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  1. More on that poor Aussie girl who ended up dying on the kitchen floor over five days:
    https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/muslim-man-who-left-his-wife-25-to-die-for-five-days-after-she-suffered-more-than-100-injuries-is-jailed-for-just-eight-years-as-victims-grieving-mum-blames-islam-for-her-honour-killing/ar-BBKQ6kQ?ocid=spartandhp
    A Muslim man who left his wife to die for five days after he said he found her tied up and badly injured in their home has been jailed for at least eight years.
    Mohamed Naddaf pleaded guilty to the criminally negligent manslaughter of Ashlee Brown, 25, who died in their ‘unkempt and dirty’ Craigieburn home in Melbourne’s north in November 2016.
    Justice John Champion said Ms Brown was found in the passenger seat of the couple’s car after having been subjected to a ‘deliberate and frenzied assault’ and tied up with clothesline wire.
    The mother of three children under five had been bashed, stabbed, gagged and had her long strawberry blonde hair cut off.
    Naddaf helped Ms Brown to the bathroom, putting her down on a flannelette sheet on the floor, and fed her water through a syringe for five days.
    He finally called triple zero on November 6 after Ms Brown died from complications arising from more than 100 injuries including internal and external bleeding.
    Right-wing activist group, the Australian Liberty Alliance, staged a protest outside the Victorian Supreme Court, condemning what Ms Brown’s mother Siobhann believed was an ‘Islamic honour killing’.
    The mother of three children under five had been bound, gagged and had her long strawberry blonde hair cut off
    Justice Champion said he did not accept Naddaf’s claim that Ashlee asked him not to call for help in case their three children were taken by authorities.
    However, he said Naddaf’s motivation was unclear. The court heard Naddaf had a significant criminal history and was a long-term drug user, taking heroin, marijuana and ice.
    ‘The Crown is not in a position to prove who inflicted the injuries upon Ms Brown,’ Justice Champion said.
    Five years after Ashlee Brown told her mother she was marrying Mohamed Naddaf (pictured) she was found dead in the couple’s marital home. Naddaf pleaded guilty to manslaughter
    ‘It is not possible to say exactly when Ms Brown died but… she suffered to a considerable degree.’
    Siobhan Brown told reporters after the sentencing she believed Naddaf should have instead faced a murder trial for the death of her daughter, who had converted to Islam and had not spoken to her for five years.
    Naddaf was sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment and must serve at least eight years before being eligible for parole. He has already served 621 days in pre-sentence detention.
    Ms Brown told Daily Mail Australia last week she had had not heard from her eldest daughter since a phone call five years before she died.
    Her daughter told her she was marrying a Muslim man and was three months pregnant with her first child.
    Ms Brown had met Naddaf when Ashlee visited the family’s home in country Victoria when she was about 18.
    ‘She introduced him as “Macca”,’ Ms Brown said. ‘It was very brief.
    ‘He seemed like a nice, very polite, young man. It pains me to say that. I didn’t see him again after that.’
    HOW DID ASHLEE BROWN DIE?
    Ashlee Brown was found dead on her bathroom floor at Craigieburn, in Melbourne’s north, on November 6, 2016.
    Her husband Mohamed Naddaf, 37, told police he had found Ashlee bloodied and beaten in their garage four or five days earlier.
    Naddaf said he had ‘cared’ for Ashlee instead of calling an ambulance because she had asked him not to.
    A post-mortem examination found Ashlee had suffered more than 100 injuries to her head, torso, buttocks and limbs.
    She had been stabbed in the thighs and had bruising to her right side, including her breast.
    Naddaf was originally charged with assault and false imprisonment.
    He was later charged with killing his wife but pleaded guilty to manslaughter based on negligence.
    Naddaf is not accused of causing any physical harm to Ashlee.
    There was no communication for some time before a phone call came ‘out of the blue’ that would mean the end of all contact between Ms Brown and her daughter.
    When Ashlee was about 20 she rang to say she was pregnant and wanted her mother’s blessing to convert to Islam and marry Naddaf.
    ‘She said to me, “Mum, I need your blessing to become Muslim”. She said “I’m three months’ pregnant and I’m engaged to Mohamed. I would really like to marry him, mum, and settle down and have a baby”.
    ‘I said to her, “Darling, I don’t know anything about the Muslim religion. As long as you know what you’re doing”.
    ‘I said, “Do you have to wear one of those burqas or hijabs?” I didn’t know what they were called.
    ‘She said, “No mum, only when I go into the mosque because it’s disrespectful for a woman to show her face before God”.
    ‘I said to Ashlee, “As long as you’re making a fully informed decision and it’s what you really want”.’
    Ashlee said that it was.
    ‘There was a pause after that,’ Ms Brown said. ‘She said. “Thank you, mum”. And then her voice seemed to change and she said, “It’s Islam”. That didn’t mean anything to me at the time.
    ‘We said goodbye to each other and we hung up and I didn’t hear from Ashlee again.’
    Ms Brown said she was convinced the lack of subsequent contact with Ashlee was solely down to her religious conversion and Rannaf controlling his wife.
    ‘I believe Islam killed my daughter,’ the 46-year-old said.
    ‘If I could have taken that phone call back I would have not have given her my blessing. I would have said “No, sorry love”.
    ‘I’m not against Muslims. That’s not what it’s about.
    ‘I’m not telling Ashlee’s story to make friends. I don’t want to tell lies, I’m not going to sugar coat it. I’m telling Ashlee’s story for it to be known.’
    Ms Brown could not believe her daughter would willingly cease all contact with her mother and three siblings who are now aged 11 to 22.
    Ms Brown also believed the legal system let her down.
    ‘It was explained to me that they didn’t have enough evidence to successfully convict him of murder,’ she said of Rannaf’s manslaughter plea.
    ‘I feel let down. I feel there should have been a trial. Where was our fight? We didn’t have one.
    ‘The offence of murder needs to be redefined.’

    • Why is it ‘Right Wing’ (right limb) to protest Islam’s total possession over the right hand?

      Ah, yes. Unlike Socialists and Identity-Collectivists, they retained a left brain hemisphere to think individually.

      Muslims are Far Right. Which merely means they pretend to be
      Republican. Exactly as the Far Left pretend to be the Left. They both mingle with the ‘just-like-you,’ Useful Idiots.

      • PC- I agree. I am sick and tired of classifying as “extreme right wing” anyone who has anything bad to say about Islam, i.e. the truth,

        I don’t understand how that poor girl was brainwashed for so long that she ended up the way she did- murdered by her disgusting POS torturer.

        Looks like it’s all over for Australia too, just like the rest of the UK.

        • I am sick and tired of classifying as “extreme right wing” anyone who has anything bad to say about Islam, i.e. the truth“.

          And I’m sick and tired of being a hypochondriac …

          (A tiny little, widdle needle-stick of counter-offense “humor”)

          What happens next is anyone’s guess. I just don’t envy the odds-makers … because this one’s gonna get nasty … FAST.

    • A Muslim man who left his wife to die for five days after he said he found her tied up and badly injured in their home has been jailed for at least eight years.
      Mohamed Naddaf pleaded guilty to the criminally negligent manslaughter of Ashlee Brown, 25, who died in their ‘unkempt and dirty’ Craigieburn home in Melbourne’s north in November 2016.

