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Austrian Vote Nudges Europe's Balance to Right as Populists Gain
Post Date: 2017-10-16 00:19:21 by Tooconservative
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Freedom Party projected close to second place after electionMillennial conservative has mandate to form new government Sebastian Kurz, 31, People’s Party Austrian voters paved the way for the nationalist Freedom Party to enter government, heralding a shift to the political right that’s likely to make the country a more prickly ally for its European partners.Projections after Sunday’s election put the populists within reach of second place behind the People’s Party of Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, 31, who claimed victory after a campaign built on outflanking the Freedom Party with a hard-line stance on migration. He now has a mandate to form a coalition, replace ...
Assange to be kicked out of embassy? Wikileaks founder clashes with Ecuador over Catalonia
Post Date: 2017-10-15 20:56:42 by nolu chan
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Assange to be kicked out of embassy? Wikileaks founder clashes with Ecuador over Catalonia JULIAN Assange may have put his safe sanctuary at risk as he clashed with the Ecuadorian president on Catalan independence. By Ben Weich PUBLISHED: 16:08, Sun, Oct 15, 2017 UPDATED: 16:18, Sun, Oct 15, 2017 The Wikileaks Founder’s support for Catalan separatists has antagonised the new president, Lenin Moreno, who had asked the Australian hacker to stay out of the independence debate. Responding to the president on Twitter, Assange accused President Moreno of attempting to silence him. He wrote: “If President Moreno wants to gag my reporting of human rights abuses in Spain he should ...
Trump challenges Rex Tillerson to IQ test
Post Date: 2017-10-10 21:57:21 by Hondo68
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AFP US President Donald Trump has challenged his Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, to an IQ test, in the latest sign of discord between the two.He made the remark in a magazine interview when asked about reports that Mr Tillerson had called him a moron."I think it's fake news," Mr Trump told Forbes, "but if he did that, I guess we'll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tell you who is going to win."Mr Trump had lunch on Tuesday with Mr Tillerson.Shortly beforehand, the president maintained he still had confidence in the secretary of state. "I did not undercut anybody," he also told reporters. "I don't believe in undercutting people."Asked ...
Russian propaganda surfs a wave of distrust
Post Date: 2017-10-08 08:51:47 by A Pole
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Facebook and Twitter say they are getting better at spotting the kind of fake accounts used by the Russian government to interfere in US politics. Too bad that it won’t be so easy for the rest of us. That’s because the Kremlin’s propagandists are cranking out online ads, posts, and tweets that don’t look much different from the stuff Americans argue about every day on social media. Concerned about illegal immigration? So are the Russian operatives who used Facebook to promote a number of anti-immigrant rallies in the United States. “We must stop taking in Muslim refugees!” read the posting for one such rally, according to The Daily Beast. “We demand open ...
Spain's Catalonia is voting on independence on Sunday
Post Date: 2017-09-29 23:08:25 by buckeroo
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Catalonia, a region in Spain that includes Barcelona, plans to vote on independence this Sunday in a referendum that has been declared illegal by Spanish authorities. The question over the referendum has turned into one of Spain's "biggest political challenges" since the country returned to democracy after the death of dictator General Francisco Franco in 1975. The Spanish government has recently taken a strong stance against the referendum by raiding offices, shutting down pro-independence websites, and arresting officials. The pro-independence movement in Catalonia, meanwhile, insists the vote will continue as planned this weekend. Catalonia, which has its ...
Ron Paul Fears False Flag Looms, Urges Americans To Resist Deep State Push For War On North Korea
Post Date: 2017-09-27 10:57:07 by Deckard
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We are seeing now in regard to North Korea a replay of the type of campaign the deep state and the media used in 2001 through 2003 to stir up the American people to support the invasion of Iraq. The Ron Paul Institute’s Adam Dick writes that this is the assessment of former United States House of Representatives member and presidential candidate Ron Paul in a Tuesday interview with Alex Jones on the Alex Jones Show. In the interview focused on US foreign policy and, in particular, relations between the US and North Korea, Paul declared: Just remember … the propagandists, the deep state and the media, convinced the American people that Saddam Hussein was a danger, ...
