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An exceedingly rare glimpse into the once-worthwhile legacy of Hollywood:
While I’m no fan of Leftie Jay Leno, his deep knowledge of the Rolls-Royce Merlin aircraft engine is breathtaking.
My grandfather had a 2 minute recording of a flight of spitfires taking off in the ?Battle of Britain and the sound of the engines as they passed the microphone used to blow the fuses on the speakers. So he replaced them with more sturdy fuses(? actual fuses) and tore holes in his speakers. I will never forget that snarling sound as they passed already in the air. My grandmother used to say that everyone in the UK knew that sound.
“My grandmother used to say that everyone in the UK knew that sound.”
PROLOGUE: Upon rereading your splendid comment, Michelle, I am obsessively obliged to quote Winnie: “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.” Just yesterday, I repeatedly thanked a wheelchair-bound WWII vet and managed to summon up enough inspiration to tell him (aside from my standard, “All good Americans are grateful for your deeds.”)
“You fought hard and YOU WON HARD!”
For the last two federal administrations (or more), America’s not been doing anything remotely approaching, Winning Hard™—be it “Blackjack Pershing” in the Philippines (Hat Tip: Richard) or flipping Hiroshima—THIS CRAP WILL END. There’s no way that it cannot.
Few seem willing to recognize the rapidly approaching “brick wall”
Thank you so much for sharing that keen remembrance of yours, Michelle.
Far, far beyond, (so-called) “news”, yours is tiny but meaningful story that will construct useful, rememberable history. There is no way that the MSM can be accused of any such putative crime.
Bless you.
The premier fighter the US had in WWII was the P52 Mustang, it was originally ordered by the Brits and was considered to be a poor airplane, then somone tried putting a Merlin in the plane and it became and incredibly marvelous airplane.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/08/unmasking_the_creation_of_islamophobia_in_the_academy.html
Shows just how deeply involved are our supposed best minds in the disinformation or skewing of the truth. I find this incredibly shameful as it totally belies the entire point of academia: pursuit of truth.
I have visited New Zealand on several occasions and find it a stifling conformist country in the grip of enforced socialism.
Lauren Southern and Stefan have had their event cancelled in Auckland.
https://youtu.be/mUR9U6Srj7g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0pOONm-nW8
Note as usual that no comments are permitted on these NZ press sites.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/08/exclusive-patrick-gower-takes-on-lauren-southern-and-stefan-molyneux.html
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/justice-minister-says-conversion-therapy-ban-could-considered
I found Canada the same socialistic s— hole.And that was 15 years ago.
Now I imagine is even more terrible
Yes indeed. Try wearing a Trump hat in Canada, or deviating from Marxist or postmodern norms in any way in conversation. You will find out what ‘multiculturalism’ really means. No divergent views or actions allowed from feminist, globalism whatsoever.
‘Great News’: Public Reacts to Denmark’s First Fine for Violating Full Veil Ban (sputniknews, Aug 4, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201808041066945099-public-reacts-denmanr-first-fine-veil-ban/
“Denmark has become the latest country to outlaw wearing garments hiding the face, including some traditional Islamic headwear such as the niqab and burqa. The new law ignited controversy in the country and online, with some defending women’s right to wear what they want and others saying that immigrants should obey the laws of their host countries.
Police reportedly responded to a call from a shopping center in Horsholm, a coastal town some 25km north of Copenhagen, where a 28-year-old woman wearing a niqab, a traditional Arab headdress that conceals the face and only leaves an open slot for the eyes, got into a scuffle with another woman.
“During the fight, her niqab came off, but by the time we arrived she had put it back on again,” police duty officer Borchersen told Ritzau news agency.
According to The Copenhagen Post, both women have been charged with disturbing the peace. Moreover, police slapped the veiled woman with a 1,000 kroner (over $150) fine and told her to either remove her niqab or leave the public area. She opted for the latter.
The woman became the first-ever offender of Denmark’s fresh ban on wearing garments and accessories in public that cover the face, which was approved by parliament in May and entered into effect on Wednesday. The new law prohibits balaclavas, masks and false beards as well as Islamic veils such as niqabs and burqas. A first offence triggers a fine of 1,000 kroner, while repeat offenses can lead to a fine of 10,000 kroner (over $1,500) or a jail sentence of up to six months…”
Erdogan Says Turkey to Freeze Assets of US Justice, Interior Ministers – Reports (sputniknews, Aug 4, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/world/201808041066945962-erdogan-turkey-minister/
“Previously, the United States sanctioned Turkey’s Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gul and Minister of Interior Suleyman Soylu for their roles in the arrest and detention of US pastor Andrew Brunson.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayip Erdogan ordered the country’s authorities to freeze the Turkish assets of the US ministers of justice and interior in response to Washington’s restrictive measures over the detention of US pastor Andrew Brunson. He stated that steps taken by Washington about the American pastor are not suitable for a strategic partner and disrespectful to Turkey.
“Today I will give our friends instructions to freeze the assets in Turkey of the American justice and interior ministers, if they have any [assets],” Erdogan said in a televised speech…”
Do our people own anything in Turkey? Is yes why do they own something there?
If Trump bitch slaps Rocket man or the Iranian moo-las – I don’t think he’ll put up with Erdo-ding-dong. I’m sure Turkey has more to lose than the U.S., especially since their economy sucks.
State Dept: New Global Terror Group Could Emerge in Iraq Due to Lack of Reforms (sputniknews, Aug 4, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201808041066941322-usa-daesh-iraq-reforms-terrorism/
“A new prominent global terrorist organization like the Daesh could emerge in Iraq if the country does not implement social and political reforms, State Department Senior Adviser Douglas Padgett said during a panel discussion with the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC on Friday.
“We’ve certainly beaten them [the Islamic State] back and defeated them militarily, but again the political conditions, social conditions, the cultural conditions, the lack of reconciliation, the lack of accountability — criminal accountability is an extraordinarily important issue but criminal accountability alone does not give us communities that can live with one another,” Padgett said. “This is an issue that has to be dealt with as well. ISIS[Daesh] may be gone, but something like ISIS[Daesh] can come back.”
Padgett also emphasized that while progress has been made in eliminating the Daesh from Iraq, the terror organization remains active globally.
Since early July, Iraq has witnessed a series of mass protests in several cities, with demonstrators denouncing corruption, unemployment and disruptions in electricity and water supplies.
According to local authorities, some cells of the Daesh organization remain active in Iraq, despite the fact the country’s leaders declared the end of the war against Daesh in December.
On Friday, Human Rights Watch said in a press release that Iraq has yet to prosecute members of the Daesh terror group for the August 2014 massacre and abduction of thousands Yazidis in the country’s north.