      First off – thank you, Dumbstruck, for keeping this appalling act of Typical Muslim Behavior Islamic evil in the, all-too-often unfocused and weepy, public eye (Teddy bears, candles and floral bouquets optional). It’s long past tea for right-minded people to understand how Islam has NO upward limits to its barbarity (Full Stop).

      I’m not going to rattle off the dozens of supposedly unrelated “lone wolf”, terrorist examples that prove this horrid assay of mine.

      In their stead, I’ll leave a lump of ‘brown coal’ as cold consolation for the incessant “chattering classes” of BoHo and the happily lubricated Proletariat with their NFL, MLB, FIFA, NBA, WCW, NASCAR, and every other flavor of the panem et circenses that global MSM outlets stuff down unsuspecting gullets at every (carefully orchestrated) opportunity.

      It’s coming down to rotting in hell or fighting at the edges of hell’s borders. Take your pick…

      I dread to consider the bitterly stark choices that future generations (of namby-pamby Snowflakes) will have bought for themselves. One glance at any of America’s urban cores—and the ubiquitiousness of “Athletic Apparel”—bespeaks a tale of near-eternal woe. Just exactly when it begins may be in question … but not the eventuality.

      However much abject human misery and widespread degradation involved isn’t even in question. All that remains to be seen is when it begins. As a caring and loving man, any notion of this looming, self-inflicted catastrophe, simply makes me wanna puke.

      Capiche?

      • As an antidote to such “gloom & doom” blathering of mine, here’s a penitent, five minute “Blue Plate Special”. Just try imagining the release of this absolute classic film clip in today’s lunatic censorious climate.

        Horreurs!

        • For the first 2 minutes I thought it was another Trump supporter, trying to eat out.

  2. The Hope of the Slave

    “You may write me down in history

    With your bitter, twisted lies,

    You may trod me in the very dirt

    But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

    Does my sassiness upset you?

    Why are you beset with gloom?

    ’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells

    Pumping in my living room.

    Just like moons and like suns,

    With the certainty of tides,

    Just like hopes springing high,

    Still I’ll rise.

    Did you want to see me broken?

    Bowed head and lowered eyes?

    Shoulders falling down like teardrops,

    Weakened by my soulful cries?

    Does my haughtiness offend you?

    Don’t you take it awful hard

    ’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines

    Diggin’ in my own backyard.

    You may shoot me with your words,

    You may cut me with your eyes,

    You may kill me with your hatefulness,

    But still, like air, I’ll rise.

    Does my sexiness upset you?

    Does it come as a surprise

    That I dance like I’ve got diamonds

    At the meeting of my thighs?

    Out of the huts of history’s shame

    I rise

    Up from a past that’s rooted in pain

    I rise

    I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,

    Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

    Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

    I rise

    Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear

    I rise

    Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

    I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

    I rise

    I rise

    I rise.”

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5972809/Why-Rudyard-Kiplings-classic-poem-rightly-revered-Serena-Williams.html

    • Lauren Southern – Western culture’s ‘unique identities’ must be defended| Paul Murray Live Australia

  3. London crime ‘spiralling out of control’ as young mother killed in Ealing (express, Jul 20, 2018)
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/991769/hanwell-murder-ealing-london-news-Lilia-Djairine-crime

    “A YOUNG mother was killed on a bus main road in Ealing as neighbours say crime in London is spiralling out of control.

    The woman, named locally as 24-year-old Lilia Djairine, died at the scene soon after 12pm on Wednesday after police and paramedics tried to save her.

    The mum-of-one was found just yards from her family’s popular pizza restaurant on the busy Uxbridge Road in the Hanwell area of the London borough.

    A resident said: “I saw paramedics trying to save her, resuscitating her. After about half an hour they stopped, they couldn’t save her. A man was by her side, crying and panicked.”

    Local resident Mitch Bracher said: “It’s usually such a safe area, I’ve lived here for three years, this is the worst thing that’s happened here in that time.”

    Liz Jenner said the community must be “shocked to the core” after hearing the tragic news.

    She said: “It happened in broad daylight at the end of my road.

    “Hanwell has unfortunately seen a huge rise over the last year in crime and antisocial behaviour affecting everyone.

    “This latest incident will maybe confirm that matters are spiralling out of control.”…”

  4. Viral Video Bus Operator Will Halt Service to Brussels No-Go Zone After Attacks on Passengers (breitbart, Jul 20, 2018)
    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/20/bus-company-halts-bus-service-brussels-no-go-zone/

    “The Flixbus inter-city bus company plans to cancel its service to a station in Brussels North, citing frequent attacks on passengers and threats to drivers.

    Drivers say gangs lie in wait for their buses nearby to the station in the Belgian capital, which also serves as the European Union’s major administrative centre.

    Once they pull in, the criminals pounce, stealing luggage and robbing passengers at knifepoint, while threatening drivers who dare to intervene.

    “The emergency number on the bus is often not answered,” one exasperated driver told HLN.

    “We are fed up and demand security.”

    “Brussels North is not the safest neighbourhood,” confessed Audrey Dereymaeker, from the Brussels North police zone.

    “The Maximilian Park, where many migrants come together, is close by. In the evenings they often hang around near the station,” he pointed out.

    Breitbart London has previously reported how hundreds of illegal migrants hoping to infiltrate the United Kingdom have transformed the park into a smaller version of the crime-ridden ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais, assisted by NGOs…”

    • I can confirm the area around Brussels North is a shithole.
      Same goes for Brussels Midi, and Brussels Central is a bit dodgy. Porte de Namur is best avoided imho.
      The truth is, at least half the city is a slum.

  5. Report: Mossad Thwarted Iranian Plot to Bomb Rally in France (breitbart, Jul 20, 2018)
    https://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/07/20/report-mossad-thwarted-iranian-plot-to-bomb-rally-in-france/

    “The Times of Israel reports: Israel’s Mossad spy agency thwarted a terror attack in a Paris suburb last month, giving authorities in France, Germany, and Belgium crucial intelligence that led to arrests of a cell headed by an Iranian diplomat, Hebrew media reported Thursday…”

  6. 57 Tunisian migrants rescued arrive in Trapani (ansamed, Jul 20, 2018)
    http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2018/07/20/57-tunisian-migrants-rescued-arrive-in-trapani_6fae3c2a-7a4a-4a54-be85-7282324ddd4f.html

    “Using two motorized patrol boats of the Coast Guard and the Financial Guard, 57 Tunisians that had been rescued off Pantelleria have arrived in Trapani. All are men or boys and are in good health.

    Over the night they were transferred to the Trapani Milo hotspot. The Tunisians had been on a wooden vessel spotted by a Frontex place that alerted the patrol boats.”

  7. Turkish police detain wife of killed Islamic State ‘minister of war’ Shishani (mee, Jul 20, 2018)
    http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkish-police-detain-wife-killed-islamic-state-minister-war-shishani-1731158553

    “Turkish authorities have detained the wife of Abu Omar al-Shishani, a senior Islamic State group (IS) commander killed in combat two years ago, in an operation in Istanbul this month, police have said.

    Dubbed IS’s “war minister” and a close adviser to the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Georgian Shishani was killed in action in the Iraq district of Shirqat, south of Mosul, in July 2016.

