The AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) is experiencing a surge in the polls, and has now surpassed the Social Democrats (SPD) in popularity. The latest polls show the AfD as the most popular party in Brandenburg.
In other news, police in Marseille have charged a 16-year-old “child” migrant from Ivory Coast with raping three women at knifepoint.
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Dow, S&P 500 Climb to Record Highs; But These Stocks Surprisingly Lag
The Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P 500 rose to record highs in a broad rally that also gave the Nasdaq composite its best gain since Aug. 29 in the stock market today.
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Initial Jobless Claims Plunge to Lowest Since the ‘60s
The last time initial jobless claims were this low (1969), Abbey Road was #1 on the charts, and a recession broke out…
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Nearly Half a Trillion Dollars Already Repatriated; More Coming
President Donald Trump said in an interview in July that untaxed corporate earnings held offshore used to be “$2.5 trillion … I guess it’s $5 trillion now. Whatever it is, it’s a lot more. So we have anywhere from $4 [trillion] to 5 or even more trillions sitting offshore.”
Thanks to Trump’s tax reform act and its related tax holiday, that number “sitting offshore” is now a lot less: almost half a trillion dollars less. In the first six months of 2018 alone, American companies have called back $465 billion of those untaxed corporate earnings from abroad.
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OECD Cuts Italy Growth Forecast, Cites Uncertainty
The OECD said Thursday that it has revised down its forecast for Italy’s GDP growth this year from 1.4% to 1.2%, citing political uncertainty as a factor.
It said in its interim economic outlook that “more moderate growth is probable in Italy, amid uncertainty about policy decisions. “Higher interest rates and a slowdown in job creation are holding back consumer spending”. The OECD’s growth forecast for 2019 was unchanged at 1.1%.
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7 Shot: 3 Killed, Suspect Dead in Harford County Shooting
Snochia Moseley, 26, opened fire on others before turning gun on herself, sheriff says
“(It’s) another tragic event for us here in Harford County,” Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler said. “At this time, I can confirm that there are seven people who have been shot in today’s incident, including the shooter. Three people are suffering from injuries that they are expected to survive. Three others are victims of our shooter who lost their lives here today.”
The sheriff said deputies were called at 9:06 a.m. to reports of a shooting at the Rite Aid Distribution Center in the 1500 block of Perryman Road in the area of Spesutia Road. Gahler said deputies and first responders were at the scene in just over five minutes, and rendered first aid where appropriate.
“We have responders here from the federal government who were on scene within minutes — the FBI, the DEA, the ATF, the (Maryland) State Police, the MDTA Police, the Natural Resources (Police), the local municipal departments of Aberdeen, Havre de Grace and Bel Air,” Gahler said. “You can’t have enough police, and you can’t have them fast enough.”
Two victims died at the scene and a third victim died at a hospital. Gahler said three shooting victims who suffered injuries are expected to survive.
The sheriff said authorities do not believe there is any additional threat to the community.
The sheriff said a single weapon — a 9-mm Glock handgun — was used in the incident and that no shots were fired by law enforcement officers at the scene.
“It appears, again, as I said this morning, that she was armed with one handgun and several magazines. No shots were fired by any law enforcement responder,” Gahler said.
Suspect dies from self-inflicted gunshot wound to her head
Gahler said the suspect is a 26-year-old woman who was a temporary employee.
“She had reported for her workday as usual, and around 9 a.m. the shooting began, striking victims both outside the business and inside the facility. We do not, at this time, have a motive for this senseless crime,” Gahler said…
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Cardinal Dolan Hires Independent ‘Special Counsel’ To Investigate New York Archdiocese
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan has taken the proactive step of hiring a former federal prosecutor to assist the Archdiocese of New York in dealing with the clerical sex abuse crisis.
As sex abuse scandals have rocked the Catholic Church in the United States and abroad, Dolan announced Thursday that he had hired Barbara S. Jones, former Federal Judge and prosecutor, to serve as “Special Counsel and Independent Reviewer.”
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Grassley Gives Kavanaugh Accuser Friday Deadline to Testify
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has submitted a letter to Dianne Feinstein setting a Friday deadline for Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Ford, to respond on whether she will give testimony about her claims.
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Labor Dept. Fines Another H-1B Sweatshop Which Cheated American Graduates
Investigators at the Department of Labor have exposed another large Indian-owned outsourcing company which underpaid low-wage foreign H-1B workers to win contracts sought by American graduates.
