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‘She is in pain’ Girl, 7, left with horrific burns after getting henna tattoo in Egypt (express, Aug 16, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/841963/henna-tattoo-chemical-burns-Egypt-girl-7-blister-scars-hospital
“A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD girl was left with horrific burns and blistering scars after getting a black henna tattoo on holiday in Egypt.
Primary school pupil Madison Gulliver was on a family break to a plush hotel in Hurghada when her father Martin allowed her to have the temporary tattoo on her arm at the four-star hotel.
The floral pattern stretched from her fingers on her right hand, all the way up her arm to her elbow.
But less than a few hoursafter having the tattoo she complained of the design being itchy, and it quickly erupted into painful, bright red blisters.
The youngster was rushed to hospital where she had to have the chemical burns cut away in a specialist unit, leaving her with nasty scars along her arm.
Mr Gulliver, 50, a Royal Mail manager from the Isle of Wight, said: “She is potentially scarred for life after getting a black henna tattoo.
“The tattoo was done in the hotel’s salon and they claim it’s not the henna and that it’s my daughters skin.
“She has blisters from her finger to her elbow and is in so much pain.”
The NHS warns these ‘black henna’ tattoos can contain high levels of toxic chemical dye, which is normally illegal to use on the skin…”
Guess Who The Charlottesville Kingpin Is
Where is the media’s reporting on a former Occupy Wall Street activist and Obama acolyte?
August 16, 2017
Lloyd Billingsley
In the wake of the deadly Charlottesville riot, the narrative of the left emerged loud and clear. The rioters were all Trump troops, a pack of right-wing racists on the march everywhere.
“White supremacists say they are just warming up,” wrote Tony Pugh of McClatchy News, in a piece headlined “America’s neo-Nazis are raising money, planning more rallies.” The violence at Charlottesville was only the “latest data point on a dramatically escalating trendline of hate-group activity.” As Pugh saw it:
“White supremacists picked up the pace in 2008, after the election of the first African American president, and again this year as white-power groups saw Donald Trump’s win as an opportunity to move from the fringes toward the near mainstream of political discourse.”
And so on. As Joseph Klein showed, that sort of boilerplate showed up all over the establishment media, including the Washington Post and New York Times. But things weren’t quite so simple.
Breitbart senior editor-at-large Joel Pollack was one of the first to point out that Jason Kessler, organizer of last Sunday’s rally in Charlottesville, “is rumored to be a former Occupy Wall Street activist and supporter of Barack Obama.” Pollock was not depending on some anonymous tipster. Indeed, his source was the Southern Poverty Law Center.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267587/guess-who-charlottesville-kingpin-lloyd-billingsley
Just Like the Good Old Soviet Days
EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos strives to enforce “proper solidarity.”
August 16, 2017
Bruce Bawer
On November 13, 1968, Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, delivered a now-famous speech spelling out the “Brezhnev doctrine,” which was intended to justify the recent invasion of Czechoslovakia and to warn other Soviet satellites not to try to escape Moscow’s orbit. The Czechs and Slovaks had wanted to tear themselves away from Soviet control and live in a free country like those of Western Europe; in Brezhnev’s oration, this desire was transformed, via the magic of Kremlin Newspeak, into an attempt by “imperialist” countries to “sow dissension” in “individual socialist states,” thereby turning them away from “the principles of Marxism-Leninism.” While professing to “respect…sovereignty,” Brezhnev warned that any “deviation from socialism” was unacceptable and would necessitate “military assistance” by the USSR and its “allies” to any “fraternal country” facing “a threat to the socialist system.”
A brief glossary: imperialist was, of course, a euphemism for free and democratic; socialist, for totalitarian Communist; ally and fraternal country, for satellite or vassal or puppet state; military assistance, for a full-scale invasion by the Red Army, which would crush the democratic resistance and execute its leaders.
Brezhnev’s message, filtered through all those euphemisms, was clear to the comrades inside the Iron Curtain: obey, or be invaded.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267520/just-good-old-soviet-days-bruce-bawer
Russia Assists Mullahs’ Illegal Military Ambitions
Enabling terror and and mayhem throughout the region.
