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Dr. Mordechai Kedar:
The Iranian crown prince’s speech
Something is rotten in the land of Iran and maybe, just maybe, it is beginning to reach the point where people are wiling to sacrifice to replace the current theocracy with secularism.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/22528
‘Waldheim’s waltz’ – from Nazi officer to Austrian president
An award-winning documentary revives Waldheim’s presidential campaign and the facts that came to light about his Nazi past.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/22532
Vlad, Vlad, Vlad…what a tangled web you wove:
https://youtu.be/NA34EZACkWY
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hhs-official-ximena-barreto-resigns-213722951.html
He resigned due to tweets uncovered about Muslims and Islam.
The comments are interesting.
They are interesting, especially when you remember that yahoo is a left wing rag.
They are good, and especially when you remember yahoo is a left wing rag.
Three rivers converging. The Left, The Islam, and The Money.
Under the River of Money runs the gold current. Without this current there is little of value and an ocean of debt. The false gold market made of paper certificates and contracts has effectively suppressed the price of bullion in fiat terms. However the longer this manipulation continues, the greater will be the tension in the mechanism, or membrane, known as price discovery. The greater this tension becomes, the further will be the dislocation between where we now stand, and where we will stand in terms of the world’s
next money paradigm.To understand just how distorted the price discovery instrument has become, one need look no further than the U.S. 10-year bond, which is the fiat measuring stick of true value. The 10-year has largely lost its ability to function in this regard because the cost of money (interest) has been pushed so low for so long.
The only way for Americans to know their future in economic terms is for them to demand an open audit of the Federal Reserve gold holdings. This will provide a clearer picture of American bargaining clout when the principals sit at the bargaining table for the reset. To have an idea of who the principals at this table will be please see the attached chart:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/267998/countries-with-the-largest-gold-reserves/
Of course, such lists can be quite inaccurate because government sources will lie for various reasons. Regardless, for the sake of perspective, consider how unrealistic our current economic paradigm, or system, has become when the price of an ounce of gold in U.S. dollar terms is expected to be recalibrated at least 700%, and probably much more, before a satisfactory settlement of the current 100’s of trillions of debt is accomplished.
http://www.gata.org/node/8630
From FOFOA (Friend of a friend of another):
https://fofoa.blogspot.com/2010/05/open-letter-to-emu-heads-of-state.html
Storm of News to Hit Global Economy This Week Before August Calm
Bloomberg) — People charged with running or monitoring the world economy are set for a busy week before those in the Northern Hemisphere get to enjoy their summer vacations.
Central bankers in the U.S., Japan, the U.K., Brazil and India all meet to set their respective monetary policies at a time when Eric Oynoyan, senior European interest-rate strategist at BNP Paribas SA, is telling clients that “central banks are back in the bond market driving seat.”
Here’s what to watch for:
TUESDAY
Despite speculation it could soon flesh out its plan for eventually adjusting stimulus, all 44 economists surveyed predict the Bank of Japan will maintain the current setting on interest rates. Governor Haruhiko Kuroda also will unveil fresh forecasts. In China, a purchasing manager index is expected to show manufacturing expanded at a slower pace again July. A wave of statistics in the euro area is predicted to show inflation ticking up above 2 percent in France, unemployment staying put in Germany and the economy slowing slightly in the second quarter in Spain and Italy. In the U.S., it’s the end of the review period for potential tariffs on $16 billion of Chinese goods.
https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/2018/07/28/storm-of-news-to-hit-global-economy-this-week-before-august-calm#gs.Uk9l0t4
Matteo Salvini Commits ‘All My Energy’ to Securing Italian Borders (breitbart, Jul 30, 2018)
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/30/matteo-salvini-commits-all-my-energy-securing-italian-borders/
““I promised to defend the borders and I am doing it with all my energy and all the means at my disposal,” said Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini Monday.
Salvini’s message came in response to Italian media reports that illegal immigration into Italy has been brought to a virtual standstill, with fewer than 2,000 migrants disembarking in Italian ports in the entire month of July. Last July the figure was over 11,000 while in 2016 the number was 23,552.
From January 1 through July 28, a total of 18,314 migrants have arrived on the Italian coast, whereas in the same seven months in 2017 the total was 95,000.
Commandant Sebastiano Rossitto of the frigate Virginio Fasan, who heads up the Italian mission along the coast of Libya since mid-2015, said that in the last several months the situation has “completely changed,” and “for now the emergency seems to have ended.”
The remarkable statistics have led even mainstream Italian media to declare that “the Salvini solution is working.”
Despite growing opposition from the Catholic establishment and pro-immigration groups, the pugnacious 45-year-old leader of the League party shows no signs of letting up in his battle against once rampant illegal immigration.
Salvini enjoys immense public support among rank-and-file Italians, with polls revealing earlier this month that the interior minister is the most trusted politician in the country.
