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Bombard’s Body Language: Tommy Robinson June 2017 (Pierce Morgan interview)
This is yuge!
US casting nervous eye at China’s ‘phenomenal’ debt levels, says former Obama pick for the Fed
To be astonished, search on “Chinese Ghost Cities”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EBN9TiUqNs
Modern China’s “command economy” will, more than likely, go down in human history as a financial bubble that makes Holland’s legendary “Tulip Mania” (look it up — or the 2000 “dot.com” craze look like supremely restrained investment strategies.
You can’t go home. When China falls a quarter million peasants will look angrily at the communist party for answers. The communists will reply with conscription and war rather than allowing itself to be threatened. China’s ace in the hole is it’s place at the table when the Big Reset happens, and world wide debt is vaporized. It will drop its gold on the table with a giant Thud and say, “Ok, let’s talk.” There is a strong element of mathematical certainty to this scenario. Take heed, no future now:
https://youtu.be/3iYADquljNY
I have been saying that the Chinese economy is on the bring for ages and predicting that they will to to war rather then let the young people take out their anger on the communists. This may be why China is not doing anything about NORK, they see the possiblity of drafting a lot of kids and getting some of them killed.
Remember China thinks that if they get into a war with the west, lose 1/2 of their population and come out of the war with the current government intact they will have won a victory. They may lose NORK (which will hurt them) and be forced out of various around the world where they are currently expanding into but reducing their population with the social cost and pressure from the kids who have no hope of mengiful jobs or even wives is a very good thing for the communist leaders. They think they can fight for a while then negotiate a truce (like was done in Korea in the 50s with out the war going nuclear.
Scholar of islam on a recent siege in Australia; apologies if already posted:
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/we-cant-ignore-the-role-islam-played-in-the-brighton-shooting-20170615-gwrlnb.html
F*cked up Britain
“From a military point of view, the refugee routes across the Mediterranean Sea can be observed very closely. (…) Within the EU, most member-states already have the necessary strategic means, to control the refugee routes across the sea – and to reduce the illegal immigration.“
Commenda went on to say that:
“from a military point of view, it is possible to stop almost all the refugee ships underway to Europe. As in all matters of security, as becomes clear from experience on the Balkan (a 96% reduction in the number of refugees) a few small holes are likely to stay open. But even now, the Mediterranean is constantly observed from the air: from flying radar stations, the ‘AWACS’, and aircraft that primarily serve to detect submarines, to drones and satellites used by news services.“
In short, the conclusion must be that the insane cruises in the worst kind of boats, that have for years caused thousands to end at the bottom of the sea, can be contained. Sending back the majority of the, mostly male economic migrants to protected zones on the North African coast is not a military, but a political problem.”
https://theoldcontinent.eu/austrian-army/
Specialists Think North Korea Poses Nuclear Threat to Hawaii
Nuclear arms experts think North Korea already has, or soon will have, the ability to target Hawaii with a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile with possibly about the same destructive force as the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Warnings are mounting apace with that growing threat.
“North Korea’s unprecedented level of nuclear testing and ballistic missile development offers a sobering reminder that the United States must remain vigilant against rogue nation-states that are able to threaten the homeland,” Air Force Gen. Lori Robinson, who heads the North American Aerospace Defense Command, told a congressional committee Thursday.
In Hawaii a profusion of four-star military commands — including U.S. Pacific Command, which oversees U.S. military activity over half the globe — makes Oahu a strategic and symbolic target. The threat from an unpredictable North Korea, in turn, is prompting a revisitation of some old Cold War practices that until recently seemed laughable.
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/04/11/specialists-think-north-korea-poses-nuclear-threat-hawaii.html
What to do with a broken Illinois: Dissolve the Land of Lincoln
Illinois is like Venezuela now, a fiscally broken state that has lost its will to live, although for the moment, we still have enough toilet paper.
But before we run out of the essentials, let’s finally admit that after decade upon decade of taxing and spending and borrowing, Illinois has finally run out of other people’s money.
Those “other people” include taxpayers who’ve abandoned the state. And now Illinois faces doomsday.
So as the politicians meet in Springfield this week for another round of posturing and gesturing and blaming, we need a plan.
And here it is:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-dissolving-illinois-kass-met-20170620-column.html
No royal wants the throne, says Harry: Prince’s astonishing claim about the future of the monarchy is revealed in extraordinary interview
Prince Harry says no one in the Royal Family wants to be king or queen.
In an extraordinary interview he insists however that Britain and other countries still need ‘the magic’ of the monarchy.
The 32-year-old prince also appears to criticise his family’s decision to make him walk behind his mother’s coffin as a 12-year-old, saying: ‘No child should be asked to do that.’
On the monarchy, he asks: ‘Is there any one of the Royal Family who wants to be king or queen? I don’t think so, but we will carry out our duties at the right time.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4626868/No-Royal-Family-member-wants-throne-says-Prince-Harry.html#ixzz4kjk94yNc
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Not that I expect it to happen but what would occur if the Royal family all turned down the Throne?
“… what would occur if the Royal family all turned down the Throne?”
It could be the basis for a whole new mini-series, “Disdain of Thrones”.
[ducks]
Very punny
FEC Dem eyes widening Russia probe to Facebook, Drudge, foreign companies
A new proposal by an anti-Trump Democrat on the Federal Election Commission would expand the federal government’s probe into alleged Russian influence to foreign companies and internet sites that take political ads, like Facebook or the Drudge Report, while giving the FEC an unprecedented role that some say oversteps its authority.
Democratic Commissioner Ellen Weintraub, citing petitions from leftist groups demanding a wider investigation, on Thursday plans to push for commission support for her idea.
“This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for our democracy,” she wrote in a hasty bid to get the commission to consider it at their Thursday meeting.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fec-dem-eyes-widening-russia-probe-to-facebook-drudge-foreign-companies/article/2626674
Good riddance to the Russia myth — and blame Team Obama for promoting it
Ex-Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson’s testimony Wednesday should mark the definitive end of “Russia hacked the election” hysteria. Too bad it took so long to get to this point.
Johnson told the House Intelligence Committee outright that the Russians failed to alter “ballots, ballot counts or reporting of election results.”
Yes, it’s clear Russia (with Vladimir Putin’s full approval) orchestrated cyberattacks designed to influence the 2016 contest, and also pushed fake news.
http://nypost.com/2017/06/21/good-riddance-to-the-russia-myth-and-blame-team-obama-for-promoting-it/
Murders hit record high in Mexico
Mexico City (AFP) – Mexico registered a record number of murders last month, officials said, underlining the country’s struggles to deal with the horrific violence surrounding the multi-billion-dollar narcotics trade.
There were 2,186 homicides in May, said a report from the National Public Safety System — the highest figure since the country began keeping track 20 years ago.
The deadliest state was Guerrero, in the south, a hotspot in Mexico’s war on drugs where 216 people were killed.