“While Iraq’s judges have been charging thousands of ISIS [Islamic State] suspects, according to over a dozen lawyers and judges involved in the trials of ISIS[Daesh] suspects, there are almost no known trials specifically for crimes committed against Yazidis,” the release stated…”
UK Pushes Charges After Just Three Percent of Forced Marriage Reports (breitbart, Aug 4, 2018)
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/04/uk-pushes-charges-just-three-percent-forced-marriage-reports/
7 rebels, Indian soldier killed in Kashmir fighting (abcnews, Aug 4, 2018)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/rebels-indian-soldier-killed-kashmir-fighting-57028221
“At least seven rebels and an Indian army soldier were killed in gunbattles in disputed Kashmir, triggering violent protests by residents opposed to Indian rule, officials said Saturday.
Army soldiers and counterinsurgency police cordoned off a neighborhood in the suburbs of southern Shopian town overnight, leading to an exchange of fire with rebels, police said. One militant was killed overnight while four more died early Saturday.
The fighting sparked protests and clashes as hundreds of residents tried to march to the site of the battle to help the militants escape. Government forces fired warning shots, shotgun pellets and tear gas at the stone-throwing protesters, injuring at least 15 people, three of them critically.
Separately, two rebels and a soldier were killed in the northwestern Sopore area on Friday, authorities said.
Meanwhile, security guards posted at the residence of Farooq Abdullah, India’s member of parliament and Kashmir’s former top elected official, shot and killed a young man after he allegedly forced his entry into the residence on Saturday, top police officer S.P. Vaid said.
Vaid said the man traveling in a car was unarmed and gatecrashed into the residence in southern Jammu city. He scuffled with security guards before he was shot to death…”
US Spends Big to Counter China Threat
Thank you, Richard. China Uncensored continues to prove out my personal suspicion that the CCP will show significant methods of controlling The Muslim Problem™ that (however repulsive) other global powers may need to learn from. What a massive pissing contest…
Event Canceled: New Zealand Is Hostile To Free Speech
Southern deserves total credit for noting how her mind can be changed through basic logic. I’ve had a fellow technician show me how to solder–splice a multi-strand high-power cable, and never did it different again in my entire life.
This Refusal of Reasonableness© is, and will be the doom of Islam and this worlds’ other equally retarded “Jim Jones Death Cults”.
Totally Out of Control’: Ingraham Says Dems Now the Defenders of Immigration ‘Lawlessness’
L.A. Production of ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ Replaces Nazis with ICE Agents Hunting for ‘LatinX’ Illegals
A modernized theatrical production of The Diary of Anne Frank in Los Angeles will re-imagine the Jewish Frank family hiding from Nazis with Latino immigrants hiding from Immigration, Customs, and Enforcement (ICE) officials, its directors have revealed.
The production, directed by former Roseanne writer Stan Zimmerman and scheduled to run throughout September, “was inspired by the true story of a Jewish woman in Los Angeles who created a ‘Safe House’ for a Latina mother and her two daughters after her husband was deported by ICE.” The play’s characters in the attic will be played by a LatinX cast, according to a promotional website.
“Director Stan Zimmerman has cast his production of the classic play The Diary of Anne Frank, by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett and newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman,” the play’s promotional content reads.
“The cast includes Keith Coogan (“Adventures in Babysitting”), Tasha Dixon (Miss Arizona USA), David Gurrola (“Insecure”), Heather Olt (“The Middle”), Raquenel (“My Life is a Telenovela”), Robert C. Raicch (“Are We There Yet?”), Teddi Shaffer (“The Open Book”), Raymond Abel Tomas, Emiliano Torres (“Shooter”) and introducing Genesis Ochoa as Anne Frank,” it continues.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/08/03/l-a-production-of-the-diary-of-anne-frank-replaces-nazis-with-ice-agents-hunting-for-latinx-illegals/
NYT’s Sarah Jeong Also Sent Anti-Cop, Anti-Men Tweets
Sarah Jeong, the newest editorial board member of The New York Times, is also responsible for extensive anti-cop and anti-men tweets.
The New York Times stood by Jeong on Thursday after the internet surfaced her old racist tweets, however her full Twitter history reveals her ire was not only directed toward white people. (RELATED: NYTimes’ Newest Hire Sent Tons Of Anti-White Racist Tweets)
The NYT claimed that Jeong was “imitating” the behavior of people who harassed her online, but this does not explain why she was tweeting “fuck the police” and encouraging people to “kill all men.”
A search for “cops” and “police” on Jeong’s Twitter reveals an extensive history of anti-cop sentiment and a lack of sympathy for police who are injured on the job.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/03/nyt-sarah-jeong-cop-men-tweets/
Democratic rivalries laid bare at liberal summit
Activist Democrats blast their establishment brethren at the Netroots conference, calling the party’s treatment of Trump ‘tepid, at best.’
NEW ORLEANS — Centrist Democrats for months have nudged the party’s left flank to avoid the kind of strident partisanship and outright provocations that Donald Trump could seize on to whip up Republicans voters in the midterms.
The response from the progressive base this week? Shove off.
Arriving here Thursday for the annual progressive gathering Netroots Nation, several thousand activists and organizers teed up a program laced with presentations on Trump’s ties to Russia, “warmongering and bigotry” and “protecting the Mueller investigation.” They depicted Trump’s immigration policies as racist, cheered efforts to block his border wall and plotted next steps for “fighting the global right” — all while amplifying calls to
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/03/netroots-conference-democrats-trump-760582
America’s Pot Capital? It’s Massachusetts, Not Colorado
Massachusetts is emerging as the nation’s pot capital, according to statistics compiled in a state legislative report released to the public last month.
The report, part of a comprehensive assessment of the pros and cons of legalizing marijuana in the Bay State, found that 21 percent of all Massachusetts residents admitted to smoking pot in June 2018.
That’s a huge jump from the 12 percent of Massachusetts residents that admitted to smoking pot in the previous statewide survey.
Even worse, young adult marijuana use in Massachusetts appears to be exploding. Roughly half of residents 18-25 years old reported using marijuana in the past 30 days — far higher than the national usage rate for this same demographic.
Many observers have long considered Colorado the nation’s pot capital because it was the first state to legalize marijuana — back in 2014. But only Vermont — at 18 percent — now rivals its New England neighbor’s level of pot use, according to available federal statistics. Colorado’s adult use is just 15 percent, according to state data.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/03/us-pot-capital-massachusetts/
China launches high-tech bird drones to watch over its citizens
They’re called Doves and they don’t come in peace.
https://www.cnet.com/news/china-launches-high-tech-bird-drones-to-watch-over-its-citizens/
Look! Up there! A pretty little bird gliding majestically through the sky, encapsulating the beauty of natu — oh wait. It’s a high-tech surveillance drone.
