 5-Year-Old Girl
An adult male Afghan migrant is facing as a two-year prison sentence for allegedly luring a five-year-old girl into his bed and sexually abusing her.
The abuse is said to have occurred during April of 2018 when the five-year-old girl and her mother were staying at an apartment shared with three other migrants, two Afghans and a Sudanese national, in the commune of Avranches in Normandy, French newspaper La Manche Libre reports.
The mother of the child, who usually slept on the floor of the apartment with her daughter, was woken up at about 4 am when she heard the voice of her Afghan flatmate and realized that her 5-year-old daughter was in the same bed as him.
The 5-year-old girl then told her mother that the man had tried to make her touch his genitals. The mother then relayed news of the incident to neighbors who then contacted the police. Shortly after, the perpetrator was arrested.
When the police interviewed the victim, she told them that the Afghan mad had put his hand down her underwear before asking her to touch his “hard sausage”. The defendant has denied the claims, insisting that the 5-year-old girl had been the one to initiate sexual contact with him.
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A group of young women highlighting a government study which showed 52 per cent of Parisian rape suspects were foreign nationals were attacked and labeled “fascists” by feminists during a protest in Paris.
Two of the young women’s signs read, “52% of the rapists are foreigners” and “Cologne, Rotherham soon Panam (French slang for Paris).”
The feminists assaulted the women, stole their signs, ripped them up and then chanted, “Feminists, not fascists” and “fascists out,” as the young women were physically intimidated and forced to leave.
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‘Open Arms’ To Refugees, Pope Says in Japan
Francis says seeking success at any cost leads to unhappiness
(ANSA) — Tokyo, November 25 — Pope Francis met with young people at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Tokyo on Monday, where he called on the country to “open your arms and welcome those who come, often after great suffering, to seek refuge in your country”, said Caritas Japan.
It said that due to the country’s restrictive laws, only 42 people obtained refugee status in 2018.
During his homily at Mass on Monday afternoon at the Tokyo Dome stadium, Pope Francis warned the faithful “not to become trapped or isolated in the pursuit of success at any cost, including the cost of our very lives”.
“Worldly attitudes that look only to one’s profit or gain in this world, and a selfishness that pursues only individual happiness, in reality leave us profoundly unhappy and enslaved, and hinder the authentic development of a truly harmonious and humane society,” Pope Francis said.
After that Mass, Francis met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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Sanctuary County: Freed Illegal Alien Accused of Murdering 19-Year-Old Girl
A suspect charged with murdering his 19-year-old girlfriend in September is an illegal alien living in the United States who was previously freed by the sanctuary county of Durham County, North Carolina, Breitbart News has learned.
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UK: Motorhome Used to Smuggle Albanian Immigrants
Three men used a rented motorhome to smuggle Albanian nationals into the UK for profit, a court has heard.
Border Force officers at Dover said they discovered four migrants hidden inside the vehicle when it was stopped after crossing from Dunkirk in France.
Scott Fontana, 45, James O’Leary, 33, and Robert Moore, 29, are charged with conspiring to facilitate a breach of immigration law by a non-EU citizen.
All three deny the charges and are on trial at Canterbury Crown Court.
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- French officials intercepted the boat three miles west of Calais at 6.35am
- Comes after another 13 made it to Folkestone, Kent, on a boat yesterday
- Also on Sunday, 11 migrants were found getting into difficulty near Boulogne
- Around 1,600 migrants have made it into Britain this year by crossing Channel
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Back in January 2017, I headlined about a stabby Chicanx studies major at Berkeley who randomly murdered schoolteacher Emilie Inman:
Fugitive Latinx / Chicanx Studies Major Who Is Wanted in Berkeley Stabbing Murder Answers Only to Pronoun “They”
This horrible case is, hopefully, finally over.
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Tired of Hollywood’s Woke, And Failing, Actioners? Try Vox Day’s New Comic Book Series
Given woke Hollywood’s fare these days, the fate of Director Elizabeth Banks’s ultra-feminist reboot of Charlie’s Angels, like that Terminator Dark Fate, was as predictable as Banks’s hissyfit when it bombed on opening weekend. It earned a paltry $8 million against a $50 million budget. (This weekend was worse, barely over $3 million). Banks griped that American men who didn’t plunk down $9.25 for a ticketand $7 for popcorn were “reinforce[ing] a stereotype in Hollywood that men don’t go see women do action movies” [Elizabeth Banks suggests her ‘Charlie’s Angels’ box office bomb is because men ‘don’t go see’ female-led action films, by Joseph Wulfsohn, Fox News, November 18, 2019]. She’s right—men don’t! My advice: if you want a good actioner, forget pozzed Hollywood and the New York publishing houses. Instead, try Vox Day’s Alt-Hero comic book series—an effective antidote to the modern entertainment industry’s anti-white, anti-male egalitarian poison.
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‘Woke’ American Music Awards Sets Record Low Viewership in Key Demo
Despite being rammed with ‘woke’ themes like gender politics and climate change, the American Music Awards hit a record low in viewership for the key demographic of 18-49 year-olds.
Reality TV star Big Freedia, who identifies as “gender-nonconforming,” gave a speech before his performance in front of a rainbow church set telling the audience, “Welcome to our Sunday Service,” which was an obvious dig at Kanye West’s Christian-themed gospel-filled church services.
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It Can’t Happen Here? Muslim Organization Wants International Law Criminalizing Criticism of Islam
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which is made up of 56 nations plus the Palestinian Authority, met Thursday in Jeddah and called for the adoption of an international law criminalizing criticism of Islam. But that kind of law could never be adopted in the United States, could it? Think again.
The OIC’s secretary-general, Dr. Yousef al-Othaimeen, called upon the nations of the world, both Muslim and non-Muslim, to crack down on speech that was “insulting religions or prophets.” It was clear, however, that al-Othaimeen couldn’t have cared less about speech insulting Christianity or Judaism or Hinduism or Buddhism or any of the revered figures of those religions. He cared only about criticism of Islam.
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Boris and Natasha.
A 49-year-old man of Russian descent held, beat, and tortured an illegal migrant from Morocco for several hours, Blick reports. The reason was jealousy: the man became aware that his wife, also Russian, was cheating on him with a Moroccan.
When the husband found out about his wife’s betrayal, he forced her to lure a Moroccan into the house, where he beat him severely, broke several ribs, threatened him with a knife, and forced him to bark like a dog and kiss the legs of his former lover. The bullying lasted four and a half hours, and everything was filmed on camera.
After this, the Moroccan was moved to a car and wanted to take somewhere, but he managed to escape and hide.
The court sentenced the Russian couple to imprisonment and a fine
https://inosmi.ru/news/20191125/246301044.html
https://www.blick.ch/news/gehoernter-ehemann-drehte-durch-russische-rache-bringt-paar-in-den-knast-id15628672.html
“France: Paris: Feminists Attack Other Protesters for Highlighting Study Showing 52% of Male Rapists Are Migrants” only 52%? Are the rest converts or migrants that already got French citizenship?
I’m sure there’s some Christian or atheist French that rape too, but in the numbers I doubt it exceeds 10% (and I’m being extremely generous here, realistically it would probably be around 5%).
Unless the government censored the study, I would believe that as well…
Mr. Blair lamented the fact that his party has been taken over by left-wing populism.
This is a joke, right?
This must be a joke.