Contributor’s links for May 17, 2019

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  1. Austria: Turk (12 years old) threatened to kill teacher with scissors, also his mother behaved brutally.+++
    The violence at the local schools goes on and on. Just a few days ago a pupil in Linz pulled out a knife and threatened his classmates. Before that, a young Turk smashed a glass bottle in the face of his classmate. In Germany, young migrants planned to kill their teacher with a hammer because they were dissatisfied with the grades. At the Linz European School (NMS) on Thursday a Turkish pupil (12 years old) threatened a teacher (54 years old) with scissors, threatening to kill him in ethics lessons. Especially brazen: The mother also became violent because the teachers called the police. What had happened? In class, the young Turk suddenly brutally attacked the teacher.In contrast to what can be read in mainstream media, according to the weekly “Wochenblick” information from the police, the rabid pupil could only be tamed with the help of a social worker – and not by a second teacher. When the two seemed to have the Turks halfway under control, he grabbed scissors and threatened to kill them.The school called the police for help and also called the mother. But the Turkish woman reacted differently than expected: she insulted and attacked the police and became extremely aggressive. The mainstream media is currently trying to appease this incident as well. In the current case one reads about a “Linz pupil”. The fact seems to be, however, that the causes of these conflicts often lie in the clash of different cultures.
    Read more:
    https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/05/austria-turk-12-years-old-threatened-to.html

  2. Behind the Movement to Kick Chicago Out of Illinois

    Activists in the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have been pushing for statehood for decades. But they aren’t the only ones who aspire to create a 51st state.

    Many rural, often conservative, residents of large Democratic-controlled states are tired of being overshadowed politically, culturally and economically by big cities.

    They’ve tried legislation, elections and even redistricting. The problems can’t be solved by traditional means, they say. So why not use a tool built into the U.S. Constitution: create a new state out of an existing state through approval of both the state legislature and Congress?

    It happened when Maine split from Massachusetts in 1820, and again when West Virginia split from Virginia in 1863 during the Civil War. Could Chicago split from Illinois now?

    https://www.governing.com/topics/politics/sl-movement-to-divide-illinois-into-two-states.html

    Richard: This idea has some interesting side effects, While it is unlikely to happen it would probably touch off a rush in other states to do the same thing. Recently we have seen the push to split California into 4 states which would have been two Republican and two Democrat dominated states. There has been the idea of keeping New York as one state but splitting NYC of into its own judicial system with laws (gun laws among others) different from the rest of the state. Oregon and Washington State have the liberal West Coast dominating the conservative Eastern portion. Northern Colorado is tired of liberal Denver forcing them to live with liberal laws they hate.

    If all of the above split into two or more states the political dynamics of Congress would change and it would be harder for the Propaganda Media to spin that entire regions support some liberal policy.

    It is unlikely to happen but even the threat of this happening would cause panic in the self annointed political elite. and the efforts could be used as leverage to get some things through Congress.

  3. Iran tells Middle East militias: prepare for proxy war

    Exclusive: Top military leader delivers message at Baghdad meeting as tensions rise

    Iran’s most prominent military leader has recently met Iraqi militias in Baghdad and told them to “prepare for proxy war”, the Guardian has learned.

    Two senior intelligence sources said that Qassem Suleimani, leader of Iran’s powerful Quds force, summoned the militias under Tehran’s influence three weeks ago, amid a heightened state of tension in the region. The move to mobilise Iran’s regional allies is understood to have triggered fears in the US that Washington’s interests in the Middle East are facing a pressing threat. The UK raised its threat levels for British troops in Iraq on Thursday.

    While Suleimani has met regularly with leaders of Iraq’s myriad Shia groups over the past five years, the nature and tone of this gathering was different. “It wasn’t quite a call to arms, but it wasn’t far off,” one source said.

    The meeting has led to a frenzy of diplomatic activity between US, British and Iraqi officials who are trying to banish the spectre of clashes between Tehran and Washington and who now fear that Iraq could become an arena for conflict.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/16/iran-tells-middle-east-militias-prepare-for-proxy-war

    Richard: The reporter tries to lay the blame for all of the problems in the Middle East down to the US not letting Iran do what it wants. The US has warned Iran that if Iranian proxies hit us our our allies we will retaliate against Iran. The speculation I have see has i included taking out their Navy and Air Force, if they include some of the internal security forces barracks at night and there is a good chance they will weaken the current government enough for the Iranians who hate the current government to topple it.

    • WAR FOOTING US Air Force deploys missiles that can fry Iran and North Korea’s weapons with microwaves as Saudi urges Trump to launch airstrikes now

      The weapons can be launched into enemy airspace at low altitude and emit blasts of high power microwave energy that disable any devices targeted

      THE US Air Force has deployed 20 missiles which can zap enemy electronics with powerful pulses rendering weapons virtually useless.

      They can be launched into enemy airspace at low altitude and emit blasts of high-power microwave energy that immediately disable any devices targeted.

      https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9094544/us-microwave-missiles-iran-airstrikes-saudi/

      Richard: Interesting but what are the follow up strikes going to do? If we use this weapon but don’t do any physical damage the Iranians are going to think we are afraid to hurt them. The libs have pushed the idea of non lethal weapons for so long people are ignoring what our enemies will think. Most of the enemies will decide we are afraid to hurt people and continue to attack us.

      • Exclusive: Insurer says Iran’s Guards likely to have organized tanker attacks

        LONDON/OSLO (Reuters) – Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) are “highly likely” to have facilitated attacks last Sunday on four tankers including two Saudi ships off Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, according to a Norwegian insurers’ report seen by Reuters.

        The UAE, Saudi Arabia and Norway are investigating the attacks, which also hit a UAE- and a Norwegian-flagged vessel.
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        A confidential assessment issued this week by the Norwegian Shipowners’ Mutual War Risks Insurance Association (DNK) concluded that the attack was likely to have been carried out by a surface vessel operating close by that despatched underwater drones carrying 30-50 kg (65-110 lb) of high-grade explosives to detonate on impact.

