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This is the new Samizdat. We muse use it while we can.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Warning_To_POTUS_Trump_Globalists_Leading_You_Into_A_Trap.php
Do READ all of it.
Warning To President Trump: The Globalists May Be Leading You Into A Trap – New 2016 Election Collusion Evidence Points To Hillary Clinton Colluding With The Ukraine
– If Wikileaks and Julian Assange hadn’t released the absolutely damning DNC and John Podesta emails, we might have a ‘President Hillary Clinton’ in America right now.
By Stefan Stanford – All News Pipeline – Live Free Or Die
In this extremely important story over at Zero Hedge that ANP reader ‘I Don’t Know’ had linked to in this comment section yesterday, their story, a message to President Trump, began: “I write to you because I’m seeing something unfold that concerns you, and I have no way of knowing if you’re aware of it, nor have I seen anyone else mention it. That is, sir, you are being set up, a trap is being set for you, and unless you are aware of it, you may well walk into that trap eyes wide open.”
The story went on to detail for POTUS ‘the trap’ that is being set for him with Wikileaks’ Julian Assange potentially prepared to be evicted from the Ecuadoran Embassy in the UK at any time (though Ecuador recently rejected that claim as was reported within this NBC story). The ZH story then warned POTUS: “What’s most important to your own situation, as well as that of Mr. Assange, is that the people who are after him are the very same people who have been after you for 3 years, and who will double their efforts after suffering a huge loss due to Robert Mueller’s No Collusion report.”
As William B. Stoecker reported on ANP on April 5th, with the ‘deep state coup’ attempt upon President Trump having failed and the full release of the Mueller report and FISA reports, potentially in the near future, sure to blow up in the Democrats faces, former Trump advisor George Papadopoulos recently tweeted “the Democrats have no idea what they’re wishing for” of the release of the Mueller report. Stoecker’s story had warned “it’s false flag season in America” and as he reported within it, the corrupted faction of the deep state that sold out President Trump and America are sure to try to pull off an ‘event’ in an attempt to regain ‘control’ and ‘the narrative’ if they are not held accountable for their crimes of treason against America.
But as we’ll see in the story we’ll be exploring in the next section below looking at this ‘globalist trap’ to set up President Trump, it likely stretches halfway around the world, all the way to the Ukraine. With the next Ukrainian election coming up in just over 2 weeks, that election pits globalist stooge Petro Poroshenko against a ‘surreal political entity’, a TV star/comedian, who is leading the polls and could sweep to a resounding victory there. Yet as the Russian government itself recently warned, the globalists may try to interfere in the Ukrainian election though the Washington Post reports it’ll be the Russians interfering.
And should we be surprised as our eyes turn towards the Ukraine that the REAL 2016 election collusion was between Hillary Clinton and the Ukraine as the Gateway Pundit had reported in this March 20th story? From that story.:
Amid Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, a Ukrainian lawmaker is demanding Hillary Clinton be investigated for colluding with Ukraine in her plight to win the White House.
On Wednesday John Solomon at The Hill interviewed Ukraine Prosecutor General Yurii Lutsenko. The Ukrainian prosecutor told Solomon that he found evidence of a top law enforcement official saying his agency leaked the Manafort financial records to help Clinton’s campaign.
The Ukrainians were actively colluding with the Clinton Campaign in the 2016 US election and Lutsenko has proof.
Dirty cop Robert Mueller knows about this collusion but refuses to act on this clear evidence of election crimes by the Clinton campaign
https://gellerreport.com/2019/04/look-at-israels-best-medical-scientific-advances.html/
It is almost criminal attempting to précis it so an excerpt:
What are Israel’s best medical advances? – Israel National News
After the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan was named in the top 10 medical centres in the world, we wanted to reflect on some of the best medical advances produced by the Holy Land in recent years.
Argo Medical Technologies’ ReWalk robotic exoskeleton has gained huge media attention for allowing paraplegics to walk and run, and it was even used in the London and Tel Aviv marathons. In addition to being featured in the TV show “Glee,” the ReWalk Rehabilitation model currently is used by patients in rehabilitation centers across North America and Europe. There is also a model for everyday use, known as the ReWalk Personal, and it is currently available throughout Europe and awaiting FDA clearance in the United States.
The PillCam is still to date one of Israel’s most well-known and successful medical devices. Created by Given Imaging, the pill which is swallowed contains a small camera, making it an easier and less invasive form of an endoscopy and can detect disorders of the GI tract.
Nano Retina’s Bio-Retina, a tiny implantable device inserted into the retina in a 30-minute procedure, turns into an artificial retina that melds to the neurons in the eye. Activated by special eyeglasses, the device transforms natural light into an electrical impulse that stimulates neurons to send images to the brain. The prototype is advancing quickly through clinical trials.
Further developments are expected to be made in the fields of listening devices and dry eye treatment. In 2007, Audiodent developed an innovative hearing aid that clips easily inside the mouth, using the teeth and jawbone to transmit sound to the brain – improving sound quality enormously, particularly in loud places.
Looking at the future of medicine in Israel, Yaacov Nitzan of WhiteSwell has raised $30 million series B funding for the treatment to remove excess fluid from lungs and other organs. The process uses a catheter and is minimally invasive, to treat acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF)(see “pulmonary oedema”)
In medicinal cannabis, Israel has continued to grow its research since Professor Raphael Mechoulam in 1964 established the foundations for scientific research. Seedo, a new company, has created the world’s first fully automated growing device for medical cannabis. Resembling a mini-fridge, the device is powered by algorithms and monitored by a smartphone app, effectively running as an independent cannabis growing machine.
Germany: Homeless man stabbed due to hatred against Christians? (VIDEO)+++
Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world, also in Germany hatred of Christians has long since become part of everyday life, whether attacks on churches or Christian symbols, whether devastation of Christian graves or physical attacks on Christians who visibly wear a cross, or insults such as “fucking Christ”.Only recently, a homeless man was attacked in broad daylight by men of Arab origin at Schönleinstraße in Berlin underground station and seriously injured by several stab wounds. Now there are first indications of the context of the bloody quarrel, the newspaper “Berliner Kurier” showed the video to a Syrian refugee as well as to a Palestinian living in Berlin for more than 20 years, both translated independently of each other:[…] “We fuck your sister, we fuck you up!” After some more fragments of words which are not audible because of the bad audio quality, the men yell at their victim: “Your fucking God, we fuck your fucking God”. […]
Read more:
https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/04/germany-homeless-man-stabbed-due-to.html
Right now there are only two groups you can discriminate against in the West.
1) Christians, they are under attack in the West because Christianity teaches that God is the highest authority and the left wants Government to be the highest authority.
2) Straight White Men, according the the latest Cultural Marxism dictates we are the embodiment of evil.
