Filippo Grandi, the Commissioner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, says that there is no migrant crisis in Europe. He hailed immigrants as the source of progress and prosperity.
In other news, the Indian government has banned the instant divorce traditionally available to Muslim men, in which uttering the words “talaq-talaq-talaq-talaq” rids them of wives they no longer want.
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Agencies Probe Deep State Subversives After Video Stings
Project Veritas’ undercover sting videos exposing the anti-Trump Deep State within the federal bureaucracy is working. Government agencies are investigating and might well fire the subversives who admitted trying to sabotage the Trump Administration, sometimes using illegal and possibly felonious means.
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James Woods Suspended From Twitter Over Satirical Meme That Could “Impact an Election”
Outspoken conservative actor James Woods was suspended from posting to Twitter over a two-month-old satirical meme which very clearly parodies a Democratic advertisement campaign. While the actor’s tweets are still visible, he is unable to post new content.
The offending tweet from July 20, features three millennial-aged men with “nu-male smiles” and text that reads “We’re making a Woman’s Vote Worth more by staying home.” Above it, Woods writes “Pretty scary that there is a distinct possibility this could be real. Not likely, but in this day and age of absolute liberal insanity, it is at least possible.”
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Michigan Woman Who Lied About Being Raped on College Campus Sentenced to Jail
A Michigan woman who lied about being raped on her college campus was sentenced to jail time on Monday.
Mary Zolkowski, 21, was sentenced to 45 days in jail after pleading guilty to fabricating a story about being sexually assaulted in a parking lot at Delta College in Bay County, MLive.com reported.
Judge Joseph Sheeran, who also ordered the woman receive a mental health assessment, did not give Zolwolski credit for previous time served.
Sheeran deferred the woman to an additional 220 days in jail, which she’ll only have to serve if she violates probation, according to the news outlet. She will be on probation for two years after her jail term. Zolwolski will also have to be tested for drugs and alcohol and partake in substance abuse counseling.
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Students: 5 Reasons You Should Advocate for the ‘Chicago Statement’ On Your Campus
Lately, there has been a lot of buzz surrounding the University of Chicago’s free speech policy statement, the “Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression” (better known as the “Chicago Statement”).
Since its introduction in 2015, legislatures in both California and Tennessee have called upon institutions of higher education in their respective states to adopt a version of the Chicago Statement. Earlier this week, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos urged colleges and universities to adopt the statement in a Constitution Day address regarding free expression. Arizona State University recently became the 45th institution to embrace the Chicago Statement. So, why should you urge your university to adopt the statement? Let’s explore some reasons below.
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White House Considers Draft Order to Look Into Google, Facebook
(Bloomberg) — The White House is considering a draft executive order for President Donald Trump that would instruct federal antitrust and law enforcement agencies to open probes into the practices of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Facebook Inc., and other social media companies.
Bloomberg News obtained a draft of the order, which a White House official said was in its early stages and hasn’t been run past other government agencies. Separately, Lindsey Walters, deputy White House press secretary, said in an emailed statement that the document isn’t the result of an official White House policy making process.
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Woman Who Stabbed Babies at Queens Day Care Charged With Attempted Murder
Police investigate the scene where several people, including three children, were stabbed in a day care early Friday morning in Flushing, Queens. (Danny Iudici for New York Daily News)
The unhinged woman who stabbed three infants and two adults with a meat cleaver at a bizarre day care center has been charged with attempted murder, officials said Saturday.
Yu Fen Wang, 52, remained at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Queens, for psychological testing after attacking her victims at the Mei Xin Care Inc. facility in Flushing early Friday morning.
Wang began wielding the twin blades around 3:45 a.m., slashing and stabbing a 13-day-old, a 22-day-old and a 33-day-old. Two adults, including a day care colleague, were also cut up as the woman ran amok through the apparently unlicensed facility before ending the carnage with a failed suicide try.
Cops found her unconscious in the basement, after she had slashed her wrist in a suicide attempt, officials said.
Locals claimed the “day care” was actually was a temporary home where pregnant Chinese immigrants delivered their babies in hopes of leveraging the births into American citizenship — a practice sometimes called “birth tourism.”