In a tweet Monday morning, Salvini said that cleaning up the mess made by his predecessors from the Democrat Party (PD) has not been easy, “but I am happy that after just three months in office results are already apparent.”…”
Germany: Immigrants share discrimination experiences online (abcnews, Jul 30. 2018)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/germany-immigrants-share-discrimination-experiences-online-56908362
“Thousands of immigrants in Germany have taken to Twitter to share their experiences of everyday racism under the hashtag #MeTwo, inspired by a Turkish-German soccer star who recently quit Germany’s national team citing racism.
People have shared incidents of what they see as discrimination in more than 60,000 tweets so far.
The hashtag, a play on the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment, was created by journalist Ali Can following the resignation of soccer star Mesut Ozil. Ozil, the son of Turkish immigrants, quit Germany’s national team earlier this month citing racism he faced in Germany because of his Turkish roots.
Can said Monday the #MeTwo movement highlights the need to integrate immigrants and newly arrived migrants in Germany.”
Yemen officials: Gunmen kill intel officer in city of Aden (abcnews, Jul 30, 2018)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/yemen-officials-gunmen-kill-intel-officer-city-aden-56908205
“Yemeni security officials say armed men riding on a motorcycle have gunned down a senior intelligence officer in the southern port city of Aden.
The security officials say Col. Nasser Makrij was killed on Sunday while walking on a street near his home in Aden, the seat of Yemen’s internationally recognized government.
Makrij was the chief intelligence officer at Aden airport. No group has claimed the responsibility for the attack…”
Gunmen kidnap 15 villagers in NW Nigeria (china, Jul 30, 2018)
http://www.china.org.cn/world/2018-07/30/content_57891301.htm
“At least 15 villagers were taken hostage by gunmen who attacked Maradun area of Nigeria’s northwestern state of Zamfara over the weekend, a local official said on Monday.
Speaker of the state parliament Sanusi Rikiji told Xinhua by telephone that the whereabouts of the victims remained unknown following the gunmen’s attack.
Recently, at least 18 villages and towns across more than three districts in the state have been taken over by gunmen, said Rikiji.
He said there was a need for the security situation in the state to be seriously reviewed.
“Security agencies should do more to deploy enough security personnel in Zamfara; we need permanent security stations in the affected area,” Rikiji said.
The Nigerian government on Sunday announced the deployment of more than 1,000 army personnel to curb the spate of attack in Zamfara.”
Yemen: Houthis capture 2 Saudi soldiers (memo, Jul 30, 2018)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180730-yemen-houthis-capture-2-saudi-soldiers/
“Yemen’s Houthi militias yesterday announced that they had captured two Saudi soldiers during an attack on the Mash’al military base in the Jizan region in the southwest of the Kingdom last week.
The group’s spokesman, Mohammad Abdul Salam said wrote on Twitter: “Saudi soldiers fell into the hands of the army [Houthi forces] and their popular committees during the battle of Jizan.”
“The prisoners joined their peers who their regime does not care about,” he added in reference to the Saudi authorities.
Houthi’s Al-Masirah television network broadcasted a video recording showing what it claimed were two Saudi soldiers captured by the group’s gunmen during the attack on the Saudi Mash’al military base in the Jizan region on Tuesday last week…”
Al Qaeda unit claims mortar attack that disrupted north Mali poll (reuters, Jul 30, 2018)
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mali-election-alqaeda/al-qaeda-unit-claims-mortar-attack-that-disrupted-north-mali-poll-idUKKBN1KK14E?rpc=401&
“Al Qaeda’s franchise in the Sahara has claimed a multiple mortar attack on a village in northern Mali during Sunday’s election that disrupted voting, the SITE Intelligence Group said.
During voting militants fired 10 mortar rounds in the village of Aguelhok in the northern region of Kidal. One exploded about 100 metres (yards) from a polling station, causing voting to be temporarily suspended…”
WATCH Massive German Roma Melee With Bottles, Chairs and Bats (sputniknews, Jul 30, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/viral/201807301066792758-german-roma-fighting/
“Local police have reported that they are looking for 25 suspects involved in a fight that put five people in hospital.
Residents of the German city of Gelsenkirchen witnessed an unusual scene on Schlossstraße at 5:00 p.m. as two groups of local Roma families, according to the witnesses, started fighting each other right in the middle of the street. At least 50 people were involved in what started as a heated debate, but turned into a violent clash using baseball bats, sticks, bottles and even chairs.
It is unclear what started the dispute, but the sides rapidly dispersed only after a police detail arrived on the scene.
The police reported that at least five of the participants had been taken to the hospital while three other had been arrested to prevent further fighting. Local police also said they are looking for 25 people involved in the mass fight.
Netizens took their displeasure with the situation on the street to the comments section on Facebook. Some of them forecasted a grim future for Germany. Others urged the government to strip the participants of social payments…”
Assam register: Four million risk losing India citizenship (BBC, Jul 30, 2018)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-45002549
“India has published a list which effectively strips about four million people in the north-eastern state of Assam of their citizenship.