The penalty shines a spotlight on the establishment-backed business of international sweatshops for college graduates, and it also exposed a self-titled “university” that can be used to funnel unpaid Indian graduates into the college-grad job market. …
People Tech is just one of many Indian-run companies that have been penalized for corruption by the federal government, amid a steady flow of reports about fraud and corruption, under-the-table-payments, fake resumes, and anti-American discrimination among the companies which employ roughly 700,000 H-1B workers in the United States.
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Maryland Distribution Center Shooting Leaves Multiple People Dead, Wounded, Police Say
FBI crisis squad responds to shooting in Perryman, Maryland
Law enforcement officials report multiple victims shot in industrial area near Aberdeen, Maryland.
The lone shooter responsible for killing at least three people and wounding several others during a Thursday morning assault on a Maryland distribution center was in custody and in critical condition, police said.
A law enforcement official told The Associated Press three people were killed in the shooting at the Rite Aid distribution center in Aberdeen. Raymond Fang, the trauma medical director at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, said the hospital received four people suffering from gunshot wounds. He did not elaborate on their conditions.
The suspected shooter, who appeared to only used a handgun in the attack, was in the hospital, though police officers did not discharge their weapons during the incident, officials said…
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NASA Telescope Discovers Two New Exoplanets Beyond Solar System
A PLANET-HUNTING orbital telescope designed to detect worlds beyond our solar system has discovered two distant planets this week, five months after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, made an early discovery of “super-Earth” and “hot Earth” planets in solar systems at least 49 light-years away, marking the satellite’s first discovery since its April launch.
TESS is on a two-year, $US337 million ($A463 million) mission to expand astronomers’ known catalogue of so-called exoplanets, worlds circling distant stars.
While the two planets are too hot to support life, TESS Deputy Science Director Sara Seager expects many more such discoveries.
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New O’Keefe Video: Federal Employee Does Work for Socialists at Government Job
UPDATE: The Government Accountability Office has announced that due to the statements on the Project Veritas video, Natarajan Subramanian has been removed from all authority and responsibility and access to GAO computers has been terminated. Moreover, GAO is reviewing all of his work for bias.
James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has released another undercover video showing a federal employee who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America boasting that he telecommutes and works from home, yet does not do job-related work. Moreover, the employee boasts that he does work for the Democratic Socialists of America while on the clock working for the federal government.
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Project Veritas Captures American Betrayal in Progress
by Diana West
James O’Keefe’s new and unfolding Deep State series has already revealed that self-identifying “Communists” are still boring from within the US government to destroy it, all the while enjoying the privilege of a federal job, including good salary and generous benefits paid for by We, the Taxpayers.
Such covert, tax-payer-funded Communist networks reached critical mass in the Roosevelt administration of the 1930s. As some readers know, the catastrophic “policy perversion” that Communists, pro-Communists, fellow travelers, dupes, and, of course, Kremlin agents were able to bring about from covert positions inside the US government is the subject of extensive analysis in American Betrayal…
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U.S. Bishops Embrace Full Accountability for Clerical Sex Abuse
U.S. bishops introduced a series of sweeping measures Wednesday intended to streamline reporting of sexual abuse and ensure that justice is done to victims.
“We humbly welcome and are grateful for the assistance of the whole people of God in holding us accountable,” said the statement of the bishops’ administrative committee, which went well beyond earlier actions that failed to address the specific responsibility of bishops in dealing with clerical sex abuse.
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Article 7 Procedure Formally Launched Against Hungary
The Austrian presidency of the EU has received the letter of the European Parliament’s President, Antonio Tajani about the result of the vote on the Sargentini-report, urging the Council to start the Article 7.1 procedure against Hungary.
Gernot Blümel, Austria’s Minister of EU Affairs told Bruxinfo that the presidency wants to treat this case in a very professional way, they will carefully inspect the dossier, but it would be too early to tell when the first hearing can take place.
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Don’t Let Banks Call us Crazy, Says Grillo
EU ‘people-phobic’ figures ‘bandy about the word populist’
(ANSA) — Salsburg, September 19 — The founder of the Five Star Movement (M5S), the comedian Beppe Grillo, has lashed out at banks and those he accuses of overusing the word “populism”.
“Don’t let banks call us crazy,” he said. “Don’t let their pathetic representatives criticize our voting choices. The past few weeks have been marked by a psychiatric crisis at the world level. Figures at the European level are blaming common people, the population.
“These figures are simply ‘people-phobic’, since common people still manage to be unpredictable. And then they yell ‘populists’,” he wrote in a post on his popular blog.