There are many videos on You Tube about Toxic Masculinity on both sides of the argument.
The Last Free Englishman.
https://youtu.be/vNkAi0hgJYw
Communists come after your family.
Muslims killed, raped and plunged.
Socialists steal jobs and imprison.
In The Beginning; The Word was expunged.
“As a representative of the state…”
“Judge Apologises for Freeing Migrant Who Killed Italian for Being ‘Happy and White’”
https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/04/judge-apologises-for-freeing-migrant.html?m=1
Judges do not represent The State.
Any Judge who does is corrupt.
Their Master is Blind Justice.
If not – it’s Socialist Stuff.
The Criminal Gang
Is Outside-The-Law.
But in Germistan
It’s a cultural more.
https://study.com/academy/lesson/cultural-mores-definition-examples.html
A bit of gratuitous – even though true – Trudeau bashing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtT4swQ4AZc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybW2M6jgfio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxHk7kKxwrk
Three Civilians Killed in Syria As Result of Shelling by Terrorists – Reports (sputniknews, Apr 7, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201904071073892443-syria-shelling-terrorists/
“…Barcelona: Refugee tries to help a girl find something in her purse.
Then, suddenly, an angry mob appears and prevents the Refugee from his kind act.
And the ones who see something else… You’re Racists!”…
…..so writes the poster of this video, showing just a little slice of life in the streets of Barcelona:
Events like this are so common that they have lost the ability to shock and disgust people.
“Events like this are so common that they have lost the ability to shock and disgust people.”
And you had best believe that this is precisely how Islam likes things to happen. It is the weaponizing of civility into a callous disregard for human life.
There is no way to overstate how vital it is that Westerners adopt this exact same callous disregard towards Islam.
It’s been called the Genovese syndrome, and Kitty paid for it with her life. Also known as the Bystander Effect, Westerners had better got over this “I don’t want to get involved” ßüllshït, and do it damn soon.
If it isn’t already aflame, Western Civilization is about to become “fully involved”, as firefighters would describe such events.
And, for my Trowel of Cosmic Irony’s daily walk in the park, I will note how Catherine Susan “Kitty” Genovese—in an eerie echo of modern times—was stabbed repeatedly and raped as she lay dying (during a second, more prolonged, assault by her assailant). Thus was there assembled a gruesome template for the future.
As part of necessarily disrupting my own peace of mind with this research, it was unsurprising to discover that the NYT had drastically mischaracterized this event, even as it became an urban legend.
None of which changes how evil her murderer was or the heinousness of his crime (for which he died in prison over fifty years later). [haw haw]
From: Murder of Kitty Genovese
The parallels between Mosely’s remorselessness and claiming victimhood are too perfect a fit with modern Islamic stabbiness to be ignored.
Mosely’s high (135) IQ did not interfere with him murdering, raping, and robbing a defenseless young woman. Neither does an inordinately low IQ seem to be any impediment for the rapefugees that are spreading havoc and mayhem all across Europe.
This irrelevance of intelligence is important to note in that it’s symptomatic of an overarching psychopathy and does not point towards merely opportunistic crimes, extenuating circumstances or any unpredictable randomness in these attacks.
It is crucial to recognize how illusory any appearance of pseudorandomness is as it pertains to either Genovese’s killer, Winston Moseley, or all the different stabby Muslims currently slicing and dicing Europe like a Ronco Kitchen Magician.
Mosely, as with his Islamic terrorist confrères, was actively on the prowl for whatever chance available to inflict grievous harm upon some vulnerable stranger (preferably a woman).
Two things emerge from the blood spattered backdrop of this odd comparison that spans a mere half-century.
1). There is no diminished mental capacity to mitigate culpability in these premeditated killing sprees. Both result from a preestablished and voluntarily embraced mindset that responds poorly, if at all, to rehabilitation, much less to confinement in general.
RECIDIVISM IS GUARANTEED.
2.) Rarely, if ever, do these (supposedly) mentally impaired killers seek to overcome difficult, hardened targets. As part of inflicting maximum harm upon the greatest number, attacks are made against the most defenseless individuals in order to create an atmosphere of fear and insecurity.
This strategizing precludes any denial of malice aforethought, even as it obviates the validity of claims regarding diminished capacity or these acts being crimes of passion.
This second point is crucial in that it forms a horizon marker seen throughout the vast majority of EU stabbiness which continues to be blamed on a patently outrageous fallacy.
This intentionally cultivated psychopathy puts the PERMANENT lie to these “lone wolf attacks”.
All of which were never solitary in their inception from the start, nor in their fulfillment of an agenda (i.e., Islamic jihad) whose obviousness is matched only by the desperate effort to conceal it.
Long ago, all chances of maintaining any pretense of innocence or naïveté about the disconnectedness or ostensible lack of motive vanished in a red mist of arterial blood.
Those in the West (and elsewhere) who perpetuate this deadly charade have become, not just accessories to murder, but coconspirators whose participation merits identical punishment.
There is much meaning in how Winston Moseley’s (anti-capital punishment) sentencing judge nevertheless knew damn well that this murdering rapist deserved the death penalty. This, as throughout Europe, anti-capital punishment judges play catch-and-release with terrorist predators even as innocent lives hang in the balance.
If it isn’t already aflame, Western Civilization is about to become “fully involved”, as firefighters would describe such events.
Truer words were never spoken, It won’t be just Western Civilization but the entire world that will be fully involved.
Yes the entire Western World needs to throw off the leftist inspired fear of being charged if the interfere to stop a crime. We are rapidly returning to a time when the cry stop thief (or some other type of criminal) will cause a massive mob to turn out to punish the criminal. The left is forcing us back to the time of vigilante justice. It would be interesting to know just how the historians are going to treat these times and the people who are living through them.
She’s getting help from others – at least there’s that….
Beautiful Barcelona, a city I know as well as Boston. The hardest working, best educated, best everything…such a shame.
Libyan Government Air Force Attacks Haftar Army at Tripoli Airport – Reports (sputniknews, Apr 7, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/africa/201904071073895248-lybia-givernment-air-force-attack-haftar-army-tripoli-airport/
“The situation in Libya has been tense since 4 April, when the Libyan National Army, led by Khalifa Haftar, started an offensive to rid Tripoli of militants. On their way to Tripoli, the LNA captured a number of settlements, while the GNA’s prime minister ordered the troops to use force if necessary.
The air force of Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) launched a series of attacks on the positions of the Libyan National Army (LNA) situated in Tripoli International Airport on Sunday, Al-Arabia reported. Prior to that, reacting to the reported GNA strikes, the LNA announced the establishment of a no-fly zone over the western part of the country.
“The military aircraft of the Government of National Accord carried out airstrikes this morning [April 7] targeting a military base… in the area of the old Tripoli International Airport following the LNA’s approach to the capital,” the source confirmed to Sputnik.