        The attacks took place against a backdrop of U.S.-Iranian tension following Washington’s decision this month to try to cut Tehran’s oil exports to zero and beef up its military presence in the Gulf in response to what it called Iranian threats.

        The DNK based its assessment that the IRGC was likely to have orchestrated the attacks on a number of factors, including:

        – A high likelihood that the IRGC had previously supplied its allies, the Houthi militia fighting a Saudi-backed government in Yemen, with explosive-laden surface drone boats capable of homing in on GPS navigational positions for accuracy.

        https://www.oann.com/exclusive-insurer-says-irans-guards-likely-to-have-organized-tanker-attacks/

  4. udicial Watch: Obama knew of FOIA request, knew Clinton was using private servers

    OAN Newsroom
    UPDATED 6:44 AM PT — Friday, May 17, 2019

    New evidence has suggested the Obama-era White House was more involved with Hillary Clinton’s email scandal than previously thought.

    Judicial Watch obtained 44 pages of documents from the State Department this week, revealing White House staff were tracking a December 2012 FOIA request by the left-leaning group ‘Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’ (CREW). According to those documents, the request raised the alarm among Obama White House staff and the damage control began.

    https://www.oann.com/judicial-watch-obama-knew-of-foia-request-knew-clinton-was-using-private-servers/

    • CNN – Lawmaker calls Barr’s interview on Fox News ‘stunning’

      Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) says that after Attorney General William Barr’s interview on Fox News, he is sounding more like President Trump than impartial law enforcement.

    • Exclusive: Michael Flynn’s brother alleges efforts to ‘trip him up’

    • the daily caller – DEMOCRATS UNANIMOUS AS HOUSE PASSES BILL FORCING SCHOOLS TO LET MALE ATHLETES COMPETE IN GIRLS’ SPORTS

      The Democratically controlled House of Representatives voted Friday 236-173 in favor of the Equality Act, which would require schools to include male athletes who identify as transgender girls on female sports teams.

      Eight Republicans crossed party lines to vote for the bill, which had unanimous Democratic support.

      The bill amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make “sexual orientation and gender identity” protected characteristics under federal anti-discrimination law.

      Among other things, that would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls.

      Republican Florida Rep. Greg Steube introduced a last-minute amendment to the bill that would have preserved Title IX’s protections of female athletic teams, but Democrats rejected it.

      Every House Democrat but one co-sponsored the legislation. The only Democrat who wasn’t a co-sponsor, Illinois Rep. Dan Lipinski, announced his support for the bill following pressure from left-wing activists.

      “People need to wake up. This radical bill is going to totally eliminate women’s and girls sports,” Republican Arizona Rep. Debbie Lesko warned in an op-ed Thursday.

      Republican Missouri Rep. Vicky Hartzler and a half-dozen other House Republicans held a press conference Thursday in opposition to what Hartzler dubbed the “Inequality Act.”

      “Congress enacted Title IX to provide equal opportunities for women in education and sports. All this is erased under H.R. 5,” Hartzler said at the press conference.

      Three former elite female athletes, Doriane Coleman, Martina Navratilova and Sanya Richards-Ross, warned that the Equality Act would wreak havoc on women’s sports in an April 29 Washington Post op-ed.

      “The legislation would make it unlawful to differentiate among girls and women in sports on the basis of sex for any purpose. For example, a sports team couldn’t treat a transgender woman differently from a woman who is not transgender on the grounds that the former is male-bodied,” the former athletes wrote.

      “Yet the reality is that putting male- and female-bodied athletes together is co-ed or open sport. And in open sport, females lose,” the three women warned.

      House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York, insisted the bill wouldn’t put female athletes at a disadvantage.

      “Many states have sexual orientation and gender identity nondiscrimination laws, and all of them still have women’s sports. Arguments about transgender athletes participating in sports in accordance with their gender identity having competitive advantages have not been borne out,” Nadler said at a April 2 hearing on the bill.

      In Connecticut, one of the states to which Nadler was referring, two male runners have dominated girls’ high school track. A female competitor called the male runners’ advantage “demoralizing.”

      https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/17/house-equality-act-transgender-womens-sports/

      MSNBC – Equality Act Moves To Senate After House Approves In Historic Vote

    • FOX News Exclusive: Barr talks to Fox News in first on-air interview as Trump’s AG

    • Jim Jordan: As Bill Barr said, there was a complete failure of leadership at FBI

    • the gateway pundit – President Trump Puts Spygate Coup Plotters on Notice, “TREASON Means Long Jail Sentences, and This Was TREASON!”

      […]“My Campaign for President was conclusively spied on. Nothing like this has ever happened in American Politics. A really bad situation. TREASON means long jail sentences, and this was TREASON!”

      https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1129343742748569601

      Obama unleashed the might of the US government onto Donald Trump and his associates to spy on his 2016 campaign — and the intel agencies used a Hillary Clinton-funded phony dossier to obtain the spy warrants.

      The FBI knew that former British spy Christopher Steele was not a trustworthy source and that the dossier he compiled using his Russian intel sources lacked credibility, but Comey didn’t care, he wanted to take down Trump.

      All hands were on deck and former DNI Chief James Clapper, ex-CIA Chief John Brennan and James Comey all promoted the dossier and used it to justify their spying campaign.

      The spying continued into Trump’s presidency — in fact, the fourth and final FISA warrant on Carter Page was granted in June of 2017, one month after Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel.

      Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and former DAG Rod Rosenstein signed the June 2017 FISA warrant and 20 pages are still redacted.

      DAG Rosenstein even plotted to wear a wire and oust President Trump via the 25th Amendment.

      The Deep State is panicking and a circular firing squad is forming because we have a real Attorney General now who just launched a massive investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.

      President Trump is right — this was TREASON, a coup attempt that failed and every single person involved should be prosecuted and put in prison.

