Contributor’s links for June 20, 2019

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About Eeyore

Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

136 Replies to “Contributor’s links for June 20, 2019”

    • The same companies that sold ankle and wrist locks to slave owners, anywhere slavery was permitted.

      The desire for wealth. To be above the way of the world and not figure out how change it, if you can play the world at it’s own ignorance and stupidity. The trainer shoes for Black status, Mecca, or Torches of Freedom for the ladies to smoke and poke.

      To create the herd. There, is a mass market to be able to predict and milk. Religion, Socialism, Genderism, all mapped by the Soros Equation.

      Tongue-guards anyone for going out into the camera’d, microphone and 5g-mapped public square?

      • Torches of Freedom

        Thank you, PC. I’ll permit myself to presume that you’ve watched Century of the Self. The nephew of Sigmund Freud, Edward Bernays fundamentally altered all future templates for corporate public relations. This was done in ways that facilitated every worst aspect of conspicuous consumption, “buy the car, get the girl”, suggestive advertising and, it’s a safe bet, subliminal programming, too.

        His Easter Sunday Parade of 1929, with its “Torches of Freedom” ploy, was a classic false flag operation that swaddled tobacco-producer greed (i.e., tapping the virgin market for female smokers) in a pretense of women being at liberty to smoke in public.

        This is the advertising paradigm shift that made possible Ron Popiel’s buy & break trash, along with planned obsolescence, and every other mass marketing swindle imaginable. Again, thank you for keeping this meme alive. Far too few have the slightest comprehension of its meaning.

        • Communism works by removing and rewriting herstory.

          Islam by restating that at the beginning of life on Earth Abdul and Eid were reverts, as were all their offspring.

          Genderism is in the headspace and won’t come out unless you pleasure it.

          Bernays therefore, would have a field day advertising to these gonads to reward him handsomely.

          • Bernays therefore, would have a field day advertising to these gonads to reward him handsomely.

            In these Internet days, with the mass media at full throttle (both gas and choke = choking gas), Bernays would have been this world’s first trillionaire.

            Using sex to sell Ronco turnip twaddlers would have unveiled more new angles than Salome’s dance.

    • elephant skin “swimsuit’

      That must be like elephant foreskin luggage. Show it a dirty magazine and load it up!

  1. In the street: Bearded man brutally stabs German woman (VIDEO)+++
    A “blonde German woman” was seriously injured in Moroccan Tangier on Saturday, 15 June. The perpetrator, known to the woman, had rammed a knife into the woman’s neck in the street. Whether the perpetrator could be caught is not known at the moment.The German woman, aged about 50, is said to have lived with the alleged perpetrator and another man. She would have got into an argument with the perpetrator in the street. He had tried to steal her handbag and then stabbed her. Social media circulated a video showing a blonde woman lying motionless on the ground. Eyewitnesses reported that a bearded man had stabbed her in the neck.German media reported that the German Foreign Office had not responded to a request from the German Press Agency (DPA). Neither the name nor the exact origin of the victim have been clarified. There is also no further information on the condition of the woman, who was admitted to hospital with life-threatening injuries. The perpetrator is wanted.
    Read more:
    https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/06/in-street-bearded-man-brutally-stabs.html

    • Ah, the tcharmil are at it again. Hadn’t seen any of their handywork the last few weeks, I was starting to worry.

      She might be one of those 50yo women who go looking for love in Africa, the ME, Caribbean, it’s not uncommon among older German women. Still, she must be pretty desperate to try Morocco of all places. Ignorance / media brainwashing may play a part too, it’s tragic really.

    • The German woman, aged about 50, is said to have lived with the alleged perpetrator and another man.

      Another bottom feeder takes the hook. Pauvre petite.

    • I was waiting for Sassy to say it, but I’ll go ahead:
      NO sympathy for these impulsive, stupid, trashy women.
      (Sassy might not say trashy. It’s where I’m coming from).

  2. Sweden Democrats Move to Ban Speaking Foreign Languages at School for ‘Faster Integration’ (sputniknews, Jun 20, 2019)
    https://sputniknews.com/europe/201906201075974466-sweden-school-foreign-languages-ban-integration/

    “To avoid exclusion and misunderstanding, Sweden’s largest right-wing party has suggested that only Swedish should be used during lessons and breaks in school.

    The right-wing Sweden Democrats in the town of Skurup have moved to ban Arabic and other foreign languages in the local schools.

    The Sweden Democrats’ prohibition proposal is to be introduced from pre-school through high school. Exceptions should only be made for regular language lessons and Sweden’s official so-called minority languages, which are Finnish, Yiddish, Romani as well as Sami and Meänkieli, the two Finnish-Ugric languages spoken in the north of the country.

    If they have their way, Swedish will become the only language spoken during lessons and breaks. At present, numerous foreign languages are spoken at the county’s schools, which, according to the Sweden Democrats breeds exclusion and misunderstanding.

    “To dare to demand that only Swedish is spoken in our schools is to take responsibility for the school, something that unfortunately has been lacking for a long time. Therefore, we are convinced that it Swedish should normally be used as language of conversation in corridors and classrooms, for faster integration into Swedish society,” the party said, as quoted by the local newspaper Lokaltidningen.

    According to the Sweden Democrats, this measure will help the newcomers adapt to Swedish society.

    “Many new arrivals have come to our municipality and many of them cannot speak Swedish at all. The key to entering Swedish society is the language. To get a decent job, you should read newspapers, take part in media, then you have to speak Swedish to get a decent job,” Lars Nyström, member of the Skurup City Council and Sweden Democrats group leader, told Expressen. According to him, immigrants are free speak their own languages when they go home.

    For historic reasons, Finnish was for centuries Sweden’s second most widely-spoken language, but was estimated to have been surpassed by Arabic at some point in 2018. This shift is largely due to an influx of asylum seekers from the Arabic-speaking countries amid the European migrant crisis. In 2015 alone, Sweden took in 163,000 asylum seekers, most of them from Arabic-speaking Muslim countries.

    Other prominent languages spoken in Sweden are, according to linguist Mikael Parkvall, BCMS (Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian) with over 130,000 speakers, as well as Kurdish, Polish and Persian (with over 70,000 each).”

  3. Priest Praises Salvini on Border Policy and Defence of Christian Identity (breitbart, Jun 20, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/06/20/priest-praises-salvini-border-policy-defence-christian-identity/

    “Italian priest Michele Crociata, an expert scholar of Islam, has praised populist interior minister Matteo Salvini for protecting Italy’s borders and for being public about his Christian faith.

    While many priests and bishops have come out against Salvini and his anti-mass migration policies, Monsignor Crociata stated that he is more interested in fighting Satan than Salvini in an interview with Roman Catholic website La Fede Quotidiana.

    ” I remain of the idea that the Church should not make politics in a party sense but remain out of contention. Today, on the contrary, it seems to be going in the opposite direction. The task of the Church is the salvation of souls and evangelisation,” Crociata said.

    Some members of the clergy have slammed Salvini for displaying a rosary in public and talking about his Christian faith, but Monsignor Crociata stated: “Christian signs are beautiful both in private and in public. We have almost lost our Christian identity and if anyone remembers us, so be it.”

    “Many are disturbed by the rosary in public, but I have not heard so many protests about the hammer and sickle donated and shown to the Pope by a head of state,” he added, referring to the time Bolivian president Evo Morales gifted the Pontiff with a hammer and sickle crucifix in 2015.

    On Salvini’s anti-mass migration policies, Crociata was also supportive saying: “A sensible politician must guarantee the security of the nation and control of the situation,” he said, agreeing with those who say that the more migrants set sail for Europe, the more will run into trouble and drown — “the important thing is not to let them sail.”