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European Council President: “Theresa May’s Brexit Plan Will Not Work”
The neverending Brexit melodrama took another “unexpected” turn today when the head of the European Council Donald Tusk declared that Theresa May’s proposed economic partnership with the EU post-Brexit “will not work” and that the proposed plans risk undermining the EU’s single market.
[Comment: Teresa May, in spite of herself, might wind up with a no deal Brexit. Or perhaps Teresa May is a closet no deal Brexiteer, and offered a Brexit Plan she expected would be refused by the EU?]
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European Leaders Call for Second Referendum, Hungary’s Orban Rejects Punishing Brexit Britain
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has rejected calls to “punish” the UK in Brexit negotiations as other EU leaders call for a second referendum.
The European Union’s 28 leaders are meeting in Salzburg, Austria, to discuss Prime Minister Theresa May’s Chequers plan — her blueprint for a ‘soft’ Brexit which outlines future relations between the UK and the bloc — and the comments were made ahead of further meetings Thursday.
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Four Wanted After Brutal Gang Rape in France That Was Broadcast Across Social Media
French police in the city of Toulouse are on the hunt for four suspects involved in the gang rape of a 19-year-old girl that was filmed and broadcast on Snapchat.
The gang rape took place in the car park of the nightclub Balma on Sunday evening with investigators identifying the victim as a local 19-year-old on Tuesday, Franceinfo reports.
In the video, the victim is heard shouting for help and at least one of the men involved is also heard telling another suspect not to record the attack saying, “Stop filming, it’s a rape […] it’s a rape, it’s a rape,” indicating they were aware the attack was not consensual.
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French President Macron to Create Memorial Museum to Terror Victims
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced announce the creation of a memorial museum to the victims of terrorism during an annual ceremony to remember those killed in terror attacks.
Macron madee the announcement of the new memorial museum at the 19th annual ceremony organised by the French Association for Victims of Terrorism and the National Federation of the Victims of Attacks and Collective Accidents, France 24 reports.
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Italy: Priest Found Guilty of Abusing Boy, 15
Near Milan
(ANSA) — Milan, September 20 — A Roman catholic priest was found guilty of sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy at Rozzano near Milan and sentenced to six years and four months in prison on Thursday.
Father Mauro Galli, the former parish priest of Rozzano, was found guilty of abusing the boy in December 2011.
Prosecutors had requested a jail term of 10 years and eight months.
The defendant, outside the confines of the trial, had paid 100,000n euros in damages to the boy’s family who did not stand as civil plaintiffs.
The victim, now 22, burst into tears when the verdict was read out.
His mother said “it has been a painful process and an infinite drama, but the best thing is that my son’s credibility was recognised today”.
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Italy: OECD Shouldn’t Interfere — Di Maio
Deputy premier rejects advice against overturning pension law
(see related) (ANSA) — Rome, September 20 — Deputy Premier and Labour and Industry Minister Luigi Di Maio said Thursday that the OECD should not interfere in Italy’s affairs after the body warned Rome against reversing a 2011 pension reform. “The OECD must not interfere in the decisions of a sovereign country that a democratically legitimated government is pursuing,” 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Di Maio said.
“The overhaul of the Fornero law is in the (government) contract and it will be carried out.
“Almost two thirds of the Italian people are with us.
“The bureaucrats will have to come to terms with that.
“That was part of the reason why we were elected and we’ll keep the commitment that has been made”.
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Italy: Toninelli: EU Commissioner Spar Over TAV
Minister says govt contract foresees project being reconsidered
(ANSA) — Rome, September 20 — Transport and Industry Minister Danilo Toninelli on Thursday hit back at European Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc for suggesting that the Italian government had promised to press ahead with the controversial Lyon-Turin TAV high-speed rail link.
Bulc said that she had “spoken to the new Italian minister a couple of times and he assured me that I should not worry because Italy will honour the commitments made”.
This prompted Toninelli, a member of the 5-Star Movement (M5S), to reply that he had “always spoken by referring to the cost-benefit analysis taking place on the Turin-Lyon (project) and the government contract, which foresees the whole project being reconsidered”.
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Italy: Woman Taken to Pakistan for Marriage Returning — Foreign Minister
End of violation of rights — Moavero on arranged-marriage case
(ANSA) — Rome, September 20 — A young Pakistani woman, Menoona Safdar, who was forced against her will by family to leave her studies and life in Italy to travel to Pakistan for an arranged marriage is returning to Italy after asking her old school for help, Italian Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi said Thursday.
Moavero expressed “great satisfaction” at the outcome of the case and said Safdar had already boarded a flight for Italy and was travelling back.
