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Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

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  1. IMAM SULAIMAN JALLOH (Washington D.C.): “ALLAH WILLING, AMERICA WILL BE A MUSLIM NATION”

    • October 2016, he told CNN in an interview about the U.S. presidential election: “Today, some people say, ‘You and I have no right to be here.’ That although this nation was founded on freedom of religion, your religion and mine is not welcome here’… My dear respected brothers and sisters: This time, I believe none of us has the option to just sit home.”

    • ALLAH WILLING, AMERICA WILL BE A MUSLIM NATION

      I’m terrified to think of whatever tragic, unexpected “accident” might await this unmitigated wad of jihadist excrement. Why he’s even able to maintain residence in North America is yet another eternal mystery for the ages.

    • “Their original goal had been to blow up several vehicles simultaneously in a densely populated spot, but the accidental explosion at the Alcanar house thwarted their plans.
      Having lost their explosives, the surviving jihadists improvised a new attack and used a car to mow down pedestrians in La Rambla, one of Barcelona’s most popular thoroughfares. The following day the police shot down five terrorists in Cambrils who mounted a sidewalk with another vehicle in a bid to kill more people.”

      There should be no rush to judgement or accusing the “Religion of Peace” before it is actually proven to be…..Muslims 😉

      • Flaming brilliant clip, MissPiggy!

        If irony was a convertible currency, that video would be pure gold.

        Take it to the top, Eeyore…

          • Definitely interesting, MissPiggy. Not my particular style, but the clip’s entire questioning of “modern genderism” is entirely worth the few minutes’ watching. Thank you.

  2. Burglar’s Bliss: Foreign Gang Break-Ins Soar Along With Summer Temps in Finland (sputniknews, Aug 8, 2018)
    https://sputniknews.com/viral/201808081067037801-finland-summer-burglary/

    “An exceptionally high number of burglars, many of them belonging to foreign gangs, are wanted by Finnish police. The crime spree has been partially attributed to the hot weather prompting Finns to leave their windows wide open.

    In July alone, over 270 suspected burglaries were reported to the Finnish police, which is well above the monthly average of 170, the Finnish daily newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet reported.

    According to the police, foreign gangs and abnormal heat are behind the increase.

    “This year, we have encountered problems with foreign burglars breaking into people’s homes. At most, we have been able to link up to twenty house break-ins to the same gang,” Minna Laukka of the National Bureau of Investigation said.

    According to Laukka, the vast majority of burglaries were committed in the Helsinki metropolitan area and southern and western Finland. Two-thirds of the break-ins occurred in single-family homes, whereas one-third happened in high-rises. Laukka emphasized that the number of robberies in blocks of flats was particularly high, sometimes with several burglaries occurring in the same area of one building.

    The peculiar trend of this summer has been linked to the heat. The abnormally hot summer has caused many Finns to leave their windows and doors open…”

    • Laukka emphasized that the number of robberies in blocks of flats was particularly high, sometimes with several burglaries occurring in the same area of one building.

      With an evident reciprocal level in firearm ownership. Go figure…

  3. Saudi Arabia Drops Canadian Wheat Imports Amid Bilateral Row – Reports (sputniknews, Aug 8, 2018)
    https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201808081067043317-saudis-ditch-canadian-wheat/

    “… Saudi Grains Organization (SAGO), a state agency responsible for organizing wheat import tenders for Saudi Arabia, has notified exporters that the country will no longer buy grain from Canada, Saudi daily newspaper Okaz reported. The agency hasn’t clarified what will happen to the wheat that has already been paid for, but hasn’t been shipped yet.

    The measure comes amid several similar moves by Saudi Arabia as it has cut not only diplomatic ties, but also cancelled joint scholarship and medical programs with Canada….”

    • … Saudi Grains Organization (SAGO), a state agency responsible for organizing wheat import tenders for Saudi Arabia, has notified exporters that the country will no longer buy grain from Canada, Saudi daily newspaper Okaz reported. The agency hasn’t clarified what will happen to the wheat that has already been paid for, but hasn’t been shipped yet.

      Keep an eye on this one. It’s a “canary-in-the-coal-mine”. The Magic Kingdom™ couldn’t possibly live without North American and Australian grain imports.

      Put another way, we in the West could survive a lot longer without Saudi petroleum exports than they ever could without imported Western wheat. P’raps someone needs to loudly remind these congenital ingrates of that fact.

      • First we need to educate our own citizens about this fact, along with the fact that we can live without importing Chinese goods but China can’t survive without exporting to us.

        • … we can live without importing Chinese goods but China can’t survive without exporting to us.

          Thank you for (repeatedly) emphasizing this, Richard. America—and not fecking Red flarking China—is the world’s “eye-level” commercial shelf. Any exporting nations that elect to disregard this fact need to be introduced to Mr. Dumpster.

          • If the predictions of a massive world wide recession/depression are proven to be right China should be headed to that location.

  4. Sweden: New ‘No Go Zone’ Police Station Rammed by Car, Attacked by Masked Arsonists (breitbart, Aug 8, 2018)
    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/08/sweden-new-no-go-zone-police-station-rammed-by-car-attacked-by-masked-arsonists/

    “A new police station currently under construction in Sweden’s heavily migrant-populated ‘no-go’ suburb of Rinkeby was attacked by several masked men who drove a car into the site and set it on fire.

    Police believe that the attack, which occurred at 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday, was directed at the police station which is in the process of being built in the troubled Stockholm suburb.

    They claim the masked men involved smashed a gate with a car filled with fireworks which they then proceeded to set on fire, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.

    Investigators added that the men also threw rocks and fireworks at the security guard on site and say that the attack may have been sparked by a drug bust which occurred in the area earlier in the evening.

    “It may be related to it. It is not entirely uncommon for reactions to such a thing,” said President of the Stockholm police Lars Byström.

    Mats Tapper, the production manager for the police station building project, said that he was relieved no one had been injured in the incident and vowed to review safety procedures to prevent a similar attack from occurring again.

