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Boston police captain’s son faces 20 years for terror plot (abcnews, Sep 5, 2018)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/boston-police-captains-son-faces-20-years-terror-57615904
“A Boston police captain’s son faces 20 years in prison for plotting an attack on a college to support the Islamic State group.
Alexander Ciccolo is expected to be sentenced Wednesday in Springfield’s federal court.
Ciccolo agreed to serve 20 years behind bars when he pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in May, a month before he was scheduled to go to trial…”
Aceh region bans unmarried couples at same table in cafes (abcnews, Sep 5, 2018)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/aceh-region-bans-unmarried-couples-table-cafes-57615475
“A district in Indonesia’s deeply conservative Aceh province has banned unmarried couples from sitting at the same table in restaurants, cafes or coffee shops, an official said Wednesday.
The head of Bireuen district’s Islamic affairs office, Jufliwan, said the measure also forbids restaurants, cafes and coffee shops from serving female customers after 9 p.m. if they are not accompanied by their husbands, fathers, brothers, or other close relatives.
Aceh is the only province in Muslim-majority Indonesia that practices Islamic Shariah law, a concession made by the central government in 2001 as part of efforts to end a decades-long war for independence.
“Unmarried males and females who are not close relatives should not eat and drink at the same table, because it is sinful according to Shariah law,” said Jufliwan, who uses a single name.
He said the regulation issued Aug. 30 also prohibits restaurants and coffee shops from hiring lesbians, gays, or bisexual or transgender people as waiters or waitresses.
In 2014 the province’s lawmakers passed a law that punishes gay sex by public caning and subjects non-Muslims to the region’s strict interpretation of Shariah law.
People convicted of adultery, gambling and consuming alcohol already face caning, as do women wearing tight clothes and people who skip Friday Muslim prayers.
Hundreds of people have been publicly caned since the punishment was introduced in Aceh in 2005.”
German governor wants zero tolerance toward far right (abcnews, Sep 5, 2018)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/german-governor-tolerance-57614562
“The governor of Germany’s eastern state of Saxony says far-right extremism is the biggest threat to democracy and there should be zero tolerance toward far-right crime.
Michael Kretschmer told the regional parliament Wednesday that authorities will appoint an official point-person for victims and look into shortening legal proceedings against extremists.
He spoke 10 days after the suspected killing of a German man by two refugees sparked anti-migrant protests in the eastern city of Chemnitz. Several people were injured in clashes between far-right protesters, police and counter-demonstrators last week.
Kretschmer dismissed reports of groups of men attacking migrants in the city following the killing, saying: “There was no mob, no hunting of people and no pogroms.”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her spokesman had condemned videos appearing to show such attacks.”
Iran’s rial at worst rate yet amid collapse of nuclear deal (abcnews, Sep 5, 2018)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/irans-rial-worst-rate-amid-collapse-nuclear-deal-57613257
“The Iranian rial has fallen to its lowest rate on record, with the currency now trading at over 150,000 to the U.S. dollar.
Since Saturday, the start of the Iranian working week, the rial has dropped over a quarter of its value.
On Wednesday, the end of the working week, currency exchange shops in Tehran posted rates of over 150,000 rials to $1.
There was no immediate acknowledgement of the drop on state media.
The collapse of Iran’s currency has been fanned by President Donald Trump’s decision to pull America out of the nuclear deal with world powers in May. That’s despite the United Nations acknowledging Tehran still abides by the deal’s terms, which saw it limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.”
Iran to Deploy Basij Special Forces to Suppress Domestic Unrest
Brig.-Gen. GholamHossein Gheibparvar, commander of the Basij Forces, the volunteer arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, has said the Basij Special Forces are prepared to “sacrifice themselves” to disperse domestic riots quickly.
He said the repressive measures his Special Forces – the Fatehin – employ would intensify in light of the mounting popular unrest and numerous labor strikes as the country’s economic crisis deepens.
Gheibparvar said that in the coming days the Basij forces would be conducting patrols involving 700,000 troops in the centers of the large cities in a show of force.
The rare public exposure of the Fatehin is part of the regime’s efforts to deter the population and prevent widespread protests….
http://jcpa.org/iran-will-deploy-its-fatehin-basij-special-forces-to-suppress-iranian-unrest/
Danish police fine Turkish tourist for wearing face veil (abcnews, Sep 5, 2018)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/danish-police-fine-turkish-tourist-wearing-face-veil-57613048
“Police in Denmark say they fined a Turkish tourist 1,000 kroner ($155) after she entered a police station to renew her visa wearing a full-face covering.
Police in Aarhus, western Denmark, say the 48-year-old woman wasn’t aware of Denmark’s recent law that makes it unlawful to wear such garments in public. The much-debated “burqa ban” prohibits garments covering the face, including burqas and niqabs. Both are rarely seen in Denmark.
Police said Tuesday that the woman paid the fine, removed her full-face cover and walked away. No other details were available.”
“Police in Denmark say they fined a Turkish tourist 1,000 kroner ($155) after she entered a police station to renew her visa wearing a full-face covering.””
That’s gotta be the price of an American coffee. Don’t even ask for cream!
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/29/deep-state-democrat-abigail-spanberger-challenging-dave-brat-exposed-ties-terrorism-linked-group/
Ingraham: The party of stunts strikes again
TORONTO SUN – HOSTAGE HELL: Wife accuses Joshua Boyle of abuse in captivity
Caitlan Coleman says her husband, Joshua Boyle, deepened the nightmare of her captivity during their five years as hostages in Central Asia.
In unsealed court documents, Coleman alleges she was physically and emotionally abused by Boyle while they were being held by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network.
“J.B. (Joshua Boyle) regularly threatened to kill me by setting me on fire,” Coleman says in an affidavit filed in June as part of a family court application to gain sole custody of the couple’s children
The specific allegations contained in the affidavits have not been proven in court.
Coleman, Boyle and their three children, all of whom were born in captivity, were rescued in October 2017 by Pakistani security forces after living as prisoners for five years in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The U.S.-born Coleman, 32, is now in Pennsylvania with the children after being granted temporary sole custody of them by an Ottawa family court judge on July 23.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Tracy Engelking also issued an order restraining Boyle from contacting or coming near Coleman and their children.
“To say that the circumstances of this case are tragic in the extreme would be an understatement,” Engelking said in her custody ruling.
The judge was presented with wildly different stories by Boyle and Coleman, but ultimately decided that it was in the best interests of the children to allow them to return to Pennsylvania with their mother. “Under the exceptional circumstances of this case, requiring C.C. (Caitlan Coleman) and the children to remain in Ottawa would be akin to once again holding them hostage.”