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a list of people who can prove they came to the state by 24 March 1971, a day before neighbouring Bangladesh declared independence.
India says the process is needed to identify illegal Bangladeshi migrants.
But it has sparked fears of a witch hunt against Assam’s ethnic minorities.
Fearing violence, officials say that no-one will face immediate deportation.
They say that a lengthy appeal process will be available to all – even if it means millions of families will live in limbo until they get a final decision on their legal status.
Who is affected?
Millions of people fled to neighbouring India after Bangladesh declared itself an independent country from Pakistan on 26 March 1971, sparking a bitter war. Many of the refugees settled in Assam.
Under the Assam Accord, an agreement signed by then PM Rajiv Gandhi in 1985, all those who cannot prove that they came to the north-eastern state before 24 March 1971 will be deleted from electoral rolls and expelled as they are not considered legitimate citizens.
More than 32 million people submitted documents to the NRC to prove they were citizens, but four million of them have been excluded from the published list.
Many Bengalis – a linguistic minority in Assam – are worried they will be deported en masse.
Hasitun Nissa, who spoke to the BBC’s Joe Miller days before the list was published, said she had never known a home outside the state’s floodplains.
It is where the 47-year-old schoolteacher spent her childhood, where she studied, where she got married and where she had her four children.
She said her family arrived in India before 1971 but she expected to be stripped of her Indian citizenship and feared her land rights, voting rights and freedom would be in peril…”
Richard: As NR is fond of saying this isn’t AI it is a program that was written by man with the writers prejudices written into the code. Assuming (which I am not doing) that this isn’t just Chinese BS for the useful idiots to seize onto. That is useful idiots in China and the West with the emphases on inside China, Xi is working hard to consolidate power is seeking support from the masses.
Artificial intelligence, immune to fear or favour, is helping to make China’s foreign policy
The programme draws on a huge amount of data, with information ranging from cocktail-party gossip to images taken by spy satellites, to contribute to strategies in Chinese diplomacy
Diplomacy is similar to a strategic board game. A country makes a move, the other(s) respond. All want to win.
Artificial intelligence is good at board games. To get the game started, the system analyses previous play, learns lessons from defeats or even repeatedly plays against itself to devise a strategy that can be never thought of before by humans.
It has defeated world champions in chess and Go. More recently, it has won at no-limit Texas Hold’em poker, an “imperfect information game” in which a player does not have access to all information at all times, a situation familiar in the world of diplomatic affairs.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157223/artificial-intelligence-immune-fear-or-favour-helping-make-chinas
One young person in five doesn’t know what an STI is, shocking survey reveals
A survey of over 1,000 youngsters, carried out by charity The Mix, looked into the sexual behaviours and awareness of STIs among youngsters in the UK
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One in five young people aged 18-24 doesn’t know what an STI is, according to a new survey.
The survey of over 1,000 youngsters, carried out by charity The Mix , looked into the sexual behaviours and awareness of STIs among youngsters in the UK.
The results revealed that 36 per cent of respondents had never been tested for an STI, with 20 per cent admitting they don’t really understand what an STI is.
Of those who have never had an STI test, 44 per cent felt they didn’t need to get tested because they always used protection, while 20 per cent said they were too embarrassed to get tested.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/one-young-person-five-doesnt-13002612
All homeschooled virgins?
Jack Ma’s Giant Financial Startup Is Shaking the Chinese Banking System
Ant Financial is transforming how Chinese run their daily finances, drawing flak from big banks and warning shots from the government
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jack-mas-giant-financial-startup-is-shaking-the-chinese-banking-system-1532885367
Iran’s rial hits record-low 100,000 to the dollar
TEHRAN (AFP) –
Iran’s currency hit a record low on Sunday of 100,000 rials to the dollar amid a deepening economic crisis and the imminent return of full US sanctions.
The unofficial rate stood at 102,000 rials by midday, according to Bonbast, one of the most reliable sites for tracking the Iranian currency.
The rate was confirmed by a trader who spoke on condition of anonymity to AFP.
http://www.france24.com/en/20180729-irans-rial-hits-record-low-100000-dollar
I should have posted this one under Yucki’s post about Iran.
That’s ok ~ it’s r o l l i n g – lower, lower, Venezuela…
video at site
More Drama, A Bloody Nose And Another Brawl At Donald Trump’s Walk Of Fame Star
HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA) — President Donald Trump brings out those feelings in people — they love him or they hate him.
And his fans and his … well, not fans have been clashing more and more at places like the former “Celebrity Apprentice” star’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
CBS2’s Greg Mills was at the location when another brawl broke out Sunday evening.
LAPD tried to keep the pro-Trump forces away from the anti-Trump group.
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/07/29/more-drama-a-bloody-nose-and-another-brawl-at-donald-trumps-walk-of-fame-star/
City report on Confederate monuments raises idea of renaming Austin
Known as both the “father of Texas” and the namesake of the state’s capital, Stephen F. Austin carved out the early outlines of Texas among his many accomplishments.