    His wife was one five people detained in simultaneous raids across Istanbul on the night of 4 July that targeted people believed to have connections with conflict zones and actively seeking to carry out attacks, police said in a statement late on Thursday.

    The woman’s identity as Sishani’s wife was only discovered following several days of questioning, after her passport was determined to be fake, police said. They identified her only by the initials SD.

    She was formally arrested by an Istanbul court on 17 July and jailed. SD had two sons with Shishani, police said, although the whereabouts of the children was unclear.

    US offered $5m reward
    Born in 1986 in Georgia, then still part of the Soviet Union, Shishani, whose birth name was Tarkhan Batirashvili, once fought with Chechen fighters against the Russian military in the Caucasus province.

    He then joined independent Georgia’s military in 2006 and fought in its brief war with Russia two years later before receiving a medical discharge, according to US officials.

    He was arrested in 2010 for weapons possession and spent more than a year in jail, before leaving Georgia in 2012 for Istanbul and later Syria.

    He decided to join IS the following year and pledged his allegiance to Baghdadi. Prior to his death, he had ranked among the US’ most wanted fighters under an American programme that offered up to $5m for information to help remove him from the battlefield.

    Known as “the Chechen,” Shishani was one of only a few IS leaders with a professional military background and had several hundred fighters, mostly from former Soviet republics, under his command when he had come to prominence in a 2013 battle against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in northern Syria.

    Australian’s extradition refused
    Separately, a Turkish court rejected on Friday an Australian request to extradite a citizen it believes is a top recruiter for the Islamic State, Australia’s foreign minister said on Friday, in a setback for Canberra’s efforts to prosecute him at home.

    Authorities say Melbourne-born Neil Prakash has been linked to several Australia-based attack plans and has appeared in IS videos and magazines.

    Australia has alleged that he actively recruited Australian men, women and children and encouraged acts of violence.

    “We are disappointed that the Kilis Criminal Court in Turkey has rejected the request to extradite Neil Prakash to Australia,” Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said in a statement.

    “We will continue to engage with Turkish authorities as they consider whether to appeal the extradition decision.”

    Australia had been pressing Turkey to extradite Prakash since he was first detained there nearly two years ago.

    Australia’s Daily Telegraph newspaper reported from Kilis that Prakash was initially ordered to be freed but was later charged under Turkish law with being an IS member.

    A spokesman at Turkey’s foreign ministry in Istanbul had no immediate comment and the Turkish embassy in Australia did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

    Staunch ally
    Ties between Turkey and its allies fighting IS, particularly the US, have been frayed by Washington’s support for Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters, which Ankara regards as a terrorist group.

    Canberra announced financial sanctions against Prakash in 2015, including anyone giving him financial assistance, with punishment of up to 10 years in jail.

    The Australian government wrongly reported in 2016, based on US intelligence, that Prakash had been killed in an air strike in Mosul, Iraq. It later confirmed that Prakash was detained in Turkey.

    Australia raised its national terror threat level to “high” for the first time in 2015, citing the likelihood of attacks by Australians radicalised in Iraq or Syria.

    A staunch ally of the US and its actions against IS in Syria and Iraq, Australia believes more than 100 of its citizens were fighting in the region.”

    • 14 injured in suspected knife attack on German bus

      At least 14 people have been wounded in a suspected knife attack on a bus in the northern German city of Lübeck, local media has reported.

      Two people were seriously injured, the local Luebecker Nachrichten newspaper reported, adding that the attacker had been arrested by the police.

      A police spokesman nobody was killed in the attack.

      An area surrounding a bus stop in the Lübeck neighbourhood of Kuecknitz had been sealed off.

      “One of the victims had just given up his place to an older woman, when the attacker stabbed him in the chest,” Luebecker Nachrichten quoted a witness as saying.

      “He is said to be in his mid-30s and is in police custody,” the newspaper reported.

      Earlier, police in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, where Lübeck is located, tweeted that there was a major police deployment under way in the city.

      “We are examining the situation and will give more information later,” the tweet said.

      Lübeck police were not immediately available for comment.

      https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2018/0720/980056-germany-bus-attack/

      ================================================
      Knifeman with ‘smoking backpack’ leaves 14 hurt in bus rampage

      A CRAZED knife maniac has injured 14 people during a rampage in the German city of Lubeck.

      The knifeman injured the unsuspecting victims – two seriously – when he pulled out a kitchen knife and began attacking people on a bus.

      Allegedly wearing a “smouldering backpack,” the suspect reportedly also pulled a gun on bystanders, but did not fire.

      The backpack, which reportedly contains flammable fluid remains on the bus.

      German newspaper Luebecker Nachrichten cited a Germany prosecutor as saying a “terrorist background” cannot be ruled out.

      One man was allegedly stabbed in the chest when trying to offer his seat to an elderly passenger.

      A suspect was was overpowered and arrested by police.

      “There was an incident on a public bus in Luebeck Kuecknitz,” said police in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, where Luebeck is located. “No one was injured.”

      One eyewitness told local newspaper Lübecker Nachrichten: “The passengers jumped off the bus and screamed. It was terrible. Then the injured were taken away. The perpetrator had a kitchen knife.”

      Local police have confirmed nobody has died, despite reports circulating to the contrary.

      Passengers on the bus were on their way to Travemunder Woche, a sailing festival, when the rampage occured.

      https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/717775/lubeck-knife-attack-germany-bus-latest-updates-man-arrested-police

    • M . U . S . L . I . M ………. I . R . A . N . I . A . N

      Iraner verletzt mehrere Menschen in Linienbus

      http://www.pi-news.net/2018/07/eilt-luebeck-messer-terror-iraner-verletzt-mehrere-menschen-in-linienbus/

      ==================================================
      […]According to Lübecker Nachrichten, the attacker is an Iranian man in his mid-30s.

      While neither the motive nor full identity of the perpetrator have been established, Germany has been on high alert after several deadly Islamist extremist attacks.[…]

      https://www.thelocal.de/20180720/several-injured-in-northern-germany-bus-assault-reports

    • the guardian – Macron accused of cover-up over violent security official

      Alexandre Benalla, part of French president’s inner circle, faces charges of violence and impersonating police officer

      Emmanuel Macron faces the biggest crisis of his presidency over the growing scandal of one of his closest security officials who was filmed being allowed by police to violently assault a young man and woman at the edge of a Paris demonstration while illegally dressed as an officer.

      Alexandre Benalla, a member of Macron’s close circle, was taken into police custody on Friday morning, facing possible charges of violence by a public official, impersonating a police officer and the illegal use of police insignia. He also faces charges of complicity in illegally trying to obtain surveillance footage.

      A second bodyguard, Vincent Crase, who worked for the French president’s centrist political party La République En Marche, as well as occasionally for the presidency, was also in police custody. A senior Élysée official who runs Macron’s presidential office was also being questioned by police.

      The Élysée sacked Benalla on Friday morning, days after the mounting scandal erupted, but opposition politicians have accused the government of a cover-up.

      The scandal hit when Le Monde published a video this week showing Benalla and Crase in a Paris square where riot police were firing teargas and confronting crowds on 1 May during labour day street gatherings.

      Benalla – who is not a police officer – is seen wearing a police visor. He first grabs and drags a woman, then drags, hits and stamps on an unarmed young man who seems to be in pain. Crase is also seen illegally wearing a police armband dragging and threatening a man.

