Contributor’s links for May 22, 2019

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  1. Germany: Statue of the Virgin Mary beheaded and damaged+++
    After a man from Trier district of West reported the theft of a sandstone statue of the Virgin Mary last Saturday, May 18, the severely damaged sculpture (photo above) was found last Sunday, May 19, in Trierweilerweg street. The statue of the Virgin Mary made of sandstone from Udelfang was stolen from a private property in Trier’s Grana street between the 14th and 18th of May.According to police investigations to date, the sculpture, which is about two metres high and weighs 150 to 200 kilograms, must have been carried off the property by several people. The statue has now been found in Trierweilerweg street.However, it is severely damaged. According to witnesses, the sculpture had already been lying in an access road to the property since May 18. It was broken into several parts. The upper part with head and body is missing. “In addition to its material value, the statue of the Virgin Mary has a very high non-material value for the owner,” says Karl-Peter Jochem, press spokesman for the police headquarters in Trier, “he is very upset about the theft and the damage. The Trier Police Department is now looking for witnesses who can provide information about the theft and asks: Who saw people transporting the statue of Mary between 14th and 18th of May in the area of Grana street and Trierweilerweg street?
    Read more:
    https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/05/germany-statue-of-virgin-mary-beheaded.html

  2. “This picture is astounding – some of the 5,000 people who couldn’t fit into the venue at the @realDonaldTrump rally in Montoursville, PA Monday night. (There was only room for 10,000 inside.) Dedicated supporters of the President’s policies, staying to watch on the big screen.”
    Tim Murtaugh – May 21, 2019 – Twitter
    https://twitter.com/TimMurtaugh/status/1130946734778146817

  3. ISRAEL’S AMBASSADOR TURNS TO THE BIBLE
    includes video – 18 minutes 27 seconds
    Quoting from God’s promise to Abraham in Genesis, Danon looked squarely into the eyes of the Palestinian delegate sitting across from him at the assembly, lifted his Bible high for all to see and said, “This is the deed to our land.” Danon then read the Bible in Hebrew, and then in English, from Genesis 17:7-8: “I will give this Land as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you.” Using the Bible to defend the Jewish ownership of the Land of Israel is an extraordinary move in modern political realities. David Lazarus
    http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/36671/Default.aspx

  4. Dutch state secretary had his day in parliament, resigns over manipulation of refugee crime stats:
    https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/05/asylum-minister-mark-harbers-resigns-over-refugee-crime-report/

    “While most cases involved shoplifting or pickpocketing, police also registered cases of physical abuse, threatening behaviour and a further 1,000 incidents listed as ‘other’. The Telegraaf reported on Thursday morning this total included 79 potential sex crimes, including 47 cases of sexual assault, five allegations of child abuse and four alleged rapes plus a string of other violent offences.”

    Also see
    https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/05/asylum-seeker-crime-figures-involved-just-one-death-ex-minister-says/

    • It used to be such a safe country. I’ve been there quite a few times going back 25+ years ago.

  5. WEST HIT BY 112 TERRORIST ATTACKS IN 15 YEARS: DUTCH INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (nltimes, May 21, 2019)
    https://nltimes.nl/2019/05/21/west-hit-112-terrorist-attacks-15-years-dutch-intelligence-service

    “A total of 112 terrorist attacks were committed in Western countries over the past 15 years. Three quarters of these happened in the last five years, a strong increase related to the rise of terrorist organization Islamic State since 2014, according to an analysis by Dutch intelligence and security service AIVD. The number of attacks decreased again since the fall of Islamic State, NOS reports.

    Fourteen Western countries including the Netherlands were hit by attacks. But 70 percent of all attacks occurred in just four countries – France, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany. 76 percent of the 112 attacks were “successful” – they were actually committed and led to casualties or damage. Over the past five years, the “success” rate increased to 84 percent. 12 percent of the attacks left more than 50 people dead or injured.

    In most cases attacks in the West were ordered by either al-Qaeda or ISIS, or inspired or stimulated by those two terrorist organization. ISIS in particular succeeded in mobilizing and inspiring sympathizers to commit attacks in their name, according to AIVD.

    The vast majority of attacks, 80 percent, were committed by a single perpetrator. 41 percent of attacks were committed with a knife or other stabbing weapon. Explosives were used relatively frequently in the first 10 years AIVD looked at, but were much less popular in the past five years. In recent years terrorists started using vehicles as the form of attack. In the 2014 to 2018 period, a truck or passenger car was used in 17 percent of attacks.

    Most of the attacks happened at accessible places with little security that draw crowds, such as shopping streets, squares and Christmas markets. Terrorists only targeted a public event six times in the past 15 years – a marathon in Boston, a fireworks show in Nice, a footrace in the United States, and three Christmas markets. Police officers and soldiers were often targeted. 36 percent of attacks in the West were aimed at uniformed personnel, with a sharp increase in the last five years. According to the AIVD, attacks on soldiers and cops are aimed at the authority that they represent, not at the person themselves.

    The AIVD identified a separate category of attacks, those aimed at “blasphemies”. These attacks target people the terrorists believe insult Islam, the Koran or the prophet Mohammad. The murder of Dutch populist politician Theo van Gogh in 2004 was the first such attack in the West. Almost all of these attacks are linked to controversy around cartoons, such as drawings by Dane Kurt Westergaard and the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The terrorist that stabbed two American tourists at Amsterdam Central Station last year also said he did so because PVV leader Geert Wilders announced a Mohammad cartoon contest.

