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“Look who graduated from Jihad Academy”
Radio Patriot – August 20, 2019
https://radiopatriot.net/2019/08/20/look-who-graduated-from-jihad-academy/
“REPORT: Ilhan Omar’s Father and Other Somalian War Crimes Perpetrators Now Living Illegally in the US”
by Joe Hoft – July 16, 2019
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/report-ilhan-omars-father-and-other-somalian-war-crimes-perpetrators-now-living-illegally-in-the-us/
“Ilhan Omar’s Father was Top Propaganda Official in Genocidal Barre Regime — Then He Changed His Name and Entered US Illegally” by Jim Hoft – July 19, 2019
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/ilhan-omars-father-was-top-official-in-genocidal-barre-regime-then-he-changed-his-name-to-sneak-into-the-us-illegally/
The grandfather equally disturbing;
These are allegations that call for investigation and she should welcome any attempt to clear her name
http://www.citypages.com/news/ilhan-omars-improbable-journey-from-refugee-camp-to-minnesota-legislature/398441901
From
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1150144135233454080.html
On domestic and international economic warfare:
http://www.truthinourtime.com/forum/showthread.php?t=104935
Lashkar Terrorist Killed in Kashmir After 12-Hour Gun-Battle with Security Forces (sputniknews, Aug 21, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/military/201908211076598170-lashkar-terrorist-killed-in-kashmir-after-12-hour-gun-battle-with-security-forces/
“The protracted clash marked the first encounter between security forces and terrorists since the abrogation of the seven-decade-old special status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution by parliament on 5 August.
Security forces in Jammu and Kashmir killed a Laskhar-e-Taiba terrorist in the Kashmir Valley following a protracted gun battle which lasted over 12 hours that ended on Wednesday.
One police officer, identified as Bilal, also died during the exchange of fire.
The incident, which occurred in the Baramulla District of Jammu and Kashmir, had started on Tuesday evening and continued throughout the night. It involved a joint operation which brought together Jammu and Kashmir police, India’s paramilitary as well as the Indian army.
The killed terrorist has been identified as Momin Gojri of Baramulla, who was affiliated with proscribed terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba. He was involved in several terror crime cases, Jammu and Kashmir Police said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Kashmir Police claimed that law and order in the Valley had otherwise remained peaceful and no untoward incident has been reported so far. Curfew restrictions were relaxed in 136 of the 197 police districts in Jammu and Kashmir.
The state administration is also scheduled to open middle schools in the Kashmir Valley, two days after primary schools opened their doors.
According to the United Nations, Lashkar-e-Taiba has “conducted numerous terrorist operations against military and civilian targets since 1993, including the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India, which killed approximately 164 persons and injured hundreds more.””
Lawless London: Horrifying moment masked gunman shoots victim with shotgun in busy street (express, Aug 21, 2019)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1168312/London-news-shooting-shotgun-news-UK-crime-latest-Clapham-police-gun-knife-metropolitan
“TERRIFYING footage shows the moment a hitman attempts murder with a shotgun on a busy London street.
The Metropolitan Police have released footage of a masked gunman opening fire at a man with a shotgun. The shooting took place on June 4 around 9.30pm outside The Falcon pub on Bedford Road, Clapham. The footage shows the moment the gunman jumped out of a silver Lexus before chasing a man down the street firing a pump-action shotgun.
After firing at least two shots the gunman raced back to his getaway car before leaving the area.
Police have said that neither the attacker nor the car has been identified.
Detective Constable Melanie Burridge, from the Met’s Trident and Area Crime Command, commented on the incident.
She said: “This appears to be a deliberate attempt on a man’s life with a deadly weapon.
“It was committed on a busy street and placed the public in immediate danger.
“I am asking anyone with information to contact us immediately.
“We cannot allow such deadly crimes on our streets and our communities need to work with us to stop them.”
Police attended the scene but were unable to find any trace of the victims of the suspect.
Fifteen minutes after the incident a 24-year-old man turned up at a south London hospital having suffered from a gunshot wound to the leg.
The victim has since been discharged from the hospital as his injuries were not considered life-threatening.
Police detectives have linked this injured person to the shooting.
DC Burridge added: “As a result of reviewing footage officers are aware that a light coloured Lexus RX 300 on false plates pulls up outside The Falcon pub.”
Of course we can allow such deadly crimes on our streets,that is the whole purpose of importing millions of criminal ,murdering rapists from the third world,to destabilise the countrys indigenous population,thier culture and their laws.It is peculiar that the police can find someone who says nasty things about muslims and negroes on a train,within hours,but a maniac with a pump shotgun vanishes into thin air.
London horror: Building evacuated as man threatens to explode block in tense standoff (express, Aug 21, 2019)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1168219/London-news-Barking-east-London-earlsdown-House-UK-news-latest-crime-news-terrorism
“A BLOCK of flats has been evacuated in east London after a man as threatened to blow up the building.
According to Barking & Dagenham Police, the man barricaded himself in the seventh floor of the Earlsdown House, Barking on Tuesday night. Upon entering being locked in the room, the man then threatened to blow up the building. Following the threat, the police then evacuated all the residents from the housing block.
In a statement from the police, they said: “A man has barricaded himself inside a flat in Elsdown House in Wheelers Cross and has threatened to set the building alight.
“As a precaution, all residents from the building have been evacuated.
“No reported injuries, officers remain on scene.”
“Police negotiators are currently on scene talking to a male on the 7th floor of a block of flats who has barricaded himself inside and threatening to blow the flat up and burn the block down.”
Officers began evacuating the building around 10.20pm on Tuesday.
According to the London Evening Standard, the suspect had allegedly told police that he had petrol in his flat and wanted to blow the housing block.
One witness to the event said: “The whole block has been evacuated.
“I don’t know how many, it’s every person and family evacuated.