Over recent years, more than 30 Chinese military and government agencies have reportedly been using drones made to look like birds to surveil citizens in at least five provinces, according to the South China Morning Post.
The program is reportedly codenamed “Dove” and run by Song Bifeng, a professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi’an. Song was formerly a senior scientist on the Chengdu J-20, Asia’s first fifth-generation stealth fighter jet, according to the Post.
The bird-like drones mimic the flapping wings of a real bird using a pair of crank-rockers driven by an electric motor. Each drone has a high-definition camera, GPS antenna, flight control system and a data link with satellite communication capability, the Post reports.
https://www.cnet.com/news/china-launches-high-tech-bird-drones-to-watch-over-its-citizens/
Final police report on Las Vegas shooting unable to determine motive
Las Vegas police concluded their investigation into the Oct. 1 shooting with no clear idea of why the gunman murdered 58 people and wounded hundreds more.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo on Friday released the Metropolitan Police Department’s final report on the attack but said investigators were not able to determine a motive for the deadliest random shooting in modern U.S. history.
“What we have been able to answer are the questions of who, what, when, where and how,” Lombardo said at a Friday news briefing. “What we have not been able to definitively answer is the ‘why’ Stephen Paddock committed this act.”
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/shootings/final-police-report-on-las-vegas-shooting-unable-to-determine-motive/
Las Vegas gunman was a loner and gambler, but motive behind mass shooting remains unclear, police report says
The heavy gambler had $2.1 million in his bank account in 2015. By last September, that had dwindled to $530,000. It was one month before Stephen Paddock carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.
But Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said the steep financial losses alone can’t fully explain why Paddock checked into the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino with guns in his suitcases and murder on his mind in the days leading up to Oct. 1.
He left no manifesto, no video message, and his reasons for killing 58 and wounding hundreds at a concert remain unknown.
Instead, a detailed 187-page report released Friday by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department revealed, through a series of witness interviews, that Paddock was a narcissist, a bit of a loner and a man becoming increasingly distant from the only person he appeared to be close to — girlfriend Marilou Danley.
The report also was definitive in identifying Paddock as the gunman who fired more than 1,000 rounds into the crowd while Jason Aldean was performing on the festival stage.
“Single shooter. No conspiracy,” Lombardo said.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/la-na-vegas-shooting-final-report-20180803-story.html
Richard: I am having no luck finding a copy of the 187 page report on the shooting, hopefully it will be posted soon.
The conclusions of the report reek of a cover up.
Everything about this mess reeks of a coverup.
True.
I haven’t seen a coverup so blatant since the Vince Foster death.
“A rose by any other name would stink as sweet…”
All of this reeks to the point of being a civic health issue.
Scientists successfully transplant lab-grown lungs into pigs
For the first time, researchers have created lungs in the lab and successfully transplanted them into pigs.
These bioengineered lungs, described online August 1 in Science Translational Medicine, developed healthy blood vessels that allowed pigs to live for several weeks after surgery without medical complications. That’s a significant improvement from previous efforts: Lab-grown lungs implanted in rodents failed within hours, before the lungs could develop the complex blood vessel network necessary for long-term survival.
If the new procedure can be adapted for humans, with bioengineered lungs grown from a patient’s own cells, that could reduce the risk of organ rejection and slash wait times for organ transplants. In the United States, where about 1,500 people currently are on a waiting list for a lung transplant, the average wait is a few months.
“This study really brings the whole research field to the next level,” says Xi “Charlie” Ren, a biomedical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh not involved in the work.
For the study, immunologist Joan Nichols at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and colleagues built lungs for four pigs by first using a sugar and detergent mixture to strip the cells from lungs of donor pigs. That left sterilized, pearly white, lung-shaped scaffolds made of the intercellular proteins. (In humans, researchers envision using donated organs or 3-D printing made-to-fit lung scaffolding.) The researchers then repopulated each scaffold with blood vessel and lung tissue cells from the pig destined to receive that organ.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/scientists-transplant-lab-grown-bioengineered-lungs-pigs
It is impossible to overstate the importance of this development. Once this is perfected there will be no shortage of organs for transplant, which will drive the Chinese out of the transplant from political prisoners business.
Not in our lifetime Richard unless you are a multibillionare and then perhaps only. Can you really see such being available for the common woman/man? Many human organs are very similar to those of pigs (kidneys, heart, liver, skin, muscles, teeth) and one , now silenced, Nobel prize winner said that humans are a strange blend of pig and chimpanzee DNA and I believe him. Heresy of course in academic tones but like many things that is no reason to doubt it as science is the new religion of the Left and their Dominicans and Jesuits rule.
It will happen a lot sooner then you think, the left has pushed us to the bring of a World War but they are doing this at the time when scientific miracles are occurring. During major wars things are made available to the little people that would ordinarily take 20 to 40 years or longer to trickle down.
“It is impossible to overstate the importance of this development. Once this is perfected there will be no shortage of organs for transplant, which will drive the Chinese out of the transplant from political prisoners business.”
While not a comprehensive statement yours, Richard, is a another fine example of Western Technical Jihad™ (aside from the Digital Divide®). With 3-D organ printing (one of its earliest applications) this disruption of Red China’s most lucrative and utterly vile occupations could realize a goal that helps snuff something of intense evil.
Certain talmudic commentaries suggest humans and pigs are related in some mystic sense. Writen a couple thousand years ago, no scientific explication, of course.
Also, you’re not supposed to say, Ew, pigs are disgusting!
Because they’re not.
It’s simply that halacha prohibits us from eating them. For whatever reason.
Sons of apes and pigs?! Genetically compatible? Maybe a chimp in the family tree too?!Portland prepares for right-wing, anti-fascist rallies
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland, Oregon, is bracing for what could be another round of violent clashes between a right-wing group and self-described anti-fascist counterprotesters who have pledged to keep Patriot Prayer and other affiliated groups out of this ultra-liberal city.
A rally organized Saturday by Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson was expected to be the third to roil Portland this summer. Two previous events ended in bloody fistfights and riots, and one counterprotester was sent to the hospital with a skull fracture.
https://apnews.com/72be678fb5a748c388128269a10f24f4/Portland-prepares-for-right-wing,-anti-fascist-rallies
Metro Considers Separate Trains for Opposing Groups for D.C. ‘Unite the Right’ Rally: Metro Board
Metro is considering providing separate trains for opposing groups when demonstrators come to Washington, D.C., for a “Unite the Right” rally Aug. 12, the chairman of the transit agency’s board said.