Boyle, 34, vigorously denied Coleman’s allegations, and levelled his own allegations of abuse in documents filed as part of a failed cross-motion to block his wife from leaving the country with their children.
In his 23-page affidavit, Boyle alleges his wife assaulted him and neglected their children because of untreated mental health issues.
He also alleges Coleman tried to push him in front of a Toronto Transit Commission subway car years before they were married.
Justice Engelking, however, said she received no evidence to support the contention that Coleman suffers from a mental health issue that could affect her suitability as a parent.
“The court does have evidence, on the other hand, that C.C. is healthily and protectively parenting the children,” Engelking noted before concluding: “Based on all of the evidence before me, I can find little to suggest C.C. would not be a suitable temporary custodian of the children.”
Obtained by this newspaper after a court application, the documents in the case offer a window into the couple’s deeply troubled relationship and provide new details about their hellish, five-year hostage ordeal.
Boyle, an aspiring journalist, met Coleman, a Quiznos restaurant manager, online in 2002. They became romantically involved four years later, but theirs was a turbulent, on-again, off-again relationship.
Boyle says their shared interests sustained them. “We both enjoyed BDSM (bondage),” Boyle says in his affidavit. “We both wanted to travel by way of backpacking, and we both wanted to see the world.”
They married during a trip through Central America in July 2011, but soon separated. Coleman began divorce proceedings in March 2012.
One month later, Boyle visited Coleman at her home in Pennsylvania where they reconciled. They agreed to go backpacking through Central Asia, he says, and decided to leave on the trip even after finding out that Coleman was pregnant with their first child. They departed in July 2012.
In her affidavit, Coleman insists that she reluctantly agreed to the trip only after Boyle promised not to go to Afghanistan. Boyle disclosed his true intentions after they landed in Central Asia, she says, “so that I would not back out.”
Boyle insists Coleman knew he intended to go to Afghanistan — a trip designed to further his journalistic ambitions.
“We crossed into Afghanistan for a short while in hopes that I could meet people who could give me a story I could write about,” he says in his affidavit. “I had hoped that personal experience in Afghanistan might help me to land more permanent journalism work.”
Boyle has previously suggested that they travelled to Afghanistan to do humanitarian work.
They were taken hostage on Oct. 10, 2012, after leaving a Kabul guest house in a taxi. Coleman was five months pregnant at the time.
Boyle says their captors inflicted severe physical and psychological damage on them for the next five years, during which they were moved to 19 hideouts in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In their affidavits, Boyle and Coleman offer completely different accounts of their relationship during captivity.
Coleman says Boyle became increasingly erratic and irrational during their ordeal, and fixated on “depicting me as an enemy in his life.”
“The guards would separate us for a few days, weeks or months at a time,” she says. “When we were returned together, J.B. would accuse me of betraying him by accepting niceties from the guards and not asking for him more often.”
After three years in captivity, he became increasingly abusive, she says: “J.B. had uncontrolled rage, instituted corporal punishment of me, and struck me in a fit of rage.”
He repeatedly told her that she was “one of the worst people in the world,” Coleman says, and suggested that “a husband who kills his wife is justified.”
After a disagreement in February 2017, she alleges, Boyle “hit me in the face hard enough to break my cheekbone.”
Coleman alleges Boyle later confined her to a small shower stall for weeks at a time.
In his affidavit, Boyle alleges that Coleman neglected their children while in captivity, leaving him as the primary caregiver. “Multiple captors would reference me as the ‘wife and mother, husband and father’ in the family, noting that all nurturing of the children was entirely upon me,” he says.
Boyle says he slapped his wife once while in captivity as she attempted suicide by trying to overdose on stockpiled medication.
He often went without food, Boyle says, to give more to his children or pregnant wife, and spent hours whittling toys and gifts for them with a spoon.
He built a small garden beside the family’s squat toilet, he says, and planted okra, bean and mango seeds so that his children could appreciate gardening. He captured mice for the children to keep as pets, and sewed them clothes from blankets and scraps. He wrote them songs, taught them sign language, made up stories to entertain them, and helped them memorize selections of the Bible and Qur’an, according to his affidavit.
Boyle says he also taught them about their Canadian and Irish heritage.
“Their knowledge of Canada was exhaustive enough to being able to identify northern islands such as Devon, Banks and Victoria on hand-drawn maps, a desire to move to the Magdalene Islands due to a Stompin’ Tom Connors song they knew, bedtime stories often drawn from Road to Avonlea, and pretending to be Emily Carr when using mud to finger paint pictures of Salish homes (that always looked suspiciously like our cell, unsurprisingly).”
Coleman, meanwhile, told court that she was the primary caregiver, and was responsible for home-schooling the children during the family’s captivity.
What’s more, in a second affidavit filed in response to Boyle’s, Coleman alleges she did not share her husband’s interest in Central Asia or the extremist ideologies it harboured.
“I would like to stress, most strongly, that for more than a decade, the respondent (Boyle) has had an interest in extremist ideologies and in the complete subservience of women. I have never shared that interest.”
She pointed to his previous marriage to Zaynab Khadr as evidence of his interest in extremism. Khadr is the eldest daughter of Ahmed Said Khadr, a member of Osama bin Laden’s inner circle who died in a firefight with Pakistani forces in October 2003; she outraged many Canadians with her comments in a 2004 documentary in which she suggested that the Sept. 11 terror attacks were justified.
The Boyle family was rescued last October in a dramatic shootout that made international headlines. Weeks after returning home, the Boyle family met Justin Trudeau in the Prime Minister’s Office.
In his affidavit, Boyle says that readjusting to life in Canada has been a traumatic experience. “While captivity was the worst thing that ever happened to me,” he says, “the adjustment to coming home was a very close second.”
Coleman is due to give birth to the couple’s fourth child this month.
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/ex-hostage-american-caitlan-coleman-accuses-canadian-husband-joshua-boyle-of-abuse-in-court-documents/wcm/ac7de58d-5cc4-41d4-aa02-95de11646298
Isn’t there an entire season or two worth of television drama that can be made out of this? Just askin’?
Nah.
She’s stupid and degenerate too.
Not much interesting character development.
Agorà: Il traffico di migranti e la rotta tunisina
the guardian Moroccan authors say teenage rape case hits ‘new level of unspeakable’
Abdellah Taïa and other prominent names have said that horrifying details show their country ‘still hates women and considers them as nothing’
A group of prominent Moroccan authors led by the writer and film director Abdellah Taïa has called on the country’s government to stop “cling[ing] to obsolete values that are killing our children” following the “unspeakable” alleged gang rape and torture of a teenage girl.
Writing in the French newspaper Libération in an essay also published by a number of Moroccan news outlets, Taïa wrote about the alleged victim, identified only as Khadija. The 17-year-old says she was abducted and held by up to 15 men for two months, during which time she was starved, raped, tortured and tattooed with swastikas.