The Haftar-led units seized Tripoli International Airport on April 6 and established full control over the strategic site, which has not been operating since 2014.
In turn, Libyan government forces have announced the start of a ‘counteroffensive’ to defend Tripoli, according to media reports.
Lately, the PM of the Tripoli-based UN-backed Government of National Accord, Fayez Sarraj, accused Khalifa Haftar of violating political deals concluded under the auspices of the UN. The accusations were made after Haftar reportedly refused to meet with Sarraj in Geneva given that clashes in Libya have halted.
Control over Libya remains divided following years of conflict after the NATO-supported rebellion which hit the country, resulting in the murder of the ex-head of state, Muammar Gaddafi. Since then, there has been no single central government in Libya despite talks that both sides have recently held. The Tobruk-based parliament, elected in 2014 and backed by the LNA, governs the east of Libya, while the GNA, established in 2015, controls Libya’s western parts from Tripoli.”
Iran, Iraq Planning Two Oilfields Development – Iranian Petroleum Minister (sputniknews, Apr 7, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201904071073897074-iran-iraq-oilfield/
“Iran and Iraq have reached an agreement on the joint development of two oilfields located along the border between the two states, the petroleum minister said on Sunday following talks with Iraqi Oil Minister Thamer al-Ghadhban in Tehran.
“There are massive potentialities for expanding Iran-Iraq cooperation in oil, gas, refining and petrochemicals grounds, and Iran is ready to offer its capabilities to the Iraqi oil sector,” Iranian Petroleum Minister Bijan Zanganeh was quoted as saying by the ministry’s press service.
He went on to note that there was “the lack of development in the petrochemicals and gas industries in Iraq”, and this move represents “a bright perspective for cooperation between the two countries.”
The sides will jointly develop the Naft Shahr and Khorramshahr oilfields. The official announcement was made during the two ministers’ visit to the Energy Industries Engineering and Design (EIED) company, an affiliate to the Iranian Oil Industries’ Engineering and Construction (OIEC) Group.
The remarks come after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the two countries plan to achieve bilateral annual trade of $20 billion. He also noted that Iran hoped to increase exports of electricity, gas and oil to the neighbouring country.”
FINALLY! Brit Islamic terrorists returning from Mid East can be locked up for 10 YEARS (express, Apr 7, 2019)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1110978/isis-news-uk-isis-terrorist-law-syria-news-iraq-news-is-islamic-state
“BRITONS returning from Middle Eastern terrorist-training heartlands like Syria and Iraq face being jailed as soon as they set foot in the country under new laws aimed at taking trained killers off the streets.
An estimated 360 jihadis, many who received weapons and explosives training from ISIS experts, were inexplicably allowed to return to their normal lives in Britain on return from fighting with the brutal Islamic State. But new laws, introduced this week, mean suspected terrorists returning from so-called blacklisted areas will be locked up. Only 40 out of the 400 suspected sadistic jihadists who have returned to the UK after travelling to Syria and Iraq have been successfully prosecuted because of the difficulty of gathering evidence against them.
A total of 360 suspected terrorists have been released without charge and have since infiltrated British towns and cities.
But under the new law, prosecutors will no longer have to prove the jihadists have been involved in fighting or other acts of terrorism.
The new “designated area” offence came into effect at the start of April and carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years.
Being in a blacklisted region will be enough for the terrorists to be prosecuted.
Around 850 Britons are believed to have travelled to Iraq and Syria, with around one in six believed to be dead.
A new list of designated areas will also be submitted for parliamentary approval later this year.
It is expected to include parts of Syria, which are controlled by Isis and other sick terrorist groups, as well as areas of war-torn Libya, Somalia and Afghanistan.
The law can be used against anyone who travels to a blacklisted region or remains in the area following a one month period of grace.
Although the new offence cannot be used against those who have already returned from Syria, senior officials have said those who have travelled and remained there face prosecution.
Victoria Atkins, a Home Office minister said: “It will be an offence to remain in an area after it has been designated, even if the person has been there for some time.
“Individuals will have one month to leave the area, following which they will face prosecution if they remain.”
Those who have a legitimate reason to be there, such as journalists or humanitarian workers are excluded from the new law.
The new law is expected to affect sadistic jihadists who are in the northwestern province of Idlib, which is still controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a group linked to al-Qaeda.
Suspected jihadists have been operating in Idlib since 2012.
They have been unable to leave because Turkey has closed the border on one side to prevent terrorists travelling through Europe, while the other side is controlled by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.”
75 Percent of Spanish Cannabis Contains Human Faeces (breitbart, Apr 7, 2019)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/04/07/75-percent-of-spanish-cannabis-contains-human-faeces/
“A new study by a Spanish pharmacologist has revealed traces of human faeces in the vast majority of the cannabis sold on the streets of Madrid, Spain, and that it presents a very real health danger.
Manuel Pérez Moreno released his findings in the journal Science Direct and claimed to have found Escherichia coli bacteria, commonly known as E. Coli, in the vast majority of the 90 samples he had purchased off the street and tested, broadcaster RTL reports.
According to Moreno, the presence of E. Coli can be explained as being related to the faecal matter contained within the cannabis.
How the human excrement got into the drugs was explained by Moreno. He said that it had to do with the way the drugs were being smuggled into Spain, saying that many drug mules put the cannabis in plastic bags which they swallow and then defecate the drugs out when they arrive in Spain.
Along with E. Coli, Moreno found traces of the fungus Aspergillus in samples, which can cause death if not treated properly.
E. Coli outbreaks in the United States occurred last year due to contaminated romaine lettuce, even leading to the death of a person last May.
Earlier this week, health officials at the U.S. Centre for Disease Control (CDC) claimed they were investigating yet another E. Coli outbreak, with 72 people being reported sick in five separate states.
Drug trafficking often goes hand in hand with people trafficking, with international gangs and organised mafia groups having their hands in both.
Last December, the Spanish government arrested a group of 42 North Africans and seized 3.25 metric tonnes of hashish during the operation. Five boats and five other vehicles used to help transport drugs across the Strait of Gibraltar were also seized.
The drug trade has claimed many victims in Europe, including 16-year-old Italian Desirée Mariottini who died of an overdose after being sexually abused, allegedly by three migrant men, last October.”
France Admits There Is ‘Real Collusion’ Between People-smugglers and Migrant ‘Rescue’ NGOs (breitbart, Apr 7, 2019)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/04/07/france-admits-there-is-real-collusion-between-people-smugglers-and-migrant-rescue-ngos/
“France’s interior minister says some aid groups operating in the Mediterranean Sea sometimes act like accomplices to human traffickers.
