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    • China manufacturing weakens amid US tariff battle

      BEIJING (AP) — China’s export orders shrank in September as a tariff battle with Washington over technology escalated, adding to downward pressure on the world’s No. 2 economy, two surveys showed Sunday.

      The reports add to signs Chinese trade, which had held up despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff hikes, might be weakening. That adds to pressure on an economy that already was forecast to cool due to slowing global consumer demand and lending controls imposed to rein in a debt boom.

      https://apnews.com/a2671309cae74f019eb7e475e01365fc

    • Taj “Cat Meat” Hilali floats to the surface once more.

      Someone needed to flush the loo before this sick fü¢k made it topside again.

    • If ever there was a reason to crowd fund the hiring of a Jason Statham/Charles Bronson analogue, this is it. I wonder just brave would be the muhammads if it cost them their lives to utter such garbage?

  1. HACK VIDEO GUIDE YouTube hosted DIY videos on how to hack Facebook just days after huge data breach

    The tutorials had thousands of views and hundreds of comments that claimed the step-by-step process ‘really works’

    YOUTUBE screened DIY videos of how to hack Facebook days after 50 million accounts were breached, including boss Mark Zuckerberg’s.

    Several clips hosted on the Google-owned video-sharing site explained how users hack profiles.

    It discussed stealing “access tokens” — a digital key allowing people to log in without passwords.

    The videos had thousands of views plus comments that “it works”.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7381149/youtube-video-facebook-data-breach/

  2. UGA physician tracks tuberculosis using cellphone records

    Tuberculosis is the ninth leading cause of death worldwide, and though the World Health Organization has said the average global burden of disease is on the decline, some areas of the world continue to feel its impact.

    Researchers at the University of Georgia have received a $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to understand the local epidemiology of TB in African urban settings and help these communities develop targeted interventions to reduce transmission.

    Led by physician and epidemiologist Christopher Whalen at UGA’s College of Public Health, the team will estimate where TB is being transmitted by combining information about patient movement with genetic information from the bacteria itself. Understanding where transmission is happening is the key to effective control, said Whalen.

    The standard approach to tuberculosis control today relies on detection and treatment of tuberculosis disease, but this approach doesn’t work in areas where the disease burden is high.

    http://www.onlineathens.com/news/20180929/uga-physician-tracks-tuberculosis-using-cellphone-records

    • Thanks to the open borders groups the West once again faces plagues that we thought were over. This is just the first of many that is going to hit the Western (First) world in the next decade.

      • Thanks to the open borders groups the West once again faces plagues that we thought were over.

        You can start with the polio vaccine, regarding which Pashtun tribes have been convinced are for the sole purpose of sterilizing tribal Muslim populations.

        Almost totally eradicated ten years ago, polio is seeing a resurgence which alarms both the CDC and WHO. All thanks to Islam.

      • We’ve had plenty of exposure to TB, just more resistence and less virulent strains. Most workplaces here make annual tests mandatory.

        On skin tests I’m always positive, chest-Xrays required (which I resent). Possibly false-positive from lupus, but more likely exposed in seedy martial arts studios. Illegal aliens all over the Chinatown.

        About 15% of the Russian immigrants I know test positive for exposure. My Russki figures he was exposed in the army. His oldest brother was treated for active disease when he was released from gulag.

        Blessed be the memory of POTUS-40.

  3. Elizabeth Warren: I’ll ‘Take a Hard Look’ at Running for President After Midterms

    The Massachusetts senator had previously more forcefully ruled it out.

    Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), one of the most high-profile progressives on the U.S. Senate, said Saturday that she will seriously consider a presidential run after November’s midterm elections.

    “Let’s face it, Donald Trump is taking this country in the wrong direction,” Warren told an audience member at a town hall in Holyoke, Massachusetts, according to remarks sent to The Daily Beast by a spokesperson.
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    “Working people have taken one punch to the gut after another,” she continued. “And I am worried down to my bones about what Donald Trump is doing to our democracy.”

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/elizabeth-warren-says-shell-take-a-hard-look-at-running-for-president-after-novembers-midterms

    • Please run Sen. Pocahontas!
      Please, please, please!

      Spare us that {shudder} horrid Camela-Zebra female…
      Channeling Henry II, Will no one rid…

  4. Video shows border wall construction underway in Texas

    Video released this week shows construction underway in El Paso, Texas, for a portion of a U.S.-Mexico border wall.

    The video published by the El Paso Times shows construction beginning to replace existing fencing with a wall in Chihuahuita, El Paso’s oldest neighborhood.

    The wall, construction for which began last Saturday, is set to run from Chihuahuita and continue east for four miles.

    The 18-foot-tall steel bollard wall will replace the chain link and metal fence as part of President Trump’s executive order last year authorizing construction of his wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the administration said.

    https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/409044-construction-for-trumps-border-wall-is-underway-in-texas

  5. Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web
    With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google.

    Last week, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, asked me to come and see a project he has been working on almost as long as the web itself. It’s a crisp autumn day in Boston, where Berners-Lee works out of an office above a boxing gym. After politely offering me a cup of coffee, he leads us into a sparse conference room. At one end of a long table is a battered laptop covered with stickers. Here, on this computer, he is working on a plan to radically alter how all of us live and work on the web.

    “The intent is world domination,” Berners-Lee says with a wry smile. The British-born scientist is known for his dry sense of humor. But in this case, he is not joking.

    This week, Berners-Lee will launch Inrupt, a startup that he has been building, in stealth mode, for the past nine months. Backed by Glasswing Ventures, its mission is to turbocharge a broader movement afoot, among developers around the world, to decentralize the web and take back power from the forces that have profited from centralizing it. In other words, it’s game on for Facebook, Google, Amazon. For years now, Berners-Lee and other internet activists have been dreaming of a digital utopia where individuals control their own data and the internet remains free and open. But for Berners-Lee, the time for dreaming is over.

    https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim-berners-lee-tells-us-his-radical-new-plan-to-upend-the-world-wide-web

  6. Rival rallies as Erdogan opens mega mosque in Cologne

    Cologne (Germany) (AFP) – Thousands of demonstrators hit the streets of Cologne Saturday as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened one of Europe’s largest mosques at the end of his visit to Germany, with police out in force to manage rival rallies.

    The inauguration capped a controversial three-day state visit aimed at repairing frayed ties with Berlin after two years of tensions.

    During his stay in Berlin, Erdogan met twice with Angela Merkel for talks, with both leaders signalling their interest in a cautious rapprochement.

    But the German chancellor stressed that “deep differences” remained on civil rights and other issues.

    Before returning home, Erdogan travelled to the western city of Cologne where several thousand critics turned out to protest everything from Turkey’s record on human rights and press freedom to its treatment of minority Kurds.