“Parents aren’t even allowed to go back and get baby milk and nappies.
“They don’t know how long it will go on for.”
In their most recent update, the local police confirmed that the man had been “safely detained”.
The police also confirmed that the residents could return to their homes.”
“Upon entering being locked in a room”is the express employing monkeys to write their stories these days?
Boat ‘carrying 11 migrants’ is towed into Dover a week after Iranian woman became first to die in bid to reach UK – with 1,050 attempting dangerous crossing in space of a year (dailymail, Aug 21, 2019)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7378751/Boat-carrying-11-migrants-towed-Dover.html
“A boat believed to be carrying 11 migrants has been towed to Dover after it was stopped en route to Britain this morning.
It is the latest perilous crossing from migrants who are leaving France to travel to the UK on small boats.
So far this year, some 793 suspected migrants have been caught by British officials and since the start of November, more than 1,050 have crossed the busiest shipping lane in the world.
This morning the boat is being towed into the Kent town where the migrants will then be intercepted and questioned by Border Force officials.
Details about their ages, condition and nationality are not yet known.
On August 9, a woman fell from a dinghy and is presumed dead when she and other migrants were in the boat around 20 miles off Ramsgate.
On the same day more than 60 migrants were rescued in the English Channel – including two people in kayak – as they made desperate attempts to reach the UK in five separate incidents.
They were saved on both sides of the channel as they tried to cross the 21 mile stretch of water to reach the UK.
The Iranian woman named by the Mail on Sunday as Mitra Mehrad, 31, is the first migrant who is thought to have died crossing the Channel.
Ms Mehrad, who was studying for a PhD in psychology, is missing presumed drowned after a boat carrying 20 migrants ran into difficulty in poor weather off the Kent coast earlier this month.
Ms Mehrad arrived in Dunkirk on Tuesday, August 6, and was registered at the Espace Jeune du Moulin, a gymnasium in the suburb of Grande-Synthe that has been converted into a sprawling migrant camp.”
Two Underage Girls Raped At Swedish Summer Festival (breitbart, Aug 21, 2019)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/08/21/two-underage-girls-raped-at-swedish-summer-festival/
“Two girls, believed to be around 15-years-old, were reportedly raped at a Swedish festival over the weekend and another dozen have reported being victims of sexual assaults.
The two rape incidents are said to have taken place at around 8 pm at the “We Are Sthlm” festival in Stockholm on Saturday night, with the two alleged rapes being caught on CCTV cameras, according to a report from Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.
The two alleged attackers, simply described as two men, are said to have approached the pair of girls from behind and then raped them. The police later confirmed there had been two reported rapes at the festival.
“We are now investigating this and obtaining preliminary survey material and cameras are of course the kind of thing investigators will look at,” officer Ola Österling of the regional police said but added that currently no one had been arrested in connection with the incidents.
Police added that a further dozen cases of sexual assault were also reported to officials during the course of the festival and that so far, one person has been arrested.
Sex attacks and rapes have been a major issue a the We Are Sthlm festival for several years with the 2016 event seeing a total of 50 reports of sexual harassment, which was double the figure from the previous year.
In January of 2017, Anders Ygeman, who was at that time the minister of Home Affairs, played down the rise in sex attacks at festivals stating that such attackers nothing new.
Later that year, a report from non-profit organisation The Night Shift challenged Ygeman’s remarks and noted that sex attacks had increased as much as 1,000 percent in 2016.
Rape attacks in Sweden are now a major issue across the country, with the city of Uppsala recently seeing a wave of rape attacks.
Last week, pepper spray manufacturers and retailers claimed that they had seen an explosion in sales due to the increase in sex attacks.”
Berlin Launches Huge People Trafficking Raids With 1,900 Officers (breitbart, Aug 21, 2019)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/08/21/berlin-launches-huge-people-trafficking-raids-with-1900-officers/
“More than 1,900 police officers are searching premises in the German capital in connection with a human trafficking investigation.
The Berlin prosecutor’s office tweeted Wednesday morning that federal police officers are searching more than 100 homes and businesses all over the city.
The prosecutor’s office said the raids are based on allegations of human trafficking for work exploitation and organized trafficking of foreigners to work in construction.
The office said it could not give any further details because the raids were still taking place.”
As warm welcome chills, Turkey clamps down on Syrians (abcnews, Aug 21, 2019)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/warm-chills-turkey-clamps-syrians-65091192
“Mustafa, a 21-year-old Syrian in Turkey, was at the shoe factory in Istanbul where he worked making army boots when three policemen stormed in, asking if everyone had their papers. He and three other Syrian refugees did not.
Within a day, Mustafa and a busload of other refugees would be driven to Turkey’s southern border and forced to go back to their war-torn country.
“They told us things like, ‘Don’t come back to Turkey’ and ‘Go liberate your country’. Things like that,” Mustafa recalled, speaking by phone to The Associated Press from his hometown of Salqin in the opposition-held Syrian province of Idlib. He asked that his full name not be published, fearing for his safety.
Mustafa is among hundreds of Syrian refugees who have been detained and reportedly forcibly deported to Syria in the past month, according to accounts by refugees to the AP. The expulsions reflect rising anti-refugee sentiment in a country that once flung open its borders to millions of Syrians fleeing civil war.
For weeks, Turkey has been carrying out a campaign to re-inforce its rules requiring Syrian refugees to stay in cities where they are registered with the government. Accounts by Mustafa and other Syrians suggest that along with that campaign, some unregistered refugees are being forced out of the country. The AP interviewed six Syrians who said they were among large groups deported to Syria in the past month.
The Turkish government categorically denies claims of forced deportations for registered and unregistered Syrians, saying only voluntary returns are allowed. Turkey is bound by an international law that protects against return to a country where a person faces persecution.
