The Libyan navy rescued more than 200 migrants in the Mediterranean today. The rescued would-be immigrants, most of them from sub-Saharan Africa, were returned to port on the coast of Libya.
In other news, the London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan had been convicted and imprisoned previously for plotting to blow up the London Stock Exchange, but was released from prison early.
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5 More Signs That the Global Economy is Careening Toward a Recession
The global economy is already in the worst distress that we have seen since 2008, and it appears that the global slowdown is actually picking up pace as we head into 2020. And this is happening even though central banks around the world have been cutting interest rates and pumping massive amounts of money into their respective financial systems. The central bankers appear to be losing control, and it certainly wouldn’t take much of a push for this new crisis to evolve into a complete and utter nightmare. The U.S. economy hasn’t been hit quite as hard as economies in Asia and Europe have been, but without a doubt things are slowing down here too. Corporate earnings have been falling quarter after quarter, auto loan delinquencies just hit a record high, the Cass Freight Index has declined for 11 consecutive months, and we just witnessed the largest drop for U.S. industrial production since 2009. Everywhere around us there is bad economic news, but most Americans are still completely oblivious to what is happening.
In this article, I am going to share even more evidence that a global economic slowdown has already begun. When you add these numbers to all of the other numbers that I have been sharing in recent weeks, it becomes impossible to deny that something major is taking place.
The following are 5 more signs that the global economy is careening toward a recession…
#1 It is being projected that global auto sales will be down approximately 4 percent this year. According to CNN, this will be the second consecutive year that global auto sales have fallen…
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Accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein reportedly told a New York Times columnist in 2018 that criminalizing sex with underage girls was a cultural aberration and compared it to laws banning homosexuality.
Epstein allegedly described on background his views on criminalizing sex with teenage girls in an interview with NYT columnist James B. Stewart.
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Most Americans are aware that the so-called “mainstream media” is fraudulent, dishonest, and a vehicle for Left-wing propaganda, but former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who announced this week he’s seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, just took journalistic malpractice to a whole new level.
In a tweet on Sunday, the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg’s namesake news organization, John Micklethwait, said the editorial board would be suspending any coverage of the billionaire former mayor and there would be no “investigation” of him, his family, or his anti-gun foundation.
In short, because Bloomberg owns the news organization, it will not scrutinize him or his campaign, even though they have been scrutinizing President Donald Trump since before he took office.
Oh, and the Bloomberg News organization will continue to cover Trump right up to the election.
Just not Michael Bloomberg. Or other Democrats.
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You probably remember after the deadly church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, when USA Today put together a slide show demonstrating some of the ways an AR-15 could be customized, with the most popular by far being the chainsaw bayonet attachment.
That actually led to some people building real-life chainsaw bayonet attachments just to show it could be done.
Now that we’ve learned that a Polish man grabbed a 5-foot long narwhal tusk off the wall and ran out to confront the London Bridge terrorist this week, Townhall columnist Kurt Schlichter has demanded memes.
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Democrats Ponder Impeachment Pivot
By Fletch Daniels
The Democrats have twisted themselves into a Schiffian Knot, a modern-day unsolvable puzzle.
When they plunged forward on their ill-fated impeachment voyage, they were destined to land on this surreal shore, even if their parade of bureaucratic interagency cheerleaders was even weaker than presumed.
So they are in the bad place that can’t be washed away with a few margaritas. They desperately want to impeach President Donald Trump, but they don’t want to send this partisan presumption pile over to the Senate, where they can no longer control the list of witnesses, where hearsay will be inadmissible, and where narrative control swings to the Republicans.
But if they don’t impeach, their pitchfork-wielding base’s fury will reach apocalyptic levels. Nancy Pelosi, like the apostle Peter near the end of his life, was led by others to where she did not want to go. She must be furious with her caustic clown caucus that maneuvered her into such an untenable position.
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Epstein Tapes? Sordid Case Takes a Bizarre Turn After Mystery ‘Hacker’ Emerges
Shortly after Jeffrey Epstein’s August death in a Manhattan detention facility, a shadowy figure claiming to have set up encrypted servers for the convicted sex offender told several attorneys and the New York Times he had a vast archive of incriminating evidence against powerful men stored on overseas servers, including several years worth of the financier’s communications and financial records which allegedly showed he had vast amounts of Bitcoin and cash in the Middle East and Bangkok, and hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of gold, silver and diamonds.
Going by the pseudonym Patrick Kessler, self-described ‘hacker’ said he had “thousands of hours of footage from hidden cameras” from Epstein’s multiple properties, which included former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, and Prince Andrew, along with three billionaires and a prominent CEO, according to the Times.