    Other priests have taken a radically different view of Salvini’s policies including Father Alex Zanotelli who referred to the League leader as the “antichrist” during a sermon last year at the Vatican.

    Despite the protests from other members of the Church, Salvini’s anti-mass migration policies have radically reduced the number of incoming migrants by over 90 per cent and have also led to fewer drowning deaths in the Mediterranean.”

  4. YouTube Blacklists Spain’s Populist ‘Vox’ Political Party (breitbart, Jun 20, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/06/19/youtube-blacklists-spains-populist-vox-political-party/

    “YouTube has blacklisted the channel of Spain’s populist Vox Party, in a move that will likely exacerbate claims that Google is actively suppressing right-leaning and conservative content.

    “YouTube has deleted Vox’s entire channel without explanation,” the party wrote on Twitter. “The decision to remove the channel is a serious attack on the freedom of expression and dissemination of a political party. We demand an explanation from YouTube and that the account is restored as soon as possible.”

    Vox later revealed that YouTube had taken the decision on the grounds that left-wing activists had lodged complaints of copyright infringement.

    “YouTube has informed us that the disabling of the VOX channel is due to the complaint made by three people who believe that we have used the content of theirs,” they explained. “The three people who have denounced us are left-wing activists… We have found that other political parties and progressive channels use the same audiovisual resources without being denounced for it.”

    The Vox party later used the blacklisting to accuse YouTube of bowing to the demands of left-wing activists, a trend extensively documented by Breitbart News and other conservative news sources.

    “We take advantage of this fact to show our outrage at the arbitrary actions of Twitter, Facebook and Google; hypersensitive to the requests of activists of totalitarian Marxism and the establishment,” they continued. “We show our support to all those who, like us, have been affected by these arbitrary actions by those responsible for these social networks in recent months.”

    The move provides fresh evidence of political meddling on behalf of Google and other major Silicon Valley firms. In April’s general election, the Vox Party won 24 seats in the Spanish parliament, obtaining around 10 percent of the nationwide vote. The party also recently returned three MEP’s in last month’s European Parliamentary Elections.

    YouTube did not respond to Breitbart News’s request for comment.”

  5. Hungary: Human traffickers get life sentences for 71 deaths (abcnews, Jun 20, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/hungary-human-traffickers-life-sentences-71-deaths-63829324

    “A Hungarian court has extended the prison sentences of four human traffickers convicted last year for their roles in a 2015 in which 71 migrants suffocated in the back of a refrigerated truck found on a highway in Austria.

    According to Thursday’s decision by an appeals court in the southern city of Szeged, an Afghan man and two Bulgarian accomplices were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, while another Bulgarian man may request his release after 30 years in prison. A year ago, all four had been given 25-year sentences for belonging to a criminal organization and committing multiple crimes, including human smuggling and manslaughter.

    Ten other defendants, mostly Bulgarians, were given prison terms ranging between four and 12 years.”

    • Saudi Arabia says Yemen’s rebels fired a rocket at a Saudi desalination plant, but no one was wounded, no damage caused

      Did you hear about the two desalination plants walking in the park?

      One was assaulted.

      T = 00:03:44

      • Another fine example of this site’s video clip cockup.

        The Monty Python clip I just posted (and double checked), is now playing an Epoch Times exposé on organ harvesting.

        Speaking of chopping up people … Muslim Uigyurs being separated from various body parts should come as no surprise to those people who adore cutting off heads, hands, and clits.

        • Haram’s a Bitch.

          Dhimmi, Worker, Rainbow
          Slave-Identitists
          Take the life they only know
          Heads, Hands, Clits.

      • Recently John Cleese said that “All humour is critical”. I have been thinking about that a lot and no, it isn’t. Your joke about assaulted is a great example of a whole category of humour, word plays and so on, that is not critical. Maybe not all that funny but funny enough to disprove the claim.

  6. In Lebanon, Syrian refugees face new pressure to go home (abcnews, Jun 20, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/lebanon-syrian-refugees-face-pressure-home-63827489

    “Lebanese authorities are making their most aggressive campaign yet for Syrian refugees to return home and are taking action to ensure they can’t put down roots.

    Mirroring the rise of anti-migrant sentiment in Europe and around the world, some in Lebanon say that after eight years of war in neighboring Syria they have had enough of the burden of the highest concentration of refugees per capita in the world — 1 million amid a Lebanese population of nearly 5 million — especially at a time when they are facing austerity measures and a weakened economy.

    Anti-refugee sentiment in Lebanon has waxed and waned in the past. It’s been persistent but limited among a public torn by conflicting feelings — resentment over past domination by Syria and worry over the refugees’ impact on their country’s delicate sectarian balance, but also sympathy for the refugees amid memories of their own displacement during Lebanon’s long civil war.

    But this time a rising star in the country’s politics has latched onto the issue. Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil has led the campaign, saying Syrians should return home and using nationalist language, like saying the “genetic distinction” of Lebanese will unite them to confront the refugee issue.

    During one rally organized by Bassil’s party this month — held under the slogan of “Employ a Lebanese” — protesters chanted, “Syria get out,” and some attempted to storm a shop run by a Syrian, sparking a scuffle. Posters have popped up in streets and online calling on residents to report any Syrian working without a permit.

    The tensions point to how a backlash in host countries burdened by long and intractable refugee situations intertwines with local politics at a time when numbers of displaced worldwide have swelled to record levels. The U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday 71 million people are uprooted from their homes as of this year — 26 million of them refugees, double the number the world had 20 years ago.

    “Out of this grim number, Lebanon stands out as the country that has the highest number of refugees per capita,” said Mireille Girard, the UNHCR representative in Lebanon. “It is a huge responsibility that Lebanon is shouldering and the whole world has to show solidarity with the countries that are in the front of refugee flow.”

    Allies of Bassil in the government have begun enforcing laws that were previously rarely implemented, shutting down shops owned by or employing Syrians without permits and ordering the demolition of anything in refugee camps that could be a permanent home.

    The refugees are trying to weather the storm.

    In the town of Arsal, near the Syrian border, where 60,000 refugees live in informal camps set up in the fields, Syrians have been tearing down brick and concrete walls they had built trying to make their shacks of canvas, sheet metal and plastic able to withstand the elements in the mountainous areas that sees harsh winters. The military gave them until July 1 to remove any wall taller than waist high.

    The Syrians said no matter how much authorities squeeze them, they have no choice but to stay.

    “They think a concrete block is what’s keeping us here?” one woman, Um Hassan, said angrily. She said she can’t go back because her sons will be drafted into the military of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The demolition order, she said, left her and her family sleeping without a roof over their head for over a week.

    Most of the Syrians who came to Lebanon since 2011 were impoverished and dispossessed. Despite years of receiving aid, 51 percent of Syrian refugee families survive on less than $3 a day and 88 percent of households are in debt. Of more than 660,000 school-aged Syrians in Lebanon, 54% are not enrolled in formal education and an estimated 40% remain out of any kind of certified schooling.

    Many Lebanese, in turn, complain that — despite $6 billion of foreign aid invested to support Lebanon — the flood of refugees has overwhelmed schools and the already debilitated infrastructure, increased rents and forced Lebanese to compete with cheap Syrian labor. Some are resentful of aid stipends some Syrians receive, pointing out that they don’t pay taxes and often work illegally as well.

    Lebanese face an upcoming year of austerity measures trying to repair the economy. Critics say politicians are using the Syrians as a scapegoat for Lebanon’s worsening economic crisis and endemic corruption.

    “The Lebanese public is frustrated and … wants anything to dump all their anger on. So who is the weakest, the refugee,” said journalist Diana Moukalled.