Minister Christophe Castaner pointed at “a real collusion between smugglers and some NGOs,” including through phone contacts to “facilitate the migrants’ departure from Libyan coasts in appalling conditions.”
The comments at a G-7 meeting in Paris are similar to those of his Italian counterpart, Matteo Salvini, who reaffirmed his hard-line stance on immigration.
Castaner, a member of French President Emmanuel Macron’s pro-European government, said he has clear political differences with Salvini, the leader of Italy’s anti-migrant League party, but stressed that both countries were now cooperating on migration issues.”
If— By Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
********************
For the UK citizens here
This is one subject where I hold Orwell in contempt.
Me too!
And how!
0:04 / 2:04
Who is Avi Yemini?
Ireland Launches Police Hijab, Claims ‘Diversity’ Deficit a ‘Time-bomb’ Making Migrants ‘Radicalise’ (breitbart, Apr 7, 2019)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/04/07/ireland-police-hijab-diversity-timebomb/
“Gardaí (police) in Ireland have updated uniform rules to allow officers to wear hijabs and turbans, describing the supposed lack of ethnic diversity in the force as a “ticking time-bomb” that could make immigrant communities “radicalise”.
The move to allow religious headwear worn by Muslim women and Sikh men was announced by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris this week, as the force launched a major recruitment drive to hire hundreds of new officers in Ireland.
An Garda Síochána, the national police service, said in a statement that it had identified current uniform regulations as “a major barrier” to increasing the number of ethnic minority officers in its ranks.
“We … know that we need to become a much more diverse organisation so that we properly reflect the society we serve,” said Harris, adding: “We hope that this will encourage people from minority communities to join An Garda Síochána.
“We want to demonstrate to them that An Garda Síochána is an inclusive employer that is serious about becoming more diverse.”
Previously the Garda Representative Association (GRA), which represents 12,000 rank and file staff, has warned that underrepresentation of ethnic minorities in the service was “a ticking time-bomb” that could lead to “an explosion in our communities sooner than we might have ever imagined”.
“If ethnic minorities are marginalised or disenfranchised, history shows us they will retreat and extremists will take over leading to the type of social chaos we have seen in many cities across Europe in recent times,” claimed GRA spokesman John O’Keeffe.
It is not the first time police in Ireland have implied that the problems faced by Western nations of crime, terror attacks, and social problems associated with migrant communities could be averted if only the host countries adopted more minority-pleasing policies.
At a 2017 public meeting in Longford, where police informed residents that half of the county’s population would be “of a mixed race” by 2050, Sgt David McInerney alleged that policing troubles with certain immigrant populations in Britain and France were “brought about by ill-advised segregation policies”, according to local media.
“People came in from countries that were colonised but nobody asked them what sort of police service they wanted,” stated the Gardai Racial, Intercultural and Diversity Office chief, adding that “lessons had been learned” by officers on how to avoid the problems experienced by other forces in Europe.
What supposed “segregation policies” he was referring to remained unclear, however.
Comments from other officers regarding crime in Ireland suggest Sgt McInerney’s optimism was perhaps somewhat misplaced, with reports that gangs of teenagers of African origin are terrorising locals across Dublin.
Criminal youths were accused of “wreaking havoc” throughout the capital, according to Gardaí, who explained that the offences “[ranged] from shouting and intimidating old people in large groups to assaulting and robbing people of all ages, often with deadly weapons such as large knives.”
“It’s not just vulnerable OAPs suffering here, innocent kids are afraid to go out and play. Gardai had to respond to one incident in Swords where a 14-year-old boy was stripped down to his pants at knife-point on the street just so they could rob him and ridicule him at the same time, that’s what you’re dealing with here,” a source told the Irish Sun.”
DOUBLE the Minimum Wage: Solve Poverty?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-05/it-belongs-people-not-bankers-italy-moves-seize-gold-central-bank
More on the Italian Job
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This is Zero Hedge:
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In Iowa, Bernie Sanders says states should allow felons to vote from behind bars
MUSCATINE, Ia. — While Iowa struggles on whether to restore voting rights to felons who have completed their prison sentences, Sen. Bernie Sanders said people convicted of felonies should never lose access to the ballot box in the first place.
At a town hall meeting in Muscatine’s West Middle School gymnasium Saturday, the Vermont senator was asked whether the imprisoned should have the right to vote. Only his home state and Maine allow felons to vote from behind bars.
“I think that is absolutely the direction we should go,” he said.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/04/06/bernie-sanders-says-states-should-felon-voting-rights-election-2020-iowa-caucus/3388679002/
Venezuelans rally to demand power, water and end to Maduro
CARACAS (Reuters) – After weeks of power cuts and limited access to water, tens of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets on Saturday to back opposition leader Juan Guaido and protest against President Nicolas Maduro, who they accuse of wrecking the economy.
Venezuelans, already suffering from hyperinflation and widespread shortages of food and medicine, say the crisis has worsened over the past month. That is when crippling nationwide power outages began to leave vast swaths of territory in the dark for days at a time, cutting off water supplies and cell phone service.
Guaido, head of the opposition-controlled National Assembly and recognized as Venezuela’s legitimate head of state by most Western nations, had called for rallies on Saturday to mark the start of what he has billed as a new wave of “definitive” protests to oust Maduro.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics/venezuelans-march-to-demand-power-water-and-end-to-maduro-idUSKCN1RI0L1
Showdown of world powers in Venezuela enters dangerous, new phase
The first major showdown of our new era of great power competition, unfolding with accelerating speed over the past ten weeks in Venezuela, has entered a dangerous new phase. That is true, most of all, for the Venezuelan people, but also for Latin American democracies and for vital US interests in the Western Hemisphere.
How this drama turns out may mark the most significant test yet of the Trump administration’s credibility, following a highest-level chorus this week of President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton, who all declared – in one way or another – that Russia had to get out of the country.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/05/showdown-of-world-powers-in-venezuela-enters-dangerous-new-phase.html
US military intervention on the table for Venezuela
A military intervention to oust Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro remains “a very serious option” for the United States, according to President Trump’s national security team.
“Obviously, that’s a result that no one would like to see but clearly one that is seriously considered as events unfold,” a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters Friday evening.
President Trump’s team has wielded that threat to deter any attack by Maduro loyalists on Juan Guaidó, the opposition lawmaker whom the U.S. and other Western democracies recognized as Venezuela’s legitimate interim president in January. Maduro has defied that pressure by retaining control of the military and loyalty of “colectivos,” the paramilitary gangs that blocked the U.S. delivery of humanitarian aid to the country in February.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/us-military-intervention-on-the-table-for-venezuela
Trump struggles with a growing problem on the border
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tensions are rising, fingers are pointing and the search for solutions is becoming increasingly fraught.
Overwhelmed by an influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border that is taxing the immigration system, President Donald Trump is grasping for something — anything — to stem the tide.