It has been long speculated that Epstein recorded his high-profile guests as part of an international blackmail operation.
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Since President Trump “unexpectedly” won the 2016 presidential election Facebook, Google, Twitter have worked vigorously to eliminate conservative voices and conservative content on their platforms.
So far the Republican Party and the Trump administration have sat back and watched the left erase Freedom of Speech without any repercussions. And the left continues to ramp up their attacks on conservatives.
On Black Friday Facebook upped their attacks on conservatives and blocked photos of First Lady Melania Trump.
She is too beautiful for their platform.
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Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli was screamed at and asked if he wanted to fight by former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley (D) at a Washington, D.C. bar/restaurant The Dubliner, located near the Capitol, Wednesday evening, prompting Cuccinelli to leave. Both men were there for an annual gathering of their fellow Gonzaga College High School graduates.
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LA County Intoduces e-Voting System: Not Hand-Marked, Not Paper, Not Hand-Counted in Public
Authored by Lambert Strether of Corrente, via NakedCapitalism.com
No doubt Los Angeles County’s VSAP (“Voting Solutions for All People”) rollout will not be covered as a debacle. The real question is: If there were a debacle — like, say, a case of election fraud — would we even know? Doubtful.
Just what we want in a voting system! In this post, I’ll give a brief overview of issues with electronic voting. Then I’ll look at VSAP as an institution. Next, I’ll show why the VSAP system is not only insecure, but likely to make money-in-politics even worse than it already is.
We’ve covered electronic voting before — see here, here, and here — and if you want to understand why hand-marked paper ballots, hand-counted in public (HMPBCP) is the world standard, you can read them, especially the first. In this overview, I’ll make a few high-level observations about electronic voting in general.
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What was going on in Obama’s White House? Eric Ciaramella was close to Barack Obama and many other individuals connected to George Soros. Suspected whistleblower Eric Ciaramella worked in Obama’s White House.
We reported a couple days ago that on September 7, 2016, Eric Ciaramella from the Obama Administration met with a group of individuals that included an Executive from a George Soros connected group. What did they discuss? The meeting included Donald M. Camp, Jessica M. Gray, Baily S. Holladay (Russian Linguist/Analyst, NSA), Michael D. Jarvis, Natalia O. Lassowsky (Ukrainian Linguist/Analyst, NSA), Thomas W. Pucci, Stefanie L. Stagg and Ciaramella.
It appears that the “Michael D. Jarvis” who attended the Eric Ciaramella meeting on September 7, 2016 was and still is the Executive Director of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI) which is funded by George Soros’ Open Society Foundation.
[Comment: Appears that Soros has infiltrated the CIA.]
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‘So Anti-Trump’: President Asks Jared Kushner to Find Out ‘What’s Going on With Drudge?’
President Trump wants his son-in-law Jared Kushner to check in with Matt Drudge, the publisher of the Drudge Report, about him pushing anti-Trump content.
“What’s going on with Drudge?” the president has been asking allies according to a report by the Daily Beast on Saturday. Trump has singled out Kushner to “look into it” and talk to Drudge about why he is highlighting anti-Trump content on his typically conservative news aggregation site.
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Starbucks Barista, Who Called Cop “PIG” On Thanksgiving, Fired
A Starbucks employee who printed the word “PIG” on the labels of a Kiefer, Oklahoma police officer’s coffee has been fired, according to the company.
The Kiefer police officer went to the Glenpool Starbucks on Thursday to pick up five drinks for dispatchers working on Thanksgiving, according to Police Chief Johnny O’Mara in a Facebook post.
“What irks me is the absolute and total disrespect for a police officer who, instead of being home with family and enjoying a meal and a football game, is patrolling his little town,” he added.
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Updated: Newsweek Fires Reporter Who Wrote Inaccurate Story on Trump’s Thanksgiving Day Plans
The Newsweek reporter who wrote an inaccurate story about President Trump’s Thanksgiving Day plans has been fired. The outlet’s original story claimed the president only planned on tweeting and golfing during his holiday break, neglecting to mention his trip to Afghanistan.
Newsweek‘s Jessica Kwong, whose Twitter handle identifies her as a political reporter “covering Trump administration and family,” initially published the article Thursday morning, before the president’s trip to Afghanistan was announced publicly. The story’s initial headline was, “How is Trump spending Thanksgiving? Tweeting, golfing and more.”