The Italian foreign ministry said “the positive outcome, which ended a grave violation of the fundamental rights of the young woman, was rendered possible by the personal involvement of the minister” and the “effective action of our embassy in Islamabad, in close contact with the Farnesina (the foreign ministry)”.
The 23-year-old Pakistani woman had sent a letter to her old school in the northern Italian city of Monza to ask for help, saying she was forced to return to Pakistan by her father to marry a man chosen by her family.
In the letter, sources said, the woman wrote that her father didn’t reveal to her the real reason why he had taken her back to their country of origin until they had arrived.
“Please help me, my future is in Italy”, the young woman reportedly wrote, saying her documents were confiscated by family members upon arrival. “My father forced me to leave before I could finish my fourth year” of high school and “I know one of the professors was asking where I was”.
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Italy: 4 Deported Including Imam for Islamist Links
89 expelled this yr, 326 since 2015
(ANSA) — Rome, September 19 — A Tunisian imam and four Egyptian men were deported for State security reasons Wednesday after a probe turned up evidence they were close to radical Islamist circles.
Italy has now expelled 89 people this year for these reasons, and 326 since January 2015.
The imam, 32, was being held in Rome’s Rebibbia prison on robbery and drugs charges.
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Italy: All Cleared in Fascist Salute Case
No apology for fascism during 2012 event
(ANSA) — Cagliari, September 19 — A judge in Cagliari on Wednesday acquitted seven defendants on charges of apology for Fascism, ruling that there was no probable cause. The seven defendants gave Fascist salutes during a demonstration on April 25, 2012 in memory of those who died under the Republic of Salò, the last incarnation of the Italian Fascist state.
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Italy’s 5 Star Threatens to Ditch Coalition Over Budget Talks, Italian Bonds Slide
While the market turmoil over Italy’s budget has quieted down in recent weeks as a result of soothing words by the ruling coalition that it would comply with European demands, that snapped moments ago when DPA reported that the leader of Italy’s Five Star Movement has threatened to pull the plug on the country’s populist government if it cannot find money to implement election campaign promises.
“If we do not find the resources to do what we have said, then it is better for us to go home, there is no point in scraping by,” M5S leader and Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio told Radio 24.
As a result of budget limitations imposed by Brussels, the M5S and its coalition partner, the League, are struggling to find resources for three major pledges: cutting taxes, lowering the pension age and introducing basic income subsidies for the poor.
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Marine Le Pen Furious After Being Ordered to Undergo Psychiatric Tests
Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French far right has been left shocked and furious after a court ordered her to be examined by a psychiatrist to determine if she “is capable of understanding remarks and answering questions”.
Le Pen, who is head of the former National Front party — now National Rally (Rassemblement National) revealed on Twitter her shock and anger at being ordered to undertake a psychiatric assessment.
The unusual summoning is in relation to Le Pen having tweeted out gruesome propaganda images from terror group Isis that showed the bodies of people having been executed by the so-called Islamic State. …
But it doesn’t look like Le Pen will be making an appointment with any psychiatrists.
“Of course I will not go to this psychiatric assessment and I will wait to see how the magistrate intends to force me,” she told BFM TV.
Marine Le Pen posted the Isis pictures just a few weeks after the Paris terror attacks in November 2015 in which 130 people were killed.
The images included a photo of the decapitated body of US journalist James Foley.
“Daesh is this!” Le Pen wrote in a caption, using an Arabic acronym for IS, in response to a TV journalist drawing a comparison between the extremists and the French far-right.
Le Pen later deleted the picture of Foley after a request from his family, saying she had been unaware of his identity.
“I am being charged for having condemned the horrors of Daesh,” Le Pen told AFP.
“In other countries this would have earned me a medal.”
The crime is punishable by up to three years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros ($91,000).
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Marine Le Pen Ordered to Undergo Psychiatric Testing
A French court has ordered far-right leader Marine Le Pen to undergo psychiatric tests as part of an inquiry into her sharing images of Islamic State group atrocities.
Ms Le Pen tweeted pictures of the court order, calling the move “crazy”.
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Massive New Support for Right-Wing AfD Party in Germany: Reaches First Place in Brandenburg
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party of Alexander Gauland and Alice Weidel is gaining strength in Germany. In the eastern German state of Brandenburg, the party moved to first place and has caught up with the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD).
It’s the first time the AfD polls are equal to the SPD in the region that has around 2.5 million inhabitants. Both parties have 23 per cent of support in a Sunday poll, German newspaper Die Welt reports.
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Moroccan Officers May Deploy to City of Rennes, France to Help Police Migrant Criminals
An MP for Rennes has proposed to bring over police officers from Morocco to help identify and deal with underage migrants who have formed criminal gangs operating in the French city.