“We have groups clearly at odds with each other,” Chairman Jack Evans said. “We’d like to keep the groups separate. We don’t want incidents on Metro.”
“Unite the Right” demonstrators plan to use Metro from the Vienna, Virginia, station to Foggy Bottom in D.C. Police and Metro are making plans to avoid a deadly confrontation like the one at the Charlottesville, Virginia, rally last year.
“Maybe put all of one group on a train or a certain car on a train,” Evans said. “We’re trying to see how can we keep the groups separate so we don’t have any incidents but not put in place programs that could be problematic in the future.”
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Metro-Planning-for-Unite-the-Right-Rally-490010251.html
Death to the dictator!’ Violence on streets of Iran as police use tear gas on furious protesters, including chador-clad women, demonstrating against ‘corrupt regime’ ruining the country while waging ideological war abroad
Iran entered its third day of protests as furious citizens took to the streets to rail against the regime they blame for devastating the country’s economy.
Protests have broken out in a number of cities this week over the dramatic drop of the country’s currency and other economic problems ahead of the imposition of renewed US sanctions.
Videos shared online purportedly show some furious Iranians burning tyres and setting fire to police vehicles as demonstrations spun out of control.
Referring to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, many chanted ‘death to the dictator’ at protests.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6022673/Violence-streets-Iran-police-use-tear-gas-furious-protesters.html
Scattered protests in Iran as U.S. sanctions loom
DUBAI (Reuters) – Sporadic protests were taking place in cities in Iran for a fourth day, with demonstrators attacking a Shi’ite seminary west of Tehran, according to Iranian news agencies and social media on Saturday, as Iranians brace for a return of U.S. sanctions.
Hundreds have rallied in cities across the country, including Tehran, Isfahan and Karaj, according to videos posted on social media, to protest against high inflation caused in part by a plunging rial over fears of the reimposition of crippling sanctions on Aug. 7.
In May, the United States pulled out of a 2015 deal between world powers and Tehran under which international sanctions on Iran were lifted in return for curbs on its nuclear program.
Washington decided to reimpose sanctions on Iran upon its withdrawal, accusing it of posing a security threat, and has told countries they must halt all imports of Iranian oil from Nov. 4 or face U.S. financial measures.
The protests have often begun with slogans against the high cost of living and alleged financial corruption but quickly turned into anti-government rallies.
In the town of Eshtehard, 100 km (63 miles) west of Tehran, riot police intervened late on Friday to disperse about 500 people who chanted slogans against the government, with some throwing rocks and bricks at a Shi’ite Muslim seminary, the semi-official news agency Fars said on Saturday.
In Tehran, street demonstrators chanted “Death to the dictator,” according to a social media video,
http://www.oann.com/scattered-protests-in-iran-as-u-s-sanctions-loom/
RNC Spokeswoman: GOP Must Increase Lead in Senate, House to Get Southern Border Wall Built
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 12:57 AM PT — Fri. Aug. 3, 2018
A top Republican National Committee spokeswoman is saying she believes the southern border wall will get built if the GOP extends their majorities in Congress leading into the November midterms.
During an interview on The Hill Friday, Kayleigh McEnany called the border wall a “lightning rod issue” for the Republican base.
This comes just a day after President Trump said he was torn on whether to force a government shutdown in order to get border wall funding.
During a speech in Pennsylvania this week, the president reaffirmed his promise to build the wall, but said Democrats could make the process tedious.
http://www.oann.com/rnc-spokeswoman-gop-must-increase-lead-in-senate-house-to-get-southern-border-wall-built/
China Defends Relationship with Iran, Refuses to Halt Oil Imports
China is defending its relationship with Iran, calling their cooperation “justified, reasonable and lawful.”
During a news conference Friday, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said China does not support unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic or “long arm jurisdiction.”
Shuang went on to suggest China’s rights and interests should be preserved.
“We hope Japan will translate its positive remarks regarding China-Japan ties into concrete actions, do something conducive to improving ties and push forward with the development of bilateral relations in the right path,” he stated.
The remarks come in response to an American request to halt Iranian oil imports.
According to recent reports, Chinese officials did not agree to stop the oil imports. However, they said the country would agree to not increase them.
http://www.oann.com/china-defends-relationship-with-iran-refuses-to-halt-oil-imports/
North Korea, U.S. trade blows over nuclear deal at Singapore reunion
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – North Korea and the United States traded blows over implementing a disarmament deal adopted at a landmark summit in June, as Washington called for maintaining sanctions pressure against the North which in turn said it was alarmed at U.S. intentions.
The discord was the latest reminder of the difficulties that have long impaired efforts to negotiate an end to North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs, despite the June commitment made in Singapore by the leaders of the North and the United States.
“The DPRK stands firm in its determination and commitment for implementing the DPRK-U.S. Joint Statement in a responsible and good-faith manner,” North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told a regional forum held in Singapore on Saturday.
DPRK refers to his country’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
“What is alarming however is the insistent moves manifested within the U.S. to go back to the old, far from its leader’s intention,” Ri said.
Ri made the statement after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had left the conference for Indonesia, a State Department spokeswoman said.
http://www.oann.com/pompeo-says-optimistic-about-ending-north-koreas-nuclear-program/
Police detain around 25 gay rights activists in St Petersburg
ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) – Russian police detained around 25 gay rights activists who took part in an unsanctioned rally in St Petersburg on Saturday, according to Reuters witnesses.
A few dozen activists gathered at Palace Square on Saturday afternoon, defying a ban to hold the rally.
Organisers had said they would stage one-man protests to demand freedom of association after city authorities turned down their request to hold a parade.
Police detained campaigners who unfurled rainbow flags or held placards, dragging them into a police bus. There were no clashes between police and the activists.
Russia passed a law in 2013 banning the spreading of gay “propaganda”.
Last month, Russian police briefly detained British LGBT campaigner Peter Tatchell after he protested near the Kremlin in support of gay rights. [nL8N1TG430]
http://www.oann.com/police-detain-around-25-gay-rights-activists-in-st-petersburg/
Police detain around 25 gay rights activists in St Petersburg
That’ll teach those intolerant Chechens!
U.S. pledges nearly $300 million security funding for Southeast Asia
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pledged on Saturday to provide nearly $300 million in new security funding for Southeast Asia, as China forges ahead with plans to bolster its engagement in the region.
Pompeo unveiled the figure to reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of foreign ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other officials from around the world in Singapore.
“As part of our commitment to advancing regional security in the Indo-Pacific, the United States is excited to announce nearly $300 million in new funding to reinforce security cooperation throughout the entire region,” he said.