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How Universities Enable the Hijacking of Campus Free Speech When Jews Are Involved
In a country where multiculturalism has a reverent following and criticism of protected minorities has essentially been criminalized as “hate speech,” it is more than ironic that on some Canadian campuses radical students have taken it upon themselves to target one group, Jewish students, with a hatred that is nominally forbidden for any others. And with a recent incident that took place on November 20th, York University, in particular, has now revealed a troubling pattern of tolerating physical and emotional assaults by pro-Palestinian radicals against Jewish students and others who dare to demonstrate any support for Israel or question the tactics of Islamists in their efforts to destroy the Jewish state.
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Watch: Female Conservative Journalist Assaulted in Alberta by Left-Wing Protestor
A female conservative journalist has been assaulted in Calgary by a left-wing protestor outside the United Conservative Party’s Annual General Meeting in Calgary.
According to a post made by the company’s main Twitter profile, Sheila Gunn Reid was assaulted while attempting to cover the protestors outside the event.
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NETHERLANDS — Several wounded and one reported dead after a man, 45-50 years old wearing a grey jogging suit stabbed multiple people in The Hague’s main shopping strip.
As usual, police say the motive is still ‘unknown.’
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Sarah Halimi, well known Jewish woman in the Paris Orthodox community, was brutally beaten and thrown to her death from her third-floor apartment by a ‘‘radicalized’’muslim neighbor in April 2017.
It was the crime that should have shocked France — a quiet Jewish woman mercilessly beaten by young Muslim neighbor, Kobili Traoré, in the middle of the night before being thrown to her death from her Paris apartment. All this to recitations of the Koran and cries of ‘‘Allahu Akbar’’ while police waited outside for the arrival of an anti-terrorist unit.
Yet few outside of the Jewish community heard of the crime last year, with essential elements being omitted from mainstream press reports of the horrific attack. Six weeks after the violent death of 66-year-old Sarah Halimi, her family spoke out.
Holding a press conference in May 2017, lawyers speaking on their behalf stated their belief that the crime was anti-Semitic in nature and condemned the ‘‘silence of the media’’ in the aftermath of the crime.
Nearly a year later French authorities finally admitted the brutal death of Sarah Halimi was an anti-Semitic murder.
In July a French judge ruled the Muslim killer Kobili Traoré was not responsible for his crime because he was high on pot at the time.
And now this…
French prosecutors this week dropped charges against the killer Kobili Traoré because he was high on pot.
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George Soros: The Mug Behind the Globalists (And Anti-Trumpism)
Guest post by Ted Malloch at American Greatness
George Soros has financed abortion on demand, legalization of drugs, and more recently, district attorney races in many American cities with radical candidates. But most of all, he is 100 percent into ending Trump.
A “dark money” group that received millions from George Soros’s advocacy network is the source of a seven-figure ad blitz urging vulnerable Republicans in swing districts to support the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
In the battle royale between patriots and globalists, between Trump and his myriad of adversaries that my co-author Felipe Cuello and I outlined in our new book, Trump’s World, one person stands out as the dominant player—against Trump and patriots, everywhere, anywhere, and always.
Soros has a net worth of $8 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to his various radical and leftist political causes.
The 89-year-old Eastern European oligarch, born as György Schwartz, is an immigrant to America and a left-wing billionaire who made his fortune blackmailing countries and orchestrating currency panics as a force to contend with. He also settled a notorious case in France on insider stock trading, a crime.
Watch him brag that the “Trump phenomenon will disappear in 2020”; thanks in no small part to his activism and extensive funding. “Clearly,” Soros says, “I consider the Trump Administration a danger to the world.”
Soros made his gigantic fortune as a global-macro hedge fund operator.
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Merkel’s last term as German chancellor has been a series of relentless blows to her reputation and legacy, as the former leader of Europe finds herself trapped and increasingly powerless in a world that has grown hostile to her style of governing.
The latest shock came on Saturday, when the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) announced the winner of its leadership contest as both coalition partners of Germany’s Grand Coalition were transitioning their party leaderships after disappointing results in opinion polls and at regional elections.
Whereas consensus had widely expected finance minister Olaf Scholz and regional politician Klara Geywitz to preserve their control over the SPD after topping the first round of voting, the result announced just after 6pm CET showed that with a vote of 53% to 45%, SPD members elected Norbert Walter-Borjans, a former minister in the regional state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and Saskia Esken, an MP from Baden-Württemberg, as their new leaders.
The outcome was a blow to Merkel and her coalition government, as the duo of Walter-Borjans and Esken represent the left-leaning segment of the SPD and have been highly skeptical of the SPD’s role in the Grand Coalition government.