Trump, who campaigned on a promise to secure the border, has thrown virtually every option his aides have been able to think of at the problem, to little avail. He has sent out the military, signed an emergency declaration to fund a border wall and threatened to completely seal the southern border.
https://www.apnews.com/aabc13ab07604b39b09710f08bc42a4f
As Trump struggles to curb unauthorized immigration, his rhetoric gets tougher, but quick solutions are elusive
Video at site
https://www.ctpost.com/news/media/As-Trump-struggles-to-curb-unauthorized-1479843.php
Clashes erupt as Greek police stop migrants from reaching border
DIAVATA, Greece, April 6 (Reuters) – Greek police fired teargas on Saturday as angry migrants hoping to travel to northern Europe hurled stones and bottles after being barred from reaching a nearby border crossing, witnesses said.
Spurred by a false rumour about border openings that spread on social media, hundreds of migrants and refugees arrived and pitched tents on Thursday in a field next to the Diavata migrant camp near Greece’s border with North Macedonia.
There were dozens of tents in the field on Saturday and riot police formed a cordon to block an access route, parking 20 buses to stop the migrants from leaving the field. Authorities also sent buses to take people back to housing settlements.
At about midday, riot police fired teargas at dozens of people — some carrying children — who hurled stones and bottles as they tried to break through the police cordon and reach the main road leading to the border.
http://news.trust.org/item/20190406153610-otfp2
Turkish ruling party seeks total recount of Istanbul votes (abcnews, Apr 7, 2019)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkish-ruling-party-seeks-total-recount-istanbul-votes-62232119
Activists: 5 killed in protests against Sudan’s president (abcnews, Apr 7, 2019)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/activists-killed-protests-sudans-president-62230679
Fighting in northwest Syria strains truce, kills 13 (abcnews, Apr 7, 2019)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/fighting-northwest-syria-strain-truce-kill-13-62230967
Officials: gunmen kill police officer, driver in Cairo (abcnews, Apr 7, 2019)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/officials-gunmen-kill-police-officer-driver-cairo-62231270
“Egypt’s Interior Ministry says a police officer and his driver have been killed when unknown gunmen opened fire on a patrol in Cairo.
The ministry said in a statement another two policemen were wounded in Sunday’s attack which took place when police officers went to inspect a parked car in the Heliopolis district.
It says the gunmen got out of the car with automatic rifles and fired on the policemen, before fleeing the scene.
Authorities have not identified the assailants.
Police face occasional gun violence in Cairo. Egypt has also been battling Islamic militants for years, and an IS affiliate based in northern Sinai has carried out attacks across Egypt.”
China is ‘threat to world’ says dissident writer
A dissident writer dubbed the “Chinese Solzhenitsyn” said Friday that his homeland is a “threat for the whole world”.
Liao Yiwu, who was jailed for writing a poem called “Massacre” about the Tiananmen Square protests, told AFP that it would be better for mankind if the economic superpower “splits up”.
“My dream is that China splits up into 10 or so countries. Because China as it is today is a threat for the whole world,” he said as his latest book, “Bullets and Opium”, was published in France.
The book, which has been banned in China, recounts the stories of dozens of victims of the Tiananmen massacre, when troops killed thousands of pro-democracy protesters in Beijing in 1989.
https://news.yahoo.com/china-threat-world-says-dissident-writer-063237464.html
The Chinese dissident is calling for China to break into 10 or more countries, this is something a lot of the ethinic groups in Chi8na have been wanting for a long time.
Video of Trump calling MS-13 ‘animals’ edited to fit narrative he was defaming all asylum seekers
By LU Staff April 7, 2019
Apparently Donald Trump hasn’t said anything incendiary enough recently to raise the hackles of the Left. So they have dragged out of mothballs and edited a year-old video in which the president calls MS-13 “animals” to make it seem as though he is referring to all asylum seekers.
The source of the cherry-picked clip appears to be a Twitter user named Mark Elliott whose bio acknowledges he was written for the New York Times. Here’s the tweet:
https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/04/07/2018-video-of-trump-calling-ms-13-animals-edited-to-make-it-sound-like-he-is-defaming-asylum-seekers/
“Arrogant Obama Speaks in Berlin: “Michelle Would Leave Me if I Ever Ran For Office Again” (VIDEO)”
by Cristina Laila – April 6, 2019
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/arrogant-obama-speaks-in-berlin-michelle-would-leave-me-if-i-ever-ran-for-office-again-video/
“Obama Foundation Town Hall Europe”
Obama Foundation – Published on April 6, 2019
The Obama Foundation hosted a town hall in Berlin, Germany with President Barack Obama and hundreds of emerging leaders from across Europe. The town hall continued the conversation about the importance of community leadership and civic engagement — and how the Obama Foundation can support emerging leaders in their efforts.
1:29:28 – “… But I would say that some societies are doing better than others. If you go to the Scandinavian countries, they’re not perfect, it hasn’t eliminated inequality, but you know what, actually its done pretty good. And it’s not that radical, you know. Basically their solution has been, oh, we’ll tax people more. We’ll tax the rich people more and then we will give better public services to the people who are not as rich…” BHO
July 1, 2013
“Obama: ‘Planet Will Boil Over’ If Young Africans Are Allowed Cars, Air-Conditioning, Big Houses”
By Ryan Kierman – July 1, 2013
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-planet-will-boil-over-if-young-africans-are-allowed-cars-air-conditioning-big
“Obama: ‘The Planet Will Boil Over’ If Africans Are Allowed Cars and Air Conditioning”
STRVidNewsOpinion – Published on July 1, 2013
“SCS Action Line: Katie Hopkins – Where is the Homeland for Displaced Americans?”
By TUW Media – April 6, 2019 – Podcast
https://www.theunitedwest.org/2019/04/06/scs-action-line-katie-hopkins-where-is-the-homeland-for-displaced-americans/
Katie Hopkins – Our Final Stand for The West
Unless someone has invented space ships that can take large numbers of refugees there is no place to run to so you can excape the Islamic Conquest. The only choices are surrender or fight, do you want to be either a serf or slave in you onw nation? If not the only choice is to fight, Crunch Time has arrived, we are called up to make a decision, live on our knees or fight and by fighting maintain our freedom. There is no other solution, since fall of the USSR there have been many times we could have changed the course of history and stopped the coming war. Every time the left prevented us doing what would prevent the coming war.
Thanks to the left and their delusion they can make Socialism work has destroyed Western Civilization and stolen the freedom of the vast majority of the Europeans. They have flooded Western Europe with Islamic Invaders in their delusion that once the European Governments and people are crushed they will be able to control the invaders. They are doing the same thing to the US using people from Central and South America, Canada has been flooded with people from all over the Commonwealth and their current leader is saying they are going to stop taking in refugees but his actions don’t really show much action in this goal.