    At one of the rallies on the bank of the Rhine, demonstrators waved banners reading: “Erdogan not welcome”.

    Cansu, a 30-year-old student of Turkish origin, came from Switzerland to join the protest.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-city-braces-protests-erdogan-opens-mega-mosque-014513099.html

  7. COLD THAW Britain will send 800 troops to the Arctic to stop Russia grabbing land as the ice caps melt, Gavin Williamson says

    In a warning shot to Russia, Gavin Williamson said the Government was drawing up a ‘defence Arctic strategy’ with hundreds of commandos being deployed to Norway next year

    BRITAIN will send 800 troops to the Arctic next year to stop Russia grabbing land as the ice caps melt.

    Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said ministers were drawing up a new strategy which will see hundreds of commandos being deployed to Norway to deal with the growing threat from Russia “in our back yard”.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7381610/britain-will-send-800-troops-to-the-arctic-to-stop-russia-grabbing-land-as-the-ice-caps-melt-gavin-williamson-says/

  8. Ford friend Leland Keyser’s story has not changed despite what the MSM tells you
    By LU Staff September 30, 2018

    One of the people the Senate Judiciary Committee reached out to in advance of the hearings last Thursday was Christine Blasey Ford’s best friend as a teenager, Leland Ingham (now Keyser), who said through her attorney, Howard Walsh:

    Simply put, Ms. Keyser does not know Mr. Kavanaugh and she has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present, with, or without, Dr. Ford.

    In a new statement released yesterday, Keyser indicated her willingness to “cooperate fully” with an FBI investigation into the allegation, while re-emphasizing “the simple and unchangeable truth … that she is unable to corroborate it because she has no recollection of the incident in question.”

    This time, however, Walsh included the statement, “Ms. Keyser does not refute Dr. Ford’s account, and she has already told the press that she believes Dr. Ford’s account.”

    It is nothing more than a vote of confidence, especially in light of Ford’s own testimony before the committee, in which she said:

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/09/30/ford-friend-leland-keysers-story-has-not-changed-despite-what-the-msm-tells-you/

  9. Congressional Democrats will use obscure 1924 law to examine Trump’s tax returns – if they regain a majority
    By J.E. Dyer September 30, 2018

    If ever a headline begged for the rhetorical “What could go wrong?” — it’s this one.

    Politico reports that after the midterm election, Democrats in Congress have a plan to invoke a law from 1924 that allows the chairmen of tax policy committees to privately examine the tax returns of anyone who files one in the United States, even without that filer’s permission.

    Their target will be President Trump. The president, at least, will be their initial target. Politico is coy with further speculation, but it’s a safe bet that if they regain a majority in at least one chamber of Congress, Democrats will use this power against anyone they want to.

    According to Politico:

    The nearly 100-year-old statute allows the chairmen of Congress’ tax committees to look at anyone’s returns, and Democrats say they intend to use that power to help answer a long list of questions about Trump’s finances. Many also want to use it to make public confidential information about Trump’s taxes that he’s steadfastly refused to release. …

    That could bring a swift end to the long-running battle over Trump’s returns, while generating loads of fodder for what promises to be an array of investigations into the administration if Democrats win power.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/09/30/congressional-democrats-will-use-obscure-1924-law-to-examine-trumps-tax-returns-if-they-regain-a-majority/

    Click through and read the rest, the Dems are about to go full police state on their political enemies.

    • Richard: As she points out if they will do this to a setting President they don’t like what will they do to their political enemies who aren’t in public life? If they gain power they are ready to go full police state, combine this information with the communists openly talking about armed rebellion on the social networks, and you see a very ugly picture forming. This war won’t be over for a while and will be a lot bloodier then most people think, this is the far lefts last chance to take control of the US from many decades and they aren’t going to let go of it.

      • If 0 could be insulated – by hook AND by crook – PRIOR to taking office – shirley a sitting Potus can manage better cover. For himself and his family. At a minimum.

        A review PT’s normal, human missteps is in order midterm. Some people close to the Prez could’ve been better protected; others should never have gotten so close.

        Time to pull the screw-tightening gizmo out of the White House closet.

        Yes, our President exploits the Enemy’s radical underestimation of his craftiness. Magnificent technique.

        But selective bolts of stark terror should complement that instinctive approach. A soupçon of blackmail, for instance, might smooth wrinkles. Even nice guys have associates that aren’t so nice.

        This is a world of Arkancidal fiends, where an MB operative ran the State Department, followed by an agent of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 0’s birth-certificate, passport, school transcripts were fiddled. And so much more.

        The tax returns of everyone near & dear to the Potus should be pure as driven snow. Meticulous, impermeable.
        See to it that they are.

  10. AfD Becomes 2nd Most Popular Party in Germany After Merkel’s Bloc – Poll (sputniknews, Sep 30, 2018)
    https://sputniknews.com/europe/201809301068466868-afd-germany-merkel/

    “The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is the second political force in terms of popularity among the Germans, surpassed only by German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s alliance of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), a fresh poll showed.

    According to the survey commissioned by Germany’s Bild am Sonntag newspaper, the AfD is supported by 17 percent of voters, which is the second best result after CDU/CSU, whose level of support is currently record low and stands at 27 percent.

    The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) became the third in terms of popularity among voters, receiving 16 percent. The Alliance 90/The Greens and The Left (Die Linke) were right behind with 15 and 11 percent, respectively.

    The German Free Democratic Party was supported by 10 percent of German citizens.

    The poll was conducted among 1,902 German citizens on September 20-29.”

  11. Billionaire Dubai ruler in bid to build a new nine bedroom mansion on his Scottish property because his 30-bed estate isn’t big enough to accommodate his 23 children, servants and entourage (dailymail, Sep 30, 2018)
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6223983/Billionaire-Dubai-ruler-bid-build-new-mansion-Scottish-estate.html

    “The billionaire ruler of Dubai is hoping to expand his massive Scottish estate to accommodate his huge family – adding a nine-bedroom house and two lodges for his staff.

    Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum has several wives and 23 children who are known to visit the estate in the summer.

    In a statement for the Sheikh it was revealed that the family’s trips to Inverinate in Wester Ross had been ‘limited by lack of accommodation’.

    Now the rich ruler, through his development company Smech Ltd, is seeking to build the extra accommodation at his Highland retreat to help house his huge family, servants and entourage.

    It is the latest development on the sheikh’s estate, which already has a triple helipad and a 14-bedroom holiday home next door to a 16-bedroom luxury hunting lodge complete with a swimming pool and gym.

    Sheikh Mohammed who submitted the plans to Highland Council earlier this month has a fortune worth more than £13.73 billion and brought the 63,000-acre estate around 20 years ago.