    The attack is not the first hurdle for the new police station in Rinkeby. In March of last year, many cast doubt on how long it would take to complete the project as no construction companies seemed willing to take on the job, citing potential danger to their employees.

    “It would have to be guarded around the clock. This is because not only is there the risk of theft, but also the danger and threat to staff who will be working on the construction project,” an officer who wished to remain anonymous said at the time.

    The attack is also just the latest attack on a police station in Sweden including the bombing of a police station in Helsingborg last year that caused shock across the country.”

  5. Iran CIVIL WAR brewing: Fury at ‘corrupt’ regime – ‘they make us poorer every day’ (express, Aug 8, 2018)
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1000091/iran-news-trump-nuclear-deal-donald-trump-sanctions-rouhani

    “AN ongoing currency crisis and high levels of unemployment are pushing Iran to the brink of the civil war, with ordinary citizens speaking of their fury at the endemic corruption and financial mismanagement which is blighting their lives…”

    • Iran ‘REVOLUTION IS COMING’ as 100,000 rush to streets chanting ‘DEATH to dictator’ (express, Aug 8, 2018)
      https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1000562/Iran-news-revolution-protests-Tehran-Ayatollah-Ali-Khamenei-Hassan-Rouhani

      “IRAN is on the brink of a “revolution”, an expert has warned, as furious protestors take to the streets in their thousands to chant “death to the dictator”.

      Tensions have reached boiling point in the Middle East nation after US President Donald Trump slapped Iran with tough economic sanctions aimed at further undermining the Islamic fundamentalist republic

      Measures which target cars, gold and other metals trading, as well as the government’s ability to buy US dollars, came into force on Monday.

      The Iranian rial has lost half of its value against the US dollar on the unofficial market this year, while the price of fruit and vegetables has increased by 50 percent since the start of the year.

      Now an ongoing currency crisis and high levels of unemployment has pushed Iran to the brink of the civil war, with thousands taking to the streets to demand regime change…”

    • Iran crowds reportedly chant ‘death to the dictator!’ as US sanctions increase economic unrest

      Days of unprecedented protests aimed at Iran’s sluggish economy along with “biting” sanctions imposed by President Trump are ramping up pressure Tuesday on the Islamic Republic’s ruling class and causing many analysts to wonder if regime change could be on the horizon.

      Videos circulating on social media purportedly taken from inside Iran show thousands of protesters marching through the streets. In one video, crowds leaving a soccer match are heard yelling “death to the dictator! Death to Khamenei! Death to Rouhani!” and “Islamic regime must get lost!” according to a translation tweeted by a Middle East analyst.

      http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/08/07/iran-crowds-reportedly-chant-death-to-dictator-as-us-sanctions-increase-economic-unrest.html

  6. Saudi Arabia crucifies Myanmar man convicted of murder (abcnews, Aug 8, 2018)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/saudi-arabia-crucifies-myanmar-man-convicted-murder-57104251

    “Saudi Arabia says it executed and crucified a man from Myanmar convicted of killing a woman and carrying out other crimes.

    The state-run Saudi Press Agency reported on the execution Wednesday, saying it was carried out in the Muslim holy city of Mecca.

    It said Elias Abulkalaam Jamaleddeen entered a Myanmar woman’s home firing a gun and then stabbed her to death. He was convicted of robbing her home and another home, attempted rape, and stealing firearms and ammunition.

    The report said his conviction was upheld by the courts and his execution was endorsed by King Salman.

    Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s top executioners, though crucifixions — in which the condemned is usually beheaded and then the body put on display — are rare.”

    • The Romans(who really did know what they were talking about) saw crucifixion as the worst and most painful death possible beating such exoticisms as “the wheel” and Impalement by a country mile. As these were the fellows who cut your throat to be kind (if severely wounded) it places the Saudis and muslims in particular at the absolute bottom of the ethics and humanitarianism well. But no one seems to be that troubled by this so long as the reality TV continues. Do note that before JoN it was normal to leave injured strangers lying in the gutter and to simply step over them. This is a primarily Christian trait and in Asia and Africa and the ME did NOT exist in most places before WW2 (until Christianity) and quite a few years after and still even now. In 1942 the Flying tigers used airfields in china. The steam roller used was pulled by ~500+ men and every so often one would trip and be killed. The Chinese thought this hysterically funny. Humour has its origins as an expression of relief that something nasty did NOT happen to you but to someone else and in the history of the world movie the caveman bit was spot on. Compassion for fellow humans is lacking totally in muslims.

      • I believe that muslims use the term, ‘mercy’ and its various conjugations, to mean that Allah did not f*ck you over as much as he could have.

        That is what mercy and compassion means to Islam and its serious adherents.

        • That is what mercy and compassion means to Islam and its serious adherents.

          Which is why we fight (and type).

      • Considering what the medical care was like back then cutting the throat of critically wounded people was merciful, it spared them a very painful lingering death.

        If the left gains control of the entire world we will return to tho time when mercy is just a word.

  7. The Crackdown Continues: Twitter Suspends Libertarian Accounts, Including Ron Paul Institute Director

    One day after what appeared to be a coordinated attack by media giants Facebook, Apple, Spotify and Google on Alex Jones, whose various social media accounts were banned or suspended in a matter of hours, the crackdown against alternative media figures continued as several Libertarian figures, including the Ron Paul Institute director, found their Twitter accounts suspended.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-07/crackdown-continues-twitter-suspends-libertarian-accounts-including-ron-paul

  8. In Venezuela’s hospitals, eat at your own risk

    Hardly anybody likes hospital food but in Venezuela, it’s so awful — monotonous, starchy diets cooked in filthy conditions, and newborns fed intravenous solution for lack of baby formula — that experts call it an actual health risk.

    Take Carla Lopez, 40, who has been hospitalized for three months to treat open wounds on her foot as a result of diabetes.

    Lopez should go easy on pasta and rice — but that’s all she gets.