The new security assistance will strengthen maritime security, develop humanitarian assistance, peacekeeping capabilities and counter “transnational threats”, he added.
The United States said earlier this week it would invest $113 million in technology, energy and infrastructure initiatives in emerging Asia which he called “a downpayment on a new era of U.S. economic commitment to the region”.
http://www.oann.com/u-s-pledges-nearly-300-million-security-funding-for-southeast-asia/
U.S. pledges nearly $300 million security funding for Southeast Asia
I’d have loved to have been a ‘fly on the wall’ when those terms were negotiated.
“Delicate Language” prolly doesn’t even begin to describe it.
SE Asia falls short on cybersecurity pact with Russia: Singapore
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s foreign minister said on Saturday that Southeast Asian nations “didn’t get down to settling” a cyber security agreement with Russia.
The draft of a communique seen by Reuters before meetings between regional leaders and other world delegates started on Thursday, spoke about strengthening cooperation with Russia, accused of meddling in U.S. elections, in the field of cybersecurity.
The wording was dropped in the final communique issued on Thursday evening.
Asked about the proposed agreement, Vivian Balakrishnan told reporters: “We didn’t get down to settling it.”
He added that cyber security was one of the major issues discussed at the meetings, both within ASEAN as well as with external partners. China and the United States were among world powers represented at the meetings.
Singapore recently suffered its worst ever cyberattack when hackers stole the personal information of about 1.5 million people, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, from a government health database. Earlier this year, Malaysia said it had foiled an attempted cyber heist on its central bank.
http://www.oann.com/se-asia-falls-short-on-cybersecurity-pact-with-russia-singapore/
North Korea has not stopped nuclear, missile program: confidential U.N. report
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – North Korea has not stopped its nuclear and missile programs in violation of United Nations sanctions, according to a confidential U.N. report seen by Reuters on Friday.
The six-month report by independent experts monitoring the implementation of U.N. sanctions was submitted to the Security Council North Korea sanctions committee late on Friday.
“(North Korea) has not stopped its nuclear and missile programs and continued to defy Security Council resolutions through a massive increase in illicit ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products, as well as through transfers of coal at sea during 2018,” the experts wrote in the 149-page report.
The North Korean mission to the United Nations did not respond to a request for comment on the report.
The U.N report said North Korea is cooperating militarily wi
http://www.oann.com/north-korea-has-not-stopped-nuclear-missile-program-confidential-u-n-report/
Here’s what the FBI is hiding about Christopher Steele
By Daily Caller News Foundation August 4, 2018
The FBI released its internal records on Christopher Steele, the former British spy behind the controversial “Russia dossier.”
One problem: Nearly every page has been redacted.
The total records, made public Friday, span 71 pages and contains various documents showing payments to Steele, who is referred to as a “Confidential Human Source,” over an unlisted period of time.
While most of the documents are nearly completely redacted, they do show that in February 2016 the FBI had “admonished” Steele. (RELATED: REVEALED: Christopher Steele Visited The State Department Just Before The Election)
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/08/04/heres-what-the-fbi-is-hiding-about-christopher-steele/
Latino groups go to war with Facebook for requiring ID to buy political ads
By Daily Caller News Foundation August 3, 2018
Facebook’s recent policy changes requiring proof of identity to purchase political ads is unfair to Latino immigrants, several progressive groups claimed Thursday.
Facebook began requiring users to submit a government-issued ID and mailing address before purchasing any political ads in April as part of the company’s efforts to combat foreign meddling in American politics.
A coalition of progressive political groups asked Facebook in May to reverse the ID requirement but claim the company has been unresponsive. The activists said Thursday they will “step up efforts to continue shaming Facebook until the policy is amended” in a press release. (RELATED: How The Left Turned Big Tech Into Their Speech Police)
“Facebook’s one-size-fits-all policy for so-called ‘political advertising’ has effectively shut millions of voices out of the democratic process and public discourse on the most populous and influential social media platform,” said Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, in the release. “The social media giant must face the fact immigrants and other communities are not the enemy.”
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/08/03/latino-groups-go-to-war-with-facebook-for-requiring-id-to-buy-political-ads/
Latino groups go to war with Facebook for requiring ID to buy political ads
Hoy, Estupidos!
Americans aren’t particularly joyful about having unregistered strangers meddling with our elections.
You just wait until your elections get meddled with and see how yowze like it.
(i.e., We’re really good at this sh!t and you don’t even want to discover how…)
s it OK to make fun of white people online? The inquiring minds at the WaPo want to know
By Ben Bowles August 3, 2018
According to Betteridge’s law of headlines, “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”
I’m not sure the law applies to a question in the headline of a Washington Post article that is repeated in the title of this post.
The authors of the piece, Eli Rosenberg and Erin Logan, never answer the question directly, but their ruminations on the topic, inspired by the kerfuffle over the New York Times’s hiring of Sarah Jeong, lean in the direction of “yes.”
Claiming that Jeong’s tweets “make fun of white people” is a tough sell. Calling white men “bullsh*t” (whatever that means) and suggesting that white people are fit only “to live underground like groveling goblins” sounds more to me like hate speech than it does ridicule. But Rosenberg and Logan don’t present the tweets at face value, omitting the uglier streams of profanity from their quotes, which skunks the enterprise from the get-go.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/08/03/is-it-ok-to-make-fun-of-white-people-online-the-inquiring-minds-at-the-wapo-want-to-know/
Judge orders Obama-era DACA program to be restarted
Keep an eye on UKIP. I predict some important positive developments in the near future.
BTW There is so much content coming in on this platform, this is getting big.
Don’t be a tease. Tell us what you think is going to happen. 😉
Let’s just say the fragmentation of the right is coming to an end.
“Don’t be a tease.”
What? No “Slap and Tickle”. Has it come down to this?!?
Heaven forfend and perish forbid…
Joe Rogan reaches millions, listen to what he has to say about Clinton:
Four corrections officers hurt in alleged “violent” assault at Lindsay jail
The president of OPSEU Local 368 says the government needs to have discussions on worker safety for correctional services officers
The president of OPSEU Local 368 is hoping the new Progressive Conservative government will be “open to discussions” after he says four correctional officers at the Central East Correctional Centre (CECC) in Lindsay were injured in what he described as an assault by a “violent” inmate on Sunday (July 29).
Chris Butsch Tweeted about the incident, saying multiple staff were injured, adding, “A plan to curb increasing violence in jails has to be implemented soon to try and prevent more injuries to correctional workers…”
In an interview on Monday (July 30) Butsch said the officers sustained cuts and bruises, but there was also “contamination from bodily fluids,” which he noted is always a concern
.Butsch said correctional officers expect a certain number of incidents with inmates, but safety must be a priority.