    The proposed nine-bedroom lodge will be called Ptarmigan and the second, a 19-bedroom property is set to be called Benula, reports ArabianBusiness.

    His family use it in summer to escape the 50C Dubai heat.

    The sheikh is best known in Britain for being one of the top racehorse owners, is credited with turning Dubai into one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world…”

  12. Local Police: No complaints filed against Kavanaugh, Ford’s claim past statute of limitations
    By Daily Caller News Foundation September 29, 2018

    The police department that has jurisdiction over the area where Christine Blasey Ford claims Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her says it has not opened an investigation into the matter because Ford has not requested one, among other reasons.

    The Montgomery County Police Department says it stands by its “victim-centered” approach to launching investigations, despite Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s call Thursday for a full investigation of Ford’s allegations and a Wednesday letter from 11 Democratic Maryland state lawmakers with a similar request.

    A police department statement in effect as of Thursday explains its position, reported The Washington Post:

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/09/29/local-police-no-complaints-filed-against-kavanaugh-fords-claim-would-be-past-statute-of-limitations/

  13. Mosque has trustee on board who sold phones stolen from teenagers (telegraph, Sep 30, 2018)
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/30/mosque-has-trustee-board-sold-phones-stolen-teenagers/

    “The controversial new Islamic centre responsible for the care and education of children as young as five has appointed to a key position a convicted criminal who sold mobile phones stolen from teenagers.

    The Emaan Islamic Centre in Sheffield includes among its trustees a shopkeeper who was handed an 18 month suspended sentence in 2016 after pleading guilty to five counts of handling stolen goods.

    Aiman Mohammed Saeed, 51, was caught in a police sting operation selling phones stolen in street robberies and from nightclubs in the city.

    A court heard how Saeed, who runs an electrical goods shop called Yem Tech was caught on camera selling stolen iPhones to undercover officers and asking them to steal Xboxes and PS4 games for his business.

    The stolen phones in his possession included one snatched from a 16-year-old girl by two men in a street robbery.

    But at the time he committed the offences Saeed was a trustee of the ambitious Emaan mosque and Islamic centre project in Sheffield.

    The centre, overlooking the city’s industrial Don Valley, boasts that it will “promote and teach Islamic morals and values to new Muslim generations”.

    But in court Saeed was described by the prosecution as a Fagin-like figure who encouraged “people to steal things so he could sell them in the shop”, then called A&E Satellites.

    On top of his 18 month suspended sentence he was ordered to pay compensation to seven people whose stolen phones were found in his possession and to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work.

    Saeed, who is a Yemeni national, has been an officer of Emaan Trust since January 2009.

    The Emaan Islamic Centre faced criticism last year after The Telegraph revealed that plans for its construction were being overseen by a cleric reported to be a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB).

    A report by the former British ambassador to Saudi Arabia in 2014 concluded that the MB is a “secretive network” that “promotes values that appear intolerant of equality and freedom of faith and belief”. However it is not designated as a terrorist organisation.

    Khalid Al-Mathkour, who has been a trustee since April 2016, is also chairman of Kuwait’s sharia council and has previously called for Barbie dolls to be banned for wearing “accessories and revealing clothes” and having a boyfriend.

    The mosque also included as a trustee until August last year Essam Al-Fulaji, who has repeatedly issued anti-Semitic statements, including that Jews “are the ones controlling the world”, that “Zionists and Mossad were behind the September 11 attacks” and that Jews control the US media and politics.

    The trust last year said Dr Al-Fulaji had ceased to be a trustee by mutual agreement because “some of [his]views are incompatible with the workings and objectives of the Emaan Trust, and in particular in serving the wider community in Sheffield”.

    The Henry Jackson Society security and foreign policy think tank said Saeed’s inclusion on the board of trustees showed the Emaan trust was “ unsuitable to run a mosque or, as it states as one of its primary focuses, educate and raise the young”.

    A spokeswoman added: “This latest incident puts a big question mark over the suitability of the trust as a whole.”…”

  14. The Latest: Spain rescues 466 people crossing Mediterranean (abcnews, Sep 30, 2018)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/latest-spain-rescues-466-people-crossing-mediterranean-58184355

    “Spain’s maritime rescue service says it has saved 466 migrants attempting the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to European shores.

    The service says its rescue craft pulled the migrants from 10 different boats intercepted in waters east of the Strait of Gibraltar on Saturday and Sunday morning.

    Over 300 people have died in waters separating Spain from the African coast so far this year, according to the United Nations, and over 1,600 have died in all trying to cross the Mediterranean.

    A recent spike in migrant arrivals in Spain has put a strain on public services and pressure on the Spanish government, especially since Italy’s new hard-line interior minister has blocked humanitarian aid boats from docking in Italian ports with migrants rescued at sea.”

    • Cotton: Feinstein to be investigated over leaked letter from Ford

      Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office will be investigated to determine whether it leaked a confidential letter from one of Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers, Sen. Tom Cotton said Sunday.

      Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, also said lawyers recommended to Christine Blasey Ford by Democrats will face a Washington, D.C., bar investigation for telling her that Senate Judiciary Committee staffers would not travel to California to interview her about her sexual-assault allegation.

      “They have betrayed her,” Cotton said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “She has been victimized by Democrats … on a search-and-destroy mission for Brett Kavanaugh.”

      He also said Democrats would be at fault if women become less likely to report sexual assaults now because they did not keep Ford’s request confidential, as she had asked.

      Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, had received a letter from Ford some months ago describing the incident with Kavanaugh but had kept the material confidential, as requested in the letter. At some point, information about Ford was leaked to the press, though the California Democrat denied that she or her office were responsible.

      The FBI investigation into Ford’s sexual assault allegation against Kavanaugh is unlikely to bring any new evidence to light, Cotton said, adding that the Judiciary Committee had already conducted interviews and/or received letters from people that Ford said attended the gathering at which the alleged assault occurred.

      “We already know what everyone at the party has said,” he said, adding that the investigation will likely make a few senators more comfortable about voting to confirm Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

      https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/30/cotton-feinstein-ford-leaked-letter-854019

      • 3rd Kavanaugh accuser has history of legal disputes

        WASHINGTON (AP) — Julie Swetnick, one of the women who has publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, has an extensive history of involvement in legal disputes, including a lawsuit in which an ex-employer accused her of falsifying her college and work history on her job application.

        Legal documents from Maryland, Oregon and Florida provide a partial picture of a woman who stepped into the media glare amid the battle over Kavanaugh’s nomination for the nation’s highest court.

        Court records reviewed by The Associated Press show Swetnick has been involved in at least six legal cases over the past 25 years. Along with the lawsuit filed by a former employer in November 2000, the cases include a personal injury suit she filed in 1994 against the Washington, D.C., regional transit authority.