“I am officially denying such claims, it is not possible,” said Ramazan Secilmis, an official with the Directorate General of Migration Management. He said 337,000 Syrians have voluntarily returned over the course of the war to Turkish-controlled zones in northern Syria.
But in a report late last month, Human Rights Watch accused authorities of detaining and coercing Syrians into signing “voluntary return forms” before returning them to danger. It called on authorities to protect the basic rights of all Syrians regardless of registration status.
There are no statistics on those forcibly returned. The Bab al-Hawa crossing — one of several crossings run by Syrian opposition authorities — saw 6,160 deportees from Turkey in July, a 40 percent jump from the month before, according to an infographic on the crossing’s official Twitter page. It did not elaborate on the circumstances of the deportations.
Asked by the AP if it was aware of any forced deportations, the U.N. refugee agency’s Turkey spokesperson Selin Unal said in an emailed statement that it was “following up on a number of reported cases” related to unregistered Syrians. Unal said it “could not confirm that large numbers” of registered refugees had been returned to Syria.
“UNHCR’s priority is that persons in need of international protection continue to benefit from this protection,” the statement said.
Turkey opened its borders to Syrians in April 2011 and is currently home to 3.6 million who fled the civil war, now in its ninth year.
But as Turkey suffers an economic downturn and rising unemployment, calls among Turks for Syrians to go home are growing. Analysts say rising resentment against Syrians was one reason President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party lost the race for mayor of Istanbul in June.
An opinion survey conducted by the PIAR research center last month showed that 82.3% of the respondents agreed with the statement: “All Syrians must be sent back, I don’t like the government’s policy.” The research was conducted with 2,460 people in 26 provinces.
Under Turkey’s system, Syrians register with the government and obtain “temporary protection” status, receiving an ID card known in Turkish as a “kimlik.” The ID card allows refugees to obtain permission to work. But they are required to remain in the specific province where they obtain their registration.
Istanbul, Turkey’s most populous city — which hosts the largest number of registered Syrians, nearly 548,000 — stopped accepting new registrations last year, with authorities insisting it cannot absorb any more. But many Syrians from elsewhere have flocked to the city over the years for work.
In July, Istanbul’s governor gave all Syrians not registered in Istanbul a deadline to leave the city or be forcibly removed. The deadline was initially supposed to run out on Tuesday, but Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu told Haberturk television late on Tuesday that it had been extended for two months, until Oct. 30.
However, even for weeks before the initial deadline, police have been doing frequent checks on Syrian IDs.
Mustafa, who had come to Turkey in 2017 and was not yet registered, was caught in one of those checks.
He said he had been trying in vain to obtain a “kimlik” in Istanbul. Finally, a week before his arrest, he found a lawyer who could arrange one in the nearby city of Bursa. Mustafa did the application, and the lawyer told him to come on Monday, July 22 to Bursa to obtain the ID card.
But the police raid came the preceding Friday. Mustafa and the two other unregistered Syrians in the workshop were piled into a bus that quickly filled with other Syrians. At a nearby police station, they were ordered to sign papers in Turkish, which they could not read.
Mustafa said they were then taken to a larger police station, where they were handcuffed and put on a bus with other Syrians. They were driven for 24 hours to the border province of Hatay, where they were dropped off at an informal crossing into Syria.
Now back in Idlib, Mustafa is searching for a way to support his mother and sisters. “It is very difficult and I take care of a whole family,” he said. “There is war here. Nothing else.”
Abdullah Abdulkader, a Syrian who was working at a laundry in the southern city of Gaziantep, was with two Syrian friends heading to get dinner when police asked for their IDs.
The 27-year-old said he had registered four months ago but had still not received the “kimlik.” When he told the officer he did not have it, he was slapped, handcuffed and detained in a car for seven hours. He and several other Syrians were taken by bus to the southern city of Antakya, where they spent the night at a police station without food or drink.
The next day, he was given a choice: pay a fine equivalent to $644 and spend three months in jail, or be deported. He chose deportation.
He then had to sign a number of documents in Turkish which he was told said he could not return to Turkey for the next five years. Another document which he shared with the AP had Arabic translation. It affirmed that he is voluntarily returning to Syria even after he was informed by authorities about the security situation in his country.
Abdulkader, now in the northern Syrian town of Afrin, says he never wants to go back to Turkey.
“We went there and got deported. What more humiliation can there be?” he said. “I will search for work and will find work here.”
In Istanbul, some Syrians are hiding from the intensified controls.
Yousef Abbas, a 26-year-old from Aleppo, is registered in the city of Izmir but works in Istanbul’s vast tourism sector. “I am afraid. I don’t go out. Why? Because I would get caught,” he said earlier this week.
If he goes back to Izmir, he would be separated from his wife and children, registered in Istanbul.
Didem Danis, president of Association for Migration Research in Istanbul, said that in the first years of the Syrians’ arrival, “there was quite a positive attitude toward the newcomers.”
“But this has been going down throughout the years, and in the last two years especially as the Turkish economy goes down.”
Mohammad Wael, a Syrian from Damascus who is registered in Istanbul, works in a kebab shop in the city’s “Little Syria” district. He calls the treatment of Syrians “unacceptable.”
“If you go to the pharmacy, they will point at us as ‘those are Syrians.’ If you walk in the street, they will point at us, ‘those are Syrians.’ If we enter a supermarket, they will point at us, ‘those are Syrians’,” he said.
“Syrians are like the Turks, both are human beings and both are Muslims.””
Iran moves to strike 4 zeroes from its battered currency (abcnews, Aug 21, 2019)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/iran-moves-strike-zeroes-battered-currency-65092364
“Iran’s president sent a bill to parliament Wednesday that would cut four zeroes from the value of the Islamic Republic’s sanctions-battered currency, the rial, as tensions remain high between Tehran and Washington.