All of this says that if the Europeans want to survive as free people they have to fight, if the Canadians want to survive as free people they have to fight. If the Americans want to remain free we have to fight. There is no way to vote our way out of this mess, there is only standing up as free people and fighting so our descendants will enjoy the same freedom. It is once again the time when Patriots must feed the Tree of Liberty with its natural fertilizer. This fertilizer is the blood of Patriots and Tyrants, internal tyrants as well as external tyrants.
Last Week Miss Piggy ask my guess on when the US and Canada would be able to once again liberate Europe, I said several years. We in North America are facing our own internal traitors and our own invaders, it will take us time to fight and win the civil war that will make it politically feasible for the US to once again liberate Europe. It will be easier for us to get the support for the liberation if the Europeans are fighting to liberate their own nations.
Spot and in that war when it becomes blatantly islam vs the west, nukes will be very much on the table and in the air
Citizens Commission on National Security
https://ccnationalsecurity.org/
CCNS – YT
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC12WeNLHiaIdLqayF8V0Bpw/videos
“The Growing Threat to Israel and the Region”
The U.S. – Israeli Alliance and Its National Security Implications
CCNS – Published on March 14, 2019
“Alan Keyes Liberty Fest flyer Pigeon Forge, TN April 27, 2019” Publius Huldah – April 6, 2019
https://publiushuldah.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/alan-keyes-liberty-fest-flyer-pigeon-forge-tn-april-27-2019/
“Alan Keyes’ Liberty Fest in Pigeon Forge, TN on April 27, 2019” ThePubliusHuldah – Published on April 5, 2019
IAMtv.us
https://www.iamtv.us/
Independent American Media – IAM tv – YT
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-GQdra4BQ4drVvnjnMCWlg/videos
China and Russia race to increase gold reserves:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-07/beijing-signaling-imminent-currency-devaluation-china-unleashes-gold-buying-spree
Interesting, if a currency devaluation does cause the US Dollar to be dropped as the Currency Reserve the nations setting in the best positions are the US, Canada, Russia and Australia. Not necessarily in that order, they are setting in good positions because they are major gold producers. South Africa should be on that list but no one knows how long South Africa is going to remain in the Gold producing business.
The US, Canada Australia and Russia are in good shape for another reason, all of us grown food for export. If the collapse comes if you want to eat you will pay the price demanded by those nations and Argentina. Once again South Africa should be on that list but the new Government has destroyed most of their agricultural industry.
We need to add Mexico to the list of nations that will have a strong hand if an economic collapse occurs. Mexico is the worlds top producer of silver and does have significant gold deposits some of which aren’t being mined. Working against Mexico is the Drug Cartels who control large portions of the nation some of which are also top silver producing regions.
If you are thinking of buying precious metals buy the same weight of silver as you do of Gold. If the worlds fiat currencies collapse it will be easier to get change for silver then for gold unless the purchase is of a very large expensive item.
Thank you Johnny, I wonder if China really thinks they can cause the collapse of the current economic system and ride the chaos this will create so that they at least survive if not survive as one of the major powers.
If it’s true. And what it means is anybody’s guess. An isolated, selected data point swimming in a context that’s been heavily massaged.
It’s a product of the Kremlin gremlins. So’s any analysis therein. Balance everything you read in Zero Hedge with at least 5 other sources.
Their material is so user-friendly it’s tempting to use it as baseline for finance-related analysis. DO NOT be tempted.
Checkpoint in Eastern Saudi Arabia Targeted With Explosives – Reports (sputniknews, Apr 7, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201904071073897708-eastern-saudi-arabia-attack/
“According to the Al Arabiya news outlet, two suspects on Riyadh’s terror watchlist were killed following the attack on a checkpoint in the Kingdom’s east.
Four suspects with explosives attempted to evade a checkpoint in the Saudi governorate of Abu Hadriyah in al-Qatif while trying to leave the country, an Al Arabiya correspondent on the scene reported.
The Kingdom’s security forces launched an operation to stop trespassers, which resulted in the killing two of the suspects and the detention of the other two, the report specifies. It is not yet clear whether perpetrators detonated the explosive devices…”
Austria to Extend Border Controls With Hungary, Slovenia for 6 Months – Minister (sputniknews, Apr 7, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201904071073901299-austria-border-control-hungary/
Tensions Flare as Teacher Bans Trump, Allows Obama for 6th Grade Essay on Heroes (sputniknews, apr 7, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/viral/201904071073901650-trump-obama-heroes-essay/
“The scandal began when sixth grade students at a school in upstate New York were asked to pick an individual whom they looked up to and write an essay explaining why they felt the individual is heroic.
11-year-old Samoset Middle School student Bella Moscato is at the heart of a new partisan scandal after allegedly getting banned by her teacher from choosing President Donald Trump as her hero for a school project, even though another student was allowed to write about former President Barack Obama.
Moscato’s outraged parents, Arthur and Valarie Moscato, spoke out about the incident at a school board meeting, saying their daughter had been subjected to intimidation and censorship, News 12 Long Island has reported.
“My daughter’s hero is the president of our country. I can’t believe that anybody in the school would tell my daughter…that this guy can’t be her hero. I’m incensed by this,” Arthur Moscato said.
“It was really upsetting to me that she was trying to shut her down,” Valarie Moscato added.
Bella told News 12 that her teacher told her that she couldn’t write about Trump “because he spreads negativity and says bad stuff about women.”
“The thing I didn’t get is she was okay with someone doing Barack Obama, but not okay with doing Donald Trump. That’s what got me angry and I didn’t like that,” the girl said.
Samoset Middle School superintendent Dr. Kenneth Graham said Moscato’s version of events was “not accurate” and that students weren’t actually forbidden from choosing Trump, with the girl still doing her project on Trump. The school board has promised to carry out an internal investigation, and said they would not discuss the alleged incident publicly.
The Moscatos say they expect an apology from the teacher. That doesn’t seem to be enough for some partisan armchair warriors online, however, with conservatives outraged over what they see as an act of censorship, while anti-Trumpers defended the teacher’s decision…”
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CBC – Trudeau threatens Scheer with lawsuit over SNC-Lavalin comments
PM’s lawyer sent letter to Opposition leader about remarks made concerning the SNC-Lavalin matter
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has received a lawsuit threat from the prime minister regarding comments he made about the SNC-Lavalin affair.
Scheer says he received a letter from Justin Trudeau’s lawyer on March 31.
The letter from Trudeau’s lawyer Julian Porter took issue with what it terms “highly defamatory” comments in a statement made by Scheer on March 29 in response to new documents tabled in the justice committee from former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould.
“The statement contained highly defamatory comments about Prime Minister Trudeau,” it reads.