        Her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, told the AP that court cases involving her have no bearing on the credibility of her claims about Kavanaugh. Avenatti said the suit from her ex-employer — it was dismissed a month after it was filed — was “completely bogus, which is why it was dismissed almost immediately.”

        He told AP that he “fully vetted” Swetnick before helping her take her claims against Kavanaugh public.

        Avenatti released a sworn statement by Swetnick this past week in which she says she witnessed Kavanaugh “consistently engage in excessive drinking and inappropriate contact of a sexual nature with women in the early 1980s.” In the statement, which was provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Swetnick said she had been sexually assaulted at a party attended by members of Kavanaugh’s social circle, but did not accuse him of assaulting her. Two other women have publicly accused Kavanaugh of sexually abusing them.

        One of those women, Christine Blasey Ford, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday to offer emotional testimony that even Kavanaugh’s most ardent backers, including Trump, said they found credible. Another woman, Deborah Ramirez, has accused Kavanaugh of exposing himself to her during a drunken party when both were students at Yale University. Friends and colleagues of Ramirez describe her as a quiet person who has dedicated herself to being an advocate for needy families and survivors of domestic violence.

        Swetnick was the third named Kavanaugh accuser to emerge, when Avenatti released details of her accusations on Twitter on the eve of Ford’s testimony.

        Kavanaugh has denied the claims regarding him made by Swetnick and other women, characterizing some of the allegations as a “joke” and a “farce.”

        Ann Simonton, a nationally recognized advocate for rape survivors and director of Media Watch, a media literacy organization, cautioned that many sexual abuse survivors encounter chaos and trouble later in life — things can tarnish a survivor’s image but don’t necessarily speak to the legitimacy of the underlying abuse allegations. “This type of trauma will impact your daily life forever,” she said.

        Swetnick, who is from the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., has said she is willing to be interviewed by either Congress or the FBI. On Twitter, Avenatti wrote that he and Swetnick would “thoroughly enjoy” embarrassing Republicans on the Judiciary Committee this weekend “when her story is told and is deemed credible.” Swetnick has taped an interview with “The Circus,” a political program that is part of Showtime’s Sunday lineup.

        Some details of the legal disputes she’s been involved in aren’t known, because documents in the cases are incomplete or no longer available. Records in the lawsuit filed in late 2000 by her ex-employer, Oregon-based software company Webtrends, don’t indicate why it was dismissed. Avenatti said there was a settlement in the case but no money changed hands.

        In its civil complaint in a state court in Oregon, the company said Swetnick, a software engineer, was an employee for a few weeks before its human resources department received a report that she had engaged in “unwelcome sexual innuendo and inappropriate conduct” toward two male co-workers at a business lunch.

        The lawsuit said that Swetnick in turn accused Webtrends of subjecting her to “physically and emotionally threatening and hostile conditions” and that she claimed that she’d been sexually harassed by four co-workers. The co-workers denied the allegations, the suit said.

        Company officials later determined, the suit said, that Swetnick had provided false information on her employment application. The suit alleged that she had misrepresented the length of time she worked at a previous employer and falsely claimed that she’d earned an undergraduate degree in biology and chemistry from Johns Hopkins University.

        Her lawyer, Avenatti, said that “whether she has a college degree or not does not matter as to whether she is a sexual assault victim.”

        Helene Moglen, Swetnick’s aunt, told AP this week that her niece went off to college but quickly moved back home. In an interview with The Washington Post, Swetnick’s father was quoted as saying that “she bootstrapped herself and became a computer expert. She’s a sharp woman.”

        None of the executives named in the lawsuit still works at Webtrends. Calls and emails to the company’s Portland headquarters seeking comment received no response. The lawyer who represented the company in the lawsuit also did not return messages seeking comment on Thursday and Friday.

        Swetnick was on the other side of a civil case in 1994, as a plaintiff, when she filed a personal injury lawsuit in Maryland against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. She claimed she lost more than $420,000 in earnings after she hurt her nose in a fall on a train in 1992.

        Swetnick, who described herself in court records as a model and actor, claimed she had “numerous modeling commitments” with several companies at the time of the accident but missed out them because of her injuries.

        To support her claim for lost wages, Swetnick named “Konam Studios” as one of the companies promising to employ her. A court filing identified Nam Ko, a representative of “Kunam Studios,” as a possible plaintiff’s witness for her case.

        Ko, however, told AP on Friday that he was just a friend of Swetnick’s and that he had never owned a company with a name spelled either way and had never agreed to pay her money for any work before she injured her nose. He said he first met Swetnick at a bar more than a year after her alleged accident.

        “I didn’t have any money back then. I (was) broke as can be,” Ko said.

        Ko said he has a hazy memory of Swetnick asking to use him as a “character reference” but doesn’t recall hearing about her lawsuit.

        “I thought it was for a job application,” he said.

        In answer to questions about the suit, Avenatti said: “This is all hearsay. … None of this is relevant, not one bit.”

        The paperwork filed in the suit includes a letter addressed to Swetnick’s attorney from Richard Zamora, who is identified as a marketing executive from a San Jose, California-based company called Fiber Sign Inc. In the letter, dated March 1994, Zamora said the company had been prepared to hire Swetnick as a model and spokeswoman and pay her a $60,000 base salary but offered the job to someone else after learning of her accident.

        Zamora later asked a court in Florida for a restraining order against Swetnick. The remaining court records don’t show the reasons he gave for asking for the restraining order, but indicate that the case was dropped less than two weeks later when neither party appeared in court.

        Zamora, who now goes by Richard Vinneccy, declined to comment to AP this week about the letter or the nature of the relationship he’d had with Swetnick.

        Avenatti said the request for a restraining order was “nonsense.”

        Court records show Swetnick’s lawsuit against the transit agency was dismissed in 1997 after a settlement was reached. Vincent Jankoski, one of the lawyers who defended the agency, said the case was resolved without paying Swetnick any money after she failed to provide documentation supporting her lost-wage claims.

        https://www.apnews.com/bccc4dd598df4e71bbf6c40ff4830373/3rd-Kavanaugh-accuser-has-history-of-legal-disputes

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        CBC – #MeToo against he said, she said | The Weekly

        The battle of the old idea of he said she said against the #MeToo movement has boiled down in the Brett Kavanaugh hearings to those who believe him, and those who believe Christine Blasey Ford.

        CBC’s Wendy Mesley speaks with two famous and furious lawyers on either side of this hot debate, Alan Dershowitz and Lisa Bloom.