The proposal is being spearheaded by French MP for Ille-et-Vilaine Mustapha Laabid, a member of President Emmanuel Macron’s La République En Marche! (LREM/The Republic on the Move), who says the Moroccan police could greatly aid the work of local police forces, Ouest France reports.
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New EU Copyright Law Could Force Online Platforms to Ban Memes Across Europe
A new law being just passed in European Parliament and in the process of becoming finalized has received scant media attention, but could be nothing short of revolutionary in terms of its lasting impact on the internet, political speech and discourse, and the potential for censorship. So far the EU is moving the law forward, but it has sparked fierce push back, as it looks likely that soon entirely legal content will be caught in the law’s dragnet.
The law, in its full named called The European Union Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, is intended to updated existing copyright laws for social media and the internet, but critics say it’s incredibly short sighted and creates more problems than it does solutions. At the heart of the law is Article 11, which as been dubbed the “link tax,” and Article 13, which is being called the “meme ban” due to the likely potential that internet memes could be banned across Europe.
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Over 80% of Dutch Support Restrictions on Muslim Women’s Clothing
In August a Danish law came into force banning face-covering veils, and as Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, the move to ban burqas or niqabs has proven highly controversial and divisive.
There were protests when the law came into force and the Scandinavian country experienced an extensive debate on whether it was discriminatory towards Muslims.
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Poland Wants a Breakthrough in Brexit Talks: Prime Minister
Poland wants a breakthrough in talks between the European Union and Britain that will give certainty to Polish people and businesses, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said.
The Polish prime minister was speaking in Salzburg, Austria, where leaders of European Union countries met for informal talks on Wednesday and Thursday. Morawiecki said the impasse in divorce talks between the UK and the bloc could mean difficult scenarios in the future.
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Spain: Abuses in the Catholic Church
“Who is going to dare to take the step to report abuse in the Church now?”
The man who was contacted by the pope after he wrote to him about the sexual assaults he suffered at the hands of Catholic priests breaks his silence in an interview with EL PAÍS
The former altar boy and catechist from Granada who was phoned by an apologetic Pope Francis in 2014 in response to a letter he wrote to the Vatican reporting sexual abuse, has decided to break his silence. He has spent years hiding from the press and when he welcomes EL PAÍS into his office in Pamplona, it is on condition he is not photographed and can remain anonymous, using the name Daniel for the purposes of this article.
“I don’t want to be pointed at in the street,” he says. A university professor, Daniel is 28, married and a member of the Catholic organization, Opus Dei. “I went through a lot and so did my family,” he says. “I ended up with the shakes and anxiety attacks. I decided to speak out about it because I don’t want anyone else to go through the same thing.”
Daniel feels pained and saddened by the handling of his case, both by the judiciary and the Catholic Church. “Hurt because some who abused me have gone back to their parishes, and who knows if they will go back to what they were doing,” he says…
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Steve Bannon to Join Matteo Salvini for Populist Rally in Rome
Today, Steve Bannon, the Trump administration’s former chief strategist, will join Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini in Rome at a rally for the populist Brotherhood of Italy (PdL) party.
Since Mr Bannon left the White House, he has demonstrated support for nationalist, right-wing movements all throughout Europe in pursuit of global populism to minimise immigration, free trade agreements and military interventionism. Specifically in Italy, his work has included closely consulting a right-wing Catholic leadership institute to instil in the church a more politically-oriented societal role.
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‘Wake-Up Call’ — Germany’s Far-Right AfD Reaches Highest Ever Popularity Ahead of Key Vote
GERMANY’s far-right Alternative For Germany (AfD) has reached its highest popularity ever, overtaking the left-wing Social Democratic Party (SPD), according to a poll published on Thursday.
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Warsaw Feels Like Paris in the Good Years, Before it Became a ‘Third World Shithole’ — Katie Hopkins
The Rebel commentator and journalist Katie Hopkins is making a trip to Poland and shows that the left is completely wrong about the country.
As she reflects on Poland’s culture she compares it with the cities and countries of Western Europe. Poland, that is seen by Europe’s left as an authoritarian or even far right state, is actually a very nice country Hopkins shows.
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Israel Emerges as an Avatar of Nationalism
Many of the latest headlines boil down to a conflict about nationalism. Great Britain’s exit from the European Union. Presidentr Trump’s attempt to erect a border wall and to renegotiate the terms of international trade agreements. Russian meddling in American politics. Even public marches by avowed racists wind up being described in the press, accurately or inaccurately, as actions by “white nationalists.”