He also opposed an attempt by Mexico to ban slavery in the province of Tejas and said if slaves were freed, they would turn into “vagabonds, a nuisance and a menace.”
For that reason, the city of Austin’s Equity Office suggested renaming the city in a report about existing Confederate monuments that was published this week.
https://www.mystatesman.com/news/local/city-report-confederate-monuments-raises-idea-renaming-austin/W0ZX8x43xXWQbogdF6tE4M/
Anti-Semitic graffiti found at Carmel synagogue
Police are investigating after anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered over the weekend at a Hamilton County synagogue.
According to the Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council, the vandalism occurred at Congregation Shaarey Tefilla in the 3000 block of West 116th Street in Carmel. The vandalism occurred late Friday or early Saturday and was discovered Saturday morning.
The crime scene remained intact and surrounded in yellow police tape Sunday morning. The graffiti, which comprised a pair of Nazi flags and iron crosses, was spray painted on two walls of a brick shed that surrounds the property’s garbage bin.
On the grass in front of one of the Nazi flags, there are apparent burn marks in two places, and a portion of the graffiti bears a black burn mark, too.
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2018/07/29/carmel-synagogue-tagged-anti-semitic-graffiti/858786002/
Churches may have to pay taxes, and members of Congress may pay politically
Read more here: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article215653425.html#storylink=cpy
Members of Congress should be able to work together to protect houses of worship from having to pay taxes, especially in an election year when both parties want to earn the faith community’s vote.
In an era of pervasive partisan politics, however, not even that is a guarantee.
Some Republicans do want to tweak a portion of their 2017 tax bill that will now force nonprofits, including churches, to pay a 21 percent tax on the value of certain employee benefits. But most others downplay the problem or deny it needs to be addressed.
Read more here: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article215653425.html#storylink=cpy
Report: NSA Still Plagued by Cyber Security Vulnerabilities
Security problems are still plaguing the National Security Agency years after whistle blower Edward Snowden leaked classified information.
The agency’s inspector general released a report that analyzed the NSA from October 2017 to March 2018 and showed the NSA still has substantial cyber vulnerabilities last week.
The report reveals the agency’s “two-person access control” has not been implemented properly and every single “authority to operate” had paperwork missing.
Reports reveal many of the issues found during the six month investigation have not been fixed as of earlier this year.
http://www.oann.com/report-nsa-still-plagued-by-cyber-security-vulnerabilities/
Zimbabwe votes in first post-Mugabe poll, opposition cries foul
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabweans voted on Monday in the first election since former president Robert Mugabe was ousted in a de facto coup, with allegations of voter suppression raising fears of a disputed result.
Nelson Chamisa, the main challenger to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a long-time Mugabe ally, gave no evidence for his claim that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) was impeding voting in urban areas where he enjoys strong support.
“The people’s will being negated & undetermined due to these deliberate & unnecessary delays,” Chamisa tweeted.
The ZEC was not immediately available to comment. It has denied Chamisa’s previous allegations of bias.
A credible election is essential if Zimbabwe is to exit painful sanctions and secure the donor funding needed to stem chronic cash shortages.
Chamisa said his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) would win if there was no “ballot mischief”, making it likely he will challenge the outcome if Mnangagwa prevails, something likely to lead to street protests and possible violence.
http://www.oann.com/zimbabweans-vote-in-first-election-since-mugabes-removal/
South African court overturns immunity for Grace Mugabe in assault case
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s High Court on Monday overturned a decision by the government to grant Zimbabwe’s former first lady Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity after she was accused of whipping a woman with an electric cord.
Model Gabriella Engels, the woman behind the assault allegation, last August filed a court application challenging the government’s decision.
Grace Mugabe returned to Zimbabwe immediately after South Africa granted her diplomatic immunity, allowing her to evade prosecution for assault and causing a row in South Africa where the opposition Democratic Alliance also challenged the ruling.
Mugabe denied assaulting Engels with an electric cable, saying an “intoxicated and unhinged” Engels had attacked her with a knife. South African advocacy group Afriforum, which represented Engels, dismissed the allegations as lies.
Former president Robert Mugabe, 94, accompanied by his wife, cast his vote in a Harare township on Monday in Zimbabwe’s first election that does not include his name on the ballot paper since the country gained independence from Britain in 1980.
According to Engels, an irate Grace Mugabe burst into the room where she was waiting with two friends in a Johannesburg luxury hotel suite to meet one of Mugabe’s sons last August and started attacking her with an electric cable.
http://www.oann.com/south-african-court-overturns-immunity-for-grace-mugabe-in-assault-case/
America is fiscally on the wrong track
By Hans Bader July 29, 2018
Polls show most Americans think their country is on the wrong track. And fiscally, it is. Our two political parties are both pandering to voters with policies that could eventually bankrupt the country.