August 16, 2017
Ari Lieberman
The Jerusalem Post, citing the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, reports that Iran used a Boeing commercial airliner to secretly transport offensive military hardware to Russia. According to Welt am Sonntag, two Iranian airplanes, including a Boeing commercial airliner, flew directly from Iran to the Russian occupied Khmeimim air base in Syria where the military hardware was unloaded onto trucks.
From Khmeimim, the trucks made their way to the Syrian port Tartus where they were off loaded onto a ship bound for the Russian Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk. The paper notes that the military hardware was sent to Russia for “service maintenance.” Welt am Sonntag also posted satellite imagery clearly showing an Iranian Boeing commercial airliner, purchased by the Iranians before the Shah’s overthrow, parked on the tarmac at Khmeimim.
Khmeimim airbase is Russia’s most important airbase in Syria and has been used by the Russian air force to conduct offensive operations against anti-regime forces. It has also been used by the Iranians to clandestinely transport military equipment to Hezbollah and other Iranian proxy forces. The most recent revelation demonstrates that Iran is using Khmeimim as a transit point for shipment of weapon systems to Russia that are in need of upgrade or maintenance.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267590/russia-assists-mullahs-illegal-military-ambitions-ari-lieberman
Report: Iran and Russia violated UN weapons sanctions
The Islamic Republic of Iran and Russia used a smuggling route to transport offensive weapons, allegedly in violation of UN Resolution 2231, Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported on Sunday.
The broadsheet paper cited “Western intelligence services” saying Iran delivered “offensive weapons systems” to Russia via a military air base in Syria.
http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Report-Iran-and-Russia-violate-UN-weapons-sanctions-502475
North Korea’s Head of Intelligence and Cyber-Warfare Welcomed In Cuba
Dire danger at our doorstep.
August 16, 2017
Humberto Fontova
“Cuba is resolutely opposing the U.S. sanctions and pressure against North Korea and expressing full support for the just steps of North Korea in bolstering up defense capabilities including ICBM test-fires…we express our deep thanks to the Korean people who are sending solidarity to the Cuban people’s just cause.”
That was Ulises Rosales Del Toro, Stalinist Cuba’s “Vice President of the Council of Ministers” (i.e. eunuch apparatchik) conveying his master’s (Raul Castro’s) support to Kim Yong Nam, Stalinist North Korea’s “President of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly,” (another eunuch apparatchik).
The shout-out between these Stalinist eunuchs took place last week in Teheran during Iran’s “Presidential Inauguration ceremonies,” (pow-wow among terrorists/murderers/burglars) which also included Zimbabwe’s “President” (witch-doctor/dictator) Robert Mugabe. The event was reported by Stalinist North Korea’s “press.” (Propaganda ministry.)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267591/north-koreas-head-intelligence-and-cyber-warfare-humberto-fontova
Islamic state video –
www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=sjZjoChZXTk
www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=M4MG8VhQtNM
FBI admits to having informers in the Alt Right and Alt Left.
https://twitter.com/ramzpaul/status/897896697057103876
Spain: Dozens gather to protest clampdown on Islamic sacrificial ceremony
Dozens of protesters gathered at the border crossing between the Spanish enclave of Melilla and mainland Morocco to demonstrate against a perceived anti-Muslim move by the Spanish government, Wednesday.
The demonstrators blocked the passage of vehicles over the border, as government authorities prevented the entry of sheep which were intended to be sacrificed as part of Passover in Abrahamic religions such as Islam, Christianity and Judaism.
[...They mean Eid al-Adha ( from Aug 31 to Sep 04 this year )...]Members of the Muslim community gathered at the border to ensure a group of lambs were passed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave, however, authorities opted to seize the 11 sheep as well as detain two people.
Poor Spain, so emotionally fragile.
The Mueller File: Past & Present
Black Lives Matter: All Confederate symbols should be banned as a result of Charlottesville attack
According to tweets sent by Chicago’s chapter of Black Lives Matter, the United States should ban all Confederate symbols in response to the white supremacist terror attack in Charlottesville, which left one woman dead and scores more injured.