In the western state of Sinaloa — where rival factions have been battling for control of the Sinaloa drug cartel since its kingpin, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was extradited to the United States in January — 154 people were killed, the highest number in six years.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/murders-hit-record-high-mexico-013144847.html
Desperate Venezuelans set sights on Colombia as worry mounts
As the first hint of dawn stretches over a Colombian neighborhood known as “Little Mene Grande” after the warm, Venezuelan city where so many recent arrivals are from, six men and women rise from worn, flattened mattresses.
The women do their makeup in front of a mirror hanging from the security bars inside a window. One wraps her 4-month-old daughter in a fuzzy yellow blanket. The men don jackets and baseball caps.
Bogota is cold compared to their Venezuelan hometown and their day will be long. The task: Sell 54 mangos at less than a dollar each in hopes of sending a sliver of what they earn to relatives struggling even more back home.
“I never imagined living like this,” says Genensis Montilla, 26, a nurse and single mother who left her three children with their grandmother.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/desperate-venezuelans-set-sights-colombia-worry-mounts-48199063
Dem organizer: Ossoff voters were impossible to reach because they live with their parents
By LU Staff June 21, 2017
A precinct captain for Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff’s congressional campaign complained recently that many of his constituents are hard to reach because they still live at home with their parents.
“Those were the angriest people,” Jessica Zeigler told Slate, referring to the Republican parents of the young Democrats. “When you are targeting their child, or heaven forbid their child might not think the same way as them, it becomes ugly.”
Ziegler, who has been quoted in a number of Slate articles and a NYTimes piece, added that the police had even been called on Ossoff volunteers on a number of occasions.
Ziegler focused on encouraging young voters to turn out by recruiting recent high school graduates to get in touch with their peers over social media.
The Georgia special congressional election has received significant media attention, in part because of the record-breaking level of funding poured into the race.
A precinct captain for Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff’s congressional campaign complained recently that many of his constituents are hard to reach because they still live at home with their parents.
“Those were the angriest people,” Jessica Zeigler told Slate, referring to the Republican parents of the young Democrats. “When you are targeting their child, or heaven forbid their child might not think the same way as them, it becomes ugly.”
Ziegler, who has been quoted in a number of Slate articles and a NYTimes piece, added that the police had even been called on Ossoff volunteers on a number of occasions.
Ziegler focused on encouraging young voters to turn out by recruiting recent high school graduates to get in touch with their peers over social media.
The Georgia special congressional election has received significant media attention, in part because of the record-breaking level of funding poured into the race.
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/06/21/dem-organizer-ossoff-voters-impossible-reach-live-parents/
‘Muslim kindergartens should be closed’ – Austria’s Foreign Minister
‘We don’t need them’: Austrian FM wants to end Islamic kindergartens to boost integration (RT, Jun 22, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/news/393550-austria-closure-islamic-kindergartens/
“Shutting down Islamic kindergartens where children have little or no command of German would be an efficient way to ensure the integration of migrants, Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said.
The comment was made at a public event set up by Kurier newspaper.
“Of course, we don’t need them. There should be no Islamic kindergartens,” Kurz said when asked whether he would agree to completely get rid of such facilities.
According to the foreign minister, proficiency in German must become a gateway to Austrian society.
Immigrant children and others “who have little or no command of German” would have to attend kindergarten one year longer than their Austrian peers, he said.
“Quality criteria” for childcare workers should also be introduced to improve the standards of language proficiency.
Consequently, many Arab or Chechen kindergartens will fail to meet the requirements for state benefits and will be left with no choice but to close, Kurz said, adding, “This is the easiest way in terms of the law.”
In the meantime, the government “does very much” to improve integration efforts, Kurz said. He added, however, that success “depends very much on the number of those [who should be] integrated.”
Controversy regarding Muslim kindergartens was recently stirred when a study by Austrian-Turkish Professor Ednan Aslan found more than 10,000 children aged from two to six attend around 150 Muslim preschools in Vienna which teach the Koran and pave the way for “parallel societies,” according to AFP.
“Parents are sending their kids to establishments that ensure they are in a Muslim setting and learn a few suras (chapters from the Koran),” Aslan, who researches Islamic education at Vienna University, told AFP.
“But they are unaware that they are shutting them off from a multicultural society,” the scholar said. According to his estimates, up to a quarter of Islamic kindergartens were being sponsored or supported by ultraconservative Salafist groups or organizations.
The study, published last year, resonated widely in the community, but some rejected the findings citing the unreliability of Aslan’s methodology. Biber, a local magazine, dispatched an undercover reporter who posed as a Muslim mother looking for a place for her son at an Islamic kindergarten.
She found no evidence of Aslan’s claims that Islamic preschools were nurturing future Salafists, but acknowledged many of those kindergartens were cutting off or isolating children from mainstream society. There were also questions about the “openness” of some staff and their command of German.
Kurz, the youngest foreign minister in the EU at the time of his swearing-in back in 2013, has previously advocated putting more curbs on immigration. In March, he proposed the opening of refugee centers outside the European Union, suggesting the Republic of Georgia and countries of the Western Balkans as possible locations.
Last year, he also made some incendiary remarks on refugees being rescued on their way across the Mediterranean, saying a rescue from a boat in distress should be “no ticket to Europe.”
Refugees who are rescued from boats in the Mediterranean Sea “must be returned immediately, ideally to their country of origin,” Kurz vowed at the time.”
Iraq’s Sufis remember Allah through body piercing rituals
Why is that guy running in circles in my grandma’s blanket singing Yankee Doodle?
He is Moroccan – Moroccan Sufis wear that kind of outfit
They’re all barking mad and crazier than an outhouse rat.
Nothing to add, Norse. You’ve said it all.
WARNING:
Hazardous to Parrot-Brain People!
[Though it might save my life one day. Some jihadi comes at me before I can kill him, I can recite this drivel backwards and forwards. Throw him off guard, then kill him.]
Is this for real, Martin?!
….. well….There is a lot of diversity in the Sufi rituals — the ethnicity of the participants has a lot to do with the specific style of the various trancelike ceremonials or dances —-
—- but those repetitive rhythmic patterns are the same used by the TEKNO music ….
….so….. someone added a techno sound track to match the movements of those pious Muslims — for fun —
I found the original video with the original sound track — they never get tired , they seem to do that for hours….
— they say it is food for the soul
now .... can you imagine the smell in that room......I think they are Chechens…
That’s a cardio-workout, they’ll live forever!
Thank-you, Martin! It’s fascinating~
~of course it has nothing to do with Islam…
They’re having fun, poor things…
Jewish Techno Party
I knew I’d seen something like this before!
Nigeria ??? or Senegal ????
Bible says you’re not supposed to do that.
All that piercing, scarification, tatoos. Too primitive and alien for our Tribe, it says.