By sending the bill to lawmakers, President Hassan Rouhani’s government shows it is serious about an idea discussed for some time in Iran, where people discuss monetary transactions in both rials and informally but more commonly in tomans. A toman is worth 10 rials.
If passed by parliament and approved by lawmakers, Iran’s Central Bank would in effect devalue the rial and rename it as toman.
The bank would have two years to create the new toman currency, returning a currency name that has not been officially used since the 1930s.
Authorities have given no estimate for the cost of creating the new currency.
Iran’s rial has been battered by increasing U.S. sanctions on the country since President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers over a year ago.
On Wednesday, the rial traded 116,500 to $1. At the time of the 2015 nuclear deal, the rial traded 32,000 to the dollar.”
Iran is in trouble, this move won’t bring any value back to their currency and will further degrade public trust in the currency. In many ways it is a sign of a looming econ0omic collapse in Iran. I don’t know how far this collapse would spread.
A quarter of people living in Germany have foreign roots (abcnews, Aug 21, 2019)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/quarter-people-living-germany-foreign-roots-65092365
“A quarter of all people living in Germany have a migrant background — the highest figure yet recorded in the country of 83 million.
The German Statistical Office said Wednesday that 25.5% of the population, or about 20.8 million people, have migrant roots according to the latest figures from 2018. That’s an increase of 2.5% compared with 2017.
The agency defines a person as having a “migrant background” if they or at least one parent held a foreign passport at birth.
Immigration remains a contentious topic in Germany despite repeated waves of migration throughout history.
After World War II, millions of workers from Turkey helped rebuild Germany. Many never returned home, but instead brought their families.
More recently, over a million migrants fled to Germany from war-torn Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Muslim anti-Semitism to go unpunished in Germany+++
According to the public prosecutor’s office, there will be no proceedings against an Imam from Kaiserslautern. For the preacher of the “Islamic Center Kaiserslautern” it has no consequences, that he has called “the Jews” among other things “greedy for money” in video sermons. The prosecution authorities are fantasising that the preacher ” just ” referred to episodes from the Bible and did not call for hatred of Jews living today.
Read more:
https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/08/muslim-anti-semitism-to-go-unpunished.html
Iranian Media Shows Off Footage of ‘S-300 Analogue’ in Action Amid Persian Gulf Row (sputniknews, Aug 21, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/military/201908211076600443-iranian-media-shows-off-footage-of-s-300-analogue-in-action-amid-gulf-row/
Blasts in Southern Thailand Injure 7 After Talks Between Insurgents, Gov’t Fail – Reports (sputniknews, Aug 21, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201908211076600540-blasts-in-southern-thailand-injure-7-after-talks-between-insurgents-govt-fail—reports/
“Earlier in the week, the government refused to release Islamists allegedly involved in the continuous separatist insurgency in the south.
Representatives of the largest separatist group in the region, Barisan Revolusi Nasional, had named the prisoner release as the main precondition for resuming peace talks with Bangkok.
Seven people, including three children, were injured in a series of explosions that took place in Thailand’s predominantly-Muslim southern province of Yala on Wednesday, one day after the government refused to consider releasing detained Islamic separatists, local media reported.
Three improvised explosive devices hit power transmission towers, while two more blasts targeted a cell phone tower and an ATM, Channel 3 reported.
The attacks also caused power outages in two districts.
The Thai authorities have refuted any connection between the attacks and their decision to not consider the release.
“These explosions have nothing to do with the demands of separatists”, the Thai deputy prime minister told Channel 3.
The roots of the conflict in southern Thailand date back to the early 20th century, when the territory of the Pattani sultanate became part of the mostly Buddhist Siam (former name of Thailand) and was separated into three provinces — Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala. Since then, Muslim movements in these regions have repeatedly called for either broader autonomy or independence.”
Japan warns North Korea now has miniaturized nukes small enough to fit on its ballistic missiles and is a ‘serious and imminent threat’
North Korea has miniaturised nuclear warheads and made them small enough to fit on ballistic missiles, Japan believes.
Tokyo defence chiefs warn in a new white paper that North Korea’s military activities pose a ‘serious and imminent threat’.
In last year’s report Japan said it was ‘possible’ that North Korea had achieved miniaturisation, but Tokyo now appears to have upgraded its assessment, according to Japanese newspaper Yomiuri.
Japan is seen as a ‘primary target’ of nearby North Korea’s weapons capabilities and fears that Pyongyang’s nuclear programme is ‘growing unabated’, experts say.
The latest findings come alongside newly-released pictures which suggest a North Korean plant may be leaking hazardous waste into a nearby river.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7378849/Japan-warns-North-Korea-miniaturized-nukes.html
Having nasty neighbors breeds good intel operatives and agencies, having said that Japan is not in a position where they can disregard a worst case assessment.
Hong Kong protest moves to mob-attack subway as bank warns of economic falloutHONG KONG (Reuters) – A major bank warned on Wednesday that weeks of protests in Hong Kong could hit the economies of the Chinese-ruled city and mainland China itself as demonstrators held a sit-in at the subway site of a mid-summer mob attack.
Hong Kong-based Bank of East Asia Ltd (BEA) posted a 75% slump in first-half net profit after it wrote down loans in China because of a downturn in commercial property markets outside China’s top cities.
https://www.oann.com/hong-kong-protests-spread-to-subway-as-bank-warns-of-economic-fallout/
Niqab ban enforced in Nettherlands for the first time. Woman (convert) kicked off bus:
https://nltimes.nl/2019/08/21/niqab-wearing-woman-shaken-removal-limburg-bus
https://nltimes.nl/2019/08/20/woman-wearing-niqab-kicked-public-transit-1st-known-enforcement-burka-ban
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/08/going-no-where-driver-calls-police-after-woman-in-niqab-gets-on-bus/
Death threats, claims football commentator after month of anti-Turkey, homophobic remarks
https://nltimes.nl/2019/08/20/death-threats-claims-football-commentator-month-anti-turkey-homophobic-remarks
Swedish Police Accidentally Blow up Own Building After Motorbike Bomb Discovery (breitbart, Aug 21, 2019)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/08/21/swedish-police-accidentally-blow-up-own-building-after-motorbike-bomb-discovery/
“A Swedish police warehouse building in Linköping was destroyed after the bomb squad detonated a motorbike filled with explosives.