In 2017, Congress, with GOP backing, enacted a tax cut that reduced both corporate tax rates and individual income taxes, increasing the size of the budget deficit, which was already predicted to reach $800 billion. Some reduction in the corporate tax rate was needed to keep companies (and jobs) from going overseas, but the tax rate was cut more than needed, below the 25% rate needed to prevent most such moves. And the individual tax cuts were completely unnecessary, since American tax rates are not high by world standards, and most Americans have never had a better living standard than they have today.
In February 2018, a bipartisan deal was reached by Congressional leaders to increase both military and domestic spending. As Jerome Woehrle noted back in February, this spending deal took America in “precisely the wrong direction,” since domestic spending is already too high, and Pentagon spending includes a great deal of waste. But people like Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) were jubilant about the deal. (Here is a list of some wasteful spending that could have been cut instead).
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/07/29/america-is-fiscally-on-the-wrong-track/
‘Unaccompanied alien children’ processed during Obama years included murderers, drug smugglers, human traffickers
By LU Staff July 29, 2018
A shocking new report by Judicial Watch reveals that the images of unaccompanied young children detained at the southern border, some of which have been reprised by leftist news sources in the past several months as proof of Donald Trump’s inhumanity, are duplicitous in a whole new light.
Not only were these innocent children, who arrived en masse in 2014, not placed in cages by the Trump administration (which wouldn’t exist for another three years). Many of them were not innocent.
In its report, Judicial Watch reveals that number of the “’Unaccompanied Alien Children’ (UAC) processed during the Obama administration included admitted murderers, rapists, drug smugglers, prostitutes, and human traffickers.”
Some specifics:
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/07/29/unaccompanied-alien-minors-processed-during-obama-years-included-drug-smugglers-human-traffickers/
The Truth About Lakemba
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Thrown Out Of Sydney No Go Zone
Danforth Shooter Ties To Chemical Weapons Stockpile?
Please pay close attention to this video, the chemical weapon is scary but chemical attacks are coming. I would say bio attacks are also coming but the insertion of urine and feces into melons, cucumbers, tomatoes etc show that bio attacks are already occurring and are being covered up by our governments.
Yes government coverups seems to be the major thing here exactly.
Red Cortez
Red Cortez is Not Red Enough
Voici:
https://visegradpost.com/en/2018/07/30/say-goodbye-to-the-entire-elite-of-68-the-new-project-of-viktor-orban-full-speech/
Thank you. We will have the subtitled speech up sometime today or this evening, Its a huge job. But the translation is done, now its the editing and titling.
Ill add this to the post though and thanks again!
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Muslim Brotherhood-linked Rep. Keith Ellison demands Amazon stop selling books from SPLC-designated “hate groups”
Keith Ellison’s letter to Jeff Bezos focuses on an alleged neo-Nazi’s material being sold at Amazon and published on Amazon’s self-publishing, but Ellison makes more sweeping statements, particularly his opening gambit: “I am writing to you with my concerns about the amount of money Amazon has made from the sale of literature and music published by entities identified as ‘hate groups’ by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).”
Clearly Ellison wants Amazon, which has (with Barnes & Noble) a virtual monopoly on book sales in the U.S., to stop selling books by people designated as “hate groups” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Like the establishment media, Ellison assumes that the SPLC is a reliable, unbiased arbiter of what is and isn’t a hate group. The SPLC’s hard-Left bias and determination to destroy legitimate conservative groups by lumping them in with neo-Nazis and white supremacists is nowhere recognized.
The far-Left Bezos likely also thinks that the SPLC is a reliable authority, and so it is entirely possible that he will comply with Ellison’s demands and purge Amazon of all materials by people that the SPLC has smeared and defamed. Given Amazon’s dominance of the book market, that would be a serious blow to the freedom of speech, as the SPLC is making an all-out attempt to delegitimize the full spectrum of opinion that dissents from the Leftist agenda — on Islam, immigration, social issues and more. If Amazon drops SPLC-designated “hate” material, there should ensue a national discussion about whether the SPLC is really a reliable authority, and whether only one viewpoint should be allowed in the public square. If not, this will just be another nail in the coffin of the freedom of speech in the U.S.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/07/muslim-brotherhood-linked-rep-keith-ellison-demands-amazon-stop-selling-books-from-splc-designated-hate-groups
How Bill Clinton Faked the “Clinton Surplus”
The so-called “Clinton surplus” is often cited by liberals who wish to show that the “tax and spend” philosophy isn’t as fiscally reckless as it sounds. If we look at the government’s budget statistics there does appear to be a budget surplus during the last four years of Clinton’s presidency. However, as anyone who looked at the national debt would also notice, that rose every year under Clinton. So how did both these things happen?
First, lets start with some history.