The group, in a series of tweets, wrote, “The fact that the Confederate flag & statues permeate the south is evidence that white supremacy was never overthrown in the United States.”
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/15/black-lives-matter-all-confederate-symbols-should-be-banned-as-a-result-of-charlottesville-attack/
Fired Google Engineer: There is a certain left-wing dogma they have
The New York Times – Are Steve Bannon’s Days Numbered?
Steve Bannon, President Trump’s chief strategist, has been criticized as being emblematic of the far-right nationalism that turned violent in Virginia last weekend. Can he salvage his role in the White House?
Dallas ISIS Recruiter Encouraged Ariana Grande Bomber
The bomber who carried out the attack on the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England had input and encouragement from a U.S.-based ISIS recruiter, Newsweek reported.
The attack, which targeted concert-goers as they left the arena, killed 22 people in August 2016.
Said Azzam Mohamad Rahim, a 40-year-old American national of Jordanian descent from Dallas, was part of an online chat with the bomber, Salman Abedi, a 22-year-old British national of Libyan descent, who was seeking authorization to carry out the bombing.
During the chat, which was held on the encrypted messaging app Zello, Abedi addressed a question to a sheikh in the group (later identified as Mouner el-Aoual, 28, an ISIS jihadi in Turin, Italy).
https://clarionproject.org/ariana-grande-bomber-encouraged-by-dallas-isis-recruiter/
Canada May Cancel $15 Billion Saudi Arms Deal
https://clarionproject.org/canada-saudi-deal-human-rights/
Video and photographic evidence of Saudi Arabia’s National Guard using Canadian-made armored vehicles to violently repress its citizenry have triggered a review of arms sales to Saudi Arabia by Ottawa. If it’s confirmed that Saudi Arabia used Canadian equipment against civilians, Canada will be in violation of its own export laws.
Videos and images circulated on social media at the end of July allegedly showed Canadian-made vehicles in action against civilians. The National Guard reportedly used the vehicles to crush anti-government protests in Awamiyah, a city in the Qatif region, the Shiite majority eastern part of the country. Military experts reportedly identified the vehicles as Gurkha RPVs made by Terradyne Armored Vehicles of London, Ontario.
The media reports prompted Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland to order a probe into Canadian arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
MB strikes again!
Iran Wary as Opposition Meets With US Senators
How to deal with Iran has become a very controversial and complex matter for the Trump administration. Washington is currently weighing how to tackle Tehran’s belligerence through adopting a comprehensive Iran policy.
Delivering a significant blow to Tehran, a delegation of prominent United States senators were in the Balkans last weekend, visiting leaders and members of the Iranian opposition, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), in Tirana, the capital of Albania.
The delegation consisted of
https://clarionproject.org/iran-watches-closely-opposition-meets-us-senators/
Kurdish media highlights Israeli support for independence drive as Iran fumes
Kurdish media outlets reported favorably on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s support for Kurdish independence on Monday, highlighting the fact that his position is shared by several other leading Israeli officials.
Last week, Netanyahu told a delegation of 33 Republican Congressmen visiting Israel that the Kurds are “brave, pro-Western people who share our values,” expressing support for an independent Kurdish state. On September 25, voters in the Kurdistan region of Iraq will cast their ballots in a long-awaited independence referendum.…
…Iranian media outlets seized on Netanyahu’s comments as buttressing the claim made by the speaker of the Tehran regime’s parliament that Israel wants to sow chaos in Iraq.
“The Zionist regime seeks Iraq’s disintegration,” Ali Larijani alleged during a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in Tehran on June 21. Larijani and other Iranian officials have also accused Israel of supporting ISIS.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/08/14/kurdish-media-highlights-israeli-support-for-independence-drive-as-iran-fumes/
Water Is Iran’s New Weapon Against Its Ahwazi Minority
This fetid brown liquid is not raw sewage but the massively polluted normal drinking water provided by the Iranian regime for the Ahwazi Arab people of southwest Iran. This foul-tasting and foul-smelling brown discharge is the only source of water for drinking and bathing, with the people of the region joking grimly that they don’t drink water but “chocolate milkshake.”