The moped containing what has been described as some form of plastic explosive covered with nails was discovered on Monday afternoon by officers in a stolen property room, and led to the evacuation of around 170 personnel from the area, Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Radio reports.
Following the evacuation, the Swedish bomb squad was called in to make a controlled detonation of the explosives but, according to Sveriges Radio, something went wrong with the operation and a much larger blast than expected took place.
Police spokesman Erik Terneborn admitted that the detonation, “did not go quite as one had hoped” but said the officers had taken such a scenario into account when they evacuated the area.
The building was totally demolished and windows in nearby properties largely destroyed, but no injuries to officers or civilians have been reported.
Police held a press conference Tuesday explaining that the moped had been reported stolen in May of this year and that no explosives were discovered in it at the time it was found.
The explosives were not found until the owner of the moped came to collect it this week. Police say the owner is not suspected of having planted the explosives in the moped…”
Thirty years ago Hungary allowed passage of East Germans into Austria in a precursor to the fall of the Berlin wall. Here, Merkel tries to shoe-horn the event into the current context as Hungary continues to hold firm against an invading hoard.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/other/merkel-and-orban-commemorate-the-end-of-the-iron-curtain/vi-AAG1j3h
51 years ago today, the Soviet army, aided by those of allied countries, invaded Czechoslovakia to end Prague Spring and continue to make it the people’s paradise that it was…
The upside of the New York Times’s ‘1619 Project’
By J.E. Dyer August 21, 2019
When last I wrote on this topic, I was taking a pretty dim view of the “1619 Project,” which is being undertaken by the New York Times to rewrite the history of the United States as being all about “racism” and slavery.
Since then, other commentators have weighed in, and some of what they’ve written has reminded me of the invariable Trump Effect: i.e., the effect wherein either Trump, or the reaction to Trump, exposes great truths that we need to see and grapple with. This usually comes about in a way that frays a lot of nerves.
That’s because the truths we have to confront are about settled, complacent ideas that as often as not have been slowly killing us. Those ideas are conventions adopted over the last 100 years, most of which have some connection to what I call the “Old Consensus”: the 20th-century compromise that sells out liberty more and more on the margins by turning law into regulatory process, and paying it, in a perpetual shakedown scheme, to not hurt us too much for now.
Law can be held accountable for outcomes, whereas regulatory process is always shifting goalposts. The effect of the Old Consensus was to leave us finding a new bill left on our tables every couple of years for the cost of being held at open-ended risk by a regulatory state.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/08/21/the-upside-of-the-new-york-timess-1619-project/
Read the above article and think about what she is saying, if she is right (I pray she is) the left has once again shot itself in the foot and their actions will end up (several decades from now) restoring a lot of the liberty that the left has taken from us.
Two of the effects that she hasn’t talked about will be the way the left will 1) start pushi8ng fomr more speech/thought control laws as the counter arguments start gaining more followers. 2) Turn the left more violent, this is what always happens when they are losing the argument or when they sense weakness. Rather like how China hates Trump but respects him and makes a big deal about his visits while making fun of Trudeau and other weak western leaders.
‘Upcoming struggle between islam and The Far Left’
https://youtu.be/mmrYR3auDdk
WALMART SUING TESLA and REMOVING ALL SOLAR PANELS FROM 240 STORES
Why were multiple Walmart stores located all over the country suddenly catching fire? The answer was obvious and startling: the stores all had Tesla solar panels installed by Tesla on their roofs. At each location, the fire had originated in the Tesla solar panels.
By May 2018, it was clear that Tesla had breached its contractual obligations. To state the obvious, properly designed, installed, inspected, and maintained solar systems do not spontaneously combust, and the occurrence of multiple fires involving Tesla’s solar systems is but one unmistakable sign of negligence by Tesla.
To this day, Tesla has not provided Walmart with the complete set of final “root cause” analyses needed to identify the precise defects in its systems that caused all of the fires described above. The number of defects, however, is overwhelming and plainly indicative of systemic, widespread failures by Tesla to meet the standard of care, as set forth in the governing contracts, as to the solar systems installed at Walmart’s stores.
Unfortunately, even de-energization was not enough to prevent an additional fire. In November 2018, Walmart discovered that yet another fire had occurred at a Walmart store in Yuba City, California-even though the solar panels at this store had been de-energized since June 2018. Wires on the store’s rooftop were still sparking at the time that Walmart discovered the fire and could have ignited more extensive flames, with potentially devastating consequences.
Equally troubling, after Tesla technicians visited the rooftop, one of the technicians failed to close the cover to a combiner box, exposing this important piece of equipment to the elements and thereby creating a fire hazard.
Still more troubling, Walmart subsequently learned (independent of Tesla) that a potentially dangerous ground fault alert had occurred at the Yuba City site during the summer of 2018. Tesla either ignored the alert or deliberately failed to disclose it to Walmart. The issues that caused that ground fault alert likely caused or contributed to the subsequent fire in the fall of 2018, revealing Tesla’s utter incompetence or callousness, or both.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/08/21/walmart-suing-tesla/
Triggering the Google Social Credit System
by: Michelle Malkin
August 21, 2019
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I learned last week from a Silicon Valley whistleblower, who spoke with the intrepid investigative team at Project Veritas, that my namesake news and opinion website is on a Google blacklist.