    According to the AIVD, the “higher purpose” behind the majority of attacks never become known. “The claims by terrorist groups are not always reliable, statements by perpetrators sometimes change, and legitimacy is sometimes only invented afterwards.”

    With this report, the AIVD wants to contribute to more objective knowledge about attacks committed in the west.”

  6. Big Brother Watch? US Navy Seeks to Create Archive of 350 Bln Social Media Posts (sputniknews, May 22, 2019)
    https://sputniknews.com/us/201905221075221393-us-navy-archive-social-media-posts/

    “This is not the first time that the US government has expressed interest in gathering social media data: last April, the Departments of Homeland Security unveiled its plans to create a database to track more than 290,000 global news sources in over 100 languages.

    As part of “research efforts” conducted through the Pentagon and analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School, the US Department of the Navy has shared a solicitation to contractors, revealing a project to create an archive of 350 billion social media posts related to the “minimum time period” from 1 July 2014 to 31 December 2016.

    “Our research aims to provide enhanced understanding of fundamental social dynamics, to model the evolution of linguistic communities, and emerging modes of collective expression, over time and across countries. As a central requirement for this research, we seek to acquire a large-scale global historical archive of social media data, providing the full text of all public social media posts, across all countries and languages covered by the social media platform”, the synopsis reads.

    According to the solicitation, the data will be drawn from a single social media platform — although it does not specify which one; all records must consist only of publicly available information, and no private user data will be included.

    In addition, each record in the database will be required to provide the full text of a social media post, with all publicly avaliable meta-data, including language, hashtags, country, handle, timestamp, URLs, and must be unaltered from the original content.

    The department has emphasised that the data will include messages from at least 200 million unique users across 100 countries, in no less than 60 languages, with 50 percent of the messages not written in English.”

  7. Dutch arrest suspected Jabhat al-Nusra battalion commander
    https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/05/dutch-arrest-suspected-jabhat-al-nusra-battalion-commander/

    A suspected commander of a terrorist Jabhat al-Nusra battalion has been arrested in the Netherlands, police said on Tuesday afternoon. The man, who is 47 and has Syrian nationality, was arrested in the small town of Kapelle in Zeeland on suspicion of committing war crimes and terrorist crimes in Syria. He has been in the Netherlands since 2014 and has a temporary asylum permit. The man, police said in a website statement, fought under the name Abu Khuder and his battalion was known as Ghuraba’a Mohassan (Strangers of Mohassan). The home of a man in Ede was also searched as he is thought to be in contact with the main suspect, police said. At the same time, six homes of other suspected members of Ghuraba’a Mohassan were searched in Germany in a separate investigation. The Dutch arrest followed information from the German police, who provided witness testimonies about the suspect. The man will appear in court on Friday for a remand hearing.

  8. Dark-Skinned Unwelcome: Finnish Party in Hot Water Over Anti-Multiculturalist Ad (sputniknews, May 22, 2019)
    https://sputniknews.com/europe/201905221075221802-finns-party-multiculturalism/

    “The youth organisation of Finland’s largest right-wing party has provoked strong reactions by claiming that dark-skinned families are not welcome in the Nordic country.

    Finnish Youth, the junior wing of the right-wing Finns Party has sparked outrage with its new campaign.

    In the run-up to the EU election, in which the Finns Party expects major electoral gains, Finnish Youth has shared a screenshot from a European parliament ad, which shows two happy dark-skinned parents and their child.

    “Vote Finns so that Finland’s future will not look like this”, Finnish Youth captioned the screenshot.

    Their campaign has sparked strong reactions across the Finnish political landscape.

    Lawyer and Social Democrat politician Sakari Timonen called the post “openly racist” and called for the government to halt grants to the Finns Youth.

    According to Finnish law, youth organisations receiving government grants should have “solidarity, cultural diversity and internationalism” as their foundation. According to the Finnish Youth website, “no to multiculturalism” is one of the organisation’s principles.

    Li Andersson, the leader of the Left Alliance, also claimed that Finns’s “racism” was “crystal clear”.

    Finnish Youth president Asseri Kinnunen is running for the European Parliament election for the Finns Party. According to Kinnunen, Finnish Youth wanted to initiate a debate on the European Parliament’s “propaganda campaign”.

    “We wanted to debate if it is the EU or Finland’s own decision-makers who decide over Finland’s future”, Kinnunen explained his standpoint, as quoted by the daily Hufvudstadsbladet.

    By his own admission, Kinnunen wants to work for the Finnish economy, security and agriculture. He also proposes a strict immigration policy and has backed border controls.

    On Twitter, the Finnish Youth’s campaign triggered mixed reactions. While some hailed Finns’ desire to “keep Finland Finnish and Europe European”, as one user put it, others found their ethnicity-based nationalism unappealing…”

    • Should just show a film of Turkish leader Erdoghan talking about how Armenians deserved to be enslaved or abandonned in the Syrian desert.

      • The primal directive of genes,to produce similar genes to itself,this is why people who deny the supremacy of genes in favour of ego virtue,have immense mental conflicts ,resulting in abberant self destructive behaviour.

    • Celebrities are ignorant persons who prostitute themselves for ephemeral notoriety .