    Bassil is the leader of the largest Christian party in parliament and the government and the son-in-law of the country’s president. He has been mobilizing a popular base and boosting his credentials as the prime protector of Christians — some believe with the aim of one day replacing his 84-year father in law, President Michel Aoun.

    He has popularized the term “Lebanon above all,” while warning of an “international conspiracy” to settle Syrians in Lebanon. While pushing at home for implementation of laws against refugees, he has lobbied abroad for increased aid to Lebanon and an organized return of refugees.

    He has gained ground in a political sphere divided over refugees and the Syrian war in general.

    “The one who speaks of refugees returning is not a racist or a fascist, and those accusing us of racism either benefit (from the issue) or are conspirators,” he said during a recent conference.

    Bassil’s ally, Hezbollah, has backed Assad’s government in the fight against rebels. His political opponents — including other Christian parties and the main Muslim Sunni party led by Prime Minister Saad Hariri — have sided with Syria’s opposition. Hariri called Bassil’s rhetoric “racist,” and the prime minister and his allied have pushed against his campaign.

    At a recent small rally in Beirut, politicians, activists and Syrians held banners against hate speech. Paula Yacoubian, an independent Armenian Christian politician at the rally, said the campaign to “dehumanize” refugees is irresponsible.

    “This is destructive and, even if it brings someone popularity for now, in the long run it is very harmful, for Lebanon and the Lebanese first of all,” she said.

    Nasser Yassin, a professor of public policy at the American University of Beirut, said he doesn’t believe there will be a widespread public backlash against the refugees. But the rise of similar sentiments around the world makes it harder to challenge.

    “If Europe is actually violating human rights when it comes to pushing people trying to cross the Mediterranean back to the Libyan militias, they will turn a blind eye or (be) silent when the Lebanese government is applying it,” he said.

    The campaign is not simply political rhetoric.

    Local vigilantes recently set fire to three tents in a refugee camp in the eastern town of Deir al-Ahmar, and Syrians there scuffled with the Lebanese firefighters, injuring one. An eviction order followed from the municipality, forcing 400 Syrians to move to a new spot to set up their tents.

    In a possible violation of its international obligations, Lebanon in April deported at least 16 Syrians, including some registered as refugees, after they arrived in Beirut airport. Human Rights Watch and other groups said some of the deported expressed fear of persecution in Syria and were forced to sign “voluntary” repatriation forms, despite Beirut’s commitment not to forcibly return any Syrians.

    Lebanese authorities estimate that over 170,000 Syrians have returned to their country between December 2017 and March 2019, many through government-organized bus trips.

    Aid groups and many Western countries say conditions are not yet right for refugees’ return to Syria, with lack of a political resolution and guarantees for their security.

    In Arsal, Abu Fares, an organizer of the Syrian camp, said the campaign to apply labor and building laws really aims to harass Syrians into returning home. He is campaigning to get an exemption or longer grace period for the disabled or elderly in the camp who can’t do their own demolition.

    A defector from Syria’s police force, Abu Fares said he can’t even fathom a return to Syria without a political settlement, a pardon and new laws. “But if they can’t have us here, just say it and take us out of Lebanon” to another country besides Syria, he said.

    But some have succumbed to pressure. Arsal’s mayor, Bassel al-Hujairi, said nearly 200 Syrians registered to return to Syria after the new orders to bring down the walls.

    Abu Ossama, a 74-year old Syrian and a retired army general, said he put his name on the list.

    “I used to be safe here. It is not anymore,” he said. “God will be my protector.””

    • In Lebanon, Syrian refugees face new pressure to go home

      But not the HALF MILLION PALEOSTINIAN “REFUGEES”.

      I guess those supertankers of UN and multinational money (which exceeds by multiples all other rates of foreign support shown for any other at-risk recipient group) must keep the Lebanese bureaucrats farting through silk fat and sassy.

      Plus, all those Arab gangsters have to be held in abeyance so that Israel can be flooded with genocidal, “right to return” terrorists when the time comes.

  7. Libyan commander marching on Tripoli dismisses negotiations (abcnews, Jun 20, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/libyan-commander-marching-tripoli-dismisses-negotiations-63828799

    “A Libyan commander whose forces are fighting to take the country’s capital of Tripoli from militias allied with a U.N.-backed government based there has dismissed an initiative by its prime minister for negotiations to end the crisis.

    Khalifa Hifter also vowed to press his campaign and rid Tripoli of what he says are “terrorist militias.”

    Hifter spoke on Wednesday to a local news website, almarsad.co. He says “military operations will not stop” until Tripoli is taken.

    In April, Hifter’s self-styled Liberation National Army that’s based in eastern Libya, launched the offensive. The campaign, criticized by the U.N. and aid agencies, has killed hundreds and displaced thousands of civilians.

    It has also raised fears of another bout of violence after the 2011 uprising that toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.”

  8. Turkish court hands down life sentences in coup trial (abcnews, Jun 20, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkish-court-hands-life-sentences-coup-trial-63828241

    “Turkey’s state-run news agency says a court in Ankara has sentenced several people accused of being the ringleaders of the 2016 failed military coup to life terms in prison.

    Anadolu Agency says those sentenced on Thursday include Akin Ozturk, a former air force commander and Ali Yazici, who was President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s military aide. The sentences are still being handed down.

    The suspects were on trial on charges of crimes against the state, leading an armed terror group, attempting to assassinate the president and the deaths of 249 people.

    The trial is considered the main one among several underway in Turkey in relation to the coup attempt that the government says was carried out by followers of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen. The cleric denies involvement.”

  9. ‘Climate Emergency’: Ireland Set to Ban Private Cars While Planning Mass Third World Migration (breitbart, Jun 20, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/06/20/ireland-ban-cars-climate-mass-migration/

    “Drivers will be forced off the roads in Ireland and the population packed into “higher density” cities under a long-awaited climate plan which will ‘revolutionise’ people’s lifestyle and behaviours, according to local media.

    “Nudge” policies such as huge tax hikes, as well as bans and red tape outlined in the plan, will pave the way to a “vibrant” Ireland of zero carbon emissions by 2050 according to the government, which last year committed to boost the country’s 4.7 million-strong population by a further million with mass migration.

    In order to avert a “climate apocalypse”, the government plans to force people “out of private cars because they are the biggest offenders for emissions”, according to transport minister Shane Ross whose proposals — which include banning fossil fuel vehicles from towns and cities nationwide — are posed to cripple ordinary motorists, local media reports.

    Launching the plan in Dublin, leader Leo Varadkar outlined his vision for an Ireland of ‘higher density’ cities consisting of populations whose lifestyles and behaviours have been totally transformed by ‘carrot and stick’ policies outlined in the climate plan.

    “Our approach will be to nudge people and businesses to change behaviour and adapt new technologies through incentives, disincentives, regulations and information,” the globalist prime minister said.

    “We are going to change how electricity is produced and consumed, how our homes and workplaces are heated; the way we travel; the types of vehicles we purchase; and how food is produced.

    “It’s about vibrant, populated city centres, liveable, with excellent amenities and transport as we embrace higher densities.”

    The document, which was unveiled on Tuesday, features more than 180 measures to decarbonise the Irish economy including making private car ownership prohibitively expensive — with petrol and diesel car sales banned by 2030, a date by which it says general carbon tax will be increased from €20 a tonne to “at least” €80.

    In addition, the plans demand that coal and peat-fired power stations are replaced with wind farms and other “green” energy sources in order to meet the requirement that 70 per cent of electricity will be generated from renewables by 2030.

    But plans to dramatically slash carbon emissions by ditching tried and tested energy sources such as coal and nuclear in favour of renewables will necessarily result in a collapse in living standards according to scientists including Cambridge engineering professor Michael Kelly, who has previously explained that such proposals “represent total madness”.