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Italy Doubles Funding for European Space Agency
‘Stronger in agency’ after highest-ever donation says Fraccaro
(ANSA) — Rome, November 28 — Italy has doubled its funding for the European Space Agency (ESA), cabinet secretary with the space brief Riccardo Fraccaro said Thursday.
“The space sector is the engine for development, innovation and competitiveness of the country-system,” he said.
“Buoyed by the results achieved in terms of economic return on investments and greater efficiency of the institutions, Italy is doubling the funds earmarked for ESA’s programmes.
“With a total subscription of 2.288 billion euros, the highest ever, our Country affirms itself as a global space power.” Fraccaro added that Italy was stronger within ESA having reached 16% of the total budget.
“ESA’s ministerial council meeting (in Seville) has been a success for Italy,” he said.
“Our role within the ambit of European space (programmes), with a subscription of the total budget that has risen to 16%, takes on an unprecedented significance.
“Italy has become stronger in ESA and the programmes of the Agency are focusing on our areas of excellence”.
Italy’s Luca Parmitano this year became the first European astronaut to lead the International Space Station (ISS).
He recently carried out the first European space walk, considered the most difficult one since the repair of the Hubble telescope.
The spacewalk, carried out with NASA colleague, was carried out to repair the service the cosmic-particle-hunting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02).
Italy emerges from the biggest meeting on European space programmes with its role as leader in space transport confirmed, with future projects including the Vega launcher and the Spacerider shuttle, Italian Space Agency (ASI) President Giorgio Saccoccia told ANSA.
“It’s an exceptional result, I’m very satisfied,” he said.
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Italy Uncovers Plot to Create New Nazi Party
Italian police made several arrests and seized a cache of weapons amid a nearly two-year, nationwide investigation of Nazi groups sparked by the participation of Italian fighters in Ukraine’s armed conflict in the Donbass region.
During their probe which stretched from the island of Sicily to the Alps in Northn Italy, Authorities uncovered a plot to form a new Nazi party called the Italian National Socialist Party of Workers, according to Reuters.
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Netherlands: Three Children Wounded in Stabbing at Hague Shopping Center
Three children were wounded in a knife attack on Friday evening in the Hague, Netherlands.
The stabbings took place at Grote Markstrattt, the city’s main shopping street, at around 7:45 pm while families were out shopping for Black Friday deals. A motive for the attack is still unknown, the NL times reports.
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An “unusual greening of the planet,” reports German science magazine Wissenschaft. “A paradox.”
Has been greening for 3 decades
While it is widely reported how the world’s rainforests are being chopped down, Wissenschaft reports, “Vegetation on earth has been expanding for decades, satellite data show.”
Yes, the planet is in fact greening, and this is embarrassing climate alarmists, who over the years managed to mislead much of the media and public into believing the planet has been “browning” and thirsting to death.
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“Greta is practically painted as a saint.”
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Trial Opens Into Romania’s 1989 Revolution Deaths
A trial over the deaths of 862 people during the 1989 anti-communist revolution in Romania started on Friday at the High Court of Justice in Bucharest, the daily BalkanInsight reported. The former Romanian president Ion Iliescu, former deputy prime minister Gelu Voican Voiculescu and former air force head Iosif Rus are accused of crimes against humanity, since they allegedly used security agencies to cause a generalised mood of terror.
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UK Election Debate: Leftists Insult Trump, Only Brexit Party Back Cutting Migration
Leftist politicians used an inconclusive seven-way election debateto bash Donald Trump and scare voters with claims he wants to buy the National Health Service (NHS), and refused to commit to cutting immigration.
Asked by host Nick Robinson what they would say to the U.S. leader if they had 30 seconds with him, Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish First Minister and leader of the left-separatist Scottish National Party (SNP), sneered “Please stand down.”
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The chef, who has been identified only as Luckasz, tried to pin knifeman Usman Khan, 28, to the ground using the tusk as the attacker slashed at his hand.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for an end to early prisoner release after members of the public had to tackle a rampaging jihadist armed with nothing but a fire extinguisher and a narwhal tusk.
Members of the public in Great Britain cannot carry firearms or keep them at home for self-defence, as they can in the United States and, with limits, some other states such as Israel, and even non-lethal defence articles such as pepper spray are completely prohibited.
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UK: Boris Confirms He Won’t be Standing Down Clean-Break Brexit Preparations
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that his government will continue preparations for a clean-break Brexit despite intentions to pass his EU-approved Brexit deal.