      Crucially, the many riot police officers close by appear to let both men carry out the violence undisturbed.

      When the Élysée finally sacked Benalla, a spokesperson explained that further details had come to light – Benalla, on the night that the Le Monde story broke, had allegedly colluded with several high-ranking police officers to steal state video surveillance footage of the incident. Three police officers, including two high-ranking officers, were suspended and the interior minister, Gérard Collomb, “strongly condemned” their actions.

      Opposition politicians refused to resume normal parliamentary business and instead demanded the government answer questions on the spiralling state scandal. They demanded to know why one of Macron’s closest security officials was allowed to illegally pose as a police officer and beat up members of the public with impunity and why Macron’s office had not reported the incident as a crime to prosecutors but appeared to cover it up.

      “The very core of the state has been tainted. Our work must stop immediately and the prime minister must come and explain this,” said Christian Jacob of the rightwing Les Républicains party in parliament.

      It emerged that the Élysée and the interior minister were aware of Benalla’s violent actions on 2 May but they did not report it as a crime to police. Instead, Benalla was suspended for 15 days and, although the Élysée said he had been shifted to administrative tasks, he kept an office at the Élysée and was still engaged in security work this week, including being present on the team bus of the French World Cup-winning football squad at its Paris victory parade.

      Le Monde also revealed that Benalla had been given a flat in special Élysée lodgings in an exclusive district of Paris less than 10 days ago – despite the violent incident.

      Politicians on both the right and left accused the government of a cover-up, the socialists called for Collomb to resign, and the leftwing La France Insoumise party threatened to call for a vote of a motion of no-confidence.

      The scandal is extremely damaging for Macron, who won the presidency with pledges to restore transparency and integrity to the nation’s highest office. Macron had promised an end to old-school corrupt politics and a new era of ethics in an “exemplary” Republic.

      The president has refused to comment on the affair and the Élysée has been seen as slow to react, prompting the opposition to complain the president was protecting his close official.

      The scandal comes with Macron’s popularity at a record low – defying analysts’ expectations of a post-World Cup bounce – with an approval rating of just 39% in a BVA poll carried out on Wednesday and Thursday.

      Lawmakers have launched their own commission of inquiry, with opposition parties demanding that government officials immediately answer questions in parliament.

      Macron’s office said earlier this week that Benalla had been given permission to “observe police operations” on 1 May when the incident took place.

      France’s police watchdog opened its own inquiry into how the two men had been dressed as officers and allowed to act violently without being stopped.

      Politicians on the left and the right suggested there had been a cover-up and questioned why the incident had not been referred to the police when it came to light in May.

      The Socialist party leader, Olivier Faure, said Collomb’s position was on the line. “Why did the police surrounding Benalla on that day not intervene? What was Benalla’s power? … Why was Benalla protected?”

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/20/macron-security-officer-alexandre-benalla-in-custody-and-will-be-fired-over-violent-video

    • “Benalla affair” on wiki

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benalla_affair

      “they ” forgot to translate this paragraph from the French page :

      Le 20 juillet 2018, Karim Achoui affirme sur le site M6 avoir eu pendant deux ans à partir de 2013 des relations étroites avec lui dans le cadre de la Ligue de défense judiciaire des musulmans . Il affirme que M.Benalla était très actif pour défendre la cause musulmane . Ses positions antisionistes se conjugaient avec les positions islamistes de Karim Achoui.

      https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_Benalla

  8. https://pjmedia.com/trending/arctic-jihad-refugee-violence-now-strikes-remote-corners-of-europe/

    This story was covered here and at GOV within the last few days. This is Bruce Bawer’s take on it and he lives in Norway.
    What I find sad about this account is how such a small community, removed from an urban setting, whose primary occupation is reindeer have been so brainwashed that they search (in vain) for any reason for this tragedy other than the obvious.

  9. BREITBART – Iranian Migrant Jailed for Raping 12-Year-Old Boy in Glasgow Alley

    An Iranian migrant has been jailed after he dragged a child into a dead-end road in Glasgow and forced him to his knees before raping him.

    According to local media, the High Court in Glasgow heard that on August 18 last year, Yones Beyranvand, 37, lured the 12-year-old boy to follow him before raping him.

    During a police search of the defendant’s home in Rona Street, Glasgow, officers found indecent images of children on his computer as well as an extreme pornographic image depicting bestiality, which he was convicted of having in his possession.

    Judge Johanna Johnston QC handed a nine-year jail term to Beyranvand, who will likely serve less than five years in prison as Britain typically paroles criminals automatically once half the sentence has been served.

    She also ordered that he be monitored in the community for two years after release, but the court heard there was a possibility the Iranian could be deported.

    A spokesman for NSPCC Scotland said: “Beyranvand’s appalling crimes are those of a predatory child abuser.

    “He inflicted horrific abuse on his victim, whose life will have been devastated by his sickening actions.

    “The seriousness of Beyranvand’s crimes are reflected in the prison sentence handed down and we hope that his victim now receives the help and support needed to recover from what has happened to him.”

    Glasgow is home to a fairly substantial Iranian diaspora of around 6,000 people, with the Islamic Republic’s president Hassan Rouhani having earned his degree in the Scottish city.

    Hailed as a moderate and a reformer when he was first elected, Rouhani has fallen far short of liberal expectations, with Iran rapidly increasing its execution rate intensifying its aggressive, interventionist foreign policy under his tenure.

    Data published in September showed that more than 10,800 sexual offences were recorded in Scotland that year, the highest figure since comparable records began almost 50 years ago, and one which marked a 60 percent rise from the 6,552 reported to police in 2007/08.

    Data published this week for England and Wales showed the number of rapes surged 31 percent and a 21 percent rise in other recorded sex attacks compared to the previous year.

    As Breitbart London reported Thursday, the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures revealed a surge in “high-harm” violent offences including homicides, and gun and knife crime.

    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/20/iranian-rape-12-year-old-glasgow/

  10. https://pjmedia.com/trending/arctic-jihad-refugee-violence-now-strikes-remote-corners-of-europe/

    This story was covered here and at GOV within the last few days. This is Bruce Bawer’s take on it and he lives in Norway.
    What I find sad about this account is how such a small community, removed from an urban setting, whose primary occupation is reindeer have been so brainwashed that they search (in vain) for any reason for this tragedy other than the obvious.
    When someone from a culture that functions on oppression, aggression and corruption is placed in a small, high trust, homogeneous community this is the result. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the “child” refugee thought this community was akin to a reindeer herd as far as his respect for them was warranted.

  11. CBC – On the menu for asylum seekers — meals that meet religious needs

    $770K spent on snacks and meals at Canadian borders in 2017-18 fiscal year

    […]The Canada Border Services Agency has been making sure religious dietary concerns are respected and has been keeping frozen dinners stocked up,

    Those meals have come at a high cost. In the 2017-18 fiscal year, approximately $770,500 was spent on food and drinks given to asylum seekers who walked into Canada.