I always wanted a tatoo. But what if my dead body was rejected by the undertakers? Imagine how disappointing…
The only one I ever thought of getting was “MOM” so she wouldn’t get mad at me for getting a tattoo.
zero hedge – Democratic Election Commissioner Demands Probe Of Russian Links To Facebook, Drudge, HuffPo; “Faith In Democracy” Shaken
In what she has called an “all-hands-on-deck moment for our democracy,” Federal Election Commissioner Ellen Weintraub has inserted herself into the fading ‘Russia-did-it’ narrative demanding the federal government’s probe into alleged Russian influence is widened to foreign companies and internet sites that take political ads, like Facebook or the Drudge Report.
[…]As The Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard notes, critics of the idea called it a “federal power grab” beyond the scope of the FEC’s powers.
In her new proposal, she goes much further than earlier concerns about corporations and internet sites, though offered no evidence of interference other than news reports and two petitions from leftist groups.
She is urging the FEC to look into political spending by foreign sources on the internet, including Facebook, and presumably any other site that runs political ads, like the Drudge Report or Huffington Post.
As part of that she called for open- and closed-door briefings by Justice and Treasury financial officials on the issue.
She also suggested that the FEC get investigators from other agencies, prompting a critic to ask, “why would the FEC take resources away from other agencies, like DOJ, that have far more authority to actually do something about Russia?”
What’s more, she wants to assure public that state and federal databases are safe, though the agency doesn’t have any authority over state elections boards, and has reportedly farmed out large portions of its U.S. campaign data entry tasks to workers in India.[…]
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-21/democratic-election-commissioner-demands-probe-russian-links-facebook-drudge-huffpo-
In their efforts to destroy Donald Trump they are destroying trust in the US electoral system, I don’t know if this is deliberate or an unintended consequence.
U.S.: Strategic Objectives in the Middle East
by Peter Huessy
June 22, 2017 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10559/strategic-objectives-middle-east
The tectonic plates in the Middle East have shifted markedly with President Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia and Israel, and his announced new regional policy.
The trip represented the beginning of a major but necessary shift in US security policy.
For much of the last nearly half-century, American Middle East policy has been centered on the “peace process” and how to bring Israel and the Palestinians to agreement on a “two-state” solution for two peoples — a phrase that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas refuses to say.
First was shuttle diplomacy during 1973-74 in the Nixon administration; then second, in 1978, the Camp David agreement and the recognition of Israel by Egypt, made palatable by $7 billion in new annual US assistance to the two nations; third, the anti-Hizballah doctrine, recently accurately described by National Security Advisor General H.R. McMaster, as Iran, since 1983, started spreading its terror to Lebanon and elsewhere in the region. This last effort was often excused by many American and European analysts as a result somehow, of supposed American bad faith. Fourth, came the birth, in 1992, of the “Oslo Accords” where some Israelis and Palestinians imagined that a two-state solution was just another round of negotiations away.
Relying on McMaster and Mattis is a non-starter. They recruit MB operatives – to work with countries directly threatened by the MB.
duh…
The Turk is only the most obvious rotten element in our NATO basket. Large populations of EU-citizens [Turk, Tunesian] pledge allegiance to him.
Qatar owns critical assets in Europe => MB dominates the Islamic power centers of our Nato allies.
Diversity is Our Strength: Qatar accommodates Shittes, too. They work with Iran, no problem. You want to give security clearance to this lot?
Giulio Meotti, from way back in 2012, today it’s much worse:
EXPOSÉ: Qatar’s takeover of Europe
“Read this carefully. It is a shocking and factual description of the situation at present, but it is also the prophecy of the future for Europe – or should we already call it Eurabia.”
… In Germany, Qatar’s sovereign fund, the Qatar Investment Authority, owns 17 percent of Volkswagen, 10 percent of Porsche and 9 percent of construction giant Hochtief.
In Italy, to mention just one well known firm, Qatar just bought Valentino’s fashion style company….
In the UK, the Qatar Muslims own swathes of the Canary Wharf financial district in London. Qatar also owns 20 per cent of the London Stock Exchange.
Qatar invested in the Paris St. Germain soccer club and it is an investor in the French Total Oil group, as well as British Shell.
Qatar financed the 95% of the Shard tower in London, the highest skyscraper in Europe….
Qatar has also purchased, for 300 million euros, the building which hosts part of the US Embassy in Paris.…
…In Switzerland, where Qatar is economically very important, famous firms such as Swatch, Tissot and Victorinox, have removed the cross of the Swiss flag from many advertisements, especially in Arab and Asian countries. In many cases the cross on the red background, a sign of identity of the Swiss cantons, has been replaced by the words “Swiss Made”. The Victorinox, the famous manufacturer of knives, replaced the cross with the letter “V”. The Swatch justified the removal by saying that “Muslim countries are not allowed to show the cross in public.”
[…]
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12429
Brexit boom for Britain as factory orders hit their highest level for nearly 30 years (express, Jun 22, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/820172/brexit-manufacturing-hit-22-year-high-industrial-trends-survey
“BRITISH factory orders have hit their highest level for nearly 30 years, the CBI business organisation revealed today.
The figures will fuel optimism for Britain’s economic future as we prepare to leave the European Union.
They also bear out analysis that the fall in the value of the pound since the EU referendum a year ago today, on June 23, 2016, has significantly boosted industry and particularly exporters.
The CBI’s monthly Industrial Trends Survey said total orders in June hit their highest level since August 1988 and were much stronger than many economists had predicted.
Export orders hit a 22-year high, helped by the cheaper pound.
Factory output slowed in the past three months but remained “robust” by historical comparisons and firms expect production to rise over the coming quarter…”
Canadian elite special forces sniper makes record-breaking kill shot in Iraq (theglobeandmail, Jun 22, 2017)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadian-elite-special-forces-sniper-sets-record-breaking-kill-shot-in-iraq/article35415651/
“A sniper with Canada’s elite special forces in Iraq has shattered the world record for the longest confirmed kill shot in military history at a staggering distance of 3,540 metres.
The Canadian Armed Forces confirmed Thursday that a member of Joint Task Force 2 made the record-breaking shot, killing an Islamic State insurgent during an operation in Iraq within the last month.
“The Canadian Special Operations Command can confirm that a member of Joint Task Force 2 successfully hit a target at 3,540 metres,” the forces said in a statement. “For operational security reasons and to preserve the safety of our personnel and our Coalition partners we will not discuss precise details on when and how this incident took place.”
The elite sniper was using a McMillan TAC-50 sniper rifle while firing from a high-rise during an operation that took place within the last month in Iraq. It took under 10 seconds to hit the target.
“The shot in question actually disrupted a Daesh [Islamic State] attack on Iraqi security forces,” said a military source. “Instead of dropping a bomb that could potentially kill civilians in the area, it is a very precise application of force and because it was so far way, the bad guys didn’t have a clue what was happening.”