The United Kingdom’s latest extension on the Article 50 negotiation period before a default “no deal” Brexit expires on January 31st, 2020, and Mr Johnson maintains that if he gains a majority in the House of Commons in next month’s snap election, he could pass his withdrawal agreement before Christmas.
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UK: How Terror Unfolded on the Streets of London
Knife maniac was shot dead by armed police just FIVE minutes after launching attack with two knives — one DUCT-TAPED to his hand — leaving two dead and up to twelve injured
A knifeman was shot dead by armed police just five minutes after he launched a horrific attack near London Bridge which killed two and left up to 12 injured.
Police were called to the north side of London Bridge at 1.58pm on Friday, after reports of a stabbing near Bank station and Fishmongers’ Hall, which was hosting an event called ‘Learning Together’.
The attack is thought to have begun inside the venue, police said, before the suspect — later identified as Usman Khan, 28 — left the building and headed towards London Bridge.
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UK: Hero! Polish Chef Tackles London Bridge Terrorist With 1.5 Metre Narwhal Tusk
A Polish chef who tackled crazed London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan with a 1.5-metre-long narwhal tusk has been hailed a hero.
The man identified only as Lukasz was seen grabbing the tusk from a wall in Fishmongers’ Hall where he was working before running outside to confront the attacker.
The kitchen worker then tried to pin Khan down with the tusk as the attacker stabbed at his hand.
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UK: London Attacker Was Convicted Terrorist With Jihadist Ties
He was jailed in 2012 as part of a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange and build a terrorist training camp.
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The Metropolitan Police said at a press briefing Friday that the knifeman on London Bridge shot dead by police was wearing a hoax suicide vest.
The incident is now being treated as a terror attack.
Outraged citizens jumped the knifeman, subduing and disarming him as police arrived on the scene. Police cleared the citizens before shooting the knifeman. Two shots can be heard in videos of the incident.
Now this…
The killer, Usman Khan, was a previously convicted Islamic terrorist who was a guest lecturer at Cambridge University on “prisoner rehabilitation.”
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UK: Latest on London Bridge Attack
Usman Khan, Terrorist was AUTOMATICALLY freed after seven years for Mumbai-style plot
The London Bridge terrorist who stabbed two people to death in a horrific knife rampage yesterday sent a grovelling letter from prison begging to be sent on a deradicalisation course during his sentencing for his first terror offences, it has been revealed.
Usman Khan, 28, was jailed in 2012 for his role in an al Qaeda-inspired terror group that plotted to bomb the London Stock Exchange and the US Embassy and kill Boris Johnson.—More…
Bad to the bone: Moment hero Polish chef called Luckasz used a narwhal tusk to tackle London Bridge terrorist
A chef at Fishmongers’ Hall who grabbed a narwhal tusk to fight off a knifeman is the latest hero to be identified in the London Bridge terror attack.
Luckasz, originally from Poland, tried to pin down knifeman Usman Khan, 28, who wore a fake suicide vest, using a five-foot narwhal tusk he took from the wall of Fishmongers’ Hall yesterday.—More…
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UK: London Bridge Killer Was Released From Prison Early on Prior Terrorism Charge
Update: According to The Telegraph, London Bridge attacker Usman Khan, 28, was a convicted terrorist who was released from prison in December 2018 — less than seven years into a 16-year sentence for a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange.
He was also a student and personal friend of notorious Islamist hate preacher, Anjem Choudary, whose private cell phone number was stored in Khan’s phone at the time of his initial arrest.
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UK: London Bridge Attack: First Victim Named by Dad as ‘Beautiful Spirit’ Jack Merritt, 25
Mr Merritt was described as a “beautiful spirit” by his bereaved family after he and a woman, who is yet to be named by the London Metropolitan Police, were brutally killed when Usman Khan, 28, stabbed them in a savage terror attack at 2pm on Friday. Mr Merritt’s father, David, paid an emotional tribute to his late son. He said on Twitter: “My son, Jack, who was killed in this attack, would not wish his death to be used as the pretext for more draconian sentences or for detaining people unnecessarily.”
[Comment: The father of the murdered is pozzed. Facepalm.]
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UK: London Bridge Terrorist Previously Jailed for Plotting to Bomb the London Stock Exchange
Two innocent people were killed and three others were left with injuries yesterday after a previously convicted radical Islamic terrorist — a man who had plotted to bomb the London Stock Exchange — went on a stabbing rampage in London.
The ordeal was finally brought to an end when armed police shot dead the knifeman wearing a fake suicide vest. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has confirmed that two individuals died from the injuries they sustained during the attack, the Daily Mail reports.