To recap Clinton’s tax policies, in 1993 two new top income brackets of 36% and 39.6% were added, as was a raise in the corporate tax to 35%, an extension of the Medicare payroll tax to all levels of income, and a small increase in the gas tax. Overall, these taxes were expected to boost revenues by 0.36% of GDP during their first year, and an additional 0.83% by 1997. Clinton did manage to see an annualized 19.3% increase in tax revenues from 1993-1996, though it should be noted that Reagan actually managed an impressive 24.1% during his presidency.
https://www.bongino.com/how-bill-clinton-faked-the-clinton-surplus/
July 30, 2018: Ep. 773 How Deep Does this Scandal Go?
https://www.bongino.com/july-30-2018-ep-773-how-deep-does-this-scandal-go/
Twitter’s Censorship Problem Looks Like It’s Here To Stay
Twitter’s censorship problem looks like it’s here to stay.
The company faced a sharp backlash last week after a Vice News investigation revealed that Twitter was hiding several prominent Republicans from its search bar.
Those affected included four House Republicans: Rep. Devin Nunes of California, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mark Meadows of North Carolina. All four are members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. Democrats weren’t affected in the same way, Vice found.
Nunes is looking at taking legal steps against Twitter, he said in a Fox News interview on Sunday. “It sure looks to me like they are censoring people and they ought to stop it,” the California Republican said. “We are looking at any legal remedies to go through.”
http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/29/twitter-conservative-shadowban/
Child Brides in Turkey
by Burak Bekdil
July 30, 2018 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12766/child-brides-turkey
Where would you like your daughter to be when she is 13? In school, or in bed with a grown man? The answer to this question is largely beyond argument in much of the world. In Islamic societies, however — including non-Arab and theoretically secular Turkey — the answer is anyone’s guess. Usually in such states, the police power of the government does not fight the patriarchal tradition; instead, it supports it.
Turkey’s former president, Abdullah Gül, incumbent Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdo?an’s former ally and co-founder of the party that has ruled Turkey since 2002, was a 30-year-old man when he married his wife Hayrünnisa when she was 15. Gül, nominated for the presidency by Erdo?an, was Turkey’s first Islamist president.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12766/child-brides-turkey
CBC – Hate-motivated crimes in Canada
Videos of racially charged confrontations in Ontario have led people to question whether authorities should be treating these cases as hate crimes.
In Iran: The Past is a Foreign Country
by Amir Taheri
July 30, 2018 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12772/iran-international-agreements
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” This is how English writer L.P. Hartley, in his novel The Go-Between, comments on the ambiguity of our relations with a past that fascinates and confuses us. I was reminded of Hartley’s enigmatic phrase last week as I skimmed through a series of news stories indicating the discovery by the Khomeinist establishment in Tehran of Iran’s past.
There was Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani advising US President Donald Trump not to ignore Iran’s “7,000-year old civilization” in stark contradiction to Ayatollah Khomeini’s claim that the whole of Iranian history before his seizure of power should be classified as “jahiliyah” (darkness).
Then there were the so-called “reformist Khomeinists” who took US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to task for expressing support for what is reported as a national uprising in Iran. They invited Pompeo to remember Mohammad Mosaddeq, the man who served as Prime Minister of Iran in the early 1950s and, so his supporters believe, was overthrown in a putsch backed by the United States. “Mussadeq was the hero of Iranian national uprising,” one Khomeinist apologist commented. He forgot that according to the propaganda of the regime he has served for almost four decades, Mussadeq was “a traitor and enemy of Islam” and that he had become a non-person in the Islamic Republic.
Channel 4 – MPs consider plan to combat trolls
Ministers are consulting on new measures to tackle the intimidation of election candidates – in person or online, including a new law which could see anyone convicted barred from holding public office themselves.
It follows a report which found social media was “the most significant factor” driving harassment or abuse.
US Mulls Military Action to Counter Iran Threats
The U.S. is considering a military response if Iran tries to close the Strait of Hormuz, according a report in the Israeli newspaper Maariv.
The strait is the only passageway from the Gulf to the open seas. One-fifth of the world’s oil trade passages through the strategic opening.
Although U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis noted recently that Iran backed down from its threats to close the strait after a number of nations “put their naval forces in for exercises,” the U.S. reportedly has a plan of action in case Iran makes that move — a plan that also involves participation by the UK and Australia.
At the same time, as Clarion reported, the Trump administration is proposing a new strategic and security alliance with six of the Gulf States as well as Egypt and Jordan. The alliance, which was proposed by Saudi Arabia during Trump’s visit to the country last year, would be akin to NATO and is currently being called MESA — the Middle East Strategic Alliance.
https://clarionproject.org/us-mulls-military-action-to-counter-iran-threats/
IRGC Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani: Trump’s Rhetoric Is That of a Casino
In response to U.S. President Trump’s recent tweet to Iranian President Rouhani, IRGC Qods Force Commander General Qasem Soleimani warned “Trump the gambler” that “You may start the war, but we will be the ones to determine its end.”
In a speech delivered on July 26 in the city of Hamedan, General Soleimani said that Trump’s rhetoric was “that of a bartender or a casino manager” and warned him that “we are near you in places that you can’t even imagine.
We are a nation of martyrdom.” His speech aired on Iran’s Channel 5.