Taïa described the case as “a new level of unspeakable”, following the filmed sexual assault of a woman on a bus in Casablanca last year. Backed by names including authors Leïla Slimani and Tahar Ben Jelloun, Taïa wrote of how “it is women who are paying the highest price for all the malfunctions of a society that still doesn’t want to grow up”.
“Before it is too late, what can be done to solve the problem?” he asked. “It is more than urgent to … get out of this collective disease, which is spreading in us and making us insensitive. Hard with each other. Blind. Selfish. Extremely violent.”
He called on the government to put out new laws that would protect individuals. A recent report from UN Women found that more than half of men in Morocco admitted to having sexually harassed a woman or girl, with “more than 60% of women reporting such unwanted attentions”. Although the loophole that allowed rapists to escape prosecution by marrying their underage victim was closed in 2014, said the report, “around 60% of men and almost half of women continued to support the idea that a woman who is raped should marry her attacker”.
“Give them their rights,” Taïa wrote. “It is more than urgent to rethink the social contract that unites us … We must not cling to obsolete values that are killing our children. Enough is enough. If the government does not do its job of education, it’s up to us to do it. To be a human is to have a heart. It is to hold out a hand. To help each other … The fall of one man is the fall of a whole country. We are all Khadija.”
Taïa, who was one of the first Moroccans to come out publicly as gay, told the Guardian on Wednesday that his essay had received a lot of attention. “But I know that for a lot of people in Morocco these are just words. Worse: some of them consider the interventions of writers (especially me, the gay one) as just exploitation of the incident in order to be more famous,” he said. “So I got insults again.”
He was particularly appalled by the rape of Khadija because she comes from the same region as his parents, he said.
“My intimate link with her tragedy was bigger because of these family roots … Who knows? Maybe my mother lived something like that when she was young and told no one … And I had to do something. But at the same time I know that I am only me and that my words will not change laws and discrimination immediately. Will change nothing. I feel the same when I write my books, novels. But yet, I keep doing it. I write these books until the end. The feeling of desperation never disappears.”
Twelve men aged 18 to 27 have been arrested over the Khadija case since Taïa’s essay was published, but the novelist said he believed the affair would “very soon be forgotten and nothing will change”.
“The police will say: ‘We punished the criminals, what else to do?’ The state will be happy … And in the meantime we will forget that the affair is not only about Khadija. It’s about a whole system that still hates women and considers them as nothing. And this catastrophic situation is the real image of what is going on in general in Morocco.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/05/moroccan-authors-teenage-case-new-level-of-unspeakable-khadija
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DAILY MAIL – Parents of men who ‘raped and tortured’ a girl, 17, in Morocco say she had a ‘bad reputation’ and ‘wanted this’ as her mother reveals she fainted when she saw what they’d done to her
Footage posted online showed the 17-year-old’s arms and legs covered in burns
The violence against the teenager, whose name is Khadija, has sparked outrage
75,000 people signed a petition urging action after the Moroccan girl’s ordeal
The parents of two of the men suspected of raping and torturing a 17-year-old girl in Morocco have accused her of having a ‘bad reputation’ in the area.
Officials have arrested 12 men after Khadija Okkarou was kidnapped and sold to a gang who raped and forcibly tattooed her before she was dumped back at her family home near Beni Melal after two months.
The case has sparked outrage in Morocco as it emerged she endured extreme violence during the ordeal with a video was posted online showing her arms, leg and neck covered in tattoos and cigarette burns.
Parents of some of the accused have claimed the girl is ‘lying’, had been living promiscuously and ‘wanted this’. Doctors say she has been badly affected by such accusations.
Speaking at the family home in Oulad Ayad, near Beni Melal, central Morocco, her mother said she fainted when she saw her daughter’s desecrated body.
She said: ‘I was caught off guard when those criminals brought my daughter and I saw her in this condition.
‘I fainted … I collapsed, seeing her like that, the tattoos, the burns, her honor lost.’
The mother, who asked to remain anonymous, said: ‘Why did they do this to my child? Are they beasts? Will my daughter ever return to the way she was?’.
The girl’s parents initially refused to report her case to authorities, fearing the social stigma of sexual abuse in a Muslim country.
‘But she insisted,’ her mother said. ‘She picked up the family records and just went to the gendarmes. I followed her.’
Khadija told authorities she was released in mid-August. Protesters have taken to social media to demand justice with the slogan: ‘We are all Khadija’.
In an interview with Moroccan TV last week, the girl alleged that her kidnappers ‘would assault me one by one,’ burned her and didn’t feed her or let her shower.
She displayed crude swastikas and other tattoos as well as cigarette burns on her hands and legs.
The teen said that two men kidnapped her at knife-point when she was visiting her aunt during the May-June holy month of Ramadan, before selling her to other men in exchange for money or drugs. She said her captors gave her drugs that knocked her out for days at a time.
The horrific account has sparked calls for an end to a culture that turns a blind eye to sexual assault and other violence against women, with nearly 75,000 people signing a petition urging action.
Young people have little access to education and services, according to a recent study published by Morocco’s statistics institute.
Like many girls her age, Khadija left school when she was 12 because her family was too poor to pay the costs, residents told AFP.
‘(She) was a bit free, her father allowed her to leave the house and lead her life as she wanted,’ said Mustafa, who claimed to know the family well.
‘This is not the case for most girls here,’ he added.
Hassan, a coffee shop owner, said most of the town was ‘upset’ over what happened to Khadija.
‘Most people have compassion for her because it can happen to anyone.’
Some of the detainees have admitted to the charges, according to Ibrahim Hachane, Khadija’s lawer. But their admissions have failed to convince the teenager’s detractors.
‘Unfortunately, the machismo culture makes some people blame her for what happened to her,’ said Hachane, a member of Morocco’s Association for Human Rights.
Parents of some of the accused have accused the young girl of ‘lying’ and living promiscuously.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6114625/Mother-Moroccan-teen-shocked-reported-torture-drama.html
Poor thing, keloid scarring.
euronews – “Brexit was about independence.” Euronews interviews Nigel Farage
CRIMEWAVE BRITAIN: Police officer knifed during violent carjacking attempt near Birmingham (express, Sep 5, 2018)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1013487/uk-crime-great-barr-stabbing-birmingham-carjacking
“A POLICE officer has been stabbed in the chest on a busy shopping street in Great Barr, Birmingham, in a failed car-jacking attempt.
Police said the victim was walking along Moreton Avenue at around 1.30pm this afternoon when a hooded man approached him and demanded his keys.
CCTV footage captured the terrifying moment the victim was knifed by a man wearing a black hoodie and black trousers.