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UK: Murderer on Day Release Was Among Heroes Who Rushed to Help During London Bridge Terror Attack
It is believed James Ford rushed to the scene and tried to save the life of a woman victim of the terrorist. Now 42, Ford was jailed for life — with a minimum of 15 years — in April 2004.
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Complain he should have been arrested.
Some people are upset that the London Bridge terrorist who was wearing fake explosives and had stabbed multiple victims was shot dead by police, arguing that he should have been arrested.
The attacker was apprehended by brave citizens who disarmed him of his weapon before police moved in to gun down the assailant.
This disturbed numerous leftists on Twitter who were upset that the terrorist was killed.
“How can they shoot one man publicly. They could have arrested or use rubber bullets,” said Hassan Nawaz, labeling the shooting “madness.”
It’s unsurprising that some reacted this way given that they all appeared to be supporters of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
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Foreign elements are pushing a dubious story, targeted at American conservatives, that Ilhan Omar is a secret agent of the nation of Qatar.
The claim comes from a deposition from a Canadian self-described problem-solver for the Saudi ruling family — the arch-nemesis of Qatar — who gave 200 pages of testimony that offered a haphazard smorgasbord of accusations against the country.
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In a Meeting With Thailand’s Supreme Buddhist Patriarch, Pope Francis Encourages Peace
Pope Francis’ visit to Thailand is intended to encourage the small Catholic community living in the Buddhist-majority country. The pope also has several interreligious meetings while in the country.
“On this path of mutual trust and fraternity, I wish to reiterate my personal commitment, and that of the whole Church, to furthering an open and respectful dialogue in the service of the peace and well-being of this people,” the pope said.
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India: Protestors Raise Slogans, Hurl Slippers at Cops Over Hyderabad Vet’s Rape, Murder
As anger mounted across the country after the brutal murder of a veterinary doctor, who was also allegedly sexually assaulted, Telangana residents erupted in protest across the capital city.
On Saturday, hundreds of persons protested outside Shadnagar Police station, located on the outskirts of Ranga Reddy district in the city, demanding justice. The charred body of the 26-year-old was found Thursday on the outskirts of Shadnagar, under a culvert just off National Highway 44 in Chattanpally village.
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American Citizen Arrested for Educating North Korea on Blockchain and Crypto
Today United States prosecutors announced the arrest of Virgil Griffith, who allegedly traveled to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to deliver a presentation on how to use cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology to circumvent sanctions.
According to the November 29 announcement, the 36-year-old Griffith was arrested at the Los Angeles International Airport, and will be charged with conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The charges carry a maximum term of 20 years in prison.
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China Adopts Malicious “Cybersecurity” Rules
On January 1, China’s Cryptography Law becomes effective. The legislation follows the December 1 implementation of the Multi-Level Protection Scheme 2.0, issued under the authority of the 2016 Cybersecurity Law.
Together, these measures show Beijing’s absolute determination to seize from foreign companies all their communications, data, and other information stored in electronic form in China.
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DC Comics Deletes Batman Poster After China Claims it’s Pro-Hong Kong
The future is young — unless China says otherwise.
DC Comics has removed a piece of artwork from social media that was meant to promote a new Batman comic after Chinese critics claimed the artwork showed support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
The image by artist Rafael Grampa shows a version of Batwoman holding a Molotov cocktail in front of pink lettering that says: “The future is young.”
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Hong Kong Seniors Rally to Back Students as Activists Decry Police Actions
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Secondary school students and retirees joined forces to protest in Hong Kong on Saturday, the first of several weekend rallies planned across the city, as pro-democracy activists vowed to battle what they say are police brutality and unlawful arrests.
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North Korea Says it Has Successfully Tested New ‘Super-Large Multiple Rocket Launcher’
North Korean missile tests appear to include a new weapons system.
According to state-run Korean Central News Agency (KNCA), North Korea has successfully tested a “super-large multiple-rocket launcher” which Japanese President Shinzo Abe has described as “ballistic missiles.”
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Uruguay Opposition Claims Victory in Presidential Vote, Official Candidate Concedes
MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) — Uruguay’s conservative opposition party claimed victory and the governing party’s candidate conceded defeat on Thursday after the count of Sunday’s runoff election concluded, marking a rightward shift on a continent torn by social unrest.
First, there was a tweet from the opposition National Party saying its candidate Luis Lacalle Pou had won. “Uruguay now has a new president,” it said.
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France: Migrants Arrested for Alleged ISIS Salutes at Strasbourg Christmas Market
A year after the terror attack at the Christmas market in Strasbourg, police have arrested two Chechens at the market for making signs of allegiance to the Islamic State.