The military source said the JTF2 operation feel within the strictures of the government’s advise and assist mission.
“As stated multiple times in the past, members of the Canadian Special Operations Task Force do not accompany leading combat elements, but enable the Iraqi security forces who are in a tough combat mission,” the statement said. “This takes the form of advice in planning their operations and assistance to defeat Daesh through the use of coalition resources.”
The kill was independently verified by video camera and other data, The Globe and Mail has learned…”
3,540 metres = 2.2 miles = Farking amazing!
Especially when you remember the round was designed during WWI as an anti-tank round.
Sounds like the kinda shot I’d make. Sniff.
I use to be good out to 300 and decent out to 600, these days 100 to 150 is my range. Old age sucks big time.
Egypt extends state of emergency (middleeastmonitor, Jun 22, 2017)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170622-egypt-extends-state-of-emergency/
“Egypt’s government has approved President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s proposal to extend a national state of emergency for an additional three months, the cabinet said in a statement today.
Parliament unanimously approved a three-month state of emergency in April, broadening the power of authorities to crack down on what it called enemies of the state after two church bombings killed at least 45.
Since toppling elected President Mohamed Morsi in mid-2013, general-turned-President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has overseen a crackdown on opposition in which hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters were killed and thousands jailed…”
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dead: ‘Highly likely’ Isis leader killed in airstrike, Russian foreign ministry claims (independent, Jun 22, 2017)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-dead-latest-news-isis-russian-airstrike-islamic-state-a7802796.html
“Russia’s Foreign Ministry has said there is a high degree of certainty that Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead.
A new statement carried by RIA news agency on Thursday doubled down on Moscow’s claim last week that its forces may have killed the secretive Islamist leader.
Baghdadi is believed to be in hiding in the region around the Syria-Iraq border, moving frequently and avoiding telecommunications to evade detection. According to the Russian foreign ministry, the strike in which he was allegedly killed occurred at the end of May…”
UK terror: 4 attacks, 5 plots thwarted since March (usatoday, Jun 22, 2017)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/06/22/britain-terrorism-plots-thwarted-threats-islamic-state-isis/103098650/
“British authorities on Thursday said the country was experiencing “a new phase of global terrorism” as they revealed that security services had thwarted five terrorist attacks since the car-and-knife assault on Westminster Bridge and outside Parliament in March.
The new figures, unveiled by Home Secretary Amber Rudd during an address to the House of Commons, come as Britain was confronted with four terrorist attacks in the last three months that killed 36 people and hospitalized more than 150. Between June 2013 and the Westminster attack, 13 plots were foiled.
“There has been no summer like it,” Rudd said, speaking in Parliament’s lower chamber Thursday. “We must do more to defeat ideologies of hatred by turning people’s minds away from violence and toward pluralistic British values. We must make sure that these ideologies are not able to flourish in the first place.”
Britain’s security services have been warning for months that British nationals who have traveled to fight with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria pose a danger when they return home. Three of the attacks — at Westminster Bridge and outside Parliament; when a bomb exploded at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester a month ago; and when a van deliberately crashed into pedestrians on London Bridge and three men got out of the vehicle and began stabbing passersby in nearby Borough Market on June 3 —have been claimed by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS.
A fourth attack, outside Finsbury Park mosque in north London on Monday, is the suspected work of terrorism. Police suspect that Cardiff, Wales, resident Darren Osborne, 47, a married father of four, deliberately drove a rental van into a group of Muslim worshippers as they left midnight Ramadan prayers, resulting in the death of a 51-year-old man who the Metropolitan Police said Thursday died of “multiple injuries.”…”
Car bomb kills seven at police station in Somali capital – police (reuters, Jun 22, 2017)
http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKBN19D1EP
“A car bomb targeting a police station killed at least seven people in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Thursday, police said, and al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab said it was behind the attack, the second this week.
A Reuters witness saw bodies lying on the ground at the Waberi police station, near Maka al Mukarama road, the busiest street in Mogadishu. Cars were ruined and the building damaged.
“We carried seven dead people and 12 others injured from the scene,” Abdikadir Abdirahman, director of the Amin ambulance service, told Reuters. Major Mohamed Hussein, a police officer, had earlier given a toll of four dead.
The blast came despite thousands of security personnel, including police, intelligence and military, being assigned to secure Mogadishu earlier this month.
On Tuesday, a car bomb attack on a government building in Mogadishu, also claimed by the al Shabaab militant group, killed at least 10 people.
“As you can see, the terrorists attacked the station which is now destroyed,” Ahmed Mohamed, spokesman for the Mogadishu security forces told reporters at the scene.
Al Shabaab, which wants to force out African Union peacekeepers, oust the Western-backed government and impose its strict interpretation of Islam on Somalia, claimed responsibility for the attack…”
UAE has secret torture prisons in Yemen, US involved in interrogations – AP (RT, Jun 22, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/news/393554-uae-secret-prisons-yemen/
“The UAE operates a network of ‘black sites’ in war-torn Yemen, where terrorist suspects are abused and tortured, an AP investigation has found. US personnel have been involved in at least some interrogations, agency sources said.
There are at least 18 clandestine prisons across southern Yemen operated by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) or by Yemeni forces created and trained by the Arab nations, AP reported on Thursday. A number of the estimated 2,000 detainees there are subjected to abuse and torture and have no legal protection, sources from the agency said.
The US military provides lists of questions for the detainees and receives transcripts of the interrogations done at the black sites, potentially making America complicit in torture. American citizens have been directly involved in some of the interrogations, although none of the sources confirmed participation in the alleged abuses, the report said, citing several unnamed US defense officials.
AP interviewed dozens of people for the report, including former inmates, family members of people held in detention, lawyers, Yemeni and US officials. Most of the sources spoke to the agency on condition of anonymity, either fearing reprisals or because they were not authorized to discuss the issue…”
UN approves Lebanese former minister Ghassan Salame as Libya envoy
The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday approved the appointment of former Lebanese culture minister Ghassan Salame as the new UN envoy to Libya, ending a contentious four-month search.
Salame, a professor of International Relations and Conflict Resolution at Sciences-Po in Paris, was officially put forward on Friday by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
The Security Council must agree by consensus on the appointment of new envoys, and members had until Tuesday to voice any objections, of which there were none.
The search for a successor to German diplomat Martin Kobler began in February when UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres proposed former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad for the role.
But the US issued a last-minute rejection of the appointment due to his nationality, saying the UN had been “unfairly biased in favour of the Palestinian Authority to the detriment of our allies in Israel.”
At the time, Guterres described the US rejection as “a loss for the Libyan peace process and for the Libyan people.”
“I deeply regret this opposition and I do not see any reason for it,” he said.
After Fayyad’s rejection by the US, Russia and other members of the 15-seat council rejected a British and American candidate put forward for the role. As a result, Kobler’s posting was extended until the end of June.