Activists on social media have circulated these pictures to show what the people of Ahwaz endure on a daily basis. This has led to widespread illness and many outbreaks of disease. This is taking place while the regime in Tehran provides Iranian-only settlements in the Arab region with all the standard modern amenities including clean drinking water. With the regime damming and diverting the rivers in the Ahwaz region to provide water to other, non-Arab areas of the country, desertification and pollution of the remaining water sources are steadily worsening, with the pollution from the oil and gas industry in the area adding to this toxic environmental mix.
The Ahwaz region was once the home to over 95 percent of the oil and gas resources claimed by Iran. The region, which was once lush and verdant, should be the richest area in the country; instead its people are denied even a fraction of the wealth from their own resources, living in conditions of medieval poverty and subjected to systemic racism.
https://clarionproject.org/water-irans-new-weapon-ahwazi-minority/
May 16, 2017
Forget the politics. Iran has bigger problems.
On May 19, Iran goes to the polls to select a new president. So far the campaign has been dominated by the economy. Unemployment is high, and oil prices are low. The lifting of sanctions following Tehran’s nuclear agreement with the West has yet to yield benefits. Yet the effect of sanctions — or whether the next president is a hard-liner or a relative moderate — is secondary to the largest long-term threat to Iran’s stability.
Due to gross water mismanagement and its ruinous impact on the country, Iran faces the worst water future of any industrialized nation. After the fall of the shah in 1979, water policy became a victim of bad governance and corruption, putting the country on what may be an irreversible path to environmental doom and disruption that owes nothing to sanctions or years of war with its neighbors.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/05/16/forget-the-politics-iran-has-bigger-problems/?utm_term=.2d23c248fc2c
Europe: Migrant Crisis Reaches Spain
by Soeren Kern
August 16, 2017 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10840/spain-migrant-crisis
Spain is on track to overtake Greece as the second-biggest gateway for migrants entering Europe by sea. The sudden surge in migration to Spain comes amid a crackdown on human smuggling along the Libya-Italy sea route, currently the main migrant point of entry to Europe.
The westward shift in migration routes from Greece and Italy implies that Spain, situated only ten miles from Africa by sea, may soon find itself at the center of Europe’s migration crisis.
More than 8,300 illegal migrants have reached Spanish shores during the first seven months of 2017 — three times as many as in all of 2016, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Thousands more migrants have entered Spain by land, primarily at the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on the north coast of Morocco, the European Union’s only land borders with Africa. Once there, migrants are housed in temporary shelters and then moved to the Spanish mainland, from where many continue on to other parts of Europe.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10840/spain-migrant-crisis
The Anti-Semitic Jewish Media
by Bruce Bawer
August 16, 2017 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10810/antisemitic-jewish-media
For years now, Jews across western Europe have been the targets of harassment by Muslims. Police officers stand guard outside of synagogues. Recently, when I stayed in the Jewish Quarter in Rome, I couldn’t help notice the presence of multiple police kiosks, each manned by an armed cop. Many Jews in European cities have long since ceased wearing yarmulkes or Stars of David. Jewish kids are instructed by their parents to avoid identifying themselves as Jews at school lest they be beaten up by their little Muslim friends.
Meanwhile, almost everyone in a position to do something is a coward. Politicians continue to recite the mantra that “Muslims are today’s Jews,” even though in Europe today Muslims are far more often the tormentors than the tormented, and Jews lead the list of victims of public abuse. Police prefer not to prosecute Muslim perpetrators for fear of being called “Islamophobes.” Teachers don’t want to deal with Muslim bullies in their classes for the same reason.
What’s next in Afghanistan?
by John R. Bolton
August 15, 2017 at 12:30 pm
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10839/next-in-afghanistan
As President Trump wrestles with America’s role in Afghanistan, he should first decide what our objectives are today compared to what we wanted immediately after Sept. 11, 2001.
Initially, the United States overthrew the Taliban regime but failed to destroy it completely. Regime supporters, allied tribal forces and opportunistic warlords escaped (or returned) to Pakistan’s frontier regions to establish sanctuaries.