    […]

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/asylum-seekers-treatment-at-canadian-borders-1.4747890

  12. ‘They Include Terrorists’: Libya Says No to Taking in Migrants Rejected by EU

    “They include terrorists, criminals, and human traffickers who do not care about human rights. It’s horrible. In order to improve the situation, we must fight these structures. But we also need more international help for this. It begins with our country’s borders. It is imperative that they be better controlled.”
    Libya’s prime minister, Fayez al-Sarraj

    https://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/libyen/libyas-prime-minister-rejects-eu-deals-56372828.bild.html

  13. London fire: Edmonton tower block ERUPTS in flames (express, Jul 20, 2018)
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/992017/london-news-edmonton-fire-bus-station

    “A FIRE is ripping through a tower block in Edmonton Green, London.

    Pictures reveal at least one flat is ablaze as black plumes are billowing into the sky in North London.

    The tower block is one of three in the area.

    The London Fire Brigade are responding to the blaze, which is just across the road from a local bus station.

    THIS IS A BREAKING STORY…”

    • It seems to be a growth industry for wogs to burn their accommodation down,they can all smell that lovely compensation.

  14. BBC – Yemenis flee to Korean holiday island

    The war in Yemen has led to widespread displacement of people over the past three years.

    But this time, hundreds of Yemeni refugees have travelled 8,000 kilometres to get to safety – on a South Korean resort island.

  15. IDF strikes deep in Gaza after troops come under fire, amid talk of 4th Gaza war
    Netanyahu arrives at defense headquarters amid fresh airstrikes on Gaza targets following sniper fire at IDF soldiers; 4 Hamas fighters dead; Minister: ‘The gloves are coming off’

    The Israel Air Force launched a major wave of strikes across the Gaza Strip on Friday evening as a cabinet minister said Israel was preparing a massive response to Hamas’s failure to heed repeated Israeli warnings to end the violence along the Gaza border.

    “At this time our aircraft are carrying out widespread attacks against terror targets belonging to Hamas in the Gaza Strip,” the IDF said, adding that this came after the “serious shooting incident against our forces,” referring to sniper fire at IDF troops during a riot on the border earlier in the day.

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-strikes-deep-into-gaza-as-troops-come-under-fire-amid-talk-of-4th-gaza-war/

  16. Contamination problem: McDonald’s tainted salads have now sickened 163 people in 10 states

    The number of people sickened by tainted McDonald’s salads has jumped to 163 in 10 states. Three of the victims have been hospitalized.

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the problem is caused by the Cyclospora parasite that is transmitted in foods contaminated with fecal matter.

    Last week, the number of cases was 61 people in seven states – 29 in Illinois, 16 in Iowa, seven in Missouri, three in Minnesota and two each in Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

    An updated state-by-state breakdown wasn’t immediately available.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2018/07/20/mcdonalds-tainted-salads-sickened-people-cyclospora-parasite-fecal-matter/806682002/

  17. Hungary Passes Tax Against Support for Mass Migration (breitbart, Jul 20, 2018)
    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/20/hungary-passes-tax-against-support-for-mass-migration/

    “Hungarian lawmakers have approved a 25 percent tax on financial or material support for groups promoting migration.

    The special tax embodies the anti-migrant policies of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who says that the mass entry into Europe by mainly Muslim migrants threatens the continent’s Christian culture.

    The bill, passed Friday as part of wider changes to Hungary’s tax laws, says revenues from the new tax can be used only on border defense…”

  18. Morocco Police to Patrol Paris Streets to Tackle Migrant Youth Gangs (breitbart, Jul 20, 2018)
    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/20/moroccan-police-patrol-paris-streets-migrant-youth-gangs/

    “Following an agreement between France and Morocco, several Moroccan police officers are scheduled to be sent to Paris to help deal with young delinquent migrants.

    A total of four officers from the North African country are set to patrol the Goutte d’Or neighbourhood of Paris — where many migrants live on the streets — alongside their French counterparts to combat the growing problems with violence, drugs, and prostitution, BFMTV reports.

    According to police, the number of crimes since 2017 in the neighbourhood has increased drastically due to the presence of the young Moroccans and police had made 813 arrests of migrants in Goutte d’Or in the past year.

    The Moroccan police will not only be supporting French officers but also attempting to identify migrants for deportation back to Morocco.

    Earlier this year, 1,600 residents of Goutte d’Or, and other heavily migrant populated areas, signed a letter demanding the government act to deal with the problems being caused by underage migrants.

    A female resident had complained of harassment from the young Moroccans saying that her 15-year-old daughter had been targeted and assaulted by members of a migrant street gang.

    Other women in the north of the city have made similar claims about being harassed by migrants with some saying they are not allowed to enter certain cafes because they are women.

    “These are insults, incessant reflections. The atmosphere is agonising, to the point of having to modify our itinerary, our clothes. Some even gave up going out,” a local woman said.

    While the city of Paris has attempted to set up centres to get the Moroccans off the streets, they found that few of them showed any interest in participating in any of the city’s programmes.”

    • Macron must be paying the gov of Morocco a fortune, because normally they won’t touch their undesirables with a 10ft pole. There’s a reason these pukes are in Europe instead of Morocco.
      Personally, I think it’s a good idea, I’ve often wondered how this would work out in the Netherlands (we’ve had this problem for 50 years). Moroccan “youths” here complain about police brutality, lol. Police from their home country are not exactly known for their patience or soft touch. Get in their face and they’ll shove a nightstick up your ass.. sideways.

        • By “that wouldn’t wash…” I mean the idea of foreign soldiers hired for domestic policing. Our own military isn’t permitted by the Constitution to serve as a constabulary. We call up the National Guard, if necessary.

          It’s a sinister precedent, even if it makes some practical sense. Shows the country is out of control.

          • It is a sinister precedent that will return to haunt all French citizens in the relatively near future. Once again the Socialist Leaders in Europe are committing treason and opening the door for more Islamic fighters to come into Europe.

    • It will not be long before these four are all bribed,turning a blind eye to whoever gives them the most money to have their charges “disappeared”,just like the british police .

      • Where there is Marxism there is corruption, where there is Islam there is corruption, where they are combined there is massive corruption.

  19. Report: Foreign Mafias Profit Heavily from ‘Business’ of Italian Illegal Immigration (breitbart, Jul 20, 2018)
    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/20/report-foreign-mafias-profit-heavily-business-of-italian-illegal-immigration/

    “Italy’s anti-mafia taskforce revealed this week that foreign and internal mafias are investing considerable resources into the business of illegal immigration into Italy.

    The facilitation of illegal immigration together with all its ‘satellite’ crimes is “one of the primary and most profitable businesses” for foreign criminal organizations working in Italy today, stated the anti-mafia taskforce (DIA) in its biannual report released Wednesday.

    Even in Rome, “more and more organizations are adopting a modus operandi similar to that of mafia associations, such as those in Sicily, Calabria, and Campania,” the report declared, adding that foreign crimes rings are now allied with traditional Italian mafia groups in coordinating migration flows.

    The foreign criminal groups involve traffickers from the Maghreb, “especially Libyans and Moroccans, in the transport of migrants from the coast of North Africa to the coasts of Sicily,” the report states.

    For its part, after the death of crime lord Titò Riina, the Sicilian mafia, or “Cosa Nostra,” is going through “a phase of transition and reconfiguration,” the report adds.

    The report found that mafia involvement in illegal immigration has reached higher proportions than ever and is “too often tragically associated with the death of migrants at sea, even at an early age.”