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/president-trump-puts-spygate-coup-plotters-on-notice-treason-means-long-jail-sentences-and-this-was-treason/

      MSNBC – Robert Mueller Reveals New Unredacted Information Re: Obstruction

      Former head of the Office of Legal Counsel Walter Dellinger tells Lawrence that there is already enough evidence to find that “the president obstructed justice in the worst of high crimes and misdemeanors.”

  5. ‘We’ll recognize a Palestinian state as soon as Labour Party takes office’ – Jeremy Corbyn

  6. Morocco: 24 Muslims back in court for the beheading of two Scandinavian women

    A total of 24 Muslims will stand trial for the beheading of two Scandinavian women in Rabat, on Thursday.

    The trial was originally meant to start on May 3 but defence lawyers were granted two more weeks to prepare their case.

    The victims, Vesterager Jespersen, 24, from Denmark, and Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway, were found decapitated in the High Atlas Mountains in December, in what was Moroccan authorities considered a militant act.

    The defendants, 23 Moroccans and a Swiss-Spanish convert will stand trial for charges, including promoting terrorism and forming a terrorist cell.

  7. Belgium: Brazilian indigenous leader Raoni joins climate demo in Brussels

    Raoni Metuktire, chief of the Kayapo people from the Brazilian Amazon, joined protesters at a Youth for Climate march in Brussels on Friday, to ask for support in the fight against environmental degradation in Brazil.

    Addressing the crowd, he asked for help against the destruction of forests and the killing of animals. “Why am I worried about Brazil? When a farmer goes and destroys nature, what happens to all of us? The winds will become very strong and will destroy us all, kill us all. It’s not only about the indigenous people, it’s about all of you too,” said Raoni.

    Activists marched through the city centre, holding banners and chanting to call attention to environmental issues. “Through the strength of chief Raoni, who is known abroad and is leading this movement, I believe that politicians will realise that we can’t destroy the Amazonas. By destroying the Amazonas, we are destroying ourselves and humanity in general,” said Brazilian activist Ramiro Magalhaes.

    Chief Raoni arrived in Europe on Sunday for a three-week trip to meet with national leaders to request support against the exploitation of indigenous lands and to raise funds for the preservation of the Xingu Indigenous National Park, in Brazil.

    According to reports, he met with French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday and will head to Switzerland, Luxembourg, Monaco and Italy where he will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican.

  8. Why has judge sealed case file of teens accused of Colo. school shooting?
    By Ben Bowles May 17, 2019

    Like every other school shooting, the tragedy at the STEM School Highlands Ranch began as what in John Nolte’s words “our media would normally call a Narrative Bonanza, the kind of story that hooks viewers and keeps them tuning in to see how it all ends.”

    But then the details about the gunmen began to emerge and they raised a red flag for the media. It was revealed that Devon Erickson was anti-Trump and anti-Christian and had decorated his car with Satanic symbols — not quite the Bible-thumping pro-lifer the Left prefers to see in its shooters. Not did Alec McKinney fit the mold. He is transitioning from a female to a male (he appears on the court docket as “Maya,” which is the name on his birth certificate) and is the son of a twice-deported Mexican illegal alien with history of domestic violence.

    The idea that the media would abandon a news story because it had lost its “exploitation” value is bad enough. But what explains the decision of Douglas (Colo.) County District Judge Theresa Slade, who on Wednesday sealed the charges and entire case file, banning the public from viewing it? Reuters devotes only a sentence to the curious ruling.

    According to Ballotpedia, Slade was appointed by Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat. Was her decision driven by politics?

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/05/17/why-as-judge-sealed-case-file-of-teens-accused-of-colo-school-shooting/

  9. MEMRI –Hamas Official Fathi Hammad: Slaughter of Zionists Is Near

    Speaking at a May 15 “Nakba Day” rally in the Gaza Strip, Hamas Political Bureau member Fathi Hammad said that the final hours, months, and years before the liberation of Palestine have come.

    He said Palestine will be liberated in “no more than a few years,” and he addressed the “Zionist enemy,” saying:

    “The day of your slaughter, extermination, and annihilation has drawn near… You should search for a place in Europe, or in Hell, or in the ocean, or in the Bermuda Triangle, because there is no place for you in [here] or anywhere.”

    Hammad’s speech aired on Al-Aqsa TV

  10. Spits on a 9-month old baby, yells ‘White people should not breed’ – and is let off

  11. A ship operated by the German rescue charity Sea Watch rescued 65 migrants near Libya. Italy’s right-wing interior minister Matteo Salvini said he doesn’t want them “getting near Italian territorial waters”, and vowed to block the ship from docking in Italy.
    “I have just signed an injunction order against them getting near Italian territorial waters. Our ports are, and remain, closed to migrant rescue boats”, Salvini wrote in a tweet.
    The Sea Watch 3 rescued the migrants from a rubber raft some 55 kilometers (34 miles) north of the Libyan port of Zuwara, a spokesman for the German charity said.
    The group included 11 women and seven children, it added.
    Sea Watch 3, a Dutch-flagged ship, informed authorities in Italy, Malta, Libya and the Netherlands about the rescue.

    https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/05/salvini-tells-rescue-ship-carrying-65-migrants-to-stay-away-from-italian-territorial-waters/

  12. Italian Deputy Prime Minister and anti-immigration leader Matteo Salvini has fired back after German Chancellor Angela Merkel claimed she wouldn’t let his party work with her in the European Parliament.
    The two clashed just a week before the European elections.

    “We don’t want to stand with people who have ruined Europe for all these years,” Salvini replied to Merkel’s dismissal of his anti-immigrant League party. In an interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa, Angela Merkel excluded the possibility of an alliance between any right-wing and anti-establishment party with her center-right European People’s Party (EPP).

    https://www.rt.com/news/459593-salvini-merkel-europe-destroyed/

  13. After the revelations of the past couple of days where it was conclusively established that the Steele Dossier was the central element that generated the Russia hoax investigation, and not the ludicrous and implausible story that Crossfire Hurricane began based on a casual conversation between George Papadopoulos and an Australian diplomat who seems to be an MI6 asset (see As the IG Report Nears, The New York Times Quietly Changes Its Story on George Papadopoulos and How the George Papadopoulos Story Was Manufactured to Justify a Hoax Investigation) the question of the provenance of the Steele Dossier has become more and more critical.