    “I eat whatever they give me,” Lopez said as she waves away flies buzzing over a plate of rice and lentils at University Hospital in Caracas. It is pretty flavorless stuff as the hospital is out of salt.

    An excess of starch causes her blood sugar levels to shoot up.

    https://www.afp.com/en/news/205/venezuelas-hospitals-eat-your-own-risk-doc-1869e91

  9. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Ties To China Go Way Deeper Than An Alleged Office Spy

    As media, intelligence agency, and political scrutiny of foreign meddling is seemingly at its apex, a story with big national security implications involving a high-ranking senator with access to America’s most sensitive intelligence information has been hiding in plain sight.

    The story involves China and the senior U.S. senator from California, and former chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Democrat Dianne Feinstein. It was buried eight paragraphs into a recent Politico exposé on foreign efforts to infiltrate Silicon Valley, as a passing example of political espionage:

    http://thefederalist.com/2018/08/08/sen-dianne-feinsteins-ties-china-go-way-deeper-alleged-office-spy/

  10. Super gonorrhoea OUTBREAK worsens as new strains emerge – and there is NO CURE

    SUPER gonorrhoea has taken hold as seven new strains of the sexually transmitted infection (STI) emerged fuelling fears of an outbreak.

    Two completely drug-resistant versions of the venereal disease have been found and identified – with fears rampant unprotected sex could rigger an epidemic.

    Doctors have been unable to treat patients with antibiotic ceftriaxone and azithromycin.

    And sufferers have been left with a gonorrhoea – also known as the clap – infection that causes extreme pain during urination.

    Australia’s federal government has issued a report warning of the risk of the “continuing threat of antimicrobial resistance by dangerous bacteria”.

    Officials added another five strains of gonorrhoea have been found which have “high level resistance” to treatments.

    https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/721965/super-gonorrhoea-sti-outbreak-strain-untreatable-australia-symptoms-who

  11. Richard: The attempt to remove Trumps star from the walk of fame is troubling on several levels, 1st it is the beginning of unpersoning Trump. The Communists do this in their countries and we don’t want this attack on free speech and history to get started in the US. 2nd the various perverts that the Me2 campaign outed still have their stars in place and no one is trying to remove them. This says that in the minds of the left being a political conservative populists is more evil the sexual perversion.

    Why the push to remove Trump’s star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame is no laughing matter
    By Ben Bowles August 7, 2018

    In a purely symbolic move — it still needs to go before the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which controls the tourist attraction — the West Hollywood City Council has unanimously passed a resolution to remove Donald Trump’s star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

    The star, which was recently bludgeoned by a vandals using a sledgehammer and pickax, was placed on the Walk on Hollywood Boulevard on on Jan. 16, 2007 to honor Trump as producer of the NBC reality show “The Apprentice,” in which he also had a central on-screen role.

    According to The Daily Caller, the proposal to remove the star cites as its reasons:

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/08/07/why-the-push-to-remove-trumps-star-from-the-hollywood-walk-of-fame-is-no-laughing-matter/

    • In a purely symbolic move — it still needs to go before the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which controls the tourist attraction — the West Hollywood City Council has unanimously passed a resolution to remove Donald Trump’s star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

      Why not go ahead and start “kneeling” during the National Anthem. Maybe we can start choking off your economic pipeline, too. Blood ticks!

  12. Dem Sen. Mazie Hirono invades judges’ privacy by prying into their sex lives
    By Jerome Woehrle August 7, 2018

    It is wrong to ask someone intrusive questions about his private life. A federal appeals court made that clear in allowing a woman to sue over invasive questions by federal officials. It ruled that she had a plausible claim that federal officials violated her constitutional privacy rights by questioning her about private details of her “home life” in a race-relations seminar. (See Robinson v. Reed (1978)).

    But Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) is asking people nominated to become federal judges intrusive questions about their sex lives, as lawyer Scott Greenfield notes in “Hirono’s perjury trap.” Hirono asks nominees a confusing compound question that conflates merely asking your spouse for sex with serious acts of sexual harassment:

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/08/07/senator-hirono-invades-judges-privacy-by-prying-into-their-sex-lives/

  13. TORONTO – Mentally ill stabber in army recruiting centre attack allowed to attend Mohawk College

    The mentally ill man found not criminally responsible for trying to kill three soldiers at a Toronto recruiting centre will be allowed to attend Mohawk College across the street from the secure psychiatric unit where he’s currently being detained, the Sun has learned.

    […]Yet in its own reasons for decision, the board also found Ali, who suffers from schizophrenia, “still poses a significant threat to the safety of the public” and “holds some of the same delusions, that he experienced at the time of the (attack).”

    […]He also “continues to express concerns about the Canadian government and its interactions with Muslim countries.”

    […]Ali, 30, has been held in the secure forensic unit at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Hamilton ever since the terrifying March attack in 2016 when he burst into the North York recruiting office on Yonge St. wielding a large kitchen knife. He later told psychiatrists that he believed soldiers were a “legitimate target” due to Canada’s military action in Muslim countries.

    “I have a licence to kill, I have a green light to kill,” Ali had written in his diary. “One soldier is all it takes, just one.”

    […]According to the ORB reasons, Ali was hearing voices at the time through the TV and radio and believed he should “martyr himself.” In an initial interview after his arrest, he said he was disappointed he hadn’t been killed.[…]

    https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/mandel-mentally-ill-stabber-in-army-recruiting-centre-attack-allowed-to-attend-mohawk-college

    • No lunatic quite like bleeding heart psychiatrists who are far more dangerous than most of their patients.

  14. euronews – THERESA MAY CONDEMNS BORIS JOHNSON’S BURKA COMMENTS

    Theresa May has criticised her former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson for an article in which he described burka-wearing women as looking “absolutely ridiculous” .

    Mr Johnson made the remarks in a Daily Telegraph column.

    • itv news – Boris Johnson won’t apologise over burka comments despite calls from Theresa May

      Prime Minister Theresa May has piled pressure on Boris Johnson for his remarks around Muslim women wearing burkas as he continues to resist pressure to apologise.