    Contrary to many media reports, migrant sea deaths have been shown to be directly correlated to the number of migrants who attempt the perilous crossing of the Strait of Sicily, which separates North Africa from the south of Italy.

    Mediterranean migrant deaths at sea have dropped dramatically in 2018 as the stricter immigration regulations of Italy’s populist government have discouraged migrants from making the crossing.

    As both the UNHCR and IOM have observed, Italy’s immigration figures for the first half of 2018 have fallen by 80 percent over the same period of 2017, resulting in far fewer deaths at sea…”

  20. 10-Year-Old Somali Girl Dies After Female Genital Mutilation (breitbart, Jul 20, 2018)
    https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/07/20/10-year-old-somali-fgm/

    “A 10-year-old girl has bled to death after undergoing female genital mutilation in Somalia, an activist said, a rare confirmed death in the country with the world’s highest rate of the practice.

    The girl died in a hospital on Monday, two days after her mother took her to a traditional circumciser in a remote village outside Dhusamareb town in central Galmudug state, Hawa Aden Mohamed with the Galkayo Education Center for Peace and Development said in a statement.

    “The circumciser is suspected to cut an important vein in the course of the operation,” Mohamed said.

    About 98 percent of women and girls in the Horn of Africa nation undergo female genital mutilation, according to the United Nations. While Somalia’s constitution prohibits the practice, Mohamed said no laws have been enacted to ensure that those who perform the circumcisions are punished.

    Lawmakers are “afraid of losing their political clout among the all-powerful conservative traditional and religious groups bent at retaining the practice,” she said.

    Health workers have warned against the risks of the practice which in most cases the external genitalia is removed and the vagina is sewn almost closed.

    Despite campaigns in Somalia against the practice it is “clouded in secrecy, so reducing it has been a massive challenge,” said Brendan Wynne with the New York-based Donor Direct Action, which connects women’s activists worldwide.

    Over 200 million women and girls in 30 countries across three continents have experienced genital mutilation, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said earlier this year, calling it a “gross violation of the human rights of women and girls.”

    The U.N. Population Fund projects that the estimated 3.9 million girls subjected to genital cutting every year will rise to 4.6 million by 2030 due to expected population growth unless urgent action is taken.”

  21. Ten percent of North Koreans are slaves — and report finds surprisingly high numbers in US and UK
    Modern slavery is heavily woven into global value chains, and we all use products at least partially produced by enslaved workers, the 2018 Global Slavery Index shows

    New York — North Korea and Eritrea have the world’s highest rates of enslaved people.

    And, while slavery is far more prevalent in the developing world, powerhouse economies in the developed world have surprisingly high rates of forced labour, according to the 2018 Global Slavery Index, published by the human rights group Walk Free Foundation.

    The global survey, released on Thursday, focuses on the roles of conflict and government repression in modern slavery.

    In addition to North Korea and Eritrea, the central African nation of Burundi also has a high prevalence of slavery.

    “Each of these three countries has state-sponsored forced labour, where their government puts its own people to work for its own benefit,” said Fiona David, research chair of the Minderoo Foundation, which led the data collection.

    More than 40-million people were enslaved around the world in 2016, according to an estimate by the Walk Free Foundation and the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

    India was home to the largest total number, with an estimated 18.4-million slaves among its 1.3-billion population, according to the Walk Free Foundation’s 2016 index.

    China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Uzbekistan rounded out the top five nations, accounting for about 58% of people living in slavery globally, the Walk Free Foundation said at the time.

    But North Korea had the highest percentage of its population enslaved, and that remains the case today.

    “In North Korea, one in 10 people are in modern slavery, with the clear majority forced to work by the state,” according to the 2018 Global Slavery Index.

    Researchers interviewed 50 North Korean defectors living in South Korea. They described long hours and inhumane conditions during mandatory unpaid labour for adults and children in agriculture, construction and road-building.

    Click through for the rest of the article, maps and charts.

    https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/world/2018-07-19-ten-percent-of-north-koreans-are-slaves–and-report-finds-surprisingly-high-numbers-in-us-and-uk/

  22. Austrian pol wants to make Jews register to buy kosher meat

    An Austrian far-right politician has said he wants to register Jews, in a chilling echo of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.

    The disturbing plan was unveiled by Gottfried Waldhausl, the minister in charge of animal welfare for the populist conservative Freedom Party of Austria.

    He said he wanted to create a registry that would allow Jewish citizens to buy only kosher meat, thereby reducing the number of animals slaughtered every year.

    Followers of Judaism are only allowed to eat meat that comes from beasts that have had their throats cut in a ritual slaughter.

    According to Waldhausl, who is a local minister in the state of Lower Austria, Jews would only be allowed to buy kosher meat if they are officially registered and granted a special permit.

    https://nypost.com/2018/07/19/austrian-pol-wants-to-make-jews-register-to-buy-kosher-meat/

  23. Angela Merkel’s allies told to show Christian values in immigration policy

    BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s Bavarian allies, who are pressing her to toughen up immigration policy, should remember their Christian roots and show a sense of responsibility towards the poor and weak, the head of the Catholic Church in Germany said.

    Horst Seehofer, leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), pushed Merkel’s coalition government to the brink of collapse earlier this month by demanding that she do more to restrict the number of migrants entering Germany.

    In a rare intervention into politics, cardinal Reinhard Marx, chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, said it was the wrong approach to drift to the right simply because that was the spirit of the times.

    Asked about the CSU’s policy stance, Marx told weekly newspaper Die Zeit: “A party that has chosen the C in the name has an obligation, in the spirit of Christian social teaching, especially in its attitude towards the poor and the weak.”

    “Being a nationalist and a Catholic, that can’t be,” added Marx.

    Half of Bavarians are Catholic and they form the backbone of support for the CSU, which has been alarmed by the rise of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and is worried about losing votes in a regional election in October.

    indiafastnews(dot)ultimatefreehost(dot)in/angela-merkels-allies-told-to-show-christian-values-in-immigration-policy/
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    reuters – Catholic Church officials called on Germany to adhere to Christian values

    […]Cardinal Reinhard Marx, chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, said it was the wrong approach to drift to the right simply because that was the spirit of the times.

    Asked about the CSU’s policy stance, Marx told weekly newspaper Die Zeit: “A party that has chosen the C in the name has an obligation, in the spirit of Christian social teaching, especially in its attitude towards the poor and the weak.”

    “Being a nationalist and a Catholic, that can’t be,” added Marx.

    af(dot)reuters.com/article/africaTech/idAFL8N1UE5MV

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  24. Report: Mueller offers immunity to Tony Podesta in exchange for testimony against Manafort
    By J.E. Dyer July 20, 2018

    Thursday brought the news that Robert Mueller is offering immunity to Tony Podesta, brother of John Podesta, for testifying against Paul Manafort.

    According to the Washington Examiner:

    Mueller is offering immunity to five potential witnesses in the upcoming trial of Manafort. Mueller’s team is asking for “use immunity,” which is a limited type of immunity, according to court documents filed Tuesday. The five people have not been charged or identified publicly with the case, prosecutors for Mueller’s team said.