Horrified bystanders reported seeing a struggle as the knifeman attacked the man in his 20s outside a hairdressers and nail salon.
An eyewitness said the victim identified himself as an off-duty police officer and chased after his attacker after being stabbed…”
“Horrified bystanders reported seeing a struggle as the knifeman attacked the man in his 20s outside a hairdressers and nail salon.”
Please let me know when the text includes the word, “gunman”.
Evidently the “bystanders” weren’t quite nearly “horrified” enough or else there wouldn’t have been anyone to arrest. Time will tell.
“Nike, NFL, and Levis Strauss Political Business Strategy – The Much Bigger Geopolitical and Trade Picture….” by Sundance – September 4, 2018
It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/09/04/nike-and-levis-strauss-political-business-strategy-the-much-bigger-geopolitical-and-trade-picture/
Lee Jeans, from now on.
This from a life-long Levis wearer. All over now.
Swedish Doctor Fired After Posting Anti-Migrant Comments on Social Media (breitbart, Sep 5, 2018)
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/05/swedish-doctor-fired-posting-anti-migrant-comments-social-media/
“A doctor in the Swedish county of Västernorrland has been fired after being accused of spreading “Nazi” messages on his social media accounts by his employers.
The doctor, who worked as a surgeon and has denied that he is a Nazi, has not been identified but was said to have been terminated from his position after the anti-migrant social media posts came to light, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
Only two examples of “Nazi” posts were presented by the Swedish state broadcaster including one which refers to a story from the Swedish alternative news website Friatider that reported on a Swedish politician calling for the European Union to “drive over” the objections of countries who refused to take in migrants.
In the post, the doctor wrote, “What should we do with all of these crazy feminist women? Send them to Saudi!”
In the other post, which was more radical, the medical practitioner wrote that it was a “Christian duty” to “shoot all these invading criminals in the leg. You then put some bandages on them show them the way to Morocco and ask them to seek asylum in a civilised way.”
While both posts were anti-migrant, none contained references to Nazism or even anti-Semitism, despite accusations of Nazism from hospital director Nina Fållbäck Svensson who said the posts contained “content that violates the value base of the region, pure Nazi statements,” and added that patients may not feel safe because of the posts…”
Lithuania
“Israel’s prime minister criticises EU aid to Iran”
by Daniel Bellamy – August 24, 2018
http://www.euronews.com/2018/08/24/israel-s-prime-minister-criticises-eu-aid-to-iran
“EU approves economic aid to Iran”
by Stavros Atlamazoglou – September 5, 2018
https://thenewsrep.com/107866/eu-approves-economic-aid-to-iran/
scum
CAMERA OP-ED: GERMANY’S UNDERREPORTED RELATIONSHIP WITH IRAN
https://www.camera.org/article/camera-op-ed-germanys-underreported-relationship-with-iran/
Twin attacks in Afghan capital kill 20, wound 70 (abcnews, Sep 5, 2018)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/official-roadside-bomb-kills-police-nw-afghanistan-57612839
“Twin bombings at a wrestling training center in a Shiite neighborhood of Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday killed at least 20 people, including two reporters, and wounded 70, Afghan officials said.
Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said a suicide bomber struck at the center and then a car bomb went off nearby.
Sediqullah Tawhidi, a senior member of the Afghan journalists federation, said a reporter and a cameraman working for Tolo TV were among those killed, and that another local TV reporter was wounded.
No one immediately claimed the attacks, but they bore the hallmarks of the country’s Islamic State affiliate, which has carried out a wave of deadly bombings against minority Shiites. The Sunni extremists of IS view Shiites as apostates deserving of death.
Gen. Daud Amin, the Kabul police chief, said at least seven police were among those wounded in the car bomb explosion.
Elsewhere in Afghanistan, a roadside bomb killed a district police chief and another policeman in the northern Badghis province, according to Jamshid Shahabi, spokesman for the provincial governor.
No one claimed the attack, but Shahabi said it was likely carried out by the Taliban, who are active in the province and frequently target security forces and government officials.
Afghan forces have struggled to combat both the Taliban and IS since the U.S. and NATO formally ended their combat mission in 2014.”
Twin bombings killed at least 20 people and injured another 70 at a wrestling club in a Shia neighbourhood of Kabul on Wednesday, according to reports.
“My friend said it was firing and ran to open the door the moment we heard the sound of explosion. I saw that all people including youths were spread around the scene of suicide attack,” one eyewitness said, while receiving treatment at the hospital.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. The blasts occurred in Dasht-e-Barchi where many members of the mainly Shia Muslim Hazara ethnic minority live.
“Twin bombings at a wrestling training center…”
Is this thick enough to spread on toast, yet?
When it manifests in Londonistan, it’ll take off like Marmite.
“The Nuclear Option: McCain Funeral, Kavanaugh Hearings Prove No Low Is Too Low for DC Swamp” by Charles Hurt – September 4, 2018
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/04/the-nuclear-option-mccain-funeral-kavanaugh-hearings-prove-no-low-is-too-low-for-dc-swamp/
“Rush Limbaugh Show Podcast 9/4/18 | Full Audio”
Mark Steyn: Guest Host
The American Show – Published on September 4, 2018
One of the many topics Mark Steyn touched on: “Taking the Knee” while singing the National Anthem.
“Now We Have the Singer of the Anthem Taking a Knee”
by S.Noble – September 4, 2018
https://www.independentsentinel.com/now-we-have-the-singer-of-the-anthem-taking-a-knee/
“Preston Poole takes a knee signing the national anthem”
The Charlotte Post – Published on September 1, 2018
Any extra virtue signalling and this sucker would be crushed under his own weight.
USA: Emirates aircraft quarantined at JFK after passengers fall ill
Just finished watching Jack Ryan: this is kind of creepy right now!
September 5, 2018: Ep. 800 The Entire Plot Exposed
https://www.bongino.com/september-5-2018-ep-800-the-entire-plot-exposed/
zero hedge – “Don’t Touch Me Again!”: Alex Jones Taunts “Little Gangster Thug” Marco Rubio Outside Hearing
Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Infowars host Alex Jones got into a verbal altercation outside the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Internet censorship, which Jones is currently attending.
The exchange, captured by The Gateway Pundit’s Cassandra Fairbanks, begins with Jones condemning Silicon Valley tech giants for “shadow banning people en masse,” to which Rubio deflects to foreign government interference in the US political process.
After Jones says “thank God” Trump is addressing conservative censorship, Rubio then says “I don’t know who you are, man” to which Jones replies “he plays dumb.”
“He’s not answering,” said Jones, adding: “The Democrats are doing what you say China does.”
“I don’t know who you are, man,” responded Rubio. “I don’t really go on your website.”