Thank goodness the Big Tech giant hasn’t taken over the newspaper syndication business yet. Twenty years of column writing have allowed me to break news and disseminate my opinions without the tyranny of social justice algorithms downgrading or whitewashing my words. But given the toxic metastasis of social media in every aspect of our lives, especially for those who make their living exercising the First Amendment, it may only be a matter of time before this column somehow falls prey to the Google Ministry of Truth, too.
Armed with internal memos and emails, former Google software engineer Zachary Vorhies exposed how MichelleMalkin.com (online since 1999) was placed on a news blacklist banning my content from appearing on newsfeeds accessed through Android Google products. I do not advocate violence, publish porn or indulge in vulgarity or profanity (other than my occasional references to Beltway crapweasels). But I triggered the Google Social Credit System and there’s no going back.
My apparent sin: Independently growing a large organic following of readers on the internet who share my mainstream conservative views on immigration, jihad, education, social issues, economic policy, faith and more.
http://www.theconservativeinsider.com/triggering-the-google-social-credit-system/?roi=echo3-57045769540-52549671-478fb68cfafaa16651ff9aa6c78a9bad
President Trump Trump cards:
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/458173-10-declassified-russia-collusion-revelations-that-could-rock-washington-this
Study: China could wipe out U.S. bases, assets with missile swarm in first hours of conflict
John Hayward, Breitbart
[Ed. – An Australian study. As with the prelude to World War II, the opponent’s plan to attack a limited set of far-flung, highly concentrated forward bases is easily foreseeable. It would be a huge political break for Beijing to attack U.S. concentrations in Japan, or (increasingly) in Australia and the Philippines. Guam is the throbbingly obvious target, a U.S. territory and thus not implicating a third-party nation. The question is really when it would become thinkable for China to attack U.S. forces in those third-party nations. What would the trail-markers be? Attacking Pearl Harbor wasn’t thinkable — until it was. Keeping a big Chinese move unthinkable is the minimum measure of sufficiency.]
https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/08/20/study-china-could-wipe-out-u-s-bases-assets-with-missile-swarm-in-first-hours-of-conflict/
Report: Chinese Missiles Could Wipe Out U.S. and Allied Pacific Bases in ‘Opening Hours of Conflict’
The United States Studies Center at the University of Sydney in Australia released a report on Monday that warned America has lost its military superiority in the Indo-Pacific region and Chinese missiles could wipe out its bases with “precision strikes in the opening hours of a conflict.”
“The combined effect of ongoing wars in the Middle East, budget austerity, underinvestment in advanced military capabilities and the scale of America’s liberal order-building agenda has left the US armed forces ill-prepared for great power competition in the Indo-Pacific,” the authors concluded.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/08/19/report-chinese-missiles-could-wipe-out-u-s-allied-pacific-bases-opening-hours-conflict/
Richard: What happens when we strike back with what forces that are left? We will still have a lot of military power to strike back with. No matter who is President they would have to order a major strike agianst China or risk a massive military coup.
NUN URGING PARENTS TO PULL THEIR KIDS OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOL
It isn’t news that public schools instill godless values and beliefs in our children, but they are quickly becoming places of indoctrination and evil, Mother noted.
“The public schools,” she reflected. “Such evil has penetrated those schools.”
Many states now force gender ideology and pornographic sex-education on students.
In almost every subject, students are being fed the lie, sometimes subtly and sometimes not, that there is no God. Mother Miriam quotes Get out Now: “The case of Atheism in school has produced the most godless generation in history. Moral relativism has left more than 2/3 of people without a belief in truth and objective right and wrong.”
In addition to the terrible curricula being taught in schools, Mother emphasizes the mentality that modern schools instill in children. Mother again quotes Get out Now: “We are left with a system designed to turn the hearts and minds of the children away from God.”
Mother calls on all parents to bring their children home. She encourages parents of all education, income, and social levels to homeschool their children. She highlights the common claim that homeschooling isn’t for everybody. She again challenges parents, saying it is not only possible, but necessary, for everyone to homeschool their children: “Too much is at stake. You don’t get a do-over on childhood.”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/i-dont-know-of-anything-more-urgent-mother-miriam-urges-parents-to-pull-kids-from-public-school
Ep 1049 Stunning New Revelations About What’s Ahead. The Dan Bongino Show 8/21/2019.
When ‘White’ Became an Ideology – and Not a Human Reality
How “anti-racists” exploit “whiteness” to feather their own political nest.
August 21, 2019
Bruce Thornton
Recently, terminal Trumpophobe Max Boot went after chronic Trumpophobe National Review for not being extreme enough in their denunciation of “white grievance politics” and “whining” whites, who “can justify everything from a public temper tantrum to a shooting spree,” and expose their belief “that white supremacy is the natural order of things.” Boot counsels “clueless white people” to “get a grip” and tone down the “sense of outrage that white people feel when they fear losing their privileged position to people of color.”
John Nolte on Brietbart humorously dissects Boot’s racialist drivel and the NeverTrump civil war, and John Hirschauer ably defends NRO’s real point. What I find interesting 50 years after the Civil Rights legislation is the continuing use of empty terms like “white.” Such racial categories are left-overs from early 20th century “scientific racism,” which dressed up irrational and self-serving bigotry in the technical terminology and quantitative procedures of real science. Today, they are the instruments of the progressive project of dismantling the Constitutional order at the expense of freedom.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274679/when-white-became-ideology-and-not-human-reality-bruce-thornton
Unhinged Former FBI Director Targets Trump Supporters
Frank Figliuzzi compares patriots to a terrorist organization.
August 21, 2019
Lloyd Billingsley
After the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, President Trump lowered flags to half-mast until August 8. According to a commentator on MSNBC, that was a secret signal to white supremacists meaning “Heil Hitler,” with H being the eighth letter of the alphabet. As a number of commentators and comedians pointed out, it was the sort of thing one expects from the drunk at the end of the bar, or an escaped mental patient. The speaker was Frank Figliuzzi, the FBI’s former assistant director for counterintelligence.