    • the gateway pundit – Sen. Feinstein Sends Letter to FBI Director Wray Requesting Written Directive of Kavanaugh Investigation

      Controversial Democrarat Senator Dianne Feinstein wrote the FBI Director on Sunday demanding a written directive outlining the Kavanaugh investigation.

      https://twitter.com/New_Narrative/status/1046534825874784257

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/09/sen-feinstein-sends-letter-to-fbi-director-wray-requesting-written-directive-of-kavanaugh-investigation/

    • It’s Not Kavanaugh. It’s Roe.

      I do not know if Brett Kavanaugh is guilty of what he’s accused of doing when he was a teenager. His innocence or guilt is a separate matter.

      What I do know is that the anti-Kavanaughs — i.e. the Left, the Democrats — could not care less whether he’s innocent or guilty. They do not care what he may have done as an intoxicated teen. Nor are they racing to defend the honor of Ms. Ford.

      These, after all, are die-hard supporters of Bill Clinton, who committed adultery in the Oval Office as President. Clinton also remains credibly accused of rape and sexual assault by multiple women, all while he was a married adult, not an immature teenager.

      That undying support is also extended to Hillary Clinton, whose “women should be believed” motto only applies to certain women, provided they are accusing the right man.

      Before Clinton, it was the “Lion of the Senate” Ted Kennedy who enjoyed the same undying adulation and support. Kennedy literally left a woman to drown, and still he spent decades as the Democrat’s hero. Mary Jo Kopechne died trapped in Kennedy’s car under water, while Kennedy saved his own life and career. And how the people loved him. Manslaughter is such a teensy little mistake.

      No, I don’t believe for a nanosecond that the Democrats care one whit about Kavanaugh’s innocence or guilt. Their moral indignation is phonier than a $3 dollar bill. (By the way, does Rep. Keith Ellison still have a job?)

      This is about abortion. It’s about the larger sexual ideology as well, but abortion first and foremost. This is about nothing more than demolishing a candidate for the Supreme Court whom they did not choose, and who poses a serious threat to their golden idol. Abortion is both sacrament and god.

      Any honest observer has to be repulsed by the histrionics displayed during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings. Screaming women raving like lunatics about one thing: abortion-on-demand. At the thought that they may not be able to extinguish the natural results of their sexual encounters, that the child they help create is a human being they are obligated to protect, the pelvic Left becomes absolutely unhinged. Unhinged is even too inadequate a word. It’s like the behavior of demons about to be exorcised.

      A country that shrugs off the evidence of what abortion really is and chants all the louder about “freedom” and “equality” can never claim to achieve either. Roe v. Wade is the litmus test to end all litmus tests. That’s because abortion is the moral “issue” to end all issues. It is uniquely defining of a culture and an individual. People who support the act of butchering the most defenseless and innocent of all human beings, blithely calling it “choice” can hardly plant their flag on a civilized hill.

      A nation that considers killing its own children to be the pièce de résistance of its fight for empowerment and justice is suffering a suicidal delusion.

      Modern Paganism
      And that’s precisely what we’ve got here in America. The delusion is so hypnotic and addictive that nothing must be permitted to question it or come against it. There must be sexual pleasure without price. Nothing matters more than sexual gratification. The god of the groin is perpetually unsatisfied and greedy.

      So the modern sophisticated pagans want to continue exposing the unwanted child to birds of prey on a rock in the midday sun. The allegiance they require to abortion-on-demand is no different and no better. Except that today they remove those lucrative brains and organs first. (I guess our ancestors didn’t know there was money to be made from baby body parts.)

      After 45 years of this demonic delusion, with millions of babies picked apart by vultures in lab coats, along comes the possibility that finally the most sickening injustice of all time may be undone, and the pelvic Left is twelve different kinds of hysterical.

      They don’t hate Brett Kavanaugh because of anything he may have done over thirty years ago. Any transgression can be forgiven if fervent devotion to abortion is manifest.

      They hate Kavanaugh because they love abortion and he does not. Hell hath no fury like “women’s rights” scorned.

      https://stream.org/not-kavanaugh-roe/

  15. TORONTO – Police identify Muslim arrested in Leslieville tire-slashing

    Toronto police have identified the man arrested Friday evening in connection with a string of car tires slashed in Leslieville.

    55 Division issued a public safety alert yesterday, warning local residents that 60 cases of vandalism to vehicles were reported in the area of Gerrard St. E. to Eastern Ave., and Boulton Ave. to Marjory Ave., since July 1.

    Multiple residents told the Star they were angry and frustrated at the repeated slashings. Several had their tires cut more than once.

    Ahmad Zafar, 28, of Toronto was arrested Friday at 9 p.m. and was charged with 78 counts of mischief/damage to property not exceeding $5,000. He appeared in court Saturday at 10 a.m.

    https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/09/29/police-identify-man-arrested-in-leslieville-tire-slashing.html

  16. Communists planning armed insurrection on Twitter
    Debra Heine, PJM September 30, 2018

    [Ed. – If you check out the link, the headline is not an exaggeration.]

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/09/30/communists-planning-armed-insurrection-on-twitter/

    Communists Planning Armed Insurrection on Twitter

    Communist agitators took to Twitter this week to brainstorm strategies for a violent armed insurrection against their perceived enemies, Far Left Watch reported.

    “Dr. Bones,” the co-host of the far-left podcast The Guillotine, started the conversation going with his 5,000-plus Twitter followers. Bones (@Ole_Bonsey on Twitter) asked: “Hey quick little question for military minded lefties: should leftists train/organize in a ‘insurgent’ focus where they blend into a civilian population for potential attacks or a more ‘militia’ structure focused on holding/maintaining turf?”

    https://pjmedia.com/trending/communists-on-twitter-discuss-strategy-of-ambushes-and-assassinations-against-political-enemies/

  17. Yukon’s first mosque opened Friday, and leaders say it marks an important milestone for Canada.</strong

    Muhammad Javed, president of the Yukon Muslim Society, welcomed a crowd to the mosque's open house where many in the audience were non-Muslims who stopped by to offer congratulations over coffee.

    "Today really is a historic day for the Muslim community of Whitehorse," said Javed.

    Javed said the Muslim community began its journey to find a home in 2005, when the Whitehorse United Church welcomed Muslims to use the space to pray. Then in 2009, Javed said they rented a small apartment in the city to use for prayer.

    Now, there is at least one mosque in every province and territory in the country, noted Javed.

    "This completes the North. This completes the territories. I call it the Star Trek mosque," said Hussein ?Guisti, from the Zubaidah Tallab Foundation, a small charity that helped build a mosque in Thompson, Man.

    "Congratulations for turning a trucking warehouse into a mosque. Well done," said Angelique Bernard, the commissioner of Yukon, garnering cheers from the crowd.