    We’re learning about some key misrepresentations in the report. For instance, one person that is portrayed as a conduit to Russia is actually a long time FBI informant (see The Strange and Unexplained Coincidences in the Mueller Report Continue to Pile Up) and we know they accepted information from at least one source who was known to be either a liar or just stupid (see NEW: FBI Was Aware the Main Source for the Trump-Russia Conspiracy Was a Liar, They Used Him Anyway).

    The larger question about the dossier is the role the Russians had in creating it. Persons as widely separated by politics and position as New York Times reporter Scott Shane and Attorney General Bill Barr have wondered aloud if the dossier was actually a Russian disinformation operation(see If This New York Times Reporter Suspected The Dossier Was A Fraud Why Is He Only Reporting On It Now and Kevin McCarthy Calls The Russia Collusion Hoax A Coup Attempt And He’s Right).

    One of the first things that you notice about the sourcing in the dossier is the incredible number of former and current Russian intelligence goons who were willing to talk about what had to be a highly classified operation with no less an objective than gaining control of the President of the United States (see The Steele Memo Is Much More Likely Russian Dezinformatsiya Than It Is Intelligence). In most places, particularly in places like Russia, that is not cocktail lounge gossip. And Russia doesn’t just take away your security clearance when you divulge secrets, they often run you alive into a crematorium. Now the Daily Caller had uncovered information that makes the sourcing look more and more like a Russian operation.

    https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2019/05/17/key-russian-sources-steele-dossier-identified-will-blow-mind/

  14. The office of the auditor general has not received the necessary funding it needs to carry out all of its ongoing audits of the federal government.

    Budget 2019 did not provide the new funding the office requested, forcing them to drop five performance audits of the current Trudeau government.

    “Although the 2018 federal budget provided us with some new ongoing funding, we did not get any of the new funding that we requested in the 2019 federal budget,” interim auditor general Sylvain Ricard told a House of Commons committee

    “We are continuing to explore our options to ensure that we are properly funded and accountable only to Parliament. In the near term, we have no choice but to decrease the number of performance audits that we conduct.”

    https://www.thepostmillennial.com/government-performance-reviews-cancelled-because-trudeau-government-failed-to-fund-auditors-properly/?fbclid=IwAR3Oz1ypHWneuseT-WTnaQOKG3qnDVoTJ6nnPE9sQ53v-hIcS6ifMhmiPxs

  15. A 15-year-old man was violently attacked by a group of individuals while out campaigning for the populist Sweden Democrats (SD) for this month’s upcoming European Parliament election, it is claimed.
    The incident took place in the main square in the city of Borås where the Sweden Democrats had set up a booth as part of their European Parliament campaign and followed a previous incident in which the teen had been sprayed with soda, local newspaper Borås Tidning reports.

    After the teen had the soda poured on him, he attempted to take a picture of the alleged perpetrator around half an hour later near the city’s railway station but was set upon by multiple other individuals who began to violently beat him.

    “When they saw that he was photographing, they jumped on him physically and verbally and took his phone. They wanted to make sure the picture disappeared,” said Sweden Democrats local district chairman Andreas Exner who said the teen wanted to take the photo to give to the police.

    According to Exner, the teen immediately returned to the election booth following the attack where the incident was reported to the police. “It discourages young individuals from getting involved in politics when they are treated like this. I hope that if someone noticed something, they will contact the police,” Exner said.

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/17/swedish-teen-assaulted-while-leafleting-for-populist-party-election-campaign/

  16. ILLEGAL ALIEN FROM KENYA CHARGED WITH KILLING 12 ELDERLY WOMEN—CNN STILL IGNORING STORY
    10:53 PM 05/16/2019 | US
    Scott Morefield | Reporter

    An illegal alien from Kenya has been charged in the deaths of 12 elderly women in Texas, and at least one major media outlet has so far ignored what could be one of the most prolific serial slayings in American history.

    Billy Chemirmir, a 46-year-old former healthcare worker, had already been charged with capital murder in March 2018 in the death of Lu Thi Harris, 81, but was indicted on Tuesday for 11 additional deaths: five in Collin County and six more in Dallas County.

    Court records show that Chemirmir, a citizen of Kenya living illegally in the United States, allegedly smothered his victims with a pillow and then robbed them, according to The Dallas Morning News.

    After Chemirmir’s initial arrest, authorities told reporters their plans to review around 750 cases of unattended deaths of elderly women for links to Chemirmir, some of which had already been ruled as natural causes.

    https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/16/illegal-alien-kenya-serial-killing-charge-billy-chemirmir/

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  18. MUST READ: The 10 Red Flags the FBI Should Have Identified that TOTALLY Invalidated Christopher Steele and His Junk Trump-Russia Dossier

    The Carter Page FISA warrant was used to obtain a legal means to spy on candidate and President Trump. The fake dossier and discussions held with Christopher Steele were used to obtain the warrant.
    There were numerous red flags the FBI knew, ignored or should have identified that invalidated what Steele was telling them and therefore their entire FISA application.