  9. Trump Calls for an Investigation Into Biden Family’s Links With the Chinese Regime

  10. Christianity CRACKDOWN: Fury after stamp features church image – ‘Muslims being bullied!’ (express, May 22, 2019)
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1130284/christian-persecution-malaysia-muslim-stamp-pakatan-harapan

    “A STAMP featuring a famous church in Malaysia has sparked fury among Muslims who say they are “being bullied” by the government.

    Tensions are said to be growing between the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition government and the Malay Muslim groups. Malay rights group Isma, otherwise known as Malaysia Muslim Solidarity group, have an issue with a new postage stamp featuring the St George’s Church in Penang. The Strait Times newspaper said it was “another example of Muslims being bullied” since the PH rose to power last May…”

    • Its worth the 10 minutes it takes to watch, they are talking about the how the echo chamber the Dems live in are giving the Republicans a massive advantage if the cowardly Repubs in Congress and in charge of the party have guts enough to use the Dems positions against the Dems.

      • They have to fall, one way or another. Lying to us, stealing elections only goes so far. Past that, you’ve got pitchforks and torches.

  11. Nun, 77, is found ‘beheaded’ in the Central African Republic village in murder feared to be linked to human organ trafficking (dailymail, May 22, 2019)
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7057971/Nun-beheaded-Central-African-Republic-suspected-organ-trafficking.html

    “A French-Spanish nun has been brutally murdered in a village in the Central African Republic where she taught sewing to young girls, the Vatican said Wednesday.

    Sister Ines Nieves Sancho, 77, was found beheaded early Monday according to the Vatican News website, while a bishop in CAR said her throat had been slit.

    ‘According to a local member of parliament, the murder could be linked to trafficking in human organs,’ the site adds.

    Village MP, Jean Marque Djokou said that the beheading is likely to be for human organ trafficking because it took place in Nola, a village known for murder recurrences and cases of organ trafficking…”

  12. UN ‘Human Rights Experts’ Demand Italy Reopen Ports, Slash Immigration Controls (breitbart, May 22, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/22/un-experts-demand-italy-open-borders/

    “Only open borders policies can prevent human trafficking, UN ‘human rights experts’ have said, ordering Italy to reopen the country’s ports to boatloads of illegal immigrants.

    The Italian foreign ministry received a letter signed by six Special Rapporteurs of the UN Human Rights Council urging populist interior minister Matteo Salvini to end his blockade policy on migrant search-and-rescue boats and for Italian lawmakers to block the League leader’s proposals to fine NGOs €5,500 (£4,800/$6,100) for each immigrant they bring to Europe.

    Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN secretary general Antonio Guterres, commented on the row over Italy’s ports to say the international body did “not want to interfere in Italian law, but Guterres’ message is that international standards on the protection of refugees must be respected”.

    Speaking at a press briefing Monday, Dujarric stressed that “refugees and migrants must be treated with dignity and respect for their human rights”, adding that the letter to Italy was “sent by figures who play an important role but are independent from the UN”.

    The letter, which was received by foreign affairs minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi, demanded authorities in Italy “stop endangering the lives of migrants … by invoking the fight against traffickers”, stating that “the right to life” should always be prioritised over immigration controls.

    The Italian authorities’ assertion that the blockade punishes criminal smuggling gangs is “misleading and is not in line with both general international law and international human rights law”, according to the UN Special Rapporteurs, who claimed that “instead, restrictive migration policies contribute to exacerbating migrants’ vulnerabilities and only serve to increase trafficking in persons.”

    Statistics show there has been a sharp drop in the number of deaths in the Mediterranean since Salvini made it much more difficult for NGOs to operate a ‘taxi service’ for migrants seeking to reach Europe from Libya….”

  13. “Enemies Within Series: Clare Lopez – Turkey NATO Ally No More” Sharis Crime Stoppers – Published on May 22, 2019

  14. Trump Immigration Plan “Good For America”; Voter Fraud “Prevalent”—Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

  15. Momentum grows to create ‘Do Not Track’ registry

    Legislation to stop tech companies from tracking users online is finding new momentum as Congress seeks to crack down on big tech’s privacy practices.

    On Tuesday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) unveiled a “Do Not Track” bill with tough penalties for companies who break its protections, reviving a debate over whether users should be allowed to opt out of the tracking and data collection that comprise the core of many top tech companies’ business models.

    Efforts to create a Do Not Track registry have hit roadblocks for more than a decade, but consumer advocates and tech industry critics say Hawley’s bill could find better traction amid a larger backlash against tech behemoths including Google, Facebook and Amazon.

    https://thehill.com/policy/technology/444919-momentum-grows-to-create-do-not-track-registry

  16. Leading Eurocrat Guy Verhofstadt Admits EU Wants an ‘Empire’ (breitbart, May 22, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/22/leading-eurocrat-guy-verhofstadt-admits-eu-wants-empire/

    “Leader of the left-progressive group in the European Parliament Guy Verhofstadt has said that in order to compete with the rest of the world, the European Union must become an “empire.”

    The leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe (ALDE) told CNN that proposals by European populist-patriots to reform the EU and devolve power from Brussels back to the nation-state would mean that the bloc “will die inside.”