The Liberals always talked about it but nothing was ever done…at least the Conservatives are open to the discussion.”
Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services spokesman Greg Flood responded in an email to This Week, “The government has zero tolerance for violence in our correctional facility. The government has been clear in its commitment to providing more resources to correctional services across this province and is committed to hiring more correctional officers to enhance community safety and further support those on the front line. The government will continue to work with our correctional staff to ensure they have the resources to keep our communities safe and ensure appropriate custody and care for those in our correctional system.”
Kawartha Lakes Police Sergeant Dave Murtha said he cannot release information about incidents that happen at the CECC. He told This Week any such incidents are reported to the three detective constables from the Lindsay force who work at the jail, but any information on such incidents must come from the Ministry.
https://www.mykawartha.com/news-story/8797013-four-corrections-officers-hurt-in-alleged-violent-assault-at-lindsay-jail/
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The article dated July 08 2014 says:
“Mr. Butsch says these incidents aren’t out of the ordinary for CECC, his fellow OPSEU representative Dan Sidsworth adds that violence in provincial institutions is widespread, noting that every day, two correctional officers in Ontario are assaulted.
“The high level of violence in Correctional Institutions in Ontario continues to cycle out of control with no accountability,” wrote Mr. Sidsworth, the ministry employee relations committee chair for the union in a recent online post dated June 25.
“Ontario’s Jails consistently have had the highest levels of inmate on inmate assaults and inmate on Staff assaults in the Country. Ontario’s Correctional system is old, overcrowded, understaffed and under-resourced.”
Both union representatives note that such violence – and the resulting injuries – could have easily been avoided had the ministry followed through on a commitment to make personal protective equipment like handcuffs and pepper foam mandatory for all correctional officers in the province.”
British Police Asked if Iraqi Paedophile Can Date 12-Year-Old to Be ‘Culturally Sensitive’ (breitbart, Aug 4, 2018)
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/04/british-police-officer-asked-culturally-acceptable-iraqi-date-12-year-old/
“A British police officer called a charity to ask if it were acceptable for an Iraqi man to date a 12-year-old girl because he wanted to be “culturally sensitive” when dealing with a suspected paedophile…”
London Moped Muggers Get 32 Years After Targeting Elderly, Stabbing Man for His Bible (breitbart, Aug 4, 2018)
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/04/london-moped-muggers-32-years-targeting-elderly-stabbing-man-bible/
“A pair of violent thieves who used mopeds to “target elderly victims”, including a man in his 50s who was stabbed over a bible, has been jailed for 32 years amid London’s ongoing crime wave.
The duo “hunted people down and made a sport of it” across south London, police said Saturday, detailing horrific injuries sustained by elderly women walking alone.
Detective Inspector Steve Brownlee, from the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Venice Investigation Team, described in a statement how they “attacked vulnerable people – often women – and left their victims afraid to be in the neighbourhoods they had lived in for years”.
Mikelle Alexander, 21, of Sutton, and Karim Hussain, 20, of Romford committed the crimes in 2017, between September and December, and were found guilty this year of 22 offences combined, including robbery and theft of a vehicle.
Mr Hussain has been put away for 15 years for the crime spree, with Mr Alexander handed 17 years behind bars.
The pair frequently targetted older Asian people, hoping to find gold jewellery, police said, and in one shocking strike stabbed a man in his 50s for nothing more than his Christian bible, which they attempted to snatch in his bag…”
London Moped Muggers Get 32 Years After Targeting Elderly, Stabbing Man for His Bible
When these Serial-Predators experience far more serious (and occasionally fatal) consequences as a result of their ill-thought-out-strategies, perhaps then they might begin to reconsider their drink.
Swedish Migrant Majority Region Takes Down Pride Flags Daily Due to Sabotage (breitbart, Aug 4, 2018)
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/04/migrant-majority-swedish-town-take-down-pride-flags-daily/
“Officials in the migrant-majority municipality Södertälje have been forced to remove gay pride flags from their flagpoles each evening in a new tactic following years of thefts and vandalism…”
Islamic State jihadists accused of rape and murder to be granted amnesty (express, Aug 4, 2018)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/998861/ISIS-Islamic-state-rape-Afghanistan-terrorist-Taliban
“ISLAMIC STATE fighters who surrendered to Afghan forces this week in the northern province of Jawzjan may be granted amnesty despite accusations of atrocities including rape and murder, officials said…”
Deranged Liberal Threatens GOP Rep’s Family
Yikes: Man Arrested for Violent Threats Against…Steve Scalise’s Children
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Authorities have arrested a man in New York for making violent threats against two lawmakers, one of whom is the member of House GOP leadership who was nearly fatally shot by a deranged leftist on a Virginia baseball field last year. Initial news reports about the arrest did not name either targeted official, but Congressman Steve Scalise’s office has confirmed that the Louisianan was one of them. Given his recent, harrowing brush with death at the hands of a demented political opponent — the evidence of which is overwhelming, in spite of the FBI’s utterly bizarre spin — this is especially frightening:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/08/03/yikes-man-arrested-for-violent-threats-againststeve-scalise-n2506354
Claim is that this band got cut from a UK music festival because they wrote this song (which is worth listening in its own right) about Tommy Robinson:
A new counter culture is born.
Shooting survivor confronts NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch
That wasn’t the one it was suppose to be but it did show the ignorance of the gun control movement, back when I was a kid the boys usually got a 22 rifle when they were 12 and got control of it when they were 15 or 16. I was taught gun safety throughout my entire childhood have never misused a firearm.
Italy: Hundreds march against wave of violence in Naples
Hundreds of migrants joined an anti-racism rally in Naples on Friday to condemn a recent string of attacks.
Locals have warned of a dangerous acceleration in attacks since 12 shootings, two murders and 33 physical assaults were recorded in the two months since Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right League party, entered government as interior minister.
On Thursday night in Naples, Cisse Elhadji Diebel, 22, a street vendor from Senegal with a regular permit to stay, was wounded by a gunshot fired by two people on a scooter.
Demonstrators accused Salvini of creating a climate of hate following the attacks.
BREITBART –Italian Leftist Open Borders Group Reports Populist Salvini for ‘Hate Crimes’
The far-left pro-open borders association Baobab Experience has targetted populist anti-mass migration Interior Minister Matteo Salvini claiming he has been spreading “hate speech” with his rhetoric.
Earlier this week, the association claimed to have reported the League leader to the authorities for “the criminal dissemination of ideas based on ethnic or racial hatred”, Italian newspaper Il Giornale reports.