    Here is a list of 10 red flags identified in the fake Steele dossier and from discussions between Steele and the Obama State Department’s Kathleen Kavalec that the FBI pushed aside in its zeal to obtain a warrant to spy on the opposition candidate and future President Trump:

    1. The Steele dossier claims that a Russian man named Lesin was murdered by the Russians. However, the details were incorrect. “In Lesin’s case, Steele claimed that he was bludgeoned to death when, in fact, he was strangled. This is a small but a significant difference, especially if you claim primary sources with firsthand knowledge of the facts.” (Source)

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/must-read-the-10-red-flags-the-fbi-should-have-identified-that-totally-invalidated-christopher-steele-and-his-junk-trump-russia-dossier/?utm_source=TGPemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:553016019&utm_campaign=Auto%20Send%20from%20The%20Gateway%20Pundit%20on%20May%2017,%202019%20at%2011:06:06%20AM

  19. p. 982 Outed! Here’s the Real Russia Scandal. The Dan Bongino Show 5/17/2019

  20. Bill Barr: Dossier Was Unusual Situation Having Opposition Research to Conduct Counter Intelligence

    • Bill Barr Brushes Off Pelosi’s Accusations That He Lied: “I Think It’s Laughable!”

    • Bill Barr: I’ve Been Trying to Get Answers and Some of the Answers Don’t Add Up

  21. Ep. 982 Outed! Here’s the Real Russia Scandal. The Dan Bongino Show 5/17/2019.

    • A little before 15 minutes in he points out that the spy who provided info on Trump is a friend with the former head of Russian Intelligence.

      The Dems were using Russian disinformation to attack President Trump!

      The way they (the Dems) went out of their way to hide the real sources show that at least one or more of the people know they were using Russian disinformation to undermine the US President and sow doubt about the integrity of our elections.

  22. Germany: Bavarian interior minister warns of threat posed by returning IS fighters

    Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Hermann warned that Islamist terrorism remains Germany’s biggest security threat at a news conference in Munich on Friday. Hermann presented an annual report on the activities of far-right, far-left and Islamic extremists in Bavaria.

    “Returnees from the former IS-controlled areas pose a particular security risk, so it is important to keep a close eye on them from the beginning”, said the official. The minister said that the best solution would be to jail them on return.

    “The widespread collapse of the Islamic state must not blind us to the fact that Germany and Europe continue to be the focus of Islamist terrorism”, said Hermann at the news conference.

    Hermann said that the authorities estimate that more than 1,050 German citizens left to fight for the Islamic State and that the law doesn’t prevent their re-entry.

    Referring to the series of attacks on hotels and churches in Sri Lanka in April, he said that they prove that followers of radical Islamism don’t shy away from atrocities. Although, the German authorities don’t have information about an imminent attack, there is still a high risk of such incidents, according to the official.

    Hermann also noted the rise in numbers of far-right and far-left extremists in Bavaria. Around 1,000 far-right and 730 far-left activists have been classified as violent by the authorities.

    According to the latest figures from the Germany’s domestic security agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, in 2017 there were 6,393 crimes motivated by left-wing extremism, while there were 19,467 motivated by right-wing extremism.

  23. Austria: School headscarf ban ‘based on suspicions and allegations’ – Muslim community leader

    Austria: Primary school headscarf ban ‘based on suspicions and allegations’ – Muslim community leader

    Austria’s recently passed law banning headscarfs in classrooms for children under 12 years constitutes discrimination against Muslims and is ‘based on suspicions and allegations,‘ said President of the Islamic Religious Community of Austria Umit Vural in Vienna on Friday.

    Speaking during an interview, Vural stated that “what happened here is that the state has spread religious freedom to the kippah in Judaism and the turban in Sikhism, while the headscarf was excluded from this religious freedom despite and against our voice. And therefore it exceeds its competence.”

    “Neither does this help integration nor does it help the wellbeing of the children. The opposite happens. Muslim children are being stigmatised and discriminated against,” he added.

    He also announced that the organisation will take action to fight the law in front of Austria’s constitutional court.

    His comments came after the Austrian Parliament passed a law banning headscarfs in schools for children under 12 years old.

    The Islamic Religious Community of Austria is an umbrella group of over 250 Muslim associations within the country, that helps administer Islamic religious education in public schools throughout Austria as well as serving as the representative body of the wider community.

    Residents of Vienna were torn on the question with many rejecting the need to force a veil upon children because of religion, while at the same time objecting to the political move to ban headscarfs by law.

  24. British Women Jailed in Middle East for ‘Trying to Rescue Abused Dogs’ (breitbart, May 17, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/17/british-teachers-jailed-middle-east-rescuing-abused-dogs/

    “Two British women have been jailed in the Gulf state Sultanate of Oman, for “trying to rescue abused animals”.

    The pair were in the Middle East teaching English for the British Council, but ran afoul of a “cultural misunderstanding” with their Arab hosts when they attempted to “save two mistreated dogs” who had been left out in “scorching” heat by their “cruel” owner.

    33-year-old Jennifer Green of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, and her unnamed co-accused have been held for almost two weeks, according to her brother — “because it’s Ramadan, nothing is happening. I’m really worried and so is the entire family,” he said.

    “They allegedly intervened to save abused animals, which is something honourable in Britain, but is a crime in Oman,” claimed Radha Stirling, chief executive of Detained in Dubai — Dubai being one of seven emirates which make up the United Arab Emirates, another country in the Middle East where Westerners are often detained in dubious circumstances.

    “Abusing animals apparently is not a crime in Oman, and rescuing an animal can apparently lead to abuse by the legal system,” Stirling remarked acidly…”

  25. British Government Warns of Iran Travel Risk for Dual Citizens (breitbart, May 17, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/17/british-government-warns-of-iran-travel-risk-for-dual-citizens/

    “Britain’s Foreign Office is advising against all travel to Iran by British-Iranian dual nationals.

    The government said Friday the upgraded travel warning is in response to Iran’s “continued arbitrary detention and mistreatment” of dual nationals and of Iranian citizens working for institutions linked to Britain.

    It follows the arrest of an Iranian woman who had been working for the British Council in Iran.

    Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said dual nationals face an “intolerable risk” of abuse if they travel to Iran.

    He cited the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a dual citizen detained in Iran since 2016.

    The Foreign Office also warns that Iran does not recognize dual nationality, limiting the British government’s ability to help dual nationals detained in Iran.”