Wang’s victims remained in the hospital Saturday and are all expected to recover…
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Bannon Encourages Populists in Italy to Push Sovereign Agenda
ROME — Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon declared Saturday that far-right “patriots” are the “new elite” of Europe as he brought his push for a trans-national, anti-European Union drive to Italy.
The ex-aide to President Trump addressed a forum in Rome organized by a small far-right Italian opposition party.
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British Woman Finds Calabrian Half-Brothers
Born of Italian POW who had relationship with mother
(ANSA) — Reggio Calabria, September 18 — A British woman has found a second family in Calabria born of the WWII Italian soldier who had a relationship with her mother while a POW in England.
After years and years of looking, Dorothy Janes, 73, found three half-brothers in the town of San Ferdinando.
The town on Tuesday rewarded her tenacious search for her roots by making her an honorary citizen.
Janes, born in Crawley in 1945, is the natural daughter of Antonio Mazzitelli, who had a relationship with her mother Joyce Punnel.
The authorities took a very dim view of such affairs and the relationship ended with the war, when Mazzitelli returned to his native Calabria, married a townswoman and had three children.
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German Intelligence Mulls Putting Largest Turkish-Islamic Group Under Surveillance
German intelligence is reportedly examining whether to put the Turkish-Islamic umbrella group DITIB under surveillance. The Turkish-state backed DITIB has been at the center of multiple controversies.
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Hungary: Merkel Wants Member States to Give Up a Part of Their Sovereignty
The majority of European Union member states rejected the latest proposal to enhance the role of EU border agency Frontex in controlling the bloc’s external borders at the Salzburg summit, the government spokesman said late on Thursday.
Zoltan Kovacs told public news channel M1 that the proposal — which he said had been put forward by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and not the European Commission — “will practically mean that member states will have to give up a part of their sovereignty”.
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Imam Deported From Italy After Celebrating Terror Attacks in Prison
A Tunisian imam has been expelled from Italy after it was revealed that he had celebrated the Berlin Christmas Market terror attack in December of 2016 from his prison cell.
The 32-year-old imam, who had been convicted of robbery and drug dealing, was serving his sentence at the Rebibbia prison in Rome where he praised Islamic State and terrorist acts, Il Giornale reports.
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Italy: Venice Mulls Tourist Sitting Ban
Offenders could be turned out of city, barred from returning
(ANSA) — Venice, September 19 — Venice is mulling banning tourists from sitting or lying down in squares and on church steps, either to rest or to have snacks.
An ordnance now before the city council would hand out fines of 50 to 500 euros.
In particularly serious cases of offending the city’s “decorum”, tourists would be expelled from the lagoon city and barred from ever returning, sources said.
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Italy: New Aqueduct to Give Rome Water Security for 100 Yrs
Peschiera aqueduct to be doubled
(ANSA) — Rome, September 17 — A new aqueduct is to give Rome water security for the next 100 years, Mayor Virgina Raggi and ACEA water company told a press conference Monday.
The new pipeline will entail doubling the current Peschiera aqueduct which currently supplies the Italian capital with 80% of its water, they said.
The project, which was first mooted 20 years ago, will hopefully get under way in the spring of 2020, ACEA CEO Stefano Donnarumma said.
“From that moment it will take at least four years to build the aqueduct,” he said.
Rome was forced to briefly turn off its ‘nasoni’ street fountains because of a water sh0rtage this summer.
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Merkel on Brink: Coalition Faces Collapse Over Germany Spy Chief Scandal
The leaders had agreed to transfer Hans-Georg Maassen to the interior ministry over accusations he held far-right sympathies after he questioned the authenticity of video footage showing radicals hounding migrants in the eastern city of Chemnitz.
But the compromise deal, which would put Mr Maassen in a better paid job, unravelled on Friday when Andrea Nahles — leader of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), junior partner in Merkel’s conservative-led coalition — said it was a mistake.
Mrs Merkel and her Bavarian ally Horst Seehofer agreed to review the deal and the chancellor said the three party leaders wanted to find a sustainable solution this weekend.
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Muslims Whip and Cut Themselves in Front of Their Children During Bloody Ceremony in Greece
The images you are about to see do not come from Yemen or Islamabad, nor from Syria nor from Afghanistan.