Figliuzzi is an attorney with a JD from the University of Connecticut. He joined the FBI in 1987 and, among other tasks, served as special agent in charge of the Miami field office. Figliuzzi worked his way up to FBI Chief Inspector and then Assistant Director for Counterintelligence. What actual foreign espionage Figliuzzi managed to uncover has not come to light. On other hand, as an MSNBC mouthpiece, he has revealed a great deal about himself.
In an August 12 appearance on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” Figliuzzi told anchor Chris Jansing that the Trump administration should be viewed through the “lens of radicalization.” Jansing countered that the president demands blind loyalty from his followers, and Figliuzzi clicked on the link.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274682/unhinged-former-fbi-director-targets-trump-lloyd-billingsley
Mass Murder on a Rampage
What’s really behind the outburst of violence?
August 21, 2019
Michael Ledeen
So we’ve got mass murder on a rampage, from Texas and California to Ohio and New York. Why this outburst of violence? It can’t be just a copycat phenomenon. Or can it?
I think it can. I think the mass murders inspire others. I think the crazies in one place are encouraged to act when they see others doing it. And I don’t think that any degree of gun control or mental health checks can stop it.
The Wall Street Journal recently had a lengthy discussion of “white supremacist” terrorism – as if it’s the new big thing, the latest form of modern terrorism. But, as Roger Kimball reminds us, it isn’t that at all:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274700/mass-murder-rampage-michael-ledeen
“WATCH: How Google Employs Psychological Warfare to Fabricate News & Trends to Manipulate YOU”
True Pundit – August 23, 2019 – 3 hours ago
https://truepundit.com/watch-how-google-employs-psychological-warfare-to-fabricate-news-trends-to-manipulate-you/
“True Pundit Dissects Google’s Psychological Warfare”
Michael Moore – 1 day ago – Vimeo
U.S. preparing for Venezuela confilict:
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2019/08/20/US-navy-ready-for-Venezuela-mission-says-a-top-commander.html
GRETA ??
I cant believe i got this hateful email from a company trying to profit off the tragedy in Texas.
I have disputed pass purchase with CC company. Not going to win but will take a few minutes out of there day.
Like the fake news always says I contacted them and they did not reply back.
all links and emails removed.
Woodstock Matters. Two weeks ago with the killings in El Paso, the reality of what America’s Republican Party has become stopped being deniable. As the president’s intentional creation of fear and dehumanizing of Hispanic Americans turned into mass murder, what may well have been the last chance to turn the party away from the path towards 1930s Germany-style nationalism quite probably ended with the silence of Republican Party leaders. The time for belief in a decency deep down in republican voters that will set this right has passed. Intervention is now our only hope.
Yes, today’s republicans are not yet 1943 Nazis, but no one honest is denying the parallels between the two parties. Today the only real debate is how far along the Nazi timeline republicans are. But as much as the 1930s Germany comparison is accurate, the value of the analogy is somewhat limited because no one in 1930s Europe had any successful idea on how to stop them.
Plus, for all the buffoonery of the president, the actual workings of the Republican Party in the age of unlimited political spending and targeted social media are far more calculated and far more sophisticated than anything the Nazis of eighty years ago ever dreamed of. We are up against something quite formidable.
As I’ve said before, I do believe it’s no coincidence that history and spices are so intertwined. The biggest moments in our history are always about the conflict between inhumanity and our human kindness. Spices matter because of our innate desire to care for those around us that became inseparable from the evolution to our DNA once cooking entered our lives a million years ago. Before cooking, strength was in the ability to drive others away. With the abundance cooking brought, strength came in welcoming others in. Sadly our pre-human DNA of fear and mistrust live in us as well.
History always has wisdom to offer in times of conflict. It’s just a matter of what history, where? I’m putting my chips on the roadblock to fascism that we are now passing over the fiftieth anniversary of. What in American history ever brought down a corrupt president? Peace, Flowers, Freedom and Happiness. It’s time to go all in.
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And a very big thank-you to all those that responded to me at [email deleted]with my request for your Woodstock/Sixties stories. I’m still looking for more if you have them to share. What you experienced is exactly what we need to be sharing right though the first Tuesday in November, 2020. Your prescription for clear vision is exactly what the doctor is ordering. Fifty years ago America experienced a peace-through-strength movement we need to relive. It’s time to put down the cynicism and the irony and embrace a righteous drive for love for all.
Now more than ever it is time to free our compassion for our fellow humanity from the “I don’t care” mindset made real by the considerable spending of those opposed to everything America stands for. All we need is love, but maybe this time with a strong helping of persistence.
And an extra big thanks to you Dave C. I always get letters, but yours was something beyond special. We all need to support those who’ve had the strength and courage to continue living on the frontlines of the last 50 years of American history. Dave was definitely here for all that. Hopefully he has a recipe or two to share. Thank you Dave and everyone who emailed. Your words were exactly what I needed. If you have more to share I’m always here at [email deleted].
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Thanks for making us possible,
Bill
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https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/ct8v62/email_from_company_republicans_are_not_yet_1943/
Behind the scenes, some major events were set in motion last autumn that could soon change the tenor in Washington, at least as it relates to the debunked Russia collusion narrative that distracted America for nearly three years.
It was in September 2018 that President Trump told my Hill.TV colleague Buck Sexton and me that he would order the release of all classified documents showing what the FBI, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and other U.S. intelligence agencies may have done wrong in the Russia probe.
About the same time, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, under then-Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), voted unanimously to send 53 nonpublic transcripts of witnesses in its Russia review to the director of national intelligence (DNI) for declassification. The transcripts were officially delivered in November.
Now, nearly a year later, neither release has happened.