Special in Ynet Magazine on Soleimani:
Israel’s most dangerous enemy: Who are you, Hajj Qasem Soleimani?
Following talks with intelligence officials, including former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo, Ronen Bergman and Iran expert Raz Zimmt profile the Quds Force commander and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ strongman in Syria—the one person capable of dragging the IDF to its next war with a single order.
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5301988,00.html
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Omniscient Twitterat™ claims Soleimani was killed 3 years ago, replaced by a body-double. Who’s on our side!
Never fear.
Twitterati – Is here!
Western Sharia Police
7 Facts On Gun Crime That Show Gun Control Doesn’t Work
The Left is incessantly attempting to figure out new ways to take guns from law-abiding American citizens in the name of reducing gun crime. However, the facts clearly show that gun control only exacerbates violent crime. Here are seven facts proving this.
1. Washington, D.C.’s gun ban worsened the city’s homicide rate. As The Daily Wire has previously explained:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/7872/7-facts-gun-crime-show-gun-control-doesnt-work-aaron-bandler?wpnd_cid=b9b1c0a9db0f33fa
Anti-Semitism in Hitler’s Birthplace and the College Campus
How Europe’s Jew-hate problem was reborn on American campuses.
July 30, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
Burkay, an unemployed Muslim Turk, wearing a stained white “Miami Beach” shirt attacked three Jewish people in Vienna, Austria.
It was just another day in a city where Muslim terrorists had once thrown grenades into a synagogue during a Bar Mitzvah killing a woman who threw herself onto the grenade to save the children. The attack had taken place with the complicity of a government notorious for its friendliness to terrorism.
Last year, Austria had 503 anti-Semitic incidents.
That’s impressive considering that the country only has around 9,000 Jews. There has been 1 anti-Semitic incident to every 18 Jews in Austria.
That same year, Germany had 1,453 anti-Semitic incidents to approximately 100,000 Jews.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270856/anti-semitism-hitlers-birthplace-and-college-daniel-greenfield
Video of tourists killed in Tajikistan shows ‘deliberate attack’
Footage suggests cyclists were murdered after being rammed off the road by black sedan
New footage has emerged that appears to show four western cyclists killed in Tajikistan were the victims of a deliberate attack that began with them being forced off the road and ended in an assault with knives and guns.
The deaths of the four people – two Americans, one Swiss and one Dutch citizen – were originally reported as a hit-and-run incident that occurred on Sunday about 150 miles south of the capital, Dushanbe.
Tajik officials said on Monday that the cyclists, who were touring the former Soviet country, had been attacked with knives and firearms after being rammed by the car, which indicated that the deaths were a result of murder.
The video, released by RFE/RL’s Tajik Service, shows a black sedan swerving to run down people spread across a rural road. The unidentified person filming the video reacts with surprise as the car appears to knock a person off the side of the road.
The US-backed news service reported that the video’s origins were unclear but it appeared to match photographs from the scene of the attack.
Tajikistan’s interior minister confirmed that the attackers had knives and firearms. Two suspects had been killed and four had been arrested, according to the official.
Tajik authorities did not say what the motive was for the attack. “We are considering all possibilities,” said Ramazon Rakhimov, the interior minister, according to AFP news agency. “We can’t say if it is an act of terror,” he added.
Tajikistan is one of the poorest of the former Soviet states and has been battling against the spread of radical Islam for years. The campaign has been stepped up in recent years under its strongman leader, Emomali Rakhmon.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/30/video-of-tourists-killed-in-tajikistan-shows-deliberate-attack
https://www.rferl.org/a/tajikistan-attack-foreign-cyclists/29398357.html
reuters – Tajikistan says four tourists killed by car in possible terrorist act
A hit-and-run driver killed four foreign cyclists in Tajikistan in what may have been a terrorist act, the Central Asian country’s interior minister said on Monday.
The tourists, from the United States, Switzerland and the Netherlands, were killed on Sunday, Tajik authorities said. Three more, from Switzerland, the Netherlands and France, were injured – and one of them also had a stab wound.
Security forces pursuing suspects in the attack killed four, including one as he was resisting arrest, and detained a fifth man, the former Soviet republic’s interior ministry said.
“We are looking into all versions – accident, robbery … including a terrorist act,” Interior Minister Ramazon Rakhimzoda told a briefing.
Among the four suspects killed was the owner of the car, which police believe hit the tourists as they were cycling through a rural area 90 km (55 miles) southeast of the capital Dushanbe.
A purported video of the incident published online by Radio Free Europe and credited to an anonymous source showed a car doing a U-turn on a narrow road after it had already knocked down a group of cyclists and then running over a few of them.
A “wanted” notice disseminated by Tajik authorities named two suspects aged 18 and 19 from the same village close to the Tajik-Afghan border, and a third one, 21, from the town of Nurek located not far from the site of the attack.
The U.S. Embassy said it could not name the two U.S. victims due to privacy concerns, but indicated that it also considered the incident to be an intentional attack.