Trudeau has been under fire for the last two months over allegations that there was pressure on Wilson-Raybould to interfere in criminal proceedings against Quebec construction giant SNC-Lavalin. In an appearance before the House justice committee, she said top government officials asked her to help ensure a special legal deal was extended to the company.
She later provided emails, a written statement and a taped recording to the committee.
Scheer’s March 29 statement, in part, accused the prime minister of political interference, of lying to Canadians and of corrupt conduct.
Trudeau’s lawyer alleges Scheer made false statements, and refers to the Libel and Slander Act of Ontario, which deals with any publicly published material or comments that defame or disparage an individual or their profession.
“The prime minister supports wide-ranging and vigorous political debate on matters of public policy. However, your statement, in its entirety, is beyond the pale of fair debate and is libellous of my client personally and in the way of his occupation as prime minister,” Porter writes.
Attempts to ‘silence debate’
Scheer has retained legal counsel as well.
His lawyer Peter Downard responded to the letter on Sunday, calling the complaint “entirely without merit.”
“It is profoundly disappointing that the prime minister is seeking to silence debate on matters of such great public importance. Mr. Scheer will not be intimidated,” he wrote.
The rebuttal also dares the prime minister to proceed with the lawsuit, saying the defence will call for evidence under oath and that members of his government would be asked to testify.
The Prime Ministers’ Office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The Opposition leader said the threat was an intimidation tactic intended to push him away from pressing the government about the SNC-Lavalin matter — but that his party will still continue to push the Liberals for more answers.
“If Mr. Trudeau believes he has a case against me, I urge him to follow through on his threat immediately,” Scheer said.
It’s uncommon for a sitting prime minister to threaten legal action against another member of Parliament, especially the leader of the Opposition.
However, a decade ago Stephen Harper launched a $3.5-million libel lawsuit against the Liberal party after it posted website headlines alleging two senior Conservatives attempted to bribe independent MP Chuck Cadman to secure his co-operation on a crucial budget vote that threatened to topple the Liberal minority government in May 2005. The headlines claimed Harper also knew about the alleged bribe.
That lawsuit was dropped.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-threatens-scheer-with-lawsuit-over-snc-lavalin-comments-1.5088175
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NATIONAL POST – Conservative leader challenges PM to follow through on libel threat over SNC
Andrew Scheer released a letter he says he received on March 31 from Justin Trudeau’s lawyer, Julian Porter, threatening a libel suit
OTTAWA — Andrew Scheer is challenging Justin Trudeau to follow through on a threat to sue him over his assertion that the prime minister politically interfered with the criminal prosecution of Montreal engineering giant SNC-Lavalin.
The Conservative leader has released a letter he says he received on March 31 from Trudeau’s lawyer, Julian Porter, threatening a libel suit.
Scheer says the threatened lawsuit is “an intimidation tactic” aimed at silencing the Conservatives, who have been demanding a thorough, independent investigation of the affair.
He’s urging Trudeau to proceed with the lawsuit immediately so that the scandal can be investigated in court — where, Scheer notes, Liberals do not control the proceedings.
Last month, the House of Commons justice committee shut down its investigation into the affair, with Liberal members saying they were satisfied no rules or laws were broken.
Trudeau’s former attorney general, Jody Wilson-Raybould, maintains she was inappropriately pressured by the Prime Minister’s Office to intervene to stop criminal proceedings against SNC-Lavalin on bribery charges related to contracts in Libya.
She has said she doesn’t believe anything illegal occurred.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/scheer-promises-to-release-new-documents-related-to-snc-lavalin-affair
CBC – Trudeau threatens to sue Scheer over SNC-Lavalin comments
global news – Jody Wilson-Raybould exclusive interview
In an exclusive interview, former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould spoke with Mercedes Stephenson about her decisions made in the SNC-Lavalin case and her next steps going forward since being kicked out of the Liberal caucus.
She spoke about her decision to record the conversation with Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick, criticisms directed towards her before the SNC-Lavalin scandal occurred, as well as if she plans to continue in politics.
CBC – Secularism bill is ‘ethnic cleansing:’ Quebec mayor | The Weekly with Wendy Mesley
Genocide! Apartheid! Ethnic Cleansing!
We're gonna need a whole new lexicon when the shtf.CONFIRMED… DNC WAS IN ON IT! Hillary Campaign Mgr. Was Pushing Fake Russia Story at DNC Convention – SAME DAY FBI Launched Trump-Russia Investigation!
It’s amazing sometimes how you can look back and put the pieces together on major events after the ultimate truth comes out. We now know that the Trump-Russia collusion delusion was a lie. But looking back we see that the entire DNC was in on it from the beginning!
On July 25th, 2016, the DNC was kicking off its convention amidst the release of thousands of emails showing the DNC working exclusively with the Hillary campaign in alleged illegal ways. Bernie Sanders never had a chance and the DNC chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, resigned on July 28th in shame during what was to be her pinnacle moment as Chair.
During this same time as the convention was kicking off, with hindsight, something startling was happening, the DNC started sharing the false Russia narrative that morphed into Trump – Russia collusion. Per CBSnews at that time –
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/confirmed-dnc-was-in-on-it-hillary-campaign-mgr-was-pushing-fake-russia-story-at-dnc-convention-same-day-fbi-launched-trump-russia-investigation/?utm_source=TGPemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:553016019&utm_campaign=Auto%20Send%20from%20The%20Gateway%20Pundit%20on%20April%207,%202019%20at%2011:06:07%20AM
Trump Mocks So-Called Refugees Who Look Like WWE Fighters
Iran, Iraq to Boost Air Defence Ties as Khamenei Urges Swift US Troop Exit (sputniknews, Apr 7, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201904071073900973-iran-iraq-cooperation-threats/
“The Iraqi commander also pledged that Baghdad would take stricter control of the US’ military presence on Iraqi soil. This comes a day after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei called on Baghdad to ensure that US troops leave Iraq “as soon as possible”.
Tehran and Baghdad have agreed to bolster bilateral “aerial defence cooperation” to specifically fend off challenges facing their air spaces, Mohammad Baqeri, chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, told reporters on Sunday.
Bageri made the announcement after meeting with Iraqi counterpart Othman al-Ghanimi in Tehran earlier in the day.
The top Iranian commander stressed that the talks focused on “the integrated defence of Iran and Iraq’s skies, because we might sense threats coming from the direction of [our] western borders”.
Baqeri added that the two sides also agreed on possible joint military exercises, with the relevant agreements expected to be clinched during Ghanimi’s next visit.