A senior council diplomat told Reuters that over 20 people were approached and either “ruled themselves out” or were ruled out by Security Council members.
Libya has been wracked by chaos since the 2011 uprising that toppled and killed long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi, with rival authorities and militias battling for control of the oil-rich country.
Libya has become a key departure point for migrants trying to reach Europe by sea.
More than 50,000 migrants have reached the Italian coast since the start of the year, not counting those rescued in recent days, while more than 1,400 have drowned or are missing, according to UN figures.
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2017/6/21/un-approves-former-lebanon-minister-as-libya-envoy
Libya: Lebanese Ghassan Salamé likely to replace outgoing Kobler
[…]He is currently board member of several international organizations including the International Crisis Group, the International Peace Institute, the Open Society Foundations and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
http://northafricapost.com/18344-libya-lebanese-ghassan-salame-likely-replace-outgoing-kobler.html
The Plot to Neuter the Taylor Force Act on Terror Payments
June 22, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
The Muslim terrorist who murdered Taylor Force had no idea that his death might become a wake up call for Americans.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/267031/plot-neuter-taylor-force-act-terror-payments-daniel-greenfield
New Study: Millions of Non-Citizens May Have Voted in ’12
June 22, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
Voter fraud and immigration are the third rails of Democrat politics. You can touch anything, but not those. We have a pretty good idea about the latter, but the effect of the former on our politics remains a mystery. Our system of elections is filled with irregularities. Fraud is routine, especially in political machines, and comes in many forms. There is little in the way of real enforcement.
So we’re in a political twilight zone and we can only grope about for the truth.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/267081/new-study-millions-non-citizens-may-have-voted-12-daniel-greenfield
The Latest: Taliban claims deadly Helmand explosion (abcnews, Jun 22, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/latest-death-toll-rises-29-afghanistan-bombing-48202270
“Afghanistan’s Taliban claimed responsibility for a powerful suicide car bomb that killed at least 29 people, mostly civilians, on Thursday in southern Helmand province.
In an email, Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, said the Taliban carried out the attack but he denied that any civilians died, saying only Afghan National Security personnel died as they went to the bank to collect their salaries ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al Fitr.
However, the provincial governor and police chief both said the majority of dead were civilians…”
Suicide car bomb outside Afghan bank kills at least 29 (abcnews, Jun 22, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/gunmen-open-fire-inside-afghan-mosque-killing-officials-48201433
Iran begins exporting gas to Iraq (abcnews, Jun 22, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/iran-begins-exporting-gas-iraq-48205259
“Iranian media are saying the country has begun exporting gas to neighboring Iraq.
The Thursday report by the semi-official Fars news agency said the exports began late Wednesday through a pipeline straight to Baghdad. According to the report, the daily flow will start at around 7 billion cubic meters per day and eventually grow to 35 billion cubic meters per day.
The pipeline’s inauguration came a day after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi visited Iran.
Iran and Iraq already have a second signed agreement to establish a gas pipeline to the southern city of Basra as well.
The two neighbors have been close allies since the fall of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003. They current conduct an estimated $13 billion in annual trade.”
French prosecutor: Champs-Elysees attacker who plowed car into police had pledged allegiance to Islamic State leader (abcnews, Jun 22, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/french-prosecutor-champs-elysees-attacker-plowed-car-police-48206106
French prosecutor: Man who drove into police convoy on Paris’ Champs-Elysees had huge weapons cache in car and at home (abcnews, Jun 22, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/french-prosecutor-man-drove-police-convoy-paris-champs-48206427
Pistolet, carabine, cartouches… le procureur décrit l’arsenal de l’assaillant des Champs-Elysées
France: Champs-Elysee police ramming suspect ‘pledged allegiance’ to IS – Paris prosecutor
France presents new security bill amid extremist threats (abcnews, Jun 22, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/france-present-security-bill-amid-extremist-threats-48201672
“French President Emmanuel Macron’s new government presented a security bill Thursday to beef up police powers amid extremist threats to Europe.
Macron insists the bill discussed at a Cabinet meeting won’t infringe on freedoms, but rights groups fear France is heading for a permanent state of emergency.
His government is seeking to extend France’s existing state of emergency through Nov. 1, the time it will take the new security bill to pass through parliament. The current expiration date for the state of emergency is July 15. It would be the sixth extension of the measure since deadly attacks by extremists in Paris in November 2015.
The move Thursday comes days after an attacker drove a car carrying explosives into a police convoy on Paris’ busy Champs-Elysees avenue, the latest of several small-scale attacks on European cities.
“The threat is long-lasting,” Macron told several European newspapers in interviews published Thursday. “So we must organize ourselves for the long-term” instead of relying on emergency security measures.
The bill would allow authorities to place people posing “a particularly serious threat” under house arrest. They would still be allowed to move within a specific area, so they could have a family and a job.
The draft law would also ease conditions for state authorities to conduct counterterror raids on condition they are authorized and supervised by a judge.
Authorities could decide to close places of worship for up to six months if comments deemed to incite terrorism are made from those places. The bill also includes measures to ensure better security at big sports and cultural events.
“This is not a permanent state of emergency,” Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, who is in charge of the bill, said on Europe 1 radio. “Every time we try to take precautions so that individual freedoms are respected.”
Some human rights organizations had called on the government to drop the bill because of concerns over civil liberties.
New tensions, meanwhile, arose Thursday with Macron’s office on media access.
Press photographers covering the Cabinet meeting refused to take pictures of the ministers entering the Elysee presidential palace, one day after a government reshuffling, to protest restrictions on their access to the new government’s official photo.
They were finally allowed to go to the site but no video camera was authorized.
The Elysee press office says it doesn’t want any picture of the backstage to be made.
At the end of the Cabinet meeting, writers were banned from the Elysee courtyard — only video journalists and photographers were allowed. Government spokesman Christophe Castaner said “that’s only this week, we wanted to make images.”
He suggested the press would be allowed to attend the end of future Cabinet meetings and question ministers in the Elysee courtyard starting next week.
After the first Cabinet meeting following Macron’s election last month, more than 20 French media organizations signed an open letter to the French president to express their concerns about restrictions on coverage.”
Greece Reacts to New Muslim Prayer, Koran Reading in Hagia Sophia
The Greek government reacted to Wednesday’s reading of the Koran and Muslim prayer in Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, despite the strictly secular museum character of the monument.
On Wednesday, there was a regular call to prayer, as is the case in all mosques, with the only difference being that the gates did not open for the faithful to enter. However, the call to prayer was attended by the President of Religious Affairs Mehmet Gormez and broadcast by state television TRT-Diyanet.
In a statement, Greece’s Foreign Ministry stressed that Hagia Sophia is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and therefore an attempt to turn it into a mosque is an insult to the international community. The ministry notified UNESCO of the issue and Deputy Foreign Minister Yiannis Amanatidis met with a high UNESCO official today (Thursday).