    “In energy terms the current generation of renewable energy technologies alone will not enable a civilised modern society to continue,” he asserted in a peer-reviewed paper published in 2016, pointing out that renewables such as solar, wind, and hydro power supply just seven per cent of electricity needs globally while “the rate at which fossil fuels are growing is seven times that at which the low carbon energies are growing”.

    The Hughes Medal-decorated physicist cautioned: “The call to decarbonise the global economy by 80% by 2050 can now only be described as glib in my opinion, as the underlying analysis shows it is only possible if we wish to see large parts of the population die from starvation, destitution or violence in the absence of enough low-carbon energy to sustain society.”

    • This sounds a lot like the Netherlands, at least some of the policies from the Green Left.

      The Dutch government subsidizes electric cars, and built free charging stations in the large cities. In the medieval centres that is, where only rich people can afford to live. Also, these cars are Teslas, which are pretty expensive too. So millionaires get 25,000 EU in tax payer money for their expensive toys, which they can only use for shopping. Of course, they all have 2nd and 3rd cars, gas guzzling Beemers, Mercs and Audis to commute or holiday.

      The green energy thing is failing miserably too, one reason being the US is exporting mega-cheap coal. The netherlands has never burned so much coal in history.. Meanwhile the government wants to shut down an expensive state-of-the-art, clean and efficient coal plant, a few years after it started production. Building wind parks is taking forever, problems with planning permission and there’s little space anyway. Output is variable, at peak it’s more than the network can handle, so they’re shut down.
      Using biofuel leads to deforestation and drives up food prices, so that’s banned or will soon be.
      The government wants to wean people off gas, so installation of heat pumps is stimulated with interest-free loans. These require more electricity than the network can handle, and can only heat a house if it’s insulated to the max.
      Ordinary lightbulbs are banned.. I tried LEDs, they all broke down on me within a few weeks (shitty electronics break down, which makes them blink).
      Politicians are now talking about making food more expensive, since “food production is polluting”.. it already is expensive, but that’s due to a supermarket near-monopoly. The farmers can’t charge honest prices and are driven to bankruptcy.
      All these policies are utter fails. The people who dream this up are out of touch, seem to have no technical background whatsoever, and don’t understand economics.

      As for migration.. let’s not go there.

    • The Hughes Medal-decorated physicist cautioned: “The call to decarbonise the global economy by 80% by 2050 can now only be described as glib in my opinion, as the underlying analysis shows it is only possible if we wish to see large parts of the population die from starvation, destitution or violence in the absence of enough low-carbon energy to sustain society.”

      The Deep Ecologists must be creaming their jeans.

      • You menationed the group I was, the Deep Ecologists who want 90% of the human race to die.

  10. Exposed: Forced Organ Harvesting in China Has Taken Place ‘On A Significant Scale’

    • I am glad that this evil is being brought before the public, this crime against humanity needs to be taught in all schools.

      The only way to end this evil is for the researchers to perfect 3D printing of human organs using the recipients DNA. This will remove the need for organ donors.

      • The only way to end this evil is for the researchers to perfect 3D printing of human organs using the recipients DNA.

        3-D printing of scaffolding for skin grafts and organ tissue was one of the first repurposing of ink-jet printers by the MIT group that began the entire rebirth of additive processing.

        While the following example is, at best, fanciful it is an excellent example of how to approach full-body construction. I use it (with professorial approval for my high school lectures) in university and college-level presentations about 3-D printing.

        To fry their minds, I begin with Big Bang as the ultimate additive process and then show a supernova as an example of subtractive processing. This intro breaks them loose from puny little desktop machine concepts and prepares them for examples like 3-D HOUSE PRINTERS that build 10 residences per day, per machine, complete with stairways along with in-wall cavities for utilities, HVAC, and plumbing.

        I then show them a micro-miniature 3-D printed battery (sans electrolyte) and a self-constructing bridge printer, think: hybrid welder and crawler, before taking them through printed lunar habitats and how the Mars landing will use this versatile technology.

        My latest presentation provided extra research on the colossal data overhead and insanely tight file security required for secure printing of highly sensitive materials at the ATOM-BY-ATOM SCALE of assembly.

        I’ll post my usual Nanorex “Productive Nanosystems” video after this Fifth Element clip to provide a glimpse of where 3-D printing is really headed.

        PS: If it weren’t for a spectacularly crappy ending and Chris Tucker’s character of Ruby Rhod stealing the entire show from the moment of his first entrance, this could have risen well above its cult, B-Grade status.

        Gaultier’s costumes, the special effects, and prop designs, particularly the exterior mega-city shots (which were well in advance of Minority Report’s similar urban landscapes) and general attention to detail were remarkable for its overall market position and budget.

        The wooden acting (intentional or not, it’s hard to tell) by Bruce Willis didn’t help much either, but it’s still a decent sci-fi romp. With that aside, the “negotiation” scene is pure, classic Willis.

        T = 00:02:11 – NSFW – very brief upper nudity)


    • Avi said such talk used to make his flesh crawl, but he’s gotten used to it. (Gets mad, tells them to stfu.)

      It not only makes my flesh crawl, but also turns my gut to acid.
      I had to take medication after I heard this yesterday. And still was sick all day. None of the subsequent commentary has helped, just the reverse.

      • People like her are ensuring that the civil war starts sooner rather then later. Her and David Hogg, both are witch burners who are dangerous fanatics.

        I get headaches from their crap, not a bad stomach.

  11. Belgium: Just 6.5 Per Cent of Failed Asylum Seekers Are Deported (breitbart, Jun 20, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/06/20/belgium-just-6-5-per-cent-failed-asylum-seekers-deported/

    “A new study by Dutch authorities on the rate of deportations of failed asylum seekers across Europe has found that only 6.5 per cent of illegal migrants in Belgium are actually sent back home.

    The study, which was released this week, is based on figures from the European Union statistics agency Eurostat and covers a period from 2013 to 2017, French-language Belgian magazine Le Vif reports.

    Asylum seekers from countries such as Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, and Eritrea are the main focus of the study which found other countries across Europe to have much higher rates of deportation but none that approached even half of the failed asylum seekers.

    Norway stands out as one of the highest with 25 per cent of illegals being returned to their home country, followed by the United Kingdom at 19.4 per cent and the Netherlands at 18.2 per cent.

    The reasons for migrants returning home are numerous but also have to do with local policies such as limiting the ability of failed asylum seekers to find work in the countries as well as limited access to housing.

    Countries such as the Netherlands also enjoy better diplomatic relations with the migrants ‘countries of origin allowing them to work with the home countries to facilitate deportations.

    Germany, which bore the brunt of the migrants in the 2015 migrant crisis, has had immense problems with the deportation of failed asylum seekers to the point where the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) reported last year that the vast majority of failed asylum seekers from Africa would likely be able to remain in the country.

    BAMF reported that in the first half of 2018, 27,250 African migrants had been denied residency or asylum but of those only a mere 3,164 were actually deported.

    Later that year, German parliament president Wolfgang Schäuble also admitted that it was unlikely failed asylum seekers would ever leave the country saying that they should instead stay and integrate into society.”

  12. US Navy drone shot down by Iranian missile over Strait of Hormuz in ‘unprovoked attack,’ central command says

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-navy-drone-shot-down-by-iranian-missile-over-strait-of-hormuz-source

    U.S. military officials returned fire — verbally — hours after Iran blasted a Navy high-altitude drone out of the sky over the Strait of Hormuz, with U.S. Central Command leaders on Thursday slamming the “unprovoked” strike and Tehran’s subsequent “false” justifications for it.

    President Trump said on Twitter that Iran “made a very big mistake!”