Baqeri also quoted the Iraqi commander as promising that Baghdad would continue to keep an eagle eye on the US’ military presence in Iraqi territory – a statement that came a day after Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei urged Baghdad to ensure US troops leave Iraq “as soon as possible”…”
New Swedish Church Guide for LGBTQ Kids Labels Jesus ‘Queer’ – Report (sputniknews, Apr 7, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201904071073903878-sweden-church-queer-guide/
“The guide reportedly provides a number of LGBT-related definitions to biblical characters such as Joseph, Mary and Jesus himself.
A diocese of the Church of Sweden has recently released a new guide for “Christian queer kids”, local news website Nya DagBladet reports.
According to the media outlet, the guide “contains definitions and concepts, a bit about the Bible and LGBTQ, as well as Bible stories that it claims are related to LGBTQ people”.
The definitions explored in the guide include terms such as like “cisperson”, “gender fluid”, “non-binary,” “queer,” “two sex norm” and “rainbow fairs”. The document also reportedly insists that the Bible is not against homosexuality.
Jesus himself is described by the guide as a person who “broke the norm” and was “queer” for the way he lived his life, with the guide further claiming that he “did not defend the traditional family.”
Jesus’ mother, Mary, dared “to break traditional sex norms in a patriarchal society”, while his father Joseph turned out to be a person who “breaks the norms in terms of gender expression and probably went in a suit intended for a king’s daughter”, the guide reportedly states.”
Germany Grounds Military Flights to Afghanistan – Reports (sputniknews, Apr 7, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201904071073902333-germany-military-flights-afghanistan/
“Germany has grounded military flights to a training camp in Afghanistan until the end of April after Azerbaijan closed airspace to NATO planes, Spiegel said Sunday…”
European Union Launches Its Own Online ‘Fact-Checker’ to Fight ‘Europhobics’ (breitbart, Apr 7, 2019)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/04/07/european-union-launches-its-own-online-fact-checker/
“The EU has set up its own “fact checking” service in order to combat the spread of so-called “fake news” ahead of May’s European elections.
The new ‘Decoders of Europe’ site, based on the Boulevard St Germain in Paris, seeks to “answer a series of questions or accusations, explaining what constitutes the reality and sometimes the complexity of European policies. Beyond these explanations, our goal is also to better inform, on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, what works in Europe!” according to the EU website.
The site was launched by Isabelle Jegouzo, head of Representation of the European Commission in France. She said “Without getting involved in politics, we want to inform citizens, restore the balance between factual and misinformation ”
Most of the “independent fact-checkers” operating at present tend towards a strong left-liberal bias, however, with well-known services such as Snopes rating debunked anti-conservative memes as “true”, and a clearly satirical article about left-liberal news network CNN purchasing a washing machine to “spin the news” as “false”, as if it had been a genuine news report.
PolitiFact, another well-known “fact-checker”, rated accurate claims by U.S. President Donald Trump about Russia’s nuclear arsenal as only “half-true”, on the subjective grounds that he was “missing the big picture”, and claims that Democrat presidential candidate Hilary Clinton had called for open borders as “mostly false”, despite her clearly stating that “My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders.”
How impartial an EU “fact-checking” service centred on the activities of the EU could ever hope to be seems open to doubt, considering how often the at least nominally independent ones cited above would appear to fall short.
According to a report by French newspaper Le Parisien, the “Decoders of Europe” are hoping to end false rumours and reports about the EU by what they describe, in rather loaded terms, as “europhobics”.
The move to establish the website follows actions the EU has already taken to combat supposed “fake news” as part of a broad strategy. According to questions posed to the commission, the EU has a four-point plan, which they described as:
Improving the capabilities of the Union’s institutions to detect, analyse and expose disinformation;
Strengthening coordinated and joint responses by EU institutions and Member States to disinformation;
Mobilising the private sector to tackle disinformation; and
Raising awareness about disinformation, and improving societal resilience.
In December 2018 the EU discussed the possibility of such a site, declaring that “measures to tackle disinformation online, including a self-regulatory EU-wide Code of Practice on Disinformation, signed by large online platforms and the advertising industry, as well as support for an independent network of fact-checkers” should be introduced.
The website appears to be a reaction to the rise of eurosceptic and populist parties ahead of the EU parliamentary elections in May. Reports last week indicate that a third of seats in the elections may be won by populist parties from across Europe, with Italy’s League party (Lega) under Matteo Salvini set to be the biggest winner.”
Dubai holiday warning as British mum arrested for calling love rival ‘horse’ on Facebook (express, Apr 7, 2019)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1111128/dubai-holiday-rules-laws-Laleh-Sharavesh-jail-arrested-Facebook-post
“A BRITISH mother has been arrested and faces two years in jail after calling her ex-husband’s new wife a horse on Facebook.
Laleh Sharavesh, 55, has been separated from her 14-year-old daughter Paris and had her passport stripped of her after her ex-husband’s wife reported her to the police for the posts from 2016. Distraught Ms Sharavesh said: “I have lost everything because of this.” Legal experts today issued warnings to tourists heading for the United Arab Emirates, with new cyber crime laws “rendering almost every visitor to the country a criminal”.
Ms Sharavesh was heartbroken when she opened her Facebook page to see her husband Pedro marrying a Tunisian woman 10 years her junior, just months after she was served divorce papers out of the blue after returning to the UK from Dubai.
Her husband of 18 years, originally from Portugal, was due to reunite with her in the UK after completing work commitments with HSBC.
But Ms Sharavesh was blindsided when it emerged Pedro was leaving her and their 14-year-old daughter in 2016 for a woman named Samah Al Hammadi.
She lashed out on Facebook writing in two posts: “I hope you go under the ground you idiot. Damn you. You left me for this horse.
“You married a horse you idiot.”…”
Turkey: Erdogan Pledges to Convert Byzantine Cathedral Hagia Sophia into a Mosque
by Uzay Bulut
April 7, 2019 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14018/turkey-erdogan-hagia-sophia-mosque
Addressing a rally ahead of the March 31 municipal elections in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced plans to convert the Hagia Sophia museum, originally a Byzantine cathedral, into a mosque.
Erdogan repeated this statement the following day during a televised interview. “Hagia Sophia will no longer be called a museum,” he declared. “Its status will change. We will call it a mosque.”
Erdogan took the opportunity to respond to foreign officials critical of his intention to violate the former church by venting against Israel.
“Those who remain silent when Al Aqsa mosque is attacked, trampled [and] its windows smashed cannot tell us what to do about the status of Hagia Sophia,” he said, referring to clashes between Palestinian-Arab rioters and Israeli police on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the holiest site in Judaism and the location of the Al Aqsa mosque.
Hagia Sophia, however, has nothing to do with either Al Aqsa or Israel. Destroying churches to use as mosques is also not new to Turkey, both during and preceding Erdogan’s rule. Islamic supremacists have, in fact, been engaging in this practice since the Turkish invasion and takeover of Asia Minor in the 11th century.