    “The world is developing into one not of nation states, but of empires. China is an empire. India is an empire. The US is an empire. We need to create a European Union that is capable of defending our interests,” Mr Verhofstadt stated during the interview, speaking to the leftist American news network in what was described as his “spacious” Brussels office.

    Mr Verhofstadt, who is also the European Parliament’s Brexit Coordinator, is an avid supporter of greater federalisation of the European Union.

    During a Euronews Raw Politics panel last week, the former prime minister of Belgium compared a proposed United States of Europe to the United States of America, saying: “The United States of Europe is a way to organise a common action on the European level by recognising, by guaranteeing the autonomy of the member states.”

    Other Eurocrats have also voiced support for a United States of Europe, including former president of the European Parliament and German socialist politician Martin Schulz who called for its formation by 2025.

    While a number of prominent European politicians have voiced their support for other measures of greater centralisation of power and federalisation, including President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker who wants an EU army by 2025; the progressive President of France Emmanuel Macron who proposed full monetary union with a common EU budget, a finance ministry, and an EU public prosecutor to protect the Single Market from abuses; and German Chancellor Angela Merkel who urged the bloc to adopt a common migration policy.

    Eurocrats are panicking that this week’s elections will result in a wave of patriot-nationalists, populists, and eurosceptics taking seats in the European Parliament, disrupting their plans for a Europe of Ever Closer Union.

    Speaking during a rally headed by several populist leaders from across the continent earlier this month, French political firebrand Marine Le Pen predicted the end of the European Union as it is currently formed, heralding instead “a new European harmony” of sovereign European nations “joining forces to offer 500 million Europeans a new framework for cooperation, a new project and a new potential for the future.””

  17. Muslim Parents Pelt LGBT Activists with Eggs in Row over ‘Equality Lessons’ (breitbart, May 22, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/22/muslim-parents-pelt-lgbt-activists-eggs-row-equality-lessons/

    “Police are investigating claims that LGBT activists were harassed, intimidated, and pelted with eggs outside a primary school in Birmingham where a row has blown up between the activists, and Muslim parents over the teaching of LGBT issues to children.

    Officers are currently looking into three reports of assault and two of criminal damage after the parents and protesters clashed with the LGBT activists who were placing banners reading, “Love is the answer” and rainbow flags on the school gates.

    The group of LGBT activists, which consisted of 12 women and one man, said they were harassed and intimidated by the parents and anti-LGBT protesters.

    One woman said she was called a vandal for placing the flags and banners on the school gates and a mobile phone recording reportedly hears one of the parents say: “The people want to come to our area and cause anarchy. I have to hold all the lads back because everyone is becoming very volatile.”

    Honor Bridgman, one of the LGBT activists, said: “We have stood by and observed these protests for weeks. We felt we wanted to do something, in a loving way. We have consciously not organised counterprotests as we feel that would make matters worse.”

    The school, Anderton Park primary, is at the centre of a standoff between LGBT activists and predominantly Muslim parents over the teaching of issues such as gay relationships and gender identity at the school. Protesters claim that up to 600 children were withdrawn from classes by their parents over the decision.

    The attack on the LGBT activists follows reports that the headteacher of Anderton Park, Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, had received threatening letters and phone calls from protesters and parents. Ms Hewitt-Clarkson described the protests as “very loud” and said, “it’s very aggressive, it’s tiresome”.

    The organiser of the anti-LGBT protests, Shakeel Afsar, who does not have children at the school, was confronted by Labour MP Jess Phillips on Monday.

    Mr Afsar said to Ms Phillips: “How come you haven’t been here, and how come you haven’t been supporting the 300 parents who have been protesting here for the last four weeks? Where have you been?”

    Ms Phillips replied: “I don’t agree with the protest. I don’t agree that you get to pick and choose which equality you can and can’t have.”

    She went on to say that “our equality laws protect us all. I want them to protect you, and actually I want to protect you, and actually, I want to protect the Muslim community.”

    The dispute at Anderton Park follows a similar dispute at Parkfield Community School, also in Birmingham, in which a programme called ‘No Outsiders’ was introduced to teach LGBT equality alongside existing sex and relationship education.

    At Parkfield, the course was put on hold during Ramadan out of deference to the Muslim parents but has been urged by many to continue.”

  18. Liberal ‘civility’ alert: Beer company advocates smashing people over the head with bricks
    By Joe Newby May 21, 2019

    On Monday, the Chorlton Brewing Company, based in Manchester, England, advocated hitting “fascists” — a term reserved for anyone who is not a flaming left-wing communist — over the head with bricks.

    “Note to our customers: please don’t throw our beer over fascists. Hit them over the head with a brick as is traditional,” the company wrote on Twitter, apparently in response to news that someone hurled a milkshake at Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage.

    Note to our customers: please don’t throw our beer over fascists. Hit them over the head with a brick as is traditional. ??? https://t.co/yWPtHPQW2L

    — Chorlton Brewing Co (@ChorltonBrew) May 21, 2019

    • Richard: Be sure and read the entire article, it is informative and scary. This August 5, 2017 article is a warning to the left, a call to arms to the Special Operater community and to others who took an oath to pretect the Constitution.

      Former Navy SEAL Craig ‘Sawman’ Sawyer warns of ‘gruesome massacre’ if Trump removed from office

      In a Facebook post published Friday, Craig “Sawman” Sawyer, a Marine veteran, former Navy SEAL, sniper, combat instructor and the owner of Tactical Insider, warned of a “gruesome massacre” if President Trump is removed from office.