The group said that because one of Salvini’s speeches had contained the phrase “… you have to go away” when referring to migrants, that the populist Interior Minister was “spreading ideas based on ethnic or racial hatred… Salvini foments an alarming social intolerance”, they said.
“Human rights cannot be put in check by men or political parties that aim to gain consensus on racist propaganda. Human rights are not a commodity of exchange but inviolable rights that no one can put questioned, not even the Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini and his party,” they added.
The issue of hate speech was also brought up by Italian Family Minister Lorenzo Fontana on Friday following an alleged racist attack against a female athlete of African descent which later turned out not to have a racial motive.
Minister Fontana said that the incident, which was widely reported as an example of a racist attack by the mainstream media, called into question the use of hate crime laws.
“The events of the past days make it increasingly clear that racism has become the ideological weapon of the globalists and their lackeys (some journalists and mainstream commentators, certain parties),” Fontana said.
He added that cries of racism were being used “to point the finger at the Italian people, falsely accusing them of every abomination, to make the majority of the citizens feel guilty for their vote and for the intolerable distance from the rhetoric of the groupthink”.
Instead, Fontana argued that the “real racism” in Italy focused on the anti-Italian attitudes of the media. “The reason? A people that do not think all the same way and that are aware and conscious of their own identity and history are scary to the globalists because they are not exploitable,” he noted.
The case against Interior Minister Salvini is not the first in which a far-left NGO has attempted to bring hate crime charges against a major politician.
Earlier this year in France, the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Licra) brought charges of hate speech against right-wing politician Nicholas Dupont-Aignan for his comments referencing a “migrant invasion” of France. The Debout la France party leader was found guilty and given a suspended 5,000 euro fine.
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/04/italian-leftist-open-borders-group-reports-populist-salvini-hate-crimes/
Kémi Séba ((French language version of Egyptian for “black star”)
– born in Strasbourg to immigrant parents from Benin
– joined the US-based Nation of Islam
– In 2004 (…) founded the Parisian political group Tribu KA, which promotes black identity and has been accused of racism against Jews
– In a May 2006 demonstration, twenty or more Tribu Ka members marched along the Rue des Rosiers (in the Marais, a Jewish neighborhood) shouting antisemitic slogans and threatening pedestrians.
– arrested in September 2006 for making antisemitic posts on his website,
– After his release from prison in July 2008(…)announced that he had converted to Islam
– In 2011, he moved to Senegal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A9mi_S%C3%A9ba
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JULY 2018 – Kemi Seba in Rome —
NOV 2017 – Brussels –
Left-Wing Rage Mob Comes After Andrew Sullivan After He Suggests Anti-White Racism Is Still Racism
Andrew Sullivan, come on down! It’s time for your turn in the stocks!
According to the Left, New York Magazine columnist Andrew Sullivan must be scourged. Why? Because he suggested that anti-white racism is unacceptable. This, of course, demonstrated that he was a vicious and brutal racist.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/34021/left-wing-rage-mob-comes-after-andrew-sullivan-ben-shapiro?utm_source=cnemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=080418-news&utm_campaign=position6
Afghanistan: Funerals held for victims of Paktia mosque suicide attack
A mass funeral was held for the 30 victims of a suicide bomb attack on a Shia mosque in Gardez, Paktia Province, on Saturday.
Family members laid to rest their loved ones in a common grave.
“The people of Paktia should stay united,” said one attendee.
He went on to ask “Why a suicide bomber detonates himself among our worshipers? Why we don’t have security in our country?”
Thirty people were killed and at least 80 injured in the attack, which followed Friday prayers.
Two burka-clad men opened fire on worshippers, before one was shot dead by security forces. The other reportedly blew himself up.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
CNN’s Jim Acosta Can’t Figure Out Why Trump Voters Hate the Media. HERE’S WHY.
Britain Welcomes Radicals – Again and Again
by Douglas Murray
August 4, 2018 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12801/britain-radicals-rehman
It is more than a year since the UK suffered three Islamist terrorist attacks in quick succession. It is also more than a year since the Prime Minister, Theresa May, stood on the steps of Downing Street and announced that ‘enough is enough’.
Yet the striking aspect of the last year has been how little has changed.
Consider, for instance, the lax controls on extremist preachers that the UK had in place in 2016. As reported here at the time, in the summer of that year, two Pakistani clerics performed a tour of the UK. Their seven-week roadshow took in numerous UK hotspots including Rochdale, Rotherham, Oldham and the Prime Minister’s own constituency of Maidenhead. The two clerics — Muhammad Naqib ur Rehman and Hassan Haseeb ur Rehman — began their tour by visiting the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, at Lambeth Palace for a meeting on ‘interfaith relations’.
How expert are these two clerics at ‘interfaith relations’? Well, they are so good that their main credential is their enthusiastic support for the murderer of somebody accused of ‘blasphemy’. Yes — these two preachers are famed in Pakistan for having supported Mumtaz Qadri, the murderer of the progressive Punjab Governor Salman Taseer. Because Taseer believed in a relaxation of Pakistan’s barbaric blasphemy codes (specifically he opposed the execution of a Christian woman — Asia Bibi — who was falsely accused of blaspheming the Muslim god), Qadri — who was meant to be guarding the governor — instead murdered Taseer in 2011. Qadri himself was subsequently tried, sentenced to death and executed by the state. After Qadri’s funeral in Rawalpindi, Hassan Haseeb ur Rehman whipped up the crowds of the murderer’s mourners. Rehman acclaimed the murderer Qadri as a ‘shaeed’ (martyr). The crowd subsequently chanted slogans such as ‘Qadri, your blood will bring revolution’ and ‘the punishment for a blasphemer is beheading’.
AUSTRALIA – Terror accused Bangladeshi student Momena Shoma refuses to enter plea
A Bangladeshi student accused of stabbing her Melbourne homestay host in an act of Islamic State terrorism has refused to enter a plea.
Momena Shoma, 24, faced Melbourne Magistrates Court today, charged with engaging in a terrorist act and attempted murder after she allegedly stabbed Roger Singaravelu at Mill Park on February 9.
Dressed in a niqab, Ms Shoma also refused to stand for the magistrate on three occasions, The Herald Sun reports.
Asked to enter a plea, the diminutive Ms Shoma did not answer and magistrate Sarah Dawes said she took that to mean the accused refused to enter a plea.
Ms Shoma was committed on both charges after a plea of not guilty was entered on her behalf.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/terror-accused-bangladeshi-student-momena-shoma-refuses-to-enter-plea/news-story/f90fbf09715675028ff212dc2b8844e4
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‘I attempted murder’ on behalf of Islamic State, student Momena Shoma tells police
A Bangladeshi student accused of stabbing her homestay landlord while he slept told police she travelled to Australia with the sole intention of killing someone on behalf of Islamic State.