      The former foreign secretary has branded those criticising his comments “ridiculous.”

      Mrs May has said she agrees with Conservative Party chairman Brandon Lewis, who earlier called on Mr Johson to apologise for his controversial words.

      “I do think that we all have to be very careful about the language and terms we use.

      “And some of the terms Boris used describing people’s appearance obviously have offended. So I agree with Brandon Lewis,” she said.

      “What’s important is do we believe people should have the right to practise their religion and, in the case of women and the burka and niqab, to choose how they dress.

      “I believe women should be able to choose how they dress.”

      A source close to Mr Johnson made it clear that he was not retracting his words.

      “It is ridiculous that these views are being attacked – we must not fall into the trap of shutting down the debate on difficult issues,” said the source.

      “We have to call it out. If we fail to speak up for liberal values then we are simply yielding ground to reactionaries and extremists.”

    • the guardian ‘It was wrong to use that language’: May on Johnson’s comments

      Theresa May has called on Boris Johnson to apologise after he compared Muslim women in burqas to ‘letterboxes’ and ‘bank robbers’.

      She added that ‘nobody should tell a woman how to dress’ [... only Allah and the prophet can ....]

    • Conservatives Cheer Boris Johnson After His Criticism of Islamic Veils, Likely to Become Next PM

    • ‘Drop Boris Johnson over burka row,’ says Tory peer – BBC Newsnight

      Boris Johnson should be kicked out of the Conservative Party for his remarks about the burka, a senior Muslim Conservative peer has said.

      Conservative Muslim Forum founder Lord Sheikh said demands from the PM for an apology were not enough. So what next for Boris Johnson?

  15. IRAQ – $4.6m fake Roman amphitheatre opened in Iraqi Kurdistan

    […] in Iraq’s Sulaymaniyah

    The project cost $4.6m and aims to be a platform for presenting Kurdish culture and holding international arts festivals.

    “I’m very happy to see such cultural landmarks in my country, which may attract tourists and help the Kurdistan region financially,

  16. Is Donald Trump likely to be impeached? – BBC Newsnight

    As the trial of Donald Trump’s former campaign chief heats up, is the collusion probe even the biggest legal threat for the president?

    Here the US President’s former adviser Sam Nunberg and Elizabeth Holtzman, who helped impeach Nixon, give their thoughts on how likely Donald Trump is to be impeached.

    • So far all of the accusations have been proven wrong, Trump has broken no laws and can’t be impeached.

      FYI: Impeaching a President means a bill of impeachment is voted out of the house, Nixon resigned before the bill was introduced into the house so he wasn’t impeached. For Trump to be impeached would require the Dems 1) take control of Congress and 2) go even crazier then they are now. Impeaching Trump and removing him from office would put VP Pence in the White House and he would probably continue Trumps policies. Going after him the way that they are Trump would prove to the voters and the rest of the world that the Dems were using impeachment as a political tool and not a punishment for committing crimes. It would also mean the destruction of the United States.

  17. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL – Spiralling death toll in Central Med a ‘deadly consequence’ of European policies – new report

    […]The recent rise in deaths in the Mediterranean and dramatic rise in the number of people held in squalid detention centres in Libya are the “deadly consequences” of Europe’s policies towards refugees and migrants, Amnesty International said in a new report today (8 August).

    […]Italy’s dangerous new policy: refusing disembarkation

    Italy’s new policy of denying entry in its ports to ships carrying refugees and migrants have rendered the search and rescue system unreliable, unpredictable, and punitive.

    […]Unnecessary delays in disembarkation forced people in need of urgent assistance – including injured people, pregnant women, torture survivors, people traumatized by shipwrecks and unaccompanied minors – to remain at sea for several days.

    […]Hostile treatment of NGOs

    The increasingly hostile treatment by Italian and Maltese authorities of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) dedicated to saving lives at sea is depleting the central Mediterranean of vital rescue assets. NGOs, which had previously carried out around 40 percent of rescues, now face slander, intimidation and court cases. The authorities have recently impounded a number of NGO owned vessels.

    […]“European governments are colluding with the Libyan authorities to contain refugees and migrants in Libya, despite the horrific abuses they face at the hands of the Libyan Coast Guard and in detention centres in Libya.

    […]“In its callous refusal to allow refugees and migrants to disembark in its ports, Italy is using human lives as bargaining chips. Desperate people have been left stranded at sea with insufficient food, water and shelter.

    “On top of this, the Italian and Maltese authorities have smeared, intimidated and criminalised the NGOs that try to save lives at sea, refused their boats permission to disembark and even impounded them.

    https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/spiralling-death-toll-central-med-deadly-consequence-european-policies-new-report

  18. De Blasio leaves no criminal vote behind

    (UPI) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday announced the launch a voter registration drive inside the city’s jails.

    The initiative, carried out by the Legal Aid Society of New York and the city’s Campaign Finance Board, will register eligible voters and facilitate direct pick-up and delivery of voter registration forms and absentee ballots. Eligible inmates had previously been able to mail in absentee ballots, but the jail mailing system is known to take substantially more time than the normal process, causing votes to be received too late.

    There is no change to the current voting law in New York State. People being held in pre-trial detention and those serving time for misdemeanors have been allowed to vote. People serving time for felony convictions will not be eligible to register.

    The initiative is part of DemocracyNYC, a city effort to increase voter participation.

    “Voting access must be expanded and protected in our city. That applies to everyone, including people in custody,” de Blasio said in a statement. “This initiative will help more incarcerated New Yorkers participate in our democracy and have their voices heard.”

    http://www.gopusa.com/?p=52005?omhide=true

  19. New York Times: Pence Is An Existential Threat… Because He Is A Christian

    Political partisans are always trying to convince the public that their opponents in the other party are not fit for office. They argue over questions of experience, qualifications, and policies.

    However, it seems the national discourse has hit a new, disgusting low – thanks to the New York Times – and it should concern Christians most of all!