    The same builder that installed mosques in Inuvik, N.W.T., and Iqaluit began construction on the low, metal-plated trucking warehouse in April.

    Fathallah Farajat of Hamilton, Ont., built the mosque, and says it took about four people to renovate the building at a time.

    "It's done now, everything's done," said Farajat, who started his career building custom cabinets and worked his way up to building mosques.

    "I'm so happy here. The community's happy here."

    Farajat says his next project is to work on building the mosque in Yellowknife.

    "We're very proud of my dad," said Halla Farajat, his daughter, who came to Whitehorse with the family to see her dad's work.

    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/yukon-apos-1st-mosque-milestone-151100975.html

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    CBC – Yukon’s 1st mosque a milestone for Canada, founders say

    Metal-plated warehouse successfully transforms into Yukon’s 1st mosque

    Yukon’s first mosque opened Friday, and leaders say it marks an important milestone for Canada.

    Muhammad Javed, president of the Yukon Muslim Society, welcomed a crowd to the mosque’s open house where many in the audience were non-Muslims who stopped by to offer congratulations over coffee.

    “Today really is a historic day for the Muslim community of Whitehorse,” said Javed.

    Javed said the Muslim community began its journey to find a home in 2005, when the Whitehorse United Church welcomed Muslims to use the space to pray. Then in 2009, Javed said they rented a small apartment in the city to use for prayer.

    Now, there is at least one mosque in every province and territory in the country, noted Javed.

    “This completes the North. This completes the territories. I call it the Star Trek mosque,” said Hussein ?Guisti, from the Zubaidah Tallab Foundation, a small charity that helped build a mosque in Thompson, Man.

    “Congratulations for turning a trucking warehouse into a mosque. Well done,” said Angelique Bernard, the commissioner of Yukon, garnering cheers from the crowd.

    The same builder that installed mosques in Inuvik, N.W.T., and Iqaluit began construction on the low, metal-plated trucking warehouse in April.

    Fathallah Farajat of Hamilton, Ont., built the mosque, and says it took about four people to renovate the building at a time.

    “It’s done now, everything’s done,” said Farajat, who started his career building custom cabinets and worked his way up to building mosques.

    “I’m so happy here. The community’s happy here.”

    Farajat says his next project is to work on building the mosque in Yellowknife.

    “We’re very proud of my dad,” said Halla Farajat, his daughter, who came to Whitehorse with the family to see her dad’s work.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-first-mosque-whitehorse-grand-opening-1.4844135
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    https://twitter.com/YukonPhilippe/status/1045824867176603648

  18. Marine Le Pen reacted to the ordering of a psychiatric evaluation by the French legal system saying it is becoming a “totalitarian system”. This is her translated statement to broadcaster CNEWS on the treatment she’s received.

    They want to prosecute me under an article which was used against sexual workers, psychopaths, perverts and sexual predators

    “You know the judicial floor depend on the political powers and they receive orders from them. The political powers gave the order to prosecute me because I denounced Daesh’s atrocities by tweets in 2015.”

    “The judges didn’t find any articles to prosecute me, instead they sought an article about sexual infractions to protect minors from sexual crimes! It’s a true scandal (…) That’s why I fell off my chair when I received an ordinance for me to undergo psychiatric evaluation.”

    Of course, none of the media care about what she was saying and instead told her that it was a “normal procedure” and even compared her treatment to how Alexandre Benalla was treated (Macron’s ex bodyguard who is under several lawsuits and scrutiny over several crimes, including his beating down of protesters).

    https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/09/marine-le-pen-warns-france-is-becoming-a-totalitarian-state-our-judges-are-politicised/

  19. “EXCLUSIVE: Emails show Yale profs cancel class for Kavanaugh hearing” by Zachary Petrizzo – September 24, 2018
    https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11343

    “I’ve never seen such ANGRY protesters fighting AGAINST the right to due process! When the Left can’t win on ideas, they resort to DESTROYING good people’s reputations and ATTACKING the character of anyone who dares to stand up for him. End the sham. Confirm Kavanaugh now!”
    – Charlie Kirk – September 30, 2018 – Twitter
    https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1046210697024008192

  20. Rome (AFP) – Italy’s powerful deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini said Saturday “I do not care” if the EU Commission rejects his budget plans.
    “No-one in Brussels can tell me it is not time,” the head of the populist League (Lega) party told a meeting in the Italian capital.

    “If Brussels says I cannot do it, I do not care, I will do it anyway,” the outspoken leader vowed.

    Italy’s new coalition government has drafted a budget that raises spending, pushes the public deficit target to around 2.4 percent of gross domestic product for the next three years, and probably hikes the public debt above its current level of 131 percent of GDP.

    The previous government was aiming for a deficit of 0.8 percent of GDP that would help cut debt but possibly hamper economic growth.

    A warning by EU officials on Friday about Italy’s deficit troubled financial markets and pushed up the cost of borrowing for the government.

    “It is a budget which appears to be beyond the limits of our shared rules,” noted Pierre Moscovici, who runs the EU Commission’s economic and finance portfolio.

    Italian President Sergio Mattarella warned the government Saturday that the constitution requires a balanced budget and sustainable public debt.

    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/30/salvini-defies-eu-if-brussels-says-i-cannot-do-it-i-do-not-care-i-will-do-it-anyway/

    Note: This is the 2nd EU country that says it will not abide by EU rulings…

  21. This is a common-sense measure. We have seen imams preaching hatred and violence in mosques all over the West. The willful blindness of American officials to this problem is suicidal. But this imam is unlikely to have been singular or unusual in Italy. What are Italian authorities going to do when they discover that there are many, many others like him preaching hatred and violence in Italy?

    “Imam Deported from Italy After Celebrating Terror Attacks in Prison,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, September 22, 2018:

    A Tunisian imam has been expelled from Italy after it was revealed that he had celebrated the Berlin Christmas Market terror attack in December of 2016 from his prison cell.

    The 32-year-old imam, who had been convicted of robbery and drug dealing, was serving his sentence at the Rebibbia prison in Rome where he praised Islamic State and terrorist acts, Il Giornale reports.

    One of the attacks the imam celebrated was the 2016 Berlin Christmas Market attack in which fellow Tunisian Anis Amri used a truck to run over multiple innocent people, killing a dozen and injuring 56 others. After the attack, it was revealed that Amri was said to have been radicalised in an Italian prison.

    The imam was also said to have been spreading radical Islamic radical ideology among the prisoners and was said to be ready to imitate the deeds of Amri and commit a terror attack.