    One of the individuals is Tony Podesta. Fox News’ Tucker Carlson put it this way in his Thursday evening broadcast:

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/07/20/report-mueller-offers-immunity-to-tony-podesta-in-exchange-for-testimony-against-manafort/

  25. County councillor, 72, is arrested over racist Facebook posts that call Diane Abbott a ‘monkey’ who should be sent ‘to the animal labs’ (dailymail, Jul 20, 2018)
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5972789/County-councillor-72-arrested-racist-Facebook-posts-call-Diane-Abbott-monkey.html

    “A county councillor has been arrested over ‘racist and bigoted’ Facebook posts, including one in which he referred to Shadow Home Secretary Dianne Abbott as a ‘monkey’.

    Richard Alderman, who was elected as a ward councillor for Rutland County Council last week, said ‘the monkey is out of her tree again send it to the animal labs’.

    In another one of the posts Independent councillor Alderman, of Oakham, called for Theresa May to be ‘hanged for treason’.

    When asked by the Mail Online about the posts Alderman, who is paid a basic allowance of £3,770 per annum, declined to comment

    Leicestershire Police, which covers Rutland, arrested a 72-year-old man today under the Communications Act 2003 in relation to a number of comments made on social media. The man, from Oakham, was released under investigation this afternoon.

    In another post, Alderman said that Labour should ban black candidates standing in certain elections to increase the number of white members.

    The council condemned Alderman’s apparent actions and referred the matter to its monitoring officer and Leicestershire Police.

    Councillor Oliver Hemsley, leader of Rutland County Council, said : ‘Like all of you, I have been truly shocked and appalled by the updates that have been posted and shared on Councillor Richard Alderman’s Facebook page.

    ‘We wholly condemn the use of racist and bigoted behaviour. This is not acceptable in our communities or our council…”

  26. British intelligence agencies and police use CHILD spies in undercover roles against terrorists and drug gangs, concerned Lords reveal (dailymail, Jul 20, 2018)
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5971547/British-intelligence-police-use-undercover-CHILD-spies-against-terrorists-drug-gangs.html

    “Children are being used as spies in secret operations against terrorists, drug dealers and gangs.

    Some child spies are under 16 and the government has plans to give law enforcement agencies more freedom in using children.

    A House of Lords committee revealed the practice as it considered extending the use of children, the Guardian reported.

    The committee said it was worried about proposals to extend the period of time between child spies going through a re-registration process from one month to four months…”

  27. VoA- Abdul Wants to Become Michigan’s First Muslim American Governor

    About 90 Muslim Americans are seeking elected office throughout the United States during midterm elections this year. Many are running as Democrats, hoping to be part of a “blue wave” that shifts control of the U.S. Congress.

    As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, among the 13 Muslim candidates running for office in the state of Michigan is a young doctor who is hoping to make history.

  28. the guardian – White Fright

    In 2015, the community of Islamberg discovered that a Tennessee minister was plotting the deadliest attack on US soil since 9/11 against their village.

    Why have Americans heard nothing about him, and why has the safety of their community been ignored?

    On 10 April 2015, the FBI quietly arrested Robert Doggart, a white, 63-year-old Christian minister after they discovered he was plotting an attack against Islamberg, a small African American Muslim community in upstate New York.

    Inspired by Fox News claims that the community was a terrorist training camp, Doggart discussed firebombing a mosque and a school in the village, and using assault rifles and a machete to murder the residents.

    No terrorism charges were brought against Doggart. No national news outlets covered his arrest, and one month after he was taken into custody, a judge released him on bail.

    As Doggart’s case went before an all-white jury, White Fright cross-examined the US’s inconsistent system of national security, the media’s role in exacerbating terrorist threats, and the failure to protect vulnerable communities from racist attacks.

  29. “Ep. 5 – Trump’s Success On World Stage | Charlie Kirk & Dr. Duke Pesta”
    FreedomProject Media – Published on July 19, 2018

    • “Ep. 22 – Trump on the World Stage, Normalizing Pedophilia & Campus Madness” FreedomProject Media – July 19, 2018

  30. IDF strikes deep in Gaza after troops come under fire, amid talk of 4th Gaza war

    Netanyahu arrives at defense headquarters amid fresh airstrikes on Gaza targets following sniper fire at IDF soldiers; 4 Hamas fighters dead; Minister: ‘The gloves are coming off’

    The Israel Air Force launched a major wave of strikes at Hamas targets across the Gaza Strip on Friday evening as a cabinet minister said Israel was preparing a massive response to Hamas’s failure to heed repeated Israeli warnings to end the violence along the Gaza border.

    “At this time our aircraft are carrying out widespread attacks against terror targets belonging to Hamas in the Gaza Strip,” the IDF said, adding that this came after the “serious shooting incident against our forces,” referring to sniper fire at IDF troops during a riot on the border earlier in the day.

    The army said 15 targets were hit, including the “Hamas brigade headquarters in Zeitoun.” The army said the headquarters were completely destroyed along with “weapons and ammunition stores, training grounds, observation posts, control centers and the offices of the brigade commander.”

    “The strikes are continuing,” the IDF said.

    Following the strikes, rocket warning sirens wailed in communities around Gaza. At least two projectiles were intercepted by the Iron Dome system and another fell in an open field, the army said. There were no reports of projectiles falling in Israeli communities or injuries.

    The large-scale evening wave of air raids was the second round of Israeli strikes. In the first, Israel hit eight sites, killing four Hamas military wing members. The evening raid targeted Hamas positions in the north, south and center of the Gaza Strip.

    The fresh air raids came as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the IDF headwaters in Tel Aviv to join Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman and the top IDF generals for a security assessment.

    The IDF Spokesman Ronen Manelis did not rule out a major ground offensive, but said the IDF was not looking to enter a full-scale conflict. Nonetheless, the fire on the troops at the border was “the most serious incident” since the 2014 conflict, Manelis said, and the IDF’s Chief of Staff Gadi Eiesenkot had spent the years since then ensuring that the army was ready for “whatever response is necessary.”

    Cabinet minister Tzachi Hanegbi told Hadashot news that Israel was preparing for a massive response on Gaza.

    “Last week the air force carried out strikes that were described as the largest since Operation Protective Edge in 2014, we will look back at it after our response now and say it was a joke,” Hanegbi said. “The gloves are coming off.”

    “The situation is that Hamas has repeatedly ignored our warnings, both private and public,” Hanegbi said.

    Hadashot news analysts said that while Israel’s response would be widespread, it was unlikely to include the entrance of ground forces.

    Israelis living close to the Gaza border were told to stay close to bomb shelters, and not to attend synagogues for Friday evening prayers in larger numbers than could be accommodated in protected rooms if Gaza terror groups were to launch rocket attacks.

    Reports said that Israeli special forces had been stationed near border communities to prevent possible Hamas attacks through attack tunnels into Israel.

    Manelis said that Hamas had spent the past three and a half months carrying out acts of terrorism during mass demonstrations at the border, firing rockets and mortar shells into Israel, and launching arson kites and balloons. Israel had tried to convey to the terror chiefs that it “means business” in demanding that the terrorism stop, but Hamas evidently had not got the message, he told Hadashot TV news.

    Manelis noted that the IDF carried out a major drill this week, including simulating a ground incursion to retake control of Gaza, from where Israel withdrew in 2005. Asked whether that was a likely scenario, Manelis said it would be more sensible to wait for the completion of the current military action “over the next few hours.”