The statement characterizes the Turkish action as “a manifestly unacceptable challenge to the religious sentiment of all Christians and those who honor the cultural heritage of mankind.”
“We call upon Turkey to show the attitude of a modern and democratic country and to protect the universal character of Hagia Sophia, respecting the long-standing tradition of this universal monument,” the Foreign Ministry’s announcement concluded.
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/06/22/greece-reacts-to-new-muslim-prayer-koran-reading-in-hagia-sophia/
Indian troops kills 3 rebels, protester in disputed Kashmir (abcnews, Jun 22, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/indian-army-rebels-killed-disputed-kashmir-48201082
“Government forces killed three suspected Kashmiri rebels in fighting in the disputed region Thursday and fatally shot a rock-throwing protester during an ensuing rally demanding an end to Indian rule, officials said.
The militants were killed following a nightlong exchange of gunfire after police and soldiers cordoned off southern Kakpora village, said army spokesman Col. Rajesh Kalia. An Indian army officer was wounded.
Residents said troops used explosives to target the house the militants were firing from and set it on fire. Police recovered the charred bodies of the three militants.
Hundreds of residents defied the security lockdown around the village and clashed with government forces in an attempt to help the trapped militants escape.
As news of the killings spread, thousands of people assembled in Kakpora for funeral prayers for the slain militants. Thousands more took to the streets in neighboring Awantipora town, where protesters blocked a key highway connecting the Kashmir Valley with India while chanting “Go India, go back” and “We want freedom.”
Government forces fired bullets, shotgun pellets and tear gas at rock-throwing protesters, killing a man and injuring about 65 others, according to witnesses and a police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with department policy.
The officer said the slain man was a regular anti-India protester and “habitual stone-thrower” and had many cases registered against him with police. Local residents said the man was targeted by the government forces.
On Wednesday, Indian troops killed two Kashmiri rebels in a gunbattle in northern Sopore area…”
Egypt says 7 militants killed in raid on desert camp (abcnews, Jun 22, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/egypt-militants-killed-raid-desert-camp-48212508
“Egypt’s Interior Ministry says it has killed seven people in connection with recent attacks on the country’s embattled Christian minority, including three church bombings and a deadly bus shooting, all claimed by the Islamic State group.
The ministry said in a Thursday statement that the militants, who were killed in an exchange of fire, were hiding in a western desert camp. It did not provide any further details.
Attacks on Coptic Christians have claimed the lives of more than 100 people and injured scores since December.
Earlier on Thursday, the state-run MENA news agency reported that Egypt’s Cabinet approved a three-month extension of the state of emergency, declared by President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi following twin Palm Sunday church bombings.”
Imagine Communism – John Lennon Parody (Alex Jones / Globalism Song)
Free Press of Kekistan
Free Press of Kekistan
Man Arrested Outside Parliament After ‘Abusing’ Police Officers (breitbart, Jun 22, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/06/22/man-arrested-outside-parliament-abusing-police-officers/
“A man has been detained under mental health legislation outside the Houses of Parliament Thursday afternoon after he “verbally abused officers”.
The incident is reported to have taken place by Black Rod’s Garden, adjacent to the Sovereign’s Gate to the Houses of Parlaiment which the Queen used Wednesday morning to make her address in the House of Lords for the state opening of Parliament.
The arrest took place just yards away from a number of other such arrests that have taken place in recent months, and the Palace Yard gate where Islamist killer Khalid Masood stabbed police officer Keith Palmer in March.
Shortly after the arrest, Metropolitan Police confirmed the arrested man was not armed. A spokesman said: “Shortly after midday, a man was arrested close to the Black Rod’s Garden after he verbally abused officers.
“He was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and detained under the Mental Health Act.”…”
Tommy Robinson: A Message to Manchester Police after #MarchAgainstHate
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Tommy Robinson of TheRebel.media explains how police tried to sabotage the anti-terror #MarchAgainstHate in Manchester before it started.
UK Population Sees Sharpest Annual Rise in 70 Years — Thanks to Immigration (breitbart, Jun 22, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/06/22/uk-population-sharpest-rise-70-years/
“The UK population has seen its sharpest annual rise in nearly 70 years, with the nation expected to hit 70 million people and London 10 million residents within a decade, official figures revealed on Thursday.
Demographers at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) calculated there were an estimated 65.6 million people living in the UK at the end of June last year.
Over the previous 12 months, Britain saw the number of inhabitants rise by 0.8 per cent or, in numerical terms, 530,000 people — the biggest increase since 1947 when resident numbers went up by 551,000 during the postwar baby-boom.
The ONS noted they recorded a rise in births and fewer deaths in the year to June 2016, but said the main driver of population growth is still net migration, which represented 62.4 per cent of the total increase.
Official population projections drawn up last year, to help councils and the NHS plan ahead with regards to providing services, showed the population of England is set to soar by more than four million people in the next decade.
The ONS expects immigration to account for almost half of the expected population growth, which the statistics body notes will push the number of London residents past the 10 million mark for the first time…”
Migrant Who Frequently Visited Kindergarten May Have Given Children Tuberculosis (breitbart, Jun 22, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/06/22/migrant-kindergarten-may-given-children-tuberculosis/
“An asylum seeker diagnosed with tuberculosis who visited a kindergarten several times in Bünsdorf, Germany, may have infected as many as 18 children and four adults with the disease.
The migrant, originally from Yemen, spent five months from January to May in the community, meeting families and spending time at a local kindergarten. Brought to Bünsdorf by the local church, the man is said to have had an infectious case of tuberculosis and children aged three to six may be affected, leaving parents outraged, Eckernförderung Zeitung reports.
The man was given asylum in a church hall in the town and the kindergarten is located next door. In June, the man showed signs of the disease and an investigation was carried out to find if children and staff had been infected.
Christin Hettich from the Health Office held an information hearing earlier this week when it was found the bacterial form of tuberculosis diagnosed in the Yemeni man was highly contagious.
“Tuberculosis is a disaster for the sick and the community,” said local pastor Thies Feldmann. The pastor said it was not unusual the Yemeni had access to the kindergarten and youth groups in the church.
Some parents are outraged the migrant had such access to their children with one saying: “We have to sign for each individual, and we are informed about every new trainee – but a stranger is allowed to enter and leave the kindergarten?”…”
“Immigrants”, the gift that keeps on giving.
BBC Forced to Apologise After Islamist Called Maajid Nawaz, Douglas Murray ‘Hate Preachers’ Live on Air (breitbart, Jun 22, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/06/22/bbc-apologies-islamist-call-maajid-nawaz-douglas-murray-hate-preachers/
“The BBC was forced to issue two apologies after the chairman of the Iranian-linked Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) called reformist Muslim Maajid Nawaz and political commentator Douglas Murray “hate preachers” in an interview.