    The expulsion order came after the 32-year-old had served his prison sentence and was set for release on August 22nd. Instead of being released, he was transferred to a repatriation centre along with three Egyptian nationals who were considered threats to Italian national security.

    https://gellerreport.com/2018/09/italy-imam-deported.html/

  22. British authorities were forced to destroy over 100,000 pounds of onions which were “contaminated” by illegal migrants discovered hiding in delivery lorries.
    Border Force officials discovered more than twenty illegal migrants who identified themselves as being from Afghanistan, Albania, Iran, and Iraq — all Muslim-majority countries — in two separate incidents in the Port of Poole, the Dorset Echo reports.

    “In June 2017 and January 2018, a total of 47,000 kilograms of onions were surrendered at the Port of Poole following the discovery of clandestine migrants in two vehicles that were being used to transport the goods,” explained Peter Haikin, the Borough of Poole’s Regulatory Services Manager.

    “As a result of the discoveries, all of the produce was disposed of to ensure that no contaminated goods would end up in any restaurants or supermarkets.”

    He added: “Borough of Poole continues to work closely with authorities to ensure that produce being provided to restaurants, supermarkets and distributors is safe for consumption.”

    The high street value of the destroyed onions was estimated at over £35,000.

    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/30/uk-over-100000-pounds-of-onions-destroyed-after-illegal-migrants-found-in-delivery-lorries/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

  23. Toronto is segregated by race and income. And the numbers are ugly
    By SANDRO CONTENTAFeature Writer
    Sun., Sept. 30, 2018
    In Toronto, the colour of money is mainly white.

    New demographic charts show a strikingly segregated city, with visible minorities concentrated in low-income neighbourhoods and white residents dominating affluent areas in numbers far higher than their share of the population.

    https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/09/30/toronto-is-segregated-by-race-and-income-and-the-numbers-are-ugly.html

  24. Note: reallygood read:

    5 Signs You’re In The Midst Of A Moral Panic
    Protestors demonstrate outside the Montgomery County Courthouse as Bill Cosby arrives for the first day of his sexual assault retrial on April 9, 2018 in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Mark Makela/Getty Images

    ByASHE SCHOW
    ?@ASHESCHOW
    September 29, 2018
    ? 4.5k views
    Moral panics, or instances of mass hysteria, have occurred throughout history. Two of the most notorious are the Salem Witch Trials of the 1690s and the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and 90s. The panics almost exclusively involve women and children and fears for their safety, especially from sexual abuse.
    We are in the midst of another such panic, but despite the similarities to past episodes, we are still unable to recognize it as such. The current panic has been playing out in the military and on college campuses for nearly a decade, but with the advent of the #MeToo movement, the mass hysteria is creeping into our regular legal system as well. The following are five of the biggest signs that we are experiencing another bout of mass hysteria, this time over sexual assault and harassment.

    http://archive.is/xNa7K#selection-195.0-297.493

  25. Belgian MP Georges Dallemagne has expressed concern that the Grand Mosque of Brussels may have resumed more hardline sermons and may be continuing to preach hate.
    Mr Dallemagne said earlier this week that he believed the leaders of the Grand Mosque were deceiving the authorities and “stringing them along” when it came to preaching more radical forms of Islam, Sudinfo reports.

    The Islamic and Cultural Center of Belgium (CICB) which operates out of the Grand Mosque, has been accused of spreading Wahabbist ideology in the past by a report from the Belgian Unit for Coordination and Threat Analysis (OCAM), the contents of which was leaked earlier this year.

    “The teaching of the Muslim religion of the Arab section of the Islamic and Cultural Center of Belgium is in no way adapted to the Belgian or European reference framework. Salafist ideas and doctrines that encourage the rejection of any different ideas and fundamental constitutional rights and freedoms,” the report said.

    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/28/belgian-mp-grand-mosque-brussels-continues-preach-hate/

  26. Next year’s European Parliamentary elections should bring about a change in the community’s policy, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a radio interview on Friday, and warned that “the battle between pro-migration and anti-migration MEPs has not yet been decided”.

    Migration is bad because it actually means replacing the population

    Speaking on public Kossuth Radio, Orban said that “pro-migration forces now have a sweeping majority” both in the EP and the European Commission, and “pose a serious democracy issue as they represent something European people do not want.”

    European voters want their leaders “to make a clear breast and declare if they consider migration right or wrong”, Orban said. He added his position that “migration is bad because it actually means replacing the population”.

    “Fewer and fewer European are born and more and more foreigners are imported. This will change our culture and in a year or two we will not recognise our village, city or our own country or continent,” Orban insisted.

    He said that while the EU seeks to resolve demographic problems through “importing people from Africa or Asia”, Hungary “needs Hungarian people”. He insisted that “more babies require families and a family requires a mother and a father – possibly a woman and a man”.

    https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/09/orban-europe-needs-change-or-we-wont-recognise-our-cities-and-countries-anymore/#.W69ieG3B4yw.twitter

  27. TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) – Authorities said two Tucson men posed as ride-share drivers and tried to sexually assault women.

    The Tucson Police Department said Abdifatah Muktar, 23, and Berhan Hiabu, 22, have been arrested on multiple felony charges.

    Muktar is facing charges of kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, conspiracy to commit sexual assault. Hiabu is facing charges of kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, attempted sexual assault and conspiracy to commit sexual assault.

    The TPD said the men were arrested Thursday and Friday following two incidents.

    In the first, a woman used a ride-share service. Muktar picked her up and drove her home.

    Authorities said Muktar claimed the woman made a mess in his vehicle and demanded payment. The victim offered to have the car cleaned, so both headed to a car wash.

    The victim said she didn’t see a mess in the vehicle and asked for a ride home. Muktar refused, but claimed he could get a different ride-share driver to do it.

    https://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/2018/09/29/authorities-tucson-men-posed-drivers-tried-sexually-assault-women/

  28. TL;DR: a woman says Dianne Feinstein covered up that she had been raped by one of Feinstein’s generous donors, and that the Dems turned their backs on her

    Sexual assault has been a topic at the forefront of the media because of the controversy surrounding the Supreme Court Justice nomination process. Judge Kavanaugh was accused by four women of sexual assault, something that has stalled his nomination process. While Democrats have taken action to stall the process, accusers who are pointing blame at Democratic leadership are starting to come out of the woodwork.

    Keep and Bear reported,

    “Sharyn Bovat says she was sexually assaulted in 1990 at the Fairmount Hotel in San Francisco where Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) was celebrating her birthday. Bovat says a Japanese investor/donor was the man who committed the crime after she made her way back to her hotel room. Bovat describes how her mother, a Democrat, was a friend of Feinstein’s, and that the Senator was complicit in covering up what happened.