    The downing of the drone, via surface-to-air missile, is only the most recent Iranian provocation in the region, coming on the heels of a disputed attack on a pair of oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week. U.S. officials say Iran was behind the tanker attacks, however, the Islamic Republic has not claimed responsibility and even suggested American involvement in the plot.

    Similarly, Iran claimed the U.S. drone on Thursday was over Iranian airspace when it was shot down — but American officials stated unequivocally the incident occurred in international airspace.

    • US military says Iran shoot down of its drone was “unprovoked attack”

      WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) – The U.S. military confirmed on Thursday that one of its drones was shot down but said the incident took place in international airspace, challenging Iran’s account that the U.S. aircraft had been flying over Iranian territory.

      “Iranian reports that the aircraft was over Iran are false,” said Navy Captain Bill Urban, a spokesman for the U.S. military’s Central Command.

      “This was an unprovoked attack on a U.S. surveillance asset in international airspace.”

      He said the shoot-down took place in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz at approximately 11:35 p.m. GMT on June 19, 2019. (Reporting by Phil Stewart and Doina Chiacu)

      http://news.trust.org/item/20190620113627-cdjrs

    • ran Revolutionary Guard shoots down US drone amid tensions
      By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL27 minutes ago

      TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shot down a U.S. surveillance drone on Thursday amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington over the collapsing nuclear deal with world powers, American and Iranian officials said, though they disputed the circumstances of the incident.

      The Guard said it shot down the RQ-4 Global Hawk drone over Iranian airspace, while the U.S. said the downing happened over international airspace in the Strait of Hormuz. The different accounts could not be immediately reconciled.

      The U.S. military’s Central Command called it an “unprovoked attack” and President Donald Trump tweeted that “Iran made a very big mistake” in shooting it down.

      Previously, the U.S. military alleged that Iran had fired a missile at another drone last week that was responding to the attack on two oil tankers near the Gulf of Oman. The U.S. blames Iran for the attack on the ships; Tehran denies it was involved.

      https://apnews.com/e4316eb989d5499c9828350de8524963

    • BLASTED OUT THE SKY Iran accused of using FAKE photo to ‘prove’ US drone was over its territory – as America slams ‘unprovoked’ attack

      Mark Hodge

      IRAN has been accused of using a fake photo in an attempt to ‘prove’ a US drone was over its territory before being shot down.

      State-run IRNA news agency shared an image of a damaged drone falling to Earth to illustrate its report.

      But in a shocking twist it subsequently emerged that the same image – albeit in a wider crop – was previously used on a report of a drone being shot down over Yemen two year’s ago.

      https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9337518/us-slams-irans-unprovoked-attack-on-spy-drone-as-it-doubles-down-on-claim-aircraft-was-shot-down-in-international-airspace/

  13. DON BLAST Trump says Iran has ‘made a very big mistake’ after shooting down US drone as Putin warns war would be ‘catastrophic’

    DONALD Trump has warned Iran has “made a very big mistake” shooting down a US drone.

    His comments come as Russian President Vladimir Putin warned US against using force on Iran, saying it would have catastrophic consequences.

    https://vladtepesblog.com/2019/06/20/contributors-links-for-june-20-2019/comment-page-1/#comment-489604

  14. 72 Philadelphia Police Officers Placed On Desk Duty Over Offensive Social Media Posts

    The Philadelphia Police Department has pulled 72 officers off their regular duties as authorities investigate inflammatory social media posts revealed in a database that found thousands of offensive postings by current and former officers, the city’s police commissioner said Wednesday.

    Police officials in Philadelphia are describing the action as the largest removal of officers from the street in recent memory.

    “We are equally as disgusted by many of the posts that you saw and in many cases, the rest of the nation saw,” said Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross.

    It is the latest fallout since the advocacy group The Plain View Project earlier this month released thousands of Facebook posts and comments by current and former police officers that range from racist memes, to posts celebrating violence and messages containing Islamophobic themes, among other offensive material.

    Since the data dump, internal affairs officials in police departments including Phoenix, St. Louis and Dallas are probing whether the distasteful and sometimes violent material should warrant disciplinary action or terminations.

    https://www.npr.org/2019/06/19/734241210/72-philadelphia-police-officers-placed-on-desk-duty-over-offensive-social-media

  15. New York, California high-tax state exodus just beginning, expert warns

    he cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions has already begun to drive Opens a New Window. some residents away from high-tax Opens a New Window. states like New York and New Jersey, but experts say that trend is only going to intensify.

    “It took a few months for taxpayers to realize the dollar implications – until they actually filed their tax returns this year,” Alan Goldenberg, a principal at Friedman LLP, told FOX Business. “It quantified the impact of the loss of the SALT deduction when people saw it in front of their eyes on their tax return.”

    https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/high-tax-state-exodus-accelerate

      • Some will, I know a couple of California transplants and while they are Republicans they are always wondering why so many people own and carry guns.

  16. DHS to Move Biometric Data on Hundreds of Millions of People to Amazon Cloud

    The department seeks a new platform to identify people using fingerprints, irises and faces, and eventually DNA, palm prints, scars and tattoos

    The Homeland Security Department is looking to upgrade the software it uses to analyze biometric data on hundreds of millions of people around the globe, and it plans to store that information in Amazon’s cloud.

    The agency’s Office of Biometric Identity Management will replace its legacy biometric analysis platform, called the Automated Biometric Identification System, or IDENT, with a new, more robust system hosted by Amazon Web Services, according to a request for information released Monday.

    IDENT essentially serves as an enterprisewide clearinghouse for troves of biometric and biographic data collected by the Transportation Security Administration, Customs and Border Protection, Secret Service and other Homeland Security components. The system links fingerprint, iris and face data to biographic information, allowing officials to quickly identify suspected terrorists, immigration violators, criminals and anyone else included in their databases.

    In total, IDENT contains information on more than 250 million people, a Homeland Security spokesperson told Nextgov.

    According to the solicitation, Homeland Security is in the process of replacing IDENT with the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology System, or HART. The new system will include the same biometric recognition features as its predecessor, and potentially additional tools that could identify individuals based on DNA, palm prints, scars, physical markings and tattoos.

    https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2019/06/dhs-move-biometric-data-hundreds-millions-people-amazon-cloud/157837/

  17. Democrat staffers charged, jailed for doxxing GOP senators

    OAN Newsroom
    UPDATED 6:38 AM PT — Thursday, June 20, 2019

    Another one of Democrat Senator Maggie Hassan’s former aides is facing charges in connection to a 2018 leak of GOP senators’ person information.

    On Wednesday, former employee Samantha Davis was charged for allegedly tampering with evidence and abetting computer fraud. On that same day, her former co-worker Jackson Cosko was sentenced to four years in prison.

    Davis reportedly gave her colleague and close friend Cosko a key to the senator’s office, where he was able to steal the data. Davis reportedly agreed to loan him the key, and wipe his fingerprints from the office computers.

    https://www.oann.com/democrat-staffers-charged-jailed-for-doxxing-gop-senators/

  18. Exclusive: Colombian armed groups recruiting desperate Venezuelans, army says

    ARAUCA/CUCUTA, Colombia (Reuters) – Venezuela’s crisis is spilling across the border into Colombia as Marxist rebels and right-wing paramilitaries recruit migrants to strengthen their ranks, according to five Colombian military commanders.

    Violence still simmers in Colombia despite a 2016 peace deal with leftist FARC rebels, meant to end five decades of conflict. Dissident FARC fighters, the rebel National Liberation Army (ELN), right-wing paramilitaries and drug-trafficking gangs are battling each other and the military.
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    Keen for recruits, these armed groups are targeting Venezuelans as they traverse the porous 2,219-km (1,380-mile)frontier at illegal border crossings, according to the military officials, human rights officials and migrants themselves.