“That’s why you didn’t get elected. You’re a snake,” Jones fired back, touching the senator’s shoulder to keep his attention. “Marco Rubio the snake. A little frat boy here.”
After Jones put his hand on Rubio’s shoulder, the Florida Senator said “Don’t touch me again, man … I’m asking you not to touch me again.”
When Jones then asked whether he’d be arrested, Rubio said “You’re not gonna get arrested man, I’d take care of it myself,” suggesting he would engage Jones physically.
Following the exchange, which included Jones proclaiming “The Democrats are raping the Republicans!” and “You’re a little gangster thug,” Rubio walked away, telling the remaining reporters “You guys can talk to this clown.”
Jones shot back: “Go back to your bath house!” adding “There goes Rubio…Little punk.”
Jones was in Washington, DC to “face his accusers” as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sat next to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg as the Silicon Valley execs testified on censorship and foreign interference on their platforms.
Jones said he was attending the hearings to face his accusers, who have charged him with being everything from a Russian agent to a racist.
Jones has reportedly obtained a front row seat at the hearings and has vowed to challenge the media on how they misreported the reasons he was banned by Big Tech.
He will also hold a special press conference while in DC. -Infowars
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-05/dont-touch-me-again-alex-jones-taunts-little-gangster-thug-marco-rubio-outside
Levi Goes Political By Partnering With Pro-Gun Control Groups: ‘History Will Prove This Position Right’
In an op-ed for Forbes, the CEO and president for Levi Strauss & Co., Chip Bergh, explained why his company will do its part to tackle gun violence in the United States.
They will do so by funding the “work of nonprofits and youth activists who are working to end gun violence in America” and by partnering with pro-gun control groups, such as Everytown for Gun Safety and Giffords.
https://ijr.com/2018/09/1121046-levi-partnering-pro-gun-control-groups/
“… at the hands of a traitorous government.”
An epitaph for exactly how many other historical nationalities?
Red Hen incident mars area’s tourism
LEXINGTON -Rockbridge Regional Tourism approved a recovery plan to boost its marketing after The Red Hen restaurant controversy brought a slew of negative national media coverage this summer.
The regional tourism board, with members from Lexington, Buena Vista and Rockbridge County, met with the Lexington City Council on Thursday for an update on tourism initiatives and numbers.
The board had initially approved the recovery plan soon after news of The Red Hen controversy was spreading across the country. At the end of June, the restaurant’s owner declined to serve presidential press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders when she visited the restaurant.
Sanders tweeted the day after the incident that she had been asked to leave because she works for President Donald Trump. Soon after, Lexington was flooded with protestors who stood outside the restaurant, chanted and held signs. Others posted both positive and negative reviews of the restaurant online.
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=53925?omhide=true
Evidence That the man paying protesters cash as the Kavanaugh Hearing works for American Constitution Society a group bankrolled by Open Society and George Soros
https://imgur.com/a/200s2KN
Richard: These 2 articles are must read, there is evidence starting to come out that private contractors were accessing the NSA data base after their job for the FBI was finished. We don’t know who the contractors were or what they were doing but it is starting to look like the Obama Crime Family and the Deep State were more corrupt then we thought. This goes way beyond the known attempt to Frame Trump.
2015 Employment of Nellie Ohr by Fusion GPS Raises New Questions
One of the bombshell admissions from the closed-door testimony of DOJ official Bruce Ohr was that his wife, Nellie Ohr, was already working for opposition research firm Fusion GPS in late 2015.
Previously, it had been reported that Nellie Ohr was hired to find dirt on then-candidate Donald Trump in the spring of 2016.
“Ohr testified that Fusion approached his wife for a job and that she began working for the research firm in late 2015,” the Daily Caller reported.
In addition to the new time frame for Nellie Ohr’s employment, Bruce Ohr also confirmed that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, FBI agent Peter Strzok, and FBI special counsel Lisa Page all knew he was talking to former British MI6 spy, Christopher Steele, who compiled the now-infamous opposition research dossier on Trump, which was used as the core evidence of an application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to surveil Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/2015-employment-of-nellie-ohr-by-fusion-gps-raises-new-questions_2638763.html
The FBI’s Outside Contractors, DNC Servers & Crowdstrike
May 18, 2018 by Jeff Carlson, CFA
The DNC lawsuit against Russia and the Trump Campaign provides for a new timeline of events. And raises new questions.
Recall, the DNC famously refused to allow the FBI to examine their servers – which has always seemed more than a bit odd.
If the DNC had definitive proof of Russian hacking, one would expect a standing invitation to examine the evidence. Instead, they have protected those servers from any outside examination.
This may be tied to NSA Director Rogers’ discovery of Outside Contractors.
The generalized story is that the DNC was hacked in April 2016. This is not accurate. Nor is the DNC’s timeline of events complete.
https://themarketswork.com/2018/05/18/the-fbis-outside-contractors-dnc-servers-crowdstrike/
The articles are from the Bongino show number 800 (today’s) I recommend that everyone listen to his show and take on the new info.
Bongino asks the question that so far we don’t have any answer to, “Was the Obama administration building dossier’s on everyone running for the Republican nomination?” Before you say it wasn’t happening think back to when the Clintons were in the White House and had the FBI files of all big politicians (in both parties) brought to the White House and scanned into private computers. Was Obama going further then the Clinton’s did? Or did the Clinton’s do the same thing during their time in the White House.
Deutsche Welle Documentary – Return to Kabul – Afghan deportees one year on
Afghani Shams Ahmadi was deported from Bavaria to Kabul in January 2017. What happened to him – and other young Afghans – after deportation?
When reporters met him in March last year, Shams Ahmadi wandered the streets of the Afghan capital without orientation and wanted only one thing: to get back to Germany.
The search for him begins in Kabul.
Against the background of the current debate, with calls for more deportations to Afghanistan despite the precarious security situation, the report tries to find out what has become of Shams and the other young Afghans whom they accompanied a good year ago.
Some are already on their way back to Europe, some even back to Germany.
Others decided to stay in Afghanistan and start over. Mirwais Arya invested his money in a burger shop and a pizzeria instead of giving it to a smuggler. It turned out to be a good decision, the young man says.
11 Haqqani Network Muslim Terrorists Arrested In Kabul
euronews – Resignation Syndrome is an illness leaving children of migrants in Sweden in limbo.
RT- Sweden debates spike in crime: Are migrants to blame?
Swedish election: Nationalists gain traction, but criticised for racism
RT- Radical change needed? Anti-immigration sentiment grips Sweden
( 5 min 52 )
INGRID CARLQVIST
Anti-immigration sentiment may prove to be the defining factor in the upcoming general election in Sweden. RT explores why some Swedes believe their country’s system of dealing with migrants is broken.