    New York Times author Frank Bruni makes the argument that Vice President Mike Pence is unfit for office solely because he is a believer. This is blatant anti-Christian bigotry pure and simple.

    https://libertynewsnow.com/new-york-times-pence-is-an-existential-threat-because-he-is-a-christian/article9708

    This is a new low for the Slimes

  20. Finnish Officials Call for More Mental Health Care Units for Migrants – Reports (sputniknews, Aug 8, 2018)
    https://sputniknews.com/europe/201808081067052257-finland-mental-health-care-asylum-seekers/

    “Finland needs more facilities that provide mental health care to asylum seekers since the only existing unit is struggling to accommodate the increasing number of patients, Yle broadcaster reported, citing officials, on Wednesday.

    The facility, located in the city of Lahti in southern Finland, had only 20 beds, the Yle broadcaster reported.

    The outlet stated, citing Kimmo Lehto, the chief of a reception center for asylum seekers in Lahti, supervised by the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri), that another facility was required in order to cope with the growing number of asylum seekers in need of support and counseling. The agency requested additional funding for this from the Finnish Interior Ministry, Lehto said.

    The Lahti mental health care facility’s annual budget currently stands at 1.3 million euros ($1.5 million), which is spent on personnel costs. The daily per-client cost at the facility is 200 euros, which is more than 55 euros at regular facilities. Still, treating patients in the unit is less expensive than placing them in 24-hour care at a hospital, according to Lehto.

    “There is a constant queue at the facility,” Migri’s senior inspector Paivi Hieta said, as quoted by Yle.

    Johann Kiander, who works for the Lahti reception center, has said that those who address the Lahti special support unit had endured suffering in the past or were experiencing negative emotions over their rejected asylum applications.

    “Some have endured dangerous trips across the continent or are victims of trafficking. Others are traumatized by war or worry about missing relatives,” Kiander pointed out.

    Lehto, in his turn, insisted that it was important to help asylum seekers with mental health problems for security reasons. However, most of the unit’s patients suffered from depression and were a danger to themselves rather than to others.

    According to Yle, the rate of asylum denials in Finland is high. Out of the 11,400 people currently located in the country’s reception centers, 9,000 received denials on their applications. Since many reapply for asylum, the process can last for years…”

  21. BANISHED: Pakistani Grooming Gang Rapists Lose British Citizenship (breitbart, Aug 8, 2018)
    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/08/pakistani-rochdale-grooming-gang-members-lose-british-citizenship/

    “Three rapists from the Rochdale child grooming gang will be stripped of British citizenship after a top judge branded their predatory attacks “serious organised crime”.

    Three years ago Theresa May, then Home Secretary, decided that Abdul Aziz, 47, Adil Khan, 48, and Abdul Rauf, 48, should lose their British passports because of their crimes and the fact they are also citizens of Pakistan.

    Before their imprisonment, the trio worked as taxi drivers, with Rauf also acting as a Muslim preacher. They lost an appeal against the decision this Wednesday after being initially jailed at a trial in 2012.

    All had been found guilty of conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children under the age of 16 and trafficking for sexual exploitation at trial.

    During the appeal, they argued their “human rights” would be violated if they were deported as they have children in the United Kingdom.

    However, senior judges at the Court of Appeal have now agreed with the Home Office that taking their citizenship away would be “conducive to the public good,” the Manchester Evening News reports.

    Lord Justice Sales said that “they were motivated by lust and greed” and that Mrs May’s decision to have them deported was “reasonably open to her.”

    “The crimes were plainly very serious and there was a sufficient element of organisation in the way they were committed to justify characterising the offending as participation in serious organised crime,” he added.

    Gang ringleader Shabir Ahmed, 64, lost a separate appeal against deportation in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in 2016, when he claimed his convictions were a police and “far right” conspiracy to “scapegoat” Muslims…”

  22. Germany arrests man accused of spying on mosque for Jordan (abcnews, Aug 8, 2018)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/germany-arrests-man-accused-spying-mosque-jordan-57107882

    “German authorities say they have arrested a German man who is accused of spying on a mosque for Jordan.

    Federal prosecutors said the 33-year-old, identified only as Alexander B. because of German privacy rules, was arrested Tuesday. They didn’t specify where.

    The prosecutors alleged in a statement issued Wednesday that the suspect worked in 2016 for a Jordanian intelligence agency, gathering information on the mosque in the central German city of Hildesheim.

    He allegedly handed over information on several people he suspected of planning to travel to Syria to join Islamic militant groups or who had already traveled there.

    German authorities banned the organization that ran the mosque in March 2017. They long had considered the DIK group to be a magnet for radicals.”

  23. A Racist Communist Famine Grows in South Africa
    Leftist land seizures and racist politics will lead to genocide.

    “Strongman politics are ascendant,” Barack Obama warned in South Africa. He spoke passionately about “the politics of fear and resentment” at the Mandela Lecture. He worried that we were entering a world, “where might makes right and politics is a hostile competition between tribes and races and religions.”

    While the media used the remarks to attack Trump’s meeting with Putin, Obama had shared a stage with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa who had come to power promising to seize land from white farmers. Ramaphosa was the latest in a series of ANC strongmen, including his predecessor, an alleged rapist, beginning with the Communist terrorist whose legacy Obama was commemorating.

    President Ramaphosa had vowed early on to seize land from white farmers without compensation. “The expropriation of land without compensation is envisaged as one of the measures that we will use to accelerate redistribution of land to black South Africans,” he had declared. And denied that such racist Communist tactics were unconstitutional. Now he’s moving to modify South Africa’s constitution.

    Initially, the ANC, which is partnered with the South African Communist Party, had claimed that seizing land would not violate the law. Now it’s actually going to change the South African constitution.