    Five military commanders told Reuters that as many as 30% of insurgents in Colombia’s eastern border region are Venezuelans, willing to take up arms in return for food and pay.

    “Recruitment of Venezuelans is happening,” said Colonel Arnulfo Traslavina, military commander of a special unit battling armed groups in Colombia’s eastern border state of Arauca. “The ranks of illegal armed groups are increasing. It’s a major threat to Colombia.”

    https://www.oann.com/exclusive-colombian-armed-groups-recruiting-desperate-venezuelans-army-says/

    • Five military commanders told Reuters that as many as 30% of insurgents in Colombia’s eastern border region are Venezuelans, willing to take up arms in return for food and pay.

      Islam has its bloody borders. Why should Communism be any different?

      Only the most Pollyannaish refuse to admit that these malignancies respond rather well to interventional radiotherapy. If anything, it is a refusal to use strategic (i.e., pinpoint) annihilation through massively disproportionate retaliation with thermobaric weapons and withholding of resources (e.g., food and water) that stops the wheels from coming off of this bloodsoaked farce.

      Islam and Communism would have minutes to live if the crucial levers were pulled. Trump is proving this by collapsing Red China’s economy. Just the flight of existing contract manufacturing to sites not threatened by tariffs may well fold Beijing’s tent.

      If Trump’s 25% across-the-board levies go into effect, I give the CCP less than twelve months before total meltdown. Islam has six weeks when the grain stops. All of this garbage could be over tomorrow if the 1% Globalist vampire elite weren’t making so much money pitting the (all too cooperative and fractious) 99% against each other.

      Once the 99% gets up on its hind legs, it’s all over. The biggest stumbling block is how the 99% in so many different nations have no appreciable inventory of private firearms. Keeping that arms lockdown in place only assures that the job eventually will be done with clubs, pitchforks, and torches (and most likely in a far slower and more brutal manner).

      If anything, it is the methodically brutal patience of a well-armed Western intelligentsia that this wannabe aristocracy fears most. It’s why further dumbing down those incapable of seeing through Communist dupery (i.e. of inadequate IQ) is so mission critical to the elite.

      Sub-Saharan Africa is a pluperfect example of what happens when all motivation towards deferred gratification and forward time projection are removed. Be it by natural abundance, main force of controlling tribal autocrats or simple herd instincts that culling behavioral outliers, the Dark Continent is stark testimony to the permanent, genetic-level damage done through malicious neglect by those in power.

      The Boers are paying with their lives for thinking that there was any hope of uplifting those that the global elite prefer to raise like cattle.

      • The Boers settled the Cape in the 1500s, the Bantu didn’t get that far down until the mid to late 1700s.

        The people who are smart enough to prepare themselves for the coming chaos are the ones who will establish the new governments.

  19. CBC – Toronto imam charged with sexual assault after allegedly convincing woman she was possessed

    Police say the 49-year-old was arrested Tuesday while trying to board a plane to leave Canada

    A Toronto imam has been arrested and charged with multiple counts of sexual assault after allegedly trying to board a plane to leave the country amid an investigation into allegations against him.

    Police are concerned there may be other victims.

    The 49-year-old came to the attention of investigators in early 2019 when a woman came forward alleging the imam had sexually assaulted her, police say.

    In a news release Wednesday, police said the woman first met the imam at a mosque over a decade ago in 2008. At the time, they say, the imam went to the woman’s home, convinced her that she was possessed and that he could help her.

    Police allege the woman was sexually assaulted at the imam’s home during what he claimed was a religious ceremony.

    The alleged assaults continued for a period of several years, they say.

    Police also say the imam threatened to harm the woman on numerous occasions, as well as threatening to “expose her to the community and congregation.”

    Accused arrested at Pearson airport

    On Tuesday, police said the imam tried to leave Canada and was arrested at Pearson International Airport.

    They also have a message for other victims that haven’t come forward.

    “We want to make sure that everyone has access to support services and an exit strategy, regardless of their decision to proceed criminally,” police said in the release.

    The imam now faces a string of charges, including:

    Breach of trust.
    Three counts of sexual assault.
    Threatening death.
    Criminal harassment.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-imam-sexual-assault-1.5182411

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    Imam facing sex assault charges: Toronto police

    A Toronto imam is facing charges in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a woman over the course of more than a decade.

    Toronto police said that the woman and the imam met at a mosque in 2008. The imam went to her home, convinced her that she was possessed and offered to help, police said.

    According to police, the woman was brought back to the imam’s living quarters and sexually assaulted during what he claimed was a religious ceremony.

    The woman was sexually assaulted continually over the next few years and during that time the imam threatened to harm her and to expose her to the community and congregation, police said.

    Investigators allege the imam used his position to manipulate and control the woman.

    Earlier this year, the woman came forward to report the allegations, police said in a news release Wednesday.

    Imam Syed Zaidi, 49, was arrested on June 18 at Pearson international Airport as he tried to board a plane to leave Canada, police said.

    Zaidi has been charged with breach of trust, three counts of sexual assault, threatening death and criminal harassment.

    Police said they are concerned there may be more victims and are asking anyone with further information or complaints to contact investigators.

    https://www.cp24.com/news/imam-facing-sex-assault-charges-toronto-police-1.4474285

  20. Muslim and Jewish leaders on rise of hate crimes in Canada

    Interfaith communities came together for a “Moving from Hate to Hope” event in Toronto on June 17 to address and discuss the sharp rise in hate crimes recorded in Canada in recent years.

    Marnie Fienberg, the daughter of Joyce Fienberg who was killed in a mass shooting at Pittsburgh‘s Tree of Life Synagogue, and Imam Hassan Guillet, who gave the sermon at the funeral for the victims of the Quebec City attack, joined Global News’ Farah Nasser for the event.

    The event was sponsored by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, the Canadian Association of Jews and Muslims, and JSpace Canada.

  21. New report suggests case against Paul Manafort is fruit of the poisonous tree
    By Jeff Dunetz June 20, 2019

    The FBI knew the Steele dossier was nonsense before they used it to get the FISA court to issue the warrant to begin spying on Carter Page leading to the Russia collusion hoax. Writing at The Hill, John Solomon reports having found a second document that the FBI knew contained false information, but they used it to get the search warrant against Paul Manafort anyway.

    Per Solomon:

    The second document, known as the “black cash ledger,” remarkably has escaped the same scrutiny, even though its emergence in Ukraine in the summer of 2016 forced Paul Manafort to resign as Trump’s campaign chairman and eventually face U.S. indictment.

    In search warrant affidavits, the FBI portrayed the ledger as one reason it resurrected a criminal case against Manafort that was dropped in 2014 and needed search warrants in 2017 for bank records to prove he worked for the Russian-backed Party of Regions in Ukraine.

    There’s just one problem: The FBI’s public reliance on the ledger came months after the feds were warned repeatedly that the document couldn’t be trusted and likely was a fake, according to documents and more than a dozen interviews with knowledgeable sources.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/06/20/new-report-suggests-case-against-paul-manafort-is-fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree/

  22. CBC – Canada could be safe haven for climate refugees

    With the changing climate, there will be areas in Canada, previously considered unlivable, that may become more temperate.

    Some suggest this puts Canada in the unique position of being able to accept climate refugees.

  23. Home » News
    Donald Trump Jr. blasts Teen Vogue for op-ed declaring that ‘sex work is real work’

    Teen Vogue is getting blasted online for an op-ed that declares, “sex work is real work.”

    Tlaleng Mofokeng, doctor and founder of Nalane for Reproductive Justice, argues in the piece that prostitution should be decriminalized worldwide and that sex workers deserve “fair labor practices” and “access to evidence-based care.”

    http://www.gopusa.com/?p=71277?omhide=true

  24. Ep. 1006 And the Worst Person of the Week is… The Dan Bongino Show 6/20/2019.

    • I doubt if the bill will make it through both Houses of Congress, after all the Dems control the House of Representatives and they are the ones who are getting their political rivals censored. The Department of Justice may be able to sue under the current law but that will depend on the Judge they get and if a favorable ruling can be put into action during the appeals process.