  26. sputnik – ‘Vote, or Get Voted Home’: Danish Muslims Campaign to ‘Influence Society’

    While fewer immigrants vote in Nordic countries compared with the ethnic Scandinavians, Danish Muslims are attempting to change this tendency, citing both the government’s departure from its integration policy and a new right-wing party promoting mass deportations, which has entered the fray.

    With the hashtag #Yalla_stem or “Hurry up, vote”, a group of young Muslims are attempting to encourage those who share their faith to ramp up their involvement in the democratic process, lest they get deported by right-wingers, who may otherwise win the election.

    To raise awareness among fellow Muslims, they have launched a Facebook group called “Muslims to the ballot boxes 2019″, which quickly gathered over 10,000 members.

    Our purpose is to motivate Muslims to vote, because the voting rate is low and because we are tired of all the negative talk of Islam. Enough is enough,” Ramzia Al told Norwegian national broadcaster NRK.

    “Instead of complaining, we should have influence in Danish society. We are all part of it, and we have all seen how the debates become very discriminatory,” Hannin El-Khatib told Danish Radio.

    The slogan “Yalla Vote, or Get Voted Home” is touted as an answer to the Danish “paradigm shift”, which the parliament adopted in February through a broad consensus between the government, the Danish People’s Party and the Social Democrats. Instead of integration, Denmark has since placed its main focus on repatriation.

    “It’s a shame that they want to send Muslims out of the country. There are many well-educated Muslims who make an effort in Denmark, both in the workplace and at the universities”, Ramzia Al said.

    The advent of the anti-Islam micro party Stram Kurs (“Hard Line”), which entered the ballot after a whirlwind campaign and keeps making headlines in Danish press, couldn’t go unnoticed. Stram Kurs, which was previously known for its Quran-burning performances, advocates banning Islam and deporting all Muslims out of Denmark.

    “We are also nervous about our children’s future”, Ramzia Al said.

    During the 2015 Danish parliamentary election, 87 percent of ethnic Danish voters utilised their right to vote, compared with 66 percent of immigrants and only 53 percent of their descendants.

    In the 2014 Swedish election, the gap between ethnic Swedes and immigrants in voter turnout was a similar 17 percent.

    A similar tendency is seem in Norway, where 80 percent of ethnic Norwegians voted in the 2017 election, as opposed to only 54 percent among immigrants.

    https://sputniknews.com/europe/201905171075077015-denmark-muslims-campaign/

  27. And a Little Child Shall Lead Them
    Why the Left puts children at the forefront of its agendas.
    May 17, 2019
    Mark Tapson

    In this recent video clip from a news channel’s interview with 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, it is clear that the young girl has no special insight to offer, only canned platitudes (“If everyone does something, huge changes can happen”). And yet the older male interviewer fawns over his teenage subject as if she is a credible, informed expert and a wise Cassandra whose dire warning we ignore at our peril. He does so not in spite of her youth, but precisely because of it. Why? Because the leftist media, and the left generally, love propping up gullible, politically indoctrinated children as authoritative mouthpieces to promote their agendas.

    Swedish schoolgirl Thunberg attracted worldwide media attention at age 15 for her activism against weather, and is now the deadly serious face of the left’s climate change hysteria. Recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, Thunberg is following in the carbon footprints of environmental activist Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez who, at the age of 15, entreated the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 to take action against purportedly human-caused climate change.

    After the Parkland school shooting in Florida on Valentine’s Day, 2018, student activists David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez (pictured above), 17 and 18 respectively at the time, were ubiquitous in the media coverage about the atrocity – not because their thoughts on the incident were any more insightful than those of any of their fellow students, but because of their forceful calls for stricter gun control and their eagerness to demonize the hated National Rifle Association. Parkland students who didn’t take a strong anti-gun stance quickly found themselves ignored by the news media. Hogg, whose bumper-sticker mentality proved to be no barrier to getting into Harvard, shot to prominence overnight as the face of the gun confiscation movement in America.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273767/and-little-child-shall-lead-them-mark-tapson

  28. White House Offers Americans Tool for Reporting Social Media Free Speech Violations
    May 16, 2019
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    The Trump Administration is fighting for free speech online.

    No matter your views, if you suspect political bias has caused you to be censored or silenced online, we want to hear about it! http://wh.gov/techbias
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    In response to the growing dot com crackdown on conservatives, the White House has rolled out a new bias reporting tool for ordinary Americans.

    “The Trump Administration is fighting for free speech online,” the White House account tweeted.

    “SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS should advance FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Yet too many Americans have seen their accounts suspended, banned, or fraudulently reported for unclear “violations” of user policies,” the Tech Bias Story Sharing Tool site sites. “No matter your views, if you suspect political bias caused such an action to be taken against you, share your story with President Trump.”

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/273790/white-house-offers-americans-tool-reporting-social-daniel-greenfield

    Richard: He is up to something and hasn’t screwed up yet so let us pray this will stop the social media from censoring the conservatives. He knows that the Social Media followers who spread his message was one of the reasons he won.

  29. Time for Iran to Face a Reckoning
    The mullahs can only be stopped by means of “the mailed fist.”
    May 17, 2019
    Bruce Thornton
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    While the media obsess over chimeras like the president’s obstruction of justice for nonexistent crimes, and AG Barr’s impeachment for obeying the law, a collision between the U.S. and Iran is brewing in the Middle East. The question now is whether Iran will finally face the reckoning it has invited and deserved for 42 years, or the latest crisis will peter out into U.S. saber-rattling and empty threats.

    Donald Trump has made a good start at ending our nearly half-century appeasement of a regime that has declared war on the U.S. and backed it up by murdering Americans and working to create nuclear weapons that would make even more difficult, or even prohibitive, the price of punishing them for their aggression.