The admission is contained in an explosive interview with police released to the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court today, where Momena Shoma appeared, facing attempted murder and terrorism charges.
Wearing a black Islamic gown and veil revealing just her eyes, Ms Shoma refused to stand for Magistrate Sarah Dawes.
In the interview, the 25-year-old said she wanted to “trigger the West” and attacked Roger Singaravelu, 54, while he was sleeping because he was “vulnerable” and “an easy target”.
She had no personal grudge against Mr Singaravelu, whose house in Melbourne’s northern suburbs she had moved into the day before she attacked him, she said.
“It could have been anybody, not necessarily should have been Roger,” she said.
“I attempted murder.”
The record of interview was released by Ms Dawes after Ms Shoma’s lawyers indicated she was likely to plead guilty to “appropriate charges” and waived her right to a committal.
In the police interview, conducted hours after the attack, Ms Shoma answered questions fully and calmly
She described in detail stabbing Mr Singaravelu with a kitchen knife in the neck because, she said, “I think I thought that would be fatal”.
That morning she had downloaded a video from Islamic State’s media centre, Al Hayat, entitled Flames of War.
Watching the videos made her feel like a loser, she said, because she thought she wouldn’t be able to commit the violent jihad portrayed in the films.
She told police she was commanded to kill by Islamic State.
She said she felt relieved after the attack because she had tried.
“In front of Allah I just can tell him that I tried, that’s it,” she said.
She told police she had practised the act, driving a knife into a pillow at her previous homestay residence in Bundoora.
Mr Singaravelu’s statement to police after the alleged attack on February 9 described Ms Shoma as crying “Allah akbah” as she drove a kitchen knife into his neck while he lay sleeping next to his young daughter.
“I thought I was dreaming as I felt a sharp pain on my neck,” he told police.
“I woke up and started screaming. I saw Suma [Ms Shoma] right next to me.
Mr Singaravelu described how he grabbed the knife and pushed Ms Shoma off him, while his daughter was screaming and crying.
Blood was spraying out of his neck “like a fountain”, he said.
She refused to enter a plea for the charges of attempted murder and one count of engaging in an act of terrorism, so Magistrate Dawes entered a plea of not guilty on her behalf.
She was committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court.
Ms Shoma began seriously practising Islam in 2012, but felt like a prisoner in her own house, she said, because she was the only member of her family to practise such an extreme form of Islam.
She began following online preachers, including notorious Yemeni preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, and looking at Islamic State videos.
Ms Shoma said she had not heard of former Melbourne-based Islamic State recruit Neil Prakash, who is currently detained in Turkey, when asked by police.
She arrived in Melbourne on February 1 and moved to a homestay family, but had to leave on February 8 because a family member was ill.
She then moved to Mr Singaravelu’s home where she allegedly attempted to murder him the next day.
Mr Singaravelu and his wife Moha had taken homestay students for five years.
They were both in court today to see Ms Shoma for the first time since the incident.
Mr Singaravelu suffered damage to his spine and hand as a result of the alleged attack
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-01/momena-shoma-court-case-islamic-state-attempted-murder-claim/10060550
Iran protesters attack religious school: Fars news agency
Iran protesters have attacked a religious school in Karaj province near Tehran, the conservative Fars news agency reported on Saturday.
“At 9 pm (1530 GMT on Friday) they attacked the school and tried to break the doors down and burn things,” Fars quoted the head of the school in the town of Ishtehad, Hojatoleslam Hindiani, as saying.
It gave only his clerical rank — Hojatoleslam — not his given name.
“They were about 500 people and they chanted against the system but they were dispersed by the riot police and some have been arrested,” Hindiani said.
Iranian authorities have barely mentioned days of protests in the cities of Isfahan, Shiraz, Mashhad and Tehran, driven by concerns over the economy as well as wider anger at the political system.
During past unrest, conservative outlets have focused on attacks against sensitive symbols such as religious buildings as a way of tarnishing the protests.
Videos on social media in recent days have shown people chanting “Death to the dictator”, but these have been impossible to verify and the authorities have charged that they are promoted by emigre opposition groups funded by the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Describing the attack on Friday evening, Hindiani said: “These people came with rocks and broke the sign and all the windows of the prayer house and they were chanting against the system.”
Foreign media are barred from observing or filming “unauthorised” protests.
The videos on social media suggest protests in recent days are far from the scale of the unrest seen in December and January, when at least 25 people were killed in demonstrations that spread to dozens of towns and cities.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/iran-protesters-attack-religious-school-fars-news-agency-135413
Rioters attack religious school in northern Iran
Rioters have reportedly attacked a religious school in the northern Iranian province of Alborz, causing material damage to the facility before being dispersed by the police.
The attackers pelted rocks and bricks at the center in the province’s Eshtehard County, Fars news agency reported on Saturday quoting the facility’s director.
They broke the praying room’s windows, shouting “unconventional slogans,” Ali Hendiani told the agency.
They had assembled in response to a call to protests by “adversarial and anti-establishment groups so as to pursue the sinister goals of their masters,” he said.
More than 500 rioters gathered in front of the center the following day, shouting slogans but anti-riot police dispersed the gathering and rounded up some of the attackers, Fars said.
Limited protests against economic conditions have been held in Shiraz, Isfahan, Ahvaz and Karaj over the past few days. The protests have been largely described as peaceful without any major instance of violence.
Citizens are anxious over the collapse of the rial, which has lost nearly two-thirds of its value in six months and resulted in the rise of commodity prices.
Authorities have acknowledged that worries are legitimate but the biggest concern of many Iranians is that the protests might be hijacked by malicious groups inside and outside the country and turn violent.
In January, several Iranian cities were scenes of protests but they were hijacked by terrorist MKO elements, in which unknown elements opened fire at protesters and killed several people.
Iranian officials have said the voices of protesters need to be heard. However, they have warned of efforts by the enemies, the MKO and the royalists to manipulate the legitimate demands of the people and create mayhem.
The Islamic Republic is additionally wary of US plots under the new American administration to stir unrest in the country after pulling Washington out of a landmark nuclear deal and announcing new sanctions on Tehran.
There are some positive signs, however, with the government having pledged to put an economic plan together in order to ride out storm.
Iran’s new central bank governor has promised fresh currency policies in the coming days, and the state has launched an unprecedented transparency push that has seen dozens of arrests of profiteers.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/08/04/570153/Iran-riot-Alborz-seminary