Venezuela Prepares for War With U.S. With ‘Rifles, Missiles and Well-Oiled Tanks at the Ready’
Post Date: 2017-09-27 07:41:57 by IbJensen
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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro called on his nation's military leaders Tuesday to prepare for war against the U.S. days after the Trump administration banned Venezuelan officials from entering the nation. "We have been shamelessly threatened by the most criminal empire that ever existed and we have the obligation to prepare ourselves to guarantee peace," said Maduro, who wore a green uniform and a military hat as he spoke with his army top brass during a military exercise involving tanks and missiles. "We need to have rifles, missiles and well-oiled tanks at the ready....to defend every inch of the territory if needs be," he added. The Trump ...
The Apocalypse Has Been Rescheduled According To Numerologist
Post Date: 2017-09-26 10:05:26 by Deckard
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The world didn’t end on September 23, as previously prophecized, but that doesn’t mean we are in the clear yet. David Meade, the original numerologist who claimed Nibiru smashing into the earth would end humanity on Saturday has recalculated the world’s end date. Christian numerologist David Meade predicted September 23 as the date a mysterious Planet X, also known as Nibiru, would collide with Earth. Meade based his prediction largely on verses and numerical codes in the Bible and the numerical symbology in the pyramids in Egypt. However, as the day approached, Meade backed off on the prediction and said he was misunderstood and Nibiru wasn’t supposed ...
Meth-laced 7Up found in Mexico, prompting U.S. health officials to issue travel warning
Post Date: 2017-09-26 05:14:27 by XDMAR
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Mexican officials are reportedly investigating how 7Up soft drinks laced with methamphetamines made their way onto shelves in Baja California, sickening several and killing one. The health department of Baja California has issued a statement confirming that 7Up products in the Mexicali region — where the contaminated soft drinks had originally been reported — have been pulled from stores as a precaution. The manufacturers have also been notified of the issue, and more than 77,000 individual containers of 7Up have been secured at a Mexican plant belonging to PepsiCo.
Almost Half of Crimes in Berlin Committed by Migrants
Post Date: 2017-09-26 04:42:19 by 3-Dee
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Almost half of the individuals suspected of a recorded crime in Berlin last year were individuals who don’t have a German passport, the latest police statistics show. The proportion of crimes carried out by immigrants rose to 45 per cent last year, a five per cent increase from 2015, when they comprised 40 per cent of crimes committed in the German capital. According to Berliner Morgenpost, which reported on the data before a longer version of the city’s crime statistics is published, the figure includes tourists, and “traveling gangs” who specialise in burglaries and pickpocketing. Foreigners were particularly overrepresented in the figures for certain crimes, ...
As the Kurds vote for independence, Turkey paves the way to invade
Post Date: 2017-09-25 12:24:44 by Tooconservative
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There are plenty of purple fingers all over the northern region of Iraq again today. At the time of this writing, the Kurds in that region are concluding a non-binding referendum on the question of independence from Baghdad and the formal creation of an independent Kurdistan from what’s now known as the Kurdish autonomous region. (That region is seven hours ahead of east coast time in the U.S.) But even a non-binding vote is causing trouble on both sides of the border. (ABC News) Millions are expected to vote on Monday across the three provinces that make up the Kurdish autonomous region, as well as residents in disputed territories — areas claimed by both Baghdad and the Kurds, ...
Weakened Merkel wins fourth term, hit by nationalist 'earthquake'
Post Date: 2017-09-25 07:17:59 by IbJensen
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Chancellor Angela Merkel clinched a fourth term in Germany's election Sunday, but her victory was clouded by the entry into parliament of the hard-right AfD in the best showing for a nationalist force since World War II. Merkel, who after 12 years in power held a double-digit lead for most of the campaign, scored around 33 percent of the vote with her conservative Christian Union (CDU/CSU) bloc, according to preliminary results. It was their worst score since 1949. Its nearest rivals, the Social Democrats and their candidate Martin Schulz, came in a distant second, with a post-war record low of 21 percent. But in a bombshell for the German establishment, the anti-Islam, ...