The men allegedly took selfies at the market with their index fingers pointed to the sky, a gesture often used by Islamic State members to represent Allah as the one true god. The acts were witnessed by police who then arrested the suspects, broadcaster RTL reports.
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Germany Granting Fewer Christian Converts Asylum
Fewer asylum seekers claiming to have converted from Islam to Christianity are being granted asylum in Germany, as authorities become more cautious about fake conversions.
Until 2017, the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) granted 67.3 per cent of converts asylum, but that number has halved since then, with just 36.3 per cent of converts currently gaining refugee status, Die Welt reports.
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Libya Navy Says Over 200 Migrants Rescued From Med
Tajura (Libya) (AFP) — Libya’s navy said Saturday it had rescued 205 migrants in an operation off the coast of Tripoli.
The rescue took place on Friday, with 158 men, 33 women and 14 children taken from three inflatable boats off the coast of Zawiyah, 45 kilometres west of the capital, a navy statement said.
After receiving calls for help, coast guards had found the boats between 45 and 50 nautical miles (83-93 kilometres) offshore, it said.
The migrants, who came from African nations including Mali, Ivory Coast and Guinea, were returned to port in east Tripoli.
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Beauty Queen, 24, Sues Miss World After it Bans Her From Taking Part Because She is a Mother
A beauty queen is taking legal action against the UK-based Miss World contest because she was banned from taking part for being a mother.
Veronika Didusenko, 24, was crowned Miss Ukraine in 2018 but was stripped of her title four days later after it was revealed she was divorced and had a son called Alex, now five. She was also banned from entering the Miss World finals.
Now she has launched legal action in London claiming organisers are in breach of the Equalities Act 2010 and has demanded they change their ‘outdated’ entry criteria to reflect the modern world.
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The left’s self-loathing and hatred for this country knows no bounds.
Far left actress Mayim Bialik posted a video on YouTube earlier this month on how much she hates this country and its traditions.
Bialik, who starred in “The Big Bang Theory”, says Thanksgiving reminds her of “one of the grossest examples of genocide.”
Via Newsbusters:
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‘Desmond is Amazing’ Appears in Front of Painting With ‘Rohypnol’ Written on it
12-year-old ‘drag queen kid’ appears alongside 53-year-old who killed his drug dealer.
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If I Were the Devil — Remastered Audio — Paul Harvey
Prophetic words by Paul Harvey. The earliest translation of Paul Harvey’s “If I was the devil” was around 1964. Many variations of “If I were the devil” exist online and the words contained in this video are more accurate to Paul Harvey’s 1996 version.
[Comment: Originally recorded in 1965, pastor eerily accurate prediction of the future society.]
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The Left Says Removing Free Speech is ‘Preserving Freedoms’
War is Peace. Ignorance is Strength. Freedom is Slavery.
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Top Historians Slam NYT ‘1619 Project’ As it Infiltrates Public School Curriculum
Multiple historians slammed The New York Times Magazine’s “1619 Project,” calling the reframing of history false and disturbing, as others are pushing for it to continue being added into public school curriculum.
The “1619 Project” is made up of multiple stories and poems about racismand slavery. It suggests America’s “true founding” was when the first slaves arrived in 1619 and “aims to reframe the country’s history.” Written by journalists and opinion writers, the project has already received criticismfrom many conservatives.
Historian and Brown University professor Gordon Wood called the project “wrong in so many ways” in an interview with World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) published Thursday.
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Transgenderism and the Olympics
Next year’s Tokyo Summer Olympics may spell the swift death of the transgender movement as a dominant politically-correct touchstone. Biological men, self-identifying as women, are poised to make a clean sweep of the Women’s Olympics, triggering a very public debate on this third-rail subject. That firestorm, pitting pro-women feminists against extreme pro-transgender progressives, will begin July 24th, just as the Presidential sweepstakes moves into its sprint to the finish line.
The International Olympic Committee — the IOC — recently admitted they couldn’t come up with fair guidelines governing how and when transgender women can compete as women, against biological women. Currently, the IOC says self-identified women can compete, so long as their testosterone level remains below 10 nanomoles per liter (nm/l) for 12 months. Typically, men have between 7.7 and 29.4 nm/l of testosterone, while women have between 0.12 and 1.77 nm/l. Under those IOC guidelines, hormonally-restricted men can still maintain nearly 500 percent testosterone advantage over women.
However, the real benefit transgender women experience, according to recent studies by Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet, a leading medical university, is found in their masculine bone structure and upper body strength. This develops throughout puberty, making current testosterone levels largely insignificant. These masculine genetic benefits are the very reason for women’s athletics.