    Since Jimmy Carter’s timid, feckless response to the 1979 American embassy hostage crisis, we have signaled to the mullahs that we will not exact a cost for their aggression. And this failure has been a bipartisan effort. When in 1983 Iranian proxies murdered 241 of our military personnel in Beirut, the Reagan administration pulled out even as the French and the Israelis strafed and bombed “Little Tehran,” the terrorist camps set up in the Beqaa Valley by Tehran, which nurtured the attackers. Since then Iran has been implicated in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and periodically taken hostage American citizens and sailors. In Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran’s Quds Force, the regime’s shock troops of global terror, have facilitated and participated in the murder of our soldiers. And it has continued to train and financially support terrorist gangs like Hezbollah and Hamas.

    More recently, under the leadership of Al Quds chief Qassem Soleimani, Iran has been working to establish bases in Syria, and has sent thousands of Iranians and mercenary jihadists to help prop up thuggish Bashar al-Assad. At the same time, it has been building up an armed presence on Israel’s northern border in preparation for Iran’s long-time goal to “wipe Israel off the map.” Closer to home, Iran has sent forces to Venezuela to prop up caudillo Nicolás Maduro and maintain a friendly base for developing terrorists to sneak into America and attack the homeland.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273761/time-iran-face-reckoning-bruce-thornton

  30. Tunhan Kuzu, of Dutch muslim party DENK, arrested at the entrance of al Aqsa mosque after trolling with Palestinian flag.
    https://www.facebook.com/KiesKuzu/videos/2009553962505085/

    He survived:
    https://twitter.com/tunahankuzu/status/1129344637544685568

    Reaction by Israeli ambassador to the Netherlands:
    https://twitter.com/IsraelinNL/status/1129361841283633152

    See the supportive reactions from Dutch people in subsequent thread.. I’ve also seen reactions elsewhere from dutch Turks who disapprove of mr Kuzu’s action.

  31. New York Times publishes open letter from former presidents condemning antisemitism.
    https://hjcny.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/An-Open-Letter-1-17-1921.pdf
    (Does anyone recall if this was actually published in a periodical? I can’t find any indication in free archives.)

    I finally found the scanned pamphlet letter at
    https://archive.org/details/jewamericanideal00spar/page/n7
    and a text version of “The peril of racial prejudice” spargo
    https://archive.org/stream/jewamericanideal00spar/jewamericanideal00spar_djvu.txt

    hat tip to Rabbi Katz

    • The letter closes with
      Anti-Semitism is almost invariably associated with lawlessness and with brutality and injustice. It is also invariably found closely intertwined with other sinister forces, particularly those which are corrupt, reactionary and oppressive.

      We believe it should not be left to men and women of Jewish faith to fight this evil, but that it is in a very special sense the duty of citizens who are not Jews by
      ancestry or faith. We therefore make earnest protest against this vicious propaganda, and call upon our fel-low citizens of Gentile birth and Christian faith to unite their efforts to ours, to the end that it may be crushed. In particular, we call upon all those who are molders of public opinion — the clergy and ministers of all Christian churches, publicists, teachers, editors and statesmen — to strike at this un-American and un-Christian agitation.

    • More on Spargo, who transformed from a Socialist into an anti-communist — perhaps that is why America’s history curriculum apparently avoids him.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Spargo
      The booklet includes this disclaimer:
      FOREWORD
      This little book was written without the knowledge of any Jew. It is not a defense of the Jew. It is not a pro-Jewish argument. It is a defense of American ideals
      and institutions against anti-Semitism; a plea for Christian civilization.

      The letter was widely distributed the last time that antisemitism emanated from Dearborn, Michigan. The article is long. Henry Ford’s vile was specific enough in nature to generate libel litigation. https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Confronting+antisemitism+in+America%3a+Louis+Marshall+and+Henry+Ford.-a0194427356

    • https://www.nytimes.com/1921/02/22/archives/spargo-condemns-racial-antagonism-denounces-propaganda-of.html
      Also found here (via duckduckgo) without charge. Although the article focuses on the Protocols calumny, there is an echo from the past: a falsehood of Jewish collusion in war-mongering for the 1860’s Civil War!
      http://www.stockmaven.com/nytimes022221pg10.htm (an oddly-title website)
      CHICAGO, Feb. 21.–John Spargo, Socialist author and formerly of the Industrial Relations Commission, spoke before 5,000 Chicago Jews at Sinai Temple tonight on “The Jews and the American Ideal.” In referring to recent attacks on the Jewish race, Mr. Spargo said:
      “Henry Ford is poverty-stricken intellectually, morally and spiritually. I regard him with profound and unmeasured pity. No more pitiful figure can be found in our history. With all his material wealth, he is poorer than the poorest wretch to be found in the bread lines of this city. His poverty of soul is so great that he is incapable of partaking of the American spirit.”
      “Yet we are witnessing the shameful spectacle of an organized campaign of hatred and calumny against the Jews of America, a campaign having for its object the creation of a terrible and dangerous antagonism between Americans, an antagonism founded upon racial and religious differences…In prosecuting that campaign its leaders have not hesitated to seize upon the occasion of the anniversary of Lincoln’s birth to besmirch his resplendent fame and glorious memory. Instead of seeing in the war of secession the result of a conflict of economic and political systems, these men-alien to America in soul if not in speech – have spread broadcast through the land the infamous charge that the fateful struggle was deliberately brought about by Jewish agents intriguing for the accomplishment of Jewish purposes.”

  32. Russia’s FSB takes down a man suspected of providing financial support to ISIS

  33. WaPO – Associated Press – Austrian far-right leader under fire for Ibiza meeting video

    BERLIN — Austrian opposition parties called Friday for the country’s vice-chancellor to resign after a two German newspapers published footage of him apparently offering lucrative government contracts to a potential Russian benefactor.

    The daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung and the weekly Der Spiegel published extracts of covert video allegedly showing Heinz-Christian Strache, the leader of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party, meeting a woman claiming to be interested in investing large amounts of money in the Alpine nation. The two papers said the meeting, which took place months before Austria’s parliamentary election, was clearly a trap laid to compromise the two politicians, though it’s unclear who was behind it.