Veterans For Peace Sends Joint Letter Calling for Peace Negotiations Now
Post Date: 2017-09-23 18:05:53 by U don't know me
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Veterans For Peace Sends Joint Letter Calling for Peace Negotiations Now By Veterans For Peace September 23, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - Dear President Trump and Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, You have both made your point.The world has seen that neither of you will back down before the threats of the other. For the sake of the world’s people, it is now time for good faith negotiations. President Trump, you have engaged in reckless rhetoric and threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea with “fire and fury like world has never seen.” We can tell you right now that you do not speak for millions of veterans in this country. We know firsthand the ...
IS SPAIN ON THE BRINK? Tensions Mount As Catalan Independence Referendum Draws Near
Post Date: 2017-09-21 15:30:06 by Tooconservative
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For years, there has been a growing movement for independence from Spain in Catalonia, a prosperous region that includes the city of Barcelona. Since 1977, Catalan has enjoyed limited autonomy from the Spanish government and in 2006, Catalonian citizens approved the Statute of Autonomy for Catalonia by referendum vote, establishing the framework for Catalonia’s autonomous government. In 2010, the Statute of Autonomy was struck down by Spanish Government Constitutional Courts, which reignited the independence debate. And now, on October 1st, 2017, citizens of Catalonia will vote in a major referendum that could decide the future of the region. Well… if they’re allowed to ...
France may make wolf-whistling and asking women for their phone number a CRIMINAL offence
Post Date: 2017-09-20 15:04:59 by Hondo68
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Surveys show virtually all French women have been harassed on public transport, in the street or elsewhere at some timeWOLF-WHISTLING is set to be banned in France as the government declares war on men hassling women in public. Under new plans bugging women for their telephone numbers and following them could also be prohibited. Rex Features The red card could be shown to French lads who wolf-whistle The crackdown comes after surveys show virtually all French women have been harassed on public transport, in the street or elsewhere at some time. France’s new leader, President Emmanuel Macron, has pledged to end this during his election campaign this year. Only a few countries, ...
Kim Jong Un - Rocketman
Post Date: 2017-09-17 14:40:04 by buckeroo
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Too fuckin' phuny!
Sweden Releases Sex Guide for Migrants Explaining Why Rape Is Wrong
Post Date: 2017-09-15 11:52:26 by IbJensen
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Swedish officials have released a new "sex guidebook" aimed at tackling the rising number of sexual assaults committed by newly arrived migrants. "We have seen a great need for young people to get more knowledge and a great need among the adults to get help and support in how to talk about these issues," Youth and Civil Affairs Authority Director General Lena Nyberg explained, according to Metro. The guidebook, which is titled "Youmo in Practice," talks on the subjects of sex education, health, gender issues, women's rights, consent, and explains that it's illegal to rape women. Nyberg added that migrants, which have been arriving to Sweden in ...
Philippines: Duterte Allows Bombing of Mosques for Final Battle Against Islamic State in Marawi
Post Date: 2017-09-05 09:26:58 by IbJensen
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he mosques and madrasas have been used to fire upon people. So why should they be off limits? Snipers in Marawi opened fire on non-Muslims from the roof of a mosque. They will continue operations if the mosques are seen as sacrosanct and immune from attack. Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte told reporters Wednesday that, following the liberation of the Grand Mosque of Marawi, the nation’s military could now bomb mosques, madrassas, and other hiding centers to finally eliminate the Islamic State presence in the city. Marawi is the Philippines’ only official Islamic city, as over 90 percent of the country identifies as Roman Catholic. The Maute Group and Abu Sayyaf, local ...
Supermarket chain airbrushes Christian cross from Greek food to avoid offending
Post Date: 2017-09-05 09:19:45 by IbJensen
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Anyone sick and tired of this submission? What are they afraid of militant Buddhists? Lidl airbrushes Christian cross from church pictured on its Greek food range because the supermarket chain ‘does not wish to exclude any religious beliefs’ The supermarket chain has come under fire for altering its new ‘Eridanous’ range Shoppers say the Anastasis Church had its cross removed from packaging Customers have taken to social media to vent their frustration at Lidl Lidl has defended its decision to airbrush Christian symbols from its packaging, claiming the supermarket wants to remain ‘religiously neutral’. The chain’s new Greek ‘Eridanous’ ...