      “I’m hearing serious rumblings of a hostile, illegal coup against our democratically elected President by seditious, deep-state subversives funded by Soros & other globalists. Very disturbing,” he wrote, adding:

      Patriots, this would be nothing less than an act of war against the American people. It would be the removal of our boldest defender & last possibility of maintaining our protective Constitution. Under the boot of globalists, life as we know it, would immediately decline to the model that suits the globalist interest – Marxist/Socialist/Communist. They get complete control, you get zero. Freedom, Gone! Liberty, Gone! This agenda is evil and simply cannot be allowed, at ANY cost.

      Like ALL military, law enforcement and government officials, I took an oath to defend our Constitution against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic. By abandoning the rule of law and conducting a coup against the President & policies WE THE PEOPLE elected, they have made themselves enemies of the United States.

      After observing that all patriots, regardless of position, have a duty to protect the Constitution, Sawyer minced no words detailing what he believes would happen to those involved in Trump’s removal and he explained why:

      https://conservativefiringline.com/former-navy-seal-craig-sawman-sawyer-warns-gruesome-massacre-trump-removed-office/

      Richard: unless the Special Operator community is better organized then I think they won’t have the operational intelligence to end the war as fast as he says it will. It will be a massacre but not as quick or as clean as he is predicting.

    • Richard: Another old must read article. I find it interesting that Liberty Unyielding is referring back to these articles at this point in time. Are things getting more serious then I though.

      Do liberals really want a second bloody civil war over Donald Trump?
      By
      Joe Newby –
      November 12, 2016

      Do liberals really want a second bloody civil war? On Tuesday, Republican Donald J. Trump won a historic election to become the 45th President of the United States. Liberals — who ironically castigated Trump for saying he may not accept the result of the election — went on a rampage across the country, unable and unwilling to accept the fact that he won.

      Over three million people, including a number of Hollywood celebrities, have signed a petition asking the Electoral College to overturn the election and install Democrat Hillary Clinton as President.

      And as we have reported:

      Liberal thugs beat and hospitalized a man’s dog over Donald Trump.
      Liberals flooded Twitter with calls to murder Trump and his supporters.
      A high school girl was beaten for supporting Trump.
      A writer with the left-wing Guardian advocated Trump’s assassination.
      A leader of the Council on American Islamic Relations advocated overthrowing the government.
      A protester told CNN that people “have to die” over Trump’s victory.
      Measures to secede have been put forward in California and Oregon.

      And those are just some of the incidents we’ve reported. There’s many more.

      Trending: Beer company advocates hitting people over the head with bricks

      The media — which has helped gin up the hate — would have us believe all this is organic, but is it, really?

      Peter Hasson reported at the Daily Caller:

      https://conservativefiringline.com/liberals-really-want-second-bloody-civil-war-donald-trump/

    • URL for the article, sorry

      https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/05/21/liberal-civility-alert-beer-company-advocates-smashing-people-over-the-head-with-bricks/

      Richard: As I said I find the timing of this article that refers back to much older articles interesting, Have the tensions in the Big Cities gotten to the point where the staff at Liberty Unyielding thinks that a war warning is necessary?

      From that I am seeing things won’t go kinetic until some time next year but I will admit I don’t have the sources that J.E. Dyer and her writers do.

      • I suspect she’s not buying into to all the stuff LU is linking to these days. Some good older pieces, but lots of clickbait’s making its way onto the site. I have to block more advertising each time I visit.

        She’s still posting as, “Jennifer, Optimistic Conservative” on reputable Mideast military blogs. From what I see, she’s committed to working the system, tracking the truth and rooting out the lies.

        • “Some good older pieces, but lots of clickbait’s making its way onto the site. I have to block more advertising each time I visit.”

          Well, you can thank Social Media for this latest conspiracy theory of mine, those bastards!

          What’s happening is, these shits are loading Conservative sites with well-known and tiresome clickbait to chase away viewers who are at least savvy enough to boycott most of the useless sites which run that trash. The presence of such obvious spam also lowers the credibility of those pages.

          By complete and total accident (of course!), this is further depressing visitor traffic (and subsequent popularity) to those dissenting websites. I believe that what we’re seeing is merely another form of “shadow” censoring.

  19. German far right cancels election party after venue threats (abcnews, May 22, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/german-cancels-election-party-venue-threats-63199537

    “The far-right Alternative for Germany party is canceling a planned election-night party in Berlin after staff at the venue received threats from political rivals.

    In a statement Wednesday, the party’s top candidate for the upcoming European Parliament elections, Joerg Meuthen, said the landlady of the venue had been subjected to “aggressive telephone terror” in recent days.

    Postings on various websites had called for an “anti-fascist demonstration” against the event.

    Alternative for Germany claims its party members and offices have been subject to increasing attacks by far-left extremists in recent months.”

  20. Suicide car bomb kills at least 9 in Somalia’s capital (abcnews, May 22, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/suicide-car-bomb-kills-somalias-capital-mogadishu-63198470

    “Islamic extremists exploded a suicide car bomb and killed at least nine people, including Somalia’s former foreign minister, near the presidential palace in the capital on Wednesday, police said.