Nike: The Social Justice Slave Labor Shoe That Hates America
Nike’s new romance with an America-hating racist.
September 5, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
It’s a bad time for bad sneakers.
Nike sales have seen their slowest growth in seven years. It was the worst performing Dow stock of 2016. Americans don’t seem to want badly made overpriced shoes put together by slave labor.
The failing company tried to turn around its poor sales by doubling down on its abrasive lefty politics. Nike’s Consumer Direct Offense was supposed to stand for reclaiming American market share, instead of directly offending consumers. But if Nike can’t sell its shoddy athletic wear, it can offend Americans.
Last winter, Nike unveiled the “Pro Hijab”. Now it decided to make Colin Kaepernick, the racist black nationalist who began the trend of protesting the national anthem, into the face of its Just Do It campaign. Nike’s new contract with its America-hating racist will rush out Kaepernick shoes and jerseys. No word on whether Kaepernick’s socks showing police officers as pigs will also be part of the package.
Nike will pay Kaepernick millions every year with a deal that looks like those of “top-end” NFL players. Actually being a top-end player or having the talent to be one is surplus to social justice requirements.
The huge payday for Kaepernick clashes with Just Do It’s new tagline, “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.” Making millions of dollars for hating America without having to ever get out there and play is the opposite of “sacrificing everything.” It’s getting paid for doing nothing.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271240/nike-social-justice-slave-labor-shoe-hates-america-daniel-greenfield
Democrats’ Ruckus at Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearing
The Left’s totalitarian face unveiled for all to see.
September 5, 2018
Joseph Klein
The first day of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing began with fireworks from Senate Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee and screeching protesters in the audience. Just as the chairman of the committee, Senator Grassley (R-Iowa), began to deliver his opening statement, Democratic California Senator Kamala Harris interrupted. The potential 2020 Democratic presidential contender declared, “We cannot possibly move forward.” Her Democrat colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee joined the fray in what appeared to be a pre-planned strategy to sabotage the proceedings, defying all norms of Senate decorum. They disgraced themselves but failed to stop the hearing.
Chairman Grassley patiently listened to the Democrats’ repeated recitations of their talking points amidst loud shrieks by hecklers. Several Democrats made motions to adjourn or delay the hearing on the spurious grounds that they have not had enough time to review documents pertaining to the days of Judge Kavanaugh’s service during former President George W. Bush ‘s administration, including 42,000 pages released by lawyers for Mr. Bush the day before the commencement of the hearing. Democrats also complained about the decision to withhold from Senate Judiciary Committee review 101,921 pages of documents on the grounds they are protected by constitutional privilege and that others were produced for the committee’s use on a confidential basis. In making his own motions to adjourn, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said that if the confirmation continued, “this process will be tainted and stained forever.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271239/democrats-ruckus-kavanaugh-confirmation-hearing-joseph-klein
The little girl was drugged with cannabis and taken to Sherwood Forest where the three Muslim men took turns raping her. She was threatened to be left alone in the forest if she didn’t do as the men said after they had her smoke cannabis making her as ‘high as a kite’.
The little girl was described to the Sheffield crown court as “a vulnerable child who suffered very low self esteem” and was passed from one group of predatory Muslim males in the South Yorkshire town to another.
She was threatened with abandonment in the forest unless she had sex. Two men and a third unidentified man had all raped her, according to prosecutor Michelle Colborne QC.
https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/09/14-year-old-girl-gang-raped-and-impregnated-by-adult-muslim-men-in-britain/#.W4_TS1gpOMc.twitter
Female Reformist MP raises eyebrows with fiery speech in Iranian parliament (al-monitor, Sep 5, 2018)
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/09/iran-mp-parvaneh-salahshouri-parliament-speech-reactions.html
“…She elucidated a long list of woes the country is facing, ranging from inflation, poverty and unemployment, to corruption within the judiciary and the poor performance of the state broadcaster. She even had a thing or two to say about the powerful conservative clerical community. “I wanted to seek their help. But I found that instead of being worried about poverty and corruption, what matters to them most is [trivial issues such as] young girls’ cycling and the hair sticking out of their scarves.”
Salahshouri noted that she is not addressing her questions to state institutions, which — according to her — have disappointed the nation. She stressed that under the current circumstances the only way out of the multiple crises is the supreme leader’s direct intervention and help…”
The Norwegian government has come under fire from pro-migrant groups after announcing it would be removing refugee status from some 1,600 Somalians and sending them back to Somalia, noting the situation in the country had improved.
The Norwegian government has said that Somalia now has a more stable government and the refugees no longer need the protection of the Norwegian state, Nettavisen reports.
Several pro-asylum seeker groups have spoken out against the move accusing the government of breaking international asylum rules, such as the Norwegian Organization for Asylum Seekers (NOAS) which argued that the conditions in Somali have not changed enough to justify stripping the migrants of refugee status.
“The Somali state can not offer effective protection,” said senior advisor to NOAS André Møkkelgjerd. The organisation is also challenging the decision to remove the refugee status of one Somali in court.
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/05/norway-looks-strip-1600-somalis-refugee-status-send-somalia/
Man Ranting About “High Treason” After Crashing Truck Into FOX Studios is New Dem 2020 Frontrunner
September 5, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
Move over Joe Biden. You’re old news, Bernie Sanders. Go write another Pow Wow Chow cookbook, Elizabeth Warren. The 2020 Dem field has a new frontrunner who’s even more committed to “resistance” than any of them.
To quote, Dem presidential candidate and professional racist, Al Sharpton, “Resist we much!”
Sorry Cory Booker, fake tears and anger won’t do it. Kirsten, you want to make it to the front of the pack, you need something more than socialism. You need to repeatedly crash a truck into a FOX affiliate. Because, “Resist we much!”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/271251/man-ranting-about-high-treason-after-crashing-daniel-greenfield
The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats remained the largest party in a final poll by YouGov ahead of Sweden’s election on Sunday, marking a stark contrast to results in other surveys and ratcheting up uncertainty ahead of the vote.
Seeking to upend the Swedish establishment and push for an exit from the European Union, the party’s backing rose to 24.8 percent in a YouGov poll published on Wednesday. That would make it bigger than both the ruling Social Democrats and the largest opposition party, the conservative Moderates.
Voters flocked to the Sweden Democrats after the Nordic nation of 10 million people became a haven for refugees, accepting a record 600,000 immigrants over the past five years. The party’s popularity is driving a wedge between the two-bloc political establishment, which has so far refused to engage with the Sweden Democrats because of their neo-Nazi roots.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-05/sweden-democrats-largest-party-in-yougov-poll-as-election-nears
How Stupid Does Chuck Todd Think Americans Are?
September 5, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
NBC’s Chuck Todd has a grandstanding Atlantic piece claiming that the public’s negative perception of the media is due to…
1. Their ignorance
…and a..