    In the video, the source of which the newspapers declined to reveal, Strache and party colleague Johann Gudenus are heard telling the unnamed woman she can expect lucrative construction contracts if she buys an Austrian newspaper and supports the Freedom Party. Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Der Spiegel said the footage was authenticated by a forensic video expert. It couldn’t be immediately independently verified by The Associated Press.

    “It’s time to end this nightmare,” the head of Austria’s Social Democratic Party, Pamela Rendi-Wagner, said after the reports. “Strache and Gudenus must step down today.”

    She urged Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of the center-right People’s Party to take responsibility for his government allies: “He chose to enter into this coalition.”

    Werner Kogler, a leading member of Austria’s opposition Green Party, also urged Kurz to dissolve the coalition “or he himself will become untenable.”

    According to the two newspapers, the video spanned some six hours of drink-fueled conversation in a villa on the Spanish island of Ibiza between the Austrian politicians and a woman claiming to be the niece of a prominent Russian businessman. Aside from discussing possible investments in Austria, including the purchase of influential tabloid newspaper Kronen Zeitung, Strache also appears to suggest ways of funneling money to his party via an unconnected foundation to circumvent Austrian rules on political donations.

    There is no indication that any of the discussed Russian investments took place before or after the parliamentary elections, in which the Freedom Party came third with almost 26% of the vote.

    Neither Strache nor Gudenus could immediately be reached for comment. Spiegel reported that the men confirmed taking part in a private meeting on Ibiza, but denied any wrongdoing.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/report-austrian-politician-offered-contracts-for-support/2019/05/17/2b14694c-78ca-11e9-a7bf-c8a43b84ee31_story.html

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    BBC – Heinz-Christian Strache: Vice-chancellor in damning video

    Austria’s Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache has been filmed appearing to offer government contracts in exchange for political support.

    The video, filmed secretly shortly before Austria’s election in 2017, shows Mr Strache speaking to a woman who claims to be a Russian investor.

    Mr Strache also appears to hint at a potentially illegal donation system for the far-right Freedom Party he leads.

    The revelations come amid high tensions within Austria’s coalition government.

    Spokespeople for Mr Strache and the Freedom Party were not immediately available for comment.

    The video was published on Friday in a joint report by the German news magazine Der Spiegel and the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung.

    It is unclear who set up the meeting and who filmed it.

    What’s in the video?

    The secretly-filmed video shows Mr Strache and Johann Gudenus – also a Freedom Party politician – talking to a woman who claims to be a wealthy Russian citizen looking to invest in Austria.

    The meeting reportedly took place at a villa on the Spanish island of Ibiza, in a private room with both politicians relaxing on sofas, smoking and drinking.

    In the footage, the woman says she is the niece of a powerful Russian oligarch. She offers to buy a 50% stake in Austria’s Kronen-Zeitung newspaper and switch its editorial position to support the Freedom Party.

    In exchange, Mr Strache said he could award her public contracts, explaining that he wanted to “build a media landscape like Orbán”, a reference to Hungary’s far-right prime minister.

    The vice-chancellor also speculates that the Russian’s takeover of Kronen-Zeitung could boost support for the party to as high as 34%.

    “If you take over the Kronen Zeitung three weeks before the election and get us into first place, then we can talk about everything,” Mr Strache said.

    As part of the deal, he suggests the Russian woman “set up a company like Strabang,” the Austrian construction firm.

    “All the government orders that Strabang gets now, [you] would get,” he continues.

    Mr Strache also names several journalists who would have to be “pushed” from the newspaper, and five other “new people whom we will build up”.

    During the discussions, the vice chancellor says that wealthy donors have paid the Freedom Party through an “association” to keep their donations hidden.

    “The association is charitable, it’s got nothing to do with the party,” Mr Strache said. “That way no report goes to the Rechnungshof [Austria’s court of auditors]”.

    How have people responded?

    The alleged donors named by Mr Strache and Mr Gudenus in the video have denied sending money to the party, according to Der Spiegel and the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

    The two men have acknowledged that the meeting took place, but said it had been “purely private”. They added that they had repeatedly mentioned “the relevant legal regulations and the necessity to observe Austrian law” during the encounter.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48318195

  34. Over 790,000 illegal expats deported in 18 months (saudigazette, May 17, 2019)
    http://saudigazette.com.sa/article/566605/SAUDI-ARABIA/Over-790000-illegal-expats-deported-in-18-months

    “As many as 793,014 foreigners living in Saudi Arabia have been deported for violating the Kingdom’s residency and labor regulations since the beginning of the security campaign on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017 until Thursday, May 16, 2019, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Friday.

    A total of 3,159,388 foreigners were arrested for violating the residency and labor regulations and border security laws during the period.

    Of these, 2,461,868 were violators of the iqama regulations, 487,670 breached the labor laws and 209,850 violated the border security rules.

    Meanwhile, the number of people arrested while trying to infiltrate into the Kingdom across the borders totaled 53,042. Of these, 49 percent were Yemenis, 48 percent were Ethiopians, and 3 percent of other nationalities. In addition, 2,249 people were nabbed for trying to leave the Kingdom by crossing the borders illegally.

    The Ministry of Interior launched a nationwide crackdown against illegal residents on Nov. 15, 2017 in coordination with 19 government departments including the Directorate General of Passports (Jawazat) and the Ministry of Labor and Social Development.

    The law-enforcing officials said a total of 422,442 violators were handed over to their concerned embassies and consulates to issue them travel documents while 534,278 others are in the process of completing travel procedures.

    According to the officials, 12,741 violators are currently held in various detention centers in the Kingdom. They include 11,103 men and 1,638 women.

    As many as 3,823 people were caught providing accommodation and transportation to the illegal expatiates. They included 1,299 Saudis, of whom 1,258 were investigated, punished and released while 35 are still being probed.”