These photos were taken in Piraeus, Greece, where dozens of Shiite Muslims gathered in order to celebrate “Ashura”.
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Rise of Right-Wing AfD Continues as the Party is Now the Second Largest in Germany
The rise of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) is unstoppable. The party already moved to place one in eastern Germany and the state of Brandenburg and now it is the second largest party in all of Germany as well.
A poll published by German broadcaster ARD on Friday, says the AfD would receive 18 per cent of the vote if there were German elections this Sunday.
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Soros Backed Anti-Brexit Group Aims to Organise a Second Referendum
Soros backs group taking their case to the European Union’s highest court in attempt to get MPs to vote to stop the UK leaving the bloc, The Guardian reports.
The EU court is to hear a case on revoking Article 50, the official mechanism for leaving the EU triggered in March 2017, as other dissenting branches of the remain campaign target voters in ‘swing’ constituencies.
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Sweden Democrats to Vote for Alliance Candidate as Parliamentary Speaker
The Sweden Democrats have stated they will vote for the candidate from the centre-right alliance bloc in Monday’s vote to confirm the new speaker of parliament.
The announcement means that Andreas Norlén of the Moderate party is expected to be chosen as parliamentary speaker.
“Of the two nominated candidates from the Social Democrats and Moderates, we have made the active choice to vote for the Moderate candidate. We believe the Moderates are the party best-placed to lead a government in any constellation, given the parliamentary situation,” Sweden Democrat (SD) leader Jimmie Åkesson said in a statement.
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UK Crime Agency Probes Danske Bank Money Laundering
Britain’s National Crime Agency is probing the activities of UK-based companies with alleged links to a money laundering scandal at Denmark’s Danske Bank, it said Friday.
“The NCA is aware of the use of UK registered companies in this case and has related on-going operational activity,” a spokeswoman said.
“The threat posed by the use of UK company structures as a route for money laundering is widely recognised and the NCA is working with partners across government to restrict the ability of criminals to use them in this way.”
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Police have launched a murder investigation relating to the second London knife attack in just one night, days after Mayor Sadiq Khan announced plans to treat violence in the capital as a “public health” issue.
At just before 1 am on Saturday morning, officers were called to a fight at a flat in Stamford Hill, north London, where they found two males suffering stab wound
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UK: Muslim Sex Gangs Are Responsible for a “Holocaust of Our Children” — UKIP Spokesman
Alan Craig, a Christian campaigner and former leader of the Christian People’s Alliance, said in a speech during the UKIP annual conference in Birmingham, that Muslim sex gangs are responsible for a “holocaust of our children” that authorities have refused to tackle.
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Terrorists Attack Iranian Military Parade, Killing at Least 25
Several terrorists disguised in military uniforms attacked a military parade in the Iranian city of Ahvaz, killing at least 25 and wounding 60.
State TV reports that the gunmen were on motorcycles and sprayed automatic gunfire into a crowd of dignitaries sitting on a raised platform watching the parade. It was also reported that all four gunmen were killed.
There were a couple of live videos of the attack.
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India Bans Instant Divorce by Muslim Men
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s government on Wednesday approved an ordinance to implement a top court ruling striking down the Muslim practice that allows men to instantly divorce.
The government decision came after it failed to get approval from Parliament a year after the court ruled that the practice of allowing men to divorce by simply uttering the Arabic word for divorce — “talaq” — three times violated the constitutional rights of Muslim women.
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Jihadist and Maoist Terror Unleashing in India Mainly to Kill Hindus
India third worst hit in world by terror, after Iraq and Afghanistan: US data
Neeraj Chauhan | TNN | New Delhi | Sep 22, 2018:: For second year in a row, India is the third largest victim of terror attacks across the world after Iraq and Afghanistan while CPI- Maoists, which carried out 53% of the total attacks in India , is the fourth deadliest terror group after Islamic State, Taliban and Al-Shabaab, according to the data released by US department of state+ on Thursday.
Till 2015, Pakistan was the third most affected country in the world.