To put that into perspective, it took just a couple of months in 2004 to declassify the final report on the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks after a presidential commission finished its work, which contained some of the nation’s most secretive intelligence revelations.
But the long wait for transparency may soon end.
The foot-dragging inside the intelligence community (IC) that occurred under now-departed DNI Dan Coats and his deputy, Sue Gordon, could halt abruptly. That’s particularly true if Trump appoints a new IC sheriff, such as former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the current ambassador to the Netherlands, or longtime national security expert Fred Fleitz.
Likewise, the president has an opportunity to speed up and organize the release of declassified information by simply creating an Office of Transparency and Accountability inside his own White House, run by a staffer empowered at the level of a formal assistant to the president. That would prevent intelligence agencies from continuing their game of public keep-away.
Nunes, who helped to unravel the Russia collusion farce, has identified five buckets of information he’d like to see released. One of those buckets, the FBI’s interview reports on Bruce Ohr’s cooperation, was released last week — not through a Trump declassification order but, rather, through litigation brought by Judicial Watch, and with heavy redactions.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/458173-10-declassified-russia-collusion-revelations-that-could-rock-washington-this
Was Trump’s Huawei Decision a Trade War Misstep? | Gordon Chang
Deep Fake Future: The Pandora’s Box Has Opened
Australia to stand up to Chinese threat, plans to boost defenses in northern territory
Why is Antifa Attacking the #Minds IRL Event?
Antifa Threatened Violence Against My Event To Try And Shut It Down, I REFUSE To Back Down
Colleges Create AI to Identify ‘Hate Speech’ – Turns Out Minorities Are the Worst Offenders
By Kyle Hooten | Aug 21, 2019
Researchers from the University of Cornell discovered that artificial intelligence systems designed to identify offensive “hate speech” flag comments purportedly made by minorities “at substantially higher rates” than remarks made by whites.
Several universities maintain artificial intelligence systems designed to monitor social media websites and report users who post “hate speech.” In a study published in May, researchers at Cornell discovered that systems “flag” tweets that likely come from black social media users more often, according to Campus Reform.
The study’s authors found that, according to the AI systems’ definition of abusive speech, “tweets written in African-American English are abusive at substantially higher rates.”
The study also revealed that “black-aligned tweets” are “sexist at almost twice the rate of white-aligned tweets.”
The research team averred that the unexpected findings could be explained by “systematic racial bias” displayed by the human beings who assisted in spotting offensive content.
https://pluralist.com/ai-censorship-cornell-study/45566/
President Trump
DONALD JOHN TRUMP
Former US ambassador: ‘Denmark is not a big fan of Donald Trump and his politics’
Senate Democrats push for arms control language in defense policy bill
Detroit county sheriff endorses Booker for president
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on Wednesday said his administration is once again seriously considering an executive order to end birthright citizenship months after several lawmakers cast doubt on his ability to take such action.
“We’re looking at that very seriously,” Trump told reporters as he left the White House for Kentucky. “Birthright citizenship, where you have a baby on our land — walk over the border, have a baby, congratulations, the baby’s now a U.S. citizen.”
“We are looking at birthright citizenship very seriously,” he added. “It’s, frankly, ridiculous.”
The president proposed ending the practice that grants citizenship to those born in the United States during his 2016 presidential campaign. He revived the idea last year, saying he would sign an executive order to enact the change.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/458276-trump-says-administration-looking-seriously-at-ending-birthright
Hong Kong protesters hold sit-in at Yuen Long MTR station
Meanwhile in Sweden:
https://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/7741411/ee41cffe/nog_1_voor_de_fans.html
Not sure if trans.. it may be postmodern though. Whatever it is, I’m sure it’s the nadir of western civilization.
Correction, the song is in Italian.
PJW on the freaky Greta chick:
President Trump canceled federal student loan debts Wednesday for tens of thousands of veterans who are 100% disabled, saying it’s the nation who owes them instead for their service.
At the 75th annual American Veterans convention in Louisville, Kentucky, the president signed an executive action directing the Education Department to eliminate “every penny” of student loan debt for about 25,000 disabled veterans who owe an average of $30,000.
The president said the action is worthy of veterans “who have made immense sacrifices, the ultimate sacrifice in many ways, for our nation.”
“That’s hundreds of millions of dollars in student debt held by our severely wounded warriors — it’s gone forever,” the president said.
Mr. Trump called to the stage retired Sgt. Katherine Cassell, who developed severe lung problems and other ailments after serving two tours in Iraq with the Army, Navy and Air Force. She is now working toward a degree at the University of Nevada.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/21/trump-signing-order-wipe-out-student-loan-debt-dis/
The Russian consulting firm indicted by former special counsel Robert Mueller wants an April 2020 court date to answer the charges, which would come as the presidential election is reaching its heights.
Concord Management and Consulting LLC, is accused of financing an army of internet trolls to influence the 2016 election in favor of then-candidate Donald Trump.
But in a motion filed Monday in court, Concord that argued it spent less than $5,000 on candidate ads and rallies that would be subject to government auditing, according to The Washington Times.
The cost figures cited by Concord, which include $2,930 on campaign ads plus $1,800 for payroll during the 2016 election, are based on evidence from U.S. prosecutors, the newspaper noted.
Concord was one of three business entities and 13 Russian nationals indicted by Mueller in February 2018 for meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and was the only firm to actually show up in court to challenge the charge.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/08/21/russian-firm-indicted-by-mueller-calls-his-bluff-788047
Mark Lutchman ??
@marklutchman
I’ve never been called the ‘n’ word in my life until I supported Trump.
Liberals are the real racists.
Who Agrees? ???
https://twitter.com/marklutchman/status/1163974128883437569
Completely reasonable reaction to a complaint by an Albanian restaurant owner:
Hong Kong protesters clash with police at Yuen Long MTR station