Into this fray comes Yoram Hazony, president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, with a new book, “The Virtue of Nationalism,” just published by Basic Books.
Mr. Hazony argues that nationalism — “when nations are able to chart their own independent course, cultivating their own traditions and pursuing their own interests without interference” — is preferable to the alternative of imperialism, of “uniting mankind, as much as possible, under a single political regime.”
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Chinese 5G Telecommunications Equipment Rejected in India, South Korea
For 5G, India has chosen to work with practically every major telecoms firm in the world, except China’s: Cisco is a U.S.-based technology conglomerate, while Samsung is based in South Korea, Ericsson in Sweden, and Nokia in Finland.
“This appears more a move to restrict government ties with Chinese equipment makers given the sensitive nature of security issues, especially after what happened in some other countries,” an Indian industry executive, who asked not to be identified, told ET. The executive didn’t elaborate further.
Other countries have raised their concerns about the potential for China to conduct espionage via Huawei and ZTE equipment. In August, the Australian government blocked the companies from supplying equipment for the country’s planned 5G network, in order “safeguard the security of Australians’ information and communications at all times,” according to a statement issued on Aug. 23.
Meanwhile, the United States has prohibited Huawei from bidding on government contracts. In May, the Pentagon ordered all stores on U.S. military bases to remove smartphones made by either Huawei or ZTE, to avoid compromising the security of U.S. military service members.
Huawei has strong ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). One its founders, Ren Zhengfei, was a former engineer with the Chinese military (known as the People’s Liberation Army), and a former representative to the National People’s Congress, China’s rubber-stamp legislature.
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Kim Asks for 2nd Summit With Trump, Promises Swift Surrender of Nuclear Arsenal
Even though North Korea has reneged on similar promises in the past, Kim Jong Un’s promise to allow international observers into the isolated country to monitor the dismantling of the North’s Yongbyon nuclear reactor and several missile-launching sites has apparently persuaded the US to restart negotiations to drop sanctions against the regime after they stalled out over the summer.
In what may be another example of the North telling the US what it wants to hear, Kim has reportedly requested another meeting with Trump while promising to quickly surrender all of his country’s nukes, according to South Korean leader Moon Jae-in, who shared the news at a press conference Thursday. Kim also wants Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to return to North Korea for another meeting (a visit that had been planned for last month was canceled by Trump as talks stalled).
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Australian Senator Tries to Pass Motion Declaring “It’s Okay to be White”
Australian Senator Pauline Hanson attempted to pass a motion today highlighting “the deplorable rise of anti-white racism and attacks on Western civilization” and declaring “it’s okay to be white”.
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South Africa’s Legalization of Marijuana Use is a Big Win for Privacy
South Africa’s Constitutional Court has passed down a judgment that makes it legal for adults to cultivate and smoke marijuana in their homes. The court—the country’s highest—ruled that the right to privacy was violated by prohibiting the possession, purchase, or cultivation of cannabis for personal consumption by an adult in a private dwelling.
The case was pursued by various parties, including a Cape Town lawyer, Gareth Prince, who is a practising Rastafarian. It was opposed by, among others, the country’s ministers of Justice and Constitutional Development, Police and Health; the country’s National Director of Public Prosecutions and the NGO Doctors for Life International.
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Generation Being Born Now is the Last to be Free — Assange in Last Interview Before Blackout (Video)
Before his links to the world was cut by his Ecuadorian hosts, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gave an interview on how technological advances are changing humankind. He said global surveillance will soon be totally unavoidable.
The interview was provided to RT by organizers of the World Ethical Data Forum in Barcelona. Assange, who is currently stranded in the Ecuadorean embassy in London with no outside communication except with his legal team, has a pretty grim outlook on where humanity is going. He says it will soon be impossible for any human being to not be included into global databases collected by governments and state-like entities.
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70,000 Illegal Migrants Remain in Britain Every Single Year — The Size of the Regular British Army
Brits want a tougher approach on UK borders. They want legal migration reduced by hundreds of thousands and want illegal migration stopped.
A study released today by Migrant Watch UK asserts that the annual number of illegal migrants in Britain is 105,000. However, only one-third of those are removed. This means that there is an annual rise of around 70,000 illegal immigrants in Britain.
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‘Angry’ Swedish PM Insists EU Must ‘Force’ Third World Migrants on Every Member State
Ahead of the informal summit in Salzburg, Swedish leader Stefan Löfven angrily insisted he will argue for mandatory asylum seeker quotas, reportedly showing “anger” at current EU Presidency chair Austria’s declaring the policy dead.