2. FOX News conspiracy
Bashing FOX News, of course, isn’t like bashing NBC News. The former is just good journalism while the latter is an attack on the First Amendment.
There are many howlers in Todd’s piece, but here’s just one of them.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/271237/how-stupid-does-chuck-todd-think-americans-are-daniel-greenfield
When Will Starbucks Close All Its Stores to Train Employees on Treatment of Ex-Muslims?
September 5, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
When Starbucks kicked a few black men out of one of its stores for not buying anything, a national furor of black fragility hysteria swept the media. Starbucks brought in Eric Holder and closed all its stores to train employees on social justice and unconscious racism.
But kicking out ex-Muslims? That’s fine with Starbucks.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/271248/when-will-starbucks-close-all-its-stores-train-daniel-greenfield
Cyprus to Seek EU Help on Surging Migrant Numbers (breitbart, Sep 5, 2018)
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/05/cyprus-to-seek-eu-help-on-surging-migrant-numbers/
“Cyprus’ interior minister says the east Mediterranean island nation will seek help from the European Union as it comes under increasing strain from a large spike in the number of asylum applications.
Minister Constantinos Petrides said Wednesday that tiny Cyprus ranks first among EU member states in the number of asylum applications relative to its population. In the first eight months of 2018, over 4,000 asylum applications were submitted as compared with 2,600 over the same period last year.
Petrides said Cyprus will demand EU measures to ease the “disproportionate burden” it now bears, including a system that would fairly distribute those granted asylum among all of the bloc’s member states…”
Lotsa luck.
Remind them you’ve been “hosting” Turks since 1974. They think “occupation” today is an evil unique to the nazi-zionist entity.
Maybe you can enlighten them.
Probably not, though.
Jon Kyl sworn in as U.S. senator replacing McCain
Reuters Staff
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FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) (C) leads a news conference about his opposition to moving forward on a vote to ratify the START treaty during the current lame duck session, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, U.S., December 21, 2010. Also pictured are Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) (L) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) (R).
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(Reuters) – The late U.S. Senator John McCain’s seat was filled on Wednesday when Jon Kyl, a former senator, took the oath of office in time to help Republicans in their push to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Kyl, 76, was sworn in as the new senator from the southwestern state of Arizona in a brief ceremony on the Senate floor. Vice President Mike Pence, who also serves as president of the Senate, administered the oath.
https://in.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idINKCN1LL2M1
Note: Unless I am mistaken, Kyl has expressed support for Kavanaugh.
Norway Looks to Strip 1,600 Migrants of Refugee Status, Send Them Back to Somalia (breitbart, Sep 5, 2018)
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/05/norway-looks-strip-1600-somalis-refugee-status-send-somalia/
“The Norwegian government has come under fire from pro-migrant groups after announcing it would be removing refugee status from some 1,600 Somalians and sending them back to Somalia, noting the situation in the country had improved.
The Norwegian government has said that Somalia now has a more stable government and the refugees no longer need the protection of the Norwegian state, Nettavisen reports.
Several pro-asylum seeker groups have spoken out against the move accusing the government of breaking international asylum rules, such as the Norwegian Organization for Asylum Seekers (NOAS) which argued that the conditions in Somali have not changed enough to justify stripping the migrants of refugee status.
“The Somali state can not offer effective protection,” said senior advisor to NOAS André Møkkelgjerd. The organisation is also challenging the decision to remove the refugee status of one Somali in court.
Norwegian State Secretary Torkil Åmland commented on the opposition to the move saying, “The fact that some organisations disagree with the strict asylum and immigration policy that this government is leading is not the same as breaking the rules.”
“The whole basis of the refugee convention is that there are only people with real protection needs that are entitled to stay. Neither the Constitution nor our international obligations mean that a foreign national is entitled to a particular type of permit in Norway,” Åmland added.
Migrants in Norway have become a strain on the country’s generous welfare system with individuals from migrant backgrounds making up half of the welfare recipients in the country.
A report from the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research released last year also revealed that the longer migrants were in Norway, the more likely they were to be dependent on state handouts and less likely to be employed.
Despite the Norwegian people overwhelmingly resisting mass migration in previous opinion polls, the European Union has pushed for the country, which is not a full member of the bloc, to take in more migrants from Africa.”
Man Arrested After Crashing Truck Into Texas News Station Building
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UPDATED 10:19 AM PT — Wed. Sept. 5, 2018
A man remains in police custody after authorities say he intentionally crashed his truck into the studios of Texas news station.
The incident happened Wednesday morning at Fox 4 in downtown Dallas.
Reporters at the station said the man repeatedly crashed into the building before going on a rant about high treason.
http://www.oann.com/man-arrested-after-crashing-truck-into-texas-news-station-building/
MEMRI TV –German-Based Former Islamist: We Used Rhetoric of Peace But Talked of Conquering Germany
Hicham Nostik, who goes by the Internet identity of “Moroccan infidel” on social media, recounted the transformation he underwent after coming to Germany.
Spending time with mujahideen at the mosque where he was living, “I turned more religious and became acquainted with the dark side of Islam,” he told Egyptian-German scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad, on whose “Box of Islam” Internet show he was interviewed.
“We were going to implement the sharia and conquer Germany,” he said, describing the “hypocrisy” of using “the rhetoric of peace and love” when talking to non-Muslim Germans.
“I was living in the graveyard of history. I was dead,” he said. It was only when he enrolled in a Christian university – in the hope of converting people to Islam – that he realized “that my understanding of Christianity had nothing to do with theirs.”
Hicham Nostik summed up his position: “It is inconceivable that a God, who is supposed to be merciful, and more compassionate than a mother toward her child, would sell people in the marketplace, and legalize slavery and all those barbaric punishments, like the killing of apostates.” The show aired on August 12, 2018.
Protests Prompt Calls For Surveillance of Germany’s Third-Biggest Party Over Neo-Nazi Worries
By James Carstensen | September 4, 2018 | 8:45 PM EDT
People take part in a gathering organized by the right-wing Alternative for Germany to commemorate the death of a Chemnitz man on September 1, 2018. Two men, a Syrian and an Iraqi, are accused of having stabbed him following an altercation. (Photo by Jens Schlueter/Getty Images)
Berlin (CNSNews.com) – Liberal German politicians are calling for government surveillance of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, after some members marched alongside neo-Nazis during an anti-immigrant rally in the eastern city of Chemnitz.
“Germany’s domestic intelligence service must investigate the collaboration between the AfD and neo-Nazis very closely,” the vice president of the Bundestag, Thomas Oppermann of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), said in an interview on Monday.