    He noted that Israel had deployed Iron Dome missile defense batteries in the south and center of the country, and said the IDF was prepared “for all scenarios.”

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-strikes-deep-into-gaza-as-troops-come-under-fire-amid-talk-of-4th-gaza-war/

  31. Bulgaria Parliament Bars Government from Signing Deals on Migrant Readmissions

    SOFIA: Bulgaria’s parliament voted on Friday to bar the government from signing bilateral agreements with other European Union countries on readmitting migrants who arrived in Europe via the Black Sea state.
    Last month, EU leaders reached a hard-fought accord on migration, but the details were vague and the leaders agreed to share out refugees arriving in the bloc only on a voluntary basis.
    https://www.novinite.com/articles/191194/Bulgaria+Parliament+Bars+Government+from+Signing+Deals+on+Migrant+Readmissions

  32. U.S. Election Meddling: Nationwide Voter Fraud, Importation of 15M Foreign-Born Voters (breitbart, Jul 20, 2018)
    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/19/foreign-born-voters-voter-fraud-election-meddling/

    “As the establishment media, GOP, and Democrats fret over the influence foreign countries have on U.S. elections, the leading threats to the American electorate remain nationwide voter fraud and mass immigration.

    Though President Trump’s administration sought to thoroughly investigate voter fraud through the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity, the board was handed off to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in order to bypass obstruction from national Democrats who refused to turn over voter data.

    Voter Fraud

    The number of convictions against voter fraud continues to rise, with now nearly 940 criminal convictions on the books across the U.S., according to the latest data from the Heritage Foundation.

    Likewise, the number of cases of voter fraud has risen. Heritage’s Voter Fraud Database now features 1,071 cases of voter fraud that spans across 47 states.

    In the most recent study by the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) on voter fraud, the think tank found 8,471 high likely cases of double voting. About 7,271 of those cases were inter-state double voting, while the remaining 1,200 cases were of intra-state double voting.

    “The probability of correctly matching two records with the same name, birthdate, and social security number is close to 100 percent,” the GAI report noted.

    Kansas Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach is fighting in his state to enforce voting laws that would mandate voters prove their U.S. citizenship. This effort has currently been halted by the left-wing ACLU organization and a circuit judge who recently claimed that it was unconstitutional for a state to demand voters provide their U.S. citizenship records. Years ago, proof of citizenship voting laws were upheld as fully constitutional.

    “Compare [Russia meddling in the 2016 presidential campaigns] to the kind of foreign influence in the actual election numbers in foreign nationals voting,” Kobach told Breitbart News. “That’s real and much more consequential and it’s happening all over the country.”

    Kobach said his expert witness in the suit with the ACLU over the proof of citizenship law revealed that as many as 33,000 foreign nationals are on the voter rolls in Kansas. For states like California, with the largest foreign-born population in the country, the number of foreign nationals on the voter rolls is likely in the hundreds of thousands or even the millions, Kobach says.

    Mass Immigration

    Similarly, mass legal and illegal immigration to the U.S. continues to be the largest driver of population increases and demographic shifts in the country. Every year, more than 1.5 million immigrants are admitted to the country. The U.S. has imported more than ten million immigrants in the last decade.

    The vast majority of foreign nationals arrive through the process known as “chain migration,” where newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. Every two new immigrants to the country bring an additional seven foreign relatives with them.

    As Breitbart News has extensively reported, the U.S. is on track to import about 15 million foreign-born voters by the year 2038. That is nearly quadruple the size of the annual number of U.S. births; about four million American babies are born every year.

    Through chain migration alone, the U.S. will import about eight million foreign-born voters in the next two decades.

    The country’s continued mass immigration policies are likely to hand over electoral dominance to Democrats in statewide and national elections, Breitbart News has noted.

    Analysis conducted by Axios’s Chris Canipe and Andrew Witherspoon shows the overwhelming trend of foreign-born populations voting Democrats into office over Republicans.

    The victory of socialist Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York’s 14th District is the latest case where a booming foreign-born voting population pushed the far-left activist over the edge to beat out establishment, high ranking Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley.

    Ocasio-Cortez’s district is close to 50 percent foreign-born, a drastic shift of an area that was once populated primarily by native-born Americans. Ocasio-Cortez ran her congressional campaign on abolishing all immigration enforcement across the U.S.

    In California, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is facing a challenge from State Senator Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), and the California Democratic Party has endorsed León. The far-left challenger was the key proponent of California’s sanctuary state law that protects criminal illegal aliens from being deported.

    University of Maryland, College Park researcher James Gimpel has found in recent years that more immigrants to the U.S. inevitably means more Democrat voters and thus, increasing electoral victories for the Democratic Party.

    In 2014, Gimpel’s research concluded with three major findings:

    Immigrants, particularly Hispanics and Asians, have policy preferences when it comes to the size and scope of government that are more closely aligned with progressives than with conservatives. As a result, survey data show a two-to-one party identification with Democrats over Republicans.

    By increasing income inequality and adding to the low-income population (e.g. immigrants and their minor children account for one-fourth of those in poverty and one-third of the uninsured) immigration likely makes all voters more supportive of redistributive policies championed by Democrats to support disadvantaged populations.

    There is evidence that immigration may cause more Republican-oriented voters to move away from areas of high immigrant settlement leaving behind a more lopsided Democrat majority.

    Years ago, only a handful of elected Democrats would mention how the demographic shift spurred by mass immigration was a benefit to Democrats electorally. Today, it is a widely used talking point of elected Democrats.

    Take San Antonio, Texas Mayor Julian Castro, for example. Months ago, Castro admitted that immigration could potentially turn the state of Texas, Florida, and Arizona into Democrat strongholds, like California.

    “The Democrats have now become very open about what they are doing and they state it very clearly,” Kobach said of the Democrats’ use of immigration for shifting the electorate.

    “Now, multiple Democrats are saying their plan is to import new voters to change elections,” Kobach said.

    In an analysis from Georgetown University, the University of California, and Banque de France, researchers discovered that immigration to the country continuously increases Democrats’ chances of winning elections:

    On average across election types, immigration to the U.S. has a significant and negative impact on the Republican vote share, consistent with the typical view of political analysts in the U.S. [Emphasis added]

    This average effect – which is driven by elections in the House – works through two main channels. The impact of immigration on Republican votes in the House is negative when the share of naturalized migrants in the voting population increases. Yet, it can be positive when the share of non-citizen migrants out of the population goes up and the size of migration makes it a salient policy issue in voters’ minds. [Emphasis added]

    These results are consistent with naturalized migrants being less likely to vote for the Republican Party than native voters and with native voters’ political preferences moving towards the Republican Party because of high immigration of non-citizens. This second effect, however, is significant only for very high levels of immigrant presence. [Emphasis added]

    In 2016, the legal and illegal immigrant population reached a record high of 44 million. By 2023, the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the legal and illegal immigrant population of the U.S. will make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S. population.

    Mexico has the largest group of legal and illegal foreign nationals in the U.S., with 1.1 million immigrants from the country arriving in the U.S. between 2010 and 2016. Mexican nationals make up roughly one in eight new arrivals to the U.S. On average, every one Mexican immigrant brings six foreign relatives with them to the country through chain migration.”