“I will continue to pursue the issue of compelling countries to accept a quota of refugees coming to Europe because all countries have a responsibility to receive asylum seekers,” Sweden’s prime minister told Aftonbladet.
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Another Boatload of Refugees Reaches Cyprus
Over 30 migrants and refugees sailed to the Republic of Cyprus on Thursday, with state radars picking up their signal off the coast of Protaras just as Nicosia is challenging the European debate on migration.
Police say a wooden boat approached the island about 14 nautical miles off the eastern coast, with 30 to 40 presumptive refugees on board.
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Arab Student Suspected of Raping a School Teacher at a School in Sweden
Cultural enrichment in Sweden continues to be a resounding success as a young immigrant student is being sentenced for raping a teacher in Småland on Friday
Last Friday a 20-year-old “student” was arrested for raping a teacher at the upper secondary school in Nässjö in Småland.
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Danish Party That Wants to Expel “Muslim Welfare Migrants” Is Growing Quickly
A new Danish right-wing party challenging the Danish People’s Party with a harsher immigration policy is moving ahead. In a recent survey, the New Right, as they are called, received 4.6 per cent of votes, according to the Jutland post.
An opinion poll from Norstat shows that the New Right is now larger than the two bourgeois parties, the Conservative People’s Party and the Liberal Alliance. The New Right almost doubled its support since August, when the party at polled 2.7 per cent of support.
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French Police Charge Child Migrant With Three Counts of Rape
The suspect, a 16-year-old from the West African country of Ivory Coast who entered France four years ago, has been accused of raping at least three women at knifepoint in the southern port city of Marseille between April and August.
All three attacks took place at night and in the middle of the street, Marjorie Ghizoli, a local police chief, told the AFP news agency.
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Hungary Protects Its Own Borders, Not the EU’s Frontex — Prime Minister Viktor Orban
“There is no need for Frontex to protect the Hungarian border in our place,” Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in Salzburg on Thursday. The cabinet minister later said that the proposal that Hungary objects to has been sent back.
Arriving at a summit of European Union leaders, Orban told journalists that the European Commission has put forward a proposal saying that “if there’s trouble”, national competencies should be “taken away from member states” and border protection should be managed by the EU.
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Italy: Mission to Niger to Stem Migrant Traffic — Trenta
‘Finally unblocked after 8-mt impasse’
(ANSA) — Rome, September 20 — Italy is finally poised to launch a mission to Niger to stem the migrant traffic there, Defence Minister Elisabetta Trenta.
“We’ve done it: after eight months of impasse we have unblocked the mission to Niger to control migrant flows!” she said on Facebook. The mission’s goal will be to “stem, together with the Niger forces, trafficking in humans and migrants who cross the country to then head for Libya and finally embark for our shores,” Trenta said.
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The toxic trifecta of people traffickers, open-border “NGOs” and the new left wing government in Madrid has already achieved a gargantuan rise in the volume of illegal immigrants reaching Spanish shores in the year to date.
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Norway: Migrants Make Up at Least 47% of Domestic Violence Cases Involving Children
Almost half of all domestic violence cases which concerned children in Norway involved families of immigrants, according to new research, which revealed particular overrepresentation of Afghan and Pakistani groups in the data.
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Report: Britain’s Illegal Immigrant Population Growing by 70,000 Each Year
The government has been urged to reject ‘Windrush’-related pressure to dismantle migration controls after a new study revealed Britain’s illegal immigrant population is seeing an annual net rise near equivalent to the size of the regular British Army.
Migration Watch UK said the scale of illegal immigration was “considerably worse than the government admits and very little is being done about it”, in a 22-page report which notes that the number of people thought to reside illegally in Britain exceeds one million.
Looking at visa overstayers, detected clandestine arrivals (persons who, for example, arrived illegally by lorry), and failed asylum seekers who do not leave the country, the think tank calculated a gross addition of more than 105,000 people to the illegal immigrant population each year.
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Syrian Man Gropes and Tries to Kiss 11-Year-Old Girl Near Playground in Schönau, Germany
With Angela Merkel giving an open invitation to what could be another three million additional immigrants into Germany, one could be forgiven for thinking the previous years of nearly uncontrolled immigration to Germany had been successful.
Yet on Saturday an 11-year-old girl was sexually assaulted next to a playground by 53-year-old Syrian man in Schönau, Germany.
As the young girl was washing her hands, the 53-year-old Syrian man snuck up behind her and groped her multiple times over her clothing.