    “It has become pertinently clear that our people want the constitution to be more explicit about expropriation of land without compensation,” President Ramaphosa announced.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270960/racist-communist-famine-grows-south-africa-daniel-greenfield

    • Richard selected gems from the rest of the article

      South Africa’s agricultural sector has been steadily in decline. Farms used to provide millions of jobs. Now they offer less than a million. Wheat planting has fallen to a third. Cotton to a tenth. A country that once exported wheat, is now importing millions of tons while its agriculture sector fails.

      The media frequently repeats fake news statistics which claim that white farmers own 70% or more of the country’s farmland. The actual number is less than a quarter. Some of the best land in South Africa is already in black hands. And, just as in Zimbabwe, it hasn’t remedied the agricultural or social problems.

      From what is in the article South African food production is in death spiral and just like Zimbabwe they are going to end up depending on charity from others to provide enough food to prevent mass starvation. The problem for South Africa is that thanks to the Islamic Invasion of the Western Nations few of them have the money to provide free food for a nation that deliberately destroyed its farming industry. South Africa has a lot of its food grown on marginal land, it takes a lot of knowledge to manage the land without destroying it, I doubt if the ANC thugs will have one one hundredth of the knowledge to keep any of the farmland productive.

  24. In 2011, The Campus Was 63% Caucasian. In 2017, 55%. There Is Still Much Work To Do.
    August 8, 2018
    Daniel Greenfield

    What’s the difference between diversity and ethnic cleansing again?

    Cal Poly San Luis Obispo recently released a 30-page report outlining plans to “improve diversity” via a series of initiatives.

    Usually colleges don’t say, “Less white people” quite as bluntly. They focus on the “positive”, minority recruitment, not the negative, whom they don’t want, white and Asian students. That’s partly for legal and public relations reasons.

    But here the diverse racism spilled out.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/270700/2011-campus-was-63-caucasian-2017-55-there-still-daniel-greenfield

  25. Muslim Candidate Out to “Prove Socialism Can Work in the Midwest” Loses
    August 8, 2018
    Daniel Greenfield

    Socialism is having its moment. And look at all the candidates it’s electing.

    Bernie Sanders’ Vision Is On The Michigan Democratic Primary Ballot – Huffington Post

    Abdul El-Sayed hopes to keep progressive wave rolling in Michigan – CNN

    Abdul El-Sayed’s Campaign Is a Test for Leftism in the Midwest – New York Magazine

    Bernie Sanders, Abdul El-Sayed draw 1,400 at Detroit rally

    Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign to prove Democratic Socialism can win in the Midwest – ThinkProgress

    Guess what happened to that vision?

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/270973/muslim-candidate-out-prove-socialism-can-work-daniel-greenfield

  26. Conscience. Character. Courage.
    Tommy Robinson’s story.
    August 7, 2018
    Bruce Bawer

    I didn’t think I could get any more outraged than I already was over the recent abuse of Tommy Robinson by the British deep state. Arrested during a live Facebook broadcast from outside Leeds Crown Court, he was rushed through a travesty of a trial, then shipped to a prison before the day was over, only to be released – after nearly three months of cruel and unusual punishment – when the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales finally declared the whole process thoroughly illegitimate.

    Clearly, there were people high up in the system who were out to get him. To put the country’s most outspoken critic of Islam in a hoosegow where he’d be surrounded by Muslims and, with any luck, would end up being found dead in his cell of unknown causes.

    As I say, I didn’t think I could be more outraged. But then I caught up with Tommy’s autobiography, Enemy of the State, which was first published in 2015 and which I read in a 2017 revised edition. By turns riveting, frustrating, and inspiring, it tells the story of an ordinary working-class lad – a good soul and solid friend, if a bit of a mischief-maker – who gradually came to understand that his country faced an existential threat from an enemy within, and, driven by a conscience of remarkable magnitude, became an activist.

    What was it, exactly, that drove Tommy to activism? Well, to begin with, his hometown, Luton, where he still lives, was a place where he had friends, white and black and brown, from a wide range of backgrounds – but where one tight-knit group, namely Muslims, seemed to hold all the cards, standing apart from (and above) all the others, refusing to blend in, treating the kafir with arrogance and contempt.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270957/conscience-character-courage-bruce-bawer

  27. In Georgia primary, 670 ballots from precinct with 276 voters
    Christine Condon, McClatchy

    [Ed. – Nothing here that voter ID wouldn’t be insurance against, in terms of fraud and vote disruption. But, of course, that’s not the media’s reason for highlighting it. The purpose is to alarm us about our elections (and apparently make us fear that Russian bots on Facebook are somehow creating fake ballots out of thin air in northeastern Georgia. However, if anyone has been doing it, the best bet seems to be some U.S. group that in 2016 was going through a Department of Homeland Security IP address to try to intrude in the Georgia state voter registration website).]

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/08/07/in-georgia-primary-670-ballots-from-precinct-with-276-voters/

    Bizarre tales, confusing ballots from Georgia’s primary contained in federal lawsuit

    Read more here: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article216056560.html#storylink=cpy

    Washington

    It appeared, according to the Georgia Secretary of State’s website, that Habersham County’s Mud Creek precinct in northeastern Georgia had 276 registered voters ahead of the state’s primary elections in May.

    Some 670 ballots were cast, according to the Georgia secretary of state’s office, indicating a 243 percent turnout.

    But on Tuesday at 10 a.m., the number of registered voters on the secretary of state’s website was changed for Mud Creek to 3,704 registered voters, reflecting a more likely turnout of about 18 percent.

    Read more here: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article216056560.html#storylink=cpy

    https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article216056560.html

  28. Richard: As you read this article remember the way the Dems are trying to stop anyone who is openly a believing Christian from holding elected office in the US.

    Chinese police raiding Christian homes, demolishing churches, confiscating Bibles
    Miami Herald August 7, 2018

    [Ed. – This is exactly in line with the familiar pattern of communist totalitarianism, a path Xi Jinping has been going down for some time now. It’s probably going to get worse before it gets better. Based on classic signs, the two nations in the Eastern hemisphere where preparations for a national war footing are most systematically underway are China and Turkey.]