“Not every male advantage dissipates when testosterone drops” according to Alison Heather, a physiologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand. “Some advantages, such as their bigger bone structure, greater lung capacity, and larger heart size remain. Testosterone also promotes muscle memory. Transgender women have a heightened ability to build strength even after they transition,” Heather explained.
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For parents looking to introduce their kids to devil worship, Walmart and Amazon are now selling a new children’s book entitled: ‘A Children’s Book of Demons’. In the ‘about’ section, the publishers try to turn the act of summoning demons into a kid-friendly activity saying: “summoning demons has never been so much fun”.
The site categorizes the book as a “playful guide” to conjure demons to communicate with “the spirit”. The children’s product is listed for children ages 5-10 and “inspires” kids to “create demons of their own”. The book is a sort of coloring book whereby kids can draw demons using a system of sigils.
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If you blame some “cultural Marxists” for the migration problems and nod to Russia as well, then in Russia it is a replacement migration blame the London or Washington “OBKOM.”
We believe that the West has imposed migration policy on us, because Russia is a cryptocolony. Which, in principle, is true after reading such publications.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5669267/
OBKOM – this is the Regional Committee of the CPSU
Saying “London or Washington Regional Committee” means that the rulers of the Kremlin are there.
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It was built as a hybrid of two, at first glance, incompatible symbols of power – Washington (a symbol of power in the USA) and a regional committee (a symbol of Soviet party power). The regional committee of the CPSU gave party officials instructions on an ideological plan, in particular on how to speak out on various issues in accordance with the party’s line. Failure to comply with these directives threatened with sanctions.
The expression has an anti-American focus.
It is used by politicians and intellectuals who believe that Russia is not a sovereign country, but is partially or fully controlled by external forces that exercise a kind of supranational power. Moreover, it may be considered that the center of this supranational power is located in the USA (“in Washington”) and controls not only Russia, but the entire post-Soviet space.
More details: http://cyclowiki.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1 % 81% D0% BA% D0% B8% D0% B9_% D0% BE% D0% B1% D0% BA% D0% BE% D0% BC
Elena, I only skimmed your first link, which is quite long (the second is in Russian), but couldn’t see any evidence of US involvement. In any event, despite Yeltsin’s helpfulness at the time of 9/11, the US, especially under Obama, has acted in what many Russians might see as a hostile manner, such as expanding NATO after undertaking not to do so.
Whatever one may think of Putin, he seems to be popular because he puts the interests of his own country first, or am I missing something?
But someone is doing this research. Someone makes sure that the natives do not express indignation. Someone is importing migrants and instilling Islamization.
Perhaps you `re right. Because I looked at the names of article authors at the very end. I met several of them on the net. They are somehow connected with the UN.
But all of our hate laws, etc., are tracing off your laws. And they were introduced a little later than in your countries
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I do not know what kind of country this is, whose interests Putin puts in the first place. Everything is sold here by foreign companies. People are in poverty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByqO1NdMrxQ
muslims savagery in WW2
Interestingly enough, the Allied forces that invaded south-western Germany at the end of WW2 were majority Muslim. Look up the order of battle for the French expeditionary force. It’s “Moroccan Division” this and “Algerian Divison” that etc.
When a German friend of mine from Stuttgart complained about refugees, I joked “wouldn’t be the first time Muslims have invaded Baden-Württemberg”
“The Libyan navy rescued more than 200 migrants in the Mediterranean today. The rescued would-be immigrants, most of them from sub-Saharan Africa, were returned to port on the coast of Libya.” good to know at least some navys in the Mediterranean are doing their job properly.
A reply written at: https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/140380/walmart-now-selling-childrens-book-demons/
“Frank Brown those opposed to this book are not religious wackados. As Christians, we know how real Satan’s evil is. ”
This means, the Bible got there first to implant this seed into this commenter’s head. Those who now say, ‘the Devil’s greatest trick is convince people he doesn’t exist.’
So, to rewind. Superstition. Forces of Good against Evil, angels and demons.
No longer the truth set you free, but the zombie-Jesus died so you won’t go straight to Hell and burrrrrrnnnn.
(That’s enough witchcraft for now, little children.)
Mind prisons. Slaves to subconscious. Intellectual or Emotional rape through systematic murder and torture of the unbelievers. Far Far Left (psychopathic Muhammad and Muhamadans) Far Left (sociopathic Stalin et al.).
‘Repent, for the kingdom of god (reality) is near.’ Unlock the rainbow.