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The Dalai Lama is Literally Hitler
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Regarding Sweden’s giant refugee population, the Dalai Lama said Swedes were “morally responsible” for maybe giving them a biscuit or two, but sooner or later these shivering freeloaders need to hightail it back to their countries of origin:
Receive them, help them, educate them…but ultimately they should develop their own country….I think Europe belongs to the Europeans.
Well, hello, Dalai!
Why are people surprised that the Dalai Lama is a nationalist? This is a guy whose entire shtick since the 1950s has been “Tibet belongs to the Tibetans.” …
Starting in the early 1950s and extending to 2018, the Dalai Lama has fought for Tibetan national independence, only to be crushed by a far more powerful foe at every step. He was successively forced to permit Chinese sovereignty over Tibet…then was exiled to India in order to save his life…and now it’s to the point where the Chinese Communist Party claims the exclusive right to handpick all of Tibet’s religious leaders and even the next Dalai Lama. Piece by smashed piece, the atheistic Chi-coms were destroying his country.
No wonder he can empathize with what’s happening to Europe. …
Who needs to build a wall when Mother Nature gave you the Himalayas? Of course Tibet belongs to Tibetans. And Europe belongs to Europeans. And anyone who disagrees should be exiled to Antarctica.
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Junk Science and the Feminist Manipulation Agenda: Part 2
Troubled by unequal outcomes between the sexes, progressive economists Kerwin Kofi Charles, Jonathan Guryan, and Jessica Pan act as if these were necessarily wrong, as opposed to what they are: only to be expected. From this feminized trio’s moral psychology there came a flawed premise, which undercuts their would-be edifying study, “The Effects of Sexism on American Women: The Role of Norms vs. Discrimination.” …
And yet, it is only too easy to find fault with women for their unrealistic expectations. For though some reproach is certainly in order here, the crucial thing to know is that these extreme expectations serve the ends of our species. Women should prefer the very best men, and so they do, albeit with the usual human delusion.
But while such ruthless hypergamy is a law of Nature itself, it can create terrible chaos and destructiveness. If a minority of alpha males, in symbiosis with female hypergamy, effectively control the sexual marketplace, some of the men who lack access to women will use violence to gratify their desires, or to take revenge on women. Indeed, that is just what we find today, whether it’s the incels of North America or the sexual assaulters who abound in the polygamous Islamic world (which now includes Europe, alas).
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Junk Science and the Feminist Manipulation Agenda: Part 1
In his tearjerker Aug. 19 article in The New York Times, “How Sexism Follows Women From the Cradle to the Workplace,” Jim Tankersley provides a rich example of how fake news functions in tandem with junk science to vilify traditional gender norms, which, if only the cultural elite can have their way, shall be unthinkable for all “respectable people.” Both Tankersley himself and the scholars he cites display profound irresponsibility where epistemic rigor and contextual understanding are in order. This, of course, is only to be expected, for the primary goal here is Power—Power culminating in the road to serfdom—not excellent work. …
In view of all this, we must ask a politically incorrect question: Is the gender equality experiment sustainable? Whatever may be said against traditional gender norms, they did at least work, while the opposite is true of the dominant liberal conception of gender roles, according to current trends and data. For Charles et al., “sexist attitudes are most prevalent in the southeast and least prevalent on the West Coast.” To my mind, the actual truth is that cultural decline is far more advanced from Southern California up to Washington, even as it’s less so in the Southeast and other “deplorable” regions.
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Professor of Neurophysiology Germund Hesslow may no longer be allowed to teach a nature versus nurture course at Lund University’s medical programme in the south of Sweden
He’s been asked to apologise for lecturing about biological and anatomical differences between men and women. There is also a call for his replacement.
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European Council President: “Theresa May’s Brexit Plan Will Not Work”
The EU is a house of cards that will collapse of its own accord. It was created by chicanery, is administered by duplicity and funded through corruption. Like all such constructs it has carried the seeds of its own destruction since its inception and those seeds are now near full grown and will consume it very soon. We shall sit quietly on our side of the ditch and safely watch its death throes from afar.
Swedish University Professor May Get Fired for Saying Men and Women Are Biologically and Anatomically Different
This is what happens in a country run by ’emotionally inteligent’ women.
French article on the Afrikanization of France.
… The increasing volume of tests for sickle-cell anemia every year makes it absolutely clear that the French people are changing significantly.
These medical data were the most obvious proof of the reality that Renault Camus called the Great Substitution.
https://www.polemia.com/drepanocytose-africanisation-france-poursuit/
Spain was better under Franco than under Marxism. Africans are invading, the same way Islam conquered Spain. There is no will to resist.