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/08/07/chinese-police-raiding-christian-homes-demolishing-churches-confiscating-bibles/

    Christian heartland opens window into fight for China’s soul

    NANYANG, China

    The 62-year-old Chinese shopkeeper had waited nearly his entire adult life to see his dream of building a church come true — a brick house with a sunny courtyard and spacious hall with room for 200 believers.

    But in March, about a dozen police officers and local officials suddenly showed up at the church on his property and made the frightened congregants disperse. They ordered that the cross, a painting of the Last Supper and Bible verse calligraphy be taken down. And they demanded that all services stop until each person along with the church itself was registered with the government, said the shopkeeper, Guo, who gave his last name only from fear of retribution.

    Without warning, Guo and his neighbors in China’s Christian heartland province of Henan had found themselves on the front lines of an ambitious new effort by the officially atheist ruling Communist Party to dictate — and in some cases displace — the practice of faith in the country.

    Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article216218255.html#storylink=cpy

    https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article216218255.html

  29. Yazidi Slavery, Child Trafficking, Death Threats to Journalist: Should Turkey Remain in NATO?

    by Uzay Bulut
    August 8, 2018 at 4:30 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12816/turkey-child-trafficking-slavery

    August 3 marked the fourth anniversary of the ISIS invasion of Sinjar, Iraq and the start of the Yazidi genocide. Since that date in 2014, approximately 3,100 Yazidis either have been executed or died of dehydration and starvation, according to the organization Yazda. At least 6,800 women and children were kidnapped by ISIS terrorists and subjected to sexual and physical abuse, captives were forced to convert to Islam, and young boys were separated from their families and forced to become child soldiers, according to a report entitled “Working Against the Clock: Documenting Mass Graves of Yazidis Killed by the Islamic State.” Moreover, 3,000 Yazidi women and girls are believed to remain in ISIS captivity, but their whereabouts are unknown.

    One Yazidi child recently sold in Ankara, Turkey, and then freed through the mediation efforts of Yazidi and humanitarian-aid organizations, according to a report by Hale Gönülta?, a journalist with the Turkish news website Gazete Duvar. On July 30, three days after Gönülta?’s article appeared, she received a death threat on her mobile phone from a Turkish-speaking man, who told her that he knew her home address, and then shouted, “Jihad will come to this land. Watch your step!”

    This is not the first time that Gönülta? has been threatened for writing about ISIS atrocities. In May 2017, she received similar telephone threats after posting two articles: “200,000 children in ISIS camps,” and “ISIS holds 600 children from Turkey.”

  30. Very disturbing: New Mexico Compound A Training Camp For School Shooters
    https://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2018/08/08/prosecutor-new-mexico-compound-a-training-camp-for-school-shooters/

    Prosecutors said in court documents obtained Wednesday that the father of a missing Jonesboro boy was training children at a New Mexico compound to commit school shootings.

    The documents say Siraj Ibn Wahhaj was conducting weapons training with assault rifles at the compound near the Colorado border where 11 hungry children were found in filthy conditions.
    [..]
    Prosecutors did not bring up the school shooting accusation in court on Wednesday during an initial appearance by the abuse suspects.

    Authorities say the remains of a boy also were found at the compound but have not been positively identified by medical examiners.

    The child, Abdul-ghani Wahhaj, went missing in December in Jonesboro, Georgia, near Atlanta.

    Authorities say his father had told the boy’s mother that he wanted to perform an exorcism on the child. He later said he was taking the child to a park and didn’t return.

    • More details here. Father faces extradition:
      https://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2018/08/07/father-arrested-at-nm-compound-faces-extradtion-son-still-missing/

      The warrant said the boy suffered from severe medical issues including hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, a defect caused by lack of oxygen and blood flow around the time of birth.

      The boy’s mother said the boy can’t walk and requires constant attention.
      [..]
      The other man, Lucas Morton, was taken into custody on suspicion of harboring a fugitive.

      The women, believed to be mothers of some of the children, have been identified as 35-year-old Jany Leveille, 38-year-old Hujrah Wahhaj, and 35-year-old Subhannah Wahhaj.

      Jail booking photos show them wearing traditional Muslim veils or hijabs.

      The adults each are facing 11 charges of child abuse.

  31. EU Unable to Neutralize US Sanctions against Iran

    by Soeren Kern
    August 8, 2018 at 5:00 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12815/iran-sanctions-european-union

    The European Union has announced a new regulation aimed at shielding European companies from the impact of US sanctions on Iran. The measure, which has been greeted with skepticism by the European business media, is unlikely to succeed: it expects European companies to risk their business interests in the US market for interests in the much smaller Iranian market.

    The so-called “Blocking Statute” entered into effect on August 7, the same day that the first round of US sanctions on Iran officially snapped back into place. Those sanctions target Iran’s purchases of US dollars — the main currency for international financial transactions and oil purchases — as well as the auto, civil aviation, coal, industrial software and metals sectors. A second, much stronger round of sanctions targeting Iran’s oil exports, takes effect on November 5.

    The action follows up on President Donald J. Trump’s decision on May 8 to withdraw from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA, also known as the Iran Nuclear Deal) negotiated by the Obama administration, which lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange for a freeze on its nuclear program.

    • EU Unable to Neutralize US Sanctions against Iran

      Stop! Stop! You’re ripping my heart out!!!

  32. Extremist Muslim father arrested at New Mexico compound housing 11 starving children was ‘training them to commit school shootings’ and had set up target practice area on the site
    Siraj Wahhaj, 39, was arrested at a compound in Amalia, New Mexico, on Friday
    Prosecutors say he was training the 11 children there to learn how to shoot guns
    It was intended as practice for mass school shootings, according to police
    They were saved when police raided the property after intercepting a message intended for someone else outside which said they were all starving
    Wahhaj is the son of a prominent imam in New York City and had been on the run since December when he vanished with his disabled three-year-old son, AG
    AG was not among the 11 kids who were rescued on Friday
    Police are yet to confirm whether remains found at the compound belong to him
    Also arrested were the 11 children’s mothers and Wahhaj’s brother-in-law

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6040727/Extremist-Muslim-father-New-Mexico-compound-training-kids-carry-school-shootings.html

  33. August 8, 2018
    Out of the shadows: FBI corruption probe about to put Bruce Ohr in the hot seat
    By Thomas Lifson
    The weaponization of the FBI’s counterintelligence operations on behalf of Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy is the greatest political scandal in American history. The dramatic story is unfolding before our eyes, and the key point to remember is that declassification of key documents is controlling the pace of the story – and President Trump has the ability to declassify anything he sees fit to share with the American public.