      Dan Bongino has a very good segment on this bill pointing out the problems with this bill.

    • There is emerging a rather conspicuous and unignorable behavioral pattern.

      Provided with powerful weapons like guns, Conservatives demonstrably manage them rather well and have the relatively pristine criminal track record to prove it.

      Given access to power-tools like Free Speech and the (9th Circuit Court) judicial system, Leftists routinely pervert these fundamental freedoms and weaponize them against the very (i.e. free) people they are designed to protect.

      This has “unhappy ending” written all over it. Especially for the gun-less.

      • Remember the Green Berets Hymn, “Yeah though I walk through the valley of death I shall fear no evil, because I am the meanest SOB in this valley.”

        Vets who have fought in wars like Nam, Iran and Afghan where you don’t know who is your ally and who is the enemy don’t like to be disarmed. Woe be those who try to oppress them in their own country.

    • Deutsche Pravda – Khashoggi killing: UN report demands investigation into Saudi Prince Bin Salman

    • Amanpour is an Islamic whore who will use even the flimsiest excuses to steer the spotlight away from Muslim barbarity.

      However ham-fisted, the Jamal Khashoggi festivities were business as usual in the Arab world and worth less than a minute of prime time.

      • Amanpour is an Islamic whore who will use even the flimsiest excuses to steer the spotlight away from Muslim barbarity.

        If you don’t stop complementing her people will start thinking you like her.

  25. Reparations: Democrats ask Americans who never owned a slave to pay Americans who never were a slave

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers on Wednesday held the first congressional hearing in more than a decade on reparations, spotlighting the debate over whether the United States should consider compensation for the descendants of slaves in the United States.

    The witnesses at the House Judiciary subcommittee included actor and activist Danny Glover, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, a Democratic presidential candidate.

    Coates, who drew new attention to the issue with his essay “The Case for Reparations,” published in The Atlantic magazine in 2014, told the panel “it’s impossible to imagine America without the inheritance of slavery.”

    “The matter of reparations is one of making amends and direct redress but is also a question of citizenship,” Coates said.

    But another writer Coleman Hughes, who at times testified over boos from the audience, said black people don’t need “another apology,” but safer neighborhoods, better schools, a less punitive criminal justice system and better health care.

    “None of these things can be achieved through reparations for slavery,” said Hughes, who added that he is the descendant of blacks enslaved at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello.

    The hearing comes amid a growing discussion in the Democratic Party about reparations. Several of the party’s presidential candidates have endorsed looking at the idea, though they have stopped short of endorsing direct payouts for African Americans.

    http://www.gopusa.com/reparations-democrats-ask-americans-who-never-owned-a-slave-to-pay-americans-who-never-were-a-slave/?omhide=true

  26. EXCLUSIVE: Corrupt Mueller Gang Used Same AP Reporters to Set Up Manafort who were Also Connected to Fusion GPS

    On Wednesday The Gateway Pundit reported that the FBI used another fake document to obtain a warrant on President Trump’s former 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

    Today we can report that the AP writers who corrupt Mueller gang leader Andrew Weissmann used to obtain the warrant are also associated with Glenn Simpson and Christopher Steele.

    As we reported yesterday, according to a new bombshell report by award-winning investigative reporter John Solomon, the FBI used more than the junk, Hillary-funded Russia dossier to hunt down Trump and his associates.

    The Steele dossier, which was paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC was used by the FBI to obtain FOUR FISA warrants on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, but there is another fake dossier known as the “black cash ledger” that was used to take down Paul Manafort.

    According to John Solomon, the “black cash ledger” which emerged in the Ukraine in the summer of 2016, was used to remove Manafort from Trump’s campaign and eventually used by the US government to prosecute Manafort — in fact, FBI agents mentioned this ledger in an affidavit supporting the July 2017 raid on Manafort’s home.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/exclusive-corrupt-mueller-gang-used-same-ap-reporters-to-set-up-manafort-who-were-also-connected-to-fusion-gps/

    • “[DS] Took The Bait, Now It’s The Patriots Turn – Episode 1898b”
      x22Report – Published on June 20, 2019

  27. TRUMP to Hannity: DOJ Working to Determine if Obama Intel Agencies Were Secretly Monitoring His Phone in 2016

    TRUMP to Hannity: DOJ Working to Determine if Obama Intel Agencies Were Secretly Monitoring His Phone in 2016
    Jim Hoft by Jim Hoft June 20, 2019 97 Comments

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    President Donald Trump joined Sean Hannity on Wednesday night following his historic relaunch campaign rally in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday.

    During their conversation Trump touched on several topics including the Democrat Party harassment of Hope Hicks and the ongoing Russia collusion witch hunt.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/trump-to-hannity-doj-working-to-determine-if-obama-intel-agencies-were-secretly-monitoring-his-phone-in-2016/

  28. Iran Shoots Down US Drone – Says It Was a “Clear Message to the Enemies” (Video)
    Jim Hoft by Jim Hoft June 20, 2019 201 Comments

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    The Iranian regime shot down a US drone on Thursday.
    The regime took responsibility for the act saying shooting down the drone was a clear message to the US.

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1141653472665841664

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/iran-shoots-down-us-drone-says-it-was-a-clear-message-to-the-enemies-video/

  29. Democrats Hold Reparations Hearing — Witness Burgess Owens Calls for Democrat Party of Slavery to Pay Restitution (VIDEO)

    The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties held a hearing on Wednesday to discuss “the Path to Restorative Justice.” Specifically, they were discussing H.R. 40 — a bill that proposes a commission on reparations.

    Ta-Nehisi Coates, Danny Glover, Sen. Cory Booker and various other activists spoke at the hearing.

    So did race-baiting Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton from Maryland. Bishop Sutton argued that white people need to pay reparations to black people to save their souls from damnation.

    But the Republican panelists stole the show. Former NFL great Burgess Owens called for the Democrat Party to be held accountable for reparations.

    Burgess Owens: “I used to be a Democrat until I did my history and found out the misery that that party brought to my race… Let’s pay restitution. How about the Democratic Party pay for all the misery brought to my race…“

    This was just excellent!

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1141380400893349889

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/democrats-hold-reparations-hearing-witness-burgess-owens-calls-for-democrat-party-of-slavery-to-pay-restitution-video/

  30. Pelosi: ‘I Don’t Trust The Attorney General Of The United States’ — ‘I’m Afraid’
    1:31 PM 06/19/2019 | Politics
    Henry Rodgers | Capitol Hill Reporter

    Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that she does not trust Attorney General William Barr, adding that she is “afraid.”

    The Department of Justice agreed to give more lawmakers access to the former special counsel’s completed report in late May, however, many Democrats have still not read the less-redacted report. Pelosi has had access to the less-redacted report, but has previously refused to read it after Barr offered in April, according to Politico.

    “I don’t know if this is news or it was news last week but we will be having access to [a] less-redacted version of the Mueller report. I had said originally unless the whole country can see what they show us. We shouldn’t see it,” Pelosi said at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast.

    “But I have. When we had the offer of this less redacted for many more people than just the leadership I accepted that because I’m afraid. I really don’t trust the attorney general of the United States and I’m afraid,” Pelosi continued.

    https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/19/pelosi-doesnt-trust-attorney-general-barr-afraid-mueller-report/

  31. Upstate New York clerk ‘will not be granting drivers’ licenses to illegal immigrants,’ contrary to new law: report

    An upstate New York clerk is criticizing legislation that lets undocumented migrants apply for drivers’ licenses, saying he “will not be granting drivers’ licenses to illegal immigrants.”