The IHRC’s Massoud Shadjareh was interviewed by BBC News following the Finsbury Park Mosque terror attack in which worshippers leaving a mosque were mown down by a man driving a truck. The suspect is a 47-year-old identified as Darren Osborne.
Blaming the attack on Mr. Murray, right-wing journalist Katie Hopkins, and Mr. Nawaz, the leader of the hardline Islamist group labelled them “hate preachers” on the programme on Monday.
Shadjareh’s Khomeinist organisation’s position on the Hezbollah-Israel war of 2006, where the IHRC said British Muslims could provide the Lebanese Shia terror organisation with “financial, logistical and informational support” to attack Israeli installations, did not appear to be taken into account by the BBC when it vetted its interviewees.
On BBC News on Tuesday, the broadcaster apologised to Mr. Nawaz for airing the comments.
The newsreader said: “At this time yesterday, we interviewed live a contributor, who expressed the view that Maajid Nawaz was a ‘hate preacher’… We would like to make clear that we were unaware that Mr. Nawaz would be named in this way, and would like to apologise to Mr. Nawaz.”
Mr. Nawaz, founder of anti-extremist think tank the Quilliam Foundation, tweeted on Monday: “The allegation came as revenge, one day after I publicly criticised [the] organiser of [a] rally who told his followers to fly jihadist flags in London.”
Shadjareh organised the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel al-Quds Day march in London last weekend, where many Hezbollah terror flags were flown. The IHRC claims Hezbollah flags flown during al-Quds Day represent the political wing of the Lebanese Shia terror organisation, as the military wing is proscribed in the United Kingdom – a distinction Hezbollah itself does not make.
Police have now launched a probe into the al-Quds Day march over possible hate crimes and the display of Hezbollah flags, reports The Jewish Chronicle.
On Thursday, the BBC issued its second on-air apology, this time to Mr. Murray, the associate director of the Henry Jackson Society think tank which works to counter extremism and support liberal democracy.
The newsreader said: “At this time on Monday, we interviewed live a contributor who expressed the view that Douglas Murray was a ‘hate preacher’… We’d like to make it clear that we were unaware Mr. Murray would be named in this way and would like to apologise to him.”
Neither apologies prepared by the BBC named the prominent Islamist “contributor” nor the provenance of his organisation.
Haras Rafiq, chief executive of the Quilliam Foundation, criticised the BBC, tweeting: “Second apology in 2 days – BBC really needs to be more careful with their guests.”…”
I’m only posting this for the LOLs, true though it may be.
Aren’t ANTIFA a bunch of dumb c@nts (feat. Dr Randomercam)
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Turkey: Far-right ‘Grey Wolves’ denounce Rabia monument
Supporters of the far-right ‘Grey Wolves’ (Ulku Ocaklari) organisation shrouded the newly-erected Rabia momument with the organisation’s flag in protest of the statue in Duzce, Thursday.
The protesters marched with the flag to the park and placed it on the monument. Although adopted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the nationalist group criticise the salute as being affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and not being representative of Turkish culture.
If we just leave them alone and keep them out, they will destroy each other.
Why not?
“Church of England Official: Transgender Christians Can Be ‘Re-Christened’ After Undergoing Sex Change”
Weasel Zippers – June 20, 2017
https://www.weaselzippers.us/344708-church-of-england-official-transgender-christians-can-be-re-christened-after-undergoing-sex-change/
Are they that desperate?
My thought was that they are getting real stupid.
For sure.
Pelosi Strikes Back: ‘I Think I’m Worth the Trouble’
WASHINGTON — Pushing back on criticism from fellow party members after the Democratic loss in a Georgia special election this week, Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she’s “worth the trouble” as Democrats’ leader in the House.
“I feel very confident about the support that I have in my caucus,” Pelosi said at a press conference in the Capitol after Republicans featured her in almost every ad attacking Democrat Jon Ossoff in the Georgia congressional race which he lost Tuesday.
“I think I’m worth the trouble, quite frankly,” she concluded. “I love the fray.”
Democratic critics say it’s time to change the party’s House leadership, which has been static for over a decade, to make room for fresh voices and a new direction. But Pelosi insisted she’s already done that by bringing younger members into leadership.
“We’re paving a way for a new generation of leadership, and I respect any opinion that my members have,” she said. “But my decision about how long I stay is not up to them.”
And while Democrats have been on a losing streak lately — going down to defeat in all of the special congressional elections so far this year — she said that would turn around soon.
“History is on our side,” she said, noting that presidents almost always lose House seats in their first midterm election.
“You want me to sing my praises?” she asked defiantly. “Well, I’m a master legislator. I am a strategic, politically astute leader. My leadership is recognized by many around the country, and that is why I’m able to attract the support that I do.”
Pelosi added that Republican opponents will always go after the other party’s leaders — “and usually they go after the most effective leader.”
Pelosi beat back a leadership challenge late last year from Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), with two-thirds of her caucus supporting her
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pelosi-strikes-back-i-think-i-m-worth-trouble-n775521
NRCC Video Explains Why Republicans #StandWithNancy
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Trump’s State Department slaps down Hungarian PM, supports George Soros
In one more example of the US State Department being run by the ‘Deep State,’ we learned on Monday that Sec. of State Tillerson has basically told Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to stand down in his efforts to expose Soros’ subversive influence in that country.
Readers should know that Orban has become a leading champion for some in Europe for speaking forcefully and taking action to close his country’s borders to the invaders*** from the Middle East and Africa.
(Poland and the Czech Republic are doing the same in order to save their culture and economy.)
So, George Soros knows that Orban must be taken down. (As many of you know Soros (aka György Schwartz ) was born to a Hungarian Jewish family in Budapest.)
Now, using his billions earned as a ruthless investor, he works to open borders worldwide and he hates Donald Trump, so one wonders why Trump’s State Department would even get involved in this Hungarian internal issue? Does it all boil down to the globalists’ desire for open borders that Soros champions?
Frankly, this news is stunning! But, it fits what we already believe—that the ‘Deep State’ is still running the show at the DOS. See here when they pulled a trick on Trump’s White House while Trump was on his world tour last month.
Here is some of the story at the Washington Examiner
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s spokesperson urged Hungarian leaders to scrap legislation mandating that Hungarian nonprofits supported by foreign contributors identify their donors. The bill is the latest development in nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ongoing campaign against Soros, but his domestic and international critics regard it also as a step toward Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Hungary joined NATO in 1999, when Orban was in the midst of a four-year run as prime minister. Since returning to the post in 2010 the midst of an economic crisis that required an international bailout, Orban has had a fraught relationship with the European Union. The 2015 refugee crisis created additional strain, and human rights groups criticized his efforts to constrict the flow of asylum-seekers into Hungary.
Orban responded by attacking Soros, a campaign that hasn’t ended. “There is an important element in public life in Hungary which is not transparent and not open — and that is the Soros network, with its mafia-style operation and its agentlike organizations,” he said in June.