    Sharyn claims she was never going to go public with this information until she saw how Feinstein and Democrats did everything possible to assassinate the character of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. In this second video, Bovat highlights how she was turned away by Democrats:

    https://rwnofficial.com/feinstein-gets-brutal-dose-of-karma-female-victim-demands-investigation-on-her-she-covered-up/

  29. This summer, I’ve read two collections of short stories: The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution by Chen Jo-hsi and The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea by Bandi. The two books were written in different places and times, but both tell what it’s like for ordinary people to live under a communist regime.

    Chen, the author of The Execution of Mayor Yin, is a Taiwanese native who studied in the United States, where she married a Chinese graduate student. They moved to mainland China in 1966 at the start of the Cultural Revolution, the left after seven years: Chen wrote the eight stories between 1974 and 1976.

    The author of The Accusation, on the other hand, is an anonymous dissident still living in North Korea. Bandi—the name means “firefly” in Korean—wrote stories depicting life under the totalitarian Kim regime between 1989 and 1995. The manuscript was smuggled out of the country in 2013 and published in 17 languages around the world.

    https://world.wng.org/2018/09/short_stories_of_communism

  30. Unique underwater sculpture in Maldives destroyed for not being Islamic:

    https://i.redd.it/tzfbsxwp38p11.jpg

    A unique underwater sculpture exhibit at a Maldives resort was destroyed on order of the country’s president after it was deemed to violate Islamic beliefs.

    President Abdulla Yameen said the country’s religious leaders had complained that the sculpture represented idols, which are banned by Islam. Strict Islam bans any manmade depiction of the human form.

    The project, called the Coralarium, was created by British artist Jason DeCaires Taylor to bring attention to rising sea levels.

    https://abcnews.go.com/International/unique-underwater-sculpture-maldives-destroyed-deemed-islamic/story?id=58146425

  31. “Ours is an age of improved means to deteriorated ends.”
    – J.R.R.Tolkien

    “Jeff Flake at NBC Sponsored Global Citizen Festival: ‘Feel Free To Join Me In An Elevator Anytime’” – Weasel Zippers – September 30, 2018
    https://www.weaselzippers.us/398329-jeff-flake-at-nbc-sponsored-global-citizen-festival-feel-free-to-join-me-in-an-elevator-anytime/

    Comments – Link

    “WOMEN SCREAMING AT FLAKE IN ELEVATOR Were Soros-Funded Astroturfed Activist Leaders! — NOT VICTIMS”
    by Jim Hoft – September 28, 2018
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/09/women-screaming-at-flake-in-elevator-were-soros-funded-astroturfed-activist-leaders-not-sex-abuse-victims/

  32. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A lawsuit alleging that Harvard University’s admissions practice discriminates against Asian Americans is officially headed to trial.

    The judge overseeing the case rejected motions from both sides Friday asking to rule on their behalf. The judge says there’s still too much in dispute.

    The group Students For Fair Admissions filed the suit in 2014. It says Asian American applicants have the best academic records but the lowest admission rate among any race.

    Harvard denies any bias and says it considers race only as one of many factors in deciding which students to admit.

    https://nypost.com/2018/09/29/harvard-university-will-fight-discrimination-lawsuit-in-court/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=reddit.com

  33. CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Kent State graduate Kaitlin Bennett went viral after she posted a graduation photo of herself carrying an AR-10 rifle on campus.

    Bennett is holding a open carry “walk” around on the Kent campus.

    Cleveland 19 will livestream the walk in the video player above. WARNING: Live video may contain foul language.

    The KSU grad expects around 200 people to walk with her around campus in support of second amendment rights including campus carry.

    https://www.cleveland19.com/2018/09/29/controversial-kent-state-grad-hosts-open-carry-walk-campus/

  34. UK: Over 100,000 Pounds of Onions Destroyed After Illegal Migrants Found in Delivery Lorries (breitbart, Sep 30, 2018)
    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/30/uk-over-100000-pounds-of-onions-destroyed-after-illegal-migrants-found-in-delivery-lorries/

    “British authorities were forced to destroy over 100,000 pounds of onions which were “contaminated” by illegal migrants discovered hiding in delivery lorries.

    Border Force officials discovered more than twenty illegal migrants who identified themselves as being from Afghanistan, Albania, Iran, and Iraq — all Muslim-majority countries — in two separate incidents in the Port of Poole, the Dorset Echo reports.

    “In June 2017 and January 2018, a total of 47,000 kilograms of onions were surrendered at the Port of Poole following the discovery of clandestine migrants in two vehicles that were being used to transport the goods,” explained Peter Haikin, the Borough of Poole’s Regulatory Services Manager.

    “As a result of the discoveries, all of the produce was disposed of to ensure that no contaminated goods would end up in any restaurants or supermarkets.”…”

  35. Merkel Fights for Globalism, Warns Trump Against ‘Destroying’ the United Nations (breitbart, Sep 30, 2018)
    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/30/merkel-globalism-warns-trump-against-destroying-united-nations/

    “German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday warned U.S. President Donald Trump against “destroying” the United Nations.

    “I believe that destroying something without having developed something new is extremely dangerous,” Merkel said at a regional election campaign event in Bavaria.

    The veteran leader — a close ally of Trump’s bugbear Barack Obama while he was president — added that she believed multilateralism was the solution to many of the world’s problems.

    Trump failed to see the possibility for win-win solutions, she said, instead seeing only one winner from any international negotiation.

    In his second appearance before the UN’s annual gathering last week, Trump told the General Assembly that he and his administration “reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism”.

    “Global governance” is a form of “coercion and domination” that “responsible nations must defend against”, he charged.

    Merkel’s opposing view to the US leader puts her in the same camp as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who warned before Trump took the podium in New York Tuesday that “today, world order is increasingly chaotic”.”

  36. New York resident Linda Sarsour may be a darling of the progressive movement south of the border, but her impending presence at a Muslim community convention on Oct. 6 has prompted calls for organizers to dis-invite her and has led to at least two online petitions, one of which calls for her to be banned from entering Canada.

    Sarsour, the co-founder of the Women’s March on Washington and a prominent critic of Israel, is slated to address the Carry the Light convention, which runs at The International Centre in Mississauga, Ont., on Oct. 6 and 7. The event is sponsored by the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), an organization that has been accused of having links to the Muslim Brotherhood.

    The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) and B’nai Brith Canada have raised concerns about Sarsour’s participation at the conference, noting her support for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Meanwhile, a petition posted by the Canadian Coalition for Responsible Government (CCRG) on the CitizenGO website is calling on the RCMP to prohibit Sarsour from entering the country. A second petition launched by B’nai Brith calls on ICNA to dis-invite Sarsour, as well as five other speakers.

    https://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/jewish-groups-call-for-activist-linda-sarsour-to-be-banned-from-canadian-speaking-event