A wave of homicides overwhelms Tijuana
Post Date: 2017-09-03 15:10:22 by XDMAR
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Aug. 26-- TIJUANA, Mexico-By the time the Red Cross ambulance pulled into a crowded apartment complex known as Torres del Lago, the man lying face down on a dirt lot was already dead. Neighbors leaned out their windows on this warm Friday evening, taking in the activity below: flashing lights of patrol cars, forensic specialists dressed in white, members of the ambulance crew checking for vital signals. And outside the cordoned crime scene, two young women clasped in a tight embrace, one crying out for her brother: "Mi hermano, mi hermano." Such scenes have been playing out largely in Tijuana's vast working-class neighborhoods in recent months as the violence rises to record ...
NKorea missile fear sets pre-emptive strike debate in Japan
Post Date: 2017-09-03 07:30:05 by XDMAR
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TOKYO (AP) -- Japan is debating whether to develop a limited pre-emptive strike capability and buy cruise missiles - ideas that were anathema in the pacifist country before the North Korea missile threat. With revisions to Japan's defense plans underway, ruling party hawks are accelerating the moves, and some defense experts say Japan should at least consider them. Japan has a two-step missile defense system, including interceptors on destroyers in the Sea of Japan that would shoot down projectiles mid-flight and if that fails, surface-to-air PAC-3s on land. In a pre-emptive strike, by Japanese definition, cruise missiles, such as Tomahawk, fired from destroyers or fighter jets would ...
Smoke seen pouring from Russian consulate in San Francisco
Post Date: 2017-09-01 15:57:27 by XDMAR
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Acrid, black smoke was seen pouring from a chimney at the Russian consulate in San Francisco Friday, a day after the Trump administration ordered its closure amid escalating tensions between the United States and Russia. Firefighters who arrived at the scene were turned away by consulate officials who came from inside the building. An Associated Press reporter heard people who came from inside the building tell firefighters that there was no problem and that consulate staff were burning unidentified items in a fireplace. Mindy Talamadge, a spokeswoman from the San Francisco Fire Department, said the department received a call about the smoke and sent a crew to ...
Russia Backpedals On Bitcoin - Unveils Plan To Ban Cryptocurrency Sales To "Ordinary People"
Post Date: 2017-08-30 15:04:56 by nolu chan
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Russia Backpedals On Bitcoin - Unveils Plan To Ban Cryptocurrency Sales To "Ordinary People" by Tyler Durden Aug 29, 2017 11:30 PM After local Russian media reported earlier this year that the Russian Parliament could legalize bitcoin as soon as 2018, Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev this week signaled that authorities might instead seek to restrict its use. During an interview with Russia 24, a state-owned news channel, Moiseev said that Russian authorities should treat cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, as sophisticated financial assets and restrict their use and trading to qualified investors only. Moiseev’s statement surprised members of Russia's digital ...
Trump says Kim Jong-un's message 'has been received loud and clear' and warns 'all options are on the table' following North Korean missile launch over Japan, prompting Seoul show of force
Post Date: 2017-08-29 10:38:06 by cranky
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Donald Trump calls North Korea a 'grave and growing direct threat' to the worldSaid North Korea had made its contempt for all UN nations 'loud and clear'North Korea's test launch saw a ballistic missile fly over northern JapanPrime Minister Shinzo Abe said he would do all in his power to protect people South Korea in response dropped eight bombs at a range near the Korean borderSouth Korea warned North Korea may be preparing for its sixth nuclear testDetected signs of it preparing another test at its Punggye-ri underground site US, Japan and South Korea have requested a UN Security Council meeting President Donald Trump blasted North Korea as a 'grave and growing ...
Jean-Claude Juncker: The UK government's Brexit position papers are not 'satisfactory'
Post Date: 2017-08-29 10:33:07 by XDMAR
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LONDON — The UK government's position papers for Brexit negotiations are not "satisfactory," European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said. Talking at a conference of EU diplomats on Tuesday, Juncker said that there were an "enormous amount of issues" still to be resolved in Brexit negotiations, which restarted this week. His comments follow the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier saying on Monday that Britain "must start negotiating seriously." Theresa May's government has published a number of position papers and "future partnership papers" in the past fortnight, including plans for the Irish border, the UK's ...
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