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/james-carstensen/protests-following-stabbing-foreigners-prompt-calls-surveillance
Trump to Chair Upcoming U.N. Meeting on Iran That Rouhani May Attend
By Patrick Goodenough | September 5, 2018 | 4:23 AM EDT
The U.N. Security Council meets on Tuesday to discuss its program of work for the month of September. The United States presides over the council this month. (UN Photo)
(CNSNews.com) – “The world is watching.”
That’s the message the Trump administration wants to highlight by convening a U.N. Security Council meeting this month “to address Iran’s violations of international law and the general instability Iran sows throughout the entire Middle East region,” U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said Tuesday.
The U.S. presides over the Security Council this month, and President Trump himself will chair the Iran meeting on September 26. When he does, his Iranian counterpart also may be seated at the council’s iconic horseshoe-shaped table, since U.N. rules allow a country that is the subject of a council meeting to take part – whether or not that country is a member of the council.
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/trump-chair-upcoming-un-meeting-iran-rouhani-may-attend
South African economy in recession brought about by a ‘shocking drop in agriculture’
Business Day September 5, 2018
[Ed. – A shocking drop in agriculture? Whatever could have precipitated that? Here’s a possibility.]
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/09/05/south-african-economy-in-recession-brought-about-by-a-shocking-drop-in-agriculture/
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/08/20/south-african-government-begins-seizing-white-owned-farms/
Cyril Ramaphosa has a recession on his hands
To add to the gloom, the first-quarter contraction was also worse than initially reported
04 September 2018 – 11:30 Sunita Menon
SA has plunged into a recession with a surprise 0.7% contraction in the second quarter of the year.
“We are in recession. We reported a contraction in the first quarter even with revisions and now in the second quarter with a fall of 0.7%, we are in recession,” statistician-general Risenga Maluleke said in Pretoria on Tuesday.?
This is despite expectations from many economists that SA would narrowly miss a recession. The Bloomberg consensus was 0.6% growth.
The rand weakened sharply shortly after Statistics SA released the news:
https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/economy/2018-09-04-cyril-ramaphosa-has-a-recession-on-his-hands/
Russia’s Alleged Skripal ‘Assassins’ Caught Breaking The Laws Of Physics
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-05/russias-alleged-skripal-assassins-caught-breaking-laws-physics
James Mattis calls passages about him in new Bob Woodward book ‘fiction’
Ellen Mitchell, The Hill September 4, 2018
[Ed. – The aggregator sites are all melting down over the juicy allegations in the Woodward book, which is about the Trump White House. From the Washington Post’s article about the book, it looks like few if any sources are named, for specific quotes and allegations. That’s typical for Woodward. You’ll have to decide whom you find more credible: Mattis or Woodward.]
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/09/04/james-mattis-calls-passages-about-him-in-new-bob-woodward-book-fiction/
Mattis calls Woodward’s reporting on him ‘fiction’
By Ellen Mitchell – 09/04/18 06:23 PM EDT
Defense Secretary James Mattis on Tuesday pushed back against a passage concerning him in journalist Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book, calling it “fiction” and “a product of someone’s rich imagination.”
The Watergate reporter wrote that Mattis once described President Trump as having the understanding of “a fifth- or sixth-grader” when it comes to the Korean Peninsula, according to The Washington Post.
“The contemptuous words about the President attributed to me in Woodward’s book were never uttered by me or in my presence,” Mattis said in a statement. “While I generally enjoy reading fiction, this is a uniquely Washington brand of literature, and his anonymous sources do not lend credibility.”
The Post report on Tuesday recounts a National Security Council meeting on Jan. 19, citing Woodward’s upcoming book, “Fear: Trump in the White House.”
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/405056-mattis-calls-woodwards-reporting-on-him-fiction
Representatives for Barack Obama have threatened to cancel the former president’s upcoming paid speech at a Denmark university if details of his speaking contract are released to the public.
Obama will participate in a moderated question and answer session on Sept. 28 at the University of Southern Denmark before local business leaders, university students and local dignitaries, according to Business Kolding, the event’s organizer.
But the event has already sparked criticism from citizens of Denmark’s Kolding Municipality, which is providing 750,000 kroner, or $117,000, in taxpayer funds to support the behind-closed-doors event titled “A Conversation with President Barack Obama.”
Kolding currently faces a deficit of 100 million kroner in its next year’s budget. The town’s mayor, Jørn Pedersen, justified using taxpayer dollars to fund Obama’s invite-only talk, claiming the event is effectively a marketing opportunity for the town, according to Danish news outlet JydskeVestkysten.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/09/05/obama-speech-denmark-contract/
London stabbing HORROR: Man rushed to hospital after Whitton train station attack (express, Sep 5, 2018)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1013565/London-stabbing-Whitton-train-station-British-Transport-Police-attack-crime-Twickenham
“A MAN has been rushed to hospital after being stabbed at Whitton train station in south-west London, with the attacker on the run from police.
Dozens of officers and paramedics were sent to Whitton Station near Twickenham.
Train lines were suspended between Hounslow and Twickenham and the man was taken to hospital after being stabbed.
British Transport Police said: “Just before 18.30hrs this evening (Wednesday 5 September 2018), officers were called to a report of a stabbing in the vicinity of Whitton Railway Station, High Street, TW2 7LG.
As it was believed that the suspect may have entered the station and gone on to the railway tracks, BTP officers – including armed officers and dog unit – searched the area, along with colleagues from the Metropolitan Police. The suspect was not found.
The male victim has been taken to hospital with what is believed to be non-life threatening injuries.
Anyone with information should contact BTP by calling 0800 40 50 40 or by texting 61016, quoting 477 of 5 September. Alternatively, you can ring Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.””
LONDON BLOODBATH: Man stabbed at Hammersmith Eventim Apollo during awards ceremony (express, Sep 5, 2018)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1013547/London-news-stabbing-Hammersmith-Eventim-Apollo-UK-Grime-Awards-crime
“A MAN is seriously ill in hospital after being stabbed at a grime music awards ceremony at London’s Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith.
The 37-year-old man was knifed at the historic venue in west London during the GRM Daily Rated Awards ceremony last night.
He was raced to a nearby hospital for treatment and remains in a serious condition, but his identity has not been released.
No one has yet been arrested in connection with the attack.
A spokesman for the Eventim Apollo said: “During an event at the Eventim Apollo, an incident occurred where a male was seriously assaulted.
“The individual received immediate medical care onsite and was taken to hospital by ambulance.
“The matter is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police Service, and we are assisting them with their enquiries.”
Scotland Yard said: “Police were called to the Eventim Apollo, Queen Caroline Street, W6 at 9:10pm yesterday to reports of a male stabbed.
“Officers and London Ambulance Service attended. A 37-year-old male was discovered suffering from stab wounds…”