[….]
The Hungarian leader’s skepticism of the EU and “globalist” refugee policies, perhaps aided by Soros’ status as a prominent progressive donor, has endeared him to some American conservatives who see a likeness to Trump.
[….]
Hungary also passed legislation designed to shutter Central European University, one of the most prominent institutions in the country, due to funding from Soros. But, though Orban has praised Trump, the new president’s administration opposed that bill and continued to criticize his hostility to the nonprofits.
“Hostility” toward nonprofits! Is it hostile to demand to know who is funding the non-profits?
I want to know how much funding George Soros is giving to US refugee contractors and other Open borders agitation groups!
And, Hungarians have a right to know how Soros, an American, is secretly influencing their politics.
Come on Congress! How about a transparency law here in the US—call it the George Soros Transparency Act of 2017.
Afterthought! While they are at it let’s have transparency about which Republicans in Congress are taking payola from Soros!
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/06/22/trumps-state-department-slaps-down-hungarian-pm-supports-george-soros/
State Department warns Hungary: Anti-Soros law ‘another step away’ from NATO
An international controversy over nonprofits funded by progressive Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros has created a vulnerability in the NATO alliance, the State Department warned.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s spokesperson urged Hungarian leaders to scrap legislation mandating that Hungarian nonprofits supported by foreign contributors identify their donors. The bill is the latest development in nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ongoing campaign against Soros, but his domestic and international critics regard it also as a step toward Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“If signed into law, this would be another step away from Hungary’s commitments to uphold the principles and values that are central to the [European Union] and NATO,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Monday.
Hungary joined NATO in 1999, when Orban was in the midst of a four-year run as prime minister. Since returning to the post in 2010 the midst of an economic crisis that required an international bailout, Orban has had a fraught relationship with the European Union. The 2015 refugee crisis created additional strain, and human rights groups criticized his efforts to constrict the flow of asylum-seekers into Hungary.
Orban responded by attacking Soros, a campaign that hasn’t ended. “There is an important element in public life in Hungary which is not transparent and not open — and that is the Soros network, with its mafia-style operation and its agentlike organizations,” he said in June.
The State Department contradicted that assessment and suggested that Orban is enabling corruption. “The United States is concerned by the Hungarian parliament’s passage of legislation that unfairly burdens and targets Hungarian civil society, which is working to fight corruption and protect civil liberties,” Nauert said.
The Hungarian leader’s skepticism of the EU and “globalist” refugee policies, perhaps aided by Soros’ status as a prominent progressive donor, has endeared him to some American conservatives who see a likeness to Trump.
But Orban’s domestic opponents see shades of Putin. Orban criticized Western sanctions imposed on Russia in response to Putin’s annexation of Crimea and destabilization of eastern Ukraine. And Putin has implemented legislation requiring international nonprofits to register as “foreign agents” and giving him the authority to shut down foreign nonprofits.
“We should not be afraid of the NGOs but rather of the members of Parliament who represent Russian interests,” said an opposition lawmaker, per The New York Times.
Hungary also passed legislation designed to shutter Central European University, one of the most prominent institutions in the country, due to funding from Soros. But, though Orban has praised Trump, the new president’s administration opposed that bill and continued to criticize his hostility to the nonprofits.
“By portraying groups supported with foreign funding as acting against the interests of Hungarian society, this legislation would weaken the ability of Hungarians to organize and address concerns in a legitimate and democratic manner,” Nauert said.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/state-department-warns-hungary-anti-soros-law-another-step-away-from-nato/article/2626460
Why is there never mention that Orban is the only European leader I know of who put migration to a referendum? Does a dictator do this? Why doed the Trump administration support the Soros Post Modernist Factory University? Why does the US support NGOs that only pose as civil liberty orgs when the government is not socialist?
I can’t answer those questions, all I can do is say that he has to work with the bureaucrats and that means letting them win once in a while. The worst that is going to happen is Hungry goes back into the Russian Sphere,
What most of his advisers are thinking about is that Hungry is creating a big rift in NATO at a time when Russia is making a big problem for the West. Not as big as the problem the socialist governments have made but a fairly big one.
Orban: We Were The First To Prove That Migration Can Be Stopped
Orban: No One Can Force Hungary To Change It’s Migration Policy
Thank-you, Martin-
Watching Mr. Orban is healing. Someone knows what’s right and won’t be silenced. A great man inspires decent people.
Thought Crime: German Police Raid Homes Of People Who Made ‘Hateful Postings’ On The Internet
On Tuesday, German police raided the homes of 36 people accused of posting “hateful” content on social media. The content in question includes allegedly racist posts and threats.
The raids largely targeted individuals associated with far-right movements hostile to immigration.
“But the raids also targeted two people accused of left-wing extremist content, as well as one person accused of making threats or harassment based on someone’s sexual orientation,” reports The New York Times.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/17801/thought-crime-german-police-raid-homes-people-who-joshua-yasmeh?utm_source=dwemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=062217-news&utm_campaign=position5
A Cop Speaks Out: Illegal Mexican Nationals Murdered My Buddy Execution-style
Retired Phoenix Police Detective Robert Arce is speaking out about the execution-style murder of a federal agent with whom he closely worked. His slain friend, DEA Special Agent Richard Fass, was murdered by illegal aliens on June 30, 1994 near Phoenix, Arizona.
“My friend begged for his life as illegal aliens from Mexico handcuffed him and murdered him. They didn’t care that he was pleading for his life and his loved ones,” said Officer Arce.
The law enforcement experiences of Officer Arce, both in the Phoenix PD and abroad on contracts for the U.S. Department of State, led Breitbart Texas to bring him aboard in our efforts to expose Mexican transnational criminal groups with the Cartel Chronicles project. Officer Arce spoke candidly about his friend and coworker, DEA Special Agent Fass.
“This occurred during an undercover operation gone bad in Glendale, Arizona. These illegal aliens were posing as sellers of approximately 20 pounds of methamphetamine, with the intent of luring Agent Fass into a robbery. These criminal aliens had no intention of selling Agent Fass the methamphetamine; they only intended to rob him of the $140,000.00 USD agreed-upon price,” said Officer Arce.
He continued:
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/06/21/cop-speaks-illegal-mexican-nationals-murdered-buddy-execution-style/
Antifa Website Encourages All Manner of Physical Violence Against Trump Supporters and Capitalists
The Antifa website It’s Going Down has become the de facto resource for anarchists and “anti-fascist” activists currently engaging in sporadic street battles across the United States against Trump supporters and the government. The site calls for violence against capitalists and anyone it labels a “fascist.”
It features posters for self-identified anarchists that call for Trump supporters to be stabbed. A poster published in April shows the silhouette of a man with a Make America Great Again hat and a Pepe the Frog lapel pin being cornered by a bayonet. Behind him is the transparent silhouette of a Nazi.
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