    This alone should be enough to strike terror in the heart of anyone implicated in this scheme. But when you consider that Donald Trump is the most successful reality television producer in the history of that medium, and therefore is a master of dramatic pacing, and that the midterm election in November is the prize at stake, then there is reason to believe that the American public is about to learn a lot of disturbing news about the Deep State before people go to the polls.

    The public already has learned a lot of about James Comey, Robert Mueller, Rod Rosenstein, and the disturbing Peter Strzok.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/08/out_of_the_shadows_fbi_corruption_probe_about_to_put_bruce_ohr_on_the_hot_seat.html

  34. What passes for “journalism” today? Washington Post reporter Eli Rosenberg contacted my organization, the Government Accountability Institute, at midnight to comment on an incendiary piece challenging our groundbreaking work on voter fraud. For some strange reason, we were unavailable at that time.
    He then promptly published the story at 5:45 a.m., noting that “GAI declined to comment on Tuesday morning.” His actions eliminate even the most charitable interpretations of anything resembling journalistic fairness.

    His article is a hit piece posing as a news article. He’s clearly doing the bidding of left-wing activists who are concerned by our data-driven research that demonstrates real evidence of the threat of voter fraud.

    The Washington Post’s antics shows that the very forces exposed in my book Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election are frightened by what we’ve uncovered.

    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/08/wapo-uses-soros-funded-group-to-attack-gai-voter-fraud-expose-on-day-of-book-launch/

  35. Canada’s spy service has settled a multimillion-dollar lawsuit with five intelligence officers and analysts who claimed they faced years of discrimination because they were gay, Muslim or Black.

    The Canadian Security Intelligence Service posted a comment from director David Vigneault on the agency’s website Thursday afternoon, stating that the agreement had been reached with the help of a mediator.

    https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/12/14/csis-settles-multimillion-dollar-lawsuit-with-employees-who-claimed-workplace-islamophobia-racism-and-homophobia.html

  36. Six hundred and seventy ballots were cast in a Georgia precinct with 276 registered voters in the state’s primary election, according to the Georgia Secretary of State’s office.
    A northeastern Georgia precinct located in Habersham County had 276 registered voters before the state’s primary elections at the end of May, but 670 votes were recorded—indicating that 276 percent of voters turned out in Georgia’s primary election, McClatchy reported.

    The recently publicized voting irregularities come as the state investigated other instances of voter fraud—including one where an Atlanta City Hall staffer claimed she had to “print and deliver 500 blank absentee ballots” to an advocacy group staffer and pick up additional ballots from the Atlanta mayor’s campaign office to drop them off at an office in Fulton County.

    Part of the reason for the increase in voter fraud claims stems from concerns about the security of Georgia’s electronic voting systems, as Georgia is one of a handful of states, including New Jersey, South Carolina, Delaware, and Louisiana, that uses electronic voting machines that do not produce a paper trail for voters to verify their ballots.

    Elections experts say the lack of a paper trail makes the ballots difficult to audit.

    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/07/voter-fraud-670-ballots-cast-georgia-precinct-276-voters/

  37. Three men from Rochdale child sex gang are stripped of British citizenship and will now be booted out of country as top judges blast their reign of terror as ‘serious organised crime’
    Taxi drivers Abdul Aziz, Adil Khan and Abdul Rauf were among nine men jailed
    Gang committed appalling crimes against girls in Greater Manchester in 2012
    Theresa May ruled they should have names deleted from roll of British citizens
    This has now been backed at Court of Appeal, paving the way to deport them

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6039089/Three-men-Rochdale-child-sex-abuse-gang-lose-citizenship-appeal.html

  38. Canada: Muslim who stabbed soldiers and said “Allah told me to kill people” allowed to attend college
    AUG 8, 2018 9:34 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER 20 COMMENTS
    Ali said: “Allah told me to do this, Allah told me to come here and kill people.” But he was acquitted of terror charges and found mentally ill.

    Look at how Canadian authorities are endangering the public: “the board also found Ali, who suffers from schizophrenia, ‘still poses a significant threat to the safety of the public’ and ‘holds some of the same delusions, that he experienced at the time of the (attack).’ He also ‘continues to express concerns about the Canadian government and its interactions with Muslim countries.’”

    We have seen so many jihadis say their jihad attack was retaliation for the supposed atrocities of Western governments in Muslim countries — and they’re going to let this would-be jihad murderer loose.

    “In the doctor’s opinion, the risks that Mr. Ali poses include: (a) his Psychotic Disorder which is managed well, while he is on medication; and (b) his potential to act out on political, or radical ideas. There is no treatment for this.”

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/08/canada-muslim-who-stabbed-soldiers-and-said-allah-told-me-to-kill-people-allowed-to-attend-college

  39. 0
    Tech monopolies are scrambling to send every last trace of Infowars down the memory hole.

    So far, the following companies have declared war on free speech:

    Facebook
    YouTube
    Apple
    Google Podcast
    Spotify
    TuneIn
    Spreaker
    iHeartRadio
    Audioboom
    Pinterest
    MailChimp
    Stitcher
    Disqus
    Sprout Social
    LinkedIn
    …YouPorn?

    In many cases, we were never notified we’d been banned, or we were informed we’d violated terms of service, while never provided examples of our alleged offensive content.

    https://www.infowars.com/the-list-platforms-that-have-banned-infowars-and-alex-jones/