    The measure was signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday, hours after it passed the state Senate. It passed the Assembly last week.

    In a letter Erie County Clerk Michael Kearns sent to attorney Michael Siragusa on Tuesday, he asked for representation in a lawsuit over the legislation in federal court, WIVB in Buffalo reported.

  32. No Peace as Long as Iran’s Mullahs Enjoy Power

    by Majid Rafizadeh
    June 20, 2019 at 5:00 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14411/iran-mullahs-no-peace

    It is astonishing that while the fundamentalist government of Iran continues to enjoy unchallenged power, and engages in whatever violent behavior it wishes, its apologists proclaim that peace and stability can still exist within the Middle East.

    An honest analysis of acts of terrorism in the Middle East, and throughout the world, reveals that nearly every conflict, war, and tension in the Middle East, can be traced back to the Iranian government. Despite the illusion that those who would like to appease the Iranian leaders attempt to create, it is clear that the Iran, still racing toward nuclear-breakout capability, has no interest in peace.

    In Yemen, Iranian authorities have empowered a militia group known as the Houthis. Tehran is actively supplying the militia with ammunition and continues to smuggle illicit weapons and technology into Yemen. According to a report by Reuters, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is a key supporter and sponsor of the Houthis. The IRGC is also currently using a new route across the Gulf covertly to deliver arms shipments to the Houthis.

    In Iraq, Iran’s Quds Force exerts significant direct or indirect influence through a conglomerate of more than 40 militia groups, which operate under the banner of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). The Quds Force has also apparently found new sources of funding to evade current US sanctions.

    The Quds Force is in charge of Iran’s extraterritorial operations, which include organizing, supporting, training, arming and financing Iran’s predominantly Shiite militia groups in foreign countries; launching wars directly or indirectly via these proxies; fomenting unrest in other nations to advance Iran’s ideological and hegemonic interests; attacking and invading cities and countries; and assassinating foreign political figures and prominent Iranian dissidents worldwide.

    • Given their economic problems and their trying to piss off PT I don’t think the Islamic Republic will survive much longer.

  33. Mae Cannon & CMEP: The New Face of the Palestinian Authority’s Antisemitic “Christian” Lobby

    by Joshua Joseph
    June 20, 2019 at 4:00 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14413/mae-cannon-cmep-antisemitic

    Rev. Dr. Mae Cannon — the executive director of Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) — is charming and disarming. Her friendly smile, calm demeanor, and quiet passion for her topic is engaging. It comes as no surprise, then, that the Palestinian Authority (PA)/Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) appears to have selected her as the face of their strategic “Christian” anti-Israel lobby — even sharing, on the PLO’s social media, a piece in which Cannon blames Christian Zionists for the rise in antisemitism and hate crimes.

    Cannon seeks to disguise her true agenda (pro-PLO/PA and anti-Christian Zionism) beyond strategic coded messaging. Her friends at the PA are fully aware that directly confronting Christian supporters of Israel with their genuine agenda would probably be unfruitful. The PA seems to have become alarmed by the increased influence of Christian Zionism, which consists of genuine Christian theological support for Israel, and of Christian Zionists in particular. The PA has apparently decided to shift strategies. Its latest initiative is apparently to use their “Christian” lobby — and various organizations that lobby creates — to infiltrate Christian pro-Israel communities through a carefully crafted narrative designed to appeal to Christians’ love for all humanity and desire to pray for the Middle East. The PA’s end goal, apart from displacing Israel, is both to dilute Christians’ pro-Israel beliefs and their influence, and to convert Christians outright to the PA’s narrative and cause. The tools of infiltration include speeches, media, and trips.

    When Mae Cannon spoke at Christ at the Checkpoint Conference USA in October 2018, she took issue with Dexter Van Zile, a Christian Media Analyst for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting (CAMERA), who has written about her work. Van Zile recounted, “A few minutes into her [Cannon’s] talk, she defended CMEP and her leadership of the organization — which has been harshly critical of Israel. ‘And they say my goal is to get you to pray against the Jewish people, which just for the record it’s not,’ she said. ‘Don’t believe what Dexter Van Zile says about me.'” The prayer point may be a sensitive point for Cannon as it is so very close to pulling back the curtain and exposing her pro-PLO/PA and anti Christian Zionism agenda.

  34. Stunning! NBC News Hits New Low Harassing Epoch Times Reporters on Their Religious Beliefs

    In a recent communication, NBC reporters sent the Epoch Times a series of inappropriate questions on the religious beliefs of its staff members.

    The Epoch Times is a very popular conservative and anti-Communist publication.

    The Epoch Times assumed these actions appear to be for a hit piece NBC is working on. So the Epoch Times decided to respond publicly to NBC News before its hit piece was published.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/stunning-nbc-news-hits-new-low-harassing-epoch-times-reporters-on-their-religious-beliefs/

  35. Hillary Clinton’s Email Scandal Continues with Huma Abedin In Spotlight
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    • Is it just me or is Epoch Times the only commercially produced news program that can be watched without alternately feeling insulted or wanting to vomit?

      Even without Glenn Beck, the melodrama at Fox is still turned up to eleven.*

      * — Although commonly attributed to the immortal R&R spoof, “Spinal Tap”, it wasn’t an amplifier which had a setting that went “up to eleven”. While the illustrious Marshall Amplification company later did produce an actual commemorative model to celebrate this satire, it never was about the amps.

      As someone who designed his own electric guitar:

      • Peavey swamp ash body (like a Strat)
      • Schecter rock maple neck
      • Triple Seymour Duncan high output pickups (w/ special Trembucker bridge)
      • All gold Schaller hardware (e.g., tuners, strap lock, jack, etc.)
      • Original gold edition Floyd Rose tremolo system
      • Maxima gold-plated strings
      • Onyx black classic nitrocellulose finish (done in my lab’s next door paint shack)
      • Actual Fender decal reworked to read “Pseudocaster” —

      … the history of this unique instrument is a source of endless intrigue. Its inventor, Les Paul, was a music engineering genius whose favorite ax was not the eponymous one made by Gibson but the much more obscure “Les Paul Recording Model“.

      Ever the restless inventor, Les Paul designed his own low impedance pickups, altered the body dimensions for a slightly wider, more bottom rich tone, and added circuits and switching for different phase and tone operations. The 11-position “decade” control chose a range of tonal signatures from almost acoustic to open humbucker sounds, and the tone switch reconfigured the controls three different ways for a vast range of options. The guitar even featured a microphone jack on the upper bout. As versatile as it was, the Les Paul Personal proved to be too complicated for most guitarists and was discontinued in 1969 after a production of only 370.

      Myself? I use a vintage Gallien-Krueger 200RG with a matched stereo 4 x 12″ cabinet like Santana played at Woodstock.

      Whew! All that to explain about “goes to eleven”. —

      T = 00:02:09

        • That is because both avoid having any liberals on to balance the reports. Both report the facts and ignore the screams from the left. If I could get OANN on cable I wouldn’t watch FOX.

  36. Democratic Staffer Sentenced To Four Years In Prison For Doxxing Republicans

    • He is slipping back to the left, he considers the Southern Poverty Law Center as a reliable source and is talking about extreme right committing acts of violence on the left.

      • He is slipping back to the left, he considers the Southern Poverty Law Center as a reliable source…

        Sadly, as I noted earlier, it appears as though all of his moral outrage is that of the classic “mugged Liberal” turning into a Conservative. Which, in turn, indicates that Tim Pool’s train never left the Leftist station.

        SPLC is a force for evil and calling it anything else demonstrates an extreme problem with the proper naming of things.