“We strongly condemn the cruelty of the attackers and recognize that they in no way represent the kindness and hospitality of the Tajik people,” it said in a statement.
Switzerland’s Foreign Ministry confirmed the death of one Swiss national and said it was in contact with the second tourist, who has been injured. “If it is established that this was a terrorist attack, it will be noted in future travel advice for Tajikistan,” the ministry said in a statement.
Britain’s Foreign Office urged UK tourists in Tajikistan, particularly those hiking or cycling in its south, “to exercise extreme caution and vigilance during their visit”, citing “the first incident of this kind in Tajikistan”.
The government of Tajik President Imomali Rakhmon – who expressed condolences to the U.S., Swiss and Dutch authorities on Monday – fought Islamist guerrillas in a 1992-1997 civil war which claimed tens of thousands of lives.
Some Tajik Islamists then joined a coalition government but in 2015 the state outlawed their political party, accusing its leaders of being behind a failed coup, a charge they deny.
Thousands of people from the mainly Muslim region have joined Islamic State militants in recent years. Several men from Central Asia were detained last year over a bombing of the metro in Russia’s St Petersburg, and over truck attacks in New York and Stockholm.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-harley-davidson-strategy/harley-drives-deeper-into-asia-with-smaller-bikes-to-fuel-growth-idUSKBN1KK1BJ
euronews – Four western cyclists killed in Tajikistan hit-and-run
Gutmenschen : «…. Accidents happen ….»
Sanders Institute Did Little Except Employ Sanders Family
July 30, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
America’s favorite socialist grifter not named Jill Stein continues to fight for the people by making money hand over fist. And… well… that’s it.
While the rest of the media is largely content to print Bernie Sanders’ press releases (check the gobbles of fake news about Bernie Sanders not endorsing his own son), VTDigger keeps doing the digging into Casa Bernie that the rest of the media won’t. And here’s how Bernie is fighting for the revolution/employing his family members.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/270889/sanders-institute-did-little-except-employ-sanders-daniel-greenfield
Journalist Who Smeared Terror Victim Proud to be “Enemy of the People”
July 29, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
Linda Stasi is one of the very worst people in the media. And that’s saying something.
The clickbait cockroach survived the Daily News’ purge of half its staff. And now she’s got more clickbait garbage bemoaning the public’s contempt for her despicable profession.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/270884/journalist-who-smeared-terror-victim-proud-be-daniel-greenfield
“Fake But Accurate” Jorno Accuses Trump of Being Orwellian
July 30, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
That means it’s time for the original fake news journalist from central casting to take a deep breath, adjust his girdle and pretend to be a serious thinker again. Live from whatever media dumpster he’s working at now… it’s Dan Rather.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/270888/fake-accurate-jorno-accuses-trump-being-orwellian-daniel-greenfield
Another crushing blow to freedom of speech in a preciously free country mow undergoing the suffocating effects of islamization.
Without sites such as (Geller Report and this persecuted blogger), freedom loving people would not understand this ruling let alone how dangerous and destructive Islamic law can be to a free society. This is why we are targeted so mercilessly and relentlessly.
A Canadian court has convicted a blogger of ‘defamation’ of a veiled sharia activist in what can only be described as a political prosecution and further proof of the erosion of our individual rights and freedom under islamization. I can assure you, my colleagues and I would never win such a case if we sued – and our treatment in the “legitimate” media has been far, far worse.
paragraphs 237 and 239 of the decision imply that news should not be examined on their own merits but rather according to the nature of their sources (mainstream media vs individual websites).
The implications of this ruling is far reaching. The idea is citizens cannot report news, only”professional journalists”should be allowed to – a frightening and egregious attack on our speech freedoms. Professional journalists have done more to undermine our constitutional republic than any foreign actors. If given the choice, my money is on the “citizen journalist” not paid hacks working in service to George Soros or some Saudi pimp.
It’s one of those terrible court decisions that evokes Dred Scot, the legal sanction of oppression and slavery. The decentralization of the news is a long time coming. News, opinions has always been a cacophony of voices, that is up until the mid 20th century.
In the 18th century, pamphleteers were much like today’s bloggers. The “the most brilliant economic journalist who ever lived” Frédéric Bastiat is known primarily for his work as a pamphleteer.
https://gellerreport.com/2018/07/sharia-canada-blogger-prosecution.html/
A French student has spoken out after she was harassed by a man in a Paris street and then hit in the face when she told him to stop.
Marie Laguerre shared CCTV video of the man slapping her outside a cafe in the north-east of the capital.
The video has gone viral and coincides with a government push to impose on-the-spot fines for street harassment.
“The first fines should be handed out this autumn,” said Equalities Minister Marlène Schiappa.
Offenders will have to pay between €90 (£80; $105) and €750 under a package of measures that was backed by French MPs in May and is set to complete its passage through parliament this week.
The initiative has resonated among French women as the #MeToo movement and its French equivalent #BalanceTonPorc (“rat on your pig”) have gathered pace.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45005069