The national consortium for the study of terrorism and responses to terrorism, contracted by the US department of state, has claimed that Jammu and Kashmir witnessed a 24% increase in terror attacks in 2017 and an 89% increase in the number of people killed in those attacks. Out of a total 860 terror attacks across India in 2017, 25% were reported from J&K alone.
Indian officials said that there is a major difference between terrorism in Pakistan and India. “Here in India, most of the terror activities are either sponsored by or emanating from the soil of Pakistan and its agencies and military are allowing it. On the other hand, Pakistan is now facing the attacks from terror groups it harboured and raised for decades,” an official said.
Terming Maoists as the fourth deadliest terror group in the world, the US study has stated that it was responsible for 53% attacks in India in 2017.
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Japan’s Space Agency is About to Land Bouncing Rovers on an Asteroid
This week the Japanese space agency’s asteroid-exploring spacecraft, Hayabusa2, will deploy a pair of rovers to explore the surface of an asteroid. It’s a mission of redemption as much as it is science, because the last time JAXA tried this, the mission ended in failure.
The Hayabusa2 probe left for asteroid Ryugu in December 2014 and is already well into its 1.5-year mission exploring the surface. It will return to Earth in 2020. The spacecraft is armed with a slew of sensors and probes, including a high-power ejector that will shoot a 0.5-gram tantalum bullet into the surface so it can study the ejected material.
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A Colombian burglary gang which targets rich Asian homes have stolen over $10million in cash, jewellery and designer goods. Police say over 100 burglaries have occurred in Melbourne.
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48 Years for Gang Plotting to Sneak Albanians Into the UK on Jet Skis
A GANG of “alarmingly amateur” people smugglers, who plotted to bring migrants across the English Channel on jet skis, were jailed for a total of more than 48 years yesterday. The seven men included Kentbased trafficking criminals and their Albanian “travel agents”, the Old Bailey heard.
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Adult Migrant Accused of Raping a 15-Year-Old Greek Girl for Five Days
A shocking story came to light last week in Kos, upsetting the local community. A 28-year-old Iranian migrant was arrested for raping a 15 year-old Greek girl, Newsit reports.
A friend of the victim reported the rape to the local police department. After this report the police took a statement of the victim, which revealed to the shocked police officers that the migrant was raping the girl for five days.
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ANTIFA Website Calls for ‘Slaughter’ of ‘Fascistic Border Patrol Dogs and Their Bosses’
In a post Thursday at far-left antifa website Incendiary News, an activist advocated for revolutionaries to rise up and “slaughter” what he called “fascistic Border Patrol dogs and their bosses,” Far Left Watch reported on Friday.
Disturbingly, far-left activists have in recent months become more brazenly militant and violent in their rhetoric on their websites and social media, as PJ Media has documented here, here, here, here, and here.
The author of the Incendiary News piece, Ulrike Salazar, likens Border Patrol agents to SS troops who “take away young boys and girls, tear apart families, throw away undesirables into dark and cramped dungeons.”
Then, after decrying all of the so-called atrocities committed by Border Patrol against illegal immigrants, Salazar writes: “This author only hopes that this chapter in American history will also include the moment when revolutionaries rose up with the masses and slaughtered the fascistic Border Patrol dogs and their bosses, slaying them with revolutionary fire and justice.”
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The mass deportation was one of the largest of the year in Australia, and sent packing criminals known for child sex offences or drug trafficking.
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Overwhelming Majority of South Koreans Don’t Want Muslim Refugees — Poll
half the respondents say they have a favourable view of refugees, this changes when they are asked how they think about Muslim refugees.
An overwhelming majority say they oppose the idea of their country accepting Muslim migrants and they cite the dangers associated with them.
Two-thirds, (66.6 per cent) of the survey’s young subjects said they don’t want any Muslim refugees: Of those, 74 per cent are women and 60 per cent are men.
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Debate in Europe framing illegal immigration from the third world as a problem is “dangerous”, the United Nations (UN) refugee chief has warned, insisting that the mass movement of peoples has been “a source of progress and prosperity since people first began to migrate”.
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We Are an Anti-Migration Government — Hungarian Foreign Minister
Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto talked about the Sargentini-report, the Article 7 procedure against Hungary, migration, Russia and the V4 cooperation too in an interview for RT.