    Former foreign minister Hussein Elabe Fahiye, who was an advisor to the current president, was among those killed in the blast. Capt. Mohamed Hussein told The Associated Press another 13 people were wounded and most of the casualties were soldiers.

    The Somalia-based extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the blast in Mogadishu, saying it targeted vehicles carrying government officials…”

  21. Germany deports teenage Afghan convicted in assaults (abcnews, May 22, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/germany-deports-teenage-afghan-convicted-assaults-63197034

    “Germany has deported an 18-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker who was recently convicted over a string of assaults that prompted a public outcry.

    Authorities in the southern state of Bavaria said Wednesday the teenager was flown to Kabul together with 23 countrymen whose asylum bids had also been rejected.

    The swift deportation reflects Germany’s lowered tolerance for migrants who commit crimes.

    The Afghan, whose name wasn’t released for privacy reasons, received a six-month suspended sentence earlier this month for being part of a group responsible for a series of drunken assaults in Amberg in December in which 15 people were hurt.

    Two other Afghans and an Iranian were also convicted over the assaults. It wasn’t immediately clear whether those men, too, were being deported.”

      • the gateway pundit – REPORT: Trump Walked into Room with Pelosi and Schumer, BLASTED THEM, Cancelled Mtg on the Spot and Walked Out!

        President Trump spoke with reporters on Wednesday morning following his meeting with Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.

        This was also after Pelosi told reporters earlier that President Trump was involved in a “cover-up.”

        President Trump left the meetings and held an impromptu press conference with the liberal White House press corps.

        President Trump told reporters, “I don’t do cover-ups.”

        Trump again told reporters there was “no collusion” and “obstruction.”

        According to the Number 2 Democrat in the US Senate, Dick Durbin, the president walked into the room with Pelosi and Schumer, blasted them, cancelled the meeting on the spot and walked out!

        It was a short meeting!

        […]

        https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/report-trump-walked-into-room-with-pelosi-and-schumer-blasted-them-cancelled-mtg-on-the-spot-and-walked-out/

    • Pelosi, Schumer hold press conference after Trump meeting

      After President Trump held a last-minute press conference denouncing Speaker Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Schumer, they are now calling their own press conference to tell the media their side of the fallout.

    • Schiff says DOJ will turn over Russia probe docs

      The chairman of the House intel committee postponed a meeting to enforce a subpoena against the Justice Dept. after the it agreed to turn over a cache of documents related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

    • VOA Pravda – Trump Returns to ‘Spygate’ to Rally Supporters

      Gearing up towards re-election in 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump and his allies are amplifying claims that President Obama ordered the FBI to spy on his 2016 campaign.

      Last month, Trump renewed calls to “investigate the investigators”, and last week his attorney general launched a review of the decision by the nation’s intelligence agencies to investigate alleged ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.

      White House Correspondent Patsy Widakuswara has this report

  22. MEMRI – Al-Aqsa Mosque Address: Islamic State Would Have Strategy of Jihad to Convert Infidels to Islam

    Palestinian cleric Sheikh Issam Amira said in an address he delivered at the Al-Aqsa Mosque that an Islamic state would have a strategy that would consist of politicians and a powerful media apparatus for the purposes of “persuading infidels to embrace Islam.”

    Sheikh Amira said that the first step would be to “soften” the infidels by calling them to Islam through the Internet, television, propaganda, and media and to show them how to implement Islam until they are “convinced.”

    The second stage, Amira said, would be to send “seasoned politicians” and Islamic scholars to have “long discussions” with the infidels.

    Amira then said that if the infidels are “bullheaded” and “constitute a valuable prize,” then the Caliph would give the “code word” – which Amira said would be “seek Allah’s help and fight them” – and the Islamic armies would set out with missiles and fighter jets in order to turn the stubborn infidels into a “lesson for the entire world.”

    The video was uploaded to the Internet on May 19, 2019.

  23. Germany charges woman over IS ties, suicide belt (abcnews, May 22, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/germany-charges-woman-ties-suicide-belt-63195259

    “Prosecutors say they have filed charges against a German woman accused of belonging to the Islamic State group and attempting to sell a suicide belt online.

    Federal prosecutors said Wednesday that 26-year-old Derya O., whose last name was not given for privacy reasons, left Germany in February 2014 for Syria, where she married an Islamic State fighter.

    They said in a statement that she lived in IS-held territory, living free of charge in buildings where residents had fled. She is accused of receiving training on using automatic weapons and owning a suicide belt, which she tried to sell via an online messenger service.

    Prosecutors said the woman was arrested in November 2018. She is charged with membership in a foreign terrorist organization and violating arms control laws.”

  24. Européennes : Les Macronistes sont inquiet de la haine anti-Macron

    (LCI, 21/05/19, 22h15)

    • europravda – Salvini and Le Pen rally to unite European nationalists in Milan

    • BBC uber-Pravda – The Rise of the Right: Populism in Hungary

      A new wave of far-right politics is sweeping across Europe, promising to smash the ruling elite, end migration and shake-up the EU.

      But are these parties fuelling hate?

      The Nine’s Europe Correspondent Jean Mackenzie travels across the continent, to find out why these movements are surging – meeting the people celebrating their rise and those fighting to stop them.

      In the last of this three part series we’re in Hungary; the country many far-right parties look up to.

      Led by the ardent-nationalist Viktor Orban for nearly a decade, this is populism in practice.