Similarly, while the Taliban’s ouster also forced al-Qaida into exile in Pakistan and elsewhere, al-Qaida nonetheless continued and expanded its terrorist activities. In Iraq and Syria, al-Qaida morphed into the even more virulent ISIS, which is now gaining strength in Afghanistan.
In short, America’s Afghan victories were significant but incomplete. Subsequently, we failed to revise and update our Afghan strategic objectives, leading many to argue the war had gone on too long and we should withdraw. This criticism is superficially appealing, recalling anti-Vietnam War activist Allard Lowenstein’s cutting remarks about Richard Nixon’s policies. While Lowenstein acknowledged that he understood those, like Sen. George Aiken, who said we should “win and get out,” he said he couldn’t understand Nixon’s strategy of “lose and stay in.”
Today in Afghanistan, the pertinent question is what we seek to prevent, not what we seek to achieve. Making Afghanistan serene and peaceful does not constitute a legitimate American geopolitical interest. Instead, we face two principal threats.
WATCH: AG Sessions discusses sanctuary cities in Miami
Transcript- worth it:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-sessions-delivers-remarks-sanctuary-policies
From link above:
…Americans – all Americans – have a right to full and equal protection under law.
No one understands this better than the Cuban-Americans here in Miami-Dade.
When they came to America, they saw firsthand that only the rule of law and the equal application of that law can preserve our God-given rights.
They understand that no single person – whether a dictator or a mayor – should determine whose rights are protected and whose are not.
The people of Miami-Dade know that the rule of law guarantees equality and opportunity.
Protecting this guarantee is why the government of Miami-Dade made its decision to work with federal law enforcement, not against us.
And that is critical because it shows that this jurisdiction is serious about protecting its citizens from danger and its law enforcement officers from unnecessary risk.…
BREAKING: Two people SHOT near busy Toronto Mall – suspect still at large (express, Aug 17, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/842183/toronto-shooting-police-report-injured-suspect-escape-sherway-gardens-mall
“A MANHUNT is underway after two people were shot at the Sherway Gardens shopping centre in Toronto.
Police say that they have identified two victims at the scene. One has serious injuries, and the other has non-life threatening injuries caused by shattered glass.
Officers attended after witnesses reported several gun shots were heard in the area.
According to officials, a black SUV was seen fleeing the scene after the shooting.
Police are searching for two suspects who had their faces covered.
One has been described as an Asian male believed to be in his 30’s and the second is a similar age, wearing a baseball cap.
More to follow…”
UK cities score poorly on most liveable cities list because of TERRORISM and CRIME (express, Aug 17, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/842189/uk-crime-terrorism-manchester-london-liveable-cities-list
“BRITAIN’s biggest and most affluent cities are scored as some of the least liveable in Europe because of high rates of crime and terrorist attacks.
Manchester has fallen down eight places in the annual international ranking while London maintained its mid-table place at 53.
Cities are ranked based on risks of crime, terrorism, conflict, access to health care, quality of schools, roads, housing, local culture, climate and civic and religious freedoms.
The Economist Intelligence Unit’s ‘Global Liveability Ranking’ found that the Manchester Arena bombing in May was the chief reason for Manchester’s fall in the rankings.
But even on this measure the city still ranked higher than London.
Editor of the survey Jon Copestake said: “Manchester has joined a number of European cities experiencing terror attacks over the last decade or so.
“Sadly this heightened state of alert has become the new normal for many cities but we are now in a situation where global declines have largely stabilised and even begun to register improvements.”
London has experienced terrorist at Westminster and London Bridge but was mainly held back by high crime rates and congestion.
The report said that London was the victim of its own success, with huge pressures on infrastructure and higher crime…”
“Heather Heyer’s Dad Forgives Charlottesville Driver: ‘He Don’t Know No Better’ (VIDEO)” by True Pundit Staff – August 16, 2017
http://truepundit.com/heather-heyers-dad-forgives-charlottesville-driver-he-dont-know-no-better-video/