Szijjarto called the report “a political decision that was made by cheating as the votes for abstention were not counted,” adding that “there’s a clash between the pro-migration majority of the European Parliament and the Hungarian government”.
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How many illegal immigrants are currently living in the U.S.? The number often used when discussing the topic is around 11 million. For instance, last year Pew Research published “5 facts about illegal immigration in the U.S.” which states, “The Center’s preliminary estimate of the unauthorized immigrant population in 2016 is 11.3 million.” But according to a newly published study by Yale University, the actual number may be double that or possibly even higher.
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European Court Ruling Opens Up Censorship of Comparing Abortion to Murder
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has rejected the appeal of a German pro-life campaigner, opening up censorship to those who compare abortion to murder.
The Strasbourg court rejected the appeal of campaigner Klaus Guenter Annen who was ordered by German courts in four separate injunctions to stop comparing abortions to the Holocaust and saying that the doctors performing them were committing “aggravated murder”, Il Giornale reports.
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UK: Student Editor Fired for ‘Transphobia’ After ‘Women Don’t Have Penises’ Tweet
A student has been fired from a position with a “free speech” society and as assistant editor of a university journal for so-called “transphobia” after sharing an article and comment reading “women don’t have penises”.
Angelos Sofocleous, 24, was pushed out of his role with Critique, Durham University’s philosophy journal, after his retweet of an article in The Spectator outraged students on social media, who claimed he was harming the transgendered.
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“.. the United Nations (UN) refugee chief has warned, insisting that the mass movement of peoples has been “a source of progress and prosperity since people first began to migrate”.
I doubt the UN chief could produce hard data to support that claim. I did see some calculations from Germany on the cost to the country of each migrant/refugee and it was all cost. The UN chief fails to realize migrants in past times went to countries with growing economies short of labourers. That’s not the case today in Western Europe. Most of these young Africans and Arabs will never get a job, don’t have the skills for modern economies, and will be an ongoing cost on the country due to welfare hand outs.
Those Africans, Arabs and Asians (migrants) are in reality bringing in a more inferior culture to the Western countries that they immigrated to and thus even if they get jobs, they would tend to cause more backwardness, more problems and instability to the Western world.
“He hailed immigrants as the source of progress and prosperity.”
In that case, he should be pushing for immigration to Africa. It could use some ‘progress and prosperity’.
How interesting. When I found this link on “Winds of Jihad”, I thought that the author is exaggerating. http://pickeringpost.com/story/the-start-of-muslim-food-terrorism-/8575
I began to look for other information. Imagine how difficult it was for me, if I know English by about 15%. (Polish about 40%)
And that’s what I found on the topic of strawberry jihad.
https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/Chatter/is-linked-group-raises-specter-of-threat-to-australia-in-posters.html
for the word Talaq they say it three times not 4, or actually any word after three doesn’t count, they have the option to say one or two and if they do so, the woman has threw months to get back to the man, he’ll just have to say i get you back, he might not say anything but if he touches her-they write it like that- a synonym for sexual intercourse it is also considered getting her back, the case for three Talaq words would be that she’s completely Haram to him to touches her, and she shall wait 4 months 10 days to be sure she’s not pregnant and then she could marry another man and if the first man wants her back after the the 3 talqat plural of talqa) she must get married and touched and divorced by a 2nd man .
if you divorce by saying this word 1 at a time you have two times left
if you have already said the word 1 time you can’t say it again 5 hours later it wouldnt be counted because she been already divorced .
countries like Egypt and Syria have adopted the French Napoleon’s law except in family matters it is still the Sharia law , capital punishment has not been abolished too but it’s rarely used, mostly with dangrous terrorists
“progress and prosperity” are the typical words used by the freemasonry, which really is the UN, with all their international committees and agencies. They are blind and fool at the same time. For them, it is unacceptable that within this world there is not any salvation, not any progress of humanity, no prosperity, no light, and all other lies on the Christ. “My kingdom is not of this world” Jn 18,36.
It is all going to end within this world and they cannot save anybody. They are just bringing new slaves and idols worshipers into the EU, for the benefit of a small group of “philanthropists” who want to destroy the countries of France, UK, Germany, Spain, etc and then become the new rulers of the land.