      + comments on the YT page

    • EL PAÍS – Antinmigración y control de medios en Hungría

      ( 8 min 29 ) (narrated in English )

    • europravda – Eurostars set their sights on Brussels

      Actors, singers and weather presenters are all among the candidates hoping to turn down glamour for a life in politics.

      We look at some of the famous faces on the European elections campaign trail, you might recognise a few from stage and screen.…

    • VOA Pravda – Denmark’s ‘Guantanamo Bay’ Fuels Migrant Debate in Europe

      Citizens of the European Union vote later this week to choose their next MEPs or Members of the European Parliament – who will shape the course of the EU over the next five years.

      In one of the most hotly contested campaigns so far, migration and identity are playing a big role.

      In Denmark, the right-wing government has launched a crackdown on migration – and as Henry Ridgwell reports, its latest plans on dealing with foreign criminals have caused deep controversy.

    • europravda- Chemnitz: How the East German city became known as a hot bed for extremism

      ( 20 min )

      Insiders looks at how the once-mighty industrial city that suffered during the transition from communism became known as a hub for far-right activity

  25. DAILY MAIL – Jihadi Jack’s parents ‘ignored his friend’s pleas to confiscate his passport after he was radicalised at a local mosque – only for him to travel to Syria via a BA flight paid for by his mother’

    John Letts and Sally Lane allegedly sent or tried to send £1,723 to son Jack Letts
    It is alleged they had cause to suspect cash might be used for terrorist purposes
    The parents, from Oxford, previously denied three charges of funding terrorism
    Trial being heard at the Old Bailey today and is expected to last up to four week

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7057535/Parents-Muslim-convert-Jihadi-Jack-arrive-court-face-terror-trial.html

  26. DAILY MAIL -Saudi Arabia ‘will execute three scholars including Islamic “reformist” on “terror charges” after Ramadan’

    Salman al-Awda, Awad Al-Qarni and Ali al-Omari may face capital punishment
    They were held in 2017 during a ‘wave of arrests’ targeting writers and activists
    Amnesty International said Saudi prosecutors had requested the death penalty
    However one lobby group said reports of their impending execution were false

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7057553/Saudi-Arabia-execute-three-scholars-including-Islamic-reformist-Ramadan.html

  27. Turkish Radio & Television – TRT – Ramadan Tacos: Tacos served for those breaking fasts in US

    In southern California, there’s a non-profit Latino organisation that’s promoting unity with Muslims. And it’s doing it with tacos.

  28. Richard: Read the entire article, my take below

    Spygate watch: The ‘purge’ of Italian intel, and Obama’s odd meet-and-greet
    By J.E. Dyer May 22, 2019

    Last week, George Papadopoulos and his Italian wife, Simona Mangiante, alerted social media users to reporting in Italian press that the Giuseppe Conte government had abruptly asked for resignations from four top national intelligence officials. (Their tweets refer to six, but the Italian reporting indicates that two of the references are to pre-existing vacancies. With the four requested resignations, the number of vacant positions at the top would grow from two to six.)

    George Papadopoulos @GeorgePapa19

    The Italian prime minister has suddenly requested resignations from 6 deputy directors of Italian intelligence agencies: DIS, AISI and AISE. This was all after I outed Mifsud in Rome and the president called the Italian prime minister. Italy has flipped and are giving up Brennan.

    Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos @simonamangiante

    Italian Socialist Senator ask to PM to withdraw the resignation ‘s request of 6 deputy directors of italian secret services, concerned by the “reputation of Italian intelligence “. Why the “socialists “ are so concerned?? @GiuseppeConteIT go ahead! #usa is our ally. #Clarity
    Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos @simonamangiante

    Servizi segreti, Pd a Conte: “Governo revochi richiesta dimissioni” https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2019/05/15/news/servizi_segreti_interrogazione_zanda_a_conte_governo_revochi_richiesta_dimissioni_-226361041/ … via @repubblica Italian prime minister @GiuseppeConteIT has requested resignations from 6 deputy directors of Italian intelligence agencies. Italian gov concerned by diplomatic scandal

    Richard: The information laid out in the article explains why the “civil war warning” in the LU articles I posted above. As the people who have been following the “Spygate” scandal and listening to Dan Bongino know there was UK intelligence and possible UK Government involvement in the Soft Coup’s attempt to frame Donald Trump and remove him from office.

    Now there is evidence coming out that there was Italian Intelligence, Italian government and a left wing Italian think tank with massive political power and ties to the world wide globalist movement including ties to both the Obama Crime Faminly but also to the Clinton Crime Family. With some evidence of clise ties between the Think Tank and Obama, ties that are going to cause world wide ripples (if not tital waves) when the investigations into the Mueller Gang’s activities and the Hillary email investigations are finished and criminal referrals are made public. This new information is interesting and the ties to the world globalist movement are many and intertwined in ways that are like the incestuous ties of the radical leftist movements in the US.

    This new development will probably require at least one and possibly two new files to store the data in.

    • J.E. together with others, like Andrew McCarthy and Lee Smith, are following the evidence, putting the pieces together. They’re finding connections no one would’ve guessed.
      As Perfectchild says, “It writes itself.”

      This was good:
      The light shed on Link Campus’s role with the Italian government suggests that sometimes the think-tankers and academic hosts are mainly setting up place cards and putting out water bottles – but sometimes the benign generic-ness of that role is a convenient screen for other things.

      Many of these think-tanks and pockets within academe are polluted. 0’s speech-writer spoke of “The Blob”. Cynical pos knew how easily it could be shaped to the purposes of the evil cabal.

  29. Russian Disinformation Remains Active
    In cahoots with Iran.
    May 22, 2019
    Michael Ledeen

    It’s entirely appropriate that, as Vladimir Bukovsky’s Judgment in Moscow is finally published in English, I am again attacked in the Russian press for “masterminding” a big war between the United States and Iran. The accusation is in Zavtra, and could have been written by the late Lyndon Larouche, whose loony writings are used in Zavtra. It “quotes” a letter they say I wrote to John Bolton in 2018 (I don’t remember any such letter) and credits me for having been a supporter of the “Arab Spring.”

    It’s right out of an old KGB playbook, even to repeating old libels about my anticommunist writings in and about Italy when the Italian Communist Party was the largest outside the Soviet Union, and seemed on the verge of winning a national election and forming a new government.

    If you were around during the Cold War, when I worked with Bukovsky and other Soviet dissidents to bring the Soviet Empire to an end, you’d perhaps remember when a leading Russian publication called me “an enemy of the Soviet people.” This new Russian attack is a replay of those old KGB libels in both Iran and Russia. The claim that I am a “mastermind” of Iranian opposition to the Khamenei regime has often been made in Iranian courts, and broadcast on Iranian regime television.

    It is all nonsense. I only wish I were in constant contact with our policy makers, but I’m not. The Russians, however, are still trying to present my calls for democratic revolution in Iran as part of a long-standing plot by American anticommunist intellectuals. That the Iranian regime, notoriously close to Russian intelligence, repeats the lies shouldn’t surprise anyone.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273817/russian-disinformation-remains-active-michael-ledeen

  30. If Only Brennan Trusted Trump Like He Trusts Raul Castro
    Ex-CIA chief whitewashes terror-sponsoring, drug-running Castro regime.
    May 22, 2019
    Humberto Fontova

    “Make no mistake about it, John Brennan is the mastermind of this conspiracy to frame Donald Trump and to steal his presidency from him after he was elected.” (Former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova.)

    “Trump’s claim of no collusion is hogwash.” (Former CIA director John Brennan)

    “Cuba is not a threat to the United States…They don’t implicate our national security in any way…The government of Cuba has not provided any support for international terrorism during the preceding six-month period; and the government of Cuba has provided assurances that it will not support acts of international terrorism in the future.” (President Obama after meeting with Raul Castro in Panama and recommending that Stalinist Cuba be removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, April 14th, 2015.)

    Of course, if former U.S. attorney Joe DiGenova is right, “trust,” or lack thereof, technically speaking, had nothing to do with the whole operation against Trump.

    At any rate, John Brennan–as head of the CIA at the time, and who had been an intimate national security advisor to Barack Obama since his 2008 campaign—presumably signed-off on (and maybe even encouraged) Obama’s decision to officially whitewash and legitimize the terror-sponsoring, drug-running Castro regime, in preparation for its planned windfall of U.S. taxpayer dollars (i.e. “diplomatic recognition”). Never mind that this whitewash required taking one of modern history’s most infamous liars at his word.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273819/if-only-brennan-trusted-trump-he-trusts-raul-humberto-fontova

  31. President Trump Tells Reporters After Pelosi’s Attacks: “I Don’t Do Cover-Ups

  32. Trump Says ‘No Way’ to Huawei | Trade War Tariffs | China Uncensored

  33. Trump Tax Returns: Mnuchin Holds His Ground as Dem Lawmaker Grills Him About Confidential Draft IRS Memo Leaked to WaPo (VIDEO)

    teve Mnuchin said on Wednesday that the Treasury is looking into who penned and leaked the confidential draft IRS memo that found Trump must provide his tax returns to Congress unless executive privilege is asserted.

    A confidential IRS draft memo that was leaked to the Washington Post and published Tuesday evening, says President Trump must turn over his tax documents to Congress… unless he invokes executive privilege.

    A copy of the 10-page memo, which was obtained by the Washington Post, says the disclosure of tax returns to the committee “is mandatory, requiring the Secretary to disclose returns, and return information, requested by the tax-writing Chairs.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/trump-tax-returns-mnuchin-holds-his-ground-as-dem-lawmaker-grills-him-about-confidential-draft-irs-memo-leaked-to-wapo-video/?utm_source=TGPemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:553016019&utm_campaign=Auto%20Send%20from%20The%20Gateway%20Pundit%20on%20May%2022,%202019%20at%2011:06:06%20AM

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1131189635420512256

    • Bezos owns the Cloud that owns the WaPo. And leases Cloud[s] to the U.S. govt, including the CIA and the IRS.
      No collusion, none, uh-uh, no-no.

  34. Fox News Hosts Hit Back At Buttigieg After Being Slammed At His Townhall: Laura Lands Knockout Blow [VIDEO]

    https://viralbuzz247.com/fox-news-hosts-hit-back-at-buttigieg-after-being-slammed-at-his-townhall-laura-lands-knockout-blow-video/

    The prime-time hosts of Fox News followed the playbook of President Donald Trump in responding to criticism from Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg during his Sunday night town hall on their network: hit back ten times as hard.